Overman King Gainer: Difference between revisions

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Sent to stop the Exodus are the members of Siberian Railroad (first lead by lovers Yassaba Jin and Adette Kistler) and later London IMA's Saint Reagan, represented by Asuham Boone. While the Siberian goons are simply doing their jobs, Asuham has a personal grudge against Gain, who left his sister heartbroken years before.

The series is also noteworthy for being made after Tomino recovered from his infamous [[Creator Breakdown]], the result being a lighthearted series that has remarkably little death (only around a dozen people die, most of them villains) compared to his previous [[Kill Em All]] forays.

The series is also noteworthy for being made after Tomino recovered from his infamous [[Creator Breakdown]], the result being a lighthearted series that has remarkably little death (only around a dozen people die, most of them villains) compared to his previous [[Kill'Em All]] forays.

Has nothing to do with that other sort of [[Ubermensch|Overman]].

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* [[Did Not Do the Research]] (Averted - the interview in manga note how Tomino originally want to has characters travel on Trans-Siberian railway. But when he realise that he must spend days on it (impossible for his tight schedule in Russia), he decide to remove this part)

* [[Dirty Coward]] (Kashmir. One of his favourite sayings is "if I don't fight, I can't lose".)

* [[Dual Wielding]]: The King Gainer starts using '''two''' Chain Guns starting in episode 24.

* [[Dual-Wielding]]: The King Gainer starts using '''two''' Chain Guns starting in episode 24.

* [[Eldritch Abomination]] (The Overdevil)

* [[Everybody Lives]] (Aside from backstories, only two people die. Both of them bad guys, both of them non-sympathetic.)

** Which is quite amazing once you realize [[Kill Em All|who the director is]].

** Which is quite amazing once you realize [[Kill'Em All|who the director is]].

*** Also, a CRAPLOAD of poor mooks die over the series.

* [[Excuse Me While I Multitask]]- (Gainer, being pressured to multi-task, fights off a horde of Overmen {{spoiler|controlled by the Overdevil}} in real-life and several enemies in his video games. AT THE SAME TIME.)

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* [[Heroes Want Redheads]] (And Gainer wants Sara.)

** [[All Guys Want Cheerleaders]] (This applies too.)

* [[Hey ~~Its~~ That Voice]]: Asuham can best be described as inbetween [[Mobile Suit Gundam Wing (Anime)|Zechs Merquise]] and [[Turn a Gundam (Anime)|Gym Ghingnham]].

* [[Hey It's That Voice]]: Asuham can best be described as inbetween [[Mobile Suit Gundam Wing (Anime)|Zechs Merquise]] and [[Turn a Gundam (Anime)|Gym Ghingnham]].

* [[High Speed Missile Dodge]] (King Gainer vs. Blackmail in episode 5)

* [[Hyperspace Arsenal]] (One of King Gainer's abilities. Y'know it's Chainsaw-Sword Gun? It can fit in King Gainer's pocket. Must be seen to be believed.)

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** Only Gainer is a Last Starfighter, videogame jockey cum ace pilot. Cynthia has been trained and experienced real combat from childhood. Likewise, Gainer's progress and skill have a lot more to do with the series' completely unexplained mystic abilities (Oversense) and the fact that he pilots what is arguably the most versatile and powerfu Overman on the planet.

* [[Improbable Aiming Skills]] (Gain. Justified in that he's a trained sniper with a lot of experience under his belt.)

* [[Instant Awesome Just Add Ninja]] (Hughes Gouli is a ninja in a futuristic mecha series set in Siberia)

* [[Instant Awesome, Just Add Ninja]] (Hughes Gouli is a ninja in a futuristic mecha series set in Siberia)

** The model-only Overman XAN, which appeared in the SRW Z Special Disc, is essentially a Black-colored Ninja version of King Gainer.

* [[Jerkass]]: Kejinan of the [[Terrible Trio]].

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* [[Latex Space Suit]]: Most notably Adette's suit

* [[Master of the Mixed Message]] (Sara Kodama, we're looking at you!)

* [[May December Romance]] ({{spoiler|Mamahd and Liubov}})

* [[May-December Romance]] ({{spoiler|Mamahd and Liubov}})

* [[Mecha Expansion Pack]] ("Overcoats", which grant Overskills to their wearer)

* [[Manipulative Bastard]] (Kashmir, Asuham to an extent.)

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** Even more to the point, Asuham's whole "for my sister's honor" thing is very obviously an excuse to cover for his crippling inferiority complex and jealousy of Gain's skills, freedom, etc. This is hammered home when his sister shows up at the end and reveals to the audience that she got over Gain ages ago. Finding out how useless he is in the grand scheme of things, and how pathetic affairs of the world have gotten (as well as the general loopiness of the series and atmosphere) kinda has him go more and more off the deep-end as the series progresses, from a somewhat suave Char-esque expy to a raving lunatic and omnicidal, Freudian-Excuse driven maniac.

* [[Ms. Fanservice]] (Adette.)

* [[My God What Have I Done]] (Cynthia's freakout when she finds out that [[This Is Reality]] and that smacking around King Gainer causes Gainer himself to actually get hurt.)

* [[My God, What Have I Done?]] (Cynthia's freakout when she finds out that [[This Is Reality]] and that smacking around King Gainer causes Gainer himself to actually get hurt.)

* [[Oh God Did She Just Hear That|Oh God Did He Just Hear That]] (Kashmir's Overman Planeta's Overskill. Gainer makes it backfire by simply ''telling'' him about what's on his mind most of all... [[Love Interest|Sara]].) [[Hilarity Ensues|The entire Exodus just so happens to hear it.]]<br /><br />This gets played for greater laughs in ''[[Super Robot Wars Z]]'', where Gainer is joined by {{spoiler|[[Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny (Anime)|Shinn Asuka]] (declaring his desire to protect peace and NOT his love of Lunamaria, [[Epic Fail|to the latter's disappointment]]), [[After War Gundam X (Anime)|Garrod Ran]] (declaring his love for Tiffa), [[Orguss|Kei Katsuragi]] ([[Loveable Sex Maniac|declaring his love for ALL the female characters up to that point]]), [[Xabungle|Jiron Amos]] (declaring his love for...[[Completely Missing the Point|his favorite food, lizard stew]]), and the chosen protagonist (either Rand or Setsuko).}} And it works!

* [[Oh God, Did She Just Hear That?|Oh God Did He Just Hear That]] (Kashmir's Overman Planeta's Overskill. Gainer makes it backfire by simply ''telling'' him about what's on his mind most of all... [[Love Interest|Sara]].) [[Hilarity Ensues|The entire Exodus just so happens to hear it.]]<br /><br />This gets played for greater laughs in ''[[Super Robot Wars Z]]'', where Gainer is joined by {{spoiler|[[Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny (Anime)|Shinn Asuka]] (declaring his desire to protect peace and NOT his love of Lunamaria, [[Epic Fail|to the latter's disappointment]]), [[After War Gundam X (Anime)|Garrod Ran]] (declaring his love for Tiffa), [[Orguss|Kei Katsuragi]] ([[Loveable Sex Maniac|declaring his love for ALL the female characters up to that point]]), [[Xabungle|Jiron Amos]] (declaring his love for...[[Completely Missing the Point|his favorite food, lizard stew]]), and the chosen protagonist (either Rand or Setsuko).}} And it works!

* [[Platonic Life Partners]]: Gainer and Cynthia. In the manga, Gainer and Sara are this as well. For now.

* [[The Power of Love]] ( {{spoiler|How Adette breaks Gauli free from his [[Brainwashed and Crazy|brainwashing]]}} though this also then skirts into the {{spoiler|[[Strangled By the Red String]]}} trope. Later cruelly subverted {{spoiler|when Sara does ''the exact same thing'' with Gainer and fails to snap him out of Overfreeze. [[Rule of Drama|Illustrating how their relationship had been damaged towards the end of the series]].}} [[Your Mileage May Vary]] applies.

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* [[Time Stands Still]] (Rushrod's Overskill)

* [[Weak but Skilled]] (Gain doesn't have an Overman for most of the series as uses the practically [[Joke Character]] Gachiko for most of the series. However, his skills turn it into a [[Lethal Joke Character]].)

* [[Well Done Son Guy]] (Cynthia wants to repay her adoptive parent, President Kids Munt, for having taken her in.)

* [["Well Done, Son" Guy]] (Cynthia wants to repay her adoptive parent, President Kids Munt, for having taken her in.)

* [[What Do You Mean ~~Its~~ Not Awesome]] ([[Humongous Mecha]] doing the Monkey, which gets transferred to SRW Z.)

* [[What Do You Mean It's Not Awesome?]] ([[Humongous Mecha]] doing the Monkey, which gets transferred to SRW Z.)

* [[What the Hell Hero]] (Leader Gauli gets called out by Gainer and Sara, and later punched by Gain, when it turns out {{spoiler|he's the one who murdered Gainer's parents.}})

* [[What the Hell, Hero?]] (Leader Gauli gets called out by Gainer and Sara, and later punched by Gain, when it turns out {{spoiler|he's the one who murdered Gainer's parents.}})

** This is kind of extended to the entire leadership of the Yapan's Ceiling Exodus, specifically the 5 Wisemen, a few times over the course of the series, and definitely at the end, by protagonists NOT a part of the upper echelons (Gainer, Gain, Ana, etc.). Even though they're relatively affable, and not all that corrupt, it's pointed ut that they can be manipulative bastards, who are generally pretty cowardly, and don't actually contribute all that much in terms of leadership, accomplishment, or effort to the Exodus and the community other than acting as figureheads (similar to the utterly useless, ditzy, current Meeya, who's basically a glorified pop-idol rather than a key religious figure) and managing mundane bureacratic matters.

** The Overdevil also pulls one of these on many of the main cast members whilst possessing/assimilating Gainer in the last episodes, pointing out many of their flaws, "sins", and "crimes" (some accurate, some made up to act as psychological attacks) using their friend's face to weaken their resolve and play up their guilt.

* [[Wholesome Crossdresser]]: Gainer disguises himself as such when keeping tabs on Gain while the latter competes in a boxing tournament to make extra money for the Exodus Movement. He's actually really effective at it and is kinda pretty. [[Have I Mentioned I Am Heterosexual Today|What?]]

* [[Wholesome Crossdresser]]: Gainer disguises himself as such when keeping tabs on Gain while the latter competes in a boxing tournament to make extra money for the Exodus Movement. He's actually really effective at it and is kinda pretty. [[Have I Mentioned I Am Heterosexual Today?|What?]]

* [[Younger Than They Look]] (per [[Word of God]], Yassaba is only 32. Would you believe it by looking at him?)