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* [[A Simple Plan]]
* [[As the Good Book Says...]]: The first movie.
* [[Badass]]:
** [[Badass Adorable]]: Noa
** [[Badass Crew]]: SV-2. Everyone has a little bit of Badass in one form or another.
** [[Badass Grandpa]]: Sakaki. Even the labor pilots fear Sakaki. Considering he's in charge of the mechanics that maintain their machines, their fear is somewhat justified.
** [[Colonel Badass]]: Gotoh was "[[Almighty Janitor|exiled]]" to the SV.2 because he was such a Badass, HQ didn't want to deal with him ruffling all sorts of feather. [[Obfuscating Stupidity]] is his current trademark.
* [[Benevolent Boss]]: Gotoh, Nagumo.
* [[Berserk Button]]: Word to the wise - ''do not insult Shinshi's wife''.
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* [[Bifauxnen]]: Kumagami is short, has a boyish haircut, and looks rather tomboyish (but still feminine). She's also an expert at judo.
* [[Blue with Shock]]: Happens to the pilot of a, virus infected, rogue construction Labor in the first movie when he realizes that the ''Second'' Unit (Otha) is here to rescue him "I'M DEAD!!", Otha has a bit of a rep as a hothead.
* [[Boring but Practical]]: A lot of the Labors are fairly unimpressive, but functional.
* [[Bottle Fairy]]: Noa and Lt. Clancy. In fact, the first time they start to bond is when they're both screaming drunk.
** There's also Lt. Kumagami. Kumagami and Clancy getting drunk together at the hot springs {{spoiler|and poor Ohta paying for it}} is classic.
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* [[But Not Too Foreign]]: Lt. Clancy.
* [[The Chessmaster]]: Yukihito Tsuge, the stoic [[Big Bad]] of the second film, fits this quite succinctly, driving Tokyo to the brink of civil war while never once getting his hands dirty himself.
* [[Clip Show]]: Episode 23 of the TV Series.
* [[Colonel Makepeace]]: Division 1 as a whole and Lt. Gomioka especially.
* [[Cool Plane]]: The fictional [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V91GEBL3MOQ&feature=related AH88 Hellhound] actually out-cools most if not all of the mecha's
* [[Cop Show]]
* [[Corrupt Corporate Executive]]: Schaft Enterprises is a ruthless corporation that produces military mecha. They use highly illegal means to test their vehicles. An odd case, in that it remains a monolithic entity with no [[Big Bad]] in charge of it, though their agents Kurosaki and Richard Wong/Utsumi give it a human face.
** Yeah, you know they say that those cats at Schaft are some bad Mother-
* [[Cross Counter]]: Alphonse vs. Griffon in the TV series.
* [[Cross-Popping Veins]]: Ohta, mostly.
* [[Darker and Edgier]]: Every one of the movies gets progressively darker than the last but surprisingly enough the first two are really low on violence and serve more as psychological thrillers. However, the third movie got away with some rather gruesome deaths and a gloomier mood.
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* [[Day in the Life]]
* [[Decon Recon Switch]]: In the second movie, every time that mecha go up against real life war machines like tanks and helicopters, they get annihilated. However, the movie still ends with a mecha battle between bipedal bots and [[Spider Tanks]].
* [[Downer Ending]]: Oddly enough, done ''humorously'' in one episode in the second [[OVA]] featuring a maze of abandoned sewer pipes and albino alligators.
* [[Dream Sequence]]: Twice. Once with our heroes fighting supervillains in New York, later with them fighting alien invaders in space. The latter was subverted at the end when we find that the main character of the [[Dream Sequence]] wasn't the one dreaming it - {{spoiler|he had actually nodded off listening to the star of the ''first'' sequence describe that episode!}}.
* [[Eagle Land]]: In the Aforementioned New York dream sequence. Type 2 for the most part, but the Shout Outs rampant throughout make it even more humorous.
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* [[Eyes Always Shut]]: Richard Wong/Mr. Utsumi.
* [[Face Fault]]
* [[Fainting]]: Takeo Kumagami when confronted with either Supernatural beings or Monsters. A Horde of stampeding rats had a similar effect.
* [[Fish Eye Lens]]: Seen often in the first & second films, particularly from the perspective of some poor bastard getting a royal ass-chewing.
* [[Flat Character]]: The mechanics are never really given much development, aside from Sakaki and Shige.
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* [[Hot Springs Episode]]: In the second OVA series.
* [[Hot Scoop]]: Momoko Sakurayama
* [[Humongous Mecha]]: on the smaller side at about 8 meters.
* [[I Call Her "Vera"]]: Police Officer Noa Izumi upon joining the squad affectionately names her Ingram AV-98 Patrol Labor 'Alphonse'. She previously had a dog and a cat named "Alphonse" as well, making the labor "Alphonse III."
* [[Idiot Hair]]: Noah on occasion.
* [[Idol Singer]]: Kana from the TV series
* [[I Don't Know Mortal Kombat]]: Izumi did badly on a [[Humongous Mecha]] game because she was too used to piloting a real [[Humongous Mecha]].
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** In one episode, Noa discovers that Ohta, known for causing massive property damage, especially with his trigger-happy use of his labor's revolver, is actually a perfect shot. When she asks Gotoh about this, he points out that none of Ohta's shots have ever injured anyone.
* [[Kaiju]]: Subverted in episode 3 of the first OVA series, where {{spoiler|the monster walks off into the sea immediately after it appears}}. It has an appearance similar to Garia from ''War of the Gargantuas''...and Hiromi Yamizaki. Other examples are played straight: The fourth and 19th episodes of the TV series feature different monsters as well. The first is a mammal of some sort--an escaped genetic experiment. Some think it looks like a bear, others like a cat or raccoon-dog. The Audience never sees it though.<ref>Actually we do, briefly, and it's Mughi from "[[Dirty Pair]]" (which shared staff with Patlabor).</ref>, In 19, the monster is an underground-adapted [[Our Dragons Are Different|Dragon]]. Izumi insists on calling it a real Kaiju. Kanuka calls that a childish fantasy--and [[Hypocritical Humor|insists on calling it a surviving Dragon]] [[Wild Mass Guessing|descended from the ones in the middle ages]].
** The manga contains a different [[Kaiju]] story that doesn't appear in the anime, involving an airline crash that accidentally releases a genetic experiment that rapidly grows into an amphibious monster that Division 2 -- among others -- get called out to deal with.
* [[Kaiju Defense Force]]: The JSDF makes an appearance at the beginning of the first movie, and plays a large part in the second movie.
* [[Lady of War]]: Kanuka, and Takeo. Cemented for Kanuka when she took on a mob of Yakuza in a Kimono with a wooden sword. They didn't stand a chance.
** Kanuka's combat skills, in and out of her labor are to be worshipped, just ask Gotoh, who specifically called her in to assist SV.2 with the raid on the Ark in the first movie
{{quote|'''Customs Agent''': "Are you here to see the sights?"
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* [[Obfuscating Stupidity]]: Richard Wong/Mr. Utsumi, the cold and calculating agent of Schaft Enterprises, hides behind a happy-go-lucky facade.
* [[Omake]]: The third theatrical movie was packaged with several humorous "Mini-Pato" shorts.
* [[Our Dragons Are Different]]: It's six legged (two hands, four legs), eyeless from being underground for a thousand+ years and has sensory tentacles that it can use offensively growing from the back of its head.
* [[Our Ghosts Are Different]]: Episode 27 of the TV series features a pretty standard group of poltergeists with unfinished business.
* [[Otaku]]: Several Mecha Otaku, most notably...
* [[Otaku Surrogate]]: Noah is a bit of a borderline example. She's obsessed with giant robots, but in a very girly way.
* [[Phenotype Stereotype]]: In the New York city dream, most of the characters who appear are blond haired, blue eyed versions of the core cast--with a few exceptions--as is everyone else in New York City. They're also all Gun-Crazy.
* [[Police Procedural]]
* [[Put on a Bus]]: Lt. Clancy, sent back to New York. Came back a few times as a guest star.
* [[Ragtag Bunch of Misfits]]
* [[Real Robot]]: About as close to realistic as you can get, aside from some slightly whimsical giant police weaponry; even military Labors are pretty delicate and lightly armed.
** Um, except that the TV series has in its main story arc a flying shiny black giant robot with wings that wouldn't look out of place in a latter-day Gundam show, and a labor with ''[[Frickin' Laser Beams]]'' ''[[Austin Powers|attached to its head]]''.
** Exceptions. Both were special models not meant for mass production. The Griffon was also built without cost in mind and overtiming from most of shaft's engineers. It also helps that said flight was extremely limited and was brute thrust all the way.
* [[Red Oni, Blue Oni]]: Noa vs. Kanuka.
* [[Red Shirt Reporter]]: Momoko Sakurayama won't let a little thing like danger get in the way of a good story--or being made into unknowing hostages by a criminal labor pilot. Her anatonistic relationship with Section 2 just makes all the more fun to see Otah stuff them back in theri news van by hand.
* [[Roboteching]]: Seen in an episode that parodied ''[[Super Dimension Fortress Macross|Macross]]'' (as well as ''[[Ultraman]]'' and a few other classic sci-fi shows).
* [[Running Gag]]: Noa frantically running from something, almost fainting, quickly recovering. Happens at least three times in the course of the series. Usually from something monstrous--like albino sewer crocodilians.
* [[Scary Shiny Glasses]]: Shinshi, once you push him over the edge.
* [[Schematized Prop]]: The opening narration of the last half of the TV series included a detailed description of the AV-98 Ingram, the show's titular patrol labor.
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* [[Shoo Out the Clowns]]: Cutesy mecha-fetishist Noah & wacky gun-nut Ohta get progressively less & less screentime with each progressively darker & more cynical film. Somewhat rectified in the manga & TV continuity with the Gryphon Saga, which, while still mostly serious & featuring an escalating level of danger still has a major focus on Noah.
* [[Shout-Out]]: Several, including ''[[Super Dimension Fortress Macross|Macross]]'' and ''[[Ultraman]]''. The character Kanuka Clancy is named after writer Tom Clancy, and the title ''Mobile Police Patlabor'' is a play on ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam]]''.
** Another Gundam Shout Out occurs in episode 32 of the TV series, where some mercenary labor pilots attempt a [[Mobile Suit Gundam|Jet Stream Attack]]. It failes spectacularly. It hurts that the one pulling the surprise attack [[Calling Your Attacks|shouted]] out "Jet Stream Attack" before he hit--his target actually telling him to "Shut up!". Apparently, he's something of an Otaku.
{{quote|"But I practiced so hard!"}}
** Earlier, Gotoh chastizes his crew:
{{quote|"You think this [Machine] is ''[[Great Mazinger]]''? ''[[Dangaioh]]''?"}}
** The New York episode has SO MANY it's hard to track them all. ''[[The Man from U.N.C.L.E.]]'', ''[[Ultraman]]'', ''[[Lassie]]'', ''[[Mazinger Z]]'', ''Tetsujin28'', [[James Bond|Q Branch]], [[Yatterman|Doronjo]], ''U.F.O.'' and even '''[[Monty Python's Flying Circus|The Spanish Inquisition]]''' show up in some capacity. They were quite unexpected.
*** Well, to be fair, nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition.
** The tenth episode openin of the second OVA is a shout out to [[Blade Runner]], with Ota as Deckard.
* [[Sitting on the Roof]]
* [[Sliding Scale of Realistic Versus Fantastic]]: Differs. See Mood Whiplash above. The two movies helmed by Mamoru Oshii are highly realistic with situations that could happen in the real world; the antagonists in both are terrorists that utilize methods that can be and have been used in real life. The TV show is realistic in its portrayal of labor crime as well... until the main story arc kicks in, and the SV-2 battles Bond villains <s>SPECTRE</s> Schaft and their super-robot prototypes. Oh, and monsters, dragons and ghosts too.
* [[Snow Means Love]]: An episode of the second [[OVA]] revolved around this trope.
* [[Spell My Name with an "S"]]: The Central Park Media release prefers to use "Gotoh", for instance, instead of "Gotou" or "Gotō".
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* [[Unnecessary Combat Roll]]: In giant robots, even.
* [[Used Future]]
* [[Villain Team-Up]]: Episode 42 of the TV series, titled appropriately Enough "The Men Who Returned" features 3 previous villains teaming up--and forming a [[Power Trio]].
* [[Welcome Episode]]
* [[Whole-Episode Flashback]]
* [[Whole-Plot Reference]]: An entire (dream) episode devoted to an ''[[Ultraman]]'' homage, specifically harking back to the series ''[[Ultra Seven]]'' with the squad acting secretly as a monster/alien defense team. They even go for some of the classic sound effects and the big bad of the episode is an [[Expy]] of Ultraman's classic enemy: Zetton. Noa gets to transform using a beta-capsul into ''Ingraman''. In fact, all the monsters and Ultramen who appear have the faces of military or police labors. The Zetton has the face of the Griffon, Ingraman is Noa's Ingram "Alphonse", "Zero" is the AV-0 Peacemaker.
** The third episode of the first OVA is a hilarious ''[[Godzilla]]'' send-up, down to the one-eyed [[Mad Scientist]] and the "Oxygen Destroyer" (actually a bit of dry ice in a plastic tube).
* [[Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?]]: Takeo Kumagami is extremely afraid of ghosts. She hides it initially with skepticism, but the mask soon falls away. One the Ghosts spirits are put at rest, she presents the spirits with an offering of flowers, sake and an incense stick.
* [[Zombie Apocalypse]]: The big battle in the first movie is a [[Hold the Line]] action to prevent civilization from being destroyed against an onslaught of slow moving, dumb, but relentless horde of opponents that are afflicted with a highly contageous virus that infects one of the good guys and turns it against his friends. Only instead of living dead humans, it affects mecha. You may now begin panicking.
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