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Of course, Keroro is still an invader, and still plotting the downfall of "Pekopon" (his species' name for Earth in the anime -- [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sgt._Frog#Notable_differences_between_the_anime_and_manga Pokopen in manga])... when he's not doing chores for the Hinata family, or being distracted by such aspects of Earth culture as ''[[Gundam]]'' model kits and the Internet. Before long, Keroro manages to reunite with his squad-mates: hot-headed rookie/Keroro fanboy Private Tamama,
hard-boiled combat specialist Corporal Giroro, smarmy intelligence officer Sergeant Major Kururu/[[Spell My Name With an "S"|Kululu]], [[My Friends and Zoidberg|and Lance Corporal Dororo]]. With this eclectic crew, Keroro attempts to conquer the planet through one [[Zany Scheme|convoluted scheme]] after another, though sometimes he feels torn between his mission and his obligation to the Hinata family... but not that often.
Surprisingly, for a series that's not meant to be taken seriously, often has [[No Fourth Wall]], and is frequently brimming with pop-culture references, it has a lot of heart. Though it stops far short of being sappy, there are many heartwarming moments sprinkled in that sometimes constitute [[Tear Jerker]] material. It's still firmly in the comedy genre, though, and hence, occasionally brings these scenes to an abrupt halt with a quick joke.
Rounding out the cast is an assortment of eccentric humanoids, including Momoka Nishizawa, bi-polar scion of a multi-billion-dollar international corporation who hangs out with Tamama and has a serious crush on Fuyuki; Mutsumi Saburo, a smooth talking poet/artist/radio show host who hangs out with Kululu; Koyuki Azumaya, [[New Transfer Student]] and [[Ninja]] girl who hangs out with Dororo and is a [[Romantic Two
Insanely popular in Japan, the manga was eventually released in North America in 2004 by Tokyopop, with the title ''Sgt. Frog''. An anime adaptation naturally followed, also begun in 2004. In November 2006, [[ADV Films]] announced that they had acquired the rights to the anime version. However, after nearly two years without a single word on the project save for a couple of trailers, [[
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* [[The Abridged Series]]: It's had a few, but [[Sgt Frog Abridged]] by [http://youtube.com/themidnightfrogs The Midnight Frogs] is the most popular and acclaimed.
** If it weren't for that whole "not actually abridged" thing, [[Gag Dub|the Funimation dub would be one itself]].
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** Played straight to hilarious results in episode 320. {{spoiler|When Pururu finally falls in love with Bariri, Bariri is the one who becomes disinterested.}}
* [[All Myths Are True]]: About half the time, when it's not parodied to hell and back.
* [[Alpha Bitch]]: Natsumi's 'school rival' [[Princess Curls|Imogo]] [[
* [[Amusing Alien]]
* [[Ancient Astronauts]]: Several different cases. See [[Canon Dis Continuity]] below for one; there's also the {{spoiler|Kappa friend of the Ghost Girl, implied to be Keronian}}.
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** {{spoiler|Events in Volume 17 and Season 7 correct this error.}}
** This gets played for laughs too, several times. In the fourth movie, {{spoiler|the climax sees Keroro willingly undergoing the ritual to evolve himself into a dragon, and Shion starts reciting from the spellbook, as Keroro starts to glow and the music slowly builds up -- so slowly that Keroro catches a cold first}}.
* [[Apologises a Lot]]: Rabbie/[[Spell My Name With an "S"|Lavie]].
* [[The Aristocrats]] (the dub of episode 18 has Koyuki attempting and failing to tell the joke)
* [[Arm Cannon]]: All of the Vipers have one. A parody of ''[[Space Adventure Cobra]]'' and his psychogun.
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** Episode 133 has a rare case of Tamama leading the [[Big Damn Heroes]] moment {{spoiler|to rescue practically everyone else from Alisa Southerncross}}.
** The fourth movie has Aki doing this in a Citroen 2CV.
* [[Big Ol' Eyebrows]]: Keroro has so much determination every once in a while, he grows giant eyebrows to display it.
** Giroro's father has actual [[Big Ol' Eyebrows]].
* [[Biker Babe]]: Aki and her motorcycle can outrun anything. ANYTHING. It seems Fuyuki inherited just enough of this to outrun alien missiles on a bicycle in the second movie, BEFORE activating the [[Nitro Boost]].
* [[Bilingual Bonus]]: In the Japanese version, Tamama is filled with 嫉妬/しっと, pronounced [[Toilet Humor|"shitto"]] and meaning jealousy/envy. He makes some sort of energy ball with his feelings and shooting it towards someone who angered him. The ball [[Carrying a Cake|never reaches its destination though]], and usually [[Hoist By His Own Petard|returns..]]
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* [[Bishonen]]: Saburo
* [[Bizarre Alien Biology]]: Keronians like humidity, but too much makes them... drunk?
* [[Bland
** The Gundam ripoff seen occasionally, Dangale, is another example of this trope, but not to Gundam itself. It looks virtually identical to a real life Gundam knockoff called Gungal (And a more proper romanization would be "Dungal"), only with a different name and slightly goofier proportions. The manga actually used the Gungal name itself, rather than Dungal/Dangale. Hilariously, one of Keroro's model kits actually was released with a miniature Dungal as an accessory.
* [[Bleached Underpants]]: Sort of. Space Policewoman Poyon-chan began her career in one of Yoshizaki's doujins, wearing only her UFO skirt and three small adhesive stars. Yoshizaki himself is much in demand as a pin-up artist (see his book Mine Blue for examples).
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** In-universe ''non-character example'' - the Nishizawa radio tower to the [[Tokyo Tower]]. It helps that the NPG can afford to build a new one. Which they've done a few times.
* [[Chekhov's Skill]]: The Great Resonance, which the Keroro Platoon discovers completely by accident in episode 155, is used to power up the God Keron's final attack against the Keromet in episode 203.
* [[The Chew Toy]]: Keroro's regular failure to complete his plans of world domination or even ''his household chores'' result in him getting grabbed by the head, smacked, punched, shoved into the wall, kicked across the room ([[What Do You Mean
* [[Clean Cut|Clean]]/DiagonalCut: Dororo seems to be a master of this.
* [[Conspicuous CG]]: Keroro's ceiling fan. Seriously, how is THAT the only thing?
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*** In the single volume of the 'Space X Jyubei' manga, the last chapter is actually a complete crossover with Keroro, featuring not only Keroro, but also Fuyuki and Natsumi in main roles.
** Angol Fear, Mois' cousin, debuted in ''[[Soul Calibur]]'' IV, but her backstory always referenced Keroro, mentioning Mois, who'd come to Earth after her. She eventually would go on to appear in the ''[[Keroro Gunso]]'' manga itself.
* [[Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass]]: There is a reason Sgt. Keroro is the leader even though he ''appears'' to be a fool. Threaten (or worse, actually hurt) his squadmates or his adoptive family, and there's no force in the universe that will stop him, {{spoiler|as the Garuru Platoon found out}}. Or just get him too wet. See [[Berserk Button]] far above.
** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aj31e-jVgyc Video here,] from Episode 103, unfortunately sans subtitles. Complete with [[Transformation Sequence]] and [[Theme Music Power
** Fuyuki has a bit of this too -- in several instances Sgt. Keroro pushes him too far, he gains a [[Battle Aura]] and [[Hidden Eyes|a shadow covers his face]], then the manga cuts over to a terrified Keroro and a cheerful Fuyuki. The first time this happens he actually stops the otherwise unstoppable Keroro described above. See [[Berserk Button]], pretty close above. Also [[Beware the Nice Ones]], far above.
*** In one chapter of the manga, the platoon goes way too far by converting some old Children's Day carp flags (which Fuyuki considered a family heirloom) into invasion weapons. Fuyuki snaps, prompting Natsumi to genuinely panic, and Kululu quickly zaps him with the age reduction beam. Child!Fuyuki promptly ''takes charge of the invasion''.
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* [[Darkskinned Blonde]]: Mois in human form and Asami.
* [[Death of a Thousand Cuts]]: Tamama's "Deathblow 9000".
* [[Deep
* [[Depraved Dentist]]: Do not, under any circumstances, let Kululu near your mouth.
** It's a bit ironic when we briefly see his mouth filled with rotten teeth in episode 310.
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* [[Development Gag]]: In episode 12-B of the English dub, Kululu accidentally calls Giroro "Giro" -- which was his name in the preliminary dub (of that same episode no less)
* [[Disappeared Dad]]: Where is Mr. Hinata? He seemingly returns at the end of the anime, though the reason for his unspoken absence remains a mystery.
* [[Did We Just Have Tea With Cthulhu?]]: Angol Mois is the cosmic entity sent to destroy the Earth, as well as one of the sweetest and gentlest souls you'll ever meet.
* [[Does This Remind You of Anything?]]: The Drill Episode. Just... the Drill Episode.
** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uleYO-Zt1pA Tamama rubbing a balloon.]
* [[Do It Yourself Theme Tune]]: the Keroro platoon's voice actors have performed 3 opening themes thus far.
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* [[Ear Worm]]: Too many to count. However, "Afro Gunsou" seems to have a special place stuck in people's heads.
** Just go talk to people and not add "De Arimasu" mentally to every statement. I dare you!
* [[Easily
* [[Elaborate Underground Base]]: And Elaborate Bedroom, thanks to some [[Applied Phlebotinum]].
* [[Eldritch Abomination]]: An enormous black hole dragon, composed by milions of smaller negative matter dragons, which appears in one of the show's final episodes (7th season), easily slaughtering the combined force of the Keronian army. Of course, the series doesn't end with it destroying the universe. [[Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?|So, somehow, it's defeated.]]
* [[Energy Ball]]: Tamama's Jealously Ball.
* [[Even the Girls Want Her]]: Natsumi, who in addition to Koyuki has an entire female fan club at her school.
* [[
** Momoka gets recast as an actual princess in the ''Musha Kero'' storyline. She is [[The Ojou]], after all!
** Anime Sumomo displays some princess behavior in her first appearance -- the plotline is basically ''[[Roman Holiday]]'' [[Recycled in Space|with a galactic pop star]].
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* [[Feet of Clay]]
* [[Festival Episode]]: The Keroro Platoon runs a series of stalls as part of their latest scheme to raise invasion funds. Natsumi gets them to leave by meeting their turtle-catching challenge.
* [[Five
* [[Flanderization]]: Ooooh boy... this is the ''purpose'' of the series!
* [[Forgotten Birthday]]: Keroro does this to Natsumi in one episode, while Fuyuki insists that Natsumi wouldn't enjoy it. Much to his chagrin, he finds his sister not only has a good time at the party, but completely fell for the Forgotten Birthday ploy.
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** The 7th season of the anime attempted to reestablish the basic characters and setting of the show. As a result, both of these elements come to the forefront again. There are 3 episodes with the Keroball in the center of everything just in the first half of the season. That's more than in all of the first season!
*** The Lucifer Spear may be condemned to this [[Too Soon|after the earthquake of March 2011.]]
* [[Four
* [[Funny Afro]]: Anyone who survives an explosion will have their hair fried into this, with bonus sideburns and soul patch, in Keroro's case.
** A variant in episode 294: Paul's [[Mobile Shrubbery]] camouflage includes a ''massive'' green afro resembling a bush.
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** Netflix has the dubbed version of the show under ''children's TV'', making typical words like "bastard" in the dub more of this. Sure, it is categorized under 8 to 10 and 11 to 12 (tween audience), but still...
* [[Giant Space Flea From Nowhere|Giant Space Plant-based Moisture-hungry Seasonally-Appearing Creature... Thing From Nowhere]]
* [[Good Scars, Evil Scars]]: Giroro.
* [[Grand Theft Me]]: Thanks to a special Gashapon machine. In the anime, the first time, it's used by Keroro to steal Natsumi's body, but the situation ends up closer to [[Freaky Friday Flip]] when he is dragged to help her classmates. The manga's story turned out differently though. Either way, it seemed like a one-off item, but it returned in the 6th season. Keroro's mother disappears with Natsumi's body and even convinces Giroro to go on a date with her. There were also incidents involving Momoka and Keroro and {{spoiler|Tamama and Fuyuki, when Tamama decides to use Fuyuki's body to approach Keroro and even attempts to kiss him... although he made a mistake}}. In the later episodes, the voice actors stay with the bodies, only following the personalities for internal monologues.
* [[Gratuitous English]]: Oddly enough, Keroro and Giroro wind up delivering more of this than the [[Foreign Fanservice]] character.
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* [[Gratuitous Spanish]]: Angol Mois in the dub, probably because to a western viewer her tan complexion immediately suggests Latin heritage.
** And then lampshaded when she stopped doing it. Well, okay, she doesn't do it as much anymore at least, but "stopped" is an exaggeration.
* [[Green
* [[Hand Cannon]]: Giroro's [[Rule of Cool|oh-so-cool alien handguns]].
* [[Handy Remote Control]]: Kululu's [[Buffy
* [[Hero of Another Story]]: Yamato and Kapu. Yamato was a kid around Fuyuki's age who befriended a kappa-like creature similar to Keroro, who took he and his friends in many adventures. When Fuyuki meets him though, Kapu had disappeared, although his friends still hoped to meet him again.
** In the manga, it's directly lampshaded by Fuyuki writing a report afterwards where he talks about how he realized, with that incident, that there are other stories like his going on in the world, which doesn't spin around him after all.
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* [[High Speed Missile Dodge]]: Powered 723.
* [[Hoist By His Own Petard]]: Happens a lot to Tamama and Keroro.
* [[Holding Back the Phlebotinum]]: The outlook on [[Humongous Mecha|Keroro DaiShogun's]] next appearance isn't very bright. As a matter of fact, any Keronian mecha that gets featured [[Merchandise
* [[Homage]]: Out of all the shoutouts to ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam (Anime)|Mobile Suit Gundam]]'', the third movie in particular offers what may be the strongest homage yet, with an actual Gundam being used against the enemy. Keroro's rendition of the theme song just adds to it.
** The 4th movie starts out with Keroro dresing up as the Zeta Gundam and ZZ Gundam, then takes advantage of the retro setting of France to homage ''[[Turn a Gundam (Anime)|Turn a Gundam]]''. Case in point, Pierre's uniquely shaped moustache, and the presence of antique coat-of-arms that resemble known UC mecha.
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* [[Hot Blooded]]: Everyone on the show does this at one point or another, but Space Detective Kogoro probably fits this best.
* [[Hot Shounen Mom]]: '''Aki'''.
* [[Huge Guy, Tiny Girl]]: Angol Mois's parents.
* [[Human Aliens]]: Mois, Kogoro, a few other examples.
* [[Humans Are Bastards]]: Well, at least, that's what the Angol clan considers humanity to be in the manga, sensing various evil thoughts throughout the world and even being able to count how many sins are happening on Earth in a specific moment. This would explain why the Angols seem nice, despite their destructive aims.
** Also in ''[[Soul Calibur]] 4'', which features Angol Fear, Angol Mois' cousin who'd go on to appear in the Keroro manga later. Her story suggests the Angol race thinks [[Humans Are Bastards]], and possibly the reason they want to destroy Earth is to save the rest of the Universe from that corruption expanding; Ultimately, {{spoiler|Angol Fear observes that there are many innocent humans, and leaves it up to Angol Mois to decide whether to destroy Earth or not.}}
* [[Humans Are Special]]: It's hinted in one arc of the manga (the World's Tiniest Invasion: Lost Episode IIRC) that humans have an absurd level of mental potential, and that Keroro's contact with them has put his own potential far beyond that of the average Keroronian, which still leaves him far below a human's level.
* [[Humongous Mecha]]: The series '''loves''' them, as does its titular [[Anti
* [[Hyperspace Arsenal]]: Giroro's weapons are always summoned from nowhere via Keronian tech. In the third movie, Kululu's computer system is hacked and Giroro is left without his heavy arms for half of the movie.
* [[I Call It Vera]]: [[J Michael Tatum]] has admitted to naming Dororo's katana "Stephen". This made it into an episode when Dororo broke his sword against an indestructible spaceship hull and cried its name out in grief.
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* [[Identical Grandson]]: After being zapped with Kululu's "Midlife Crisis" gun in Episode 9, preadolescent Aki is shown to look very similar to Fuyuki (but not close enough that Funimation's dub could resist [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshading]] it). A later episode involving time travel reveals that teenage Aki looked a lot like Natsumi -- except for the hair color and the glasses, of course.
** {{spoiler|Fuyuki's son shown in a brief glimpse of the future at the end of the 6th season looks basically identical to Fuyuki's ''[[Bratty Half Pint]]'' younger self.}}
* [[Identical Stranger]]: the ''Musha Kero'' saga taks place on a planet full of people resembling our heroes' friends. Their actual characters range from disturbingly similar (Fuyuki, Momoka) to completely different (Natsumi, Saburo) to something from out of left field ([[Why Do You Keep Changing Jobs?|Mois]].)
* [[Idiosyncratic Episode Naming]]: Episode titles always start with the name of whichever character the story will be about and end with Keroro's [[Verbal Tic|"de arimasu".]]
** Animax's little-known English dub of the show—it was only seen in Asia—preserves this tic by having Keroro's voice actress (yes, they kept his [[Cross Dressing Voices|cross-dressing voice]] too) say "Sir, yes sir!" after the title.
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* [[Incredible Shrinking Man]]: Episode 175.
* [[Ink Suit Actor]]: Dance*Man (real name Hideki Fujisawa) in the regular show; 'Dylan & Catherine' in the ''Fundari Kettari'' title theme.
* [[Instant Awesome, Just Add Ninja]]: They really didn't need ninja, but aren't you happy they added them anyways?
* [[Intelligent Gerbil]]: The Keronians are a frog-like intelligent alien race.
* [[Invisibility Cloak]]: The Anti-Barrier, or the system the Keronians use to become invisible to anyone other than a select few, like the Hinatas.
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* [[Latex Space Suit]]: Several times, played up for fanservice with the girls.
* [[Law of Alien Names]]: The Keronian naming pattern, "A-B-B".
* [[Lawyer
* [[Live Action Adaptation]]: Parodied (but of course!) at the end of episode 293. [[Ruined FOREVER|The platoon's reaction is what seals it.]]
** Keroro also says George (or Johji) Nakata—in reality the voice of Giroro—is rumored to be starring in the live action Captain Geroro movie in a much earlier episode.
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* [[Looming Silhouette of Rage]]: Several occasions. Natsumi gets Billowing Pigtails of Rage in addition to this.
* [[Lotus Eater Machine]]: Episode 3. A variant appears in Episode 135, in the form of Kululu's beam gun invention that causes Keroro to dream that he's lived his entire life as a grain of rice. He wakes up with an epiphany.
** Episode 267 features one that started out as a [[Deep
* [[Lovecraftian Superpower]]: Subverted, as {{spoiler|Alisa's assumed to have this ability at first, but it's really due to her "Daddy", a shapeshifting symbiote that lives on her head}}.
* [[Love Dodecahedron]]: Also, [[All Love Is Unrequited]], for the most part.
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* [[Medium Awareness]]: Aki, being a top manga editor, is primarily responsible for this. Also, the Narrator can pinpoint the episode numbers of recurring events and character debuts on demand.
** Dasonu*Maso/The Dance*Master mentions in his debut ep that if he leaves, the episode will be over (because there won't be anything to provide conflict)
* [[Merchandise
** And on Keron, the platoon is a super duper popular cash cow... but they didn't actually know this until they got letters from Keronian kids on New Year's. ''Somebody'''s really rich, but it sure as Hell isn't them.
* [[Mildly Military]]: Done intentionally, the squad is lazy and incompetent, and their only oversight is the reports Keroro has to send back to his superiors, in which he [[Blatant Lies|lies outrageously]].
* [[The Minnesota Fats]]: Giroro's brother, Lieutenant Garuru.
* [[Mobile Suit Human]]: The Keronians run around in these when they need to be seen in public.
** Kululu's female Pekoponian suits (to date, Kululuko and a faux-Natsumi loaned to Sumomo) fit more closely, placing the Keronian pilot entirely within the torso instead of leaving the head exposed to allow for a more realistic human appearance -- despite being quite unnecessary (see [[Paper
* [[Moe Anthropomorphism]]: Thanks to Kululu's [[Transformation Ray|"We All Live Together" beam gun that turns animals into humans.]]
* [[Mooks]]: All the members of the Shurara Corps aside from Shurara himself.
* [[Multiple Endings]]: The "segmented endings" variant. They aren't alternate takes, just more and more complete versions of the series. The show's 7th season aired in different timeslots, with different running times in different timeslots. In order to satisfy people who couldn't watch the longer version of the show, the last 3 episodes of the series all ended up being different types of ending stories.
* [[Mundane Utility]]: Keroro sometimes elicits Keronian technology to complete his chores. A non-technological example would be [[Highly
* [[My Name Is Not Durwood]]: In one episode, Kogoro keeps forgetting Dororo's name and guessing wrong. He thinks he's called "Terere" in the original and either "Domomo", "Dimimi", or "Dolo" in the dub.
** [[I Am Not Shazam]]: Alisa's "Daddy" is named Nevula, but tends to be forgotten as such.
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* [[Nerd Glasses]]: Kululu.
* [[Never Bareheaded]]: All Keronians have hats, usually a long-eared one with their personal symbol on it. One episode involves a notorious [[Un Reveal]] when Keroro switches to a baseball cap after his hat is picked up by a toddler.
* [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero]]: The sarge manages to nearly cause Armageddon by returning Moa's cell phone.
** The ''Musha Kero'' saga ends with one. {{spoiler|Upon learning that civilians have been enslaved to unearth something in a mine, Kululu scans the area and finds an energy reading, and Keroro speeds up the excavation. It turns out to be an [[Eldritch Abomination]].}}
* [[Ninja]]: Dororo and Koyuki.
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** Actually, her theme repeats the words ''Nostra'' and ''Damus'' continouously. Although they're a clear reference to ''Nostradamus'', they're also, individualy, actual words in Latin.
** Also Shion Drakon from the fourth movie, the chant she uses {{spoiler|to transform Keronians into Dragon Warriors is a little hard to make out, but it}} contains the word "draconis," meaning 'Dragon.'
* [[One
* [[Only Six Faces]]: Keronians are a borderline case, since they come in a rainbow of colors and a few even throw out the humanoid build. Thankfully all Keronians have their own personal symbols.
* [[On the Next Episode of Catchphrase]]: "''Sonna kotoyori!'' ("Never mind about all that!") Next week on Keroro Gunsou -- (name of first story), de arimasu! (name of second story), de arimasu! Two stories! How about that! ''Gerogeeroo...''"
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* [[Overprotective Dad]]: Nevulon is a fairly good example in episode 291 {{spoiler|when he and Alisa Southerncross are separated at the hotsprings, and he goes insane with worry.}}
* [[Overly Long Name]]: [[Ascended Extra]] Masayoshi Yoshiokadaira. Kululu's inventions get hit by this a lot.
* [[Pac
* [[Panty Shot]]: Happens to many of the females frequently in the manga. And not all that rarely in the anime...
* [[Paper
** On the flipside, headbands with googlibobs are all that's needed for humans like Fuyuki and Natsumi to walk unnoticed among the alien community.
** There's a really odd example in the Girls' Day episode, where Kululu's Kululuko disguise is very good (i.e., looks just like a real human woman), but his identity is still very obvious to the viewer if not the cast (the name, the spiral motif, the color yellow, the voice, etc.)
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* [[Rule of Cool]]: ...narrow it down to ''one'' example? Um.
* [[Rule of Funny]]: ...narrow it down to ''one'' example? Um.
* [[Screw This, I'm Outta Here]]: In the English dub, the narrator makes notice of the show recycling the 'multiple of one character' gag, and gets tired of it.
{{quote| '''Narrator''' "Last episode had two Momokas, now there's two Angol Mois? If we get two Keroros, i quit!"}}
** Later in episode 23, {{spoiler|Where there actually ARE more than one Keroro, he keeps his word.}}
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* [[Space Police]]: Poyon and Poyan, with a [[Portal Network]] at their disposal.
* [[Space X]]: there are dozens ''upon dozens'' of "Space" versions for festivals, TV shows, celebrities, anything you can name. {{spoiler|The third movie ends with Dark Keroro attempting to invade another planet, only to be thwarted by ''Space Fuyuki and Space Natsumi''.}}
* [[Spell My Name With an "S"]]: Kururu/Kululu, Angol Moa/Angol Mois/Angolmois, Rabbie/Lavie, Pururu/Pululu.
** Somewhere around volume 11 or 12 of the English edition of the manga, Tokyopop switched from using "Kururu" to "Kululu". This could have been due to a switch in translators, or the Japanese finally decided to settle some R/L confusion and told them how to transliterate it (they do that sometimes).
** Angol Mois' name <s>is</s> was spelled "Moa" almost exclusively on this page... despite the fact that in her debut episode her name is spelled out in English as "Angol Mois".
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* [[Stepford Smiler]]: Kogoro, who never stops smiling. He's far less dangerous than the usual example though.
** Lavie/Rabbie is the only one who can read his emotions.
* [[Step Three: Profit]]: Keroro's invasion-fund-raising schemes.
* [[Strange Pond Woman]]: In one story Tamama pretends to be a god (angel in the Funimation English dub) after being caught by a boy practising soccer. While he did help the boy become more confident he gave some rather strange advice, especially in the Manga and English dub not to mention teaching the boy a soccer kick fueled by resentment.
* [[Stringy Haired Ghost Girl]]: Played with -- she's actually [[Cute Ghost Girl|friendly]].
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* [[This Is Something He's Got to Do Himself]]: In the third movie, Tamama attempts to invoke this while fighting Shivava, but Momoka talks him out of it. They then proceed to curpstomp him together.
* [[This Is Sparta]]!: The line is uttered by Giroro in episode 190, while fighting a viper over a gift at the market. No variation, he actually says "This is Sparta!"
* [[They Would Cut You Up]]: In early episodes, this is part of the reason (along with imprisonment and [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|potential traffic accidents]]) why the alien frogs are not allowed to go out on their own, at least before they develop their [[Mobile Suit Human|Mobile Suit Humans]].
** Played for laughs in the ''Kero Zero'' prequel story - it seems that "human abductions" are a well-known urban myth on alien civilisations like Keron, to the extent that the word "probing" has become a Freakout Button of sorts for our heroes.
* [[Those Two Guys|Those Two Girls]]: Natsumi's classmates Yayoi and Satsuki.
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* [[Tyke Bomb]]: Kiruru. -- read as [[King of Fighters|Kiruru-Dot.]]
* [[Tyrant Takes the Helm]]: Tamama travels this path after a badly worded letter from High Command awards him with Keroro's position.
* [[The Un
** And a season 7 episode about Dororo's mask {{spoiler|in the end we don't see his mouth but the characters do, from their reaction it can't be that strange looking}}.
*** {{spoiler|Actually, they're distracted by Keroro spilling some water or something and don't get to see it before Dororo puts his mask back on. It's probably nothing unusual though, since Dororo agrees to show them in the first place. (He does blush and... giggle... afterwards, but wearing a mask all the time probably makes taking it off feel like getting naked.)}}
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* [[Waif Fu]]: Natsumi, an average high school girl, is able to take on giant mecha, alien monsters, intergalactic mercenaries, devious deathtraps, etc. It's hinted that her mother is even stronger.
* [[Weirdness Magnet]]: Fuyuki
* [[What Do You Mean
* [[White
* [[Wholesome Crossdresser]]: All five Keronians have crossdressed at least once, with Keroro himself as the biggest repeat offender. On the flipside, Kululu's debut episode has him turning Aki back into a 14-year-old -- whereupon she dresses up in Fuyuki's school uniform and sneaks off to his school. [[Generation Xerox|Their resemblance is uncanny.]]
* [[Why Can't I Hate You?]]: Tamama views Angol Mois as his greatest competition for Keroro's affections, but sometimes has trouble viewing her as an enemy because she's too damn nice about everything.
* [[Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?]]: Keroro has '''two''' -- huge dogs and the Banana Lizard (although not for the same reasons).
** For Natsumi, it's slugs, which leads to the creation of Wettol King.
** For Giroro, it's sea cucumbers -- apart from paralleling Natsumi's only fear, there seems to be no other explanation.
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