Space Adventure Cobra: Difference between revisions

 

Imagine a book about space adventures from [[The Eighties]]. ''[[The Stainless Steel Rat]]'' by Harry Harrison would fit the best. Make the overall tone a bit [[Darker and Edgier]], slightly increase the amount of naked female body, keep the funny level the same and give the main character an [[Arm Cannon]]. Make it all into manga and anime adaptation. Give it an awesome, very Eighties female vocal opening and ending.

 

Two anime adaptations were made, both closely watched by author of the original manga and preserving both plot and style of the original. What is even more awesome, in a recent remake titled ''Cobra the Animation'' they even recruited the same seyuus for both Cobra and Lady Armoroid. Preserving the character design helped a lot too.

 

* [[Action Girl]]: Lady and many secondary characters.

* {{spoiler|[[Adolf Hitler]]}}: {{spoiler|Lord Salamander's true identity.}}

* [[Casanova]]: Cobra, all the way.

* [[Casual Danger Dialog]]: Cobra, about all the time.

* [[Cigar Chomper]]

* [[Combat Stilettos]]: A frequent accessory of female outfits.

* [[Cyborg]]: Many characters, friends or foes. Cobra himself, with his left arm. {{spoiler|Lady Armaroid was once human, but her brain had to be put in a mechanical body to save her life.}}

* [[Fake Memories]]: Cobra has erased his own memory in order to evade his pursuers, and regains it by accident.

* [[Girl of the Week]]

* [[Gratuitous English]]: The Psychogun. Crystal Boy. Also, the setting's currency is the ''kuredito'' (credit).

* [[Ms. Fanservice]]: Most of the women in the series, in addition to being good looking, wear rather revealing clothing.

* [[Morph Weapon]]: The "Ultimate Weapon".

* [[No Celebrities Were Harmed]]: According to [[Word of God]], the hero was inspired by French actor Jean-Paul Belmondo (maybe from Godard's film ''Pierrot le Fou'').

* [[Refuge in Cool]]

* [[Reset Button]]: In one of the later episodes, Cobra accidentally unleashes an unstoppable ancient weapon that WILL destroy entire civilizations. As a result a little robot chicken guardian has to rewind time, retconning the entire episode out of existance.

* [[Space Whale]]: Not a whale, but in one story (later used for the first PC-Engine game) the spaceship Cobra is on in the beginning gets eaten by a giant hammerhead shark.

* [[Stripperiffic]]: Every. Female. In. The. Series. Ranging from very skimpy to virtually nonexistent.

* [[Used Future]]: It is ''Space adventure'', after all.

* [[Water Is Air]]

 

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