The Adventures of Samurai Cat: Difference between revisions

 

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* [[All Just a Dream]]: Even the ''characters'' aren't sure whether any of the events of ''The Sword of Samurai Cat'' actually happened, or if it was all just the dream of a little Martian child.

* [[Anachronism Stew]]: ''revels'' in this. One example: discussing how bad the Chicago Cubs are. Problem? This is in Prohibition-era Chicago (the Cubs were serious contenders during this time, winning penants every 3 years), and Miaowara is from 16th-century Japan. Later in the story he ends up meeting thugs armed with GAU-8 Avenger cannon, too.

* [[Gatling Good]]: Troll mobsters carrying GAU-8 Avengers.

* [[Heroic Sociopath]]: ''Shiro''. And it's only Tomokato's constant influence that keeps him remotely on the "heroic" side of things. It's been confirmed that he sold easily concealed nukes to terrorists.

*** To put that last in perspective, in the final book in the series we visit ''actual'' Hell, as in the place ruled by Satan. It's no picnic, but its not quite as bad as the reign of God-Emperor Shiro.

* [[Highly-Visible Ninja]] / [[Technicolor Ninjas]]: The Hollywood Ninja from ''The Sword of Samurai Cat''.

* [[Hyperspace Arsenal]]: Shimura's kimono, which conceals roughly ''all the .45 automatics ever made''. And Hanako's -- she has the ammo clips.

* [[Hurricane of Puns]]: In ''Goes to Hell'': the "Pax Mongolica" sequence goes on for three hilarious pages, by which time even the ''author'' is begging for it to end.

* [[Improbable Weapon User]]: Happens all over the place, but honorable mention goes to Shimura, a black-belt samurai of the Colt Semi-Auto school.

* [[Infant Immortality]]: Lampshaded up the wazzoo by Shiro the homicidal kitten, who '''[[Genre Savvy|revels]]''' in his Baby+Cat Immortality, gleefully rushing into meat-grinder battles in the smug confidence that [[Breaking the Fourth Wall|the author wouldn't dare kill him]]. Eventually this trope was averted in ''Samurai Cat Goes To Hell'', but only as a plot device to send his uncle to retrieve the bloodthirsty little creep.

* [[Normally I Would Be Dead Now]]: In ''Samurai Cat Goes to the Movies'', Tomokato ends up shot nearly to pieces by his enemies. The bullets are said to pass through the several places in his heart and brain where a bullet could pass through harmlessly. He and Shiro are 'millimetres more accurate' in their return fire.

** Played straight in the same storyline, when Tomokato's first two attempts to kill the Producer fail because its entirely pointless to shoot a Hollywood Producer in either the heart or the brain, because never uses either organ anyway.

* [[Paper Master]]: "Origami Ito" (a reference to "Lone Wolf and Cub") is able to create anything out of paper, including weapons, soldiers, even paper tanks. The last one does him in, though, since he took too long folding the men to crew it and gets shot.

* [[Playing Both Sides]]: In Prohibition-era Chicago, Tomokato decides to do the classic bit with the Capone and Moran gangs as "a refreshing break from (his) usual style." At the end, once most of the dust has settled, [[Yojimbo|Sanjuro]] and [[A Fistful of Dollars|the Man With No Name]] show up to score his efforts.

* [[Wonderful Life]]: Blatant rip off. Tomokato, finding Shiro less than mindful of bushido, considers what would've happenned had he not been there. That's when we find out the difference between Chaotic Neutral and Chaotic Evil.

** Bonus points for having the Terminationer be from the alternate future.

** Subverted in that she also carries pretty much ''all the bullets in the world'' hidden in her kimono (to reload her husband's weapons with), and is herself a crack shot. She just happens to be related to some of the most ridiculously deadly and aggressive people in the universe, so most of the time she steps back and lets them have fun doing the fighting because while she ''could'' contribute usefully its hardly like they ''need'' her help most of the time, and its just not what she's interested in.

** But on the other hand, when they do need her help you are well advised to beware [[Mama Bear]]. At one point a villain who temporarily stunned both Tomokato and Shimura with a cannon shell is standing over their bodies and prepared to finish them off, when Hanako politely asks her not to do that. Upon refusing Hanako's request said villainess -- who, note, has already defeated Hanako's brother-in-law and husband at this point -- dies before they even know what hit them. (Answer: The contents of both magazines of Hanako's sleeve guns, directly into their brain pan.)

** Satan comes up with an appropriately-twisted, ''definitely'' unique variant of this when he's chewing out his high command in the last book.

* [[Zombie Apocalypse]]: A fallen Soviet satellite irradiates a graveyard, resulting in a horde of -- yes! -- ''[[Red Scare|Communist]] [[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot|Zombies]]'' in ''Red Dawn of the Dead''.

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