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* [[Heroic BSOD]] -- Everybody who isn't Nono has at least one.

* [[Heroic Sacrifice]] -- {{spoiler|Nono sacrifices her life to get rid of the black hole created by the climactic battle.}}

* [[Hourglass Plot]] -- Their attitudes don't shift much, but {{spoiler|Nono goes from minor curiosity allowed to tag along with Fraternity to humanity's one hope for survival as Lal'C goes from being the most elite of the elite to ''a girl with a disease''}}

* [[Huge Guy, Tiny Girl]] -- Nicola and lal'c.

* [[Latex Space Suit]]: Averted for most vacuum workers, but played pretty straight for the Topless.

* {{spoiler|[[Legendary in The Sequel]]: The mystery behind the term "Nonoriri" is that it is an homage to Noriko from [[Gun Buster]].}}

* [[Lost in Translation]] -- Like [[Spell My Name With an "S"]] below, several jokes and references to the original got lost. This might border on a [[Blind Idiot Translation|bad translation]].

* [[Lost Technology]] -- Warp technology was purposefully suppressed thousands of years before, when humanity stopped trying to explore the galaxy. Then, of course, there's {{spoiler|Nono}}.

* [[Red Baron]] -- Lal'C, the "Curve Breaker". {{spoiler|And later, the "Mover of Planets".}}

* [[Ridiculously Human Robot]] [[Robot Girl|Girl]] - Nono, who doesn't display a single remotely "robotic" characteristic until the end of Episode 4.

* [[Romantic Two-Girl Friendship]] -- Nono continually tries to forge one between her and her reluctant [[Onee-Sama]] Lal'C.

* [[Rose-Haired Girl]]: Nono fits the bill perfectly.

* [[Scenery Porn]]: The backgrounds tend to be scenic, detailed, brightly colored, or some combination of these.

* [[Self-Parody]] -- A drama CD track gathers up the voice actors from [[Diebuster]] and [[Gun Buster]] to have them make a mock trailer for a [[Troperrific]], [[Fake Crossover|fake crossover]] of the two. Or [[They Plotted a Perfectly Good Waste|at least the audio of it]]. Narrated by [[Norio Wakamoto|Coach]]. Rather than be faithful to either, it brings in things like the unimplemented Buster Homerun and [[Ensemble Darkhorse|made up kaiju]] on the old [[Gun Buster]] soundtrack cover with [[Affectionate Parody|even more ridiculous]] [[Calling Your Attacks|shouted attacks]]. Sure, we got the movie that showed the [[Adaptation Distillation|distilled versions]] side by side, but imagine if they made this [[Exactly What It Says On the Tin|literal GunBuster vs DieBuster]] instead.

** Dix-Neuf's old war wounds parallel the [[Neon Genesis Evangelion|Eva-01]]'s major injuries. {{spoiler|Spike through the right eye going out the back of the head from Sachiel, lost left arm complete with grafted replacement from Zeruel. While not an injury Dix-Neuf replaces his Collapsing Generator by tearing it out of another and absorbing it into himself, like an S2 Organ.}}

*** There's an [[End of Evangelion]] one in the final episode, {{spoiler|When Lal'C and Nono are pulled into the Singularity. Nono takes Lal'C's hand and shoves it through her right breast, a la Gendo starting Insturmentality with Rei. Luckily, nobody turns into Tang; it's a gift of Nono's singularity, in the form of a paper crane.}}

* [[The Singularity]] -- {{spoiler|Back in Gunbuster. Nowadays, the solar system is backwater and doesn't even know it. Or just why it's even isolated from the rest of the galaxy. It does not help that its AI defense system was lost due to a slight malfunction. Some of it might be due to the previous generation honestly thinking the information [[These Are Things Man Was Not Meant to Know|should not be passed on]].}}

* [[Title Drop]] -- In the final episode. {{spoiler|Except the title mecha doesn't [[Curb Stomp Battle|succeed at]] [[Mood Whiplash|what it was meant for]]}}.

** The space monster in the first episode was {{spoiler|obeying Nono when she shouted she would [[Blunt Metaphors Trauma|go out into space]].}}