Super Dimension Fortress Macross/Characters

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UN Spacy Forces

Captain Bruno J. Global

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Tropes exhibited by Global include:
  • A Father to His Men - He is shown to care deeply about the people under his command.
  • Dirty Old Man - The bridge crew gets a few good snarks in as Global seems to be enjoying himself a little too much while judging the Miss Macross contest.
  • The Captain - Technically he is either (depending on the ambiguous Japanese term) a Brigadier General or a Rear Admiral.
  • Running Gag - "No smoking on the bridge!"
  • Spell My Name with an "S": Global or Gloval?
  • Team Dad

Claudia LaSalle

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Tropes exhibited by Claudia include:
  • Beta Couple - With Roy. She offers quite a bit of romantic advice to Hikaru and Misa.
  • Black Best Friend - to Misa.
  • Bridge Bunny
  • Cool Big Sis - She acts like this often to Misa, commisserating with Misa over tea (or more alcoholic substances) later in the series, as the love triangle begins to close.
  • Noriko Ohara [context?]
  • Token Minority - She's black and way too dark to be Ambiguously Brown.
    • She wears Jheri Curls, for god's sake! Of course she's black!
    • On the other hand, the cast is pretty diverse, so it's hard to call her token minority. For the record, both Hikaru and Misa are Japanese, while Minmay and Kaifun are Chinese. It's just that Japanese artists traditionally do not distinguish between Asian and Caucasian features, so it's somewhat difficult to notice.
    • If anything she's an aversion - Japan has never had any social pressure for artificial racial diversity, and her being black has no real impact on the plot. If we had some race tropes equivalent of Invisible to Gaydar, that would probably apply.

Hayao Kakizaki

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Tropes exhibited by Kakizaki include:

Hikaru Ichijo

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Tropes exhibited by Hikaru include:
  • Ace Pilot
  • Actual Pacifist - Subverted: In the episode Boobytrap, Hikaru calls Roy a murderer after Roy boasts of his kill tally, but a few moments later it's implied that this is him venting his anger over Roy breaking his promise to return to the air circus. Hikary soon joins the UN Spacy with what appear to be few moral qualms, mostly to impress Lynn Minmay.
  • Anime Hair
    • Eighties Hair, the series being released in 1983. Though most of the cast is guilty.
  • Badass in Distress
  • Captain Crash - Has a tendency to trash his machines. This is even lampshaded in the episode Phantasm where even his own coma delirium mocks him for his repeated pancaking of vehicles.
  • Love Triangle - To the point that when Max asked him for an advice about Millia, he mused that he wished his romantic problems were so simple.
  • Otaku - While not one himself, his use of the over-polite honorific version of "you" early in the series is thought now to be the origin of the term.
  • The Other Darrin - Due to the death of his original seiyuu, Arihiro Hase, in 1996, in all subsequent appearances, he is voiced by Kenji Nojima.
  • Vic Mignogna [context?]

Lynn Kaifun

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Tropes exhibited by Kaifun include:

Lynn Minmay

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Tropes exhibited by Minmay include:

Maximillian Jenius

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Tropes exhibited by Max include:

Misa Hayase

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Tropes exhibited by Misa include:

Roy Focker

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Tropes exhibited by Roy include:

Vanessa, Kim, and Shammy

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Tropes exhibited by these characters include:

Zentradi

  • Applying to all: Spell My Name with an "S" - Their names were intentionally chosen to be difficult to pronounce with the Japanese phoneme set, so any romanization of those names is approximate at best.

Britai/Breetai Kridanik

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Tropes exhibited by Britai include:
  • Badass: In the smackdown mentioned below, He destroyed a Valkyrie with his bare hands. Better yet, he also survived having said Transforming Mecha Blow-up in his face.
  • Britai Can Breathe In Space - after being sucked out of his flagship into hard vacuum, Britai seems able to walk on the ship's exterior with no problems and re-enters the ship in time to lay a smackdown to Hikaru and the rest of the pilots.
  • Cool Old Guy: Especially old by human standards.
  • Eyepatch of Power: Metal eye patch of power.
  • Heel Face Turn - No small thanks to having the longest exposure to Protoculture/the heroes.
  • Reasonable Authority Figure

Exsedol/Exedore Folmo

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Tropes exhibited by Exedore include:
  • The Comically Serious
  • Dark-Skinned Redhead - Original incarnation-only (would later be retconned for the below)
  • My Brain Is Big - His DYRL incarnation (which became the basis for his subsequent appearences).
    • Justified in the later series by saying that he was suffering brain cancer from the repeated micro/macronization processes and so had to change his form drastically for some reason.
  • Shorter Means Smarter - One of the smaller Zentradi characters and serves as advisor/historian.

Golg Boddole Zer/Golg Bodolza

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Tropes exhibited by Bodolza include:

Quamzin/Kamjin Kravshera

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Tropes exhibited by Kamjin include:

Warera, Rori, and Konda

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Tropes exhibited by these characters include:

Meltrandi (term for female Zentradi coined in DYRL)

Moruk Lap Lamiz

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Tropes exhibited by Lamiz include:

Millia Fallyna

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Tropes exhibited by Millia include:
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