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Thus was born ''Super Robot Wars Original Generation'' (OG1), released for the [[Game Boy Advance]]. Featuring a couple dozen original pilots created from ''[[Super Robot Wars Alpha]]'' and prior (but strangely no Masou Kishin entries aside from Masaki Andoh, Lune Zoldark and Shu Shirakawa, although that's all the first Alpha title ever offers), its plot involves the Divine Crusaders War from ''[[Super Robot Wars 2]]'' and the initial stages of the Balmar War in ''[[Super Robot Wars Alpha]]'', but without all those other distractions provided by the [[Neon Genesis Evangelion|Angels]], [[Macross|Zentraedi]], [[Gunbuster|Uchuu Kaiju/STMC]], and so forth (the United Colony Corps plays the role of [[Mobile Suit Gundam|The Duchy of Zeon]]). But wait, you ask: "didn't Alpha have all sorts of corrupt politicians and enemy pilots to impede our heroes Banpresto hasn't made [[Expy|expysexpy]]s of yet?" Well, yes, and they exist ''now'' - a good third or so of the ''Original Generation'' cast is comprised of these sorts of people (and a couple of the heroes, even) [[Original Generation|created just for this timeline]].

Nearly three years and several mainline SRW games later, Banpresto wheeled out ''Super Robot Wars Original Generation 2'' (OG2) for the Game Boy Advance, which makes the cast EVEN BIGGER with new additions from the interim games. This time around, the plot finishes the part of the [[Mid-Season Upgrade]] of the first ''Alpha'' game, the Machinery Children of ''Alpha Gaiden'', as well as part of Arado Balanga's story and a prologue of Ibis Douglas' story from ''Alpha 2'', but the primary focus of the story is the Einst of ''[[Super Robot Wars Compact 2|Super Robot Wars Compact 2/Impact]]'', the Shadow-Mirror of ''[[Super Robot Wars Advance]]'', and the Inspectors of ''[[Super Robot Wars 3]]''. The game also introduces an original plot, combining part of Arado's tale with the story of a character introduced in OG1, as [[Tyke Bomb]] ex-students of a harsh training school.

But even THAT wasn't enough, so just before their absorption into [[Namco Bandai]], Banpresto combined both GBA games into a [[Video Game Remake]] for the [[PlayStation 2]] called ''Super Robot Wars OG: Original Generations'' (OGs) and gave it all the bells and whistles of a full console-sized SRW, plus 7 missions spanning six months between the original games AND an "OG2.5 Unified Wisdom" scenario based on the semi-sequel [[OVA]] - both of which introduce EVEN MORE "[[Fan Nickname|Banpresto Originals]]" and sets the stage for ''Super Robot Wars Original Generation Gaiden'' (OG Gaiden), a [[Gaiden Game]] sequel expanding on the "2.5" missions into an entire story by combining them with the plots of ''[[Super Robot Wars Compact 3]]'', ''[[Super Robot Wars Reversal]]'' and a few characters from Banpresto's earlier ''The Great Battle'' series on the [[Super Famicom]]. Like the previous games, it also forms a prologue to ''[[Super Robot Wars MX]]''.

Oh, and then there's the [[Gaiden Game]] spin-off ''Super Robot Wars OG Saga''. The first game, ''[[Endless Frontier]]'' for the [[Nintendo DS]], is a different beast entirely, since it's a conventional [[Eastern RPG]] rather than a [[Turn-Based Strategy]] like all of the above, featuring [[Expy|expysexpy]]s upon [[Expy|expysexpy]]s (sometimes, OF [[Expy|expysexpy]]s), an [[Action Commands|Action Command-based]] combat system revolving around massive juggling combos ([[Fan Service|among]] [[Gag Boobs|other]] [[Hurricane of Puns|things]]), and [[Xenosaga|KOS-MOS and T-ELOS]]. For those who played ''[[Namco X Capcom]]'', they get to see Reiji Arisu and Xiaomu again; for those who [[No Export for You|haven't]], [[Marth Debuted in Smash Bros|well... now they have]]. It takes place in a group of [[Another Dimension|connected worlds]] called the [[The Place|Endless]] [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|Frontier]], with the lives of the inhabitants shaped by the events of OG2. It's followed by a sequel ''Endless Frontier EXCEED'', which itself has ties to the ending of OG Gaiden, as well as incorporating a couple of characters from the main series. The third OG Saga game is ''Masou Kishin: Lord of Elemental'', a remake of ''[[Super Robot Wars Gaiden]]'' (technically the first all-original SRW) that (re)incorporates its story into Original Generation canon.

The series has gone full-circle with three [[Animated Adaptation|Animated Adaptations]]s: a three-part OVA whose events were rolled into OG Gaiden, "Divine Wars", a re-telling of the first game, and "The Inspector", which covers the second game. There is also a manga adaptation: "Record of ATX", which goes through the first game from Kyosuke's point of view.

As of August 2011, nearly 7 years after OG2 was released on the Gameboy Advance, the TRUE non-[[Gaiden Game]], non-remake sequel has been announced. Entitled ''The Second Super Robot Wars Original Generation'', it will be the first SRW to be released on the [[PlayStationPlay Station 3]]. According to initial scans, the story will expand the ''Alpha 2'' plotlines of Kusuha Mizuha's and Ibis' into Original Generation, as well as concluding the MX saga. In addition, Joshua Radcliffe and Cliana Rimskaya of ''[[Super Robot Wars Destiny]]'', Ariel Org and Duvan Org of ''Real Robot Regiment'' and Ing Egret from the ''Alpha 2'' side-story manga ''Lost Children'', and a brand new character (currently enemy), a black haired, black leotard-wearing woman named Aamara, piloting a custom Huckebein, will be the new entrants into the series. From a mecha standpoint, they finally included RyuKoOh and KoRyuOh's brother machines JakuBuOh and BuJakuOh, although who are piloting them remain a mystery. Additionally, the game cover features the RaiOh from ''Alpha 3'', yet a villianousvillainous AI-controlled [[Super Prototype]] appears, whose objective is the destruction of the other Dynamic General Guardian [[Super Robot|super robots]]. Its name? The ''[[Continuity Nod|Jin]][[Mythology Gag|Rai]]''.

* [[Absent Aliens]]: ({{spoiler|All life originated on Earth, even the [[Cosmic Horror|Einsts]]}}, which also inverts the [[Ancient Astronauts]] trope).

* [[The Ace]]: (Aside from characters given a notification for achieving a certain amount of kills, becoming "[[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|aces]]", characters from the elite Aggressors unit have been in combat longer than the rest of the cast).

* [[Adaptation Decay]]: (Both ''Divine Wars'' and ''The Inspector'', to an extent; ultimately, much of this stems from the fact the format of an animated TV series [[Compressed Adaptation|forces the writers of the show to squeeze all of the content from a 40+ level game (which features ''many'' more when you take into account the game's multiple routes) rife with dialogue and action sequences into twenty-six twenty-two minute episodes]], frequently resulting in many key events and fights being hurried along or cut out of the plot altogether).

* [[Another Century's Episode]]: (The mass-produced Gespenst MK II in the first installment, the ART-1, Alt Eisen Reise and Cybuster in the fourth game "R" and the Gespenst MK II Custom in the latest "Portable").

* [[Art Evolution]]: ([http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v629/Kuruni/MS-Story/Vault-SRW/rtx-008r.jpg This]{{Dead link}} is the Huckebein in ''[[Super Robot Wars 4]]''; compare it to [http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v629/Kuruni/MS-Story/Vault-SRW/rtx-008.jpg the current version]){{Dead link}}.

* [[Ascended Extra]]: (''Hagane'' [[Bridge Bunny]] Azuki Sawa from ''The Inspector'', who was originally a nameless female operator in the games. The production staff has stated that when the next Original Generation game is released, she will be in it).

* [[Ascended Fanboy]]: (No less than three of them. Each get to live their dreams and [[Took a Level Inin Badass]]. Ryusei, though, is practically the patron saint of this trope).

* [[Badass]]: (Most characters, whether heroic or villanousvillainous, adhere to this trope, though '''SANGER ZONVOLT, THE SWORD THAT SMITES EVIL!''' greatly personifies it, being Banpresto's walking embodiment of it. To wit:)

** [[Badass Abnormal]]: (Kyosuke's [[Born Lucky|luck is just NOT normal]] and lampshaded CONSTANTLY, while Excellen's a {{spoiler|[[Half-Human Hybrid]]}}).

** [[Badass Adorable]]: (Take everyone from [[Little Miss Badass]] and add in Kusuha Mizuha).

** [[Badass Army]]: (We've got the Earth Federation Army (the [[Player Characters]]), the Shura, the Divine Crusaders led by Bian Zoldark, the United Colony Corps led by Maier V. Branstein and the Shadow-Mirror).

** [[Badass Bookworm]]: (Shu must have a Ph.D in asskicking (well, in addition to his ACTUAL Ph.D in [[Applied Phlebotinum]]), and Ryoto Hikawa's [[Neon Genesis Evangelion|Shinji Ikari]] with [[Gundam Seed|Kira Yamato]] smarts and [[Zeta Gundam|Kamille Bidan's]] balls).

** [[Badass Crew]]: (The collective forces of the Hagane and Hiryu Custom pilots are this. To a smaller extent, the ATX Team/SRX Team/Octo Squad/Aggressors).

** [[Badass Family]]: (Epitomized by the Bransteins).

** [[Badass Grandpa]]: (Daitetsu Minase and Rishu Togo).

** [[Badass Labcoat]]: (Shu and Bian. Lemon Browning also counts, seeing as she's willing to take on [[Badass Abnormal]] Excellen with little more than a customized Ashsaber).

** [[Badass Mustache]]: (Kai Kitamura, who doubles as poster man for the trope below. Axel Almer lacks a 'stache, but he puts it on his "Mustache Man" Soulgain, both who are very much [[Badass|Badasses]])es.

** [[Badass Normal]]: (Kai, Katina Tarask (also a [[Glass Cannon]]), Russel Bagman and anyone who's last name contains "Stein" (they're just THAT GOOD...really, their badassery is powered by pure skill)).

*** Well, Leona Garstein's a [[Psychic Powers|Psychodriver]], but that's just gravy. She'd still kick ungodly amounts of ass even without it.

*** It's worth noting Elzam von Branstein frequently pilots mecha designed for use by aforementioned Psychodrivers...but he's ''not'' one. In fact, he pilots these mecha ''far better'' than they do, despite being unable to use half of their features.

*** Well, being a former Aggressor helps matters; he's just an experienced pilot with years of training and combat under his belt.

*** Gilliam Yeager's also able to fight like the rest of them, being in the intelligence division and {{spoiler|having been the very first Gespenst pilot and perhaps the very creator of that line of machines}}.

** [[Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass]]: (Arado is a pathetic pilot [[Gameplay and Story Segregation|in the story]], despite being from The School. This is a side effect of being conditioned to fight with a partner; he surprises the hell out of everybody whenever Seolla Schweizer winds up getting threatened.)

** [[Four-Star Badass]]: (Maier and Bian are the leaders of their respective militaries, and not only fought you to the death, they {{spoiler|''planned'' for you to do this as part of their mutual [[Xanatos Gambit]]}}! Bonus points to Maier for {{spoiler|facing certain death courtesy of BURNING ALIVE in atmospheric re-entry}}, and doing so with a hell of a lot of dignity).

*** The Inspectors are the generals of their own army, and each is pretty badass, albeit being the biggest [[Bunny Ears Lawyer]] [[Quirky Miniboss Squad]] in the history of <s>SRW</s> the world.

** [[Little Miss Badass]]: (Latooni Subota, Einst Alfimi and Shine Hausen are the flagship of this trope).

*** [[Token Mini-MoeLoli]]: (Latooni, on the Hagane team AND for entire team, later. Shine also counts after getting her own unit).

** [[Heartbroken Badass]]: (Both Elzam and his brother Raidiese F. Branstein, for perfectly understandable reasons. Leona, by extension, and Aya Kobayashi to an extent, by the end of OG1).

** [[Pregnant Badass]] : {{spoiler|1=Garnet Sandi was revealed OG1's ending to be expecting kids, and since the sequel takes place six months later, she was about three months}}.

** [[Took a Level Inin Badass]]: (Look no further than Kusuha, Shine, and the [[Ascended Fanboy|AscendedFanboys]]).

*** Let's just say all playable (and even some non-playable) characters are [[Badass]] in their own right...well, {{spoiler|with the exception of [[The Scrappy|Lee Linjun]]}}.

* [[Beach Episode]]: (Present in both games for no reason other than [[Fan Service]]. Then the ending credits of ''The Inspector'' is one itself. Notably absent are [[Charles Atlas Superpower|Lune Zoldark]], [[The Captain|Lefina Einfield]], [[Hot-Blooded|Katina]], [[Body Horror|Radha Byraban]], [[Tsundere|Rio Mei Long]], and [[Pettanko|Ibis Douglas]]. Strangely, [[Too Cool to Live|Ouka Nagisa]] is present).

* [[Big Bad Wannabe]]: (Say hello to Wilhelm von Juergen, who debuts in the OVA and gets carried over to OGs. This scientist-turned-emo switched his ODE System to do an [[Assimilation Plot]] and along the way, through pure luck, captured and rendered {{spoiler|Lamia}} totally helpless. While he's downed easily in the OVA, the game takes it to notorieitynotoriety by "killing" {{spoiler|Lamia}} through a cheap shot, only for Juergen to be [[One-Hit Kill|One Hit Killed]] by {{spoiler|Duminuss}}, after the party batters him down. Juergen's practically the ''[[Trope Pantheons/Disgraces|God of this trope]]'').

* [[Big Eater]]: (Arado, who can make the Neo DC go bankrupt with his "Three servings, please! No, five!", though it's partially implied Aya and Ibis follow this, too).

* [[Boring but Practical]]: (Fully upgraded Machine Guns. They're quite powerful, have decent range and are usable after moving, have a ton of ammo, cheap to upgrade, and their damage isn't degraded in water.)

* [[Brainwashed and Crazy]]: (This tends to recur with disturbing frequency throughout the span of the storyline. Among those who went through brainwashing of some manner at some point are Tempest Hawker, Shine, Tenzan Nakajima (though he was already [[Ax Crazy|pretty crazy to begin with]]), Kusuha, Tenzan ''again'', and Levi Torah in OG1, while Seolla, Ouka, and Excellen get hit with this in the sequel. OGs retools {{spoiler|Ingram Prisken's}} plotline to make it so that ''he'' was suffering from this, to an extent, as well. ''Then'' in OG Gaiden, Lamia, Kouta Azuma's sister Shouko, and Fernando Albark of Compact 3 get to join in on the fun).

* [[Breakout Character]]: (Kyosuke isn't the canon protagonist in OG1, but he becomes popular enough to warrant his Compact 2/Impact story to take center stage for the sequel).

* [[Bridge Bunnies]]: (Already a standout since the first game, being only nameless NPCs that aren't faceless with OGs giving two portraits for them. ''The Inspector'' anime highlights them as cute girls that can easily be mistaken as supporting characters .<ref> The fact one of them looks awfully familiar to one of the [[Gravion]] [[Bridge Bunnies]] doesn't help</ref>. At this point, they're the main reason fans do worry about the Shirogane).

* [[Bunny Ears Lawyer]]: (Let's be blunt: EVERY allied character, and a fair majority of the baddies are weird, which DOESN'T detract from their asskicking abilities).

** Thrudgelmir's two new attacks in ''OGs'', the Drill Inferno and Star-Cleaving Sword, are derived from a ''[[Super Robot Wars Alpha]] Gaiden'' manga that depicts the battle between him and the Alpha Numbers.<ref>The Drill Inferno is based off of him headbutting [[Mazinger Z]], and the Star-Cleaving Blade is a physical weapon rather than an energy blade, which allows the Super Robots to do a team [[Blade Catch]], holding it in place so [[Gundam Wing|Heero]] can destroy it with pinpoint-accurate Twin Buster Rifle shots</ref>.

** The three main SRX mecha are riffs on three of the ''[[Gundam]]'' saga's most iconic mecha: R-1 is the [[Zeta Gundam]], R-2 Powered is the [[Mobile Suit Gundam|Guncannon]] and R-3 Powered is the [[Mobile Suit Gundam 0083: Stardust Memory|Dendrobium Orchis]] with [[Chars Counterattack|Nu Gundam's]] [[Attack Drone|Attack Drones]]s.

* [[Char Clone]]: (Elzam).

* [[Closing Credits]]: (See [[Beach Episode]], but episode 17 of ''The Inspector'' breaks from tradition, featuring a softer, more romantic song accompanying clips of Kyosuke and Excellen from earlier episodes {{spoiler|because this is the point where Excellen's abducted by the [[Eldritch Abomination|Einst]]}}).

* [[Cool Old Guy]]: (Captain Daitetsu and the original Aggressors, consisting of Sanger, Elzam, Kai and Gilliam. Master Rishu's older than the rest, and this man taught Sanger how to ''be'' [[Badass]]. Oh, and he can deflect bullets with his [[Sword Cane]]).

* [[Determinator]]: (Axel's king of this trope, while most of the other villains are pretty dedicated to "taking you down like Han Solo", and the good guys when sufficentlysufficiently pissed).

** Kyosuke proves to be a match to Axel in terms of shear determination. Naturally, they're also rivals.

** The in-game ''Resolve'' Spirit Command, which allows pilots to ignore negative status effects like being "Webbed" for that turn, assuming they aren't "Stunned", which prevents them from doing anything.

* [[Dreadlock Rasta]]: (Why Giado Venerdi has a Jamaican accent in the localization).

* [[Drill Sergeant Nasty]]: (Kai: he makes Masaki stand perfectly still for an hour, and forces Arado to balance three buckets of water for combat idiocy. Katina follows this, as well).

* [[Early-Bird Cameo]]: ({{spoiler|1=Cobray Gordon of Alpha 3 in OGs, the MX originals and Touma Kanou of Alpha 3 in OG Gaiden}}).

* [[Easter Egg]]: (You might never think of swapping mecha for Excellen and Kyosuke, or putting Arado in the Wild Falken, but it can be worth it just for the special lines).

* [[Exiled From Continuity]]: (The notably absent Huckebeins in the [[Animated Adaptation|Animated Adaptations]]s. See entry for more details).

* [[Exposition]]: (Tons of it, largely of characters in enemy factions discussing matters that helps the player understand some of the things going on, or to give them a reason to ''really'' hate some of them. Smarter players will be able to figure out quite a bit, due to loads of dropped hints. If you're very lucky, your fingers won't drop off).

* [[Expy]]: (While some characters share characteristics of many protagonists of licensed shows, the originals themselves get expies of their own ''for'' licensed shows, with [[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha|Signum]] referencing Lamia being the best example).

* [[Face Heel Turn]]: (Can't have an SRW without one or two of these...)

** [[Heel Face Turn]]: (...or six or seven of these. Justified as a means to increase the number of [[Player Characters]]).

* [[Fallen Hero]]: (Tempest Hawker's the only Aggressor who pulls a genuine [[Face Heel Turn]] to evil, all due to {{spoiler|[[Dead Little Sister|losing his wife and daughter]] in the Hope Incident}}).

Gilliam's Gespenst having a Gespenst Kick (despite not being a MK II Type-S) and having [[Mythology Gag|Hero Senki]] as its theme song.<br />

Kai, Russel, and Katina's Gespensts coming equipped with a few extra weapons.<br />

[[Magnificent Bitch]] {{spoiler|Mitsuko Isurugi}} fighting in the Angelg, only to get killed for her troubles.<br />

Lamia filling in as an antagonist in place of Axel with the Vaisaga.<br />

{{spoiler|Ouka ''surviving'' the events of the Earth Cradle and using a modified Ashsaber that emulates the Rapiecage to help her allies}}.<br />

* [[Genre Savvy]]: (Kirk Hamill installs a special system in the Huckebein MK III that can output ''immense'' amounts of power when desperately needed. If that isn't [[Genre Savvy]]...)

** {{spoiler|[[Crowning Moment of Awesome|Which allows Ryoto to restart the already hindered MK III (they were forced to power down the T-Link System to make it work), even after Inspector Mekibos cripples it and renders it - or so he thought - incapable of fighting. Ryoto goes on to link the MK III with the AM Gunner and fire the Gunner's Ballistic Cannon, which had never been tried before, and was suspected to have a low chance of actually working. Mekibos is forced to retreat, unsurprisingly]], complete with [[Theme Music Power-Up]], as "Ace Pilot" kicks in while the MK III starts responding again}}.

* [[Got Me Doing It]]: (Kyosuke has a tendency to use gambling metaphors before and during battles. It catches on with other members of the ATX Team and their allies, a phenomenon Excellen lampshades as "Kyosuke disease").

** Hell, Ryusei's [[Otaku|otakunessotaku]]ness and tendency to [[Calling Your Attacks]] has rubbed off on Latooni a lot by the sequel.

** It's gotten to a point the developers decided nearly every allied character's required to do this when performing the Gespenst Kick in the Gespenst Type-S. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISQIKZTr5d4 See] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-EmFkf-jUk for] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3zJCj0l5lk yourself][http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1Whnv2KS2o here].

* [[Gratuitous Foreign Language|Gratuitous Foreign Languages]]s

* [[Guide Dang It]]: (You can earn some major bonuses, including a couple of [[Disc One Nuke|Disc One Nukes]]s, by completing certain levels in certain ways. It's not so bad when the condition is "Get X kills with a certain character", but there are others: finishing the intro level for Sanger's Dygenguard without scoring any kills with the machine results in a bonus, for example. The worst, though, is probably found in OG2: in one scenario, the Hiryu Custom and three allied units are attacked by the Inspectors, complete with their endgame-boss stats. The objective is to simply escape, but if players stick around and start abusing the White Star's insane terrain bonuses to defeat them, it results in getting some of the best weapons and parts in the game fifteen scenarios in).

* [[Half-Identical Twins]]: (Raul/Fiona Gureden of Reversal gets turned into this rather than [[Road Cone]]-ing either choice).

* [[Harder Than Hard]]: (Aside from earning "Battle Masteries" to increase the overall game difficulty, an additional EX-Hard mode upon completion lets players face tougher enemies on a second run, with restricted or outright locked options for upgrading units and pilots).

* [[The Hero's Journey]]: (Ryusei's storyline conforms fairly well with the Campbellian archetype).

* [[Hot-Blooded]]: (Overloaded, especially when a character's inside [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FBYA4P7NDw&fmt=18 the Gespenst MK II Type-S]).

* [[Humongous Mecha|Humongous]] [[Combining Mecha|Combining]] and/or [[Transforming Mecha|Transforming]] [[Real Robot|Real]] and [[Super Robot|Super Robots]]s

* [[I Know Mortal Kombat]]: (Ryusei and Tenzan are recruited through a video game like the protagonist of ''[[The Last Starfighter]]''. While Ryusei's just a bit of a newbie at piloting real robots for a while, Tenzan continues to think war is a game, even babbling about "Continuing" and "[[Level Grinding]]" to conquer the world when shot down).

* [[Jerkass]]: (Lee, also Axel, before his [[Noble Demon]] rewrite in OGs. The Machinery Children are also a bunch of unrepetantunrepentant [[Jerkass|Jerkasses]])es.

* [[Lethal Chef]]: (Primarily Leona: aside from porridge, everything else she makes is a level five biohazard. Kusuha's "health drinks" are more of a [[Gargle Blaster]], though: they taste terrible and can knock out a charging rhino, but they ''work''...when you regain consciousness. It even subdues {{spoiler|Ingram}}).

* [[Love Redeems]]: (How they [[Retcon]] Folka's [[Heel Face Turn]]: what the hell is this "[[There Can Be Only One|Holy Deathmatch]]" again?)

* [[Massive Multiplayer Crossover]]: (The game is basically Super Robot Wars crossed over with ''itself'').

* [[Me Love You Long Time]]: (Evidenced in the American Bullet and the Japanese Kusuha, as well the German Elzam and his late wife Cattleya Fujiwara (though according to his backstory, Elzam's around a quarter Japanese). Interestingly, this trope's also inversed, with the very Japanese Kyosuke, Masaki and Tasuku Shinguji paired up with the American Excellen, Norwegian Lune and German Leona, respectively ([[Mukokuseki|not that you can really tell...]]).

* [[Ms. Fanservice]]: (Undoubtedly Excellen, although Garnet could very well be the other, until she's [[Put on a Bus]]. Ricarla "Carla" Borgnine tries to invoke this in OG2, but is vastly overshadowed by Seolla).

* [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero]]: (Katina's bull-seeing-red nature nearly causes this a few times in OG1. A <s>bright</s> bitchslap from Russel late-game seems to cure her of most of it).

* [[Nice Job Fixing It, Villain]]: (SEVERAL times in OG1, but sometimes justified: many of things the villains do to further their own ends end up being HUGELY beneficial to the Hagane and Hiryu Custom crews more then the perpetrators of said plots).

* [[No Fourth Wall]]: (At least in the localization, the Inspectors are prone to [[Breaking the Fourth Wall]]. When you beat them in a supposedly unbeatable scenario, one of the Inspectors stays silent at the predicament, then asks the gamer, "What, you want me to say anything? OK, OK. Good job". OGs adds this further in one of the "Save-Quit" dialogues, where Gilliam asks the same thing and ends up promoting ''Hero Senki'', the game where he made his first debut. In fact, the whole Save-Quit dialogues are full of [[Fourth Wall]] breaking dialogues (including Shu lying about "saving more times will make the game more difficult!"))

** In OG2, when you get the {{spoiler|[[Spell My Name with an "S"|DyGenGuar/Daizengar]]}} and the Chapter 30 title pops up.

** ''The Inspectors'' doesn't fail to continue the tradition -- aftertradition—after being soundly "Trombe'd" by Ratsel Feinschmecker in episode 9, Vigagi managed to [http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/5315/4thwall.jpg grab the edge of the frame with Ratsel in it] and push it off the screen in his frustration.

* [[Original Generation]]: ([[Trope Namer]] and possibly the [[Trope Codifier|codifying example in fiction]], due to its sheer numbers).

* [[Pettanko]]: ([[Department of Redundancy Department|Poor Ibis]]).

* [[Playboy Bunny]]: (Excellen and Garnet dress up once for the male crew's viewing pleasure. Hell, it even becomes a ''plot point'' in OG2).

*** This even gets a reaction out of [[The Stoic|Kyosuke]], of all people. His [[Eye Take|WTF face]] is hilarious.

* [[The Power of Love]]: (And what a power! Event-driven scenarios with [[Battle Couple|Battle Couples]]s arguably uses this to extremes).

* [[Psycho for Hire]]: (Archibald, though the Machinery Children act like this, as they're "hired out" at one point for the Neo DC and the Shadow-Mirror to use, yet are STILL [[Ax Crazy]] [[Tyke Bomb]] [[Jerkass]] kids).

** Can you really blame them? They ''are'' {{spoiler|clones of Arado, and fit the [[Evil Counterpart]] motif}}.

* [[Ramming Always Works]]: (The Kurogane battleship, justified as it has a DRILL attached to its bow, not only making it a viable attack, it gives Tetsuya his [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]] in OG2).

* [[Relationship Values]]: (Played straight with the gameplay: characters placed adjacent to characters they are [[The Power of Friendship|friends with]], [[Rivals Team Up|rivals]] or [[The Power of Love|show a degree of affection]] (even if it's ''not'' reciprocated) get accuracy, evasion and damage bonuses during battles).

** And naturally, [[Combination Attack|Combination Attacks]]s, one complete with witty banter.

* [[Retcon]]: (OGs, being in and of itself a [[Video Game Remake]] of the GBA games, [[Canon Discontinuity|naturally does this]]. To wit:)

* [[Ridiculously Human Robot]]: (The latest batch of W-Series androids, but Lamia's undisputed ruler of this trope).

* [[Rule of Cool]]: (The games practically run on this).

* [[Self-Deprecation]]: ({{spoiler|Tetsuya, by counter-ramming the Shirogane, whilst commanding the Kurogane. Lee basically claims his army, etc. etc. was better and is wondering why he lost. Tetsuya cuts in with ''"And you lost to ME!"'' - Lee always treated Tetsuya as "second best", and for Lee, "second best" isn't good enough}}).

* [[Shipper on Deck]]: (Excellen can detect the signs of love in the atmosphere, even at [[Ship Tease|one part per million]]. Irmgard Kazahara gets a few chances to play with this trope, too).

* [[Shoot the Shaggy Dog]]: (Pretty much {{spoiler|Lamia's}} part in 2.5 Unified Wisdom (which is all you get if you only play OGs), before getting into the proper story told in OG Gaiden).

* [[Shout-Out]]: (TONS).

** In ''The Inspector'', the two pilots of Aguila's mech (Sol [[Gravion|Gravilion]]) are Touga and Eiji with different hair colors.

* [[Smug Snake]]: (Though one would expect the villains to play this trope straight (Siebel Mistel comes to mind), Original Generation throws in a few from the heroes' [[The Federation|Federation]], namely Kenneth Garret and Graien Grassman).

* [[Spoiler Opening]]: (The opening credits for ''The Inspectors'' introduce numerous new characters before their actual appearance and spoil some stuff that could easily have been saved for surprises, namely Arado, Seolla, Mai Kobayashi and Alfimi. Plus, the fact that [[My Friends and Zoidberg|Ratsel is Elzam]] and "[[Memetic Mutation|Real Men Ride Each Other]]". Perhaps justified, as people most likely to watch the show are the ones who've already played the game).

* [[Stealth Mentor]]: (Man, does OG love this trope; {{spoiler|practically every villain}} in OG1 follows this, most notably {{spoiler|Sanger, Elzam, Ingram and ''the entire DC'' (though most of them don't know it)}}.

* [[Stepford Smiler]]: (Mitsuko Isurugi from OG2 is the queen of this. Pretty much every time she's seen, she's wearing an expression that is only [[Technically a Smile]] which doesn't move or waver in the slightest, even in the anime. Plus, she speaks in a quiet, gentle manner while making deals to sell weapons to every single faction involved in a given conflict, caring about nothing but her "business chances".

* [[Super Move Portrait Attack]]: (Banpresto claimed the number of pilot cut-ins in OGs before release was one of the largest ever assembled...and they delivered, since even the most basic attacks necessitated cut-ins).

* [[This Is a Drill]]: (The Kurogane is about ninety percent drill. The remainder? ''Pure awesome'').

* [[Title Drop]]: (In the first game, Ryusei claims that Operation SRW stands for Super Robot War).

* [[Troperiffic]]: (Not unique to this sub-series, but unlike the rest of the franchise, it doesn't have the excuse of being a crossover between the [[Trope MakersMaker]] themselves. Still, is that any reason ''not'' to use as many as humanly possible?)

* [[Ubermensch]]: (Vindel sure sounds like one, what with the [[War for Fun and Profit|endless war and peace breeds complacency thing]]).

* [[Ultimate Universe]]: (It's mostly a distillation of previous SRW continuities, without all the crossover elements).

* [[Verbal Tic]]: ([[Ridiculously Human Robot|Lamia Loveless]] starts out with one when she first appears as a result of damage to her speech equipment. This is rendered as either a stutter in OG2 or [[Blind Idiot Translation]].)

* [[Weapon of Choice]]: ([[Real Robot|Reals]] can be mounted with a limited number of extra weapons used all around by other reals).

* [[You Bastard]]: Light example: in the first game, all the things that Tenzan says he'll do are examples of what the Player can do within the games mechanics. Including the use of deliberatly dieing so as to start a mission over, with your levels gained up to the point you died carried over, thus 'grinding'.

* [[You Will Be Assimilated]]: (What the Aerogaters intended to do in OG1).

* [[Zerg Rush]]: (Mostly averted, as the enemy ratio's fairly reasonable, but at least one level in OG2 is pretty much this trope incarnate).

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