We Love Cold War!! The Anime

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We Love Cold War!! The Anime is a short 4:01 long animation released on the web on April 10, 2024 about two agents on opposite sides of the Cold War. It was produced by Nico Jiang Animeworks, initially for Sheridan Animation 2023.

You can watch it here on YouTube.

Tropes used in We Love Cold War!! The Anime include:

• Action Girl: Naomi and Valerie are both action oriented.
• After the End: The after credits scene, especially 1992 Earth.
• Alternate History: A nuclear exchange happens by 1992.
• Aluminum Christmas Trees: East German Punk groups with Stasi affiliated members really was a thing. HuffPost has an article on it.
• Bland-Name Product: An Expy of McDonalds fast food can be seen briefly with Naomi, complete with a "W" on the cup.
• Blasting It Out of Their Hands: Valerie manages to shoot a handgun with her sniper rifle, breaking it.
• Brainwashed: Naomi tries to do this to a bound person, though the result isn’t shown.
• Checkpoint Charlie: A high speed chase occurs to reach the East Berlin West Berlin border.
• Cool Car: The car Naomi drives appears to be a Citroën DS or similar.
• Commie Land: Seen during the high speed chase through East Berlin.
• Cozy Catastrophe: Life on the CIA Moon Command seems relatively normal, if somewhat sinister, As a nuclear scorched Earth is seen on the horizon.
• Defcon Five: Averted in that things go from relatively calm at DEFCON 5 to Thermonuclear War at DEFCON 1.
• Dirty Communists: The East German and Soviet forces, as well as Valerie as their agent.
• Eagleland: The CIA Moon Command city is definitely gaudy, complete with "Mission Accomplished" sign.
• Every Car Is a Pinto: An East German police car flies back and explodes after being struck by a hail of bullets.
• Government Agency of Fiction: The CIA Moon Command is shown on a lunar city, riding out the nuclear war on Earth.
• Gun Twirling: Done in the intro by Valerie.
• Guns Akimbo: Valerie in the intro.
• Hammerspace: Valerie is somehow able to produce an SPG9 recoilless rifle out of nowhere while on her motorbike, or hide three firearms from Paparazzi under a form fitting dress (Until they fall out due to a vent).
• Paparazzi: Valerie is flanked by them while undercover in Hollywood.
• Pin-Pulling Teeth: Valerie does this while riding a motorcycle. The grenade is of the "potato-masher" variety, so the string pull is more realistic than the pin pull.
• Poison Is Evil: In the intro an anti-communist hand slips poison into a recently poured shot of a communist drink. A skull and bones puffs out as a result.
• Precision F-Strike: The only word uttered by Naomi, and even then as a text effect and not voiced.
• The Rock Star: Valerie is a vocalist, and can be seen performing in an East Berlin punk band.
• Secret Police: Valerie was once a member of the Stasi HVA, and has managed to join the KGB during the animation.
• Shout Out: The communists use a Batsignal inspired hammer and sickle in the sky to summon Valerie.
• Spy Fiction: A very condensed example, with Naomi Kennedy being both CIA and Peace Corps, and Valerie being KGB and Ex-Stasi.
• Spy-Versus-Spy: The main theme of the short.
• Transforming Mecha: Sputnik 9000 and Eagle Mc EagleFace.
• Tropes for Dummies: Naomi reads "Mind Control for Idiots" as she tortures someone.
• Vodka Drunkenski: A subtle example in the intro, a shot is poured from a bottle with a red star.
• World War III: The ending, as the two agents battle in space as city lights down on earth are extinguished as warheads fly.