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Aldnoah.Zero

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Aldnoah.Zero	comment	Aldnoah.Zero is a sci-fi action anime which began airing on July 5, 2014, created by Olympus Knights with plot designed by Gen Urobuchi, animated by A-1 Pictures, and with a soundtrack by Hiroyuki Sawano.In 1972, the Apollo 17 mission to the moon discovered an alien Hypergate that allowed for instantaneous transport to Mars. A massive effort to colonize Mars soon followed, and the first explorers and settlers quickly discovered Lost Technology there dubbed "Aldnoah" that allowed them to become self-sufficient. Eventually, they declared independence as the Holy VERS Empire, named after their expedition's leader Rayregalia Vers Rayvers, and even formed a religion (if you could call it that) based around the technology found on Mars. In 1999, a war broke out between the Holy VERS Empire and United Earth, ending with a Pyrrhic Victory for VERS after the Hypergate on the moon overloaded and blew the celestial body in half, cutting off all access to Mars and causing massive destruction across the Earth thanks to major population centers being heavily damaged by environmental shifts and the falling shards of the moon.It is now 2014, fifteen years after the devastating events of "Heaven's Fall." The VERS soldiers who were left behind after the Hypergate's destruction now live in the remains of the moon and massive space stations in orbit between Earth and the moon, forming themselves into 37 clans. Only recently has space travel advanced to the point where travel between Earth and Mars is practical, and tensions remain extremely high between Earth and the Holy VERS Empire.The full plot begins after the Martian princess, who had come to Earth in order to help negotiate peace, is assassinated by a terrorist coup. The Terrans are framed for the tragedy, and now a full-scale VERS invasion on Earth begins.The premise of the series is basically every Real Robot action series... with the roles reversed. Picture a group of Zakus / Scope Dogs pitted against Mazinger Z / GaoGaiGar, only the villains are in the physics-defying, One-Man Army Super Robots, while the heroes are in outdated, Red Shirt Army Mook Mobiles.Crunchyroll is streaming the anime, and can be viewed here for people living in the following areas:note North America, Central and South America, Australia, New Zealand, UK, Ireland, Europe excluding German-speaking territories.The show's second half aired from January to March 2015.In addition to a manga adaptation, there is also a manga Spin-Off entitled Aldnoah Zero Gaiden: Twin Gemini about a pair of twins from Earth and a pair of twins from Mars.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_116a941b	type	Applied Phlebotinum
Aldnoah.Zero / int_116a941b	comment	Take away the Applied Phlebotinum and the Vers Empire is just another impoverished, tin-pot dictatorship that relies on a cult of personality, a massive army, Patriotic Fervor, and the scapegoating of wealthier outsiders to keep its ruling elite in power. Sound familiar?
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_1237828f	type	Anyone Can Die
Aldnoah.Zero / int_1237828f	comment	Anyone Can Die: A body count starting to approach Attack on Titan levels. Quite a lot of Red Shirt troops along with civilians in major cities are killed throughout the show, along with some of the villains piloting kataphrakts. Episode 12 also strongly implies that several major characters are killed off. Subverted! Turns out this was all a big Red Herring, as the second season previews reveal that almost NONE of the named characters (yes, even Saazbaum survives multiple gunshot wounds to the abdomen — good job Slaine!) die. Though given the level of power displayed by the various Aldnoah Drives it's quite possible everyone was saved by liberal use of the series Applied Phlebotinum. As of Episode 15, Count Saazbaum, the seeming Big Bad has been killed.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_135b9977	type	Bloodless Carnage
Aldnoah.Zero / int_135b9977	comment	Bloodless Carnage: For an extremely high body count, this has little blood. Episode 2 prominently showcases the number of explosions and the AT-like Field used to disintegrate mechs. Could be justified in the fact that due to the nature of their shields, anything the VERS knights touched or was thrown at them vaporized, whether it was bullets, buildings, or even people. Averted in episode 3, when Trillram is executed by Slaine in an extremely bloody manner. And also averted in the first season finale, as many characters are shown bleeding from their injuries, such as the crew on board the Deucalion after it's shot down by Saazbaum. Blood can also be seen pooling around Asseylum and Inaho after they're shot near the end of the episode.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_1384ff11	type	Humans by Any Other Name
Aldnoah.Zero / int_1384ff11	comment	Humans by Any Other Name: The people of Earth are called 'Terrans' and the people of Mars are called 'Martians'. The word human is never used once in the entire series.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_14ed6ab7	type	Does This Remind You of Anything?
Aldnoah.Zero / int_14ed6ab7	comment	Does This Remind You of Anything?: It's a world war that begins after a royal family member is assassinated by terrorists, which is then seized upon as an excuse by a vengeful empire to launch a massive attack. The show also premiered in July 2014, 100 years after Franz Ferdinand was shot dead. Take away the Applied Phlebotinum and the Vers Empire is just another impoverished, tin-pot dictatorship that relies on a cult of personality, a massive army, Patriotic Fervor, and the scapegoating of wealthier outsiders to keep its ruling elite in power. Sound familiar?
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_15b2cab3	type	Tempting Fate
Aldnoah.Zero / int_15b2cab3	comment	Tempting Fate: Every time a Martian knight says some variant of the phrase "This is the end", something goes wrong for them. This goes double for Femieanne, as she said it twice and was foiled both times! In Episode 22, during The Siege against the lunar base, one of the United Earth pilots remarks that they're wiping out the Martians with ease. About two seconds later, he gets chopped in half by Count Barouhcruz, followed by his whole squad, and Harklight then joins the battle with his Herschel.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_174d487f	type	Dull Eyes of Unhappiness
Aldnoah.Zero / int_174d487f	comment	Dull Eyes of Unhappiness: Slaine displays these in episode 8 while being tortured. Rayet in episode 9 due to the mental trauma of her dad's death. In episode 20, Lemrina has these near the end due to the pent up emotional stress over thinking she worsened Asseylum's condition and Slaine neglecting her lately by spending too much time in his Landing Castle where Asseylum who has actually regained consciousness is.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_17ce80aa	type	All There in the Manual
Aldnoah.Zero / int_17ce80aa	comment	All There in the Manual: The show's website contains a detailed timeline◊ as well as tons of other promotional material describing the Martian colonization effort, the rise of the Holy VERS Empire, and other information about the Vers royal family and the Heaven's Fall incident and its aftermath. This thread has collected most of the images and information together and translated much of it.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_18ce8f1d	type	Full-Frontal Assault
Aldnoah.Zero / int_18ce8f1d	comment	Full-Frontal Assault: While in the Deucalion's showers, Rayet takes an opportunity to kill Asseylum and wastes no seconds in getting in her stall to strangle her.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_191a3673	type	Graceful Loser
Aldnoah.Zero / int_191a3673	comment	Graceful Loser: Count Saazbaum gives a little smile just before his Kataphrakt is blasted to pieces by Slaine's second Chekhov's Barrage.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_1b6f11d2	type	The Cutie
Aldnoah.Zero / int_1b6f11d2	comment	The Cutie: The VERS princess is cute, sweet and lovable. She is excited to visit Earth and bears no ill will towards its residents, unlike some other members of the VERS empire. She's doomed. The person who was killed was a body double who took her place due to illness. If the Spoiler Opening is any indication, she's probably much more than just a cutie, too.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_1c3464e5	type	Klingon Scientists Get No Respect
Aldnoah.Zero / int_1c3464e5	comment	Klingon Scientists Get No Respect: Zig-zagged. VERS scavenged most of their technology from aliens, so they don't need a whole lot of scientists or other noncombatants. But they look down on reluctant warriors like Slaine, and think nothing of (unsuccessfully) assassinating their own peace-loving princess to create an excuse to go to war.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_1c398324	type	Death from Above
Aldnoah.Zero / int_1c398324	comment	Death from Above: In episode 4, several asteroids are lobbed into the city where Inaho and the others left just moments before they struck. Slaine uses this attack as a convenient excuse to explain how Trillram died. Used against the Martian Kataphrakt attacking in episode 16.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_1c445e86	type	Poor Communication Kills
Aldnoah.Zero / int_1c445e86	comment	Poor Communication Kills: After the battle in Episode 7, Slaine refuses to give Inaho a straight answer about his intentions, which leads Inaho to assume he is an enemy and shoot him down. Also, throughout Slaine's interrogation in Episode 8 (and even before). Had Cruhteo dialed down his racism and tried to listen to Slaine, instead of just fuming at the Puny Earthling's uppity, he would have been prepared for Saazbaum's treachery.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_1c4adce1	type	The Siege
Aldnoah.Zero / int_1c4adce1	comment	In Episode 22, during The Siege against the lunar base, one of the United Earth pilots remarks that they're wiping out the Martians with ease. About two seconds later, he gets chopped in half by Count Barouhcruz, followed by his whole squad, and Harklight then joins the battle with his Herschel.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_1daa7fce	type	In the Back
Aldnoah.Zero / int_1daa7fce	comment	After Slaine rams Saazbaum and Inaho through a wall into the Aldnoah control room, he is visibly relieved to see Asseylum alive and tending to a badly injured Inaho. And then Saazbaum shoots her in the back.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_1e10069c	type	Real Robot Genre
Aldnoah.Zero / int_1e10069c	comment	Real Robot Genre: The KG-6 Sleipnir as developed for the United Earth military for use as training models. The UE military uses the KG-7 Areion. This comparison image◊ notes that the KG-6 is more maneuverable, while the KG-7 is more armored. Same goes with the Martian-made Kataphrakts. Though some of their qualities could go to super robot territory.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_1e4a1e0e	type	I Owe You My Life
Aldnoah.Zero / int_1e4a1e0e	comment	And when he saves Saazbaum's life for rescuing him from Cruhteo's castle, he is rewarded with seeing the man he rescued shoot Princess Asseylum, who he had been trying to rescue for the duration of the entire season, before his eyes. He did bring this upon himself to an extent - Saazbaum had told him earlier that it was his intention to assassinate the Princess.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_1ec5a73c	type	Space Fighter
Aldnoah.Zero / int_1ec5a73c	comment	Space Fighter: The Martians get these in the second season, armed with machine guns and missiles (to contrast most Martian Kataphrakts' arsenal of showy, gimmicky superscience weapons) and capable of linking up around a central unit in groups of five for speedier transit.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_1eed1d03	type	Anti-Air
Aldnoah.Zero / int_1eed1d03	comment	In Episode 11 a huge mass of Martian Anti-Air mobile gun platforms only succeed in destroying one Redshirt from the Deucalion's Kataphrakt platoon during the HALO jump. In this case, it's much more believable as the actual Kataphrakts are mixed in with dozens of decoys that release flares and chaff when hit, and they are also falling using heavy cloud cover in the middle of a raging snowstorm. It's actually a minor miracle the AA fire was even able to hit a single target.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_1eed8e76	type	The Juggernaut
Aldnoah.Zero / int_1eed8e76	comment	Nilokeras means "Horn of the Nile" in Greek. The Nilokeras is named after Nilokeras Scopulus, a long escarpment in the northern hemisphere of Mars. It is located along the southeastern boundary of the Tempe Terra plateau.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_1f7b2d59	type	Law of Chromatic Superiority
Aldnoah.Zero / int_1f7b2d59	comment	Law of Chromatic Superiority: Played with. Inaho regularly pilots an orange Sleipnir while almost all other UE pilots use the dark green Areions. However, the Sleipnir actually has lower specs than the Areion, since it's a training unit for novice pilots. And zigzagged: when Inaho is asked why he uses a Sleipnir over the superior Areions, Inaho explains that the lack of heavy armor makes the Sleipnir more agile. Martians tend to use very heavy weapons which can destroy a mecha in one hit, armor or not. Taking this and Inaho's outside-of-the-box tactics into account, the Sleipnir really is the superior unit in this particular situation.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_20152e12	type	Real Place Background
Aldnoah.Zero / int_20152e12	comment	Real-Place Background: Downtown New Orleans is recreated in painstaking detail for both Episode 1◊ and Episode 18.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_20a14df0	type	Wrong Genre Savvy
Aldnoah.Zero / int_20a14df0	comment	Wrong Genre Savvy: Just about any Orbital Knight believes they're The Ace that should be impervious to mere Mooks, while in actuality they're Monster of the Week.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_20e0d3e8	type	Tanks for Nothing
Aldnoah.Zero / int_20e0d3e8	comment	Tanks for Nothing: The tank platoon commanded by Lt. Marito 15 years ago was utterly destroyed by the Deucalion Kataphrakt and its gravity warping engines. None of their shots were even able to hit it.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_21889507	type	A House Divided
Aldnoah.Zero / int_21889507	comment	A House Divided: Episode 17 reveals that not all of the VERS knights are behind Slaine. Marylcian even openly challenges him to a duel to determine who gets the honor of guarding the moonbase and Asylum.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_21f3e32e	type	Chekhov's Boomerang
Aldnoah.Zero / int_21f3e32e	comment	Chekhov's Boomerang: That pendant Slaine gives Asseylum at the beginning of the show turns out to be important multiple times. Specifically, Rayet uses it to choke out Asseylum in Episode 9, and it also triggers the return of her memories in episode 20.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_22bb91f	type	Jump Jet Pack
Aldnoah.Zero / int_22bb91f	comment	Jump Jetpack: Kataphrakts use these mounted on the hip sections as a sudden burst of speed or to make quick 180-degree turns.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
Aldnoah.Zero / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: Inaho explaining the scientific fact of Rayleigh scattering to Asseylum becomes this in Episode 13. And done quite literally (and magnificently) in Episode 15.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_22e5329e	type	Ordinary High-School Student
Aldnoah.Zero / int_22e5329e	comment	Ordinary High-School Student: The anime plays with the trope. The protagonists are ordinary high school students - but since the situation between the Vers Empire and Earth is tense, ordinary high school education includes combat lessons, which explains why exactly would high school students be able to skillfully pilot mechas.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_22fdc3e3	type	Single-Use Shield
Aldnoah.Zero / int_22fdc3e3	comment	Single-Use Shield: Inaho uses reactive armour to stand a fighting chance against the Argyre's beam sabers.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_237404cc	type	Ironic Echo
Aldnoah.Zero / int_237404cc	comment	Ironic Echo: The Season 2 ending has a scene that slowly zooms out to show Slaine and Inaho pointing their guns at each other. At the very end of the season, after the pair crash-land back on Earth, there's an almost identical shot of Inaho holding Slaine at gunpoint, with the pair positioned exactly opposite to how they were in the ending. It goes one further: Slaine proceeds to tap his forehead with a finger, as if to say, "Shoot me here", which is exactly what Saazbaum had done at the very start of Season 2, after Slaine had shot him.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_258a59e9	type	Our Centaurs Are Different
Aldnoah.Zero / int_258a59e9	comment	Our Centaurs Are Different: The Scandia Kataphrakt is built like a centaur, complete with four legs, a broad back that allows it to carry another Kataphrakt, and arms equipped with Automatic Crossbows.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_2633c91d	type	SteelEardrums
Aldnoah.Zero / int_2633c91d	comment	Steel Eardrums: Averted in Episode 7 when Inaho has to open fire with his Kataphrakt's rifle on the Hellas's rocket fists next to the refugees. He orders them to cover their ears. Even so, it's still extremely painful for everyone involved, with even the sound of the empty shell casing hitting the deck causing Shell-Shock Silence.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_27a42ebc	type	Spiritual Successor
Aldnoah.Zero / int_27a42ebc	comment	Spiritual Successor: While not directly linked to it, one could be forgiven for thinking that Aldnoah Zero was taking several pages from Zone of the Enders or its anime adaptation.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_27da9a33	type	Some Kind of Force Field
Aldnoah.Zero / int_27da9a33	comment	In Episode 2, some well placed sniper fire forces Trillram's Kataphrakt off a bridge and into the bay, where the rush of water against his Dimensional Barrier flows into the one gap in its coverage, allowing Inaho to focus his attack there.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_28a5213a	type	Small Name, Big Ego
Aldnoah.Zero / int_28a5213a	comment	Small Name, Big Ego: The Martians. Despite claiming that they're superior to Earth because of their better technology, Saazbaum makes it clear to Slaine that in many was the Vers Empire is actually way worse off than Earth is. Mars's surface is still barren, so the population has to subsist on algae and krill instead of anything that normal Earth humans would eat, plus their culture is stagnant. Saazbaum even says that the reason the war between Mars and Earth that led to Heaven's Fall broke out in the first place was a Despair Gambit initiated by the Emperor to turn attention away from the poor status of the colony and turn the negative feelings aimed at his government into jealousy and hatred of Earth.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_28d73447	type	Regional Redecoration
Aldnoah.Zero / int_28d73447	comment	Regional Redecoration: Happened as a result of the Heaven's Fall incident, where the moon was destroyed. The resulting debris and gravitational effects badly defaced the Earth.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_2a542c7d	type	Beam Spam
Aldnoah.Zero / int_2a542c7d	comment	The Martian Kataphrakt in episode 19 has invisibility and uses a bow with explosive tipped arrows in order to take out Earth's Kataphrakts. This helps it because gunfire or Beam Spam would give away its position every time it fired, so using a ranged weapon with no way of tracing where the attacks originated from makes it harder to attack it. Not that it stops Inaho any, but before Earth's forces can finish it off after they find out where it is, several Martian forces, including a Landing Castle, show up in the vicinity.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_2a729dd9	type	Artifact Alias
Aldnoah.Zero / int_2a729dd9	comment	Artifact Alias: Princess Asseylum originally introduces herself as Seylum when in disguise. However, even when her true identity has been revealed to him, Inaho persists in using 'Seylum'.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_2b706ca	type	More Dakka
Aldnoah.Zero / int_2b706ca	comment	More Dakka: Inaho puts this to use in episode 21. As the camera cuts away to a large view of the field, a hail of bullets suddenly flies out, and just as quickly stops.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_2dddd99d	type	False Flag Operation
Aldnoah.Zero / int_2dddd99d	comment	False Flag Operation: The death of the Martian Princess. Doubly so, when found out that she's actually alive and willing to fight, something they as a whole did not plan.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_2e38439c	type	KillerYoYo
Aldnoah.Zero / int_2e38439c	comment	The Octantis is named after the Octantis Mons, a mountain on Mars. Since Octantis is derived from Octans, this is yet another exception to the Religious and Mythological Theme Naming.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_2e6a41e0	type	Gratuitous English
Aldnoah.Zero / int_2e6a41e0	comment	Gratuitous English: In the "A/Z" ending theme lyrics, a word per line is in English (or Engrish). Its full version has a semi-chorus piece which is nigh-impossible to reproduce even with practice, the single album booklet puts it as follows (and, no, most of the rest of the song really is in Japanese): "aLIEz" has this mixed in with some Gratuitous German.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_2f50c5bf	type	Theme Music Power-Up
Aldnoah.Zero / int_2f50c5bf	comment	Theme Music Power-Up: The anime has three Insert Songs on rotating duty for when Inaho and his buddies swing into action - 'MKAlieZ', 'BRE@TH//LESS', and 'Keep on keeping on'. The second half switches out 'BRE@TH//LESS' for 'No Differences.'
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_33b4e7f	type	Helmets Are Hardly Heroic
Aldnoah.Zero / int_33b4e7f	comment	Helmets Are Hardly Heroic: A justified example here: Earth Kataphrakt pilots do not wear helmets because their pilot suits come equipped with a rapid inflatable airbag that encloses the entire head and neck whenever a strong enough impact is detected or manually activated via a pull cord. It is very similar to the Swedish Hövding airbag bicycle helmet.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_34dcfc96	type	Kick the Dog
Aldnoah.Zero / int_34dcfc96	comment	Kick the Dog: Trillram attempts to kill Rayet in episode 2, after the former kills her father and some of his associates. Fortunately she's saved by some of Earth's forces who distract Trillram long enough for Yuki to grab her and flee.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_3548fa0b	type	Please Kill Me if It Satisfies You
Aldnoah.Zero / int_3548fa0b	comment	Please Kill Me if It Satisfies You: Slaine spends the finale zig-zagging between this and outright Death Seeker.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_35fb9016	type	Gratuitous German
Aldnoah.Zero / int_35fb9016	comment	"aLIEz" has this mixed in with some Gratuitous German.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_36a08086	type	Invisibility with Drawbacks
Aldnoah.Zero / int_36a08086	comment	Scandia is named after Scandia Tholi, a mountain on Mars (a classical albedo feature) in the Scandia region. The name and method of attack may also be a reference to the name given to multiple uncharted islands in the Mediterranean during the early days of Greek exploration, which were home to a number of ferocious hunter-gatherer tribes.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_36d4654e	type	Fisticuffs Boss
Aldnoah.Zero / int_36d4654e	comment	Fisticuffs Boss: In episode 12, Inaho faces Count Saazbaum's Dioscuria with only his Kataphrakt's fists.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_3722d66c	type	Hold Your Hippogriffs
Aldnoah.Zero / int_3722d66c	comment	Hold Your Hippogriffs: In Episode 19, Count Barouhcruz drops a saying, "Do not try to fight against an Olympian sandstorm," referring to the frequent dust storms that occur on the Martian surface.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_38291355	type	Does Not Know His Own Strength
Aldnoah.Zero / int_38291355	comment	Does Not Know His Own Strength: In episode 4 after Yuki gets an exoskeleton arm brace to help her use her arm despite the injury on it, accidentally hits a railing too hard, and bends it. She later utilizes this technique again to help move a wrench that needed more torque to fix the engine on the ship.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_396e1c2a	type	Face Death with Dignity
Aldnoah.Zero / int_396e1c2a	comment	Face Death with Dignity: The pilot of the Elysium Kataphrakt in Episode 1 of the Second Season. After a stunned look of surprise when Inaho subverts his defences, he simply smiles in respect before Inaho blows him away with extreme prejudice. In Episode 15, Count Saazbaum, when he's caught in Slaine's trap. There's an element in tragedy because they really did think of each other as Godfather-and-son.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_39b8d3d6	type	Boring, but Practical
Aldnoah.Zero / int_39b8d3d6	comment	Boring, but Practical: In episode 18, the Terrans face off against yet another VERS knight, who is swatting down every cruise missile they throw at him due to his Beam Spam attack. So Inaho goes on top of a tall building to spot for the Deucalion, which then uses plain old battleship turrets to lob shells in coordinates that Inaho gives them, all the while hiding behind the horizon and safe from the laser, which can only fire in a straight line compared to the shells' parabolic arc. The knight is utterly perplexed at how their shots are so accurate. The Martian Kataphrakt in episode 19 has invisibility and uses a bow with explosive tipped arrows in order to take out Earth's Kataphrakts. This helps it because gunfire or Beam Spam would give away its position every time it fired, so using a ranged weapon with no way of tracing where the attacks originated from makes it harder to attack it. Not that it stops Inaho any, but before Earth's forces can finish it off after they find out where it is, several Martian forces, including a Landing Castle, show up in the vicinity. The Stygis fighters that Vers fields in the second season are this, in comparison to their Kataphrakts. They might not have a physics defying super ability and tough armor but they are fast, come in groups, and are armed with a lot of guns.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_3d699462	type	Curb-Stomp Battle
Aldnoah.Zero / int_3d699462	comment	Curb-Stomp Battle: Several of them occur throughout the show: The attack of the Orbital Knights in episode 2. After wiping out several cities by dropping their enormous "castle" spacecraft onto them, they destroy all undersea cables and satellites to block communication and deploy powerful EMP jammers... none of which really matter, because all of their vehicles and mechas are Immune to Bullets and can casually massacre Earth's armies without taking a scratch. But this ties into the VERS being smart. The VERS Kataphrakts all have distinct weaknesses that take careful study to notice. They can also be overwhelmed by tactics and vastly superior numbers, as demonstrated by Inaho and the timely arrival of the escort ship and its own mechs. Thus, removing the Earth's ability to coordinate greatly reduces the chances of exactly that happening. Inaho delivers one to Saazbaum in episode 12. Despite having a superior Kataphrakt, he's utilizing all of the same powers that Inaho's other opponents used. As a result, Inaho is able to counter every single one of his attacks, and were it not for Slaine's intervention, Saazbaum would've been killed off right there. Inaho delivers one in episode 13. After finding out the new Kataphrakt's attacks, he manages to get close enough to destroy it, whereas a Red Shirt squad was wiped out moments before when they tried to fight him. Inaho once again in episode 14 against the Martian's sneak attack group. They assume their distance and speed will keep them safe from the Terran's attacks, and for the most part it does. However, using his observational skills and calculations, Inaho is able to predict their movement patterns, and times his shots so that they hit the Martian units. Slaine would've suffered this as well were it not for his Kataphrakt having the ability to predict Inaho's shots and dodging them. Slaine destroys Trident Base single-handedly after the Deucalion leaves with Inaho in episode 16. This helps to cement his position within the Martian ranks, though a few still refuse to accept him due to his Terran origins. The three Martian knights who attack together deliver one to Earth's forces in episode 20, and Inaho is forced to retreat with the other survivors due to the disadvantage they were at. He repays them in the next episode, and Earth's forces are able to take all three of them out during a pitched battle. The remaining Martians who attack the Deucalion in episode 24 suffer quite badly against the Terran forces. Though Inaho is fighting Slaine at the time, the combat data his cybernetic eye gave them allows them to be much more effective at fighting, and it's implied that the remaining Martians go out in a blaze of glory.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_3ed23024	type	Surprisingly Realistic Outcome
Aldnoah.Zero / int_3ed23024	comment	Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: In a fight between a reckless, arrogant, inexperienced pilot, and a calm, methodical, ruthless one who has a solid grasp on combat tactics and physics, the former doesn't really stand a chance, regardless of how powerful his mecha is. Mechanically, the physics-defying Super Robots still have to exist in a universe where the laws of physics hold sway, and while they might defy those laws they are still subject to them and vulnerable to someone who knows how to exploit that.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_3f1aadeb	type	Strictly Formula
Aldnoah.Zero / int_3f1aadeb	comment	Strictly Formula: A lot of episodes follow the same pattern. The first half of any given episode tends to be dedicated to a lot of exposition. Then the second half introduces a Martian Kataphrakt that shows off its overpowered alien weaponry. A squad of United Earth Kataphrakts will, without fail, think they're hotshots who can go toe-to-toe with the enemy but end up getting hosed. Then Inaho will use some crazy physics phenomenon that manages to destroy or at least slow down the Martian machine. Then something dramatic happens at the end and we get a Cliffhanger.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_3f71b00e	type	Point Defenseless
Aldnoah.Zero / int_3f71b00e	comment	Point Defenseless: Zigzagged. Generally when it's just a Terran Red Shirt or Martian Mook, said defenses are largely effective. However, played straight if a minor character is attacking a major one, such as one of the Martian knights destroying Terran forces.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_3f897dea	type	All There in the Stinger
Aldnoah.Zero / int_3f897dea	comment	All There in the Stinger: After the credits of Season 1 Episode 3, Slaine confronts Trillram about the False Flag Operation to kill Princess Asseylum. When Trillram confesses, Slaine angrily shoots him dead. It's shown again in Episode 4 via a brief flashback, but if you missed Episode 3's stinger then it comes completely out of nowhere. There's another one in Season 2, in which Lemrina decides to pull the plug on the comatose Asseylum. Subverted when she backs out at the last second, then double subverted when, after she leaves, Asseylum starts to wake up.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
Aldnoah.Zero / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: In the end, the war is stopped. Earth and Mars make peace. But Klancain and Asseylum end up married to ensure the peace, meaning neither Inaho or Slaine get their love interest. Earth has to rebuild as well while Slaine is imprisoned for life, despite wanting to die (although Inaho later tells him that he was spared specifically because Asseylum wanted him to live). Inaho moves on with life, though minus an eye.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_40da7cc9	type	Urban Warfare
Aldnoah.Zero / int_40da7cc9	comment	Urban Warfare: The entire conflict the protagonist and antagonist gets cities and towns involved.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_4108bb3e	type	Doomed Hometown
Aldnoah.Zero / int_4108bb3e	comment	Doomed Hometown: Shin-awara gets wiped out by orbital bombardment in Episode 4.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_424c9a9b	type	Cold-Blooded Torture
Aldnoah.Zero / int_424c9a9b	comment	Cold-Blooded Torture: Slaine suffers this at the hands of Cruhteo after using the audience room to inform the Emperor of Asseylum's survival, then stealing a jet to go out looking for her.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_42cfbfc6	type	2D Visuals, 3D Effects
Aldnoah.Zero / int_42cfbfc6	comment	2D Visuals, 3D Effects: The various mecha in the show. Most of the vehicles also are this, such as the cargo truck that Rayet drives in episode 3.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_42e97a94	type	You Have GOT to Be Kidding Me!
Aldnoah.Zero / int_42e97a94	comment	You Have GOT to Be Kidding Me!: Inko utters this when Inaho, in his orange, hitches a ride with Slaine's bat.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_446c5792	type	Villainous Rescue
Aldnoah.Zero / int_446c5792	comment	Villainous Rescue: Inaho and the others are saved from Femieanne's final attack in episode 6 when it's deflected by a shot from a Martian plane being flown by Slaine. Also in Episode 15, when Inaho is saved from the Dioscuria's relentless pursuit by a trap Slaine had set up beforehand. Played with, as Slaine had originally set up the trap for Inaho, and Inaho managed to capitalise on it with a little help from Inko.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_4536fd29	type	Energy Weapon
Aldnoah.Zero / int_4536fd29	comment	The Solis is named after Solis Lacus, a dark feature on Mars, commonly referred as "The Eye of Mars" because with the surrounding light area called Thaumasia it resembles the pupil of one. Since solis is Spanish for sun, it’s an exception to the Religious and Mythological Theme Naming.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_45fe3a2e	type	Utopia Justifies the Means
Aldnoah.Zero / int_45fe3a2e	comment	Utopia Justifies the Means: Slaine's response to Lemrina in episode 21 after the latter confronts him about why he's still dragging the war on. He knows the costs in lives and resources will be extremely high, but he wants to utterly annihilate Earth's resistance so that Asseylum can rule over it. Lemrina then turns out to be Asseylum in disguise, and she attempts to order him to stand down at gunpoint. But he puts both princesses under house arrest and continues his plans anyway.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_474a2a5e	type	Cultural Posturing
Aldnoah.Zero / int_474a2a5e	comment	Cultural Posturing: Citizens of the Vers Empire are frustratingly haughty toward Terrans, acting as if they're of some ancient noble bloodline when their country is only 29 years old. Saazbaum is fully aware of how insane this attitude is, considering that Mars has no natural resources (including the all-important waternote Though this is either a mistake or simply Artistic License — in Real Life it turned out that Mars has plenty of water, it's just frozen in the polar ice caps, and this information had been available for a number of years prior to the start of the show. Though it is possible that what Saazbaum meant is the difficulty of collecting water. And apparently, as seen in Slain's flashbacks to when he first meet Princess Asseylum, most of the water that is collected is used by the Royalty and Nobility to fill entire rooms for some odd reason) and no atmosphere, is culturally stagnant, and is governed by a feudal monarchy. How are you supposed to realistically feel superior to the naturally beautiful, abundant and (relatively) fairly governed planet that you originated from?
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_47bbbb28	type	We Do the Impossible
Aldnoah.Zero / int_47bbbb28	comment	We Do the Impossible: In the chaos of the initial invasion, Vers Kataphrakts were almost unstoppable, until Inaho and crew took out the Nilokeras and the Argyre. Played down a little in the second cour, since less Vers Kataphrakts take the field and are also taken out with less ceremony, even though Inaho is still the only one shown explicitly destroying Vers fighters. That said, the Deucalion crew plays it straight, as Magbaredge comments that Earth has no idea what to do with them, so orders them from various places to fight or defend against VERS incursions. Even their operation in episode 22 has them act as bait to lure out the bulk of the Martian forces on the moon so a second group can successfully assault the moon base. Magbaredge later correctly suspects that the true objective was to assassinate Asseylum by inserting a group of Terran spec-ops troops while the fighting was raging on above the moon base.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_47fea76b	type	Butt-Monkey
Aldnoah.Zero / int_47fea76b	comment	Second season reveals that Slaine failed to kill Inaho despite shooting him in the eye from point-blank range.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_48081842	type	The Stinger
Aldnoah.Zero / int_48081842	comment	The Stinger: Episode 3 has one, which shows Trillram's fate after suffering a loss. He survives, but is shot dead by Slaine after the latter learns the truth that Princess Asseylum survived and the former was going to kill her to conceal the truth behind their invasion. In Episode 18, the final shot of the ending, showing the comatose Asseylum suspended in her statis tank, transitions into an extra scene in which Lemrina attempts to shut off her life support so she can permanently usurp the princess' place, only to not go through with it. Just after Lemrina leaves, Asseylum then starts to wake up.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_49f8c18f	type	Ace Custom
Aldnoah.Zero / int_49f8c18f	comment	Ace Custom: Subverted and arguably inverted with Inaho's Sleipnir-class Kataphrakts. Its Highly Conspicuous Paintjob of bright orange makes it stand out enormously from the regular Red Shirts in their military green/gunmetal machines, and the Martians clearly ASSUME that it's some sort of elite custom machine. In truth, however, it's just an obsolete trainer, one of many handed over to schools for use in live-fire exercises - it's entirely down to Inaho's intellect and ability that it repeatedly goes toe-to-toe with the martian Super Robot level Kataphrakts. Even when he's given the option to upgrade to a newer model, he refuses, stating that the main advantage it has over the older model is better armor (which wouldn't have helped against any of the overpowered Martian weapons they've encountered), and while the additional weight from that is compensated for by a superior powerplant, it has pretty much the same performance as the Sleipnir, so he might as well stick to what he's familiar with. Played straight in the final episode. Inaho's Sleipnir is equipped with a huge booster pack complete with even more rocket anchors and adding melee blades, gauntlets, and shields, seemingly to counteract Slaine's Tharsis.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_4b44e74b	type	Mukokuseki
Aldnoah.Zero / int_4b44e74b	comment	Mukokuseki: Played with, Eddelrittuo and Asseylum, in her civilian disguise, are identified by Calm as either Russians or Scandinavians.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_4c798fd5	type	Shock and Awe
Aldnoah.Zero / int_4c798fd5	comment	Inaho's plan to destroy the Electris Kataphrakt relies on very advanced knowledge of how electricity works. He launches his attack from the air to avoid the effects of grounding, and tags himself with his suit's grapple onto the Electris so that he can maintain the same electric potential so that its attacks won't affect his Sleipnir. Finally, when he touches down on solid land, we can see his suit grounding itself.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_4e7c4536	type	Wham Line
Aldnoah.Zero / int_4e7c4536	comment	Wham Line: "You... are my enemy." Ending of Episode 21 In episode 23, Asseylum broadcasts a message to both the VERS and Terrans, succeeding her grandfather as the new Empress of the VERS Empire, and orders the fighting to stop. She then gets up from her wheelchair, and announces she's going to marry Count Klankain. In Episode 24, the newscast says that Slaine planned the assassination of Asseylum all along. This might be a cover story, as it also claims that Slaine is dead when he's actually imprisoned for life in secret.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_5037b961	type	Et Tu, Brute?
Aldnoah.Zero / int_5037b961	comment	Et Tu, Brute?: Done in episode 15, during the battle between Inaho and Slaine. Saazbaum jumps in, eager to give some payback to Inaho. Despite this, Inaho still manages to exploit his weaknesses, though he ends up getting killed by a trap Slaine had set out earlier in the episode. Though Slaine meant for it to be used on Inaho, he takes this opportunity to stab Saazbaum in the back for shooting Asseylum, then uses Saazbaum's death to further his own goals within the Vers ranks.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_51beab21	type	Good Old Fisticuffs
Aldnoah.Zero / int_51beab21	comment	Good Old Fisticuffs: In the later part of the fight against Saazbaum's Dioscuria, Inaho decides to discard his auto-cannon in favor of using his Kataphrakt's fists.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_522811b8	type	Falling into the Cockpit
Aldnoah.Zero / int_522811b8	comment	Falling into the Cockpit: Averted. Inaho and his friends already know how to fight and pilot Kataphrakts due to compulsory military training and are obligated to defend Earth from Martian attack. Even before being formally drafted, they all chose to board a Kataphrakt and fight.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_523977ba	type	Delaying Action
Aldnoah.Zero / int_523977ba	comment	Delaying Action: Inaho, Calm, and Inko do this in episode 4 to buy some time for their forces to start the hovercraft's engine back up. Fortunately they receive some help from a friendly ship arriving in the area after taking a longer but safer passage to reach the base. Performed again by Inaho in Episode 12, when he takes on Saazbaum in order to buy time for Asseylum to get to the Aldnoah control room. Marito, Yuki, and two others attempt this in episode 16 when a Martian Kataphrakt lands and threatens a nearby city.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_5288f02	type	All Your Powers Combined
Aldnoah.Zero / int_5288f02	comment	All Your Powers Combined: Saazbaum's transformed mecha in episode 12 utilizes every specialty the other kataphrakts seen earlier have. Inaho, having survived every encounter, naturally manages to exploit all of their weaknesses as well.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_5313c266	type	Bookends
Aldnoah.Zero / int_5313c266	comment	Book Ends: The plot of season 1 is kicked off by an attempted assassination of the VERS Princess, which doesn't succeed. It ends with another attempted assassination of the VERS Princess, which almost succeeds. The first scene of Episode 1 and the last scene of Episode 12 both feature Slaine and Asseylum in a Landing Castle. In the first scene of Season 2, after surviving being shot repeatedly by Slaine, Saazbaum taps his forehead as if to say, "You should have shot me here". At the very end of the series, as Inaho holds him at gunpoint, Slaine does the same thing. The first episode ends with two children mistaking the falling Landing Castles for shooting stars. In the final episode, two children mistake Inaho and Slaine's falling Kataphrakts for a shooting star. The children also resemble the two from the first episode, so they may be the same.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_53e1f74c	type	Asteroid Thicket
Aldnoah.Zero / int_53e1f74c	comment	Asteroid Thicket: The Satellite Belt in low Earth orbit thanks to the Moon blowing up is this. Space battles in season 2 show us that micro-meteoroids are a problem, though Kataphrakts are armored enough for those impacts not to do any serious damage.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_55473bc9	type	CPR: Clean, Pretty, Reliable
Aldnoah.Zero / int_55473bc9	comment	CPR: Clean, Pretty, Reliable: Inaho is able to resuscitate Asseylum after she was strangled by Rayet because he didn't doze off during first aid training (which Magbaredge noted most students do), and it's played entirely straight: there's no throwing up, no broken ribs note In Real Life there is a saying that if no rib breaks during a cardiac massage, you're doing it wrong., and Asseylum is back to action barely a minute or two after, even before The Medic arrived, and is entirely well afterwards. On the other hand, the strangling itself looked a bit too short to cause the death, so it all kinda cancels out. Also, Inaho used a defibrillator, which would be of no help in such a case — it is used to set the heart into rhythm when it starts to flutter aimlessly, not to restart it after it stopped, for which CPR is used.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_56585e87	type	Combat Clairvoyance
Aldnoah.Zero / int_56585e87	comment	The Tharsis is named after a vast volcanic plateau centered near the equator in the western hemisphere of Mars. The name Tharsis is the Greco-Latin transliteration of the biblical Tarshish, the land at the western extremity of the known world.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_567f754	type	SuperRobot
Aldnoah.Zero / int_567f754	comment	Super Robot: The Vers Kataphrakts compared to the UE ones. Each Vers Kataphrakt has its own special abilities and weapons, whereas the UE Kataphrakts are mass-produced, Zaku-style. While the Vers Kataphrakts are individually much more powerful than the UE Kataphrakts, their pilots tend to fight like an average Super Robot show protagonist would: alone, with no respect for tactics, overt confidence and Blood Knight attitude. A calm demeanor, planning and exploitation of weaknesses gives Inaho and crew the opportunity to take them out.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_5798bfbf	type	Reassigned to Antarctica
Aldnoah.Zero / int_5798bfbf	comment	Reassigned to Antarctica: It is implied that Yuki was transferred to Yemen due to her repeated attempts to have Inaho discharged from the military, and the UFE brass got tired of dealing with her. The crew of the Deucalion also get this feeling when they're constantly being redeployed, since they get the feeling the UFE brass really have no idea what to do with them.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_57b80b45	type	Fantastic Racism
Aldnoah.Zero / int_57b80b45	comment	Also, throughout Slaine's interrogation in Episode 8 (and even before). Had Cruhteo dialed down his racism and tried to listen to Slaine, instead of just fuming at the Puny Earthling's uppity, he would have been prepared for Saazbaum's treachery.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_588d766f	type	BlackAndGreyMorality
Aldnoah.Zero / int_588d766f	comment	Black-and-Grey Morality: On one hand, we have the Martians, who have a feudal government that treats its commoners like dirt, have massive Fantastic Racism towards Earthlings, and members of their government attempt to assassinate their own princess in order to get an excuse for a war. On the other hand, we have the United Earth government that requires most high school kids to take courses on using military tech, and according to Lt. Marito, is covering something up that is related to the war that happened 15 years ago and filling its citizens' heads with lies. The backstory also shows us United Earth had quite a few questionable economic and political policies towards its former Martian colony, the biggest being a massive scandal in 1991 when it was revealed the UE government was taking bribes from Private Military Contractors to buy more weapons to reinforce its lunar garrison, which in turn fed conspiracy theories on Vers of a coming invasion of Mars (which were ultimately proven false, but the political fallout was nasty).
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_5979acea	type	Fragile Speedster
Aldnoah.Zero / int_5979acea	comment	And zigzagged: when Inaho is asked why he uses a Sleipnir over the superior Areions, Inaho explains that the lack of heavy armor makes the Sleipnir more agile. Martians tend to use very heavy weapons which can destroy a mecha in one hit, armor or not. Taking this and Inaho's outside-of-the-box tactics into account, the Sleipnir really is the superior unit in this particular situation.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_598b59a4	type	Everything Is an iPod in the Future
Aldnoah.Zero / int_598b59a4	comment	Everything Is an iPod in the Future: Used to highlight the technological superiority of the VERS Empire. The Martian Kataphrakts have a very smooth, elegant aesthetic and are mostly colored white. Contrast Earth's mechas, which have a much more rugged look and camouflage colors and what looks like the pseudo-Windows Phone in GTAV.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_5a4aa505	type	Government Conspiracy
Aldnoah.Zero / int_5a4aa505	comment	Government Conspiracy: On both sides. The Martians plotted to assassinate their own princess. The United Earth government is suppressing the truth about having the mech from the Heaven's Fall disaster.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_5c446b43	type	Aliens in Cardiff
Aldnoah.Zero / int_5c446b43	comment	Aliens in Cardiff: Episode 9 has a map of all 26 Landing Castles' sites, and while some of them are perfectly understandable, being either world megacities like Tokyo, Beijing and Moscow, or having had a potential to become one in their world's Alternate History, like Maputo, New Orleans and Novosibirsk, some of them, like Dushanbe, Magadan or Addis Ababa are in the proverbial middle of nowhere and can hardly justify landing there. Two factors that might well justify those landing zones are resource gathering and wanting to avoid Earth military coordination in the wilderness, a possible factor given Mizusaki's navigational advice in Episode Nine. Episode 9 also shows us where United Earth headquarters is in Russia, and it's in the steppes of southern Siberia.note Technically, in the village of Karatuzskoe, the seat of the Karatuzsky District, Krasnoyarsk Krai. Now that is in the middle of nowhere. The closest major city would be Krasnoyarsk, which is a five and a half hour drive away, or, for some really loose definition of "major", Minusinsk, which is about three hours off. Magadan also was a major military base and resource extraction center during the Cold War in Real Life, so it might've retained enough of usable facilities to interest Martians, who are very resource poor.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_5e782d0c	type	Super Prototype
Aldnoah.Zero / int_5e782d0c	comment	Super Prototype: Deucalion, the Earth-made battleship with an Aldnoah drive.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_5fcb9ad1	type	Time Skip
Aldnoah.Zero / int_5fcb9ad1	comment	Time Skip: The show's second half begins in July 2016, 19 months after the events of Episode 12.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_6114a875	type	Lost Technology
Aldnoah.Zero / int_6114a875	comment	Lost Technology: The Martians got ahead of the Earth by finding a bunch of this on Mars and took to calling it "Aldnoah."
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_61996785	type	Sacrificial Lamb
Aldnoah.Zero / int_61996785	comment	Sacrificial Lamb: Invoked. High ranking members of the Martian government attempt to murder the princess and frame the Terrans in order to kick start an extermination war. Even though they don't kill her, they still get their war because the body double's death was convincing enough.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_62cbb836	type	Mid-Season Upgrade
Aldnoah.Zero / int_62cbb836	comment	Mid-Season Upgrade: Interestingly, the major upgrade is not for the main characters, but rather the Wadatsumi gets beached at Tanegashima, and its crew quickly upgrades to the Deucalion after its Aldnoah Drive is activated. In Episode 10, Saazbaum gives Slaine the Tharsis Kataphrakt. Quite a step up from his sky carrier airplane. An upgrade of a very different sort: Slaine goes from vassal to Knight over the 19-month timeskip, from Knight to heir presumptive of Castle Saazbaum in 3 episodes, then from heir presumptive to Count Slaine Saazbaum Troyard in one.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_638b65bc	type	Armor Is Useless
Aldnoah.Zero / int_638b65bc	comment	Armor Is Useless: Lampshaded by Inaho in Episode 10. The reason he prefers to stick with the KG-6 Sleipnir training unit is because even though the KG-7 Areion has more armor, every Martian Kataphrakt they've come across has weapons that are able to destroy them with no problem, so he might as well use the Sleipnir which has more maneuverability.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_6439de78	type	Heroic Sacrifice
Aldnoah.Zero / int_6439de78	comment	Heroic Sacrifice: Lt. Marito rushes a Martian Kataphrakt with a knife in an attempt to delay it while Kaizuka escapes with a surviving conspirator. He survives.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_66f69cd4	type	Invisibility Cloak
Aldnoah.Zero / int_66f69cd4	comment	Invisibility Cloak: Countess Raffia's Scandia Kataphrakt has this as its special ability. It's quite an advanced one as well, even being able to mask its thermal emissions. On the other hand, it suffers from Invisibility Flicker when caught in a smokescreen.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_67b0bd0e	type	An Ice Person
Aldnoah.Zero / int_67b0bd0e	comment	Elysium is named after a volcanic province located in the western hemisphere of Mars. Elysium is also known in Greek Mythology as a form of afterlife, where gods, heroes and the worthy went after death.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_67f26dcc	type	Planet of Hats
Aldnoah.Zero / int_67f26dcc	comment	Planet of Hats: The VERS population is an offender of this trope. Although in all fairness, of their population we've seen only a few aristocrats.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_68333a8b	type	Elite Army
Aldnoah.Zero / int_68333a8b	comment	Elite Army: The Martian forces are forced to be this due to their low population and the unique nature of the Aldnoah Drives.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_6b2b3b59	type	The Reveal
Aldnoah.Zero / int_6b2b3b59	comment	The Reveal: Episode 21 has a major one involving the Martian princesses. Lemrina, getting frustrated with Slaine's runaround answers, confronts him directly and asks him what exactly he's planning to do with the war. Slaine says he's going to conquer Earth and have Asseylum rule it, never mind the costs in terms of resources and especially lives. Lemrina seems quite upset at that answer, then stands up, and turns off her disguise, revealing her to be the true Asseylum, while stating he's no longer the Slaine she knew. She orders him at gunpoint to stand down, but he essentially does a coup d'etat on them, and orders both princesses under house arrest and continues on with his plans.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
Aldnoah.Zero / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name: The Deucalion is named after the Greek version of Noah, who escaped a deluge unleashed by Zeus in a chest. In the series, the Deucalion is a captured and reverse-engineered Vers Kataphrakt, rebuilt as a huge flying battleship, and carries Earth survivors through a great calamity that rains from the skies.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_6c3d1777	type	Magic A Is Magic A
Aldnoah.Zero / int_6c3d1777	comment	Magic A Is Magic A: Absolutely vital to Inaho's ability to defeat the Martian Super Robot Kataphrakts is the fact that, while they all have abilities which could be considered "physics deifying", each one works in an internally consistent manner and interacts logically with whatever laws of physics it doesn't break. Once he can figure out the exact way they each do that, he is able to use that information against them. Count Trillram's Nilokeras, for example, is covered in a "Dimensional Barrier" that seemingly blocks all matter and energy... But, equally, means that the Nilokeras is effectively blind while it is up because that also includes any kind of energy that could be absorbed by its sensors (e.g. infrared, radiowaves, visible light, etc.).
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_6e872753	type	Sexiness Score
Aldnoah.Zero / int_6e872753	comment	Sexiness Score: In the second episode, Okisuke is checking out the strawberry blonde girl (actually Asseylum in disguise) who boarded the ship with Inaho, and congratulates him on "scoring a 10", much to Inko's disgust.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_6ec4232f	type	Casting Gag
Aldnoah.Zero / int_6ec4232f	comment	Casting Gag: This isn't the first time Michael McConnohie has voiced an emperor with fabulous hair.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_71098e78	type	Hammer and Sickle Removed for Your Protection
Aldnoah.Zero / int_71098e78	comment	Hammer and Sickle Removed for Your Protection: Averted in Episode 10, when a hangar door at United Earth HQ prominently displays a hammer and sickle. This suggests that a) the base was built at the height of the Cold War, and b) either the Soviet Union never collapsed in this timeline, or just that nobody cared enough to remove it afterwards.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_71bd62b9	type	Calling Your Attacks
Aldnoah.Zero / int_71bd62b9	comment	Calling Your Attacks: Some of the abilities used by Martian Kataphrakts appear to require those - at first, you may think those to be just quirks of their users, but at least in a few of the cases the same phrases are also used after a Kataphract changes owners (such as both Marlycian and Harklight calling "Fly, my servants!" when operating the Herschel) or when using an ability normally associated with another (such as Saazbaum doing Vlad's infamous "BA-TOU/Draw swords!" when activating the Dioscuria's Blade Field).
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_7286e96d	type	Idiot Ball
Aldnoah.Zero / int_7286e96d	comment	Idiot Ball: For some reason, Vers pilots don't wear pressurized suits (or pilot suits whatsoever) while piloting their Kataphrakts in space. One can guess that at least Marylcian realized how useful it would have been wearing one when he got thrown out of his mecha to hard vacuum. The Orbital Knights think they are so superior with their technology, that they prefer to toy with their targets rather than getting the mission done (unlike Saazbaum who prefer to slay his targets quickly and without mercy). This gives time for the UE Army to regroup and Inaho to come up with his miraculous plans to beat them. When caught by surprise, you'd think they would retreat or change position. No, they just stand still and watch in disbelief while they get their asses kicked. Also, the knights fail to realize that something must have gone wrong when they start losing one by one to puny inferior Terrans. Yet, they do nothing to change their strategies or tactics. It's only when Slaine whips them into shape that they become more of a threat, but it comes a little too late to make a significant impact in the long run. Most of the time, the Orbital Knights jumps into the fray alone without any reinforcements whatsoever, at least the ones that appeared on-screen. Since Inaho and his peers are ganging up against them most of the time, why didn't they look back at that and do the same? The Vers emperor, who should you trust: a person who is constantly under watch and have no actual ability or reason to betray you, or the person who instigated a war without your permission? Even weirder since he questioned the motive around the assassination in the start of the episode. Racism towards Eathlings would cover his obliviousness, but still... The entire research team that worked on the Deucalion. Sure, let's spend millions on a battleship powered by something no Earthling can actually use. Presumably they were hoping to discover a way to activate it like the Versians can, but you'd think they'd do those experiments before converting the mecha into a battleship... Apparently Rayet's father genuinely believed he was going to get promoted to nobility for assassinating his own side's princess. There's a reason assassins are usually paid with cash and a plane ticket out of the country, rather than fame.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_7294b403	type	Altar Diplomacy
Aldnoah.Zero / int_7294b403	comment	Altar Diplomacy: Slaine Troyard personally arranges a marriage to Princess Asseylum Vers Allusia except it was Lemrina Vers Envers masquerading as her at the start of the second season. At the end of the show, Princess Asseylum announces that she would take Count Klanclain Cruhteo as her husband in marriage in order to secure a lasting peace between the Earth and the Vers Empire.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_754df088	type	Put on a Bus
Aldnoah.Zero / int_754df088	comment	Put on a Bus: Both Yuki and Marito are conspicuously absent within the Deucalion when season 2 starts. However, they both show up in episode 16, and both of them were offered positions on the ship, but declined for personal reasons.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_77666408	type	Combat Tentacles
Aldnoah.Zero / int_77666408	comment	Geryon is named after the Geryon Montes, a mountain range on Mars. Geryon was also a giant of Greek mythology that possessed either 3 heads or 3 bodies, that was killed by Heracles in order to obtain his cattle as one of the Twelve Labors.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_79974fb8	type	Rock Beats Laser
Aldnoah.Zero / int_79974fb8	comment	Rock Beats Laser: Inaho's use of intelligent tactics and observing his opponents for weaknesses allow him to take on and defeat enemies who have a massive technological edge.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_79a0e313	type	Bolivian Army Ending
Aldnoah.Zero / int_79a0e313	comment	Bolivian Army Ending: The last we see of Inko and Yuki as of the first season is them shutting the door to Castle Saazbaum's Aldnoah Drive chamber while they fight off the Castle's security force to buy Asseylum time to deactivate it. In the second season we see that they survived and actually managed to save the seriously wounded Inaho, taking him to Deucalion in time. In Episode 24, the last we see of Harklight and Barouhcruz is them leading the few surviving VERS pilots in a suicidal charge against the Deucalion. It's unclear whether they're actually killed, but it's likely.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_7a0e2f	type	WorfBarrage
Aldnoah.Zero / int_7a0e2f	comment	Worf Barrage: Marito, Yuki, and their squadmates do this to a Martian Kataphrakt in episode 16. They shoot quite a bit at it, and though their shots connect, that doesn't seem to slow it down much. Once the Martian starts up his attack, the best Marito can hope for is a Delaying Action and luring it away from the nearby city.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_7a4c6931	type	Aliens Never Invented Democracy
Aldnoah.Zero / int_7a4c6931	comment	Aliens Never Invented Democracy: Martians have a monarchy but they aren't actually aliens. They're humans who created civilization on Mars and dissociate themselves from Earth bound humans due to Fantastic Racism.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_7e6c0522	type	Off with His Head!
Aldnoah.Zero / int_7e6c0522	comment	Off with His Head!: Averted with the UFE's Kataphrakts as destroying the head does not destroy the Kataphrakt since the pilot is seated in the abdomen area. It seems destroying the head doesn't even cut off the optics as well. This is played straight with the Vers' Kataphrakts as the head serves as cockpit for certain models such as the Herschel and the Tharsis.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_7fbb2a3	type	Nice Job Breaking It, Hero!
Aldnoah.Zero / int_7fbb2a3	comment	Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Inaho ends up antagonizing Slaine, who had helped them earlier and could have been a valuable ally to them. Of course, he had no idea what Slaine's endgame was, and Slaine was refusing to tell him. Ultimately, the whole thing is a misunderstanding caused by both parties being on edge - Slaine refuses to trust anyone but the Princess herself, while Inaho has no idea that Slaine isn't technically even a Martian and is as opposed to the war as anybody else. Asseylum initially comes to Earth in order to foster better relations between Earth and Mars. However, all her visit really accomplishes is to provide a pretext for invasion when she's apparently assassinated. In Episode 10 Asseylum makes a spirited speech, informing the Earth and Vers about her survival, and calls for an immediate cease fire. Due to Earth's comm network being destroyed in Ep 2 and Vers jamming the radio, the speech has to be transmitted via directional laser to the Vers Lunar base. Which is full of conspirators, who stop it, and trace it back. By the end of the episode Saazbaum is dropping his personal castle right on top of UE HQ, that also happens to be Earth's biggest (and possibly last) civilian refugee shelter. Inverted example in episode 12, when Slaine saves Saazbaum from Inaho's final attack by rushing into him shortly after Asseylum successfully shuts down his landing castle. Asseylum is fine at first, but then is shot several times by a severely wounded Saazbaum as she was attempting to help Inaho get out of his mech.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_82108e3d	type	Attack Its Weak Point
Aldnoah.Zero / int_82108e3d	comment	Attack Its Weak Point: Done brilliantly by Inaho in episode 3 after he reviews enough footage of Trillram's mecha to learn how to get around the latter's seemingly impenetrable shield. The 'shield' not only blocks out incoming projectiles, but also light, which requires Trillram to use external cameras to see (as deduced when he gave up pursuit once he came across a tunnel), which logically means there are gaps in the shield to receive signals from the cameras. Inaho and his allies "blind" Trillram's drones by shooting smoke rounds above them, then lure Trillram to a bridge, which they blow up, forcing Trillram into the river below. Seeing a spot where water isn't being vaporized, Inaho penetrates the gap first with a knife, then with More Dakka. He also uses a case of Hoist by His Own Petard against Vlad's Kataphrakt in episode 5. Inaho simply grabs him, then has the ship they're on tilt immediately to cause them to fall into the ocean. Inaho ejects from his mech, whereas Vlad is stuck in his while also being held by Inaho's mech, and is killed in a steam explosion when his plasma blades superheat the water around them. After suffering a few Rocket Punch attacks from Femieanne in episodes 6 and 7, Inaho again correctly intuits how to attack her effectively. He waits till the arms open up their hand, then shoots them since they're not shielded while moving their digits. He later shoots her exhaust ports, which was the only spot that they could damage her. The weaknesses Inaho has learned from the Nilokeras and the Hellas later come into play when he faces off against Saazbaum in the Dioscuria, which has all the abilities of the previous three Vers Kataphrakts. In particular, now that Inaho knows how the dimensional barrier works, he can pinpoint the exact place to shoot it in its unshielded area when it powers on and off when launching the rocket fists.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_8288929a	type	Rewarded as a Traitor Deserves
Aldnoah.Zero / int_8288929a	comment	Rewarded as a Traitor Deserves: The Martians who carried out the operation to frame Earth are killed by Trillram to avoid having unnecessary witnesses. They are not exactly "traitors" per se, but they did do something extremely unsavory.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_834420aa	type	BFS
Aldnoah.Zero / int_834420aa	comment	The only weapon equipped by the Argyre is its massive beam katana, which lets it slice through earth Kataphrakt armor like butter and even stop bullets. However, Inaho uses explosive reactive armor to temporarily disperse the plasma blade, allowing him to get in close and grapple the Kataphrakt. He then turns its plasma swords against it by causing it to fall into the ocean along with his mech while he ejects. The blades super-heat the water and cause a steam explosion, destroying both Kataphrakts.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_83641c73	type	Logical Weakness
Aldnoah.Zero / int_83641c73	comment	Logical Weakness: The Anime. Most fights between the main Earth cast and Martian Kats involve Inaho figuring out how the enemy's powers work and deducing how to beat them. In the second season, some of the other characters get in on this action too, most notably Slaine when he duels a fellow Martian Knight.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_84f4a870	type	Puzzle Boss
Aldnoah.Zero / int_84f4a870	comment	Puzzle Boss: Most of the battles against the Cataphracts play out this way. Their superior alien Lost Technology can't be defeated by man-made weapons through sheer force alone, meaning Inaho and friends have to constantly think on their feet to identify their weaknesses, use their own abilities against them and/or maneuver them into vulnerable positions.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_85557b38	type	Reality Is Unrealistic
Aldnoah.Zero / int_85557b38	comment	Reality Is Unrealistic: The use of wind affect the Terrans' shots in space in episode 13 was ridiculed by some, when in fact, there can indeed by bouts of wind in space. Though its also possible "wind" is a colloquialism for the unstable gravity in the Satellite Belt thanks to the Aldnoah-powered teleportation portal exploding.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_863fa679	type	What Happened to the Mouse?
Aldnoah.Zero / int_863fa679	comment	What Happened to the Mouse?: In Episode 2, we get a montage of 4 Vers pilots laying waste to Beijing, Tokyo, Maputo, and New Orleans. As the series progresses, 3 out of 4 of these pilots are eventually fought and defeated by the UFE. But the pilot that landed in Beijing never appeared again. Considering the state of the war as of the second season, it's likely he was killed off-screen as the UFE recaptured China. He has a bigger role, however, in the Twin Gemini manga which revealed his name was Count Keteratesse and his Kataphrakt was called the Geryon. Lemrina's final fate. We last see her on her way to Mars and isn't shown in the final scenes of the series unlike the rest of the cast.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_86b21114	type	Badass Boast
Aldnoah.Zero / int_86b21114	comment	Badass Boast: Yuki does one to the VERS knight in episode 18 after she goes out of cover and gets hit by him, crippling her Kataphrakt. She then fires some shots at him along with Rayet to help pinpoint his location for the Deucalion's next barrage.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_89a17726	type	Spell My Name with an S
Aldnoah.Zero / int_89a17726	comment	Spell My Name with an S: Count Mazurek, whose name derives from a traditional Polish dance. The subs spell it in the aforementioned way, which is correct in Polish, while the Japanese narration clearly says "Mazurka", after the more popular spelling, usually used outside of Poland. Beginning with the second half, official subs are rather inconsistent in how they refer to the show's mechs, alternating between anglicized "Kataphrakt/Kataphrakts" or using the Greek singular and plural terms "Kataphraktos/Kataphraktoi." Countess Raffia & Count Sebring's machines are called the "Skandia" and "Elektris" according to the official subs, but the actual Martian albedo features they are named after are spelled "Scandia" and "Electris." Subtitles spell Sebring, Raffia, Orga, and Cronkine, but the Japanese website calls these characters Zebrin, Rafia, Olga, and Klancain. In "Olga's" case, the subbers may have gone with Orga since "Olga" is a female Slavic name.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_8ae880f7	type	Deconstruction
Aldnoah.Zero / int_8ae880f7	comment	Deconstruction: Of Super Robot genre tropes such as Ace Custom war machines, Awesome, but Impractical weaponry and Hot-Blooded but incompetent pilots. Meeting a Weak, but Skilled opponent that has common sense and tactical awareness does not go well for the Martians.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_8b3fe1cb	type	Flaw Exploitation
Aldnoah.Zero / int_8b3fe1cb	comment	Saazbaum's Dioscuria combines the abilities of all 3 previous Season 1 models but also combines all of their weaknesses, and actually manages to add more exploitable weaknesses due to having to use the abilities one at a time. This allows Inaho to exploit them as much as possible to get an edge in battle. Twice.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_8b606a51	type	There Is No Kill Like Overkill
Aldnoah.Zero / int_8b606a51	comment	There Is No Kill like Overkill: In Episode 22, Slaine deals with some UFE infiltrators with the Tharsis's machine guns.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_8b93a168	type	Macross Missile Massacre
Aldnoah.Zero / int_8b93a168	comment	Macross Missile Massacre: Both sides of the fight utilize missile attacks, though the Earth forces attacks don't do any harm to the VERS mecha. The assassination of the Princess is carried out using an M270 MLRS disguised as a civilian truck, though the man firing the weapon launches the missiles only one to two at a time. Sleipnirs (and, presumably, Areions) can mount a lot of guided missiles inside their "legs", but they're somewhat rarely used compared to their machineguns. This is implied to be because Martian war-machines, in general, tend to have very good jamming and point-defense capabilities. As if to further emphasize the point, Count Saazbaum's Dioscuria is explicitly armed with unguided rockets, which he simply launches in massive amounts to saturate an area. As Inaho himself points out, that means they cannot be electronically interfered with. The Martian Stygis fighters are shown in the last episode to be capable of launching at least 8 missiles simultaneously, which have such good tracking abilities that they can chase UFE Kataphrakts through the debris of the Satellite Belt. Makes you wonder why they stuck to their machineguns in every previous confrontation.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_8e20979	type	Wham Episode
Aldnoah.Zero / int_8e20979	comment	Wham Episode: In fairness, the last four episodes of the first cour count, as do two of the three episodes thus far in the second cour, for varying levels of Wham. The really standout ones in terms of true HSQ would probably be the following: Episode 8, Count Saazbaum singlehandedly crashes Castle Cruhteo, trashes the place, and makes off with Slaine, just as Cruhteo was about to intervene to stop the war. Episode 12, with the massive, massive cliffhanger and apparently a total cast wipeout. Episode 15, when Slaine is promoted to Saazbaum's heir and then later to Count of Saazbaum Castle. Multiple events occur in episode 18. Slaine defeats Marylcian, helping to quell dissent of him within the knight's ranks, Lemrina as Asseylum proposes the orbital knights break off from the Mars colony and start a new kingdom on the Moon as well as marrying Slaine, and perhaps biggest of all, the real Asseylum starts waking up from her coma. In episode 19, Asseylum finally wakes up, but her mentioning Inaho seems to make Slaine uncomfortable. Additionally, while fighting against one Martian Kataphrakt and learning about its abilities, two more show up before Inaho and the others can take the first one out. During episode 20, Earth's forces realize at least some of the Martian knights are now starting to work together, whereas in the past they often attacked on their own due mostly to their pride. Lemrina also begins to get quite upset that Slaine seems to spending a lot of time away from her, and when she goes to Asseylum's medical chamber, finds that she is no longer in there. Meanwhile, Asseylum sees the necklace she dropped after she was shot back in episode 12, which seems to trigger some of her memories of her time on Earth, after Slaine had hoped she would not recall them. Episode 23. To summarize, Asseylum tries talking to her grandfather to stop the war, but his mind is too gone to do anything. Slaine decides to have his forces on Earth completely wreck Earth. Asselyum then decides to marry Klancain and become Empress, then tells everyone on Earth and Mars that the war is over...meaning that if the war continues, the Martians (and Slaine by extension) will be fighting against their kingdom.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_8ed5c6e4	type	Asshole Victim
Aldnoah.Zero / int_8ed5c6e4	comment	Asshole Victim: Trillram by the end of the Episode 3, and the Martian sleeper cell earlier that episode.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_8ef99dbb	type	Pin-Pulling Teeth
Aldnoah.Zero / int_8ef99dbb	comment	Pin-Pulling Teeth: Yuki Kaizuka does this in Episode 12 while Storming the Castle. Klancain also does so when fighting off the UFE assault team in the lunar base in Episode 23.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_901dbf9a	type	Cliff Hanger
Aldnoah.Zero / int_901dbf9a	comment	Cliffhanger: Episode 11 ends on one, with the Deucalion severely damaged, and the fate of those aboard the ship unknown. Episode 12 ends with Asseylum being shot and apparently killed by Count Saazbaum, followed by Slaine killing Saazbaum and then Inaho. Episode 19 ended with two Orbital Knights joining the battle with the one the Deucalion's Kataphrakt platoons had cornered. The first time this is has ever happened in the war. Episode 20 had a particularly cruel one with Asseylum appearing to regain her memories of Earth, and Lemrina finding out Asseylum is no longer in her chamber. Episode 21 has some loose ends yet to be tied, while introducing some new elements into play, such as Slaine putting Asseylum and Lemrina under house arrest. Additionally, Count Cruhteo, who Slaine served under in the earlier episodes, has a son who has become of age and is heading to the moon base in order to meet Slaine. Meanwhile the Deucalion receives new orders to go into space.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_92286f7f	type	Precursors
Aldnoah.Zero / int_92286f7f	comment	Precursors: The aliens who left behind the Hypergate on the moon and the "Aldnoah" remnants on Mars. They've been gone for at least 30,000 years.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_928ca2cc	type	You Have Outlived Your Usefulness
Aldnoah.Zero / int_928ca2cc	comment	You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: The terrorists who assassinate the Princess in episode 1 await retrieval in episode 2 by Trillram. He congratulates them on their successful mission, then immediately kills them to silence them in case they have second thoughts later and reveal their part in the assassination. Rare heroic use of this trope in episode 7. After Slaine helps Inaho to deal with Femieanne, the former asks him if they're exploiting Asseylum. Mistrust starts to grow between them after Inaho gives him the runaround, and he then causes Slaine's plane to crash into the ocean. While Slaine survives the crash, he's next seen being tortured by Cruhteo in episode 8. Not so rare for this show: Slaine plays up the impression of loyalty to Saazbaum, enough to be named Saazbaum's heir. Almost immediately, at the end of the same episode, he backstabs Saazbaum to usurp his position and become Count Slaine Saazbaum Troyard.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_933576c8	type	Mighty Glacier
Aldnoah.Zero / int_933576c8	comment	Mighty Glacier: The Nilokeras Kataphrakt's shield destroys any projectiles fired at it, but on the other hand, it is extremely slow and lacks ranged weapons.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_93c04c8a	type	Future Food Is Artificial
Aldnoah.Zero / int_93c04c8a	comment	Future Food Is Artificial: Most Martians subsist on algae and plankton, because despite their pride in Aldnoah technology, it doesn't include food production, and Mars is desperately resource poor for the traditional Earth-based methods. Even the relatively humble meal of fried chicken with vegetables is an incredible luxury only a high-ranked noble like Saazbaum can afford, and even then only because it was shipped from Earth as a part of an aid packagenote Which alone brings up a Fridge Logic of why Earth would ever aid Martians who already tried to conquer it once before. and is basically a bit more advanced version of MRE.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_950329d8	type	Dynamic Entry
Aldnoah.Zero / int_950329d8	comment	Happens again in Episode 7, when the Deucalion battleship activates, launches a salvo of missiles at the Hellas, and then bursts out of the mountainside to make its triumphant debut.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_966da803	type	Defiant to the End
Aldnoah.Zero / int_966da803	comment	Defiant to the End: Inaho at the end of episode 12. Despite being badly injured, he still pulls his gun on Slaine. He gets shot in the eye, but just barely manages to survive it. Though Asseylum orders a cessation of hostilities and Slaine orders them to abandon the moonbase in episode 24, several Martians disobey, and continue the fight against the Terrans. It's heavily implied that they all die in the process.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_970c790a	type	Big Bad
Aldnoah.Zero / int_970c790a	comment	As of Episode 15, Count Saazbaum, the seeming Big Bad has been killed.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_973d220f	type	Never My Fault
Aldnoah.Zero / int_973d220f	comment	Never My Fault: Rayet tries to kill Asseylum simply because her father died when he was betrayed by the Martians, yet Asseylum despite being a Martian as well has been trusted and taken in by the Terrans. For some reason she thinks the entire war is Asseylum's fault, despite her father being greedy and wanting to start the war in return for power and riches.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_97df21d3	type	Tripod Terror
Aldnoah.Zero / int_97df21d3	comment	Tripod Terror: The Deucalion Kataphrakt was three-legged, though it also had an anti-gravity engine that allowed it to float, thus making it a hybrid of the literary and 1953 movie version of the archetypal Martian war machine.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_97e17ec4	type	I Will Fight Some More Forever
Aldnoah.Zero / int_97e17ec4	comment	I Will Fight Some More Forever: The UE forces fighting the first wave of Martians quickly see their weapons have no effect, but keep fighting anyway. This seems to be the default strategy of the UE Kataphrakts. Obviously, it never works out well for them.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_97fa0a10	type	Mass "Oh, Crap!"
Aldnoah.Zero / int_97fa0a10	comment	Mass "Oh, Crap!": The whole crew of the Deucalion in Episode 19, after the Martians completely change their tactical doctrine in an unprecedented move, deploy multiple Kataphrakts and Landing Castles to win a single battle.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_98ce3773	type	Cerebus Rollercoaster
Aldnoah.Zero / int_98ce3773	comment	Cerebus Rollercoaster/Mood Whiplash: Episodes typically follow a pattern of happy —> bleak —> really awesome before ending in bleak, in that order.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_99db72ee	type	Immune to Bullets
Aldnoah.Zero / int_99db72ee	comment	The attack of the Orbital Knights in episode 2. After wiping out several cities by dropping their enormous "castle" spacecraft onto them, they destroy all undersea cables and satellites to block communication and deploy powerful EMP jammers... none of which really matter, because all of their vehicles and mechas are Immune to Bullets and can casually massacre Earth's armies without taking a scratch. But this ties into the VERS being smart. The VERS Kataphrakts all have distinct weaknesses that take careful study to notice. They can also be overwhelmed by tactics and vastly superior numbers, as demonstrated by Inaho and the timely arrival of the escort ship and its own mechs. Thus, removing the Earth's ability to coordinate greatly reduces the chances of exactly that happening.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_9a03fce0	type	The Day the Music Lied
Aldnoah.Zero / int_9a03fce0	comment	The Day the Music Lied: The orbital drop sequence in Episode 11. Everything's going according to Inaho's plan, the Earth Kataphrakts are kicking ass, 'BRE@TH//LESS' is blaring in the background... and then Saazbaum lands on the Deucalion's deck, the music stops, and everything goes to hell. Given additional impact by the fact that the Deucalion and its crew had had a successful Theme Music Power-Up just minutes before, when they blasted free of Earth Command's ICBM silo to the tune of 'Keep on keeping on'.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_9aaf8eca	type	Crippling Overspecialization
Aldnoah.Zero / int_9aaf8eca	comment	The Hellas Kataphrakt uses its six mounted arms for this. Also an example of Crippling Overspecialization due to the fact that that's its only attack, though it has an alternate mode that can be used if all six arms are destroyed.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_9b34ee31	type	Marriage of Convenience
Aldnoah.Zero / int_9b34ee31	comment	Marriage of Convenience: Done at the start of the second season, with Slaine Troyard personally arranging a marriage to Princess Asseylum Vers Allusia except it was Lemrina Vers Envers masquerading as her. At the end of the show, Princess Asseylum announces that she would take Count Klanclain Cruhteo as her husband in marriage in order to secure a lasting peace between the Earth and the Vers Empire.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_9b66f7f5	type	Suspiciously Small Army
Aldnoah.Zero / int_9b66f7f5	comment	Suspiciously Small Army: The first season is surprisingly light on Mooks. The Orbital Knights begin with the sensible tactics of Colony Drop of their Landing Castles that causes massive devastation in a wide radius, unload a Macross Missile Massacre at vital communication facilities... then deploy in their personal Kataphrakts with little to no backup. While the Castles look like they house an army each, we barely see any mass-produced Martian forces until Episode 11. While the viewers United Earth HQ is invaded in Episode 11 by the Dioscuria Kataphrakt, two of its Attack Drones, and two Sky Carriers carrying at most, 100 troops in total. UE HQ is a massive Underground City that can house thousands of people... it may have been beneficial to bring a bigger army. However, the small number of troops may have been because the explicit goal of the mission was not to conquer HQ, but to find and assassinate Asseylum, necessitating a lightly armed and highly mobile force.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_9bcd82c0	type	Took a Level in Badass
Aldnoah.Zero / int_9bcd82c0	comment	Took a Level in Badass: Thanks to Inaho's combat data recorded via his cybernetic eye, both Mustang and Clydesdale platoon become much more effective in combat against the remaining Martian forces in episode 24.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_9c8701b5	type	A Day in the Limelight
Aldnoah.Zero / int_9c8701b5	comment	A Day in the Limelight: Marito gets one in episode 16, when he attempts at Delaying Action against a Martian Kataphrakt. Since Inaho isn't there to help, he has to do what he can with Yuki and his other men to keep the Martian from entering a nearby city and killing civilians. In the end, they get assistance from the Deucallion in orbit with a missile drop on the enemy Kataphrakt.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
Aldnoah.Zero / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: The Kataphrakt training class in episode 1 sees Inko primarily training on the heavy anti-materiel sniper rifle. In episode 3, she's on the same rifle to snipe out the bridge under the Nilokeras's feet. In episode 11, Inaho requests to be on the first squad that attacks Castle Saazbaum because in his words, "I'm probably the pilot who has the most experience fighting Martian Kataphrakts." This experience turns out to be essential in the next episode, because the Dioscuria has all the attributes of the previous Kataphrakts Inaho has fought. "Let justice be done, though the heavens fall" is attributed to Seneca's story about Piso's Justice. Inaho, Asseylum, and Saazbaum's (supposed) deaths in the finale directly reflect the three deaths of the story - Asseylum's verdict had already been passed, Saazbaum failed to execute her, and Inaho was responsible for the deaths of both. Though it's based on Piso's justice, it's not a complete rehash. Slaine was responsible for the supposed deaths of all three. The Season 2 opening starts with a montage of various scenes depicting Asseylum, including the scene in which she is shot. The exact same montage is used in episode 20 to show the amnesiac princess recovering her memories. Everything in the montage is used except the very first scene.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_9ddf598a	type	Mundane Object Amazement
Aldnoah.Zero / int_9ddf598a	comment	Mundane Object Amazement: While he is having dinner in Episode 9, Saazbaum muses that the simple meal he is eating of chicken, gravy, and some light vegetable garnishments would be an incredible luxury on Mars. The majority of the Martian populace must make do with eating food made out of algae and krill. Even in Saazbaum's case, the only reason he is eating meat and vegetables is because it was part of an aid shipment sent to the Landing Castles from Earth in the aftermath of Heaven's Fall, and he is even resentful that people from Earth have no idea how good they have it in terms of food and water. Even moreso when Slaine points out that the chicken is freeze-dried and specially packaged to survive a spaceflight, making it even more mundane than normal chicken meat. In Episode 18, Mazurek is impressed with the compass from the survival pack Rayet gave him. A compass would never function on Mars due to its weak magnetic field.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_9dfd7154	type	Fridge Logic
Aldnoah.Zero / int_9dfd7154	comment	The Martian Stygis fighters are shown in the last episode to be capable of launching at least 8 missiles simultaneously, which have such good tracking abilities that they can chase UFE Kataphrakts through the debris of the Satellite Belt. Makes you wonder why they stuck to their machineguns in every previous confrontation.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_9f970427	type	Secret-Keeper
Aldnoah.Zero / int_9f970427	comment	Secret-Keeper: Inaho is asked to keep Princess Asseylum being alive a secret, due to being unable to determine how the other people around them may act considering the war that's going on right now, along with there being a VERS spy somewhere amongst the Terrans. Rayet says that if push comes to shove, she's going to spill the beans on it. This becomes moot in episode 8, after Asseylum reveals herself to the main characters.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_a0543350	type	Earth Is a Battlefield
Aldnoah.Zero / int_a0543350	comment	Earth Is a Battlefield: At the end of the first episode, the Orbital Knights of the VERS Empire have made planetfall on at least Tokyo, Beijing, Maputo, and New Orleans. Episode 9 reveals in total there were 26 Castles that landed on every continent. While some of the landing spots are perfectly logical, some are... not. Moscow one can understand, but Dushanbe?note For the record, Dushanbe is a capital of Tajikistan, a dirt poor Central Asian nation that was widely considered a proverbial asshole of the world even in the times of the Soviet Union and, unfortunately, seems to slip deeper and deeper into the Dung Ages with every coming year. Tucked into a very unaccessible dead end in the Pamir and Hindu Kush mountains, it's only claim to fame is that it might be the birthplace of Alexander the Great's wife Roxana (though Afghanistan's claim is often seen as an equally valid), and its only viable export nowadays seems to be an unskilled labor for the Russian market. It doesn't even control any major trade routes (except the one for the Afghan opium), so it's hard to imagine a reason for the Martian castle to land there. Addis Ababa?note Ethiopia isn't a paragon of relevance either. By the time the second half of the show begins, Vers has conquered◊ Australia, the Indian subcontinent, a huge chunk of China and Southeast Asia, South America, and 90% of North America save for a few areas of Canada that are still resisting. The major contested regions at the moment are in Europe and Africa.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_a2022cc9	type	Killed Mid-Sentence
Aldnoah.Zero / int_a2022cc9	comment	Killed Mid-Sentence: In episode 11, while doing an orbital drop, Inko prays that none of the attacks from the Martian landing castle hit her. One of the soldiers dropping alongside her tells her she shouldn't be so scared, as bullets are more likely to hit a jittery target than a calm one. He tells her to relax, and the attacks should simply go around them. Then he gets hit by one of said attacks and blows up while he's in the middle of talking. There was also that poor martian soldier who saved Slaine. They were in heated discussion of the (lack of) difference between terrans and martians on the battlefield, and then he got shot by a sniper and died. Asseylum gets shot twice as she's recovering Inaho from his destroyed mech.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_a247c4bf	type	A Mech by Any Other Name
Aldnoah.Zero / int_a247c4bf	comment	A Mech by Any Other Name: The mecha used are called "Kataphrakts."
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_a30a7977	type	Highly-Conspicuous Uniform
Aldnoah.Zero / int_a30a7977	comment	Subverted and arguably inverted with Inaho's Sleipnir-class Kataphrakts. Its Highly Conspicuous Paintjob of bright orange makes it stand out enormously from the regular Red Shirts in their military green/gunmetal machines, and the Martians clearly ASSUME that it's some sort of elite custom machine. In truth, however, it's just an obsolete trainer, one of many handed over to schools for use in live-fire exercises - it's entirely down to Inaho's intellect and ability that it repeatedly goes toe-to-toe with the martian Super Robot level Kataphrakts. Even when he's given the option to upgrade to a newer model, he refuses, stating that the main advantage it has over the older model is better armor (which wouldn't have helped against any of the overpowered Martian weapons they've encountered), and while the additional weight from that is compensated for by a superior powerplant, it has pretty much the same performance as the Sleipnir, so he might as well stick to what he's familiar with.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_a3d85e14	type	Genius Thriller
Aldnoah.Zero / int_a3d85e14	comment	Genius Thriller: Inaho fights Martians mostly by outsmarting them, despite him having a vastly technologically inferior mech.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_a4c37cbe	type	Mood Whiplash
Aldnoah.Zero / int_a4c37cbe	comment	Mood Whiplash: Though people are killed regularly throughout the show, episode 12's Cliffhanger fate for many of the major characters who lost their Plot Armor through all the fighting definitely changes the tone quite a bit. Made moot by the second season, which THEN reveal that all of the named characters — Asseylum and Saazbaum included — survive, though not everyone in one piece.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_a536f3a3	type	Gender-Blender Name
Aldnoah.Zero / int_a536f3a3	comment	Subtitles spell Sebring, Raffia, Orga, and Cronkine, but the Japanese website calls these characters Zebrin, Rafia, Olga, and Klancain. In "Olga's" case, the subbers may have gone with Orga since "Olga" is a female Slavic name.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_a590182a	type	Disintegrator Ray
Aldnoah.Zero / int_a590182a	comment	Disintegrator Shield: The Nilokeras Kataphrakt makes good use of a weaponized shield that instantly atomizes anything it touches, except for the ground it stands on. Luckily, Inaho is smart enough to realize that a perfect shield equals being deaf, dumb and blind, and quickly exploits the weakness.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_a6cafd32	type	Once-Green Mars
Aldnoah.Zero / int_a6cafd32	comment	Once-Green Mars: Saazbaum's history lecture to Slaine in Episode 10 comes complete with a pseudo-PowerPoint presentation that illustrates the once green and watery surface of Mars 30,000 years ago, when the aliens who created the Aldnoah technology were still around.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_a796d2a6	type	Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy
Aldnoah.Zero / int_a796d2a6	comment	Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy: In Episode 6 a bunch of guys shooting at Slaine can't hit him. Even though he's on a (very slowly) ascending cable into a sky carrier going up in a straight line. In Episode 11 a huge mass of Martian Anti-Air mobile gun platforms only succeed in destroying one Redshirt from the Deucalion's Kataphrakt platoon during the HALO jump. In this case, it's much more believable as the actual Kataphrakts are mixed in with dozens of decoys that release flares and chaff when hit, and they are also falling using heavy cloud cover in the middle of a raging snowstorm. It's actually a minor miracle the AA fire was even able to hit a single target. Second season reveals that Slaine failed to kill Inaho despite shooting him in the eye from point-blank range. Episode 22 is loaded with this trope.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_a7ba94de	type	Inferiority Superiority Complex
Aldnoah.Zero / int_a7ba94de	comment	Inferiority Superiority Complex: According to Saazbum, this is what the Vers hatred for Earth amounts to. Despite being technologically superior, and styling themselves as greater than the Terrans in that regard, they are still consigned to living off of scavenged technology on a desolate world, forced to stare at Earth, with its wealth of history and resources, which they'll never have.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_a82ff02f	type	Meet Cute
Aldnoah.Zero / int_a82ff02f	comment	Meet Cute: Princess Asseylum and Slaine Troyard first met when the latter's escape pod crashed into her bath.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_a8559a9f	type	RealLife
Aldnoah.Zero / int_a8559a9f	comment	F-22 Raptors are deployed over Japan and New Orleans to engage the Vers forces invading Earth. In the 2014 of Real Life, the Raptor is one of the most advanced warplanes that currently exists. In this 2014, they are easily defeated by the enemy Kataphrakts.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_a86069f	type	Alternate History
Aldnoah.Zero / int_a86069f	comment	Alternate History: Earth history progresses normally until December 1972, when the Apollo 17 expedition discovers an ancient moon-to-Mars hyperspace gate on the moon.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_a8896b94	type	Leave No Witnesses
Aldnoah.Zero / int_a8896b94	comment	Leave No Witnesses: The Martians murder the sleeper agents they used to carry out the princess's assassination attempt. One gets away and winds up with Inaho and co.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_a950584d	type	Combining Mecha
Aldnoah.Zero / int_a950584d	comment	The Dioscuria is (fittingly) named after the Dioscuria (or Land of the Dioscuri) albedo feature. It is also named after the twins Castor and Pollux, both referred to Dioscuri.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_aa596c58	type	The War of Earthly Aggression
Aldnoah.Zero / int_aa596c58	comment	The War of Earthly Aggression: When the Martian settlers discovered Lost Technology that put them ahead of Earth, they declared independence and founded a pseudo-religion based around the technology that deemed Earthlings as savages who didn't have the gods' favor. They then started a war that destroyed the moon. It's many of the higher ups in the Martian government who also conspire to murder the princess for an excuse to start a war.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_ab5eea65	type	Dramatic Irony
Aldnoah.Zero / int_ab5eea65	comment	Dramatic Irony: In episode 4, Eddelrittuo asks Inaho to keep the news of Asseylum's survival a secret because there is a Martian spy somewhere who would want to see her dead. They have no idea that Rayet, who is standing two feet away, is the very spy in question, nor that she's not planning to kill the princess anyway.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_abd29ad8	type	No-Sell
Aldnoah.Zero / int_abd29ad8	comment	No-Sell: Nothing Earth's forces uses on the Orbital Knights affects the latter. Trillram even ends up "playing" with them, casually swatting away their arms before destroying them.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_ac2094ca	type	Red Shirt
Aldnoah.Zero / int_ac2094ca	comment	Inaho delivers one in episode 13. After finding out the new Kataphrakt's attacks, he manages to get close enough to destroy it, whereas a Red Shirt squad was wiped out moments before when they tried to fight him.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_ac9f78d9	type	Jack of All Stats
Aldnoah.Zero / int_ac9f78d9	comment	The Tharsis, piloted by Slaine, is aversion. It has no easily-exploited weakness as a general combat unit with no special abilities other than Combat Clairvoyance. But as demonstrated during the duel with the Herschel, this ability can be overwhelmed when facing too many opponents at once. Inaho finds another weakness, namely that Slaine has to be able see the threat in order for it to be effective, meaning that he can be caught up in the rocket anchor cables after dodging the initial projectile.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
Aldnoah.Zero / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: Trillram's expression when he sees that Princess Asseylum is still alive, since it could potentially unravel their entire false flag plot.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_ad9fbc1e	type	Pyrrhic Victory
Aldnoah.Zero / int_ad9fbc1e	comment	Pyrrhic Victory: The Battle of Novostal'sk ended in this for Earth. Even though Castle Saazbaum was successfully deactivated and United Earth Headquarters held the line, the Deucalion is out of commission, its crew is in seriously bad shape, and the United Earth military took horrendous casualties. That said, the Martians aren't in much better shape, and are unable to conduct any further large scale assaults. So both sides are forced into a stalemate as they lick their wounds, reorganize and build their forces back up.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_adfd3165	type	For the Evulz
Aldnoah.Zero / int_adfd3165	comment	Trillram invokes this in episode 2. Due to his shield's ability to vaporize anything that touches it, whether it's bullets or a bridge, he casually swats at some of the mechs. One mech gets its arms vaporized before he destroys it, almost as if he was just toying with them.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_ae6adc36	type	Religious and Mythological Theme Naming
Aldnoah.Zero / int_ae6adc36	comment	Religious and Mythological Theme Naming / Location Theme Naming: The Kataphrakts used by the United Forces of Earth are named after mythological horses, while the Martian Kataphrakts are named after various locations on Mars, which also means that some have names based in mythology, so it works both ways: The KG-6 Sleipnir is named after the six-legged horse of Norse Mythology while the KG-7 Areion, the mainstay Kataphrakt used by the UFE, is named after the immortal breed of horse in Greek mythology. The Sleipnir Kataphrakt becomes a very appropriate Kataphrakt for Inaho after he loses his eye during the Season 1 final. He’s later compared to Odin. The Argyre is named after either the Argyre Planitia, a plain located within the impact basin Argyre in the southern highlands of Mars, or the Argyre Quadrangle, a group of gullies. Both of which are named after a mythical island in Greek Mythology, it's the island of silver (which explains the Kataphrakt's coloration). The Deucalion is named after the Deucalionis Regio (Latin for Region of Deucalion) albedo feature. It is also named Deucalion, the son of Prometheus from Greek Mythology. This becomes a Meaningful Name when it’s rebuilt into the warship Deucalion by the UFE. In Greek Mythology, the Deucalion survived a deluge unleashed by Zeus by hiding in a chest. The Dioscuria is (fittingly) named after the Dioscuria (or Land of the Dioscuri) albedo feature. It is also named after the twins Castor and Pollux, both referred to Dioscuri. The Electris's name is a pun due to its electrical ability, sharing its name with the Electris region on Mars. Doubles as a Meaningful Name. It's name is an exception to the Religious and Mythological Theme Naming. Geryon is named after the Geryon Montes, a mountain range on Mars. Geryon was also a giant of Greek mythology that possessed either 3 heads or 3 bodies, that was killed by Heracles in order to obtain his cattle as one of the Twelve Labors. The Hellas is named after Hellas Planitia, a plain located within the huge, roughly circular impact basin Hellas located in the southern hemisphere of Mars. It also shares its name with a city in Phthiotis, founded by Hellen, the progenitor of the Hellenes, or Greeks. Nilokeras means "Horn of the Nile" in Greek. The Nilokeras is named after Nilokeras Scopulus, a long escarpment in the northern hemisphere of Mars. It is located along the southeastern boundary of the Tempe Terra plateau. The Solis is named after Solis Lacus, a dark feature on Mars, commonly referred as "The Eye of Mars" because with the surrounding light area called Thaumasia it resembles the pupil of one. Since solis is Spanish for sun, it’s an exception to the Religious and Mythological Theme Naming. The Tharsis is named after a vast volcanic plateau centered near the equator in the western hemisphere of Mars. The name Tharsis is the Greco-Latin transliteration of the biblical Tarshish, the land at the western extremity of the known world. Elysium is named after a volcanic province located in the western hemisphere of Mars. Elysium is also known in Greek Mythology as a form of afterlife, where gods, heroes and the worthy went after death. Herschel is named after a crater on Mars discovered by father and son astronomers, William Herschel and John Herschel. As Herschel is a given name and/or surname of German and Jewish origin, it is also an exception to the Religious and Mythological Theme Naming. The Octantis is named after the Octantis Mons, a mountain on Mars. Since Octantis is derived from Octans, this is yet another exception to the Religious and Mythological Theme Naming. The Ortygia is named after the Ortygia albedo feature. It is also the name of a small island of the city of Syracus, Sicily. In Greek mythology it is the birthplace of the twins Artemis and Apollo of the Greek Pantheon. Scandia is named after Scandia Tholi, a mountain on Mars (a classical albedo feature) in the Scandia region. The name and method of attack may also be a reference to the name given to multiple uncharted islands in the Mediterranean during the early days of Greek exploration, which were home to a number of ferocious hunter-gatherer tribes. The Sirenum is named after named after the Sirenum Fossae, a trough in the Memnonia quadrangle of Mars. The name and ability of Sirenum is also a reference to the Sirenum Scopuli, a trio of islands home to the Sirens in Greek Mythology, where they lured sailors to crash against the rocks.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_b0a91b69	type	Convection, Schmonvection
Aldnoah.Zero / int_b0a91b69	comment	Convection, Schmonvection: Averted with the Argyre Kataphrakt: the heat that is emanating from its plasma blades is so hot it superheats the air around it and causes a Leidenfrost effect that detonates explosive rounds and melts ammunition tips. Later when Inaho immobilizes the Argyre's arms with his Sleipnir Kataphrakt, the heat from the blades is increased to the point it begins to melt the Sleipnir's armor without actually contacting it. Argyre is eventually defeated when Inaho causes it to fall into the ocean. The temperature from the plasma blades causes the water around it to instantly evaporate into steam, and the resulting pressure wave destroys the Argyre.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_b3eecaae	type	Colony Drop
Aldnoah.Zero / int_b3eecaae	comment	Colony Drop: The Heaven's Fall incident destroyed half of the moon when the alien Hypergate exploded. Unlike Endor, the resulting asteroids caused much devastation on Earth; about half of the United States, much of Brazil, eastern Australia, and large parts of Africa have vanished beneath the ocean. The show itself hasn't elaborated on how much of an Apocalypse How it was in terms of lives lost, but this chart◊ covering the populations of the U.S. and Japan pre- and post-Heaven's Fall indicates it was really bad: the American population plummeted from 240 million to 130 million, while the Japanese population dropped from 140 million to 60 million. A more literal example happens at the end of episode 1 with the Orbital Knights' castles crashing into Earth at predetermined locations. New Orleans is shown in particular as people stuck in a traffic jam on a bridge watch as one lands near them, before being vaporized by the force/heat of the impact created by said castle. Saazbaum destroys Inaho's home city with a meteor bombardment in order to hide the evidence of the Princess' assassination. Fortunately, the city was already evacuated beforehand.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_b6844837	type	Evil Is Bigger
Aldnoah.Zero / int_b6844837	comment	Evil Is Bigger: The Vers Kataphrakts are much bigger than their Earth counterparts. The smallest Vers Kataphrakt seen so far is the Argyre, and even that still stands 3 meters taller than the Areions.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_b7c53a22	type	Blood Knight
Aldnoah.Zero / int_b7c53a22	comment	Blood Knight: Several of the VERS knights revel in taking out UE forces.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_b8dbe475	type	Blood from the Mouth
Aldnoah.Zero / int_b8dbe475	comment	Blood from the Mouth: Slaine coughs some up after taking a hit from Inaho in episode 24.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_b8e3f20a	type	Demoted to Extra
Aldnoah.Zero / int_b8e3f20a	comment	Demoted to Extra: Not a character, but as of Episode 13 onwards, Martian Sky Carriers barely appear. This is in stark contrast to the first 12 episodes when the invasion made heavy use of them. Generally speaking, the crew of the Deucalion (with the exception of Inaho) takes a bit of a back seat after Season 1, with their appointed screentime being assigned to Slaine and his companions (who, until then, acted mostly in the background).
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_b9d334b2	type	Aerith and Bob
Aldnoah.Zero / int_b9d334b2	comment	Aerith and Bob: The characters from VERS have unusual names as compared to characters from Earth. They consider themselves to be a completely separate culture, despite only having left Earth thirty-odd years ago. As it stands, though, there are even some Earth characters who have some pretty weird names. "Calm Craftman" is one such example.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_b9f472b	type	Storming the Castle
Aldnoah.Zero / int_b9f472b	comment	Storming the Castle: During the Battle of Novostal'sk, the Deucalion launches a HALO drop of its Kataphrakt platoons to invade Saazbaum's Landing Castle, making this trope literal. Later, the rest of the United Earth military from HQ reinforces the Deucalion's forces and joins the invasion of Castle Saazbaum.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_bb094e0a	type	Cool Ship
Aldnoah.Zero / int_bb094e0a	comment	Inaho and Calm are having trouble fighting the Argyre Kataphrakt... then the Watdatsumi shows up in the harbor and provides suppression fire from its deck cannon and the squad of Areions in its hangar.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_bb18e3c9	type	Detonation Moon
Aldnoah.Zero / int_bb18e3c9	comment	Detonation Moon: The Moon was shattered in the fighting between the Terrans and the VERS empire fifteen years prior to the start of the series. Earth has the "Satellite Belt" in orbit and half a moon now.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_bc00493f	type	Precision F-Strike
Aldnoah.Zero / int_bc00493f	comment	Precision F-Strike:
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_bcd27e37	type	Improbable Aiming Skills
Aldnoah.Zero / int_bcd27e37	comment	Improbable Aiming Skills: To cut Slaine loose (announced as a debt repaid to Slaine's father), Saazbaum just turns around, points the handgun and severs the chain of Slaine's handcuffs with a single shot from a few feet distance. Slaine's cuffed hands were not even raised, just hanging in front of him. And nobody got hurt in the process.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_bf609406	type	New Meat
Aldnoah.Zero / int_bf609406	comment	New Meat: Lt. Marito says in Episode 6 that for almost everybody on both sides of the conflict, this is their first real experience in war. To date, Marito and Saazbaum are the only people we've seen who have actual combat experience from the previous conflict.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_bf9163d9	type	Blonde, Brunette, Redhead
Aldnoah.Zero / int_bf9163d9	comment	Blonde, Brunette, Redhead: The female trio of the Deucalion: Rayet (red), Inko (black) and Nina (light brown).
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_c0d598fe	type	Evil Gloating
Aldnoah.Zero / int_c0d598fe	comment	Evil Gloating: A common trait shared by many Orbital Knights.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_c25c7890	type	Fun with Acronyms
Aldnoah.Zero / int_c25c7890	comment	Fun with Acronyms: The OS used in the series is named Accuracy System Image Module for Optimum Velocity, referencing the famous professor and science-fiction writer.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_c267c2b4	type	Cataclysm Backstory
Aldnoah.Zero / int_c267c2b4	comment	Cataclysm Backstory: The Moon's destruction caused immense damage across the globe. This map provides context on just how much of the Earth's total landmass was lost.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_c2d978fe	type	Car Fu
Aldnoah.Zero / int_c2d978fe	comment	Car Fu: Well, it was a spaceship, but Femieanne's Kataphrakt gets run over by it in episode 7. She somehow survives the impact, though a follow-up shot in her weak spot destroys her suit. Used again with the same spaceship to breach Saazbaum's landing castle after he disables their engines. Slaine uses his Kataphrakt to tackle Saazbaum and Inaho before they can kill each other.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_c3585f4a	type	Boom, Headshot!
Aldnoah.Zero / int_c3585f4a	comment	Boom, Headshot!: Lampshaded by Count Saazbaum when he taps his skull after Slaine shot him up with his pistol until it jammed, failing to kill him instantly, after the Count himself just offed Asseylum in the same fashion. Slaine executes Inaho a minute later by this method. The second season upholds his Butt-Monkey status in that he fails to do so, barely wounding Inaho, who returns featuring a nifty new cybernetic eye. Slaine himself lampshades it in the very last episode. As Inaho holds him at gunpoint, Slaine taps his forehead as if to say "Shoot me here". Inaho refuses.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_c36cba70	type	Mooks
Aldnoah.Zero / int_c36cba70	comment	Mooks: The second half introduces these in the form of Martian mass-produced fighters for space battles.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_c3c18143	type	Hope Spot
Aldnoah.Zero / int_c3c18143	comment	Hope Spot: A rather long one is played out in episode 11 as the Deucalion launches an assault against the enemy landing castle. Heroic music plays as Inaho and the others make a successful landing on the castle and knock out the anti-air weaponry on the castle to ensure safe passage for Asseylum. Then Saazbaum shows up near the Deucalion, and launches an attack on it. The ship gets severely damaged, and they attempt to ram it into the enemy castle. After Slaine rams Saazbaum and Inaho through a wall into the Aldnoah control room, he is visibly relieved to see Asseylum alive and tending to a badly injured Inaho. And then Saazbaum shoots her in the back.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_c5237d05	type	Slow Laser
Aldnoah.Zero / int_c5237d05	comment	Slow Laser: Some of the Vers mechs use these as their primary weapons, such as the Herschel.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_c558da6a	type	Gunship Rescue
Aldnoah.Zero / int_c558da6a	comment	Gunship Rescue: Inaho and Calm are having trouble fighting the Argyre Kataphrakt... then the Watdatsumi shows up in the harbor and provides suppression fire from its deck cannon and the squad of Areions in its hangar. Happens again in Episode 7, when the Deucalion battleship activates, launches a salvo of missiles at the Hellas, and then bursts out of the mountainside to make its triumphant debut. The Deucalion does this for Inaho, Marito, and the others still stuck in the ruins of the city when they get surrounded by three Martian Kataphrakts. Though the ship doesn't escape without taking some damage, at least the ground troops are safe for the moment.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_c5594984	type	Tokyo Is the Center of the Universe
Aldnoah.Zero / int_c5594984	comment	Tokyo Is the Center of the Universe: The Vers princess's shuttle drops her off at Tokyo and is where her goodwill visit begins, also becoming the site of her assassination. Consequently, it's one of 4 locations targeted for invasion by the Vers Empire. Though, as noted by Calm in the first episode, Japan was one of the nations on Earth that managed to recover pretty well from Heaven's Fall, which may be why the princess's tour began there.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_c84e56a2	type	Sean Connery Is About to Shoot You
Aldnoah.Zero / int_c84e56a2	comment	Sean Connery Is About to Shoot You: The final frame of the opening is the Princess pointing the gun at the camera. In the 2nd season, Lemrina and Asseylum are about to shoot you.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_c8b2d0b0	type	Hot Blade
Aldnoah.Zero / int_c8b2d0b0	comment	The Argyre is named after either the Argyre Planitia, a plain located within the impact basin Argyre in the southern highlands of Mars, or the Argyre Quadrangle, a group of gullies. Both of which are named after a mythical island in Greek Mythology, it's the island of silver (which explains the Kataphrakt's coloration).
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_c96e8bb5	type	Rocket Punch
Aldnoah.Zero / int_c96e8bb5	comment	Rocket Punch: The Hellas Kataphrakt uses its six mounted arms for this. Also an example of Crippling Overspecialization due to the fact that that's its only attack, though it has an alternate mode that can be used if all six arms are destroyed. Saazbaum's unit is capable of such an attack as well, and like the Hellas, Inaho exploits its weaknesses to counter Saazbaum when he attacks with this.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_c9c756a8	type	Child Soldiers
Aldnoah.Zero / int_c9c756a8	comment	Child Soldiers: While many of the named cast are teenagers, they are an aberration, not the norm in the story. Episode 14 makes clear that Earth, at least, does have serious issues with children taking to the battlefield. While Mars seemingly has no problems killing children as part of their war doctrine (kill everyone, and when nobody is left to object, claim the territory as your own), they are not shown deliberately sending their children to the front lines. Rayet was part of a sleeper cell, and not intended for the front lines. Eddelrittuo was present only as Asseylum's bodyguard, and Slaine, originally a Terran, was originally refused permission to go to the front lines. The main cast, the crew of the Deucalion, are special commandos and are on the front lines only because they have consistently proven their competence and tenacity. Every other soldier in the series is an adult. The main group does, however, talk about tactics and shooting classes on the ride to school in the first episode, and are later seen drilling with the school's Kataphrakts, so it may just be a policy of universal conscription, to be called up when the situation is bad enough.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_c9e16d77	type	Veteran Instructor
Aldnoah.Zero / int_c9e16d77	comment	Veteran Instructor: Marito is a veteran of the war against Vers from 15 years ago, and one of the first things we see him doing is instructing high school students who are training to pilot Kataphrakts.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_cb060751	type	War Refugees
Aldnoah.Zero / int_cb060751	comment	War Refugees: The majority of Season 1 is Inaho and his friends trying to safeguard and evacuate a substantial group of refugees to United Earth Headquarters in Novostal'sk, Russia, the Martian princess being among them.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_cccb4fd1	type	Death by Pragmatism
Aldnoah.Zero / int_cccb4fd1	comment	Death by Pragmatism: The army sergeant driving the evacuation APC in Episode 2 decides to abandon the civilians and make a break for it while the Nilokeras is fighting Yuki Kaizuka's Kataphrakt. A piece of debris that goes flying from the fight kills him as soon as he gets out of the vehicle.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_ccf46587	type	Redshirt Army
Aldnoah.Zero / int_ccf46587	comment	Red Shirt Army: The Terran forces are ridiculously outmatched by the VERS mecha, which can dispose of several Terran mechas with little to no trouble. Made pretty evident in episode 12, when some surviving Terran mecha attempt to help Inaho against Saazbaum's transformed mecha. He promptly disposes of them with little trouble. If Inaho isn't on the battlefield, they will almost certainly be on the receiving end of a Curb-Stomp Battle.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_cd83fa5b	type	Spoiler Opening
Aldnoah.Zero / int_cd83fa5b	comment	Spoiler Opening: Averted with Season 2. Its intro isn't shown until Episode 2, because otherwise it would spoil the fates of Inaho, Asseylum and Saazbaum.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_cdaa029f	type	Nuclear Weapons Taboo
Aldnoah.Zero / int_cdaa029f	comment	Nuclear Weapons Taboo: Despite the fact nukes seem to be the only weapon which could match Aldnoah, the UE forces never use them, and its never explained why. In fact, they're only even mentioned once to comment that the UE HQ could withstand them.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_ce1c73e2	type	Just Plane Wrong
Aldnoah.Zero / int_ce1c73e2	comment	Just Plane Wrong: F-22s, which are supposed to be air superiority fighters, are sent to attack the Landing Castle in New Orleans. But later in the same episode another squadron of F-22s engage the aerial transport moving the Nilokeras Kataphrakt in the skies above Japan. The scene shows them correctly launching missiles out of an internal bay and using a single Vulcan cannon mounted on the right side.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_d028e0da	type	An Arm and a Leg
Aldnoah.Zero / int_d028e0da	comment	An Arm and a Leg: Trillram invokes this in episode 2. Due to his shield's ability to vaporize anything that touches it, whether it's bullets or a bridge, he casually swats at some of the mechs. One mech gets its arms vaporized before he destroys it, almost as if he was just toying with them. Inaho's mecha loses its right arm in episode 21 after a shot from one of the Martian knights hits it. Despite that, it's not enough to stop him, or his ordering of Earth's forces. In the final episode, Yuki and Harklight's mechs both lose an arm during the final battle.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_d397657d	type	Hoist by His Own Petard
Aldnoah.Zero / int_d397657d	comment	He also uses a case of Hoist by His Own Petard against Vlad's Kataphrakt in episode 5. Inaho simply grabs him, then has the ship they're on tilt immediately to cause them to fall into the ocean. Inaho ejects from his mech, whereas Vlad is stuck in his while also being held by Inaho's mech, and is killed in a steam explosion when his plasma blades superheat the water around them.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_d39e327f	type	What the Hell, Hero?
Aldnoah.Zero / int_d39e327f	comment	What the Hell, Hero?: Inverted/villainous example used in episode 21, after Lemrina learns about Slaine's plans to conquer Earth and have Asseylum rule over it. Except that Lemrina turns out to be Asseylum in disguise, who was told about Slaine's plans by the real Lemrina. Asseylum is quite upset that Slaine turned away from any peaceful resolutions to the war.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_d52d28b6	type	Hypocrite
Aldnoah.Zero / int_d52d28b6	comment	Hypocrite: The Vers Empire accuse Terrans of destroying the Earth with their pollution and over-development. They also accuse Terrans of jealously keeping all the food and water for themselves. So the Empire save the Earth, by attacking the planet and they ending up causing monumental damage to the environment. As Slaine and Saazbaum surmise, all the food and water extracted from the Earth will probably go to the knights and nobility, leaving the hungry Martian masses with nothing.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_d558b013	type	Un-person
Aldnoah.Zero / int_d558b013	comment	Unperson: Slaine's father, Dr. Troyard. You'll hear him mentioned by a few characters, but good luck finding out his first name or what he even looks like.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_d839c530	type	The Unfettered
Aldnoah.Zero / int_d839c530	comment	The Unfettered: Inaho, full stop. He is extremely indifferent and ruthless, but also eerily rational and devoid of hate. He does have emotions, but usually fails to express them in any meaningful way, focusing on his own goals instead. On one hand, this makes him a complete tactical genius using analysis, constantly designing awe-inspiring plans that destroy advanced, seemingly-magical weaponry with sticks and stones. On the other hand, this causes him to utterly fail at enemy negotiations, which really ruins a lot of potential chances to end the war.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_d8f8da2b	type	Island Base
Aldnoah.Zero / int_d8f8da2b	comment	Island Base: There's a small supply base on Tanegashima where Magbaredge was hoping to be able to restock and recover before continuing on to Russia. The place has been abandoned since 1999, as it was the first place on Earth where the Heaven's Fall meteors hit. The base turns out to be much bigger than expected; completely unknown to anyone in the rank-and-file military, there is an entire underground level housing both a captured Martian Kataphrakt from 1999 and an enormous flying battleship built by Earth based off of its technology.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_d99a228f	type	Unusually Uninteresting Sight
Aldnoah.Zero / int_d99a228f	comment	In Episode 1, Inaho makes scrambled eggs when his sister wanted a rolled omelette. At the end of the episode, he is reading a supermarket flyer during the Martian princess' arrival parade and notices that eggs are on sale. One episode later, during the evacuation of the city after the Martian attack, he's making a rolled omelette.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_d9cc408b	type	Gravity Master
Aldnoah.Zero / int_d9cc408b	comment	The Deucalion is named after the Deucalionis Regio (Latin for Region of Deucalion) albedo feature. It is also named Deucalion, the son of Prometheus from Greek Mythology. This becomes a Meaningful Name when it’s rebuilt into the warship Deucalion by the UFE. In Greek Mythology, the Deucalion survived a deluge unleashed by Zeus by hiding in a chest.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_d9cf40fa	type	Screw This, I'm Outta Here
Aldnoah.Zero / int_d9cf40fa	comment	Screw This, I'm Outta Here: In Episode 2, two Kataphrakts are fighting right in front of an APC carrying Inaho and the other refugees. The driver cowardly abandon the vehicle and the refugees to their fate. He is killed by a falling debris for his trouble.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_d9e9ad7e	type	The Cavalry
Aldnoah.Zero / int_d9e9ad7e	comment	The Cavalry: Subverted in episode 2 when some of Earth's forces attempt to attack Trillram in order to distract him so they could rescue Rayet. Unfortunately he makes quick work of them, as nothing they throw at him penetrates his shields, and soon pursues Rayet again. Subverted again in episode 12: some Areions that survived the Martian attack on United Earth HQ unexpectedly show up to back up Inaho against the Dioscuria, but they are destroyed within seconds.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_da12bcfb	type	You Can't Go Home Again
Aldnoah.Zero / int_da12bcfb	comment	You Can't Go Home Again: Shinawara is destroyed by meteor bombardment after Inaho and his friends evacuate.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_daef39ee	type	Elaborate Underground Base
Aldnoah.Zero / int_daef39ee	comment	Elaborate Underground Base: United Earth Headquarters is actually part of a massive bunker complex 600 meters below ground and built to withstand a nuclear strike. There are very large living spaces with enough supplies to last three years... though, as Yuki somberly notes, they have so much food because so many refugees didn't make it.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_dcb9c541	type	Ship Tease
Aldnoah.Zero / int_dcb9c541	comment	Ship Tease: Asseylum and Inaho have feelings for each other.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_dda34434	type	Japanese Beetle Brothers
Aldnoah.Zero / int_dda34434	comment	Japanese Beetle Brothers: The Nilokeras Kataphrakt seems to be based on a rhinoceros beetle. The Octantis appears to be the based on the corresponding beetle.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_de70f5a4	type	Continuity Cameo
Aldnoah.Zero / int_de70f5a4	comment	Continuity Cameo: In the final episode of the show, the Terran twins◊ from the Twin Gemini manga show up standing next to the Deucalion's crew (the young boy and girl on the left).
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_df41acb	type	Casual Danger Dialogue
Aldnoah.Zero / int_df41acb	comment	Casual Danger Dialogue: Inaho seems strangely calm when he tells his friends they should run away from the parade area when he sees a missile flying by. Magbaredge makes a habit of offering "advice" to improve Mizusaki's dating life (or lack thereof) in the middle of combat. As this usually lampshades the tactical situation of the moment, this could be her way of avoiding the undercutting of Mizusaki's authority. It's also been going on for some time before they appear in the show, as Mizusaki's replies are immediate and in-context.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_e016e53f	type	Throwing Off the Disability
Aldnoah.Zero / int_e016e53f	comment	Throwing Off the Disability: Played with in Episode 23. At the crescendo of her broadcast speech, Asseylum appears to do this, stepping out of her wheelchair as she triumphantly declares her accession to the throne of Vers. However, she was never actually disabled to begin with, nor had she been Obfuscating Disability; her sister Lemrina, who had been impersonating her during her coma, actually is disabled, so she'd had to pretend that the events of Episode 12 had left her paraplegic. Then in Episode 24, Lemrina herself steps right out of her wheelchair to protest as a dejected Slaine tells the Orbital Knights to surrender. Justified, as it is shown that the hangar they're in is a gravity-free zone and thus Lemrina would not have to use any leg strength to remain standing.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_e099f0de	type	I Will Only Slow You Down
Aldnoah.Zero / int_e099f0de	comment	I Will Only Slow You Down: Lemrina pulls this in Episode 22, as she, Asseylum and Eddelrittuo flee the Terran soldiers attacking the moon base.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_e19e68	type	Cruel Mercy
Aldnoah.Zero / int_e19e68	comment	Cruel Mercy: A variation in the final episode, in which Slaine, despite his crimes and his wish to die, is left alive and imprisoned instead. Not only is he denied his death wish, forcing him to live with his guilt, but he's no longer able to see his beloved Asseylum. The sad part about all this is Asseylum herself was the reason Inaho resorted to this.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_e34541d	type	One World Order
Aldnoah.Zero / int_e34541d	comment	One World Order: The series timeline indicates that the United Nations formed into the United Earth Federation in 1986 as a response to the Holy Vers Empire declaring Martian independence in 1985, with its headquarters in Russia. Judging from the map shown in Ep. 9, it is somewhere to the southeast of Novosibirsk, in the rural southern spur of Krasnoyarsk Krai. If the subnational borders are unchanged from Real Life (which seems to be so), then it should be in the village of Karatuzskoe in the vicinity of Abakan and Minusinsk, with the closest major city being Krasnoyarsk some five-to-six hours drive to the northwest. The place the HQ is located in is called Novostal'sk (a fictional name meaning something like "New Steelia").
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_e431c24c	type	Not Quite Dead
Aldnoah.Zero / int_e431c24c	comment	Not Quite Dead: Everyone who was apparently killed in the first season finale is revealed to be still alive in the first episode of the second season, including Princess Asseylum. Slaine finds out firsthand in episode 14 that Inaho isn't quite dead when he spots the orange Kataphrakt destroying the Martian attack force.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_e5448c9	type	Pimped-Out Dress
Aldnoah.Zero / int_e5448c9	comment	Pimped-Out Dress: The Princess' royal gown, very much so.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_e596f27b	type	Star-Crossed Lovers
Aldnoah.Zero / int_e596f27b	comment	Star-Crossed Lovers: Inaho and Asseylum after they're separated at the end of Season One and Season Two she has to marry to end the war.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_e624f0e8	type	Suspiciously Specific Denial
Aldnoah.Zero / int_e624f0e8	comment	Suspiciously Specific Denial: When Mazuurek confronts Eddelrittuo in Castle Troyard about Princess Asseylum, Eddelrittuo accidentally lets slip she knows more about Earth than she should have.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_e62dfb96	type	No Endor Holocaust
Aldnoah.Zero / int_e62dfb96	comment	The Heaven's Fall incident destroyed half of the moon when the alien Hypergate exploded. Unlike Endor, the resulting asteroids caused much devastation on Earth; about half of the United States, much of Brazil, eastern Australia, and large parts of Africa have vanished beneath the ocean. The show itself hasn't elaborated on how much of an Apocalypse How it was in terms of lives lost, but this chart◊ covering the populations of the U.S. and Japan pre- and post-Heaven's Fall indicates it was really bad: the American population plummeted from 240 million to 130 million, while the Japanese population dropped from 140 million to 60 million.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_e6f18344	type	Humongous Mecha
Aldnoah.Zero / int_e6f18344	comment	Humongous Mecha: These machines dominate all ground warfare now, with few conventional vehicles in sight.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_e7099879	type	Mecha Expansion Pack
Aldnoah.Zero / int_e7099879	comment	Mecha Expansion Pack: The Deucalion's Kataphrakt platoon is outfitted with missile pods and additional rocket boosters when they do their sub-orbital drop onto Castle Saazbaum. Now standard issue for all UE Kataphrakts as the battles move into space. Mounted on the shoulders, the pack now comprises thrusters and Attack on Titan-style wire pivot systems, giving the Kataphrakts the overall appearance of classic Mecha Wings.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_e7c671f3	type	Mildly Military
Aldnoah.Zero / int_e7c671f3	comment	Mildly Military: 2nd Lt. Marito is apparently allowed to drink alcohol while supervising trainees. Discussed in-universe. Marito has seemingly gotten in trouble for drinking on the job before, but due to the shortage of capable instructors, it's overlooked for the time being. In Episode 13, Nina arrives on the bridge not in uniform, with the reason being that her issued uniform wasn't cute enough. Capt. Magbaredge lets this slide thanks to a Martian Kataphrakt bearing down on them at the moment.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_e7ecdeb0	type	Weight Woe
Aldnoah.Zero / int_e7ecdeb0	comment	Weight Woe: In episode 17, Inko, Nina, and even Kaoru are shocked that Rayet has never been on a diet. They ask her how she keeps her slim figure, but she never gets around to telling them after finding out Inaho is interrogating the Martian knight they captured from the previous episode.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_e851b5	type	The Plan
Aldnoah.Zero / int_e851b5	comment	The Plan: Several are used by both sides: Some of the more radical VERS knights use Asseylum's assassination on Earth as an excuse to resume the war against the Terrans. Though they're very successful initially, once Inaho starts taking part in the war, the war begins to gradually shift in favor of the Terrans instead. Earth attempts to use Asseylum to send a message to the VERS Empire that she was alive and well, and to cease hostilities immediately. Unfortunately the Martians who received the message are loyal to Count Saazbaum, who is still intent on conquering Earth, so her message goes unheeded. The VERS Empire later uses Asseylum, or rather Princess Lemrina disguised as Asseylum to urge her citizens to continue support for the war on Earth. Inaho quickly deduces that this Asseylum is an imposter. Slaine attempts to have three VERS knights attack in the same area simultaneously, something they would had never done before due to their pride. But after Earth's constant victories at defeating them, they swallow their pride and attempt to help each other. Unfortunately for them, Inaho is smart, and once he learns about their individual weaknesses, the Terrans successfully manage to defeat their combined forces. Earth launches an assault on both the moon and Slaine's landing castle in episode 22. The objective is to have the Deucalion assault the landing castle to divert troops away from the moon, so a second assault on it can be more successful. However, Magbaredge is suspicious about this plan, and secretly has Inaho go to the moon. There they find that Earth's true objective for this assault was to slip in a spec-ops platoon in to find and assassinate Asseylum. Slaine also suspects this, and attempts to have the princesses moved to a more secure location, but unfortunately they run into the spec ops troops more than once while attempting to flee.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_e8bb3043	type	Kill It with Water
Aldnoah.Zero / int_e8bb3043	comment	Kill It with Water: Inaho uses water on more than one occasion as a critical part of taking out an enemy Kataphrakt: In Episode 2, some well placed sniper fire forces Trillram's Kataphrakt off a bridge and into the bay, where the rush of water against his Dimensional Barrier flows into the one gap in its coverage, allowing Inaho to focus his attack there. In Episode 5, Inaho grapples with Vlad's Kataphrakt, then jams his Sleipnir into acceleration and ejects. The acceleration sends both machines tumbling into the sea, where Vlad's super-hot plasma swords contact the cold sea water and instantly trigger a flash steam explosion that rips his Kataphrakt apart.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_e9604359	type	Monster of the Week
Aldnoah.Zero / int_e9604359	comment	Monster of the Week: Every one of the Versian Knights' Kataphrakts is highly customized with it's own appearance, weapons and gimmicks. Inaho's battles against them are not unlike facing Robeasts from a Super Robot show.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_eb5cbe42	type	Me's a Crowd
Aldnoah.Zero / int_eb5cbe42	comment	The ability of the Ortygia Kataphrakt, unbelievable as it may seem, has at least a thin basis in reality. Of course, the quantum cloning it was doing is orders of magnitude more complex than "mere" quantum teleportation.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_eb81c601	type	Big Damn Heroes
Aldnoah.Zero / int_eb81c601	comment	Big Damn Heroes: Done several times throughout the show, usually by Inaho, though other characters get a moment to shine as well. In episode 22, Klancain saves Asseylum and Eddelrittuo from a Terran special ops soldier attempting to assassinate her.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_ec0ce986	type	Spotting the Thread
Aldnoah.Zero / int_ec0ce986	comment	Spotting the Thread: In the first episode of season 2, Inaho realizes the "Asseylum" appearing in the Martian propaganda is a fake, because she uses the less scientific explanation for why the sky is blue, instead of the one Inaho taught her (see Brick Joke above).
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_eddfe7e5	type	Underground City
Aldnoah.Zero / int_eddfe7e5	comment	Underground City: United Earth HQ is not only big enough to house thousands of refugees, it's so big that aircrafts can fly around the base at top speed. It's been speculated that it was built in the abandoned open-pit mine, which then has been covered and built up. Open-pit mines can be so big that they have their own climate inside.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_eea93c96	type	Blow You Away
Aldnoah.Zero / int_eea93c96	comment	The Sirenum is named after named after the Sirenum Fossae, a trough in the Memnonia quadrangle of Mars. The name and ability of Sirenum is also a reference to the Sirenum Scopuli, a trio of islands home to the Sirens in Greek Mythology, where they lured sailors to crash against the rocks.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_efdce8d0	type	A Truce While We Gawk
Aldnoah.Zero / int_efdce8d0	comment	A Truce While We Gawk: In episode 23, Slaine orders all of the VERS knights under his command to launch an all out assault on Earth, with some fighting beginning in various battlefronts. Asseylum then appears in front of them, having hijacked Slaine's broadcast, as well as broadcasting to the Terrans as well. The fighting on both sides stops entirely while she's talking.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_f0f03464	type	TheSeventies
Aldnoah.Zero / int_f0f03464	comment	The '70s: The portal on the moon was discovered in 1972. The series proper, however, takes place in an Alternate History version of 2014 stemming from the discoveries on the moon and Mars.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_f10d3363	type	Distracted by the Sexy
Aldnoah.Zero / int_f10d3363	comment	Distracted by the Sexy: Calm in episode 8. He angrily approaches Inaho after finding out the latter knew there were Martians hiding amongst them, and demands to know where they are so he can beat them up. Asseylum then steps up, claims to be one of them, while offering an apology for what her people were doing to Earth and doing what she could to stop it. He blushes, and immediately forgets why he was mad in the first place, and wishes her luck. Inko and Nina immediately call him out on this and tease him about it.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_f1d6144a	type	War Is Hell
Aldnoah.Zero / int_f1d6144a	comment	War Is Hell: The framing trope here.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_f25b1ae6	type	Unskilled, but Strong
Aldnoah.Zero / int_f25b1ae6	comment	Unskilled, but Strong: Pretty much every Martian count. They have incredibly powerful Kataphrakts with seriously broken abilities, but they have pretty much no actual battle experience, and as soon as someone can get around their advantages, they simply can't put up a fight.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_f37bf401	comment	Hover Tank: Count Sebring's Electris Kataphrakt, in contrast to all the others, moves at high speed floating a few feet above the ground because it does not have legs while dishing out lightning strikes.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_f3be7f62	comment	Char Clone: Slaine Troyard. No mask, but he does become The Rival to Inaho later in the series (in addition to having blond hair), as well as having traits similar to those of Harry Ord. By the second season, he's already in the process of becoming like MSG Char, and by the end he's a full on CCA Char.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_f3cbaf48	comment	Misapplied Phlebotinum: The technology afforded by Aldnoah can do incredible, often physics breaking things, up to an including reversing entropy and full-blown quantum replication. But the primary usage of the technology is in warfare. And not very sensible applications at that...
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_f4aeb714	comment	Human Aliens: The Vers Empire sees itself as this. For the royal family, this is true in a genetic sense: the Aldnoah technology literally altered the genes of the Emperor and subsequently his descendants so they could activate it.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_f4fd424c	type	All Your Base Are Belong to Us
Aldnoah.Zero / int_f4fd424c	comment	All Your Base Are Belong to Us: Saazbaum launches an assault on the Earth HQ in Russia during episode 11. They manage to do severe damage to it, though the Deucalion escapes with Asseylum. Unfortunately he shows up a few moments later and attacks the ship directly. Then turned around in the next episode, when the Earth Forces rally and invade Castle Saazbaum, forcing the attacking Martians to withdraw from UE HQ and race to shore up defenses back on home turf.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_f516f938	comment	Never Found the Body: Princess Asseylum, in Episode 12. A narration states that her body has yet to be found. A bright dot can be seen leaving Saazbaum's castle, presumably Slaine using Cruhteo's kataphrakt to escape from the area with her body. The second half of the show reveals Slaine did take her and she was in an ICU for nearly two years.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_f56aeb67	comment	Alien Invasion: In a variant of the trope, it's human colonists invading Earth using plundered alien technology.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_f8cddfb2	type	Laser Blade
Aldnoah.Zero / int_f8cddfb2	comment	In Episode 5, Inaho grapples with Vlad's Kataphrakt, then jams his Sleipnir into acceleration and ejects. The acceleration sends both machines tumbling into the sea, where Vlad's super-hot plasma swords contact the cold sea water and instantly trigger a flash steam explosion that rips his Kataphrakt apart.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_faf5732b	type	I Call It "Vera"
Aldnoah.Zero / int_faf5732b	comment	I Call It "Vera": In a weird crossover with Meet My Good Friends Lefty and Righty, one of the VERS pilots has names for each of her mech's rocket-propelled fists (all six of them), and gets rather emotional when any of them are damaged or destroyed.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_fb9afaab	comment	Herschel is named after a crater on Mars discovered by father and son astronomers, William Herschel and John Herschel. As Herschel is a given name and/or surname of German and Jewish origin, it is also an exception to the Religious and Mythological Theme Naming.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_fd94c4ac	type	Theme Naming
Aldnoah.Zero / int_fd94c4ac	comment	Theme Naming: The United Earth Kataphrakts (which itself is the name of a type of armored cavalry) are named after mythological horses, such as the KG-6 Sleipnir and the KG-7 Areion. UE Kataphrakt platoons are named after horse breeds like the Appaloosa and the Friesian. Meanwhile, the Vers Empire names its Kataphrakts after geographical features on Mars, such as the Nilokeras and the Argyre.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_fdeed2aa	type	Old-School Dogfight
Aldnoah.Zero / int_fdeed2aa	comment	Old-School Dogfight: Several justified examples. The aerial skirmish in Episode 2 begins as an aversion, as the F-22s launch their missiles from beyond visual range. But the Martian sky carrier has to close in to extreme close range to engage the F-22s because its only weapons are howitzer cannons, which are not meant for aerial combat. In season 2, the space battles have to take place at close range because they all occur within the Satellite Belt where Earth and Mars have made their space bases, and the messed-up gravity makes long distance shots very difficult.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_fe0330fb	type	Brick Joke
Aldnoah.Zero / int_fe0330fb	comment	In the first episode, Asseylum asks Slaine why the sky is blue, and he tells her it is because of light refracting off of the atmosphere. She repeats this in Episode 6, but Inaho does one better, explaining HOW refraction works, by informing the princess that the sky is blue because of Rayleigh scattering.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_fe10cf42	type	Alien Space Bats
Aldnoah.Zero / int_fe10cf42	comment	Alien Space Bats: The whole premise of the story is how alien technology discovered on the Moon and Mars changed human history. When it comes to the Sliding Scale of Alternate History Plausibility, it's still pretty down there.* While the USSR and the USA ending the Cold War in 1975 might be vaguely plausible thanks to détente, a United Earth government forming in 1986 solely in response to a Martian declaration of independence... not so much. Or that the space programs that existed in 1980 could have possibly ferried 340,000 people to the Moon in less than a year.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_fea715c1	type	Feudal Future
Aldnoah.Zero / int_fea715c1	comment	Feudal Future: The Vers Empire has styled itself like this, complete with a royal family, knights & knighthood ceremonies, and aristocrats holding much of the power.
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Aldnoah.Zero / int_ffad4e9f	type	Shown Their Work
Aldnoah.Zero / int_ffad4e9f	comment	Shown Their Work: The geography of New Orleans in the first episode is spot on: in fact, this◊ is most likely the reference image the animators used to create the scene. Viewers who are familiar with New Orleans can actually identify that the Landing Castle hits directly in the French Quarter. And in a bit of real-world irony, one of the buildings that survives the Castle's impact is the Plaza Tower, which is something the New Orleans municipal government has wanted to get rid of since 2002. Before it can do a meteor bombardment over the city, one Landing Castle has to do orbital corrections. The Count aboard it correctly notes that it will take a few hours, giving Trillram time to hunt down the Terrans. Inaho name-drops the Leidenfrost effect when he sees the Argyre Kataphrakt blocking his shots, a valid chemical phenomenon that would allow a Laser Blade to deflect bullets. The Wadatsumi is referred to as an "amphibious assault carrier", which is correct. It is certainly not an aircraft carrier as the flattop is too short to launch conventional take off and landing fixed-wing aircraft (STOVL birds like the Harrier and F-35B are a different matter), and actual aircraft carriers would not be equipped with on-board cannons. Its main purpose would be to launch landing craft carrying Kataphrakts to storm beachheads. It's even correctly shown with the well decks for the landing craft. In the first episode, Asseylum asks Slaine why the sky is blue, and he tells her it is because of light refracting off of the atmosphere. She repeats this in Episode 6, but Inaho does one better, explaining HOW refraction works, by informing the princess that the sky is blue because of Rayleigh scattering. While Slaine is evading Femieanne's fists in his sky carrier, the extreme maneuvers he pulls cause him to briefly experience G-LOC. In the flashback where Slaine is depicted crashing onto Mars, he ends up coughing up a fair amount of unknown, water-like liquid. It is likely this is an example of Liquid breathing, something theorized to allow both extended space travel and greater shock absorption upon reentry. In Episode 9, Saazbaum notes that the majority of the people on Mars subsist on chlorella and krill. In the aftermath of World War II, chlorella, a type of algae, was seriously considered as a food source that could be produced in mass quantities cheaply. Krill was also seriously considered as food to feed the British populace during World War II. Considering the lack of resources on Mars, algae and krill likely would have to form the foundation of an average Martian's diet. The CPR sequence in episode 10 is performed exactly as in real life: Inaho first checks the pulse and breathing, then attempts to defibrilate Asseylum (with the exact voltage of 200, even!) and finally, when all the options run out, he starts the ABC procedure: 15 pushes against the sternum to compress the heart, 2 mouth-to-mouth respirations. Inaho even takes the exact precise stance, just aside of the patient on his knees. In Episode 12, Slaine's gun jams while he is shooting Saazbaum in a grief-filled rage. The jam is termed a stovepipe as evidenced by the fact that the shell casing is sticking out of the ejection port, and it was caused due to him having an improper grip on the pistol while firing. He clears the stovepipe by pulling the slide all the way back and dumps the casing out. In Episode 13, the Frozen Elysium is not freezing everything around it. Its Aldnoah Drive is creating a reverse entropy effect. The Meissner effect is also referenced to explain why the reverse entropy field causes bullets to not hit it: there is a magnetic field that is locking the now-superconductive bullets into a predetermined trajectory that leads away from the Kataphrakt, which is why an enemy unit must close to point blank range to avoid the Meissner effect. The space battles that have been showcased in the show's second half do demonstrate a decent understanding of physics in space. The United Earth Kataphrakts mainly use their boosters for maneuvering and rely on inertia for movement, while the Martians can freely use thrusters thanks to Aldnoah Drives. The Martian convoy in Episode 14 utilizes a slingshot maneuver to travel around the Earth and realistically use spacecraft with massive circular shields to survive flying through the atmosphere. Episode 16 shows that the debris from the space battles needs to be cleaned up afterwards. In Episode 18, it really can't be overstated just how much work was put into the New Orleans battle: the coordinates that Inaho gives for the location of the Solis Kataphrakt (29.951103, -90.085579), do indeed correspond to the actual I-90 interstate bridge in New Orleans. The coordinates are slightly off from where the Kat is, but it's still quite close. Even so, a reason for the inaccurate coordinates may be because Japan uses a different geodetic data standard, so the coordinates may be accurate according to Japanese maps. This image◊ from the show's official website tells us exactly where the combatants were: The Solis is in the middle of the Crescent City Connection bridge, Inaho is somewhere between W. Judge Perez Dr. and St. Claude Ave., Marito and his forces are on the southern shore near the Timberlane and Woodmere districts, and the Deucalion is directly east, likely in Lake Borgne. Also, the battle against the Solis showcases one reason why lasers are Awesome, but Impractical weapons in real life for ground warfare: they only shoot in straight lines, and can't account for the Earth's curvature when firing at long range. In the same episode, when Mazurek is wandering around in the Arabian desert, he's somewhat fascinated by the compass he has, noting that it would only work on a planet with a magnetic field. Mars has a magnetic field, but it is far weaker than Earth's, and a compass would definitely not work there. Episode 21 has several: Inaho's plan to destroy the Electris Kataphrakt relies on very advanced knowledge of how electricity works. He launches his attack from the air to avoid the effects of grounding, and tags himself with his suit's grapple onto the Electris so that he can maintain the same electric potential so that its attacks won't affect his Sleipnir. Finally, when he touches down on solid land, we can see his suit grounding itself. The ability of the Ortygia Kataphrakt, unbelievable as it may seem, has at least a thin basis in reality. Of course, the quantum cloning it was doing is orders of magnitude more complex than "mere" quantum teleportation. Asseylum's grip on the pistol she points at Slaine is the proper grip that trained shooters use◊ (spoilers in image link). For those who don't understand, this short clip from a firearms hobbyist explains why holding a semi-auto in the right way is very important if you want to avoid Fingore.
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