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Battle of the Planets
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The first American version of Science Ninja Team Gatchaman. Heavily Macekred by the infamous Sandy Frank Productions. You know, the guy who dubbed the Gamera movies, Fugitive Alien, and Time of the Apes (and produced the 1984-85 Jim Lange-hosted version of the $100,000 Name That Tune). Hoyt Curtin, Hanna-Barbera's regular composer, wrote the score.Battle of the Planets was one of the few anime that meets Alex Ross's approval, and some illustrations that he did for the series led to both him doing the cover illustrations of ADV Films release of Gatchaman and to a short-lived Revival comic series published by Top Cow Productions from 2003-2004, which tried to combine elements from both the original and the adaptation into a whole. Gold Key Comics released BOTP comics during the series' original run.A Continuity Reboot was in development under Tatsunoko, Nelvana and d-rights titled Battle of the Planets: Phoenix Ninjas, but was scrapped.Not to be confused with War Planets. | |
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All There in the Manual | |
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All There in the Manual: Many minor characters' names and some other details were only given in the scripts. This site attempts to compile all this extra information. | |
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Mythology Gag | |
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Mythology Gag: A baby whale in one episode is named "Nambu", after the original Gatchaman name for Chief Anderson. A baseball player in another episode was named "Joe Galactor", referencing the original names for Jason and the Spectra organization. In the Top Cow comics continuity, Princess' unseen friend Jill was finally given a face- that of the OVA design for Jun. As Jun owned the snack bar in the original Gatchaman series (while Princess only worked at one part-time) and was the reason behind the bar being the "Snack J", it's a further nod to the original. | |
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Verbal Tic: A side effect of Lip Lock. Poor Keyop. | |
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The Complainer Is Always Wrong | |
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The Complainer Is Always Wrong: A good chunk of 7-Zark-7's dialogue was centered around what a "hothead" Jason was. | |
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Vocal Evolution | |
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Vocal Evolution: Janet Waldo voiced Princess in a higher tone in the earlier episodes, while ones produced later in the run have her using a lower voice for the character. | |
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Compilation Movie | |
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Compilation Movie: In 2002, Sandy Frank recut five episodesnote "Attack of the Space Terrapin", "Big Robot Gold Grab", "The Ghost Ship of Planet Mir", and both parts of "Invasion of Space Center" and merged them together as a 68-minute feature film, titled "Battle of the Planets: The Movie" as a test to see how a compilation film would work. The intergalactic references added to a few of the original scripts were excised, and scenes showing death and destruction had been spliced back in. Although the episodic footage was not redubbed otherwise, the Zark segments were, removing Alan Young's vocals in favor of a modern actor, David Bret Egen. | |
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Mecha-Mooks | |
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Mecha-Mooks: Retconned in through Bowdlerization. | |
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Pressure-Sensitive Interface | |
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Pressure-Sensitive Interface: In one episode, the guy pounds the firing button with his fist, full strength. The missile practically explodes its way out of the launcher. | |
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The Snark Knight | |
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The Snark Knight: Jason. No-one is spared. | |
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Intercontinuity Crossover: The 2000s Top Cow comic adaptation had several crossover miniseries with other franchises: There were two distinct crossover one-shots with WildStorm's ThunderCats comics, one from each publisher. The Top Cow installment was vaguely in canon with the main comic, and had a Toy Ship Ship Tease moment between Keyop and Wilykit. Wildstorm's crossover was in more of a "banging toys together" spirit, and memorably had Panthro (and Snarf) "disguising" themselves by dressing like Chief Anderson — with fancy pimp hats to complete the look. A crossover with Witchblade was also published by Top Cow. | |
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Pragmatic Adaptation | |
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Pragmatic Adaptation: It is very rare, but occasionally the adapters changed a detail to improve story logic. The first episode is an example; whereas in the original Gatchaman script, the lead hero has to argue why their ship should go into their risky Fiery Phoenix mode to escape a certain death trapped in the villain's mecha, the BotP version has the team having no objections of doing the obvious. Some of Jun's moments of panicking were cut, allowing the rechristened Princess to come off as a stronger character. Dialogue changes also made the character snarkier and ready to quip, although this at times created conflict that wasn't there in the original script.note One episode changed a neutral dialogue exchange between Jun and Joe to Jason giving Princess a Stay in the Kitchen type remark and Princess snapping back at him. Another episode had Princess sarcastically apologize to Mark, who criticized her for not paying attention. | |
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Foreign Re-Score | |
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Foreign Rescore: Partially. Hoyt Curtin's new music didn't completely supplant Bob Sakuma's Gatchaman music. | |
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Ironic Nickname | |
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Ironic Nickname: The Big Guy is named Tiny. | |
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Techno Babble | |
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Techno Babble: "Cerebonic powers," based on super-science implants in their brains: the name seemingly derived from "cerebrum". Which means the good guys apparently stuck experimental technology in the heads of orphans. There is a fan fic that follows this train of thought to its logical conclusion. As in Real Life, there are no easy answers. | |
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Comic-Book Adaptation | |
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Comic-Book Adaptation: One by Gold Key in the 70's (which portrayed Keyop as an android, for some reason), and one by Top Cow in the early 2000's. | |
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Sdrawkcab Name | |
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As a clue to her connection to Zoltar, Mala uses the assumed surname "Latroz" in her first appearance. | |
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Large Ham | |
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Large Ham: The Lemony Narrator of the opening sequence. | |
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Super Mode | |
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Super Mode: The "Fiery Phoenix" form of the Phoenix, G-Force's ship. A last resort transformation for extreme emergencies, the ship transforms into a virtually invulnerable living flame form. | |
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Bait-and-Switch Tyrant | |
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Bait-and-Switch Tyrant: A significant Canon Foreigner in the Top Cow adaptation was Andreas Tomak, a General Ripper type who existed to conflict with Chief Anderson and G-Force, and drew the ire of many readers as a result. Several issues in, he revealed that he was actually an undercover representative for a faction of friendly aliens who wanted to support G-Force, and was being deliberately antagonistic to avoid suspicion. | |
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No Communities Were Harmed | |
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No Communities Were Harmed: In "The Fiery Lava Giant", a monument on an asteroid very similar to Mount Rushmore is the center of an episode. | |
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Designer Babies | |
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Designer Babies: Keyop is said to have been specifically engineered for the G-Force team by being cloned from a "single embryonic cell". note Although in the Gold Key comics adaptation of the series (which had other continuity issues when compared to the cartoon), he was made into an android to explain his odd speech. | |
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Anachronic Order | |
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Anachronic Order: The episodes were sent to Sandy Frank out of order, leading them to wind up produced in a much different order than what was used for Gatchaman (and what Frank had initially intended for production of this version). Although the episodes are arranged in the Gatchaman order on DVD, the completed episodes wound up intended to be broadcasted and viewed in a completely different way. Watching them in the original Gatchaman order can create some confusion for new viewers, such as some episodes referring to events that have yet to happen, or 1-Rover-1 mysteriously coming and going. The suggested broadcast order by Sandy Frank fixes a few plotholes, yet also creates some of its own. | |
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Mr. Exposition | |
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Mr. Exposition: 7-Zark-7, a Robot Buddy who only exists to provide exposition and comic relief. | |
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Tuckerization | |
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Tuckerization: Sandy Frank named the unseen female robot "Susan", after one of his secretaries at the company. | |
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Stay in the Kitchen | |
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Some of Jun's moments of panicking were cut, allowing the rechristened Princess to come off as a stronger character. Dialogue changes also made the character snarkier and ready to quip, although this at times created conflict that wasn't there in the original script.note One episode changed a neutral dialogue exchange between Jun and Joe to Jason giving Princess a Stay in the Kitchen type remark and Princess snapping back at him. Another episode had Princess sarcastically apologize to Mark, who criticized her for not paying attention. | |
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She's a Man in Japan | |
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She's Intersex In Japan: Zoltar, whose female half was dubbed as his "twin sister" Mala. Although in the original, Berg Katse and the female commander (while hinted to have some strong connection) were not revealed as the same entity until the end of the series, which this version hadn't gotten to. It is unknown how they would have attempted to explain it away, although one of the episodes that were adapted did feature Mark attempting to unmask Zoltar, and long blond hair briefly being shown. Tiny then jokes that Zoltar could be a woman, but nothing more is said on it. A later episode (88) that originally followed up on that scene in Gatchaman was entirely rewritten for this version as "Tentacles from Space". Instead of the Science Ninja Team tracking down a possible connection between Katse and the mysterious female commander, the G-Force team is tasked with tracking down a Spectra agent named "Hannah" who Zark tells us was captured and tried for her crimes by the end of the episode (the commander in the original, however, managed to get away as usual). It's important to note, however, that this episode and episodes 32 and 33 of Gatchaman (adapted as "Curse of the Cuttlefish") were actually sent and translated before "The Galaxy Girls" and "Rage of the Robotoids", which identified the blonde woman as Mala. In said Cuttlefish two-parter, she was referred to as "Agent S-9", and had no apparent familial connection to Zoltar. As a clue to her connection to Zoltar, Mala uses the assumed surname "Latroz" in her first appearance. An official action figure release for Zoltar◊, however, confirms that he and his "sister" Mala are in fact the same character, just like in the Japanese version, presumably with the ability to switch between genders too. | |
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Heartbroken Badass | |
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Heartbroken Badass: Jason is this trope. | |
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Rebel Relaxation | |
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Rebel Relaxation: Jason can usually be seen holding up the wall of Chief Anderson's office during briefings. | |
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By the Power of Grayskull! | |
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By the Power of Grayskull!: "Transmute!" | |
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Subverted Trope | |
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Then surprisingly (for its time, at least) subverted when even Sandy Frank couldn't retcon out the death of Colonel Cronus, Mark's father. The producers did not receive the episodes in the Gatchaman order, which had led to some interesting reinterpretations. We ended up with Mark's father said to be dead halfway through the series, and an entire episode revolved around his killer.note This episode originally took place after Red Impulse's death, but was sent and translated as the 30th episode, leading to this oddity. Then suddenly, Cronus was revealed to be Mark's father, and they did Zark his survival. But yes, they could not get out of admitting that some people died. | |
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Friendly, Playful Dolphin | |
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Friendly, Playful Dolphin: Keyop befriends one. | |
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FanFiction | |
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There is a fan fic that follows this train of thought to its logical conclusion. As in Real Life, there are no easy answers. | |
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Sci-Fi Writers Have No Sense of Scale | |
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Sci-Fi Writers Have No Sense of Scale: According to the intro, G-Force are "protecting Earth's entire galaxy" from "surprise attacks by alien galaxies from beyond space". | |
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Something Else Also Rises | |
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Something Else Also Rises: Zark's antenna tend to stand up whenever he talks with the robot Susan. | |
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Ship Tease | |
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Ship Tease: Mark and Princess. All the freakin' time. | |
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Dub Name Change | |
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Dub Name Change: Pretty much all the characters had their names (and personalities) altered for this version. In the French dub of this adaptation, however, 7-Zark-7's love interest Susan became "5-Cibel-5", for her name to match up better to his. | |
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Dub-Induced Plotline Change | |
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Dub-Induced Plotline Change: Due to an oversight and the gap in production between translating Gatchaman episodes 1 and 2 (the latter was translated as the sixteenth for BOTP), the green Turtle King/Terrapin commander basically became two different men, with completely different voice actors. The anachronic order of translating the scripts lead to other holes in the plot (such as Mark's father's fate being one notable inconsistency) or oddities, such as there being four eerily similar blonde women affiliated with Spectra (Mala, S-9, Hannah, and "Ms. Ostric") that were stated to be different characters. New animation was produced by Gallerie for not only Zark's scenes, but shots where Mark and Princess would visit him, or where the G-Force team would be shown hanging out in their Ready Room. There would also be stock footage of outer space shown, with voice overs describing G-Force's trips to other planets (along with a shot of a planet). | |
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Leader Wannabe | |
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Leader Wannabe: Jason, who is annoyed that Mark is the leader instead of him. | |
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Human Aliens | |
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Human Aliens: The Spectrans are completely humanoid. (This is because, in Gatchaman, they were human.) The Top Cow comic lampshades this and claims Zoltar's boss the Luminous One grew them from human DNA, to replace the extinct original Spectran race. | |
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Never Say "Die" | |
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Never Say "Die": 7-Zark-7's main role was to explain to the audience that nobody died. Then surprisingly (for its time, at least) subverted when even Sandy Frank couldn't retcon out the death of Colonel Cronus, Mark's father. The producers did not receive the episodes in the Gatchaman order, which had led to some interesting reinterpretations. We ended up with Mark's father said to be dead halfway through the series, and an entire episode revolved around his killer.note This episode originally took place after Red Impulse's death, but was sent and translated as the 30th episode, leading to this oddity. Then suddenly, Cronus was revealed to be Mark's father, and they did Zark his survival. But yes, they could not get out of admitting that some people died. Strangely averted in one episode, where the scriptwriters changed a scene of Ken at his father's grave (the scene having taken place after the above) to Mark mourning an otherwise-unmentioned elder brother that had died. | |
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Battle Bolas | |
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Battle Bolas: Keyops's unique weapon. | |
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