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One of the groundbreaking anime series to come out of Japan in the late 1980s and early 1990s, Bubblegum Crisis is a Film Noir/Cyberpunk epic with superhero subtexts (especially Iron Man), heavily influenced by the films Blade Runner, The Terminator, and Streets of Fire.In the early 2030s, the world economy (and some of its politics) is controlled by the megacorporation GENOM, whose primary product is the boomer — humanoid robots that can be manufactured for any purpose from cheap labor to prostitution to heavy combat. Opposing GENOM and its plots are the Knight Sabers — four women in astoundingly advanced powered combat suits, led by Sylia Stingray, the daughter of the scientist who invented boomer technology and who was murdered by GENOM's agents when they stole it.The meaning of the title is obscure. Most commentators believe that it refers to the point in blowing a bubblegum bubble where it has equal chances of exploding all over your face or collapsing limply. The mid-21st-Century society depicted in the show appears to be approaching a similar crisis point. In what is certainly a coincidence, the OVA production roughly corresponds to the peak (and burst) of Japan's Bubble Economy (1988-1991).Originally plotted for 13 hour-long episodes, Bubblegum Crisis was forced by a mixture of budget issues and internal politics between the two studios producing the show to cease production with the 8th episode (which wasn't an ending at all). A 3-hour sequel series, Bubblegum Crash!, is believed to be a compressed version of the plot of the remaining five episodes, but is generally considered to be inferior to the original.In 1990, a prequel series, AD Police Files was released, featuring Cowboy Cop Leon in his early days on the force, five years before the series.R. Talsorian Games published Bubblegum Crisis Mega Tokyo 2033 The Roleplaying Game using their new Fuzion system in 1996. In addition to the game, the books contained a guide to the episodes and with unused sketches and notes on unused ideas.It was "reimagined" in 1998 as the TV series Bubblegum Crisis: Tokyo 2040, but the result bears almost no resemblance to the earlier show. It kept the Broad Strokes of the premise and the hardsuit designs, but broadly changed the character designs and personalities, and went off in a different direction from the original series. This version began with Linna as an Office Lady who moved to Tokyo to join her heroes, the mysterious Knight Sabers.In 1999, a second AD Police series: AD Police: To Serve and Protect, was released. A third OVA focusing on the AD Police, Parasite Dolls, was released in 2003. For a time there was talk of a sequel series, Bubblegum Crisis Tokyo 2041 that ADV Films would have been more involved with in terms of production and story, but it never materialized. This project probably died when ADV went bankrupt and reorganized itself into Section 23 Films.In 2008, the company AIC announced that they'd signed an agreement to let a Singaporean studio begin production of a live-action version of Bubblegum Crisis — which has ballooned into a coproduction between six countries (including Australia and China), planned for release in 2012. Fan reaction seemed to be skeptical (especially with the reported $30 million budget), yet hopeful — especially with the possibility of another anime revival as a tie-in. However, the complete lack of news in over a decade since its announcement suggests the project entered Development Hell, and has probably since been silently cancelled.The most recent installment in the franchise is a one-shot 2012 Light Novel, Bubblegum Crisis: Hard Metal Guardians,note or "Carbide/Super Steel Guardian Angels," which reimagines the story High School AU style.Additionally, AnimEigo ran a very successful Kickstarter to fund a Blu-ray release of the original series. Both the original series and Tokyo 2040 are available on Hulu. | |
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No Celebrities Were Harmed: Dr. McLaren looks suspiciously like Walt Disney, and the new AD Police chief in Crash is clearly based on George H.W. Bush. | |
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Multinational Team: If you count base ethnicity rather than actual citizenship. Specifically, Priss seems to be part-American, Sylia is at least part British or otherwise Western European (unless you consider the Grand Mal comic canon, in which her name is really Stengovich), Linna seems to be straight-up Japanese and Nene has some blatant Russian/Eastern European background, if the name didn't clue you in. See But Not Too Foreign above. In 2040 Priss, Linna and even Leon all appear to be of some mixed ancestry that is difficult to pin down. | |
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Darker and Edgier | |
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Darker and Edgier: In comparison to Classic, this series is quite a bit darker and much more serious in terms of presentation. Rogue Boomers are more like horrifying mutated monsters as opposed to the rampaging robots of the original, while many of the newly interpreted characters have become either meaner or more sullen then they were in the original series. Priss' haircut is even a literal representation of this, as it goes from light brown and rounded in the original OVAs to dark brown and semi-spiky in here. The change in music also helps to show this as while Classic's OST was pretty upbeat and full of pop rock, 2040's soundtrack is much more gloomy and serious, falling more along the lines of heavy metal. | |
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All There in the Manual | |
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Worse, it counts as All There in the Manual, since Hurricane Live was a separate product and not widely distributed outside Japan until AnimEigo's DVD collection was released. | |
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Character Name and the Noun Phrase | |
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The Character Name and the Noun Phrase format used in "Priss and the Replicants" and "Vision and the Revengers" is a shout-out to Streets of Fire's Ellen Aim and the Attackers. | |
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The Cameo | |
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The Cameo: At the beginning of the first episode of the OVA, when Priss is performing the opening song, none other than Umibozu from City Hunter can be seen in the audience. Interestingly, this is the first appearance of Umibozu, or any City Hunter character for that matter, in anime; The anime for City Hunter itself would not air for nearly six weeks after the release of the first Bubblegum Crisis OVA. | |
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The Stoic | |
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The Priss of the OVAs pretty much wore her anger, annoyance and other assorted emotions on her sleeve while her 2040 incarnation is The Stoic - though still prone to shooting her mouth off when angry. | |
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Those Two Guys | |
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Those Two Guys: AD Police Officers Leon McNichol and Daley Wong. Nigel Kirkland and Mackie Stingray have a bit of this in 2040. | |
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Actually a Doombot | |
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Actually a Doombot: GENOM's CEO in the OVA is never found on-screen; it's always an android impersonator. | |
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Chekhov's Gun | |
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Chekhov's Gun: In ep. 2 of the OVA, Linna takes Irene's engagement ring after Boomers kill the young woman, as a memento to remember her friend. This comes into play later, in ep. 7, when Linna gives this ring to Irene's sister, Reika, aka Vision, to convince her not to take up the leadership of the Hou Bang group and pursue further vengeance against GENOM. | |
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Post-Cyberpunk | |
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Interestingly, though, there are at least shades of Post-Cyberpunk throughout all of the various incarnations of the franchise. The Knight Sabers aren't dedicated to "the destruction of GENOM" (with the possible exception of Priss) but rather to the much broader ideal of peace and social justice. Also, even though they're often rather ineffective, the AD Police (as agents of the State) are not villainous at all, and the two major male characters who are AD Policemen are explicitly heroic (and Nene is a data analyst and part-time traffic cop for the ADPD, and she openly loves her job). And, generally speaking, the tone of the original OVA at least is pretty positive - the Sabers can make a positive impact on the world, GENOM can be stopped, etc. | |
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Ascended Fanboy | |
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Ascended Fanboy: The 2040 version of Linna came to Tokyo because she'd become a fan of the Sabers and wanted to join them; because of her encounter with Priss and other lucky breaks, she succeeded. | |
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Dirty Old Man | |
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Dirty Old Man: Dr. McLaren. | |
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Mythology Gag: Linna can be occasionally seen wearing a sweatband on her head just like she (nearly always) did in the original series. | |
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Kill Sat: The first episode centers around a stolen Kill Sat controller, and Kill Sat strikes are important events in later episodes. Everyone has them, even some third-world countries and there are enough of then in the orbit to pull a Code 666 on the whole planet like Snake Plissken did several times over. note In The movie, Snake did fire all EMP-satellites at once and switch off the whole planet. The satellites here could, if fired all at once, annihilate every corner of the planet several times over. Yes, nukes became obsolete. | |
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Motorcycle on the Coast Road | |
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Motorcycle on the Coast Road: How Priss and Sylvie hang out. | |
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Dueling Hackers | |
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Dueling Hackers: In the eighth and final episode of the original series, Nene, the Hackette of the Knight Sabers, is caught in the middle of a "Die Hard" on an X situation at A.D. Police headquarters caused by a disgruntled scientist and the hero hunter boomers he created — one of which physically merges with the ADP's main server and takes control of the building. Once Nene's teammates come to the rescue, Nene has to battle the hacker boomer in order to escort the police chief's daughter to safety, opening locked doors and overriding building defenses all the while. After the other boomers are defeated, Nene has to prevent the hacker boomer from self-destructing the headquarters building. | |
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Adaptational Sexuality | |
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Adaptational Sexuality: In the original OVA, Priss initially had little interest in Leon but showed increasing interest in Episode 6 "Red Eyes." In 2040, by contrast, she's Tsundere for Leon and doesn't appear to reciprocate Linna's affections (though Linna also liked at least one guy during the course of the show) while being infatuated with the soft spoken mechanic Nigel. Conversely, Linna and Nene's subtext (though in 2040 they were usually more like surrogate siblings until the series finale), and Sylia's textual bisexuality, were added in 2040. | |
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Autobots, Rock Out! | |
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Autobots, Rock Out!: Quite a lot of the series carnage is set to rock tunes. Then there are the official videos for those songs. It could even be argued that the entire OVA series is a series of Music Videos with a bit of plot hung around them. | |
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We Help the Helpless | |
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We Help the Helpless: The Knight Sabers usually take paying clients for mercenary and private detective work, but they'll fight Boomers for free if they're major threats to the AD Police and the city. | |
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Gratuitous English | |
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Gratuitous English: Oh good lord, absolutely infamous for this too. Almost none of the English in the show escapes without some kind of error. A lot of neophyte anime fans in The '80s were introduced to the Engrish concept via this show. The very first scene has a sign advertising the band "PRISS AND THE REPRICANTS". A fair bit of it was so bad as to become memetic in the days prior to widespread Internet access, particularly anything that showed up on Nene's computers. SYLIA WANTS YOU is just one example. Password is in the wrong. An accurate solntion. | |
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Memetic Mutation | |
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A fair bit of it was so bad as to become memetic in the days prior to widespread Internet access, particularly anything that showed up on Nene's computers. SYLIA WANTS YOU is just one example. | |
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Japan Takes Over the World | |
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Japan Takes Over the World: There in some ways, given the show's roots, but oddly inverted in a sense: while the world does seem to be largely under the heel of various kinds of zaibatsu, nearly all of the top-level executives in the show are westerners, implying that Western influence took over originally Japanese megacorps and made them their own. | |
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Midseason Upgrade: To the hardsuits in both the original series and 2040. Especially "funny" in the original - they spend all of Nene's Day in the Limelight getting their suit upgrades and clearly preparing for a major confrontation narratively... and then the show ends! | |
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Wolverine Publicity | |
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Wolverine Publicity: Priss hogs a lot of screen time, more so in the OVA than in 2040. | |
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"Die Hard" on an X | |
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"Die Hard" on an X: The 2040 version of Nene gets to go through this along with Da Chief and two random office workers when Galatea reanimates the Boomer wreckage stored at ADP headquarters into a Zombie Robot Apocalypse. | |
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Flipping the Bird | |
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Flipping the Bird: Done by Michaelson to provoke the Boomer Crusher battle robot. | |
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Slow-Motion Pass-By | |
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Slow-Motion Pass-By: Priss recognizes Anri as the driver of a car she just happens to pass by on her motorcycle. | |
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Trojan Ambulance | |
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Trojan Ambulance: In "Double Vision", Reika/Vision impersonates a call girl in order to poison a boomer designer so that she and her allies can kidnap him using a fake ambulance. | |
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Obstructive Code of Conduct | |
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Obstructive Code of Conduct: Downplayed. As revealed in supplemental material, and occasionally referenced in the series, the Knight Sabers have 11 rules: Do not divulge any information concerning this organisation. Do not act upon a personal grudge. Do not act without the mutual consent of all members. Do not secede from this organisation. Members are personally responsible for any damage done to the organisation's equipment unless that damage was unavoidable. Do not divulge any information concerning our clients. Do not gather information on your own. The task of intelligence gathering is to be distributed evenly among all the members. Keep in contact with the other members regularly. The members do not know each other outside of this organization. Do not get involved with a man. The penalty for violating any of the ten regulations listed above is death. This would certainly constitute an Obstructive Code of Conduct if followed strictly - however, almost all of the rules get broken, and rule 11 is never enforced. Ultimately, they seem to be ideals which have been rapidly modified in the face of reality. Rule 1 is a tricky case - while several people know the identities of some or all of the members, nobody actually reveals anything. Similarly, Priss has almost broken rule 2 several times, but the others always end up supporting her grudges. However, Priss has broken rules 3 and 4, and how her personal duel with Largo and his Hyperboomers (which resulted in the destruction of her hardsuit and motorslave) relates to rule 5 is also a scary thought. Linna, on the other hand, breaks rule 10 regularly. To say nothing of the Ship Tease between Priss and Leon, and Nene and Mackie. Everyone except Sylia has broken rule 8. Rule 9 is flagrantly disregarded by all four members. Rules 6 and 7 seem to have been followed, though (regarding 7, in OVA 1, Priss is doing what she's told... until she's chased by Boomers, then she's surviving). | |
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Research, Inc. | |
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Research, Inc.: GENOM does a lot of R&D and hardly any safety tests. | |
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Cowboy Cop | |
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Cowboy Cop: Leon Even worse, his former colleague Jeena Malso/Gina Marceau. | |
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Bubblegum Crisis / int_3e22702 | type |
O.C. Stand-in | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_3e22702 | comment |
O.C. Stand-in: Madigan, the female GENOM executive who appears in the Largo arc. | |
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Bubblegum Crisis / int_3f2dfd16 | type |
Super Hero Origin | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_3f2dfd16 | comment |
Super Hero Origin: Given the above, the OVA is oddly notable for avoiding this; we never actually get around to seeing how the team got together, and the first episode is practically In Medias Res. At best we get some vague hints about Sylia's reasons for wanting to assemble the team in the first place, but how in the world Priss, Linna, Nene and Sylia all fell in together (when it seems highly improbable that they'd all meet by chance) is never even remotely explained. It seems like they were building toward addressing this in the original series (it would've been a logical segue from the team-building of OVA ep8), but, well... Even more interestingly, none of the "direct" sequels to the original OVA bother answering this either, not even Crash! or AD Police. The only part of the franchise that details anything like an origin for the team is 2040. The music video for "Touchdown to Tomorrow" ("Asu E TouchDown") in Hurricane Live shows a few glimpses of it. It makes Nene's recruitment clear enough (hey Playful Hacker, that woman whose files you're in WANTS YOU), but still leaves a lot of questions about the exact circumstances and motivations around Priss' and Linna's recruitment. Worse, it counts as All There in the Manual, since Hurricane Live was a separate product and not widely distributed outside Japan until AnimEigo's DVD collection was released. | |
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Bubblegum Crisis / int_3fca462c | type |
Deus ex Machina | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_3fca462c | comment |
Deus ex Machina: OAV 6 "Red Eyes" has two notable examples — the new Typhoon II Motorslave shows up with Priss's new hardsuit just in the nick of time to save Priss from Largo and his Hyperboomers, and the prototype MSX-01 Motorslave equipped with a surface-to-orbit anti-satellite laser cannon was never previously established. | |
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Bubblegum Crisis / int_405f7e7b | type |
Armed Legs | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_405f7e7b | comment |
Armed Legs: Priss' Powered Armor has contact-triggered explosives on top of both its feet. And rockets on both ankles. Attack sequence; 1). Jump. 2). Kick. 3). Activate rockets for rocket assisted kick. 4). Explosives go off once Mecha Mook receives kick to head. 5). Get dustpan to sweep up remains of mook. | |
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Bubblegum Crisis / int_40cc0c7e | type |
Bittersweet Ending | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_40cc0c7e | comment |
Bittersweet Ending: 2040 ends with the world being saved, but Sylia is a mess while Nene and Linna are stranded on an uninhabited island while Priss is alone in a desert, all three with little to no chance of being rescued or surviving. Even worse is that all three ladies are completely naked because their hardsuits broke down into scrap metal, presumably from re-entering Earth's atmosphere. Whatever happens to them now remains a mystery. | |
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Bubblegum Crisis / int_4143f84f | type |
Leg Focus | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_4143f84f | comment |
Leg Focus: Word of God (in this case, Kenichi Sonoda) says that the stripes on the legs of the hardsuits is specifically meant to invoke this. | |
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Bubblegum Crisis / int_41a5c044 | type |
Plot Leveling | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_41a5c044 | comment |
Plot Leveling: Perhaps it was a mistake to introduce Kill Sats and runaway Nanotechnology in the first episode, since these are the most powerful weapons that could realistically exist in this setting. Further into the franchise, the technology becomes increasingly cartoonish and superhero-like, such as the Boomers used by Dr. Miriam in OAV 8 and Largo in Crash, and the upgraded hardsuits in Crash and 2040. | |
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Bubblegum Crisis / int_420c50b7 | type |
A.I. Is a Crapshoot | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_420c50b7 | comment |
A.I. Is a Crapshoot: The rogue boomers in 2040; it's unclear whether most of the rampaging boomers in the original series were accidents or "field testing" by GENOM. | |
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Bubblegum Crisis / int_420c50b7 | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_42cfbfc6 | type |
2D Visuals, 3D Effects | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_42cfbfc6 | comment |
2D Visuals, 3D Effects: The cityscape sequence that introduces each episode of Bubblegum Crash!. | |
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Bubblegum Crisis / int_42cfbfc6 | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_430e15e1 | type |
Stripperific | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_430e15e1 | comment |
Stripperific: Vision's stage outfit, also the Knight Sabers' spandex thing worn under their power armour. | |
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Bubblegum Crisis / int_430e15e1 | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_43175028 | type |
Compressed Hair | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_43175028 | comment |
Compressed Hair: In the OVA, Priss and Nene are sometimes seen pinning their hair up before putting on their helmets, but not always. | |
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Bubblegum Crisis / int_43175028 | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_43a045de | type |
Dropped a Bridge on Him | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_43a045de | comment |
Dropped a Bridge on Him: Or rather, a radio tower in Adama's case. | |
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Bubblegum Crisis / int_43a045de | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_43ffa398 | type |
Uncanny Valley Girl | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_43ffa398 | comment |
Uncanny Valley Girl: Boomers that are meant to resemble humans all have alabaster skin, unusual hair colours and unblinking eyes, which Linna's co-worker points out seems creepier than the more obvious mechas that do manual labour. This is a start contrast to the original series where the Boomers were based on Replicants and Terminators, meaning they could easily pass for humans. | |
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Bubblegum Crisis / int_43ffa398 | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_450c5a85 | type |
Alternate Continuity | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_450c5a85 | comment |
Alternate Continuity: The OVA series, AD Police OVAs and Crash form one continuity, while 2040, AD Police TV and Parasite Dolls are a separate universe. | |
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Bubblegum Crisis / int_450c5a85 | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_479f9ad0 | type |
Characterization Marches On | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_479f9ad0 | comment |
Characterization Marches On: In Bubblegum Crash!... Priss starts using ore instead of watashi as a first person pronoun, which she hadn't done beforenote or at least not on a regular basis, although she did use it from time to time, such as in the last scene of Revenge Road her voice actress was replaced. Her animosity to the idea of Adama being a boomer who thinks exactly like a human is inexplicable considering her previous relationship with Sylvie. Nene Took a Level in Badass, right after OVA 8 gave her A Day in the Spotlight episode that was all about how she didn't need to be a conventional badass. | |
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Bubblegum Crisis / int_485d09ab | type |
Creator In-Joke | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_485d09ab | comment |
AIC themselves get visual nods at places, most prominently on Priss's motorcycle helmets during the OVA. Animal Ya, who provided backgrounds to the original OVA, also inserted their own name into one of Episode 1's establishing shots. | |
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Bubblegum Crisis / int_485d09ab | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_485eb589 | type |
Sealed Evil in a Can | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_485eb589 | comment |
Sealed Evil in a Can: Galatea. | |
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Bubblegum Crisis / int_485eb589 | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_48dfb7e4 | type |
Stock Sound Effects | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_48dfb7e4 | comment |
Stock Sound Effects: As the two were made concurrently with one another with a similar crew. Sound effects from this series can also be heard in the animated Captain Power training videos. | |
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Bubblegum Crisis / int_48dfb7e4 | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_4b316d47 | type |
Break the Cutie | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_4b316d47 | comment |
Break the Cutie: Nene undergoes this in the 2040 episodes My Nation Underground and Woke Up With A Monster when her bratty arrogance finally comes back to bite her in the ass after she tries to play match maker between Priss and Leon, earning her a long overdue scolding from Sylia for endangering the team's secrecy, and then gets her ass handed to her in a boomer fight when she tries to rush in and beat the boomer by herself in a misguided attempt to prove herself. Probably more Break the Haughty in her case though. | |
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Bubblegum Crisis / int_4b316d47 | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_4cacfcc3 | type |
Honey Trap | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_4cacfcc3 | comment |
Honey Trap: Used on Dr. MacLaren by Vision as part of her revenge for her parents and sister. Includes Room Disservice by multiple parties. | |
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Bubblegum Crisis / int_4cacfcc3 | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_504a1991 | type |
Body Horror | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_504a1991 | comment |
R. Talsorian's Bubblegum Crisis RPG books expand on the humanity-loss phenomenon: "Boomer Syndrome" has various causes, ranging from purely mental to actual mechanical malfunctions in the implants, and over time can cause such delightful side effects as phantom pain, mood swings, emotional disassociation and terrifying hallucinations. One of the worst, though, is "cybermorphosis", which occurs with implants that incorporate recycled Boomer tech: occasionally, the self-repair functions of the Boomer parts will reactivate, causing severe pain and disfigurement as the implant attempts to "fix" itself. This eventually happens to The Ripper in the AD Police OVA. | |
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Bubblegum Crisis / int_504a1991 | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_516f986d | type |
Loving a Shadow | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_516f986d | comment |
Loving a Shadow: Priss's infatuation with Nigel in 2040. Sylia comes dangerously close to this herself until it becomes clear that Nigel does care for her on some level. | |
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Bubblegum Crisis / int_516f986d | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_533bc7ae | type |
Cybernetics Eat Your Soul | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_533bc7ae | comment |
Cybernetics Eat Your Soul: Discussed in the AD Police OVA, with two episodes revolving around cyborgs going insane, and other characters worrying about the consequences of having smaller artifical organs installed. It's also revealed in Episode 2 that anyone who replaces more than 70% of their body with implants is legally considered a "Boomeroid", meaning that the AD Police can terminate them with extreme prejudice if they step out of line. R. Talsorian's Bubblegum Crisis RPG books expand on the humanity-loss phenomenon: "Boomer Syndrome" has various causes, ranging from purely mental to actual mechanical malfunctions in the implants, and over time can cause such delightful side effects as phantom pain, mood swings, emotional disassociation and terrifying hallucinations. One of the worst, though, is "cybermorphosis", which occurs with implants that incorporate recycled Boomer tech: occasionally, the self-repair functions of the Boomer parts will reactivate, causing severe pain and disfigurement as the implant attempts to "fix" itself. This eventually happens to The Ripper in the AD Police OVA. | |
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Bubblegum Crisis / int_53b6ab6a | type |
Jumped at the Call | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_53b6ab6a | comment |
Jumped at the Call: 2040!Linna | |
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Bubblegum Crisis / int_53b6ab6a | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_53f5119f | type |
The Dragon | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_53f5119f | comment |
The Dragon: Brian J. Mason, Madigan, others. | |
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1.0 | |
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Bubblegum Crisis | hasFeature |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_53f5119f | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_547196be | type |
Broad Strokes | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_547196be | comment |
Broad Strokes: 2040. Provoked reactions of They Changed It, Now It Sucks! from some fans of the OVAs. | |
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Bubblegum Crisis / int_547196be | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_54cbd0cb | type |
This Is Unforgivable! | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_54cbd0cb | comment |
This Is Unforgivable!: Played for laughs in 2040; Linna (over)reacts to Priss riding off after accidentally making Linna drop her lunch by shouting "Yurusan!" and running after her. | |
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Bubblegum Crisis | hasFeature |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_54cbd0cb | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_5532b579 | type |
Acoustic License | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_5532b579 | comment |
Acoustic License: A great example in the Tokyo: 2040 series episode "Minute by Minute". Priss and Leon have a quiet conversation together... while speeding down a highway on motorcycles. No evidence of radios here, and in fact it's even crazier because Leon is wearing an open face helmet while Priss's helmet is totally enclosed, which would muffle her voice even if they were at a dead stop. | |
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Bubblegum Crisis / int_5532b579 | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_558245a7 | type |
Redshirt Army | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_558245a7 | comment |
Redshirt Army: The AD Police, yes, but the ones in helicopters are specifically screwed. | |
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Bubblegum Crisis / int_558245a7 | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_56691220 | type |
Even the Girls Want Her | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_56691220 | comment |
Even the Girls Want Her: Sylvie, Sylvie, Sylvie. Justified in-story by her background as a purpose-built sex slave. | |
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Bubblegum Crisis / int_56691220 | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_5764e0ba | type |
Meta Mecha | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_5764e0ba | comment |
Meta Mecha: The Motoroids/Motoslaves, which transform from Cool Bikes into exoskeletons for the hardsuits, and can also act on their own as robots. | |
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Bubblegum Crisis / int_5764e0ba | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_59907e4f | type |
Police Are Useless | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_59907e4f | comment |
Police Are Useless: With three exceptions. | |
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Bubblegum Crisis / int_59907e4f | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_5b84f2a | type |
Transhuman | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_5b84f2a | comment |
Transhuman: The OVA had numerous hints at Sylia being this. Becomes a plot point in Adam Warren's comic book adaptation where we find out that Sylia's brain has been augmented by Nanomachines. Toshimichi Suzuki of Artmic has confirmed this to be the true, making this a case of All There in the Manual. | |
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Bubblegum Crisis / int_5b84f2a | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_5c71cdf5 | type |
Plucky Office Girl | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_5c71cdf5 | comment |
Plucky Office Girl: Linna's day job in 2040. In the OVAs she was an aerobics instructor (turned stockbroker in Crash). | |
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Bubblegum Crisis / int_5c71cdf5 | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_5f52cfcf | type |
Intrepid Reporter | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_5f52cfcf | comment |
Intrepid Reporter: Lisa Vanette, a young would-be photographer introduced in the last OVA episode. She talked her father, Da Chief of the AD Police, into letting her visit in the hopes of getting her first scoop, and risks her life to get a very news-worthy photo of one of the Knight Sabers. Lisa's photo of the Arc Villain for the episode being arrested gets published. She returns the incriminating photo and camera memory card to Nene at the end of the episode. | |
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Bubblegum Crisis / int_5f52cfcf | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_605cf3f | type |
Something Only They Would Say | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_605cf3f | comment |
Something Only They Would Say: "This is the look of the true victor!" Said by both Corrupt Corporate Executive Brian J. Mason and his "reincarnation", Largo. In the English dub, during Largo's confrontation with Leon, he calls Leon "little puppy," which he also called him as Mason. | |
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Bubblegum Crisis / int_605cf3f | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_6156eafa | type |
So Last Season | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_6156eafa | comment |
So Last Season: In an unusual example of this happening to a villain, Dr. Miriam builds customized Boomers to defeat the Knight Sabers' current hardsuits, only to find that they've already upgraded their hardsuits when he deploys them. | |
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Bubblegum Crisis / int_6156eafa | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_61996785 | type |
Sacrificial Lamb | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_61996785 | comment |
Sacrificial Lamb: Guest characters frequently get killed in order to invoke It's Personal, including Cynthia, Irene, Sho's mother, all five of the Sexaroids, Dr. Yuri and Adama. | |
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Bubblegum Crisis / int_61996785 | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_61c60bbb | type |
No Product Safety Standards | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_61c60bbb | comment |
No Product Safety Standards: You'd think Boomers would be better to test in a lab than on the public. | |
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1.0 | |
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Bubblegum Crisis / int_61c60bbb | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_62702eb0 | type |
Age Is Relative | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_62702eb0 | comment |
Age Is Relative: Linna is only a year older than Priss - who is supposed to be nineteen years old. In general a lot of characters both in the original and 2040 don't look their intended ages. Sylia is 23/24 but looks to be in her early 30s, the 2040 Leon looked to be early-to-mid 30s but was only 24, etc. | |
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Bubblegum Crisis / int_62702eb0 | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_62907b90 | type |
Bottle Episode | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_62907b90 | comment |
Bottle Episode: One episode of the AD Police TV series is set entirely inside a bar during a hostage standoff. | |
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Bubblegum Crisis / int_62907b90 | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_62cbb836 | type |
Mid-Season Upgrade | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_62cbb836 | comment |
Nene, Purple and Pink, later Red and Pink after the Mid-Season Upgrade and in 2040. | |
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1.0 | |
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Bubblegum Crisis | hasFeature |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_62cbb836 | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_62f9d08e | type |
Freeze-Frame Bonus | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_62f9d08e | comment |
Again very briefly one of the women getting sexually aroused by the sensorial input of bommers going mad in the first part of Parasite Dolls. | |
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1.0 | |
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Bubblegum Crisis | hasFeature |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_62f9d08e | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_62f9ee25 | type |
Nanomachines | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_62f9ee25 | comment |
Becomes a plot point in Adam Warren's comic book adaptation where we find out that Sylia's brain has been augmented by Nanomachines. Toshimichi Suzuki of Artmic has confirmed this to be the true, making this a case of All There in the Manual. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
Bubblegum Crisis | hasFeature |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_62f9ee25 | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_6400a34 | type |
Arm Cannon | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_6400a34 | comment |
Arm Cannon, Breath Weapon, Combat Tentacles, and Chest Blaster: Boomer weapon options. Knight Sabers may have Arm Cannons and/or the Power Fist. Sylia carries a Blade Below the Shoulder. Linna's hardsuit has microfilament hair ribbons that cut through steel! | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_6400a34 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
Bubblegum Crisis | hasFeature |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_6400a34 | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_6439de78 | type |
Heroic Sacrifice | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_6439de78 | comment |
Heroic Sacrifice: We didn't get to see it, but Kimble the boomer saved Michaelson from an assassination attempt by Sorime's minions using a helicopter gunship at the expense of his artificial life. | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_6439de78 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
Bubblegum Crisis | hasFeature |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_6439de78 | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_6469517a | type |
Bath of Poverty | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_6469517a | comment |
Bath of Poverty: Priss' has her bathtub clumped into the one room semi-truck trailer that she lives in alongside several unrelated furniture. | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_6469517a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
Bubblegum Crisis | hasFeature |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_6469517a | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_65bc92fc | type |
Four-Temperament Ensemble | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_65bc92fc | comment |
Four-Temperament Ensemble: Priss is Choleric; Lina is Sanguine; Sylia is Phlegmatic; Nene is Melancholic, though rather more cheerful than most. | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_65bc92fc | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
Bubblegum Crisis | hasFeature |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_65bc92fc | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_66c725b6 | type |
Inconsistent Spelling | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_66c725b6 | comment |
Even worse, his former colleague Jeena Malso/Gina Marceau. | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_66c725b6 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_66c725b6 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Bubblegum Crisis | hasFeature |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_66c725b6 | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_68069489 | type |
Nipple and Dimed | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_68069489 | comment |
Nipple and Dimed: Briefly when Priss was changing into her battle attire in episode #2 and #3 (the same shot is recycled for both). Very briefly in episode #8 during Nene's shower scene. The boomer running amok in AD Police OVA #1. Also very briefly from Gina, the former girlfriend of Billy the cyborg, in mid-shag. Again very briefly one of the women getting sexually aroused by the sensorial input of bommers going mad in the first part of Parasite Dolls. In the second part, it's a bare breast of a boomer in the background of the Branch cops talking to an owner of an illegal boomer factory. | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_68069489 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_68069489 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Bubblegum Crisis | hasFeature |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_68069489 | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_6acf5c50 | type |
Trick Bomb | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_6acf5c50 | comment |
Trick Bomb: In episode #6 of the AD Police TV series, it looked as if the bomb would go off and kill the hostages, Jose's wife and baby daughter, but the bomb was just a party popper-like fake (the bomb released confetti and a doll of the perp instead of a deadly explosion)... Until the secondary, real bombs went off, destroyed the building and killed Jose. | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_6acf5c50 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_6acf5c50 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Bubblegum Crisis | hasFeature |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_6acf5c50 | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_6bda9a30 | type |
Meaningful Name | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_6bda9a30 | comment |
Meaningful Name: Boomers are ostensibly named after the economic boom they brought about by rebuilding Tokyo after the earthquake of 2025, but their name could also reflect the way combat models burst out of their skin before attacking. | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_6bda9a30 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_6bda9a30 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Bubblegum Crisis | hasFeature |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_6bda9a30 | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_6d7bc0f | type |
Fake Band | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_6d7bc0f | comment |
Fake Band: Priss and the Replicants (and Sekiria, the 2040 version of her band), Vision and the Revengers. The OVA Knight Sabers sing as a group on some songs and are seen playing instruments in the "Asu e Touchdown" video, but they're not canonically supposed to be an in-universe band. | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_6d7bc0f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_6d7bc0f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Bubblegum Crisis | hasFeature |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_6d7bc0f | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_6ec4232f | type |
Casting Gag | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_6ec4232f | comment |
Casting Gag: In the Latin American Spanish dub, Priss is voiced by Rebeca Patiño, who also dubbed Ellen Paige, the same character from which Priss herself is based of. | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_6ec4232f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
Bubblegum Crisis | hasFeature |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_6ec4232f | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_6f66bef7 | type |
But Not Too Foreign | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_6f66bef7 | comment |
But Not Too Foreign: Most of the characters have names (and appearances in some cases) that suggest they're of mixed ancestry, but they still all speak Japanese and are pretty obviously Japanese culturally. Part of this has to do with the show's genre and Japan's take on impending multiculturalism (well, for The '80s at any rate). | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_6f66bef7 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_6f66bef7 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Bubblegum Crisis | hasFeature |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_6f66bef7 | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_6f7bffad | type |
Cool Code of Source | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_6f7bffad | comment |
Cool Code of Source: It's typically music; track lists from the BGC OST, lyrics from the same, or sometimes from Madonna music. Very occasionally there will be some BASIC code. | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_6f7bffad | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_6f7bffad | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Bubblegum Crisis | hasFeature |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_6f7bffad | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_6fbe85e6 | type |
Adaptation Personality Change | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_6fbe85e6 | comment |
Adaptation Personality Change: The Sylia of the OVAs is calm and collected, whereas the 2040 incarnation was more volatile and prone to outbursts. Being a test subject from her father may be the cause of the 2040 Sylia's instability. As like with George Stacy in The Amazing Spider-Man, Leon, who was supportive of the Knight Sabers in the OVA series, started off in Tokyo 2040 considering them dangerous vigilantes and thinks they make the AD Police look bad. Daley went from Not-full-on Camp Gay to Straight Gay. The Priss of the OVAs pretty much wore her anger, annoyance and other assorted emotions on her sleeve while her 2040 incarnation is The Stoic - though still prone to shooting her mouth off when angry. | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_6fbe85e6 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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Bubblegum Crisis | hasFeature |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_6fbe85e6 | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_71748a39 | type |
Named by the Adaptation | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_71748a39 | comment |
Named by the Adaptation: Quincy's surname was never revealed in the OVA, but 2040 give it as "Rosenkroitz/Rosenkreuz". | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_71748a39 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_71748a39 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Bubblegum Crisis | hasFeature |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_71748a39 | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_72246a54 | type |
Game Face | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_72246a54 | comment |
Game Face: While the Boomers from the OVAs were heavily derivative of Terminators, an important difference is that Terminators only lose their skin through injury, while Boomers intentionally have to burst out of their skin and expand their bodies when they go into combat. | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_72246a54 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_72246a54 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Bubblegum Crisis | hasFeature |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_72246a54 | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_722b3319 | type |
Camp Gay | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_722b3319 | comment |
Daley went from Not-full-on Camp Gay to Straight Gay. | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_722b3319 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_722b3319 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Bubblegum Crisis | hasFeature |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_722b3319 | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_7286e96d | type |
Idiot Ball | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_7286e96d | comment |
Idiot Ball: Relating to Deus Angst Machina above, if Sylvie can hypnotize people with her eyes, why does she need to use the D.D. Battlemover to drain victims of their blood? | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_7286e96d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_7286e96d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Bubblegum Crisis | hasFeature |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_7286e96d | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_736d791f | type |
Adaptational Badass | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_736d791f | comment |
Adaptational Badass: While many people debate whether the original or new series is best, what they don't debate is that Linna took twenty levels of badass in 2040. While in the original series she was a ditzy, materialistic and (to most of the series' plot) inconsequential character, in 2040 she's a much more down-to-earth girl with a strong personality and a hidden intolerance of authority. A big part of her character in the new series is how being a Knight Saber lets her cut loose and be more true to herself than she can be when in the civilian world. She has such a strong personality, she actually manages to impress Priss, of all people, and when she joins the Knight Sabers she becomes their close-combat specialist, Priss's Lancer and her full equal in combat ability. Nene also got a bit of a badass upgrade in 2040 - in the original OVA she was content to watch the action from the sidelines while working her hacker magic, and the few times she had to engage in physical combat usually ended badly for her, while in 2040 she's much more aggressive and usually handles herself better when in combat (though sometimes things still don't work out for her). Boomers are much stronger in 2040 as one rogue boomer can create enough trouble for the whole team, whereas they could take out scores of boomers in the original series. Boomers also need to be targeted in a specific area, their cores, in 2040 or otherwise they'll still function whereas any generalized amount of damage was enough to take them out in the original. | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_736d791f | featureApplicability |
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1.0 | |
Bubblegum Crisis | hasFeature |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_736d791f | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_7b71edf4 | type |
Going Critical | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_7b71edf4 | comment |
Going Critical: A threat of such an incident is part of the plot of the final episode of Bubblegum Crash, "Meltdown". The title of this episode is also a Spoiler Title. | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_7b71edf4 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
Bubblegum Crisis | hasFeature |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_7b71edf4 | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_7bb844ec | type |
Villain Decay | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_7bb844ec | comment |
Villain Decay: At the end of Parasite Dolls, GENOM is completely destroyed by a terrorist bombing campaign. | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_7bb844ec | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_7bb844ec | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Bubblegum Crisis | hasFeature |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_7bb844ec | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_7d49d74a | type |
Cultural Translation | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_7d49d74a | comment |
Cultural Translation: When Sho's mom wanted him to make hamburger steak, he told her he already got a hamburger from Priss and would rather have curry (most likely with rice). In the dub, he wants a pizza. | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_7d49d74a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_7d49d74a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Bubblegum Crisis | hasFeature |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_7d49d74a | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_7ea2a915 | type |
Animation Bump | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_7ea2a915 | comment |
Animation Bump: The quality of the OVA's animation improved noticeably between "Moonlight Rambler" and "Red Eyes". | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_7ea2a915 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_7ea2a915 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Bubblegum Crisis | hasFeature |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_7ea2a915 | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_7f3be191 | type |
Impossibly Cool Clothes | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_7f3be191 | comment |
Impossibly Cool Clothes: Boomers explode out of their human skin to show their robot form. One boomer is wearing a suit when he transitions and is still wearing the suit once he's a robot. | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_7f3be191 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_7f3be191 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Bubblegum Crisis | hasFeature |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_7f3be191 | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_812a2820 | type |
Pink Means Feminine | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_812a2820 | comment |
Pink Means Feminine: Sylia humiliates Priss with this trope in 2040 episode My Nation Underground when the tomboyish biker loses a bet to her flighty boss, forcing her to be photographed wearing an ugly pink dress while Nene and Linna laugh at her and mock her. It made more sense in the original Japanese language version (where Priss wanted Nene kicked off the team for digging into her personal life) than in the English language version (which changed it to Priss wanting Nene removed from the team for her own safety). Comes back to bite Sylia, Nene and Linna in the ass when Priss temporarily quits and refuses to help them due to Sylia lying to them and abusing their trust. Incidentally, pink tends to be a prominent color in Nene's hardsuits and 2040 indicates that she and Linna both own and wear at least one set of pink underwear each. | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_812a2820 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_812a2820 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Bubblegum Crisis | hasFeature |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_812a2820 | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_82108e3d | type |
Attack Its Weak Point | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_82108e3d | comment |
Attack Its Weak Point: In 2040, boomers can only be destroyed by attacking their core, a small red sphere embedded somewhere in their body. This serves to make Nene's combat role more understandable than in the OVAs: she uses her sensor equipment to locate the core. | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_82108e3d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_82108e3d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Bubblegum Crisis | hasFeature |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_82108e3d | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_8313a744 | type |
Dark Lord on Life Support | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_8313a744 | comment |
Quincy is depicted as a Dark Lord on Life Support. | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_8313a744 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_8313a744 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Bubblegum Crisis | hasFeature |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_8313a744 | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_845789b0 | type |
Superhero | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_845789b0 | comment |
Superhero: The ladies are a quartet of Iron (Wo)men. However, Sylia has more in common with Bruce Wayne than Tony Stark. | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_845789b0 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_845789b0 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Bubblegum Crisis | hasFeature |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_845789b0 | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_86101877 | type |
What Song Was This Again? | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_86101877 | comment |
What Song Was This Again?: AnimEigo produced English versions of every vocal song on the OVA soundtrack. Particularly infamous is their version of "Mr. Dandy". | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_86101877 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_86101877 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Bubblegum Crisis | hasFeature |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_86101877 | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_863fa679 | type |
What Happened to the Mouse? | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_863fa679 | comment |
What Happened to the Mouse?: Towards the end of 2040 Daley Wong disappears after the ADP make one last stand and is never seen again, nor is his own fate ever established. In 2040, Mason's fate is left ambiguous. Did he die? Was he assimilated by Galatea? Is he somehow still alive inside her? | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_863fa679 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_863fa679 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Bubblegum Crisis | hasFeature |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_863fa679 | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_8748f851 | type |
Brainy Brunette | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_8748f851 | comment |
Sylia became white-haired instead of a Brainy Brunette. | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_8748f851 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_8748f851 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Bubblegum Crisis | hasFeature |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_8748f851 | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_8a295a46 | type |
Cool Car | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_8a295a46 | comment |
Cool Car: In the OVAs, Sylia drives a replica (according to the artbooks) of a red 1954 Mercedes Benz 300SL Gullwing. Her 2040 counterpart has a Porsche 911, but it only appears in two episodes. The Gryphon that episode 4 of the OVA is centered on is also a very cool, highly customized vehicle. It just happens to be owned by someone completely insane. | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_8a295a46 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
Bubblegum Crisis | hasFeature |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_8a295a46 | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_8b4f2a4f | type |
'80s Hair | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_8b4f2a4f | comment |
'80s Hair: So very much, from the boomer trio in the second episode to Priss' scene wig that looks like it's borrowed from Jem. | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_8b4f2a4f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
Bubblegum Crisis | hasFeature |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_8b4f2a4f | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_8c1ac05e | type |
Guinea Pig Family | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_8c1ac05e | comment |
Guinea Pig Family: In Tokyo 2040, Professor Stingray created the Boomer prototypes Mackie and Galatea by implanting their cores inside a young Sylia's brain and letting them learn its structure. He created the cores by dissecting his wife's brain — which is why it only worked with Sylia. | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_8c1ac05e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
Bubblegum Crisis | hasFeature |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_8c1ac05e | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_8c96ae78 | type |
No One Could Survive That! | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_8c96ae78 | comment |
No One Could Survive That!: | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_8c96ae78 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_8c96ae78 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Bubblegum Crisis | hasFeature |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_8c96ae78 | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_8cf75a5c | type |
Lipstick-and-Load Montage | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_8cf75a5c | comment |
Lipstick-and-Load Montage: Priss is seen doing this as part of the opening montage of the first episode, preparing to go on stage and sing the opening theme. Contrasted slightly with Lock-and-Load Montage for other characters. | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_8cf75a5c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_8cf75a5c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Bubblegum Crisis | hasFeature |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_8cf75a5c | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_8eb0370f | type |
Corporate Conspiracy | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_8eb0370f | comment |
Corporate Conspiracy: Genom Corporation already has tremendous influence over the governments of the world — they just want to Take Over the World in the more traditional manner, using the Overmind Control System to take remote control over every Artificial Intelligence on the planet. | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_8eb0370f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_8eb0370f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Bubblegum Crisis | hasFeature |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_8eb0370f | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_926e0d7d | type |
Hot Springs Episode | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_926e0d7d | comment |
Hot Springs Episode: There was a rejected script proposal for one of these. Word of God says that the script eventually resurfaced as an episode of one of director Hiroki Hayashi's later projects: Tenchi Muyo!. This Usenet post attempts to reconstruct the original storyline. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
Bubblegum Crisis | hasFeature |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_926e0d7d | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_9444833e | type |
Bruce Wayne Held Hostage | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_9444833e | comment |
In the eighth OVA, Nene is trapped in ADP headquarters when the episode's one-shot villain attacks to draw out the Knight Sabers. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
Bubblegum Crisis | hasFeature |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_9444833e | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_951a2326 | type |
Musical Theme Naming | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_951a2326 | comment |
Musical Theme Naming: The 2040 episodes have titles taken from famous (or infamous) songs or albums including Jefferson Starship's "We Built This City", The Doors' "Light My Fire", Eagles' "One of these Nights", Pink Floyd's "Atom Heart Mother" and The Police's "Walking on The Moon". | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_951a2326 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_951a2326 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Bubblegum Crisis | hasFeature |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_951a2326 | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_96e01893 | type |
Bodyguard Babes | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_96e01893 | comment |
Bodyguard Babes: Mason has a trio of Boomer Robot Girls in the episode "Born To Kill", capable of performing GENOM's wet work off the clock, and going toe to toe with the Knight Sabers. | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_96e01893 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_96e01893 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Bubblegum Crisis | hasFeature |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_96e01893 | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_970c790a | type |
Big Bad | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_970c790a | comment |
Big Bad: Several — GENOM, Largo, Quincy; Galatea in 2040. | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_970c790a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_970c790a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Bubblegum Crisis | hasFeature |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_970c790a | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_986dad9a | type |
Killer Robot | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_986dad9a | comment |
Killer Robot: To quote Zoogz, "GENOM assumes no responsibility for your domestic boomer going on a psychotic murder spree." | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_986dad9a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_986dad9a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Bubblegum Crisis | hasFeature |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_986dad9a | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_987380f | type |
Free Handed Performer | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_987380f | comment |
Free-Handed Performer: Priss is the lead singer for her band, The Replicants, but does not play any instrument. | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_987380f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_987380f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Bubblegum Crisis | hasFeature |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_987380f | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_98c80fe5 | type |
Hour of Power | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_98c80fe5 | comment |
Hour of Power: A major weakness of the 2040 hardsuits is that they're battery-powered, so any of the Sabers might lose power if they aren't careful. | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_98c80fe5 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_98c80fe5 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Bubblegum Crisis | hasFeature |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_98c80fe5 | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_9a5ae2a2 | type |
More Teeth than the Osmond Family | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_9a5ae2a2 | comment |
More Teeth than the Osmond Family: A frequently-seen characteristic of rogue Boomers in 2040. | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_9a5ae2a2 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_9a5ae2a2 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Bubblegum Crisis | hasFeature |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_9a5ae2a2 | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_9bcd82c0 | type |
Took a Level in Badass | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_9bcd82c0 | comment |
Took a Level in Badass: Nene in Crash. | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_9bcd82c0 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_9bcd82c0 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Bubblegum Crisis | hasFeature |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_9bcd82c0 | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_9c8701b5 | type |
A Day in the Limelight | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_9c8701b5 | comment |
A Day in the Limelight: What the eighth OVA episode amounts to, focusing on Nene and developing her character substantially. (This ends up being a weird capstone for the original OVA series, since the run wasn't supposed to end there.) Linna also gets some focus in the second episode, but to a much lesser extent. | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_9c8701b5 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_9c8701b5 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Bubblegum Crisis | hasFeature |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_9c8701b5 | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_9cce9385 | type |
Future Spandex | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_9cce9385 | comment |
Future Spandex: The Knight Sabers, underneath their power suits, wear form-fitting outfits, aka innerwear. It's also justified, as it's explained that the outfits serve as a neural interface between the user and the suit. Before utilizing the suits, the girls wear body stocking suits called "measuring suits", which when used in training records their movements so that Sylvia can modify the hardsuits to their fighting styles. | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_9cce9385 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_9cce9385 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Bubblegum Crisis | hasFeature |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_9cce9385 | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_9cde2df1 | type |
Hand Cannon | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_9cde2df1 | comment |
Hand Cannon: Leon's oversized revolver that is almost effective against Boomers. And to really drive it home, this revolver can fire RPG rounds. | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_9cde2df1 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_9cde2df1 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Bubblegum Crisis | hasFeature |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_9cde2df1 | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_9d12bbc1 | type |
Foreshadowing | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_9d12bbc1 | comment |
Foreshadowing: The opening credits for Moonlight Rambler show Priss and Sylia noticing a light in the night sky representing the ship Sylvie and Anri have escaped on, setting up that the next two episodes will be about them specifically. Priss because of her eventual bond with Sylvia, Sylia because Largo is heavily implied to be Brian J. Mason. | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_9d12bbc1 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_9d12bbc1 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Bubblegum Crisis | hasFeature |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_9d12bbc1 | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_9d1cc720 | type |
Barbie Doll Anatomy | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_9d1cc720 | comment |
Barbie Doll Anatomy: Happens at the end of 2040 episode 26, when Nene and Linna are stranded nude on a desert island after their suits burn away upon re-entering the atmosphere. Most likely as a consequence of Japanese censorship laws which forbid explicit frontal nudity. | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_9d1cc720 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_9d1cc720 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Bubblegum Crisis | hasFeature |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_9d1cc720 | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_9dab0a6e | type |
Continuity Nod | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_9dab0a6e | comment |
Continuity Nod: In Episode 8, Mackie infiltrates the base in a Battlesuit similar to the one from the OAV MADOX 01: Metal Skin Panic. Per Word of God, the events of that OAV actually took place in the past. | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_9dab0a6e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_9dab0a6e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Bubblegum Crisis | hasFeature |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_9dab0a6e | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_9e03dbd6 | type |
Mr. Fixit | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_9e03dbd6 | comment |
Mr. Fixit: "Pops" Doc Raven; Nigel in 2040. | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_9e03dbd6 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_9e03dbd6 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Bubblegum Crisis | hasFeature |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_9e03dbd6 | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_9f63d4f1 | type |
Our Vampires Are Different | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_9f63d4f1 | comment |
Our Vampires Are Different: The 'vampire' stalking Megatokyo in one episode of the OVA is in fact an old-model Boomer that uses artificial blood in its internal systems. Who has a friend with a big leak or something. Also more or less a Lesbian Vampire. Ahem: Lesbian Vampire Sexaroid, thank you very much. | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_9f63d4f1 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_9f63d4f1 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Bubblegum Crisis | hasFeature |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_9f63d4f1 | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_9f9540ae | type |
We Can Rebuild Him | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_9f9540ae | comment |
We Can Rebuild Him: Billy from the A.D. Police episode "The Man Who Bites His Tongue", an ADP officer who gets picked as the test subject for the new Cyborg Unit of the force. | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_9f9540ae | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_9f9540ae | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Bubblegum Crisis | hasFeature |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_9f9540ae | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_a0db7803 | type |
It's Personal | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_a0db7803 | comment |
It's Personal: It's extremely easy to make it this way for Priss, even when it was Linna's friend, and is the theme for most episodes of the OVA. Parodied with Lisa's vendetta against the Sabers for destroying her camera. | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_a0db7803 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_a0db7803 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Bubblegum Crisis | hasFeature |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_a0db7803 | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_a247c4bf | type |
A Mech by Any Other Name | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_a247c4bf | comment |
A Mech by Any Other Name: Hardsuits, motoroids, motoslaves, powered suits, battlemovers. | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_a247c4bf | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_a247c4bf | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Bubblegum Crisis | hasFeature |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_a247c4bf | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_a4414a05 | type |
Adaptation Dye-Job | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_a4414a05 | comment |
Adaptation Dye-Job: From the OVAs to 2040. Nene went from being a redhead to a blonde in 2040. Sylia became white-haired instead of a Brainy Brunette. Linna, Mackie, and Mason went from black hair to brown. Daley went from a redhead to having brown hair. | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_a4414a05 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_a4414a05 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Bubblegum Crisis | hasFeature |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_a4414a05 | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_a48ffb8 | type |
Awkwardly-Placed Bathtub | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_a48ffb8 | comment |
Awkwardly-Placed Bathtub: Priscilla Asagiri lives in a semi-truck trailer that has a clawfoot bathtub which is weirdly placed right next to a TV and right underneath a speaker which looks to be an Electrical Hazard. | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_a48ffb8 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_a48ffb8 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Bubblegum Crisis | hasFeature |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_a48ffb8 | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_a4be7043 | type |
Da Chief | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_a4be7043 | comment |
Da Chief: Chief Todou | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_a4be7043 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_a4be7043 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Bubblegum Crisis | hasFeature |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_a4be7043 | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_a6c02661 | type |
Toxic Phlebotinum | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_a6c02661 | comment |
Toxic Phlebotinum: A major revelation in the second half of the series is that the cores of the Knight Sabers' hardsuits are boomer technology — meaning that the suits could go rogue just like the other boomers they fight at any time, or have Galatea control them. After the revelation, the Mid-Season Upgrade suits Sylia creates make more overt use of boomer tech. In the Grand Finale, this overlaps with Sentient Phlebotinum when the Sabers willingly release the restraints on their suits and ask for their help to defeat Galatea. | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_a6c02661 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_a6c02661 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Bubblegum Crisis | hasFeature |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_a6c02661 | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_a7ae597a | type |
No New Fashions in the Future | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_a7ae597a | comment |
No New Fashions in the Future: Archetypal example. Exception: Sylia's midriff-baring high-collared sleeveless blouse worn under a business suit has never been fashionable in the past, but as the years pass it's starting to look increasingly common for women to dress like this in the future. | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_a7ae597a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_a7ae597a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Bubblegum Crisis | hasFeature |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_a7ae597a | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_a8b54aa7 | type |
Looking for Love in All the Wrong Places | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_a8b54aa7 | comment |
Looking for Love in All the Wrong Places: Priss gets a bit of this in 2040. Sylia also may not count in 2040. | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_a8b54aa7 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_a8b54aa7 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Bubblegum Crisis | hasFeature |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_a8b54aa7 | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_a8de2a46 | type |
Eccentric Millionaire | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_a8de2a46 | comment |
Eccentric Millionaire: Sylia. | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_a8de2a46 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_a8de2a46 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Bubblegum Crisis | hasFeature |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_a8de2a46 | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_a91078ea | type |
Adaptational Jerkass | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_a91078ea | comment |
Adaptational Jerkass: Nene is kind of a brat at the start of 2040, as opposed to the lovably goofy girl she was in the original. She gets better, though. | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_a91078ea | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_a91078ea | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Bubblegum Crisis | hasFeature |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_a91078ea | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_aa96059e | type |
Disabled in the Adaptation | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_aa96059e | comment |
Disabled in the Adaptation: Two in 2040. Sylia is shown with mental instability, possibly as a result of the creation of Boomer tech involving an experiment with her brain. Quincy is depicted as a Dark Lord on Life Support. | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_aa96059e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_aa96059e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Bubblegum Crisis | hasFeature |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_aa96059e | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_abad35b4 | type |
Soundtrack Dissonance | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_abad35b4 | comment |
Soundtrack Dissonance: The second original OVA closes out at a graveyard, with a wide shot of many gravestones and mourners... then immediately kicks in the upbeat '80s anime pop music. Both the shot and the music remains constant throughout the end credits. Not quite putting The "Fun" in "Funeral", but... | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_abad35b4 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_abad35b4 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Bubblegum Crisis | hasFeature |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_abad35b4 | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_ac4ac8e5 | type |
Idiosyncratic Episode Naming | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_ac4ac8e5 | comment |
Idiosyncratic Episode Naming: Tokyo 2040 uses 1970s heavy metal/hard rock song titles as episode titles. | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_ac4ac8e5 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_ac4ac8e5 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Bubblegum Crisis | hasFeature |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_ac4ac8e5 | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_ad5283e1 | type |
Robot Girl | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_ad5283e1 | comment |
Robot Girl: Sylvie, Anri, other sexaroids, plus Mason's bodyguards. | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_ad5283e1 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_ad5283e1 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Bubblegum Crisis | hasFeature |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_ad5283e1 | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_afc52a86 | type |
Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_afc52a86 | comment |
Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot: Particularly in 2040, the Boomers start out as mostly-believable humanoid cyborgs, only to degenerate into magical fusing zombie ghost robots by the end. | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_afc52a86 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_afc52a86 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Bubblegum Crisis | hasFeature |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_afc52a86 | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_b032e4ed | type |
Ms. Fanservice | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_b032e4ed | comment |
Ms. Fanservice: The Knight Sabers all take turns being in this in both versions. | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_b032e4ed | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_b032e4ed | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Bubblegum Crisis | hasFeature |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_b032e4ed | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_b1ce5419 | type |
The Brigadier | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_b1ce5419 | comment |
The Brigadier: Leon, sort of. | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_b1ce5419 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_b1ce5419 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Bubblegum Crisis | hasFeature |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_b1ce5419 | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_b1f4c5bb | type |
Enhance Button | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_b1f4c5bb | comment |
Enhance Button: The last notable element of Blade Runner that the original OVA didn't borrow shows up in episode 7 of 2040 instead. | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_b1f4c5bb | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_b1f4c5bb | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Bubblegum Crisis | hasFeature |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_b1f4c5bb | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_b2b2093c | type |
Rape and Revenge | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_b2b2093c | comment |
Rape and Revenge: In the fourth OVA, J.B. Gibson rebuilds his car into an instrument of revenge against the motorcycle gang who, it is implied, raped his girlfriend. | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_b2b2093c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_b2b2093c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Bubblegum Crisis | hasFeature |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_b2b2093c | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_b3da67e5 | type |
Sentai | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_b3da67e5 | comment |
Sentai: A team in brightly colored suits. Yeah. | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_b3da67e5 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_b3da67e5 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Bubblegum Crisis | hasFeature |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_b3da67e5 | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_b4eff8a8 | type |
Epic Fail | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_b4eff8a8 | comment |
Epic Fail: Nene gets easily defeated in the hologram trainer at level 5, which is considered to not be difficult. Priss and Linna laugh their heads off that Nene wasn't able to clear that stage. | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_b4eff8a8 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_b4eff8a8 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Bubblegum Crisis | hasFeature |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_b4eff8a8 | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_b5e63cc4 | type |
Shadow Archetype | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_b5e63cc4 | comment |
Shadow Archetype: The Largo-Sylia relationship. | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_b5e63cc4 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_b5e63cc4 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Bubblegum Crisis | hasFeature |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_b5e63cc4 | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_bb0197af | type |
Cool Bike | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_bb0197af | comment |
Cool Bike: The Motoslaves. The Highway Star, a bike custom-built by Mackie and used by Priss to chase the Gryphon during the 4th OVA. | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_bb0197af | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_bb0197af | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Bubblegum Crisis | hasFeature |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_bb0197af | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_bb40e7e0 | type |
Failed Future Forecast | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_bb40e7e0 | comment |
Failed Future Forecast: In one episode, there's a danger that military boomer technology might get sold to the communists. Granted, especially given where the show is set this could still sort of work, but it's very obvious which kind of "communist" they're talking about. | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_bb40e7e0 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_bb40e7e0 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Bubblegum Crisis | hasFeature |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_bb40e7e0 | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_bb44f503 | type |
Robot War | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_bb44f503 | comment |
Oddly enough, this happens to GENOM: on the original OAV/2040 continuities it's such an unstoppable juggernaut that the Knight Sabers are locked into a shadow war where most of the time the best they can do is make sure that the company's excesses don't hurt innocents and the only threats that can do any damage to it are on the "mass destruction" level (Galatea's Robot War on 2040, Largo needing to break out the Kill Sat WMDs for Quincy to even listen to him on "Red Eyes"), while an anarchist bombing campaign brings it to its knees in Parasite Dolls. | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_bb44f503 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_bb44f503 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Bubblegum Crisis | hasFeature |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_bb44f503 | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_bb660963 | type |
Color-Coded Characters | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_bb660963 | comment |
Color-Coded Characters: Each Saber has a different colour that identifies than and, for 2 of them, carries over to their Motoslave (Priss has a red Motoslave, and Nene has a pink one that was only seen once). Sylia, White/Bluish-white and Blue Priss, Blue and Red Linna, Green and Orange Nene, Purple and Pink, later Red and Pink after the Mid-Season Upgrade and in 2040. | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_bb660963 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_bb660963 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Bubblegum Crisis | hasFeature |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_bb660963 | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_bebf0356 | type |
Mission Control | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_bebf0356 | comment |
The 2040 version of Sylia is in a more Mission Control role, rarely going into the field, whereas the OVAs version of Sylia led the Knight Sabers into battle herself. | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_bebf0356 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_bebf0356 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Bubblegum Crisis | hasFeature |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_bebf0356 | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_bfc4b943 | type |
Video Full of Film Clips | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_bfc4b943 | comment |
Video Full of Film Clips: The music videos for several songs mostly consist of these. | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_bfc4b943 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_bfc4b943 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Bubblegum Crisis | hasFeature |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_bfc4b943 | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_c295cb84 | type |
Evil Minions | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_c295cb84 | comment |
Evil Minions: Various boomers. | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_c295cb84 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_c295cb84 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Bubblegum Crisis | hasFeature |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_c295cb84 | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_c446f93c | type |
Artistic License – Nuclear Physics | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_c446f93c | comment |
Artistic License – Nuclear Physics: A nuclear power plant going into melt down can't cause a nuclear explosion, unlike what's claimed in AD Police TV series episode #11. | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_c446f93c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_c446f93c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Bubblegum Crisis | hasFeature |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_c446f93c | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_c558da6a | type |
Gunship Rescue | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_c558da6a | comment |
Gunship Rescue: Mackie pilots a gunship, unofficially called the "Knight Wing", to rescue the other Sabers from their first battle with their Evil Knockoffs during OVA episode 6. | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_c558da6a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_c558da6a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Bubblegum Crisis | hasFeature |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_c558da6a | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_c5fa22af | type |
The Tokyo Fireball | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_c5fa22af | comment |
The Tokyo Fireball: A part of the backstory of the series is a massive earthquake destroying Tokyo, leveling the city and it being rebuilt by Boomers. In 2040, it's destroyed again because of Galatea. In fact, in 2040, the earthquake was a man-made event to stop Galatea in the first place. | |
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1.0 | |
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Bubblegum Crisis | hasFeature |
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Bubblegum Crisis / int_c75df49a | type |
Shout-Out | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_c75df49a | comment |
The female head of GENOM security is named Madigan, a possible Shout-Out to actress Amy Madigan who had a supporting role in Streets of Fire. | |
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1.0 | |
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Bubblegum Crisis | hasFeature |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_c75df49a | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_c8ba12ee | type |
Interplay of Sex and Violence | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_c8ba12ee | comment |
Interplay of Sex and Violence: In the first part of Parasite Dolls, we have people getting sexually stimulated by the sensorial input of boomers going berserk and, in a more moderate and benign note, the ADP policewomen using a helicopter's machinegun to hit the transmitter of aforementioned people without hitting them. | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_c8ba12ee | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
Bubblegum Crisis | hasFeature |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_c8ba12ee | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_ca198bc3 | type |
Paintball Episode | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_ca198bc3 | comment |
Paintball Episode: The Sabers' introductory scene in OVA 4, "Revenge Road". | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_ca198bc3 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_ca198bc3 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Bubblegum Crisis | hasFeature |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_ca198bc3 | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_ca87e3ec | type |
No Name Given | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_ca87e3ec | comment |
No Name Given: Sho's mother. | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_ca87e3ec | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_ca87e3ec | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Bubblegum Crisis | hasFeature |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_ca87e3ec | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_cbe687ab | type |
Corrupt Corporate Executive | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_cbe687ab | comment |
Corrupt Corporate Executive: Everyone in GENOM. | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_cbe687ab | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_cbe687ab | featureConfidence |
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Bubblegum Crisis | hasFeature |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_cbe687ab | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_ce6555f0 | type |
Lighter and Softer | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_ce6555f0 | comment |
Lighter and Softer: MegaTokyo looks surprisingly clean and shiny in the eighth OVA episode, and more so in 2040 before the Robot War. The eighth OVA also refreshingly bucks the trend of having important one-shot characters be killed off. | |
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1.0 | |
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Bubblegum Crisis | hasFeature |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_ce6555f0 | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_d500b978 | type |
Adaptational Wimp | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_d500b978 | comment |
Adaptational Wimp: The 2040 version of Sylia is in a more Mission Control role, rarely going into the field, whereas the OVAs version of Sylia led the Knight Sabers into battle herself. Oddly enough, this happens to GENOM: on the original OAV/2040 continuities it's such an unstoppable juggernaut that the Knight Sabers are locked into a shadow war where most of the time the best they can do is make sure that the company's excesses don't hurt innocents and the only threats that can do any damage to it are on the "mass destruction" level (Galatea's Robot War on 2040, Largo needing to break out the Kill Sat WMDs for Quincy to even listen to him on "Red Eyes"), while an anarchist bombing campaign brings it to its knees in Parasite Dolls. The Knights Sabers' armor are less advanced in the 2040 continuity as they have a time limit for operational time, whereas in the original there was no time limit. | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_d500b978 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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Bubblegum Crisis | hasFeature |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_d500b978 | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_d7c3ba61 | type |
Race Lift | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_d7c3ba61 | comment |
Race Lift: The Hard Metal Guardians novel eliminates the Multinational Team aspect of previous BGC versions by giving all of the main characters Japanese surnames and black hair. | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_d7c3ba61 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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Bubblegum Crisis | hasFeature |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_d7c3ba61 | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_d7f6f486 | type |
The Other Darrin | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_d7f6f486 | comment |
Priss starts using ore instead of watashi as a first person pronoun, which she hadn't done beforenote or at least not on a regular basis, although she did use it from time to time, such as in the last scene of Revenge Road her voice actress was replaced. Her animosity to the idea of Adama being a boomer who thinks exactly like a human is inexplicable considering her previous relationship with Sylvie. | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_d7f6f486 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_d7f6f486 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Bubblegum Crisis | hasFeature |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_d7f6f486 | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_d99d9918 | type |
The Captain | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_d99d9918 | comment |
The Captain: Sylia. | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_d99d9918 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_d99d9918 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Bubblegum Crisis | hasFeature |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_d99d9918 | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_d9d8fd35 | type |
Battle Butler | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_d9d8fd35 | comment |
Battle Butler: Kou, to Reika, in OVA episode 7. | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_d9d8fd35 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_d9d8fd35 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Bubblegum Crisis | hasFeature |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_d9d8fd35 | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_da307677 | type |
Cross-Popping Veins | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_da307677 | comment |
Cross-Popping Veins: Near the end of the 2040 series, Linna and Nene are riding behind Priss on her motorcycle; all three of them are wearing hardsuits. Linna and Nene get cross popping veins on their hardsuit helmets, which then detach and float away on the wind. | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_da307677 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_da307677 | featureConfidence |
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Bubblegum Crisis | hasFeature |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_da307677 | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_dae5c997 | type |
Action Girl | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_dae5c997 | comment |
Action Girl: All the Knight Sabers, but mostly Priss and Linna. Jeena Malso in the A.D. Police Files prequel. | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_dae5c997 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_dae5c997 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Bubblegum Crisis | hasFeature |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_dae5c997 | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_dbca2c99 | type |
Red Herring | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_dbca2c99 | comment |
Red Herring: In episode 9 there are numerous strange boomer disappearances in the underground before a rouge boomer finally appears, except it was not responsible, but rather some kind of weird experiment that makes short work of said boomer. The appearance of the rouge boomer was just a coincidence. | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_dbca2c99 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_dbca2c99 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Bubblegum Crisis | hasFeature |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_dbca2c99 | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_dc1761bd | type |
A God Am I | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_dc1761bd | comment |
A God Am I: Largo considers himself a Boomer God, complete with comparing his access to a Kill Sat as a Bolt of Divine Retribution. | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_dc1761bd | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_dc1761bd | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Bubblegum Crisis | hasFeature |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_dc1761bd | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_dc579c91 | type |
Contrived Coincidence | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_dc579c91 | comment |
Contrived Coincidence: Several. After Sylia mentions Sexaroids, Nene (who doesn't know Sylvie is one) wonders if they're as pretty as Sylvie. Priss spotting Anri and Largo is covered in Slow-Motion Pass-By. This is also how clues get picked up in the first two AD Police OVAs. | |
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1.0 | |
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Bubblegum Crisis | hasFeature |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_dc579c91 | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_dcb9c541 | type |
Ship Tease | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_dcb9c541 | comment |
Linna, on the other hand, breaks rule 10 regularly. To say nothing of the Ship Tease between Priss and Leon, and Nene and Mackie. | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_dcb9c541 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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Bubblegum Crisis / int_dcb9c541 | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_dccf42c1 | type |
Our Graphics Will Suck in the Future | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_dccf42c1 | comment |
Our Graphics Will Suck in the Future, along with Technology Marches On: Sylia's car has a full-colour fax machine, but cellphones seem quite rare (she does have one, though). Computer equipment in general seems bulky and antiquated by early 21st century standards. Video pay phones seem to be the usual method of communication (sometimes the video is a 3D hologram, though). Three words: Microsoft Excel 2040 (which looks less like Excel 2007 and more like Excel 2000.) | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_dccf42c1 | featureApplicability |
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Bubblegum Crisis | hasFeature |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_dccf42c1 | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_dded28f2 | type |
Playful Hacker | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_dded28f2 | comment |
Playful Hacker: Nene. | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_dded28f2 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_dded28f2 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Bubblegum Crisis | hasFeature |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_dded28f2 | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_dfc14858 | type |
Machine Blood | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_dfc14858 | comment |
Machine Blood: Most of the Boomers tended to bleed bright orange fluid when damaged, which is unusual for robotic enemies. | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_dfc14858 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_dfc14858 | featureConfidence |
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Bubblegum Crisis | hasFeature |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_dfc14858 | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_e2d65c9f | type |
Universe Compendium | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_e2d65c9f | comment |
Universe Compendium: R. Talsorian's RPG sourcebooks serve this purpose, even if you don't use them to play the game. | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_e2d65c9f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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Bubblegum Crisis | hasFeature |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_e2d65c9f | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_e303d198 | type |
Whole-Plot Reference | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_e303d198 | comment |
Whole-Plot Reference: AD Police Files episode 3, The Man Who Bites His Tongue, is this for RoboCop (1987). It's also a perfect example of doing this right; rather than simply feeding off the popularity of RoboCop and cribbing the plot, it is a much darker and more serious exploration of what would happen in that scenario. | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_e303d198 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
Bubblegum Crisis | hasFeature |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_e303d198 | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_e32c80d9 | type |
Going Commando | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_e32c80d9 | comment |
Going Commando: In 2040, the Knights Saber are at first commando in their plug suits. Later, they don't even get plugsuits and are naked under their upgraded power armor (which is now transparent in places). Lampshaded by Sylia when she tells Mackie that "he's in the girls' changing room" when they're discussing it, and a totally flustered Mackie runs away all red-faced. | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_e32c80d9 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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Bubblegum Crisis | hasFeature |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_e32c80d9 | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_e36de06c | type |
Combat Stilettos | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_e36de06c | comment |
Combat Stilettos: Both the Sabers' powered armor and their Motoslaves in robot / armor mode have these. God knows how the Sabers manage to do much more than walk in theirs, as they have the same basic design as a ballet boot. The shape of the hardsuit feet is not necessarily the position of the wearer's feet. The lack of an ankle probably strengthens the legs - one less point to break. | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_e36de06c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
Bubblegum Crisis | hasFeature |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_e36de06c | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_e3da6e6c | type |
Deus Angst Machina | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_e3da6e6c | comment |
Deus Angst Machina: The D.D. Battlemover. Everything about it is ridiculously contrived in order to force Priss to kill Sylvie. (For specifics, see Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds on the character page.) | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_e3da6e6c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
Bubblegum Crisis | hasFeature |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_e3da6e6c | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_e4ce314 | type |
The Triads and the Tongs | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_e4ce314 | comment |
The Triads and the Tongs: The Hou Bang from OVA episode 7, "Double Vision". Triad Princess: Reika Chang, though Linna was able to convince her to give up being the Hou Bang leader at the end. | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_e4ce314 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_e4ce314 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Bubblegum Crisis | hasFeature |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_e4ce314 | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_e5d8460d | type |
Unexplained Recovery | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_e5d8460d | comment |
Unexplained Recovery: The OAVs never offer any explanation for how and when Mason transferred his mind into Largo, or how Largo got put into a life-support tank in Crash. | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_e5d8460d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_e5d8460d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Bubblegum Crisis | hasFeature |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_e5d8460d | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_ea1fe5d3 | type |
Staking the Loved One | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_ea1fe5d3 | comment |
Staking the Loved One: At the end of AD Police: To Serve and Protect. When Hans saw what happened when bio-voomer Liam got out of control, he asked Kenji to kill him, if the same should happen to him, too. Unfortunately, he had to keep his promise in the next episode and kill him and the GENOM CEO who turned himself into a bio-voomer to escape his old age and illness. | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_ea1fe5d3 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_ea1fe5d3 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Bubblegum Crisis | hasFeature |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_ea1fe5d3 | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_eaf5a1ac | type |
Groin Attack | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_eaf5a1ac | comment |
Groin Attack: Priss knees an uncooperative ADP crowd control trooper in the groin when he refuses to let her pass so that she could slap a boomer in Episode 2, "Born to Kill" of the original series. | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_eaf5a1ac | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_eaf5a1ac | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Bubblegum Crisis | hasFeature |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_eaf5a1ac | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_ec97c2ee | type |
Five-Man Band Concert | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_ec97c2ee | comment |
Five-Man Band Concert: The Knight Sabers form a band in the video for "Touchdown to Tomorrow". They're also credited with a number of other songs associated with the franchise. Priss, The Lancer and protagonist, is the lead singer and the only one with an In-Universe musical career. Sylia, The Leader and the Big Good, is the backing vocalist and plays the bass. Nene, The Smart Girl, plays a multineck guitar. And Linna, The Big Girl (in terms of abilities, not appearance), is on the drums. | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_ec97c2ee | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_ec97c2ee | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Bubblegum Crisis | hasFeature |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_ec97c2ee | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_ee13f24f | type |
Space Elevator | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_ee13f24f | comment |
Space Elevator: Tokyo 2040 has a "skyhook" connecting Tokyo and an orbital power satellite play several important roles in the plot. GENOM is building a network of tunnels beneath Tokyo to store energy released by the satellite, which are put to other uses by both Mason and Galatea. Sylia also tries to use the energy discharged by the skyhook to power a BFG so she can try to fry Galatea while she's still Sealed In A Can. (It doesn't work.) Before the end, the Knight Sabers have to hitch a ride into orbit. | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_ee13f24f | featureApplicability |
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Bubblegum Crisis | hasFeature |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_ee13f24f | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_ef2d2bae | type |
Mafia Princess | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_ef2d2bae | comment |
Triad Princess: Reika Chang, though Linna was able to convince her to give up being the Hou Bang leader at the end. | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_ef2d2bae | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_ef2d2bae | featureConfidence |
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Bubblegum Crisis | hasFeature |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_ef2d2bae | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_f12d9d83 | type |
Promotion to Parent | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_f12d9d83 | comment |
Promotion to Parent: Sylia, with Mackie. | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_f12d9d83 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_f12d9d83 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Bubblegum Crisis | hasFeature |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_f12d9d83 | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_f2dadf81 | type |
Evil Twin | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_f2dadf81 | comment |
Evil Twin: Arguably, Galatea from 2040. | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_f2dadf81 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_f2dadf81 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Bubblegum Crisis | hasFeature |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_f2dadf81 | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_f4fd424c | type |
All Your Base Are Belong to Us | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_f4fd424c | comment |
All Your Base Are Belong to Us: 2040 has a more full-scale invasion of the Sabers' base once Galatea starts the Robot War. | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_f4fd424c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_f4fd424c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Bubblegum Crisis | hasFeature |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_f4fd424c | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_f909b185 | type |
Lesbian Vampire | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_f909b185 | comment |
Ahem: Lesbian Vampire Sexaroid, thank you very much. | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_f909b185 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_f909b185 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Bubblegum Crisis | hasFeature |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_f909b185 | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_fb01ee16 | type |
Cyberpunk | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_fb01ee16 | comment |
Cyberpunk: One of the defining anime examples, which takes heavy inspiration from one of the big trope makers. Interestingly, though, there are at least shades of Post-Cyberpunk throughout all of the various incarnations of the franchise. The Knight Sabers aren't dedicated to "the destruction of GENOM" (with the possible exception of Priss) but rather to the much broader ideal of peace and social justice. Also, even though they're often rather ineffective, the AD Police (as agents of the State) are not villainous at all, and the two major male characters who are AD Policemen are explicitly heroic (and Nene is a data analyst and part-time traffic cop for the ADPD, and she openly loves her job). And, generally speaking, the tone of the original OVA at least is pretty positive - the Sabers can make a positive impact on the world, GENOM can be stopped, etc. And it is strangely dry compared to other works influenced by Blade Runner. | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_fb01ee16 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_fb01ee16 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Bubblegum Crisis | hasFeature |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_fb01ee16 | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_fb7bc4a8 | type |
Never Trust a Title | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_fb7bc4a8 | comment |
Never Trust a Title: The title makes the series sound like a wacky slapstick comedy, but it is actually a gritty Blade Runner-esque cyberpunk series. | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_fb7bc4a8 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_fb7bc4a8 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Bubblegum Crisis | hasFeature |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_fb7bc4a8 | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_fb8b1175 | type |
Earthquake Machine | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_fb8b1175 | comment |
Earthquake Machine: What caused the earthquake that destroyed Tokyo in 2040's backstory. GENOM tried to keep runaway boomer technology are getting loose, deciding to employ the device to bury the lab, and causing the city to be rebuilt. However, this didn't destroy the technology as it later got loose. | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_fb8b1175 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_fb8b1175 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Bubblegum Crisis | hasFeature |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_fb8b1175 | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_fc33ff16 | type |
One-Winged Angel | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_fc33ff16 | comment |
One-Winged Angel: The 2040 boomers do this when they go rogue, becoming distorted mockeries of their "normal" states (see the waitress boomer). The boomers in the original OVAs Hulking Out of their skin also qualifies. | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_fc33ff16 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_fc33ff16 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Bubblegum Crisis | hasFeature |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_fc33ff16 | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_fd807d08 | type |
New Neo City | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_fd807d08 | comment |
New Neo City: The city of Tokyo was devastated in 2025 by the Second Great Kanto Earthquake (a reference to this real-life earthquake), which split the city "geographically and culturally in two" as it was rebuilt into "Megalo City Tokyo", or "MegaTokyo" for short. | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_fd807d08 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_fd807d08 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Bubblegum Crisis | hasFeature |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_fd807d08 | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_ff8afd14 | type |
Spider Tank | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_ff8afd14 | comment |
Spider Tank: The GD-42 mecha, piloted by Reika and Kou. | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_ff8afd14 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_ff8afd14 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Bubblegum Crisis | hasFeature |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_ff8afd14 | |
Bubblegum Crisis / int_ffa0483f | type |
Cut Short | |
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Cut Short: With the originale OVA. The eighth episode is a Midseason Upgrade episode which focuses on Nene and wasn't intended to be the end at all, but various factors made it the last produced episode of the first OVA series. | |
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