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The Sky Crawlers

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The Sky Crawlers	comment	The Sky Crawlers is a 2008 Japanese anime film, directed by Mamoru Oshii and an adaptation of Hiroshi Mori's novel series of the same name. It is a melancholy take on war and those who fight it, but with several significant twists. For one, the world is at peace; it's companies doing the fighting, in order to sate the people's taste for war so that actual conflict does not take place. To fight their endless battles they use Artificial Humans called Kildren that are stuck in a perpetual adolescence of forgotten memories.The film follows the pilot Yuuichi as he joins a new squadron of Kildren, and becomes intrigued by his cold, enigmatic and possibly insane commander, Kusanagi, who seems to know a lot more about the reality of the war than anybody else on the base. The story is as much about the pilots' downtime and their search for meaning as it is about the stunning aerial combat scenes.If that doesn't sound appealing, keep in mind that this film is absolutely gorgeous. Broad pans and lingering shots are used just about any time combat isn't going on, which is most of the time.The novel series consists of six volumes that were published from 2001 to 2008. They have been licensed for a digital English release by Breakthrough Bandwagon Books. The Sky Crawlers None But Air Down to Heaven Flutter into Life Cradle the Sky Sky EclipseA Licensed Game, serving as a prequel to the movie, developed by Ace Combat creator Project Aces and Access Games, was released in 2008 in Japan by Bandai Namco Entertainment. It was released 2010 outside Japan with the title The Sky Crawlers: Innocent Aces, which came as a surprise for fans as it seemed a prime candidate for No Export for You. The game was adapted into a two-volume manga.
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The Sky Crawlers / int_106381c4	type	SilentProtagonist
The Sky Crawlers / int_106381c4	comment	Silent Protagonist: Lynx/Cheetah never speaks a word on screen.
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The Sky Crawlers / int_1237828f	type	Anyone Can Die
The Sky Crawlers / int_1237828f	comment	Anyone Can Die: Innocent Aces has a staggering body count to the point that it's easier to list who doesn't die - Cheetah, the very last two Kildren to join your ranks, your first commanding officer, and your second commanding officer's liason.
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The Sky Crawlers / int_15184afb	type	This Loser Is You
The Sky Crawlers / int_15184afb	comment	This Loser Is You: According to some interpretations, it is saying that the audience (i.e. apathetic Japanese Otaku) are Kildren, and this is the message. Alternatively, the audience are the shallow, dull tourists who express vague pity over the dead Kildren even as they take amusement in their meaningless battles. At least this is something that the director himself vaguely hinted at.
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The Sky Crawlers / int_15b2cab3	type	Tempting Fate
The Sky Crawlers / int_15b2cab3	comment	Tempting Fate: In the first mission, Ban muses on the short lifespan of fighter pilots. Three missions later, guess who gets shot down?
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The Sky Crawlers / int_1c5002bc	type	The Stoic
The Sky Crawlers / int_1c5002bc	comment	The Stoic: Kannami. Pretty much nothing can faze him, and whatever emotions he has, he keeps unseen.
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The Sky Crawlers / int_1d2400e9	type	Green-Eyed Monster
The Sky Crawlers / int_1d2400e9	comment	Green-Eyed Monster: In the showdown with Ukumori, Ukumori makes it quite clear that he's jealous of Cheetah's accomplishments and the credit Cheetah's received and believes that it should instead be his, and attempts to prove it by trying to shoot down Cheetah.
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The Sky Crawlers / int_200c8312	type	Alternate Company Equivalent
The Sky Crawlers / int_200c8312	comment	Alternate Company Equivalent: Many of the available planes each company uses have clear equivalents with their competitor. Rostock's Senryu and Lautern's Vice fill similar roles as heavy fighters or light bombers and are among the few planes to carry large bombs and torpedoes. Rostock's Shougu and Lautern's Tulip are both advanced, lightweight, highly agile fighters. Rostock's Sanka Mk II and Lautern's Skyly D are their next generation high-performance fighters, though Rostock's focus is on maneuverability and Lautern's is on speed. Additionally, they're the only aircraft known to receive periodic updates to their airframes, with the successor models, the Sanka Mk B and the Skyly J2 featuring prominently in the film. Rostock's Suiga and Lautern's Fortune fill similar roles as their general-purpose mid-range fighters. Rostock's Seiei and Lautern's Incident are both relatively fragile, high-speed, low-agility twin-engine interceptors. Only Lautern's Fission and Rostock's Itsuha lack clear counterparts, with the Fission being a very low-end mass-production fighter with high stability and not much else, and the Itsuha being a high-end experimental fighter that sacrifices pretty much everything for maneuverability.
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The Sky Crawlers / int_23473ae7	type	Adaptation Expansion
The Sky Crawlers / int_23473ae7	comment	Adaptation Expansion: The game's manga adaptation expands upon Orishina's service to Lautern after defecting from Rostock following mission 11 and gives readers an unprecedented opportunity to see the war from Lautern's perspective.
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The Sky Crawlers / int_272abb98	type	Shoot the Shaggy Dog
The Sky Crawlers / int_272abb98	comment	Shoot the Shaggy Dog: See Bittersweet Ending above
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The Sky Crawlers / int_273b4c2a	type	Some Dexterity Required
The Sky Crawlers / int_273b4c2a	comment	Some Dexterity Required: Being a daring Wii game that capitalizes on the Wii Remote and Nunchuk to put together a remarkable air combat game like no other, Innocent Aces' default and unorthodox control scheme is not easy to get used to and can lead to some pretty easily fatal mission-ending crashes early on. This can however be averted with a Gamecube controller or Classic Controller Pro, which can be used to play the game with more traditional controls.
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The Sky Crawlers / int_27ab0123	type	Offing the Offspring
The Sky Crawlers / int_27ab0123	comment	Offing the Offspring: The Teacher does this every time he kills a clone derived from himself.
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The Sky Crawlers / int_28c1d543	type	Defrosting Ice Queen
The Sky Crawlers / int_28c1d543	comment	Defrosting Ice Queen: Despite her statements about needing to "kill that child" before she grows up, Suito defrosts a little whenever Mizuki's around, as Yuuichi realizes when he notices her surreptitiously giving Mizuki's hand an affectionate squeeze when she thinks no one is paying attention.
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The Sky Crawlers / int_2ae29c0d	type	The Dreaded
The Sky Crawlers / int_2ae29c0d	comment	The Dreaded: "Watch out! It's the Teacher!"
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The Sky Crawlers / int_2b5ea43c	type	Bland-Name Product
The Sky Crawlers / int_2b5ea43c	comment	Bland-Name Product: Pops-Cola and Treasure soft drinks (with logos that resemble Coca Cola and Pepsi), Green Label beer and Leopard cars. They are owned Mega Corps, the Polish Rostock and the Irish Lautern.
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The Sky Crawlers / int_2b706ca	type	More Dakka
The Sky Crawlers / int_2b706ca	comment	More Dakka: Rapid Guns are exactly what they sound like, and Anti-Ground Guns are functionally the same weapon, except fixed at a roughly 20 degree downwards angle. All planes are armed with at least two machine guns, and most planes have more than that, and many of them have five or more.
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The Sky Crawlers / int_2dbc1855	type	Ghost City
The Sky Crawlers / int_2dbc1855	comment	Ghost City: Krakow looks like this, with empty streets and no streetlights in sight, though some windows are lighted. It's purely for stylistic reasons, however.
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The Sky Crawlers / int_35a24c16	type	Geo Effects
The Sky Crawlers / int_35a24c16	comment	Geo Effects: Clouds provided limited cover from radar lock-on, and strong crosswinds and updrafts can push your plane dramatically off (or on) course.
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The Sky Crawlers / int_372bc105	type	Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism
The Sky Crawlers / int_372bc105	comment	Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism: The story is on the cynical end; it has been directed by Mamoru Oshii, anyway, and the original author intended it to be like this, too.
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The Sky Crawlers / int_37b5c1b0	type	Big Badass Battle Sequence
The Sky Crawlers / int_37b5c1b0	comment	Big Badass Battle Sequence: Halfway through the movie, Rostock pushes for a massive operation involving a bombing run against one of Lautern's major bases. Rostock fighter wings depart from their bases and refuel in mid-air while escorting the massive bombers, engaging Lautern's airforce in a furball; the operation ends without a conclusive victory and several Rostock bombers lost. This all plays out to the sound of "Adler Tag", the seven minute-long track accompanying the operation from start to end.
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The Sky Crawlers / int_396e1c2a	type	Face Death with Dignity
The Sky Crawlers / int_396e1c2a	comment	Face Death with Dignity: For all of his abrasiveness and general unpleasantness, Ukumori applies his social Darwinist principles to himself as well and once he's shot down, accepts that he deserves his fate.
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The Sky Crawlers / int_3c3f28a5	type	Blessed with Suck
The Sky Crawlers / int_3c3f28a5	comment	Blessed with Suck: Kusanagi's reward for being one of the few Kildren to survive aerial combat? Promotion to squadron commander. Where she gets to send her men out to die and experience the death of the man she loves over, and over, and over... They also let her keep her daughter, though that's tinged with suck too; Mizuki's growing up but her mother never will.
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The Sky Crawlers / int_3ca55d2e	type	Protection Mission
The Sky Crawlers / int_3ca55d2e	comment	Protection Mission: The sixth mission starts as a reconnaisance mission, but becomes a protection mission for your wingmates when enemy fighters show up and try to shoot down the squadron as they leave with the photos. A midgame mission has Cheetah Team defending a Rostock seaplane that was forced to make a landing in a river from Lautern attack until it's repaired enough to be able to take off. Later in the game, Cheetah Team must defend Rostock's under-construction secret weapon, a massive armored airship named "Wolfram" from Lautern ground forces and bombers.
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The Sky Crawlers / int_3e7cad99	type	Overheating
The Sky Crawlers / int_3e7cad99	comment	Overheating: Continuously firing machine guns (but not gun-type subweapons) will cause them to overheat and have to cool down slowly. Letting go of the trigger before this point will cool them down much faster. A tuning part can completely eliminate this.
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The Sky Crawlers / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
The Sky Crawlers / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: Yuuchi is ultimately unable to defeat his "father" / genetic-original, The Teacher, so the cycle continues. He manages to avert a Downer Ending, however, by convincing Kusanagi that there is hope in the future, and she responds positively to his successor, indicating her changed outlook.
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The Sky Crawlers / int_42cfbfc6	type	2D Visuals, 3D Effects
The Sky Crawlers / int_42cfbfc6	comment	2D Visuals, 3D Effects: The planes look almost photorealistic, while the humans are drawn traditionally.
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The Sky Crawlers / int_4655ec83	type	Important Haircut
The Sky Crawlers / int_4655ec83	comment	Important Haircut: After defecting to Lautern, Orishina cuts her hair, which you and Cheetah will notice just before the final mission. The first volume of the manga adaptation explains the circumstances behind her decision to do so.
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The Sky Crawlers / int_47ea8584	type	Defeat Means Playable
The Sky Crawlers / int_47ea8584	comment	Defeat Means Playable: Subverted. Defeating any of three particular boss aircraft on a second playthrough on hard difficulty will add them to your hangar.
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The Sky Crawlers / int_48081842	type	The Stinger
The Sky Crawlers / int_48081842	comment	The Stinger: The movie ends with another pilot arriving — Yuuchi with a new name and memories (his third set that we know of).
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The Sky Crawlers / int_480c69ba	type	Infinity -1 Sword
The Sky Crawlers / int_480c69ba	comment	Infinity -1 Sword: Lautern's Skyly D can be unlocked in a single playthrough and, especially with tuning parts, is nearly as good as or equal to the Sanka Mk B, as tuning causes both to start running into multiple stat caps that prevent one from outclassing the other.
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The Sky Crawlers / int_49d59be9	type	Scenery Porn
The Sky Crawlers / int_49d59be9	comment	Scenery Porn: Most of the movie.
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The Sky Crawlers / int_49f8c18f	type	Ace Custom
The Sky Crawlers / int_49f8c18f	comment	The various Ace Customs piloted by your wingmen that you can acquire have nearly all traded armor and stability for speed and maneuverability.
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The Sky Crawlers / int_4af55b78	type	Credits Gag
The Sky Crawlers / int_4af55b78	comment	Credits Gag: A very subtle blink-and-you'll-miss-it one at the end of the opening credits: the final credit casts a shadow just as an airplane would as the POV approaches the runway.
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The Sky Crawlers / int_4b1eeadf	type	Reporting Names
The Sky Crawlers / int_4b1eeadf	comment	Reporting Names: Lautern's fighters are only ever referred to by their Rostock reporting names, which are always English words. Their Lautern names are unknown.
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The Sky Crawlers / int_4d0372b	type	Everybody Knew Already
The Sky Crawlers / int_4d0372b	comment	Everybody Knew Already: Everyone seems to know the truth about Mizuki's origins despite Kusanagi's "little sister" cover story.
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The Sky Crawlers / int_4e7c4536	type	Wham Line
The Sky Crawlers / int_4e7c4536	comment	Wham Line: If all the Foreshadowing went over your head, the ending cutscene has Orishina's replacement, Kusanagi, greet Cheetah/Lynx, in front of a Suiga with their signature livery, as follows: "Please accept my regards Teacher", removing any ambiguity that the player character is the antagonist of the film.
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The Sky Crawlers / int_4e92cd2d	type	Checkpoint
The Sky Crawlers / int_4e92cd2d	comment	Checkpoint: Available in multi-part missions. If you fail in such mission after clearing the first part, you are given the opportunity to retry the current part instead of restarting the entire mission.
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The Sky Crawlers / int_4f37c96a	type	Duel Boss
The Sky Crawlers / int_4f37c96a	comment	Duel Boss: Three times throughout the game, you're required to shoot down former wingmen in single combat.
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The Sky Crawlers / int_52db461d	type	Significant Anagram
The Sky Crawlers / int_52db461d	comment	Significant Anagram: Cheetah is an imperfect anagram of Teacher (if written as pronounced in non-rhotic dialects, it becomes clearernote "Chee-tah" and "Tea-chah"). This is yet another hint of who Cheetah eventually becomes.
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The Sky Crawlers / int_5313c266	type	Bookends
The Sky Crawlers / int_5313c266	comment	Book Ends: The opening and closing cutscenes are nearly shot-for-shot recreations of each other, with Orishina/Kusanagi narrating "There are those who need war, and those who supply it" in the exact same voice, and with various Kildren filling in for the human members of the squadron in the ending cutscene.
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The Sky Crawlers / int_57efd4c4	type	Growing Up Sucks
The Sky Crawlers / int_57efd4c4	comment	Growing Up Sucks / Not Growing Up Sucks: Played both ways. Perpetual adolescence is great when it helps you stay sane and alive in a Forever War, if only because you lack the perspective to doubt yourself or truly understand your mortality. It's not so great when it causes people to view you as little more than tragically romantic Cannon Fodder, or denies you the chance to be a proper mother to your child. It's even implied that maturity is what gives The Teacher his insuperable advantage.
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The Sky Crawlers / int_5979acea	type	Fragile Speedster
The Sky Crawlers / int_5979acea	comment	Fragile Speedster: The Tulip, Shougu, and Itsuha are fast and extremely agile, but have poor defenses and small SP weapon payloads. The Itsuha takes it the furthest, having the greatest base maneuverability of any plane in the game, but trading off stability in addition to defense. The various Ace Customs piloted by your wingmen that you can acquire have nearly all traded armor and stability for speed and maneuverability.
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The Sky Crawlers / int_59f4d283	type	Ominous Music Box Tune
The Sky Crawlers / int_59f4d283	comment	Ominous Music Box Tune: Kusanagi has a big music box in her office that plays the film's main tune, possibly as a Shout-Out to the director's previous work, Ghost in the Shell: Innocence. It becomes ominous when it plays during YÃ»ichi's realization that something is thoroughly wrong with his existence.
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The Sky Crawlers / int_5be08bdf	type	Dodge by Braking
The Sky Crawlers / int_5be08bdf	comment	Dodge by Braking: Yuichi's signature move, which wins him several dogfights. Also the signature move of The Teacher, which turns out to be a plot point.
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The Sky Crawlers / int_5c99b642	type	War for Fun and Profit
The Sky Crawlers / int_5c99b642	comment	War for Fun and Profit: The game summarizes it as "There are those who need war, and those who provide it", essentially reducing the entire concept of having wars to a matter of supply and demand - if someone demands war, someone else can make a profit supplying it.
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The Sky Crawlers / int_5ce7dbb9	type	Central Theme
The Sky Crawlers / int_5ce7dbb9	comment	Central Theme: War never changes, and presented in a more exaggerated way than Fallout. Not only do the causes and brutality never change, but in The Sky Crawlers war quite literally never changes. It keeps happening in the same skies, fought with the same planes, in spite of the same protests, and thanks to Kildren, even the people literally remain the same.
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The Sky Crawlers / int_5d753b19	type	The Smurfette Principle
The Sky Crawlers / int_5d753b19	comment	The Smurfette Principle: Orishina is the only female character in the game.
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The Sky Crawlers / int_5deb34da	type	Ace Pilot
The Sky Crawlers / int_5deb34da	comment	Ace Pilot: Perhaps a given when considering its heritage of The Sky Crawlers and Ace Combat. Aside from Lynx/Cheetah, Yamasaki, Kaida, Ukumori, and Orishina are also aces in their own right.
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The Sky Crawlers / int_60a7a630	type	Charge Meter
The Sky Crawlers / int_60a7a630	comment	Charge Meter: In the form of the Tactical Maneuver Command system (or TMCs). Since the game has no missiles to speak of, a special gauge fills up when you stick close to an enemy. When executed, it plays a small cutscene and positions your craft just right behind your enemy. However, just like missiles, there is the chance that your attacks can still be dodged despite this.
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The Sky Crawlers / int_619985d7	type	Sacrificial Lion
The Sky Crawlers / int_619985d7	comment	Sacrificial Lion: All of them. It's their job. But as Kusanagi observes, sacrifices have to be genuine or they lose their power. Unfortunately for them Kildren just happen to make ideal sacrificial lion material.
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The Sky Crawlers / int_61b8f9e2	type	Bunny-Ears Lawyer
The Sky Crawlers / int_61b8f9e2	comment	Bunny-Ears Lawyer: Orishina is clearly not entirely all there, as seen as early as how she gets distracted marvelling at the sky in the high-altitude battle towards the end of the third mission, but she's also easily the most skilled of the Kildren pilots.
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The Sky Crawlers / int_6439de78	type	Heroic Sacrifice
The Sky Crawlers / int_6439de78	comment	Heroic Sacrifice: Yamasaki goes down shielding Ukumori from enemy gunfire. Ukumori, being an Ungrateful Bastard, mocks him for it.
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The Sky Crawlers / int_65f86fcc	type	ArtMajorPhysics
The Sky Crawlers / int_65f86fcc	comment	The flying scenes are aerodynamically plausible and never resort to Art Major Physics. Though, Teacher's Skyly J2 did a thrust vector move based on the Su-37.
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The Sky Crawlers / int_6860368a	type	Mook Horror Show
The Sky Crawlers / int_6860368a	comment	Mook Horror Show: The beginning of the final mission becomes this as you easily cut through a Lautern squadron like a knife through hot butter. When Lautern superiors realize whom they're dealing with, they order everyone to retreat and call in their newest ace pilot...ex-Rostock kildren Maumi Orishina.
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The Sky Crawlers / int_7098892d	type	Weapon-Based Characterization
The Sky Crawlers / int_7098892d	comment	Weapon-Based Characterization: Yamasaki and Kaida fly customized Suigas, while the other initial members of Cougar Team fly normal Suigas. Most of the first group of Kildren to join Cougar Team fly Seieis, with Orishina's being customized. Orishina almost instantly falls in love with the Sanka Mk II and makes a modified one her plane of choice. Ukumori always flies his prototype Itsuha unless mission parameters demand otherwise. Kildren after the first batch tend to prefer Shougus. While Lynx/Cheetah is not generally plane locked (though a few missions require flying certain planes), he starts with a Suiga, and the ending cinematic implies that he prefers it. Between his Suiga and the fact that he flies a Skyly in the film, it also implies that his favorite subweapons are likely the Shotgun and Explosive Bullets, which are shared by the Suiga and Skyly, and other than character-specific variants of certain planes, these are the only planes that carry these weapons.
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The Sky Crawlers / int_71105dfc	type	Everybody Smokes
The Sky Crawlers / int_71105dfc	comment	Everybody Smokes: It's not like they need to worry about lung cancer at a later age.
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The Sky Crawlers / int_7453bc5b	type	Spared by the Adaptation
The Sky Crawlers / int_7453bc5b	comment	Spared by the Adaptation: In the book, Yuuchi kills Kusanagi at her office. In the film...he doesn't and suggests that she find a better way to live.
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The Sky Crawlers / int_758cb30a	type	United Europe
The Sky Crawlers / int_758cb30a	comment	United Europe: The European Confederation, mentioned a few times in the passing, where the film takes place - Ireland and Poland, to be exact.
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The Sky Crawlers / int_77063cd7	type	Hooker with a Heart of Gold
The Sky Crawlers / int_77063cd7	comment	Hooker with a Heart of Gold: So golden you might not realize they're hookers until it's made explicit well into the movie.
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The Sky Crawlers / int_7fc8cf2c	type	Airstrike Impossible
The Sky Crawlers / int_7fc8cf2c	comment	Airstrike Impossible: While there are no tunnel runs, one mission requires flying low through a canyon to make a precisely-timed attack on a Lautern hydroelectric dam at the exact same time three of your wingmen attack other dams, and in the classic fashion of such missions, flying too high will fail the mission.
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The Sky Crawlers / int_844c1f3b	type	Treacherous Quest Giver
The Sky Crawlers / int_844c1f3b	comment	Treacherous Quest Giver: Deputy Chief of Intelligence Tochika Mozume when he assumes command of Hariyu Base for missions 6 through 14. He gives bad or incomplete intelligence which at least Kaida believes to be deliberate, favors the use of disposable Kildren over normal pilots, and deliberately drives interpersonal conflict in Cheetah Squadron. And ultimately, he captures the Wolfram and tries to turn it over to Lauturn because his mission was never to win the corporate war, but to keep the war going indefinitely, which Cheetah Squadron's success was threatening, as the such continued success might mean Rostock would actually win.
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The Sky Crawlers / int_84764598	type	Dramatic Thunder
The Sky Crawlers / int_84764598	comment	Dramatic Thunder: In the fifth mission, when Captain Yamasaki sacrifices himself to protect Ukumori, a thunderstorm immediately strikes as Lautern reinforcements arrive to assault the Rostock forces shocked over his sacrifice.
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The Sky Crawlers / int_8573ac0a	type	The Social Darwinist
The Sky Crawlers / int_8573ac0a	comment	The Social Darwinist: Ukumori believes that the strong live and the weak get killed by the strong. This goes as far as belittling Yamasaki, who saved his life, because Yamasaki died in the process. Naturally, he also believes that he is part of "the strong", though he does eventually accept that he wasn't as strong as he thought when Cheetah shoots him down as a Lautern pilot.
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The Sky Crawlers / int_89b8822f	type	Go Mad from the Revelation
The Sky Crawlers / int_89b8822f	comment	Go Mad from the Revelation: Kusanagi did this a long time ago.
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The Sky Crawlers / int_8b606a51	type	There Is No Kill Like Overkill
The Sky Crawlers / int_8b606a51	comment	There Is No Kill Like Overkill: The Teacher is introduced by shooting up an ejected pilot. This is also how the Teacher finishes the final battle. The fact that he didn't do this to Kusanagi is a plot point.
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The Sky Crawlers / int_8b6e8d7	type	Anachronic Order
The Sky Crawlers / int_8b6e8d7	comment	Anachronic Order: The first novel volume, The Sky Crawlers, is actually the last story chronologically: all the other volumes take place before it.
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The Sky Crawlers / int_8e9cf84e	type
The Sky Crawlers / int_8e9cf84e	comment	"Blind Idiot" Translation: The novels have been published in English, but unfortunately the translator is a Japanese native (who also started the publisher, Breakthrough Bandwagon Books) who clearly does not understand English. It's questionable if they're even authorized publications. You would have a better chance of understanding the script if you used Deep L or Google TL instead.
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The Sky Crawlers / int_9002083e	type	Character Exaggeration
The Sky Crawlers / int_9002083e	comment	The Senryu SS is basically Character Exaggeration of the base model Senryu - it's even more armored, even less agile to the point that no amount of tuning can make it remotely competitive in a turning fight, and its two guns fire even slower than the base Senryu's two guns, such that it has trouble fighting, even when using Tactical Maneuver Commands.
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The Sky Crawlers / int_957e5fc2	type	Villainous Breakdown
The Sky Crawlers / int_957e5fc2	comment	Villainous Breakdown: When Cheetah shoots down the aerial warship Wolfram, Mozume loses it and starts ranting about how, even if no one alive can beat Cheetah, time will eventually claim him.
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The Sky Crawlers / int_9a8b3185	type	DiskOneNuke
The Sky Crawlers / int_9a8b3185	comment	Disk One Nuke: The Shotgun is powerful and makes it easy to hit when you're not used to aiming, but it has limited ammo, and once you get better at aiming the guns or just start getting the aim assist parts, it becomes more or less obsolete as an SP weapon. The Suiga, the starting plane, has solid and well-balanced stats and easy access to the Shotgun, and is one of only two planes in the game that can carry the powerful and versatile Explosive Bullets.
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The Sky Crawlers / int_9aaf8eca	type	Crippling Overspecialization
The Sky Crawlers / int_9aaf8eca	comment	Lautern's ubiquitous Fission fighter is easily the weakest plane in the game that doesn't simply suffer from Crippling Overspecialization. It's slow, handles poorly, and is quite fragile, and mostly exists to be easily killed by the player.
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The Sky Crawlers / int_9b0f37de	type	Contemplate Our Navels
The Sky Crawlers / int_9b0f37de	comment	Contemplate Our Navels: Much of the film, leading to its polarizing status among viewers.
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The Sky Crawlers / int_9b73b497	type	The Only One Allowed to Defeat You
The Sky Crawlers / int_9b73b497	comment	The Only One Allowed to Defeat You: Orishina decides that she must fight Cheetah again after how much she enjoyed their mock battle when they tested the Sanka Mk II and refuses to let anyone else take him down. Even after she defects to Lautern in hopes of getting another round with Cheetah, she shoots her own forces when they get in the way of their duel.
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The Sky Crawlers / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
The Sky Crawlers / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: There are an astounding number of hints for people who have seen the film that Lynx/Cheetah eventually becomes the Teacher, such as his nose art, overwhelming skill, and that his second callsign is a near-anagram of Teacher.
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The Sky Crawlers / int_a1f82f86	type	Enemy Chatter
The Sky Crawlers / int_a1f82f86	comment	Enemy Chatter: Much like the Ace Combat games it's developed from, the enemy's radio transmissions can be heard and helps build the atmosphere during a mission.
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The Sky Crawlers / int_a5e02e9e	type	Infinity +1 Sword
The Sky Crawlers / int_a5e02e9e	comment	Infinity +1 Sword: The plane descriptions specifically call the Sanka Mk B, the hardest plane to unlock, the ultimate fighter. To their credit, it is extremely capable in all parameters and only rivaled by a tuned Skyly D or Sanka II C in performance.
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The Sky Crawlers / int_a66109e3	type	The Un-Smile
The Sky Crawlers / int_a66109e3	comment	The Un-Smile: YÃ»ichi gives one to a nosy tourist videotaping him.
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The Sky Crawlers / int_a7f7e5f4	type	Absurdly Youthful Mother
The Sky Crawlers / int_a7f7e5f4	comment	Absurdly Youthful Mother: Kusanagi has an 8 year old daughter, Mizuki, but is still physically an adolescent herself. Mizuki tells Yuuichi that Kusanagi is her Cool Big Sis, implying she doesn't know the truth herself.
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The Sky Crawlers / int_a86069f	type	Alternate History
The Sky Crawlers / int_a86069f	comment	Alternate History / Alternate Universe: Like in the movie, it's not established in what year the game is set in, but it features old school airplanes side by side with flat-screen TVs, and apparently conventional war has been completely eliminated in favor of War for Fun and Profit that doesn't put civilians, or governments for that matter, at risk. Also, it's obviously set in Earth, but the places the game have Japanese-sounding names instead of European ones (they are bought and renamed by the companies), like the final mission, which is set on Normandy and is instead called "Karasu Bay" and Mont Saint-Michel, a medieval castle, is called "Fort Togakuten".
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The Sky Crawlers / int_ab2df806	type	Red Baron
The Sky Crawlers / int_ab2df806	comment	Red Baron: The player character. Starts out as "Lynx", gets promoted to "Cheetah" and finally attains legendary status when the enemy fighters nickname him "Black Cat" for his black panther head design in his plane's tail which he still keeps in the movie, only with a full body version on the side.
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The Sky Crawlers / int_ac9f78d9	type	Jack of All Stats
The Sky Crawlers / int_ac9f78d9	comment	Jack of All Stats: The starting Suiga is a well-rounded, versatile fighter with no glaring weaknesses, but also no exceptional strengths. The Fortune seems to be its Lautern equivalent in performance, and similarly has well-rounded capabilities, while not having any outstandingly good or bad parameters.
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The Sky Crawlers / int_ace1f7c5	type	WorthyAdversary
The Sky Crawlers / int_ace1f7c5	comment	Worthy Adversary: Orishina considers Cheetah one after their mock battle. Trouble is, this means that she also considers everyone else to be unworthy and she becomes increasingly disinterested in her actual job and bitter towards her squadmates, as she wants absolutely nothing other than to fight Cheetah again.
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The Sky Crawlers / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
The Sky Crawlers / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: Several verbal variations, both literal and figurative, whenever the Rostock pilots confront The Teacher. And a purely visual one for Yuuichi when he realizes he's fallen for The Teacher's "snap stall/reversal" signature move and is about to die.
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The Sky Crawlers / int_af3ea0e3	type	Faceâ€“Heel Turn
The Sky Crawlers / int_af3ea0e3	comment	Faceâ€“Heel Turn: For given values of "Face" and "Heel", several characters defect from Rostock to Lautern over the course of the game. Cheetah shoots down everyone who tries. Between the game and the film, Cheetah himself defects to Lautern. Ukumori and Mozume defect to Lautern to try to restore balance to the war after Cheetah's tipped the scales too far in Rostock's favor, and a pair of other kildren go along with Ukumori, one because he looks up to Ukumori, and the other because Ukumori threatened him. Mozume and Ukumori are shot down before they can link up with other Lautern forces, while the other two kildren can be optionally shot down or spared. Orishina defects to Lautern not out of any concern with the state of the war, but solely so she can fight Cheetah again.
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The Sky Crawlers / int_b2cdd776	type	Bottomless Magazines
The Sky Crawlers / int_b2cdd776	comment	Bottomless Magazines: Unlike Ace Combat, which the game is developed from, machine guns have infinite ammo, no matter the difficulty setting and are instead prevented from firing continuously via overheating. While SP weapon ammo isn't literally infinite, it far exceeds what is seen on wing stations, with the sole exception of rockets on the Incident, which has six four-rocket tubes when equipped with rocket launchers, and does in fact have exactly 24 rockets.
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The Sky Crawlers / int_b59e09cd	type	Bifauxnen
The Sky Crawlers / int_b59e09cd	comment	Bifauxnen: The hooker who sleeps with Yuuchi. Has a Toplessness from the Back shot too.
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The Sky Crawlers / int_b6f33a21	type	Rainbow Speak
The Sky Crawlers / int_b6f33a21	comment	Rainbow Speak: Occasionally appears in ally chatter to point out something important during a mission.
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The Sky Crawlers / int_b7c53a22	type	Blood Knight
The Sky Crawlers / int_b7c53a22	comment	Blood Knight: All of the Kildren to some extent or another, as they're literally bred for air combat and they tend to enjoy flying and dogfighting, but Orishina stands out for how desperately she wants to fight Cheetah again after their mock battle. She isn't interested in quantity of combat, she wants a quality fight and is unsatisfied with mere mooks once she's had a taste of battle with an ace of Cheetah's caliber. It also seems to be a shared quirk of her entire line of Kildren, as she and her successor provide both the opening and closing narrations about how they're just fine with their world's ubiquitous War for Fun and Profit because it gives them a chance to fly.
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The Sky Crawlers / int_ba6baee1	type	High-Altitude Battle
The Sky Crawlers / int_ba6baee1	comment	High-Altitude Battle: While all battles naturally take place quite far off the ground, the third mission in particular has a battle above the clouds and a massive updraft to make sure you can reach those altitudes quickly. Once up there, Orishina is amazed at how beautiful the sky is way up there.
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The Sky Crawlers / int_bc0346e2	type	Upgrade vs. Prototype Fight
The Sky Crawlers / int_bc0346e2	comment	Upgrade vs. Prototype Fight: While not a mandatory part of the game, it can certainly be arranged by bringing the Sanka Mk II to the final battle and facing off against Orishina's Sanka Mk II C, an upgraded custom version of the Sanka Mk II. Alternatively, the roles can by reversed by bringing the Sanka Mk B, a later model of Sanka fighter, to go against Orishina's improved older model.
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The Sky Crawlers / int_bda2a088	type	Did They or Didn't They?
The Sky Crawlers / int_bda2a088	comment	Did They or Didn't They?: There are two scenes where YÃ»ichi and Kusanagi are together that may or may not have ended in sex, but the camera always fades to black before any kind of confirmation, let alone acknowledgement afterwards.
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The Sky Crawlers / int_bff666b	type	Suicide Pact
The Sky Crawlers / int_bff666b	comment	Suicide Pact: It turns out that Kusanagi killed Yuuchi's predecessor; she suggests to Yuuchi that he kill her this time. He doesn't go for it.
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The Sky Crawlers / int_c0c54000	type	JokeWeapon
The Sky Crawlers / int_c0c54000	comment	Joke Weapon: The Senryu SS (Special Specs). Based on a plane that the entire squadron already lamented the poor handling of in a recon mission early in the game, the Special Specs variant model trades what little maneuverability the Senryu had as well as its already limited firepower, for raw speed and armor. A late-game mission requires the player to fly it as a transport for a VIP. Naturally, during the mission, you're ambushed by various Lautern aircraft while in the worst-handling, slowest-shooting plane in the game. It attempts to be a Lethal Joke Weapon with its Rapid Guns and staggering 870 rounds for them, but they can't make up for its awful handling, and several other planes act as better platforms for the weapon. Making matters worse, the mission that forces its use, also forbids the use of SP weapons, so the one time it must be used and its Rapid Guns would be appreciated, they can't be used. Lautern's ubiquitous Fission fighter is easily the weakest plane in the game that doesn't simply suffer from Crippling Overspecialization. It's slow, handles poorly, and is quite fragile, and mostly exists to be easily killed by the player.
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The Sky Crawlers / int_c2b28f75	type	A.K.A.-47
The Sky Crawlers / int_c2b28f75	comment	A.K.A.-47: Several of the planes are very closely modeled on real WWII-era fighters. The Suiga is very closely modeled on the F4U Corsair. The Sanka Mk II is nearly a dead ringer for the J7W Shinden. The Shougu is closely modeled on the F8F Bearcat. The Seiei is nearly identical to the Do 335 Pfeil. Lautern's Tulip strongly resembles a downscaled P-51 Mustang. Lautern's Fortune is basically a Gloster Meteor with pusher props instead of jets. Lautern's Vice is based on the Bf 110.
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The Sky Crawlers / int_c335b9ec	type	Irony
The Sky Crawlers / int_c335b9ec	comment	Irony: Cheetah shoots down multiple other pilots in his squadron for attempting to defect to Lauturn. Between the game and the movie, he himself defects to Lauturn.
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The Sky Crawlers / int_c420a553	type	We Can Rule Together
The Sky Crawlers / int_c420a553	comment	We Can Rule Together: After rebelling against Rostock, a deranged Mozume offers Cheetah the opportunity to join him in building his new empire over Rostock and Lautern during the battle against the Wolfram, but Cheetah implictly rebutts him.
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The Sky Crawlers / int_c513249	type	Harder Than Hard
The Sky Crawlers / int_c513249	comment	Harder Than Hard: The unlockable Ace difficulty level.
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The Sky Crawlers / int_c5ddc769	type	Armored Coffins
The Sky Crawlers / int_c5ddc769	comment	Armored Coffins: Anyone who is shot down will die. Apparently Rostock and Lautern can't be bothered to splurge on parachutes for their pilots because nobody ever bails out when they're shot down, or even attempts it.
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The Sky Crawlers / int_c83a589c	type	Luke, I Am Your Father
The Sky Crawlers / int_c83a589c	comment	Luke, I Am Your Father: Your character (Lynx/Cheetah to his allies, the Black Cat to his enemies) eventually becomes The Teacher from the movie and thus Yuichi's genetic "father". Orishina is the predecessor to Kusanagi, who is another clone from the same genetic material.
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The Sky Crawlers / int_c96c96d	type	Unlockable Difficulty Levels
The Sky Crawlers / int_c96c96d	comment	Unlockable Difficulty Levels: You can unlock a very hard difficulty level, "Ace" difficulty, as well as the "Expert" control scheme that decouples roll and yaw.
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The Sky Crawlers / int_ca9c252f	type	This Is Something He's Got to Do Himself
The Sky Crawlers / int_ca9c252f	comment	This Is Something He's Got to Do Himself: "This is my battle."
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The Sky Crawlers / int_caf89e54	type	Taking You with Me
The Sky Crawlers / int_caf89e54	comment	Taking You with Me: In the sortie, we see at least two Rostock heavy bombers being brought down by kamikaze attacks from damaged Lautern fighters. Ouch.
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The Sky Crawlers / int_cbe687ab	type	Corrupt Corporate Executive
The Sky Crawlers / int_cbe687ab	comment	Corrupt Corporate Executive: Mozume is a slimy figure, promoting the use of expendable Kildren, antagonizing Kaida and Orishina, seemingly trying to drive conflict within the squadron, and seeking to draw out the ongoing War for Fun and Profit, rather than allow one side to become dominant. He, along with Ukumori eventually attempt to defect to Lautern to even out the conflict after Cheetah has put Rostock at a decisive advantage.
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The Sky Crawlers / int_ceec4df5	type	Roaring Rampage of Revenge
The Sky Crawlers / int_ceec4df5	comment	Roaring Rampage of Revenge: Orishina does this in mission 7 after Lautern forces interrupt her mock battle with Cheetah.
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The Sky Crawlers / int_d24ed873	type	Developer's Foresight
The Sky Crawlers / int_d24ed873	comment	Developer's Foresight: There is a quite substantial amount of dialog in mission 13 for if you stick around and try to fight Orishina in the Senryu SS, a task which has absolutely nothing to do with your mission and for the Senryu SS is supremely ill-suited. Orishina figures out Cheetah is piloting the Senryu and the Lautern pilots express their humiliation at being unable to shoot down a lone recon plane. In the intended gameplay, this shouldn't ever come up, as the objective is simply to fly across the windy map as fast as you can without being shot down and trying to dogfight enemies is counterproductive to this goal.
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The Sky Crawlers / int_d259fea2	type	Speak Ill of the Dead
The Sky Crawlers / int_d259fea2	comment	Speak Ill of the Dead: Ukumori has a habit of dismissing anyone who dies as "weak" and deserving their death for their "weakness". His tendency to do this, especially to captain Yamasaki pisses Kaida off to no end.
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The Sky Crawlers / int_d4937788	type	Days of Future Past
The Sky Crawlers / int_d4937788	comment	Days of Future Past: Aesthetically and technologically (for the most part) the setting resembles the 1940s, with piston-powered planes and machine guns... but then you have cars from The '70s and flatscreen monitors and televisions. Embodied particularly in the the aircraft, which are based on the ultimate generation of piston-engined fighters that died stillborn at the dawn of the jet age. Justified in that this air war is actually a form of glorified gladiatorial combat. Jets would be prohibitively expensive and wouldn't make for spectacular dogfights. Jets are banned in the short Cold War after WWII.
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The Sky Crawlers / int_d565da4	type	Starter Equipment
The Sky Crawlers / int_d565da4	comment	The Suiga, the starting plane, has solid and well-balanced stats and easy access to the Shotgun, and is one of only two planes in the game that can carry the powerful and versatile Explosive Bullets.
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The Sky Crawlers / int_d848560f	type	Unusual Euphemism
The Sky Crawlers / int_d848560f	comment	Unusual Euphemism: At one point, Kaida tells Ukumori to "go strum a guitar," meaning something to the effect of "go screw yourself."
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The Sky Crawlers / int_da006328	type	Earn Your Title
The Sky Crawlers / int_da006328	comment	Earn Your Title: After saving your wingmen from enemy fighters when the squadron gets ambushed by Lautern Tulips after a reconnaissance mission that the whole squadron has to fly Senryus for, everyone agrees that "Lynx" isn't a badass enough callsign for you and they rename you "Cheetah".
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The Sky Crawlers / int_db33bc7e	type	Ludicrous Gibs
The Sky Crawlers / int_db33bc7e	comment	Ludicrous Gibs: While most deaths are not that bloody, the opening credits show a pilot that has already bailed out getting hit with an aircraft gun. Crosses over into whole-body Pink Mist.
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The Sky Crawlers / int_dba5a4f8	type	LethalJokeWeapon
The Sky Crawlers / int_dba5a4f8	comment	The Senryu SS (Special Specs). Based on a plane that the entire squadron already lamented the poor handling of in a recon mission early in the game, the Special Specs variant model trades what little maneuverability the Senryu had as well as its already limited firepower, for raw speed and armor. A late-game mission requires the player to fly it as a transport for a VIP. Naturally, during the mission, you're ambushed by various Lautern aircraft while in the worst-handling, slowest-shooting plane in the game. It attempts to be a Lethal Joke Weapon with its Rapid Guns and staggering 870 rounds for them, but they can't make up for its awful handling, and several other planes act as better platforms for the weapon. Making matters worse, the mission that forces its use, also forbids the use of SP weapons, so the one time it must be used and its Rapid Guns would be appreciated, they can't be used.
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The Sky Crawlers / int_e11b003d	type	Translation Convention
The Sky Crawlers / int_e11b003d	comment	Translation Convention: Averted, if a bit strangely. The main cast speaks Japanese for most of the time, but speak English while in the air, and with tourists, and the few locals seen in Krakow speak passable, if accented Polish. The odd thing is that the whole movie is set in Europe, yet it's never questioned why there are so many Japanese military contractors around. The English dub averts this trope entirely by, of course, having the main cast speak in English all the time and re-dubbing the more Engrish-y lines with native English speakers.
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The Sky Crawlers / int_e1acc872	type	From Nobody to Nightmare
The Sky Crawlers / int_e1acc872	comment	From Nobody to Nightmare: The player starts as Lynx, a new pilot in Rostock's Cougar Squadron headed by their top Ace, Mutsuga "Cougar" Yamasaki, and eventually becomes known to his allies as Cheetah and feared by his enemies as the Black Cat, and after the game, becomes the dreaded Teacher from the film.
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The Sky Crawlers / int_e2ccee25	type	Animal Motifs
The Sky Crawlers / int_e2ccee25	comment	Animal Motifs: The Teacher flies a plane marked with a black panther, and the heroes use dog breeds for their callsigns.
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The Sky Crawlers / int_e3f34fb4	type	Featureless Protagonist
The Sky Crawlers / int_e3f34fb4	comment	Featureless Protagonist: Nothing is revealed about Lynx/Cheetah beyond that he's male and an extraordinary ace. At the end of the game, a picture of him with a very nondescript face can be seen, but that's about it.
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The Sky Crawlers / int_e5421161	type	Expy
The Sky Crawlers / int_e5421161	comment	Expy: Kaida is very similar to Alvin H. "Chopper" Davenport, sharing a laid-back attitude, sense of humor, and musical interest.
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The Sky Crawlers / int_e6630c8b	type	GameplayAndStoryIntegration
The Sky Crawlers / int_e6630c8b	comment	Gameplay and Story Integration: The player character seems to be the only one capable of performing some of the more extreme flight maneuvers, especially those enabled by Tactical Maneuver Commands. The peerless level of skill carries over to the movie.
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The Sky Crawlers / int_e76151c3	type	Battleship Raid
The Sky Crawlers / int_e76151c3	comment	Battleship Raid: In the penultimate mission, Cheetah and his two remaining wingmen are tasked with shooting down Wolfram, the colossal war-airship they had previously defended when their commanding officer pulls as Faceâ€“Heel Turn and attempts to steal it. The fight has to be done in three phases, each of which has a large number of anti-air guns trying to shoot you down, and the hull of the airship is too heavily armored to do direct damage it. In the first phase, the four massive searchlight-directed cannons on its tailfins must be silenced. In the second, Cheetah must brave the intense winds created by the colossal drive fans on Wolfram's envelope, evade its aerial mines, and shoot its exhaust ports to destroy its engines so it can't flee. In the final phase, Wolfram reveals another, faster firing and more accurate searchlight-directed cannon in its nose and Lautern aircraft arrive to defend it. Once this cannon is destroyed, Wolfram finally goes down.
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The Sky Crawlers / int_e780f603	type	Clone Angst
The Sky Crawlers / int_e780f603	comment	Clone Angst: It must be pretty tough working out you're a clone, but even tougher watching dozens of clones succeed each other, unaware.
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The Sky Crawlers / int_e7c671f3	type	Mildly Military
The Sky Crawlers / int_e7c671f3	comment	Mildly Military: They do wear uniforms, but they use names or job titles instead of ranks and they aren't big on "mickey mouse" or saluting. Kusanagi's habit of sleeping with her subordinates would be a really big no-no.
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The Sky Crawlers / int_ea39d156	type	Who Wants to Live Forever?
The Sky Crawlers / int_ea39d156	comment	Who Wants to Live Forever?: The Kildren are immune to everything but violence and are otherwise immortal, remaining forever young, but they tire of living the same thing over and over and crave what can and will kill them.
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The Sky Crawlers / int_ed68bcc9	type	Dwindling Party
The Sky Crawlers / int_ed68bcc9	comment	Dwindling Party: Over the course of the game, your initial wingmen die off one by one, and by the end, all your wingmen are Kildren, eventually none of whom are even the initial Kildren who joined Cougar Team back in the second mission. However, when a Kildren is lost, they're usually replaced by a clone within a few missions, so you never completely run out of wingmen.
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The Sky Crawlers / int_f16da697	type	Undying Loyalty
The Sky Crawlers / int_f16da697	comment	Undying Loyalty: Kaida was deeply loyal to Captain Yamasaki and continues to call Yamasaki his captain, even after Cheetah becomes captain of the squadron. After Ukumori belittles Yamasaki and the now-dead (normal) human members of the squadron one too many times, Kaida takes a shot at Ukumori and Mozume orders Cheetah to shoot Kaida down.
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The Sky Crawlers / int_f1d38725	type	Engrish
The Sky Crawlers / int_f1d38725	comment	The English dub averts this trope entirely by, of course, having the main cast speak in English all the time and re-dubbing the more Engrish-y lines with native English speakers.
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The Sky Crawlers / int_f96f188c	type	Drives Like Crazy
The Sky Crawlers / int_f96f188c	comment	Drives Like Crazy: Kusanagi, apparently. No big deal is made out of it, but she drives very fast on a narrow twisty road built on a cliff side. (American viewers will think she drives extremely fast, astute American viewers will realize it's a metric speedometer.)
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The Sky Crawlers / int_fbb54ba6	type	Forever War
The Sky Crawlers / int_fbb54ba6	comment	Forever War: There had been a couple of tournaments and the current one lasted 4 years.
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The Sky Crawlers / int_fc225bec	type	Artistic License – Physics
The Sky Crawlers / int_fc225bec	comment	Artistic License â€“ Physics: In-game, it is possible to perform advanced maneuvers, such as the Kulbit, which is by definition, a loop tighter than could be performed by purely aerodynamic forces, despite the fact that all aircraft in the game are propeller-driven, and thus don't have anything like the thrust vectoring these maneuvers require in real life.
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The Sky Crawlers / int_ffad4e9f	type	Shown Their Work
The Sky Crawlers / int_ffad4e9f	comment	Shown Their Work: Among other things, the signs in Krakow are in accurate Polish. The crew actually traveled to Ireland and Poland to get a good visual feel of the place, and toured the local air force bases and hangars for reference. In the DVD bonus features they are shown photographing some house radiators and electric sockets so that they look accurate for the region the movie is supposed to be set in. The flying scenes are aerodynamically plausible and never resort to Art Major Physics. Though, Teacher's Skyly J2 did a thrust vector move based on the Su-37. English actually is the international standard language for aviation. The weird looking oxygen masks are based on an actual Royal Air Force model from the thirties.
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