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Undersea Super Train: Marine Express was a 1979 made-for-TV Japanese Animated film featuring characters from various Osamu Tezuka manga. The whole thing is basically an Alternate Universe Fic except that it was made by the actual creator of the characters. (While Tezuka was already known for creating Expies of his own characters to reuse from one manga to the next, this movie (one of three) was created specifically for crossover purposes.) Among the characters involved are Black Jack, Astro Boy, The Princess Knight, Don Dracula, The Three-Eyed One and Kimba the White Lion.The plot involves the world's first undersea train, in its maiden voyage from Los Angeles to Japan. Several characters board it with their own secret agendas, involving everything from weapon smuggling to preventing pollution. Then midway through the trip the train is whisked back in time to the era of the lost Mu Empire, which once reigned over the Pacific, and the characters must now help liberate it from an evil tyrant.Not to be confused with the TV series Supertrain. |
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Age Lift |
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Age Lift: Sharaku is aged up like the previous anime telemovie before it, this time assuming the role of a dictator. |
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Anyone Can Die |
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Anyone Can Die: By the end, several characters are dead, including Skunk, Boon Marukubi, Milly's father, Astro Boy, his creator and Sharaku. |
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The Cameo |
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The Cameo: Pinoko appears as she is watching the television coverage of the launch of the Marine Express in Black Jack's clinic. Tezuka himself, as a tourist. |
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Bittersweet Ending |
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Bittersweet Ending: several characters die, others stay in the past to live there, either permanently or temporarily. But at least Rock and The Queen remain together. Only Detective Ban returns to the present. |
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Paper-Thin Disguise |
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Paper-Thin Disguise: The Queen's, when she disguises herself as Dondra. |
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Green Aesop |
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Green Aesop: Dr. Narzenkopf wishes to destroy the train to prevent destruction of sea life and Polynesian islands from industrializing and polluting the ocean. |
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Even Evil Has Loved Ones |
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Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Director Credit dearly loves his daughter and spares Detective Ban's life so she wouldn't see him murder someone. |
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Excuse Plot |
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Excuse Plot: Most of the story doesn't make much sense; in particular, Sharaku's reason for bringing the Marine Express to the past. |
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Politically Incorrect Villain |
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Politically Incorrect Villain: Director Credit is said to be a white supremacist. |
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Death by Cameo |
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Death by Cameo: Ham Egg appears for a few seconds before being killed off. |
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Hijacked by Ganon |
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Hijacked by Ganon: The original plot is caused by Director Credit smuggling illegal weapons on the train and hiring assassins to kill anyone who gets in his way. After they're taken out, the train is transported 10,000 years into the past by aliens. |
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Decoy Protagonist |
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Decoy Protagonist: The film initially seems like it will be focused on Shunsaku Ban and Black Jack. It quickly focuses to Rock and his development once they're on the train. |
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20 Minutes into the Future |
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20 Minutes into the Future: It takes place in the far future of- 2002. |
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