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Appleseed (Manga)

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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_3'); })Appleseed is a four volume Cyber Punk/Mecha manga written between 1985 and 1989 by Shirow Masamune, of Ghost in the Shell fame. It led to OVA and feature film adaptations. Set in post-apocalyptic 22nd century, the story follows the Action Girl Deunan Knute and her cyborg partner and lover Briareos Hecatonchires. The two join the special forces of the city of Olympus, an enclave of peaceful life on the planet devastated by the World War III (and recovering from World War IV), whose population consists equally of both normal humans and "bioroids", Artificial Humans with genetically suppressed aggressiveness who act as emotional buffer for the former.The original manga saw Deunan and Briareos join Olympus's counter-terrorism unit ESWAT after being discovered in the wastelands and offered a life in Utopian city in exchange for their combat skills (both were formerly SWAT operatives). The manga follows them as they protect their new home from enemies, both foreign and domestic. Unfortunately, other projects and the loss of much of his notes in a 1995 earthquake left the manga as an Orphaned Series.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_2'); })The one-shot OVAnote a co-production between Studio Gainax and AIC was produced in 1988 and has little in common with the original manga except the setting and the characters. The plot concerns a colleague of Deunan and Briareos, who feels that instead of Utopia, Olympus is a Gilded Cage designed to prevent humans from living a fulfilling life. To destroy this cage, he conspires with a professional terrorist and it's up to Deunan and Briareos to stop them.Sixteen years later, the first feature film was released, directed by Shinji Aramaki. Just like the OVA, it shares little with the original manga and diverges even in the premise: instead of joining ESWAT together, Deunan and Briareos are separated by accident long before coming to Olympus and have to regain mutual trust over the course of the film. The main plot centers on the struggle of two equally extremist racist factions in Olympus, each desiring to destroy either the original humanity, or the bioroids to make way for the other. The movie featured a unique for that time style of animation that seamlessly blended traditional anime designs and CGI and which was later reused in the sequel and an unrelated movie Vexille, produced largely by the same people.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_1'); })Appleseed Ex Machina, the Oddly Named Sequel to the 2004 movie, is set two years after it and sees the idyllic relationship between the protagonists challenged by the introduction of Tereus, a Super Prototype bioroid who is for all intents and purposes a clone of Briareos minus the fact that he didn't have his entire body replaced with cybernetic prosthetics. The situation is worsened when all cyborgs in Olympus (including Briareos) start getting hijacked by a Knight Templar seeking to unite humanity once and for all... in quite an unsettling manner. The producer of the second movie was John Woo. Yes, that John Woo.note Which explains the pigeons and the extreme akimbo.It also has a CGI anime series named Appleseed XIII. The series was produced in 2011 by Jinni's Animation Studios in association with Production I.G and under the direction of Takayuki Hamana with Junichi Fujisaku as script supervisor. All 13 episodes of Appleseed XIII can be seen on Funimation's official YouTube channel here. An English dub of the series was released on DVD and Blu-Ray in June 2013.A third CGI film titled Appleseed Alpha was released on July 15, 2014, directed once again by Shinji Aramaki. It is a Prequel film that focuses on Deunan and Briareos before they arrive in Olympus, as they are living in the ruins of New York City doing mercenary work for a local crime boss named Two Horns, until one day on a mission they encounter a Mysterious Waif and her cyborg bodyguard claiming to be on a mission for Olympus. This title holds the distinction of being the only entry in the series where the English audio came first; a Japanese dub was released on October 28, 2014.Not to be confused with Johnny Appleseed, or anything else named after the man.Has a character sheet in need of some wiki magic love.
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Motion Capture Mecha: Landmates.
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Gatling Good
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Gatling Good: Very good. The giant siege platforms have at least four gatling guns the size of buses in addition to their Wave Motion Gun. The Movie has Deunan pursued by two tanks mounted with gatling guns. These tanks are lifted directly out of the manga's designs. The Appleseed Alpha movie demonstrates this again with the urban tank that chases Deunan & Briareos around the ruins of New York City, as well as the gatling guns mounted on the "Ostrich" mechs and the prototype giant spider tank.
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Trailers Always Spoil: Funimation's trailer for Appleseed XIII spoils who the big bad is, which itself is a huge Plot Twist.
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Cel Shading
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Cel Shading: The 2004 movie is entirely in CG with a blend of motion capture and cel shading. Both Ex Machina and XIII also utilize this method.
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Relationship Upgrade
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Relationship Upgrade: Inverted in XIII. While Deunan still has feelings for Briareos, Bri seems rather clueless as to how much she cares about him.
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Visionary Villain
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Visionary Villain: Talos in Alpha has a grand vision to rebuild the world and bring order to a shattered globe, though exactly how he plans to do that is a bit muddy. Said vision would also entail getting rid of undesirable elements such as Two Horns and his gang. His plan at least definitely has something to do with a superweapon from the pre-war period, specifically an Arachnoid-class land battleship that was under construction by the U.S. government that was halted when America lost the war.
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Death by Origin Story
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In the manga, Deunan explains that she was gunned down by some random racists in San Francisco, so her Death by Origin Story was changed as well. Deunan also said in the manga that she was a "Cafe Au Lait''.
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The High Queen
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The High Queen: Athena.
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Did You Think I Can't Feel?
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Did You Think I Can't Feel?: While the Bioroids do have emotional restrictions, it would be wrong to say they don't have any emotions at all, they're just more subdued.
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The Movie
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The Movie has Deunan pursued by two tanks mounted with gatling guns. These tanks are lifted directly out of the manga's designs.
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Artificial Human
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Artificial Human: Bioroids.
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Ominous Floating Castle
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Ominous Floating Castle: The Halcon base is a giant floating Borg-Cube-esque giant laboratory floating above an artificial island.
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Punch-Clock Villain
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Punch-Clock Villain: In "Alpha", while it is mentioned by multiple characters that the numerous nameless cyborg thugs working for Two Horns are criminals and gang members, none of them act that unpleasant nor are shown doing anything evil throughout the course of the film. The worst any of them do is attack the better armed and more dangerous Deunan and Briareos when directly ordered to do so, and when ordered to return to the tank rather than continue attacking go so far as to look at each other, shrug, and calmly leave. The red one that acts as second in command to Two Horns in particular is portrayed as surprisingly mellow, level headed, and non-confrontational. Minor hints scattered throughout the film imply that these men used to be soldiers during the War, and after the war was over they simply continued to do the same things they used to just under new managment.
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Fallen States of America: Appleseed Alpha takes place in New York City, which is now a bombed out wasteland crawling with renegade cyborgs and other lowlifes.
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Chekhov's Gun
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Chekhov's Gun: The broken machine Matthews is trying to fix at the beginning of Alpha (it's a Landmate). There are a few others in that movie as well, such as the broken highway bridge near where Deunan and Briareos find Olson's body, and the large bullet holes Deunan makes in the spider walker's control center with the Landmate. Both are crucial in destroying the walker.
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Post-Cyberpunk
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Post-Cyberpunk: In a world of rampant cyber-augmentation, hyper-advanced technology, and super-powerful corporations... things are mostly okay, really. There was that one war, but mankind pulled back from the brink, and is chugging happily along.
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Ironic Echo: From Alpha: "Hope. What a concept." Interestingly it's said on two different occasions by two characters, both of which could not possibly have known the other said it. And even funnier is that the phrase is directed at the same target, Two Horns.
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Multi-Armed and Dangerous: Landmate arms typically act on a Master-Slave system: The Landmate's arms mimic the motions of the operator's real arms, which are usually external (and safely armored). When Briareose hooks into his Mecha Expansion Pack as mentioned above, he can actually control all four arms independently (as any Hecatonchires cyborg could).
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Beast and Beauty
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Beast and Beauty: Deunan and Briareos, though in the OVA (and Ex Machina, shown in a flashback) they've been a couple since before he had his cybernetic upgrades.
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Cleavage Window
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Cleavage Window: Athena's assistant Nike has one in Ex Machina.
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The World Is Just Awesome
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The World Is Just Awesome: When we're first shown Olympus city.
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Spiritual Successor
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Spiritual Successor: Vexille, to the first movie.
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No Flow in CGI
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No Flow in CGI: Deunan's hair is animated as a number of locks, which moves according to physics, instead of animating every strand separately. Extras and Background models are simpler, and have completely un-animated hair.
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More Dakka
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More Dakka Spider Gun Platforms in the manga and OVA, Mobile Fortresses in the first movie.
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Orphaned Series
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Orphaned Series: The manga. Apparently, most of Masamune's notes for Appleseed were destroyed in the 1995 Kobe earthquake, and he has expressed little interest in continuing the series.
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Tomboy and Girly Girl
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Tomboy and Girly Girl: Deunan and Hitomi.
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Land of One City
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Land of One City: Olympus.
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Scary Black Man
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Scary Black Man: In the original manga, Briareos was black before becoming a full-body cyborg. Two Horns in Alpha is a ruthless cyborg crime boss with a face like an oni mask.
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Even Evil Has Standards
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Even Evil Has Standards: General Uranus is appalled and horrified when Hades moves in to murder Briareos and Deunan; upon realizing he had been manipulated into instigating the coup, he chooses to surrender peacefully, refusing to be somebody's tool in spite of his hatred of Bioroids.
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Super Window Jump
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Super Window Jump: Through a stained glass window in Ex Machina, no less.
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Compilation Movie
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Compilation Movie: XIII got a pair of them: Tartaros and Ouranos.
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Lethal Chef
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Lethal Chef: Deunan in the manga.
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Chicken Walker
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Chicken Walker: The "Ostrich" mechs in Alpha have this style going on.
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Gentle Giant
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Gentle Giant: Briareos when he's off-duty. Makes his predicament in Ex Machina all the more disturbing.
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Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism
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Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism: In Appleseed Alpha, Iris & Olson are very much on the idealistic scale, believing they can build a better world, Deunan is somewhere in the middle, while Briareos is firmly cynical. This flips a bit halfway through after they find Olson's corpse, where Deunan briefly loses hope in finding Olympus, but this leads Briareos to adopt a more idealistic viewpoint if only to keep Deunan's spirits up. The villain, Talos, is far on the cynical scale, believing that Olympus's ideals are nonsense and that humanity needs war to continue existing.
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Flying Car
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Flying Car: Sort of: They float above ground.
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Villainous Legacy
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Villainous Legacy: Overlapping with a touch of My Death Is Just the Beginning due to the circumstances of the demise in question in Ex Machina. The Big Bad dies halfway through the movie. It doesn't slow his plans down one jot.
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 Appleseed (Manga) / int_3aead6c9
type
Mysterious Mercenary Pursuer
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_3aead6c9
comment
Mysterious Mercenary Pursuer: The entire Triton team in Alpha, who are all faceless, professional, and relentless in their pursuit of Olson and Iris. And aside from Nyx and Talos, they're all voiceless as well.
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_3aead6c9
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1.0
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_3aead6c9
featureConfidence
1.0
 Appleseed (Manga)
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Appleseed (Manga) / int_3aead6c9
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_3c2ab68a
type
Gunship Rescue
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_3c2ab68a
comment
Gun Ship Rescue: Happens in the beginning of the film for Deunan after she gets trapped.
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_3c2ab68a
featureApplicability
1.0
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_3c2ab68a
featureConfidence
1.0
 Appleseed (Manga)
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Appleseed (Manga) / int_3c2ab68a
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_3c5ae1a1
type
Schizo Tech
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_3c5ae1a1
comment
Schizo Tech: In this universe cyborgs and typewriters exist side by side.
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_3c5ae1a1
featureApplicability
1.0
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_3c5ae1a1
featureConfidence
1.0
 Appleseed (Manga)
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Appleseed (Manga) / int_3c5ae1a1
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_3d59c9a0
type
Powered Armor
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_3d59c9a0
comment
Powered Armor: Protectors, Landmates (kinda).
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_3d59c9a0
featureApplicability
1.0
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_3d59c9a0
featureConfidence
1.0
 Appleseed (Manga)
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Appleseed (Manga) / int_3d59c9a0
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_3dd3951e
type
Cowboy Cop
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_3dd3951e
comment
Cowboy Cop: Colonel Hades was one during his LA SWAT days; this factored into his expulsion from the group by Deunan's father, which fueled his ultimately suicidal revenge scheme against the Knutes. Played straight by Deunan, her exceptional combat ability is the only thing that keeps her from getting killed on multiple occasions. And, not surprisingly, she gets chewed out by both Briareos and her ESWAT platoon leader for it several times.
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_3dd3951e
featureApplicability
1.0
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_3dd3951e
featureConfidence
1.0
 Appleseed (Manga)
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Appleseed (Manga) / int_3dd3951e
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_3ec18c6f
type
Sherlock Scan
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_3ec18c6f
comment
Sherlock Scan: All Nyx has to do in Alpha is simply wave her hand over a few spent shell casings to obtain an absurdly detailed picture of a battle that was just fought half an hour ago.
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_3ec18c6f
featureApplicability
1.0
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_3ec18c6f
featureConfidence
1.0
 Appleseed (Manga)
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Appleseed (Manga) / int_3ec18c6f
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_3f71b00e
type
Point Defenseless
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_3f71b00e
comment
Point Defenseless: Averted in Appleseed Alpha with the prototype Spider Gun Platform, which is bristling with weapons, including dozens of CIWS Phalanx cannons that shoot down the vast majority of the missiles launched at it.
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_3f71b00e
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-1.0
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_3f71b00e
featureConfidence
1.0
 Appleseed (Manga)
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Appleseed (Manga) / int_3f71b00e
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_4482e1ef
type
Divided States of America
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_4482e1ef
comment
Divided States of America: In 1988, the Cold War came to a peaceful resolution with the formation of the Russo-American Alliance, composed of the 13 colonial states, Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, California, Oregon, Hawaii, and Alaska. After the 2nd American Civil War in 2016, the United States was once again divided. The United States of America was now comprised of Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada, Colorado, Utah, Washington, Wyoming, Idaho, Montana, North & South Dakota, Minnesota, and Wisconsin. The extreme right-sided military industrialistic American Empire aka Imperial Americana, took everything else, including Washington D.C. E-SWAT ended up fighting alongside with the Russo-American Alliance forces against Imperial Americana in the manga.
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_4482e1ef
featureApplicability
1.0
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_4482e1ef
featureConfidence
1.0
 Appleseed (Manga)
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Appleseed (Manga) / int_4482e1ef
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_44cdd259
type
War Is Glorious
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_44cdd259
comment
War Is Glorious: Talos certainly believes this in Alpha.
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_44cdd259
featureApplicability
1.0
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_44cdd259
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1.0
 Appleseed (Manga)
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Appleseed (Manga) / int_44cdd259
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_450c5a85
type
Alternate Continuity
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_450c5a85
comment
XIII makes him black again. Not just Briareos either; Deunan's mother was white in the 2004 film, but black in XIII (also an indicator that XIII is an Alternate Continuity). This one's a plot point in her Death by Origin Story: she was gunned down for crossing an apartheid line. Actually, that's not alternate, that's pretty much Deunan exposition in volume 3 of the manga, animated. In the manga, Deunan explains that she was gunned down by some random racists in San Francisco, so her Death by Origin Story was changed as well. Deunan also said in the manga that she was a "Cafe Au Lait''.
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_450c5a85
featureApplicability
1.0
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_450c5a85
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1.0
 Appleseed (Manga)
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Appleseed (Manga) / int_450c5a85
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_48081842
type
The Stinger
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_48081842
comment
The Stinger: Appleseed Alpha has a post-credits scene where it's revealed Iris was a bioroid clone based off of Hitomi, and she doesn't plan to send any forces from Olympus to pick up Deunan & Briareos - at least, not yet.
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_48081842
featureApplicability
1.0
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_48081842
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1.0
 Appleseed (Manga)
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Appleseed (Manga) / int_48081842
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_48e24f
type
Anti-Mutiny
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_48e24f
comment
Anti-Mutiny: In the manga, Athena launches one of these against the Elders once they propose to expand bioroid behavior modification to humanity (sterilization in the movie). Gaia gets the same idea about bioroids in general.
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_48e24f
featureApplicability
1.0
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_48e24f
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1.0
 Appleseed (Manga)
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Appleseed (Manga) / int_48e24f
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_49d59be9
type
SceneryPorn
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_49d59be9
comment
Scenery Porn: Utopia or not, Olympus is truly something to marvel upon.
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_49d59be9
featureApplicability
1.0
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_49d59be9
featureConfidence
1.0
 Appleseed (Manga)
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Appleseed (Manga) / int_49d59be9
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_4a59e6f7
type
One Nation Under Copyright
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_4a59e6f7
comment
They seem to be One Nation Under Copyright, to boot, in XIII. They even have national boundaries and territorial waters.
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_4a59e6f7
featureApplicability
1.0
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_4a59e6f7
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1.0
 Appleseed (Manga)
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Appleseed (Manga) / int_4a59e6f7
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_4ac8b81f
type
Humans Are the Real Monsters
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_4ac8b81f
comment
Humans Are the Real Monsters: Deunan reminds General Uranus that as untrustworthy as he believes Bioroids to be, at least they're not killers like their own kind are.
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_4ac8b81f
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1.0
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_4ac8b81f
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1.0
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Appleseed (Manga) / int_4ac8b81f
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_4b52ff08
type
May Contain Evil
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_4b52ff08
comment
May Contain Evil: The Connexus in Ex Machina.
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_4b52ff08
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1.0
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_4b52ff08
featureConfidence
1.0
 Appleseed (Manga)
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Appleseed (Manga) / int_4b52ff08
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_4efc4fae
type
Good Scars, Evil Scars
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_4efc4fae
comment
Good Scars, Evil Scars: Argus, the Poseidon officer from Ex Machina, has a long scar covering his permanently-closed left eye that makes him look rather sinister. It's misdirection, though - he's not that bad a guy, and even helps save the world (and, later, our protagonists) by the end of the movie.
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_4efc4fae
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1.0
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_4efc4fae
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1.0
 Appleseed (Manga)
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Appleseed (Manga) / int_4efc4fae
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_4f6d87f7
type
Huge Guy, Tiny Girl
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_4f6d87f7
comment
Huge Guy, Tiny Girl: Who else? Deunan and Briareos.
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_4f6d87f7
featureApplicability
1.0
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_4f6d87f7
featureConfidence
1.0
 Appleseed (Manga)
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Appleseed (Manga) / int_4f6d87f7
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_51a3ba7
type
We Used to Be Friends
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_51a3ba7
comment
We Used to Be Friends: Maybe not friends, but Olson and Talos knew each other before the events of Alpha by way of working on the same project to find and disarm pre-war superweapons such as the American land battleship.
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_51a3ba7
featureApplicability
1.0
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_51a3ba7
featureConfidence
1.0
 Appleseed (Manga)
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Appleseed (Manga) / int_51a3ba7
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_51c28ba3
type
Non-Action Big Bad
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_51c28ba3
comment
Non-Action Big Bad: Talos leaves any fighting to be done to Nyx and his troops.
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_51c28ba3
featureApplicability
1.0
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_51c28ba3
featureConfidence
1.0
 Appleseed (Manga)
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Appleseed (Manga) / int_51c28ba3
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_52196c03
type
Age-Gap Romance
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_52196c03
comment
Age-Gap Romance: In addition to the relationship quirks of dating a cyborg, Briareos is a solid nine years older than Deunan.
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_52196c03
featureApplicability
1.0
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_52196c03
featureConfidence
1.0
 Appleseed (Manga)
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Appleseed (Manga) / int_52196c03
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_537dd8fe
type
Affably Evil
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_537dd8fe
comment
Affably Evil: Two Horns in Alpha is Big Fun and loves to joke around and have a good laugh. He also leads the most dangerous criminal gang in New York.
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_537dd8fe
featureApplicability
1.0
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_537dd8fe
featureConfidence
1.0
 Appleseed (Manga)
hasFeature
Appleseed (Manga) / int_537dd8fe
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_53f5119f
type
The Dragon
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_53f5119f
comment
The Dragon: Nyx to Talos in Appleseed Alpha.
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_53f5119f
featureApplicability
1.0
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_53f5119f
featureConfidence
1.0
 Appleseed (Manga)
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Appleseed (Manga) / int_53f5119f
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_54616909
type
Cavalry Betrayal
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_54616909
comment
Cavalry Betrayal: There's a bit near the end of Ex Machina where we're led to believe that the Poseidon special-forces are pulling this. Turns out it just took them a while to spot the protagonists in need of rescue, and they turn up shortly afterwards.
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_54616909
featureApplicability
1.0
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_54616909
featureConfidence
1.0
 Appleseed (Manga)
hasFeature
Appleseed (Manga) / int_54616909
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_548bd053
type
Guns Akimbo
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_548bd053
comment
Guns Akimbo: in fact, Briareos can shoot three guns at once in Ex Machina: two with his mecha's hands and one with his own. Just one with his hands because it's a Landmate sized one. He could theoretically use hundreds of weapon systems wired directly to his "brain". His cyborg chassis is named after the Hecatonchires, the hundred-armed giants of Greek mythology, for a reason.
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_548bd053
featureApplicability
1.0
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_548bd053
featureConfidence
1.0
 Appleseed (Manga)
hasFeature
Appleseed (Manga) / int_548bd053
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_54f38833
type
PostScriptSeason
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_54f38833
comment
Post-Script Episode: The final episode of Appleseed XIII, "Paradisius," is a rather strange change in tone and has absolutely nothing to do with the main plot thread of the rest of the series, especially since the main plot was already wrapped up in the 12th episode.
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_54f38833
featureApplicability
1.0
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_54f38833
featureConfidence
1.0
 Appleseed (Manga)
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Appleseed (Manga) / int_54f38833
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_556a4e20
type
The Empire
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_556a4e20
comment
After the 2nd American Civil War in 2016, the United States was once again divided. The United States of America was now comprised of Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada, Colorado, Utah, Washington, Wyoming, Idaho, Montana, North & South Dakota, Minnesota, and Wisconsin. The extreme right-sided military industrialistic American Empire aka Imperial Americana, took everything else, including Washington D.C. E-SWAT ended up fighting alongside with the Russo-American Alliance forces against Imperial Americana in the manga.
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_556a4e20
featureApplicability
1.0
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_556a4e20
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1.0
 Appleseed (Manga)
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Appleseed (Manga) / int_556a4e20
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_57b80b45
type
Fantastic Racism
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_57b80b45
comment
General Uranus is willing to engage in debate with his opponents, even during a tense standoff involving the Regular Army, and despite his Fantastic Racism he's at least smart enough to carefully consider the consequences of his actions whenever they come to light.
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_57b80b45
featureApplicability
1.0
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_57b80b45
featureConfidence
1.0
 Appleseed (Manga)
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Appleseed (Manga) / int_57b80b45
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_5941d75
type
Beta Couple
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_5941d75
comment
Beta Couple: It's mentioned a few times in Ex Machina and XIII that Hitomi and Yoshitsune are an item.
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_5941d75
featureApplicability
1.0
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_5941d75
featureConfidence
1.0
 Appleseed (Manga)
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Appleseed (Manga) / int_5941d75
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_5979acea
type
Fragile Speedster
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_5979acea
comment
Fragile Speedster: Nyx turns out to be this in Alpha when she fights Briaeros near the end. She is no match for him physically, so she has to rely on a lot of She-Fu and jumping around to dodge his hits. When she does try to match him blow for blow, the results speak for themselves.
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_5979acea
featureApplicability
1.0
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_5979acea
featureConfidence
1.0
 Appleseed (Manga)
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Appleseed (Manga) / int_5979acea
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_598b59a4
type
Everything Is an iPod in the Future
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_598b59a4
comment
Everything Is An Ipod In The Future: Talos, Nyx, and their cyborg underlings in Alpha follow this design aesthetic, complete with Talos's body being uniformly white while Nyx is solid black.
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_598b59a4
featureApplicability
1.0
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_598b59a4
featureConfidence
1.0
 Appleseed (Manga)
hasFeature
Appleseed (Manga) / int_598b59a4
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_5a3b8032
type
The Un-Reveal
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_5a3b8032
comment
The Unreveal: In Alpha, it's uncertain exactly why Briareos's software was malfunctioning at the beginning of the film. They float two possibilities about whether Matthews may have sabotaged him deliberately to keep him indebted to Two Horns, or if it was just normal wear and tear. But Deunan and Bri don't spend much time dwelling on it, figuring it doesn't matter so long as the problem's fixed. At least, in that part of the film. In the final arc Matthews flat-out admits that Two Horns made him do it, but since he's arriving as part of The Cavalry, bringing Duenan a rebuilt Land-mate with him, the matter is quickly dropped.
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_5a3b8032
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1.0
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_5a3b8032
featureConfidence
1.0
 Appleseed (Manga)
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Appleseed (Manga) / int_5a3b8032
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_5a963d1c
type
False Reassurance
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_5a963d1c
comment
False Reassurance: In the first movie the Big Bad (well, one of them) says "no human life would be taken", but that does not mean they won't unleash a virus upon the world that causes sterility; rather, it means no human would die immediately as a direct consequence.
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_5a963d1c
featureApplicability
1.0
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_5a963d1c
featureConfidence
1.0
 Appleseed (Manga)
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Appleseed (Manga) / int_5a963d1c
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_5c5d0032
type
Eyepatch of Power
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_5c5d0032
comment
Eyepatch of Power: Deunan gets one after damaging one eye of hers during a training accident in Volume IV. She also gets a much more girly, frilly lace eyepatch for civilian wear when she's off-duty at the end of the book.
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_5c5d0032
featureApplicability
1.0
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_5c5d0032
featureConfidence
1.0
 Appleseed (Manga)
hasFeature
Appleseed (Manga) / int_5c5d0032
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_5caef4ca
type
Chainsaw Good
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_5caef4ca
comment
Chainsaw Good: Briareos wields a freaking chainsword in Ex Machina.
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_5caef4ca
featureApplicability
1.0
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_5caef4ca
featureConfidence
1.0
 Appleseed (Manga)
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Appleseed (Manga) / int_5caef4ca
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_5d753b19
type
The Smurfette Principle
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_5d753b19
comment
The Smurfette Principle: Deunan is the only on-screen female in ESWAT, but she is The Hero and leads a team of elite soldiers. Not so much "only" in the manga. Nor is she the only woman in ESWAT in Ex Machina. At least one other woman is shown on the team. At least in the OVA she is the only female Landmate pilot, or at least that's implied. XIII has another woman on the squad named Gina, who speaks with a rather strange accent that seems to vanish and return.
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_5d753b19
featureApplicability
1.0
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_5d753b19
featureConfidence
1.0
 Appleseed (Manga)
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Appleseed (Manga) / int_5d753b19
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_5e782d0c
type
Super Prototype
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_5e782d0c
comment
Super Prototype: Tereus is the first bioroid designed for combat.
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_5e782d0c
featureApplicability
1.0
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_5e782d0c
featureConfidence
1.0
 Appleseed (Manga)
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Appleseed (Manga) / int_5e782d0c
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_5eb92325
type
Declaration of Protection
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_5eb92325
comment
Declaration of Protection: Briareos takes his promise to Karl Knute in XIII very seriously, so much that it causes problems in his relationship with Deunan.
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_5eb92325
featureApplicability
1.0
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_5eb92325
featureConfidence
1.0
 Appleseed (Manga)
hasFeature
Appleseed (Manga) / int_5eb92325
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_60414102
type
Zombie Apocalypse
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_60414102
comment
Zombie Apocalypse: not exactly, but the Brainwashed and Crazy mob in Ex Machina looked much like it, right down to the Zombie Gait. You can see one on TV in the second volume of the manga, but it was never explained. Presumably people are still making horror movies in the future.
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_60414102
featureApplicability
1.0
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_60414102
featureConfidence
1.0
 Appleseed (Manga)
hasFeature
Appleseed (Manga) / int_60414102
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_60c96f24
type
Portmantitle
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_60c96f24
comment
Portmantitle: Also a One-Word Title.
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_60c96f24
featureApplicability
1.0
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_60c96f24
featureConfidence
1.0
 Appleseed (Manga)
hasFeature
Appleseed (Manga) / int_60c96f24
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_617f0563
type
Heel–Face Turn
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_617f0563
comment
Heel–Face Turn: A bit of a delayed one in Alpha when after Nyx tries to kill Two Horns, he still goes after Briareros and Deunan. It's not until after he gets his rear end handed to him again that he decides it would probably be a better idea to team up with our main duo to take down the Triton commandos.
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_617f0563
featureApplicability
1.0
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_617f0563
featureConfidence
1.0
 Appleseed (Manga)
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Appleseed (Manga) / int_617f0563
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_62f9d08e
type
Freeze-Frame Bonus
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_62f9d08e
comment
Freeze-Frame Bonus: Some close-ups of Talos in Alpha show that his body has the word "Poseidon" stenciled on it, making it extremely likely that he, Nyx, and their team are from that country.
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_62f9d08e
featureApplicability
1.0
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_62f9d08e
featureConfidence
1.0
 Appleseed (Manga)
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Appleseed (Manga) / int_62f9d08e
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_6377d6e6
type
Grievous Harm with a Body
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_6377d6e6
comment
Grievous Harm with a Body: Both Deunan and Briareos did that when fighting battle-androids: They ripped off an arm and proceeded to beat the android with it.
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_6377d6e6
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1.0
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_6377d6e6
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Appleseed (Manga) / int_6377d6e6
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_638b65bc
type
Armor Is Useless
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_638b65bc
comment
Armor Is Useless: In this universe, cyborgs are surprisingly fragile, with pistol rounds being able to take down even largely metallic ones pretty easily (Talos is almost completely metal, yet Deunan's M1911 does severe damage to him with just a few shots). You'd think becoming a cyborg would make you tougher.
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_638b65bc
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1.0
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_638b65bc
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1.0
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Appleseed (Manga) / int_638b65bc
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_6400a34
type
Arm Cannon
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_6400a34
comment
Arm Cannon: Nyx in Alpha has a machine gun built into the palm of her right hand.
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_6400a34
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1.0
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_6400a34
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1.0
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Appleseed (Manga) / int_6400a34
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_643618e5
type
Replacement Goldfish
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_643618e5
comment
Replacement Goldfish: Kestner's SHODAN-esque cyborg replica of his dead project leader is a particularly creepy example.
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_643618e5
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1.0
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_643618e5
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1.0
 Appleseed (Manga)
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Appleseed (Manga) / int_643618e5
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_6439de78
type
Heroic Sacrifice
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_6439de78
comment
Heroic Sacrifice: Tereus saves Deunan from being impaled by Xander's Combat Tentacles. And survives. In XIII, Kottos saves the ill bioroid child from being blown up by an RPG charge and dies right before her eyes.
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_6439de78
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1.0
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_6439de78
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1.0
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Appleseed (Manga) / int_6439de78
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_6454966e
type
World War III
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_6454966e
comment
World War III: And IV, for that matter.
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_6454966e
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1.0
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_6454966e
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1.0
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Appleseed (Manga) / int_6454966e
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_6bc499da
type
Diplomatic Impunity
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_6bc499da
comment
Diplomatic Impunity: In XIII, Deia is caught red handed committing an act of terrorism, has to flee Olympus, and then one episode later, shows up again as an accredited diplomat of Poseidon, and goes on to commit several more acts of terrorism while back in Olympus.
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_6bc499da
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1.0
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_6bc499da
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1.0
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Appleseed (Manga) / int_6bc499da
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_6bda9a30
type
Meaningful Name
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_6bda9a30
comment
Meaningful Name: Several, but Briareos has the most obvious - he's named after one of the three Hecatonchires, the hundred-armed giants who overthrew the Titans. He's also a hulking Lightning Bruiser of a cyborg with sufficiently sophisticated targeting software to wield dozens of weapons at once. In case you missed it the first time, the model name of his chassis spells it out for you.
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_6bda9a30
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1.0
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_6bda9a30
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1.0
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Appleseed (Manga) / int_6bda9a30
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_6cbcd596
type
Gangbangers
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_6cbcd596
comment
Gang Bangers: Two Horns and his crew.
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_6cbcd596
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1.0
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_6cbcd596
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1.0
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Appleseed (Manga) / int_6cbcd596
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_6f66bef7
type
But Not Too Foreign
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_6f66bef7
comment
But Not Too Foreign: Averted, Deunan once spells out her ancestry for Hitomi and there is a lot of variety (she's mixed-race African on her mother's side), but no Japanese. Shirow has mentioned that she won the genetic lottery as far as physical skills go, which is why her employers and colleagues put up with her eccentricities. Also subverted in that Shirow Masamune has said in the official databook that he never thought of making Deunan Japanese or partially Japanese
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_6f66bef7
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 Appleseed (Manga) / int_6f66bef7
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1.0
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Appleseed (Manga) / int_6f66bef7
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_71329e49
type
Turn in Your Badge
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_71329e49
comment
Turn in Your Badge: General Uranus in the movie does so without being told to after Briareos warns him that he and the Regular Army were really the Unwitting Pawns to the Elders.
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_71329e49
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1.0
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_71329e49
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1.0
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Appleseed (Manga) / int_71329e49
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_723be11b
type
Villain Has a Point
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_723be11b
comment
Villain Has a Point: When General Uranus states his case to Deunan, she concedes that he might have a point before reminding him that at least it isn't in the Bioroids' nature to kill even their own kind.
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_723be11b
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1.0
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_723be11b
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1.0
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Appleseed (Manga) / int_723be11b
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_733e007a
type
Unwitting Pawn
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_733e007a
comment
Unwitting Pawn: The Regular Army in the 2004 film. Briareos calls General Uranus and Colonel Hades on it during their confrontation outside of Dr. Gilliam's laboratory. Not that Colonel Hades will listen to him, of course...
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_733e007a
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1.0
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_733e007a
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1.0
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Appleseed (Manga) / int_733e007a
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_7464705c
type
Arc Words
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_7464705c
comment
Arc Words: From XIII: "Vengeance belongeth unto me." Also "paradise", to the point of becoming way overused. See the YMMV page.
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_7464705c
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1.0
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_7464705c
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1.0
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Appleseed (Manga) / int_7464705c
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_76a08cd6
type
Friend or Foe?
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_76a08cd6
comment
Friend or Foe: The IFFs of the autonomous combat drones in Alpha either don't work, or nobody remembers how to designate themselves as a friend. Either way, the drones attack everybody.
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_76a08cd6
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1.0
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_76a08cd6
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1.0
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Appleseed (Manga) / int_76a08cd6
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_77b79db0
type
HotScientist
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_77b79db0
comment
Hot Scientist: Deia Cides in XIII.
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_77b79db0
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1.0
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_77b79db0
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1.0
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Appleseed (Manga) / int_77b79db0
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_7a3dd888
type
Real Men Wear Pink
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_7a3dd888
comment
Real Men Wear Pink: Implied by way of Fridge Logic in Ex Machina, when Deunan receives a top-of-the-line and very, very pink Landmate from the Poseidon assault team she's working alongside. Meanwhile, the Poseidon commander, Argus, uses the ESWAT model that she turned up in. Now, normally, one would expect him to use his own suit... unless, of course, he'd given it to someone else to pilot instead. Perhaps bubblegum pink is a signifier of rank in Poseidon?
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_7a3dd888
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1.0
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_7a3dd888
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1.0
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Appleseed (Manga) / int_7a3dd888
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_7abba202
type
The Faceless
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_7abba202
comment
The Faceless: Talos, Nyx, and their soldiers all have opaque helmets. Averted with Talos at the end, after Deunan shoots him through the faceplate, we get a disturbing look at what's behind the mask.
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_7abba202
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-1.0
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_7abba202
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1.0
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Appleseed (Manga) / int_7abba202
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_7c0bfb83
type
Obviously Evil
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_7c0bfb83
comment
Obviously Evil: Poseidon in Ex Machina. They're a Mega-Corp and One Nation Under Copyright, their executive and diplomat is an Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette in a black leather catsuit with a soft, smooth voice, and their battle commander has a rather ugly scar covering one eye. They're also so polite and smooth about cooperating with Athena and Olympus that any smart viewer would expect that they're up to something seriously devious. Nope. While they did accidentally leave some dangerous experimental Applied Phlebotinum lying around, they cooperate fully with the protagonists when it comes time to clean everything up, and their offer to surrender control of their weapons to Olympus is entirely genuine.
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_7c0bfb83
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1.0
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_7c0bfb83
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1.0
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Appleseed (Manga) / int_7c0bfb83
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_8344209e
type
BFG
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_8344209e
comment
BFG: Briareos in Volume 4 uses a gun that resembles a sawn-off M1 Main Battle Tank cannon.
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_8344209e
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1.0
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_8344209e
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1.0
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Appleseed (Manga) / int_8344209e
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_83ea0763
type
Rouge Angles of Satin
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_83ea0763
comment
Rouge Angles of Satin: In the 2004 film, we get a good look at a computer disc labelled "SEACRET".
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_83ea0763
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1.0
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_83ea0763
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1.0
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Appleseed (Manga) / int_83ea0763
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_853b7948
type
Ambiguously Evil
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_853b7948
comment
Ambiguously Evil: Yoshino, the unctuous Posiedon delegate, and her equally sinister entourage in Ex Machina. It turns out that they're actually trying to hunt down the BigBad, and are only too happy to lend our protagonists a hand.
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_853b7948
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1.0
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_853b7948
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1.0
 Appleseed (Manga)
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Appleseed (Manga) / int_853b7948
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_86af7ab0
type
Badass Biker
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_86af7ab0
comment
Badass Biker: Deunan.
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_86af7ab0
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1.0
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_86af7ab0
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1.0
 Appleseed (Manga)
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Appleseed (Manga) / int_86af7ab0
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_8829dfa0
type
What the Hell Is That Accent?
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_8829dfa0
comment
XIII has another woman on the squad named Gina, who speaks with a rather strange accent that seems to vanish and return.
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_8829dfa0
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1.0
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_8829dfa0
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1.0
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Appleseed (Manga) / int_8829dfa0
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_8878f3be
type
Badass Army
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_8878f3be
comment
Badass Army: ESWAT and Olympus Police in general are extremely competent; Deunan and Briareos are just exceptional cogs in an excellent machine.
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_8878f3be
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1.0
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_8878f3be
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1.0
 Appleseed (Manga)
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Appleseed (Manga) / int_8878f3be
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_8af25294
type
Bullet Time
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_8af25294
comment
Bullet Time: Used extensively in the movies, especially Ex Machina.
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_8af25294
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1.0
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_8af25294
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1.0
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Appleseed (Manga) / int_8af25294
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_8b606a51
type
There Is No Kill Like Overkill
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_8b606a51
comment
There Is No Kill Like Overkill: In the Manga, Kotus takes down a terrorist with a leaping double axe-handle strike that leaves the poor sap as a smear on the floor.
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_8b606a51
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1.0
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_8b606a51
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1.0
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Appleseed (Manga) / int_8b606a51
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_8cda3dc2
type
Flawed Prototype
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_8cda3dc2
comment
Flawed Prototype: The prototype Spider Gun Platform in Appleseed Alpha is incomplete and difficult to control.
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_8cda3dc2
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1.0
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_8cda3dc2
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1.0
 Appleseed (Manga)
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Appleseed (Manga) / int_8cda3dc2
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_8d0785d5
type
Didn't Think This Through
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_8d0785d5
comment
Didn't Think This Through: General Uranus's plan to destroy the Bioroids involves blowing up the D-Tank, which actually contains a virus the Elders had forced Dr. Gilliam to synthesize that would sterilize all of humanity and slowly euthanize the human race. He doesn't realize that he was unwittingly helping along the death of humanity until it's almost too late.
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_8d0785d5
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1.0
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_8d0785d5
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1.0
 Appleseed (Manga)
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Appleseed (Manga) / int_8d0785d5
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_8ed5c6e4
type
Asshole Victim
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_8ed5c6e4
comment
Asshole Victim: Some of the "vampire" victims in XIII Episode 5 are war criminals from Eris (said to have committed genocide and ethnic cleansing).
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_8ed5c6e4
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1.0
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_8ed5c6e4
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1.0
 Appleseed (Manga)
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Appleseed (Manga) / int_8ed5c6e4
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_9053903
type
Ignored Epiphany
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_9053903
comment
Ignored Epiphany: After Briareos delivers a Kirk Summation to the Regular Army, everyone realizes what they had almost gotten themselves into... save for Colonel Hades ("I've heard enough—and I'll be damned if I let some machine tell me what to do!").
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_9053903
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1.0
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_9053903
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1.0
 Appleseed (Manga)
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Appleseed (Manga) / int_9053903
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_90d2c6d6
type
Blood-Stained Glass Windows
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_90d2c6d6
comment
Bloodstained Glass Windows The opening sequence of Ex Machina, in fine John Woo tradition.
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_90d2c6d6
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1.0
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_90d2c6d6
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1.0
 Appleseed (Manga)
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Appleseed (Manga) / int_90d2c6d6
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_91697559
type
Half the Man He Used to Be
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_91697559
comment
Half the Man He Used to Be: In Alpha, Briaeros defeats Nyx after he is able to retrieve his sniper rifle and blows her in half at point-blank range. Later, Talos comes back for one last act of revenge against Deunan, but Iris drops an automatic door on his spine and chops him in half.
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_91697559
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1.0
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_91697559
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1.0
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Appleseed (Manga) / int_91697559
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_932e7d07
type
Robot Antennae
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_932e7d07
comment
Robot Antennae: Briarios' head-mounted antenna appear to be rigidly mounted in both the contemporary film installments, yet in the manga they were flexible, and moved to help convey his emotion, drooping when depressed or confused, and upright when surprised.
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_932e7d07
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1.0
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_932e7d07
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1.0
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Appleseed (Manga) / int_932e7d07
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_957e5fc2
type
Villainous Breakdown
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_957e5fc2
comment
Villainous Breakdown: Talos starts losing control of the situation in Alpha when he forces Iris to activate the prototype spider tank, but 1) it's only about 2/3 complete and extremely difficult to control and 2) it's on a pre-programmed course to go straight to New York City and self-destruct.
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_957e5fc2
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1.0
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_957e5fc2
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1.0
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Appleseed (Manga) / int_957e5fc2
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_9c28b838
type
Blade Run
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_9c28b838
comment
Blade Run: Deunan vs. that construction mecha in Ex Machina.
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_9c28b838
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1.0
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_9c28b838
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1.0
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Appleseed (Manga) / int_9c28b838
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_9c45b5a2
type
What Measure Is a Non-Human?
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_9c45b5a2
comment
What Measure Is a Non-Human?: A large part of the hatred humans in the army have for the bioroids.
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_9c45b5a2
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1.0
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_9c45b5a2
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1.0
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Appleseed (Manga) / int_9c45b5a2
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_9cde2df1
type
Hand Cannon
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_9cde2df1
comment
Hand Cannon: Deunan's "Gong" in the manga.
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_9cde2df1
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1.0
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_9cde2df1
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1.0
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Appleseed (Manga) / int_9cde2df1
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_9dab0a6e
type
Continuity Nod
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_9dab0a6e
comment
Continuity Nod: The final episode "Paradisius" in Appleseed XIII directly references the plot of the 2004 movie. In Appleseed Alpha, Talos is searching for a prototype Spider Gun Platform, the same weapons that will eventually defend Olympus.
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_9dab0a6e
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1.0
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_9dab0a6e
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1.0
 Appleseed (Manga)
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Appleseed (Manga) / int_9dab0a6e
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_9f63d4f1
type
Our Vampires Are Different
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_9f63d4f1
comment
Our Vampires Are Different: The Eris molecular weapon (probably nano-machines) "Erinyes" turns people into vampires (they got enhanced strengh and regeneration at the price of having to suck blood).
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_9f63d4f1
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1.0
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_9f63d4f1
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1.0
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Appleseed (Manga) / int_9f63d4f1
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_9f679e25
type
Future Copter
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_9f679e25
comment
Future Copter: The transport helicopter that appears in the beginning of the 2004 movie looks very much like a heavily upgraded, futuristic V-22 Osprey. Ex Machina's aircraft seem to use Anti Gravity rather than rotors. Meanwhile, in Alpha, Talos and his team make use of a more contemporary looking V-22 that seems to have had all its design flaws ironed out and is equipped with a chin-mounted machine gun and rocket pods that can launch a Macross Missile Massacre.
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_9f679e25
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1.0
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_9f679e25
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1.0
 Appleseed (Manga)
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Appleseed (Manga) / int_9f679e25
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_9f9540ae
type
We Can Rebuild Him
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_9f9540ae
comment
We Can Rebuild Him: Briareos in the OVA.
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_9f9540ae
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1.0
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_9f9540ae
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1.0
 Appleseed (Manga)
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Appleseed (Manga) / int_9f9540ae
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_a066d9f3
type
Tempting Apple
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_a066d9f3
comment
Tempting Apple: The titular MacGuffin is a technology that allows Bioroids to have a lifespan just as long as humans.
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_a066d9f3
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1.0
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_a066d9f3
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1.0
 Appleseed (Manga)
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Appleseed (Manga) / int_a066d9f3
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_a0db7803
type
It's Personal
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_a0db7803
comment
It's Personal: What blinds Colonel Hades to the fact that his vendetta against Deunan's father for booting him off of LA SWAT, which he hopes will destroy the Bioroids, could actually lead to humanity's extinction.
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_a0db7803
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1.0
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1.0
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Appleseed (Manga) / int_a0db7803
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_a18d407b
type
Samus Is a Girl
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_a18d407b
comment
Samus Is a Girl: The shocking reveal in XIII of the pilot of the recurring terrorist Landmate. Especially effective since in previous episodes, the mech's loudspeakers used a deep, male voice to speak.
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My God, What Have I Done?
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My God, What Have I Done?: It's implied during the final act of the 2004 film that the realization of what he had gotten mixed up in prompted General Uranus and the Regular Army to surrender.
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A Mech by Any Other Name
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A Mech by Any Other Name: Mini-Mecha are known as "Landmates", while Powered Armor are called "Protectors".
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The Password Is Always "Swordfish"
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The Password Is Always "Swordfish": Hitomi.
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Da Chief
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Da Chief: Athena.
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Disturbed Doves
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Disturbed Doves: Would Ex Machina be a John Woo movie without them? However, there is also a twist to them in this case.
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All-CGI Cartoon
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All-CGI Cartoon: The three movies and XIII.
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Due to the Dead
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Due to the Dead: Manuel Aeacus is buried with full honors after being put down when he's infected with a bioweapon designed by Dr. Kestner. Deunan, in full uniform, is one of his pallbearers.
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Karma Houdini
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Karma Houdini: Prime Minister Athena in the movie never has to answer for having mercenaries kill all Deunan's comrades in the wasteland, and trying to capture her alive, and later sending outright assassins after her. She was trying to prevent a genocide, that she feared Deunan could unwittingly partake in, but it seems that Deunan never even gets to learn the truth, let alone decide what she decides to do with it. But then, Athena wasn't sure until midway through that she could trust Deunan, and being reminded of her connection to Dr. Gilliam during a hearing on what to do about the terrorist attack on the Bioroids was likely a factor in her deciding she could trust Deunan after all. The Manga also has her drug the food of a bunch of ex-soldiers brought into the city to gauge their reactions. Of course, given that their ultimate reaction was to jump into their landmates and go on a rampage after Tartarus put the question of her wrongness into doubt. Likewise General Uranus; he was trying a coup and a genocide, but apparently calling off your attempt at the last minute and saying "sorry" is all that it takes to be forgiven. On the other hand, it was implied that the Elders were manipulating him into taking action and that it was his own race that he was unwittingly endangering (and not the Bioroids like he had thought for most of the film), which might have factored into his rather lenient sentence.
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Lady and Knight
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Lady and Knight: Talos and Nyx are a villainous variant of this in Alpha, with Talos being a Black (ironically a Man in White at the same time) and Nyx being a Dark Lady with Evil Wears Black.
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And I Must Scream
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And I Must Scream: Briareos in Ex Machina when he's being affected by the nanomachines. Try as he might, he's largely unable to fight against it without help. Also anyone affected by the signals, as prior to the mind control kicking in, they grab their head in pain and usually fall to their knees as well.
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Red Eyes, Take Warning
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Red Eyes, Take Warning: In Ex Machina, a cyborg's eyes turning red is your cue to run away very, very fast.
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Meganekko
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Meganekko: Chiffon, the Dark-Skinned Blond who befriended Deunan, was part of the human insurgency and killed brutally by Deunan in the manga's first volume.
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Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_a9de87d2
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Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: the cyborg Sokaku, Ex-SAS, Mercenary, EOD specialist... and total tool. While a total genius in his area of expertise, his showboating and comic relief nature trip him up more often than not.
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Motifs
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_aa2cd0c9
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Motifs: XIII features a lot of imagery relating to the twelve labors of Hercules. A large statue featuring statues for the labors is a reoccurring feature of city shots. A lot of Greek styled hand painted images are spliced into the show. An episode is about a sculptor who has been sculpting statues of the labors A large room featuring a ceiling painted to show the constellations is often used for spliced in shots The episodes are named after the labors XIII has a lot of shots of a compass. Especially the one belonging to the antagonist.
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MegaCorp
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Mega-Corp: Poseidon in Ex Machina.. They seem to be One Nation Under Copyright, to boot, in XIII. They even have national boundaries and territorial waters.
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Work Off the Debt
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Work Off the Debt: This is the major reason why Deunan and Briaeros are working for Two Horns in Alpha, as he was apparently responsible in some way for saving Briareos's life and getting him a cyborg body.
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Harmful to Minors
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_abc60c5d
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In XIII, Kottos saves the ill bioroid child from being blown up by an RPG charge and dies right before her eyes.
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Idiosyncratic Episode Naming
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The episodes are named after the labors
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Butterfly of Death and Rebirth
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Butterfly of Death and Rebirth: XIII has an episode focused on a hotel with a garden in the middle that has butterflies that the daughter of the VIP likes to chase. Her chase ultimately leads to the death of her father as he tries to save her from running off a bridge without rails.
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Oh, Crap!
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_ad1db87c
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Oh, Crap!: When the first police team busts through the to arrest the terrorists, just to walk in front of a gatling gun ambush.
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Oddly Named Sequel 2: Electric Boogaloo
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Oddly Named Sequel 2: Electric Boogaloo
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Too Dumb to Live
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Too Dumb to Live: The whole plot of Ex Machina is solely driven by lots of highly stupid decisions by anyone involved. Possibly hundreds of thousands of deaths could have been avoided if the PSAs not said "might pose a risk to health" but "will turn you into cyber-zombies and might force the police to kill you".
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Assimilation Plot
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Assimilation Plot: Kestner in Ex Machina wants to pull this off.
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No-Nonsense Nemesis
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No-Nonsense Nemesis: Talos in Alpha when after downloading the information he needs out of Olson's brain, Talos doesn't waste any time gloating about it but simply draws his pistol and empties the mag into Olson, then drops him out of the V-22 at high altitude.
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Knife Nut
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_baa2a78d
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Knife Nut: Deunan grabs her knife when going for the ubercyborg during the Church Shootout in Ex Machina... and kicks his ass badly. She takes out three guys with a very large knife (she insists it's a sword) in the manga, too. In the last episode of XIII she also uses a large folding knife in her Landmate to take out an enemy Landmate. Finally, on foot she also uses a large combat knife to stab a prototype combat robot wrestling with Briareos. Let's just say Deunan really likes her knives.
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Precision F-Strike
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Precision F-Strike: From the 2004 film: "You son of a bitch... you betrayed us!" From Ex Machina: "Don't fuck with me!"
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Berserk Button
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Berserk Button: If there's one thing Colonel Hades hates more than Bioroids, it's people being preachy towards him. When Deunan pulls the Humans Are the Real Monsters argument on him, he simply responds by telling General Uranus in annoyance that they're wasting their time, but only when Briareos flat-out says he's an Unwitting Pawn in a higher power's game does he snap and break out the firearms.
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Improbable Aiming Skills
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_bcd27e37
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Improbable Aiming Skills: Briareos. Of course, he's a Cyborg.
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Conspicuous CG
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_bdcfd50
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Conspicuous CG: XIII contains a rather strange variant of this - the characters and objects are CG, while several backgrounds are rendered through traditional means.
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Cyber Cyclops
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Cyber Cyclops: Subverted. Briareos actually has eight eyes: Four in his face arranged around the big central sensor, two at the bases of his "rabbit ear" sensors, and two at the tips, which allow him to safely look around corners. Oh, and the big central sensor mentioned earlier? That's actually his nose.
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Double Agent
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_c2ab0eaf
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From the 2004 film: "You son of a bitch... you betrayed us!"
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Good Colors, Evil Colors
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Good Colors, Evil Colors: The eyes of Briareos and other cyborgs changed in colour from red to green between the first and second movies, so that we could see when they were Brainwashed and Crazy thanks to the ominous red glow.
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AntiGravity
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Anti Gravity: The Hermes System.
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Mini-Mecha
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Mini-Mecha: Landmates (kinda).
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Shout-Out
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_c75df49a
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Shout-Out: Ex Machina has a scene very similar to the shooting range scene in RoboCop (1987), but takes it Up to Eleven by showing Briareos's multitasking capability. The drones guarding the Halcon facility in Ex Machina look and behave VERY similar to the Sentinels from The Matrix. The Ostrich mechs in Alpha look oddly similar to the Gekkou from Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots, minus the bio-organic legs.
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Word of God
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Word of God is that Briareos was Black Caribbean (where, he never specified).
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Redshirt Army
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Red Shirt Army: Pretty much anyone not named gets killed off rather nonchalantly. And even the lesser named characters may not make it either, particularly if they start sharing their backstory or show any character development. The main characters survive largely thanks to Plot Armor. As an example, when Deunan, Briareos, and Tereus attack the abandoned research center in Ex Machina, there are a few non-named characters that go with them. The minor characters get killed off rather brutally, while Deunan survives long enough to crash her suit (after jettisoning from it) into one of the enemy suits.
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One-Word Title
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One-Word Title: Also a Portmantitle.
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Turned Against Their Masters
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Turned Against Their Masters: The master computer Gaia in the second volume of the manga. Ironically, it was trying to protect mankind.
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The End of the World as We Know It
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The End of the World as We Know It: Subverted, as with Ghost in the Shell (which shared a similar Timeline if not outright happening in the same universe), despite two world wars, one of which was nuclear, civilization just kept right on chugging along, without even a die back. That said, the world is still a very chaotic place, and you probably wouldn't want to live there.
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Race Lift
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Race Lift: Though it's nearly impossible to tell in the manga due to the lack of a... well, a FACE, Briareos is apparently North African originally, as seen in some artwork Shirow has done (including a very odd-looking beach-scene). In the 2004 film and Ex Machina, Briareos is retconned to be a rather Japanese-looking Bishōnen. Word of God is that Briareos was Black Caribbean (where, he never specified). XIII makes him black again. Not just Briareos either; Deunan's mother was white in the 2004 film, but black in XIII (also an indicator that XIII is an Alternate Continuity). This one's a plot point in her Death by Origin Story: she was gunned down for crossing an apartheid line. Actually, that's not alternate, that's pretty much Deunan exposition in volume 3 of the manga, animated. In the manga, Deunan explains that she was gunned down by some random racists in San Francisco, so her Death by Origin Story was changed as well. Deunan also said in the manga that she was a "Cafe Au Lait''.
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Battle Butler
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Battle Butler: Nike.
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1.0
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Action Girl
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comment
Action Girl: Deunan.
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Battle Couple
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comment
Battle Couple: Deunan and Briareos.
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1.0
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1.0
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Appleseed (Manga) / int_db39ccfd
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_db6230b7
type
Lightning Bruiser
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comment
Lightning Bruiser: Briareos uses (or, more accurately, is built into) the Hecatonchire-class full-body cyborg chassis, a towering juggernaut of a military prototype that is amongst the strongest, toughest rigs ever to exist, and boosts his reflexes to superhuman levels as well.
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1.0
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Appleseed (Manga) / int_db6230b7
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_dc057cf3
type
Adaptation Name Change
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_dc057cf3
comment
Adaptation Name Change: "Sokaku" from the manga is now called "Two Horns" in Alpha.
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1.0
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1.0
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Appleseed (Manga) / int_dc057cf3
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_dca70c44
type
Reasonable Authority Figure
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_dca70c44
comment
Reasonable Authority Figure: Athena tries to get Deunan killed at the start of the film; however, in truth she didn't know Deunan's role in what was going on at the time, and when the Regular Army comes close to committing genocide she sends her, along with the rest of Kudo's ESWAT unit, on a mission to retrieve the Appleseed (which can save the Bioroid race and was long thought destroyed by Dr. Gilliam until an Elder revealed its existence at an emergency meeting called by Athena to discuss the implications of a terrorist attack on the Bioroid day care center). General Uranus is willing to engage in debate with his opponents, even during a tense standoff involving the Regular Army, and despite his Fantastic Racism he's at least smart enough to carefully consider the consequences of his actions whenever they come to light.
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1.0
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Appleseed (Manga) / int_dca70c44
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_ddb233c1
type
Mid-Season Twist
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_ddb233c1
comment
Mid-Season Twist: Episode 7 of XIII has the pilot of the rogue Hecatonchires Landmate turn out to be Deia.
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1.0
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1.0
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Appleseed (Manga) / int_ddb233c1
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type
Gambit Pileup
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_de9047ac
comment
Gambit Pileup: Even after repeated rereads, it can be difficult to pick out the specifics of Athena vs. the Council.
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type
The Evils of Free Will
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_dfcb2c08
comment
The Evils of Free Will: Serves as the villain's primary motivation in Ex Machina.
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Appleseed (Manga) / int_dfcb2c08
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type
Composite Character
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_e4965307
comment
Composite Character: Tereus from Ex Machina has elements of both Briareos and Fang from the manga. Makes sense, seeing as he's a clone of the former.
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Appleseed (Manga) / int_e4965307
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_e5d8460d
type
Unexplained Recovery
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_e5d8460d
comment
Unexplained Recovery: In Appleseed Alpha, the gang leader Two Horns is remarkably resilient. His persistent failure to die is never explained.
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1.0
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Appleseed (Manga) / int_e5d8460d
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_e5ffeb19
type
Phlebotinum-Induced Stupidity
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_e5ffeb19
comment
Phlebotinum-Induced Stupidity: In Ex Machina, Briareos would likely have found unearthing the movie's central conspiracy much easier if the lingering nanite poisoning they used to temporarily take him over hadn't compelled him to take the most stupid, pointless, and needlessly violent actions possible whenever his adrenaline levels spiked. Luckily for him, there's a treatment.
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Appleseed (Manga) / int_e5ffeb19
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_e6f18344
type
Humongous Mecha
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_e6f18344
comment
Humongous Mecha: A 13-foot tall death machine appears in volume 4 of the manga, but is taken apart by just two veteran landmate pilots (and a Tank Cannon).
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1.0
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1.0
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Appleseed (Manga) / int_e6f18344
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type
MechaExpansionPack
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_e7099879
comment
Mecha Expansion Pack: In the fourth volume of the manga, Briareos uses a series of attachments that basically turns him into a Landmate.
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Appleseed (Manga) / int_e7099879
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_ea92aeb0
type
Concealment Equals Cover
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_ea92aeb0
comment
Concealment Equals Cover: Very, very averted. As is common for Shirow Masamune works, big guns will chew up the scenery. Of particular note is the huge Gatling guns used by the tanks in the intro of the first movie: they're shown punching straight through thick concrete and brick walls like they were made of stale crackers.
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Appleseed (Manga) / int_ea92aeb0
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_f1492605
type
Redemption Equals Death
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_f1492605
comment
Redemption Equals Death: Possibly; it's been theorized that the Elders, realizing that Deunan's determination to preserve the future of humanity came from possibly a purer motive than they had, had entered the last letter of the Mobile Fortress password with the last of their strength, allowing Deunan to save humanity with the push of a button.
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_f1492605
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Appleseed (Manga) / int_f1492605
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_f3626b09
type
Mercy Kill
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_f3626b09
comment
Mercy Kill: Deunan does one to Xander in Ex Machina.
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_f3626b09
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1.0
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_f3626b09
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1.0
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Appleseed (Manga) / int_f3626b09
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_f3b5d559
type
SWAT Team
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_f3b5d559
comment
ESWAT Team
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type
Product Placement
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_f511ea9b
comment
Product Placement: In Ex Machina, the credits tell us that two of Deunan's outfits were designed by Miuccia Prada. Write OLYMPUS in a sans-serif font and it will enevitably resemble the logo of the Olympus camera company.
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_f511ea9b
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1.0
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1.0
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Appleseed (Manga) / int_f511ea9b
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_f5920574
type
Hero-Tracking Failure
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_f5920574
comment
Hero-Tracking Failure: Occurs at the start of the first movie, and receives a brief Call-Back in the opening fight of Ex Machina, though that huge gatling gun looked pretty difficult to maneuver even for a cyborg. Alpha does this again during the chase in New York between Briareos and the tank, but not unexpected since Two Horns is on the gun, and he wasn't expecting Briareos to be able to move so fast considering how sluggish he was just the day before.
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_f5920574
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1.0
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Appleseed (Manga) / int_f5920574
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_fb3576b2
type
TheDogBitesBack
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_fb3576b2
comment
The Dog Bites Back: It's implied in the 2004 film that General Uranus ratted out the Elders while surrendering to Athena, who quickly confronts the Elders just as they're about to bring about the gradual extinction of humanity.
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_fb3576b2
featureApplicability
1.0
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1.0
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Appleseed (Manga) / int_fb3576b2
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_fcbcc221
type
Robot Buddy
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_fcbcc221
comment
Robot Buddy: Kotus, especially in his Day in the Limelight episode in XIII.
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_fcbcc221
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1.0
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_fcbcc221
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1.0
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Appleseed (Manga) / int_fcbcc221
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_fd4f8299
type
WellIntentionedExtremist
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_fd4f8299
comment
Well-Intentioned Extremist: Arguably so with the Elders in the first film, who wish to preserve the Earth and rid it of the evils inflicted upon it by mankind; unfortunately, their ultimate means to do this is the sterilization of the human race.
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_fd4f8299
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1.0
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1.0
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Appleseed (Manga) / int_fd4f8299
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_fd94c4ac
type
Theme Naming
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_fd94c4ac
comment
Theme Naming: Many characters are named after characters from Greek mythology.
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_fd94c4ac
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1.0
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1.0
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Appleseed (Manga) / int_fd94c4ac
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_ff8afd14
type
Spider Tank
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_ff8afd14
comment
Spider Tank: Spider Gun Platforms, and smaller Spider Drones.
 Appleseed (Manga) / int_ff8afd14
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1.0
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1.0
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Appleseed (Manga) / int_ff8afd14
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ItemName
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Battle Butler / int_5141197f
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Bio-Augmentation / int_5141197f
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Blade Brake / int_5141197f
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Clones Are People, Too / int_5141197f
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Collapsing Lair / int_5141197f
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Construction Vehicle Rampage / int_5141197f
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Contemplative Boss / int_5141197f
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Cyber Cyclops / int_5141197f
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Cyberpunk / int_5141197f
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Cybernetics Eat Your Soul / int_5141197f
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Cyborg / int_5141197f
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Dark-Skinned Blond / int_5141197f
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Do You Trust Me? / int_5141197f
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Domestic-Only Cartoon / int_5141197f
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Dubtitle / int_5141197f
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Eating Machine / int_5141197f
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Failed Future Forecast / int_5141197f
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Fashion-Victim Villain / int_5141197f
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Foreign Language Title / int_5141197f
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Forever War / int_5141197f
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Fruit Cart / int_5141197f
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Future Slang / int_5141197f
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Gaia's Vengeance / int_5141197f
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Gatling Good / int_5141197f
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Girls with Guns / int_5141197f
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Grievous Harm with a Body / int_5141197f
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Ground-Shattering Landing / int_5141197f
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Guns Akimbo / int_5141197f
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Guys Smash, Girls Shoot / int_5141197f
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Head Crushing / int_5141197f
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Helicopter Pack / int_5141197f
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Hero-Tracking Failure / int_5141197f
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Insert Grenade Here / int_5141197f
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Iron Lady / int_5141197f
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Land of One City / int_5141197f
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Losing Your Head / int_5141197f
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Lost Superweapon / int_5141197f
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May Contain Evil / int_5141197f
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Meaningful Appearance / int_5141197f
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Mechanical Insects / int_5141197f
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Mid-Season Twist / int_5141197f
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Military Mashup Machine / int_5141197f
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Mini-Mecha / int_5141197f
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Mix-and-Match Man / int_5141197f
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Moe Greene Special / int_5141197f
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More Dakka / int_5141197f
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Multi-Armed Multitasking / int_5141197f
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Mysterious Mercenary Pursuer / int_5141197f
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Noble Top Enforcer / int_5141197f
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Nobody Here but Us Statues / int_5141197f
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Not Too Dead to Save the Day / int_5141197f
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Pillow Pistol / int_5141197f
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Post-Cyberpunk / int_5141197f
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Powered Armor / int_5141197f
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Razor Floss / int_5141197f
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Redubbing / int_5141197f
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Religious and Mythological Theme Naming / int_5141197f
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Revolvers Are Just Better / int_5141197f
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Robosexual / int_5141197f
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Rustproof Blood / int_5141197f
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SWAT Team / int_5141197f
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Scary Black Man / int_5141197f
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Second American Civil War / int_5141197f
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Serkis Folk / int_5141197f
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Sleeping Dummy / int_5141197f
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Spider Tank / int_5141197f
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Starbucks Skin Scale / int_5141197f
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Stupid Sacrifice / int_5141197f
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Super Cop / int_5141197f
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Super Window Jump / int_5141197f
 TakayaKuroda
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The Coup / int_5141197f
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The Great Politics Mess-Up / int_5141197f
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The High Queen / int_5141197f
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The World Is Just Awesome / int_5141197f
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Variable Terminal Velocity / int_5141197f
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World War III / int_5141197f
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World War Whatever / int_5141197f
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