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Saint Seiya (Manga)
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Saint Seiya began as a manga written by Masami Kurumada and soon became an anime produced by Toei Animation and later spawned its own franchise; it would become launcher of the "pretty boys in armor" subgenre of shonen fighting manga/anime (shows that followed it include Ronin Warriors, Legend of Heavenly Sphere Shurato, and even Mobile Suit Gundam Wing if you replace "armor" with "mecha". Symphogear is a Distaff Counterpartnote In fact, the two did a Crossover in the mobile game Symphogear XDU). It tells the story of five friends who serve the reincarnation of the goddess Athena, Saori Kido, in her quest to reclaim her place as ruler of the Saints, a group of warriors themed after the Western Zodiac and pretty much every charted constellation.All saints receive a Cloth, a sculpture of their signature constellation that transforms into functional battle armor. There are three grades of Cloths: Bronze, Silver, and Gold with each grade being far more powerful and resilient than the last. Each armor is also an Empathic Weapon and has some amount of choice in who wears it and whether they deserve to use it, as well as at least one special property.The five core cast members are: Pegasus Seiya (Light and Energy): The leader who often succeeded thanks to The Power of Friendship. He is brash and loyal to a fault, although all his friends never give up. He's so Hot-Blooded that he often was the most capable of pulling off Heroic Resolve. He often veered into Too Dumb to Live territory, and is almost as hard to kill as Ikki. Dragon Shiryu (Water): The Rival to Seiya at first. Despite his tendency to become blind in battlesnote Only to later get better, he is one of the stronger fighters, not to mention the wisest one. Usually bleeds at least a quart of blood per fight. Cygnus Hyoga (Ice): Despite being a more-or-less devout Christian, he wholeheartedly helped Athena... yeah, good thing the setting was into Crossover Cosmology. He's also recognized to be the smartest Bronze Saint. Notorious for his Oedipus complex. Andromeda Shun (Chains, Wind and Energy): He has perhaps the most destructive power of the core five, and the most restraint on using it. He doesn't snap very often, but when it does happen, SNAP he does! Phoenix Ikki (Fire and Rebirth): The loner in the Loners Are Freaks sense, he's Shun's over-protective older brother and the Big Bad in the Galaxian Wars Arc. Most likely to use Cool and Unusual Punishment and Fate Worse than Death with his psychic attacks. Also, possibly immortal/unkillable; since whenever people think he's dead, he'll keep on coming back... and back... and back... To make matters even better, he always came back STRONGER.The first arc is the Sanctuary Arc. Saori Kido, heiress to a vast empire, holds special games to see which among the bronze saints deserves the Sagittarius Gold Cloth: an armor so powerful it is considered to confer the power of a Weapon of Mass Destruction to its wearer. Seiya, Shiryu, Hyoga and Shun (among others) meet there to fight for it, but before the winner can be decided the Gold Cloth is stolen away by the Black Saints, renegade saints led by Ikki.The story in the manga and anime differs considerably following Ikki's defeat, but it focuses on the Bronze Saints facing several other Saints sent by the Sanctuary with orders to kill them (and in the anime only, recover the Sagittarius Cloth helmet, the only part of the Cloth the good guys were able to keep). Midway through the battles against the Silver Saints, it is revealed that Saori is the reincarnation of Athena and leadership of Sanctuary is hers by right, which at the time is under control of the nefarious Pope (no, not that one), who wants her dead so he can claim her position as protector of the Earth. Eventually Saori and all the Bronze Saints decide to challenge the Pope directly, and travel to the Sanctuary. Due to some treachery, Athena/Saori is hit by an arrow powerful enough to fell a god in twelve hours... time which the Saints must use to defeat the other eleven Gold Saints and use the shield on the statue of Athena to save their goddess from death.Later arcs tend to follow this form, with a series of fights to reach the offending god or mortal intent on bringing about a worldwide calamity while working under a time limit, failure leading to Athena's death or the destruction of the world. The original anime ended in 1989 before it could cover the series' final arc, the Hades arc, but from 2002 to 2008 a series of OVAs adapting the arc were produced. This divided the arc into three chapters: "Sanctuary", "Inferno", and "Elysium".Wishing to repeat their success with Sailor Moon, the series was licensed and dubbed in English as Knights of the Zodiac (which is actually the name the series has in most of the world outside Japan) by DIC Entertainment and shown on Cartoon Network, but the plot and characters didn't receive very good treatment. It wasn't very popular, and only 32 of the 40 dubbed episodes aired. ADV Films would later re-release the series on DVD with a new, much more faithful dub (note the page image), but they only had the license up to episode 60 due to it being the last episode that DiC had sub-licensed to them. In 2014, New Video Group released the complete Sanctuary arc in its subbed form, but even that flopped as well. Eventually, in October 2019, Netflix began streaming the series with subs and a new English dub produced by Sentai Filmworks, featuring cast members from the 2019 CGI reboot series and the ADV dub. This dub finally reached the end of the series in 2020. However, the series was permanently removed from the service on December 14, 2021. In the lead up to the live-action Hollywood film adaptation of the series, the Sentai dub reappeared on Crunchyroll on April 21, 2023, misleadingly promoted as a "remastered" dub.However, outside the States it is IMMENSELY popular. In Latin America, in particular, Los Caballeros del Zodiaco/Os Cavaleiros do ZodÃÂaco has a raging Fandom up to this day, and the series is re-run constantly. Part of this is attributed to its phenomenal dub and respect for the source material. And in Europe it's no slouch either, especially France and Spain, where even to this day the manga sells by the crap loads.Discotek Media licensed the first four Saint Seiya movies and released them in Japanese with English subtitles (whether they'll release the fifth film remains to be seen), while Cinedigm released a new DVD release of the original anime covering the entire Sanctuary Arc.The story of the original manga is continued by Kurumada in Saint Seiya: Next Dimension, which (thanks to Time Travel) simultaneously acts as a sequel and prequel to the original story.A recap page for the original anime is in progress HERE. | |
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Canon Foreigner: Several, including from anime (Docrates, Geist, Spartan, Arachne, etc) and movies. | |
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My Friends... and Zoidberg | |
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My Friends... and Zoidberg: Hilariously inverted in episode 27. Shaina and two Silver Saints ambush the heroes. | |
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The Problem with Fighting Death | |
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The Problem with Fighting Death: Aside from the practical concerns of fighting a god, he can also resurrect all his fallen minions. | |
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Multinational Team | |
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Multinational Team: There are many nationalities among the Saints, the Mariners and the Specters. | |
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Darker and Edgier | |
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Darker and Edgier: Both, manga and anime, can be this to each other depending on the situation yet the former still has the upper hand. | |
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Big, Screwed-Up Family | |
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Big, Screwed-Up Family: The Kido Family. Saori Kido turns out to be the Goddess Athena, Mitsumasa Kido in the manga has 100 kids and then sends them to go become Saints. Let's not forget Hyoga and his Oedipus Complex with his dead mother. | |
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Losing a Shoe in the Struggle | |
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In the manga, starting from the late Poseidon arc, losing only the tiara is a visual indicator of an important battle without having to break the whole armor (or, in the case of the second Pegasus Seiya helmet, a way to remove it from the story to never appear again) note (i. e. Ikki vs Kanon, Gold-armored Bronze Saints vs Poseidon, Seiya vs Cerberus, Ikki vs Aiacos, post-Hades possession Shun, Cygnus vs Minos, Shiryu vs Rhadamantys' bodyguards, Seiya-Ikki vs Hades' urn). Notice that this is also the usual way to show a major Gold Saint battle, since their armor always stays undamaged (although not their Surplice copies). | |
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Injured Self-Drag | |
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Injured Self-Drag: The biggest benefit of cosmic energy (often called the "seventh sense") is that, even after a saint is gravely injured and/or the other six senses have been disabled, it grants them the physical and psychological capacity to move forward or even fight. This is the reason why Hyoga is spared by Scorpio Milo in their fight in the 8th Zodiac house: The latter is aiming to win by killing him at first, but he's impressed by Hyoga's determination to keep going even after he's very crippled (he had received all 15 of Scorpio's stinging punches, including Antares which is normally the deadliest), so he lets him continue his way upward (still crippled and badly injured) to the house of Pope Ares. In the non-canon film Saint Seiya: Legend of Crimson Youth, set after the original "12 Houses" Arc, Athena's divine brother, Phoebus Abel, comes to inform her that the gods decided to destroy mankind, and he is to take her to his own personal temple, while his subordinates, the three Solar Corona Saints and the resurrected Gold Saints (Gemini Saga, Cancer Deathmask, Capricorn Shura, Aquarius Camus, and Pisces Aphrodite), deal with Athena's Bronze Saints. The larger part of the film is the Bronze Saints fighting against Abel's lackeys, then Corona Atlas doing a surprise attack on them. At the climax of the movie, each of them drags themselves from whatever place of their previous battles and limp toward Abel's temple. | |
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Brainwashed and Crazy | |
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Then again, Seiya did hesitate heavily before he struck Hilda down, unable to bring himself to harm her since he knew she was Brainwashed and Crazy. He only did so when Odin himself told him "STFU and use my sword, kiddo!" He can't be fully blamed for what happened. | |
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Star Power | |
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Star Power: It's built on this early on, with both heroes and villains taking their powers from a constellation (From Pegasus Seiya to Gemini Saga). Later enemies have other sources for their powers, though, but still keep some kind of star motif (Hades' Specters take their titles from the 108 Stars of Destiny + some kind of monster). | |
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Genre Savvy | |
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Genre Savvy: In the Hades Chapter Inferno anime, Orpheus brings a giant box of flowers to Hades. Pandora is suspicious enough to stab them six or seven times to make sure no one is inside. She's right, but Shun and Seiya manage not to be badly hurt and don't react to the attack. We are also told afterwards that Shun covered for Seiya with his body, as we see Pandora tend to Hades' body once he possesses Shun. Hypnos' attacks puts his enemies in an eternal sleep. He doesn't like violence and prefers this technique over murder. He still tries to kill Shun afterwards because he realizes he will probably shrug it off due to Athena's blood and not underestimating the miracle of a God Cloth manifesting. | |
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The Worf Effect | |
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The Worf Effect: Taurus Aldebaran was often the recipient of such attacks after the Sanctuary arc. From the Asgardians, Poseidon's Generals, and Hades' Spectres. Killing him off screen might've been a Mercy Kill for him. | |
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Only Six Faces | |
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By the way, the design porting is so blatant in Kurumada's drawing style, this borders around Only Six Faces in his whole manga work. Luckily the anime's character designs avert this. | |
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Artistic License – Biology | |
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Artistic License – Biology: Most of the versions of the Cancer gold cloth depict fiddler crabs with varying claw sizes. However, the first time it was depicted in object form, the cloth looked boxy and awkward, not resembling any species of crab at all. The amount of blood loss and the blunt force trauma to the head and torso almost all of the Saints go through would've certainly killed even the strongest of Saints many times over. Not to mention the fact that they tend to fall head-first to the floor doesn't help either. The cloths of Mizar Zeta and Alcor Zeta depict long-toothed sabretooth cats, which were not native to Europe. Sabretooth cats like Smilodon were confined to the Americas, while species with smaller teeth lived in Eurasia. Also, unlike the cloths, no sabretooth cats had long tails. | |
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You Are Already Dead | |
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You Are Already Dead: Very common, to the point where someone can give an entire speech in the time between receiving an attack and it taking effect. | |
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Full-Frontal Assault | |
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Full-Frontal Assault: Seiya and Saori/Athena in Tenkai Hen (5th movie) against Apollo, albeit with Barbie Doll Anatomy. | |
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Defeat Means Friendship | |
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Defeat Means Friendship: Quite a few times, they could convince their opponents they're actually on the same side. Particularly notable in the case of the Gold Saints, as many of them were made to believe Athena was still hidden away in Sanctuary, and honestly believed they were defending her from invaders, but became convinced of Saori's true identity (and the Bronze Saints' devotion to her) after being defeated. | |
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Comic-Book Time | |
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Comic-Book Time: Strikes in the Sanctuary arc. The last hour lasts for about six episodes while the previous one lasted only one episode. | |
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Man Behind the Man: Poseidon to Hilda (anime only). Kanon to Poseidon. Thanatos and Hypnos to Pandora in order to release Hades. | |
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And This Is for...: When Ikki gets his hands on Lyumnades Kaasa, he gives him punches for all of the heartache Seiya, Hyoga and especially Shun went through. | |
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Last Breath Bullet | |
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Last Breath Bullet: Aldebaran pulls this one to Deep Nyobe in the Hades Saga. | |
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Say My Name | |
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Say My Name: "ATHEEEEENAAAAAAA!" "SAORI-SAAAAAAAAN!" "MARIIIIIIIN!" "MAAAAASTEEEEEEER!" "SEEEEEEIYAAAAAAA!" "SHIIIIIRYUUUUUU!" "BROOOOTHEEEEER!" The Brazilian dub replaced the latter with "IKKIIIIIIIII!", which still fits. | |
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Heroes Fight Barehanded | |
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Heroes Fight Barehanded: While some saints do have some sort of weaponry with them, most of them fight barehanded. All of the gods have a distinctive artifact that they tend to use as a weapon, though: Athena's Crosier, which represents Niké, Poseidon's famous Trident, and Hades' Sword, all of which get used to stab someone in the climax of their respective arcs. | |
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Mr. Fanservice | |
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Mr. Fanservice: All male cast excluding cannon fodder troops. Who possessed a very muscled body and had at least two very fanservicy bath and shower scenes. Obvious bait for the Estrogen Brigade watching the show. | |
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The Cameo | |
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The Cameo: Minky Momo, of all people, appears in the audience at one point in episode 5 of the classic series. You can also see a spectator with Kenshiro's face. | |
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Reluctant Warrior | |
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Reluctant Warrior: Andromeda Shun that, after four seasons and at least three movies, refuses to give up on the idea of non-violently settling problems, and talking to his enemies in the hopes of reasoning with them. He has the unfortunate tendency to combine this noble character with Martyr Without a Cause and almost giving away his life on a few occasions... but when push comes to shove and the enemy proves they are a monster, he will fight and kill them if need be. To his credit, he's caused at least one Heel–Face Turn among his opponents, and held back and throttled a body stealing god through sheer love of peace.. | |
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The Medic | |
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The Medic: Saori, at the end of the Twelve Houses chapter (anime-only). Aiolia is given Healing Hands in the anime, which he uses twice to heal Shaina and Seiya. In the manga, he merely tied Seiya's broken leg to hold the bone together. | |
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Power Limiter | |
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It also backfired even worse against Aphrodite, as destroying the Andromeda Cloth with his Piranhan Rose didn't take Shun out of the fight (by destroying the Andromeda Chain), it removed Shun's Power Limiter and forced him to use the Nebula Storm. | |
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DudeHesLikeInAComa | |
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Dude, He's Like, in a Coma!: In a story, Seiya and Saori jumping off a cliff together to escape from Shaina and the Silver Saint, Jamian. Saori nearly kiss an unconscious Seiya, but is interrupted by an angry Shaina. | |
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Drowning Pit | |
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Drowning Pit: Saori is put inside one of these by Poseidon. Also, Kanon was locked in another one by Saga several years ago, before meeting Poseidon | |
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Stripperiffic | |
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Stripperiffic: While the Silver and Bronze Cloths don't cover as much as practical armor should, the few female Cloths have Breast Plates, cover less, are designed to be sexier and curvier, and often sport stiletto heels. This is also true for the Mermaid Scale, though the trend is very much averted by the anime-only character Ghost Saint Geist. | |
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Law of Chromatic Superiority | |
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Law of Chromatic Superiority: The Gold Saints are the strongest warriors of all, because they wear the shiniest Cloths of all (Gold). This does get turned on its head a little as the series goes on, since the main characters technically remain low-level Bronze Saints, though their Cloths develop a habit of subverting the hierarchy altogether. This is also sometimes subverted with certain Silver Saints such as Albiore being more than capable of defending himself against Milo or Lyra Orphee being stated to be stronger than the Gold Saints. | |
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Deal with the Devil | |
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Deal with the Devil: Hades brought some dead Saints back to life in exchange for their service. Said service namely being to attack the Sanctuary and kill Athena. | |
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Punch-Clock Villain | |
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Punch-Clock Villain: While some are evil or have personal reasons, most of the Saints sent by the Sanctuary to kill Saori and her group are only aware that they revealed the existence of the Sanctuary to the world and her Saints broke the Sanctuary's law when they wielded their Cloths for personal reasons in the Galaxian Wars. Notably, in the manga the first assassin was Hyoga, who had been sent before Saga found out what he was really dealing with. The Asgardian God Warriors (except one) are all noble, devoted guardians to their princess, Hilda, and to the shrine of Odin. They may turn arrogant and taunt Athena's Saints when they have the upper hand (a sin that heroic Golds and Bronzes are also guilty of, even if they don't get as many chances), but ultimately they're simply defending their charge from what appears to them to be an invading foreign force trying to supplant her. Those that remain close to her even question why Hilda, who used to be kind and gentle, is now so bloodthirsty for victory over Athena. It tends to make their deaths considerably more tragic and poignant than even those of Athena's own Silver Saints or villainous Gold Saints. | |
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Wrong Genre Savvy | |
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Wrong Genre Savvy: Deathmask claims that "Power is justice" and "Winners write the history books" so he follows the "most powerful man" - the corrupt Pope. Then he gets raised from the dead in the Non-Serial Movie, and flocks to Abel for the same reason. Then, he appears to do that again in the Hades arc, but it turns out it was all part of a ruse to get former Pope Sion to teach Athena about her Cloth. | |
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It Only Works Once | |
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He did have one rather awesome use of it in the Poseidon arc though. When facing Scylla Io, the Mariner General used an attack that was actually six in one on a "low" setting to taunt him. However, since It Only Works Once and Shun's chains are stated as early as the first tournament arc as being hyper adaptive to enemy attacks, Shun proceeds to counter each of his attacks, destroy his armor, and bind him in chains. | |
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Next Tier Power-Up | |
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Next Tier Power-Up: The Sacred Cloths of Athena change into sleeker, more impressive new forms whenever they're destroyed and have to be rebuilt (especially the Bronze Cloths, which are broken at least once per season.) Works as a non-sexual form of Fanservice as the Constellation form of the Cloths becomes more and more intricately detailed with each iteration — the original Pegasus and Cygnus Cloths required a LOT of imagination to resemble a winged horse or a swan, but by the time they became Divine Cloths through Athena's blood they were near-perfect reproductions — and they cover more and more of their bearer's body at the same time. In regards to the Saints themselves, their goal in the Sanctuary Arc was to awaken to the mystical Seventh Sense, which would allow them to reach the Cosmo power level of, and perceive the movements of faster-than-light Gold Saints and counterattack. In the Hades Arc, the objective was the Eighth Sense, which grants them entrance into the Hades while still being alive and avoiding Hades' domination. Then, when facing Hades' lieutenants, Thanatos and Hypnos, the overwhelming force of the Bronze Saints' Cosmo upgrades them (and their Cloths) to godly levels. | |
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My Name Is Inigo Montoya | |
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My Name Is Inigo Montoya: You sometimes want the Saints to just stay down so they don't take more damage and then they get up and ARGH... Hello, Seiya and Shiryu. | |
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Crapsack World | |
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Crapsack World: The entire Saint Seiya universe qualifies as one of these, once you take everything about the gods, the Saints and especially the afterlife into consideration. While society itself closely mirrors the real world (at least, the real-world of the 80s, where the original series was set), if peaceful gods like Athena aren't there to preserve peace, countries are very, very quick to descend into war and barbarism all on their own. This is why more belligerent gods like Hades and Poseidon are so willing to wipe the slate clean with divine disasters... which only make humans much more desperate to survive. | |
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Between My Legs | |
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Between My Legs: Shaina gets this shot in episode 30. June as well in episode 69 during a flashback of Shun looking at the Melancholy Moon. | |
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DivineChessboard | |
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Divine Chessboard: Athena with her saints against Poseidon with his generals and later Hades with his specters. In the anime, Poseidon also uses the Asgardian Hilda and Odin's God Warriors as pawns to wield against humanity and Athena. | |
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Ultimate Final Exam | |
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Ultimate Final Exam: The Saints' Training from Hell is concluded with an immensely difficult final task in which they earn their Sacred Cloth; to put things in perspective, one of the failed examinees was asked to walk inside an active volcano and retrieve the Cloth from it. | |
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Doomsday Clock | |
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Doomsday Clock: Standing close to the Twelve Zodiac Houses is a tower whose clock has blue flames where the numbers would normally be. When Athena gets hit by a cursed arrow, the flames tell how many hours remain until the arrow pierces the heart of the wounded goddess. Once every hour, one flame is extinguished, so the main characters have only twelve hours to travel through the twelve houses, defeat the Gold Saints patrolling said houses, and convince the head honcho to remove the arrow from Athena's chest. In the end, all twelve flames in the clock disappear, but Seiya manages to point Athena's Shield in her direction, lifting the curse and the arrow - in the manga it even makes Saga's evil side leave his body like it was some kind of ghostly possession. Also inverted in the first half of the Hades Arc. As the resurrected Saints and Specters invade Sanctuary, they are allowed only 12 hours back among the living; for the Gold Saints, lighting up the Flame Clock marks how long they have to Hold the Line against the assault, for their resurrected former allies, it's literally a countdown to their deaths. | |
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Anime Theme Song | |
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Anime Theme Song First Season Opening (Galaxy Tournament Arc to 12 Houses Arc): Pegasus Fantasy. 'DiC' dub opening and closing : I Ran (Bowling for Soup version) First Season Ending: Blue Forever Second and Third Season Opening (Asgard Arc to Poseidon Arc): Soldier Dream. Second and Third Season Ending: Blue Dream Hades Sanctuary Opening: Chikyuugi Hades Sanctuary Ending: Kimi to Onaji Aozora Hades Inferno & Elysion Opening: Megami no Senshi Pegasus Forever Hades Inferno Ending: My Dear Hades Elysion Ending: Kami no del Regno | |
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Scary Impractical Armor | |
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Scary Impractical Armor: By Hades Saga, we see a lot of stuff like this.◊ Although certain Cloths are far too bulky to walk in, let alone fight in, they're justified as being more status symbols than anything, and the more intricate the design, the less likely the enemy is to lower himself to throwing punches, what with being a powerful demigod who only needs to raise a finger to send everyone flying. | |
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Kid Hero | |
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Kid Hero: To look at them you'd probably think the Bronze Saints would be in their mid-to-late teens. Their official ages place them as being 13-14. | |
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Defrosting Ice Queen | |
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Defrosting Ice Queen: Ophiuchus Shaina. She starts off hating Seiya for having the gall to be a) an outsider, and a foreigner at that, who b) would defeat her personal student Cassios for possession of the Pegasus Cloth. Then she went on to loathe him for unmasking her and seeing her bare face (and even calling her "cute"), which is considered the gravest of sins for a female Saint. Then she fell in love with him and slowly became his ally, even Taking the Bullet for him or his sister more than a few times. | |
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Limited Wardrobe | |
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Limited Wardrobe: The Bronze Saints have three base outfits - civvies, civvies minus shirt, and civvies plus Bronze Cloth. Saori spends most of her time in the same dress. In the manga, while it's almost never clearly shown, every male Saint seems to wear the same white clothing under his armor: a sleeveless shirt and a weird pants-shoes combination (in the Poseidon arc, the heroes also add wraps to their hands-forearms and biceps). In very rare occasions, some characters fight with different clothing under their armor, most notably Seiya with his pseudo-greek clothing in the earliest chapters of the manga, or Shiryu with chinese civilian clothes in his first fight against Deathmask. | |
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In the End, You Are on Your Own | |
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In the End, You Are on Your Own: Usually, Seiya's closest allies spend themselves unto death opening the path for him to reach the final baddie. At best, they send their combined Cosmo to him to provide a much-needed power boost when he almost croaks against the enemy, but by then they're already too battered and beaten to physically join the fight, and Seiya must deal with it alone. An exception happens in the Poseidon Arc, where Shiryu and Hyoga are still strong enough to physically toss Seiya into the Main Breadwinner and end Poseidon's plot, so the climactic event was an honest team effort. Dealing with the god himself, though, was still Athena's duty all on her lonesome. | |
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Faster-Than-Light Travel | |
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Traveling at the Speed of Light: Leo Aioria claims that, while Bronze Saints move at or above the speed of sound, Gold Saints can attack at the speed of light. But the amount of energy needed for any of the Gold Saints or anyone to perform light speed attacks is extremely high. Even approaching light speed would require more energy per second than all of Earth's industries use per year. | |
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Death as Game Mechanic | |
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Death as Game Mechanic: The 3D games made by Bandai Namco and Dimps (Chronicles, Brave Soldiers and Soldiers' Soul) have the option to revive for a last battle after being defeated, in which just like in the series, the fallen Saint is on the ground and the spirit of Goddess Athena (Saori Kiddo) as well someone loved by the Saint encourage him/her to get up and continue living, with the player smashing buttons to make energy to the Saint can get up. If the player achieves it, the Saint comes back to the battle with a portion of energy to finish the battle. But if it's beaten again, the mashing buttons would be harder in the next intent until the Saint can't get up again. | |
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Artifact Title | |
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Artifact Title: Not on the original series itself, mind you, where Seiya always played an important role; but the subsequent spin-offs/prequels, don't always feature him, examples include The Lost Canvas and Episode G, (OK, The Lost Canvas is about his previous incarnation, but still...) Funnily enough, the international title, Knights of the Zodiac, always stays relevant because it applies to all the Athena's Saints/Knights. | |
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Suicidal "Gotcha!" | |
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Suicidal "Gotcha!": Seiya and Saori Kido use one to escape from Shaina and Silver Saint Jamian, jumping off a cliff together rather than either fighting when in huge disadvantage or giving Saori to them. While Seiya gets badly injured, they both live, and a while later their companions come to help them. | |
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Spikes of Villainy | |
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Spikes of Villainy: The Sanctuary's Pope, full stop. During his more benign days, he tends to wear a golden (but not Gold) helm with extremely wide shoulderguards. When he goes evil, these shoulderguards come with gigantic spikes that make him almost as wide as he is tall. | |
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DeathByGenreSavvy | |
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Defeat By Genre Savvy: In the manga version of the battle against Saga Ikki and he hit each other with their brainwashing techniques. Ikki's induces illusions and Saga's causes his victims to obey him. Saga decides to play it safe and make sure Ikki is under his control by having him stab his own arm before ordering him to kill Seiya and Ikki apparently does so until things go back to normal. Ikki remarks that had Saga ordered him to kill Seiya right away, Ikki couldn't have shaken off the mind control fast enough. | |
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Everybody Hates Hades | |
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Everybody Hates Hades: Played painfully straight. Hades is Athena's arch-nemeses, hellbent on counquering the world — in other words, nothing like his mythological counterpart. | |
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Psycho for Hire | |
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Psycho for Hire: Cancer Deathmask. With a name like that, what else can you be? | |
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Eyes Always Shut | |
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Eyes Always Shut: Shaka, the Virgo Saint, isn't blind, but he keeps his eyes closed as if he really were, so he can focus his energy; him opening his eyes is followed by a tremendous release of accumulated cosmic powers that can and will literally render you senseless. According to the Genre Savvy Aioria, you must do everything in your power to prevent Shaka from opening his eyes. On the other hand, Asmita Virgo, Shaka's Expy from the Lost Canvas story, is blind. | |
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Out of the Inferno | |
| Saint Seiya (Manga) / int_31add7fe | comment |
Out of the Inferno: Ikki, literally has his resurrection scene with the fire that was burning a forest and his brother, he appears out of the fire carrying his brother and extinguishes all the fire with his Cosmo. Not surprising given his control over fire, and him generally being a badass. He also pulls this against Jango in the manga and in the anime, after taking a Death Queen Inferno to the face, only to No-Sell it, giving his opponent the mother of Punch! Punch! Punch! Uh Oh... moments. Against Shaka, he does it again: first Shaka destroys his cloth and proceeds to disintegrate Ikki... For him to reappear in a blaze of flames, cloth and all. | |
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Power Levels | |
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Power Levels: The intensity and strength of each characters' Cosmo functions as a rough gauge for power, health, and even mood. | |
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Overdrawn at the Blood Bank | |
| Saint Seiya (Manga) / int_3346eb29 | comment |
Overdrawn at the Blood Bank: Though everyone bleeds a lot, Shiryu is notable for regularly geysering more blood than everyone else in his team has at least once per arc. The only time it's played fairly realistic is when he tears his own wrists open so Mu can fix up his and Seiya's suits. Shiryu went into a coma, and it's stated that he teetered on the edge of death, but he miraculously came back and was ready to fight again right then and there. It's actually ridiculous in the Scorpio Milo vs. Cygnus Hyoga battle, during which the latter gushes out more blood than his entire body could possibly contain. And not only does he live through it once Milo has realized the truth and stopped the blood loss via pressure points but he's back on his feet and fighting at full strength not even five minutes later. | |
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Helmets Are Hardly Heroic | |
| Saint Seiya (Manga) / int_33b4e7f | comment |
Helmets Are Hardly Heroic: While a lot of the Cloths do feature a Cool Helmet they are also the first thing that gets knocked off or destroyed during fights. Also, when Seiya and the rest of the bronze saints had their Cloths repaired between season one and two of the anime, their helmets were replaced by tiaras. Among the many unexplained physical changes that the "Gold Cloth" from the beginning of the series underwent as it was formally renamed as the Sagittarius Gold Cloth, its full-head helmet (which basically only revealed the eyes) became a tiara with a few spiky decorations on the forehead. In fact, only half of the Gold Cloths have helmets that cover the entire headnote Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Virgo, Capricorn, Pisces while the rest are just tiaras, crowns, or "big headbands with sideburns". By contrast, most enemies (God Warriors, Marine Generals, Specters) still wear helmets, and those who wear tiaras or crowns are in the minority. | |
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Grim Up North | |
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Far up North, a whole culture lives in worship of Odin, led by Hilda (name comes from Brunnhilde, the strongest of the Valkyries) and her sister Freya (name was taken from the Goddess of beauty and love). Odin's Asgardian God Warriors (named after Norse mythological figures) had a patron star in the Ursa Major constellation. Hilda herself has Polaris as her guardian star. | |
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Gender Flip | |
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Also gender flipped, with Tethys and Julian Solo aka the Soul Jar of Poseidon in the Poseidon saga. | |
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Kick the Dog | |
| Saint Seiya (Manga) / int_34dcfc96 | comment |
Kick the Dog: Kaza uses his shapeshifting abilities to lure Seiya (transforming into Marin) and Hyoga (transforming into Camus) in and then hurt them. Camus sinks the boat where Natasha's body is placed to force her son Hyoga to fight him. In the final arc, Thanatos does his damndest to kill Seiya's helpless older sister Seika just to punish him. Similarly, in a small anime filler two Silver Saints kill an old man and throw his granddaughter inside a volcano to lure Ikki out of his refuge inside said volcano. | |
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La Résistance | |
| Saint Seiya (Manga) / int_34dd5f3 | comment |
La Résistance: The Bronze Saints against the corrupt Sanctuary. Once Seiya is officially branded a traitor, Marin also goes on the run so she can assist him from the shadows and seek out intel on the Pope's uncharacteristic turn to evil. | |
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TheresNoKillLikeOverkill | |
| Saint Seiya (Manga) / int_354f7d1c | comment |
Among Athena's Saints, the Athena Exclamation is spoken of only in hushed legends... or, if they see it about to go off, in horrified screams, because it has the potential to duplicate the entire energy output of the Big Bang. It requires three Gold Saints who are so desperate and focused on their goal they have thrown all caution to the wind, and are willing to risk destroying the Earth to achieve victory, because if just one of them loses concentration for an instant, that's exactly what will happen. | |
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Rule of Cool | |
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By the end of the series, helmets become useless. Everyone's helmet/headpiece is either broken, lost in a fight or simply not used (because they look cool that way). Athena has hers for a single page and then loses it when Hades strikes her shield. | |
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This Cannot Be! | |
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This Cannot Be!: EVERY. SINGLE. CHARACTER. | |
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Stable Time Loop | |
| Saint Seiya (Manga) / int_37690091 | comment |
Stable Time Loop: Next Dimension seems to be heading this way with Saori being sent to the past as a baby arriving at the feet of the statue of Athena 200 years ago or so. The most likely outcome will be that when she'll come back to the present time, it will be as a baby as well to create the events that started the original series | |
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Barrier Maiden | |
| Saint Seiya (Manga) / int_37f9376a | comment |
Barrier Maiden: Saori often has to take the place or tasks of another God or make a life-risking Batman Gambit to buy time for her Saints to beat up the bad guys. Shun is also placed in that situation sometimes. Lampshaded in Shun's backstory since he bears the armor of, and is himself protected by the constellation of Andromeda, the one named after THE Barrier Maiden of Greek mythology. | |
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Death Is Cheap | |
| Saint Seiya (Manga) / int_37fcf16 | comment |
Death is Cheap: To the extent where it just flat out becomes Fridge Logic. Very dramatic deaths, which were explicitly stated and insisted to be complete, real, honest-to-goodness deaths in the Sanctuary Arc were easily undone when Athena came by to revive the characters. Then again, she IS an actual deity. The deaths that stick, though, become even more meaningful because of this. | |
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Batman Gambit | |
| Saint Seiya (Manga) / int_38d02d44 | comment |
Mind, this scene followed Seiya's even crazier idea to ram Shiryu's shield with his head in the hopes that Shiryu would break both his own fist and his supposedly impervious shield trying to crack Seiya's head between them. Even the other Bronze Saint onlookers were flabbergasted at how insane this plan was, never mind that it worked. | |
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Face Death with Dignity | |
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Face Death with Dignity: Athena, towards Hades. | |
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Deadly Gas | |
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The Deadly Gas-emitting roses after the Pisces Temple. | |
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Blessed with Suck | |
| Saint Seiya (Manga) / int_3c3f28a5 | comment |
Blessed with Suck: The Saints and their foes are both so fast and strong that, unprotected, they would turn to dust even by their own attacks, hence their armors (cloths, surplices, etc). The armors protect them from both attacks by foe and from their own power. The cloths themselves are living things, which means that with enough damage these can be effectively killed too, necessitating the craft of a master armorer like Aries Mu to both revive and revamp them. | |
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Super-Powered Evil Side | |
| Saint Seiya (Manga) / int_3cb17a19 | comment |
Superpowered Evil Side: Saga's split personalities. And Shun, being Hades' vessel. | |
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Curb-Stomp Battle | |
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Curb-Stomp Battle: Hyoga tends to dish these out in the early chapters of the manga. Ichi, Black Cygnus, Babel and (much later in the story) Troll Ivan can attest to that. | |
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The Fighting Narcissist | |
| Saint Seiya (Manga) / int_3e29ac83 | comment |
The Fighting Narcissist: Pisces Aphrodite, Lizard Misty and Papillon Myu. Misty is particularly famous (or, to some, infamous) for stripping naked right then and there on the beach where he fought Seiya, because he felt "unclean" after a single drop of Seiya's blood fell on his cheek, and desperately wanted a bath to wash it away. It was more than a little awkward when a very-much-alive Seiya came out of the ocean and had to wait for Misty to get dressed again to resume the fight. Pope Saga, or at least his evil side is shown being overly boastful about his "beatitful body" during his Shower Scene in the manga. | |
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Our Hippocamps Are Different | |
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Our Hippocamps Are Different: Sea Horse Baian of Poseidon's Mariners has hippocamp armor. Contrary to the usual half-horse and half-fish look of the hippocamp, this one is a regular horse with only the tail replaced by a fish's. Additional fins are added here and there. | |
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Costume Porn | |
| Saint Seiya (Manga) / int_3ec27f76 | comment |
Costume Porn: While at first the armors (named cloths) were relatively simplistic looking, as the story advances, they became more and more detailed, having some pages at the end of each manga volume to show them in full detail. | |
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Power Tattoo | |
| Saint Seiya (Manga) / int_3fbbe6ad | comment |
Power Tattoo: Dragon Shiryu has a Chinese long dragon tattooed on his back. The intensity with which it's visible indicates the strength of his Cosmo. If it's completely gone, he's as good as dead. | |
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Socially Unacceptable Collection | |
| Saint Seiya (Manga) / int_3fc53c38 | comment |
Socially Unacceptable Collection: Cancer Deathmask has the walls and the floor of his temple full with the heads of the people he killed, including children. Shiryu decides to put an end on that when Seiya describes the place for him. | |
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Faux Action Girl | |
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Faux Action Girl: In the anime, poor Marin is a Silver Saint and an excellent big sister mentor for Seiya, but she ends up just too often hit with The Worf Effect. This is thankfully averted in the manga, since all her defeats are anime-exclusive. Subverted with Shaina. She managed to dodge it once she pulled off her Heel–Face Turn. | |
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Woman Scorned | |
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Woman Scorned: Ophiuchus Shaina. | |
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Shut Up, Hannibal! | |
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Shut Up, Hannibal!!: Deathmask attempts to justify endorsing the Sanctuary's corruption by claiming that good and evil are concepts decided by the victors and that all morality is relative. Dohko Libra's response can be summed up as "Oh, shut up". | |
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Elemental Powers | |
| Saint Seiya (Manga) / int_42846e90 | comment |
Elemental Powers: Many Cloth and Saint have elemental focuses and affinities. Explicitly stated with the anime-only Steel Saints. | |
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Doppelgänger Attack | |
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Asterion uses mind-reading and a Doppelgänger Attack. At the same time. | |
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Not Even Bothering with the Accent | |
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Not Even Bothering with the Accent: Hyoga in the Knights of the Zodiac dub. | |
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Power Gives You Wings | |
| Saint Seiya (Manga) / int_43f03c2b | comment |
Power Gives You Wings: The Sagittarius Cloth, prone to arriving on its own in the nick of time to assist Seiya, has vast golden wings on its back. Furthermore, the Surplices of quite a few of Hades' Specters (on par with the strongest Gold Saints) have demonic or sinister-looking wings. The best examples, however, are Divine Cloths —Athena and Hades' have wings naturally (the latter has six major wings and a multitude of smaller ones over its joints,) and the Bronze Cloths all grow immense wings when they become Divine Cloths. | |
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Tranquil Fury | |
| Saint Seiya (Manga) / int_443b78cd | comment |
Tranquil Fury: Virgo Shaka. Do NOT piss this polite and cold psychic off enough to open his perpetually closed eyes. Even Ikki was compelled to run away from him, which doesn't work too well as he can't get too far, since any long distance to Shaka is like his enemy is running in the palm of Buddha, much like what happened to Sun Wukong. To the point it took Gemini Saga, Aquarius Camus AND Capricorn Shura to take him down! And even then... | |
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Honor Before Reason | |
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Honor Before Reason: Sometimes the Saints' rivals acknowledged they were wrong, but preferred to go down fighting anyway and/or refused to pull a Heel–Face Turn out of loyalty or love to their masters. | |
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Single-Stroke Battle | |
| Saint Seiya (Manga) / int_4565d81d | comment |
Single-Stroke Battle: What the Phoenix Genma Ken and the final blow of a successful Pegasus Ryusei Ken look like. | |
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Zodiac Motifs | |
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Zodiac Motifs: The Twelve Gold Saints are themed around the Western Zodiac, each one named after and having powers based around their zodiac sign, such as Cancer Deathmask and Leo Aiolia. The series was renamed "Knights/Warriors of the Zodiac" (or the national language equivalent) in several countries. | |
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Sleep-Mode Size | |
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Sleep-Mode Size: Dohko. He looks like a small old man a la Yoda, but if he does need to fight, he'll shred his disguise and show that he has not aged at all, thanks to a special power given to him by one of Athena's past incarnations To specify, while a regular human's heart beats 100,000 times a day, Athena has blessed Dohko with the Misopetha-Menos technique, which makes his heart beat 100,000 times A YEAR. So while 243 years have passed since he was given the technique, he's only aged 243 days. | |
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Human Popsicle | |
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Human Popsicle: Hyoga, with Milo explicity saying that preserving him was Camus' intention all along. Hyoga's deceased mother Natasha is forever preserved under the waters of Siberia. | |
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Shirtless Scene | |
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Shirtless Scene: Dragon Shiryu seems to enjoy doffing the upper half of his Cloth, helm and armguards included, at the drop of a hat. He likely inherited that habit from Dohko, it is implied the young Libra Saint liked doing this even when he was young. The opening in Saint Seiya Hades: Sanctuary first shows all five bronze boys like this. Pegasus Seiya, while not as reccuring as Shiryu in taking off his clothes to fight, has his moments. During the Galaxian Wars Tournament of the anime adaptation (ep.4,ep.5), Seiya takes off his cloth and fights Shiryu on equal grounds without a shirt, giving the fight more of a proper boxing feel. In the manga, he had his shirt on. In the manga, after being poisoned by Black Pegasus, Seiya removes his shirt and upper armor (including his boxing-like headgear, which would be never seen again). The shirtless look lasts until he's hospitalized by the beginning of the Gold Saints arc, which means that he stays shirtless for most of the Black-Silver Saints arcs. In episode 37, the Gold Saint Aioria appears both to retrieve the Sagitarius Gold Cloth and to execute a heavily wounded Seiya in the hospital. Seiya, not going down with a fight, decides to take off his upper clothes to fight the Gold Saint. In a minor manga-exclusive variation of the trope, Kurumada seemingly experimented with making the characters wear their armors shirtless during the Silver Saints arc, as seen with Seiya, Shiryu, Misty (after his bath) and Moses. The change is somewhat justified, since, as mentioned above, by the end of the Black Saints arc Seiya and Shiryu were shirtless. The look is rarely ever seen again, with minor exceptions like T�ma in Next Dimension. | |
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Save the Princess | |
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Save the Princess: In this case, "Save the Goddess". | |
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You Have Failed Me | |
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Phaeton and Spartan from the anime. Gigars too, but it is assumed that he simply ran away after falling out of favor with the Pope, hoping to avoid a You Have Failed Me scenario. Ikki did strike him down and he did collapse in pain, but he is seen running away after the Flame Saint is offed by Ikki. | |
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Jerk with a Heart of Gold | |
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Ikki (rough, aloof, Jerk with a Heart of Gold) and Shun (gentle, Martial Pacifist, selfless) | |
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Stylish Protection Gear | |
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Stylish Protection Gear: Shun's shoulder guards are just as huge, but are set diagonally instead of horizontally —without the magic of animation, he shouldn't be able to raise his arms at all. | |
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Sealed Evil in a Can | |
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Sealed Evil in a Can: Twice: During the Age of Myth, Athena imprisoned Poseidon's soul within a jar sealed with a talisman bearing her name. Similarly, Hades' lieutenants, Thanatos and Hypnos, were sealed in a chest which came to the possession of Pandora's family. | |
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Race Against the Clock | |
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Race Against the Clock: Once the existence of the Gold Saints is revealed, and all the characters have finally been introduced, every single arc follows this formula—whether it is the completion of the 12 Temples within 12 hours to save Athena, freeing Hilda from the Nibelungen ring before the glaciers completely melt and to save Athena, breaking Poseidon's pillars to prevent an ongoing worldwide flood and to save Athena, stopping Hades before the alignment of the Planets/Total eclipse and to save Athena... Can you guess what is the common factor in all of these? | |
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Dueling Messiahs | |
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Dueling Messiahs: The reason behind the Forever War is Athena wanting to allow the world to develop on its own terms while Poseidon wanted to flood it and Hades wanted to make it a new Underworld by blocking the sun with the Ultimate Eclipse, both to "fix" it. | |
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Combat Pragmatist | |
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Combat Pragmatist: As expected from the warriors of the Goddess of War (intended as fighting smart), the Saints tend to fight dirty, with even the most honorable ones having no qualms about hitting the enemy's weak points, or analyzing and deconstructing the enemy's fighting technique to find weaknesses or no-selling their best moves after seeing them once. Some examples: During the fight to decide who gets to become the Pegasus Saint, Cassios backhands Seiya while he's busy admiring the prize and without the fight having officially started, and follows up by starting to choke. The only one to protest is Marin, Seiya's teacher, and she's quickly shut up by Shaina pointing out it's Seiya's own fault for taking his eyes off his opponent. Then Seiya hacks off Cassios' ear and shamelessly takes advantage of him being in too much pain to defend himself. We see Seiya remembering when nice and sweet Marin taught Seiya on how to deal with a stronger enemy by breaking whatever limb they favored to attack-and him doing just that immediately after. Seiya is one of the most honorable of the Saints, and he has some compunction against fighting women (though the anime flip-flops a bit on that). The Hydra Bronze Cloth has claws and talons that secrete venom into an enemy, even through their own Cloth. Then they snap off so they can continue to pump venom into the opponent's body, and the Cloth just grows them back. The Bronze Saints shamelessly ganging up on Ikki due his superior strength. He still overpowers them, having kept in reserve his best technique precisely in case this happened, but points for trying. They later gang up on some of the Sanctuary's assassins... Who, being Saints themselves, try and do the same on them. When facing Misty, Seiya catches him completely naked in the sea and is too weirded out to attack until he's back to shore and dressed again. Misty not taking advantage of the situation to use his mountain-destroying attack on Seiya is what clues the latter on the fact it doesn't work in the sea. Asterion uses mind-reading and a Doppelgänger Attack. At the same time. Saga defending his Temple with illusions and an Attack Reflector, keeping his opponents busy for hours without moving from his throne or endangering himself. The Cancer Temple is made specifically to unnerve the enemy, and Deathmask will send your soul directly to Hell, or enslave it in a Fate Worse than Death. Shura let the Bronze Saints pass through his Temple so he could attack them from behind and throw them in a fissure. Being a Saint himself, Shiryu anticipated it and foiled the plan. The Deadly Gas-emitting roses after the Pisces Temple. When fighting Seahorse Baian, Seiya suddenly starts hitting him through his supposedly impenetrable shield. Baian asks him how he was able to get through the shield to which Seiya explains to him that Misty used a nearly identical shield, and while with Misty it was more convenient to just throw him into the sea and beat him to death there he still knows how to bypass Baian's barrier. Even non-Athena Saints like to get an advantage over their rivals. God Warrior Hagen of Merak Beta is both An Ice Person and Plays With Fire, but since he can't beat Hyoga at the former, he quickly moves the fight into a volcano where he can use the magma to augment his fire attacks while Hyoga is weakened by the terrain's extreme heat. Meanwhile, Fenrir of Alioth Epsilon isn't above siccing his wolves on Shiryu while he gloats, and Alcor Zeta Bud's favored approach is to attack enemies from behind while they're busy handling his twin brother Syd. | |
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Variable-Length Chain | |
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Variable-Length Chain: Shun, Spica, Leda, and Albiore's chains. Silver Saint Cerberus Dante makes use of variable length chains attached to spiked balls. | |
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Early-Installment Weirdness | |
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Combined with a bit of Early-Installment Weirdness, but as Saori is at a loss with what to do about the whole situation with Phoenix Ikki and the stolen Gold Cloth, Mitsumasa Kido's ghost tells her she will have to become the Saints' leader, she will have to become their Athena. At this point it is intended metaphorically, but then she realizes it was the literal truth. | |
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Smug Super | |
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Smug Super: Most of the Silver Saints and the Spectres. | |
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Schematized Prop | |
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Schematized Prop: Each volume of the manga illustrates how each Cloth transforms to and from a statue representing the Saint's respective constellation, which can then be put in a ceremonial box and carried around on the Saint's back. Many of these are implausible, mind you (parts have a habit of being way out of scale), but seeing how most of these designs are for one-shot villains, it's a surprising amount of detail. | |
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Luckily, My Shield Will Protect Me | |
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Luckily, My Shield Will Protect Me: Shiryu and his Dragon Shield. Also, the Libra Cloth has two huge shields that can be used defensively and offensively, since they had retractable chains and it allowed the user to flail them around like giant yo-yos if needed. Also, Lacerta Misty and the Sea Horse's preferred method of defense has them set up barriers a fraction of a second before Seiya's unending unslaught had a chance to land, then stand smugly while his Meteors whiffed against the barrier (until he figured it out, at least.) | |
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Dual Wielding | |
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Dual Wielding: Shun's Andromeda Chain and Cerberus Dante's chained spikeballs. The weapons in the Libra Cloth all come in pairs too. | |
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Narrator | |
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Narrator: Hideyuki Tanaka provides the narration for the anime series. | |
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Parrot Exposition | |
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Parrot Exposition: Saint Seiya did this a lot. One particular example the fandom absolutely adores: | |
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Marionette Motion | |
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Marionette Motion: This is Gryphon Minos' power, "Cosmic Marionation". | |
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Deceptive Disciple | |
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Deceptive Disciple: Ikki had to kill his master to take over the Phoenix cloth. He didn't want to at first, but after seeing said master kill Esmeralda, Ikki's Morality Pet, he lost it and did it. Shiryu's rival Ouko didn't start out this way, but became increasingly arrogant and violent in their competition for the Dragon Cloth, and eventually came back to exact revenge on both Shiryu and Dohko. | |
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Adaptation-Induced Plot Hole | |
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Adaptation-Induced Plot Hole: Many in the anime version of the Sanctuary Arc, due to Writing by the Seat of Your Pants. In the manga, Aphrodite killed Shun's master. This caused Shun to vow revenge. However, in the anime, it was shown that Scorpio Milo arrived first, killed half of the trainees and fought with Albiore evenly afterwards. Aphrodite shows up later, but only throws a rose to weaken the Cepheus Saint with Milo makes the killing blow. However, Shun is still wanting revenge against Aphrodite even though he didn't kill anyone with Milo's contribution against the destruction of Andromeda Island left unresolved. The introduction of Pope Ares by itself created so many plot holes that it would be too lengthy to explain here. The Pope says that he needs the (Sagittarius) Gold Cloth because it will help him achieve world domination. When the anime catches up to the manga, it's revealed that not only are there more Gold Cloths, the Pope has his own, being the Gemini Saint himself. Aiolia says at the hospital that not even the Gold Saints know how many of them there are. This is despite, as shown shortly thereafter, them living in the 12 Temples which are structured in a way that makes it very clear how many Gold Saints should be there... In the anime, Saga never uses his Galaxian Explosion technique, yet Ikki still recognises it when Saga's twin brother Kanon uses the same technique in the Poseidon arc. | |
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10-Minute Retirement | |
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10-Minute Retirement: Manga only where, all the Bronze Saints quit after finding out that Kido was their father along with ninety-five other orphans around the world. They changed their mind as soon as Saori gets kidnapped again. | |
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One-Way Visor | |
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One-Way Visor: Female Saints of Athena. They apparently use Cosmo sense instead of their eyes. | |
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I Am Not Left-Handed | |
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Worth to mention that this backfired spectacularly in Shaka's case. Shaka Opened his eyes, which means he is taking the fight seriously, while fighting Ikki and used one of his special moves to strip the latter of his five senses. Turns out that when you're completely alone with your thoughts nothing can distract you from the Seventh Sense. | |
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And the Rest | |
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And the Rest: Hilarious example in episode 27. Shaina and two Silver Saints ambush the heroes. | |
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Rapid-Fire Fisticuffs | |
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Rapid-Fire Fisticuffs: Seiya's Pegasus Meteor Fist is this, despite looking like a flurry of energy balls. Peacock Shiva's Senju Kami Onken. | |
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Inconsistent Dub | |
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Inconsistent Dub: The Latin American dub, while pretty faithful to the original script, sometimes mistook terms. The most clear example is calling "Athena" either "Atena" or "Atenea", both of which are considered correct Spanish translations of the Greek goddess's name, but are used inconsistently throughout the dub. Similarly, terminology from other mythological sources, when translated into Japanese, was rendered too obscure for the Latin American translators to understand correctly or consistently, especially in the Asgard Arc. For instance, Valhalla and Thor, which in Japanese are adapted as "Waruhara" and "Tooru", confused the translators enough to render alternately as "Warukaya" and "Valuhara", and "Toll" and "Toru". | |
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Eyepatch of Power | |
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Eyepatch of Power: Hyoga; Averted by Kraken Isaac, who has no qualms in showcasing his damaged eye. | |
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The Smurfette Principle | |
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The Smurfette Principle: Sanctuary only has three female Saints that we know of (Shaina, Marin, June; maybe Geist could be included but she is a filler character), the Mariners have Thetis, and Hades only has Pandora. | |
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Free-Sample Plot Coupon | |
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Free-Sample Plot Coupon: In order to save Athena in the last third of the Sanctuary Arc, the main characters must walk through the twelve zodiac houses and confront the Gold Saints whenever it's necessary. Fortunately, Aries won't be a major concern. Mu, the house's guardian, is on the good guys' side, and after faking a battle with Shiryu, he proceeds to repair their (at that point weakened) armors so they can be better prepared. Mu also gives them suggestions about how to confront the remaining Gold Saints. | |
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Good All Along | |
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Good All Along: Camus, so much it hurts. He did not care about the struggle for Athena and did nothing to stop Seiya and Shun from running past him. All he wanted was to awaken Hyoga's Seventh Sense... And of course, that would come in handy later on. | |
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Attack Reflector | |
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Saga defending his Temple with illusions and an Attack Reflector, keeping his opponents busy for hours without moving from his throne or endangering himself. | |
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Names to Run Away from Really Fast | |
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Whoever trains in Sicily may well have it the worst: the island is luscious and civilized, but once again the training happens near an active volcano (Mount Etna), the trainer is Cancer Death Mask, and if one survives the final task is to walk right into the volcano and retrieve the Coma Berenices Cloth. And to make things worse you need Death Mask to be there and supervise the final task, as the Coma Berenices Cloth keeps Typhon's soul sealed and Death Mask is one of the few with the power set to keep him from escape and take over the Saint candidate the moment they grab the Cloth. | |
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Shoulders of Doom | |
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Shoulders of Doom: Most villainous characters wear Cloths, Scales, or Surplices with these. | |
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Form-Fitting Wardrobe | |
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Form-Fitting Wardrobe: The Cloths (armor). | |
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Heel–Face Turn | |
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Pre-Heel–Face Turn Gold Saints. | |
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Armor Is Useless | |
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Armor Is Useless: Variation. Sometimes armors are vital in the fighting strategies, sometimes they can be destroyed and nothing happens. It doesn't seem to matter a lot of the time what order your Cloth is. More than a few Silver Saints had their cloths completely shattered by Bronzes they'd spent the whole episode kicking around, too. (Though, the Bronzes are admittedly outliers and have potential beyond their station, even by that point) This becomes certainly amusing when Shiryu cuts through the Capricorn armor... with his bare hand, because he'd been stripped off his armor by his adversary. Rule of thumb: if the bronze saints' armors are still intact and in their normal shape, the fight's nowhere near over yet. By the end of the series, helmets become useless. Everyone's helmet/headpiece is either broken, lost in a fight or simply not used (because they look cool that way). Athena has hers for a single page and then loses it when Hades strikes her shield. | |
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Dismantled MacGuffin | |
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Dismantled MacGuffin: The Cloth of Sagittarius during the Galaxian War Tournament and Silver Saints arcs. Originally intended to be the prize of the tournament, it is disassembled and stolen by Ikki's Black Saints, then by Sanctuary agents, but Saori and the Bronzes are able to obtain the helm, which then becomes the MacGuffin over which all subsequent battles are fought. Shortly before the Sanctuary Arc begins, though, the body of the Sagittarius Cloth flies out of Sanctuary by its own will, and the helm does the same from the Kido mansion, and they reunite and hide away in a lake, waiting for a worthy Saint to wield them in Athena's name. | |
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Heroic Sacrifice | |
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Phoenix Ikki also uses one at one point in an attempt to defeat Virgo Shaka by sending both him and Shaka there. This gesture earns him Shaka's respect, and he asks Mu to bring both Ikki and himself back. | |
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But for Me, It Was Tuesday | |
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But for Me, It Was Tuesday: The walls of Cancer Deathmask's house are decorated with the heads of people that he has killed... including little children. When an enraged Shiryu asks "Have you also killed little children?" Deathmask smirks, shrugs and replies "Who knows? Maybe they were in the wrong place at the wrong time." | |
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Wolverine Claws | |
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Wolverine Claws: Ophiuchus Shaina's primary weapon, and she just loves to use them. Hydra Ichi, especially, has claws that look exactly the same as Wolverine's. Alioth Epsilon Fenrir has a pair of claws from his armor that protrude from his indexes and little fingers. His overall appearance and posture are reminiscent of Wolverine. | |
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Manly Tears | |
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Manly Tears: This series could very well be described as "Manly Tears and Greek Gods". | |
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Fighting from the Inside | |
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Fighting from the Inside: Say what you will about Shun's pacifism making him wimpy, but it gave him the resolve to throttle Hades while he was possessing his body! It gave Ikki an opening to kill Hades at the cost of his life. | |
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Instrument of Murder | |
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Instrument of Murder: The Razor Floss producing harps/lyras of Benetnasch Eta Mime in the Asgard Arc, and the two Lyra Orpheus (1st movie and Hades chapter, respectively). | |
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Grasp the Sun | |
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Grasp the Sun: In a short but sad scene, Ikki's on the ground and sees the snow. He reaches to it and mutters how he promised he was going to show snow to Esmerelda one day. | |
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An Ice Person | |
| Saint Seiya (Manga) / int_67b0bd0e | comment |
Averted in Hyoga's battle with God Warrior Hagen. When the latter brought the fight into a cave vent in a volcano, Hyoga had to spend a considerable amount of his Cosmo not to die from the extreme heat, let alone keep up with his enemy, while Hagen himself was happy as a clam. | |
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Hot-Blooded | |
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Hot-Blooded: Some characters with Seiya as main example. He is stubborn, headstrong, impulsive and very similar to a classic Japanese teenager. | |
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Only the Pure of Heart | |
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Only the Pure of Heart: While all Cloths are implied to be somewhat alive, only the Gold Cloths of Athena's most powerful saints are said to have just enough sentience to tell whether their owner truly fights for justice or not. This eventually leads to the Cancer cloth abandoning Deathmask mid-fight for being a murderous psychopath, though it of course waits until an appropriately dramatic moment to do so. However, even those who desire peace and justice can be lead astray, and the entire conflict of the Twelve Houses ordeal comes straight from the Goldies failing to recognize the evil in their current Pope until it's too late. On the flip side, every time a Holy War crops up, the person with the purest heart on Earth is ultimately destined to become the human vessel of Hades, through which he intends to destroy the world. This happens even if said soul is already on the other side of the conflict. | |
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Canon Welding | |
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Canon Welding: A strange variation: the non-canon movie Saint Seiya: Warriors of the Final Holy Battle welds up the previous non-canon movies (about Abel and Eris) with Poseidon, who is the antagonist of the canon Poseidon Saga of both anime and original manga. | |
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Dub-Induced Plot Hole | |
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Virgo Shaka is a reincarnation of a Buddha and quite capable of mopping the floor with just about any opponent. In the English dub, there is a translation error that stated he was ''the Buddha'' and not ''a Buddha''. | |
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Episode Title Card | |
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Episode Title Card: The original anime series had one in each episode. | |
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Jerkass Has a Point | |
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Jerkass Has a Point: Though this was intentional and within Saori's plans, the Sanctuary did have a point in hunting down the Bronze Saints, as participating in the Galaxian Wars tournament directly implied that they were using their powers for sport and profit, which is a huge no-no for Athena's Saints. | |
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Meaningful Name | |
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Meaningful Name: Almost all characters have meaningful names. Most characters are named after stars of their respective constellations, especially the Silver saints, or other words that reflect their personality or relationships. Seiya, or "Star Arrow", directly references his zodiacal sign of Sagittarius. Shiryu would mean "Purple Dragon". | |
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A Wizard Did It | |
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A Wizard Did It: The only logical explanation for the Sagittarius Cloth suddenly escaping both the Sanctuary and the Kido manor, to isolate in a lake and changing appearances before bailing Seiya out, though Cloths are alive and have a certain degree of free will. In the manga, Mitsumasa Kido did it. The anime drops a mention about Mu, the cloth smith, having been gone for a while around that time (maybe on an unspecified mission, but even the Pope doesn't know where he is!), suggesting he was responsible. Still, did he work on it underwater in between scene cuts? | |
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Musical Assassin | |
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Musical Assassin: Mime (harp), the two Orpheus (lyre), Sorrento (flute) and Sphynx Pharao (harp). | |
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The Fettered | |
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The Fettered: Shun. | |
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Driven to Suicide | |
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Driven to Suicide: In the manga, Saga kills himself to atone for all the horrible sins that his evil side committed for years, once Seiya cleansed him with Athena's shield, in the process of saving Athena at the last remaining second. In the anime, his good side also kills himself, but at this point his evil side is about to be destroyed from massive pummeling from Seiya and the main cast, he has lost his Cloth, and desperately leaps to punch and kill Athena; at which point his good side becomes this, as he uses his other hand to grab Athena's scepter and stab himself with it rather than harming the Goddess that should be his ward. | |
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Everyone Loves Blondes | |
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Everyone Loves Blondes: Most of the love interests: Eurydice, Esmerelda, June, and Freya. You could also count Misty in this due to the fact that most of the Silvers are determined to avenge him. Excluding Deathmask (grey), Camus (red), Dohko (grey in his aged form, black in his youth) and Shura (black), all Gold Saints have blond hair in the manga. | |
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Another Dimension | |
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Another Dimension: These are weaponized, used by Gemini Saga and Kanon as a way of removing opponents from the battlefield without much difficulty. Gemini Saga's delivery of the attack tends to be really overblown, to the degree of becoming a Memetic Mutation in some fringes of the fandom. Phoenix Ikki also uses one at one point in an attempt to defeat Virgo Shaka by sending both him and Shaka there. This gesture earns him Shaka's respect, and he asks Mu to bring both Ikki and himself back. | |
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Let's Split Up, Gang! | |
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Let's Split Up, Gang!: The Bronze Saints seem to do this quite a bit. | |
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But Not Too Foreign | |
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But Not Too Foreign: Hyoga is half Japanese, half Russian. | |
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Waif Prophet | |
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Waif Prophet: The missing Seika grew up to be one of those. | |
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Had to Be Sharp | |
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Had to Be Sharp: The training to become a Saint is incredibly hard, to the point that of one hundred highly selected and prepared candidates provided by Mitsumasa Kido for Bronze Saint status (the lowest tier, and presumably the easiest) 10 succeeded and of the others 88 died, one survived but failed (or rather succeeded but was taken over by Typhon for doing the really dangerous part unsupervised), and one went homicidally insane and either survived by pledging himself to Eris or died and was resurrected by Eris. | |
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Calling Your Attacks | |
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Calling Your Attacks: "PEGASUS SUI SEI KEEEEEEEENNNNN!" | |
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Invoked Trope | |
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Whenever Shiryu becomes blind, he learns to compensate for it but gets no extra powers out of the deal. In the manga, however, Dohko mentions that Shiryu's cosmos is stronger due to his blindness when he strikes Deathmask in their first bout; in their second encounter, Shiryu awakening (briefly) to the Seventh Sense while in the Underworld is what allows him to restore his eyesight when he returns to the land of the living. On the other hand, it granted him protection from certain techniques. When he blinded himself during his duel with Algol, it was to avoid getting petrified by his Medusa's Shield. And later on, he avoided being fooled by Gemini Temple's illusion, allowing him and Seiya to find the exit of it. | |
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Suicide by Cop | |
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Suicide by Cop: Volker from the Asgard saga taunts his adoptive son Mime into killing him to atone for all of his crimes... including the deaths of Mime's biological parents. Mime doesn't realize this until it's too late, and when Ikki shows him the truth, he freaks out. | |
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Adaptational Badass | |
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Adaptational Badass: Centaurus Babel in the anime. In the manga, he faces Hyoga alone at the beach and is easily defeated. In the anime, he attacks all the Bronze Saints at the ruins of the Coliseum and gives them a hard time, and Hyoga only beats him with the help of the Steel Saints. Oddly crosses into Adaptational Nice Guy, as after the fight, Babel gets a kind-of "redemption" by accepting Saori as Athena, which does not happen in the manga. Sort-of happens with Rhadamanthys, believe it or not. While he's unquestionably portrayed as badass in the manga, it's made explicitly clear that he's only able to kill Mu, Aiolia and Milo because of Hades Castle's protection slowing them down, and he sees the Bronze Saints as a threat because their Clothes revived by Athena's blood negate such protection and allows them to fight him on equal terms (his minions interrupt before the fight can happen). In Hell, where there is no such protection against Saints, he has significant trouble fighting Kanon (needing the other Judges to save him), and Seiya is able to hurt him and break his Surplice (though Rhadamanthys is still left standing and Shun becomes Hades before the fight can continue). In the anime the protection in Hades Castle is not mentioned during those first fights, and Rhadamanthys' minions never interrupt his confrontation with the Bronze Saints. He mops the floor with them and none of their attacks work until Seiya gets his Heroic Second Wind and drags Rhadamanthys with him to Hell - a much different performance than their brief skirmish in the manga. | |
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The Woobie | |
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And about Shaina's sexiness, is worthy of mention the famous/infamous hospital episode, in which she removes her mask revealing her face (it already happened before) but this time by coincidences or destiny she looks especially sexy, so much her face looks like a perfect blend of The Woobie and Puppy-Dog Eyes tropes, generating lots (and I mean lots) of fanart about her and that situation only due to this only scene. | |
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Cosmic Motifs | |
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Cosmic Motifs: The characters are all named after constellations and the names are usually Meaningful or refer to the myths behind them. | |
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Fashionable Asymmetry | |
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Fashionable Asymmetry: Several Cloths, most notably the Aquila Cloth, whose upper body has an armored and unarmored side. | |
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Iaijutsu Practitioner | |
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Iaijutsu Practitioner: Taurus Aldebaran is an interesting case. While he does not use a sword, his Signature Move, the "Great Horn", works with a very similar mechanic. But using his bare fists instead. Seiya even takes advantage of this fact in order to deal with said technique during their fight, allowing him to unleash the Great Horn and then attacking in the microsecond when Aldebaran is wide-open. | |
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All Myths Are True | |
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All Myths Are True: Saori/Athena and her fellow Greek Gods have various other mythological pantheons' heroes or figures as servants or rivals, and their followers are completely free to worship competing religions. For example... Virgo Shaka is a reincarnation of a Buddha and quite capable of mopping the floor with just about any opponent. In the English dub, there is a translation error that stated he was ''the Buddha'' and not ''a Buddha''. Capricorn Shura has the legendary sword Excalibur in his arm (not literally, more like its spirit) allowing him to cut anything. Far up North, a whole culture lives in worship of Odin, led by Hilda (name comes from Brunnhilde, the strongest of the Valkyries) and her sister Freya (name was taken from the Goddess of beauty and love). Odin's Asgardian God Warriors (named after Norse mythological figures) had a patron star in the Ursa Major constellation. Hilda herself has Polaris as her guardian star. Hyoga was nominally Christian (he sometimes explains the basics of Christianity to his fellow Saints), and one OVA movie had the saints fight Lucifer. (This one is not actually canon though.) Poseidon's Generals are each patterned after an ocean, so you have typical Greek water demons as well as Kraken Isaac from the Arctic Ocean and Chrysaor Krishna from the Indian Ocean. To sum it up, we have Greek Mythology, Shaka is the reincarnation of a Buddha, one of the movies features the Saints fending off Satan, Norse Mythology, etc. While it is odd, Kurumada simply puts this stuff in because he thinks its cool. | |
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Cavalry of the Dead | |
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Cavalry of the Dead: In "Hades Arc", Hades brings back to life fallen Gold Saints of Athena, granting them 12 hours to bring him her head. If they do so, he may bring them back to life for good. It turns out that they remained loyal to their Goddess nonetheless and only accepted Hades' deal to warn her about the upcoming Holy War and give her crucial intel, while killing some members of Hades' army in the process. Once the 12 hours delay expired, they disappeared to return to the Underworld (where they join again with the still living Gold Saints to fire a super Combined Energy Attack). | |
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Real Men Wear Pink | |
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Real Men Wear Pink: Shun and Misty. | |
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The Faceless | |
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The Faceless: Ikki's master on Death Queen Island, Guilty, wears a demon mask. Athena's female Saints also wear shiny and expressionless silver masks. | |
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Alternative Foreign Theme Song | |
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Alternative Foreign Theme Song: The English dub received a new theme song called "I Ran" by Bowling for Soup (well, covering A Flock of Seagulls, but yeah). And who can forget the European intro, originally made for France and its Spanish translation, used in Spain and Latin America Italy initially had two openings. Subsequently, when Mediaset started airing the anime, a new opening was made (later replaced by an Italian version of "Pegasus Fantasy"). | |
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Obviously Evil | |
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The whole story about the new Pope being the younger brother of the defunct one, and committing all manner of Obviously Evil acts in the name of the Pope's lineage, using anime-only henchmen to sow trouble around the whole world. As the anime got closer to the manga's story, most of this was either forgotten or hastily explained in contrived ways. | |
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Now Do It Again, Backwards | |
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Now Do It Again, Backwards: Shiryu's heart stops when Seiya hits his Achilles' Heel. The only way to make it beat again is to hit him from the oposite side. | |
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Common Tongue | |
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Common Tongue: Every character speaks and understands each other no matter where they are from. | |
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Gold-Colored Superiority | |
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Gold-Colored Superiority: The Gold Cloths, seeing how all the Gold Saints are extremely powerful. The full breakdown in Saint Seiya is Bronze < Silver < Gold < God. This last one is used only by Gods, though there is an important exception late in the Hades Saga. It's also worth noting that five Bronze saints, basically Mooks/Red Shirts for the good guys, manage to fight their way up that chain all the way up to god and beat their opponents throughout the course of the series. | |
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Time-Delayed Death | |
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Time-Delayed Death: The Mind Rape-inducing Phoenix Genma Ken, which strikes the opponent's brain usually has this effect, once the madness has subsided. Also, Specter Deep Niobe suffered this from Aldebaran's Grand Horn. | |
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Almost Kiss | |
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Almost Kiss: Seiya and Saori after jumping off a cliff together to escape from Shaina and Jamian. Saori nearly kisses an unconscious Seiya, but is interrupted by an angry Shaina. Seiya and Miho, but they're interrupted by the orphan kids. | |
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Shower Scene | |
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Shower Scene: We got our first one with freaking Shun. You may scream now, girls. The bad guy Lizard Misty gets a similarly-framed "bathing in the ocean" scene. And Pisces Aphrodite takes a bath (is an illusion) in one of the movies. Saga gets at least 5 of them also. | |
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Crash in Through the Ceiling | |
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Crash in Through the Ceiling: The Bronze Saints enter Hades' Castle in this manner. | |
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Combined Energy Attack | |
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Combined Energy Attack: A good deal of battles, particularly arc-ending battles end with Athena's Saints (usually just the Bronze Saints, but sometimes the Golds if they're available) willingly relinquishing their Cosmo to either Seiya or Athena herself to deal the final blow. Even more notable in that the Saints' patron constellations (like Cygnus, Draco, Phoenix, Andromeda, or Pegasus) manifest visually as helpers to the character delivering the attack. | |
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Attack Its Weak Point | |
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Attack Its Weak Point: Inverted at least once. Marin taught to Seiya if your adversary is too strong, you attack his/her STRONG point. The theory went if you destroy his/her best weapon, finishing your enemy off will be an easy task. This notion came as early as Seiya's duel with Shiryu at the Galaxian Wars tournament, where, after being pulped into so much mush, Seiya figured out the best tactic to take down the Dragon Saint was to destroy both his fist and his shield—both of them considered, at that time, the strongest ones in existence. | |
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Large Ham | |
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Large Ham: Phoenix Ikki. This is him being discreet. Almost anyone in the main cast in the Italian dub. They often quote Real Life poems and famous works. Ophiuchus Shaina, at least in the Brazilian dub. | |
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Adaptational Nice Guy | |
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Adaptational Nice Guy: Hyoga was much meaner and arrogant in the manga (although he gradually mellows out towards the end of the Sanctuary Arc), and only entered the Galaxian Wars tournament to kill the Bronze Saints by orders of the Sanctuary. A lot of his harshness was dialed down in the anime, and in there he enters the tournament for sport and has no intention of murdering anyone. Seiya, sort-of. At the start of the manga he had a rebellious attitude and was a bit of a Deadpan Snarker - he even constantly talked back to Saori, even after discovering she's Athena reincarnated, and refuses to fight for her before Aiolia's attack at the hospital! This was watered down in the anime, and that slowly made its way to the manga. | |
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Gainax Ending | |
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Gainax Ending: Because the Tenkai-Hen trilogy got scrapped after the first movie due to Kurumada taking issue with the corporate oversight on his story, the ending of Overture accidentally became this. A majority of its screentime is dedicated to setup (the Gold Saints being petrified in a stone pillar, introducing ancient greek heroes as enforcers of the gods, not too mention finally touching upon the threat of Heaven towards Earth by Saga and Kanon during their Motive Rants), resolving the aftermath of the Hades arc, and introducing a new existential threat in the Olympians... only for the finale of the movie to end on Apollo having seemingly wiped everyone's memories as some sort of Cruel Mercy. The disappointment and eternal blue-balling with no further Saint Seiya movies since then has permeated the community ever since. | |
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Middle Child Syndrome | |
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Middle Child Syndrome: The Silvers. Even in Saint Seiya: The Lost Canvas they do nothing and are only there to get killed by the Bronze Saints or the Specters. The Mariners qualify as well. Their arc is greatly overshadowed and again, in The Lost Canvas, Poseidon's threat is pretty much glanced at. | |
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Exactly What It Says on the Tin | |
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Flame Saint (in the original, Ennetsu Seinto, "Saint of the Sweltering Heat"), the anime-only fire-powered saint from the Sanctuary that fights Shun and is killed by Ikki. | |
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Red Oni, Blue Oni | |
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Red Oni, Blue Oni: Well, more like green in this case, but Marin and Shaina are basically mirror images of each other, with extremely similar appearances but opposite temperaments and ambitions. | |
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Product Delivery Ordeal | |
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Product Delivery Ordeal: During the Poseidon arc, Kiki travels all over the dominion of Poseidon while carring the heavy golden Pandora's Box on his back to deliver the parts of Libra's armor to the Bronze Saints, because these parts can be used as weapons to destroy the seven pillars. The delivery is not only very taxing for him (who is only 8 years old), but also makes him a vulnerable target for Poseidon's Generals, including Kraken Isaac. | |
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Non-Serial Movie | |
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Then he gets raised from the dead in the Non-Serial Movie, and flocks to Abel for the same reason. | |
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Power Glows | |
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Power Glows: The Gold Cloths tend to due this alot as well as when Shion upgrades the Bronze Saint Cloths from Athena's blood. Aioria is the image source for the trope. | |
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Plucky Girl | |
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Plucky Girl: Saori. If you can withstand 12 hours with a golden arrow stuck in your chest without complaining a single time and even sending your own cosmo to your warriors when they're in trouble, you've got to be one really resilient girl. Lampshaded few after she gets the arrow, when Saori weakly but calmly tells a panicking Seiya to just go and fight out there in the Sanctuary whereas she'll endure the pain and be patient. Honorary mention goes to a Naïve Everygirl named Helen, who saw her grandpa being murdered by two Silver Saints looking for Ikki and was tossed in a volcano by them, but managed to grab and hold onto its inner walls and climb her way back up in time to give Ikki the Heroic Resolve he needed to punish her attackers | |
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It's All Upstairs From Here | |
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It's All Upstairs From Here: LITERALLY. The Sanctuary and Asgard Arcs both involve reaching a temple high up a mountain and fighting the local guardians at designated stations along the staircase. Though, for the Hades Arc, they go downstairs as well... | |
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What Happened to the Mouse? | |
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What Happened to the Mouse?: Several examples. The Poseidon arc goes out of its way to depict devastation brought upon Earth by global flooding. No mention is ever made again about how humanity recovered from these disasters. A similar situation happened with the Sanctuary arc in the anime, showing off scenes of war amidst the world which are never mentioned or brought up again. The manga actually mentions the death toll and Julian Solo deciding to use his wealth to help the world recover. Phaeton/Bhaton who disappeared after the Sanctuary Arc. Once the (Sagittarius) Gold Cloth, grand prize of the Galaxian Wars, is recovered, no attempt is made to continue the tournament. Especially noticeable when several other fights with Silver Saints and the Sanctuary's henchmen take place at the tournament coliseum! The ticket-buying public likely forgot all about it during the aforementioned, offscreen global wars. Actually, the coliseum gets destroyed by the Docraftes fight, then by rioters in the anime, leaving it in ruins for the Hyoga vs Babel fight. In the manga, it gets destroyed by the Silver Saints, and Saori admits the whole thing was a plot to force evil out in the open and select a worthy Gold Saint candidate. And the Steel saints? Oh yeah, nobody remembers them. At least Fanon humor gives an explanation telling us they were dumped from the airplane in mid-flight when the party traveled to the Sanctuary in Greece (since the last time we saw them in the anime, the Bronzes were boarding the ship, and we didn´t hear about them again ever...) at the rhythm of "your services are no longer required" (since they were created as anime-only characters for selling more toys). Way to go Bandai! To be fair, there IS a scene akin to them sending off the Bronzes with undertones that they will sit this one out because they can't handle it. Saint Seiya Omega actually caught that plot thread. | |
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World of Ham | |
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World of Ham: Oh God, so much. Even more in the Italian dub due to the attempt to convey the epicness of the original material to people who grew up with classical mythology. | |
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The Chosen One | |
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That and the whole idea of dictatorships and evil in history being defeated in the shadows by the Saints, led by The Chosen One who would wear the Gold Cloth. Though eventually this was reworked into other Gods meddling with human history and the Saints preventing that. | |
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Back from the Dead | |
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Back from the Dead: Twice in the Hades arc for the Gold Saints: In the Sanctuary phase, Hades resurrects the Saints that died in Twelve Houses arc (Saga, Deathmask, Shura, Camus and Aphrodite), as well as Shion, the previous pope. In the Inferno phase, the same Gold Saints revive again, this time to join their still living comrades (Mu, Aioria, Milo, Shaka and Dohko) to tear down the Wailing Wall. Aioros, who died at the start of the series, and Aldebaran, who died during Hades-Sanctuary, also reappear. Then everyone dies again. In the non-canon movie Saint Seiya: Legend of Crimson Youth, Phoebus Abel, Athena's divine brother, revives Saga, Deathmask, Shura, Camus and Aphrodite to act as his enforcers along with the Corona Temple Saints. | |
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Mind Rape | |
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Mind Rape: Ikki's Phoenix Genma Ken. Virgo Shaka's main techniques, Rikud� Rinne and Tenbu H�rin. Any Gemini Saints and their Genma Ken to some degree as well. In the anime, this includes what happened to Hilda's good side when she was brainwashed by the Ring of the Nibelung and her Superpowered Evil Side took over; she was forced to see how her Asgard God Warriors died one by one. | |
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Sibling Yin-Yang | |
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Sibling Yin-Yang: Ikki (rough, aloof, Jerk with a Heart of Gold) and Shun (gentle, Martial Pacifist, selfless) Also Saga (thoughtful, wise, just until his Superpowered Evil Side kicks in) and Kanon (selfish, scheming, arrogant until he has a Heel–Face Turn) | |
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'80s Hair | |
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As the series got older, the '80s Hair became less prominent with Mariners and Specters sporting shorter hair cuts, and even the occasional crewcut (but they would still try to even out with a rat-tail, to varying success). The sequel Saint Seiya: Next Dimension finally phased it out with straighter, shorter hair (for the new characters at least). | |
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Designated Girl Fight | |
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Designated Girl Fight: Shaina with Marin in the anime where the Aquila Saint gets her butt kicked with soldiers watching. Strangely averted in the Manga. In Poseidon Arc Thetis with Shaina. Though she does give Shaina quite a run for her money. | |
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Band of Brothers | |
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Band of Brothers: The Bronze Saints in the Anime. In the manga too. See volume 5. | |
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Bears Are Bad News | |
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Bears Are Bad News: Hyoga's harsh training. Every time you see him, he or Crystal Saint are out wrestling and testing moves with bears. Polar bears. (Though amusingly, the anime at one point shows him happily visiting the polar bears at a zoo, so apparently there were no hard feelings.) Geki also illustrates the difficulty of his training in the Rocky Mountains by describing how he had to kill wild bears with his own hands. | |
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Tournament Arc | |
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Tournament Arc: The Galaxian Wars in the beginning of the series. | |
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Dangerous Forbidden Technique | |
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Dangerous Forbidden Technique: Shiryu's Ultimate Dragon, which is basically a suicide strike that flings himself and his opponent into space where they'll be burnt up by the atmosphere. Shun considers the Nebula Storm this, not because it would hurt him (it doesn't) but because it's so powerful and deadly he expressly forbids himself from using it. Among Athena's Saints, the Athena Exclamation is spoken of only in hushed legends... or, if they see it about to go off, in horrified screams, because it has the potential to duplicate the entire energy output of the Big Bang. It requires three Gold Saints who are so desperate and focused on their goal they have thrown all caution to the wind, and are willing to risk destroying the Earth to achieve victory, because if just one of them loses concentration for an instant, that's exactly what will happen. | |
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Crazy Enough to Work | |
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Crazy Enough to Work: Early in the Anime, Seiya and Shiryu had an extremely brutal fight where Seiya was seriously battered and Shiryu was about to die. The only way to save him was to punch him in the back, right where his heart is located, with a punch exactly, and we do mean exactly, as strong as the one that originally stopped his heart—which, somehow, would restart said heart. Just a tiny bit stronger, or a tiny bit weaker, and it would just completely finish off Shiryu instead of reviving him. Against all odds, it worked! Mind, this scene followed Seiya's even crazier idea to ram Shiryu's shield with his head in the hopes that Shiryu would break both his own fist and his supposedly impervious shield trying to crack Seiya's head between them. Even the other Bronze Saint onlookers were flabbergasted at how insane this plan was, never mind that it worked. | |
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PsychoRangers | |
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Psycho Rangers: The Black Saints. | |
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Speed Blitz | |
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Speed Blitz: All Gold Saints and the five Main Bronze Saints are capable of moving at the speed of light, and no, this is not hyperbole. Episode 60 provides the best example as you see Milo nail Seiya, go all the way behind him BEFORE the impact registers and propels him into the closest pillar. Shiryu even comments on the incredible speed. | |
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Theme Twin Naming | |
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Theme Twin Naming: Saga and Kanon. | |
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You Have Outlived Your Usefulness | |
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And the Steel saints? Oh yeah, nobody remembers them. At least Fanon humor gives an explanation telling us they were dumped from the airplane in mid-flight when the party traveled to the Sanctuary in Greece (since the last time we saw them in the anime, the Bronzes were boarding the ship, and we didn´t hear about them again ever...) at the rhythm of "your services are no longer required" (since they were created as anime-only characters for selling more toys). Way to go Bandai! To be fair, there IS a scene akin to them sending off the Bronzes with undertones that they will sit this one out because they can't handle it. Saint Seiya Omega actually caught that plot thread. | |
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Highly Specific Counterplay | |
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Highly Specific Counterplay: In-universe example. During the Poseidon arc Shun fights against Scylla Io, an opponent with multiple fighting techniques that almost succeeds into killing him. To defeat his opponent, Shun manages to create on the spot a bunch of new attacks involving his chain which are specifically made to counter each of Io's techniques (a spider web to entangle the bee, a net to catch the eagle, a spiral duct to strangle the snake, a spiked trap to catch the wolf and a wrap to stop the bear). | |
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Exact Time to Failure | |
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Standing close to the Twelve Zodiac Houses is a tower whose clock has blue flames where the numbers would normally be. When Athena gets hit by a cursed arrow, the flames tell how many hours remain until the arrow pierces the heart of the wounded goddess. Once every hour, one flame is extinguished, so the main characters have only twelve hours to travel through the twelve houses, defeat the Gold Saints patrolling said houses, and convince the head honcho to remove the arrow from Athena's chest. In the end, all twelve flames in the clock disappear, but Seiya manages to point Athena's Shield in her direction, lifting the curse and the arrow - in the manga it even makes Saga's evil side leave his body like it was some kind of ghostly possession. | |
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Black Blood | |
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Black Blood: In the DiC localization for the US. Shiryu is even featured as the image source where he goes from the bloodbank to the oilbank. | |
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Take a Third Option | |
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Take a Third Option: Seiya takes a Suicidal "Gotcha!" and jumps off a cliff with Saori in his arms, rather than fighting Shaina to death or handing Saori to her and Silver Saint Jamian. | |
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The Phoenix | |
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One filler episode had Ikki fight a pair of Silver Saints, Shaka's apprentices, at the top of a volcano. When they tossed a little girl into the crater, she was saved by Ikki, whose natural association with flame and heat saved both of them from a horrible death. | |
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Villainous Breakdown | |
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Villainous Breakdown: Happens to Gemini Saga. And it's EPIC. | |
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One Degree of Separation | |
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One Degree of Separation: Saori is technically something like the Bronze Saints' "sister" (technically a "niece"), as she's legally Mitsumasa Kido's "granddaughter", while the Bronze Saints are his sons by multiple women, so they're not actually related to her. It's implied that this strange familial relationship doesn't quite matter to any of them, as their actual liaison is effectively a sacred matter, and more of a princess-and-her-knights kind of deal. | |
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Animated Armor | |
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Animated Armor: Both Gold Saints of Gemini have used their armour to defend their temple without actually having to be there or wearing it. Shiryu overcomes the first instance of this quite effectively. Also, in Saga's epic hallucination/dream/vision/omen of doom sequence during the Sanctuary Arc, all of the 12 Gold Cloths and the five Bronze Cloths currently making the plot are seen to be what would pass as empty but moving-if it weren't for the eyes. Whatever happens, they turn on Saga. | |
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Bodyguard Crush | |
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Saori with the five Saints. However, Seiya was the most vehement in his devotion to her and had the most Bodyguard Crush ovetones as well, while the others's bonds to her were more platonic/brotherly than anything. The saints were actually named "knights" in a lot of Westerner dubbing. In the anime, Jabu wants to be Athena's personal "Knight" badly due to having a Bodyguard Crush on her ever since they were kids. Sadly, this isn't touched upon later. | |
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Men Are the Expendable Gender | |
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Men Are the Expendable Gender: Despite the high death count, all the female Saints, Marin, Shaina and June, manage to survive while all but the five main bronze boys die. By contrast, Pandora and the anime-only Eris are killed. | |
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As You Know | |
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As You Know: In universe: the saints keep reminding their opponents that a technique will only work once on them. Eventually lampshaded by Ikki: (after Curbstomping Aiacos ) "The same technique doesn't work twice on a saint. This should be common sense by now". | |
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Medium Blending | |
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Medium Blending: For some odd reason, in the Hades Sanctuary OVA, Seiya's transformation sequence was done completely in a very generic 3D. Shun's transformation sequence used traditional animation for his character and 3D in the back and it looks awesome. Toei was poking around and trying new stuff for the Hades OVAs in 2002, which was the first StS related production in years. The 3D transformation sequence got such violent backlash from the fans, they decided to go back to traditional animation for Shun's transformation in OVA 3. | |
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Gambit Roulette | |
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Gambit Roulette: Kanon's plan to take over the world and have his payback against Gemini Saga includes deliberately telling his very powerful yet mentally unstable twin brother about his personality problems to mess up with his mind, worm his way into a powerful God's favor, help stage the war against the Sanctuary and, in the anime, manipulate his godly boss into using a powerful yet peaceful priestess to re-start everything when he loses against Sanctuary... | |
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Crippling Overspecialization | |
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Crippling Overspecialization: Seiya's master, Marin, taught her disciple this "If you meet someone stronger than you, attacks his best weapon. If he punches hard, aim for his arms. If he kicks strong, aim for his legs. After you destroy it, you will be able to win with no trouble." Early on the series, Seiya met Bear Geki, a warrior had focused his training in reinforcing his arms to the point of he could easily throttle grizzly bears. As soon as Seiya managed to break his arms, Geki was defenseless and the battle was over. Subverted with Shun. Since the Andromeda Cloth is one of a very select few that's allowed to wield weapons (namely, the Andromeda Chain,) more than a few of his enemies assume that he's only effective with it. While other chain-wielders are indeed helpless without their weapon, Shun's best-kept secret is that he deliberately uses the Andromeda Chain as a Power Limiter so that he doesn't have to rely on his astonishingly powerful, unarmed Nebula Storm to win a battle. | |
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Villains Out Shopping | |
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Villains Out Shopping: During any given saga, the Big Bad Final Boss (and some other enemies) will usually be shown waiting for the heroes doing things like taking a bath, feeding birds, sunbathing, or just walking about. Saga's bathing and shower scenes were infamous for this. | |
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Razor Floss | |
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Razor Floss: The Asgardian God Warrior Benetnasch Eta Mime, wears a Cloth reminiscent of a harp. As such, he is prone to laying down Razor Floss around the environment as traps, as well as send them flying towards his opponents to entangle them. Note that his harp's strings are strong, and sharp enough, to crack and cut through solid rock, as well as Bronze Cloths and the very human skin of the Saints wearing them. In the Hades Saga, the Silver Saint Lyra Orphee has a similar weapon (justified; the character is indeed based on Orpheus from the Greek mythology). He battles another Musical Assassin, the spectre Sphinx Pharaoh. Two minor movie villain: Lyra Orpheus, the Ghost Saint appearing in the first Saint Seiya movie (Lyra Orphee was inspired by him) and one of Abel's Corona Saints, Berenice, from thid movie, that has the ability to launch several strands of hair. The hairs Berenice throws are able to trap and disrupt the enemy. | |
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Hot-Blooded Sideburns | |
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Hot Blooded Sideburns: All five of the Bronze Saints, but especially Seiya. | |
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Hyperspace Arsenal | |
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Hyperspace Arsenal: In Episode 8 of the anime, the Bronze Saints are chasing the Black Saints, who have stolen the pieces of the Sagittarius Cloth. The Black Saints are not shown carrying the pieces, nor is there anywhere on their person where they could conceivably be hidden. Nevertheless, every time one of the Black Saints is defeated they "drop" a piece, almost like a videogame. This is actually a common occurence in the original series. An even worse example happens in a later arc: three saints disguise themselves by wearing enemy Cloths, and when they are destroyed to reveal their identity they appear wearing their normal Cloths. So they were wearing a set of armor on top of another set of armor, and there was no visual indication this was the case. | |
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Taking the Bullet | |
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Taking the Bullet: Pegasus Seiya will do this for Saori every chance he gets. Most notable of all: stopping Aiolia's special technique with his hands when Saori actually demands for Aiolia to gang up on her so she can block his attack and gain his favor; taking Poseidon's Trident to the chest for her (he waved it off by claiming it was the will of the Sagittarius Cloth he was wearing, but no one was fooled); and then taking Hades' Sword in the heart. It didn't kill him, but it destroyed his Cosmo and left him as little more than a vegetable for more than a while. Sometimes, Seiya's best friend and partner Dragon Shiryu will do this for his friends, but he has the advantage of wielding the Dragon Shield (said to be one of the strongest shields ever) on his forearm, making it a much more reasonable act. | |
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Foreshadowing | |
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Foreshadowing: Many examples, especially with regards to the characters donning Gold Cloths. Combined with a bit of Early-Installment Weirdness, but as Saori is at a loss with what to do about the whole situation with Phoenix Ikki and the stolen Gold Cloth, Mitsumasa Kido's ghost tells her she will have to become the Saints' leader, she will have to become their Athena. At this point it is intended metaphorically, but then she realizes it was the literal truth. When Ikki defeats Shaka, the Virgo Cloth reflects Shun's image, hinting that he is Virgo's successor. It becomes true in the Elysium OVA, though the Cloth is destroyed almost immediately after he puts it on. Further confirmed outright and spelled out by Shaka's spirit in Next Dimension. When the Libra Cloth appears, it seems to synchronize with Shiryu, who proceeds to remove his own Cloth, and demonstrate the Libra weapons. For the barest second, it seems like he would be donning the Gold Cloth, and while he doesn't, he gets to do so in the Poseidon Arc. The same could be said for Hyoga when you read his profile data in the manga at the end of the Sanctuary Arc. It states he is also an Aquarius, just like his master, and he gets to don the Aquarius Gold Cloth in the Poseidon Arc. | |
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Filler | |
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Then in the filler Asgard saga he temporarily loses his sight again after getting his eyes slashed and blinded with blood in his fight with Fenrir. | |
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I Know What You Fear | |
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I Know What You Fear: Phoenix Ikki was initially introduced as a bad guy with the ability to Invoke Fear. What makes his case pretty interesting is that he eventually undergoes a Heel–Face Turn, yet keeps his "Phoenix Illusion Demon Fist", as a form of Cool and Unusual Punishment, making it sort of a Subversion of Bad Powers, Bad People. The technique digs up what will inflict the most damage to your mind, and if you lack willpower, it WILL One-Hit Kill you. And even if you DO have the willpower to not die from the mental blow, odds are you will end up extremely weakened from the shock and be easy prey. Or it can just outright screw with control during a fight or a very dangerous technique, especially ones with dangerous projectiles (such as saucers or boomerangs), ending up more than once with self-inflicted wounds. Well, there is ONE instance of an opponent that was able to NOT ONLY shake it off like nothing, but actually inflict it back on him, but we're talking about the one Gold Saint specializing in meditation, peace of mind and closest to the Gods. Interestingly, this technique even gets Epiphany Therapy uses in the Asgard arc on two enemies. | |
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No Conservation of Energy | |
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No Conservation of Energy: Whenever work is done, energy has to come from somewhere. In Saint Seiya, the source is the body and the atoms (miniature universes) from within the body. However, the body doesn't have the ability to create enough energy to do most of the attacks in the series. While this trope could be averted by stating that the Cloths themselves are the source of energy, there are several times where the Bronze Saints become more powerful without their Cloths (example: Shun and Nebula Storm) despite it being a possible energy source. | |
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Knight Templar Big Brother | |
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Knight Templar Big Brother: Hurt Shun in any way and you'll have Ikki screaming Mind Rape on you. Try to kill Shunrei and her adoptive brother Shiryu will throw you into the pits of Hell. | |
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Final Speech | |
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Final Speech: Several characters do this before dying, with the Asgard Warriors as the main offenders. | |
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Blind Seer | |
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Blind Seer: Shiryu lampshades this trope after he loses his sight. Thanks to this, he is not deceived by Saga's illusion in the Gemini Temple when he and Seiya are trapped. He says he senses no obstacle and knows where the exit is. Shiryu grabs Seiya and runs off dragging him by force. Believing they would get killed, Seiya screams as they pass the Gold Saint of Gemini, and finally end up exiting the Temple. Ikki of Phoenix uses this as well... to an extreme. In order to defeat Shaka after being killed by the Gods-Knows-What-Number-th time by the Gold Saint (and suffering Mind Rape twice from Shaka's part), he lets Shaka disable each of his senses in order to augment his Cosmo beyond its normal limits, mimicking Shaka's own Enlightenment Superpowers, and reaching the Seventh Sense all on his own. Shaka himself is AWESTRUCK into a Heel–Face Turn at the notion, and taken quite a few pegs down. | |
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Red Is Heroic | |
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Red Is Heroic: Seiya always wears a red shirt. Also, when he wears his armor, the clothes under it are red. | |
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Merchandise-Driven | |
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Merchandise-Driven: The Steel Saints were inserted in the anime at the request of Bandai to sell action figures about them. The redesign of the first version of the Bronze Saints Cloths (compared to those found in the manga) are also due to Bandai's request, one could argue it was for the better because the early Cloths in the manga were surprisingly bulky, standardized and squareish, which the anime made more unique and streamlined. | |
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My God, What Have I Done? | |
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My God, What Have I Done?: In the Asgard saga, Seiya has a huge Freak Out when he thinks he's killed Hilda instead of de-brainwash her. And before that, Ikki's Redemption Equals Death and Saga's suicide are triggered by this. About the first example: Of course, his chosen method of de-brainwashing was apparently bonking her on the head with a legendary sword... It would have made more sense to try to strike the Ring of the Nibelung, or cut off the finger/hand Hilda wore it on, but no, Seiya had to go for swordblade to the head. Good thing it worked, though. Then again, Seiya did hesitate heavily before he struck Hilda down, unable to bring himself to harm her since he knew she was Brainwashed and Crazy. He only did so when Odin himself told him "STFU and use my sword, kiddo!" He can't be fully blamed for what happened. One of the most symbolic examples of this happened in the anime, when Capricorn Shura realized the baby he tried to kill 13 years ago was in fact Athena. This epiphany was all the more powerful considering he took most of his pride in believing to be her most faithful servant. Also spoken verbatim by Shiryu after winning a duel in the Asgard movie against a Brainwashed and Crazy Hyoga. Arguably one of the best, most fast-paced and intense fights of the series, too. | |
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Life Energy | |
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Life Energy: The key to the Saints' power is their cosmos. Whoever can burn his cosmo to the higher level wins, no matter how injured or weakened they are. | |
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Ordered Apology | |
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Ordered Apology: When Shun demanded that Aphrodite apologizes to his dead Master or else he will kill him. | |
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Eye Scream | |
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Eye Scream: During the Poseidon Arc Cygnus Hyoga allows/begs Kraken Isaac to hit his eye... since Isaac lost an eye because of him, after getting impaled through it with a stalactite while saving Hyoga's life. One of Dragon Shiryu's most famous scenes is him plucking his own eyes out to defeat an enemy whose Medusa Shield turns the target into stone with a single glance, after neither closed eyes nor blindfolds work as counter-measures. Shiryu actually goes through several instances of this, and recovering as part of the rule of symbolism around Justice being blind. After the aforementioned gesture against the Medusa Shield, he recovers his eyesight in the Yomotsu Hirasaka (pretty much the antichamber of the Realm of the Dead, where one sees with the soul anyway), and after awakening the Seventh Sense. In the anime, it is further explained that Seiya looking for water from a magic healing source also helped the process. Then in the filler Asgard saga he temporarily loses his sight again after getting his eyes slashed and blinded with blood in his fight with Fenrir. And then, in the Poseidon saga, upon taking Chrysaor's blinding technique, he loses his eyesight again. While in the anime he does recover it, in the manga he loses it for good, and remains blind in the Hades Saga. (Of course, barring the stint in the actual Realm of the Dead for the aforementioned reason) During the anime's rendition of the Galactic Tournament, right before his death Black Cygnus took off the swan ornament from his helmet and crushed it to send information to his boss (a still not Heel Face Turned Ikki). In the manga, he plucked one of his eyes instead. | |
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Canon Discontinuity | |
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The series was dropped after the Hades arc (with the final chapter being printed in V-Jump instead of Weekly Shonen Jump), despite plans for a "Heaven" arc with the other Olympians as the antagonists. After the Tenkai-Hen: Overture movie failed to make a splash, it was ignored and the story continued with Saint Seiya: Next Dimension. | |
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Adaptation Dye-Job | |
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Adaptation Dye-Job: The hair colors in the manga tend to be realistic, whereas the ones in the anime range between green, pink, purple and other funky colors. This is however justified, as since the manga's hair colors were realistic, there were only blond, brunet and black-haired. Two-third of the Gold Saints are blond which can be pretty jarring for viewers, so the dye-job gave a better color balance, making it easier to distinguish the characters. One funny thing though, the animators seemed to be very fond of blue hair... | |
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Gender-Blender Name | |
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Lizard Misty, who looks so pretty◊ he rivals the female Saints, and he also considers himself to be the most beautiful of all, only inferior to Athena. But this guy takes off his clothes in the middle of the fight just for a bath so the confusion doesn't last long. | |
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Petal Power | |
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Petal Power: The Gold Saint Pisces Aphrodite filled the stairs behind his temple with poisonous roses so, even if he lost, Seiya and Co. wouldn't reach their goals. Too bad Marin derails his plans, though to be fair, he didn't have any way to know she'd show up there. | |
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I Am Your Opponent | |
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I Am Your Opponent: Pretty much all the time. The heroes' standard operating procedure is to run through the enemy's stronghold and face each one of his lieutenants individually. Typically, one or more of Athena's Saints will arrive at a new battleground, he'll be faced with the guardian du jour, and an ally will come along or stay behind to fight the guardian instead, letting the original Saint (mostly Seiya) continue on the mission. Sometimes with these exact words. | |
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Rule of Three | |
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Rule of Three: Oh so much... | |
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Lonely Rich Kid | |
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Lonely Rich Kid: When she grew up, Saori became one of these before she turned out to be a Messianic Archetype. Also, Julian Solo until Poseidon took over him. Julian's surname is literally alone in spanish. That's quite the Meaningful Name you've got there. | |
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Only Known by Their Nickname | |
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Only Known by Their Nickname: Crystal Saint, the master of Hyoga and Isaac in the anime. Flame Saint (in the original, Ennetsu Seinto, "Saint of the Sweltering Heat"), the anime-only fire-powered saint from the Sanctuary that fights Shun and is killed by Ikki. Cancer Deathmask, called that due to a habit of adorning the walls of his temple with death masks of his victims.note In the first English dub, the card game, and the English Manga, the American censorship ended up giving him a proper name (Mephisto). | |
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Lady and Knight | |
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Lady and Knight: Saori with the five Saints. However, Seiya was the most vehement in his devotion to her and had the most Bodyguard Crush ovetones as well, while the others's bonds to her were more platonic/brotherly than anything. The saints were actually named "knights" in a lot of Westerner dubbing. In the anime, Jabu wants to be Athena's personal "Knight" badly due to having a Bodyguard Crush on her ever since they were kids. Sadly, this isn't touched upon later. Subverted twice in the Asgard saga. Normally Siegfried and Hilda would be this, and the flashbacks show them as such... but since Hilda was Brainwashed and Crazy she and Sieg were more of a Black Knight/Dark Lady duet. At the same time Hagen wanted to be the White Knight to Freya's Bright Lady, but when Freya became a Defector from Decadence and had these dynamics more or less straight with Hyoga, he went the Black Knight way. Both cases ended up in death and tears. Also gender flipped, with Tethys and Julian Solo aka the Soul Jar of Poseidon in the Poseidon saga. | |
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"Hell, Yes!" Moment | |
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Many characters over the course of the movies and series also get to exhibit the Golden Cosmos aura normally reserved for Gold Saints, which indicates they are either reaching the power threshold required that makes them equals to Gold Saints at least for one instant, or when they are about to don an actual Gold Cloth. When you see a character exhibit this, you can know beyond a doubt that you will be in for a very satisfying "Hell, Yes!" Moment. | |
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RealLife | |
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Almost anyone in the main cast in the Italian dub. They often quote Real Life poems and famous works. | |
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And I Must Scream | |
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And I Must Scream: What happens when Cancer Deathmask kills you and enslaves your soul. What Shaka does to you when he slowly and methodically takes away your senses... one... by... one. It backfires on him when his intended victim, Ikki, uses this as an opportunity to focus his Cosmo and awaken to the Seventh Sense. | |
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Now, Let Me Carry You | |
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Now, Let Me Carry You: In one episode, Saori protects an unconscious and badly injured Seiya from Shaina and Jamian. | |
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Power Makes Your Hair Grow | |
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Power Makes Your Hair Grow: While it has more to do with bad art, both Shun and Ikki have this problem when they go from their normal street clothes to their V1 Cloths, which sport full-head helms. Shun's normally shoulder length green hair in civvies reaches down to his waist when armored, while Ikki's regular-looking mullet poofs out like it's a whole other separate living being when he puts on his helmet. V2 Cloths (and onwards,) which traded the full-head helms for tiaras, eliminated this issue. | |
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Obfuscating Disability | |
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Obfuscating Disability: Saint Seiya portrays at least two examples of this trope: Libra Dohko: an old man of more than 250 years old that walks using a stick (and that's actually an expy of Yoda), can be even more badass than any of the younger Saints. Not to mention that he actually hides his young shape intact, shelled inside his old body, ready to use if it becomes necessary. That Godzilla Threshold is reached in the Hades chapter. | |
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Characters Dropping Like Flies | |
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Characters Dropping Like Flies: Lots of people die. As in: for good. It simply isn't noticeable until the Hades arc. All the Gold Saints (13, including Kanon), all the Silvers excluding Marin and Shaina (14), all the Mariners excluding Sorento (5, if you exclude Kanon), God knows how many filler villains and normal characters (i.e. Cassios, Hyoga's mom, etc.)... | |
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No-Sell | |
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He also pulls this against Jango in the manga and in the anime, after taking a Death Queen Inferno to the face, only to No-Sell it, giving his opponent the mother of Punch! Punch! Punch! Uh Oh... moments. | |
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Nice Job Fixing It, Villain | |
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Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: When Seiya and Shun arrive to Poseidon's kingdom, they're clueless about how to save Saori, but then, they're attacked by Mermaid Thetys and the Sea Dragon. Seeing how they're no match for him, Sea Dragon asks Thetys to reveal to the Bronze Saints how they can save Saori and avert a worldwide flood: By defeating all of the Mariners and destroying the seven pillars (Eight when including Poseidon's main pillar) that support the oceans of the world. Had Sea Dragon kept silent, the Bronze Saints would have inevitably lost. | |
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What Beautiful Eyes! | |
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What Beautiful Eyes!: Even though almost all character in Saint Seiya have beautiful eyes, the only one who got lampshaded is Hades himself! It didn't help the one who lampshade it was Seiya who said "What are those beautiful eyes! I can't believe these eyes belong to feared Hades, the King of Underworld. They have the depth of a very deep lake." Oh boy... And as you all know Kurumada seems so fond of putting Homoerotic Subtext in this series. And in Hades and Seiya's case... Foe Romanc Subtext. And also to add more seasoning to the Foe Romance Subtext. Stoic Hades snapped when he just realized he knew Seiya since LOOOOOOOONG time ago, and enraged because Seiya dared to reincarnate himself again and again. The irony is... Hades seems to believe Seiya did this not to protect Athena and the human race but to come and wound him. He made it sounds like Seiya or Pegasus Saint was obsessed with him after being wounded once in the age of myth by his spiritual ancestor. | |
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Deadpan Snarker | |
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Seiya, Hyoga and Shiryu had quite different personalities in the first chapters of the manga: Seiya was more of a rebel and Deadpan Snarker, often talking back to Saori and even refusing to fight for her at first when she reveals to be Athena. Hyoga was meaner and more morally ambiguous, having actually been sent by the Sanctuary to kill the Bronze Saints. Notably, the Black Swan's reveal in the manga was played out as a suspense over whether it was Hyoga himself enacting his plan to kill the other Bronze Saints or another Saint with similar powers. Shiryu was cocky and belligerent on his first showing during the Galaxian Wars tournament, though this was forcibly corrected by Seiya. | |
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Face–Heel Turn | |
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Also inverted in the first half of the Hades Arc. As the resurrected Saints and Specters invade Sanctuary, they are allowed only 12 hours back among the living; for the Gold Saints, lighting up the Flame Clock marks how long they have to Hold the Line against the assault, for their resurrected former allies, it's literally a countdown to their deaths. | |
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Armor-Piercing Attack | |
| Saint Seiya (Manga) / int_afc8ddc7 | comment |
An armor-breaking attack is usually done to establish the enemy's power over the main characters: if the rival deals a piece-breaking attack it's usually a major arc fightnote (i. e. Seiya vs. Shiryu; Shun-Hyoga vs. Ikki; Seiya vs. Misty; Hyoga vs. Milo; Shiryu-Shun vs. Phleygas), while a full armor break from the heroes' side is usually reserved for climatic arc fights note (i. e. Seiya vs. Asterion, Saga or Valentine; Shun vs. Black Andromeda or Sorrento; Ikki vs. Saga, Kanon or Hades; Shiryu vs. Rhadamantys' bodyguards, everybody vs. Hades). If the heroes' armors get completely vaporized, however, this means that they're either fighting their very last arc fight, and/or dealing with a enemy far beyond their current power (i.e. flashback Phoenix vs. Shaka, Bronze Saints vs. Poseidon or Hypnos-Thanatos) — in the latter case, always expect a Deus ex Machina involving new armors. | |
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Fate Worse than Death | |
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The Cancer Temple is made specifically to unnerve the enemy, and Deathmask will send your soul directly to Hell, or enslave it in a Fate Worse than Death. | |
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Divine Conflict | |
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Divine Conflict: It turns out that every conflict (save the very first one) in the mythos is between gods. Season 2 Athena had to fight Hilda, also under brainwashing, this time from Poseidon. Season 3 She fought Poseidon directly. Season 4 (And in prequel Saint Seiya: The Lost Canvas) she fought Hades directly. In the various movies (of questionable canonicity), she fights Apollo, Eris and Lucifer. In Saint Seiya Omega she's had to fight Mars, who though a god was indirectly brainwashed by Abzu, an Ur god of elemental evil. In season 2 of Omega she fights not one but two gods, Pallas and Saturn. | |
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Artistic Age | |
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Artistic Age/Improbable Age: The protagonists are all depicted as young men in their late teens/early twenties, but are actually 13-15. Considering the violence in the series, this may be to avoid the connotations of violence against children. Case in point, this◊ is, at most, a 15 year old girl and that's assuming at least 1-2 years have passed since the beginning of the series to that point. Not to mention the Gold Saints, who all looked to be in their Mid 20s at least, yet when their ages were revealed only a few of them are past 20, with the oldest among them (Saga) being 28, in particular Aioros who looks to be in his 30s, and has one of the deepest voices you'll hear was only 14 when he died, and Big Guy Aldebaran being only 20, despite looking to be in his Late 30s-40s. This was most likely due to the author not thinking that much about it given the discrepancies caused to certain plot points. And don't let us get to Ikki's flashbacks in which he's seen carrying Shun, as a baby, in his arms! Bear in mind Ikki is 15 and Shun is 13!!! The animators of the anime themselves seem to have forgotten about this fact since at one point Hyoga is shown driving a car. | |
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Sirens Are Mermaids | |
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Sirens Are Mermaids: Averted, subverted, and played straight (!). Siren Sorento has a Scale that depicts a true woman-bird siren from the Greek mythology, but it's Mermaid Thetis who has a siren's Compelling Voice among her powers — although it's the sound of Sorento's flute that actually has a mental effect (a Mind Rape one), with Thetis' voice attracting others by curiosity instead of mind control. | |
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Sentai | |
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Sentai: A fantasy anime example. | |
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Self-Sacrifice Scheme | |
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Self-Sacrifice Scheme: Shun came up with this twice. The first was when he knocked out Shiryu in order to offer himself to Ikki to stop his rampage and the second was in the Hades Saga when Shun allowed Hades to possess him so that his brother could kill him again. Both plans were foiled. | |
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One Twin Must Die | |
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One Twin Must Die: In the Asgard Saga, there's Syd and Bud, twins Separated at Birth, since in Asgard having twins was a bad omen. Syd was the lucky twin, being raised by his parents and having a good life, and Bud was the unlucky one, being a Street Urchin. When Polaris Hilda reunited their God Warriors, Syd and Bud finally get together, but Syd was the "official one" (God Warrior Mizar Zeta) and Bud was the "shadow one" (God Warrior Alcor Zeta). Ironically, Syd's God Warrior Cloth was jet black (midnight blue in the anime) while Bud's was pure white. Always jealous of his twin's luck, Bud became the Evil Twin, forced to support his brother but never receiving any recognition for it, but later he changed his ways after Syd sacrified his life to save Bud's. | |
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People Puppets | |
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People Puppets: Griffon Minos uses this on others. | |
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Airplane Arms | |
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Airplane Arms: Throughout the first few arcs, the characters would typically run swinging their arms like regular people. After the Sanctuary Arc, and the new and improved Cloth redesign, the wispier, thinner character designs also brought along a tendency to run and leap with their arms spread out like wings. | |
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Transforming Mecha | |
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Transforming Mecha: Sort of. Each manga volume has several extra pages detailing exactly how the pieces of a sculpture representing a constellation turn into the elements of a suit of armour. The anime takes this further as the Steel Saints' mechanical Cloths actually do become fully-functional, albeit small, animal-shaped vehicles. Most fans actually thought the first Steel saints arrival "to the rescue" was more a Transformers/Saint Seiya crossover. | |
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I Cannot Self-Terminate | |
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To the point it took Gemini Saga, Aquarius Camus AND Capricorn Shura to take him down! And even then... | |
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Blood Knight | |
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Blood Knight: Cancer Deathmask and Cassios. | |
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Bizarre Baby Boom | |
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Bizarre Baby Boom: The 100 orphans are all close to the same age and are all related in the manga. | |
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Adaptational Backstory Change | |
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Adaptational Backstory Change: In the manga, Esmeralda is a slave saved by Ikki when he saw her being whipped by her owner. In the anime, she became Guilty's daughter. | |
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Color-Coded Characters | |
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Color-Coded Characters: By their Bronze armors and Cosmos colors. Seiya: Red (despite his armor having a metallic light blue color, the red of his under-armor suit is more striking). Shiryu: Green. Hyoga: Blue (same case as Seiya, but Hyoga's armor has a more silvery tone and his under-suit is sky-blue). Shun: Pink. Ikki: Orange (although his Cloth changes colors and doesn't have much orange to begin with, this color refers more to the phoenix's flames.) | |
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Holy Halo | |
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Holy Halo: Part of the Indian Ocean armor worn by Chrysaor Krishna. | |
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Blonde, Brunette, Redhead | |
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Blonde, Brunette, Redhead: Subverted in the anime with Heracles Algethi (white hair), Canis Major Sirius (dark blue hair) and Musca Dios (brownish red hair), the trio of Silver Saints that attacks Seiya when he's fighting Aioria in the forest. | |
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World Pillars | |
| Saint Seiya (Manga) / int_c15518fc | comment |
World Pillars: The "Poseidon Saga" in which the eponymous Greek God (reincarnated in the billionaire playboy Julian Solo) kidnapps Saori Kiddo/Goddess Athena into the underwater world. To free her (being imprisoned in the Master Pillar that works as a Drowning Pit), Bronze Saints have to break every of the World Pillars, seven of them that represent every of the oceans (five in fact, having two for Pacific and Atlantic oceans) and guarded by the seven Generals that protect every pillar. | |
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Big Heroic Run | |
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Big Heroic Run: In the iconic first opening, the whole set of Bronze Saints charge forward to the beat of a Badass Guitar Solo. In the second opening note and the third, which only varies slightly from the second, the central five heroes do the same thing but with Airplane Arms. | |
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True Companions | |
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True Companions: The Bronze Saints, one of anime's closest-knit groups. The Gold Saints to an extent too. | |
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Irony | |
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Irony: Saori Kido, only living relative of the late Mitsumasa Kido, carrier of his legacy as head of the Kido Foundation, is not related to him in any way whatsoever. As a matter of fact, all the orphaned dudes in armor that follow her around are more related to him than she is (as they're all his illegitimate sons), and they don't even have the guy's last name or any last name to begin with. If one were to go by strict familial relations, the Saints of Athena are her step-uncles. | |
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Chuck Cunningham Syndrome | |
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Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: The Steel Saints in the anime. A common joke/explanation among fans is that they must have missed the plane for the Sanctuary or took the wrong one. Phaeton and Spartan from the anime. Gigars too, but it is assumed that he simply ran away after falling out of favor with the Pope, hoping to avoid a You Have Failed Me scenario. Ikki did strike him down and he did collapse in pain, but he is seen running away after the Flame Saint is offed by Ikki. Asterion in the manga. Later remembered in the Kanzenban, in which his grave can be seen in one panel. Chameleon June is specially odd, as she appears once, is left in the care of Tatsumi and is only seen at the Foundation's hospital in a flashback with Marin, but never seen or heard off again after that in neither adaptation. | |
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Satan | |
| Saint Seiya (Manga) / int_c3bafbce | comment |
Hyoga was nominally Christian (he sometimes explains the basics of Christianity to his fellow Saints), and one OVA movie had the saints fight Lucifer. (This one is not actually canon though.) | |
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Squee | |
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The opening in Saint Seiya Hades: Sanctuary first shows all five bronze boys like this. | |
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"With Our Swords" Scene | |
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"With Our Swords" Scene: The fight between Seiya and Ikki. After his friends are knocked out, Seiya is forced to fight alone and is systematically helped by Shiryu's Dragon Shield and Shun's Andromeda Chain. An interesting variation happens at the climax of the battle when Seiya finds out he has received Hyoga's "Diamond Dust" and uses it together with his "Ryu Sei Ken" for increased power. | |
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One-Woman Wail | |
| Saint Seiya (Manga) / int_c4b8e2ae | comment |
One-Woman Wail: Two of them. And both are beautiful yet so damn sad | |
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The Dark Side | |
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The Dark Side: Several saints have fallen for this. Most notably, and because of their dual nature, the Gemini Saints. But some regular saints were simply corrupt to begin with, and only got worse when they achieved the rank of Saint, hinting at how bad things had gotten at Athena's Sanctuary during the goddess' absence. | |
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Naïve Everygirl | |
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Honorary mention goes to a Naïve Everygirl named Helen, who saw her grandpa being murdered by two Silver Saints looking for Ikki and was tossed in a volcano by them, but managed to grab and hold onto its inner walls and climb her way back up in time to give Ikki the Heroic Resolve he needed to punish her attackers | |
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God in Human Form | |
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God in Human Form: Saori/Athena and Julian/Poseidon. | |
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Shout-Out | |
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Shout-Out: In an interview in the Japanese magazine "June", Kurumada promised to create a character with the name of the magazine. Soon after, Chameleon June made her appearance. Ikki's scar and the mask he wears in his first appearance remind a reader immediately of Char Aznable. Aquarius Camus' name is a homage to Albert Camus. Fittingly, he was also born in France and his name is written in Japanese as Kamyu, which sounds similar to the French pronunciation of "Camus" ("come-E"). The depiction of Hell in the Hades arc draws lots of inspiration from Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy. | |
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Luke, I Am Your Father | |
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Luke, I Am Your Father: Subverted: No, Seiya, Marin is NOT your long-lost older sister. Her brother Touma is one of your enemies and your true sister grew up into a Waif Prophet. Also played straight (in the manga at least): Mitsumasa Kido was actually the birth father of all the orphans he sent around the world to be trained as Saints. Busy guy, specially in how all of the children he sent... all of them have a VERY close age range. | |
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Impaled with Extreme Prejudice | |
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Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: How Saori aka Athena finally defeated Hades. | |
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Melodrama | |
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Melodrama: The heroes have been through so much Wangst, it looks like they're fueled by it. | |
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Messianic Archetype | |
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When she grew up, Saori became one of these before she turned out to be a Messianic Archetype. Also, Julian Solo until Poseidon took over him. | |
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Hot Wings | |
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Hot Wings: Phoenix Ikki almost always appears with a fiery, phoenix shaped aura. His most powerful attack always manifests as a phoenix in one shape or another. | |
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Legacy Character | |
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Legacy Character: Most Saints earn the cloths of Saints who fought on previous Holy Wars: Across most of the Saint Seiya media, the Pegasus Saint is treated mostly as Athena's personal protector and right hand, to the point that it's a given that there's simply no Athena without her dear Pegasus at her side. The Virgo Saint is usually the man who is closest to God, being a deeply spiritual individual; possessing powers related to Buddhism. An exception to the rule would be Phoenix Ikki, who is the first ever Phoenix Saint; in The Lost Canvas, however, it's shown that Ikki may have been the reincarnation of the Celestial Specter Bennu Kagaho, whose dying cosmo burned bright into the shape of a phoenix. | |
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Spin to Deflect Stuff | |
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Spin to Deflect Stuff: The stated power of the Andromeda Chain: while the arrow-headed one is used for offense, the ring-headed chain becomes an impregnable wall when Shun spins it around himself. Note that, for all its supposed defensive power, it is very susceptible to The Worf Barrage against anything stronger than a Silver Saint. He did have one rather awesome use of it in the Poseidon arc though. When facing Scylla Io, the Mariner General used an attack that was actually six in one on a "low" setting to taunt him. However, since It Only Works Once and Shun's chains are stated as early as the first tournament arc as being hyper adaptive to enemy attacks, Shun proceeds to counter each of his attacks, destroy his armor, and bind him in chains. | |
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Charles Atlas Superpower | |
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Charles Atlas Superpower: EVERYONE. Even at a young age, "enough training" can allow a tiny child to break down a huge cliff, move faster than sound, or channel the energies of the universe. | |
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Dude Looks Like a Lady | |
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Dude Looks Like a Lady: Given that almost every man in this series is beautiful, many of them fall into this. But there are four most notable examples: Pisces◊ Aphrodite, whose beauty is commented on by many characters, uses roses to attack, and suffers from She's a Man in Japan in many adaptations. The only way to know that he's male is that he has male seiyuu and doesn't wear a mask. Lizard Misty, who looks so pretty◊ he rivals the female Saints, and he also considers himself to be the most beautiful of all, only inferior to Athena. But this guy takes off his clothes in the middle of the fight just for a bath so the confusion doesn't last long. Andromeda Shun, whose constellation is based on a princess, wears pink armor, has a pacifist nature and is the nicest, gentlest of the Bronze Saints. His brother Ikki falls in love with a woman who looks ''exactly like him'' save for her gender and hair/eyes colors, for Athena's sake. Siren Sorrento, whose constellation and cloths are also based on female sirens who use their beautiful singing voices to kill ship passengers. He's too pretty even for this series' standard, and if you only read the manga he will confuse you greatly. Thankfully, he has male seiyuu in the anime, and at the end of Poseidon's arc, he is seen accompanying Julian in a male, masculine vest. | |
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Taking You with Me | |
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Shiryu's Ultimate Dragon, which is basically a suicide strike that flings himself and his opponent into space where they'll be burnt up by the atmosphere. | |
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Magic by Any Other Name | |
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Magic by Any Other Name: Cosmo is a space-themed Life Energy that allows Saints and their counterparts to perform unique Supernatural Martial Arts. Higher Cosmo levels let the user use seventh and even eigth sense, create illusions, bend space, send people to hell and move planets. | |
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Kill It with Ice | |
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During the Poseidon Arc Cygnus Hyoga allows/begs Kraken Isaac to hit his eye... since Isaac lost an eye because of him, after getting impaled through it with a stalactite while saving Hyoga's life. | |
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Melancholy Moon | |
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Melancholy Moon: In the manga, Shun would spend alot of time admiring a picture of the moon with his brother Ikki on how there were no borders or war there as well as when he was on Andromeda Island thinking about how awful the landscape was of the Island but thankful that he was with caring people. Most of this was left out of the anime but brought back in the Pachinko game. | |
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Epileptic Trees | |
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This and the story about Kido Mitsumasa having 100 kids actually fueled the theory that he was Zeus in disguise. | |
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Space Is Noisy | |
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Space Is Noisy: Another Dimension. Sorry Shun. No matter how much you call for Hyoga, he technically can't hear you due to the fact that sound cannot travel in a vacuum. | |
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Spoiler Opening | |
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Spoiler Opening: During the Asgard Saga opening, you can see who gets to wear the Odin Robe. Hades Inferno where they show Shun as Hades. | |
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Lighter and Softer | |
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Lighter and Softer: Both, manga and anime, can be this to each other depending on the situation yet the anime gets progressively less bloodier towards the later arcs. | |
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Wacky Wayside Tribe | |
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Wacky Wayside Tribe: The Asgardians during the Asgard Arc. | |
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Orphanage of Fear | |
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Orphanage of Fear: All the future Saints had to deal with this at the Kido Fundation. They're taken away from normal orphanages by force (the one where Seiya was pretty much kidnapped from is a downright Orphanage of Love, for example), forced to train all day long, are beaten by Tatsumi if they step out of line, seen as mere objects and playthings for Saori (who was a Spoiled Brat at time) and the place has electric fences, dogs and security guards. To top it all off, this painful experience only ended when it was time for a lottery which decided which deadly training ground they would be sent to, where 90% of them died without even seeing the Cloth enshrined therein. | |
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Spoiled Brat | |
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Spoiled Brat: Saori, when she was a kid, was rather mean (and sometimes kinda cruel) to the Bronze Saints and treated them like slaves. Then her grandfather gather her a stern lecture about not abusing her authority, and she grew out of it. | |
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Anti-Villain | |
| Saint Seiya (Manga) / int_d001c42c | comment |
Anti-Villain: Several of the Gold Saints, as well as some of the Asgard Warriors. | |
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Taken for Granite | |
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Taken for Granite: Algol Perseus's main ability. | |
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Yamato Nadeshiko | |
| Saint Seiya (Manga) / int_d3427b48 | comment |
Yamato Nadeshiko: Shunrei is ethnically a Chinese Girl, but otherwise she's a perfect example of the trope. | |
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Sympathy for the Devil | |
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Sympathy for the Devil: Cassios, in the anime. Also several of the Asgard warriors, specially Fenrir, Hagen and Syd A few of the Marinas, most notably Scylla Io and Kraken Isaac. | |
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Golden Super Mode | |
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Golden Super Mode: When Bronze Saints get upgraded Cloths through the blood of Gold Saints. Then this trope is in full effect as their regular armors take a temporary golden shade to highlight their full power. | |
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*Twang* Hello | |
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*Twang* Hello: Ikki loves to introduce himself by using the Phoenix cloth's metal feathers right before jumping into action. | |
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Shapeshifter Guilt Trip | |
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Shapeshifter Guilt Trip: Done by Lymnades Kaza, as his standard way of dealing with a target who will rightfully doubt they're seeing a long lost or departed loved one. | |
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Adaptational Wimp | |
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Adaptational Wimp: Happens a lot in the anime's Filler episodes and OVA movies for Rule of Drama, usually with the Bronze Saints. Shun is hit pretty hard with this. In the manga, he is established as being possibly the most powerful of the protagonists, being held back only by his unwillingness to kill. In most of his anime-exclusive fights he is straight up unable to defeat his opponents and needs Ikki's help. Also happens constantly with Seiya. In the manga he has a clear evolution where he gets stronger and more capable as the series goes on, to the point where in the Poseidon Arc he has relatively little trouble fighting the Mariners, and in the Hades Arc his attacks are strong enough to break Surplices. In the Filler episodes, Asgard Arc, OVA movies and anime-exclusive Hades Arc scenes, he is often little more than a punching bag for the villains before getting his Heroic Second Wind (if he gets it at all). Seiya's teacher Marin is very unfavorably portrayed in the anime, being constantly bested by Shaina and losing almost every fight she gets in. This gets worse during the 12 Temples part of the Sanctuary Arc in which she's defeated by a random giant Mook and is presumed dead for a few episodes. | |
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Atlas Pose | |
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Atlas Pose: Dragon Shiryu when the tunnel underneath the Sagittarius House collapses and he stays behind to support it as the others escape. | |
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Dark Action Girl | |
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Dark Action Girl: Ophiuchus Shaina in the beginning. | |
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Training from Hell | |
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Training from Hell: Every single Saint endured hellish training to earn his or her Sacred Cloth — doing finger-stands (as in, standing on the tip of your index finger) during rain and snow, punching glaciers or mountains thousands of years old and not giving up until they crumbled, doing upside-down pullups while hanging from your feet above a chasm, being chained between two rocks and being forced to push back the ocean tide with your Battle Aura before you drown, that sort of thing. And even then, the characters that endured these trials gasp in horror at the one who came back from Death Queen Island, considered the worst ordeal of them all... At least until it's revealed that Andromeda Island is worse (after all, Death Queen Island may have an active volcano and a population of psychos, but you can grow food there). Whoever trains in Sicily may well have it the worst: the island is luscious and civilized, but once again the training happens near an active volcano (Mount Etna), the trainer is Cancer Death Mask, and if one survives the final task is to walk right into the volcano and retrieve the Coma Berenices Cloth. And to make things worse you need Death Mask to be there and supervise the final task, as the Coma Berenices Cloth keeps Typhon's soul sealed and Death Mask is one of the few with the power set to keep him from escape and take over the Saint candidate the moment they grab the Cloth. The final task for the Pegasus Cloth was to fight the Nine Giants of Ebdera. A thousand went in, two succeeded... And then had to fight each other. All of the above is for the Bronze Cloths, the lowest tier. Presumably, training for Silver and Gold Cloth is even worse. | |
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Enlightenment Superpowers | |
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Enlightenment Superpowers: Virgo Shaka is explicitly shown to use disciplined meditation to augment his spirit, rather than physical training. | |
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Achilles' Heel | |
| Saint Seiya (Manga) / int_d7639dba | comment |
Achilles' Heel: When Shiryu unleashes the Rozan Shoryu Ha, he lowers his defense by a smidge, and only for a fraction of a second—but if you hit him there, since that spot lies directly over his heart, he's as good as dead. When Seiya points that out in the tournament, Shiryu freaks out. Anime-only god warrior Alpha Siegfried shares his Achilles' heel with his namesake from the Nibelungenlied— he slays a dragon and bathes in its blood, making himself immortal, but at that very moment a tiny leaf falls on his back (coincidentally over his heart), preventing that bit of skin from being touched by the blood, and therefore making that spot the only part of his body that can be dealt a mortal blow. This serves not just as an homage to the original Norse myth, but is also a Call-Back to Shiryu's weak point, as Siegfried's God Robe is based on another famous dragon, Fafnir, and it was Shiryu himself who recognized Siegfried's weak spot. | |
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Meditation Powerup | |
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Meditation Powerup: Shaka. | |
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Soul Jar | |
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Soul Jar: Julian, for Poseidon. Who later is trapped into a real jar. Also Shun, for Hades. | |
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Dangerous 16th Birthday | |
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Dangerous 16th Birthday: Poseidon wholly took over the body of young Julian Solo right after he turned 16. Technically, he had possessed the guy much earlier, but wasn't be able to take over until then and just lay dormant inside, influencing his subconscious. Lampshaded when Kanon woke Poseidon up and the God himself said he'd only truly control Julian in that day. | |
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Breakout Character | |
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Breakout Character: The Gold Saints serve primarily as the ultimate obstacles for the heroes in the Twelve Houses/Sanctuary Arc but, due to their popularity, their roles started to grow in importance and more prequels where created to the point that they have perhaps surpassed the heroes in terms of screen-time (anime and manga combined) and became the protagonists of their own manga in Episode G (and Lost Canvas to some extent). Of course, the Gold Saints are supposed to be Athena's elite guard, so it's not unreasonable that they'd finally get out of the house and actually serve her directly during the Hades Arc. | |
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Intimate Healing | |
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Intimate Healing: After Hyoga is released from an ice coffin but is nearly dead from the cold, so Shun burns his cosmo while lying with Hyouga in his arms in order to revive him. Cue to LOTS of Ho Yay-tinted squealing coming from the Estrogen Brigade (can't fully blame them, though). This level of intimacy happens only in the anime (where the animators made sure to slide in an Almost Kiss as Shun lays down in the floor with Hyoga◊). In the manga, Shun just kneels beside Hyoga and lifts him up◊. | |
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High-Pressure Blood | |
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Though everyone bleeds a lot, Shiryu is notable for regularly geysering more blood than everyone else in his team has at least once per arc. The only time it's played fairly realistic is when he tears his own wrists open so Mu can fix up his and Seiya's suits. Shiryu went into a coma, and it's stated that he teetered on the edge of death, but he miraculously came back and was ready to fight again right then and there. | |
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Contrived Coincidence | |
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Contrived Coincidence: Wow, who would've thought that Saga would lock Kanon up in the one place that would lead to the jar imprisoning Poseidon with all the General's Cloths perfectly ready to be used? | |
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Hijacked by Jesus | |
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Hijacked by Jesus: Several of the Big Bad enemies that oppose Athena and her Saints are either gods (like Hades, Poseidon, Artemis or Eris) or priests of other gods (like Hilda, priestess of Odin). Also, Virgo Shaka is the incarnation of Siddharta Gautama aka Buddha. | |
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Heroic Second Wind | |
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Sort-of happens with Rhadamanthys, believe it or not. While he's unquestionably portrayed as badass in the manga, it's made explicitly clear that he's only able to kill Mu, Aiolia and Milo because of Hades Castle's protection slowing them down, and he sees the Bronze Saints as a threat because their Clothes revived by Athena's blood negate such protection and allows them to fight him on equal terms (his minions interrupt before the fight can happen). In Hell, where there is no such protection against Saints, he has significant trouble fighting Kanon (needing the other Judges to save him), and Seiya is able to hurt him and break his Surplice (though Rhadamanthys is still left standing and Shun becomes Hades before the fight can continue). In the anime the protection in Hades Castle is not mentioned during those first fights, and Rhadamanthys' minions never interrupt his confrontation with the Bronze Saints. He mops the floor with them and none of their attacks work until Seiya gets his Heroic Second Wind and drags Rhadamanthys with him to Hell - a much different performance than their brief skirmish in the manga. | |
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Trash Talk | |
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Trash Talk: Even the good guys will get overconfident on the strength of their attacks. | |
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Updated Re-release | |
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The art in the beginning of the manga was a bit rough, with characters sometimes looking off-model and having a "chubby" silhouette. Kurumada redrew some scenes in the Final Edition because of this. There's a bit of this in the anime, too, to a lesser extent. | |
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Tiger Versus Dragon | |
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Shiryu's anime-only rival for the Dragon Cloth, Ouko, themed himself after tigers when he came back for revenge. | |
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Start of Darkness | |
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Start of Darkness: It seems Gemini Saints have these curse. Gemini Saga fell pray to the taunts of his own brother Kanon. Who would, ironically, become his successor after his Heel–Face Turn.. | |
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Absurdly Sharp Blade | |
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Absurdly Sharp Blade: Shura's Excalibur can cut through flesh, armor... dimensions. But not through Camus's Freezing Coffin (at least not in the original Sanctuary arc) Case in point, the twin swords on the Libra Cloth do accomplish the feat; it's understandable considering that its weapons are the only melee weaponry allowed to the Athena Gold Saints, which are supposed to fight unarmed for the sake of honor. Chrisaor Krishna's lance was able to cut through Dragon Shiryu's shield, which is almost indestructible. Seiya was able to cut Taurus Aldebaran's horn from his helm, when no other being save a God can even scratch a Gold Cloth. It has never been explained just how the hell he was able to accomplish the feat, which was impressive enough for Aldebaran to throw the towel. | |
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Please Put Some Clothes On | |
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When facing Misty, Seiya catches him completely naked in the sea and is too weirded out to attack until he's back to shore and dressed again. Misty not taking advantage of the situation to use his mountain-destroying attack on Seiya is what clues the latter on the fact it doesn't work in the sea. | |
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Dead Person Conversation | |
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Saori having a Dead Person Conversation with her late grandfather in her planetarium, appearing to her as a Spirit Advisor (which the anime narration explains as "advanced technology"...). She confides in him her worries to him with the whole situation with Phoenix Ikki and what came after, and in turn he tells her she will have to become "like Athena" for the sake of her Saints. Can border on Fridge Brilliance, but it's likely back then the anime did not know where the manga would go with Saori. This and the story about Kido Mitsumasa having 100 kids actually fueled the theory that he was Zeus in disguise. | |
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Sugar-and-Ice Personality | |
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Sugar-and-Ice Personality: Camus. Dear God, Camus. It also rubs off on Hyoga. | |
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Dub Name Change | |
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Dub Name Change: Most of the main characters' names are changed in the Italian dub, usually by giving them the name of their constellation (eg: Seiya becomes Pegasus, Shun becomes Andromeda and so on) or by giving them a totally different, non-japanese name (Shiryu becomes Sirio, Hyoga Crystal, Shaina is Tisifone and Saori is Isabel). | |
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Animal Motifs | |
| Saint Seiya (Manga) / int_e2ccee25 | comment |
Animal Motifs: Naturally. Most, if not all Saints and Marine Generals whose patron constellation is an animal or a mythical creature pattern themselves after it, from their attack names to their personalities and even their clothing. Which becomes a bit of Fridge Logic in that many of such Saints had already adopted these motifs long before even attaining their respective Cloths. And of course, the Cloths themselves are primary examples of the trope. Uniquely, the Asgardian Fenrir was chosen to become the Epsilon God Warrior because of his association with wolves, rather than the other way around (that he already had a very appropriate name for it was just a bonus). Shiryu's anime-only rival for the Dragon Cloth, Ouko, themed himself after tigers when he came back for revenge. | |
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Silk Hiding Steel | |
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Silk Hiding Steel: Princess Freya from the Asgard arc is a more stubborn, outspoken version of the trope. A possible male example would be Andromeda Shun, who is very gentle and borderline passive but is not to be trifled with when his friends are in danger. | |
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Sexy Mentor | |
| Saint Seiya (Manga) / int_e40f4e19 | comment |
Sexy Mentor: Seiya's trainer Aquila Marin is one really hot young woman. So is Cassius's trainer Shaina. And about Shaina's sexiness, is worthy of mention the famous/infamous hospital episode, in which she removes her mask revealing her face (it already happened before) but this time by coincidences or destiny she looks especially sexy, so much her face looks like a perfect blend of The Woobie and Puppy-Dog Eyes tropes, generating lots (and I mean lots) of fanart about her and that situation only due to this only scene. | |
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To the Pain | |
| Saint Seiya (Manga) / int_e482cfa7 | comment |
To the Pain: Scorpio Milo calmly explains the effect of his Scarlet Needles to Hyoga as the other bleeds to death. Shaka describes the Seven Stages of Hell as he mind-rapes Ikki. And that's just him warming up. | |
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Load-Bearing Boss | |
| Saint Seiya (Manga) / int_e4cf1ef0 | comment |
Load-Bearing Boss: In the non-canon movie Warriors of the Final Holy War, Seiya shoots an arrow at Lucifer, killing him and sending him back to Hell. On doing this, the fallen angel's Pandemonium palace crumbles. | |
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Load-Bearing Hero | |
| Saint Seiya (Manga) / int_e4d1b37d | comment |
Load-Bearing Hero: Shiryu did this with a "crushing ceiling" trap in the cavern maze beneath the Sagittarius House. | |
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11th-Hour Superpower | |
| Saint Seiya (Manga) / int_e5066b68 | comment |
In regards to the Saints themselves, their goal in the Sanctuary Arc was to awaken to the mystical Seventh Sense, which would allow them to reach the Cosmo power level of, and perceive the movements of faster-than-light Gold Saints and counterattack. In the Hades Arc, the objective was the Eighth Sense, which grants them entrance into the Hades while still being alive and avoiding Hades' domination. Then, when facing Hades' lieutenants, Thanatos and Hypnos, the overwhelming force of the Bronze Saints' Cosmo upgrades them (and their Cloths) to godly levels. | |
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Expy | |
| Saint Seiya (Manga) / int_e5421161 | comment |
Libra Dohko: an old man of more than 250 years old that walks using a stick (and that's actually an expy of Yoda), can be even more badass than any of the younger Saints. Not to mention that he actually hides his young shape intact, shelled inside his old body, ready to use if it becomes necessary. That Godzilla Threshold is reached in the Hades chapter. | |
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Light Is Not Good | |
| Saint Seiya (Manga) / int_e543a655 | comment |
Light Is Not Good: The Angels in the Tenkai Hen Overture Movie. Pre-Heel–Face Turn Gold Saints. | |
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"Psycho" Strings | |
| Saint Seiya (Manga) / int_e5b75009 | comment |
"Psycho" Strings: Used a few times in the Hades Saga, when Shun gets flashes (premonitions? memories?) of young Pandora. | |
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Clothing Damage | |
| Saint Seiya (Manga) / int_e61d9a3c | comment |
Clothing Damage: Constantly done in the manga to visually demonstrate the heroes' struggle and the enemies' defeat — the anime does it to a much lesser extent, since its Merchandise-Driven nature means that the closer the main characters stay faithful to their toys, the better. In pretty much every manga battle, the heroes' clothing will end up dirty, bloodied and/or slashed to go with their bruises... However, in the rare cases that it doesn't happen, it's an obvious indicator of the enemy's absolute pushover status. In the manga, starting from the late Poseidon arc, losing only the tiara is a visual indicator of an important battle without having to break the whole armor (or, in the case of the second Pegasus Seiya helmet, a way to remove it from the story to never appear again) note (i. e. Ikki vs Kanon, Gold-armored Bronze Saints vs Poseidon, Seiya vs Cerberus, Ikki vs Aiacos, post-Hades possession Shun, Cygnus vs Minos, Shiryu vs Rhadamantys' bodyguards, Seiya-Ikki vs Hades' urn). Notice that this is also the usual way to show a major Gold Saint battle, since their armor always stays undamaged (although not their Surplice copies). An armor-breaking attack is usually done to establish the enemy's power over the main characters: if the rival deals a piece-breaking attack it's usually a major arc fightnote (i. e. Seiya vs. Shiryu; Shun-Hyoga vs. Ikki; Seiya vs. Misty; Hyoga vs. Milo; Shiryu-Shun vs. Phleygas), while a full armor break from the heroes' side is usually reserved for climatic arc fights note (i. e. Seiya vs. Asterion, Saga or Valentine; Shun vs. Black Andromeda or Sorrento; Ikki vs. Saga, Kanon or Hades; Shiryu vs. Rhadamantys' bodyguards, everybody vs. Hades). If the heroes' armors get completely vaporized, however, this means that they're either fighting their very last arc fight, and/or dealing with a enemy far beyond their current power (i.e. flashback Phoenix vs. Shaka, Bronze Saints vs. Poseidon or Hypnos-Thanatos) — in the latter case, always expect a Deus ex Machina involving new armors. | |
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No Endor Holocaust | |
| Saint Seiya (Manga) / int_e62dfb96 | comment |
No Endor Holocaust: When Hilda of Asgard or Poseidon flood the Earth by melting the ice caps, the series goes out of its way to show the devastation from tidal waves and superstorms even in spite of Athena's attempts to hold the waters back. When the villain du jour is defeated, though, it's considered a victory for mankind, and no mention is made of the millions of lives lost while the Saints battled. Likewise, the initial Gold Cloth Saga at the beginning of the series actually showed a very violent war breaking out, but it never reached the heroes and was never brought up before or after the Big Bad's defeat. The manga ending of the Poseidon chapter actually goes out of its way to point out the incredibly high number of victims, and that Julian Solo will now use his wealth for the good of the world. | |
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Chain Pain | |
| Saint Seiya (Manga) / int_e6b3e4f2 | comment |
Andromeda Shun, whose constellation is based on a princess, wears pink armor, has a pacifist nature and is the nicest, gentlest of the Bronze Saints. His brother Ikki falls in love with a woman who looks ''exactly like him'' save for her gender and hair/eyes colors, for Athena's sake. | |
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Blasting Time | |
| Saint Seiya (Manga) / int_e6d8873c | comment |
Blasting Time: Hyoga's Aurora Thunder attack consists of him clasping his hands together over his head, and then repeatedly bringing them down to blast out gusts of icy wind from his fists. The Aurora Execution, the ultimate evolution of this technique, consists of raising one's hands overhead again, but keeping them up long enough to charge a single, absolute-zero blast of ice. Gemini Saga has a variation of this, where he performs a complicated motion with his left hand that ends up with it raised high over his head... but his right hand, the one that ''actually' grasps the energy ball to unleash Galaxian Explosion, is held tightly by his waist, and that is the hand that goes into the "3-o'clock" position when releasing the attack. | |
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Battle Aura | |
| Saint Seiya (Manga) / int_e6eafde0 | comment |
Battle Aura: All Saints have one. Usually accompanied by a spectral vision of their patron constellation when they really start to turn it up. | |
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Levitating Lotus Position | |
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Levitating Lotus Position: Virgo Shaka awaits for the intruders to the House of Virgo in this position. No surprise here for someone thinking he's the reincarnation of Buddha. Bonus points for keeping the pose while wearing the Gold Cloth armor of the Gold Saints. | |
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Mystical 108 | |
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Mystical 108: Virgo Shaka keeps a Buddhist rosary with 108 beads. During the Hades arc, every time one of Hades' (108) Specters is killed, one of the beads goes dark. He terrifies the battalion of Specters invading the House of Virgo by showing them their beads have already gone dark. | |
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Younger Than They Look | |
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Younger Than They Look: When you think that the Silver Saints are in their teens while looking like 30-somethings, it starts to get weird. Aioros died when he was 14 years old and he was already taller than a 20-year-old Aioria. And let's not start with that flashback of Shura in the anime. To clarify, Shura was ELEVEN. | |
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Descending Ceiling | |
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Descending Ceiling: One of the many traps intended to prove the Bronzes' resolve in the otherwise Saint-less Sagittarius Temple (anime-only). | |
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Clingy Jealous Girl | |
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Seiya and Saori after jumping off a cliff together to escape from Shaina and Jamian. Saori nearly kisses an unconscious Seiya, but is interrupted by an angry Shaina. | |
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Human Head on the Wall | |
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Human Head on the Wall: In one of the creepiest scenes from the "Sanctuary" arc, Seiya and Shiryu find out that the walls of the Cancer Temple are full of human faces. There's one face per each person that Cancer Deathmask, the Blood Knight among the Gold Saints, has killed - and their souls are bound to them. Understandably, neither of the boys react well to the discovery or to Deathmask's flippant reaction to their horror. When Shiryu kills Deathmask, he and Shun soon see that the "heads/faces" are gone, meaning that the souls of these people are finally free. | |
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Cain and Abel | |
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Cain and Abel: It looked like Ikki and Shun would become this, and they were in the beginning, but ultimately Ikki pulled a Heel–Face Turn and subverted this. Kanon and Saga (and in the anime, Sid and Bud), on the other hand... However, Kanon eventually inherits (with Saga's blessing) the Gemini Cloth, and wears it in his brother's name and for his own redemption. In the "childhood friends" sense, we have two pairs: Shiryu and Ouko (anime only) and Hyoga and Kraken Isaac. Both cases end up in death. | |
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Best Her to Bed Her | |
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Best Her to Bed Her: Variation: each and every female saint of Athena has to wear a mask, and it's considered a grave dishonor to be seen without it. Should any man see the female saint's face, she only has two options: a) Kill him or b) Love him. This only applies to Athena's Saints, though: Mermaid Tethys, Poseidon's messenger, wore a practical, full-head helmet with an open face. The masks serve two purposes: to make the female Saint be seen as a warrior regardless of gender, and to avoid identification. It so happens that the female Saints shown in the series are markedly beautiful girls, which is a point against kicking people's asses without reservation from both parties in the battles. It also doesn't help that, although the masks are meant to depersonalize the saints, these usually customize their masks to their personal tastes, adding fangs, decorative paint, or artistic engravings. | |
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Take Over the World | |
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Take Over the World: Lucifer, in his non-canon movie, says he wants to rule not only Earth, but the entire universe. | |
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Moment Killer | |
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Seiya and Miho, but they're interrupted by the orphan kids. | |
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Dwindling Party | |
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Dwindling Party: The Saints fall one by one and it's up to Seiya (and Ikki, sometimes) to face the Big Bad. | |
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No Warping Zone | |
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No Warping Zone: Sanctuary. Nobody, not even the Gold Saints who can travel at the speed of light are allowed to bypass the Twelve Houses unless the plot needs someone like Marin to use a secret shortcut. It should also be noted, once a Gold Saint has been defeated or granted passage, then it seems fast travel up to that point is not a problem. Cases in point? Cassios, Ikki. | |
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The Starscream | |
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The Asgardian God Warriors (except one) are all noble, devoted guardians to their princess, Hilda, and to the shrine of Odin. They may turn arrogant and taunt Athena's Saints when they have the upper hand (a sin that heroic Golds and Bronzes are also guilty of, even if they don't get as many chances), but ultimately they're simply defending their charge from what appears to them to be an invading foreign force trying to supplant her. Those that remain close to her even question why Hilda, who used to be kind and gentle, is now so bloodthirsty for victory over Athena. It tends to make their deaths considerably more tragic and poignant than even those of Athena's own Silver Saints or villainous Gold Saints. | |
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Once per Episode | |
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Once per Episode: Or once per movie. In the original manga and anime, Seiya dons the Sagittarius Cloth only once, in Poseidon Saga, to shoot an arrow at the sea god (although he does wear it near the very end of the Hades Saga, he does not repeat the deed against Hades). Now, in the non-canon movies, Seiya defeats the Big Bad of the day every time by wearing Aioros's cloth and shooting an arrow. In. every. single. movie. | |
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No Eye in Magic | |
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No Eye in Magic: Perseus Algol exhibits a similar petrification power to the mythical Medusa— not through his own eyes, but through the image of Medusa in his shield. This power could affect his victims through cloth or blindfolds, because it acted directly on the retina. The target could protect themselves with the Dragon Cloth's shield, however, and it doesn't work on the blind either. | |
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Redemption Equals Death | |
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Redemption Equals Death: Just *too* often. Black Dragon in the first arc is one example, but Cassius is one of the most tragic cases; even Seiya bawls when he dies through Heroic Sacrifice to de-brainwash Aioria. Other cases involve Saga, Siegfried, Ikki's first death... | |
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NO INDOOR VOICE | |
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No Indoor Voice: Happens sometimes during fights. A non-fight instance is in the Hades/Inferno Arc, when Seiya and Shun arrive at the first prison, a courthouse presided by Balrog Lune. When Lune asks Seiya to state his business again aloud, Seiya complies... by shouting who he is and what he is doing in Hell from the top of his lungs. It's so bad (Shun even covered his ears throughout this "rant"), he even staggers from losing his breath after he finishes. | |
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Traveling at the Speed of Plot | |
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Traveling at the Speed of Plot: In the Sanctuary arc, the Bronze Saints' twelve-hour timer goes down one hour with each temple they pass through, even when there isn't a Gold Saint present to fight. Seiya starts running past the Gold Saints entirely between Sagittarius and the Pope's Chamber, and it still takes him two hours and change to reach the latter. Meanwhile, it takes Ikki a matter of minutes to reach the Pope's Chamber from Virgo during the last hour, and by the end, Saori crosses the entire gauntlet in what seems to be less than an hour. | |
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Right Makes Might | |
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Right Makes Might: Several times, often went hand in hand with Defeat Means Friendship. It's also subverted: when Cancer Deathmask tries to pull that one on Libra Dohko to make , the other just shrugs Deathmask's words away and calls him a fool. | |
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Gold Makes Everything Shiny | |
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Gold Makes Everything Shiny: Obviously the Gold Saints, but later on the Bronze Saints as well. Many characters over the course of the movies and series also get to exhibit the Golden Cosmos aura normally reserved for Gold Saints, which indicates they are either reaching the power threshold required that makes them equals to Gold Saints at least for one instant, or when they are about to don an actual Gold Cloth. When you see a character exhibit this, you can know beyond a doubt that you will be in for a very satisfying "Hell, Yes!" Moment. | |
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Primary-Color Champion | |
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Seiya: Red (despite his armor having a metallic light blue color, the red of his under-armor suit is more striking). | |
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The Power of Friendship | |
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The Power of Friendship: One of the major themes of the series. | |
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Team Mom | |
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Team Mom: Saori aka Athena, sometimes Marin as well. | |
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The Abridged Series | |
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The Abridged Series: Currently done by French fans which turns out to be the first French abridged series. On the site, there are transcripts for each episode so if you don't speak French, you can copy that and translate it. Now has its own page. There's also a Brazilian abridged series, with 15 episodes. There was also an adaptation of the first movie, but since Toei Animation apparently doesn't like to see their product being mocked (even on a non-profit basis), it's been taken down. Twice. The creators have managed to put the channel up again, but have been dedicating themselves to other, not Saint Seiya-related endeavors. The "Vai, Seiya!" troupe also did a parody of Guardians of the Cosmos, the failed American pilot for the series. There's even a Nostalgia Critic mash-up comparing both English dubs. | |
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Artistic License – Physics | |
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Artistic License – Physics: Saint Seiya brings up real physics concepts all the time, but tends to bend their actual application for the sake of the plot, or outright ignore their implications. Traveling at the Speed of Light: Leo Aioria claims that, while Bronze Saints move at or above the speed of sound, Gold Saints can attack at the speed of light. But the amount of energy needed for any of the Gold Saints or anyone to perform light speed attacks is extremely high. Even approaching light speed would require more energy per second than all of Earth's industries use per year. Ice Breaker: Anytime Hyoga or any of the other people who use ice use one of their signature attacks. Hyoga's skin would be destroyed anytime he touched anything and in the battle with Camus, during which both Saints attacked each other with an attack that reached absolute-zero, Camus would've shattered instead of simply turning blue and dying. He wouldn't have been able to talk. There's also the matter inherent to all people who specialize in ice- and cold-manipulation techniques, in that they must remove heat to reach those temperatures, leading to... No Conservation of Energy: Whenever work is done, energy has to come from somewhere. In Saint Seiya, the source is the body and the atoms (miniature universes) from within the body. However, the body doesn't have the ability to create enough energy to do most of the attacks in the series. While this trope could be averted by stating that the Cloths themselves are the source of energy, there are several times where the Bronze Saints become more powerful without their Cloths (example: Shun and Nebula Storm) despite it being a possible energy source. | |
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Martyr Without a Cause | |
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Martyr Without a Cause: The five Bronzes. | |
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Wouldn't Hit a Girl | |
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Wouldn't Hit a Girl: Seiya uses this excuse to refuse fighting Shaina. BAD idea. | |
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Canon Immigrant | |
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Canon Immigrant: The Pope's brainwashing technique, the Genrou Maouken, appears in the anime before its debut in the manga. Lyra Orpheus too, as he appears in the 1st movie first (though he was also designed by Kurumada back then). | |
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Will They or Won't They? | |
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Will They or Won't They?: Seiya and Saori especially during the fight with Jamian. Further invoked with the Abel Movie ending song. | |
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Lady of War | |
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Lady of War: Aquila Marin. Saori, after she finally activates her own Cloth in the manga Arguably, Eris, Pandora and Artemis. Ophiucus Shaina is too Ax-Crazy at the beginning to count, but she becomes one later on. | |
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Beauty Is Never Tarnished | |
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Beauty Is Never Tarnished: You can kick a saint in the face with enough force to shatter a brick wall and still not break his nose or knock out his teeth. Aesthetically-placed bruises and scuffs, and rivers of blood flowing from a head injury hidden somewhere under their giant manes of hair? Sure. A black eye? Good heavens, none of that! | |
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Cut Short | |
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Cut Short: The series was dropped after the Hades arc (with the final chapter being printed in V-Jump instead of Weekly Shonen Jump), despite plans for a "Heaven" arc with the other Olympians as the antagonists. After the Tenkai-Hen: Overture movie failed to make a splash, it was ignored and the story continued with Saint Seiya: Next Dimension. With dwindling ratings during and after the Asgard arc, the anime ended in 1989 after the Poseidon arc, leaving the Hades arc unadapted until a series of OVAs in the 2000s. | |
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Obi-Wan Moment | |
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Obi-Wan Moment: In Hades arc, Virgo Shaka elaborates on the ephemeral nature of life, and how death is only another step, as he is assassinated by three gold saints. Extra points for him staying in lotus position all the way through it, very much in a Buddha-like manner. It is later revealed that accepting death as a step and not a conclusion was needed for one to freely wander in the realm of Hades. | |
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