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20th Century Boys (Manga)
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20th Century Boys is a manga series created by Naoki Urasawa, the mastermind behind Monster. The manga was originally serialized from 1999 to 2006 in the seinen magazine Big Comic Spirits; it was followed by a sequel that serves as the epilogue, 21st Century Boys, which ran from January to July in 2007. The plot of the manga spans several decades, from the 1960s to the 21st century, and involves a large cast of characters and several plot twists along the way.It's the year 1997, and Kenji Endou's life is going to change forever. As a youth, Kenji harbored dreams of becoming a rock star; now, however, he's stuck working in his late father's convenience store (formerly liquor store). On top of that, his older sister has disappeared and has left Kenji to take care of her infant daughter.One day, Kenji learns that a childhood friend of his, nicknamed Donkey, has committed suicide by jumping off a roof. Shortly after the wake, Kenji receives a belated letter from Donkey, including a drawing of a strange yet familiar symbol and the question "Do you remember this symbol?" along with a request to get together some time.The letter convinces Kenji that Donkey's suicide was, in fact, a murder. In his efforts to unravel the mystery behind his old friend's death, Kenji learns of a man known only as Friend who is the founder of a very popular cult. A cult that uses the symbol shown in Donkey's letter, a symbol that was in fact used by Kenji and his friends back when they were kids.During their childhood, Kenji and his friends played a game in which they imagined the world being destroyed by a group of villains. Now, Kenji must gather his friends again, in order to prevent Friend, the man who took their symbol, from turning their childhood fantasies into a horrible reality.Adapted into a live-action film trilogy that is among the most expensive Japanese film projects in history. The films are very faithful to the manga (until the end, at least), which has inevitably led to criticism that they're impossible to follow if you haven't read it, due to time constraints forcing some important characters into smaller roles. Rather surprisingly, an Animated Adaptation of the series was never planned. The manga is licensed for English release by Viz Media and is currently available in 2-in-1 "Perfect Edition" omnibuses.This manga has nothing to do with the song of the group T.Rex. | |
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Card-Carrying Villain | |
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Card-Carrying Villain: Moroboshi's killer. There's even a scene of him comparing himself to various old anime villains. He looks like Johann and as a high schooler wanted to have a Worthy Opponent in Kenji, who was "a good guy". It turns out that killing Moroboshi was the only truly villainous thing he did, though, and all the other "evil deeds" he went on to do were just menial tasks Friend ordered him to carry out, leaving him feeling like he'd failed. | |
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You Can't Thwart Stage One | |
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Where It All Began | |
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Where It All Began | |
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Ripped from the Headlines | |
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Ripped from the Headlines: The Friend cult's aesthetic and actions in the first half of the story mirrors real life Japanese doomsday cult Aum Shinrikyo. | |
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Title Drop | |
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Title Drop: The second Friend drops it as a hint of his identity. Plus the title is based off of the T-Rex song "20th Century Boy", which is played a couple of times over the course of the manga. And it is, as the final reveal shows us, very important to the plot. | |
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Super-Fun Happy Thing of Doom | |
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The Blank | |
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The Blank: Friend occasionally appears like this after the mask is taken off. Justified as it's only in a virtual reality program. A reveal showed that Fukubei began to see himself as one from time to time when he was a child. | |
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Genre Deconstruction | |
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Genre Deconstruction: The entire scene involving Shikishima and Friend's followers consisted mainly of the former explaining to the latter how the Humongous Mecha seen in anime (when the group was arguing over building one in that style) could never possibly function in real life. | |
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Our Hero Is Dead | |
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Our Hero Is Dead: Throughout the entire middle part of the series. | |
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Bland-Name Product | |
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The holographic Bland-Name Product version of Street Fighter. | |
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Gratuitous English | |
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Gratuitous English: Crops up a few times in the story itself but most notable in the pre-volume title pages. For example: "Kyoko met Kenji of his boyhood, and saw something she should never seen ... it was the face of the "Friend"!! Who will survive the world of indistinguishable of friend and foe to the last!?" | |
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Deadly Euphemism | |
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Deadly Euphemism: Members of the Friend cult always say someone is "banished" (the word in Japanese can also refer to when you stop being someone's friend). "Rejected" in the Viz translation. | |
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We Are Everywhere | |
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We Are Everywhere | |
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Self-Fulfilling Prophecy | |
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Self-Fulfilling Prophecy: The only reason the events in the Book of Prophecy are happening is because Friend is making them happen. | |
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Super Window Jump | |
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Super Window Jump: Otcho does a great one (through a stained glass window, no less) when he tries to save Kanna from being assassinated | |
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Scare Dare | |
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Scare Dare: School after dark. It was just their classmates. And a boy they thought was dead and whom Donkey mistook for a ghost. | |
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Your Princess Is in Another Castle! | |
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Your Princess Is in Another Castle!: It initially seems like the series is going to end when the heroes try to stop Friend from destroying Tokyo on Bloody New Year's Eve with a giant robot. However, as you can probably tell from the chapter count, that it is most definitely not the end. It turns out that Friend was just using the (fake) robot so that he could destroy it himself and play the part of the hero, whilst framing Kenji and his friends for all the chaos and destruction. Suddenly, the story jumps forward 15 years and Friend is now head of an oppressive Japan, and all our heroes are either scattered, in prison, or presumed dead. Oh, Crap!. | |
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La Résistance | |
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La Résistance: Kenji and his friends, later called the Kenji Faction, determined to oppose Friend's iron-grip control at all costs. | |
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Death Is Cheap | |
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Death Is Cheap: Friend/Fukubei appears to die numerous times throughout the story, but keeps coming back. However, one time it was real. | |
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Defector from Decadence | |
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Defector from Decadence: Many major supporters of the first Friend decide to betray the second one and help the protagonists. Not so much because they realized that they're wrong but because they truly believed in the real Friend and not an impostor. | |
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Team Power Walk | |
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Team Power Walk: Kenji and co. do one in a manner most badass when they head off to take down Friend's mecha. In fact, the image of them silhoutted against the robot's eyes is one of the most iconic ones in the series, leading to it being duplicated almost perfectly in the movie adaptation. | |
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Psychopathic Manchild | |
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Psychopathic Manchild: Many of Friend's followers come off as this. The scene where they're arguing over how to build their Humongous Mecha and then later when they're laughing hysterically and cracking jokes about the carnage it causes demonstrate it best. Friend himself shows shades of this as well. Enacting a doomsday scenario dreamt up by grade-schoolers to show up one of the kids who made said doomsday scenario certainly doesn't help his case. | |
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Cast of Snowflakes | |
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Shut Up, Hannibal! | |
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Shut Up, Hannibal!: Kenji does an epic one of these to Moroboshi's killer late in the story, where he calmly makes him completely breakdown when he exposes his Card-Carrying Villain persona as being merely a facade. What makes it more epic is the fact that he's facing down the barrel of a gun the whole time he does it. | |
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Stylistic Suck | |
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Stylistic Suck: Kenji really doesn't enjoy the 169th Friends Concert, even apart from the need to keep an eye out for the Big Bad. AI ROCK YUU!!! | |
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No Hugging, No Kissing | |
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No Hugging, No Kissing: The closest that Kanna ever gets to a romance is blushing in the last chapter while interacting with Chouno. Likewise Kenji's relationship with Yukiji has never gone anywhere and despite their communication at the end doesn't seem to be going anywhere yet, either. To be fair, it's probably hard to think of romance with all the saving-the-world shit going on. Actually seems to be Urasawa's trait to not show romantic scenes on-screen. | |
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Virtual Ghost | |
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Virtual Ghost: Manjoume in the epilogue. | |
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Misfit Mobilization Moment | |
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Misfit Mobilization Moment: When Kenji and his True Companions prepare to try and take down Friend's huge mech, which is currently smashing it's way through Tokyo. | |
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Wham Line | |
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Wham Line: In Chapter 203, Manjoume hears Friend, up to this point assumed to be a resurrected Fukubei, mutter something to himself that upends the entire series: | |
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The Atoner | |
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The Atoner: While Kenji and his original group of friends' goal to stop Friend from destroying humanity are to redeem their mistake for creating Friend in the first place, other characters usually have their own past mistakes that they wish to atone for as well. | |
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Disproportionate Retribution | |
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Disproportionate Retribution: At the very end of the series, we finally find out that the reason why the impostor Friend was trying to destroy the world and it all started when they were children, and Kenji stole a plastic toy badge from a local store and let him take the blame for it. Don't forget The first Friend. The reason that he became Friend in the first place was to get back at Kenji and his friends for showing him up when he was a child. Arguably, Friend was also a victim of this. To have the rest of the kids in his neighborhood treat him like a dead man, to the point that they can't remember that he didn't actually die, over stealing a cheap plastic toy? That's cold. | |
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Pensieve Flashback | |
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Pensieve Flashback: The Bonus Stage is effectively one of these, though it's not Intangible Time Travel as people can interact with the people and objects, effecting things apparently until the program is "restarted". | |
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Bookends | |
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Book Ends: The first and last chapter of the series both show the scene where Kenji puts "20th Century Boy" on the PA, although in the last chapter you see it from a different point of view. Not quite the last chapter, but at the start of the series, there's an enigmatic scene with a girl waking up and looking out her window and seeing a giant robot staring at her. In the penultimate chapter before 21st Century Boys, that scene is finally given context. Another rather notable example is the beginning of the story, where a group of people is congratulated in the United Nations Secretariat Building for their roles in saving humanity during Bloody New Year's Eve, before it is revealed that they are Friend's high-ranking followers from the Friendship Party who takes up credit for it. At the end of the series, Kenji's friends finally being credited for saving humanity for real from the second Friend's plan to destroy humanity, with Yoshitsune giving a speech. | |
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Masquerading As the Unseen | |
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Masquerading As the Unseen: This is what allows the Second Friend to get away with his impersonation. Compared to the First Friend (Fukubei) who is craving attention so much to fulfill his own pettiness, the Second Friend doesn't even bother with attention as long as he gets to eradicate humanity. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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20th Century Boys (Manga) / int_53f261f | |
| 20th Century Boys (Manga) / int_56434ecd | type |
Music for Courage | |
| 20th Century Boys (Manga) / int_56434ecd | comment |
Music for Courage: This happens pretty much every time Kenji plays his song in the final arc. Every time it does happen is extremely awesome, though. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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20th Century Boys (Manga) / int_56434ecd | |
| 20th Century Boys (Manga) / int_5a36f8bc | type |
Not His Sled | |
| 20th Century Boys (Manga) / int_5a36f8bc | comment |
Not His Sled: The third film actually made a major selling point out of having a different ending from the manga. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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20th Century Boys (Manga) / int_5a36f8bc | |
| 20th Century Boys (Manga) / int_5a3b8032 | type |
The Un-Reveal | |
| 20th Century Boys (Manga) / int_5a3b8032 | comment |
The Unreveal: About a dozen characters get to see Friend's real face before the readers ever do. Neither the readers nor the characters ever see the second Friend's real face at all. They find out his name, though. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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20th Century Boys (Manga) / int_5a3b8032 | |
| 20th Century Boys (Manga) / int_5a94cbf6 | type |
Fake Assassination | |
| 20th Century Boys (Manga) / int_5a94cbf6 | comment |
Fake Assassination: An important part of the second part of the manga is Friend's plot to assassinate the Pope; though the Pope wasn't in on it, Friend (who is assumed to be dead by the entire world) wants to use it as an opportunity to "come back from the dead" to save him and be hailed as The Messiah. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| 20th Century Boys (Manga) | hasFeature |
20th Century Boys (Manga) / int_5a94cbf6 | |
| 20th Century Boys (Manga) / int_5ce7dbb9 | type |
Central Theme | |
| 20th Century Boys (Manga) / int_5ce7dbb9 | comment |
Central Theme: Childhood fantasies should stay as just that. Or, even more arguably, "Justice never dies." (To quote Kenji himself.) | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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20th Century Boys (Manga) / int_5ce7dbb9 | |
| 20th Century Boys (Manga) / int_5da3f522 | type |
Big Brother Is Watching | |
| 20th Century Boys (Manga) / int_5da3f522 | comment |
Big Brother Is Watching: Oh yes. Don't trust anyone, because they probably work for Friend. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| 20th Century Boys (Manga) | hasFeature |
20th Century Boys (Manga) / int_5da3f522 | |
| 20th Century Boys (Manga) / int_5fcb9ad1 | type |
Time Skip | |
| 20th Century Boys (Manga) / int_5fcb9ad1 | comment |
The Kenji Faction marches off to the big climactic showdown with Friend. Cue a 15 year Time Skip. Friend won, and now rules the world while Kenji and friends are regarded as history's greatest villains. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| 20th Century Boys (Manga) | hasFeature |
20th Century Boys (Manga) / int_5fcb9ad1 | |
| 20th Century Boys (Manga) / int_60492b98 | type |
Have You Told Anyone Else? | |
| 20th Century Boys (Manga) / int_60492b98 | comment |
Have You Told Anyone Else?: Several times - characters confess their suspicions to a family member, friend, or authority figure, who inevitably turns out to be in league with Friend. | |
| 20th Century Boys (Manga) / int_60492b98 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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20th Century Boys (Manga) / int_60492b98 | |
| 20th Century Boys (Manga) / int_60b21fa3 | type |
The Lancer | |
| 20th Century Boys (Manga) / int_60b21fa3 | comment |
The Lancer: For Otcho, both in his childhood and as an adult in the Kenji Faction. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| 20th Century Boys (Manga) | hasFeature |
20th Century Boys (Manga) / int_60b21fa3 | |
| 20th Century Boys (Manga) / int_65d658f | type |
Putting the Band Back Together | |
| 20th Century Boys (Manga) / int_65d658f | comment |
Putting the Band Back Together | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| 20th Century Boys (Manga) | hasFeature |
20th Century Boys (Manga) / int_65d658f | |
| 20th Century Boys (Manga) / int_660d1f3e | type |
Amusement Park of Doom | |
| 20th Century Boys (Manga) / int_660d1f3e | comment |
Amusement Park of Doom: Friend Land. What happens there supposedly pales compared to Friend World, but the audience never sees the latter. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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20th Century Boys (Manga) / int_660d1f3e | |
| 20th Century Boys (Manga) / int_67d0342c | type |
Breaking the Fellowship | |
| 20th Century Boys (Manga) / int_67d0342c | comment |
Breaking the Fellowship: After the first major Time Skip / Wham Episode. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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20th Century Boys (Manga) / int_67d0342c | |
| 20th Century Boys (Manga) / int_6a6c1f35 | type |
The Power of Rock | |
| 20th Century Boys (Manga) / int_6a6c1f35 | comment |
The Power of Rock: Plays a massive part in the final third of the series. 'GUUUTAALAAAAALAA SUUUUDAALAAALAAAAA!' | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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20th Century Boys (Manga) / int_6a6c1f35 | |
| 20th Century Boys (Manga) / int_6b2b3b59 | type |
The Reveal | |
| 20th Century Boys (Manga) / int_6b2b3b59 | comment |
The Reveal: Friend's identity, the second Friend's identity, what Donkey saw in the lab room, and plenty more. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| 20th Century Boys (Manga) | hasFeature |
20th Century Boys (Manga) / int_6b2b3b59 | |
| 20th Century Boys (Manga) / int_6e514f2 | type |
Moment of Awesome / Sugar Wiki | |
| 20th Century Boys (Manga) / int_6e514f2 | comment |
Also doubles as a Moment of Awesome. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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20th Century Boys (Manga) / int_6e514f2 | |
| 20th Century Boys (Manga) / int_715704e5 | type |
Jigsaw Puzzle Plot | |
| 20th Century Boys (Manga) / int_715704e5 | comment |
Jigsaw Puzzle Plot: When the story alternates between about three or four time periods, includes the liberal use of flashbacks and flashforwards, has a few timeskips, and is told in only rough chronological order, you know you've got one of these. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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20th Century Boys (Manga) / int_715704e5 | |
| 20th Century Boys (Manga) / int_7c9158c6 | type |
Anti-Anti-Christ | |
| 20th Century Boys (Manga) / int_7c9158c6 | comment |
Anti-Anti-Christ: Kanna is Friend's daughter. The "Devil's Daughter". | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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20th Century Boys (Manga) / int_7c9158c6 | |
| 20th Century Boys (Manga) / int_7cc8c8c4 | type |
Villain World | |
| 20th Century Boys (Manga) / int_7cc8c8c4 | comment |
Villain World: After the first arc. Gets much worse after the second. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| 20th Century Boys (Manga) | hasFeature |
20th Century Boys (Manga) / int_7cc8c8c4 | |
| 20th Century Boys (Manga) / int_80251be3 | type |
How We Got Here | |
| 20th Century Boys (Manga) / int_80251be3 | comment |
How We Got Here: The first chapter includes a scene during a UN summit in the 21st Century where several people are introduced as having saved humanity. Subverted in that it happens twice during the course of the story, once about a third of the way through and once again towards the end. Also since both times are similar it is hard to tell which one is the one being shown in the first chapter. | |
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-0.3 | |
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1.0 | |
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20th Century Boys (Manga) / int_80251be3 | |
| 20th Century Boys (Manga) / int_8151ec48 | type |
Driving Question | |
| 20th Century Boys (Manga) / int_8151ec48 | comment |
Driving Question: Friend's identity. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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20th Century Boys (Manga) / int_8151ec48 | |
| 20th Century Boys (Manga) / int_81bdc398 | type |
He's Back! | |
| 20th Century Boys (Manga) / int_81bdc398 | comment |
He's Back!: Kenji, and with about ten levels in Badass too. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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20th Century Boys (Manga) / int_81bdc398 | |
| 20th Century Boys (Manga) / int_83a903f6 | type |
Stepford Smiler | |
| 20th Century Boys (Manga) / int_83a903f6 | comment |
Stepford Smiler: Near the end of the manga, it's revealed that many of the Friends have pretty much turned into this, having to keep a sunny disposition at all times for fear of rejection. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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20th Century Boys (Manga) / int_83a903f6 | |
| 20th Century Boys (Manga) / int_8411ab92 | type |
Red Oni, Blue Oni | |
| 20th Century Boys (Manga) / int_8411ab92 | comment |
Red Oni, Blue Oni: Kyoko and Kanna. One often acts on impulse rather than deliberation, partaking in the anti-Friend movement almost entirely by mistake. The latter can keep calm during very stressful situations and generally does not show much emotion unless someone makes her really upset. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| 20th Century Boys (Manga) | hasFeature |
20th Century Boys (Manga) / int_8411ab92 | |
| 20th Century Boys (Manga) / int_863fa679 | type |
What Happened to the Mouse? | |
| 20th Century Boys (Manga) / int_863fa679 | comment |
What Happened to the Mouse?: The series's "no name wasted" policy made the fact that Maruo's son never came back from his bus ride quite bewildering...or sad...really sad. | |
| 20th Century Boys (Manga) / int_863fa679 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| 20th Century Boys (Manga) | hasFeature |
20th Century Boys (Manga) / int_863fa679 | |
| 20th Century Boys (Manga) / int_8658cd14 | type |
Agent Scully | |
| 20th Century Boys (Manga) / int_8658cd14 | comment |
Agent Scully: As a child, Donkey firmly believes in science over superstition. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| 20th Century Boys (Manga) | hasFeature |
20th Century Boys (Manga) / int_8658cd14 | |
| 20th Century Boys (Manga) / int_874176be | type |
Psychic Powers | |
| 20th Century Boys (Manga) / int_874176be | comment |
Psychic Powers | |
| 20th Century Boys (Manga) / int_874176be | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| 20th Century Boys (Manga) | hasFeature |
20th Century Boys (Manga) / int_874176be | |
| 20th Century Boys (Manga) / int_89b8822f | type |
Go Mad from the Revelation | |
| 20th Century Boys (Manga) / int_89b8822f | comment |
Go Mad from the Revelation: The reaction to the bonus stage at Friend Land, specifically the boy in the mask having a grown man's head. Kyoko only managed to see it and not kill herself because her memory was damaged from being removed and only gradually returned. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| 20th Century Boys (Manga) | hasFeature |
20th Century Boys (Manga) / int_89b8822f | |
| 20th Century Boys (Manga) / int_8ad43dc9 | type |
Ragtag Bunch of Misfits | |
| 20th Century Boys (Manga) / int_8ad43dc9 | comment |
Ragtag Bunch of Misfits | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| 20th Century Boys (Manga) | hasFeature |
20th Century Boys (Manga) / int_8ad43dc9 | |
| 20th Century Boys (Manga) / int_8bd16732 | type |
The Law of Conservation of Detail | |
| 20th Century Boys (Manga) / int_8bd16732 | comment |
The Law of Conservation of Detail: Of all the people, places, and things in the series, Maruo's son is perhaps the only one that doesn't gain significance later on. | |
| 20th Century Boys (Manga) / int_8bd16732 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| 20th Century Boys (Manga) | hasFeature |
20th Century Boys (Manga) / int_8bd16732 | |
| 20th Century Boys (Manga) / int_8e20979 | type |
Wham Episode | |
| 20th Century Boys (Manga) / int_8e20979 | comment |
Wham Episode: There are quite a few throughout the series. Most notably is when Friend is both killed and unmasked, halfway through the series. The chapters surrounding the 2015 World Expo (which depicts the Second Friend's rise to power and Kenji's return also qualify. The final twenty or so chapters are just full of nonstop wham. To be expected with the Grand Finale, really. The Kenji Faction marches off to the big climactic showdown with Friend. Cue a 15 year Time Skip. Friend won, and now rules the world while Kenji and friends are regarded as history's greatest villains. | |
| 20th Century Boys (Manga) / int_8e20979 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| 20th Century Boys (Manga) | hasFeature |
20th Century Boys (Manga) / int_8e20979 | |
| 20th Century Boys (Manga) / int_91e894b4 | type |
Apocalypse How | |
| 20th Century Boys (Manga) / int_91e894b4 | comment |
Apocalypse How: Deconstructed and Reconstructed. At first, the heroes want to stop the Big Bad from doing a Planetary Total Extinction. Turns out it was only a Local Area Societal Disruption, designed to frame the heroes for it and make the Big Bad more powerful. 15 years later, the Big Bad pulls a real Planetary Societal Collapse, kills about 45% of humanity, and conquers the world. And 3 more years later, he tries to do a Planetary Total Extinction, only to be finally stopped by the main character. But it doesn't end here: after the Big Bad's death, one of his followers tries to complete his original master plan and pull off a Planetary Physical Annihilation, but is also stopped by the heroes. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| 20th Century Boys (Manga) | hasFeature |
20th Century Boys (Manga) / int_91e894b4 | |
| 20th Century Boys (Manga) / int_99c36bb5 | type |
Ironic Nursery Tune | |
| 20th Century Boys (Manga) / int_99c36bb5 | comment |
Ironic Nursery Tune: From the first time Kenji sees Friend in the video. You can hear it in all its glory in the movie trailer. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| 20th Century Boys (Manga) | hasFeature |
20th Century Boys (Manga) / int_99c36bb5 | |
| 20th Century Boys (Manga) / int_99dfd4fc | type |
Nothing Is the Same Anymore | |
| 20th Century Boys (Manga) / int_99dfd4fc | comment |
Nothing Is the Same Anymore: After the series's first major Time Skip, where things are suddenly set 15 years later in a Japan ruled by Friend. See Your Princess Is in Another Castle! below. | |
| 20th Century Boys (Manga) / int_99dfd4fc | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| 20th Century Boys (Manga) | hasFeature |
20th Century Boys (Manga) / int_99dfd4fc | |
| 20th Century Boys (Manga) / int_9bcd82c0 | type |
Took a Level in Badass | |
| 20th Century Boys (Manga) / int_9bcd82c0 | comment |
Took a Level in Badass: Most of the protagonists, with Yoshitsune being perhaps the most striking example. Don't you mean Kenji? Don't forget Kanna. From taking her first steps to walking into the crossfire of a gang war. Otcho too. From salaryman to freelance ninja/hitman in a couple of years. | |
| 20th Century Boys (Manga) / int_9bcd82c0 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| 20th Century Boys (Manga) / int_9bcd82c0 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| 20th Century Boys (Manga) | hasFeature |
20th Century Boys (Manga) / int_9bcd82c0 | |
| 20th Century Boys (Manga) / int_9ce6492a | type |
Taking the Bullet | |
| 20th Century Boys (Manga) / int_9ce6492a | comment |
Taking the Bullet: The second Friend does this to save the Pope, making his "resurrection" all the more dramatic and ensures his status as the living God among humanity. | |
| 20th Century Boys (Manga) / int_9ce6492a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| 20th Century Boys (Manga) | hasFeature |
20th Century Boys (Manga) / int_9ce6492a | |
| 20th Century Boys (Manga) / int_9e0c3153 | type |
Punctuated! For! Emphasis! | |
| 20th Century Boys (Manga) / int_9e0c3153 | comment |
Punctuated! For! Emphasis!: "I said, I'm singing a song. And when someone's singing a song, YOU. DON'T. SHOOT THEM." Also doubles as a Moment of Awesome. | |
| 20th Century Boys (Manga) / int_9e0c3153 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| 20th Century Boys (Manga) | hasFeature |
20th Century Boys (Manga) / int_9e0c3153 | |
| 20th Century Boys (Manga) / int_9f67990b | type |
Sequential Artist | |
| 20th Century Boys (Manga) / int_9f67990b | comment |
Sequential Artist: Quite a few characters. | |
| 20th Century Boys (Manga) / int_9f67990b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| 20th Century Boys (Manga) / int_9f67990b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| 20th Century Boys (Manga) | hasFeature |
20th Century Boys (Manga) / int_9f67990b | |
| 20th Century Boys (Manga) / int_a0c7f4e9 | type |
Abandoned Hospital | |
| 20th Century Boys (Manga) / int_a0c7f4e9 | comment |
Abandoned Hospital: Kanna finds out some information about her mother in one. It isn't really a creepy one, though. But the content of the information that she managed to find... | |
| 20th Century Boys (Manga) / int_a0c7f4e9 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| 20th Century Boys (Manga) / int_a0c7f4e9 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| 20th Century Boys (Manga) | hasFeature |
20th Century Boys (Manga) / int_a0c7f4e9 | |
| 20th Century Boys (Manga) / int_a2dd3c5 | type |
My Death Is Just the Beginning | |
| 20th Century Boys (Manga) / int_a2dd3c5 | comment |
My Death Is Just the Beginning: Friend had a successor lined up in the event of his death. | |
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1.0 | |
| 20th Century Boys (Manga) / int_a2dd3c5 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| 20th Century Boys (Manga) | hasFeature |
20th Century Boys (Manga) / int_a2dd3c5 | |
| 20th Century Boys (Manga) / int_a3a6fdb2 | type |
Room 101 | |
| 20th Century Boys (Manga) / int_a3a6fdb2 | comment |
Room 101: Friend Land is halfway to this trope, and Friend World is all the way there. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| 20th Century Boys (Manga) | hasFeature |
20th Century Boys (Manga) / int_a3a6fdb2 | |
| 20th Century Boys (Manga) / int_a7850fbf | type |
Only Known by Their Nickname | |
| 20th Century Boys (Manga) / int_a7850fbf | comment |
Only Known by Their Nickname "God", later revealed to have the name of Kaminaga Kyuutarou, aka "Kami-sama" (God). Friend, for that matter. | |
| 20th Century Boys (Manga) / int_a7850fbf | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| 20th Century Boys (Manga) / int_a7850fbf | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| 20th Century Boys (Manga) | hasFeature |
20th Century Boys (Manga) / int_a7850fbf | |
| 20th Century Boys (Manga) / int_aaece264 | type |
Rousing Speech | |
| 20th Century Boys (Manga) / int_aaece264 | comment |
Rousing Speech: Yoshitsune attempts one in the second arc. | |
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Near-Villain Victory | |
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Near-Villain Victory | |
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Apocalyptic Log | |
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Apocalyptic Log: Kanna finds a note her mother wrote in an abandoned hospital, referring to her involvement in creating the virus: "I am Godzilla, I crushed 300,000 under my feet". | |
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Opt Out | |
| 20th Century Boys (Manga) / int_ada439c0 | comment |
Opt Out: Keroyon doesn't show up at all for the Bloody New Years' Eve. Years later, he regrets this fact and Jumps at the Call when he stumbles onto leads to Kiriko. | |
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Older and Wiser | |
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Older and Wiser: Due to the large timeskips in the series, most of the original protagonists become this eventually. Otcho and a few others become this after the first timeskip, and the rest, especially Kenji become this after the second. This usually comes hand in hand with them taking a level in badass. | |
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Loners Are Freaks | |
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Loners Are Freaks: Masao and Friend, both to extreme extents. Subverted with Sadakiyo but just barely; he's ultimately revealed to be on the good side but still a bit ill-adjusted and rather creepy. | |
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RetCon | |
| 20th Century Boys (Manga) / int_b2279346 | comment |
Retcon: After Friend dons the iconic "eye-symbol" mask, the old "Hattori" mask is replaced with the new mask in flashbacks. | |
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Evil Overlord | |
| 20th Century Boys (Manga) / int_b8dde2 | comment |
Friend himself is a thorough deconstruction of the Evil Overlord character archetype. Flashbacks reveal the first man behind the mask believed himself a special person since childhood and, once shown up by his schoolmates, decided to prove them dead wrong. He does so at first by exploiting other people's need for a savior/messiah to make himself one, then frames the real heroes for his nefarious plans - the plague-spreading mecha - to take over Japan; and finally frames himself as a hero by "coming back from the dead" and "saving" the Pope, thus assuming enough power to become President of the world. And none of it would have happened had he not also used his underlings' desires and wishes to keep them loyal to him almost to the bitter end. | |
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The Alcatraz | |
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The Alcatraz: Umihotaru Prison. | |
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Maybe Ever After | |
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Maybe Ever After: In the grand finale, Kanna and Chou are seen traveling together in Africa, but there is absolutely zero indication of their relationship beyond good friends. Kenji and Yukiji, at least, get more hinting, with Kenji saying to her he'll 'propose properly this time,' but leaves it at that. | |
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Storming the Castle | |
| 20th Century Boys (Manga) / int_b9f472b | comment |
Storming the Castle: Happens three times in the final arc: firstly when Kenji and co storm the 'castle' of Moroboshi's killer and twice when the resistance storm Friend's tower. The second time is much easier for them seeing as how all the guards have lost their morale. | |
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Compressed Adaptation | |
| 20th Century Boys (Manga) / int_bdc94cd9 | comment |
Compressed Adaptation: The second and third films, due to their having to cover far more chapters of the manga than the first. | |
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Big "NO!" | |
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Big "NO!": Kanna, when she finds out her tape player is broken after also finding out that Friend is her father. | |
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True Companions | |
| 20th Century Boys (Manga) / int_c313d43a | comment |
True Companions: There's only one reason for full-grown level-headed adults to literally put their lives aside and travel back to their hometown, from as far away as Germany in one case, just because of one cryptic note saying 'let's take this symbol back.' In Otcho's case, knowing it was Kenji did it for him.) | |
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Hope Spot | |
| 20th Century Boys (Manga) / int_c3c18143 | comment |
Hope Spot: The first two arcs are really two long Hope Spots, all with their own painful conclusions. | |
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Tokyo Is the Center of the Universe | |
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Tokyo Is the Center of the Universe: Young Kenji and his friends write a story about supervillains conquering the world. "So what's gonna get hit first?" "Tokyo?" "That's last. The important stuff has to happen in Japan, so if they start here, it'll be all over already." Much later, the story starts coming true, which horrifies everyone. | |
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Shout-Out | |
| 20th Century Boys (Manga) / int_c75df49a | comment |
Shout-Out: Yoshitsune said 'seven of us is enough", but Kenji disagreed. Ochanomizu Engineering. When Chouno and Kenji meet Ichi The Spade, Ichi gives Chouno a disguise so he won't be recognizable: a ankle-length poncho and a wide-rimmed hat. Kenji even lampshades it, saying "It's Three Nines." There's countless direct references to other classic manga: Astro Boy, Phoenix, Gundam, Tetsujin 28, and Super Jetter. When Kenji comes back, he temporarily uses the nickname of Yabuki Joe. There's even some Thunderbirds toys in the 'Friend Museum'. The title itself! "20th Century Boy" is a song by T. Rex, which has been covered by at least one very iconic Japanese rock band. The crossdressing prostitutes comment that Chouno's dancing looks more like judo, a reference to Urasawa's previous work Yawara! A Fashionable Judo Girl, where the protagonist's judo was said to look more like dancing. The holographic Bland-Name Product version of Street Fighter. The Global Defense Force, from their uniform to their weapons to their anti-alien mission, are an homage to the Science Patrol. | |
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Luke, I Am Your Father | |
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Luke, I Am Your Father: Friend is one of Kenji's classmates, and also Kanna is Friend's daughter. | |
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No Name Given | |
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No Name Given: Moroboshi's killer. | |
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Taking You with Me | |
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Taking You with Me: Maruo comes very, very close to doing this with Friend and a bomb. But remembering Kenji's words about not hurting innocents convinces him not go through at the very last minute. | |
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I Just Want to Be Special | |
| 20th Century Boys (Manga) / int_cb83d23b | comment |
I Just Want to Be Special: This drove Fukubei to create the cult of Friend. | |
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Killed Off for Real | |
| 20th Century Boys (Manga) / int_cda501da | comment |
Killed Off for Real: Plenty of people, including both Friends. Halfway through the series. | |
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Never Suicide | |
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Never Suicide | |
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Badass Longcoat | |
| 20th Century Boys (Manga) / int_d01cffbc | comment |
Badass Longcoat: Otcho after Taking a Level in Badass. | |
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Mundane Made Awesome | |
| 20th Century Boys (Manga) / int_d148b019 | comment |
Mundane Made Awesome: Moving a mouse 5 pixels to left and pushing the left button has never been as awesome as in the second live-action film. | |
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Square-Cube Law | |
| 20th Century Boys (Manga) / int_d4055b8b | comment |
Square-Cube Law: Specifically mentioned by Shikishima as the reason Friend's Humongous Mecha can't work the way he desires it to. Then ignored as Shikishima went on to actually create a working version of the robot years later. | |
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Written by the Winners | |
| 20th Century Boys (Manga) / int_d41832cc | comment |
Written by the Winners: One of Friend's favorite tactics. It pays to be a Villain with Good Publicity when the world believes you saved the world from those Ragtag Bunch of Misfits. | |
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Refuge in Audacity | |
| 20th Century Boys (Manga) / int_d45c0b86 | comment |
Refuge in Audacity: Friend basically uses this trope to take over the world, with terrifyingly effective results. | |
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Twin Banter | |
| 20th Century Boys (Manga) / int_d614b25f | comment |
Twin Banter: Yanbo and Mabo. | |
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The End of the World as We Know It | |
| 20th Century Boys (Manga) / int_d71d51fd | comment |
The End of the World as We Know It | |
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Unusually Uninteresting Sight | |
| 20th Century Boys (Manga) / int_d99a228f | comment |
Unusually Uninteresting Sight: Nobody really seems to care all that much about gas mask-wearing businessmen carrying suspicious briefcases, especially in the middle of a worldwide outbreak of a mysterious deadly virus. | |
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Ear Worm | |
| 20th Century Boys (Manga) / int_dc335a04 | comment |
Ear Worm: Kenji's song, Bob Lennon. It plays a very important role in the plot as the story goes on, especially the 'Gutalala Sudalala' version, which even the characters comment on as being an ear worm. | |
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Drugs Are Bad | |
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Drugs Are Bad: During her Heroic BSoD, Kanna is offered some "Love and Peace", only for flashback!Kenji reminding her that he didn't need drugs to be a great musician. | |
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Decon-Recon Switch | |
| 20th Century Boys (Manga) / int_e0113647 | comment |
Decon-Recon Switch: A pretty thorough one of pretty much every cliche from kids' comics. Friend himself is a thorough deconstruction of the Evil Overlord character archetype. Flashbacks reveal the first man behind the mask believed himself a special person since childhood and, once shown up by his schoolmates, decided to prove them dead wrong. He does so at first by exploiting other people's need for a savior/messiah to make himself one, then frames the real heroes for his nefarious plans - the plague-spreading mecha - to take over Japan; and finally frames himself as a hero by "coming back from the dead" and "saving" the Pope, thus assuming enough power to become President of the world. And none of it would have happened had he not also used his underlings' desires and wishes to keep them loyal to him almost to the bitter end. | |
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Calling the Old Man Out | |
| 20th Century Boys (Manga) / int_e52a0409 | comment |
Calling the Old Man Out: Kanna manages a pretty good one against Friend late in the series. Subverted in that her father is dead by this point, and the man behind Friend's mask is an impostor. | |
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-0.3 | |
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Cult | |
| 20th Century Boys (Manga) / int_e5411cdf | comment |
Cult: Friend builds one up around himself that gradually grows in both size and intensity, up to the point he pretty much takes over the world. | |
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Faux Symbolism | |
| 20th Century Boys (Manga) / int_e63f5f28 | comment |
Faux Symbolism: An in-universe example is revealed with Otcho's explanation of how he came up with the symbol that later became the Friend group's: he took the "continue on the next page" marker and drew an eye over it. | |
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Humongous Mecha | |
| 20th Century Boys (Manga) / int_e6f18344 | comment |
Humongous Mecha: Subverted in chapter 41. In the slightly exaggerated words of one hostage robotics expert: "Robots do not work that way!" So, what does he mean by that? The robot itself doesn't even move with two legs, but propelled by continuous tracks (much like in tanks) in order to be able to actually move. Combine that with the ensuing panic during Bloody New Year's Eve, nobody at the time bothers to identify the actual mechanism of the "robot" itself. Nonetheless, the two robots he ends up making play a huge role throughout the story. | |
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Big Damn Heroes | |
| 20th Century Boys (Manga) / int_eb81c601 | comment |
Big Damn Heroes: Several, but a notable one has Otcho breaking through an overhead glass window at a church to protect Kanna from the policeman with the mole. Sadakiyo of all people, pulls one of these at the end by putting a knife to Friend's throat and stopping him killing everyone at the expo grounds. "I'm a good guy" indeed!. | |
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Flash Forward | |
| 20th Century Boys (Manga) / int_edf68f1a | comment |
Flash Forward: The first chapter has one with grown-up Kanna seeing Shikishima's new robot outside her apartment in 2018, which doesn't happen until the penultimate chapter, not counting the two volume epilogue. | |
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Boke and Tsukkomi Routine | |
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Boke and Tsukkomi Routine: Two of Friend's followers are a manzai comedy duo who spread Friend's blood-hemorrhaging biological weapon to Osaka. | |
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No Infantile Amnesia | |
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No Infantile Amnesia: Averted as a constant plot point throughout the story is the cast's imperfect memories of their childhood. Though played straight and Justified in Kanna's case. | |
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Heroic Self-Deprecation | |
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Heroic Self-Deprecation: At first it's just regular Self-Deprecation for Yoshitsune, but as time goes by and he reluctantly becomes leader of the heroes it turns into this. | |
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Redemption Equals Death | |
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Redemption Equals Death: Many characters trying to redeem themselves, especially the ones that once worked for Friend. | |
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Enemy Civil War | |
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Enemy Civil War: After the first Friend (Fukubei) is replaced, Manjoume starts planning a coup against the second Friend (Katsumata). Considering that Katsumata doesn't wish to follow Fukubei's original plans on humanity (enacting a dystopian control over the society), Manjoume realizes that anyone apart from Katsumata will be decimated. After Friend publicly admits his atrocities, most of his army rebels. | |
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Earn Your Happy Ending | |
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Earn Your Happy Ending: And how! So much bad stuff happens not just to main characters in this, but to pretty much the entire world which makes the final defeat of Friend all the more awesome. | |
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Darkest Hour | |
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Darkest Hour: Chapter 169: Friend is now hailed worldwide as a 'God', and has just released a new virus, killing three billion people by the year 2018. It would be even more depressing were it not for the epic He's Back! moment in the next chapter. | |
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Titled After the Song | |
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The title itself! "20th Century Boy" is a song by T. Rex, which has been covered by at least one very iconic Japanese rock band. | |
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Badass Preacher | |
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Badass Preacher: Several of the Catholic priests, such as Father Nitani, in the series used to be gang members and drug lords. They might work for Jesus now, but they can still hand you your ass. The Pope, when he was merely a priest, supported an entire bridge by himself, barehanded in a flooded river. | |
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