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Appleseed (Manga)
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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_3'); })Appleseed is a four volume Cyber Punk/Mecha manga written between 1985 and 1989 by Shirow Masamune, of Ghost in the Shell fame. It led to OVA and feature film adaptations. Set in post-apocalyptic 22nd century, the story follows the Action Girl Deunan Knute and her cyborg partner and lover Briareos Hecatonchires. The two join the special forces of the city of Olympus, an enclave of peaceful life on the planet devastated by the World War III (and recovering from World War IV), whose population consists equally of both normal humans and "bioroids", Artificial Humans with genetically suppressed aggressiveness who act as emotional buffer for the former.The original manga saw Deunan and Briareos join Olympus's counter-terrorism unit ESWAT after being discovered in the wastelands and offered a life in Utopian city in exchange for their combat skills (both were formerly SWAT operatives). The manga follows them as they protect their new home from enemies, both foreign and domestic. Unfortunately, other projects and the loss of much of his notes in a 1995 earthquake left the manga as an Orphaned Series.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_2'); })The one-shot OVAnote a co-production between Studio Gainax and AIC was produced in 1988 and has little in common with the original manga except the setting and the characters. The plot concerns a colleague of Deunan and Briareos, who feels that instead of Utopia, Olympus is a Gilded Cage designed to prevent humans from living a fulfilling life. To destroy this cage, he conspires with a professional terrorist and it's up to Deunan and Briareos to stop them.Sixteen years later, the first feature film was released, directed by Shinji Aramaki. Just like the OVA, it shares little with the original manga and diverges even in the premise: instead of joining ESWAT together, Deunan and Briareos are separated by accident long before coming to Olympus and have to regain mutual trust over the course of the film. The main plot centers on the struggle of two equally extremist racist factions in Olympus, each desiring to destroy either the original humanity, or the bioroids to make way for the other. The movie featured a unique for that time style of animation that seamlessly blended traditional anime designs and CGI and which was later reused in the sequel and an unrelated movie Vexille, produced largely by the same people.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_1'); })Appleseed Ex Machina, the Oddly Named Sequel to the 2004 movie, is set two years after it and sees the idyllic relationship between the protagonists challenged by the introduction of Tereus, a Super Prototype bioroid who is for all intents and purposes a clone of Briareos minus the fact that he didn't have his entire body replaced with cybernetic prosthetics. The situation is worsened when all cyborgs in Olympus (including Briareos) start getting hijacked by a Knight Templar seeking to unite humanity once and for all... in quite an unsettling manner. The producer of the second movie was John Woo. Yes, that John Woo.note Which explains the pigeons and the extreme akimbo.It also has a CGI anime series named Appleseed XIII. The series was produced in 2011 by Jinni's Animation Studios in association with Production I.G and under the direction of Takayuki Hamana with Junichi Fujisaku as script supervisor. All 13 episodes of Appleseed XIII can be seen on Funimation's official YouTube channel here. An English dub of the series was released on DVD and Blu-Ray in June 2013.A third CGI film titled Appleseed Alpha was released on July 15, 2014, directed once again by Shinji Aramaki. It is a Prequel film that focuses on Deunan and Briareos before they arrive in Olympus, as they are living in the ruins of New York City doing mercenary work for a local crime boss named Two Horns, until one day on a mission they encounter a Mysterious Waif and her cyborg bodyguard claiming to be on a mission for Olympus. This title holds the distinction of being the only entry in the series where the English audio came first; a Japanese dub was released on October 28, 2014.Not to be confused with Johnny Appleseed, or anything else named after the man.Has a character sheet in need of some wiki magic love. | |
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Motion-Capture Mecha | |
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Motion Capture Mecha: Landmates. | |
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Gatling Good | |
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Gatling Good: Very good. The giant siege platforms have at least four gatling guns the size of buses in addition to their Wave Motion Gun. The Movie has Deunan pursued by two tanks mounted with gatling guns. These tanks are lifted directly out of the manga's designs. The Appleseed Alpha movie demonstrates this again with the urban tank that chases Deunan & Briareos around the ruins of New York City, as well as the gatling guns mounted on the "Ostrich" mechs and the prototype giant spider tank. | |
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Trailers Always Spoil | |
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Trailers Always Spoil: Funimation's trailer for Appleseed XIII spoils who the big bad is, which itself is a huge Plot Twist. | |
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Cel Shading | |
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Cel Shading: The 2004 movie is entirely in CG with a blend of motion capture and cel shading. Both Ex Machina and XIII also utilize this method. | |
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Relationship Upgrade | |
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Relationship Upgrade: Inverted in XIII. While Deunan still has feelings for Briareos, Bri seems rather clueless as to how much she cares about him. | |
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Visionary Villain | |
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Visionary Villain: Talos in Alpha has a grand vision to rebuild the world and bring order to a shattered globe, though exactly how he plans to do that is a bit muddy. Said vision would also entail getting rid of undesirable elements such as Two Horns and his gang. His plan at least definitely has something to do with a superweapon from the pre-war period, specifically an Arachnoid-class land battleship that was under construction by the U.S. government that was halted when America lost the war. | |
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Death by Origin Story | |
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In the manga, Deunan explains that she was gunned down by some random racists in San Francisco, so her Death by Origin Story was changed as well. Deunan also said in the manga that she was a "Cafe Au Lait''. | |
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The High Queen | |
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The High Queen: Athena. | |
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Did You Think I Can't Feel? | |
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Did You Think I Can't Feel?: While the Bioroids do have emotional restrictions, it would be wrong to say they don't have any emotions at all, they're just more subdued. | |
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The Movie | |
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The Movie has Deunan pursued by two tanks mounted with gatling guns. These tanks are lifted directly out of the manga's designs. | |
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Artificial Human | |
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Artificial Human: Bioroids. | |
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Ominous Floating Castle | |
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Ominous Floating Castle: The Halcon base is a giant floating Borg-Cube-esque giant laboratory floating above an artificial island. | |
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Punch-Clock Villain | |
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Punch-Clock Villain: In "Alpha", while it is mentioned by multiple characters that the numerous nameless cyborg thugs working for Two Horns are criminals and gang members, none of them act that unpleasant nor are shown doing anything evil throughout the course of the film. The worst any of them do is attack the better armed and more dangerous Deunan and Briareos when directly ordered to do so, and when ordered to return to the tank rather than continue attacking go so far as to look at each other, shrug, and calmly leave. The red one that acts as second in command to Two Horns in particular is portrayed as surprisingly mellow, level headed, and non-confrontational. Minor hints scattered throughout the film imply that these men used to be soldiers during the War, and after the war was over they simply continued to do the same things they used to just under new managment. | |
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FallenStatesOfAmerica | |
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Fallen States of America: Appleseed Alpha takes place in New York City, which is now a bombed out wasteland crawling with renegade cyborgs and other lowlifes. | |
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Chekhov's Gun | |
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Chekhov's Gun: The broken machine Matthews is trying to fix at the beginning of Alpha (it's a Landmate). There are a few others in that movie as well, such as the broken highway bridge near where Deunan and Briareos find Olson's body, and the large bullet holes Deunan makes in the spider walker's control center with the Landmate. Both are crucial in destroying the walker. | |
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Post-Cyberpunk | |
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Post-Cyberpunk: In a world of rampant cyber-augmentation, hyper-advanced technology, and super-powerful corporations... things are mostly okay, really. There was that one war, but mankind pulled back from the brink, and is chugging happily along. | |
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Ironic Echo | |
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Ironic Echo: From Alpha: "Hope. What a concept." Interestingly it's said on two different occasions by two characters, both of which could not possibly have known the other said it. And even funnier is that the phrase is directed at the same target, Two Horns. | |
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Multi-Armed and Dangerous | |
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Multi-Armed and Dangerous: Landmate arms typically act on a Master-Slave system: The Landmate's arms mimic the motions of the operator's real arms, which are usually external (and safely armored). When Briareose hooks into his Mecha Expansion Pack as mentioned above, he can actually control all four arms independently (as any Hecatonchires cyborg could). | |
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Beast and Beauty | |
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Beast and Beauty: Deunan and Briareos, though in the OVA (and Ex Machina, shown in a flashback) they've been a couple since before he had his cybernetic upgrades. | |
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Cleavage Window | |
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Cleavage Window: Athena's assistant Nike has one in Ex Machina. | |
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The World Is Just Awesome | |
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The World Is Just Awesome: When we're first shown Olympus city. | |
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Spiritual Successor | |
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Spiritual Successor: Vexille, to the first movie. | |
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No Flow in CGI | |
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No Flow in CGI: Deunan's hair is animated as a number of locks, which moves according to physics, instead of animating every strand separately. Extras and Background models are simpler, and have completely un-animated hair. | |
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More Dakka | |
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More Dakka Spider Gun Platforms in the manga and OVA, Mobile Fortresses in the first movie. | |
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Orphaned Series | |
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Orphaned Series: The manga. Apparently, most of Masamune's notes for Appleseed were destroyed in the 1995 Kobe earthquake, and he has expressed little interest in continuing the series. | |
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Tomboy and Girly Girl | |
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Tomboy and Girly Girl: Deunan and Hitomi. | |
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Land of One City | |
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Land of One City: Olympus. | |
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Scary Black Man | |
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Scary Black Man: In the original manga, Briareos was black before becoming a full-body cyborg. Two Horns in Alpha is a ruthless cyborg crime boss with a face like an oni mask. | |
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Even Evil Has Standards | |
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Even Evil Has Standards: General Uranus is appalled and horrified when Hades moves in to murder Briareos and Deunan; upon realizing he had been manipulated into instigating the coup, he chooses to surrender peacefully, refusing to be somebody's tool in spite of his hatred of Bioroids. | |
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Super Window Jump | |
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Super Window Jump: Through a stained glass window in Ex Machina, no less. | |
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Compilation Movie | |
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Compilation Movie: XIII got a pair of them: Tartaros and Ouranos. | |
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Lethal Chef | |
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Lethal Chef: Deunan in the manga. | |
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Chicken Walker | |
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Chicken Walker: The "Ostrich" mechs in Alpha have this style going on. | |
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Gentle Giant | |
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Gentle Giant: Briareos when he's off-duty. Makes his predicament in Ex Machina all the more disturbing. | |
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Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism | |
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Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism: In Appleseed Alpha, Iris & Olson are very much on the idealistic scale, believing they can build a better world, Deunan is somewhere in the middle, while Briareos is firmly cynical. This flips a bit halfway through after they find Olson's corpse, where Deunan briefly loses hope in finding Olympus, but this leads Briareos to adopt a more idealistic viewpoint if only to keep Deunan's spirits up. The villain, Talos, is far on the cynical scale, believing that Olympus's ideals are nonsense and that humanity needs war to continue existing. | |
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Flying Car | |
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Flying Car: Sort of: They float above ground. | |
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Appleseed (Manga) / int_38a57680 | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_3a29c5c8 | type |
Villainous Legacy | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_3a29c5c8 | comment |
Villainous Legacy: Overlapping with a touch of My Death Is Just the Beginning due to the circumstances of the demise in question in Ex Machina. The Big Bad dies halfway through the movie. It doesn't slow his plans down one jot. | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_3a29c5c8 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_3a29c5c8 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Appleseed (Manga) | hasFeature |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_3a29c5c8 | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_3aead6c9 | type |
Mysterious Mercenary Pursuer | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_3aead6c9 | comment |
Mysterious Mercenary Pursuer: The entire Triton team in Alpha, who are all faceless, professional, and relentless in their pursuit of Olson and Iris. And aside from Nyx and Talos, they're all voiceless as well. | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_3aead6c9 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_3aead6c9 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Appleseed (Manga) | hasFeature |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_3aead6c9 | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_3c2ab68a | type |
Gunship Rescue | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_3c2ab68a | comment |
Gun Ship Rescue: Happens in the beginning of the film for Deunan after she gets trapped. | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_3c2ab68a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_3c2ab68a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Appleseed (Manga) | hasFeature |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_3c2ab68a | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_3c5ae1a1 | type |
Schizo Tech | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_3c5ae1a1 | comment |
Schizo Tech: In this universe cyborgs and typewriters exist side by side. | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_3c5ae1a1 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_3c5ae1a1 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Appleseed (Manga) | hasFeature |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_3c5ae1a1 | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_3d59c9a0 | type |
Powered Armor | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_3d59c9a0 | comment |
Powered Armor: Protectors, Landmates (kinda). | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_3d59c9a0 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_3d59c9a0 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Appleseed (Manga) | hasFeature |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_3d59c9a0 | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_3dd3951e | type |
Cowboy Cop | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_3dd3951e | comment |
Cowboy Cop: Colonel Hades was one during his LA SWAT days; this factored into his expulsion from the group by Deunan's father, which fueled his ultimately suicidal revenge scheme against the Knutes. Played straight by Deunan, her exceptional combat ability is the only thing that keeps her from getting killed on multiple occasions. And, not surprisingly, she gets chewed out by both Briareos and her ESWAT platoon leader for it several times. | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_3dd3951e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_3dd3951e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Appleseed (Manga) | hasFeature |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_3dd3951e | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_3ec18c6f | type |
Sherlock Scan | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_3ec18c6f | comment |
Sherlock Scan: All Nyx has to do in Alpha is simply wave her hand over a few spent shell casings to obtain an absurdly detailed picture of a battle that was just fought half an hour ago. | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_3ec18c6f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_3ec18c6f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Appleseed (Manga) | hasFeature |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_3ec18c6f | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_3f71b00e | type |
Point Defenseless | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_3f71b00e | comment |
Point Defenseless: Averted in Appleseed Alpha with the prototype Spider Gun Platform, which is bristling with weapons, including dozens of CIWS Phalanx cannons that shoot down the vast majority of the missiles launched at it. | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_3f71b00e | featureApplicability |
-1.0 | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_3f71b00e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Appleseed (Manga) | hasFeature |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_3f71b00e | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_4482e1ef | type |
Divided States of America | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_4482e1ef | comment |
Divided States of America: In 1988, the Cold War came to a peaceful resolution with the formation of the Russo-American Alliance, composed of the 13 colonial states, Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, California, Oregon, Hawaii, and Alaska. After the 2nd American Civil War in 2016, the United States was once again divided. The United States of America was now comprised of Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada, Colorado, Utah, Washington, Wyoming, Idaho, Montana, North & South Dakota, Minnesota, and Wisconsin. The extreme right-sided military industrialistic American Empire aka Imperial Americana, took everything else, including Washington D.C. E-SWAT ended up fighting alongside with the Russo-American Alliance forces against Imperial Americana in the manga. | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_4482e1ef | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_4482e1ef | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Appleseed (Manga) | hasFeature |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_4482e1ef | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_44cdd259 | type |
War Is Glorious | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_44cdd259 | comment |
War Is Glorious: Talos certainly believes this in Alpha. | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_44cdd259 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_44cdd259 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Appleseed (Manga) | hasFeature |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_44cdd259 | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_450c5a85 | type |
Alternate Continuity | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_450c5a85 | comment |
XIII makes him black again. Not just Briareos either; Deunan's mother was white in the 2004 film, but black in XIII (also an indicator that XIII is an Alternate Continuity). This one's a plot point in her Death by Origin Story: she was gunned down for crossing an apartheid line. Actually, that's not alternate, that's pretty much Deunan exposition in volume 3 of the manga, animated. In the manga, Deunan explains that she was gunned down by some random racists in San Francisco, so her Death by Origin Story was changed as well. Deunan also said in the manga that she was a "Cafe Au Lait''. | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_450c5a85 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_450c5a85 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Appleseed (Manga) | hasFeature |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_450c5a85 | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_48081842 | type |
The Stinger | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_48081842 | comment |
The Stinger: Appleseed Alpha has a post-credits scene where it's revealed Iris was a bioroid clone based off of Hitomi, and she doesn't plan to send any forces from Olympus to pick up Deunan & Briareos - at least, not yet. | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_48081842 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_48081842 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Appleseed (Manga) | hasFeature |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_48081842 | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_48e24f | type |
Anti-Mutiny | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_48e24f | comment |
Anti-Mutiny: In the manga, Athena launches one of these against the Elders once they propose to expand bioroid behavior modification to humanity (sterilization in the movie). Gaia gets the same idea about bioroids in general. | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_48e24f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_48e24f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Appleseed (Manga) | hasFeature |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_48e24f | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_49d59be9 | type |
SceneryPorn | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_49d59be9 | comment |
Scenery Porn: Utopia or not, Olympus is truly something to marvel upon. | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_49d59be9 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_49d59be9 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Appleseed (Manga) | hasFeature |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_49d59be9 | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_4a59e6f7 | type |
One Nation Under Copyright | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_4a59e6f7 | comment |
They seem to be One Nation Under Copyright, to boot, in XIII. They even have national boundaries and territorial waters. | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_4a59e6f7 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_4a59e6f7 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Appleseed (Manga) | hasFeature |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_4a59e6f7 | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_4ac8b81f | type |
Humans Are the Real Monsters | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_4ac8b81f | comment |
Humans Are the Real Monsters: Deunan reminds General Uranus that as untrustworthy as he believes Bioroids to be, at least they're not killers like their own kind are. | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_4ac8b81f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_4ac8b81f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Appleseed (Manga) | hasFeature |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_4ac8b81f | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_4b52ff08 | type |
May Contain Evil | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_4b52ff08 | comment |
May Contain Evil: The Connexus in Ex Machina. | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_4b52ff08 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_4b52ff08 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Appleseed (Manga) | hasFeature |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_4b52ff08 | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_4efc4fae | type |
Good Scars, Evil Scars | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_4efc4fae | comment |
Good Scars, Evil Scars: Argus, the Poseidon officer from Ex Machina, has a long scar covering his permanently-closed left eye that makes him look rather sinister. It's misdirection, though - he's not that bad a guy, and even helps save the world (and, later, our protagonists) by the end of the movie. | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_4efc4fae | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_4efc4fae | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Appleseed (Manga) | hasFeature |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_4efc4fae | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_4f6d87f7 | type |
Huge Guy, Tiny Girl | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_4f6d87f7 | comment |
Huge Guy, Tiny Girl: Who else? Deunan and Briareos. | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_4f6d87f7 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_4f6d87f7 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Appleseed (Manga) | hasFeature |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_4f6d87f7 | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_51a3ba7 | type |
We Used to Be Friends | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_51a3ba7 | comment |
We Used to Be Friends: Maybe not friends, but Olson and Talos knew each other before the events of Alpha by way of working on the same project to find and disarm pre-war superweapons such as the American land battleship. | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_51a3ba7 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_51a3ba7 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Appleseed (Manga) | hasFeature |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_51a3ba7 | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_51c28ba3 | type |
Non-Action Big Bad | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_51c28ba3 | comment |
Non-Action Big Bad: Talos leaves any fighting to be done to Nyx and his troops. | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_51c28ba3 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_51c28ba3 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Appleseed (Manga) | hasFeature |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_51c28ba3 | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_52196c03 | type |
Age-Gap Romance | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_52196c03 | comment |
Age-Gap Romance: In addition to the relationship quirks of dating a cyborg, Briareos is a solid nine years older than Deunan. | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_52196c03 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_52196c03 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Appleseed (Manga) | hasFeature |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_52196c03 | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_537dd8fe | type |
Affably Evil | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_537dd8fe | comment |
Affably Evil: Two Horns in Alpha is Big Fun and loves to joke around and have a good laugh. He also leads the most dangerous criminal gang in New York. | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_537dd8fe | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_537dd8fe | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Appleseed (Manga) | hasFeature |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_537dd8fe | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_53f5119f | type |
The Dragon | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_53f5119f | comment |
The Dragon: Nyx to Talos in Appleseed Alpha. | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_53f5119f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_53f5119f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Appleseed (Manga) | hasFeature |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_53f5119f | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_54616909 | type |
Cavalry Betrayal | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_54616909 | comment |
Cavalry Betrayal: There's a bit near the end of Ex Machina where we're led to believe that the Poseidon special-forces are pulling this. Turns out it just took them a while to spot the protagonists in need of rescue, and they turn up shortly afterwards. | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_54616909 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_54616909 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Appleseed (Manga) | hasFeature |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_54616909 | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_548bd053 | type |
Guns Akimbo | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_548bd053 | comment |
Guns Akimbo: in fact, Briareos can shoot three guns at once in Ex Machina: two with his mecha's hands and one with his own. Just one with his hands because it's a Landmate sized one. He could theoretically use hundreds of weapon systems wired directly to his "brain". His cyborg chassis is named after the Hecatonchires, the hundred-armed giants of Greek mythology, for a reason. | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_548bd053 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_548bd053 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Appleseed (Manga) | hasFeature |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_548bd053 | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_54f38833 | type |
PostScriptSeason | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_54f38833 | comment |
Post-Script Episode: The final episode of Appleseed XIII, "Paradisius," is a rather strange change in tone and has absolutely nothing to do with the main plot thread of the rest of the series, especially since the main plot was already wrapped up in the 12th episode. | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_54f38833 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_54f38833 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Appleseed (Manga) | hasFeature |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_54f38833 | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_556a4e20 | type |
The Empire | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_556a4e20 | comment |
After the 2nd American Civil War in 2016, the United States was once again divided. The United States of America was now comprised of Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada, Colorado, Utah, Washington, Wyoming, Idaho, Montana, North & South Dakota, Minnesota, and Wisconsin. The extreme right-sided military industrialistic American Empire aka Imperial Americana, took everything else, including Washington D.C. E-SWAT ended up fighting alongside with the Russo-American Alliance forces against Imperial Americana in the manga. | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_556a4e20 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_556a4e20 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Appleseed (Manga) | hasFeature |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_556a4e20 | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_57b80b45 | type |
Fantastic Racism | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_57b80b45 | comment |
General Uranus is willing to engage in debate with his opponents, even during a tense standoff involving the Regular Army, and despite his Fantastic Racism he's at least smart enough to carefully consider the consequences of his actions whenever they come to light. | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_57b80b45 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_57b80b45 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Appleseed (Manga) | hasFeature |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_57b80b45 | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_5941d75 | type |
Beta Couple | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_5941d75 | comment |
Beta Couple: It's mentioned a few times in Ex Machina and XIII that Hitomi and Yoshitsune are an item. | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_5941d75 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_5941d75 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Appleseed (Manga) | hasFeature |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_5941d75 | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_5979acea | type |
Fragile Speedster | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_5979acea | comment |
Fragile Speedster: Nyx turns out to be this in Alpha when she fights Briaeros near the end. She is no match for him physically, so she has to rely on a lot of She-Fu and jumping around to dodge his hits. When she does try to match him blow for blow, the results speak for themselves. | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_5979acea | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_5979acea | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Appleseed (Manga) | hasFeature |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_5979acea | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_598b59a4 | type |
Everything Is an iPod in the Future | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_598b59a4 | comment |
Everything Is An Ipod In The Future: Talos, Nyx, and their cyborg underlings in Alpha follow this design aesthetic, complete with Talos's body being uniformly white while Nyx is solid black. | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_598b59a4 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_598b59a4 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Appleseed (Manga) | hasFeature |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_598b59a4 | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_5a3b8032 | type |
The Un-Reveal | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_5a3b8032 | comment |
The Unreveal: In Alpha, it's uncertain exactly why Briareos's software was malfunctioning at the beginning of the film. They float two possibilities about whether Matthews may have sabotaged him deliberately to keep him indebted to Two Horns, or if it was just normal wear and tear. But Deunan and Bri don't spend much time dwelling on it, figuring it doesn't matter so long as the problem's fixed. At least, in that part of the film. In the final arc Matthews flat-out admits that Two Horns made him do it, but since he's arriving as part of The Cavalry, bringing Duenan a rebuilt Land-mate with him, the matter is quickly dropped. | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_5a3b8032 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_5a3b8032 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Appleseed (Manga) | hasFeature |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_5a3b8032 | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_5a963d1c | type |
False Reassurance | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_5a963d1c | comment |
False Reassurance: In the first movie the Big Bad (well, one of them) says "no human life would be taken", but that does not mean they won't unleash a virus upon the world that causes sterility; rather, it means no human would die immediately as a direct consequence. | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_5a963d1c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_5a963d1c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Appleseed (Manga) | hasFeature |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_5a963d1c | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_5c5d0032 | type |
Eyepatch of Power | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_5c5d0032 | comment |
Eyepatch of Power: Deunan gets one after damaging one eye of hers during a training accident in Volume IV. She also gets a much more girly, frilly lace eyepatch for civilian wear when she's off-duty at the end of the book. | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_5c5d0032 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_5c5d0032 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Appleseed (Manga) | hasFeature |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_5c5d0032 | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_5caef4ca | type |
Chainsaw Good | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_5caef4ca | comment |
Chainsaw Good: Briareos wields a freaking chainsword in Ex Machina. | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_5caef4ca | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_5caef4ca | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Appleseed (Manga) | hasFeature |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_5caef4ca | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_5d753b19 | type |
The Smurfette Principle | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_5d753b19 | comment |
The Smurfette Principle: Deunan is the only on-screen female in ESWAT, but she is The Hero and leads a team of elite soldiers. Not so much "only" in the manga. Nor is she the only woman in ESWAT in Ex Machina. At least one other woman is shown on the team. At least in the OVA she is the only female Landmate pilot, or at least that's implied. XIII has another woman on the squad named Gina, who speaks with a rather strange accent that seems to vanish and return. | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_5d753b19 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_5d753b19 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Appleseed (Manga) | hasFeature |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_5d753b19 | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_5e782d0c | type |
Super Prototype | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_5e782d0c | comment |
Super Prototype: Tereus is the first bioroid designed for combat. | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_5e782d0c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_5e782d0c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Appleseed (Manga) | hasFeature |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_5e782d0c | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_5eb92325 | type |
Declaration of Protection | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_5eb92325 | comment |
Declaration of Protection: Briareos takes his promise to Karl Knute in XIII very seriously, so much that it causes problems in his relationship with Deunan. | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_5eb92325 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_5eb92325 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Appleseed (Manga) | hasFeature |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_5eb92325 | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_60414102 | type |
Zombie Apocalypse | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_60414102 | comment |
Zombie Apocalypse: not exactly, but the Brainwashed and Crazy mob in Ex Machina looked much like it, right down to the Zombie Gait. You can see one on TV in the second volume of the manga, but it was never explained. Presumably people are still making horror movies in the future. | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_60414102 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_60414102 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Appleseed (Manga) | hasFeature |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_60414102 | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_60c96f24 | type |
Portmantitle | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_60c96f24 | comment |
Portmantitle: Also a One-Word Title. | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_60c96f24 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_60c96f24 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Appleseed (Manga) | hasFeature |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_60c96f24 | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_617f0563 | type |
Heel–Face Turn | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_617f0563 | comment |
Heel–Face Turn: A bit of a delayed one in Alpha when after Nyx tries to kill Two Horns, he still goes after Briareros and Deunan. It's not until after he gets his rear end handed to him again that he decides it would probably be a better idea to team up with our main duo to take down the Triton commandos. | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_617f0563 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_617f0563 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Appleseed (Manga) | hasFeature |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_617f0563 | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_62f9d08e | type |
Freeze-Frame Bonus | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_62f9d08e | comment |
Freeze-Frame Bonus: Some close-ups of Talos in Alpha show that his body has the word "Poseidon" stenciled on it, making it extremely likely that he, Nyx, and their team are from that country. | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_62f9d08e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_62f9d08e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Appleseed (Manga) | hasFeature |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_62f9d08e | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_6377d6e6 | type |
Grievous Harm with a Body | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_6377d6e6 | comment |
Grievous Harm with a Body: Both Deunan and Briareos did that when fighting battle-androids: They ripped off an arm and proceeded to beat the android with it. | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_6377d6e6 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_6377d6e6 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Appleseed (Manga) | hasFeature |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_6377d6e6 | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_638b65bc | type |
Armor Is Useless | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_638b65bc | comment |
Armor Is Useless: In this universe, cyborgs are surprisingly fragile, with pistol rounds being able to take down even largely metallic ones pretty easily (Talos is almost completely metal, yet Deunan's M1911 does severe damage to him with just a few shots). You'd think becoming a cyborg would make you tougher. | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_638b65bc | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_638b65bc | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Appleseed (Manga) | hasFeature |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_638b65bc | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_6400a34 | type |
Arm Cannon | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_6400a34 | comment |
Arm Cannon: Nyx in Alpha has a machine gun built into the palm of her right hand. | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_6400a34 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_6400a34 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Appleseed (Manga) | hasFeature |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_6400a34 | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_643618e5 | type |
Replacement Goldfish | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_643618e5 | comment |
Replacement Goldfish: Kestner's SHODAN-esque cyborg replica of his dead project leader is a particularly creepy example. | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_643618e5 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_643618e5 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Appleseed (Manga) | hasFeature |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_643618e5 | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_6439de78 | type |
Heroic Sacrifice | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_6439de78 | comment |
Heroic Sacrifice: Tereus saves Deunan from being impaled by Xander's Combat Tentacles. And survives. In XIII, Kottos saves the ill bioroid child from being blown up by an RPG charge and dies right before her eyes. | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_6439de78 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_6439de78 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Appleseed (Manga) | hasFeature |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_6439de78 | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_6454966e | type |
World War III | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_6454966e | comment |
World War III: And IV, for that matter. | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_6454966e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_6454966e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Appleseed (Manga) | hasFeature |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_6454966e | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_6bc499da | type |
Diplomatic Impunity | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_6bc499da | comment |
Diplomatic Impunity: In XIII, Deia is caught red handed committing an act of terrorism, has to flee Olympus, and then one episode later, shows up again as an accredited diplomat of Poseidon, and goes on to commit several more acts of terrorism while back in Olympus. | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_6bc499da | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_6bc499da | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Appleseed (Manga) | hasFeature |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_6bc499da | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_6bda9a30 | type |
Meaningful Name | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_6bda9a30 | comment |
Meaningful Name: Several, but Briareos has the most obvious - he's named after one of the three Hecatonchires, the hundred-armed giants who overthrew the Titans. He's also a hulking Lightning Bruiser of a cyborg with sufficiently sophisticated targeting software to wield dozens of weapons at once. In case you missed it the first time, the model name of his chassis spells it out for you. | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_6bda9a30 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_6bda9a30 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Appleseed (Manga) | hasFeature |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_6bda9a30 | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_6cbcd596 | type |
Gangbangers | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_6cbcd596 | comment |
Gang Bangers: Two Horns and his crew. | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_6cbcd596 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_6cbcd596 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Appleseed (Manga) | hasFeature |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_6cbcd596 | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_6f66bef7 | type |
But Not Too Foreign | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_6f66bef7 | comment |
But Not Too Foreign: Averted, Deunan once spells out her ancestry for Hitomi and there is a lot of variety (she's mixed-race African on her mother's side), but no Japanese. Shirow has mentioned that she won the genetic lottery as far as physical skills go, which is why her employers and colleagues put up with her eccentricities. Also subverted in that Shirow Masamune has said in the official databook that he never thought of making Deunan Japanese or partially Japanese | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_6f66bef7 | featureApplicability |
-0.3 | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_6f66bef7 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Appleseed (Manga) | hasFeature |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_6f66bef7 | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_71329e49 | type |
Turn in Your Badge | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_71329e49 | comment |
Turn in Your Badge: General Uranus in the movie does so without being told to after Briareos warns him that he and the Regular Army were really the Unwitting Pawns to the Elders. | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_71329e49 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_71329e49 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Appleseed (Manga) | hasFeature |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_71329e49 | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_723be11b | type |
Villain Has a Point | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_723be11b | comment |
Villain Has a Point: When General Uranus states his case to Deunan, she concedes that he might have a point before reminding him that at least it isn't in the Bioroids' nature to kill even their own kind. | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_723be11b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_723be11b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Appleseed (Manga) | hasFeature |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_723be11b | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_733e007a | type |
Unwitting Pawn | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_733e007a | comment |
Unwitting Pawn: The Regular Army in the 2004 film. Briareos calls General Uranus and Colonel Hades on it during their confrontation outside of Dr. Gilliam's laboratory. Not that Colonel Hades will listen to him, of course... | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_733e007a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_733e007a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Appleseed (Manga) | hasFeature |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_733e007a | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_7464705c | type |
Arc Words | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_7464705c | comment |
Arc Words: From XIII: "Vengeance belongeth unto me." Also "paradise", to the point of becoming way overused. See the YMMV page. | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_7464705c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_7464705c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Appleseed (Manga) | hasFeature |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_7464705c | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_76a08cd6 | type |
Friend or Foe? | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_76a08cd6 | comment |
Friend or Foe: The IFFs of the autonomous combat drones in Alpha either don't work, or nobody remembers how to designate themselves as a friend. Either way, the drones attack everybody. | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_76a08cd6 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_76a08cd6 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Appleseed (Manga) | hasFeature |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_76a08cd6 | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_77b79db0 | type |
HotScientist | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_77b79db0 | comment |
Hot Scientist: Deia Cides in XIII. | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_77b79db0 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_77b79db0 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Appleseed (Manga) | hasFeature |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_77b79db0 | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_7a3dd888 | type |
Real Men Wear Pink | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_7a3dd888 | comment |
Real Men Wear Pink: Implied by way of Fridge Logic in Ex Machina, when Deunan receives a top-of-the-line and very, very pink Landmate from the Poseidon assault team she's working alongside. Meanwhile, the Poseidon commander, Argus, uses the ESWAT model that she turned up in. Now, normally, one would expect him to use his own suit... unless, of course, he'd given it to someone else to pilot instead. Perhaps bubblegum pink is a signifier of rank in Poseidon? | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_7a3dd888 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_7a3dd888 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Appleseed (Manga) | hasFeature |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_7a3dd888 | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_7abba202 | type |
The Faceless | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_7abba202 | comment |
The Faceless: Talos, Nyx, and their soldiers all have opaque helmets. Averted with Talos at the end, after Deunan shoots him through the faceplate, we get a disturbing look at what's behind the mask. | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_7abba202 | featureApplicability |
-1.0 | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_7abba202 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Appleseed (Manga) | hasFeature |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_7abba202 | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_7c0bfb83 | type |
Obviously Evil | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_7c0bfb83 | comment |
Obviously Evil: Poseidon in Ex Machina. They're a Mega-Corp and One Nation Under Copyright, their executive and diplomat is an Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette in a black leather catsuit with a soft, smooth voice, and their battle commander has a rather ugly scar covering one eye. They're also so polite and smooth about cooperating with Athena and Olympus that any smart viewer would expect that they're up to something seriously devious. Nope. While they did accidentally leave some dangerous experimental Applied Phlebotinum lying around, they cooperate fully with the protagonists when it comes time to clean everything up, and their offer to surrender control of their weapons to Olympus is entirely genuine. | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_7c0bfb83 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_7c0bfb83 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Appleseed (Manga) | hasFeature |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_7c0bfb83 | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_8344209e | type |
BFG | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_8344209e | comment |
BFG: Briareos in Volume 4 uses a gun that resembles a sawn-off M1 Main Battle Tank cannon. | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_8344209e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_8344209e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Appleseed (Manga) | hasFeature |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_8344209e | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_83ea0763 | type |
Rouge Angles of Satin | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_83ea0763 | comment |
Rouge Angles of Satin: In the 2004 film, we get a good look at a computer disc labelled "SEACRET". | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_83ea0763 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_83ea0763 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Appleseed (Manga) | hasFeature |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_83ea0763 | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_853b7948 | type |
Ambiguously Evil | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_853b7948 | comment |
Ambiguously Evil: Yoshino, the unctuous Posiedon delegate, and her equally sinister entourage in Ex Machina. It turns out that they're actually trying to hunt down the BigBad, and are only too happy to lend our protagonists a hand. | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_853b7948 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_853b7948 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Appleseed (Manga) | hasFeature |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_853b7948 | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_86af7ab0 | type |
Badass Biker | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_86af7ab0 | comment |
Badass Biker: Deunan. | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_86af7ab0 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_86af7ab0 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Appleseed (Manga) | hasFeature |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_86af7ab0 | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_8829dfa0 | type |
What the Hell Is That Accent? | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_8829dfa0 | comment |
XIII has another woman on the squad named Gina, who speaks with a rather strange accent that seems to vanish and return. | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_8829dfa0 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_8829dfa0 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Appleseed (Manga) | hasFeature |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_8829dfa0 | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_8878f3be | type |
Badass Army | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_8878f3be | comment |
Badass Army: ESWAT and Olympus Police in general are extremely competent; Deunan and Briareos are just exceptional cogs in an excellent machine. | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_8878f3be | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_8878f3be | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Appleseed (Manga) | hasFeature |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_8878f3be | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_8af25294 | type |
Bullet Time | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_8af25294 | comment |
Bullet Time: Used extensively in the movies, especially Ex Machina. | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_8af25294 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_8af25294 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Appleseed (Manga) | hasFeature |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_8af25294 | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_8b606a51 | type |
There Is No Kill Like Overkill | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_8b606a51 | comment |
There Is No Kill Like Overkill: In the Manga, Kotus takes down a terrorist with a leaping double axe-handle strike that leaves the poor sap as a smear on the floor. | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_8b606a51 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_8b606a51 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Appleseed (Manga) | hasFeature |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_8b606a51 | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_8cda3dc2 | type |
Flawed Prototype | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_8cda3dc2 | comment |
Flawed Prototype: The prototype Spider Gun Platform in Appleseed Alpha is incomplete and difficult to control. | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_8cda3dc2 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_8cda3dc2 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Appleseed (Manga) | hasFeature |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_8cda3dc2 | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_8d0785d5 | type |
Didn't Think This Through | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_8d0785d5 | comment |
Didn't Think This Through: General Uranus's plan to destroy the Bioroids involves blowing up the D-Tank, which actually contains a virus the Elders had forced Dr. Gilliam to synthesize that would sterilize all of humanity and slowly euthanize the human race. He doesn't realize that he was unwittingly helping along the death of humanity until it's almost too late. | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_8d0785d5 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_8d0785d5 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Appleseed (Manga) | hasFeature |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_8d0785d5 | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_8ed5c6e4 | type |
Asshole Victim | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_8ed5c6e4 | comment |
Asshole Victim: Some of the "vampire" victims in XIII Episode 5 are war criminals from Eris (said to have committed genocide and ethnic cleansing). | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_8ed5c6e4 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_8ed5c6e4 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Appleseed (Manga) | hasFeature |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_8ed5c6e4 | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_9053903 | type |
Ignored Epiphany | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_9053903 | comment |
Ignored Epiphany: After Briareos delivers a Kirk Summation to the Regular Army, everyone realizes what they had almost gotten themselves into... save for Colonel Hades ("I've heard enough—and I'll be damned if I let some machine tell me what to do!"). | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_9053903 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_9053903 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Appleseed (Manga) | hasFeature |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_9053903 | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_90d2c6d6 | type |
Blood-Stained Glass Windows | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_90d2c6d6 | comment |
Bloodstained Glass Windows The opening sequence of Ex Machina, in fine John Woo tradition. | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_90d2c6d6 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_90d2c6d6 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Appleseed (Manga) | hasFeature |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_90d2c6d6 | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_91697559 | type |
Half the Man He Used to Be | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_91697559 | comment |
Half the Man He Used to Be: In Alpha, Briaeros defeats Nyx after he is able to retrieve his sniper rifle and blows her in half at point-blank range. Later, Talos comes back for one last act of revenge against Deunan, but Iris drops an automatic door on his spine and chops him in half. | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_91697559 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_91697559 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Appleseed (Manga) | hasFeature |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_91697559 | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_932e7d07 | type |
Robot Antennae | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_932e7d07 | comment |
Robot Antennae: Briarios' head-mounted antenna appear to be rigidly mounted in both the contemporary film installments, yet in the manga they were flexible, and moved to help convey his emotion, drooping when depressed or confused, and upright when surprised. | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_932e7d07 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_932e7d07 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Appleseed (Manga) | hasFeature |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_932e7d07 | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_957e5fc2 | type |
Villainous Breakdown | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_957e5fc2 | comment |
Villainous Breakdown: Talos starts losing control of the situation in Alpha when he forces Iris to activate the prototype spider tank, but 1) it's only about 2/3 complete and extremely difficult to control and 2) it's on a pre-programmed course to go straight to New York City and self-destruct. | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_957e5fc2 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_957e5fc2 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Appleseed (Manga) | hasFeature |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_957e5fc2 | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_9c28b838 | type |
Blade Run | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_9c28b838 | comment |
Blade Run: Deunan vs. that construction mecha in Ex Machina. | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_9c28b838 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_9c28b838 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Appleseed (Manga) | hasFeature |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_9c28b838 | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_9c45b5a2 | type |
What Measure Is a Non-Human? | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_9c45b5a2 | comment |
What Measure Is a Non-Human?: A large part of the hatred humans in the army have for the bioroids. | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_9c45b5a2 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_9c45b5a2 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Appleseed (Manga) | hasFeature |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_9c45b5a2 | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_9cde2df1 | type |
Hand Cannon | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_9cde2df1 | comment |
Hand Cannon: Deunan's "Gong" in the manga. | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_9cde2df1 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_9cde2df1 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Appleseed (Manga) | hasFeature |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_9cde2df1 | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_9dab0a6e | type |
Continuity Nod | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_9dab0a6e | comment |
Continuity Nod: The final episode "Paradisius" in Appleseed XIII directly references the plot of the 2004 movie. In Appleseed Alpha, Talos is searching for a prototype Spider Gun Platform, the same weapons that will eventually defend Olympus. | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_9dab0a6e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_9dab0a6e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Appleseed (Manga) | hasFeature |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_9dab0a6e | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_9f63d4f1 | type |
Our Vampires Are Different | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_9f63d4f1 | comment |
Our Vampires Are Different: The Eris molecular weapon (probably nano-machines) "Erinyes" turns people into vampires (they got enhanced strengh and regeneration at the price of having to suck blood). | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_9f63d4f1 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_9f63d4f1 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Appleseed (Manga) | hasFeature |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_9f63d4f1 | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_9f679e25 | type |
Future Copter | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_9f679e25 | comment |
Future Copter: The transport helicopter that appears in the beginning of the 2004 movie looks very much like a heavily upgraded, futuristic V-22 Osprey. Ex Machina's aircraft seem to use Anti Gravity rather than rotors. Meanwhile, in Alpha, Talos and his team make use of a more contemporary looking V-22 that seems to have had all its design flaws ironed out and is equipped with a chin-mounted machine gun and rocket pods that can launch a Macross Missile Massacre. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Appleseed (Manga) / int_9f679e25 | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_9f9540ae | type |
We Can Rebuild Him | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_9f9540ae | comment |
We Can Rebuild Him: Briareos in the OVA. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
Appleseed (Manga) | hasFeature |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_9f9540ae | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_a066d9f3 | type |
Tempting Apple | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_a066d9f3 | comment |
Tempting Apple: The titular MacGuffin is a technology that allows Bioroids to have a lifespan just as long as humans. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
Appleseed (Manga) | hasFeature |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_a066d9f3 | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_a0db7803 | type |
It's Personal | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_a0db7803 | comment |
It's Personal: What blinds Colonel Hades to the fact that his vendetta against Deunan's father for booting him off of LA SWAT, which he hopes will destroy the Bioroids, could actually lead to humanity's extinction. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
Appleseed (Manga) | hasFeature |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_a0db7803 | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_a18d407b | type |
Samus Is a Girl | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_a18d407b | comment |
Samus Is a Girl: The shocking reveal in XIII of the pilot of the recurring terrorist Landmate. Especially effective since in previous episodes, the mech's loudspeakers used a deep, male voice to speak. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Appleseed (Manga) / int_a18d407b | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_a1b141f4 | type |
My God, What Have I Done? | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_a1b141f4 | comment |
My God, What Have I Done?: It's implied during the final act of the 2004 film that the realization of what he had gotten mixed up in prompted General Uranus and the Regular Army to surrender. | |
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1.0 | |
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Appleseed (Manga) / int_a1b141f4 | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_a247c4bf | type |
A Mech by Any Other Name | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_a247c4bf | comment |
A Mech by Any Other Name: Mini-Mecha are known as "Landmates", while Powered Armor are called "Protectors". | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
Appleseed (Manga) | hasFeature |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_a247c4bf | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_a3509d95 | type |
The Password Is Always "Swordfish" | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_a3509d95 | comment |
The Password Is Always "Swordfish": Hitomi. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Appleseed (Manga) / int_a3509d95 | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_a4be7043 | type |
Da Chief | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_a4be7043 | comment |
Da Chief: Athena. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Appleseed (Manga) / int_a4be7043 | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_a6049c20 | type |
Disturbed Doves | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_a6049c20 | comment |
Disturbed Doves: Would Ex Machina be a John Woo movie without them? However, there is also a twist to them in this case. | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_a6049c20 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Appleseed (Manga) / int_a6049c20 | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_a65975e5 | type |
All-CGI Cartoon | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_a65975e5 | comment |
All-CGI Cartoon: The three movies and XIII. | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_a65975e5 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_a65975e5 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
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Appleseed (Manga) / int_a65975e5 | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_a679184b | type |
Due to the Dead | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_a679184b | comment |
Due to the Dead: Manuel Aeacus is buried with full honors after being put down when he's infected with a bioweapon designed by Dr. Kestner. Deunan, in full uniform, is one of his pallbearers. | |
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1.0 | |
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Appleseed (Manga) / int_a679184b | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_a70223 | type |
Karma Houdini | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_a70223 | comment |
Karma Houdini: Prime Minister Athena in the movie never has to answer for having mercenaries kill all Deunan's comrades in the wasteland, and trying to capture her alive, and later sending outright assassins after her. She was trying to prevent a genocide, that she feared Deunan could unwittingly partake in, but it seems that Deunan never even gets to learn the truth, let alone decide what she decides to do with it. But then, Athena wasn't sure until midway through that she could trust Deunan, and being reminded of her connection to Dr. Gilliam during a hearing on what to do about the terrorist attack on the Bioroids was likely a factor in her deciding she could trust Deunan after all. The Manga also has her drug the food of a bunch of ex-soldiers brought into the city to gauge their reactions. Of course, given that their ultimate reaction was to jump into their landmates and go on a rampage after Tartarus put the question of her wrongness into doubt. Likewise General Uranus; he was trying a coup and a genocide, but apparently calling off your attempt at the last minute and saying "sorry" is all that it takes to be forgiven. On the other hand, it was implied that the Elders were manipulating him into taking action and that it was his own race that he was unwittingly endangering (and not the Bioroids like he had thought for most of the film), which might have factored into his rather lenient sentence. | |
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1.0 | |
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Appleseed (Manga) / int_a70223 | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_a78753d5 | type |
Lady and Knight | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_a78753d5 | comment |
Lady and Knight: Talos and Nyx are a villainous variant of this in Alpha, with Talos being a Black (ironically a Man in White at the same time) and Nyx being a Dark Lady with Evil Wears Black. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Appleseed (Manga) / int_a78753d5 | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_a8a04f6f | type |
And I Must Scream | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_a8a04f6f | comment |
And I Must Scream: Briareos in Ex Machina when he's being affected by the nanomachines. Try as he might, he's largely unable to fight against it without help. Also anyone affected by the signals, as prior to the mind control kicking in, they grab their head in pain and usually fall to their knees as well. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
Appleseed (Manga) | hasFeature |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_a8a04f6f | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_a939a527 | type |
Red Eyes, Take Warning | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_a939a527 | comment |
Red Eyes, Take Warning: In Ex Machina, a cyborg's eyes turning red is your cue to run away very, very fast. | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_a939a527 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Appleseed (Manga) / int_a939a527 | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_a9850481 | type |
Meganekko | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_a9850481 | comment |
Meganekko: Chiffon, the Dark-Skinned Blond who befriended Deunan, was part of the human insurgency and killed brutally by Deunan in the manga's first volume. | |
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1.0 | |
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Appleseed (Manga) / int_a9850481 | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_a9de87d2 | type |
Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_a9de87d2 | comment |
Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: the cyborg Sokaku, Ex-SAS, Mercenary, EOD specialist... and total tool. While a total genius in his area of expertise, his showboating and comic relief nature trip him up more often than not. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Appleseed (Manga) / int_a9de87d2 | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_aa2cd0c9 | type |
Motifs | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_aa2cd0c9 | comment |
Motifs: XIII features a lot of imagery relating to the twelve labors of Hercules. A large statue featuring statues for the labors is a reoccurring feature of city shots. A lot of Greek styled hand painted images are spliced into the show. An episode is about a sculptor who has been sculpting statues of the labors A large room featuring a ceiling painted to show the constellations is often used for spliced in shots The episodes are named after the labors XIII has a lot of shots of a compass. Especially the one belonging to the antagonist. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Appleseed (Manga) / int_aa2cd0c9 | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_aa8dcc21 | type |
MegaCorp | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_aa8dcc21 | comment |
Mega-Corp: Poseidon in Ex Machina.. They seem to be One Nation Under Copyright, to boot, in XIII. They even have national boundaries and territorial waters. | |
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1.0 | |
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Appleseed (Manga) / int_aa8dcc21 | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_ab802f4b | type |
Work Off the Debt | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_ab802f4b | comment |
Work Off the Debt: This is the major reason why Deunan and Briaeros are working for Two Horns in Alpha, as he was apparently responsible in some way for saving Briareos's life and getting him a cyborg body. | |
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1.0 | |
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Appleseed (Manga) / int_abc60c5d | type |
Harmful to Minors | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_abc60c5d | comment |
In XIII, Kottos saves the ill bioroid child from being blown up by an RPG charge and dies right before her eyes. | |
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1.0 | |
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Appleseed (Manga) / int_abc60c5d | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_ac4ac8e5 | type |
Idiosyncratic Episode Naming | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_ac4ac8e5 | comment |
The episodes are named after the labors | |
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1.0 | |
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Appleseed (Manga) / int_ac4ac8e5 | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_acedc6c4 | type |
Butterfly of Death and Rebirth | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_acedc6c4 | comment |
Butterfly of Death and Rebirth: XIII has an episode focused on a hotel with a garden in the middle that has butterflies that the daughter of the VIP likes to chase. Her chase ultimately leads to the death of her father as he tries to save her from running off a bridge without rails. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Appleseed (Manga) / int_acedc6c4 | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_ad1db87c | type |
Oh, Crap! | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_ad1db87c | comment |
Oh, Crap!: When the first police team busts through the to arrest the terrorists, just to walk in front of a gatling gun ambush. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Appleseed (Manga) / int_ad1db87c | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_b18aeb20 | type |
Oddly Named Sequel 2: Electric Boogaloo | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_b18aeb20 | comment |
Oddly Named Sequel 2: Electric Boogaloo | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_b18aeb20 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
Appleseed (Manga) | hasFeature |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_b18aeb20 | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_b58b4e3c | type |
Too Dumb to Live | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_b58b4e3c | comment |
Too Dumb to Live: The whole plot of Ex Machina is solely driven by lots of highly stupid decisions by anyone involved. Possibly hundreds of thousands of deaths could have been avoided if the PSAs not said "might pose a risk to health" but "will turn you into cyber-zombies and might force the police to kill you". | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Appleseed (Manga) / int_b58b4e3c | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_b89d9f13 | type |
Assimilation Plot | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_b89d9f13 | comment |
Assimilation Plot: Kestner in Ex Machina wants to pull this off. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Appleseed (Manga) / int_b89d9f13 | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_b99bed67 | type |
No-Nonsense Nemesis | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_b99bed67 | comment |
No-Nonsense Nemesis: Talos in Alpha when after downloading the information he needs out of Olson's brain, Talos doesn't waste any time gloating about it but simply draws his pistol and empties the mag into Olson, then drops him out of the V-22 at high altitude. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Appleseed (Manga) / int_b99bed67 | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_baa2a78d | type |
Knife Nut | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_baa2a78d | comment |
Knife Nut: Deunan grabs her knife when going for the ubercyborg during the Church Shootout in Ex Machina... and kicks his ass badly. She takes out three guys with a very large knife (she insists it's a sword) in the manga, too. In the last episode of XIII she also uses a large folding knife in her Landmate to take out an enemy Landmate. Finally, on foot she also uses a large combat knife to stab a prototype combat robot wrestling with Briareos. Let's just say Deunan really likes her knives. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Appleseed (Manga) / int_baa2a78d | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_bc00493f | type |
Precision F-Strike | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_bc00493f | comment |
Precision F-Strike: From the 2004 film: "You son of a bitch... you betrayed us!" From Ex Machina: "Don't fuck with me!" | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Appleseed (Manga) / int_bc74ef27 | type |
Berserk Button | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_bc74ef27 | comment |
Berserk Button: If there's one thing Colonel Hades hates more than Bioroids, it's people being preachy towards him. When Deunan pulls the Humans Are the Real Monsters argument on him, he simply responds by telling General Uranus in annoyance that they're wasting their time, but only when Briareos flat-out says he's an Unwitting Pawn in a higher power's game does he snap and break out the firearms. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Appleseed (Manga) / int_bc74ef27 | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_bcd27e37 | type |
Improbable Aiming Skills | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_bcd27e37 | comment |
Improbable Aiming Skills: Briareos. Of course, he's a Cyborg. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Appleseed (Manga) / int_bcd27e37 | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_bdcfd50 | type |
Conspicuous CG | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_bdcfd50 | comment |
Conspicuous CG: XIII contains a rather strange variant of this - the characters and objects are CG, while several backgrounds are rendered through traditional means. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Appleseed (Manga) / int_bdcfd50 | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_bf5b6abf | type |
Cyber Cyclops | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_bf5b6abf | comment |
Cyber Cyclops: Subverted. Briareos actually has eight eyes: Four in his face arranged around the big central sensor, two at the bases of his "rabbit ear" sensors, and two at the tips, which allow him to safely look around corners. Oh, and the big central sensor mentioned earlier? That's actually his nose. | |
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-0.3 | |
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1.0 | |
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Appleseed (Manga) / int_bf5b6abf | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_c2ab0eaf | type |
Double Agent | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_c2ab0eaf | comment |
From the 2004 film: "You son of a bitch... you betrayed us!" | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Appleseed (Manga) / int_c2ab0eaf | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_c32201f6 | type |
Good Colors, Evil Colors | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_c32201f6 | comment |
Good Colors, Evil Colors: The eyes of Briareos and other cyborgs changed in colour from red to green between the first and second movies, so that we could see when they were Brainwashed and Crazy thanks to the ominous red glow. | |
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Appleseed (Manga) / int_c32201f6 | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_c5499187 | type |
AntiGravity | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_c5499187 | comment |
Anti Gravity: The Hermes System. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Appleseed (Manga) / int_c5499187 | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_c72af5a8 | type |
Mini-Mecha | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_c72af5a8 | comment |
Mini-Mecha: Landmates (kinda). | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Appleseed (Manga) / int_c72af5a8 | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_c75df49a | type |
Shout-Out | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_c75df49a | comment |
Shout-Out: Ex Machina has a scene very similar to the shooting range scene in RoboCop (1987), but takes it Up to Eleven by showing Briareos's multitasking capability. The drones guarding the Halcon facility in Ex Machina look and behave VERY similar to the Sentinels from The Matrix. The Ostrich mechs in Alpha look oddly similar to the Gekkou from Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots, minus the bio-organic legs. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Appleseed (Manga) / int_cc4b45f6 | type |
Word of God | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_cc4b45f6 | comment |
Word of God is that Briareos was Black Caribbean (where, he never specified). | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Appleseed (Manga) / int_cc4b45f6 | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_ccf46587 | type |
Redshirt Army | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_ccf46587 | comment |
Red Shirt Army: Pretty much anyone not named gets killed off rather nonchalantly. And even the lesser named characters may not make it either, particularly if they start sharing their backstory or show any character development. The main characters survive largely thanks to Plot Armor. As an example, when Deunan, Briareos, and Tereus attack the abandoned research center in Ex Machina, there are a few non-named characters that go with them. The minor characters get killed off rather brutally, while Deunan survives long enough to crash her suit (after jettisoning from it) into one of the enemy suits. | |
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One-Word Title | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_d0f0a80d | comment |
One-Word Title: Also a Portmantitle. | |
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Turned Against Their Masters | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_d355ba37 | comment |
Turned Against Their Masters: The master computer Gaia in the second volume of the manga. Ironically, it was trying to protect mankind. | |
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The End of the World as We Know It | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_d71d51fd | comment |
The End of the World as We Know It: Subverted, as with Ghost in the Shell (which shared a similar Timeline if not outright happening in the same universe), despite two world wars, one of which was nuclear, civilization just kept right on chugging along, without even a die back. That said, the world is still a very chaotic place, and you probably wouldn't want to live there. | |
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Race Lift | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_d7c3ba61 | comment |
Race Lift: Though it's nearly impossible to tell in the manga due to the lack of a... well, a FACE, Briareos is apparently North African originally, as seen in some artwork Shirow has done (including a very odd-looking beach-scene). In the 2004 film and Ex Machina, Briareos is retconned to be a rather Japanese-looking Bishōnen. Word of God is that Briareos was Black Caribbean (where, he never specified). XIII makes him black again. Not just Briareos either; Deunan's mother was white in the 2004 film, but black in XIII (also an indicator that XIII is an Alternate Continuity). This one's a plot point in her Death by Origin Story: she was gunned down for crossing an apartheid line. Actually, that's not alternate, that's pretty much Deunan exposition in volume 3 of the manga, animated. In the manga, Deunan explains that she was gunned down by some random racists in San Francisco, so her Death by Origin Story was changed as well. Deunan also said in the manga that she was a "Cafe Au Lait''. | |
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Battle Butler | |
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Battle Butler: Nike. | |
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Action Girl | |
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Action Girl: Deunan. | |
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Battle Couple | |
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Battle Couple: Deunan and Briareos. | |
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Lightning Bruiser | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_db6230b7 | comment |
Lightning Bruiser: Briareos uses (or, more accurately, is built into) the Hecatonchire-class full-body cyborg chassis, a towering juggernaut of a military prototype that is amongst the strongest, toughest rigs ever to exist, and boosts his reflexes to superhuman levels as well. | |
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Adaptation Name Change | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_dc057cf3 | comment |
Adaptation Name Change: "Sokaku" from the manga is now called "Two Horns" in Alpha. | |
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Reasonable Authority Figure | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_dca70c44 | comment |
Reasonable Authority Figure: Athena tries to get Deunan killed at the start of the film; however, in truth she didn't know Deunan's role in what was going on at the time, and when the Regular Army comes close to committing genocide she sends her, along with the rest of Kudo's ESWAT unit, on a mission to retrieve the Appleseed (which can save the Bioroid race and was long thought destroyed by Dr. Gilliam until an Elder revealed its existence at an emergency meeting called by Athena to discuss the implications of a terrorist attack on the Bioroid day care center). General Uranus is willing to engage in debate with his opponents, even during a tense standoff involving the Regular Army, and despite his Fantastic Racism he's at least smart enough to carefully consider the consequences of his actions whenever they come to light. | |
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Mid-Season Twist | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_ddb233c1 | comment |
Mid-Season Twist: Episode 7 of XIII has the pilot of the rogue Hecatonchires Landmate turn out to be Deia. | |
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Gambit Pileup | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_de9047ac | comment |
Gambit Pileup: Even after repeated rereads, it can be difficult to pick out the specifics of Athena vs. the Council. | |
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The Evils of Free Will | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_dfcb2c08 | comment |
The Evils of Free Will: Serves as the villain's primary motivation in Ex Machina. | |
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Composite Character | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_e4965307 | comment |
Composite Character: Tereus from Ex Machina has elements of both Briareos and Fang from the manga. Makes sense, seeing as he's a clone of the former. | |
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Unexplained Recovery | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_e5d8460d | comment |
Unexplained Recovery: In Appleseed Alpha, the gang leader Two Horns is remarkably resilient. His persistent failure to die is never explained. | |
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Phlebotinum-Induced Stupidity | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_e5ffeb19 | comment |
Phlebotinum-Induced Stupidity: In Ex Machina, Briareos would likely have found unearthing the movie's central conspiracy much easier if the lingering nanite poisoning they used to temporarily take him over hadn't compelled him to take the most stupid, pointless, and needlessly violent actions possible whenever his adrenaline levels spiked. Luckily for him, there's a treatment. | |
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Humongous Mecha | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_e6f18344 | comment |
Humongous Mecha: A 13-foot tall death machine appears in volume 4 of the manga, but is taken apart by just two veteran landmate pilots (and a Tank Cannon). | |
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MechaExpansionPack | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_e7099879 | comment |
Mecha Expansion Pack: In the fourth volume of the manga, Briareos uses a series of attachments that basically turns him into a Landmate. | |
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Concealment Equals Cover | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_ea92aeb0 | comment |
Concealment Equals Cover: Very, very averted. As is common for Shirow Masamune works, big guns will chew up the scenery. Of particular note is the huge Gatling guns used by the tanks in the intro of the first movie: they're shown punching straight through thick concrete and brick walls like they were made of stale crackers. | |
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Redemption Equals Death | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_f1492605 | comment |
Redemption Equals Death: Possibly; it's been theorized that the Elders, realizing that Deunan's determination to preserve the future of humanity came from possibly a purer motive than they had, had entered the last letter of the Mobile Fortress password with the last of their strength, allowing Deunan to save humanity with the push of a button. | |
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Mercy Kill | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_f3626b09 | comment |
Mercy Kill: Deunan does one to Xander in Ex Machina. | |
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SWAT Team | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_f3b5d559 | comment |
ESWAT Team | |
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Product Placement | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_f511ea9b | comment |
Product Placement: In Ex Machina, the credits tell us that two of Deunan's outfits were designed by Miuccia Prada. Write OLYMPUS in a sans-serif font and it will enevitably resemble the logo of the Olympus camera company. | |
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Hero-Tracking Failure | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_f5920574 | comment |
Hero-Tracking Failure: Occurs at the start of the first movie, and receives a brief Call-Back in the opening fight of Ex Machina, though that huge gatling gun looked pretty difficult to maneuver even for a cyborg. Alpha does this again during the chase in New York between Briareos and the tank, but not unexpected since Two Horns is on the gun, and he wasn't expecting Briareos to be able to move so fast considering how sluggish he was just the day before. | |
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TheDogBitesBack | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_fb3576b2 | comment |
The Dog Bites Back: It's implied in the 2004 film that General Uranus ratted out the Elders while surrendering to Athena, who quickly confronts the Elders just as they're about to bring about the gradual extinction of humanity. | |
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Robot Buddy | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_fcbcc221 | comment |
Robot Buddy: Kotus, especially in his Day in the Limelight episode in XIII. | |
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Appleseed (Manga) / int_fd4f8299 | type |
WellIntentionedExtremist | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_fd4f8299 | comment |
Well-Intentioned Extremist: Arguably so with the Elders in the first film, who wish to preserve the Earth and rid it of the evils inflicted upon it by mankind; unfortunately, their ultimate means to do this is the sterilization of the human race. | |
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Theme Naming | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_fd94c4ac | comment |
Theme Naming: Many characters are named after characters from Greek mythology. | |
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Spider Tank | |
Appleseed (Manga) / int_ff8afd14 | comment |
Spider Tank: Spider Gun Platforms, and smaller Spider Drones. | |
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