History Anime / DominionTankPolice

* IAteWhat: Brenten’s reaction when told the liquid he just tasted was a urine sample.

* BaitAndSwitchCredits: A relatively mild but none-the-less infuriating example in the case of New Dominion. There's a scene in the opening sequence of the anime with the Puma Sisters hanging onto a crashing, disintegrating biplane, and another with Bonaparte in a car crusher. Of course neither scene crops up in the actual anime itself, as the first was lifted from the New Dominion manga, which had a very different storyline, and the second from the original manga, to which New Dominion is kind of a sequel.

--> '''Mayor''': ''[to the Chief]'' A pile of claims! You didn't catch Buaku and his gang! You call yourselves "elite" Tank Police?\\
--> '''Chief''': ''[to the Mayor]'' Yes, ma'am... ''[to Captain Brenton]'' A pile of claims! You didn't catch Buaku and his gang! You call yourselves "elite" Tank Police?\\
--> '''Captain Brenton''': ''[to the Chief]'' Yes, sir... ''[to Leona and Al]'' A pile of claims! You didn't catch Buaku and his gang! You call yourselves "elite" Tank Police?\\

* [[AllCGICartoon All CGI Anime]]: The third OVA series, ''Tank SWAT''.

* FrickinLaserBeams: The primary weapon of the New Dominion Mobile Weapons. [[spoiler: They're a bit rubbish in the rain or under sprinklers though.]]

* HopelessSuitor: Al is this to Leona both here, the manga and the ''New Dominion'' series. Which is not to say that Leona ''DOESN'T'' care about him on some level...

* BaitAndSwitchCredits: A relatively mild but none-the-less infuriating example in the case of New Dominion. There's a scene in the opening sequence of the anime with the Puma Sisters hanging onto a crashing, disintegrating biplane, and another with Bonaparte in a car crusher. Of course neither scene crops up in the actual anime itself, as the first was lifted from the New Dominion manga, which had a very different storyline., and the second from the original manga, to which New Dominion is kind of a sequel.

* BaitAndSwitchCredits: A relatively mild but none-the-less infuriating example in the case of New Dominion. There's a scene in the opening sequence of the anime with the Puma Sisters hanging onto a crashing, disintegrating biplane, and another with Bonaparte in a car crusher. Of course neither scene crops up in the actual anime itself, as they were lifted from the New Dominion manga, which had a very different storyline.

* UrbanHellscape: All versions of the story involve a city that is so crime-ridden that the police has gotten authorization to deploy ''tanks'' (from "miniature" versions like Bonaparte up to Brenten's multi-lane-wide monstrosity) and the crime rate is still undeterred (to the point that DaChief believes literally deploying TheNuclearOption is necessary... of course, he's showcased as a bit of a madman and the other civil servants he's talking to on the opening narration are appalled at the idea). The original manga also showcased the city (if not the world) was on the verge of ecological devastation.

* AssholeVictim: The criminal interrogated with the threat of a hand grenade and a noose around his neck may have very well deserved this treatment, as it is later revealed that he confessed to several counts of murder (that's the dub, in the original, it was [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil five counts of rape]]).

* BoobsOfSteel: Leona (in the animé) and the Puma Sisters.

* MarriedToTheJob: Brenten is described as such, and loves his ginormous house-sized tank like his son, which is why he's so angry with Leon for destroying it.

* IneffectualSympatheticVillain: Buaku, although his failures are never his own fault -- he'd be a MagnificentBastard if his plans worked as well as they did in the manga. The Puma Sisters get to play this role in the ''New Dominion Tank Police'' {{Revival}} {{OVA}}s.

* ShoutOut
** A few back-and-forth with ''Franchise/GhostInTheShell''. For example, Anna and Uni show up for a brief cameo in ''Ghost''.
*** Both series also take place in the fictional "Newport City" in Japan.
** The civvies Leona sports in act 2 of ''New Dominion'' bears more than a passing resemblance to Kaneda's outfit from ''Manga/{{Akira}}''.

* CastOfExpies: The Tank Police are essentially the same as the crew from [[Franchise/GhostInTheShell Section-9.]] Except the former team is forced to work long hours, for little pay, and are a division of trigger-happy wack jobs.

* {{Expy}}: Leona is essentially a less-calm version of Noa Izumi of ''Anime/PatLabor''. They look similar, both fawn over their respective mecha, and they have relatively short fuses. They even both came to the Mecha unit from the Motorcyle police unit. The key difference being, Noa eventually outgrows her attachment to Alphonse, whereas Leona's obsession with her tank (Bonaparte) is increasingly Flanderized.

* BetterToDieThanBeKilled: The NewDominionTankPolice series provides a more villainous example in the form of TheDragon killing himself rather than by taken in for his crimes.

* TokenMinority: The NewDominionTankPolice OVA surprisingly (for an anime) has two -- the Chaplain, a Christian, and Nam, a black guy.

* TheWorfEffect: The Chief's reaction to hearing that Brenten was taken out in the first episode of the NewDominionTankPolice, showing just how powerful the new tank the criminal of the episode was piloting.

* PutDownYourGunAndStepAway: Averted, oh so very much averted in the NewDominionTankPolice OVA series. A criminal takes the owner of a bar hostage only for Leona to point out that if he fires, he loses his only protection and gives him until the count of ten to surrender. The criminal takes the wise option and allows his hostage to go free only to be ignored by Leona and then shot. By her tank.

* ColorFailure: Brenten after he manages to destroy the automatic control system of a giant runaway truck full of high explosives and almost gets run over by it.

* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: Brenten said that if this was a "serious comic", Chaplain would've died from Anna-Puma's bullets.