History Anime / MacrossZero

* HandsomeLech: Roy.

* KillEmAll: [[spoiler:By the end, the only principal characters who aren't dead, [[DoomedByCanon are destined to be dead]] [[Anime/SuperDimensionFortressMacross within the next year]], or [[AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence ascended to]]... [[GainaxEnding somewhere]], are Edgar and Mao]].

* NotSoDifferent: Nora claims this of her group and the UN, saying that they would have used the thermobaric bomb themselves had they brought one. Falls flat when it turns out they've brought ''[[NuclearOption reaction weapons]]''-and kept them on hold [[GodzillaThreshold until anything less had failed stopping the Bird Human]].

* ContinuityNod: A prototype Destroid Monster shows up near the end. [[spoiler:Iris' death is what causes Roy to sink into depression until he met Claudia.]], Edgar shares the last name as Claudia.

* BigDamnKiss: First between Shin and Mao, then Roy and Aries, and finally [[spoiler:Shin and Sara]].

* '''SceneryPorn''': And not just landscape. The Destroid Monster near the end practically oozes [[TechnologyPorn sex]] [[GunPorn appeal]].

* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Sara's recallation revolving around the incident where Dr.Hadsford manipulated her into giving her blood is depicted as a similar form of PTSD that a survivor of sexual assault might experience.

Like the ''Anime/MacrossPlus'' OVA before it, ''Anime/MacrossZero'' eschews the usual SpaceOpera setting for a more personal story. Like the rest of the ''Macross'' series, it involves TransformingMecha, a LoveTriangle and the [[PowerOfRock Power of Music]] saving the world. Unlike the rest of the series, the usual J-pop/J-rock has been replaced with a much earthier tribal soundtrack, reflecting the setting in the South Pacific.

* ArtisticLicenseGeography: The fact that the island, implied to be somewhere in the South Pacific, is named "Mayan" Island has confused a lot of people, since the Mayans lived in Central America. It seems the name is a coincidence, as there is little similarity between the islander's culture and that of the Central American Mayan culture.

* FunnyForeigner: In the first episode, when Shin wakes up on the island with no idea where he is, he grabs a carved stick to use as a weapon, and later threatens the natives with it. He cannot figure out why onlookers are giggling so much while he's doing this, and one old man amusedly says "You really shouldn't be pointing that thing at another man, son." Later, when the romantic implications of the carved sticks are explained to him, he bursts out laughing at how stupid he must have looked, threatening the island's (young, female) religious leader with the cultural equivalent of a love letter.

* KillEmAll: [[spoiler:By the end, the only principal characters who aren't dead, [[DoomedByCanon destined to be dead]] [[Anime/SuperDimensionFortressMacross within the next year]], or [[AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence ascended to]]... [[GainaxEnding somewhere]], are Edgar and Mao]].

* NukeEm: [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermobaric_weapon Fuel-air bombs]] and reaction warheads.

Like the ''Anime/MacrossPlus'' OVA before it, ''Anime/MacrossZero'' eschews the usual SpaceOpera setting for a more personal story. Like the rest of the ''Macross'' series, it involves a LoveTriangle and the [[PowerOfRock Power of Music]] saving the world. Unlike the rest of the series, the usual J-pop/J-rock has been replaced with a much earthier tribal soundtrack, reflecting the setting in the South Pacific.

''Anime/MacrossZero'' is a five-episode OVA, set as a {{Prequel}} to the popular ''Anime/{{Macross}}'' series. The story takes place in the year 2008, nine years after an alien ship crash-landed in the south Pacific, in the final days of the Unification Wars mentioned earlier in the series. It involves Shin Kudou, a [[ButNotTooForeign Japanese-American]] UN soldier who crash lands on a small island after a fateful encounter with one of the first of the series' transforming HumongousMecha.

* KillEmAll: [[spoiler:By the end, the only principal characters who aren't dead, [[DoomedByCanon destined to be dead]] [[Anime/SuperDimensionFortressMacross in the next two years]], or [[AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence ascended to]]... [[GainaxEnding somewhere]], are Edgar and Mao]].

''Anime/MacrossZero'' is a five-episode OVA, set as a {{Prequel}} to the popular ''Anime/{{Macross}}'' series. The story takes place in the year 2008, nine years after an alien ship crash-landed in the south pacific, in the final days of the Unification Wars mentioned earlier in the series. It involves Shin Kudou, a [[ButNotTooForeign Japanese-American]] UN soldier who crash lands on a small island after a fateful encounter with one of the first of the series' transforming HumongousMecha.

* YouMonster: How Nora describes the UN military to Shin, held captive, when she [[spoiler:shows him the scar she got from a knife wound made by rogue UN troops.]] To be fair, we don't know if there were UN troops with Shin's unit who went rogue and committed war crimes. Nora tells this to Sara when she believes the UN Air Force could have bombed the island. On the other hand, Nora could be trying to shift blame from the Anti-UN force doing the ''exact same thing'' earlier on.

* VideoGame/SuperRobotWars: So far, only in the Scramble Commander the 2nd. Also appears in ''VideoGame/AnotherCenturysEpisode R''.