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* AGlassOfChianti (Dr. Hell and his lackeys are sometimes seen drinking)drinking fine wine)
** {{Cant Hold His Liquor}} ... However, Dr. Hell gets tipsy easily.
** {{Cant Hold His Liquor}} ... However, Dr. Hell gets tipsy easily.
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* {{Alliterative Name}} Kouji Kabuto [[spoiler:and his father, Kenzo Kabuto]]
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* {{Crucified Hero Shot}}: Both Kouji and Mazinger are subjected to this in the course of the series. Also, [[spoiler:{{Devilman}}]] himself in the movie Mazinger vs Devilman.
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* {{Crucified Hero Shot}}: Both Kouji and Mazinger are subjected to this several times in the course of the series.series. So did Shiro, Boss, Nuke and Much. Ashura seemed loving this Trope. Also, [[spoiler:{{Devilman}}]] himself in the movie Mazinger vs Devilman.
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** The Dynamic Heroes e-manga featured [[{{Mazinger Z}} Kouji, Sayaka]], [[{{Great Mazinger}} Tetsuya, Jun]], [[{{UFO Robo Grendizer}} Duke, Hikaru, Maria]], [[{{Getter Robo}} Ryoma, Hayato, Benkei]], [[{{Devilman}} Akira Fudo]] and [[Cutey Honey}} Honey Kisaragi]]. There was blood enough in that crossover to fill an ocean.
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** The Dynamic Heroes e-manga featured [[{{Mazinger Z}} Kouji, Sayaka]], [[{{Great Mazinger}} Tetsuya, Jun]], [[{{UFO Robo Grendizer}} Duke, Hikaru, Maria]], [[{{Getter Robo}} Ryoma, Hayato, Benkei]], [[{{Devilman}} Akira Fudo]] and [[Cutey [[{{Cutey Honey}} Honey Kisaragi]]. There was hot blood enough in that crossover to fill an ocean.
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* {{Beam Me Up Scotty}}: In the Spanish dub, Kouji's [[{{Calling Your Attacks}} infamous]] {{Rocket Punch}} line was translated as "¡Puños Fuera|" ("Fists Out!") instead of "Puño Cohete", and Sayaka's [[{{Torpedo Tits}} Oppai Missile]] attack was traslated like "¡Fuego de Pecho!" ("Breast Fire!"). However, a huge chuck of the Spanish-speaking fandom is downright convinced she told "¡Pechos Fuera!" ("Breasts Out!") despite of she never told that line.
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** The Dynamic Heroes e-manga featured [[{{Mazinger Z}} Kouji, Sayaka]], [[{{Great Mazinger}} Tetsuya, Jun]], [[{{UFO Robo Grendizer}} Duke, Hikaru, Maria]], [[{{Getter Robo}} Ryoma, Hayato, Benkei]], [[{{Devilman}} Akira Fudo]] and [[Cutey Honey}} Honey Kisaragi]]. There was blood enough in that crossover to fill an ocean.
** The Dynamic Heroes e-manga featured [[{{Mazinger Z}} Kouji, Sayaka]], [[{{Great Mazinger}} Tetsuya, Jun]], [[{{UFO Robo Grendizer}} Duke, Hikaru, Maria]], [[{{Getter Robo}} Ryoma, Hayato, Benkei]], [[{{Devilman}} Akira Fudo]] and [[Cutey Honey}} Honey Kisaragi]]. There was blood enough in that crossover to fill an ocean.
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* {{Would Hit A Girl}}: Kouji would definitely do -and the girl usually hit back-. Baron Ashura also did. It can or can not count when he hit himself/herself/itself. If it counts, then Dr. Hell also did, though.
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* CrossOver (With {{CrossOver}}: with {{Devilman}} in the Mazinger Z vs Devilman anime movie; with {{Devilman}} and {{Violence Jack}} in the {{CB Chara Go Nagai World}} OVA series (with cameos from a movie.)few other Nagai series); with {{Great Mazinger}}, [[{{UFO Robo Grendizer}} Grendizer]], {{Getter Robo}} and {{Kotetsu Jeeg}} in the {{Ken Ishikawa}}'s manga Super Robo Retsuden; and with {{Great Mazinger}}, {{UFO Robo Grendizer}}, [[{{Getter Robo}} Getter Robo, Getter Robo G]], {{Devilman}} and {{Cutey Honey}} in the Dynamic Heroes e-manga (also known as Nagai Go Manga Gaiden - Dynamic Heroes or Go Nagai manga heroes crossover collection - Dynamic Heroes), an e-manga released in 2004 and later compiled in tankoubon.
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* {{Crucified Hero Shot}}: Both Kouji and Mazinger are subjected to this in the course of the series. Also, [[spoiler:{{Devilman}}]] himself in the movie Mazinger vs Devilman.
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* {{Funny in Hindisight}}: Boss had a long-haired, female cousin. [[{{Neon Genesis Evangelion}} Her name was Misato.]]
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* {{Kick The Dog}}: Sort of averted. Baron Ashura is not above of pettty acts of cruelty, but usually he does them with a purpose in mind. Still, some of those acts include: hit children on the head to knock them out, blowing up the wheelchair of a paralytic little girl to prevent her from running away, ordering one of his Iron Masks killing a little cub whose mother had just got killed...
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* {{Funny in Hindisight}}: Boss had a long-haired, female cousin. [[{{Neon Genesis Evangelion}} Her name was Misato.]]
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* {{Forgotten Phlebotinum}}: For the most part it is played straight. Often Dr. Hell built a monster or invented a device put Mazinger in serious trouble, but it was only used in one episode (in an early episode, a Kikaiju used a liquid could melt Mazinger's armor. It was not used again. In episode 23, Dr. Hell created Jinray S1, a monster could fly at Match 5 speed. It obliterated one whole city and stomped Mazinger so hard and fast Kouji not even knew what had hit him. Dr. Hell never build another Kikaiju could fly at supersonic speed) but sometimes it is subverted and Dr. Hell reuses and even improves some strategies (one example is Deimos F3, a demonic-looking Mechanical Beast could split apart and rebuild itself at will. A later Kikaiju -Velgas V5- used the same trick, but each and every individual part could move and attack on its own. Another later Kikaiju improved that tactic). And sometimes he planned tactics expecting the enemy believed he was using the same trick, in order to deceive them.
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* BodyHorror: The Iron Masks (what lies beneath their helmets), Vizcount Pigman, the Kedora, a lot of Mykene Monsters... Given that this is a work of [[{{Go Nagai}} the creator of]] {{Devilman}}, it was to be expected.
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* BodyHorror: The Iron Masks (what lies beneath their helmets), helmets is not pretty), Vizcount Pigman, the Kedora, a lot of Mykene Monsters... Given that this is a work of [[{{Go Nagai}} the creator of]] {{Devilman}}, it was to be expected.
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* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: In the Ota's manga, Count Brocken delivers an EPIC one to Dr. Hell during the final battle.
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* BodyHorror (What BodyHorror: The Iron Masks (what lies beneath their helmets), Vizcount Pigman, the helmet Kedora, a lot of Mykene Monsters... Given that this is a work of [[{{Go Nagai}} the Iron Masks is not pretty)creator of]] {{Devilman}}, it was to be expected.
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* TheWoobie: Dr. Hell sees himself like this...
* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: And he yearns for being this!
* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: And he yearns for being this!
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* BrattyHalfPint: Yuri, Sayaka's cousin. She showed up in episode 23. [[TheWoobie She was a wheelchair-bound little girl felt lonely because her parents were never at home;]] so she refused training her legs because she wanted people looked to her, and she demanded all paid attention to her and oblige her whims (she seemed having a crush on Kouji, too). Needless to say, she got in big trouble, that led to a {{ItsAllMyFault}} moment.
* CreepyCrawlers: Several Kikaiju resemble slightly humanoid insects.
* TheDragon: Baron Ashura.
* FlyingBrick: Mazinger Z after its {{MidSeasonUpgrade}}, but also several Kikaiju. one of the worst offenders was Jinray S1 (It flew at Match-3 speed when Mazinger could not fly yet, it threw bolts of lightning and [[MacrossMissileMassacre shot missiles]])
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* OurDragonsAreDifferent: One of the Kikaiju (Dragon Omega1) resembles a robotical dragon.
* TheStarscream: Vizcount Pigman. He earns brownie points, though, for being the only Dr. Hell's henchmen showed some spine in front of Gorgon.
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* CoolAirship: Guru, Count Brocken's aerial fortress. It appears for first time at the episode 40
* CoolShip: Salude and Bood, Baron Ashura's submarine fortresses.
* CoolShip: Salude and Bood, Baron Ashura's submarine fortresses.
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* ThatsNoMoon: Salude, Baron Ashura's submarine fortress camouflaged itself as a island when it surfaced. The first time Kouji saw it, he exclaimed: "That is not a island!"
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* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Dr. Hell designed a Mechanical Beast (Spartan K5) resembled a [[{{Gladiator}} gladiator]] but it was a pacifist refused attacking unless provoked. Baron Ashura decided testing it against Mazinger Z, but Kouji actually [[spoiler:befriended it.]] Enraged, Ashura ordered several Iron Masks [[spoiler:putting a time bomb on Spartan K5 to blowing it up.]] Later, Spartan was accidentally goaded into attacking Mazinger Z and was [[CurbStompBattle UTTERLY BEATING THE CRAP OUT OF IT]]. It was about of delivering the final blow when [[spoiler:the bomb went off.]] Kouji and his friends felt sad. Hell and Ashura threw a fit.
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* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Dr. Hell designed a Mechanical Beast (Spartan K5) resembled a [[{{Gladiator}} gladiator]] but it was a pacifist refused attacking unless provoked. Baron Ashura decided testing it against Mazinger Z, but Kouji actually [[spoiler:befriended it.]] Enraged, Ashura ordered several Iron Masks [[spoiler:putting a time bomb on Spartan K5 to blowing it up.]] Later, Spartan was accidentally goaded into attacking Mazinger Z and was and [[CurbStompBattle UTTERLY BEATING BEAT THE CRAP OUT OF IT]]. It was about of delivering the final blow when [[spoiler:the bomb went off.]] Kouji and his friends felt sad. Hell and Ashura threw a fit.
* InNameOnly: {{Go Nagai}}'s manga and anime series, {{God Mazinger}} has aboslutely nothing to do with Mazinger whatsoever.
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* Unobtainium: Japanium. It is a rare mineral can only be found on a lode on Mount Fuji and was discovered by Proffesor Kabuto. Mazinger Z, Aphrodite A [[spoiler:and Great Mazinger]] are built with it [[spoiler: and the [[{{Robeast}}s Kikaiju]] after Dr. Hell stole a sample]]
* ThouShallNotKill: Played with. Kouji kills an [[{{Mook}} Iron]] [[Cyborg Mask]] in one of the first Nagai's manga chapters and he freaks out abou tit. Then a secondary character reminds him he was defending himself and informs him a [[BreakingTheFourthWall "manga character is never wrong"]] anyways.
* ThouShallNotKill: Played with. Kouji kills an [[{{Mook}} Iron]] [[Cyborg Mask]] in one of the first Nagai's manga chapters and he freaks out abou tit. Then a secondary character reminds him he was defending himself and informs him a [[BreakingTheFourthWall "manga character is never wrong"]] anyways.
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* Unobtainium: {{Unobtainium}}: Japanium. It is a rare mineral can only be found on a lode on Mount Fuji and was discovered by Proffesor Kabuto. Mazinger Z, Aphrodite A [[spoiler:and Great Mazinger]] are built with it [[spoiler: and the [[{{Robeast}}s Kikaiju]] after Dr. Hell stole a sample]]
* ThouShallNotKill: Played with. Kouji kills an [[{{Mook}} Iron]][[Cyborg [[{{Cyborg}} Mask]] in one of the first Nagai's manga chapters and he freaks out abou tit. Then a secondary character reminds him he was defending himself and informs him a [[BreakingTheFourthWall "manga character is never wrong"]] anyways.
* ThouShallNotKill: Played with. Kouji kills an [[{{Mook}} Iron]]
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* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Dr. Hell designed a Mechanical Beast (Spartan K5) resembled a [[{{Gladiator}} gladiator]] but it was a pacifist refused attacking unless provoked. Baron Ashura decided testing it against Mazinger Z, but Kouji actually [[spoiler:befriended it.]] Enraged, Ashura ordered several Iron Masks [[spoiler:putting a time bomb on Spartan K5 to blowing it up.]] Later, Spartan was accidentally goaded into attacking Mazinger Z and was [[CurbStompBattle UTTERLY BEATING THE CRAP OUT OF IT]]. It was about of delivering the final blow when [[spoiler:the bomb went off.]] Kouji and his friends felt sad. Hell and Ashura threw a fit.
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* BrainInAJar: The [[BodyHorror Kedora]]. {{Ken Ishikawa}} one-shot "The Relic of Evil" revealed that [[spoiler: the Mykene controlled his {{Robeast}} by grafting the brain of a soldier taught to destroy all no Mykene civilizations into a parasitic organism, and it fused with a robot, giving the Mykene soldier complete control.]] They would show up later in {{Shin Mazinger}}
* ConvenientlyAnOrphan: Kouji and Shiro's parents died on a car crash [[spoiler: but in reality only died their mother]]. Sayaka has also lost her mother.
* CutLexLuthorACheck: Dr. Hell is wealthy enough to build dozens of giant, humanoids war mechas, doomsday weapons, squad of cyborgs, several HQ, aircrafts, submarines(it was kind of [[JustifiedTrope justified]] in the Ota's manga when Dr. Hell revealed [[shortly after finding the old Mykene's mechanical warriors, Count Brocken took over several ancient European [[TheMafia Mafia]] in order to earn cash for Hell]])...
* DisposableWoman: Rumi was the maid Prof. Kabuto had hired to take care of his grandsons while he was creating Mazinger Z. She was cold-bloodly murdered by Baron Ashura less than five minutes after her first appearance. Kouji and Shiro cried when they found the corpse, but she was not mentioned again after the first episode.
* DoNotAdjustYourSet: Baron Ashura likes doing this to throw menaces around or make demands in behalf of Dr. Hell.
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* FallingIntoTheCockpitFallingIntoTheCockpit: Kouji knew absolutely nothing about piloting a giant robot -or any manner of robot, let's think of it- and in the first episodes it notices. Mazinger went on a rampage the first time he activated it because he kept punching random buttons, and he got beaten in his first battles. Sayaka and her father made their best to teach him quickly, but until then he only survived due to Mazinger's impressive weaponry and sturdy body armor... and Kouji soon revealed he was a quick-thinker could come up with new strategies on the fly.
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* SeventiesHair: Well, obviously. Kouji and Dr. Hell are prime examples of this.
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* {{UngratefulBastard}}s: People constantly blames Mazinger and the Photon Intitute for the destruction the battles between dr. Hell and Mazinger spawn, [[TooDumbToLive apparently forgetting]] if Mazinger Z didn't exist, all of them would be dead.
* Unobtainium: Japanium. It is a rare mineral can only be found on a lode on Mount Fuji and was discovered by Proffesor Kabuto. Mazinger Z, Aphrodite A [[spoiler:and Great Mazinger]] are built with it [[spoiler: and the [[{{Robeast}}s Kikaiju]] after Dr. Hell stole a sample]]
* ThouShallNotKill: Played with. Kouji kills an [[{{Mook}} Iron]] [[Cyborg Mask]] in one of the first Nagai's manga chapters and he freaks out abou tit. Then a secondary character reminds him he was defending himself and informs him a [[BreakingTheFourthWall "manga character is never wrong"]] anyways.
* Unobtainium: Japanium. It is a rare mineral can only be found on a lode on Mount Fuji and was discovered by Proffesor Kabuto. Mazinger Z, Aphrodite A [[spoiler:and Great Mazinger]] are built with it [[spoiler: and the [[{{Robeast}}s Kikaiju]] after Dr. Hell stole a sample]]
* ThouShallNotKill: Played with. Kouji kills an [[{{Mook}} Iron]] [[Cyborg Mask]] in one of the first Nagai's manga chapters and he freaks out abou tit. Then a secondary character reminds him he was defending himself and informs him a [[BreakingTheFourthWall "manga character is never wrong"]] anyways.
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* WhatMeasureIsAMook: The Iron Masks and the Iron Crosses are [[spoiler: reanimated corpse turned into cyborg]] are mindless and serve faithfully Dr. Hell and his henchmen. Kouji wonders in the manga if it is right kill them.
* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: See above.
* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: See above.
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* BadassBoast: In the {{GreatMazinger}} manga, when Dr. Hell learnt about the Mass Production Mazinger army the Japanese army was building, he swore he would crush Japan in merely ten days [[LargeHam and the world would witness the true power of Dr. Hell]].
* BashBrothers: Kouji and Boss (when they were not fighting), Kouji and [[{{GreatMazinger}} Tetsuya]] (when they were not arguing) and Kouji and [[{{UFORoboGrendizer}} Duke]].
* BashBrothers: Kouji and Boss (when they were not fighting), Kouji and [[{{GreatMazinger}} Tetsuya]] (when they were not arguing) and Kouji and [[{{UFORoboGrendizer}} Duke]].
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* DragonWithAnAgenda: Gorgon. Supposedly he allied himself with Dr. Hell, but in reality he only was biding his time for betraying him, getting him killed ([[spoiler: He literally backstabbed him in the Gosaku Ota manga)]], and destroying Mazinger Z. [[spoiler:[[{{Badass}} He succeeded on all fronts]].]]
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* VillainousBreakdown: It happened to Dr. Hell several times. The first of them happened in the SECOND episode, when he realized [[TheProfessor Juzo Kabuto]] still could surpass him and thwart his lifelong plans even after dead.
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* MidSeasonUpgrade: Several of them. Mazinger Z was routinely upgraded to allow it fight on different enviroments successfully or to endow it with new weapons to fight increasingly powerful enemies. The most promintent of those upgrades was the [[RazorWings Jet Scrander]].
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* FreudianExcuse: Dr. Hell was an a unwanted child -a fact his mother took great pains to remind him of constantly-. When he was a school student, he was constantly belittled by professors (who believed it was impossible he got those marks without cheating) and beaten by his schoolmates. When he was in college, he took pride on his grades... and then a foreigner student (Juzo Kabuto, Kouji's Grandfather) surpassed him easily before wooing the woman he was in love with. After saving a little girl and being beaten up by her father (since he believed he was molesting her), he declared he was sick of all and one day everybody would [[KneelBeforeZod kneel to him]]. And then Nazism happened and he... got tips.
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* FreudianExcuse: Dr. Hell was an a unwanted child -a fact his mother took great pains to remind him of constantly-. When he was a school student, he was constantly belittled by professors (who believed it was impossible he got those marks without cheating) and beaten by his schoolmates. When he was in college, he took pride on his grades... and then a foreigner student (Juzo Kabuto, Kouji's Grandfather) surpassed him easily before wooing the woman he was in love with. After saving a little girl and being beaten up by her father (since he falsely believed he was molesting her), he declared he was sick of all and one day everybody would [[KneelBeforeZod kneel to him]]. And then Nazism happened and he... got tips.
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* ItsAllAboutMe (Dr. Hell wants ruling over the world because he got fed up with being insulted, scorned, envied and beaten when he was young, and he wants purging the world out of idiots and forcing the survivors to [[KneelBeforeZod kneel before him]]. Likewise, when he was a college student, he befriended Kenzo Juzo Kabuto. When he realized the woman he loved was in love with Kenzo, he convinced himself they had pretended being his friends to backstab him later. [[LoveMakesYouEvil The result]] [[LoveMakesYouCrazy was]]... [[{{Understatement}} not pretty]])
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* FreudianExcuse (Dr.FreudianExcuse: Dr. Hell was an a unwanted child -a fact his mother took great pains to remind him of constantly-. When he was a school student, he was constantly belittled by professors (who believed it was impossible he got those marks without cheating) and beaten by his schoolmates. When he was in college, he took pride on his grades... and then a foreigner student (Kenzo Kabudo, (Juzo Kabuto, Kouji's Grandfatehr) Grandfather) surpassed him easily before wooing the woman he was in love with. After saving a little girl and being beaten up by her father (since he believed he was molesting her), he declared he was sick of all and one day everybody would [[KneelBeforeZod kneel to him]]. And then Nazism happened and he... got tips.)
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* CharacterDevelopment: It was not huge but it was there. For example, Kouji's sexism diluded somewhat through the episodes. At the beginning, Kouji flatly refuses Aphrodite gets modified into a full-fldged battle robot, declaring he does not need aid, and stating -to Sayaka's face- [[StayInTheKitchen girls should not fight]] (Predictably, Sayaka was not amused by this). Several dozens of episodes later, Aphrodite A is utterly destroyed in battle, Sayaka nearly loses it (see HeroicSOD example), and Kouji asks the professos are building Sayaka's new robot endowing her with weapons.
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* CharacterDevelopment: It was not huge but it was there. For example, Kouji's sexism diluded somewhat through the episodes. At the beginning, Kouji flatly refuses Aphrodite gets modified into a full-fldged battle robot, declaring he does not need aid, and stating -to Sayaka's face- [[StayInTheKitchen girls should not fight]] (Predictably, Sayaka was not amused by this). Several dozens of episodes later, Aphrodite A is utterly destroyed in battle, Sayaka nearly loses it (see HeroicSOD HeroicBSOD example), and Kouji asks the professos are building Sayaka's new robot endowing her with weapons.
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* CompleteMonster (Dr. Hell worked for Hitler. Before transforming Count Brocken into a cyborg, he stated he was going to use what he had learnt by experimenting with Jews in Austchwitz. And he grinning while he told it! His lackeys are not quite innocent, either)
* ImprobableAimingSkills: One of the Dr. Hell's Mechanical Monsters (Jenova M9) can shoot down anything as far as one hundred kilometres away. [[CompleteMonster Baron Ashura]] decides trying its aim shooting down a passenger plane.
* OneManArmy: It is both played straight and subverted. Mazinger is certainly powerful enough to trash an entire army... but when Kouji has to fight more than two {{Robeast}}s at once, he struggles (Mazinger versus Devilman) or loses (Mazinger versus Great General of Darkness, Mazinkaiser...)
* OurDragonsAreDifferent: One of the Kikaiju resembles a robotical dragon.
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* AGlassofChianti (Dr. Hell and his lackeys are sometimes seen drinking)
* AlternateContinuity (There are several manga versions. The original one was written and drawn by Go Nagai. A second version was drawn by Gosaku Ota -one of his assistants- that ran parallel to the anime series and was heavily influenced by it (That version was made when Sueisha realized two Mazinger Z mangas would make more profit that one). Gosaku Ota's manga showed the backstory of the Dr. Hell and his underlyings and it can be regarded like the superior version (YourMileageMayVary on this). Other versions are: New Mazinger, Mazin Saga, Mazinger Angels, Shin Mazinger, Shin Mazinger Zero, diferent one-shots and short stories -one of them made by Ishikawa)... And then you have the different anime versions)
* BodyHorror (What lies beneath the helmet of the Iron Masks is not pretty)
* BreastExpansion (In a rare, non-human example Aphrodite A once got this. Kouji thought it would help to fight a flying mechanical beast (Gelbros J3). ItMakesSenseInContext)
* CompleteMonster (Dr. Hell worked for Hitler. Before transforming Count Brocken into a cyborg, he stated he was going to use what he had learnt by experimenting with Jews in Austchwitz. And he grinning while he told it! His lackeys are not quite innocent, either)
* DoomsdayDevice (Several of them. Dr. Hell and his minions love build superweapons)
* EvilIsHammy (Dr. Hell)
* FreezeRay (one of the weapons of Mazinger Z: its helmet's horns blast freezing beams turn the enemy into a chunk of frozen, brittle ice. It is called [[CallingYourAttacks REITOU BEAM!!!]])
* FreudianExcuse (Dr. Hell was an a unwanted child -a fact his mother took great pains to remind him of constantly-. When he was a school student, he was constantly belittled by professors (who believed it was impossible he got those marks without cheating) and beaten by his schoolmates. When he was in college, he took pride on his grades... and then a foreigner student (Kenzo Kabudo, Kouji's Grandfatehr) surpassed him easily before wooing the woman he was in love with. After saving a little girl and being beaten up by her father (since he believed he was molesting her), he declared he was sick of all and one day everybody would [[KneelBeforeZod kneel to him]]. And then Nazism happened and he... got tips.)
* FreudianExcuse (Dr. Hell was an a unwanted child -a fact his mother took great pains to remind him of constantly-. When he was a school student, he was constantly belittled by professors (who believed it was impossible he got those marks without cheating) and beaten by his schoolmates. When he was in college, he took pride on his grades... and then a foreigner student (Kenzo Kabudo, Kouji's Grandfatehr) surpassed him easily before wooing the woman he was in love with. After saving a little girl and being beaten up by her father (since he believed he was molesting her), he declared he was sick of all and one day everybody would [[KneelBeforeZod kneel to him]]. And then Nazism happened and he... got tips.)
* ItsAllAboutMe (Dr. Hell wants ruling over the world because he got fed up with being insulted, scorned, envied and beaten when he was young, and he wants purging the world out of idiots and forcing the survivors to [[KneelBeforeZod kneel before him]]. Likewise, when he was a college student, he befriended Kenzo Kabuto. When he realized the woman he loved was in love with Kenzo, he convinced himself they had pretended being his friends to backstab him later. [[LoveMakesYouEvil The result]] [[LoveMakesYouCrazy was]]... [[{{Understatement}} not pretty]])
* {{Mook}}s (Baron Ashura's Iron Masks and Count Brocken's Iron Crosses)
* PragmaticAdaptation (The anime softened the personalities of several characters. Original manga's Dr. Kabuto [[MadDoctor did not quite seem sane]] since Go Nagai wanted showing Mazinger could have been just so easily used for evil. Anime's Dr. Kabuto seemed utterly sane, kind and likeable. Original Manga's Sayaka also was a Type B Tsundere because Go Nagai wanted making her different than his previous heroines, but anime turned her into a Type A Tsundere, right like former Nagai's female characters. He was amused about it)
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* {{Robeast}} (Mechanical Beasts)
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* {{Robeast}} (Dr. Hell's Kikaiju (Mechanical Beasts) and Mykene's Warrior Beasts)
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* ThisIsADrill (Several robotical foes (such like Danchel and Stronger T-4) were endowed with weaponized drills)
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* WhatISEvil?: Baron Ashura delivers this speech to Koji in the Gosaku Ota Manga.
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In the US, ''Mazinger Z'' was aired under the title ''Tranzor Z'' as a response to the popularity of ''{{Voltron}}''. In this dub, Koji became "Tommy" and Sayaka was "Jessica." It was later given a shorter, but more faithful dub run commissioned by Toei. The Toei dub was hugely popular in the Philippines before Ferdinand Marcos ordered it off the air, and some episodes were released on VHS in the U.K.; before ''Tranzor Z'', snippets of this dub had been aired in the U.S. on a Christian Broadcasting Network public-affairs program about Japan.
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In the US, ''Mazinger Z'' was aired under the title ''Tranzor Z'' as a response to the popularity of ''{{Voltron}}''. In this dub, Koji became "Tommy" and Sayaka was "Jessica." It was later given a shorter, but more faithful dub run commissioned by Toei.{{Toei}}. The Toei dub was hugely popular in the Philippines before Ferdinand Marcos ordered it off the air, and some episodes were released on VHS in the U.K.; before ''Tranzor Z'', snippets of this dub had been aired in the U.S. on a Christian Broadcasting Network public-affairs program about Japan.
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The twins were introduced in the \'\'Great Mazinger\'\' manga, over twenty years before \'\'Mazinkaiser\'\'.
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* MarthDebutedInSmashBros (''Mazinger'' was beaten in export to France by ''UFORoboGrendizer'', and since Kouji appears in that show as well, when ''Mazinger'' came over it was seen as a '''cheap imitation'''. ''Grendizer'' also technically beat ''Mazinger'' to American shores but due to [[{{Macekre}} name changes and the like]] nobody really noticed until years later.
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* MarthDebutedInSmashBros (''Mazinger'' was beaten in export to France by ''UFORoboGrendizer'', and since Kouji appears in that show as well, when ''Mazinger'' came over it was seen as a '''cheap imitation'''. ''Grendizer'' also technically beat ''Mazinger'' to American shores but due to [[{{Macekre}} name changes and the like]] like nobody really noticed until years later.)
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* MsFanservice (The busty yet brainy twins Lori and Loru, from ''Mazinkaiser''. Sayaka also wasn't free of this; just watch the 4th OAV.)
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* MsFanservice (The busty yet brainy twins Lori and Loru, from ''Great Mazinger'' and ''Mazinkaiser''. Sayaka also wasn't free of this; just watch the 4th OAV.)
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* RazorWings: Mazinger Z has the Scramble Cutter, an attack in which he uses his Jet Scrambler's wings to slice into the enemy.
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* RazorWings: Mazinger RazorWings (Mazinger Z has the Scramble Cutter, an attack in which he uses his Jet Scrambler's wings to slice into the enemy. enemy.)
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* RocketPunch: TropeNamer and TropeMaker. "[[{{Engrish}} Roketto Paaaanchi!]]"
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* RocketPunch: TropeNamer RocketPunch (TropeNamer and TropeMaker. "[[{{Engrish}} Roketto Paaaanchi!]]"Paaaanchi!]]")
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* SpellMyNameWithAnS (Notable for managing to ''avoid'' this all the way up to ''Mazinkaiser'', when the twin blonde research assistants were introduced. Rori, Loli, Lori, Roli? Roru, Lolu, Rolu, Loru, or [[ShoutOut possibly]] [[Game/MegaMan Roll]]? ''Nobody'' knows for sure.)
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* SpellMyNameWithAnS (Notable for managing to largely ''avoid'' this all the way up to ''Mazinkaiser'', when this, outside the twin blonde research assistants were introduced. assistants. Rori, Loli, Lori, Roli? Roru, Lolu, Rolu, Loru, or [[ShoutOut possibly]] [[Game/MegaMan Roll]]? possibly Roll? ''Nobody'' knows for sure.)
