History Anime / SpaceBattleshipYamato2202

* GodsHandsAreTied: Despite being seen as a god by the mortal races of Yamato's universe, Teresa can't actually ''do'' much to intervene in the war with Gatlantis; to be able to even ''speak'' to her, the heroes had to travel to her species' homeworld Telezart, as part of it now straddles the physical universe and the dimension that Teresa exists in. Even then she could only give vague advice, as saying anything more specific would wreck causality. [[spoiler:Until that is, in the finale, where she uses the Yamato as a conduit to finally end the threat of the Comet Empire.]]

* SuicidalCosmicTemperTantrum: What Gatlantis' one thousand year old cosmic rampage essentially boils down to. [[spoiler:Zorder is convinced that the Archelian "experiment" with love and emotions among the humanoid races that are descended from them has failed, and will only lead to their eventual doom. As such he wants to clear the universe of humanoid life, so that a much better and purer existence free from emotion to take its place.]]

* LivingOnBorrowedTime: Kato's son is suffering from radiation bombing illness and is only two. Later it's implied that by Saizo [[spoiler: bathed himself in energy to cut his 'puppet strings' meant he too had time to only die free.]]

** And before that it seems like the one-in-a-million chance was going to happen: making peace with Gatlantis or at least Mil realizing that they can have emotions, deciding that he won't pull the trigger either. [[spoiler: Then Dessler's security team shoots him and there is no choice left but a battle to the death.]]

** Mills offers Dessler a ceasefire between Gamilas and Gatlantis, and promises to aid him in finding a new planet for his people, if he destroys the Yamato in return. Kodai points out that whatever gains Dessler will get out of the deal will likely be temporary anyway.

** Mills does this ''again'', this time with Klaus. In exchange for Gamillas and Earth getting a 10,000-year reprieve from annihilation, all Klaus needed to do was kill his uncle Abeldt.

* TheReveal:
** Ever wonder why Keyman looks so much like Dessler? [[spoiler:It's because he's ''Abelt's nephew''. His real name is Rahalt Dessler.]]
** Why is Sabera so different from the rest of the Gatlanteans? [[spoiler:It's because she ''isn't'' a Gatlantean. She's instead the last living clone of the Zemulians, the race that created the Gatlanteans.]]
* TheUnfavorite: Would you believe it, but [[spoiler:''Dessler'' was this? His family had high hopes instead for his talented brother Malthius to find a solution to their planet's problem; when he died in battle, everything fell on Abelt's young shoulders to continue what his brother was unable to finish.]] Even decades later, he's unable to completely shake off the feeling that he's inadequate by comparison.

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Kodai and the Yamato crew have been repeatedly tried to convince Emperor Zorder that he isn't simply a heartless clone, but someone who can feel emotions too. By the penultimate episode, Zorder finally agrees, and that yes, he's human too... [[spoiler:and as such is capable of feeling '''hate''' and '''spite'''. Having accepted that he ''absolutely hates Humanity'' (the Terran flavor), he triggers GOLEM, which puts the Ark of Destruction on a course to destroy Earth.]] Whoops.

* SuperiorSuccessor: The ''Ginga'' is to the ''Yamato'', or at least it was built with this in mind. Spec-wise, it's essentially a much better Yamato in ''every aspect''. Subverted though in that, when its finally deployed for battle, ''none of its Wave Motion weapons work'', [[spoiler:likely due to Okita's spirit in the Cosmo Reverse system intervening.]] Its still capable of feats that the Yamato would be hard-pressed to do even at full power, like ''covering the entire Cosmo Navy fleet at Saturn with a powerful force field''.

* DidIMentionItsChristmas: Episode 3 opens up on Planet 11 in the Solar System where Human and Gamilas Colonists work and live together. In one of the parks, Human and Gamilas kids are spending time with an old wheelchair-bound man dressed up as Santa as Commander Saito carries in a christmas tree for the kids to help decorate.

* ManchurianAgent: Yet another tool in the Gatlantean bag of dirty tricks. They will randomly revive random dead humans or Gamilans, modify them into human-shaped bombs, then return them to their people with no memory of their death, resurrection, or modification. At any time Zordar wills it, their resurrected personalities vanish, and pretty much become remotely-controlled zombies that he can detonate at will. [[spoiler:Saito is one, as he later learns to his horror, though he managed to shake off his Gatlantean conditioning and go out on his on terms]].

* GodsHandsAreTied: Despite being seen as a god by the mortal races of Yamato's universe, Teresa can't actually ''do'' much to intervene in the war with Gatlantis; to be able to even ''speak'' to her, the heroes had to travel to her species' homeworld Terezart, as part of it now straddles the physical universe and the dimension that Teresa exists in. Even then she could only give vague advice, as saying anything more specific would wreck causality. [[spoiler:Until that is, in the finale, where she uses the Yamato as a conduit to finally end the threat of the Comet Empire.]]

* PutOnABus: Several characters from the first series couldn't join in the adventure to Terezart this time around:

* SuicidalCosmicTemperTantrum: What Gatlantis' one thousand year old cosmic rampage essentially boils down to. [[spoiler:Zwordar is convinced that the Archelian "experiment" with love and emotions among the humanoid races that are descended from them has failed, and will only lead to their eventual doom. As such he wants to clear the universe of humanoid life, so that a much better and purer existence free from emotion to take its place.]]

'''''Space Battleship Yamato 2202: Warriors of Love''''' (also marketed as '''''Star Blazers 2202'''''), is the follow-up to the critically-successful re-imagining of the original Anime/SpaceBattleshipYamato series. Like [[Anime/SpaceBattleshipYamato2199 its predecessor]] it adapts a classic Yamato arc for a new era and new generation of viewers -- in this case, the events of ''Yamato 2'' and ''Arrivedeci Yamato''.

Much like its predecessor, ''Yamato 2202'' was first released as a set of movies, with the first one premiered in theaters in February 25, 2017. This was then followed by limited-release DVD and BLu-ray, before the series was finally aired in entirety as a 26-episode TV anime from October 2018 to March 2019. It was Studio XEBEC's final series.

Much like its predecessor, ''Yamato 2202'' was first released as a set of movies, with the first one premiered in theaters in February 25, 2017. This was then followed by limited-release DVDs, before the series was finally aired in entirety as a 26-episode TV anime from October 2018 to March 2019. It was Studio XEBEC's final series.

Much like its predecessor, Yamato 2202 was first released as a set of movies, with the first one premiered in theaters in February 25, 2017. This was then followed by limited-release DVDs, before the series was finally aired in entirety as a 26-episode TV anime from October 2018 to March 2019. It was Studio XEBEC's final series.

'''''Space Battleship Yamato 2202: Warriors of Love''''' (also marketed as '''''Star Blazers 2202'''''), is the follow-up to the critically-successful re-imagining of the original Anime/SpaceBattleshipYamato series. Like [[Anime/SpaceBattleshipYamato2199 its predecessor]] it adapts a classic Yamato arc for a new era and new generation of viewers -- in this case, the events of '''Yamato 2''' and '''Arrivedeci Yamato'''.

'''Space Battleship Yamato 2202: Warriors of Love''' (also marketed as '''Star Blazers 2202'''), is the follow-up to the critically-successful re-imagining of the original Anime/SpaceBattleshipYamato series. Like [[Anime/SpaceBattleshipYamato2199 its predecessor]] it adapts a classic Yamato arc for a new era and new generation of viewers -- in this case, the events of '''Yamato 2''' and '''Arrivedeci Yamato'''.