History Literature / DirtyPair

* HeterosexualLifePartners: The trope was started by editors trying to figure out where to place Kei and Yuri's partnership. Sometimes extrapolated by fans to GirlsLove.

** In the ''Project Eden'' film, Yuri and Kei keep their guns right beside their tubs as they bathe and end up threatening Carson with it after he [[InterruptedBath interrupted them]]. This comes in handy since they're attacked by monsters shortly after.

* IneffectualSympatheticVillain: Professor Waldo Wattsman from ''Project Eden''. He's a MadScientist hellbent on playing God, ''and'' he stole a rare wine sought by Carson, but he's extremely dedicated to his task and [[{{Determinator}} stubbornly refuses to give up]] even when the specimen he's experimenting on refuses to cooperate with his plans for humanity's future successor--he truly believes humanity will go the way of the dinosaur one day and is simply paving the way for the species he believes the best fit to succeed humanity as the dominant biological species. [[spoiler:Even with all the enemies he makes in the course of the picture, he and his butler Bruno get to survive the climactic showdown, and Wattsman ends the film dreaming of continuing to cultivate humanity's chosen successor.]]
* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler:Professor Wattsman is defeated and arrested but not discouraged, and otherwise gets off scot free for all the crimes he's committed in the course of ''Project Eden'' and before the events thereof, with him and his butler preparing to continue his work on preparing humanity's chosen successor.]]

* XenomorphXerox: ''[[TheMovie Project Eden]]'' has the Lovely Angels investigating a mining planet being attacked by Xenomorph-like creatures called Sadinga. They're revealed to be created from fossils within the GreenRocks mined on the world by an EvilutionaryBiologist, convinced that he can reanimate them into the UltimateLifeForm.

* CyberPunk: Both the classic anime version and ''Flash'' flirt with this.

* IneffectualSympatheticVillain: Professor Waldo Wattsman from ''Project Eden''. He's a MadScientist hellbent on playing God, ''and'' he stole a rare wine sought by Carson, but he's extremely dedicated to his task and [[{{Determinator}} stubbornly refuses to give up]] even when the specimen he's experimenting on refuses to cooperate with his plans for humanity's future successor--he truly believes humanity will go the way of the dinosaur one day and is simply paving the way for the species he believes the best fit to succeed humanity as the dominant biological species. [[spoiler:Even with all the enemies he makes in the course of the picture, he and his butler Bruno get to survive the climactic showdown and continue to cultivate humanity's chosen successor.]]
* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler:Professor Wattsman is defeated but not discouraged, and otherwise gets off scot free for all the crimes he's committed in the course of ''Project Eden'' and before the events thereof, with him and his butler preparing to continue his work on preparing humanity's chosen successor.]]

* NeverMyFault: The Lovely Angels use this as a {{catchphrase}}. And generally, they ''aren't'' the direct cause of the worst of the collateral damage around them. ...Most of the time.

* TitleConfusion: TheMovie was released in Japan as ''[[TitleTheAdaptation Dirty Pair: The Movie]]'', but virtually everyone in North America -- including ADV Films and Nozomi -- calls it ''Project EDEN'', after the MadScientist villain's master plan. It's understandable since the BattleButler [[LampshadeHanging literally bangs a gong]] after Professor Wattsman [[TitleDrop says the magic words]].

* CloningBlues: In "Fatal but Not Serious" a clone of Yuri is made and is told she's in a training simulation where her objective is to kill the "simulated" Kei and Yuri. Thinking she's in a consequence-free simulation, she indulges in her bad side and gets some tattoos, and causes even more collateral damage than usual, up to and including making a star go nova.

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[[caption-width-right:350:You ''will'' remember to call them "LovelyAngels", [[BerserkButton won't you?]]\\
(Kei on the left, Yuri on the right)]]

* {{Wedgie}}: in an attempt to save the Kei and Yuri from falling, Carson grabs Yuri by her bikini bottoms while she's carrying Kei; which results in her getting a hanging wedgie, as they were beginning to slowly rip, until all three of them fall off.

* {{Wedgie}}: in an attempt to save the Kai and Yuri from falling, Carson grabs Yuri by her bikini bottoms while she's carrying Kai; which results in her getting a hanging wedgie, as they were beginning to slowly rip, until all three of them fall off.

* AllPartOfTheShow: In OVA episode 2, a rogue combat robot begins launching missiles during a Halloween fireworks display in Elenore City Park, and the audience mistakes the missile explosions for fireworks (as do the pyrotechnicians themselves: "Whoa, when did we send up that really big one?") Kei and Yuri borrow some of the rockets and use them to ''kill'' the robot -- earning even more applause from the crowd in the park below.

* PsychoShowerMurderParody: Appears in episode 24, which is a murder mystery fittingly enough.

* NamedAfterSomeoneFamous: The duo, and by that extent the show itself, were named after the famous Joshi Wrestling tag team, the "Beauty Pair", [[LampshadeHanging which is why they were mistaken for Pro Wrestlers in Episode 1]].

* MsFanservice: Both of them are {{Head Turning Beau|ty}}ties that wear a {{Stripperiffic}} uniform that consists of a low-cut, [[BareYourMidriff midriff-bearing halter]] and short-shorts. (And this is from 1985, no less.)

Novelist Haruka Takachiho first created the Pair in 1979, in a series of stories published as LightNovels set in the same continuity as his other series ''LightNovel/CrusherJoe'' (which debuted 2 years earlier). The inspiration was a trip to see the Japanese female wrestlers "The Beauty Pair". The production studio Creator/{{Sunrise}} adapted the stories into a successful action/comedy TV series in 1985, which continued into a movie, an {{OVA}} series, and two feature-length {{OVA}}s. In 1994, the franchise was rebooted as ''Dirty Pair Flash''. Meanwhile, Adam Warren (future author of ''ComicBook/{{Empowered}}'') and [[LesserStar Toren Smith]] (of translation house Studio Proteus, who left after the first three miniseries) obtained the rights to create an [[OELManga English-original manga-styled]] ''Dirty Pair'' comic miniseries for Creator/DarkHorseComics, technically based on the original novels instead of the anime. As for the light novels themselves, they continued to be published all the way until ''2018'', when the ninth and final one was finally released.

** In Episode 14, when Kei is watching TV, we briefly see one TV channel showing something featuring LightNovel/CrusherJoe. The ''Crusher Joe'' movie itself features a longer [[ShowWithinAShow show-within-the-show]] cameo appearance of Kei, Yuri, and Mugi. Since the original light novel versions of ''Crusher Joe'' and ''Dirty Pair'' are part of the same continuity, these qualify as {{continuity nod}}s or {{mythology gag}}s. Joe and company also pop up on Mughi's screen (as do the Yaz versions of the Angels) right before the big fight in ''Project EDEN''.

* HumanPopsicle: The reason why Kei and Yuri never showed up in ''LightNovel/CrusherJoe'' aside from their cameo in the movie, as confirmed by [[http://www.elenorecity.com/daifukkatsu.html a 2004 light novel]] that has them waking up from said cryogenic stasis in the year 2294, which is after the events of ''Crusher Joe''. [[note]] And thus debunking the theories about Kei being Talos' wife and Yuri being Joe's [[DeathByChildbirth deceased]] [[MissingMom mother]], Yuria.[[/note]]

* HumanPopsicle: The reason why Kei and Yuri never showed up in ''LightNovel/CrusherJoe'' aside from their cameo in the movie, as confirmed by [[http://www.elenorecity.com/daifukkatsu.html a 2004 light novel]] that has them waking up from said cryogenic stasis in the year 2294, which is after the events of ''Crusher Joe''. [[note]] And thus debunking the theories about Kei being Talos' wife and Yuri being Joe's [[DeathByChildbirth deceased]] [[MissingMom mother]], Yuria. The former is a case of NamesTheSame while the latter is just has their names being one letter off [[/note]]

* ThanksForTheMammary: After Yuri {{Bath Kick}}s Carson out of her tub after he [[LandingInSomeonesBathtub lands on it]] he ends up falling on Kei's bathtub, with his hands accidentally groping her breasts. When she angrily tells him to take them off, he asks if she's sure, since he's technically providing her with HandOrObjectUnderwear with his hands. She's not amused and just punches him.

* BathKick: Yuri and Kei usually stretch their legs during their many bathing scenes. Once Yuri did actually kick Carson for [[LandingInSomeonesBathtub falling into her bubble bath]].

-->(When the Angels talk about being scouted as "Model-Actress-Whatevers") [[AC:''Vocational Shocker'' '''Could Have Been Worse -- They Could Have Been Singers!''']]\\
(After hearing the story about being recruited to the 3WA after pretending to have psychic powers) [[''Because of "psychic hoax"...'' '''MILLIONS HAVE DIED SCREAMING''' (''It's True'')]]\\
'''Cory:''' (Dazed and wounded during the final battle in the series, thinking) "Exposed -- The [=3WA=]'s absurdist plot to annihilate the human race -- A little cheesecake makes the bitter main course of ''species extinction'' go down easier..."

* DyingDream: In "Sim Hell", Kei's nightmare of dying in a crash and being sent to Hell (during the prologue) is later teased to have been an ''actual'' near-death experience when it's revisited as another scenario, where an angelic Yuri explains that the VR scenarios were the form of her eternal torment. Kei manages to escape with a ShutUpHannibal speech (mostly about being sure that the ''real'' Yuri wouldn't just abandon her even if she was damned to Hell.)

(After hearing the story about being recruited to the 3WA after pretending to have psychic powers) [[AC:''Because of "psychic hoax"...'' '''MILLIONS HAVE DIED SCREAMING''' (''It's True'')]]\\

* LovelyAngels: The TropeNamer, as the whole premise of the series is a duo of {{Action Girl}}s with contrasting personalities and appearances, with Kei being the redhead impulsive {{tomboy}} and Yuri being the cerebral blue-haired GirlyGirl and TheyFightCrime.

* WunzaPlot: The very premise being the impulsive tomboyish Kei being paired up with the more cerebral and mannered Yuri. TheyFightCrime.

* DarkSkinnedRedhead: Kei is the UrExample of this trope.

* RedOniBlueOni: Kei and Yuri practically define this trope for LovelyAngels teams. The idea of the two contrasting personalities interacting, the way they bounce off one another or back each other up, was actually the hook that Takachiho used to convince his editors that a series with a pair of female protagonists could work in the first place. Kei is the Red Oni being a [[{{Bokukko}} tomboy]] with FieryRedhead and [[DarkSkinnedRedhead dark skin]] with a [[GenkiGirl energetic and boisterous]] personality. Yuri is the Blue Oni being a GirlyGirl with [[TrueBlueFemininity blue raven hair]] and [[RavenHairIvorySkin pale skin]] being more of a YamatoNadeshiko with {{Kawaiiko}} tendencies. Many of the LovelyAngels teams who [[SpiritualSuccessor followed in their footsteps]] share a similar Red Oni-Blue Oni dynamic.