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* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: Cobra himself sometimes. At worst he gets KO'ed for a while.
** [[spoiler: Jane and Dominique in the 1982 Film.]]

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* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice:
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Cobra himself sometimes. At worst he gets KO'ed for a while.
** [[spoiler: Jane [[spoiler:Jane and Dominique in the 1982 Film.]]]]
* ItOnlyWorksOnce: In the Royal Triplets arc, Cobra defeats Crystal Boy using an unorthodox strategy of launching his cybernetic arm through the Psychogun's barrel, propelling it at a lethal speeds. It works and Crystal Boy is defeated. However, come later in the first OVA, Crystal Boy is revealed to have been repaired and faces Cobra again. The minute Cobra tries the same attack, Crystal Boy sees it immediately and grabs his arm before it can hit him.



* ItOnlyWorksOnce: In the Royal Triplets arc he defeats Crystal Boy using an unorthodox strategy of Launching his Arm through the Psycho Gun's barrel propelling it at a lethal speeds, it works and Crystal Boy is defeated. However, come later in the first OVA Crystal Boy is revealed to have been repaired and faces Cobra Again, however the minute Cobra tries the same attack again Boy sees it immediately and grabs his arm before it can hit him.



* SpacePirates

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* SpacePiratesSpacePirates: Although in the original Japanese it's more of a "Space Mafia", which decribes better the organization.
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** [[spoiler: Jane and Dominique in the 1982 Film.]]


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* ItOnlyWorksOnce: In the Royal Triplets arc he defeats Crystal Boy using an unorthodox strategy of Launching his Arm through the Psycho Gun's barrel propelling it at a lethal speeds, it works and Crystal Boy is defeated. However, come later in the first OVA Crystal Boy is revealed to have been repaired and faces Cobra Again, however the minute Cobra tries the same attack again Boy sees it immediately and grabs his arm before it can hit him.

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* [[spoiler:AdolfHitler]]: [[spoiler:Lord Salamander's true identity.]]



* CigarChomper

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* CigarChomperCigarChomper: Cobra ''always'' has a cigar stuck in the corner of his mouth.



* FountainOfExpies: Cobra himself has tons of them, like [[Anime/TriGun Vash]], [[VideoGame/BlazBlue Ragna]], [[{{Manga/Hellsing}} Alucard]], [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII Vincent Valentine]], [[VideoGame/DevilMayCry Dante]], etc. All of them all wear red and a lot of them have an unusual arm of sorts, while some others share Cobra's flirtatious and cocky personality.

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* FountainOfExpies: Cobra himself has tons of them, like [[Anime/TriGun [[Anime/{{Trigun}} Vash]], [[VideoGame/BlazBlue Ragna]], [[{{Manga/Hellsing}} [[Manga/{{Hellsing}} Alucard]], [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII Vincent Valentine]], [[VideoGame/DevilMayCry Dante]], etc. All of them all wear red and a lot of them have an unusual arm of sorts, while some others share Cobra's flirtatious and cocky personality.



* MsFanservice: Most of the women in the series, in addition to being good looking, wear rather revealing clothing.

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* MsFanservice: Most of the women in the series, in addition to being good looking, good-looking, wear rather revealing clothing.



* TheReveal: Lord Salamander's true identity is [[spoiler:AdolfHitler]].



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* SmokingIsCool: Cobra ''always'' has a cigar stuck in the corner of his mouth.



* SparedByTheAdaptation: [[spoiler: Dominique]] in the original TV series.

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* SparedByTheAdaptation: [[spoiler: Dominique]] [[spoiler:Dominique]] in the original TV series.



* ThemeMusicPowerUp: ''Shi no Koshin''.

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* ThemeMusicPowerUp: ''Shi "Shi no Koshin''.Koshin"


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* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: Cobra himself sometimes. At worst he gets KO'ed for a while.
* ItsPersonal: Cobra declares war on the Pirate Guild upon [[spoiler:failing to save both Catherine and Jane.]]
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* DarkActionGirl: Plenty of women in the series.
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* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: If [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Zt9DvZ-zHA the music for the series]] has a familiar feeling, it's because it's composed by the legendary Japanese jazz musician Yuji Ono, who composed the music for another legendary anime: ''[[LupinIII Lupin The 3rd]]''.
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* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: If [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Zt9DvZ-zHA the music for the series]] has a familiar feeling, it's because it's composed by the legendary Japanese jazz musician Yuji Ono, who composed the music for another legendary anime: ''[[LupinIII Lupin The 3rd]]''.
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* LoveableRogue: One of anime's most absolutely charming scoundrels. Think of him as a Japanese [[Franchise/StarWars Han Solo]] mixed in a blender with ArseneLupin.

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* LoveableRogue: One of anime's most absolutely charming scoundrels. Think of him as a Japanese [[Franchise/StarWars Han Solo]] mixed in a blender with ArseneLupin.Literature/ArseneLupin.
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* FountainOfExpies: Cobra himself has tons of them, like [[Anime/TriGun Vash]], [[BlazBlue Ragna]], [[{{Manga/Hellsing}} Alucard]], [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII Vincent Valentine]], [[VideoGame/DevilMayCry Dante]], etc. All of them all wear red and a lot of them have an unusual arm of sorts, while some others share Cobra's flirtatious and cocky personality.

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* FountainOfExpies: Cobra himself has tons of them, like [[Anime/TriGun Vash]], [[BlazBlue [[VideoGame/BlazBlue Ragna]], [[{{Manga/Hellsing}} Alucard]], [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII Vincent Valentine]], [[VideoGame/DevilMayCry Dante]], etc. All of them all wear red and a lot of them have an unusual arm of sorts, while some others share Cobra's flirtatious and cocky personality.
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* ConspicuousCG: The late 1990s' full-color re-edition of the manga makes heavy use of CG imagery for backgrounds, vehicles and monsters. Those updated elements are still the work of Buichi Terasawa, and are certainly gorgeous -- going easily into SceneryPorn. But they also stand out rather sharply with the original 2D-art.
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* SparedByTheAdaptation: [[spoiler: Dominique]] in the original TV series.

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* CombatStilettos:
** A frequent accessory of female outfits.

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CombatStilettos: A frequent accessory of female outfits.
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** One male villain tried to step on Lady with a less feminine variant of this, namely glowing spikes deployed from the sole.

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Word Cruft and Conversation in the main page. Also fixing Example Indentation and removing a quite-unnecessary bit.


* CombatStilettos: A frequent accessory of female outfits.
** One male villain (albeit plant-based and lacking a phallos, at least in the usual place) tried to step on Lady with a less feminine variant of this, namely glowing spikes deployed from the sole.

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* CombatStilettos: CombatStilettos:
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A frequent accessory of female outfits.
** One male villain (albeit plant-based and lacking a phallos, at least in the usual place) tried to step on Lady with a less feminine variant of this, namely glowing spikes deployed from the sole.



** To be fair, the all-female Snow Guerilla are more covered up than the average scuba diver, it's just that their outfits might as well have been painted on.
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** One male villain (albeit plant-based and lacking a phallos, at least in the usual place) tried to step on Lady with a less feminine variant of this, namely glowing spikes deployed from the sole.
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Argument about stripperific

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** To be fair, the all-female Snow Guerilla are more covered up than the average scuba diver, it's just that their outfits might as well have been painted on.
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* {{Casanova}}: Cobra, all the way.

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* {{Casanova}}: TheCasanova: Cobra, all the way.

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!!''Space Adventure Cobra'', manga and anime, provides examples of:

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!!''Space Adventure Cobra'', manga and anime, Cobra'' provides examples of:
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* CoolGun: Cobra's Psychogun

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* CoolGun: Cobra's PsychogunPsychogun.



* LoveableRogue: One of anime's most absolutely charming scoundrels. Think of him as a Japanese [[StarWars Han Solo]] mixed in a blender with ArseneLupin.

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* LoveableRogue: One of anime's most absolutely charming scoundrels. Think of him as a Japanese [[StarWars [[Franchise/StarWars Han Solo]] mixed in a blender with ArseneLupin.



* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: According to {{Word of God}}, the hero was inspired by French actor Jean-Paul Belmondo (maybe from Godard's film ''Pierrot le Fou'').
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Both recent entries are trivia.


* TheOtherDarrin: In the Japanese version, most of the characters' voices were recast between the movie and TV series. The recent seasons also have different voices for the characters.



* DuelingDubs: The movie has been dubbed twice into English by two different companies (Streamline and Manga UK) with two completely different voice casts.
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* TheOtherDarrin: In the Japanese version, most of the characters' voices were recast between the movie and TV series. The recent seasons also have different voices for the characters.


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* DuelingDubs: The movie has been dubbed twice into English by two different companies (Streamline and Manga UK) with two completely different voice casts.

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Two anime adaptations were made, both closely watched by author of the original manga and preserving both plot and style of the original. What is even more awesome, in a recent remake titled ''Cobra the Animation'' they even recruited the same seyuus for both Cobra and Lady Armoroid. Preserving the character design helped a lot too.

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Two anime adaptations were made, both closely watched by author of the original manga and preserving both plot and style of the original. What is even more awesome, in a recent remake titled ''Cobra the Animation'' they even recruited the same seyuus seiyuu for both Cobra and Lady Armoroid.Armaroid. Preserving the character design helped a lot too.



* PastelChalkedFreezeFrame: Anime director Osamu Dezaki is the TropeMaker, and ''Space Advenutre Cobra'' is likely the TropeCodifier.

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* PastelChalkedFreezeFrame: Anime director Osamu Dezaki is the TropeMaker, and ''Space Advenutre Adventure Cobra'' is likely the TropeCodifier.



* RefugeInCool
* ResetButton: In one of the later episodes, Cobra accidentally unleashes an unstoppable ancient weapon that WILL destroy entire civilizations. As a result a little robot chicken guardian has to rewind time, retconning the entire episode out of existance.

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* RefugeInCool
* ResetButton: In one of the later episodes, Cobra accidentally unleashes an unstoppable ancient weapon that WILL destroy entire civilizations. As a result a little robot chicken guardian has to rewind time, retconning the entire episode out of existance.existence.
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* MissFanservice: Most of the women in the series, in addition to being good looking, wear rather revealing clothing.

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* MissFanservice: MsFanservice: Most of the women in the series, in addition to being good looking, wear rather revealing clothing.
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* OutOfClothesExperience: The sisters Jane and Catherine Royal are seen together, naked in a void, [[spoiler:as they are dying]].

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Imagine a book about space adventures from TheEighties. ''TheStainlessSteelRat'' by Harry Harrison would fit the best. Make the overall tone a bit {{Darker and Edgier}}, slightly increase the amount of naked female body, keep the funny level the same and give the main character an ArmCannon. Make it all into manga and anime adaptation. Give it an awesome, very Eighties female vocal opening and ending.

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Imagine a book about space adventures from TheEighties. ''TheStainlessSteelRat'' by Harry Harrison would fit the best. Make the overall tone a bit {{Darker and Edgier}}, DarkerAndEdgier, slightly increase the amount of naked female body, keep the funny level the same and give the main character an ArmCannon. Make it all into manga and anime adaptation. Give it an awesome, very Eighties female vocal opening and ending.



* FountainOfExpies: Cobra himself has tons of them, like [[{{Trigun}} Vash]], [[BlazBlue Ragna]], [[{{Hellsing}} Alucard]], [[FinalFantasyVII Vincent Valentine]], [[DevilMayCry Dante]], ETC. All of them all wear red and a lot of them have an unusual Arm of sorts, while some others share Cobra's Flirtatious and cocky personality.

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* FountainOfExpies: Cobra himself has tons of them, like [[{{Trigun}} [[Anime/TriGun Vash]], [[BlazBlue Ragna]], [[{{Hellsing}} [[{{Manga/Hellsing}} Alucard]], [[FinalFantasyVII [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII Vincent Valentine]], [[DevilMayCry [[VideoGame/DevilMayCry Dante]], ETC. etc. All of them all wear red and a lot of them have an unusual Arm arm of sorts, while some others share Cobra's Flirtatious flirtatious and cocky personality.



* LoveableRogue: One of anime's most absolutely charming scoundrels. Think of him as a Japanese [[StarWars Han Solo]] mixed in a blender with [[strike:{{Lupin the Third}}]] ArseneLupin.

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* LoveableRogue: One of anime's most absolutely charming scoundrels. Think of him as a Japanese [[StarWars Han Solo]] mixed in a blender with [[strike:{{Lupin the Third}}]] ArseneLupin.



* RevolversAreJustBetter: Both in manga and old TV series, Cobra carries a custom six-shooter. (The bullets are of a special alloy that can pierce some blindages even the Psychogun can't go through, however.) In some versions it's actually a portable mortar, with Cobra refusing to use it inside his ship for fear that he'd destroy the vessel.
** It's back in the new TV series.

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* RevolversAreJustBetter: Both in manga and old TV series, Cobra carries a custom six-shooter. (The bullets are of a special alloy that can pierce some blindages even the Psychogun can't go through, however.) In some versions it's actually a portable mortar, with Cobra refusing to use it inside his ship for fear that he'd destroy the vessel.
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vessel. It's back in the new TV series.



* RocketPunch: One of episodic villains in first TV had a very well guided version. Cobra himself can launch his fake arm in that way. It returns too.

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* RocketPunch: RocketPunch
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One of the episodic villains in the first TV had series has a very well guided version. well-guided version.
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Cobra himself can launch his fake arm in that way. It returns too.



* {{Zeerust}}: The seriest takes place in the future, but looks as if it was stuck in the 1960s.

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* {{Zeerust}}: The seriest series takes place in the future, but looks as if it was stuck in the 1960s.
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YMMV trope.


* WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids: It was published in ShonenJump, afterall, despite having full frontal nudity of it's women in many chapters.
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* WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids: It was published in ShonenJump, afterall, despite having full frontal nudity of it's women in many chapters.
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* FountainOfExpies: Cobra himself has tons of them, like [[{{Trigun}} Vash]], [[BlazBlue Ragna]], [[{{Hellsing}} Alucard]], [[FinalFantasyVII Vincent Valentine]], [[DevilMayCry Dante]], ETC. All of them all wear red and a lot of them have an unusual Arm of sorts, while some others share Cobra's Flirtatious and cocky personality.
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* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: Crystal Boy; Cobra himself too.

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Two anime adaptations were made, both closely watched by author of the original manga and preserving both plot and style of the original. What is even more awesome, in a recent remake titled ''Cobra the Animation'' they even recruted the same seyuus for both Cobra and Lady Armoroid. Preserving the character design helped a lot too.

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Two anime adaptations were made, both closely watched by author of the original manga and preserving both plot and style of the original. What is even more awesome, in a recent remake titled ''Cobra the Animation'' they even recruted recruited the same seyuus for both Cobra and Lady Armoroid. Preserving the character design helped a lot too.



* TheProblemWithLicensedGames
** A game based on the Royal sisters storyline was released for the Sega CD, and is generally regarded by those who've played it to be pretty bad.
** Inverted if you're talking about the more recent lightgun game, based on the same storyline, although Your Mileage May Vary since its gameplay is damn-near identical to ''TimeCrisis''.

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