History Manga / SpaceAdventureCobra

** One of the episodic villains in the first TV series has a very well-guided version.

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* MenDontCry: The anime adaptation notably changes the scene of Cobra lamenting Dominique's death so that he's sitting next to a wall with his head low in shame but is ''not'' driven to tears like in the manga.

* FanserviceExtra: Several scenes focus on random strippers and other half-naked hostesses while Cobra is wandering or narrating something, even clashing with the mood of situations, like him reflecting on how Salamander had both [[spoiler:Dominique and Lady]] assassinated.

* NippleAndDimed: Zigzagged. Some scenes in the manga portray women with defined nipples and others don't. The feral villainess in volume 10 in particular is topless with no visible nipples in all of her scenes, unlike how most of the borderline nude female characters cover their breasts with pasties. Some prints of the manga, like the colored version, also censored most of such scenes.

* FanserviceExtra: Several scenes focus on random strippers and other half naked hostesses while Cobra is wandering or narrating something, even clashing with the mood of situations like him reflecting on how Salamander had both [[spoiler:Dominique and Lady]] assassinated.

* CasualDangerDialog: Cobra makes small talk with enemies and taunts them about all the time.

* {{Fembot}}: Lady Armaroid, Cobra'smost trusted companion, [[spoiler:is a woman who was forced to become almost entirely cybernetic because of a disease]].

A video game adaptation, ''Cobra: The Arcade'', was developed and released by Namco in 2005 exclusively for UsefulNotes/{{arcade|Game}}s. Gameplay-wise, it is ''VideoGame/TimeCrisis'' in the [[DolledUpInstallment skin]] of ''Space Adventure Cobra'', and features a card system that allows the player to save their records and earn unlocks. Earlier there had also been ''VideoGame/TheSpaceAdventure'', a menu-driven adventure game that saw release on the Sega CD.

** The Psychogun.

* AllPlanetsAreEarthLike

* AnyoneCanDie: Most of Cobra's allies are not lucky. [[spoiler:Catherine]], [[spoiler:Jane]] and even [[spoiler:Dominique]] all get killed, though the latter seems to somehow return as an amnesiac Secret.

* DropDeadGorgeous: Hardly a volume goes by without female corpses being presented in eroticised fashion, given the abundance of femme fatales and damsels who wear nothing more than bikinis into the battlefield.

** Crystal Bowie.

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

* {{Biseinen}}: Cobra, before he changed his face.

* RatedMForManly: It's an action series about a stylish manly outlaw at his physical prime going on adventures across the galaxy with with palpable amounts of violence and female nudity.

* ArchEnemy: Crystal Bowie.
* ArmCannon: The Psychogun.
* AnyoneCanDie: [[spoiler:Most of Cobra's allies are not lucky]].

* {{Biseinen}}: Cobra, before he changed face.
* BloodSport: Rugball

* CasualDangerDialog: Cobra, about all the time.

* {{Fembot}}: Lady Armaroid

* GirlOfTheWeek

** Cobra himself sometimes. At worst he gets KO'ed for a while.

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

* RatedMForManly

* TheManBehindTheCurtaun: Lord Salamander’s physically imposing appearance is ultimately revealed to be a psychic energy projection from his true body, [[spoiler:a decrepit and mummified Adolf Hitler.]]

* AdaptationalHeroism: Sandra, in the original series, was a greedy woman with delusions of grandeur who would have her own female members killed for the slightest defiance. In the movie, however, she's now one of Cobra's allies and almost none of her villainy from the tv series is shown.

* ItsPersonal: Cobra declares war on the Pirate Guild upon [[spoiler:failing to save both Catherine and Jane.]]

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

* AdaptationalHeroism: Sandra, in the original series, was a greedy woman with delusions of grandeur who would have her own female memebers killed for the slightest defiance. In the movie, however, she's now one of Cobra's allies and almost none of her villainy from the tv series is shown.

A video game adaptation, ''Cobra: The Arcade'', was developed and released by Namco in 2005 exclusively for UsefulNotes/{{arcade|Game}}s. Gameplay-wise, it is ''VideoGame/TimeCrisis'' in the [[DolledUpInstallment skin]] of ''Space Adventure Cobra'', and features a card system that allows the player to save their records and earn unlocks.