History MazingerZ / TropesMToO

* NotSoDifferent: Both the original series and its sequel use this trope: In ''Anime/MazingerZ'', both Dr. Hell and Juzo Kabuto are geniuses (and the original manga, both of them are {{Mad Scientist}}s with different views on the humanity and on what their talents should be used for); in ''Anime/GreatMazinger'', [[TheHero Tetsuya Tsurugi]] and [[TheDragon Ankoku Daishogun]], both are honorable and powerful warriors think of each other as a WorthyOpponent and share several traits, which explains their mutual respect.

** And in ''Manga/ShinMazingerZero'' Dr. Hell created a mole believing she would work for him but in reality she was a ReverseMole was always on the heroes' side and was only biding her time before defecting the first chance she got: [[spoiler:Minerva-X]].

* MadScientistsBeautifulDaughter: Or in this case, Mad Scientist's Handsome HotBlooded Grandson: Kouji, in the continuities where Juzo is crazier.

* MaleGaze: Often the camera lingered on Sayaka's behind, especially when she wore skirts. It also lingered on women when they were wearing a towel after a shower or changing clothes. Of course, it also happened in the sequels. Given that [[Creator/GoNagai Mazinger's creator]] introduced {{Fanservice}} in the anime, it was to be expected. But to be fair, there also were plenty instances of FemaleGaze in the series, specially in regards to Tetsuya and Kouji getting several {{Shirtless Scene}}s.
* TheManBehindTheMan: In the original manga, Baron Ashura shows up before Dr. Hell, leading several Mechanical Beasts and the Iron Masks troops and calling it "Ashura's army". In that chapter he seemed like the BigBad, but one chapter after Dr. Hell is introduced and we learnt Hell was behind the whole operation and he is the real BigBad.

* MechaShow

* MissingMom: Kouji and Shiro's mother died in a laboratory experiment went wrong. Likewise, Sayaka's mother is nowhere to be found and she and her father live alone, so it is implied her mother died or left.

* TheMole: Dr. Hell had moles installed in several countries, usually infiltrated in centers of scientific research but also in army bases. The most infamous were [[spoiler:Rico,]] an android Dr. Smith -a New Yorker scientist- had hired like his assistant and later infiltrated in the [[HomeBase Photon Atomic Power Research Institute]] to sabotaging the [[MidSeasonUpgrade Jet]] [[RazorWings Scrander]], [[spoiler:Erika]], a female android was supposed to infiltrate into the Institute but got amnesiac and befriended Kouji, and several androids impersonated several characters in order to wreak havoc [[spoiler:(such like Professor Yumi, Dr. Smith or Kouji and Shiro's mother)]].

** {{Mascot Mook}}s: Garuda K7 and Doublas M2.
*** In the UsefulNotes/SuperNintendo video game, the first BossBattle was against [[spoiler:Garada K7.]]

* MsFanservice: The busty yet brainy twins Lori and Loru, from ''Anime/GreatMazinger'' and ''Anime/{{Mazinkaiser}}''. Sayaka also wasn't free of this; just watch the 4th OAV.

* MundaneMadeAwesome: Although Kouji mostly saves his hotbloodness to when he is fighting or riding his HumongousMecha, he simply can not make some activities in a mundane way. He does not go downstairs like a normal person, he slides down the railing. His idea of bike-riding contests includes hopping off the bike and making a somersault before landing back on his seat, or leaping across a cliff and using his rival's bike to gain momentum. And when he is going to docking in his SuperRobot, he ALWAYS has to shout "Mazin go!" out of the top of his lungs in spite of it being unnecessary. And because he is the TropeCodifier for TheHero in HumongousMecha anime, that kind of attitude bled into other MechaShow protagonists.

* NervesOfSteel: TheProfessor Gennosuke Yumi. Eighteen-meters-tall killer robots are advancing towards his Institute? Mount Fuji is about of erupting and burying them under burning lava? Squads of armed soldiers are besieging them under the threat of set off an earthquake under their feet if they do not surrender? A spy is aiming one gun towards him? He has been captured and is being used like hostage? It happens all the time! Basically Yumi is a scientist, hence he refuses panicking and instead of it he uses his analitycal mind to study the trouble and find a solution quickly. He is so good keeping his cool he can come across like cold and aloof sometimes. Usually he only expresses emotion when one of the kids -Kouji, his daughter Sayaka or their friends- are in serious and inmediate danger.

* NeverFoundTheBody: Kouji, Sayaka and the remainder characters never found Dr. Hell's body and assumed he was dead. Granted, it would be hard to search and find his body given that [[spoiler:in the original manga his SuperVillainLair / HumongousMecha got blown up in middle of the ocean; in the anime series, the CoolAirship where he was fleeing got blown to bits and the remains sank in the ocean; and in another manga version, he was inside of his SuperVillainLair as it drifted spacewards, bleeding to death due to a stab wound.]] Still, he [[spoiler:returned at the last season of ''Anime/GreatMazinger'' like The second DragonInChief of the BigBad.]]

* NeverTrustATrailer: The show used extreme hyperbole in its next-episode previews, and was not above outright lying to the audience to hype up an episode. The most famous example is an episode called "Koji Kabuto Dies in Lava!"
** This one is so infamous it was endlessly mocked and parodied, culminating in one of the Mazinkaizer stage in ''Super Robot Wars J'' being called "Kouji Kabuto Dies in Lava!?"

* {{Ninja}}: Blazas S1 and S2, two way-smaller-than-usual {{Robeast}}s Dr. Hell built for a sabotaging mission in episode 46. He especifically stated that they were ninjas. Although not very stealthy (three-meter-tall, blue-and-yellow Mechanical Beasts tend to stand out [[http://garada.net/mediashare/o5-6e3kjgy0boqeow3l7uukwa5i2kl1s0-pre.jpg]]), they played the part, leaping around over walls and from branch to branch, throwing shuriken and infiltrating into the enemy base.

* NotHyperbole: In the first episode, Dr. Kabuto tells Kouji who pilots Mazinger-Z has the potential to become a god or a devil. Such like later retellings and versions of the history (especially ''Z-Mazinger'' or ''Manga/ShinMazingerZero'') have proved, Dr. Kabuto was *NOT* exaggerating.

* NotWhatItLooksLike: It happened sometimes in the original series, but ''Manga/ShinMazingerZero'' gave a particularly hilarious example. In a chapter Kouji and Minerva-X are together inside the cockpit. During the battle Mazinger moves a lot and Minerva lands on Kouji on a ''very awkward and embarassing'' position (face-down and on top of Kouji, with her head hovering above his groin and Kouji's head stood between her legs). Sayaka -who had just arrived and destroyed three Mechanical Beasts in a fit of jealous rage- sees them, and they -after displaying tremendously comical OhCrap stares- try to explain it is not what it looks like, and Minerva was not human but she actually is a Super Robot created by TheProfessor Dr. Kabuto to be Mazinger-Z's BattleCouple. Sayaka's reaction was an incredulous FlatWhat before trying murdering them.

* OhCrap: It is used many times. A memorable one happened when Baron Ashura was relaxing in his/her submarine fortress, feeling safe due to the knowledge of Mazinger-Z could not reach them underwater because it had not been built to swim or dive... when an Iron Mask showed him through one screen Mazinger-Z was swimming towards them.

* OhNoNotAgain: Boss's robot (Boss Borot) gets wrecked nearly each episode, so often Boss utters one sentence along the lines of "Why it is always me?", or "Not again!". He even lampshades it in one ''Anime/UFORoboGrendizer'' manga chapter: He is going to fight ''Anime/GreatMazinger'' (long story), and he is knocked down with a mere backhand. Then he says "The most painful thing is I knew what this would happen."

* NextTierPowerUp: An early example. Late in the series, Kouji Kabuto learnt to combine his HumongousMecha RocketPunch with EverythingIsBetterWithSpinning to create Big Swing Rocket Punch (essentially, Kouji spins Mazinger's arms at full speed before shooting its fists). It counts like this trope and not like a MidSeasonUpgrade because it was not a new weapon installed into the mecha, but a new move invented by Kouji drastically increased his power (It was several times stronger than a normal RocketPunch).

* NintendoHard: The [[SuperNintendoEntertainmentSystem SNES]] game. One single life. Very sparse recovery items. No 1-Ups. No continues. No password system. No save system. If you die, you have to start again from the beginning. Have fun.

*** In the SuperNintendo video game, the first BossBattle was against [[spoiler:Garada K7.]]

* OneOfTheBoys: Sayaka. She prefered hanging out with boys rather girls, and she liked bikes right her male friends.

* OmnidisciplinaryScientist: Dr. Hell. He could make nearly anything he could imagine, and he dominated multiple fields of science. On the other hand, Dr. Kabuto [[spoiler:and his son Kenzo]] and Professor Yumi subverted the trope, being experts on one specific field and needing help and experts' advice in other matters, and using the trial-and-error method to make scientific breakthroughs.

* OurCentaursAreDifferent: Kentol Γ7 was a centaur-like, blue Mechanical Beast. It was armed with a spear and a spiked shield, was capable of flying, and its helmet's horns shot beams that could control other machines.
* OurDemonsAreDifferent: In the {{Crossover}} movie with ''Manga/{{Devilman}}'' showed up the enemies of that series. The demons in ''Manga/{{Devilman}}'' are ancient organisms who can fuse with other living things and inanimate objects to gain many abilities and powers from what they've fused with, taking them over completely. Thus they look like the chimerical creatures from ancient texts. They have psychic powers normally of varying strengths. However, human consciousness is lethal to them. But a person who's scared or otherwise loses control of their higher mental functions can be taken over. Should that person have a pure heart, however...they will posess the demon's flesh and gain their superpowers! And thus was born [[TitleDrop Devilman!]].
* OurDragonsAreDifferent: Several Kikaiju resembled dragons, and the aspect and weapons of each one of them was different: Gelbros J3 looked like a bypedal dragon with three heads could shoot heat waves, soundwaves or acid streams; Drago Omega 1 resembled an Eastern, flying dragon shoot missiles...
* OurGiantsAreBigger: In ''Manga/NewMazinger'' (an one-shot alternate story published in TheEighties), an explosion transports Kouji Kabuto to an alternate dimension inhabited by giant beings. The human beings were sixty-foot-tall and just so big as Mazinger-Z (in fact, when Kouji saved one princess, she though Mazinger-Z was an armored knight, and she asked him removing his helmet to see his face). They were mostly good-natured and intelligent, although their technology was at a Middle Ages level, and they were in war against a race of LizardFolk.
* OurMermaidsAreDifferent: In a story arc of the GosakuOta version, a race of giant FishPeople from another dimension called Chip Kamoy attempted to invade Earth. In order to communicate with human beings, they kidnapped a human girl and transformed her into a mermaid: her legs were replaced by a long fish tail, and fins grew from her head. She was definitely good, though, and tried to help TheHero Kouji Kabuto. [[spoiler:Unfortunately her "masters" executed her in punishment.]]

* OurHeroIsDead: The "Kabuto Kouji Dies In Lava!" episodes (yes, they did this ''twice'', though the second time was done with tongue firmly planted in cheek) are so infamous for this that they border on MemeticMutation.

* NoRangeLikePointBlankRange: In his battle against Debira X1, the flying Mechanical Beast was too quick for Kouji to hit, so Kouji waited as the Mechanical Beast lunged at him until the robot was at point-blank range to blast it with Mazinger's Breast Fire. Kouji used this tactic sometimes when an enemy was too fast or too sturdy.
* NoisyNature: Subverted in the first episode. Dr. Kabuto's village -where he built the titular HumongousMecha- was set -in the anime version- in Aokigahara, a forest at the base of Mount Fuji is ''infamous'' -among other things- because it is ''eerily'' silent due to absence of wildlife. So when Dr. Kabuto heard noises near from his house -not long after his grandson told him that their maid had been murdered-, he knew there were intruders near and his life was in danger.

* MetaMecha: In ''SuperRobotRetsuden'' - a Creator/KenIshikawa AffectionateParody / {{Crossover}}- of several Creator/GoNagai {{Mecha Show}}s, ''Anime/MazingerZ'', ''Anime/GreatMazinger'', ''Anime/UFORoboGrendizer'', ''[[Manga/GetterRobo Getter Robo G]]'' AND ''Anime/KotetsuJeeg'' rode a ''ridiculously, impossibly, massively huge'' TransformingMecha in the FinalBattle.

** And in ''Anime/ShinMazinger'' [[spoiler: Kouji and Shiro's mother shows up and gets named -Tsubasa Nishikori. And it is revealed Kouji has inherited his {{Badass}} traits from HER.]]

* MacrossMissileMassacre: Ashura and Brocken's ships and many kikaiju tried that tactic against Mazinger Z. Results varied.
** And in the short story ''Manga/NewMazinger'' [[spoiler:Mazinger-Z itself]] used that tactic against an army of monsters.

* MaleGaze: Often the camera lingered on Sayaka's behind, especially when she wore skirts. It also lingered on women when they were wearing a towel after a shower or changing clothes. Of course, it also happened in the sequels. Given that [[GoNagai Mazinger's creator]] introduced {{Fanservice}} in the anime, it was to be expected. But to be fair, there also were plenty instances of FemaleGaze in the series, specially in regards to Tetsuya and Kouji getting several {{Shirtless Scene}}s.

* MechaExpansionPack: Probably the originator of this trope: its Jet Scrander is basically a giant robot-sized jetpack, and it was created when Dr. Hell started creating more and more flying Beasts to attack a Mazinger which was helpless against aerial attacks. GoNagai stated he always intended for Mazinger to fly, but first he needed to establish that the mecha was ''heavy'', so he whitheld the Jet Scrander until it was clear that Mazinger was not light.

* MetaMecha: In ''SuperRobotRetsuden'' - a Creator/KenIshikawa AffectionateParody / {{Crossover}}- of several GoNagai {{Mecha Show}}s, ''Anime/MazingerZ'', ''Anime/GreatMazinger'', ''Anime/UFORoboGrendizer'', ''[[Manga/GetterRobo Getter Robo G]]'' AND ''Anime/KotetsuJeeg'' rode a ''ridiculously, impossibly, massively huge'' TransformingMecha in the FinalBattle.

* MobileSuitHuman: A variant occurs in ''Manga/NewMazinger'': the titular SuperRobot is blasted into a sword-and-sorcery world where he rescues a topless princess (this IS GoNagai, after all) from invading lizard-men. When the princess attempts to offer herself to the mysterious knight to persuade him to aid her people, he reveals that he is a machine piloted by a human "just the right damn size for a pet!"

* NakedPeopleAreFunny: In one manga episode, several characters (Boss being one of them) strip themselves for absolutely no reason. Since GoNagai introduced and made (in)famous the trope in manga, that gag was entirely expectable.

* NoMrBondIExpectYouToDine: In a storyline of the GosakuOta manga, Baron Ashura kidnaps Kouji Kabuto. Then Ashura treats him like a guest and invites him to have dinner with him to talk him into joining him (Kouji even was provided with a tuxedo). In one moment Ashura asks Kouji if the meal is to his liking and Kouji replies it would be more to his liking if he was not handcuffed. Ashura retorts [[DangerouslyGenreSavvy he is not SO stupid to let him free]].

* OurMonstersAreDifferent:
** OurDemonsAreDifferent: In the {{Crossover}} movie with ''Manga/{{Devilman}}'' showed up the enemies of that series. The demons in ''Manga/{{Devilman}}'' are ancient organisms who can fuse with other living things and inanimate objects to gain many abilities and powers from what they've fused with, taking them over completely. Thus they look like the chimerical creatures from ancient texts. They have psychic powers normally of varying strengths. However, human consciousness is lethal to them. But a person who's scared or otherwise loses control of their higher mental functions can be taken over. Should that person have a pure heart, however...they will posess the demon's flesh and gain their superpowers! And thus was born [[TitleDrop Devilman!]].
** OurDragonsAreDifferent: Several Kikaiju resembled dragons, and the aspect and weapons of each one of them was different: Gelbros J3 looked like a bypedal dragon with three heads could shoot heat waves, soundwaves or acid streams; Drago Omega 1 resembled an Eastern, flying dragon shoot missiles...
** OurGiantsAreBigger: In ''Manga/NewMazinger'' (an one-shot alternate story published in TheEighties), an explosion transports Kouji Kabuto to an alternate dimension inhabited by giant beings. The human beings were sixty-foot-tall and just so big as Mazinger-Z (in fact, when Kouji saved one princess, she though Mazinger-Z was an armored knight, and she asked him removing his helmet to see his face). They were mostly good-natured and intelligent, although their technology was at a Middle Ages level, and they were in war against a race of LizardFolk.
** OurMermaidsAreDifferent: In a story arc of the GosakuOta version, a race of giant FishPeople from another dimension called Chip Kamoy attempted to invade Earth. In order to communicate with human beings, they kidnapped a human girl and transformed her into a mermaid: her legs were replaced by a long fish tail, and fins grew from her head. She was definitely good, though, and tried to help TheHero Kouji Kabuto. [[spoiler:Unfortunately her "masters" executed her in punishment.]]
** OurMonstersAreWeird: The Dragonosaurus from a {{Crossover}} movie featuring ''Anime/MazingerZ'', ''Anime/GreatMazinger'', ''[[Manga/GetterRobo Getter Robo G]]'' and ''Anime/UFORoboGrendizer'' characters and HumongousMecha was a... amorphous, gigantic, flying red-and-black blob with a huge face on the body and several grey-indigo, snake-like, creasted heads sprouting from it. It was told it was a previously-thought-extinct PrehistoricMonster had mutated cause industrial waste spilled in the seas, but still what the heck that thing was?

* MaleGaze: Often the camera lingered on Sayaka's behind, especially when she wore skirts. It also lingered on women when they were wearing one towel after one shower or changing clothes. Of course, it also happened in the sequels. Given than [[GoNagai Mazinger's creator]] introduced {{Fanservice}} in the anime, it was to be expected. But to be fair, there also were plenty instances of FemaleGaze in the series, specially in regards to Tetsuya and Kouji getting several {{Shirtless Scene}}s.

** MookChivalry: In the anime adaptation, the Iron Masks were pretty pathetic. They always attacked Kouji Kabuto -or his friends- in the same way- noisly charging from the front-, never tried to overwehlm him with sheer numbers and stood quiet when he was making a pretty obvious attack. They wore weapons -swords and rifles- and helmets and Kouji fighting bare-hand ''still'' kicked their butts. Subverted in the manga, though, since sometimes they could be competent. In one of the first chapters Kouji nearly got murdered by only three of them that sneaked into his home overnight (and while two of them engaged Kouji, the third remained hidden to launch a surprise attack when TheHero was distracted). Kouji actually got to be rescued by a secondary character that pulled a BigDamnHeroes moment.

* MonsterOfTheAesop: In episode 41 Kouji is undergoing a hard pilot training to be able to fly Mazinger-Z at high altitude. However he resents many aspects of the training, like being on a diet,and he even got in a fight with Sayaka because she wanted him eating the diet food she had made and he refused. Of course, in that episode Dr. Hell designed a Mechanical Beast -Karma K5- capable to fly higher and faster than Mazinger-Z, and TheDragon Count Brocken crafted a strategy to exploit that advantage. Kouji got hurt and even fainted due to physical strain and exhertion, and later he apologized to Sayaka, admiting he should have listened to her and eaten the meal she had fixed.

** ''[[Anime/GreatMazinger The Mykene Empire]]'' also had a mole infiltrated among Dr. Hell's henchmen, [[spoiler:Archduke Gorgon]], and Marquiss Janus tried to infiltrate into the Fortress of Science once by pretending being an average human girl.

* MistreatmentInducedBetrayal: Baron Ashura was mostly loyal to Dr. Hell, who felt that [[AvertedTrope he was above]] [[YouHaveFailedMe executing his subordinates]] but not of punishing their failures with strikes, insults or torture. Due to this, Asura sometimes got fed up with being mistreated and mocked and he disobeyed orders or acted on his/her own (the final time was when he/she [[spoiler:stole the [[AirCraftAirborneAircarrier fortress Ghoul]] to make a kamikaze attack on the [[HomeBase Institute]]]] in order to show all, Dr. Hell and his/her enemies, who he/she was. In the GosakuOta alternate manga, he/she went a step beyond that and he/she decided to betray Dr. Hell and TakeOverTheWorld on his/her own because he/she was "sick of that crazy old man and [[CoDragons that headless idiot (Count Brocken)]] always mocking him" and he/she intended to give them a lesson.

* MistreatmentInducedBetrayal: Baron Ashura was mostly loyal to Dr. Hell, who felt that [[AvertedTrope he was above of]] [[YouHaveFailedMe executing his subordinates]] but not of punishing their failures with strikes, insults or torture. Due to this sometimes he got fed up with being mistreated and mocked and he disobeyed orders or acted on his/her own (the final time was when he [[spoiler:stole the [[AirCraftAirborneAircarrier fortress Ghoul]] to make a kamikaze attack on the [[HomeBase Institute]]]] in order to show all, Dr. Hell and his enemies, who he was. In the GosakuOta alternate manga, he went a step beyond that and he decided betraying Dr. Hell and TakeOverTheWorld on his/her own because he was "sick of that crazy old man and [[CoDragons that headless idiot (Count Brocken)]] always mocking him" and he intended to give them a lesson to everyone.

* MightMakesRight: In a story arc of the GosakuOta manga alternate continuity where Baron Ashura managed kidnapping Kouji he revealed this is how he thinks that the world works. The strong defeats, dominates and exploits the weak. The weak dies, the strong survives, and that is how it is. Therefore, "good" and "evil" are empty words. This is how he excused/justified his crimes.

* MechaExpansionPack: Probably the originator of this trope: its Jet Scrander is basically a giant robot-sized jetpack, and it was created when Dr. Hell started creating more and more flying Beasts to attack a Mazinger was helpless against aerial attacks. GoNagai stated he always intended for Mazinger flying, but he first he needed establishing the mecha was ''heavy'', so he whitheld the Jet Scrander until it was clear that Mazinger was not light.

* MechaMooks: Most of the {{Mook}}s were {{Cyborg}}s, but several of them were RidiculouslyHumanRobots such as the Gamia sisters, [[spoiler:Erika, Lorelei or the Robot posed like Kouji.]] JustAMachine was subverted: When Kouji killed the Gamia, they were so human-looking he felt sickened and disturbed. And he felt sad when some of they died. Also, they were or were not MadeOfExplodium depending on the robot [[spoiler:Erika did not explode; Kouji robot did, though.]]

* MakeMyMonsterGrow: In episode 12, Baron Ashura used a size-changing ray to turn a tiny robot into a giant {{Robeast}} -Bicong O9-. That ray had been invented by Dr. Hell, who previously tested it with Ashura himself/herself, briefly transforming it into a giant. Throughout the series, BigBad Dr. Hell used more Mechanical Beasts that could grow their size.

* MakeMyMonsterGrow: In episode 12, Baron Ashura used a size-changing ray to turn a tiny robot into a giant {{Robeast}} -Bicong O9-. That ray had been invented by Dr. Hell, who previously tested it with Ashura himself/herself, briefly transforming it into a giant. Throughout the series, BigBad Dr. Hell used more Mechanical Beasts could grow their size.