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4	''WXIII: Patlabor the Movie 3'' (also known as ''Wasted 13'') is an unrelated side-story taking place somewhere between the first and second movies. It is directed by Fumihiko Takayama and produced by Creator/{{Madhouse}} with the screenplay by Miki Tori. The film barely features the main cast of ''Franchise/{{Patlabor}}'', though [[AMechByAnyOtherName labors]] themselves are still visible in the setting and related to the plot.
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6	''WXIII'' follows Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department detectives Shinichiro Hata (Creator/HiroakiHirata) and Takeshi Kusumi (Creator/KatsuhikoWatabiki) who are investigating a strange chain of labor vandalism. They seem random at first, but eventually, the detectives figure out the pattern along with [[AttackOfThe50FootWhatever other things]] that only end up making the situation more complicated. Namely, a gigantic fish monster that later is revealed to be called "prototype 13". While on the case, Hata meets a female university professor called Saeko Misaki (Creator/AtsukoTanaka) and develops feelings for her. Unfortunately, [[MadScientist there's more to her than meets the eye]] and as the film goes on their relationship takes a turn for the worse.
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8	Actors returning from the previous ''Patlabor'' films include Creator/MinaTominaga as Noa Izumi, Creator/ToshioFurukawa as Asuma Shinohara, Creator/MichihiroIkemizu as Isao Ota, Creator/DaisukeGori as Hiromi Yamazaki, Creator/IsseiFutamata as Mikiyasu Shinshi, and Creator/RyusukeObayashi as Kiichi Goto. New additions to the cast include Creator/TakanobuHozumi as Toshiro Kurusu, Creator/ShingoHiromori as Shizuo Miyanomori, Creator/JunpeiMorita as Goro Ishihara, and Creator/MasaruIkeda as Captain Osumi.
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10	The last and darkest of the three movies, ''Patlabor the Movie 3'' falls heavily to the serious side of the SlidingScaleOfSillinessVersusSeriousness. While Mamoru Oshii was only the producer instead of directly working on the film, it is much like ''Anime/JinRohTheWolfBrigade'' and ''[[Anime/GhostInTheShell Ghost In The Shell Innocence]]'' that he made around the same time, both being very moody and grim.
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12	The film was released on March 30, 2002.
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14	The DVD release includes three Mini Pato shorts which are hilarious ~30 minute animations done with paper cutouts on sticks that go into detail about things like Ohta's oversized revolver and its anti-labor ammunition.
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17	!!''WXIII: Patlabor the Movie 3'' provides examples of the following tropes:
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19	* ArtificialFamilyMember: Prototype 13 is revealed to have been created with [[spoiler: Misaki's daughter's mutated cancer cells. She still sees the creature as her daughter]].
20	* AsteroidsMonster: While escaping prototype 13 at the construction site, one of the security guards triggers several emergency doors to trap it or hopefully even kill it. Part of the monster's tail gets stuck under the door and is cut off entirely. It's later recovered and hauled off for biological inspection where it apparently rapidly mutated into a miniature version of the original body and killed the scientists examining it.
21	* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Misaki commits suicide in front of Hata and Kusumi, as the monster made from her daughter's mutated cancer cells is finished off by the Self Defence Forces.]]
22	* CastingGag: As with ''Manga/OnePiece'', Creator/HiroakiHirata voices a character who was a long-time smoker.
23	* ClusterFBomb: The only reason why this film is rated R by the MPAA is because of an irate American film director who drops six F bombs, among other expletives, when the film he's working on gets disrupted.
24	* CreatingLife: Using [[spoiler:mutated cancer cells.]]
25	* DarkAndTroubledPast: Saeko Misaki, definitely.
26	* DarkerAndEdgier: This film is the darkest out of all the ''Patlabor'' films.
27	* DarknessEqualsDeath: Hata and Kusumi notice a construction site with no lights on while driving back from a crime scene and go investigate. Prototype 13 had eaten all the workers and ends up eating the cops that were driving the car, while Hata and Kusumi barely make it out alive.
28	* DemotedToExtra: Because of the story's main focus on Takeshi Kusumi, Shinichiro Hata and Saeko Misaki, the Special Vehicles Unit 2 members have considerably less screen time.
29	* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:Misaki commits suicide at the end of the film when her daughter is destroyed]].
30	* EldritchAbomination: The monster's seafood platter looks & its origins in MysteriousAntarctica are rather evocative of ''Literature/AtTheMountainsOfMadness''.
31	* EyelessFace: Prototype 13.
32	* FailureIsTheOnlyOption: Hata wants to save Misaki from herself, but considering her backstory and what she did it becomes clear that Hata was doomed to fail.
33	* GoneHorriblyWrong: Possibly [[GoneHorriblyRight subverted]]. The fish-like monster, the titular prototype 13 is initially dumped into Tokyo Bay because [[spoiler: Misaki's employers thought it was programmed to die after a certain amount of time and they wanted to dispose of the remains in secret. Misaki never programmed it to die, and the monster grew in freedom like she wanted to. This ended up being a really bad thing for everyone BUT Misaki.]]
34	* GrayRainOfDepression: The tragic conclusion at the dome.
35	* HybridMonster: Prototype 13 is ambiguously lobster-like, has glowing lights on tendrils like an anglerfish and [[spoiler:was injected with human cancer cells]].
36	* ImportedAlienPhlebotinum: The monster was partly created from alien cells found in Antarctica.
37	* {{Interquel}}: Takes place before the second movie, as Noah and Ota are still regular pilots and the Special Vehicles Unit hasn't upgraded to the AV-02 Clash Buster yet.
38	* {{Irony}}: During Hata's time with Saeko, she smokes a cigarette and he mentioned that he was a former smoker. By the end of the film, [[spoiler:Hata becomes a smoker once again]].
39	* JadeColoredGlasses: Hata's character development seems to ultimately lead to this during the course of the film. His partner Kusumi has a different, more cynical although realistic world view, and [[spoiler: Hata's potential love interest is revealed to be broken on the inside to the point where she created a monster she considers her daughter and kills herself when it is destroyed before her.]]
40	* {{Kaiju}}
41	* KeepItForeign: In the English dub, the irate, sailor-mouthed director is Italian.
42	* KillItWithFire: After [[spoiler:Ota wounds Wasted XIII with a cancer round]], Ishihara calls in a platoon of soldiers with flamethrowers to deliver the coup de grace.
43	* {{Mutant\|s}}: Prototype 13.
44	* NoOshaCompliance: The emergency exit of the shipyard requires swiping a keycard and entering a ''seventeen digit'' access code to unlock, which totally defeats the point of allowing people to clear the area quickly in the event of an emergency.
45	* OddCouple: Detective Hata is young, plays baseball and is often letting his emotions affect his policework. Detective Kusumi is middle-aged and snarky, preferring not to rush things or let his emotions get in the way of work.
46	* OhCrap: The JGSDF soldiers being forced to confront Wasted XIII when the plan to contain it begins to fall apart after being given orders to retreat before Noa and Ota began to subdue it again.
47	* {{Omake}}: The third theatrical movie was packaged with three humorous "Mini-Pato" shorts, which explained the mechanics behind the Revolver Cannon the Ingrams use, the background to the creation of the series as a whole (as well as a cynical look at the MechaShow genre), and how the perpetually cash-starved Special Vehicles 2 was able to keep feeding itself (hint: Gotoh worked some magic, apparently some of his finest).
48	* PoliceAreUseless: A mix of both. The Tokyo Metropolitan Police and its units are involved in a call when a cell of Wasted XIII evolves and kills off scientists examining it at a research lab, which is played with since they can't do anything against it (plus they didn't expect to confront a monster). The [=JGSDF=] calls in [=SV2=] to help them and the [=JMSDF=] run an operation to kill it for good, so it's an aversion at the end.
49	* PublicDomainSoundtrack: Beethoven's "Pathetique" makes a prominent appearance at the end of the film.
50	* ReplacementGoldfish: [[spoiler: Misaki created the 13th prototype from her daughter's mutated cancer cells, and saw it as her daughter being revived. It gets pretty disturbing when the monster occasionally screams with a human voice instead of generic roars, and just before it dies is [[NonMammalMammaries revealed to have human breasts]].]]
51	* RoomFullOfCrazy: A {{Downplayed}}, but still surprisingly creepy version. [[spoiler: While the rest of Misaki's apartment is plain, even barely furnished, Hata can immediately tell she has a screw loose when he sees a photo of her late daughter blown up to take up an ''entire wall'' of her bedroom.]]
52	* SlidingScaleOfSillinessVersusSeriousness: Just compare this to the series, or even the first movie.
53	* SoundtrackDissonance: Beethoven's "Pathetique" is playing while the Japanese Self Defence Forces burn a genetically mutated fish monster to death.
54	* SuperDeformed: The "Mini-Pato" {{omake}} shorts.
55	* TakeMyHand: Poor, poor [[spoiler: Misaki.]]
56	* TechnologicallyBlindElders: Kusumi has an extensive classical record collection at his home. This actually provides a clue to cracking the case: [[spoiler:analog records retain high frequency data better than digital recordings, which filter them out. The fact that one of the attack scenes was at a nightclub that used analog records instead of compact discs lets Kusumi and Hata figure out that high frequency noises enrage the monster into attacking.]]
57	* TwistedAnkle: Kusumi has to wear an elbow crutch because of an accident he had just prior to the events of the film. He almost gets eaten by a giant monster because of it.
58	* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Colonel Ishihara orders a JGSDF squad to fire an anti-tank rocket launcher to take out the disabled Ryujin for good in order to prevent their plan from falling apart. Goto sarcastically calls him out on it.
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