Fridge examples in Super Dimension Fortress Macross.
- The colours of the United Nations military are white and red, in spite of the Real Life United Nations using light blue with a touch of white. At the start it seems strange, but then you get a look at the United Nations Honour Flag
, which has military symbolic value... - Bodolza attacks Earth when Zentraedi start defecting. Macross 7 makes it much clearer why: what was happening in the Sol system had every indication of a Protodevlin infestation.
- After the time skip, Misa, Hikaru and Minmei get their personalities partially reset, and Kaifun gets Flanderized from a Jerk with a Heart of Gold who hates the military into a Scrappy Soapbox Sadie. What did happen right before the timeskip? A Class 1 apocalypse, with Kaifun going back on his pacifist beliefs by helping the military kill those responsible, who, in terms of population, numbered in the billions. That did a number on their psyche, and it takes a while for them to recover (and Kaifun apparently never does).
- A case of Fridge Horror, when you realize that the Zentraedi are piloting their machines more akin to Powered Armor than as giant robots. Every single enemy that humanity guns down in a firefight, they're perforating gigantic humanoids via gunship-tier weaponry, who typically proceed to detonate violently. And were it not for said explosions, they would have been fairly gruesome demises every time.
