Basic Trope: Character, typically a machine of some kind, sprouting vertical fin-like structures.
- Straight: Fighter Kaiser has vertically pointing fins on its shoulders.
- Exaggerated: Fighter Kaiser's vertical fins extend well upon its head.
- Downplayed: Fighter Kaiser's fins, though notable, don't pass its head.
- Justified:
- Fighter Kaiser's fins are actually storage units for equipment.
- Fighter Kaiser's fins house additional built-in weaponry.
- Fighter Kaiser's fins include further technological features, such as radar, communications equipment or serving as a Jump Jet Pack.
- Fighter Kaiser's fins are meant for sub-aquatic steering.
- Those are the vertical/horizontal stabilizers of Fighter Kaiser's Jet Mode.
- Inverted: Fighter Kaiser has sideways spheres.
- Subverted: Fighter Kaiser seems to have vertical fins, but it turns out its hanger restraints just look like that.
- Double Subverted: ... Because the Fighter Kaiser is intended to have vertical fins eventually installed.
- Parodied: Fighter Kaiser is almost entirely vertical fin, the actual frame only being big enough to fit a pilot with the fifty-foot plus towering mass purely being the fins.
- Zig Zagged: ???
- Averted: There are no vertical fins, either because everyone has simplistic fashion tastes or because nobody thought of a reason to have them.
- Enforced: Fighter Kaiser was designed out of a real life or fantasy Fighter Jet, that's where either the wings or the stabilizers ended up.
- Lampshaded: "So if your Mecha has fins, does that mean its aquatic or are you just weird?"
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited:
- Fighter Kaiser is grabbed by its fins.
- Fighter Kaiser loses its prey because the tunnel is too small for it even couching because of the fins.
- Defied: ???
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
- Deconstructed: By having vertical fins, Fighter Kaiser takes more resources & money to fully replace. Yet, not helping matters, is that Fighter Kaiser's balance needs to take the fins into account thus taking them out can mess up it during battle.
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