Macross Frontier/Fridge

Fridge Brilliance

 * Macross Frontier gave me a moment when I pondered Mikhail going for the head of Brera's Variable Fighter in Episode 9. At first, this made no sense, because the head unit of a Variable Fighter only contains sensors and a near useless laser, and the former is only really used in Battroid mode when the cockpit is retracted and covered in armor when transforming into Battroid mode. The trick is, the pilot need only transform into Fighter or GERWALK mode to enable the pilot to use his own vision, as The Hero does in Macross Zero to great effect after he loses his own fighter's head. Meanwhile, the cockpit is actually contained inside the center of mass, which is actually the easier target anyway, so it didn't make sense for him to aim for the head. After I thought about it a little more, I realized that they weren't trying to kill Brera, they were trying to capture him. When Mikhail goes for the shot, Alto has Brera tied up in hand-to-hand sumo mecha style, and I realized that with so many intermingled moving parts that part of the reason for the sumo wrestling was to prevent the other from transforming out of Battroid mode, as well as keep them stationary. Thus, if Brera's head got shot off, he'd be completely blind in his current transformation mode, and unable to transform into a different one because Alto was all over him. With a connected shot, Alto would have easily had the upper hand and could have disabled Brera's fighter with a few well-placed point barrier punches.
 * Macross Frontier has Ranka Lee being hailed as the Super Dimension Cinderella, but there are even more Princess parallels throughout.
 * One can easily guess that Nanase might be
 * Sheryl Nome draws the less obviously from "Rapunzel"  also it wasn't her hair, which in its own right is very unique, but her Singing Voice that drew her the attention of her prince.
 * Even Alto has something in common with a princess, Kaguya-Hime, both wanted nothing more than to escape that which confined them and return to the Sky.
 * As of the last movie,  is the apparent relationship winner, though there might have been subtle hints all along there is one that called out to me; Triangler Fight On Stage! who is the one who sings the line Like how we are friends but you don't love me?
 * As of the last movie,  is the apparent relationship winner, though there might have been subtle hints all along there is one that called out to me; Triangler Fight On Stage! who is the one who sings the line Like how we are friends but you don't love me?

Fridge Horror

 * The second Macross Frontier movie has this.