Cannon God Exaxxion: Difference between revisions

* [[Everything Is an iPod In The Future]]: Most of the robots and other gadgets are based on modern technological aesthetics. It's particularly interesting in that aside from the unusual shapes of some of their robots and the obvious flying saucers, most of the Riofaldians' technology doesn't look particularly "alien" at all.

* [[Fan Service]]: Right up there with ''[[Agent Aika]]'' and ''[[Godannar]]''!

** Which get a ''lot'' funnier later.

* [[Frickin' Laser Beams]]: The Riofaldians' favourite weapon to use against anybody without access to gravitational lensing. One wonders why they would bother with something so energy-inefficient when they already have access to extremely powerful conventional guns, but lasers do look quite impressive and the 'Faldies are explicitly fond of terror weapons.

* [[Gambit Pileup]]: Between Hosuke, Shes'ka, the rest of the occupational government and the Homeworld government you've got the proverbial conga-line of fuckers all trying to screw each other.

* [[Gatling Good]]: Well, ''doy''. Of course the Ex features this in the form of 88mm gatling guns in its right arm - the "small" weapons.

* [[Henshin Hero]]: Hoichi.

* [[The Hero]]: Hoichi desperately ''wants'' to be a big-H Hero, which among other things means he shouldn't kill any civilians. Hosuke had rather different ideas when he built the Exaxxion, though. {{spoiler|Hoichi's final solution is equal parts disturbing, tragic and touching.}}

* [[Hot Mom]]: Reiko. Oh is she ever.

* [[How Do I Shot Web?]]: Hoichi takes some time to learn how to use his power suit and his robot properly. The former is [[Crowning Moment of Funny|comedic]]. The latter is [[Squick|terrifying]], ''even for him''.

** Well... [[Gunbuster|Gunbuster's]] still slightly bigger(250m to Exaxxion's 200). And by the time this manga came out, [[Getter Robo|Getter Emperor]] was already around.

* [[Imported Alien Phlebotinum]]: Hoichi thinks the human race should develop its own technology, so he's a bit disappointed when he finds out all Hosuke did was reverse engineer the Riofaldians' tech.

*** The guns and cars, naturally, are all modeled lovingly from real-world examples despite the [[Twenty Minutes Into the Future]] setting.

*** And it has an ultra-rare ''justification'' for [[Humongous Mecha]]; how else are you going to field giant gravity and inertia manipulating systems with multi-petajoule power requirements? Having them walk around rather than fly saves energy and permits precision usage of otherwise-nuclear kinetic force. Exaxxion is able to ''punch through an enemy robot's chest and rip out its fusion reactor.'' It's stated that the impact was the equivalent of a multi-megaton bomb, focused into an area the width of a car.

* [[Spanner in the Works]]: {{spoiler|Hoichi, who somehow manages to fuck up ''everybody's plans'' at every turn through a combination of [[Bigger Stick|superior firepower]], [[Hot-Blooded]]-ness, and at least ''trying'' to be an actual hero.}}

* [[Spell My Name with an "S"]]: The aliens. Are they supposed to be Riofaldians, or Leopoldians? The former is what the Dark Horse version went for, but the latter is preferred by some fans due to [[wikipedia:Leopold II of Belgium|the possible reference to King Leopold of Belgium]], the infamous conqueror, colonizer and exploiter of the Congo, [[Scary Dogmatic Aliens|which seems rather apropos to our villains]].