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* [[Adorkable]]: Kenji
* [[
* [[Alliterative Name]]: Kenji Koiso.
* [[Ambiguously Brown]]: Kazuma.
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** [[Badass Grandpa]]: Mansuke (Kazuma's grandfather, filling this requirement) taught Kazuma (and thus King Kazma) everything he knows about martial arts, attacked Love Machine (by this time an extremely strong martial arts master) by himself to buy Kazma time to recover, and he has a ''ninja squid'' for an avatar.
*** [[Meaningful Name]]: He has '''[[Rated "M" for Manly|MAN]]''' as the first half of his name.
** [[Took a Level
** Apparently meant to parallel how ridiculously close averting the {{spoiler|satellite crash}} is, Ryohei's baseball team {{spoiler|wins the championship after ''15 overtime innings''}}.
* [[Big Fancy House]]: Despite Kenji's first impression, it's all that remains of the family's wealth.
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* [[Cry Cute]]: Kazuma {{spoiler|after King Kazma is defeated by Love Machine the first time around.}}
* [[Curb Stomp Battle]]: Kazuma's first attempt to stop Love Machine with King Kazma devolves into this due to it absorbing other avatars to increase its strength. In short, the computer is ''literally'' [[The Computer Is a Cheating Bastard|being a cheating bastard.]]
* [[Cyberspace]]: In the [[Twenty Minutes Into the Future|far-flung future of 2010]], the Internet seems to have been mostly supplanted by Oz, a somewhat whimsical cyberspace setting that nevertheless gets plenty of use from government agencies and businesses. It's mentioned that there are almost as many Oz users as there are cellphone owners.▼
* [[Dark Is Evil]]: {{spoiler|[[The Swarm|Love Machine's massive, multi-avatar body.]]}}
** And it ''still'' manages to invoke [[Light Is Not Good]], with {{spoiler|the angelic wings that form OZ's main building on its back, and the Deva Halo Rings re-appearing when it absorbs King Kazma}}
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* [[The Determinator]]: "You can't solve an equation by giving up."
* [[Disney Owns This Trope]]: It flashes by [[Freeze-Frame Bonus|insanely quickly]] during the opening credits, but apparently Kazuma has trademarked King Kazma.
* [[Does This Remind You of Anything?]]: So a weapon set loose by America onto Japan threatens nuclear fallout, eh?
** Is it just a coincidence that a movie that's being distributed by Warner Brothers features two scenes of a badass rabbit kicking the ever loving crap out of an evil looking kid in mouse ears?
* [[Dynamic Entry]]: King Kazama performs this little maneuver to stop Love Machine from devouring Kenji's squirrel avatar.
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* [[Evil Laugh]]: Love Machine. ''Shi shi shi...''
* [[Expy]]: Kenji resembles a gender-flipped [[The Girl Who Leapt Through Time|Makoto]].
** Kazuma, a skinny computer wiz who doesn't seem to be all there, also looks a lot like some [[Cowboy Bebop|other skinny computer wiz who doesn't seem to be all there.]]
** Love Machine is obviously based on Diablomon, and quite possibly the computer from ''[[
** The ''entire movie'' is this to the aforementioned ''Digimon'' movie, which had a similar plot but different setting, characters, and the focus of the films are different, with ''Summer Wars'' being about the real characters and the other film being more about the digital aspect.
* [[Exact Time to Failure]]: The film's countdown to destruction stops with fifteen minutes to spare, subverting this. {{spoiler|Only to become a double subversion, as Love Machine realises it didn't bet the probe guidance account, causing the countdown to continue and dramatically end with three seconds left.}}
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* [[The Four Loves]]: ''Storge'' (familial love) at its fullest.
* [[Genre Savvy]]: Sakae clearly sees right through the fake fiance ruse, and just as clearly realizes how [[Romantic Comedy|that kind of thing usually ends]].
* [[Goggles Do Nothing]]: King Kazma's goggles are really just an avatar accessory. Kazma 2.0 replaces them with [[Hair of Gold]] similar to Kazuma's.
* [[Gondor Calls for Aid]]: {{spoiler|When Love Machine gets the upper hand in the Hanafuda battle and Natuski has no accounts to bet with. The whole world, who was watching the battle, starts sending their accounts to help her out.}}
** Don't forget Grandma's earlier epic use of her {{spoiler|address book and a rotary dial phone to essentially bring order to the ''entire nation of Japan''}} after Love Machine starts sowing chaos.
* [[Gone Horribly Right]]: {{spoiler|One suspects that the US military did not expect Love Machine to be able to cause ''quite'' so much real-world damage in its attack on OZ.}}
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* [[Good with Numbers]]: Kenji, natch. In a Crowning Moment of Awesome, during the climax, Kenji {{spoiler|solves a 2056-bit encryption algorithm ''in his head''}}.
* [[Hair-Raising Hare]]: After {{spoiler|swallowing Kazuma's avatar}}, Love Machine grows bunny ears. It doesn't make it any less scary. At all.
* [[Heroic Bastard]]: Through the "heroic" part is a bit of a stretch until the climax of the film, Wabisuke is the illegitimate son of Natsuki's great-grandfather, but was adopted by Sakae anyway.
* [[Heroic BSOD]]: Kazuma, after {{spoiler|Love Machine version 3 breaks out of his prison, and transformed into a massive monster made of avatars when Kenji and company had thought they had successfully trapped him.}} Kenji shakes him repeatedly, trying to snap him out of it, but he only does so after it's too late {{spoiler|to save King Kazma from getting hurled into the cloud-wall surrounding OZ.}} Kenji himself has more than his share of near-BSOD moments throughout.
** Still later, it's {{spoiler|actually subverted, as Kenji's faced with a third re-encryption from Love Machine after frantically solving the first two on paper.}} He stares blankly at the screen for a long moment -- and then, as he starts to {{spoiler|slowly type out the solution one key at a time, it becomes clear he's trying to solve it entirely in his head}}.
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* [[Hikikomori]]: Kazuma, who is rarely seen out of his room for a portion of the film.
* [[Holding Hands]]/[[Intertwined Fingers]]: There's a prominent scene where Kenji takes Natsuki's hand to comfort her after {{spoiler|Sakae's death}}.
* [[Hollywood Hacking]]: Better then one might expect, Love Machine functions much like a real hacker would:
** Love Machine begins by crowdsourcing an encryption problem to break a password for high level admin privleges, making it effectively the legitimate owner of Oz. Stealing accounts which are evidently able to command computer resources allows Love Machine to act as a bot-net. Additionally most of Love Machine's mischief comes from abusing other legitimate access from accounts it has stolen. All of this is very much real to life in concept, and possible given Oz's [[Everything Is Online|bizarrely powerful yet insecure structure]]; 2056 characters are not a long enough master password for controlling such a network OS that for [[Plot Hole|some reason]] can't be [[Rock Beats Laser|manually shut down]] and restored by the owners.
** Cyber-physical combat as a distraction to lure a program/bot-net into some undescribed structural trap or betting accounts on a card game, purely this trope. [[Tropes Are Not Bad|And lots of]] [[Rule of Cool]]. Also, the last part where Love Machine, {{spoiler|deprived of its bots and down to only two accounts, keeps spamming 2056-character encryption passwords -- where the heck is it getting the hardware support from?}}
* [[I Know Mortal Kombat]]: Inverted. Kazuma's grandfather taught him Shaolin as a means of protecting himself from school bullies; it's commented that his real-world martial arts skills are likely the source of his prowess as King Kazma.
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* [[Lady of War]]: Granny Sakae is certainly handy with a naginata.
* [[Law of Conservation of Detail]]: Those who don't know all of the rules of Hanafuda shouldn't expect any substantial exmplanation, since the game is ''really'' convoluted.
* [[Light Is Good]]: Natsuki's upgraded avatar.
* [[Light Is Not Good]]: Love Machine's second avatar invokes this trope, with a Deva-like appearance and a golden halo (which he uses to store hijacked avatars) floating behind him.
* [[Loads and Loads of Characters]]: You'll have to rewatch that dinner scene (and have a chart handy) if you care to know the full extent of the (immediate) Jinnouichi family.
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* [[Never Mess with Granny]]: Grandma Sakae is a tough old broad.
* [[Never Trust a Trailer]]: The trailers and posters for [[FUNimation]] highlight the scenes in OZ, when in fact these only take up 20% of the radically down-to-Earth rest of the story.
* [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero]]:
** Twice family members inadvertently sabotage attempts to defeat Love Machine just as it was on the verge of defeat, first the kids piling in and distracting Kazuma, then Shota {{spoiler|taking the ice blocks, causing the supercomputer to fry just as Love Machine had almost been contained.}}
** Kenji initially thinks it's his fault that Love Machine was released because he cracked the code. {{spoiler|It's ultimately subverted: not only did several people around the world solve it before him, but he had made a mistake on the last word anyway.}}
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** It's also combined with a [[Heroic BSOD]], as Kazuma is so shocked that no amount of shaking from Kenji can get him to react and move out of the way.
* [[Overly Long Gag]]: Natsuki introducing her extended family, though this is [[Truth in Television]] for many Asians having dinner with extended family. At those times you are lucky if you get a rudimentary explanations ''at all'' before everyone settles down and eats.
* [[Parental Abandonment]]: Kenji's parents' jobs leave them with no time for him; they're never even seen during the movie's whole duration. Staying with the Jinnouichi was really the first time he experienced what family's really like.
* [[Peacock Girl]]: Natsuki's avatar gains a peacock tail and angelic wings when {{spoiler|John and Yoko, the virtual guardians of Oz, grant her an upgrade to give her enough strength to beat Love Machine at Koi Koi.}}
* [[Peek-a-Bangs]]: Kazuma, and later King Kazma.
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** Oz's virtual guardians are two whales called [[The Beatles|John and Yoko]].
** The first encrypted message begins with "The magic words are squeamish ossifrage", the text of [[wikipedia:The Magic Words are Squeamish Ossifrage|a rather famous cryptography puzzle]].
** The storyline is quite similar to the 1983 film ''[[
** The {{spoiler|Nakama Punch}} from ''[[One Piece]]'' movie #6 shows up and it's as awesome now as it was then.
** King Kazma is a likely reference to ''[[Cave Story]]''. King and Kazuma are two characters from the game. The anthromorphic rabbit design supports this.
** The satellite photos and coordinates of the {{spoiler|nuclear power plants}} were real. For example they show the {{spoiler|[[wikipedia:Qinshan Nuclear Power Plant|Qinshan Nuclear Power Plant]] (China), [[wikipedia:Cattenom Nuclear Power Plant|Cattenom Nuclear Power Plant]] (France), [[wikipedia:Susquehanna Steam Electric Station|Susquehanna Steam Electric Station]] (USA), and [[wikipedia:Limerick Nuclear Power Plant|Limerick Nuclear Power Plant]] (USA)}}. Some of the coordinates have typos in them though.
** The list of people other than Kenji that managed to solve the code {{spoiler|from Oz's security system have names slightly modified from the names of noted mathematicians. For example, Andrey John Wiles {{=}} Andrew John Wiles, famous for proving Fermat's Last Theorem.}}
** Love Machine's body language during its first fight with King Kazma is highly reminiscent of [[Neon Genesis Evangelion|the Evangelions]] in Berserker mode.
** The face of Love Machine's second form very strongly resembles that of [[Mazinger Z]].
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* [[Twenty Minutes Into the Future]]: Set in 2010. Wonder when that [[Second Life|colossal virtual city full of corporate users]] is gonna get released?
* [[Unlucky Everydude]]: Kenji.
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* [[The Virus]]: Justified -- Love Machine is explicitly a [[wikipedia:Botnet|botnet]], a program designed to be this trope. His evolution even mirrors the progress of a worm -- he starts off as an "evil" version of Kenji's avatar -- the initial infection -- but gradually gains [[One-Winged Angel|more menacing]] forms as he assimilates more computing power.
* [["Well Done, Son" Guy]]: {{spoiler|Wabisuke}} through and through.
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