- Adorkable: Akon Akag's shy dorkiness around Rag is hard to not root for at least a little, even if his failure is a Foregone Conclusion given he's pitted against the Iron Gear.
- Awesome Music:
- The main theme
. - "Get it! You can get it NOOOOOOOOW~!"
- The main theme
- Ensemble Dark Horse: In the show, Tron Miran. Despite only appearing in one episode, she got an unusual amount of fan love (likely due to being a Ms. Fanservice and Action Girl), enough that she's a optionally recruitable character in SRW Alpha Gaiden.
- Fridge Brilliance: Civilians seem to have Super-Toughness and a Healing Factor, going through all sorts of Amusing Injuries and falls that would kill the average person and coming out no worse for wear, as well as everyone's seemingly supernatural ability to dodge bullets. While it might be chalked up to Rule of Funny, there is evidence that Civilians really are far tougher, faster, and more resistant than the typical human would be; Jiron's broken arm heals within a week and it's not considered unusual, for instance. With The Reveal that the Civilians are bioengineered humans made to survive Zola's harsh environment comes, all these traits make a great deal of sense, since being able to take a great deal of physical punishment and healing quickly would both be beneficial in such a desolate landscape.
- Fridge Horror:
- A probably intentional example: in the earlier parts of the series Fatman is a source of humor, with his grunting way of speech and his singlemindedness. Then we find out that he used to be a slave, and those two traits are undoubtedly because of his horrible upbringing.
- The reveal that the planet Zola used to be the Earth, that the Innocent can't spend more than an hour outside their domes without special pills and look like radiation burn victims if they don't take them, that they pay Transporters for mysterious blue stone that by their own admission is useless, the Innocent's nuclear weapon, and the barren, ruined environment all suggest that Xabungle takes place After the End after several cobalt bombs went off. A single theoretical cobalt bomb would leave blue debris contaminating the ground and take approximately a hundred years for radiation levels to settle down to the point where it would be safe for people to live in irradiated areas, which would track with the Innocent needing to genetically engineer radiation-resistant humans to survive without the domes.
- Inferred Holocaust: Several Innocent domes are smashed throughout the course of the series, and with The Reveal that the Innocent die mere hours after being exposed to Zola's air it's likely casualties were high. There are evacuation chambers/tunnels, but we never see anyone but the major characters actually using them to escape until the penultimate episode.
- Moral Event Horizon: Kashim King's is either brainwashing Elchi, complete with Brain Uploading a copy of himself or firing on the noncombatant Innocent Jiron let escape in the final episode.
- Signature Scene: The ICBM toss from episode 49, to the point where it's referenced in attack animations in various Super Robot Wars entries featuring Xabungle.
- They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot: In episode 26 Kotset shows Jiron that he's created blueprints of every single machine he's ever worked on, with the goal of one day being able to create Walker Machines without needing to rely on the Innocent to supply them or parts for them. You'd expect this to lead somewhere, especially with the Innocent-Civilian conflict that soon begins in earnest, but neither the crew of the Iron Gear nor Salt is never shown making any Walker Machines themselves, relying on their current machines or stealing Dorans from the Innocent like they've always done.
- Ugly Cute: Jiron is famously not a typical Real Robot lead - specifically, he's not terribly attractive, frequently getting called Do-Manju ("uber-beancake") or, in one well-known case, Melon Amos. And yet he doesn't have too much trouble attracting the ladies, more through his personality and actions than anything.
- Values Dissonance: Episode 7 introduces the Toran-Torans, a group of Always Chaotic Evil Savage Indians who routinely attack and steal from the Civilian family living on the island. They're mentioned to be routine alcoholics and chronic liars as well as perpetually murderous, and Hotor, the crazy old man stubbornly refusing to leave their land, is given the story's sympathy over them. It would be very unlikely to have such an unsympathetic depiction of Native American expies today. Even worse, later episodes reveal the Toran-Torans aren't even the same species as the Civilians and were considered a failure by their makers.
- Woolseyism: In the fansubs and translation of Super Robot Wars Alpha Gaiden, Timp's overly personal and casual speech is changed to make him sound like a Cowboy. Specifically his frequent use of refering to people with sarcastic Japanese sibling terminology is changed to "Pardner" and "Missy".
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