Burn Up: Tropes

Signature tropes

The ones that say the most about Burn Up. Pick one to read it.

• Quracin 110 titlesThe "Kingdom of Harabia" is not only a paper-thin pastiche of the Real Life Middle-Eastern oil producer Saudi Arabia, the episode even contained a spoof of the OPEC called "HOPEC" (which is an oil co…Read →
• Simple Solution Won't Workin 229 titlesIn the first episode of Excess, its suggested that the team just use an emp to disable the explosive drones the hostage takers are using, but they cant because the key hostage recently had an artific…Read →
• White Sheepin 193 titlesExcess!Maya; in her A Day in the Limelight episode, we learn she's a Yakuza Princess (from Osaka) whose father threw her out because she wanted to be a cop.Read →
• Boke and Tsukkomi Routinein 107 titlesIn Excess, Maya gets to play the straight woman for her father, his Yakuza syndicate, and more or less everyone else back home in Osaka during her A Day in the Limelight episode.Read →
• Barbie Doll Anatomyin 467 titlesZig-Zagged It's averted in every other entry of the series, but for some reason Excess plays this trope straight and has it on full display.Read →
• Groin Attackin 3,806 titlesEpisode 8 of Excess had a giant Rio dealing with a giant male transvestite as the two of them were battling in the city from within a Neon Genesis Evangelion-like parody battle.Read →