I was unfortunate enough to see part of "Universal Soldier" again the other
day.  I started thinking about the number of movies/stories about

government

organizations creating synthetic super-men for soldiers and assassins.

In America:
Universal Soldier - Jean-Claude Vann Damme
Solo - Mario Van Peebles
The Terminator - Arnold Schwartzeneger

There's an obvious trend through all of these movies:
Big seven foot hunks of meat who blow things up.

In Anime:
Armored Trooper VOTOMS - Proto One
Ghost in the Shell - Matoko Kusinagi
Naomi Armitage
Nuku Nuku

There's a completely different obvious trend here:
Short, cute women who blow things up.

I'm tossing this out there because I think it's a good point for

speculation.

I'm sure I could use it in a fic somewhere if I sat down and thought about
it long enough.  I can't do anything with it for the moment, so if anyone

wants

to take this and run with it, they're welcome

J. Jordan Renouard

>From the Scriviner:
    Actually, I'm already writing a fic with the similar basic idea with a
couple of twists... first, it's basically the robots replacing the members
of Science Ninja Team Gatchaman. Yes folks, a G-Force story, 'cept the cast
ain't there. ^_^
    Instead we've got:
Astroboy
Alita
Nuku-Nuku
Ifurita
Mackie Stingray (I know he seems lost, but trust me. ^_^)
    Of course, this may yet take a while to get out, I've got a lot of
writing chores to finish yet and classes are starting to get wonky.
    Science Ninja Team Gatcharobo. Watch out for it. Eventually. ^^;;