1. Your girlfriend will have green hair, green blood, or both.

2. Your first date will try to kill you for being better than her.

3. The person you want to argue with most is able to stomp you.

4. Just when you thought it was over, you're being invaded by even bigger (well, not really), badder aliens.

5. You will be trapped at least once by the modular transformation when you're really needed elsewhere.

6. Your commander will be hopelessly xenophobic.

7. Your team will be captured by the Zentraedi just when you don't have a member of the opposite sex.

8. Your engines will go to strange and interesting places, sometimes without you.

9. Darwin's theories will usually be ignored by the enemy.

10. Watch out for those cute triplets!

11. That harp music isn't just for aesthetic purpoes.

12. Your command will stick in your command someone that they shouldn't.

13. Never, NEVER, treat an alien vessel crashing on your planet, filled with wonderful technology, as a blessing.

14. The Flower of Life ISN'T. 15. Never underestimate a female Zentraedi with PMS...

16. ...or an Invid female who doesn't know her own body yet.

17. Don't explore hidden caves (God help you if you recognize this one).

18. Invid, a.k.a. slugs, are NOT related to snails.

19. Be wary of naked women with amnesia popping up here or there.

20. Obnoxious things come in small packages. Usually with "ET" printed on their caps.

21. NEVER give a Zentraedi cooking oil, or ask one to make coffee while you sleep.

22. Invid take the idea of "urban renewal" very seriously.

23. Singers, teenagers in command, and rugrats are things to avoid.

24. Never carry scarves with perfume on them.

25. Never allow yourself to end up in a bar with the "other unit."

26. Never decommission your only means of defense.

27. Make sure the jazz club is away from the base.

28. If your girlfriend is a Tirolian, give her a nametag.

29. The military police leader showing up to break up your unit's bar-fight is scrupulous.

30. Don't annoy an enemy battloid with fireworks.

31. Never ask a Praxian about her uncle.

32. Expect a Zentraedi you throw out of the ship to come back.

33. Your ammunition will run out before the supply of "enemy" does.

34. Beware of owners of underwear that will fit your veritech.

35. If Scott Bernard leads your team, protoculture use will double, while ammunition consumption is halved.

36. It's not just like the flying circus.

37. Make certain your leader really DID get medical attention.

38. Don't ignore pools of blood in an ace's cockpit after the "big battle."

39. Allowing your Logan to get caught by a Hovertank is not a good idea.

40. Never pass off transvestites as just another Macross trend.

41. Be prepared to feed the Zentraedi emissary's bodyguard/pilot.

42. The guy on the red Cyclone isn't.

43. Watch out for Minmei doll sales going up.

44. Always come prepared for a first date, usually with CVR-3.

45. Never beat a woman who wins at an arcade playing enemy characters.

46. Be suspicious of medical orderlies coming in to repair a ruptured...ahh...ion gun. Yeah, that's it!

47. The girl singing in the bar isn't.

48. King Kong won't be the one who disfigured the Empire State Building.

49. Your enemy will save you after trying to kill you, and SHE will claim to be confused.

50. In the end, you'll find yourself protecting the bad guys from your comrades.

Here's some more Robotech Funnies

You know you're a longtime Robotech fan when...

- You think the show should be known as the anime "Top Gun" (don't you wish that Tom Cruise could've been the voice of Rick Hunter ?).

-you look forward to visiting the upcoming International Air Show (and the Airport, too).

-your friend was disappointed that there were no Veritechs in the Independence Day movie.

-your sister keeps playing the song "1999" from the Artist formerly known as Prince.

-you wish that today's fighter planes can transform into battloids.

-you believe that the pyrotechnics from yesterday's fireworks show actually did come from a Stealth Veritech.

-you mistake it for the Canadian sport, Lacrosse.

-your Geography teacher is searching the South Pacific pages in his/her atlas for Macross Island.

-you visit Yokohama, Japan, Lynn Minmei's hometown.

-Lynn Minmei already knows the Macarena (Minmei-rena) !!!

-your friend still watches that old TV show, Hunter, since the main character's name is Rick Hunter.

-you name your newborns after the Robotech and Macross characters.

-you infiltrate NASA to access the Hubble Satellite Telescope for Zentraedi (or Marduk, or Invid) battlecruisers.

-when you here about a Macros virus you get exicted

-you believe that Minmei's songs are the key to World Peace.

-you look forward to the day when Space Travel really does become reality.

-you want to produce the remaining Macross sequels so that the series will be numerically complete (there's 1,2, and 7 shown).

-the Sailor Moon producers are arguing with the Macross producers over which of the respective destinies (The 1000-yr. long Ice Age vs. the SDF-1 arrival) should be fulfilled first in 1999 (you know, Sailor Moon and Queen Beryl would look awesome in Mecha).

-you hope to search the local junkyard for signs that the SDF-1 crashed here.

-the upcoming popular golf tournament should be renamed the "Robotech" Masters (get it ?).

-you want to study some proto-culture.

-your favorite computer is (Sharon) Apple Macintosh.

-even the US Air Defense Force still watches it.

-Max Sterling knows Amy Anderson (aka Sailor Mercury) Marge Simpson, Ukyo Tachibana and Sogetsu Kazama from Samurai Shodown, and Rei Ayanami from Evangelion (all have blue hair).

-You think there may be an Invid hidden inside Area 51.

-(refer to Macross 2) your bro believes that the UN Spacy Moon Festival takes place near the Moon Kingdom (hmmm....).

-your new girlfriend's name is Miriya (!).

-you're hoping for the Zentraedi, Marduk, Invid, and other aliens to star in the Space Jam sequel with the WB Looney Tunes.

-you create your new rock band known as Fire Bomber.

-Quarterdeck's tech support number is 1-800-ROBOTECH (honest, it's in their software documentation).

-the next fighter jet prototype should be called "Metal Siren".

-your favorite modem brand is US Robotics.

-Exedor just happens to be the name of the new diplomatic member for the UN.

-the maintenance person working on that Veritech is none other than Inspector Gadget.

-you wish for every commercial airplane to have hyper-fold capabilities.

-you remember that the Sharon Apple computer server's eye resembles that of HAL from the 2001 Space Odyssey movie.

-your friends spot Minmei singing with the Spice Girls.

-Dana Scully knows Dana Sterling.

-the Kinks song, "My Sharon(a)", comes to mind.

-you've seen the Gunsmith Cats character, Minnie May (could be Minmei for short).

-the SDF-1 is more than "Titanic" (figuratively speaking).

-you think there is a major cover up of the global world war that is supposed to occur in the mid 1990s

This site is not meant for profit. Its only purpose is to promote MACROSS and ROBOTECH. All images and characters are owned by their respective holders. This is only to get you psyched and seek out the stuff. Its out there folks, on the web, in role player games, in video games, on the Cartoon Network, KTEH in the bay area, in the many sequels.