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Rook and her Cyclone from Mospeada/Robotech:Invid Wars.

I discovered Robotech late in its initial run, so Invid War was my first exposure to cartoondom's most famous kit-bash1.

Sure, it depicted a post apocalyptic future, which deviants sharply from my preferred not too distant dystopic cyberpunk futures, but all the heroes in it roamed the battered landscape in fighter jets and motorcycles that all turned into robots!

Really there should be something like that in every cartoon.

1.) What we know, and revere, as Robotech is actually an aggregate of three separate Japanese animated series: Super Dimensional Fortress Macross, Southern Cross and Genesis Climber Mospeada. I used to assume every anime fan knew this, but I meet more and more whippersnappers who stare blankly when I bring up the glory of Robotech. It's sad really.