Zeon Quest

Zeon Quest is a Mobile Suit Gundam re-imagining of the One Year War in the form of a text adventure, created and DM'ed by "I Apologized on 4chan" (Or Apologized for short) on the /tg/ board of 4chan, much like it's spiritual predecessor Ruby Quest.

Most of the quest is centered around Zeon Ace David Lister (No relation to a certain smeghead) and his unit of equally skilled Zeonic pilots. Lister starts as a simple grunt in the Zeonic invasion of Earth, before rising to become a major figure in the war, changing many events in the UC timeline.

The quest concluded on August 13th, 2011. A full archive of the quest, with only a few missing entries can be found here.

This Quest provides examples of:


 * Ace Pilot: Pretty much every named character who flies a suit.
 * Action Girl: Jolyne, and also.
 * Alternate Continuity: The goal was to create one, and it finally happened when
 * Anti-Villain: Most of the Federation.
 * Badass Normal: Bernard Wiseman has no Newtype powers, and he only uses a grunt unit.
 * Beethoven Was an Alien Spy: Archimedes was a newtype whose spirit now inhabits the Solar Ray.
 * BFG: Gundam Units 04 and 05, one focusing on a single Wave Motion Gun, the other choosing More Dakka.
 * Big Damn Heroes: Ramba Ral seems to specialize in this.
 * Of course,
 * Big Screwed-Up Family: "With all due respect sir, your brother's kind of a dick."
 * Bilingual Bonus:
 * Also- EL MUERTO GIGANTE!
 * Bittersweet Ending: On par for the course for anything related to UC Gundam.
 * BLAM Episode: Episode 17 is significantly darker than usual, and the events of it have never been mentioned again.
 * Black Best Friend: Zolomon is a positive example of this trope.
 * Cluster F-Bomb: David apparently is found of this trope when drunk.
 * Colony Drop: The Christmas Special.
 * Cool Ship: The Outer Heaven.
 * Cyber Cyclops: Pretty much every Zeonic mech ever.
 * Even the Guys Want Him: Garma. Or more specifically, Garma's hair.
 * The Federation: The antagonists this time around, and the primary enemy
 * Famous Last Words: "MOTHERFUCKERS! I JUST BOUGHT A BOOOOOOAAAAAAAAT!!!!!"(From the Christmas Special, by Wolfgang Strauss's former superior, Sargeant Khenni)
 * Genre Savvy: "Kill first, then quip."
 * Gundamjack: Been tossed around numerous times.
 * Glass Cannon: The Death Wasp team specializes with these kinds of suits, and Zeon has Kampfers.
 * Heroic Sacrifice:
 * Humongous Mecha: Gundam in general is the reason for this trope's existence.
 * Improbable Piloting Skills: Lister didn't know he had a targeting computer. He was kicking too much ass without it.
 * It's Personal:
 * It's Raining Men: The very first episode features this.
 * Killed Off for Real:
 * Long Runner: 116 parts, in total, over some 22 months.
 * Let's Fight Like Gentlemen: Wyatt, the One-Armed Bandit, more often then not fights his rival Lister mano-e-mano.
 * Mind Rape: Being a Newtype against the EXAM System is like being a Japanese schoolgirl in the octopus tank.
 * Military Brat:
 * Mid-Season Upgrade: Lister goes through many of these, the main one being from the
 * Multi-Armed and Dangerous: The Gyan Eisvogel, or more accurately, the Gyan Skullfucker.
 * Mythology Gag: Used very frequently. Almost always one per episode.
 * Nuclear Option: As much as the Antarctica Treaty prohibits it, this seems to be the Nachtmaren unofficial answer to everything.
 * Off the Rails: This is the whole point of the quest, at least in terms of official UC Canon.
 * Oh Crap: Pretty much everyone's reaction to seeing a Gundam. Also, realizing that destroying half of Jaburo caused the Federation to begin mass production of Trojan Horses.
 * Paper-Thin Disguise: 's home colony did not allow women to enlist in the army, so she dons a fake mustache(of dubious quality) and enlists as a man. Although she managed to have her identity go unquestioned through sheer luck, when being interviewed for recruitment by Natcherman, David saw through it immediately.
 * Putting On the Reich: Ghiren and anyone remotely associated with him. Apologized seems to treat the rest of Zeon more like WWI Germany.
 * Real Robot: Obviously, given the source material.
 * Red Baron: In addition to the well-known Red Comet and White Devil, we have EL MUERTO GIGANTE, and the One-Armed Bandit
 * Sensor Suspense: Apologized loves doing these to make everyone crap themselves.
 * Super Prototype: The Act-Zaku could be considered one.
 * Tank Goodness: Lister has killed so many tanks that it is physically impossible for Apologized to count them all.
 * The Rival: Bandit.
 * Throwing Your Sword Always Works: If you're Zolomon Ringo, that is.
 * Took a Level In Badass:
 * War Is Hell
 * Red Baron: In addition to the well-known Red Comet and White Devil, we have EL MUERTO GIGANTE, and the One-Armed Bandit
 * Sensor Suspense: Apologized loves doing these to make everyone crap themselves.
 * Super Prototype: The Act-Zaku could be considered one.
 * Tank Goodness: Lister has killed so many tanks that it is physically impossible for Apologized to count them all.
 * The Rival: Bandit.
 * Throwing Your Sword Always Works: If you're Zolomon Ringo, that is.
 * Took a Level In Badass:
 * War Is Hell
 * War Is Hell
 * War Is Hell