Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's Counterattack/YMMV


 * Crowning Moment of Awesome: Amuro pushing Axis away from Earth - for both the epic badassness and the emotional value. So inspiring that the other soldiers from both sides joined to steal some glory from him!
 * Crowning Music of Awesome: MAIN TITLE... Just... MAIN TITLE. I mean, guys... This is Gundam, what did you expect?
 * And of course, the crowning credits' song: Beyond the Time by TM Network.
 * How about a short version, sung by Masaaki Endoh?
 * Fanon: Because Char's sub-commander/lover Nanai Miguel shares a surname with Usso Evin's mother, fans assume that Usso is Char's grand/great-grandson. This one was actually Jossed by Tomino himself as a coincidence.
 * Not to mention they look almost identical. It makes you wonder what they were going for if not that.
 * The plan was originally for Usso to indeed be Char's descendant. But further into production, the writers decided against that and didn't want to lose all the work on character designs they'd accomplished.
 * Flame Bait: Want to start a war on a Gundam fan forum? Ask if Char's actions fit with his Character Development in Zeta or not.
 * Not nearly to the extreme of the above, but still dangerous: ask whether . While the novels do, Sunrise's animated-is-Canon policy means that the ambiguous movie ending is the "real" one.
 * Foe Yay: The tension between Amuro and Char is at its highest here, and of course the viewers will tend to warp that into something else.
 * Love to Hate: The most unambigously evil version of Char to hit the screen. And many people are just fine with that.
 * Magnificent Bastard (Char manipulates his Supreme Commander Nanai and young Quess sexually, while also offering the latter as a prize to another top pilot (Gyunei Guss, his Dragon) should he succeed. He also plays Earth's need for peace like a harp.)
 * Memetic Mutation - Thanks to the movie, many Gundam games and Tohru Furuya himself, it has been proven that the Nu Gundam isn't just for show! Nor is the Hi-Nu!
 * And according to SD Gundam G Generation Wars, neither is the Shining Gundam.
 * Moral Event Horizon. Several.
 * Char, when he gets his own Colony Drop.
 * Char again, when you examinate his manipulations of Quess and Gyunei closely. Playing two emotionally-unstable and very powerful teenagers like violins just to further his own plans? One of them being ? Yeah, that's gonna work well.
 * Gyunei, with the Hostage Situation that he came up with.
 * The Scrappy: Quess and Hathaway -- so very much. Hathaway was partially Rescued from the Scrappy Heap after the "Hathaway's Flash" novel, though.
 * Rescued being a somewhat polite way of putting it, since the novel killed him off.
 * True Art Is Angsty