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* [[Alternate Continuity]] / [[Alternate Universe]]: In addition to being an alternate Gundam timeline, the series' backstory strongly resembles a worst-case scenario version of [[Mobile Suit Gundam|the original series]].

* [[Ambiguous Disorder]]: Tifa is fixated on her creepy drawings & her soft, loose-fitting wardrobe looks like something a girl with sensory integration issues would wear. Par for the course with Newtype kids, really, though.

* [[Attack Drone]]: More like Mobile-Suit-sized Attack Drones: the G-Bits.

** {{spoiler|Too bad Jamil shoots them down after they help him fend off a horde of grunts.}}

*** It helps that in [[Super Robot Wars]] and in the G-Generation series of games you can get them as a (secret) attack (for the Gundam X/DX) or build a squadron of them, respectively.

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* [[Genki Girl]]: Toniya and Pala.

* [[Get a Hold of Yourself, Man!]]: Jamil (and Dr. Farzenberg) does this to Garrod more than once in the series when the kid goes out of line.

** Mind you, Jamil even passes on this epic manly philosophy into Garrod {{spoiler|before Garrod faces Carris once more}} in a manner most awesome: ''"When a man strays from the right path, a kind man needs the courage to raise his fist and correct him."'' Garrod doesn't actually '''punch''' people to get them into shape, but his actions after Jamil's advice [[Took a Level In Badass|prove that those words really did have a positive effect on him]].

* [[Girl in a Box|Lady In a Capsule]]: {{spoiler|Poor Lucille.}}

* [[Global Currency]]: Averted. In episode 20, when the Frieden arrives at a prosperous port city, the crew is shown exchanging their currency at a booth.

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* [[Patrick Stewart Speech]]: Garrod usually replies to an enemy with either this or [[Shut UP, Hannibal]].

* [[People Jars]]: {{spoiler|Lucille Lilliant, Jamil's [[Cool Big Sis]] and first love, was put in a coma and placed in a capsule in suspended animation}}

* [[Playing Against Type]]: [[Mika Kanai]], Tiffa's seiyuu, is best known for her archetypal [[Genki Girl]] performances. Here, she's playing a painfully shy and softspoken lass. Likewise, Chieko Honda's previous Gundam role was [[Genki Girl]] [[Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ|Elpeo Puru]] which is in stark contrast to [[Broken Bird|Ennil El]].

** Let's not forget that the person who voiced Carris Nautilus - [[Yuko Mizutani]] - went on to voice [[Super Robot Wars Compact 2|Excellen Browning]].

** And Garrod Ran's voice actor [[Wataru Takagi]] plays against type, too. He usually plays the [[Big Guy]] in other anime he's casted in.

* [[Psychic Powers]]: And then goes on to {{spoiler|debunk the concept of Newtypes being THE next step of humanity's evolution in the last episode}}.

** {{spoiler|Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't DOME say that Newtypes were '''A''' possible evolution of humanity, but not '''THE''' next evolution of humanity?}}

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** Morikawa (Shagia Frost) also worked with Yuko Mizutani (Carris Nautilus). They had worked together before in ''[[Tekkaman Blade]]'', and would end up working together again in [[Super Robot Wars Compact 2]].

* [[Sapient Cetaceans]]: One arc has a [[Mysterious Waif]] actually talk to dolphins, presumably with her [[Psychic Powers]]. The arc also includes a white dolphin, which seems to be psychic itself.

* [[Scavenger World]]: there's so much scavenging going on, there's a name for doing so. ''Vultures''.

* [[Screwed by the Network]]: Sadly.

** Yet the director and writers manage to resolve all the [[Love Dodecahedron|romantic]] [[Pair the Spares|subplots]] AND pull out a convincing ending in 39 episodes (given its premature cancellation). Talk about a [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]] for the staff.

*** Made more impressive because the series was penned single-handedly by Hiroyuki Kawasaki. And he didn't know somewhere around episode 30 that he'd only have 9 more episodes to finish things up; prior to that he thought he'd be getting the Gundam standard of around 50 episodes.

*** And more impressive because while Jamil Neate can be arguably an amalgamation of the early UC protagonists, [[Tropes Are Not Bad|he ends up as a well-written character on his own]].

* [[Screw Destiny]]: ''Every'' time a Newtype gets worried about a terrible future or event coming, Garrod leads the charge to avert the crisis. DOME eventually states in the final episode that those views of the future will not become true unless people actively takes steps to achieve that future.

* [[Shout-Out]]: It's Gundam, so there are a few.

** One notable is the [[Psycho for Hire]] Mobile Suit, Gable, probably named after the psychotic [[Ace Pilot]] Yazan Gable from Z Gundam.

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* [[The Stoic]]: Jamil Neate. {{spoiler|Quite a contrast with his [[Cheerful Child]] former self...}}

* [[Shrinking Violet]]: Tiffa Adill, after spending years as a lab rat because of her powers, develops almost crippling shyness and fear of people. Can't really blame her.

* [[Stripperiffic]]: Ennil El is one of the few pilots in Gundam history who strips down when piloting her robot.

** In fact, she may have [[Pun|jump-started]] the entire [[Gainaxing]] trend in [[Super Robot Wars]] via her appearance in [[Super Robot Wars Alpha|Alpha Gaiden]].

* {{spoiler|[[Suicide by Cop]]}}: {{spoiler|An episode's title is: "I'm a Fool; Shoot Me".}}

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* [[Used Future]]

* [[Victoria's Secret Compartment]]: Ennil and her trusty flashbang grenade.

* [[~~Walk~~ On Water]]: Subverted when someone is shown not to be standing on water, but on the top of their submerged submarine.

* [[Walking on Water]]: Subverted when someone is shown not to be standing on water, but on the top of their submerged submarine.

* [[Wave Motion Gun]]: See [[BFG]] above.

* [[A World Half Full]]: The series is unapologetically optimistic despite being a Gundam show in a post-apocolyptic setting.