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''Another Century's Episode'' (or
Much like ''Super Robot Wars'', the story in each game in the series is a mashup of multiple [[Humongous Mecha]] series (mostly of the [[Real Robot]] variety), and revolves around a piece of [[Applied Phlebotinum]] which happens to fall into the hands of an [[Original Generation]] character.
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* '''Another Century's Episode 2''' - A [[Continuity Reboot]] of the story and features the series' first true [[Original Generation]] characters "Tak Kepford" and "Marina Carson". Storyline centers around the failing UCE government, which not only has to deal with uprisings from the Giganos Empire, [[Mobile Suit Gundam 0083: Stardust Memory|Delaz Fleet]], the [[Brain Powerd|Reclaimers]] and the [[Martian Successor Nadesico|Jovian Lizards]], but also has to contend with the otherworldly advances of the [[Aura Battler Dunbine|Drake Army]], [[Blue Comet SPT Layzner|Grados]]/[[Spell My Name with an "S"|Glados]], Poseidal, and ultimately, the [[Super Dimension Fortress Macross|Zentraedi fleet]].
** Returning series - ''Dunbine'', ''Nadesico: The Prince of Darkness'', ''Layzner'', ''Brain Powerd'', ''Dragonar'', ''L-Gaim'', ''Char's Counterattack''.
** Series debuted - ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam 0083: Stardust Memory]]'', ''[[Super Dimension Fortress Macross]]'', ''[[Super Dimension Fortress Macross|Super Dimension Fortress Macross: Do You Remember Love?]]'', ''[[Mobile Fighter G Gundam]]'', ''[[Martian Successor Nadesico]]'', ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam Wing|New Mobile Report Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz]]'', ''[[The Wings of Rean]]''.
* '''Another Century's Episode 3: The Final''' - Continues and finishes the continuity from the previous game. Storyline centers around the "Baldona Drive", a device allowing travel between an [[Alternate Universe]] and threatens to destroy both "Earth A" (the one in
** Returning series - ''Dunbine'', ''Nadesico: The Prince of Darkness'', ''Brain Powerd'', ''Dragonar'', ''Char's Counterattack'', ''Macross'', ''Macross: Do You Remember Love?'', ''G Gundam'', ''Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz'', ''The Wings Of Rean''.
** Series debuted - ''[[Getter Robo|Getter Robo Armageddon]]'', ''[[Overman King Gainer]]'', ''[[Eureka Seven|Psalm of Planets Eureka Seven]]'', ''[[After War Gundam X]]'', ''[[Macross Plus]]'', ''[[Turn A Gundam
* '''Another Century's Episode: R''' - The [[Trilogy Creep|fourth game]] in the series (and the first for the [[
** Returning series - ''Zeta Gundam'', ''Char's Counterattack'', ''Overman King Gainer''.
** Series debuted - ''[[Super Dimension Century Orguss]]'', ''[[Crossbone Gundam|Mobile Suit Crossbone Gundam]]'', ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny]]'', ''[[Full Metal Panic!]]'', ''[[Code Geass|Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion R2]]'', ''[[Genesis of Aquarion]]'', ''[[Macross Zero]]'', ''[[Macross Frontier]]'', ''[[Super Robot Wars Original Generation]]'', {{spoiler|[[Armored Core|
* '''Another Century's Episode Portable''' - Released in early 2011, this [[PlayStation Portable]] installment is viewed as an [[Author's Saving Throw]] against the failed elements of ''Another Century's Episode: R'', as seen by the return of the classic control scheme. However, the game does not have an overall plotline, instead simply being something like a [[Mission Pack Sequel]].
** Returning series - ''Layzner'', ''Brain Powerd'', ''Overman King Gainer'', ''Dunbine'', ''The Wings Of Rean'', ''Code Geass R2'', ''Nadesico: The Prince of Darkness'', ''L-Gaim'', ''Dragonar'', ''Zeta Gundam'', ''Char's Counterattack'', ''Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz'', ''Gundam X'', ''Turn A Gundam'', ''Gundam SEED Destiny'', ''Macross Plus'', ''Macross Frontier''.
** Series debuted - ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam 00]]'', ''[[NG Knight Lamune & 40|VS Knight Lamune & 40 Fire]]'', ''[[Eureka Seven|Eureka Seven: Good Night, Sleep Tight, Young Lovers]]''.
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Tropes found within the games which are '''separate from or contrary to''' the series the characters and mecha originated from include:
* [[Ace Custom]] ([[A Worldwide Punomenon|Pun]] not intended) - Belkt's black/red Gun Ark, the "[[Names to Run Away From Really Fast|Blood Ark]]".
* [[Adaptation Distillation]]
* [[
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* [[Applied Phlebotinum]]
* [[Attack Drone]]:
** In the first two games, [[Mobile Suit Gundam|funnels]] are this, but they come with an immense caveat: once launched, they remain in play, firing at whatever you're locked on to at the moment for a set time, upon which they experience [[Critical Existence Failure]]. Unlike other weapons, they [[Bottomless Magazines|cannot be reloaded]].
** ''Another Century's Episode 3'' has funnels, as well, and the original mecha "Ixblau" has a [[Mecha Expansion Pack]] that gives it its own set of [[Attack Drone|attack drones]]. Here, said drones return to you and recharge once they've spent an amount of time in the field, but they can also be destroyed by enemy fire... and you ''still'' can't restock them.
* [[Awesome but Impractical]]
** There's some [[The Computer Is a Cheating Bastard]] with this one because, when the AI uses the Master Gundam, it's hell to fight.
* [[Back-to-Back Badasses]]
* [[Battleship Raid]]
* [[Big Damn Heroes]] - All over the place. In fact, the sole purpose ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam Wing|Gundam Wing]]'' characters seem to exist in the latter two games is pulling these off. On the other hand...
* [[Boss Rush]]
* [[Bottomless Magazines]]
* [[Bragging Rights Reward]]
* [[Call a Hit Point a Smeerp]]: Hit points in all three games is referred to as "AP" or "Armor Points", as a reflection of ''[[Armored Core]]'''s system
* [[Calling Your Attacks]]: [[Mobile Fighter G Gundam|Domon Kasshu and Master Asia]] do this the most (indeed, the first time per stage that they activate their [[Limit Break]] attacks results in the action pausing while they do their famous battle chants); the [[Martian Successor Nadesico|Aestivalis pilots]] do this in ''Another Century's Episode 2'' (only [[Fan Girl|Hikaru Amano]] retains the habit in ''Another Century's Episode 3''); and the [[Getter Robo|Getter Team]] makes great use of their [[Hot-Blooded]]-ness for it.
** Also of note (usually only calling one attack out of many) are [[Metal Armor Dragonar|Kaine Wakaba]] (DRAGONAR SANMAI OROSHI!), [[Overman King Gainer|Gainer Sanga]] (OVERHEAT!), [[Eureka Seven|Renton Thurston and Eureka]] (CUT-BACK DROP TURN!), [[Turn A Gundam|Gym Ghingnham]] (GEKKOU CHOU [[Verbal Tic|DE ARUUUU]]!); and [[Aura Battler Dunbine|Cham Fau]] (HISSATSU! HYPER AURAGIRI!).
* [[The Cameo]]: Near the end of ''Another Century's Episode: R'', the head of Season sics {{spoiler|[[Armored Core|Nineball Seraph]]}} on you.
* [[The Captain]]: [[Mobile Suit Gundam|Bright Noa]] in ''Another Century's Episode'', [[Mobile Suit Gundam 0083: Stardust Memory|Eiphar Synapse]] in ''Another Century's Episode 2'', [[Martian Successor Nadesico|Ruri Hoshino]] in ''Another Century's Episode 3'', and both Autumn-Four and [[Macross Frontier|Jeffery Wilder]] in ''Another Century's Episode: R''.
* [[Cast from Hit Points]]: The "Guardian Attack" in ''Another Century's Episode 2''. The most notable thing about it is you can cause yourself a [[Critical Existence Failure]] if you use it while low on AP.
** ''Another Century's Episode: R'''s support abilities are also this, whenever the player commands a unit to perform the action. This can get a little annoying, as it's the only way to perform a [[Combination Attack]].
* [[Character Level]]: Subversion: mecha gain levels instead of the pilots.
* [[Charged Attack]]
* [[Chuck Cunningham Syndrome]]
** Ditto to Tak, [[The Hero]] of ''Another Century's Episode 2''. In ''Another Century's Episode 3: The Final'', [[Love Interest]] Marina turns up as a playable character in Tak's mecha, and the dialog before the final stage has her implying that there's someone important to her to come back to, but it's never said where he is or why he's not here himself.
* [[Cloning Blues]]/[[Evil Twin]]: {{spoiler|Belkt is protagonist Barrel Orland's clone}} in ''Another Century's Episode 3''.
** The Blood Ark in ''Another Century's Episode 3'' is the [[Evil Counterpart]] to ''Another Century's Episode 2'''s Gun Ark.
* [[Combination Attack]]: A large part of the gameplay in the latter two games revolves around filling up a "Friend Gauge" to facilitate having all three mechs in your squad unload on a single enemy, with any nearby [[mook]]s getting caught in the crossfire. There's even an entire strategy revolving around creating squads of specific mechs to unleash stronger combos.
* [[Combos]]
* [[Continuity Nod]]: The Ark series from ''Another Century's Episode 2'' is powered by E2 from the first game; ''Another Century's Episode: R'' includes a reference to {{spoiler|the Baldona Drive}} from ''Another Century's Episode 3''.
* [[Continuity Reboot]]:
* [[Crapsack World]]/[[After the End]]: "Earth B" in ''Another Century's Episode 3'', thanks to it being the home of ''[[Eureka Seven]]'', [[After War Gundam X]]'', ''[[Overman King Gainer]]'' and ''[[Getter Robo|Getter Robo Armageddon]]''.
* [[Debut Queue]]: In ''Another Century's Episode: R'', the player picks a series to start with and experiences a couple of missions purely from its source material before the "black sphere" teleports them to Eria. Shortly thereafter, they meet about half the cast; over the course of the next two or three stages, they meet the other half, which necessitates a lot of introductions and [[Exposition]] (so newcomers know what an [[Overman King Gainer|Exodus]], [[Code Geass|Britannian]] and [[Macross Frontier|Miclone]] are).
* [[Defrosting Ice Queen]]: Marina, as shown in flashbacks about her and Tak's past in ''Another Century's Episode 2''.
* [[Demoted to Extra]]: Isn't it sad, [[Mobile Suit Gundam 0083: Stardust Memory|Burning]]? [[Mobile Suit Gundam Wing|Noin]]? [[Overman King Gainer|Sara?]] [[Martian Successor Nadesico|Shiratori]]? [[Code Geass|Tohdoh]]? And those are just the characters who at least got ''speaking'' roles.
** ''Another Century's Episode: R'' has quite a bit of this, since the "black sphere" means that we see brief snippets of events in every series' home world before only the select few playables get pulled away.
** In a larger sense, ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam Wing]]''. In the original ''Another Century's Episode'', it played a large role in the overall plot, complete with Romefeller Foundation HQ serving as the headquarters of the UCE. In ''Another Century's Episode 2'', the characters are mainly there to play [[Big Damn Heroes]], without even enacting ''Endless Waltz'''s plot (Wu Fei still rebels, but without the larger backstory of the Mariemaia Rebellion it looks more like he's throwing a temper tantrum). ''Another Century's Episode 3: The Final'' takes it even further by only having Heero appear or even be mentioned out of the entire cast.
* [[Desperation Attack]]: Several mechs in ''Another Century's Episode 3'' have this in the form of a [[Super Mode]].
* [[Determinator]]
* [[Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?]]: ''Another Century's Episode 3'''s final boss is {{spoiler|Belkt piloting the Shin Dragon in its reality-shattering, Jovian-moon-destroying final form}}.
** And if you're playing as the [[Mobile Fighter G Gundam|God Gundam, Master Gundam]] or [[Martian Successor Nadesico|Alstroemeia]], you ''literally'' get to punch him out.
* [[Difficulty Levels]]: "Rookie", "Pilot", "Veteran" and "[[Title Drop|ACE]]".
** ''Another Century's Episode 3'' adds in [[Harder Than Hard|True A.C.E.]]
* [[Downer Ending]]: The first game: {{spoiler|due to a [[Sadistic Choice]], you're forced to massacre civilians in a "needs of the many" situation. After taking out [[Martian Successor Nadesico|Hokushin]], you chase [[Mobile Suit Gundam|Char Aznable]] to Mars and take care of him, too. Unfortunately, the [[The Federation|UCE Government]] has now labeled all of [[Chars Counterattack|Londo Bell]] to be traitors and mass-murderers, forcing the heroes to go into hiding}}. However, the narration gives a [[Hope Spot]], {{spoiler|suggesting the disgraced heroes are protecting Earth from the shadows because they're heroes and that's what they do}}.
* [[Dual Boss]]: Used quite often. Just to name a few:
** [[Aura Battler Dunbine|Todd Guiness and Jeryl Coochibi]] are often paired with their [[Spiritual Successor|spiritual successors]]/[[Expy|expies]] [[Brain Powerd|Johnathan Glenn and Quincy Issa]] respectively, to show how similar they are.
** After Todd's [[Killed Off for Real]], Johnathan then hooks up with Dunbine's own [[Black Knight]], who himself swaps partners and teams with Jeryl after Johnathan and Quincy are absorbed by Orphan.
** [[Martian Successor Nadesico|Akito Tenkawa and Gai Daigouji]] attempt to keep you from preventing the Nadesico's departure to Mars in an amusing [[Let's You and Him Fight]] situation.
** The members of [[Metal Armor Dragonar|Dragonar's]] [[Quirky Miniboss Squad]] love attacking you in pairs. In the final battle against them after two of their members are [[Killed Off for Real]], the remaining ones become a rare example of a "Trio Boss".
** Another Trio Boss shows up in the form of Layzner's Lu Cain, Gostello and Getey all teaming up to stomp you when you [[Storming the Castle|storm their tower]].
** Depending on what path you take, you'll either wind up facing the combined might of the [[After War Gundam X|Frost Brothers]] once or twice.
** [[Eureka Seven|Charles and Ray Beams]] also attack in a pair, and their speed and the tendency of one to hit you while you're locked on to the other makes them [[That One Boss|really frustrating to deal with]].
** Dragonar's Meio Plato teams up with the [[Big Bad]] of [[Martian Successor Nadesico|The Prince of Darkness]] for one of these.
** [[Overman King Gainer|Cynthia Lane and Artham Boone]] pop up twice for this kind of fight. Cynthia then gets a playmate in the form of [[That One Boss]] and fellow [[Yandere]] [[Eureka Seven|Anemone]]...
** ''Another Century's Episode 3'' plays this one to the very end, as in the second-to-last level, you're faced with [[Chars Counterattack|Gyunei Guss and Quess Paraya]], piloting a [[Elite Mook]] and [[Lightning Bruiser]]-class mecha. When you're done with them, you find out they're just part of a [[Boss Rush]], and now '''Char Aznable''' is coming at you in his Sazabi...
** The [[Boss Rush]] levels effectively live off this trope. It's at its very, ''very'' worst in ''Another Century's Episode 2'' when the [[Mobile Suit Gundam 0083: Stardust Memory|Neue Ziel]] (already [[That One Boss]] on its own) gains a dream-team partner in the Sazabi.
* [[Early-Bird Cameo]]: The custom Gespensts used by Kai, Katina and Russel in The Second Super Robot Wars Original Generation made their debut in ''Another Century's Episode Portable''.
* [[Escort Mission]]: Quite a few, but the most frustrating is the final ''[[Eureka Seven]]'' mission in ''Another Century's Episode 3'', due to being surrounded on all sides by infinitely respawning Corallians who can literally start taking chunks out of the Gekko.
** Until you realize the large Coralians on the far sides of the map are [[Mook Maker]]s.
* [[Evolving Attack]]: Melee combos in ''Another Century's Episode 2'' evolve as you pour points into upgrading them. [[Combination Attack]]s in ''Another Century's Episode 3'' evolve based on the amount of experience each mech participating has.
* [[Facial Markings]]: Hard to see when he has his helmet on, but Tak has a rather intricate pattern on the right side of his face.
* [[Falling Into the Cockpit]]: Subverted: Barrel's practically dragged into the Ixblau's cockpit and made to fight by co-pilot Fei.
* [[Fan Service]]: A tiny bit of the regular kind in the later ones, (being an anime crossover, after all) even though you only see the characters a bit, but ''[[Code Geass]]'' fans may get a kick out of {{spoiler|Lelouch Lamperouge squirming in terror at the fact his Geass does not work on Autumn, but in his usual fashion, he recovers quickly and [[Ridiculously Human Robot|figures out exactly WHY it didn't work]], as well [[The Chessmaster|as helping to reveal said conclusion in front of everyone, all within the span of one mission]]}}.
* [[Fix Fic]]: The series goes about happily preventing the deaths of popular characters who die in their original series, a la ''Super Robot Wars''.
* [[Forced Tutorial]]: Every single time you play through ''Another Century's Episode 2'''s story mode.
* [[Freudian Excuse]]: Belkt wants to cause a double [[Earthshattering Kaboom]] because of daddy issues. {{spoiler|His "father" Gil Baldona created the [[Teleporters and Transporters|Baldona Drive]] and found himself [[Trapped in Another World]]. He made Belkt as a [[Replacement Goldfish]] for his son Barrel, but was going to abandon him to try to get back to his original world and son, leaving Belkt to be hunted down by the [[After War Gundam X|New Federation]] because of his ability to control the Baldona Drive. Unable to bear what a crapsack life he's leading compared to Barrel's, he decides [[Omnicidal Maniac|both worlds gotta go]]}}.
* [[Generation Ships]]: {{spoiler|Ark Alpha houses the personal data of the humans stranded on Eria, and was designed with the intent to let them escape the planet and the control of Season}}.
* [[Genre Shift]]: By the way each game represents the story: the first seems to be realistic mecha simulation, similar to ''[[Armored Core]]'', with an anime setting. The only face the player will see during a mission is [[Mission Control|his operator]] and the avatar character is a [[Featureless Protagonist|nondescript pilot]]. ''Another Century's Episode 2'' shifts toward anime and less of realism, with the player actually seeing the protagonist during cutscenes. Tak's solid with personality and a background story. Still, aside from a few flashbacks and mission briefings, the player will never see Tak interact with other characters outside of battles (they use voicemail to contact him personally), and there are various reports which the player can read to learn about events beyond his scope. ''Another Century's Episode 3: The Final'' slides even more towards an anime feeling, with Barrel actually talking to his fellow pilots before their sorties and everything is represented through dialogue.
* [[Hannibal Lecture]]: Before fighting the [[Big Bad]] {{spoiler|Dr. Shiki}} in ''Another Century's Episode: R'', the heroes are treated to a long speech on the rationale behind everything that has transpired, {{spoiler|including the Seasons' extermination campaign against human colonists on Eria: 1.) Shiki began thinking of [[From a Certain Point of View|"liberating the colonists from the misery of war"]] upon conclusion that breach of the Another Century's Episode system by the Aggressors might take a long time but is ultimately inevitable, 2.) defending billions of human beings is not as efficient as defending a boxed collection of sperms and eggs, and 3.) removing the human presence means no more man-made pollutions or catastrophes, thereby preserving Eria's Eco-system}}. He then goes on to portray his actions as an act of mercy, but, naturally, the heroes just don't at all buy into it.
* [[Heroic Sacrifice]]: Marina's whole reason for being in ''Another Century's Episode 2'' seems to be to attempt these for the sake of Tak, but he insists it would NOT [[I Want My Beloved to Be Happy|make him happy]].
* [[High Altitude Battle]]: The fact there are so many of these is the reason units who, while unable to fly in their original series, have no problem doing so here.
** Subverted somewhat in ''Another Century's Episode: R'': when the heroes proceed to ascend towards space, [[Full Metal Panic!|Arm Slaves]], Mobile Suits from [[Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam|Universal]] [[Mobile Suit Crossbone Gundam|Century]] and [[Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny|Cosmic Era]] universes, [[Overman King Gainer|Overmen]] and the [[Super Robot Wars Original Generation|Earth Federation Army robots]] break off from the party to storm an orbital elevator as a diversionary attack, rather than sitting out on actions (as most of them cannot leave planetary atmospheres under their own power, much less defend their capital ships along the way). That, and the elevator can catapult them into space to link up with the rest of the party if they do slip past local enemy defenses.
* [[Idle Animation]]: Certain mechs in ''Another Century's Episode 3'', but only on the ground. The [[Turn A Gundam|Turn a Gundam]] will rotate its head 180 degrees for a few seconds, then sit down and somehow pull out a clothesline which it will hang between its hands.
** Units from ''[[Overman King Gainer]]'' will break into the infamous "Monkey Dance" performed during the series' [[Dancing Theme]].
* [[Ignored Expert]]: Albert Reinen, who predicted an alien invasion and tried to sell the Federation on his defense system. They dismissed him, but several years later the Zentraedi come calling...
* [[It's Up to You]]
* [[Jack of All Stats]]
* [[Jedi Truth]]
* [[Joke Character]]
** The [[Super Robot Wars|Gespenst MK II M]] in the original game isn't quite a joke character, but is hands-down the weakest machine in the game, thus treated as such by the fan community; beating the game with an stock Gespenst is considered the "ironman" challenge.
** The RX-78-2 is more a [[Lethal Joke Character]], considering it's ''hideously'' overpowered to the point of [[Game Breaker]]: while it shoots slow for most weapons and has insanely long reload times, the damage is absolutely insane to the point where even bosses go down in a few well-placed shots.
** Bonta-kun in ''Another Century's Episode: R''.
*** Bonta-kun is a ''god'' compared to Luca Angeloni's [[Macross Frontier|RVF-25]]. Absolutely pitiful damage from its primary ranged weapon, an almost nonexistent melee combo string, and its only Tension ability being to futz with enemy missiles make for a difficult time fighting just about ''anything''. It gains some useful skills in its "Super" configuration, but said configuration is only available for ''five levels'' at the tail end of the game, one of which is the [[Scrappy Level]].
* [[Kill Sat]]
* [[Latex Space Suit]]
* [[Loading Screen]]:
* [[The Man Behind the Man]]:
**
**
* [[Mask Power]]
* [[Meaningful Name]]
* [[Mecha Expansion Pack]]
** Played totally straight in ''Another Century's Episode 3'', with the Ixblau given four expansion packs: '''[[Cool Sword|B]]'''lade, '''[[Fragile Speedster|G]]'''-force, '''[[More Dakka|H]]'''eavy
* [[Mook Maker]]
* [[More Dakka]]
* [[Mundane Made Awesome]]
** Then when you get to the space stages the Arm Slaves gain flight (Presumably due to the lack of gravity), they also gain the ability to boost without using any sort of visible booster.
* [[Oh Crap]]: While there are many times, being a cross-over series, in
* [[Only Six Faces]]
** That's because they share the same character designer
* [[Ordinary High School Student]]
* [[Original Generation]]
* [[Overly-Long Fighting Animation]]
* [[Personality Chip]]
* [[Power Creep, Power Seep]]
** [[Justified Trope|Justified]] since the Shin Dragon isn't there to pump up its energy, and the machine got trashed a few times, anyways
* [[Precision-Guided Boomerang]]
* [[Redemption Equals Death]]: Part of the reason Marina's so eager to go the whole [[Heroic Sacrifice]] route in ''Another Century's Episode 2'', but {{spoiler|Belkt does this [[Killed Off for Real|for real]] at the end of ''Another Century's Episode 3: The Final''}}.
* [[The Remnant]]: Meio Plato's Ex-Giganos group in ''Another Century's Episode 3'', brought about due to prodding from [[Chars Counterattack|Neo-Zeon]] and [[Martian Successor Nadesico|the Martian Successors]].
* [[Ridiculously Human Robot]]: {{spoiler|All of the [[Original Generation]] characters appearing in ''Another Century's Episode: R'', Autumn Four included}}.
* [[The Rival]]: When [[Macross Frontier|Mikael Blanc]] introduces himself as a sniper, [[Full Metal Panic!|Kurz Weber]] cheerfully remarks "I guess that makes you my rival", which Mikael cheerfully confirms.
* [[Sadistic Choice]]: The climax of the original game, thanks to {{spoiler|Char: since he can't drop Axis (it having got stuck with A Baoa Qu after he tried to ram the latter as per [[Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam|Zeta Gundam]]), he instead sends an E2 bomb, which would cause MORE damage than Axis, to Earth. The problem is... it's in a civilian shuttle... which is a part of a giant fleet of refugee shuttles headed to Earth under [[Mobile Suit Gundam Wing|Relena Peacecraft's]] auspices. This means you ''[[But Thou Must!|have]]'' to go on a rampage, destroying the ships and killing innocents because letting that bomb reach Earth would be much, much worse}}.
* [[Saving the World]]: The first two games.
** [[Save Both Worlds]]: ''Another Century's Episode 3''.
* [[Scoring Points]]: To wit the points can be used in exchange for upgrades and new mecha.
* [[Scrolling Text]]: Done in order to get the exposition out in ''Another Century's Episode 3: The Final''.
* [[Secret Character]]: Half the fun is collecting them all.
* [[Self-Made Orphan]]: {{spoiler|Belkt killed his "father" Gil before the latter could attempt to return to his home world}}.
* [[Set Swords to Stun]]: Mostly only on bosses.
* [[Something Only They Would Say]]: In ''Another Century's Episode: R'', Zero's attempt to convince [[Code Geass|Suzaku Kururugi]] to join up with the "Irregulars" rather than Season includes a thinly-veiled reference to their mutual past (saying they mustn't repeat their past mistake of ignoring the situation to focus on each other), which confirms to Suzaku this Zero is indeed Lelouch.
* [[Sorting Algorithm of Evil]]
* [[Sorting Algorithm of Weapon Effectiveness]]
* [[Super Prototype]]
* [[Sword of Plot Advancement]]
* [[Theme Naming]]
** Each Season member also have huge bases called Plants: Spring has the Sea Plant, Summer has the Geo Plant, and Autumn the Sky Plant. Winter, however, uses the {{spoiler|[[Odd Name Out|A.C.E. Core]]}}.
* [[There Can Be Only One]]
* [[There Is No Kill Like Overkill]]
* [[Throwing Your Sword Always Works]]
* [[Timed Mission]]
* [[Title Drop]]
* [[Took a Level
* [[Turns Red]]
** A literal example in ''Another Century's Episode: R'', as, for whatever reason, every mech turns red when using a [[Limit Break]] (and yes, they do call it that).
* [[Unexpected Gameplay Change]]
* [[Updated Rerelease]]
* [[Villain Team-Up]]
** ''Another Century's Episode 2'': [[Mobile Suit Gundam 0083: Stardust Memory|Delaz Fleet]] teams up with [[Metal Armor Dragonar|Giganos]] to rebel against the UCE's supposed tyranny, [[Brain Powerd|The Reclaimers]] ally with the [[Aura Battler Dunbine|Drake Army]], who are interested in Orphan's power and [[Blue Comet SPT Layzner|Grados]] ([[Spell My Name with an "S"|or Glados]]) and [[Heavy Metal L-Gaim|Poseidal]] partner up in order to chase the goals of their respective leaders: Lu Cain wants to [[Take Over the World]], while Giwaza seeks to gather superweapons like the [[Mobile Fighter G Gundam|Devil Gundam]] and Buster Ark.
** ''Another Century's Episode 3'': Neo-Zeon convinces the Martian Successors and [[Metal Armor Dragonar|Ex-Giganos]] groups to rise up in a mass rebellion against [[The Federation]] of Earth A. In Earth B, the [[Overman King Gainer|Siberian Railroad]] and [[Eureka Seven|Tower State Militia]] are established as groups working under the [[After War Gundam X|United New Earth Federation]]. In ''both'' worlds, we have [[Eureka Seven|Antibody Coralians]] causing widespread destruction in conjunction with the [[Getter Robo|Invaders]]. {{spoiler|This is eventually revealed to be because the Invaders are in fact, Antibody Coralians mutated by Getter Rays}}.
** ''Another Century's Episode: R'': Several villains, including [[Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam|Yazan and his wingmen]], [[Crossbone Gundam|the Death Gale Team]], [[Code Geass|the Knights of the Round]], [[Macross Zero|Nora and Ivanov]], [[Macross Frontier|the 33rd Marine Squadron]], and members of [[Orguss|Chiram]] and [[Overman King Gainer|the Siberian Railroad]] get pulled into the "black sphere" along with the heroes and end up siding with Season.
* [[The War Sequence]]
* [[The World Is Always Doomed]]
* [[You Gotta Have Blue Hair]]
* [[You Killed My Father]]
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