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* From the original ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam]]'' series: Ryu's [[Heroic Sacrifice]] is turned into Narm when the whole crew is awkwardly crying over how [[It's All My Fault|it's all their fault]] he had to die.

** Rectified in the compilation trilogy, where this is replaced by Amuro & Hayato savagely beating each other because each blames the other for Ryu's death. Very dramatic.

** In the English dub of the movies, nobody quite got the pronunciation of some names, so [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zXQYsYwmxo Amuro is the pilot of the Gundamn] Also, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUOAXhokrt8 "Sha Znable"].

** The subplot from Sayla's Agony where the White Base is dangerously low on SALT! The chef is clearly worried about the loss of salt, and Frau tells Amuro that salt is as important to the human body as water.

** And finally, just to show that G Gundam doesn't fuck around when it comes to its narm, ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fUJ6LehQ3I this is how the last battle ends]''.

* ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam 00|Gundam 00]]''. To begin with, ''00'' has its characters [[Say My Name|state a person's full name]] when talking to or about them in a ''serious'' fashion. In the development of the Allelujah/Marie relationship, Al says to her:

*** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWQYvYnZ2OY Here you go].

** "[[Gratuitous English|You have control]] [[Verbal Tic|desu]]!" from episode six of the second season made a fairly serious Gundam launch ''hilarious''. Allelujah's follow-up, 'I HAVE CONTROL,' didn't help.

*** Ironically, a real pilot would say "I have control" or words to that effect to confirm that catapult control belonged to them. Then again, it's usually in their ''own'' language, and Allelujah spoke in [[Gratuitous English]]....

** With names like the ones the Innovators possess, it becomes that much harder to take them seriously (try saying "FUCKING RIBBONS!" with a straight face).

*** Revive Revival is a particular offender. You'd really think they had someone on the production team who spoke English, because their names ''are'', for the most, part real words. The fact that they made such goofy names for these guys is just beyond me.

** Episode 14 has visual narm. After Setsuna is shot by Ali and tries to fight him off while wounded, the attempts to make him look like he's in pain only make Setsuna look like he's tripping balls.

** The clone army {{spoiler|of Bring Stability and the other guy}}, because there's nothing funnier than a clone army of [[Jobber|jobbers]] all standing around.

** The scene where the Gundam Meisters all take off while saying the names of their loved ones. Setsuna says [[Cargo Ship|"Gundam."]]

** One episode of the English dub had Daryl Dodge screaming "YOU DIIIIIIIIIEEEEEE!!!!" at another character; if memory serves, it was Patrick. The delivery of the line broke the emotional tension.

** Allelujah's transformation into Hallelujah during episode 5, complete with his hair flipping sides by itself and over-the-top screaming.

*** One fansub translated Alle's warning around this time as [[Accidental Innuendo|"Never come inside me without permission!"]]. Yeah.

** When Kamille and Katz were away from their mobile suits during a fight in a city, Katz gets knocked over by a nearby explosion during the fight. The scream he makes while falling is so hilarious that it's hard to take the scene seriously.

** The sheer number of times people start spontaneously beating each other in this show. Seriously, it's like punching people replaced a simple "hello" somewhere along the line.

** Kamille for almost no reason (Jerid was surprised that Kamille was a boy because of his name) decides to take on about five Titans, screams [[Atop the Fourth Wall|"I'M A MAN"]], proceeds to get his ass kicked, and ends up unconscious when Jerid lightly taps Kammile's forehead with a kick.

** Char Aznable's [[Paper-Thin Disguise]]. Did Char really think that calling himself Quatro and wearing '80s sunglasses was going to fool anyone into thinking that the AEUG's [[Ace Pilot]] was not the famed Red Comet?

** Septem is ejected out of a plane and then shot just in case he survives [[No One Could Survive That|falling out of a plane]].

** Here's a [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8uUQNQ4dZI clip] of the greatness that is General Septem. One of the commentors put it best when they described it as the type of voice you would see in an [[Abridged Series]].

** One character is named Dr. J. It's nearly impossible to keep from chuckling through any conversation involving him.

** From the very first episode:

** In one of the earlier episodes, it seems like almost every character adds 'in space' to almost everything they say.

** Duke Durmail looks like the bastard child of George Washington and Colonel Sanders. Everyone else from the Romefeller Foundation looks like they just came from a Society for Creative Anachronisms convention.

** Shinn and Lunamaria's hooking up, which takes place one episode after Shinn blew up a mecha with Athrun and ''Luna's sister'' still in it. Accepting or forgiving a man for killing your sister, when you know that she's a traitor, is one thing. Jumping into his arms is another.

*** As someone else on this very wiki said:

** What makes this part [[Hilarious in Hindsight|even funnier]] currently, is that [[Kenichi Suzumura]] and [[Maaya Sakamoto]], Shinn's and Luna's VAs, respectively, have married in real life in 2011.

** Any scene with Shinn screaming for extended periods of time, including the mental breakdown scene where you basically go inside Shinn's head and see how screwed up he is, especially the Mayu message.

** A bit of dub-specific Narm. During the fight between Shinn and Kira, Shinn is charging the Freedom Gundam with a [[BFS]]. In the Japanese, Kira makes a noise that, while difficult to describe, could be called a verbal flinch (the subtitles translate it as "What!?" but it's hard to say if he's saying "nani" or just making a similar noise). In the dub, however...

* Applicable to the original Japanese-language versions of both ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam SEED|Gundam SEED]]'' and ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny|Gundam SEED Destiny]]'': Kira Yamato's soul-rending attempts at crying, which produce a sound that words cannot describe. It's seriously wince-inducing. This seems to be a problem with [[Soichiro Hoshi]] in general, since it's also present in his work as Keiichi in ''[[Higurashi no Naku Koro ni]]''.

** This trope noticed a considerable difference between the crying from the [[Gundam vs. Series]], he has less of a gargling pitch.

** The biggest example? [[Mobile Suit Gundam Wing|Quatre Raberba Winner]] [[Brad Swaile|and]] [[Mobile Suit Gundam 00|Setsuna F. Seiei]] [[Death Note|will take their potato chips... AND EAT THEM!]]

 

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