Gundam 00: Awakening of the Trailblazer: Difference between revisions

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** And then for metatropic-irony: Lockon is shown wearing similar glasses in the opening credits before the movie within a movie and then directly after as well.

* [[Animation Bump]]: The whole movie's animation quality is far beyond that of the series, which is to be expected. What really stands out, though, is how much attention the production team gave to small details.

{{spoiler|'''Andrei Smirnov'''}}: "I am an Earth Federation soldier; I will protect the civilians!" }}

* [[Fan Service Pack]]: [[She's All Grown Up|Mileina Vashti]]. She's [[Letting Her Hair Down|Let Her Hair Down]], and wears [[Zettai Ryouiki]].

* [[Fate Worse Than Death]]: Being assimilated. Seriously, ''no one'' deserves that.

* [[First Contact]]: For the first time ever in the ''[[Gundam]]'' franchise. Sadly, it's one big case of numerous [[It Got Worse]] moments piling on top of each other.

* [[Poor Communication Kills]]: Continues the tradition in true Gundam style, though in this case it's justified by the two parties having ''no idea'' how to communicate with each other.

* [[Redemption Equals Death]]: {{spoiler|Andrei Smirnov}} ''finally'' pays {{spoiler|his}} penance for killing {{spoiler|Sergei}} two years prior.

* [[Rousseau Was Right]] ([[White and White Morality]])

** The ELS have a giant, spherical battleship that increases the gravitational pull of Jupiter enough to cause two of its moons to be pulled in from their orbit and ripped apart by tidal forces. Later, the battleship approaches Earth, and the effects of something the size of The ''Moon'' are pointed out.

** At first, it seems to be played straight with the Gadelaza: There's no ''practical'' reason for making a mobile armor the size of a cruiser packing seven GN Tau Drives and 14 MS-sized "Large GN Fangs" that each store 10 regular-sized "GN Fangs" and boast ''their own'' GN Drive Tau. The ESF ''might'' have been better off replacing the Gadelaza with an ''actual'' cruiser and the GN Fangs with GN-XIIIs, GN-XIVs, or Braves. Then you remember that it's stated to have better performance than '''five''' mobile suit platoons.

** May not be as senseless as it seems. See [[We Could Have Avoided All This]] below.

* [[Serial Escalation]]: Pretty much the entire movie, but especially the second half/final battle. The scope, as indicated by the director, was so far beyond anything ever done in ''[[Gundam]]'' before that it was mind-boggling. And awesome.

** The final fight seems reminiscent to the Battle of Endor in ''[[Return of the Jedi]]'', except {{spoiler|Setsuna does not "escape alive" from the "Death Star", which instead of exploding turns into a giant flower.}}

* [[Silicon Based Life]]: The ELS, although they also have properties similar to those of mercury.

* [[Storm of Blades]]: Harute's [[Crazy Awesome|Scissor]] [[Attack Drone|Bits]]. It's fun to imagine the [[Oh Crap]] looks in the ELS' minds when those things let loose.

** The 00 <nowiki>Qan[T]</nowiki>'s Sword Bits are capable of the same thing, but we never actually get to see it.

* [[Super Prototype]]: Played with six ways to Sunday: The Zabanya and Harute use the recycled frames of the Cheridum and Arios from season two of the series; the 00 Raiser Repair is just that: the 00 Raiser but without any GN Drives; the Raphael uses technology derived from the Gadessa series, but aside from packing three GN Tau Drives isn't anything new; the GN-XIV and Brave units are limited production models for elite pilots; and the 00 <nowiki>Qan[T]</nowiki> and Gadelaza are actually [[Super Prototype|Super Prototypes]]. Now guess which ones do the most damage to the ELS.

* [[Take That]]: The [[Show Within a Show]] itself is one to movies and TV shows alike that tend to romanticize the winning side and vilifying the other so much (as Saji pointed out), which are so prevalent in [[Real Life]]. The way the Gundam Meisters are casted also mocks the racial and gender stereotyping in Hollywood (e.g. Tieria the [[Scary Black Man]] and Allelujah the little hot chick). The message of this show, in other words, seems to be, "Tired of the same old Good vs Evil stories? We've got a new one!"