Gundam vs. Series: Difference between revisions

* [[Duel to The Death]]: In ''Alliance vs ZAFT II Plus'', one of the Enemy missions with Andrew Waltfeld is this; you're dropped into the map back-to-back with a single hit point, meaning first blood wins.

* [[Dummied Out]]: In ''Gundam vs Gundam NEXT Plus'', hacking can be used to gain access to normally unplayable machines like the bosses or the MS added for Next Plus Mode. The Next Plus mecha are incomplete, with maybe one or two attacks...with a couple of exceptions. [[Gundam Seed|Buster, Blitz]], and [[Gundam Seed Destiny|Lunamaria's ZAKU]] were mostly copied over from ''Alliance vs. ZAFT'', while [[Gundam Wing|Sandrock Kai]] was included for a stage where you fight the entire Wing Team. Hacking these four as playables shows that they're already mostly complete, only really lacking voice clips<ref>All the more unfortunate for Sandrock, since Quatre's seiyuu [[Ai Orikasa]] is already in the game as [[Mobile Suit Victory Gundam (Anime)|Fara Griffon]].</ref>, assists and balanced stats.

* [[Everything's Better With Spinning]]: The Gundam has a jumping spin slash, the Guncannon has various roundhouse kicks, and the Gelgoog can spin its beam naginata to deflect attacks; Double Zeta has a spinning piledriver; God Gundam's God Slash Typhoon; Wing Zero has its famous Rolling Buster Rifle attack, while Epyon has a spinning sword slice.

* [[Extremity Extremist]]: The Gouf, as well as the God and Master Gundams, have extremely few ranged moves, focusing almost entirely on melee combat; Gundam Epyon has absolutely none, fighting only with a heat whip and beam sword.

* [[Fandom Nod]]: In ''Extreme Vs'', the SEED intro video shows the Strike Gundam [[Dual-Wielding]] beam rifles, a nod to the fact that it sometimes did this in the original anime during [[Off-Model]] moments (which eventually became [[Memetic Mutation]]).

* [[Fan Service]]: Non-sexual variety: Allowing the player to go to town with their favorite Mobile Suits is a pretty big draw for ''[[Gundam]]'' fans.

* [[Finishing Move]]: ''Extreme Vs'' adds these, usable only when the player is in Extreme Burst Mode. Examples include the 00 Gundam's [[BFS|Raiser Sword]] and Strike Freedom's [[Beam Spam|METEOR Full Burst]].

* [[Fire, Ice, Lightning]]: Extreme Gundam's armor phases are in this trope. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9xQlowTla0 And it's order of sortie even arranged perfectly as the trope in Trial Mission Mode's Final Mission.]

* [[Self-Destruct Mechanism]]: In ''Alliance vs ZAFT II Plus''' P.L.U.S. Mode, an AI-controlled Athrun can attempt to perform the Aegis Gundam's self destruct grapple from the famous deathmatch between himself and Kira. In ''Gundam vs Gundam'', the player can perform the move on command. And of course, Wing Zero self destructs as part of its [[Victory Pose|Defeat Pose]].

* [[Set Right What Once Went Wrong]]: The sure-fire method of getting the happiest ending in ''Gundam vs Zeta Gundam'' Universal Century Mode is to avert as much tragedy and death as possible.

** Interestingly, God Gundam has a nod to [[SNK]], as one of its melee combo strings ends with [[Dragon Punch|Dragon Punches]] thrown with alternating arms, like [[Art of Fighting|Yuri Sakazaki's]] Yuri Chou Reppa.

* [[Soundtrack Dissonance]]: The theme for ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam 0080 War in The Pocket (Anime)|Gundam 0080]]'' is the cheerful, upbeat "Reach Out to the Sky Someday", which doesn't quite fit the pitched battles going on around it. Then again, considering this is ''[[Downer Ending|Gundam 0080]]'' we're talking about here, it may be an [[Invoked Trope]].

* [[There Is No Kill Like Overkill]]: In ''Extreme Vs'', Wing Zero's [[Finishing Move]] is a three full-power Twin Buster Rifle shots in rapid succession, while the Double X's is a G-Falcon empowered Twin Satellite Cannon along with two GX-Bits firing ''their'' Satellite Cannons.

* [[The Same but More]]: ''Gundam vs Zeta Gundam'''s Universal Century Mode has an overarching [[What If]] story where Zeon's invasion of Jaburo succeeds; this leads to a storyline that is essentially ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam]]'' but with ''[[Zeta Gundam]]''-era mobile suits. Gets especially egregious when you fight the Black Tri-Stars...who have '''Psyco Gundams'''.

* [[Versus Title]]

* [[Victory Pose]]: Used extensively, along with Defeat Poses.