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A [[Manga]] follow-up to the film ''[[
After meeting the Vanguard's [[Ace Pilot]] Kincaid Nau and their [[The Captain|Captain]] Berah Ronah (actually ''F91'''s Seabook Arno and Cecilly Fairchild under assumed names), Tobia decides to join up with them and stop the Empire's scheme. Unfortunately, things take a turn for the worse when it turns out that the Empire isn't quite up to what the Vanguard ''thinks'' they're up to...
''[[Crossbone Gundam]],'' sometimes called ''[[Fan Nickname|Gundam F97]],'' is one of the most popular spinoffs of the ''[[Gundam]]'' franchise, on both sides of the Pacific. The general sentiment is that the series represents ''Gundam'' at its peak: characters, storytelling, action, drama, and comedy all come together well, without the concerns that usually hobble the televised chapters of the saga (such as [[Merchandise
▲== The manga ran for 26 chapters in the ''Kadokawa Comics A'' magazine and was later compiled into six tankoubon volumes. It also has sequels: ==
* ''[[Crossbone Gundam]] Skull Heart'': Released in 2003, ten years after the original, the series consists primarily of short vignettes detailing the adventures of the Crossbone Vanguard three years after the original manga, with a few trips into the past to see [[Badass Grandpa]] Umon when he was a rookie in the [[Mobile Suit Gundam|One-Year War]], and to explain how narrator Twink met the crew.
* ''[[Crossbone Gundam]]: The Steel Seven'': Released in 2006, ''Steel Seven'' introduces Bernadette's step-mother Europa, who flees to Earth to warn the Vanguard that the Jupiter Empire is building "Zeus' Wrath", a giant [[Wave Motion Gun|colony laser]] in order to destroy Earth. Tobia must race against time and agents of the Empire to recover a means with which to get to Jupiter, and to recruit the best pilots he can muster for what seems to be a suicide mission. This manga ties even more heavily into ''[[Mobile Suit Victory Gundam
* ''[[Crossbone Gundam]]: Ghost''. The newest chapter in the story, which started serializing in the fall of 2011. It's set in UC 0153 (the same timeframe as ''[[Mobile Suit Victory Gundam
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* [[Absolute Cleavage]]: Jupiter Empire-employed female mercenary Rosemary Raspberry wears her pilot suit like this.
* [[Ace Custom]]: Burns Gernsback's red [[Mecha
** Later, the Skull Heart and X1 Full Cloth. Even later the entirety of the Steel Seven, with the possible execption of the Angel Diona, whose only purpose is to operate the Ikaros flight wing and carry spare munitions for the others.
** ''Ghost'' introduces the Crossbone X0 Ghost, which was cobbled together out of the wrekage of the X1 Full Cloth, as well as the ThouCus ("Thousand Custom"), a Jovian mobile suit said to be able to take on 1,000 enemies at once.
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** It's heavily implied that the Diona pilots are neither elite nor Newtypes, and the unit was set up strictly for propaganda purposes.
* [[Animal Motifs]]: Jupiter Empire Mobile Suits and Mobile Armors sport fairly obvious ones. It's... never really explained why.
* [[Another
* [[A Nuclear Error]] / [[You Fail Nuclear Physics Forever]]: Averted/played straight. Faced with the monstrous Divinidad, Tobia guesses that it has several nuclear reactors within it and cuts off its appendages to keep Dougatie (who's psychotic enough to use dirty reactors, rather than Helium-3...) from exploding/self-destructing and spreading their radiation.
** And ''then'' Dougatie reveals the 16 nuclear missiles in its chest... which Tobia promptly cuts, just below the warheads.
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* [[Aristocrats Are Evil]]: Or rather, ''Aristocracy Is Evil''. One of the main points of the story.
* [[Armed Legs]]: The Crossbones have anti-MS knives hidden in their calves. The blades can pop out through the soles of the feet for a surprise attack.
* [[Artificial Stupidity]]: At one point during ''Skull Heart'', Jupiter Empire remnants use data from [[Mobile Suit Gundam|Amuro]]'s core fighter to create a brain clone for their [[Super Prototype]] Amakusa. Things were going perfectly until the other remnants showed up to taunt Tobia, at which point the Amakusa started attacking them. It turned out that they used their own [[Mecha
* [[Awesome but Impractical]]: The Pez Batara is an anti-ship MS that has a gigantic beam blade running right down the middle of its body; to attack, it ignites the blade and [[Ramming Always Works|charges headlong at the enemy]]. On top of the obvious [[Death or Glory Attack]] element, this means it doesn't possess any other melee weapons. On top of ''that'', said design means its main camera is only on the right side of its body, meaning that it has an absolutely titanic blind spot. And yet Tobia manages to kick ass in one of these...
* [[Badass]]: Kincaid. It probably helps that he [[Took a Level
* [[Badass Bookworm]]: Tobia is demonstrably smarter (and considerably more level-headed) than the average [[Gundam]] protagonist, coming up with tactics on the fly and applying practical solutions to various problems. This goes as far as him working out calculations to reunite with the Crossbone Vanguard in his head ''while awaiting his execution''.
* [[Badass Grandpa]]: The man known as Grey Stork, AKA "Uncle Jupiter" aka {{spoiler|[[Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ
** Umon Samon is a ''One Year War'' veteran and still kicking ass. Example: When Dougatie is telling the Vanguard how they're all going to die in the Io base, everyone in the room is too shocked to interrupt - except Umon, who's ''hopping mad'' and demanding to know what's going to happen to the thousands of Empire citizens still in the base.
* [[Badass Normal]]: Umon Samon, MS Pilot since the One Year War - and how many ''veterans'', let alone ''active'' pilots, from that are still alive?
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* [[Bittersweet Ending]]: ''Steel Seven''. {{spoiler|The mission succeeds, but every member of the Steel Seven aside from Suzuki and Rosemary dies, with Tobia MIA. The pair marries and Rosemary pens a book telling the truth about the incident, but the Federation hushes it up. As Bernadette steps up to lead the Empire, she runs into Tobia - blinded in the final battle, but alive and signed on as her bodyguard.}}
* [[BFS]]: Crossbone X-3's Muramasa Blaster -- It mounts ports that emit up to 14 seperate [[Laser Blade|Beam Saber]] blades! The Jovians try to mimic it with the Arana Batara's Monza Blaster, which mounts half the number.
* [[BFG]]: Crossbone X-2's Buster Launcher which, in a cute little [[Mythology Gag]], is physically almost identical to the [[Mobile Suit Victory Gundam
* [[Caped Mecha]]: The Crossbone Gundams have anti-beam coated mantles, which provide protection against five or so beam rifle shots. Crosses into [[Awesome Yet Practical]], since they're extra defense with no energy requirements and are used in a number of clever improvisations throughout the series. The fact that they're dark also makes them appear to be practically invisible at longer distances, as enemies can only see their heads. One of which is black itself.
* [[The Captain]]: <s>Cecilly Fairchild</s> Berah Ronah.
* [[Character Development]]: Seabook and Cecily didn't have a whole lot of time to develop their characters in ''F91'', but ''Crossbone'' does a good ways towards fleshing them out.
* [[Chekhov's Gunman]]: A smaller example: Early on, Kincaid and Tobia go undercover in order to steal information from the Jupiter Empire. Tobia gives some extra water to a little girl, which attracts attention and forces Kincaid to beat the snot out of them to preserve their cover. A chapter later, when they're trying to escape, the girl and her mother help out [[Karma|to repay Tobia's kindness]] and because not every Jovian is a fanatical devotee of Dougatie.
* [[Cloning Blues]]: Dougatie uses cloning extensively.
** We find out in ''Skull Heart'' that the old [[Mobile Suit Gundam|Zeon]] research team (apparently under directions from {{spoiler|Garma}} Zabi) dabbled in this as well, churning out ''Newtype chimps''.
* [[Comforting the Widow]]: {{spoiler|The farmer on Earth implies this happened with him and Berah, though we don't actually know if it's true. She could probably be forgiven after holding out a ''decade'' for her [[Chaste Hero]] boyfriend (Kincaid seems to view himself and Berah Ronah as separate individuals from Seabook Arno and Cecily Fairchild, bound by common ideals rather than love) and then watching a pretty convincing ''fiery death by atmospheric reentry'' -- though it's also never brought up again and doesn't get in the way of their [[Babies Ever After]].}}
* [[Continuity Cameo]]: Grey Stoke ({{spoiler|AKA [[Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ
** Interestingly, when asked if he's met Amuro Ray, he flat out denies it; Yuichi Hasegawa, ''Crossbone'''s artist (and the writer for ''Skull Heart'') also did a manga called ''Mobile Suit vs. Giant God: Gigantis' Counterattack'', which is more colloquially known as ''[[Gundam]] vs. [[Ideon]]'', and has Amuro team up with Judau to prevent Zeon remnants from reawakening Ideon.
* [[Cool Old Guy]]: Vanguard pilot Umon Samon. ''Steel Seven's'' Minoru Suzuki as well.
** He's not ''as'' old, but Grey Stoke most definitely counts, seeing as he's [[Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ
* [[Cool Ship]]: The ''Mother Vanguard'', a mecha-scale [[Pirate]] ship. Complete with a full-body Beam Shield and a golden figurehead of a woman on the prow.
** Later, in ''Skull Heart'', the ''Little Gray''. It actually ''transforms'' from a civilian delivery ship into a part-time pirate ship.
* [[Crash Into Hello]]: Tobia and his eventual [[Love Interest]] Bernadette Briette run into each other twice in just as many chapters.
* [[Crippling Overspecialization]]: The Death Gale squad's Mobile Suits each exceed the capabilities of the Crossbones, but in only one area each. One is a [[Glass Cannon]], another is a [[Fragile Speedster]], and the third is a [[Stone Wall]]. Kincaid successfully plays their weaknesses and wins against them. [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|Despite having both his Gundam's arms blown off beforehand]].
* [[Demoted to Extra]]: For a ''looooong'' time, ''Crossbone'' was severely shafted in appearances in mecha games; SRW had only featured it once in Alpha 2 and it has only just begun to make an appearance in the [[Gundam vs. Series]] and [[Another
* [[Did Not Do the Research]]: Tomino seems to believe in [[Explosive Decompression]] in space, which actually does not happen under normal circumstances.
* [[Disability Superpower]]: Curtis Rothko is capable of expertly piloting mobile suits despite being blind, due to a specially designed cockpit that converts visual data into audio. However, he has difficulty facing new machines, because the computer can't recognize them and gives him only a vague outline.
* [[
* [[Dying Moment of Awesome]]: {{spoiler|Giri and Barnes}} in ''Steel Seven'', the former [[Ramming Always Works|ramming the Colony Laser]] and the latter [[Taking the Bullet]] to ensure he can. If that doesn't seem like much, see [[Sci
* [[Embarrassing First Name]]: Drake/Derek from ''Steel Seven'' reveals near the end that his first name is {{spoiler|Mitchell, or perhaps Michelle, depending on [[Spell My Name
* [[Enfant Terrible]]: Death Gale squadron leader Giri, who is a completely amoral 14-year old [[Tyke Bomb]]. (He grows out of it by ''Steel Seven''.)
* [[
* [[Eyepatch of Power]]: Zabine's. The Crossbone X-1 and X-2 have a flip-down targeting sight that appears to give them one. And Kincaid is forced to wear a head bandage that results in this for most of the endgame.
* [[Face Heel Turn]]: Zabine eventually betrays the Vanguard (whom he was only allied with out of convenience in the first place) in order to chase his aristocratic ideals under Dogatie.
** The man himself denies this, saying that he was [[Not in This For Your Revolution]] and made that fact known many times; [[Cassandra Truth|the other CV characters thought he was just posturing until it was too late]].
* [[Falling Into the Cockpit]]: Averted. Tobia is a mechanical engineering student with a MS license when he first leaps into a cockpit - only intending to serve as an extra flak gun, rather than fight at melee-range - and actually passed up a chance to get to a shelter to do so. He then gets his grunt MS sliced in two, and isn't a good pilot until halfway through the second chapter.
* [[Furo Scene]] / [[Shower Scene]]: Berah and Bernadette have a few over the course of the series. Europa as well in Steel Seven.
* [[Genki Girl]]: Captain Onmo of the ''Little Gray'' (and, later, president of Blacklow Delivery) has the best claim to this throughout the series.
* [[Genre Busting]]: It's almost hilarious just how much better this series is than a lot of other [[Gundam]] entries, just because it doesn't subscribe to most of the tropes associated with it. And even if YMMV on the "better" part, that the series is so different is pretty obvious.
* [[Giant Robot Hands Save Lives]]: Wonderfully averted in Steel Seven. Bernadette has the chance to save a falling Tobia and Europa with the X1 like this, but thinks better of it. She then uses the X1's cape and mouth exhaust to save them with an impromptu hot air balloon.
* [[Good Scars, Evil Scars]]: Kincaid is revealed to have gotten a scar over his right eye after removing his [[Mask Power|mask]].
* [[Gundamjack]]: Tobia appropriates a [[Mecha
** A similar technology-jacking plays a key role in ''Steel Seven'': {{spoiler|The ''Mother Vanguard'' was sunk during the original manga, with the failing Anaheim Electronics cleaning up the wreckage and taking its Wings of Light-powered beam sail for themselves. The heroes need that sail, since it's the only way they can get to Jupiter in time to stop Operation Wrath of Zeus.}}
* [[Gundam vs. Series]]: ''Gundam Extreme Vs.'' adds Crossbone to the mix, with Kincaid's X-1 Kai (with Tobia's Pez Batara as an [[Assist Character]]), Zabine's X-2 Kai, and Tobia's Full Cloth (Giri's Vigna Ghina II as a [[Finishing Move]]) as playables. The Jovian moon Io is ''CB'''s stage, and the Batara and Divinidad are enemy-exclusive machines in the [[Play Station 3]] release.
* [[Guns Are Worthless]]: Standard MS weapons in UC 133 tend to be focused around long-range beam gun/rifle battles, with beam shields in wide use and related tactics/strategies. The Crossbone Gundams are designed to take advantage of this with overpowering melee abilities (their Beam Zambers can easily cut through standard beam shields). The guns themselves aren't worthless here, but they're overused to the point of liability.
* [[Gunship Rescue]]: When things look bleakest in the final chapter, the Colony armed forces arrive to act as the cavalry in ''droves'' of ships.
* [[Happily Ever After]]: Yes, in a Gundam story!
** ...After ten years of hard work and conflict, Kincaid and Bera go off into the sunset, hand in hand, leaving their old names behind. We find out in ''Skull Heart'' that they got married, opened a bakery, and had a boy.
** When Tobia goes to ask Kincaid for help in ''Steel Seven'', he finds out they now have ''two'' kids, and plays the trope out all the way by not meeting them, since he doesn't want to destroy their happiness...
* [[Heel Face Turn]]: The Death Gales, in ''Steel Seven'' - Barnes wasn't particularly happy with his lot in the first place, Rosemary was in it for the money, and Giri... got his buttons mashed by Callisto.
** The entire Crossbone Vanguard, between ''[[
* [[Hidden Depths]]: In ''Steel Seven'', we discover that Giri is a cook - and a damn good one, to Tobia's shock.
* [[Homage]]: "The Strongest Soldier" chapters of ''Skull Heart'' have a few to ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam]]'', particularly the ending where Tobia escapes from an exploding asteroid base because he heard a voice calling to him.
* [[Hot
** Umon comes off as this as well. It's what's been keeping him alive after 50+ years in a cockpit.
* [[Humongous Mecha]]: [[Real Robot]], of course, with a couple of giant Mobile Armors thrown in for good measure.
* [[I'm Not a Hero,
* [[Indy Ploy]]: Tobia, when formulating plans on his own, is the poster boy of this amongst Gundam protagonists. Lampshaded by Giri in Steel Seven, noting that Tobia's reaction to seeing him for the first time in a few years was "Wow, you got tall" (keeping in mind that they were mortal enemies the last time they met). Subverted in that he's not at all good at strategic planning - he really just reacts to the moment.
** The Crossbone Vanguard, after the destruction of the Mother Vanguard.
* [[Kappei Yamaguchi]]: Tobia's official voice actor, as seen in his video game appearances. ''Really'' gives him an appropriate [[Hot
* [[Kid Hero]]: Tobia, starting out at age 15 or so at the oldest<ref>he is explicitly 18 by ''Steel Seven'', 3 years after the ''end'' of the Jupiter Empire war</ref>. He's still considerably more level-headed than most examples of the trope.
* [[Kill
* [[Lethal Joke Character]]: Two of the most hilarious examples in all of Gundam.
** The B Gundam, Umon's unit from the One Year War. It's a Ball with a Gundam-looking faceplate (which makes it actually worse than a regular Ball because the plate ruins the balance of the machine). In its sortie at the battle of Solomon, it not only managed to destroy ''six'' [[Elite Mook|Doms]], but also turn the tide of the whole battle ([[Mobile Suit Gundam 0083: Stardust Memory|Anavel Gato]] left his post because of reports of the Gundam's severed head floating around, allowing Amuro to sneak in) and making all of Zeon believe that the Federation had a 40-feet tall Gundam, all thanks to Umon's guts and a lot of luck.
** "Project E", a Zeon experiment that everyone forgot. Long story short : [[
* [[Light Is Not Good]]: The angelic looking Divinidad mobile armor has enough nukes to wipe out most life on earth, and is piloted by the [[Big Bad]] Emperor himself. {{spoiler|Even worse, there's more than one of them!.}}
* [[Lightning Bruiser]]: The X1 Full Cloth. Combines the high-power weapons and agility of the Full Cloth and stacks all the remaining Anti-Beam Coating equipment available to the Pirates with 4 I-Field generators onto the shoulders - in short, it's damn near unstoppable. (Only its lack of a Newtype-powered all-range attack keeps it from being a [[Game Breaker]], really.)
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* [[The Magnificent Seven Samurai]]: ''Steel Seven''. 1 Commander, 2 teams of Close-, Support, and Long-Range MS'. Explicitly referenced as an [[Homage]] when Suzuki remarks "I love Kurosawa movies!" while discussing the plan.
* [[Mask Power]]: Kincaid wears a mask of bandages during the last few chapters after barely surviving a duel with Zabine.
* [[May
* [[Meaningful Name]]: "Serpiente Tacon" means "The Serpent's Feet". Snakes, of course, do not have feet. It's all a [[Stealth Pun]] on the fact that ST is a group that doesn't officially exist.
** Grey Stoke's name is taken from Lord Greystoke, [[Tarzan]]'s nobleman alterego. And similarly with Tarzan's disillusionment with civilization, Stoke ({{spoiler|aka Judau Ashta}}) is tired of the [[Crapsack World]] that's the Universal Century. Which drives his decades-long plan of leaving the rest of mankind forever with a colony full of Newtypes by the time ''[[Mobile Suit Victory Gundam]]'' rolls around.
* [[Mid
** And then the X-1 gets upgraded into the Skull Heart and X-1 Full Cloth versions...
** Subverted with the X2 Kai; while it's got about a dozen more thrusters than the original, the technical overview at the end of Volume 5 notes that its performance is basically unchanged since the Jupiter Empire wasn't familiar with SNRI's tech and had to base the modifications entirely off of second-hand info (namely, the data they collected from their battles against the Vanguard). Not to mention the fact that it loses its [[Ejection Seat|Core Fighter]]...
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** It may have something to do with the art style - thin pens and rare facial shading, for example, which don't jive with the usual [[Gundam]] style.
* [[Noisy Nature]]: Tobia grew up on a colony and has trouble sleeping during his short time on Earth, due to ambient sounds. (He is also under the impression that the wild animals he meets there are free-range pets.)
* [[Non
** It turns out that the Jupiter Empire executes the pilots it recovers from this, however.
* [[No One Could Survive That]] / [[Not Quite Dead]]: Kincaid barely survives being the first person to reenter the Earth's atmosphere with a Beam Shield.
* [[No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup]]: The Skull Heart and the Crossbone Gundam X1 Full Cloth. The former is the Crossbone X1 augmented with parts from the X3. The latter uses ''all'' the remaining Crossbone Gundam parts to build what is easily the most defensive Gundam ''ever''.
* [[Nuclear Weapons Taboo]]: Averted all over the place. Dogatie's Divinidad mobile armors mount ''sixteen'' nuclear missiles (and he has a total of eight Divinidads, on top of that). The heroes themselves are willing to use nukes if the situation is critical enough, as seen in ''Steel Seven'' when most of the eponymous heroes carry miniature nukes in order to stop the colony laser.
* [[Nuke
* [[The Ojou]]: Sherindon "Sherry" Ronah, Berah's cousin. Bernadette is supposed to be this to the Jupiter Empire, and her absence after the war was a major factor in allowing the events of ''Steel Seven'' to transpire in the first place.
** Belle from ''Ghost'' is noted to be from Jovian nobility (later confirmed to be {{spoiler|Tetenith's daughter, and therefore princess of Jupiter}}).
* [[The Only One Allowed to Defeat You]]: Zabine says this several times to Kincaid.
* [[Pac
** Huh? The margin note says that there are monkeys (chimps, bonobos) [[Truth in Television|who do so in reality.]]
* [[Parental Abandonment]]: Played with. Tobia's parents were colony engineers who died when he was young, but he has an aunt and uncle who treat him like a son; when given the option of returning to Earth (his third chance thus far!), he says he wants to see the mission through to the end, and that their son will take care of them.
* [[Percussive Maintenance]]: On a stubborn Unit X-3 that refuses to reactivate after repairs on Earth.
* [[Pirate Parrot]]: Berah's pet parrot --named '''"Haro"'''-- is a flapping, squaking [[Shout
* [[Playful Hacker]]: Font. His accidentally stumbling on the plans for the [[Mobile Suit Victory Gundam
* [[Psychic Powers]]: What would UC Gundam be without Newtypes? ...[[Mobile Suit Gundam 0083: Stardust Memory|Don't answer that]].
** The White Dingoes from Rise From the Ashes? Because they did it with ''[[
* [[Puni Plush]]: Not that blatant, but it's there.
* [[Putting the Band Back Together]]: The quest to choose the "Steel Seven", even though it's a mixed group from the three sides that were fighting in the last war.
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* [[Reentry Scare]]: After losing the duel with Zabine, Kincaid gets kicked into Earth's gravity well. He's basically dead for 3 chapters, until he comes roaring back to save Tobia from certain death. Turns out, he's (probably) the first one to try reentry with a Beam Shield.
* [[Say My Name]]: Fairly often, but particularly notable is when Berah screams out an anguished "SEABOOK!" after Kincaid loses his duel with Zabine and plummets to Earth.
* [[Sci
* [[Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right]]: Harrison runs into this one a lot, given how slow the Federation is to react to... er, everything. {{spoiler|He gets retired for it and goes to work for Blaclaw Transport.}}
* [[The Scrooge]]: The Jovians tend to be extremely anal when it comes to resources like air, water, and machinery; the only resource they're not strict about is [[We Have Reserves|people]]. Early on, the Vanguard learns that releasing captured pilots isn't such a good idea, since the Empire punishes them losing their MS with execution.
* [[Shout
** Also to [[Sentou Mecha Xabungle]], of all things. Notably during the chapters on Earth.
*** As well, it turns out that Minoru Suzuki's nickname is "the Federation's Blue Flash" (Aoi Senkou) - which Tobia [[Lampshade Hanging|thinks he's heard of somewhere]].
** In Steel Seven, it's revealed that Kincaid and Bera's bakery is called "Donkey Bakery" - [[Turn
** ''Skull Heart'' has the chapter "[[Planet of the Apes|Satellite of the Apes]]", which is about Newtype monkeys.
* [[Shut UP, Hannibal]]: "[[Social Darwinist|That]]... [[
** His following line, "Koreijou, Hitogoroshi nanka sarete TA.MA.RU.KA-!!" ("I'm not letting you KILL! ANYONE! ELSE!" - the online translation missed this one), kinda got bootstrapped into being his [[Catch Phrase]] in the games, but without the [[This Is Sparta]] bit.
* [[Social Darwinist]]: Karas is one.
* [[Space Pirate]]: The Crossbone Vanguard, natch. Granted, they use this only as a motif while they wage a guerrilla war with the Jupiter Empire - but are seen as a straight example by the Federation.
** The actual Skull and Crossbones on the X-1 and X-2's foreheads was Umon's idea, on the theory that a little intimidation goes a long way.
* [[Spell My Name
** ''Ghost'' had an even worse example of this with the new Jovian MS. In one chapter its name appears to be written as "Circus", but in the very next Curtis explains that it's short for "Thousand Custom"<ref>Since it can supposedly take on 1,000 enemies at the same time</ref> and therefore is probably meant to be "ThousCust", which doesn't match the katakana at all.
* [[Spider Sense]]: Umon Samon is at least convinced that he has this.
* [[Super Robot Wars]]: ''[[Super Robot Wars Alpha|Alpha 2]]''.
** [[Another
* [[Super Prototype]]: All three Crossbones. X-3 in particular has all kinds of cutting-edge tech that makes it a cut above many of the other units in the series. They even complete the weaker production model portion of this trope with the XM-10 Flint, the only production model in ''[[Gundam]]'' history to possess a Core Fighter.
** ''Steel Seven'' introduces the F99 "Recordbreaker", a descendant of the F91 and Crossbone series (the Crossbones are techically F97s) that are the first MS to use the Wings of Light later seen in [[Mobile Suit Victory Gundam
* [[Sword and Gun]]: Crossbone X-1, using its Beam Zanber and Beam Buster, which appropriately look like a [[Laser Blade]] cutlass and a flintlock pistol that fires [[Frickin' Laser Beams]].
* [[Theme Naming]]: The Jupiter Empire's mecha, which are primarily derived from Portuguese - Batara = Batallia "soldier", Erebado = Elevado "elevated", etc.
* [[Took a Level
* [[Tsundere]]: ''Giri'', of all people, is specifically named as one in ''Steel Seven''.
* [[Treacherous Advisor]]: Karas, who starts out as Tobia's teacher, but is revealed rather quickly to be a zealous supporter and hypercompetent secret agent for Dogatie.
* [[Tyke Bomb]]: The Newtype Squadron under imperial agent Karas is made up entirely of [[Tyke Bomb|Tyke Bombs]]. Giri is their most famous allumni. Tobia was supposed to join them...but he politely declined.
** Karas' plan was for Tobia to join their ranks. [[Understatement|It didn't work out.]]
* [[Up to Eleven]]: You thought a [[Mobile Suit Gundam: The 08th MS Team|Ball taking down a Zaku was impressive]]? Umon Samon took down 6 Doms in one.
* [[Use Your Head]]: Tobia resorts to headbutts quite often; victims include Zabine and Giri. For a while his main MS, the Pez Batara, is pretty much centered around this (see [[Awesome but Impractical]] above).
* [[We Have Reserves]]: Standard operating procedure for the Empire, using the logic that while there are lots of pilots, the air and water they take up, as well as the mecha they pilot, are costly to manufacture.
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