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{{quote| ''You have [[Red Pill, B LueBlue Pill|two choices.]] You can forget everything you've seen here and go back to Earth... Or you can come with us and learn the truth.''}}
 
A [[Manga]] follow-up to the film ''[[GundamMobile FSuit Gundam 91F91]]'', written by [[Yoshiyuki Tomino]] and with art by Yuuichi Hasegawa, ''Mobile Suit Crossbone Gundam'' takes place ten years after the Cosmo Babylonia war depicted in the movie and follows Tobia Arronax, a space colony-born [[Ordinary High School Student]] who, during his first visit to the [[Wagon Train to Thethe Stars|Jupiter-sphere colonies]], becomes involved with the Crossbone Vanguard, a group of [[Space Pirate|Space Pirates]] (utilizing stolen Mobile Suits, along with two powerful [[Super Prototype]] Crossbone Gundams) who are locked in a struggle against the [[The Empire|Jupiter Empire]], an aristocracy that is secretly plotting to invade the Earth-sphere.
 
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...
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== 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 (Anime)|V Gundam]]'' than the original, serving to explain where the V2 Gundam's "Wings of Light" came from.
* ''[[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 (Anime)|Victory Gundam]]'') and focuses on a young Gundam enthusiast named Font Baud, who accidentally stumbles on Zanscare's plans for the Angel Halo while on the Internet. As Zanscare hunts him down, he is rescued by the forces of Serpiente Tacon, a Jovian special forces group lead by Curtis Rothko (aka {{spoiler|Tobia Arronax}}) and his daughter Belle. They are trying to retrieve "Angel's Call", an artifact which could make the Angel Halo far more horrific a weapon than anyone ever imagined...
 
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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 -Mooks|Batara]], and Federation pilot Harrison Martin's dark blue [[GundamMobile FSuit Gundam 91F91]].
** 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 CenturysCentury's Episode]]: Kincaid (with the Crossbone X-1 Kai) and Tobia (with the Crossbone X-3) are playable in ''R'', with the Death Gale Team showing up as enemies.
* [[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 -Mooks]] against Amakusa in simulation battles and hadn't reset the friend/foe indicator.
* [[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 In Badass|Took a level]] or five in the ten years since ''F91''.
* [[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 (Anime)|Judau Ashta]]}},
** 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 (Anime)|Zanneck]]'s mega beam cannon.
* [[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.
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** 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 (Anime)|Judau Ashta]]}}) previously appeared in ''[[Mobile Suit Victory Gundam (Anime)|V Gundam Gaiden]]'', another manga by Yuichi Hasegawa. In that story, his Gump mobile suit has a peg leg; ''Skull Heart'' shows it losing the original leg in the fight with the Amakusa. Stoke himself is called "The Old Man from Jupiter", which is a nod to ''[[Zeta Gundam]]'' ("The Man from Jupiter" was a derisive nickname among the Titans for Paptimus Scirocco.)
** 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 (Anime)|been through his share of adventures]].
* [[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 CenturysCentury's Episode]].
* [[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.
* [[Distressed Damsel]]: Bernadette becomes this when she gets "reclaimed" by the Empire. (She stays behind when Tobia effects his [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|CMoA]] rescue and escape, to try and talk her father out of warring with Earth. And then he puts her in a Mobile Armor...)
* [[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-Fi Writers Have No Sense of Scale]] below.
* [[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 Withwith an "S"|how you romanize it]]}}. When the rest of the Steel Seven react in shock, he remarks "That's why I go by my middle 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''.)
* [[Everything's Better Withwith Princesses]]: Bernadette turns out to be {{spoiler|Tetenith Dogatie, Crux Dogatie's daughter and princess of the Jupiter Empire}}. This causes some problems down the line, both expected and unexpected.
* [[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.
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* [[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 -Mooks|Mecha Mook]] in the first chapter, but doesn't use it very well (it gets sliced in half). Halfway through the series, he does it properly, stealing the Crossbone X-3 during his escape from Sherindon's ship. And of course his previously mentioned [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|CMoA]].
** 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.
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** 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 ''[[GundamMobile FSuit Gundam 91F91]]'' and this, though perhaps not completely. In one chapter Umon tells Tobia about the old Vanguard's Nobility Principle<ref>Namely, the idea that aristocrats should be in charge because they're just better people</ref>; Tobia remarks on how stupid that is, and Bera [[Dope Slap|bops him on the head]] and remarks "Most of the crew still holds those beliefs to some extent; badmouthing them so carelessly could get you killed."
* [[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.
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* [[Kill'Em All]]: Averted to the extent possible in a Gundam series (a subversion for Tomino himself?) - none of the characters die, and Barnes even lampshades this after the Death Gales are beaten on Earth.
* [[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 : [[Everything's Better Withwith Monkeys|NEWTYPE MONKEYS]]. Piloting legless, four-armed Zakus. And proving themselves to be actual threats. Good lord.
* [[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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** 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-Man Fever]]: Subverted. The "Satellite of the Apes" chapter of ''Skull Heart'' shows that Zeon's Project E was sparked by {{spoiler|Garma}} Zabi witnessing some monkeys playing ''[[PacmanPac-Man]]''; however, a margin note from Hasegawa suggests that he just used ''[[PacmanPac-Man]]'' as a shorthand for whatever video games they would have in UC 0079.
** 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-Out]] to other UC Gundam series.
* [[Playful Hacker]]: Font. His accidentally stumbling on the plans for the [[Mobile Suit Victory Gundam (Anime)|Angel Halo]] gets him wrapped up in the conflict.
* [[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 ''[[G Ms]]''.
* [[Puni Plush]]: Not that blatant, but it's there.
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* [[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-Out]]: Haro frequently delivers classic UC Gundam lines, including "[[Mobile Suit Gundam|Do You Know Char Aznable]]?" and "[[Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ (Anime)|Purupuru]]!~"
** 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]].
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* [[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 Withwith an "S"]]: Kincaid/Kincado/Kinkedo Nau.
** ''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 CenturysCentury's Episode]]: Appears in ''R'', with Full Cloth as an extra.
* [[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 (Anime)|Usso Evin's V2 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.
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* [[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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