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Check out the [[Gundam 00/Characters|character sheet]].
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* [[Zero Percent Approval Rating]]: {{spoiler|Celestial Being}} after {{spoiler|the actions of the Thrones}}, which was [[Just As Planned]] by {{spoiler|''[Fucking Ribbons...''}}
** The movie reveals that {{spoiler|A-Laws is finally being treated like the jerkasses they really were, AND that Celestial Being is finally getting the recognition that they deserve, with [[Show Within a Show|a VERY hammy movie that makes them the heroes]].}}
* [[
* [[Ace Custom]]: the SVMS-01E Union Flag Graham Aker Custom, from which came the SVMS-01O Overflag, designed specifically to fight the Gundams. Graham later gets the Masauro and Susanowo, bases on the Flag's design.
* [[Ace Pilot]]: Graham Aker, Sergei Smirnov and Ali al-Saachez are sufficiently skilled such that they can fight the technologically superior Gundams to a standstill.
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* [[Arc Words]]: "The dialogues to come..."
* [[Arm Cannon]]: Arios' GN Submachine Guns, Exia's seldom-used GN Vulcans, and the Gadessa’s and Garazzo’s GN Vulcans.
* [[Armor
** Sumeragi Lee Noriega slaps Tieria Erde when he {{spoiler|goes ballistic on Setsuna F. Seiei after the first Lockon's death}}.
** Feldt Grace does it to Lyle Dylandy for {{spoiler|kissing her}}.
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* [[Bait the Dog]]: Nena Trinity
* [[Barbie Doll Anatomy]]: Any of the scenes when Setsuna uses Trans-Am Raiser. Any characters shown are completely naked and lacking certain features, most notably Setsuna, Lockon, Graham and Saji all lacking something between the legs. Female characters, however, still have breasts, but without nipples.
* [[Barehanded Blade Block]]: Used ''beautifully'' when "Mr. Bushido", the human incarnation of [[
* [[Battle Butler]]: Hong Long
* [[Beach Episode]]
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* [[Berserk Button]]: Do not insult {{spoiler|the late Neil Dylandy}} to Tieria Erde's face, ''ever''.
* [[BFG]]: Several of the mecha are equipped with massive cannons
** Tieria Erde's Virtue has not one but two (technically four) giant cannons attached to its back, along with a hand-held [[Wave Motion Gun]] it uses to cause even more destruction, and eventually goes [[Guns Akimbo]] with. Its [[Mid
** Lockon Stratos' Dynames has an optional "super sub-stratospheric altitude gun", which is basically a giant cannon designed to shoot massive objects out of orbit... from the ground.
** Throne Eins' GN Launcher, which is longer than the Eins is tall when it's unfolded. The other Thrones can also link with Eins to give the launcher a huge power boost.
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* [[Brainwashed and Crazy]]: {{spoiler|Louise Halevy}}. {{spoiler|She gets better though}}.
* [[Break the Cutie]]: {{spoiler|Louise Halevy}}, made worse by losing {{spoiler|her family ''and'' left hand}} in an attack nobody saw coming.
** {{spoiler|Nena Trinity}} also gets this via a bit of [[Laser
* [[Bridge Bunnies]]: Averted. The crew of the Ptolemaios is equal opportunity, with two males and two females.
** The Ptolemaios II, however, plays it straight with one male and three females.
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* [[Contrived Clumsiness]]: A non-comedic example; Nena bombs a wedding party, killing almost everyone there. When questioned about it, she [[Cute and Psycho|giggles]] and says she accidentally pressed the wrong button. The reason she bombed the party was because [[Moral Event Horizon|they were having more fun than her]].
* [[Contrived Coincidence]]: A lot of them, mostly when bridging the gap between the two seasons. It's not particularly jarring though, because it allows for [[Character Development|interesting character interaction]] most of the time.
* [[Cool Big Sis]]: Christina Sierra and Kinue Crossroad in season one, and [[Onee
* [[Cool Spaceship]]: The ''Ptolemaios''. Its successor, the ''Ptolemaios II'', is even cooler.
* [[Crazy Prepared]]: Aeolia Schenberg. He makes [[Death Note (Manga)|Light Yagami]] look like an amateur.
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** {{spoiler|Lyle Dylandy}} is another example, leaking information on the Gundams' operations to Katharon. He's not very good at it though, since Celestial Being already knows he's a member of Katharon and that he's faking {{spoiler|being a bad pilot}}. May be Celestial Being's very own [[Unwitting Pawn]] because of this.
* [[Dragon Lady]]: Wang Liu Mei.
* [[Dual
* [[Dying Alone]]: Poor {{spoiler|Kinue}}. Poor {{spoiler|Neil}}, too...
* [[Dysfunction Junction]]: all of celestial being, but especially the meisters.[[Justified Trope|Justified]] since they look for highly capable people that hate war so intensly that they will become terrorists to stop it. This means that most recruits have a ''very'' [[Dark and Troubled Past]].
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** The most impressive example has to be ''five'' different factions (Celestial Being, Kataron, ''one'' of the coup d’état factions, the regular ESF Army, and the A-Laws) spontaneously putting aside their completely justified grudges against each other {{spoiler|to destroy the wreckage of one of the orbital elevators before it destroys the various towns and cities underneath it}}.
*** To be more exact, A-Laws was the one who caused the catastrophe in the first place in order to pin it on the coup d'état faction. Their ground troops were happily closing off the faction's escape route as per their orders when {{spoiler|the elevator started collapsing}} at which point the field commanders pretty much decided [[Even Evil Has Standards|letting millions of innocents die]] [[Someone Elses Problem|wouldn't rest on THEIR consciences]].
* [[Energy Ball]]: Seravee can create and fire one with "[[BFG|GN Bazooka]], [[Calling Your Attacks|Hyper-Burst Mode]]!" The results are usually quite... ''[[One
* [[Energy Weapons]]: Played with. Before Celestial Being and the Gundams showed up beam weaponry was considered too unconventional for mobile suit combat. Eventually, though, almost everyone had them.
* [[Enfant Terrible]]: {{spoiler|The Innovades}}. {{spoiler|Ribbons Almark}} himself is a ''classic'' example of this trope, presented as a beautiful, young, angelic boy, a facade which cleverly and effectively masks his [[A God Am I|God complex]] and rather unhinged state of mind.
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** Tieria too.
{{quote| '''[[Yandere|Michael]]:''' Man, he's so pretty. If he was a girl, I'd be all over him!}}
* [[
* [[
* [[Evil Albino]]: Aber Rindt.
* [[Evil Laugh]]: Hallelujah Haptism, Alejandro Corner, Nena Trinity, and Regene Regetta.
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* [[The Fettered]]: Arguably Saji Crossroad.
* [[Field of Blades]]: In the third ED Setsuna F. Seiei is pictured walking through a field of guns, which are covered in roses and standing barrels-down.
* [[Five
* [[Five
* [[False Flag Operation]]: Happens to Celestial Being {{spoiler|when the Trinties show up, and begin their ruthless attacks. Despite beliving they're part of CB, the Trinities are really under Alejandro's control. Despite this, The Gundam Meisters get stuck with the blame, since the world doesn't know what's really going on}}
* [[Flynning]]: Averted. Sword fights between mobile suits are kept considerably short in this series.
* [[Forgotten Childhood Friend]]: {{spoiler|Allelujah Haptism and Soma Peries}} were very young friends in the same [[Super Soldier]] program, but neither initially knows this due to their respective [[Split Personality|Split Personalities]].
* [[Four Is Death]]: The Gundams, and they are beautiful.
* [[Four
* [[Fragile Speedster]]: All Union and AEU mobile suits have this as their hat, though special mention goes grahams custom flag and the overflags, as in addition to the upgraded engines, the armour was reduced to give the suits that little bit more 'Oomph', as a result it can fly twice as fast as a regular flag and its limbs can move that little bit quicker due to the reduced weight.
* [[Freudian Excuse]]: ''Gundam 00'' takes this and goes ''light-years'' with it.
* [[Full
* [[Future Spandex]]: Nena Trinity's season one outfit.
* [[Gambit Pileup]]: Aeolia Schenberg, Alejandro Corner, Ribbons Almark, Regene Regetta, the Meisters, the world governments and various factions within said governments, and probably more are all going at it at once. It gets messy.
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* [[Genki Girl]]: Mileina Vashti.
** Brutally deconstructed with {{spoiler|Louise Halevy}}.
* [[Get a Hold of Yourself, Man!]]: Lockon Stratos flattens Setsuna F. Seiei after the latter {{spoiler|gets out of his mobile suit in the middle of combat}}. Overlaps with [[Why Did You Make Me Hit You?]] when he asks Setsuna if he knew why he hit him.
** {{spoiler|Tieria Erde}} does this to {{spoiler|Saji Crossroad}} in season two.
* [[A God Am I]]: {{spoiler|Ribbons Almark}}, who developed his god complex when he saw {{spoiler|[[Child Soldier]] Soran Ibrahim (who would later grow up to be Setsuna F. Seiei)}} looking at the 0 Gundam {{spoiler|(which Ribbons was piloting)}} as if it were a god.
* [[Good Scars, Evil Scars]]: Averted by Sergei Smirnov, who despite having a ''huge'' facial scar fit for a Bond villain turns out to be one of the most sensible, intelligent and humane characters in the show. He's the only antagonist from season one who decides ''against'' joining the A-Laws in the second season.
** Played straight by Graham Aker, who in the second season has heavy burns on the right side of his face and hides them with a [[Mask Power|mask]].
* [[Grasp the Sun]]: Lockon Stratos does this with Earth near the end of the first season. When he can't grasp it he makes a motion of shooting it.
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* [[Gun Kata]]: With [[Humongous Mecha]] no less. Dynames does this sporadically throughout the first season, and its successor Cherudim uses [[Gun Kata]] against the Arche Gundam in episode 24 of the second season.
* [[Guns Akimbo]]: Dynames more often than not. Virtue does this in episode 23 of the first season with its GN Bazookas (yes, plural), and Dynames' successor Cherudim also has dual pistols for glorious [[Guns Akimbo]] action.
** The 00 Gundam is specifically designed to switch between [[Dual
* [[Half
* [[Handsome Lech]]: Invoked and Exaggerated by Lyle Dylandy in episodes 3 and 4 of season two, who deliberately plays the part in order to slam home the message that he is ''not'' his brother.
* [[Heel Face Turn]]: {{spoiler|Colonel Kati Mannequin, who brings Patrick with her,}} just in time for the final battle. {{spoiler|Soma Peries/Marie Parfacy}} pulls one even sooner.
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* [[Invisibility Cloak]]: The Gundams and the Ptolemaios II can use high concentrations of GN Particles to refract light and thus make the [[Humongous Mecha]] disappear. Unfortunately for the Meisters, it's too resource-intensive for battle application.
* [[It Got Worse]]: For everyone. Every episode does its best to out-do the previous one, and usually succeeds.
* [[
** {{spoiler|Lyle Dylandy}}, however, attempts to avert it by not trying to directly avenge {{spoiler|his brother}}, stating that it's not good to let revenge cloud his judgment. However, {{spoiler|he does go critical when Setsuna shoots Anew Returner down, and even then it's more about him being in the middle of an Heroic BSOD}}.
* [[Jigsaw Puzzle Plot]]: Good luck figuring out what’s actually going on until the final few episodes. And even then it's confusing.
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** Subverted by Setsuna's Gundams, if only because it uses [[Spam Attack|swords instead]].
* [[Mr. Fixit]]: Ian Vashti for Celestial Being. {{spoiler|Billy Katagiri}} fills the role for the bad guys.
* [[Multi
* [[Multinational Team]]: Celestial Being, Katharon, A-Laws, the ESF, and the UN Forces.
** By the end of the movie, Setsuna qualifies as one as well, being half natural Innovator and half ELS.
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* [[Necessarily Evil]]: Celestial Being.
* [[NGO Superpower]]: Celestial Being and the PMC Trust.
* [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero]]: Celestial Being fought to eliminate war and unite the world population and its governments into [[The Federation|one]]. They succeed, only to learn that in doing so they've {{spoiler|created an authoritarian regime which uses mass propaganda to keep control and murders countless innocents to "keep the peace"}}. [[Sarcasm Mode|Good job, guys!]]
* [[No Social Skills]]: Pretty much all of [[The Stoic|The Stoics]] in Celestial Being can trace their social ineptitude to being on their own since they were kids.
* [[Not Allowed to Grow Up]]: Setsuna. At least in the movie, though this could go as ''[[Not Allowed To Age]]'' instead.
* {{spoiler|[[Not As You Know Them|Not As You Know Her]]: Louise Halevy in the second season... Poor girl...}}
* [[Not Good With People]]: Setsuna F. Seiei, Tieria Erde, Feldt Grace, Soma Peries, Andrei Smirnov.
* [[Not
* [[Obfuscating Stupidity]]: In season two, {{spoiler|Lyle Dylandy}} ''intentionally'' downplays his own piloting skills, also acting nonchalant and as a bit of a [[Handsome Lech]]. It seems he's doing this to keep people from {{spoiler|comparing him to [[The Unfavorite|his dead twin brother]]}}.
* [[Oedipus Complex]]: {{spoiler|Andrei Smirnov}}.
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* [[Opposite Sex Clone]]: Ribbons Almark and Hiling Care, Revive Revival and Anew Returner. The English dub explicitly makes Revive female, leaving Ribbons and Hiling but also adding {{spoiler|Tieria Erde and Regene Regetta}}.
* [[Ordinary High School Student]]: Saji Crossroad and Louise Halevy in the first season.
* [[Out
* [[Pick On Someone Your Own Size]]: Ali al-Saachez, though in a subversion of this trope Setsuna F. Seiei was only one of dozens.
** Graham Aker, though it's more about the Gundam(s) than the pilot(s), making it only more twisted.
* [[Pink Girl, Blue Boy]]: Soma Pieres got a pink mobile suit in season one and Nena Trinity wore a pink pilot suit; in season two, they switch to red and purple respectively.
** Louise Halevy and Saji Crossroad wore a pink jacket and blue vest respectively in season one.
** Setsuna F. Seiei's Gundams are all blue, while Feldt Grace's [[Rose
* [[Poor Communication Kills]]: Seriously. Most of the hatred between the various sides, especially in the second season, revolves around nobody having any clue what the fuck is really happening (including {{spoiler|Ribbons Almark}}). Several important characters die because of it.
** This appears to be the [[Aesop]] of the series, really.
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* [[Recap Episode]]: The first half of episode 16 of the first season.
* [[Red Eyes Take Warning]]: Michael Trinity, Aber Rindt, and several of the Innovades. The protagonists' side has Tieria Erde, of course.
* [[Red Oni, Blue Oni|Red Oni Green Oni]]: The GN drives designed by Aeolia Schenberg and entrusted to Celestial Being emit green particles; the Thrones' GN-X drives emit red particles. At first this seems to indicate that the Thrones are using more advanced technology, {{spoiler|until it turns out their drives - the basis for all technologies used by the UN and later the A-LAWS - are only cheap knockoffs that can't match the capabilities of the originals.}}
* [[Redshirt Army]]: Not only does Katharon get its collective ass kicked in practically every confrontation with the A-Laws, but by episode 14 it hasn’t even shot down a single A-Laws mobile suit.
** The armies of the three world powers in season one also border on this before the appearance of GN-X, although they actually put the Gundams in serious danger a few times.
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* [[Sequel Hook]]: There's a stinger at the end of the last episode showing {{spoiler|something strange going on with Jupiter}}, which ties into [[The Movie]].
* [[She's All Grown Up]]: Feldt Grace and Wang Liu Mei in season two.
** [[Gender Flip|Gender-flipped]] with Setsuna, who goes from a somewhat [[The Stoic|stoic]] [[Cute Shotaro Boy]] in season one, to a bonefide [[Tall, Dark and Handsome]] young man starting season two.
** Sherilyn Hyde in the latest ''00F'' chapters.
* [[Ship Sinking]]: Too many to list. [[Happily Married|Only]] [[High School Sweethearts|five]] [[Love At First Punch|couples]] [[La Résistance|remained]] [[Battle Couple|strong.]] <ref>These being Ian and Linda Vashti, Saji Crossroad and Louise Halevy, Kati Mannnequin and Patrick Colasour, Shirin Bakhtiar and Klaus Grado, and H/Allelujah Haptism and Soma Peries/Marie Parfacy, respectively.</ref>
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* [[Sociopathic Soldier]]: The majority of A-Laws.
* [[Space Elevator]]: A fundamental part of the setting.
* [[Spell My Name With an "S"]]: Bring Stabity; corruption of "[[Meaningful Name|Bring Stability]]" or just plain <s>[[Gratuitous English|random]]</s> [[Awesome McCoolname|awesome]]?
* [[Split Personality]]: Allelujah Haptism has a ''much'' more violent split personality he calls Hallelujah, born to cope with his deeds as a child.
** [[Split Personality Makeover]]: Which personality is in control depends on which of his [[Mismatched Eyes]] is covered by his [[Peek
** [[Split Personality Merge]]: Allelujah and Hallelujah manage this in the first season finale. {{spoiler|And yet again in the second season finale}}. {{spoiler|Soma Peries}} and {{spoiler|Marie Parfacy}} eventually do the same by the end of the second season.
* [[Star
* [[Start X to Stop X]]: The protagonists seek to end global conflict by attacking anyone who causes conflict.
* [[State Sec]]: The A-Laws.
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* [[Stuffed Into the Fridge]]: In order of stuffing: {{spoiler|Holly Smirnov, The Dylandy family except for the twins, Commander Emilio Ribisi, the entire Halevy clan except for Louise, Kinue Crossroad, Michael Trinity, Johan Trinity, Sergei Smirnov, Anew Returner, Hong Long, Wang Liu Mei, Nena Trinity}}.
* [[Super Mode]]: Trans-Am. Made even more so due to the [[Law of Chromatic Superiority]].
* [[Super
* [[Super Soldier]]: Soma Peries is the first successful product of the HRL's Enhanced Soldier program. Allelujah Haptism is also a reject from this program.
* [[Take My Hand]]: Setsuna F. Seiei in the last two OPs. The third is with Marina Ismail, while the fourth is with an unseen character. Fans naming this unseen character could result in [[Ship to Ship Combat]] though...
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** Patrick Colasour for Kati Mannequin, kinda. {{spoiler|He throws his mobile suit in front of a kamikaze enemy mobile suit headed for Kati's ship. A bit stupid on both their parts -- both Patrick ''and'' the suicide mobile suit still had ''guns'' they could have used. Patrick, being Patrick, survives unscathed}}.
* [[Talking to Themself]]: Allelujah and Hallelujah, mostly for the purpose of irritating and tormenting themself. It only gets awkward when Setsuna F. Seiei finds himself in the same room during one of said "sessions".
* [[Tall, Dark and Bishoujo]]: Marina Ismail, Sumeragi Lee Noriega, Kati Mannequin, Shirin Bakhtiar, Kinue Crossroad, and Anew Returner.
** {{spoiler|[[Attractive Bent Gender|Tieria Erde]] during his [[Wholesome Crossdresser]] episode}}.
* [[Theme Naming]]: Save the 0 and 00, the Gundams are all named after various types of angels and tarot cards.
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* [[She Is Not My Girlfriend|We Are Not A Couple]]: {{spoiler|Setsuna F. Seiei}} and {{spoiler|Marina Ismail}} in season two but in a completely deadpan manner, as if the idea genuinely never had occurred to either of them.
** When the very same question ("Are you two lovers?") is posed to {{spoiler|Marie Parfacy}} and {{spoiler|Allelujah Haptism}} later on, however, their reaction is up to standard, complete with the usual blushing and stuttering.
* [[Well
** Just about everyone seems to have turned into one by the end of the series, aside from {{spoiler|Marina Ismail}} (who was [[Friend to All Living Things|never an extremist]]) and {{spoiler|Ali al-Saachez}} (who was [[Complete Monster|never well-intentioned]]).
* [[Wham Episode]]: Episodes 16 and 18 of season one.
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** Episodes 19 and Episode 20 of season two. Generally the whams happen in short bursts.
* [[What Do You Mean Its Not Symbolic]]: They had a lot of fun with the "Celestial Being" thing.
* [[What Happened to The Mouse?]]: The sub-plot involving {{spoiler|Feldt Grace's feelings for Setsuna F. Seiei}} and whether or not {{spoiler|they were requited}} is left unresolved.
* [[White
* [[A Wizard Did It]]: There is an increasing trend among the fandom of explaining away apparent plot holes with "GN Particles Did It."
* [[Woman Scorned]]: In episode 12 of the second season {{spoiler|Louise Halevy}} learns that {{spoiler|Saji Crossroad}} is piloting the 0 Raiser, and reached the (not unreasonable) conclusion that he was with Celestial Being from the start. Naturally, [[
** Billy Kataragi is a [[Gender Flip|gender-flipped]] version. Find out that the woman you've had an obsessive crush on for years is working for the terrorist organization that killed your mentor and drove your best friend half-insane? Make more powerful mechs for [[The Federation]] to destroy Celestial Being!
* [[World of Badass]]: Say what you will about the characters, but no one can deny that every one of them is [[Badass]] in their own right.
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