Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny: Difference between revisions

* [[BFG]]: The Gunner ZAKU's Orthos beam cannon, Blast Impulse's Kerberos cannons, Destiny's long-range beam cannon, and Strike Freedom's chest cannon.

* [[BFS]]: Sword Impulse's Excalibur and Destiny's Arondight anti-ship swords.

* [[Berserk Button]]: Played straight with Shinn, and to a more subdued degree by Kira, when the ladies in their lives are threatened.

* [[Big Bad Ensemble]]: [[Complete Monster|Djibril]] and [[Manipulative Bastard|Durandal]] are on opposite sides of the war, utterly loathe one another, and both need to go in order for the story to end well. Which of them is the more dangerous (and whether Durandal is using Djibril or not) is a matter that's open for debate.

* [[False Soulmate|False Soulmates]]: Athrun Zala and Cagalli Yula Athha went down this path. Though, this is more due to poor writing and pacing, so who knows what is going on with those two.

* [[Fighter Launching Sequence]]: Gratuitously abused; the launch sequence combined with the combination sequence for the Impulse Gundam seemed blocked to eat the maximum possible amount of screen time.

** The ZAFT characters comprise one:

*** [[The Big Bad]] & [[Evil Genius]]: Chairman Durandal

* [[Mass Oh Crap]]: Pretty much the whole cast's reaction when {{spoiler|the Destroy reveals that yes, it's a mobile '''suit''', not a mobile '''armor'''}}.

* [[Meaningful Name]]: Freedom vs Destiny. {{spoiler|The Destiny Plan would result in a society without freedom}}.

* [[Modesty Towel]]: [[Invoked]] by Meyrin to ensure that the ZAFT soldiers looking for a runaway Athrun are [[Distracted By the Sexy]]. She wasn't even naked under the towel!

* [[Music for Courage]]: Lacus sings for the children she takes care of during the Break The World catastrophe. This is also part of the point behind Durandal's plan to have Meer impersonate Lacus.

** In reference to ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam]]'''s Kai Shiden making a cameo appearance in ''[[Zeta Gundam]]'' as an investigative reporter, Miriallia (a character from ''[[Gundam Seed]]'') first shows up in ''Destiny'' as a photojournalist. The two characters are otherwise completely dissimilar.

** At one point, they used a piece of stock footage from ''[[Gundam Seed]]'''s Strike Gundam in place of the Impulse. Since it was nearly a [[Freeze Frame Bonus]], it's ''generally'' assumed to be an in-joke by the staff rather than a genuine mistake.

* [[NGO Superpower]]: Despite getting it's butt kicked in the previous series, Blue Cosmos remains a dangerous and influential threat. LOGOS is also this {{spoiler|considering that Blue Cosmos was merely a catspaw for them}}.

* [[No One Could Survive That]]: {{spoiler|Kira and the Freedom's explosion and Athrun and Meyrin when their GOUF was totaled by Shinn}}.

* [[Number of the Beast]]: Rey's Gundam, the ZGMF-X'''666'''S Legend.

* [[Offscreen Teleportation]]: It seems the quickest way for someone to get back on board the Archangel is to get in a mobile suit and let Shinn impale it with his [[BFS]]. By the looks of it, you only run a one-in-three chance of getting any injuries.

* [[Older and Wiser]]: The original ''SEED'' cast. The "wiser" part is disputed between the fandom and hatedom.

* [[Once an Episode]]: If a battle spans more than 1 episode, all Mobile Suits will return to their ship by the end of one episode, only to launch again in the next. Also, every episode has at least one Gundam sortie. Except when they forget it in one, and make up for it by having 4 or 5 sortie in the next episode.

* [[Only Six Faces]]

* [[Pieta Plagiarism]]: {{spoiler|Athrun carrying Meer, and Shinn carrying Stellar}}.

* [[Posthumous Character]]: A few of the deceased ''SEED'' cast serve this role, including {{spoiler|Rau Le Creuset}}, who may or may not be a hallucination.

** Also, in Phase 12, as well as the first TV Movie, Shinn says, "Aww, shit!" when a Zamza-Zah grabs Impulse's leg. You can see it [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2ZpTzmNnik here].

* [[Praetorian Guard]]: FAITH (Fast Acting Integrated Tactical Headquarters), a ZAFT elite force that only answers to Durandal, and which many of the protagonists are members. While they're not the Chairman's bodyguards full-time, they do end up protecting him during the Armory One attack, and serving him during the Battle of Messiah.

* [[Replacement Scrappy]]: Lord Djibril is an in-universe example, lacking the [[Smug Snake|charisma]] and intelligence of his predecessor, Muruta Azrael.

* [[Retcon]]: A [[Flash Back]] at the beginning of the 1st episode implies that Kira may have accidentally killed the Asuka family. Later on, another [[Flash Back]] clearly shows that Kira was not at fault. However, they are inconsistent with one another.

* [[Take a Third Option]]: The leftover members of the Three Ship Alliance take this route when they determine that both ZAFT and ORB are heading towards less than ideal futures.

* [[Ship Sinking]]:

** Athrun/Cagalli, much to the rage of many a rabid shipper (with the rage being greatly enhanced by unconfirmed rumors that it happened due to the writers not getting along with Cagalli's voice actress, [[Naomi Shindo]]).

* [[Soundtrack Dissonance]]: The nightmarish images of the Junius Seven [[Colony Drop]] set against Lacus's "Fields of Hope".

* [[Speak Now or Forever Hold Your Peace]]: Kira objects!

* [[Spoiler Opening]]: The second opening shows us that {{spoiler|Mu La Flaga survived}} before it was even close to being revealed.

* [[Stock Footage]]: There is ''so much'' reused footage in this series, especially towards the end, that it actually earned the director the derogatory nickname of Mitsuo "Flashback 'Em All" Fukuda. To make matters worse, some of footage came from [[Gundam Seed|its prequel]].

* [[Two Guys and A Girl]]: Shinn, Rey, and Lunamaria and Sting, Auel, and Stellar. Meyrin and [[Those Two Guys]] from the Minerva may also count.

* [[Tyke Bomb]]: All three Extendeds.

* [[Unwanted Harem]]: At its peak point in the series, there are no less than four hot young women who are vying for Athrun's attention.

* UST: in the last episodes, Cagalli has removed Athrun's ring, while she still wore it when they fought on opposing sides.

* [[Villains Never Lie]]: {{spoiler|Gilbert Durandal}} pulls this off with his speeches of good doing in the beginning.

* [[Wave Motion Gun]]: The Tannhauser and Lohengrin positron cannons affixed to the Minerva and Archangel, respectively. The Destroy has one that it combines with [[Beam Spam]]. The Requiem is another example, albeit turned [[Up to Eleven]]. Messiah Base also features Neo-Genesis, a scaled down version of the Genesis from the first series as part of its defences.

* [[Wedding Smashers]]: Kira crashes Cagalli and Yuna's wedding to kidnap/rescue her. Cagalli is ''not'' amused, at least initially.

* [[Welcome Back Traitor]]: Dearka and Athrun returned to ZAFT despite defecting in the last war. Dearka at least gets busted down from Red<ref>the uniform color given to top graduates of the ZAFT military academy</ref> to Green<ref>the uniform for common soldiers</ref> and apparently isn't allowed [[Ace Custom]] colors for his ZAKU until the very end of the series.

* [[Xanatos Speed Chess]] / [[Gambit Roulette]]: Whether you think Durandal is behind ''everything'' (including the {{spoiler|[[Colony Drop]]}}, the {{spoiler|attack on Lacus}} et al) that happens in the series or is just ''very'' good at altering his [[Plan|plans]] to take advantage of events as they occur has a lot to do with whether you think he's a villain or not.

* [[Zen Survivor]]: The original characters from ''SEED'', especially Athrun to the Minerva's pilots.

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