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*** When trying to connect a tow cable to the Garancieres and risking getting his mobile suit torn in half, Banagher gets silent encouragement from the spirits of {{spoiler|Daguza}} and {{spoiler|Gilboa}}.

* [[True Art Is Angsty]]: ''Gundam Unicorn'' currently has a lot of acclaim, and it's one of the darkest works in the franchise so far.

* [[The Untwist]]: From the moment the first details about the novel came out, people already knew that Audrey was {{spoiler|a teenaged Mineva Zabi}}, thanks to factors like her appearance, her age matching up with {{spoiler|Mineva}}'s, the latter's {{spoiler|mysterious disappearance at the end of ''[[Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam ~~(Anime)~~|Zeta Gundam]]''}}, and the [[Shout-Out|obvious]] [[Audrey Hepburn|alias]].

* [[The Untwist]]: From the moment the first details about the novel came out, people already knew that Audrey was {{spoiler|a teenaged Mineva Zabi}}, thanks to factors like her appearance, her age matching up with {{spoiler|Mineva}}'s, the latter's {{spoiler|mysterious disappearance at the end of ''[[Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam|Zeta Gundam]]''}}, and the [[Shout-Out|obvious]] [[Audrey Hepburn|alias]].

** Another contributing factor is that the score playing when Audrey escapes the Sleeves ship in the first episode is titled "{{spoiler|Mineva}}".

* [[Visual Effects of Awesome]]: The animation in ''Unicorn'' is really, really nice.

* [[Win Back the Crowd]]: The reception of the first half of the series was... good, in contrast to [[Your Mileage May Vary|the views]] on ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam SEED ~~(Anime)~~|SEED]]'' and ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam 00 ~~(Anime)~~|00]]''. We're [[Broken Base|not even mentioning]] ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny ~~(Anime)~~|SEED Destiny]]''.

* [[Win Back the Crowd]]: The reception of the first half of the series was... good, in contrast to [[Your Mileage May Vary|the views]] on ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam SEED|SEED]]'' and ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam 00|00]]''. We're [[Broken Base|not even mentioning]] ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny|SEED Destiny]]''.

** [[Your Mileage May Vary|Though some have snarkily suggested]] that this is solely due to it being a Universal Century work, and that [[Double Standard|were it set in a different continuity those same fans would be railing against it]].

* [[The Woobie]]: Marida Cruz needs so many hugs. ''So many hugs''. [[Hates Being Touched|Assuming, of course, that she's OK with that.]]

* [[WTH Casting Agency]]: Not casting exactly, but the fact an avowed Japanese Imperialist author like Fukui is writing the novels is rather odd considering the blatant anti-war & anti-Axis themes of previous UC series. For perspective, it's a bit like having a sequel to ''[[Maus]]'' written by the guy who did ''[[~~The Turner Diaries (Literature)|~~The Turner Diaries]]''.

* [[WTH? Casting Agency]]: Not casting exactly, but the fact an avowed Japanese Imperialist author like Fukui is writing the novels is rather odd considering the blatant anti-war & anti-Axis themes of previous UC series. For perspective, it's a bit like having a sequel to ''[[Maus]]'' written by the guy who did ''[[The Turner Diaries]]''.

** Not a ''full'' WTH, but fans were rather confused when it was discovered that [[Chieko Honda]] would '''not''' be voicing Marida Cruz, despite the fact that 1) she played {{spoiler|both Purus in ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ ~~(Anime)~~|Gundam ZZ]]''}}, and 2) she's still doing voice acting.

** Not a ''full'' WTH, but fans were rather confused when it was discovered that [[Chieko Honda]] would '''not''' be voicing Marida Cruz, despite the fact that 1) she played {{spoiler|both Purus in ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ|Gundam ZZ]]''}}, and 2) she's still doing voice acting.

*** The fact that {{spoiler|the Puru clone in question is now an adult and thus have a somewhat different voice}} may have something to do with it.

**** Though it's not like she hasn't voiced older women in Gundam [[After War Gundam X ~~(Anime)~~|before]].

**** Though it's not like she hasn't voiced older women in Gundam [[After War Gundam X|before]].

** The same thing happened for {{spoiler|Mineva/Audrey}}'s VA in ''[[Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam ~~(Anime)~~|Zeta Gundam]]'' ([[Miki Ito]]), though this is rather because of scheduling conflicts and the fact that female leads in Gundam are usually voiced by seiyu no more than 30 years of age (the female leads of the [[Mobile Suit Gundam ~~(Anime)~~|original Gundam]], ''[[~~After War Gundam X (Anime)|~~After War Gundam X]]'', and ''[[The 08th MS Team]]'' are the exceptions). Still, many fans rather preferred [[Miki Ito]] to play {{spoiler|Audrey}}.

** The same thing happened for {{spoiler|Mineva/Audrey}}'s VA in ''[[Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam|Zeta Gundam]]'' ([[Miki Ito]]), though this is rather because of scheduling conflicts and the fact that female leads in Gundam are usually voiced by seiyu no more than 30 years of age (the female leads of the [[Mobile Suit Gundam|original Gundam]], ''[[After War Gundam X]]'', and ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam The 08th MS Team]]'' are the exceptions). Still, many fans rather preferred [[Miki Ito]] to play {{spoiler|Audrey}}.