Mobile Suit Victory Gundam: Difference between revisions

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* [[Ambiguously Brown]]: Shakti.

* [[Aristocrats Are Evil]]: The Zanscare heads are mostly just bad bad people.

* [[Awesome but Impractical]]: Early on Uso uses a massive Gatling gun with equivalent destructive power to the beam weapons, but it runs out of ammo quickly and the massive recoil makes it impossible to aim properly.

* [[Ax Crazy]]: Lupe Cineaux and Fuala Giffon.

* [[Badass Biker]]: Duke. His girlfriend and partner Renda is a [[Biker Babe]].

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* [[Crapsack World]]: The absolute low point of the Universal Century... which is saying something.

* [[Creator Breakdown]]: Can be considered the low point of Tomino's depression.

* [[Cute Shotaro Boy]]: Uso, who at 13 succeeded the 14-year old [[Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ|Judau Ashta]] as the youngest protagonist in the Universal Century. He was also the youngest period before [[Gundam SEED Astray|Prayer]] and [[Mobile Suit Gundam ~~Age~~|Kio Asuno]] came along.

* [[Cute Shotaro Boy]]: Uso, who at 13 succeeded the 14-year old [[Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ|Judau Ashta]] as the youngest protagonist in the Universal Century. He was also the youngest period before [[Gundam SEED Astray|Prayer]] and [[Mobile Suit Gundam AGE|Kio Asuno]] came along.

* [[Dark Action Girl]]: Fuala, Lupe, {{spoiler|Katejina}}, Renda.

* [[Darker and Edgier]]: Second only to ''[[Zeta Gundam]]''.

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* [[Disposable Woman]]: There's a ''lot'' of this.

* [[The Empire]]: The Zanscare Empire is a pretty classic example of this.

* [[Easy Logistics]]: Interestingly, this is the greatest advance of this era; The Zanscare's Beam Rotor's as well as the League Militaire's Minosvky drive systems allowed them to fly without refueling (and thus operate independently) since propulsion is powered directly by nuclear reactors, [[Game Breaker|giving the users a major tactical advantage.]]

* [[Evil Chancellor]]: Fonse Kagatie is the source of all evil in Zanscare.

* [[The Federation]]: The Earth Federation is still running things and is truly useless {{spoiler|for most of the series}}.

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* [[Everything's Better with Spinning]]: Once on screen the Tyre-type mobile suits (mobile suits in... you guessed right, tires) are a damn pain in the ass for a while.

* [[Eyecatch]]: the mid-episode intermissions feature Uso's Haro gradually getting larger and larger over the series... two frames at a time.

* [[Face Heel Turn]]: {{spoiler|Katejina}}

* [[Fate Worse Than Death]] {{spoiler|Katejina}} survives... but is blinded, mentally crippled, and amnesiac; a horrible, but well-deserved one. In fact, Tomino himself commented that {{spoiler|Katejina}} committed so many crimes of such magnitude that even death would've been too lenient a punishment.

* [[Flawed Prototype]]: The Abigor, namely its life support functions and thrusters. Its fighting ability, on the other hand...

** Interestingly, the same flaws showed up on the water based Galguyu, [[All There in the Manual|which copied its transformation ability]], and as a result it leaked.

* [[Gundam vs. Series]]: Uso pilots the V and V2 Gundams starting in the first Gundam vs Gundam game. {{spoiler|Katejina}} joins him in NEXT piloting the Gedlav and then gets dropped for Junko and the Gun-EZ in Extreme VS.

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* [[Lightning Bruiser]]: The V2 itself - 20 g's of max acceleration is nothing to sneeze at; for reference, the Saturn V could at best give 5 g's of acceleration, while most state of the art fighter jets can at most corner at 10 g's (any more and they would crush the pilot).

* [[Love Hurts]]: Nearly every single couple on both sides of the war ends up with one of the two dead, unless they both die, and not even married couples are safe.

* [[Made of Plasticine]]: The Titular Victory Gundam. It is barely [[Super Robot]], and it is the Gundam that is most damaged in any series. A running joke seems to be 'How long will it take for Uso to just abandoned the busted legs?' over the course of every episode.

** Ironically, the final shot of the last episode show both the victory and the victory 2 in the scenery, which would make it one of the few gundams to have survived intact the entire series.

* [[Marshmallow Hell]]: Uso, when Mahelia gave him a ride... In fact, to see Uso get a face-full of boobage seems to be quite a [[Running Gag]].

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* [[Minovsky Physics]]: Yup.

* [[Mind Rape]]: The effects of {{spoiler|the Angel Halo}}. More exactly: it basically uses {{spoiler|twenty-thousand Newtype "psychikers" to amplify the powers of a single Newtype (in this case, Queen Maria Armonia) who can then use it to [[Mind Rape]] the whole of the Earth Sphere if she so desires.}} Zanscare planned on using it on Earth to {{spoiler|regress people to an infantile state of mind so they'd all die off and leave the Earth "purified".}} Fortunately for everyone involved, they had the bad judgement to place {{spoiler|none other than [[The Messiah]] of the series, Maria's daughter Shakti,}} in control of it. Earlier, when testing its effects, {{spoiler|they tried to use it to cause Uso to lose his will to fight, first by bombarding him with images of peace and happiness, then with scenes of terror and pain.}}

* [[Monowheel Mayhem]]: The Einrad, a colossal monowheel used as a transport vehicle for the Zanscare Empire's mobile suits.

* [[Mood Whiplash]]: Uso and his girlfriend Shakti are stock child anime characters... set in a bleak and brutal series.

** There are quite a few bizarrely comical moments midway through the series: League Militaire using microwave frequencies to trigger ship-wide Zanscare indigestion, groin kicks and your typically overexaggerated facial expressions. Of particular note is episode 29: The episode that introduces the V2 Gundam also has Uso interrogated in a bath by Lupe Cineau (complete with accidental groping) and escaping Side 2 completely naked. In his core fighter. With Haro and Flanders. In the middle of a space battle. In front of his teammates. Yeah...

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** [[All There in the Manual|Actually it's not]]: When a beam weapon pierces the field preventing the reactor's heat from melting the mobile suit and vaporizing the pilot, all that heat and radiation escapes. [[Stuff Blowing Up|Into the surrounding environment]].

*** It's a goof in that the reactor shouldn't "go nuclear". The disappearance of the I-field releases the plasma into the surrounding environment, which would indeed cause an explosion, but the release of the plasma would cause the pressure within the reactor to drop, ''decreasing'' the rate of fusion and pretty much ensuring that there ''wouldn't'' be a nuclear explosion.

*** Note that the setting is so bleak that it's entirely possible that the engineers of both sides specifically designed the reactors to violently explode in order to dissuade attackers with the threat of a massive explosion as well as providing a self destruct mechanism that in addition prevents enemies from capturing and copying the more advanced machines.

* [[Out of Order]]: Due to [[Executive Meddling]], the order of the first 4 episodes was rearranged in order to show the titular gundam in the first episode, which does confuse the viewer.

* [[Pick on Someone Your Own Size]]: Chronicle Asher is the best pilot in Zanscare yet gets mocked repeatedly for getting shot down by Uso -- [[Truth in Television|which is pretty much what would happen in real life]].

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** Even the staff at Sunrise couldn't agree on how to spell Uso's name! While official sources have apparently settled on "Uso Ewin", he's shown to spell it "Uso Ebbin" in a [[Gratuitous English]] e-mail he writes in one of the first episodes.

** There's some confusion over his first name as well. The spelling "Uso" is used a lot, but the katakana actually read "Usso" (ウッソ), while ''[[Dynasty Warriors: Gundam]]'' uses "Üso".

* [[Subsystem Damage]]: The Gundams are far from untouchable; a few well placed hits can impair hand operation for example which adds to the realism.

* [[Star-Crossed Lovers]]: Many examples. {{spoiler|Marvet and Oliver (they get married, then he dies); Elischa and Odelo (he's killed in battle right before the end); Chronicle and Katejina, even though it was one-sided (Chronicle dies in battle, and Katejina... well..); Uso's parents, in a way (both die in the second half of the series and were unwillingly separated due to their work in La Resistance); there were even two one-shot characters from the Zanscare side, Karinga and Kisharl, who were entirely made of this trope...}}

* [[Stock Footage]]: Averted. Aside from the occasional full-screen explosion, this series makes relatively little use of stock footage, which is surprising when you consider when it was made.

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* [[War Is Hell]]: More so than in any other Gundam series.

* [[Weaponized Exhaust]]: The V2's Wings of Light.

* [[Well-Intentioned Extremist]]: The Zanscare Empire believes the Solar System will be a better place under the rule of their God-Queen. It's also subverted as said God-Queen is really nothing more than a powerless figurehead for the [[Evil Chancellor]] and his political party from Jupiter to exploit for their revenge on the Earth.

* [[Women in Refrigerators]]: See [[Disposable Woman]].