Mobile Suit Victory Gundam: Difference between revisions

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* [[Putting On the Reich]]: Oh my. The Zanscare do this in full force.

* [[Rescue Romance]]: Chronicle saves {{spoiler|Katejina}} from being raped and she falls for him.

* [[Royally Screwed Up]]

* [[Royally Screwed-Up]]

* [[Senseless Sacrifice]]: So many, but {{spoiler|Oliver}}'s kamikaze run into a battleship's tire takes the cake. Not only was the ship on the moon, so it didn't need the tire to function, but the Zanscare make a throwaway remark in the next episode along the lines of "the damage can be fixed in about twelve hours".

** It's additionally senseless when you realize that while there are a large supply of Core Top and Boots for the Victory 2, only a grand total of two Core Fighters were built, Uso's and {{spoiler|Oliver's}}... which meant that not only was {{spoiler|Oliver}} sacrificed, but so was a potential second Victory 2 Gundam...

* [[Sequel Escalation]]: In this series the weapons have gotten some serious upgrades; the beam rifles destroy the scenery as if they were Zeta's Mega Beam Rifles, the mega beam rifles are powerful enough to destroy ''six'' mobile suits in one shot, the mega beam cannons can level a city with 3 shots and even the '''vulcans''' can uproot forests. Small wonder that even though armor can endure the now much more violent core explosions, it simply [[Made of Plasticine|cannot keep up]].

* [[Shout Out]]: At least three members of the Shrike Team are named after famous singers: Connie Francis, Peggy Lee and [[Kate Bush]].

* [[Shout-Out]]: At least three members of the Shrike Team are named after famous singers: Connie Francis, Peggy Lee and [[Kate Bush]].

** Two of them - Helen Jackson and Maheria Merill - have their names swapped around with famous singers Helen Merill and Mahalia Jackson, so you could call this [[Theme Naming]].

* [[Soundtrack Dissonance]]: The two OP are happy songs that you might expect to hear attached to a public school video about living life to the fullest or some such (or the kind of show [[Mood Whiplash|you'd normally expect to find character archetypes like Uso and Shakti]]). And then the actual episodes begin...

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* [[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.

* [[Stupidity Inducing Attack]]: The "Angel Halo", Zanscare's ultimate [[Doomsday Device]]. Designed to permanently reduce the ''entire population of Earth'' to an infantile mental state... or worse.

* [[Stupidity-Inducing Attack]]: The "Angel Halo", Zanscare's ultimate [[Doomsday Device]]. Designed to permanently reduce the ''entire population of Earth'' to an infantile mental state... or worse.

* [[Super Prototype]]: Subverted. The V Gundam's design was later mass produced down to the last bolt, and the V2 was meant for a limited production run but ended up being unique due to the destruction of the other suits before they could be assembled (one of which in the [[Senseless Sacrifice]] mentioned above).

** It's even further subverted when we consider the Zanscare empire designs; The Shokew prototype (the one that Uso [[Gundamjack|GundamJacked]] mid-air) was far weaker than the finished production version, being only on par with the older grunt suits.