Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam: Difference between revisions

* [[Bishonen]]: Scirocco combines this with loads of charisma and newtype powers for a disastrous combo. Also Kamille.

** Kamille's [[Buffy-Speak|bishonen-ness]] is played up in the SD gundam series where he manages to [[Chick Magnet|pimp all of the female characters]] because they can "see the stars in his eyes".

* [[Bling Bling Bang]]: The Hyaku-Shiki, to [[Memetic Mutation]] levels.

* [[Blood Knight]]: Yazan Gable.

* [[Chick Magnet]]: Paptimus Scirocco. He manages to end the series with a harem of Newtype women ace pilots, most of which had defected to his side. He basically makes bishie charm a ''newtype power''.

** Kamille gets a bit of this as well, with Fa, Four Murasame, Rosamia, and arguably Emma...

* [[Clingy Jealous Girl]] (Beltorchika Irma has all that it takes to be one, but since she is about the only girl to fall for Amuro in ''Zeta'', this doesn't characterize her fully. Fa also is a bit like this.)

* [[Compilation Movie]]: Three of them... produced twenty years later; the show is ''that'' popular.

* [[Corporal Punishment]]: '''''[[Up to Eleven|Everyone]]'''''. The one who gets hit the most would probably be Kamille.

* [[Dark Action Girl]]: Sarah Zabiarov, Mouar Pharaoh.

* [[Dating Catwoman]]: Katz tries that with Sarah. It... doesn't work, to say it lightly.

* [[Designated Girl Fight]]: Avoided throughout most of the series, but done in the [[Grand Finale]] with {{spoiler|Emma and Reccoa. Emma wins, but she dies soon afterwards}}.

* [[Died in Your Arms Tonight]]: {{spoiler|Four and Emma both die in Kamille's arms.}}

* [[Does This Remind You of Anything?]]: The episode where Reccoa is captured by Yazan, it seems like the entire scene is that of a woman getting raped/being beaten and enjoying it! Rather, Reccoa seems to stand for abused girlfriends and wives who are okay with it.

** The Compilation Movies changed this {{spoiler|to a [[Bittersweet Ending]]: Yes, most of the cast still die. Yup, there's still alot of bloodshed. However, Kamille doesn't get mind-fried, we see other characters (Amuro, the Kobayashi family, Mirai) reacting to the news, Haman retreats and arranges for Mineva to [[Give Him a Normal Life|go to school on Earth]], and the last scene is of Fa and Kamille hugging in space.}}

* [[Dubtitle]]: On the original Region 1 DVD release. Subsequent re-releases fixed this.

* [[Executive Meddling]]: The original opening and ending themes couldn't be used for foreign versions because composer Neil Sedaka retains a copyright for them.

* [[Face Heel Turn]]: {{spoiler|After getting captured, Reccoa defects to the Titans.}}

* [[Fan Nickname]]: The O suddenly is "[[SpongeBob SquarePants|Patrick]]" after ''SD Gundam Online'' was released.

* [[Fantastic Racism]]: Titans towards Spacenoids.

** Also, sing along: "''Oh, I can't help believe in you...''"

* [[Green Aesop]]: One of the first series to have an environmental message that starts to come off as a [[Space Whale Aesop]] by the end of the series. Earth, to the Spacenoids, looks polluted and is barely hanging by a thread...despite it not being covered in a neverending city. Despite it looking as healthy as it is now. And a [[Did Not Do the Research]] too-the AEUG worrying about a ''single nuke'' being dropped would kill the Earth, while they conveniently forget that two nukes were set off in Jaburo with no ill effects to the entire planet-and it'd take at least ''twelve'' nukes going off at the ''same time'' to cause catastrophic damage to the planet's environment-which it ''would'' recover from. It starts to become clear that Spacenoids are just trying to force people off of Earth for no good reason except they feel superior in space...

** Another point you could make is that during the One Year War, half the populations of each side were killed VERY quickly. On the the colony side of things, this means gas/blowing up stations. On the earth side, this means large scale nuclear attacks and [[Colony Drops]]. It's a wonder the earth still has a surface.

* [[Gundamjack]]: The AEUG stealing three Gundam Mk. II early on is the first example of this trope in the series. Notably, their original plan was to take just one, and Kamille's use of this trope allows them to nab all three.

* [[Idiot Ball]]: Used liberally to justify many of the deaths at the end of the series. Such as {{spoiler|Henken}} sacrificing himself ''and the rest of his crew'' in order to save {{spoiler|Emma, his crush}}. She, naturally, {{spoiler|died later anyway, after getting her suit's engines trashed, barely making it back to the ship, and then ''launching again anyway'', still engineless}}. [[Your Mileage May Vary]], of course.

** Jamitov Hyman, full stop. If you have any doubts, just rewatch Zeta and ask yourself why he does the things he did. [[Drugs Are Bad|He must have been high.]]

* [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold]]: Camille is an ''epic'' [[Mood Swinger]], but he does genuinely care for others and tries to do what he can for them. Possibly Jerid Messa as well; see [[Anti-Villain]], above.

* [[Kick the Dog]]: Jerid does this during the evacuation of Jaburo, attacking his comrades just so he can board the escape plane.

* [[More Than Mind Control]]: Scirocco is not above adding a little spice to his seduction attempts by using his Newtype powers to screw with women's heads. Seeing what it does to {{spoiler|Reccoa}} in particular is downright scary, and makes 'The Call of Darkness' one of the show's most disturbing episodes.

* [[No Accounting for Taste]]: Amuro's relationship with [[Clingy Jealous Girl]] Beltorchika baffles both Char and Kamille. Subverted in that Amuro knows all this very well, and is only involved with her because she provides an excuse for him not to go back into space - which, after all he went through in the original series, he fears considerably more than sacrificing his personal freedom.

* [[Not So Harmless]]: Yazan's Crew. After the general incompetence of Jerid and Adol's doomed attempt, it comes as quite a shock how brutally efficient Yazan, Dunkel and Ramsus are.

* [["On the Next Episode of..." Catchphrase]]: "You will see the tears of time."

** {{spoiler|Four for Kamille.}}

** {{spoiler|Sarah for Scirocco.}}

* [[Terrible Trio]]: Yazan's crew are a particularly competent and scary example.

* [[Team Mom]]: Emma Sheen and Reccoa Londe. Fa is also a bit of this towards the [[Bratty Half-Pint]] orphans, though she only takes up the [[Team Mom]] mantle full-time in Double Zeta.

* [[The Other Darrin]]: Is what happened to the dub after the original MSG cast took a strike.

* [[The Starscream]]: Paptimus Scirocco, who actually ''[[Crowning Moment of Awesome|succeeds]]'' in his plans and supplants the big bads Jamitov and Bosque.

* [[Transforming Mecha]]: The Zeta Gundam and the greater majority of Mobile Suits; in fact, Zeta still holds the record of having the largest percentage of transforming robots in the entire saga.

** Paptimus Scirocco's Messala is in fact the first transformable mobile suit ever seen in a Gundam series.

* [[Vasquez Always Dies]]: {{spoiler|Four Murasame dies very tragically, [[Mobile Suit Gundam|once again showing]] that if you fall in love with a Gundam protagonist, you can expect [[Love Hurts|love to hurt a whole lot]]. [[Action Girl|Emma]] doesn't make it, either. Fa Yuiri, on the other hand, is quite broken by the events of the series, but recovers and helps Kamille get better from Scirocco's [[Mind Rape]]}}.

** As far as this series goes, it may as well be renamed [[Newtype Always Dies]]. Recall that that last person mentioned is NOT a newtype, and keep in mind which young girl survives ZZ... Also kind of note how they die. It seems becoming a Newtype gives you an inescapable urge to [[Taking the Bullet|leap in the way of dangerous objects]] if you're [[Ho Yay]] or female.

* [[Wham! Episode]]: Literally happens {{spoiler|when Katz slams into a piece of space debris and dies. This begins the mass culling of the cast in the Kill Them All ending of the series.}}

* [[What Could Have Been]]: In an abandoned draft of [[Chars Counterattack]], Jerid was meant to survive and become Amuro's wingman... Then ZZ came in the way.

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