Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam: Difference between revisions

* [[Awesome but Impractical]]: The Colony Laser. Despite its huge power, the firing angle can't be controlled too precisely, and its loading time is quite long, so getting a direct shot on a target in the middle of a fight would be difficult.

* [[Awesome but Practical]]: The Zeta Gundam super powerful robot mode with enough output to use a blaster and even a cannon. Complete with super-fast waverider mode to help get in and out of battles, achieve re-entry, and even assist others with re-entry. Helps keep pace with all the transformables the Titans were steam rolling out.

* [[Bait and Switch Boss]]: {{spoiler|Jamitov and Bosque. Initially set up as a [[Big Bad Duumvirate]], they're soon supplanted by Scirocco.}}

* [[Bald of Evil]]: Bosque Ohm.

** 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.

* [[History Repeats]]: {{spoiler|An [[Ace Pilot]] falls in love with a Cyber-Newtype, despite the fact that she is used as a guinea pig for powerful and mind-damaging weaponry. During a fight between the aforementioned pilot and his [[The Rival|Rival]], the woman [[Taking the Bullet|sacrifices herself to save the man she loves]]}}. [[Mobile Suit Gundam (Anime)|What series am]] [[Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam (Anime)|I talking about]]?

** Char quotes this directly shortly afterward.

** "Kamille's a man's name, ''and I'm a man!''"

* [[Hot Scoop]]: Beltochika, after her [[Character Development]].

** There's an even earlier example of this: originally, all the fancy stuff the Zeta did (like the [[BFS|mile-long beam saber]]) was just Kamille's raw Newtype power. Later on it was retconned that the Zeta has a device called the biosensor that amplifies Newtype powers and causes incredible phenomenae.

* [[The Revolution Will Not Be Vilified]]: AEUG.

** Though {{spoiler|his theft of the Mk-II is directly responsible for the circumstances that lead to his mother's death.}}

* [[Smug Snake]]: Jamaican Danigan, from the Titans, and Ben Wooder.

** {{spoiler|Apolly for Fa}}.

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

* [[Teen Genius]]: Kamille was famous for winning several suit design contests before going to the AEUG, and in fact he actually ''designed'' the Zeta Gundam.

* [[Theme Naming]]: Scirocco likes naming his custom mobile suits after deities. Pallas Athena is named for the Greek war goddess, Bolinoak Samaan is named for a Mesopotamian god, and The O is a play on Theo, a name derived from the Greek word for 'God'.

* [[Vasquez Always Dies]]: {{spoiler|Four Murasame dies very tragically, [[Mobile Suit Gundam (Anime)|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.

* [[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.

** Gates Capa was originally intended to survive and return in ZZ Gundam. He never did, but his final fate is left ambiguous.