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{{quote|''[[Blatant Lies|A merry robot action anime about protecting the peace of the world and your neighborhood]].''|[[Yoshiyuki Tomino]] explains the show to his sponsors, ''[[Gundam Sousei]]''.}}
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So, for those of you who seek a comprehensive plot summary of the series, here is one. A group of Terran colonists on a remote planet find a [[Cool Starship]] and three bulky starfighters that [[Combining Mecha|combine]] into a [[Super Robot Genre|Super Robot]]. The ship and the robot contain the so-called Ide, a source of infinite energy, which a militaristic [[Human Aliens|alien-but-actually-human]] civilization of Buff Clan is after. This results in a rather monotonous [[Monster of the Week|Strategy Of The Week]] as Buff Clan (unsuccessfully) employs increasingly more devastating technologies and renowned military commanders to bring down the Solo ship and get their hands on Ideon. Along the way, [[Anyone Can Die|many folks die]] and the Solo ship screws up their relationships with other Terran colonies and the Earth itself, all of whom now want Ide for themselves. Towards the end of the series, [[Bolivian Army Ending|every known army in the universe gangs up against the Solo crew]]. It also becomes apparent that Ideon has a will of its own and that it is displeased with the humans' wars and infighting. Enough so to completely wipe all of them out. That's where the series abruptly cuts. In [[The Movie]], Buff Clan stages the final assault on the Solo ship and Ideon, this time with a planet-destroying [[Wave Motion Gun]]. [[Gone Horribly Right|And succeeds]]. Ideon explodes and destroys what's left of Buff Clan army, since even before that, it generates a swarm of meteors that [[Earthshattering Kaboom|wreck]] Earth ''and'' Buff Clan homeplanet (destruction of other Terran colonies is [[Handwaved]]), so all sentient beings on both planets are destroyed. Cue the [[Mind Screw
Compared to its immediate spiritual predecessor, ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam]]'', ''Ideon'' is a step back from [[Real Robot]] to [[Super Robot]] (the trend was discontinued with ''[[Zeta Gundam]]'' in the 80s) and as a result, features rather formulaic combat engagements. These usually follow the pattern of Buff Clan (later, Earth, too) presenting their newest strategy/technology/commander, engaging Ideon (which may or may not be in combined form at the time), and getting their asses handed to them in every single episode. The grand scale of the battles commonly seen in various [[Gundam
[[Yoshiyuki Tomino]] apparently wants to make a remake of it. [http://www.animenewsnetwork.
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* [[Action Girlfriend]]: Kasha.
* [[Alliterative Name]]: Kitty Kitten.
* [[Afro Asskicker]]: Cosmo Yuki.
* [[All There Is to Know About "The Crying Game"]]: There are plenty that have heard about it's [[Kill
* [[Apocalypse How]]
* [[Ascended Fanboy]]: Gije. Becoming, obsessed with the Ideon, he defects to the Solo Ship so that he can witness 'a manifestation of the Ide'. He ends up becoming one of its pilots.
* [[Blood
* [[Boldly Coming]]
* [[Break the Haughty]]: Sheryl.
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* [[Cosmic Plaything]]: {{spoiler|The crew of the Solo Ship feel this is what they are in the hands of the Ide.}}
* [[Crowning Music of Awesome]]: "Cantata Orbis", the closing music from ''Be Invoked''.
* [[Creator Cameo]]: Mr. Tomino is briefly seen as a crew member of the Solo Ship in ''Be Invoked''. This most likely means even ''Tomino'' won't escape death in a Tomino [[Kill
* [[Culture Clash]]: When Terrans meet the Buff Clan, they raise a white flag of truce. Unfortunately, in the symbolism of the Buff Clan, the white flag means "we're gonna fight to the death."
** Goes right into [[Fridge Logic]] territory when you realize that almost all Buff Clan characters (the only exception being members of Daram Zuba's private military) wear white clothes and spacesuits. This might be understandable for the army, but the Buff Clan group that started it all is explicitly stated to be an archeological expedition.
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* [[Despair Event Horizon]]: {{spoiler|Sheryl finds herself past it after all the crap already mentioned.}}
* [[Downer Ending]]: It gets better... I think.
** If you believe a certain one-shot manga penned by Tomino, implying that the Universal Century of Gundam is the Universe that replaced Ideon's, and that {{spoiler|Judau, hero of ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ
*** The fact that the world of UC Gundam, which is torn apart by horrendously distructive giant robot wars every couple of years could reasonably be said to be a significant improvement really says something about Ideon...
*** And yet it's true. Even the crapsackiest parts of the UC timeline were petty disputes compared to the [[Crapsack World]] that was Ideon.
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* [[Earthshattering Kaboom]]: Frequently.
* [[Empathic Weapon]]: The Ideon itself, sorta.
* [[The End of the World
* [[Failure Knight]]: {{spoiler|Cosmo}}'s guilt upon not being able to keep {{spoiler|Kitty Kitten}} alive. In ''Be Invoked'', {{spoiler|when their souls are reunited, he apologizes to her, but she smiles and tells him to ease up}}
* [[Fatal Family Photo|Fatal Family Hologram]]
* [[Faster
* [[First Church of Mecha]]: This mech is the wrathful kind of god.
* [[Foreshadowing]]: In the opening theme we are outright told that {{spoiler|the titular mecha's power can ''rip apart the galaxy''}}.
* [[Funny Afro]]: Subverted: Cosmo has a HUGE afro, but in-story, no one thinks anything of it. The ''fandom'', on the other hand...
* [[Gone Horribly Right]]: The Buff Clan's last ditch effort to destroy Ideon ''does'' succeed.
* [[Good Old Fisticuffs]]: The Ideon is rather fond of hand-to-hand combat, either [[Better Than It Sounds|by choice]] or when the [[Applied Phlebotinum|Ideon Gauge 'is low']].
* [[Half
* [[Happy Ending]]: Yes, everyone's dead, but ...there's an afterlife! And the children are singing! And dead lovers are re-united! And everyone finally learns to shed hatred and violence and exist together! It's actually very uplifting (the biggest clue of of all is in the triumphant closing music).
* [[Hey,
* [[Hilarious in Hindsight]]: Mechas called the Dogg Mack and [[Zero Wing|'Take off every Zigg Mack']].
* [[Hime Cut]]: Karala.
* [[Hot
* [[Hyperspace Is a Scary Place]]
* [[Incredibly Obvious Bug]]
* [[Infant Immortality]]: Nastily subverted in the movie {{spoiler|All of the kids die, some ''very'' gruesomely.}}
* [[Interspecies Romance]]: Repeatedly.
* '''[[Kill
** Also [[Real Life Writes the Plot]]: Many characters were killed off because the production team could no longer afford to pay their voice actors.
* [[A Long Time Ago in
* [[Last Stand]]: Of the Solo Ship crew in ''Be Invoked''.
* [[Latex Space Suit]]
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** Frequently, Doba's manly-tears-closeup near the end of Be Invoked is a standard [[Image Boards|imageboard]] reply to something awe-inspiring.
* [[Mind Screw]]: The ending of the movie.
* [[Names to Know
* [[Off
* [[Ominous Latin Chanting]]: In the very end of the second movie.
* [[
* [[Plot Armor]]: Only up until the ending.
* [[Pretty Little Headshots]]: Cruelly subverted with {{spoiler|Karala}} who takes three bullets in the face {{spoiler|from her sister Harulu}}; however, we [[Take Our Word for It|don't see the results.]]
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* [[Rivals Team Up]]: {{spoiler|Gije}}, of all people, becomes the second best pilot of Ideon. Too bad he doesn't live long...
* [[Roboteching]]
* [[R
* [[Shout
* [[Spiritual Successor]]: Many people say that this show is the "spiritual predecessor" to ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]''. It uses many of the same themes and even has a kill-'em-all ending like ''Evangelion''.
* [[Stern Chase]]
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* [[Team Dad]]: Bes.
* [[Team Mom]]: Kitty Kitten was this for the orphans she gave a home to. Lin and Karala are also this, to a degree.
* [[Took a Level
* [[Transforming Mecha]]
* [[Translation Convention]]: The Buff Clan aren't actually speaking a human language, but it's hard to notice since there's only one line of dialog in the first episode with Karala turning on some kind of translator in her ear and affects her vocal chords.
* [[Tripod Terror]]: Some of the more...''conventional'' Buff Clan mecha designs.
* [[True
* [[Tsundere]]: Kasha Imhof.
* [[Tyrant Takes the Helm]]: Sheryl.
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* [[What Do You Mean Its Not Symbolic]]: {{spoiler|Cosmo and Kasha name Karala's child Messiah.}}
* [[You Gotta Have Blue Hair]]
* [[You Have Failed Me...]]: Gije fails to defeat the Ideon for the upteenth time and crashes on the Moon; his superiors just don't bother to pick him up anymore. He doesn't die like they expect him to though (yet).
* [[Zeerust]]
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