Mobile Suit Gundam 00: Difference between revisions

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** The movie reveals that {{spoiler|A-Laws is finally being treated like the jerkasses they really were, AND that Celestial Being is finally getting the recognition that they deserve, with [[Show Within a Show|a VERY hammy movie that makes them the heroes]].}}

* [[108]]: The number of enemy suits in Episode 22, Season 2.

* [[Blood Knight]]: Michael Trinity, Ali al-Saachez (self-admitted too!), and Hallelujah Haptism.

* [[Book Ends]]: Several. During the final battle, {{spoiler|Setsuna F. Seiei}} and {{spoiler|Ribbons Almark}} are both back to piloting {{spoiler|their original Gundams, the Exia and 0 respectively}}. Also, Aeolia Schenberg's broadcast in the first episode and the ESF President's in the last episode show reaction shots of many of the same locations. Finally, the first season ends with {{spoiler|a voice-over of Setsuna's letter to Marina Ismail}}, while the second season has {{spoiler|a voice-over of Marina's letter to Setsuna}}.

* [[Brainwashed and Crazy]]: {{spoiler|Louise Halevy}}. {{spoiler|She gets better though}}.

* [[Break the Cutie]]: {{spoiler|Louise Halevy}}, made worse by losing {{spoiler|her family ''and'' left hand}} in an attack nobody saw coming.

* [[Crazy Prepared]]: Aeolia Schenberg. He makes [[Death Note (Manga)|Light Yagami]] look like an amateur.

* [[Crippling Overspecialisation]]: The four Gundams are tailored for very specific roles, giving them exploitable weak spots. This actually leads (partially) to their downfall in the first season.

* [[Curb Stomp Battle]]: Absolutely every fight against the Gundams for the majority of the first season is incredibly one-sided, various ace pilots and [[Zerg Rush|mass-swarm tactics]] notwithstanding. This is remarked on by Allelujah Haptism, who [[Lampshade Hanging|thinks it feels unfair]].

* [[Cute and Psycho]]: Nena Trinity was introduced as a [[Moe Moe|cutesy]] [[Genki Girl]], only to {{spoiler|shoot up a wedding [[For the Evulz]], killing almost everybody}}.

* [[Dysfunction Junction]]: all of celestial being, but especially the meisters.[[Justified Trope|Justified]] since they look for highly capable people that hate war so intensly that they will become terrorists to stop it. This means that most recruits have a ''very'' [[Dark and Troubled Past]].

* {{spoiler|[[Earn Your Happy Ending]]}}: Everyone '''finally''' gets this in the end of the movie, but ''damn'' if they didn't go to hell and back to get it.

* [[Elite Mooks]]: The A-Laws, primary antagonists {{spoiler|for half}} of the second season, are an elite unit of [[Mecha Mook|Mecha Mooks]] and remain so until they take over the rest of the world’s military towards the end of the season. Subverted in that they actually present a substantial threat to Celestial Being’s continued survival. {{spoiler|For a while anyway}}.

* [[Emotionless Girl]]: Feldt Grace is the emotionally repressed sort, though she gradually opens up over the course of the first season.

** Setsuna F. Seiei’s appearance, age, mannerisms and backstory, including his [[Pick On Someone Your Own Size]] ghost from the past, is very similar to both [[Full Metal Panic|Sagara Sousuke]] and [[Mobile Suit Gundam Wing (Anime)|Heero Yuy]], as well as similar saying as [[Mobile Suit Gundam (Anime)|Amuro Ray]] ({{spoiler|when he saw Ali piloting a Red Gundam Setsuna says i know who pilots a suit in that color}}

** The soft-spoken, orphan-loving, pacifist princess Marina Ismail is an expy of both [[Mobile Suit Gundam Wing (Anime)|Relena Peacecraft]] and [[Mobile Suit Gundam SEED (Anime)|Lacus Clyne]].

*** ''00V'' extends the joke further, giving the 0 Gundam a Full Armor form nearly identical to the Full Armor Gundam, as well as introducing a version of the Reborns Gundam with an additional Tank Mode (a tip of the hat to the Guntank, which Amuro piloted once).

** Season two lets loose with the ''[[Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam (Anime)|Zeta Gundam]]'' references: the A-Laws are an obvious parallel of the Titans, Katharon a parallel of Karaba, and the Regnant clearly gets its design from the Qubeley.

* [[Five-Bad Band]]

* [[Five-Man Band]]

* [[Flynning]]: Averted. Sword fights between mobile suits are kept considerably short in this series.

* [[Forgotten Childhood Friend]]: {{spoiler|Allelujah Haptism and Soma Peries}} were very young friends in the same [[Super Soldier]] program, but neither initially knows this due to their respective [[Split Personality|Split Personalities]].

* [[Lack of Empathy]]: Ali al-Saachez.

* [[Laser Blade]]: It's a ''Gundam'' show, so beam sabers aplenty.

* [[Last Second Chance]]: Refused by {{spoiler|Ali al-Saachez (are you really surprised?)}} after {{spoiler|Lockon Stratos}} offered it to him in the episode 24 of the second season.

* [[Latex Space Suit]]: The pilot suits.

* [[Must Make Amends]]: Essentially Celestial Being in the second season, after it hits them that, far from creating peace, by uniting the world against them they instead {{spoiler|led to the creation of a brutal [[State Sec]] which has killed tens of thousands of civilians}}.

** This is on top of the fact that the animosity towards them led to the deaths of several of their members in the last episodes of the first season.

* [[My Death Is Just the Beginning]]: Aeolia Schenberg{{spoiler|, Regene Regetta, and Tieria Erde}}.

* [[Mysterious Waif]]: The slightly telepathic, blind, and possibly paralyzed Marie Parfacy.

* [[The Omniscient Council of Vagueness]]: The Observers.

* [[One Degree of Separation]]: In the first season, Saji Crossroad is Setsuna's neighbor and Louise Halevy is his girlfriend. Guess who becomes his {{spoiler|co-pilot}} and one of his {{spoiler|more dogged opponents}} respectively in season two?

** {{spoiler|Surprisingly, some of those things actually do happen... sort of. Lockon is replaced by his twin brother, Tieria is revealed to be an [[Artificial Human]], and in one of the movies THE ALIEN INVASION ACTUALLY DOES HAPPEN.}}

* [[Opposite Sex Clone]]: Ribbons Almark and Hiling Care, Revive Revival and Anew Returner. The English dub explicitly makes Revive female, leaving Ribbons and Hiling but also adding {{spoiler|Tieria Erde and Regene Regetta}}.

* [[Real Robot]]: Goes without saying. Though some would argue, not without some justification, that the Gundams themselves deliberately blur the line between Real and [[Super Robot|Super]], while the Twin Drive units are full-blown [[Super Robot|Super Robots]].

* [[Recap Episode]]: The first half of episode 16 of the first season.

* [[Red Oni, Blue Oni|Red Oni Green Oni]]: The GN drives designed by Aeolia Schenberg and entrusted to Celestial Being emit green particles; the Thrones' GN-X drives emit red particles. At first this seems to indicate that the Thrones are using more advanced technology, {{spoiler|until it turns out their drives - the basis for all technologies used by the UN and later the A-LAWS - are only cheap knockoffs that can't match the capabilities of the originals.}}

* [[Redshirt Army]]: Not only does Katharon get its collective ass kicked in practically every confrontation with the A-Laws, but by episode 14 it hasn’t even shot down a single A-Laws mobile suit.

** Everyone in ''00'' has one extra life. To get them ''really'' dead, you have to kill them ''twice'' (eg, impaled by shrapnel, then exploded) in rapid succession.

* [[Samus Is a Girl]]: Borderline example – the Virtue. When it purges its armor, to the shock of both the HRL and the audience, it reveals a slim robot with long, flowing hair referred to as ''Nadleeh'', a Native American word for someone who has taken up the roles of the opposite gender... implying that Nadleeh is a warrior woman with heart of a man.

* [[Say My Name]]: Whenever a character dies, there's a good chance that someone screams the dead character's full name. Hell, even ''a Haro'' does it at one point.

** Another, more funny, example is in the Taklamakan Desert, when Graham transforms a bit too close to the ground, with the result of his Flag's foot hitting the ground, causing Graham to take down a Gundam using his head. As in, he stumbled and headbashed the Dynames, knocking both down.

** In episode 5 or 6, when Saji and Louise are walking around on the outside of a Low-Orbital Station, their guide says that even at 10.000 km height, there's still some gravity. This is true, except the gravitational pull is greatly reduced.

** What other miraculous, near-magical properties can GN Particles be given?

** How much more divided can the fanbase become?

* [[Send in The Clones]]: Near the end of season two, {{spoiler|Ribbons Almark}} mass-produces an enormous amount of {{spoiler|Innovade}} clones created from {{spoiler|Bring Stabity and Devine Nova}}'s DNA for combat purposes.

* [[Sensitive Guy and Manly Man]]: Billy Katagiri and Graham Aker, Saji Crossroad and Setsuna F. Seiei, Allelujah and Hallelujah can be seen as the two in one body, Dr. Moreno and Ian Vashti, Litchy Tsery and Lasse Aeon, {{spoiler|Devine Nova and Bring Stabity}}.

** Sherilyn Hyde in the latest ''00F'' chapters.

* [[Ship Sinking]]: Too many to list. [[Happily Married|Only]] [[High School Sweethearts|five]] [[Love At First Punch|couples]] [[La Résistance|remained]] [[Battle Couple|strong.]] <ref>These being Ian and Linda Vashti, Saji Crossroad and Louise Halevy, Kati Mannnequin and Patrick Colasour, Shirin Bakhtiar and Klaus Grado, and H/Allelujah Haptism and Soma Peries/Marie Parfacy, respectively.</ref>

** Without Nena Trinity, who leaked the plans, that battle would have never occurred and more people would have died. It also kicks off her partial redemption with her [[Moment of Awesome]] .

** The Seven Swords mode of Exia is a reference to the Hong Kong action movie ''[[Seven Swords]]''; Kenji Kawai scored the music for both the movie and this Gundam show.

* [[Sibling Team]]: Team Trinity and, technically, {{spoiler|the Innovades}} as well.

** Averted with {{spoiler|the two Lockon Stratos}}.

** Sort-of subverted in the fight between {{spoiler|Setsuna}} and {{spoiler|Ribbons}}, as instead of leaping by and someone falling a few seconds later, they just charged head-on into one another and {{spoiler|were mutually impaled on their swords. Ribbons' 0 Gundam did explode shortly after though}}.

* [[Sissy Villain]]: The Innovades are so gender-queer that it's hard to believe Mamoru Nagano wasn't involved.

* [[Super-Powered Evil Side]]: Hallelujah is a much better pilot, but also equally more ''psychotic'', than Allelujah. When they [[Split Personality Merge|merge]], it's something between this and [[Dangerous Forbidden Technique]].

* [[Super Soldier]]: Soma Peries is the first successful product of the HRL's Enhanced Soldier program. Allelujah Haptism is also a reject from this program.

* [[Taking the Bullet]]: A few times:

** Lockon Stratos saves Tieria Erde from Patrick's incoming attack, getting Dynames and [[Eye Scream|his right eye]] badly damaged in episode 21 of the first season.

* [[Villain Protagonist]]: Celestial Being to a degree. Fon Spaak fits this trope well.

* [[The Voice]]: Both {{spoiler|Regene Regetta}} and {{spoiler|Tieria Erde}} ultimately become this after {{spoiler|their bodies were shot to death but their consciences upload into Veda}}.

* [[Walking the Earth]]: The four Gundam Meisters in first ED.

** In the [[Grand Finale]], {{spoiler|Celestial Being}} combines this with space travel. In a subversion, though, {{spoiler|Allelujah Haptism and Marie Parfacy}} left {{spoiler|Celestial Being}} and walked the Earth on their own [[Journey to Find Oneself|to find the true meaning of their existence]].

* [[Wave Motion Gun]]: Probably the biggest offender in the Gundam franchise so far.

** The GN Bazooka. Gundam Virtue makes a giant trench in the desert with it in episode 15 of season one, and in general commits other acts of mass destruction with this weapon. Then it goes [[Guns Akimbo]] with it.

* [[Well-Intentioned Extremist]]: Celestial Being.

** Just about everyone seems to have turned into one by the end of the series, aside from {{spoiler|Marina Ismail}} (who was [[Friend to All Living Things|never an extremist]]) and {{spoiler|Ali al-Saachez}} (who was [[Complete Monster|never well-intentioned]]).

** Episodes 23 and 24 of season one as well.

** Episodes 16 and 17 of season two pretty much out-wham every previous contender.