Mobile Suit Gundam 00: Difference between revisions

Enter Celestial Being – a shadowy private military organization with the goal of eradicating war completely and permanently. Armed with four incredibly advanced, seemingly-unstoppable [[Humongous Mecha]] known as "Gundams", Celestial Being seeks to eliminate war... by attacking all other sides. The three global powers immediately mobilize to match the power of the Gundams, and before long it becomes increasingly clear that Celestial Being's goal of eradicating war will come at a heavy price: they must become the enemy of the entire world.

 

 

 

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* [[Ace Custom]]: the SVMS-01E Union Flag Graham Aker Custom, from which came the SVMS-01O Overflag, designed specifically to fight the Gundams. Graham later gets the Masauro and Susanowo, bases on the Flag's design.

* [[Ace Pilot]]: Graham Aker, Sergei Smirnov and Ali al-Saachez are sufficiently skilled such that they can fight the technologically superior Gundams to a standstill.

* [[Aerith and Bob]]: Subverted. Most of the esoteric names -- a staple in the ''Gundam'' franchise -- are in this case codenames for much more mundanely named characters.

** It's played straight with the Innovades.

* [[Anime Accent Absence]]

* [[Anime First]]: Like the large majority of the franchise.

* [[Anyone Can Die]]: And they do, oh so hard.

* [[Apologetic Attacker]]: Graham Aker apologizes for his (attempted) destruction of the 00 Raiser in both his fights against Setsuna. The first time, Setsuna deflects his beam sabres with the 00 Raiser's GN Field, and the second time, he {{spoiler|catches the blade with 00 Raiser's bare hands and shatters it}}, denying Graham victory in both cases.

* [[Bait the Dog]]: Nena Trinity

* [[Barbie Doll Anatomy]]: Any of the scenes when Setsuna uses Trans-Am Raiser. Any characters shown are completely naked and lacking certain features, most notably Setsuna, Lockon, Graham and Saji all lacking something between the legs. Female characters, however, still have breasts, but without nipples.

* [[Battle Butler]]: Hong Long

* [[Beach Episode]]

* [[Big No]]: More than once, by multiple characters, in both regular and [[Say My Name]] versions.

* [[Bishonen]]: To the point where it's simply ridiculous – many, ''many'' male characters are portrayed as absolutely gorgeous, but what else do you expect when Yun Kouga is the character designer?

* [[Bishonen Line]]: Gundam Nadleeh, emerging from the hulking mass that is Gundam Virtue; it even has ''hair''.

** The mobile suit Alvaaron, hidden inside the monstrous mobile armor Alvatore, also counts.

* [[Chinese Girl]]: Wang Liu Mei

* [[Chronic Backstabbing Disorder]]: Alejandro Corner, Ribbons Almark, Wang Liu Mei.

* [[Colonel Badass]]: Sergei Smirnov.

** Kati Mannequin also counts.

* [[Cool Big Sis]]: Christina Sierra and Kinue Crossroad in season one, and [[Onee-Sama|Feldt Grace]] in season two.

* [[Cool Spaceship]]: The ''Ptolemaios''. Its successor, the ''Ptolemaios II'', is even cooler.

* [[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.

* [[Cross-Dressing Voices]]: An interesting variation: for the sequence in Season two where Tieria Erde poses as a woman, his voice is provided by... his normal seiyuu, [[Hiroshi Kamiya]].

** And then there is Louise Halevy, whose tragic event is displayed right in the first season.

** Don't forget miss Sumeragi, and her little accident, or {{spoiler|Lichty, who lost his parents and ''half his body'' in an accident}}, or Felt, whose parents died and who wasn't even informed how. [[Dysfunction Juction|spotting a pattern here?]]

** {{spoiler|Though the movie, and arguably the second season, are more idealistic.}}

* [[Dead Man Writing]]: {{spoiler|Setsuna F. Seiei}}'s <s>letter</s> e-mail to {{spoiler|Marina Ismail}} at the end of the first season.

* [[Death From Above]]: The Memento Mori {{spoiler|(both of them)}} in the second season.

* [[Death Is Cheap]]: For {{spoiler|Innovades}} apparently. They all {{spoiler|seem to have their consciousness and memories backed up by Veda}}.

** Tieria too.

{{quote| '''[[Yandere|Michael]]:''' Man, he's so pretty. If he was a girl, I'd be all over him!}}

* [[Evil Albino]]: Aber Rindt.

* [[Evil Laugh]]: Hallelujah Haptism, Alejandro Corner, Nena Trinity, and Regene Regetta.

** Nena Trinity comes away from her face-to-face encounter with Ali al-Saachez in the second season with a bruised face and a hairstyle mirroring his.

* [[Expy]]:

** {{spoiler|Ribbons Almark}}'s Gundams (0 and Reborns) end up being expys of Amuro Ray's RX-78 – (for the 0 Gundam) and a combination of the Guncannon, Gundam, and Hi-Nu Gundam (for the Reborns) – as a [[Shout-Out]] to [[Tohru Furuya]] voicing both characters.

*** ''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).

** Aeolia Schenberg seems to be an Expy of Hari Seldon of Asimov's Foundation series, given their shared habit of showing up in public announcements despite being centuries dead. In addition, he's also based off Konstantin Tsiolkovsky - one fof the founders of modern rocketry.

** Soft spot for a far-younger woman? Suffering under self-serving superiors? Scar over the left eye? Similar vocal characterization? Sergei Smirnov IS [[Keroro Gunsou|Giroro]].

** Saji Crossroad, Louise Halevy, and Andrei Smirnov, seem to be Expies of Hathaway, Quess, and Gyunei from ''[[Chars Counterattack|Char's Counterattack]]''.

* [[Extra Eyes]]: Being the first Earth-created mobile suits using (pseudo-)GN Drives, the GN-X and its successors have four eyes arranged in an "X" for added ominous factor.

* [[Eyepatch of Power]]: {{spoiler|Lockon Stratos}} briefly sports one near the end of the first season. {{spoiler|He also wears it for all of his Season 2 non-flashback appearances (dreams, visions, etc.)}}

* [[Law of Chromatic Superiority]]: Trans-Am not only increases a Gundam's performance threefold, it also [[All There in the Manual|turns them red]].

* [[Let Them Die Happy]]: {{spoiler|Christina Sierra}} to {{spoiler|Lichtendal}}, letting him believe that he had successfully saved her life with his [[Heroic Sacrifice]]... before dying herself.

* [[Loads and Loads of Characters]]: One of the largest casts of any Gundam show.

* [[Love At First Punch]]: Patrick Colasour for Kati Mannequin.

* [[Male Gaze]]: The first seven seconds of the fourth OP. [[Squee]]!

* [[Man Behind the Man]]: {{spoiler|Ribbons Almark}}.

* [[Manchurian Agent]]: {{spoiler|Anew Returner}}.

* [[Mask Power]]: Courtesy of Mr. Bushido.

* [[No Social Skills]]: Pretty much all of [[The Stoic|The Stoics]] in Celestial Being can trace their social ineptitude to being on their own since they were kids.

* [[Not Allowed to Grow Up]]: Setsuna. At least in the movie, though this could go as ''[[Not Allowed To Age]]'' instead.

* [[Not-So-Small Role]]: With {{spoiler|Ribbons Almark}} having only a handful of lines and hardly any screentime in the first half of the show, many long-time Gundam fans were wary of the fact that he had such a small role for a character being voiced by none other than [[Tohru Furuya]] (using pseudonym "Noboru Sougetsu"), the man who portrayed the very first Gundam protagonist. Of course, after truly gaining the viewers' collective attention with a few foreshadowing lines and {{spoiler|the ability to hack Veda}}, {{spoiler|Ribbons}} turned out to be the [[Man Behind the Man]] and the real [[Big Bad]] of the series. {{spoiler|''[[Fan Nickname|Fucking Ribbons]].''}}

* [[Obfuscating Stupidity]]: In season two, {{spoiler|Lyle Dylandy}} ''intentionally'' downplays his own piloting skills, also acting nonchalant and as a bit of a [[Handsome Lech]]. It seems he's doing this to keep people from {{spoiler|comparing him to [[The Unfavorite|his dead twin brother]]}}.

* [[Ordinary High School Student]]: Saji Crossroad and Louise Halevy in the first season.

* [[Out-of-Clothes Experience]]: The Twin Drive System exists to invoke this trope (and to make people understand each other, of course). It’s quite emotional when the people meeting ''sans'' clothes are lovers ({{spoiler|Lockon Srtatos II/Anew Return}}) and ({{spoiler|Saji Crossroad/Louise Halevy}}), but also quite [[Narm|Narmy]] when even {{spoiler|Setsuna F. Seiei and Mr. Bushido}} had a [[Ho Yay|naked discussion with each other]].

** Graham Aker, though it's more about the Gundam(s) than the pilot(s), making it only more twisted.

* [[Pink Girl, Blue Boy]]: Soma Pieres got a pink mobile suit in season one and Nena Trinity wore a pink pilot suit; in season two, they switch to red and purple respectively.

** How much more divided can the fanbase become?

* [[Self-Made Orphan]]: Setsuna F. Seiei{{spoiler|, Andrei Smirnov}}

* [[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}}.

** Both of the {{spoiler|Dylandy}} twins are ''both'' sensitive and manly.

* [[Sociopathic Soldier]]: The majority of A-Laws.

* [[Space Elevator]]: A fundamental part of the setting.

* [[Split Personality]]: Allelujah Haptism has a ''much'' more violent split personality he calls Hallelujah, born to cope with his deeds as a child.

** [[Split Personality Makeover]]: Which personality is in control depends on which of his [[Mismatched Eyes]] is covered by his [[Peek-a-Bangs]]. An odd instance of this trope being true in-universe instead of just a stylistic change.

* [[To Create a Playground For Evil]]: Ali Al-Saaches wants to help create a world of endless warfare, so that his slaughter will never end.

* [[Token Evil Teammate]]: Hallelujah Haptism and Fon Spaak.

* [[Tomboy and Girly Girl]]: Soma Peries/Marie Parfacy {{spoiler|can be seen as both in one body}}.

** More traditional examples are Shirin Bakhtiar/Marina Ismail, Feldt Grace/Christina Sierra or Feldt/Mileina Vashti, and Nena Trinity/Wang Liu Mei.

* [[Transforming Mecha]]: Every mobile suit derived from the Union Realdo, including the Flag and Enact, as well as Kyrios, Arios, and the GN Archer, have both standard robot mode and aeroplane mode. Though for quite a while only the Gundam models are capable of pulling off said transformation in mid-flight.

* [[The Troubles]]: The first sign that Celestial Being was having a palpable effect on the world was the ceasefire message sent out by the "Real IRA" group in Ireland. Considering when the show is set (2308), that’s a seriously persistent splinter group.

* [[Tyke Bomb]]: Several. Setsuna F. Seiei is a [[Child Soldier]]{{spoiler|; the Trinity siblings were test tube babies; Marie Parfacy (aka Soma Peries) and Allelujah Haptism both come from the Enhanced Soldier program; Louise Halevy after the [[Time Skip]]}}

* [[Ubermensch]]: Almost every major character, but especially Tieria Erde, Regene Regetta, and (maybe) {{spoiler|Fucking Ribbons}}.

* [[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]].

** Episodes 19 and Episode 20 of season two. Generally the whams happen in short bursts.

* [[What Do You Mean Its Not Symbolic]]: They had a lot of fun with the "Celestial Being" thing.

* [[White-Haired Pretty Girl]]: [[Super Soldier]] Soma Peries/Marie Parfacy.

* [[A Wizard Did It]]: There is an increasing trend among the fandom of explaining away apparent plot holes with "GN Particles Did It."