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More or less a text-based [[The Abridged Series|abridging]] of [[Gundam Seed Destiny]], made by MikePriest83 on Deviantart. It tells, over the course of a number of chapters and [[Recap Episode|Recap Episodes]], most of the [[Love It or Hate It|ridiculous events of the series]] while aiming to go [[Up to Eleven]]. The story condenses much of the series that is generally not good enough to be milked for humor, mainly because it was still good at that point. The series is rife with [[Alternate Character Interpretation]] and at the same time gleeful [[Canon Defilement]], if only for the sake of it being funnier that way.

 

 

Yes, the movie hasn't been made yet. Doesn't matter.

 

 

* [[Action Girl]]: {{spoiler|Lunamaria after she annihilates Lockon in a fight and gets the Destiny Impulse.}}

* [[Affably Evil]]: Durandal goes into overdrive with this, even putting off orders to have guards kill Athrun simply so he could invite him to a banquet in his honor. Plus any time he gives someone a puppy.

* {{spoiler|[[All Just a Dream]]: [[The Movie]]. [[Or Was It a Dream?]]}}

* [[Battle Couple]]: Shinn and Luna. Luna even has a dog-whistle to blow when she's in trouble. Somehow Shinn can hear it.

* [[Big Bad]]: Reflecting the flame wars surrounding the series, Lacus starts showing more and more traits as the series goes on, reaching its apex in [[The Movie]]. {{spoiler|Turns out the worst of her villainy was due to Rau's ghost possessing her though.}}

* [[Can't Catch Up]]: Subverted oh so hard. {{spoiler|In Episode 7 Luna makes up for fifty episodes of lost time by catching up and then blowing past Kira, Athrun and Shinn.}}

* [[Clingy Jealous Girl]]: Lacus tries ''so damn hard'' to have Kira reciprocate her feelings. She succeeds ''once''. {{spoiler|And then Flay came back to life and Kira runs back to her arms again.}}

* [[Chronic Backstabbing Disorder]]: They're not called "Athrun Zala-patented side-switches" for nothing.

* [[Cool Old Guy]]: Subverted with Andy. The few times he's around in the series, he's pretty much the most level-headed guy there is. Except nobody pays attention to him. {{spoiler|In the movie, he works for Lacus.}}

* [[Easy Amnesia]]: Cagalli forgets all her character development when she bangs her head early on.

* [[Faux Action Girl]]: Played straight with Luna, just to a ridiculous degree. {{spoiler|Then Lockon stands perfectly still and lets Luna shoot him once and everything changes.}}

* [[Get a Hold of Yourself, Man!]]: Bright goes ''ballistic'' on Saji for pretty much no reason. Wong goes even further

* [[Ho Yay]]: Oh Graham...

* [[He Who Must Not Be Heard]]: In the movie, Rusty ''literally'' cannot speak; whenever he does, he inexplicably dies.

* [[Killed Off for Real]]: In the movie, {{spoiler|Yzak, Dearka, Cagalli, Athrun, Lacus, and possibly Kira and Meyrin.}}

* [[Lensman Arms Race]]: Inverted. [[The Movie]] takes place in CE 80, but some characters actually remark that the new machines are really just dolled-up versions of the old ones.

* [[Merchandise-Driven]]: To the point that {{spoiler|the movie}} was possibly just an advertisement for Amur-Os.

* [[Mid-Season Upgrade]]: Due to the source material, this happens a ''lot''. Then subverted in the movie since most of the new machines are just recolors made shinier.

* [[Older Than They Look]]: Mu ages ''horribly'' for the movie, needing to walk around with a cane and having a very bad back. Everyone else, on the other hand, hasn't aged a day.

* [[Paper-Thin Disguise]]: Literally. Athrun wears a paper bag at first when visiting Armory-One with Cagalli.

* [[Power Perversion Potential]]: {{spoiler|Rau spends the first few hours of possessing Lacus having fun in the bathtub.}}

* [[Plot Armor]]: Like everything else this series lampoons, this goes into overdrive. Beam shots rebound off the Akatsuki back to where they came from, for instance. It's called "Main Character-itis", however.

** [[Fridge Brilliance|Which is somethong Clotho would say]] considering he loves videogames.

* {{spoiler|[[Reset Button]]: Lacus may or may not have pushed it at the end of [[The Movie]].}}

* [[Screw This, I'm Outta Here]]: After getting the Akatsuki, Cagalli decides to stop taking an active role in the series since it only leads to acting like an idiot.

** Sting does this even earlier. Realizing that he has no purpose in the show he self-destructs Chaos in the first chapter. He's just as confused by his reappearance in a Destroy later on as viewers were in the original series.

* [[Straight Man]]: Aside from her crappy piloting skills, there's little to make fun of when it comes to Luna, so she ends up filling this role most of the time. [[Yaoi Fangirl|She initially thought that Rey and Shinn was a more likely pairing than her and Shinn, though.]] Shiho and Andy are other examples.

* [[Stupid Evil]]: Just like his [[Anti-Villain]] counterpart, Lord Djibril's lack of intelligence is taken as far as it can go.

* [[The Chew Toy]]: Luna has rotten luck early on. {{spoiler|The Destiny Impulse fixes ''that'' problem quite nicely}}.

* [[The Mole]]: {{spoiler|Meyrin in the movie.}}

* [[The Unintelligible]]: Rau devolves further and further into this in the flashback to [[Gundam Seed]], to the point even the translators have no idea what he's saying.

* [[The Voiceless]]: Lacus eventually realizes that any clone of Rusty is doomed to die the instant he tries to say anything. By keeping the last clone deadly silent, he survives for quite a while. Shiho also rarely says anything, but in contrast Yzak is constantly yelling at her for never shutting up.

 

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