The Typical Gundam SEED Destiny: Difference between revisions

* [[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.

* [[Back From the Dead]]: Besides the canon instances, {{spoiler|Flay for one scene and Rau possesses Lacus in the movie}}

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

* [[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.}}

* [[Flash Back]]: Even at the start, people were flashing back and remembering events they weren't even present for. Shinn even anguishes at one point that all his flashbacks are about ''Kira's'' past rather than his own.

* [[Easily Forgiven]]: The angriest that Durandal gets when Athrun, Kira, and Talia accidentally shoot him is just wanting it to stop happening because it's not funny.

* [[Even Evil Has Standards]]: {{spoiler|Kira realizes something's up with Lacus when he finally meets her in the movie and realizes she's acting too evil for even her own standards}}

* [[Expy]]: An elaborate question is raised at several points about who the "Char" of the series is. Athrun, Rey, Rau, and Mu are all potential candidates. Turns out they're all wrong. [[Actor Allusion|Durandal confesses on his deathbed that he was the Char.]]

* [[Gag Boobs]]: Meer's are awesome enough that Mu will abandon all concept of safety if it means getting to them quicker.

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

{{quote| ''Ha-HA! Suffer my tender embrace, Gundam!''.}}

* [[Marshmallow Hell]]: Kira becomes insanely jealous when Meer holds the Pink Haro to her breasts. {{spoiler|and then it explodes and kills her.}}

* [[Meaningless Meaningful Words]]: Kira spouts total bullshit in his fight against Rey. ''And it works''. In the movie his speeches actually have some meat to them, however.

* [[New Powers As the Plot Demands]]: Durandal and Lacus both do ridiculous things and chalk them up to Coordinator super-powers, which Athur regrets not having.

* [[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.

* [[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]].}}

** 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.

* [[Send in The Clones]]: In [[The Movie]], we get a clone of Heine, Miguel, Nicol, ''five'' clones of Rusty, and about a gazillion clones of Rey.

* [[Shout Out]]: Quite a few, ranging from pretty much every Gundam series out there to [[Star Wars]] to [[Virtual On]].

* [[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.

* [[Take That]]: A ridiculous number of them leveled at Fukuda, the writers, and animators of [[Gundam Seed Destiny]]. How much of it is in jest and how much is a genuine critique is open to debate.

* [[They Just Didn't Care]]: In-universe, Shinn gives up on bettering himself since the fans wouldn't care anyways.

* [[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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