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[[File:turnagundam.jpg|frame|<small>[[Expository Theme Tune|Turn A Turn!]] [[Department of Redundancy Department|Turn A Turn! Turn AAAAAA]]!</small> ]]
{{quote|''[[Finishing Move|The white wings of moon butterflies]]
''[[Apocalypse How|Flicker down the streets of the city]],
''[[Electro Magnetic Pulse|Blushing into silence the useless wicks of sound-lanterns in the hands of girls]].''
|'''[[H.P. Lovecraft]]''', ''Poetry Of The Gods''}}
In the Correct Century, the people of Earth are living in a world roughly at the turn of the 19th century. What they do not know, however, is that they are not the first incarnation of mankind. Far in the past, there were humans living on the moon who, after a great catastrophe, were forced to go into cryo-stasis and await the time when it is safe to return to the Earth. In the meantime, they occasionally send scouts to the Earth to see if it has returned to a state where people can live on its surface once more. Among these scouts is a young boy named Loran Cehack.
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At the start of the series, the people of the moon (descriptively dubbed "The Moonrace") decide that they and their superior technology wish to return to the open air and full gravity of Earth. This understandably leads to some confrontation with the people already there. Loran, who had been living on Earth a few years ahead of time, has grown attached to the people there and after [[Falling Into the Cockpit]] of a mobile suit that has been buried in the earth for millennia, proceeds to defend the aristocratic families of of the Kingdom of Bostonia as tensions build between Earth and the Moonrace, and the threat of war spirals ever higher.
After years of [[No Export for You]], Right Stuff Inc. ''finally'' released the series in America on June 2015.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20160130171521/http://www.rightstufanime.com/Turn-A-Gundam-Part-1-DVD-S Right Stuff product page]</ref><ref>[[wikipedia:Turn A Gundam#North American release|Wikipedia article, "North American release" section]]</ref>
▲... Except not. On January 2, 2012, Bandai Entertainment then [http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2012-01-02/bandai-entertainment-to-stop-releasing-new-dvds-bds-manga announced] that the release was canceled along with all their other new releases for the North American market, while the company undergoes a re-structuring process.
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''(Three tropes from this page were listed at random by Bandai Entertainment for their licensing announcement in 2010 - the listed tropes have been '''bolded''' for your convenience.)''
* [[Action Girl]]: Sochie Heim, Poe Aijee.
* [[After the End]]: If you believe the backstory, there's actually been quite a few.
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** Many of the background characters are like this too, probably as a result of all the intermarriage that happens in ten thousand years.
* [[And I Must Scream]]: A [[Fridge Horror]] version of {{spoiler|Gym's ultimate fate}}. According to supplementary materials, {{spoiler|the Turn A, and presumably the Turn X, are capable of regenerating themselves and their pilot inevitably}}. Given that {{spoiler|the Moonlight Butterfly is just an extension of the Turn units' nanomachines}}, there is every reason to believe that {{spoiler|Gym will be trapped in the Moonlight Butterfly's cocoon, fully conscious, for all time}}.
* [[And Man Grew Proud]] / [[Future Imperfect]]: On Earth, much of what's known about the Black History (or the pre-CC past in general) come from old legends and whatever could be scrounged from archaeological finds {{spoiler|until the real truth is revealed. Though given what the Moonlight Butterfly apocalypse did, it's very much justified.}}
* [[Anyone Can Die]]: It may not be a [[Kill'Em All]] series, but come on, who expected {{spoiler|Gavan Gooney to go out in a nuclear bang midseries?}}
* [[Armchair Military]]: A good chunk of the Moonrace's military forces (particularly Gym's faction) don't actually have any actual combat experience outside of simulations. As a result, they have no idea how [[War Is Hell|war is really like]], let alone how to wage a ''real'' one.
* [[Artistic License Geography]]: [http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20101222063227/gundam/images/a/af/AmeriaMap.png This map] places many of the important landmarks much farther apart from each other than they seem in the show. For example, Vicinity and the Mountain Cycle are close enough for young people to travel there on foot in one night, but on the map they're in central Jersey and West Virginia.
* [[Ascended Fanboy]]: Gym, of all people. He finally gets to wage a war and give meaning to his life as a soldier. {{spoiler|After playing wargames for 2000 years.}}
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** Loran's coloring is probably [[Rule of Symbolism|symbolic]]. He's a member of the Moonrace who has lived on Earth for years, feels a sense of loyalty to both sides, and so spends the series trying above all else to help them live in peace. [[Fridge Brilliance|And he has silver/white hair, and brown (earth-tone) skin.]]
* [[David Versus Goliath]]: The Earthrace militias are at a severe technological disadvantage even after excavating mobile dolls from the Mountain Cycles, apart from the Turn A. {{spoiler|And it turns out to be an inversion whenever the Turn A fights anything.}}
* [[Days of Future Past]]: Why does the post-apocalyptic future look like a cross between [[The American Civil War]] & [[World War
** Justified: {{spoiler|the Moonlight Butterfly deployed at the end of the Black History dissolved (most of) the technology on the Earth to dust. Naturally, it takes a while for humanity to get back on its high-tech feet.}}
** Apart from the Industrial Neo-Americans, there are Neo-Mayans in Adeska (who worship a {{spoiler|mass driver}}). It's not hard to imagine post-apocalyptic humanity reverting to old cultures.
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* [[Easily Forgiven]]: The Dianna Counter force on Earth is never held to account for its mutiny.
* [[Easy Logistics]]: It isn't elaborated on how the Earth Militia manages to keep their Kapools and Borjanons in working order, {{spoiler|despite how maintenance-intensive Capules and Zakus have proven to be in Universal Century}}. The Turn A {{spoiler|and the Turn X}} handwave this via the use of {{spoiler|nanomachines}}.
* [[Empire with a Dark Secret]]
** The Moonrace, while not exactly villainous themselves nonetheless have one {{spoiler|in hiding the real truth and entirety of the Black History, even from themselves in an attempt to maintain the peaceful status quo and keep mankind's warrior tendencies in check}}.
** Though not to the same degree as the Moonrace, the Earth countries aren't entirely without fault {{spoiler|given that their leaders had been in secret albeit futile communications with the Moonrace, while the rest of the public is utterly oblivious to the fact that the impending invasion is coming from the Moon}}.
* [[Enemy Mine]]: Loran and Harry team up {{spoiler|when Dianna Counter's forces attack the Willgame excavation site, where Dianna is posing as Kihel, and again when they outright mutiny against Dianna}}.
* [[Everybody Lives]]: Well, ''almost'' everybody. But since this is ''Tomino'' we're talking about...
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** Harry Ord is a subversion. While obviously [[Char Clone|A CHAR]], he's different enough that he's his own character and only shares some basic elements from Char.
*** Harry Ord is definitely more a [[Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam|QUATTRO]] than a CHAR. Obvious jokes aside, he wears shades rather than a mask, and pilots a gold Mobile Suit. Whereas other CHAR characters opted to imitate MSG Char and CCA Char, Harry is one of the few that really takes Zeta Char and runs with it.
* [[Fish Out of Water]]: Subverted with Loran and company when they first arrive on Earth. While they do find everything strange initially, the mere fact that they're provided with appropriate-looking outfits to make themselves fit in better suggests that the Moonrace already has at least some knowledge on what's happening on the ground. After all, they weren't the first ones to make planetfall, what with the Red Team {{spoiler|and the first Will Game}} coming long before them.
* [[Flash Step]]: {{spoiler|One of Turn A's abilities. It's actually more like a [[Invisibility Cloak|cloak step]]--the Gundam briefly becomes invisible, so wherever it appears next is a surprise.}}
* [[Gender Is No Object]]: Certainly true for the Moonrace. Dianna is the clear political leader, and there are many female pilots and technicians in the military. This is less true of the
* [[Genetic Memory]]: At one point, Kihel muses that the people on Earth might have residual, instinctual memories of the Black History, which may be why technology hasn't ''quite'' caught up. Almost as if there's some kind of mental failsafe to prevent it from happening again. {{spoiler|This also may explain however why [[History Repeats]] so similarly.}}
* [[Ghibli Hills]]: No wonder the Moonrace want Earth so badly. Of course, it's been millennia since the {{spoiler|Moonlight Butterfly apocalypse.}}
** It's implied that Ameria is one of the few places where this is true.
* [[Going Native]]: Loran and quite a number of Moonrace folk undergo this as they adjust to life on Earth. The Red Team had also long undergone this as well, albeit becoming more "tribal" compared to the civilized Earthrace nations.
* [[Gorgeous Period Dress]]: Girls wear these in special occasions.
** {{spoiler|As does Loran/Laura, to great effect.}}
* [[Gory Discretion Shot]]: {{spoiler|Will Game.}} "I don't think those are anything but hands anymore, Sochie..."
* '''[[Go Out with a Smile]]''': {{spoiler|Cancer and Muron spend their last five days having one big party before dying of asphyxiation in orbit. Given the atmosphere within the FLAT, it gives significant potential for [[Fridge Horror]].}}
* [[Government Conspiracy]]:
** It's revealed that both the Earthrace nations' high officials and the Moonrace were in secret on-off negotiations for at least some years prior to the invasion. {{spoiler|It was when diplomatic attempts fall apart that Dianna Counter forces finally make their move on a populace totally unaware of the Moonrace's existence.}}
** The real truth about the Black History {{spoiler|was kept hidden by the Moonrace even from themselves, ostensibly as a gesture to never repeat the mistakes of the past.}}
* [[Gray Goo]]: {{spoiler|The Moonlight Butterfly, perfectly capable of spreading its nanomachines a great length (in supplemental materials, all the way from Earth to ''Jupiter''), destroy all technology... and thus cause a [[Apocalypse How|Class 1 apocalypse, Societal Collapse included]].}}
* [[Guile Hero]]: The mobile suits used by the Earthrace militia tend to be dated compared to the Moonrace, so they do things like get the Moonrace soldiers drunk or lay black-powder boobie traps first.
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** ''Extreme Vs'' includes the Turns, Harry's golden SUMO, and ''Full Boost'' will add Corin's Kapool.
* [[Hazy Feel Turn]]: Unusually, this comes about because the setting is so ''idealistic''. Hores and his Moonrace technicians have no qualms about helping the Earthrace excavate and restore the Gallop and ''Willgame''; they're more interested in their work than the conflict.
* [[Hidden Elf Village]]: The Moonrace, after a fashion. Given that most are descended from the remaining Spacenoids {{spoiler|whose technological civilization was spared from the same Moonlight Butterfly apocalypse that devastated the Earth}}.
* [[History Repeats]]: Retroactively applied to the Gundam series as a whole, with {{spoiler|everything being mushed into one big timeline that ''keeps bombing everything back to early post-industrial revolution''}}. The nth earth/Terrans-who-emigrated-generations-ago war is waged this time {{spoiler|''almost entirely with weapons left over from previous conflicts''}}.
* [[Heel Realization]]: Over the course of the series, Queen Dianna discovers that her policies and army have actually caused quite a bit of suffering.
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* [[Human Popsicle]]: Cryostasis is how the Moonrace are able to live for several hundred years. Some have even been in stasis from the Black History, such as Corin Nander {{spoiler|being a veteran from the [[Mobile Suit Gundam Wing|After Colony]] era}}.
* '''[[Humans Are Warriors]]''': This is the basis of Gym's beliefs.
* [[Humongous Mecha]]: Turn A Gundam sports some of the [[Gundam|franchise's]] biggest. In particular, the WaDOM is fully twice the size of any other <s>mobile suit</s> mechanical doll, comparable to mobile armors.
** It also has the smallest mecha in the entire Gundam Franchise, at least among Mobile Suits. The WaD only stands tall enough to reach Turn A's knee. That means the WaD are the same size as an average [[Code Geass|Knightmare Frame]]. They're also just as durable.
* [[Identical Stranger]]: Kihel and Dianna. {{spoiler|It becomes a major plot point later on.}}
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* [[Lucky Charms Title]]: ∀ Gundam.
** Actually subverted - the inverted A symbol was put in the title for a specific reason (see Meaningful Name below.)
* [[Lyrical Dissonance]]: ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8xoI6BWJYA&feature=relmfu After All],'' sung by Donna Burke sounds like something out of a Don Bluth or Disney film. The lyrics on the other hand come across as melancholic and a tad apocalyptic for an otherwise wistful song.
* [[Mayincatec]]: Adeska.
* [[Meaningful Name]]: Merrybell [[Wrench Wench|Gadget]] and Dian(n)a.
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** This becomes especially mundane when you realize that the Turn A {{spoiler|was designed to fight against an entire planet's military armed forces. And be expected to win.}}
* [[The Mutiny]]: Major Phil leads one against Dianna halfway through the series, feeling that she is too weak a leader to properly deal with the resistance on Earth. {{spoiler|The fact that Kihel was interfering with more aggressive policy while posing as Dianna contributed to this.}}
* [[Mythology Gag]]: Probably one of the things this series is most famous for. Hovering between Continuity Nod and Mythology Gag, the entire Black History is {{spoiler|1=everything from Universal Century to After War, and [[Word of God]] includes all other Gundam [[Alternate Universe
** Both openings make use of this. Freeze-framing the first opening, for instance, reveals the [[Mobile Suit Gundam|RX-78-2]], the [[Chars Counterattack|RX-93 Nu Gundam]], the [[Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam|Gundam Mk. II]], the [[Mobile Suit Gundam 0080: War in the Pocket|NT-1 Alex]], [[Mobile Suit Gundam Wing|Gundam Deathscythe]], [[After War Gundam X|Double X]]...
** In episode 17, a Moonrace panics and mistakes lightning for a Militia weapon, similar to a Zeon soldier's reaction in the original [[Mobile Suit Gundam]].
** [[Fat Bastard]] Sweatson Stero attributes Loran's ability to beat him to his superior mobile suit, just like Ramba Ral, but after Loran has already [[Epic Fail|handed him his ass thrice]].
** The Kapool combines several [[Mythology Gag
** Episode 43 takes this to its logical conclusion, where, as the Black History is revealed, {{spoiler|clips from all previous Gundam series are shown; in the famous scene where [[Mobile Suit Gundam|Amuro in the RX-78-2 spears a Zaku II through the cockpit with his beam saber]], Miashei notes that it's the Turn A and a Borjanon, but Sochie notes that the RX-78-2 looks much older. Indeed, the last five minutes of this episode is a pure [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]] for all Gundam fans.}}
* [[Nanomachines]]: {{spoiler|The Turn A and Turn X}} use these both for repairing themselves, and as an attack.
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** [[Word of God]] {{spoiler|added everything after ''[[After War Gundam X|Gundam X]]'' such as SEED.}}
* [[Rock Beats Laser]]: [[Averted Trope|Averted]]. Biplanes and foot soldiers don't do much against Dianna Counter; it's not until the Inglessa milita finds its own mobile suits that they start putting up a decent fight.
* [[Royals Who Actually Do Something]]: Dianna's position is anything but
** Lily Borjarno is also a skilled politician who knows how to work an angle and frequently does so.
*** Heck, if we're counting the rich and well-off, Sochie counts, too, as she was a member of the Inglessa Militia ''before'' the conflict started.
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** There is a [[Recap Episode]] (the only one, episode 16) that has Loran (accompanied in voiceover by two cheery kids) ''explicitly'' state that the viewers may recognize the Borjanon as a {{spoiler|Zaku II}}.
** Most of the human characters have this problem. Seriously... Loran/Rolan, Lineford/Rhineford, Corin/Colin, etc. Meshy/Meshie/Miashi probably gets the worst of it, and let's not even get started on her ''last'' name...
* [[Stock Footage]]: Completely and utterly absent. This is surprising for a Gundam series.
* [[
* [[Superpower Lottery]]: {{spoiler|The Turn-A Gundam is, based on [[All There in the Manual|additional details]], the most powerful Gundam ever and among the most powerful [[Humongous Mecha]] full stop ''including'' [[Super Robot
** {{spoiler|And keep in mind, even discounting the novelization details, the Turn A still has its I-field, teleportation, warping, and regenerating abilities, which are explicitly shown in the series, on top of a Moonlight Butterfly that destroyed Earth civilization completely.}}
** This is a common joke on most mecha/Gundam forums. The {{spoiler|Turn-A}} at its theoretical full power has more potent abilities than even the infamous [[Zeorymer]]. Only the most Super of [[Super Robot
*** It could also be argued that since {{spoiler|Correct Century is the end of all Gundam, and the Moonlight Butterfly destroyed all civilization on Earth}}, the {{spoiler|Turn A}} doesn't ''need'' to beat all the other Gundams; it already ''has''.
* [[Super Prototype]]: Parodied. Gavan chose his personal Borjanon because it looked different from the other Borjanons that his men excavated. That would be because it's a {{spoiler|Zaku ''I''}}, while the other Borjanons are {{spoiler|Zaku ''II'' production models}}.
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* [[Sword Fight]]: Loran has one with Gym {{spoiler|after they abandon their suits in the final episode}}. It only lasts for a few clashes before {{spoiler|Gym is pulled in by the Moonlight Butterfly and trapped in a cocoon along with the Turn A and Turn X}}.
* [[This Looks Like a Job For Aquaman]]: It's a damn good thing that Sochie's Kapool was ''meant'' for underwater travel, otherwise {{spoiler|Loran and Turn A would've had no means of joining up with the others across the sea}}.
* [[Title Scream]]: Done with a voice that one would ''swear'' sounds British or Australian.
* [[Tomboy and Girly Girl]]: The Heim sisters: Sochie is a [[Tsundere
* [[Tsundere]]: Sochie, Kihel's younger sister.
* {{spoiler|[[Twin Switch]]: Dianna and Kihel, despite being not really twins. It actually serves as a major plot point of the series.}}
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* [[Unfortunate Names]]: Miashei, a mulatto ([[Ambiguously Brown|or something like that]]) has a surname that most subbers wisely romanize as Kune or Kyunn...
* [[The Vamp]]: Teteth Halleh.
* [[War Is Hell]]: Although it's less pronounced than in other ''[[Gundam]]'' shows, the [[After the End]] setting and Dark History showcase this quite well.
** The scenes that take place in the military hospital, with heaps of bloodied bandages and a soldier desperately begging the doctor not to amputate his leg, are also an effective illustration.
* [[Weak but Skilled]]: The only explanation as to how the Militia forces, using millenia-old machines, are able to put up more than token resistance against the moonrace. It helps that [[Kinetic Weapons Are Just Better|all those I-Fields do jack squat in deflecting bullets and bazookas]], the Militia forces probably have more experience with actual military actions, and they are familiar with Earth's terrain.
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* [[Wholesome Crossdresser]]: {{spoiler|Loran Cehack, aka "Laura Rolla"}}.
* [[Why Am I Ticking?]]: Prior to safely disposing of the nukes, Loran has to worry about the fact they are stored in the chest region of Turn A and they could go off if he's hit there.
* [[Women Are Wiser]]: The Moonrace seem to believe so. Especially given how the Moon is said to always have been led by a queen.
* [[Wrench Wench]]: Miashei Kun, Merrybell.
* [[Writer Revolt]]: See Wholesome Crossdresser above.
** Maybe even the whole series as a whole, considering on how different it is to mainstream shows, including other shows in the same genre or even franchise.
* [[X Meets Y]]: It's basically ''Gundam'' blended in with ''[[Gone with the Wind]]'' and ''[[The War of the Worlds (novel)|The War of the Worlds]]'' along with a dash of ''[[H.P. Lovecraft]]'' {{spoiler|and ''[[Space Runaway Ideon]]'' thanks to the civilization-destroying Moonlight Butterfly.}}
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