Al finds himself with the stranded mobile suit pilot, and unwittingly gives away information that will lead to an invasion of the colony. Nice one kid.
I mean, some of that IS they have Klingon promotions. If the guy above me dies, I get his job, no questions asked so long as I don't shoot him myself...literally in one case. I think that was 08th MS Team where one of the Zeon commanders handed his subordinate the gun to kill his own boss, then gunned the guy down and declared himself in charge.
@@HolyknightVader999 Which is more than a little concerning considering that the series has gone on so long that some of those fans became writers and animators.
@@HolyknightVader999 The biggest critique I've heard of Unicorn (aside from my personal distaste for the space magic spiraling and escalating so much) is how sympathetic it is to Zeon and how much it hates the Federation, twisting things to justify for Zeon.
Zeon high command makes the Empire from Star Wars look subtle. They only have the one habitable world, and they still chose to drop colonies onto it. At least the Warhammer 40K Imperium has a million habitable worlds that they can retreat to whenever they burn down a planet. The Empire from Star Wars also burns down or destroys planets, but they have somewhere between 12-70 million habitable worlds, while the Covenant from Halo and Starcraft's Protoss only glass foreign worlds, not their own. The Zeon, on the other hand, throughout several different shows, movies, and OVAs, do not hesitate in their attempts to make Earth uninhabitable, despite it being the only habitable planet for humanity in their time, and despite Zeon Deikun's preaching about how the Earth is sacred. Looks like they really need to practice what their namesake leader preached.
Bonus points for the Protoss, their process of glassing planets doesn't render them uninhabitable. Within a few years of them glassing Mar Sara, it has human settlements again. Meaning that even if they did it to one of the handful of planets they actually inhabit, they can always just come back in a few months. Zeon is risking turning Earth into a wasteland that can't sustain human like.
I haven't seen much mecha anime, but even I know that "kid stumbles into robot's cockpit at start of story" is a trope, so Al stumbling into one only to find everything's been deactivated is a pretty funny subversion.
The fact that it's in the series that is the former trope namer for 'Falling into the Cockpit' makes it even more of a betrayal...the trope used to be called Gundamjacking...yes really, it was named after an episode of the franchise in fact.
Depends on the personality you're giving the kid. Rom from Hyperdimension Neptunia is a concentrated ball of adorable and is fairly accurate to how a kid like her would behave.
I liked Sari Sumdac in Transformers: Animated, and she was a normal(ish) kid for most of that series...she's not by the end, but that's for spoiler reasons.
5:08 For anyone curious the Zeon cause is one of 3 things depending on your station within the Principality's structure. 1) The advancement of the human race into Newtypes, people with spatial awareness that borders on psychic powers...or just IS psychic powers depending on the series. 2) The advancement of the Zabi family and their interests, at the cost of...well you, your family, your home, and anything else they decide to take, up to and including the family dog. 3) Surviving the idiots in charge and making it to retirement(Mostly the mooks that have to tolerate the first and second guys).
Ah yes, MS...gods I still think MS Saga, a PS2 Era RPG which was a Gundam thing, but didn't look like it if you didn't look closer, was fun, interesting, and sold like crud thanks to that name.
Nah, as Chuck mentioned, 'mobile suits' is the generic term, though there are larger 'mobile armors.' Gundams are usually introduced as next-generation prototype mobile suits; the most obvious identifying characteristic is the head, which changes very little from model to model, or even series to series.
Nope. The giant robots are referred to as mobile suits, a name intended to throw off what it was during development in case of Federation spies (much like the English name for a tank is tank because the paperwork ordering their construction tried to make them look like water tanks so the Germans wouldn't know what they were building, and the Liberator pistol was designated FP-45, FP standing for Flare Projector, to fool spies into thinking it was a flare gun; in Gundam, pilot spacesuits are referred to as normal suits, and the giant robots are mobile suits, so the original intent was to disguise their order as some sort of extravehicular spacesuit... which they basically are, after scaling them up to the size of a building). The Gundam is a specific model of high performance prototype mobile suit made by the Federation, and was one of a series of such prototypes (RX-75 Guncannon, RX-77 Guncannon, and RX-78 Gundam) developed as a counter to Zeon's mobile suits. The Gundam had such high performance and Amuro, its pilot, became so skilled and talented, that it became legendary by the end of the One Year War. From then on, various high-performance prototype mobile suits, nearly but not always a one-off rather than mass production design, were referred to as Gundams and given a cosmetic appearance resembling the original, especially in the design of the head. As a quick and easy reference to figure out who a given mobile suit belongs to, the Federation uses visors on the heads of mass-production units (GM's, pronounced jim in universe) and twin eyes on elite mobile suits like the Gundam. Zeon uses the mono-eye, a single large eye in the head of the mobile suit that can move around independently of the head (Zaku II, Dom, Gelgoog, etc.), and very rarely a dual eye on elite units (Zeong). The Titans, who really only appear in Zeta gundam, use a mix of all three designs, visors, dual eyes, and mono eyes, because they're a Federation paramilitary unit (basically the equivalent of the Waffen SS) with access to both Federation and former Zeon mobile suit designers and engineers. Their mass-produced units (Hi-Zack, Galbaldy, Marasai, Barzam) tend to be based on Zeon tech, while their more elite units tend to be based on Federation tech (Gundam MkII, Gabthley, Gundam Hazel).
Well, there *is* one Gundam show where the term "Gundam" is used that way, but the rest of the timelines use it only to refer to the hero's robot. The rest go by other names, depending on continuity. I think the real reason they used the term "mobile suit" in the UC timeline is that it has that very technical sounding quality of real military hardware, which was the point. The Gundam isn't treated like a superhero made of metal, it's just technology. State of the art technology, but familiar technology to everyone in the universe regardless. I also suspect that it's meant to invoke the powered armor of Heinlein's Starship Troopers, although obviously a Mobile Suit dwarfs mere powered armored suits.
Giving zeon the villain names, appearances, and such is just a cheap trick they try to pull every time before the expanding context reveals they're completely justified- or at least that's what they're admirably trying to adapt from the source material.
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"You are never too old to stop loving giant robots beating the $#!T out of each other." AMEN!
Chuck spitting facts here.
Megas XLR's theme song has the right of it. Chicks Dig Giant Robots. And of course, as Hellsing Ultimate opins, Bitches Love Cannons.
Zeon's competency is inversely proportional to the proximity of high command to the operation. So, you know, military politics as usual.
Oh, boy, anyone who saw MSG and 08th MS Team would know that for sure.
The Sith Lords principal.
I mean, some of that IS they have Klingon promotions. If the guy above me dies, I get his job, no questions asked so long as I don't shoot him myself...literally in one case. I think that was 08th MS Team where one of the Zeon commanders handed his subordinate the gun to kill his own boss, then gunned the guy down and declared himself in charge.
Average Zeon soldier/ace: *Good Soldiers Follow Orders*
Zeon High Command: *NUKES AND COLONY DROPS FOR THE WIN!*
Zeon: Making bad choices since the first show. Choices so maniacally insane and malevolent there shouldn't be any doubt that they are the bad guys.
@@bthsr7113 Of course. But the Federation's corruption causes more than a few fans to try and justify what Zeon does.
@@HolyknightVader999 Which is more than a little concerning considering that the series has gone on so long that some of those fans became writers and animators.
@@bthsr7113 I've seen enough Gundam manga and anime that is very Zeon-adjacent or very sympathetic to their side.
@@HolyknightVader999 The biggest critique I've heard of Unicorn (aside from my personal distaste for the space magic spiraling and escalating so much) is how sympathetic it is to Zeon and how much it hates the Federation, twisting things to justify for Zeon.
Zeon high command makes the Empire from Star Wars look subtle. They only have the one habitable world, and they still chose to drop colonies onto it. At least the Warhammer 40K Imperium has a million habitable worlds that they can retreat to whenever they burn down a planet. The Empire from Star Wars also burns down or destroys planets, but they have somewhere between 12-70 million habitable worlds, while the Covenant from Halo and Starcraft's Protoss only glass foreign worlds, not their own. The Zeon, on the other hand, throughout several different shows, movies, and OVAs, do not hesitate in their attempts to make Earth uninhabitable, despite it being the only habitable planet for humanity in their time, and despite Zeon Deikun's preaching about how the Earth is sacred. Looks like they really need to practice what their namesake leader preached.
Yeah, about the only other lunatic (who I know of) who comes close in burning down worlds that can't afford to be lost is Marco Inaros.
@@bthsr7113 Ah, he's from the Expanse, right?
@@HolyknightVader999 Indeed. I won't say more since seeing how he plays out as a character is kind of important to the last 2 seasons.
Bonus points for the Protoss, their process of glassing planets doesn't render them uninhabitable. Within a few years of them glassing Mar Sara, it has human settlements again. Meaning that even if they did it to one of the handful of planets they actually inhabit, they can always just come back in a few months. Zeon is risking turning Earth into a wasteland that can't sustain human like.
I think part of their deranged bit was that if everyone was in Space, they'd have more control over humanity.
I haven't seen much mecha anime, but even I know that "kid stumbles into robot's cockpit at start of story" is a trope, so Al stumbling into one only to find everything's been deactivated is a pretty funny subversion.
The fact that it's in the series that is the former trope namer for 'Falling into the Cockpit' makes it even more of a betrayal...the trope used to be called Gundamjacking...yes really, it was named after an episode of the franchise in fact.
The problem with writing kids accurately. It makes them less likable.
No wonder Garcia just wanted to slice Al's throat open.
Depends on the personality you're giving the kid. Rom from Hyperdimension Neptunia is a concentrated ball of adorable and is fairly accurate to how a kid like her would behave.
I liked Sari Sumdac in Transformers: Animated, and she was a normal(ish) kid for most of that series...she's not by the end, but that's for spoiler reasons.
5:08
For anyone curious the Zeon cause is one of 3 things depending on your station within the Principality's structure.
1) The advancement of the human race into Newtypes, people with spatial awareness that borders on psychic powers...or just IS psychic powers depending on the series.
2) The advancement of the Zabi family and their interests, at the cost of...well you, your family, your home, and anything else they decide to take, up to and including the family dog.
3) Surviving the idiots in charge and making it to retirement(Mostly the mooks that have to tolerate the first and second guys).
Thanks for not just calling every Mobile Suit a Gundam. My liver wouldn't survive.
Ah yes, MS...gods I still think MS Saga, a PS2 Era RPG which was a Gundam thing, but didn't look like it if you didn't look closer, was fun, interesting, and sold like crud thanks to that name.
Is Gundam not the term for all the giant robots in this show?
Huh, things I did not know
Nah, as Chuck mentioned, 'mobile suits' is the generic term, though there are larger 'mobile armors.' Gundams are usually introduced as next-generation prototype mobile suits; the most obvious identifying characteristic is the head, which changes very little from model to model, or even series to series.
Nope. The giant robots are referred to as mobile suits, a name intended to throw off what it was during development in case of Federation spies (much like the English name for a tank is tank because the paperwork ordering their construction tried to make them look like water tanks so the Germans wouldn't know what they were building, and the Liberator pistol was designated FP-45, FP standing for Flare Projector, to fool spies into thinking it was a flare gun; in Gundam, pilot spacesuits are referred to as normal suits, and the giant robots are mobile suits, so the original intent was to disguise their order as some sort of extravehicular spacesuit... which they basically are, after scaling them up to the size of a building). The Gundam is a specific model of high performance prototype mobile suit made by the Federation, and was one of a series of such prototypes (RX-75 Guncannon, RX-77 Guncannon, and RX-78 Gundam) developed as a counter to Zeon's mobile suits. The Gundam had such high performance and Amuro, its pilot, became so skilled and talented, that it became legendary by the end of the One Year War. From then on, various high-performance prototype mobile suits, nearly but not always a one-off rather than mass production design, were referred to as Gundams and given a cosmetic appearance resembling the original, especially in the design of the head.
As a quick and easy reference to figure out who a given mobile suit belongs to, the Federation uses visors on the heads of mass-production units (GM's, pronounced jim in universe) and twin eyes on elite mobile suits like the Gundam. Zeon uses the mono-eye, a single large eye in the head of the mobile suit that can move around independently of the head (Zaku II, Dom, Gelgoog, etc.), and very rarely a dual eye on elite units (Zeong). The Titans, who really only appear in Zeta gundam, use a mix of all three designs, visors, dual eyes, and mono eyes, because they're a Federation paramilitary unit (basically the equivalent of the Waffen SS) with access to both Federation and former Zeon mobile suit designers and engineers. Their mass-produced units (Hi-Zack, Galbaldy, Marasai, Barzam) tend to be based on Zeon tech, while their more elite units tend to be based on Federation tech (Gundam MkII, Gabthley, Gundam Hazel).
Well, there *is* one Gundam show where the term "Gundam" is used that way, but the rest of the timelines use it only to refer to the hero's robot. The rest go by other names, depending on continuity. I think the real reason they used the term "mobile suit" in the UC timeline is that it has that very technical sounding quality of real military hardware, which was the point. The Gundam isn't treated like a superhero made of metal, it's just technology. State of the art technology, but familiar technology to everyone in the universe regardless. I also suspect that it's meant to invoke the powered armor of Heinlein's Starship Troopers, although obviously a Mobile Suit dwarfs mere powered armored suits.
Giving zeon the villain names, appearances, and such is just a cheap trick they try to pull every time before the expanding context reveals they're completely justified- or at least that's what they're admirably trying to adapt from the source material.
zeon was completely justified?
Algorithm comment.
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@@idontwantachannelfuckyougo5164 Commenting and liking vids, especially in the firt hours or so of it uploading helps for it to not get buried on people's feeds.
Though I believe the beep boop actually punishes comments if you say the A word.
@@bthsr7113 Damn, that must be brutal for IT tutorials xD