Bandai Hobby MG Gundam Exia Gundam 00" (BAN159452)

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Crippling Overspecialization: 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. Happens again in the second season with the GN-XIII, which despite being supposedly more advanced than the original GN-X is regulated to nothing but cannon fodder. Fun with Acronyms: The Extraterrestrial Livingmetal Shapeshifters, pronounced like "Else", as in "Other". Not a bad description for a race of incomprehensible, semi-robotic aliens. Contrived Coincidence: A lot of them, mostly when bridging the gap between the two seasons. It's not particularly jarring though, because it allows for interesting character interaction most of the time.

Theme Naming: Save the 0 and 00, the Gundams are all named after various types of angels and tarot cards. Single-Stroke Battle: Setsuna F. Seiei with Graham Aker and Ribbons Almark in finales of season one and two repectively. One Degree of Separation: In the first season, Saji Crossroad is Setsuna's neighbor and Louise Halevy is his girlfriend. Guess who becomes his co-pilot and one of his more dogged opponents respectively in season two? This Looks Like a Job for Aquaman: In episode 23 of season two the A-laws suddenly decide to use all those anti-beam grenades they had, only for Katharon to show up and suddenly become useful for the first time ever due to the fact they were using outdated mobile suits with non-beam weaponry. Real Robot: Goes without saying. Though some would argue, not without some justification, that the Gundams themselves deliberately blur the line between Real and Super, while the Twin Drive units are full-blown Super Robots.Propaganda Machine: Thanks to censorship, propaganda and doctored recordings, very few people know about the atrocities committed by the A-LAWS apart from those who witness them firsthand. While the completion of the GN Drive was an important step in the establishment of GN Drive-equipped mobile weapons, it also required the development of ancillary technologies and materials like E-Carbon that is capable of withstanding the machines' high output. [3] No matter how revolutionary a specific part is, it would not be able to demonstrate its full capabilities until surrounding technologies have also developed enough. [7] As such the completion of the 0 Gundam was a triumph as it established the basic concepts and systems for later Gundams. [2] [5] [8] This included the use of the GN Drive as the main engine unit, use of the GN Drive's high output to drive beam weapons, presence of clavicle antennae on the torso for controlling GN Particles, and head-mounted v-fin antenna as well as twin eye camera. [5] [8] [9] [10] Anime Accent Absence: There are characters both important and insignificant from all over the world - Japan, the middle east, America, Ireland, Russia, just to name a few. All of them have Japanese/American accents in both versions, although it's understandable given the sheer amount of different nationalities involved. Scary Shiny Glasses: Aeolia Schenberg has a Scary Shiny Monocle. Played straight by Regene Regetta.

A handheld defensive armament, it is made of E-Carbon and can generate a GN Field on its surface to increase its effectiveness. [4] [5] [9] [10] Its GN Field device is larger and heavier than ones in current GN Shields, and as such, there are instances of the shield being discarded when the focus is on speed. [4] [5] [14] Special Equipment & Features [ ] A custom version of 00 Raiser painted in the ELS color scheme appears in Gundam Breaker as one of the bosses in the MG half of the game. Though it emits the same green GN particles as the original, its Trans-Am causes it to uniquely glow purple. The second season ends with the message "The Childhood of Humankind Ends", which is a reference to Childhood's End, a novel in which a benevolent alien race comes to Earth and guides humanity into a singularity of consciousness, providing some vague foreshadowing of the events of the movie for those who get the reference. The movie gives him Zabanya, a Sniper-type Gundam with 76 missiles and 10 Rifle and Holster Bits (with an optional 4 more of each). The Missiles are pretty obvious and the Rifle Bits can shoot pretty far and cause massive destruction. The Holster Bits, however, don't have nearly as much firepower. They do, however, have enough to provide heavy-duty short-range Beamspam. Oh, and it has a sniper-rifle, but somehow, that's less dangerous than the rest of the arsenal. Somehow, the creators found it necessary for a sniper-type to be capable of putting Seravee to shame! Living with the Villain: The Union's Billy Katagiri with Celestial Being's Sumeragi Lee Noriega. Also, Saji Crossroad feels this way after ending up on the Ptolemaios.Storming the Castle: Celestial Being's assault on Ribbons Almark's asteroid base, the Celestial Being. Field of Blades: In the third ED Setsuna F. Seiei is pictured walking through a field of guns, which are covered in roses and standing barrels-down. The Advanced European Union (or "AEU,") composed of essentially the modern European Union, and possibly some, if not all, of Africa. Emotionless Girl: Feldt Grace is the emotionally repressed sort, though she gradually opens up over the course of the first season.