History Anime / MobileSuitGundamWing

** Maybe subverted... if you really intended to kill someone, why would you ''warn'' them?

*** If anything, Heero's death threats seem to be an attempt to convince ''himself'' that killing people he's come to care about (see: Relena, Duo, Quatre) is [[ItsTheOnlyWay the only option]]; the fact that it always fails shows that he's [[HitmanWithAHeart got a heart]].

* AnimeFirst

** ''Endless Waltz'' reveals that [[spoiler:Heero became TheAtoner after killing a little girl he had befriended, to the point where he believed RedemptionEqualsDeath. HeGotBetter.]]

* IGotBetter: Heero should be its poster child.

* ShipToShipCombat: Oh, Dear Lord, yes. Mostly between Heero-Relena and Heero-Duo shippers.

* ThemeNaming: Main characters are named after numbers, while most mass-produced Mobile Suits are named after Zodiac constellations. Not all names are direct; the HoverTank Tragos (Greek for "goat") is a stand-in for Capricorn, while the Gundam [[SpellMyNameWithAnS Aesculapius/Asklepos]] from ''G-Unit'' represents the "13th constellation" Ophiuchus (Aesculapius is the man holding the serpent in the constellation). The only constellation not represented in any official media is Sagittarius (which appears in ''Frozen Teardrop'' as a LandBattleship in the pre-Operation Meteor era).

''New Mobile Report Gundam Wing'' (''Shin Kidou Senki Gundam Wing'', lit. "New Mobile Report Gundam Wing") is one of the more famous (or infamous, if you prefer) of the ''{{Gundam}}'' {{Alternate Universe}}s. Aired in Japan in 1995, it was brought to the United States (and eventually worldwide) in 2000 on {{Toonami}}, pushing Gundam into the Western mainstream.

** It's confirmed as of Chapter 7 that Duo and Hilde married ([[spoiler:but got divorced because she thought he was irresponsible, and she died some time later]]). It's unclear whether Duo Jr. is their biological son or not due to Duo/Father Maxwell being an UnreliableNarrator.

* HeyItsThatVoice: One can't help but expect Trowa to [[InuYasha ask all the girls to bear his children...]]
** Or Treize Khushrenada to bust out the Bakusaiga.
** Or Duo to start throwing [[MegatonPunch superspeed demon punches]].
** Or Catherine Bloom to start chucking sacred arrows. There are a ''lot'' of these, aren't there?
** Or Zechs to get upset that the Gundams power level is [[MemeticMutation OVER 9000!!!]]

With a cast full of attractive male characters and the Gundams themselves mixing practical military designs with aesthetic appeal, ''Gundam Wing'' is often credited (or possibly, blamed) for introducing [[EstrogenBrigade female fans]] to the genre of {{Mecha Show}}s.

* EstrogenBrigadeBait: Particularly Heero, Duo and Zechs, but the other boys have their own strong following as well. This show singlehandedly brought thousands of female fans not only into the Gundam franchise, but anime in general. Rumor has it they purposefully made the pilots more appealing to broaden their demographic and garner female interest; it worked. The massive amount of yaoi fangirlism this show has spawned is staggering.

* OffModel: An interesting variation. Tallgeese's "Dobergun" weapon is basically a really big cannon and fires huge armor-piercing rounds, but quite frequently the animators will forget this entirely, and give it sounds and beam-like [[WaveMotionGun]] visual effects. Many of the times this happens it's stock footage of Wing Gundam, only with Tallgeese edited in, so it's likely a cost-saving measure.

*** The Wu Fei/Sally ship might not necessarily be sunk, because it's common to use the last name of the father for any child. If Sally had her daughter either as a single parent out of wedlock, or if there was a joint decision to keep Sally's family name, it could still be argued that Kathy could be ''anyone's'' child, really.

** To clarify, that scene actually happens in the series, but Heero wasn't the one in the mecha at the time. [[spoiler: In Fact all 6 of the 7 people who pilot the wing zero execute this little trick, the odd one out of course being Heero.]]

* GattacaBabies: For several generations, normal pregnancy was impossible for colony dwellers and this was the only means of reproduction. While this has been largely overcome by the time the series starts, some groups are still struggling. Quatre's entire family - including his ''thirty'' older sisters - are laboratory born. [[spoiler:His mother wanted to concieve a child normally, and paid with her life to deliver him]].

*** His fair skin is comes from his [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berber_people Berber heritage]], [[LampshadeHanging hence his middle name, Raberba]]. It's also symbolic of the fact that he not only the sole male born to his father, but also the only child naturally-conceived. [[GattacaBabies All his sisters are test tube-conceived designer babies]].

* SpinOffspring: ''Frozen Teardrop'', with (so far) Duo Maxwell (Jr), Kathy Po, and Katrina Oud Winner, alongside their parents/siblings and the original cast. (Considering the GattacaBabies deal within the colonies and how ''all'' of Quatre's sisters are test-tube babies, [[ItMakesSenseInContext Cathy being Quatre's sister is not as unreasonable as it seems at first.]])

* EarlyBirdCameo: Wing Gundam made an appearance towards the end of [[MobileFighterGGundam the series prior]].

* GundamVsSeries: Wing Zero (AssistCharacter: Vayeate) and Heavyarms Kai (Assist: Mercurius) show up in ''Gundam vs Gundam''; Deathscythe Hell (Assist: Sandrock Kai), Tallgeese (Assist: Noin's Aries), and Epyon (Assist: Virgo II) join the fun in the sequel, and the movie versions of Wing Zero (Assist: Deathscythe Hell EW) and Altron (Assist: Trowa's Serpent) are PSP-exclusives.
** ''Gundam Extreme Vs'' has Wing Zero EW, Heavyarms Kai EW (Assist: Sandrock Kai EW), and Tallgeese III (Assist: Noin's Taurus), with Deathscythe Hell EW (Assist: Altron EW) and Relena (as a navigator) competing with [[CrossboneGundam Crossbone Gundam X2 Kai]] and [[GundamF91 Cecily Fairchild]] to see who gets added first.