History Anime / MobileSuitGundamWing

* NGOSuperpower: The Romefeller Foundation, a secret league of aristocrats who funded the Alliance and plotted to take over the world. They had enough clout to form The Specials, an elite Mobile Suit corps that served as the front for OZ.
** The Barton Foundation, which had ambitions to takes over the world, and the resources to attempt to do it twice.

* GoodLookingPrivates: The main and supporting cast are all already good-looking, but get them into their uniforms, and WOW.

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* UterineReplicator: 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]].

* InvisibleBackupBand: Trowa's and Quatre's duet ("Sparkling Harmony") from "The Victoria Nightmare."

* AdaptationExpansion: ''Glory of the Defeated'' can best be described as the TV series rewritten with full knowledge of all the After Colony stories. In Chapter 2 alone, we get Duo's ''Endless Waltz'' flashback, scenes from ''Episode Zero'', and Heero referring to Zechs' Leo as a Gryph, a pre-series mecha from ''Frozen Teardrop''.

** The real Heero Yuy as a young man; not only did he look exactly like Heero the Gundam Pilot (someone ''completely unrelated to him''), but he had a romance with Katrina Peacecraft (who had a twin sister, Sabrina Peacecraft), who looks exactly like her future granddaughter Relena. This is of course not even mentioning Relena's mother, another Katrina Peacecraft, who also looks just like her daughter, but at the very least that was teased at in one episode by Marquise Weridge's comments to Relena.
** Duke Dermail and Dorothy.
** Relena also looked very similar to Darlian's wife, which is partly why Relena refused to believe they weren't her real parents at first.

*** Further supported by the fact that the manga hints that Zechs went to live with Treize's family after the fall of Sanc. So they've probably been living together since they were young teenagers, at least.
**** Zechs was with Noin, and Treize was with Lady Une....

* AbusiveParents: If a character's grandparents are shown in ''Frozen Teardrop''[='s=] {{Flashback}}s, they're guaranteed to be revealed as {{Jerkass}}es. Treize's dragged their daughter away from her husband and forced her into a political marriage, while Relena's forced one of their daughters to live in a single room with a cat as her only companion (and, to a lesser extent, made the other live with the Darlian family).
* ActionGirl: Noin, Sally, Hilde, Une, Cathy Bloom, and to a more limited extent, Relena (who is [[TheGunslinger a pretty decent shot]] when under pressure).

* SeriesContinuityError: What does and doesn't hurt Gundanium Armor really depends on what the plot demands it to be.
** Example; in the first episode, A Single Leo is [[spoiler: able to defeat the Wing Gundam]] while no other lone Leo after that can even scratch it.

** PhraseCatcher: '''"IT'S A GUNDAM!"''' is very, ''very'' frequently said ([[Memes/{{Gundam}} even for a Gundam series]]), to the point it becomes an drinking game.

* MoreDakka: Heavyarms, again, personifies this. And Trowa can't seem to leave a battle without emptying every single clip he has.

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* Series ContinuityErrors: What does and doesn't hurt Gundanium Armor really depends on what the plot demands it to be.

The series was brought to Western shores via {{Toonami}} in 2000 and was a smash hit. Two versions of the show were aired during its initial run: a slightly-{{Bowdlerised}} version that omitted some violence and dialogue, and the uncut version shown during the "Midnight Run" (which was likely the inspiration for the AdultSwim programming block introduced just a year later). In fact, the combined success of both this series and ''DragonBallZ'' (the two ran back-to-back for most of their runs) can be tracked as the source of the major Anime boom in the 2000's.

* AwesomeButImpractical: Wing Gundam's Buster Rifle is incredibly powerful but it can only fire three shots, or as many cells as the Buster Rifle is capable of carrying. Katoki's version has these 'gliders' that attach to Wing's arms during bird mode, these gliders carry extra cells for the Buster rifle.

* BigOlEyebrows: Dorothy Catalonia, whose brows actually have tufts. Also Treize, but not to ''that'' extreme.

*** It's still LostInTranslation: "Prince of the Stars" is the Japanese title for ''TheLittlePrince'', which actually ''is'' an apt comparison since from Relena's perspective, Heero is a boy from space who rode a "shooting star" (his Gundam) to come to Earth. "Prince of the Stars" just makes her sound kind of [[TheDitz ditzy]].

* BlindIdiotTranslation: One glaring instance in the dub: when the Wing's buster rifle is airlifted to Heero in one episode, Quatre (and the subtitles, which use the dub script) refers to it as the [[DidNotDoTheResearch "beam Gatling"]]. Guess the translators confused Wing with Heavyarms that day.