History Literature / MobileSuitGundam

* BittersweetEnding: Despite all the major characters who buy the farm, [[spoiler:the war ends with the Zabis all dead or removed from power but with the Federation recognizing Zeon's independence, under the moderate Prime Minister (now President) Bakharov, paving the way for more equality between Earth and the colonies and preventing the intermittent Neo-Zeon wars flaring up every decade or so that plague the anime Universal Century]].

* CanonImmigrant: Zeon Prime Minister Darcia Bakharov and Gihren's secretary Cecilia Irene were given cameos in the third CompilationMovie and both play extremely important roles in ''Manga/MobileSuitGundamThePlotToAssassinateGihren'' and other spinoffs. Cuzco also shows up in some of the ''VideoGame/GihrensGreed'' games.

Tomino has also penned novelizations of several subsequent ''Gundam'' stories, most notably ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamCharsCounterattack'' (which started as a novel, then got [[RecursiveAdaptation another novel based on the movie]] which Tomino also wrote). None of these are sequels to the original trilogy though, but rather follow on from the anime, [[KillEmAll for a very good reason]].

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Beacause the Del Ray translation came out before the anime was officially released, Schodt had to come up with his own renderings of the character and mobile suit names. Highlights include "Sha Aznavel" and his customized red "Zak".

* DroppedABridgeOnHim: ... He doesn't even get a very dignified death, getting picked off by a MauveShirt in a Rick Dom because Challia Bull's attempt to communicate telepathically using an outdated, malfunctioning psycommu was giving him a psychic freak out. [[spoiler:Ryu Jose]] also gets a pretty miserable death compared to his dramatic HeroicSacrifice in the TV series. He's shot down by a random Zaku during a chaotic battle and nobody even notices he's dead until he fails to come back to the hangar afterwards.

* PromotedToLoveInterest: Sayla.
* RelationshipUpgrade: Sayla and Amuro actually become the OfficialCouple in this version, in contrast with how the anime never went past ShipTease.

* MindRape: Anafter effect of Gihren's laser cannon killing so many people at once is that all the Newtypes and Newtype sensitive people feel or see the souls of the people killed. All that mixed with Gihren's malice puts a lot of them on edge or nearly hysterical.

Originally released as three books, entitled ''Awakening'', ''Escalation'', and ''Confrontation'', the novels have the distinction of being the first ''Gundam'' media officially released in English, with translations courtesy of legendary Japanese culture scholar Frederik Schodt. Published by Del Ray in the early '90s both as an attempt to cash in on the interest in HumongousMecha stirred up by ''{{Anime/Robotech}}'' and its well-loved series of tie-in novels and as a tie-in itself to [[WhatCouldHaveBeen a failed Hollywood film project]] with designs by Creator/SydMead (who would later go on to work on ''Anime/TurnAGundam''). The novels were later re-edited and collected into an omnibus edition after the the TV series was released in English published by Stone Bridge Press (interestingly, the original publisher, Del Ray, was translating the ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamSEED'' tie-in manga at the same time).

* ChubbyChaser: Depending on your definition of "chubby". Margaret Ring Blair is said to be plump with full lips and a full waist. It's the closest any of incarnation of Char comes to falling in love. His anime incarnation's love interests tend to be very thin.

* BigBeautifulWoman: CanonForeigner Margaret Blair, Kycilia Zabi's assistant and Char's love interest after Lalah dies.

* ChubbyChaser: ''Char'' of all people (which is strange given how skinny all his girlfriends in the anime continuity are).

Originally released as three books, entitled ''Awakening''; ''Escalation'' and ''Confrontation'', the novels have the distinction of being the first ''Gundam'' media officially released in English, with translations courtesy of legendary Japanese culture scholar Frederik Schodt. Published by Del Ray in the early '90s both as an attempt to cash in on the interest in HumongousMecha stirred up by ''{{Anime/Robotech}}'' and its well-loved series of tie-in novels and as a tie-in itself to [[WhatCouldHaveBeen a failed Hollywood film project]] with designs by Creator/SydMead (who would later go on to work on ''Anime/TurnAGundam''). The novels were later re-edited and collected into an omnibus edition after the the TV series was released in English published by Stone Bridge Press (interestingly, the original publisher, Del Ray, was translating the ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamSEED'' tie-in manga at the same time).

* WarIsHell: You think Amuro and friends got it bad in the original?

Originally released as three books, entitled ''Awakening''; ''Escalation'' and ''Confrontation'', the novels have the distinction of being the first ''Gundam'' media officially released in English, with translations courtesy of legendary Japanese culture scholar Frederik Schodt. Published by Del Ray in the early '90s both as an attempt to cash in on the interest in HumongousMecha stirred up by ''RoboTech'' and its well-loved series of tie-in novels and as a tie-in itself to [[WhatCouldHaveBeen a failed Hollywood film project]] with designs by Creator/SydMead (who would later go on to work on ''Anime/TurnAGundam''). The novels were later re-edited and collected into an omnibus edition after the the TV series was released in English published by Stone Bridge Press (interestingly, the original publisher, Del Ray, was translating the ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamSEED'' tie-in manga at the same time).

Originally released as three books, entitled ''Awakening''; ''Escalation'' and ''Confrontation'', the novels have the distinction of being the first ''Gundam'' media officially released in English, with translations courtesy of legendary Japanese culture scholar Frederik Schodt. Published by Del Ray in the early '90s both as an attempt to cash in on the interest in HumongousMecha stirred up by ''RoboTech'' and its well-loved series of tie-in novels and as a tie-in itself to [[WhatCouldHaveBeen a failed Hollywood film project]] with designs by Creator/SydMead (who would later go on to work on ''Anime/TurnAGundam''). The novels were later re-edited and collected into an omnibus edition after the the TV series was released in English published by Stone Bridge Press (interestingly, the original publisher, Del Ray, was translating the ''GundamSEED'' tie-in manga at the same time).

Tomino has also penned novelizations of several subsequent ''Gundam'' stories, most notably ''CharsCounterattack'' (which started as a novel, then got [[RecursiveAdaptation another novel based on the movie]] which Tomino also wrote). None of these are sequels to the original trilogy though, but rather follow on from the anime, [[KillEmAll for a very good reason]].

* SparedByTheAdaptation: [[spoiler:Degwin Zabi, Ramba Ral]], and ultimately [[spoiler:Char]], since the events of ''CharsCounterattack'' can't happen with [[spoiler:Amuro]] dead.

* CanonImmigrant: Zeon Prime Minister Darcia Bakharov and Gihren's secretary Cecilia Irene were given cameos in the third CompilationMovie and both play extremely important roles in ''MobileSuitGundamThePlotToAssassinateGihren'' and other spinoffs. Cuzco also shows up in some of the ''GihrensGreed'' games.

Originally released as three books, entitled ''Awakening''; ''Escalation'' and ''Confrontation'', the novels have the distinction of being the first ''Gundam'' media officially released in English, with translations courtesy of legendary Japanese culture scholar Frederik Schodt. Published by Del Ray in the early '90s both as an attempt to cash in on the interest in HumongousMecha stirred up by ''RoboTech'' and its well-loved series of tie-in novels and as a tie-in itself to [[WhatCouldHaveBeen a failed Hollywood film project]] with designs by Creator/SydMead (who would later go on to work on ''TurnAGundam''). The novels were later re-edited and collected into an omnibus edition after the the TV series was released in English published by Stone Bridge Press (interestingly, the original publisher, Del Ray, was translating the ''GundamSEED'' tie-in manga at the same time).

* SuperPrototype: Downplayed. Unlike the original where the mass-produced GM series are disposable {{Mooks}} and the Gundam is basically a god, in this version they're said to have at least a few improvements. Their armor is made with sturdier construction methods (though cheaper materials) making them at least as resilient as the Gundam if not moreso, at the cost of speed and maneuverability. Tomino also sneaks in a TakeThat at the shows' sponsors when Amuro notes how silly and impractical the humanoid "eyes" on the Gundam are and that the face-covering visors on the GM, which was designed for practicality rather than as a showy tech demo, have a much better range of vision.