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** Miharu's SurprisinglySuddenDeath is probably one of the most shocking in all of Gundam. One moment she's going through a HeelFaceTurn and moves to help unlock and launch a Gunperry's missiles at Kai's behest to save the White Base. The next moment, the sheer backblast of launching the missiles while standing inside the now-opened missile bay ''launches her right out the other side like a ragdoll''. All the sound and music cut out to her screaming Kai's name in absolute terror before she limply falls towards the ocean below, and Kai doesn't even realize what happened for a solid minute until there's no response from the bay; the episode intentionally makes it ambiguous if it was the backblast or [[NotTheFallThatKillsYou the drop to the water below]] that did her in, but it's a chilling reminder that even being a hero doesn't save you if you don't know what you're doing.
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** Miharu's SurprisinglySuddenDeath is probably one of the most shocking in all of Gundam. One moment she's going through a HeelFaceTurn and moves to help unlock and launch a Gunperry's missiles at Kai's behest to save the White Base.Base, because the system jammed and needed a manual touch. The next moment, the sheer backblast of launching the missiles while standing inside the now-opened missile bay ''launches her right out the other side like a ragdoll''. All the sound and music cut out to her screaming Kai's name staring at the release and feeling the sheer pressure in absolute terror realizing [[OhCrap just how badly she messed up]] before she limply falls towards the ocean below, and Kai doesn't even realize what happened for a solid minute in his cheering until there's no response from the bay; the episode intentionally makes it ambiguous if it was the backblast or [[NotTheFallThatKillsYou the drop to the water below]] that did her in, but it's a chilling reminder that even being a hero doesn't save you if you don't know what you're doing.
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* Civilian deaths in the franchise are a standard, and the ''very first episode'' has Amuro and Frau Bow nearly join an entire pile of their neighbors and family in getting caught by a stray explosion wiping out an entire bus worth's of civvies. The rest of the original series would go on to demonstrate how the Federation would bully and abuse innocents into compliance, that Zeon are a PunchClockVillain a plenty intermixed with HonorBeforeReason goons that have in-fighting over their own mass murders of innocents, and that AnyoneCanDie for simply being in the wrong place at the wrong time in a war. Then every almost every major conflict past the One Year War just goes FromBadToWorse.
** Miharu's SurprisinglySuddenDeath is probably one of the most shocking in all of Gundam. One moment she's going through a HeelFaceTurn and moves to help unlock and launch a Gunperry's missiles at Kai's behest to save the White Base. The next moment, the sheer backblast of launching the missiles while standing inside the now-opened missile bay ''launches her right out the other side like a ragdoll''. All the sound and music cut out to her screaming Kai's name in absolute terror before she limply falls towards the ocean below, and Kai doesn't even realize what happened for a solid minute until there's no response from the bay; the episode intentionally makes it ambiguous if it was the backblast or [[NotTheFallThatKillsYou the drop to the water below]] that did her in, but it's a chilling reminder that even being a hero doesn't save you if you don't know what you're doing.
** Miharu's SurprisinglySuddenDeath is probably one of the most shocking in all of Gundam. One moment she's going through a HeelFaceTurn and moves to help unlock and launch a Gunperry's missiles at Kai's behest to save the White Base. The next moment, the sheer backblast of launching the missiles while standing inside the now-opened missile bay ''launches her right out the other side like a ragdoll''. All the sound and music cut out to her screaming Kai's name in absolute terror before she limply falls towards the ocean below, and Kai doesn't even realize what happened for a solid minute until there's no response from the bay; the episode intentionally makes it ambiguous if it was the backblast or [[NotTheFallThatKillsYou the drop to the water below]] that did her in, but it's a chilling reminder that even being a hero doesn't save you if you don't know what you're doing.
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** There's the late series stressed-but-precise Amuro, which later installments would develop upon as a cool-headed but passionate hero with no small amount of mental trauma, that many fans are readily familiar with nowadays. And then there's the early series "[[HeroicBSOD mentally shuts down altogether]], constantly facing massive bouts of stress and anxiety, and proceeds to become a ScreamingWarrior at the drop of a hat as he cuts a bloody, explosive and devastating path through hordes of his enemies" Amuro, who not only codified FallingIntoTheCockpit but is a teenager with absolutely no combat experience. Going back to the very beginning of the franchise is pure nightmare fuel ''because'' of what this innocuous, lazy young man would become and experience.
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* ''NightmareFuel/MobileSuitGundamTheWitchFromMercury'' (started 2022)
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** ''Zeonic Front'' actually has the player try to gather data on the White Base - which means confronting and trying to survive the Gundam, Guntank and Guncannon ''with the equivalent of {{Mook}} units of basic Zakus.'' They can not only slaughter you, but Amuro himself outright [[CurbstompBattle one-shots every one of your units in a direct confrontation]], complete with hearing him mark his kill count over your radio and even the occasional signature Newtype sound. You're an elite special forces unit, and you're still [[MookHorrorShow absolute fodder]] to a kid who isn't even at TheAce status yet!
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** The Titans in general are a nightmare. The Earth Federation wasn't exactly competent in the One Year War, but [[Anime/MobileSuitGundam0083StardustMemory Gato and the Delaz fleet unwittingly gave birth to a new paramilitary unit]] that essentially has no boundaries and extreme racism for all Spacenoids. Gassing Colony 30 over a riot was an off-screen backstory event, but we get to actively see them take hostages, wreck entire cities just to kill a handful of rebels, and straight up execute groups of innocents just to make sure there's not even so much as a sliver of anti-Federation sentiment. And some of the people in charge are partly instigating worse things just to get the excuse to kill more and consolidate their power. The Titans are so bad that the Axis, effectively a neo-Zeon movement intent on carrying out a new dictatorship, are seen as the ''lesser'' of two evils.
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* Just about every ''Gundam'' series has TheAce. Only the Universal Century, and not even half of it, has Amuro Ray - who emerges over psychological trauma as a OneManArmy that utterly terrifies the Zeon forces. To say that the late-series skills he shows are absolutely absurd, especially once he awakens his Newtype abilities, is a massive understatement. While not as grandiose as Judau or Banagher, the sheer precision Amuro can use in evasion and accuracy can wipe out entire enemy forces in a matter of minutes. And when he does manage to suppress his combat instincts to live more "regularly" by ''Zeta'', his inevitable involvement results in him ''still'' wrecking his enemies without a Mobile Suit.
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With Gundam giving us [[LongRunner 40 years and counting]] of action, drama, and insane merchandising, you would think that the grandfather of all HumongousMecha {{Anime}} franchises would be not capable of having its own page of scary moments, right? Well, you're ''[[NightmareFuel wrong]].'' You will never look at sleeping normally the same way again.
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With Gundam giving us [[LongRunner 40 years and counting]] of action, drama, and insane merchandising, you would think that the grandfather of all HumongousMecha {{Anime}} franchises would be not capable of having its own page of scary moments, horrors, right? Well, you're ''[[NightmareFuel wrong]].'' You will never look at sleeping normally the same way again.
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With Gumdam giving us [[LongRunner 40 years and counting]] of action, drama, and insane merchandising, you would think that the grandfather of all HumongousMecha {{Anime}} franchises would be not capable of having its own page of scary moments, right? Well, you're ''[[NightmareFuel wrong]].'' You will never look at sleeping normally the same way again.
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With Gumdam Gundam giving us [[LongRunner 40 years and counting]] of action, drama, and insane merchandising, you would think that the grandfather of all HumongousMecha {{Anime}} franchises would be not capable of having its own page of scary moments, right? Well, you're ''[[NightmareFuel wrong]].'' You will never look at sleeping normally the same way again.
