History Trivia / MobileSuitGundam

* TrollingCreator: "The Zakrello is the strongest machine in the One Year War." - YoshiyukiTomino

** In America, it didn't do too much better on Toonami. Low ratings also led to early cancellation.

* HeyItsThatVoice: Being the second Gundam dub done by the Vancouver voice pool, and produced by Creator/TheOceanGroup, there's plenty of overlap with previous and future Gundam dubs.
** [[Creator/BradSwaile Amuro Ray]] is [[Anime/MobileSuitGundamWing Quatre]], and would later be [[Anime/MobileSuitGundam00 Setsuna]].
** [[Creator/CathyWeseluck Mirai]] was once a [[Anime/MobileSuitGundamWing lady of war with huge eyebrows]].
** LisaAnnBeley (Relena from Anime/MobileSuitGundamWing) voiced a minor Federation officer who watches over an orphanage.
** [[RichardIanCox Kai]] is Anime/{{Inuyasha}}
** Speaking of which, [[Anime/KellySheridan Miharu]] (Kai's love interest) would also be [[Anime/{{Inuyasha}} Sango]]
** In the English dub of the TV series, Mirai Yashima, Katz, Letz, and Kikka are all played by [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Spike]]!
** In the English dub of the movies, Char was played by Creator/SteveBlum. When the TV series came to the West, it was on Toonami, hosted by Tom... who was voiced by Steve Blum!
** Lalah Sune is this in the English dub: A woman who gets caught up in a messed up love triangle. [[Manga/InuYasha Kikyo]], is that you?

* MissingEpisode: Episode 15, ''Kukuruz Doan's Island'', was removed from the US release by request of Yoshiyuki Tomino himself. While most rumors claim it's due to the horrendous OffModel animation, Tomino himself said it was due to an issue between himself and a certain member of the staff, but he's not willing to elaborate any further as long as that other person is still alive. Note that this doesn't stop Doan from popping up in video games like ''G Generation'' and ''Extreme Vs.''.

** Miharu was originally going to be a very different character, the only element surviving into the finished series being that she was still a redhead. In the original plot outline, Miharu ''Zabi'' was the youngest child of Degwin Zabi, a naive but sweet girl totally at odds with her warlike siblings. This version of the character was later retooled into Dozle's daughter, Princess Mineva in ''ZetaGundam''.

** Gihren Zabi has led to [[GundamZZ Glemmy Toto]], [[Anime/MobileSuitVictoryGundam Fonse Kagatie]], [[Anime/AfterWarGundamX Siedel Rasso]], [[Anime/MobileSuitGundamSEED Patrick Zala]], and [[Anime/MobileSuitGundamAGE Flit Asuno]] and all owe something to him.

** Gihren Zabi has led to [[GundamZZ Glemmy Toto]], [[Anime/MobileSuitVictoryGundam Fonse Kagatie]], [[Anime/AfterWarGundamX Siedel Rasso]], [[GundamSEED Patrick Zala]], and [[Anime/MobileSuitGundamAGE Flit Asuno]] and all owe something to him.

*** Even after the Gundam's design was finalized its paintjob went through numerous revisions. The Zeon characters constantly referring to it as "The White Mobile Suit", despite a large portion of it being blue is an artifact of earlier script drafts that assumed Tomino's preferred color scheme of white with red highlights (the idea would seem to be resurrected in the far future with the [[MobileSuitGundamUnicorn Unicorn Gundam]]). There were also plans for an olive drab version known as the "Real Type" colors before pressure from the sponsors cemented the bright, primary colors of the finished product (which later sourcebooks explain away as "Demo" or "Parade Colors" intended to ensure maximum visibility when showing the new prototype's capabilities off to the brass).

* TheOtherDarrin: The TV series was dubbed by the Vancouver-based OceanStudios whilst the movies were dubbed in California

* HeyItsThatVoice: Being the second Gundam dub done by the Vancouver voice pool, and produced by TheOceanGroup, there's plenty of overlap with previous and future Gundam dubs.

*** Even after the Gundam's design was finalized its paintjob went through numerous revisions. The Zeon characters constantly referring to it as "The White Mobile Suit", despite a large portion of it being blue is an artifact of earlier script drafts that assumed Tomino's preferred color scheme of white with red highlights. There were also plans for an olive drab version known as the "Real Type" colors before pressure from the sponsors cemented the bright, primary colors of the finished product (which later sourcebooks explain away as "Demo" or "Parade Colors" intended to ensure maximum visibility when showing the new prototype's capabilities off to the brass).

** The battle of A Baoa Qu went quite a bit differently, featuring numerous new mobile suits that were eventually rolled into the MSV model kit line ''MSX'' (which at one point was going to become the basis for a proposed sequel before ''Zeta'' got made). One of these, the Guntank-like MS-12 Gigan, piloted by a nameless grunt, was supposed to have ''[[DroppedABridgeOnHim killed Amuro]]'' because Tomino didn't want to make any sequels. Despite this rather radical move, the finale would have progressed more like a typical action series from this point on, with a dramatic final showdown where the protagonists confront the remaining Zabis in person.

* CreatorBacklash: Tomino has a special kind of hatred for Episode 15: ''Kukuruz Doan's Island'' and refused to let Bandai America dub it or release it locally. Ironically, while the animation quality of episode 15 is poor, many fans consider the previous episode ''Time, Be Still'' to be far worse in the writing department. This is ironic because the script for episode 14 was written by none other than Tomino himself.

** In it's original run in Japan, low ratings got the show's episode numbers cut from 52 to 43 episodes. And they lucky to get four more episodes to close up the series.

* CyberCyclops: Zeon's mobile suits. The Zaku series is probably the most famous for HumongousMecha as a whole.