History YMMV / AfterWarGundamX

* TheScrappy: Olba Frost, the younger Frost, is ferociously bashed by fandom for supposedly being a male {{Yandere}} with a brother complex. Even his voice actor hates him - apparently, the role even gave him logomisia toward the phrase "Nii-san.".

* CompleteMonster: [[FantasticRacism Seidel Rasso]] is the leader of the Space Revolutionary Army. In the aftermath of a war that nearly wiped out humanity, Rasso became the leader of the twelve million people living on the colony of Cloud 9. Turning it into a PoliceState, Rasso suppressed all dissent, and preached a philosophy founded on the notion that since Newtypes could only be born in space, the colonists, rather than the people of Earth—called Oldtypes--should control the destiny of the human race. Knowing this to be false, Rasso also kept all information about Newtypes on Earth quiet, while gearing up for another war. Destroying the rebellious colony of Satelicon, including its largely civilian population, with photon torpedoes in order to consolidate his power, Rasso had his [[TheDragon right-hand man]], Nichola, [[BadBoss arrested and summarily executed]] for [[EvilIsNotPacifist suggesting peace talks]] with the New Earth Federation, and tried to use a KillSat to exterminate those humans remaining on Earth. When the supercomputer DOME revealed that Newtypes were really no different from the rest of humanity, Rasso [[IgnoredEpiphany refused to accept it]], even as his ArchEnemy, and ardent Newtype hater, Fixx Bloodman of the NEF reconsidered his own position. Pushing his own lies to the end, Rasso's last act was to violate a ceasefire between himself and Bloodman, ranting about how Oldtypes like the NEF president were all scum who deserved to die.

* HarsherInHindsight: A meta-textual example. When the show first came out, the whole concept of [[spoiler:"drone weapons controlled by one person to cause mass destruction"]] seemed a little out there, and perhaps contributed to some of the trouble Japanese fans had suspending their disbelief. Come TheNewTens, and all of a sudden the aforementioned seems '''''creepily''''' prescient more than anything, and gives the whole show a lot more teeth in its messages.

** And things went [[UpToEleven even more]] HotBlooded once [[Music/JAMProject Masaaki Endoh]] did a remix of Resolution in the Lantis Gundam Tribute.

* MemeticMutation See Memes.{{Gundam}}

** To some extent. While it has recieved a HD remaster last of the main Gundam TV series, it has gotten a number of "posthumous" high-quality Gunpla model kits that have all done quite well, its followup manga did ''quite'' well for itself, and in general the show is well-regarded on both sides of the Pacific by critics and fans at this point.

* WhatAnIdiot: Early in the show, Garrod has no idea about teamwork, blunders because of it, and tries to correct by doing something equally stupid. He spaces out while helping to load cargo and injures one of the crew. He feels terrible and tries to make up for it by doing a solo raid on a defunct nuclear reactor... without scouting it out or considering how safe it is (not safe at all), and he gets in over his head with Ennil El's Vultures. Jamil is hurt bailing him out during the second sunrise[[note]]ignoring the error that nuclear ''reactors'' don't become nuclear ''bombs'' when they melt down[[/note]] so Garrod feels terrible and gets a WhatTheHellHero from Sala. So he ''sells the Gundam''. The incredibly powerful Gundam with a WaveMotionGun that can turn forests to glass that should not be allowed into just anyone's hands. It's even more frustrating that he's smart about making the sale by ensuring he can't just be murdered and robbed for it.
* TheWoobie: Tiffa. Prior to her being rescued by the Frieden crew, she was subjected to numerous experiments by a certain post-war corporation just to for them to understand the power of Newtypes.

** Both [=OPs=]. ''X'' Made more awesome by the fact that they don't start until after [[PreviouslyOn the recap of the last few minutes of the previous episode]], cliffhangers and all. The soft minor tones of Dreams paint the uncertainity of living in a world ravaged by war very well, while Resolution and its' HotBlooded rhythm will certainly pump you up like few other Gundam songs do.