History YMMV / MobileSuitGundamAGE

* FashionVictimVillain: The Vagan pilot suits would be bad enough without the massive, weirdly-shaped codpieces. With them...dear lord. In particular, [[EnfantTerrible Desil]]'s suit in Generation 1 has one [[GagPenis that could plausibly function as a third leg]].

** Kio's commitment to [[TechnicalPacifist Technical Pacifism]] has also caused a great deal of controversy, provoking unfavorable comparisons to [[Anime/MobileSuitGundamSEED SEED]]. Others see it as a natural progression of the plot of the series, going from a warmonger (Flit) to a neutral party (Asemu) to a pacifist in order to end the war. Some think he's a parody of AU "understanding" heavy main characters.

* MemeticMutation: [[WebVideo/YuGiOhTheAbridgedSeries Card games in mobile suits!]] Yes, it's a meme already. [[http://gundamguy.blogspot.com/2011/06/coco-manga-x-gundam-gundam-age-new.html Source]]. (Though admittedly, the cards are only used in the tie-in arcade game).

* RootingForTheEmpire: It's fairly easily to find yourself rooting for [[spoiler:Veigan]] once you learn the UE 's true identity and realize how morally bankrupt the Earth Federation is. [[http://ghostlightning.wordpress.com/2012/01/23/the-passing-of-the-first-age-reveals-the-human-face-of-violence-mobile-suit-gundam-age-15/ As you can see on the comments of this page,]] fans are already hailing [[spoiler:Vagan]] as a true successor to the ideals of the [[Anime/MobileSuitGundam Principality of Zeon]], as well as [[Manga/MobileSuitCrossboneGundam the Jupiter Empire]].

* ShipToShipCombat: There seems to be a bit of this developing between Flit/Emily shippers and Flit/Yurin shippers. While it's agreed that both pairings would be good and have their own high points, the fact that Asemu, Flit's son, resembles Emily in concept and promotional art has some shippers going at it.

* StrangledByTheRedString: Asemu and Romary. After joining the military, they very rarely interact on-screen and neither of them seem to get past the point of "I like you but [[CannotSpitItOut what are words]]" for the whole series, plus Romary has feelings for both him and Zeheart. To resolve this, there is a flashback to one conversation between them in Episode 28 and then the generation ends with the wedding. You can apply this to Emily with Flit and Wendy with Kio pretty well, too.
** There is a drama CD coming out that will give some insight on how Romary got together with Asemu.

* ClicheStorm: This show is often dangerously between this and TropesAreNotBad, particularly within the Gundam franchise.

* NeverLiveItDown:
** The fandom basically found the Vagan pilot Daz Roden impossible to take seriously after his first combat outing, in which he piloted a top-of-the-line suit against three old men, a sprinkler system, and a hand-held rocket launcher...[[EpicFail and lost.]]
** On the meta end of things, let's just say that this series has become a black mark in Akihiro Hino's career and [[Administrivia/RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgment leave it at that]].

** His ''Memory of Eden'' version leaves even more debate, as it shows [[spoiler: that the spirits of everyone who has died under his command constantly talking to him, driving him insane Especially since his last words are different from the TV Show]]

** The question of whether or not Flit has crossed, will cross, or if his desire is justified is one of the main reasons for the BrokenBase. [[spoiler:He institutes ThePurge and having the Prime Minister executed for secretly trying to negotiate peace with Vagan because Flit would rather destroy them all than end a decades-long war. On the other hand, Ezelcant was going to double-cross Olfanoa anyway and his own plan involves [[SocialDarwinist Social Darwinism]]. But back on the ''first'' hand, none of the other Vagans know Ezelcant's true intentions and Flit doesn't just want to kill Vagan soldiers. He wants to kill every Vagan, including [=POWs=] and civilians]]. Basically the question comes down to how the individual viewer feels about Vagan as a whole.

** On the meta end of things, let's just say that this series has become a black mark in Akihiro Hino's career and [[RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgment leave it at that]].

* DarknessInducedAudienceApathy: Although most fans were [[GrowingTheBeard pleasantly surprised]] when the story took a darker and more Gundam-like turn, there was much dissatisfaction with the final arc--characters seemed to [[TooDumbToLive fatally cling]] to the IdiotBall, the deaths seemed predictable and cliched, and [[spoiler:every antagonist the audience actually gave a damn about was killed in the penultimate episode, leaving many to cry "meh" at the finale]].

* GrowingTheBeard: The series grows the beard in Episodes 13-15 by shedding the perceived "kiddy"-ness with several deaths and [[spoiler:turning Flit into a DarkMessiah]], quite raising the stakes in the battles.

%%* MagnificentBastard
%%** [[spoiler:Flit, as of Episode 28, to those who don't see his coup as a crossing of the MoralEventHorizon.]]
%%** Surprisingly in ''Memories of Eden'', [[spoiler:Desil Galette]]. He marks all the times Zeheart could have easily destroyed the Gundam when he himself couldn't.

* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: Oh boy, where to begin?

* WinTheCrowd: Between criticisms of character designs, starting premise, and head writer, it was a challenge AGE had to worry about from the beginning. Given some of the entries on this page, it didn't last.

** The reunion of Asemu, Zeheart and Romary in Episode 24. Zeheart offers to continue their friendship on the condition of Asemu abandoning the Earth Federal Forces. [[SanitySlippage While looking like he's about to go]] [[DragonBall Super Saiyan,]] Asemu rejects the proposal, saying that he has nothing else in his life. Zeheart then pulls out his gun and says ''"If you're in the battlefield, I can't be myself."'' Romary appearing out of ''effing nowhere'' to crank a [[Anime/MobileSuitGundam0083StardustMemory Nina Purpleton]] only made the already narmtastic scene even more unintentionally hilarious.

* CompleteMonster: [[SociopathicSoldier Desil Galette]], a [[ChildSoldier seven-year old]] Vagan AcePilot when first introduced, sees [[BloodKnight war as a game]], and his victims as nothing more than expendable toys. As the pilot of the [[TransformingMecha Zedas]], he spearheads genocidal attacks on colonies, and is implied to be the one who orphaned Yurin L'Ciel. He subsequently hijacks the AGE-1, and tests out its capabilities by [[WeHaveReserves butchering his own allies]]. He later captures Yurin, puts her inside of a remote-controlled mobile suit, and forces her to attack her LoveInterest, Flit. When Yurin tries to fight off his control, Desil kills her, while laughing about how she was "just a plaything". That's all in the First Generation. By the Second Generation, he's thirty-three years old and has, if anything, gotten worse. [[DrivenByEnvy Deeply resentful]] of his younger brother Zeheart for having been promoted past him, he takes more and more insane risks. This ultimately leads to his getting most of the Magicians Eight killed as a part of a grudge match against Flit and murdering Flit's friend, and Flit's son Asemu's mentor, Woolf. It gets to the point where Zeheart, realizing what his brother has become, leaves Desil to die at Asemu's hands in the aftermath of a losing battle.

* CompleteMonster: [[SociopathicSoldier Desil Galette]], a [[ChildSoldier seven-year old]] Vagan AcePilot when first introduced, sees [[BloodKnight war as a game]], and his victims as nothing more than expendable toys. As the pilot of the [[TransformingMecha Zedas]], he spearheads genocidal attacks on colonies, and is implied to be the one who orphaned [[MysteriousWaif Yurin L’Ciel]]. He subsequently hijacks the AGE-1, and tests out its capabilities by [[WeHaveReserves butchering his own allies]]. He later captures Yurin, puts her inside of a remote-controlled mobile suit, and forces her to attack her LoveInterest, Flit. When Yurin tries to fight off his control, Desil kills her, while laughing about how she was "just a plaything." That’s all in the First Generation. By the Second Generation, he’s thirty-three years old and has, if anything, [[PsychoForHire gotten worse]]. Deeply resentful of his younger brother [[{{Antivillain}} Zeheart]] for having been promoted past him, he takes more and more insane risks. This ultimately leads to his getting most of [[EliteMooks the Magicians Eight]] killed as a part of a grudge match against Flit and murdering Flit's friend, and Flit's son Asemu's mentor, Woolf. It gets to the point where [[NobleDemon Zeheart]], realizing what his brother has become, leaves Desil to die at Asemu’s hands in the aftermath of a losing battle.

* AwesomeMusic: Inevitable when you have Kei Yoshikawa writing the soundtrack, but the opening and ending themes are all good, too.

** Flit, who sees his mother crushed to death by rubble at age four and becomes a borderline ChildSoldier ten years later, [[spoiler:and then has his idealism towards humanity shattered by Yurin's death]] to become a JerkassWoobie.

* EvenBetterSequel: It is generally agreed upon that its second season is its highest and strongest point. Subverted, however, in comparison to ''Anime/MobileSuitGundam00'' (with the possible exception of TheMovie) as a whole.

* CompleteMonster: [[SociopathicSoldier Desil Galette]], a [[ChildSoldier seven-year old]] Vagan AcePilot when first introduced, sees [[BloodKnight war as a game]], and his victims as nothing more than expendable toys. As the pilot of the [[TransformingMecha Zedas]], he spearheads genocidal attacks on colonies, and is implied to be the one who orphaned [[MysteriousWaif Yurin L’Ciel]]. He subsequently hijacks the AGE-1, and tests out its capabilities by [[WeHaveReserves butchering his own allies]]. He later captures Yurin, puts her inside of a remote-controlled mobile suit, and forces her to attack her LoveInterest, Flit. When Yurin tries to fight off his control, Decil kills her, while laughing about how she was "just a plaything." That’s all in the First Generation. By the Second Generation, he’s thirty-three years old and has, if anything, [[PsychoForHire gotten worse]]. Deeply resentful of his younger brother [[{{Antivillain}} Zeheart]] for having been promoted past him, he takes more and more insane risks. This ultimately leads to his getting most of [[EliteMooks the Magicians Eight]] killed as a part of a grudge match against Flit and murdering Flit's friend, and Flit's son Asemu's mentor, Woolf. It gets to the point where [[NobleDemon Zeheart]], realizing what his brother has become, leaves Decil to die at Asemu’s hands in the aftermath of a losing battle.

* CompleteMonster: [[ChildProdigy Desil Galette]] is what happens when you take the EnfanteTerrible and KidsAreCruel tropes and turn them UpToEleven. A [[ChildSoldier seven-year old]] SociopathicSoldier and Vagan AcePilot when first introduced, the [[AxCrazy psychotic Decil]] sees [[BloodKnight war as a game]], and his victims as nothing more than expendable toys. As the pilot of the [[TransformingMecha Zedas]], he spearheads genocidal attacks on colonies, and is implied to be the one who orphaned [[MysteriousWaif Yurin L’Ciel]]. He subsequently hijacks the AGE-1, and tests out its capabilities by [[WeHaveReserves butchering his own allies]]. He later captures Yurin, puts her inside of a remote-controlled mobile suit, and forces her to attack her LoveInterest, Flit. When Yurin tries to fight off his control, Decil kills her, while laughing about how she was "just a plaything." That’s all in the First Generation. By the Second Generation, he’s thirty-three years old and has, if anything, [[PsychoForHire gotten worse]]. Deeply resentful of his younger brother [[{{Antivillain}} Zeheart]] for having been promoted past him, he takes more and more insane risks. This ultimately leads to his getting most of [[EliteMooks the Magicians Eight]] killed as a part of a grudge match against Flit and murdering Flit's friend, and Flit's son Asemu's mentor, Woolf. It gets to the point where [[NobleDemon Zeheart]], realizing what his brother has become, leaves Decil to die at Asemu’s hands in the aftermath of a losing battle.

** Wow, a LoveTriangle in both season 1 and season 2? Too bad we already know who's going to win because the hair colors of Asemu and Kio is the same as Emily's and Romary's respectively. If they had kept the same hair color throughout all 3 generations, it could've added a guessing game for who Flit and Asemu would end up with, but nope!

** The combination of a [[Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica Kaname Madoka]] figure with parts from AGE-1 Titus has resulted into Madoka Titus. It is a popular fanart on {{Pixiv}}.

** Yurin, Yurin, Yurin. She topped the official series character poll by a huge margin (in the Female Characters category, she got 60.5% of the votes), and at that time she only appeared in ''a single episode''.

* NightmareFuel:
** Desil Galette. While he was always bad news, his behavior in Episode 13 proves that he is a real horror show when left unchecked. The fact that he [[spoiler: imprisoned Yurin in an auto piloted mobile suit to forcibly make her fight for the UE doesn't help either.]]
** Imagine being chained to the cockpit of a UE mobile suit as an AxCrazy BloodKnight controls the functions of that mobile suit. Then, when you see your loved one fighting on the opposite side, the system controlled by the BloodKnight orders the mobile suit to open fire on your loved one. And all you could do is just watch in horror. [[spoiler: That's exactly what happens to Yurin when Desil forced her to pilot the Farsha mobile suit in Episode 14.]]
** You thought Desil being an AxCrazy BloodKnight ''at the age of seven'' wasn't scary enough? Well, let's just say that in the Second Generation, '''HE GETS WORSE.'''
** Strangely enough, he's even gets scarier in ''Memory of Eden'' for being RIGHT. Verbally. He may be [[TheLoad the load]] in Generation 2, but in ''Memory of Eden'', he makes so many valid points in calling out on Zeheart's behavior that you can't imagine him being the same [[ButtMonkey butt monkey]] in Generation 2, but rather, he regains his old Generation 1 intelligence back again.
** [[spoiler:[[MoralEventHorizon Flit's coup d'etat and consequential witch hunt in Episode 28.]] The faces of the officials who were rooted and presumably executed like the Prime Minister for trying to achieve a compromise with the Vagans and [[OhCrap Flit's goal to exterminate every last Vagan]] are... disturbing to say the least.]]
** The scenes of destruction in Episode 30 as the Vagan ruthlessly attack the city of Olivernotes. Particularly as civilians try to outrun blasts from the beam weapons and fail, demonstrating once again that the producers are uninterested in the GoryDiscretionShot.
** Episode 37's revelation of life in the Mars Colony. [[spoiler:Many live in poverty and unable to get their hands on medicine for the disease caused by Mars Rays, but even if they ''could'' it would only be a temporary measure--Ezelcant himself has just six months to live, which will leave his wife with a dead child ''and'' husband. The disease hits everyone no matter their age or social status. Conditions are so hopeless and dehumanizing that most people gradually shut off their emotions as they get older, except for resentment towards the Federation that abandoned them.]]
** [[spoiler:The sheer thought of what Flit had when learning 'Second Moon', Vagan's main base was now in Earth Orbit. "Now we can wipe them all out."]]
** In ''Memory of Eden'', [[spoiler: every single moment where the dead and Zeheart communicate with each other wouldn't be out of place in a horror movie]].

* EvenBetterSequel: It is generally agreed upon that its second season is its highest and strongest point.

** Kio: His hypocrisy, constant whining about "understanding" and stubborn refusal to listen to more reasonable points of view overrides the fact that we're expected to pity him for being a naive ChildSoldier. The [[TooDumbToLive utter stupidity]] of many of his actions, and the fact that the series itself [[ProtagonistCenteredMorality considers him 100% right]], [[StrawmanHasAPoint painting negatively all those who disagree with him]], and the plot [[ContrivedCoincidence bends over itself to make sure he's always right]]... don't really help.

* EvenBetterSequel: Despite the show's LoveItOrHateIt status, it is generally agreed upon that its second season is its highest and strongest point.

%%* LoveItOrHateIt: ''The whole damn show''.

** The series as a whole is heavily inspired by the UC timeline, with almost all major entries up until ''Manga/MobileSuitCrossboneGundam'' receiving arcs representing them...except for one, the (At the time) currently airing ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamUnicorn''. It would have been better for the Three Generations arc to be condensed into a shorter number of episodes and have the last arc play out as a mini-AGE version of Unicorn.

** Wow, each generation mirrors one of the major UC Gundam anime entries? Too bad we never get a counterpart to ''Gundam Unicorn''[[note]]Admittedly, Unicorn was still airing at the time, but one has to wonder why they didn't at least use the set-up and go in their own direction[[/note]].

** Flit and Desil being [[ArchEnemy arch-enemies]] could have added more depth to Asemu and TragicBromance.