History YMMV / MobileSuitGundamAGE

** Romary's [[spoiler: GoThroughMe]] incident earned her a lot of scorn, comparing her to [[Anime/MobileSuitGundam0083StardustMemory Nina Purpleton]]. In Episode 28, she admits her mistakes and naivety to Asemu and earns his forgiveness.

* {{Squick}}: Yurin's name. It sounds like...well, urine.

* IdiotPlot:
** If the Vagan had simply returned to Earth on Second Moon immediately instead of being terrorists by destroying civilian colonies, there wouldn't be much of a war with their superior technology, Earth lacking their Gundam technology and the element of surprise.
** The X-Rounder, their version of the franchise's "SuperSoldier with physic powers" works by literally ''dumbing down the brain'' to be more aggressive in combat in exchange for the rationality to make proper decisions. In short, it ''literally'' gives you the IdiotBall. And that is not counting the asinine decisions made by practically every other character to advance the plot...

* UncannyValley: The Legilis is a weird example of the Uncanny Valley applied to a robot. It looks like a Gundam and even has some classic Gundam features like a core fighter... but said fighter is in the Vagan dragon shape of their other mecha and all of its angles just look wrong.

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

** Romary's [[spoiler: GoThroughMe]] incident earned her a lot of scorn, comparing her to [[Anime/MobileSuitGundam0083StardustMemory Nina Purpleton]]. In Episode 28, she admits her mistakes and naivety to Asemu and earns his forgiveness. Time will tell if [[RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap she'll earn the audience's as well.]]

** 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.]] [[SarcasmMode Thanks a lot, Desil.]] Basically the question comes down to how the individual viewer feels about Vagan as a whole.
--->'''Flit:''' "I will wipe out Vagan! Every last one!"

** [[spoiler:Very narrowly averted by Flit in the final episode. Thanks to the timely intervention by Asemu and Kio, he puts aside the thoughts from using the plasma diver missile to destroy the Second Moon, and instead gather everyone in the battlefield to stop its destruction from the overheating La Gramis spheres.]]

* SoOkayItsAverage: Most fans agree that the series ''had'' potential, but a number of factors including a limited episode number for a cast as sizeable as ''AGE'' had (the constant time-skipping notwithstanding) and main writer Hino's overall inexperience with writing TV shows (some even compared the writing to something along the lines of a video game) caused the show's demise overseas.

* 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.]]

* FoeYay: [[HoYay Zeheart and Asemu, full stop.]]
** Particularly in Episode 48, [[spoiler:where his last conversation with Asemu is ''easily'' interpreted as a DyingDeclarationOfLove]].
** Played up even more in the same scene in ''Memory of Eden'', where [[spoiler:Asemu gets in the Gundam Legilis, clearly about to EXPLODE, and touches his helmet to Zeheart's. And the fact that Zeheart pushes Asemu back into the cockpit.]]

* WhatAnIdiot:
** The Vagans blame the Earth Federation for erasing all evidence of the failed Mars colonization program... ''which happened 150 years ago''. Most of the people who took part in the cover-up are no doubt dead, and it turns out ''Second Moon could travel back to the Earth Sphere any time the Vagans wanted''. Never once in all those decades did anyone think of just having Second Moon travel back to Earth peacefully.
** When Dique finds Asemu about to steal the Vagan X-Rounder helmet, he tells him off and then...leaves him in the room with it without even extracting a verbal agreement to not steal it. A more sensible person would have made sure Asemu left ''first'' and then locked the door behind him, not just locked the easily-breakable glass case.
** Arabel. [[spoiler:Okay, he was a highly traumatized kid, but when the man who you have just seen kill your father says "now you are going to ruin your whole life trying to avenge this, sorry," maybe you should not be operating by this stellar life advice in your twenties.]]
** [[spoiler:Flit risks his own life in Episode 36 to make sure Kio can escape, and like an idiot, Kio immediately circles around to help Flit and gets himself captured anyways.]]
** And then later on, in Episode 38, [[spoiler:Kio stupidly gives away his biometric data, allowing the Vagan to crack the encryption preventing the Gundam's systems from being copied, all for some medicine to prolong the life of a terminally ill girl by a few days. This decision ends up biting Kio in ass two episodes later when he has to fight the Vagan-engineered Gundam.]]
** More from this kid in Episodes 41-43 when he refuses to use any tactic but [[spoiler:asking Fram and then Girard to listen and understand when they tell him explicitly and repeatedly that they aren't willing to do so. He ''could'' probably use his C-Funnels to dismember their suits and nonlethally remove them from combat, but all he does is keep begging while they continue to wail on him and nearly beat him]].
** Lord Ezelcant. [[spoiler:He plans to create a race of peaceful humans by killing off people with aggressive or warlike tendencies. Only, the method he uses to do so selects for the survival of people with aggressive, driven tendencies like Grodek and Flit. Apparently Vagan doesn't teach the basic principles of evolution.]]
** Zeheart's been hit with this pretty badly in the late stages of the series. [[spoiler:Despite looking like he's going to be the voice of reason against Ezelcant's ludicrous plans for humanity, he gets his character reset to being a fanatical worshipper of the man after simply being told that Ezelcant doesn't want to be God, but rather a guiding light for the new humanity... Despite this merely being the equivalent of saying "Yes you're right that I'm completely off my rocker, but I don't think I'm God, so it's okay."]] Expanded upon in ''Memory of Eden''. [[spoiler:Zeheart was so wracked with SurvivorGuilt over the subordinates who died under him that he would continue pursuing the vision of Eden no matter what, all so that his subordinates' deaths wouldn't have been in vain.]]
** [[spoiler:And then after he's made supreme commander of the Vagan forces in Ezelcant's stead, along comes Episode 47, in which [[FatBastard Zanald]] opens fire on Zeheart and his men and makes clear that he has no intentions of following Zeheart's orders. You'd expect him to either have this traitor apprehended or simply shot on the spot, right? Wrong. He promptly proceeds to allow Zanald to do as he pleases, which quickly results in Deen's death at Zanald's hands. Nice going.]] However, in that case [[spoiler:Zeheart knew that [[TheUriahGambit with Zanald taking the center, his force was in position to take the most damage from the Federation assault]], and sure enough, his entire fleet is wiped out by the ''Diva's'' photon blaster. This was the exact same tactic Zeheart used to get rid of Desil.]]
** Attn: Aaron Simmons. If you are afraid of a violent, messy death, ''do not join the military'' during a war that has lasted almost three-quarters of a century.

** The flashback to [[spoiler:the Vagans' recruitment of Shanalua as a spy]]. ExtyYearsFromNow, with space colonies and mobile suits, apparently the preferred method of payment for spies is a large bag of Spanish dubloons.

** And [[spoiler:Yurin's death itself]], for those who thought [[spoiler:it was an incredibly ham-handed case of [[DisposableWoman killing a female character in order to elicit an emotional reaction from TheHero]] rather than a TearJerker]].

** And [[spoiler:Yurin's death itself]], for those who thought [[spoiler:it was an incredibly ham-handed case of [[StuffedIntoTheFridge fridge stuffing]] rather than a TearJerker]].

* DarknessInducedAudienceApathy: Although most fans were 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]].

* WinTheCrowd: Between criticisms of character designs, starting premise, and head writer, it was a challenge AGE had to worry about from the beginning. It did so in Episodes 13-15, shedding the perceived "kiddy"-ness with several deaths and [[spoiler:turning Flit into a DarkMessiah]], quite raising the stakes in the battles.

* DarknessInducedAudienceApathy: Although most fans were [[WinTheCrowd 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]].

** Asemu Asuno seems to have become the most popular of the three protagonists, mainly for the way he TookALevelInBadass towards the end of the Second Generation, honored [[spoiler:Woolf's legacy]], and ''especially'' for [[spoiler:[[TookALevelInBadass taking ANOTHER level in badass]] and becoming the leader of the Bisidian pirates, complete with a sweet, sweet version of the AGE-2]].
** Speaking of which, how about Woolf? Even viewers who otherwise dislike the series enjoy this guy for his unforced comic relief, major badassery, and well-executed balance of TestosteronePoisoning and {{bishonen}} good looks.

** The series avoided some potentially interesting character interactions in the last generation, specifically interactions like Kio and Zeheart. [[spoiler: When the former got captured by Vagan, it could have been a perfect time for it to happen, with Kio being the child of Zeheart's friend with this revelation helping Kio realize that people from Earth and Vagan are NotSoDifferent after all since his parents had one as a friend. Instead, they had Kio interact with practically two undeveloped characters as a way for his conversion to technical pacifism]]. Also, a Flit vs. Ezelcant face-off would have been huge to the plot, but the writers probably didn't even consider it.

** Natora Einus has become a FountainOfMemes during the Third Generation. [[UnfortunateName Her name]] and her quirks as a captain learning the ropes makes her quite popular even among those who loathe this installment of ''Gundam.''

** It is very, ''very'' hard to watch any scenes involving the unfortunate [[UnfortunateNames Captain Einus]] and keep a straight face.

** Merchandise-related: Even with the [[BrokenBase base-breaking reputation]] of the show, some fans do genuinely like the Mobile Suits designs and most of the High-Grade AGE model kits are quite well-received when it comes to quality. Due to this, there are those who bemoan that due to Gundam AGE being a commercial failure, the designs and the model kits would probably never get the praise and recognition they deserve.

** Merchandise-related: Even with the Base-breaking reputation of the show, some fans do genuinely like the Mobile Suits designs with most of the High-Grade AGE model kits being quite well-received when it comes to quality, and feel that these designs and model kits got the short end of the stick reputation-wise due to the show being a commercial failure.

* StrawmanHasAPoint:
** Kio's pacifism argument, essentially. While the Second Moon arc was meant to engender sympathy for the Vagan and become the driving force for Kio's pacifism, it was essentially a drop in the bucket compared to all the unsympathetic atrocities they had committed in the previous 30+ episodes.
** Flit's hatred of the Vagans is meant to show [[HeWhoFightsMonsters he has become no better then them]], but it's not completely unfounded. He's seen a group commit countless atrocities against the Earth over the span of ''decades'', with targeting civilian population centers and having psychotic commanders the norm. The Vagans also have ''absolutely no reason'' to bother fighting in the first place too since Second Moon was able of travel back to the Earth Sphere, thus invalidating any claims the Vagans might have about life around Mars being unfair and insufferable. And lastly, prior to the final episode of the series, the only Vagans in the Earth Sphere -and thus those he fights against- are irredeemable monsters following the will of a madman. Even his attack on Second Moon itself has some pragmatic justification, on account of the stupidly powerful La Gramis deathray wrapped around its form.

** Unfortunately, a LOT of characters suffer from this. After every generation skip, literally all of the non-Asunos basically disappear without a trace. The lucky ones get a descendant who shows up in the next generation, but even they aren't immune from another generation skip.

** For a lot of people the generation gimmick, while interesting in concept, has felt squandered as each generation feels rushed and characters feel rather shallow thus pushing the show into SoOkayItsAverage territory.

** Furthermore, some fans considered the UE (Unknown Enemy) to be a perfectly wasted concept; mysterious invaders that could have turned out to be aliens, rather than another expy of [[Anime/MobileSuitGundam Zeon]].

* ShockingSwerve: TheReveal of [[spoiler:Ezelcant's true plan]]. (A) It comes out of nowhere, and (B) makes ''no sense whatsoever''.

** The inhabitants of Fardain are something of a group example, rivaling [[Anime/MobileSuitGundamZZ Moon-Moon]] for the dubious honour of 'most despised WackyWaysideTribe in Gundam'.

** Asemu Asuno seems to have become the most popular of the three protagonists, mainly for the way he TookALevelInBadass towards the end of the Second Generation, became a ManInWhite to honor [[spoiler:Woolf's legacy]], and ''especially'' for [[spoiler:[[TookALevelInBadass taking ANOTHER level in badass]] and becoming the leader of the Bisidian pirates, complete with a sweet, sweet version of the AGE-2]].

* AmericansHateTingle: [[http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interest/2012-04-05/one-piece-luffy-db-goku-top-fuji-tv-anime/tokusatsu-hero-poll In a Fuji TV special,]] Asemu Asuno surpassed popular characters such as [[Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica Madoka Kaname]] to finish fourth on a list of the Top 5 Up-and-Coming Heroes/Heroines in anime in general. Western and Filipino AGE fans, on the other hand, ''loathe'' Asemu for being unhealthily obsessed with surpassing his father and for having a personality that's not unlike [[Anime/MobileSuitGundam0083StardustMemory Kou Uraki]].