Line #17 Anime/GundamSEEDCharacterTheater


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3	''Gundam Seed Character Theater'' is a short series of omakes included with the DVD editions of the ''[[Anime/MobileSuitGundamSeedDestiny Gundam SEED Destiny]]'' series. They are hilarious and in no way meant to be taken seriously, and good-naturedly mock everything about the series in general.
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7	!!The following tropes apply:
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9	* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: Because Athrun performs better than Yzak in everything, the latter attempts to discover his secret in the first short.
10	* ArtShift: Kira and Athrun [[SayMyName yell out each others' names]] in regular anime style... before we see that they are playing a video game and they switch back to SuperDeformed.
11	* BlackComedy: The ''Destiny'' ZAFT team die in comical ways in the last short, with Luna getting a massive nosebleed, Rey getting burned to death from hot sauce, Meyrin's computer exploding, and Shinn dying of exhaustion from all the singing he did.
12	* BreakThemByTalking: Lacus gets a dog to stop attacking her by entering SEED Mode, giving her a rather scary appearance as she questions its morals and drives it to tears.
13	* CoversAlwaysLie: See several of the characters in the page image who should be dead by the end of ''SEED''? They don't appear here.
14	* DeadpanSnarker: Dearka to Yzak. That seems to be Dearka's entire dialogue range.
15	* DenserAndWackier: Compared to the dark and often depressing feel of the source material, this series is pretty much entirely light-hearted comedy.
16	* DepthDeception: Hey, it's Tori, Kira's little robot bir-[[OhCrap HOLY SHIT WHEN DID HE GET SO BIG?!]]
17	* EpicFail: The results of trying to destroy Athrun and Kira's friendship backfire like you wouldn't believe, making them even ''closer''.
18	* FailureHero: The ZAFT team of Shinn, Rey, Luna, and Meyrin try to be heroes to ZAFT (and in Rey's case Gilbert). They fail both of their missions. Though from our perspective, they're the antagonists of the shorts.
19	* FailureIsTheOnlyOption: Even when Yzak wins, he loses. He has a giant photo album of all of his losses!
20	* FireBreathingDiner: Rey tries to ruin Lacus' cooking by adding in several bottles of hot sauce, only for Kira to like it so much that he enters SEED Mode. Confused for as to why it didn't work, Rey drinks from one of the bottles and ends up getting blasted back from fire spewing from his mouth and dying.
21	* ForeheadOfDoom: [[LampshadeHanging Poked fun at]] with Athrun's, who won a shiny forehead contest and gets called "the captivating oversized forehead" at the start of the beach volleyball game.
22	* GoneHorriblyRight: Yzak manages to go into SEED Mode... and then his newfound strength breaks the volleyball and costs him the game.
23	* HilarityEnsues: The raison d'etre behind the whole thing.
24	* MakeWrongWhatOnceWentRight: In the second short, Shinn, Rey and Luna's mission is to destroy Kira and Athrun's lifelong friendship. [[HitlersTimeTravelExemptionAct It doesn't work]].
25	* MissionControl: Meyrin. Oddly, Talia Gladys is missing, and her filling this role would make even more sense.
26	* MoeAnthropomorphism: The whole character design of everyone. Even more silly when it averts this.
27	* MundaneMadeAwesome: Kira and Athrun go SEED Mode WHILE playing video games. SayMyName and all. Also, Cagalli and Lacus use their own SEED Modes to get a dog to stop attacking them by scaring the hell out of it.
28	* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Rey's attempt to sabotage Lacus' cooking make it even better to Kira.
29	* {{Nosebleed}}: One of the episodes has the cast of SEED Destiny try to break Kira and Lacus up. Lunamaria just happens to scout ahead while Kira and Lacus are making out. The resultant nosebleed sends her [[HighPressureBlood flying a few hundred meters]].
30	--> '''Lunamaria:''' ''[Her nosebleed sends her flying]'' Weapooooon!\
31	'''Rey:''' Lunamaria's been taken down.\
32	'''Shinn:''' I wonder what she saw?
33	* OffscreenTeleportation: Kira and Athrun have no idea how they ended up at the beach volleyball game.
34	* PaperThinDisguise: After stealing Lacus' dress, Shinn sees that Kira is heading in his direction and quickly puts on the dress to pretend to be Lacus with his face remaining the same. Kira can tell that something is off, but thinks it's more that "Lacus" is acting very strange and runs off.
35	* PokemonSpeak: The [=LaGOWE=] can only say its own name.
36	* RefugeInAudacity: Shinn. In drag. Singing one of Lacus' pop standards while shredding the stage with Sword Impulse's {{BFS}}. That is all.
37	* RuleOfCool: EVERYONE can go into SEED mode, and they usually dial their own awesome up.
38	* RuleOfFunny: Cagalli turning into the Strike Rouge when she goes SEED Mode? Dearka having access to a human-sized version of the Buster's cannons? Shinn using the Destiny's wings of light to fly as a human? Can't happen anywhere but here.
39	* SayMyName: Kira and Athrun do this while their friendship levels rise. [[ShipTease While holding hands. And they get more excited the more they say their names.]]
40	* ShoutOut: To ''Franchise/{{Gundam}}'' in general, and even ''Franchise/SailorMoon'' at one point.
41	* SpiritualSuccessor: This series feels like Cosmic Era's answer to the old ''Anime/MobileSuitSDGundam'' shorts, due to being [[DenserAndWackier a goofy parody]] of ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamSEED'' and ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamSEEDDestiny'' with SuperDeformed character designs.
42	* SuperDeformed: Uses this art style.
43	* SurroundedByIdiots: Durandal sends Rey an angry text after they fail their mission complaining about his subordinates and saying he wishes Rau were here.
44	* TerribleArtist: Part of Yzak's plan to win the beach volleyball game is draw Haro's face on the ball so that Kira and Athrun won't want to hit it to score. Unfortunately, his drawing is ''so bad'' that Kira and Athrun think it is garbage of some kind and ''hit it back harder'' to get it away from them, hitting Yzak in the face and letting the opposing team score while he is unconscious.
45	* YouHaveFailedMe: What Rey the Gilbert Durandal fanboy lives in fear of from the man himself.
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