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10->"''With high expectations, human beings leave Earth to begin a new life in space colonies. However, the United Earth Sphere Alliance gains great military power, and soon seizes control of one colony after another in the name of justice and peace..."''
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12->''"The year is After Colony 195...''"
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14''Mobile Suit Gundam Wing'', also known in Japan as ''Shin Kidou Senki Gundam Wing'' (lit. "New Mobile Report Gundam Wing"), or simply ''Gundam Wing'', is one of the more (in)famous of the ''Franchise/{{Gundam}}'' {{Alternate Universe}}s. Aired in Japan in 1995, this 49-episode series was brought to the United States (and eventually worldwide) in 2000 on Creator/{{Toonami}}, which helped push Gundam into the Western mainstream.
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16In the year [[AlternativeCalendar After Colony 195]], the [[TheFederation United Earth Sphere Alliance]] rules the Earth Sphere (the Earth, the Moon, and all associated space colonies) with an iron fist by way of HumongousMecha known as mobile suits. [[LaResistance Rebellious elements]] within the Space Colonies decide to fight back by sending five powerful mobile suits -- Gundams -- down to Earth so they can wreak havoc on the military forces.
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18[[LonelyRichKid Relena Darlian]], the teenage daughter of an important colonial diplomat, accidentally discovers the identity of a Gundam pilot who was shot down during his entry to Earth: a teenage boy named Heero Yuy. Because she can positively identify him, Heero tracks Relena down and swears to kill her [[IneffectualDeathThreats (something he never quite gets around to doing)]]. From there, Heero and the other four Gundam pilots find themselves having to blast their way through the various groups in power behind the UESA (and eventually their own force) while Relena fights in her own way to bring about peace between the Earth and the colonies amidst various political power shifts caused by the Gundam rebellion.
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20The anime was a huge success, resulting in several more projects in that universe. The most notable was ''[[Anime/MobileSuitGundamWingEndlessWaltz Endless Waltz]]''. Taking place a year after the end of the series, a new rebellion is bankrolled by Dekim Barton, the original mastermind of Operation Meteor, with his adolescent granddaughter Mariemaia Khushrenada as the figurehead. They are using the peace and demilitarization after the last war to try and conquer the Earth. Unfortunately, the Gundam pilots had sent their Gundams into the sun weeks ago and must now try and get them back, while another pilot has sided with Mariemaia completely. Originally released as a 3-part OVA, it was later re-released as an extended movie with new footage.
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22Numerous other stories were told set in the After Colony timeline, mostly manga.
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24[[folder: Gundam Wing EU material]]
25* ''Episode Zero'': A prequel manga detailing the backstories of the five Gundam pilots, Relena, and Millardo/Zechs. The collected volume release also adds an extra chapter taking place after ''Endless Waltz''.
26* ''Last Outpost: G-Unit'': Sidestory starting around 1/3 of the way through the anime, this one has the group of a remote colony MO-V try to repel the invasion of OZ's "Prize" special forces unit. The colony's resistance is led by a man named Odin Bernett, pilot of the titular G-Unit.
27* ''A Scythe in My Right Hand, You in My Left'': Another sidestory focusing on Duo dealing with an OZ Leo outfitted with a knockoff ZERO System called Berserker Rage.
28* ''Tiel's Impulse'': A sidestory where a young woman named Tiel searches for her long lost brother, a soldier for OZ who was testing Mobile Suits equipped with the new ZERO System 2.0.
29* ''Blind Target'': An interquel manga taking place between the anime and ''Endless Waltz''. The Gundam pilots take action to prevent the remnants of White Fang from destroying the brand new Earth Sphere Unified Nation.
30* ''Battlefield of Pacifists'': Another interquel manga, though not in the same continuity as ''Blind Target''. A new terrorist group, the Perfect Peace People, is using a thought-lost OZ manufacturing plant to create more advanced Mobile Dolls to take down Relena's new pacifistic regime.
31* ''Ground Zero'': Yet another interquel manga, and again not in the same canon as the others. Heero and the other Gundam pilots are forced back into action when a mysterious group manages to abduct all of their Gundams.
32* ''Frozen Teardrop'': Taking place 30 years after ''Endless Waltz'', this sequel manga follows the children of the Gundam pilots (who look just like their parents), along with Heero (who was cryogenically frozen, and thus still the same age), as they face yet another terrorist group looking to overthrow the government... this time led by Relena Peacecraft! The manga also details the backstory of Heero and Treize Khushrenada.
33* ''Glory for the Losers'': A retelling of the original anime using information and Mobile Suit designs from ''Endless Waltz'' and the various manga.
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36The series was brought to Western shores via Creator/{{Toonami}} in 2000 and became a smash hit right from the start. Cartoon Network aired two versions of the show during its initial run: a slightly-{{Bowdlerised}} version that omitted some violence and dialogue, and the uncut version shown during the "Midnight Run" (which was likely the inspiration for the Creator/AdultSwim programming block introduced just a year later). The combined success of this series, ''Anime/SailorMoon'', and ''Anime/DragonBallZ'' (which ran back-to-back-to-back with ''Gundam Wing'' for a long damn while) is often credited as the source of the major Anime boom in the 2000s.
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38With a cast full of [[MrFanservice attractive male characters]] and the Gundams themselves mixing practical military designs with aesthetic appeal, ''Gundam Wing'' is often credited with introducing [[PeripheryDemographic female fans]] in the West to the genre of {{Mecha Show}}s.[[note]]In Japan, female fans of the mecha genre got started early with shows like ''Anime/BraveRaideen'' and the original ''Anime/MobileSuitGundam''. Even Creator/YoshiyukiTomino, creator of both shows, [[http://web.archive.org/web/20160909093145/https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Cr2UJnvVMAEk6es.jpg acknowledged]] their dedication.[[/note]]
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41!!The show contains examples of:
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43* AbusiveParents: If a character's grandparents are shown in ''Frozen Teardrop''[='s=] {{Flashback}}s, they're guaranteed to be revealed ''at least'' {{Jerkass}}es. Treize's dragged their daughter away from her husband and forced her into a political marriage, while Relena's forced one of their daughters to live locked away in a single room with her cat as her only companion (and, to a lesser extent, made the other live with the Darlian family regardless of whether she wanted or not).
44* AceCustom: Despite this being a ''Gundam'' series, this isn't employed very often:
45** Noin first pilots a green Aries, then upgrades to a white Taurus. While neither are wholly unique units (other green Aries are seen, and all Sanc Kingdom Tauruses have the same color scheme), they seem to be commander units. Surprisingly, Zechs never gets one of these, instead piloting normal Mobile Suits until getting SuperPrototype Tallgeese.
46** The four named Maganac officers all have their own customized units, with unique armaments or armor.
47** In the (questionably canon) spin-off manga ''G-Unit'', members of elite OZ Prize team have their own heavily customized Leo units.
48** This would later be averted in the sequels ''Endless Waltz'' and ''Frozen Teardrop'', where almost all of the protagonists' mobile suits are customized and enhanced.
49* ActionGirl: Noin, Sally, Hilde, Une, Cathy Bloom, and to a more limited extent, Relena (who is [[GirlsWithGuns a pretty decent shot]] when under pressure).
50* AdaptationExpansion: ''Glory of Losers'' can best be described as the TV series rewritten with full knowledge of all the After Colony stories. In Chapter 2 alone, we get Duo's ''Endless Waltz'' flashback, scenes from ''Episode Zero'', and Zechs' Leo was retconned into a prototype Leo named Greif, a pre-series mobile suit from ''Frozen Teardrop''.
51* AIIsACrapshoot: Heero invokes this trope against the Mobile Dolls. He makes them target ''a'' Leo suit, at which point the Dolls assume that ''all'' Leo suits are enemies, causing them to wipe out all of OZ's mobile suits in that colony. Then, for an encore, he does the same thing with ''spacesuits'', causing the Dolls to blow up their controllers in the hanger.
52* AloofAlly: Wufei in spades. He shows up to bail the others out a few times, but the amount of minutes he's on-screen assisting the other pilots before the final arc is in the single digits. Even in said final arc, he has to be hit over the head with the ZERO System before he actually becomes a team player. For most of the show, Wufei is out on his own, doing his own thing.
53* AlphaStrike: The Heavyarms has one of the most impressive alpha strikes in anime history. Hand-held [[GatlingGood gatling guns]], ''ChestBlaster'' gatling guns, head-mounted [[MoreDakka vulcans]], and a [[MacrossMissileMassacre swarm of missiles]] all going off at once. Good times!
54* AlternateHistory: It's mentioned that the After Colony calendar started with the first colony sent to space...''in the 1970s''.[[note]]Both the Americans (Skylab) and Soviets (Salyut) launched their first space stations in the 1970s.[[/note]] This could explain the AnachronismStew down the line.
55** Specifically, the diverge from our time came sometime in the 1950's, around the UsefulNotes/ColdWar.
56* AmbitionIsEvil: Several minor characters, either in the military or with OZ/Romefeller, are shown as willing to sell out their country, murder surrendered soldiers, or other equally horrible acts in the name of advancing their careers or making a name for themselves. They usually reap their [[AssholeVictim just rewards]] for such attitudes as well, but not always.
57* AMillionIsAStatistic:
58** Played with. The Gundam pilots alone slaughter thousands of Alliance and OZ troops throughout the series, OZ kills a bunch of Alliance troops once they take over, and the White Fang get in on the action in the final arc, with the intention of wiping out everyone on Earth. However, aside from Heero accidentally killing Marshal Noventa and Treize reciting the death count to Wufei, these deaths rarely get acknowledged by the people doing the killing. Even with the examples, it's ONLY Noventa to gets the remorse, not all the other pacifists Heero slaughtered. Late in in the series, Wufei returns to his home colony, only for OZ to attack searching for him. So as to not provide a distraction, his clan ''self-destructs the entire colony, killing millions of innocent civilians''. Wufei grieves for his dead clan, but not for the other residents.
59** Noin and Quatre make a big deal about protecting the Sanc Kingdom's residents and civilians from getting killed, but not even five minutes after Relena surrenders, they're already making plans to head out into space, without once acknowledging the regular residents of the Kingdom or even rallying the leftover troops.
60* AnachronismStew:
61** This series takes UsefulNotes/WorldWarII era fashion and technology, and combines it with that of TheNineties, and [[RecycledInSpace the Space Age.]]
62** There's also a pronounced European flavor going on. It's a mix, though, from the different parts of the early-mid 20th Century.
63** And not to mention the {{mooks}} on both sides dressing like [=WW1=] or [=WW2=] soldiers (or fighter pilots in the case of those using mobile suits).
64* AnAssKickingChristmas: The "Eve Wars" StoryArc took place during Christmas Eve.
65* AnimationBump: The Gundams are very complex, detailed machines...except usually they're not drawn that way because it would send the budget for fight sequences through the roof. While you can make out every scratch, joint, and piece of weaponry on the Gundams in the opening sequences, in the show proper their designs are heavily simplified whenever they're moving...and then when they're standing still for extended periods, they're all detailed again. However, a few important plot-altering battles (especially the {{grand finale}}) treat us to fully detailed, animated Gundams in all their glory.
66** On the other hand, the movie gives us consistently detailed Gundams throughout, and actually redesigns them so they're even MORE complex.
67** Granted it's not actually animated but the ongoing ExternalRetcon manga adaptation ''Endless Waltz: Glory Of Losers'' is even more detailed in both the mobile suit designs(since it uses the all the redesigned versions of the Gundams by Hajime Katoki) and made all the battles and destruction even more intense.
68* ApocalypseHow: Zechs and the White Fang attempt to cause either a Class 5 or Class 6 through a ColonyDrop.
69* AristocratsAreEvil:
70** The Romefeller Foundation.
71** Subverted with the Peacecraft Royal Family, and a rare few others like Marquis Weridge.
72* ArmiesAreEvil: The series' two organized military forces, the United Earth Sphere Alliance and OZ, both have shades of this. Sometimes they're tyrannical (such as the Alliance destroying the Sanc Kingdom for opposing its expansionist goals, and OZ threatening the colonies with missile attacks in order to get the Gundams to cease their assault in Episode 10. Other times they can be noble.
73* ArmorPiercingResponse: In the final encounter between Wufei and Treize, Wufei breaks Treize's speech about the loss of civility and pomp in Mobile Doll warfare by asking him if he knows how many people have died for him. Treize retorts by giving Wufei ''an exact figure.'' And then commenting that he ''knows the names of every single one off the top of his head''.
74* ArrangedMarriage: The marriage between [[spoiler:Wufei]] and [[ActionGirl Meiran]] in the ''Episode Zero'' manga.
75* ArrogantKungFuGuy: Chang Wufei, all the way.
76* ArtificialStupidity: Heero and Duo manage to wipe out a fleet of OZ forces by tricking the automated Taurus mobile dolls to register their own forces' mobile suits as hostile targets.
77* ArtisticLicensePhysics:
78** Averted with Wufei's flamethrowers, as [[http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/in-space-flames-behave-in-ways-nobody-thought-possible-132637810/?no-ist fire can spread in weightlessness]] and [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chlorine_trifluoride burn]] without oxygen.
79** Played straight with Shenlong's and Altron's extendable arms. In detailed shots (and on the model kits), they can only extend out about double the arm's length. In actual fight scenes, both suits magically grow as many sections as needed. Altron is especially gratuitous, as its debut shot shows it extending its arms out about ten segments each!
80* ATeamFiring: Whenever Heero or any of the other Gundam pilots get a hold of an assault rifle or submachine gun and shoot at enemy soldiers, they never manage to kill them. [[ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy Not that the other side is any better]]; every on-foot shootout in the series accomplishes absolutely nothing except wasting bullets for property damage.
81* TheAtoner:
82** After blowing up Field Marshal Noventa and his assistants, [[spoiler:Heero]] travels around the world looking for Noventa's family to atone for his sins. He gives each of them the opportunity to shoot him. Sylvia in particular refuses to do it on the grounds that he's trying to take the easy way out by having her kill him.
83** Quatre, after [[spoiler:blowing up an evacuated colony and almost killing two of his best friends]], spends the second part of the show trying to make up for it.
84* AttentiveShadeLowering: Happens a few times in one scene in episode 23 without hands. Duo complains about a news broadcast he's listening to that praises how OZ has been helping the colonies build up their defenses, and states that OZ was responsible for putting the fear of war in the colonies in the first place. When Hilde (who doesn't know him yet) appears in front of him and tells him that's not true, he lets his shades fall and looks up over them at her. The next face shot has then back up as their discussion continues considering he's trying to keep a low profile, then they fall down in surprise when she hands him a paper and suggests he apply to the next OZ military exam. Once she's gone, he pushes them back up in amusement, saying he'll be there.
85* AwesomeAnachronisticApparel: The upper ranks of OZ and Romefeller dress like military leaders from the 18th Century and give themselves old aristocratic titles -- Duke Dermail, Count Zechs, et cetera.
86* AwesomeButImpractical:
87** Wing Gundam's Buster Rifle is incredibly powerful, but it can only fire three shots, or as many cells as the Buster Rifle is capable of carrying. Katoki's version has these 'gliders' that attach to Wing's arms during bird mode -- these gliders carry extra cells for the Buster Rifle. Wing Zero's Twin Buster Rifle does not have this limitation however, due to it drawing power directly from the suit's own reactor.
88** The Tallgeese was the first ever mobile suit and remains one of the most powerful in the series. However, the suit was built purely for raw power and the intense physical stress and G-Forces experienced by the pilot can cause him to black out and suffer a heart attack, if not outright kill him. All of that power was deemed unnecessary, so the design was dumbed down, resulting in the Leo.
89* AwesomePersonnelCarrier: Unlike other ''Franchise/{{Gundam}}'' series, ''Wing'' eschews full-on warships and carriers in favor of vehicles that serve as rapid troop transports. Presumably this is because the main opposition to the Alliance are small resistance groups, so warships would be expensive and inefficient.
90* BadassArmy: The Maganac Corps, whose teamwork and ability make them an awesome force. OZ as well.
91* BaitAndSwitchCredits: The first opening has Duo, Quatre, and Wufei in much more elaborate outfits than what they wear in the show. Duo and Wufei's outfits are closer to Administrivia/TheSameButMoreSpecific, since their outfits are the same, just with fancy gold emblems pasted on. Quatre wears a sleeveless blue shirt, scarf, and slacks as opposed to his normal outfit, which is ironic given he has the most elaborate default clothing of the Gundam pilots. Trowa inverts this, as he wears the same clown outfit he does in the show.
92* BallroomBlitz: "Party Night" has Lady Une sick a bunch of Aries on a party Relena's school is having, in a last ditch effort to kill her. Luckily for Relena, Heero hadn't left yet and saves her with his Wing Gundam, much to his own confusion.
93* BatmanGambit: OZ baits the Gundam pilots into killing the UESA leadership that had actively been seeking peace with the colonies, which in turn prompts the surviving leadership to declare war on the Gundams and their colonial allies and thus deny the Gundams their credibility to the rattled public. This gives OZ the legitimacy it requires as they move to usurp control of Earth from the now shattered and disorganized UESA and continue their own campaign against the colonies.
94* {{BFG}}: The Wing Gundam's Buster Rifle and Wing Zero's Twin Buster Rifle, among others.
95* {{BFS}}: Epyon's beam sword, powered by a direct connection to its fusion reactor, can grow to battleship-cleaving proportions.
96* BifurcatedWeapon: Wing Zero's Twin Buster Rifles can split in two smaller guns or combine for full {{Wave Motion Gun}} firepower.
97* BigBadEnsemble: The role of central antagonist is fought over continuously throughout the series. Sometimes they work together but, at the end of the day, they follow their own agendas.
98** The Earth Sphere Unified Alliance starts off as the series antagonist, with General Septem pushing for the increased militarization kicking off the plot. Septum is ultimatly a BigBadWannabe and the Alliance a StarterVillain. He's executed to pave the way for OZ and Romefeller.
99** Duke Dermail leads the Romefeller Foundation, which finances Treize and OZ. It's through their backing that the Alliance falls and puts the Foundation in power. Though Dermail has the greatest amount of wealth and influence, he's outgambitted by Treize in the end.
100** White Fang throws themselves into the ring late in the series, with their ties to Operation Meteor and the threat they pose to Earth and the Gundam Pilots. Quinze is the founder and the one who brings the group into the spotlight, but he has Zechs lead them, as he's a better fighter and tactician. Zechs's role as a BigBad pushes him towards the darker CharClone variant for a time being.
101** Treize ultimately wins out as ''the'' BigBad for the series. He spends the longest amount of time as the antagonist pushing the plot forward and the show's climax centers around him and his machinations.
102* BigDamnHeroes: Happens a lot.
103** Quatre and his troops first bail out Trowa after he runs out of ammo and becomes surrounded by Alliance soldiers.
104** Wufei saves Sally and her rebel troops twice, then later on bails out Duo and Quatre as they are overwhelmed trying to get back into space.
105** Doctor J first saves Relena from being assassinated by Lady Une, then protects the Gundam pilots as they escape into space.
106** Lady Une herself bails out Duo, Wufei, and the Gundam scientists when she rebels against Tsubarov's forces on the Lunar Base.
107** Quatre tries to do this to Heero once they get back to Earth, but Noin ultimately claims this by dropping off Wing's Buster Rifle.
108** Heero is this constantly during the Sanc Kingdom arc, saving either Relena or various Treize Faction soldiers. Noin, Quatre, and some Treize Faction troopers also get this when Romefeller tries to assassinate Relena.
109** Zechs attempts this when the Sanc Kingdom is invaded, but [[AvertedTrope he's too late]].
110** Duo saved Quatre, Trowa, and Noin when they're attacked by OZ troops who think they're a part of White Fang.
111** Quatre himself is this once he activates the ZERO System in Sandrock.
112** Finally, Heero finishes things out by appearing just in the nick of time to blow up the last piece of Libra from hitting Earth.
113* BigNo: Done by Duo, to the point of MemeticMutation in the dub.
114* BigOlEyebrows: Dorothy Catalonia, whose brows actually have tufts. Also Treize, but not to ''that'' extreme. Incidentally, they're related (but according to ''Frozen Teardrop'', so is everyone).
115* BlindIdiotTranslation: All of these examples are from the English dub.
116** When Wing Gundam's Buster Rifle is airlifted to Heero in an episode, Quatre refers to it as the "Beam Gatling," which is Gundam Heavyarms's weapon.
117** The first episode contains the following seemingly-contradictory exchange:
118-->'''Gunner:''' Let's wake him up with our machine gun!
119-->'''Zechs:''' No, no machine gun for him. Shoot him down!
120::...whereupon the ship proceeds to attack with a machine gun. What the Japanese script actually said was, "No point in firing a warning shot. Shoot him down!" which makes a lot more sense. The phrase "wake him up" conveys the right intent, but in a blink-and-you'll-miss-it way.[[note]]"Machine Gun" is actually military slang for a warning shot (as in firing a machine gun over their heads to freak them out). It's a bit too obscure of a term for Wing's intended audience, however, especially at the time when the show aired.[[/note]]
121** Soldiers have a tendency to erroneously address Lieutenant-Colonel Une as "Lieutenant" instead of as "Colonel."
122* TheBlank: OZ's production mobile suits almost all feature a square, featureless mono-eye (the Aries being a slight exception), which matches their rather utilitarian aesthetic even when compared to other ''Franchise/{{Gundam}}'' series' production weapons.
123* BloodierAndGorier: Not the show itself, which is one of the least gory Gundam shows ever, but the manga adaptation ''Endless Waltz: The Glory of Losers''.
124** While actual gore was lower than other Gundam series and there were few major character deaths, the show wasn't exactly happy land either. All of the Gundam pilots slaughter thousands of soldiers each during the early part of the series, and the only named military characters to survive until the end are Noin, Une, Zechs, Dorothy, and Sally.
125* BodyguardCrush: Heero and Relena, even though Heero said he wanted to kill her shortly after meeting her.
126* BookEnds:
127** The first episode ends with Heero ripping up an invitation to Relena's birthday party. One year later, the final episode ends with Relena ripping up a birthday card from Heero, saying he should have given it to her in person.
128** Heero's first combat with a Gundam is against Zechs, who intercepts him on his approach to Earth in the first episode. Heero's final combat in the series is also against Zechs, [[spoiler:who is defending the reactor core of the Libre as it begins [[ColonyDrop falling to the Earth]] in the final episode]].
129* BraidsOfAction: Duo is a GenderFlipped example of this with his long hair kept shorter in braids.
130* BrokenBird: Dorothy Catalonia is revealed to be this under her RichBitch facade. Like Treize, she believes that the world needs a BIG war to see how fighting sucks... especially after she loses a beloved family member.
131* ButtMonkey:
132** Those poor, poor Leos. Funnily, data specs shows that it's actually quite an impressive suit performance-wise, and even in-universe it's shown as being highly adaptable for practically any fighting environment with a simple change in gear. Shame that doesn't mean much when all of your enemies tend to be Gundams or mobile dolls that massively outclass it.
133** Duo usually suffers at the hands of his fellow Gundam pilots, typically because he's the only relatively sane and well adjusted guy among them. Highlights include having his own Gundam being butchered for parts without him knowing, said Gundam being blown up to the delight of the masses, being beat up to cover up the reconstruction of Deathscythe and Altron, and generally every single time he screams "no" at something.
134** Wing Gundam, despite being the mascot of the show, never gets any respect. Heero spends the first few episodes trying to destroy his own Gundam, then finally self-destructs it in Episode 10. Eventually, it's rebuilt by Zechs, but Heero decides to use Heavyarms in their duel. After the duel, Heero heads up into space and leaves Wing behind on Earth. It comes back during the Sanc Kingdom arc, where it becomes the land's trump card, but Heero takes it out to a battle between Romafeller and the Treize Faction and Wing is soon overwhelmed and damaged, leading to Heero ditching it for Epyon. Then, after OZ recovers and repairs the Gundam, Lady Une steals it and uses it to block Libra's laser cannon from hitting Treize, destroying it for good. Poor suit rarely got a chance to shine.
135* CallForward: The development of [[HumanPopsicle cryonic stasis]] technology plays a major role in ''Frozen Teardrop''. The distant sequel ''Anime/TurnAGundam'' featured extensive use of cryonics and the one character who had been around since the era of any of the previous shows suffers from traumatic memories of an encounter with Wing Zero.
136* CaptainObvious: "Lieutenant Colonel Lady Une! Gundam still attacking on the ship!"
137* CastFullOfPrettyBoys: All five of the Gundam pilots, as well as Millardo and Treize are very pretty. This was so instrumental in the series' success that it influenced not only future Gundam series, but anime as a whole!
138* CatchPhrase: Heero is pretty focused on only a couple of things.
139-->'''Heero''': Mission accepted/complete.\
140'''Heero''': [[IllKillYou I'll kill you]]. ([[IneffectualDeathThreats Which he never does]].)
141* [[CaughtTheHeartOnHisSleeve Caught the Heart on Her Sleeve]]: This happen in ''Blind Target'' (written by series scenario/scriptwriter Akemi Omode). Relena tells Heero that though she knows he's a strong person, she wishes he'd let her worry for him more and turns to leave. Cue Heero grabbing her sleeve and pulling her in for what is implied to be an offscreen kiss.
142* ChaoticNeutral:
143** Quatre is this while piloting Wing Zero, destroying not just OZ but the colonies as well.
144** After [[spoiler: his colony self-destructs instead of serving as a hostage]] Wufei goes on a one-man tirade against all outside forces in space. Zechs, Noin, OZ, White Fang, doesn't matter. Anyone in space who wields a weapon is Wufei's enemy.
145* CharClone: Zechs Marquise serves as an embodiment of all three incarnations of the original Char in the span of a couple of years, though with a variation in that the ''[[Anime/MobileSuitGundamCharsCounterattack Char's Counterattack]]''-style BigBad run comes ''before'' the ''[[Anime/MobileSuitZetaGundam Zeta]]''-style BigBrotherMentor bit.
146* CharacterDevelopment: Heero, Zechs, and Relena take up the bulk of the development.
147** Heero learns to fight for peace in general, rather than just the colonies, and that he doesn't necessarily need to kill to achieve his goal. He also learns how to work with others and regains a bit of his humanity.
148** Zechs realizes he doesn't believe in OZ's goals anymore and that the only way to achieve peace is through the War to End All Wars.
149** Relena goes from a spoiled rich kid to a true leader, learning from the mistakes of the past in order to achieve Actual Pacifism and peace rather than simply Total Pacifism.
150* CharacterFilibuster:
151** The political majority of the show, mainly with Relena, and quite a few of the battles as well, sometimes also done by Relena.
152** Heero's seemingly endless monologue which is finally interrupted by an impatient teacher. It's revealed to be his ''introduction speech'' to the class...
153* CharacterTics: Since the Gundam pilots switch suits quite often in this series, it's interesting to see the fighting styles of their respective Gundams translated into their usage of other suits. Examples:
154** When Trowa used Wing, he held the Buster Rifle like an actual rifle instead of [[FiringOneHanded shooting it like a pistol]] like Heero usually does. He also dual wields the Taurus' default beam rifle and cannon. In ''Endless Waltz'', his signature jump flip enabled Heero to identify him when using an enemy MS, and his usual tactic of standing in place and unleashing MoreDakka let Duo identify him as well.
155** When Heero used the Heavyarms, Trowa outfitted it with a beam saber, which worked better for the former than the Heavyarms' default knife.
156** When Quatre used a Taurus, he dual wields beam sabers.
157** Wing Zero is an interesting example, since all the Gundam pilots have used it at one point or another, even Zechs. Heero, Quatre, Zechs, and Duo do not show significant difference in fighting style. Wufei tends to rely more on the beam saber and rarely used the Twin Buster Rifle's BFG mode, while Trowa dual wields the Twin Buster rifle like pistols.
158* CharacterizationMarchesOn: While most characters' personalities were established quickly and firmly, the first episode shows Heero [[BloodKnight laughing after killing enemy soldiers]] and Relena thinking her father doesn't care about her birthday minutes after she saw him try to get away from work by saying he needed to get things ready for her [[LogicBomb birthday party]].
159* ChekhovsGunman: In ''Episode Zero: Heero'' when the original Heero Yuy is shot and killed; a younger Quinze and Dekim can be seen running to his side. They go unnamed at the time but both play major roles near the end of the series and within ''Episode Zero'' itself, Quinze is the one who initiates the fighting that Odin and Heero use for cover and [[spoiler:Dekim is the one who ends up killing Odin]].
160* ChildSoldiers: The median age for the Gundam pilots is 15 in the series, and many of them have been training and fighting since childhood (as documented in the supplementary manga "Episode Zero").
161* ClipShow: The [[NoExportForYou Japan-only]] ''Operation Meteor'' OAV series, and episodes 27 and 28 of the series.
162* CoDragons: Treize and Tsubarov to Duke Dermail.
163* ColdSniper: Trowa, unless around Cathy. More of a Cold ''[[GatlingGood Minigunner]]'', really.
164* ColonelBadass: Treize, Une, and Zechs.
165* ColonyDrop: Wouldn't be ''Franchise/{{Gundam}}'' without it! [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] in the finale when [[spoiler:Heero manages to stop it]].
166* ColorCodedForYourConvenience:
167** Soldiers of the Earth Sphere Unified Alliance typically wear brown military uniforms.
168** Once OZ takes over, they start wearing black uniforms.
169** Amusingly, once the Treize Faction pops up, they suddenly get all green uniforms while the remaining OZ soldiers get dark blue.
170** Zechs' first outfit and his space uniform are red, unique only to him.
171** Leos are initially divided into green models for Earth, blue for Space, and red for Commanders. However, once the Treize Faction appears, they get all the green Leo suits while OZ takes all the blue ones.
172** Noin first pilots a green Aries (as opposed to the normal dark blue) and then a white Taurus (normally black).
173** Taurus' belonging to the White Fang are colored brownish-red.
174** All of the Gundams' various melee beam weapons have the blades colored green, while enemy suits use either yellow or pink.
175** Since the aquatic Cancer and Pisces suits have similar designs, they were colored red and light blue respectively.
176** Oddly [[AvertedTrope averted]] when it comes to standard long range fire. Both generic beam weaponry and kinetic rifles use the same shade of yellow for their shots, which can sometimes make it confusing whether a gun is firing beams or bullets at an enemy, especially when the recycled animation makes both act the same way.
177* CombatAestheticist: Treize Khushrenada. His entire philosophy is based on how beautiful it is for someone to fight and die for something they truly believe in. This leads to his disgust with the Mobile Dolls, as since they are emotionless computers, it turns war into a mere game played by the rich and powerful. This leads to his dissatisfaction with Romafeller and the beginning of his mutiny.
178* ContrivedCoincidence: When [[EasyAmnesia Trowa lost his memory]], he somehow made it to a colony. Of all the colonies, it happen to be the one where the circus was performing and he ran into Catherine on the streets.
179* ConservationOfNinjutsu: Sometimes, more enemies for the Gundams to face just means more beat up {{Mooks}}, instead of representing an increased threat. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] in that most of the enemy mobile suits can't compare to the advanced strength of the Gundams. Later [[AvertedTrope averted]] in one the last episodes when Mobile Dolls manage to actually overwhelm the Gundams.
180* ContemplateOurNavels: All over the place, though Treize in particular loved this.
181* ContrastingSequelMainCharacter: Though Wing is not an actual sequel, the Gundam pilots play this compared to the Shuffle Alliance from ''[[Anime/MobileFighterGGundam G Gundam]]''.
182** Domon is HotBlooded, whereas Heero is TheStoic.
183** Chibodee is BookDumb and always attacks head on, while Duo is more well-educated and prefers to use stealth.
184** George prides himself on his noble and fair fighting style, while Trowa will do whatever gets the job done.
185** Argo is physically imposing, while Quatre looks completely harmless.
186** Sai Saichi is loud and outgoing, while Wufei prefers to be alone.
187* CoolCodeOfSource: In one episode, a screen displays part of the Photoshop 6 manual as a purported readout from a medical scanner.
188* CoolStarship:
189** Although Wing was quite scarce in iconic vessels compared to other series, it nonetheless introduced the ''Peacemillion'' - arguably the largest starship in the entirety of the franchise with an overall wingspan of 3000 meters. Definitely not something to sneeze at.
190** Then in the later episodes, the series one-upped itself with the 3500-meter colony-sized battleship ''Libra''.
191** There is also the dark blue OZ carrier plane that appears in several episodes, typically piloted by Noin to transport the Gundams. It comes equipped with a strong laser that can even overwhelm the Virgo's shields. The ship eventually re-appeared piloted by Heero and Duo in ''Endless Waltz''.
192* [[{{Cowboy}} Cowgirl]]: When Noin heads to space for the final arc, her default outfits becomes, for some reason, a cowboy outfit.
193* CripplingOverspecialization: Subverted by the Epyon. It's the only mobile suit without ''any'' long range weapons whatsoever, not even the head/shoulder mounted machine guns to shoot down incoming missiles, which is standard issue even on mook units (it is later added to Epyon's head, but even then it was only used ''once'' in the entire series). But its [[CombatClairvoyance ZERO System]] more than compensates for any deficiency; combined with its superior melee power, Epyon is one of the, if not the most powerful mobile suit in the series, tied with Wing Zero. Where Wing Zero gets the {{BFG}}, Epyon gets the {{BFS}}.
194* CurbStompBattle: More than a few examples, but memorably when Wufei attempted to kill Treize early on, and gets completely dominated. Also counts as LaserGuidedKarma, since the [[AffablyEvil latter]] is almost everything the [[{{Jerkass}} former]] isn't.
195* DamselInDistress: Relena Peacecraft gets captured a few times in the most polite manner possible.
196* DarkActionGirl: Dorothy once she joins White Fang and gains control of the Mobile Dolls.
197* DarkIsNotEvil: The demonic-coloured Deathscythe series is this as it is being piloted by one of the series' nicer and more idealistic pilots who's practically a {{Keet}} compared to the other Gundam pilots.
198* DarkestHour: Episodes 20-23 are an example that is uncharecteristically early in the story. To wit: Most of the Gundams have self-destructed, OZ has essentially [[VillainWorld conquered the entire Earth Sphere]], most of the pilots and scientists have been captured or, in the case of Trowa, seemingly defected, and almost everyone has turned against the Gundam pilots. It isn't until Quatre gets Wing Zero that the team is able to make their move.
199* DaysOfFuturePast: The Earth of AC 195/6 is at times reminiscent of the early and mid-20th Century. The fashions, preserved towns and UsefulNotes/WorldWarI-esque uniforms don't help. The colonies meanwhile tend to look more modern.
200* DeathFlight: In a case of NoKillLikeOverkill, once General Septum has [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness outlived his usefulness to her]], Lady Une drops him out of the plane they're on and shoots him in the head while he's falling through the air.
201* DeathIsASlapOnTheWrist: For the Gundams, "self-destruct" is apparently code for "It'll take a couple extra parts to fix."
202* DeathSeeker:
203** After being tricked into killing a plane full of Alliance leaders leaning towards peace, Heero seeks out every single family member and loved one with pistol... and offers them the chance to shoot him. They all refuse and forgive him.
204** Also, Trowa starts out this way, believing that he's just a soldier with nothing to live for. He gets better, though, after Catherine quite literally knocks some sense into him, and as the series progresses.
205* DecadeDissonance: In-universe. While the After Colony setting is generally a case of AnachronismStew and RetroUniverse, the colonies tend to be more "modern" and reminiscent of TheNineties in aesthetic, in contrast to the more old-fashioned trappings of Earth.
206* DeflectorShields: The "Planet Defensers" in the Mercurius mobile suit, and the Virgo and Virgo II mobile dolls, as well as Deathscythe Hell's Active Beam Deflection Cloak wings.
207* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: Throughout the show, characters refer to OZ as "The OZ Organization". OZ stands for "Organization of Zodiac", so they are almost always calling it "The Organization of Zodiac Organization".
208* DetectEvil: In early drafts, Wufei was a Newtype with the ability to sense evildoers.
209* {{Determinator}}: When it comes to completing missions, Heero definitely is this. He actually snaps his broken leg back into place and ''keeps working'' once, prompting wincing from Duo.
210* DeusAngstMachina: What triggers [[spoiler:Quatre's FreakOut]]. [[spoiler:First the colonies betray him, then his dad [[SenselessSacrifice gets himself killed in a rather pointless manner]], then his sister was knocked unconscious by bumping into a wall, all in rapid succession.]] Some people just ''cannot'' catch a break.
211* DevilsPitchfork: While not exactly evil, the ArrogantKungFuGuy Wufei is probably the most morally ambiguous of the five main characters & has a double-bladed [[EnergyWeapons Beam Trident]] as his Gundam's sole handheld weapon after its MidseasonUpgrade. Notably, this is the only part of any of the five main Gundams not to get massively overhauled yet again by Hajime Katoki for TheMovie, which features Wufei as one of the main antagonists for much of his screentime & even has him PuttingOnTheReich.
212* DivingSave: The moment Treize is fired upon by the Libra's super laser courtesy of Milliardo, Lady Une, in record time, wakes up, grabs the Wing Gundam, flies straight into ground zero and pulls this on Treize's Tallgeese II, saving him at the expense of the Wing Gundam getting massively totalled. Une survives, miraculously.
213* DoNotAdjustYourSet: Happens a few times throughout the series. The ones who did this include Quinze and White Fang (twice, with the second time done with Zechs), Lady Une (on the final episode), and in ''Endless Waltz'', Mariemaia and Relena.
214* DontSneakUpOnMeLikeThat: This happens if a pilot loses control of the ZERO System: maddened by the visions, he tries to clear his head by getting rid of all possible threats, and the system obediently keeps finding him new targets. There was at least one case where the pilot's allies had to abandon the attempts of calming him down and quickly vacate the area.
215* TheDragon: Lady Une to Treize.
216* DragonInChief: Treize. At first he's TheDragon to Dermail, but after leaving Romefeller he proves how influential he was when the troops loyal to him break away to form the Treize Faction. Romefeller is divided until he returns and becomes their leader.
217* TheDreaded: The Gundams and their pilots quickly become this to everyone.
218* DrivenToSuicide:
219** Heero tries to kill himself three times in the series and once in ''Episode Zero''. Not to mention, many of his other actions [[DeathSeeker indicate a desire to die]].
220** Trowa eventually decides this is his only course of action after rescuing Heero from his own attempted suicide. Catherine stops him.
221* DualWielding:
222** Quatre's Sandrock Gundam wields a pair of massive heat [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shotel shotels]] as its primary weapons.
223** Wing Zero does this often when the pilot splits its Twin Buster Rifles.
224* DubText: The Latin-American dub makes Quatre ''canonically'' in love with Trowa.
225* DudeLooksLikeALady: Quite a bit of role reversal with the main male cast based and modeled after women, while the female cast is much more masculine then you'd see in other anime.
226* EarlyBirdCameo: Wing Gundam made an appearance towards the end of [[Anime/MobileFighterGGundam the series prior]]. Much like in this series, [[spoiler:it gets destroyed.]]
227* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: While largely the same as the rest of the series, the first episode had a few odd moments such as Heero laughing when he shot down an enemy mobile suit.
228* EasterEgg:
229** When Heero is [[spoiler:disabling the [[SelfDestructMechanism self-destructing missile]] at New Edwards Base]], the front of the casing has a little badge that reads "Intel Outside."
230** Episode 3 has another IT easter egg in the form of the screen [[spoiler:of the device that scans Heero while under restraints in the hospital]] dispay a readme file for TWAIN and Adobe Photoshop.
231** There's another egg hidden in the Wing's schematics seen when Heero's in the hospital. It names the Gundam's composition as "[[Anime/MobileSuitGundam Gundarium theta]]."
232** Sandrock's OS apparently makes use of the ALICE System from ''Manga/GundamSentinel''.
233* EasyLogistics: Averted. The Gundam pilots clearly have a support network to keep them in spare parts and munitions that was put in place well before they arrived on Earth, and the first wave of attacks in Operation Meteor target not OZ units, but the infrastructure that OZ needs to replace combat losses.
234* ElitesAreMoreGlamorous: The Specials[=/=]OZ, whose characters play important roles, and feature more in battle than the Alliance military in the first few episodes.
235* EliteMooks: The Specials (who received better equipment and training) was this to the regular Alliance. This caused a bit of [[InterserviceRivalry friction between the two groups]]. Despite this, OZ barely stood a chance against the Gundams. Eventually, OZ does develop more advanced mobile suits that prove to be more of a match.
236* EmpathicWeapon: Several of the Gundams show signs of intelligence over the course of the series. Sandrock acts on its own when Quatre [[spoiler:triggers its self-detonation device, urging him to get out of the cockpit.]] Heero also often addresses Wing Zero as though it were intelligent and capable of holding a conversation. Overlaps into EvilWeapon whenever the ZERO System gets involved, especially with Epyon.
237* EmpathyDollShot: The teddy bear shows up in these instances: In the first opening, where Relena is brushing away snow from a teddy bear at an attack site (which was revealed to be [[spoiler:the scene in which the boy who would become Heero Yuy destroyed a military base in ''Endless Waltz'']]), in episode 36, when the Sanc Kingdom is under attack, and in the final episode, where Heero gives Relena a teddy bear for her birthday.
238* EnemyCivilWar: Two examples in this series:
239** The first between the United Earth Sphere Alliance and OZ. OZ ultimately ends up winning and either forcing them to surrender, or destroying the last remnants of any holding out.
240** Later within OZ itself between the Treize Faction and Romefeller, which occurred largely because Treize was against Romefeller's use of unmanned combat drones that minimized the sacrifices that human soldiers made in war.
241* EnergyWeapon: All energy weapons used in the series are particle beams of various firepower. The sole exception is in one episode where laser rifles were used because they can punch through [[DeflectorShields beam shields]]. [[AwesomeButImpractical Too bad their firepower is weak and they tend to overload.]]
242* EnfanteTerrible: Most of the main cast in some form or another.
243* EvenEvilHasStandards: A few examples:
244** Lady Une's first attempts at stopping the Gundams drew this reaction from Treize. First she tried to have the [=ICBMs=] at St. Edwards base self-detonate, then tried to force the Gundams to surrender by threatening to blast the colonies with missiles.
245** In Episode 13, Zechs and two OZ troopers, Alex and Mueller, are attacking a holdout Alliance base. After a brief skirmish, he orders them to surrender, and they initially agree, but Alex and Mueller continue to open fire on the surrendering soldiers. The Alliance then launches a last ditch attack, which kills one of Mueller's allies, and they turn on Zechs for not being ruthless enough against their enemies by slaughtering them all. Zechs, partly due because he has to defend himself, and also because he's appalled at their lack of decency towards surrendering soldiers, destroys both mobile suits himself. It doesn't help that they were quite openly hostile to him before the mission.
246** When the mobile doll technology is on the verge of mass production, Treize protests this decision by the Romefeller Foundation, and resigns his position, because he feels taking humans out of the battle diminishes the sacrifices and the roles they play in those conflicts. Consequently, many OZ troops believe in this as well, and split off to form the Treize Faction.
247* EveryoneCanSeeIt: Heero and Relena, with a good portion of the main cast noting it. In fact, in Episode 46, when Heero travels to The Libra to rescue Relena, the other Gundam pilots that stay behind talk about it.
248* EveryoneHasStandards: The five Gundam engineers drew the line at two things: [[spoiler:building the Wing Gundam Zero and the original Operation Meteor.]]
249* EveryoneIsRelated: ''Frozen Teardrop'' takes it to an extreme; not only is every single character of relevance in the Mars Century era related to one of the original cast, but the flashbacks take great pains to draw new connections; pretty much noboy expected [[spoiler:Trant flipping Clark]] to be revealed as [[spoiler:Heero's uncle]].
250* EveryoneWentToSchoolTogether: ''Frozen Teardrop'' shows that the real Heero Yuy, Doctor J, and Quinze's brother were classmates in college, and that Heero introduced J to Relena's future mother and aunt. Not to mention J developing the first ZERO System back then and using data from the Peacecraft sisters in its development.
251* EvilLaugh: Heero does a particularly memorable one in the first episode (especially in English). And Quatre gets one of the creepiest ones period in episode 21, courtesy of Brad Swaile.
252* EvolvingCredits: Not as major as other Gundam shows, but still there.
253** Opening 1, "Just Communication," initially has low-quality stock footage of the Gundams during the instrumental between the first chorus and first verse. Starting with Episode 16, those shots are replaced with much higher quality animation. The shot of Trieze and Zechs in front of the former's followers was also moved to the end of the first bridge and a new shot of Wing flying towards the screen and transforming was added to the final chorus.
254** Opening 2, "Rhythm Emotion," is a bit more extensive. Originally, the intro had no sound effects for Wing Zero starting up, the opening beats had low-quality shots of the other 4 Gundams, and the various action shots of the Gundams and Epyon throughout are recycled show animation (aside from recycled footage of Heavyarms and Sandrock from the first opening). Later, the opening shot gets the boot-up beeping sound effect added in, the opening shots of the other four Gundams are replaced with a scene of Wing Zero launching and then into a quick profile close-up transition to the title screen, while all the action shots were upgraded to very high quality footage, aside from Sandrock, who simply gets the same shot reused AGAIN, just slowed down for some reason.
255* {{Expy}}:
256** Zechs is a CharClone, Relena is [[Anime/MobileSuitGundam Sayla Mass]], Mariemaia is [[Anime/MobileSuitZetaGundam Mineva Lao Zabi]], Noin is GenderFlip [[Anime/MobileSuitGundam Garma Zabi]], and both the original Heero Yuy and King Peacecraft were based on [[Anime/MobileSuitGundam Zeon Zum Deikun]].
257** Quatre seems to be a younger version of Film/LawrenceOfArabia. A pretty, white haired, sensitive warrior-poet who reluctantly leads an Arab army in a guerrilla war. Not to mention their BewareTheNiceOnes scenes. Or the HoYay.
258** Trowa's backstory may be a nod to Guts from ''Manga/{{Berserk}}''.
259** Duo's character and InUniverse nickname are a reference to an actual priest from UsefulNotes/TheSpanishInquisition who wore his hair in a braid and had the nickname "The God of Death".
260** ''Frozen Teardrop'' gets a bit absurd with this, combining it with GenerationXerox to have a story set 30 years later but with effectively the same cast as the TV series.
261** The five Gundam pilots are also this to TheTeam from ''[[Anime/MobileFighterGGundam G Gundam]]''.
262*** Heero, like Domon, is the best all around fighter and able to perform superhuman feats not thought possible.
263*** Duo, like Chibodee, is the comic relief and ButtMonkey, with a dash of HotBlooded in there.
264*** Trowa, like George, is calm and stoic most of the time. The two also have similar hairstyles.
265*** Quatre, like Argo, prefers peaceful resolution and tends to be the most in-tune with other people's feelings.
266*** Wufei, like Sai Saichi, is a WarriorMonk, distinctly Asian, and both his Gundams utilize extendable arms.
267* FalseFlagOperation: OZ commits multiple terrorist acts with the intent of blaming them on the pro-independence faction of the space colonies.
268* TheFederation:
269** The United Earth Sphere Alliance
270** The [[spoiler:Earth Sphere Unified Nation]], despite its OneWorldOrder connotations turns out to be a pretty benevolent one, much more so than the UC Earth Federation at any rate.
271* FemaleGaze: Unusally for a mecha anime, ''Gundam Wing'' is almost entirely predicated on it, maybe deliberately, maybe not:
272** Trowa Barton. Shirtless Trowa from the Endless Waltz OVA. Also, he gets a butt shot in the "Odds and Evens" shorts.
273** Treie Khushrenada. Bubble bath with rose petals.
274** Lots of crotch and butt shots of the G-boys throughout the series. Oh, and {{Latex Space Suit}}s.
275** The G-boys are seen in Speedos in one of the promo artbooks, as well as Heero and Duo taking their soaking wet shirts off in the rain.
276** Dozens of artbook pictures featuring [[GuyOnGuyIsHot Heero and Duo hanging all over each other]].
277** Heero's usual outfit consisting of a slinky tank top that frequently shows off his man-cleavage, and tight Spandex bike shorts with nothing underneath.
278** The series in general, being one of the first in the ''Franchise/{{Gundam}}'' franchise to feature a CastFullOfPrettyBoys.
279* FictionalCountry: The Sanc Kingdom, which official sources identify as Denmark.
280* {{Foreshadowing}}:
281** The title card in the series' first opening, "Just Communication". [[spoiler:It's the colony from the last episode where Une's speech on war is given, where the colony representatives are.]]
282** In one scene in the second episode of the series, Quatre is looking out at the landscape and wondering if "They" know how beautiful the Earth really is. It sounds like sentimentality, but fast forward to ''Endless Waltz'' where we learn what [[ColonyDrop Operation Meteor originally involved]], and the line becomes a lot more chilling.
283* {{Forgiveness}}: Sylvia Noventa calls Heero a coward for apologizing and offering his victims a chance for revenge but her grandmother (Field Marshall Noventa's widow) forgives him, writing a letter that says (paraphrased): "You shouldn't beat yourself up for your mistake; it's unfortunate but that sort of thing happens in war. My husband died trying to create a world where young people like you could live in peace, so please try to make his dream a reality."
284* ForgottenPhlebotinum: The main Gundams all have shields with offensive capabilities. Wing Gundam's shield can be used as a stabbing weapon; Wing Zero has the same, except it actually extends to be more effective; Deathscythe (and its upgrade. Deathscythe Hell) has a Buster Shield, which opens up and produces a beam blade and is then launched at an enemy, Heavyarms' shield is integrated into its Beam Gatling; Sandrock's shield can be combined with its weapons and jetpack to create a pincer weapon and can be used as a blinding flare, and Shenlong can throw its shield to destroy a mobile suit. Yet other than the Heavyarms, these offensive capabilities were each used precisely once by the suit over the course of the series (though Deathscythe used its Buster Shield once, and Deathscythe Hell used its Buster Shield once as well).
285* FragileFlyer: The Aries are the aerial counterpart to the Leos, acting as the primary airborne {{Mooks}} of the series. Unlike the Leos, which can be equipped with either solid ammunition weapons like machine guns and bazookas or beam weapons like beam rifles in addition to a basic beam saber mounted in their shields, the Aries are armed with nothing more than a chaingun and missiles. In order to keep weight low, they also have less armour than the Leos. Notably, when [[CharClone Zechs Merquise]] leads a team to intercept the Wing Gundam as it enters Earth's atmosphere, Zech opts to pilot a Leo rather than an Aries despite the confrontation happening at high altitude.
286* FriendToAllLivingThings:
287** Despite being a terrorist, Trowa seems to get along with the animals of his circus very well. One of his first episodes has him fearlessly reaching for a caged ''lion'', which acts like a kitty towards him after some seconds as he explains that it's all about showing fear.
288** One often ignored scene has ''Heero'' playing fetch with a pair of dogs while smiling, and encouraging Quatre to do the same.
289** Relena is also implied to have this trope in the ending where she's around various animals. Including rhinos, which remarkably do not gore her for pulling on their tails to set up a photo op.
290* FromTheMouthsOfBabes: The backstory for Duo Maxwell gives him a non-swearing example of this. During a conversation with the priest and nun who raised him, he says he doesn't believe in God, but he does believe in [[{{Shinigami}} the God of Death]], because as he puts it, "I've never seen any miracles, but I've seen lots and lots of dead people!" The nun admonishes him gently, but the priest laughs and admits the boy has a point.
291* FunWithAcronyms: The "ZERO" in ZERO System stands for "'''Z'''oning and '''E'''motional '''R'''ange '''O'''mitted". Meanwhile, the "Doll" Mobile Doll system stand for "'''D'''irect '''O'''perational '''L'''ead '''L'''abor".
292* GambitRoulette: [[spoiler:Treize and Zechs engineer the war between the Earth Nation and White Fang as part of their WellIntentionedExtremist plan. The manga version is a lot more explicit on this point, with Zechs confessing the truth to Heero, but the anime strongly implies the same. The thing is, it just gets hard to follow exactly what they are doing.]]
293* GatlingGood:
294** Gundam Heavyarms is almost the personification of this trope. Never mind the Heavyarms Custom [[spoiler:and the Serpents]] in ''Endless Waltz'', which uses ''four gatling guns simultaneously''. Plus ''four more of them'' hidden in its chest.
295** Wing Zero carries two small ones on its shoulder blades.
296* GenderEqualEnsemble: Has a primary cast of seven men (Heero, Duo, Trowa, Quatre, Wu Fei, Zechs, and Treize), and seven women (Relena, Hilde, Catherine, Dorothy, Sally, Noin, and Lady Une).
297* GenderIsNoObject: Played straight for the most part. Gender differences and double standards are brought up a few times, but men and women serve together in the various military groups, fight together in the battles, and there are both male and female high ranking military and political leaders.
298* GenerationXerox:
299** ''Frozen Teardrop'' takes this to the point of absurdity. Sally's daughter Kathy, Duo's son Duo (Jr?), Quatre's sister Katherine, and even Trowa's seemingly unrelated protegee Trowa Phobos all look and act pretty much identically to their counterparts from the anime.
300** The real Heero Yuy as a young man; not only did he look exactly like Heero the Gundam Pilot (someone ''completely unrelated to him''), but he had a romance with Katrina Peacecraft (who had a twin sister, Sabrina Peacecraft), who looks exactly like her future granddaughter Relena. This is of course not even mentioning Relena's mother, another Katrina Peacecraft, who also looks just like her daughter, but at the very least that was teased at in one episode by Marquise Weridge's comments to Relena. (He's strongly implied to be one of her relatives, or a family friend.)
301** Duke Dermail and his granddaughter, Dorothy.
302** Relena also looked very similar to Darlian's wife Maureen, which is partly why Relena refused to believe they weren't her real parents at first.
303* GeniusBruiser: Trowa, although Quatre could qualify during the final arc after he masters the ZERO System.
304* GenkiGirl: Hilde Schbeiker, also a {{Shorttank}}.
305* GetAHoldOfYourselfMan: Noin slaps a cadet in this fashion in Episode 4.
306* TheGlassesComeOff: Peace-loving [[spoiler:Lady Une]].
307* GrandTheftPrototype: Wouldn't be Gundam without them:
308** Once the Gundam pilots go back out into space, Sally runs around the world trying to collect the Gundams they left behind. She helps the Maguanac Corps swipe Sandrock, then teams up with Noin to grab Wing Gundam.
309** In Episode 34, when Zechs steals the Wing Zero from OZ before they got a chance to destroy it.
310** When the rebel faction White Fang captured OZ's Lunar Base, which, at the time of the raid, was developing the Virgo II mobile dolls. They also captured OZ's battleship ''Libra'', which became their base of operations.
311** After stealing critical data on ''Libra'', Hilde did a Taurusjack and escaped the battleship, before she was attacked by the mobile doll versions of Mercurius and Vayete, which were programmed with Heero and Trowa's combat data, respectively. She was saved by Duo.
312** In Episode 47, when Zechs was about to fire Libra's main cannon at Treize, [[spoiler:Lady Une wakes up from her coma]] and steals the Wing Gundam. [[spoiler:Une]] then knocks Treize out of the way and [[TakingTheBullet takes the blast]] for him. Only the lower body was destroyed, and [[spoiler:she survived]].
313* GuiltComplex: Quatre. Lampshaded by Duo in ''Endless Waltz'':
314-->'''Duo:''' Oh, man, Quatre loves to blame himself for everything if you let him. I wouldn't be surprised if one day he starts saying his lack of effort is the reason there's no air in outer space.
315* GunsAkimbo:
316** The ''Endless Waltz'' version of Heavyarms carries a dual-barreled gatling cannon in each hand in the final battle.
317** Wing Zero's Twin Buster Rifle is two guns that can either be wielded separately (done on multiple occasions) or joined into one gun that can fire an even more powerful shot.
318** Trowa does this once in a Taurus.
319* HandshakeRefusal: When future rivals Heero and Zechs meet face-to-face for the first time, Zechs offers his hand. After a pause, Heero accepts the gesture while remarking that he's never shaken hands with anybody before. This could be because Zechs has shown himself to be very honest and honorable, especially for a member of OZ.
320* HeelFaceRevolvingDoor: Throughout the series Zechs, Treize, and the Gundam pilots can't seem to decide if they're supposed to be allies or enemies. Zechs, in particular, seems to change his loyalties every ten episodes or so.
321* HeroWithBadPublicity: [[spoiler:Once the Gundam pilots return to space, they've found that OZ has made peace with the colonies and turned them against them.]]
322* HeroicSacrifice:
323** Heero attempts one in Episode 10 when OZ threatens to shoot down the largely peaceful space colonies. Dr. J then intervenes, calls Lady Une out on her bluff, tells him that he was fighting them on his own, and wouldn't hand over the Gundam to them. Cue Heero blowing up his Gundam to follow Dr. J's orders. Even Zechs and Treize were appalled by what Une threatened to do.
324** The [[spoiler:Gundam Engineers]] sacrifice themselves to prevent [[spoiler:the Libra and Peacemillion from doing a ColonyDrop on Earth]] in the final episode.
325* HeterosexualLifePartners:
326** Depending on the viewer's POV, the closest is Trowa and Quatre, and maybe even Zechs and Treize.
327** Maybe Zechs and Treize? Treize [[HoYay sounds like he is coming out]] in episode eighteen "come back to me Zechs."
328*** Further supported by the fact that the manga hints that a young Zechs went to live with Treize's family after the fall of Sanc. So they've probably been living together since they were young teenagers, at least.
329** Due to the normally socially implacable Heero, his surprisingly close friendship with Duo was all [[OddCouple the stranger.]]
330** Quatre and Heero understand each other and get along surprisingly well in the second half of the series for such little interaction in the first.
331* HiddenDepths: When Treize isn't waxing poetical about the state of warfare, he's actually a very competent mobile suit designer, having designed Epyon, Tallgeese II and III, and the Serpents.
332* HitmanWithAHeart: Heero, so much. [[spoiler:According to ''Episode Zero'', he takes it after his father, Odin Lowe]]. This may also apply to Trowa, who was [[spoiler:planning to infiltrate OZ and assassinate Treize at one point]].
333* HollywoodHealing: At one point Heero breaks his leg, then sets and splints it himself, and is fit to pilot the next day (after pulling an all-nighter repairing his Gundam). On the other hand, after [[spoiler:blowing up Wing Gundam with himself in it]], he ends up unconscious for a month and his wounds are still reopening several episodes later.
334* HollywoodHeartAttack: PlayedWith. In episode 10, Quatre clutches his chest and doubles over in apparent pain when Heero tries to sacrifice himself to destroy Wing Gundam. It turns out to be psychosomatic; Trowa is able to snap him out of it.
335-->'''Quatre:''' The pain... my body... my heart...
336* HonorBeforeReason:
337** Wufei had a perfectly good opportunity to kill Treize with his Gundam, but chose to accept a challenge to a sword duel instead. Treize wins the duel and had a perfectly good opportunity to capture or kill a Gundam pilot and take his ultra-advanced suit, but chose to let him leave. Wufei then could've gotten back in his Gundam and blown away Treize where he stood, but chose to simply leave.
338*** To be fair, both men have a strong sense of honor. Treize let him go because Wufei accepted his sword duel challenge, and then lost fair and square, when he could have easily smashed Treize's cabin just moments earlier. In Wufei's case, he likely wouldn't be able to live with himself had he killed Treize in such a cowardly way after having been beaten in a fair fight, further evidenced by his HeroicBSOD in episode 12. Plus, Endless Waltz's novelization points out that if Treize was killed back then, OZ would have descended into chaos with its leader dead, escalating the conflict even further.
339** Played almost stupidly with Zechs' personality. He won't defeat an opponent if it isn't a fair fight. This translates to, he can disarm them in mid-combat, then spare them because he was no longer armed with a weapon. His need to be honorable certainly seems to cloud any sense of priority, as he will give his rival a Gundam, just so they can have a fair duel, while in the middle of a war.
340* HumanPopsicle: In ''Frozen Teardrop'', we learn that Doctor J designed a cryogenic stasis pod, which has the side effect of damaging the subject's memory. [[spoiler:Heero and Relena were both frozen, hence the title.]]
341* IcarusAllusion: The ''Glory of Losers'' chapter "The Lament for Icarus", which likens the Gundam pilots (especially Heero) and Zechs to Icarus.
342* IconOfRebellion: The Gundams become a symbol of colonial resistance. White Fang tries to convince Duo to join, but he tells them to LeaveMeAlone; [[spoiler:they're much more successful with Zechs.]]
343* IfYouCanReadThis: In one early episode, the computer screens with Heero's medical data show text from the readme file for Photoshop's TWAIN plugin.
344* IfYoureSoEvilEatThisKitten: An OZ officer tests the loyalty of new recruit [[spoiler:Trowa Barton]] by asking him to destroy [[spoiler:Gundam Deathscythe]]. The recruit being tested asks for a weapon powerful enough to do the job and then complies.
345* IKnowYouAreInThereSomewhereFight: First, [[spoiler:Trowa towards the maddened Quatre under the effect of the ZERO System]]. Works only partially, as [[spoiler:Quatre blows his suit up yet ''does'' snap back to sanity.]] Later, [[spoiler:Quatre is the one who tries pulling Trowa out of his own ZERO System-induced craziness; he fully succeeds, keeping Trowa from blowing up a whole colony.]]
346* IllKillYou: See IneffectualDeathThreats.
347* ImageSong: Pretty much the entire primary cast of the show (with the notable exception of Noin) gets at least one.
348** What's even more notable is that Noin is voiced by Creator/ChisaYokoyama who has sang quite a lot of image songs for various characters she has played.
349* ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy: It is shown most egregiously in a scene where a squad of Leos have two Gundams surrounded, while being a fairly short distance away. They all open fire at once... ''and completely fail to hit anything.'' The two pilots even have a short exchange of dialogue while their enemies fire enthusiastically in a circle around their feet.
350* ImprobableAge:
351** The Gundam Pilots are all 15. Some of them were doing this kind of thing even earlier than that. Possibly even more improbable is that Zechs, Lucrezia, and Une are only 19 and Treize is 24, despite them all acting and looking like they're in their late 20s to early 30s.
352** ''Frozen Teardrop'' acknowledges the very young age of most of the characters, and attempts an explanation: since medical technology had increased the human lifespan, the world's leaders had no reason to give any authority to their children, and indeed fought and "oppressed" that generation so they could keep their power. By the time they were ready to retire, their grandchildren were just starting to come of age, and the 2nd generation was too stagnant and unused to wielding power that they thought it would be better to hand power to the bright young minds of the 3rd generation.
353* IneffectualDeathThreats:
354** Heero is pretty much the patron saint of this trope; if he threatens someone with death, you can bet top dollar he won't go through with it.
355*** If anything, Heero's death threats seem to be either a warning for people to [[SuperHeroParadox stay the hell away from him]] (Relena in episode 1) or an attempt to convince ''himself'' that killing people he's come to care about (see: Relena, Duo, Quatre) is [[ItsTheOnlyWay the only option]]; the fact that it always fails shows that he's [[HitmanWithAHeart got a heart]].
356* InvincibleHero: The five pilots and their Gundams are near unstoppable Juggernauts. You could count their losses on one hand, and then you'd need a calculator for all the times they win. The infamous "IT'S A GUNDAM!" line exists for a reason.
357** Heero in particular is arguably an exaggeration of this trope. Not only is he easily the best of the five pilots (especially once he gets the Wing Zero), but he also seems to be a quite literal example too given he regularly survives injuries he really shouldn't. [[spoiler:Including surviving the fall, explosion and complete destruction of the Wing Zero in the climax of Endless Waltz (complete with the cockpit area exploding). And Heero (not kidding) climbs out looking none the worse for wear and walks away just fine.]]
358* InvisibleBackupBand: Trowa's and Quatre's duet ("Hearth throbbing Melody") from "The Victoria Nightmare."
359** They're so awesome at their respective instruments that Quatre's violin keeps playing after he stops, and Trowa's flute starts playing long before he does.
360* IOweYouMyLife: Quatre openly says that if not for Trowa, he'd be either dead or nuts.
361* IronicEcho: In the first episode, after Relena gives Heero an invitation to her birthday party, he tears it and threatens to kill her. In the final episode, [[spoiler:Heero (disguised as a mechanic) leaves Relena a birthday card, and she tears it, telling him, "Next time, hand it to me in person!"]]
362* ISOStandardUrbanGroceries: Catherine has one of these when she finds an amnesiac Trowa in Episode 35.
363* ItRunsInTheFamily: Noin describes [[spoiler:both Relena and Zechs]] as "reckless" and "very difficult to control".
364* [[ItsRainingMen It's Raining Mobile Suits]]: A recurring sequence features numerous drop ships opening and a ton of mobile suits emerging.
365* IWorkAlone: Heero and Trowa try to keep to this in the beginning of the series, but it doesn't last. Quatre changes Trowa almost immediately. Duo and Relena eventually wear down Heero into working with others, though he never completely breaks out of this mentality even in ''Endless Waltz''.
366* KnightInShiningArmor: Tallgeese and Tallgeese II both evoke knightly imagery with their dazzling white paint and heads like a knight's helmet. Rather fitting considered they're piloted by a king and an aristocrat, respectively.
367* KillMeNowOrForeverStayYourHand: After killing the Alliance peacemakers, Heero goes around to their families, apologizing and offering them the opportunity to kill him in {{Revenge}}.
368* KnifeThrowingAct: Being part of a circus as his cover, Trowa performs in this act as the target. At one point, he doesn't react to a knife hitting close enough to nick his temple.
369* LaResistance: The five space colonies would bring together five former, disillusioned OZ scientists to build five Gundams and train their respective pilots in guerrilla warfare, in order to prepare them for their rebellion against a corrupt Earth-based government. White Fang (and in some regard, the Treize Faction) would eventually represent a corrupted version of the very rebellion the space colonies and their respective Gundam pilots staged against Earth.
370* LaserGuidedAmnesia: [[spoiler:Trowa Barton, after he is eventually rescued from floating in space.]]
371* LastNameBasis: Noin, Une, and Dermail.
372* LeaveBehindAPistol: The Romefeller Foundation's response when Treize turns on them over their use of mobile dolls is to confine him to their headquarters and give him a fancy single-shot pistol.
373* LeaveNoSurvivors: Alex and Mueller's mentality. When they try to pull this off with Zechs present, they are quickly dealt with.
374* LeaveTheTwoLoveBirdsAlone: Something to this effect happens towards the finale of the series. Heero goes to rescue Relena from the Libra and Duo wonders if he'll be alright on his own. Cue Quatre telling him he'd just "be in the way" while smiling in a way that suggests a ShipperOnDeck.
375* {{Leitmotif}}: Each of the Gundam Pilots has one, but Heero and Relena are special cases as the core elements of their songs ("The Wings of a Boy Who Killed Adolescence" and "As Relena Peacecraft" respectively) appear in a few others ("Heero's Time of Decision" and "The Pain That Should Be Thrown Away Long Ago" for him, "Soft Hair, Clear Eyes" and "To Beauty, To Elegance, And To Noble-Mindedness" for her}.
376* LetsYouAndHimFight: Infighting among the Gundam pilots is frequent.
377* LighterAndSofter: Compared to other Gundam shows, with fewer major deaths and horrific disasters and war crimes in this one, complete with a happy ending. On the other hand, there's comparatively little humor, and ContemplateOurNavels moments happen signfificantly more frequently.
378* LightIsNotGood: The angelic, brightly-coloured Wing Zero, a terrifying engine of destruction that is responsible for some of the worst massacres in the series, and has a nasty habit of [[MindRape mind-raping]] its pilots.
379* LightningBruiser: All five Gundams. They are fast and resistant to most beam weapons. The Tallgeese and its variants are also this.
380* LimitedWardrobe: No matter where any of the Gundam pilots are or what they were wearing beforehand, they'll always have their default outfits close by. Heero with his green tank top and shorts, Duo with his priest outfit, Quatre with his collared shirt and vest, Trowa with his turtleneck, and Wufei with his blue top and white pants. Trowa subverts it the most, since his undercover work finds him in either a clown outfit or an OZ uniform for much of the show.
381* LonelyRichKid: Relena, so much. Most of her friends in the beginning of the series idolize and fawn over her, rather than simply treating her like normal. Once she becomes aware of her heritage, she begins to rely on Noin and her butler Pagan, but Noin is too busy fighting to be around for long periods of time. Dorothy exasperates Relena constantly, with her thirst for battle clashing against Relena's pacifistic ideals. She desperately wants Heero to stay by her side, but he considers himself too big a target and too dangerous to stay by her, so he sticks to the shadows. Her lone confidant is Pagan, but he is 50 years older than her and even that is taken away once she surrenders to the Romafeller Foundation.
382* LockedOutOfTheLoop: The five Gundam pilots are sent to Earth independently without being told of the existence of the others, and only realize there are other Gundam pilots when they run into each other during missions by chance. Had they been briefed and trained to operate as a unit, things likely would have gone a lot differently. This was a side effect of the Earth Alliance restricting travel and communication between colonies, which prevented the five teams who designed the Gundams and trained the pilots from coordinating with each other.
383* LostInTranslation:
384** The infamous "No machinegun for him!"; more egregious but lesser known is "Prince of the Stars".
385*** The 'machinegun' line is actually more a case of SmallReferencePools. 'Machineguns' is, in military terms, giving a warning shot. Zechs was ordering NOT to give Heero a warning shot and to shoot him down immediately, since he knew of the incoming Operation Meteor. Naturally, anyone that doesn't know that slang would be confused by this. In addition to that, the "Prince of the Stars" line is a reference to Zechs and Relena's Episode Zero chapter, so that's more a case of AllThereInTheManual than LostInTranslation.
386*** "Prince of the Stars" is the Japanese title for ''Literature/TheLittlePrince'', which actually ''is'' an apt comparison since from Relena's perspective, Heero is a boy from space who rode a "shooting star" (his Gundam) to come to Earth. "Prince of the Stars" just makes her sound kind of [[TheDitz ditzy]]. In some newer versions, the "Prince of the Stars" has been changed to "Is he a 'Little Prince'?" which clears at least that particular issue up.
387** The English dub is actually riddled with all sorts of weird translation mistakes and lines that just don't seem to make sense the way they're said. And in a plot this complicated... God help you if you want to understand it through the first viewing.
388* LukeIAmYourFather: [[spoiler:Odin Lowe is Heero's biological father. Sadly, it seems Heero was never made aware of this.]]
389* MacrossMissileMassacre: Heavyarms. Not used quite as extensively compared to its MoreDakka functionality, but it's definitely there when [[strike:some]] everything needs to get blown up right away.
390* MadeOfExplodium: If any mobile suit takes any sort of damage (other than those piloted by protagonists and central villains) the suit will explode immediately.
391* MadeOfIndestructium: The Gundams got their name partially from the Gundanium alloy armor used in their construction. While in most Gundam series the Gundam is fitted with a [[LightningBruiser lightweight but very durable armor]] that lets them resist most infantry weaponry, the Gundams in this show are [[NighInvulnerable extremely durable even by Gundam standards]], contributing to their reputation as near unstoppable. Operation: Meteor was built around just the five gundams being able to beat the entire OZ military into submission. The only way to combat them is in close quarters with another Gundam or a mobile suit on semi-equal footing like the Talgeese, or somehow being able to [[DeathOfAThousandCuts overwhelm just one with a continuous assault]].
392* TheManBehindTheMan: Duke Dermail to Treize. First played straight when it's revealed that Treize and Oz are serving the Romefeller Foundation. However, after Treize steps down it's inverted with Treize proving just how influential he was when the Oz soldiers still loyal to him break away from Romefeller resulting in Treize becoming DragonInChief when he returns to Romefeller.
393* MarketBasedTitle: Until 2002's ''[[Anime/MobileSuitGundamSEED Gundam SEED]]'', only Universal Century shows used "Mobile Suit (Kidou Senshi)" in the Japanese title; the other Alternate Universe shows had their own pre-titles. The original for this series is ''Shin Kidou Sen'''ki''' Gundam Wing'', the first part translated as "New Mobile Report", "New Mobile History", or "New Mobile War Chronicle" in various sourcebooks. The decision to use "Mobile Suit" may have been to avoid the headache of all these conflicting translations, or to tie it closer with the older series.
394* MasterSwordsman: Treize, Heero, Dorothy, and Quatre all demonstrate incredible feats of swordsmanship at one point or another.
395* MeaningfulName
396** Relena and Milliardo "Peacecraft".
397** Heero Yuy, who was [[NamedAfterSomebodyFamous named for the colonies' peaceful and charismatic leader]]. Also, Heero? It doesn't get more obvious than that.
398** Duo Maxwell, named for the two biggest influences on his young life: Solo, the leader of his group of street urchins and his childhood best friend, and the Maxwell Church (and Father Maxwell), which was his home after the urchins were caught and put up for adoption. Meanwhile, in ''Frozen Teardrop'',
399** Meanwhile, Duo names himself [[spoiler:Father Maxwell]] while [[spoiler:an "orphan" from Sister Hilde's orphanage who [[GenerationXerox looks exactly like the original Duo]], probably Duo's kid with Hilde]] is also named Duo Maxwell.
400* MechaMooks: Mobile Dolls. They're also EliteMooks compared to the Leos.
401* MicroMonarchy: While Sanc Kingdom is probably the size of Sweden, compared to the other states in the setting, which not only extend over the entire Earth but also into space, it's pretty tiny.
402* MidSeasonUpgrade:
403** Deathscythe and Shenlong were the only Mobile Suits in the entire series to play this trope straight, as the original models were rebuilt into the Deathscythe Hell and Altron respectively.
404** Wing Zero is Wing's upgrade in a meta sense, but in-show they are two different suits, with Zero being the prototype for all the Gundams, while Wing is a more managebale downgrade. Heero Yuy even went back to the original Wing for a while until permanently switching to Wing Zero right before the final quarter of the show.
405** Heavyarms and Sandrock only received modest upgrades once they finally got out into space. Aside from extra rockets for manuverability, Heavyarms gained an extra gatling gun and Sandrock received a sub-machine gun.
406** The Tallgeese was eventually destroyed and rebuilt as the Tallgeese II, though the pilots changed, as Zechs piloted the original while Treize piloted the upgrade.
407** Zechs himself would eventually upgrade to the Gundam Epyon just before joining White Fang.
408** The Virgo Mobile Dolls, despite debuting in the middle of the show, were eventually upgraded by White Fang into the Virgo [=IIs=], which featured a green color scheme (instead of black like the originals), more planetary shields, and more powerful beam cannons.
409* MilitaryAcademy: The Lake Victoria Military Academy that Zechs and Noin went to and where Noin is an instructor when she's first introduced.
410* MindRape: Happens to pretty much everyone who tries to use Wing Zero or Epyon due to how the system works. Some of them get over it, some of them don't.
411* MookHorrorShow: The first solo outing of the [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Deathscythe Hell]].
412* MookLieutenant: Leo's with shoulder cannons are always piloted by squadron leaders and they lead detachments against whatever the threat of the week is.
413* MookMobile: The Leo suits, the basic mass-productions models that gets mowed down in droves by everyone else. The Aries may also count.
414* MoreDakka: Heavyarms. And Trowa can't seem to leave a battle without emptying every single clip he has.[[note]]Worth noting that the Heavyarms, and its variants, don't fully achieve this, as its various Gatling Guns were actually Beam Gatling Guns, therefore, not actually ballistics.[[/note]]
415** Sandrock gets a Beam SMG as part of its MidSeasonUpgrade, giving it some much-needed long-range firepower.
416* MuggedForDisguise: Heero does this multiple times throughout the show whenever he needs to sneak into an enemy stronghold.
417* MrFanservice: Particularly Heero, Duo and Zechs, but the other boys have their own strong following as well. This show singlehandedly brought thousands of female fans not only into the Gundam franchise, but anime in general. Rumor has it they purposefully made the pilots more appealing to broaden their demographic and garner female interest; it worked. The massive amount of yaoi fangirlism this show has spawned is staggering.
418* MultinationalTeam
419** Heero Yuy: Japanese
420** Duo Maxwell: American
421** Trowa Barton: Unknown, even to himself. If we accept that Cathy is his birth sister, it's ''still'' vague because official sources have alternately labeled him or her Latino, Russian, or simply "European."
422** Quatre Raberba Winner: Arabic of Berber descent.
423** Chang Wufei: Chinese
424* TheMutiny:
425** Operation Daybreak, where [=OZ=] makes its presence widely known and starting the downfall of the United Earth Sphere Alliance.
426** The Treize Faction comes about when Duke Dermail places Treize under house arrest and is made up of those who follow Treize's ideals to the letter. They became instrumental in weakening the Romafeller Foundation and eventually achieved their goal of making Treize leader of the world.
427* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Several characters go through this, most famously Heero when he accidentally killed the main Alliance leadership as well as the ones clamoring the most for peace with the space colonies such as Marshall Noventa. Quatre also falls into this after he seemingly [[spoiler: kills Trowa]] while piloting the Wing Zero.
428* MythologyGag:
429** Classic ''Franchise/{{Gundam}}'' series get a few subtle nods, such as the [[PsychicPowers Newtype]] "flash" sound being used a few times. Worth noting because in early drafts, Wu Fei was a Newtype. In episode 41, the blonde female cannon operator aboard Barge bears a resemblance to Sayla Mass.
430** There's the date, April 7th. Within the series, this was when the original Heero Yuy was assassinated in AC 175, when Relena was born on AC 180, and on AC 195, when Operation Meteor was launched. In the real world, April 7th was when ''Gundam Wing'' was first broadcast on Japanese television in 1995, and when ''Mobile Suit Gundam'' was first broadcast on Japanese television in 1979.
431** The Tallgeese being three time faster than the Aries is a reference to Char's Zaku being three times faster than a regular Zaku.
432** In one episode, Taurus Mobile Dolls are equipped with laser rifles that look just like the machine guns used by Federation mobile suits in ''Anime/MobileSuitGundam0083StardustMemory''.
433** Noin, piloting her Taurus, does Char's Flying Kick on a Virgo in episode 33.
434* NamedAfterSomebodyFamous:
435** Trowa is named after Creator/TimBurton, whom director Masashi Ikeda is a big fan of.
436** In-universe, Heero Yuy is named after the pacifist leader of the colonies. Out-of-universe, his name was designed to be evocative of [[Anime/MobileSuitGundam Amuro Ray]].
437* TheNameless: "Trowa Barton" was seperated from his family as a baby and raised by a band of mercenaries, who never named him. He remains nameless his entire life until the eve of Operation Meteor, when he lifts the moniker of the man originally trained to pilot the Heavyarms Gundam. After ''[[TheMovie Endless Waltz]]'', considers himself nameless once more, until Duo and Quatre convince him to keep it.
438* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: From the ''G-Unit: The Last Outpost'', the BigBad is named Valder '''Farkill'''. His nickname is ''the Dark General of Destruction''. Yup, run fast and don't look back.
439* NaziNobleman: The Romefeller Foundation in general seems to be made up of them. And given their shadowy background, it wouldn't be surprising if they supported the Nazis themselves at one point.
440* NecessaryDrawback: The ZERO System gives pilots an unprecedented combat advantage by presenting them with the best possible course of action but can drive the pilot insane.
441** This is justified by implying that the system doesn't only present the best course of action, it lists out ''all'' possible approaches and outcomes and points out the most efficient/effective one. Given that the human mind is only equipped to consciously process one major train of thought at a time, the sheer volume of data being forced into the pilot's brain by ZERO is what makes the user's psyche snap like a dry twig.
442** Also because it focuses on battle data, which is why you have to push all non-essential thoughts out of your head. When Zechs lost focus and thought about Peacemillion, he saw himself blow it up. The same thing happened to Duo when he thought about the colony where Hilde was. Nice tear jerker, but it was all a dream, thankfully.
443* NeverFoundTheBody:
444** [[spoiler:Zechs Merquise was presumed to be dead at the final episode, but he returns in the OAV, Endless Waltz.]]
445** [[spoiler:The novelization ends by remarking on the status of the seven Gundams, mentioning that Epyon is at the bottom of the ocean and nods to the idea that Zechs escaped.]]
446* NeverSayDie: In the Creator/{{Toonami}} afternoon run edit, "The God of Death" is called "The Great Destroyer," and explicit references to death are removed, typically replaced with "destroy." The Midnight Run showing was aired unedited for content.
447* NeverTrustATrailer: The Toonami trailer exaggerates a bit, as the narrator states "...Mankind has reached the stars, but the galaxy is troubled." In the show, most of the action really takes place on Earth or the Earth-Moon system, and humanity haven't even left the solar system.
448* [[NiceJobBreakingItHero Nice Job Breaking It, Heero]]: Heero unwittingly killed a bunch of pacifist Earth Sphere leaders, allowing OZ to execute their EvilPlan and seize control of the world.
449* NiceJobFixingItVillain: Once the bad guys take over the planet, they install Relena as their figurehead queen, for the good PR. This backfires, as they didn't expect her to be quite so savvy or charismatic, so that lots of powerful people actually ''listen'' to her.
450* NightmareFuel: Used in-universe when Heero and Duo jump out of the hospital window, and Heero (at first) aims head-downwards, intending to commit suicide.
451--> '''Duo:''' ''Hey, are you crazy?! Hurry up and open your parachute!'' ...damn, I'm gonna have nightmares over this one!
452* NGOSuperpower:
453** The Romefeller Foundation, a secret league of aristocrats who funded the Alliance and plotted to take over the world. They had enough clout to form The Specials, an elite mobile suit corps that served as the front for OZ.
454** The Barton Foundation, which had ambitions to take over the world, and the resources to attempt to do it ''twice''.
455* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed:
456** Relena is modeled on Creator/AudreyHepburn, [[WholeCostumeReference right down to the Queen of the World dress]] being lifted directly from ''Film/RomanHoliday''.
457** In interviews, the show's staff outright said that Heero is modeled on Japanese actress [[http://www.jap.co.jp/yuki/ Yuki Uchida]].
458* NoHuggingNoKissing:
459** Aside from ''Blind Target'', where Heero (possibly) kisses Relena, relationships in ''Gundam Wing'' are noticeably asexual. Even Zechs and Noin, who are an official couple, demonstrate little, if any, physical affection for each other. It's probably because a lot more focus was given to the politics and combat in the story.
460** Then again, Zechs and Noin get a serious DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything moment in Episode 4, when Noin taps her sword against his while he's on the phone.
461* NoLovesIntersect: Each of the pilots has a single, solitary female potential LoveInterest and that pilot is their only LoveInterest. However, due to NoHuggingNoKissing almost none of the couples are resolved at the end, giving shippers free reign to do as they choose.
462* NoNameGiven: Because the Gundam pilots almost never speak the names of their craft anywhere that a witness could repeat the names to OZ (or sometimes at all), OZ troops spend a good part of the series referring to them by arbitrarily assigned numbers. Wing is Gundam 01, Deathscythe/Deathscythe Hell is Gundam 02, Heavyarms is Gundam 03, Sandrock is Gundam 04, and Shenlong/Altron is Gundam 05.
463* NonIndicativeName: The heat rods used by the Epyon and the Tallgeese III are not in fact rods, but segmented whips.
464* NoOneCouldSurviveThat:
465** Heero may as well be the poster child for this.
466*** He gets this in-universe when Zechs traps his Gundam and it plummets straight into the ocean. Of course, he survives with barely a scratch.
467*** A few episodes later, he jumps from a tall skyscraper head first, pulls his parachute late, and slides down a rocky cliff, and his only significant injury is a dislocated leg. Oh, and this is ''after'' losing a lot of blood freeing himself from his bonds about twenty minutes earlier.
468*** After that, he self-destructs Wing while standing on the cockpit door. While he loses a lot of blood and takes several months to recover, he does return to full strength with all of his limbs and no scars to speak of anywhere.
469*** Finally, when the last piece of Libra is heading for Earth, Heero zooms down in Wing Zero to intercept it. He flies in front, burning up, and fires his rifles. Instead of being flung away from the explosion and burning up on re-entry, he transforms into Bird Mode and flies ''through'' the explosion.
470** Trowa, piloting the Vaeyate, confronts Quatre, who has gone crazy in the Wing Zero. Quatre fires a shot from the Twin Buster Rifle, which ''just'' destroyed a colony and resource satallite a few hours ago, and although half of the Mobile Suit gets totaled, Trowa himself is mostly fine. He then tanks another hit, which forces the suit to explode. Trowa then rockets upward so Heero and Quatre won't be caught in the blast. Somehow, not only is he thrown from the Vaeyate without puncturing his space suit in the slightest, but he has enough air to survive floating in the endless void of space, unconscious, for ''weeks''.
471** Lady Une has them all beat. Late in the series, Zechs fires the Libra's main cannon, which is capable of causing severe damage to Earth's surface, right at Treize, wanting him to be obliterated. Une, piloting a stolen Wing Gundam, pushes Treize out of the way and takes the full brunt of the massive laser. While the Gundam itself is trashed for good, Une herself is completely uninjured. And that was after spending much of the series in a coma due to being shot in the torso and bleeding out for hours before anyone rescued her.
472* NoSell: The standard issue firearms issued to Leo mobile suits are incapable of penetrating Gundanium armor. This, combined with the fact that the weapons issued to Gundams can wreck Leos with casual ease, makes the Leo look like an absolutely useless MookMobile.
473* NotSoDifferentRemark: Tsubarov accuses the White Fang of this, which the soldiers even agree with.
474-->'''Tsubarov''': Your methods are no different from those of OZ.
475-->'''Soldier''': That's correct, we learned everything we know from you people.
476* NuclearWeaponsTaboo: If the ICBM's at New Edwards were to go off, the blast radius is speculated to be in the ''hundreds of kilometers''. [[note]] The UniverseBible, released as part of the Sunrise Art Book Series, clearly labels the missiles as [=ICBMs=] [[/note]]
477* NumericalThemeNaming: For most of the cast. Heero gets the themeiest name of them all; WordOfGod from the character designer says it's based off of the words "''hitotsu''" (Japanese for "one" or "first"), "''yuitsu''" (Japanese for "alone" or "only"), and "hero", and was made to be evocative of the name "[[Anime/MobileSuitGundam Amuro Ray]]".
478** With Heero being First, the rest of the main cast follows the numerical naming: Duo (2, obvious), Trowa (homophone to the French pronounciation for 3 "Trois"), Quatre (French for 4), Chang Wufei (Wu is chinese for 5) and Zechs (homophone for Sechs, which is German for 6). The show in fact really likes naming characters using either the outright French word for a number (Quatre, Une (1), Treize (13), Quinze (15), Milliard (Billion)) or a homophone for one (Trowa, Trant (30)). And also the BigBad in Endless Waltz, Dekim (Decem, 10)).
479* OfficerAndAGentleman: Treize and Zechs.
480* OfficialCouple:
481** Zechs and Noin.
482** ''Frozen Teardrop'' adds a couple more, including [[spoiler:Duo and Hilde]] and [[spoiler:Heero and Relena]] (though the former couple got divorced somewhere in the interim).
483* OhCrap: More generally, throughout the series various characters (major, minor and nameless) have this reaction when they see that they're fighting a Gundam. Panicked shouts of "IT'S A GUNDAM!" abound.
484* TheOjou: Relena and Sylvia Noventa. Dorothy is a slightly twisted version.
485* OneManArmy: The Gundam pilots in general. As demonstrated by several instances (including one in which Heero and Quatre took out an entire carrier battlegroup with just a transport plane and a pair of sub-machine-guns), the HumongousMecha are ''entirely'' optional.
486* OneSteveLimit:
487** Averted. In one episode Dorothy delivers a little speech comparing Heero Yuy the colonial leader to Heero Yuy the Gundam Pilot, to try and rile him up and make him reveal his identity. After she's done, he responds "I don't know what you're talking about. There must be at least two guys here named Heero Yuy besides me." This [[FridgeBrilliance actually makes sense]], seeing as how important and popular the original Heero Yuy was.
488** The name "Catherine" pops up in several different forms throughout the series and its spin-offs: Cathy Bloom (Trowa's "sister"), Katrina Peacecraft (Relena's birth mother), Katherine[=/=][[SpellMyNameWithAnS Quatrina]] Winner (Quatre's mother), and in ''Frozen Teardrop'' [[spoiler:Kathy Po (Sally's daughter) and Katrina Oud Winner (Quatre's younger sister, named for their mother)]].
489* OutOfFocus: Despite the small central cast, this somehow applies to everyone except Heero and Quatre.
490** Duo, once he escapes from the Lunar Base, only appears in one episode until the White Fang starts showing up.
491** Trowa, after thrown from the Vaeyate's exploding suit, sits out the show for almost 15 episodes.
492** Zechs, after his duel with Heero, ceases to be important to the story until the final arc. His only accomplishments are saving Lady Une once and delivering Wing Zero to Heero.
493** Relena, once the story moves to space for the first time, goes into the background until the halfway point, where she's revealed to be leading the revived Sanc Kingdom.
494** Noin disappears at the same time, since she becomes Relena's mentor.
495** The five Gundam scientists are shown looking at Wing Zero as the Lunar Base is on fire in Episode 29. They don't appear again until near the end of the series, where it's revealed that the White Fang was holding them captive.
496** Lady Une disappears midway through the series [[spoiler: due to getting shot]]. She doesn't re-appear until the final few episodes.
497** Treize, after stepping down as Chief Representative, goes into hiding to build Epyon and doesn't appear again until near the end of the Sanc Kingdom arc. Then, he vanishes for a few more episodes until taking over Romefeller from Relena and Duke Dermail.
498** Wufei, however, takes the cake. He could arguably be this for almost the entire show. Since he tends to stick to himself, there are very few scenes where he's actually seen interacting with the other Gundam pilots, and before the final arc, he only ever fights alongside his allies twice for a combined total of less than five minutes. Outside of his handful of spotlight episodes, he barely makes an impact on the overall story.
499** Despite being why the show exists, the titular Gundams get this between Episodes 16 and 31. Sandrock self-destructs, Wing and Heavyarms are left on Earth while everyone else is in space, and both Deathscythe and Shenlong are quickly destroyed and captured by OZ. Even the brand new Gundams introduced (Wing Zero, Deathscythe Hell, and Altron) get this. Heero goes back to his original Wing Gundam during the Sanc Kingdom arc, while Wing Zero gets passed around near the end of said arc, while Deathscythe Hell and Altron only factor in Duo and Wufei's respective spotlight episodes until the final arc when all the Gundam pilots come together.
500* OverrankedSoldier: Zechs and Une; Ranks? Lieutenant Colonel. Ages? ''19.'' Treize; Rank? Colonel. Age? ''24.'' It's good to have connections.
501* PastelChalkedFreezeFrame: Featured in the episodes "Catherine's Tears" and "Takeoff into Confusion".
502* PerfectPacifistPeople: One sidestory has a subversion with the so-called Perfect Peace People. Despite all their constant rhetoric about how pacifist they are they are little more than terrorists who brainwash people and use violence to enforce their peace.
503* PhraseCatcher: '''"IT'S A GUNDAM!"''' is very, ''very'' frequently said ([[Memes/{{Gundam}} even for a Gundam series]]), to the point of it becoming a [[DrinkingGame/MobileSuitGundamWing drinking game]].
504* PimpedOutDress: Relena gets a very, very nice one when Romafeller made her Queen of the Earth.
505* PlotArmor: Standard and obselete models of mobile suits are never destroyed outright when piloted by main characters, even when taking heavy fire from superior forces. In contrast, everyone else suffers from OneHitKill whenever they engage a superior mobile suit.
506* ThePowerOfFriendship: The Gundam Pilots working together is ''literally'' what saves the Earth ''and'' the Space Colonies.
507* {{Prequel}}: The ''Episode Zero'' manga, which was written by the anime's head writer. It's technically not canon due to Sunrise's policy (Only animated works are canon), but interviews have stated that they were supposed to be Episodes 27 and 28, but the budget wouldn't allow it, forcing them to replace those with two clip shows.
508* PropagandaMachine: One of the pilot's major weaknesses is that their enemies have have access to the media while they do not, which allows OZ and Romefeller to turn public opinion against them.
509* PsychicPowers: Quatre has latent Newtype abilities. In the original concept for Wing, Wufei also had the Newtype ability to sense evil-doers. Depending on how similar the Zero system is to Gundam F91's Bio-computers (which improve anybody's combat performance but function best when used by a Newtype), Heero and Zechs may very well have some Newtype ability.
510* PurpleProse: Treize speaks, and thinks, in this.
511* PurposefullyOverpowered: The Gundams in general were intentionally designed to be much more durable and powerful than the mass-produced mobile suits fielded by the UESA and OZ.
512* RagtagBunchOfMisfits: The Gundam pilots. We have a genetically-altered SuperSoldier who wears Spandex bike shorts, a LongHairedPrettyBoy who dresses like a priest but isn't a priest, an EmoTeen with a side gig as a clown, a musically-inclined rich boy, and an ArrogantKungFuGuy. It doesn't help that the scientists they work for ''conveniently'' forgot to tell them that they're supposed to work together. And while it takes nearly to the end of the series to ''get'' to that point, they do eventually become a formidable team.
513* RealMenWearPink: Who'd think that the waifish guy in a pink shirt would be the more dangerous one? And hey, the BigBad likes to take rose-scented bubble baths, as well as listen to opera music.
514* RealRobotGenre:
515** Despite borrowing the [[{{Sentai}} five Gundam]] concept from ''Anime/MobileFighterGGundam'''s [[PlayingCardMotifs Shuffle Alliance]] (which were {{Super Robot}}s, by the way), and being built out of a [[{{Unobtainium}} fictional metal]], the six Gundams used in this series were much more bound to the laws of physics and thus more grounded in reality. As such, they would require tons of maintenance, repairs, and logistics like any other real robot.
516** The [[MechaMooks majority of OZ mobile suits and mobile dolls]], even some of the {{Super Prototype}}s like the Tallgeese, [[StoneWall Mercurius]], and [[GlassCannon Vayeate]], probably even more so than said six Gundams.
517* RealWomenNeverWearDresses: Inverted in-universe. Dorothy is shocked at then news of [[spoiler:Treize being killed]] but doesn't cry to which Trowa says to her, "That's sad. A woman who can't cry."
518* ReassignmentBackfire: Duke Dermail has Relena made Chief Representative of the Romefeller Foundation, in order to justify Romefeller's invasion of the Sanc Kingdom and hoping to use her as a symbolic puppet to consolidate Romefeller's power. However, Relena proves herself extremely influential and manages to steal most of Dermail's supporters, leaving him powerless.
519* RebelliousPrincess: Relena, who after being made [[TheHighQueen Queen of the World]] refuses to just play along with Romefeller [[spoiler:and, when checkmated, chooses to leave things to the more experienced Treize rather than bowing to them]].
520* RecapEpisode: Two of them; Episode 27, "The Locus of Victory and Defeat," is told from Relena and Heero's perspective, and Episode 28, "Passing Destinies," is told from Treize and Lady Une's perspective.
521* TheRemnant: A number of UESA holdouts, including the military forces stationed in space when the leadership's killed off, briefly resist until OZ intervenes, feigning to stand with the colonies.
522* RenegadeSplinterFaction: Inverted - Once the Treize Faction splits from [=OZ=], the Romefeller Foundation becomes increasingly villainous.
523* {{Retcon}}: According to WordOfGod, the fancy Hajime Katoki-designed Gundams from ''Endless Waltz'' aren't further {{Mid Season Upgrade}}s but rather the exact same machines as Kunio Okawara's {{Mid Season Upgrade}}s from the show. This has been emphasized by shifting their names from "Custom" (primarily used for models and toys) to "EW Version" or just "EW" (and occasionally "Ver. Ka", a common modifier for model kits based on Katoki's [[Anime/MobileSuitVictoryGundam various]] [[Anime/MobileSuitGundam redesigns]], though in ''Wing'' context "Ver. Ka" is more typically used to refer to Katoki's redesigns of the original pre-upgrade versions of the Gundams).
524** ''Glory of Losers'' makes this a little clearer, retelling the TV series' plot but using the ''Endless Waltz''-styled Gundams throughout. Later on they brought back Okawara's Wing Zero, renamed Proto-Zero and designated the prototype for Katoki's angel-winged version.
525** Originally the EW redesigns were problematic in that they removed several iconic weapons and key features (such as the Zero's wings described above), which made it hard to simply replace the originals with the new Katoki desgins (as per WordOfGod) without creating plotholes. Bandai and Sunrise rectified this by having Katoki redesign ALL of the suits from ''Wing'' for ''Glory of Losers'' to include all the features that were left off of the OVA versions and release them as Master Grade model kits (for instance, the new Heavyarms includes a flip-out knife on the right arm; a weapon that was left off the OVA design but played a critical role in several battles in the show.) The current EW lineup is now functionally the same as the one from the show, the suits are just more elegant and detailed and ''look'' a lot nicer.
526** So, so many of these in ''Frozen Teardrop''. For example...
527*** Quatre knows that his mother died giving birth to him (something he was ''never'' told in ''Episode Zero''), and refuses to even ''consider'' getting married or having a relationship because he doesn't want his hypothetical wife to die just so he can have a child. (Never mind that ''InUniverse'', {{Uterine Replicator}}s and birth control exist.)
528*** Duo becomes a selfish, irresponsible {{Jerkass}}, when in the series, he (like the other Gundam pilots) was selfless to a fault.
529*** Catherine trains Trowa's {{Expy}} in the art of knife-fighting, when previously, she was an AbsolutePacifist after having lost her parents and been separated from her baby brother during the war.
530*** Trant Clark is revealed as Heero's EvilUncle, when in-series, he had no relation to Heero.
531*** Trowa and Quatre work as engineers building Gundams, which the world isn't supposed to need anymore following the Eve Wars. (And which contradicts their desires for peace.)
532* RetroUniverse: The After Colony timeline is also known for its strange AnachronismStew as mentioned above. Elements of both TheFifties and TheNineties mix with space colonies and mobile suits. While Trieze and the Romefeller Foundation seem straight out of UsefulNotes/WorldWarI.
533* RevisitingTheRoots: Especially coming after ''Anime/MobileFighterGGundam'' and how it embraced the SuperRobotGenre, ''Wing'' takes a few ideas from that (a hero team of five Gundams, specifically) but fell more in line with the politically oriented military fiction while avoiding the ContinuityLockout that had begun to plague the Universal Century timeline. In fact, tonally it's pretty close to [[Anime/MobileSuitGundam the original show]]. As a result Wing became the standard for what the Gundam AlternateUniverse format could accomplish.
534* RichBitch: Dorothy. She even has her own gold limousine, her own space shuttle, and a transport truck in ''Endless Waltz''.
535* RightHandVersusLeftHand: Operation Meteor would have gone a ''lot'' smoother if the scientists had had the Gundams coordinate from the beginning.
536* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: Quatre starts to go on one with Wing Zero after [[spoiler:his father and sister are killed]], taking his anger out on everything in outer space.
537* RobotWar: Of sorts. The Virgo mobile dolls are [[AttackDrone drone mobile suits]] that become the mainstay of the Dermail/Romefeller OZ faction roughly halfway through the show. Their frightening power managed to nearly completely destroy Treize's faction, until the Gundam pilots intervened and wrecked the lunar factory that was building them. This ''slightly'' eases the situation, but it is quite obvious that there still are at least a few more of these factories. [[spoiler: And then Zechs manages to take control of them through a gullible Dorothy...]]. Overall, the concept of fighting drones has been cited as one of the very best plot points of ''Wing'', and it only [[HarsherInHindsight became more frightening when actual armies started using drones en masse in the 21st century...]]
538* RousingSpeech: Treize and Zechs take turns giving a "rally the troops" speech before the final battle.
539* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: Relena and Milliardo Peacecraft [[spoiler:/Zechs Marquise]].
540* SarcasmMode: In the English dub, the way the narrator says "in the name of justice and peace" when referring to the Earth Sphere's take over of the Space Colonies in the original episode intro is dripping with sarcasm.
541* SayMyName: Relena's famous, or infamous, depending on your POV, "HEEERRROOOO!" cry, which is done three times throughout the series (four in the dubbed version). Heero would also say Relena's name very often.
542** The series tends to emphasize their connection with a non-comical variation of the SneezeCut, often showing one say the other's name before cutting to the other looking up and reacting as if they just heard something.
543* SchoolGradeHacking: A slight variant occurs in the second episode: Heero, who is using Relena's school as a cover, hacks into a school computer both to set up torpedoes to destroy his Gundam and clear his financial situation with the school, though a card is used with the latter.
544* SecretKeeper: At the beginning of the series, only Treize, Noin, and Otto knew [[spoiler:Zechs's SecretIdentity]].
545* SelfDestructMechanism: Used very frequently throughout the series. All of the Gundams come equipped with one.
546** Heero and Quatre successfully use them on Wing and Sandrock respectively, though both are rebuilt later on.
547** Duo attempts this after Deathscythe defeated out in space, but the trigger mechanism doesn't work.
548** Trowa attempted to self-destruct in Heavyarms early in the series, but is stopped by Catherine. When he and Heero fight Quatre in Wing Zero, Trowa flies away before his suit can explode.
549** Later on, Quatre self-destructs Mercurius in order to cause damage to the Lunar Base and destroy Wing Zero, but only accomplishes the former.
550** Zechs then self-destructs the Tallgeese once it becomes outclassed and he moves over to Wing Zero.
551** Lady Une attempts to kill the Gundam pilots at New Edwards by causing one of the underground missiles to explode, which would cause a chain reaction and blow everything for miles away.
552** Wufei is the only Gundam Pilot to [[AvertedTrope not]] try and self-destruct during the main series.
553* ShadowGovernment: The Romefeller Foundation and its military wing OZ are of the conspirators type. Headed by [[AristocratsAreEvil aristocrats and royalties]] who lost power in previous centuries, they seek to subvert democracy and regain control over the world. As the primary financial backer of the [[TheAlliance United Earth Sphere Alliance]] they manipulate its leadership while infiltrating its military, transforming the Alliance into [[TheEmpire an empire]] in all but name. When the leaders of the Alliance propose making peace with the repressed space colonies, Oz has their leadership killed off and takes outright control over the government via [[TheCoup armed coup]].
554* ShesAManInJapan: [[InvertedTrope Inverted]], as Wufei's Master Long is voiced by an old woman in Japanese, but is given an old man voice in the English dub.
555* ShootTheHostage: After Wufei returns to his home colony for safe haven, OZ finds him and begins to attack, holding the entire colony hostage. In order to not hold Wufei back any longer, Master Long self-destructs the entire colony, killing everyone. [[BerserkerTears This... doesn't exactly help with Wufei's mental state]].
556* ShoulderCannon:
557** Heavyarms has missile launchers on its shoulders. The manga adaptation gives it honest-to-goodness shoulder cannons.
558** Technically they are on the shoulder blades, but Wing Zero hides its vulcans there instead of in the head like most Gundam suits.
559** Tragos suits have them as standard armaments, and Leos can have an optional pair attached. Pisces' torpedo launchers become its shoulders in robot mode.
560* ShoutOut:
561** A rather surprising one, at that; according to WordOfGod, Zechs' mask is modeled on the one from ''Film/PhantomOfTheParadise''.
562** Gundanium's official designation is Gundarium Theta, making it a distant relative of the Luna Titanium used to build the [[Anime/MobileSuitGundam original Gundam]]. Much like the original Gundam, Wing's Gundams seem all but indestructible when up against normal heavy artillery or blunt force. However, unlike the original, Gundanium seems to have a degree of resistance to heavier artillery and beam weaponry as well.
563** And let's not forget that one of the Gundam scientists is name Doctor J.
564* ShoutOutThemeNaming:
565** There are several references to ''Film/TheWizardOfOz'': ''Dorothy'' Catalonia and her gold-plated vehicles, the organization ''OZ'' (whose emblem is a ''lion''), the Specials' emblem looking like the ''Tin Woodsman'''s head in profile, and, in episode 34, the OZ commander's callsign is "''Scarecrow'' 5".
566** In Episode 38, the screen pan to the caged animals in the circus: a lion, a tiger and a bear.
567* ShipSinking:
568** ''Frozen Teardrop'' appears to sink the Wu Fei/Sally ship with the introduction of Sally's daughter Kathy Po, and a 'Father Maxwell, who will run and hide but never tell a lie' with ''his'' son, Duo.
569** It's confirmed as of Chapter 7 that Duo and Hilde married ([[spoiler:but got divorced because she thought he was irresponsible]]). It's unclear whether Duo Jr. is their biological son or not due to Duo/Father Maxwell being an UnreliableNarrator.
570** Not to mention, [[spoiler:since Heero and Relena spent the last 30 years on ice, the odds are extremely slim that they'll get with anybody except each other.]]
571* SingleSexOffspring: With the exception of Quatre all of the Winner siblings are girls.
572* SinisterScythe: The Gundam Deathscythe's Beam Scythe and the upgraded Deathscythe Hell's Double Beam Scythe.
573* SixthRanger: Noin teams up with the Gundams at the end of the series, but Milliardo is more of a legitimate example, being the sixth to pilot a Gundam, his rivalry with Heero, and [[spoiler:his support in ''Endless Waltz'']].
574* SlidingScaleOfRobotIntelligence: The pilotless mobile dolls fall somewhere at the brick level, a problem when they're all armed to the teeth. [[spoiler:Heero easily tricks a group into attacking their own battalion, including suits parked in the hanger, and then into just firing at anyone in a spacesuit]]. Somewhat averted with their successors, the Virgo [=IIs=], whose AI software was constantly developed, especially with the adoption of the ZERO System into the Mobile Doll program. This proved to be very challenging for even the Gundam pilots.
575* SmallRoleBigImpact:
576** The Mercurius and the Vaeyate were only around for a handful of episodes, but not only did they factor in the turning point for the show, but their abilities would be the basis of the Virgo I and [=II=] models that would become the default grunt MS for the rest of the show.
577** Marquis Weyridge only appears in three episodes, but he is shown to be a big supporter of Relena and is the one that starts the domino chain resulting in Relena usurping power from Duke Dermail.
578** Sally Po appears in less than ten episodes, but she was instrumental in giving Wufei a renewed sense to fight as well as retreiving the left behind Gundams after the pilots went out into space.
579* SmugSnake:
580** Duke Dermail, head of the Romafeller Foundation, is willing to use the colonies as essentially indentured labor to produce as many Mobile Dolls as possible, in order to wipe out all resistance and have the other nations beg to be governed by him.
581** Ken Tsubarov is utterly obsessed with perfecting his Mobile Dolls and destroying any force that resists Romafeller. Anyone or anything that gets in the way of that, whether the Gundam pilots or even his superior officer Colonel Une, is of no use to him and can be destroyed or thrown away.
582** Quinze Quarante was the leader of the White Fang and, like Dekim below, is very, very eager to wipe out humanity on Earth, especially using the Mobile Dolls the colonies were essentially enslaved to build.
583** Dekim Barton was the original mastermind behind Operation Meteor, wanting to send several colonies onto Earth and use the Gundams to clean up whatever's left, leaving him in charge. When the Gundam Scientists subverted his plans, he decided to manipulate his (possible) granddaughter into launching another invasion. When Mariemaia is shot, Dekim doesn't back down, saying he can always make another puppet.
584* SociopathicSoldier: Several on all sides.
585** At the beginning of the series before their CharacterDevelopment, the Gundam pilots are misanthropic loners that can kill people without a second thought. Quatre seems to be the only one that regrets having to kill people.
586** In Episode 12, Wufei and Sally take on a trio of Alliance soldiers that started trashing a restaurant because [[EvilIsPetty the shopkeeper dared to ask them to pay for the food they ate]]. They then try and justify it by saying that they protect the country, so what right does the shopkeeper have? Their commander isn't any better, deposing the country's original, peace-advocating leader and eventually conspiring to hand the country over to OZ.
587** There's also Alex and Mueller, two OZ pilots Zechs killed for breaching war etiquette by firing at surrendering enemies. One of them even has an EvilLaugh.
588* SoundtrackDissonance: The show's second opening theme, "Rhythm Emotion", is played at the end of episode 36, after Relena surrendered to Romefeller and during Heero's ZERO System-induced rampage aboard Epyon, and in episode 41, when the Gundam Team and White Fang launched an assault on Barge, ending with [[spoiler:Zechs singlehandedly destroying the space station with Epyon]].
589* SpaceIsAnOcean:
590** Averted completely, the Earth Alliance and Oz does not attack using warships but rather relying on mobile suits deployed from asteroid bases and space stations and from carriers which carries limited araments.
591** Also averted with the Pisces and Cancer suits, which are designed for underwater combat and never, ever leave Earth's atmosphere.
592* SparklingStreamOfTears: As demonstrated by Trowa, Quatre, Relena, and Catherine (especially in the aptly-titled episode "Catherine's Tears"), and in episode 48 by Dorothy and Wufei.
593* SpeechesAndMonologues: Many characters give speeches both during combat and during more expected times such as having an audience while preparing troops for battle.
594* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Heero/Hiiro Yuy/Yui, Relena/Ririna/Lilina Darlian/Dorian/Dorlian/Derlian (the latter which appears in the Operation 4 soundtrack), Wufei/Wu Fei, Zechs Merquise/Marquise/Marquis, Milliardo/Milliard/Milliald, Lady Une/An/Ann/Anne, Hilde/Hirde, Tubarov/Tuberov/Tsubarov, and Quinze/Quines/Kanz/Kans.
595* SpinOffspring: ''Frozen Teardrop'', with (so far) Duo Maxwell (Jr), Kathy Po, and Katrina Oud Winner, alongside their parents/siblings and the original cast. Considering the UterineReplicator deal within the colonies and how ''all'' of Quatre's sisters are test-tube babies, [[ItMakesSenseInContext Cathy being Quatre's sister is not as unreasonable as it seems at first.]]
596* SplitPersonality: Lady Une. When her glasses are on, she's cold, ruthless and nasty as hell. When they're off, she's kind and sweet.
597* StateSec: [=OZ=] zig-zags the trope. It starts off as a official elite force of the regular Alliance forces, but was really a covert military branch of the Romefeller Foundation. [[spoiler:And once Romefeller takes over the world, [=OZ=] becomes the regular military.]]
598* StartXToStopX: Zechs' desire to cause such intense devastation to Earth that war loses all appeal.
599* TheStoic: Heero and Trowa. Both of them have very serious personalities and are focused on the mission exclusively.
600** NotSoStoic: Heero laughed madly in many of the early episodes and was flabbergasted when he reflexively saved Relena in Episode 7. Trowa was shocked to find his own tears floating in his cockpit after destroying Deathscythe and after encountering a crazed Quatre in Wing Zero, he spent the entire battle pleading for the latter to come to his senses.
601* StockFootage: While not nearly as egrigous as [[Anime/MobileSuitGundamSEEDDestiny another Gundam show]], each major Mobile Suit type has its own set of stock animation that is used in almost every single battle involving it.
602** Wing Gundam has its transformation from plane to robot mode, about three different shots of it firing its Buster Rifle, and pulling its beam saber out of its shield.
603** Deathscythe has a swipe of its beam scythe towards the camera, launching its Buster Shield, and a wide shot of it slicing Leos in half. Its upgraded Hell version has the shot of its wings opening and a scene where it swings its double-bladed beam scythe towards the camera.
604** Sandrock has the shot of it leaping into the air and slicing two Leos in half, as well as a sequence of Sandrock throwing its Heat Shortels into two grunt MS, which then melts through their frames before exploding. The latter even appears after the setting moves into space.
605** Heavyarms was especially bad. Each and every shot of the Gundam using its various gatling guns and launching missiles was used in practically every fight it was ever in. There's also the shot of Heavyarms' arm knife popping out.
606** Both Shenlong and Altron reuse any animation of them launching their dragon arms as much as they can. Altron also fires its tail laser and twirls its beam trident the exact same way every time.
607** Wing Zero has its own transformation sequence, taking out its beam saber from its shoulder, and firing its vulcans. Also, Zero has about five different animations of its Twin Buster Rifles firing that are recycled constantly, most notably the famous shot of it splitting the rifles and firing them from both sides while spinning in place.
608** Tallgeese actually didn't have much stock footage at first, mostly just the shot where it is flying towards the camera, readies its cannon, and then fires. However, once it gets out into space, most of Tallgeese's battle footage is just the same three or four sequences repeated endlessly.
609** Both Vayate and Mercurius have the footage of them using their signature abilities (Vayate's giant laser cannon, Mercurius' shields and its sword) used in all of their battles, despite only being in about 5 episodes total.
610** The various grunt suits (Leos, Aries, Tauruses, Tragos, Virgos, etc.) all have a set of animations that were reused constantly, typically two or three for attacking, one for moving around, and three or four exploding depending on whether they are on Earth or in space. The Taurus suits were especially notable once the series first moves out into space.
611** Epyon doesn't have that many, likely due to not having any long-range weapons. The only consistently used recycled footage is its transformation sequence and using its beam sword at maximum power.
612** Whether used for the man himself or via Heavyarms, expect Trowa to make an entrance by leaping in the air, then spinning about ten times before making a perfect landing.
613* StolenGoodReturnedBetter: After [=OZ=] get their hands on some of the Gundams, they are rebuilt just in time for the heroes to take them back.
614* StupidEvil: Dekam's plan to drop MULTIPLE colonies on the Earth when one would wipe out most of it.
615* SuperPrototype: Wouldn't be Gundam without this, either!
616** Wing Zero/Proto Zero is the SuperPrototype to all of the other Gundams. Its signature ZERO system being too much for all but two certain pilots to handle. Anyone else who tried to pilot it is driven into an insane berserker state, unable to tell between friend or foe. Its overpowered weaponry, a pair of BFG powerful enough to destroy a colony in one shot, was another reason it was never completed, as the designers deemed it way too powerful for any one mobile suit to have.
617** Tallgeese was a super prototype to the Leo suits, with its major flaw of being a little too powerful for normal pilots to handle. The extreme G forces it puts the pilots under when in flight (due to its weight and ''extremely'' powerful jetpack) causing anything from unconsciousness to broken bones and cardiac arrest, often all three. It is also the grandaddy of all other mobile suit series, its basic design being the base for them, including the Gundams.
618** Mercurius and Vayeate were practically this to the Virgo mobile dolls. When combining both prototype mobile suits' capabilities into the Virgo, OZ reduced the amount of the Mercurius' Planet Defensors from ten to four, in order for it to wield a less powerful version of the Vayeate's beam cannon. Eventually, they were rebuilt into mobile dolls, using Heero Yuy and Trowa Barton's combat data to help them fight on-par with the Gundams.
619* SuperRobot: Has a certain amount of this mixed in. The Gundams tend to curb stomp everything else and get treated with borderline religious reverence. A battle of attrition is not good for them, however.
620* TalkingIsAFreeAction: In the midst of intense duels and firefights, the pilots often wax philosophical on [[WarriorPoet life, war, destiny, and the nature of mankind]]. In one episode, Trowa analyzes enemy tactics and strategy in real time.
621* TeamMom: Lucrezia Noin and Sally Po are the closest examples. Noin looks after Relena for a long while and helps her rebuild the Sanc Kingdom, while also looking after Heero, Trowa, and Quatre at different points. Sally helps Wufei find his purpose, then spends most of her screen time afterwards trying to tell the Gundam pilots how special they are.
622* TechnicolorEyes: Not a literal example, but the official biographies for the characters seem to list the ''paint'' colors used for the animation, resulting in oddly specific examples such as Heero's Prussian Blue eyes and Quatre's Platinum Gold hair.
623* TeethClenchedTeamwork:
624** Heero is especially against working with anyone else, refusing to allow Relena to be involved with him as long as possible and spending the first few episodes trying to ignore Duo as best he can. Eventually, he comes around.
625** Wufei isn't opposed to teaming up, but he prefers doing his own thing. That is, until [[spoiler:his colony is destroyed]]. After that, he makes it perfectly clear he has no intention on working with the other Gundam pilots until Quatre knocks him out of it.
626* TemptingFate: [[spoiler:Yes, this shelter is secure. Nothing could possibly break in and stop Mariemaia. Oh, there's Heero with Wing Zero, sure, go ahead and fire and realize how helpless--BOOM!]]
627* ThemeNaming:
628** The main characters are named after numbers, which also extends to Zechs ("six") AKA Milliardo ("million") and Treize ("thirteen").
629** While most mass-produced mobile suits are named after Zodiac constellations, not all names are direct; the HoverTank Tragos (Greek for "goat") is a stand-in for Capricorn, while the Gundam [[SpellMyNameWithAnS Aesculapius/Asklepos]] from ''G-Unit'' represents the "13th constellation" Ophiuchus (Aesculapius is the man holding the serpent in the constellation[[note]] The ''serpent'' part of Ophiuchus is represented by the Serpent mobile suits from ''Endless Waltz''[[/note]]). The only constellation not represented in any of the original media is Sagittarius (which appears in ''Frozen Teardrop'' as a [[BaseOnWheels Land Battleship]] in the pre-Operation Meteor era).
630** OZ, for its part, stands for [[AllThereInTheManual Organization of the Zodiac]].
631** The theme naming even extends to the SpinOff media: Odin Lowe from ''Episode Zero'' and Adin/Odin Barnett from ''G-Unit[=/=]Last Outpost'' both derive their names from the Russian word for "one", while the little-known mini-manga ''Tiel's Impulse'' stars Tiel Nombreux, whose surname is French for "numerous".
632* TheseHandsHaveKilled: Zechs, while talking to a portrait of his father, gives this as the reason why he can't [[spoiler:lead the Sanc Kingdom and why Relena should]], saying "My hands. They are too stained with blood."
633* ThrowingYourShieldAlwaysWorks: Deathscythe's Buster Shield is specifically designed to be a weapon, mounting a beam blade and rocket thrusters that make it a flying drill. Wufei throws Shenlong and Altron's shields once or twice as well, aided by their discus (or perhaps ''ComicBook/CaptainAmerica'')-like shape.
634* ThrowingYourSwordAlwaysWorks: Sandrock throws its shotels on a few occasions, to make up for its lack of ranged weapons. Quatre still does it when he gets a beam submachinegun with Sandrock's MidSeasonUpgrade.
635* ToBeContinued: The classic "つづく" (''tsuzuku'') variation. The kana appear at the bottom right-hand corner of the screen in every episode of the anime (barring the finale, obviously). So far ''Wing'' was the only ''Gundam'' series that did this.
636* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Noin and Hilde (Tomboys) with Relena and Dorothy (Girly Girls). While Lady Une [[spoiler:is both with her two personalities]].
637* TooDumbToLive: Minor OZ soldier Trant Clark. Once he has Heero captured what does he do with him? He forces Heero to test the ZERO System while in a ''functional and fully loaded Gundam''. Admittedly he didn't know about the insanity-inducing side effects of the ZERO System but he was still relying on the presence of hostages to keep Heero under control even though those were the same hostages the Gundam pilots had been trying to kill just episodes earlier.
638* TransformationSequence: Wing, Wing Zero, Epyon (which even has streaking lines appear, [[SuperRobotGenre super robot style]]), as well as the Taurus, Pisces, and Cancer suits all have their own sequence, though during the last quarter of the show they were phased out.
639* TransformingMecha:
640** Both Wing and Wing Zero can transform into "bird" modes, which allow for faster atmospheric travel.
641** Epyon's Neo Bird transformation, while somewhat pointless in story, is dead identical to that of the Hambrabi from ''[[Anime/MobileSuitZetaGundam Zeta Gundam]]'', possibly constituting a ShoutOut.
642** The Pisces and Cancer grunt suits can transform from submarine to robot modes.
643** The Taurus suits can transform into a space jet mode. Unlike all of the other transformations, this one is liberally used in space as well as on Earth.
644* TravelingAtTheSpeedOfPlot: When the final battle is about to begin, Treize challenges Zechs to a duel to settle things. Zechs decides to cut out the middle man and fires Libra's main cannon instead. ''After'' giving the order to fire, Lady Une, who was in a coma at the time, wakes up, rushes out of her hospital bed, changes into a space suit, hijacks Wing Gundam, flies into space (which it is somehow able to do now, when it couldn't earlier in the series), and knocks Treize out of the way seconds before the giant laser obliterates him.
645* UncannyFamilyResemblance:
646** Relena is recognized at a dinner party by an old friend of her family's due to her resemblance to her biological mother, Katrina. We never see her mother, so [[TakeOurWordForIt we just have Weridge's word on this]].
647** ''Frozen Teardrop'' shows that as a teenager Katrina looked identical to her future daughter (and on top of that, so did her twin sister Sabrina); of course, this also fits with the novel's extensive use of GenerationXerox.
648* UndersideRide: Heero rides underneath an ambulance before hijacking it.
649* UnexplainedRecovery: Heero should be its poster child. Most notably after self-destructing Wing Gundam and being rescued by Trowa. Zechs also gets his own between the finale and ''Endles Waltz''.
650* {{Unobtanium}}: The Gundanium alloy used to build the five Gundams. The reason for this is because Gundanium alloy is rare, expensive, and can only be synthesized in space. The Gundam scientists were the only people who had knowledge of how to synthesize it, up until they were captured by OZ and forced to synthesize it to build the {{Super Prototype}}s [[StoneWall Mercurius]] and [[GlassCannon Vayeate]], both of which eventually spawned the [[MookMobile mass-produced Virgo mobile dolls]].
651* UnwittingPawn: The Gundam pilots are tricked by Treize into wiping out the Alliance's leadership just as they were about to disarm and open peace negotiations with the colonies, thus ruining any chance of peace and granting OZ control of the Earth Sphere.
652* UpgradeVsPrototypeFight:
653** The Tallgeese is an in-universe SuperPrototype from which all other mobile suit designs originated, but was deemed too dangerous for the pilot and became nothing more than a museum exhibit and collector's curiosity. When the Gundams start raising hell of all kinds, the bad guys decide to BreakOutTheMuseumPiece. The Tallgeese proves itself quite capable on the battlefield repeatedly afterwards with a good pilot inside it.
654** The Wing Gundam Zero is a subversion in that in-universe its design is 15 years old, but the suit wasn't built until during the series because the engineers originally thought it was too dangerous to build. The plans instead were passed on to each of the scientists and each made modifications to form the 5 subsequent Gundams. Its first major battle pitted it against a pair of mobile suits built to surpass the original five Gundams and it was ultimately used against the Epyon, which was built based on combat data of the original five.
655* UterineReplicator: For several generations, normal pregnancy was impossible for colony dwellers and this was the only means of reproduction. While this has been largely overcome by the time the series starts, some groups are still struggling. Quatre's entire family - including his ''twenty-nine'' older sisters - are laboratory born. [[spoiler:His mother wanted to concieve a child normally, and paid with her life to deliver him]].
656* VanillaUnit: The Leo is the most ubiquitous Mobile Suit in the series. They can be equipped with solid ammunition or beam weapons, and both terrestrial and space-borne versions exist, but there's nothing special about them other than their ease of production and use. OZ utilises them as their most basic forces, with other more specialised Mobile Suits being used for specific missions (e.g. the Cancers are designed for marine warfare, the Aries are meant for aerial combat). So numerous are the Leos that they appear all the way up to the finale, despite being dramatically outmatched by the Taurus and Virgo [=II=] Mobile Dolls that make up their main opposition.
657* VillainousBreakdown: Tsubarov starts his descent once Une starts her revolt mid-series, but he loses what sanity he had left once his Mobile Dolls started to lose favor with Romafeller and the White Fang completing their uprising.
658* [[LaserSight Visible Laser Beams]]: In Episode 8, the pilots break into a facility and are confronted by a dark bunker full of "explosives with infrared red sensors", which pretty much look like the classic red laser-lines booby traps. They are undeterred.
659* VitriolicBestBuds: Relena and Dorothy, when Dorothy isn't Relena's {{Rival}}.
660* WarComesHome: The Gundam pilots scatter after they learn they were tricked into wiping out a peace conference, thus allowing OZ to take direct control of much of the Earth Sphere. The home colony of Chang Wufei comes under attack and self-destructs in a SenselessSacrifice in a pointless gesture of defiance. Meanwhile, Quatre's home also comes under attack, and while the attack is repelled the death of his beloved older sister causes Quatre to cross the DespairEventHorizon and build the monstrously powerful Wing Zero, the Zero System convincing him that the way to peace is to kill everyone.
661* WarForFunAndProfit: The Romefeller Foundation (specifically, Duke Dermail and Colonel Tubarov). They only see the colonies as factories for their military equipment and Dermail proclaims at one point that once the various rebellions are quashed, those who are left will beg Romafeller to govern them.
662* WarriorTherapist: NOBODY SHUTS THE HELL UP. A spoken version of TextPlosion which ties in to the {{Speeches and Monologues}} section up top.
663* TheWarToEndAllWars: What Treize and Zechs bring about. It works... for a year.
664* WaveMotionGun: Wing's Buster Rifle, Wing Zero's Twin Buster Rifles when fired together, Barge's and Libra's beam cannons, Vayeate's beam cannon, and the Tallgesse III's mega cannon.
665* WeAreStrugglingTogether: This happens a ''lot''. The five Gundam pilots have various allies but don't necessarily network, and OZ and the Alliance look exactly the same for a while because they use the same mobile suits. Consequently there is a great deal of friendly hostility going on, though at least the good guys are generally able to talk things out.
666* WeHaveReserves: The Mobile Dolls make this easy to invoke, as they provide the people who control the factory an infinite supply of disposable mooks. At one point [[spoiler:Zechs]] tries to use this against the Gundam pilots - since he has an unlimited supply of mooks and they have a finite supply of spare parts for the Gundams, all he has to do is send enough waves of automated soldiers programmed well enough to do ''some'' damage on each attack and sooner or later he'll wear them down. The only reason it failed was the arrival of a third faction, who drew off enough Mobile Dolls to make the attrition strategy impractical.
667* WellIntentionedExtremist: [[spoiler:Zechs and Treize later in the show, where they believe that humanity needs to witness one really horrible war in order to drive the desire to fight out of them. And it works. Also, Relena, for her extreme stance on Absolute Pacifism, to the point where she would rather surrender her kingdom and let it fall so that fighting can be avoided.]]
668* WhatHappenedToTheMouse:
669** Quatre's sister Irea, who appears in one episode and ends it unconscious or dead, but it is never revealed which. In the manga adaptation, she dies, [[spoiler:which just contributes all the more to Quatre's FreakOut]]. ''Frozen Teardrop'' finally answers the question by saying [[spoiler:she's alive and helped raise little sister Katherine, who becomes Quatre's {{Expy}} in the plot.]]
670** When Doctor J is first introduceed, he has a ragtag band of freedom fighters that help spirit Relena away after Lady Une assassinates her father. All of those freedom fighters disappear after that episode.
671** Similarly, once the five Gundam creators escape their cells in the Lunar Base, they are taken in by the newly formed Treize Faction, along with Heero and Quatre. Everyone is soon surrounded by [=OZ=] troops and surrenders. Heero, Quatre, and the scientists are seen escaping, but none of the Treize Faction soldiers appear again.
672** Another Treize Faction example. One branch ended up being enlisted to man the Sanc Kingdom's defense force, but none of those soldiers are seen afterwards, even when Romafeller decides to fully invade.
673* WhiteAndGreyMorality: Save for the few like [[EvilGenius Ken Tsubarov]], most of the characters desire for justice and peace, even if their ways of achieving it are questionable, as pointed out by Relena Peacecraft. Fortunately, EveryoneLives except Treize Khushrenada, who willingly dies by his own choice, and the world achieves true peace as Relena sees it. This way, [[RousseauWasRight Gundam Wing]] is a total opposite to the [[CrapsackWorld Universal Century series]].
674* WhoWouldBeStupidEnough: In Episode 3, another example of LostInTranslation:
675-->'''Bonaparte:''' What idiot would challenge this [base's] security?!
676-->'''Zechs:''' Here come the idiots!
677-->''(enter Heavyarms)''
678* WillNotTellALie: Duo Maxwell. Or so he says.
679-->'''Duo:''' I may run and hide, but I never tell a lie.
680* WouldntHitAGirl: Wufei reveals that he doesn't like fighting women because he considers them weak. Also, Dorothy brings up this topic while fencing with Heero, but he quickly shows that [[WouldHitAGirl he doesn't have such hang-ups]].
681* YouAreNumberSix: Nearly every character in the show is named after a number, though in various different languages. OZ troops generally refer to the Gundams by numbers, which were assigned by the order in which they were first reliably spotted, due to the fact that they spend most of the series not knowing what the actual names of the units are. The Gundam pilots also refer to each other by the number OZ gave their Gundams when in captivity.
682* WrenchWench: Hilde Schbeiker, who has her own scrapyard and is quite proficient with computers.
683* YouHadUsWorriedThere: At the end of the last episode, we're not sure whether Heero made it, but then he comes in with his signature, "Mission Accomplished".
684* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: General Septum, who is used by OZ to blame the Colonies for the deaths of the alliance leadership, then thrown out of a plane by Lady Une. [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill Then shot on the way down]]. ''[[ImprobableAimingSkills In the head.]]''
685* YouKilledMyFather: Zechs kills the man responsible for attacking the Sanc Kingdom years earlier in episode 9. And privately talks alone with a painting of his father, saying his hands were too bloodied to lead their kingdom, and would have to pass that responsibility to his younger sister, [[spoiler:Relena.]]
686* YouKnowTooMuch: Heero seems ready to shoot Relena when she returned from the space colony and kept pressing to know him more, until she mentions Doctor J, which startles him. He later saves her from some falling debris when OZ shows up to try and kill her.
687* YourTerroristsAreOurFreedomFighters:
688** In many ways, this is the crux of the show's first half -- the Gundam pilots are fighting an oppressive regime, but while their primary targets are Alliance weapons and military installations, they are under orders to murder ''any'' witnesses.
689** Comes back again near the end of the series with White Fang. [[spoiler:They ostensibly have the same goal as the Gundams; to free the colonies, but at this point they're the villains, unintentionally enacting the original Operation Meteor.]]
690* ZodiacMotifs: The entire Organization of the Zodiac, or OZ for short, are the main antagonists for most of the series. Fittingly, the vast majority of their Mobile Suit designs are named after a Zodiac constellation, with notable examples being the Leo, Aries, Taurus, Virgo, Pisces, and Cancer.
691----
692->''Mission accepted.''

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