Line #14 YMMV/MobileSuitCrossboneGundam


1	* AngstWhatAngst: One of Tobia's defining characteristics. While it's not like he doesn't angst at all (this ''is'' a ''Franchise/{{Gundam}}'' story after all), he can sleep it off and be completely fine the next day. Played with when he has to ''act'' shell-shocked to (briefly) infiltrate the Jupiter Empire.
2	* ArcFatigue: Volume 5 starts with [[spoiler:Mother Vanguard sunk and Kincade supposedly killed]], but then it hits the brakes for a while and focuses on Tobia, Berah, and Bernadette on Earth undergoing a collective HeroicBSOD over said events, sitting out the war as the Jovians walk all over the Federation. It isn't until [[spoiler:Kincade comes back]] at the start of Volume 6 that things pick up again.
3	* BrokenBase: The sequel series ''Skullheart'', ''Steel Seven'', ''Ghost'' and ''Dust''. For some they stray into the ridiculous with some of the wildest and most left field mobile suit designs in the franchise, a tendency towards more out-there storys (up to and including newtype chimpanzees piloting modified Zakus) and in general feeling out of place with regards to the RealRobot intent of the Universal Century and Gundam franchise in general. For others these series just emphasise some of the more appealing elements of the Crossbone manga, seeing the designs as creative and fun, with an overall movement into more traditionally SuperRobot leading to wilder and more enjoyable combat. They also point out that a number of UC series have more unusual designs. Regardless there's a largely universal affection for the Crossbone X1 Full Cloth and Phantom/Ghost Gundams.
4	* CargoShip: Grey Stoke has a brotherly bond with the Gump. Which makes sense, since he's been using it ever since [[spoiler:it was called the ZZ Gundam]].
5	* DiscreditedMeme: The memetic general attitude towards ''Crossbone'' not having an anime adaptation has waned significantly over the years to the point of this trope, largely due to the series contracting serious {{Sequelitis}} with ''Ghost'' and ''Dust'' and the mechanical design likewise becoming increasingly off-the-wall in nature.
6	* {{Fanon}}: Fans like to believe that Tomino's original proposal for ''[[Anime/MobileSuitGundamF91 Gundam F91]]'' included ''Crossbone''; it's uncertain, but seems pretty unlikely.
7	* FridgeLogic: Where exactly are all the mint-condition spare parts from mobile suits like The O, the [=GP03=], the GM Quel & Canard, and other one-of-a-kind units coming from in ''Dust''?
8	* RetroactiveRecognition: The Elgolela (the transforming mobile armor piloted by [[spoiler:Bernadette]]) was a fan-submitted design for a contest; the designer was Kanetake Ebikawa, who would go on to work on such series as ''Literature/FullMetalPanic'' and ''[[Anime/MobileSuitGundam00 Gundam 00]]''.
9	* MemeticBadass: Tobia. Seriously - the kid is ''tough''.
10	** Want further evidence? ''Ghost'' reveals that [[spoiler:even blinded, he's a master mobile suit pilot.]]
11	* MemeticMutation: ''Crossbone'' Anime when?/'''[[HarshWordImpact never]]'''. [[labelnote:explanation]]Among diehard (and often ''desperate'') fans, the manga series is ''extremely'' notorious for not being adapted into an Animation format, even with the manga topping in the official Animation adaptation polls, and it doesn't help by the fact that the studio still produce other ''Gundam'' shows, which fans believe that they have "[[CanonDiscontinuity ignored]]" [[CanonDiscontinuity or treated the series as]] ''[[CanonDiscontinuity non-existent]]'', and they would probably have '''zero''' hopes on the manga being potentially animated. It got even worse with the untimely death of Creator/KoujiTsujitani, Kincade's voice actor whenever ''Crossbone'' gets into a voiced video game[[/labelnote]]
12	* {{Sequelitis}}: A large portion of the sequel series for ''Crossbone'' - mostly ''Skull Heart'', ''Ghost'', and ''Dust'' - is now viewed as this to ''Crossbone'' and the Universal Century as a whole, due to a perceived heavy decline in writing and mechanical design quality that sometimes severely screws up UC continuity (such as a plot point in ''Dust'' where the technophobic [[Anime/MobileSuitGundamZZ Moon Moon]] willingly acquires a Psyco Gundam and a huge stash of psycoframe - clashing with precedents set in ''[[Anime/MobileSuitGundamUnicorn Unicorn]]'' and ''[[Anime/MobileSuitGundamNarrative Narrative]]''.)
13	* SpecialEffectFailure: Yuichi Hasegawa's artstyle doesn't mesh well with the UsedFuture setting of ''Dust'', as it cannot accurately reflect the wear-and-tear and stress most of the story's suits are stated to experience from the nature of their construction. Consequently, they appear to be in illogically-pristine conditions out of context, making them look more like ''Gundam Build'' models than actual UC mobile suits.
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