->"Some say I'm a man without taste, some say I'm a man without class, and still others would say I'm a brilliant genius of an author. The truth is, I am just a man who loves Gundam."
-->The Sage of Toads

It is the year 0079 of the Universal Century. A half century has passed since Earth began moving its burgeoning population into gigantic orbiting space colonies. A new home for mankind. Where people are born and raised... and die. Nine months ago, the cluster of colonies furthest from the earth called Side 3 proclaimed itself the Principality of Zeon and launched a war of independence against the Earth Federation. Initial fighting lasted over one month and saw both sides lose half their respective populations. People were horrified by the indescribable atrocities that had been committed in the name of independence. Eight months had passed since the rebellion began. They were at a stalemate.

... But then Amuro Ray climbed into the Gundam, and everything hilariously went to hell.

From the author of ''Fanfic/TheKeyToASuccessfulInterview'' and ''Fanfic/BeautifulDestroyerSailorMoon'', [[https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/threads/gundam-uc-mobile-suit-gundam-gran-tomino.4418/ Mobile Suit Gundam: Gran Tomino]] is a CrackFic take on the original ''Anime/MobileSuitGundam'' and the One Year War.

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!!'''This fanfic contains examples of:'''
* ActorAllusion: In Chapter 3, during a covert operation, Amuro adopted the name [[Anime/SailorMoon Darien Shields]] to infiltrate the party.
** Also, one of the times he had a list of known nicknames read off, one of them was [[Anime/SailorMoon Tuxedo Mask]].
* AdaptationalHeroism: [[spoiler:Downplayed pretty heavily, but Kycilia is convinced to [[HeelFaceTurn join the White Base crew]], mainly because [[TokenGoodTeammate Garma]] has joined them, and he's the only member of her own family that she doesn't hate.]]
* AxCrazy: The whole crew of the White Base to varying degrees, but special mention must be made to Frau.
** On Zeon's side is Sophie Fran.
* BadassAdorable: Frau teaches the orphans to work the Anti-Aircraft cannons. They treat it like a game.
* BadassBoast: Bright Noa's rallying speech in Chapter 8. Bonus points for its similarities to [[Manga/{{Hellsing}} The Major's]] Speech.
* BadassCrew: The White Base crew, with a generous amount of awesomeness thrown in for good measure.
* BearsAreBadNews: How does Amuro's mom help retake her hometown? By unleashing an army of trained bears on the populace.
* BringIt: After successfully "[[HeelFaceTurn capturing]]" Garma Zabi, Bright posts a Youtube video of him proclaiming the White Base crew as [[AppropriatedAppellation Trojan Horse]] and promising to destroy Zeon.
* BunnyEarsLawyer / CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: The White Base crew is also almost certainly insane to a man. They also humiliate the Zeon Forces in every encounter they have, [[spoiler:and even turn two members of the Zabi family to their side.]]
* CrackFic: It's a Sage of Toads fic. 'Nuff said.
* DeadFic: Hasn't been updated since July 2013 and was later deleted in 2020.
* FriendlyEnemies: When Amuro, Hayato, and Frau run into Ramba Ral and his entourage in a Tim Hortons, they have a civil, respectful conversation with Amuro even admitting that he plans to name one of his children after Ramba. Sure, they're robbing the Zeon Officers at gunpoint, but the point still stands.
* HeelFaceTurn/[[spoiler: DefectorFromDecadence]]: [[spoiler: [[OnlySaneMan Garma Zabi]] and his girlfriend.]]
** [[spoiler:Later Kycilia.]]
* HeelRealization: Shiro realizes that he has been doing some incredibly stupid out of a crush on Aina, and the two decide that they are BetterAsFriends.
* ImAHumanitarian: Mirai, ''possibly''...
* LadykillerInLove: Amuro, after a fairly bad argument with Sayla, is doing his best to stay loyal to her.
* MadScientist: Tem Ray is apparently a Universal Century equivalent of Doctor Doom [[spoiler: to the point where Amuro is quickly becoming TheDreaded by the simple fact that he is the man's son.]]
* NightmareFuel: InUniverse.
--> Degwin Sodo Zabi was overcome with an ill omen. He woke up with a fright, having dreamed of [[Anime/MobileSuitGundamSEED white mobile suits, genetically engineered humans, and robotic birds]]–with a [[TakeThat great deal of homoerotic subtext that just downright troubled him.]]
* OffTheRails: This fic was [[CrackFic pretty well]] [[CrazyEnoughToWork insane enough]] [[BadassCrew already]], and was only barely going through TheStationsOfTheCanon, but it clearly jumped the tracks when [[spoiler: Garma Zabi defects]].
* OnlySaneMan: Reed is this in the crew of the ''White Base'', while Garma is the only sane man of the Zabi family.
** Following Matilda's resupply, Reed has gotten the heck out, so now [[spoiler: Garma is now pulling double duty. Triple duty, if you count his girlfriend - she's not as unhinged as most, but you can see it in the shadow of her eyes.]]
** While Kai has noted that anyone staying on the ship is somewhat insane, he does it more because he realizes that being with those lunatics seems to work pretty well, making the White Base the safest place in the world. He's also looking [[CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass frighteningly efficient]], managing to defeat a large number of enemy units in his Guncannon (he's still OvershadowedByAwesome with Amuro around, but that isn't saying as much as it should), and successfully [[spoiler:stopping [[Anime/MobileSuitGundamThe08thMSTeam Shiro]] from letting a [[Main/LoveInterests certain prisoner free]] by seemingly USING HIS HATRED OF AMURO TO GET SHIRO TO SLIP.]]
* OvershadowedByAwesome: As the most recent chapter shows, Kai actually ''is'' pretty skilled - he stealth kills a bunch of Zakus with just a knife, in a goddamned Guncannon - it's just that he's on the same ship as the White Devil.
* PyroManiac: Amuro has all the trappings of this and then some.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Garma Zabi was this, [[spoiler: making it no wonder he defects.]] Bright Noa is the Crazy Awesome version of this.
* RousingSpeech: Bright's "Fuck Zeon" speech.
* RunningGag: Bright keeps promising Amuro that he owes him a beer, after Amuro pulls the White Base's bacon out of the fire. It gets to the point when Amuro tells him to stop counting and just get several cases to cover what's owed now, and what will be owed in the future.
** Going further, Bright's insistence that he is a wizard.
* SanitySlippage: Char ends up going through this after getting screwed over one too many times.
* SureLetsGoWithThat: When Ryu sarcastically states that he's carrying "the entire cast of ''Two and a Half Men''", he merely shrugs and rolls with it when the Zeon guard wonders if the execution has been moved up.
* SurprisePregnancy: [[spoiler:Sayla.]]
* ThrowTheDogABone: Shiro [[DidNotGetTheGirl loses his chance with Aina]], but does get to take out his frustration on Kai with a wrench and gets together with Kiki, after the age thing is cleared up.
* TookALevelInBadass: Char in the latest chapter, finally getting his hands on a mobile suit that can equal the Gundam.
%%* WrongGenreSavvy: Shiro.