* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic:
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ve4HHNcKWw Eternal]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0b15NEFE9DE Wind]], the ED.
** The image song, sung by Hiroko Moriguchi, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dPITBzs0IY "Kimi o mitsumete (The time I'm seeing you)"]]
%%* EvilIsCool: Iron Mask and Zabine.
* ItsShortSoItSucks: Its biggest criticism is that [[WhatCouldHaveBeen due to adapting what was supposed to be 13 full episodes]] into a two-hour movie, it suffers rushed pacing with plot points and character actions never getting satisfactorily explained or dealt with.
* JustHereForGodzilla: While the film isn't seen as bad per se by most ''Gundam'' fans (both UC fans and in general), odds are that if you ask one why they watched it, they'll respond with something related to ''Manga/MobileSuitCrossboneGundam'', which is a sequel to this film.
* MemeticLoser: Iron Mask is often derided as a pathetic villain, in part due to how his motivation for villainy is that he lost his wife and kids (Often mocked with the phrase "SHE TOOK THE KIDS"), and that he loses to a Gundam that "HAD AFTERIMAGES WITH MASS" due to his ending up shooting himself with his own weapons trying to hit said Gundam.
* {{Narm}}:
** WebVideo/BennettTheSage considers the scene where the mother is killed by a falling shell casing to be this, saying it's something he'd expect from a ''Creator/HannaBarbera'' cartoon.
** Theo Fairchild's death. After the argument between his wife and Iron Mask concludes he immediately falls face-first onto the ground and dies. It's so jarring and has oddly comedic timing.
* SignatureScene: Strangely enough, one of the scenes even anime magazines focused on back in the day was not over the battles or the character drama - but some random mother getting beaned in the head by a stray spent shell from a nearby Federation mobile suit, [[WarIsHell and dying instantly for being in the wrong place at the wrong time]] as it orphans her child.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSong: At one point in the movie, [[https://youtu.be/AJdyOO01HFo?t=48 a couple chords]] from [[Franchise/StarWars "The Imperial March"]] can be heard.
** At [[https://youtu.be/Gw01IWm1uSI?list=PLDEA2404E12B00AFE&t=42 another point in the movie]], some very distinct chords [[https://youtu.be/t18N7TdgCLg?list=PLeigbpMXUkYm9yh32UAjGL-ozEVn0fQNi&t=305 that also sound very similar]] to music from the ''[[Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack Empire]]'' OST.
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