Have fun with this face in your dreams.
Despite being one of the silliest Gundam series, G Gundam commits to a surprising amount of Nightmare Fuel, with Body Horror and Mechanical Abominations aplenty.
Unmarked spoilers below.
- The entire FC is basically a hellscape for most. Earth is polluted and in ruins. The rich rule from space colonies after they abandoned earth and took all the good monuments with them. And the rulers of Earth and the colonies are decided by the most bonkers fighting tournament ever, where countries routinely employee criminals, assassins, and space pirates to pilot 5 story walking stereotypes of death. On top of all of that suck, the fighters get immunity from any and all prosecution during the tournament. All of that crazy has to happen just to change the tax code.
- The fittingly-named Devil Gundam is horror in of itself. A Mechanical Abomination built as the Ultimate Life Form to restore the Earth's environment that went horribly wrong and decided it must Kill All Humans to achieve its goal, the Devil Gundam is a remorseless killing machine that will take any measures it needs to wipe out the human race. Turning people into its slaves with its DG Cells to aid it in decimating entire cities, the Devil Gundam can adjust and repair itself to ensure that it can keep coming back again and again until it either completes its mission or someone figures out the seemingly-impossible task of making it stay dead.
- The aforementioned DG Cells. The Devil Gundam infects people with them to replace parts of their body with metal and bend them to its will. For instance, Saette Gyuzelle was a Tall, Dark, and Handsome Genius Bruiser, but when he was taken over by the DG-Cells, he was reduced to a borderline meat puppet with his mind completely twisted. During the finale, Ulube's skin cracks off to reveal that the injury to his face has allowed himself to be completely consumed by the DG Cells and that there is nothing even left of him with only metal composing his body now. The Devil Gundam can also use DG Cells to revive the dead, building the Death Army by using zombies as their pilots and bringing Gentle Chapman back to life as a mindless brute.
- The DG cell zombies infesting the ruins of Shinjuku, nearly skeletal and covered in metallic scales. It makes you wonder if Sunrise secretly wanted to make a horror anime instead.
- And then there's the Devil Gundam's pilot. Or rather, its human battery. The flashback showing what really happened on the day of the Devil Gundam's release depicts the now-malfunctioning Devil Gundam's Combat Tentacles shooting out of its cockpit to drag Kyoji inside, and he only has enough free will left to transfer himself into Schwarz Bruder. After this, The Devil Gundam uses Kyoji's body as a puppet as it sucks the life out of him, and Kyoji is pretty much dead on the outside by the Gundam Fight Tournament Finals. And when Ulube uses Rain as the Devil Gundam's new "pilot", she gets completely encased in metal with no free will whatsoever and the Devil Gundam becomes even stronger, growing to the size of a space colony and gaining the ability to destroy entire cities in mere seconds with its Combat Tentacles. The reason why Rain was even chosen was because, as a woman, she has the power to give life. It's never explained why that trait made the Devil Gundam so powerful and it's probably for the best.
- The Berserker System. When activated, it increases Allenby's fighting capability at the cost of her sanity, turning her in a raging beast bent on killing. When Wong forces the Berserker System onto Allenby and she prepares to kill Argo, Andrew shields him from the attack and his Lumber Gundam explodes to completely engulf the Nobel Gundam in flames and injure Andrew to the point that he must be disqualified from the tournament. During the Gundam Fight's final round, Allenby with the Berserker System fights Domon with sadistic glee and her battle with Rain results in Allenby blasting Wong out of a window, who begs for mercy before she fires. To make matters worse, the Berserker System is installed dangerously close to the cockpit, making it extremely difficult to disable it without killing the pilot along with it.
- Chibodee's childhood trauma. To celebrate their last day on Earth before moving to the Neo-America colony, he and his mother went to the circus. He was separated from his mother and held hostage by a terrorist dressed as a clown, all while gunfire erupted around him. His mother was likely killed, and the whole time, his captor LAUGHED MANIACALLY in the poor kid's face...
- Even worse? The fighter representing Neo-Portugal, Romario Monini, is a clown himself. And not only does he somehow know about Chibodee's trauma, but he also uses it as a weapon against him by mocking the fate of his mother. For all the dirty tricks that the different fighters use to get ahead of the competition, emotional abuse is a whole new low.
Romario: Whatever happened to mommyyyyy? - For the debuts of the Gundam Heaven's Sword and Grand Gundam, the arena is engulfed in smoke to hide what is going on inside before they emerge in their new forms and begin to pummel their opponents. For the Grand Gundam's debut in particular, it starts by impaling the Rose Gundam to cause George great pain before starting a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown while George is only left to helplessly use his Rose Bits to shoot around its Nigh-Invulnerable body until he finally shoots the Grand Gundam in the eye and ends the battle.
- When Domon arrives in the Devil Colony's core room during the final battle, he spots Rain's frozen body embedded in a wall. Then the Devil Gundam's final form melts out of said wall to form around Rain in a new body where any damage inflicted to it will cause Rain pain too. And said final form doesn't even seem to have a proper cockpit hatch, seeing how its chest just melts open to reveal Rain. After Rain manages to break free, the Devil Gundam still has enough power to fight, as it lunges at Domon and Rain (and by extension the viewer) to finally open up its Shining Gundam-style face to reveal rows of sharp yellow teeth (pictured above).
