History Anime / MobileSuitGundamCharsCounterattack

* FlawedPrototype: The Nu Gundam, despite being pretty incredible, is still a rushed and incomplete version of Amuro's original design; the fin funnels are even a last-second addition and just stick to a random latch on the backpack, whilst the controls are still dangerously oversensitive. Officially, the completed version is the Hi-Nu Gundam from ''Beltorchika's Children'', which is streamlined and even better armed.

* TheAce (Amuro and Char)

* AscendedMeme (Gyunei tells Quess that [[MemeticMolester everyone thinks Char is into young girls]].
* LittleMissBadass (Everyone assumes Char is after Quess because he likes young girls. The truth is that he just wants to use Quess to kill people since she's one REALLY powerful Newtype.)

* BigBulkyBomb (Char's asteroid is crammed with nukes.)
* BittersweetEnding (Char and Amuro [[spoiler:end up slaying one another. But Earth is saved, and it wouldn't have happened if it were not Amuro, who made a desperate push first-hand against the Axis using the reaction between the Psyco Frame of Sazabi and his Nu Gundam - [[CatchPhrase which is not made just for show!!]] Even Char had to acknowledge the stream of hope and warmth Amuro has caused.]])
* BrightSlap (Blink-and-you'll-miss-it: Bright does this to Hathaway. Sadly, it fixes nothing.)
* TheCaptain (Bright Noa)
* CallBack (An incredibly subtle one to ''[[Anime/MobileSuitZetaGundam Zeta Gundam]]'', illustrated in [[http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e240/NewtypeS3/Gundam%20Fun/SUBTLE.jpg this picture]].)
* CaptainErsatz (For a character in the same series, no less. Gyunei was originally supposed to be Kamille Bidan, having undergone questionable brain surgery & cybernetic implants to cure the brain damage he suffered at the end of ''[[Anime/MobileSuitZetaGundam Zeta Gundam]]'', but this was abandoned for various reasons. This concept is later referenced in the DynastyWarriorsGundam series, where Kamille will occasionally be seen piloting Gyunei's Jagd Doga.)

*** Judau had been living on Jupiter for years by this point due to him [[ShellShockedVeteran being sick and tired of fighting for the corrupt Earth Federation.]] Not to mention he never actually met Amuro & Char either. Kamille, meanwhile, was just not there[[note]] Kamille just couldn't pilot another mobile suit after what happened to him in Zeta [[/note]] (''Moon Crisis'', a manga, claims he became a brain surgeon after recovering.)
* ClingyJealousGirl (Quess)
* ColonyDrop (Or asteroids, in this case.)

* DoomedHometown (Quess' own homeland is the first to be destroyed.)

* GoodOldFisticuffs[=/=]CombatBreakdown (Nu Gundam & Sazabi's fancy EnergyWeapons crap out toward the end, resulting in one of the most brutal bareknuckle beatdowns in anime history.)

* GundamFighter (Several playable characters, including variations of Amuro and Char.)

* ISurrenderSuckers (Char's strategy for defeating a war weary Federation. Ironically, they seem to be willing to give Char nearly everything he could possibly want even after he launched an unprovoked attack on them).
* KillEmAll ([[spoiler:The movie kills literally the entire cast except for Bright Noa and his family.]])

* KnightTemplar (Char Aznable intends to force all of humanity into space so they can evolve into Newtypes)

* {{Lolicon}} - {{Ephebophile}} (13-year-old Quess is an object of much sexual desire from the majority of the male cast. Only Amuro and Bright seem immune --- though how much Char is feeling and how much he's faking is anyone's guess)
* LoveHurts (A significant portion of the cast is killed because of the male portion's attraction to Quess. [[spoiler:Namely, Gyunei (who's in love with her and is killed by Amuro), the mechanic Astonage Medoz (tried to stop Hathaway from going to find Quess, was killed by an explosion - then again, his girlfriend Kayra Su had just died as well) and Amuro's girlfriend Chein (who ''kills'' Quess and is offed by Hathaway since he had just succeeded to make Quess pull a HeelFaceTurn and Chein ruined it. And let's not even get into Amuro and Char...]])
* MeaningfulName (A blatant [[TheScrappy Scrappy]] that everyone hates? That brings about the deaths of so many people? One has to wonder if Quess's last name, which is pronounced like "Pariah", [[TheyPlottedAPerfectlyGoodWaste is a hint to Tomino wanting a hated character]])

* NinetyPercentOfYourBrain (Quess and Hathaway have a conversation suggesting that this is the origin of Newtype powers, that people used only a fraction (said to be "half," not 10% as in the trope) of their brains while living on Earth, but began to use the rest when they moved into space. How seriously we are to take them is somewhat open to debate, in that they're teenagers, not scientists, and both spend the rest of the movie doing very little that one might consider "smart," or "well thought out." Nonetheless, the franchise never openly contradicts this explanation.)

* OlderAndWiser (Amuro)

* TheRemnant (Neo-Zeon, which bizarrely has nothing to do with the nation of Zeon.)

* SuperRobotWars (One of the mainstays of the series with the plot being used for many of the games. The only non-Zeon times Axis is used fo a ColonyDrop is in SuperRobotWarsCompact and SuperRobotWarsAdvance)

** AnotherCenturysEpisode (so far the only series to be in all 4 cast lists. Not surprising given that Amuro was the original RealRobot pilot, making him to this series what [[MazingerZ Koji Kabuto]] is to the SuperRobotWars series.)

* TheFilmOfTheBook (It's adaption of YoshiyukiTomino's novel ''Hi-Streamer''. Surprisingly, it also has ''Beltochika's Children'' as {{Novelization}}) by none other than Tomino himself, based on the rejected plot.)
* TooDumbToLive (The Earth Federation leadership's attitude in this movie can be summed up thusly: "Okay Char, we'll give you a huge suitcase full of money and a giant space rock, just as long as you promise not to drop any giant space rocks on us." *Several minutes later* "DUDE, C'MON! WE HAD A DEAL!")

* WarriorTherapist (Taken to truly ludicrous extremes. Amuro & Char spend the last few minutes of their lives discussing Char's Oedipus Complex while smashing each others' mobile suits to bits as the Earth is about to get pulverized by a big rock.)
* WellIntentionedExtremist (Char, though ''how much'' is still a subject of FanWank among UC fans)

* WorthyOpponent (Char actually gives Amuro a device that will allow him to fight Char on even terms. He also specifically says "You're worthy enough to be my rival" to Amuro)

* YourSizeMayVary: The Sazabi's cockpit ball changes size wildly between the scene where it's loaded into the thing's head and at the end where Nu Gundam grabs it out of Sazabi's shattered remains.

* YouFailNuclearPhysicsForever: When the Londo Bell task force ships execute their MacrossMissileMassacre with nuclear missiles hidden amongst them [[spoiler: in an attempt to destroy Axis's engines before it can collide with Earth]], both Char and Gyunei use their funnels to destroy them. The missiles, predictably, go nuclear.

* IconicCharacters

* BittersweetEnding (Char and Amuro [[spoiler:end up slaying one another... as Earth is only saved by a miracle]])
** Could pretty much be considered a quasi-downer ending at the same time when you think about it.
** Nay... A miracle it is. However, it wouldn't have happened if it were not Amuro Ray, who made a desperate push first-hand against the Axis using the reaction between the Psyco Frame of Sazabi and his Nu Gundam - [[CatchPhrase which is not made just for show!!]] Even the BigBad Char Aznable had to acknowledge the stream of hope and warmth Amuro has caused.

''Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's Counterattack'' is an anime movie set in the primary Universal Century timeline of ''{{Gundam}}'', taking place in UC 0093. ''Char's Counteratta''ck is the final culmination of the original saga begun in ''MobileSuitGundam'' and continued through ''[[Anime/MobileSuitZetaGundam Zeta Gundam]]'' and ''[[Anime/MobileSuitGundamZZ Gundam ZZ]]'', marking the final conflict of the fourteen year rivalry between Char Aznable and Amuro Ray, and the end of the [[TheFederation Earth Federation]]/[[TheEmpire Zeon]] conflicts.

The movie is also noteworthy for having a rather unusual genesis. Originally, YoshiyukiTomino was going to wrap up Amuro and Char's storyline in ''[[Anime/MobileSuitGundamZZ Gundam ZZ]]'', but mid-way through production he was given the go-ahead to make a movie, forcing ''ZZ''[='s=] plot to be rewritten (details on its trope page). Tomino's original write-up was a novel called ''Hi-Streamer'', but Sunrise insisted on some changes, resulting in the film as it exists now. Tomino then wrote [[RecursiveAdaptation another novel]], ''Beltorchika's Children'', which draws mostly upon the movie but has lots of new content and a few important changes, such as replacing Chein Agi with ''ZetaGundam''[='s=] Beltorchika Irma. These two novels are the origin of the Hi-Nu Gundam (the finalized, "perfect" Nu Gundam) and Nightingale (a bigger, beefier Sazabi), which pop up in video games like ''SuperRobotWars'' and ''SDGundamGGeneration''.

* CallBack (An incredibly subtle one to ''ZetaGundam'', illustrated in [[http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e240/NewtypeS3/Gundam%20Fun/SUBTLE.jpg this picture]].)
* CaptainErsatz (For a character in the same series, no less. Gyunei was originally supposed to be Kamille Bidan, having undergone questionable brain surgery & cybernetic implants to cure the brain damage he suffered at the end of ''ZetaGundam'', but this was abandoned for various reasons. This concept is later referenced in the DynastyWarriorsGundam series, where Kamille will occasionally be seen piloting Gyunei's Jagd Doga.)
** Chan is basically a stand-in for [[ZetaGundam Beltorchika]].

* CharacterDevelopment: Char, in a negative way at the end of ZetaGundam before becoming the antagonist in this movie.

** You would think that [[MobileSuitZetaGundam Kamille]] and [[MobileSuitGundamZZ Judau]] would be there to help Amuro out in stopping Char...

** The mobile suits are used so often that they don't have even be chronologically correct. Who would've known that Amuro piloted the Nu Gundam during the events of [[ZetaGundam Zeta Gundam]]? Or Char/[[spoiler:Quattro]] in Sazabi??
*** In the case of Amuro, the inclusion of CCA is just an excuse to give Amuro the Nu Gundam so he can match up with the other Gundam series included. Let's face it, the original RX-78-2 Gundam kind of pales in comparison when placed alongside other Gundams such as Zeta Gundam and [[GundamF91 The F91 Gundam]].

*** Londo Bell is also under the direct command of Bright Noa, whom Char worked with closely during the [[ZetaGundam Gryps Conflict]]. Char should know enough about Bright's character that [[ReasonableAuthorityFigure he wouldn't go abusing his power like the Titans did]]. Although considering that [[AmbitionIsEvil reintegration into Federation ranks was never really that reliable]] (read: the fate of the ''Albion'' in ''[[MobileSuitGundam0083StardustMemory 0083 Stardust Memory]]''), precisely during the rise of the Titans, he was probably [[EvilCannotComprehendGood that cynical to think even Bright can become a mindless cog]]. [[MobileSuitGundamUnicorn Which he never became]].

* WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity: Gyunei Guss's obsession with Quess may be because of his Cybernewtype enhancements. There ''is'' evidence in [[ZetaGundam previous]] [[Anime/MobileSuitGundamZZ series]] that this is not that uncommon.

* GoodOldFisticuffs (Nu Gundam & Sazabi's fancy EnergyWeapons crap out toward the end, resulting in one of the most brutal bareknuckle beatdowns in anime history.)

*** Londo Bell is also under the direct command of Bright Noa, whom Char worked with closely during the [[ZetaGundam Gryps Conflict]]. Char should know enough about Bright's character that he wouldn't go abusing his power like the Titans did.

* ShoutOut: A very obscure one to ''StarTrek''. The Sweetwater colony's name is English for Agua Dulce, the place in California where ''KirksRock'' is located.

*** Judau had been living on Jupiter for years by this point due to him [[ShellShockedVeteran being sick and tired of fighting for the corrupt Earth Federation.]] Not to mention he never actually met Amuro & Char either. Kamille, meanwhile, was just not there (''Moon Crisis'', a manga, claims he became a brain surgeon after recovering.)

*** [[YouInoue Sayla's VA]] was unavailable...''again''.

*** Judau had been living on Jupiter for years by this point due to him [[ShellShockedVeteran being sick and tired of fighting for the corrupt Earth Federation.]] Not to mention he never actually met Amuro & Char either.
*** [[AllThereInTheManual Kamille had given up fighting in order to study medicine.]] Considering [[BreakTheCutie what he went through]], he can't be fully blamed. And considering what would have been the alternative (see CaptainErsatz above), it could have been worse.

* ContinuitySnarl (Aside from the movie itself, you have the Zeta movie trilogy which negates [[Anime/MobileSuitGundamZZ Gundam ZZ]] and possibly everything after it, Tomino's novelization (which was written first before the movie) of CCA which changes details of the movie and the Evolve 5 short feature based on the novel which retcons [[spoiler:Quess' death]].)
** Not so. The established rule is that all animated Gundam work are considered canon. The latest Gundam work, GundamUnicorn, used a lot of details from [[Anime/MobileSuitGundamZZ Gundam ZZ]] (characters and MS design alike) and thus indirectly confirmed ZZ's continued canonity (while the Zeta movie trilogy is considered alternate universe, if it negates ZZ at all). The novelization and the Evolve 5 are considered AU and What If? scenarios.

''Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's Counterattack'' is an anime movie set in the primary Universal Century timeline of ''{{Gundam}}'', taking place in UC 0093. Char's Counterattack is the final culmination of the original saga begun in ''MobileSuitGundam'' and continued through ''[[Anime/MobileSuitZetaGundam Zeta Gundam]]'' and ''[[Anime/MobileSuitGundamZZ Gundam ZZ]]'', marking the final conflict of the fourteen year rivalry between Char Aznable and Amuro Ray, and the end of the [[TheFederation Earth Federation]]/[[TheEmpire Zeon]] conflicts.

!!!Examples of tropes included in this story are:

* HotAmazon (Kayra Su)

* LoveHurts (A significant portion of the cast is killed because of the male portion's attraction to Quess. [[spoiler:Namely, Gyunei (who's in love with her and is killed by Amuro), the mechanic Astonage Medoz (tried to stop Hathaway from going to find Quess, was killed by an explosion - then again, his girlfriend [[HotAmazon Kayra Su]] had just died as well) and Amuro's girlfriend Chein (who ''kills'' Quess and is offed by Hathaway since he had just succeeded to make Quess pull a HeelFaceTurn and Chein ruined it. And let's not even get into Amuro and Char...]])

* FlawedPrototype (The Nu Gundam, despite being pretty incredible, is still a rushed and incomplete version of Amuro's original design; the fin funnels are even a last-second addition and just stick to a random latch on the backpack. Officially, the completed version is the Hi-Nu Gundam from ''Beltorchika's Children'', which is streamlined and even better armed.)

** You would think that Kamille and Judau would be there to help Amuro out in stopping Char...

*** [[AllThereInTheManual And Kamille had given up fighting in order to study medicine.]] Considering [[BreakTheCutie what he went through]], he can't be fully blamed.

* FoeYay (Amuro and Char)

*** Sayla's VA was unavailable...''again''.

*** Judau had been living on Jupiter for years by this point due to him being sick and tired of fighting for the corrupt Earth Federation. Not to mention he never actually met Amuro & Char either.
*** [[AllThereInTheManual And Kamille had given up fighting in order to study medicine.]]

* {{Lolicon}} (13-year-old Quess is an object of much sexual desire from the majority of the male cast. Only Amuro and Bright seem immune --- though how much Char is feeling and how much he's faking is anyone's guess)

* {{Yandere}} - Quess. Gyunei and [[spoiler: Hathaway]] might be male examples.

''Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's Counterattack'' is an anime movie set in the primary Universal Century timeline of ''{{Gundam}}'', taking place in UC 0093. Char's Counterattack is the final culmination of the original saga begun in ''MobileSuitGundam'' and continued through ZetaGundam and GundamZZ, marking the final conflict of the fourteen year rivalry between Char Aznable and Amuro Ray, and the end of the [[TheFederation Earth Federation]]/[[TheEmpire Zeon]] conflicts.

The movie is also noteworthy for having a rather unusual genesis. Originally, YoshiyukiTomino was going to wrap up Amuro and Char's storyline in ''GundamZZ'', but mid-way through production he was given the go-ahead to make a movie, forcing ''ZZ''[='s=] plot to be rewritten (details on its trope page). Tomino's original write-up was a novel called ''Hi-Streamer'', but Sunrise insisted on some changes, resulting in the film as it exists now. Tomino then wrote [[RecursiveAdaptation another novel]], ''Beltorchika's Children'', which draws mostly upon the movie but has lots of new content and a few important changes, such as replacing Chein Agi with ''ZetaGundam''[='s=] Beltorchika Irma. These two novels are the origin of the Hi-Nu Gundam (the finalized, "perfect" Nu Gundam) and Nightingale (a bigger, beefier Sazabi), which pop up in video games like ''SuperRobotWars'' and ''SDGundamGGeneration''.

* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: Hit Sayla ''hard''. Despite being the protagonist's onetime love interest and the antagonist's sister, she's only mentioned once in the film (referred to as Artesia by Char in a flashback to Lalah's death) and never seen. What makes this particularly surprising is the cameo she had in [[GundamZZ ZZ]] which was meant to foreshadow the movie.

* ContinuitySnarl (Aside from the movie itself, you have the Zeta movie trilogy which negates [[GundamZZ Gundam ZZ]] and possibly everything after it, Tomino's novelization (which was written first before the movie) of CCA which changes details of the movie and the Evolve 5 short feature based on the novel which retcons [[spoiler:Quess' death]].)
** Not so. The established rule is that all animated Gundam work are considered canon. The latest Gundam work, GundamUnicorn, used a lot of details from GundamZZ (characters and MS design alike) and thus indirectly confirmed ZZ's continued canonity (while the Zeta movie trilogy is considered alternate universe, if it negates ZZ at all). The novelization and the Evolve 5 are considered AU and What If? scenarios.

* WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity: Gyunei Guss's obsession with Quess may be because of his Cybernewtype enhancements. There ''is'' evidence in [[ZetaGundam previous]] [[GundamZZ series]] that this is not that uncommon.

''Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's Counterattack'' is an anime movie set in the primary Universal Century timeline of ''{{Gundam}}'', taking place in UC 0093. Char's Counterattack is the final culmination of the original saga begun in ''MobileSuitGundam'' and continued through ZetaGundam and GundamZZ, marking the final conflict of the fourteen year rivalry between Char Aznable and Amuro Ray, and the end of the [[TheFederation Earth Federation]]/[[TheEmpire Zeon]] conflicts. The movie is based on the novel (entitled ''Hi-Streamer'') by YoshiyukiTomino.

The movie is held by many Gundam fans to be some of the best of the entire Gundam series, but there are also many fans who abhor the derailing characters, annoying kids and a slight anticlimax.

* FlawedPrototype (The Nu Gundam featured in the movie is incomplete, the psycoframe and the funnels being a last minute addition. The completed version of the Nu Gundam, the Hi-Nu Gundam, is featured only in the novel ''Beltorchika's Children'', and is much superior to the regular Nu in many ways.)

The movie is held by many Gundam fans to be some of the best of the entire Gundam series, but there are also many fans who abhor the derailing characters, annoying kids and fairly anticlimactic final fight between Char and Amuro.

* CharacterDevelopment: Char, in a negative way during the interval between ZetaGundam and the movie.