History Anime / MobileSuitGundamMSIGLOO

* SmugSnake: Colonel Colmatta in ''Gravity Front''.

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Episode 3 of ''Gravity Front'' revolves around a female soldier who takes the heat for one of her fellow officers (implied to be her boyfriend) defecting to Zeon with information about the Guntank. When she finally finds him, she [[spoiler: [[TakingYouWithMe self-destructs to blow up herself and the Dabude he's commanding]], only to be informed by Shinigami after her death that he was actually a DoubleAgent who was working to capture the Dabude for the Federation.]]

* WhatHaveIDone: Arleen in episode 3 of ''Gravity Front'' after Shinigami informs her that [[spoiler: the man who destroyed her life by defecting to Zeon and bringing info on the Guntank with him while she took the heat (who she just blew up, along with herself) was in fact a DoubleAgent feeding information back to the Federation.]]

* DecoyProtagonist: [[spoiler: Barberry in the first episode in MS IGLOO 2, where the OVA shows by the end of the episode that it won't necessarily be sticking with a steady cast like it's predecessor.]]

* HeyItsThatVoice - There's more than one [[Manga/{{Bleach}} Shinigami]] in ''Gravity Front'', namely [[NobuyukiHiyama Lewis]] and [[KentaroIto Kuzwayo]].

* ShaggyDogStory: The first episode of ''The Hidden One Year War'' has the cast getting ready to test an experimental cannon at Loum. Before it's even fired, though, the cannon is already rendered obsolete with the unvealing of the Mobile Suits, and though Aleksandro tries to use it in the battle anyway, he ends up dying for nothing.

* ContinuityNod - Gihren Zabi and Kycilia Zabi are voiced by their ''[[BanjoGinga original]] [[MamiKoyama actors]]''.

* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotSymbolic - Shinigami, full stop. They thought they had to make up for the lack of heavy handed Newtype symbolism.

* IconicCharacters - Char Aznable is shown earning his nickname in his [[LawOfChromaticSuperiority red Zaku]] at Loum in the first episode of ''Hidden One Year War''.

* {{Gundamjack}} - The Federation steals some Zakus during the period before they have mobile suits of their own.

''Mobile Suit Gundam MS IGLOO'' is a CGI {{Gundam}} feature which takes place during the One Year War. Three series have been released under the title: ''The Hidden One Year War'', which was exclusively shown at Bandai Museum in Matsudo, Japan but has seen a limited release on DVD; ''Apocalypse 0079'', an OVA series released on DVD starting in April 2006; and ''MS IGLOO 2: The Gravity Front'', starting in October 2008. The director of MS IGLOO is Takashi Imanishi (previously directed ''Mobile Suit Gundam 0083: Stardust Memory''), and Yutaka Izubuchi is the supervisor. There is also a manga series ''MS IGLOO 603'' which start as an adaptation of ''The Hidden One Year War'' but later add its own content.

** Colmatta's battalion receives resupply from the Matilda Squadron in the first episode of ''Gravity Front'', the same squadron that resupplies White Base in MobileSuitGundam.
** The aiming scopes used in the Guntanks in the last episode of ''Gravity Front'' are virtual twins to the ones used by Amuro, Kai, and Hayato in the original MobileSuitGundam for their respective machines.

''Mobile Suit Gundam MS IGLOO'' is a CGI {{Gundam}} feature which takes place during the One Year War. Three series have been released under the title: ''The Hidden One Year War'', which was exclusively shown at Bandai Museum in Matsudo, Japan but has seen a limited release on DVD; ''Apocalypse 0079'', an OVA series released on DVD starting in April 2006; and ''MS IGLOO 2: The Gravity Front'', starting in October 2008. The director of MS IGLOO is Takashi Imanishi (previously directed ''Mobile Suit Gundam 0083: Stardust Memory''), and Yutaka Izubuchi is the supervisor. There is also a manga series ''MS IGLOO 603'' which start as adaption of ''The Hidden One Year War'' but later add its own content.

* RootingForTheEmpire - Sort of. While you hope for the best for the main characters, despite them supporting Zeon, you can't really support the empire they are fighting for due to how badly they treat their own soldiers.

* [[WhatAnIdiot What A Bunch Of Idiots]] - In episode 3 of series 1, the Zudah, an old machine which was poorly disguised as a "New Superweapon" and had been outed as such, are deployed to the space above Odessa to help the fleeing Zeon forces escape. A single Zudah destroys a GM squad commander with machine gun fire and impales a second GN seconds later. The remaining four [=GMs=] then laugh and treat the Zudah and its pilot like a joke, despite the fact that he had reduced their squad by a third in mere seconds.

%% ExcitedEpisodeTitle - All of the episode titles of ''Gravity Front'' (please mention at least one)

* [[WhatAnIdiot What A Bunch Of Idiots]] - In episode 3 of series 1, the Zudah, an old machine which was poorly disguised as a "New Superweapon" and had been outed as such, are deployed to the space above Odessa to help the fleeing Zeon forces escape. A single Zudah destroys a GM squad commander with machine gun fire and impales a second GN seconds later. The remaining four GMs then laugh and treat the Zudah and its pilot like a joke, despite the fact that he had reduced their squad by a third in mere seconds.

** Even more applicable in an ironic way to the Zudah. The Zudah is incredibly fast, capable out out-maneuvering a GM. [[ItGotWorse However, if it goes]] ''[[ExplosiveOverclocking too fast...]]''

* ExcitedEpisodeTitle - All of the episode titles of ''Gravity Front''.

* HeyItsThatVoice - There's more than one [[{{Bleach}} Shinigami]] in ''Gravity Front'', namely [[NobuyukiHiyama Lewis]] and [[KentaroIto Kuzwayo]].

** The original Gundam does appear very briefly in the form of a video feed recovered from a dead Zeon suit. It can basically be summed up as "This is what it's like to be killed by [[TheDragon Amuro Ray]]."

* SuperPrototype - Averted, most of the prototypes that appear in ''MS IGLOO 1'' are AwesomeButImpractical and were used as mere propaganda: the Jormungand is an outdated and useless cannon, the Hildolfr is tank that was already marked as a failure, the Zudah breaks apart if its thrusters are used at high output, the Oggo is just a worker pod outfitted with weapons (very much like the Ball).

* TalkingToHimself - In the ''MS IGLOO 2'' finale, both the female tank driver and the Shinigami are both voiced by Kikuko Inoue.

* HeroicBSOD - Cadillac, after the death of her little brother.

** AkioOozuka

* FragileSpeedster - Surprisingly applied to the gigantic Zaku's when fighting against Federation infantry/Tanks in gravity front. In general, the Average Zaku is shown to be VERY vulnerable to infantry deployed guided missiles and Type 61's cannon fire. Provided the rounds hit of course. Fortunately even Mook Zaku's seem capable [[DodgeTheBullet doding cannon fire]]. Also overlaps with GlassCannon, since the Zaku's also have a tremendous firepower advantage over the tanks with their Machine guns and giant Bazooka's.

** YMMV may vary on this one. The Jormungand could very well be awesome as long as it was used as a spaceborne sniper rifle, ExplosiveOverclocking wasn't necessary for the Zudah to stay competitive with the Federation Mobile Suits, the Oggo was good enough for whatever it was supposed to do. The Hildolfr was a major wall-banger though; ONE of those tanks took out 6-7 Zakus plus two tanks by itself while being piloted by a dope addict. Why didn't they make more of these things?
*** Bureaucracy and competition. The Zudah and the Hildolfr were good units, but their problem is they were not made by the Zeonic Company, who more or less had a monopoly on mobile weapons production within the Principality. Remember, how in the first season, Zimmad tried to revive the Zudah? It ended with propaganda that thrashed it and ended all support for its use.
*** The Jormungand, however, really was useless, even when they ''were'' trying to use it like a spaceborne rifle. The problem was that its targeting computer becomes incredibly unreliable when the battlefield becomes saturated with combat-density Minovsky Particles, and their first shot ended up not hitting anything. They sent a shuttle to aid its targeting, but it's an unarmed shuttle that's slower than a Zaku, which can take out several ships in the space of time it takes the cannon to charge, so it's really a lost cause by then.
*** Don't forget about the Z'Gok and Big Rang in part 2: The first being an impossible machine to use unless the pilot is TheAce or has ImprobableAimingSkills and the second being (arguably) a Nerf of the Bigro.
*** The Big Rang wasn't meant to be any sort of new combat unit as it really was just a Bigro with that weapon platform attached to its ass. It was meant to be a support platform for the Oggos, but judging by how the defense went, it would've been better if they just fielded more Bigros instead.
*** Considering how much damage Oliver May did in it (and remember, May wasn't even an ace pilot), the Big Rang overall proved MORE effective than the Bigros. Just saying.

* TheEmpire - Subverted, the protagonists of ''MS IGLOO 1'' are Zekes.