History Trivia / MobileSuitGundam00

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* FanNickname: '''''(Warning: unmarked spoilers below!)''''':
** Tieria Erde: "Vowels", for the large number of them in his name. Also "Mantrap", "Titeria", and "T-chan" for his WholesomeCrossdresser stint.
*** In the Japanese and Chinese fandom, he's also known as [[Manga/SayonaraZetsubouSensei ''Zetsubou-sensei'']] due to the share of [[Creator/HiroshiKamiya seiyuus]] and an awful lot of coincidences. Eventually parodied in one of the said show's episode.
** Lockon Stratos: "[[StupidSexyFlanders Stupid Sexy Lockon]]" due to his GAR-ness. Also known as "Rockon", thanks to the {{Engrish}}y habit of switching "L"s and "R"s (which has happened in both ''[[Anime/MobileSuitGundam Gundam 0079]]'' and ''[[Anime/MobileFighterGGundam G Gundam]]'' at the very least). Briefly "[[Anime/CaptainHarlock Harlockon]] ", thanks to the EyepatchOfPower.
*** His twin, meanwhile, became known as "Lockoff" (at least by the Japanese and Chinese fandom) as soon as he appeared in episode 9 of the first season, ''long'' before [[spoiler:Lyle actually replaced the deceased Neil as Lockon Stratos]]. Eventually, "[[Series/KamenRiderV3 Lockon V2]]"/"Lockon 2.0" became popular, as well, was also nicknamed 'Lecharous Lyle' early on in Season 2 after his playful comments towards a clearly unamused Tieria Erde and stealing Feldt's first kiss (earning him a rather nasty slap for it).
** "[[{{WesternAnimation/Aladdin}} Prince Ali]]" for Ali Al-Saachez; due to his badass moments, and his Arabic name which is a rather popular 1001 Nights name for Arabian people... especially princes. And now that it has hit MemeticMutation with all the Aladdin pics with Ali's face "pasted on yay" on them via Photoshop... Repeat after me, ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIj56Rssy-0 ''Prince Ali, Mighty Is He!]]''
*** [[VideoGame/CastlevaniaLordsOfShadow "An unusual hiding place, for a Prince of Darkness... Don't you think?"]]
** The AEU's (alleged) ace Patrick Colasour is affectionately called "Team Patrick", for ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'''s TerribleTrio and their shared habit of being quite soundly defeated and showing up again next episode anyway.
** A more pragmatic example than most, Allelujah/Hallelujah is often shortened to "Al" and "Hal" by fans. Their temporary SplitPersonalityMerge tends to be called "Doublelujah", for obvious reasons.
** Setsuna F. Seiei, because of his past, is sometimes called "Jihad-kun". [="SetLight"=], referring to the fact that both his English ''and'' Japanese voice actors provided their respective versions of Manga/DeathNote's Light Yagami, is also popular. In Japan and China, he's apparently known as "Braindead".
** Ribbons Almark is most commonly referred to as "''Fucking Ribbons''" for his {{Manipulative Bastard}}ry , and "Traitor Ribbons" for his ChronicBackstabbingDisorder (frequently in the form of YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness). He is also sometimes called "Bad/Evil Amuro" due to sharing a seiyuu (Creator/ToruFuruya) with Amuro Ray, the [[Anime/MobileSuitGundam original Gundam]] protagonist.
** The Japanese fanbase love to shorten things, so Graham becomes "Ham" and Alejandro becomes "Doro" (after the Japanese pronunciation).
** Johann Trinity is nicknamed "Captain Hotpants" because of his wardrobe choice and his position as the leader of the Gundam Thrones
** Even ''before'' his alias was revealed, fans were referring to Mr. Bushido as "Bushido Bob", thanks to his obvious {{Samurai}} stylings. His Japanese fan nickname, on the other hand, is [[spoiler:[=HamMask=]]], referencing his previous nickname before donning the mask.
** The red-eyed, one-armed Exia from the start of season two is commonly known as [="TerminExia"=].
** The unnamed black leader of the Earth Sphere Federation has been given the unofficial title of "00bama", a rather obvious reference to UsefulNotes/BarackObama.
** The Innovators are sometimes referred to as "The Advertising/{{Skittles}} Squad", for their odd hair colours.
*** Which is ironic, because some fans like to refer to [[spoiler:Trans-Am Burst]] as "The Power of Skittles".
** Col. Sergei Smirnov has ''HORDES'' of fanatically devoted Japanese fans who affectionately call him "Kuma-san" (Mr. Bear)[[note]]based on his InSeriesNickname, ''The Wild Bear of Russia''[[/note]]. He gets the much-less-flattering [[MemeticMutation Pedo-Bear]] from his western fanbase, thanks to his "relationship" with Soma. The neutral version of this is "Papa Bear".
** Don't forget Rindt being nicknamed "Swiss Chocolate Man" because of his name...
** The Seraphim Gundam is henceforth christened the "[[Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann Gundam Lagann]]".
*** And "Shin Musha Flag" is now the nickname for Mr. Bushido’s new mobile suit(s), the Masurao and Susanowo.
** The A-Laws' Captain Goodman is more often than not called "Captain Fat Ass", or alternatively "Captain KFC", for reasons that should be obvious.
** The A-Laws are sometimes called A-LOLS, and less affectionately the A-Holes.
** Throughout both English and Japanese speaking fanbases, Regene Regetta is the butt of many "NEET" jokes due to his supposedly lazy nature; fittingly, the Japanese have dubbed him as "The Royal NEET".
** ChineseGirl Wang Liu Mei is widely known as "China Tits" or, less affectionately, "China Bitch".
** Gundam Throne Drei is also been called "Dreivangelion", for its stunt in episode 15 of the first season.
** And there's also [="SoMarie"=], a portmanteau of Soma and Marie.
** The 00 Gundam is known among fans as "Double Exia".
*** The 00 Raiser is also known as the "Double Bro Raiser" for the friendship its pilots [[spoiler:[[BashBrothers Setsuna F. Seiei and Saji Crossroad]]]] have ("Bro" in Japan can mean... well, [[HoYay beyond platonic love]] for added fun with the fans).
** Marina Ismail is often called "Princess Poverty", and rules over the land of "Povertystan."
** "Trans-[[spoiler:Grah]]Am" - Whether Graham is using the Trans-Am system,
*** Alternatively, Trans-[=GARHam=], on account of Graham's general hotbloodedness.
*** Being so hilariously obvious and memetic, the name (complete with cross out) was actually in one of the subs when the episode it first appeared in was translated.
*** By extension this also extends to his ultimately full of win quotes in the ''VideoGame/SDGundamGGeneration'' games, where he is VERY notable for the aptly named "God Graham Finger" if the player puts him in the [[Anime/MobileFighterGGundam God Gundam]].
** "Desu-Yellow" is a derisive one some fans have given Mileina Vashti because they can't stand her.
** Quebeley Mark III - The Regnant due to its shape in Mobile Suit mode.
** GN Particles have almost collectively known by the entire fandom as "GN Pixie Dust", [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDFetkztTIA both for their appearance and near-magical powers.]]
** The GN Archer is the "Loli GM"
** The Raiser Sword is often called the "[[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIII Blasting Zone]]", for [[SwordBeam obvious reasons]].
** [[spoiler:The army of Bring and Divine clones]] are known as both the "[[Manga/DragonBall Red Ribbons Army]]" and "Bringivines".
** Ribbons' mobile suit (Reborns Gundam) during the finale was actually jokingly called "Ribbons Cannon" by Creator/ToruFuruya, Ribbons' seiyuu. Western fans generally just call it the GN Guncannon, while Asian fans call it GN Guntank.
*** Now also known as "GN Two-Face Hi-Nu Gundam", or just "GN Hi-Nu".
** Same fans call the 00 Raiser "God Raiser" for various reasons.
** "Bad Haro" for the purple, foul-mouthed Haro Nena Trinity kept inside the Throne Drei.
** Franchise/PowerRangers: The Meisters and their {{Sixth Ranger}}s for wearing [[ColorCodedCharacters colored uniforms]] in the second season.
*** Blue Ranger -- Setsuna F. Seiei
*** Green Ranger -- Lockon Stratos
*** Orange Ranger -- Allelujah Haptism
*** Purple Ranger -- Tieria Erde
*** White Ranger -- [[spoiler:Saji Crossroad]]
*** Red Ranger -- [[spoiler:Soma Peries]] (Despite actually wearing Persimmon)
*** [[spoiler:Graham Aker]] is often added in various fanworks, usually replacing [[spoiler:Soma]] as the Red Ranger. If not, then usually as the Black Ranger.
** The Gaga mobile suits were refered to as "baka bombs." Anyone who has seen them in action will quickly understand why.
** "Darth Louise" or "Darth Halevy". Three guesses as to who and why.
*** [[FridgeBrilliance To be fair]], she's not [[CharClone the only character in the franchise]] [[DarthVaderClone to have this comparison]], but that's what Graham was for.
** "Badass Haro" - Haros in general, as they play a much more active role (piloting Dynames/Cherudim while Lockon [[CatchPhrase snipes the targets]]) in ''00'' when compared to previous incarnations.
*** Red Haro became known as "GARO" after it [[spoiler:stows away on 0 Raiser and foils Revive Revival's attempted Gundamjack by bouncing into the control port that it normally occupies and forcing the 0 Raiser to dock with 00 Gundam]].
** Billy Katagiri is known as "Billy goat"
*** "Zetsubou Billy", a nickname bestowed on Billy during season two for obvious reasons. The name also comes from the title of the second Death Note ending theme.
** "Golden Toilet Bowl" - a nickname given to the Alvatore, due to its... [[http://images4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20110211033643/gundam/images/5/50/Gnma-xcvii.jpg shape...]]
** "[[StupidSexyFlanders Captain Hotpants]]" for Johann Trinity.

** Feldt was also a pink-haired girl [[Anime/MobileSuitGundamSEED in a previous life]].

*** On the other side of the coin the English version also ''inverts'' the trope, with voice actors of past Gundam antagonists voicing protagonists: Good [[Anime/MobileSuitGundamSEEDDestiny Auel]] (Creator/BradSwaile as Setsuna F. Seiei), Good [[Anime/MobileSuitGundamSEED Shani]] (Creator/RichardIanCox as H/Allelujah Haptism) Good [[Anime/MobileSuitGundamSEED Azrael]] (Creator/AndrewFrancis as Lasse Aeon), Good [[Anime/MobileSuitGundamSEEDDestiny Djibril]] (Alistair Abell as Klaus Grad) and (arguably) Good [[Anime/MobileSuitGundamCharsCounterattack Char]] (Creator/MichaelKopsa as Aeolia Schenberg).

*** On the other side of the coin the English version also ''inverts'' the trope, with voice actors of past Gundam antagonists voicing protagonists: Good [[Anime/MobileSuitGundamSEEDDestiny Auel]] (Creator/BradSwaile as Setsuna F. Seiei), Good [[Anime/MobileSuitGundamSEED Shani]] (Creator/RichardIanCox as H/Allelujah Haptism) Good [[Anime/MobileSuitGundamSEED Azrael]] (Creator/AndrewFrancis as Lasse Aeon), and (arguably) Good [[Anime/MobileSuitGundamCharsCounterattack Char]] (Creator/MichaelKopsa as Aeolia Schenberg).

* CreatorsFavorite: Seiji Mizushima stated that his favorite character was [[CuteAndPsycho Nena Trinity]], largely because he previously worked with her voice actress Creator/RieKugimiya on ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist''. Although Nena's role in the series was largely unimportant and her fate was anticlimatic, she was a popular character in the series in Japan. Of course, [[AmericansHateTingle in the West]], to this day it's still a push between [[BaseBreakingCharacter people who think she's cool and those who look at her as an evil bitch]]. [[BreadEggsBreadedEggs Sometimes even those who think]] [[LoveToHate she's cool as an evil bitch]]

* CreatorsFavorite: Seiji Mizushima stated that his favorite character was [[CuteAndPsycho Nena Trinity]], largely because he previously worked with her voice actress Creator/RieKugimiya on ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist''. Although Nena's role in the series was largely unimportant and her fate was anticlimatic, she was a popular character in the series in Japan. Of course, [[AmericansHateTingle in the West]], to this day it's still a push between [[BaseBreakingCharacter people who think she's cool and those who look at her as an evil bitch]].

* NamesTheSame: Sadly, the secret to the Gundam's Trans-Am is not the Pontiac Firebird.

** The Filipino dub also plays it straight: Setsuna is voiced by the guy who did [[Manga/HajimeNoIppo Ippo Makunochi]], Lockon by the guy who did [[Anime/MaiHime Reito Kanzaki]], H/Allelujah by the guy who did [[VisualNovel/{{Clannad}} Youhei Sunohara]], Tieria by the guy who did [[LightNovel/ShakuganNoShana Yuuji Sakai]].

** The Innovators are sometimes referred to as "The Skittles Squad", for their odd hair colours.

** The Japanese love to shorten things, so Graham becomes "Ham" and Alejandro becomes "Doro" (after the Japanese pronunciation).

*** On the other side of the coin the English version also ''inverts'' the trope, with voice actors of past Gundam antagonists voicing protagonists: Good [[Anime/MobileSuitGundamSEEDDestiny Auel]] (Creator/BradSwaile as Setsuna F. Seiei), Good [[Anime/MobileSuitGundamSEED Shani]] (Creator/RichardIanCox as H/Allelujah Haptism) Good [[Anime/MobileSuitGundamSEED Azrael]] (Creator/AndrewFrancis as Lasse Aeon), and (arguably) Good [[Anime/MobileSuitGundamCharsCounterattack Char]] (Creator/MichaelKopsa as Aeolia Schenberg)

** "[[{{Disney.Aladdin}} Prince Ali]]" for Ali Al-Saachez; due to his badass moments, and his Arabic name which is a rather popular 1001 Nights name for Arabian people... especially princes. And now that it has hit MemeticMutation with all the Aladdin pics with Ali's face "pasted on yay" on them via Photoshop... Repeat after me, ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIj56Rssy-0 ''Prince Ali, Mighty Is He!]]''

** In the DVD commentaries, Creator/AyumiTsunematsu mentioned her character, [[EverythingsBetterWithPrincesses Marina Ismail]], was going to have a significant part later on. Nothing happened in the end or in the movie.

** "[[{{Disney.Aladdin}} Prince Ali]]" for Ali Al-Saachez; due to his MagnificentBastard moments, and his Arabic name which is a rather popular 1001 Nights name for Arabian people... especially princes. And now that it has hit MemeticMutation with all the Aladdin pics with Ali's face "pasted on yay" on them via Photoshop... Repeat after me, ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIj56Rssy-0 ''Prince Ali, Mighty Is He!]]''

** Ribbons Almark is most commonly referred to as "''Fucking Ribbons''" for his [[MagnificentBastard Magnificent Bastardry]], and "Traitor Ribbons" for his ChronicBackstabbingDisorder (frequently in the form of YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness). He is also sometimes called "Bad/Evil Amuro" due to sharing a seiyuu (Creator/ToruFuruya) with Amuro Ray, the [[Anime/MobileSuitGundam original Gundam]] protagonist.

** Tieria was originally planned on being a {{Bifauxnen}} woman who dresses like a man, and there are some elements in the first season that foreshadow it early on, such as his name, suffering PronounTrouble when his masculine Gundam reveals a very feminine inner form, and appearing ''much'' more feminine when upset. However, this was scrapped, meaning that Gundam fans lost the chance to have a female "main" pilot in the series (one that would likely have doubled as a MsFanservice), albeit gaining the closest thing Gundam has to a canonically gay pilot.

*** Red Haro became known as "GARO" after it [[spoiler:stows away on 0 Raiser and foils Revive Revival's attempted Gundamjack by [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome bouncing into the control port that it normally occupies and forcing the 0 Raiser to dock with 00 Gundam]]]].

*** By extension this also extends to his ultimately full of win quotes in the ''VideoGame/SDGundamGGeneration'' games, where he is VERY notable for the aptly named "God Graham Finger" if the player puts him in the [[Anime/MobileFighterGGundam God Gundam]]. Also serves as a CrowningMomentOfAwesome.

** Then there's the KingdomHearts seiyuus: Sora (Saji Crossroad), Riku (Setsuna F. Seiei), Axel (Ali al-Saachez), and Alladin (Lockon Stratos)

** Tieria was originally planned on being a {{Bifauxen}} woman who dresses like a man, and there are some elements in the first season that foreshadow it early on, such as his name, suffering PronounTrouble when his masculine Gundam reveals a very feminine inner form, and appearing ''much'' more feminine when upset. However, this was scrapped, meaning that Gundam fans lost the chance to have a female "main" pilot in the series (one that would likely have doubled as a MsFanservice), albeit gaining the closest thing Gundam has to a canonically gay pilot.

** Tieria was originally planned on being a Bifauxen woman who dresses like a man, and there are some elements in the first season that foreshadow it early on, such as his name, suffering PronounTrouble when his masculine Gundam reveals a very feminine inner form, and appearing ''much'' more feminine when upset. However, this was scrapped, meaning that Gundam fans lost the chance to have a female "main" pilot in the series (one that would likely have doubled as a MsFanservice), albeit gaining the closest thing Gundam has to a canonically gay pilot.

** [[spoiler:The army of Bring and Divine clones]] are known as both the "[[DragonBall Red Ribbons Army]]" and "Bringivines".

*** Also, Gundam Kyrios is a white and orange painted mecha, much like [[Anime/{{ZoidsNewCentury}} Liger Zero Schneider]]. Which is fitting, as Alleluyah and Bit Cloud shares the same english voice actor.

* ActorAllusion: [[spoiler:Ribbons Almark]], who shares a voice actor with Amuro Ray, pilots both the [[Anime/MobileSuitGundam RX-78]]-inspired 0 Gundam & the [[Anime/MobileSuitGundam Guncannon]]-inspired Reborns Cannon/Gundam.

** "[[{{Disney.Aladdin}} Prince Ali]]". For all his MagnificentBastard moments, add up with his Arabic name and it's a rather popular 1001 Nights name for Arabian people... especially princes. And now that it has hit MemeticMutation with all the Aladdin pics with Ali's face "pasted on yay" on them via Photoshop... Repeat after me, ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIj56Rssy-0 ''Prince Ali, Mighty Is He!]]''

* CreatorsFavorite: Seiji Mizushima stated that his favorite character was [[CuteAndPsycho Nena Trinity]], largely because he worked with her CV, Creator/RieKugimiya, on ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist''. Although Nena's role in the series was largely unimportant and her fate was anticlimatic, she was a popular character in the series in Japan. Of course, [[AmericansHateTingle in the West]], to this day it's still a push between [[BaseBreakingCharacter people who think she's cool and those who look at her as an evil bitch]].

** Also, director Mizushima stated in an interview that the series was originally supposed to be set in [[Anime/MobileSuitGundam Universal Century]] but Sunrise vetoed it, so the series was rewritten into a new 'verse, hence the similarities: Minovski particles = GN Particles; Newtypes = Innovators; Cyber Newtypes = Innovades, etc...

** Ribbons Almark is most commonly referred to as "''Fucking Ribbons''" for his [[MagnificentBastard Magnificent Bastardry]], and "Traitor Ribbons" for his ChronicBackstabbingDisorder (frequently in the form of YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness). He is also sometimes called "Bad/Evil Amuro" due sharing a seiyuu (Creator/ToruFuruya) with Amuro Ray, the [[Anime/MobileSuitGundam original Gundam]] protagonist.

** The as-yet-unnamed black leader of the Earth Sphere Federation has been given the unofficial title of ""00bama"", a rather obvious reference to President Barack Obama.

*** By extension this also extends to his ultimately full of win quotes in SD Gundam G Generation Wars. where he is VERY notable for the aptly named "God Graham Finger." Also serves as a CrowningMomentOfAwesome.

** PowerRangers: The Meisters and their {{Sixth Ranger}}s for wearing [[ColorCodedCharacters colored uniforms]] in the second season.

*** [[spoiler:Graham Aker]] is often added in various fanworks, usually replacing [[spoiler:Soma]] as the Red Ranger. If not, [[spoiler:he's]] usually made as the Black Ranger.

** "Badass Haro" - Haros in general, as they play a much more active role (piloting Dynames/Cherudim while Lockon [[CatchPhrase snipes the targets]]) in 00 when compared to previous incarnations.

* HeAlsoDid: Kenji Takahashi, who does both voice work[[note]]Abel, Hong Long[[/note]] ''and'' photography[[note]]For veteran Gundam contractor Creator/AsahiProduction[[/note]] for the series.

* RelationshipVoiceActor: Many seiyuus from Anime/FullmetalAlchemist, another anime directed by Seiji Mizushima, reunite in ''00''. Namely, the voices of Edward Elric (Regene Regetta), Alphonse Elric (Nena Trinity), Maes Hughes (Ali al-Saachez), Scar (Bring Stability and Divine Nova), Riza Hawkeye (Shirin Bakhtiar), Jean Havoc (Alejandro Corner), Maria Ross (Revive Revival), Kain Fuery (Andrei Smirnov), Solf Kimblee (Billy Katagiri), and Lt. Yoki (Aner Rindt).

* TalkingToHimself: While the Dylandy twins share the same VA, [[spoiler: it's mainly averted in the anime series due to Lyle only getting a major role after Neil's death, however]]the live reading in the 2009-2010 New Years Festival has Creator/ShinichiroMiki doing a bit of this.

*** Also, Gundam Kyrios is a white and orange painted mecha, much like [[Anime/{{ZoidsNewCentury}} Liger Zero Schneider}}]]. Which is fitting, as Alleluyah and Bit Cloud shares the same voice actor.