History Trivia / MobileSuitGundamCharsCounterattack

* HeyItsThatSound: This film lifts multiple sound effects from StarWars; beam sabers activating sound like lightsabers, several mobile suit thrusters sound like the engines on X-Wings and other Rebel fighters, and there are occasions where a ship firing its beam cannons sounds almost exactly like Imperial turbolasers.

** Mayumi Sho, who voiced Haro and Qum in ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamZZ'', voices Cheimin Noah in ''Char's Counterattack''.

** Horst Harness' actor Masaru Ikeda had a major role as General Revil in ''Mobile Suit Gundam'' and would later go on to play minor roles in ''Zeta Gundam'' and ''Gundam ZZ''.

** Tooth's voice actor Koji Totani previously voiced minor roles in the original ''Gundam'', as well as ''Zeta Gundam'' and ''Gundam ZZ''.

** Mayumi Sho, who voiced Haro and Qum in ''Gundam ZZ'', voices Cheimin Noah in ''Char's Counterattack''.

* YouSoundFamiliar: Quess Paraya is voiced by Creator/MariaKawamura, who previously played Beltorchika Irma in ''Anime/MobileSuitZetaGundam''.

* YouSoundFamiliar: Quess Paraya is voiced by Creator/MariaKawamura, who previously played Beltorchika Irma in ''Anime/MobileSuitZetaGundam''.

** This movie's ''existence'' is this trope. Originally, Tomino was going to conclude the rivalry between Char and Amuro in ''ZZ'', but was given the go-ahead to make this film, resulting in the plot being drastically rewritten. It's ''very'' safe to assume that had he not been given said go ahead, this movie wouldn't exist (although how different their resolution would've been in ''ZZ'' compared to what we actually got is unknown, since not only was ''Counterattack'' likely greenlit very early into the run of ''ZZ'', as evident by both Amuro and Char showing up in that show's intro, but Tomino's original idea hasn't been released, nor does he remember how Char would've returned).

** Londo Bell was originally going to be called Round Bear, complete with [[http://cdn.verbalcommits.com/uploads/team_Bear-b8a4ab91b946d402808581ea7ccf8b12.jpg its own logo]]. However, the cast kept on prounouncing it as "Rondo Berr", so the name was changed because it would be cheaper to redraw the logo than to re-record the lines, hence the organization we got today.

* HostilityOnTheSet: Creator/KoichiYamadera [[https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interest/2017-01-02/shuuichi-ikeda-yelled-at-kouichi-yamadera-while-recording-mobile-suit-gundam-char-counterattack/.110507 recounts one time that]] Creator/ShuichiIkeda shouted at him during break when Yamadera noted that Char was a bad guy while Amuro was the good guy and Yamadera was still new to the seiyuu business, let alone Gundam. They made up afterwards however.

** This movie's ''existence'' is this trope. Originally, Tomino was going to conclude the rivalry between Char and Amuro in ''ZZ'', but was given the go-ahead to make this film, resulting in the plot being drastically rewritten. It's ''very'' safe to assume that had he not been given said go ahead, this movie wouldn't exist.

* HostilityOnTheSet: Creator/KouichiYamadera [[https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interest/2017-01-02/shuuichi-ikeda-yelled-at-kouichi-yamadera-while-recording-mobile-suit-gundam-char-counterattack/.110507 recounts one time that]] Creator/ShuichiIkeda shouted at him during break when Yamadera noted that Char was a bad guy while Amuro was the good guy and Yamadera was still new to the seiyuu business, let alone Gundam. They made up afterwards however.

** Londo Bell was originally going to be called Round Bear, complete with [[http://cdn.verbalcommits.com/uploads/team_Bear-b8a4ab91b946d402808581ea7ccf8b12.jpg it's own logo]]. However, the cast kept on prounouncing it as "Rondo Berr", so the name was changed because it would be cheaper to redraw the logo than to re-record the lines, hence the organization we got today.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Tomino's original draft (later published as ''Char's Counterattack: Beltorchika's Children'', which later received a manga adaptation) had quite a few differences from the finished product - among other things, Beltorchika Irma would have taken Chan's role, although unlike Chan, [[spoiler: she would've survived]], and would've been pregnant with Amuro's child; the Nu Gundam had a completely different design (said design is officially known as the Hi Nu Gundam); Char had an entirely different mech replacing the Sazabi (the Nightengale); and unlike in the movie, where Quess is killed intentionally by Chan, Noa Hathaway would've killed Quess by accident (this would serve as a SequelHook leading into ''Literature/MobileSuitGundamHathawaysFlash''). Also, unlike the movie, ''Beltorchika's Children'' officially states that Amuro and Char are both Killed in Action.

** This movie's ''existance'' is this trope. Originally, Tomino was going to conclude the rivalry between Char and Amuro in ''ZZ'', but was given the go-ahead to make this film, resulting in the plot being drastically rewritten. It's ''very'' safe to assume that had he not been given said go ahead, this movie wouldn't exist.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Tomino's original draft (later published as ''Char's Counterattack: Beltorchika's Children'', which later received a manga adaptation) had quite a few differences from the finished product - among other things, Irma Beltorchika would have taken Chan's role, although unlike Chan, [[spoiler: she would've survived]], and would've been pregnant with Amuro's child; the Nu Gundam had a completely different design (said design is officially known as the Hi Nu Gundam); Char had an entirely different mech replacing the Sazabi (the Nightengale); and unlike in the movie, where Quess is killed intentionally by Chan, Noa Hathaway would've killed Quess by accident (this would serve as a SequelHook leading into ''Literature/MobileSuitGundamHathawaysFlash''). Also, unlike the movie, ''Beltorchika's Children'' officially states that Amuro and Char are both Killed in Action.

** Londo Bell was originally going to be called Round Bear, complete with [[http://cdn.verbalcommits.com/uploads/team_Bear-b8a4ab91b946d402808581ea7ccf8b12.jpg it's own logo]]. However, the cast kept on prounouncing it as "Rondo Berr", so the name was changed because it would be cheaper to redraw the logo than to re-record the lines, hence the organization we got today.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Tomino's original draft (later published as ''Char's Counterattack: Beltorchika's Children'', which later received a manga adaptation) had quite a few differences from the finished product - among other things, Irma Beltorchika would have taken Chan's role, although unlike Chan, [[spoiler: she would've survived]], and would've been pregnant with Amuro's child; the Nu Gundam had a completely different design (said design is officially known as the Hi Nu Gundam); Char had an entirely different mech replacing the Sazabi (the Nightengale); and unlike in the movie, where Quess is killed intentionally by Chan, Noa Hathaway would've killed Quess by accident (this would serve as a SequelHook leading into ''Literature/MobileSuitGundamHathawaysFlash'').