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* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: Th first Z alone has over 20 differnt series, each bringing in numerous characters both in and out of the cockpits. That sheer amount of characters by itself would be ''more'' then enough to qualify, but Z2 takes it UpToEleven by bring the series count to ''over 30'', resulting in one of the largest headcounts in the series.
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* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: Th first Z alone has over 20 differnt different series, each bringing in numerous characters both in and out of the cockpits. That sheer amount of characters by itself would be ''more'' then enough to qualify, but Z2 takes it UpToEleven by bring bringing the series count to ''over 30'', resulting in one of the largest headcounts in the series.SRW franchise.
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* PaintingTheFourthWall: In ''Z2'', [[Anime/MobileSuitGundamWing Deathscythe]] and its MidSeasonUpgrade have attacks that makes use of their stealth jammers, which cause the screen to flicker and static-up for the duration of the attack.
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* PaintingTheFourthWall: PaintingTheMedium: In ''Z2'', [[Anime/MobileSuitGundamWing Deathscythe]] and its MidSeasonUpgrade have attacks that makes use of their stealth jammers, which cause the screen to flicker and static-up for the duration of the attack.
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* ADayInTheLimelight: Z1 is this to {{Zambot 3}} which had previosly been frequantly been overshadowed by its sibling {{Daitarn 3}}, as well loseing a good deal of its plot to lessen the [[KillEmAll copius deaths]] and child abuse. In Z1 however, {{Daitarn 3}} has more of a supporting role while while the Zambot plot has a rather large role in Setsukos route, with a lot more of the plot retained.
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* ADayInTheLimelight: Z1 is this to {{Zambot 3}} 3}}, which had previosly previously been frequantly been frequently overshadowed by its sibling {{Daitarn 3}}, as well loseing losing a good deal of its plot to lessen the [[KillEmAll copius deaths]] and child abuse. In Z1 however, {{Daitarn 3}} has more of a supporting role while while the Zambot plot has a rather large role one in Setsukos Setsuko's route, with a lot more of the plot retained.
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By WordOfGod, any series with their first seasons covered in Part 1 will be concluded in Part 2. This is also true of Gurren Lagann, despite being a single season, due to its eight-year time skip. Fans have regarded this titanic series list as the "Best Thing Ever". From what little we know about the second game, things in the Z universe are going to get MUCH [[ItGotWorse worse before they get better]].
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By WordOfGod, any series with their first seasons covered in Part 1 will be concluded in Part 2. This is also true of Gurren Lagann, despite being a single season, due to its eight-year time skip. Fans have regarded this titanic series list as the "Best Thing Ever". From what little we know about the second game, things in the Z universe are [[FromBadToWorse going to get MUCH [[ItGotWorse worse worse]] before they get better]].
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** Rand, Setsuko, Mel, Denzel, Toby, Asakim, Xine, the Chimera Corps, Crowe, Esther, Insanlaum Kingdom.
** For the {{mecha}}, the Gunleon, Virgora, Shurouga, Eliphas, Brasta, Arksaber Knight mecha and the Chaos machines. The ''Z Special Disk'' also contains an original [[OvermanKingGainer Overman]] called the ''XAN''
** For the {{mecha}}, the Gunleon, Virgora, Shurouga, Eliphas, Brasta, Arksaber Knight mecha and the Chaos machines. The ''Z Special Disk'' also contains an original [[OvermanKingGainer Overman]] called the ''XAN''
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** Rand, Setsuko, Mel, Denzel, Toby, Asakim, Xine, the Chimera Corps, Crowe, Esther, Insanlaum Kingdom.
Kingdom, Aim Liard, Elgan Rodeck, Traiya.
** For the {{mecha}}, the Gunleon, Virgora, Shurouga, Eliphas, Brasta, Arksaber Knight mecha and the Chaosmachines.machines, Arietis. The ''Z Special Disk'' also contains an original [[OvermanKingGainer Overman]] called the ''XAN''
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*** [[spoiler: '''Wang Liu Mei''' is spared as well. At least in the normal Route. She still dies in [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZdwkxjT6r4 IF route]].]]
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**** [[GodMars Emperor Zule]] is rather proactive in this regard. He spends a lot of the game trying to gather allies from the other villains, including [[TengenToppaGurrenLagann Lordgenome]], [[DancougarNova Moon Will]] and [[GetterRobo Dr. Saotome]]. When you do actually fight him, he brings along quite a few bosses you've already beaten.
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**** [[GodMars Emperor Zule]] Zuul]] is rather proactive in this regard. He spends a lot of the game trying to gather allies from the other villains, including [[TengenToppaGurrenLagann Lordgenome]], [[DancougarNova Moon Will]] and [[GetterRobo Dr. Saotome]]. When you do actually fight him, he brings along quite a few bosses you've already beaten.
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*** [[{{Dancougar}} Emperor Muge Zorbados]] and [[GodMars Emperor Zule]]
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Only Known by Nickname: Boss has his "They call me Boss! Not even the author knows my name." quote from the Shin Mazinger anime.
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* ToCreateAPlaygroundForEvil: The Edel Bernal doesn't really have a plan other than to turn the world into the most chaotic and war-ridden place he can to be his personal playground.
** Part 2 sheds a little light on this. He went nuts forseeing the coming of the Bal, and deciding there was no way to possibly win, opted to just turn the world into total chaos for his amusement to hang out in until the day the Bal showed up to slaughter everyone.
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* ToCreateAPlaygroundForEvil: The Edel Bernal doesn't really have a plan other than to turn the world into the most chaotic and war-ridden place he can to be his personal playground.
**playground. Part 2 sheds a little light on this. He went nuts forseeing foreseeing the coming of the Bal, Ba'al, and deciding there was no way to possibly win, opted to just turn the world into total chaos for his amusement to hang out in until the day the Bal Ba'al showed up to slaughter everyone.
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Corps, Crowe, Esther, Insanlaum Kingdom.
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* LaughablyEvil: Jason Beck, of course. [[spoiler:The Edel Bernal]] is another for the [[OriginalGeneration original characters]], whose GenreSavvy nature and [[AscendedFanboy eerily accurate comments to your pilots]] make him one rather amusing CompleteMonster and lead to him being considered as one of the "best" SRW villains simply due to an unbashed, unapologetic nature.
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* LaughablyEvil: Jason Beck, of course. [[spoiler:The Edel Bernal]] is another for the [[OriginalGeneration original characters]], whose GenreSavvy nature and [[AscendedFanboy eerily accurate comments to your pilots]] make him one rather amusing CompleteMonster villain and lead to him being considered as one of the "best" SRW villains simply due to an unbashed, unapologetic nature.
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*FallingIntoTheCockpit: Notably [[AvertedTrope Averted]] so far, at least with the [[OriginalGeneration Original characters]]. While she is a [[NewMeat Rookie]], Setsuko has still had military training, and Rand was piloting Gunleon for years prior to the game.
** Z2's Original, Crowe Broust takes it even further, being a [[RetiredBadass former member]] of a [[CodeGeass Britannian]] [[AcePilot Black Ops Unit]].
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* SparedByTheAdaptation: [[spoiler: Euphie, Shirley, Rolo, and Lelouch himself from ''Anime/CodeGeass'']] in "Saisei-Hen", provided you pick the right route. Also [[spoiler:Anew Returner from ''{{Gundam 00}}'' and Lorelei from ''Anime/ShinMazinger'']] as secrets.
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* SparedByTheAdaptation: [[spoiler: Euphie, Shirley, Rolo, Shirley and Lelouch himself Rolo from ''Anime/CodeGeass'']] in "Saisei-Hen", provided you pick the right route. Also [[spoiler:Anew Returner from ''{{Gundam 00}}'' and Lorelei from ''Anime/ShinMazinger'']] as secrets. A non-secret would be [[spoiler:Lelouch.]]
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A PlayStationPortable sequel entitled ''The Second Super Robot Wars Z Hakai-hen'' is a [[EpisodicGame two-part release]], with the first half launched in April 2011 and the second slated for April 2012. This "World Breaking Chapter" returns every franchise from the first game, but the MazingerZ and GetterRobo titles have their 1970s-vintage entries (including GreatMazinger and {{Grendizer}}) tossed for the more modern ''ShinMazinger'' and ''[[GetterRobo Getter Robo Armageddon]]'', while ''EurekaSeven'' is now represented by its movie adaptation, and ''[[Anime/MobileSuitZetaGundam Zeta Gundam]]'' has ''its'' movie apparently replaced with the TV series, despite still using the movie character designs, movie backround music, and including a never-before adding movie-only attack. For some reason, {{Gravion}} and Anime/TheBigO only have one season each listed in the credits for Hakai-hen: ''Gravion Zwei'' and Anime/TheBigO's first (it should be noted that Big O still had some Season 2 only attacks in Hakai-hen, so one can assume that the second season was just grouped with the first for simplicity's sake), only for Gravion's first season to reappear in Saisei-hen's credits.
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A PlayStationPortable sequel entitled ''The Second Super Robot Wars Z Hakai-hen'' is a [[EpisodicGame two-part release]], with the first half launched in April 2011 and the second slated for April 2012. This "World Breaking Chapter" returns every franchise from the first game, but the MazingerZ and GetterRobo titles have their 1970s-vintage entries (including GreatMazinger and {{Grendizer}}) tossed for the more modern ''ShinMazinger'' and ''[[GetterRobo Getter Robo Armageddon]]'', while ''EurekaSeven'' is now represented by its movie adaptation, and ''[[Anime/MobileSuitZetaGundam Zeta Gundam]]'' has ''its'' movie apparently replaced with the TV series, despite still using the movie character designs, movie backround music, and including a never-before adding used movie-only attack. For some reason, {{Gravion}} and Anime/TheBigO only have one season each listed in the credits for Hakai-hen: ''Gravion Zwei'' and Anime/TheBigO's first (it should be noted that Big O still had some Season 2 only attacks in Hakai-hen, so one can assume that the second season was just grouped with the first for simplicity's sake), only for Gravion's first season to reappear in Saisei-hen's credits.
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** There's tons of these to ''Z'': for the first time, originals and series that didn't return are directly referenced, although the only series that didn't come back were the old Mazinger series, Grendizer, Getter G, and TV Eureka Seven. One example includes Camille asking the current [[ShinMazinger Kouji Kabuto]] how [[UFORoboGrendizer Duke Fleed]] and [[GreatMazinger Tetsuya Tsurugi]] are doing, before realizing this Kouji has never met them. [[spoiler: For Eureka Seven, this dimension's version being different is actually a plot point]]. Still, it helps prevent the problem that was present in the ''SuperRobotWarsAlpha'' games, where a series that appeared in one game and didn't appear in subsequent ones (I'm looking at you, GiantRobo and BrainPowered!) would utterly fail to be mentioned in dialogue, as if they had been ExiledFromContinuity.
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** There's tons of these to ''Z'': for the first time, originals and series that didn't return are directly referenced, although the only series that didn't come back were the old Mazinger series, Grendizer, Getter G, and TV Eureka Seven. One example includes Camille asking the current [[ShinMazinger Kouji Kabuto]] how [[UFORoboGrendizer Duke Fleed]] and [[GreatMazinger Tetsuya Tsurugi]] are doing, before realizing this Kouji has never met them. [[spoiler: For Eureka Seven, this dimension's version being different is actually a plot point]]. Still, it helps prevent the problem that was present in the ''SuperRobotWarsAlpha'' ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWarsAlpha'' games, where a series that appeared in one game and didn't appear in subsequent ones (I'm looking at you, GiantRobo and BrainPowered!) would utterly fail to be mentioned in dialogue, as if they had been ExiledFromContinuity.
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The first ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWars'' title to be created under Creator/NamcoBandai. In many ways, it broke certain precedents and traditions: for example, the number of new series is more than any previous [=SRW=]. In this game, you play as either Rand Travis, a wandering repairman/mechanic, who's partnered with the young Mel Beater, or Setsuko Ohara, a member of "Glory Star", a small military squadron in the [[Anime/MobileSuitGundam Earth Federation]], alongside teammates Denzel Hammer and Toby Watson, as they are pulled through many conflicts. The main plot point of the game is SuperDimensionCenturyOrguss's dimension bomb, which fuses an array of parallel worlds into one.
!Series list ('''Bold''' indicates debuting entries):
* '''OvermanKingGainer'''
* ''Anime/TheBigO''
** '''The Big O: Season Two'''
* ''[[{{Zambot 3}} Invincible Superman Zambot 3]]''
* ''[[{{Daitarn 3}} Invincible Steel Man Daitarn 3]]''
* ''CombatMechaXabungle'' (Follows the movie's storyline, since [[spoiler:Arthur is still alive]])
* ''[[Anime/MobileSuitZetaGundam Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam: A New Translation]]'' (Movie compilation)
* ''[[CharsCounterattack Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's Counterattack]]''
* ''[[Anime/AfterWarGundamX After War Gundam X]]''
* ''Anime/TurnAGundam''
* ''[[Anime/MobileSuitGundamSEEDDestiny Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny]]''
* ''MazingerZ''
* ''GreatMazinger''
* ''[[GetterRobo Getter Robo G]]''
* ''[[{{Grendizer}} UFO Robot Grendizer]]''
* '''[[GodSigma Space Emperor God Sigma]]'''
* '''GenesisOfAquarion'''
* '''[[EurekaSeven Psalms of Planets Eureka Seven]]'''
* '''SuperDimensionCenturyOrguss'''
* '''SpaceWarriorBaldios'''
* '''[[{{Gravion}} Choujuushin Gravion]]'''
** '''Chōjūshin Gravion Zwei'''
A PlayStationPortable sequel entitled ''The Second Super Robot Wars Z Hakai-hen'' is a [[EpisodicGame two-part release]], with the first half launched in April 2011 and the second slated for April 2012. This "World Breaking Chapter" returns every franchise from the first game, but the MazingerZ and GetterRobo titles have their 1970s-vintage entries (including GreatMazinger and {{Grendizer}}) tossed for the more modern ''ShinMazinger'' and ''[[GetterRobo Getter Robo Armageddon]]'', while ''EurekaSeven'' is now represented by its movie adaptation, and ''[[Anime/MobileSuitZetaGundam Zeta Gundam]]'' has ''its'' movie apparently replaced with the TV series, despite still using the movie character designs, movie backround music, and including a never-before adding movie-only attack. For some reason, {{Gravion}} and Anime/TheBigO only have one season each listed in the credits for Hakai-hen: ''Gravion Zwei'' and Anime/TheBigO's first (it should be noted that Big O still had some Season 2 only attacks in Hakai-hen, so one can assume that the second season was just grouped with the first for simplicity's sake), only for Gravion's first season to reappear in Saisei-hen's credits.
!Series added in Hakai-hen ('''Bold''' indicates debuting entries):
* ''Invincible Robo Trider G7''
* ''[[GodMars Six God Combination Godmars]]''
* '''ArmoredTrooperVOTOMS'''
** '''The Last Red Shoulder'''
** '''Red Shoulder Document - Roots of Ambition'''
** '''Pailsen Files'''
* ''[[Anime/MobileSuitGundamWing New Mobile Report Gundam Wing]]'' (TV series)
* '''Anime/MobileSuitGundam00 (First Season)'''
* ''{{Dancougar}}''
** ''God Bless Dancougar''
* ''DancougarNova''
* ''[[GetterRobo Getter Robo Armageddon]]''
* '''[[ShinMazinger Shin Mazinger Impact! Z Chapter]]'''
* '''[[{{Dai-Guard}} Earth Defence Enterprise Dai-Guard]]'''
* '''[[EurekaSeven Psalms of Planets Eureka Seven: Pocket Full of Rainbows]]'''
* '''[[Anime/CodeGeass Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion]]'''
* '''TengenToppaGurrenLagann'''
** '''Gurren-hen'''
* ''MacrossFrontier''
** '''The False Songstress'''
!Saisei-hen includes the following:
* '''[[{{Gigantor}} New Gigantor]] (AKA Messenger of the Sun Tetsujin 28)'''
* '''Anime/MobileSuitGundam00 (Second Season)'''
* ''{{Macross7}}''
** '''Macross Dynamite 7'''
* '''MacrossFrontier: The Wings of Goodbye'''
** '''Macross Frontier'''
* '''[[Anime/CodeGeass Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion R2]]'''
* '''TengenToppaGurrenLagann: Lagann-hen/Original Story'''
By WordOfGod, any series with their first seasons covered in Part 1 will be concluded in Part 2. This is also true of Gurren Lagann, despite being a single season, due to its eight-year time skip. Fans have regarded this titanic series list as the "Best Thing Ever". From what little we know about the second game, things in the Z universe are going to get MUCH [[ItGotWorse worse before they get better]].
Note that ''Z'' appears to be designed around ''breaking'' the old tropes previous SRW installments had, so expect a lot of aversions, inversions, and subversions.
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* ADayInTheLimelight: Z1 is this to {{Zambot 3}} which had previosly been frequantly been overshadowed by its sibling {{Daitarn 3}}, as well loseing a good deal of its plot to lessen the [[KillEmAll copius deaths]] and child abuse. In Z1 however, {{Daitarn 3}} has more of a supporting role while while the Zambot plot has a rather large role in Setsukos route, with a lot more of the plot retained.
* AscendedMeme: [[TengenToppaGurrenLagann Kamina's epic sunglasses]] are an equippable item that gives you 20+ Will at a battle's start. This unlocks some of the more powerful attacks right off the bat. Ironically, Gurren Lagann's pilots don't need them, as [[TengenToppaGurrenLagann Simon's]] ace bonus is beginning each scenario at 130 Will.
** [[FridgeBrilliance Which may be the point...]]
* AnimationBump: ''Hakai-hen'' compared to ''Z'', even though it's gone from a console to a handheld; animations are smoother, mecha are more detailed and cut-ins are more animated.
** Best example hands down is the redesigned [[CharsCounterattack Nu Gundam]] and its [[AttackDrone Fin Funnel]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWEKrTKhrCs attack]]. There's a reason why the fans say that Banpresto [[MemeticMutation blew the animation budget on the Nu Gundam]].
* AntiVillain: ''Every'' OriginalGeneration villain in the 2nd SRW Z are Anti-Villains to varying degrees, with the exceptions of Aim, Anbrorn, and Marilyn (and even then, the latter two get a PetTheDog moment.)
* AssKicksYou: [[Anime/TheBigO Jason Beck's]] Victory Deluxe mecha uses this as an attack.
* ArtShift: See {{Retraux}} entry below: classic mecha use a different, very old-school art and animation style for their finishers.
* ArmorPiercingSlap: [[Anime/MobileSuitGundam00 Sumeragi Li Noriega]] delivers one to Elgan.
* AxCrazy: [[spoiler:The Edel Bernal is more the ForTheEvulz variety while Löwen General's a genuine example.]]
* BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler: Emperor Muge Zorbados, Moon WILL (Thanks to the former), Emperor Zule (technically) and Aim Liard]] in ''Saisei-hen.''
* BadassCrew: ZEUTH and the Chimera Corps in ''Z'', ZEXIS in ''Hakai-hen'' as well as the returning ZEUTH, obviously.
** The Chimera Corps take the cake here: [[spoiler:they literally played everyone and took control of the whole world while being consisted only of ''five members'', which shocks ZEUTH to no end when they find this out]].
* BashBrothers: ''Z'' started the tradition of pairing [[Anime/MobileSuitZetaGundam Camille Bidan]] and [[Anime/MobileSuitGundamSEEDDestiny Shinn Asuka]], which is one of the many reasons Destiny's story turned out much better. Also [[Anime/MobileSuitGundamX Garrod Ran]] and [[EurekaSeven Renton Thurston]]. [[OvermanKingGainer Gainer]] is sometimes in a PowerTrio with the latter two.
** [[Anime/MobileSuitGundam00 Setsuna F. Seiei]] and [[Anime/MobileSuitGundamWing Heero Yuy]] as well as [[TengenToppaGurrenLagann Kamina]] and [[GetterRobo Ryouma Nagare]] in ''Hakai-hen'' [[spoiler: for the short time Kamina's alive]].
* BigBad: [[spoiler:The Edel Bernal]], who doubles as a rare, villainous AscendedFanboy, due to his battle quotes almost always referencing the personality or nicknames of the pilots attacking him and the events that happen in their series.
** In ''Hakai-hen'', it's [[spoiler: Gaiou, the King of Destruction, who initially has AmnesiacDissonance and just goes around destroying things as he likes while his subordinates do all the scheming, but eventually regains some of his memories and, in the final scenario, declares he wants to fight and kill a god (or a godlike being; he isn't exactly picky)]].
** Saisei-Hen, in contrast, has [[spoiler: Uther, the King of Restoration as it's leading baddie. Preumably, as this guy is also the king of Insaraum, he wants to restore his country, and is, himself, a legitimate sphere-holder. In his case, his is Aquarius, a.k.a. "The Inexhaustible Water Vessel". He starts out as benign, and even helpful. When you meet him in Stage 46, he is a classic example of the ShelteredAristocrat, and he is controlled by a cruel Prime Minister, but when his Sphere activates, he [[TookALevelInBadass takes about fifty levels in badass]] after getting some sense talked into him by your team, and [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPtN0wMGeJY blows the final boss of the previous game away with one attack in his new giant king robot]].]] Despite this, [[spoiler: Gaiou is still the Major Antagonist of ''Saisei-Hen'' and the Z2 Universe in general.]]
* BiggerBad: The "inevitable crisis" known as Baal that all the bad guys in Saisei-Hen are worried about and [[spoiler: is Gaiou's mission to fight against]]. Who or what that is has yet to be revealed.
* BigGood: [[Anime/MobileSuitGundamSEEDDestiny Lacus Clyne]] and [[Anime/TurnAGundam Diana Sorel]] in the first game.
** Elgan Laudic in Z2, the founder of ZEXIS [[spoiler: and an alternate, non-insane version of the Edel Bernal]].
** Also, to a lesser degree, [[spoiler: [[Anime/CodeGeass Lelouch Lamperouge]] when he becomes the Supreme Commander of ZEXIS in Saisei-hen]].
* BlessedWithSuck: Being a sphere owner is ''not'' fun. Sure you get amazing power but the trigger is NEVER something you would want.
** Here are a few examples from the known sphere holders:
*** Setsuko: [[spoiler:Slowly loses her five senses as a result of using the Sorrowful Maiden.]]
*** Rand and Mel: [[spoiler:Mel cannot age, and Rand experiences extreme pain as a side effect of tapping into the Wounded Lion (since Mel is the holder, but Rand is the Gunleon's pilot).]]
*** Crowe: [[spoiler:Once the Swaying Scales reaches full power, Crowe is locked onto a single thought and cannot break out of it, entering a near-berserker state. It can be easily countered by making him hear the sound of the coin dropping through.]]
*** Aim: [[spoiler:The False Black Sheep prevents Aim from speaking the truth, ranging from speaking only in lies to babbling in complete gibberish.]]
*** Uther: [[spoiler:The Inexhaustible Water Jug slowly drains Uther's life force the more he uses it.]]
*** Saisei-hen introduces another "blessing". The "Stigma of the Cursed Wanderer". As a result of being exposed to the power of dimensional travel repeatedly, those that are marked by the stigma will find themselves and their weapons drawn to any world in which someone is manipulating dimensional power, unless that world has a version of yourself already present. This is why Zeuth members appear in the world of Zexis. (and why the original Mazinger, Getter and E7 characters don't) [[spoiler: It also renders you immortal, and is the reason Asakim cannot die. As of the end of Saisei-hen, EVERYONE in Zexis has been marked by the stigma, as Asakim cheerfully informs them.]]
* BoisterousBruiser: Rand, which is unusual for a SRW protagonist.
* BoringButPractical: [[MacrossFrontier The MDE Missile]]. It's like GurrenLagann's Throne Break,except it's post-movement and it can hits every terrain.
* BossRush: This seems to be [[GodMars Emperor Zule's]] general strategy in both Z2 games.
** In Hakai-hen, when you fight him in Stage 46, he brings along several bosses you've beaten already, including [[DancougarNova Regulus Alphas]], [[MacrossFrontier Knight-Class Vajra]], [[DaiGuard Heterodynes]] and Rhino-DAMONS as well as two clones of himself. [[OhCrap Then you have to fight the real one.]] There a reason that Stage is ThatOneLevel of Hakai-hen.
** Stage 56 of the IF route in Saisei-hen takes this UpToEleven. First you have to fight a Crap-load of [[GetterRobo Invader]], [[{{Gravion}} Zeravire]], [[DaiGuard Heterodyne]], [[ShinMazinger Mechanical Beast]] and [[GundamWing Mobile Doll]] bosses. Then you have to take on [[GodMars Emperor Zule]] and [[{{Dancougar}} Emperor Muge]] along with a bunch of their lackeys, including TWO [[DancougarNova MOON-WILLS]], plus the [[TengenToppaGurrenLagann Cathedral Terra Lazengann]] (which you just spent half of the last stage beating already). THEN, once all that is over, you go inside the Catheral Terra where you have to fight [[EvilKnockOff Anti-Spiral Gurren Lagann]].
* BreakTheCutie: Setsuko. Poor, poor Setsuko...
* CerebusSyndrome: Rand's scenario is generally a silly, lighthearted romp until the point where he gets his Gunleon's MidSeasonUpgrade, where everything becomes serious from that point on. Not to say that the silliness is completely gone, of course.
** In ''Hakai-hen'', [[spoiler:Kamina's death]] is a big turning point where things start getting more serious, especially if you've been sticking to the Japan Route.
** It actually starts getting bad when [[spoiler:Gaiou]] appears, but after [[spoiler:Kamina dies]], the mood is a lot less lighthearted.
** In ''Saisei-Hen'', the very moment of Scenario 25 [[spoiler:[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFiiuEPnG1Y when Esther is turned into a Dimensional Beast]].]]
* CharacterExaggeration: [[Anime/MobileSuitGundamSEEDDestiny Lunamaria Hawke's]] aiming skills. Thanks to [[NeverLiveItDown an incident]] in the [=SEED=] Destiny anime where she managed to cleanly miss hitting a ''battleship'' with a beam rifle, she has the "honor" of having the Spirit Command "Strike" (gives 100% accuracy for 1 turn) at the monumental cost of 30 SP (it usually costs about half or a third that much) - a figure only matched by Mr. NoSenseOfDirection [[SuperRobotWars2 Masaki Andoh]].
** Her Ace Bonus in ''Hakai-hen'' is cutting the cost of her Strike command in half.
** Another example is [[Anime/TheBigO Roger Smith]], who talks ''much'' more than he used to back in his series, especially when piloting the Big O and also by exaggerating the frequency of his failures in negotiations and making it something of a RunningGag. To be fair, this ''is'' a mostly text-based game, so Roger had to be made more verbose to some extent, and his negotiations are sometimes plain impossible. For example, one of the first negotiations we see him do is between a disguised [[OurDemonsAreDifferent Hya]][[GetterRobo kki]] and the [[GetterRobo Saotome Research Lab]]...
** Also, the in-game database notes the in-series CharacterExaggeration[=/=]VillainDecay [[SentouMechaXabungle Hola and Gelaba]] went through in the later half of their show.
* ChekhovsGun: Near the beginning of ''Hakai-hen'', [[Anime/CodeGeass Lelouch Lamperouge]] places a Geass command to force Carlos Axion Jr., the richest man in the world and president of the Axion Foundation that created Crowe Broust's Brasta, to answer any questions Lelouch has for him so he can steal his financial information to fund the creation of the [[Anime/CodeGeass Black Knights]]. It turns out [[spoiler: Carlos is working against ZEXIS, and when they get their hands on him after scenario 49, they interrogate him as to Gaiou's whereabouts. When he doesn't comply, Lelouch-as-Zero recalls the Geass command he placed on Carlos and asks him personally; Carlos instantly reveals Gaiou is on the moon. Everyone else gets confused by Carlos' sudden change of heart, since they don't know that Zero is Lelouch or what Geass is.]]
** Early on in Saisei-hen, Lockon Stratos flips a coin and notes how Crowe suddenly reacts to it. Later on, they try it again with something else to see if Crowe would react in a similar fashion, only he doesn't. Crowe explains that he can tell how a coin really sounds like, and only that will garner said reaction from him. [[spoiler: Cue the CDS.]]
** Again in Saisei-hen, Zero accidentally placed a geass on [[spoiler: Esther after she turns into a Dimentional Beast, commanding her to stop when she attacked the Shinkirou]]. Few chapters later, Crowe believes that [[spoiler: Esther has completely turned into a DAMON]], to which Marguerite tells him otherwise. [[spoiler: DAMON Esther]] attacks him at that moment, only to halt in its tracks after Zero reissues the same command, proving to Crowe that [[spoiler: Esther isn't completely a DAMON yet, and still retains her humanity to a certain degree]].
* ChekhovsGunman: [[TheDarkChick Xine Espio]] shows up early as a generic mook who attacks [[SuperDimensionCenturyOrguss Kei Katsuragi]] right after he primes the Space/Time Oscillation Bomb. She uses a generic mook pilot portrait and name; the only thing that gives any hint to her identity at that point was her voice.
* CherryTapping: In Saisen-Hen the Nu Gundam gets a glorious new attack that involves good old fisticuff and its dynamic kill closes with a barrage of...vulcun firepower. Amuro is cool that he can get away with that just cuz.
* ClippedWingAngel: The Daigun Doten Kaizen boss fight in [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=duf_39yHrnE Scenario 44]] of Hakai-hen's Earth route. It only has one attack, but Guame and Adiane provide backup and it has lots of HP.
* CombatSadomasochist: [[spoiler:The Edel Bernal]], SOOOO much. He practically orgasms with every hit, his or yours.
* TheComicallySerious: ''Z'' enjoys placing deadpan characters in the middle of comedic situations. Roger comes to mind with jabs at his constant failures at "negotiation" and having to resort to force.
* ContinuityNod[=/=]MythologyGag: [[MacrossFrontier Sheryl Nome and Ranka Lee's CDs]] are equippable items. However, there is another CD in the game from [[MacrossSeven Fire Bomber]].
** In ''Hakai-hen'', the Dynamic Kill of Nu Gundam's Fin Funnel attack ends with it performing the "Last Shooting". For those unfamiliar with the term, it's the name for the "firing straight upwards" pose the original Gundam did to finish off Char's Zeong in ''Anime/MobileSuitGundam''.
** There's tons of these to ''Z'': for the first time, originals and series that didn't return are directly referenced, although the only series that didn't come back were the old Mazinger series, Grendizer, Getter G, and TV Eureka Seven. One example includes Camille asking the current [[ShinMazinger Kouji Kabuto]] how [[UFORoboGrendizer Duke Fleed]] and [[GreatMazinger Tetsuya Tsurugi]] are doing, before realizing this Kouji has never met them. [[spoiler: For Eureka Seven, this dimension's version being different is actually a plot point]]. Still, it helps prevent the problem that was present in the ''SuperRobotWarsAlpha'' games, where a series that appeared in one game and didn't appear in subsequent ones (I'm looking at you, GiantRobo and BrainPowered!) would utterly fail to be mentioned in dialogue, as if they had been ExiledFromContinuity.
** In one interesting nod, during the "Seikan Hikou" event linked below, Apollo gets into the song so much that he almost wants to do the memetic "KIRA!" bit from the song. In ''[[AnotherCenturysEpisode Another Century's Episode:R]]'', where both Aquarion and Macross Frontier were part of the cast, Apollo repeats this very line nearly verbatim during the same event in that game.
* CruelTwistEnding: ''Hakai-Hen'''s storyline avoids the DownerEnding of both Gundam 00's first season and Getter Robo Armageddon's first episode, and the end sequence plays out with it looking like everything's fine. Credits roll, and then all the bad stuff starts to happen...
* CrutchCharacter: In ''Hakai-Hen'' we have [[spoiler: Kamina]] oh, so very much. [[spoiler:If he didn't bite it]] halfway through the game, he would've been a GameBreaker.
** To elaborate, he has extremely high stats even for a super robot pilot, gains the Spirit Command Valor (multiply damage you deal by 2 for a single attack) the earliest out of any character in the game, and his Ace Bonus raises his max Will by 30, which, combined with the "Break Will Limit" pilot skill, would set his maximum Will at 200. Should players decide to LevelGrind, he'll learn Soul (multiply damage by 2.5), which would make it likely he can outdamage even Ryouma.
* CutscenePowerToTheMax: When a unit gains a new attack (like [[spoiler: Crowe Broust's Brasta and its SPIGOT VX]]), it may debut with a battle animation showing it dealing heavy damage to, if not outright killing, a five-digit-HP-bearing boss in one hit. It rarely works that way when you actually use it.
** Inverted in Setsuna's final fight against [[spoiler: Alejandro]]. If you've fully upgraded Exia, it's entirely possible to one-shot the enemy [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill with plenty of damage to spare]] - which then triggers a cutscene where he does the same attack, and it only does barely enough damage to take him down.
* DeadpanSnarker, LemonyNarrator: Whoever wrote the database entries for the various characters and units sure has a sense of humor. Highlights include wondering how [[Anime/MobileSuitGundamSEEDDestiny Neo Roanoke's]] Windam [[NoOneCouldSurviveThat fell from a rather high altitude and did not explode]] and [[Anime/MobileSuitGundamSEEDDestiny Kira Yamato]] [[PlotArmor surviving the nuclear-powered Freedom's destruction at the hands of Shinn]], poking fun at Beck The Great RX-3 for [[EpicFail getting destroyed in two seconds]] [[CrowningMomentOfFunny after taking forever to combine and pose]] by pointing out that "despite Beck The Great RX-3 taking a great deal of time to combine, pose and show off, it was totalled within seconds thanks to the Big O's merciless onslaught with its O Thunder weapon". It also gives out nods to EpilepticTrees such as [[{{Daitarn 3}} Haran Banjo being a Megaborg himself]] and has a very loving description of MazingerZ, which goes beyond the call of duty to detail its attacks and point out its impact on the SuperRobotGenre.
* DegradedBoss:
** In Z1, [[OvermanKingGainer The Overdevil]], [[Anime/MobileSuitZetaGundam Psyco Gundam]], [[Anime/MobileSuitGundamSEEDDestiny Destroy Gundam]], [[Anime/TheBigO Big Fau (in the same stage, no less)and Big Duo]], to name some prominent ones. Overdevils can still count as a major enemy even if they appear en masse.
** In Z2, Original Dancougar, Destroy Gundam, Face Metal Beast, Beast Gore and Burai, Branch Robot 5
* DemotedToExtra: Despite being one of the most powerful leaders and newtypes in Universal Century, [[Anime/MobileSuitZetaGundam Haman Khan]] gets shafted into playing second-fiddle to [[Anime/MobileSuitZetaGundam Paptimus Scirocco]] and [[Anime/MobileSuitGundamSEEDDestiny Gilbert Durandal]]. When it seems she's about to make her move, she's suddenly PutOnABus. [[spoiler:unless you manage to take the secret ZEUTH route split, which allows you to recruit her, or more accurately lets her force her way into your team. Not that anyone would mind, though.]]
** Soma Peries and the GN Archer only get to appear as an attack for Allelujah and the Gundam Arios in Saisei-hen.
** And [[SuperDimensionCenturyOrguss Athena]] only appears as an attack for Kei.
** In contrast, [[Anime/CodeGeass Chiba and Asahina]] went from attack-only units to full-fledged units.
* DarkerAndEdgier: Setsuko's plot in spades, one of the reasons why some prefer her route to Rand's. It's like they seperated the DarkerAndEdgier and LighterAndSofter into 2 concentrated masses of [[TearJerker suck]] and [[CrowningMomentOfFunny fun]].
* DifficultySpike: Stage 15 of ''Saisei-hen''. Until then, the game's a cakewalk, especially if you imported a save data from ''Hakai-hen''. Stage 15, however, pits you up against [[spoiler:Marilyn and her Firebug squad]]. They're incredibly powerful, accurate, and dodgy, on top of Marilyn having a very high Command level, which means that enemies adjacent to her will receive immense boosts in accuracy and evasion, making them even tougher to deal with.
* DoomedByCanon: In Hakai-Hen there is nothing you can do to save [[spoiler: [[GurrenLagann Kam]][[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjfVMZggw44 ina]], [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUe83vpiKC0 Neil "Lockon Stratos" Dylandy]] and [[Anime/CodeGeass Euphemia]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-UV1sk8ZNo li Britannia]]]] given the importance of their deaths to the plot. However since this is only Part 1 of a 2-part ''SRW'' series, which is known for saving sympathetic characters from death it is possible that they will pull a NotQuiteDead in part 2 depending on the player's choices. Hopefully...
** As it turns out, this is only partly averted in Part 2. [[spoiler: While Euphie is revealed to be NotQuiteDead in the "IF" route, Kamina and Neil "Lockon Stratos" Dylandy remain dead.]]
* DownerEnding: The bad ending of ''Z'', where [[spoiler: Edel Bernal succeeds in killing Eureka, the Black History gets initiated [[GroundhogDayLoop again]] and ZEUTH gets stuck in a [[{{Gotterdammerung}} terrible battle until the worlds are split apart and their lives/memories are erased as the totality of existence]] [[ResetButton is sent back to square one.]]]]
* {{Ear Worm}}: [[InvokedTrope Invoked with]] the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KS6Rm9ctMY Seikan Hikou event]] in Super Robot Wars Z2: Hakai-Hen Scenario 34-B.
* EldritchAbomination: According to Asakim Dowin, [[spoiler:the Spheres are the creation of the ''Taichi'', an entity that controls the fate of all universes by manipulating the "Origin Law"]].
** Note that [[spoiler: ''taichi'' (太極, alternatively ''taiji'') is a Dao concept. More can be read [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiji here]]]].
** The Dimensional Beasts from ''Hakai-hen'' seem to be this as well.
* EliteMooks: Mechanical Beasts are in most games serves as mere {{Mooks}} but in Z2, thanks to stone statues from first episodes of Shin Mazinger taking this role, they gets promoted to this.
** Marilyn's Firebug unit is made up of customized Axios, and are much, ''much'' tougher than the Axios that you fight in ''Hakai-hen''.
* EnemyMine: Stage 43 of ''Z1'' forces [[Anime/TurnAGundam Harry Ord]] and [[Anime/MobileSuitGundamSeedDestiny Kira Yamato]] to team up with Gym Ghingham in order to save Queen Dianna Soreil from the clutches of [[Anime/MobileSuitZetaGundam The Titans]].
** Upon being warped into the ''Hakai-hen'' world and being confronted by an army of [[TengenToppaGurrenLagann Beastmen]], [[{{Xabungle}} Jiron and Timp]] form a (very brief) alliance to fight them off.
** If memory serves, Roger Smith managed to persuade Jason Beck to help him out in one stage of ''Hakai-hen''.
* EpicFail: Poor Lelouch is the only protagonist of a series in SRW history to both be shot down in a demo sequence, and to miss his target, in ''Hakai-hen''. In his own series, his skills as a pilot are relatively mediocre, relying on ambushes, misdirection, squad tactics, planted explosives and highly accurate long range fire. In the demo roll, however, he's piloting a customised ''obsolete'' mecha, and pitted against one of the two best pilots in the world his series exists in, piloting one of the most advanced mecha in the series. He's incredibly outmatched. Worse yet, the attack he's hit with deals 25% more damage than his mecha's maximum HP, when other units in these demo rolls take half of that, at most. It's as if the world is plotting against him. Unfortunately, it's an outcome he's all too used to.
** While Lelouch breaks his defeat streak, the demo roll for Saisei-hen continues his poor match-up, with Lelouch captaining a battleship, who's missiles fail to hit. Worse yet, he's hit back for even more damage than the last time, despite being in a far more advanced machine, with even more armour than before. Luckily, since it's a battleship, it doesn't sink, but it still must be frustrating him that his opponent is getting protagonist hit and damage rates when Lelouch is the main character of his series.
* {{Expy}}: [[SignificantAnagram Asakim Dowin]] is tailored as the EvilCounterpart to Masaki, a mainstay of [=SRW=]. Likewise, the Shurouga and its attacks bear a resemblance to Masaki's mech, Cybuster. Oddly, though, a Shu Shirakawa-expy is absent.
** The Gunleon is basically the GaoGaiGar by a different name and equipped with an appropriately, mecha-sized wrench.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: About the time [[{{Zambot3}} Butcher]] starts pulling out the "[[MoralEventHorizon turn people into walking bombs and detonate them]]" scheme, a few members of the alliance he's a part of wonder if taking over the Earth is really ''worth'' working with such a lunatic.
* EveryoneWentToSchoolTogether: ''Hakai-hen'' folds all the school plots together, so [[Anime/MobileSuitGundamWing Relena Peacecraft, Heero, Duo Maxwell]], [[Anime/MobileSuitGundam00 Saji Crossroad and Louise Halevy]] all attend [[Anime/CodeGeass Ashford Academy]].
** [[http://danbooru.donmai.us/post/show/914193/azuma-blonde_hair-brown_hair-code_geass-gundam-gun This is how Saji and Louise would look like in uniform]].
* FanNickname:
** "Sexsuko" for Setsuko or "Blandsuko" for being overshadowed by Rand. Others includes "{{Wangst}}uko" and "Setsubou", a play on the Japanese word for "despair" (it MakesSenseInContext).
** "Super Terrorist Wars" for ''Hakai-hen'', due to the presence of [[Anime/CodeGeass The Black Knights]], [[Anime/MobileSuitGundam00 Celestial Being]], the Gundam Wing pilots and the Dancougar Nova team. Technically, [[TengenToppaGurrenLagann Team Dai-Gurren]] are revolutionaries as well, although not necessarily terrorists to the extent of the former, thanks to the Beastmen being a clearly different species and more aware of why their enemies hate them.
** [[GurrenLagann Nia's]] cut-in during one of the Dai-Gurren's attacks is labelled as [[AceAttorney "OBJECTION!" or "Nia Wright"]].
** The Dimensional Monsters are [[FunWithAcronyms DAMON for]] [[DemonicSpiders Dat Annoying MONster]].
* FlameWar: Have an urgent need for supernova-grade heat? Go on a forum (preferably GameFaqs) and ask the dreaded question: "Who's better: Rand or Setsuko?" or just mention them both in the same sentence and hide in a nuclear shelter.
** With the release of ''Hakai-hen'', complaining about the inability to save [[spoiler: Kamina, [[Anime/MobileSuitGundam00 Neil "Lockon Stratos" Dylandy]] and [[Anime/CodeGeass Euphemia li Britannia]]]] should be enough to release [[InternetBackdraft A LOT of heat]]. And for a while fans of old school Mazinger, the one that appeared in a bajillion other games, were upset that Shin Mazinger was the one appearing in Z2.
* FlashbackNightmare: [[spoiler: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayezowZz52U The prologue mission to Stage 39]] is [[ArmoredTrooperVOTOMS Chirico]] reliving the events of the Pailsen Files OVA]].
* {{Foreshadowing}}: Loads of it; try playing the game after beating it once. You'll stunned at the amount of hints done between the lines or in plain sight.
** That's nothing: [[spoiler: [[EarlyBirdCameo in]] {{Super Robot Wars Original Generation}}s, if Gilliam Yeager attacks the [[SuperRobotWarsCompact2 Stern Regisseur]], he'll mention the Taichi]].
** Here's one from the Epilogue of Z2.1: [[spoiler:[[DancougarNova Aoi]] starts getting headaches and feeling pain. That's the calling card of [[{{Dancougar}} Emperor Muge Zorbados]] himself.]]
* FragileSpeedster: Orguss units, all the way, although nowhere near [[{{Megazone 23}} the Garland]] on the "fragile" end of the scale. The Orguss is a weakly-defended unit in the game but is extremely powerful due to its high attack power and evasion rate, coupled with its pilot's amazing skill rating and default pilot skill set, which is designed to make use of it. It even comes with a very strong CombinationAttack later in the game.
** WordOfGod confirms the [[ArmoredTrooperVOTOMS Armored Troopers]] and [[Anime/CodeGeass Knightmare Frames]] are as extreme in this trope as the [[{{Megazone23}} Garland]] was back in ''SuperRobotWarsDestiny''. How fitting, since almost every series that was in ''Destiny'' is in ''Hakai-hen''.
* FriendlyFireProof: Played with: one scenario's skill point requirement is to shoot down Kira...despite the fact that he's a "neutral" unit and you can't attack neutrals. The fix? MAP weapons.
* ForTheEvulz: [[spoiler:The Edel Bernal's SOLE REASON FOR EXISTENCE. On top of that, he's also TooKinkyToTorture. Yeah, he's ''the'' [[AxCrazy nut-job]] of the franchise]].
* GambitPileup: The plot of ''Z'' can be summarized as the separate and intricate machinations of the [[OriginalGeneration Chimera Corps]], [[Anime/MobileSuitGundamSEEDDestiny Gilbert Durandal]], [[Anime/MobileSuitGundamSEEDDestiny Lord Djibril]], [[Anime/MobileSuitZetaGundam Paptimus Scirocco]], [[Anime/MobileSuitZetaGundam Haman Karn]], [[Anime/AfterWarGundamX the Frost Brothers]], [[Anime/TurnAGundam Gym Ghingham]], [[EurekaSeven Dewey Novak]], [[Anime/TheBigO Alex Rosewater]], [[OvermanKingGainer the Siberian Railroad Company]], [[GenesisOfAquarion the Shadow Angels]], [[GetterRobo the Hundred Demon Empire]], the [[SuperDimensionCenturyOrguss Chirams]] and the alien alliance of the [[{{Grendizer}} Vegans]], the [[{{Zambot 3}} Gaizok]], [[{{Gravion}} the Zeravire]], the [[GodSigma Elda]] and the [[SpaceWarriorBaldios Aldebaron Army]] all barreling towards each other at breakneck speeds, [[spoiler:which is exactly what The Edel Bernal wants]].
** ...and it looks like it's going UpToEleven in ''Hakai-hen'' by adding in Lelouch, [[Anime/MobileSuitGundam00 Ribbons Almark]], [[Anime/MobileSuitGundamWing Treize Khushrenada]], and [[MacrossFrontier Grace O'Connor]], not to mention the team of [[SpannerInTheWorks spanners]] that comprise the entirety of [[TengenToppaGurrenLagann Team Dai-Gurren]].
*** What's that? Saisei-Hen is going to adapt Lagann-Hen? [[OhCrap Here come]] the [[KnightTemplar Anti]]-[[EldritchAbomination Spirals]]!
* GameplayAndStorySegregation: Since ''Saisei-hen'' doesn't inherit your pilots' kill counts from ''Hakai-hen'' ([[DiscOneNuke for obvious]] [[GameBreaker reasons]]), it invariably makes one feel weird when [[GodMars Takeru]] isn't a Super-A Class Psychic, or [[OvermanKingGainer Gainer]] ceases to become a Game Champion and others, despite ''Saisei-hen'' is just one year after ''Hakai-hen''. Same can be said for former ZEUTH members from ''Z'' as well.
* GenreSavvy: The Xabungle characters, of course, along with the [[OvermanKingGainer Siberian Railroad]] soldiers. Gainer, being the gamer he is, also throws in a few LampshadeHanging. For the originals, Rand shows impressive levels of this by deciding to not bother with a RunningGag, among others (despite having one major GenreBlind moment when he trusts [[ObviouslyEvil Asakim]], but he ''was'' his partner's savior at the time, so it's a bit justified). The all-time champion, however, is [[spoiler: The Edel Bernal]], whose first action in the final battle is calling another two versions of himself. In his own words: "Well, you're all coming at me as a group, so I'll call my own buddies!", averting MookChivalry very, ''[[ThatOneBoss very]]'' much.
* GlassCannon: GetterRobo as usual, but the Gravion's a better example, due to paper-thin armor and [[{{Gravion}} Touga Tenkuuji's]] low defense rating. It can dish out major damage thanks to its powerful weapons and a six pilot Spirit Command set, but it can only take a few hits before going down. [[{{Gravion}} Klein Sandman's]] version of the machine is slightly better due to him having a better defense rating.
** Other Obari anime, Final Dancouga and Dancouga Nova follow in Gravion's footsteps. Very powerful, but it has some of the lowest armour for it's agility stat.
** Dai-Guard in ''Hakai-hen'' is probably the best example in the series to date: in its debut scenario, it has 200 armor and 1200 after, lower than even the [[ShinMazinger Aphrodite A]]. {{Justified|Trope}} as the Dai-Guard had not been used in-universe for several years and did not have time to swap out of its paper-thin show armor when it was thrown into battle. It gets a lot better later on.
* GlowingEyesOfDoom: ''Boss Borot'' manages to pull this off in the first Saisei-hen preview. Considering its the ShinMazinger version, though, it's not [[TookALevelInBadass too much of a surprise]].
* GratuitousEnglish: The theme song for ''Z'', ''Crest of Zs'', has some of this (''FLYING TO THE BURNING SKY AND ROLLING THUNDER RIDE!''))
* GuideDangIt, mixed with LyingCreator: Infamously, series director Takanobu Terada stated there's "only one secret" in the game, and boy was he lying. Z's known for having an very large number of secret units, a route split depending on a point system not shown to the player, and another point system determining the MultipleEndings, ''again'' invisible to the player. Woe befall to players attempting to get the [[Anime/MobileSuitGundamX G-Bits and Tifa Adill]] without a guide, though worse yet are those trying to [[spoiler:keep [[Anime/MobileSuitGundamSEEDDestiny Rey Za Barrel and Talia Gladys]] alive]]. Managing to do the latter requires you to take the secret ZEUTH route split, accessible only by amassing a certain amount of the "invisible" points obtained by performing certain actions over a number of scenarios, some of those even going against what happens in the actual series (e.g. [[spoiler:Shinn and Rey fighting [[Anime/MobileSuitGundamSEEDDestiny Athrun Zala]], but NOT destroying his unit; instead, waiting it out until the fourth turn]]) or might seem flat out nonsensical (such as ignoring specific enemy units). To make it worse, the ZEUTH route's much, much better than the ZAFT route (where most first-time players will get to without aid) and gives access to a great number of secrets ([[spoiler: Haman, for one]].
** Of course, the point system is dropped in a New Game+, making it a player's choice, averting the trope after invoking it the one time.
** This continues on in Saisei-hen where the only way to prevent [[spoiler:the Black Knights betraying Lelouch]] is the go to ZEXIS route split. Like Z1, accessible only by amassing a certain amount of the "invisible" points such as [[spoiler:preventing Shirley's death]] which is a mystery in itself.
* HandsomeLech: Kei, Michel, Pierre and Gain form their own group of four skirt chasers.
* HarderThanHard: ''Z's'' EX-Hard mode lives up to its name by banning both Weapon and Mech upgrades, unlike previous incarnations that only prohibited weapon upgrades. Moreover, {{Combination Attack}}s aren't as potent or abundant as they were in other games in the series and damage is generally lower.
* HeManWomanHater: [[spoiler:Löwen's true personality is this]]. Also, new original Crowe in ''Hakai-hen'' is stated to dislike beautiful women, though it's more that he just doesn't TRUST them too much, [[WorkOffTheDebt probably because he doesn't want to get conned out of his money]].
** ''Saisei-hen'' reveals the reason for Crowe's distrust of women: his [[ColonelKilgore former commander,]] [[AxCrazy Marilyn]] [[{{Yangire}} Catto]].
* HornyDevils: Xine and her Eliphas; to emphasize, she wears friggin' '''LINGERIE''' and if her battle quotes are to be trusted, she's probably into night rape... not that the guys would mind.
* HotBlooded: ''Z'' series is one of the most tightly concentrated masses of HotBlooded fury in SRW, and that's saying something. [[{{Xabungle}} Jiron Amos]], [[Anime/TurnAGundam Harry Ord]], [[GenesisOfAquarion Apollo]], [[Anime/MobileSuitGundamSEEDDestiny Shinn Asuka]], [[{{Gravion}} Eiji]], '''TWO''' versions of [[GetterRobo the Getter Team]], '''TWO''' versions of [[MazingerZ Kouji Kabuto]], [[{{Dancougar}} Shinobu]], [[GurrenLagann Kamina]] and ([[TookALevelInBadass later]]) [[GurrenLagann Simon]], [[DaiGuard Akagi Shunsuke]], etc; even people who aren't normally HotBlooded go nuts here.
** Things just got even more hot-blooded! Macross Dynamite Seven will be in Z2.2, which means the return of [[MacrossSeven Nekki Basara]] and his songs, which, even in game mechanics, make the entire rest of your army even more hot-blooded than usual!
* HowUnscientific: The ''[[Anime/MobileSuitGundam00 Gundam 00]]'' crew's reaction upon meeting [[GenesisOfAquarion Aquarion]]. Tieria later asks Sirius about how the thing works... and ends up even more confused.
* [[HumongousMecha Humongous]] [[CombiningMecha Combining]] and/or [[TransformingMecha Transforming]] [[RealRobot Real]] and {{Super Robot}}s
* ImprobableWeaponUser: Rand's Gunleon uses mecha-sized spanners (wrenches, for the Westerners), spanner-nunchucks, and a gigantic two-handed wrench roughly as long as it is tall that doubles as a SwissArmyWeapon.
* JAMProject: They sing all the opening and ending themes to the series:
** ''Z's'' opening theme "Crest of Z's" and ending theme "Cosmic Dance".
** ''Hakai-hen's'' opening theme [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsjHqZttig8 "Noah"]] and ending theme "Negai".
** ''Saisei-hen's'' opening theme "Hagane no Resistance" and ending theme "The advent of genesis".
* KilledOffForReal: Severel, including [[spoiler: both Kamina and [[MobileSuitGundam00 Neil 'Lockon Stratos' Dylandy]], as well as [[CodeGeass Ephumia]] if you don't do the route split in Sansei-hen]].
* LargeHam: [[spoiler:Löwen after his FaceHeelTurn, where he turns from a demure, gynophobic {{Bishounen}} into a hammy, screaming warrior whose insanity and AxCrazy nature have no limits]].
** Sandman and [[GenesisOfAquarion Gen Fudo]] are [[UpToEleven even more hammy than they were in their own shows]].The ham level of Gym and [[OvermanKingGainer Asuham]] has also gone off the scale; they even try to out ham each other in one of the save-quit dialouges and they're [[TakehitoKoyasu voiced by the same person]].
** Lelouch and Kamina are being added with those two in ''Hakai-hen''. Your PSP will be able to spit out roast hams after that game is inserted.
*** [[UpToEleven Kamina pushes it through the roof]] [[CrowningMomentOfFunny when he hijacks Sheryl's concert stage]].
* LaughablyEvil: Jason Beck, of course. [[spoiler:The Edel Bernal]] is another for the [[OriginalGeneration original characters]], whose GenreSavvy nature and [[AscendedFanboy eerily accurate comments to your pilots]] make him one rather amusing CompleteMonster and lead to him being considered as one of the "best" SRW villains simply due to an unbashed, unapologetic nature.
* LethalJokeCharacter: Like his AnotherCenturysEpisode counterpart, [[OvermanKingGainer Gain Bijou and his trusty Gotchko]]. While not as overpowered as it was in that game, it's infinitely more useful than it seems to be at first and can make the first half of the game an utter joke if correctly set up.
** Which can be accurately said about Gain himself, who is WeakButSkilled. Not much of an Oversense person like Gainer, but he makes up for it with ImprobableAimingSkills.
* LetsPlay: Saint-ism has one for Z2 [[http://www.saint-ism.com/lets-play-super-robot-wars-z2/ Hakai-hen]] and [[http://www.saint-ism.com/lets-play-super-robot-wars-z2-saisei-hen/ Saisei-hen]]. The latter features "Arranged battles" which edit the attack animations into extended battle scenes.
* LetsSplitUpGang: Subverted. The team splits up for a while midway through the game, which is pretty standard for the series...[[spoiler:but it turns out to be [[LetsYouAndHimFight a very bad idea]]]].
** Also counts as a {{deconstruction}} of the usual LetsSplitUpGang scenario, since a real-life group formed of military types and civilians would probably end up in the same way ZEUTH's factions did. Just looking at [[EurekaSeven Holland's]] musings to himself during the first half of ''Z'' pretty much tells it all as even when the group is together, not everything is smooth sailing, making it a rare deconstruction of the TrueCompanionship inherent in [=SRW=].
* [[LetsYouAndHimFight Let's You And You Fight]]: Aside from the trope listed above, one scenario on Setsuko's route starts with you fighting ''against'' her!.
* LightningBruiser: Baldios: LL-sized mecha with a [[FlashStep "afterimage"]] ability; do the math.
** [[Anime/CodeGeass Kallen and the Gurren]], fast and a good dodger, with abilities that let it tank if it needs to.
* MagikarpPower: Anime/TurnAGundam starts as a not-very-useful unit with limited weapons and bad anti-air stats and a so-so pilot in the form of [[Anime/TurnAGundam Loran Cehack]] until in-game events lead to it gradually getting upgraded, culminating in it obtaining its Moonlight Butterfly normal and MAP attack among others, making it one of the best units in the game. In another example, Renton's (including Loran's) stats grow at a much faster rate after they pass level 40-45s.
** King Gainer, as well: initially, it's small, fragile and really hard to pilot Gainer's Will up to use his Overskills. Doing some investment in some choice skills like "Attack Again" (taking advantage of his "Gamer"/"Game Champ" innate skill), "Ignore Size Modifier" and some morale boosting techniques, he becomes ''quite'' good. It helps he constantly upgrades like the above two through event-driven scenarios.
** Dai-Guard in ''Hakai-hen'', due to [[{{Dai-Guard}} Shunsuke Akagi's]] "Salaryman" skill that gives him a lot more pilot points (+3 at level up, every 10 kills, and scenario ends adds up later on).
** Although [[ArmoredTrooperVOTOMS Chirico Cuvie]] is far from a bad pilot, early on in ''Hakai-hen'' the Scopedog is a fairly unimpressive unit with only three attacks, all with either extremely limited ammo or unable to be used post-movement. After a while however, you can use the [[MoreDakka Red Shoulder Custom]] which provides you with ''lots'' of new attacks even if a few don't have much ammo with the only downside being a drop in movement and mobility; which a few parts can quickly balance out. During the end of the Woodoo arc finale, Chirico upgrades ''again'' to the Turbo Custom, which sacrifices some of the more ammo-scarce weapons for even better stats. And then ''that'' mode gets weapons put ''back on it'' for the Last Red Shoulder mission... and if you fulfilled the requirements, afterwards Chirico gets the [[SerialEscalation Scopedog ISS]].
* MarathonLevel: Quite a few, but especially Scenario 50, which is rather long on its own but after you beat it, you get a long exposition sequence and then thrust into battle again facing [[Anime/MobileSuitGundamX The Frost Brothers]] and Gym. The final scenario also counts since it's a three-parter and ends with you fighting the BigBad doubling as ThatOneBoss.
** Here's a breakdown of that scenario: Part 1) Fight [[spoiler: Edel Bernel]], who comes with a powerful mecha with about 200,000 HP and an army of {{mook}}s; Part 2) Get Renton to a certain square while fighting against 50 squads of [[EurekaSeven Coralians]], all having shockingly high accuracy (in Setsuko's route, this must be done within 5 turns); Part 3) Fight the BigBad. In Setsuko's route, he comes with 600,000 HP and a small army of {{mook}}s. If all mooks are destroyed, new ones are spawned; fortunately, the way around this is to destroy all but one. In Rand's route, he summons ''two more copies of himself''. However, they have 300,000 HP; unfortunately, each have small HP Regen and a max Potential pilot skill (the lower the HP, the higher the stats). Not to mention they must be destroyed ''in the same turn'', so it might take a while. Thankfully, between parts 1 and 2, the heroes get a refill of HP, EN and SP
** In ''Hakai-hen'', one scenario recreates [[Anime/MobileSuitGundam00 Gundam 00]]'s finale (along with some Gundam Wing and Code Geass thrown in): you must face off against an army of [[Anime/MobileSuitGundam00 GN-Xs]], [[Anime/MobileSuitGundamWing Tauruses]], and the commanders of every major faction in the world. At a certain point, the [[Anime/MobileSuitGundam00 Ptolemaios]] gets dragged off to a second map along with the Celestial Being Gundams to face off against another army of grunts, with [[Anime/MobileSuitGundam00 Ali-Al-Saachez and Alejandro Corner]] along for the ride (the rest of ZEXIS shows up later). After that, you get brought off to a ''third'' map which comprises of Setsuna in the Exia against Alejandro's Alvatorre.
* MayDecemberRomance: Little to no mention is made of Rand (who is in his late twenties (27)) romancing Mel, who is [[spoiler:16, yet looks]] 12. To his credit, Rand lampshades how this looks to others and outright says it to Mel.
* MidseasonUpgrade: One of the ''very'' few [=SRWs=] that even partially averts this for its heroes. Both protagonists get an upgrade halfway through the game, but Rand's Gunleon gets a couple of new attacks and a regeneration skill, while Setsuko's Virgora gets [[MechaExpansionPack a new gun and a set of wings]], capping off a chain of gradual upgrades that starts midway through the game's first act.
** [[spoiler: Played almost straight with Crowe in Saisei-Hen: his upgraded mech is called the Li-Brasta. The catch is that you decide whether the Li-Brasta is a close-combat [[SuperRobotGenre Super Robot]] or a long-range [[RealRobotGenre Real Robot]].]]
* MightyGlacier: Baldios and Daitarn 3 by virtue of being size LL, but the Big O's a better example due to its nigh-impenetrable defense and varied, strong arsenal which gets expanded as you progress through the game. Rand's Gunleon also counts, something which you may not notice at first, [[OhCrap until you have to fight him for a few turns]] using [[Anime/MobileSuitGundamX Witz and Roybea]] and experience first-hand how hard its defenses are.
* MoreDakka: ''Z's'' new "Tri-Battle System" allows for an entire squad to unleash a volley of dakka that makes anything you could do with the earlier games' squad systems look dated and underwhelming.
** More traditionally, various units such as the Orguss have a "fire all weapons" attack.
* MultipleEndings: One of the game's more deviously-hidden GuideDangIt elements that manages through its own hidden point system. Should you fulfill certain conditions, you can choose to [[spoiler:give up your memories and live in [[Anime/TheBigO Paradigm City]] until the [[Anime/TurnAGundam Black History]] takes place, [[BadEnding ending all of civilization]]]]) Additionally, depending on which protagonist you choose, around half of the game is unique to that protagonist.
** Then there's ''Hakai-Hen'', which is almost made up of nothing ''but'' route splits.
* NamesTheSame: [[spoiler: One has to wonder how they're going to explain the difference between [[OvermanKingGainer Overmen]] and [[ArmoredTrooperVOTOMS Overmen]]]].
** And then, theres the [[Anime/CodeGeass Black Knights]] and the [[{{Dancougar}} Black Knight]].
** [[Anime/CodeGeass "Guren"]] and [[GurrenLagann "Gurren"]] are similar enough that Kallen and Kamina fight over the naming rights when they first meet.
* NeverTheSelvesShallMeet: In a non-time travel variation, ''Z'' explains that multiple copies of the same person cannot exist in the same universe, in order to justify why the original ''MazingerZ'', ''GetterRobo'', and ''EurekaSeven'' don't show up in ''Hakai-hen''. Some fans believe ''[[{{Grendizer}} UFO Robo Grendizer]]'' was not in Hakai-hen due to a possibility of Go Nagai's ''Battle of The Flying Saucers'' being in ''Sasei-hen''. However, once it was announced, Banpresto apparently forgot all about Grendizer.
* NobuyukiHiyama: Who voices the Vegan grunts. Reportedly, several others wanted to do the role but, when they were told he was doing the role, they gave up and said something along the lines of [[OvershadowedByAwesome "we can't compete with that!"]].
* NoIndoorVoice: In Z2 Harry Ord has his famous UNIVEEEEEEEEEEEEEERSE scream in his Voice Clips and last voice clip is "Did you say Dianna-sama's butt? CURSE YOU!!!"
* NonStandardGameOver: In ''Z'', losing Scenario 44 ([[SpaceWarriorBaldios failing to stop the Artificial Sun]] or [[{{Gravion}} losing the Gravion]]) results in a very special play on the DownerEnding from SpaceWarriorBaldios, where the massive tsunami occurs, with the words "Game Over" instead of the "END" kanji from the original ending.
** {{Godmars}} in ''Hakai-hen'': having Godmars being destroyed and Takeru dying will trigger the bomb from the series that would only be activated with his death. [[TemptingFate How powerful is it]]? Enough to, [[OhCrap after showing you a shot of a dead Takeru's face]], [[EarthShatteringKaboom DESTROY THE WHOLE WORLD]], with a return of the familiar "Game Over" from ''Z's'' non-standard one.
* NotHisSled: [[spoiler: The [[Anime/TurnAGundam Black History]] is actually a BadFuture [[NiceJobBreakingItHero brought about by ZEUTH]], rather than the distant past/{{Gundam}} MegaCrossover that the original series is so well-known for]].
* ObfuscatingStupidity: Rand; [[OvermanKingGainer Sara Kodama]] even comments early on that she can't tell if the man's an outright idiot or a freakin' genius. One of his many moments of this is how he got himself out of trouble in the beginning of the [[OvermanKingGainer Exodus]]. Another -and arguably the best- of his moments is [[spoiler: when he makes it clear to Löwen that he always knew what he was doing behind his back and that he wasn't fooling anyone after appearing to be his buddy for quite some time. Also counts as one his many CrowningMomentOfAwesome scenes.]]
* OnlySaneMan: Crowe Broost, Lockon Stratos, Aoyama Keiichirou and Duo Maxwell. Being the jokers of the group who can find time to joke during free-time unlike the rest who are either TheStoic, way too serious or apparently busy doing something else.
* OhCrap: So you've pumped up Rand and his [[MightyGlacier Gunleon]] and having the time of your life tanking everything thrown your way and walking ([[ImprobableWeaponUser or rather, wrenching]]) over legions of {{Mooks}}? Let's see how you feel now when you're pitted against him (with the same stats, skills and upgrades you gave him, no less) using only Witts, Roabia, [[Anime/MobileSuitGundamX Carris and the Freeden]] un-upgraded and under an instant game-over condition if one of them dies. Still, it lasts a few turns, but this doesn't make it any less horrifying for the player.
** Better still: if you're doing the NewGamePlus and pimped the hell out of the protagonist's stats and mech (maybe equipping some Haros while doing so), it's entirely possible that you've made something completely unbeatable. However, there's a trick if this happens: [[spoiler:the protagonist will ALWAYS move first on the enemy's turn. Taking this into consideration, move everyone that doesn't have the Flash/Alert or Invincible Spirit Commands into the [[Anime/MobileSuitGundamX Freedan]] and cast these two commands every turn]].
* TheOtherDarrin: A notable case with a few of the debut series: both Orguss' Olson and Baldios' Flick (two roles originally done by the late HirotakaSuzuoki) are done here by KenyuuHoriuchi and KeijiFujiwara, respectively; Fujiwara also did Godsigma's Gagan due to death of Mikio Terashima. Likewise, TakumiYamazaki and TomokazuSeki take over the roles of Marin and Toshiya for the late KanetoShiozawa and KeiTomiyama. Averted in the case of Bright and Banjou (two other Suzuoki roles) as ''Z'' uses old audio clips from previous games.
* OriginalGeneration: Rand, Setsuko, Mel, Denzel, Toby, Asakim, Xine, and the Chimera Corps.
** For the {{mecha}}, the Gunleon, Virgora, Shurouga, Eliphas, and the Chaos machines. The ''Z Special Disk'' also contains an original [[OvermanKingGainer Overman]] called the ''XAN''
* OverratedAndUnderleveled: A variation, though not exactly a straight example, either: Char is, statistically, one of the best pilots in the game but he never gets his own top-of-the-line mobile suit, relegating him to the so-so [[Anime/MobileSuitZetaGundam Hyaku Shiki]], which has nothing on the more powerful units later in the game (unless you do what many players do and put him in the Anime/TurnAGundam.
** Another example: Kira and the [[Anime/MobileSuitGundamSEEDDestiny Strike Freedom]]. Unless you were deliberately saving money on Rand's route to upgrade the Freedom in the 2 or 3 scenarios he's with you, by the time you get the Strike Freedom (at around scenario 50 or so), it will have a paltry 3 bars of upgrades and your squads are likely filled up with specifically designated leaders. Comes with ''some'' bonus Pilot Points, though.
* ObviouslyEvil: Just take a look at Asakim and any one of his attacks and tell us he isn't evil. For starters, the man's completely clad in black, his mech looks very "evil", his attacks are sadistic and his comments similarly so. Makes you wonder how ''anyone'' trusted this guy in the first place. Even though he only acts so for the sake of gaining freedom from being a Cursed Wanderer and finally dying.
* PaintingTheFourthWall: In ''Z2'', [[Anime/MobileSuitGundamWing Deathscythe]] and its MidSeasonUpgrade have attacks that makes use of their stealth jammers, which cause the screen to flicker and static-up for the duration of the attack.
** At the setup menu immediately after [[spoiler:Kamina dies]] and in [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VrQaHJ74doQ Scenario 33 until he gets motivated enough]], Simon's character portrait shows him absolutely ''[[DespairEventHorizon dejected]]''.
* PatrickStewartSpeech: Pretty much all of the cast give these.
* PluckyComicRelief: Crowe, Lockon, Duo, and Aoyama. When they group up they start telling bad jokes, or even when they're alone (such as in the Chapter 7 intermission before battle, while at the Ashford Academy Duo laughs at Kallen for acting a weak little milady). Aoyama during battles when Dai-Guard gets hit asks Ibuki if she would like to gamble with him about will the next attack hit or miss. Lockon hangs out with Crowe and laugh at each other's dry humour jokes. In Chapter 48 Daybreak's Bell in the intermission before battle when Setsuna comes to use the long-distance contacting device Crowe asks is he going to send a message to his girlfriend to which Setsuna responds with the usual TheStoic stare, which makes Crowe ask is it to his boyfriend then and he gets a TheStoic glare as answer instead, making Lockon note how Crowe's bad jokes don't work on Setsuna, to which Crowe states "They don't work on Chirico, Zero, Heero, Trowa, Wufei and Toudou either."
* PostScriptSeason: MazingerZ, GreatMazinger, and {{Xabungle}} in the first ''Z''. All series returning from the first Z in ''Hakai-hen'' are as well, along with {{Dancougar}} and Trider G7.
* PowerupLetdown: Alright, so you've waited forever and toughed through the early missions using the [[Anime/AfterWarGundamX Gundam X Divider]], wondering when you'll get to hear Garrod's "[[{{BFG}} Satellite Cannon]]...HASSHA!" and when you finally get it, reality strikes hard: basically, the weapon's AwesomeButImpractical, since it requires a full 3-4 turns before it's able to fire once...and ONLY ONCE, until another 3-4 turn recharge. To make it worse, it only functions in stages where the moon is visible through a line-of-sight, meaning you can't use it indoors or in many other stages. The G-Falcon reduces the recharge rate by one turn, which helps things out.
** Another example (albeit nearly not as severe) is Renton and the [[EurekaSeven Nirvash Spec3]]: although its stats are much better and its attacks pack a bigger punch, the main reason anyone used the Nirvash Spec2 was its Seven Swell MAP attack, which it loses eventually, making it less useful against hordes of mooks you're up against.
** [[GundamWing Deathscythe Hell]]'s Hyper Jammer attack loses the Accuracy Down effect of the original Deathscythe's Hyper Jammer, making it stronger but less useful overall.
* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: [[spoiler: Elgan Laudic, former Secretary General of the United Nations, is over 200 years old. He is really the Z2 universe's version of The Edel. Unlike his Z1 counterpart, upon learning about the Black Knowledge, he did not go insane and actually took steps to prevent calamity from occuring, such as supporting Celestial Being and Dragon's Hive under the codename "Portman".]]
* {{Retraux}}, DoingItForTheArt: Older {{Super Robot}}s such as Baldios, GodSigma and {{Getter Robo}} get some very awesome retro-looking animations in their finisher attacks, complete with choppy animation and trippy retro "laser backgrounds" and pastel-frame explosions! This is a first for the franchise and was a great moment for fans who weren't very excited about ''Z'' initially and also demonstrates the degree of love the designers have for the older shows, preserving them in all their glory.
** This trend is continued in ''Hakai-hen'' with Godmars, notorious for its lack of animation during fight scenes. Its finisher reflects that perfectly.
* {{Retcon}}: ''Z'' completely writes out CharsCounterattack in favor of keeping Char in line with his ZetaGundam incarnation. Still, it's pretty odd since CharsCounterattack is only in ''Z'' to give Amuro the Re-GZ and eventual Nu Gundam, while Char gets stuck with his Hyaku Shiki and doesn't get the CharsCounterattack Sazabi. Nevertheless, the moment where he and Amuro learn about this possible future and Char heartfully declaring to stop it from happening was [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming heartwarming indeed]].
** Also, one of the things ''Z'' is known for is that it handles SEED Destiny's plot in a way that is actually believable and MUCH more enjoyable to watch.
* RunningGag: Rand being called "[[RedBaron The Crusher]]" by others. Lampshaded by him repeatedly and eventually, [[GenreSavvy he gets tired of trying to object]] and early on, he even points out that someone was doing it just to piss him off.
** Also, whenever Rand does his "Heat Smile", everyone will make the same comment towards it, including [[Anime/TheBigO Dorothy, Alan Gabriel and Alex Rosewater (!)]], [[Anime/TurnAGundam Dianna Soreil and Harry Ord]], [[OvermanKingGainer Over-frozen Cynthia]] (!), the various Universal Century and SEED pilots, enemy generals and even the [[GenesisOfAquarion Shadow Angels]], the Hyakki and alien forces. For those unfamiliar with the whole thing, Rand's a rather large "CoolOldGuy" who has a rather intimidating "special service smile" called the "Heat Smile". Those who see it always, ''always'' comment on it being "stuffy" or "atsukurushii" in Japanese either loudly or to themselves even in the middle of dire, life-or-death situations.
** Kamina's tendency to come into conflict with everyone he meets as his way of making friends. He does this to Ryouma, [[Anime/CodeGeass Zero]] and Sheryl. It's always a CrowningMomentOfFunny.
* SequelHook: Plenty all over the place, from throwaway comments along the lines of "our battle has just begun" to unresolved plot threads (e.g. the Holy War, since we never see the remaining Sphere holders or the EldritchAbomination)
** Some of the explicit hooks include Kouji watching the Black History recording and talking about seeing a [[ShinMazinger "Mazinger-like" machine he doesn't recognize]], Ryouma getting shocked after watching the same recording and asking "Is that machine with the fearsome movements a Getter?!" (really, the Shin Getter), with his remarks in the final scenario about sensing the presence of another version of himself that [[FutureMeScaresMe flat-out scares him]] (none other than fan-favorite [[CrazyAwesome "Batshit]] [[SlasherSmile Ryouma"]] from Getter Robo Armageddon and the Getter Robo manga) and finally, Banjou deciding to leave for Mars and talk about "his true battle just beginning")
** In ''Saisei-Hen'', the [[spoiler:[[TengenToppaGurrenLagann Anti Spiral]]]] says he'll be back one day.
** When it comes to following up on ''ShinMazinger'', however, the storywriters may or may not have written themselves into a corner in this regard..
* ShipperOnDeck: The whole of ZEXIS takes sides over ''MacrossFrontier'''s LoveTriangle.
* ShoutOut: "[[strike:[[MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha Starlight Breaker]]]] The Glory Star! FULL BURST!!".
** Similarly to in the series itself - in ''Hakai-hen'', [[GurrenLagann Kamina]] references [[{{Gunbuster}} the Super Inazuma Kick]] with one of Gurren Lagann's attacks. [[spoiler: Even after he dies, Simon references it when he attacks with the same technique]].
*** Simon randomly calls out "Ittou Ryodan!" (roughly translates to "I'll cleave you in two!") when he slashes an opponent with his sunglasses. [[SuperRobotWarsOriginalGeneration Sanger and Wodan]] would be proud.
*** Sandman says 「貴様達に名乗る名前などない!」Kisamatachi ni nanoru namae nado nai! "I have no name to give to the likes of you!"/"Scum like you doesn't deserve to know my name" like a certain heroic character from MachineRobo as he beats up PMC soldiers who tried to take Eida and her Manager in.
* ShutUpHannibal: As per usual, the best one's when you confront the BigBad of Zambot 3, Computer Doll # 8 aka Gaizock. The malevolent AI will rant about how it's decision to destroy humanity is a perfectly logical one, that HumansAreBastards who do nothing but evil things to each other and no one on Earth really cares about the heroes and their effrots to save the world. Our heroes tell it that no way are they going to let an [[AIIsACrapshoot emotionless computer determine their fate]] and vow to prove that ''it'' is the true evil for spreading strife across the galaxy. ZEUTH proceeds to blow Gaizock and it's [[EliteMooks Death Knights]] to kingdom come
** Which results in a rather unnerving sequence where, even as it's getting blasted to bits, it continues to repeat its statements over and over, telling Kappei his battle is empty and meaningless. Hell, the whole Gaizock sequence is the stuff of nightmares starting from what it did to Kappei when it basically turned him into what a boy his age would be in such a situation, leading to him crying and begging to be saved [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome before he snaps at the insane AI and tells it to shove it, all the while speaking through his tears and declaring that even as a scared little boy, he won't forgive its existence]].
** Ultimately and shockingly subverted in the final battle, where the various members of ZEUTH try to do this to [[spoiler:The Edel Bernal]], only to have him reply with lines such as "Why is it wrong?", shocking the heroes to no end and makes them realize he's [[AxCrazy too far gone]] to listen to reason.
* SlidingScaleOfSillinessVersusSeriousness: At one end, Rand's route includes the {{Xabungle}} and OvermanKingGainer teams; at the other, Setsuko. Ever wanted to see what kind of ''social'' and physical damage a 50-meter mecha leaves in its path? That's why there's Zambot 3.
** That's not to say that Rand's route [[GrowingTheBeard is all laughs and giggles]] either, but Setsuko's route just keeps the DarkerAndEdgier coming.
** SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism: Again, Rand's story more or less gets all the breaks; in Setsuko's, you have to ''[[EarnYourHappyEnding work]]'' just to get a few happy notes in an otherwise depressing series of events.
** Hakai Hen is also rather cynical, since all of the storylines take place during the first season of a two part series where good people died for nothing and the situation was pretty bad all around. But like Crowe being powered by misfortune and fortune, Rebirth Chapter is much more optimistic.
* SparedByTheAdaptation: [[spoiler: Euphie, Shirley, Rolo, and Lelouch himself from ''Anime/CodeGeass'']] in "Saisei-Hen", provided you pick the right route. Also [[spoiler:Anew Returner from ''{{Gundam 00}}'' and Lorelei from ''Anime/ShinMazinger'']] as secrets.
** [[spoiler:[[Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann Nia Teppelin]] as well, at least for now. At least going by the SequelHook, the Anti-Spirals are still around.]]
* SpiritualSuccessor: To the ''SuperRobotWarsAlpha'' series, ''Alpha Gaiden'' in particular.
* TheStrategist: In order to represent his tactical prowess, Lelouch gets a unique pilot skill, "Command", that allows him to give up his turn in order to beef up an ally's attack or defense or help them in taking down a boss. This makes up for him not being that great of a pilot, statistically speaking.
* StylisticSuck: In mecha form: Beck the Great RX-3 is a ''horrible'' machine, but the sheer camp of using its one and only move makes it still awesome
* ThemeMusicPowerUp: In [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y47snC3G6Iw Scenario 18-A]] of the third route split in ''Hakai-hen'', which takes place during a concert in the Macross Frontier storyline: Sheryl's song "Iteza Go Go Kuji Don't Be Late" pumps up the heroes so much that they all instantly shoot to 130 Will. After defeating the initial enemies, [[ShinMazinger Baron Ashura]] arrives with some [[MechaMooks Kikai]][[MonsterOfTheWeek juu]]; this causes Ranka to take the stage and sing her song "What 'Bout My Star?", which pumps Simon and Kamina up even further, to the point that Kamina debuts Gurren Lagann's famous Giga Drill Break[[SpellMyNameWithAnS (er)]], nearly obliterating the Kikaijuu Taros D-7 with it.
* TalkingToYourself: Amuro and Ribbons hang out together in Saisei Hen. There is also Fujiwara Shinobu and F.S.
* [[ThoseTwoBadGuys Those Three Bad Guys]]: [[CombatMechaXabungle Timp]], [[TheBigO Beck]], and [[ArmouredTrooperVOTOMS Kan Yu]] like to show up together in ''Saisei-hen''.
* ToCreateAPlaygroundForEvil: The Edel Bernal doesn't really have a plan other than to turn the world into the most chaotic and war-ridden place he can to be his personal playground.
* TookALevelInBadass: Mazinger Z's Koushiryoku Beam is usually the weakest attack it has. However, in Z2, it ''surpasses'' [[ChestBlaster Breast Fire]] in damage potential, making it one of Mazinger's most powerful attacks. Why? Because that's what Shin Mazinger Impact strongly suggests.
* TrueCompanions: ''[[{{Deconstruction}} Gleefully]]'' toyed with, but [[OlderThanTheyThink this isn't the first time]]: in ''{{Super Robot Wars 64}}'' [[Anime/MobileSuitGundamWing Chang Wufei]] will leave you if you decide to join the [[Anime/MobileSuitGundamWing OZ Organization]], while ''Destiny'' has you [[EnemyMine ally]] with [[CharsCounterattack Char Aznable's Neo Zeon]] to fight aliens. In ''SuperRobotWarsAdvance'' actual fistfights occured between Domon & [[{{Daimos}} Kazuya Ryuuzaki]] initially. Still, ''Z'' takes it to a whole new level, [[spoiler: with half the heroes split into sides ready to kill each other]].
* VillainTeamUp
** In Z:
*** [[Anime/TurnAGundam Gym Ghingham]], [[Anime/AfterWarGundamX The Frost Brothers]] and [[EurekaSeven Dewey Novak]].
*** The [[{{Grendizer}} Vegan Empire]], the [[{{Zambot 3}} Gaizok]], the [[{{Gravion}} Zeravire]], the [[GodSigma Elda]] and the [[SpaceWarriorBaldios Aldebaron Army]].
*** The [[OvermanKingGainer Siberian Railroad Company]] and the [[CombatMechaXabungle Breakers]].
** In Z2 "Hakai-hen":
*** [[ShinMazinger Dr. Hell]] and the [[GodMars Gishin Empire]].
**** [[GodMars Emperor Zule]] is rather proactive in this regard. He spends a lot of the game trying to gather allies from the other villains, including [[TengenToppaGurrenLagann Lordgenome]], [[DancougarNova Moon Will]] and [[GetterRobo Dr. Saotome]]. When you do actually fight him, he brings along quite a few bosses you've already beaten.
*** The [[ArmoredTrooperVOTOMS Red Shoulder Battalion]] cooperates, most of the time, with the [[Anime/CodeGeass Britannian Army]].
*** [[CombatMechaXabungle Timp Shaloon]] and the [[TengenToppaGurrenLagann Beastmen Kingdom]].
** In Z2 "Saisei-hen":
*** [[Anime/CodeGeass Emperor Charles zi Britannia]] lets [[{{Gundam00}} Ribbons Almark]] do pretty much whatever he wants to the world, since Charles is more concerned with [[spoiler:the Ragnarok Connection.]]
*** [[{{Dancougar}} Emperor Muge Zorbados]] and [[GodMars Emperor Zule]]
*** More than that, most villains in Saisei-hen are working toward the same goal, from various points of view - [[spoiler: the feat of the Final Boss of the Z-series, which kicked Gaiou's ass in the distant past. To explain why this is worrying, Gaiou defeated the Mycanae himself, and is by far the strongest being in Saisei-hen except weaker than Anti-Spiral, since the Anti-Spiral survives Saisei-Hen he might appear again in Z3 as a quite end-game boss.]]
**** [[spoiler: The aforementioned 'Final Boss', known in-universe as the Ba'al, apparently includes the [[GetterRobo the Invaders]] and the [[TengenToppaGurrenLagann Anti-Spirals]].]]
*** Also in Saisei-hen is [[MobileSuitGundam00 Ribbons Almark]] and [[MacrossFrontier Grace O'Conner]], which was foreshadowed in Hakai-hen. In the ZEXIS route, you even fight them as a DualBoss.
* WhatTheHellHero: Given to Kira for his OmniscientMoralityLicense policy of disabling other pilots in battle first, asking questions later...by everyone's favorite CharClone, Harry Ord, no less.
** Another example is [[spoiler:what each side of ZEUTH thought they were doing in the ZEUTH vs ZEUTH battle]].
** In ''Saisei-hen'', [[GundamWing Wu Fei]] delivers an epic WTHH-slash-TheReasonYouSuckSpeech to the [[Anime/CodeGeass Black Knights]] if you follow ''Geass'' canon and have them betray Lelouch. Details under the CrowningMomentOfAwesome header.
* WhamEpisode[=/=]TheReveal: Many from the various franchises such as the nature of the Eldar and the S1 aliens, but the biggest one is the revelation that [[spoiler:the Black History is not just the past, but the possible end of the current multiverse brought about by none other than ZEUTH themselves.]]
** In terms of stages/episodes, scenario 50 is a megaton-wham since it begins as a mission to get back [[Anime/AfterWarGundamX D.O.M.E]], cuts to the above reveal [[ExpositionBreak in a lengthy story sequence]] and then goes on to introduce the [[Anime/TurnAGundam awakening of the Moonlight Butterfly]], complete with its ominous "Black History" BGM.
** [[spoiler:Scenario 49 of ''Hakai-hen'': [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTPWJABzfEY it turns out that those pesky Dimensional Monsters you've been fighting throughout the game]] [[WasOnceAMan were once humans]].]]
*** Although that particular development was foreshadowed to hell and back by [[spoiler: nearly half of Marguerite's lines]].
* WeWillNotUsePhotoshopInTheFuture: [[spoiler:The Chimera Corps splits ZEUTH against other by altering video footage to make it look like Rand's group has joined TheFederation while Setsuko's group works with ZAFT. Neither group suspects these are fake until Orson and Banjo show each group their own video]].
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: The Baldios storyline continues after its..."[[DownerEnding interesting ending]]" in the anime and goes into the movie storyline, suggesting that this was how it was supposed to be all along. This is even noted in Baldios' encyclopedia entry.
** Files uncovered after ''Z'' was hacked include Amuro's voice files for supporting [[Anime/MobileSuitVictoryGundam Usso Evin]] and [[Anime/MobileSuitGundamZZ Judau Ashta]]. Considering the things Terada said in ''Hakai-hen's'' announcement, both were probably considered, but only Victory was implied to be in a future game and ZZ seems to have been dropped due to story issues and Bandai and Sunrise's agenda for it.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: If you choose the ZAFT route at around Scenario 45, which will probably happen since getting the other route requires a GuideDangIt, Haman simply [[LostForever vanishes from the plot after a certain point and that's it]]. [[spoiler:Fortunately this doesn't happen if you manage to take the ZEUTH route, where she's playable]].
* WesternZodiac: It's revealed in ''Saisei-hen'' that the spheres are based on the twelve constellations in the Western Zodiac. So far we've seen Leo (Wounded Lion), Virgo (Sorrowful Maiden), Capricorn (Truthful Goat), Libra (Swaying Scales), Aquarius (Inexhaustible Gourd), and Aries (Lying Black Sheep).
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[[caption-width-right:250:Old robots meet new robots in a [[MemeticMutation Storm]] of [[SoCoolItsAwesome Awesome]]]]
The first ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWars'' title to be created under Creator/NamcoBandai. In many ways, it broke certain precedents and traditions: for example, the number of new series is more than any previous [=SRW=]. In this game, you play as either Rand Travis, a wandering repairman/mechanic, who's partnered with the young Mel Beater, or Setsuko Ohara, a member of "Glory Star", a small military squadron in the [[Anime/MobileSuitGundam Earth Federation]], alongside teammates Denzel Hammer and Toby Watson, as they are pulled through many conflicts. The main plot point of the game is SuperDimensionCenturyOrguss's dimension bomb, which fuses an array of parallel worlds into one.
!Series list ('''Bold''' indicates debuting entries):
* '''OvermanKingGainer'''
* ''Anime/TheBigO''
** '''The Big O: Season Two'''
* ''[[{{Zambot 3}} Invincible Superman Zambot 3]]''
* ''[[{{Daitarn 3}} Invincible Steel Man Daitarn 3]]''
* ''CombatMechaXabungle'' (Follows the movie's storyline, since [[spoiler:Arthur is still alive]])
* ''[[Anime/MobileSuitZetaGundam Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam: A New Translation]]'' (Movie compilation)
* ''[[CharsCounterattack Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's Counterattack]]''
* ''[[Anime/AfterWarGundamX After War Gundam X]]''
* ''Anime/TurnAGundam''
* ''[[Anime/MobileSuitGundamSEEDDestiny Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny]]''
* ''MazingerZ''
* ''GreatMazinger''
* ''[[GetterRobo Getter Robo G]]''
* ''[[{{Grendizer}} UFO Robot Grendizer]]''
* '''[[GodSigma Space Emperor God Sigma]]'''
* '''GenesisOfAquarion'''
* '''[[EurekaSeven Psalms of Planets Eureka Seven]]'''
* '''SuperDimensionCenturyOrguss'''
* '''SpaceWarriorBaldios'''
* '''[[{{Gravion}} Choujuushin Gravion]]'''
** '''Chōjūshin Gravion Zwei'''
A PlayStationPortable sequel entitled ''The Second Super Robot Wars Z Hakai-hen'' is a [[EpisodicGame two-part release]], with the first half launched in April 2011 and the second slated for April 2012. This "World Breaking Chapter" returns every franchise from the first game, but the MazingerZ and GetterRobo titles have their 1970s-vintage entries (including GreatMazinger and {{Grendizer}}) tossed for the more modern ''ShinMazinger'' and ''[[GetterRobo Getter Robo Armageddon]]'', while ''EurekaSeven'' is now represented by its movie adaptation, and ''[[Anime/MobileSuitZetaGundam Zeta Gundam]]'' has ''its'' movie apparently replaced with the TV series, despite still using the movie character designs, movie backround music, and including a never-before adding movie-only attack. For some reason, {{Gravion}} and Anime/TheBigO only have one season each listed in the credits for Hakai-hen: ''Gravion Zwei'' and Anime/TheBigO's first (it should be noted that Big O still had some Season 2 only attacks in Hakai-hen, so one can assume that the second season was just grouped with the first for simplicity's sake), only for Gravion's first season to reappear in Saisei-hen's credits.
!Series added in Hakai-hen ('''Bold''' indicates debuting entries):
* ''Invincible Robo Trider G7''
* ''[[GodMars Six God Combination Godmars]]''
* '''ArmoredTrooperVOTOMS'''
** '''The Last Red Shoulder'''
** '''Red Shoulder Document - Roots of Ambition'''
** '''Pailsen Files'''
* ''[[Anime/MobileSuitGundamWing New Mobile Report Gundam Wing]]'' (TV series)
* '''Anime/MobileSuitGundam00 (First Season)'''
* ''{{Dancougar}}''
** ''God Bless Dancougar''
* ''DancougarNova''
* ''[[GetterRobo Getter Robo Armageddon]]''
* '''[[ShinMazinger Shin Mazinger Impact! Z Chapter]]'''
* '''[[{{Dai-Guard}} Earth Defence Enterprise Dai-Guard]]'''
* '''[[EurekaSeven Psalms of Planets Eureka Seven: Pocket Full of Rainbows]]'''
* '''[[Anime/CodeGeass Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion]]'''
* '''TengenToppaGurrenLagann'''
** '''Gurren-hen'''
* ''MacrossFrontier''
** '''The False Songstress'''
!Saisei-hen includes the following:
* '''[[{{Gigantor}} New Gigantor]] (AKA Messenger of the Sun Tetsujin 28)'''
* '''Anime/MobileSuitGundam00 (Second Season)'''
* ''{{Macross7}}''
** '''Macross Dynamite 7'''
* '''MacrossFrontier: The Wings of Goodbye'''
** '''Macross Frontier'''
* '''[[Anime/CodeGeass Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion R2]]'''
* '''TengenToppaGurrenLagann: Lagann-hen/Original Story'''
By WordOfGod, any series with their first seasons covered in Part 1 will be concluded in Part 2. This is also true of Gurren Lagann, despite being a single season, due to its eight-year time skip. Fans have regarded this titanic series list as the "Best Thing Ever". From what little we know about the second game, things in the Z universe are going to get MUCH [[ItGotWorse worse before they get better]].
Note that ''Z'' appears to be designed around ''breaking'' the old tropes previous SRW installments had, so expect a lot of aversions, inversions, and subversions.
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'''These games contain examples of:'''
* ADayInTheLimelight: Z1 is this to {{Zambot 3}} which had previosly been frequantly been overshadowed by its sibling {{Daitarn 3}}, as well loseing a good deal of its plot to lessen the [[KillEmAll copius deaths]] and child abuse. In Z1 however, {{Daitarn 3}} has more of a supporting role while while the Zambot plot has a rather large role in Setsukos route, with a lot more of the plot retained.
* AscendedMeme: [[TengenToppaGurrenLagann Kamina's epic sunglasses]] are an equippable item that gives you 20+ Will at a battle's start. This unlocks some of the more powerful attacks right off the bat. Ironically, Gurren Lagann's pilots don't need them, as [[TengenToppaGurrenLagann Simon's]] ace bonus is beginning each scenario at 130 Will.
** [[FridgeBrilliance Which may be the point...]]
* AnimationBump: ''Hakai-hen'' compared to ''Z'', even though it's gone from a console to a handheld; animations are smoother, mecha are more detailed and cut-ins are more animated.
** Best example hands down is the redesigned [[CharsCounterattack Nu Gundam]] and its [[AttackDrone Fin Funnel]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWEKrTKhrCs attack]]. There's a reason why the fans say that Banpresto [[MemeticMutation blew the animation budget on the Nu Gundam]].
* AntiVillain: ''Every'' OriginalGeneration villain in the 2nd SRW Z are Anti-Villains to varying degrees, with the exceptions of Aim, Anbrorn, and Marilyn (and even then, the latter two get a PetTheDog moment.)
* AssKicksYou: [[Anime/TheBigO Jason Beck's]] Victory Deluxe mecha uses this as an attack.
* ArtShift: See {{Retraux}} entry below: classic mecha use a different, very old-school art and animation style for their finishers.
* ArmorPiercingSlap: [[Anime/MobileSuitGundam00 Sumeragi Li Noriega]] delivers one to Elgan.
* AxCrazy: [[spoiler:The Edel Bernal is more the ForTheEvulz variety while Löwen General's a genuine example.]]
* BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler: Emperor Muge Zorbados, Moon WILL (Thanks to the former), Emperor Zule (technically) and Aim Liard]] in ''Saisei-hen.''
* BadassCrew: ZEUTH and the Chimera Corps in ''Z'', ZEXIS in ''Hakai-hen'' as well as the returning ZEUTH, obviously.
** The Chimera Corps take the cake here: [[spoiler:they literally played everyone and took control of the whole world while being consisted only of ''five members'', which shocks ZEUTH to no end when they find this out]].
* BashBrothers: ''Z'' started the tradition of pairing [[Anime/MobileSuitZetaGundam Camille Bidan]] and [[Anime/MobileSuitGundamSEEDDestiny Shinn Asuka]], which is one of the many reasons Destiny's story turned out much better. Also [[Anime/MobileSuitGundamX Garrod Ran]] and [[EurekaSeven Renton Thurston]]. [[OvermanKingGainer Gainer]] is sometimes in a PowerTrio with the latter two.
** [[Anime/MobileSuitGundam00 Setsuna F. Seiei]] and [[Anime/MobileSuitGundamWing Heero Yuy]] as well as [[TengenToppaGurrenLagann Kamina]] and [[GetterRobo Ryouma Nagare]] in ''Hakai-hen'' [[spoiler: for the short time Kamina's alive]].
* BigBad: [[spoiler:The Edel Bernal]], who doubles as a rare, villainous AscendedFanboy, due to his battle quotes almost always referencing the personality or nicknames of the pilots attacking him and the events that happen in their series.
** In ''Hakai-hen'', it's [[spoiler: Gaiou, the King of Destruction, who initially has AmnesiacDissonance and just goes around destroying things as he likes while his subordinates do all the scheming, but eventually regains some of his memories and, in the final scenario, declares he wants to fight and kill a god (or a godlike being; he isn't exactly picky)]].
** Saisei-Hen, in contrast, has [[spoiler: Uther, the King of Restoration as it's leading baddie. Preumably, as this guy is also the king of Insaraum, he wants to restore his country, and is, himself, a legitimate sphere-holder. In his case, his is Aquarius, a.k.a. "The Inexhaustible Water Vessel". He starts out as benign, and even helpful. When you meet him in Stage 46, he is a classic example of the ShelteredAristocrat, and he is controlled by a cruel Prime Minister, but when his Sphere activates, he [[TookALevelInBadass takes about fifty levels in badass]] after getting some sense talked into him by your team, and [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPtN0wMGeJY blows the final boss of the previous game away with one attack in his new giant king robot]].]] Despite this, [[spoiler: Gaiou is still the Major Antagonist of ''Saisei-Hen'' and the Z2 Universe in general.]]
* BiggerBad: The "inevitable crisis" known as Baal that all the bad guys in Saisei-Hen are worried about and [[spoiler: is Gaiou's mission to fight against]]. Who or what that is has yet to be revealed.
* BigGood: [[Anime/MobileSuitGundamSEEDDestiny Lacus Clyne]] and [[Anime/TurnAGundam Diana Sorel]] in the first game.
** Elgan Laudic in Z2, the founder of ZEXIS [[spoiler: and an alternate, non-insane version of the Edel Bernal]].
** Also, to a lesser degree, [[spoiler: [[Anime/CodeGeass Lelouch Lamperouge]] when he becomes the Supreme Commander of ZEXIS in Saisei-hen]].
* BlessedWithSuck: Being a sphere owner is ''not'' fun. Sure you get amazing power but the trigger is NEVER something you would want.
** Here are a few examples from the known sphere holders:
*** Setsuko: [[spoiler:Slowly loses her five senses as a result of using the Sorrowful Maiden.]]
*** Rand and Mel: [[spoiler:Mel cannot age, and Rand experiences extreme pain as a side effect of tapping into the Wounded Lion (since Mel is the holder, but Rand is the Gunleon's pilot).]]
*** Crowe: [[spoiler:Once the Swaying Scales reaches full power, Crowe is locked onto a single thought and cannot break out of it, entering a near-berserker state. It can be easily countered by making him hear the sound of the coin dropping through.]]
*** Aim: [[spoiler:The False Black Sheep prevents Aim from speaking the truth, ranging from speaking only in lies to babbling in complete gibberish.]]
*** Uther: [[spoiler:The Inexhaustible Water Jug slowly drains Uther's life force the more he uses it.]]
*** Saisei-hen introduces another "blessing". The "Stigma of the Cursed Wanderer". As a result of being exposed to the power of dimensional travel repeatedly, those that are marked by the stigma will find themselves and their weapons drawn to any world in which someone is manipulating dimensional power, unless that world has a version of yourself already present. This is why Zeuth members appear in the world of Zexis. (and why the original Mazinger, Getter and E7 characters don't) [[spoiler: It also renders you immortal, and is the reason Asakim cannot die. As of the end of Saisei-hen, EVERYONE in Zexis has been marked by the stigma, as Asakim cheerfully informs them.]]
* BoisterousBruiser: Rand, which is unusual for a SRW protagonist.
* BoringButPractical: [[MacrossFrontier The MDE Missile]]. It's like GurrenLagann's Throne Break,except it's post-movement and it can hits every terrain.
* BossRush: This seems to be [[GodMars Emperor Zule's]] general strategy in both Z2 games.
** In Hakai-hen, when you fight him in Stage 46, he brings along several bosses you've beaten already, including [[DancougarNova Regulus Alphas]], [[MacrossFrontier Knight-Class Vajra]], [[DaiGuard Heterodynes]] and Rhino-DAMONS as well as two clones of himself. [[OhCrap Then you have to fight the real one.]] There a reason that Stage is ThatOneLevel of Hakai-hen.
** Stage 56 of the IF route in Saisei-hen takes this UpToEleven. First you have to fight a Crap-load of [[GetterRobo Invader]], [[{{Gravion}} Zeravire]], [[DaiGuard Heterodyne]], [[ShinMazinger Mechanical Beast]] and [[GundamWing Mobile Doll]] bosses. Then you have to take on [[GodMars Emperor Zule]] and [[{{Dancougar}} Emperor Muge]] along with a bunch of their lackeys, including TWO [[DancougarNova MOON-WILLS]], plus the [[TengenToppaGurrenLagann Cathedral Terra Lazengann]] (which you just spent half of the last stage beating already). THEN, once all that is over, you go inside the Catheral Terra where you have to fight [[EvilKnockOff Anti-Spiral Gurren Lagann]].
* BreakTheCutie: Setsuko. Poor, poor Setsuko...
* CerebusSyndrome: Rand's scenario is generally a silly, lighthearted romp until the point where he gets his Gunleon's MidSeasonUpgrade, where everything becomes serious from that point on. Not to say that the silliness is completely gone, of course.
** In ''Hakai-hen'', [[spoiler:Kamina's death]] is a big turning point where things start getting more serious, especially if you've been sticking to the Japan Route.
** It actually starts getting bad when [[spoiler:Gaiou]] appears, but after [[spoiler:Kamina dies]], the mood is a lot less lighthearted.
** In ''Saisei-Hen'', the very moment of Scenario 25 [[spoiler:[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFiiuEPnG1Y when Esther is turned into a Dimensional Beast]].]]
* CharacterExaggeration: [[Anime/MobileSuitGundamSEEDDestiny Lunamaria Hawke's]] aiming skills. Thanks to [[NeverLiveItDown an incident]] in the [=SEED=] Destiny anime where she managed to cleanly miss hitting a ''battleship'' with a beam rifle, she has the "honor" of having the Spirit Command "Strike" (gives 100% accuracy for 1 turn) at the monumental cost of 30 SP (it usually costs about half or a third that much) - a figure only matched by Mr. NoSenseOfDirection [[SuperRobotWars2 Masaki Andoh]].
** Her Ace Bonus in ''Hakai-hen'' is cutting the cost of her Strike command in half.
** Another example is [[Anime/TheBigO Roger Smith]], who talks ''much'' more than he used to back in his series, especially when piloting the Big O and also by exaggerating the frequency of his failures in negotiations and making it something of a RunningGag. To be fair, this ''is'' a mostly text-based game, so Roger had to be made more verbose to some extent, and his negotiations are sometimes plain impossible. For example, one of the first negotiations we see him do is between a disguised [[OurDemonsAreDifferent Hya]][[GetterRobo kki]] and the [[GetterRobo Saotome Research Lab]]...
** Also, the in-game database notes the in-series CharacterExaggeration[=/=]VillainDecay [[SentouMechaXabungle Hola and Gelaba]] went through in the later half of their show.
* ChekhovsGun: Near the beginning of ''Hakai-hen'', [[Anime/CodeGeass Lelouch Lamperouge]] places a Geass command to force Carlos Axion Jr., the richest man in the world and president of the Axion Foundation that created Crowe Broust's Brasta, to answer any questions Lelouch has for him so he can steal his financial information to fund the creation of the [[Anime/CodeGeass Black Knights]]. It turns out [[spoiler: Carlos is working against ZEXIS, and when they get their hands on him after scenario 49, they interrogate him as to Gaiou's whereabouts. When he doesn't comply, Lelouch-as-Zero recalls the Geass command he placed on Carlos and asks him personally; Carlos instantly reveals Gaiou is on the moon. Everyone else gets confused by Carlos' sudden change of heart, since they don't know that Zero is Lelouch or what Geass is.]]
** Early on in Saisei-hen, Lockon Stratos flips a coin and notes how Crowe suddenly reacts to it. Later on, they try it again with something else to see if Crowe would react in a similar fashion, only he doesn't. Crowe explains that he can tell how a coin really sounds like, and only that will garner said reaction from him. [[spoiler: Cue the CDS.]]
** Again in Saisei-hen, Zero accidentally placed a geass on [[spoiler: Esther after she turns into a Dimentional Beast, commanding her to stop when she attacked the Shinkirou]]. Few chapters later, Crowe believes that [[spoiler: Esther has completely turned into a DAMON]], to which Marguerite tells him otherwise. [[spoiler: DAMON Esther]] attacks him at that moment, only to halt in its tracks after Zero reissues the same command, proving to Crowe that [[spoiler: Esther isn't completely a DAMON yet, and still retains her humanity to a certain degree]].
* ChekhovsGunman: [[TheDarkChick Xine Espio]] shows up early as a generic mook who attacks [[SuperDimensionCenturyOrguss Kei Katsuragi]] right after he primes the Space/Time Oscillation Bomb. She uses a generic mook pilot portrait and name; the only thing that gives any hint to her identity at that point was her voice.
* CherryTapping: In Saisen-Hen the Nu Gundam gets a glorious new attack that involves good old fisticuff and its dynamic kill closes with a barrage of...vulcun firepower. Amuro is cool that he can get away with that just cuz.
* ClippedWingAngel: The Daigun Doten Kaizen boss fight in [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=duf_39yHrnE Scenario 44]] of Hakai-hen's Earth route. It only has one attack, but Guame and Adiane provide backup and it has lots of HP.
* CombatSadomasochist: [[spoiler:The Edel Bernal]], SOOOO much. He practically orgasms with every hit, his or yours.
* TheComicallySerious: ''Z'' enjoys placing deadpan characters in the middle of comedic situations. Roger comes to mind with jabs at his constant failures at "negotiation" and having to resort to force.
* ContinuityNod[=/=]MythologyGag: [[MacrossFrontier Sheryl Nome and Ranka Lee's CDs]] are equippable items. However, there is another CD in the game from [[MacrossSeven Fire Bomber]].
** In ''Hakai-hen'', the Dynamic Kill of Nu Gundam's Fin Funnel attack ends with it performing the "Last Shooting". For those unfamiliar with the term, it's the name for the "firing straight upwards" pose the original Gundam did to finish off Char's Zeong in ''Anime/MobileSuitGundam''.
** There's tons of these to ''Z'': for the first time, originals and series that didn't return are directly referenced, although the only series that didn't come back were the old Mazinger series, Grendizer, Getter G, and TV Eureka Seven. One example includes Camille asking the current [[ShinMazinger Kouji Kabuto]] how [[UFORoboGrendizer Duke Fleed]] and [[GreatMazinger Tetsuya Tsurugi]] are doing, before realizing this Kouji has never met them. [[spoiler: For Eureka Seven, this dimension's version being different is actually a plot point]]. Still, it helps prevent the problem that was present in the ''SuperRobotWarsAlpha'' games, where a series that appeared in one game and didn't appear in subsequent ones (I'm looking at you, GiantRobo and BrainPowered!) would utterly fail to be mentioned in dialogue, as if they had been ExiledFromContinuity.
** In one interesting nod, during the "Seikan Hikou" event linked below, Apollo gets into the song so much that he almost wants to do the memetic "KIRA!" bit from the song. In ''[[AnotherCenturysEpisode Another Century's Episode:R]]'', where both Aquarion and Macross Frontier were part of the cast, Apollo repeats this very line nearly verbatim during the same event in that game.
* CruelTwistEnding: ''Hakai-Hen'''s storyline avoids the DownerEnding of both Gundam 00's first season and Getter Robo Armageddon's first episode, and the end sequence plays out with it looking like everything's fine. Credits roll, and then all the bad stuff starts to happen...
* CrutchCharacter: In ''Hakai-Hen'' we have [[spoiler: Kamina]] oh, so very much. [[spoiler:If he didn't bite it]] halfway through the game, he would've been a GameBreaker.
** To elaborate, he has extremely high stats even for a super robot pilot, gains the Spirit Command Valor (multiply damage you deal by 2 for a single attack) the earliest out of any character in the game, and his Ace Bonus raises his max Will by 30, which, combined with the "Break Will Limit" pilot skill, would set his maximum Will at 200. Should players decide to LevelGrind, he'll learn Soul (multiply damage by 2.5), which would make it likely he can outdamage even Ryouma.
* CutscenePowerToTheMax: When a unit gains a new attack (like [[spoiler: Crowe Broust's Brasta and its SPIGOT VX]]), it may debut with a battle animation showing it dealing heavy damage to, if not outright killing, a five-digit-HP-bearing boss in one hit. It rarely works that way when you actually use it.
** Inverted in Setsuna's final fight against [[spoiler: Alejandro]]. If you've fully upgraded Exia, it's entirely possible to one-shot the enemy [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill with plenty of damage to spare]] - which then triggers a cutscene where he does the same attack, and it only does barely enough damage to take him down.
* DeadpanSnarker, LemonyNarrator: Whoever wrote the database entries for the various characters and units sure has a sense of humor. Highlights include wondering how [[Anime/MobileSuitGundamSEEDDestiny Neo Roanoke's]] Windam [[NoOneCouldSurviveThat fell from a rather high altitude and did not explode]] and [[Anime/MobileSuitGundamSEEDDestiny Kira Yamato]] [[PlotArmor surviving the nuclear-powered Freedom's destruction at the hands of Shinn]], poking fun at Beck The Great RX-3 for [[EpicFail getting destroyed in two seconds]] [[CrowningMomentOfFunny after taking forever to combine and pose]] by pointing out that "despite Beck The Great RX-3 taking a great deal of time to combine, pose and show off, it was totalled within seconds thanks to the Big O's merciless onslaught with its O Thunder weapon". It also gives out nods to EpilepticTrees such as [[{{Daitarn 3}} Haran Banjo being a Megaborg himself]] and has a very loving description of MazingerZ, which goes beyond the call of duty to detail its attacks and point out its impact on the SuperRobotGenre.
* DegradedBoss:
** In Z1, [[OvermanKingGainer The Overdevil]], [[Anime/MobileSuitZetaGundam Psyco Gundam]], [[Anime/MobileSuitGundamSEEDDestiny Destroy Gundam]], [[Anime/TheBigO Big Fau (in the same stage, no less)and Big Duo]], to name some prominent ones. Overdevils can still count as a major enemy even if they appear en masse.
** In Z2, Original Dancougar, Destroy Gundam, Face Metal Beast, Beast Gore and Burai, Branch Robot 5
* DemotedToExtra: Despite being one of the most powerful leaders and newtypes in Universal Century, [[Anime/MobileSuitZetaGundam Haman Khan]] gets shafted into playing second-fiddle to [[Anime/MobileSuitZetaGundam Paptimus Scirocco]] and [[Anime/MobileSuitGundamSEEDDestiny Gilbert Durandal]]. When it seems she's about to make her move, she's suddenly PutOnABus. [[spoiler:unless you manage to take the secret ZEUTH route split, which allows you to recruit her, or more accurately lets her force her way into your team. Not that anyone would mind, though.]]
** Soma Peries and the GN Archer only get to appear as an attack for Allelujah and the Gundam Arios in Saisei-hen.
** And [[SuperDimensionCenturyOrguss Athena]] only appears as an attack for Kei.
** In contrast, [[Anime/CodeGeass Chiba and Asahina]] went from attack-only units to full-fledged units.
* DarkerAndEdgier: Setsuko's plot in spades, one of the reasons why some prefer her route to Rand's. It's like they seperated the DarkerAndEdgier and LighterAndSofter into 2 concentrated masses of [[TearJerker suck]] and [[CrowningMomentOfFunny fun]].
* DifficultySpike: Stage 15 of ''Saisei-hen''. Until then, the game's a cakewalk, especially if you imported a save data from ''Hakai-hen''. Stage 15, however, pits you up against [[spoiler:Marilyn and her Firebug squad]]. They're incredibly powerful, accurate, and dodgy, on top of Marilyn having a very high Command level, which means that enemies adjacent to her will receive immense boosts in accuracy and evasion, making them even tougher to deal with.
* DoomedByCanon: In Hakai-Hen there is nothing you can do to save [[spoiler: [[GurrenLagann Kam]][[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjfVMZggw44 ina]], [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUe83vpiKC0 Neil "Lockon Stratos" Dylandy]] and [[Anime/CodeGeass Euphemia]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-UV1sk8ZNo li Britannia]]]] given the importance of their deaths to the plot. However since this is only Part 1 of a 2-part ''SRW'' series, which is known for saving sympathetic characters from death it is possible that they will pull a NotQuiteDead in part 2 depending on the player's choices. Hopefully...
** As it turns out, this is only partly averted in Part 2. [[spoiler: While Euphie is revealed to be NotQuiteDead in the "IF" route, Kamina and Neil "Lockon Stratos" Dylandy remain dead.]]
* DownerEnding: The bad ending of ''Z'', where [[spoiler: Edel Bernal succeeds in killing Eureka, the Black History gets initiated [[GroundhogDayLoop again]] and ZEUTH gets stuck in a [[{{Gotterdammerung}} terrible battle until the worlds are split apart and their lives/memories are erased as the totality of existence]] [[ResetButton is sent back to square one.]]]]
* {{Ear Worm}}: [[InvokedTrope Invoked with]] the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KS6Rm9ctMY Seikan Hikou event]] in Super Robot Wars Z2: Hakai-Hen Scenario 34-B.
* EldritchAbomination: According to Asakim Dowin, [[spoiler:the Spheres are the creation of the ''Taichi'', an entity that controls the fate of all universes by manipulating the "Origin Law"]].
** Note that [[spoiler: ''taichi'' (太極, alternatively ''taiji'') is a Dao concept. More can be read [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiji here]]]].
** The Dimensional Beasts from ''Hakai-hen'' seem to be this as well.
* EliteMooks: Mechanical Beasts are in most games serves as mere {{Mooks}} but in Z2, thanks to stone statues from first episodes of Shin Mazinger taking this role, they gets promoted to this.
** Marilyn's Firebug unit is made up of customized Axios, and are much, ''much'' tougher than the Axios that you fight in ''Hakai-hen''.
* EnemyMine: Stage 43 of ''Z1'' forces [[Anime/TurnAGundam Harry Ord]] and [[Anime/MobileSuitGundamSeedDestiny Kira Yamato]] to team up with Gym Ghingham in order to save Queen Dianna Soreil from the clutches of [[Anime/MobileSuitZetaGundam The Titans]].
** Upon being warped into the ''Hakai-hen'' world and being confronted by an army of [[TengenToppaGurrenLagann Beastmen]], [[{{Xabungle}} Jiron and Timp]] form a (very brief) alliance to fight them off.
** If memory serves, Roger Smith managed to persuade Jason Beck to help him out in one stage of ''Hakai-hen''.
* EpicFail: Poor Lelouch is the only protagonist of a series in SRW history to both be shot down in a demo sequence, and to miss his target, in ''Hakai-hen''. In his own series, his skills as a pilot are relatively mediocre, relying on ambushes, misdirection, squad tactics, planted explosives and highly accurate long range fire. In the demo roll, however, he's piloting a customised ''obsolete'' mecha, and pitted against one of the two best pilots in the world his series exists in, piloting one of the most advanced mecha in the series. He's incredibly outmatched. Worse yet, the attack he's hit with deals 25% more damage than his mecha's maximum HP, when other units in these demo rolls take half of that, at most. It's as if the world is plotting against him. Unfortunately, it's an outcome he's all too used to.
** While Lelouch breaks his defeat streak, the demo roll for Saisei-hen continues his poor match-up, with Lelouch captaining a battleship, who's missiles fail to hit. Worse yet, he's hit back for even more damage than the last time, despite being in a far more advanced machine, with even more armour than before. Luckily, since it's a battleship, it doesn't sink, but it still must be frustrating him that his opponent is getting protagonist hit and damage rates when Lelouch is the main character of his series.
* {{Expy}}: [[SignificantAnagram Asakim Dowin]] is tailored as the EvilCounterpart to Masaki, a mainstay of [=SRW=]. Likewise, the Shurouga and its attacks bear a resemblance to Masaki's mech, Cybuster. Oddly, though, a Shu Shirakawa-expy is absent.
** The Gunleon is basically the GaoGaiGar by a different name and equipped with an appropriately, mecha-sized wrench.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: About the time [[{{Zambot3}} Butcher]] starts pulling out the "[[MoralEventHorizon turn people into walking bombs and detonate them]]" scheme, a few members of the alliance he's a part of wonder if taking over the Earth is really ''worth'' working with such a lunatic.
* EveryoneWentToSchoolTogether: ''Hakai-hen'' folds all the school plots together, so [[Anime/MobileSuitGundamWing Relena Peacecraft, Heero, Duo Maxwell]], [[Anime/MobileSuitGundam00 Saji Crossroad and Louise Halevy]] all attend [[Anime/CodeGeass Ashford Academy]].
** [[http://danbooru.donmai.us/post/show/914193/azuma-blonde_hair-brown_hair-code_geass-gundam-gun This is how Saji and Louise would look like in uniform]].
* FanNickname:
** "Sexsuko" for Setsuko or "Blandsuko" for being overshadowed by Rand. Others includes "{{Wangst}}uko" and "Setsubou", a play on the Japanese word for "despair" (it MakesSenseInContext).
** "Super Terrorist Wars" for ''Hakai-hen'', due to the presence of [[Anime/CodeGeass The Black Knights]], [[Anime/MobileSuitGundam00 Celestial Being]], the Gundam Wing pilots and the Dancougar Nova team. Technically, [[TengenToppaGurrenLagann Team Dai-Gurren]] are revolutionaries as well, although not necessarily terrorists to the extent of the former, thanks to the Beastmen being a clearly different species and more aware of why their enemies hate them.
** [[GurrenLagann Nia's]] cut-in during one of the Dai-Gurren's attacks is labelled as [[AceAttorney "OBJECTION!" or "Nia Wright"]].
** The Dimensional Monsters are [[FunWithAcronyms DAMON for]] [[DemonicSpiders Dat Annoying MONster]].
* FlameWar: Have an urgent need for supernova-grade heat? Go on a forum (preferably GameFaqs) and ask the dreaded question: "Who's better: Rand or Setsuko?" or just mention them both in the same sentence and hide in a nuclear shelter.
** With the release of ''Hakai-hen'', complaining about the inability to save [[spoiler: Kamina, [[Anime/MobileSuitGundam00 Neil "Lockon Stratos" Dylandy]] and [[Anime/CodeGeass Euphemia li Britannia]]]] should be enough to release [[InternetBackdraft A LOT of heat]]. And for a while fans of old school Mazinger, the one that appeared in a bajillion other games, were upset that Shin Mazinger was the one appearing in Z2.
* FlashbackNightmare: [[spoiler: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayezowZz52U The prologue mission to Stage 39]] is [[ArmoredTrooperVOTOMS Chirico]] reliving the events of the Pailsen Files OVA]].
* {{Foreshadowing}}: Loads of it; try playing the game after beating it once. You'll stunned at the amount of hints done between the lines or in plain sight.
** That's nothing: [[spoiler: [[EarlyBirdCameo in]] {{Super Robot Wars Original Generation}}s, if Gilliam Yeager attacks the [[SuperRobotWarsCompact2 Stern Regisseur]], he'll mention the Taichi]].
** Here's one from the Epilogue of Z2.1: [[spoiler:[[DancougarNova Aoi]] starts getting headaches and feeling pain. That's the calling card of [[{{Dancougar}} Emperor Muge Zorbados]] himself.]]
* FragileSpeedster: Orguss units, all the way, although nowhere near [[{{Megazone 23}} the Garland]] on the "fragile" end of the scale. The Orguss is a weakly-defended unit in the game but is extremely powerful due to its high attack power and evasion rate, coupled with its pilot's amazing skill rating and default pilot skill set, which is designed to make use of it. It even comes with a very strong CombinationAttack later in the game.
** WordOfGod confirms the [[ArmoredTrooperVOTOMS Armored Troopers]] and [[Anime/CodeGeass Knightmare Frames]] are as extreme in this trope as the [[{{Megazone23}} Garland]] was back in ''SuperRobotWarsDestiny''. How fitting, since almost every series that was in ''Destiny'' is in ''Hakai-hen''.
* FriendlyFireProof: Played with: one scenario's skill point requirement is to shoot down Kira...despite the fact that he's a "neutral" unit and you can't attack neutrals. The fix? MAP weapons.
* ForTheEvulz: [[spoiler:The Edel Bernal's SOLE REASON FOR EXISTENCE. On top of that, he's also TooKinkyToTorture. Yeah, he's ''the'' [[AxCrazy nut-job]] of the franchise]].
* GambitPileup: The plot of ''Z'' can be summarized as the separate and intricate machinations of the [[OriginalGeneration Chimera Corps]], [[Anime/MobileSuitGundamSEEDDestiny Gilbert Durandal]], [[Anime/MobileSuitGundamSEEDDestiny Lord Djibril]], [[Anime/MobileSuitZetaGundam Paptimus Scirocco]], [[Anime/MobileSuitZetaGundam Haman Karn]], [[Anime/AfterWarGundamX the Frost Brothers]], [[Anime/TurnAGundam Gym Ghingham]], [[EurekaSeven Dewey Novak]], [[Anime/TheBigO Alex Rosewater]], [[OvermanKingGainer the Siberian Railroad Company]], [[GenesisOfAquarion the Shadow Angels]], [[GetterRobo the Hundred Demon Empire]], the [[SuperDimensionCenturyOrguss Chirams]] and the alien alliance of the [[{{Grendizer}} Vegans]], the [[{{Zambot 3}} Gaizok]], [[{{Gravion}} the Zeravire]], the [[GodSigma Elda]] and the [[SpaceWarriorBaldios Aldebaron Army]] all barreling towards each other at breakneck speeds, [[spoiler:which is exactly what The Edel Bernal wants]].
** ...and it looks like it's going UpToEleven in ''Hakai-hen'' by adding in Lelouch, [[Anime/MobileSuitGundam00 Ribbons Almark]], [[Anime/MobileSuitGundamWing Treize Khushrenada]], and [[MacrossFrontier Grace O'Connor]], not to mention the team of [[SpannerInTheWorks spanners]] that comprise the entirety of [[TengenToppaGurrenLagann Team Dai-Gurren]].
*** What's that? Saisei-Hen is going to adapt Lagann-Hen? [[OhCrap Here come]] the [[KnightTemplar Anti]]-[[EldritchAbomination Spirals]]!
* GameplayAndStorySegregation: Since ''Saisei-hen'' doesn't inherit your pilots' kill counts from ''Hakai-hen'' ([[DiscOneNuke for obvious]] [[GameBreaker reasons]]), it invariably makes one feel weird when [[GodMars Takeru]] isn't a Super-A Class Psychic, or [[OvermanKingGainer Gainer]] ceases to become a Game Champion and others, despite ''Saisei-hen'' is just one year after ''Hakai-hen''. Same can be said for former ZEUTH members from ''Z'' as well.
* GenreSavvy: The Xabungle characters, of course, along with the [[OvermanKingGainer Siberian Railroad]] soldiers. Gainer, being the gamer he is, also throws in a few LampshadeHanging. For the originals, Rand shows impressive levels of this by deciding to not bother with a RunningGag, among others (despite having one major GenreBlind moment when he trusts [[ObviouslyEvil Asakim]], but he ''was'' his partner's savior at the time, so it's a bit justified). The all-time champion, however, is [[spoiler: The Edel Bernal]], whose first action in the final battle is calling another two versions of himself. In his own words: "Well, you're all coming at me as a group, so I'll call my own buddies!", averting MookChivalry very, ''[[ThatOneBoss very]]'' much.
* GlassCannon: GetterRobo as usual, but the Gravion's a better example, due to paper-thin armor and [[{{Gravion}} Touga Tenkuuji's]] low defense rating. It can dish out major damage thanks to its powerful weapons and a six pilot Spirit Command set, but it can only take a few hits before going down. [[{{Gravion}} Klein Sandman's]] version of the machine is slightly better due to him having a better defense rating.
** Other Obari anime, Final Dancouga and Dancouga Nova follow in Gravion's footsteps. Very powerful, but it has some of the lowest armour for it's agility stat.
** Dai-Guard in ''Hakai-hen'' is probably the best example in the series to date: in its debut scenario, it has 200 armor and 1200 after, lower than even the [[ShinMazinger Aphrodite A]]. {{Justified|Trope}} as the Dai-Guard had not been used in-universe for several years and did not have time to swap out of its paper-thin show armor when it was thrown into battle. It gets a lot better later on.
* GlowingEyesOfDoom: ''Boss Borot'' manages to pull this off in the first Saisei-hen preview. Considering its the ShinMazinger version, though, it's not [[TookALevelInBadass too much of a surprise]].
* GratuitousEnglish: The theme song for ''Z'', ''Crest of Zs'', has some of this (''FLYING TO THE BURNING SKY AND ROLLING THUNDER RIDE!''))
* GuideDangIt, mixed with LyingCreator: Infamously, series director Takanobu Terada stated there's "only one secret" in the game, and boy was he lying. Z's known for having an very large number of secret units, a route split depending on a point system not shown to the player, and another point system determining the MultipleEndings, ''again'' invisible to the player. Woe befall to players attempting to get the [[Anime/MobileSuitGundamX G-Bits and Tifa Adill]] without a guide, though worse yet are those trying to [[spoiler:keep [[Anime/MobileSuitGundamSEEDDestiny Rey Za Barrel and Talia Gladys]] alive]]. Managing to do the latter requires you to take the secret ZEUTH route split, accessible only by amassing a certain amount of the "invisible" points obtained by performing certain actions over a number of scenarios, some of those even going against what happens in the actual series (e.g. [[spoiler:Shinn and Rey fighting [[Anime/MobileSuitGundamSEEDDestiny Athrun Zala]], but NOT destroying his unit; instead, waiting it out until the fourth turn]]) or might seem flat out nonsensical (such as ignoring specific enemy units). To make it worse, the ZEUTH route's much, much better than the ZAFT route (where most first-time players will get to without aid) and gives access to a great number of secrets ([[spoiler: Haman, for one]].
** Of course, the point system is dropped in a New Game+, making it a player's choice, averting the trope after invoking it the one time.
** This continues on in Saisei-hen where the only way to prevent [[spoiler:the Black Knights betraying Lelouch]] is the go to ZEXIS route split. Like Z1, accessible only by amassing a certain amount of the "invisible" points such as [[spoiler:preventing Shirley's death]] which is a mystery in itself.
* HandsomeLech: Kei, Michel, Pierre and Gain form their own group of four skirt chasers.
* HarderThanHard: ''Z's'' EX-Hard mode lives up to its name by banning both Weapon and Mech upgrades, unlike previous incarnations that only prohibited weapon upgrades. Moreover, {{Combination Attack}}s aren't as potent or abundant as they were in other games in the series and damage is generally lower.
* HeManWomanHater: [[spoiler:Löwen's true personality is this]]. Also, new original Crowe in ''Hakai-hen'' is stated to dislike beautiful women, though it's more that he just doesn't TRUST them too much, [[WorkOffTheDebt probably because he doesn't want to get conned out of his money]].
** ''Saisei-hen'' reveals the reason for Crowe's distrust of women: his [[ColonelKilgore former commander,]] [[AxCrazy Marilyn]] [[{{Yangire}} Catto]].
* HornyDevils: Xine and her Eliphas; to emphasize, she wears friggin' '''LINGERIE''' and if her battle quotes are to be trusted, she's probably into night rape... not that the guys would mind.
* HotBlooded: ''Z'' series is one of the most tightly concentrated masses of HotBlooded fury in SRW, and that's saying something. [[{{Xabungle}} Jiron Amos]], [[Anime/TurnAGundam Harry Ord]], [[GenesisOfAquarion Apollo]], [[Anime/MobileSuitGundamSEEDDestiny Shinn Asuka]], [[{{Gravion}} Eiji]], '''TWO''' versions of [[GetterRobo the Getter Team]], '''TWO''' versions of [[MazingerZ Kouji Kabuto]], [[{{Dancougar}} Shinobu]], [[GurrenLagann Kamina]] and ([[TookALevelInBadass later]]) [[GurrenLagann Simon]], [[DaiGuard Akagi Shunsuke]], etc; even people who aren't normally HotBlooded go nuts here.
** Things just got even more hot-blooded! Macross Dynamite Seven will be in Z2.2, which means the return of [[MacrossSeven Nekki Basara]] and his songs, which, even in game mechanics, make the entire rest of your army even more hot-blooded than usual!
* HowUnscientific: The ''[[Anime/MobileSuitGundam00 Gundam 00]]'' crew's reaction upon meeting [[GenesisOfAquarion Aquarion]]. Tieria later asks Sirius about how the thing works... and ends up even more confused.
* [[HumongousMecha Humongous]] [[CombiningMecha Combining]] and/or [[TransformingMecha Transforming]] [[RealRobot Real]] and {{Super Robot}}s
* ImprobableWeaponUser: Rand's Gunleon uses mecha-sized spanners (wrenches, for the Westerners), spanner-nunchucks, and a gigantic two-handed wrench roughly as long as it is tall that doubles as a SwissArmyWeapon.
* JAMProject: They sing all the opening and ending themes to the series:
** ''Z's'' opening theme "Crest of Z's" and ending theme "Cosmic Dance".
** ''Hakai-hen's'' opening theme [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsjHqZttig8 "Noah"]] and ending theme "Negai".
** ''Saisei-hen's'' opening theme "Hagane no Resistance" and ending theme "The advent of genesis".
* KilledOffForReal: Severel, including [[spoiler: both Kamina and [[MobileSuitGundam00 Neil 'Lockon Stratos' Dylandy]], as well as [[CodeGeass Ephumia]] if you don't do the route split in Sansei-hen]].
* LargeHam: [[spoiler:Löwen after his FaceHeelTurn, where he turns from a demure, gynophobic {{Bishounen}} into a hammy, screaming warrior whose insanity and AxCrazy nature have no limits]].
** Sandman and [[GenesisOfAquarion Gen Fudo]] are [[UpToEleven even more hammy than they were in their own shows]].The ham level of Gym and [[OvermanKingGainer Asuham]] has also gone off the scale; they even try to out ham each other in one of the save-quit dialouges and they're [[TakehitoKoyasu voiced by the same person]].
** Lelouch and Kamina are being added with those two in ''Hakai-hen''. Your PSP will be able to spit out roast hams after that game is inserted.
*** [[UpToEleven Kamina pushes it through the roof]] [[CrowningMomentOfFunny when he hijacks Sheryl's concert stage]].
* LaughablyEvil: Jason Beck, of course. [[spoiler:The Edel Bernal]] is another for the [[OriginalGeneration original characters]], whose GenreSavvy nature and [[AscendedFanboy eerily accurate comments to your pilots]] make him one rather amusing CompleteMonster and lead to him being considered as one of the "best" SRW villains simply due to an unbashed, unapologetic nature.
* LethalJokeCharacter: Like his AnotherCenturysEpisode counterpart, [[OvermanKingGainer Gain Bijou and his trusty Gotchko]]. While not as overpowered as it was in that game, it's infinitely more useful than it seems to be at first and can make the first half of the game an utter joke if correctly set up.
** Which can be accurately said about Gain himself, who is WeakButSkilled. Not much of an Oversense person like Gainer, but he makes up for it with ImprobableAimingSkills.
* LetsPlay: Saint-ism has one for Z2 [[http://www.saint-ism.com/lets-play-super-robot-wars-z2/ Hakai-hen]] and [[http://www.saint-ism.com/lets-play-super-robot-wars-z2-saisei-hen/ Saisei-hen]]. The latter features "Arranged battles" which edit the attack animations into extended battle scenes.
* LetsSplitUpGang: Subverted. The team splits up for a while midway through the game, which is pretty standard for the series...[[spoiler:but it turns out to be [[LetsYouAndHimFight a very bad idea]]]].
** Also counts as a {{deconstruction}} of the usual LetsSplitUpGang scenario, since a real-life group formed of military types and civilians would probably end up in the same way ZEUTH's factions did. Just looking at [[EurekaSeven Holland's]] musings to himself during the first half of ''Z'' pretty much tells it all as even when the group is together, not everything is smooth sailing, making it a rare deconstruction of the TrueCompanionship inherent in [=SRW=].
* [[LetsYouAndHimFight Let's You And You Fight]]: Aside from the trope listed above, one scenario on Setsuko's route starts with you fighting ''against'' her!.
* LightningBruiser: Baldios: LL-sized mecha with a [[FlashStep "afterimage"]] ability; do the math.
** [[Anime/CodeGeass Kallen and the Gurren]], fast and a good dodger, with abilities that let it tank if it needs to.
* MagikarpPower: Anime/TurnAGundam starts as a not-very-useful unit with limited weapons and bad anti-air stats and a so-so pilot in the form of [[Anime/TurnAGundam Loran Cehack]] until in-game events lead to it gradually getting upgraded, culminating in it obtaining its Moonlight Butterfly normal and MAP attack among others, making it one of the best units in the game. In another example, Renton's (including Loran's) stats grow at a much faster rate after they pass level 40-45s.
** King Gainer, as well: initially, it's small, fragile and really hard to pilot Gainer's Will up to use his Overskills. Doing some investment in some choice skills like "Attack Again" (taking advantage of his "Gamer"/"Game Champ" innate skill), "Ignore Size Modifier" and some morale boosting techniques, he becomes ''quite'' good. It helps he constantly upgrades like the above two through event-driven scenarios.
** Dai-Guard in ''Hakai-hen'', due to [[{{Dai-Guard}} Shunsuke Akagi's]] "Salaryman" skill that gives him a lot more pilot points (+3 at level up, every 10 kills, and scenario ends adds up later on).
** Although [[ArmoredTrooperVOTOMS Chirico Cuvie]] is far from a bad pilot, early on in ''Hakai-hen'' the Scopedog is a fairly unimpressive unit with only three attacks, all with either extremely limited ammo or unable to be used post-movement. After a while however, you can use the [[MoreDakka Red Shoulder Custom]] which provides you with ''lots'' of new attacks even if a few don't have much ammo with the only downside being a drop in movement and mobility; which a few parts can quickly balance out. During the end of the Woodoo arc finale, Chirico upgrades ''again'' to the Turbo Custom, which sacrifices some of the more ammo-scarce weapons for even better stats. And then ''that'' mode gets weapons put ''back on it'' for the Last Red Shoulder mission... and if you fulfilled the requirements, afterwards Chirico gets the [[SerialEscalation Scopedog ISS]].
* MarathonLevel: Quite a few, but especially Scenario 50, which is rather long on its own but after you beat it, you get a long exposition sequence and then thrust into battle again facing [[Anime/MobileSuitGundamX The Frost Brothers]] and Gym. The final scenario also counts since it's a three-parter and ends with you fighting the BigBad doubling as ThatOneBoss.
** Here's a breakdown of that scenario: Part 1) Fight [[spoiler: Edel Bernel]], who comes with a powerful mecha with about 200,000 HP and an army of {{mook}}s; Part 2) Get Renton to a certain square while fighting against 50 squads of [[EurekaSeven Coralians]], all having shockingly high accuracy (in Setsuko's route, this must be done within 5 turns); Part 3) Fight the BigBad. In Setsuko's route, he comes with 600,000 HP and a small army of {{mook}}s. If all mooks are destroyed, new ones are spawned; fortunately, the way around this is to destroy all but one. In Rand's route, he summons ''two more copies of himself''. However, they have 300,000 HP; unfortunately, each have small HP Regen and a max Potential pilot skill (the lower the HP, the higher the stats). Not to mention they must be destroyed ''in the same turn'', so it might take a while. Thankfully, between parts 1 and 2, the heroes get a refill of HP, EN and SP
** In ''Hakai-hen'', one scenario recreates [[Anime/MobileSuitGundam00 Gundam 00]]'s finale (along with some Gundam Wing and Code Geass thrown in): you must face off against an army of [[Anime/MobileSuitGundam00 GN-Xs]], [[Anime/MobileSuitGundamWing Tauruses]], and the commanders of every major faction in the world. At a certain point, the [[Anime/MobileSuitGundam00 Ptolemaios]] gets dragged off to a second map along with the Celestial Being Gundams to face off against another army of grunts, with [[Anime/MobileSuitGundam00 Ali-Al-Saachez and Alejandro Corner]] along for the ride (the rest of ZEXIS shows up later). After that, you get brought off to a ''third'' map which comprises of Setsuna in the Exia against Alejandro's Alvatorre.
* MayDecemberRomance: Little to no mention is made of Rand (who is in his late twenties (27)) romancing Mel, who is [[spoiler:16, yet looks]] 12. To his credit, Rand lampshades how this looks to others and outright says it to Mel.
* MidseasonUpgrade: One of the ''very'' few [=SRWs=] that even partially averts this for its heroes. Both protagonists get an upgrade halfway through the game, but Rand's Gunleon gets a couple of new attacks and a regeneration skill, while Setsuko's Virgora gets [[MechaExpansionPack a new gun and a set of wings]], capping off a chain of gradual upgrades that starts midway through the game's first act.
** [[spoiler: Played almost straight with Crowe in Saisei-Hen: his upgraded mech is called the Li-Brasta. The catch is that you decide whether the Li-Brasta is a close-combat [[SuperRobotGenre Super Robot]] or a long-range [[RealRobotGenre Real Robot]].]]
* MightyGlacier: Baldios and Daitarn 3 by virtue of being size LL, but the Big O's a better example due to its nigh-impenetrable defense and varied, strong arsenal which gets expanded as you progress through the game. Rand's Gunleon also counts, something which you may not notice at first, [[OhCrap until you have to fight him for a few turns]] using [[Anime/MobileSuitGundamX Witz and Roybea]] and experience first-hand how hard its defenses are.
* MoreDakka: ''Z's'' new "Tri-Battle System" allows for an entire squad to unleash a volley of dakka that makes anything you could do with the earlier games' squad systems look dated and underwhelming.
** More traditionally, various units such as the Orguss have a "fire all weapons" attack.
* MultipleEndings: One of the game's more deviously-hidden GuideDangIt elements that manages through its own hidden point system. Should you fulfill certain conditions, you can choose to [[spoiler:give up your memories and live in [[Anime/TheBigO Paradigm City]] until the [[Anime/TurnAGundam Black History]] takes place, [[BadEnding ending all of civilization]]]]) Additionally, depending on which protagonist you choose, around half of the game is unique to that protagonist.
** Then there's ''Hakai-Hen'', which is almost made up of nothing ''but'' route splits.
* NamesTheSame: [[spoiler: One has to wonder how they're going to explain the difference between [[OvermanKingGainer Overmen]] and [[ArmoredTrooperVOTOMS Overmen]]]].
** And then, theres the [[Anime/CodeGeass Black Knights]] and the [[{{Dancougar}} Black Knight]].
** [[Anime/CodeGeass "Guren"]] and [[GurrenLagann "Gurren"]] are similar enough that Kallen and Kamina fight over the naming rights when they first meet.
* NeverTheSelvesShallMeet: In a non-time travel variation, ''Z'' explains that multiple copies of the same person cannot exist in the same universe, in order to justify why the original ''MazingerZ'', ''GetterRobo'', and ''EurekaSeven'' don't show up in ''Hakai-hen''. Some fans believe ''[[{{Grendizer}} UFO Robo Grendizer]]'' was not in Hakai-hen due to a possibility of Go Nagai's ''Battle of The Flying Saucers'' being in ''Sasei-hen''. However, once it was announced, Banpresto apparently forgot all about Grendizer.
* NobuyukiHiyama: Who voices the Vegan grunts. Reportedly, several others wanted to do the role but, when they were told he was doing the role, they gave up and said something along the lines of [[OvershadowedByAwesome "we can't compete with that!"]].
* NoIndoorVoice: In Z2 Harry Ord has his famous UNIVEEEEEEEEEEEEEERSE scream in his Voice Clips and last voice clip is "Did you say Dianna-sama's butt? CURSE YOU!!!"
* NonStandardGameOver: In ''Z'', losing Scenario 44 ([[SpaceWarriorBaldios failing to stop the Artificial Sun]] or [[{{Gravion}} losing the Gravion]]) results in a very special play on the DownerEnding from SpaceWarriorBaldios, where the massive tsunami occurs, with the words "Game Over" instead of the "END" kanji from the original ending.
** {{Godmars}} in ''Hakai-hen'': having Godmars being destroyed and Takeru dying will trigger the bomb from the series that would only be activated with his death. [[TemptingFate How powerful is it]]? Enough to, [[OhCrap after showing you a shot of a dead Takeru's face]], [[EarthShatteringKaboom DESTROY THE WHOLE WORLD]], with a return of the familiar "Game Over" from ''Z's'' non-standard one.
* NotHisSled: [[spoiler: The [[Anime/TurnAGundam Black History]] is actually a BadFuture [[NiceJobBreakingItHero brought about by ZEUTH]], rather than the distant past/{{Gundam}} MegaCrossover that the original series is so well-known for]].
* ObfuscatingStupidity: Rand; [[OvermanKingGainer Sara Kodama]] even comments early on that she can't tell if the man's an outright idiot or a freakin' genius. One of his many moments of this is how he got himself out of trouble in the beginning of the [[OvermanKingGainer Exodus]]. Another -and arguably the best- of his moments is [[spoiler: when he makes it clear to Löwen that he always knew what he was doing behind his back and that he wasn't fooling anyone after appearing to be his buddy for quite some time. Also counts as one his many CrowningMomentOfAwesome scenes.]]
* OnlySaneMan: Crowe Broost, Lockon Stratos, Aoyama Keiichirou and Duo Maxwell. Being the jokers of the group who can find time to joke during free-time unlike the rest who are either TheStoic, way too serious or apparently busy doing something else.
* OhCrap: So you've pumped up Rand and his [[MightyGlacier Gunleon]] and having the time of your life tanking everything thrown your way and walking ([[ImprobableWeaponUser or rather, wrenching]]) over legions of {{Mooks}}? Let's see how you feel now when you're pitted against him (with the same stats, skills and upgrades you gave him, no less) using only Witts, Roabia, [[Anime/MobileSuitGundamX Carris and the Freeden]] un-upgraded and under an instant game-over condition if one of them dies. Still, it lasts a few turns, but this doesn't make it any less horrifying for the player.
** Better still: if you're doing the NewGamePlus and pimped the hell out of the protagonist's stats and mech (maybe equipping some Haros while doing so), it's entirely possible that you've made something completely unbeatable. However, there's a trick if this happens: [[spoiler:the protagonist will ALWAYS move first on the enemy's turn. Taking this into consideration, move everyone that doesn't have the Flash/Alert or Invincible Spirit Commands into the [[Anime/MobileSuitGundamX Freedan]] and cast these two commands every turn]].
* TheOtherDarrin: A notable case with a few of the debut series: both Orguss' Olson and Baldios' Flick (two roles originally done by the late HirotakaSuzuoki) are done here by KenyuuHoriuchi and KeijiFujiwara, respectively; Fujiwara also did Godsigma's Gagan due to death of Mikio Terashima. Likewise, TakumiYamazaki and TomokazuSeki take over the roles of Marin and Toshiya for the late KanetoShiozawa and KeiTomiyama. Averted in the case of Bright and Banjou (two other Suzuoki roles) as ''Z'' uses old audio clips from previous games.
* OriginalGeneration: Rand, Setsuko, Mel, Denzel, Toby, Asakim, Xine, and the Chimera Corps.
** For the {{mecha}}, the Gunleon, Virgora, Shurouga, Eliphas, and the Chaos machines. The ''Z Special Disk'' also contains an original [[OvermanKingGainer Overman]] called the ''XAN''
* OverratedAndUnderleveled: A variation, though not exactly a straight example, either: Char is, statistically, one of the best pilots in the game but he never gets his own top-of-the-line mobile suit, relegating him to the so-so [[Anime/MobileSuitZetaGundam Hyaku Shiki]], which has nothing on the more powerful units later in the game (unless you do what many players do and put him in the Anime/TurnAGundam.
** Another example: Kira and the [[Anime/MobileSuitGundamSEEDDestiny Strike Freedom]]. Unless you were deliberately saving money on Rand's route to upgrade the Freedom in the 2 or 3 scenarios he's with you, by the time you get the Strike Freedom (at around scenario 50 or so), it will have a paltry 3 bars of upgrades and your squads are likely filled up with specifically designated leaders. Comes with ''some'' bonus Pilot Points, though.
* ObviouslyEvil: Just take a look at Asakim and any one of his attacks and tell us he isn't evil. For starters, the man's completely clad in black, his mech looks very "evil", his attacks are sadistic and his comments similarly so. Makes you wonder how ''anyone'' trusted this guy in the first place. Even though he only acts so for the sake of gaining freedom from being a Cursed Wanderer and finally dying.
* PaintingTheFourthWall: In ''Z2'', [[Anime/MobileSuitGundamWing Deathscythe]] and its MidSeasonUpgrade have attacks that makes use of their stealth jammers, which cause the screen to flicker and static-up for the duration of the attack.
** At the setup menu immediately after [[spoiler:Kamina dies]] and in [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VrQaHJ74doQ Scenario 33 until he gets motivated enough]], Simon's character portrait shows him absolutely ''[[DespairEventHorizon dejected]]''.
* PatrickStewartSpeech: Pretty much all of the cast give these.
* PluckyComicRelief: Crowe, Lockon, Duo, and Aoyama. When they group up they start telling bad jokes, or even when they're alone (such as in the Chapter 7 intermission before battle, while at the Ashford Academy Duo laughs at Kallen for acting a weak little milady). Aoyama during battles when Dai-Guard gets hit asks Ibuki if she would like to gamble with him about will the next attack hit or miss. Lockon hangs out with Crowe and laugh at each other's dry humour jokes. In Chapter 48 Daybreak's Bell in the intermission before battle when Setsuna comes to use the long-distance contacting device Crowe asks is he going to send a message to his girlfriend to which Setsuna responds with the usual TheStoic stare, which makes Crowe ask is it to his boyfriend then and he gets a TheStoic glare as answer instead, making Lockon note how Crowe's bad jokes don't work on Setsuna, to which Crowe states "They don't work on Chirico, Zero, Heero, Trowa, Wufei and Toudou either."
* PostScriptSeason: MazingerZ, GreatMazinger, and {{Xabungle}} in the first ''Z''. All series returning from the first Z in ''Hakai-hen'' are as well, along with {{Dancougar}} and Trider G7.
* PowerupLetdown: Alright, so you've waited forever and toughed through the early missions using the [[Anime/AfterWarGundamX Gundam X Divider]], wondering when you'll get to hear Garrod's "[[{{BFG}} Satellite Cannon]]...HASSHA!" and when you finally get it, reality strikes hard: basically, the weapon's AwesomeButImpractical, since it requires a full 3-4 turns before it's able to fire once...and ONLY ONCE, until another 3-4 turn recharge. To make it worse, it only functions in stages where the moon is visible through a line-of-sight, meaning you can't use it indoors or in many other stages. The G-Falcon reduces the recharge rate by one turn, which helps things out.
** Another example (albeit nearly not as severe) is Renton and the [[EurekaSeven Nirvash Spec3]]: although its stats are much better and its attacks pack a bigger punch, the main reason anyone used the Nirvash Spec2 was its Seven Swell MAP attack, which it loses eventually, making it less useful against hordes of mooks you're up against.
** [[GundamWing Deathscythe Hell]]'s Hyper Jammer attack loses the Accuracy Down effect of the original Deathscythe's Hyper Jammer, making it stronger but less useful overall.
* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: [[spoiler: Elgan Laudic, former Secretary General of the United Nations, is over 200 years old. He is really the Z2 universe's version of The Edel. Unlike his Z1 counterpart, upon learning about the Black Knowledge, he did not go insane and actually took steps to prevent calamity from occuring, such as supporting Celestial Being and Dragon's Hive under the codename "Portman".]]
* {{Retraux}}, DoingItForTheArt: Older {{Super Robot}}s such as Baldios, GodSigma and {{Getter Robo}} get some very awesome retro-looking animations in their finisher attacks, complete with choppy animation and trippy retro "laser backgrounds" and pastel-frame explosions! This is a first for the franchise and was a great moment for fans who weren't very excited about ''Z'' initially and also demonstrates the degree of love the designers have for the older shows, preserving them in all their glory.
** This trend is continued in ''Hakai-hen'' with Godmars, notorious for its lack of animation during fight scenes. Its finisher reflects that perfectly.
* {{Retcon}}: ''Z'' completely writes out CharsCounterattack in favor of keeping Char in line with his ZetaGundam incarnation. Still, it's pretty odd since CharsCounterattack is only in ''Z'' to give Amuro the Re-GZ and eventual Nu Gundam, while Char gets stuck with his Hyaku Shiki and doesn't get the CharsCounterattack Sazabi. Nevertheless, the moment where he and Amuro learn about this possible future and Char heartfully declaring to stop it from happening was [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming heartwarming indeed]].
** Also, one of the things ''Z'' is known for is that it handles SEED Destiny's plot in a way that is actually believable and MUCH more enjoyable to watch.
* RunningGag: Rand being called "[[RedBaron The Crusher]]" by others. Lampshaded by him repeatedly and eventually, [[GenreSavvy he gets tired of trying to object]] and early on, he even points out that someone was doing it just to piss him off.
** Also, whenever Rand does his "Heat Smile", everyone will make the same comment towards it, including [[Anime/TheBigO Dorothy, Alan Gabriel and Alex Rosewater (!)]], [[Anime/TurnAGundam Dianna Soreil and Harry Ord]], [[OvermanKingGainer Over-frozen Cynthia]] (!), the various Universal Century and SEED pilots, enemy generals and even the [[GenesisOfAquarion Shadow Angels]], the Hyakki and alien forces. For those unfamiliar with the whole thing, Rand's a rather large "CoolOldGuy" who has a rather intimidating "special service smile" called the "Heat Smile". Those who see it always, ''always'' comment on it being "stuffy" or "atsukurushii" in Japanese either loudly or to themselves even in the middle of dire, life-or-death situations.
** Kamina's tendency to come into conflict with everyone he meets as his way of making friends. He does this to Ryouma, [[Anime/CodeGeass Zero]] and Sheryl. It's always a CrowningMomentOfFunny.
* SequelHook: Plenty all over the place, from throwaway comments along the lines of "our battle has just begun" to unresolved plot threads (e.g. the Holy War, since we never see the remaining Sphere holders or the EldritchAbomination)
** Some of the explicit hooks include Kouji watching the Black History recording and talking about seeing a [[ShinMazinger "Mazinger-like" machine he doesn't recognize]], Ryouma getting shocked after watching the same recording and asking "Is that machine with the fearsome movements a Getter?!" (really, the Shin Getter), with his remarks in the final scenario about sensing the presence of another version of himself that [[FutureMeScaresMe flat-out scares him]] (none other than fan-favorite [[CrazyAwesome "Batshit]] [[SlasherSmile Ryouma"]] from Getter Robo Armageddon and the Getter Robo manga) and finally, Banjou deciding to leave for Mars and talk about "his true battle just beginning")
** In ''Saisei-Hen'', the [[spoiler:[[TengenToppaGurrenLagann Anti Spiral]]]] says he'll be back one day.
** When it comes to following up on ''ShinMazinger'', however, the storywriters may or may not have written themselves into a corner in this regard..
* ShipperOnDeck: The whole of ZEXIS takes sides over ''MacrossFrontier'''s LoveTriangle.
* ShoutOut: "[[strike:[[MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha Starlight Breaker]]]] The Glory Star! FULL BURST!!".
** Similarly to in the series itself - in ''Hakai-hen'', [[GurrenLagann Kamina]] references [[{{Gunbuster}} the Super Inazuma Kick]] with one of Gurren Lagann's attacks. [[spoiler: Even after he dies, Simon references it when he attacks with the same technique]].
*** Simon randomly calls out "Ittou Ryodan!" (roughly translates to "I'll cleave you in two!") when he slashes an opponent with his sunglasses. [[SuperRobotWarsOriginalGeneration Sanger and Wodan]] would be proud.
*** Sandman says 「貴様達に名乗る名前などない!」Kisamatachi ni nanoru namae nado nai! "I have no name to give to the likes of you!"/"Scum like you doesn't deserve to know my name" like a certain heroic character from MachineRobo as he beats up PMC soldiers who tried to take Eida and her Manager in.
* ShutUpHannibal: As per usual, the best one's when you confront the BigBad of Zambot 3, Computer Doll # 8 aka Gaizock. The malevolent AI will rant about how it's decision to destroy humanity is a perfectly logical one, that HumansAreBastards who do nothing but evil things to each other and no one on Earth really cares about the heroes and their effrots to save the world. Our heroes tell it that no way are they going to let an [[AIIsACrapshoot emotionless computer determine their fate]] and vow to prove that ''it'' is the true evil for spreading strife across the galaxy. ZEUTH proceeds to blow Gaizock and it's [[EliteMooks Death Knights]] to kingdom come
** Which results in a rather unnerving sequence where, even as it's getting blasted to bits, it continues to repeat its statements over and over, telling Kappei his battle is empty and meaningless. Hell, the whole Gaizock sequence is the stuff of nightmares starting from what it did to Kappei when it basically turned him into what a boy his age would be in such a situation, leading to him crying and begging to be saved [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome before he snaps at the insane AI and tells it to shove it, all the while speaking through his tears and declaring that even as a scared little boy, he won't forgive its existence]].
** Ultimately and shockingly subverted in the final battle, where the various members of ZEUTH try to do this to [[spoiler:The Edel Bernal]], only to have him reply with lines such as "Why is it wrong?", shocking the heroes to no end and makes them realize he's [[AxCrazy too far gone]] to listen to reason.
* SlidingScaleOfSillinessVersusSeriousness: At one end, Rand's route includes the {{Xabungle}} and OvermanKingGainer teams; at the other, Setsuko. Ever wanted to see what kind of ''social'' and physical damage a 50-meter mecha leaves in its path? That's why there's Zambot 3.
** That's not to say that Rand's route [[GrowingTheBeard is all laughs and giggles]] either, but Setsuko's route just keeps the DarkerAndEdgier coming.
** SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism: Again, Rand's story more or less gets all the breaks; in Setsuko's, you have to ''[[EarnYourHappyEnding work]]'' just to get a few happy notes in an otherwise depressing series of events.
** Hakai Hen is also rather cynical, since all of the storylines take place during the first season of a two part series where good people died for nothing and the situation was pretty bad all around. But like Crowe being powered by misfortune and fortune, Rebirth Chapter is much more optimistic.
* SparedByTheAdaptation: [[spoiler: Euphie, Shirley, Rolo, and Lelouch himself from ''Anime/CodeGeass'']] in "Saisei-Hen", provided you pick the right route. Also [[spoiler:Anew Returner from ''{{Gundam 00}}'' and Lorelei from ''Anime/ShinMazinger'']] as secrets.
** [[spoiler:[[Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann Nia Teppelin]] as well, at least for now. At least going by the SequelHook, the Anti-Spirals are still around.]]
* SpiritualSuccessor: To the ''SuperRobotWarsAlpha'' series, ''Alpha Gaiden'' in particular.
* TheStrategist: In order to represent his tactical prowess, Lelouch gets a unique pilot skill, "Command", that allows him to give up his turn in order to beef up an ally's attack or defense or help them in taking down a boss. This makes up for him not being that great of a pilot, statistically speaking.
* StylisticSuck: In mecha form: Beck the Great RX-3 is a ''horrible'' machine, but the sheer camp of using its one and only move makes it still awesome
* ThemeMusicPowerUp: In [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y47snC3G6Iw Scenario 18-A]] of the third route split in ''Hakai-hen'', which takes place during a concert in the Macross Frontier storyline: Sheryl's song "Iteza Go Go Kuji Don't Be Late" pumps up the heroes so much that they all instantly shoot to 130 Will. After defeating the initial enemies, [[ShinMazinger Baron Ashura]] arrives with some [[MechaMooks Kikai]][[MonsterOfTheWeek juu]]; this causes Ranka to take the stage and sing her song "What 'Bout My Star?", which pumps Simon and Kamina up even further, to the point that Kamina debuts Gurren Lagann's famous Giga Drill Break[[SpellMyNameWithAnS (er)]], nearly obliterating the Kikaijuu Taros D-7 with it.
* TalkingToYourself: Amuro and Ribbons hang out together in Saisei Hen. There is also Fujiwara Shinobu and F.S.
* [[ThoseTwoBadGuys Those Three Bad Guys]]: [[CombatMechaXabungle Timp]], [[TheBigO Beck]], and [[ArmouredTrooperVOTOMS Kan Yu]] like to show up together in ''Saisei-hen''.
* ToCreateAPlaygroundForEvil: The Edel Bernal doesn't really have a plan other than to turn the world into the most chaotic and war-ridden place he can to be his personal playground.
* TookALevelInBadass: Mazinger Z's Koushiryoku Beam is usually the weakest attack it has. However, in Z2, it ''surpasses'' [[ChestBlaster Breast Fire]] in damage potential, making it one of Mazinger's most powerful attacks. Why? Because that's what Shin Mazinger Impact strongly suggests.
* TrueCompanions: ''[[{{Deconstruction}} Gleefully]]'' toyed with, but [[OlderThanTheyThink this isn't the first time]]: in ''{{Super Robot Wars 64}}'' [[Anime/MobileSuitGundamWing Chang Wufei]] will leave you if you decide to join the [[Anime/MobileSuitGundamWing OZ Organization]], while ''Destiny'' has you [[EnemyMine ally]] with [[CharsCounterattack Char Aznable's Neo Zeon]] to fight aliens. In ''SuperRobotWarsAdvance'' actual fistfights occured between Domon & [[{{Daimos}} Kazuya Ryuuzaki]] initially. Still, ''Z'' takes it to a whole new level, [[spoiler: with half the heroes split into sides ready to kill each other]].
* VillainTeamUp
** In Z:
*** [[Anime/TurnAGundam Gym Ghingham]], [[Anime/AfterWarGundamX The Frost Brothers]] and [[EurekaSeven Dewey Novak]].
*** The [[{{Grendizer}} Vegan Empire]], the [[{{Zambot 3}} Gaizok]], the [[{{Gravion}} Zeravire]], the [[GodSigma Elda]] and the [[SpaceWarriorBaldios Aldebaron Army]].
*** The [[OvermanKingGainer Siberian Railroad Company]] and the [[CombatMechaXabungle Breakers]].
** In Z2 "Hakai-hen":
*** [[ShinMazinger Dr. Hell]] and the [[GodMars Gishin Empire]].
**** [[GodMars Emperor Zule]] is rather proactive in this regard. He spends a lot of the game trying to gather allies from the other villains, including [[TengenToppaGurrenLagann Lordgenome]], [[DancougarNova Moon Will]] and [[GetterRobo Dr. Saotome]]. When you do actually fight him, he brings along quite a few bosses you've already beaten.
*** The [[ArmoredTrooperVOTOMS Red Shoulder Battalion]] cooperates, most of the time, with the [[Anime/CodeGeass Britannian Army]].
*** [[CombatMechaXabungle Timp Shaloon]] and the [[TengenToppaGurrenLagann Beastmen Kingdom]].
** In Z2 "Saisei-hen":
*** [[Anime/CodeGeass Emperor Charles zi Britannia]] lets [[{{Gundam00}} Ribbons Almark]] do pretty much whatever he wants to the world, since Charles is more concerned with [[spoiler:the Ragnarok Connection.]]
*** [[{{Dancougar}} Emperor Muge Zorbados]] and [[GodMars Emperor Zule]]
*** More than that, most villains in Saisei-hen are working toward the same goal, from various points of view - [[spoiler: the feat of the Final Boss of the Z-series, which kicked Gaiou's ass in the distant past. To explain why this is worrying, Gaiou defeated the Mycanae himself, and is by far the strongest being in Saisei-hen except weaker than Anti-Spiral, since the Anti-Spiral survives Saisei-Hen he might appear again in Z3 as a quite end-game boss.]]
**** [[spoiler: The aforementioned 'Final Boss', known in-universe as the Ba'al, apparently includes the [[GetterRobo the Invaders]] and the [[TengenToppaGurrenLagann Anti-Spirals]].]]
*** Also in Saisei-hen is [[MobileSuitGundam00 Ribbons Almark]] and [[MacrossFrontier Grace O'Conner]], which was foreshadowed in Hakai-hen. In the ZEXIS route, you even fight them as a DualBoss.
* WhatTheHellHero: Given to Kira for his OmniscientMoralityLicense policy of disabling other pilots in battle first, asking questions later...by everyone's favorite CharClone, Harry Ord, no less.
** Another example is [[spoiler:what each side of ZEUTH thought they were doing in the ZEUTH vs ZEUTH battle]].
** In ''Saisei-hen'', [[GundamWing Wu Fei]] delivers an epic WTHH-slash-TheReasonYouSuckSpeech to the [[Anime/CodeGeass Black Knights]] if you follow ''Geass'' canon and have them betray Lelouch. Details under the CrowningMomentOfAwesome header.
* WhamEpisode[=/=]TheReveal: Many from the various franchises such as the nature of the Eldar and the S1 aliens, but the biggest one is the revelation that [[spoiler:the Black History is not just the past, but the possible end of the current multiverse brought about by none other than ZEUTH themselves.]]
** In terms of stages/episodes, scenario 50 is a megaton-wham since it begins as a mission to get back [[Anime/AfterWarGundamX D.O.M.E]], cuts to the above reveal [[ExpositionBreak in a lengthy story sequence]] and then goes on to introduce the [[Anime/TurnAGundam awakening of the Moonlight Butterfly]], complete with its ominous "Black History" BGM.
** [[spoiler:Scenario 49 of ''Hakai-hen'': [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTPWJABzfEY it turns out that those pesky Dimensional Monsters you've been fighting throughout the game]] [[WasOnceAMan were once humans]].]]
*** Although that particular development was foreshadowed to hell and back by [[spoiler: nearly half of Marguerite's lines]].
* WeWillNotUsePhotoshopInTheFuture: [[spoiler:The Chimera Corps splits ZEUTH against other by altering video footage to make it look like Rand's group has joined TheFederation while Setsuko's group works with ZAFT. Neither group suspects these are fake until Orson and Banjo show each group their own video]].
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: The Baldios storyline continues after its..."[[DownerEnding interesting ending]]" in the anime and goes into the movie storyline, suggesting that this was how it was supposed to be all along. This is even noted in Baldios' encyclopedia entry.
** Files uncovered after ''Z'' was hacked include Amuro's voice files for supporting [[Anime/MobileSuitVictoryGundam Usso Evin]] and [[Anime/MobileSuitGundamZZ Judau Ashta]]. Considering the things Terada said in ''Hakai-hen's'' announcement, both were probably considered, but only Victory was implied to be in a future game and ZZ seems to have been dropped due to story issues and Bandai and Sunrise's agenda for it.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: If you choose the ZAFT route at around Scenario 45, which will probably happen since getting the other route requires a GuideDangIt, Haman simply [[LostForever vanishes from the plot after a certain point and that's it]]. [[spoiler:Fortunately this doesn't happen if you manage to take the ZEUTH route, where she's playable]].
* WesternZodiac: It's revealed in ''Saisei-hen'' that the spheres are based on the twelve constellations in the Western Zodiac. So far we've seen Leo (Wounded Lion), Virgo (Sorrowful Maiden), Capricorn (Truthful Goat), Libra (Swaying Scales), Aquarius (Inexhaustible Gourd), and Aries (Lying Black Sheep).
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