Line #52 Film/GSaviour


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2	''G-Saviour'' is a live-action {{Toku}}satsu MadeForTVMovie made as part of the Big Bang Project, celebrating ''Franchise/{{Gundam}}'''s [[MilestoneCelebration 20th anniversary]], along with ''Anime/TurnAGundam'' and a couple of video games such as ''Side Story 0079: Rise from the Ashes''. A {{novelization}}, a [[VideoGame/GSaviour PS2 game]] (which acts as a {{sequel}}), and an audio drama were released to tie-in with the movie's release in Japan.
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4	In Universal Century 223, [[TheFederation the Earth Federation]] collapsed, leaving behind a vacuum of power in its demise. The [[SpaceStation Sides]] that were previously under Federation control became independent, calling themselves "Settlements". Two sides emerge for control over them: [[TheEmpire the Congress of Settlement Nations]] ([[FunWithAcronyms CONSENT]]) which controls Sides 2, 3, 5, 6, and 7 and TheIlluminati which controls Sides 1 and 4.
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6	The movie is centered on Mark Curran (Creator/BrennanElliott), a former CONSENT Mobile Suit pilot who finds himself fighting for the Illuminati when he was framed for the murder of a prison guard by his rival and former supreme commander, Jack Halle (John Lovgren) during a food crisis which has struck most of humanity. In addition, he must protect the only key to ending the crisis; a bioluminescent energy formula powerful enough to sustain plant life and create an agricultural breakthrough.
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8	The titular mobile suit, and pretty much anything related to the movie didn't appear, or was mentioned, in any other ''Gundam'' media [[Anime/GundamBuildFighters until 2013]].
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10	And in case you're wondering, this movie was made in Canada, not in the US.
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13	!!The film provides examples of:
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15	* AttackDrone: MW-Rais are built from the ground-up to be AI-piloted mobile suits. [[spoiler: Two of them kills General Garneaux and Mimi, as the civilian transport they're in (ironically meant to avoid attracting Illuminati forces) are flagged as a hostile by the Rais.]]
16	* {{Animesque}}: The Japanese version is an enforced example. As if the changes in the intro, dialogues, and scenes weren't obvious enough, it even has an AnimeThemeSong (played in the ending credits), "Orb".
17	* AppliedPhlebotinum: The bioluminescence formula.
18	* ArtisticLicensePhysics: The formula is pretty much used as a means to create an artificial sun. Any physics expert can tell you that bioluminescence just doesn't work that way.
19	* BlackDudeDiesFirst: Very narrowly averted with the mobile suit pilot who Mark rescued in the intro. Played straight for the prison guard, who was killed by Jack to frame Mark.
20	* TheCavalry: [[spoiler:The Illuminati's mobile suits arrive to aid Gaea's defenders just in time after Jack has been defeated]].
21	* CurbStompBattle: The [[RedshirtArmy Gaean Freedoms]] ([[Anime/MobileSuitGundamSEED not that one]]) are helpless against the [[{{Mooks}} CONSENT Bugus]] during the FinalBattle, [[spoiler:only winning the battle through Mark's and the Illuminati's help]]. Justified; the Gaean pilots are mostly conscripted civilians using incredibly outdated mobile suits, while CONSENT employs professional soldiers using (comparatively) state-of-the-art suits.
22	* DullSurprise: The movie's acting sometimes crosses this territory.
23	* TheEmpire: CONSENT. Think about an Earth Federation of Zeon.
24	* {{Expy}}: CONSENT is pretty much a [[Anime/MobileSuitZetaGundam Titans]] stand-in (combined with the Principality of Zeon), while the Illuminati is AEUG. On a related note, the Bugus are pretty much Zakus while the Freedoms are [=GMs=] (they ''are'' part of the RGM-series).
25	* FalseFlagOperation: [[spoiler:Mimi pulls this off by hacking Gaea's defense systems and firing them on a CONSENT ship]].
26	* FinalBattle: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZQ9vWgAYJo On Side 8]]. And it's pretty much the ''only'' real Mobile Suit battle in the movie!
27	* {{Frameup}}: Jack kills the prison guard, framing Mark for the murder.
28	* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:Mimi after learning of Garneaux's real motives above]].
29	* IdiotBall: Whoever designed CONSENT's capitol clearly doesn't know that it's a really bad idea to build a research room ''next to a friggin' prison cell''.
30	* TheIlluminati: [[InNameOnly In nothing but their name]]. Here, they're the LaResistance opposing CONSENT.
31	* ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy: None of the CONSENT guards can hit either Mark or Cynthia when they're escaping from the lab. They managed to duck from the line of fire, but it's not like they can't aim below them. This results with Cynthia [[spoiler:using one of the formula vials to blind Jack and the guards, allowing them to escape via the morgue]].
32	* JumpCut: The Japanese version's editing [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5I6di-ocEd8 is guilty of this]].
33	* LooseCanon: Sunrise has said "we don't like to talk about G-Saviour" in the past, and they haven't mentioned it since. However, Gundam doesn't have a strict wall between "canon" and "non-canon," and it hasn't been explicitly contradicted by anything made since, either.
34	* MeaningfulName: Side 8, also known as Gaea. The bioluminescence formula, created by Gaean scientists (namely Cynthia and Rigo) that can be used to sustain plant life and thus, solve the food crisis. As if the naming wasn't obvious enough, the colony even has its own greenhouse.
35	* NoOSHACompliance: The Sturges Air Base's runway is even more unsafe than the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/São_Paulo–Congonhas_Airport Congonhas Airport]].
36	* PragmaticAdaptation: The novelization feels more like a conventional Gundam series than the movie.
37	* PuttingOnTheReich: CONSENT officers, including Jack and Garneaux, wear [[UsefulNotes/NaziGermany Nazi]]-esque, [[UsefulNotes/EastGermany East German]], Federation, ''and'' Zeon-ish uniforms throughout the movie. Some of their medals resemble French military 11th Parachute Brigade badges, too.
38	* RoundTableShot: Used when Mark and Jack has a heated argument during the party.
39	* SchizoTech: ''[[Anime/MobileSuitVictoryGundam Victory]]''-era tech like beam shields co-exist with Mobile Suits that wouldn't look out of place in the [[Anime/MobileSuitGundam One Year War]]. [[AllThereInTheManual Supplemental materials explain this]]: much of mobile suit technology was lost in the wars during Earth Federation's decline, while MS development was hamstrung by bureaucratic red tape.
40	* SpaceStation: The Sides, natch.
41	* StockFootage: Used during the intro as the film cuts and zooms to Earth. Its placement is quiet random, to say the least.
42	* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: [[spoiler:After being defeated by Mark (he only managed to disable Jack's Rai), Jack wasn't seen again after the Illuminati reinforcements arrive]].

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