Line #42 Roleplay/ZeonQuest


1	''Zeon Quest'' is a ''Anime/MobileSuitGundam'' [[AlternateUniverseFic re-imagining of the One Year War]] in the form of a ForumQuest, created and DM'ed by "I Apologized on 4chan" (Or Apologized for short) on the /tg/ board of Website/FourChan, much like its spiritual predecessor ''Roleplay/RubyQuest''.
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3	Most of the quest is centered around Zeon [[AcePilot Ace]] David Lister ([[Series/RedDwarf No relation to a certain smeghead]]) and his unit of equally skilled Zeonic pilots. Lister starts as a simple grunt in the Zeonic invasion of Earth, before rising to become a major figure in the war, changing many events in the UC timeline.
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5	The quest concluded on August 13th, 2011. A full archive of the quest, with only a few missing entries, can be found [[http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive.html?tags=Zeonquest here]].
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8	!!This Quest provides examples of:
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10	* AceCustom:
11	** Davids Nacht Zaku- an upgraded Act Zaku mounting a gouf custom heat rod in one arm, a small beam gun in the other and hidden blades in the feet, as well as additional armor and thrusters and a better power plant. The original '''EL MUERTO GIGANTE''' counts also.
12	** Zolomon also has a number of customized units, mainly adding mounting points for twin heat hawks and other throwable weapons, culminating in the Gyan Eisvogel, a terrifying monstrosity with a pair of forearm mounted beam sabers, a Gundam hammer, and a whole rack of beam javelins.
13	%%* AcePilot: Pretty much every named character who flies a suit.
14	%%* ActionGirl: Jolyne, and also [[spoiler:Elaine]].
15	* AlternateContinuity: The goal was to create one, and it finally happened when [[spoiler:Garma's death was prevented]].
16	%%* AntiVillain: Most of the Federation.
17	* BadassNormal: [[Anime/MobileSuitGundam0080WarInThePocket Bernard Wiseman]] has no Newtype powers, and he only uses a grunt unit. [[spoiler:He's come closer to killing Amuro than even Char has. Bernie has also managed to successfully hijack the Gundam Alex and finish off the Midnight Pixy Death Squad.]]
18	* BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy: Archimedes was a newtype whose spirit now inhabits the Solar Ray.
19	* BFG: Gundam Units 04 and 05, one focusing on a single {{Wave Motion Gun}}, the other choosing {{More Dakka}}.
20	%%* BigDamnHeroes: Ramba Ral seems to specialize in this.
21	%%** [[spoiler:"THIS IS NO RICK DOM BOY, NO RICK DOM!"]]
22	%%** [[spoiler:And later, "THIS IS NO GELGOOG BOY, NO GELGOOG!"]]
23	%%** Of course, [[spoiler:it happens twice in the finale.]]
24	%%*** [[spoiler:"Tell Boss I'm free now."]]
25	%%*** [[spoiler:"I have a going away present from my father to you, Gihren."]]
26	%%* BigScrewedUpFamily: "With all due respect sir, your brother's kind of a dick."
27	* BilingualBonus:
28	** [[spoiler:Nachtmaren - Night Horses]]
29	** Also, '''EL MUERTO GIGANTE!'''
30	%%* BittersweetEnding: On par for the course for anything related to UC Gundam.
31	* ClusterFBomb: David apparently is fond of this trope when drunk.
32	-->"FUCKING REVENGE YOU MOTHERFUCKER."
33	%%* ColonyDrop: The Christmas Special. [[spoiler:Also, Ghiren seems to be interested in the possibility of a second one...]]
34	%%* CoolShip: The Outer Heaven.
35	%%* CyberCyclops: Pretty much every Zeonic mech ever.
36	* EvenTheGuysWantHim: Garma. Or more specifically, Garma's hair.
37	* TheFederation: The antagonists this time around, and the primary enemy [[spoiler:until Ghiren ruins everything.]]
38	%%* GlassCannon: The Death Wasp team specializes with these kinds of suits, and Zeon has Kampfers.
39	* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Lister almost has to do this to save Von Braun. Hovis later does the real thing to save Calvin.]]
40	%%* HumongousMecha: Gundam in general is the reason for this trope's existence.
41	* ImprobablePilotingSkills: Lister didn't know he had a targeting computer. He was kicking too much ass without it.
42	* ItsPersonal: [[spoiler:Lister gives a speech quite like this after Hovis is killed.]]
43	%%* ItsRainingMen: The very first episode features this.
44	%%* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler: [[VideoGame/ModernWarfare Ramirez]], the Black Tri-Stars, and Hovis. And now Zolomon.]]
45	* LetsFightLikeGentlemen: Wyatt, the One-Armed Bandit, more often then not fights his rival Lister mano-e-mano.
46	%%* MeleeATrois: [[spoiler: FUCKING GHIREN]]
47	* MindRape: Being a Newtype against the EXAM System is like being a Japanese schoolgirl in the octopus tank.
48	%%* MilitaryBrat: [[spoiler:Or in Lister's case, terrorism brat]]
49	%%* MidSeasonUpgrade: Lister goes through many of these, the main one being from the [[spoiler:Act-Zaku to the Nacht-Zaku.]]
50	%%* MultiArmedAndDangerous: The Gyan Eisvogel, or more accurately, the Gyan Skullfucker.
51	* NuclearOption: As much as the Antarctica Treaty prohibits it, this seems to be the Nachtmaren unofficial answer to everything. [[spoiler:GODDAMMIT GHIREN WHO WOULD EVEN GIVE YOU ACCESS TO THESE THINGS IN THE FIRST PLACE]]
52	%%* OffTheRails: This is the whole point of the quest, at least in terms of official UC Canon.
53	* OhCrap: Pretty much everyone's reaction to seeing a Gundam. Also, realizing that destroying half of Jaburo caused the Federation to begin mass production of Trojan Horses.
54	* PaperThinDisguise: [[spoiler:Elaine]]'s home colony did not allow women to enlist in the army, so she dons a fake mustache(of dubious quality) and enlists as a man. Although she managed to have her identity go unquestioned through sheer luck, when being interviewed for recruitment by Natcherman, David saw through it immediately.
55	* PuttingOnTheReich: Ghiren and anyone remotely associated with him. Apologized seems to treat the rest of Zeon more like WWI Germany.
56	%%* RealRobot: Obviously, given the source material.
57	* RedBaron: In addition to the well-known Red Comet and White Devil, we have '''EL MUERTO GIGANTE''', and the One-Armed Bandit.
58	%%* SensorSuspense: Apologized loves doing these to make everyone crap themselves.
59	* SuperPrototype:
60	%% The Act-Zaku could be considered one.
61	** Lister also tests a number of different high-end prototypes, although some of these are less powerful than their mass-produced versions.
62	* TankGoodness: Lister has killed so many tanks that it is physically impossible for Apologized to count them all.
63	* TheRival: Bandit. [[spoiler:The Midnight Pixy Death Squad was intended to be this to Nachtmaren, but failed miserably. [[FromBadToWorse Then they got the EXAM system...]]]]
64	* ThrowingYourSwordAlwaysWorks: Throwing your axe always works. If you're Zolomon Ringo, that is. [[spoiler:Except when it doesn't.]]
65	%%* TookALevelInBadass: [[spoiler:Garma is the best example, but Bernie too]]
66	%%** [[spoiler:The Midnight Pixy Death Squad is a slightly less heroic example]]
67	%%* WarIsHell
68	* WarriorHeaven:
69	** [[spoiler:Zolomon's fate after his death: to fight eternally alongside Super Robot greats. Implied to be Lister's eventual fate as well.]]

Context Roleplay / ZeonQuest