Speculation about Super Robot Wars 30.
- Specifically, the Zaloudek Empire, Gastogal, and Britannia will be sending groups to Cephiro during the Rayearth Season Two events to contend for the Pillarship.
- Given that the pre-Resurrection Code Geass material is "units-only," it's pretty unlikely that Britannia will play much of an antagonist role.
- (semi)Alternately, Zetterlund borders Cephiro, so Zaloudek may be allied with Autozam in the invasion(or out for themselves).
- Half confirmed, half jossed. Code Geass and Majestic Prince aren't connected, but Knights & Magic and Rayearth are. Cephiro and Zaloudek are bordering nations in their world, with Zaloudek teaming up with Zagato's forces, and Ernie and the Magic Knights are already well-acquainted with each other before the game starts.
- It's the only way the game can cover the more than 75 years of Universal Century continuity while still having a plot that makes sense.
- Note that if the staff decided to just play out the Victory plot alongside early Universal Century works, this wouldn't the first, or even the second, time.
- According to the Space Route of the Demo, the story takes place after Char's Counterattack, however, there have been cut-ins of Amuro, Char, and Kamille, among other Universal Century characters in the various PVs. What gives?
- Note that if the staff decided to just play out the Victory plot alongside early Universal Century works, this wouldn't the first, or even the second, time.
- It's not just Gundam. There need to be timeskips between GaoGaiGar Final and GaoGaiGar vs. Betterman (Otherwise Mamoru, Ikumi, and all of their childhood buddies will have the most rapid puberty in all of the Humongous Mecha subgenre), the first and second seasons of Magic Knight Rayearth, Knight's & Magic has several timeskips, as does Getter Robo Armageddon, and Combattler V also has two seasons.
- GaoGaiGar Final is units only, so it's plot won't be covered at all. As for the others, Super Robot Wars often takes the Broad Strokes approach to adaptation due to the sheer amount of series that the games needs to represent. Heck, the previous game featured Getter Robo Armageddon and Rayearth without any big timeskip. It also had Mobile Suit Crossbone Gundam appear alongside Zeta, ZZ, and Char's Counterattack without any space-time shenanigans, despite the former canonically taking place nearly as far into the UC timeline's future as Victory.
- With the announcement of Iron Blooded Orphans as part of the second DLC, time travel or dimensional hopping become absolutely imperetive. There's simply no way to reconcile the political state of that property with that of the Universal Century, even during the Victory Gundam era.
- GaoGaiGar Final is units only, so it's plot won't be covered at all. As for the others, Super Robot Wars often takes the Broad Strokes approach to adaptation due to the sheer amount of series that the games needs to represent. Heck, the previous game featured Getter Robo Armageddon and Rayearth without any big timeskip. It also had Mobile Suit Crossbone Gundam appear alongside Zeta, ZZ, and Char's Counterattack without any space-time shenanigans, despite the former canonically taking place nearly as far into the UC timeline's future as Victory.
- Jossed. The shows that can't fit in the same world as each other (Rayearth, Knights & Magic) are the results of dimensional boundary distortions, while the game starts after Char's Counterattack and Unicorn have already happened, with just Narrative and Victory getting their timeframes compressed together.
- Endless Illusion is somewhere in the Pentagona System.
- Half-Jossed, Endless Illusion is still Mars, but the L-Gaim story elements are also on Mars having travelled from Pentagona
- Grandzehle and the Zanscare Empire fit together too perfectly.
- Jossed. Team Rabbits (and presumably Team Doberman) are an Earth Federation/League Millitaire joint project, based on Kycella Zabi's Cyber Newtype and Glemmy Toto and Hamon Kardon's child mech pilot projects. They seem to fight the Zanscare Empire way more often than the Aliens of Jupiter.
- They share a theme of kaijuu, terrorists and criminals riding around in Humongous Mecha and the Everyman pilots forced to fight them in/with experimental prototypes.
- Confirmed for Gridman and J-Decker but jossed for Mazinger Z Infinity.
- Sort of confirmed, he is seen building models, but they're not stated to be Gunplas.
- Jossed.
- Alternatively, they actually died in the attack and they gained new bodies in Cephiro instead of being transported, which could be welded with Knight's & Magic's plot (Kurata's death can also be changed to be related to the Tokyo Tower attack). It could be explained that the Magic Knights and Kurata are all given new life by Princess Emeraude, choosing to resurrect the former but reincarnate the latter as some sort of elaborate Plan B for the potential next Pillar.
- Jossed. The Magic Knights are already in Cephiro, while the plot of Code Geass is part of the backstory.
- Chizuru Nanbara could even admit that she's named after El Dorado Five's token female pilot. She'll also be childhood friends with Chizuru Stephens's granddaughter Yukiko.
- Jossed, the Combattler V pilots were trained by Tetsuya Tsurugi and Ryoma Nagare.
- The El Dora V's Shield Sling attack was (In-Universe) the inspiration for the Electromagnetic Yo-yo.
- Jossed, they were all adapted out.
- One possibility is that Britannia was not a nation with a long history, but an upstart faction that rose up and tried to seize power in the wake of the One Year War weakening the greater Earth government.
- Another possibility is that their conquest of Japan was incomplete, as the first Super Robots were able to beat the early Knightmare Frames back out of their home turf in the initial invasion.
- Confirmed. The events of Geass are glossed over almost entirely and presented as part of a decade of general turmoil in the Earth Sphere.
- Also Confirmed. It's mentioned in the game that Britannia only almost conquered Japan in the backstory rather than take it over completely, thanks in part due to Mazinger Z teaming up with the Black Knights to hold them off.
- The Claw Man and his goons will establish their base in Zilkhstan, considering how both leaders claim that they can turn back time to however wanted and undo everyone’s mistakes. It does not help that both series were made by almost the exact same staff.
- The Claw Man will in fact be revealed to be yet another persona of Emperor Posidal.
- Confirmed with regards to The Claw working with Zilkhstan.
- The 11 Lords of Sol are putting pressure on the Campbellians, and are in an alliance of convenience with the Invaders.
- Since it has been stated that GaoGaiGar Final will be a units only title, there's a good chance the Lords of Sol won't have any sort of major presence and that the resident villains representing GaoGaiGar will be the Haikou Apostles.
- Jossed. Combattler V is post-plot, and GaoGaiGar FINAL happened in the background, so the 11 Lords of Sol are gone for good.
- Lady Debonair is secretly controlling the Zaloudek Empire and Gastogal.
- Alternatively, Lady Debonair have contacts in (or her influence also extends to) the cyberspace, where she had a cooperation with Alexis Kerib, which might allow Akane's negative emotion-empowered Kaiju to cross over the cyberspace to the real world or Cephiro, in exchange that she gets to feed some of Akane's negative emotions. And if the half-joke in an interview by Tetsu Inada ends up being made canon in 30-verse, somehow, then it can be implied that Over Justice met Lady Debonair in his wandering of the multiverse and was corrupted into Alexis Kerib by her.
- Doctor Hell is secretly supplying the villains of SSSS.GRIDMAN and Brave Police J-Decker.
- The circumstances regarding Gridman's setting makes this a little difficult. Akane only needs Alexis Kerib's help to make kaiju whenever she wants, and Alexis can re-summon those monsters as much as he wants. More concerning is that the entire show barring the last few seconds is set in cyberspace, so sending traditional monsters there will be difficult.
- During a recent demo, Gridman was fighting alongside the likes of Van, Hikaru and company, and the Ra Callium against Baron Ashura and a bunch of Mechanical Beasts. The setting of the scenario seemed to be some sort of desert terrain.
- Jossed. All three of these factions are working independently of each other, at best being temporary allies of convenience. Though Excellent Inc does have collaborate with BioNet.
- The circumstances regarding Gridman's setting makes this a little difficult. Akane only needs Alexis Kerib's help to make kaiju whenever she wants, and Alexis can re-summon those monsters as much as he wants. More concerning is that the entire show barring the last few seconds is set in cyberspace, so sending traditional monsters there will be difficult.
- Paptimus Scirocco is in cahoots with the Aliens of Jupiter.
- Jossed. The game takes place well past the Gryps conflict, so Scirocco is dead.
- The Haikou Apostles came to Earth, like the Invaders, to destroy humanity in order to stop the proliferation of the use of Getter Rays and prevent the creation of the Getter Emperor. To this end, they've allied with the Invaders.
- Jossed. The two factions do appear often on the same stages, but Triple Zero has no interest in the Invaders since they aren't intelligent life, while the Invaders are only interested in feasting on all the Getter Rays they can find, leading them to ignore each other. The Silverion Crusher does briefly cause the Invaders to target King J-Der out of pure fight-or-flight instinct.
- They're also a major contributor to the Gutsy Geoid/Galactic Guard.
- Jossed, it was Gutsy Global Guard.
- There is one big wrinkle with the inclusion of SSSS.GRIDMAN in SRW 30. The entire setting takes place in a virtual world. Including it is going to require one of two things to happen. Either for the development of technology that allows for Gridman and the assist weapons to leave the virtual domain, or for the entire SRW 30 setting to be virtual as well. Which may explain the multiple Universal Century representatives from varying eras in one game.
- Another possibility is that they won't include the virtual world detail at all. It isn't exactly uncommon for SRW games to significantly change a series' plot and big reveals (Alien Master Asia and all that) or to simply ignore most of a series' plot entirely (such as what happened in most of Daitarn's appearances).
- I have thought of a few ways this can be achieved. They should allow the game to keep the themes of SSSS.GRIDMAN and the Character Development for Akane mostly intact, even if the plot need some changes.
- Option 1: The setting of Gridman will be a regular part of our world, but Akane, Alexis, Gridman and the others came from another dimension. This will tie with the ending of Mazinger Z: Infinity, which confirms the existence of a multiverse. In this version of events, Dr. Hell met Alexis Kerib while studying the multiverse, and the two formed an alliance. Alexis then convinced Akane to come with him by promising her she can remake this new world into her ideal place, like the digital world in their show.
- Option 2: The setting of Gridman will be an area that was separated from the rest of the world by a mysterious barrier that doesn't allow anyone to enter or get out. Think of Tokyo Jupiter from RahXephon. After the first battle there, some "mysterious force" drags the main cast out, and so they join the heroes to find out what exactly happened to their city.
- Option 3: A combination of the two options above. They are not exactly mutually exclusive.
- With the Demo out, we know a little more since Gridman appears on the earth route. The Dreistreger enters the city after recieving a mysterious communication from their computer to arrive at a set of unknown co-ordinates. Then a strange mist envelops the ship and takes them to Akane's city. Once the mission ends, the ship recruits the Gridman alliance, buys Junk, and they leave through a similar mist. With Junk in tow, they will likely be able to summon Gridman as needed. Though what this means exactly remains to be seen.
- The manual for Mazinkaiser Infinitism states it was built by Kouji Kabuto and Maria Fleed using Photon Institute and Fleed tech to combat the Vega Empire who will invade Earth. If 30 follows this version of Kaiser's origin, we may potentially have Grendizer involved.
- Jossed. Grendizer is nowhere to be found among all the DLC units.
- Shortly before the full PV for 30 was revealed, numerous series were being tagged on Bandai Channel with the 30 mini PV. It was found that the official series roster matched up with the first few series tagged with the PV. After a few days, over 100 series were tagged with PV.
- With the amount of series tagged, playable scenario order becoming selectable, side scenarios and confirmation that there will be 18 units and 26 additional scenarios added via DLC; the other series tagged with the PV may be added over time.
- Two series have been confirmed for DLC 1: Voltes V and Sakura Wars with Ichiro Ogami, Sakura Shinguji, Erica Fontaine, Shinjiro Taiga and Gemini Sunrise acting as representatives.
- Technically speaking, the Unicorn wasn't disassembled.
- Jossed by Word of God.
- Considering it's almost gonna be a given that Axis is gonna get dropped at some point, he'll probably see Ernesti as a reference after diverting the Vyer ship and do the same thing. Or it could be the other way around as well.
- Jossed, CCA is post-series.
- If ZZ, CCA or NT are covered/given more focus than Zeta, then part of the backstory will be that AEUG and the Black Knights were allies against the combined forces of The Titans and Brittania, and that Zeta’s ending was partially caused by/mixed with the rise of “Demon Emperor” Lelouch. In-turn, his death caused an Evil Power Vacuum that Neo-Zeon (probably a mix of all three incarnations) as well as other potential players like Zilkhstan, Titan Remnants, the Zanscare Empire, and a resurgent Dr. Hell, are taking advantage of, forcing the Black Knights and Remnants of AEUG/Londo Bell to take action to protect the fragile, newly-formed UFN.
- Additionally, the above-mentioned possibility of a Time Skip, as well as Code Geass III’s “units only” status implies that it might start out with the immediate aftermath of the Zero Requiem with Zeta and ZZ, and post-time skip content will cover Resurrection, CCA and NT.
- Zig-Zagged in that they are related, but not in any of the ways described above. The events of Code Geass, namely the rise and fall of the Britanian Empire happen in the aftermath of Char's Counterattack. The resulting chaos from the Axis Drop allowing Britania to sieze control.
- Since Akane is a Kaiju lover, she will take a liking to Gojass who designed the Vyvern, an airship that is essentially a mecha Kaiju.
- Alternatively she may dislike it for having humanoid mechs attached to it, seeing it as an abomination similar to how Eru views it.
- She will have an intense hatred for Eru and Ryusei given they adore mecha, something that is frequently portrayed as the hero while Kaiju are potrayed as the villain. Eru will share a similar distaste for her Kaiju's especially the mecha Kaiju's given his view that only (Humanoid)Robots are allowed to destroy (Humanoid)Robots.
- All jossed. Akane never appears on the same stage as Gojass. However, she and Ernie already know each other, as both are from the same original world: our world.
- The Getter Robo Zan and its pilots, if they aren't in some DLC.
- Hey, They're in Daikaissen. It looks like the Shin Getter Dragon won't last the whole game if that really is Kei's cut-in in Trailer A.
- Jossed.
- Lisa and/or Sayaka as a subpilot, or Sayaka sortieing in a rebuilt Aphrodite A, Venus A, or Diana A. The Boss Borot sticking around for longer than the movie climax scenario.
- Jossed.
- Four Masamune, Char (Prevent his Canon Death once again), Quess, Chan Agi, Nightingale, Hi-Nu Gundam.
- Hi-Nu Gundam confirmed in DLC 1 PV, however it's probably not a secret.
- Char being a secret is jossed, as he joins as Quattro in the main story.
- Katejina Loos & Chronicle Asher
- Confirmed.
- Banagher Links in the Unicorn Gundam, as stated above.
- Jossed. Banagher isn't a secret character, and joins in the Silver Bullet Suppressor without ever taking off his helmet or showing his face.
- Kagero, The options to deploy Decker and Duke in regular or battle-up versions
- Kagero joins as a secret, while Decker and Duke only have one version.
- Renee Shishioh either on foot or in a new mech all her own, (with the GaoFighGar passed on to Hana), or as a sub-pilot in the King J-Der.
- Jossed. She's not a secret, and she pilots GaoFighGar or serves as a subpilot of Final GaoGaiGar.
- Michael Garret & Fasalina in Saudade of Sunday & Dahlia of Wednesday, respectively. They used to be unlockable in K, but somehow was rendered not so in T. 30 can be the time Bandai Namco rectify that.
- Confirmed.
- Yukiko or some crossover character piloting the (rebuilt) Pink Amigo, allowing El Dora Soul to fight at full power without losing the ability to separate.
- Jossed.
- Second Victory, the "prototype" of the Victory 2 Gundam.
- Jossed. You do get a second V2 Gundam, but it's not a secret.
- C's World or the Collective Unconscious tend to take the form of Jupiter, and considering how important Jupiter will no doubt be in 30, it'd be prime real-estate for the series' typical brand of Arc Welding. Perhaps the ancient civilization responsible for the Thought Elevators somehow managed harness THE POWER and used it to empower themselves, manifesting as Geass and Code Bearers. However, their civilization wound up ultimately collapsing due to the unstable and corrupting nature of Jupiter's energy and their reliance of it.
- Jossed, Triple Zero is its own thing.
- The Huckebein 30 has yellow caution tape and red paneling on its body, similar to the Exbein Ashe
- Jossed.
- Given Ryoma’s line to Amuro in the trailer and the series involved, there will likely be a situation similar to T, where the Mazinger and the Getter Teams were involved in the War as part of the White Base Crew.
- Confirmed. Ryoma and Koji do know Amuro from that conflict.
- Given the use of King Of Kings Gao Gai Gar Vs Betterman, and specifically the Time Skip between it and regular GaoGaiGar, it’s likely that the GGG were also involved in the war.
- This might give a Strawman Has a Point argument to the Titans and make the Grypps Conflict much grayer. The One Year War and the War in the Pocket were each distractions humanity could have ill afforded while the threats the Zonders and then the Eleven Lords of Sol represented were going unchecked.
- Confirmed, they occured very early in the ten years of conflicts started by the One-Year War.
- The Holy Britanian Empire sided with Zeon, making the war closer and bloodier, as well as making its overthrow by the Earth Federation, which is usually loathe to interfere internally with its constituent states on the ground in an official capacity aside from the citizen deportations to orbital colonies that cause the tensions that define the setting, politically expedient and palatable.
- The events of Zero Requiem catalyzed the formation of the Titans as a military faction in the Earth Federation military.
- Jossed, the events of Code Geass occured as a result of Char's Counterattack, with Britannia taking advantage of the power vacuum to take over Earth until its dismantling by Lelouch and his subsequent "assassination".
- Zig-Zagged. The setting occurs on one Earth, with the fantasy setting Cephiro being merged with the Fremmevilla Kingdom as an alternate reality but one distinctly connected to that Earth. But Ernie reincarnated from his own seperate Earth, one without giant robots, and it's implied that Akane Shinjo is also from that world.
- Jossed, as Ryusei and Masaki are from their Alpha appearances instead of Original Generations. However, this might not stop the voice acting jokes altogether.
- The Grungust with Super Robot Wars 4 Irm as its pilot has been confirmed to be a free DLC unit.
- Alternatively, Shigeru Akumatsu is a huge fan of the Mazingers and added grills to his Neuronoids as a tribute.
- Their main Big Bad (Lady Debonair and Alexis Kerib) thrive on negative emotions
- Cephiro and the setting of Gridman, actually the cyberspace, are enough to count as 'another world' that the storywriter might just put Cephiro within that place.
- Akane's dilemma might draw parallel with the distress of Princess Emeraude, being Godlike being (or in case of Emeraude, someone with the power of God) in extreme emotional turmoil that they're wrecking their world. This might be enough for the Magic Knights to feel drawn in the Gridman Alliance's struggle to save Akane, as in they think saving Akane might count as making up for the murder of Emeraude, by not letting other people in similar position suffer the same fate.
- Hikaru's final decision to eliminate the Pillar System and hand over the power to the people of Cephiro, therefore fixing Cephiro's state can be said to be quite similar to Gridman's Fixer Beam.
- Given that he's a mecha-nerd, much like many SRW players, it's likely that he's going to have his mind blown when meeting the other characters. These people are effectively his heroes, and now he gets to fight alongside them, in a unit he built himself, no less.
- Depends if his world is the same as the other series. At best, however, he can go full fanboy on those who share the same verse with him. For instance... the Rune Gods? Or he could end up channeling Kurata (his previous incarnation) to somehow have an inkling that he might have seen those otherworldly mechas before... and THEN start fanboying.
- Confirmed. Though Erni's Earth is not the same as the one in SRW 30, he still is very much a Genre Savvy mecha fanboy. Picking up that the Dreikreuz crew on the protagonists by how fancy their mechs are, as well as lampshading Mazinger Z as the mech where it all began should he be present for its recruitment. Not only that, but he did indeed go gaga over the Rune Gods.
- Depends if his world is the same as the other series. At best, however, he can go full fanboy on those who share the same verse with him. For instance... the Rune Gods? Or he could end up channeling Kurata (his previous incarnation) to somehow have an inkling that he might have seen those otherworldly mechas before... and THEN start fanboying.
This is also the way the heroes will recognize Ernesti being a reincarnation of Kurata; they will notice their similar programming patterns.
- Jossed, Erni admits that the Earth of 30 is very different from his Earth.
- With the reveal of the Dreistreger, fans have been speculating that it will transform into a Grungust. This is based on the fact that it shares it's color scheme with the Grungust. Also the bow looks similar to the Wing Gust's and has large open vents and a similar turbine like the ones on Grungust's shoulders.
- This is backed up even further by the mechanical designer, Kazutaka Miyatake having worked on Grungust's designs as well as Macross, Gunbuster and Mai-Hime adding to the likelihood it will serve as a Grungust/Macross style ship.
- Jossed.
- This is backed up even further by the mechanical designer, Kazutaka Miyatake having worked on Grungust's designs as well as Macross, Gunbuster and Mai-Hime adding to the likelihood it will serve as a Grungust/Macross style ship.
- Lillith, Primera, and Pricilla will become charter members in a support group of unlucky female suitors. They will be joined by Tamaki.
- There will be instances where people confuse the two Keis.
- Lillith's species is originally from the world of Cephiro, and Primera's species is a close relative.
- When Primera learns about what happened to Lillith's species, she's going to be very angry at human characters from the Pentagona System.
- Mineva Zabi will become good friends with the royalty of the kingdoms of Knight's & Magic.
- Characters from the new franchises will continue the time-honored Super Robot Wars tradition of insulting Kamille's name, with predictable results.
- Yuuta Tomonaga will melt Van's, Ray's and Liane Umbard's hearts, the same way Wataru melted Ange's and Lelouche's hearts in Super Robot Wars X.
- Yuuta is in fact a Newtype.
- The 'Yuuta crossdressing' arc gets adapted, and they even dragged Utsumi and the other Yuuta for it (and the obligatory 'trap' Ernie joining in). But then, to counter that, they need a girl-posing-as-boy counterpart. And that's where the short, boyish-looking Hikaru gets dragged into.
- Confirmed for both Yuutas, bot not the rest. Instead, Daba will be the one joining in.
- The DLC characters from Sakura Wars will have lots of interaction with the Three Magic Knights, especially Hikaru.
- Sakura: Heir to the Dojo
- Erica: Pious practicing Catholic
- Gemini: Animal Themed Mecha with fire element attacks.
- Excellen will keep trying to adopt the likes Uso, both Yuutas, Hikaru, Ernie, and the younger members of Team Rabbits and Tekkadan, and Kyosuke will keep telling her "no."
- The Crew of the Dreistreger, except for Masaki, Kusuha, Brooklyn, and the SRX Team will gasp in shock at the resemblance between Elzam/Ratsel and Char/Quattro.
- Elzam, and possibly Sanger, in turn, will punch Char or at least spit on his face for the events of Char's Counterattack, and possibly even what happened at Elpis, unless it's clearly stated that that last part is unique to Original Generations continuity, despite the fact that it isn't the same Char.
- Sanger, meanwhile, will find parallels between himself and Van, noting the analogous situations between Sophia and Elena, and trying to keep Van from going too far off the deep end.
- Anaheim Electronics will surreptitiously use it in the Zeta Project, and/or Char will find some way to integrate it into the Sazabi and/or Nightningale.
- If Anaheim Electronics is indeed the chief contractor on the Brave Police Project, Yazam technological elements became a part of that project, too.
- Kouji, Sayaka, and Professor Yumi will have unknowingly upgraded the Mazinger Z and Mazinkaiser prototype with Yazam technology.
- Armors and Heavy Metals ultimately come from the same technical base.
- Jossed.
- In-Universe, in both GaoGaiGar and Brave Police J-Decker, there is a policy of minimizing escalation by both the Tokyo Metropolitan Police and GGG, and either group would probably get an earful from Prime Minister Yumi over avoidable collateral damage if Super AI and piloted robots were combined on city streets without sufficient reason from the perceived threat level.
- This could also apply to the component pieces of Getter Robots and Combattler V.
- Jossed.
- This could also apply to the component pieces of Getter Robots and Combattler V.
Though if it happens, it may mean that Dr. Hell would need to find another source to plug into Mazinger Infinity. Well we can try imagining the Mazinkaiser being grafted there instead.
- Jossed.
- Kaido Ken will be the son or grandson of Ikumi and Alouette, While Tsubasa Yuki will be Lisa's little sister or daughter, having taken her (maternal)-paternal (great)grandmother's maiden name, as a Mythology Gag to Shin Mazinger.
- Alternatively, Yuki is the child or grandchild of Mamoru and Hana, under an alias for some reason.
- Jossed, he never brings it up. Though he did imply to Akane that they came from the same world.
- Edge is based off of Akito. It will turn out that people will blame him for deserting in a war (possibly the One Year War or the War in the Pocket) where he was never in any interested faction, let alone an active combatant. He will be a major Chick Magnet, attracting the attention of the likes of Priscilla, Helvi, Rin, Amane, and Olibee, among many others.
- Az is Edge's Distaff Counterpart, a-la Raul and Fiona or Akemi and Akimi. She will be a Dude Magnet, possibly ending up with Ray, if his life can be spared, after the Claw Man is dealt with.
- Mitsuba is based on Yurika, with a bit of Lefina Enfield thrown in to, being a young woman fresh out of officer instruction thrown straight into war in command of a prize warship, who possibly has familial ties with someone higher up the Earth Federation chain of command.
- Reyonald Hardin is based on Nagare Akatsuki. He will be a secret executive or major stockholder/Board Member of Anaheim Electronics with his own personal agenda, which may or may not make him The Quisling.
- Alternatively, he could be based on Sean Webley, choosing to take second banana status on the Drei Strieger because he's planning to retire soon rather than accept a potentially quintennial commission in the idiomatic hot seat.
- Liane Umbard is based on Hoshino Ruri, but being an adult at the time of beginning of the main narritive, will possibly be either a Cyber Newtype or a rejected first generation Prince.
- Lillith
- Primera
- Carmen 99
- Yukiko
- Joshua Lundgren
- Any characters Spared by the Adaptation from Team Doberman
- Any Universal Century character qualified for Mobile Suit combat not permanently assigned one in canon.
- The rest of the SRX team follows Ryusei, they just won't have many, if any at all, speaking lines.
- Double Hell and Heaven (the GaoFighGar with Renee at the control stick and Genesic GaoGaiGar)
- Triple Hell and Heaven (the GaoGaiGo gets in on the action, too.)
- Quadruple Hell and Heaven (with the very special addition of the El Dorado V, as an homage to Super Robot Wars K.
- Double Hammer/Crusher Hell and Heaven
- Silverion Hammer/Crusher With the King J-Der, from Blockaded Numbers.
- All jossed.
- Shine Spark
- Double Getter Beam (Shin Getter and the humanoid form of Shin Dragon firing Getter Beam together)
- Jossed.
- Double Getter Beam (Shin Getter and the humanoid form of Shin Dragon firing Getter Beam together)
- Double Burning Fire
- Triple Burning Fire
- Double Thunder Break
- Double/Triple Rocket Punch
- Double Burning Fire confirmed, all other jossed.
- Final Dynamic Special
- J-Decker Gun Max Cannon Mode
- Fire J-Decker Double Cannon Mode: Dual Wielding Gun Max and Shadowmaru in pistol mode together.
- Build Tiger's Drill Beam attack (Wielding Drill Boy in drill pistol mode rather than going into Super Build Tiger mode)
- Final Justice Cannon (J-Decker, Duke Fire, and Super Build Tiger bracing Gun Max as he fires Shadowmaru in pistol mode at maximum chargeup)
- GUN×SWORD
- Light Spiral, Combined Rayearth
- Final Brave Special
- Super Electromagnetic Spin + Heaven Sword V Slash
- Confirmed
- Jossed.
- Jossed.
- The only real question is whether she's joining the cast in the Angelg or the Vysaga...
- Preemptively jossed, Akane hates robots.
- It could be an explanation on what they are doing inside Shadow Tokyo, they may get stuck into the portal that led to SRW 30-verse. However, with just the five represented, the Imperial Combat Revue is not complete and would have to stick around until they find the rest (which may be a little harder, since there's a chance they got thrown into different SRWs). One thing that's for sure is that it's most likely that Sumire isn't going to be a DLC of anything else, because canon-wise, she stayed behind in their verse.
- Shadow Tokyo is in fact the Virtual World of SSSS.GRIDMAN.
- Jossed, they got here before the Great Kouma War.
- Shadow Tokyo is in fact the Virtual World of SSSS.GRIDMAN.
- Hikaru will drink it and instantly throw up.
- Umi will sip a mouthful, spit it out, and identify all the ingredients to make it, just like Elzam/Ratsel.
- There will be an option of whether or not to give it to Eagle Vision. If taken, he will be Killed Off for Real as a Mythology Gag to the Anime version of the story.
- Van, showing how much he's Made of Iron, will gulp it down in one drink, and declare "That's good!" Or he instead puts it on his food like just another condiment despite Kusuha saying it's meant for a drink, but still has the same reaction afterwards.
- Half-Confirmed, The health drink still knocks him out, be he does find it to be delicious. and it gives him 200 morale on that mission!
- No one in El Dora Soul would touch it with the proverbial 10 meter pole, but the scent of the health drink will wake Carlos up straight and sober.
- Code Geass: Akito the Exiled: Akito's Alexander (with the other W-0 pilots' Alexanders as attacks)
- To follow up on what happened to their group after their fight against Britannia ended and to make EU less of a Hufflepuff House in this setting.
- Considering the Compilation movie timeline is being used, I doubt it, but until confirmed or jossed it's a nice idea.
- Demonbane: Demonbane, Metatron
- To appeal to fans of Cthulhu Mythos, which there may be a lot of in the Americas and Europe. Also to add another Magitek mecha.
- Metatron can have some interesting interactions with Erica Fontaine (both of them are nuns outside the battlefield) and Guy Shishioh (who has the same voice as Sandalphon).
- The Big O: Big O
- Cult Classic status in America and Timm Style art that could appeal to those who like western comic books.
- Zoids: Any of the Ligers
- Most likely the ones from Zoids: Chaotic Century and/or Genesis as they already have the voice acting from Super Robot Wars OE.
- Latooni and Princess Shine.
- This way, we can keep the Ryusei/Technology/Latooni Love Triangle going strong, espeically if Mr. Date attracts even more crushes and flirts in this installment.
- Latooni will become friends with Four and other Cyper Newtypes, and Team Rabbits, identifying with the way they've all been engineered and/or modified against their wills to become mech pilots.
- Princess Shine would become big friends with Mineva Zabi and the royalty of Knight's & Magic.
- Jossed, It's Kyosuke and Excellen. That said, the King Of Kings Gao Gai Gar Vs Betterman elements feature a Shout-Out to the Royal Heartbreaker.
- Mobile Suit Gundam Wing and Mobile Suit Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz.
- Endless Waltz is the perfect story to connect with Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's Counterattack.
- Relena makes for another potential member of the "Royalty Friendship Circle."
- Mariemaia is the perfect girl for Shine and Mineva to stick their tongues at.
- Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm Revolution: Mecha-Kurama with Naruto as the main pilot as he can wear Mecha-Naruto (who'll be considered as a sub-pilot) like an Iron Man suit.
- To appeal to those who are not fans of mecha but fans of the Shōnen Genre.
- Bandai Namco published this game.
- The design is inspired by Gaiking (also a possible DLC unit).
- Mobile Suit Gundam SEED CE.73: Stargazer: Stargazer Gundam and Strike Noir Gundam
- Without the base Cosmic Era timeline, they could be canon welded into the Universal Century. Selene could belong to Zeon or the Mineva faction while Sven's black Gundam wouldn't be out of place among the Titans.
- If the Stargazer belongs to the Mineva faction, it will be acknowledged that it's inspired by the Unicorn's design in-universe and that would be why it's also almost entirely white and has similar Tron Lines along its entire body.
- If Selene is still a Coordinator in-universe, it could be handwaved that there are only very few of them that currently exist and therefore hasn't lead to Fantastic Racism that strongly impacts the setting.
- Selene could be some sort of Newtype or Cyber Newtype instead.
- Without the base Cosmic Era timeline, they could be canon welded into the Universal Century. Selene could belong to Zeon or the Mineva faction while Sven's black Gundam wouldn't be out of place among the Titans.
- Bayonetta: Madama Butterfly (with Queen Sheba as upgrade that also adds Jeanne as a "sub-pilot")
- Maybe Sakura Wars isn't the only Sega property that they managed to negotiate for use in this installment. With Bayonetta 3 coming out in 2022, it will be a good opportunity to cross-promote.
- Transformers: Optimus Prime, Bumblebee
- In 2021, two MOBA games from unrelated companies, namely Mobile Legends (trailer) and Smite (trailer, Optimus Prime only), managed to acquire the rights to these Autobots to be used as optional, purchasable skins in their games. If non-Mecha Games can do it, Super Robot Wars should, too.
- Considering the future milieu, the most likely Transformers property/series would be either Transformers Victory or Transformers Zone, especially as Star Saber is getting a new limited production special reissue.
- Zettai Muteki Raijin-Oh: Raijin-Oh, Bakuryu-Oh and Castle Raijin-Oh, with the former two being able to combine to God Raijin-Oh, while the Castle version can be used by anyone. Also to allow the series to get a 2D Playstation debut (OE semi counts, but it's in 3D, while its 2D debut was in a Nintendo handheld title (BX)).
- Macross Frontier: Specifically the movies, to allow all its members and the Macross Quarter to join in as well as Alto's Durandal as well. Their inclusion is sudden like the other DLC units: they got transported before Alto can bail out of his Valkyrie to face the queen.
- This is also to allow Big West to bring the series back in the franchise after being sat out since V.
- Jossed, they don't interact at all. (Lamia's motivations are completely different anyway.)
- Oh please! A(n understaffed) crew of academy graduates, with a scattered smathering of plebs in charge of the biggest warship by far in the Earth Federation fleet, with only one of the instructors (and therefor a (possibly) seasoned officer) as an XO, and whatever hardware and mech pilots as they pick up on their journey and missions? What could possibly go wrong?
- Hilariously and utterly jossed, they were intended to be the proper crew all along.
- This could possibly explain all the Original Generation characters from the Super Robot Wars Alpha trilogy appearing in this game, one way or another, well except maybe for Masaki.
- It could be a product of past Gilliam's muckery.
- Gilliam Yeager is added to the game as a part of the November 16, 2021 patch. What part he will play will be answered in the Black Specter scenario
- Dumpson, Drill Boy, and Kagero/Shadowmaru, who were based off of Goldymarg, Mic Sounders XIII, and Volfogg, respectively, because of all of the implications.
- Jossed. They're independent from the GGG's Brave Robots Corp. In fact, in one DLC scenario, Mamoru tries to teach the Brave Police with advice that mostly comes down to having them emulate the old Brave Robots. Hilarity Ensues.
- If that's the case, then upgrading the Dreisuträger will possibly make it that much more formidable a Final Boss, especially if there's an if/true ending worth collecting SR Points for.
- There are major doubts about this. One is that SR points are not in the game, the first since Super Robot Wars MX and two, a lot of the series used can actually be counters to her plan. Especially since there a those who did it for the same reasons as her: to finally stop all the fighting.
- Jossed.
- Considering that the Victory Gundam is in the game this time, the Huckbein series being inspired by it could be acknowledged In-Universe.
- Confirmed, it gets upgraded into Huckebein 30th, which has an exposed face and a blackhole cannon.
- Edge and Az will possibly be in the same boat as Izuru when it comes to genetic heritage.
- Jossed.
This smells like that there will be sequels in a similar manner with both the Alpha and Z saga, which involves multiverse shenanigans handling the "old weapons"/Etrangers from another verse with new cast. May also serve as a manner for Bandai Namco to give an Author's Saving Throw to the latter part of the Z saga being considered a jumbled mess.
This could also suggest Aos deliberately provoked these civilizations into destroying themselves, as Stamen Bitols use The Power of Hate to distort reality.
- Confirmed, he joined in the expansion pass post-game content.
- Either Zoltan, the Claw, Debonair, Fahrzeug, or Chronicle will return.
- Confirmed, Debonair and, surprisingly, Posaydal both return.
- Grungust will be added (probably in the DLC dealing with the sixth pillar)
- Confirmed-ish, Grungust is in fact added, but in a form independent of the pillar storyline in lieu of a nostalgic team-up with Gilliam in the Gespenst and the MC in the Huckebein.
UX ends with a Sequel Hook for Linebarrels of Iron and Demonbane (the former hasn't finished its run when UX was released and the latter only has hints to its visual novel sequel) and it also retains Heroman's canonical sequel hook. It could be a good chance to conclude UX's hanging plot threads in time for its tenth anniversary.
Super Robot Wars is no stranger to asset reuse, but looking at the specific series included here, there's one thing in particular that stands out to me.
Eva as a franchise has always had a strange relationship with SRW. As a massively popular and epoch defining mech anime, it's naturally a shoo-in for the series, and has appeared in multiple beloved entries in the series. However, the series's unique worldview and focus on the darker side of humanity makes it difficult to do straight adaptations into the standard Super Robot Wars formula without abandoning so many defining traits as to defeat the point of including it at all. F was released before EoE came out and explained what was even going on, and the series got fairly little screentime in Alpha, even sitting out two games in a row before finishing its plot. The only game to really do the Eva plot justice at once was MX, which featured the series prominently, alongside another often compared to it and at the expense of several franchise mainstays. Rebuild has been even worse, with neither Z3 nor V touching on 3.0's plot at all, presumably due to the post-apocalyptic setting.
If I understand correctly, Super Robot Wars 31 (that's probably not what they're going to call it) will be the first SRW game to begin development after the release of Thrice Upon A Time. Considering Eva's influence and popularity and how much fans have been clamoring for it to have a proper resolution in an SRW game, it's possible that the team will decide to oblige by making a game with a plot and worldview engineered specifically to enable the use of Rebuild of Eva 3.0 and 3.0+1.0 in the same way MX was build around the usual difficulties with Eva classic. The DLCs in 30 could be Early Bird Cameos of this game's roster, seeing as how they all conveniently got Isekai'd from other adventures already in progress and had little-to-no plot involvement in 30. All of the OG characters were grabbed from the middle of other SRW games, why should the licensed characters be different?
As to how the specific series listed would be a fit for Rebuild...
- Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans is a post-apocalyptic series* starring a protagonist who is extremely socially inept. It's also a mainline Gundam series without any Super Robot Wars representation, probably because it's about a band of rebels fighting against the local Federation equivalent, a plot concept the series has always struggled with.* One trend bucking series could mesh well with another, it's unlikely Tekkadan would appreciate NERV's scheming any more than Gjallarhorn's.
- Majestic Prince features artifical pilots created via gene experiments, which could be a precursor or splinter operation from making Rei clones and Dummy Plugs, and an alien race that seeded the cosmos with life, a concept that was used in the original series and probably also in Rebuild.
- Ultraman is another series with a Classical Anti-Hero among a cast of of morally complex figures and mysterious aliens.
- Getter Robo Devolution features a moodier and more introverted tone than any other Getter work. It also ends with the Getter Team managing to create an entire new world, just like Shinji does at the end of Rebuild 3.0+1.0.
- Shinkansen Henkei Robo Shinkalion is the most obvious point here; the specific work being featured is already a crossover with Rebuild of Evangelion.
- Voltes V isn't particularly Eva-esque... but it did appear in the first game to feature Rebuild, making for some proper Book Ends.
- Admittedly, Dancouga, VOTOMS, and Sakura Wars aren't super Eva-esque (Although the antagonists of Sakura Wars being demons might interact interestingly with Angels). Grendizer and Dendoh aren't, either, and that didn't stop them from working in MX. They're just popular series that would likely appear in a new Super Robot Wars game.