Big-Lipped Alligator Moment: Ken's encounter with the scientist responsible for making him a Coordinator, DoctorHeinrichMetzinger. Metzinger turned up once, long enough to be sliced in half, and was scarcely mentioned again. In actual fact, this was part of a poorly-handled attempt by the author at a Metal Gear SolidShout-Out, most of which was ultimately mostly abandoned. The author has vague plans of turning the botched plot into the basis for a further installment of the Falconverse, but for the moment, this sequence remains orphaned and seemingly inexplicable.
Common Knowledge: Thanks to the author naming the Neutron Stampede platform as the Marie Curienote the scientist who discovered Radium & died of radiation poisoning, almost everyone now believes that to be the name of the ship, despite being officially unnamed.
Ensemble Dark Horse: This fic spawned a trend of fanfics with a ZAFT-centric POV, as well as a greater awareness of SEED-MSV character Shiho Hahnenfuss.
Also, OC KarenWillet seems to have reached this status.
Fair for Its Day: Interracial relationships passed by largely unnoticed even in the programme's early years: in one episode Dorien ran off with Tracey's accountant Ranjith, while later episodes had both her and Sharon dating Black men without others commenting (except Tracey briefly in Sharon's case).
The early series had recurring homophobia, even from the libertine Dorien. This included Tracey and Sharon getting angry when doctors or nurses thought they were a lesbian couple, Sharon calling Oscar Wilde a "woofter", Dorien suspecting that a hot personal trainer must be gay for not sleeping with her and Tracey and Dorien (though interestingly not Sharon) having a rant about how a pair of female plumbers must be "dykes". Even as late as 1998, Dorien emphasises rather too vigorously that she is "100% hetero", in contrast to her current boyfriend Richard's ex-wife who ran off with a female au pair.
In a surprising example of Everyone Has Standards, Sharon and Tracey criticise Dorien for proposing to sack the aforementioned personal trainer for probably being gay, since he shows no sexual interest in her.
Also, in one episode Dorien relates how at one point she and Marcus were so poor they nearly moved "upstairs from a saari shop in Whitechapel". Since the 00's, Whitechapel and several other formerly impoverished inner-city areas of London have become much more gentrified and affluent.
In Series 9 episode "Nuptials", Sharon makes a joke in Garth's best man speech about him going through a 'transvestite stage'. Back then, transgenderism was still seen as a source of humour and ridicule in a way that would be seen as bigoted nowadays.
In "We'll Always Have Majorca", Dorien refers to Spanish police officers as "foreign savages".
