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Gundam/Memes
Gundam is a Long Runner, and with that it has spawned a lot of Internet memes.
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- The meme. <ref>The explanation behind the meme.</ref> [1]
Universal Century
- Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam featured a letter from Kai Shiden, written in Gratuitous English, which read "Captain Quattro, he is A CHAR." The result is anyone who shares characteristics with the Red Comet will be referred to as "A CHAR".
- Taken to its logical conclusion we get "Ratsel, he is an ORD" See here.
- and adapted again by fans after seeing the first ep of Gundam Unicorn, Audrey Burne, she is A ZABI.
- Considering how Gundam Wing's Zechs Merquise tries to cram every aspect of Char from every series he was in into a single-series character, he has been called "a Char fanboy" by some fans.
- "Colonel Zechs, he is CHAR, and Relena, she is A SAYLA." [2]
- From Endless Waltz: Mariemaia Khushrenada, she is A MINEVA.
- From Frozen Teardrop: Relena Darlian, she is A ZECHS.
- "Lacus Clyne, she is A RELENA."
- "Alex Dino, he is AN ATHRUN." [3]
- And who discovered his identity? Chairman Durandal, who was voiced by Shuichi Ikeda (AKA Char/Quattro).
- "Yurin L'Ciel, she is A TIFFA."
- The Char Custom meme mutates three times faster than any other meme on this page. [4]
- Don't forget the "Zeta Punch" videos, which are Gag Dub versions of two specific Kamille scenes: the fight with two male Bridge Bunnies followed by some "Bright slapping", and then his fisticuff with Jerid Messa from the first episode. This troper especially enjoys the Kyo Kusanagi, Terry Bogard and Ken Masters versions. Or the Streets Of Rage and Marvel vs. Capcom versions, and we cant forget the Smash Bros original... and the Team Fortress 2 version.
- Yazan Gable would like you to know that he's going to violate you.
- The process known as the Bright Slap, used for "slapping the fail out of" a Wangsty Humongous Mecha pilot, comes from the original Mobile Suit Gundam, wherein Bright Noa did just that to protagonist Amuro Ray. Mecha fans frequently express their desire to see this happen to whiny protagonists such as Kira Yamato or Shinji Ikari. Sadly, this is seldom employed in-show.
- Except in Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam, where it happens all the time.
- "You hit me! Even my father never hit me!"
- Shinji does get Bright-slapped in Super Robot Wars F and in SRW Alpha.
- When he reappears in Alpha 3; he's 2 years older than when we last saw him, after the major Evangelion events. He's obviously grown a pair by simply fighting alongside the biggest badasses and hot-blooded Super Robot heroes ever. He DOES, however,
yell atdeliver a Bright Slap to Kira Yamato.
- When he reappears in Alpha 3; he's 2 years older than when we last saw him, after the major Evangelion events. He's obviously grown a pair by simply fighting alongside the biggest badasses and hot-blooded Super Robot heroes ever. He DOES, however,
- The Bright Slap turns losers into MEN OF DESTINY.
- Now with Chang Wufei, Shinn Asuka and even DW getting Bright Slapped!
- On yet another Gundam-related note, Acguy is love.
- Does anyone even know how that one got started? Never did make any damn sense to me...
- no idea, though it might be related to the fact that the Acguy is insufferably cute looking for a giant machne of death
- Big head, stumpy limbs, plumb body. Indeed, that fit the quality of cuteness in Disney's book, like baby and hippo.
- no idea, though it might be related to the fact that the Acguy is insufferably cute looking for a giant machne of death
- This has more or less achieved Ascended Meme status as of Model Suit Gunpla Builders Beginning G, where one of the main characters pilots a "Beargguy", an Acguy with a teddy bear-like head. Before you dismiss it as a simple coincidence, Beargguy is the only main mech on the show that isn't a Zaku or a Gundam.
- In Japan, Beargguy is subject to a meme all its own: depicting him as Kuma, the 2chan equivalent of Pedobear.
- Does anyone even know how that one got started? Never did make any damn sense to me...
- Not to mention there is the original, "This is no Zaku, boy! No Zaku!" [5]
- Once the Big Zam is mass produced...
- "Ahmuro! I orda you to launch Gundamn!" British!Bright from the movie dub is great for memes.
- I'm the enemy you idiot!
- GATOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!
- You can't list every meme All The Tropes, not while your soul is still held down by gravity.
- Kamille Bidan is SICK OF ADULTS AND THEIR LIES! [7]
- KAMILLE'S A MAN'S NAME! AND I'M A MAN!! [8]
- (PUNCH!)
- I'M FORTY!
- And then there's GTFO Zaku
- Norris Packard's "THATS RIGHT, COWER! BE AFRAID!" speech often gets put under a screen cap of a mobile suit pilot (or any gundam character) with an Oh Crap face, though the end of the speach is modified somewhat to fit the situation.
- Shame that bit ended with a Senseless Sacrifice thanks in part to Space AIDS.
- If you ever show a picture of Micott Bartsch in a normal suit around /m/ it usually goes with the mentioning of DAT Hair
- WE'RE JUMPING ONTO WHITE BASE! [9]
- AAAAAAAH!
- LALAH!
- NOOOO!
- DON'T STOP!
- AAAAAAAH!
- Char Aznable likes little girls.
- An Ascended Meme in Char's Counterattack, where The Dragon mentions that everyone thinks Char is into young girls.
- One of Char's greatest crowning moments can be summed up with these two words: BOOM! Headshot.
- Behold! The Xbox [dead link] Drop [dead link] ! It's leik OMGLOLHUEG!!!1
- Gundam + Jessi Slaughter = "You dun Goufed!" [10]
- Tobia Arronax is what happens when Chuck Norris is given a Gundam.
- This Nu Gundam isn't just for show! [11][12]
- This was changed in the English dub to "You're underestimating Nu Gundam!"
- AZTEC SPACE NINJAS! [13]
- Gundam ZZ is not an anime! Take this to be true! [14]
G Gundam
- This hand of mine glows with an awesome power! Its burning grip tells me to defeat you! SHINING FINGER! [15]
- This hand of mine is burning red! Its loud roar tells me to grasp victory! ERUPTING! BURNING! FINGER! And now... HEAT END! *kaboom* [16]
- Take this! My love! My anger! And all my sorrow! SHINING FINGER SWOOOOOORD!
- This meme has obtained powers of the Dark Gundam... with the help of KYOOOOJIIIIIIIIII!!!
- COME ON, DOMON! WHY DON'T YOU USE YOUR SOUPER MODE?
- I will become SUPER ASIA and be champion of all!
- SKEET! SKEET! SSKKEEEEEETTT!!!!!!!!!
- Ahem... the man has a Daughter?!
- Which begs the question? Whom is the badass mother?
- YOU DON'T KNOW ME?!?!? I am Master Asia, THE UNDEFEATED OF THE EAST!!!
- You thought I was defeated? Yet here I stand in front of you!
- ANSWER ME DOMON!! THE SCHOOL OF THE UNDEFEATED OF THE EAST!!!
- Who needs Gundams when you can KICK BUILDINGS 50 FEET INTO THE AIR?
- When someone faces off against a Humongous Mecha on foot AND WINS, he or she is said to be channeling the Undefeated of the East.
- Zero is Master Asia!
- Solid Snake is Master Asia! Which may explain that moustache he grew in the fourth game...
- When someone faces off against a Humongous Mecha on foot AND WINS, he or she is said to be channeling the Undefeated of the East.
- Even the horse gets a Gundam! (Its name is Fuunsaiki, by the way.)
- The sheer audacity of the National Stereotypes in G Gundam has hit memetic levels.
- Power of Love!Burger King is not amused.[17]
Gundam Wing
- "HEEEEEEEROOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!! Come back and kill meeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!"
- "Relena... I'm going to kill you."
- "No. No machine-gun for him. Shoot him down!" from the dub's first episode. Followed immediately by the pilot trying to shoot Heero down with a machine-gun. The original Japanese dialogue was more along the lines of "There's no point firing a warning shot. Shoot him down."
- FOOOOOOOOOLS!
- THERE'S A GUNDAM DOWN HERE!!
- The Gundam Heavy Arms is purple.
- Heero self-destructing his Gundam, making him An Heero.
- turned into a spirit command in Super Robot Wars D
Gundam X
- "Tiffa! I believe in God!"
- When a man strays from the right path, a kind man needs the courage to raise his fist and correct him.
- "I am selling this Gundam!" The question is: is that Garrod, or Bandai?
- Unfortunately Enil El can't do much more than this.
Turn a Gundam
- UNIVAAAAAAARSE! [18]
- GEKOUUUUCHOUUU DE ARUUU! [19]
- Turn-A Turn! Turn-A Turn! TUUUUURRRRRNNN AAAAAAAAA!
- "TURN-A. GUNDAM."
- Who cares if Laura is a guy, I'd still hit it.[20][21]
- Nanana nananana nanana CENTURY COLORS!
Gundam SEED and Gundam SEED Destiny
- "I'm going to killed!"
- Bow before your savior, Jesus Yamato. Note that many people want to see a matchup between him and Ali Al-Saarchez.
- Mu La Flaga is not a fortress, thus he came Back from the Dead after being blown up by an anti-fortress cannon.
- I know we're supposed to be done listing Gundam memes... but at this moment, Cagalli is crying her heart out! [23]
- *Above thread gets Savioured* [24]
- Chairman Dullindal is Space Commie Naraku, and the Destiny Plan is space communism.
- Lacus Clyne and her Haro army will conquer the Earth.
- Speaking of the above, there's Darth Lacus.
- "At first I derped, but then I became The Queen of Everything!"
- Clotho! Stop laughing!
- Nicol was fifteen! He loved the piano! [25]
- ATHRUUUUUUN!!!
- Freedom Gundam: Taste the rainbow.[26]
- At the end of Gundam Seed Destiny, viewers are asking: "WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS SHIT?" [27]
Gundam 00
- Prince Ali, Mighty Is He! [28]
- Just make sure to never accept a ride from him.
- Prince Ali, Mighty Was He!
- He drives a taxi cab, according to the fanbase. Hey you, let him through, or it's you he'll stab!
- Setsuna F. Seiei would like you to know that he is Gundam.
- Kamen Rider Gundam 00 Virtue Cast Off!
- HOWARD MASON!
- YOUUU DIIIIIIE!!!
- HA HA HA HA HA! You are too reliant on All the Tropes, there's no way you can list all the Memes here!
- Saji Crossroad being some incredible badass seems to be a joke among the fandom, helped by the Gumdamn! podcast's Soul Bro Ryu naming him 'King Arthur' and declaring him 'his man'.
- MarieMarieMarieMarieMarieMarieMarie...
- ALLELUIAH!
- Zetsubou-sensei is in Super Robot Wars! [30]
Mobile Suit Gundam AGE
- Card games in mobile suits! Source.
- Flit's hair makes him even more of a Gundam than Setsuna.
- (munches on chocolate bar)
- FurittoFurittoFurittoFuritto...
- Madoka Titus [31]
- Homura Spallow
- Desil is Nena's and Ali's child.[32]
- Left: Loveless Marriage. Right: Happy Family. Learn the difference, it can save your life.[33]
- See? Her hair is a bird. Your arguments are invalid. [dead link] [34]
- Asem is better than a Newtype, he's a Supah Pairotto! [35]
- His being a pirate leader in Generation 3 has mutated this into: Asem Asuno, Supah Pirato!
General/Miscellaneous
- One more... when the Japanese Agriculture Ministry caught two of his employees editing That Other Wiki's Gundam page on company time, they issued the statement that Gundam does not fall under the purview of the Japanese Agriculture Ministry.
- Can you say JAM Project?
- The Japanese Agriculture Ministry is one person?
- That has the potential to go meme all on its own.
- Do you accept Gundam Jesus as your personal saviour?
- Soul Bro's Men: Soul Bro Ryu of The Gundamn! podcast has a tendency to declare the biggest milquetoast of a show (Sai Argyle, Rivalz, Saji Crossroad) to be "his man". There was even an episode dedicated to it.
- In a recent episode, Soul Bro was asked if there were any Soul Bro's Women. He replied that the qualifications were different for women - he only likes men wimpy. He likes his women to be Badass Action Girls, his favourite being Emma Sheen.
- For Gundam AGE, Chris and Neo declared Dique to be Soul Bro's Man, over Soul Bro's objections.
- Other Gundamn! memes include "Gundam 00 Season 2 sucked!" (not what they really believe, but mocking the trolls who claimed this), and "Gundam Unicorn does not exist." (Refusing to report on it while it was still an unconfirmed rumor, which trolls exaggerated into them claiming this)
- "Zaku test" is derogatory slang for a pentester tutorial program that takes a very basic understanding to crack.
- Wow... although it is the page quote, there is no actual mention of the "IT'S A GUNDAM!" down here.
- A GUNDAM???
- THE ENEMY IS A GUNDAM!
- Amusingly toyed with in one scene of Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ said Gundam pops up on the screen of a Neo-Zeon battleship and while one mook is clearly freaking out..but he doesn't say the infamous line or a variant of it...yet in the end said battleship still ends up getting blown up.
- Never fall in love with a gundam pilot, it will only end in disappointment (or an early funeral).[36]
- Nanoha is a Gundam disguised as a Magical Girl![37]
- The "Cardboard Box Gundam", which came from an extremely cheap (and bold) Cosplay. Not that memetic here, but Big in Japan.
- Mutated further when 00 came out, in which after Setsuna's catchphrase, many a fan art appeared of him wearing a cardboard box over his regular attire, with the word 'gundam' scrawled on the front of the box.
- A Chinese theme park's knockoff of the RX-78-2 is quickly gaining meme status after its "renovations." [dead link]
Lots of fan art started popping up not 24 hours after the remodeled version was revealed, and even mock CGI. Nobody's sure what to call it yet, names range from "Sina Gundam" to "China Gundam" to "Sichuan Gundam."
- RISE... CHINING GUNDAM! *snaps fingers*
- ↑ Like this.
- ↑ Relena is an Expy of Sayla Mass, Char's younger sister.
- ↑ Referring to Athrun's Paper-Thin Disguise as "Alex Dino", and how he also wore Quattro Bajeena-like sunglasses.
- ↑ In the original series, Char's custom red Zaku moves three times faster than a standard Zaku.
- ↑ Yelled by Rambo Ral at Amuro, who had at first assumed Ral's Gouf was a specially painted Zaku like Char's
- ↑ The Stellar vs. Heine duel in Phase 23 of GSD was a direct homage to the first Amuro vs. Ramba duel.
- ↑ Kamille during one of his Angst sessions declares this.
- ↑ In the very first episode, Jerrid is introduced with the line "Kamille? I thought I heard a girl's name, but that's clearly a man." Cue Kamille going apeshit and punching Jerrid in the face. Keep in mind, at this point Jerrid is a complete stranger to Kamille, and is surrounded by other members of the Titans.
- ↑ Really, the pure Narm Charm explains it all.
- ↑ "You dun Goufed!" being a play on one of Jessi Slaughter's father's famous lines, "'Cause you done goofed."
- ↑ In the Dynasty Warriors: Gundam games, Amuro shouts this just before going to town on some mooks.
- ↑ Amuro says this line in the original Japanese version when he begins to push back Axis with his Nu Gundam.
- ↑ From the infamous Moon Moon episodes of Gundam ZZ
- ↑ From the first two lyrics of the Opening: "Anime ja nai! Hontou no koto sa!" ("This isn't an anime! Take this to be true!")
- ↑ Domon, doing what might be the greatest Attack Call EVAR!
- ↑ Domon call the the upgraded version of his signature move.
- ↑ The personification of Domon's King of Hearts looks like REALLY angry... well, Burger King.
- ↑ Harry Ord's bizarre yet awesome Kiai near the end of the show.
- ↑ Gym Ghingnham getting excited about releasing the Moonlight Butterfly. Seems to be Ghingnham's Catch Phrase in Japan, but it's less well-known in the West.
- ↑ Let's just say that Loran looks really good in a dress.
- ↑ Loran was originally supposed to be a girl protagonist. When this was shut down by the execs Tomino allegedly made him feminine and and put in those cross-dressing bits as revenge.
- ↑ In episode 39, Kira becomes the new main character of Gundam Seed Destiny, and he received his mid-season upgrade, the Strike Freedom.
- ↑ Cagalli was known for crying throughout the first half of GSD, and Kira used that as an excuse on why he interferes in battles. Kira said that line in Phase 28 of GSD.
- ↑ Referring to Kira's one-sided defeat of Athrun, piloting his Saviour, in the same episode
- ↑ Athrun's explanation to Cagalli on why he "killed" Kira in their last duel, after Nicol took Kira's attack and sacrificed himself to save Athrun. Also, Nicol, being an expy of Quatre from Wing, loves music, and is a talented piano player and composer.
- ↑ From the Freedom Gundam's multicolored Beam Spam attack.
- ↑ Said phrase was done in the style of Gundam Seed's logo.
- ↑ Ali-Al-Saachez's name fit suprisingly well with Aladdin's fake one. Why? For the Lulz.
- ↑ In all of Gundam history, Tieria is considered one of the best traps.
- ↑ Tieria's seiyuu Hiroshi Kamiya is also known as the voice of Nozumo Itoshiki, from Sayonara Zetsubo Sensei, and during 00 Tieria picked up "Zetsubou-sensei" as one of his many, many Fan Nicknames. When Super Robot Wars Z 2 was announced, someone said this in response to a PV with Tieria in it, and the hilarity of the statement when taken out of context did the rest.
- ↑ Someone posted a picture of the Age-1 Titus parts on a Kaname Madoka figure, which created a surge in fanart featuring the combination.
- ↑ The fans' explanation as to why Desil Galette is such a screwed-up Blood Knight. He does somewhat resemble Nena Trinity in looks.
- ↑ The left side is a screen-cap of grown-up Emily and Flit from episode 15. The right side, however, is a fan-work from Flit/Yurin shippers that show a grown-up Yurin with a much happier (and mustache-less) Flit on the right. Sadly, not all things are meant to be...
- ↑ Among the rainbow of hair colors found in Gundam AGE is Mink Leiden's sky-blue hair. The fans played with this by editing the screen caps to show her hair flying away from the ship. Although given the way she parts her short hair, it does somewhat resemble the twitter bird...
- ↑ Asem's total lack of Psychic Powers makes him almost unique among Gundam protagonists, and he's encourage to become a "Super Pilot" by his mentor. The above bizarre spelling is what happens when the Japanese try to pronounce "Super Pilot".
- ↑ The Gundam series' penchant at Kill'Em All endings of the main cast is infamous.
- ↑ She even shared a similar nickname with Amuro, The White Devil.
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