History Anime / MobileSuitGundamCharsCounterattack

-->-- '''Char Aznable'''

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* ChestBlaster: The Sazabi has a torso-mounted mega particle canon, although it's actually a bit lower, designed to resemble a belt buckle.

** Chan also suffers from this, as despite being a technical officer and not a combat pilot she heads out into the final battle under the reasoning of "Amuro needs more psycoframes!" [[spoiler:She is killed not by the enemy, but to friendly fire]].

The movie is noteworthy for having a rather unusual genesis. Originally, director Creator/YoshiyukiTomino was going to wrap up Amuro and Char's storyline in ''Gundam ZZ'', but mid-way through production he was given the go-ahead to make a movie, forcing the plot of ''ZZ'' to be rewritten (details on its trope page). In the meantime Tomino wrote the novel ''Hi-Streamer'', but when Sunrise gave him the green light, he went back and wrote a second novel, ''Beltorchika's Children'', which he specifically wrote to be adapted into a movie. However, Sunrise instead chose to use ''Hi-Streamer'', with the final film being a pretty straightforward adaptation of its second half. These two novels serve as the origin of the Hi-Nu Gundam (the finalized, "perfect" Nu Gundam) and Nightingale (a bigger, beefier Sazabi), which pop up in video games like ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWars'', ''VideoGame/SDGundamGGeneration'', and ''VideoGame/GundamVsSeries''.

** The Nu Gundam, despite being one of the most incredible suits of its era, is still an incomplete, rushed version of Amuro's original design - the [[AttackDrone fin funnels]] are actually a last-second addition and just stick to a random latch on the backpack, while the controls are still dangerously oversensitive. Officially, the completed version is the Hi-Nu Gundam from ''Beltorchika's Children'', which is streamlined to near perfection and better armed (it's "[[{{BFG}} Hyper Mega Bazooka Launcher]]" is at least as powerful as the [[Anime/MobileSuitGundamWing Wing Gundam Zero's "Twin Buster Rifle"]], albeit not portable, since it requires a hook-up to the reactor of the ''Ra Cailum'').

* TheAce: Amuro and Char, with the former being much more heavily emphasized, and indeed raised to such lofty proportions that {{Mook}}s, [[spoiler:including Neo-Zeon AcePilot Gyunei Guss]], are made short work of.

** {{Irony}}: Despite Char's insistence that Newtype evolution will lead to greater understanding between humanity, he and Amuro, both Newtypes, find no middle ground. Amuro doesn't see why Char would drop Axis on Earth and dismisses [[spoiler:his act of sportsmanship leaking out the Psychoframe data to him for use in the Nu Gundam as a way to fight even and to "look down on him"]]. Char, in turn, doesn't understand Amuro's treatment of Quess or his bond with Lalah. [[spoiler:They both die at each other's throats, no more peaceful than they were before]].

* NoPronunciationGuide: Some names from ''Zeta'' and ''ZZ'', such as “tee-tons” for Titans (like the Greek myth), and “Hah-mun” for Haman (Ha-mon) Karn.

* SelfMadeOrphan [[spoiler:Quess unwittingly kills her own father in her first battle]].

* {{Irony}}: In their final battle of the original anime, Char's piloting an incomplete prototype mobile suit (the Zeong). In this one, it's Amuro doing it (the Nu Gundam).

-->-- '''Char Aznable, making the understatement of the Universal Century'''

->''You still don't know the true meaning of Gundam''

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: Amuro and Char disappear through an overload of the Nu Gundam's Psychoframe. Of the named cast, only Bright Noah and his family and Char's lover Nanai Miguel survive. However, Axis is pushed away by the reaction of the Psychoframe in the Nu and Sazabi; it wouldn't have happened if it were not Amuro, who made a desperate push first-hand against Axis. Char even acknowledges the stream of hope and warmth Amuro has caused before the overload]].

** The Nu Gundam, despite being one of the most incredible suits of its era, is still an incomplete, rushed version of Amuro's original design - the [[AttackDrone fin funnels]] are actually a last-second addition and just stick to a random latch on the backpack, while the controls are still dangerously oversensitive. Officially, the completed version is the Hi-Nu Gundam from ''Beltorchika's Children'', which is streamlined to near perfection and better armed (it's "[[{{BFG}} Hyper Mega Bazooka Launcher]]" is at least as powerful as the [[Anime/MobileSuitGundamWing Wing Gundam Zero's "Twin Buster Rifle"]], albeit not portable, since it requires a hook-up to the reactor of the ''La Cailum'').

* UnfinishedUntestedUsedAnyway: They were actually just starting the testing phase on the Nu Gundam when Char's Neo Zeon fleet decided on a preemptive attack on the ''La Cailum''. Because of the urgency of the situation, Amuro and his team basically threw it together, slapped on whatever weapons they could find, then launched without fine-tuning the instruments. This does come to bite Amuro in the ass during the Nu Gundam's second sortie against Gyunei. Ultimately, [[spoiler:this trope is what kills Amuro and Char]], contrary to popular belief: [[spoiler:their suits didn't burn up on atmospheric re-entry, but rather the resonating Psychoframes overloaded, which is what happens when experimental technology gets used in combat without prior testing]].