History Anime / MobileSuitGundamF91

* DestructiveSavior: The Federation soldiers who attempt to defend the Colony in the opening act fair incredibly poorly and end up wrecking the city. Their mobile suits crash into civilian buildings and explode killing dozens, their ordinance often misses their enemies and hits innocent people. Seabook himself chastises them for trying to engage within the populated areas rather than luring the attackers out to less densely populated parts of the colony.

* {{Expy}}: Carozzo is an Expy of [[CharClone Char]] and [[Franchise/StarWars Darth Vader]], He also seems to be based on The Man In The Iron Mask.

* JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope: ''F91'' and its side materials mark the point where Anaheim Electronics goes from kind of scummy[[note]]:As in ''Anime/MobileSuitZetaGundam'', selling MS to both sides, with the vague justification of "The Titans were onto us, we had to!"[[/note]] to '''very''' scummy, all because they lost their Federation contracts to SNRI. In the manga ''Silhouette Formula 91'' Anaheim steals the F91's tech for their own Silhouette Gundam[[note]]Whose model number is RX''F-91''. Subtle.[[/note]], and the UsefulNotes/SuperFamicom game ''Gundam F90: Formula Wars 0122'', where they help a group of Mars-based Zeon remnants invade Earth, apparently as a "screw you" to the Feddies.

The ''Gundam F91'' story was fleshed out in much greater detail in Tomino's two-part novelization. Tomino's manga, ''Manga/MobileSuitCrossboneGundam'', is a direct sequel which takes place ten years after the events of the movie.

* HeroesWantRedheads: Cecily.

''Mobile Suit Gundam F91'' is a 1991 anime film, which was ''Franchise/{{Gundam}}'' creator Creator/YoshiyukiTomino's attempt to launch a new ''Gundam'' saga, set thirty years after ''[[Anime/MobileSuitGundamCharsCounterattack Char's Counterattack]]''. He re-teamed with character designer Yoshikazu Yasuhiko and mecha designer Kunio Okawara for the occasion. The movie was first released in Japan on March 16, 1991.

* SoftReboot: While still set in the UC timeline, this story has little connection to previous ''Gundam'' installments, with all the previous main characters being either retired or [[KillEmAll dead]] and a new antagonist faction unrelated to the various Neo-Zeon movements (although they're still around according to the ''F90'' spinoff manga).

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[[caption-width-right:250:''Pray, don't break our peace forever.'']]

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* EnergyWeapons: It's Gundam. Some new additions include:

* {{Expy}}: Carozzo is an Expy of [[CharClone Char]] and [[StarWars Darth Vader]], He also seems to be based on The Man In The Iron Mask.

* SoftReboot: While still set in the UC timeline, this series has little connection to previous ''Gundam'' installments, with all the previous main characters being either retired or [[KillEmAll dead]] and a new antagonist faction unrelated to the various Neo-Zeon movements (although they're still around according to the ''F90'' spinoff manga).

* TheWorfEffect: [[Anime/MobileSuitGundamCharsCounterattack Londo Bell]], the Earth Federation's elite paramilitary force, is briefly revealed to be still in action in UC 123. Unfortunately, they've become so bloated and weak that the Crossbone Vanguard wipes it out permanently.

''Mobile Suit Gundam F91'' is a 1991 anime film, which was Gundam creator Creator/YoshiyukiTomino's attempt to launch a new Gundam saga, set thirty years after Char's Counterattack. He re-teamed with character designer Yoshikazu Yasuhiko and mecha designer Kunio Okawara for the occasion. The movie was first released in Japan on March 16, 1991.

Originally planned as a full-length television series, Gundam F91 hit a production snag due to staff disputes, and the project was stopped after the screenplays for the first thirteen episodes were written. It was then decided that what was made of the show would be condensed into a theatrical feature film. Predictably, condensing a story originally intended to be told over the course of thirteen half-hour episodes into less than two hours of screen time required much of the original story to be cut, and the results are generally regarded with mixed feelings.

Set in UC 0123, the story of Gundam F91 revolves around teenage space colonist Seabook Arno, his girlfriend Cecily Fairchild, and the efforts of the Crossbone Vanguard militia, led by Cecily's grandfather Meitzer Ronah, to establish an aristocracy known as "Cosmo Babylonia". In keeping with Gundam tradition, the civilian Seabook is forced by circumstance to pilot the F91 Gundam, coincidentally designed in part by his estranged mother, Dr. Monica Arno.

Given how none of the characters from the previous UC series show up and the considerably long time jump, it's apparent that (had it been a series) this would have been to be a Gundam equivalent of sorts to ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration,'' perhaps even more so than ''Anime/MobileSuitZetaGundam.'' As it happens, ''Anime/MobileSuitVictoryGundam'' ended up being that equivalent, as well as Tomino's last shot at doing a late UC series.

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: The "shell to a mother's skull" scene demonstrates that a Mobile Suit firing its large ballistic weapons indiscriminately in a populated area can and likely will result in casualties. The casings alone are larger than a person's ''head'', never mind their velocity. Topping it off, that same MS's thrusters knock Cecily right over; had she been a few meters closer given the sheer output it used in a pinch, she likely would've been cooked alive.

* RealityEnsues: The "shell to a mother's skull" scene demonstrates that a Mobile Suit firing its large ballistic weapons indiscriminately in a populated area can and likely will result in casualties. The casings alone are larger than a person's ''head'', never mind their velocity. Topping it off, that same MS's thrusters knock Cecily right over; had she been a few meters closer given the sheer output it used in a pinch, she likely would've been cooked alive.