History Anime / MobileSuitGundamWingEndlessWaltz

* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Relena gets drugged, falling asleep while several older men watch her, all with evil smiles on their faces. Anyone else getting bad vibes in that scene?

* FaceHeelTurn: Wufei declined to have his Gundam disposed of, and joined the Mariemaia Army, feeling that warriors like him are being cast aside in a changing world.

* IWillFightNoMoreForever: At the end, Heero is prepared to execute Mariemaia, [[FaceDeathWithDignity who is willing to accept it]]. He pulls the trigger...and the gun is empty. Mariemaia loses consciousness anyway from loss of blood due to Dekim's gunshot. Heero then says he will never kill anyone again, because he doesn't have to anymore. At that point, he collapses from exhaustion. Relena tends to him, while Lady Une calls for help for Mariemaia.

* WouldHurtAChild: Dekim Barton [[spoiler:shoots Mariemaia when she finally realizes what she's been conned into leading. Lady Une is able to get her medical help, but she's rendered paralyzed.]]

** Lady Une [[spoiler:takes Mariemaia to]] visit the grave of Treize Khrushinada.

* NoSenseOfPersonalSpace: [[spoiler: The original Trowa Barton]] found it necessary to drape himself over [[spoiler: Nanashi ("No-Name"), who would later assume his identity]], a teenage boy, ''just'' to show him a family photo. Creepy, much?

* ColonyDrop: What the original Operation Meteor turned out to be; the Barton Foundation planned to drop all the colonies onto Earth, and then use the Gundams to take over the world in the resulting chaos. The Mariemaia Army sought to enact the original Operation Meteor by dropping Colony X-18999 onto Earth.

* AdaptationExpansion: The novelization of Endless Waltz contains much more information than the OVA, incorporating elements from all side stories, including ''Episode Zero'', ''Blind Target'', and ''Battlefield of Pacifists''. Unfortunately, it was only in Japanese.

* AnimationBump: The animation quality of the Endless Waltz OVA series/movie is far and away much better than that of the series.

* BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler:Zechs]]

** Though a few additions in Glory of the Defeated have made things even more complicated: the TV version of Wing Zero appears in the manga as Wing Gundam Proto Zero, a prototype of Wing Zero created by Quatre based on the Gundam Scientists' blueprints. It was later heavily damaged and modified into the Endless Waltz version, and prior to the Eve Wars, it was completed, gaining a shield and the transforming ability of the TV version. A few elements of the TV version also made it into the EW Gundams, like the Deathscythe Hell's twin beam scythe and the Altron's tail cannon.

* CallBack: Remember that destroyed city in the first opening of Gundam Wing? [[spoiler:Heero destroyed it by accident.]]

* ChristmasEpisode: The whole OVA take place on Christmas Eve.

* DeusExMachina: No explanation is given for how Zechs survived a point-blank reactor explosion at the end of the previous season or where he got a new Tallgeese from. He just shows up in Lady Une's office and asks for a Preventer's callsign and authorization to deploy against X-18999 after having been presumed dead for a year.

* EvenMooksHaveLovedOnes: [[spoiler:You said that Trowa Barton is not Trowa Barton? Eh, [[WeHardlyKnewYe never]][[DeathByOriginStory mind.]]]]

* GrandTheftPrototype: The modified Operation Meteor became this once the true nature of the original operation was revealed. Duo and Trowa replaced the original pilots for Deathscythe and Heavyarms, Duo by a typical Gundamjack and Trowa taking over for the intended pilot after he died. Heero and Quetra were instructed by their scientists to disobey the original operation on purpose. Wufei chose to go against the plan on his own.
** Also, in ''Endless Waltz'', after arriving on Colony X-18999, Heero and Duo stole two Leos and engaged in battle with Wufei (piloting Altron) and Trowa (piloting Serpent), respectively.

* HeroicBystander: [[spoiler: The nameless soldier who shoots Dekim Barton. The novelization does at least give him a name.]]

* ImprobableAge: Mariemaia. If Episode Zero is to be taken as canon, she's 8 years old. Her voice actor sounds a little too old, but the complexity of her lines, and the rather haughty delivery in the dub, feels way beyond her years (even if she is the child of [[spoiler: MagnificentBastard Treize Khushrenada]]). Then again, Mariemaia was ''very'' much manipulated by [[spoiler:her grandfather, SmugSnake Dekim Barton]]. And it's one thing to be taught what to say or repeat what's been taught, and another thing to truly understand it, much less mean it.
* MadeOfPlasticine: Relatively speaking, the Gundams are [[AdaptationalWimp significantly downgraded]] from their NighInvulnerable, unstoppable death machines they were in the series, as any single one could take on entire mobile suit squadrons and only a [[TakesOneToKillOne Gundam could defeat a Gundam]]. All together, Heavyarms, Deathscythe Hell, Sandrock and Talgeese III were slowly overwhelmed by the Serpent ZergRush and collectively take a lot of damage from otherwise standard troops, notably with [[WreckedWeapon Sandrock's Heat Shotel being broken]]. That said, it is explained they were [[ThouShaltNotKill pulling their punches to not kill the enemy pilots]] and the Serpent is the most advanced infantry mobile suits to date, invoking SoLastSeason.

* RecapEpisode: The Endless Waltz box set comes with a four-episode OVA entitled "Operation Meteor" which consists almost entirely of footage from the original series to present character profiles of the pilots, Zechs, Relena, Une and Trieze, with some extra voice-overs.

* WorfHadTheFlu: From the damage it sustained during its duel with the Nataku (and subsequent re-entry through the atmosphere), the Wing Zero appears above the Brussels presidential bunker, only with enough strength to fire its Twin Buster Rifle three times, [[spoiler:with the third shot's recoil completely obliterating the Gundam.]]

* MilestoneCelebration: The theatrical release was in celebration of ''Franchise/{{Gundam}}'s'' 20th anniversary. Funnily enough, in the manga, Duo sports a baseball cap for the very same reason.

* AnAsskickingChristmas: The Battle of Brussels - most of the Gundam pilots plus Noin [[spoiler: and Zechs]] fighting off hundreds of Serpent Mobile Suits. Plus, Heero and Wufei duking it out in orbit.

* ReverseMole: Trowa joins the Mariemaia Army undercover. It was short-lived, however; as soon as he tries to assassinate Dekim, Wufei shows up holding a sword to his neck. He then joined the Mariemeia army for real, [[spoiler:only to defect when Duo appears. He just wants information, after all.]]

** A variant occurs with the other Gundams' last stand. It's stated outright that if they didn't care about saving the enemy pilots, it would have been a CurbStompBattle in their favor. However, since they're fighting carefully to make sure all of the enemy pilots survive, their Gundams get worn down by pure attrition from the prolonged battle.

* DeadPersonImpersonation: As it turns out, [[spoiler:Trowa isn't really Trowa. The real Trowa Burton was a {{Jerkass}} perfectly willing to go through with the original Operation Meteor and his father's ambitions of ruling all of humanity, but took a bullet in the back from a more conscientious technician who had family on Earth; another technician, the amnesiac Triton Bloom, who called himself "Nanashi" (No Name) at the time, was able to convince Doktor S to let him take Trowa's name as well as the Gundam Heavyarms he was to use for the operation.]]

* WhamLine: [[spoiler:Heero tells Duo that the Trowa they know isn't the real Trowa. Duo simply reply that he almost forgot.]]

* ImprobableAge: Mariemaia. If Episode Zero is to be taken as canon, she's 8 years old. Her voice actor sounds a little too old, but the complexity of her lines, and the rather haughty delivery in the dub, feels way beyond her years (even if she is the child of [[spoiler: MagnificentBastard Treize Khushrenada]]. Then again, Mariemaia was ''very'' much manipulated by [[spoiler:her grandfather, SmugSnake Dekim Barton]]. And it's one thing to be taught what to say or repeat what's been taught, and another thing to truly understand it, much less mean it.

* WhamLine: [[spoiler:Heero reveals to Duo that the Trowa they know isn't the real Trowa.]]

* DeadPersonImpersonation: As it turns out, [[spoiler:Trowa isn't really Trowa. The real Trowa Burton was a {{Jerkass}} perfectly willing to go through with the original Operation Meteor and his father's ambitions of ruling all of humanity, but took a bullet in the back from a more conscientious technician who had family on Earth; Doktor S convinced an amnesiac Triton Bloom, who was another mechanic who witnessed the killing, to take Trowa's name as well as the Gundam Heavyarms he was to use for the operation.]]

* DeadPersonImpersonation: As it turns out, [[spoiler:Trowa isn't really Trowa. The real Trowa Burton was a [[Jerkass]] perfectly willing to go through with the original Operation Meteor and his father's deam of ruling all of humanity, but took a bullet in the back from Triton Bloom, a more conscientious technician who had family on Earth; Triton then took over Trowa's name (since he forgot his old name in the incident that killed his perents) as well as the Gundam Heavyarms he was to use for the operation.]]

* DeadPersonImpersonation: As it turns out, [[spoiler:Trowa isn't really Trowa. The real Trowa was a JerkAss perfectly willing to go through with the original Operation Meteor, but took a bullet in the back from a more conscientious technician who had family on Earth; the Trowa we know then took over his name (since he apparently didn't have one before) as well as the Gundam Heavyarms he was to use for the operation.]]

* MadeOfPlasticine: Relatively speaking, the Gundams are [[AdaptationalWimp significantly downgraded]] from their NighInvulnerable, unstoppable death machines they were in the series, as any single one could take on entire mobile suit squadrons and only a [[LikeMustDefeatLike Gundam could defeat a Gundam]]. All together, Heavyarms, Deathscythe Hell, Sandrock and Talgeese III were slowly overwhelmed by the Serpent ZergRush and collectively take a lot of damage from otherwise standard troops, notably with [[WreckedWeapon Sandrock's Heat Shotel being broken]]. That said, it is explained they were [[ThouShaltNotKill pulling their punches to not kill the enemy pilots]] and the Serpent is the most advanced infantry mobile suits to date, invoking SoLastSeason.

* ImprobableAge: Mariemaia. If Episode Zero is to be taken as canon, she's 8 years old. Her voice actor sounds a little too old, but the complexity of her lines, and the rather haughty delivery in the dub, feels way beyond her years (even if she is the child of [[spoiler: MagnificentBastard Treize Khushrenada]]. Then again, Mariemaia was ''very'' much manipulated by [[spoiler:her grandfather, SmugSnake Dekim Barton]].\\
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She's an expy of Mineva Zabi from ''[[Anime/MobileSuitZetaGundam Zeta Gundam]]'' and ''[[Anime/MobileSuitGundamZZ Gundam ZZ]]''. The difference is that Haman Khan was using borderline mind control on Mineva to make her give her complex speeches, while, Newtype powers not existing in ''Wing'', Mariemaia just has to be a "really" fast learner.

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* NecessaryEvil: Relena seems to view the existence and necessity of the Preventers as this. Even in a world without conflict, there would still be battles, with the Preventers stepping in to keep the peace.

* TemptingFate: [[spoiler:"See for yourself just how powerless you are!" Really, Meriemeia? You're telling that to a pilot of the mecha which, [[OneManArmy because of its presence in the battlefield]], [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill changed the tide of the Eve Wars]], [[IdiotBall and that's your response?]] You're just lucky that he [[NoSell No-Selled]] your shelter defense. No, wait. You're lucky because ''[[MoralityPet Relena]]'' is there.]]