History Literature / MobileSuitGundamHathawaysFlash

* NeverFoundTheBody: Averted in the novels. Amuro Ray and Char Aznable are confirmed to be dead, precisely because they ''did'' find their bodies. This is unlike in the anime canon, which opted to [[UncertainDoom leave their fates ambiguous]].

-->'''Bright:''' Not exactly. Previous generations of Gundams were always piloted by those with rebellious spirits. In their final moments, those Gundams always ended up [[[Anime/MobileSuitGundam getting decapitated]], [[Anime/MobileSuitZetaGundam engulfed in flames]], or [[Anime/MobileSuitGundamZZ blown to pieces]]. [[HopeSpringsEternal However, even after the Gundam was gone, that rebellious spirit always stayed strong.]]

-->'''Bright:''' Not exactly. [[Anime/MobileSuitGundam Previous generations]] [[Anime/MobileSuitZetaGundam of Gundams]] [[Anime/MobileSuitGundamZZ were]] [[Anime/MobileSuitGundamCharsCounterattack always]] [[Anime/MobileSuitGundamUnicorn piloted]] [[Anime/MobileSuitGundam0083StardustMemory by those]] [[Anime/MobileSuitGundamThe08thMSTeam with rebellious]] [[Manga/MobileSuitGundamThunderbolt spirits]]. In their final moments, those Gundams always ended up getting decapitated, blown up, or engulfed in flames. [[HopeSpringsEternal However, even after the Gundam was gone, that rebellious spirit always stayed strong.]]

* CanonForeigner: The Jegan Ground Type-A that the Manhunter's deploy at Davao was exclusive to the film. In the book, they just used armored cars during the short fight that broke out. Instead of opening fire on the building from the armored car the film instead has the gunfire coming from a turret on the Jegan's crotch.

* GreyAndGrayMorality: [[UpToEleven Easily one of the greyest in the franchise]], [[Anime/MobileSuitGundam00 which]] [[Anime/MobileSuitGundamSEED is]] [[Anime/MobileSuitGundamAGE saying]] [[Manga/MobileSuitGundamThunderbolt a]] [[Anime/MobileSuitGundamUnicorn lot]]. While Mafty is undoubtedly a terrorist group, the Federation is far from innocent. Most notably, using the [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Manhunters]] to forcibly deport completely legal citizens for the crime of speaking out against the Federation, even forcing them and illegal immigrants to perform slave labor in mining colonies.

* ActionPrologue: The story opens with Hathaway, Kenneth and Gigi meeting on a flight from space to Earth and foiling a group pretending to be Mafty from hijacking the flight so they can ransom its rich and well-connected passengers. It is revealed soon after however that Hathaway himself is the actual leader of Mafty, and the prologue's hijackers were completely unrelated to his own plans to acquire the Xi Gundam, and then use it to assassinate the entire Earth Federation cabinet during their upcoming meeting to pass a law that would complete the Earth Federation's transformation into a PoliceState.

* TheUnreveal: Who exactly "Quack Salver", the mysterious backer of Mafty that recruited Hathaway and provides Mafty with intel and weapons, is is never clarified. At best we get some speculation from Hathaway that he's a former or even current Earth Federation general, given he has connections to Anaheim Electronics and access to intel on the Earth Federation cabinet's movements.

* WouldNotShootACivilian: PlayedWith. Mafty doesn't go out of their way to target civilians, and the slaughter in the shuttle is what tips off Kenneth and Hathaway that the Mafty group at the beginning were fakes. However, neither the Federation nor Mafty are averse to killing civilians in a crossfire. At Davao, Gawman blasts several populated hotels in order to kill about a dozen government officials whilst the defense team deliberately fires their missiles and beams within civilian airspace and reek a path of destruction with their stray shots. Though Lane still contributes to the CollateralDamage in Davao, he notably refrains from using most of the Penelope's armaments.

An [[AnimatedAdaptation anime adaptation]] film trilogy serving as a direct sequel to ''Char's Counterattack'' was first teased at the ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamNarrative'' announcement in 2018, and officially confirmed later that year during the Gundam 40th Anniversary Project presentation. The first film was originally set to release on July 23, 2020, but was delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The film has since been delayed three times: first to May 7, 2021, then May 21, and then finally to June 11. Creator/{{Netflix}} will stream the film overseas on July 1, 2021. A [[ComicBookAdaptation manga adaptation]] by Uroaki Sabashi, that serves as a sequel to Uroaki's manga adaptation of ''Beltorchika's Children'', began on April 26, 2021, after publishing the prologue on March 26, 2020.

* TheUnreveal: Who exactly "Quack Salva", the mysterious backer of Mafty that recruited Hathaway and provides Mafty with intel and weapons, is is never clarified. At best we get some speculation from Hathaway that he's a former or even current Earth Federation general, given he has connections to Anaheim Electronics and access to intel on the Earth Federation cabinet's movements.

* CallBack: The boatman hired to take Hathaway away from Davao mentions Emeralda telling him that the ocean really isn't Hathaway's thing, a reference all the way back to ''Anime/MobileSuitZetaGundam'' episode 18, where Hathaway neared drowned in the ocean as a child.

* CouldHaveAvoidedThisPlot: Hathaway opines in an inner monologue after reaching the Xi Gundam that he could've gotten to Mafty's base on Earth in much more secretive ways than taking the Haunzen, but he couldn't resist looking various Federation officials in the eyes one last time before setting off on his mission to kill them all at their upcoming summit.

* CouldHaveAvoidedThisPlot: Hathaway opines in an inner monologue after reaching the Xi Gundam that he could've gotten to Mafty's base on Earth in much more secretive ways than taking the Haunzen, but he couldn't resist looking various Federation officials in the eyes one last time before setting off on his mission to them all at their upcoming summit.

* CouldHaveAvoidedThisPlot: Hathaway opines in an inner monologue after reaching the Xi Gundam that he could've gotten to Mafty's base on Earth in much more secretive ways than taking the Haunzen, but he couldn't resist looking various Federation officials in the eyes one last time before killing them all at their upcoming summit.

** Kenneth notes that the previous leader of his unit is going to a town called Oenberry as part of a "mop up operation" of any Mafty members in the area. When Hathaway and Mafty arrive on the actual scene, it's revealed Kimberly actually just massacred the majority of the town's 30,000 civilians.

* GenocideBackfire: Kimberly, the former Earth Federation Forces commander in charge of hunting down Mafty before being replaced by Kenneth, in a last ditch effort to prove himself goes with the soldiers not rolled into the Circe Unit to wipe out what he suspects to be a Mafty base in the town of Oenberry, killing thousands upon thousands of its innocent citizens. Hathaway and Mafty are not there. When Mafty actually does show up in the area, Kimberly's forces, who have given away their position through the massacre, are easily wiped out by the Xi Gundam. And then, the survivors of Kimberly's attack are revealed to have captured footage of all the war crimes his forces committed, which is then sent to the colonies to be broadcast everywhere and create even greater distrust in the Earth Federation.

* DestructiveSaviour: The Earth Federation, like in other stories where they are made to be less sympathetic, tend to cause a lot of collateral damage. The battle with the Gustav Karls has many of their stray shots and trouble landings that tear the city apart and cause numerous civilian casualties. Gawman himself chastises the Federation's carelessness but since he just fired a laser blast into a couple of heavily populated hotels, he's not one to talk.

* WelcomeToHell: A variant gets uttered by Hathaway while fighting Lane and the Circe Unit after acquiring the Xi Gundam.
-->'''Hathaway:''' From this point on lies Hell.

* DestructiveSaviour: The Earth Federation, like in other stories where there made to be less sympathetic, tend to cause a lot of collateral damage. The battle with the Gustav Karls has many of their stray shots and trouble landings that tear the city apart and cause numerous civilian casualties. Gawman himself chastises the Federation's carelessness but since he just fired a laser blast into a couple of heavily populated hotels, he's not one to talk.

* CallForward: During his discussion with the cab driver, Hathaway predicts major food shortages [[Film/GSaviour in the coming]] [[Anime/MobileSuitGundamReconguistaInG thousand years]].

---> '''Amuro''': ''The grim reaper won't come when you're ready for him, Hathaway.''
---> '''Hathaway''': ''Mind your own business!''