History Manga / MobileSuitGundamSEEDAstray

!This series contains examples of:

* DudeLooksLikeALady: Canard Pars. [[BareYourMidriff His outfit doesn't help.]]

* IllGirl: Prayer, a rare male example. [[spoiler: Speculated to be another Al Da Flaga clone or even a, however unlikely, ''Mu La Flaga'' clone]]

* KnifeNut: Gai's preferred melee weapon is the Armor Schneider combat knife first introduced on the Strike Gundam; he eventually installs such blades in Blue Frame's legs and feet. Canard's Hyperion uses beam knives as its melee weapon, and has a grand total of five so it can [[ThrowingYourSwordAlwaysWorks throw them if need be]].

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* ArtisticLicensePhysics: The Delta Astray uses rocket engines for standard maneuvering and the Voiture Lumiere solar sail system for rapid acceleration and extreme maneuverability. Solar sails can push a spacecraft to higher velocities than rockets...eventually. In terms of SuperMode style acceleration, however, they're the ''last'' thing you want to go to.
** Also, the Powered Red represents a particularly suspension of disbelief-obliterating example. It's supposed to be able to swing a 150 meter katana, far larger and denser than itself. It is said to be designed to have enough strength to do this, [[SpaceDoesNotWorkThatWay when the real problem is not strength but thrust]]. Trying to swing such a massive weapon in space would only result in the Powered Red swinging itself because it has nothing to push off of and its thrust capacity wasn't upgraded. Never mind the mockery it makes of the square-cube law. Even scaling a katana up to mobile suit size was supposed to be difficult. Making one 20 times longer should be impossible if the tech had any internal consistency.
** Speaking of Powered Red, its Red Flame attack is capable of damaging even mobile suits protected by Phase Shift Armor with its sheer force... Despite the fact that Powered Red itself is still made of foaming metal, ''the'' most brittle mobile suit armor material. Logically speaking, an attack that powerful would shatter its hand, and possibly its arm too.

* KatanasAreJustBetter: Arguably [[JustifiedTrope justified]]; the Gerbera Straight has no power requirements, which is especially important since a vast majority of Cosmic Era MS use batteries rather than fusion reactors.
** It's a double-edged sword (no pun intended). The katana is the power saver, while the beam saber is better for penetrating armor.

* TechnicalPacifist: Lowe; to quote the man himself, "Don't worry, I'm a Junk Tech; I don't kill."

* {{BFS}}: In ascending order: Gerbera Straight, and its partner Tiger Pierce, Sword Calamity Gundam, the many Tactical Arms' Sword Modes, and the Gerbera Straight II. That last one is [[BiggerIsBetter 150 meter long]](!) and is on one occasion used to [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome skewer a battleship]]..

''Manga/MobileSuitGundamSEEDAstray R'' is the sister series to Astray by a different author, and more or less runs concurrently with the original. Both comics reference each other regularly. A photonovel, ''Astray B'', was also written. Astray R focuses specifically on Lowe's adventures, while Astray B focuses on Gai; the letters refer to their respective Astray Gundams, Red Frame and Blue Frame.

** A downright [[{{Egregious}} ridiculous]] example happens in ''Astray R'', wherein swordmaster Un No pulls a super-fine CleanCut through the barrel of a mobile suit's beam rifle ''with his hand held katana.'' A normal, human-wielded katana cutting through a HumongousMecha-wielded rifle, with no justification other than the implication that yes, katanas really are just that sharp...and he does it ''twice.''

** The last chapter of the original Astray manga showed that both Gai and Miguel Aiman from SEED both had custom GINNs that were lost in battle against each other, [[ForWantOfANail right before the battle on Heliopolis]].

* BrokenPedestal: To a point. [[spoiler:When George Glenn is revived via hologram, the crew (especially fangirl Kisato) is surprised to find that rather than the larger-than-life [[OurFounder figure]] Coordinators made him out to be, he's actually pretty light-hearted and jovial. He even lampshades this trope. George does eventually convince Kisato to give him a fair chance.]]

* SupportingProtagonist: Jess Rabble. He barely does anything of any importance throughout the whole of Destiny Astray and is one of the most boring people on the screen, yet is supposed to be [[InformedAbility special due to his quest for the truth.]]

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* VideoGame/SuperRobotWars: So far has only appeared in ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWarsW''. Interestingly, there are two other playable characters named Gai in it: [[Anime/MartianSuccessorNadesico Daigoji]] and [[Anime/GaoGaiGar Shishioh]].

''GundamSEEDAstray R'' is the sister series to Astray by a different author, and more or less runs concurrently with the original. Both comics reference each other regularly. A photonovel, ''Astray B'', was also written. Astray R focuses specifically on Lowe's adventures, while Astray B focuses on Gai; the letters refer to their respective Astray Gundams, Red Frame and Blue Frame.

Another similar series, ''Gundam [=SEED=] X Astray'', takes place roughly during a short TimeSkip in episode 47 of GundamSEED, and features Canard Pars, a "failed" experiment [[spoiler: in the same "Ultimate Coordinator" program that spawned [=SEED=] protagonist Kira Yamato]]. He wishes to prove that he's not a failure by defeating Kira and the Strike Gundam, but first runs into our Junk Guild and Serpent Tail heroes, and promptly attacks them, seeing as they have Gundams in their possession. During this, both teams come across Prayer Revierie, a young boy with a Mobile Suit that contains both a nuclear reactor, and a device known as a Neutron Jammer Canceller, which would allow said reactor to work. When Canard finds out about Prayer's N-Jammer Canceller, he naturally wants it to give his Hyperion Gundam the power to face Kira head on (as by this point Kira has upgraded to the nuclear-powered Freedom Gundam).

* AwesomeYetPractical: Red Frame Kai's Tactical Arms IIL can change into "Work Mode", a giant claw which Lowe uses for salvage work. The weapon mounts a beam torch gun which Red Frame hand-wields during Work Mode.

* InsistentTerminology: In ''Destiny Astray R'', Lowe invents the Caletvwlch, which he insists is a multi-purpose cutting and welding tool and '''not''' a weapon...despite the fact that it takes the form of a sword and is named after a legendary sword. When asked, he explains that there are limiters in place to keep it from being used as a weapon; if someone disables those limiters, they're taking responsibility for its use after that point. Note that he does this because the Junk Guild has very strict rules against the creation and sale of weapons.

* BrokenPedestal: To a point. [[spoiler:When George Glenn is revived via hologram, the crew (especially fangirl Kisato) is surprised to find that rather than the larger-than-life [[OurFounder figure]] Coordinators made him out to be, he's actually pretty light-hearted and jovial. He even lampshades this trope.]]

A series of manga that mostly take place just behind, and a little to the left, of ''MobileSuitGundamSEED''.

* LighterAndSofter: At least the stories revolving on Lowe's team, and comparing it to the [[MobileSuitGundamSEED main series]]. There are still the sad fatalities of war, but the major lowering of the kill-rate (particularly thanks to Lowe and Co.'s aversion to killing) along with Lowe and his group's hijinks and eccentricities keep their stories from brooding so much. Some of the mangas even have comic strips at the end of each issue focusing and exaggerating on these lighter aspects of the stories. Gai and his group practically carry the major bulk of the seriousness of the conflicts.

* VoodooShark: Kira's survival of the Aegis' self-destruction is explained as Lowe finding Kira and getting him medical aid. However, it doesn't explain the fact that Kira is alive at all, considering the Strike's cockpit was scorched and damaged so badly Lowe was able to force it open by hand.

* BrokenPedestal: To a point. [[spoiler: As it turns out, George Glenn is shown to be the rather silly, light-hearted person he was in life rather than the larger-than-life [[OurFounder figure]] his Coordinator successors make him out to be. He even lampshades this trope.]]
* CanonImmigrant: ZigZaggingTrope. During the high of Anime/MobileSuitGundamSEED, it's hinted that Sunrise may consider Astray an official work, for the anime staff did get involved in its production. They eventually drop that, and thus Astray remain as ExpandedUniverse like any manga. However, there are two short Astray anime, and those parts are official.
** The [=ReHOME=] actually makes a cameo appearance in episode 47 of SEED.

* InsistentTerminology: In ''Destiny Astray R'', Lowe invents the Caletvwlch, which he insists is a multi-purpose cutting and welding tool and '''not''' a weapon...despite the fact that it takes the form of a sword and is named after a legendary sword. When asked, he explains that there are limiters in place to keep it from being used as a weapon; if someone disables those limiters, they're taking responsibility for its use after that point.

* CommonplaceRare: The Strike Gundam from the original ''SEED'' was originally a SuperPrototype; ''Astray'' introduces at least three more, not counting the Strike Noir from ''Gundam SEED CE73 Stargazer''.