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  • A-LAWS is an acronym like SEAL, "Autonomous- Land Air Water Space."
  • Speaking of weird acronyms, the communistic Human Reform League seems like it should be "People's Reform League", and the official translation comes off as a bit Engrish-y. This actually makes sense, as not only do none of the HRL's member states have a significant English-speaking population, they are actively hostile to most if not all of the countries that do.
  • At the end of Season 1, the announcement of the Federation has over 300 nations supporting the initiative. There are roughly 200 nations today, so serious political separatism would have been necessary to create that many countries during the wars before Celestial Being.
  • The Trinity siblings' whole existence. Their "work" consists of shooting at soldiers, munition workers and the like. Then it appeared later that the Trinities' work is getting shot at, not shooting at people. Their sorties assigned by Ribbons are meant to accumulate hate for Celestial Being, creating a chance for him to deploy the GN-Xs and Innovades. The Trinities had little support from the Ptolemy crew and used inferior machines. They aren't able to fight well if anyone gets KIA since their tactic relied on co-operation heavily. With a bit of luck they're not destroyed in their first contact with the GN-Xs, so Ribbons had to dispose them through Ali. Nena survives, but Ribbons eventually gets her killed as well. So, all the Trinities ever amounted to were pawns for FUCKING RIBBONS! Draco in Leather Pants aside, that's sad.
  • The Anno Domini timeline is unique in that it avoids the Earth vs Colonies setup that most Gundam series have whether Federation vs Zeon or Alliance vs ZAFT. Then the The Movie reveals that Aeolia Schenberg specifically wanted to avoid that situation because he knew that humanity had to change before they started expanding into space. Otherwise you would end up with the same old conflicts carried to the stars, which resulted in the usual Earth vs the Colonies setup in the other timelines. Schenberg and Celestial Being kept the A.D. timeline from ending up like the U.C timeline or the After War era.
  • "Change" as a Central Theme is featured prominently in Gundam 00, not just in the story but in how it plays with franchise's Mythology Gag as well:
    • At the time of the show's airing, OO Gundam presents a break of protagonist-centric Gundam in the entire franchise not meant to tip the scale of warfare with their wondrous weapons, but to abolish conflict entirely through non-violent means.
    • In the ending, Setsuna in his Exia 'surpassed' Ribbons (Voiced by Tōru Furuya who did the voice of the protagonist Amuro Ray back in Mobile Suit Gundam) in his GN-000 O Gundam (whose design is a visual Call-Back to the RX-78 Gundam, the franchise's first namesake)
  • Most of Tieria color scheme are associated with Demisexual, Asexual and Genderfluid pride flag. Which is very appropriated for him who is non-binary character and has emotional attachment with Neil Dylandy while not (or possibly) in romantic way.

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