YMMV / Mobile Suit Crossbone Gundam

• Angst? What Angst?: One of Tobia's defining characteristics. While it's not like he doesn't angst at all (this is a Gundam story after all), he can sleep it off and be completely fine the next day. Played with when he has to act shell-shocked to (briefly) infiltrate the Jupiter Empire.
• Arc Fatigue: Volume 5 starts with Mother Vanguard sunk and Kincade supposedly killed, but then it hits the brakes for a while and focuses on Tobia, Berah, and Bernadette on Earth undergoing a collective Heroic BSoD over said events, sitting out the war as the Jovians walk all over the Federation. It isn't until Kincade comes back at the start of Volume 6 that things pick up again.
• Broken Base: The sequel series Skullheart, Steel Seven, Ghost and Dust. For some they stray into the ridiculous with some of the wildest and most left field mobile suit designs in the franchise, a tendency towards more out-there storys (up to and including newtype chimpanzees piloting modified Zakus) and in general feeling out of place with regards to the Real Robot intent of the Universal Century and Gundam franchise in general. For others these series just emphasise some of the more appealing elements of the Crossbone manga, seeing the designs as creative and fun, with an overall movement into more traditionally Super Robot leading to wilder and more enjoyable combat. They also point out that a number of UC series have more unusual designs. Regardless there's a largely universal affection for the Crossbone X1 Full Cloth and Phantom/Ghost Gundams.
• Cargo Ship: Grey Stoke has a brotherly bond with the Gump. Which makes sense, since he's been using it ever since it was called the ZZ Gundam.
• Discredited Meme: The memetic general attitude towards Crossbone not having an anime adaptation has waned significantly over the years to the point of this trope, largely due to the series contracting serious Sequelitis with Ghost and Dust and the mechanical design likewise becoming increasingly off-the-wall in nature.
• Fanon: Fans like to believe that Tomino's original proposal for Gundam F91 included Crossbone; it's uncertain, but seems pretty unlikely.
• Fridge Logic: Where exactly are all the mint-condition spare parts from mobile suits like The O, the GP03, the GM Quel & Canard, and other one-of-a-kind units coming from in Dust?
• Retroactive Recognition: The Elgolela (the transforming mobile armor piloted by Bernadette) was a fan-submitted design for a contest; the designer was Kanetake Ebikawa, who would go on to work on such series as Full Metal Panic! and Gundam 00.
• Memetic Badass: Tobia. Seriously - the kid is tough.
  • Want further evidence? Ghost reveals that even blinded, he's a master mobile suit pilot.
• Memetic Mutation: Crossbone Anime when?/never. ^explanation Among diehard (and often desperate) fans, the manga series is extremely notorious for not being adapted into an Animation format, even with the manga topping in the official Animation adaptation polls, and it doesn't help by the fact that the studio still produce other Gundam shows, which fans believe that they have "ignored" or treated the series as non-existent, and they would probably have zero hopes on the manga being potentially animated. It got even worse with the untimely death of Kouji Tsujitani, Kincade's voice actor whenever Crossbone gets into a voiced video game
• Sequelitis: A large portion of the sequel series for Crossbone - mostly Skull Heart, Ghost, and Dust - is now viewed as this to Crossbone and the Universal Century as a whole, due to a perceived heavy decline in writing and mechanical design quality that sometimes severely screws up UC continuity (such as a plot point in Dust where the technophobic Moon Moon willingly acquires a Psyco Gundam and a huge stash of psycoframe - clashing with precedents set in Unicorn and Narrative.)
• Special Effect Failure: Yuichi Hasegawa's artstyle doesn't mesh well with the Used Future setting of Dust, as it cannot accurately reflect the wear-and-tear and stress most of the story's suits are stated to experience from the nature of their construction. Consequently, they appear to be in illogically-pristine conditions out of context, making them look more like Gundam Build models than actual UC mobile suits.

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