Mobile Suit Gundam F91: Difference between revisions

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Originally planned as a full-length television series, Gundam F91 hit a production snag due to staff disputes, and the project was stopped after the screenplays for the first thirteen episodes were written. It was then decided that what was made of the show would be condensed into a theatrical feature film. Predictably, condensing a story originally intended to be told over the course of thirteen half-hour episodes into less than two hours of screen time required much of the original story to be cut, and the results are generally regarded with mixed feelings.

The Gundam F91 story was fleshed out in much greater detail in Tomino's two-part novelization. Tomino's manga, ''[[Crossbone Gundam]]'', is a direct sequel which takes place ten years after the events of the movie.

 

 

* [[Action Girl]] - Cecily

* [[All There in the Manual]] - Tomino's novels and manga explain many of the crazier elements going on in the movie. Unfortunately, it's not available in English.

* [[Award Bait Song]]: ''Eternal Wind''.

* [[Awesome Yet Practical]]: The Crossbone Vanguard's shotlancers, which look like giant lawn darts with machineguns strapped to them, were developed as a melee weapon with zero chance of setting off a reactor explosion<ref>The idea is that it would damage but not destroy critical components, triggering the safety shut-off</ref>.

* [[Badass]] - Carozzo/Iron Mask. When {{spoiler|a sniper tries to assassinate him}} in the middle of a speech he doesn't even flinch, he just keeps talking and even makes an epic [[Badass Boast]](seen [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKLkxFfVulI here] in all of its glory). He also shows some epic badassery when he {{spoiler|jumps out of the Rafflesia and tears open Cecily's cockpit}} with his bare hands. In outer space. [[Batman Can Breathe in Space|Without a space suit]].

* [[Badass Normal]] - Seabook is closer to Kou Uraki and Shiro Amada than Amuro Ray.

* [[Big Bad]] - Carozzo

* [[Calling the Old Man Out]] - Seabook has serious issues with his mother Monica choosing to develop mobile suits over raising him and his sister Reese.

* [[Expy]] - Carozzo is an Expy of [[Char Clone|Char]] and [[Star Wars|Darth Vader]], He also seems to be based on The Man In The Iron Mask.

** Likewise, Cecily is an expy of Sayla Mass.

* [[Eyepatch of Power]] - Zabine

* [[The Federation]] - Portrayed here as useless rather than malevolent.

* [[Mobile Factory]]: The Raflessia makes Bugs, which are tiny chainsaw drones.

* [[Omnicidal Maniac]] - Carozzo wants to slaughter the entire population of Earth.

** Most modern mobile suits apply, since in the early UC 0100s there was a general scaling-down. Compare the Crossbone Vanguard suits to the overhauled [[Chars Counterattack|Jegans]], both in size and performance, and see how it goes.

** From what little we see of her, Cecily's mother seemed perfectly fine too.

* [[Slippery Slope]] - ''F91'' and its side materials mark the point where Anaheim Electronics goes from kind of scummy<ref>As in ''[[Zeta Gundam]]'', selling MS to both sides, with the vague justification of "The Titans were onto us, we had to!"</ref> to '''very''' scummy, all because they lost their Federation contracts to SNRI. In the manga ''Silhouette Formula 91'' Anaheim steals the F91's tech for their own Silhouette Gundam<ref>Whose model number is RX''F-91''. Subtle.</ref>, and the [[Super Famicom]] game ''Gundam F90: Formula Wars 0122'', where they help a group of Mars-based Zeon remnants invade Earth, apparently as a "screw you" to the Feddies. If you believe that Anaheim represents ''Gundam'''s old sponsors (see [[What Do You Mean Its Not Symbolic]] below), this would qualify as a [[Take That]] against them.

* [[Super Robot Wars]] - It has appeared in Super Robot Wars 1, [[Super Robot Wars 2]], [[Super Robot Wars 3]], [[Super Robot Wars 4]], [[Super Robot Wars 64]], [[Super Robot Wars 4|Super Robot Wars F, Super Robot Wars F Final]], [[Super Robot Wars Compact]], [[Super Robot Wars Compact 2]], [[Super Robot Wars Alpha]] and [[Super Robot Wars Alpha]] 2

* [[Wasted Song]] - "Kimi wo Mitsumete ~The Time I'm Seeing You~" by Hiroko Mizoguchi; it was intended to be the TV series' theme song, but when those plans were thrown out and the story was turned into a movie the song went completely unused. Nowadays it pops up very rarely, for example in ''[[Gundam vs. Series|Gundam Extreme Vs. Full Boost]]''.

* [[What Could Have Been]] - It was supposed to be a full-length series, but production was snagged due to staff disputes and was ultimately canned. Then it was decided that what was already made would be made into a movie instead, so we get treated to the a highly condensed version of what was supposed to have been the first quarter of a fifty episode show. Made even more "what could" when looking at ''[[Crossbone Gundam]]''.

* [[What Do You Mean Its Not Symbolic]]: ''F91'' marks the first appearance of SNRI<ref>the Strategic Naval Research Institute</ref>, the Federation's in-house think-tank that supplants Anaheim Electronics as the big mobile suit manufacturer for the rest of the Universal Century stories. [[Big Name Fan]] Mark Simmons observed that this movie is also the first ''Gundam'' production under their new owners, '''S'''u'''nri'''se...

 

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