G Gundam started the whole "every nigga gets a gundam" situation but you guys aren't ready to talk about it.

The only time "everyone gets a Gundam" is a problem narratively is in Universal Century. It's fair game in any other continuity.

>>23399935 (OP)
Fuck off retard.

>>23399936
if only it made for good shows (g is fine though)

>>23399936
It worked with the Ground Gundams though, mostly because they're canonically dogshit and don't actually provide that much more than a GM.
My only gripe with the AUs doing it is wing, the Sandrock and Shenlong/Altron do jack shit in the show despite apparently being the official strongest ones besides the Wing/WZ

>>23399935 (OP)
faggot

>>23399935 (OP)
My gripe with it is when they add more Gundams to the One Year War.

>>23399935 (OP)
It made sense for the setting where not having a Gundam puts you at a major political disadvantage.

>>23400096
At this point MS development in early UC is a space cocaine fueled nightmare

>>23399935 (OP)
ZZ actually. The Mark II and Zeta were still active.

>>23400028
>canonically dogshit
>the MS that can no sell direct shots to the cockpit from a Zaku's magella cannon
>the MS that can fight on par against Goufs, Efreets, Gelgoogs and even the survive against the Pale Rider

Objectively wrong in every possible regard.

>>23400485
Those were legacy suits brought over and from the previous season and changed pilots every episode, not the same deal as "there's 4 fucking gundams in the first episode and 4 more coming mid season".

>>23400495
>and 4 more coming mid season".
G Gundam didn't do that either, only Domon got a mid-series upgrade

>>23400485
Don't forget the Hyaku Shiki

>>23400485
>ZZ
>>23400495
>>23400520
>>23400632
The also call the ZZ group the Gundam Team

>>23400491
>the magella cannon bullshit
>from a one off segment added to pad out a bluray release

Also the Ez8 keeping up with a Gouf really isn't that wild. The Ez8 had just been fully refitted and repaired while that Gouf was likely overdue for service given that there was a clear lack of ammo going into the final deployment. Ground GM really don't get to show off at all in the show but seem to be as capable as a Ground Gundam even carrying beam sabers and using beam weapons in the show. They really just have slightly weaker armor, no vulcans, no chest gun, and no backpack but the pack could probably be added on after the fact

>>23400173
It makes sense that if they are just starting making mobile suits that they'd try a whole bunch of shit to see what works. I mean the earth federation is fucking massive i'd expect them to make more than just one gundam

>>23400647
Some of that is just Japanese grammar. Like the equivalent of using [Person]-tachi to refer to a group.

>>23400759
They specifically use the name 'Gundam Team' (literally, "ガンダム チーム"), it's not just a more generalised wording being over-specified in translation

>>23399935 (OP)
Don't you mean the Gundam Team in ZZ?
Regardless if they were mostly from previous series, everyone's got a Gundam.
Yes, Hyaku is Gundam.

>>23400894
>Hyaku is Gund-ACK

>>23400096
I'm cool with Ground Gundams.
I'm less cool with all the others. As much as G4 and G5 are cool looking, it muddles up shit when there's like 3 Pegassus Classes around and 6 Gundams.
Not to mention Pixy, fuck I hate Pixy. And theres mulitple Pixies at that.
Then Mudrock etc.

>>23399935 (OP)
Every nigga should get a Gundam except OP becaus he is a faggot

>>23400894
yeah, gundam is no longer a yes/no thing, these days it's more like a spectrum

>>23400904
Is it really muddled? It's not like they're confused for each other. It's not like you confuse Master Chief with other spartans

>>23400946
Well it doesn't make sense when they call Amuro's "The Gundam" or "The White Devil" when there's several Gundams and they all (mostly) have the same amount of white to their color scheme.

>>23400902
It does get literally called a "Gundam-type" in ZZ

>>23400958
I mean, he became known as the The White Devil due to his actions as the pilot of the Gundam, not just due to its look. Even if it's not a proper Ace nickname like "The Red Comet", since it's actually about the suit, it's still similar in that sense.

>>23400946
Master Chief was, from the start, one of many
The Gundam was, from the start, a one-of-a-kind prototype, with awkward additions being bolted on by later entries
Also just the broader issue of the compressed timeframe of the whole thing. In the original show you've got the Gundam just completing its testing and getting prepped to be shipped to Earth in September 0079, and GMs not seeing deployment until November 0079. Then you look at something like 08th MS, and now there's multiple teams of limited-production Gundams out on deployment already on the day of Garma's funeral

>>23400958
That's Amuro's moniker. He has that reputation because he did those things. Nobody accidentally attributes Amuro or the RX-78-2's accolades to any other Gundam or pilot, either.

It's also not like there are a lot of OYW stories where they keep repeatedly mistaking another Gundam for Amuro's model or say, Johnny Ridden for Char. E.g., no one in 0083 looks at Kou's GP01 and shits himself, thinking it's the White Devil. No one does the same for the Alex either.

There's like a grand total of maybe 3 stories where it happens once in each story, or maybe some throwaway line from a game 20 years ago. Hardly something that actually causes pain and frustration in the fandom, and usually played for laughs more than not.

Besides, you can still be called "the [whatever]" and it'll make sense as long as the context is there.

>>23400985
>Master Chief was, from the start, one of many
>The Gundam was, from the start, a one-of-a-kind prototype, with awkward additions being bolted on by later entries
So it was never about how many of them there are, just that retcons are undesirable in general? That's a different type of complaint then, >>23400958 was complaining that they all look similar but only one gets recognition.