I’m still getting into Gundam, but so far I’ve sat through all of The Origin, The movie versions of the original, 8th MS Team, and the first season of Gundam 00.
While I get that it’s kind of the point of the series, so far I’ve noticed the Gundams are always completely overpowered relative to the antagonist’s mobile suits. Even at the end of the series when things start to equalize, the protagonists still pull out some new tech or power or whatnot to give them an edge. They seem overly dependent on technology to me, and that feels like a writing mistake. Are there Gundam shows where the good and bad mechs are fairly equalized, and its piloting skill that really makes the difference? Something with no last second powerups or sudden new weapons?
The last fight between Amuro and Char was alright, but the latter’s legless Zeong was hard to take seriously. 8th MS Team wasn’t too bad about this, but it also lacked one on one duels. 00 was almost what I wanted towards the end of season 1, but they still pulled out too many last second abilities.
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After that exhaustive list of anime watched you're just now figuring out Gundam are a bunch of Mary Sues protected by plot armor?
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a mary sue is a character that has the world and narrative simp for him or her, having plot armor or being powerful doesn't make them a mary sue/gary stu. an example is reva from star wars, she knows information that she has no reason to know in universe and the narrative wants you to root for her when she has unrealistic, morally dubious, and hypocritical motivations (not to mention characters like vader who are known to be strict are overly forgiving of her when they wouldn't do that with other characters, a direct character contradiction in favor of keeping reva alive). in gundam the newtypes are basically people with enhanced reflexes, physicality, and minor psychic abilities which makes them able to use mechs with unstable limit pushing technology that isn't safe for regular people, kind of like the halo spartans with mjolnir
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