Who Cloned Char in Gundam Unicorn

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Who Cloned Char in Gundam Unicorn

Maybe i missed this bit, but really - who cloned Full Frontal (his name is also epic ... )?
And why only him? If that organization can clone dead people why not also bring back Zum Daikun - he was a way better orator than his son.
Or some other dead Zions?
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Re: Who Cloned Char in Gundam Unicorn

Monaghan Bakharov Zeon's Forgin Minister. As Narrative reveals Bakharov is behind the Sleeves and Full Frontal in an attempt to allow Zeon to regain it's military might. When this fails he turns to Zoltan Akkanen and yet another remnant movement in order to further his goals. This actually explains quite a lot about the Neo-Zeons movements and their repeated rise to power. All that work would take quite a bit of money (no matter how fragmented or obscure the remnants are they never seem to lack cool new toys to fight the Federation), as well as vast amounts of powerful technology. Granted several prototypes have simply been stole from Anaheim or the Federation; however Zeon stands out in their ability to clone people, granted this hardly goes smoothly , but you never see the Federation cloning anyone. Yet even from an asteroid based by Mars; Zeon remnants have had the ability to mass clone soldiers, and artificially create Newtypes. this is probably best explained by the fact that surviving High Class Nobles and Former Government Members flee amongst the remnants allow the Zeon rebellion to keep going strong.

The Cloning itself is kind of vague; as sometimes it seems like a person is completely manufactured as a clone (Like Mikasa's "Sisters" in Railgun or the mass produced Homunculus in Fate/Apocrypha) in the case of Ple 2 and the Ple clones(and who knows maybe Elpeo Ple herself, we never see much of her backstory or parentage). Other times they seem to be a modified version of an actual person (See Meer Campbell in Seed Destiny). Zoltan and Full Frontal appear to be modified people. Full Frontal is stated to have undergone surgery in order to resemble Char, while Zoltan is shown to be a failed attempt at Char, thus fueling all his actions in the movie.

As for why Char is cloned? it's probably threefold; he is seen as the last descendant of the rightful heirs to the Zeon Throne, he is a powerful Newtype and has natural charismatic abilities, and he is an ace pilot, thus allowing him to fulfill all the roles needed as the leader of the movement.
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Re: Who Cloned Char in Gundam Unicorn

Full Frontal isn't really a clone... he's a cyber-newtype who's been surgically altered to resemble the dead Zeon "hero" Char Aznable for propaganda purposes. He's a fake and he's pretty open about it at least to Banagher. Zoltan Akkanen from Narrative is one of the other candidates who was being prepared to play the role of Zeon's phony Char.

Neo Zeon did experiment with cloning but cloning can only create a copy of someone's body down to the genetic level. You can't duplicate someone's mind. The best you can do is try to indoctrinate the clone to behave in a certain way. Neo Zeon's Ple series were a series of genetically enhanced clones meant to be used as newtype super soldiers, but while their performance was high they exhibited mental instability in actual operation and had difficulty functioning independently. Even after growing to adulthood naturally, Ple 12 (Marida Cruz) had difficulty functioning without a master to give her orders.

Cloning a long dead person like Zeon Zum Deikun would just get you a copy of that person biologically... the clone, unless subjected to heavy indoctrination, would simply be a new person who just happens to have the same DNA as the person who was cloned.
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Re: Who Cloned Char in Gundam Unicorn

It only took Gundam Narrative to even explain the actual Origin of Full Frontal, the Unicorn novel actually stated that in the story, the anime did not.
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Re: Who Cloned Char in Gundam Unicorn

Speaking of which, what is bakharovs plan? There is like 4 years until its time for Reoublic of Zeon to go back to Federation, it doesnt seem to be enough time for Full Frontal's plan to work. Unless Full betrayed Bakharov and instead do his own thing
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Re: Who Cloned Char in Gundam Unicorn

You're right it doesn't seem to make much sense really(SPOILERS); Bakharov intends to revive all of Zeon with his plan, that doesn't include respected moderate leader Mineva Lao Zabi (aka the only other person with blood ties toward Zeon), and with a very small force to lead an entire Side.
Look at what happened in F91 with the Crossbone Vanguard; they had a large force, and took over the Frontier Side, from the admittedly indifferent Earth Federation. Even then they incurred heavy losses from the refugee force lead by the main characters, and they ended up collapsing in a short period due to factors varying from infighting to bankruptcy.
The same occurs with the later Zanscare Empire; they have an entire Side; plus a branch of SNRI, plus captured bases on earth and the moon.
This Zeon is a remnant of a remnant of a remnant(and even that only takes us to CCA); its hard to believe they actually have the force necessary to gain power, let alone keep it. The only thing they accomplish is causing mass casualties in a neutral civilian colony, along with an ensuing PR nightmare for their government, plus bombarding earth with wreckage from a destroyed helium depot (and even that only happened because Zoltan went off the deep end).
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