The Official Gundam GQuuuuuuX Mecha Thread Mk I

[HussarZwei]

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[MythSearcher]

Do these RX-78/RGM units have a coreblock system? I see it mentioned on the Wiki but unless the coreblock is that "Ball" looking center of the mobile suit then it seems to be incorrect?

I don't recall seeing any core block system in the lineart so that answer is likely "No, TBD". But we also may not may never see if it does because these RX-78s are not the focus of the show. GQuuuuuuX may have one.

The coreblock is different. It is more like the Crossbone Gundam's coreblock where the rear part of the corefighter extends out of the body from the back, hence the large propeller as a backpack and why it cannot lie down like the original RX-78 and needed to sit up when Char finds it.

You can find the detailed designs from Beginning Design Works P.21~23.

[domino]

This is the second time that a mobile suit has exploded after its head was cut off!

Did they bring over the Earth Alliance engineers who built the Leos for this AU or what?

[Mafty]

TBF that also happened in Chars Counterattack with a Jegan, but i agree it dosen't make sense.

[Seto Kaiba]

This is the second time that a mobile suit has exploded after its head was cut off!

Did they bring over the Earth Alliance engineers who built the Leos for this AU or what?

Mobile Suits blowing up from seemingly minimal damage happens all the time in the UC too... it was such a well-established gimmick that they were actively hanging a lampshade on it by the time of Mobile Suit Victory Gundam.

It's just one of those standard Gundam tropes that shows up at least a little in every series.

Even in the recent Cucuruz Doan's Island, there are a pair of GMs that blow up when Doan cuts their arms off or steps on them, and there's that one GM II in Zeta that explodes simply from bouncing off the ground.

[Gruntagen]

Mobile Suits blowing up from seemingly minimal damage happens all the time in the UC too... it was such a well-established gimmick that they were actively hanging a lampshade on it by the time of Mobile Suit Victory Gundam.

What do you mean "Lampshade"? Isn't that the show that made a big deal about Shot Lancers preventing reactor explosions only for them to cause them anyway?

[Seto Kaiba]

What do you mean "Lampshade"? Isn't that the show that made a big deal about Shot Lancers preventing reactor explosions only for them to cause them anyway?

Lampshade Hanging, or "Lampshading", refers to the author of a work explicitly acknowledging the oddness or unnaturalness of a particular plot point or plot device within the story itself.

Mobile Suit Victory Gundam made a plot point out of the way Mobile Suits in Gundam tend to explode violently at the slightest provocation, asserting that these explosions were scattering radioactive debris from the Mobile Suit's reactor into the environment. So the protagonists spend a good deal of time on Earth trying to defeat enemy Mobile Suits in ways that won't cause them to explode and further damage the environment.

[domino]

Mobile Suit Victory Gundam made a plot point out of the way Mobile Suits in Gundam tend to explode violently at the slightest provocation, asserting that these explosions were scattering radioactive debris from the Mobile Suit's reactor into the environment. So the protagonists spend a good deal of time on Earth trying to defeat enemy Mobile Suits in ways that won't cause them to explode and further damage the environment.

What's the source for this? It's a pretty flimsy explanation but I guess it's better than nothing

[Seto Kaiba]

What's the source for this? It's a pretty flimsy explanation but I guess it's better than nothing

It's discussed directly in the Mobile Suit Victory Gundam series itself. I think we first see in Ep29 or so, but it gets discussed properly in Ep34.

For some reason, Victory Gundam's writers decided that not only should Mobile Suits explode when critically damaged... they should go up with some serious gusto. So there's part of the series from around Ep29 to Ep38 or so where enemy Mobile Suits and some ships just blow up like literal nuclear bombs when they're hit. Mushroom cloud and all.

EDIT: I did find a print source that talks about it. Mobile Suit Bible 57. It mentions that Mobile Suits (in the UC) being Made of Explodium is an issue caused by propellant tanks and other volatile stores cooking off. A change in reactor design that yielded smaller, higher ouput reactor models in the UC 0120s also gave them the disquieting tendency to explode like nuclear bombs c. F91 and Victory.

[Gruntagen]

Lampshade Hanging, or "Lampshading", refers to the author of a work explicitly acknowledging the oddness or unnaturalness of a particular plot point or plot device within the story itself.

Mobile Suit Victory Gundam made a plot point out of the way Mobile Suits in Gundam tend to explode violently at the slightest provocation, asserting that these explosions were scattering radioactive debris from the Mobile Suit's reactor into the environment. So the protagonists spend a good deal of time on Earth trying to defeat enemy Mobile Suits in ways that won't cause them to explode and further damage the environment.

First, I already knew what "Lampshading" meant.

Second, that's not lampshading. That's making a way bigger deal out of what used to be a basic fact of the setting and violating previous canon and even the science of how these machines are meant to work to make a really meatheaded "Nukes are bad" message while the cast is fighting people who are trying to bulldoze the planet into a lifeless rock because they think Mother Earth despises the existence of life on her soil.

[domino]

EDIT: I did find a print source that talks about it. Mobile Suit Bible 57. It mentions that Mobile Suits (in the UC) being Made of Explodium is an issue caused by propellant tanks and other volatile stores cooking off. A change in reactor design that yielded smaller, higher ouput reactor models in the UC 0120s also gave them the disquieting tendency to explode like nuclear bombs c. F91 and Victory.

Thanks for this but unlike that scenario (in UC) and previous instances where mobile suits are damaged during battle, rarely ever have we seen the ONLY damage a mobile suit takes it is to the head and it sets off a chain reaction that envelopes the entire mobile suit! I think only Leos in Gundam Wing have been so brittle. In other cases, we could assume there was existing battle damage but not only did a Dom explode this way but a Gundam (unit 1 did as well!) Funny enough, I don't recall the pair of Zakus exploding when their head was sliced off in Machu's first Clan Battle. So it seems to be purely for cosmetics (can't be narrative since the character death neither adds nor removes from the story in GQuuuuuX)

[Seto Kaiba]

No Mobile Suit action in this last episode.

Apparently we're getting this timeline's version of the...

Spoiler

Psycho Gundam

... in the next episode or thereabouts. That should be quite something to behold.

[gxb]

No Mobile Suit action in this last episode.

Apparently we're getting this timeline's version of the...

Spoiler

Psycho Gundam

... in the next episode or thereabouts. That should be quite something to behold.

There was the briefest shot of it in the preview, and I kind of want to see it again and pause to get a better look.

[JEFFPIATT]

Wait a minute, I'm having a sudden thought. Going back to the -01, I just realized: I don't see any Vulcans on its head. Does it not have them? If that's the case, then the total explosion of the mobile suit just from getting its head hacked off becomes harder to explain, though I suppose we can just chalk it up to the usual trope of mech not piloted by main characters being https://www.google.com/search?client=sa ... explodium in general.

Interesting point. I did initially think Leo-vibes of exploding once there's a "critical" hit but from the screenshot, it doesn't look like the beam sabers or backpack was sliced/damaged either (which could be another source of the explosion)

The RX-78-01 is a curious case though since it not only lacks vulcans but also chose to not sortie with its beam rifle (opting to use the bazooka despite its limitations). I hope the story (or lore/wiki) addresses this at some point.

that was just reference the original anime when Amaro first deployed in space he used the hyper bazooka to go ship hunting but had rifle clipped to the back. thye were also mixng mirrored shots so char could shoot shells in the 02 that he fired from the zaku bazooka.