History Manga / MobileSuitGundamTheOrigin

** Also, in ''The Origin'', the Federation was producing "early types" of the Guntank and, eventually,the Guncannon before the outbreak of the One-Year War. In the the original anime, the Federation didn't have any mobile suits whatsoever until the development of the Gundam.

** Also, in ''The Origin'', the Federation was producing Guntanks and, eventually, Guncannons before the outbreak of the One-Year War. In the the original anime, the Federation didn't have any mobile suits whatsoever until the development of the Gundam.

** Also, in ''The Origin'', the Federation was producing Guntanks and, eventually, Guncannons before the outbreak of the One-Year War, whereas in the the original anime, the Federation didn't have any mobile suits whatsoever until the development of the Gundam.

** The Guncannon First Type's manipulators have three fingers, just like the Zanny, a mobile suit from the late '90s PC game ''Gundam Tactics: Mobility Fleet 0079''. Both were the Federation's first attempt at making a mobile suit in their respective continuity, and were only armed with ranged weapons.

** During the Ramba Ral saga, Kai's Guncannon gets destroyed and replaced with the "Cannon Zaku", a captured Zaku with its head replaced with the Guncannon's. This not only references the "Zeta Zaku" from ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamZZ'', but also bears an uncanny resemblance to the Zanny, a mobile suit from the VideoGame/SDGundamGGeneration series and debuting in the obscure late '90s PC game ''Gundam Tactics: Mobility Fleet''. It was an early prototype of the GM cobbled together by the Federation from Guncannon and Zaku parts, also known as Dahle in Manga/MobileSuitGundamThunderbolt.
** The Guncannon First Type has three fingered hands, just like the Zanny.

** The Zeon APC from ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamThe08thMSTeam'' appears in the manga, even engaging in a CarChaseShootOut with Amuro when he escaped from Rosarito.
** The Gundam's new optional cannon is based on one of the spring-loaded missile launchers that came with the original 1979 [[ShowAccuracyToyAccuracy die-cast action figure]].

** Ghiren's flagship, the Dolos, is a lot more impressive in this version. In the original series it was simply an exceptionally large MS carrier that had the slight design flaw that it prioritized carrying capacity above all else, including catapult decks, meaning it took a long time to launch it's full compliment into battle. In this version it's a gigantic mobile space fortress nearly as big as A Bao A Qu itself that can carry numerous standard size battleships the same way they carry mobile suits.

* AnAxeToGrind: Ortega's High Mobility Zaku II foregoes any guns whatsoever for a scaled up poleaxe version of the Zaku's standard Heat Hawk, which he uses as an anti-shipping weapon.

** Degwin is shown to be a much more caring father figure, at least to Garma. When Gihren arranges for mass riots against the Federation forces occupying Zeon, Degwin warns him that if any harm comes to Garma, then [[PapaWolf Gihren would regret if very badly.]]

** The three sidestories all qualify. "Casval 0057" [[spoiler: has the Zabi family and Ranba Ral working together to protect Zeon Zum Daikun from the Federation while Casval is being born.]] In "Artesia 0083", [[spoiler: Kai plays the ButtMonkey, and CowardlyLion, again while helping to defuse a half-thought out attempt to repatriate Sayla to Zeon.]] "Amuro 0082" has Amuro, Fraw, and Hayato all tour Japan, and a group of {{Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain}}s does slapstick battle with Amuro's bodyguards in the background. All three stories have a remarkably low body count compared to the main story.

* InterchangeableAsianCultures: An in-universe gaffe used to illustrate how distant the colonies have become from Earth. In a particularly heartbreaking scene in the flashback arc, a boy named Yuuki talks with his girlfriend as he's about to go off to war that he's been reading up on his family's ancestral home of Japan and wonders wistfully if he'll live long enough to visit there (spoiler:[[spoiler:[[KillEmAll He won't]]]]). His girlfriend notes they share some similar racial traits and wonders if she has any Japanese ancestry as well. Her name is Li Fang.

** [[spoiler:Garcia Romeo]], whose only tactic seems to be AttackAttackAttack, ended up falling for a diversion, head straight into a section of Jaburo that was under construction, and gets crushed to death by rocks when the Federation simply detonates the section.

* WhatTheHellHero:
** All the really horrible things that happen on Side-7 during the first few installments only happen because the Federation decided to develop the Gundam in secret on a ''neutral'' colony.
** When Sayla is interrogated by the White Base's upper staff because of a suspicious conversation with Cozun everyone is surprised when Omur of all people snaps at them. Omur argues that Sayla did all she could in trying to stop the prisoner from escaping and to have turned on her after all she'd done was a damning lack of faith on their part.

** The Z'Gok blends a number of elements of the classic Z'Gok with the Z'Gok-E from ''Anime/MobileSuitGundam0080WarInThePocket''. It has the color schemes and claw layout of the original series design, but it's torso, raised head, and having 4 claws all make it more similar to the 0080 design.

** Char and Amuro have this dynamic as well, unsurprisingly. The finale puts a different spin on it where when Char tries to cut Amuro down in a sword fight. Char can't help but see Amuro as a younger version of himself; defending Artesia against Kycilia's assassin dressed as a knight. It's Char, not Amuro, who's shaken by this revelation.
* OccamsRazor: While [[FridgeBrilliance Char probably ''does'' find it more physically comfortable to cover his eyes]] since they're so light and sun-sensitive and he ''is'' lacking in pigment... [[SubvertedTrope yeah, that's not why he's doing it.]] (How would you have to worry about UV radiation inside or at night??)

* NotSoDifferent:

* BigFun: Don Mass, Char and Sayla's jolly and rotund adoptive father, and one of the few Federation elites who actually cares about the plight of the poor, bankrolling a refugee center for people fleeing the spreading desertification in North Africa. Sadly, RealityEnsues after a Zabi family assassin throws him out of a window. He suffers a leg injury that doesn't heal properly because of his weight, spends the rest of his life wheelchair-bound and is dead of heart disease within a few years.

** MS-01 did its job well enough... But said job was that of a mobile worker, a humanoid bulldozer. When fitted with a nuclear reactor and used for combat or space-based operations the MS-01 was slow, and underpowered and [[RealityEnsues had poor range due the high propellant consumption from moving the arms and legs]]. It also had a completely exposed and open cockpit, leaving the pilot vulnerable to enemy fire.

* RedShirtArmy: The Federation garrison stationed in Zeon is quickly overwhelmed and forced to surrender to a small contingent of Zeon military cadets despite having a massive numerical and technological advantage. Justified in that the Federation occupation forces are generally portrayed as having a dangerous combination of incompetence and overconfidence, and the cadets were being led by Char himself.