Mobile Suit Gundam

Mobile Suit Gundam (1979)

18 other mistakes in season 1 - chronological order

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Destroy Gundam! - S1-E2

Other mistake: Bright gets notified that one of the two Zakus is approaching at a velocity 3 times higher than a normal mobile suit's. However, the two dots on the radar (Char and his subordinate Slender's) move in parallel at the same speed. (00:18:15)

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Vote to Attack - S1-E3

Other mistake: Amuro's strategy relies on attacking the enemy having the sun behind himself, but when Ryu sees the Musai for the first time it is clear that the sun is behind Char's ship. (00:10:20)

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Vote to Attack - S1-E3

Other mistake: During the loading operation of the Zakus, the catapult is broken, and one of Gadem's subordinates dies in his arms. The guy has been hit by a salvo of bullets from the Core Fighter, thick enough to make holes in the ship hull, but no hole whatsoever in his spacesuit, visible entirely. (00:17:15)

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Escape from Luna II - S1-E4

Other mistake: Bright realises that the door is unlocked as he pounds on it. The sliding door opens just a little, and the power is off, so it is implied and shown initially that they can be moved by hand. However when they go out of the room and when they go free Sayla and the others, it looks like the door are opening by themselves, not slid open by hand. (00:12:30)

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Garma Strikes - S1-E6

Other mistake: When Amuro exits the Gundam cockpit after successfully repelling Garma's forces, his hair is colored jet black instead of brown (nothing else in the scene changes color and it is a fairly mundane transition, so it's not a matter of light). (00:19:50)

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The Core Fighter's Escape - S1-E7

Other mistake: The Core Fighter has been launched using the catapult that shot it over Garma and Char's position. Despite the need to move forward and the huge momentum built being shot like a missile by White Base, when Amuro dogfights with Char's capsule he flies in all directions around it, and Char's ascended almost vertically. (00:14:00)

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Fly! Gundam - S1-E9

Other mistake: When Fraw Bow makes her way to Amuro's room, she starts going up a metal staircase with rather steep steps. Haro behind her hops on steps that appear wider and lack the side railing...but the best comes later, since when we see Fraw Bow reach the top she's climbing a vertical ladder. (00:02:55)

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Garma's Fate - S1-E10

Other mistake: White Base knocks a car off a rock, but does not hit the rock itself with the part that sticks further lower and passes by right after. (00:06:30)

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Garma's Fate - S1-E10

Other mistake: The 60,000 ton White Base backs into the stadium stands and there's virtually no damage, nor vibrations and sounds big enough to tip the troops of their whereabouts. Such an impact, even if not at top speed, would hardly be without consequences. (00:09:20)

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Garma's Fate - S1-E10

Other mistake: During the carpet bombing, a single bomb quite literally shreds half of a concrete building (at least 5 storeys), but a number of them do not have any special effect on the already wrecked stadium dome. (00:10:20)

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Icelina- Love's Remains - S1-E11

Other mistake: Amuro's Gundam changes relative size compared to the Gaw. The most egregious size problem happens when Amuro sticks the mace weapon into the Gaw, and somehow the staff used as weapon by an 18-meters tall robot, with a big energy attachment at the end, is small enough to run between two soldiers in a narrow corridor. (00:18:30)

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The Threat of Zeon - S1-E12

Other mistake: The three comic relief kids burst into the bridge with hoover. The floor they are cleaning is a single smooth surface, but when Bright apologizes to them, they are standing on the only section with tiles. (00:06:40)

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The Threat of Zeon - S1-E12

Other mistake: During the first phase of the battle with the Zeon forces, in particular in close-up when Amuro botches the landing from the catapult and drags the mobile suit belly down onto the rocks, the V shaped head ornament is entirely red, instead of being red in the middle section and white in the fins. (00:15:40)

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Coming Home - S1-E13

Other mistake: The car waiting for Kamaria at the end of the episode as Amuro and Bright salute her, is drawn with or without glass in the windows. (00:21:00)

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Time, Be Still - S1-E14

Other mistake: After the removal of the second bomb, the squad captain checks how much time is left till the explosion; 8 minutes, he says...as the minute hand turns and stops on 8, with an animation that does not make sense. (00:17:20)

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Cucuruz Doan's Island - S1-E15

Other mistake: When Amuro rescues the two pilots, he lies them down on the beach, side by side on what initially looks like a single tarp. Which can probably make sense, but when the first one dies, Amuro runs to the second, and now it seems that each had their own fancy beach towel to lie upon, which is doubtful being part of the standard Federation equipment. (00:05:50)

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Cucuruz Doan's Island - S1-E15

Other mistake: Amuro and Doan come out of the waterfall charging. Doan's Zaku shoulder-rams the opponent with the right shoulder, while probably he should have done it with the left one, spiked. Mistake, it happens. What should not happen is what ensues later; as the evil Zaku falls back, look at Doan's; the moment he starts running towards the downed opponent, the drawing is mirrored, and literally from one frame to the next he switches shoulder equipment (the shield moves from right to left). (00:18:10)

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Escape from Luna II - S1-E4

Plot hole: White Base and the interior of Luna II withstand without a scratch the explosion of the thermonuclear reactor from the Magellan from just a few meters, while the blast literally vaporizes the Zaku far away from the entrance and threatens to damage the Musai, hundreds of meters away.

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