>>23806050
looks like gundam and doesn't afraid of anything

>>23806050
I can paint a painting that looks like the Mona Lisa, but it doesnt make it the Mona Lisa.

>>23806050
Define "Gundam"

>>23806050
It has to be strong like a Gundam

>>23806064
Something with gundam in it's name, duh.

>>23806093
Explain why things are called "Gundam"

>>23806095
Because the people who designed them named them that. Mostly for marketing purposes. Anaheim loves their money after all, and the gundam brand sells. Naming everything gundam would devalue that brand though, so you gotta keep it scarce.

>>23806095
Because they're derivative in one way or another of the original Gundam.

>>23806102
>>23806106
See? We're already getting different answers, and neither is more "right" or "false" than the other. Learn from this.

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>looks like a gundam, is called a gundam but isn't a gundam

If Gundam isn't in the unit's name on the gunpla box, it's not a Gundam.

>>23806106
All MS after the OYW are derivatives of the RX-78 project. Official sources say that the Alex is basically the godfather of nearly all MS after it. And RX-78-1 > RX-78-2 > RX-78-3 > Alex. And the Alex pioneered movable frame, e-pacs, linear cockpits and 360 panoramic screens, and more. Not to mention the RX-78s pioneered magnetic coating which pretty much became standard. By that logic all MS made after the OYW are gundams.

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>>23806050
It has to say Gundam when you boot it up.

>>23806194
Literally is a Gundam. The whole novel is about that.

Gundams are made with Gundamium alloy, thats what makes them gundams. If you make your car out of gundamium alloy it will be a gundam.

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>>23806050
Having a gundam, but not paying for one.

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>>23809196
Funny thing about the Huckebein is that in its original appearance you could change its colors, so you could outright have it in Gundam colors.

>>23806050
>What's the point?
Bandai needs to give an ace pilot a "special custom suit" but for some dumb reason the series isn't allowed to mass produce Gundams. So ace pilots get second rate mecha. Better than grunt tier but not top tier.

>>23806064
depends on the show. in UC, it's a prototype suit that has the iconic "samurai helmet" head. in IBO it's any mobile suit with a frame that has two Ahab reactors, in 00, it's an mobile suit that has the GN drive, and so on.

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>>23806064
It's a complicated question.

>>23806050
Hang on, the Delta on the right is absolutely referred to as a Gundam by everyone in the game.
I'd know, I finished it like an hour before I saw this thread.

>>23812184
Delta Plus is not called a Gundam.

>>23812254
>MSN-001 Delta Gundam
Appears in the MS Graphica

>MSN-00100 Hyaku Shiki
Appears in the Zeta Gundam anime

>MSN-001A1 Delta Plus
Appears in the Gundam Unicorn novel/anime

>MSN-001X Gundam Delta Kai
Appears in the Gundam Unicorn video game

The line MSN-001 is technically made up of Gundam units even if the 00100 and 001A1 don't actually have the word in their official name.

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>>23812254
Every character in Silver Phantom seems to disagree on the Delta Zayin. The kit box doesn't call it one but everyone in the setting itself does.

>>23806050
Silver Bullet stands tall against a monstrous enemy to protect young ones and give them a chance to fight back. It's a Gundam.

>>23806050
I'm pretty sure in UC the name "Gundam" is probably either a marketing thing or defines a concept of super high performance machine, sorta like how gun guys will throw around the term "RECCE" even though that doesn't always make sense

>>23814630
Read up on RECCE and it fits. The SEAL Recon Rifle is the RX-78, and everything after is just borrowing the name

>>23814803
In gun circles, calling everything fucking RECCE when you drop a scope on it has become sorta cringe but you still see guys doing it from time to time. I don't think UC has an internet equivalent so they probably don't have as many people to spam the comments section of a new Gundam drop with "another Gundam? Cringe"

>>23806064
a damn gun

>>23806050
Because Silver Bullet is just a Doven Wolf with a new head, idiot.

>>23814838
Gundamtards always brag about how nuanced and morally ambigious their precious UC is. And then you got these monoeyed robots getting Gundam and GM head the momment they became "the good guys".

>>23814840
Like you read deep literature.