MechoselachiaA mecha story with nothing
https://multiverse.soulism.net/c/funny/p/68888/a-mecha-story-with-nothing
Am in the middle of watching Gundam Origins.
Is that the one that feels like Char is recounting the story of 0079 but in a way that makes him seem way more cool and badass than he was?
LOL I’ll let you know once I get around to it.
IheartcheeseI’d watch gay mechs fuck.
Japanese businessman: AHHHHHHH! On top of the corporate headquarters!?
Pacific Rim?
radix1980’s? Yes.
2000’s? No. Full of politics. Government waste, spies, Area 51 coverups, discussions of the deep state and military use in civilian areas. One of the movies referenced wars in the middle east.
lumpenproletariat1980s had political themes. Even the basic premise was a civil war between authoritarians and rebels fleeing a world ravaged by industrial over exploitation.
And one of the 80s episodes referenced the Cuban Missile Crisis as the US and USSR almost went to war over a missing jet.
Mind you it was a kids show from the 89s designed to sell toys, but it had some politics. Everything is ultimately politics, you can’t avoid it.
There was that episode where Optimus Prime discussed the AIDS crisis with Michael Dukakis.
FenrirIII
GrailI’m pretty sure you have to be in some kind of love with your partner to pilot one of those.
CubitOomSame goes for sci-fi
“tHeY mAdE sTaRtReK pOlItIcAl”
680 episode seasons, from which only 3 episodes are not space Aesop’s fables.
TaterTotI know, I know, this is a common complaint about media in general these days.
But I swear on Char Aznabel’s big red Zaku, if they take gay politics out of my big ass robot shows, I’m going to Operation British the Whitehouse!
And another one on Ireland.
And then retroactively drop one on the midwestern United States years before that totally happened despite nobody ever mentioning it.
A show about big fighting mechs isn’t complete if the pilots aren’t gay and in love and hate each other and exclusively communicate through monologues of their ideals on the current political climate.
hansoloThe human drama is the central focus, the mechs is just changing the set pieces.
there’s only so many plots.
For example: It’s a standard workplace love story exploring the ego and id. It’s just that the workplace is an underground base where some dudes are letting teenagers pilot alien hybrid mechs to bring about the end of humanity.
RobotToasterMecha are useful in that they combine the “shining armour” and “gallant steed” of classic stories into a single object.
Captain AggravatedBattletech is basically all of that except gay. I’m trying to think of any gay characters in Battletech…Rhonda Snord? Maybe a couple of the clanners?
Katherine Steiner-Davion (Victor’s crazy sister; not her grandmother, Actual Katrina Steiner) might be considered aromantic…or a psychopath, which I think is an overriding factor.
I wonder if it’s more illegal to be gay in the Draconis Combine or in the Capellan Confederation.
There’s a “rumored” lesbian love affair between Heather Durant and Terens Amaris which results in house Amaris ruling over the Rim Worlds Republic, teeing up her great x5 grandson Stefan to essentially ruin civilization forever. So that’s…kind of canon.
MentalEdgeNo, that still leaves underage pilots going into combat and suffering immense mental trauma.
wizardbeardOr you can take that out and backfill with 90s era pop culture satire. Megas XLR is a masterpiece.
The most popular recent one is Brave Bang Bravern.
Keep in mind Japan has heavy censorship so a lot of the “gay mechas” are implied and subversive theming instead of openly gay.
Squid in a schoolgirls ass is just fine and dandy but heaven forbid someone is gay.
M0oP0oDarling in the Franxx
Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch from Mercury
Pacific Rim. If two straight people merge their minds through a psychic bridge, they both become bigender and then it’s gay. Sorry, I don’t make the rules.
MinnesotaGoddamWhat happens if only one of the robits gets a roberection? Is that gay enough I don’t know how the cybersex is supposed to work my great aunt warned me about people like me
Look, it’s really simple. Master Chief’s suit has a fleshlight built into it and Cortana can control it. It’s called the autojacker. Read Fall of Reach, it’s all in there.
is that what they call jacking on to the matrix?
Post-apocalyptic is automatically political. Plus it is 2 opposing super powers. Sounds like a cold war that went hot.
It’s robot fights instead of waging war? Like saying g gundam isn’t political
Vassiiiiilllllyyyyy!
TropicalDingdongA poor imitation. That’s clearly none pizza with up beef, not left beef.
Rotate thine viewing device?
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maniacalmanicmaniaIt’s looks like You Can’t Do That On Television but I don’t think it is.
OBJECTION!
Gobo
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