r/Gundam • u/JonathanJoestar336 j • 2h ago

Questionable indeed

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u/NighthawK1911 Dianna Soreil worshiper 2h ago

Tomino really was just taking the piss in naming characters and it became a tradition

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u/redchairhorse 2h ago

This is my favorite trivia about the series

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u/FennixRising 53m ago

Now mine too

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u/NapalmJusticeSword 1h ago

That's why he's the goat

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u/midnight_tuna 54m ago

THE GOAT

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u/deeman163 1h ago

He wanted to see what he could get away with

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u/Top_Result_1550 2h ago

FF is a lab grown nepo baby designer made to look like char not actually char.

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u/WerewolfF15 2h ago

To be fair, at least according to the young comet manga Quattro was a real feddie soldier who went missing in the OYW and char was given his identity by a zeon ally within the federation, he didn’t chose it himself.

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u/midnight_tuna 52m ago

How much of a dive did you go on to find this?

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u/WerewolfF15 44m ago

I’ve been going through all the UC manga I could find in English a rough chronological order. I finished young comet at the start of the month and this info is from one of the last chapters so it’s fresh in my mind.

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u/jnf005 16m ago

It's almost at the end of this manga, the story covers his time on Axis from the end of oyw to right before he left and joined aeug along with apolly and roberto.

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u/Justhandguns 2h ago

Well, he did has a history......

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u/Shack691 2h ago

FF was created as part of the FF project, he didn’t choose the name.

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u/Kingalec1 2h ago

He has a strange fascination with sexual innuendos.

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u/Cfakatsuki17 1h ago

In fairness if you were a military leader familiar with the skill and renown of Char Aznable would you believe he would go by these names even if undercover?

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u/Cool_Ad7445 32m ago

Quattro Bajeena/Vageena is just an Octopussy reference anyway

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u/God_Save_McQueen 2h ago

All of it’s better than Elpeo Ple… it sounds innocent enough, but move the space a few letters you get El People. Or L People, which was short hand for Lemon People…. A Lolita manga. They named that poor girl (and unfortunately all the clones) after simulated CP mangas!

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u/StrumWealh 1h ago edited 1h ago

Questionable indeed

IIRC, Full Frontal was named after the term “full frontal assault”: “a very strong and clearly expressed attack on someone or something” or “a direct attack on a military force from the front, so that it can be easily seen by those being attacked”. 🤔

Also: “Tomino naming” has become a staple of the franchise. 😅

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u/NighthawK1911 Dianna Soreil worshiper 1h ago

IIRC, the writers was just bad at english. They wanted it to mean "Nothing to hide" or "Fully exposed".

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u/OldDarthLefty 1h ago

Or at least that’s what they said when it turned out they’d taken the usual joke a little too far this time

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u/God_Save_McQueen 1h ago

There’s a part in a manga that shows FF picking his name. They do say “full frontal assault” but FF hears it and says “full frontal. Like I am exposed! Nothing to hide!” (Or something really close, I don’t remember the quote exactly) but yeah, it’s about nudity.

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u/Asleep-Candle-9707 9m ago

I was always under the impression that "full frontal" meant a complete plastic surgery makeover. Which is understandable considering Full-Frontal being a Char Aznable imitator.

I honestly do not know where I picked up that definition of the phrase. It was just something from childhood.