#char clones

[userobiwan]

Star Wars: The Clone Wars ➤ 4.02 Gungan Attack

requested by @blue-thrawn

[naboosands]

Every now and then Master Fisto *accidentally* lands on the Vogue Coruscant cover and the rest of the Council lose their minds

Bonus:

[wordsandrobots]

I think -- and this is just an immediate reaction -- that it is perhaps a mistake to say the red suits are always associated with the Char Clones in a setting. Yes, they often are, but I think it would be fairer to say that red usually denotes 'rival' more than it does 'Char Clone'.

Athrun is the obvious point of reference for this: he is Kira's rival, but doesn't take the antagonist role in SEED in a way that usually falls to the resident 'Char'. You've also got Epyon in Gundam Wing, which while end up in Zechs hands, it does so only after Zechs has ditched much of his Char-like symbols. Prior to that, Epyon serves as a test of character, a rival path that various people have to struggle with (there's a deliberate duality between it and Wing Zero, with Epyon being a dark reflection of any already dangerous force).

In Iron-Blooded Orphans, the Grimgerde is part of the confusion of symbolism surrounding McGillis; who exactly it will become the rival to remains unclear to then end of Season 1 and it is eventually set aside as the 'rival' characteristics shift elsewhere (the red is changed to blue, in opposition to purple). It's a deliberate invocation of Char, but not a straightforward one.

Meanwhile series like Turn A or Reconguista in G also have Char-adjacent characters who don't use red suits. Harry Ord adopts Quattro's gold colour scheme to go along with his status as a more straightforwardly good force in the plot (the red suit falls to Joseph, who does indeed act as a semi-friendly rival to Loran), while Captain Mask kind of dots around between various different colour schemes. Gundam 00 largely ditches all-red suits for its Char Clone: Graham uses mainly black, with red falling instead to Nina Trinity and Ali al-Saachez -- both rival characters to the heroes but not what I'd really call the Chars of the setting.

In short, while Char and 'rival' are synonymous in the original show, such that being a rival to the hero is one of the hallmarks of a Char Clone, not every rival is a clone of Char. Therefore, red gains a slightly different valence over the course of the subsequent shows than it had originally. (Heck, even in 79, Char's final suit is blue, not red.)

Given all this, I don't think it's weird that the red suit would go to Guel. He is firmly in the position of Suletta's rival throughout G Witch, even when neither of them really want that.

Huh, just realised something. Gundam normally makes a big deal about red Mobile suits, since it’s the colour associated with Char and the various Char Clones (I’m not gonna do a taxonomic breakdown right now, but the only Char Clone without those associations that leap to mind is Rau le Cruset, which is because Athrun is the one with red mobile suits in that series). So Red=Important, in other words.

Thing is, I can’t really think of any way Witch From Mercury uses this. Yeah, the Darilbalde above is red, and it’s piloted by Guel Jeturk, one of the Three House Rivals in Witch From Mercury, but it doesn’t really do much? And while Guel himself is an Antagonist, he’s nothing like Char.

So giving him a red suit seems pretty meaningless, moreso because he already had a custom pink colour scheme on his Dilanza. But it’s the only red suit we see, so….?

Feel free to let me know if I’ve missed something here.

[crimson-nail]

GIVE ME CONTROL OF S2 DONT BE SHY I DONT BITE PUT YOUR FINGERS IN MY ENCLOSURE I DONT BITE

[moriaarts]

Cut and Suu

I’m reading this fic Starting over by Rosephan and it has had me in tears multiple times

[kaxtwenty]

The further I get into UC Gundam the more I need to beat Char with a lead pipe.

[slobozan-shitposting]

I hate when warhammer fans claim that tau battlesuits are inspired by gundam. No, they aren't!! It's clear that battlesuits are typical western mechas (scaled up exoskeleton armor) and not eastern mechas! They have more in common with power armor than with gundams.

Ironically enough, many people don't see the piece of tau lore that actually was inspire by Gundam - Farsight is a Char's clone! A red mecha, high speed as a main advantage in combat, good in melee, conflict with the official government, independence movement. Char, you may say, but no, I described commander Farsight.

[daydreamycrustacean]

[amplexadversary]

See, I was thinking he could just tap into your bloodstream. If he's hanging out in Rain's pocket we already know where he's getting the cells to convert from, and, well, why overcomplicate the system that's already there?

I may have just answered my own question by realizing that Rain would probably be turbo-weirded out by the more straightforward proposal.

[ferhog]

Dean Winchester back from hell after Suletta Mercury killed him or something. The only things I know about Supernatural come from the Sarah Z video. I just thought this would make for a funny visual.

[farsight-the-char]

Meme found on reddit, I thought I would stack how 40k's resident Char Clone matched up.

I gave Farsight half-a-point for Freak status because, by his nature of Tau (and other factors), his sheer lack of "Freakness" makes him a Freak in the 40k setting.

[shummthechumm]

I deeply resent and reject the "gray wing is silverpelt" headcanon now, forever, and always. "oh he's nice to his kids for a few chapters" literally what else is likeable about this weirdly spiteful enabler

[lovebugcody]

the "barbie" "and ken" mugshot meme but it's echo and fives respectively

[moriaarts]

CT-4T

I wanted to draw a bunch of trans clones for pride month and in true clone fashion they developed personalities and now they are a whole battalion and have backstory and shit

[lunariarts]

If I got the keys to a mech I'd never fucking go to work a day in my life again. I'll take my fucking giant robot to the drive thru and say "One double cheeseburger, please" and they'll say "here you go, on the house for our favorite Char clone" and you can ignore that last part. I won't even pay rent, I'll live in my mech and it'll be way cooler than living in my car because my robot can kick ass and I can't fuck my car

this ask is great and I totally agree but when I fucking opened it to respond it has collapsed all your text vertically as if it was a poem?? anyways yeah I'd also get burger and fuck my mech too but also have you considered letting your mech fuck your car for like enrichment