i've known the suit was an iteration on the zeta, but i've never seen any material explicitly state that's why the name is Like That

and i never questioned it because the mobile suit/armor names in gundam get even wilder than the peoples'

listen

are you besmirching the name of the noble geminass

or is this hate only directed at UC suits

(in which case Acguy would like a word and Oh Hey Big Zam)

given that i can't even tell what you're goofing on with 'geminass', then yes

i have a shotgun full of Why Are You Named Like This spite shells and i'm catching everything tomino's been remotely adjacent to in the spread

that is literally a protag mecha in the g-unit manga

(and i love l-gaim but i'm shooting it like three times for good measure)

OZX-GU01A Gundam Geminass 01 | The Gundam Wiki | Fan...

oh my god,

Anyway this was more me siding with you via backhanded complimenting your opposition (even if the walking dumpling did nothing wrong)

I love how the AU's of Gundam looked at the shit Tomino named his characters and went

"yeah, let's go with this. let's go HARDER."

tragic space psychic is named four? awesome! let's make a whole cast of child soldiers and name them ALL after numbers. and let's name the rest of them after numbers too. except Relena and Dorothy.

"Okay so one faction in Gundam X is called the Alternative Group"
"Cool! Because they're counter to the prevailing governments?"
"No because the guy who runs it is named Von Alternative."

inkycompass: god that just reminds me of Tomino's own naming

naturally, Dianna Counter is the squad that goes counter to Dianna Soreil, right?

no it's her personal guard

YUP

also I'm in the part of my rewatch where a new faction shows up

the one led by cancer

cancer kafka

the most tomino name this side of full frontal

LMAO YEAH