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Episode Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX - Episode 5 discussion

Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX, episode 5

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u/Elxjasonx May 06 '25

Is explained a lot that Newtype is the future, so is logical that more and more are born

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u/Pathogen188 May 06 '25

I mean kinda? More than anything else, mainline UC is pretty clear that most characters are wrong about Newtypes. Char and Amuro's prophesied Newtype revolution never comes about (although there's perhaps an argument they're only wrong because steps were not taken to ensure it would).

Newtypes being humanity's future is something people say a lot but never actually comes to fruition, hence the existence of Late UC works like F91 and Victory as well as UC post-UC works such as Reconguista in G.

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u/Momoneko https://myanimelist.net/profile/ariapokoteng May 07 '25

Newtypes being humanity's future is something people say a lot but never actually comes to fruition, hence the existence of Late UC works like F91 and Victory as well as UC post-UC works such as Reconguista in G.

Yeah you can argue that either: a) Newtypes are just a statistical anomaly that will always exist, but in small numbers (like, y'know, gay people for example) b) Newtypes were supposed to be the future of human race, but were driven to extinction by abusing their powers in all the wars.

Personally, I subscribe to the second idea. First, because Zeon Deikun's newtype theory as it was, was proved to be wrong. If being a newtype was simply a human adaptation for living in space, then sooner or later all the spacenoids would become newtypes en masse, not just a dozen of neurodivergent teenagers every 10 to 15 years. Since even ~100 years after Deikun we have only a handful of newtypes running around, we can surmise people don't just mutate into Newtypes by exposure to space.

Secondly, AFAIK, there aren't any indications that being a newtype is a hereditary condition. Granted, there aren't many newtypes with kids in the first place (few even live long enough to make a baby, welp), but every newtype on-screen had non-newtype parents.

AFAIK in extented lore Amuro has a child that is also a newtype, but it's a "parallel" AU canon where both Char&Sayla join Zeon, so I'm not sure how can we trust it as a source.