The be-all and end-all for many Gundam fans, this is the continuity of the original Mobile Suit Gundam and its follow-oops. The most popular and most dominant of the Gundam timelines, it’s where the bulk of the franchise is set, from the original show all the way to last year’s movie Hathaway.
The Universal Century is defined by the rise of the Earth Federation—the unified governmental power on a post-space-expansion Earth being ravaged by climate change, wealth disparity, and population crises—and its conflicts with various factions of interstellar colonial secessionists. The most notable, of course is the “One Year War” in UC 0079 between Earth and the Principality of Zeon—a group of the farthest-flung space colonies rebelling against Earth’s control, usurped by the rise of the fascist Zabi family. This is the conflict in the original Mobile Suit Gundam that sees mechanized infantry, Mobile Suits, begin to dominate warfare, and a brutal event that sees half of all humanity made extinct in the opening months of the war that virtually every other story set here will deal with the lingering generational ramifications of.
Series and Films Set Here:
- Mobile Suit Gundam
- Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam
- Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ
- Mobile Suit Gundam: Char’s Counterattack
- Mobile Suit Gundam: The 08th MS Team
- Mobile Suit Gundam 0080: War in the Pocket
- Mobile Suit Gundam 0083: Stardust Memory
- Mobile Suit Gundam F91
- Mobile Suit Victory Gundam
- G-Saviour
- Mobile Suit Gundam Thunderbolt, Thunderbolt: December Skyand Thunderbolt: Bandit Flower
- Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn
- Mobile Suit Gundam: Twilight Axis
- Mobile Suit Gundam Narrative
- Mobile Suit Gundam Hathaway