I know it's just aesthetic, but my minor head cannon for uc was zeon beam sabers were derived from the mega partical cannons which usually have green/yellow beams while Freddy sabers derived from the pink beams of beam rifles... since titans use zeon tech their beams ended up yellow
Well the zeks didn't use beam weaponry. They used particle weaponry which was always yellow. Think beams = Lasers/plasma Particle = particle weaponry The main difference is the power source. Particle weapons in theory shoots out excited particles that tear through anything in its path. Radiation sickness but visible and immediate results. Where as beam weapon uses heat or plasma to meat away metal. Different tech which uses different colors cuz different reactions of what is actually happening
This was my thought, and explains why the feds would switch em out after the grips war, since they basically tossed or retrofitted every mobile suit that looked too zeky
I think it is the case since in zeta most of the tech AEUG uses are also from the titans wich are from zeon origin, like the rick dias and methus wich both have yellow sabers
Worth noting, seems like red was exclusively for the drives provided by the Innovators. The mass production A-Laws suits had orange instead. Not sure what the exact lore reason is, but I like to think it’s because the drive system isn’t as refined.
@@suspiciouscheese4518 The reason for that was that the drives particle compression rate was altered which changed their color from red to orange and removed the toxic aspect the red particles had.
Exactly I'm just imagining some poor Anaheim electronics intern who has to go around bugging federation aces for part orders and there's a what color do you want option is on the order form 😂
@@robertdrexel2043 It was with the Nu where it's in one of the duels with the Sazabi, where he managed to overwhelm its Beam Axe. Though it didn't change color so again, very inconsistent.
Imagine, you’re a Zeon pilot and you’re fighting at night. You see a pink beam in the distance. You know that federation mobile suits typically use those pink beams, so it’s likely an enemy. As a Zeon pilot, your allies typically have heat melee weapons or beam sabres that glow with a yellow hue. Identification is my theory as to why certain mobile suits have different color beam weaponry
Ra Cailum: Unidentified Zeon ship, please respond, we will begin out assault in t-minus 60 seconds. What beam colors are you using today? Over Zeon ship: We're using green today, over Ra Cailum: Got it. Switching to pink, over
I have always assumed that it was more an animation studio choice for early Gundam anime. Maybe to pick a colour to clash with mobile suit colours. Probably so when two opposing mobile suits clash with beam sabers the colours will "pop" better.
I'm fairly sure Wing also has semi canon reasons for beam saber color. Weaker beam sabers like the Leos and Tallgeese have red beams while stronger beams that the gundams have are green and like obvious good guy bad guy distinction.
@kflareplays746 isn't Epyon's Beam Sword connected to Epyon's power source which allows the pilot to change the output of it to make it stronger(like when it cut Barge in half)
Wing Canon: Gundanium allows for more powerful pressures and temps which is why Gundanium Beam Sabers are Green. Same reason why Deathscythe's beams are working underwater.
@@austinhall6002all sabers are connected to the power supply through the hands. The Epyron just has a cord that bypasses the connection, straight into the generator. That's why it's so big. It's under restricted
4 examples to consider when discussing beam saber colors in UC - ZZ changes its pink beam to a giant yellow beam saber against the Psycho Mk II - Nu vs Sazabi - Char notes Amruo's pink beam saber was strong than Sazabi's yellow ones - Unicorn ep 3 - Banana super charges Unicorn's beam tonfa from pink to blue and cuts a large chunk of the colony - Unicorn ep 6 - The Jegan type D that tried to stab the Banshee Norn, shorten its beam saber into a dagger shape from pink to light blue (presumably a more concentrated/condensed beam)
Also note that AEUG used both colors of sabers: the Zeta had pink while the Hyaku Shiki had yellow. As an amusing aside, Gundam vs Zeta Gundam keeps the beam saber colors to canon but changes beam _rifle_ colors depending on which side you're playing as, ie. play as Axis and suddenly all Titans suits shoot pink beams.
I always figured it was either one of 3 aesthetic things ( Artistic choice for alignment, Artistic choice from whoever designed the MS irl, or an in-universe aesthetic that a pilot could ask the mechanic to change.) Or that it just kinda happened depending on how the tech interacted and just sometimes your color came out different depending on how your MS was built.
@@Literallyan0body no, Anaheim mostly made the suits themselves while weapons were commonly outsourced to other companies. Or atleast that’s how it is with beam rifles a lot of the time.
I think its kind of fun that (pretty much by coincidence) the color-to-beam intensity _almost_ lines up with the visible light soectrum, with red being the least energy-intense, through yellow, green in the middle, and blue being the most energy-intense. It would also make sense that as the technology progresses, higher-energy beams are developed, and thus early generations of the tech are red/yellow, with later generations being more often yellow/green or beginning to tiptoe into the green/blue area.
There is the different particle colors in 00, but that even is just down to if your GN drive has been set up a certain way or not. And then for some reason, the ELS turn them purple. An amusing UC example is that some of the conflicting beam colors like the rainbow in Zeta and Feddie pink vs. Zeon yellow in CCA/Unicorn is that presumably all of them were made by Anaheim Electronics. Once again, they exist to sow conflict amongst their customers.
00 is a great example. red has less energy than green does and those drives are weaker. purple has more energy than green (or the pink beams from the true drives) and ended up being formidable enemies to cb.
@@ODST172 Red (and gold for Alejandro Corner's Alvatore/Alvaroon) means toxic GN Particles. Orange means the A-Laws and Ribbons' Innovators have tried to reduce the toxicity of the GN Particles. Green means Celestial Being managed to make GN Particles safe and purified to turn normal humans into pure Innovators.
I feel like gundam 00 also has this issue but an explanation at the same time as the colour in the series seems to be more dependent on the colour of the gn reactor, though certain suits also seem to contradict this to a degree. But the plasma sword of the flags is blue while gn particle savers are typically pink, though their colour can be amended based on the reactor to a dark red, pretty sure we saw orange at one point too.
Depends on two things: If the GN Reactor powering said saber is a True GN or False GN Reactor, which does see a difference in beam as the True GN Drive units actually filter the Beams, then if it is a False GN Reactor is it a First Generation Type or Second Generation Type Unit. As the GN-X during Season One, aka First Generation, had Beam Saber and Beam Rifle Shots a dark almost blood red color. The GN-XIII and Aheads seen in Season Two, second generation, had a lighter red color as these units had better control of the particles used in beam sabers or shots. Not to mention having the particles themselves not being as lethal to a human being as the First Generation Units due to this better control.
The explanation I always favored, for UC at least, is that the mega particle precursors used between Federation and Zeon MS are different, or are generated in a different way, which consequently generates a different color.
Very similar to the different blaster colors in Star Wars. Just the gas that produces the plasma bolt (Star Wars "lasers" are superheated and tightly spun gas that is turned into a plasma contained in a bolt), the color depends on the type and quality of gas used in the production.
I always figured it's pretty much just an aesthetic thing and at most some degree of friend and foe identification. No time to watch the video right now but one example is Nemo's beam sabers changing from green color for AEUG units to pink when the same machines are later used by the Federation. By all accounts, I believe it's still the exact same beam saber model.
There was also a scene in Unicorn where during a battle between the Banshee Norn and a few cannon fodder suits, a Jegan changes their beam saber into like a beam knife of sorts and the blade goes from the usual pink to light blue I just assumed that's the beam becoming more powerful
To be honest I think it might have to deal with possible copies rights in the first Gundam series!!! Take a guess which franchise that would have gone after them!?!
Hm, in real life the colors of plasmas has to do with the specific element used as a medium or fuel, and lightning can have different colors depending on atmospheric conditions like temperature, air density, humidity, precipitation, dust, etc. If there was a practical reason for the variations in beam weapon colors my guess would be that they simply use different materials and/or manufacturing methods for the mechanism that generates the beam. Perhaps one faction has an easier time getting a hold of certain raw materials compared to what their enemies use? Maybe one is more expensive but has advantages other than pure power, like higher quality or being easier to work with? Uniformity and tradition probably also plays a big part. In regards to the color changes in Witch of Mercury, perhaps that was not directly related to the power output but a mechanism used deliberately to signal to everyone involved whether the weapons are set for dueling or real combat? That would make it harder to cheat by going into duels with weapons set to full power, for example. In that case I'd assume that the pink and blue beams are mainly meant to distinguish between military and civilian mobile suits.
They all want to play the role of Jedi knights. But I always assumed it was personal preference as everyone wanted to be different rather then just use the same pink beam saber all the time. Shame their wasn’t a general Grievous type of pilot that collected his opponents beam sabers for his collection as trophies
Might be partially responsible for the laser colors in Star Wars, with the Rebel fighters shooting red lasers and the Imperial fighters shooting green.
Wasn't there a scene in Unicorn where some Jegans increased there beam Saber power by shrinking there size but keeping the output. I think it was when they were going to try fight the Sinanju.
It's a combination of the focusing element and the gas (helium as example) used to amplify the beam. Energy beams can always be affected by the components used. It denotes the difference between "good n bad" based on who and where the beam saber was made.
Now that we talked about it; I am curious on why in Build Divers Re:Rise the Eldora Machines, from Mobile Suits to the outright deathstar moon, use decepticon purple as the color for beams and missile exhaust and thrusters, and even purple GN Particles for the Dubious Arche Gundam. I know its a build series, not Timeline based, but as I said, i was just curious on why using dark purple as the "uniform" beam and thruster color.
In WFM, I noticed that the only real difference between blue and pink beam colors is that you only see blue used by Gundam types, otherwise they're both just beam weaponry on high output mode. It's actually a really neat detail for anyone versed in physics and chemistry; the closer you get to the violet side of the visible light spectrum, the higher the energy of the phenomena
I just need to point out that the higher pitched beam noises in SEED are literally the stock sound effect used for small personal blasters in Star Wars.
I always assumed it was a combination of Heat range. Beam or particle. Or energy source. As most Zek weaponry was particle (yellow) and artificial heated through metal(yellow to orange to red). While the Feds mainly used Beam. Which the beams ranged from red to pink to white to blue depending on the heat. Then Green in the GP series with nuclear inclusion. (Even though irl anything nuclear is Blue as radiation used from reactions is blue)
There's also that one scene in Unicorn where the a Jegan fought the Banshee where its beam saber got shorter but got brighter. I always thought it had a higher piercing capabilities.
It just occurred to me that in Gundam Wing the Oz/Alliance MS predominantly got the purple beam sabers while the Gundams - I believe - all had greenish-yellow beam effects on theirs. It's continuing the Federation/Zeon binary from MSG in its own way I suppose, but maybe they thought the Mountain Dew colour clashed less with the Gundams as a whole.
Wing Canon: Gundanium allows for more powerful pressures and temps which is why Gundanium Beam Sabers are Green. Same reason why Deathscythe's beams are working underwater.
I personally like to believe that the color of the beam is a byproduct of the frequency of the output of the actual saber itself. Light is a particle that acts like a wave (and vice versa), and color is determined by wavelength. It's entirely possible that only certain models of beam sabers have a variable output frequency (like the Delta Plus shifting color when shortening the beam). Additionally, the GP02 could change the power of its saber by only adjusting the amplitude of the output and keeping the same frequency.
I have no canon to back it up, but my guess would be it has something to do with the materials used in manufacturing. Similar to, if you have seen The Hacksmith's videos on light sabers, a matter of a specific chemical or metal being used. It could even just be a model by model design choice for corporations like Anaheim Electronics.
It's also worth pointing out that Guel's Dilanza had a pink beam when he turned the limiter off. But it's debatable if that was a military grade unit or not given it's original purpose.
Re-edited my comment because I misread the comment. The Dilanza is probably military graded to begin with and just uses lower settings for the school. After all, they are all the same machines
2:01 turning up the power is like turning up the brightness. Idk how to explain it. I guess like the temperature of the plasma doesn’t get much hotter by turning the power up, you’re just increasing the output of gas output. It’s like putting the pedal to the metal in a corvette ve doing the same thing in a Lamborghini aventador superveloche. Yeah you’re increasing power but whatever umph you’re gonna get has already been decided beforehand. My best example would be 8th me team when the beam saber was used to make a hot tub. You see the color change on the lower end of the powerband.
Thanks, Kakarot! I guess from a stylistic perspective having clashing colored beams does make a fun difference. Hopefully future series will take the G-witch route and have a more in-universe justification. I'm always in for more world-building.
One explanation for the green beam saber on the GP02 might be that it was mainly developed by former zeon engineers, which might have influenced the color of the beam saber
Tbh my tale was always. Different companies might have different ways to make a beam saber and that's how we get different colours. Or its just how the beamsaber was made. Like they may be using components and that's what the different colours are. Just the particles in the blade being energised differently
If I remember correctly, in Unicorn, there is one scene were the Unicorn and Sinanju are fighting in low Earth orbit and the Unicorn powers up it's Beam Tonfa to slice through part of the colony debris while chasing the Sinanju, the beam briefly gets bigger and turns blue. This might be the only instance in U.C were a beam changes colour when powered up, could be related to the Unicorn's Psychoframe shenanigans though. This is also the reason why the MG Unicorn OVA & HD Color + MS Cage kits come with Blue beam effect parts and not the typical Pink, as seen in the rest of the series.
One interesting retcon i recall is that the MG Unicorn OAV version came with blue beam sabers whereas the OAV had pink beam sabers. By the end of the OAV, when the Unicorn is at full power, it is no longer pink though - explanation being that it is blueish to match the mg. Now, don't know what to think about this
Maybe it’s the make and what team develops the saber. Heck other companies hire out of house talent or fold in with others (like zeonic and AE) so it could explain different colours saber as just that other team develop the saber
My headcannon was allways that they had varying colors because they where powered by different reactors configurations, like two car engines and their exhaust sounds can differ from miriad of little variations, simply tuning the reactors can make them different colored. Or another idea is that the beam sabers are manufactured at a probably high rate, by multiple factories and the color comes down to which factory made it, a LUNA based one or an EARTH based one and so on
Simplest head canon for me is that the colors indicate different fuel / power sources or processes to create the energy needed for the beams. This helps with the fact that beam colors usually were clearly meant for animation purposes and doesn’t explicitly state what color is stronger, as being of a different power source might still mean a beam is weaker depending on things like output and whatnot.
In short the beam sabers color is determined by the manufacturer like AE made the EFSF sabers were pink and Zeon being yellow, then later it’s just down to a users choice of color (mainly in hobby model kits) in the anime’s like said in the video
I always thought it was each side having a preference for what plasma mixture is used in their beam sabers. There's trade offs for each gass so its primarily a design choice.
I had it as head canon that the color was something that they could change on a whim , like a filter . Granted they need to swap parts out for it , but yeah .
I wonder if the reason the RX-78-2 had a pink beam saber all the way back in 1979 was due to limited production resources, like the crew could only do so much with coloring techniques of the time. Or maybe it was done to make the weapon more legally distinct from the famous weapons from a galaxy far, far away.
The Unicorn type suits show that when they go into high-powered mode it goes from Pink to Blue, once with the Stark Jegan, and once with both the Unicorn And Banshee
So it's pretty much what I expected- whatever color the artist felt like that day. That makes sense, as A 3D artist, I would strongly consider doing that. Also, the beam saber in 08th Ms Team changed it's saturation and brightness, not it's hue.
Lasers in uc are pink because minoviski particles are pink as seen in the first or second episode of the original show, where minoviski particles are used to cover a blown up part of the white base
Speaking of 0083 there is a part in the second episode that might give some clarity. Near the end of the episode there is a transport flying through the fog to pick up Gato. The pilot states that "We're following the light from your beam saber." How would they have known which beam saber was his if the color wasn't changed to be different from the other potential MS in the area of operations (GMs, the GP01) which all have the same color of beam saber. Could Gato have changed the output of the beam sabers to make it appear yellow in the short time he had between when he hopped in the cockpit and when he was engaged by Kou (when he first drew the saber and it appeared as yellow)?
In 08th MS Team, Shiro lowered the output of his beam saber to melt ice. It turned a dark red at the lower setting. (Edit: He covers this in the video.)
Gato's beam saber wasn't even activated until after the relief ship pilot said that, so he was actually seeing Kou's saber. I'm not sure it mattered either way because if the beam saber wasn't from the GP02 (which it wasn't), the MS using it would be fighting someone, meaning Gato would likely be close by (he was).
My best headcanon idea for the colors is the density of minvosky particles in the blade, not explicitly the strength of it, just the density, as in unicorn we see a Jegan, against the banshee norn, shortnen it's blade to a much shorter length, which could possibly make the blade denser, and then its color switched from pink to purple
in my head canon, its just who's the subcontractor who makes the part that emit the beams. and because its mass production, most of the units fielded by one side gets the same color. i think if Gp02 and other yellow sabers lower their power settings, it would appear yellow/orange. then we have unicorn beam gattling that's green. I-field weapons/shields which tend to be either blue-ish or white. in games, beam smart guns also have blue/white effects. wing series uses green/yellow sabers. then in 00, the green particles vs red particles return to denote good/bad guy.
In universe, it could be the power sources being used by each side. Since the Titans were an elite unit, they would receive more benefits than the average Earth Federation platoon and thus can request for a different power source for their beam weapons which in turn changed the color of the beam. Most Zeon beam weapons also used a different energy source from that of the Feds which is why their colors were yellow. The GP02 was an experimental unit so it probably used a different power reactor. The same can also be said with some of the blue beam mobile suits. Still, I agree that the random beam saber colors is somewhat more appealing as it makes it easier to tell who's attacking who on screen whereas in SEED and SEED Destiny, you're guessing which side is shooting at which.
Had beam saber colors been an indication of power, Gundam Seed would’ve had at least one mobile suit running around with a Positron Beam colored saber (the color of an Agni blast); plus the Turn A would’ve been swinging around the moonlight butterfly as a saber. I like to think the beam saber color is just a manufacturing choice for whoever is responsible for making the suit in question. Maybe Nina or Anaheim Electronics thought “Hey, the GP02 is the one that carries a nuke, right? Why not make the beam saber radioactive green?”
In my own headcannon (see name) I choose to believe it had something to do with the difference in Hydrogen 3 refinement that they used in their reactors. But yeah, its just a visual aid by the animators.
One thing I would love to see be explored for this series is more what-ifs. Most notably, I was wondering what the outcome of the gryps war would be if Cha-I mean Quattro Bajeena got the Mk III Gundam Unit 8 since it was implied that Unit 8 was meant to go to him. Another good one IMO to answer for this series would be if McGillis got the Gundam Murmur for the Mcgillis Fareed incident since that was the gundam frame that his family was piloting during the calamity war.
Now that i think about it, the color if the beam saber is usually the color of the beam that comes out of the beam rifle, Gundam's beam rifle is pink, it's saber is pink, the Delta Plus's Beam Rifle is blue, and it's saber is blue, but everything you said was crazy respectable
The beam saber is probably based on the colour of the beam weapons in Gundam, like they both use the same system and mechanics so they have the same colour
A few people have already made points about this but the beam sabers from Double O do actually have different performance and colour based on their GN drives so that is actually a good example for this question. Red being the weakest and very toxic, Orange being a roughly equivalent but limited duration beam produced by tau drives and pink being the standard colour produced by true GN drives. It deserves a mention as well of the rarely appearing blue-ish white sabers used by the Flag which are actually plasma blades which while not the same thing deserve recognition and distinction for this subject.
As Episode 12 of G-Witch shows, the Green beams only means the limiter is active, likely one that works based on proportions as that one green shot melted half a leg with just a grazing hit
I would say that it'd be a manufacturer's preference. The color depends on what the makers of the MS or just the beam saber, and by maker, i mean the person behind the concept of the MS, and it can be changed on later Developments
And here I always figured it was just different materials used because the given forces had different resources at hand. That would actually not necessarily effect power by the way there are many ways to do a given thing right.
Just a quick comment at about 1:07 But it could be a case of different wavelengths of energy, which would mean that pink, being close to violet and having a short wavelength and high energy, is just the strongest beam that can currently be fired or focused into a blade, while the green sabers are at a mid point on the wavelength, making them decently powerful still.. With yellow being just slightly longer wavelength, meaning they aren't sacrificing too much cutting power. Red beams would be the least powerful, making them good training weapons, while purple beams would be the most powerful, likely to the point of being unstable. Edit: 1:51 the screenshot on screen does kinda blow that idea out of the water... one could argue that due to it's lower wavelength, the green saber is more stable at higher outputs, trading wavelength focusing for just raw power output, but only the creators of the series could answer that for sure.
Personally think it is more like a setting on the sabers, with pink more balanced focussed type meant for longer usage with more intense ones like the rest are more intense with have higher output but need more maintenance better for murder but probs a lot more expensive
I always just assumed it had to do with the specific manufacturer of some internal part of the beam saber. It could be that, depending on the particular angle and pressure that the monovski particles are released and mixed at produces an iredecent effect that changes color with only slight modification.
To add on the WFM bit, the blue beams are specifically used by Gundams without the regulation program. No other MS type had blue beams. The only time we saw the original Aerial with blue is in one of the trailer's ending shot when it was against a Dilanza in space. We never saw the Pharact with blue coz it never had the chance to be used outside Asticassia. Schwarzette used blue in the anime, but the model kit used pink, which seems to be a mismatching trend it shares with the Darilbalde (PURPLE BEAMS, like wot)
I think it's because of the stuff inside the Beam Saber that gives it it's color. Because (and he didn't add it to the video for some reason) in Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn the nz-666 kshatriya used one of its other arms to take a Beam Saber from another Mobile Sute to stab it though the head unit and the color didn't change from whatever color it was (I don't remember the color) to the green color of the kshatriya Beam Sabers. And remember by the end of the One Year War all Mobile Suit and their weapons (except for a few) specially their Beam weapons are all made by Anaheim Electronics for both sides as stated in Mobile Suit Gundam Char's Counterattack.
Speaking of beam saber technology, I heard that Cosmic Era beam sabers specifically cannot clash since the sabers don't emit physical blades like UC beam sabers are able to. Is this still canon? Or is this just gonna be swept under the rug in the new movie?
In the next anime series, I want a scene of protagonists stealing a gundam from their enemies and then being shown in the hangar, tweaking its beam colours, "This way our boys won't shoot at us by accident."
The colors could also potentially be a quick insight into what the character represents. Pink is a color used for compassion, empathy, etc. Green represents new beginnings, ambitions and things like that. But id guess its probably just to make it easy to tell good guy from bad guy unless the series specifically states why like WFM
Yeah, no. In Seed a bunch of machines had pink beams. Even the stolen G-weapons, ZAFT machines like the Bucues, etc. And some of the pilots were not even good people if i remember correctly (like the phantom pain dudes for example)
I always figured it had to do with the "ammunition" used because the other beam rifles tend to follow the same colors as well. Zeon Ships/Suits shoot Yellow Beams while Fed has Pink. Since the first beam weapons used were the cannons on ships I assumed the color was from the ammo used. So in the case of Sabers, probably how the MS Generator works. Zeon would have had to source ammo for their military differently and in secrecy leading up to the War so the differntly sourced technology/ammo results in a different color.
It isn't playing by Star Wars rules where blade color means some arbitrary thing. The colors and sounds used are just differences to give us subliminal audio and visual ques as to who is doing what and what side they're on. Also, it allows for better dynamic contrast in battle scenes, making it easier to figure out who is who. If you wanted an actual reason, maybe they use different gasses and EM frequencies to make and contain the plasma blade or something, like was said there's no in-universe reasons aside from WfM.
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So you mean to tell me it doesn’t have anything to do with their Kyber crystals alignment?….
those goddam space wizards!
IIRC they don't have crystals inside them but do have a capacitor/ecap for minovsky particles.
@@icdeadpipolit's a joke that references how star wars light sabers are made
So white Gundam’s aren’t Jedi?
Then that means the dark Gundam’s aren’t Sith!
I’ve been living a lie!!
Then wouldn't Star Wars be suing Gundam because basically lightsabers
I know it's just aesthetic, but my minor head cannon for uc was zeon beam sabers were derived from the mega partical cannons which usually have green/yellow beams while Freddy sabers derived from the pink beams of beam rifles... since titans use zeon tech their beams ended up yellow
That actually makes a good bit of sense dude 🤔
Sort of what i was thinking
Well the zeks didn't use beam weaponry. They used particle weaponry which was always yellow.
Think beams = Lasers/plasma
Particle = particle weaponry
The main difference is the power source.
Particle weapons in theory shoots out excited particles that tear through anything in its path. Radiation sickness but visible and immediate results.
Where as beam weapon uses heat or plasma to meat away metal.
Different tech which uses different colors cuz different reactions of what is actually happening
This was my thought, and explains why the feds would switch em out after the grips war, since they basically tossed or retrofitted every mobile suit that looked too zeky
I think it is the case since in zeta most of the tech AEUG uses are also from the titans wich are from zeon origin, like the rick dias and methus wich both have yellow sabers
At least series like 00 kept it consistent
Pink: true gn particle
Red/orange: gn tau particle
Blue: non-gn plasma
Worth noting, seems like red was exclusively for the drives provided by the Innovators. The mass production A-Laws suits had orange instead. Not sure what the exact lore reason is, but I like to think it’s because the drive system isn’t as refined.
@@suspiciouscheese4518 The reason for that was that the drives particle compression rate was altered which changed their color from red to orange and removed the toxic aspect the red particles had.
Green is melon & pink is strawberry
It's simple
Yellow is lemon
Red is cherry
And blue is blueberry
Mmm indeed
Remember Mace Windu got a purple lightsaber because Samuel Jackson wanted his to be purple
Exactly I'm just imagining some poor Anaheim electronics intern who has to go around bugging federation aces for part orders and there's a what color do you want option is on the order form 😂
You know that will always be the funniest behind the scenes story from Star Wars😂
I specifically remember a Jegan adgusting the LEGNTH of his beam saber, and it goes from pink to blue-ish white in Gundam Unicorn.
And I think Amuro does something similar in Chars Counterattack though I do not remember if that was with the Nu or earlier with the Re-GZ.
@@robertdrexel2043 It was with the Nu where it's in one of the duels with the Sazabi, where he managed to overwhelm its Beam Axe. Though it didn't change color so again, very inconsistent.
Beam saber coloration is determined by the color of the Kool-Aid used as saber's cooling agent.
Imagine, you’re a Zeon pilot and you’re fighting at night. You see a pink beam in the distance. You know that federation mobile suits typically use those pink beams, so it’s likely an enemy. As a Zeon pilot, your allies typically have heat melee weapons or beam sabres that glow with a yellow hue. Identification is my theory as to why certain mobile suits have different color beam weaponry
"Gundam is just an anime"
*Laughs in ZZ Gundam*
ANIME JA NAI
And that's why the red frame mainly used every possible excuse for blades other than beam sabers.
Ra Cailum:
Unidentified Zeon ship, please respond, we will begin out assault in t-minus 60 seconds. What beam colors are you using today? Over
Zeon ship:
We're using green today, over
Ra Cailum:
Got it. Switching to pink, over
I have always assumed that it was more an animation studio choice for early Gundam anime.
Maybe to pick a colour to clash with mobile suit colours. Probably so when two opposing mobile suits clash with beam sabers the colours will "pop" better.
My thoughts exactly!
Using pink smoke is used throughout the franchise.
I'm fairly sure Wing also has semi canon reasons for beam saber color. Weaker beam sabers like the Leos and Tallgeese have red beams while stronger beams that the gundams have are green and like obvious good guy bad guy distinction.
I would agree, but the Epyon also has a green Sabre (but then again the Epyon by design is obviously a "bad guy" MS)
@kflareplays746 isn't Epyon's Beam Sword connected to Epyon's power source which allows the pilot to change the output of it to make it stronger(like when it cut Barge in half)
Wing Canon: Gundanium allows for more powerful pressures and temps which is why Gundanium Beam Sabers are Green.
Same reason why Deathscythe's beams are working underwater.
@@austinhall6002all sabers are connected to the power supply through the hands. The Epyron just has a cord that bypasses the connection, straight into the generator. That's why it's so big. It's under restricted
4 examples to consider when discussing beam saber colors in UC
- ZZ changes its pink beam to a giant yellow beam saber against the Psycho Mk II
- Nu vs Sazabi - Char notes Amruo's pink beam saber was strong than Sazabi's yellow ones
- Unicorn ep 3 - Banana super charges Unicorn's beam tonfa from pink to blue and cuts a large chunk of the colony
- Unicorn ep 6 - The Jegan type D that tried to stab the Banshee Norn, shorten its beam saber into a dagger shape from pink to light blue (presumably a more concentrated/condensed beam)
gundam F91 also used a yellow beam saber
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Isnt Johnny Ridden's Gelgoog beam naginata blue in Gundam Breaker 3?
Also note that AEUG used both colors of sabers: the Zeta had pink while the Hyaku Shiki had yellow.
As an amusing aside, Gundam vs Zeta Gundam keeps the beam saber colors to canon but changes beam _rifle_ colors depending on which side you're playing as, ie. play as Axis and suddenly all Titans suits shoot pink beams.
I always figured it was either one of 3 aesthetic things ( Artistic choice for alignment, Artistic choice from whoever designed the MS irl, or an in-universe aesthetic that a pilot could ask the mechanic to change.) Or that it just kinda happened depending on how the tech interacted and just sometimes your color came out different depending on how your MS was built.
My thoughts on this was just that it’s different brands having a trademark color or something.
Aren’t all light sabe… I mean beam sabers made from Anaheim?
@@Literallyan0body no, Anaheim mostly made the suits themselves while weapons were commonly outsourced to other companies. Or atleast that’s how it is with beam rifles a lot of the time.
@@SunriseOfRaven actually anahime makes the sabers that is why for a long time zakus had a heat axes
@@SunriseOfRaven Probably closer to how it is today. The name on the part might be different, but that company is still a subsidiary of Anaheim.
I think its kind of fun that (pretty much by coincidence) the color-to-beam intensity _almost_ lines up with the visible light soectrum, with red being the least energy-intense, through yellow, green in the middle, and blue being the most energy-intense. It would also make sense that as the technology progresses, higher-energy beams are developed, and thus early generations of the tech are red/yellow, with later generations being more often yellow/green or beginning to tiptoe into the green/blue area.
There is the different particle colors in 00, but that even is just down to if your GN drive has been set up a certain way or not.
And then for some reason, the ELS turn them purple.
An amusing UC example is that some of the conflicting beam colors like the rainbow in Zeta and Feddie pink vs. Zeon yellow in CCA/Unicorn is that presumably all of them were made by Anaheim Electronics.
Once again, they exist to sow conflict amongst their customers.
00 is a great example. red has less energy than green does and those drives are weaker. purple has more energy than green (or the pink beams from the true drives) and ended up being formidable enemies to cb.
@@ODST172 Red (and gold for Alejandro Corner's Alvatore/Alvaroon) means toxic GN Particles.
Orange means the A-Laws and Ribbons' Innovators have tried to reduce the toxicity of the GN Particles.
Green means Celestial Being managed to make GN Particles safe and purified to turn normal humans into pure Innovators.
@@rexlumontad5644 i know all of that. i was speaking about physics
I feel like gundam 00 also has this issue but an explanation at the same time as the colour in the series seems to be more dependent on the colour of the gn reactor, though certain suits also seem to contradict this to a degree. But the plasma sword of the flags is blue while gn particle savers are typically pink, though their colour can be amended based on the reactor to a dark red, pretty sure we saw orange at one point too.
Depends on two things: If the GN Reactor powering said saber is a True GN or False GN Reactor, which does see a difference in beam as the True GN Drive units actually filter the Beams, then if it is a False GN Reactor is it a First Generation Type or Second Generation Type Unit. As the GN-X during Season One, aka First Generation, had Beam Saber and Beam Rifle Shots a dark almost blood red color. The GN-XIII and Aheads seen in Season Two, second generation, had a lighter red color as these units had better control of the particles used in beam sabers or shots. Not to mention having the particles themselves not being as lethal to a human being as the First Generation Units due to this better control.
@@robertdrexel2043 And as for why the flag plasma sword is blue. Well it’s in the name, it’s plasma.
The explanation I always favored, for UC at least, is that the mega particle precursors used between Federation and Zeon MS are different, or are generated in a different way, which consequently generates a different color.
Very similar to the different blaster colors in Star Wars. Just the gas that produces the plasma bolt (Star Wars "lasers" are superheated and tightly spun gas that is turned into a plasma contained in a bolt), the color depends on the type and quality of gas used in the production.
The yellow beam was actually due to the method used to create the beam. This method was developed by zeon and used first on the gyan.
I always figured it's pretty much just an aesthetic thing and at most some degree of friend and foe identification. No time to watch the video right now but one example is Nemo's beam sabers changing from green color for AEUG units to pink when the same machines are later used by the Federation. By all accounts, I believe it's still the exact same beam saber model.
Maybe it's just the color of the refractive lens used to focus the beams for the saber
There was also a scene in Unicorn where during a battle between the Banshee Norn and a few cannon fodder suits, a Jegan changes their beam saber into like a beam knife of sorts and the blade goes from the usual pink to light blue
I just assumed that's the beam becoming more powerful
To be honest I think it might have to deal with possible copies rights in the first Gundam series!!! Take a guess which franchise that would have gone after them!?!
All I know is that I have so many gunpla beam effect parts in my beam baggie, that it's impossible to find the right one for the right model.
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In Unicorn where a Jegan grabs onto the Banshee and changes its beam saber into a beam dagger to stab Riddhe, the blade color goes from pink to blue
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Hm, in real life the colors of plasmas has to do with the specific element used as a medium or fuel, and lightning can have different colors depending on atmospheric conditions like temperature, air density, humidity, precipitation, dust, etc. If there was a practical reason for the variations in beam weapon colors my guess would be that they simply use different materials and/or manufacturing methods for the mechanism that generates the beam. Perhaps one faction has an easier time getting a hold of certain raw materials compared to what their enemies use? Maybe one is more expensive but has advantages other than pure power, like higher quality or being easier to work with? Uniformity and tradition probably also plays a big part.
In regards to the color changes in Witch of Mercury, perhaps that was not directly related to the power output but a mechanism used deliberately to signal to everyone involved whether the weapons are set for dueling or real combat? That would make it harder to cheat by going into duels with weapons set to full power, for example. In that case I'd assume that the pink and blue beams are mainly meant to distinguish between military and civilian mobile suits.
They all want to play the role of Jedi knights.
But I always assumed it was personal preference as everyone wanted to be different rather then just use the same pink beam saber all the time.
Shame their wasn’t a general Grievous type of pilot that collected his opponents beam sabers for his collection as trophies
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Historically NATO used red tracers and the Warsaw Pact used green tracers
Might be partially responsible for the laser colors in Star Wars, with the Rebel fighters shooting red lasers and the Imperial fighters shooting green.
Wasn't there a scene in Unicorn where some Jegans increased there beam Saber power by shrinking there size but keeping the output. I think it was when they were going to try fight the Sinanju.
It's a combination of the focusing element and the gas (helium as example) used to amplify the beam. Energy beams can always be affected by the components used. It denotes the difference between "good n bad" based on who and where the beam saber was made.
Now that we talked about it; I am curious on why in Build Divers Re:Rise the Eldora Machines, from Mobile Suits to the outright deathstar moon, use decepticon purple as the color for beams and missile exhaust and thrusters, and even purple GN Particles for the Dubious Arche Gundam.
I know its a build series, not Timeline based, but as I said, i was just curious on why using dark purple as the "uniform" beam and thruster color.
I mean, the eyes also use that same color, maybe just Alus' personal color
The Gyan Eos laughing with its red beam bayonet:
In WFM, I noticed that the only real difference between blue and pink beam colors is that you only see blue used by Gundam types, otherwise they're both just beam weaponry on high output mode. It's actually a really neat detail for anyone versed in physics and chemistry; the closer you get to the violet side of the visible light spectrum, the higher the energy of the phenomena
I just need to point out that the higher pitched beam noises in SEED are literally the stock sound effect used for small personal blasters in Star Wars.
I always assumed it was a combination of Heat range. Beam or particle. Or energy source. As most Zek weaponry was particle (yellow) and artificial heated through metal(yellow to orange to red). While the Feds mainly used Beam. Which the beams ranged from red to pink to white to blue depending on the heat. Then Green in the GP series with nuclear inclusion. (Even though irl anything nuclear is Blue as radiation used from reactions is blue)
i feel like the answer in universe, is that's it's just a decision by the manufacturers, or by the pilot
There's also that one scene in Unicorn where the a Jegan fought the Banshee where its beam saber got shorter but got brighter. I always thought it had a higher piercing capabilities.
It just occurred to me that in Gundam Wing the Oz/Alliance MS predominantly got the purple beam sabers while the Gundams - I believe - all had greenish-yellow beam effects on theirs. It's continuing the Federation/Zeon binary from MSG in its own way I suppose, but maybe they thought the Mountain Dew colour clashed less with the Gundams as a whole.
Wing Canon: Gundanium allows for more powerful pressures and temps which is why Gundanium Beam Sabers are Green.
Same reason why Deathscythe's beams are working underwater.
My logical opinion was "The Model Number and Type Of The Beam Saber"
im on your side. don't stab me: says the Jedi.
I personally like to believe that the color of the beam is a byproduct of the frequency of the output of the actual saber itself. Light is a particle that acts like a wave (and vice versa), and color is determined by wavelength. It's entirely possible that only certain models of beam sabers have a variable output frequency (like the Delta Plus shifting color when shortening the beam). Additionally, the GP02 could change the power of its saber by only adjusting the amplitude of the output and keeping the same frequency.
That could also explain why the default is pink as red light is absorbed as heat much more readily on most materials.
I have no canon to back it up, but my guess would be it has something to do with the materials used in manufacturing. Similar to, if you have seen The Hacksmith's videos on light sabers, a matter of a specific chemical or metal being used. It could even just be a model by model design choice for corporations like Anaheim Electronics.
It's also worth pointing out that Guel's Dilanza had a pink beam when he turned the limiter off. But it's debatable if that was a military grade unit or not given it's original purpose.
Re-edited my comment because I misread the comment.
The Dilanza is probably military graded to begin with and just uses lower settings for the school. After all, they are all the same machines
2:01 turning up the power is like turning up the brightness. Idk how to explain it. I guess like the temperature of the plasma doesn’t get much hotter by turning the power up, you’re just increasing the output of gas output. It’s like putting the pedal to the metal in a corvette ve doing the same thing in a Lamborghini aventador superveloche. Yeah you’re increasing power but whatever umph you’re gonna get has already been decided beforehand. My best example would be 8th me team when the beam saber was used to make a hot tub. You see the color change on the lower end of the powerband.
Thanks, Kakarot! I guess from a stylistic perspective having clashing colored beams does make a fun difference. Hopefully future series will take the G-witch route and have a more in-universe justification. I'm always in for more world-building.
I love Orange beam saber. Like the one that came with masurao and striker gn-x
Rule of Cool in a nutshell.
One explanation for the green beam saber on the GP02 might be that it was mainly developed by former zeon engineers, which might have influenced the color of the beam saber
Tbh my tale was always. Different companies might have different ways to make a beam saber and that's how we get different colours. Or its just how the beamsaber was made. Like they may be using components and that's what the different colours are. Just the particles in the blade being energised differently
If I remember correctly, in Unicorn, there is one scene were the Unicorn and Sinanju are fighting in low Earth orbit and the Unicorn powers up it's Beam Tonfa to slice through part of the colony debris while chasing the Sinanju, the beam briefly gets bigger and turns blue.
This might be the only instance in U.C were a beam changes colour when powered up, could be related to the Unicorn's Psychoframe shenanigans though.
This is also the reason why the MG Unicorn OVA & HD Color + MS Cage kits come with Blue beam effect parts and not the typical Pink, as seen in the rest of the series.
Are there any documented friendly fire incidents involving HiZacks considering they look like Zakus?
When in doubt, blame Anaheim Electronics for anything post OYW.
One interesting retcon i recall is that the MG Unicorn OAV version came with blue beam sabers whereas the OAV had pink beam sabers. By the end of the OAV, when the Unicorn is at full power, it is no longer pink though - explanation being that it is blueish to match the mg. Now, don't know what to think about this
Maybe it’s the make and what team develops the saber. Heck other companies hire out of house talent or fold in with others (like zeonic and AE) so it could explain different colours saber as just that other team develop the saber
My headcannon was allways that they had varying colors because they where powered by different reactors configurations, like two car engines and their exhaust sounds can differ from miriad of little variations, simply tuning the reactors can make them different colored.
Or another idea is that the beam sabers are manufactured at a probably high rate, by multiple factories and the color comes down to which factory made it, a LUNA based one or an EARTH based one and so on
I just assumed it was like light sabers "good" guys get one color "bad" guys get another
Simplest head canon for me is that the colors indicate different fuel / power sources or processes to create the energy needed for the beams. This helps with the fact that beam colors usually were clearly meant for animation purposes and doesn’t explicitly state what color is stronger, as being of a different power source might still mean a beam is weaker depending on things like output and whatnot.
In short the beam sabers color is determined by the manufacturer like AE made the EFSF sabers were pink and Zeon being yellow, then later it’s just down to a users choice of color (mainly in hobby model kits) in the anime’s like said in the video
Oh my god, I was asking this question weeks ago just because of Sentinel. This might be the funniest thing to happen all week.
I always thought it was each side having a preference for what plasma mixture is used in their beam sabers.
There's trade offs for each gass so its primarily a design choice.
I had it as head canon that the color was something that they could change on a whim , like a filter .
Granted they need to swap parts out for it , but yeah .
ive always assumed it was just something you could get changed but most of the grunts didnt bother
I wonder if the reason the RX-78-2 had a pink beam saber all the way back in 1979 was due to limited production resources, like the crew could only do so much with coloring techniques of the time. Or maybe it was done to make the weapon more legally distinct from the famous weapons from a galaxy far, far away.
my head cannon is probably the chemical used for beam sabers had a different hues so when ignited they produced different colors
The Unicorn type suits show that when they go into high-powered mode it goes from Pink to Blue, once with the Stark Jegan, and once with both the Unicorn And Banshee
So it's pretty much what I expected- whatever color the artist felt like that day. That makes sense, as A 3D artist, I would strongly consider doing that.
Also, the beam saber in 08th Ms Team changed it's saturation and brightness, not it's hue.
Perfect timing, I needed something play while I do chores, because silence breeds Zeonic thoughts
Lasers in uc are pink because minoviski particles are pink as seen in the first or second episode of the original show, where minoviski particles are used to cover a blown up part of the white base
i think it just for audience convenient to see which saber belong to which machine
Speaking of 0083 there is a part in the second episode that might give some clarity. Near the end of the episode there is a transport flying through the fog to pick up Gato. The pilot states that "We're following the light from your beam saber." How would they have known which beam saber was his if the color wasn't changed to be different from the other potential MS in the area of operations (GMs, the GP01) which all have the same color of beam saber. Could Gato have changed the output of the beam sabers to make it appear yellow in the short time he had between when he hopped in the cockpit and when he was engaged by Kou (when he first drew the saber and it appeared as yellow)?
Maybe there's a built-in color setting that pilots can mess around with?
In 08th MS Team, Shiro lowered the output of his beam saber to melt ice. It turned a dark red at the lower setting. (Edit: He covers this in the video.)
Gato's beam saber wasn't even activated until after the relief ship pilot said that, so he was actually seeing Kou's saber. I'm not sure it mattered either way because if the beam saber wasn't from the GP02 (which it wasn't), the MS using it would be fighting someone, meaning Gato would likely be close by (he was).
My best headcanon idea for the colors is the density of minvosky particles in the blade, not explicitly the strength of it, just the density, as in unicorn we see a Jegan, against the banshee norn, shortnen it's blade to a much shorter length, which could possibly make the blade denser, and then its color switched from pink to purple
in my head canon, its just who's the subcontractor who makes the part that emit the beams.
and because its mass production, most of the units fielded by one side gets the same color.
i think if Gp02 and other yellow sabers lower their power settings, it would appear yellow/orange.
then we have unicorn beam gattling that's green.
I-field weapons/shields which tend to be either blue-ish or white.
in games, beam smart guns also have blue/white effects.
wing series uses green/yellow sabers.
then in 00, the green particles vs red particles return to denote good/bad guy.
In universe, it could be the power sources being used by each side. Since the Titans were an elite unit, they would receive more benefits than the average Earth Federation platoon and thus can request for a different power source for their beam weapons which in turn changed the color of the beam. Most Zeon beam weapons also used a different energy source from that of the Feds which is why their colors were yellow. The GP02 was an experimental unit so it probably used a different power reactor. The same can also be said with some of the blue beam mobile suits.
Still, I agree that the random beam saber colors is somewhat more appealing as it makes it easier to tell who's attacking who on screen whereas in SEED and SEED Destiny, you're guessing which side is shooting at which.
Had beam saber colors been an indication of power, Gundam Seed would’ve had at least one mobile suit running around with a Positron Beam colored saber (the color of an Agni blast); plus the Turn A would’ve been swinging around the moonlight butterfly as a saber.
I like to think the beam saber color is just a manufacturing choice for whoever is responsible for making the suit in question. Maybe Nina or Anaheim Electronics thought “Hey, the GP02 is the one that carries a nuke, right? Why not make the beam saber radioactive green?”
I always assumed either different settings for their energy weapons producing different light, or they put different flavoured fizzy pop in them
In my own headcannon (see name) I choose to believe it had something to do with the difference in Hydrogen 3 refinement that they used in their reactors. But yeah, its just a visual aid by the animators.
One thing I would love to see be explored for this series is more what-ifs. Most notably, I was wondering what the outcome of the gryps war would be if Cha-I mean Quattro Bajeena got the Mk III Gundam Unit 8 since it was implied that Unit 8 was meant to go to him. Another good one IMO to answer for this series would be if McGillis got the Gundam Murmur for the Mcgillis Fareed incident since that was the gundam frame that his family was piloting during the calamity war.
Now that i think about it, the color if the beam saber is usually the color of the beam that comes out of the beam rifle, Gundam's beam rifle is pink, it's saber is pink, the Delta Plus's Beam Rifle is blue, and it's saber is blue, but everything you said was crazy respectable
The beam saber is probably based on the colour of the beam weapons in Gundam, like they both use the same system and mechanics so they have the same colour
I noted on gunplas that the AEUG nemo uses yellow sabers while the EFSF uses pink
A few people have already made points about this but the beam sabers from Double O do actually have different performance and colour based on their GN drives so that is actually a good example for this question. Red being the weakest and very toxic, Orange being a roughly equivalent but limited duration beam produced by tau drives and pink being the standard colour produced by true GN drives. It deserves a mention as well of the rarely appearing blue-ish white sabers used by the Flag which are actually plasma blades which while not the same thing deserve recognition and distinction for this subject.
As Episode 12 of G-Witch shows, the Green beams only means the limiter is active, likely one that works based on proportions as that one green shot melted half a leg with just a grazing hit
Well if you were hit with rubber bullet from the canon it would probably still kill you.
I would say that it'd be a manufacturer's preference. The color depends on what the makers of the MS or just the beam saber, and by maker, i mean the person behind the concept of the MS, and it can be changed on later Developments
And here I always figured it was just different materials used because the given forces had different resources at hand. That would actually not necessarily effect power by the way there are many ways to do a given thing right.
Just a quick comment at about 1:07
But it could be a case of different wavelengths of energy, which would mean that pink, being close to violet and having a short wavelength and high energy, is just the strongest beam that can currently be fired or focused into a blade, while the green sabers are at a mid point on the wavelength, making them decently powerful still.. With yellow being just slightly longer wavelength, meaning they aren't sacrificing too much cutting power.
Red beams would be the least powerful, making them good training weapons, while purple beams would be the most powerful, likely to the point of being unstable.
Edit: 1:51
the screenshot on screen does kinda blow that idea out of the water... one could argue that due to it's lower wavelength, the green saber is more stable at higher outputs, trading wavelength focusing for just raw power output, but only the creators of the series could answer that for sure.
Personally think it is more like a setting on the sabers, with pink more balanced focussed type meant for longer usage with more intense ones like the rest are more intense with have higher output but need more maintenance better for murder but probs a lot more expensive
I always just assumed it had to do with the specific manufacturer of some internal part of the beam saber. It could be that, depending on the particular angle and pressure that the monovski particles are released and mixed at produces an iredecent effect that changes color with only slight modification.
To add on the WFM bit, the blue beams are specifically used by Gundams without the regulation program. No other MS type had blue beams.
The only time we saw the original Aerial with blue is in one of the trailer's ending shot when it was against a Dilanza in space. We never saw the Pharact with blue coz it never had the chance to be used outside Asticassia. Schwarzette used blue in the anime, but the model kit used pink, which seems to be a mismatching trend it shares with the Darilbalde (PURPLE BEAMS, like wot)
I think it's because of the stuff inside the Beam Saber that gives it it's color. Because (and he didn't add it to the video for some reason) in Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn the nz-666 kshatriya used one of its other arms to take a Beam Saber from another Mobile Sute to stab it though the head unit and the color didn't change from whatever color it was (I don't remember the color) to the green color of the kshatriya Beam Sabers. And remember by the end of the One Year War all Mobile Suit and their weapons (except for a few) specially their Beam weapons are all made by Anaheim Electronics for both sides as stated in Mobile Suit Gundam Char's Counterattack.
Speaking of beam saber technology, I heard that Cosmic Era beam sabers specifically cannot clash since the sabers don't emit physical blades like UC beam sabers are able to. Is this still canon? Or is this just gonna be swept under the rug in the new movie?
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In the next anime series, I want a scene of protagonists stealing a gundam from their enemies and then being shown in the hangar, tweaking its beam colours, "This way our boys won't shoot at us by accident."
The colors could also potentially be a quick insight into what the character represents. Pink is a color used for compassion, empathy, etc. Green represents new beginnings, ambitions and things like that. But id guess its probably just to make it easy to tell good guy from bad guy unless the series specifically states why like WFM
Yeah, no. In Seed a bunch of machines had pink beams. Even the stolen G-weapons, ZAFT machines like the Bucues, etc. And some of the pilots were not even good people if i remember correctly (like the phantom pain dudes for example)
I always figured it had to do with the "ammunition" used because the other beam rifles tend to follow the same colors as well. Zeon Ships/Suits shoot Yellow Beams while Fed has Pink. Since the first beam weapons used were the cannons on ships I assumed the color was from the ammo used. So in the case of Sabers, probably how the MS Generator works. Zeon would have had to source ammo for their military differently and in secrecy leading up to the War so the differntly sourced technology/ammo results in a different color.
Tracer round differences between nations irl seems like a similar dynamic.
It isn't playing by Star Wars rules where blade color means some arbitrary thing. The colors and sounds used are just differences to give us subliminal audio and visual ques as to who is doing what and what side they're on. Also, it allows for better dynamic contrast in battle scenes, making it easier to figure out who is who. If you wanted an actual reason, maybe they use different gasses and EM frequencies to make and contain the plasma blade or something, like was said there's no in-universe reasons aside from WfM.
An elegant weapon for a more civilized anime.