Some dude named James made it and gave it a bunch of Guns easy.

GM is sometimes pronounced "Jim" which is short for James, so maybe this is the "General Model for the military ('gun,' from the Japanese)"

GM is "Jim", Jim is short for James. Simple enough.

The lead engineer was James Gunner

@@Robocopnik Yeah, I imagine that, in-universe, it was chosen as a joking reference to that.

Love guardians of the galaxy.

@@Jociaoftrades Gundams of the galaxy?

Imagine Jamesgun is doing Javelin...... 💀💀💀

@@stormsurge2103 so when will sunrise make a galaxy scale AU?

We need a crossbone anime seriously

I agree. I really like the Late-UC designs in general and the Javelin I've always had a soft spot for.

Absolutely

I'd love some MG Den'an Zons. And not P-Bandai, like the F90 kits.

We are close, but we are around UC 100's, so it may take a while for us to be in a possible f91 retelling/reboot

30 to 35 feet tall MS might be ideal?

With the exception of the F90 series and maybe the Javelin, post UC110 EFF grunts are really underarmed compared to UC90s MS. I know Unicorn was made long after Victory, but seeing how well equipped a ReZEL or a Jegan (espscially the Stark Jegan) is compared to the Jamesgun is really jarring.

@@swordsman1ke511 even more so considering enemy suits are still pretty well armed.

@@swordsman1ke511Budget cuts. The Earth Federation was cash strapped after the Neo-Zeon conflicts and had to downsize.

If it ain't broken, don't fix it? IRL example the Abrams MBT served the US forces well for over 40 years.

i mean, why spend so much money when the updates seem to not be needed? at that point, the Zeons and Cosmo Babylonia are no longer a threat.

@@YiminyCricket pretty much, they didnt feel the need to invest into new machines, as the older models performed perfectly fine as anti insurection tools.

also ,not to be confused with Jamestown.

Jamesgun, Jim Gun... GM gun...

what about the nemo?

​@@marcosdhelenoNemo is AEUG's ms at first

Just too bad we know nothing about gundam unit 8

@@spartana1116 I think Unit 8 is ambiguously the NT1

@@TheRX78ONE yeah had a similar debate were by that logic it could apply to the pixie and other 78-2 gundam dirivitives

@@spartana1116 Yeah that is true, continuity always seems to flux with Gundam, different writers, different mechs, different specs

its actually a pretty funny in universe joke. GMs are also called Jims. Jim is a diminutive was to call James. the jamesgun is also a smaller size MS compared to the original GMs. also, the gun part is probably from Gundan(which is the word for army), so its name is amissnomer for GM Army.

It's already mentioned near the end as Javes.

Well since most invading forces normally take to space, sky snd land thanks to minofsky craft battleships their world no need for amphibious units past the uc90s

And yet the gundiver and aqua gm have beam picks on its arms

Or the G-Saviour having more packs.

Well sunrise and bandai need to remake the late UC right away. They couldn't do early UC especially out l forever

Nearly everything after what is happening with Hathaway currently (timeline wise) was either rushed, cut budgets, and other executive interference.

@@frogfinance4605 G-Saviour’s problem is Canada isn’t it

@@adamntcaponewholikesbigcoo1749 Not sure what G-Saviour is. You must be misremembering the lack of Gundam content in 1999

Very true, hopefully they don't feck us over and pull a Daughtress on us when the time comes :')

right? i had the same experience.

at this point just go to a streaming site and watch it there. also, yeah, the show isnt the best. its basically dumb depressed tomino sharting his way into AU-ness, and calling it part of the UC. it does have its redeeming qualities. the animation is great, being late 89 early 90's. the character designs and personalities is also solid. but the story and the MS design leaves ALOT to be desired. in many ways, if you like how dumb the grunts look in crossbone, you probably shouldnt have a problem with them in victory, some actually look great, almost like very streamlined versions of old designs. i particularly like the looks of the shokew line, and the gengaozo. also, the gottrlatan looks like an evolution of the gerbera tetra kai(although i still like the GT more).

dont forget the MK series. so many diferent gundams, that most people dont even know exists.

If the feds were competent then there wouldn't be any need for gundams and their gifted teen pilots. GMs, Gunblasts, Jamesguns etc. are only there to show that the villains mean business, like the red shirts in Star Trek.

The Zeon wars were over 50 years ago by the time of Victory Gundam though, the Earth Federation was in a deep economic recession and in their estimation couldn't support a strong military without risking economic collapse. The turmoil created by the recession was one of the reasons Zanscare rose to prominence in the first place as a reactionary group that gained traction as the Federation was floundering. The Federation chose to quietly slink away and hope for the best, which... was not a great decision as it turned out.

After Char's Counterattack and Unicorn, the UC was overall far less chaotic; things like the Oldsmobile Army were isolated incidents more than they were full civilization scale wars, and the era began with nearly 30 years of relative peace. Earth was also declining into a prolonged economic recession, the Federation was in that regard scaling back its military spending significantly- it's shown to be one of the resolutions in Unicorn's finale and epilogue. Part of those cuts involved scaling back its presence in space and riding out whatever mobile suits they already had for as long as possible- the Jegan being a prime example of that being still mainlined by F90/F91 despite being 30 years old. Also worth keeping in mind, Late UC material constantly jumps forward multiple decades- thus why the Jamesgun and Javelin were introduced already severely obsolete in their animated appearances. The Cosmo Babylon conflict was 123 and the nation barely survived 5 years before bankrupting itself and dissolving; Zanscare didn't form and invade until the late 140's-early 150s. Most of the Crossbone material is fairly isolated away from the broader eye of the Federation- out on the Jupiter Sphere where they've largely stopped paying attention to. The overt need to keep improving upon them wasn't so ever-present the way it was in Pre-CCA UC- stagnation inevitably keeps setting in and thus we have the Crossbone Dust material, where it's gone from stagnation to outright decline and those outer colonies are basically now in a relatively lawless Waring States period.

@@gtf234 Savior is another example of the decline, one that probably directly leads into Reconigusta In G.

"Get rekt, naturals! Reeee!"

it wouldnt do much? n-jammer isnt a power enhancer, so their beam shots would still be the same. all it does is allow nuclear power use, and nuclear power only gives... power. so it wouldnt need to use batteries. all in all, they would perform literaly the same, only with an extented deployment time. in the end the only 3 units that would make use of it are the aegis(for the scylla cannon), the blitz for infinite invisibility and MAYBE the buster for continuous rifle/shotgun shots, which also doesnt seem like that important since that unit battery is much bigger compared to the other machines(also the weapons have their own batteries as well).

doubt it could happen, as each one would cost "an arm and a leg"...