Technology & Combat Characteristics
The Master Gundam is built to utilize Master Asia's fast-paced combat style. As such, it is a fast and highly agile machine, even for a mobile fighter. Its emphasis is on speed and precision over armor, allowing it to be evasive while overwhelming its opponents with flurries of attacks. Its fingers are especially suited to jabbing, the tips tapered in talon-like claws for maximum damage. The forearms house extension systems for improved power, range, and quickness in such attacks. The palms also posses beam emitters for its primary weapon: a beam cloth known as the Master Cloth, which can be manipulated to perform any action as Master Asia's belt cloth. These emitters can also feed energy into special attacks, or launch more traditional beam shots.
Like other mobile fighters, the Master Gundam uses a Mobile Trace cockpit, optimizing it for hand to hand combat and martial arts. However, Master Asia's ability to synchronize with his mobile suit is so high that he does not need most of the standard equipment, most notably the body-glove interface. Simply being in the cockpit gives the ability to control his mobile fighter, as well as to feel the hits it takes.
When not engaged in active combat, the wing binders can fold down into an armored shroud. This is referred to as its "Normal Mode".
Armaments
- Master Cloth
- The Master Cloth is a beam weapon that takes the form of a mobile suit-sized version of Master Asia's belt. Like the belt, the Master Cloth can be manipulated by Master Asia in a variety of ways, making it a versatile weapon that can be used for cutting, blocking attacks, or ensnaring the enemy.
- Near Crusher
- The Near Crusher is a piston-driven extension housed in each of the forearms. These enable the Master Gundam to put more force in its punches, or to lob rapid strikes without the need to move the rest of the arm.
- Distant Crusher
- For even greater range and power, the Master Gundam can launch its entire forearm in a sort of wire-guided rocket punch.
- Hand Beam Cannon/Darkness Shot
- The same palm beam emitters that form the Master Cloth can also be used to fuel special attacks, or for more traditional beam shots against ranged foes.
Ultimate Attacks
- Darkness Finger
- A dark counterpart to the Shining/Rising/God Finger. Its energy is purple instead of green or orange. It can also be used to project a ranged energy attack.
- Chyoukyuu Haou Den'eidan (超級覇王電影弾 Super Overlord Electric-Shadow Bomb?)
- The Master Gundam spins in a horizontal whirlwind as it flies along, allowing it to clear whole fields of enemies.
- Zyuuniou Houpai Daishyahei + Kizan Shyoukouzin (十二王方牌大車併 + 帰山笑紅塵 "Twelve-King-Square-Board-Large-Wheel-Combination (The Grand Wheel-like Combination of the Twelve Sides" + "Return to the Mountains and Smile to the Mortal World")?)
- With its arms in the air, the suit draws the 7 characters of "十二王方牌大車" in a circular wheel-like pattern using the Siddham script. These characters transform into miniature Master Gundams, and are launched and adhered at key points on their opponent's body. Via the use of the technique "Kizan Shyoukouzin", all the miniatures then return to the main body, to suppress further use of energy.
- Suibu Saikenkouko Deadly Wave (酔舞・再現江湖デッドリーウェイブ Drunken Dance, Reappearing in the Scene, the Deadly Wave?)
- The Master Gundam launches a furious wave of punches, leaving afterimages as it attacks, and then the opponent explodes as Master Gundam makes a kicking pose along with the shout of "爆発！" ("Bakuhatsu", literally "Explode!").
- Sekiha Tenkyoken (石破天驚拳 Stone-Crushing Heaven-Shaking Punch?)
- The ultimate technique of the School of the Undefeated of the East. An 'earth-splitting, heaven-piercing' attack, usually launched as a devastating wave of energy.
Special Equipment
- Fuunsaiki is a mobile fighter in the form of a horse, controlled by Master Asia's horse Fuunsaiki. The mobile fighter horse could be ridden by the Master Gundam, or it could transform into a pedestal with rockets powerful enough to propel a mobile fighter into space.
History
Mobile Fighter G Gundam
The Master Gundam was first seen in Japan as a mysterious general of the Death Corps. It was not until the Devil Gundam made its appearance that the Master Gundam was revealed to be piloted by Master Asia. In the ensuing battle, Master Asia would soundly defeat his former student Domon Kasshu and the Shining Gundam. When Domon retreated to the Guyana Highlands to further his training, Master Asia secretly followed with his Master Gundam in tow.
At the end of Domon's training, the two Gundam fighters faced each other once again. Though Master Asia initially overpowered the Shining Gundam, the battle would end in the destruction of the Master Gundam at the hands of Hyper Mode God Gundam. However, the Master Gundam possessed self-regeneration capabilities thanks to the Devil Gundam, and soon reappeared in Neo Hong Kong for the Gundam Fight Finals. Because Master Asia was the previous Gundam Fight champion, he and the Master Gundam would not participate in the Finals until the final round.
In the final battle of the Gundam Fight, it was revealed that the Master Gundam was capable of entering a golden Hyper Mode of its own, similar to the Gundams of the Shuffle Alliance. Yet, with Domon's training finally complete and Master Asia's health declining, the Master Gundam was finally outmatched. After a long struggle, the Master Gundam faltered, and was destroyed by the God Gundam. What remained of the Master Gundam was burned alongside Master Asia's body.
Some time later, when the Devil Gundam seized control of the Neo Japan colony, the upper body of the Master Gundam was used as a component of the Grand Master Gundam. The Grand Master Gundam was defeated by the combined might of the Shuffle Alliance.
Variants
- Master Gundam Master Chinan Custom
- A custom Master Gundam Gunpla that made an appearance in the Gundam Build Fighters finale, piloted by Master Chinan accompanied by Mr. Ral in his Gouf R35 to aid Sei and his companions in battling swarms of Mocks. An attack similar to the Sekiha Tenkoyken was used to destroy several Mocks. The Master Gundam and Gouf R35 then utilized their signature combination technique, wiping out numerous Mocks before continuing in their assault against the remaining enemies. The suit is noticeable for its gold shoulders, side skirting and kneecaps.
- Master Gundam (Reversal ver.)
- In Super Robot Wars Reversal, a fully revived Master Asia will gain a man-made version of the Master Gundam to join the other heroes should players rescue him and fully trigger the Shin Getter Robo vs. Neo Getter Robo finale. As it was man-made and not built with DG Cells, Rain Mikamura warns him that it is not as strong as the original Master Gundam, though Master Asia tells her its the skill of its pilot that draws out its power, not what it's made of.
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Gunpla
Action Figures
Notes and Trivia
- Master Asia, the pilot of Master Gundam, whose alias 東方不敗 (Undefeated of the East), is a direct reference to a eponymous character from 笑傲江湖II東方不敗 (Swordsman II), a 1992 Hong Kong movie written and produced by Tsui Hark based on the wuxia novel 笑傲江湖 (The Smiling, Proud Wanderer) written by Jin Yong (Louis Cha Leung-Yung). All the Heavenly Kings in G Gundam were named after movies directed / produced by Tsui Hark except Gundam Heaven's Sword, which was named after a wuxia movie directed by Wong Jing.
- Master Asia's outfit is a reference to 黃飛鴻 (Wong Fei-hung)'s outfit in Tsui Hark's Wong Fei Hung movie series.
- The ultimate attack "Choukyuu Haou Den'eidan (超級霸王電影彈 Super Conquering King Movie Bomb?)" is a reference to Yasuhiro Imagawa's (Mobile Fighter G Gundam's director) fondness for Hong Kong 80-90' martial art movies.
- The ultimate attack "Sekiha Tenkyoken (石破天驚拳 Stone-Crushing Heaven-Shaking Punch?)" is a reference to the fictional character, 石破天 (Sekpotin), the main protagonist of Louis Cha Leung-Yung's wuxia novel, 俠客行 (Ode to Gallantry). It is also a reference to a Chinese word 石破天驚, meaning something so special and astounding that it shatters the Earth and even the heaven is amazed.
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