The GF13-049NM Tequila Gundam is a mobile fighter that appears in the TV anime Mobile Fighter G Gundam.
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Technology & Combat Characteristics
A mobile fighter representing Neo Mexico at the 13th Gundam Fight. It is an amphibious-type specially designed for underwater combat. The hat-like structure atop its head houses a rotating fan, which allows the Tequila Gundam to create a powerful whirlpool and pull enemy mobile fighters into the water. While its defensive capabilities are relatively poor, the Tequila Gundam can block attacks with the reinforced armor on its shoulders and forearms.
In the Super-Class! manga, it is capable of launching the spikes on its right shoulder armor like missiles, and can also detach and propel its hat at opponents.
Armament
- Vulcan Gun
- Mounted on the hat-like structure atop its head. It provides 180-degree close-range protection and can be used to thwart movement.
- Beam Trident
- The main armament of this machine. It generates a trident-shaped beam.
Special Attacks
- Tequila Vortex
- The sombrero-like structure atop the its head houses a rotating fan, which allows the Tequila Gundam to create a powerful whirlpool and pull enemy mobile fighters into the water.
History
Neo Mexico's Tequila Gundam was designed to take advantage of the skills of its powerful pilot, Chico Rodriguez. However Chico's reason for joining the Gundam Fight was to escape to Earth with his sister Gina. Gina had contracted a terminal disease on the Neo Mexico space colony, so Chico became a Gundam Fighter so that they could go down to Neo Mexico on Earth and spend what time they had left at the oceanside. However, Neo Mexico did not like the idea of its Gundam Fighter running off and killing his opposing Gundam Fighters outside of a Gundam Fight. After convincing Chico to join him in a Gundam Fight, Domon Kasshu partially destroyed the Tequila Gundam with the GF13-017NJ Shining Gundam's Shining Finger so that Chico could fake his death and live with his sister. In the eyes of the Neo Mexican authorities, Chico had died valiantly fighting for his country.
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Notes & Trivia
- Tequila Gundam is one of the few Mobile Fighters that is not made as a Mobile Suit in Action!! figure.
- Like the Nether Gundam, the Tequila Gundam is one of the popular subjects for the (usually international) Gunpla community when it comes to discussing any possiblilty of the unit being recreated as a Gunpla (notable guesses include Master Grade/Extreme or amusingly, Perfect Grade) after the minor popularity of the Tequila Gundam Daniel Custom in Gundam Build Divers.
