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(Updated 2/9/26):
Hello, everyone. Let's get on with this mission briefing. Originally, a project that was meant to started last year to coincide with the 45th anniversary of the Mobile Suit Gundam franchise. However, I was forced to abandon it due to being focused on other projects and my personal life. Thankfully, this years marks Gundam Wing's 30th anniversary and Zeta's 40th. And with the recent premiere of the second movie in the Hathaway's Flash film adaptation trilogy, I have decided that now is a good time to recommission this project of mine--Mobile Suit Gundam: White Devil's Legacy - The Tale of Yoshiyuki Tomino's Universal Century.
The contents of this fic will be a cohesive and well-detailed recounting of the Universal Century Gundam timeline, using elements from every major Gundam installment that takes place in the mainline continuity of the Universal Century up until now. So, alternate universe series such as Mobile Fighter G Gundam, New Mobile Report Gundam Wing, After War Gundam X, Mobile Suit Gundam SEED, Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny, Mobile Suit Gundam 00, Mobile Suit Gundam AGE, Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans, Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch from Mercury, or even any of the Build series won't be included in the series at all. Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX won't also be included since it's pretty much of the "Klevin Timeline" of Gundam, given how much it diverges from the main U.C. timeline than others like Thunderbolt and Origin.
Also, I'll be also omitting two certain U.C.-related series in this timeline that'll probably bring up some controversy among some hardcore Gundam fans that'll be reading this--those two being Turn A Gundam and Gundam Reconguista in G (also known as G-Reco, because "Reconguista" is not an actual word). While these two series do have deep connections to the Universal Century with them both being written by the franchise's creator "Kill 'Em All" Tomino, himself, I personally don't see either of them as part of the U.C., but amalgamized settings that utilizes elements of past series prior their respective releases in order to build their stories, such as Turn A's Black History plot point and similar to how Gundam X uses a pastiche of the Earth Federation vs. Zeon conflict for its backstory.
And before anyone goes nuts in the comments, I also want to shout out that I know that certain series such as Gundam: The Origin (both the OVA and manga), both of the original series' novelization and compilation film adaptations, obscure material like Outer Gundam and Revival of Zeon, and other titles under the Universal Century timeline such as Thunderbolt, Zeta Gundam's horrible "New Translation" compilation movies and the Zeta Define manga, Char's Counterattack - Beltorchika's Children, Almarya, and Gaia Gear, while part of Universal Century Gundam, are generally considered to be either non-canon or semi-canon to the main U.C. timeline and take place in their own respective continuities. But I'll be using elements from each of these series to fill out certain gaps in the timeline and expand the universe.
Series Included (expect major to minor spoilers of the following):
EARLY UNIVERSAL CENTURY (U.C. 0079 - 0089)
-Mobile Suit Gundam (with elements from the novelization written by Yoshiyuki Tomino (I: Awakening, II: Escalation, & III: Confrontation), the Compilation Movies (Mobile Suit Gundam I: Journey to Jaburo, Mobile Suit Gundam II: Soldiers of Sorrow, & Mobile Suit Gundam III: Encounters in Space), the Outer Gundam manga written and illustrated by Masahumi Matsuura, the Gundam the Ride: A Baoa Qu/Gundam Crisis theme park attractions, the Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin manga written by original series character designer Yoshikazu Yashuhiko and its OVA adaptation, and the Mobile Suit Gundam Thunderbolt manga written by Yasuo Ohtagaki)
-Mobile Suit Variation (MSV)
-Mobile Suit X (MS-X)
-Missing Mobile Suit Variation/Kunio Okawara Collection (M-MSV)
-Mobile Suit Variations R (MSV-R)
-Mobile Suit Gundam: Record of MS Wars
-Mobile Suit Gundam 0080: War in the Pocket
-Mobile Suit Gundam: The 08th M.S. Team (with elements from Mobile Suit Gundam: The 08th M.S. Team - Miller's Report)
-Mobile Suit Gundam MS IGLOO: The Hidden One Year War
-Mobile Suit Gundam MS IGLOO: Apocalypse 0079
-Mobile Suit Gundam MS IGLOO 2: The Gravity Front
-Mobile Suit Gundam Side Stories (Mobile Suit Gundam Side Story: The Blue Destiny/Mobile Suit Gundam Side Story 0079: Rise from the Ashes/Mobile Suit Gundam: Zeonic Front/Mobile Suit Gundam: Lost War Chronicles/Mobile Suit Gundam Side Story: Space, To the End of A Flash/Mobile Suit Gundam: Cross Dimension 0079/Mobile Suit Gundam Side Story: Missing Link)
-Mobile Suit Gundam Battle Operation Code Fairy
-Gundam: Requiem for Vengeance
-Mobile Suit Gundam: Battlefield Record U.C. 0081
-Mobile Suit Gundam Secret Weapons: Phantom Bullets
-Mobile Suit Gundam 0083: Stardust Memory (with elements from the Runga Offing Cannonade Battle & Mayfly of Space radio dramas)
-Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's Deleted Affair [C.D.A.] - Portrait of Young Comet
-Advance of Zeta: The Flag of Titans/Advance of Zeta: The Traitor to Destiny/Advance of Zeta: The Traitor to Destiny - Blue Wings of the AEUG/Advance of Zeta: The Traitor of Destiny Extra Compilation - Mace of Judgement/Advance of Zeta Re-Boot: Gundam Inle - Black Rabbit Had a Dream
-Mobile Suit Gundam École du Ciel
-Mobile Suit Gundam 0087: Jerid Sortie Order
-Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam (with elements from the Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam Define manga written by Hiroyuki Kitazume)
-Zeta Gundam Mobile Suit Variations (Z-MSV)
-Gundam Neo Experience 0087: Green Diver
-Gundam Sentinel
-Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ
-Gundam ZZ Mobile Suit Variations (ZZ-MSV)
-Gundam Evolve
-Mobile Suit Gundam Walpurgis/Mobile Suit Gundam Walpurgis EVE - The Night Before the Awakening
-Mobile Suit Gundam U.C. ENGAGE
MID UNIVERSAL CENTURY (U.C. 0090 - 0105)
-MSV-R: The Return of Johnny Ridden
-Under the Gundam: Double-Fake
-Mobile Suit Moon Gundam
-Mobile Suit Gundam: The Revival of Zeon/Mobile Suit Gundam: New Revival of Zeon
-Mobile Suit Gundam: Advanced Operation
-Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's Counterattack (with elements from Mobile Suit Gundam High-Streamer & Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's Counterattack - Beltorchika's Children)
-Char's Counterattack Mobile Suit Variations (CCA-MSV)
-Mobile Suit Gundam: Twilight AXIS (ONA)
-Mobile Suit Gundam: Silver Phantom
-Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn (light novels/OVA series)
-Gundam Unicorn Mobile Suit Variations (UC-MSV)
-Mobile Suit Gundam Narrative
-Anaheim Laboratory Log
-Mobile Suit Gundam: Hathaway's Flash (light novels/film trilogy adaptation)
LATE UNIVERSAL CENTURY (U.C. 0112 - 1160+)
-Mobile Suit Gundam F90/Mobile Suit Gundam F90: Fastest Formula (F90FF)
-Mobile Suit Gundam F91
-Mobile Suit Gundam F91: Formula Report 122
-Gundam F91 Mobile Suit Variations (F91-MSV)
-Mobile Suit Crossbone Gundam/Mobile Suit Crossbone Gundam: Skull Heart/Mobile Suit Crossbone Gundam: The Steel Seven/Mobile Suit Crossbone Gundam: Ghost/Mobile Suit Crossbone Gundam: Dust/Mobile Suit Crossbone Gundam: X-11/Mobile Suit Crossbone Gundam: Love & Peace
-Mobile Suit Victory Gundam
-Mobile Suit Victory Gundam Outside Story: Project Exodus
-Victory Gundam Mobile Suit Variations (V-MSV)
-Mobile Suit Gundam Almarya
-Gaia Gear (light novels/radio drama adaptation, with concepts and theories from YouTuber GaiaGaiyus's retrospective/analysis in the Gaia Gear radio drama)
-G-Saviour (film + PS2 video game sequel, with elements from the novelization)
-Cyber Newtype Story: MAD WANG 1160
-Ring of Gundam