![]() ![]() The Trope Namer is Gundam: dropping large objects ranging from space colonies to asteroids to battlestations is a favorite tactic of the series, though usually unsuccessful.Later parodied when Nerval's battle body wraps around Leopard's colony, yells out " COLONY DROP!!", and suplexes him into the lunar surface.Leopard, the Master Computer running a space colony in The Girl Who Leapt Through Space, spirals downward into despair after he can't fire his Wave-Motion Gun and almost colony drops himself into the Earth.In the second Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex series, a rare positive if bittersweet example of this trope: The Tachikoma drop dozens of satellites, including the one containing their AI, into Earth's atmosphere in order to intercept a nuclear missile aimed at Dejima. ![]() The favor gets returned later on by the Getter Emperor, a Humongous Mecha so large that it crushes the AFC's planets by flying into them.
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