The Flags are, at the start of the first season, the American Unions grunt suit. Their chief ability is that they can transform between a fighter mode and a mobile suit mode. The standard Flag is grey with black trim and forms the basis for every single one of it's descendants as you will see. We don't really see any of these mobile suits close up in the series, so as such, the only pictures of a close up version are the official pictures.
An original flag. The AEU's
Enact is merely a copy.
The next mobile suit to spring off from this lineage is the custom Flag made by billy Katagiri for Graham Aker. This was named 'Graham's Flag Custom'. The chief differences between it and the normal Flag are the upgraded Linear Rifle, the removed G-force limiter, which was originally for pilot safety but was removed at Grahams request to improve it's performance against the Gundams, and the addition of two blades for combating the Exia.
Grahams Flag - The original custom mobile suit
Graham's suit was then followed by a limited production model for the rest of the Over-Flags and as such was called an Over-Flag, named so for it's increased performance over the regular Flags
The next major upgrade was the suit used by Graham against Exia in the final battle of season 1. This was another Graham Aker custom suit and what made this one special was that it was equipped with a pseudo GN-Drive to increase it's performance to match the Gundams. Ultimately it failed but the suit is one of the most interesting suits of the entire series. The suit was equppied with this GN-Drive so that Graham could keep his promise to his dead comrades to defeat the Gundams with a flag
Graham's obsession with transformable GN
suits begins.
Until near the end of the second season no new flag-type suits appear, but boy once they do are we in for a treat, where we get two. The first of these is the Masurao. This new suit is built yet again to go up against the Gundams, but unfortunately never sees battle as the improved model appears before the Masurao gets to sortie. This improved model is the Susanowo. Featuring two blades named after Graham's dead compatriots, this is the machine that finally allows Graham to fight the 00. Even still Graham almost keeps his promise to defeat a Gundam in a flag as when the suit is nearly destroyed, it is revealed that it has a flag face beneath its new exterior. The only issue with these two suits is that they cannot transform and have no ranged weapons. Instead these machines were built with one goal in mind. An honorable duel with the pilot of the 00.
The Susanowo, the ultimate realisation of
Grahams lust for the Gundams
Again we don't see any flag-suits again until the movie, where we get the final flag-type. This is the Brave. This suit is the ultimate end goal of the flag-type. Featuring two drives, a beam-rifle styled after the linear rifle, and a reformed pilot to go along with it, the Brave is the suit that Graham Aker was destined to pilot. In the end, it helps Setsuna live on and save the world.
The Brave, the final suit Graham Aker
piloted and the ultimate Flag-type.
So I hoped you liked this little look back at one of my favourite parts of one of my favourite series'. Now that school is calming down a lot, I would like to get back to writing these articles more often. Also, I have plans to start a Youtube channel that focuses around the same things as this blog does, Gundams, and Videogames.
-Dallywoop
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