10 Alternate Uses for Gundams/MS 

And if we include manga, you can add camera to the list (Jess Rabble and his various machines)

You forgot Gundam NT-1 being used as a burger grill. Cooked with Propane sourced from Arlen, Texas Colony, I tell you Hwhat.

Barbatos is probably a bit weirded out with Mika doing it with Atra while still connected.

to be fair, the "Duels" from G Gundam were also for our entertainment. It's literally WWE with giant robots and I'm here for it

"Trust me sir, making Turn-A an all-round equipment is vital to the war effort." ~ Turn-A engineer probably

Barbatos : I'm not just a hotel I'm also his helper.

Pretty much all MS from G Reco have cockpits with basic pilot amenities like storage spaces for essential supply and pilot seats doubling as toilets. Some extreme cases like the unusually spacious cockpit of the G Lucifer or G Rach can fit a full size shower inside. So in theory the G Reco Gundams are basically RVs…… that comes with WMDs……

I feel like if mobile suits were available to the general public, they'd be like boats. Super expensive, stays docked 90% of the time, and you can't wait to sell it.

there's also the concert Zaku Warrior and the Hospital Zaku Warrior, also in Hathaway's Flash you can see Jegans used to put out fires like a fire truck with a water tank and hose equipment.

I really love when Mobile Suits do giant humanoid stuff, because it kinda justifies their humanoid shapes.

Brings up the 00 and 00Q, neglects to note the 00Q was made to communicate with sentient metal alien goo.

Vanadis Institute: "This is the purpose of GUND technology. To ensure humanity is protected from the cold harsh space with these mobile suits, the Gundam."

Fun fact/s: The reverse is usually more common in real life: a civilian product that has military uses. The US through its international trade laws calls these "Dual-Use" products, and heavily limits their sale. For example, certain civilian aircraft electronics components can both be flight guidance systems for passenger planes, but also missiles. US trade laws hold the US-based manufacturer or retailer liable if they sell to entities representing those in blacklisted countries like Russia, China or various Arab states. Also, Nazi Germany was actually limited in certain military use material because they couldn't possibly hide it as a civilian thing. For example, the reliance on Stukas and dive-bombing is mostly due to a tight shortage of medium-to-heavy bombers. It's not just that they were expensive to produce, but Germany pre-war couldn't hide any such pilot training programs. Because single-engine piloting wasn't restricted (Germany participated in air races etc.) but multi-engine, especially four-engine, was. Germany tried to establish commercial airlines to justify this, but even then four-engine pilot training would still be highly suspect. The fact that Germany couldn't really try strategic bombing, a sort of attractive doctrine at the time, really hampered their efforts, as well as created friction between the Heer and the Luftwaffe. It was after all the time when an "air force" was meant to be a sort of division of the army in most militaries (air support, air superiority, artillery spotting), and hadn't been its own branch yet.

You can't just put in the thumbnail "Babies", in the video titled "10 Alternate Uses for Gundams/MS" and not expect us immediately click

I think Patlabor does non-combat mecha really well, they developed mecha for basically all kinds of heavy-duty work. Most "labors" were probably construction mecha, but they also showed mechs made for fire/rescue/medical response, underwater exploration/extraction, farming/agriculture, mining, and of course, the titular police mechs to deal with the rise of mecha-related crime that came with labors becoming more common in everyday life. I actually kinda wish Gundam would develop more civilian mobile suits and show them doing dangerous stuff like deep-space or hazardous planet exploration, extraplanetary mining, colony construction, rescue operations, etc.

The 2 Ahab Reactors in Barbatos doubled as power generators for Tekkadan's base. And the Jegans from Hathaway's Flash were also used as a deterrent of sorts by the Feddies' version of the Border Patrol, the Manhunters.

I love that line of 'The Federation wanted to distance itself from the Titans after the Gryps conflict' but they're fine keeping Gryps 2 in their back pocket during Unicorn and later trying to get it back up and running again in UC 169.

BABY-TOS: the ultimate fertility drug!

Realistically mobile suits would be far more useful for construction than for combat. P.S: what i mean is that mobile suits would be incredibly useful for work in real life, with a mobioe suit you could assemble a house as if it was an Ikea cabinet, a single M.S could replace cranes, excavators and bulldozers.

Virgin Aerial: make her pilot break up with her girlfriend 💔 Chad Barbatos: help his pilot make babies inside the cockpit 💪

I always liked it when mobile suits (or Mecha in general), being used for anything outside of combat

Barbatos secretly being the best wingman in fiction.

I don't know if anyone mentioned this already but in Gundam Seed Stargazer, the Stargazer wasn't used for war but as a space exploration tool to map the cosmos.

Barbatos whenever Ibo comes back: "Masters son. I see you are finally here. There is no time to lose. I helped give you live now you shall repay your debt pilot me."

What I believe you meant to say was that the Turn A would become "the ULTIMATE washing machine", complete with triumphant fist-raising and rousing tone of voice! A little historical note: The tank got its name from when, after building these experimental machines - based on tractors - and in order to actually get them TO the front lines, British Intelligence named the cargo as "TANK", their logic being that enemy intelligence would see this and think they were transporting simple water containers! The battlefield was never the same again, as everyone began copying these rolling death machines we'd built, though, granted, not everyone was what you might call "successful"... The German attempt tipped over if if went near a bump, the French one struggled with terrain more difficult than a Yorkshire moor, the Americans saw this, but for forty years after World War II thought they had no place in combat! So, only really us Brits got it anywhere near what you might call "right"!

I'd mainly use a civilian grade mobile suit to travel the world and occasionally move furniture and stuff if I planned on moving to a new house. Of course, I'd do underwater exploration if the waterproofing was plenty good and a part of me is temped to use it for fishing.

Gundam Barbatos helped a Physically Impaired Mika *ahem* help Atra conceive a child and make sure NO ONE saw them do it

It's only be a matter of time before they're gonna start selling Mobile Suits as houses. Just don't live in the Nu Gundam, unless you wanna be absorbed like Amuro did.

I had always thought "What if Girls und Panzer, but with mobile suits?" And if open to everyone. Just have to use none lethal weapons and ammo, plus strict rules. Safety first.

For me : Farm work (digging and tilling soil, harvesting corn fields, and landscaping). I also thought that welding would also be a good thing to do in a mobile suit. Heck the beam sabers can be used as a giant plasma cutter. And lets not forget all the times beam sabers have been used as door openers.

He’s forgetting age gundam when there was mobile suits racing with full size mobile suits

The hot spring one was always a favorite of mine. Totally soldier thinking, like fishing with hand grenades. Simple problem, simple solution.

The one thing I haven't seen a Wondwart with, is NT-D and/or psychoframe.

Here's a Fun one. If I had the Abyss Gundam Id Love to use it similar to the Stargazer, but instead of Deep Space exploration Abyss would be used For DEAP SEA Exploration with the abyss Streamlined aquatic design and VPS armor I'm sure the abyss could handle deep sea Pressure. After all unlike the aquatic forbiddens that were just regular forbidden but tweaked for underwater the abyss was Made for the water from the Get-go Not to mention even if the beams are at low power if not Stright up useless the abyss has more than enough fire power to handle any threat short of Godzilla himself if i run into any problems down there. Besides since I live is a Bay City i can just park it in the Harbor when not in use Perfect use and perfect parking to boot.

One of the most use mobile suit feature actually is to be a power generator. Barbatos once use as a base power generator. All Gundams of celestial being was use to powered their carriers, and so on.

I'm surprise to not see any mention of Meer's Pink Zaku Warrior as a concert stage, the GINN at the beginning of Seed Destiny,, and a lot of MS coming out of the Junk Guild.

I would take one GM and one Zaku and create a daily late night talk show. The Feds and Zeon show!

Just want to make a slight correction. To make Gundam's was not Vanadis goal. It was medical technology from the start but they needed funding to continue their research which required them to merge with Ochs Earth and to repurpose the medical technology for warfare.

I guess if someone really wanted to, the Turn-A's black hole would make for a fast "get this out of sight" machine.

WASHING MACHINE COW TRANSPORT

Turn A Gundam asserting dominance as an OP MS both on and off the field heh, talk about multi-purpose!

You forgot to mention the Jegan being a firefighter in Hathaway's Flash

Mobile Trace System for VR game as a body controller. XD heheh

I'm still sad we never got a Bandai Dub for Turn A with Scott McNeil as Gym Ghingham

Why the turn A is one of my favourites, pretty goofy but also horrifying with a thematic reason for why

Another example for racing MS would be from Gundam AGE, as Woolf Enneacle used to be a pro mobile suit racer, with the beyond Katoki fully decal'd Shaldoll-G as his main MS of choice. Another alternate MS usage from AGE was the Rogue Bat, named after its rather gothic appearance. The large bat-like wings protruding from its back were used to store extra propellant and also had radio sensors that acted similarly to a bat's echo location; both of these were added in order to maximize its efficiency in deep space mining operations after the end of the Vagan war.

In Gundam Age, wasn't Woolf a professional MS Racer before he joined the military? That's an interesting concept, MS Racing.

I was about to comment on how I'd try to pull a Lelouch and go to war with the whole world, but then you clarified "other than war"...I suppose it would make a kick-ass gaming computer...

Needed this video 3 years ago when I did “why mechs would be good for society and how they can help”.

So, the duels in a sense are like Mobile Fighter G Gundam's Gundam Fights since for the most part they are one-on-one and are for sport. The Nobel/Noble Gundam can be used for Mobile Suit Gymnastics. Speaking of said Gundam from Neo Sweden, in a sense it can teleport with the help of the Berserker System.

barbatos was the first gundam to see human reproduction....

MIKA LAID PIPE IN THE BARBATOS??

People describe the metal gear as a weapons platform as if it would be used as a platform for a variety of utilities, but I don't know may examples of a mech that can be utilized truly as versatile as a platform as the TR-6

Don't forget that gundams can now store souls, which would be useful for transferring ones self to a healthy replicant body that is if you don't mind overriding said replicants free will and memories, although I think this would fall under thr medicine category since it is essentially curing oneself from death

on somewhat related note, Macross has literal mecha forklifts. On skate wheels, Knightmare style.

You forgot the Astray Out-Frame: it is used for news reporting

When your washing machine can send humanity back to the stone age with little effort.

No Fireman jegan?

The Barbatos was the best Wingman in Gundam

If its the destroy gundam, maybe its big enough to not just transform into a bipedal, Big Zam-ish mobile armor, but a part-time bipedal Big Zam-ish mobile HOME?

Gundam took my childs life Me: maybe your child shouldn't have been on a fucking battlefield

On the note of Gundam 00, you can add 00 Quanta as an intergalactic Google Translate with extra neccessary steps.

the duel system is basically one of the things that makes Gundam Witch Mercury an armored core like gundam

A legendary... Strongest.... The black History tell of.... Used as laundry machine etc. I don't know how to comment that 🗿🗿🗿🗿

I'd like to see a series where Mobile Suits primary function is space exploration. Like, set during an earlier age of colonization -- a kind of wild west where the imaginary boarders haven't been drawn yet and prospectors are out there scouring the solar system for riches. In this largely lawless environment people start retrofitting their Mobile Suits and other tools into makeshift weapons since no one has real arms manufacturing going on out there, and a nuclear powered giant robot is still a nuclear powered giant robot.

I'd like to mention that Barbatos was originally a power source for CGS due to the two Ahab Reactors before Orga had Mika pilot it. Not sure if this was exclusive to Barbatos, but yeah, Gundams and I'd assume Mobile Suits can be used as power sources.

while not a gundam, Meer Campbell used a Zaku as a stage piece, and essentially Moral Booster

Alternate use of mobile suits: use it for Fighting Tournaments like Mobile Fighter Gundam did!

The alternate use of mobile suits is to explore many planets and far reaches of space when humanity expand its reach and colonize them.

This might not count but how about any psycho frame mobile suit because it can literally make you immortal.

Does interstellar communication between Earth humans and aliens count? (E.g.: Qan[T], which is not only used for teleportation)

Damn I managed to catch a video early. Keep up the good work.

Oo! OO! I know something the Woundwort wasn't turned into! An amphibious MS!

“I use a Gundam for home defense because that’s what the founding fathers intended.”

I just came back to watching this guy, and he still doesn't get old

7:39 own a mobile suit for home defence as Zeon Diekun intended.

"if you had your mobile suit what would you do?" That depends what kind of high jinks and shenanigans I can get away with for example the ultimate gundams ability to regenerate itself coupled with heavy-arms disrespectful amount of firepower, and the double o risers ability to teleport

Imagine training to operate MS, getting the required licenses to own and use them, only to pilot It once a week to pick up groceries.

Probably a mix of Stargazer and Astray Outframe exploration with backpack/core block system serving as living quarters with amenities while away from a ship. Basically a MS equivalent of a Kei Truck. can be sold for researchers, exploration, and tourism. Perhaps the sewage system can also be used as an offensive attack. 🤣 Closest we can get would be using a Raysta as a base although ZAFT had something similar "Hospital Zaku" which the ZAKU carried a special wizard pack that functioned as a medbay / clinic.

Let's not forget about the aerial tho Its safe to pilot. It's reliable to use. It can fly! It can dance! Aerial! \( >W

For the Alaya Vinjayana System explaination. Think of it as the nerves in your body. Your whole body is being controlled by a series of Nervous systems. without the nervous system to receive and send information, you eventually lose the ability to use that part. Exp: Mika's right side of his body. The way the Alaya Vinjayna system works is that it acts as a connecting bridge to those nervous systems. It artificially repairs the nervous system to allow the pilot to use the Gundam. Otherwise how is a pilot who pushed the limiters of their gundam expected to pilot the suit if they cannot move their limbs

forgot using the barbatos as the reactor of cgs before being used as an ms

Could you imagine how cool it would be to fly into school (or to work) in Wing Gundam ( with the buster rifle un-equiped of course).

Brought to you by Anaheim Electronics. Not JUST pissing kerosene on the dumpster fire of the Earth Sphere.

Imagine if they made the zeta units into the lambo of suits.

I guess thats one way to "turn a gundam"

Sakibure is arguably the strongest Ms build solely with construction work in mind.

Barbatos: Im the Peak of Wingmens, There aint no other Gundams do it like me

I mean, Hayato used Guntank's arm missile launchers as a stepladder for Guncannon to repair the White Base. Bright's clearly not amused by it, but hey, it worked.

I would kill for a Gundam racing game in an arcad-y style, like a mecha MarioKart.

If I had a mobile suit I would probably use it for heavy lifting and likely try to figure out how to mow my lawn with it, and likely for transportation, including groceries. Makes me think of an episode of Zoids. I think it was New Century Zero, the one with battle competitions. In one episode their raptor pilot took he Zoid out to get groceries and in one scene it was shown skipping while holding a shopping basket. It was hilarious.

Surprised you mentioned the Woundwort but not the ReBaund Doc. Like, come one! A Baund Doc that transforms into a giant winch is insane

The Sakibure from Awakening of the trailblazer could both teleport and was also used for deep space exploration

1 more use for those Mobile Suit that i think you havent mention but is being seen multiple time in series use as power plant/power generator in IBO, Barbatos was first seen used as one in 00, all the original GN Drive Gundams has been seen used as one (for Ptolemy) probably few more but these are the one i rmmber

They make some pretty crazy sounds, so i bet you could use them to make some pretty wild industrial music.

The teleportation gets even better, in the completely, undebatably non-canon SRW V, the Quan[T] manages to jump all the way to a parallel universe

I would use my mobile suit to troll and befuddle people. It'd be a shame if your car wound up atop a skyscraper while you were at work.

Mechs with hands, they're as useful as a 3 story human and have all the utility packed in as any other good military vehicle should.

Hey kakarot i know you haven't made a video on this how about the 10 ten strongest extra/main weapons mounted to a ms mothership/command ship

Barbatos: haha seggs goes brrrrrrrrr