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

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

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

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.

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."

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.

BABY-TOS: the ultimate fertility drug!

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.

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.

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.

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

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 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.