[Yellow Ranger]

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Originally Posted by Powerman293

I see the parrallels but I don't think they're just Nazis in space. Okay, so Gihren is sort of like Hitler, zeonites say "Sieg Zeon" like "Heil Hitler", the Zabis kinda have that going on with how they dress, the spacenoids kinda have a superiority complex and maybe you could compare the quick work Zeon did early in the war to the "lightning combat" of the Germans.

The parrallels to me aren't just there for visual shorthand for "Look, evil people who are racist!" They take the parrallels and use it to make Zeon more distinct within its own world.

Tomino himself has said he based them off Nazi Germany*Char was inspired by the Red Baron,the colony gassings being based off Nazi gas chambers and the human experimentation* and that you weren't supposed to root for them. What he intended was for Zeon to have sympathetic characters to show not every soldier on the "wrong side" of a war is evil that most are just ordinary people.

Zeon itself being neutrally portrayed is just a fanon misconception Bandai's exploited to sell merchandise.

The only series that portrays Zeon and the Federation somewhat equally is 0083.