Gundanium… What the heck is it? Oh, yeah, sure. It’s that “mysterious” stuff that makes a Gundam special and leaves everything else in the dust. But what is it really?

    It’s tinfoil.

    Yeah!

    After much thought (because I think about these things for some odd reason) I have decided that Gundanium is simply tinfoil.

    Let’s look at it logically, shall we? Wufei. The boy whips his Nataku around like it’s going out of style and yet… he’s not very built. He looks like I do, and I’m a pansy. That’s just wrong when big-psychotic-boy takes his shirt off and is built just like super-pale-minivan-driver me. (Yes. I admit it. I drive a minivan. But not voluntarily I tell ya!) So if he looks like me, then that means I could whip one of those things around, and since I fall over trying to lift my backpack half the time, well… Gundams must be made of tinfoil!

    Not enough proof for you? Let’s try something else… (Comment to the people who check this stuff out: Note that already I have more evidence proving my argument than most “proof of yaoi” sites do…)

    Duo. The boy is American. You know that if you open his glove box it’s jammed with old pieces of pizza, unidentifiable gum, a few empty liquor bottles, jerky, and half of a left over grinder from Mancino’s. (Another note: I don’t like Mancino’s, but if they want to give me money for plugging them…) At some point, Duo must have been on a farm. I say this because most people I know have been on one at least once in their life. And if Duo was on a farm, can’t you just see him eating like a farm boy? Meat and potatoes twenty-four-seven. That boy ought to be a porker or he ought to be built. Since he’s neither (but I’ll take him shirtless any day!) I have to assume that he does a lot of jumping around (Well, it is Duo anyway.) but not enough to make muscle mass. He’s always messing around with his Gundam, but it must be very light since he’s not built… Hence, Gundams are made of tinfoil.

    Still not enough proof for you? My oh my! You must be a hardcore fan!

    Trowa wears tiny little pants. Trowa wears tiny little shirts. There’s no problem with either. But he falls into the “Tiny guy wearing tiny clothes” category. (But I’ll take his shirtless too!) This means that twirling his Heavyarms around must be somewhat easy, so it must be made of tinfoil. (And on another note: Why are army recruiters always teeny tiny? Do they not feed their recruiters in the army, or are the tanks made of tinfoil too?)

    Quatre strikes me as a Trouble Maker / Martha Stewart type. His Gundam must be made of tinfoil for him to have any energy at the end of the day to cause chaos…

    And Heero. Yes, even Heero leads to the idea. He’s always walking around in a tank top and spandex. Now, I’ll admit it takes a bit of work to get spandex on (What!?! Don’t look at me like that! I grew up in the 80s anyway!) but still, he hasn’t got much poking out from under that tank top of his…

    So now you’re probably asking, “But Routhier! It’s not logical! If Gundams are made of tinfoil, how come they don’t blow up on impact from OZ soldiers?”

    Easy!

    Gundams are shiny, right? Well, that’s because they’re covered in Saran Wrap. Have *you* ever tried to break through that stuff when it’s all snarled up?

    So there’s the theory in complete: Gundanium is made of tinfoil. Gundams are tinfoil wrapped in Saran Wrap.

    This is why OZ had no chance. They were trying to break *through* the endless mess of Saran Wrap. What they should have done was played Michael Bolton music until the pilots’ ears started bleeding and they fell out of the Gundams…

    …Oh. And I suppose you diehard fans have a better idea?