Talk:Genius Operated Living Enchanted Manifestation

Acronym
The acronym reminds me of the ambitious acronyms of G.U.N.D.A.M. in Gundam Seed and Gundam Seed Destiny. Anyone in the same line with me? --Shin 11:22, 18 September 2007 (CDT)
 * No, not really. It looks to me like ANet took a classical creature's name and ginned up an acronym for it, I highly doubt it's related to Japanese "mecha" franchises. -Gildan Bladeborn 11:17, 18 September 2007 (CDT)
 * And said franchise is a classic (Beginning in 1979) which started a completely new genré, of which many sequals have been created throughout its near thirty year existance. Not once until 'SEED' (Late 2002), has Gundam ever stood for anything or had any acronym. Also, the acronym was originally accompanied by a 'ver 1.0', and later became 'ver 2.0' and 'ver 2.x' (meaning there were later revisions). There has never been a 'ver 3.0' Also, for some strange reason practically every new gundam-type unit in SEED and its sequals have new and different words for the acronym. Though, I'm by far not a fan of SEED...


 * We all know Arena Net has a thing for pop culture references. Nightfall, and Eye of the North attest to that, (and Factions and Prophecies to much lesser extents). And Gundam itself has spawned no less than 12 full length shows, 13 OAV's, and 24 movies. Its by far the most popular thing in Japan, massively influencing nearly every aspect of their culture and has also become to be known world wide (though not with nearly the amount of fame, its become much more of a 'cult following' here in the US as well as in the UK and throughout Europe).


 * Point being, a lot of the pop culture and such referenced in Guild Wars in various ways have not always been exceptionally famous, large, or well known things in the US or elsewhere. Some not even being from the US at all. The Zenos Squad quests are a good example of this, clearly based off of The Life Aquatic movie. In closing, no, we don't know if they intended it to be a reference. Sometimes you just can't tell. However, the possibility remains based on what little we know. I for one do believe this is what they intended, based on the fact that they acronymed an actual word (not to mention the Asuras and GOLEMs mechanical natures, which Gundam and overall Japan is well known for) instead of coming up with some random acronym that could never possibly form an actual word. Especially considering we already had golems in Guild Wars. Not to mention the version '1.0/2.0' tacked onto the names.-- Anonymous 10:55 21, October 2007