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* The Dengeki Data Collection (released in the US as the Gundam Wing Technical Manual) says that eventually, two paths of "evolution" were determined for mobile suits: enhancing the pilot (the ZERO System) and removing the pilot from the equation entirely (the Mobile Doll System). I was posting on some other tropes about the ZERO System's finer points: the System forms a [[{{Technopath}} Technopathy]] connection between pilot and machine, while feeding massive amounts of combat data directly into the pilot's brain, which combines with the speed-of-thought reaction times to border on CombatClairvoyance. And then it hit me: the ZERO System effectively turns its pilot ''into'' a combat computer, just one based off of wetware rather than hardware. It also serves to help explain Dorothy's loss to Quatre later in the series: she was feeding orders to White Fang's Virgo [=IIs=], but didn't have the direct mental connection to all of them, meaning that she couldn't react to things like the Gundam Pilots' improvised tactics as quickly as if she had been using the System in, say, Wing Zero or Epyon.
* I had a moment of FridgeBrilliance when I was reading the entry for CharacterizationMarchesOn.  Several times in combat, Heero laughs as he watches enemy mobile suits being destroyed, which doesn't gel at all with Doctor J's description of him as a "kindhearted boy".  But then AlternateCharacterInterpretation hit: [[HitmanWithAHeart Heero is sick of killing]], which is one of the reasons he rejects the original Operation Meteor.  And yet, the instant he is confronted by OZ mobile suits, he has no choice but to fight back, killing pilots in the process.  He realizes that his mission is a paradox; he intends to stop the fighting...with more fighting (which would also be a plot point [[Anime/MobileSuitGundam00 in a later series]]).  His laughing is when he is on the verge of a full-blown FreakOut from this realization, but he only stops himself going over the edge by going into HeroicSafeMode, focusing entirely on the mission.  A ''season long'' HeroicSafeMode.

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25th Aug '11 8:21:12 AM AmuroNT1

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* As is otherwise noted with respect to [[HumongousMecha Humongous Mecha]], mobile suits are not particularly practical in terms of the vulnerability of their limbs. In Gundam Wing, however, their use is entirely thematically justified. Mobile Suits are generally the preserve of the Earth military forces, their initial mass production and deployment being specifically on behalf of the Romefeller Foundation. This is a foundation rooted in Aristocracy, and many of its members stressed the need to retain the human element in battle according to traditional ideals. When you consider that this is an organisation that [[TheIlluminati controls global munitions production]], and that can effectively dictate the terms of any and all military force, it makes perfect sense that they would develop weapons to fit romantic ideals of the soldier even in the face of combat suitability; they're [[NaziNobleman Nazi Noblemen]].
* The Dengeki Data Collection (released in the US as the Gundam Wing Technical Manual) says that eventually, two paths of "evolution" were determined for mobile suits: enhancing the pilot (the ZERO System) and removing the pilot from the equation entirely (the Mobile Doll System).  I was posting on some other tropes about the ZERO System's finer points: the System forms a [[{{Technopath}} Technopathy]] connection between pilot and machine, while feeding massive amounts of combat data directly into the pilot's brain, which combines with the speed-of-thought reaction times to border on CombatClairvoyance.  And then it hit me: the ZERO System effectively turns its pilot ''into'' a combat computer, just one based off of wetware rather than hardware.  It also serves to help explain Dorothy's loss to Quatre later in the series: she was feeding orders to White Fang's Virgo [=IIs=], but didn't have the direct mental connection to all of them, meaning that she couldn't react to things like the Gundam Pilots' improvised tactics as quickly as if she had been using the System in, say, Wing Zero or Epyon.

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29th Jun '11 1:02:35 PM Myushu

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* When GundamWing shifts to outer space there is a scene where Oz fires on its own soldiers in what first appears to be a typical WeHaveReserves moment. "But we'd be firing on our own Leos!" "Who cares, do it before the Colonel leaves." But in the next episodes it is revealed they are getting their [[MauveShirt space Leo pilots]] from "volunteers" they tricked into fighting. They give their own soldiers the superior Taurus suits so the characters attitudes fall into place. No where in the script do the Oz soldiers specifically say they think the colonists are second class but it is implied twice later in the show. I'm surprised I didn't catch this sooner because I've read about the Japanaese conscripting Chinese troops from the populations they took over in WWII. Plus it isn't an old concept so well done again Gundam. -lunnarian
* As is otherwise noted with respect to [[HumongousMecha Humongous Mecha]], mobile suits are not particularly practical in terms of the vulnerability of their limbs.  In Gundam Wing, however, their use is entirely thematically justified.  Mobile Suits are generally the preserve of the Earth military forces, their initial mass production and deployment being specifically on behalf of the Romefeller Foundation.  This is a foundation rooted in Aristocracy, and many of its members stressed the need to retain the human element in battle according to traditional ideals.  When you consider that this is an organisation that [[TheIlluminati controls global munitions production]], and that can effectively dictate the terms of any and all military force, it makes perfect sense that they would develop weapons to fit romantic ideals of the soldier even in the face of combat suitability; they're [[NaziNobleman Nazi Noblemen]]. -Myushu

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