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  • A ZAFT officer salutes Durandal as he walked down the hall of the Minerva while speaking to Cagalli. Athrun, who was there as Cagalli's bodyguard, sheepishly salutes back to the soldier. Despite no longer being with ZAFT, Athrun can't seem to break old habits.
  • While at the PLANTs Athrun is assigned two bodyguards. Why is it funny? They are Yzak and Dearka. Yzak is especially hilarious as he acts incredibly pissed, meanwhile Dearka stays pretty cool. This one line is the crowning jewel though.
    Dearka: So where do you want to go?
    Yzak: And if you say shopping I'm gonna kill you!
  • Andrew Waltfeld warning the Minerva that Orb might just crumble under Atlantic Fed pressure and start attacking any ZAFT is pretty serious in context - but then the guy acts more like it's an anonymous tipoff about a drug deal or something.
    Andrew: Let's just say this information comes from Andrew Waltfeld.
  • When Athrun rejoins ZAFT, Shinn was in the middle of a break and comes back holding a drink and a plastic bag of food. When Luna tells him that Athrun's a member of FAITH, he realizes he's still holding onto something, so he hands off his drink and bag to Meyrin (who just put down her own bag, mind you) before quickly fixing up his uniform and saluting Athrun.
  • Shinn didn't listen during the briefing and finds out as he's flying through a cave that there is no light, and that he will have to rely on his radar to guide him. Reflecting on Athrun's assurance that he was the man for the job, he shouts:
    Shinn: The hell with that bastard and his 'I think you got what it takes' crap! He just didn't want to fly it himself!
    • By itself, not funny. When you know that Athrun a) would totally do it himself, and b) that he thought Shinn was aware of the whole "no lighting" thing it becomes hysterical.
  • Kira nonchalantly flying the Freedom Gundam into the middle of a wedding to rescue Cagalli from her arranged marriage. Hysterical enough, even without Cagalli angrily berating him afterward for unnecessary dramatics.
    Kira: Wow, that's a pretty amazing dress!
    Cagalli: Shut it!
    • The scene is funnier when if you remember the similar scene in the previous series.
    • When Kira disarms the Astrays stationed as the wedding's security: after the first three have have had their rifles destroyed the last Astray tosses his rifle away so the Freedom won't shoot at him.
  • As Vino and Yolan are working on the Savior Gundam, the two of them are fawning over Meer and her performance as Lacus, with the latter wishing he had a poster of her in her latest outfit, only for Athrun to appear asking for the maintenance log. As he leaves, Yolan expresses his desire to yank out a few of the Savior's cables, only for Athrun to call out that he heard that... as well as everything they were talking about earlier!
  • Lacus appearing as herself in the middle of a ZAFT base giving autographs, followed by being found out, Kira wrecking every mobile suit in the base and Meer arriving angrily because an "imposter" has stolen her show.
    Bodyguard: Stop that shuttle! She's the real one... er, I mean, she's an imposter!
    • The utter hilarity of Waltfeld's dumbfounded staring at Lacus's fast and professional autograph signing too. Also his disguise as Lacus's attendant (by emulating Meer's attendant no less, with a cheap wig and circular glasses with darkened lenses) is also a laugh.
    • Overall, just the fact of Lacus acting like a stereotypical pop diva is absolutely priceless.
  • Athrun wakes up and finds Meer in his bed. And then Lunamaria had to come knocking on his door. Hilarity Ensues. After Meer left, Lunamaria was not happy about it so she decides to say some "nice words" to Athrun, leaving Shinn, who happened to be there, very confused.
  • Cagalli's announcement, just after the outright destruction of Orb, two Lacus Clynes being present on the airwaves at the same time. Gilbert Durandal's "Didn't See That Coming" facial expression is hilarious.
  • When Meyrin visits Athrun in the sick bay, the following conversation happens:
    Meyrin: Are you feeling okay?
    Kira: That's the wrong question to ask Athrun, since he'll always say he is.
    Lacus: Yes, that's true.
    Meyrin: Ah...I see.
    Athrun: I really am alright!
  • Unintentional but seeing the performance of Earth Alliance mobile suits can be downright hilarious at times. For example seeing 30 Windams being unable to hit a target flying straight at them.
  • During the Meer's Diary bits where she's Fangirling over Athrun. Helped by the clips of their interactions, including Athrun's many freak outs.
  • As entertainingly pathetic as he is, Yuna gets a lot of good moments, particularly in his interactions with his far more serious (and increasingly irritated) subordinates. Take this example from ZAFT's invasion of ORB after they discover Lord Djibril is hiding there:
    Yuna: Why is this happening? I already told them he isn't here, so WHY ARE THEY STILL ATTACKING US?!
    Officer (exasperated): Because they know you're lying, sir.
    • And what about the bit when Cagalli returns to center stage?
      Cagalli (paraphrased): Yuna, you acknowledge that it's really me?
      Yuna: Yes!
      Cagalli: Thank you. Crew, arrest [Yuna].
      • Then the nearest officer punches him to the floor, where he's dogpiled by half a dozen soldiers.
  • Yuna's death. The Invasion of Orb has basically been a Humiliation Conga for the Smug Snake and he breaks away from his guards who are trying to take him into a shelter. Suddenly an Orb Murasame fighting overhead blasts a ZAFT GOUF to the ground and it lands right on top of him. Quite an abrupt end for an annoying character.
  • Episode 48, during the explanation of the Destiny Plan, there's an animation with a chibi Djibril yelling at a chibi Durandal from behind a desk. Then, they receive the cards that apparently determine what job they're suited for. A pair of chibi suited guys then jump Djibril and drag him off, while a third one then installs Durandal in his place. And to add that, when it cuts to some people watching the explanation, the screens do in fact have that animation on them. It's like some kind of humorous propaganda piece thrown into an otherwise serious explanation.
    • And to top it off, a Freeze-Frame Bonus shows Djibril as a circus performer.
      • And for sheer pettiness, this was aired after Djibril had already met his well-deserved demise.
  • Since Athrun spends most of the series away from the Archangel and its crew and hadn't seen them in a good long while, he straight up forgot that Mu had apparently died at the climax of the prequel. He's half way through a conversation with "Neo" when he suddenly flashes back to the Strike exploding and becomes very confused. This scene is also particularly fridge-hilarious when you consider that moments earlier Athrun found out Kira was alive, but Athrun was still recovering from his own near-death experience.

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