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Nightmare Fuel / Gundam 00: A Wakening of the Trailblazer

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Since this is part of the 00 series, expect scary moments to occur.

  • The ELS. The silicon-based organisms themselves are a little unnerving, but it's the way they assimilate other lifeforms that's so terrifying. Silvery crystals grow through the victim (not on, through), in a manner surprisingly similar to the Festum.
    • Particularly harrowing is the fate of Descartes Sharman, trapped in the cockpit of his mobile armor, as we see the crystals growing out of the skin of his face (even coming out of his mouth), until they shatter his helmet, all while he screams in fear and pain.
    • Think about that and imagine if Celestial Being doesn't exist in the first place...
  • The previous season's Gundams were all focused mostly on specific roles to take on large-scale operaions. The ones we see in the movie individually demonstrate themselves fully capable of taking on ARMIES all by themselves, being equipped with weaponry, technology, and bits that are far above anything the Earth forces have, and by themselves decimate ELS in the thousands. Considering most of these units were built far before knowledge of the ELS was a thing, it brings a question to mind: just what kind of interventions were they planning to partake in with units that rival and possibly surpass the Gadelaza, a ship sized mobile armor, all by themselves?
    • Given the events that happen after the ELS conflict, it's possible they were preparing for the Innovator/Old Human Faction conflict and as a result, the Gundams were designed to quell conflict on a major scale. But for them to build three one man army suits, just how bad did they (or even Veda) think the conflict was going to be?
      • The 00 Qan[t] is the most powerful suit ever created by Celestial being. In addition to all the game-breaking weaponry it has, is also has the Quantum System, which is capable of connecting people's thoughts on a scale that surpasses the size of a moon. While it's purpose is to help unite humanity and communicate with alien life, in theory the same system could also be used to read minds, brainwash, mind rape, or cause brain damage to multiple countries at the same time in the hands of someone with unscrupulous goals. In that sense, the Qan[t], while made to be a shining beacon of hope and everything that Setsuna ever wished for, is literally a harbinger of instrumentality in the wrong hands.
      • There's also the ELS Qan[t]. While we never see it in action, it has all the abilities of the original, while at the same time being composed of liquid metal that can assimilate with anything and is connected to an alien hive mind that almost handed the world it's collected ass. And it's pilot is also effectively immortal, having fused with the ELS himself. even though we don't know what it's capable of, there's no doubt that it is probably the closest in the Gundam universe to a physical god, and may even outstrip the Turn A in terms of sheer power.
      • The version of the ELS Quanta from SD Gundam G Generation Cross Rays gives a taste of what its power could possibly be like. Aside from ELS like assimilation, it can also morph in any weapon it needs for any given situation, can use it's wings as Combat Tentacles, and it's quantization ability now also extends to its sword bits which can be summoned like Gate of Babylon and can use that ability to move both the bits and itself around freely. And finally, it can use it's Quantum Burst to help and support allies. And all this is what the game shows with just two attacks and one field ability. And to top it all off, it is implied he is actually holding back, trying to keep damage to a minimum. One shudders to imagine if that is it's full power or if the player is just seeing a fraction of what it is capable of.
    • In the war between the Innovators and the Old Human Faction, a variant of the Raphael Gundam meant for operations on earth, the Dominions, sortied by itself into a battlefield. Upon arriving, it managed to end the battle by VAPORIZING the Old Human side of the battle from an incredibly distant firing point hundreds of miles away, with ONLY. ONE. SHOT. Note the vaporized units were all GN-XIV, units considered to match or even exceed the capabilities of Celestial Being's 3.5 generation Gundams.

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