To Gundam Fans: Was Noa Right in slapping Amuro?

This may not be the right one:

Just as the title says, was Bright right in slapping Amuro? Sure, he as acting like a brat but it always seem to bother me that Bright had to resort to that.

Lives were on the line and Amuro was the best White Base had for Gundam. So yes.

Considering Amuro was a whiny little bitch before hand?

HELL YES.

Banagher needs a brightslap next.

It was really Char, not Bright, who made Amuro to fight again.

Thorn 14: I wouldn't call it whiny to help civilians to evacuate from the colony and fight against two mobile suits from his own initiative. Did I mention he was underage and below the usual conscription age, on which even some of the Zeon soldiers commented? I think it's great how Tomino dared to make a statement out of teenage pilot trope.

edited 2nd Jan '12 11:52:54 AM by harkko

Just because its realistic doesn't make it entertaining. For me at least. (Its why I cant stand Shinji in the anime but he's pretty cool in SRW)

Also I really don't see the big deal about a slap was. Bright, despite how he looked in the anime, was not a full grown adult during the OYW.

He had to calm him down somehow.

Also it wasn't the first time Tomino defied that trope. Eva didn't deconstruct jack, it was already deconstructed!

edited 2nd Jan '12 12:04:30 PM by Thorn14

I'd say Bright had the moral high ground in this situation. A few slaps were quite warranted.

Given that the options at the time were "slap Amuro" and "allow the ship to be destroyed, resulting in horrible fiery death for all aboard", I think it's pretty clear which is the correct decision.

Usually, slapping people is totally the wrong thing to do. But in this case it was probably the only right thing to do.

Most Bright Slap s in Gundam are very much warranted

The exception is Zeta Gundam's while they did work they wernt really called for... Bask Ohm to Bright (into a Heel–Face Turn... sorta) and Whats his face the AEUG backer that holds no rank (that one bugged me... let the people in the military do it.) to Kamille.

The suit that hit Kamille in the face? Oh yeah, I remember that SOB. That was so not cool.

It seems like everyone gets slapped even Bright Noa himself but still cosnidering the situation, it felt necessary. They were in danger and there is no time to wait but I am not in the military so I am not familiar these situations.

I feel the need to link this.

And I must note that so much slapping and punching is probably meant to show the inherent idiocy and pointlessness of violence, random or not. It denotes a desire for destruction. Bright's slap in 0079, on the other hand, is quite sensible in comparison.

edited 2nd Jan '12 8:55:55 PM by Crinias

Wow. How much slapping was there in Zeta?

Hey You wanna sandwich?

NO STUPID!! SLAP!!!

Okay then. SLAP!!!

Why'd you hit me?

Cause it's Zeta Gundam. That's why.

And so ends my completely inaccurate parody.

I think Bright only managed to make Amuro angry. It wasn't until he heard Char's name he decided to start fighting again.

^ But nobody cares. All that matters is Bright Brightslapped Amuro and he became a Man of Destiny.

Just like why Shinji is not a angsty failure in SRW. He had the failure and angst slapped out of him by Bright Noa.

edited 3rd Jan '12 5:03:47 PM by MajorTom

Well, that and having a host of positive role models hanging around.

yes
even if its ethically wrong

It's worth noting that during World War Two, officers in the Japanese Army routinely slapped underlings who displeased them. (See Towards Our Glorious Deaths by Shigeru Mizuki for a thinly fictionalized story of life in the Japanese Army of the time.)

As a wise man once said, 'Bart, you can push them out of a plane, you can march them off a cliff, you can send them off to die on some God-forsaken rock. But for some reason, you can't slap them.'

Amuro's problem was that he didn't understand that the gundam was the only thing keeping everyone alive. His own wants should have taken a back seat to defending others. Granted, he was essentially drafted, but he's still the only one around that could save everyone.

Drafted with no training what so ever and no real mentor to see him though the issues as he adjusted to his new life.

Kamille and Kira both had mentors and didnt quite reach that level.

It's kind of interesting to see how Noa's leadership style evolves. Especially how in ZZ he basically goes "Fuck Discipline, this isn't working" and just letting the kids do their thing.