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“I need to determine for myself whether or not peace at the expense of lives can really be defined as peace... and I will become evil itself to find out!”
Chang Wufei Quotes
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Keeps asking what the pacifists are actually purchasing, and answers by becoming the thing that tests it.
“But I'm going to fight you, OZ. Even if I've got to do it on my own.”
Said early, before the pilots have decided whether they are a group. Wufei looks down on those he judges weak, and he prefers to fight alone. The series does not leave him there: by episode 42 he is fighting alongside the other pilots, which makes this line the starting position of a character the story moves rather than a creed it endorses.
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“No, you are wrong! I still continue to fight him, even now!”
Treize is dead, and Heero has reminded Wufei that he defeated him. Wufei's reply makes victory useless as a way of ending their dispute. That is a sharp account of obsession but a weak answer to his earlier question about what happens to soldiers when peace arrives. The exchange narrows a public obligation to one man's rivalry. Making the problem personal gives Heero an opponent to answer; it leaves the larger question about displaced combatants unresolved.
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An announcement of a method rather than a creed, and the series holds him to it. Wufei is the pilot who keeps asking what the pacifists are actually purchasing, and his answer is to force the question by becoming the thing that tests it. That is a coherent position and an unbearable one, which is why his arc reads as more punishing than any other pilot's.