Chang Wufei Quotes

2 quotes from Mobile Suit Gundam Wing, each with commentary on what it means and why it stuck.

Keeps asking what the pacifists are actually purchasing, and answers by becoming the thing that tests it. Every alliance he enters is temporary and stated as temporary.

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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!”

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.

“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, by the one who never quite joins. Wufei's colony taught him that strength is a duty owed to the weak and then produced a boy too proud to accept anyone else's help discharging it. Every alliance he enters in the series is temporary and stated as temporary, and this is the first of them.

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