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“That's funny, I'm crying. And I'm not sad at all.”
Quatre Raberba Winner Quotes
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The gentlest pilot, wired into a system that increases a pilot's skill but takes away his free will. The Zero System is a plot device that only works because it works on him.
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“Trowa, I'm going to use this Gundam to destroy the whole crazy universe!”
The line gets circulated as a moment of high melodrama, which it is, and the writing around it is genuinely clumsy. A pacifist snapping into universal destruction inside a single episode is a lot to ask of an audience, and the series has to spend the next episode walking it back. The scene works in memory rather than on the page, and it is worth being honest about which.
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The gentlest pilot in the series, wired into a system that shows its user every branch of a battle and lets him pick, and this is the sentence the system leaves him with. What follows is the closest Gundam Wing comes to a horror sequence: a boy who has just lost his father and his colony, unable to locate his own grief, aiming a weapon at everything. The Zero System is a plot device that only works because it works on him.