“From a historical point of view, warriors who have lost what they were protecting, and further betrayed by those they were protecting, are losers.”
Treize Khushrenada Quotes
2 quotes from Mobile Suit Gundam Wing, each with commentary on what it means and why it stuck.
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The antagonist who can out-argue five teenage pilots, which the series needs because it is a debate with mobile suits attached.
“There is nothing more beautiful than a warrior with no distractions. One could say he is the closest thing to God.”
Quoted as an aesthete admiring a soldier, and read that way it is merely creepy. The sharper reading is that he is describing a manufactured object. The warrior with no distractions is a boy who was raised without a name, a family or a future by adults who wanted a weapon that would not hesitate, and Treize is calling the result divine.
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Gundam Wing needs an antagonist who can out-argue five teenage pilots, because the show is a debate with mobile suits attached and a straightforward tyrant would end it early. Treize is that device: an aristocrat who defines defeat historically rather than militarily, and who is describing, in advance, the position he intends to take himself.