“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.
The antagonist who can out-argue five teenage pilots, which the series needs because it is a debate with mobile suits attached. The only character who loses on purpose.
“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 while knowing exactly what it cost to produce.
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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. He is the only character in the series who loses on purpose.