5 Badasses in Gundam Who Did NOT Need a Mobile Suit to Kick Ass (UC Version) 

This video was supposed to be uploaded yesterday, but because it needed a little rework with the bamboo spear stuff, it got postponed to today. As a result, this week’s Question of the Week will be uploaded tomorrow (Monday)

"Not even my own father hit me!" "Well maybe he should have."

As an honorable mention: ECOAS special forces team Commander Daguza Mackle almost took out Full frontal's Sinanju head armour.

“The alternate universe version of this video.” ... does that mean you’re going to talk about, THE UNDEFEATED OF THE EAST, MASTER ASIA! The guy can destroy grunt suits with nothing but a scarf and his own martial arts.

Speaking of Bright a top Captain list would be a good idea too.

Captain Bright: slapping emos into badasses since UC 79

love that scene when the Zaku runs around the corner and finds itself facing a firing squadron of M61 tanks!

Small note about the bright slap it's well known to be lethal unless you hit him back. Amuro disapeared, Kamille became a vegie for 6 months and even then he never fully recovered his memories, His son Hathaway got met with a fireing squad. The only man known to survive the bright slap was Judau since he punched him back the dude lived up into the time of Victory Gundam!!!

Gendo: Shinji get in the F*Ckin Robot!!! Shinji: Nooo.. I don't wanna... T_T Gendo: That's it boi... I'm calling Bright Noa!!!

2:44 Zaku: I'm in danger Lol

Damn, the Anti MS squads sound like the Gray Death Legion of Gundam.

Of course bright op his slap can awaken newtype powers

Shiro and Bright are definitely two of my favorites. I'm surprised Ramba Ral isn't on here as at least an honorable mention. He went out like a badass storming the White Base using guerrilla tactics. For the alternate universe you definitely have to have Mwu. I would also say Orga from IBO. I really liked him acting as the captain during the first season, and the tactics he would come up with.

2:47 Tanks: “Yo, What’s up!”

BRIGHT SLAP - Turning whiny emo boys into capable pilots since 1979

I always liked how both Slegger and Dozle were being being badasses in those scene. Slegger sacrificing his life to secure an important victory and dozle putting others lives over his even tho he was a Zabi and had a family

YESS SLEGGAR WAS A HERO.I immiedialty said he needed to be on this list

Anybody else think Eugene from IBO was badass? I mean piloting 2 ships at the same time is pretty legit.

Eugene from IBO would by my non UC pick. Piloting multiple ships at once is quite a feate even with Alaya Vinjana.

Friendly reminder that Bright was also almost always the first to grab a rifle and start shooting people when shit got close and personal. From alternate universe I would put Treize Khushrenada. He played everyone like a damn fiddle

I'm actually really happy that you included a few of the IGLOO crew. i always never cared how its shown that it was "M.S or nothing", as before the Gundam and M.S bloat we got today, it was tanks and white base on the gravity front.

He didn't make the list, but one very underated moment of badassery was Captain Otto not negotiating with Sleeve terrorists when they tried to hold his crew hostage in Gundam Unicorn. You get that moment where the little brats act like they arrogantly hold all the cards and Otto will just fold like every other corrupt weak willed feddie officer... Then roars like a lion at them putting them in their place as his soldiers retake the ship in a coordinated counter attack that hands the sleeves nads back to them on a platter.

Slagger Law: Slapping women makes them fall in love with him.

6:27 Bright at 45- "Frankly, Mirai, I don't give a damn" (lookin' like Clark Gable lol)

5:53 I can see why. The pressure of the shells alone would at least blow him off his feet or knock him out, if not cause a concussion or internal bleeding. At minimum. To provide some perspective, there have been reports during WW2, where Infantrymen were knocked out by the blast from Tank's main gun (Can't remember where it happend, but likely on the Eastern Front). Take this, and that a Zaku I's 120mm "Machine Gun" (it's more of an Autocannon, really) would likely have a good deal more power behind it than a WW2 Tank Gun, and you can see that Shiro's insides should probably be Milkshake after these shots, and he on the ground.

It is reported Astronauts can hear the echoes of Bright's slaps to this day.

I just realized something... if they had pulled Bright back to MS academy, he could've been just slapping every pilot candidate, giving the Feds an army of Newtypes.

Seeing 08th ms team makes me smile. Not including Eledore or Michel makes me cry.

Then there're Mirai Yashima and Murrue Ramius. The gals made battleships do aileron roll like they're freaking Arwings.

Good list, I agree with all of your picks here. Nice to see MS Igloo get some more attention, both seasons of that are really underrated. There's a couple of examples I'd also include from Crossbone that follow one after another, right around the time Zabine Chareux mutinies to the Jupiter Empire. The first guy I'd mention is Professor Karas, who for some reason doesn't have a page on the gundam wiki despite him being one of the more interesting characters. He initially poses as Tobia's elderly professor, but is secretly a Jupiter Empire secret agent responsible for smuggling poison gas. Following the reveal of that fact, he survives being blown into space and the next time he appears, he manages to singlehandedly infiltrate the Mother Vanguard and kidnap Bernadette - upon exiting the ship in his normal suit, he's caught in the hand of Tobia Arronax's Pez Batara, only for him to cripple the mobile suit's sensors with grenades, pop the hatch, shoot Tobia and capture him as well. He does all of this in just a normal suit despite being an old man. He's probably the closest thing UC has to Master Asia. The other example is Tobia himself - following his capture, he's sentenced to death by being forced to fight the Crossbone Gundam X2 on foot with nothing other than a rifle in gladiatorial combat. With a little luck and lot of creative thinking, he uses the rifle to force the X2's balloon decoy to trigger, uses the resulting chaos and confusion to hijack it, and then uses its core fighter to escape, navigating back to the Mother Vanguard using nothing but some savvy guesswork (and probably some newtype inuition too, despite what he says to the contrary)

Bright Noa was so clueless during his first days at White Base. But over time he became more and more capable commander. He led the Londo Bell which is some thing equals to Delta Force. And lol Shiro Amada took out his wife the first time they met. Now that's badass.

Biggest tide turning battles in gundam and how it went (like the battle of jaburo/Solomon etc) would be great

2:31 I love this scene so much. Especially how the zaku just kind of freezes when he realizes that yes, he'd fucked up.

Bright slap be turning whiny boys into capable men of destiny since 1979!

MS Igloo was a brutal series, no matter how you slice it.

Shiro is probably one of the best soldiers period. I wanna see a vid on the best soldiers in uc time line. This means from fleet commanders to infantry they do not need to be pilots but can be. They also do not need to be badasses just good soldiers.

the bazooka Squads has Balls made of luna titanium

shiro is such a badass that he took down a ZAKU with a ball and met the future love of his life at the same time

I’d say Robbert Gomez from Victory is the most badass to me. He is a 55 year old man who was a big part of the defeat of Zanscare and went out in glory, ramming his ship into the enemy.

Bright Noah is THE certified memetic badass in ALL of Gundam, UC and Alternate Universe combined. Let's not forget he's the youngest person to ever be awarded command of a starship, and the youngest ever supreme commander of anything (Londo Bell). The very reason why he ended up as a shuttle pilot is because of the good ol' Japanese tradition of dead end promotions, and is meant to show that the Federation was rife with corruption at the time of Zeta Gundam. Bright had a faster track than any officer and will take no s*** from his compatriots or superiors, so it's only natural they'd try to get rid of him at their earliest convenience. They unfortunately finally succeeded when they made him sign the execution papers for his own son =.=, but to be fair it took the corrupt Fed decades to get one over him.

It’s interesting that anti ms squad kills are based on group effort, while the tanks and ms get more individualized kill counts. Barberry squad took a heavy beating that the new recruits got 2 weeks training instead of 3 like the previous batch for this grim situation.

Bright Noa is the heart of UC.

Shiro firing that bazooka straight up the Zaku's taint is one of the best anti-giant-robot moves by infantry since Armor Hunter Mellowlink.

Bright Noa would throw hands with the Gundam if he had to

#3 was the one I was waiting for. If you are talking about a badass without a suit nothing beats taking out a high performance prototype suit piloted by an ace pilot with the biggest joke of a weapon in the universe, a ball. If this wasn't brought up in the video I definitely would have in the comments.

2:47 Tanks: Hi there! We're going to shoot you now! Zaku:....

Shiro with a f*ckin' Ball! Give him respect.

Bright Noa is also the only man capable of stopping Ryoma Nagare from killing someone. There's a scene in Super Robot 30 where Char Aznable joins the crew, Ryoma and Kouji understandably want to kill him on the spot for what he did in CCA, and Bright is capable of talking them down. No one disobeys an order from Captain Noa!

Great video as always!

You do not know how many times I wanted Shin to get Brightslapped.

I think this is one of your best vids yet. I was gettin all jazzed up watching. Keep it up kakarot197! Loving it!

Sumeragi from 00 is probably the closest an AU series has ever had to Bright Noa, I also remember Sally Po being more badass outside of a Mobile Suit than inside. Speaking of Wing, Treize and Wufei did a some cool shit on foot despite primarily being pilots.

this just reminds me i should sit down and watch the original series again.

Just wanted to add, that back in the PS2 days, I had a DVD movie of MSG, and one day after school, I burned a ring into it by watching Bright slap Amuro in a 5 second loop for 3 hours. One of my fondest memories

We also speak of Sleggar clones, what with how there's one in Build Fighters... The protagonist from my novel does pilot a Gundam, but a lot of his best work was either done at the controls of a Mobile Armour or his Light Carrier, the latter he used to ram down a Stealth Corvette, which, being invisible to radar, meant he had to find it the old fashioned way, all while a battle between two Gundams was raging around them! And not to mention they were doing this in a whiteout, near a military base that was lost amidst the haze of said blizzard!

Bright in an episode of ZZ Gundam, "Come up to the bridge later, I'll set you straight." Oh yeah, you know it's coming.

2:35 There should be a lesson during mobile suit training class called "Minovsky particles work both ways".

Awesome, MS Igloo is one of my all time favorite shows and needs a 3rd part.

Is it just me or is Bright immortal? From age 19(MSG 0079) to 36 (Gundam Unicorn) he doesn't seem to age a day in those nigh two decades.

I actually did have a weird dream about the Gundam franchise a few days ago. I was wondering what was going on so much that I forgot what happened. Whatever it was though, it didn't involve my dream ground type mobile suit mauling a state of the art mobile armor with its giant freaking hammer.

AU Suggestions: Wing: Sally Po G: Master Asia X: Garrod SEED: Cagali (seemed to be better out of a MS than in one) 00: Lasse

Seconding the nomination of Garrod Ran if he already isn't on your list. The first time we see the kid he hijacks his universe's equivalent of a Zaku II (with enemy pilot still inside) with nothing but a flashbang, a pistol, amd his two brass balls.

Yo Kaiarot 197 your video really cool big fan keep it up man

Bright Noa's Quirk: Newtype creation via slapping.

Future video topic. There's a lot of badass women in Gundam that deserve a spotlight. These writers know how to do that without talking down to or insulting their audience, an increasingly lost art these days.

Going out firing a handgun at a Mobile Suit... That's some Kamina level manliness right there.

I'm pretty sure you'll have to skip G-Gundam as a whole for the A.U. list. When the two most powerful characters can kick skyscrapers out of the way (from beneath!) and destroy mobile weapons more or less unarmed... And yes, Master Asia IS my favorite anime character ;)

With everything that happened in Unicorn and after playing SRWV, I definitely gained respect for Captain Otto and would mind serving under him.

I had Aiguille Delaz in mind. He rallys a awesome squad together and gets operation stardust on the go. Even stays badass til the end with Chima.

I’ll just leave this here. HAIR FLUTE INTENSIFIES!!!!!!!

AMS squads did a lot better in the Asian Theater due to the terrain and forests. But hats off to AMS squads in the European front. No one would really dare to hold against squads of Zaku II when everything around you is simply flat plain with nothing to hide your heat signatures.

I love the scene where the zaku turns around and those tanks are just staring at it, there's like a two second awkward silence it's hilarious

Eu version needs garrod ran, who captured mobile suits with shades, a magnetic pistol and a flash grenade.

Lots of igloo love today. Now we need some Zudah~

Damn what a bad ass at the end made me shed a tear...

Behold the man whose slaps turn wimps into Men of Destiny

Bright Noa is the unsung hero of the Universal Century.

Bright is a legend and has to be my favorite on this list. My memory is too foggy to think of other candidates but I'm sure they're out there.

There are rocket launchers with a salt water packed in the exhaust vent so you can fire them from cover so I'm pretty sure they made them so Shiro Amada could do that

Bright's mustache still gives me a smirk.

Pretty unusual and interesting video, my favourite mobile suit-less badass is definitely Kakarot 197

5:38 What it truly means to be butt hurt.

5:15 _years later..._ "... And that's how I met your mother!" "Daaad!"

bright was THE madman

Captain Bright & Slegger are some of my favorite characters from UC

Now you mention it 5:45 damn Shiro just dodged Zaku machine gun's bullet!!! Before you mention it, I never noticed that before,

Garcia from the Cyclops team in war in the pocket was a real badass with and without mobile suit

Excellent list.

Im worried that the AU list is gonna be filled with IronBlooded Orphans characters..... and Id be fine with that

8:03 "I would follow you to the gates of hell (Sedan) and back!... Oh Captain, my Captain!!!"

Was hoping for this to be a list of badasses who weren't pilots(like Sleggar) going by the Bright thumbnail, but this is a good list too.

You hit me! My own hit never fathered me!

Killed 13 enemy mobile suits...on foot. In an alternate timeline where he survived and got a GM the Principality was forced to surrender three days later after having lost every mobile suit.

Bright must be immortal, dude seems to never age

Honorable mention to the Zeon students who piloted the oggo and the few who survived during a baoa qu

3:48 tank shells did some serious damage the shrapnel inside the cockpit of that zaku man that to hurt

I’m assuming for the alternate universe all the members of tekaden who operated a mobile worker will be on the list

Aside for a sadly expected misunderstanding of the MSG Bright Slap, this was a fun video. ^_^ As for AU options, there's a couple obvious ones like Master Asia and Mu La Flaga, but also Grodek Ainoa (a computer tech who became one of the greatest captains in a century long war), Orga Itsuka, and of course, Relena Darlian. Oh, and we can't forget Garrod Ran. There are more, but this is already a bit long of a list and the two I really wanted to mention are on here.

2:46 when you manage to find the the entire enemy team by yourself.. also.... apparently fuck that one zaku in particular lol

2:46 imagine just looking at this for that 3 awkward second and they start firing you had 3 seconds to start regretting career choices XD