Fun fact. Scott McNeil whom voices Duo, got inspired to scream like that because one day his wife accidentally ran over his Harley Davidson with a van. Needless to say as a kid whom grew up around many Harley Riders I feel his pain.
One of my favorite scenes in anime. Middle of a dogfight then a Taurus clunks into something then Deathscythe decloaks with Rythem Emotion playing as a insert song. Too bad they never use that cloaking device again after that.
For anyone claiming No-Name failed the test, it was never about destroying Deathscythe. The test was to see if he would have any emotional or physiological reaction to being ordered to destroy a Gundam. Heero would likely be the only one, out of the other four Gundam pilots, who could pull it off.
That's something I noticed about Gundam Wing specifically--their pilots speak to their Gundams, as if they're friends. I love that. Amuro did this occasionally in the original series and movies but that's about it.
They all did (except for Heero, who dumped his old one immediately as soon as he could lol)! I think Wufei had the strongest, he straight up nick-named him and spoke to it as a powerful ally, even keeping its same name when it was destroyed/rebuilt into Altron
The Gundams, in-story, represents hope for change in a world caught in a repeated cycle of war, not just to the colonial rebels, but, more importantly, for the pilots themselves. Even Trowa couldn't resist crying when he realized that.
The best take from someone who got it. Duo wasn't anguished by his Gundam's destruction like it was his car getting towed, his English VA expressed it that way and unfortunately did a huge disservice to a generation of fans watching the show that Duo was that materialistic. (The misunderstanding was not intentional.) Duo is crying out because the cause of the Gundams-to create real change in a miserable world locked in a cycle of doom-looks to have been defeated utterly and their struggle and sacrifices thus far in vain. He could not have known at the time that Trowa was playing a double game and destroying the (for now not very useful) Deathscythe was a necessary cover to his infiltration of Oz. Unfortunately, despite how nostalgic people are for it, I have mixed to negative feelings about the English dub of Wing. The cast does not seem to have been directed well and on top of that heavy censorship from Cartoon Network meant that much was lost in translation. The dub often fails to get across the abstract ideas directing the characters (due to its droll and bland performances) and makes them all out to seem like petulant brats.
So we all know Trowa failed the test right? They said to "completely" destroy the target but considering the scientists were able to upgrade it and not have to build it from the ground up clearly most of it remained intact.
Kinda feel like the asking for a bigger gun thing was a tale. He knew the Leo rifle couldn't do anything serious. Personally, I would have shot and laughed when the bullets bounced off.
Duo got ambushed by the new taurus mobile dolls. They were too fast and he got captured. He tried to self detonate but one of the rifle shots broke the self detonation switch on deathscythes back.
Duo went to space without any upgrades to Deathscythe (which was meant for ground combat). Deathscythe got damaged in battle and Duo had to abandon and hide it. OZ found the abandoned suit.
Gundam Wing was pretty much the "edgelord" Gundam show, and it worked well! The entire 90s was marketed toward people that wanted anti-heroes instead of traditional heroes (cynical Generation-X adults and Millennial children/teenagers). Deathscythe (and its Hell upgrade) was definitely edgy, but its pilot was more "Average Joe" than the other four Operation Meteor pilots.
I considered that but I wanted the video to stay short and decided ending it on Lady Un's iconic line (which we all remember from the toonami short) felt much cooler
