The Female Gundam Pilots (and their Fates) [Valentine's Day Special] 

Fun Fact: Lunamaria's VA is actually married to Shinn's VA, and both have voiced couples too in other anime and games such as Final Fantasy VII and The Garden of Sinners.

"Best female in Zeta is Kamille" I am torn between agreeing to this statement and choosing Emma as the best female Gundam pilot.

You're right about Chris. She really is an underated pilot. She spent more time fighting the Gundam's _controls_ than she did fighting the enemy. Imagine fighting in a shootout on horseback with a horse that was bucking wildly and _still_ managing to keep yourself steady. That's what the Alex was to Chris. Also, Lady Une is just built differently.

Karen Joshua, Chris Mackenzie, Reccoa Londo, Elpeo Plu, Pie, Marida Cruz, Francesca O'Hara, Aida Surugan, Bianca Carlyle, Nena Trinity, Suletta Mercury ... Gundams sure do like their redheads.

"the most Wing thing: Lady Une steals a rebuilt Wing Gundam." Yeah like that's par for the course. Wing had everyone swapping suits a lot as needed lmao. Still love it.

No, Gundam Seed Destiny was not sabotaged by behind the scenes high school-esque drama. The show was undercut by the series head writer being hospitalized and recovering from multiple serious illnesses while the show was being made, with her having only completed an overall outline for the series and possibly some early episode scripts. Seed Destiny had an entire team of writers who absolutely dropped the ball. Cagalli got shafted by the pinch hitters, not Morosawa.

"Sometimes it takes a real man to be best girl"

8:02 banshee arguably has the best gundam dramatic entrance of all time *PROVE ME WRONG*

"ZZ is a bit more light hearted" proceeds to hit us with a colony drop wel....

Sometimes it takes a real man to be best girl -Gigguk I'm looking at you Speedwagon

Haman Karn is the QUEEN OF GUNDAM

I’m surprised ALICE from Sentinel isn’t mentioned. Sure, she’s an AI installed into the S/EX-S Gundam, but unlike Marion, ALICE could take full control of the Gundam.

Like Char aznabel once said... "Every Mobile Suit with two eyes and V finn is Gundam, and Gundam was his enemy." 😁😁😁

Imagine gundam merch selling A.L.E.X. themed shredders and kampfer-shaped swiss cheese blocks wallace and Gromit would be anime mecha fans overnight

In SEED there were 3 episodic female Astray pilots. And in the last episode of Witch from Mercury there were 2 more female Gundam pilots (also I think that witches from the prologue could be counted as female gundam pilots)

Honorable mention would be Flay Allister as it was originally planned for her to pilot the Rouge instead of Cagalli but I'm glad she didn't for multiple reasons. Another mention that is probably a bit more likeable would be Cherie Allison but she never appeared in the anime so we can't count her as well.

Im glad Chan Agi got some rep. She helped work on my second favorite Gundam: the Nu, and she was technically the love interest of my boy Amuro Ray, at least in this specific continuity. Her death also fueled my extreme hatred for Hathaway Noa. Imagine simping for a girl who clearly doesnt want you and then killing your own comrade just because she killed that said girl, in self defense. Kakarot said it best, "...you team killing simp."

13:18 Oi, aren't you missing yet another female Turn A pilot? I mean, that pilot is a headcase, sure, but she still did pilot the Turn A using a custom cockpit instead of the usual Core Fighter.

I’d say that Luna was one of the best female gundam pilots even if most of her best performances weren’t in a Gundam (she did great in her zaku), it’s not her fault that she got shown up by most of the other gundam pilots in destiny

You left out Murrue Ramius from Seed as she pilots the strike before Kira takes over .

I honestly wish we got to see more Female Gundam Pilots action in Gundam SEED/Destiny

I wouldn't say you missed anyone too significant, but... from my memory and just going off anime appearances -- In G Gundam the original Shuffle Alliance was led by a woman (Tris Sergeyrev according to the Gundam Wiki) who died pretty much immediately along with companions. There's also Sochie Heim, Merrybell Gadget, and Teteth Halleh from Turn A who all got some time in the titular Mobile Suit. Sochie and Merrybell both lived to the end, while Teteth did not.

That Gigguk quote has become immortal hasn't it?

Marida Cruz is my most favorite Female character, her story was so amazing and emotional, Also she gets a happy reunion with the other Plu clones in the Super Robot Wars V.

I reckon ALICE from Gundam Sentinel would count, no? Roots wasn't doing much of the actual flying most of the time...Not just a lady who pilots a Gundam, a lady who IS a Gundam! Setsuna would be floored by that one.

Kagali critics "Kagali never board a Gundam! Strike Rouge is not a Gundam!" Me: ugh, bruh the Akatasuki is a Gundam.

11:58 I am so glad the ONE anime I had access to for years was Gundam Wing. What a show

I mean... you forgot about Suletta's mom who was the OG Gundam Lfrith pilot, the girl who piloted one of the 2 non Lfrith Gundams in the Prologue, Miorine who stole Aerial in episode 1, and the 2 witches from Earth who piloted the 2 Lfriths... All from Witch from Mercury.

The inhale before starting Gundam X was hilarious. Wing was really a nutty show when you think about some of the things the characters did.

Male Gundam fans be like: dog whistles *noice*

You forgot Miorine, she piloted (stole) the Aerial in the first episode

You could say that Rita Bernal IS the Phenex, since it's apparently still running around out there, and it largely seems to even have its own motivations. The fact that Rita can't directly communicate kinda sucks (you need to be a Newtype on the level of Amuro or Char to be able to do the brain-wave link thing), but she's definitely still out there. Have to wonder how she's still going though, even a Minovsky Ultracompact Fusion Reactor has to refuel eventually. Marie Parfacy (who I assume you've waved off due to technically being the Harute's co-pilot), DID actually pilot a Gundam on her own. The GN Archer, despite not having Gundam in its name, IS a Gundam. It is in fact a retool of the abandoned GNY-0042-874 Gundam Artemie. The only reason it doesn't look like a Gundam is due to modifications to the head (the visor covers up the original face (it's still there), and the Artemie's aerials are still poking up out of the top of the modifications, just repainted white. The transformation so it can dock with the Arios is a later modification, and the Archer can still use a GN drive - if there was one to spare. The only reason why it was modified to run in tandem with the Arios is because there isn't a spare drive. The condenser that is used instead only allows it to remain undocked for half an hour, allegedly. The daft thing is, if they hadn't left a drive with the 0 Gundam, or if Hanayo (the Artemie's pilot) hadn't ditched it, the Artemie might have still been around without its weird modifications.

The big question is does Cima count? In the Stardust anime, the Gerbera Tetra it's built from the GP04 Gundam Gerbera and the manga further suggests that the "change" to the Gerbera Tetra was done to disguise the fact that it was a gundam development project unit given to Zeon remnants by Anaheim. If we consider it a disguised gundam, I'd say Cima definitely counts.

13:11 Yo yo!, I'd make a case for Sochie Heim and Merry Bell as a Gundam pilots too, both "borrowing" it from Loran

their underperformance in the TV show is partially saved by the VS series where they are solid supports for any team (Rouge and Luna Impulse being far easier to pick up than regular Strike and Impulse), Lacus' Justice is blatantly overpowered for some reason...

My bias aside for 08th ms team can we all agree that Karen is such a great and underrated pilot

When I counted the kill counts of every Gundam anime character (yes, EVERY) Stella came up with the highest kill count for a woman with a confirmed kill count of 71, ranking her 16th out of all characters so far. (3rd for just the C.E.)

I think you forgot to account for Witch prologue, where one or two additional ladies qualify depending on how you count and this isn't a spoiler (I won't talk about late G Witch episodes). Oh and you can count Miorine, Sayla Mass style.

I was waiting for the Kamille joke. Kakarot did not disappoint.

Since they turned up a lot this video i'd be intrested in a video on the "Possessed" Gundams, the ones that absorbed their pilots, i think it would be intresting to watch.

That poem about Mudie was amazing! Thank you.

Oh come on now. Tieria technically wasn't even a real man he's an Innovade that has no gender.

Nice video review

3:55 actually in the crossover games, like G Gen Gather Beat and Advanced if the blue destiny units are destroyed she will awaken and join your crew, her states are great and is one of the best units in the game

I glad you put Stella Loussier on Number 5. Thank you

Blue Destiny and NT doing the ghost in the shell stuff lol When tech got too advanced to become sorcery.

"Sometimes it takes a real man to become best girl." 😂😭 so true

12:34 What a way for the, imo, best looking machine in Gundam, period, to meet it's end. An amazing heroic sacrifice, leaving just its torso, head, and left shoulder intact. One final act of badassery for Wing Gundam.

First season of witch from Mercury, is like double zz, light heart at first, then got dark

There's also game only pilots too. Though that's large rabbit hole to dive in.

Looking forward to the next year's video then

Fun fact in my school vr game when Marion welch meet Goalius for the first time she mistaken Goalius as a els mobile suit monstrosity but after it was revealed that He was trying to remove her soul from exam system and she thanked him by giving Goalius a version of the exam system but instate of using her soul as a conduit it boost the els quantum brainwaves to newtype levels and increase his combat proformance by 95% and for Stella during the fight against Goalius she injected herself with the nc virus (nc stand for Nintendo chrysalis) and turned into Ripley from metroids

Thank you for including Lady Une! And yet also * Sad Mudie noises * 😭

All 3 BDs were all GUNDAM ground type. BD-1 was originally tested on a GM ground type but later replaced by a GUNDAM ground type due to the GM's performance couldn't get the system's full potential. However they kept the GM head since the system was already installed in it. In the latest setting though, BDs were not GUNDAM ground type but RX-80 series.

Berserk Allenby's smile basically equals doom like how when Kain the vampire smiles mean your doom. Oh, and Allenby is my favorite waifu. Been that way for 20 years.

I was dissapointed Feldt never got to pilot a Gundam. :(

Lalah Sune, Amuro Ray & Char Aznable literally are the Trinity of Newtypes, with Lalah Sune as the Universal Swan of Guidance. Her Tragic Story is basically the Blueprint of every carbon copy story of every Gundam Tragic Romance.

happy single day

Beautiful poem 😂😂😂

Oh no, Suletta being piloting a Gundam will foreshadow bad end. The theories are REAL!!

I feel like this discussion of Gundam pilots also inevitably comes to the argument of what constitutes a "Gundam".

You got me the 1st half with kamille😂

Saya Mass' stunt reminds one of Sai Argyle's similar stunt in Gundam Seed.

Has to be Emma. She can both fight, and deliver a "Bright slap" with the best of 'em.

Love the misdirection with Kamile 😂

if something bad happens to suletta in the ending of wfm, I will cry for 3 and a half weeks

How'd you forget Marie co-piloting gundam Harute lol, I love that gundam, both of it's pilots are schizoids

hearing Invoke immediately brought me back to my middle school days

This is making me curious on who has piloted the most amount of Gundams. Or alternatively who always seems to be encountering them in one way or another (one of the SRWs mentions Bright being destined to run into Gundams)

Na, you didn't forget anyone 🤭 Kidding aside, another great video

Shame that the Build Series is reserved for next year when it's gonna be the 10th anniversary of Build Fighters this year, Maybe we can get a most powerful Build Series Suit for that?

Since this video dropped several months ago it was before everything dropped about the original pilots of some of the Seven Star Gundams from IBO-MSV.

There's one more technicality in the Universal Century. Cima Garahau piloted the AGX-04 Gerbera Tetra which was a re-design (to make it look "Zeon") of the partially complete but canceled RX-78GP04G Gundam "Gerbera". So that could count. Maybe. There's also the bit about the Rick Dias being the Gamma Gundam, but whether you count that one or not, I don't think it changes anything on this list.

Man, god bless for SRW saving many Z and ZZ characters

You did miss two more people in X - Tiffa arguably counts for all the times she has been the copilot of the X or DX, and Lucille, on top of helping pilot the G-Bits, if memory at all serves me also was one of the original test pilots for the X Also, as someone else pointed out, Sochie, Merrybell and Teteth all got behind the wheel of the Turn A at some point or another (also the thing about Cagalli in Destiny being because of VA drama is a complete myth, not true in the slightest)

that gigguk qoute got me 🤣🤣🤣🤣

I dunno if you still do Question of the Week but if you do, can I ask this? How different would Cha- I mean Quattro’s battles would be during the Gryps Conflict if he had piloted the Delta Gundam/II instead of the Hyaku-Shiki?

RIP to all the Gundam waifus we lost along the way. :(

you also forgot Lacus Clyne, she briefly piloted the Infinite Justice Gundam from Space down to Earth so she could personally present it to Athrun.

I always used to hate Lady Une, but can't deny how much I LOVE Gundam Wing

I think suletta's mother technically counts? Oh and the girl that piloted the pre production Lfrith,and technically mionire since she briefly piloted the aerial in the first episode

Lunamaria Hawke is definitely my favorite female Gundam pilot.

I think you forgot about Miorine as she did pilot the Aerial, but we can debate she had the help of Suletta once she got into the field

Lacus sorta piloted the Infinite Justice to deliver it Shame Shiho Hahnenfuss didn't pilot a Gundam but I'll just cope by having her do so in a G Generation game she's in

You know, I can see Setsuna and Delling in a heated debate about what makes a Gundam, a Gundam

In one of the Gundam 00 sequel mangas or promotional art I remember seeing the pilot of the Dynamis Repaired. They looked like girl Tierria, but I think the name was different. As an inovade it wouldn’t be impossible to implant mind into a lady body. Wonder if Mileana(?) still loves them.

If you wanted to get super into the weeds, you could include Cima Garahau and her GP-04 Gerbera (Tetra)

isn't there a continuation of 00 where Teiria actually became female if I remember right it where Graham is the pilot of Exia Repair 4

i wonder if Marie Parfacy/Soma Peries in 00 can be counted as gundam pilot ? She piloted the GN Archer (technically it was made from a gundam) and in the movie she co-pilot the Gundam Harute (so technically still a gundam pilot?)

Lol the sums up wing

Goku: Question. Freeza: Huh? Goku: Do you have a watch? Freeza: No, why? Goku: Do you know what a minute is? Freeza: What? Of course I do! Goku: I don't think you do...

As a Bloody Valentine enjoyer, Lunamaria is a total babe in my eyes. If only it was a different writer in charge, she could've been Destiny's best girl. For some reason, I wish the Savior was hers. Taking down Djibril would've been easy plus its her colour scheme. Then there's Riika Sheder though she's only a test pilot for the Gaia, don't think her being barely 5 ft tall means she doesn't have what it takes to be a pilot. Despite her disability (she's blind actually but a special device in the shape of a pair of glasses enables her to put out her full potential) she could climbing up the ranks and wear that coveted red uniform! Also, had it been a different writer and director, Cagalli or one of the Astray girls, who survived the last war, coming in the Strike Rouge saving Lacus and Kira. I miss the old Cagalli. To me, statecraft is still too early for her. At best she could do is run an interim postwar government until Orb elects a new leader that is. If anything, story should've keep the focus on the Minerva, plus Luna could've been fleshed out even more perhaps her backstory. Cosmic Era got a lot of potential but never really executed properly most of the time.

Realy great video but i know you precise from the anime show but you miss one Gundam pilot from the iron-blooded orphans manga gekko and that was Deira Nadira who was piloting Gundam Gremory

Welp guess I gotta wait until next year to get the Lady pilot episode I would ask for. Also it does indeed take a real man to be best girl Gigguk's got it right.

During the early concept stage of Gundam Seed, Strike Rouge was to be piloted by Flay Allster but after a giant overhaul, all that's left was the Rouge's pink color.

Tieria Erde is the best Female Gundam Pilot with Virtue/Nadleh, Seravee/Seraphim and Raphael/Seravee II.

Fun facts. In Gundam origins Sayla never hijacked the Gundam, manned the machine gun of a jeep, piloted a core fighter, and eventually got to pilot an armored GM custom for veterans. In the Gundam 0080 manga first few prequel chapter, Chris was able to take on a 3 veteran zeon pilots in custom zaku 1 and a zeon spy that had stolen the prototype Alex. She took them on with a zaku high mobility ground type armed with just a heat hawk during a snow storm.

Uh-oh! Someone needs to re-watch ∀ Gundam... Did we forget about Merrybell Gadget, Kakarot? And Sochie Heim? And Teteth Halleh?

Much love to the ladies of cosmic era especially Lacus Cylne and Meyrin Hawke.🤟🥰❤️💙💗💜

As for the technicalities with Marion, Chan & Kara? I say their canon. Even if the names of the suits don't specifically say "GUNDAM _____" The Blue Destiny 2 and 3 are refitted 79[G]'s to be usable in space. The ReGz, well you said it yourself Gundam is in the name lol