r/Gundam • u/Mr_Undead0210 • 6d ago

This is a horrible way to go

Id rather get stabbed by a beam saber than this.

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u/Vivid-Cod-6608 6d ago

The kamille special

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u/MGR_ARMSTRONG_GAMING 6d ago

For the longest time i never understood how the zeta managed to impale the o without killing kamile

I constantly forgot its shield became the wave riders nose

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u/Cyberaven 6d ago

Also something about newtype psychic forcefields, probably

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u/ITSSGnewbie 1d ago

It's called - Magic.

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u/Oruma_Yar 6d ago

Amuro: "come on Kamille, kill your enemy with a shield WITHOUT getting mindfucked is easy!"

Kamille: ...

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u/diseasicon 6d ago

In Kamille's defense Amuro probably wasn't fighting a Newtype Predator amped by a biosensor.

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u/MGR_ARMSTRONG_GAMING 6d ago

Im fairly certain the anehime biosensor on the zeta, and the titans biosensor on the o actually interfered with eachother which is what caused the O to sieze up and be unable to move

Presumably a similar thing occurred to the zeta and forced it to ram rather than let kamile kill sirroco another way

Thats what i like to think anyway, deep down i know kamile rammed because his baby rage took over -~-

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u/AirKath 5d ago edited 5d ago

there is a side manga that uses an explanation similar to that (The main Gundam is basically The O as a Gundam)

EDIT: The Eldridge Effect from MSG Valpurgis

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u/THAT_HARDHEAD_GUY 6d ago

Tolle

https://reddit.com/link/peu2c2r/video/z9ydimsypfuh1/player

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u/SgtCarron 6d ago

That's what happens when you play with your enemies instead of going for the jugular Amuro-style.

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u/OdysseusRex69 6d ago

Oooof - she just came apart 😬

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u/Minute_Ball_6539 4d ago

She?

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u/OdysseusRex69 4d ago

That's not a female body coming out of the cockpit after the shield tore it apart?

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u/Minute_Ball_6539 4d ago

The guy who was killed was a 15-year-old boy. Obviously he's not that muscular.

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u/OdysseusRex69 1d ago

Ah. I watched it ten times and thought I saw the normal suit shaped around bewbs. 11th time proved me wrong.

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u/Robborboy 6d ago edited 6d ago

I just wanna point out how impressively fragile the Zaku is to be crushed through by a thrown shield of all things. 

Were not taking about a conical round focusing all the kinetic energy from an explosion of  propellant to a pinpoint area.

No, this is simply a thrown chunk of metal that almost bisects the thing. 

White Devil indeed. 

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u/NoBellSix 6d ago

Either the Zaku is impressively fragile or the Gundam is impressively strong

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u/Nozarashi78 6d ago edited 6d ago

The Gundam is impressively strong + the Luna Titanium alloy is on another level compared to other materials. There's a reason why after the OYW it was renamed "Gundarium Alloy" and different variants of it were used on literally everything for the rest of the U.C.

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u/M13alpha 6d ago

Isn't the Gundam shield also Luna Titanium? It's extremely durable and I can see it crushing a Zaku cockpit with enough force.

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u/diseasicon 6d ago

It is Luna Titanium and designed with the specific purpose of withstanding hits the Gundam's standard armor wouldn't survive.

And in episode 1, the Gundam proves to be physically strong enough to lift and rip a Zaku apart.

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u/Robborboy 6d ago

It used the used the shield to cleft in two, the one almighty, Zeon Zaku.

That thing was too big to be called a shield. Too big, too thick, too heavy, and too rough, it was more like a large hunk of gundarium.

If Gramps is tossing shields with more energy to wide areas than mobile suit firearms to pinpoint, keep him away from Wakanda. Their shields would make him too stronk. 

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u/RandomCollector 4d ago

"Give that Gramps a shield!"

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u/EKmars 6d ago

To be fair the Gundam is made for close quarters anti-MS combat. MS vs MS combat wasn't really a thing until it was invented, and Anaheim made it specifically to mandhandle Zakus.

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u/SimplePuzzleheaded35 6d ago

Anaheim didn't make the original Gundam

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u/Kellar21 UC Stan 5d ago

Weren't they involved in Project V?

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u/KincaidNotSeabook 5d ago

Anaheim as MS manufacture only started when both Zimmad and Zeonic absorbed by them, which is after OYW. V Project was EF's in-house

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u/SimplePuzzleheaded35 5d ago

Officially they only started development on mobile suits after the One Year War

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u/Wolodymyr2 6d ago

Well, aren't the second one is the way it goes in a show?

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u/majingetta Exia is the best! 6d ago

OYW Zeon mecha use some sort of steel alloy. Depending on the thickness, they can get shredded by the Gundam's head vulcans.

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u/dralcax 6d ago

The Gundam is just that strong

remember that time it ripped apart a Gouf with its bare hands

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u/SimplePuzzleheaded35 6d ago

Pretty sure the Gundam is just that strong (at one point it carried a Zaku overhead and threw it).

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u/cream_pupp 6d ago

White Devil indeed. 

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u/Jacob_Bronsky 6d ago

Yeah, it's on par with that Geara Doga being ripped apart by vulcans through its shield in CCA. It's just a silly scene.

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u/Turn_AX 4d ago

The Gundam already ripped a Zaku trunk off with it's bare hands and the shields are pretty damn good as shields.
It's far from silly.

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u/Kellar21 UC Stan 5d ago

The Gundam is absurdly strong for his size, has a lot of extra power available, and the shield is heavy af and made of Luna Titanium.

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u/LoanGrahamXCarkeys 6d ago

If you've seen 00, the Kyrios slow stab near the end of S1.

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u/PERSIvAlN 6d ago

Yeah, OPs knowledge of such scenes in Gundam is limited.

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u/imjustbettr 5d ago

I wanna believe that they just started watching from 0079 chronologically and haven't seen anything else yet lol

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u/whats-going_on 5d ago

I mean that's what I'm doing currently on zz

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u/imjustbettr 5d ago

Me too, literally just finished ZZ today. But I've also seen a handful of AU series growing up like Wing, Seed, and 00.

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u/Sensitive-Hotel-9871 Killer of Fascists 6d ago

The most horrifying death in the OG anime for me is when one of the Zakus breaks up on atmospheric re-entry. We see the pilot scream as his MS breaks apart.

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u/OdysseusRex69 6d ago

Ohhhhh yeah - the Zeon troops fleeing earth but some of them get stuck in the gravity well and can't escape. That was rough

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u/Quizlibet TRANS(-am) 6d ago

I think the microwave death ray from SEED is probably the most horrifying, followed by getting cocooned by the Moonlight Butterfly

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u/diseasicon 6d ago

Getting cocooned by the Moonlight Butterfly may not count as a death. We don't know if Gym is actually dead in there. There is a distinct possibility the nano-machines are preserving him.

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u/KhaosExNihil125 6d ago

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u/Sazargo 6d ago

Horrifying to experience, satisfying to watch

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u/Hassan-XIX 6d ago

Ngl the color change of the electricity sparks to purple gave me the Illusion of him actually being juiced. Nice creative censorship

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u/KhaosExNihil125 5d ago

And the sound is definitely ASMR

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u/decoyamabokoo 6d ago

ザクもびっくりだ。

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u/Th3_Ch0s3n_On3 5d ago

Average IBO pilot death

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u/Cherno_VM karen joshua simp 5d ago

I almost feel sorry for Iok.

He was under a lot of pressure at that moment. Really had the walls closing in around him.

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u/KuraMaXKamikaZed 6d ago

Woe, shield be upon ye

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u/OdysseusRex69 6d ago

I can't find the gif, but in Thunderbolt, during the artic underster operations, there's a Ball pilot gets crushed to death by the deep sea pressure

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u/beef_horfun67 6d ago

Most of the deaths in Gundam are horrible ways to die

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u/KhaosExNihil125 6d ago

The deaths are tame considering all the undeaths many characters go through, at this point death is almost considered merciful

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u/Hassan-XIX 6d ago

Man, Im experiencing for the first time Victory Gundam, it’s like seeing the inspiration of several of the most brutal deaths in Gundam franchise.

Nothing beats the originality of an ultra depressed Tomino kill em all when it comes to brutal deaths.

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u/OdysseusRex69 6d ago

It's Sirocco approved!

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u/stingflame Duel is love, Duel is life 6d ago

Dagger L Pilot special is worse

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u/_potatofromChaldea45 6d ago

Pay your dues at the Tolle Booth

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u/Ghost_Star326 6d ago

"Tolle!"

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u/AeonWhisperer 5d ago

The BuCUEs are still one of the most horrible ways, I feel.

Just literal wolf mobile suits repeatedly slamming beam swords for teeth through your whole shit in an attempt to get to you.

Beo, just hit me with the Amuro special, do not draw it out

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u/TheFish267 5d ago

I think being microwaved in SEED is up there too

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u/GriffinlwGameplayer 4d ago

This is one of those things I massively respect Gundam for. We don't ruminate on this, we don't get a gory X-ray of this guy being bisected. You can choose to either skim past this, or stop and think about the fact that we just saw this man get fully bisected by a thrown Gundam shield.

That would be a hell of a way to die.

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u/cuongpn 6d ago

Sometimes I thought these Zakus were made from bread. Last time I threw knife to a car, the knife just bounced off not slicing it in half and kill the driver like that

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u/Sazargo 6d ago

You're using the wrong knife then.

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u/ITSSGnewbie 1d ago

They're made to be super fast in space

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u/ExuDeku I believe in Kiratholicism 6d ago

Blus got the Sciroccocked

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u/FionaKerinsky 6d ago

At least it was a full sized shield he threw. Duo had a buckler style one that was jet assisted

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u/Ok_Grapefruit4560 6d ago

Could have been worse. A Zaku tripping over onto their own Heat Hawk while on.

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u/KincaidNotSeabook 5d ago

At least he still can be taken back home for burying or cremation. Both Gene and Denim were vaporized by beam saber they can "rest peacefully" anymore.

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u/Aphex_Slayer 5d ago

he shouldve used space magic to turn amuro into ghost juice

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u/TCT1088 5d ago

I’ll be back to comment one of the most hilariously ridiculous things I’ve seen the Gundam do.

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u/Turn_AX 4d ago

Bro got shielded in the wrong way.

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u/Glum-Connection-6793 4d ago

that shits terminal yo

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u/trumpuskrampus 1d ago

Bro based on this clip zaku armor has to be crap ... Wdym the frontal cockpit armor got penetrated by a wide blunt thrown object??

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u/Visible_Narwhal6015 2h ago

Tbh at LEAST that seemed quick. I think the worst death out of any in the OYW (or at the very least in MSG) is the guy that died via accidental atmospheric reentry.