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

[@kakarot197]

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)

[@JeanLucCaptain]

top 5 times mobile armour was actually badass?

[@barrybend7189]

Next question of the week: what would be the best meta for GBN if you were to play it if it existed in real life?

[@supsup335]

I actually don't like Noah that much: 1. Even if it was tradition in the earth forces, hitting a subordinate for ANY reason is a show of weakness on the COs part. 2. He is propably singlehandedly responsible for the Federations willingness to use Children in the numbers that they did by proving time and again that children could perform well on the battlefield. Not to mention the Gundam Team in ZZ.

[@blackbird7781]

How does the ball gundam manage to somehow sneak into so many of your videos? Lol

[@typhlodenxyz]

Please do the top 5 or top 10 mostly powerful gundam you can pilot as a normal person.

[@TheTubePoweredOne]

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

[@KillerOrca]

Tube Powered Ahhh Gundam Abridged

[@GreatChicken2]

Too bad Bright didn't slap Beecha, thus relegating him to relative obscurity. Isn't it sad, Beecha?

[@weirdestbudday5353]

Too bad he never gave his own whiny son the same treatment. It would have saved his life from stupid decisions.

[@RC-go2kl]

That's why you should spank your kids when they get out of hand.

[@TheTubePoweredOne]

@@RC-go2kl No, actually. That's been scientifically proven to be psychologically damaging for the child. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[@krism.6598]

“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.

[@CD-Gaming]

So THAT'S why the East is burning red! Explains my hand too...

[@demi-fiendoftime3825]

SCHOOL OF THE UNDEFEATED OF THE EAST!!!!!!

[@CD-Gaming]

@@demi-fiendoftime3825 SEKIYAH...

[@demi-fiendoftime3825]

@@CD-Gaming tenkyoken!!!!

[@CD-Gaming]

@@demi-fiendoftime3825 Look! The East is burning red! (I feel like we need more people in on this... Is that weird?)

[@HeirOfSparda]

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

[@gaeli6697]

Yes!

[@DU_hockeygirl40]

I wonder who would be at the top...😏

[@blackcomet2nd950]

I’m thinking that Char’s second in command would be one of the captains on the list since Char gave him command of his ship. I think Char would also be on the list just for being quite famous amongst the Zeon military. I also wonder if Ramba Ral would be on the list.

[@lancepedersen5482]

I think Otto from Gundam unicorn should be on the list

[@blackcomet2nd950]

Captain Otto was a pretty good captain, as well as a bit of a comedic captain, and I thought that Captain Zinnemann was a pretty good captain as well.

[@kzen1992]

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

[@NeoSlashott]

Salutations to him! :) Definitely one awesome side-character from Unicorn!

[@demi-fiendoftime3825]

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!!!

[@zerox8413]

And in Sidestories even if not canon... Judau was reincarnation of Cosmo Yuki of Space Runaway Ideon 😅

[@3dvorator]

there are quite a few version of this slap...actually kzbin.info/www/bejne/p3bcZ5udmbCnmNk

[@segasoldier6665]

Demi - Good point !!

[@mosalah8551]

Wow!

[@JustAnAzn]

Kai shiden actually got hit by noah and is still alive no?

[@JeanLucCaptain]

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

[@granmastersword]

Zaku II: ......oh shit-!

[@bellgrand]

Where is that from again?

[@sternguard77]

mhswlee I’d love to know too!

[@granmastersword]

@@bellgrand I think it's a cutscene from a PS2 Gundam game

[@granmastersword]

@@bellgrand I think it's a cutscene from a PS2 Gundam game

[@Big_E_Soul_Fragment]

Captain Bright: slapping emos into badasses since UC 79

[@Nostroman_Praetor]

Copy paste

[@MrEcoho]

then someone tried it with judo and he just beat their asses right back.

[@HaloFTW55]

HOW ARE YOU HERE TOO?

[@CosmoShidan]

Yep, Bright is a child abuser and a war criminal.

[@owo5869]

The 225677th Fragment of the Man-Emperor of Mankind You slap me twice ! Even my father didn't hut me before

[@diandrarizvi]

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!!!

[@airdams1989]

@Santiago Scarpino actually Bright did slap Shinji in SRW F ,not only that he almost squishy his head and yell at him at the same time.

[@The-Plaguefellow]

Careful, Bright's slap would probably cause the 3rd, 4th, _and_ 5th Impact right then and there if he doesn't hold back.

[@Nehfarius]

@@airdams1989 Fun fact, that slap seems to have stuck with Shinji every time he appears in SRW.

[@ihavethehighground8697]

Years later: * Shinji became a total badass and a pro Eva pilot *

[@boxtank5288]

@Santiago Scarpino a moment that SHOULD be doccumented and hell, ANIMATED!

[@rxzero00]

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

[@Nostroman_Praetor]

Copy paste

[@keiththompson9435]

Shinji Ikari: It worked wonders with me

[@blacknote6945]

does it work on his son?

[@rxzero00]

@@blacknote6945 Let me ask you this? Did Bright Noa ever slapped his son the way he did with Amuro?

[@areasevenpro]

@@blacknote6945 Nope, because he had his Normal Suit on.

[@DU_hockeygirl40]

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.

[@BeyondDaX]

Some people say, it wasn't so badass when he blew himself like that. But it depends on your definition on what badass is I suppose.

[@KillerOrca]

He did most of his work in a mobile suit though so he’s not fully eligibile. But Shiros here do

[@zerox8413]

FC definitely can't count because it will be too much... Someone than can beaten mobile suit with just scarf and punching skycrapers from underground level to fly 😅 too much badass and over powered

[@Sm00k]

Orga? Nah. Eugene. If Mikazuki is awesome for utilizing Barbatos with three implants, Eugene flies two ships. At the same time.

[@wildweurger]

Not to mention, Orga doesnt shy away from being in the front line when necessary... He was the first one I was going to mention until I realized this list was for UC chars XD

[@asadler43]

Of course bright op his slap can awaken newtype powers

[@lordgoobr]

Yes. All hail the mighty Brightslap (tm). Just think. In may Super Robot Wars games, many a series protagonist has become the recipient of it and have used it themselves (Shinji Ikari doing it to Kira Yamato in SRW Alpha 3 comes to mind)

[@hitachicordoba]

The palm of Bright's hand was more successful in awakening the true potential of Newtypes than the ENTIRE Flanagan Institute lol.

[@mephosto]

@@lordgoobr a pimp hand that crosses time, space, and dimensions.

[@MarineRX179]

Didn't the latest Super Robot Wars games introduced a new system that allows characters to pilot machines from other franchises? Can you imagine the devastating power of Bright commanding Macross and use "BRIIIIGHHHTTT SLAAAAP"? lol

[@mephosto]

@@MarineRX179 limited to special circumstances, but the slap is part of the reason amuro was able to pilot mazinger, I know it.

[@Prich319]

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

[@NewTypeDilemma01]

Ah, a man of class, I see.

[@TheCommicalOne]

I too like to be a free birth sometimes

[@rickregina5053]

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.

[@NexGenRogue]

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

[@blackcomet2nd950]

Eugene would probably be one of the top Alaya Vinjana users in IBO because of his ability to control several ships with the Alaya Vinjana system. I think I would also now consider Eugene a Slegger clone do to his personality and determination.

[@inuclearpickle8628]

Nex Gen I gotta agree I can’t really think of any other character from IBO

[@zerox8413]

For another Universe... I'm betting Domon Kasshu and Master Asia would be on list due their able to handle mobile suit with scarf 😅

[@Sm00k]

I come here to put my vote behind this candidate. Honestly, Gundams are awesome but Eugene was plainly awesome.

[@Scarface_1b]

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

[@sirskittle9093]

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

[@siredmundbarton5299]

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

[@mlo009]

He's really good.

[@ITSPLANEWHACKHIM]

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.

[@flygonkerel781]

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

[@doc_havoc00heavywing37]

2:44 Zaku: I'm in danger Lol

[@codename1176]

Stop it he’s already dead

[@tylerstocker6189]

It was at this moment, the Zaku knew, he fucked up.

[@moriskurth628]

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.

[@Xeno-The-Wanderer]

damn, Nobuyuki Hiyama voices some unkillable badasses

[@shavy7734]

Guys, guys, GUYS!!! Common though doesn't this take place like 200 years in the future? I'm sure there's some b.s. technological reason guns of that size can maintain their efficiency as giant tank guns without the downsides. This is a *fictional* story. If it was anything like other sci-fi series, that try and predict the future and be as realistic as possible mobile suits would not even exist. Have some chill.

[@moriskurth628]

@@shavy7734 And I'm just providing some facts about real world physics, and pointing out some unrealistic things, not criticizing or talking shit about the series itself. Also, I wasn't talking about the effectiveness of the weapon, or its durability, just the effects of a 120mm shell passing an unprotected human by mere centimeters, at (likely) supersonic velocity. No matter what setting, that pressure would do some damage. But that's the point of SOD, Suspension of Disbelief. If something is relatively unrealistic, but can be ignored for the sake of narrative, then I don't mind. It's kinda like my relationship with Fantasy. I may point out why a certain weapon or armor design is impractical, but won't let that hamper my enjoyment of it. So stop acting like I was calling Gundam the worst series in the world or something, just because I pointed something unrealistic out. If I thought that, I wouldn't be here in the first place.

[@virgilio6349]

@@moriskurth628 Fun fact, they train infantry to never be near the front of an MBT before it fires because the blast alone is enough to kill. Think about how you should never stand behind an RPG.

[@DSan-kl2yc]

I figured he meant the heat from it. Something that big, that close.

[@neonnwave1]

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

[@mro-aviation]

🤣🤣🤣

[@davemcg757]

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.

[@xxEmmankunnArt]

Otto is like a goofy person that you won't take seriously until he shouts at you with anger. The Nahel-Argama Crew's suppressed reactions when he talked shit in front of Angelo was priceless. He was just like a comic relief in Unicorn just to lighten the mood (yeah, just like how he spit a tea in front of his subordinated, that shit was funny) but when thing gets heated up, he kicks ass

[@Verminator4]

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)

[@manat31790]

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

[@ninjavanish2361]

2:47 Tanks: “Yo, What’s up!”

[@mlo009]

Such a fun scene!

[@OskaIvanovichSmirnov]

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.

[@cocobill0077]

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

[@hitachicordoba]

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

[@Milk-ur9ch]

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

[@genisisbeing]

i think it requires a bit more than sitting in the Bloodhound and pointing out targets to count as badass.

[@Milk-ur9ch]

Michel once threw himself over a bridge while Shiro was fighting a Gouf Flight Type. It was an OVA but still has to give him some kind of points

[@supbro4964]

eledore seems to be banned because his hobby lol

[@neonx6202]

Eledore did that kick ass escape from zeons with a mobile suit or worker and got shot up a lot and lived

[@GaldirEonai]

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.

[@johnwolf2349]

The way it has time to just look over at the Tanks before they fire too lol... You can almost hear the Pilot going "Ah... Shit." Before getting blasted.

[@yellowprime8491]

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

[@Necrodermis]

So powerful was his pimp hand that it was felt 200 years into the past

[@GreatChicken2]

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.

[@tomhuynh3867]

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.

[@ky-passley4769]

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.

[@dreamcaster100]

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.

[@KyriosMirage]

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

[@transformersrevenge9]

Jamil from X and Mu from Seed were also pretty badass when they weren't using MS. 00 had Ali, who was as deadly on foot as he was in a machine.

[@DeamonChocobo]

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.

[@zerox8413]

How about Jamil from X?

[@DeamonChocobo]

@@zerox8413 1. I haven't seen AWGX so I apologize for my ignorance. 2. He was an MS pilot before the series and goes on to pilot again later in the series.

[@grandadoboman1995]

All the bois from Wing were trained spies and saboteurs. Them bois can do everything. I mean, if Quatre wanted it, he could be Batman.

[@DeamonChocobo]

@@grandadoboman1995 yeah but when you really think about it Duo didn't really do much outside the cockpit and Quatre only built Wing Zero; Trowa was at least a great Acrobat and was a near perfect infiltrator. Honestly I think Wufei and Heero were the only ones to rack up a major kill count outside the cockpit.

[@grandadoboman1995]

@@DeamonChocobo Duo shot Heero while riding riding his mini copter, Quatre is smart and rich so...

[@venomouslizards]

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.

[@hasaki_art]

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

[@thefez-cat]

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.

[@GarmrZero13]

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

[@CD-Gaming]

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!

[@Xeno-The-Wanderer]

sounds like the gundam (assuming its performance is well above standard infantry) should be given to another ace pilot for maximum combat efficiency

[@CD-Gaming]

@@Xeno-The-Wanderer It was a ship, a Light Carrier, with medium weaponry (not many even armed forces carried all that heavy weaponry on even their Mobile Armours, too much fear over a past they didn't fully understand)! To give you an idea, the heaviest armed Mobile Armour was a machine produced in low numbers due to costs of both weaponry and the armour itself and meant to be piloted by two people called the Whalebane! He was already an accomplished Mobile Armour pilot, though he was still scarred by a conflict that took place 5 years prior in orbit around Deimos, the larger of Mars' two moons! This also took place in Earth's Siberian region, in a time when humanity either lived in Domed Cities on the surface of Mars or in giant space colonies known as STARS (Satellite Terrestrial exo-Atmospheric Relay Stations), so Earth was literally an alien planet to them! The Gundam he used was with another ship, they'd all come to Earth chasing a series of signals that had sent out the message "It's ready... Gundam", this base in Siberia being one source and housing the heavy artillery unit, the Gen. II unit 002, the Barrage Gundam! His was the Gen. III unit 001, Commando Gundam, a general purpose Mobile Suit! The Barrage was fighting the series' seemingly obligatory transforming Gen. III unit 006, Recon Gundam (there were 8 signal sources in all, as well as two more Gundams, both Gen. IV units, showing up, they uncover plans for a total of 16 Gundams, though only 12 are hinted at being complete)!

[@TheKing-qz9wd]

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.

[@MMuraseofSandvich]

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

[@snukastyle]

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 ;)

[@moviemaker2011z]

Yeah, it would be very unfair to include mobile Fighter G Gundam mainly because even some of the weaker gundam fighters is capable enough to punch buildings over with their bare fists alone. Domon and Master Asia Undefeated Of The East are essentially war crimes against the Geneva convention just being alive.

[@justarandomyoutubeuser5074]

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

[@mephosto]

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

[@MrHalonoob117]

Great video as always!

[@Autechltd]

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

[@NotMyRealName6]

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.

[@brotherzane636]

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

[@shadowfogkiller4532]

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

[@morbidslayer666]

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.

[@GPowtlaw2]

YEAH lol gotta have props for that Roy fokker shout out, Great idea for a video man, very smoothly executed :) My favorite was one of the ones i was not aware of - Lt. Barberry's anti mobile suit team, what is that from?!

[@cardinal2921]

Thats from ms igloo gravity front

[@GPowtlaw2]

@@cardinal2921 thank you!!

[@Wingnut00-zero]

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.

[@johng9004]

the bazooka Squads has Balls made of luna titanium

[@sypoth]

#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.

[@arx3516]

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!

[@Decay0]

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.

[@noneedtoknow07]

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

[@caveman3461]

Well one of my favorites that wasn't mentioned on the list that I've seen was Captain Murrue Ramius from Gundam Seed and Seed Destiny, personally I wouldn't want to Captain a ship against 1 Gundam much less 5 Gundams, and more so I do t think I'd have the stones that she's had to face two armies and an old friend and ally. Oof she's been through a lot.

[@DU_hockeygirl40]

She patented the Archangel barrel roll. It was pretty badass the way they took out the Minerva like that.

[@zerox8413]

She basically genderbend of Captain of Red October after all

[@muugu_14]

Looks aside, Murrue Ramius is a damn badass captain. The fact that she went against multiple Gundams and two armies and LIVED is amazing

[@BioGoji-zm5ph]

Bright Noa is the unsung hero of the Universal Century.

[@FatalShadow13]

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

[@benlex5672]

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.

[@Sargonarhes]

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.

[@accelriderx2931]

I think that was Zeta, not ZZ.

[@daneilfranklin]

Orga Itska from IBO. he never used a mobile suit in the show despite being given one, and when he did go into battle it was on the back of a mobile worker.

[@DeanxPeaceMaker]

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

[@Chungus_E_Mungus]

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

[@bett431]

Lady Une/Oz because Gundam Wing starts with 5 of the most powerful gundams ever compared to grunts and they literally have them beaten in like 12 episodes and then they continue to make them homeless basicly. Also Sally.

[@DeamonChocobo]

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

[@mlo009]

He's a fan fave, such a cool dude.

[@gldni17]

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.

[@AKUNJIG]

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

[@jthouston44]

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

[@DYhalto250]

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

[@scarletrain6757]

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

[@mlo009]

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

[@spiritofthewolf15x]

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

[@josh_miester_x511]

Bright Noa's Quirk: Newtype creation via slapping.

[@danielculp1046]

Kakarot197 Bright is my favorite GUNDAM character and deserves the respect you showed the character. He is always willing to listen and willing to change to help his crew and advance his objective. He is a well rounded and grounded character.

[@Tamachii12]

Too bad the federation was a shit hole...

[@MrFNP90]

Does anyone else think that a video series about non-mobile suit weapons of the Universal Century would be interesting? I'm a huge fan of the Type 61 MBT

[@TKDragon75]

Garrod Ran, pilot of the Gundam X, was known to be able to take down and capture mobile suits using mostly clever wit and a gun.

[@vincentlamb3436]

I would always go into vs. mode in "Mobile Suit Gundam: Federation vs. Zeon" to play as Slegger piloting a core fighter to shoot my friends. Shooting any variation of the core fighter in that game was a pain because of how fast it was. You could lock onto it but your gun would always miss. The trick to unlocking the core fighter in vs. mode is to shoot it down in Arcade. The most effective method is to either use a Zaku I/II with a bazooka or using a the beam rifle/finger from the Gelgoog/Zeong. It takes patience because not only is the core fighter fast but It also does twist and turns to avoid fire. It is best to hit it from the back or front in a straight line rather than hitting it in its sides.

[@KingZolem]

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.

[@judeskater93]

If he’s not on the list then the fifth spot should go to Eugene from IBO. Guy took a mobile worker to knock an anchor out of a asteroid, or meteor don’t know what to call a rock floating in space, managed to fly the isaribi perfectly enough near the hammerhead for his crew to get on board the ship without getting splattered on the surface, traveled through a debris zone without a scratch, and managed to connect via Alaya vinnyana and pilot two ships at once and succeeded with his diversion with cartas outer earth division.

[@alexszilagyi3695]

In the after war gundam x episode 1 Garrod Ran used a stun grenade to blind a mobile suit go for the cockpit in Luke Skywalker style and kicked out the pilot. Although we can mention Io Fleming in Thunderbolt December Sky with a similar tactic but not on the same level of braveness.

[@RedBeardAnubis]

Igloo 2 was way under rated in my opinion. All 3 episodes are badass.

[@Seraphil1]

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.

[@on1yadam]

6:03 good point, the shockwave from the bullet alone would have killed him. Just like shooting a 20 mm round today could kill someone even if they aren't hit.

[@YiminyCricket]

what about Ramba Ral's lover, Crowley Hamon? she almost took out the Gundam with a Magella Tank Top, and, of course, careful planning and using whatever resources they had left.

[@td644]

For the AU list assuming he's not already on it Edward "The Ripper" Harrelson. Dude ripped a DINN in half using his Spearhead even if it was an accident having the guts to go fighter to MS in any Gundam series is badass and getting a melee kill in said fighter is just as badass.

[@twelfthknight]

Only other character I would've included was Bianca Carlyle from Gundam Thunderbolt. Anyone who was part of a Mobile Ball squadron at A Baoa Qu is brave bordering on the insane.

[@Art790631]

The Bright Slap is legendary but I do give it to the little guys. I'm in the process right now building a RGM-79(G)GM MG kit.

[@napalmmischief4330]

My favorite badass would have to be that fortress in Char's counterattack. Took out a bunch of mobile suits in less than 2 hours

[@mechafan1178]

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

[@diapason89]

In SRW V, Bright was made second-in-command of Earth Fleet Tenku, assuming command in case Captain Okita dies before completing their mission.

[@KillerOrca]

Course Brights on here. He don’t need a mobile suit, he’s got the White Base and a other fucking phone

[@Privatepain1234]

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

[@DIEGhostfish]

I can only imagine if the MSG abridged team continued on Dozle and Sleggar would be complimenting the hell out of each other in the afterlife.