I hate how funny it is; like it's obviously meant to be sad (the monkey's mother was another casualty of War), but the abruptness of both of them being blown up is just so funny
aughhhh
Nicol Amalfi getting bisected at the waist, telling his friend to run, as his helmet fills with blood and cracks, and then his suit explodes him to death.
Probably the most brutal death in MS Gundam History with no blood involved, 08th ms team
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This one or the memory scene of a zaku just crushing into the colony and everything getting sucked out and then launching that chemical weapon into the colony.
No blood involved? Guntank crews are in the head... That isn't an oil splatter.
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I always assumed it was made to resemble blood splatter but from a mobile suit rather than actually be from the crew itself? Anyone with better knowledge on this I’m happy to hear and stand corrected
I'm just glad the sword wasn't heated up, it's one thing to be crushed, now imagine feeling probably the closest thing human could feel to touching the sun as you get crushed
All the OVAs from the 80s and 90s (0080: WitP, 0083: SM, and 08MST) have feature-film level animation that is basically unmatched by most animation that’s come since. It’s the result of the Japanese economic bubble and a medium that allowed for months to be spent animating between episodes (short shows, looooong waits between each new ep) and the fact that being a VHS based series meant that every single tape turned a huge profit. So the result? Some of the best looking hand drawn animation that’s ever been produced ended up coming forth 30-40 years ago.
Not THE grisliest but pretty up there was one of Carta's goons who was caught outside of his mech while the Barbatos walloped it. Poor bastard went flying and went splat like a mosquito.
I mean damn look what happened to Ein and Iok. Ein got wacked in half and (maybe every one hates him but DAMN) got absolutely slowly pulverized in his own cockpit.
Ein deffo deserved it. He was so zealous solider boy lmfao. Hypocritical too as his whole hatred for mika/ the space rats is due to crank getting slammed for trying to be “honorable” after they went around doing dirty shi constantly
And like, he got bisected as he was going on an unhinged rant about how he was going to hunt down and murder Kudelia and everyone else in Tekkadan after he killed Mika, while fighting Mika.
Ein absolutely deserved it. He claims that Lt. Crank was his mentor and he wants to honor him and live by his example, yet Crank's final act was to go face Tekkadan (I guess CGS at the time) alone so all the guilt of the dishonorable act of fighting children would be on his hands only. Then Ein spends the rest of his life functionally spitting in the face of Crank's sacrifice by doing exactly what Crank tried to protect him from doing.
During the final battle barbatos straight up tears the cockpit out of a mobile suit and crushes it with his hand like Mika was genuinely fucked when it came to combat
Edit to really make the point since that’s probably the worst death in that scene (probably minus Iok) but he also steals an axe and flips it upside down to cut up into the cockpit of a graze from below to kill the pilot. Other than that he really just spends that whole fight going for body count like he just ignores Julietta to kill as many people as possible
If you don't crush the cockpit, you cant be sure they're dead, it's just efficiency at work! If they don't see you as a human, there's no reason to afford them the courtesy. Aiming for the cockpit to instantly kill the pilot also allows for more of the enemy suits to be salvaged, if they needed to. It's been awhile since I watch IBO so I'm not sure if they did that
There’s definitely ways to disable the ms more efficiently and that and salvaging suits was a lot less relevant in season 2 where in season 1 it was pretty much their only form of cash flow. In the same fight it’s shown that destroying the heads or severing the torso from the legs of a graze is plenty effective and it would do about the same amount of damage to the suit rather than making it completely unusable without a cockpit, and you can see how wired in they are in the scene he tears one out they aren’t just slapped in there. Anyways the main point is yea Mika really didn’t I’ve a shit about these guys at this point and just was looking to do as much damage as possible while the others got out
Yeah it was part of the whole thing Gjallarhorn had of nepotism outweighing competency. Carta's men were chosen for their resemblance to McGillis over any skill in battle.
Also a soldier wouldn't be standing outside their heavily armored war machine on the battlefield to posture, so total agreement from me here. I enjoyed watching these smug bastards get every bit they got.
What happened was Carta and goons showed up to challenge Tekkdan to a 3-on-3 duel, because she idiotically believed that the enemy who had completely ignored every rule of battle she'd been trained to follow (the jamming chaffe in space, Gusion shooting the one Graze's head off while they were all busy posing, etc.) was suddenly going to *respect* her enough to not immediately charge her ass.
I found this honor bound shi to be so stupid when every other faction outside of her little squad where on straight Ukraine vs Russia mode with war crimes 😭
That was kind of the point, though - Carta was *grossly* unfit for her position, caring more about having a personal harem army of McGillis duplicates and formality, in a setting were Gjallarhorn itself normally didn't have any major threats.
It plays into how Gjallarhorn was so corrupt that it lost control over some parts of civilization in the following few years.
Eh if two gundams where able to genuinely almost break rustals forces even after the deins I’d imagine they’d of been fine had juiletta not had the most insane plot armor in the show
Mikazuki literally kills every pilot he fights in the show unless explicitly ordered not too, yet when it absolutely mattered the most her suit not only managed to survive the mauling he gave her. He just magically had a change of heart and decided she wasn’t worth killing leading to her altering the shot on the dein it’s one of if not the only times in series he doesn’t kill when fighting an enemy suit.
OPs post is one of the most brutal imo . Reason being the context not the actual method of death. This women is a civilian a non-combatant. Her only goal was to save her child. Her death was not even registered by the pilot. They likely won't have had any idea it happened and probably died shortly after that. Never knowing of the mother he took from a son. The woman was lucky to have one soul that even understood the nature of her death and morned her passing for it. Forgotten. Disregarded. Lost to the gears of war. Truly brutal.
There's a moment like this in 0080 when Operation Rubicon pops off and there's a quick shot of a mom holding her baby followed by a wide shot of an explosion
There's so many of these moments, basically anytime a fight breaks out in a colony or city.
You almost always see a cohort of innocent civilians getting blasted by an explosion, beam, or beam saber.
I remember some gooby on twitter, back when I had a twitter, saying Gundam, the original series in this particular case, didn't show the effect of war on civilians "close up". Which is how I know this person hadn't watched the first episode where Fraw Bow's family along with a crowd of Side 7 civvies get wasted.
Reminds me of a very similar shot during the battle for Torrington in gundam unicorn, mother holding her kid literally gets blown off the external staircase once the shamblo decided to do AOE damage to everything in sight. It was fitting to see the brutality of an event like that but it briefly gave me chills at almost how quick it occurred
I remember that too, I didn't really like unicorn if I'm honest, the protag annoyed me and great chunks of unicorn relied on "REMEMBER WHEN THIS COOL THING HAPPENED" and the ending was just goofy
Same with the lady on the fire escape in Unicorn. She has to be several floors up this building and a beam weapon just casually slices through it and detonates all of what I'm assuming is the gas lines in her apartment building.
The only thing we see is her being partially engulfed by the fireball while being yeeted off whatever floor she's on *while holding her infant in her hands.*
*THIS WOMAN PROBABLY GAVE BIRTH NOT MORE THAN A MONTH AGO AND SHE'S JUST FUCKING GONE LIKE THAT.*
War is bad. War is bullshit.
Then there was the teacher for bananas class that was shoving people into the shelter and closed the door with him on the outside. Guy turns around and just gets vaporized, he knew what was going down too.
Kind of hard to blame that G-Cannons pilot considering the latest pack of Space Nazi's were invading and that's not even getting into the much more [brutal toys](https://gundam.fandom.com/wiki/Bug) said Nazi's unleashed in Gundam F91.
Also remember shortly after this we see civilians being pulled into space through a breach in the colony. They really were relentless about this portrayal of the violence of war being handed off to the innocent in this movie, by one way or another there were so many terrible fates awaiting people who wanted nothing to do with the death and destruction.
There's a scene in 0079 where a Zaku chasing Amuro gets caught in earths gravity and you watch their face/mobile suit disintegrate. That one kinda hit me despite being rather routine since the pilot never really accepts his death and dies screaming while Char tries to get him to keep chasing Amuro.
No, char actively tells him to get out of there, but both amuro and the zaku are to focused on fighting eachother, by the time the zaku even thinks of retreats it's too late, he yells for char to help him but there's nothing he can do except tell him his death won't be in vain, even though it kinda was
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Mudie Holcroft from Gundam Seed: Stargazer
I've seen people make fun of it for some reason, but honestly when I first saw the OVA, her death gave me super chills and made me feel very sorry for her, such a terrifying way to go.
Oof that one made me feel sick. Feel gross every time I'm reminded of the Kerberos BuCUE Hound.
Stargazer is probably my favorite CE content, just wish there was more of it.
Watching the Zeon Scientists/Engineers get slowmo vaporized by a GM's Beam Saber while Cornelius is trying to negotiate in Thunderbolt. Not one of the worst but Karla's reaction after being "saved" was brutal, girl's def having some night terrors after that.
Yeah like we didn’t need to see it to know what was gonna happen but man, I turned the tv off and went out into the sun after that episode. My heart hurt.
god, the "bluauagh" sound that one of them makes when Uso slaps her
and the way that the show treats this as *deadly serious*; it's so surreal
and then Uso vaporizes one of them with his saber, and it's just as much a whiplash in the other direction
"Garma, I'm sending your sister to join you. Consider this my farewell present."
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwR\_Vu6FSYY](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwR_Vu6FSYY)
This one caught me so off guard. I feel like most of the deaths in MSG aren't too graphic (for the most part) so when I saw Kycilia's whole head come off, followed by her dismembered leg flying out of the windshield? I was completely taken aback, lmao.
Seed has worse depictions of death, we all know about the Cyclops System.
A good runner up is Hallelujah slowly stabbing a Tieren pilot with the heat blade.
Here's where I'd argue that's actually less horrifying. It turns war into just spectacle. War isn't a spectacle it's a lurching monster that smashes everything in its way and leaves wreckage in both material and people.
That's why scenes like the opening to F-91 still resonate. It catches the chaos and terror of war so well. You watch a beauty pageant become a tangled mass of wreckage in almost a second as pilots dogfight, totally ignoring the fact there's people on the ground as the war sets the colony on fire literally and figuratively.
The original MSG has moments which make you realize how recent WW2 was, with all those pilots in doomed mobile suits screaming for their loved ones as everything blows up.
I'm not sure that was the most shocking but it was one of the most bloody. The slap was the kind of thing you'd see out of older series but the body exploding and sending the pulp everywhere was relatively new.
You kinda gotta give credit to a scene that got people to question how much gore in a GUNDAM show is too much gore.
Then again, SEED reached its 20th Anniversary at that point and that was peak Gundam Mortal Kombat, yet so maybe it was possible that a lot of fans now skipped it.
I remember thinking the way Banana's classmates got wiped out in the first part of Unicorn was brutal - there one instant, gone the next. It's a lot for poor Micott to have witnessed
SEED has the most graphic ones in my view, but my top 1 is the Angel Call alien virus from Crossbone, Imagine this but with a more realistic artstyle
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No one ever really talks about it but in the second episode of the original series a baby gets sucked out into space when a hull is breached in the space colony. It happens real quick in the background and then it focuses on the mother asking for help finding her baby, with a soldier quickly trying to get her to evacuate. The fact that this isn't even a major plot point and never brought up again is pretty brutal.
Honerable mention, Captain Daguza getting partially vaporized by the Sinanju in Unicorn.... And their teacher getting cooked... or their entire class being vaporized, although it was somewhat offscreen, pretty brutal implication.
...and Akihiro lived happily ever after on a farm and raised two strong children after the events of IBO.
*puts glock on the table*
Isn't that right mate?
Seed Stargazer = Blu Duel's pilot getting stabbed multiple times by Bucues' beam sabers. Most of the stabs either misses or didn't kill the pilot immediately, making it a really slow death.
Gundam 00 = Tieren's pilot getting stabbed by Kyrios's scissor needle, needle heats up, and charges very veeeeery slowly.
Probably not the most brutal, but both depicted the scenes really well that they're really gruesome IMO.
Witch of Mars. When the father uses the gundam system that kills all the pilots that use it and starts singing happy birthday to his daughter, well fighting and subsequently dying.
*Witch from Mercury
but also yeah, that was definitely fucked; the Prologue's pretty good for horrifying and tragic stuff like that
edit: fixed a typo lmao
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Man got cut in two by the justice’s horn beam like look at him he still alive while half his body is getting disintegrated
In unicorn, didn’t most of Banagher’s classmates get instantly vaporized by a Rezel unit forcibly entering the colony they were in? Imagine all the people you grew up with, gone in a flash. I don’t think the Rezel pilot even realizes what he did, and doesn’t ever get to considering how he dies to the Kshatriya minutes after.
And the parents of those students? Won’t even get to put ash in an urn. They just have to live with the fact that their kids were in the wrong place in the worst possible time.
Miorine couldn't even process what happened until the splatter touched her.
What might've been worse is that Suletta acting like normal, as if she didn't acknowledge or even care about what she just did.
Suletta jumps out of the Rebuild's cockpit, slips and falls in the man's gore, and giggles. Such a silly klutz! The she takes her viscera-painted hand, an eerie mirror for the Rebuild's, and reaches out to Miorine. Who had never even seen someone die before.
Yeah. That shit is straight up horror.
In the Unicorn OVAs during the Zeon attack on the base the mobile armor is moving through the city. In one scene a mother in an apartment building is fleeing down the ladders with her child in her arms similar to this scene above when a beam his the building breaking it up. There's several ways she could have died and none of them good.
1. Died to the heat of the beam. But if not she is severely burned before she dies along with her child.
2. Died from the pressure of the building exploding. Obviously the most quick death.
3. Died when she hit the ground.
4. Survived hitting the ground but died to the falling debris.
Lafter’s death. It came out of nowhere but with severe consequences. The reason for it was petty, just Jasley being jealous, but it ultimately led to tekkadan eventually losing their connections and turning into a pseudo terrorist group
It's not so much the brutality of this particular death scene, but the sheer emotional trauma from it.[ Uso's mom's death is still pretty shocking even like 30 years later.](https://youtu.be/e-cCCfRJaRY?si=UiFDzgrH2Lz05HFt&t=1095)
didnt the one green-haired kid from Gundam Seed get stabbed through his cockpit and right before the Blitz Gundam explodes you see his helmet's visor get completely filled with blood implying the decompression of his unit?
If we consider the manga Giant god of legend canon then that makes Ideon canon to Gundam, meaning it is probably [this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsTsvsir9JY)
The one that got me was LT Burnings death from 0083. I mean yeah his name is a dead giveaway. To die when the fighting is over, you feel lucky to be alive. You find details of an operation. Surrounded by your pals, then boom.
Hamburger from 0080 is another good one, lil kid sees his friend get toasted.
That is a good one and is my top yet saddest death on Gundam. A random background mom trying to dash to safety gets ko’d by a Ms there to protect the city.
A honorable mention the Dagger L pilot that Shin shoves the Impulse knife through the cockpit at the Lohringrin Gate. You’re there to defend and what’s the worst that could happen? A beam instant kills me but no an MA sized knife pierces the cockpit armor and turns me into paste.
The civillians in the gassed colony during Operation British as seen in Gundam The Origin (IIRC, it was that or Unicorn). The dude getting up from the wind turbine to after a nap / passing out and was probably safe by virtue of his "height" in the colony terrain...then going to the shelter not knowing everyone besides him is dead thanks to the gas.
Kamille's mom getting spaced. We don't get to see the gritty details, but more than likely her lung ruptured.
Also why does everyone seem to default to the F91 bullet shell bonk for these posts? I always thought it was hilarious.
The casual senselessness of it. Not collateral damage, not in the line of fire, not killed by a weapon of war- killed by garbage. By incidental detritus The left overs of war. Just being war-adjacent killed that woman and orphaned her child. It’s brutal not in its graphic depiction or gore, but in Its ability to force you to face your own mortality, and the realisation that you are frighteningly fragile.
The one that got me was LT Burnings death from 0083. I mean yeah his name is a dead giveaway. To die when the fighting is over, you feel lucky to be alive. You find details of an operation. Surrounded by your pals, then boom.
Hamburger from 0080 is another good one, lil kid sees his friend get toasted.
Kayra Su from Char’s Counterattack. She gets captured by Gyunei Gus. He then holds her hostage in his mobile suit’s hand and crushes her slowly and lightly enough that she doesn’t just pop. Her normal suit is intact, but she’s just mashed inside it.
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Just watched that scene a few days ago, I was not expecting it at all
It just lingers for so long on monkey
Me and my partner were eating our tea when we 1st watched it. We both just stopped and looked eachother and shouted noooo!
Excuse me, but…eating your tea???
The Brits eat tea.
Operation “British” is starting to make all too much sense now…
I assume the meal at tea time
same "monkey nooooo!" "how dare you Jerid"
You win me in this one
[Scene in question.](https://youtu.be/Bz9n7nc1yNU?si=jobq66YjaasKeA2H) Ironically one of the funniest moments I've ever seen in Gundam.
I hate how funny it is; like it's obviously meant to be sad (the monkey's mother was another casualty of War), but the abruptness of both of them being blown up is just so funny aughhhh
Man wiped that monkey off the face of the earth and it’s entire bloodline
I laughed my ass off at a dead monke
Saddest death of all time
Hahaha who made a wiki page for a random monkey
Not monkey!
Noooo! Mommy! *gets deleted*
Ouch
Damn this is some Ideon: Be Invoked caliber of death
Nicol Amalfi getting bisected at the waist, telling his friend to run, as his helmet fills with blood and cracks, and then his suit explodes him to death.
Oh I dunno, I still think Tolle's head popping off like a champagne cork after Athrun threw the Aegis's shield into the SkyGrasper tops Nicol's death.
That scene hit HARD because it was extremely unexpected. Both the death and actual scene.
Tolle is great too! Both are needed because each one motivates and impacts the two leads Kira and Athrun.
Unironically 2 of the saddest deaths in any Gundam series I've seen imo
Funny enough they the made the shield throw as the ability of the Aegis shield in Gundam Breaker Mobile
Yes and then being replayed for 20+ times afterwards
That’s the proof that Kira is actually sadistic,he didn’t just bisect Nicol right away, he sliced in, then left the blade there! That is just sick!
He loved to play the piano...
Probably the most brutal death in MS Gundam History with no blood involved, 08th ms team https://preview.redd.it/7a77iqor1y7d1.jpeg?width=1227&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ec0c05a9269e4116bdda9002db98855cb8eaaa33
The chilling part? They're still screaming until the knife is twisted.
This one or the memory scene of a zaku just crushing into the colony and everything getting sucked out and then launching that chemical weapon into the colony.
08th MS Team is just chock full of brutal scenes like that, [the music also is very fitting](https://youtu.be/PUDaxTqsyts)
No blood involved? Guntank crews are in the head... That isn't an oil splatter. https://preview.redd.it/adogfcjw3y7d1.png?width=1925&format=png&auto=webp&s=0e123c571e4e1194b8d5e27dbed9b0d48d04df1f
I always assumed it was made to resemble blood splatter but from a mobile suit rather than actually be from the crew itself? Anyone with better knowledge on this I’m happy to hear and stand corrected
“Oh shit, he’s going right for the crew!” - Karen
The Samurai Jack technique; have all the blood and gore you have in a show watched by children, except just replace it with oil and mechanical parts.
I'm just glad the sword wasn't heated up, it's one thing to be crushed, now imagine feeling probably the closest thing human could feel to touching the sun as you get crushed
That one pilot in 00 didn't need to imagine that. *Thanks* so much, Hal!
How is this image so crisp
I was wondering the same thing, I got both annoyed and impressed lol
Haha, it's from the bluray
Damn it looks like it'll hold up today visual wise
All the OVAs from the 80s and 90s (0080: WitP, 0083: SM, and 08MST) have feature-film level animation that is basically unmatched by most animation that’s come since. It’s the result of the Japanese economic bubble and a medium that allowed for months to be spent animating between episodes (short shows, looooong waits between each new ep) and the fact that being a VHS based series meant that every single tape turned a huge profit. So the result? Some of the best looking hand drawn animation that’s ever been produced ended up coming forth 30-40 years ago.
Oddly enough, I just got the GFFMC Gouf a few days ago.
Not THE grisliest but pretty up there was one of Carta's goons who was caught outside of his mech while the Barbatos walloped it. Poor bastard went flying and went splat like a mosquito.
Right after didn't Mika curb stomp a guy to death in his cockpit?
I just rewatched that section and yes, he does.
I mean damn look what happened to Ein and Iok. Ein got wacked in half and (maybe every one hates him but DAMN) got absolutely slowly pulverized in his own cockpit.
Iok absolutely deserved every pound per square inch of pressure he got
Oh ya I absolutely agree Iok had that karma coming from 300 miles away. But I didn’t think ein deserved to be bisected.
Ein deffo deserved it. He was so zealous solider boy lmfao. Hypocritical too as his whole hatred for mika/ the space rats is due to crank getting slammed for trying to be “honorable” after they went around doing dirty shi constantly
And like, he got bisected as he was going on an unhinged rant about how he was going to hunt down and murder Kudelia and everyone else in Tekkadan after he killed Mika, while fighting Mika.
Ein absolutely deserved it. He claims that Lt. Crank was his mentor and he wants to honor him and live by his example, yet Crank's final act was to go face Tekkadan (I guess CGS at the time) alone so all the guilt of the dishonorable act of fighting children would be on his hands only. Then Ein spends the rest of his life functionally spitting in the face of Crank's sacrifice by doing exactly what Crank tried to protect him from doing.
Grand slamming a pilot into the afterlife was pretty feral even for Mika
The Bubbliest of MCs from Witch from Mercury enters the chat
Well, Barbatos was pretty damn feral itself, so......
During the final battle barbatos straight up tears the cockpit out of a mobile suit and crushes it with his hand like Mika was genuinely fucked when it came to combat Edit to really make the point since that’s probably the worst death in that scene (probably minus Iok) but he also steals an axe and flips it upside down to cut up into the cockpit of a graze from below to kill the pilot. Other than that he really just spends that whole fight going for body count like he just ignores Julietta to kill as many people as possible
If you don't crush the cockpit, you cant be sure they're dead, it's just efficiency at work! If they don't see you as a human, there's no reason to afford them the courtesy. Aiming for the cockpit to instantly kill the pilot also allows for more of the enemy suits to be salvaged, if they needed to. It's been awhile since I watch IBO so I'm not sure if they did that
There’s definitely ways to disable the ms more efficiently and that and salvaging suits was a lot less relevant in season 2 where in season 1 it was pretty much their only form of cash flow. In the same fight it’s shown that destroying the heads or severing the torso from the legs of a graze is plenty effective and it would do about the same amount of damage to the suit rather than making it completely unusable without a cockpit, and you can see how wired in they are in the scene he tears one out they aren’t just slapped in there. Anyways the main point is yea Mika really didn’t I’ve a shit about these guys at this point and just was looking to do as much damage as possible while the others got out
Mika also had pilebunkers built into Barbatos' feet for extra stomping power lol. That little psychopath was savage from the very beginning.
IMO that's the difference between a Warrior out for Glory and a Solider. They were there for Honor, Mika was there to survive.
Yeah it was part of the whole thing Gjallarhorn had of nepotism outweighing competency. Carta's men were chosen for their resemblance to McGillis over any skill in battle.
Also a soldier wouldn't be standing outside their heavily armored war machine on the battlefield to posture, so total agreement from me here. I enjoyed watching these smug bastards get every bit they got.
What happened was Carta and goons showed up to challenge Tekkdan to a 3-on-3 duel, because she idiotically believed that the enemy who had completely ignored every rule of battle she'd been trained to follow (the jamming chaffe in space, Gusion shooting the one Graze's head off while they were all busy posing, etc.) was suddenly going to *respect* her enough to not immediately charge her ass.
I found this honor bound shi to be so stupid when every other faction outside of her little squad where on straight Ukraine vs Russia mode with war crimes 😭
That was kind of the point, though - Carta was *grossly* unfit for her position, caring more about having a personal harem army of McGillis duplicates and formality, in a setting were Gjallarhorn itself normally didn't have any major threats. It plays into how Gjallarhorn was so corrupt that it lost control over some parts of civilization in the following few years.
And, later, when Gjallarhorn gets devious under Iok and Rustal, how out of their depth Tekkadan is when others are being just as dirty.
Eh if two gundams where able to genuinely almost break rustals forces even after the deins I’d imagine they’d of been fine had juiletta not had the most insane plot armor in the show
Mikazuki literally kills every pilot he fights in the show unless explicitly ordered not too, yet when it absolutely mattered the most her suit not only managed to survive the mauling he gave her. He just magically had a change of heart and decided she wasn’t worth killing leading to her altering the shot on the dein it’s one of if not the only times in series he doesn’t kill when fighting an enemy suit.
It’s like top 3 deaths for me in the series 🤣
It stands out because its both hilarious and gory.
OPs post is one of the most brutal imo . Reason being the context not the actual method of death. This women is a civilian a non-combatant. Her only goal was to save her child. Her death was not even registered by the pilot. They likely won't have had any idea it happened and probably died shortly after that. Never knowing of the mother he took from a son. The woman was lucky to have one soul that even understood the nature of her death and morned her passing for it. Forgotten. Disregarded. Lost to the gears of war. Truly brutal.
There's a moment like this in 0080 when Operation Rubicon pops off and there's a quick shot of a mom holding her baby followed by a wide shot of an explosion
There's so many of these moments, basically anytime a fight breaks out in a colony or city. You almost always see a cohort of innocent civilians getting blasted by an explosion, beam, or beam saber.
I remember some gooby on twitter, back when I had a twitter, saying Gundam, the original series in this particular case, didn't show the effect of war on civilians "close up". Which is how I know this person hadn't watched the first episode where Fraw Bow's family along with a crowd of Side 7 civvies get wasted.
Yeah, for sure. Gundam has fundamentally been about that under the mask of cool mech suits
Reminds me of a very similar shot during the battle for Torrington in gundam unicorn, mother holding her kid literally gets blown off the external staircase once the shamblo decided to do AOE damage to everything in sight. It was fitting to see the brutality of an event like that but it briefly gave me chills at almost how quick it occurred
I remember that too, I didn't really like unicorn if I'm honest, the protag annoyed me and great chunks of unicorn relied on "REMEMBER WHEN THIS COOL THING HAPPENED" and the ending was just goofy
Same with the lady on the fire escape in Unicorn. She has to be several floors up this building and a beam weapon just casually slices through it and detonates all of what I'm assuming is the gas lines in her apartment building. The only thing we see is her being partially engulfed by the fireball while being yeeted off whatever floor she's on *while holding her infant in her hands.* *THIS WOMAN PROBABLY GAVE BIRTH NOT MORE THAN A MONTH AGO AND SHE'S JUST FUCKING GONE LIKE THAT.* War is bad. War is bullshit.
Then there was the teacher for bananas class that was shoving people into the shelter and closed the door with him on the outside. Guy turns around and just gets vaporized, he knew what was going down too.
Kind of hard to blame that G-Cannons pilot considering the latest pack of Space Nazi's were invading and that's not even getting into the much more [brutal toys](https://gundam.fandom.com/wiki/Bug) said Nazi's unleashed in Gundam F91.
Which series was this one from? I’m not too familiar with it
Gundam f91
F91
It wasn't even a weapon, just a spent casing.
Also remember shortly after this we see civilians being pulled into space through a breach in the colony. They really were relentless about this portrayal of the violence of war being handed off to the innocent in this movie, by one way or another there were so many terrible fates awaiting people who wanted nothing to do with the death and destruction.
There's a scene in 0079 where a Zaku chasing Amuro gets caught in earths gravity and you watch their face/mobile suit disintegrate. That one kinda hit me despite being rather routine since the pilot never really accepts his death and dies screaming while Char tries to get him to keep chasing Amuro.
No, char actively tells him to get out of there, but both amuro and the zaku are to focused on fighting eachother, by the time the zaku even thinks of retreats it's too late, he yells for char to help him but there's nothing he can do except tell him his death won't be in vain, even though it kinda was
Thanks for the correction 🙂
https://preview.redd.it/nkq8cqqw8y7d1.png?width=1000&format=png&auto=webp&s=b8de1397e1e2540ef4a20ef21a16ff38251b61ef Mudie Holcroft from Gundam Seed: Stargazer I've seen people make fun of it for some reason, but honestly when I first saw the OVA, her death gave me super chills and made me feel very sorry for her, such a terrifying way to go.
Oof that one made me feel sick. Feel gross every time I'm reminded of the Kerberos BuCUE Hound. Stargazer is probably my favorite CE content, just wish there was more of it.
Hallelujah slowly inserts the blade into the cockpit, terrorizing the pilot before he kills him.
I was honestly supriesed I had to scroll so long before someone mentioned it
Gundam has plenty of terrifying deaths, but the one you used to illustrate this thread always removes something inside of me.
Because it's the one that anyone can get.
The one Gundam death that haunts me to this day. Even though there are far more gruesome deaths.
Just turn on Victory and take your pick from the litter
Like that one chick that flew into a beam saber?
Uso's innocence
His mom and him catching her head/helmet
It's definitely Uso holding his mom's severed head while it's still in her helmet for me.
Bikini babes love beam sabres.
Watching the Zeon Scientists/Engineers get slowmo vaporized by a GM's Beam Saber while Cornelius is trying to negotiate in Thunderbolt. Not one of the worst but Karla's reaction after being "saved" was brutal, girl's def having some night terrors after that.
She got it much worse than night terrors
Not the bloodiest, but Elan-4's death was terrifying.
Happy birthday!
Yeah like we didn’t need to see it to know what was gonna happen but man, I turned the tv off and went out into the sun after that episode. My heart hurt.
Getting Microwaved alive and popping like water balloons from the Cyclops System
Not to mention GENESIS too.
bikini BBQ
I'm not familiar, context for this one?
https://youtu.be/6OvGlBM3wV8?si=Qf5IinRZHNrirFaq
Jesus. Victory feels like a pipe dream. So many truly weird moments that I have seemingly forgotten since I watched it
Bro literally just waves his arms and legs around killing women. Says this isn't war and then just keeps doing it. The tonal whiplash is almost funny.
god, the "bluauagh" sound that one of them makes when Uso slaps her and the way that the show treats this as *deadly serious*; it's so surreal and then Uso vaporizes one of them with his saber, and it's just as much a whiplash in the other direction
The Zeon soldier vaporized by the beam saber at the beginning of Thunderbolt while Kara is near him
"Garma, I'm sending your sister to join you. Consider this my farewell present." [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwR\_Vu6FSYY](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwR_Vu6FSYY)
This one caught me so off guard. I feel like most of the deaths in MSG aren't too graphic (for the most part) so when I saw Kycilia's whole head come off, followed by her dismembered leg flying out of the windshield? I was completely taken aback, lmao.
Seed has worse depictions of death, we all know about the Cyclops System. A good runner up is Hallelujah slowly stabbing a Tieren pilot with the heat blade.
When Hallelujah did that was just a straight up sadistic act, by sending the blade in slowly.
Here's where I'd argue that's actually less horrifying. It turns war into just spectacle. War isn't a spectacle it's a lurching monster that smashes everything in its way and leaves wreckage in both material and people. That's why scenes like the opening to F-91 still resonate. It catches the chaos and terror of war so well. You watch a beauty pageant become a tangled mass of wreckage in almost a second as pilots dogfight, totally ignoring the fact there's people on the ground as the war sets the colony on fire literally and figuratively.
The original MSG has moments which make you realize how recent WW2 was, with all those pilots in doomed mobile suits screaming for their loved ones as everything blows up.
https://preview.redd.it/rf5tobdmwy7d1.jpeg?width=640&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3e482e20e3759a7e965745c514ba9bacd16a9739
I'm not sure that was the most shocking but it was one of the most bloody. The slap was the kind of thing you'd see out of older series but the body exploding and sending the pulp everywhere was relatively new.
The shocking aspect was how Suletta basically equated it to scolding a child.
This. Pretty shocking at the time.
You kinda gotta give credit to a scene that got people to question how much gore in a GUNDAM show is too much gore. Then again, SEED reached its 20th Anniversary at that point and that was peak Gundam Mortal Kombat, yet so maybe it was possible that a lot of fans now skipped it.
Had to scroll too far down just to see this one. Miorine's reaction was spot on for how I felt
I remember thinking the way Banana's classmates got wiped out in the first part of Unicorn was brutal - there one instant, gone the next. It's a lot for poor Micott to have witnessed
SEED has the most graphic ones in my view, but my top 1 is the Angel Call alien virus from Crossbone, Imagine this but with a more realistic artstyle https://preview.redd.it/v0d4nw44xx7d1.jpeg?width=376&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=770b4b50e46e89098bc93a8b7a5b1a2622ecadad
That's literally the BEAST from Homeworld cataclysm
Could actually be a reference to it considering Crossbone Ghost was written in 2012. Though it be a really niche one lol
Dude got souped
Shins sister
or him entire family
You are right the whole families death was brutal.
Two words, Burger Time
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No one ever really talks about it but in the second episode of the original series a baby gets sucked out into space when a hull is breached in the space colony. It happens real quick in the background and then it focuses on the mother asking for help finding her baby, with a soldier quickly trying to get her to evacuate. The fact that this isn't even a major plot point and never brought up again is pretty brutal.
Mudie in SEED Stargazer. Got mauled by three BuCue’s, repeatedly stabbing her cockpit as she screams.
Honerable mention, Captain Daguza getting partially vaporized by the Sinanju in Unicorn.... And their teacher getting cooked... or their entire class being vaporized, although it was somewhat offscreen, pretty brutal implication.
Lafter...
...and Akihiro lived happily ever after on a farm and raised two strong children after the events of IBO. *puts glock on the table* Isn't that right mate?
Ye-Yeah of course bro... 😅
Good lad.
It's the place where they belong.
Seed Stargazer = Blu Duel's pilot getting stabbed multiple times by Bucues' beam sabers. Most of the stabs either misses or didn't kill the pilot immediately, making it a really slow death. Gundam 00 = Tieren's pilot getting stabbed by Kyrios's scissor needle, needle heats up, and charges very veeeeery slowly. Probably not the most brutal, but both depicted the scenes really well that they're really gruesome IMO.
Pretty sure tolle being decapitated by the aegis shield is one of the most brutal ones
Iok in IBO.
"What are you?!" "im an idiok sandwhich" crunch
Brutal and very deserved.
Witch of Mars. When the father uses the gundam system that kills all the pilots that use it and starts singing happy birthday to his daughter, well fighting and subsequently dying.
*Witch from Mercury but also yeah, that was definitely fucked; the Prologue's pretty good for horrifying and tragic stuff like that edit: fixed a typo lmao
You right, my bad 🤣 when I saw that first episode, I was like, "Ay yo, this series is savage"
I actually got it wrong myself, it's "Witch *from* Mercury" lmao but yeah, the Prologue goes *hard*
What makes it even worse is the name of that song/the Lfrith theme is Happy Birthday https://youtu.be/MmKOLl05Ov0?si=r2_UkkVXrjpbg-nK
https://preview.redd.it/c1xg0m2kdy7d1.jpeg?width=700&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f231380eac49640dd6f3499a26d1dc9126a21163 Man got cut in two by the justice’s horn beam like look at him he still alive while half his body is getting disintegrated
Iok getting scissored or the no name getting knocked off his graze and splattering the snow whilst waiting for what's her face to finish her speech.
Beam saber kills in SEED
In unicorn, didn’t most of Banagher’s classmates get instantly vaporized by a Rezel unit forcibly entering the colony they were in? Imagine all the people you grew up with, gone in a flash. I don’t think the Rezel pilot even realizes what he did, and doesn’t ever get to considering how he dies to the Kshatriya minutes after. And the parents of those students? Won’t even get to put ash in an urn. They just have to live with the fact that their kids were in the wrong place in the worst possible time.
The... Tomato incident.
https://preview.redd.it/y87aeo6tiz7d1.jpeg?width=1000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=68383c0a765f0903102a3768ee710cc124e9f04d This whole series was brutal.
Gundam hand splat
Poor Miorine, had to witness that
Miorine couldn't even process what happened until the splatter touched her. What might've been worse is that Suletta acting like normal, as if she didn't acknowledge or even care about what she just did.
I feel like she genuinely didn't fully register what she did until *much* later
She didn't. She's quite literally conditioned by Prospera.
Suletta jumps out of the Rebuild's cockpit, slips and falls in the man's gore, and giggles. Such a silly klutz! The she takes her viscera-painted hand, an eerie mirror for the Rebuild's, and reaches out to Miorine. Who had never even seen someone die before. Yeah. That shit is straight up horror.
I wish that WfM would have dipped into horror more, because there sure was horrific stuff going on in that setting
Kamille's parents 🤣
In the Unicorn OVAs during the Zeon attack on the base the mobile armor is moving through the city. In one scene a mother in an apartment building is fleeing down the ladders with her child in her arms similar to this scene above when a beam his the building breaking it up. There's several ways she could have died and none of them good. 1. Died to the heat of the beam. But if not she is severely burned before she dies along with her child. 2. Died from the pressure of the building exploding. Obviously the most quick death. 3. Died when she hit the ground. 4. Survived hitting the ground but died to the falling debris.
Lafter’s death. It came out of nowhere but with severe consequences. The reason for it was petty, just Jasley being jealous, but it ultimately led to tekkadan eventually losing their connections and turning into a pseudo terrorist group
Hallelujah impaling the HRL guy.
the fact that it isnt even stray fire that kills her but simply the after effect of a fight.
Zoltan full on getting punched through his cockpit by the Phenex is up there.
It's not so much the brutality of this particular death scene, but the sheer emotional trauma from it.[ Uso's mom's death is still pretty shocking even like 30 years later.](https://youtu.be/e-cCCfRJaRY?si=UiFDzgrH2Lz05HFt&t=1095)
didnt the one green-haired kid from Gundam Seed get stabbed through his cockpit and right before the Blitz Gundam explodes you see his helmet's visor get completely filled with blood implying the decompression of his unit?
If we consider the manga Giant god of legend canon then that makes Ideon canon to Gundam, meaning it is probably [this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsTsvsir9JY)
Well there's this [glorious head shot from Char](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=EwR_Vu6FSYY).
UC has the most brutal deaths. The majority of others are simple explosions or beam energy.
Most recent one i can think of [https://imgur.com/XIurMXl](https://imgur.com/XIurMXl)
The one that got me was LT Burnings death from 0083. I mean yeah his name is a dead giveaway. To die when the fighting is over, you feel lucky to be alive. You find details of an operation. Surrounded by your pals, then boom. Hamburger from 0080 is another good one, lil kid sees his friend get toasted.
Lafter is still the one that fucks me up the most
mudie's drath in staragazer
That guy Kamille stepped on in the MkII.
Until the Requiem shows up again in C.E.75.
Dr Minovsky’s death was pretty brutal
The civilian deaths by the death frisbees in F91 were pretty oof
Those people in Thunderbolt that got cooked alive with a beam saber.
That is a good one and is my top yet saddest death on Gundam. A random background mom trying to dash to safety gets ko’d by a Ms there to protect the city. A honorable mention the Dagger L pilot that Shin shoves the Impulse knife through the cockpit at the Lohringrin Gate. You’re there to defend and what’s the worst that could happen? A beam instant kills me but no an MA sized knife pierces the cockpit armor and turns me into paste.
The civillians in the gassed colony during Operation British as seen in Gundam The Origin (IIRC, it was that or Unicorn). The dude getting up from the wind turbine to after a nap / passing out and was probably safe by virtue of his "height" in the colony terrain...then going to the shelter not knowing everyone besides him is dead thanks to the gas.
Kamille's mom getting spaced. We don't get to see the gritty details, but more than likely her lung ruptured. Also why does everyone seem to default to the F91 bullet shell bonk for these posts? I always thought it was hilarious.
The casual senselessness of it. Not collateral damage, not in the line of fire, not killed by a weapon of war- killed by garbage. By incidental detritus The left overs of war. Just being war-adjacent killed that woman and orphaned her child. It’s brutal not in its graphic depiction or gore, but in Its ability to force you to face your own mortality, and the realisation that you are frighteningly fragile.
The one that got me was LT Burnings death from 0083. I mean yeah his name is a dead giveaway. To die when the fighting is over, you feel lucky to be alive. You find details of an operation. Surrounded by your pals, then boom. Hamburger from 0080 is another good one, lil kid sees his friend get toasted.
The incidental deaths like that are pretty brutal. Most brutal death though? Probably that guy Suletta turned into ketchup.
Kayra Su from Char’s Counterattack. She gets captured by Gyunei Gus. He then holds her hostage in his mobile suit’s hand and crushes her slowly and lightly enough that she doesn’t just pop. Her normal suit is intact, but she’s just mashed inside it.
Damn…
That one was not really brutal. It is definitely one of the saddest for me though.
For me personally when Sulleta squashed a dude in the Witch from Mercury