That was sort of the point of it, if you re watch it as a adult you can get A LOT more out of it if you don't so much focus on the gundam pilots but everything else that happens around them. But I can give you a glimpse. Initially they plan was they drop a colony on earth causing nuclear winter.. And then send the gundam after to terrorise everyone who was left because space was DONE with earth's fucking around. The gundam scientist stopped this plans and each gave the gundam pilots new plans to stear a cluster fuck of politics more to what they want. (with conflicting interests, this lasts all the way up to the end) Earth and space then sprouts more and more rogue factions each vying for controll untill you end up with the white fang and oz. Which ends up in a titanic last fight, the white fang deciding to be sore losers and dropping libra on earth to do the initial plan anyway, and the gundam FINALLY getting a big enough common enemy to work togeather and stop the bullshit ending with heero buster rifling the last block, saving the world. Treize is dead but his side won a pyrrhic victory so everyone hopes for piece.. And then you get the ova Xmas movie with marimeia
@@GundamReviver Yeah, so kind of like the Zero Requiem from "Code Geass". Start a war to end all wars, get everyone to hate you, then setup your own assassination once that is done and hope for lasting peace. And then you get a ,Geass cult terrorist group that starts new conflicts, episode that makes the sacrifice pointless, just so they can add some more fan service.
@GundamReviver Ridiculously accurate summary. Never seen it explained so cut and dry and props to you. I couldn't have done it better. I always explain to people when I start Wing w them "you won't know who the heel faction is for a long time and justbwhen you think it's got to be the big enemy- you'll get swerved again"
@@GundamReviver I mean, even Oz split up into the Treize Faction and the Romefeller Foundation. Nobody knew what anyone was fighting for when you were a kid, we only knew that fighting was picked up by succeeding factions out of old ones. As an adult, you realize that ot was a perfect analogy of how imperfect humans are, as whenever peace is established, there will always be those who resent the peace and want to continue fighitng. The names change, but the battles remain the same.
Dorothy loved wars, and with her joining the White Fang seemed to push Zechs further into following the future he was shown by Epyon. She didn't want Zechs to kill Treize. Otherwise, the final battle between Oz and White Fang never would have happened, and she wouldn't have gotten her thrill from the battle. I think she meddled too much with everything following the final battle. That's just my opinion. Then again, I might be wrong. I'm probably missing a few details or a lot of details.
What's funny is that Heero was already more than willing to self detonate to destroy the debris but then Wufei comes in clutch giving him back Zero's TBR and just responded with an annoyed "Mission accepted"
I used to think the Gundanium armor starting to peel off under re-entry stress when the gundams have previously tanked shells, rockets, beam blasts and constant explosion seemed really weird, but now as an adult with a much fuller understanding of the true stresses of re-entry, I just think Heero is damn lucky the gundam held up after that stunt.
don't forget the heavy damage it suffered when the ship's power system blew up in it's face and the fact that in order to pull off that stunt Heero had to stabilize his aim so his shot would it the target dead center while having to deal with reentry speeds.
Well, ZERO was trying to show a possible future, with all options available were not available (ie beam saber and guns expended) Until. One was available, a path was introduced.
What is really weird regardless of age is the Wing ZERO EW version. A majestic and cool looking suit that is slow moving despite its massive wings and is protected by paper armor.
@@strafe_breaker3440 Considering everything that version of WZ underwent, I wouldn't say it's armor was paper. After all it got into a fight with Altron in space, splashed downed at incredible speeds before sinking to the bottom, meaning it went from Zero atmospheres of pressure to well over a hundred atmosphere of pressure depending on where it landed. Finally it get's into the Barton's airspace and starts taking fire from multiple mobile suits and then finally fails under the stress of firing it's weapon multiple times. Still I will agree, how the EW Wing Zero was handled did feel weird considering how tanky they were throughout the series.
There are two scenes where this soundtrack plays: Zechs’ final battle as an OZ soldier. “I’m not gonna die yet!” Heero saves the day. “I WILL SURVIVE!”
Amuro and Char: Amuro “Well this very climatic!” Char“Yeah I guess we’re going to head out on this, but don’t you dare JUDGE ME about Lalah!” Heero: “I will SURVIVE!”
There are a lot of 90s/early 00s anime with Amazing English voice casts. I think it was because the medium wasn't heavily explored and the voice actors and voice directors had room to explore in terms of creativity.
Why american hate their own english dub of anime 😂😂must they brainwach think oh they should do mistakes with the dub must be know how to speak japanese maybe the most hypocrite delusionals people contry on earth hating in their own contry the english UK people close second so keep all crying and cry me river snowflakes 😂🤣😭
@@charleskimball7058 I don't think so. The Freedom is designed to take out multiple targets at once, but I don't think it would be able to take out one massive target at once.
I didn't think it's that bad, especially since most of the major voice actors in the English Dub have been in tons of other famous Anime, cartoons, or games.
As a kid, when this series first started airing, I never got the chance to see it through to the end, so I didn’t see this when it was on Toonami. Now though, after watching the series multiple times, I still find this to be one of my all-time favorite anime scenes. The only complaint I have is that the channel holder didn’t continue to the point with Wing Zero flying through the explosion, and Heero’s iconic “Mission Complete”
I'm surprised that Wing Zero's wings were able to survive entering the earth like that while Heero was trying to aim at that chunk of Libra, even if it WAS made out of Gundanium, it can't ignore physics.
0:17 "But he's got to get through the atmosphere's high temperatures!" This misconception always rides up my crack. There isn't some mystical shell of fire around the planet (in fact, it's quite chilly up there). The reason spacecraft get hot while reentering is because you're taking something that's moving much faster than anything should be able to move through the atmosphere, and abruptly plowing through the atmosphere with it. The heat is the friction of countless gas particles getting slammed against the hull like grains of sand from a sandblaster. If you could reenter with a zero relative velocity there wouldn't be any heating at all, but since orbit is going forward fast enough that the planet's curvature is equal to your rate of fall, the delta-v to cancel it out before reentry would be prohibitive.
I always loved this scene but like, why does he even have to steady his aim? The buster rifle has a gigantic beam radius, and he's shooting at something the size of a city.
Having just built the MG Proto Zero: there’s at least four thrusters that were not in the fight to stabilize Zero for that twin beam buster shot. Once Heero & Zero took that chunk of Libra out they were able to use the full thrust available in Neo Bird Mode. Likely changed his descent angle at first and powered out. I really wish they showed that in detail
@Timothy Smith oh wow thanks that just helped me figure out the answer to my comment when he turned around to face libra he was now in earth descent atmosphere which now the boosters are slowing his descent towards earth and stabilizing him like you said 🤔
@@tevonboyd93 yeah, but the boosters in Zero’s feet and shoulder pieces weren’t in use in the backwards descent. Likely didn’t add anything to stabilizing Zero for that shot. Only the wing mounted thrusters and those on the backpack were used until Zero / Heero shot down that chunk of Libra block A. Once that was accomplished Zero transitioned to the flight “Neo Bird Mode” and had all available thrust thrown into escaping the atmospheric friction
@@tevonboyd93 that and Heero was purposely trying to fall ahead of the Libra block A to lessen the chance of a twin beam buster shot not doing enough damage. Probably at Zero’s guidance as that was likely the highest chances of destroying the Libra block quickly enough to avoid damage to the Earth. While Heero finally fought to live, he had proven time and time again earlier in the series that he was willing to lose his life to accomplish the mission. Even shortly before this he almost used the self destruct sequence on Zero’s fusion powerplant as the Twin Beam Buster Rifle has been knocked away in the fight with Epyon. Wufei brought the twin beam buster rifle back to Heero just in time for Zero to show Heero a way to accomplish the mission at hand with a chance of survival
Man...I really hated the English dialogue on this. It was the only anime I happened to watch for years, and it made me think all anime dubs were spoken unnecessarily slowly and dramatically. And then I watched Gurren Lagann in English. Now there's a dub.
Me too, I remember the voice acting being better than this. I remember being super excited as a kid when this happened, but watching this performance now it's pretty "meh."
When I was a kid, this was the best ending to a series. I have no clue what were they fighting for.
That was sort of the point of it, if you re watch it as a adult you can get A LOT more out of it if you don't so much focus on the gundam pilots but everything else that happens around them.
But I can give you a glimpse.
Initially they plan was they drop a colony on earth causing nuclear winter.. And then send the gundam after to terrorise everyone who was left because space was DONE with earth's fucking around.
The gundam scientist stopped this plans and each gave the gundam pilots new plans to stear a cluster fuck of politics more to what they want. (with conflicting interests, this lasts all the way up to the end)
Earth and space then sprouts more and more rogue factions each vying for controll untill you end up with the white fang and oz. Which ends up in a titanic last fight, the white fang deciding to be sore losers and dropping libra on earth to do the initial plan anyway, and the gundam FINALLY getting a big enough common enemy to work togeather and stop the bullshit ending with heero buster rifling the last block, saving the world. Treize is dead but his side won a pyrrhic victory so everyone hopes for piece..
And then you get the ova Xmas movie with marimeia
@@GundamReviver Yeah, so kind of like the Zero Requiem from "Code Geass". Start a war to end all wars, get everyone to hate you, then setup your own assassination once that is done and hope for lasting peace.
And then you get a ,Geass cult terrorist group that starts new conflicts, episode that makes the sacrifice pointless, just so they can add some more fan service.
@GundamReviver Ridiculously accurate summary. Never seen it explained so cut and dry and props to you. I couldn't have done it better. I always explain to people when I start Wing w them "you won't know who the heel faction is for a long time and justbwhen you think it's got to be the big enemy- you'll get swerved again"
@@GundamReviver I mean, even Oz split up into the Treize Faction and the Romefeller Foundation. Nobody knew what anyone was fighting for when you were a kid, we only knew that fighting was picked up by succeeding factions out of old ones. As an adult, you realize that ot was a perfect analogy of how imperfect humans are, as whenever peace is established, there will always be those who resent the peace and want to continue fighitng. The names change, but the battles remain the same.
Dorothy loved wars, and with her joining the White Fang seemed to push Zechs further into following the future he was shown by Epyon. She didn't want Zechs to kill Treize. Otherwise, the final battle between Oz and White Fang never would have happened, and she wouldn't have gotten her thrill from the battle. I think she meddled too much with everything following the final battle.
That's just my opinion. Then again, I might be wrong. I'm probably missing a few details or a lot of details.
Everyone: He won’t survive!
Heero: Hold my beer!
LMFAO facts!!!
First time he actually wants someone to hold his beer!!
Marking one of the most important, but underappreciated character changes in GW history
Omg you're right.
I've been a fan of this show since I was in high school and I never picked up on that.
What's funny is that Heero was already more than willing to self detonate to destroy the debris but then Wufei comes in clutch giving him back Zero's TBR and just responded with an annoyed "Mission accepted"
I used to think the Gundanium armor starting to peel off under re-entry stress when the gundams have previously tanked shells, rockets, beam blasts and constant explosion seemed really weird, but now as an adult with a much fuller understanding of the true stresses of re-entry, I just think Heero is damn lucky the gundam held up after that stunt.
Not only that but Zero is also beat to hell after the fight with Epyon.
don't forget the heavy damage it suffered when the ship's power system blew up in it's face and the fact that in order to pull off that stunt Heero had to stabilize his aim so his shot would it the target dead center while having to deal with reentry speeds.
Well, ZERO was trying to show a possible future, with all options available were not available (ie beam saber and guns expended)
Until. One was available, a path was introduced.
What is really weird regardless of age is the Wing ZERO EW version. A majestic and cool looking suit that is slow moving despite its massive wings and is protected by paper armor.
@@strafe_breaker3440 Considering everything that version of WZ underwent, I wouldn't say it's armor was paper. After all it got into a fight with Altron in space, splashed downed at incredible speeds before sinking to the bottom, meaning it went from Zero atmospheres of pressure to well over a hundred atmosphere of pressure depending on where it landed. Finally it get's into the Barton's airspace and starts taking fire from multiple mobile suits and then finally fails under the stress of firing it's weapon multiple times. Still I will agree, how the EW Wing Zero was handled did feel weird considering how tanky they were throughout the series.
Them: He can't survive that
Heero: I WILL SURVIVE!
At first I was afraid, I was petrified
That is why Heero doesn't come to shot down the Axis and save Londo Bell from Char's Counterattack
🗣️I WILL SURVIVE!
I was on my feet watching this as a kid.
There are two scenes where this soundtrack plays:
Zechs’ final battle as an OZ soldier. “I’m not gonna die yet!”
Heero saves the day. “I WILL SURVIVE!”
I love this track, but I can't find it anywhere. Do you happen to know the name?
@@darkglass3011 You may have already discovered it, but...
Enforcement Breakthrough
@@汚カネOkane Holy crap thank you!. It took 3 months, but I finally know the name to find the damn OST.
@@darkglass3011 mission complete
Link to the Zechs' final battle
th-cam.com/video/15V9xf0DloI/w-d-xo.html
It was this ending that got me into watching anime!
Dope. This was a classic show. Children trying to change the tide of a war to show people how meaningless the battles were
While simultaneously believing that fighting defines them and then not knowing what to do when it's finished
Same
Heero :mission completed
I will...I will...I will...I WILL SURVIVE. CHILLS
Deciding if he will accept the mission to live or not.
Once I was afraid... I was petrified
To think that I could never live without you by my side
Epic moment from my childhood.
You're Hero Yuy?
how did u know
same. i can't believe no one made any vid of just this clip... by far the best ending..
Amuro and Char: Amuro “Well this very climatic!” Char“Yeah I guess we’re going to head out on this, but don’t you dare JUDGE ME about Lalah!”
Heero: “I will SURVIVE!”
One of the rare anime with a decent cast of English VAs. Right up there with Ranma 1/2, DBZ and Ruroni Kenshin.
Yu Yu Hakusho as well. It's one of the rare instances where the English dub is widely considered to be superior to the original Japanese voice acting.
Glad you feel that way unlike those in the comments thread
There are a lot of 90s/early 00s anime with Amazing English voice casts. I think it was because the medium wasn't heavily explored and the voice actors and voice directors had room to explore in terms of creativity.
Pretty sure most English VA is always superior to English speakers.
Why american hate their own english dub of anime 😂😂must they brainwach think oh they should do mistakes with the dub must be know how to speak japanese maybe the most hypocrite delusionals people contry on earth hating in their own contry the english UK people close second so keep all crying and cry me river snowflakes 😂🤣😭
What other Gundam could've pulled this off. Only Hero & Wing-0 with the buster gun
Kira Yamato with the Freedom could also have done it, I think
@@charleskimball7058 I don't think so. The Freedom is designed to take out multiple targets at once, but I don't think it would be able to take out one massive target at once.
I wouldn't put it past X or Double X...
Funny, the day I started to look for this exact clip is the day you uploaded it.
I didn't think it's that bad, especially since most of the major voice actors in the English Dub have been in tons of other famous Anime, cartoons, or games.
As a kid, when this series first started airing, I never got the chance to see it through to the end, so I didn’t see this when it was on Toonami.
Now though, after watching the series multiple times, I still find this to be one of my all-time favorite anime scenes.
The only complaint I have is that the channel holder didn’t continue to the point with Wing Zero flying through the explosion, and Heero’s iconic “Mission Complete”
When he said "I will survive" I could literally hear the song.
*Relena:* I know we can believe in him.
*Lady Une:* Didn't he try to kill you?
Relena: Didn't you try to kill me, as well?
Lady Une: .....Touché.
Lady Une: Tou also tried to kill me, as I recall
Relena: …Good point
00:15 that non chalant voice acting lol.
I love the 90s
Heero: I WILL SURVIVE!!!
I'm surprised that Wing Zero's wings were able to survive entering the earth like that while Heero was trying to aim at that chunk of Libra, even if it WAS made out of Gundanium, it can't ignore physics.
❤my fav childhood show till this day 🎉
This was motivation for me
imagine if he missed the whole thing and he just goes down and explodes with the debris
Knowing Heero, he would just walk it off
Yeah, I was surprised no one had it.
Incredible scene !
yes its true i love this scene!
Indeed it is.
Okay...does it seem familiar that Zero is flying the same way as Super Sonic??
Saitama stop it with 1 punch.
Adult Sasuke : me too !!
Madara Uchiha: Impressive. But can you stop the second one?
It's how you use them
Me when I'm fighting the most heinous dump I've ever dropped
Toonami baby!!
0:17 "But he's got to get through the atmosphere's high temperatures!"
This misconception always rides up my crack. There isn't some mystical shell of fire around the planet (in fact, it's quite chilly up there). The reason spacecraft get hot while reentering is because you're taking something that's moving much faster than anything should be able to move through the atmosphere, and abruptly plowing through the atmosphere with it. The heat is the friction of countless gas particles getting slammed against the hull like grains of sand from a sandblaster. If you could reenter with a zero relative velocity there wouldn't be any heating at all, but since orbit is going forward fast enough that the planet's curvature is equal to your rate of fall, the delta-v to cancel it out before reentry would be prohibitive.
That was one of the best, most concise explanations for why atmospheric reentry is such a bitch. Thanks for the explanation!
dude this was made way before that if anything sonic copied this
Me in the toilet 0:36
I always loved this scene but like, why does he even have to steady his aim? The buster rifle has a gigantic beam radius, and he's shooting at something the size of a city.
if Heero misses his shot.. Goodbye Earth basically
I wouldn’t be surprised if Zero was aiming for an area that would enhance the hit of the twin buster rifle. Either energy / missile / fuel stores.
The dub wasn't great, but many of the actors upped their game for Endless Waltz.
Still awesome though! XD
Never understood how his back boosters werent pushing him back into space when he turned around.
Having just built the MG Proto Zero: there’s at least four thrusters that were not in the fight to stabilize Zero for that twin beam buster shot. Once Heero & Zero took that chunk of Libra out they were able to use the full thrust available in Neo Bird Mode. Likely changed his descent angle at first and powered out.
I really wish they showed that in detail
@Timothy Smith oh wow thanks that just helped me figure out the answer to my comment when he turned around to face libra he was now in earth descent atmosphere which now the boosters are slowing his descent towards earth and stabilizing him like you said 🤔
@@tevonboyd93 yeah, but the boosters in Zero’s feet and shoulder pieces weren’t in use in the backwards descent. Likely didn’t add anything to stabilizing Zero for that shot. Only the wing mounted thrusters and those on the backpack were used until Zero / Heero shot down that chunk of Libra block A. Once that was accomplished Zero transitioned to the flight “Neo Bird Mode” and had all available thrust thrown into escaping the atmospheric friction
@@tevonboyd93 that and Heero was purposely trying to fall ahead of the Libra block A to lessen the chance of a twin beam buster shot not doing enough damage. Probably at Zero’s guidance as that was likely the highest chances of destroying the Libra block quickly enough to avoid damage to the Earth.
While Heero finally fought to live, he had proven time and time again earlier in the series that he was willing to lose his life to accomplish the mission. Even shortly before this he almost used the self destruct sequence on Zero’s fusion powerplant as the Twin Beam Buster Rifle has been knocked away in the fight with Epyon. Wufei brought the twin beam buster rifle back to Heero just in time for Zero to show Heero a way to accomplish the mission at hand with a chance of survival
WHY You stopped it right before the best momeent
What’s the song? Anyone know?
Just in case you are still searching for it:
th-cam.com/video/gDujhnBIDdY/w-d-xo.html
If you’re referring to the music playing when heero is trying to shoot the giant thing, the music title / soundtrack is : “ Kyouko-Toppa “.
Not really. This show sort of predates modern incarnations of super sonic.
English translation is a bit cringy on this one.... "at first he was afraid... he was petrified".
Well now he's back, from outer space
Just walked in to find you here with that sad look upon your face
HYDROSTORM
Man...I really hated the English dialogue on this. It was the only anime I happened to watch for years, and it made me think all anime dubs were spoken unnecessarily slowly and dramatically.
And then I watched Gurren Lagann in English. Now there's a dub.
I remember this from when i was like 7. Didnt realize how bad the voice acting was lol
Me too, I remember the voice acting being better than this.
I remember being super excited as a kid when this happened, but watching this performance now it's pretty "meh."
@@williamcase426 lol right i was all amped up at this scene and now i don't know if i should laugh or cringe at the acting
😐🙄
何か英語じゃ格好良さが激減ですね。やっぱり緑川光さんの声じゃないと駄目ですね。