First off, yeah I know that G-Unit is an official side-story. 'Tis why I listed it.
Stray Bullet Shani
Gundamgirl861
in some ways g-wing is more realistic than Seed. I have seen pieces of 0080 and Seed. I still think G-wing is better
1) Guy surviving a reactor explosion in space while wearing no normal suit=/=realistic.
2) Guy standing on the freaking cockpit hatch as he self-destructs, then survives=/=realistic.
3) The peace million coming on out of nowhere, with no explanation=/=realistic.
4) Guy jumping down out of a hospital window, barely opening his parachute, rolling down along jagged rocks, etc, then getting up and walking away after popping his ankle back in=/=realistic.
5) So many leo pilots having absolutely no skill=/=realistic.
I could probably go on, if I put my mind to it.
1) I actually don't remember this happening - any space-based adventures generally had characters with the Wing equivalent of Normal Suits, the Astro Suit. Care to name the character, episode or anything so I can actually bother with this so-called 'fact?'
2) So, being hurled away from the cockpit... landing headfirst... losting most of one's blood... and being in a coma for a month as a result, and recovering for the next several weeks to another month... isn't realistic enough for you in a show that has gigantic humanoid robots running about in it?
3) The Peacemillion was explained in the Episode Zero manga - it was constructed by both Howard and old Mushroom head, Professor G; better known as the man who constructed Deathscythe.
4) First off, they weren't
JAGGED rocks. Aside from that, sure it's unlikely - however, Heero's not setting his ankle. He's resetting the bone - his leg snapped, not the ankle. That's why he's using the wrench as a makeshift splint and attaching it to his leg with adhesive tape of some sort.
'Sides, Heero didn't actually walk away. If you paid attention, you'd see that Heero was leaning heavily on the unboken leg and actually accepted help from Duo (even leaning on the braided pilot)... going so far as to not even use his broken leg while they hobbled away.
5) Ahh... The Leo... One of Wing's most misunderstood points... Luckily, I happen to have something to counteract just about any point made against the Leo.
First off, it's importan to know that the Leo Mobile Suit is
20 years old, whereas those Gundams in Wing are brand new. Yeah, that's right. The Leo was made around the time of AC 175, not AC 195 when the show starts (For comparison, the Zaku I was a few years old as well - but the Zaku II is what was used majorly throughout the OYW. And the GINN seems rather new, really).
For a real world comparison that actually uses equivalent technology, we needn't look at the military, but at video games.
In 1985, The NES was released in the US.
In 2005, the Xbox 360 was released in the US.
20 years apart, and do you honestly think that the NES stands a chance against Microsoft's giant when comparing mechanical statistics?
No.
Same with the Leo.
Another thing of note is that
the Leo was made for crowd control, not MS combat. The fact that the Leo doesn't move all that fast attests to that, as well as the fact that there is no backpack boosters on the Leo.
That's right - whereas the Zaku I and GINN had boosters built into the back pack, the Leo had none. Not even a 'backpack.'
What was there, you ask? An escape hatch (please, no jokes).
The closest thing that the Leo got was those 3 thrusters on it's skirt armour - and those don't fuly count because you need the Space Leo pack to control it in space and it's never used on the ground (Presumably because it can't provide the needed thrust to get off the ground).
Oddly enough, though, the Leos have better weaponry than those aforementioned suits.
See, the Zaku and GINN are both stuck with physical weaponry, which is near-useless against the Gundams of their time.
While the Leo DOES have that (the Leo Machinegun, a barely-shown bazooka and Dobergun, of course), it's also got beam weaponry: The Beam Pistol was used by Lady Une (and even on the Mercurius), and there was even a beam rifle that was considered standard equipment.
And let's not forget the Beam Cannon that was used in the early opening narration sequences (yet completely ignored in the animation) that can take out an escaping shuttle with a single shot.
Additional... There's actually another weapon worth noting. There's a Leo Commander type - seen only in episode 1. It has shoulder-mounted Beam Guns. This is actually an official variant to the Leo - and shoulder-mounted beam weaponry puts it heads above any similar competition.
Oh, and when the Zaku has a heated physical weapon (Heat Hawk) made to cleave and slice with some resistance, and the GINN had a sword made for crushing suits, the Leo itself has actual Beam Sabers.
Before I finish, it's also important to note that where ZAFT and the Zeon had to make different suits for different environments, the Leo has different packs to let it be used in those environments.
The Space Leo pack, of course, allows it to be used in space - and a booster pack (which looks a lot like the Jet pack in Seed Destiny) allows it to replace the Aries in the air.
Granted, there's no water-based pack, but the Cancer and Pices take care of that.
Finally, the Leos are able to go up against the Virgos and Tauruses of Wing.
That's like a Hi-Zack from Zeta going up against the Crossbone Vanguard's Den'an Zon (Beam weapons, Beam Shielding, ect...) and being able to survive.
I think that the apropriate phrase is....
"Next?"
