#5-Lucrezia Noin
(Gundam Wing)
Wing was chock
full of powerful female characters who could hold their own with Heero and the
other Gundam Pilots. For this list, I
choose the right hand woman of Zechs Merquise.
Noin has stood by Zech’s side and knows the infamous mask wearing bad
ass like no one else. She has loyalty
like no other and even the strength to stand against her love when he chooses
to go the Char Aznable route and destroy the world. Plus, come on, Noin is a goddess in uniform
with the sultriest yet commanding voice to match it. I’d follow this woman into battle anyday
(though the same could be said about pretty much every girl on this list).
#4-Fumina Hoshino
(Gundam Build Fighters Try)
Man do I wish there was a girl this cute when I was in
High School who was as into Gundam as me.
Fumina is the leader of Team Try Fighters and a force of nature that
should not be ignored or resisted. She
embodies the energy that Reiji and Sei brought to the original Build Fighters
series and stands head and shoulders above her dismal teammates who don’t
deserve her awesome. It would be hard to
focus on building Gunpla while Fumina is wearing that sexy sports outfit of
hers. But if she ran my club I would
attend everyday and one day both build the ultimate Gunpla (probably the
Unicorn or 00 Raiser) and win the heart of my fair captain.
#3-Sayla Mass (Mobile
Suit Gundam)
The first Gundam girl in existence. Sayla took crap from nobody in the original
series, even Bright Noa when he needed to be called out. A lot of this comes from the fact that Sayla
has royal blood in her veins, being Char Aznables sister and all that. But Sayla never takes advantage of her past
to get what she wants and fights for what she believes in. I know it happens in the novels, but I wonder
why Amuro never took a chance on Sayla in a relationship (he basically ignored
his more or less gf Fraw for all of the series0. But Sayla’s so strong a girl that Amuro, and
most of White Base’s crew, weren’t worthy of her. And if you need more proof of how sexy and
bad ass the OG girl of Gundam can be, check out Sayla in action in Episode 5 of
Gundam The Origin, where she leads the defense of the Mass Mansion and proves
she is not to be F’ed with.
#2-Sumeragi Lee
Noriega (Mobile Suit Gundam 00)
At first glance, Sumeragi might not seem like the
commanding type. She’s a heavy drinker
with a dark past that haunts her. And
yet there’s something about that tragedy that makes Sumeragi Lee Noriega, aka
Lisa Kujo, so endearing and worth the time investment in her character. And yes, she has a killer bod and boobs that
can barely fit in her own shirts nevermind the later team uniforms Celestial
Being receives. What’s funny is that in
the English Dub she’s voiced by Lisa Ann Baley, who also voiced Relena
Peacecraft in Gundam Wing. So it’s
amusing to think of Sumeragi as a darker, more cynical (and kind of more fun)
version of Gundam Wing’s eternal good girl.
#1-Christina
“Chris” Mackenzie (Mobile Suit Gundam 0080: War in the Pocket)
The most criminally underused female pilot in all of
Gundam is one of the best things to happen to the franchise. Chris is a red head with girl next door looks
and personality who is also a test pilot for the Earth Federation. Not one to get by on looks alone, Chris takes
on the tough assignment of testing out the Alex Gundam, a Gundam that was
actually meant for Amuro Ray when his abilities began to surpass the original
RX78-2 Gundam. And yet the Alex’s
remains Chris’ own Gundam (mostly cause it ends up destroyed by the end of
0080) because she is perfectly capable of piloting the thing on her own, even
if she isn’t a Newtype. War in the
Pocket is the only story in which we’ve see Chris but ive always held out a
glimmer of hope that we might end up seeing this Goddess of the Gundam realm
one more time, one day. There had been
female Gundam pilots before (like Emma from Zeta Gundam and Roux from Gundam
ZZ) but no one has ever topped Chris for me yet, not in piloting skills or
killer good looks.
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