T5W#508-Top 5 Gundam Iron Blooded Orphans Characters akin to The Black Knight from Monty Python and the Holy Grail

This year marks the 50^th Anniversary of one of the greatest comedies of ever made and one of my personal favorite films of all time: Monty Python and the Holy Grail.  If you know it, you quote it.  If you quote it, you quote it with or without reason, it’s just that good of a movie.  While I was discussing this with a friend, he brought randomly brought up how similar some of the characters were to those of, of all things, Gundam: Iron Blooded Orphans.  Originally, this list was going to expand on that notion with five comparisons.  However, the more I thought about it, the more everyone came back to one particular chap clad in black and played by John Cleese.  I’m of course talking about the “INVINCIBLE” Black Knight.  Sure enough, how many IBO pilots can take the kind of limb splitting punishment they take and still keep pushing forward to kick ass even if they cant?  Well I came up with five brave souls (and one total sissy) who fit the bill.  Been a while since I had a Top 5 Wednesday title this long, here are my picks for the Top 5 Gundam Iron Blooded Orphans Characters akin to The Black Knight from Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

 
#5-Iok

When you think Holy Grail’s Black Knight, you think of how ridiculously overblown his legend is and how much he believes it.  Sure he’s practically immortal but then again there’s not much he can do when someones chopped off all of his limbs.  Iok is the one character other than McGillis who’s too high on his own supposed heroes journey.  He thinks he’s the guy who can do anything and is totally infallible.  In short, he thinks he’s invinicible.  Too bad that invincibility does jack squat when Akihiko crushes him in the series finale.  You can practically hear Iok screaming, “THE BLACK KNIGHT ALWAYS TRIUMPHS!!! IM INVINCIBLE!!!”
 

#4-Akihiro

Like so many of Tekkadan’s formidable pilots, Akihiro is super strong and super fit and doesn’t go down easily in a fight.  He might not be up to Mikazuki’s level but Akihiro is still easily Tekkadan’s second best pilot. Add in he’s the pilot of the mega powerful Gundam Guison, which has multiple limbs and Akihiro becomes someone you already don’t want to pick a fight with but DEFINITLEY don’t want to pick a fight with now.  He’s also a pretty honorable and loyal member of Tekkadan, someone more than worthy to stand with the ranks of any King of the Round Table looking for Knights to join his court.
 

#3-Galileo

Galileo is one of a couple of Gjallarhorn pilots who are incredibly hard to kill throughout Iron Blooded Orphans and in both cases, it’s a mix of stubbornness and an unquenchable thirst for revenge.  Galileo has a more personal score to settle as he finds himself on the receiving end of the manipulations of his bestie McGillis.  This results in a Darth Vader/Black Knight mask and some of the most body boundary pushing tech Gjallarhorn has to offer.  If the Black Knight can regenerate after losing limbs and humiliating defeats, then Galileo more than fits the title himself.
 

#2-Ein

Ein is the second of those aforementioned nearly impossible to kill Gjallarhorn pilots and he manages to go even beyond Galileo’s limits of how far he’ll go. In Ein’s case, he’s had a bone to pick with Tekkadan since they killed his superior officer early on in the series.  After this, he never wastes a chance to fight them and keeps pushing himself physically and mentally to the point where his body might give out but his mind refuses to stop.  It actually results in some pretty nasty effects to him later on and boy is it chilling.  He truly moves for no man, at least when they belong to Tekkadan.
 
 
#1-Mikazuki

I mean who else was it going to be.  Sure everyone else on this list has been mangled to near death by their Mobile Suit escapades but Mikazuki is still the King of this Hill.  Taking to battle like a possessed, emotionless Terminator, Mika can tear through all with only the bare hands of his Gundam Barbatos, and sometimes he even does just that.  Even when he’s lost most control of his body (unless he’s literally plugged into the Barbatos), Mikazuki can still bring the menace and terror.  Heck his Gundam even keeps fighting when he’s out of action.  Suffice to say, no matter what fight his opponents think they might win, all I can say is, “Alright…we’ll call it a draw.”