Mobile Suit Gundam Wing/Trivia


 * Anime First
 * Beam Me Up, Scotty: For some reason, the video games love to do this... but Heero never pulls apart the Twin Buster Rifles, fires, and starts spinning. Yes, it would be a wave of devastation, but by the time he gets Wing Zero he actually gives a damn about civilian casualties, and the Buster Rifles sure as HELL don't discriminate.
 * To clarify, that scene actually happens in the series, but Heero wasn't the one in the mecha at the time.
 * Possibly a justified usage. In the video games, there is no risk of civilian casualties to speak of; it's giant robots only. And it is quite the powerful attack, so there's no reason for him NOT to do it. Just because his progression through the anime makes him more...Heeroic...it doesn't mean he wouldn't use the attack if he could get away with the whole "no innocents" thing.
 * Furthermore, splitting the rifle and going to town simply isn't Heero's combat style, notably enough he only seems to fire the rifle when it counts.
 * Celebrity Voice Actor: Heero Yuy's voice actor Mark Hildreth is a well known T.V actor. Unfortunately, he won't return to the role (or, more likely, he doesn't want to) due to some reception issues.
 * Cross-Dressing Voices: Quatre's Japanese seiyuu Ai Orikasa is a woman. Also averted in the English dub for Noin's voice actress Saffron Henderson who is primarily notable in anime fandom for playing little boy roles like Sota in Inuyasha, but did get to play a woman in this series.
 * Enforced Method Acting: In the English dub, Scott McNeil's Big "NO!" was achieved when he thought back to the most painful moment in his life, when his wife accidentally knocked over his motorcycle with the family minivan.
 * Fan Nickname: "Mini-Noin" for Hilde, because she almost looks like Noin, and how she could be mistaken for Noin's little sister. Hilariously, Episode Zero shows us a 12-year-old Noin. She looks exactly like Hilde in her OZ cadet uniform, only more stoic and formal.
 * Hey, It's That Voice!: The first of many Gundam dubs by The Ocean Group, the voice actors would be used in other Gundam, anime, and western cartoons. And being one of the first, this is were many fans have heard the VA's before.
 * One can't help but expect Trowa to ask all the girls to bear his children...
 * Or Treize Khushrenada to bust out the Bakusaiga.
 * Or Duo to start throwing superspeed demon punches.
 * Or Catherine Bloom to start chucking sacred arrows. There are a lot of these, aren't there?
 * Or Zechs to get upset that the Gundams power level is OVER 9000!!!
 * Dorothy is either an awesome Colonel or a baby dragon.
 * Quatre goes on to play several major roles in the Gundam franchise, and latter as Kira (Not the Gundam one).
 * The Other Darrin: Catherine Bloom and Sally Po's dub actress was replaced changed after the first 13 episodes.
 * Relationship Voice Actor: Some of the voice actors in Japanese will later voice characters in Sengoku Basara. Namely, Wu Fei's, Trowa's and Treize's voice actors.
 * Heero is Hikaru Midorikawa, Zechs is Takehito Koyasu. Do the math.
 * Also, Akiko Yajima is Relena, and Naoko Matsui is Dorothy. Watch "Idol Densetsu Eriko" and you'll understand.
 * Star-Making Role: This show pretty much launched the careers for Hikaru Midorikawa (Heero), Toshihiko Seki (Duo) and Ryotaro Okiayu (Treize) into great stardom-to-legend status.