July 12: Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz (XAW, Day 7)

[Zeke]

Day 7 comin' at ya, and this one's really outta nowhere. Tate, of Chex Quest fame, has been writing a number of other fivers. Today he hits 5M.net's newest section, becoming its first guest writer -- and unperturbed by the fact that I wrote off this whole genre in a previous fiver.

Here's Five-Minute Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz. I have it on Tate's authority that there are five Gundams and five pilots, so there's the XAW connection. I'd actually have settled for counting the number of letters in "Gundam Wing", but I'm easy to please.

By the way, Tate wrote this as a birthday present for his sister. Happy birthday, Tate's sister!

[Derek]

I have no idea what any of that said, Tate, but it was still pretty funny. You had a lot of good timing in your fiver.

Dekim: Oh that's right. You and Zechs are siblings. You're both Peacecrafts.
Relena: That's right, but what we need in the face of your tyranny is a world of warcraft!
Dekim: Enough with your foolish games!

Nice.

[NAHTMMM]

Relena: How do you do? I'm the Vice Foreign Minister of the Earth Sphere Unified Nation.
Ambassador: I'm glad to meet you. Please have some tea. I have so many questions for you. Like: why does a one world government need a foreign minister?
Relena: I've wondered that myself. By the way, this tea isn't drugged, is it?
Ambassador: Maybe a little.

*double-snerk*

Mariemaia: (over planet-wide television) I'm declaring myself Queen of the World. My colony of X18999 is rebelling against Earth. We're mainly upset about being given such a stupid name

Sounds totally justified to me.

Duo: Well, don't worry about us; we'll be fine. But feel free to try to intercept the garbage scow on its way to the sun if you want to.
Quatre: Good idea. Quatre out.
(Pause)
Duo: I wonder if he thought I was being serious.

*snerk*

Mariemaia: You turned evil whenever you wore those glasses.
Une: I think there was something wrong with the prescription.

[PointyHairedJedi]

I chuckled; the real thing sounds baffling enough that I'm surprised you could make enough sense of it to five it, Tate...

[Tate]

Originally Posted by PointyHairedJedi

I chuckled; the real thing sounds baffling enough that I'm surprised you could make enough sense of it to five it, Tate...

Just be glad I didn't five the series itself. I couldn't even make sense of that. This sequel movie is more than complex enough for a fiver.

DISCLAIMER: DA da da DA da da DA da da DA da da DA da da... hey, who stopped the music? We weren't done!

Nice touch, Zeke.
I'm glad you guys like my fiver. Maybe someday I'll five something that isn't hopelessly obscure.

Here's a suggestion: try to find all the references I've included in the fiver. The "Zero Wing" reference is pretty obvious, but I've also included references to Mega Man and Death Note, and a few shout outs to TVTropes. Incidentally, my sister is a fan of all three. (Bonus points if you figure out why I put some of these references in the lines of certain characters).

[Zeke]

I wondered if that Mega Man reference was deliberate! I'm such a huge fan that I tend to see references that aren't there... but slipping a capitalized Wily and the words "break, man" into a line about a guy named Duo seemed like more than mere chance. (Was that all of them?)

[Tate]

Originally Posted by Zeke

(Was that all of them?)

Not quite. I also included a reference to Battle Network/NT Warrior. A hint: in the real Gundam Wing anime, Quatre actually did have twenty nine older sisters... but no brothers.

Originally Posted by Zeke

... but slipping a capitalized Wily and the words "break, man" into a line about a guy named Duo seemed like more than mere chance.

Ironically, that Mega Man reference was applied to Duo for a reason completely unrelated to his name. A hint: think of your member title: "Super Fighting Robot!"