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"(S46) S4M2 A Night to Remember"
 
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9 This title is borrowed from the late Walter Lord's seminal work on the sinking of the Titanic.

42 Holoshop: the 25th-century equivalent of Photoshop. Adobe Software must have decided to go into the 3-D modeling arena after all (though true artists never neglect the use of the classics). PJM

53 Ah, Excel XL. Borrowing characters from Excel Saga was something of a self-imposed challenge for me. The series is so utterly ridiculous, I didn't think at first that it could be done.

93 As far as I know, Professor Utonium doesn't have a first name at all on The Powerpuff Girls. I think Marty was the one who pointed out the fact - which no one in the studio could dispute - that he has to be a "Hank".

126 Buttercup and Bubbles don't have more formal names in the original either. Giving them "real names" in UF was just a whim of mine. Buttercup's comes from, of all things, a Bulgarian folk song, Polegnala e Todora ("Theodora Is Sleeping"), which I don't pretend to understand, but which is without a doubt one of the prettiest pieces of music I've ever heard, at least when performed by the Bulgarian Radio and Television Women's Chorus.

153 Though objectively the Utonium sisters appear to be seventeenish, they're really only twelve; they were "born" kindergarten-age.

190 "Jim Kirk was many things, but he was never a Boy Scout."

223 G-Kaiser is the English name of the title robot from the Capcom giant robot fighting game Choukosenki Kikaioh (in English, Tech Romancer). Kikaioh was, among other things, a hilarious send-up of the whole mecha genre. It had combatants - designed by none other than Macross mecha designer Shoji Kawamori - who were brilliant parodies of almost every archetypal giant robot of Japanese pop culture, from Gundams to Gunbuster, including a terrific Macross Monster (Robotech MAC-2) clone called "Heavy Armor Wiseduck" and, of course, "Fighting Force Pulsion", a wink at the Evangelions. (Pulsion showed up in Neon Exodus Evangelion: Apotheosis Now as the Russian-built EVA-alike Sovietskiy Zashchitnik.) Kikaioh/G-Kaiser is the game's Go Nagai riff, combining features of UFO Robot Grendizer and the Mazingers.

224 This is the distinctive G-stone G that appears over and over again in King of Braves Gaogaigar.

292 This line is true. PJM

294 This line is true too. PJM

327 Kunk-lunk.

360 In Tenchi Muyo in Love, which Achika comes from, she eventually marries Nobuyuki Masaki (they are, as it happens, Tenchi's parents). In UF, obviously, things are quite different, given that the UF version of Tenchi is Achika's twin brother.

429 This outfit comes from a piece of Magic Knight Rayearth promotional art; its style and rather fey presentation was the main reason we made the UF version of Umi Hyelian in the first place.

481 The incident Nall refers to here has never been chronicled, but perhaps one day it will.

524 Nate is a nod to my high school friend Nathan Howes, who, for similar alphabetical reasons, always had the locker next to mine.

546 Designing the "evolved" version of Tsuwabuki gave me great pleasure. I very much enjoyed the idea that his position as president of the Tenjou Academy Student Council and his study under the Master Mage would have wrought great changes in him since we last saw him. And yes, the resemblance of his uniform to the one Nanami wore as a Duelist is quite deliberate; he does it to honor her memory. That's her sword, too, recovered from the dueling floor after the revolution. He also carries the dagger that killed her, which has taken on something of the cachet of a holy relic among Cephirean lorekeepers. Nanami is revered as a martyr of the world's rebirth by those who know of her role in the Lost Tournament.

563 It is implied in Magic Knight Rayearth that Hikaru's brothers really do this.

609 Given New Avalon's climate, it can be assumed that it's still pretty cold in Lake Daniels in late May.

619 Gary was created by Doc Mui. He's something of a chess prodigy, which is apparently what Reiyna is into.

623 The Seneschal is the student deputy of the End of the World. Tsuwabuki's peers sometimes jokingly refer to him as "the Beginning of the End of the World".

630 Naturally the ape people come from Heston's Planet. I mean, c'mon.

664 This exchange demolished Anne Cross when it appeared in the draft-in-progress.

726 Many people seem not to know that the female singular of this word is alumna. I, however, know far too many graduates of Wellesley College to ever get away with misusing alumnus in that fashion.

752 At the time this was written, "Where's Your Head At" by Basement Jaxx was getting a lot of airplay on Pringles ads, and would occasionally cause me to become homicidal on the studio IRC channel when I didn't TiVo past one fast enough. Ardie thought that was pretty funny, so the track got immortalized here as well.

776 The joke here, of course, is that E.G. Daily, who performed this song, also provided Buttercup's voice on The Powerpuff Girls.

838 Heck, even Juri sometimes has trouble trying to convince Kate to wear a more daringly cut swimsuit. Admittedly, she has somewhat more success than anybody else would... PJM

878 Obligatory Princess Bride ref. PJM

Well, what? How could I not? I mean... Buttercup. --G.

903 No, she didn't have him killed. That wouldn't have been expeditious at all; too many questions.

927 I'd say "the one of the cowboy on a bucking horse," but if you know anything of the works of Frederic Remington, you know that doesn't really narrow it down much.

929 Gotta say this for Big Fire: their "home improvement" department is pretty damn discreet. PJM

950 I enjoyed this reveal almost as much as the Tsuwabuki redesign. Like her contemporaries on the hero side, Clarissa's almost all grown up...

998 Another incident that has not been, and will not likely be, documented anytime soon. PJM

1004 Yes, yes he was; probably not that unwise, but it certainly would've led to an awkward moment or two.

1076 Considering who they are, revealed at the end of the movement, Mojo Jojo has every reason to be. PJM

1200 I believe it was Marty who suggested that this unit not have the standard finish to that line. In G-Kaiser's case it says, "... YE SOME HOTTIE".

The thing is, I doubt Corwin specifically put that part in]. Either it's a really funky side effect of G-Stone/God of Mecha/Valkyrie mecha-engineering, or Kozue snuck it in while Corwin wasn't looking. PJM

1299 Truss's first job with the WDF was designing graphics for computer displays and documentation aboard the SDF-17. He provided the original graphics layout for the So You books and Your Phaser and You. You can take the man out of the graphic designer's job, but apparently you can't take the graphic designer out of the man.

1353 Dastun, a perennial supporting character on The Big O, was the natural choice for the frustrated cop in a scene involving Big O; and I had the vague idea that I might like to use him for something else later on, so establishing him as an NAPD officer now was a good move in that respect as well.

1523 The Heterodyne are the opponents in Dai-Guard. The events shown in that series can be assumed to have happened at some point in the relatively distant UF past.

1554 The natural evolution of the Golden Age ED-209, the prototype of which made his first appearance in Rite of Passage. PJM

1571 The "A" in Clarissa's code name stands for Avalon, and reflects the area of her authority. There are other such agents in the "upper middle management" echelon of Big Fire's organization, above Q-bosses but below the Ten. Agent T, for instance, controls Big Fire operations on Tomodachi, while Agent E's purview is Earth. The convention comes from the way the British Secret Service named its foreign stations in the James Bond novels.

1630 In an early draft of this scene, Umi remained in her formal dress until Nall returned to report the situation - at which point she dove off the bridge, vanishing into the water below, and re-emerged in her Rune Knight armor, standing on the head of Celes as he rose from the river. (Rune Knights can't be harmed by their elements, so Umi has nothing to fear from a fall into water, no matter the height.) Though this was a terrifically cinematic image, we eventually decided that the three Knights were needed more on the street, and that managing the number of giant robots involved would become too complicated with Celes, Rayearth, and Windam involved.

1756 Only in Getter Robo G did the three forms of the Getter Robo have names rather than numbers. In the original and the later remakes, they're just Getter 1, Getter 2, and Getter 3 (though the individual Getter Machines do have names). Of the Getter Robo shows, Getter Robo G is probably best known to Americans, since it was broadcast in parts of the US as Starvengers, part of the Force Five package. Also, the three forms of Getter Robo G appeared in the US as part of the Shogun Warriors toy series - which is where I first encountered them, as I had a die-cast Getter Poseidon figure from that series as a kid.

1905 "6" is the traditional commnet call number for a ground task force's command-and-control unit.

1976 McQuarrie Drive is named for artist and futurist Ralph McQuarrie, who, among much else, designed most of the spacecraft (and Darth Vader's costume) for the original Star Wars.

2015 Inspired by the system that delivers Evangelions into battle in Neon Genesis Evangelion, of course (though New Avalon doesn't have a Geo-Front beneath it, just a huge network of rail tunnels).

2050 Lisa and Lorna here, originally from éX-Driver, are an example of how things sometimes fail the Chekhov's Law test ("gun on the table in Act 2, someone gets shot in Act 4") in UF. I introduced them here in hopes of using them as part of a "new generation" of Motor Club members (and prospective Duelists) back on Tomodachi - but the arc of the Fourth Symphony swung away from Tomodachi, so they never got any more screen time. Maybe someday...

2055 Since the EVAs from NXE got screen time back in Symphony 2, it's only natural that some of the Angels from the same series got a chance to reappear here. PJM

2064 One of Marty Rose's jokes - that guys go for rocket punch, while girls prefer laser-beam fingers in their giant mecha.

2077 In the game, Kikaioh does this with both fists at once.

2264 One of the classic setups for contests of giant robot strength.

2481 Marty has a little El-Hazard joke here; one of the three priestesses of that series' world is a woman named 'Miz Mishtal', who has a bit of a thing for Mr. Fujisawa.

2553 In my opinion, one of Marty's best scenes ever. Mojo's dialogue cracks me up every time, and the whole exchange is so true to the source material that it makes me smile.

2690

2701 Rich Pieri and I designed the Judicator one day during a long car trip somewhere, and came up with the notion that its pilots would be a proud, eclectic bunch even by WDF standards. It's inspired in role and esprit, if not in design, by the A-10A.

2753 Utena's dialogue is borrowed from Dan Dastun's in the first episode of The Big O.

2834 Getter Robo G is, after all, an experimental weapon.

2918 Immortalized by Phil Moyer in Leap of Faith.

Hoo boy, this image. To be honest, when it came to the time for coloring this, I could have done a better job of coloring Kozue realistically. This would have had her mostly in shadow, save for lighting that managed to reach around her body, plus more edge blurring for her direction of movement, and those of the G-Machines. However, in turn, that would have made her harder to make out. Six to one, half dozen to the other...

As for the cityscape, that was a combination of multiple rendering passes with different nighttime 'city' textures with the same camera position, overlaid and combined in Photoshop in various ways to keep the buildings from looking too generically uniform. That effect I'm very pleased with. PJM

3021 Don't feel bad, Utena - it's not like Corwin hasn't tried to come up with one for you... PJM

3122 Like many Capcom games, Choukosenki Kikaioh has a power-meter feature, whereby the fighters build up energy through attacking until they have enough to bust out powerful special moves. That gameplay concept dovetailed neatly into the way Getter rays and G-stone work, providing an opportunity for Noriko to use one of G-Kaiser's "super attacks" here. I'm especially fond of the image of the suddenly expanding weapons menu.

3162 As on its source show, Dai-Guard is a very early attempt at a number of concepts that giant-robot fans consider obligatory - like this rather clunky proto-drill-rocket-arm, which works exactly as it does on the show.

3310 Say this for Clarissa: She knows how to make an exit.

3365 I thought it was beyond high time the guys with the maser trucks finally scored a kill. They do their best in every damn daikaiju movie, but all they ever get for their trouble is a messy annihilation. (The acronym by which such vehicles are known in UF, TOHO, is a reference to Toho Company, the Japanese film studio that made the Godzilla movies, in which the futile maser trucks were frequently featured.)

3551 Hiroshi has just had the idea for the Mol unit, the source of the title character's superpowers in his source series, Moldiver. Whether he ever actually gets it to work is, at this point, still an open question.

3684 The Arakyd KYD-21 (as seen in the possession of Zam Wessell in Attack of the Clones) is the standard-issue sidearm for officers of GENOM's White Legions. It's also a popular model on the civilian market, though the civilian model lacks the military one's distinctive muzzle brake.

3696 Ah, Shockwave (or Shocking) Alberto. The most prominently-featured member of the Magnificent Ten in Giant Robo: The Night the Earth Stood Still, he's portrayed as an oddly charismatic, albeit utterly ruthless, figure.

3708 None of the Magnificent Ten can really be said to trust each other, but these three - Alberto, Jujoji the Wizard, and Hanzui (nicknamed "The Evil Messiah" by the press, though he comes off as quite a reasonable, even noble fellow in the OVAs), the Ten's nominal leader - are as close as that contentious body gets to a power bloc, and may even be friends, albeit friends who must be constantly wary of each other's intentions.

3769 Satoru probably already realized this; he's much wiser than his younger brothers. Still, he hasn't had to confront it as directly as this before.

3903 Though they ceased to be a fake couple and became a real one some time ago, Corwin and Kozue still sleep apart perhaps eight days out of ten, and haven't gone past third base, as it were.


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   Heh. Thanks for throwing your own annotations in on this one, Finally Phil. Great excuse to re-read all of this.

about the only thought I really have about the new information here is the shot of the squadron crest for the Judges... if it had been me, I'd have chosen a more head on shot of the boxing glove, as to make it feel more like you were about to be 'mailed' by said fist as well.

And you may not have realised it when you wrote it, but though the Judges are nice to have, they also show why the Warthog is still in service. They expended all their air to mud ordinance in the form of missile weapons... and didnt get a single mission kill, though no doubt their pounding of the others kept said K units from ganging up on and disabling G Kaiser through sheer numbers. Cant help but think that a Hog's laser guided gravity bombs or 30mm avenger mighta been a better fit for this particular job. Sadly, the USAF was out of sphere that day. (if only for the fact that G didnt write them in as a wholy owned subsidiary till after Night was published) Man. It just occured to me what an unholy terror it would be to be on the wrong end of a combined arms strike from a mixed unit of Judicators and Warhogs. Great BIG damn holes. the sort of thing you look at later and wonder "how the <REDACTED> did I not get KILLED"


Of COURSE you wernt expecting it!
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   >Heh. Thanks for throwing your own annotations in on this one, Finally
>Phil. Great excuse to re-read all of this.

Phil's annotations have always been here; I just edited it to add the VVF-116 artwork.

>about the only thought I really have about the new information here is
>the shot of the squadron crest for the Judges... if it had been me,
>I'd have chosen a more head on shot of the boxing glove, as to make it
>feel more like you were about to be 'mailed' by said fist as well.

I considered that, but a boxing glove viewed head-on doesn't really look like a boxing glove. It's just a... shape.

>Cant help but think
>that a Hog's laser guided gravity bombs or 30mm avenger mighta been a
>better fit for this particular job.

Mm... I'd say it's about 50/50. The Judicator's plasma cannon has greater precision than the Avenger, which is really what you need when you're going after the core of a K-unit - but in either case that's a really hard thing to do from the air at jet speeds, and it would only be dumb luck if you managed to crack one with a gravity bomb. (That is, a gravity-propelled one. An actual gravity warhead might be just the ticket, though of course you'd run the risk of reducing even more of the city to ruins. Gravitic weapons are a bit unpredictable.)

>(if only for the fact that G didnt write them in as a wholy
>owned subsidiary till after Night was published)

Heh. I'd thought of the Air Force joke years ago, but hadn't actually implemented it, so the Cosmo Thunderbolt (as it is officially known) hadn't been invented. If it had, it might've been a combined strike wing - or at least it might have occurred to me to let the aero assets loiter. I mean, the Judges expended their missile stores in that initial Scott Bernard strike, but they still had their cannon. They could have kept peckin', maybe they'd have gotten lucky. Ah well, the road not taken. I was pleased just to get them some screen time.

Speaking of which:

>Man. It just
>occured to me what an unholy terror it would be to be on the wrong end
>of a combined arms strike from a mixed unit of Judicators and Warhogs.

This happened a few times during the Golden Age. It was always good times. One time we had a Judicator wing and the 75th's Hogs providing close air support for Company E, 2nd of the 20th (as seen in Living Large) for a surface assault on a ground-based antispacecraft weapon (think of the Rebel ion cannon from The Empire Strikes Back). Now that was a show.

> Great BIG damn holes. the sort of thing you look at later and wonder
>"how the <REDACTED> did I not get KILLED"

Or, in many cases, "... wait. Am I dead? Death is snowier than I was expecting."

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   >> Great BIG damn holes. the sort of thing you look at later and wonder
>>"how the <REDACTED> did I not get KILLED"
>
>Or, in many cases, "... wait. Am I dead? Death is snowier than I was
>expecting."
>

"And who are these dashing ladies in black and silver coming to talk to me..."


Of COURSE you wernt expecting it!
No One expects the FANNISH INQUISITION!
RCW# 86


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4. "RE: (S46) S4M2 A Night to Remember"
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>This happened a few times during the Golden Age. It was always good times. One >time we had a Judicator wing and the 75th's Hogs providing close air support for >Company E, 2nd of the 20th (as seen in Living Large) for a surface assault on a >ground-based antispacecraft weapon (think of the Rebel ion cannon from The Empire >Strikes Back). Now that was a show.

Getting a mental image now, for comparison, of some Strike Eagles mixed in with the Hawgs. Twin-tail ops for the win :)

IRL, btw, G thought you might dig this: KC Campbell is now a Lt Col and a squadron commander herself. :)

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   >Nanami is revered as a martyr of the world's rebirth by those who know
>of her role in the Lost Tournament.

Just out of curiosity does Nanami know that in her native Cephiro she's revered and not demonized by those in the know?

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   I imagine that would be something Ohtori would either try to keep from her or use to twist her further.

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   > >Nanami is revered as a martyr of the world's rebirth by those who
>know
>>of her role in the Lost Tournament.
>
>Just out of curiosity does Nanami know that in her native Cephiro
>she's revered and not demonized by those in the know?

Not yet.

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