Gundam 00 Season 2 Episode 22

[Ryllharu]

Saji has been against revenge and violence all the time, and only fights to save Louise, and likely now a world where he can be with Louise without warring. Furthermore, Saji's sister hasn't been mentioned ever since the first season. Lastly Ali could probably beat them with a single handgun and no mobile suit, no matter their equipment.

I'm having slight difficulties fitting Ali anywhere here, because if he does appear, it almost has to be against Setsuna, as the relationship between those two is a years old but still festering wound. For Setsuna. Ali is a high realist and opportunist, and he's probably just amused and pleased how Setsuna is still fighting and killing. However, Setsuna's primary enemy is Ribbons, because defeating Ali doesn't actually mean anything in the big picture: he's just a merc. And Ribbons himself who won't go down without a fight, which should be the last, culminating fight.

So, will Ali be rendered to nothing but a stepping stone? Whatever the case, if he has got a good mecha for himself, nobody but Setsuna should be able to stop him.

That's why I find it more likely that Ali won't fight anyone.

Concerning my longshot scenario, we can't underestimate how much Louise has improved. She went from a ground-pounder to a killer soaking her proverbial blades on civilians and in revenge. The civilians weren't direct as the fight with Nena was, but she was nevertheless complicit in it, a counterpoint to her whining about the random terrorists from season 1. Granted a great deal of her current prowress is due to Ribbons' influence as well as the advantages she has in that beast of a mobile suit, but she's not nearly as helpless as Saji.

As for Saji's sister, she was mentioned in this season. After he was picked up by CB, he went off on it again in one of his fits directed at Setsuna.


Perhaps we may even see a weakened Setsuna 00 approached by Ali, only to be shoved away by Graham, who rediscovered his honor and will go out fighting for someone else, rather than himself.