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Um by Kai I assume you meant the Custom version in Endless Waltz?
Kai is the ugpradded version of Heavyarms but the same colour scheme ect.

... Not really, no. The XXXG-01H2 Gundam Heavyarms Kai of Endless Waltz is actually much different from the XXXG-01H2 Gundam Heavyarms Kai that we see in the television series. It's armed with more missiles, has two handheld Double-Barreled Gatling Guns instead of the Shield-Mounted Double Barrel Beam Gatling Gun of the television series, and is also without the Army Knife.

(Note: the following is for general edification.)

And yes, the XXXG-01H2 Gundam Heavyarms Custom and XXXG-01H2 Gundam Heavyarms Kai are the same Gundam. Literally. The same goes for all of the other Gundams seen in Endless Waltz.

So why, exactly, are they so different?

The answer is to sell model kits. The Gundams we see in Endless Waltz have been re-designed by Mecha Designer Hajime Katoki, even though they are supposed to be the same Gundams as the ones we last saw in the television series. The label "Custom" was simply added to the model kit to further distinguish them from the television series kits.

It should also be worth noting that, after he did Endless Waltz, Katoki went back and retroactively re-designed the Gundams that appear in the television series to match those shown in Endless Waltz, for the purpose of selling yet more model kits. wink

Personally I didn't like the re-designs so much as if I haven't made that clear, but Waltz aint pointless, Serpents, Tallgeese III, return of Zechs ect.

Colonel: They editted out Flaga's helmet in the movies so they could bring him back in Destiny as Neo Roanoke.

As for Zechs, the last we see him in Gundam Wing is when he stabs Epyon's sword into Libra's main reactor, causing most of the space fortress to explode. Everyone seemed to assume that it killed Zechs, but obviously they forgot that he's got a knack for making the impossible possible (which Heero himself says late in the series, years before Flaga did it), not to mention that he was piloting a Gundam, which are notoriously hard to destroy.

Additionally, Zechs is shown to survive in both alternate versions of the TV series. In the manga, we just plain get a different ending, while the novel simply states that Epyon is at the bottom of the ocean - obviously, SOMEONE had to put it there...

Well when you think about it all Epyon lost was an arm really it could still function I doubt the blast was enough to destroy Epyon I think perhaps Zechs made it back but Epyon didn't fare so bad getting Zechs back to Earth, it can most likely survive re-entry but with one missing arm there's a more exposed area, so it was risky, but possible.

yeah, hth does he survive. even tho i cant CLEARLY remember what happend at the end, i do know that i looked IMPOSSIBLE for Milyardo to survive.

Well, in an interview with the director, the reason they "revived" Andy Waltfeld was that there were no more cool adults. Maybe that's what he thought about Destiny.

Of course, he also admitted after the fact that a beam-coated shield shouldn't be able to block a positron cannon...