http://www.amazon.com/Mobile-Suit-Gundam-Wing-Operations/dp/fun-facts/B0001BMMG8
Does anyone have any corroboration for this? I'd like to see this alternate ending and the easter egg with the "Mega-particles" Maybe I'll watch more closely the next time I go through the series. ^_^
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* In episode 8, "The Treize Assassination", when Heero is disarming the bombs, the panel he is accessing says "Intel Outside".
* Many of the characters are named after numerals, particularly French numbers. Lady "Une" = One "Duo" Maxwell = Two (Deux) "Trowa" Barton = Three (Trois) "Quatre" Raberba Winner = Four General "Septem" = Seven (Sept) "Treize" Khushrenada = Thirteen "Quinze" Barton = Fifteen "Milliardo" Peacecraft = Billion (Milliard)
* An alternate ending was animated in which Relena reads Heero's letter before calling out to him and tearing it up; screencaps of it can be found floating around the Net.
* Several references to the Universal Century were hidden in Gundam Wing as "Easter eggs". In one scene, Wing's monitor reads "Charging M-Particles" (a reference to the mega-particles that make up the beam rifle blasts in the Universal Century). Later, when Quatre looks over Sandrock's blueprints, the Gundam is said to possess a Movable Flame (sic), Gundarium Theta, and ALICE Mk-II (a reference to the photonovel Gundam Sentinel).
* The name OZ stands for "Organization of Zodiac"; this is further evidence by the naming scheme of their weapons: Leo, Aries, Cancer, Pisces, Taurus, Virgo and Libra. The ground-use Tragos stands in for Capricorn ("tragos" is Greek for goat). Subsequent manga stories introduce the Gundam Geminass (Gemini), Hydra and Scorpio, and the G-Generation series of video games introduced the Gundam Aquarius.
* In the original draft, episodes 27 and 28 would have been flashbacks, revealing important moments from the Gundam pilots' and Relena's pasts. Unfortunately, scheudling conflicts arose which lead to head writer Katsuyuki Sumisawa quitting the series. The episodes were turned into recap episodes, and the backstories were archived in the manga Episode Zero.
* Scott McNeil thought of the time his wife accidentally ran over his motorcycle to get himself in the proper frame of mind for Duo's infamous scream in episode 20.
* When Sally Po is viewing the data on Heero, the information being displayed is actually instructions for installing TWAIN devices into Adobe Photoshop.
* Many of the characters are named after numerals, particularly French numbers. Lady "Une" = One "Duo" Maxwell = Two (Deux) "Trowa" Barton = Three (Trois) "Quatre" Raberba Winner = Four General "Septem" = Seven (Sept) "Treize" Khushrenada = Thirteen "Quinze" Barton = Fifteen "Milliardo" Peacecraft = Billion (Milliard)
* An alternate ending was animated in which Relena reads Heero's letter before calling out to him and tearing it up; screencaps of it can be found floating around the Net.
* Several references to the Universal Century were hidden in Gundam Wing as "Easter eggs". In one scene, Wing's monitor reads "Charging M-Particles" (a reference to the mega-particles that make up the beam rifle blasts in the Universal Century). Later, when Quatre looks over Sandrock's blueprints, the Gundam is said to possess a Movable Flame (sic), Gundarium Theta, and ALICE Mk-II (a reference to the photonovel Gundam Sentinel).
* The name OZ stands for "Organization of Zodiac"; this is further evidence by the naming scheme of their weapons: Leo, Aries, Cancer, Pisces, Taurus, Virgo and Libra. The ground-use Tragos stands in for Capricorn ("tragos" is Greek for goat). Subsequent manga stories introduce the Gundam Geminass (Gemini), Hydra and Scorpio, and the G-Generation series of video games introduced the Gundam Aquarius.
* In the original draft, episodes 27 and 28 would have been flashbacks, revealing important moments from the Gundam pilots' and Relena's pasts. Unfortunately, scheudling conflicts arose which lead to head writer Katsuyuki Sumisawa quitting the series. The episodes were turned into recap episodes, and the backstories were archived in the manga Episode Zero.
* Scott McNeil thought of the time his wife accidentally ran over his motorcycle to get himself in the proper frame of mind for Duo's infamous scream in episode 20.
* When Sally Po is viewing the data on Heero, the information being displayed is actually instructions for installing TWAIN devices into Adobe Photoshop.
