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Originally Posted by RX-78GP04G Gerbera
And who is to say that EVERYONE Kira disabled didn't end up dying somehow? I highly doubt that every single individual MS, especially on the large battlefields, that he, Athrun, and others may have disabled all had their pilots survive.
Who is to say that some of those MS didn't eventually explode off-screen from the damage they took and killed the pilot anyway? Various series have shown that some MS can take various degrees of damage, but not be destroyed immediately, but after a short time. One glaring example being 0083 with Burning's GM Custom from 1 seemingly negligible bullet hole in its side causing an explosion that killed Burning himself and then, a few seconds later, completely destroying the GM Custom.
Or what if whatever they hit and disabled/knocked-off/etc ended up causing further damage that disabled things like life support systems or other necessary systems to keep the pilot alive, if not destroying the MS outright?
Or what if the fact that they were left floating and disabled in the middle of the battlefield left them easy targets to be picked off by other people if not hit by stray friendly fire or something?
Sure, we may not have been shown it, but the chances of any of those things happening in such battles were all very real in those types of situations. Even those NOT disabled could end up killed during the chaos and confusion like we saw with Heine getting taken out by Stellar.
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Actually, if Kira only targets the head and limbs, then the likelihood of those mobile suit pilots dying as a direct result of Kira's actions is slim to none.
At best, you might have an incident like Heine's death, but he was killed because he didn't pay attention to Stella's action, not because Kira cut the Gouf's arm.
Even Auel, whose Abyss had its primary thrusters destroyed, and Athrun, whose Saviour was cut in several parts, could survive. And most mobile suits that Kira fired at would have had less damages than those two did. Especially by the time of Destiny, when most mobile suits had sustained flight capability.