It ended fine. She didn't get to spend the rest of her life with her adoptive father, but that's the way it goes as a soldier, you put your life on the line in the belief that your mission is worth the sacrifice. She did get peace in the end, and as a Newtype ghost she isn't fully dead anyways, we've seen those linger for decades after they shed their physical form.

At the least, her fate was better than Loni's, who was enslaved to her parents' grudge against the Federation, murdered hundreds of innocent civilians in the process, and had to be put down like a rabid stray. Marida's cause was just, the harm she inflicted on innocents was minimal, she got to say her goodbyes to the people she loved, and even her death helped to bring Riddhe back around and realize how far he had fallen.

>>23805630
>whats a better way to end her story?
The Jegan pilot manages to land the saber hit on her cockpit

Getting married to Banagher

>>23805655
At least he is, in some way, avenged in the actual show

>>23805630
She becomes (like) a mother (to me).

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beam magnum is always the answer

the cleansing holy hellfire to purify all ne'er-do-wells

be not sad because you craved her sinful mortal flesh, be glad that her soul is now palest white, newtype ghost bleached in holy light of the magnum

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She kills Riddhe and the Banshee Norn's psycho frame gets fitted into the Kshatriya Repaired somehow. She and Banagher beat the shit out of Full Frontal and then the two of them settle down and make enough half-Purus to make Glemy jealous.

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Becomes a pop idol

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>>23805630
She was necessary to redeem Riddhe

>>23805630
A character dying tragically in Gundam is fine, the problem is more nobody else in Unicorn is even remotely interesting so once she's dead you have to slog through an entire hour with the remaining losers.

>>23805630
She got a better end than the OG Puru.

>>23805630
Her ending was perfect.
Reminder if you hate Riddhe afterwards you are spitting on her death and are also admitting the Federation should be destroyed.

>>23809452
Shitthe didn't deserve redemption.

>>23809457
>he thinks the Federation shouldn't be destroyed

>>23805630
When you look at her do you think of her as Marida who is a Puru or as a Puru called Marida?

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>>23809462
>>23809452
>>23809350
She will live on forever as a newtype ghost inside his head, that's more than any other puru gets unironically

>>23809452
Based RiddheCHAD

>>23805630
Unironically Riddhe should have died so Marida could live. The only reason Riddhe lives is because Fukui wanted a second Unicorn-type pilot for the final arc, and inherently can't see a woman as main character material. One of them was a spoiled, psychotic brat who saw everyone else in the world as a tool in his own narrative, and the other was someone who spent her whole life as a tool, and couldn't see the people around her loved her as more than that.

If we're talking pure themes, Riddhe 100% needs to die for the sake of someone else for his story to have meaning, and Marida needs the shock of someone willing to lay down their life for her to see the value of her own self.

Doing it the other way around just cements Riddhe's insane savior complex - Fukui just wrote around it as knocking some sense into him because it was the only way to get the plot from Point A to Point B like he needed it to.

Riddhe should have had a Newtype awakening when he killed Loni, instead of having that weird love-triangle with Mineva that causes his newtype awakening.

>>23809731
Riddhe's 100% a dead man in Unicorn 2

>>23805630
Best girl in all UC
Gundam writers are faggots for killing female pilots to farm sympathy
The do it every fucking time it's so predictable and annoying

>>23809731
I find your proposal agreeable.

>>23809731
Tell me you don't understand anything about the story without telling me you don't understand anything about the story.

>>23810511
you don't understand anything about the story

>>23810511
refute his argument pussy, nobody would care if Riddhe died

>>23809679
I think of her as Marida, the best Puru.

>>23805655
Gigabased. No I won't let it go

Option 1: don't kill her, there's no reason she couldn't just survive the whole conflict. have her be there at the end as one of the people who brings banagher back
Option 2: don't make her death a blatant fridging done entirely to give an unsympathetic antagonist his epiphany moment to flip allegiance

>>23805630
I was mad about how dirty they did Emma in Zeta but I understood that having her around would've made ZZ a very different show, and it's a massacre of named characters anyway so it doesn't stand out.
Marida is so much worse. She's the only good fucking character in that entire mess and an interesting revisiting of one of ZZ's more questionable choices, and dies in an insanely contrived moment that's meant to provide character development for a character I already disliked who now I just hate instead.
Having a character I dislike kill a character I like but then feel bad about it will not generally make me suddenly like the character I dislike. It will just make me mad when you try to make it all about how bad he felt about killing her like he's the victim here.

>In the novel riddhe goes berserk instead and is about to shoot the nahel argama with the beam magnum but marida tanks it, making him come to his senses
Is this even any better?

>>23809707
Apparently clones are anatomically incorrect.

>>23811588
A forc- newtype ghost is the shape of their soul, not their body.

>>23805630
Anything besides how it ended.
>b-but she HAD to die to redeem Riddhe!
Bullshit. Riddhe was about to snap out of it just seconds before killing her. Her death accomplished nothing that wasn't already about to happen and only didn't so she could die.

>>23809389
Womb's gone. But then again if she's already a clone just grow a new one and stick it in.

>>23809707
Puru herself is in Judau's head, why do you think he took her death so well and immediately gained confidence Leina was alive? Duh. Puru's ghost told him.

>>23809707
Riddhe doesn't get to see them. He's being punished.

>>23813458
Ideon: Be Invoked indicated otherwise.

>>23813581
Fukui is one of those writers that's so egregious about it that even 4chan users have to just go "Yeah no he's a misogynist." The only explanation is that he can't see women as actors in a narrative, just as the motivation for the men.

>>23805630
Riddhe uses his money to fix her womb and sticks a baby in her and her Puru offspring take over the federation.

>>23817598
How much money does it cost to fix evaporation?

>>23817724
We are talking about alternate endings.

>>23817555
>he can't see women as actors in a narrative
It's unbelievable this is even worse in Narrative (heh). He doesn't even have Tomino's excuse of
>that was just how things were at the time
Unironically I think Mineva will have to die in UC2

>>23817555
>he can't see women as actors in a narrative, just as the motivation for the men.
That's true in real life.

>>23817598
>sticks a baby in her
cringe.jpg

>>23809707
Do they fuck?

>>23817526
The IDE ejaculated them into a new universe

>>23817755
>Unironically I think Mineva will have to die in UC2
There are some lines you don't cross, you son of a bitch.