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A classic original production cel of Treize Khushrenada in the cockpit of Tallgeese II, on a hand-painted master production background, from Mobile Suit Gundam Wing episode 48, "Takeoff into Confusion," Sunrise, 1995.
The cel is a close-up of real quality, Treize filling the frame with that characteristic expression of composed authority, blue OZ commander's uniform with its ruffled cravat and gold epaulettes. The hand-painted background, dark blue sky and the angular Tallgeese II interior, is painted with the atmospheric depth Sunrise brought to its most significant scenes.
Episode 48 contains one of the most extraordinary moments Gundam Wing produced. As the Eve Wars reach their climax, Treize reveals to Wufei Chang that he has counted and remembered every person who died under his command: 99,822. It is a scene that crystallised everything that made Treize one of the most compelling antagonists in the franchise's history, a man who waged war with genuine conviction while bearing the full moral weight of every life it consumed.
This cel documents that moment: Treize in the Tallgeese II cockpit, composed and absolutely certain, meeting his end on his own terms. The brown headrest and black restraint harnesses visible behind him are unique to the Tallgeese II cockpit, placing this cel precisely within the series' final arc, Treize only having piloted this machine during the Eve Wars.
Treize Khushrenada was unlike any antagonist Gundam Wing's audience had encountered. Part anachronistic knight, part ruthless architect of conflict, he believed that war had a nobility and beauty that technology was in the process of destroying, and he acted on that belief with a consistency that made him genuinely difficult to dismiss. His philosophy, his chivalry, his willingness to die for his ideals, gave the series its moral weight, and his final episodes remain among the most emotionally demanding the franchise has produced.
2026 marks the thirty-first anniversary of Gundam Wing's original broadcast. A cel of Treize Khushrenada from his final episode, on a hand-painted background, is exactly the kind of piece that defines or even starts, a collection.
Estimate: $500 - 1,000