#EJECTOR SEAT CODE#

The concept returns in a few series, but in some cases (particularly the Victory Gundam and Impulse Gundam) it seems to have been implemented mainly to allow for transformation and replacement of damaged parts rather than as an escape vehicle.

Mobile Suit Gundam had the Core Fighter, a small aerospace fighter that makes up the cockpit of the Federation's Super Prototypes.

In Evangelion, the 'entry plugs' that the EVA pilots rode in could be ejected in case of emergency.

Given a good vector of ejection however, KMF pilot blocks would deploy parachutes to lower its speed and safely set it on the ground. In another, Lelouch is badly injured because the seat activates when he doesn't have a clear vector of escape, making it bounce off the ground and nearby objects like a rubber ball it's frankly quite amazing that he didn't get whiplash. In one episode, we see a character ( Kewell) die when the Guren Mk-II's radiant wave fries his machine's internal computers.

Failsafe Failure is mostly averted, but there are a couple of moments.

Interestingly, Lancelot Frontier, which is made from Lancelot's old spare parts, does have an ejection seat.

Other Knightmare Frames, often of a prototypical/limited production run does not have ejection seats either, such as the Gawain, which is more of a test-bed platform for new technologies, and likewise its derivative unit, Shinkiro. The fact that the Lancelot doesn't have one is made out to be a big deal. In fact, according to the backstory, this trope is the very reason Knightmares exist to begin with note Britannia looked into putting Ejector Seats in traditional war machines like tanks, but then they added legs so they could escape the battlefield and it kind of snowballed from there.

#EJECTOR SEAT CODE#

Code Geass has ejector seats as a major feature of the Knightmare Frames.

Ejector seat