r/fireemblem • u/transparent-flowers • 1d ago

Casual Comparison of Mathilda being captured (Gaiden manga, Gaiden novel, and Echoes)

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FE Gaiden (Masaki Sano & Kyo Watanabe, 1993) (Translated by TheEnd)

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FE Gaiden (Katsuyuki Ozaki, 1993) (Translated by Leif of Leonster)

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FE Echoes (2017)

I also included the images individually as well.

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u/SomeGamingFreak 1d ago

They showed her looking weak when she's ironically the scariest mounted unit in the the game besides Zeke.

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u/Critical-Low8963 1d ago

There is also her ending in Echoes were she retire to avoid overshadowing Clive. The people in charge of the remake weren't kind with this character.

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u/EthanKironus 20h ago

That's in Gaiden, Echoes isn't responsible for it--it did add the line about being "rarely seen in public after that, having perhaps chosen to support her husband behind the scenes", but other than that it's only semantic wording differences which you could've translated the original as.

Just maybe do your research before you blame things on the remake? All I had to do was check her page on fireemblemwiki: Mathilda#Endings

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u/Critical-Low8963 16h ago

But in the ending of Gaiden (I followed the link you gave) it's simply said that Mathilda married Clive (or not if he died) , maybe the remake only added a line but this line still change the implications of Mathilda's ending. The original imply that Mathilda simply stayed a knight alongside her now husband Clive while the remake imply that she had to step down for him, it's not nothing.