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in the final episode of _Full Metal Panic! The Second Raid_ , after Sagura
destroys Gates' Venom we see this

![Youtube Video](https://i.stack.imgur.com/SR1h3.png)

this kinda looks human shape and not the cockpit of an Arm-Slave which may
have been blow out.

Since Gates is in Amalgam which is where Leonard is and Leonard has 2 roughly
Human size Arm-Slaves with him, was Gates a robot?


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Is Gates a robot?


This is without a doubt the _Plan 1058 Codarl-i_ as it gets ripped apart (i.e.
arms coming off) by the blast from the Arbalest's Lambda Driver. Note that if
it was Gate's body, the scale of the explosion would be much bigger as the
blast engulfs the entire machine, and would not fit in the shot as Gates is
tiny in comparison to the Codarl.

If you take a look at the Codarl, you see it has a slim humanoid body shape.

![See the Plan 1058 Codarl-i](https://i.stack.imgur.com/ecnHW.jpg)

Note that while in his pilot suit, Gates has a small pack on his back, his
helmet and the large collar cover of his pilot suit (protecting the area under
his neck), if this were his body all of these part are missing. I doubt this
would be an animation mistake, considering the studio in charge of the
animation. So I think it's safe to conclude that it's the Codarl's rather than
Gates that get obliterated by Sousuke's Lambda Driver.

![Gates in suit](https://i.stack.imgur.com/w8Ipv.jpg)


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