
Being in Section 9 probably made getting that gun arm easier, though. If he had been in a chassis designed for open warfare, he'd have looked more like one of those suits of powered armor.

That's probably the only sort of thing in this world, or the future, that will be "built like they used to" planned obsolescence is actually a bad idea in this situation.

I would think it would be little bit of overkill to design them so tough. But the gynoids were supposedly civilian models, as compared to combat cyborgs like the Major and Batou. If you still think they'd be too namby-pamby, remember that in the mid-90's lots of kids lost hair after their parents had to rip "Baby Eats Your Hair When You Stick Your Hair Into Its Mouth And It Gets Caught In The Gears" off their heads. If all the systems have tertiary backups, you need to do a ton of damage to take it out. So, take a more sophisticated robot, designed to last many years without extensive overhauling, and tell it to attack, and, well, that's a problem. You can't just really fill it with holes and expect it to die. Well, take just about any robot nowadays (Asimo withstanding) and control it to kill someone, and you'll have difficulty taking it out unless you hit the control surfaces, pneumatic/electric lines, or gears/moving parts (and successfully dislodge/jam them).

Why were the 'gynoids' so tricked(pun intended) out? This probably falls under Super-Powered Robot Meter Maids, but its a little jarring how they were giving the Major and Batou trouble. He probably suspected it at least so he went to Kim to confirm. Also, at the end Batou said that he knew who was who tampered with his brain in the convenience store.Kim just happened to be in cahoots with the company, and was trying to take out Batou by the orders of his superiors. It's generally a good tactic to find out as much as possible about the situation when you're in a hostile territory, and any potentially friendly contact who can give you some briefing is a bonus. That's essentially what happens when they first meet.
#GHOST IN THE SHELL 1995 QUOTES PROFESSIONAL#
As far as this troper was able to figure, Batou simply knew that Kim was in town, and wanted to ask his professional opinion about Locus Solus, since he's an expert, and presumably has plenty of contacts in the area.Were we just supposed to assume the two were doing legwork during the parade that Oshii didn't care enough about to show us? (Not inconceivable, given Oshii's predilection for philosophical rumination over plot mechanics.) Or was Batou assuming that since Kim was one of the few hackers skilled enough to get past his protections and was in physical proximity to Locus Solus, he must be working with them? Or was there something else I missed?
#GHOST IN THE SHELL 1995 QUOTES MOVIE#
In Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence, exactly how did Batou and Togusa even know to go after Kim? (You know, the creepy, doll-obsessed hacker who'd been hacking Batou throughout the film.) I've watched the movie three times, and as far as I can tell, one minute they're traveling to the region where Locus Solus is headquartered (I was also a bit confused about the "Northern frontier" referred to, but presumably it's in the contested region between Japan and Russia), then there's a parade, and the next thing you know Batou's beating up old contacts to find Kim.Because they were delayed explosive rounds for taking out cyborgs - first embedding themselves through any subdermal plating and then exploding with enough force to guarantee the destruction of whatever organics they still have left in them.In the opening of the 1995 movie, why did that one guy's head explode after he was shot?.
