History Characters / SpaceBattleshipYamato2199

* FanNickname: [[Franchise/BattlestarGalactica "Starbuck"]], in reference to another fighter pilot who got a GenderFlip in a reimagined series.

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[[folder: Jirel]]
!! '''Miezellla Celestela''', Minister of Propaganda
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-->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/MinoriChihara

Propoganda minister for the Great Imperial Gamilas Empire. From the planet Jirel. She is an aide to Dessler who brings him military reports from all fronts while also serving as his minister of propoganda. She also manages Dessler's intelligence service.

A woman of strange beauty who acts as the President of the Information Ministry. An influential person in terms of domestic politics, responsible for the suppression of insurgents seized in cooperation with Gomura. She is respected and feared by high officials of the army who are afraid to be branded by her as traitors. She is infatuated with Dessler.

* BigNo: When Dessler took off in his spacecraft without her.
* BlueSkinnedSpaceBabe: Actually subject to FantasticRacism for being light blue instead of blue, along with her kinds PsychicPowers.
* CaptainErsatz[=/=]Composite Character: Based Dessler's ex-wife Mela from Leiji Matsumoto's "The Eternal Story of Jura", one of his subordinates from the manga of the original version and Goebbels.
* KickTheMoralityPet: Dessler abandoned her and tried to shoot her, which he almost succeeded.
** He [[spoiler: ends up shooting her by accident on board the Yamato when she surprised him by using her PsychicPowers.]]
* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler:Accidentally shot by Dessler when he boards the Yamato in the penultimate episode.]]
* LastOfTheirKind[=/=]SoleSurvivor: Of her home planet after Mirenel's consciousness is killed by the Yamato's activating warp engine. [[spoiler:And ''then'' the ''Ark of the Stars'' movie reveals that this isn't quite the case...]]
* LoveMartyr: Will do everything and anything for Dessler, regardless of how he treats her.
* PointyEars: Due to being a Jirellian.
* PsychicPowers: Assumed, due to her being a Jirellian. Not really shown on-screen however.
* UndyingLoyalty: To Dessler.

!! '''Mirenel Linke'''
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-->'''Voiced by:''' Akemi Okamura

Gamilas Central Intelligence Special Officer. The equivalent of 18 Earth years of age. Rank: Lieutenant. Born on the Planet Jirel. An intelligence officer who works directly for Celestella, and a psychic. The two of them are also the last survivors of Jirel. By using the Akerius ruins hyperspace network at Balun base, she materializes her mind onboard Yamato, where she performs information gathering and sabotage [in Episode 14].

* BlueSkinnedSpaceBabe: Though, she disguises herself as pink skinned when exploring the Yamato.
* CaptainErsatz: Also partly based on Dessler's daughter Jura from "The Eternal Story of Jura".
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Her mind is trapped inside the Yamato's Wave Motion Engine and painfully annihilated. Her physical body spasms in pain and dies too.
* KilledOffForReal: Care of the Yamato's Wave Motion core at that.
* MindRape: One that made Kodai [[NiceJobFixingItVillain rekindle his hate for Gamilas]].
* PointyEars: As a Jirellian.
* PsychicPowers: Specifically astral projection.
* SpaceElves: Part of the Jirellian package.
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[[folder: Zaltians]]
!! '''Vuelke Shulz'''
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-->'''Voiced by:''' Yu Shimaka
The commander of the Pluto advance base, ranked as Colonel in the Empire's space forces. He was the commander of a space brigade that consists mostly of second-class citizens, most of whom come from the planet Zalts, which had been conquered by Gamilas. Despite being from a conquered world, Shultz is loyal to Dessler's regime, though some of this is due in part to the fact that, by performing well, he and his men guarantee the possibility of a better life for their families.

As he was only able to start a family very late in his life, he dotes on his only daughter, Hilde.

* DyingMomentOfAwesome: When the ''Yamato'' is breaking through the ambush planned by Dessler himself in episode 8, he replies by ''charging at her in the corona of a star, trying to destroy her either with gunfire, by ramming her or pushing her into a flare''. And when the ''Yamato'' [[CrazyAwesome breaks through the flare with a shot of the wave motion gun]] and his ship is about to be hit, he [[FaceDeathWithDignity calmly accepted the inevitable]].
* PetTheDog: After his death, Dessler promotes him and his men two ranks (incidentally putting Shultz ''above'' his direct superior who had tried to blame him for the ''Yamato'''s survival) and give them not what they joined the fleet for, 1st-class citizenship for their families, but something ''better'', honorary citizenship for their families (putting them ''above'' pureblooded Gamilans).
* PunchClockVillain
* TookALevelInBadass: His counterpart in the original series was a joke, who was a threat to the ''Yamato'' only because he had a powerful prototype weapon to use. This one nearly killed the ''Yamato'' by improvising with a device made to deviate asteroids to [[ColonyDrop bomb Earth]], and later has the DyingMomentOfAwesome detailed above.
* VillainousValor: See DyingMomentOfAwesome.
* WakeUpCallBoss: Initially the ''Yamato'' crew had no problems dealing with the Gamilas, only on how to use the wave motion engine and gun. Then they move on his base, and his first attack almost cripples the ''Yamato'' without them having any idea on what hit them.

!! '''Nolan'''
A 2nd-class Gamilas citizen who joined a commando team to board the ''Yamato'' and capture Yurisha. Sings the Gamilas anthem before going to the battlefield.

* [[spoiler:HeroicSacrifice: Ejects Yuki to safety while rigging Dessler's Fortress to detonate.]]
* PunchClockVillain
* SoleSurvivor: Of the commando squad.
* TraumaCongaLine
* VillainousValor: Sings the Gamilas anthem nervously which then cheer the entire army up.

!! '''Hilde Shulz'''
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-->'''Voiced by:''' Ayano Miura
As a girl of Planet Zalts, she is regarded as a 2nd-class Gamilas citizen. She is the daughter of Pluto base commander Vuelke Shulz and is the equivalent of 13 years old on Earth. She loves her father and awaits his return with her mother Raiza in the Imperial capital Baleras. Since she is the daughter of an older man, her father Vuelke dotes on her. She has a cat-like pet from Zalts called a "Krall" which is her best friend.

She works as a maid for Celestela starting from Episode 21.

* DaddysGirl: Definitely loves her dad.
* MoralityChain: For Shulz and possibly for Celestela.
* TokenMiniMoe: The only youngster prominently shown on the Gamilon side.

!!Iscandar

[[folder: Iscandarians]]
!! '''Yurisha Iscandar'''
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-->'''Voiced by:''' Houko Kuwashima

The youngest sister of Starsha and Sasha, she was sent ahead to Earth with the technological plans that would give Humanity the chance to fight back against the Gamilas Empire. Her wherabouts after providing these plans are unknown though, as she as of the start of the series has been missing for a year.

[[spoiler:In truth, she's actually held in suspended animation inside the Navigation core of the Yamato, where her memories are being scanned for the path to Iscandar. This is because, due to a terror attack, she's been in a coma for at least a year. However, she hasn't been idle since then, as she can project her consciousness, appearing as the rumored "ghost" of the ship. When she finds out about Yuria's sensitivity to spirits, she proceeds to possess the girl, and uses her body to explore the ship. Whenever she is in control of Yuria's body, she takes off Yuria's trademarked hair ties.]]

* CunningLinguist: Is shown working on a translation program that would help Terrans, Gamilons, and (apparently) Gatlantians to communicate.

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[[folder: UN Officials]]

!! '''Kotetsu Serizawa'''
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United Nations Space Corps and Far East District Director of military. Rank: Space General. From Ibaraki prefecture. The central figure of the Izumo Plan, forerunner of the Yamato Plan. A military bureaucrat who assists Todo on the military adminstration side. He has strong political ambitions, and is unhappy with the popularity and respect garnered by Okita after the second battle of Mars.

[[spoiler:Despite the formal scuttling of the Izumo plan, Serizawa continues to support it in secret, to the point where he plants several supporters onboard the Yamato as its crew, all waiting for the right opportunity to take it over.]]

* AwesomeMcCoolname: The Ko in Kotetsu means tiger and Tetsu means iron. Also Kotetsu is the homonym of a Japanese word for ironclads.
* [[spoiler:ColonelKilgore: Orders Earth ships to fire on the Gamilan messengers first time Humans saw them.]]
* EvilGenius: Hinted to be the one who converted the Wave Motion Engine into a cannon. Not even Dessler made it possible.
* FromNobodyToNightmare[=/=]AscendedExtra: In a meta way: the original series had an unnamed officer with Serizawa's looks and position who was an ObstructiveBureaucrat and an ineffective enemy, but this one... Well, this one caused the HopelessWar against the Gamilans, nearly succeeded in repurposing the ''Yamato'''s mission in a colonization plan, and is hinted having invented the WaveMotionGun.
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!!The Great Gamillas Empire

[[folder: Gamillians]]

!! '''Herm Zoellik'''
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-->'''Voiced by:''' NorioWakamoto

Inspector General of the Great Gamilas Empire Central Command. The equivalent of 47 Earth years of age. General of the army, and second only to Dessler in his influence over the military administration. Descended from a noble family of pure lineage, an arrogant man who schemes to reestablish the old aristocracy.

[[spoiler:He engineers an attempt on Dessler's life, after which he uses the emperor's "death" as a pretense to put the Gamilas fleet under his control. Needless to say this fails, when Dessler reveals himself to be ''very'' much alive. He meets his end via a shot to the back at the hands of Goer.]]

* {{Expy}}: An ambitious, large, loud and boorish scion of the old aristocracy, who's at the same time both racist and classist, he's the one of "Fat Hermann" — Luftwaffe chief Hermann Goering, though unlike him Goering firmly remained a loyal Hitler's follower and favorite.
* GeneralRipper: The one time he faces the ''Yamato'' he puts his ships into such position to shoot and ram each other. [[EvenEvilHasStandards Even Goer, who had previously established himself as one, was appalled]].
* [[spoiler:KilledOffForReal[=/=]KilledMidSentence: And by ''Goer'', of all people. Goer himself seems to be surprised that he was able to do it.]]
* LargeHam: ''Colossal'' ham would be more like it - of course, one could expect nothing less from a villain voiced by NorioWakamoto.
* SmugSnake: In spades.
* [[spoiler:TheStarscream: Plots a takeover scheme starting with offing Dessler. Too bad Dessler is far too smart to fall for something like it.]]

!! '''Gul Deitz'''
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-->'''Voiced by:''' Katsunosuke Hori

Supreme commander of the Great Gamilas Empire Astro fleet. The equivalent of 55 Earth years of age. Came from a family of officers and bodyguards from generation to generation, an experienced Admiral who oversees all elements of the Gamilas space fleet except the orbital planetary defense fleet.

Late into the series he finds himself framed by Gimleh for secretly formenting dissent among the general staff. Melda frees him from his confinement, after which he finds himself forced by circumstance to form a resistance movement against the very government he had once served.

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* [[spoiler: EvenEvilHasStandards: Defies Ito during the mutiny when he threatens to shoot a non-collaborating Shima.]]

* {{Meganekko}}
* [[spoiler:TheMole: A major supporter of the Izumo Plan.]]

* ActionGirl
* {{Ahoge}}

* ReiAyanamiExpy
* RevengeBeforeReason: Her personal vendetta against the Gamillons can get irrational at times.

* {{Ahoge}}

* [[spoiler:CreepyMonotone: Yet another cue that Yurisha's in control.]]

* [[spoiler:GrandTheftMe: By Yurisha]].

* AcePilot
* {{Badass}}
* BoisterousBruiser

* EyesAlwaysShut

* [[spoiler:KilledOffForReal: But not before saving Yurisha. He admits to her that, maybe ''some'' aliens aren't as bad as he thought, and asks her to help get Yamato to Iscandar before he dies.]]
* [[spoiler:TheMole: For Serizawa and the Izumo Plan.]]
* SmugSnake

* CuteShotaroBoy
* DoggedNiceGuy

* GreaseMonkey
* TheMentor

* GreaseMonkey
* [[spoiler:KilledOffForReal]]

* VerbalTic

* GreaseMonkey
* [[spoiler:KilledOffForReal]]
* {{Megane}}
* ServileSnarker
* ThoseTwoGuys

* SmugSnake

[[spoiler:Late into the series he finds himself framed by Gimleh for secretly formenting dissent among the general staff. Melda frees him from his confinement, after which he finds himself forced by circumstance to form a resistance movement against the very government he had once served.]]

* BadassMoustache

* [[spoiler:LaResistance]]
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure

* [[spoiler:GracefulLoser]]: [[spoiler: When his ship was destroyed during Yamato's attack on Gamilas in ep. 23, he just calmly wondered, [[ASpotOfTea teacup in hand]]: "So, that's what death is?"]]

* EvilIsPetty

* SmallNameBigEgo

[[spoiler:When her father and many of his subordinates are imprisoned for assumed sedition, she joins with some of his subordinates to free him. After this, she stays on the Yamato as a liason, while her father leaves to liberate other prison planets]].

* AcePilot

* BlueSkinnedSpaceBabe

* [[spoiler:KilledOffForReal]]
* LastOfTheirKind[=/=]SoleSurvivor: Of her home planet after Mirenel's consciousness is killed by the Yamato's activating warp engine.
* LoveMartyr
* PointyEars
* PsychicPowers

* PointyEars

* SpaceElves

* DaddysGirl

* TokenMiniMoe

The translated default character profiles (without the spoilers added) are care of [[http://www.ourstarblazers.com/696_2199charaguide/index.html Tim Eldred's Starblazer's site]], which were translated in turn from [[http://yamato2199.net/character.html the official website character page]].

[[spoiler:Her sensitivity to spirits makes her the ideal medium for Ulyssia's consciousness to hitchhike on. Whenever Yurisha is in control, Yuria's hair, usually done up in twintails, is left down.]]

* [[spoiler:CreepyMonotone: Yet another cue that Ulyssia's in control.]]
* GeniusDitz: Capable of having rambling discourses over the mechanics of warp travel and the Wave Motion engine with ''Sanada'', of all people, [[spoiler:but only when Ulyssia's in control of course]]. Laughs like a little girl when the away party she's part of was chased by a ''gigantic monster mantid''.

* [[spoiler:GrandTheftMe: By Ulyssia]].

* CloudCuckooLander

* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Some translators suggest spelling her name "Ulyssia", because of the similarity to the Japanese pronunciation of "[[Literature/TheOdyssey Ulysses]]".

* [[spoiler:ReverseMole:For Sanada, in the security division.]]

* ISeeDeadPeople: Not that it bothers her much.

* {{Tsundere}}: Acts like this in reaction towards Hoshina's [[{{DoggedNiceGuy quest for her affections.]] However, [[spoiler: her shock from seeing him wounded by Gamillas soldiers removes Ulyssia's possessive hold of her body, prompting her to confess her feelings for him in the sick bay.]]

* TheDragon: [[spoiler [[{{SubvertedTrope:}} Subverted.]]]] [[spoiler: He only earns Ito's trust so he can expose his plans to forcefully enact Project Izumo.]]

* TheDragon: [[spoiler [[{{SubvertedTrope: Subverted.]]]] [[spoiler: He only earns Ito's trust so he can expose his plans to forcefully enact Project Izumo.]]

* TheDragon: [[spoiler: In order to keep his true intentions a secret, Hoshina convinces Ito he is someone he can trust with his plans.]]

* TheDragon: [[spoiler: In order to gain Ito's trust, and keep his Hoshina paints the startlingly convincing picture that he is Ito's right hand man.

* MsFanservice: Went to the trouble of bringing a {{Meido}} outfit; also has a LatexSpacesuit with a miniskirt.

* LargeHam: Expected, given who voices him.

* CruelAndUnusualDeath

* [[spoiler:BewareOfTheNiceOnes: Messes with Alter, bodyjacks Yuria and vaporizes Mirenel. The most psychologically deadly person in the entire cast.]]

* TheGhost: It's established that she brought the plans for the Wave Motion Engine to Earth a year before the series began, but she's not seen in the first few episodes. Until episode 14, then finally appearing in person in episode 19.

* DyingMomentOfAwesome: When the ''Yamato'' is breaking through the ambush planned by Dessler himself in episode 8, he replies by ''charging at her in the corona of ba star, trying to destroy her either with gunfire, by ramming her or pushing her into a flare''. And when the ''Yamato'' [[CrazyAwesome breaks through the flare with a shot of the wave motion gun]] and his ship is about to be hit, he [[FaceDeathWithDignity calmly accepted the inevitable]].

** [[Spoiler:JerkassHasAPoint: Seriously, Yurisha could have forewarned them that Iskandar was Gamilas' twin planet...]]

** [[Spoiler: JerkassHasAPoint: Seriously, Yurisha could have forewarned them that Iskandar was Gamilas' twin planet...]]