| 1 | This page describes the characters appearing in ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamCharsCounterattack'' and the tropes associated with them. As usual, please help out with the blurbs and keep in mind that this page contains a lot of spoilers. |
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| 3 | [[foldercontrol]] |
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| 5 | !Londo Bell |
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| 7 | [[folder:Amuro Ray]] |
| 8 | !!!Voice Actors: Creator/ToruFuruya (Japanese), Creator/BradSwaile (English) |
| 9 | [[quoteright:225:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/s_Counterattack_2276.jpg]] |
| 10 | ->'''Main mecha:''' RGZ-91 Re-GZ, RX-93 ν Gundam |
| 11 | |
| 12 | TheProtagonist of the original ''Anime/MobileSuitGundam'', Amuro is a twenty-nine year old veteran who has SeenItAll and done it all. He leads the Londo Bell squadron's mobile suits, has a longstanding grudge against Char, and is one of the few people who seems to take the threat of a new war against Neo-Zeon seriously. |
| 13 | ---- |
| 14 | * AcePilot: Between his Newtype abilities, his thirteen years of experience, his innate talent as a pilot, and his [[BiggerStick ride(s)]], Amuro is effectively untouchable in this film. |
| 15 | ** He is also considered the Ace of Ace Pilots within the Universal Century timeline as a whole, with creator Yoshiyuki Tomino himself stating that Amuro is the most skilled pilot there is. |
| 16 | *** [[spoiler:Even decades after his death, in the Crossbone and Jupiter eras, he was seen as a legendary hero and the greatest pilot in history. In Crossbone, the Jupiter Empire recovers his core fighter from the original Gundam of the One Year War and makes an AI clone for an unmanned mobile suit based on his battle data. The plan was to mass produce his AI clone for an unstoppable mobile suit division. Amuro’s battle data from the OYW alone was so overwhelming in combat that oldtype pilots were killed almost instantly fighting his AI clone and only newtypes could survive against it. Losing that data does irreversible damage to the Jupiter Empire’s war effort.]] |
| 17 | * AdaptationalIntelligence: His adaptational counterpart from ''Beltorchika's Children'' is able to deduce on his own that Char leaked the psycoframe technology and why. |
| 18 | * AdaptationalWimp: In the movie, Amuro is portrayed as being head and shoulders above every other pilot that is not Char. In ''Beltorchika's Children'', while still an AcePilot, he is far less of an InvincibleHero. He goes through a lot more close calls than in the movie - Char and Quess in particular coming ''very'' close to killing him in combat at times before something intervened. The Hi-Nu Gundam also ends the battle with Char more damaged than the Nu Gundam. |
| 19 | * {{Archenemy}}: He's Char's and vice-versa. This goes back to the One Year War with only a [[Anime/MobileSuitZetaGundam brief interlude]] - which ultimately only soured their relationship. |
| 20 | * {{Attack Drone}}s: The Nu Gundam comes equipped with six Fin Funnels, which he controls using his thoughts and can be used offensively or defensively. |
| 21 | * BiggerStick: The Nu Gundam, which is equipped with every major piece of military technology we've seen developed across the course of the Universal Century. No other machine, save Char's Sazabi, stands a chance against it, [[spoiler:and both it and Amuro eventually prove themselves the stronger party in their duel.]] |
| 22 | * CombatPragmatist: Amuro has never played fair, and he doesn't start now, exploiting every weakness, weapon, equipment, and terrain to gain any advantage. |
| 23 | * CurbStompBattle: Tears through most adversaries in seconds with the Nu Gundam. Notably, he shoots Gyunei down more or less as an afterthought. Severely downplayed in ''Beltorchika's Children''. |
| 24 | * DefusingTheTykeBomb: [[spoiler:While Amuro fails to defuse the tykebomb of Quess Paraya in the original movie itself, in ''Gundam EVOLVE'' he is allowed to have a second go at her, and this time is able to talk Quess down and convince her that saving Hathaway is more important than following Char]]. |
| 25 | * DyingMomentOfAwesome: [[spoiler: Officially listed as MIA in the Federation's records, but through sheer force of will (and PsychicPowers) he managed to stop Axis from being dropped at the cost of his own life]]. |
| 26 | * EvenTheLovingHeroHasHatedOnes: Amuro may love humanity... but he ''hates'' Char, and will go to nearly any length to finally take him down. Char knows this... and still can't deal with the consequences once he provokes it. Amuro probably expected the feeling to be mutual on Char's part, and that he wouldn't really hold anything back either. |
| 27 | * FlawedPrototype: The Nu Gundam has some problems that have yet to be ironed out. This does not stop Amuro from kicking all kinds of ass with it. He's so badass that the flaws in question become something of an InformedFlaw. [[spoiler: This is what ends up killing him and Char at the end.]] |
| 28 | * GadgeteerGenius: That badass SuperPrototype, Nu Gundam? He designed it from the ground up, for himself. [[spoiler: Not without Char's secret suggestions though]]. |
| 29 | * GoneHorriblyRight: In the end of the movie, both Amuro and Char call for a light referred to as the "light of possibility." [[spoiler: Centuries if not millennia later, he is mortified as a spirit to discover that the [[Anime/TurnAGundam Moonlight Butterfly]] falls under this, until Lalah tells him that it's an opportunity for humans to live on again and that [[EternalRecurrence it'll happen as many times as it needs.]]]] |
| 30 | * GoodOldFisticuffs: In this installment, he goes for these the instant he encounters Char face-to-face again, with an ''infamous'' horse tackle brawl ensuing. It’s so much an Amuro trademark that he only thinks to reach for his also-beloved and ever-present sidearm ''after'' they’ve done some physical violence to each other. |
| 31 | * TheHero: Of the film and the Universal Century in its entirety. This is his story, and his role is to defeat Char. |
| 32 | * HeroicSacrifice: He is willing to put his life on the line to save others. [[spoiler:He and hundreds of mooks (from both sides no less) die holding back the asteroid that Char aimed at Earth.]] |
| 33 | * HopeSpringsEternal: Beneath the paranoia, war-weariness, and righteous anger at Char, this is the core of the man Amuro has grown into. He's not a WideEyedIdealist -- he's seen plenty of examples of human evil, and acknowledges that mankind's situation at present is a dire one. But unlike Char who has given into bitterness and misanthropy, Amuro refuses to accept that mankind is rotten at its core and fervently believes that "human wisdom" can eventually overcome the problems they face on Earth and in space. |
| 34 | * InvincibleHero: While he's had some close scrapes in the past, in this film Amuro never even comes close to losing inside of his mobile suit. He and the Nu Gundam go through Neo-Zeon pilots as though they weren't even there, culminating in his epic battle with Char. It takes a continent-sized meteor to finally bring him down. |
| 35 | * ImportantHaircut: His famous SeventiesHair is finally shorter and more modern, indicating metaphorical and physical change from having it exactly the same in his two prior appearances. |
| 36 | * {{Irony}}: Amuro just slashed the left arm of the very last enemy Mobile Suit he fought in his life besides Char, and almost gently took their rifle from their right arm letting them unarmed. Sadly, that same pilot was destroyed by a missing shot from Char right before knowing if it were one of the very few instances of Amuro sparing a mook in battle. |
| 37 | * ItsPersonal: With Char. Oh, boy. Forget mobile suits, Amuro will launch his ''body'' and literally knock Char off his high horse. He hates him that much, but he's right about him being up to something this time. Even without bringing up Lalah, Amuro's understandably taken Char's return to villainy pretty hard after they got to work together during ''Zeta''. |
| 38 | ** His dreams/visions with Lalah further highlight this: While Lalah proclaims she wants to be together with the two rivals for all eternity, Amuro outright tells her to stop clinging onto Char and move on. |
| 39 | * JadeColoredGlasses: Sees [[spoiler:the [[Anime/TurnAGundam Moonlight Butterfly]] as a spirit]] (and warfare in general) as a suicidal maneuver and the final nail in the coffin for mankind, falling into despair thinking everything he sacrificed for in his life was made meaningless, spitefully seeing the literal destruction of civilization being the only good thing that they've done for the Earth, until [[spoiler:Lalah]] reminds him that [[spoiler: the former is [[GoneHorriblyRight exactly what he asked for so long ago]], and shows him every other timeline that had converged upon that moment as proof that on a cosmic scale, nothing is truly as awful as it seems.]] |
| 40 | * JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Still a paranoid antisocial kid at heart. Still TheHero in every sense of the word. |
| 41 | * KidHeroAllGrownUp: The teenager who [[FallingIntoTheCockpit accidentally became the pilot]] of the original Gundam grew up to be [[SeenItAll the most experienced]], [[AcePilot most badass]] pilot of the Universal Century. |
| 42 | * KnightInSourArmor: This is the most willing and unrestrained Amuro has ever been to fight. He still has one or two or... several moments, actually, where he shows he's clearly not happy about it. |
| 43 | * LateToTheTragedy: [[spoiler: In the ''Shining Life Chronicle UC'' epilogue special, Amuro returns to the Earth after untold centuries to millennia and just barely misses [[Anime/TurnAGundam the Moonlight Butterfly returning civilization to dust.]]]] |
| 44 | * TheLeader: He is commander of the elite Londo Bell MS squadron. |
| 45 | * LightningBruiser: The Nu Gundam. As tough as anything else Amuro's ever piloted, with more weapons than is reasonable and still the fastest thing in the stars. Exaggerated with its final [[AdaptationalBadass Hi-Nu Gundam form in the novel]]. |
| 46 | * MechaExpansionPack: The Re-GZ combines with a booster backpack to form a waverider mode similar to Zeta Gundam. This was intended to simplify production compared to the Zeta's complex [[TransformingMecha transformation]], but it ends up hampering the design and shifting the efforts towards the Zeta Plus and Delta Plus lines. |
| 47 | * MessianicArchetype: He sacrifices himself to save people from an asteroid and show them "the light" helping them to gain hope. [[spoiler: Works so well that even the enemy mooks join him and his own RedShirt squad.]] This is further heightened in ''Gundam EVOLVE'', where he [[spoiler:becomes Quess's personal messiah by DefusingTheTykeBomb and making it possible for her and Hathaway to have a happy ending]]. |
| 48 | * [[MidSeasonUpgrade Mid Movie Upgrade]]: From the Re-GZ, a SuperPrototype for a mass-produced version of the Zeta Gundam to his personally designed Nu Gundam, a Newtype-use AceCustom. Side-material reveals the Heavy Weapons Systems, supposed to add further enhancements to the Nu and Hi-Nu Gundams but never making it in time for the actual battle. |
| 49 | * MirrorCharacter: Amuro may have grown up and still be a NiceGuy under the brooding, but he still has his own issues. For example, his relationship with Chan is stated to be analogous to Char's with Nanai. Since they aren't lovers in the same way, nor is she mothering him, it means Amuro is using her affection for his own purposes (in his case, needing a girl to pilot for, like Frau in the original show or Beltochika in ''Zeta''), and doesn't really return quite the same feelings. Although Amuro doesn't manipulate people the way Char does, he's always tended to be somewhat neglectful and a bit distant in his relationships, also not fully engaging. They're {{Foil}}s because despite being an awkward, moody introvert, he can still be empathetic and will usually opt for being kind. Char, however, gives up all semblance of trying to overcome his own LackOfEmpathy and abuses his charisma to exploit those around him, not unlike Scirocco. |
| 50 | * NeverFoundTheBody: [[spoiler: Thanks to the Psycoframe overload. While listed as MIA in the Federation's records, the novel adaptations and the sequel MobileSuitGundamUnicorn confirm his death.]] |
| 51 | * NiceGuy: After recovering from most of his severe PTSD from ''Zeta'', Amuro has matured very well and has a stronger belief in hope than ever before. |
| 52 | * NoSocialSkills: One of Amuro's few flaws as a person, though after 14 years it could now be called ''Poor'' Social Skills, instead of the near-absolute No Social Skills he started out with in MSG and the Shell-Shocked Social Skills he had in ''Zeta''. In contrast to the charismatic manipulator that is Char, Amuro is an awkward introvert, fumbling in his attempts to return Chan's affection and frustrated by his inability to be the father figure Quess is so clearly looking for. He believes in humanity as a collective and has plenty of empathy for the suffering of others, but when it comes to dealing with individual human beings Amuro is still, to the very end, out of his depth. |
| 53 | * OlderAndWiser: He's a KidHeroAllGrownUp, and even compared to his ''Zeta Gundam'' incarnation, he's older, calmer, and more on top of things. |
| 54 | * ParentalSubstitute: Quess ''really'' wanted him to be this to her and it frustrates him deeply that he doesn't have it in him to play that role, which might have saved her from running into the arms of Char. In ''Beltorchika's Children'' he vows to surpass himself and become a man worthy of being a father for the sake of his soon-to-be-born son. |
| 55 | * ProHumanTranshuman: Amuro was one of the first Newtypes introduced in the series, and one of the most recognizable ones in the Universal Century. Yet despite that, he retains his connection to the human race and is a major believer in human potential. |
| 56 | * ProperlyParanoid: Amuro is entirely correct about what Char is planning, and about [[spoiler:the Neo-Zeon fleet being nothing more than decoy balloons]]. Given how long he's been doing that, this makes sense. |
| 57 | * TheProtagonist: Alongside Char. |
| 58 | * PsychicPowers: Being a Newtype, his Nu Gundam is designed to take advantage of this with the Psychoframe that thoroughly enhances his control over the Mobile Suit while enabling the use of the Fin Funnels. [[spoiler: In fact, it's exactly the overuse of this during the end of the story than ends up claiming his life.]] |
| 59 | * RedBaron: He's the "White Unicorn", which is his personal emblem, seen on the Nu Gundam's shield. |
| 60 | * {{Retirony}}: [[spoiler:In ''Beltochika's Children'' {{novelization}}, he promises Beltochika to quit piloting MS once Char has been dealt with.]] |
| 61 | * SeenItAll: After three wars, two of them against Zeon and its remnants, there is little that can surprise Amuro anymore. |
| 62 | * ShellShockedVeteran: He's more or less past that stage of his life, but elements of his PTSD from ''Zeta'' still abound. His constant visions of Lalah in his dreams don't help him either. |
| 63 | * SuperPrototype: Despite its flaws, the Nu-Gundam is still one badass machine. ExpandedUniverse documents mention mass-produced versions of the Nu Gundam, but because they were meant to be produced in case |
| 64 | * TallDarkAndHandsome: He's grown up to have this look. |
| 65 | * TookALevelInBadass: Again. He's even more badass than he was in ''MSG'' and ''Zeta''. Considering his in-universe fame in both of those series, this is particularly impressive. |
| 66 | * TrueCompanions: He and Bright are this to one another, as One Year War veterans, and close friends. |
| 67 | * WeakButSkilled: Amuro's Newtype abilities aren't anywhere close to the likes of [[Anime/MobileSuitGundamZZ Judau]], [[Anime/MobileSuitZetaGundam Kamille, or Scirocco]], but as an all-round ''pilot'', his skills and experience in Mobile Suit combat leave him virtually unrivaled, and what he lacks in raw Newtype power ([[Anime/MobileSuitZetaGundam telekinetically-enhanced Waverider crash]], [[Anime/MobileSuitGundamZZ psychic/spirit-powered BFG]]), his [[AttackDrone Funnels]] are more than enough to [[DeathByAThousandCuts overwhelm any foe]]. |
| 68 | [[/folder]] |
| 69 | |
| 70 | [[folder:Bright Noa]] |
| 71 | !!!Voice Actors: Creator/HirotakaSuzuoki (Japanese), Chris Kalhoon (English) |
| 72 | [[quoteright:225:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/bright_noa_transparent.png]] |
| 73 | |
| 74 | Amuro's commander during the One Year War, Bright is a veteran of three separate wars, and a captain in the Londo Bell squadron. Like Amuro, he doesn't trust Char at all, and is quietly preparing for war. |
| 75 | ---- |
| 76 | * TheBrigadier: The only officer who is inclined to agree with Amuro's assessment of the situation they're in. |
| 77 | %%* TheCaptain: Of Londo Bell as a whole. |
| 78 | * FamedInStory: Captain of the ''White Base'' and the ''Argama'', and a major figure in the One Year War, the Gryps Conflict, and the First Neo-Zeon War, Bright is almost as well known as Amuro and Char. |
| 79 | * AFatherToHisMen: Despite applying to all [[Anime/MobileSuitGundam his]] [[Anime/MobileSuitZetaGundam past]] [[Anime/MobileSuitGundamZZ appearances]], the movie proper downplays this, as he treats his crew with expected professionalism. |
| 80 | ** In the manga adaptation of ''Beltorchika's Children'', he plays this very straight, as he has a much more casual relationship with his crew, best exemplified whenever they (Amuro included) crack small jokes at his expense that he's slightly frustrated over, but lets slide. |
| 81 | * HappilyMarried: To Mirai Yashima. They're still quite happy together. |
| 82 | * JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Downplayed. Uptight he may still be, he no longer has arguments with his crew and no longer applies "[[CorporalPunishment corrections]]". But he still slaps Hathaway for breaking into the Ra Cailum when Hathaway has the (at the moment) benign intentions of wanting to contribute and trying to save Quess. |
| 83 | * OlderAndWiser: A little calmer than he was in the OYW days, and rolls with things much easier. |
| 84 | * ParentsAsPeople: Has been unable to be there for his family due to his military career. |
| 85 | * ReasonableAuthorityFigure: When he asks for his subordinates to trust him with their lives, they do. |
| 86 | * SeenItAll: After three wars, two of them against Zeon and its remnants, there is nothing that can surprise Bright anymore. |
| 87 | * TaughtByExperience. Having been through more ''Gundam'' series than any other character in the franchise, Bright pretty much knows the score. |
| 88 | * TeamDad: See AFatherToHisMen. |
| 89 | * TookALevelInKindness: Has taken yet another one since ''ZZ'', as evidenced by his downright friendly relationship with Amuro. |
| 90 | * TrueCompanions: With Amuro. The two of them have been through everything together, and they understand and trust one another implicitly. In the Beyond the Rainbow short story, he called him his closest friend and his loss was the greatest blow of his life. |
| 91 | [[/folder]] |
| 92 | |
| 93 | [[folder:Chan Agi]] |
| 94 | !!!Voice Actors: Mitsuki Yayoi (Japanese, movie), Creator/FumikoOrikasa (Japanese, ''VideoGames/SDGundamGGenerationSpirits'' onwards), Nicole Leroux (English) |
| 95 | [[quoteright:225:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/chan_agi_transparent.png]] |
| 96 | ->'''Main mecha:''' RGZ-91 Re-GZ |
| 97 | |
| 98 | An apparent longtime friend of Amuro's, Chan is one of the mechanics assigned to the Nu-Gundam. Like Amuro and Bright she does not trust Char to keep the peace. She also harbours romantic feelings for Amuro. |
| 99 | ---- |
| 100 | * ActionGirl: A competent pilot and antiaircraft gunner as well as an engineer. She's responsible for taking out [[spoiler:Rezin Schnyder]] and [[spoiler:Quess Paraya]], two of Char's most dangerous agents. |
| 101 | %%* AffirmativeActionGirl |
| 102 | * CharacterDeath: [[spoiler: Murdered by Hathaway after killing Quess.]] |
| 103 | * ADayInTheLimelight: While Chan never gets to be portrayed up to Main Character status unlike other CCA limelight recipients such as Hathaway and Gyunei, she does have a more prominent role in ''[[VideoGame/GundamVsSeries Gundam Extreme Vs]]'', in which she is PromotedToPlayable (she's usually just an NPC character in games) and given unique dialogue with several characters, including (but not limited to) [[Anime/MobileSuitGundamUnicorn Full Frontal]], [[Anime/MobileSuitGundam00 Ribbons Almark]] (who shares [[Creator/ToruFuruya Amuro's VA]]), and even her lover Amuro in his younger [[Anime/MobileSuitGundam MSG]] incarnation. |
| 104 | * EmpoweredBadassNormal: She's not a Newtype, but she carries around a psycoframe sample which boosts her spatial awareness and reflexes a bit. This helps her shoot down [[spoiler:Rezin and Quess]], but since she doesn't see [[spoiler:Hathaway]] as an enemy, it provides no warning for his salvo which ultimately kills her. |
| 105 | * {{Expy}}: Though meant as a stand-in for Beltorchika Irma, after Tomino wasn't allowed to use her, she actually has far more in common with Sayla Mass, being a calm, collected ActionGirl who starts a relationship with Amuro after a period of being JustFriends. |
| 106 | * FlatCharacter: Due to being in the story only because of Executive Meddling, she has a paper-thin backstory and her life prior to joining Londo Bell is completely unknown. |
| 107 | * ProperlyParanoid: Joins Amuro and Bright in thinking that they can't trust Char or their own officials. She's entirely correct. |
| 108 | * ReplacementFlatCharacter: As noted above, her backstory and character are both rather thin. While her predecessor Beltorchika shares her paper-thin backstory, she's much more colorful (if not exactly likable) in personality than Chan, whose personality basically amounts to "NiceGirl". |
| 109 | * SatelliteLoveInterest: Surprisingly averted. Chan gets enough character development to stand on her own, and from what we're shown, has known Amuro for quite some time when the show starts. Her biggest contributions to the plot also occur entirely outside of interactions with Amuro. |
| 110 | * ShyBlueHairedGirl: The archetypal brainy anime introvert with hair that's varying shades of blue; it's usually darker in the movie than it is in her picture above, which comes from the ''VideoGame/DynastyWarriorsGundam'' games. |
| 111 | * {{Sleepyhead}}: She falls asleep rather easily. She falls asleep in the cockpit of the Nu Gundam when she and Amuro take off with it shortly after finished assembly, and then dozes off in the time between waking Amuro up and waiting for him to finish dressing to go out. |
| 112 | * TheSmartGuy: Fills this role in Londo Bell, as both an engineer, a gunner, and a pilot, with her intelligent, rational decisions, often making a difference. |
| 113 | * WrenchWench: One of the engineers working on the Nu Gundam, she accompanies Amuro into space to make sure it keeps working. |
| 114 | [[/folder]] |
| 115 | |
| 116 | [[folder:Hathaway Noa]] |
| 117 | !!!Voice Actors: Creator/NozomuSasaki (Japanese), Bill Switzer (English) |
| 118 | ->'''Main mecha:''' RGM-89 Jegan |
| 119 | |
| 120 | Bright's young and impressionable son. |
| 121 | ---- |
| 122 | * AdaptationalIntelligence: His ''Beltorchika's Children'' counterpart is both more intelligent and more likable, due to the entire "he kills [[spoiler:Chan]]" thing being cut along with [[spoiler:Chan]] herself. |
| 123 | * BreakTheCutie: Was a cute boy who went to space to join his father. [[spoiler: ''[[Literature/MobileSuitGundamHathawaysFlash Hathaway's Flash]]'' shows that not only he never recovered, but it got EVEN WORSE.]] |
| 124 | * DefusingTheTykeBomb: Hathaway seemingly managed to sway Quess to his side, until Chan intervened. |
| 125 | * DrivenToMadness: Quite possibly, if one buys into the theory that his instant obsession with Quess is the result of her Newtype powers influencing him (Neo-Zeon's Gyunei experiences a very similar infatuation with her). |
| 126 | * EarlyBirdCameo: Had a blink-and-you'll-miss-it cameo in ''Anime/MobileSuitZetaGundam'', in which he was five years younger and being menaced by Titans alongside his sister and mother. |
| 127 | * HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: His continued interest in Quess proves this. |
| 128 | * IJustShotMarvinInTheFace: Completely loses it when [[spoiler:Chan shoots down Quess]] and lashes out at [[spoiler:Chan]] in grief, something he never would have done in his right mind. |
| 129 | * IKnowYouAreInThereSomewhereFight: To Quess. [[spoiler:It ''almost'' works]]. |
| 130 | * ImprovisedTraining: Trains himself to pilot a Mobile Suit by getting a license to pilot a mobile worker unit. |
| 131 | * KidHero: ''Wants'' to be this. It doesn't quite work out that way. |
| 132 | * LoveCannotOvercome: Like Nanai below, Hathaway believes his love can redeem a Neo-Zeon antagonist, and like Nanai he is proven completely wrong. |
| 133 | * NiceJobBreakingItHero: In the novel version, '''he's''' the one who shot Quess down. |
| 134 | * PsychicPowers: He's a Newtype, though how strong of one he is is unknown. Unfortunately for him, he's not strong of enough of one to resist the siren song of Quess. |
| 135 | * StartOfDarkness: The events of this film drive him to walk down a much darker path later in his life. |
| 136 | * TagalongKid: He's not actually a member of Londo Bell, but since his father is one of their officers they give him a little more leeway than the average civilian. |
| 137 | * WrongGenreSavvy: In any other anime, he would be the protagonist of the story and Quess would be his love interest and he even acts as such. This is '''UC Gundam''', therefore it can only end in tears. |
| 138 | * YouthIsWastedOnTheDumb: Though egged on by Quess, few of his actions in this story can be described as anything other than stupid. |
| 139 | [[/folder]] |
| 140 | |
| 141 | [[folder:Kayra Su]] |
| 142 | !!!Voice Actors: Creator/ShinobuAdachi (Japanese), Angela Hendricks (English) |
| 143 | [[quoteright:180:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/kayracca.png]] |
| 144 | ->'''Main mecha:''' RGM-89 Jegan, RGZ-91 Re-GZ |
| 145 | |
| 146 | A capable MS pilot with the Londo Bell squadron, Kayra is in a relationship with longtime engineer Astonaige. |
| 147 | ---- |
| 148 | * ActionGirl: Probably the best Federation pilot of the Second Neo-Zeon War after Amuro Ray. |
| 149 | * ActionGirlfriend: Her boyfriend is a NonActionGuy. |
| 150 | * AdaptationalBadass: Her ''Beltorchika's Children'' counterpart is a Newtype, if a low level one, as she is able to sense the pressure of Gyunei/Graves. |
| 151 | * AdaptationalDumbass: On the other hand, it's also made much more clear in ''Beltorchika's Children'' how much of a dumbass she is being when she charges out so far ahead. Apparently this is unusual behavior for her though, as it is stated that she never acted that way before being assigned to the Re-GZ. |
| 152 | * BoisterousBruiser: She's confident enough she can take back Axis in the Re-GZ. |
| 153 | * HeartSymbol: Her ace's symbol is a heart with a lightning bolt struck through it. |
| 154 | * HostageSituation: Taken hostage by Neo-Zeon's Gyunei Guss, who tries exchanging her for the Nu Gundam. |
| 155 | * LeeroyJenkins: Charges too far ahead without support, and since she's not a OneManArmy like Amuro this ends in her RE-GZ being dismantled by Gyunei's Jagd Doga. |
| 156 | * NeverGotToSayGoodbye: Played with, as she tells Astonaige she loves him before her final sortie but he doesn't hear her clearly and of course she never gets to clarify. |
| 157 | * OvershadowedByAwesome: She's the second-best pilot in the Londo Bell, but she's still just human and sadly her skills are no match for Newtype or Cyber-Newtype pilots. |
| 158 | * PinkGirlBlueBoy: With her NonActionGuy lover, Astonaige. |
| 159 | * TooDumbToLive: Leaves her Mobile Suit ''willingly'' to beseech Amuro not to give himself up to Gyunei. Had she not done that, there's a fair chance she could have lived. |
| 160 | * TrademarkFavoriteFood: According to a conversation with Astonaige it's a kind of salad (in the dub it's a kind of pasta). He offers to make it when she gets back when she deploys in the Re-GZ. |
| 161 | * VasquezAlwaysDies: Compared to Chan, she's much more masculine. And it's her that dies halfway through the movie. [[spoiler: Though Chan eventually dies as well]]. |
| 162 | [[/folder]] |
| 163 | |
| 164 | [[folder:Astonaige Mendoza]] |
| 165 | !!!Voice Actors: Hiromori Shingo (Japanese), Ty Olsson (English) |
| 166 | |
| 167 | * ActionSurvivor: Astonaige was never a pilot or much of a fighter but he did serve on the AEUG's flagship for both the Gryps Conflict and the First Neo Zeon War. |
| 168 | * MauveShirt: Astonaige has been a supporting crew-member since ''Zeta Gundam''. |
| 169 | * MrFixit: Senior Mechanic onboard the Argama, Nahel Argama, and Ra Cailum. Astonaige is always fixing or tinkering with the suits. He even gave Judau the ZZ Gundam's final upgrade before he went to face Haman. |
| 170 | * NonActionGuy: He's always been a mechanic rather than a fighter and serves in a support capacity. He piloted the Zeta once and though he saved Fa, the Zeta's notoriously specialized controls prevented him from doing much. |
| 171 | * SuddenSequelDeathSyndrome: [[spoiler:Dies trying to stop Chan from deploying when the section of the ship he's in is blown up. It's so sudden and instantanious you could be forgiven for not even realizing it happened.]] |
| 172 | [[/folder]] |
| 173 | |
| 174 | [[folder:Meran]] |
| 175 | !!!Voice Actors: Creator/UnshoIshizuka (Japanese), Marc Diraison (English) |
| 176 | [[quoteright:227:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/merancca.png]] |
| 177 | |
| 178 | The Executive Officer aboard the Ra Cailum. |
| 179 | ---- |
| 180 | * TheBigGuy: His actual height is unknown, but as seen in [[https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/gundam/images/5/52/Meran_CCA_2.jpg this screenshot]] he's taller than both Amuro and Bright. |
| 181 | * EarlyBirdCameo: His appearance here ultimately amounts to this. He returns in ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamUnicorn'', still captaining the Ra Cailum, and is much more prominent there. |
| 182 | * GallowsHumor: His most memorable scene is when he instructs a stowaway Hathaway to write his will before they enter battle and then off-handedly adding that he should include a lock of hair for his mom. |
| 183 | * NumberTwo: He's Bright's official second-in-command aboard the ship. |
| 184 | * OnlyOneName: Being a more minor member of the cast, he never gets a surname. |
| 185 | [[/folder]] |
| 186 | |
| 187 | !Neo Zeon |
| 188 | |
| 189 | [[folder:Char Aznable]] |
| 190 | A FallenHero who has become the leader of Neo-Zeon and driving force of their nuclear winter plans. See the ''Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's Counterattack'' section on [[Characters/GundamCharAznable his character page]] for more on him. |
| 191 | [[/folder]] |
| 192 | |
| 193 | [[folder:Quess Paraya]] |
| 194 | !!!Voice Actors: Creator/MariaKawamura (Japanese), Jocelyne Loewen (English) |
| 195 | [[quoteright:225:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/quess_paraya_transparent.png]] |
| 196 | ->'''Main mecha:''' MSN-03 Jagd Doga, NZ-333 α Azieru |
| 197 | |
| 198 | A powerful Newtype, and the daughter of an Earth Federation minister, Quess is a spoiled little girl with no real ability to connect to normal people except for Christina and her other friends. When Amuro and the rest of the Londo Bell don't pay enough attention to her, she sets her sights on Char and latches onto him, becoming one of his pilots. |
| 199 | ---- |
| 200 | * AdaptationalSkimpiness: Her adaptational counterpart from ''Beltorchika's Children'' runs around the Rewloola and even ''goes into battle'' wearing nothing but panties. Even Gyunei's thirst has to take a backseat when he sees that. |
| 201 | --> '''Gyunei:''' Quess! You're on a military ship! You're fighting a war! ''[[PrecisionFStrike Why the hell are you dressed like that]]''?! |
| 202 | * AllLoveIsUnrequited: All over the place with her! She is hopelessly in love with Amuro and Char, who don’t care. While also having Hathaway and Gyunei in love with her, while she could care less. |
| 203 | * BlueAndOrangeMorality: She betrays Amuro to save Char, who is currently engaged in a terrorist campaign against Earth... because she feels Amuro "isn't fighting fair". Later she justifies it by saying that she and Amuro "just met" and weren't friends yet, despite rather aggressively throwing herself at Amuro when she did actually first meet him. |
| 204 | * CelebCrush: On both Amuro and Char. Neither ends well, for them or her. |
| 205 | * ChildrenForcedToKill: Her first sortie is played for all the weight it's worth, as she has a bit of a mental breakdown over both killing and sensing the deaths of the battlefield. Notably Char's reaction to this is to have her enhanced some more, so that by the time of the second battle she's desensitized to death and now views inflicting it as [[DrivenToMadness something akin to a video game]]. |
| 206 | * ClingyJealousGirl: She loathes that Chan is close to Amuro. |
| 207 | * CorruptedCharacterCopy: According to Tomino, he wrote Quess in large part as a response to the heroines of Creator/HayaoMiyazaki, whom he saw as overly idealized. Hence, Quess is meant to be his take on a girl in her early teens thrown into an incredibly difficult situation without much support--an unstable brat who has little understanding of her actions and is easily manipulated by adults who give her attention. A particular aspect of this is in her romances: Miyazaki heroines regularly form relationships with men, but they are always chaste and bordering on platonic in their treatment, while Quess is clearly grappling with the onset of puberty and several of her relationships have a sexual edge [[TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior (one always depicted as creepy)]]. |
| 208 | * CuteAndPsycho: After being enhanced by Neo-Zeon and given the Alpha Azieru. She exhibits a disturbing glee in the battle, treating it as a game and not seeming to understand that she is killing actual ''people''. |
| 209 | * DarkActionGirl: Quess is a Newtype strong enough to wipe out most pilots in the war that aren't Newtypes themselves, and is fully convinced that she is justified in doing so. |
| 210 | * DiesDifferentlyInAdaptation: In ''Beltorchicka's Children'', [[spoiler:Hathaway]] accidentally kills Quess. |
| 211 | * DudeMagnet: She attracts a good number of guys, such as Hathaway and Gyunei. Just not the guys she wants. |
| 212 | * EvilIsBigger: The NZ-333 Alpha Azieru, which she gets about three-fourths of the way into the film. |
| 213 | * FallenPrincess: Not a princess in the literal sense of the word, but her dad has enough influence in the Earth Federation for her to qualify as one. |
| 214 | * FreudianExcuse: ''Beltorchika's Children'' makes her motives for joining Char less about just jumping his bones and more this, as she tells him she wants to "destroy the planet that gave birth to a woman who snatched away my father from my mother." |
| 215 | * GirlishPigtails: She is certainly immature, but this does ''not'' make her look cuter. |
| 216 | * HateSink: Intentionally designed to be a character the audience would dislike, and with that last name Tomino certainly wasn't being subtle about it. The dub even went out of its way to give her a screechy annoying voice, in stark contrast to Maria Kawamura's. Despite all this, however, she does have her fans. |
| 217 | * HeroicSacrifice: Her last act was to push Hathaway's MS out of the way of the missiles that eventually killed her. |
| 218 | * ImplausibleHairColor: Has hair in a shade of green that seems to be exclusive to unstable Newtypes in UC Gundam, as seen with Four Murasame, the similarly green-haired and similarly unstable Newtype of ''Zeta Gundam'', and the OriginalGeneration Cyber-Newtype Zero Murasame from the ''VideoGame/GihrensGreed'' games. |
| 219 | * ItsAllAboutMe: Everything revolves around Quess. |
| 220 | * LackOfEmpathy: Quess cannot empathise with others, and believes that everything from Char and Amuro's rivalry to the war as a whole is about her. |
| 221 | * LittleMissBadass: She's just 13. |
| 222 | * LonelyRichKid: Her family's neglect of her her hints that she might have been like this. |
| 223 | * LoveAtFirstSight: All Newtypes are drawn to each other, but Quess latches onto her fellow posthumans like a remora in heat. ''Especially'' Amuro and Char. |
| 224 | * LoveTriangle: Thinks she in one with Amuro and Char. They don’t care. Is somewhat in one with Hathaway and Gyunei. |
| 225 | * MeaningfulName: Her last name is pronounced "Pariah." This is ''[[HateSink entirely]]'' intentional. |
| 226 | * MoreThanMindControl: Quess's PsychicPowers seem to have this effect on weaker Newtypes, as both Hathaway and Gyunei develop identical instant insane infatuations with her the moment they meet her. Amuro and Char, who are both older and more self-contained Newtypes, manage to resist this effect, and Char may even have turned it back on her entirely (he ''does'' have a history of swaying impressionable young Newtypes to his side, after all). |
| 227 | * ParentalNeglect: Neither her father nor her stepmother pay any attention to her. |
| 228 | * {{Patricide}}: Semi-knowingly kills her father. She can't quite figure out whether she's upset about it or not. |
| 229 | ** [[spoiler:Averted in Gundam EVOLVE, where Amuro catches up with her before she kills her father (even though she's already in the Alpha Azieru) and pointedly tells her that with as reckless as she is being, that she will even kill her own family. Quess is horrified by the notion.]] |
| 230 | * PrecociousCrush: Has a very ugly one on Amuro and Char. Neither returns the favour. |
| 231 | * PsychicPowers: Is a strong natural Newtype, having apparently run away from her father for a period of time to study Newtypism in India. While Char allows her to tag along with him initially just because she saved his life, he quickly takes a more active interest in her after discovering her latent Newtype abilities, and promptly weaponizes them as best he can. |
| 232 | * PsychoSupporter: If she were more emotionally stable she'd never support Char. |
| 233 | * RebelliousPrincess: As noted above she's not ''literally'' a princess, but she definitely qualifies for this trope, as seen by just about every action she takes in the first half of the film. |
| 234 | * ScrewTheRulesIHaveSupernaturalPowers: Quess seems to feel that because she is a Newtype that she is entitled to do whatever she wants at any given time. |
| 235 | * SixthRanger: To Neo-Zeon. |
| 236 | * SmallNameBigEgo: Amuro doesn't care about her. Neither does Char. She still thinks the whole war revolves around her. |
| 237 | * TheSociopath: A more sympathetic version than some, but still possessed of almost all the trademarks of antisocial personality disorder. |
| 238 | * SparedByTheAdaptation: As mentioned in RevisedEnding, Episode 5 of ''Anime/GundamEvolve'' (RX-93 Nu Gundam) features an alternate version of ''CCA'' where rather than Chan shooting down Quess (and being murdered by Hathaway as revenge), Amuro arrives and traps Quess in his funnel barrier and defuses the tyke bomb, sparing both the ladies. |
| 239 | * SpoiledBrat: Enough so that her stepmother decided staying on Earth to await a ColonyDrop was preferable to evacuating on the same shuttle as Quess. |
| 240 | * StarCrossedLovers: Despite falling for practically half the cast it seems her true Newtype soulmate is Hathaway. |
| 241 | * SuperSupremacist: Seems to view Newtypes as superior to ordinary humans, as she advises Gyunei to "forget those ''normal'' people" when his inferiority complex gets the better of him again. |
| 242 | * TagalongKid: Played straight when she tags along with Londo Bell beside Hathaway, but subverted when she runs away with Char, who signs her up with Neo-Zeon under the alias "Quess Air". |
| 243 | * TeensAreMonsters: Her upbringing never really got around to the 'instill a basic moral compass' part, and she relies on her Newtype sensitivity to guide her instead. It... doesn't work out so well. |
| 244 | * TooDumbToLive: Quess launches herself from one mobile suit to another while ''not wearing any kind of normal suit''. It's an utter miracle she didn't freeze to death or suffocate in vacuum, and even Char himself is flabbergasted! |
| 245 | * UnlimitedWardrobe: Changes clothes several times in the movie. |
| 246 | * UnskilledButStrong: She's a thirteen-year-old combat novice, and arguably the most powerful Newtype in the Universal Century. The latter outweighs the former by quite a bit. |
| 247 | * UnwittingPawn: Char is playing Quess like a fiddle. She honestly thinks he's in love with her. |
| 248 | * WardrobeFlawOfCharacterization: The noticeable difference in the length of her pigtails and mismatched hair decorations are a big visual tell about her unbalanced state of mind. |
| 249 | * WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity: Dear ''Lord'', yes. Quess's Newtype powers basically overwrote her personality once they manifested. |
| 250 | * WomanScorned: Actually tries to do this to Amuro flying off the handle when he refuses to do her. It’s also basically the main reason for her betrayal. |
| 251 | %%* {{Yandere}}: Towards Amuro and Char. |
| 252 | * YouthIsWastedOnTheDumb: Has the dubious narrative distinction of not only making dumb decisions herself, but also driving every other youthful character in the movie to make dumber decisions when around her. You can almost ''see'' Gyunei and Hathaway's [=IQs=] tailspin with each scene they share with her. |
| 253 | [[/folder]] |
| 254 | |
| 255 | [[folder:Gyunei Guss]] |
| 256 | !!!Voice Actors: Creator/KoichiYamadera (Japanese), Creator/KirbyMorrow (English) |
| 257 | [[quoteright:161:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/gyunei_guss_transparent.png]] |
| 258 | ->'''Main mecha:''' MSN-03 Jagd Doga |
| 259 | |
| 260 | A Cyber-Newtype who acts as Char's right-hand man, Gyunei seems like a relatively rational kid, who tries to bring a sense of balance to Neo-Zeon's leadership. After being assigned to train Quess he reveals (or develops) a highly unstable side, becoming obsessed with proving himself to Quess and harboring delusions of replacing Char as leader of Neo-Zeon. |
| 261 | ---- |
| 262 | * AdaptationalBadass: His adaptational counterpart from ''Beltorchika's Children'' puts out enough pressure blowing up the Londo Bell nukes that Amuro senses it from the whole other end of the battlefield, initially mistaking it for Char before pronouncing its source as "a much greater enemy". |
| 263 | * AlliterativeName: Whether his first name is translated as Gyunei or Graves (the name he has in ''Beltorchika's Children''), he's this. |
| 264 | * AllOfTheOtherReindeer: As a Cyber-Newtype, both Oldtypes and regular Newtypes tend to look down on him. He's developed a bit of an inferiority complex as a result. |
| 265 | * AlwaysSomeoneBetter: He's a formidable pilot by any measure. It's just unfortunate for him that he had to go up against Amuro Ray. |
| 266 | * AscendedMeme: The messenger of one, owing to the infamous "Char is into young girls" conversation he has with Quess. |
| 267 | * BastardUnderstudy: Despite outwardly being the very model of a loyal Neo-Zeon soldier, inwardly Gyunei seems to have some very deep-seated mistrust of Char, telling Quess he is the kind of man who destroys colonies when he gets mad and claiming to have allowed himself to become a Cyber-Newtype so that he can stop Char if that day should ever come. While this initially sets up Gyunei as an OnlySaneMan within Neo-Zeon's ranks, he unfortunately experiences some steep MotiveDecay midway through the film. |
| 268 | * BattleCouple: Wants to form one with Quess. She isn't having any of it, though she still fights beside him as he is her trainer. |
| 269 | * BetaTestBaddie: Definitely has some of this going on, what with his inferiority complex and later infatuation with Quess, which is in part because he sees her as a stronger Newtype (she is) who he wants to learn from. |
| 270 | * BodyguardingABadass: His status as Neo-Zeon's resident SuperSoldier means he often plays this role for Char. Sometimes he's needed (like when he pulls Char's fat out of the fire at Londenion) and sometimes he isn't (Fifth Luna at the beginning of the film, where Amuro owns him before Char shows up to save his bodyguard's butt). |
| 271 | * CombatPragmatist: He doesn't hesitate to methodically disable an enemy mobile suit and take the pilot hostage if he thinks that's what he needs to do to force Londo Bell's ace to surrender. |
| 272 | * DarkAndTroubledPast: He was orphaned in a ColonyDrop as a child, which drove him to become a pilot. Ironically, he now helps Char drop colonies on the Earth. |
| 273 | * ADayInTheLimelight: In ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWarsDestiny'' he is promoted to protagonist status when he becomes the bodyguard to PlayerCharacter Joshua Radcliffe. |
| 274 | * DependingOnTheWriter: His relationship with Nanai is this. In the movie itself he seems fairly scornful of her, telling Quess she only has her position because of her relationship with Char. In ''VideoGame/DynastyWarriorsGundam 2'' this scorn becomes outright contempt, with Gyunei sneering that he doesn't have to listen to her because all she ever did was kiss Char's ass. But in ''Beyond the Time'' he is very respectful of Nanai, so much so that [[spoiler:even after his death his Newtype ghost addresses her as "Ma'am" as he asks her to make him stronger]]. It's worth noting that both examples of him being disrespectful to Nanai occurred after has post-Quess SanitySlippage. |
| 275 | * DiesDifferentlyInAdaptation: In the movie itself, [[spoiler:Amuro shoots him down during the final battle.]] In ''Beltorchicka's Children'', [[spoiler:he is shot down by Beltorchicka after being distracted by the presence of her unborn child, which he could feel with his Newtype powers.]] |
| 276 | * TheDragon: To Char |
| 277 | ** DragonWithAnAgenda: Initially his Agenda is to stop Char if he ever goes too far. After his SanitySlippage he seeks to surpass Char in order to prove himself to Quess. |
| 278 | * DisproportionateRetribution: Because he is unfamiliar with Nu Gundam's fin funnels, he assumes Amuro is trying to trick him when the latter detaches them. His reaction to this is to first order his men to kill Amuro, and then to kill his hostage Kayra in a fit of pique. |
| 279 | * EliteMook: What he is, when its all said and done. In his first fight with Amuro, despite piloting the Newtype-tailored Jagd-Doga and Amuro in a "second-rate" mobile suit Re-GZ, Amuro has the upper hand the entire fight and was right about to kill him before Char showed up. When Amuro gets the [[BiggerStick Nu Gundam]], the only reason Gyunei survives their next fight is because he was holding Kayra hostage. [[spoiler: Once they meet for the final time and Gyunei has no more tricks up his sleeves, Amuro kills him in seconds as if he were any other grunt, while fighting Quess and the [[SuperPrototype Alpha Azeiru]] at the same time, no less.]] |
| 280 | * HostageSituation: Triggers one and ends it horribly. |
| 281 | * HotBlooded: The above Hostage Situation goes sour half due to Gyunei's inexperience and half due to this. |
| 282 | * IOweYouMyLife: He tells Quess that his parents were killed in a ColonyDrop, so Char took him in and trained him. |
| 283 | * {{Jerkass}}: After locking onto Quess. Up until that point he actually seemed like the OnlySaneMan in Neo-Zeon. |
| 284 | * JerkassHasAPoint: Even after diving into Jerkass territory he is still the only person in Neo-Zeon who sees through the veneer of Char's righteous crusade to what is really driving him. He tries to tell Quess that Char has no interest in her because his one true love died in the One Year War, but Quess doesn't listen. |
| 285 | * KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler:By Amuro, who abruptly shoots him down on his way to Char without even breaking stride.]] |
| 286 | * LoveAtFirstSight: With Quess, which ''very'' quickly leads to... |
| 287 | * LoveMakesYouEvil: Prior to meeting Quess he seems like a solid candidate for a HeelFaceTurn, but his instant obsession with her takes that option off the table in short order. |
| 288 | * LoveTriangle: He's a point on the very ugly quadrangle involving himself, Quess, Char, and Hathaway. |
| 289 | * MilitaryBrat: Due to being taken in by Neo-Zeon at a young age. |
| 290 | * MotiveDecay: Once he becomes infatuated with Quess he quickly seems to lose any notions of acting as a check on Char, and instead seeks to become TheStarscream to him purely to have Quess for himself. |
| 291 | * OnlySaneMan: Initially set up as one within Neo-Zeon's ranks. Unfortunately, it goes right out the window the moment Quess enters the picture. Still, it's noteworthy that he is the ''only person'' in Neo-Zeon who suspects that Char's glorious war of independence might be fueled by a far more petty motivation. |
| 292 | * PsychicPowers: While not at Quess's level, Gyunei is capable of using funnels and at one point manages to lock on to and destroy several nuclear warheads launched at Axis by Londo Bell, a feat which Char later tries and fails to replicate. |
| 293 | * SuperSoldier: He was adopted at a young age and raised all his life to be a soldier of Neo-Zeon, along with being enhanced into a Cyber-Newtype by them. |
| 294 | * TeensAreMonsters: Being raised in a military environment, Gyunei tends to think as a soldier first and a human being second, leading him to do things like taking a hostage to force Amuro to surrender. |
| 295 | * {{Tykebomb}}: In proud Cyber-Newtype tradition. |
| 296 | * UnknownRival: To Char, who only sees him as a useful Cyber-Newtype weapon. Other than reprimanding him for telling Quess about Lalah, he either doesn't notice Gyunei's resentment towards him or doesn't care. And in the end, Gyunei is killed by Amuro before even getting a chance to challenge Char. |
| 297 | * VillainousUnderdog: He consistently guns for Amuro, whose exploits in the OYW have entered the realm of legend and who is currently in the prime of his Newtype powers and piloting ability. |
| 298 | * WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity: Not initially, as he is actually one of the few sane Cyber-Newtypes. His sanity takes a steep dive once he meets Quess, though. |
| 299 | * YouthIsWastedOnTheDumb: After meeting Quess her dumbass factor rubs off on him in overdrive and he starts entertaining completely unrealistic fantasies of overthrowing Char and taking over Neo Zeon himself. |
| 300 | [[/folder]] |
| 301 | |
| 302 | [[folder:Nanai Miguel]] |
| 303 | !!!Voice Actors: Creator/YoshikoSakakibara (Japanese), Jenn Forgie (English) |
| 304 | |
| 305 | Char's NumberTwo, advisor and seemingly lover, Nanai is the head of Neo-Zeon's Cyber-Newtype labs, and is personally responsible for the enhancing of Gyunei, Quess, and possibly even Char himself. Though her feelings for Char are genuine, he is using her like he's using everyone else, and when a certain green-haired young girl enters the picture their relationship further complicates. |
| 306 | ---- |
| 307 | * AdaptationNameChange: In ''Beltorchika's Children'' her name is Mesta Mesua. |
| 308 | * AdaptationalJerkass: Her adaptational counterpart from ''Beltorchika's Children'' doesn't just stop at slapping Quess, but continues to lay into her with a ferocity that [[StateSec Titans officers]] would admire. |
| 309 | * AdaptationalNiceGuy: Contrasting with the above case, she's more friendly and sympathetic in ''Beyond the Time'' than she ever was in the movie. |
| 310 | * BirthDeathJuxtaposition: Tells Char she's carrying his child not long before [[spoiler:he goes to his death in battle with Amuro]]. |
| 311 | * DarkAndTroubledPast: Retroactively given one through ''Beyond the Time'', a manga retelling of CCA from her point of view. It's revealed that she [[spoiler:wasn't just a Newtype scientist, but was in fact an actual Newtype candidate at the Augusta Newtype labs, and that she trained with a girl named Angela who had a mental breakdown and died]]. |
| 312 | * EvilutionaryBiologist: She heads Neo-Zeon's Cyber Newtype labs. |
| 313 | * FromNobodyToNightmare: If ''Beyond the Time'' is taken as canon, then she started out [[spoiler:just another victim of the Newtype labs]] before rising to become their chief. |
| 314 | * LoveCannotOvercome: She is genuinely in love with Char, and hopes she can persuade him to let go of his grudge with Amuro. Anyone who knows anything about Char knows what a fool's errand that is. |
| 315 | * MySignificanceSenseIsTingling: She seems to have some degree of Newtype perception, as she senses [[spoiler:Char's life force "draining away" after his defeat]] and later breaks down crying when the psycoframe light swallows him up. |
| 316 | * NumberTwo: Serves this role to Char in function if not necessarily in rank. |
| 317 | * OnlySaneWoman: Played with. On the one hand she buys into Char's manipulations like everyone else in Neo-Zeon except Gyunei, but on the other hand she's also the ''only'' person caught in the Quess quadrangle who seems to realize how utterly ridiculous it is, and invokes audience sympathy for her exasperation with both the situation and Quess herself. |
| 318 | * RepressedMemories: ''Beyond the Time'' reveals that she [[spoiler:was a Newtype candidate at the Augusta labs, and repressed her memories of that time]]. |
| 319 | * SexySecretary: She may be in a commanding post, but she still comes off as basically Char's "girl Friday." |
| 320 | * SilkHidingSteel: She doesn't look intimidating, but she's more than willing to slap a mouthy Quess into line. |
| 321 | * TeamMom: Though a rather dark take, as her Cyber-Newtype enhancing procedures are heavily implied to drive both Gyunei and Quess (and possibly even Char himself) into insanity. |
| 322 | * WomanScorned / ClingyJealousGirl: Depends on how you look at it, but she does show some displeasure that Char's taking less interest in her once Quess comes into the picture. |
| 323 | * YouAreWhatYouHate: If ''Beyond the Time'' is taken as canon, then Nanai [[spoiler:is a former Newtype cadet who was traumatized by losing a friend who had been enhanced by the Cyber-Newtype procedures too heavily, only to go on to lead Neo-Zeon's Cyber-Newtype labs and traumatize younger Newtypes through the same excessive enhancement that cost her friend Angela her life]]. |
| 324 | [[/folder]] |
| 325 | |
| 326 | [[folder:Rezin Schnyder]] |
| 327 | !!!Voice Actors: Creator/KazueIkura (Japanese), Poppy Ona (English) |
| 328 | [[quoteright:225:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/rezin_schnyder_transparent.png]] |
| 329 | '''Main mecha:''' AMS-119 Geara Doga |
| 330 | |
| 331 | A brutish DarkActionGirl who serves as one of Char's best pilots, Rezin seems to have joined up with Neo-Zeon for no better reason than her love of killing. Completely unwilling to obey UsefulNotes/TheLawsAndCustomsOfWar, she is a prime example of everything that is wrong with Char's movement. |
| 332 | ---- |
| 333 | * AceCustom: Her blue Geara Doga, which matches her pilot suit. |
| 334 | * AcePilot: Quickly establishes herself as one. |
| 335 | * BadassNormal: One of the few non-Newtypes in Char's Neo-Zeon ''and'' one of his top-scoring aces, despite piloting a mass-produced suit and lacking PsychicPowers. |
| 336 | * TheBrute: Has the personality type down pat, and seems to fill this role in Neo-Zeon, functioning as an attack dog and little more. |
| 337 | * CurtainsMatchTheWindow: Depending on the lighting her eyes and hair are red or brown. Regardless, they always match. |
| 338 | * CyberCyclops: The Geara Doga. |
| 339 | * DarkActionGirl: One of the most capable female pilots in the UC verse, and definitely one of the most evil. |
| 340 | * DistaffCounterpart: To Yazan Gable. See {{expy}} below for all the details. |
| 341 | * EarlyBirdCameo: Gets one in the prequel manga ''Char's Deleted Affair'', which shows her working at Side 3's newtype labs in Colony 1 when Char comes to visit. |
| 342 | * {{Elite Mook}}s: Heads up the Geara Doga squad, one of Neo-Zeon's elites. |
| 343 | * EvilIsNotPacifist: Really seems to enjoy fighting and killing, and complains when a retreat order is issued. |
| 344 | * EvilRedhead: Has dull red hair. |
| 345 | * {{Expy}}: It's not immediately obvious given her limited screentime, but as a psychopathic Oldtype who gets off on the violence piloting a blue mass-produced mech, she's essentially Yazan Gable in drag. |
| 346 | * {{Jerkass}}: She even out-Yazans ''Yazan'' in this regard. At least "Space Beavis" had the other two members of his TerribleTrio that he was friendly with and a twisted kind of SensitiveGuyAndManlyMan thing going on with Scirocco; Rezin on the other hand is just a relentless bitch to '''everyone''', even finding the time to slip in a scornful stiletto of contempt to her superior officer Nanai before launching in her final sortie. |
| 347 | * LackOfEmpathy: Never shows any concern for another human being, or expresses anything other than hate and/or contempt for those around her. |
| 348 | * TheLadette: From what we see of her, she qualifies, having an extremely mannish personality. The fact that she's [[DistaffCounterpart modeled on a male character]] helps. |
| 349 | * MookLieutenant: She leads the Gaera Doga's in the field and unlike most of the other major Zeon characters her role is purely in the combat capacity and she's not used for the interpersonal politics. She's even given a uniquely colored grunt suit to stick out from the others. |
| 350 | * OutOfFocus: Unlike the more prominent Neo-Zeon characters above, she never gets any kind of character developing scene, nor is she even really around all that much on the battlefield. She gets 3, maybe 4 scenes tops in the whole movie, and they're all just her being surly and unpleasant in a Mobile Suit, or being surly and unpleasant out of her Mobile Suit. |
| 351 | ** She finally gets a sliver of CharacterDevelopment in the ''Beyond the Time'' manga, which explains her FantasticRacism against Newtypes. Turns out she approached Nanai about being enhanced herself, but Nanai turned her down, causing her to become hostile towards Nanai and the concept of Newtypes in general. |
| 352 | * PsychoSupporter: Like Yazan before her, Rezin doesn't show any interest whatsoever in politics, and mostly just seems to be in it ForTheEvulz. |
| 353 | * RedEyesTakeWarning: A dull red. |
| 354 | * TheResenter: Some of her dialogue indicates she is this towards Newtypes, whether they are on her side or not. |
| 355 | * SatelliteLoveInterest: Infamously so, as Tomino admitted to designing her entire character around what sort of woman Char would be attracted to. |
| 356 | * SociopathicSoldier: Has no issues with shooting down damaged and/or fleeing enemies, and gets a real kick out of the war. |
| 357 | * SpellMyNameWithAnS: Her name can be rendered Rezun Schneider, Rezin Schnyder, or any combination of the two names. Most translations go with option two. |
| 358 | * UndignifiedDeath: She doesn't even get the honor of dying at the hands (or firearms) of another Mobie Suit, but is instead just shot down by Chan manning the Ra Cailum's anti-aircraft guns. |
| 359 | [[/folder]] |
| 360 | |
| 361 | [[folder:Lyle]] |
| 362 | !!!Voice Actors: Creator/KazuyukiSogabe (Japanese), Jiro Saito (''VideoGame/SuperRobotWarsT''), Creator/ScottMcNeil (English) |
| 363 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/lyle_cca.png]] |
| 364 | |
| 365 | The Captain of the Rewloola, Neo Zeon's flagship. |
| 366 | ---- |
| 367 | * TheCaptain: Of the ''Rewloola'', the flagship of the Neo-Zeon fleet. |
| 368 | * KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler:He's a villain but is one of the few characters who survives the events of the movie]]. |
| 369 | * MookLieutenant: He's the officer Mook to Rezin's enlisted Mook. |
| 370 | * NotSoStoic: He's mostly a stoic presence, but there is a moment when he rubs his hands with glee at the thought of all those "elitist snobs" on Earth getting what's coming to them. |
| 371 | * NumberTwo: Serves this role to Char in rank, though in function it's more of a CoDragons situation with him and Nanai. |
| 372 | * OnlyOneName: Being a more minor member of the cast, he never gets a surname. |
| 373 | [[/folder]] |
| 374 | |
| 375 | !Others |
| 376 | |
| 377 | [[folder:Lalah Sune]] |
| 378 | [[quoteright:225:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/lalah_sune_transparent.png]] |
| 379 | ->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/KeikoHan (JP), Willow Johnson (EN) |
| 380 | |
| 381 | A young Zeonic pilot who fought beside Char during the One Year War and was accidentally killed by Amuro. Even 14 years after her death, she still casts a large shadow on both Amuro and Char. |
| 382 | ---- |
| 383 | * AnimalMotifs: As in her original debut, she is still strongly associated with swans, initially appearing to Amuro as one in his dream and later being seen by Amuro in a vision when he is driving Hathaway and Quess around Londenion and the trio sees a swan. |
| 384 | * CrucifiedHeroShot: On the box art, as seen on her profile image here. |
| 385 | * CuteGhostGirl: She's still the gentle 14-year old she was in life when she appears in Amuro's dreams. |
| 386 | * DeadPersonConversation: Her sole scene in the movie is an appearance to Amuro in a [[PsychicDreamsForEveryone dream]], stated to be a recurring one for him, in which she appears flying to Amuro like a swan while saying that her consciousness lingering on is torture but that she still wants to remain between them for eternity. Amuro tries to persuade her to forget about Char, but Lalah tells him that [[PureIsNotGood Char is pure]]. |
| 387 | * GhostlyGoals: Lalah states that she is lingering on to watch over Amuro and Char. With that said, her ''actions'' cast her motives in [[UnreliableNarrator a more ambiguous light]], with the swan scene easily being interpreted as her intentionally driving Amuro and Char towards their final fight. If she was hoping the two of them would understand one another through battle, as she and Amuro did, she must have been mightily disappointed by the film's end. |
| 388 | * TheLostLenore: Char is still haunted by her death even 14 years later, and it's common knowledge among his subordinates that she was this to him, though in the climax [[spoiler:he claims to have seen her as a lost mother figure rather than a love interest]]. Amuro, while not as obsessed with her, still sees Lalah in his dreams. |
| 389 | * LoveTriangle: Still caught in one between Amuro and Char that even ''death'' wouldn't let her escape, but it's telling that while Char obsesses over and objectifies her, it's Amuro who Lalah visits in dreams. |
| 390 | * MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: It's not made explicitly clear if the Lalah that is haunting Amuro's dreams in the story is actually her Newtype spirit, or simply a symptom of the [[ShellShockedVeteran PTSD]] Amuro is very likely still suffering from. Given that the Newtype Hathaway Noa goes on to experience very similar "dream visits" in ''Literature/MobileSuitGundamHathawaysFlash'' with his own Lost Lenore, this lends some support to the trope being more Magic than Mundane, though it must be stressed that ''Hathaway's Flash'' may not be in the same continuity as CCA. |
| 391 | * PosthumousCharacter: She's long dead by the time Amuro joins Londo Bell. However, Amuro still feels intense guilt over what happened to her. |
| 392 | * OurGhostsAreDifferent: Though Lalah is long dead, her spirit seems to be lingering on as some sort of Newtype [[Franchise/StarWars Force ghost]], appearing to Amuro in his dreams and telling him that she wants to stay between him and Char forever. |
| 393 | * TreacherousSpiritChase: While driving Hathaway and Quess around, Amuro sees Lalah in a vision when a swan appears, and Quess wanting to chase leads the trio to spot Char. For Quess and Hathaway, their lives would have been both much happier if they'd never seen that swan, and the event does drive Amuro that much closer to his final confrontation with Char. |
| 394 | * UnfinishedBusiness: Assuming she actually is some sort of Newtype ghost, she seems to be lingering on purely to "watch over" Amuro and Char, even though she says that it would be torture for a person's consciousness to last forever. |
| 395 | [[/folder]] |
| 396 | |
| 397 | [[folder:Cameron Bloom]] |
| 398 | !!!Voice Actors: Akira Murayama (Japanese), David Mackay (English) |
| 399 | |
| 400 | The former fiancé of Mirai from MSG, TheBusCameBack and he's now a Federation official. Despite being rejected by Mirai, he still has feelings for her and uses his position to help her and Londo Bell. |
| 401 | ---- |
| 402 | * IWantMyBelovedToBehappy: For Mirai, he'd do anything. [[spoiler:So he helps Bright as much as he can, specially by leaking confidential Feddie info to Londo Bell, so Earth won't be destroyed and she and Cheimin will survive.]] Considering he could be tried or even executed if caught, this is a BIG change from his MSG portrayal. |
| 403 | * MiddleManagementMook: He's not as highly ranked as Adenauer, but he's got enough pull within the Federation to [[spoiler:access confidential information and leak it to Londo Bell]]. |
| 404 | * OlderAndWiser: Since his original appearance in MSG. |
| 405 | * TallDarkAndHandsome: In a bland {{Salaryman}} sort of way, |
| 406 | * TheBusCameBack: He was MIA for two successive ''Gundam'' sequel series before his return here. |
| 407 | * WhatHappenedToTheMouse: It's never revealed what punishment he faced, if any, for leaking confidential EFF intel to Londo Bell and providing them with nukes to stop Axis. |
| 408 | [[/folder]] |
| 409 | |
| 410 | [[folder:Mirai Noa]] |
| 411 | !!!Voice Actors: Fuyumi Shiraishi (Japanese), Creator/CathyWeseluck (English) |
| 412 | |
| 413 | * ActionSurvivor |
| 414 | [[/folder]] |
| 415 | |
| 416 | [[folder:Chemin Noa]] |
| 417 | !!!Voice Actors: Mayumi Sho (Japanese), Alaina Burnett (English) |
| 418 | |
| 419 | * ActionSurvivor |
| 420 | * TheCutie |
| 421 | [[/folder]] |
| 422 | |
| 423 | [[folder:Christina]] |
| 424 | |
| 425 | A Newtype guru who teaches Quess about Newtypism and Char's philosophy. They were seen together in the beginning of the movie, until Quess's father called for her return via security guards. |
| 426 | ---- |
| 427 | * ActionSurvivor: She doesn't ever pilot a Mobile Suit or participate in any battle but she does survive Char's ColonyDrop on Lhasa and is shown at the end alongside one of her followers witnessing the Axis Shock. |
| 428 | * AllThereInTheManual: Christina's Newtype philosophy is not explored at all in the movie itself, and what is known of it comes mainly from the novelization. Interestingly, it is specifically noted there that Christina's beliefs on Newtypes are similar to those of TheHero Amuro, himself an Earth-born Newtype. |
| 429 | * CloserToEarth: Literally, as she's an Earth-based Newtype guru who believes that becoming a Newtype is a spiritual matter rather than an evolutionary one. This specifically invokes the OnlySaneWoman undertrope, as her methods produce a Newtype from Earth, something Char believes to be impossible. |
| 430 | * CoolBigSis: Apparently, Quess saw her as one. |
| 431 | * GranolaGirl: Her and her friends all look like Woodstock refugees and apparently study Newtypism in lieu of getting real jobs. |
| 432 | * OneSteveLimit: Averted, as she shares her name with one of the main characters of ''Anime/MobileSuitGundam0080WarInThePocket''. |
| 433 | * SmallRoleBigImpact: She only appears in two scenes and gets a single line of dialogue, but her successfully training Quess to be a Newtype ''on Earth'' puts paid to Char's entire ideology that humans have to be forced off Earth and into space before they can become Newtypes. |
| 434 | [[/folder]] |
| 435 | |
| 436 | [[folder:Adenauer Paraya]] |
| 437 | !!!Voice Actors: Syunsuke Shima (Japanese), Creator/TrevorDevall (English) |
| 438 | |
| 439 | TheFederation's Vice-Foreign Minister and father of Quess, Adenauer is a self-satisfied and short-sighted man who cares more about his mistress and his personal comfort than his daughter or the downtrodden masses of Earth. As Rezin is an example of everything wrong with Neo-Zeon, Adenauer represents the corrupt politicians of the Earth Federation. |
| 440 | ---- |
| 441 | * ZeroPercentApprovalRating: No one who meets him comes away with a positive opinion of him. |
| 442 | * AssInAmbassador: He's the Federation's point man in the negotiations with Char and holds the rank of Vice-Foreign Minister. This gives him the leeway to do things like commandeer three seats on a shuttle meant for a career soldier's wife and two young children, which he does without any hesitation at all. |
| 443 | * [[spoiler:DeathByIrony: He is shot down by his own daughter.]] |
| 444 | * DirtyCoward: When he realizes Char has broken the agreement he becomes panicked, ordering the ship captain to pull back only to be flatly told that isn't an option. |
| 445 | * JerkAss: In proud Federation official tradition. |
| 446 | * KickTheDog: When he thinks he's successfully negotiated peace and a Londo Bell captain asks him if there will be jobs for their unit later, he mockingly tells the man that on Earth they're always looking for people to clean the beaches. |
| 447 | * MeaningfulName: He is named for Konrad Adenauer, the first chancellor of the modern German state. |
| 448 | * NoHistoricalFiguresWereHarmed: His character borrows heavily from Neville Chamberlain, the infamous British statesman whose weak policies of appeasement have been blamed by many historians for helping the rise of UsefulNotes/NaziGermany. |
| 449 | * ParentalNeglect: He doesn't physically or sexually abuse his daughter Quess, but he ''does'' neglect her emotionally to the point where she sees ''Char'' as a better role model. |
| 450 | * SmugSnake: He looks down on the rank-and-file soldiers of Londo Bell and is completely convinced he has saved the Earth Sphere through his negotiations with Char... which amount to "In exchange for not dumping any more space rocks on Earth, we'd like to give you a giant space rock!" This in turn qualifies him richly for... |
| 451 | * TooDumbToLive: With reasoning skills like the ones he exhibits in this film, it's no great surprise when he dies. The surprise, in fact, is that a man like him has lived as long as he has in the first place. |
| 452 | * UnwittingPawn: Char exploits his venal nature and desire for a quick and easy solution to have his ultimate weapon against Earth served up to him on a platter. |
| 453 | [[/folder]] |
| 454 | |
| 455 | [[folder:Katharina Paraya]] |
| 456 | |
| 457 | Adenauer Paraya's mistress, Katharina/Katherine is a RichBitch who loathes her (admittedly obnoxious) stepdaughter. |
| 458 | ---- |
| 459 | * FateWorseThanDeath: She literally considers death by falling rocks preferable to being stuck in a shuttle with Quess. From what we see of Quess, many viewers will be inclined to take Katherina's side on the matter. |
| 460 | * RichBitch: She's the wife of a wealthy Earth Federation official and has an unpleasant attitude, at least where Quess is concerned. |
| 461 | * UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: In ''Beltorchika's Children'' Quess states that Katherina seducing her father away from her mother is the reason why she wants to destroy Earth. If Katherina had known that's what things would lead to, she probably would have just found some other boring Federation official gold to dig. |
| 462 | * WickedStepmother: Strongly hinted to be this to Quess, who hates her so much that she ''bites'' her hand. This makes Katherina refuse to go into space if it means she'll have to go with Quess, and this lets Mirai send Hathaway off to meet up with Bright. |
| 463 | * WhatHappenedToTheMouse: She never appears again after Adenauer and Quess go to space and it is not clear if she lived or died. |
| 464 | [[/folder]] |
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