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[[folder:Marina Ismail]]
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The elected-in figurehead princess of Azadistan, a country so wrought with civil war that she is able to look out her window at any point in the series and see part of the capital burning. Marina is also the head of the Reformist political party, causing her to be very popular among some of her people, but vehemently hated by the conservatives. Inexperienced as a leader, and being only a figurehead, she often has no control over her country's situation despite her wishes for peace. After attracting the attention of Setsuna, she's been unable to shake him off, and now he probably couldn't shake her off.

->Voiced by Creator/AyumiTsunematsu (Japanese), Paula Lindberg (English, series), Creator/MarykeHendrikse (English, ''A Wakening of the Trailblazer'')
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* ActualPacifist: Hates weapons so much that she can't even fathom using a gun for self-defense. This can easily come across as a little naive, but it's also understandable due to her background as an inhabitant of a constantly war-torn country who just wants all the bloodshed to end.
* AllLovingHero: She's kind and compassionate, almost to a fault, and has no hostile intentions towards anyone.
* AloofDarkHairedGirl: [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]] on the "aloof" part. She is an introverted and often quite gloomy/melancholy girl with dark hair.
* CompressedHair: During her world tour in season 1.
* ContrastingSequelMainCharacter: Borders on DeconstructedCharacterArchetype towards both [[Anime/MobileSuitGundamWing Relena Peacecraft]] and [[Anime/MobileSuitGundamSEED Lacus]] [[Anime/MobileSuitGundamSEEDDestiny Clyne]].
** She's what Relena would be if portrayed in a more cynical (towards pacifism) series, and she does get put through the wringer. It is not a perfect deconstruction by any means, as Marina doesn't have the same force of will as Relena and, thanks to her tendency to be very indecisive, can come across as weak and wishy-washy in her efforts, compared to Relena, who would stand firm even if she had a gun aimed at her head.
** Also the IdolSinger princess character (think Lacus). She's very inspiring with a song she writes about peace, and Setsuna says what everyone in the audience is thinking, that she's a lot more competent as a singer/good will ambassador than as the leader of a country - and he meant it as a compliment. Again, not a perfect deconstruction, since Lacus is not only far more self-confident than Marina is, but also has a far more influential position in her society from the start.
* DamselInDistress: In season 2, the A-Laws take her in prison and Setsuna has to rescue her. Early in the movie, Setsuna and Lockon have to save her from a CorruptCorporateExecutive who doesn't want her investigating his exploitation of Azadistani laborers.
* FallenPrincess: In season 2, she [[spoiler:loses her country when Ali burns it to the ground]] and spends most of the story as a refugee.
* FeminineWomenCanCook: As seen in season 2. She takes care of meals for the children, Klaus and Shirin.
* FriendToAllChildren: Spends most of Season Two taking care of war orphans.
* GoodIsDumb: ZigZagged. Due to her political inexperienece, Marina consistently underestimates how warped people can be and how showing even genuine kindness rarely ever leads to a lasting peace or understanding. In Season 2, Marina sheds some of this naivety, still holding to her absolute pacifist ways but now acknowledging that sometimes fighting and bloodshed are required, even if she could never even hold a gun to protect herself or the innocent children she looks after.
* GoodParents: For all her flaws, she is a caring mother for the Katharon kids.
* GracefulLadiesLikePurple: Her season 1 outfit is primarily purple in color.
* HeWillNotCrySoICryForHim: Does this for Setsuna.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: With Shirin.
* HonoraryPrincess: She holds the title of "Princess of Azadistan" in the first season, which is an elected figurehead position in the setting. While she is of royal descent, monarchy was abolished in Azadistan long before her birth, and she grew up in a regular middle-class family.
* IdenticalStranger: Marina looks ''scaringly'' like a younger version of Setsuna's mom.
* InnocentBlueEyes: She has blue eyes and is very innocent. She would never do anything to hurt someone or take advantage of others. She's also inexperienced as a leader.
* IWasQuiteALooker: By the end of the film.
* LongHairIsFeminine: She has the longest hair of all the characters and she's very feminine.
* MistakenForRomance: When outright asked if they were dating, Marina and Setsuna both deadpanned "We are not a couple" in unison, without any of the embarrassment or blushing this kind of situation usually entails.
* NeutralFemale: She's one of Setsuna's allies, but she's not one to be on the field.
* NiceGirl: Marina is a very pleasant individual and doesn't say or do anything offensive against anyone.
* TheNotLoveInterest: To Setsuna. Both consider each other their most important person and they share an almost spiritual connection when apart. However, their relationship genuinely has not a single romantic feeling involved. If anything, their relationship is more akin to that between a mother and child - and it's not helped by how Marina looks a lot like a younger version of Setsuna's MissingMom.
* OldMaid: It's implied that [[spoiler:she grew old unmarried.]]
* ParentalSubstitute: To a degree, Setsuna sees her as a mother figure.
* PlatonicLifePartners: She and Setsuna are very close and they share an unbreakable bond. Despite what other characters tend to assume, both Setsuna and her make sure to emphasize there isn't any romantic interest between them. [[spoiler:Both of them do get married in the manga epilogue, but the author does note that it's more to symbolize their close relationship with each other in spite of their lack of romantic attraction to each other.]]
* PoliticallyActivePrincess: While phrased as a compliment, her closest adviser tells her outright that she's far better at charitable work and being a good will ambassador than she is at politics and ruling.
* ProperLady: She has a very polite and refined demeanour.
* RavenHairIvorySkin: A very beautiful woman with long black hair and pale skin.
* RebelliousPrincess: Deconstructed. She ''tries'' to be one, but never can do anything productive.
* ReplacementGoldfish: At least to some extent, it appears Setsuna sees her as a replacement for his MissingMom. It doesn't help that she ''does'' look like a younger version of his mom.
* RoyalBlood: She mentioned that the reason she was chosen as a princess was because of her bloodline.
* SayMyName: She utters Setsuna's name very often, although she's not as loud as [[Anime/MobileSuitGundamWing Relena]].
* SheIsAllGrownUp: [[spoiler:The DistantFinale shows her children as adults.]]
* ShowgirlSkirt: In season 1, almost all of her princess dresses don't fully cover her legs, forming a crescent around them instead.
* TakingTheBullet: [[spoiler:In the last scene of episode 18 of season 2, she blocked a bullet meant for a kid named Josef. Subverted in the next episode, which shows that Klaus shot the gunners down before they could pull the trigger.]]
* TeamMom: For the Kataron children in season 2.
* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Downplayed in Season 1, where Shirin came off as more tough compared to the more emotionally vulnerable Marina, fitting this in an emotional capacity. It is played completely straight in Season 2, in terms of both behaviour and appearance: The toughened-up Shirin acts as a warrior and dresses in military garb, while Marina assumes a caretaker role and dresses in a more traditionally feminine way.
* TraumaCongaLine: Pretty much her main purpose, having grown up in a country nearly destroyed through civil war, getting imprisoned because she met Setsuna, and [[spoiler:then when he breaks her out she finds that her country was leveled.]]
* WaterIsWomanly: Her name "Marina" means "of the sea", she has blue eyes, wears a gown with shades of blue, and is a very elegant, refined princess.
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[[folder:Shirin Bakhtiar]]
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Marina's best friend, adviser and lady in waiting, who does not doubt to scold Marina when she hesitates. After the formation of the Earth Sphere Federation, she leaves the Palace and becomes a member of the rebel group Katharon to keep fighting for Azadistan in her own way.

->Voiced by Creator/MichikoNeya (Japanese) and Creator/EllenKennedy (English)
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* ActionSurvivor: She ends up joining Katharon and while not on the field too often, she's still capable of getting out okay.
* AdrenalineMakeover: Contrast her flowing dresses from season 1 with her baggy pants and tight t-shirt in the second one.
* AloofDarkHairedGirl: Downplayed. She often acts hostile and aloof, particularly in Season 2, but she can actually be compassionate with the others, including with Marina, even though Shirin doesn't agree with her ActualPacifist views.
* CommanderContrarian: She often is highly critical to Marina and often questions her actions, however she does this with the best of intentions in order to try and make Marina a better leader.
* TheConsigliere: To Marina. Shirin always questions Marina's decisions so Marina will consider the full political situation.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: With Marina.
* SarcasticDevotee: Constantly belittles Marina, but it quickly becomes clear that she agrees with Marina's goals and just wants to ensure that she has the political know-how to make them happen.
* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight: The reason she left Marina in the season 1 finale.
* StoicSpectacles: She wears glasses and is a rather stern person.
* SubordinateExcuse: Although she and Klaus started as PlatonicLifePartners, the [[AllThereInTheManual novelization]] stated that they had a RelationshipUpgrade. [[spoiler:And after the finale, she became pregnant with his child]].
* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: She and Marina are a grown-up version. See the entry in Marina's folder for details.
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[[folder:Louise Halevy]]
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->'''Main mecha:''' GNX-609T GN-XIII, GNX-704T/SP Ahead Smultron, GNMA-0001V Regnant

-->''"I've sworn to dedicate myself to making this a united world, to creating a permanent peace, to defeating Celestial Being, which only brings chaos the world... and to taking revenge for my mom and dad!"''

A high school student and Saji's girlfriend. She comes from a rich family and seldom takes anything seriously.

After experiencing the dark side of Celestial Being first hand, she joins the A-Laws in Season 2 to take vengeance.

->Voiced by Creator/ChiwaSaito (Japanese) and Creator/KellySheridan (English)
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* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: She was looked down on by [[{{Jerkass}} most of her A-Laws comrades]] due to her being a rookie.
* AmbiguouslyJewish: Halevy is a Sephardic Jewish name and Louise's family is from Spain (where many Sephardic Jews are from).
* AmbiguousSituation: [[spoiler:While we already know that Setsuna and Descartes Shaman are the first and second (respectively) pure human Innovators in the world, Ribbons' claim that he wanted to make her into his personal ''first'' Innovator is still debated. Is she now fully modified into an Innovade, or is she only partially modified into a human-Innovade hybrid like the Trinities? And what is she now, ''pseudo'' Innovator? Innovade? Innovade-Hybrid? No one knows. The only thing we know for real is that she remains sensitive to quantum waves even after everything was said and done.]]
* AntiVillain: [[spoiler:She joins the A-Laws to avenge her family's deaths at the hands of Team Trinity. She's transparently a pawn of Ribbons' schemes and [[TragicVillain it's clear that everything she has endured]] [[SanitySlippage has ruined her mental health.]]]]
* ArtificialLimbs: [[spoiler:She gets a prosthetic hand in the TimeSkip to replace the one she lost when Nena Trinity bombed the wedding she was attending]].
* AscendedExtra : She's mostly a comic relief side character in the first season, [[FromNobodyToNightmare but she's a major antagonist in the second season]].
* TheAtoner: [[spoiler:After Season Two, she lives her life with the intention of making up for all the crazy shit she pulled with the A-Laws.]]
* AxCrazy: [[spoiler:She’s quite unhinged in Season 2. Especially when the Gundams are involved.]]
* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: [[spoiler:Gets crushed by debris and loses an arm, but has very little in the way of permanent scarring aside from the amputation.]]
* BeneathTheMask: Behind her cheerful and bratty persona in season 1 and then [[spoiler:her militaristic and extremist persona in season 2]], both Saji and Soma pointed out that Louise is nothing more than a poor, confused and weak-hearted woman who always feels saddened over her loneliness.
* BlueBlood: Comes from an extremely rich family.
* BrainwashedAndCrazy: [[spoiler:The drugs Ribbons gives her to help with her prosthetic arm contain something that allows Ribbons to control her.]]
* BreakTheCutie: [[spoiler:Watches Nena Trinity blow her family up, gets crushed by debris, loses an arm, learns that she can't have the arm regenerated because of radiation damage, breaks up with Saji because she is convinced that she is holding him back from his dreams, gets a replacement arm that requires dangerous drugs for her to use it, and joins a fascist police force.]]
* BrokenBird: There's little sign of the cheerful kid she used to be in Season 1 [[spoiler:after Nena murders her family and leaves her nearly dead]].
* BrokenTears: [[spoiler:When she realizes that she’s the last of the Halevy family and after she kills Nena.]]
* CharClone: Downplayed. [[spoiler: She still serves as a blonde villain serving as TheDragon [[Anime/MobileSuitGundam with a personal vengeance, trying to hunt down all of the people presumably responsible]]. She normally fights a Gundam, has piloted red mobile suits, and upgraded to more unique ones, including a SuperPrototype in the final leg of the series (said SuperPrototype at least ''glows'' red in some areas). She is also a bit of a [[KnightTemplar Knight Templar]]/WellIntentionedExtremist in some areas, reflecting the CCA-style Char Clones. Though like [[Anime/MobileSuitZetaGundam Jerid Messa]], she's basically overshadowed by the main CharClone of her series. In this case, Graham Aker/Mr. Bushido.]]
* CorruptTheCutie: [[spoiler:Ribbons corrupts her into being his personal enforcer.]]
* CurbStompBattle: While not exactly the best pilot, she gets the ''perfect'' opportunity to do this when she finally encounters Nena Trinity, the girl who murdered her entire family [[ForTheEvulz for shits and giggles]]. Due to [[BiggerStick piloting the superior Regnant]], and Nena piloting [[SoLastSeason the outdated Throne Drei]] -- a Gundam designed for a ''support'' role -- it's safe to say that Nena had ''zero'' chance of leaving the battle alive.
* CurtainsMatchTheWindow: Occasionally in Season 2, thanks to her developing Innovator powers.
* DamselInDistress: In the movie. [[spoiler:She is one of the people being targeted by the ELS because they are homing in on her Quantum Brainwaves. While she's not the only one being hunted, Saji and Setsuna still have to rescue her from an ELS that has taken the form of Ribbons.]]
* DarkActionGirl: In Season 2, she is a rookie member of the A-Laws, originally starting out piloting [[MechaMook GN-XIII Mobile Suits]] before [[MidSeasonUpgrade working her way up upgrade-wise]].
* TheDarkSideWillMakeYouForget: Throughout Season 2, Louise tries hard to throw away her past and make sure that she will now become a completely different person. Although we know that Ribbons plays a huge role in manipulating her mind, again, the one who wanted her to fund the A-Laws and join the Innovators was herself. While avenging her family's death is her main motivation, she actively supports the A-Laws' cruelty for the sake of permanent ''peace''. Louise ultimately went so far that she wanted to kill Saji when she found out he was with Celestial Being: the people she believed were responsible for ruining her life.
* DatingWhatDaddyHates: Her mother was very disapproving of Saji, simply because he was a commoner. Louise could care less, of course. Her mother does warm up to him though, much to Louise's chagrin.
* DemotedToExtra: Her role in the movie is reduced from what it was in Season 2.
* DramaticIrony: According to the official materials, [[spoiler: inside the Regnant's inner head is a Gundam Head, the same machines that Louise hates for killing her family.]]
* EasilyForgiven: [[spoiler:Louise willingly joins the A-Laws and becomes a pawn of the Innovators as their number one investor and financial resource. All for the sake of getting revenge for her family, to cure her own condition, and to help the A-Laws to make a permanent peace in the world... even if it concerns genocide. And she was easily pardoned by Saji and Celestial Being because she is nothing but the Innovators' biggest victim.]]
* ElegantGothicLolita: Her party dress from Season 2, episode 8 is similar to these.
* EvenEvilCanBeLoved: No matter how corrupted she becomes through Season 2, Saji still loves her and tries hard to protect and save her.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Louise's love for her family becomes the reason for her wish to avenge their death, which in turn was the reason why she willingly joined the A-Laws. She also still loves Saji, although she believes that he betrayed her by joining Celestial Being (though she had zero idea that he was sort of dragged into their operations and had no control over the circumstances), and almost willingly throws away their happy memories from when they were still high school students.
* EvilCannotComprehendGood: Subverted. Yes, she becomes a SociopathicSoldier in the Second Season with a bad case of MoralMyopia, and believes in A-Laws' extremist ideology. However, she is still touched by Saji's kindness toward her despite her cruel actions, which leads her to have a sort of ConflictingLoyalty between still following A-Laws side for sake of "peace" and justice for her family or abandoning it and finding a new live with Saji.
* EvilIsBigger: The [[MidSeasonUpgrade Regnant]] is at least twice the size of a normal mobile suit.
* EvolutionaryLevels: She becomes what can only be assumed to be a "Pseudo-Innovator" in Season 2.
* {{Expy}}:
** During her time as a member of the A-Laws, Louise takes a lot of cues from Quess Paraya from ''Char's Counterattack''. Both are young girls with a direct connection to the BigBad, and [[SmallGirlBigGun their trademark machines are giant Mobile Armors]]; Quess had the Alpha Azieru, and Louise had the Regnant. Also, Louise has a connection to one of the protagonists in Saji Crossroad, who is the Hathaway Noah to Louise's Quess. [[spoiler:The differences being that while Quess died before she was given a chance to do much of anything redeeming (other than saving Hathaway's life), Louise survived the events of her series and wound up living as TheAtoner.]]
** Outside of Gundam series, her revenge plotline in Season 2 is similar to that of [[Manga/FullmetalAlchemist Roy Mustang]]. [[spoiler:Both are hellbent on finding a loved one's killer and once they find them, [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge they give them no chance to fight back.]] The difference is that Mustang was saved by his friends and allies from a path of destruction, while no one was able to stop Louise in time.]]
* ExtremeMeleeRevenge: To say that Louise got her revenge on Nena Trinity is a ''grievous'' understatement. The moment in Episode 21 of Season 2 where she sees the Throne Drei -- the machine that took everything away from her 5 years ago -- she wastes no time in displaying her brand-new [[SuperPrototype Regnant]]'s superior capabilities to Nena and [[SoLastSeason her outdated Gundam]]. It's hardly even a fight -- in fact, Nena never even ''hits'' Louise with her little peashooter of a GN Handgun before [[CurbStompBattle she gets absolutely boned]]. That's not the melee part, though, as Louise uses the Regnant's [[HomingLasers GN Beam Cannon]] and [[AttackDrone GN Fang]] claws to render Nena helpless for the majority of the "fight". The melee part is when she [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice guts the Throne Drei on the Regnant's claws]], which also penetrate the cockpit and impale Nena as well, sealing her fate.
* ExpositoryHairstyleChange: Goes from long hair to a much shorter cut in season 2. By the time of the movie, [[spoiler:she's back to a style resembling her original one, showing how she's on the road to mental recovery.]]
* EvilCounterpart: [[spoiler:She's essentially what Neil Dylandy would have been if he didn't give up his overbearing desire for vengeance. Due to being manipulated by the Innovators and her need for vengeance encouraged by those she thinks are trying to help her, Louise has become one of their most useful puppets.]]
* FromNobodyToNightmare: From a rich high school student with big dreams to a soldier of a terrorist group.
* GenkiGirl: In Season One, she's perpetually hyper and cheerful. [[BreakTheCutie Not so much in Season 2]].
* GirlWithPsychoWeapon: To be specific, girl with [[LightningBruiser an incredibly fast]] [[HumongousMecha Humongous]] TransformingMecha equipped with ''twelve'' {{Attack Drone}}s and capable of {{Roboteching}}.
* HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: In the first season, she’s nothing but loving towards her friends and family. [[spoiler: It tragically gets {{Subverted}} hard in the second season, when she goes down a dark path supporting the A-Laws. By the end, she’s healing, though it's doubtful that she'll ever make a full recovery.]]
* HomingLaser: The Regnant's [[WaveMotionGun GN Beam Cannon]] is capable of changing trajectories if the enemy evades the first straight shot.
* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: Takes all of Ribbons' assurances -- that he just wants to help her -- at face value.
* IfYouKillHimYouWillBeJustLikeHim: [[spoiler:Louise's vicious execution of Nena Trinity is one of the more brutal moments in the series, and marks the end of Louise's sanity. Notably, Setsuna and Saji try to commuicate with her, but Graham is so busy trying to settle the score with Setsuna that they fail to stop her.]]
* ImportantHaircut: Had long hair in the first season, sports later a pageboy style that makes her look like a borderline {{Bifauxnen}} [[spoiler:when in uniform. In TheMovie, however, she has grown her hair back.]]
* IneffectualSympatheticVillain: While she takes a role as a sinister AntiVillain in season 2, Louise overall is not as good at fighting and piloting as her fellows. She is still thinking about Saji before she mistakenly believed that he betrayed her, completely unsure about whether to abandon her motivation or keep her motivation to take a revenge, always ending up shaken and taking drugs to calm herself. Ribbons has to push her to make her ''competent'' by triggering her with quantum brainwaves to MindRape her, but this ends up leaving her in a much worse mental and physical condition.
* InnocentBystanders: [[DeconstructedTrope Deconstructed.]] [[SheWhoFightsMonsters She loses her innocence due to the path it set her on.]]
* {{Irony}}: She hates and fears Gundams after [[spoiler:Nena uses the Throne Drei to kill Louise's family]]. Ironically, [[spoiler:the mobile suit form of Louise's own Regnant Mobile Armor (unbeknownst to her) has the head of a Gundam underneath its faceplate]].
* KarmaHoudiniWarranty: Louise sponsored and joined a [[StateSec government organization]] that committed war crimes, just so she could murder one person in brutal fashion. [[KarmaHoudini Yet, she gets away free, doesn't get convicted on anything, and has a happy ending.]] TheMovie later shows that she'll never ever completely get over the mental and physical trauma she endured, and is going to have to live with that and [[TheAtoner atone for it]] for the rest of her life. [[note]]Most of the family fortune is gone --- given, or perhaps confiscated, to fund rebuilding efforts --- and the rest is going in to her hospital bills[[/note]]. Thankfully for her, Saji's going to stick by her for all this.
* LeeroyJenkins: [[spoiler:Louise often acts incredibly recklessly in Mobile Suit combat, and without regard for command from her superiors, this only results in her getting far too close to the Gundams or the Ptolemaios. As a result, she frequently needs to be saved by her squadmates.]]
* MagicSkirt: Wears one in the first season, and "it took effect" in the second ED.
* MeaningfulName: Her name is the feminine version of "Louis", which means "Famous in Battle" or "Famous Warrior". In Season 2, Louise becomes one of the richest women in the world, and the main financier of the A-Laws. As a result she is treated quite courteously by the higher ups.
* MidSeasonUpgrade: In Season 2, Louise starts out piloting a [[{{Mooks}} GNX-609T GN-XIII]], starting at the bottom of the ladder suit-wise before later being given Soma Peries' [[KingMook GNX-704T/SP Ahead Smultron]], which becomes her go-to Mobile Suit for the majority of the series. In the final episodes, she finally gets her own SuperPrototype in the massive [[TheJuggernaut GNMA-0001V Regnant]], a giant [[TransformingMecha transforming Mobile Armor]].
* MisplacedRetribution: [[spoiler:She blames Celestial Being for her misfortune when really it was just Nena Trinity acting on her own whim that fateful day, going against everything Celestial Being stands for. Even after getting revenge on Nena, she still desires Celestial Being's destruction. Though to be fair, she had no way of knowing that Nena was acting on her own accord, and Nena ''is'' technically a member of Celestial Being. Like Louise, most of the world understandably believed that the Trinities and the Gundam Meisters were on the same side since they both piloted Gundams.]]
* MoodSwinger: In season 2, Louise can be moody, calm, apathetic, insecure, grumpy and, at the extreme, a PsychopathicWomanchild who thirsts for revenge and kills anyone who tries to distract her. [[spoiler:These are side effect of her traumatic experiences, her military training, and the drugs and body enhancements she has taken on.]]
* MoralMyopia: She genuinely believes the genocide she’s doing is more justified compared to what Celestial Being is doing. Ironically, Nena calls her out on her MoralMyopia during their battle, while Louise calls Nena on hers, and ''neither'' of them [[{{Hypocrite}} register what the other is saying because of their respective shortsightedness.]]
* OfficialCouple: [[spoiler:Firmly and definitely with Saji as of [[Anime/Gundam00AWakeningOfTheTrailblazer the movie.]] EarnYourHappyEnding indeed.]]
* ThePawn: [[spoiler:Louise is not aware of anything Ribbons is doing -- and already ''has'' done -- to her. Their "friendship" is merely to use her family fortune for the financial needs of the A-Laws and the Innovators. Not only that, Ribbons modifies her fragile body and mind to make her into a pseudo-Innovator as a mole, forcing her to agree with whatever he does to her via manipulation and quantum brainwaves.]]
* PayEvilUntoEvil: Sure, the CurbStompBattle she gave Nena was brutal, but Nena never felt guilt over the wedding incident, nor her any other actions. So it's not exactly easy to feel sorry for [[AssholeVictim Nena]] when Louise ultimately kills her.
* RedemptionEarnsLife: [[spoiler:Combined with DefeatMeansFriendship, Louise is successfully saved and defeated by Saji and Setsuna, and freed from Ribbons's control. In the epilogue and movie, it's shown that Louise now lives as TheAtoner, no longer holding on to hatred or revenge and focusing on curing her body and her mental health, and reforming her relationship with Saji once again.]]
* {{Revenge}}: [[spoiler:Joins and sponsors the A-Laws to get revenge on Celestial Being for killing her family.]]
* RichesToRags: She comes from an extraordinarily wealthy family, [[spoiler:but her wealth is reduced after Season 2]].
* RightForTheWrongReasons: In spite being heavily influenced by [[spoiler:Ribbons's manipulation]], she was ''technically'' right to say that Celestial Being is responsible for the death of her families and the cause behind conflict. The Trinities ''are'' members of Celestial Being, and committed terrorist acts with their Gundams (ultimately staining the name of Celestial Being in doing so), resulting in the world thinking that Celestial Being in general is nothing more than a glorified terrorist group. If only Louise had known that the Trinities were [[UnwittingPawn Unwitting Pawns]] intended to make Celestial Being look bad so the world would unite against them (something that took place in Season 1).
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: [[spoiler:After her family’s death, she joins the A-Laws. It only got worse when her commanding officer gets killed.]]
* SanitySlippage: Throughout Season 2, mainly due to the drugs Ribbons has her take, and it reaches a breaking point after she kills Nena, after which it seems that she's finally gone off the deep end entirely. [[spoiler:Setsuna's Trans-Am Burst and Saji's love for her helps her recover.]]
* ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney: Is technically a very low ranking A-Laws operative, and a mediocre pilot as well, but since she finances the organization, she gets to pilot top of the line mobile suits usually reserved for ace pilots. This includes the elite Ahead Smultrons, and eventually her own SuperPrototype, the Regnant.
* SheCleansUpNicely: Fits in quite well in kimonos and EGL dresses.
* SheWhoFightsMonsters: Her quest for revenge turns her into a pawn of Ribbons. Thankfully, at the end she gets better and is now living as TheAtoner.
* ShellShockedVeteran: [[spoiler:In the movie, she remains hospitalized from PTSD from all the horrific events that happened to her in the series.]]
* SociopathicSoldier: Louise has a total lack of interest in helping civilians, and only focuses on punishing people who refuse to accept the unification of the world.
* SoleSurvivor: She is the Halevy family's only survivor after Nena's attack.
* SmallGirlBigGun: While being the smallest member of A-Laws in both status and stature, she gets the largest, arguably most powerful single Mobile Suit in the entire series.
* StarCrossedLovers: With Saji, in Season 2. She joins the A-Laws, he joins Celestial Being and when she learns of this, she becomes convinced that he was plotting against her from the very beginning. [[spoiler:They eventually end up together despite everything.]]
* TheTeamBenefactor: She's one of A-laws' biggest fanciers, which is why she's given so much special treatment despite being a pretty mediocre soldier.
* TookALevelInBadass: Becomes a pilot for the A-Laws, heading more and more towards DarkActionGirl territory.
* TookALevelInJerkass: Is a lot more unpleasant in Season 2. Louise hates anyone interfering with her desire to destroy the Gundams, and is deadset on avenging her family's death. It's to the point where she also threatens her ex-boyfriend if he dares to stop her, despite him trying to gently persuade her to move on to build a better live in the future. Luckily, she ''does'' gets better once Saji and Setsuna free her from Ribbons' influence.
* TookALevelInKindness: At the end of Season 2, Louise is already returning to her kind-hearted old self again. She still shows a great concern about the future and worries if humanity will make the same mistake and cause another war, but is no longer showing any desires of wanting to take things in her own hands yet again.
* TooDumbToLive: She exhibits a moment of this in the fateful event where Nena heartlessly kills her family. When the first laser hits the chapel, killing everyone but her, her first instinct is to run to her parents’ bodies rather than run away. While understandable as it was a reaction of pure grief, Nena's following attack led to her getting buried under rubble and losing a hand.
* TraumaButton: In Season 2, every time when she hears words "Gundam", she becomes shaken, slips into rage and madness, and needs to use drugs to calm herself.
* UnskilledButStrong: Despite the fact that Louise has undergone both military and Mobile Suit training, she is still a mediocre pilot. This is even with the enhanced prosthetic and whatever modifications Ribbons made on her to (possibly) make her an Innovade. As a matter of fact, the modifications only worsen her physical and mental state. However, due to her status as the A-LAWS' top financier, Louise manages to get her own upgrades Mobile Suit wise, going from a scrappy little GN-XIII to Marie's old Ahead Smultron. And while this helps he catch up... she becomes [[TheJuggernaut a near unstoppable juggernaut]] once she gets the [[SuperPrototype Regnant]].
* UsedToBeASweetKid: Was kindhearted as a teen, but after Nena Trinity killed her entire family and left her with nothing, she would grow into a hateful, vengeance-bound girl bent on solving the world's problems by force, which is her reasoning behind funding the A-Laws.
* VengeanceFeelsEmpty: [[spoiler:She ultimately gets her revenge on Nena, but it just served to make her realize that nothing has changed; her family was still dead. But rather than just letting her vengeance die with Nena, [[SanitySlippage she merely shifts it to the rest of Celestial Being (or at least now moreso than she originally had)]]]].
* VillainHasAPoint: [[spoiler:In spite of her own MoralMyopia, she wasn't wrong to call out Nena Trinity on hers. It was Nena's decision to bomb the wedding, and ''that'' had nothing to do with her brothers being killed by Ali, which happened ''after'' Nena murdered Louise's family (even if Louise didn't know that). Whatever the reason may be that Nena did what she did (and [[ForTheEvulz the real reason]] was [[EvilIsPetty repulsively petty]]), killing her family back then ''wasn't'' a nice thing to do ([[ButForMeItWasTuesday and she probably didn't even remember what she did]]), and no FreudianExcuse Nena could bring up [[FreudianExcuseIsNoExcuse would ever convince Louise that Nena had any right to ruin her life on an impulse]]. Louise's PreMortemOneLiner to Nena, therefore, is a borderline ShutUpHannibal from one baddie to another.]]
-->'''[[spoiler:Nena]]:''' I was created for this... and forced to fight. I refuse to die like this! [[VillainousBreakdown THIS ISN'T HOW I WANNA DIE!]]
-->'''Louise:''' I know. I'm sure you don't wanna die. But... my mom and dad... WEREN'T EVEN GIVEN THE CHANCE TO SAY ''THAT'' BEFORE YOU '''''KILLED THEM!'''''
* VillainCorner: Initially was a ordinary a high-school girl who come from extremely rich family. [[spoiler:After Nena kills her family, Ribbons' influence and manipulations lead her to join the A-Laws, who will kill anyone to create peace.]]
* VillainousBSOD: [[spoiler:Goes into these more or less often, as a side-effect of her treatment.]]
* VillainousBreakdown:[[spoiler:After killing Nena, she seemed to subvert this through an In-Universe CatharsisFactor, reacting to Nena's horrible, brutal death at her own hands with relieved, cheerful laughter. But then she starts to talk to herself, starting to talk to her dead parents as if they were there, asking if she indeed did the right thing. She gets no response, and with no validation of her own actions, it immediately sinks in for Louise that VengeanceFeelsEmpty. [[TheScream She immediately devolves into a crying and screaming fit]], a sign of her mental state pretty much decaying into dust.]]
* VillainousFriendship: Although she only meets Soma Peries during their preparation before battle, Louise forms a good friendship with her. After Soma is declared KIA [[spoiler:(without knowing that Soma/Marie actually pulled a HeelFaceTurn and Sergei helped fake her death)]], Louise made a demand to the higher-ups to commandeer Soma's Ahead Smultron for the sake of avenging her "death". She also has a good relationship with her mentor and commander, Barrack Zinin. While she is also capable of acting friendly with Andrei Smirnov, she's always annoyed with his attitude and eventually subverts this with him when he tries to convince her to kill Saji, lashing out at him for trying to thrust his twisted ideals at her.
* WellDoneSonGuy: [[spoiler:This seems to more or less be her mentality immediately after she kills Nena, as she speaks out to her dead parents as if hoping they'll speak back and reassure her that killing Nena was the right thing to do. Not only does she get no praise from any voice, real or no, but she ends up realizing that VengeanceFeelsEmpty and that she is no better off than she was before she offed Nena. In fact, she probably ends up worse because she still can't let her vengeful attitude towards Celestial Being go, and she winds up even more unstable than ever before.]]
* WomanScorned: When she realizes that Saji is piloting the 0 Raiser alongside Setsuna's 00 Gundam, [[GoMadFromTheRevelation Louise becomes convinced that Saji has been in cahoots with Celestial Being the entire time]]. Needless to say, she's ''[[SanitySlippage not at all happy]]'' about it.

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[[folder:Saji Crossroad]]
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->'''Main mecha:''' GNR-010 0-Raiser

An ordinary high school student and boyfriend of Louise. In Season Two, he is falsely accused of treason by the A-Laws and circumstances force him to join Celestial Being.
->Voiced by Creator/MiyuIrino (Japanese) and Creator/GabeKhouth (English)
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* ActionSurvivor: He's never really a fighter, but he does participate in battle as the pilot of the 0-Raiser.
* AscendedExtra : He's a minor comic relief character in Season One, but he's the {{Deuteragonist}} of Season Two.
* AudienceSurrogate: Sort of. Especially in Season 2, he often questions Celestial Being's actions, and also give some POV about the situation in the end of Season 2.
* BackToBackBadasses: The 00 Raiser's docking configuration make Saji and Setsuna this by default.
* BashBrothers: With Setsuna in Season 2, after he became the 0-Raiser's pilot.
* BestFriend: He’s the closest thing Setsuna has to one.
* {{BFS}}: The Trans-Am Raiser used by the 00-Raiser which he and Setsuna co-pilot. Setsuna wields the weapon while Saji keeps the particle synchronization stable.
* BreakTheCutie: [[spoiler:Learns that Louise lost her entire family and her arm. He then goes home to Japan only to learn that his sister Kinue has been murdered.]]
* BridgeBunnies: In season 2, he fills this position if he's not [[MrFixIt helping Ian]] until he becomes a SixthRanger with Soma.
* ButNotTooForeign: He is Japanese-American.
* ButtMonkey: [[spoiler: Between his girlfriend getting maimed and losing her entire family, his sister being murdered [[ForTheEvuls for no reason]], being [[MistakenForTerrorist falsely accused of terrorism]] simply because he was justifiably confused when a co-worker was being arrested, and ending up becoming the enemy of the aforementioned girlfriend, to say that life was not kind to poor Saji would be a ''massive'' understatement. [[EarnYourHappyEnding The fact that he was able to come out of everything with a happy ending]] is nothing short of miraculous]]
* CharacterDevelopment: Starts off as a weak-willed high school student, then engineer in Season 2. Becomes a pilot willing to fight to protect his loved ones.
* CombatAndSupport: He's the support to Setsuna's combat. When docked together as 00 Raiser, Setsuna focuses on fighting while Saji manages the Raiser System.
* CombiningMecha: Saji's 0-Raiser can combine/dock with Setsuna's 00 Gundam to form the 00-Raiser.
* DemotedToExtra: Despite being the {{Deuteragonist}} of Season Two, he has a relatively minor role in the movie.
* {{Deuteragonist}}: He's the secondary protagonist of Season Two.
* DidntThinkThisThrough: [[spoiler:It is made clear that his attempt to leave the Katharon base was horribly ill thought out, leading to the army finding him and culminating in loads of casualties as the A-Laws moved in to slaughter everyone in the base. Even Saji's interrogator after he was captured is quick to point out how ill equipped he is to cross the desert on his own raising the possibility of him having never made it had he not been picked up]].
* EarnYourHappyEnding: [[spoiler:After much hardship, he saves Louise and the two of them get to live happily ever after.]]
* TheEngineer: Is introduced as an engineering student. By Season Two, he's a full fledged colony engineer and helps Celestial Being maintain their mobile suits.
* ExpositoryHairstyleChange: In the movie, he lets his hair grow a bit, making him look a bit like how he did in season 1.
* FallingIntoTheCockpit: He was asked to pilot the 0-Raiser in behalf of the injured Ian despite having no experience in mobile weapons. He becomes the official pilot of the Mobile armor afterwards.
* FirstGuyWins: [[spoiler:He's Louise's boyfriend at the start of the series. Although they eventually become enemies and she becomes close friends with Andrei, who clearly has a thing for her, Louise ultimately winds up with Saji.]]
* FriendshipMoment: With Marie Parfacy. Mainly because of their closeness with Louise.
* HeroicBystander: He may not hop in a Mobile Suit and join the fight, but he does head out to perform maintenance during the climactic battle when volunteers are requested.
* IfYouKillHimYouWillBeJustLikeHim: [[spoiler:Pulls a gun on Setsuna when he learns that he is with Celestial Being, but declines to take vengeance for Kinue (whom Saji wrongly believes was murdered by Celestial Being) because he doesn't want to fall to CB's level. Though unlike how the trope is usually played, the story more frames it as Saji simply being too much of a coward to actually pull the trigger after which he makes use of moral superiority to claim otherwise]].
* IgnoranceIsBliss: [[spoiler:In the second season he stubbornly tries to stick to his old ways, wanting nothing more than peace for himself and Louise even as more and more evidence mounts to the cost of said peace. It isn't until his actions cause the death of loads of people that he finally starts to accept reality]].
* InnocentBystanders: Has a distressing tendency to be near horrific accidents that involve Celestial Being.
* ItsAllMyFault: [[spoiler:Has a breakdown when he inadvertantly leads the A-Laws to Katharon's base.]]
* MistakenForTerrorist: At the start of Season Two, he is arrested for terrorism as punishment for questioning the A-Laws when they arrested a coworker of his.
* MyHeroZero: In the second season, he pilots the [[MechaExpansionPack GNR-010 0-Raiser]], which can combine with the titular GN-0000 00 Gundam to form the GN-0000+GNR-010 00 Raiser.
* NewJobAsThePlotDemands: In the entire series, he was a student, a pizza delivery guy, a space [[TheEngineer engineer]], a [[spoiler:forced laborer for the government ready to be executed, Ian's assistant, both as a WrenchWench and ship gunner, and finally a mobile armor pilot. Makes sense since he's an orphan and needs to sustain himself.]]
* NiceGuy: Even after he learns about Louise's willingness to work as fascist soldier to avenge her family's death and change the world at any cost, even if it involves genocide, he still believes that Louise still has a good side within her.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: [[spoiler: After visiting a Katharon base, he's found by a ESF ship. Luckily Sergei was in command of it and agreed to grant him amnesty for just telling him how he came into that situation. Unfortunately, a crewmen eavesdropped on the conversation and reported back to the A-Laws. Which in turn lead the A-Laws right to Katharon and said base suffering heavy casualties.]]
* NonActionGuy: He's just a civilian engineer. [[spoiler:Even after Saji becomes the 0-Raiser's pilot, it's implied that Haro is the one doing most of the actual piloting.]].
* ParentalAbandonment: His and Kinue's parents were dead before the story started. [[spoiler:It's hinted that his dad, an IntrepidReporter like Kinue, died because [[HeKnowsTooMuch he learnt something he shouldn't have known]]]].
* RetiredBadass: Although his position is Setsuna's 00 Raiser co-pilot, Saji is considered to be a strong candidate for Gundam Meister along with Lasse Aeon. In the end of Season 2, [[spoiler: after successfully saving Louise, he decides to step down from Celestial Being, return to his job as engineer and focus on taking care on Louise.]]
* RightForTheWrongReasons: He's ''technically'' right that Celestial Being is responsible for the death of Louise's family since The Trinity siblings are still ''part of them''.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Deconstructed in the second season. His attempt [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone doesn't]] [[ItsAllMyFault end well]].
* SecretlySelfish: Saji's biggest flaw is that he is incredibly self centered without even realizing it, his and Louise's happiness is all that matters to him. [[spoiler:Setsuna calls him out on this but it takes the destruction of the Katharon base to finally make him reflect on himself and the world to break out of his selfish mindset]].
--> '''Saji:''' Before your armed interventions, I had a perfectly happy life. And you people came and ruined it!
--> '''Setsuna:''' [[ArmorPiercingQuestion So everything's fine as long as]] ''[[ArmorPiercingQuestion you]]'' [[ArmorPiercingQuestion have peace?]]
* SensitiveGuyAndManlyMan: Him and Setsuna respectively.
* SixthRanger: From being just a [[TagAlongKid Tag Along Guy]], he promoted himself to this trope when he decided to pilot the 0-Raiser. Plus, his and Marie's addition have increased Celestial Being's offensive team from four to six.
* SpaceFighter: Saji becomes the de facto pilot of the 0-Raiser, although it doesn't really see any solo action due to its primary function as a support machine for 00 Gundam as well as Saji's complete lack of formal piloting and combat training.
* StarCrossedLovers: With Louise, in season 2. He joins Celestial Being, while she joins the A-Laws. [[spoiler:They manage to get a happy ending.]]
* StraightMan: Is far more down to earth than his girlfriend Louise.
* ThouShaltNotKill: He firmly believes in this principle, which is part of the reason for his conflict with Celestial Being. Even after [[spoiler:joining Celestial Being's offensive team]], he continues to be extremely reluctant to use lethal force.
* TookALevelInJerkass: Not as extreme as Louise. After realizing that Setsuna is part of the organization who he believed to responsible for killing [[spoiler:Louise's family and his older sister]], he becomes rather hostile toward the other members of Celestial Being while all of them are genuinely friendly with him. He got better in later episodes after realizing the truth between all three factions.
* TragicKeepsake: [[spoiler:His engagement ring, which he keeps in a necklace. In episode 24 of Season 2, seeing it snaps Louise out of her UnstoppableRage as she's choking him, letting Saji [[IKnowYouAreInThereSomewhereFight get through to her at last]]]].
* VengeanceFeelsEmpty: Although he blames Celestial Being for what happened to the world and [[spoiler:Louise's family]], he decides to not take revenge on them because he knows that if he does this, it will be meaningless.
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[[folder:Kinue Crossroad]]
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Saji's older sister and a JNN reporter. She seeks to learn the truth about Celestial Being's founder, Aeolia Schenberg. She believes that by investigating into Aeolia, she can uncover the true motives of Celestial Being.

->Voiced by Creator/AyaEndo (Japanese) and Creator/AnnaCummer (English)
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* AloneWithThePsycho: [[spoiler:While digging into leads about Aeolia Schenberg, Kinue unknowingly hitches a ride with resident PsychoForHire, Ali al-Saachez. Unfortunately she ends up paying for it with her life.]]
* ButNotTooForeign: Like Saji, Japanese-American.
* CollateralAngst: [[spoiler:Her death mainly serves to give Saji something to angst about.]]
* CoolBigSis: She serves as this to her brother Saji, whom she also acts as a surrogate mother to following the death of their parents.
* CurtainsMatchTheWindow: Both her hair and her eyes are light brown.
* DramaticIrony: [[spoiler: What her death ends up being. Saji (and everyone who knew her) never find out it was Ali who was responsible.]]
* DyingAlone: [[spoiler:Bleeds out alone in an alleyway.]]
* FatalFamilyPhoto: [[spoiler:The last thing she sees before she dies is a photograph of her family.]]
* GenerationXerox: Her father was also a [[IntrepidReporter reporter]]. [[spoiler:And both of them are killed [[HeKnowsTooMuch for knowing too much]].]]
* GoingForTheBigScoop: Desires to learn the truth about Aeolia and Celestial Being.
* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: Ignores all [[ObviouslyEvil the warning signs]] that Ali should not be trusted. [[spoiler:This gets her killed.]]
* IntrepidReporter: Travels the world to learn the truth about Aeolia.
* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler: Ali kills her after revealing some more information.]]
* ParentalAbandonment: Both her parents died long ago.
* PromotionToParent: Raised Saji after their parents died.
* SheKnowsTooMuch: Invoked. [[spoiler:When Kinue meets Ali, she doesn't know anything of importance, but Ali figures that she'll eventually become a problem, so he spills everything he knows about the conspiracy so he'll have an excuse to kill her.]]
* ShootTheShaggyDog: [[spoiler:Ultimately her entire storyline boils down to this. All her investigations into Celestial Being and Aeolia Schenberg amount to nothing as she's murdered by Ali al-Saachez, who goes out of his way to reveal more information about the conspiracy just so he can have an excuse to kill her.]]
%%* SpellMyNameWithAnS
* TooDumbToLive: [[spoiler: Deliberately goes into a car with someone she doesn’t know at the wheel. Said person is a terrorist who would gladly kill just about anyone who comes close to him.]]

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[[folder:Ali Al-Saachez]]
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->'''Main mecha:''' AEU-09Y812 Enact (blue, red), [=AEU-MA07013=] Agrissa, GNW-002 Gundam Throne Zwei, GNW-20000 Arche Gundam

By his own admission, [[CardCarryingVillain the worst kind of human to ever exist]]. Ali was once a "freedom fighter" who recruited child soldiers to fight in the name of 'God', even though Ali is an atheist who just wanted an excuse to carry out acts of terrorism. One of those kids was Setsuna, and Ali also assaulted Ireland at one point, killing Lockon's parents and little sister. After the fall of the Krugis Republic, Ali became a mercenary, where he frequently takes jobs that bring him into conflict with Setsuna.

->Voiced by Creator/KeijiFujiwara (Japanese) and Creator/ScottMcNeil (English)
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* AcePilot: In the race for being ''the best'' of the series, on par with Graham Aker and possibly even [[spoiler: innovator Setsuna]]. Feats include matching the Exia in swordplay (in an Enact and in Throne Zwei) and taking on both Seravee and 00 at the same time, and coming out on top (in the Arche Gundam).
* AchillesHeel: For some reason, in nearly ''every'' engagement, he is disarmed of his right-hand weapon, and his sword-carrying arm, which also happens to be his primary mode of attack. The moment this happens, he is screwed and has to make a hasty retreat.
* AdaptedOut: In the stage play version of the second season, due to the death of his actor from the previous show covering the first.
* AlliterativeName: '''Al'''i '''Al'''-Saachez.
* ArchEnemy:
** To Setsuna, as Ali was the source of [[DarkAndTroubledPast many of his issues]], as well as Neil for killing his family. [[spoiler:He would also be this to Tieria and Lyle for killing Neil]].
** He’s also this to Nena after [[spoiler: murdering her older brothers, personally making it her life mission to kill him. She only gets to meet him once after the TimeSkip and that ended in a CurbstompBattle delivered to her.]]
* AxCrazy: He lives to kill and it makes [[SplitPersonality Hallelujah]], [[{{Jerkass}} Michael]], and even [[spoiler:[[BigBad Ribbons]]]] look like saints.
* BadassBoast: After seeing Setsuna and Marina arrive [[spoiler: to a recently-razed Azadistan, which is his own doing by the way]], this exchange occurs:
--> '''Setsuna:''' That's a Gundam. And its color... ''IT CAN'T BE!''
--> '''Ali:''' ''OH, BUT IT IS!''
* BadassNormal: Able to defeat Gundams in less tech-advanced suits.
* BadSamaritan: Offers to give [[spoiler:Kinue Crossroad]] a ride and then murders her.
* BaitTheDog: His initial appearance after the prologue has him complaining over how Celestial Being's actions affect the world economy, implying that while he is still a mercenary, he might have mellowed out since leading Setsuna into war. Every one of his following scenes show that no, he is still a complete bastard.
* {{BFS}}: His preferred weapon in Mobile Suit combat -- all of his machines are equipped with one, and he's very fond of using them. His Enact has a custom rifle with a slide-out bayonet that turns it into a gigantic zweihander, while the Throne Zwei and Arche Gundams have the enormous, slab-like GN Buster Swords.
* BitchSlap: [[spoiler: Delivered one off-screen to Nena at the end of their conversation. It’s evident by the slap mark on the latter’s cheek when she shows up next.]]
* BoisterousBruiser: A dark example. Ali is cheerful and loves to fight, but he's also a sadist who loves to murder people.
* BloodKnight: He lives only for war, it's his only source of joy. He even admits it openly.
* BoomHeadshot: [[spoiler:What Lyle/Lockon II did to finally put him out.]]
* ButForMeItWasTuesday: Completely averted as Ali ''does'' in fact remember (to at least some extent) the majority of his evil deeds, despite having commited tons of them. While he doesn't remember him specifically, he immediately has Setsuna pegged as one of the kids he swindled in Krugis all those years ago. When Lockon calls him out on the terrorist bombing from Ireland he was apart of, he remembers that too, and even who paid him for the job and why. [[spoiler:5 years later he also remembers killing Neil and Nena's brothers, and remembers that Neil lost the fight because of his bad eye. He also figures out that Lyle is Neil's brother and looking for payback for both the bombing and killing Neil]]. He takes great care to remember all of his deeds and kills, if only because he enjoys them so much.
* CardCarryingVillain: Freely admits to being the worst kind of person ever.
* CharClone: [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]] -- he fits this trope purely in color aesthetics and for being an ArchEnemy to [[TheHero Setsuna.]] Other than that, [[CardCarryingVillain Ali]] couldn't be more unlike Char, even when Char was [[Anime/MobileSuitGundamCharsCounterattack at his worst.]]
* CloseRangeCombatant: Befitting of his BloodKnight status, Ali ''loves'' fighting up close and personal, [[EnforcedTrope and makes sure his Mobile Suits are all toned as such.]]
* CoDragons: Alongside Regene. Though he’s more Ribbons’ go-to man for hits. [[spoiler:He kills Regene, or Ribbons and Ali are lead to believe.]]
* ColonelKilgore: Ends up working for the A-Laws. He absolutely enjoys it.
* CorruptionOfAMinor: Ali seemed to specialize in recruiting child soldiers into the KPSA, Setsuna among them. He brainwashed them into thinking they were fighting a holy war for God, despite Ali not even believing in God himself, even manipulating his recruits into murdering their own parents to prove their devotion.
* CurbStompBattle: Regularly dishes these out to his enemies.
* DiesWideOpen: [[spoiler:When Lyle fatally shoots him in the head, Ali's eyes go wide in surprise as the bullet penetrates his skull. Probably the last action he could perform before his life was ended instantly.]]
* DrillSergeantNasty: A very dark example. He corrupted children into fighting in a so-called "Holy War", but really wanted an excuse to fight and left them to die.
* DroppedABridgeOnHim [[spoiler:How he goes out. He’s killed suddenly with no buildup by Lyle. [[KarmicDeath Yet he deserved every second of it]].]]
* TheDragon: [[spoiler:Is Ribbons’ right-hand man and he supports him completely, which is pretty much the only reason why he was never backstabbed. However, he’s never given a Trans-Am, implying Ribbons was afraid of losing control over him.]]
* TheDreaded: Everyone knows he's bad news, and he doesn't hesitate to make that known.
* DroneDeployer: Both his Gundams use [[AttackDrone GN Fangs]], but as Ali prefers CQC, they're mostly used to restrict movement or soften up targets before he closes in with his BFS.
* EvilerThanThou: [[spoiler:He proves to be a far bigger threat than the Trinities, whom for all their faults, believe it's benevolent. He doesn't give Michael a chance to fight and utterly wastes Johann. Nena made ''sure'' he remembered this five years later.]]
* EvilFeelsGood: He loves fighting and killing and he makes this known to everyone he meets. [[spoiler:Not even the WorldHealingWave could change this.]]
* EvilGloating: He revels in this.
* EvilHasABadSenseOfHumor: He often jokes about the crimes he's done like it's nothing.
* EvilIsNotPacifist: He's one of the few unambiguously evil characters in the series, and also explicitly in favour of war.
* EvilMentor: To Setsuna and the other Krugis ChildSoldiers.
* EvilRedhead: Red haired and one of the most evil characters in this series.
* ExpositoryHairstyleChange: Shaves his facial hair when he joins the AEU as [[SueDonym Gary Biaggi]]. Sports it again during the entire second season.
* {{Expy}}:
** He is one to ''[[Anime/MobileSuitZetaGundam Zeta Gundam]]'''s Yazan Gable, another bloodthirsty psychopath who fights for the sake of [[BloodKnight a love for war and murder]]. For added emphasis, the shape of Ali's Arche Gundam slightly resembles that of Yazan's Mobile Suit, the Hambrabi.
** He is also one to [[CombatSadomasochist Gauron]] from ''Literature/FullMetalPanic''. In addition to both being war-loving psychos for hire, Ali's Arche Gundam and Gauron's second personal Arm Slave -- the Codarl-i -- are both colored red. They are also the [[ArchEnemy archenemies]] of socially inept teenage pilots of middle-eastern origin (Setsuna for Ali, Sousuke for Gauron). Also like Gauron, he has enough PlotArmor to make a cockroach jealous. [[spoiler:Both are also killed almost abruptly and by one of their longtime victims.]]
* TheFagin: The reason Setsuna is the person he is at the beginning.
* FatalFlaw: His BloodKnight tendencies end up causing his downfall. [[spoiler:Rather than shooting [[BoomHeadshot Setsuna in the head]], he shot him in the arm which began Setsuna's development into a True Innovade.]]
* FauxAffablyEvil: He's actually somewhat polite when not killing things. It's just a mask he wears to fit into society though.
* ForTheEvulz: Yes, most of the atrocities he did are for his amusement. The money is nice too, but he mainly does it for fun.
* HatedByAll: Not that he cares what people think about him [[CardCarryingVillain since he already knows he's the worst]], but when he's not the ArchEnemy to someone, they either don't know him very well, or are using him as a pawn for their own goals. His reputation would be worse than Celestial Being's if more people knew about him.
* HeroKiller: [[spoiler:Kills Johann and Michael Trinity as well as the first Lockon Stratos. While the Trinity brothers weren't exactly heroes, they come off as the lesser evils]].
* HeyYou: He rarely outright uses the name of the faces he’s encountered. He calls Setsuna “little Krugis punk”, Nena “little girl”, and Ribbons “boss”, though the last one is the most endearing he’s been to anyone.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: [[spoiler:Kills Laguna and Regene’s body via a headshot. He dies this way too and by the last living member of one of the families he killed.]]
* GoOutWithASmile: [[spoiler:Mostly because he thought he actually got Lyle when his guard was down. When he gets a bullet to the brain, his mouth freezes in an open-mouthed laugh.]]
* ISurrenderSuckers: [[spoiler:He lets Lyle take him into custody, only to go for his gun the moment Lyle lowers his own weapon. He even laughs, "SUCKER!" as he takes aim. Too bad for Ali, he ends up the sucker as Lyle never fully lowered his gun; before Ali gets the chance to fire his gun, Lyle angles his pistol upwards and [[BoomHeadshot blows his brains out]].]]
* IgnoredEpiphany: He experiences the telepathic abilities of the 00-Raiser's Trans-Am twice. Most people who experience this wind up empathizing with their opponents and lose their will to fight. The first time Ali experiences it, he's just confused as to why he hears children singing. The second time he very briefly feels sick but quickly returns to his bloodthirsty self.
* ItsAllAboutMe: Much like Ribbons, he has little to no care for another life and will happily kill anyone.
* {{Jerkass}}: When not killing, he insults and mocks his victims. When they try to fight back, he wastes them relentlessly.
* KarmaHoudiniWarranty: [[spoiler:After managing to escape punishment for everything he had done throughout the series, he finally meets his end in the penultimate episode at the hand of one of his victims.]]
* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler:He's killed by Lyle, who lost his entire family to Ali.]]
* KickTheDog: He’ll kill people, burn down countries, and destroy all hope all to please himself.
* KnightOfCerebus: When he shows up, things will get dark real quick.
* LackOfEmpathy: Doesn't care about other people beyond their ability to give him opportunities to fight and kill. [[spoiler:When he's caught up in the Trans-AM Burst, which massively increases empathy, he finds the sensation ''disgusting''.]]
* LargeHam: Gets very loud when he's in combat.
* LastSecondChance: [[spoiler:Lyle/Lockon offered him one. [[KarmicDeath He refused]]. BANG he went]].
* LawOfChromaticSuperiority: He's a red head, most of his mobile suits are red, and he's one of the best pilots in the series. His color scheme is likely a shoutout to Char's love of red.
* LeanAndMean: His mobile suits tend to follow this profile, such as his practically-insectoid custom Enact and the very lanky-looking Arche Gundam. Ali himself has a rather slender build.
* LovableRogue: Subverted. He's introduced as a friendly mercenary who is only fighting for money, but shorty after his introduction, Setsuna's flashbacks reveal just how monstrous Ali really is.
* ManipulativeBastard: He psychologically manipulated his ChildSoldiers by pretending to be a religious leader and playing on the children's faith ([[StrawHypocrite which he himself doesn't even share]]) in order to indoctrinate them into violence.
* MaskOfSanity: He's disturbingly skilled at coming off as a cheerful mercenary and not the bloodthirsty terrorist that he actually is.
* MiddleEasternTerrorists: Before the series started, he led Kurdish child soldiers under the KPSA in a jihad.
* NiceJobFixingItVillain: Because he shot Setsuna in the ''shoulder'' with poisoned GN particles, and then tried to finish him off in melee combat, Setsuna became a ''true'' Innovator that would come to be his faction's downfall.
* NotSoDifferentRemark: Tells Neil he's just like him. Neil doesn't buy it for a second.
* NotSoSimilar: Despite claiming Neil is a terrorist like himself, Neil does everything he can to not involve innocents, unlike Ali, who will involve ''anyone and everyone'' in his chaos.
* PayEvilUntoEvil: [[spoiler:His attack on the Trinities is brutal, but it’s hard to say it was undeserved. It’s especially true for Nena, who massacred an innocent family just because she could. When Ali and Nena meet again years later, the former restrains the vengeance-bound latter with no problem and lets her off with a warning. Ultimately, they never meet again.]]
* PlotArmor: [[spoiler:Lockon blows up his Gundam towards the end of Season One. In Season Two he tells the first Gundam Meister he meets (Setsuna) that he's mighty pissed for both the painful process of ''getting incinerated from the waist down and surviving'', as well as the costs of the regeneration treatments for it.]]
* PsychoForHire: Ali loves to kill and gladly contracts out his services to the highest bidder.
* PsychopathicManchild: Not as apparent as [[spoiler:Ribbons]], but he shows shades of this. He acts like war is a game, treating his opponents like toys and utterly relishes in breaking them.
* PutTheLaughterInSlaughter: To say he enjoys murdering people is an understatement.
* QuickDraw: One of his most deadly traits is his ridiculously fast draw, catching anyone around him of guard. To make matters worse, he is also ''frighteningly'' accurate with it -- [[spoiler:he still killed Neil/Lockon I, even when the latter got the drop on him]]. [[spoiler:During his climactic confrontation with Lyle/Lockon II, Ali manages to grab his gun and line up his shot from a facing away position in the time it took Lyle to pull the trigger. Lyle only managed to get him by virtue of never fully lowering his gun]].
* RedIsViolent: Loves to kill, and always seems to be sporting a blood-red crimson motif while doing it, from his hair to his clothes to his mobile suits.
* {{Sadist}}: He's willing to torture people so long as they entertain him. Best shown with his [[CurbStompBattle "battle"]] against Johann. Ali could kill the guy the same way he killed Michael, but Ali decided that giving him a chance (for a given definition) would be more fun.
* ScarfOfAssKicking: He is shown in flashbacks training ChildSoldiers while wearing it.
* SharpDressedMan: Twice: first as Gary Biaggi, when he received the Enact Agrissa unit from the AEU; second, when he took out [[spoiler:Laguna Harvey]] and [[spoiler:Kinue Crossroad]].
* SinisterMinister: Took on this identity to corrupt the kids in Krugis.
* SmugSuper: He’s insanely arrogant, but he has the firepower to back himself up.
* SociopathicSoldier: After gaining permanent employment with Ribbons.
* TheSociopath: Outside of battle, he's able to pass for a decent human being ''just'' well and long enough to shock you with what an utter bastard he is.
* SpeakIllOfTheDead: [[spoiler: Insulted the deceased Neil in front of the Meisters, and the Trinity brothers in front of Nena. Neither parties took it well and attempted to kill him for it, only for him to give a CurbStompBattle. It took Lyle facing him alone with the help of the Trans-Am to finally remove his presence from the world.]]
* StrawHypocrite: Raised an army on religious propaganda. Is an atheist who was only in it for the kicks.
* SubordinateExcuse: In Season 2, he allied himself with Ribbons, likely for the opportunity to assist Ribbons in carrying out his abusive regime on the humans Ribbons hates so much. Yet Ali is one such human, yet merely allies with Ribbons because of the carnage he can carry out as a high-ranking operative of the A-Laws. One might wonder if Ribbons and Ali have a VillainousFriendship because they're both birds of a twisted feather.
* TallDarkAndSnarky: Yes he's tall, but the ''dark'' and ''[[SmugSuper snarky]]'' parts stand out most.
* TattooedCrook: Has a tattoo on his right arm and is not a good person in the slightest.
* TrickBullet: When he shot Setsuna in the shoulder, the bullet was laced with red GN particles. [[spoiler:This backfires as the exposure to GN particles helps turn Setsuna into a true Innovator.]]
* VillainDecay: He's much less of a threat in Season Two. This is because Setsuna became an innovator, and as stated below ...
* VillainForgotToLevelGrind: He was '''never''' given a Trans-Am mode for the Arche in the final battle (which has ''3'' GN Drives), despite being Ribbons' most loyal henchman. Perhaps Ribbons figured he'd rebel if he won, so there'd be no way to satisfy his urges in a world of complete order... or he would have been too powerful to control otherwise, even when compared to the Reborns Gundam's Twin Drive.
* VillainousFriendship: To a degree with his Season 2 employer, Ribbons Almark. Ali is very appreciative of Ribbons for hiring him and giving him the most advanced machines to indulge in his bloodlust during a [[FalseUtopia period of "peace" and "unity."]] Ribbons on his part respects Ali as his employee and that he has transcended humanity in his own way. Ali also casually refers to Ribbons as "boss", whom seems humored by this despite his desire to be revered. Seeing as they are the two most evil people in this timeline, it fits that a pair of psychopaths would delight in each other's company.
* WarForFunAndProfit: Mostly for fun. He doesn't care about money much, but if there's a smell of blood somewhere...
* WarIsGlorious: He loves war and will happily bring down anyone to it.
* WhyDontYouJustShootHim: Downplayed. Oh, he did shoot him, alright, but not in the head; he wanted to finish him off in a melee battle just to satisfy his urges. This comes back to bite his side in the ass.
* WouldHitAGirl: [[spoiler:Slaps Nena during their only meeting in Season 2 after she tries to attack him. He makes it clear she’s getting away lightly, and that it won’t happen again. He also killed Kinue prior despite the fact he’d get nothing out of it.]]
* WouldHurtAChild: [[spoiler: Aside from his little gig in [[ChildSoldier raising child soldiers]] with no regards to their innocence, he masterminded a terrorist attack in Ireland where Lockon’s sister Amy was killed. While she’s the only confirmed child Ali is responsible for the death of, it’s highly probable there were more children who he’s responsible for killing.]]
* YouKilledMyFather: Lockon [[spoiler:(both of them) and Nena]] hate him as he was responsible for the death of their families.
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[[folder:Klaus Grado]]
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[[RebelLeader The commander and the de facto leader]] of the Katharon [[LaResistance Rebel Group]], which opposes the [[TheFederation Earth Sphere Federation]] and its [[StateSec elite squad A-Laws]].

->Voiced by Creator/TokuyoshiKawashima (Japanese) and Alistair Abell (English)
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* ActionSurvivor: He's not someone who goes on the field often, but he's still able to make it to the end.
* BadassLongcoat: Wears a long coat and is the leader of a rebellion group.
* BigDamnHeroes: His appearance as Celestial Being fight against A-Laws help even things out.
* CoolOldGuy: [[spoiler: In the epilogue of movie, evidently. He become an Innovator and commander of the ''Sumeragi''-class ship.]]
* EvolutionaryLevels: [[spoiler:Evolved into an Innovator by the time of the 50 year TimeSkip.]]
* OfficialCouple: [[SubordinateExcuse With Shirin]].
* RebelLeader: The leader of Katharon, which opposes the Federation and A-Laws.
* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight: The whole reason why Katharon was formed.
* SharpDressedMan: In the movie, he wears a suit.
* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Is it Grad or Grado?
* OldFriend: As stated in official file, he befriended with Lyle long before Katharon is formed.
* SupportingLeader: As the leader of Katharon, he oversees much of the war against the A-Laws, but he's not a particularly prominent character.
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[[folder:Marina's Children]]

War orphans that were found by Katharon and adopted by Marina after her rescue.
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* CheerfulChild: They're all remarkably cheerful for war orphans.
* HappilyAdopted: Marina raised them with lots of care and affection.
* IdenticalStranger: Two of Marina's sons resemble Klaus and Graham. [[spoiler:It becomes more apparent in a photo showing them as adults.]]
* SheIsAllGrownUp: [[spoiler:A photo at the epilogue of TheMovie shows them as adults.]]
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[[folder:Descartes Shaman]]
!!Descartes Shaman
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->'''Main mecha:''' [=GNMA-Y0002V=] Gadelaza

Humanity's second confirmed True Innovator, an ESF captain and the pilot of the Gadelaza.

->Voiced by Ryo Katsuji (Japanese) and Ryan Luhning (English).
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* AcePilot: He's a very good pilot and has a LightningBruiser for a Gundam.
* AntiHero: He views himself as superior to humanity, but is fighting to save the world.
* BeamSpam: His fangs are capable of blasting beams across the battlefield.
* DroneDeployer: The Gadelaza has 154 GN Fangs. Said Fangs are capable of ZergRush.
* EmpoweredBadassNormal: He is the second pure Innovator aside Setsuna. However, he is the ''first'' Innovator who acknowledge by ESF.
* EvolutionaryLevels: He's the second natural born Innovator.
* FateWorseThanDeath: [[spoiler:He is assimilated by the ELS.]]
* FreudianExcuse: His abrasive behaviour is mostly a result of the ESF treating him like a living weapon before Kati shows up. It's implied that it's given him a bit of a complex.
* LawOfChromaticSuperiority: Pilots a red mobile armor while donning a red pilot suit.
* LightningBruiser: The Gadelaza is fast and powerful.
* MacrossMissileMassacre: The Gadelaza can overwhelm its targets with beams.
* MauveShirt: [[spoiler:Built up as a major character, but he dies about halfway through the film.]]
* NamedAfterSomebodyFamous: He is partially named for the famous French philosopher and mathematician Rene Descartes.
* NeverTrustATrailer: Trailers showed him as a villain, but he is one of the heroes.
* OneManArmy: The Gadelaza has a fleet's worth of firepower.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: Overlaps with SupernaturalGoldEyes if he's using his Quantum Brainwaves.
* SacrificialLion: [[spoiler:Dies about halfway through the film, to show that the ELS are really that dangerous.]]
* ShadowArchetype: To Setsuna. While Setsuna works with humanity, Descartes views himself as a superior being.
* SmugSuper: He considers himself to be superior to normal humans.
* SmallNameBigEgo: He thinks he's the greatest person ever. [[spoiler: The ELS assimilate him with no problem.]]
* WaveMotionGun: The Gadelaza's most powerful weapon: the GN Blaster.
* WeHardlyKnewYe: [[spoiler:Is billed as one of the main characters of the film, but dies after getting little screentime.]]
* WorfEffect: [[spoiler:His Gadelaza is the strongest mobile weapon in Anno Domini setting in terms of firepower, but the ELS effortlessly assimilate it, showing the audience that brute force isn't the solution to this crisis.]]
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[[folder:Mina Carmine]]

!!Mina Carmine
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An astrophysicist working for the Earth Sphere Federation and an IdenticalStranger to Nena Trinity. She is Billy's girlfriend after he patched things up with Sumeragi.

->Voiced by Creator/RieKugimiya (Japanese) and Creator/NicoleBouma (English)
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* BabiesEverAfter: Has a son with Billy.
* GenkiGirl: She's as cheerful as Nena and fortunately far less violent.
* IdenticalStranger: To Nena. [[spoiler: Apparently, she's her naturally-born counterpart, her family line being where Nena's DNA came from.]]
* InconsistentSpelling: Mena, Meena or Mina?
* MsFanservice: She often poses seductively to woo Billy.
* NerdsAreSexy: She's an attractive scientist.
* NiceGirl: Despite her sexual aggression, in sharp contrast with Nena, Mina is always friendly to people and is willing to lend a hand when possible.
* OfficialCouple: With Billy.
* SecondLove: For Billy, after [[{{Yandere}} ruins his chances to get with Sumeragi by trying to kill her.]]
* SexySecretary: To Billy.
* ShowSomeLeg: One of the ways she seduces Billy is showing off her legs to him.
* SignificantDoubleCasting: Has both of Nena’s [[Creator/RieKugimiya voice]] [[Creator/NicoleBouma actors]], signifying Mina’s status as her IdenticalStranger.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: She’s basically Nena, but if she was a normal, stable human.
* WomanChild: Downplayed, but it’s there. Despite being a world-renown astrophysicist, Mina gets extremely excited to see Billy Katagiri and proceeds to [[TheGlomp rush]] and ''dry hump'' him (in front of their colleagues) in her first appearance.
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[[folder:Amia Lee]]

!!Amia Lee
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A female high school student who is infected by ELS in a half of the body. The Earth Sphere Federation takes her unconscious body as a sample in order to learn more about the ELS. In the epilogue, she is able to completely coexist with ELS and is the captain of "Sumeragi", an outer space navigating spaceship.


->Voiced by: Yuka Nishigaki (Japanese)
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* BodyHorror: The ELS turn half of her body into metal spikes. [[spoiler:After Setsuna makes peace with the ELS, her metal half changes to be symmetrical to her biological half, allowing her to live a normal life as an Innovator-ELS hybrid.]]
* BreakTheCutie: She's among the first victims of human assimilation by the ELS. And it is horrifying.
* TheCaptain: In the epilogue, of the ''Sumeragi''.
* EvolutionaryLevels: She's become an Innovator by the end.
* FlatCharacter: Her introduction in the movie is her being assimilated by the ELS and only seen briefly later regaining conscious and awakening as an Innovator. She's last seen in the epilogue as the Innovator-ELS hybrid captain of the ''Sumeragi'' exploration vessel, leaving most of her life and her personality a complete mystery.
* HalfHumanHybrid: Becomes half-ELS after being partially assimilated.
* InnocentBystanders: She's just a run-of-the-mill high school student. [[spoiler:Who happens to have Innovator potential.]]
* {{Joshikousei}}: Seen wearing one when the ELS first attacks her.
* OlderThanTheyLook: By the epilogue, she's in her 60s, but doesn't look any older than her 20s.
* OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent: She's just an ordinary student with the misfortune to have quantum brain waves strong enough to attract the ELS.
* UnexplainedRecovery: Apparently to show us that hope is not lost for those not completely assimilated: she's still got a noticeably half-ELS body in the epilogue, but appears to be doing just fine.
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[[folder:Extraterrestrial Living-Metal Shape-Shifters (ELS)]]
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The ELS are a race of techno-organic sentient aliens that has the unique abilities to assimilate/infect nearly all life and technology. They appear as a silver metallic organisms that can take solid or liquid-like forms.
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* AliensAreBastards: [[spoiler:Subverted The ordeal that causes the main conflict of the movie is the fact they didn't know they were hurting humanity by their actions, as one of their main methods of communication is assimilating with things they come into contact with, and they stop the instant they find out just what kind of damage they've been doing, ultimately revealing themselves to be quite peaceful.]]
* AssimilationPlot: After seeing them swallow up and assimilate humans, mobile suits and even ''space cruisers'', the fear is that this is what is inevitable for Earth if the ELS converge on it on masse, which they have '''more than enough times a hundred''' the ships to do. [[spoiler: After Setsuna makes true First Contact with them by finally matching their lengthwave with the QAN[T], the ELS seem to realize how horrific their normal assimilation process is to biological life and the ELS mothership forms a flower the size of the ''Moon'' from their mothership as a peace offering. In the aftermath of the GrandFinale, the ELS seem to have harmlessly synthesized with Earth's inhabitants while leaving them as individuals, as well as drastically transforming technology and society for the better while securing themselves a new home on Earth. That all of Earth seem to be in the closest thing Anno Domini has had to a lasting peace in the ''fifty years'' it takes Setsuna to return from their home seals the deal that the ELS's HeelRealization turns them into perhaps the most positive example of this in anime history.]]
* BlueAndOrangeMorality: They really do not seem to understand the value humans place on individual lives. Or on individuality. In fact, it might be said that they are just as confused by the nature of human life as we are by them. Justified as they're a HiveMind and thus have no concept of an individual. [[spoiler: And when a chat with Setsuna reveals to them that their normal method of communication is dangerous to earth, and that their reaction to being attacked as a result is not helping things, they IMMEDIATELY cease all hostilities, form a symbol of peace, and ultimately end up in symbiosis with humanity as a whole. Granted they also side against the Old Human Faction later on, but that had more to do with the fact that said side wanted them dead as well and they certainly strayed from repeating their actions during the movie.]]
* BodyHorror: Those possesed by them undergo this. The process of having your flesh and bones start sprouting jagged, silver-colored spikes by their assimilation is shown to be ''extremely'' painful and damaging. [[spoiler: Averted by humans that undergo synthesis with the ELS after they become docile, who take on a slight metalic sheen, but are otherwise still completely individual unlike before.]]
* ColorCodedForYourConvenience: The GN particles of their [[PowerCopying take on the GNX's]] are a dark blue or purple to visually distinguish them in the GrandFinale from the Earth Federation's red and Celestial Being's green.
* ContrastingSequelAntagonist: Alejandro and Ribbons made it no secret they were absolute bastards that had no problem hurting people. The ELS didn't realize they were hurting anyone until Setsuna manages to get in a conversation.
* DittoAliens: As shapeshifters, they can take any form they want. Despite this, there are a few basic forms they seem to prefer as defaults. Two ELS taking the same shape are completely indistinguishable from one another, at least to human eyes.
* DoomedHometown: The ending reveals that their homeworld's star went supernova, which explains why they came to the Sol System.
* {{Expy}}: Their design are like [[Series/BabylonFive Vorlon ships.]]
* FaceFullOfAlienWingWong: Their larger vessels invoke this for other battleships; they are basically ''huge'' missiles which's thrusters shapeshift into three tentacles for grabbing onto and rapidly assimilating anything they latch onto.
* FirstContact: The first-ever aliens to appear in the Franchise/{{Gundam}} franchise. They are also notable for being one of the more recent depictions of aliens both during the film's airing and years afterwards that aren't some kind of humanoid/insectoid creature, instead being a truly alien lifeform in every single way.
* FunWithAcronyms: '''E'''xtraterrestrial '''L'''iving-metal '''S'''hapeshifters
* TheGreys: They are Grey / Silver / Mercury / Platinum colored.
* HauntedTechnology: The few ELS aboard the ''Europa'' drone that make it onto earth mostly behave in this way by hijacking anything from electrical doors to cars and helicopters. One horrific scene shows a Berlin train station being nearly destroyed by two ELS-assimilated trains smashing into two trains already parked in the station, [[NightmareFuel complete with the wrecked ELS train slowly driving away after causing the tragedy, regardless of whether the train is in a state to drive.]]
* HiveMind: An advanced version. The structure of their mind is completely alien to that of a human's, and they all share a mental link. This is to the point where, when they start absorbing and copying [=GNX-IVs=], said link makes them far more dangerous than their human-piloted counterparts due to said shared link and shared vision.
%%* InvadingRefugees:
* InvincibleVillain: While not evil, the sheer numbers and abilities of the ELS makes them a threat the movie makes clear the heroes cannot hope to stop by fighting. The FinalBattle amounts to merely holding the line long enough for Setsuna to use the 00 Qan[T][[note]]which [[AllThereInTheManual side material]] notes was so powerful it was calculated it could have defeated them all, but required a week of nonstop fighting which was beyond realistic pilot enduence[[/note]] to contact with and [[TalkingTheMonsterToDeath convince them to stop]].
* KillSat: Subverted by the huge ELS planetoid, which despite ''dwarfing'' the show's previous KillSat, the ''Celestial Being'', doesn't seem to carry any weapons and doesn't actively attack the Earth Armada, relying on smaller ELS to defend itself.
* PoorCommunicationKills: Played [[BodyHorror horrifyingly]] straight, as their only method of communication besides quantum interfacing is painfully assimilating whatever they touch, humans included...
* PowerCopying: They begin doing this in the final battle, copying warship and mobile suit designs, and even GN Fields and particle beams. This also makes them a ''lot'' more effective in combat, as their HiveMind allows them to utilize tactics and the machines they copy to levels far higher than a squad of pilots ever could.
* OutsideContextProblem: They're humanities first alien encounter with a threat posed by their unknown motives and capabilities. Even for Celestial Being's AncientConspiracy, which was in part to prepare humanity for FirstContact, it's happening centuries sooner than exacted so they're far from ready.
* SiliconBasedLife: Suggested to be such, as they are made of metal. [[spoiler: The ELS eventually grant themselves to humans to be used as they wish - side material implies pretty much all Mobile Suits after the arrival (and possibly all of technology) are ELS that have been cast into a mold.]]
* StarfishAliens: They are made of metal. They can shapeshift in seconds. They are psychic. They can assimilate things. They live in gas giants as hives of intersecting metal plates that communicate via quantum brainwaves and used to live in a complete planetary harmony, producing what looks very similar to GN Particles to sustain and reproduce themselves (if such a thing is even necessary for them)... actually, compared to recent depictions of aliens in other series around the time of 00's airing and even currently, there isn't ''anything'' familiar about them to Earth lifeforms. In Fact, somehow they're even more alien than the ''[[Anime/EurekaSeven Coralians]]'' ever were, which is saying something, but as the same time eerily realistic.
* UrExample: They are the first aliens to actually appear in the Franchise/{{Gundam}} franchise, though there's a SpaceWhale fossil that appeared in ''[[Anime/MobileSuitGundamSEED SEED]]'', and possibly the [[Anime/TurnAGundam Turn-X]] that supplementary materials state "originates from outside the solar system".
* VoluntaryShapeShifting: There are several forms they seem to gravitate to by default, but it's pretty clear that they can take any form they desire, with no limitation other than size (and even that could be called into question).
* WeHaveReserves: The "armada" of ELS ships that show up through a wormhole near Jupiter is so massive that they form a cloud of platinum-colored flying objects ''longer than the gas giant is wide''. There's likely more ELS ships than there is ''life on earth'', and that's before the mothership shows up with the main armada.
* ZergRush: They tend to do this in combat, sending out massive swarms of smaller ELS to absorb and assimilate other things. They're easy to shoot down, but there's just ''so many of them'' that they get through regardless. They show very little consideration for the lives of said smaller ELS, which would make sense if they are, in fact, a HiveMind.
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