Characters / Macross Delta

Main Characters

Hayate Immelman

Voiced by: Yūma Uchida

The male lead of Macross Delta. Hayate has been wandering throughout most of his life, trying out many jobs in many places, never finding anything that felt right. He's on his last day of his current job as a dock worker and Workroid pilot when he meets Freyja Wion who had stowed away inside a container of apples.

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• Ace Pilot: Not at the start of the series but he becomes one when he usually synchronizes with Freyja, allowing him to become this trope. He also legitimately becomes one by the end of the series; Absolute Live shows him to be incredibly skilled, though not skilled enough to keep up with Max.
• Anguished Declaration of Love: In the final episode he gives one to Freyja.
• Blue Is Heroic: Blue is always used to identify him in the show and promotional materials. He has blue hair, a blue uniform, his Valkyries almost always have a blue paint job, and he is always colored blue whenever he has an Out-of-Clothes Experience.
• The Berserker: In episode 18: Due to the Protoculture ruins affecting Frejya's singing, he becomes this when he synchronizes with Freyja.
• Brilliant, but Lazy: Is shown to be a competent mecha pilot with how he nimbly controls his Destroid Work, even as he happily skips out on duties and work to goof off. He eventually grows out of this trope as the war against Windermere intensifies.
• Call to Agriculture: The Stinger of the second film has him living on an apple farm in Windermere, per the late Freyja's promise.
• Color-Coded Characters: He tends to fly blue-colored Valkyries, except for when he used Messer's black VF-31F Siegfried during the later parts of the TV series, as well as the 1st movie's final battle.
• Contrasting Sequel Main Character: Alto was passive, withdrawn and easy to exasperate; Hayate on the other hand, is more outspoken, relaxed and fun-loving. The only similarities between them is that they're both blue-haired guys with a passion for flying.
  • Furthermore, their reactions to the Love Triangle are contrasting. While Alto either doesn't choose either conclusively (the TV continuity) or takes until the very end of Wings of Goodbye to choose Sheryl over Ranka (film continuity), Hayate is heavily implied to have spent the entire series infatuated with Freyja in both continuities and doesn't even process Mirage as a potential Love Interest in the films.
  • Even their chosen Love Interests end up contrasting. Sheryl is a glamorous Lovable Alpha Bitch accustomed to luxury and the older of the two love interests, whereas Freyja is a Nice Girl Country Mouse and the younger of the two love interests.
• Dance Battler: When he jumps into a beaten up Valkyrie to protect Freyja, he proceeds to dance his way through the battlefield in perfect beat with Walküre's song. And not just any dance but break dance.
• Deadpan Snarker: Seems to be the first main character of the type for the franchise.
• Desperately Looking for a Purpose in Life: Has tried many jobs and went to many places, but hasn't found anything that felt "right". He eventually finds it in flying for Delta Platoon.
• Empowered Badass Normal: Like all the Walküres, Hayate possesses fold receptors and can remotely "feel" his opponents, especially Windermerans, who all have them. This greatly helps him in a fight, even allowing him to defeat Keith. He further becomes this while synchronising with Freyja's song, managing to out-fly pilots with significantly more experience than him.
• Experienced Protagonist: In Passionate Walkure, he's been with Chaos alongside Mirage and the other pilots for a while before he met Freyja.
• Falling into the Cockpit: Jumps into an abandoned VF-171 to try to protect Freyja. Justified in that his previous job involved piloting mecha and he was already quite good at it. Ends when he tries to take it into the sky which promptly gets him shot down. It takes about a months worth of training to get him able to actually fly, let alone dogfight.
• The Gadfly: Does this both to Freyja and Mirage, but while the former largely forgets his barbs on the spot or retorts immediately, Mirage buys them hook, line and sinker.
• Helmets Are Hardly Heroic: Which is why he doesn't bother (specifically, he doesn't sync well with the Siegfried's automated systems). The mechanics compromise by installing an instantly-deploying helmet into his flight suit anyway.
• The Hero: The protagonist and the focus of the Love Triangle.
• Heroic BSoD: Gets a short moment of it in episode 6 after he gets what he believes is his first confirmed kill. Which is a proud tradition of all relevant Macross protagonists starting from Hikaru Ichijou himself.
• The Immune: His fold receptors make him immune to Var Syndrome. He is only partially immune as later events reveal; Freyja's singing is able to induce it in him by accident, but he eventually overcomes it through The Power of Love.
• Innocently Insensitive: A Windermerian doesn't often live past 30. Freyja reaching her 15th birthday makes her middle aged by their standards. This is something Hayate was made aware of by Freyja herself in episode 16. Then in Episode 17, he brings up how he hasn't seen his family in a while. Freyja tells him to visit his mom at least. But Hayate says it's only been one or two years. But Freyja's smile immediately drops and her Rune, which had been glowing brightly all episode, actually dims, and Hayate instantly recognizes he messed up.
  • He later does it again in Absolute Live. Keep in mind, Freyja's lifespan can be measured in days at that point.
• It Amused Me: Seems to be the main motivation for his gadfly behavior, as he's been bored with his life in general.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He might rile up others for his own amusement, which is quite dickish behavior, but he doesn't get abusive and actually means well. By the end of the show, he has shed most of his negative qualities and become a straight-up Nice Guy. It does help in this regard that the main target of his teasing, Freyja, is able to give back as good as she gets resulting in a Vitriolic Best Buds relationship.
• Meaningful Name: shares his last name with Max Immelmann, a famous German pilot in World War I credited with the invention of the aerial maneuver of the same name. Also to the Nakajima Ki-84 Hayate, a WWII fighter known for its speed and firepower.
• Mid-Season Upgrade: After his own unit is destroyed in episode 13, he starts using Messer's to continue the fight.
  • He gets a new unit for the final battle, with a paladin icon in place of the previous Grim Reaper.
• Military Brat: The son of a military pilot father and an army medic mother.
• No OSHA Compliance: Subverted — Hayate doesn't like wearing his helmet while flying, which is why his mechanics have fitted his eX-Gear with an auto-deploying helmet in case he has to eject into an unbreathable environment.
• Oblivious to Love: Hayate is entirely ignorant of how Mirage and Freyja see him and is baffled by their frequently inexplicable (to him) behavior. And also his own reactions to them; in particular, he acts completely confused about the idea he might have feelings for Freyja when asked....after delivering snow to her for her birthday to remind her of her home on Windermere and touching her Rune, an act previously shown to hold great intimacy to the Windermereans and for which she calls him a pervert for doing previously.
  • Lampshaded by Makina and Reina in Episode 16 when they're spying on him shopping with Mirage.
• Pink Girl, Blue Boy: The Blue Boy to Freyja's Pink Girl (well, red but pink is also associated with her). True to the implications of this trope, they become the Official Couple.
• Planning for the Future Before the End: In Absolute Live, once Freyja's crystalisation worsens, he makes plans with Freyja to make an apple farm on Windermere and live the rest of his life out with her. While Freyja dies before him -and not long after he makes that promise at that-, he does make good on his promise to make an apple orchard on Windermere, where he raises the Siren System child.
• Plot Allergy: Is allergic to cats, and is now stationed in a planet with mercats and later has to go undercover on a planet filled with Cat people twice.
• Power Incontinence: Episodes 16 and 17 suggest that his synchronization with Freyja isn't completely beneficial for him. It goes full circle from Episode 18 and beyond when the Protoculture ruins affects the synchronization, causing him to go out of control.
• Sins of Our Fathers: It's revealed that Wright Immelman, his father was the one that dropped the bomb on Windermere with the added injury that he betrayed NUNs and destroyed their base. Hayate seems as surprised as anyone about this.
• Someone to Remember Him By: A gender-flipped and odd example from Absolute Live, Hayate ends up raising the baby created from the Siren System, whose appearance and personality were influenced by Freyja's singing, after the latter passes away. The child ends up taking on Freyja's personality and elements of her appearance.
• Suicidal "Gotcha!": When the Windermerean government subjects Hayate, Freyja and Mirage to execution, Hayate asks to be allowed to feel the wind before his death. His actual scheme is to pull this off using his and Mirage's Valkyries to rescue themselves, with assistance from Arad using his father's Valkyrie.
• Technical Pacifist: Hayate has stated he loathes the army and does his best to not kill anyone, even the Aerial Knights. He inevitably goes into a Heroic BSoD when he does kill someone, and doesn't end up killing the Big Bad (as Keith does this instead).
  • This is however averted when he battles Keith in episode 13; Hayate shoots into the latter's cockpit near the end of their battle, putting the White Knight into a coma in the following episode.
• Technician Versus Performer: Is the performer, with his technician opposite being Mirage.
• True Companions: How he tries to classify his relationship with Freyja before the ending of episode 16, "not just a friend, but not a lover either." He isn't certain of his feelings. Mirage noted that this may lead up to a Love Epiphany, which it does.
  • This is more true of himself and Mirage, after they settle into Just Friends.
• Vomit Discretion Shot: He throws up after a few training exercises with Mirage.

Freyja Wion

Voiced by: Minori Suzuki

A Plucky Girl who ran away from home, stowing away on a freighter to pursue her dreams of joining Walküre. She ends up almost getting caught by the dock police before Hayate saves her. Later on, during a Var outbreak, she ends up displaying her mysterious power as a Windermerian during a performance by Walküre.

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• All-Loving Heroine: With nary an exception, Freyja shows no anger or hatred towards her enemies, even Bogue and Roid. She decides to keep singing to stop the war so she can make everyone happy.
  • In Absolute Live she even attempts to save the Siren System child, which pays off when Hayate succeeds in retrieving them before the Battle Astrea blows up.
• Annoying Laugh: Freyja has a giggling cackle that Hayate finds creepy. It is also her Signature Laugh, showing up on multiple songs focusing on her.
• Arranged Marriage: Trying to escape one is one of the reasons she stowed away on a freighter to Al-Shahal, kicking off the series.
• Ascended Fangirl: One of Freyja's biggest wishes prior to the series is to join Walkure, who end up recruiting her when they realise her Fold receptors are strong enough for her to counter Var Syndrome.
• Badass Pacifist: She desires to end the conflict between Windermere and the rest of the galaxy without further deaths, looking distraught whenever the idea of using singing as a weapon is floated. As a member of Walkure who deploys into active battlefields to negate Var Syndrome, she automatically becomes this. Her resolve to sing in episode 13 was able to turn the tides of the battle.
• Beyond the Impossible: Freyja manages to pull this off in Absolute Live, managing to create a Rune Flower in a Virtuaroid (fittingly, her own counterpart Yami_Freyja), an entirely digital being that shouldn't even have a Rune. This results in the Siren System child inheriting both her Rune and some of her appearance and personality. This is despite the other known Star Singer clone (Mikumo) not showing any Windermerean traits.
• Breaking Old Trends: With regards to the Love Triangle, Freyja is the first Love Interest of her mold to get her man; Macross tradition has the younger love interest lose out, with Minmay, Mao and Ranka losing to their older counterparts.
  • Unless one counts Sara whose fate is ambiguous due to her and Shin disappearing into Fold space, with Absolute Live Freyja is also the first Love Interest to unambiguously die at the end of her character arc, dying as a result of crystallisation.
  • She's also the first Love Interest to be entirely non-human (all previous members of the Love Triangle were only Half-Human Hybrid at most, whereas Freyja is a full-blooded Windermerean). Unless one counts Sivil.
• Cast from Lifespan: In addition to the superior physical attributes all Windermereans possess, Freyja is able to amplify her singing's effects using her Rune at the cost of reducing her already limited lifespan. It causes her to display signs of old age towards the end of the series.
  • In Absolute Live, Freyja dies as a result of using the last of her lifespan to sing in order to defeat Heimdall. Earlier in the film, her crystallisation has accelerated so much it covers most of her arms and some of her face; by the time of her death, most of her face is covered.
• Character Signature Song: Rune ga Pikatto Hikkatara, one of Freyja's (and her actress') solo songs, the first ED to the show and one she actually sings during episode 5.
• Clingy Jealous Girl: In Episode 9 she was very uncomfortable about the rumor that Mirage and Hayate were dating.
• Country Mouse: Windermere is shown to be less urban and developed than other planets (though capable of competing at a technological level with their own crafts), and Freyja comes complete with a hard-to-place dialect that sounds like a mix of a few from Western Japan, also resulting in an odd laugh.
• Cute Clumsy Girl: This is heavily played up during her first live concert, which endears the audience to her.
• Dark and Troubled Past: Heavily implied, as Freyja has constant flashbacks to seeing flames on Windermere. It turns out Freyja witnessed Hayate's father drop a bomb on Windermere, destroying an entire village.
• Death by Adaptation: In the second movie, Absolute Live, there's more emphasis on Freyja's short life as a Windermerian, and its shadow looms over her every time she sings. She uses up all her energy for one final song before dying at the end of the movie.
• Defector from Decadence: Accidentally. She joins the Walküre to follow her dreams as a singer mere weeks before Windermere declares war on the NUNS government. This results in her being deemed a traitor by the Windermerean government and subject to execution, had Hayate (and Arad, using Wright's refurbished Valkyrie) not saved her, Mirage and himself.
• The Determinator: Don't ever underestimate her will to pursue her dream or protect those she cares for. This trait ultimately results in her being able to break out of Roid's Assimilation Plot (after a Love Confession from Hayate) and directly match Mikumo for sheer power, if only temporarily.
  • In Absolute Live this trait ultimately leads to her death. Despite being ordered not to perform to stop her crystalisation from progressing further, Freyja does so to protect Hayate and the others, which kills her from the strain.
• Deuteragonist: The story of Macross Delta is ultimately just as much about Freyja's development as it is Hayate's, and she is given equal, if not occasionally superior focus in story scenes.
• Died in Your Arms Tonight: In Absolute Live, she dies in Hayate's arms after her final song.
• Dying Declaration of Love: In Absolute Live twice over; the lyrics of ALIVE ~Inori no Uta~ are one themselves, and Freyja's last words are her telling Hayate she loves him.
• Expressive Hair: Part of being Windermeran. The heart shaped bit on her hair (called a Rune) extends and glows when she uses her power.
• Facial Dialogue: Her expressions whenever Hayate teases her say as much as her vocal reactions.
• First Girl Wins: She's the first girl Hayate meets, and in the final episode, Hayate declares that he loves her.
• Gathering Steam: Unlike the other members of Walküre, Freyja is initially unable to use her considerable amount of fold receptors from the get-go. It takes either being placed under immense stress or Hayate being endangered for Freyja to achieve her fullest potential. This trait fades away over time, but never quite disappears.
• Genki Girl: Always upbeat and positive. Heck, it's her Walküre catchphrase. (Uta wa Genki = "Music is energy!")
• Go Out with a Smile: At the end of Absolute Live, her expression after dying is a small, satisfied smile.
• Heart Symbol: It's part of her expressive hair, given that it's her Rune.
• Heroic RRoD: Freyja begins to suffer these towards the second half of the series and throughout Absolute Live due to her burning up her lifespan to sing, collapsing after immense uses of her power. It eventually kills her in Absolute Live.
• Hiding the Handicap: Takes to hiding one of her hands after it develops a single flake of the crystallisation which is associated with old age in Windermerans.
• Human Aliens: She's Windermeran, another race of aliens similar to humans that were influenced by the Protoculture.
• Idiot Hair: She has one in addition to her Rune.
• Interrupted Declaration of Love: It's implied in episode 17 that she was about to tell Hayate that she loved him when she was interrupted by an elderly Ragnan couple.
• The Knights Who Say "Squee!": Freyja starts the series a massive fan of not just Walkure (which she ends up joining), but previous idols such as Sheryl, Ranka and Fire Bomber. Fittingly, in spinoffs where Freyja gets to interact with them, she absolutely gushes over her inspirations. One of the few times we see Freyja's childhood even has her singing Ranka's Seikan Hikou.
• Last Kiss: In Absolute Live she and Hayate share a kiss shortly before she dies.
• Love Epiphany: Episode 17 suggests that Hayate's birthday gift causes this for her; she spends most of the episode not able to stop thinking about Hayate, and it's implied she was going to confess her feelings to him before being interrupted. It does take until the very end of the series for her to actually make a Love Confession, however.
• Meaningful Name: Freyja gets her name from the Norse Goddess of Love, Magic, and War; Freyja is a talented singer, whose love for Hayate increases her own power, and is a powerful singer on par with Mikumo. Depending on the interpretation, the goddess is occasionally depicted as a Valkyrie as well, tying into Freyja's role as a member of Walküre.
  • Additionally, the goddess Freyja is often tied to Idunn, goddess of youth and apples. Freyja is both the ostensibly youngest member of Walkure and her Trademark Favorite Food is apples.
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business: In Absolute Live, Freyja, the Plucky Girl who has taken everything that happens to her in the series in stride, utterly breaks down in tears when she realises her crystallisation has worsened to the point that her death is imminent. She recovers quickly, but the gravity of the situation is clear.
• Pink Girl, Blue Boy: The Pink Girl to Hayate's Blue Boy. True to the implications of this trope, they become the Official Couple.
• Plucky Girl: She has a sunny disposition towards nearly everyone and is determined to reach her dream. Even faced with the realities of war, Freyja barely stops. Even being told her Love Interest's father bombed her homeworld ultimately doesn't faze her for very long.
  • The only time her pluckiness is seriously challenged is the realisation that her singing is driving Hayate berserk due to Power Incontinence and, in Absolute Live, realising that her death is imminent.
• The Pollyanna: Even when confronted with a Var-affected attacker she takes it in stride. This trope gradually fades away throughout the series, however.
• Rookie Red Ranger: While she doesn't take the center position (Mikumo retains it throughout the story), Freyja is the Naïve Newcomer to Walkure, and ends up being Mikumo's equal in power due to her Rune. For bonus points, Freyja's primary outfit color is red.
• Secret Test of Character: In the Episode 2 the Walküre rig the ropeway car as an impromptu theater to play a little simulation of the Var syndrome episode to test Freyja's reaction. She starts singing even cowering under the (simulated) attack, passing the test with flying colors.
• Snow Means Love: Hayate managing to make it snow for her in episode 16 directly sparks her Love Epiphany.
• Tareme Eyes: Highlighting her dojikko and Plucky Girl tendencies. Also stands in contrast with Mirage who has Tsurime Eyes.
• Theme Naming: Freia from The Ring of the Nibelung, the ditzy goddess of love, youth, beauty, and apples.
• Token Heroic Orc: The only Windermerian currently on the good guys' side, and the only one who appears to have concerns about the war.
• Trademark Favorite Food: APPLES. She has an Affectionate Nickname for, of all things, apple juice, Apju, and knows them so well that she can recognize the origin of the generic Galactic Apple brand as being a shell company for Windermere to import their apples, due to being part of a binary compound to create the infection vector of Var Syndrome.
• We Are as Mayflies: Windermereans have very short lifespans in exchange for their extreme physical abilities. This knowledge motivates Freyja to do as much as she can while she's able to.
• You Can't Go Home Again: Freyja is warned that due to Windermere's isolationist policies, by joining Walküre she will essentially be banished from her own home planet. She decides to join anyways. Later, Windermere declares war on the NUNS, further distancing Freyja from her home.
• Your Days Are Numbered: A source of tension in the final two episodes of the series and Absolute Live; Freyja's singing career has accelerated her aging as a result of her Rune, causing her to show signs of old age despite only being halfway through a Windermerean's normal lifespan.
  • In Absolute Live, after Father Johan's death, Freyja begins second-guessing whether or not she should be with Hayate because of this trope, knowing full well she will die long before him. The question becomes moot at the end; she dies at the end of the film, and her last act is to affirm her love for Hayate and share a Last Kiss with him.

Mirage Farina Jenius

Voiced by: Asami Seto

A part-Zentraedi pilot from Delta Platoon and the granddaughter of the first Zentraedi-Human couple in history. She is first introduced properly when she attempts to arrest Hayate when she mistakes his rescue of Freyja as an attempt at sexual harassment, and ends up as Hayate's wingman and instructor when he joins Delta Flight.

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• Ace Pilot: Subverted. Despite her Heroic Lineage, her own flying is… decent at best. Messer ascribes it to her Control Freak nature, which makes her piloting painfully by-the-book and thus extremely predictable. Absolute Live has both Arad and Max mention that she doesn't have what it takes to be an ace. Her real calling is as a commander.
• Adaptational Romance Downgrade: In the 1st movie, she only displays a slight attraction towards Hayate, downplaying the Love Triangle almost out of existence. The 2nd movie even has her claim that her feelings for Hayate aren't quite the same as Freyja's.
• Color-Coded Characters: Her Valkyries have a purple paintjob.
• Control Freak: Her more orderly lifestyle is used for comedy, especially compared to Hayate and Freyja.
• Clingy Jealous Girl: She looks rather uncomfortable when she sees how close Freyja and Hayate in episode 10, and later in episode 16, even shedding a Single Tear when she realises just how close Freyja and Hayate are to a Relationship Upgrade.
• Defeat Means Friendship: Played with, it's Hayate who has a change of heart when he wins their duel and apologizes to her, and enthusiastically promising to show up to her lessons in the future.
• Drill Sergeant Nasty: Initially shown to have a very mild case of this trope, minus the sergeant part, as Hayate's instructor. She eventually grows out of this.
• Ice Queen: So far been a cold and confrontational martinet.
  • Defrosting Ice Queen: Starts to thaw once Hayate apologizes to her after their duel, and gradually becomes Fire-Forged Friends with Hayate, even falling in love with him.
• Hair-Trigger Temper: To say that Mirage is irritable would be an understatement. Moreover, she's quick to see (or imagine) the worst in any situation, and Hayate is fast to exploit that to amuse himself.
• Half-Human Hybrid: A human-Zentraedi cross. Her name indicates that she's from the Jenius family - the first family of human-zentraedi hybrids which started with the marriage of Maximilan Jenius to Miriya Farina in the original series. Specifically, her mother is Miranda Jenius, their 6th daughter, making Mirage Max and Miriya's granddaughter, as well as Mylene's niece.
• Heroic Lineage: She is the granddaughter of Maximilan Jenius and Miriya Farina, two famous ace pilots from the original series. Mirage seems to be struggling under the weight of her grandparents' legendary piloting skills, especially when compared to her own (decent, but not to the level of either of her grandparents) skills.
• I Want My Beloved to Be Happy:
  • Accepts Hayate and Freyja’s relationship, albeit with a teary eye. She also ends up being one of their strongest advocates, hitting them with multiple Get A Hold Of Yourself Man moments and pushing the two of them to confess to each other in the final episode to break out of Roid's Assimilation Plot.
  • Absolute Live has a brief moment where her grandfather Max outright deduces that Mirage is the type to bow out of Love Triangle of her own initiative.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: At first, she was blunt and dismissive towards Hayate, but upon getting to know him, Mirage becomes more patient and aware of her own limitations. She eventually drops the Jerk part for the most part, especially as her feelings for Hayate increase and she becomes more comfortable with others. By the end of episode 16, she silently sheds a tear upon watching how close Hayate and Freyja have become.
• Kindhearted Cat Lover: Has a pet Mer-Cat, a creature which looks like a cross between a cat and a fish.
• Love Confessor: Played with; in Absolute Live, she tells Freyja that she also loves Hayate, but immediately after states it's not quite the same as Freyja's feelings. Instead, Mirage claims to have admired Hayate's free spirit.
• Love Hurts: Mirage has the unfortunate luck to see Hayate and Freyja grow closer and closer as her feelings for Hayate grow stronger; it also doesn't particularly help that she's become good friends with Freyja, her love rival and roommate. She eventually channels her feelings into pushing the two together when events later in the series push them apart.
• Number Two: The TV series explicitly makes her the Delta Squadron's second-in-command after Messer's death, even giving her his callsign of "Delta 2" (the movies keep her as "Delta 4," though she's still treated as Arad's right-hand in all but name).
• Out of Focus: In Passionate Walkure, the Love Triangle getting axed leaves Mirage with minimal characterization, at least compared to Hayate and Freyja. She does regain a little focus in Absolute Live, primarily due to her grandfather appearing, but not by much.
• Pointy Ears: Due to her Zentradi heritage.
• Poor, Predictable Rock: This is Messer's main criticism of Mirage's flying, as she has the necessary skills to be an ace pilot, but sticks to the book so rigidly that it makes her moves painfully predictable.
• Rank Up: In Episode 12, Arad not only promotes Mirage to First Lieutenant, but formally christens her Delta 2, making her Arad's second in command, which also makes her the new flight leader for Delta Squadron. ^note As he himself points out, Arad is Ernest's strategic advisor, meaning his duty is to help monitor military operations against Windermere, not command people into battle. That responsibility is instead left to Mirage following her promotion.
• Ridiculously Cute Critter: Her pet mercat Q-Lulu, who lives in the girl's dorms.
• Running Gag: Whenever she screws up, she, either stoically or begrudgingly, apologizes and says whoever saw her they can report her activities to her superiors.
• Technician Versus Performer: The technician to Hayate's performer. Messer describes her flying as by the book to a fault.
• Theme Naming: Like most of her family, her name starts with an "M".
• Tsundere: Type A, at least in the beginning. Her relationship with Hayate begins on the wrong foot, not helped by the fact that he initially didn't take his training seriously, but as the series continues, they become comfortable with each other's company and she mostly drops the tsun part. In episode 16, Mirage is visibly sad at seeing Hayate play with Freyja in the snow, implying she has fallen in love with him.
• Tsurime Eyes: In contrast to Freyja's Tareme Eyes, highlighting her prideful, Tsundere nature.
• Uneven Hybrid: At most a fourth Zentraedi on her grandmother's side and it shows; unlike other Macross media with Zentraedi, Mirage is never shown to be capable of macronizing, lacks Expressive Hair (a trait expressed by fellow Uneven Hybrid Ranka) and her only visible Zentraedi trait is her Pointy Ears.
• "Well Done, Son" Guy: Continually lives under the shadow of her famous grandparents, so she feels pressured to live up to their legacy.
• You Are in Command Now: After Arad gets injured during Absolute Live, she's forced to act as the Delta Squadron's commander for the rest of the movie.

CHAOS

Walküre

In General

Superdimension Venus Walküre are an idol group who perform on the battlefield, as their singing is the only thing that can cure Var Syndrome.

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• Character Catchphrase: They each got a personal one.
  Reina: Music is love!
  Makina: Music is hope!
  Kaname: Music is life!
  Mikumo: Music is mystery!
  Freyja: Music is energy!
• Damsel in Distress: In the movie, they were captured by the Aerial Knights after Messer died and Hayate's and Mirage's Valkryies were shot down.
• Fashionable Asymmetry: Some of their performance outfits display this.
• Ms. Fanservice: Being idols, it's unsurprising that they often wear revealing stage outfits, some more so than others.
• Magic Idol Singer: Their singing allows those controlled by Var Syndrome to break free of it.
• The Immune: Are all immune to Var Syndrome thanks to their fold receptors.
• In-Series Nickname: "The Super Dimensional Venus".
• Jet Pack: Jet Skirt to be more precise. The girls use the same Gas Jet Cluster that Sheryl used in the first Frontier movie to be able to jump around to and from high places, and even airplanes during their performances.
• Meaningful Name: Walküre is German for Valkyrie. Just like the latter, the group is composed of ladies who ride into battle. On a more meta level, the word "Valkyrie" is also heavily associated with Macross thanks to it being the name of the main variable fighter in the original series.

Mikumo Guynemer

Voiced by: Ami Koshimizu (speaking); JUNNA (singing)

One of the members of Walküre and possibly its biggest star. Among the group she's the one most likely to go into action, actively confronting those under the influence of the Var, even if they're Zentraedi inside giant mecha. Has a mysterious past.

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• Action Girl: More so that the rest of Walküre. In the first episode, she's shown directly confronting the Var controlled Zentraedi, even jumping onto their mecha.
• Aloof Ally: She's on the side of the heroes, being Walkure's ace singer and all, but she's very distant, a lone wolf by choice, and doesn't get too close to people.
• Artificial Human: The UN created her using the Star Singer’s genetic remains found in Windemere, for the purpose of recreating a Protoculture member in the modern age. This means she's the best look we've ever had for what the Protoculture actually looked like. But that also means, chronologically, she is 3 years old even though she looks like a young woman.
• Back-to-Back Badasses: Her and Freyja literally stand back to back during episode 13, while also holding hands in support of each other during the battle with the Windermerian flagship.
• Beautiful Singing Voice: Elegant, deep and very powerful, both in and out of universe. The singer behind her, JUNNA, is also an example of this in Real Life, made far more impressive by the fact that she was 14 at the time of recording for the anime. ^note  As JUNNA was born in late 2000, she recorded for the anime in 2015, about a year prior to the TV debut of Delta
• Blatant Lies: While she claims she doesn't care about the past, her sad expression when Freyja says Mikumo's singing is "unsteady" and without any sparkle, coupled with Kaname's flashback to Mikumo explaining how she has no family, no memory, and no life beyond singing (as much as she embraces her "need" to sing), all show that she's definitely not telling the truth. She's just as affected by it as Kaname thinks, and it's just Mikumo not wanting to show it to people openly.
• Broken Bird: Far more downplayed but still present. She doesn't suffer through trauma per se, but she is lowkey haunted by her fractured memories and unknowable past, and what she does know about her past is enough to change her singing after a while, something all of Walkure notices. When Freyja points out that Mikumo's singing has an unsteadyness to it, Mikumo doesn't contest, doesn't argue, and doesn't deny it. Mikumo spends several moments just staring blankly at Freyja, her confident smirk gone, making her look rather dejected (by her standards).
• Character Development: She's rather emotionally unavailable compared to the other members of Walkure. When she's not singing or training, she's striking out on her own, doing her own thing, and rarely talks to anyone else unless it involves business. Her relationships with most people can be described as cordial, professional, and arms-length. This changes bit by bit as the series goes on, particularly once she hears the Song of the Wind and remembers bits and pieces of her true past. She warms up to Freyja, goes out of her way to talk to people more often, and becomes more willing to actually speak about her mysterious past to certain people. She not only shows up to Freyja's birthday party in episode 16, she's the first to start singing "Happy Birthday" to her, and spends most of her time smiling warmly at Freyja, a far cry from her much harsher treatment of Freyja earlier in the show.
• Damsel in Distress: Roid captures her and uses her to power up the Sigur Valens in the finale. Chaos must save her to beat Roid once and for all.
• Expy: Her willingness to jump into battle, despite being a singer have earned more more than a few comparisons with a certain Galactic Fairy in the fandom.
• Fire-Forged Friends: She starts off rather harsh towards Freyja, but as she continues proving herself, Mikumo warms up to her pretty well, culminating in her nearly Taking the Bullet for Freyja in Episode 13.
• Get A Hold Of Yourself Man: Does this on Freyja in Episode 22.
• Identity Amnesia: Episode 17 reveals that she doesn't remember anything from her past. It is later revealed that she was a clone of the Star Singer.
• Hidden Depths: Despite her saying otherwise, her melancholic expressions whenever she thinks about her past suggest she's deeply affected by what she learned at the Protoculture ruins in episode 7. She just doesn't show it often to people.
  • A more tragic version happens In Episode 16. When she joins Freyja's surprise birthday party, she later tells Kaname that she has no memory of anyone ever celebrating her birthday. Freyja's party was the first time she ever experienced something like that, and it puts her smiling at Freyja when the latter expresses deep appreciation over it in a much sadder light.
  • Episode 23 reveals the reason she always left the group whenever they all started eating was out of embarassment of eating in front of others, something she never experienced before because she's an Artificial Human. Reina and Makina both pour a snowball down her arm, freezing and embarrassing her again, as they realize she's sheltered and needs to experience life outside of just being an idol singer.
• Lovable Alpha Bitch: Idol singing, routines and training are all Serious Business and she's the music industry equivalent of The Rival and out for Freyja's blood in the beginning because of this, but Mikumo is a lot more affable to her once Freyja hits her stride.
• Mysterious Waif: In-Universe she's seen as mysterious and it shows. No one really knows anything about her with Kaname even stating they don't know where she lives. Furthermore, when questioned how she knows that the Song of the Wind would put a huge burden on the singer, she merely claims "I know best of all people". She has mysterious dreams which foreshadows her role as the Star Singer, which was the precursor to Windermere's Wind Singers.
• Not So Stoic: Despite her mysterious aura, Mikumo has multiple moments that show true vulnerability:
  • Her dropping her composure when Reina and Makina drop snow down her back during lunch while hiding from Windermerean forces.
  • She also visibly drops her composure when Freyja inadvertently triggers her asking about her past after she teases Freyja about Hayate in Episode 17.
  • Her visibly crying in Absolute Live when she visits Freyja in her hospital bed and openly tells her she doesn't want Freyja to die, and later, her voice shaking and her visibly tearing up when she says there will always be five Walkure members after Freyja's death.
• Quest for Identity: Averted, as she claims that she doesn't really care about her past and prefers to focus on the present. However, it's heavily implied that her lack of memory regarding her past does affect her deeply, in ways she prefers not to show to people.
• Say My Name: While just about everybody screams someone's name in distress at some point, Mikumo actually doesn't for the most part. This changes in Episode 13, when she screams Freyja's name as Bogue attacks Walkure's protective dome, showing just how much she's grown to appreciate Walkure's newest member.
• So Proud of You: She can frequently be found smiling at Freyja by the second half of the series.
• Statuesque Stunner: She has a mysterious beauty to her, and stands at 165 cm, with only Kaname being taller by 3 cm.
• Stern Teacher: One for Freyja. She's threatened to fire her more than once for messing up and has called her useless multiple times. But she generally wants Freyja to succeed and is happy when she does.
• Taking the Bullet: Narrowly averted. In Episode 13, when Bogue opens fire on Walkure's dome, Mikumo immediately pushes Freyja down, leaving herself open as their dome's shield explodes. She survives, they all do, but her arm is badly singed, and Frejya notices, but Mikumo insists she'll be fine.
• Tomato in the Mirror: There is an old Windermerian figure of legend called the Singer of the Stars, a Protoculture priestess who stayed behind. Her power, over time, became inherited by the Singer of the Wind, currently Prince Heinz. Mikumo keeps having flashbacks to this person and she's not really sure why. When the Singer of the Stars mysteriously died, their surviving DNA was used to create a clone - Mikumo herself, without the memory of her past as the Singer of the Stars.
• Younger Than They Look: She looks like an adult woman despite only being three years old, as she's an Artificial Human.

Kaname Buccaneer

Voiced by: Kiyono Yasuno

The actual leader of Walküre. A former singer who originally just joined as Walküre's manager, but she ended up joining because of her high level of fold receptors.

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• Adaptational Romance Downgrade: In the TV series, she had some Ship Tease with Arad. In the movies, she doesn't, leaving Messer as her sole Love Interest.
• All There in the Manual: Her past as a failed solo idol and then Walküre's manager was first revealed in side material, but she talks more about it from episode 9 onward.
• Character Signature Song: AXIA; In-Universe it's actually from Kaname's previous career as a solo Idol Singer and one of her few successes, and Messer has it installed in a special bracelet for him to listen to to stave off Var Syndrome. Kaname herself sings it in episode 10, while Messer fights and dies to protect her and the rest of Walkure.
• Cool Big Sis/Team Mom: Described as such in her character bio. Helped by being the official leader of the team, but the way she acts towards her subordinates bears this out.
• Dude Magnet: Even beyond her fellow Walkure idols; she and Freyja are the only two to be shown to have romantic entanglements at all, and Kaname boasts the only Love Triangle in the entire franchise that doesn't involve a protagonist (herself, Arad and Messer).
• Everyone Can See It: Her incredibly obvious mutual attraction with Arad is a prime source of gossip for the Elysion's crew. Not that it goes anywhere, due to Messer's death.
• Fiery Redhead: Inverted. Despite having red hair, she is level-headed and calm as Walkure's leader.
• Heroic Self-Deprecation: Kaname openly admits she doesn't have the talent to be the star of Walküre. This is despite her being the only one of the five having had an (admittedly, failed) career as an Idol Singer before Walkure and her exceptional singing skill being a plot point; among other things, it's the reason Messer survived Alfheim.
• Meaningful Name: Shared with Kaname Harada, a WWII Japanese ace pilot, and the Blackburn Buccaneer; an aircraft initially rejected for newer, more advanced designs, but outlasting all of them, reflecting on her initially failed solo career before joining Walküre effectively rejuvenated it.
• Noodle Incident: In Absolute Live, it's revealed she suffered a Wardrobe Malfunction while doing a rodeo with a galactic hippo for a variety show some time ago.
• Old Shame: Her debut as an idol is one for her, according to the Specials. When Mirage accidentally stumbles on a video of it, Kaname took measures to get rid of the video in its entirety so no one else would stumble upon it. Unfortunately for her, Messer found it ages ago.
• Overshadowed by Awesome: Kaname is the most experienced member of Walkure and its leader...but Mikumo is the center and a clone of the Star Singer, giving her immense power and Freyja is the Rookie Red Ranger whose Windermerean biology makes her, at her strongest, Mikumo's equal. Small wonder she suffers Heroic Self-Deprecation.
• Protectorate: Messer has sworn to protect her before the start of the show due to her song saving him from the Var.
• Reasonable Authority Figure: Is perfectly understanding and protective of her unit mates, even risking imprisonment when she, Reina and Makina end up breaking onto another ship to retrieve Mikumo.
• Ship Tease: The TV series heavily implies that she and Arad in the series are interested in each other (such as sharing a Held Gaze during Freyja's birthday, itself a font of Ship Tease), though neither make a move. Kaname's feelings for the late Messer also contribute to this particular relationship not going anywhere.
• Statuesque Stunner: She's the tallest of the team, standing at 168 cm, and is no less beautiful for it.
• Supporting Leader: While officially, Kaname is the leader of Walkure, the story follows Freyja's perspective and Mikumo is the center who also gains significantly more plot relevance.
• Unresolved Sexual Tension: She's the object of Messer's affection, and she ends up becoming attracted to him too, but the two never act on their feelings. Owing to his death, it stays unresolved.

Makina Nakajima

Voiced by: Nozomi Nishida

Walküre's mechanic, Makina is never seen away from her best friend Reina's side.

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• Cheery Pink: She has pink hair and her color scheme is pink. She's also the most cheerful of the group.
• Heterosexual Life-Partners: With Reina.
• Meaningful Name / Punny Name: Makina. She's a mechanic who works on machines, and her surname of "Nakajima" references a Japanese WW2 aircraft manufacturer.
• Ms. Fanservice: While Mikumo and Kaname are no slouches in the bust size department, Makina has them, and every other girl in the series, beat. Episode 17 even acknowledges her fanservice value: when CHAOS hit the Godzilla Threshold with the Windermereans, they make fat bank off of Makina's gravure shots.
• The Nicknamer: Tends to give cute repetitive nicknames to the cast, such as ReiRei for Reina, KumoKumo for Mikumo, and even MakiMaki for herself.
• Otaku: Is a mecha otaku (and therefore One of Us).
• The Prankster: Has shades of this when she shoves a snowball down Mikumo's back while eating.
• Taking the Bullet: She takes the bullet from a Windermerian sniper aiming for Freyja in Episode 24.
• Those Two Girls: With Reina; the two are never seen apart and share almost all their scenes together.
• Wrench Wench: Her bio indicates she is a mechanic. She is literally using a wrench to repair a Valkyrie in the opening credits. The movie confirms that she's the great granddaughter of Raizou Nakajima, a UN mechanic who was involved in the UN Wars.

Reina Prowler

Voiced by: Nao Tōyama

Walküre's computer specialist, Reina is inseparable from her best friend Makina.

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• Boyish Short Hair: She has by far the shortest hair among the Walkure girls, and is generally portrayed as the least traditionally feminine.
• Heterosexual Life-Partners: With Makina.
• Meaningful Name: Shares her last name with the EA-6B Prowler, an aircraft designed for electronic warfare, reflecting on her as the hacker.
• Playful Hacker: Trying to hack into Chaos was what got her scouted by Walküre in the first place. She also hacks enemy communications during the infiltration on Voldor, and later is caught hacking a NUNS ship to figure out what they're doing to Mikumo.
• Pointy Ears: Has these due to her Zolan ancestry.
• Rei Ayanami Expy: Or at least the closest the series has to one seeing as has short hair, is stoic, rarely smiles, etc, and as an added bonus, her name has Rei in it.
• The Stoic: If she's not singing or eating jellyfish, she has a flat tone and frozen face.
• Trademark Favorite Food: Raw Jellyfish; she refuses to eat them any other way and gets a Luminescent Blush when eating them.
• Trading Bars for Stripes: She was caught by Chaos as a hacker and was offered a position to avoid arrest.
• Those Two Girls: With Makina; the two are never seen apart.
• Uneven Hybrid: According to Uta Macross, she's part-Zolan.

Delta Squadron

Arad Mölders

Voiced by: Toshiyuki Morikawa

Flight leader of Delta Squadron.

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• Adaptational Romance Downgrade: Unlike the TV series, the movies never even hint that Arad or Kaname might be attracted to one another.
• Big Brother Mentor: Towards Messer, usually trying to get him to open up and hang out with the rest of the crew.
• Color-Coded Characters: His VF-31S Siegfried has red accents. His designated VF-31AX Kairos Plus, however, has a black color scheme like the one Messer had used for his VF-31F, though this doesn't show up in the 2nd movie proper.
• Everyone Can See It: With Kaname in the TV series. The Bridge Bunnies in the Episode 4 gossip behind their backs that they should just start dating already and stop messing with everyone's heads, their own first and foremost.
• The Leader: As "Delta-1," he's the one who commands the squadron on the field.
• Nice Guy: Is very polite and gets along with just about everyone.
• Ship Tease: The TV series implies a mutual attraction between him and Kaname that they never act upon, especially in light of Messer's death.

Messer Ihlefeld

Voiced by: Kōki Uchiyama

Delta Squadron's no-nonsense ace.

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• Ace Pilot: His description specifically notes him to be the Delta Squadron's ace.
• Bodyguard Crush: All but explicitly said to have one on Kaname, to the point that it is her song he listens to stave off the effects of Var and it is in her arms that he dies in Passionate Walkure.
• Catapult Nightmare: Happens several times to Messer in Episode 9 in reference to his past in Alfheim.
• Color-Coded Characters: His VF-31F Siegfried is colored black.
• Cynical Mentor: Verging on a full-fledged Neidermeyer except that he can back his attitude.
• Death by Irony: After giving Hayate a reality check on the fact that gallant duels don't happen on the battlefield, Messer is killed when Keith uses one of his drones as cover during a dogfight to approach to a distance where he can shoot Messer's heart right through his plane's cockpit.
• Dies Differently in Adaptation: In the TV series, Keith shoots him through his cockpit. In the movie, Messer dodges that shot and overexerts himself while listening to Kaname's song in order to defeat Keith. After shooting down Keith's Valkyrie, Messer gets out of his cockpit and dies in Kaname's arms.
• Died in Your Arms Tonight: In the movie, he survives long enough to die in Kaname's arms.
• Dying Moment of Awesome/Heroic Sacrifice: He joins a battle he wasn't supposed to fight in and saves Walkure and Delta Squadron before he's killed in a duel with Keith.
• Good Is Not Soft: A bunch of your ally Spacy pilots get infected with Var and start attacking you? Shoot them down without mercy.
  • Interestingly, Messer himself actually tries to spare them whenever he can; his advice otherwise to Mirage and Hayate is because they still lack the skills and experience to do what he does.
• Gory Discretion Shot: His death in the TV version; his body is never shown, only the spurt of blood caused by Keith shooting him through the cockpit and the resulting bullet hole.
• Heroic RRoD: In the movie version, he overexerts himself during the battle on Al-Shahal, which kills him.
• Heroic Willpower: Despite having been long infected by Var Syndrome, he's been able to fight it off with the help of Walküre's (in particular, Kaname's) songs.
• Hidden Heart of Gold: His rudeness was revealed posthumously as his means of keeping himself distant from his fellow wingmates so that they would be less likely to hesitate to shoot him down had he fully succumbed to Var syndrome.
• I Owe You My Life: Joined Delta Squadron in large part to protect Kaname, in thanks for her song being the reason why he didn't completely fall to Var Syndrome like the rest of Alfheim.
• I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: He's hinted to have feelings for Kaname but does not act on them, both due to her close friendship with his commander Arad and due the fact that he has Var syndrome.
• Jerkass: Not particularly sociable and can come off as extremely rude when dealing with others.
• Jerkass Has a Point: Despite how abrasive his comments may be, everything he says is to make sure that the Delta pilots learn from their mistakes and don't die in battle.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: His rudeness actually stems from just a severe lack of social skills, rather than true meanness.
• Killed Off for Real: Is killed when Keith shoots his Draken's nose cannon through Messer's cockpit.
• The Lancer: As "Delta-2," he acts as Arad's second-in-command, and is abrasive while Arad is affable.
• Meaningful Name: "Messer" means "Knife" in German, and he's on par with Bogue as the edgiest character in the series. Also, as Delta Flight's ace, his last name is shared with 26-time ace Herbert Ihlefeld, who scored 130 kills over the course of a thousand-plus missions. Ironically, Messer would not live long.
• Mentor Occupational Hazard: His other duties also involve training Mirage and Hayate to get them ready for combat. He dies in episode 10.
• Oblivious to Love: Seems totally ignorant of the extremely obvious crush one of Chuck's sisters (and not only her) is having on him.
• Reassigned to Antarctica: When Chaos finds out that he is suffering from Vars Syndrome, they ship him off to Aramis System which has had no Vars outbreaks yet. But he joins back for one more fight that turns out to be his last.
• Red Baron: The "Grim Reaper".
• The Rival: Keith, who eventually kills him.
• Sacrificial Lion: He's killed two fifths of the way into the series.
• Sole Survivor: Of a previous NUNS assignment in Alfheim when the NUNS Marienburg garrison was affected due to a Var outbreak and he was forced to kill most of his comrades before Arad saved him from being killed.
• Unresolved Sexual Tension: He has feelings for Kaname that appear to become mutual, but he chooses not to act on them. His death ensures that it remains unresolved.
• Worthy Opponent: Enjoys his battles with Keith.
• Zero-Approval Gambit: His rudeness towards his crewmates turns out to be to make it easier for them to shoot him down should he succumb to Var mid-flight.

Chuck Mustang

Voiced by: Shinji Kawada

A Ragnan pilot for Delta Squadron, who runs the Ragnyannyan café in his spare time with his siblings.

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• Acro Fatic: Chuck is notably rotund, but very agile and physically active.
• Apparently Human Merfolk: He's a Ragnan, as evidenced by his Pointy Ears, the fins on his elbows, and gills on the sides of his neck.
• Break the Cutie: Being forced to leave Ragna had a noticeable effect on his mood in episode 14. Luckily, discovering that most of his siblings survived was enough to largely return him to his happy-go-lucky self.
• Calling Your Attacks: SUBMARINE ATTACK!
• Casanova Wannabe: He spends a lot of time trying to date his attractive co-workers. It never works but he never stops trying.
• Color-Coded Characters: His Valkyries are colored yellow.
• Meaningful Name: A twofer, with his first name shared by legendary ace Chuck Yeager, and his last name from Yeager's ace-making ride, the P-51 Mustang.
• Nice Guy: He's very easy to get along with and very rarely doesn't have a smile on his face.
• Shout-Out: Similar to Ozma Lee, his attack names have the Fire Bomber vibe in them, and his brothers in Episode 3 namecheck the band directly.
• Supreme Chef: He is the chef of the Ragnyannyan, after all.

Macross Elysion crew

Ernest Johnson

Voiced by: Unshō Ishizuka

The Zentradi captain of the Macross Elysion, the ship to which Delta Squadron is attached to and thus their immediate superior.

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• Boisterous Bruiser: Hasn't been in a fight so far, but gives all indications of that. And he hosts a Judo class aboard the Elysion.
• Combat Pragmatist: When describing his student King Gramia, he notes that a mercenary cannot afford to be all Honor Before Reason like him.
• Disabled Badass: Lost his ability to macronize after an injury, which forced him from the role of a hot-shot Glaug ace into the more of a command role. Still he's just as much of an ace in the VF, and the Elysions' Judo champion.
• Hot Blooded Sideburns: Rather well-suited to his boisterous personality.
• Human Aliens: Of the green, "DYRL-style" Zentradi type.
• Large and in Charge: Did we mention that he's 8 feet tall, or that he's the captain of the Elysion?
• Large Ham: In addition to being huge, he's also loud and boisterous.
  • Calling Your Attacks: Does a variation in episode 26.
• Put on a Bus: Due to the passing of his voice actor following Passionate Walkure, he only gets a brief silent cameo from behind in Absolute Live, with his role as the Delta Squadron's superior being effectively taken over by Max.
• Stern Teacher: When he was training the Windermeran forces back before the war.
• Worthy Opponent: He sees Gramia as one.

Beth Muscat, Mizuki Yuri, and Nina O'Brien

Beth is voiced by: Miyuu Sawai

Mizuki is voiced by: Wakana Kingyo

Nina is voiced by: Miyu Tsuji

Three girls who work as bridge operators aboard the Macross Elysion (and as receptionists for Walküre when not in combat).

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• Bridge Bunnies: It wouldn't be Macross without them.
• Pointy Ears: Nina, again implying some degree of non-human ancestry.
• Shipper on Deck: Mizuki seems to ship Hayate and Mirage, though mostly because she's looking at it as a Tsundere romance and not because she really wants to see them together.
• Ridiculously Cute Critter: The mercat that Nina always seems to have with her.
• Those Three Girls

Guy Gilgood and Harry Takasugi

Guy is voiced by: Yoshihito Sasaki

Harry is voiced by: Ryōhei Kimura

Two members of the maintenance crew for Delta Squadron's variable fighters.

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• Those Two Guys

Macross Gigasion crew (SPOILERS FOR ABSOLUTE LIVE)

Macross Gigasion captain

Maximillion "Max" Jenius

Voiced by: Show Hayami

Mirage's grandfather and the captain of the Macross Gigasion. Formerly the captain of the Macross 7 Fleet's Battle 7, he has since retired from NUNS, but was later scouted by CHAOS.

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• Color-Coded Characters: He pilots a blue YF-29 Durandal.
• Old Soldier: He's 73 at this point in time, and still sometimes flies a Valkyrie.

Macross Gigasion advisor

Exsedol/Exedore Folmo

Voiced by: Ryuusuke Oobayashi

A Zentradi advisor who joined Max in boarding the Macross Gigasion.

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Kingdom of the Wind

Aerial Knights

In General

Windermere's most elite Variable Fighter unit, serving under the Windermerean royal family.

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• Black Knight: They play this during their first few appearances, where all the distinctive markings on the SV-262s are colored black to prevent them from being traced back to Windermere.
• Child Soldier: Relatively speaking of course, as while the younger knights would be considered teenagers by Earth standard, they're actually middle aged by Windermerian ones.
  • Played straight during the final stages of independence war, where a young Keith and Roid were pressed into service after the majority of the Windermerian fighting force were decimated by the NUNS.
• Demoted to Extra: In the movies, where most of their characterization is reduced. Only Keith has some significance due to his rivalry with Messer and his friendship with Roid, though Bogue does play a minor role in Absolute Live due to joining Delta Flight.
• Heel–Face Turn: They, along with the rest of Windermere, are no longer enemies of the heroes as of Absolute Live, though Bogue and the twins still maintain their negative feelings towards them, and hints of them overcoming these feelings don't start showing up until the final battle.
• Hypocrite: The Aerial Knights praise their own chivalry and skill over their enemies.....while also relying heavily on Var Syndrome to even the odds between them and literally any other opponent. In a protracted fight against even a fraction of actual military forces, the Aerial Knights are decisively stomped. Only a few of them express any discomfort with this.
• Knight in Shining Armor: 7 years ago, their 'wings' were 'white'. The former White Knight who was killed by the dimensional weapon explosion, Lord Adria, was actually a hero and a member of SMS forces who had assisted Macross Frontier in their battle against Macross Galaxy.
• My Country, Right or Wrong: They just want to fight for their families and country in order to survive and most don't approve or care much about Roid's plans. When Roid plans to rule the galaxy via Assimilation Plot, it's no surprise that they turn against him and aid Chaos and Walkure instead.

Keith Aero Windermere

^SPOILERSWith eyepatch

Voiced by: Ryōhei Kimura

Leader of the Aerial Knights and older brother of Heinz.

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• Abdicate the Throne: He stepped down from line of succession after Heinz was born.
• Adaptational Heroism: Due to the movie's running time, Keith's vengeful tendencies were reduced, and he becomes nobler as seen in his conversation with Kaname where he tells her that he heard her song when he was fighting Messer and notes him for being a Worthy Opponent. In the final battle, he is the one who commands the Windermerian fleet to join forces with Walkure in order to stop Roid from fulfilling his evil plan.
• Ace Pilot: Of the Aerial Knights, and in time, proves himself to be the best pilot in the show. Only two people were able to give him pause: Messer, who he kills in episode 10 and Hayate, who only shot him down when he was synchronized with Freyja.
• Aloof Big Brother: He very rarely interacts with his little brother and when he does, he's noticeably cold. At Heinz's coronation, Keith tells him that they shouldn't think of each other as brothers anymore.
• Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other:
  • In episode 13 when it looks like the Sigur Valens was destroyed, he called out Heinz's name.
  • In episode 22, he threatens to kill Roid if Heinz dies.
• Blood Knight: Exhibits shades of this. The only time we see him smile is when he fights with Messer, and he always expresses disappointment when Roid calls the Knights away from the battlefield.
• Death Seeker: Potentially.
• Disabled Badass: Loses an eye after Hayate shoots him down. It doesn't seem to bother him one bit.
• Heroic Sacrifice: Or Anti-Villanous Sacrifice, if you will. In the finale, he kills Roid as the Sigur Valens collapses around them.
• Heroic Bastard: From the Windermeran POV: he's indeed technically a bastard, being a son of Gramia's concubine, and thus ineligible for the throne, but he's the greatest hero of his nation.
• Hero Killer: He's responsible for shooting Messer down.
• Non-Protagonist Resolver: Kills Roid while Hayate is busy saving Mikumo from the Sigur Valens. Justified because Hayate abhors killing and Keith has a more personal reason to go after Roid.
• Red Baron: Current holder of the title of "The White Knight of Darwent".
• Revenge Before Reason: He really hates humanity for their actions in Windermere's war of independence and is willing to do anything to kill them.
  • Subverted. Honor Before Reason and other trauma. He doesn't want revenge. He wants to avoid what happened 7 years old to repeat itself.
• Survivor Guilt: The novel explores his POV in a chapter. When he was 12, Keith was part of the White Knight Squad that came to intercept Wright. He was the only survivor because he received orders to fly higher in case that VF received backup. He wasn't just nearly killed when he crashed, but witnessing the dimensional weapons bombing completely scarred him.
• Synchronization: By episode 15, his piloting is able to become even better if Heinz is singing.
• Used to Be a Sweet Kid: The few glimpses of Keith's past we see show him to be a cheerful young man growing up with Roid. Then the war with NUNS came and turned Keith into the man he is today.
• World's Best Warrior: As the current holder of the White Knight title, he's the most skilled soldier on Windermere. Later proves to be the best in the series when he kills Messer, the best pilot on the good guy's side.
• Worthy Opponent: Enjoys his fights with Messer, to the point where he specifically seeks him out every time the Aerial Knights and Delta Squadron meet. His runes even glow in response to fighting him. In Episode 10, he attacks Hayate thinking he could be a challenge when Messer was away, but when Messer finally enters the battle, Keith drops everything to fight him, despite having Hayate at his mercy.
  • After Messer has fallen, it becomes clear that Keith really did hold him in high esteem, even pointing a dagger at Bogue's throat when the latter insults Messer. Taken further when he is visibly annoyed when Hayate uses Messer's unit. Still, in Episode 15 he notes that the fight itself was exceedingly interesting, implying that Hayate might become a worthy replacement.

Bogue Con-Vaart

^{SPOILERS for Absolute Live}As Delta 6

Voiced by: KENN

The youngest member of the Aerial Knights. By the time of Absolute Live!!!!!!!, he joins Delta Flight.

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• Adaptational Comic Relief: As a side effect of his reduced screen time compared to the TV series, the first movie put a bit more emphasis on his comedic side: after he caught his mechanics watching an illegal stream of Walkure, he tries to shut it down only to see some of Reina's...provocative side, causing him to blush much to his chagrin.
• Adaptational Nice Guy: The movie continuity significantly tones down his violent attitude.
• Ax-Crazy: He's easily the most unhinged of the Aerial Knights.
• Berserk Button: Walküre's songs is this for him, and he'll target the Walküre every time they sing.
  • While his reaction varies in earlier episodes, in Episode 8 and 9 he turns into an absolutely ballistic Leeroy Jenkins over their songs.
• Blood Knight: He was not at all bothered by Roid's declaration that they'll destroy NUNS.
• Color-Coded Characters: During the 2nd movie, he starts off piloting a red Sv-262Hs Draken III. However, his VF-31AX Kairos Plus is green instead.
• Cynicism Catalyst: The loss of most of his family in the war seems to have been one for him, causing him to go from a sweet child to an angry, revenge driven young man.
• Fantastic Racism: Out of all the Windermerians shown, he seems to be the one that hates humans and human culture (or human-zentraedi culture, since both are just about inseparable at this point) the most. Even after joining the Delta Platoon during the 2nd movie, Bogue maintains that Earthlings and Windermerians are different and shouldn't mingle. However, his comment about "all winds becoming one" during Operation Jormungand implies that he might be opening up to the idea.
• Fiery Redhead: He has long red hair, and is by far the most hot-tempered of the Knights.
• Freudian Excuse: It's implied in the TV series, and outright stated in the movies, that the deaths of his family during the independence war drives Bogue's hatred of the NUN. Not that it justifies being an utter Jerkass.
• Humble Pie: Gets a modest helping of it in the finale, when Roid threatens to assimilate all life in the galaxy, including the Windemereans, forcing Bogue to work with Walküre to save his homeworld.
• Karma Houdini: He's the cruelest and vilest of the Aerial Knights portrayed in the TV series, and doesn’t suffer any punishment for it other than the Humble Pie moment above.
• Kick Them While They Are Down: He tries attacking Walküre whilst Frejya and Mikumo are rendered unconscious.
• Large Ham: Most hammy and expressive of the team, to the point of forgetting to control his Runes^note Which is a sign of immaturity for a Windermeran, for which he was chewed out by Herman.
• Massive Numbered Siblings: Has five sisters though only two survived the independence war.
• Moral Myopia: In Episode 14 he curses humans for the death and destruction they cause, which is pretty hypocritical coming from the guy who acts like a rabid dog on the battlefield (especially if Walküre is around and singing).
  • In Absolute Live he also derides Hayate for being an Earthling and therefore an invader. Mind, this is after he both helped Hayate and his allies STOP a Windermerean attempt to assimilate the entire galaxy, and after he himself aided in the invasion of multiple planets by Windermere. He also proceeds to help Hayate again stop another plan that would result in Windermere's destruction.
• Obviously Evil: With all the smug grins, violent attitude and unabashed racism he gives out, he might as well wear a tag that says “Evil Bastard.” Ultimately, he ends up being the Token Evil Teammate to Delta Platoon, with the Aerial Knights changing sides once they realize Roid's scheme would doom Windermere as well as the galaxy.
• Pet the Dog: During Freyja's death at the end of the 2nd movie, he gives her an Aerial Knight salute with a solemn look on his face. It's the nicest gesture he's ever done for the main cast on-screen.
• Red Is Violent: Has red hair, and is clearly off the rocker to boot.
• Revenge: Most of his hatred towards humans is implied to be a result of him losing most of his family during Windermere's war of independence.
• Ship Tease: He blushed when he saw Reina in episode 17 and even blushed when he tried to kill her in episode 18.
• Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: At the end of the series, Bogue is forced to work with the hated Delta Platoon and Walkure to save Windermere and the entire galaxy from Roid, something he is not happy with.
  • This is still the case in Absolute Live; Bogue explicitly says that he agrees with the Windermereans demanding the 'aliens' (the non-Windermereans) leave Windermere, but as he has been ordered to assist Delta Platoon and Walkure, he does so anyway. In particular, he butts heads with Hayate.
• Token Evil Teammate:
  • Other Aerial Knights are just fighting to protect their homeland, but Bogue (in the TV series, at least) is also in it to kill as many humans as he can.
  • He ends up being this to Delta Flight during the finale of Delta and then Absolute Live, flying with Hayate, Mirage and the others as "Delta-6" to fight Heimdall in the latter.
• Undying Loyalty: To Windermere. This results in him turning on Roid with the rest of his team when he realizes that Windermere would be utterly destroyed as a result of his scheme. His loyalty is strong enough that he even joins the Delta Squadron in order to free his planet from Heimdallr..
• Used to Be a Sweet Kid: As the Aerial Knight's prequel manga proves.
• Younger Than They Look: He's the youngest of Aerial Knights, and one of the youngest characters in the cast, at only 15, despite clearly looking older than his comrades Theo and Xao.

Theo and Xao Jussila

Voiced by: Kei Minegishi

Identical twin pilots.

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• Princely Young Man: Are heirs to one of the largest Mega Corps on Windermere, though this doesn't come into play much.
• Sibling Team: Are never seen flying apart.
• Those Two Guys: Like Bogue, they hate humans. Other than that, there's nothing much about them asides from being heirs of Windermerian company. In the BD specials, they're the main characters who sneakily watch footage of Walkure's equipment tutorial with Bogue.

Herman Cross

Voiced by: Daichi Endo

The oldest member of the Aerial Knights.

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• Covered with Scars: Has some whitish frostbite-like scar tissue covering parts of his face, neck and chest, which is apparently a sign of aging among the Windermerans.
• In-Series Nickname: Called "Master Herman" by his former student Bogue.
• My Country, Right or Wrong: While he is not pleased by Roid's declaration to destroy NUNS, he continues to fight for his country.
• Officer and a Gentleman: Has traditional ideals about knightly conduct, and is not particularly happy that Windermere has had to resort to spreading Vars to get an edge.
• Spell My Name With An S: Herman or Helman?
• Team Dad: Is this to the rest of the Aerial Knights, looking out for their well-being both on and off the battlefield.
• We Are as Mayflies: He's only 33, but already an old man by Windermeran standards, with confirmed granchildren.

Qasim Eberhart

Voiced by: Shinnosuke Ogami

A former apple farmer who lost his family during Windermere's war of independence.

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• Call to Agriculture: Episode 18 reveals he just wants the war to end so he can go back to his family and be a farmer again.
• Dangerous Forbidden Technique: His rune shines while attempting to defend Windemere from Delta Squardron, turning him into an Ace Pilot at par with Keith and momentarily overwhelms Hayate. However, doing this made him aging rapidly and causes his rune to expire before managing to shoot Hayate down. This also throws him out of control, causing him to crash.
• Good Parents: From what little we see of his relationship with his son, Qasim seems to be this; he adores his son and wants to pass on his culture to him. His final moments are even him hallucinating seeing his son before he passes away.
• Happily Married: And they already have a six-year-old son.
• Heroic Sacrifice: He crashes his plane into the snow instead of letting his plane to crash at the apple orchards, sacrificing himself in the process.
• Inconsistent Spelling: It's either Qasim or Casim.
• My Country, Right or Wrong: Initially. But after King Gramia’s death, he began to question whether his kingdom is doing the right thing or not.
• Punch-Clock Villain: He is merely a soldier fighting for Windermere because he was ordered to, and bears neither Delta Squadron nor Freyja any ill will. Episode 18 is a good example where he takes a break from being a knight and is respectful to Hayate and Freyja and even lets them go.
• Spared by the Adaptation: He doesn't die in the movie and is able to join his fellow knights in the final battle. He is shown flying with the others in Absolute Live, confirming that he survives in the movie continuity.
• Token Good Teammate: He's the knight most uncomfortable with Roid's declaration of war on NUNS and just wants to be a farmer again.

Lt. Ghoula

Voiced by: Takuto Yoshinaga

A rookie pilot who joins the Aerial Knights in episode 6.

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• New Meat: Newest member of the Aerial Knights, has yet to shoot anyone down.
• Red Shirt: He exists primarily so Hayate can feel guilty about killing him.
• Spell My Name With An S: Is it Ghoula or Uroh?
• We Hardly Knew Ye: Dies in the same episode he's introduced. It seems that his only purpose is to serve as Hayate's first confirmed kill.

Other Mindermereans

Heinz Nehrich Windermere (Heinz II)

Voiced by: Yuka Terasaki (speaking); Melody Chubak (singing)

Keith's younger brother and heir to the Windermerean throne. Heinz's songs are the cause of Var Syndrome.

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• Ambiguous Gender: During the first half of the show there was much confusion about his gender among the fans, until it was eventually confirmed that yes, Heinz is a boy.
• Ambiguously Evil: Although he reluctantly supports the Windemerean attacks on other planets, he is only doing it because he thinks it’s the best way to protect his people from foreign aggression. Also, he considers the possibility to make peace but he also wants the UN government destroyed. When Freyja begs him to stop the war, he ignores her. In the finale, he teams up with Chaos out of pragmatism, not because he wants to bury the hatchet. Calling him "evil" is a bit strong, but he is definitely an antagonist.
• Anti-Villain: Just a young boy who clearly wants to do what's right for his people and family, even if he's rather out of his depth.
• Awesome Moment of Crowning: A semi-villainous example; he becomes crowned as king after his father's death, and at his coronation, uses his song to activate a bunch of Protoculture ruins and help Keith take out a NUNS fleet.
• Big Brother Worship: Very much admires Keith.
• Cast from Lifespan: Windermeran's have very short lifespans in exchange for their extreme physical abilities, and it's heavily implied that Heinz's singing is killing him.
• Cool Crown: A big Hoop Crown for his Requisite Royal Regalia that actually dwarfs him.
• Demoted to Extra: In the movie, he's mainly used as a tool for Roid to spread the Var Syndrome. All his characterization from the TV series is absent. It doesn't help that after Mikumo overpowers him with her singing at the Protoculture ruins, he gets knocked out and spends the rest of the movie, unconscious.
• The Ditherer: A “fence-sitter” example. As king of Windemere, Heinz cannot afford second thoughts but doesn’t entirely agree with the idea of galactic domination. Unfortunately, because he is more useful as a Wind Singer than as an authority figure, he has to defer to Roid for the actual ruling of Windemere. In the later episodes, he makes his choice and boy, is it a wrong one.
• Fatal Flaw: Indecisiveness. Heinz is unsure whether the Windemereans should embark on a galactic conquest in the name of protection, and even if he goes along with it anyway, he still hopes for a peaceful solution in the end. It bites him in the ass in the finale when Roid moves forward with his Assimilation Plot, with Heinz none the wiser.He had no real way of knowing about Roid's Assimilation Plot, but when Roid pulled it off, Heinz countered it with a Didn't See That Coming of his own pretty quickly.
• Pimped-Out Cape: It's so big that it also absolutely dwarfs Heinz.
• Puppet King: After his father died, he became King of Windermere. However, Roid has full authority while Heinz continues his role to sing and is kept in the dark regarding Roid’s activities.
• Significant Reference Date: Shares the same birthday as Macross creator, Shoji Kawamori on February 20.
• Slowly Slipping Into Evil: In the last three episodes, Heinz supports the Windemerean war campaign, but he still hopes for a peaceful end to the conflict. When it becomes clear the free people of the galaxy will not kneel to the Windemereans, Heinz authorizes the use of the Star Singer.
• Unwitting Pawn: Sadly, he’s completely oblivious that his singing triggered the Var Syndrome which was used to brainwash local populaces. He gullibly believed that he’s doing it for the sake of his father’s will and his kingdom unaware that Roid is using him for their own plans.
• You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: In the movie, Roid finds that he's no longer of use due to his illness and decides to use Mikumo and Walkure instead as his replacement, explaining that Mikumo's fold waves are stronger than Heinz's due to being a clone to the Star Singer. Though he did promise to Keith that he would use Walkure to cure his brother.

Gramia Nehrich Windermere (Gramia VI)

Voiced by: Masaki Terasoma

Ruler of the Kingdom of the Wind and father to Heinz and Keith.

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• Ace Pilot: He was a famous ace seven years ago during the Windermere's war of independence.
• Alas, Poor Villain: He dies in Roid's arms in The Stinger of Episode 13.
• Covered with Scars: Has even more of those frostbite-like scars than Helman.
• Death by Adaptation: Downplayed; he died during the events of the TV series, but the movie made it so that he already passes away a year prior to the story's beginning.
• Died in Your Arms Tonight: In The Stinger for Episode 13, he dies in Roid's arms after being fatally wounded.
• Disc-One Final Boss: He dies halfway though the series.
• Honor Before Reason: Capt. Johnson says that he was all about honor and chivalry back in his prime, when he was training the Windermere space forces before the war.
• Greater-Scope Villain: Acting as one for the Windermere Kingdom against the NUNS forces.
• Legacy Character: Was the former "White Knight of Darwent" back when he was still able to fly as the kingdom's top ace.
• Killed Off for Real: He is killed in episode 13 because Macross Elysion fired upon the cockpit of the Sigur Valens.
  • In Episode 21 it was revealed that he was backstabbed by Roid after the explosion.
• We Are as Mayflies: Dying of old age at just 35 — which actually roughly equals to a centenarian for the Windermerans.
• Worthy Opponent: He seems to regard his old teacher, Ernest Johnson, as one.

Roid Brehm

Voiced by: Kaito Ishikawa

Chancellor of the Kingdom of the Wind.

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• And Then What?: A villain-to-villain one when he asks Keith why they're so reckless with Heinz when they have a lot to do after the war.
• Badass Bookworm : One of the more scholarly Windermereans in the series, and a capable fighter who once served in the Aerial Knights.
• Big Bad:
  • Becomes this at the climax of the series as he engineers an Assimilation Plot to control the galaxy using Var Syndrome.
  • Played this in the movie due to Gramia being dead at the start of the story and Heinz being Demoted to Extra.
• Dragon-in-Chief: Technically subordinate to Gramia and Heinz, but is clearly the brain behind the operation.
• Evil Chancellor: He's even got the rank to go with it.
• Expy: He's closely similar to Grace O'Connor of Macross Frontier despite the difference between their motives.
  • Goes full circle in the final episode as he intends use the Song of Stars to establish a Fold Network to unite people's minds throughout the galaxy, with Windemereans as the core of the Hive Mind.
• The Fashionista: He apparently has a separate pair of glasses for each outfit he wears.
• Immortality Seeker: Part of the reasons for his Assimilation Plot is to free the Windemerean species from their short lifespan.
• Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: Courtesy of Keith.
• Obstructive Bureaucrat: In the first half of the series, he often pulls the Aerial Knights away from prolonged engagements, usually to avoid straining Heinz too much.
• Pet the Dog: He seems to be the only one who is actually concerned about Heinz's health, while Heinz's family were willing to carry out their vengeance at Heinz's expense. Goes into Bait the Dog territory when it's revealed that his own plans are also taking a toll on Heinz's health.
• Retired Badass: He fought in the Windermere's war of independence but gave up being a pilot to be a scholar.
• Scary Shiny Glasses: Has them in the stinger of episode 15.
• Smug Snake: He's very arrogant when he kept insisting that the Windermereans are "the true heirs of the Protoculture".
• Spell My Name With An S: Is it "Roid" or "Lloyd"?
• Stoic Spectacles : Almost always seen with one.
  • Not to mention that he has a showcase filled with dozens of glasses in his room.
• Villainous Breakdown: As Delta Squadron and the Aerial Knights combine forces to foil his plans, Roid loses his dignity and begins ranting.
• Villainous Rescue: He parried Keith's deathblow to Freyja in Episode 8, as he wanted the Walkure members to be captured alive.
• Visionary Villain: After Windermere conquers the Brisingr Cluster, Roid reveals what he claims to be Gramia's will; the complete destruction of NUNS, effectively declaring war on the rest of the galaxy.

Father Johan

Voiced by: Daisuke Ono

A priest working on Windermere, who appears in Absolute Live.

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• Good Shepherd: A priest who serves the God of the Wind and sacrifices himself to protect his people.
• Heroic Sacrifice: Overclocks his Rune to protect the people of Freyja's village, but dies as a result.
• Small Role, Big Impact: He only appears for a short time and dies in his first appearance. He ultimately serves to show the audience what happens when a Windermerean dies as a result of old age (the only other Windermereans seen to die prior died by violent means) and foreshadow Freyja's own fate at the end of the film. He also serves to spark Freyja's own concern about her limited lifespan.
  • He worked covertly with Wright briefly worked together to prevent Epsilon Foundation agents from making off with Star Singer DNA material.
• We Hardly Knew Ye: Dies very shortly after his appearance in the movie.

Epsilon Foundation

Berger Stone

Voiced by: Keiji Fujiwara (first voice), Mitsuru Ogata (Episode 24 onwards)

A EF executive who's been providing arms and equipment to the Windermerian military. In charge of the Brisingr branch.

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• Adapted Out: Berger is completely absent from the movies.
• Arms Dealer: His main occupation.
• As You Know: His exposition in episode 19 is more of an Info Dump about the previous Macross shows to the new viewers. Then, he explicitly told Mirage that he knew about her grandparents (Max and Millia Jenius) who are leaders of Macross 7 and about her aunt Mylene who is a member of Fire Bomber which is something that Mirage already knew.
• Everyone Has Standards: Warns Chaos that Roid plans to enslave all life in the galaxy and politely asks them to stop him. Apparently, the end of free will is bad for business.
• Evil Genius: He's also the guy in charge of the people researching the Brisingr Cluster's Protoculture relics.
• Only in It for the Money: Continuously insists both Chaos and Windemere are just clients to him and has no personal interest in their war. He warns Chaos of Roid’s endgame because it endangers his business.
• Playing Both Sides: He's working with the Windermerians, but in episode 19 he informs Chaos about his theories about the Protoculture and insists that the Windermerians are just his clients. In fact, he refuses to tell Roid what occurred while he was making his delivery to Chaos, insisting that doing so would be unprofessional.
• Unreliable Expositor: His theory about the Protoculture and the songs somewhat contradicts what was established in the previous Macross shows. While he may have a point about how songs are used in the previous wars, there are some holes.

Sydney Hunt

Voiced by: Takahiro Sakurai

An EF agent and ex-NUNS official who tried to make off with Star Singer DNA years ago before he worked with Heimdall.

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• Arms Dealer: As per employment with EF, he provides weapons and war material to Heimdall.
• Offstage Villainy: Was responsible for stealing Star Singer DNA when he was a NUNS official.
• Screw This, I'm Outta Here: He tries to make a break for it when it looks like Heimdall might lose, only to get gunned down on Cromwell's orders.

New United Nations Military

Wright Immelman

Voiced by: Seirou Ogino

Hayate's father and a NUNS officer. It turns out that he was a secret agent sent to infiltrate Windermere and collect DNA samples of the Star Singer.

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• Adapted Out: His involvement in the NUNS-Windermere war isn't mentioned at all in the films, and his dropping of the dimensional bomb seems to have been removed.
• Greater-Scope Paragon: At the very least, the Chaos division has nothing but good things to say about him, especially his son and Arad. Even the reveal that he bombed Windermere and killed innocent civilians doesn't temper this perception.
• Silent Scapegoat: He attempted to drop the dimensional bomb in a remote location in order to minimize casualties; unfortunately, the Kingdom of the Wind misinterpreted his actions and treats him as a pariah. Even when the truth comes out later in the series, they never find out.
• Small Role, Big Impact: His involvement in dropping the dimensional weapon, as well as in acquring DNA samples of the Star Singer, started the series by firstly being a casus belli for Windermere and secondly, ensuring Mikumo's existence. He is also directly responsible for Freyja's own interest in music, giving her a music player while stationed on Windermere, which ultimately results in Freyja fleeing Windermere to join Walkure.
  • In the Absolute Live!!!!!!! movie, it is stated that he and Father Johann briefly worked together to prevent Epsilon Foundation agents from making off with Star Singer DNA material.
• The Voiceless: He's never shown speaking during the 2nd movie.

Heimdall

Ian Cromwell

Voiced by: Jiro Saito

The leader of the rogue organization Heimdall and the primary threat on Absolute Live. He commands the Macross-class Battle Astrea.

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• Big Bad: He's the main bad guy in Absolute Live!!!!!!!.
• Conspiracy Theorist: The crux of his plan. He is obsessed with the idea that Lady M is ruling over the galaxy from the stranded Megaroad-01 and seeks to destroy her in order to free the children of the Protoculture from her control.
• Cyborg: Ian has a robotic left arm.
• Generic Doomsday Villain: While he has hints of a backstory, none of it is particularly expanded upon, so in practice, he's only in the movie to serve as a threat for Walkure and Delta Flight to fight.
• Fallen Hero: It's heavily implied that he used to be a well-respected NUNS officer before falling off the deep end.

Yami Q Ray

Yami_Makina, Yami_Reina, Yami_Mikumo, Yami_Freyja, and Yami_Kaname respectively

Yami_ Mikumo voiced by: Ami Koshimizu (speaking); JUNNA (singing)

Yami_ Freyja voiced by: Minori Suzuki

Yami_ Kaname voiced by: Kiyono Yasuno

Yami_Reina voiced by: Nao Tōyama

Yami_Makina voiced by: Nozomi Nishida

AI counterparts of Walkure created by the Siren System that serve as Heimdall's songstresses.

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• A.I. Is a Crapshoot: A group of artificial idols created to further Heimdall's plans.
• Character Catchphrase:
  Yami_ Mikumo: Music is darkness!
  Yami_ Freyja: Music is madness!
  Yami_ Kaname: Music is euphoria!
  Yami_Reina: Music is desire!
  Yami_Makina: Music is despair!
• Out of Focus: Despite only appearing in Absolute Live, they barely have any focus; even Yami_Freyja ultimately gets scarcely any before Yami_Q_Ray is subsumed into the Siren System child instead.
• The Psycho Rangers: Evil knockoffs of Walkure whose designs are made to contrast their respective counterparts.
• Superior Successor: Designed to be one to Sharon Apple, a previous virtual idol. They were also further designed to amalgamate into a single entity that uses a human brain instead of a personality chip like Sharon's to empower the system.

Other Characters

Lady M

The mysterious head of Chaos, the organization in charge of both the Macross Elysion and Walküre. It's not know who the person is, except that she is a female with personal and professional ties to the New United Nations government.

Dialogue in the show and supplement material indicates that she has experienced the first Space War.

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• The Ghost: She's not seen in the show, but only mentioned in passing. In Absolute Live!!!!!!!, it's implied that Lady M is stuck inside Megaroad-01. Or may actually be the entire crew of the Megaroad-1. It's not entirely clear which.
• Mysterious Benefactor: The unseen head of both protagonist factions, who is responsible for getting supplies to the protagonists to continue their fight against Windermere.
• The Unreveal: Her identity remains a mystery even among those serving in high-ranking positions of Chaos Squadron. The only clues about her are from Berger Stone but we're not exactly sure if this information is really reliable. The only hints are that she may either be Misa, Minmay or even the entire crew of the Megaroad using "Lady M" as a collective moniker.

SPOILER CHARACTER FOR ABSOLUTE LIVE

Rune

The child created by Heimdall's Siren System in Absolute Live from the amalgamation of Yami_Q_Ray.

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• Anti Anti Christ: Designed to further Heimdall's schemes and be the better version of Sharon Apple through using a human brain, the power of the Star Singer and all of Walkure's skills combined. Instead, she was raised as a normal child and became a Cheerful Child due to the influence of Hayate and Freyja.
• Artificial Human: Created by the Siren System as a flesh-and-blood equivalent to Sharon Apple.
• Cheerful Child: From what we see of her in The Stinger, she's a well-adjusted, kindly child, like her "mother".
• Heart Symbol: A small one in her hair, copying Freyja's Rune.
• Meaningful Echo: The child's final words on screen are the same as Freyja's in the TV series, showing that she has inherited Freyja's personality.
  You better be ready!
• Someone to Remember Him By: A weird example, as her appearance and personality are that of Freyja's due to Freyja's singing influencing her development in the artificial womb that created her. She is raised by Hayate as if she were his and Freyja's daughter.
• Walking Spoiler: The existence of this character spoils the entire ending of Absolute Live, as well as Freyja's fate at the end.