The Character Sheet for the Gundam series that started in all, Mobile Suit Gundam.
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Earth Federation
Amuro Ray
"I can pilot the Gundam better than anyone!"
The son of the Gundam's designer, Tem Ray, Amuro is an alienated, antisocial young man who identifies better with machines than he does with people. Climbing into the Gundam's cockpit to save it from being stolen or destroyed, he finds himself serving as the White Base's main line of defence, against his own will. Initially caring only about his own survival, Amuro eventually comes to realise that other people matter too.
Ambiguous Disorder: There is something off about Amuro's social skills from the start of the show, and they have nothing to do with his later bout of PTSD.
But Not Too Foreign: Half Japanese, half either Mexican or Canadian depending on continuity and born in Prince Rupert, BC. Canada. In the novels it's also implied that he may not have any Japanese ancestry at all, since one of the psychic visions he receives as his powers begin to awaken shows his mother cheating on his dad.
Combat Pragmatist: He has no qualms shooting distracted opponents, sacrificing various armaments, and ambushing opponents. He even takes this to the logical conclusion, using the Gundam as a decoy in order to rush to the enemy cockpit and take out Char.
Jack-of-All-Stats: The Gundam itself. Some Zeon suits are faster. Some are stronger, or more heavily armoured, or better armed. None are as suited for all around combat.
Forgets To Eat: Tends to get a bit too wrapped up in his job for his own well-being, thanks to the pressure placed upon him by his vital importance to the war effort and the White Base's survival.
No Social Skills/Not Good with People: His Establishing Character Moment was when Frau finds him in his room fiddling with a computer in his home electronics lab — only in his underwear, not having eaten for days, and not realizing that the sirens he'd been hearing were evacuation alerts. And Frau still has to nag him out of his room! Amuro having to learn how to deal with others is a major theme in the series.
He's also right about The Federation using the White Base and the Gundam as a decoy to lure Zeon's attention away.
Psychic Powers: One of the first and strongest Newtypes, rivalled only by the likes of Kamille Biden, Paptimus Scirocco, and Lalah Sune.
Red Baron: Not as famous as Char, but people also know him as White Shooting Star. His RX-78 Gundam is nicknamed, both within the series as the "White Devil".
In some circles. In others, the RX-78-2 is still very much the White Devil.
TeenGadgeteer Genius: Was depicted as one of these as a civilian, having a knack for electronics and being able to build small robots... like Haro Haro!
A medical student from Side 7, Sayla becomes one of the White Base's Bridge Bunnies, before graduating to pilot status. She is frequently partnered with Amuro during the latter stages of the war, and the two of them share a good working relationship. She also has some sort of connection to Zeon ace Char Aznable, which is explored over the course of the show. Cool, controlled, and nearly unflappable, Sayla frequently acts as the voice of reason among the ship's crew.
Ace Pilot: By the end of the series she's an ace several times over, downing numerous mobile suits, battleships, and mobile armours in what's essentially a fighter plane.
Action Girl: The original in the series. Whether it's pulling a gun on Char or shooting down dozens of mobile suits and a battleship with the G-Fighter, Sayla always comes through.
Battle Couple: It may not go much further than Ship Tease, but she and Amuro are so very much this. She's his copilot and back-up starting from the moment they introduce the G-Fighter.
Broken Bird: Almost all of the girls in this series have shades of this, and she's no exception.
Commander Contrarian: To Mirai during the former's brief tenure as acting captain. Unusually for this trope, she's more or less portrayed as being in the right.
Cool Plane: The G-Fighter, which can combine with Amuro's Gundam to form the G-Armour (another cool plane) and the G-Bull (a cool tank).
Demoted to Extra: Despite being one of the main heroes of Mobile Suit Gundam, she more or less disappears for most of the subsequent series. And for worse, her voice actress later died.
Epic Fail: Her first outing in the Gundam, in which she accomplishes nothing but getting its foot sliced off. She improves.Dramatically.
The Medic: Was this more than once, since she was a medical student at Side 7.
Mission Control: Her role when she was still confined to the bridge.
Rebellious Princess: Her real name is Artesia Som Deikun, daughter of the legendary Zeon Zum Deikun. However, she only wants to have a normal life and rejects her heritage as well as her older brother Casval (aka Char)'s grudge against the Zabis.
Sibling Yin-Yang: With her brother, Char. They don't hate each other enough to be Cain and Abel, but jeez, have they developed different life philosophies.
Space Fighter: The G-Fighter and G-Armour can operate in both the atmosphere and outer space.
You Inoue: Sayla's original voice actress. She has yet to be replaced.
Bright Noa
"You can't be a real man without taking a few lumps!"
A 19-year old petty officer, Bright is forced to take command of the White Base when all his fellow officers end up dead. The strain of doing so, coupled with his naturally aloof personality, leaves Bright in a state of constant stress and irritation, even as he slowly matures into a fine commanding officer. He has a very rocky relationship with Amuro and the rest of the White Base's pilots.
Improbable Age: A ship captain who isn't even twenty yet. Justified as he's the only ranking officer they have left.
Jerk with a Heart of Gold: The level of stress that he's under does very bad things to Bright's social skills. He means well, but you could be forgiven for being unable to tell.
One of Amuro's friends from Side 7, Frau Bow does her best to keep him grounded in reality. Having come aboard the White Base she takes Sayla's place among the Bridge Bunnies. She has a fairly significant crush on Amuro, who simply takes her friendship for granted.
Bridge Bunnies: Gets Sayla's position after the former upgrades to fighter pilot.
Childhood Friend Romance: A complicated mess. Hayato's crushing on her while she crushes on Amuro who honestly couldn't be less interested. See below for how it works out.
Mission Control: To Amuro, Sayla, Kai and the rest of the pilots.
No Sympathy: She really goes back and forth on this one. Early on she's rather prone to giving Amuro's lectures on how he needs to do more, when she herself is doing very little. She gets better about this as the show progresses.
Victorious Childhood Friend: To Hayato, after realising that the two of them have far more in common than she and Amuro do.
Kai Shiden
"Dead people don't get pensions."
A civillian from Side 7, Kai is an abrasive young man with a mean streak, and little respect for authority. Recruited into serving as the pilot of the Guncannon mobile suit, Kai constantly gripes and complains about the increasingly dangerous situations that the White Base is thrust into. Despite this, he proves himself to be a capable soldier, and eventually (after a rocky start) becomes good friends with Amuro.
Ace Pilot: Reaches this status fairly early on, though you'd never know it from his attitude.
Badass Normal: Despite a complete lack of Newtype powers (beyond the baseline sensitivity that the whole crew develops by A Baoa Qu), he's arguably the most reliable pilot on the White Base's roster.
Broken Bird: Another male example, and specially after Miharu's death.
Cowardly Lion: Emphasis on the 'lion' bit. His cowardice mostly consists of incessant grumbling and a 10-Minute Retirement whilst the White Base was safely docked in port - otherwise, he's typically amongst the first into the fray, and serves as a very reliable (if abrasive) soldier throughout the One Year War.
One of Amuro and Frau Bow's neighbours from Side 7, Hayato serves in a number of positions on the White Base acting as the pilot of the Guntank, and as a spare gunner when the situation demands. Possessing an unfortunate tendency towards insecurity, he deeply resents Amuro for doing things better than him.
Action Survivor: Not a hugely skilled pilot (though being stuck with the awkward, primitive Guntank doesn't help), but being a front-line soldier throughout the One Year War and coming back alive every time is an achievement in itself.
With Friends Like These: He's supposedly one of Amuro's closest friends. He doesn't really demonstrate it.
Mirai Yashima
"Maybe you should go a little easier on him, Bright."
Another civillian, Mirai is the daughter of a powerful Federation politician. Quiet and understanding, she serves as the White Base's pilot, and as Bright Noa's unofficial second-in-command.
Heroic BSOD: Suffers a brief but ugly one when she has to take over the White Base while Bright is otherwise incapacitated.
Improbable Piloting Skills: She's the first of Gundam's many assault carrier pilots, and as such, is the first to demonstrate these, perfectly flying a brand new military vessel, despite her very limited pre-war flight time. And that's not taking into account some of the crazy manouveres she pulls of with it.
Mukokuseki: Mirai is fully Japanese and has quite Asian looks, especially when compared to Hayato and the half-Japanese Amuro.
Number Two: Is unofficially this to Bright, due in part to her age, and in part to the fact that she's the pilot of the damn ship.
The Ojou: Her Disappeared Dad is a recently deceased high-ranked Federation officer, and her family had many connections within the colonies. She doesn't like it when people bring it up, though, and personality-wise she's more of a Yamato Nadeshiko.
Only Sane Man: Often plays this role, mediating between hotshot pilots like Amuro and Control Freak Bright.
Commander-in-Chief of the Earth Federation Forces, and an all around awesome guy, General Revil kept the Federation together when it looked like a Zeon victory was gauranteed. He takes a personal interest in the progress of the White Base crew, and is the mastermind of the Federation victories at Odessa and Solomon.
Four Star Badass: Though more verbal than physical, Revil earns major badass points almost every time he opens his mouth. He also believes in leading from the front, and often puts himself at risk to observe battles.
Killed Off for Real: He and Degwin Zabi are killed together when Gihren fires the solar ray.
Eagle Land: Mixed. He's brash, cocky, arrogant, and a shameless flirt, but an excellent pilot and a decent guy once you get past his unrefined exterior.
Handsome Lech: Teases Sayla and Mirai once or twice.
Jerk with a Heart of Gold: For a guy as rough as he is, the scene where he deflects Mirai's confession and gives her a good bye kiss and a ring is surprisingly bittersweet. Even more so after he bites it in battle.
Missing Mom: We don't know if Mrs. Law lives or not, but he carries around a ring that belongs to her. He gives it to Mirai before he dies.
Principality of Zeon
Char Aznable / (Casval Rem Deikun)
"I'll show you that mobile suit has its limits, my friend."
One of Zeon's most infamous aces, the enigmatic Char Aznable is responsible for the attempt at stealing the Gundam in the first place. Pursuing the White Base wherever they go, Char makes it clear that he has his own agenda, even as his rivalry with Amuro Ray develops from a professional one into something both deeply personal and very ugly.
Ace Custom: Repeatedly slaps red paint jobs and larger engines onto grunt suits. The later Gelgoog was built precisely to his specifications.
Chessmaster: Played with. Char's a competent planner, and is able to stay a step ahead of most people, but he's more of a short-term opportunist than a long-term schemer.
Cognizant Limbs: The Zeong's head and hands can all be operated separately from the torso, as noted under Attack Drone. The suit has to be destroyed piecemeal to actually take it down.
Cyber Cyclops: All of his suits, from Zaku II to Zeong.
The Dragon: Following Kycillia's hiring him away from Dozle, and the death of her previous Dragon, M'Quve, Char assumes this role to Zeon's princess.
The Dreaded: The mere appearance of his Zaku panicked Paolo Cassius, the original commander of the White Base who had kept his cool until then in spite of being mortally wounded. Him summarily trashing the Gundam in spite of the superior performance of the titular robot (and failing to destroy it only because it's Nigh Invulnerable) would cause a collective Oh Crap every time he appeared.
It extended to the rest of the franchise: in the Gundam Igloo version of the Battle of A Baoa Qu, a group of Federation pilot backs down when confronted with a red mobile armor, fearing it's Char.
Super Prototype: The MSN-02 Zeong a prototype MS built specifically for Newtype pilots. In terms of performance it outcasses the Gundam in almost all respects.
Flawed Prototype: The Zeong is only 80% complete, and is missing its legs. This isn't nearly as crippling as it sounds, since the suit's rockets enable it to be fully functional in space without the legs (although going to Earth would presumably cause some problems).
Interestingly, we never do get any confirmation that it was really the Zabi family that did it. It's entirely possible that the official story about him dying of a heart condition was the truth and his adoptive father, Jimba Ral, just told Char his father had been poisoned so he could be molded into a Tyke Bomb against the Zabis.
A Newtype from one of Zeon's labs, Lalah Sune's potential was recognised by both Char Aznable and Kycilia Zabi. She is eventually recruited to serve as the pilot for the MAN-08 Elmeth, a Newtype-specific mobile armour. During this time, she also meets and forms a connection with Amuro.
Love at First Sight: She and Amuro instantly feel a connection, courtesy of their Newtype abilities.
Love Triangle: The centre of one involving herself, Amuro, and Char (and arguably a point on one involving Amuro and Sayla as well). It ends horrifically for everyone involved.
Orphan's Ordeal: After her parents die in the war, her life is very rough.
Phlebotinum Girl: The Trope Maker, with Four Murasame as the Trope Codifier. She's slightly better-adjusted than later examples, and has a better relationship with her handlers (well, mostly Char), but is still an appropriately tragic figure.
Psychic Powers: The most powerful Newtype to appear in Mobile Suit Gundam, Lalah has been trained to exploit this as a weapon. Her very presence is enough to awaken Amuro and Char's latent powers as well.
Stepford Smiler: Considering her messed up past and how she's treated as a weapon by Zeon, yet remains seemingly cheerful at first. It isn't until she and Amuro have a Psychic Link that she begins to break down and finally asks "Why did you come so late in my life?", hinting that she knows she's screwed.
Taking the Bullet: Takes a blow from Amuro's beam sabre to save Char.
Undying Loyalty: To Char. Anyone who attacks him is "evil" in her book.
Unskilled, but Strong: Her complete lack of piloting experience is balanced out by being the most powerful Newtype in the show, complete with a mobile armour designed to maximise her abilities.
An associate of Zeon Zum Deikun, Degwin Zabi became Sovereign of Zeon after the latter's death and turned the colonies into his family's personal dictatorship. Now old and tired, Degwin leaves the day to day running of the war effort to his oldest son, Gihren.
Despair Event Horizon: While his position as the Zabi patriarch was already undermined by Gihren's thirst for power, Garma's death sent him over the edge. When we get to see him after that, he's a tired and weary old man who believes he's getting too old for all of this and is planning an armistice. Little did he know what Gihren was planning to do...
The Family That Slays Together: Got all of his children high-ranking positions in the Zeon military, largely because he doesn't trust anyone else. As Gihren demonstrates, this may not have been the best move.
Non-Action Big Bad: He's an old, fat, tired man. No, he isn't really up to doing a lot of fighting.
The Patriarch: Initially looks like an evil version of this, but it's quickly subverted as one realises that his kids, and not him, are really running the show.
Spanner in the Works: His attempt to surrender to the Federation forced Gihren to fire the Colony Laser before it was complete, resulting in Zeon's war-winning superweapon getting trashed after only taking out half of the enemy fleet. Needless to say, the other half swiftly proved themselves to be very troublesome indeed.
"I'll show you how a man who follows in Hitler's footsteps can fight!"
Degwin Zabi's eldest son, Gihren is a domineering, ambitious social climber, who runs Zeon's war effort from his position as Commander-in-Chief. Ruthless, controlling, and totally void of empathy, Gihren is nevertheless a skilled organiser and gifted public speaker, whose charismatic personality may be all that is keeping Zeon together. Having isolated his father from the public, he is the real ruler of Zeon in all but name.
Ambition Is Evil: The single most ambitious character in the show actually.
Dragon-in-Chief: By the time of the One Year War, Gihren has reduced his father to a powerless figurehead and made himself the real dictator of Zeon.
The Starscream: He doesn't bother hiding his contempt for his father and his policies, and more or less treats Degwin as a relic, accumulating increasing amounts of power for himself. Degwin knows what's happening, but at this point, is powerless to stop it.
Evil Chancellor: His relationship with his father has definite aspects of this.
The Evil Prince: He's already cut his father out of the picture and taken most of Zeon's political and military power for himself as of the start of the series. He further isolated Degwin following Garma's death, and finally kills the old man, usurping Big Bad status for himself.
The Evils of Free Will: Gives a little speech to his father about how Democracy Is Bad and that people should have their own will replaced with that of the Zabi family (read as: Gihren).
Greed: One of the video games in the franchise is entitled Gihren's Greed. That should say it all.
The Heavy: For much of the series. He and Char seem to split the role, with Char shaping the individual episodes, and Gihren the overall plot.
Hypocrite: Gihren, like the rest of Zeon's leadership, talks a good game about how humanity has polluted the Earth and must be moved into space. He also gasses millions of people and tries to Colony Drop the planet in the backstory, before invading the planet with military force. Justified as Gihren honestly doesn't care about Zeon's political stance—he just wants to be the most powerful man in the world.
Insane Admiral: Zeon's CINC and an utter psychopath. He's not really what you'd call incompetent, but is otherwise barely human, which causes him to make a number of tactical errors later on.
Lack of Empathy: Char may be empathy-deficient, but Gihren has absolutely none for anybody. If you're in his way, or no longer useful, you die. This actually causes him problems when it comes to predicting his sister, Kycilia's actions: he assumes that she's every bit as ruthless as himself.
Large and in Charge: He's nowhere near the size of his brother Dozle (than again, who is?) but Gihren is still a tall guy with a broadshouldered build.
The Leader: Of Zeon. He's a Type IV personality with a Type I style of leadership.
A Nazi by Any Other Name: Gihren's a hardcore, militaristic Social Darwinist with genocidal intentions, a load of charisma, and no concept of morality. It would be more accurate to say he's Adolf Hitler by another name.
NEET: According to the (admittedly tongue-in-cheek) prequel manga Garma Of The Space Island, he was one before he became involved in Zeon Deikun's independence movement.
Nepotism: He got his job as Zeon's supreme commander because his father is the ruling Sovereign. He's kept it by being an efficent, imaginitive, charismatic, and utterly ruthless psycho.
Smug Snake: A high-functioning one, but one nonetheless. He's arrogant, overconfident, manipulative, has no regard for anyone else's wants (or lives), and condescends to everyone around him.
Social Darwinist: Convinced that the weak need to move aside to make power for the strong. Hence his treatment of Degwin.
The Sociopath: The original Gundam example. Azrael, Djibril, and all the other psychos in the franchise owe him a tremendous debt. Gihren is emotionally cold, displays a shallow affect, does not understand basic human interaction (though he can manipulate the masses easily enough), is totally amoral and without a concience, and is seemingly without fear. Apparently raising your kids on an ideology of Social Darwinism can be hazardous to their mental health.
There Is No Kill Like Overkill: Uses the Solar Ray to assassinate one person. Jeez Gihren, ever heard of subtlety? He was also the one behind the gas attacks on Earth, and seeks to deploy nukes on several occasions.
Visionary Villain: Gihren has a vision for the future of humanity. It involves the culling of the weak, the destruction of democracy, and the Zabi family dictatorship lording over the Earth sphere for all of eternity.
Warrior Prince: Gihren's no fighter, but given how vital a role he plays in the Zeon war effort it would be difficult not to class him as this.
Weapons Of Mass Destruction: Gassed vast portions of the Earth, doesn't see the problem with utilising nuclear weapons, builds the Solar Ray...he's got a definite thing for these.
"Once we mass-produce the Big Zam, the Feddies will be dead before they know what hit them!"
Degwin's second son, Dozle Zabi is everything his older brother Gihren is not. An aggressive fleet admiral, Dozle commands Solomon Base and leads his troops from the front. A dedicated family man, he cares a great deal for his father, his brother Garma, and his wife and daughter.
Know When to Fold 'Em: Dozle recognises that the Battle of Solomon is lost and orders his men to retreat before heading out in the Big Zam to by them time.
Degwin Zabi's only daughter, Kycilia is a bright but cold young woman who serves as one of Zeon's best admirals. Capable of inspiring great loyalty in her subordinates, Kycilia is nevertheless without scruples when it comes to the conduct of the war. She is in charge of Newtype research, and has an intense rivalry with her brother, Gihren.
Cain and Abel: With her older brother, Gihren. It might be fairer to say that they're both Cain, with Kycilia being the slightly more sympathetic of the two.
Sibling Yin-Yang: She and Gihren may hate each other, but they've got a lot in common personality wise. The family basically splits in two, with Kycilia and Gihren being icy and calculating, and Garma and Dozle being hot blooded and passionate.
Cool Helmet: Wears one that's almost identical to Char's actually.
Cool Mask: Often wears a mask over the lower parts of her face when she enters battle.
Daddy's Little Villain: She's far from childish or spoiled, but Kycilia still fits the trope, sharing her father's philosophy and remaining loyal to him even after his death.
Dark Action Girl: Kycilia isn't afraid to take the field when she has to, as her first appearance (fighting alongside M'Quve in the Adzam) attests to.
Even Evil Has Loved Ones: She's not an especially warm person, but she definitely cares about her father, and looked rather sad when Garma's death was announced.
Evil Genius: Of the Zabi family and Zeon as a whole.
The Evil Princess: Very evil (though noticeably less so than her older brother, Gihren) and not averse to climbing to power the old-fashioned way.
Know When to Fold 'Em: Kycilia realises that the battle for A Baoa Qu is lost, and attempts to flee, planning on rallying the forces in the homelands, rather than dying at the base.
Royals Who Actually Do Something: She's a Rear-Admiral in the Zeon fleet and takes an interest in research and development, eventually masterminding much of the defence of A Baoa Qu.
The Starscream: As M'quve's activities in Europe showed, she was preparing to move against Gihren for quite a while before he fried their father and staged a coup.
Degwin's youngest son, Garma serves as leader of the Earth Invasion Force under his sister Kycilia. Desperate to win his family's respect, he is perhaps the most human member of the family, and is deeply in love with his girlfriend, Icelina. He and Char Aznable go way back, having been friends since their days at the military academy.
Anti-Villain: He is easily the most sympathetic member of the Zabi clan.
Demoted to Extra: Since the novels leave out the whole story arc set on Earth, Garma appears instead in charge of the Zeon forces that intercept White Base en route to Luna II. Things don't work out any better than the anime and he dies within ten pages of his first appearance.
An affable Zeon ace, Ramba Ral came to Earth following Garma Zabi's defeat at the hands of the White Base crew. Meeting Amuro Ray while both were off-duty, Ramba Ral struck up a friendship with the boy. He would later lead a number of attacks on the White Base crew.
Spared by the Adaptation: In the novels he's a secret service agent instead of a pilot and is one of the comparatively few named Zeon characters to survive to the end.
Whip It Good: The Gouf's Heat Rod, which he uses to good effect during his battles with Amuro.
Ramba Ral's girlfriend and Number Two, Crowley Hamon is the brains of the Blue Giant's outfit, planning strategy while he leads from the front. Quiet, composed, and always graceful she makes quite the contrast with her Boisterous Bruiser boyfriend.
Avenging the Villain: She targets the White Base due to their role in Ramba Ral's death, and even before then, sought, alongside Ral, to avenge Garma Zabi.
Lady of War: Establishes herself as one after Ral's death, piloting one of Zeon's tanks during her revenge strike on the White Base.
Lean and Mean: Subverted. She's very thin, and works for Zeon, but is thoroughly sympathetic.
Near Villain Victory: Leads perhaps the single most successful attack on the White Base, and is within seconds of destroying it before she is defeated.
Tank Goodness: Crowley actually gets some mileage out of her Magella Attack Tank, and was about to blast the White Base's bridge into smithereens when she was stopped by Ryu.
Kycilia Zabi's right-hand man, the aristocratic M'Quve represents his mistress on Earth, commanding her troops in the desert, and leading Zeon's forces at the Battle of Odessa. Totally loyal to Kycilia, M'Quve has an ingrained distrust of Char Aznable. Despite all appearances, he is a skilled mobile suit pilot.
Ace Custom: The YMS-15 Gyan, it was built to his specifications with the intent of rivaling the Gundam and Char's Gelgoog. It resembles a knight in plate mail, equipped with a beamrapier and a shieldloaded with missiles.
Adaptational Villainy: Inverted in the movies and their supplementary material, where he's a mildly snooty Anti-Villain - none of his nastier actions are shown, and he even carries out a Heroic Sacrifice to save Dozle's wife and infant daughter.
Aristocrats Are Evil: Invoked by his wealth, obvious connections to the Zeon upperclass, and total ruthlessness.
Armchair Military: In the movies his two attempts at engaging the Gundam directly in combat (first with the Adzam—copiloted by Princess Kycilia!—then the Gyan) were excised because it was thought to be out of character for him.
Booby Trap: Liberally booby-traps the Texas Colony before his duel with Amuro.
The Chessmaster: M'Quve doesn't leave a hell of a lot to chance.
Combat Pragmatist: Has zero understanding whatsoever of the concept of 'fighting fair'.
Cultured Warrior: Despite being an overconfident Smug Snake, he's actually a pretty competent pilot and strategist, as his final battle with Amuro attests to. Even Char admits that "M'Quve's putting up quite a fight," and it takes the first full-fledged activation of Amuro's Newtype powers for the Gundam to gain a decisive advantage.
Lady and Knight: The Black Knight to Kycilia Zabi's Dark Lady. He is utterly loyal to her, right unto death, and the Gyan is even designed to resemble a knight.
The Strategist: He leads the White Base around by the nose for quite a while.
Spared by the Adaptation: In the films, his final battle with Amuro in the Texas Colony in the fancypants fencing Mobile Suit Gyan was one of the many things cut for being too Super Robot-y and was replaced by Char & an early appearance of his MS-14S Gelgoog. However, the Zeta GundamInterquelChar's Deleted Affair has him die at the helm of the Gyan in a different manner, in a desperation attack on The Federation to cover the retreat of Zeon forces from A Baoa Qu.
The Black Tri-StarsThe nickname of Gaia, Ortega, and Mash, a trio of Ace Pilots famous for capturing General Revil at the start of the war. They're currently serving under M'quve, and have been assigned Zeon's deadly new Dom suits with which to hunt down the White Base.
Ace Pilot: Amongst the first Zeon aces Amuro faces.
Badass Beard: Gaia, the team leader, has a fairly impressive one.
Attack Pattern Alpha: Their 'Jet Stream Attack', which uses their Doms' superior speed and manoeuvrability to land several hits on an enemy suit in rapid succession. Unfortunately for them, Amuro figures out the pattern after the first time they use it on him, and turns it to his advantage.
Gonk: None of them are exactly male-model material, but Ortega has a face only an elephant seal could love.
Lightning Bruiser: The Dom is Zeon's heavy assault suit, an armoured battering ram floating on two powerful thermonuclear thrusters. It's fast, tough, and a lot more heavily-armed than the Zaku.
Southern Fried Private: The dub gave them all thick Southern accents, which became canon from then onwards.
Terrible Trio: They're on the more competent end of the trope, though it doesn't save them against Amuro.
Others
Icelina Eschonbach
Anti-Villain: She just was a naive young girl who happened to be on the wrong side of the war.
Moral Myopia: It's okay for her to collaborate with Garma, who's trying to help his father and Complete Monster of a brother Take Over the World, but the people who killed Garma are monsters and deserve to die.
Talking to Himself: Voiced by Kaneto Shiozawa, who also voiced M'Quve. In the original series, they even get to briefly interact, with Cameron calling M'Quve out on his bullshit before leaving.
Becoming the Mask: Is sent to spy on the White Base. However, she falls in love with Kai and sees that the crew has children among their protegees, and starts questioning herself...
