Characters from Mobile Suit Gundam 0083: Rebellion. For the 1991 series Mobile Suit Gundam 0083: Stardust Memory, see here.

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Earth Federation

Albion

Kou Uraki

Ensign Kou Uraki

Badass Normal: He grows into this in the course of the series.
- Badass Bookworm: His knowledge of Mobile Suits helps him a number of times, including having to improvise by slimming down the arsenal from the Orchis weapons platform, equip it on the GP-03 Stamen and use it against Gato in their 3rd battle inside the falling colony heading for Earth.
Book Ends: Both Kou and Keith began as test pilots on Torrington Base after their graduation. Come the fallout of Operation Stardust, they both return as test pilots, trying out the recently built Hizack mobile suits.
The Determinator: He is resolute on fulfilling his mission to try and stop Gato and prevent Operation Stardust from being completed, and he's certainly put through the wringer throughout the operation.
Did Not Get the Girl: Unlike the original source material where it's implied it'll be Maybe Ever After, Kou and Nina did not stay together after Operation Stardust.
Ensign Newbie
Hot Blodded: This gets some 'Deconstruction' at some points in the series. If there's a knock about Kou as a pilot is that he tends to be reckless when he lets his emotions get the better of him at times, causing a few characters to give him advice to get him to calm down, and think the situation through. It serves him well ocassionally, but that also works against him.
Keet: Between his boyish looks, being a nice guy and a total nerd when it comes to Mobile Suits, he fits this trope.
Nice Guy
Third Time's The Charm: Indeed, unlike the source material when their last battle ended up being inconclusive, Kou finally defeats Gato in their 3rd duel inside the falling colony at Operation Stardust's terminal stage. He spares the latter's life with the intention of taking him into Federation custody, but lost him when they landed back on Earth.

Chuck Keith

Ensign Chuck Keith

South Burning

Lieutenant South Burning

Chap Adel

Ensign Chap Adel

Ascended Extra: Given that he didn't have a lot of dialogue in the source material, Adel grew into more than just a side character and retained this throughout the manga.
An Arm and a Leg: Gato manages to get the drop on Adel and blows off the arm of Adel's GM Custom with a bazooka shot.

Alpha A. Bate

Lieutenant Junior Grade Alpha A. Bate

Bernard Monsha

Lieutenant Junior Grade Bernard Monsha

Adaptational Nice Guy: Monsha, much like in the Super Robot Wars games, is softened from his original ornery portrayal. He's still a boisterous loud mouth, but Rebellion cuts his lecherousness down and removes the scenes of him sexually harassing his coworkers and trying to look up Nina's skirt with his GM's camera. Him endangering Kou by tampering with his landing of a Core Fighter is done by Allen instead. Monsha's relationship with Kou is also much less personal and hostile; he doesn't like Uraki, but he doesn't zero in on him nearly as much as in the source material.
Decomposite Character: Monsha's role in the series is divided between him and Dick Allen. Monsha retains much of his character, but he's introduced into the Albion crew much later and his scenes and the desire to pilot Unit 1 are taken up by Allen. Right as Allen departs the ship, Monsha rushes in to fill the void and resume his old role.
Hypocrite: Monsha, you could have a good reason for Kou having attacked you, but seeing that you pretty much tried to get Kelly Layzner killed by having Bate puncture the control room to blow him out the airlock despite Captain Synapse having authorized Kou and Kelly to work together to stop Gato is still quite the dick move. No wonder Uraki was royally pissed at him for that.
Jerkass: All that being said, though, he's still an abrassive man who gives Kou a hard time.

Dick Allen

Lieutenant Dick Allen

Adaptational Jerkass: Since Lt. Allen survives a lot longer he's fleshed out more and he ends up taking some of Monsha's role as the guy who wants the Gundam for himself. When cleaning up Karcs's room, he slams Kou against the wall, demanding the suit. He's also the one that screws with the terminal to get Kou to crash his fighter rather than Monsha; all to make Kou look incompetent.
Ascended Extra: He survives his encounter with the Dom early in the series and is expanded upon much more in this version of events.
Heroic Sacrifice: Much in the vein of Ryu from the original Gundam, Allen sacrifices himself by kamikazeing his core fighter into the charging blast of a Zeon Mobile Armor, saving the Albion crew at the cost of his life.
Spared by the Adaptation: Lt. Dick Allen was killed in Stardust Memory when a Dom fired a bazooka round straight through his cockpit. In Rebellion the rocket strikes his backpack from further back and he survives. Allen would go on to accompany the Albion crew for more of the story and dies much later during the fight to stop the HLV from launching at the Zeon base in Africa.

Eiphar Synapse

Captain Eiphar Synapse

A Father to His Men
It Has Been an Honor: He says as much to his crew as he's taken away by Federation officers at the conclusion of Operation Stardust to take responsibility for the fallout and spare their lives. He also tells them that he's proud of them no matter what.
The Good Captain
Reasonable Authority Figure

Mora Boscht

Lieutenant Junior Grade Mora Boscht

EFF Intelligence Bureau

Alice Miller

Lieutenant Commander Alice Miller

Jerkass Has a Point: Miller's not exactly a friendly or ethical person but she does have her head in the game. She sees through the Zeon feint with a disguised civilian ship and bluntly makes it clear her distrust of the Anaheim engineers; a well founded distrust as the spy is hidden amongst them.

Tanya Chermoshanskaya

Action Girl: Zigzagged. She refused to help out initially when the Albion's deployed to hunt for Gato since her background is in mobile weapon engineering. Tanya later decides to so by using a Core Fighter to help deploy supplies for Burning, Kou and Keith.
Number Two: To Miller when the Albion was first deployed. She later stays with the ship as a IB representative.

Unnamed IB agent

Ascended Extra: In Miller's Report, he was present with Alice to show that she means business when she interrogated Shiro. This time, he leads a counterintelligence operation to nab Nick before he could make further contact with Gato.

Other EF personnel

Claude Kurtz

Ensign Claude Kurtz/Lieutenant Colonel Geil Hunt

Ascended Extra: Geil Hunt, a marine from Cima's past who only appeared in The Mayfly of Space 2 Picture Drama, has a role in the series proper this time. He's a soldier in the Federation and he's the one used to broker the deal with Cima's fleet.
Canon Immigrant: He's from the picture/audio drama Mayfly from Space.
Face Death with Dignity: He calmly faces down Gato after killing Delaz. He is killed when the Neue Ziel smashes through the Gwazine's bridge with its claw.
Red Right Hand: Kurtz has a perpetual "cheeky grin" on his face. Bate points out that his face is actually stuck like that due to nerve damage around the large facial scar Kurtz has.
Walking Spoiler: Would be hard to mention that he's a Zeon marine known as Geil Hunt, who has a new name after he gave himself up after the OYW.

Officers

John Kowen

Vice Admiral John Kowen

Reasonable Authority Figure: Admiral Kowen as in the original OVA. Kowen is level-headed, civil, and kind in contrast to the rest of the Federation top brass who run the gambit from egotistical to petty to flat out evil.

Green Wyatt

Admiral Green Wyatt

Jamitov Hymen

Commodore Jamitov Hymen

Bask Om

Captain Bask Om

Nakohha Nakato

Major Nakohha Nakato

Kick the Dog: Nakato doesn't kill Lucette in this adaptation, to make up for it he has the ship he's on use the civilian La Vie En Rose as a shield, and threatens to shoot the Federation Captain when he objects to endangering a civilian craft in such a way.

Zeon Remnants

Delaz Fleet

Anavel Gato

Lieutenant Commander Anavel Gato

An Arm and a Leg: During the battle of A Baoa Qu, a Federation ship blasted off the right arm of Gato's Gelgoog.
Hawaiian-Shirted Tourist: Gato sneaks past Earth Customs dressed as this. It's played for comedy.

Aiguille Delaz

Vice Admiral Aiguille Delaz

Fatal Flaw: Aiguille Delaz is fanatically loyal to the Zeonic ideal and he believes that his subordinates share this. This ends up making Delaz far too trusting of the various Zeonic factions under his command and his letting Cima's faction and Geil Hunt into the fold put them into a prime position to betray him.

Cima Garahau

Lieutenant Colonel Cima Garahau

Adaptational Early Appearance: Cima shows up with her ships early in the story.
Adaptational Heroism: Zig-Zagged with Cima. She never comes across as particularly sympathetic in the original OVA in spite of aiding the Federation in attempting to stop Operation Stardust but side material like The Mayfly of Space established her as an Anti-Villain used and abused by the Zeon war machine. With the side material integrated into the story telling this time around, Cima's actions are depicted in a much more sympathetic light and she's shown to have more loyalty towards her comrades. Rebellion also cuts out her ordering Kult out on a suicide mission and damaging Burning's GM, leading to his death, both kills instead given to Kelly. While neither moment is a complete Kick the Dog, dropping them ends up making Cima easier to root for.

Bob

Gaily

An Arm and a Leg: When Gaily goes up against Uraki, Kou blasts off his Dom's arm with a cannon shot.

Karius

Petty Officer 1st Class Karius Otto

Other Holdouts

Neuen Bitter

Rear Admiral Neuen Bitter

Adaptational Badass: While Neuen Bitter was a skilled soldier in both series, in Stardust Memory he went out in a Custom Zaku II F2, here he pilots a superweapon forged from the Adzam and Apsallus, and comes close to completely destroying the Albion rather than nearly destroying its cockpit.

Gary Lodge

Ensign Gary Lodge

Clara Lodge

Chief Petty Officer Clara Lodge

Axis

Yuri Hasler

Major General Yuri Hasler

Adaptational Early Appearance: Yuri showed up at the start as one of the Zeon officers who chose to flee to Axis.

Civilians

Anaheim Electronics

Nina Purpleton

Put on a Bus: Unlike the original OVA, Nina is not there to greet Kou along with Keith and Mora after he's released from prison following the deletion of the Gundam Project Data, although he briefly hallucinates that she is. Instead Nina chooses to move on with her life, and it's implied she never reunites with Kou.

Nick Orville

Death by Adaptation: He's s hunted down and killed by mobsters affiliated with Zeon who didn't want said affiliation going public. In the OVA Zeon's attempts to kill him failed and he was presumably captured offscreen.
You Know Too Much: Nick's killed during a prisoner transport since he was arrested by IB agents.

Lucette Audevie

Adaptational Early Appearance: Lucette shows up early at the start with the other AE engineers who see Nina off to Australia.
Spared by the Adaptation: The theft of GP-03 plays out much differently in this version and Lucette Audevie is taken hostage in the cockpit. She never has the confrontation with Nakato that leads to him shooting her.

Paula Guilish

Kurena Hacksell

Others

Kelly Layzer

Lieutenant Kelly Layzner

Adaptational Badass: Kelly Layzer's expanded role in the story allows him numerous showings of his abilities. He's a One-Man Army during the assault on Konpei Island and he pilots the Dendrobium alongside Uraki's Gundam GP-03 against the Zeon Remnants.
Ascended Extra: Notably Kelly survives his fatal encounter with Kou on the moon and assists in the attack on Konpei Island. He has a much larger character arc this time around even having a Heel–Face Turn after the nuking of Solomon.
An Arm and a Leg: Kelly was wounded at the battle of Solomon, his left arm had to be amputated and his Bigro's left claw was blown off.
Earn Your Happy Ending: Of all the characters involved in Operation Stardust, Kelly is the only one who gets an actual happy ending. Not only did he survive the conflict, he's reunited with Lautera and is able to wtiness the birth of his son.
Spared by the Adaptation: When Kelly Layzner finally goes out to fight GP-01, he can't bring himself to fight as harshly as he did in the OVA and Uraki himself can't bring himself to kill him. However, Gato shows up personally to collect him and Kelly makes his getaway to go on to play a bigger role in the manga.

Characters / Mobile Suit Gundam 0083: Rebellion

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