Mobile Suit Gundam 00 Character Index
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Marina Ismail

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

Voiced by Ayumi Tsunematsu (Japanese), Paula Lindberg (English, series), Marÿke Hendrikse (English, A Wakening of the Trailblazer)

Actual Pacifist: Hates weapons so much that she can't even fathom using a gun for self-defense. This can easily come across as a little naive, but it's also understandable due to her background as an inhabitant of a constantly war-torn country who just wants all the bloodshed to end.
All-Loving Hero: She's kind and compassionate, almost to a fault, and has no hostile intentions towards anyone.
Aloof Dark-Haired Girl: Downplayed on the "aloof" part. She is an introverted and often quite gloomy/melancholy girl with dark hair.
Compressed Hair: During her world tour in season 1.
Contrasting Sequel Main Character: Borders on Deconstructed Character Archetype towards both Relena Peacecraft and Lacus Clyne.
- She's what Relena would be if portrayed in a more cynical (towards pacifism) series, and she does get put through the wringer. It is not a perfect deconstruction by any means, as Marina doesn't have the same force of will as Relena and, thanks to her tendency to be very indecisive, can come across as weak and wishy-washy in her efforts, compared to Relena, who would stand firm even if she had a gun aimed at her head.
- Also the Idol Singer princess character (think Lacus). She's very inspiring with a song she writes about peace, and Setsuna says what everyone in the audience is thinking, that she's a lot more competent as a singer/good will ambassador than as the leader of a country - and he meant it as a compliment. Again, not a perfect deconstruction, since Lacus is not only far more self-confident than Marina is, but also has a far more influential position in her society from the start.
Damsel in Distress: In season 2, the A-Laws take her in prison and Setsuna has to rescue her. Early in the movie, Setsuna and Lockon have to save her from a Corrupt Corporate Executive who doesn't want her investigating his exploitation of Azadistani laborers.
Fallen Princess: In season 2, she loses her country when Ali burns it to the ground and spends most of the story as a refugee.
Feminine Women Can Cook: As seen in season 2. She takes care of meals for the children, Klaus and Shirin.
Friend to All Children: Spends most of Season Two taking care of war orphans.
Good Is Dumb: Zig-Zagged. Due to her political inexperienece, Marina consistently underestimates how warped people can be and how showing even genuine kindness rarely ever leads to a lasting peace or understanding. In Season 2, Marina sheds some of this naivety, still holding to her absolute pacifist ways but now acknowledging that sometimes fighting and bloodshed are required, even if she could never even hold a gun to protect herself or the innocent children she looks after.
Good Parents: For all her flaws, she is a caring mother for the Katharon kids.
Graceful Ladies Like Purple: Her season 1 outfit is primarily purple in color.
He Will Not Cry, so I Cry for Him: Does this for Setsuna.
Heterosexual Life-Partners: With Shirin.
Honorary Princess: She holds the title of "Princess of Azadistan" in the first season, which is an elected figurehead position in the setting. While she is of royal descent, monarchy was abolished in Azadistan long before her birth, and she grew up in a regular middle-class family.
Identical Stranger: Marina looks scaringly like a younger version of Setsuna's mom.
Innocent Blue Eyes: She has blue eyes and is very innocent. She would never do anything to hurt someone or take advantage of others. She's also inexperienced as a leader.
I Was Quite a Looker: By the end of the film.
Long Hair Is Feminine: She has the longest hair of all the characters and she's very feminine.
Mistaken for Romance: When outright asked if they were dating, Marina and Setsuna both deadpanned "We are not a couple" in unison, without any of the embarrassment or blushing this kind of situation usually entails.
Neutral Female: She's one of Setsuna's allies, but she's not one to be on the field.
Nice Girl: Marina is a very pleasant individual and doesn't say or do anything offensive against anyone.
The Not-Love Interest: To Setsuna. Both consider each other their most important person and they share an almost spiritual connection when apart. However, their relationship genuinely has not a single romantic feeling involved. If anything, their relationship is more akin to that between a mother and child - and it's not helped by how Marina looks a lot like a younger version of Setsuna's Missing Mom.
Old Maid: It's implied that she grew old unmarried.
Parental Substitute: To a degree, Setsuna sees her as a mother figure.
Platonic Life-Partners: She and Setsuna are very close and they share an unbreakable bond. Despite what other characters tend to assume, both Setsuna and her make sure to emphasize there isn't any romantic interest between them. Both of them do get married in the manga epilogue, but the author does note that it's more to symbolize their close relationship with each other in spite of their lack of romantic attraction to each other.
Politically-Active Princess: While phrased as a compliment, her closest adviser tells her outright that she's far better at charitable work and being a good will ambassador than she is at politics and ruling.
Proper Lady: She has a very polite and refined demeanour.
Raven Hair, Ivory Skin: A very beautiful woman with long black hair and pale skin.
Rebellious Princess: Deconstructed. She tries to be one, but never can do anything productive.
Replacement Goldfish: At least to some extent, it appears Setsuna sees her as a replacement for his Missing Mom. It doesn't help that she does look like a younger version of his mom.
Royal Blood: She mentioned that the reason she was chosen as a princess was because of her bloodline.
Say My Name: She utters Setsuna's name very often, although she's not as loud as Relena.
She Is All Grown Up: The Distant Finale shows her children as adults.
Showgirl Skirt: In season 1, almost all of her princess dresses don't fully cover her legs, forming a crescent around them instead.
Taking the Bullet: In the last scene of episode 18 of season 2, she blocked a bullet meant for a kid named Josef. Subverted in the next episode, which shows that Klaus shot the gunners down before they could pull the trigger.
Team Mom: For the Kataron children in season 2.
Tomboy and Girly Girl: Downplayed in Season 1, where Shirin came off as more tough compared to the more emotionally vulnerable Marina, fitting this in an emotional capacity. It is played completely straight in Season 2, in terms of both behaviour and appearance: The toughened-up Shirin acts as a warrior and dresses in military garb, while Marina assumes a caretaker role and dresses in a more traditionally feminine way.
Trauma Conga Line: Pretty much her main purpose, having grown up in a country nearly destroyed through civil war, getting imprisoned because she met Setsuna, and then when he breaks her out she finds that her country was leveled.
Water Is Womanly: Her name "Marina" means "of the sea", she has blue eyes, wears a gown with shades of blue, and is a very elegant, refined princess.

Shirin Bakhtiar

Marina's best friend, adviser and lady in waiting, who does not doubt to scold Marina when she hesitates. After the formation of the Earth Sphere Federation, she leaves the Palace and becomes a member of the rebel group Katharon to keep fighting for Azadistan in her own way.

Voiced by Michiko Neya (Japanese) and Ellen Kennedy (English)

Action Survivor: She ends up joining Katharon and while not on the field too often, she's still capable of getting out okay.
Adrenaline Makeover: Contrast her flowing dresses from season 1 with her baggy pants and tight t-shirt in the second one.
Aloof Dark-Haired Girl: Downplayed. She often acts hostile and aloof, particularly in Season 2, but she can actually be compassionate with the others, including with Marina, even though Shirin doesn't agree with her Actual Pacifist views.
Commander Contrarian: She often is highly critical to Marina and often questions her actions, however she does this with the best of intentions in order to try and make Marina a better leader.
The Consigliere: To Marina. Shirin always questions Marina's decisions so Marina will consider the full political situation.
Heterosexual Life-Partners: With Marina.
Sarcastic Devotee: Constantly belittles Marina, but it quickly becomes clear that she agrees with Marina's goals and just wants to ensure that she has the political know-how to make them happen.
Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right!: The reason she left Marina in the season 1 finale.
Stoic Spectacles: She wears glasses and is a rather stern person.
Subordinate Excuse: Although she and Klaus started as Platonic Life-Partners, the novelization stated that they had a Relationship Upgrade. And after the finale, she became pregnant with his child.
Tomboy and Girly Girl: She and Marina are a grown-up version. See the entry in Marina's folder for details.

Louise Halevy

^{Season 2}

Main mecha: GNX-609T GN-XIII, GNX-704T/SP Ahead Smultron, GNMA-0001V Regnant

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

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

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

Voiced by Chiwa Saitō (Japanese) and Kelly Sheridan (English)

All of the Other Reindeer: She was looked down on by most of her A-Laws comrades due to her being a rookie.
Ambiguously Jewish: Halevy is a Sephardic Jewish name and Louise's family is from Spain (where many Sephardic Jews are from).
Ambiguous Situation: While we already know that Setsuna and Descartes Shaman are the first and second (respectively) pure human Innovators in the world, Ribbons' claim that he wanted to make her into his personal first Innovator is still debated. Is she now fully modified into an Innovade, or is she only partially modified into a human-Innovade hybrid like the Trinities? And what is she now, pseudo Innovator? Innovade? Innovade-Hybrid? No one knows. The only thing we know for real is that she remains sensitive to quantum waves even after everything was said and done.
Anti-Villain: She joins the A-Laws to avenge her family's deaths at the hands of Team Trinity. She's transparently a pawn of Ribbons' schemes and it's clear that everything she has endured has ruined her mental health.
Artificial Limbs: She gets a prosthetic hand in the Time Skip to replace the one she lost when Nena Trinity bombed the wedding she was attending.
Ascended Extra : She's mostly a comic relief side character in the first season, but she's a major antagonist in the second season.
The Atoner: After Season Two, she lives her life with the intention of making up for all the crazy shit she pulled with the A-Laws.
Ax-Crazy: She’s quite unhinged in Season 2. Especially when the Gundams are involved.
Beauty Is Never Tarnished: Gets crushed by debris and loses an arm, but has very little in the way of permanent scarring aside from the amputation.
Beneath the Mask: Behind her cheerful and bratty persona in season 1 and then her militaristic and extremist persona in season 2, both Saji and Soma pointed out that Louise is nothing more than a poor, confused and weak-hearted woman who always feels saddened over her loneliness.
Blue Blood: Comes from an extremely rich family.
Brainwashed and Crazy: The drugs Ribbons gives her to help with her prosthetic arm contain something that allows Ribbons to control her.
Break the Cutie: Watches Nena Trinity blow her family up, gets crushed by debris, loses an arm, learns that she can't have the arm regenerated because of radiation damage, breaks up with Saji because she is convinced that she is holding him back from his dreams, gets a replacement arm that requires dangerous drugs for her to use it, and joins a fascist police force.
Broken Bird: There's little sign of the cheerful kid she used to be in Season 1 after Nena murders her family and leaves her nearly dead.
Broken Tears: When she realizes that she’s the last of the Halevy family and after she kills Nena.
Char Clone: Downplayed. She still serves as a blonde villain serving as The Dragon with a personal vengeance, trying to hunt down all of the people presumably responsible. She normally fights a Gundam, has piloted red mobile suits, and upgraded to more unique ones, including a Super Prototype in the final leg of the series (said Super Prototype at least glows red in some areas). She is also a bit of a Knight Templar/Well-Intentioned Extremist in some areas, reflecting the CCA-style Char Clones. Though like Jerid Messa, she's basically overshadowed by the main Char Clone of her series. In this case, Graham Aker/Mr. Bushido.
Corrupt the Cutie: Ribbons corrupts her into being his personal enforcer.
Curb-Stomp Battle: While not exactly the best pilot, she gets the perfect opportunity to do this when she finally encounters Nena Trinity, the girl who murdered her entire family for shits and giggles. Due to piloting the superior Regnant, and Nena piloting the outdated Throne Drei — a Gundam designed for a support role — it's safe to say that Nena had zero chance of leaving the battle alive.
Curtains Match the Window: Occasionally in Season 2, thanks to her developing Innovator powers.
Damsel in Distress: In the movie. She is one of the people being targeted by the ELS because they are homing in on her Quantum Brainwaves. While she's not the only one being hunted, Saji and Setsuna still have to rescue her from an ELS that has taken the form of Ribbons.
Dark Action Girl: In Season 2, she is a rookie member of the A-Laws, originally starting out piloting GN-XIII Mobile Suits before working her way up upgrade-wise.
The Dark Side Will Make You Forget: Throughout Season 2, Louise tries hard to throw away her past and make sure that she will now become a completely different person. Although we know that Ribbons plays a huge role in manipulating her mind, again, the one who wanted her to fund the A-Laws and join the Innovators was herself. While avenging her family's death is her main motivation, she actively supports the A-Laws' cruelty for the sake of permanent peace. Louise ultimately went so far that she wanted to kill Saji when she found out he was with Celestial Being: the people she believed were responsible for ruining her life.
Dating What Daddy Hates: Her mother was very disapproving of Saji, simply because he was a commoner. Louise could care less, of course. Her mother does warm up to him though, much to Louise's chagrin.
Demoted to Extra: Her role in the movie is reduced from what it was in Season 2.
Dramatic Irony: According to the official materials, inside the Regnant's inner head is a Gundam Head, the same machines that Louise hates for killing her family.
Easily Forgiven: Louise willingly joins the A-Laws and becomes a pawn of the Innovators as their number one investor and financial resource. All for the sake of getting revenge for her family, to cure her own condition, and to help the A-Laws to make a permanent peace in the world... even if it concerns genocide. And she was easily pardoned by Saji and Celestial Being because she is nothing but the Innovators' biggest victim.
Elegant Gothic Lolita: Her party dress from Season 2, episode 8 is similar to these.
Even Evil Can Be Loved: No matter how corrupted she becomes through Season 2, Saji still loves her and tries hard to protect and save her.
Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Louise's love for her family becomes the reason for her wish to avenge their death, which in turn was the reason why she willingly joined the A-Laws. She also still loves Saji, although she believes that he betrayed her by joining Celestial Being (though she had zero idea that he was sort of dragged into their operations and had no control over the circumstances), and almost willingly throws away their happy memories from when they were still high school students.
Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: Subverted. Yes, she becomes a Sociopathic Soldier in the Second Season with a bad case of Moral Myopia, and believes in A-Laws' extremist ideology. However, she is still touched by Saji's kindness toward her despite her cruel actions, which leads her to have a sort of Conflicting Loyalty between still following A-Laws side for sake of "peace" and justice for her family or abandoning it and finding a new live with Saji.
Evil Is Bigger: The Regnant is at least twice the size of a normal mobile suit.
Evolutionary Levels: She becomes what can only be assumed to be a "Pseudo-Innovator" in Season 2.
Expy:
- During her time as a member of the A-Laws, Louise takes a lot of cues from Quess Paraya from Char's Counterattack. Both are young girls with a direct connection to the Big Bad, and their trademark machines are giant Mobile Armors; Quess had the Alpha Azieru, and Louise had the Regnant. Also, Louise has a connection to one of the protagonists in Saji Crossroad, who is the Hathaway Noah to Louise's Quess. The differences being that while Quess died before she was given a chance to do much of anything redeeming (other than saving Hathaway's life), Louise survived the events of her series and wound up living as The Atoner.
- Outside of Gundam series, her revenge plotline in Season 2 is similar to that of Roy Mustang. Both are hellbent on finding a loved one's killer and once they find them, they give them no chance to fight back. The difference is that Mustang was saved by his friends and allies from a path of destruction, while no one was able to stop Louise in time.
Extreme Mêlée Revenge: To say that Louise got her revenge on Nena Trinity is a grievous understatement. The moment in Episode 21 of Season 2 where she sees the Throne Drei — the machine that took everything away from her 5 years ago — she wastes no time in displaying her brand-new Regnant's superior capabilities to Nena and her outdated Gundam. It's hardly even a fight — in fact, Nena never even hits Louise with her little peashooter of a GN Handgun before she gets absolutely boned. That's not the melee part, though, as Louise uses the Regnant's GN Beam Cannon and GN Fang claws to render Nena helpless for the majority of the "fight". The melee part is when she guts the Throne Drei on the Regnant's claws, which also penetrate the cockpit and impale Nena as well, sealing her fate.
Expository Hairstyle Change: Goes from long hair to a much shorter cut in season 2. By the time of the movie, she's back to a style resembling her original one, showing how she's on the road to mental recovery.
Evil Counterpart: She's essentially what Neil Dylandy would have been if he didn't give up his overbearing desire for vengeance. Due to being manipulated by the Innovators and her need for vengeance encouraged by those she thinks are trying to help her, Louise has become one of their most useful puppets.
From Nobody to Nightmare: From a rich high school student with big dreams to a soldier of a terrorist group.
Genki Girl: In Season One, she's perpetually hyper and cheerful. Not so much in Season 2.
Girl with Psycho Weapon: To be specific, girl with an incredibly fast Humongous Transforming Mecha equipped with twelve Attack Drones and capable of Roboteching.
Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: In the first season, she’s nothing but loving towards her friends and family. It tragically gets Subverted hard in the second season, when she goes down a dark path supporting the A-Laws. By the end, she’s healing, though it's doubtful that she'll ever make a full recovery.
Homing Laser: The Regnant's GN Beam Cannon is capable of changing trajectories if the enemy evades the first straight shot.
Horrible Judge of Character: Takes all of Ribbons' assurances — that he just wants to help her — at face value.
If You Kill Him, You Will Be Just Like Him!: Louise's vicious execution of Nena Trinity is one of the more brutal moments in the series, and marks the end of Louise's sanity. Notably, Setsuna and Saji try to commuicate with her, but Graham is so busy trying to settle the score with Setsuna that they fail to stop her.
Important Haircut: Had long hair in the first season, sports later a pageboy style that makes her look like a borderline Bifauxnen when in uniform. In The Movie, however, she has grown her hair back.
Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain: While she takes a role as a sinister Anti-Villain in season 2, Louise overall is not as good at fighting and piloting as her fellows. She is still thinking about Saji before she mistakenly believed that he betrayed her, completely unsure about whether to abandon her motivation or keep her motivation to take a revenge, always ending up shaken and taking drugs to calm herself. Ribbons has to push her to make her competent by triggering her with quantum brainwaves to Mind Rape her, but this ends up leaving her in a much worse mental and physical condition.
Innocent Bystanders: Deconstructed. She loses her innocence due to the path it set her on.
Irony: She hates and fears Gundams after Nena uses the Throne Drei to kill Louise's family. Ironically, the mobile suit form of Louise's own Regnant Mobile Armor (unbeknownst to her) has the head of a Gundam underneath its faceplate.
Karma Houdini Warranty: Louise sponsored and joined a government organization that committed war crimes, just so she could murder one person in brutal fashion. Yet, she gets away free, doesn't get convicted on anything, and has a happy ending. The Movie later shows that she'll never ever completely get over the mental and physical trauma she endured, and is going to have to live with that and atone for it for the rest of her life. ^note. Thankfully for her, Saji's going to stick by her for all this.
Leeroy Jenkins: Louise often acts incredibly recklessly in Mobile Suit combat, and without regard for command from her superiors, this only results in her getting far too close to the Gundams or the Ptolemaios. As a result, she frequently needs to be saved by her squadmates.
Magic Skirt: Wears one in the first season, and "it took effect" in the second ED.
Meaningful Name: Her name is the feminine version of "Louis", which means "Famous in Battle" or "Famous Warrior". In Season 2, Louise becomes one of the richest women in the world, and the main financier of the A-Laws. As a result she is treated quite courteously by the higher ups.
Mid-Season Upgrade: In Season 2, Louise starts out piloting a GNX-609T GN-XIII, starting at the bottom of the ladder suit-wise before later being given Soma Peries' GNX-704T/SP Ahead Smultron, which becomes her go-to Mobile Suit for the majority of the series. In the final episodes, she finally gets her own Super Prototype in the massive GNMA-0001V Regnant, a giant transforming Mobile Armor.
Misplaced Retribution: She blames Celestial Being for her misfortune when really it was just Nena Trinity acting on her own whim that fateful day, going against everything Celestial Being stands for. Even after getting revenge on Nena, she still desires Celestial Being's destruction. Though to be fair, she had no way of knowing that Nena was acting on her own accord, and Nena is technically a member of Celestial Being. Like Louise, most of the world understandably believed that the Trinities and the Gundam Meisters were on the same side since they both piloted Gundams.
Mood-Swinger: In season 2, Louise can be moody, calm, apathetic, insecure, grumpy and, at the extreme, a Psychopathic Womanchild who thirsts for revenge and kills anyone who tries to distract her. These are side effect of her traumatic experiences, her military training, and the drugs and body enhancements she has taken on.
Moral Myopia: She genuinely believes the genocide she’s doing is more justified compared to what Celestial Being is doing. Ironically, Nena calls her out on her Moral Myopia during their battle, while Louise calls Nena on hers, and neither of them register what the other is saying because of their respective shortsightedness.
Official Couple: Firmly and definitely with Saji as of the movie. Earn Your Happy Ending indeed.
The Pawn: Louise is not aware of anything Ribbons is doing — and already has done — to her. Their "friendship" is merely to use her family fortune for the financial needs of the A-Laws and the Innovators. Not only that, Ribbons modifies her fragile body and mind to make her into a pseudo-Innovator as a mole, forcing her to agree with whatever he does to her via manipulation and quantum brainwaves.
Pay Evil unto Evil: Sure, the Curb-Stomp Battle she gave Nena was brutal, but Nena never felt guilt over the wedding incident, nor her any other actions. So it's not exactly easy to feel sorry for Nena when Louise ultimately kills her.
Redemption Earns Life: Combined with Defeat Means Friendship, Louise is successfully saved and defeated by Saji and Setsuna, and freed from Ribbons's control. In the epilogue and movie, it's shown that Louise now lives as The Atoner, no longer holding on to hatred or revenge and focusing on curing her body and her mental health, and reforming her relationship with Saji once again.
Revenge: Joins and sponsors the A-Laws to get revenge on Celestial Being for killing her family.
Riches to Rags: She comes from an extraordinarily wealthy family, but her wealth is reduced after Season 2.
Right for the Wrong Reasons: In spite being heavily influenced by Ribbons's manipulation, she was technically right to say that Celestial Being is responsible for the death of her families and the cause behind conflict. The Trinities are members of Celestial Being, and committed terrorist acts with their Gundams (ultimately staining the name of Celestial Being in doing so), resulting in the world thinking that Celestial Being in general is nothing more than a glorified terrorist group. If only Louise had known that the Trinities were Unwitting Pawns intended to make Celestial Being look bad so the world would unite against them (something that took place in Season 1).
Roaring Rampage of Revenge: After her family’s death, she joins the A-Laws. It only got worse when her commanding officer gets killed.
Sanity Slippage: Throughout Season 2, mainly due to the drugs Ribbons has her take, and it reaches a breaking point after she kills Nena, after which it seems that she's finally gone off the deep end entirely. Setsuna's Trans-Am Burst and Saji's love for her helps her recover.
Screw the Rules, I Have Money!: Is technically a very low ranking A-Laws operative, and a mediocre pilot as well, but since she finances the organization, she gets to pilot top of the line mobile suits usually reserved for ace pilots. This includes the elite Ahead Smultrons, and eventually her own Super Prototype, the Regnant.
She Cleans Up Nicely: Fits in quite well in kimonos and EGL dresses.
She Who Fights Monsters: Her quest for revenge turns her into a pawn of Ribbons. Thankfully, at the end she gets better and is now living as The Atoner.
Shell-Shocked Veteran: In the movie, she remains hospitalized from PTSD from all the horrific events that happened to her in the series.
Sociopathic Soldier: Louise has a total lack of interest in helping civilians, and only focuses on punishing people who refuse to accept the unification of the world.
Sole Survivor: She is the Halevy family's only survivor after Nena's attack.
Small Girl, Big Gun: While being the smallest member of A-Laws in both status and stature, she gets the largest, arguably most powerful single Mobile Suit in the entire series.
Star-Crossed Lovers: With Saji, in Season 2. She joins the A-Laws, he joins Celestial Being and when she learns of this, she becomes convinced that he was plotting against her from the very beginning. They eventually end up together despite everything.
The Team Benefactor: She's one of A-laws' biggest fanciers, which is why she's given so much special treatment despite being a pretty mediocre soldier.
Took a Level in Badass: Becomes a pilot for the A-Laws, heading more and more towards Dark Action Girl territory.
Took a Level in Jerkass: Is a lot more unpleasant in Season 2. Louise hates anyone interfering with her desire to destroy the Gundams, and is deadset on avenging her family's death. It's to the point where she also threatens her ex-boyfriend if he dares to stop her, despite him trying to gently persuade her to move on to build a better live in the future. Luckily, she does gets better once Saji and Setsuna free her from Ribbons' influence.
Took a Level in Kindness: At the end of Season 2, Louise is already returning to her kind-hearted old self again. She still shows a great concern about the future and worries if humanity will make the same mistake and cause another war, but is no longer showing any desires of wanting to take things in her own hands yet again.
Too Dumb to Live: She exhibits a moment of this in the fateful event where Nena heartlessly kills her family. When the first laser hits the chapel, killing everyone but her, her first instinct is to run to her parents’ bodies rather than run away. While understandable as it was a reaction of pure grief, Nena's following attack led to her getting buried under rubble and losing a hand.
Trauma Button: In Season 2, every time when she hears words "Gundam", she becomes shaken, slips into rage and madness, and needs to use drugs to calm herself.
Unskilled, but Strong: Despite the fact that Louise has undergone both military and Mobile Suit training, she is still a mediocre pilot. This is even with the enhanced prosthetic and whatever modifications Ribbons made on her to (possibly) make her an Innovade. As a matter of fact, the modifications only worsen her physical and mental state. However, due to her status as the A-LAWS' top financier, Louise manages to get her own upgrades Mobile Suit wise, going from a scrappy little GN-XIII to Marie's old Ahead Smultron. And while this helps he catch up... she becomes a near unstoppable juggernaut once she gets the Regnant.
Used to Be a Sweet Kid: Was kindhearted as a teen, but after Nena Trinity killed her entire family and left her with nothing, she would grow into a hateful, vengeance-bound girl bent on solving the world's problems by force, which is her reasoning behind funding the A-Laws.
Vengeance Feels Empty: She ultimately gets her revenge on Nena, but it just served to make her realize that nothing has changed; her family was still dead. But rather than just letting her vengeance die with Nena, she merely shifts it to the rest of Celestial Being (or at least now moreso than she originally had).
Villain Has a Point: In spite of her own Moral Myopia, she wasn't wrong to call out Nena Trinity on hers. It was Nena's decision to bomb the wedding, and that had nothing to do with her brothers being killed by Ali, which happened after Nena murdered Louise's family (even if Louise didn't know that). Whatever the reason may be that Nena did what she did (and the real reason was repulsively petty), killing her family back then wasn't a nice thing to do (and she probably didn't even remember what she did), and no Freudian Excuse Nena could bring up would ever convince Louise that Nena had any right to ruin her life on an impulse. Louise's Pre-Mortem One-Liner to Nena, therefore, is a borderline Shut Up, Hannibal! from one baddie to another.
Nena: I was created for this... and forced to fight. I refuse to die like this! THIS ISN'T HOW I WANNA DIE!
Louise: I know. I'm sure you don't wanna die. But... my mom and dad... WEREN'T EVEN GIVEN THE CHANCE TO SAY THAT BEFORE YOU KILLED THEM!
Villain Corner: Initially was a ordinary a high-school girl who come from extremely rich family. After Nena kills her family, Ribbons' influence and manipulations lead her to join the A-Laws, who will kill anyone to create peace.
Villainous BSoD: Goes into these more or less often, as a side-effect of her treatment.
Villainous Breakdown:After killing Nena, she seemed to subvert this through an In-Universe Catharsis Factor, reacting to Nena's horrible, brutal death at her own hands with relieved, cheerful laughter. But then she starts to talk to herself, starting to talk to her dead parents as if they were there, asking if she indeed did the right thing. She gets no response, and with no validation of her own actions, it immediately sinks in for Louise that Vengeance Feels Empty. She immediately devolves into a crying and screaming fit, a sign of her mental state pretty much decaying into dust.
Villainous Friendship: Although she only meets Soma Peries during their preparation before battle, Louise forms a good friendship with her. After Soma is declared KIA (without knowing that Soma/Marie actually pulled a Heel–Face Turn and Sergei helped fake her death), Louise made a demand to the higher-ups to commandeer Soma's Ahead Smultron for the sake of avenging her "death". She also has a good relationship with her mentor and commander, Barrack Zinin. While she is also capable of acting friendly with Andrei Smirnov, she's always annoyed with his attitude and eventually subverts this with him when he tries to convince her to kill Saji, lashing out at him for trying to thrust his twisted ideals at her.
"Well Done, Son" Guy: This seems to more or less be her mentality immediately after she kills Nena, as she speaks out to her dead parents as if hoping they'll speak back and reassure her that killing Nena was the right thing to do. Not only does she get no praise from any voice, real or no, but she ends up realizing that Vengeance Feels Empty and that she is no better off than she was before she offed Nena. In fact, she probably ends up worse because she still can't let her vengeful attitude towards Celestial Being go, and she winds up even more unstable than ever before.
Woman Scorned: When she realizes that Saji is piloting the 0 Raiser alongside Setsuna's 00 Gundam, Louise becomes convinced that Saji has been in cahoots with Celestial Being the entire time. Needless to say, she's not at all happy about it.

Saji Crossroad

Main mecha: GNR-010 0-Raiser

An ordinary high school student and boyfriend of Louise. In Season Two, he is falsely accused of treason by the A-Laws and circumstances force him to join Celestial Being.

Voiced by Miyu Irino (Japanese) and Gabe Khouth (English)

Action Survivor: He's never really a fighter, but he does participate in battle as the pilot of the 0-Raiser.
Ascended Extra : He's a minor comic relief character in Season One, but he's the Deuteragonist of Season Two.
Audience Surrogate: Sort of. Especially in Season 2, he often questions Celestial Being's actions, and also give some POV about the situation in the end of Season 2.
Back-to-Back Badasses: The 00 Raiser's docking configuration make Saji and Setsuna this by default.
Bash Brothers: With Setsuna in Season 2, after he became the 0-Raiser's pilot.
Best Friend: He’s the closest thing Setsuna has to one.
BFS: The Trans-Am Raiser used by the 00-Raiser which he and Setsuna co-pilot. Setsuna wields the weapon while Saji keeps the particle synchronization stable.
Break the Cutie: Learns that Louise lost her entire family and her arm. He then goes home to Japan only to learn that his sister Kinue has been murdered.
Bridge Bunnies: In season 2, he fills this position if he's not helping Ian until he becomes a Sixth Ranger with Soma.
But Not Too Foreign: He is Japanese-American.
Butt-Monkey: Between his girlfriend getting maimed and losing her entire family, his sister being murdered for no reason, being falsely accused of terrorism simply because he was justifiably confused when a co-worker was being arrested, and ending up becoming the enemy of the aforementioned girlfriend, to say that life was not kind to poor Saji would be a massive understatement. The fact that he was able to come out of everything with a happy ending is nothing short of miraculous
Character Development: Starts off as a weak-willed high school student, then engineer in Season 2. Becomes a pilot willing to fight to protect his loved ones.
Combat and Support: He's the support to Setsuna's combat. When docked together as 00 Raiser, Setsuna focuses on fighting while Saji manages the Raiser System.
Combining Mecha: Saji's 0-Raiser can combine/dock with Setsuna's 00 Gundam to form the 00-Raiser.
Demoted to Extra: Despite being the Deuteragonist of Season Two, he has a relatively minor role in the movie.
Deuteragonist: He's the secondary protagonist of Season Two.
Didn't Think This Through: It is made clear that his attempt to leave the Katharon base was horribly ill thought out, leading to the army finding him and culminating in loads of casualties as the A-Laws moved in to slaughter everyone in the base. Even Saji's interrogator after he was captured is quick to point out how ill equipped he is to cross the desert on his own raising the possibility of him having never made it had he not been picked up.
Earn Your Happy Ending: After much hardship, he saves Louise and the two of them get to live happily ever after.
The Engineer: Is introduced as an engineering student. By Season Two, he's a full fledged colony engineer and helps Celestial Being maintain their mobile suits.
Expository Hairstyle Change: In the movie, he lets his hair grow a bit, making him look a bit like how he did in season 1.
Falling into the Cockpit: He was asked to pilot the 0-Raiser in behalf of the injured Ian despite having no experience in mobile weapons. He becomes the official pilot of the Mobile armor afterwards.
First Guy Wins: He's Louise's boyfriend at the start of the series. Although they eventually become enemies and she becomes close friends with Andrei, who clearly has a thing for her, Louise ultimately winds up with Saji.
Friendship Moment: With Marie Parfacy. Mainly because of their closeness with Louise.
Heroic Bystander: He may not hop in a Mobile Suit and join the fight, but he does head out to perform maintenance during the climactic battle when volunteers are requested.
If You Kill Him, You Will Be Just Like Him!: Pulls a gun on Setsuna when he learns that he is with Celestial Being, but declines to take vengeance for Kinue (whom Saji wrongly believes was murdered by Celestial Being) because he doesn't want to fall to CB's level. Though unlike how the trope is usually played, the story more frames it as Saji simply being too much of a coward to actually pull the trigger after which he makes use of moral superiority to claim otherwise.
Ignorance Is Bliss: In the second season he stubbornly tries to stick to his old ways, wanting nothing more than peace for himself and Louise even as more and more evidence mounts to the cost of said peace. It isn't until his actions cause the death of loads of people that he finally starts to accept reality.
Innocent Bystanders: Has a distressing tendency to be near horrific accidents that involve Celestial Being.
It's All My Fault: Has a breakdown when he inadvertantly leads the A-Laws to Katharon's base.
Mistaken for Terrorist: At the start of Season Two, he is arrested for terrorism as punishment for questioning the A-Laws when they arrested a coworker of his.
My Hero, Zero: In the second season, he pilots the GNR-010 0-Raiser, which can combine with the titular GN-0000 00 Gundam to form the GN-0000+GNR-010 00 Raiser.
New Job as the Plot Demands: In the entire series, he was a student, a pizza delivery guy, a space engineer, a forced laborer for the government ready to be executed, Ian's assistant, both as a Wrench Wench and ship gunner, and finally a mobile armor pilot. Makes sense since he's an orphan and needs to sustain himself.
Nice Guy: Even after he learns about Louise's willingness to work as fascist soldier to avenge her family's death and change the world at any cost, even if it involves genocide, he still believes that Louise still has a good side within her.
Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: After visiting a Katharon base, he's found by a ESF ship. Luckily Sergei was in command of it and agreed to grant him amnesty for just telling him how he came into that situation. Unfortunately, a crewmen eavesdropped on the conversation and reported back to the A-Laws. Which in turn lead the A-Laws right to Katharon and said base suffering heavy casualties.
Non-Action Guy: He's just a civilian engineer. Even after Saji becomes the 0-Raiser's pilot, it's implied that Haro is the one doing most of the actual piloting..
Parental Abandonment: His and Kinue's parents were dead before the story started. It's hinted that his dad, an Intrepid Reporter like Kinue, died because he learnt something he shouldn't have known.
Retired Badass: Although his position is Setsuna's 00 Raiser co-pilot, Saji is considered to be a strong candidate for Gundam Meister along with Lasse Aeon. In the end of Season 2, after successfully saving Louise, he decides to step down from Celestial Being, return to his job as engineer and focus on taking care on Louise.
Right for the Wrong Reasons: He's technically right that Celestial Being is responsible for the death of Louise's family since The Trinity siblings are still part of them.
Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Deconstructed in the second season. His attempt doesn't end well.
Secretly Selfish: Saji's biggest flaw is that he is incredibly self centered without even realizing it, his and Louise's happiness is all that matters to him. Setsuna calls him out on this but it takes the destruction of the Katharon base to finally make him reflect on himself and the world to break out of his selfish mindset.
Saji: Before your armed interventions, I had a perfectly happy life. And you people came and ruined it!
Setsuna: So everything's fine as long as you have peace?
Sensitive Guy and Manly Man: Him and Setsuna respectively.
Sixth Ranger: From being just a Tag Along Guy, he promoted himself to this trope when he decided to pilot the 0-Raiser. Plus, his and Marie's addition have increased Celestial Being's offensive team from four to six.
Space Fighter: Saji becomes the de facto pilot of the 0-Raiser, although it doesn't really see any solo action due to its primary function as a support machine for 00 Gundam as well as Saji's complete lack of formal piloting and combat training.
Star-Crossed Lovers: With Louise, in season 2. He joins Celestial Being, while she joins the A-Laws. They manage to get a happy ending.
Straight Man: Is far more down to earth than his girlfriend Louise.
Thou Shalt Not Kill: He firmly believes in this principle, which is part of the reason for his conflict with Celestial Being. Even after joining Celestial Being's offensive team, he continues to be extremely reluctant to use lethal force.
Took a Level in Jerkass: Not as extreme as Louise. After realizing that Setsuna is part of the organization who he believed to responsible for killing Louise's family and his older sister, he becomes rather hostile toward the other members of Celestial Being while all of them are genuinely friendly with him. He got better in later episodes after realizing the truth between all three factions.
Tragic Keepsake: His engagement ring, which he keeps in a necklace. In episode 24 of Season 2, seeing it snaps Louise out of her Unstoppable Rage as she's choking him, letting Saji get through to her at last.
Vengeance Feels Empty: Although he blames Celestial Being for what happened to the world and Louise's family, he decides to not take revenge on them because he knows that if he does this, it will be meaningless.

Kinue Crossroad

Saji's older sister and a JNN reporter. She seeks to learn the truth about Celestial Being's founder, Aeolia Schenberg. She believes that by investigating into Aeolia, she can uncover the true motives of Celestial Being.

Voiced by Aya Endo (Japanese) and Anna Cummer (English)

Alone with the Psycho: While digging into leads about Aeolia Schenberg, Kinue unknowingly hitches a ride with resident Psycho for Hire, Ali al-Saachez. Unfortunately she ends up paying for it with her life.
But Not Too Foreign: Like Saji, Japanese-American.
Collateral Angst: Her death mainly serves to give Saji something to angst about.
Cool Big Sis: She serves as this to her brother Saji, whom she also acts as a surrogate mother to following the death of their parents.
Curtains Match the Window: Both her hair and her eyes are light brown.
Dramatic Irony: What her death ends up being. Saji (and everyone who knew her) never find out it was Ali who was responsible.
Dying Alone: Bleeds out alone in an alleyway.
Fatal Family Photo: The last thing she sees before she dies is a photograph of her family.
Generation Xerox: Her father was also a reporter. And both of them are killed for knowing too much.
Going for the Big Scoop: Desires to learn the truth about Aeolia and Celestial Being.
Horrible Judge of Character: Ignores all the warning signs that Ali should not be trusted. This gets her killed.
Intrepid Reporter: Travels the world to learn the truth about Aeolia.
Killed Off for Real: Ali kills her after revealing some more information.
Parental Abandonment: Both her parents died long ago.
Promotion to Parent: Raised Saji after their parents died.
She Knows Too Much: Invoked. When Kinue meets Ali, she doesn't know anything of importance, but Ali figures that she'll eventually become a problem, so he spills everything he knows about the conspiracy so he'll have an excuse to kill her.
Shoot the Shaggy Dog: Ultimately her entire storyline boils down to this. All her investigations into Celestial Being and Aeolia Schenberg amount to nothing as she's murdered by Ali al-Saachez, who goes out of his way to reveal more information about the conspiracy just so he can have an excuse to kill her.
Too Dumb to Live: Deliberately goes into a car with someone she doesn’t know at the wheel. Said person is a terrorist who would gladly kill just about anyone who comes close to him.

Ali Al-Saachez

Main mecha: AEU-09Y812 Enact (blue, red), AEU-MA07013 Agrissa, GNW-002 Gundam Throne Zwei, GNW-20000 Arche Gundam

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

Voiced by Keiji Fujiwara (Japanese) and Scott McNeil (English)

Ace Pilot: In the race for being the best of the series, on par with Graham Aker and possibly even innovator Setsuna. Feats include matching the Exia in swordplay (in an Enact and in Throne Zwei) and taking on both Seravee and 00 at the same time, and coming out on top (in the Arche Gundam).
Achilles' Heel: For some reason, in nearly every engagement, he is disarmed of his right-hand weapon, and his sword-carrying arm, which also happens to be his primary mode of attack. The moment this happens, he is screwed and has to make a hasty retreat.
Adapted Out: In the stage play version of the second season, due to the death of his actor from the previous show covering the first.
Alliterative Name: Ali Al-Saachez.
Arch-Enemy:
- To Setsuna, as Ali was the source of many of his issues, as well as Neil for killing his family. He would also be this to Tieria and Lyle for killing Neil.
- He’s also this to Nena after murdering her older brothers, personally making it her life mission to kill him. She only gets to meet him once after the Time Skip and that ended in a Curbstomp Battle delivered to her.
Ax-Crazy: He lives to kill and it makes Hallelujah, Michael, and even Ribbons look like saints.
Badass Boast: After seeing Setsuna and Marina arrive to a recently-razed Azadistan, which is his own doing by the way, this exchange occurs:
Setsuna: That's a Gundam. And its color... IT CAN'T BE!
Ali: OH, BUT IT IS!
Badass Normal: Able to defeat Gundams in less tech-advanced suits.
Bad Samaritan: Offers to give Kinue Crossroad a ride and then murders her.
Bait the Dog: His initial appearance after the prologue has him complaining over how Celestial Being's actions affect the world economy, implying that while he is still a mercenary, he might have mellowed out since leading Setsuna into war. Every one of his following scenes show that no, he is still a complete bastard.
BFS: His preferred weapon in Mobile Suit combat — all of his machines are equipped with one, and he's very fond of using them. His Enact has a custom rifle with a slide-out bayonet that turns it into a gigantic zweihander, while the Throne Zwei and Arche Gundams have the enormous, slab-like GN Buster Swords.
Bitch Slap: Delivered one off-screen to Nena at the end of their conversation. It’s evident by the slap mark on the latter’s cheek when she shows up next.
Boisterous Bruiser: A dark example. Ali is cheerful and loves to fight, but he's also a sadist who loves to murder people.
Blood Knight: He lives only for war, it's his only source of joy. He even admits it openly.
Boom, Headshot!: What Lyle/Lockon II did to finally put him out.
But for Me, It Was Tuesday: Completely averted as Ali does in fact remember (to at least some extent) the majority of his evil deeds, despite having commited tons of them. While he doesn't remember him specifically, he immediately has Setsuna pegged as one of the kids he swindled in Krugis all those years ago. When Lockon calls him out on the terrorist bombing from Ireland he was apart of, he remembers that too, and even who paid him for the job and why. 5 years later he also remembers killing Neil and Nena's brothers, and remembers that Neil lost the fight because of his bad eye. He also figures out that Lyle is Neil's brother and looking for payback for both the bombing and killing Neil. He takes great care to remember all of his deeds and kills, if only because he enjoys them so much.
Card-Carrying Villain: Freely admits to being the worst kind of person ever.
Char Clone: Downplayed — he fits this trope purely in color aesthetics and for being an Arch-Enemy to Setsuna. Other than that, Ali couldn't be more unlike Char, even when Char was at his worst.
Close-Range Combatant: Befitting of his Blood Knight status, Ali loves fighting up close and personal, and makes sure his Mobile Suits are all toned as such.
Co-Dragons: Alongside Regene. Though he’s more Ribbons’ go-to man for hits. He kills Regene, or Ribbons and Ali are lead to believe.
Colonel Kilgore: Ends up working for the A-Laws. He absolutely enjoys it.
Corruption of a Minor: Ali seemed to specialize in recruiting child soldiers into the KPSA, Setsuna among them. He brainwashed them into thinking they were fighting a holy war for God, despite Ali not even believing in God himself, even manipulating his recruits into murdering their own parents to prove their devotion.
Curb-Stomp Battle: Regularly dishes these out to his enemies.
Dies Wide Open: When Lyle fatally shoots him in the head, Ali's eyes go wide in surprise as the bullet penetrates his skull. Probably the last action he could perform before his life was ended instantly.
Drill Sergeant Nasty: A very dark example. He corrupted children into fighting in a so-called "Holy War", but really wanted an excuse to fight and left them to die.
Dropped a Bridge on Him How he goes out. He’s killed suddenly with no buildup by Lyle. Yet he deserved every second of it.
The Dragon: Is Ribbons’ right-hand man and he supports him completely, which is pretty much the only reason why he was never backstabbed. However, he’s never given a Trans-Am, implying Ribbons was afraid of losing control over him.
The Dreaded: Everyone knows he's bad news, and he doesn't hesitate to make that known.
Drone Deployer: Both his Gundams use GN Fangs, but as Ali prefers CQC, they're mostly used to restrict movement or soften up targets before he closes in with his BFS.
Eviler than Thou: He proves to be a far bigger threat than the Trinities, whom for all their faults, believe it's benevolent. He doesn't give Michael a chance to fight and utterly wastes Johann. Nena made sure he remembered this five years later.
Evil Feels Good: He loves fighting and killing and he makes this known to everyone he meets. Not even the World-Healing Wave could change this.
Evil Gloating: He revels in this.
Evil Has a Bad Sense of Humor: He often jokes about the crimes he's done like it's nothing.
Evil Is Not Pacifist: He's one of the few unambiguously evil characters in the series, and also explicitly in favour of war.
Evil Mentor: To Setsuna and the other Krugis Child Soldiers.
Evil Redhead: Red haired and one of the most evil characters in this series.
Expository Hairstyle Change: Shaves his facial hair when he joins the AEU as Gary Biaggi. Sports it again during the entire second season.
Expy:
- He is one to Zeta Gundam's Yazan Gable, another bloodthirsty psychopath who fights for the sake of a love for war and murder. For added emphasis, the shape of Ali's Arche Gundam slightly resembles that of Yazan's Mobile Suit, the Hambrabi.
- He is also one to Gauron from Full Metal Panic!. In addition to both being war-loving psychos for hire, Ali's Arche Gundam and Gauron's second personal Arm Slave — the Codarl-i — are both colored red. They are also the archenemies of socially inept teenage pilots of middle-eastern origin (Setsuna for Ali, Sousuke for Gauron). Also like Gauron, he has enough Plot Armor to make a cockroach jealous. Both are also killed almost abruptly and by one of their longtime victims.
The Fagin: The reason Setsuna is the person he is at the beginning.
Fatal Flaw: His Blood Knight tendencies end up causing his downfall. Rather than shooting Setsuna in the head, he shot him in the arm which began Setsuna's development into a True Innovade.
Faux Affably Evil: He's actually somewhat polite when not killing things. It's just a mask he wears to fit into society though.
For the Evulz: Yes, most of the atrocities he did are for his amusement. The money is nice too, but he mainly does it for fun.
Hated by All: Not that he cares what people think about him since he already knows he's the worst, but when he's not the Arch-Enemy to someone, they either don't know him very well, or are using him as a pawn for their own goals. His reputation would be worse than Celestial Being's if more people knew about him.
Hero Killer: Kills Johann and Michael Trinity as well as the first Lockon Stratos. While the Trinity brothers weren't exactly heroes, they come off as the lesser evils.
Hey, You!: He rarely outright uses the name of the faces he’s encountered. He calls Setsuna “little Krugis punk”, Nena “little girl”, and Ribbons “boss”, though the last one is the most endearing he’s been to anyone.
Hoist by His Own Petard: Kills Laguna and Regene’s body via a headshot. He dies this way too and by the last living member of one of the families he killed.
Go Out with a Smile: Mostly because he thought he actually got Lyle when his guard was down. When he gets a bullet to the brain, his mouth freezes in an open-mouthed laugh.
I Surrender, Suckers: He lets Lyle take him into custody, only to go for his gun the moment Lyle lowers his own weapon. He even laughs, "SUCKER!" as he takes aim. Too bad for Ali, he ends up the sucker as Lyle never fully lowered his gun; before Ali gets the chance to fire his gun, Lyle angles his pistol upwards and blows his brains out.
Ignored Epiphany: He experiences the telepathic abilities of the 00-Raiser's Trans-Am twice. Most people who experience this wind up empathizing with their opponents and lose their will to fight. The first time Ali experiences it, he's just confused as to why he hears children singing. The second time he very briefly feels sick but quickly returns to his bloodthirsty self.
It's All About Me: Much like Ribbons, he has little to no care for another life and will happily kill anyone.
Jerkass: When not killing, he insults and mocks his victims. When they try to fight back, he wastes them relentlessly.
Karma Houdini Warranty: After managing to escape punishment for everything he had done throughout the series, he finally meets his end in the penultimate episode at the hand of one of his victims.
Karmic Death: He's killed by Lyle, who lost his entire family to Ali.
Kick the Dog: He’ll kill people, burn down countries, and destroy all hope all to please himself.
Knight of Cerebus: When he shows up, things will get dark real quick.
Lack of Empathy: Doesn't care about other people beyond their ability to give him opportunities to fight and kill. When he's caught up in the Trans-AM Burst, which massively increases empathy, he finds the sensation disgusting.
Large Ham: Gets very loud when he's in combat.
Last-Second Chance: Lyle/Lockon offered him one. He refused. BANG he went.
Law of Chromatic Superiority: He's a red head, most of his mobile suits are red, and he's one of the best pilots in the series. His color scheme is likely a shoutout to Char's love of red.
Lean and Mean: His mobile suits tend to follow this profile, such as his practically-insectoid custom Enact and the very lanky-looking Arche Gundam. Ali himself has a rather slender build.
Lovable Rogue: Subverted. He's introduced as a friendly mercenary who is only fighting for money, but shorty after his introduction, Setsuna's flashbacks reveal just how monstrous Ali really is.
Manipulative Bastard: He psychologically manipulated his Child Soldiers by pretending to be a religious leader and playing on the children's faith (which he himself doesn't even share) in order to indoctrinate them into violence.
Mask of Sanity: He's disturbingly skilled at coming off as a cheerful mercenary and not the bloodthirsty terrorist that he actually is.
Middle Eastern Terrorists: Before the series started, he led Kurdish child soldiers under the KPSA in a jihad.
Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: Because he shot Setsuna in the shoulder with poisoned GN particles, and then tried to finish him off in melee combat, Setsuna became a true Innovator that would come to be his faction's downfall.
"Not So Different" Remark: Tells Neil he's just like him. Neil doesn't buy it for a second.
Not So Similar: Despite claiming Neil is a terrorist like himself, Neil does everything he can to not involve innocents, unlike Ali, who will involve anyone and everyone in his chaos.
Pay Evil unto Evil: His attack on the Trinities is brutal, but it’s hard to say it was undeserved. It’s especially true for Nena, who massacred an innocent family just because she could. When Ali and Nena meet again years later, the former restrains the vengeance-bound latter with no problem and lets her off with a warning. Ultimately, they never meet again.
Plot Armor: Lockon blows up his Gundam towards the end of Season One. In Season Two he tells the first Gundam Meister he meets (Setsuna) that he's mighty pissed for both the painful process of getting incinerated from the waist down and surviving, as well as the costs of the regeneration treatments for it.
Psycho for Hire: Ali loves to kill and gladly contracts out his services to the highest bidder.
Psychopathic Manchild: Not as apparent as Ribbons, but he shows shades of this. He acts like war is a game, treating his opponents like toys and utterly relishes in breaking them.
Put the "Laughter" in "Slaughter": To say he enjoys murdering people is an understatement.
Quick Draw: One of his most deadly traits is his ridiculously fast draw, catching anyone around him of guard. To make matters worse, he is also frighteningly accurate with it — he still killed Neil/Lockon I, even when the latter got the drop on him. During his climactic confrontation with Lyle/Lockon II, Ali manages to grab his gun and line up his shot from a facing away position in the time it took Lyle to pull the trigger. Lyle only managed to get him by virtue of never fully lowering his gun.
Red Is Violent: Loves to kill, and always seems to be sporting a blood-red crimson motif while doing it, from his hair to his clothes to his mobile suits.
Sadist: He's willing to torture people so long as they entertain him. Best shown with his "battle" against Johann. Ali could kill the guy the same way he killed Michael, but Ali decided that giving him a chance (for a given definition) would be more fun.
Scarf Of Ass Kicking: He is shown in flashbacks training Child Soldiers while wearing it.
Sharp-Dressed Man: Twice: first as Gary Biaggi, when he received the Enact Agrissa unit from the AEU; second, when he took out Laguna Harvey and Kinue Crossroad.
Sinister Minister: Took on this identity to corrupt the kids in Krugis.
Smug Super: He’s insanely arrogant, but he has the firepower to back himself up.
Sociopathic Soldier: After gaining permanent employment with Ribbons.
The Sociopath: Outside of battle, he's able to pass for a decent human being just well and long enough to shock you with what an utter bastard he is.
Speak Ill of the Dead: Insulted the deceased Neil in front of the Meisters, and the Trinity brothers in front of Nena. Neither parties took it well and attempted to kill him for it, only for him to give a Curb-Stomp Battle. It took Lyle facing him alone with the help of the Trans-Am to finally remove his presence from the world.
Straw Hypocrite: Raised an army on religious propaganda. Is an atheist who was only in it for the kicks.
Subordinate Excuse: In Season 2, he allied himself with Ribbons, likely for the opportunity to assist Ribbons in carrying out his abusive regime on the humans Ribbons hates so much. Yet Ali is one such human, yet merely allies with Ribbons because of the carnage he can carry out as a high-ranking operative of the A-Laws. One might wonder if Ribbons and Ali have a Villainous Friendship because they're both birds of a twisted feather.
Tall, Dark, and Snarky: Yes he's tall, but the dark and snarky parts stand out most.
Tattooed Crook: Has a tattoo on his right arm and is not a good person in the slightest.
Trick Bullet: When he shot Setsuna in the shoulder, the bullet was laced with red GN particles. This backfires as the exposure to GN particles helps turn Setsuna into a true Innovator.
Villain Decay: He's much less of a threat in Season Two. This is because Setsuna became an innovator, and as stated below ...
Villain Forgot to Level Grind: He was never given a Trans-Am mode for the Arche in the final battle (which has 3 GN Drives), despite being Ribbons' most loyal henchman. Perhaps Ribbons figured he'd rebel if he won, so there'd be no way to satisfy his urges in a world of complete order... or he would have been too powerful to control otherwise, even when compared to the Reborns Gundam's Twin Drive.
Villainous Friendship: To a degree with his Season 2 employer, Ribbons Almark. Ali is very appreciative of Ribbons for hiring him and giving him the most advanced machines to indulge in his bloodlust during a period of "peace" and "unity." Ribbons on his part respects Ali as his employee and that he has transcended humanity in his own way. Ali also casually refers to Ribbons as "boss", whom seems humored by this despite his desire to be revered. Seeing as they are the two most evil people in this timeline, it fits that a pair of psychopaths would delight in each other's company.
War for Fun and Profit: Mostly for fun. He doesn't care about money much, but if there's a smell of blood somewhere...
War Is Glorious: He loves war and will happily bring down anyone to it.
Why Don't You Just Shoot Him?: Downplayed. Oh, he did shoot him, alright, but not in the head; he wanted to finish him off in a melee battle just to satisfy his urges. This comes back to bite his side in the ass.
Would Hit a Girl: Slaps Nena during their only meeting in Season 2 after she tries to attack him. He makes it clear she’s getting away lightly, and that it won’t happen again. He also killed Kinue prior despite the fact he’d get nothing out of it.
Would Hurt a Child: Aside from his little gig in raising child soldiers with no regards to their innocence, he masterminded a terrorist attack in Ireland where Lockon’s sister Amy was killed. While she’s the only confirmed child Ali is responsible for the death of, it’s highly probable there were more children who he’s responsible for killing.
You Killed My Father: Lockon (both of them) and Nena hate him as he was responsible for the death of their families.

Klaus Grado

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The commander and the de facto leader of the Katharon Rebel Group, which opposes the Earth Sphere Federation and its elite squad A-Laws.

Voiced by Tokuyoshi Kawashima (Japanese) and Alistair Abell (English)

Action Survivor: He's not someone who goes on the field often, but he's still able to make it to the end.
Badass Longcoat: Wears a long coat and is the leader of a rebellion group.
Big Damn Heroes: His appearance as Celestial Being fight against A-Laws help even things out.
Cool Old Guy: In the epilogue of movie, evidently. He become an Innovator and commander of the Sumeragi-class ship.
Evolutionary Levels: Evolved into an Innovator by the time of the 50 year Time Skip.
Official Couple: With Shirin.
Rebel Leader: The leader of Katharon, which opposes the Federation and A-Laws.
Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right!: The whole reason why Katharon was formed.
Sharp-Dressed Man: In the movie, he wears a suit.
Spell My Name With An S: Is it Grad or Grado?
Old Friend: As stated in official file, he befriended with Lyle long before Katharon is formed.
Supporting Leader: As the leader of Katharon, he oversees much of the war against the A-Laws, but he's not a particularly prominent character.

Marina's Children

War orphans that were found by Katharon and adopted by Marina after her rescue.

Cheerful Child: They're all remarkably cheerful for war orphans.
Happily Adopted: Marina raised them with lots of care and affection.
Identical Stranger: Two of Marina's sons resemble Klaus and Graham. It becomes more apparent in a photo showing them as adults.
She Is All Grown Up: A photo at the epilogue of The Movie shows them as adults.

Descartes Shaman

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Main mecha: GNMA-Y0002V Gadelaza

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

Voiced by Ryo Katsuji (Japanese) and Ryan Luhning (English).

Ace Pilot: He's a very good pilot and has a Lightning Bruiser for a Mobile Armor.
Anti-Hero: Despite being functionally a slave to the ESF military, he views himself as superior to humanity, but is fighting to save the world. In any other scenario (and as promotional materials liked to play up), he would have been a major antagonist, if not the next big bad.
Beam Spam: His fangs are capable of blasting beams across the battlefield.
Drone Deployer: The Gadelaza has 154 GN Fangs. Said Fangs are capable of Zerg Rush.
Empowered Badass Normal: He is the second pure Innovator aside Setsuna. However, he is the first Innovator who is acknowledge by ESF.
Evolutionary Levels: He's the second natural born Innovator.
Fate Worse than Death: He is assimilated by the ELS.
Freudian Excuse: His abrasive behaviour is mostly a result of the ESF treating him like a living weapon and slave before Kati shows up. It's implied that it's given him a bit of a complex regarding how his treatment means everyone fears him, even treating using his Gadelaza against the ELS as "stress relief".
Law of Chromatic Superiority: Pilots a red mobile armor while donning a red pilot suit.
Lightning Bruiser: The Gadelaza is fast and powerful.
Macross Missile Massacre: The Gadelaza can overwhelm its targets with beams.
Mauve Shirt: Built up as a major character, but he dies about halfway through the film.
Named After Somebody Famous: He is partially named for the famous French philosopher and mathematician Rene Descartes.
Never Trust a Trailer: Trailers showed him as a villain, but not only is he on the side of the protagonists, he's also killed off halfway through the film rather unceremoniously.
One-Man Army: The Gadelaza has a fleet's worth of firepower.
Red Eyes, Take Warning: Overlaps with Supernatural Gold Eyes if he's using his Quantum Brainwaves.
Sacrificial Lion: Dies about halfway through the film, to show that the ELS are really that dangerous.
Shadow Archetype: To Setsuna. While Setsuna works with humanity, Descartes views himself as a superior being.
Smug Super: He considers himself to be superior to normal humans.
Small Name, Big Ego: He thinks he's the best thing to happen to humanity, citing his ability to control the Gadelaza and thenfear the government has of him. The ELS assimilate him with no problem and Setsuna's only reaction to him and his Mobile armor isn't regarding him as a possible threat, but trying to save him from his fate.
Wave-Motion Gun: The Gadelaza's most powerful weapon: the GN Blaster.
We Hardly Knew Ye: Is billed as one of the main characters of the film, but dies after getting little screentime.
Worf Effect: His Gadelaza is the strongest mobile weapon on the ESF's side and one of the stronger machines in the Anno Domini setting in terms of firepower at that point in time, but the ELS effortlessly assimilate it, showing the audience that brute force isn't the solution to this crisis. Even after the events of the movie, despite Humarise/the Old Human Faction producing them en-masse in an attempt to eliminate all Innovators, the ELS, Celestial Being is fully capable of dismantling them with minimal effort... Both with their more modern weapons and even with repaired versions of the Exia and Dynames.

Mina Carmine

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

Voiced by Rie Kugimiya (Japanese) and Nicole Bouma (English)

Babies Ever After: Has a son with Billy.
Genki Girl: She's as cheerful as Nena and fortunately far less violent.
Identical Stranger: To Nena. Apparently, she's her naturally-born counterpart, her family line being where Nena's DNA came from.
Inconsistent Spelling: Mena, Meena or Mina?
Ms. Fanservice: She often poses seductively to woo Billy.
Nerds Are Sexy: She's an attractive scientist.
Nice Girl: Despite her sexual aggression, in sharp contrast with Nena, Mina is always friendly to people and is willing to lend a hand when possible.
Official Couple: With Billy.
Second Love: For Billy, after ruins his chances to get with Sumeragi by trying to kill her.
Sexy Secretary: To Billy.
Show Some Leg: One of the ways she seduces Billy is showing off her legs to him.
Significant Double Casting: Has both of Nena’s voice actors, signifying Mina’s status as her Identical Stranger.
Suspiciously Similar Substitute: She’s basically Nena, but if she was a normal, stable human.
Womanchild: Downplayed, but it’s there. Despite being a world-renown astrophysicist, Mina gets extremely excited to see Billy Katagiri and proceeds to rush and dry hump him (in front of their colleagues) in her first appearance.

Amia Lee

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

Voiced by: Yuka Nishigaki (Japanese)

Body Horror: The ELS turn half of her body into metal spikes. After Setsuna makes peace with the ELS, her metal half changes to be symmetrical to her biological half, allowing her to live a normal life as an Innovator-ELS hybrid.
Break the Cutie: She's among the first victims of human assimilation by the ELS. And it is horrifying.
The Captain: In the epilogue, of the Sumeragi.
Evolutionary Levels: She's become an Innovator by the end.
Flat Character: Her introduction in the movie is her being assimilated by the ELS and only seen briefly later regaining conscious and awakening as an Innovator. She's last seen in the epilogue as the Innovator-ELS hybrid captain of the Sumeragi exploration vessel, leaving most of her life and her personality a complete mystery.
Half-Human Hybrid: Becomes half-ELS after being partially assimilated.
Innocent Bystanders: She's just a run-of-the-mill high school student. Who happens to have Innovator potential.
Joshikousei: Seen wearing one when the ELS first attacks her.
Older Than They Look: By the epilogue, she's in her 60s, but doesn't look any older than her 20s.
Ordinary High-School Student: She's just an ordinary student with the misfortune to have quantum brain waves strong enough to attract the ELS.
Unexplained Recovery: Apparently to show us that hope is not lost for those not completely assimilated: she's still got a noticeably half-ELS body in the epilogue, but appears to be doing just fine.

Extraterrestrial Living-Metal Shape-Shifters (ELS)

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The ELS are a race of techno-organic sentient aliens that has the unique abilities to assimilate/infect nearly all life and technology. They appear as a silver metallic organisms that can take solid or liquid-like forms.

Aliens Are Bastards: Subverted The ordeal that causes the main conflict of the movie is the fact they didn't know they were hurting humanity by their actions, as one of their main methods of communication is assimilating with things they come into contact with, and they stop the instant they find out just what kind of damage they've been doing, ultimately revealing themselves to be quite peaceful.
Assimilation Plot: After seeing them swallow up and assimilate humans, mobile suits and even space cruisers, the fear is that this is what is inevitable for Earth if the ELS converge on it on masse, which they have more than enough times a hundred the ships to do. After Setsuna makes true First Contact with them by finally matching their lengthwave with the QAN[T], the ELS seem to realize how horrific their normal assimilation process is to biological life and the ELS mothership forms a flower the size of the Moon from their mothership as a peace offering. In the aftermath of the Grand Finale, the ELS seem to have harmlessly synthesized with Earth's inhabitants while leaving them as individuals, as well as drastically transforming technology and society for the better while securing themselves a new home on Earth. That all of Earth seem to be in the closest thing Anno Domini has had to a lasting peace in the fifty years it takes Setsuna to return from their home seals the deal that the ELS's Heel Realization turns them into perhaps the most positive example of this in anime history.
Blue-and-Orange Morality: They really do not seem to understand the value humans place on individual lives. Or on individuality. In fact, it might be said that they are just as confused by the nature of human life as we are by them. Justified as they're a Hive Mind and thus have no concept of an individual. And when a chat with Setsuna reveals to them that their normal method of communication is dangerous to earth, and that their reaction to being attacked as a result is not helping things, they IMMEDIATELY cease all hostilities, form a symbol of peace, and ultimately end up in symbiosis with humanity as a whole. Granted they also side against the Old Human Faction later on, but that had more to do with the fact that said side wanted them dead as well and they certainly strayed from repeating their actions during the movie.
Body Horror: Those possesed by them undergo this. The process of having your flesh and bones start sprouting jagged, silver-colored spikes by their assimilation is shown to be extremely painful and damaging. Averted by humans that undergo synthesis with the ELS after they become docile, who take on a slight metalic sheen, but are otherwise still completely individual unlike before.
Color-Coded for Your Convenience: The GN particles of their take on the GNX's are a dark blue or purple to visually distinguish them in the Grand Finale from the Earth Federation's red and Celestial Being's green.
Contrasting Sequel Antagonist: Alejandro and Ribbons made it no secret they were absolute bastards that had no problem hurting people. The ELS didn't realize they were hurting anyone until Setsuna manages to get in a conversation.
Ditto Aliens: As shapeshifters, they can take any form they want. Despite this, there are a few basic forms they seem to prefer as defaults. Two ELS taking the same shape are completely indistinguishable from one another, at least to human eyes.
Doomed Hometown: The ending reveals that their homeworld's star went supernova, which explains why they came to the Sol System.
Expy: Their design are like Vorlon ships.
Face Full of Alien Wing-Wong: Their larger vessels invoke this for other battleships; they are basically huge missiles which's thrusters shapeshift into three tentacles for grabbing onto and rapidly assimilating anything they latch onto.
First Contact: The first-ever aliens to appear in the Gundam franchise. They are also notable for being one of the more recent depictions of aliens both during the film's airing and years afterwards that aren't some kind of humanoid/insectoid creature, instead being a truly alien lifeform in every single way.
Fun with Acronyms: Extraterrestrial Living-metal Shapeshifters
The Greys: They are Grey / Silver / Mercury / Platinum colored.
Haunted Technology: The few ELS aboard the Europa drone that make it onto earth mostly behave in this way by hijacking anything from electrical doors to cars and helicopters. One horrific scene shows a Berlin train station being nearly destroyed by two ELS-assimilated trains smashing into two trains already parked in the station, complete with the wrecked ELS train slowly driving away after causing the tragedy, regardless of whether the train is in a state to drive.
Hive Mind: An advanced version. The structure of their mind is completely alien to that of a human's, and they all share a mental link. This is to the point where, when they start absorbing and copying GNX-IVs, said link makes them far more dangerous than their human-piloted counterparts due to said shared link and shared vision.
Invincible Villain: While not evil, the sheer numbers and abilities of the ELS makes them a threat the movie makes clear the heroes cannot hope to stop by fighting. The Final Battle amounts to merely holding the line long enough for Setsuna to use the 00 Qan[T]^note to contact with and convince them to stop.
Kill Sat: Subverted by the huge ELS planetoid, which despite dwarfing the show's previous Kill Sat, the Celestial Being, doesn't seem to carry any weapons and doesn't actively attack the Earth Armada, relying on smaller ELS to defend itself.
Poor Communication Kills: Played horrifyingly straight, as their only method of communication besides quantum interfacing is painfully assimilating whatever they touch, humans included...
Power Copying: They begin doing this in the final battle, copying warship and mobile suit designs, and, more horrifyingly, even GN Drives and the technology derived from their usage, including particle beams. This also makes them a lot more effective in combat, as their Hive Mind allows them to utilize tactics and the machines they copy to levels far higher than a squad of pilots ever could. Humanity's only saving grace is that the ELS can't replicate Trans Am. ... Save for exactly one machine, the GRM Gundam type E, which is a machine that's firmly in Celestial Being's hands and actual serves to unintentionally widen the organizations technology gap vs the rest of the planet even further than it already was.
Outside-Context Problem: They're humanities first alien encounter with a threat posed by their unknown motives and capabilities. Even for Celestial Being's Ancient Conspiracy, which was in part to prepare humanity for First Contact, it's happening centuries sooner than exacted so they're far from ready. If anything it's only by sheer dumb luck that Celestial Being had their newer 4th generation machines and the 00 Qan[t] ready before their advent.
Silicon-Based Life: Suggested to be such, as they are made of metal. The ELS eventually grant themselves to humans to be used as they wish - side material implies pretty much all Mobile Suits after the arrival (and possibly all of technology) have some form of ELS-based components inside of them in tandem with human technology, including parts entirely moulded out of them.
Starfish Aliens: They are made of metal. They can shapeshift in seconds. They are psychic. They can assimilate and duplicate things both as an adaptation method and a form of communication, to the point where they can even replicate GN Drives just by interacting with one of them. They live in gas giants as hives of intersecting metal plates that communicate via quantum brainwaves and used to live in a complete planetary harmony, producing their own unnamed particles to sustain and reproduce themselves (if such a thing is even necessary for them)... actually, compared to recent depictions of aliens in other series around the time of 00's airing and even currently, there isn't anything familiar about them to Earth lifeforms. In Fact, somehow they're even more alien than the Coralians ever were in every single aspect , which is saying something, but as the same time eerily realistic as to what contact with an alien being would likely come off as.
Ur-Example: They are the first aliens to actually appear in the Gundam franchise, though there's a Space Whale fossil that appeared in SEED, and possibly the Turn-X that supplementary materials state "originates from outside the solar system".
Voluntary Shape Shifting: There are several forms they seem to gravitate to by default, but it's pretty clear that they can take any form they desire, with no limitation other than size (and even that could be called into question).
We Have Reserves: The "armada" of ELS ships that show up through a wormhole near Jupiter is so massive that they form a cloud of platinum-colored flying objects longer than the gas giant is wide. There's likely more ELS ships than there is life on earth, and that's before the mothership shows up with the main armada. And that possibly isn't even their entire race.
Zerg Rush: They tend to do this in combat, sending out massive swarms of smaller ELS to absorb and assimilate other things. They're easy to shoot down, but there's just so many of them that they get through regardless. They show very little consideration for the lives of said smaller ELS, which makes sense seeing as they are a Hive Mind.

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