The first protagonist of Gundam AGE, he was born the same year that the war with the Unknown Enemies began. While he was still young, Flit and his family were attacked by the UE 7 years after "The Day Angel Fell", the first UE attack. It was during this attack that his dying mother provided him with control unit and schematics for the Gundam, leading Flit to spend years developing the "Legendary Mobile Suit" and devotes himself toward the defense of humanity and the defeat of the UEs. He is 14 years old at the start of his story.
Despair Event Horizon: Yurin's death shatters his idealistic self, which ultimately triggers his descent into becoming the Dark Messiah for the corrupt Earth Federal Forces.
Heroic BSOD: Seeing Yurin die caused Flit to have this.
Improbable Age: He's a weapons designer on the military's payroll long before he fell into the AGE-1. Arguably justified, as his mother pretty much instructed him to become The Messiah and save the world, giving him the design for the AGE in the process.
Jumped at the Call: Given that he feels he owes the UE for his mother's death, this is understandable.
Parental Abandonment: His mom died in front of him, while handing him the design for the Gundam. Of his father, we have no sign.
Missing Mom: Her death has had a major impact on him.
Psychic Powers: He has developed predictive/telepathic senses as a result of him being an X-Rounder.
Revenge: Wants to pay the UE back for killing his mom.
Spell My Name with an S: His name has so far been translated as Fritto (supposedly the 'official' spelling), Flit (also seemingly official), and Flint. Flit seems to have gained the most recognition, however.
And he STILL still has it as an old man, driving a tank down the highway and jumping out of the core fighter of the new Gundam onto another moving vehicle.
Childhood Friend Romance: Seems likely, and she appears to have some sort of feelings for Flit. And since his son is blonde and has blue eyes...
Clingy Jealous Girl: She doesn't show this in terms of keeping Flit away from other girls (and there aren't any on the Diva anyway), but from the Gundam. In Episode 4 she accepts Woolf's challenge in the hopes that Flit will lose (and thus lose his place on the ship so that he'll accompany her and Dique to a new colony), and she gets angry at Woolf and Grodek for encouraging him to fight. Understandable, since nobody wants to see their crush die in battle. She eases up after a chat with Lalaparly Mardona later on.
Expy: She looks similar to Sayla and has a similar role to Fraw Bow.
Snooping Little Kid: She shadows the Diva's intended captain and overhears his intentions to abandon the colony. She later overhears Grodek blackmailing another Federation officer and confronts him about it at one point, but the incidents motivate her to speak up on his behalf when Adams questions his right to command.
Dying Moment of Awesome: He stays behind in the command centre while everyone else evacuates, so that he can trigger the release mechanism for the colony core. When the base is destroyed by the UE he rides the elevator up the secondary controls and—despite severe injuries—manages to free it. He then climbs into a spaceship and deliberately crashes into the back of the colony, destroying the rubble that was preventing the colony core from breaking free. We all must agree that this man had some serious Brass Balls going on.
And possibly a Beard of Sorrow, as it doesn't appear in the flashbacks of his pre-military days.
Being Good Sucks: As a reward for destroying Ambat, the Federation Forces court-martial him for treason and sentence him to life in prison, while taking credit for his operation.
Byronic Hero: He's a deeply wounded man who takes on the UE when nobody else in the Federation is willing to, but his main goal is to get back at them rather than protect civilians. And his crew seems to believe that he's more noble than he actually proves to be in the end.
Guile Hero: He's willing to kidnap uncooperative officers and key himself into the system as their replacement...and it only escalates from there.
He Who Fights Monsters: A mild example, but still undeniably present, as his desire for revenge against the UE pushes him to steadily more questionable acts.
Revenge: It fuels his desire to battle the UE at all costs and leads him to burn his bridges like it's going out of style.
Spell My Name with an S: One of the worst examples. Grodek, Grudek, Grudech? Ainoa, Ainor, Aynoa, Aynor?
You Are in Command Now: He was Bruzar's deputy commander; when Bruzar realises that the Diva's captain intends to abandon the colony, he sends Grodek to seize control of the ship.
Millais Alloy
Voiced by: Yu Shimamura
A female officer onboard the Diva. She originally served under Bruzar and is loyal to Grodek, despite some uncertainties.
Captain's Log: Although not captain yet, she sums up the events after Ambat at the end of episode 15 in a disillusioned journal entry about Grodek's trial, the origin of the Unknown Enemy, and the continuing corruption and mismanagement of the Federation government.
Sour Supporter: He's openly skeptical of Grodek's motivations and would much prefer to be doing this without committing mutiny against Federation command...but he's still manning his post.
Vargas Dyson
Voiced by: Naoki Bandou (JP)
Emily's Grandfather and the co-developer of the AGE-1 Gundam AGE-1 Normal. He also serves as an expert mechanic, who makes several upgrades to the Earth Federal Forces's mobile suits.
A mobile suit pilot of the Earth Federal Forces, who pilots the RGE-B790 Genoace. He is supposed to pilot the AGE-1 Gundam AGE-1 Normal until he was injured during the UE's attack at Nora.
Can't Catch Up: His standard-issue Genoace just can't compare with the Gundam or the G-Exes. He's aware of this, judging by his battle cry of "I can fight too!" in Episode 12. The poor guy is finally able to destroy a UE suit on-screen in that battle.
Conflicting Loyalty: He grows increasingly distressed over the possibility of engaging in combat with Earth Federal forces due to Grodek's mutiny.
A former Mobile Suit Grand Prix champion, he joined the Earth Federal forces when that got dull and quickly distinguished himself as a skilled pilot. Rather arrogant in attitude, he has expressed an interest in piloting the Gundam himself.
Ace Custom: Prior to getting his hands on the G-Exes, he pilots a custom white Genoace, as befits an Ace like him.
Badass Normal: No special abilities, not an X-rounder, just pure skill & talent at kicking asses in an MS.
Bishōnen: To the point he has a Shower Scene just to drive home he's male, if the voice didn't tip anyone off. Bonus points for being voiced by Daisuke Ono.
Drives Like Crazy: Intentionally. He's a former racer with a massive ego, and loves showing off his moves to anyone unfortunate enough to be his passenger.
Establishing Character Moment: Episode Four. He steps out of the shower, tells the mirror that he's the best, and then flings the towel away with a declaration of "I'm looking great!"
Heroic BSOD: Woolf has one from not only realizing the UE are actually human, but also from seeing a bleeding Vagan soldier he befriended die in his arms.
Human Popsicle: He was recuperating in a pod in the medical bay whilst the Diva was docked at Nora, causing considerable bewilderment when he wakes up to find the colony's gone, his ship is under new management, and some dumb kid scored the first ever confirmed kills against the UE with a home-made mobile suit.
Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He quite enjoys being deliberately annoying, but he does care about his comrades. He makes a point of looking out for the less-experienced Flit in battle, almost like an older brother.
Let's Get Dangerous: From his introduction, Woolf seems more or less like an arrogant prettyboy and irritates everyone he meets. Once he's in a battle situation, though, it's plain that his confidence is fully justified.
Man in White: Wears a white pilot suit, has white hair, and flies a white mecha. There's a theme going on here.
Nose Art: Regardless of the suit he's piloting, it has to have an all-white paintjob.
Sympathetic Inspector Antagonist: He looks like Inspector Javert at first, but he seems interested in Grodek's information about the UE when he first arrests him (he switches back to chase mode after Grodek's crew comes to the rescue). In episode 12, he decides to let the Diva continue on its self-proclaimed mission after they defeat an UE ambush.
Trademark Favorite Food: He has a limitless supply of chocolate bars and tends to angrily take a bite whenever he makes a point. He says that his brain needs the energy that chocolate provides.
Worthy Opponent: He speaks highly of Grodek's cunning and realizes his true intentions, even predicting his tactics, when the UE interrupts the second arrest attempt.
Unknown Enemy (UE)/Vagan
The villains of the piece, the UE appeared out of nowhere 14 years earlier, launching seemingly random attacks on Earth and the space colonies. In one of the attacks they destroyed Flit's colony, and killed his mother. What they want—and indeed what they are—was a mystery. Their true identity is a group of people left for dead in Mars by the Earth Federation when the Mars Colonization plan failed. Whilst their motives are still unknown, their hatred for the Federation that abandoned them is very apparent.Tropes associated with the UE as a whole:
Ace Custom: The Zedas, a souped-up Gafran that specialises in close combat. It's Desil's personal suit.
Alien Invasion: Highly speculated, in and out of series. Turns out they're human.
The Gafran was displaying this long before the Baqto was introduced, having them produced by their own hand vulcans. The Zedas' tail blade is often held in the same manner, but can be held in a more traditional method as well.
Combat Pragmatist: They always operate in teams, attack military bases before they can mobilise, retreat when faced with superior opposition, shoot down ships and/or weapons before they can be finished launching, bypass individual enemies to focus on the main mission objectives, and have no problem using superweapons when their initial attack fails. So far they've demonstrated a remarkable amount of Genre Savvy, pragmatism and genuine tactical aptitude.
Chest Blaster: Standard for UE suits, though the precise kind varies according to the model.
Fragile Speedster: The Gafran was a Lightning Bruiser prior to the introduction of the AGE-1. Even afterwards it remains a speedy target, that's difficult to lock onto, without Psychic Powers.
Hidden Agenda Villain: Even after we learn precisely who and what they are, their motives remain a mystery.
Human All Along: The UE are from Vagan, a nation of survivors from the failed Mars Colonisation Project.
Laser Blade: The Zedas duel wields beam sabres in its battle with Flit.
Lightning Bruiser: So far the Zedas is this. It's even faster than the already speedy Gafran, heavily armoured enough to shrug off hits from the DOTS-Rifle, and carries two beam sabres that allow it to engage the AGE on an even basis. The Gafran was this prior to the introduction of the Gundam.
Mecha-Mooks: The Gafrans are the UE's standard unit, though they're tougher than many Gundammooks. The Baqtos are Elite Mooks.
Mighty Glacier: The Baqto is as close to this trope as the mobility-obsessed UE design ethos allows - in other words, the Federation's suits can actually keep up with it.
Power Palms: All UE suits feature beam gatlings in each palm. In the more advanced models, these can be turned into beam sabres for close-quarters combat.
Spell My Name with an S: Fans can't seem to agree with the spelling of the UE's real name. Is it Vagan (currently the most accepted spelling), Veigan, or Vegan (by far, the most amusing)?
Transforming Mecha: The Gafrans have a dragon-like alt-mode. The Zedas transforms into a jet/UFO cross.
We Have Reserves: They will cheerfully finish off wounded allies, though this may have more to do with ensuring that none of their secrets fall into the hands of their enemies.
A red-haired boy Flit meets on Fardain. Although he appears to be a young child, Desil seems to have the same abilities as Yurin, and is already a master Mobile Suit pilot. He is a pilot for Vagan's advance force, and due to his skill is given quite a bit of freedom to act as he pleases.
Creepy Child: He's just as cheerful as you'd expect a kid his age to be...but the episode he was introduced in was titled "The Demon Boy" and he has made some rather unsettling comments about Flit's survival.
"I hope to meet you again, Flit-oniisan...if you survive long enough, that is."
Manipulative Bastard: Desil takes advantage of his childlike appearance to get Flit to let him board the Diva, where he promptly takes the opportunity to steal the Gundam.
The leader of the UE, and the instigator of the conflict. Geera Zoi implied that his ultimate goals are more than simple revenge against the Earth Sphere, though what exactly those are is unknown.
Anime Hair: You know those braidini things? Well, apparently Lord Ezelcant employs a corkscrew for the same purpose. Plus hairspray.
Boomerang Bigot: An interesting and unusually honest example. He holds X-Rounders in contempt despite openly admitting to being one himself.
The Chessmaster: In Generation 2, his plan to merge a fortress with a supply colony near Earth to act as a beach head had a plan B where the fortress is blown up and his forces are hidden within its debris that would fall to Earth for an eventual surprise attack.
Psychic Powers: Is hinted at in Zeheart's flashback to be an extremely powerful X-Rounder.
Visionary Villain: Based on the limited info currently available his goal seems to be to ensure peace by destroying the rotten Federation and creating a Vagan utopia.
A young girl Flit rescues as he's fleeing Nora's collapse. She has some kind of extrasensory perception, using it to guide Flit out of the colony. Similarly to Flit, she was orphaned by the UE, and was later adopted by the richest man in the Minsry colony, but has trouble accepting the idea of him as her family. It is heavily implied that she, like Flit, is an X-Rounder, thus why Decil pressed her into joining Vagan in episode 12.
Barrier Maiden: Let's just say Flit's life and the Hundred Year War both go to hell once she was put in this position and died for it.
Emotionless Girl: Initially. When Flit gets her back to the ship though, she cracks out the smile, and when later seen on Minsry, she's actually quite cheerful (at least when Flit's around).
Expy: It didn't take the fans long to notice her uncanny resemblance to Tiffa Adill. But based on the final episodes of Flit's arc, she's also not unlike Lalah Sune.Poor Flit.
Psychic Powers: She has predictive/telepathic behaviour during combat. That is one of the telltale signs of her being an X-Rounder.
Powered by a Forsaken Child: When the Veigans got to her, they strapped poor Yurin inside the cockpit of a MS and then used her as an amplifier for Desil's own powers.
The Quiet One: Seems this way. If Yurin doesn't have anything important to say, she usually doesn't say it.
Snow Means Death: While dying, she shares a psychic vision of her time on Minsry with Flit. As the vision of Minsry's forest ends, the scenery changes and it starts to snow.
Stuffed into the Fridge: She had about twenty minutes to half an hour of screentime and characterization before the episode in which she dies.
Taking the Bullet: Not unlike Lalah from Mobile Suit Gundam. It is interesting to note, however, that the roles were inverted, that is, the villain was the one who killed the Love Interest, not the hero. However, it does go down the same way as the death of Four Murasame.
Sunglasses at Night: Wears them all the time despite his workshop being in the middle of space.
Ugly Guy, Hot Wife: Not that he's ugly per se, but he is the same age as Vargas. His wife, though...damn.
Alzack Birmings
Voiced by: Tomomishi Nishimura (JP)
An old friend of Don Boyage, he has since moved to the neutral colony of Minsry and adopted Yurin as his daughter. He also helps Grodek plan out an attack against the UE Ambat base, making him a key ally during Diva's campaign against the UE. Or so it seems...
Adult Fears: His adopted daughter is abducted by a cult-like group of people.
Leader of the Zalam faction of the Fardain colony, which continues to fight despite the reasons for the war being long past. He has the appearance of a gangster boss.
Badass Grandpa: It should be noted that despite being rather old, Boyage is still willing to go toe-to-toe with the Euba in a mobile suit.
Dying Moment of Awesome: Crashes his trashed Gala into a UE warship. It didn't even scratch the paintjob, but his show of defiance still managed to inspire the crumbling Fardain forces back from the brink.
The Mafia: As if his name weren't indicative of this, he deals under the table in warships and mobile suits.
Leader of the Euba faction of Fardain, whick continues to fight against Zalam despite there really being no reason for them to do so. He styles himself as a chivalrous knight.
The second protagonist and Flit's son. He's 17 years old at the start of his story.
Always Someone Better: He sees himself as second-best to Zeheart in battle and as the object of Romary's affections. Add that to his inferiority complex towards his father, and it's no wonder some viewers are noticing some Sanity Slippage.
Anime Hair: As you can see, it's a spiked mullet with a ponytail. The spikes get even bigger by the time he's a father.
Badass Normal: It turns out that he did not inherit his father's X-Rounder abilities. This puts him at a serious disadvantage over Zeheart. Despite this, he proves himself later to be a very dangerous MS pilot(& not just because he's piloting a Gundam...), managing to singlehandedly kill & obliterate Desil — a powerful X-Rounder in their duel.
He even becomes the one person that can out-duel Zeheart in a straight-on fight. That is, until his son, Kio comes along...
Badass Abnormal: For a single episode. He uses the captured Vagan helmet to give himself X-Rounder powers, and manages to take out Leo of the Magician's Eight. However, the helmet causes him physical pain, so he abandons it.
Be Yourself: What Woolf and Rody urged him to do instead of copying his father, but losing to X-Rounders and Flit's attitude makes it hard for the lesson to stick. Until Episode 26, when he rips Decil to pieces for killing Woolf.
Can't Catch Up: His biggest worry is that he won't be able to match his father and Zeheart as a MS pilot...for the first ten episodes, anyway.
Chronic Hero Syndrome: It's understandable that he rushes out to the Gundam every time there's a Vagan attack. Saving the school bully from dying of lack of oxygen? Heroic blood.
Notably takes up a "two sword style" once he pilots the Gundam.
Probably inspired by Woolf's style. The second ED shows Asemu's younger self playing with a G-Exes model.
Taken to new levels with the Double Bullet. It was designed with dual-wielding in mind.
Expy: With his rival being a powerful X-Rounder and having limited X-Rounder aptitude himself, he seems to be developing into AGE's equivalent of Garrod Ran.
Personality-wise, he bears similarities to Kou Uraki.
Since the show acts as being to similar to all 3 of the original Universal Century Shows he counts as the Kamille to Flit's Amuro and Kio's Judau.
Kid Hero: Subverted. He's also the oldest of the three protagonists. And by the time he graduates from his school, a year and a half have passed since his 17th birthday/introduction, making him 18 at this point and therefore technically an adult.
Leeroy Jenkins: He does this in Episode 19 to intercept two Vagan mobile suits. It gets him dangerously close to the Diva though, hence why he gets into trouble with Captain Millias at the end.
In fact, this is becoming his default tactic. Which leads to him spending a lot of time in the brig after battles. It also (indirectly) gets his mentor Woolf killed.
Reinforced in episode 28, where in the one-year timeskip, his Gundam has a white color scheme and he himself is all in white.
Man in White: At the very end of the Second Generation, in tribute to Woolf.
Meaningful Name: "Asem" is Arabic in origin, and means "protector, guardian, or defender." Given where he draws his strength from, it's quite apt.
Mid-Season Upgrade: Gets a more obvious one than his dad. Whilst the Titus and Spallow had their pros and cons relative to the AGE-1 Normal, the Double Bullet is nothing but an improvement on the AGE-2.
Military Brat: Unlike most, his dad is a high-ranking officer, but it still means that Asemu doesn't get to see him very often.
Military Maverick: Shaping up to be one, with Woolf's encouragement.
Nice Guy: Although he enters the show by taking some other kids to task for bullying his friends, he seems to be quite pleasant to people who give the same courtesy to him.
Zeheart tries several times to dissuade Asemu from joining or remaining in the military by saying he's too kind to be on a battlefield.
New Meat: As a mobile suit pilot. The difference between him, Max, and Arisa is a smidge of experience, and that the AGE-2 is a much stronger mobile suit than their Adeles.
Psychic Powers: Averted. Despite being Flit's son, he has not inherited his father's X-Rounder abilities, so it's going to take more than piloting a Gundam to turn him into an Ace Pilot.
He tries using a Vagan helmet to artificially make him an X-Rounder, but the drawbacks outweigh the benefits.
Red Baron: According to a sidestory manga that takes place in AG 150, Asemu has become known as the White Devil on the battlefield, a moniker he shares with the original Gundam pilot.
Secret Identity: Vargas tells him to enforce this while he's still at school. It becomes unnecessary when he joins the military. Unfortunately, Zeheart figures it out right from the get-go.
Super Pilot: Despite not being an X-Rounder and the obvious advantages of being one, Woolf encourages him to improve on, and rely on his own skill and become a Super Pilot to make up for it. Right before Woolf dies, he even tells Asemu to be become the best damn Super Pilot in the world.
There Is No Kill Like Overkill: Unlike his father, Asemu wastes no time in completely obliterating Desil after he kills Woolf.
Was It All a Lie?: He asks this to Zeheart once the latter reveals himself to be a Vagan.
Well Done Son Guy: He's determined to win the Mobile Suit contest no matter what, in order to impress Flit. Living up to his famous father also pressures him to work hard when he joins the military.
Worthy Opponent: he and Zeheart eventually see each other as this.
A Vice Admiral by the time of the second generation, Flit continues to fight against the Vagan, albeit from a position of authority. As the commander of Big Ring, he makes the strategies with which the Earth Federation fights the Vagan, and is not above getting back into the AGE-1 and flying into combat himself. He is 39 at the start of Asemu's story.
Badass Beard: What the above evolves into by the Third generation.
Four Star Badass: He's the commander of Earth Federal Forces & is still a very deadly Mobile Suit pilot, as seen in his team up with his son against the Galette brothers.
Berserk Button: Even after marrying Emily and having two children together, do NOT remind him of Yurin's death.
Expy: As an adult, one could argue that he also has a more than passing resemblance to Patrick Zala.
Happily Married: To Emily, with two children (Asemu and Unoa). In a subversion, despite caring for his family, after 25 years he shows no signs of forgetting about Yurin's death anytime soon. Very understandable, considering how he lost her.
He Who Fights Monsters: His ultimate goal, starting in the second generation, is the extermination of Vagan.
Hot Dad: Subverted. While Flit is not exactly ugly after 25 years, hehaslost his youthful looks when compared to his Hot Mom wife Emily who looks almost exactly the same as she did before. However, we're shown some pictures of a Flit in his 20's with a young Asemu...holy shit, he played this trope straight.
Not so Different: To Lord Ezelcant. Not only is Flit an X-Rounder, but he also wants to protect his people...even if it means killing every last enemy in his path.
Parents as People: He loves Asemu and Unoa, but his military position keeps him away from home for long periods of time. He also puts a lot of pressure on Asemu to carry on the legacy of the Gundam and isn't there to see how much Asemu obsesses over it.
Please Don't Leave Me: "You're leaving me again...." Said when he realizes that Woolf is dead.
Revenge: Flit's desire for revenge has gone Up to Eleven due to Yurin's death.
Used to Be a Sweet Kid: Seems to be the common reaction after he revealed the purpose of his coup d'etat in episode 28.
What The Hell, Dad?: Towards Asemu. After the boy joins the military, Flit progressively turns to treating him as a subordinate and not as a son.
Moreover, he was nowhere to be seen during his son's wedding. Really, Flit?
Emily Asuno
Flit's wife and Asemu and Yunoa's mother.
First Girl Wins: It's more of a Pyrrhic Victory for her though, as Flit will never get over letting Yurin die and she's aware of it.
Hot Mom: Emily has kept her cute looks after 25 years and giving birth twice.
Put on a Bus: For the majority of the second generation. Understandable given that she isn't in the military, but there's no indication that she and Asemu even write to each other.
Asemu's younger sister. She looks up to her mother and her brother and also enjoys hanging around with her family's Haro.
Annoying Younger Sibling: Refreshingly averted. She's actually a very pleasant sibling to Asemu, not to mention that she has a great sense of humor at the dinner table.
Generation Xerox: She shares most of her mother's appearance. She is also outgoing and optimistic, much like her father used to be.
The Medic: This is what she does offscreen while her older brother is flying around in a Gundam.
Dogged Nice Girl: Develops a crush on Zeheart after the latter rescues her from getting hit by a wrench. By Episode 28, she has gotten over this and marries Asemu.
A rookie pilot for Woolf's squadron and Dique's daughter. While outgoing and competitive, she lacks the battle experience at the time of her introduction.
Doting Parent: Astonishingly enough, according to her son.
Fun Personified: It is really hard not to grin when she's onscreen.
Generation Xerox: Even though she's a girl who's much fitter than her father, she acquires much of her father's fashion sense as well as his skin tone and hair color.
Get A Hold Of Yourself Man: To Asemu. However, Gunhales do this by slapping the fellow in question on the ass.
New Meat: Her first real battle is in episode 19, and it shows.
Nice Girl: Despite her competitive nature, she's still quite friendly with Asemu.
Plucky Girl: Being a rookie, she can barely keep up with Obright, Woolf, and Asemu at first. Unlike Max, though, she never mopes about it and eventually does become an effective member of the squad.
Through His Stomach: Not quite romantic, but she tries to cheer Asemu up by bringing him some food during one of his stints in the brig. (Presumably because his butt is out of reach.)
What Measure Is a Mook?: When Asemu asks how she feels about killing enemy pilots, Arisa says it's a waste of time to think about it.
Commissar Cap: Sports one in the second generation, as per her promotion to captain of the Diva.
Older than She Looks: She definitely does not look like she is older than Flit, being fifty years old and all.
Reasonable Authority Figure: She's pretty strict with her raw bridge crew and disciplines Asemu for insubordination even though he destroyed both the Vagan suits he was fighting. Because, as she says to Woolf, the enemy won't make allowance for them being "just kids" either.
Woolf Enneacle
Promoted to mobile suit commander aboard the Diva by the second generation, he is Asemu's direct superior. Pilots the G-Bouncer, his next-generation all-white custom mobile suit.
Badass Normal: One of his major crowning achievements in the second generation was to defeat one of the Magicians Eight in single combat. Despite not being an X-Rounder, he manages to win handily due to his own skills.
A Father to His Men: He's much more concerned with his squad staying alive than with defeating Vagan.
Military Maverick: According to what Arisa's heard, he's a pain in the ass for Command. But according to previous subordinate Obright, he is also a very good commander.
Flit Asuno's childhood friend and Arisa Gunhale's father, the chief mechanic aboard the Diva during the second generation. He is in charge of the maintenance of the Gundam AGE-2 and the AGE System.
Big Fun: Despite the second generation's more serious nature, he still manages to put a lighter touch on various scenes.
The Engineer: As an adult, he takes Vargas's place on the Diva.
A Genoace pilot who has served under Woolf before. He's noticeably calmer than the rookies.
Captain Obvious: Explaining "Advanced Pilot Training Program for Next Generation Types" with "It's an advanced training program to cultivate next generation pilots". Lampshaded by Arisa.
Love Confession: In episode 25, he blurts out his love for Remi and proposes marriage in front of the whole mobile suit bay, out of nowhere. She flees. She accepts the next episode.
Love Hurts: Remi accepts his marriage proposal in Episode 26...and then she gets killed in the following episode.
Mr. Exposition: Serves as this to the rookies on the squad.
Number Two: Among the Diva's mobile suit team. He takes charge of Max and Arisa whenever Woolf has to rush off after Asemu.
Blush Sticker: Occasionally, when speaking to Obright or gazing lovingly at a mobile suit.
Dark and Troubled Past: Despite her cheerful personality, the way she talks about the Diva as a family and, while dying, saying that she was alone before the Diva and Obright hints that she somehow lost her family.
The former commander of the Diva, he is released from prison during the events of the second generation.
The Bus Came Back: Twenty-five years after being sentenced, he's released from prison and is shown meeting Flit in a bar at the end of episode 23.
Back for the Dead: And he is stabbed to death by Arabel at the end of Episode 24.
Died in Your Arms Tonight: He is knifed in an alleyway by a disguised Arabel while going to meet Flit at the end of episode 24, and dies in the latter's arms.
A Vagan operative who infiltrates Asemu's school, looking for the Gundam. He is Desil's younger brother. He was promoted to Commander of Earth Occupation Force after his infiltration mission.
Scratch that 'cause as of episode 27 even he has trouble keeping up with an "Awakened"Asemu during their final duel. Still doesn't loosen his Badass-ness though.
Becoming the Mask: He is aware of it and refuses to give into his amicable feelings, though it's probably a good thing for the Vagans that they started the operation when they did.
This becomes more literal when he is given his new mobile suit that requires a mask like helmet to use effectively. The Engineers say that taking it off will make it less effective, so he may be forced to leave it on indefinitely.
Char Clone: Complete with his own mask and red mobile suit that goes three times faster than normal Vagan suits.
Chick Magnet: A horde of his fangirls can be seen during graduation.
Cool Mask: Justified. It helps control his X-Rounder abilities.
The Dragon: Assigned by Lord Ezelcant as his commander of Earth Occupation Forces.
I Did What I Had to Do: With regards to Decil. He had already been intending to remove Decil from the battlefield somehow, due to his insubordination and vengeful recklessness. Given the choice between saving his brother (and probably losing the surviving Magicians 8 in the process) or letting Asemu resolve the problem permanently, Zeheart opts for the latter.
Improbable Age: Ezelcant himself places him in charge of the Earth Occupation Forces. Lampshaded when his men grumble about being placed under a kid's command.
Psychic Powers: Is an X-Rounder and his powers as so strong that it wasn't till the Zeydra that he could pilot a mobile suit that could keep up with him. Even then he has to wear a mask to control his abilities.
Taking the Bullet: a non-lethal variation, where Zeheart tackles the AGE-2 away from falling debris during atmosphere re-entry. If Dole Frost hadn't been around, however, he would have bit the dust either way.
Villain Protagonist: The Second Generation focuses on him just as much as it focuses on Asemu, although how much of a villain he's shaping up to be is still up for debate.
A Vagan pilot and the older brother of Zeheart, he has spent most of the last 25 years brooding over his defeat at Flit Asuno's hand and thirsts for revenge.
Ax Crazy: Even more so in the second generation, he's not above killing his own allies.
Be Careful What You Wish For: He complained about how boring his fight was with Asemu and Woolf. Later on, Asemu gave him exactly what he wished for and more.
The Brute: After his younger brother outranked him, he become pretty much this.
Desil also has a counterpart in a figure from Real Life military history, that being World War OneAce Pilot Lothar von Richthofen, brother of the more famous Manfred. Both were psychotically aggressive Blood Knight-types and the less accomplished brothers of fellow aces in red machines using considerably more measured tactics.
Foreshadowing: The Gundampedia segment for episode 22 mentioned that Desil's mobile suit, the Khronos, was rumored to have the ability to control other mobile suits. Guess what he does in episode 26?
It's All About Me: He hates Flit for having the audacity to defeat him. Still doesn't understand why Flit hates him in turn. He's still willing to use his own soldiers as Cannon Fodder, too.
It's Personal: With Flit, following his humiliation at Flit's hands.
I Was Quite a Looker: As a kid, he at least could make himself sorta pass as a cute little boy. As an adult, he'd fit in Looks Like Cesare if not for the red hair.
Small Name, Big Ego: Believes he should have been the leader of the Earth Occupation Force instead of his brother when it's pretty obvious that his superiors (rightly) see him as nothing more than an attack dog.
Sore Loser: He throws another hissyfit after Flit effortlessly rebuffs all of his efforts to attack the Diva.
Theres No Kill Like Overkill: Deservedly lands on the receiving end of this in episode 26. Judging from how Asemu completely obliterated every trace of Desil's mobile suit, it's safe to say Desil isn't going to crank a Mu La Flaga anytime soon.
Unskilled, but Strong: Despite being an Ace Pilot, he overly relies on his X-Rounder powers, rather than his own personal skill. This got to the point where Flit could hold him back by doing nothing but relaying firing coordinates for the Diva, and completely over-powered when he could no longer read Asemu's movements.
Ventures into Fridge Brilliance. Within the span of 25 years, Flit has learned discipline and the art of making war, and has become an amazing pilot and skilled tactician. Desil, on the other hand, is no more disciplined as an adult than he was as a kid, and has spent time encapsulated — which has done nothing for learning how to get better.
Magicians Eight
The Magicians Eight is a group of elite Vagan MS pilots. They are also X-Rounders, hence why they pilot specially-configured Zedas mobile suits.
Killed Off for Real: In the end, all of them. Most of them are done in within a couple of episodes of their introduction.
Never Our Fault: They insist that it was Zeheart's tactics, and not their containment by Flit, that limited their effectiveness in the battle for Big Ring.
A high-ranking Vagan soldier who acts as Zeheart's second-in-command. When Zeheart goes into cold sleep again, he takes control of Vagan's forces on Earth and tries to assassinate the prime minister. He is ultimately killed in a duel by Asemu.
Ace Pilot: He only gets into a mobile suit cockpit in episode 28, but he tears shit up when he does.
Bond Villain Stupidity: He scythes through all the Federation grunts with ease in his Zeydars, reaches the Prime Minister (with Flit) on the stage, and... wastes time training a laser sight on Olfanoa when there are literally no obstacles whatsoever and certainly no range problem. Opening up right then would have taken out Flit too, which could only benefit Vagan, but Medel takes long enough for Flit chew out Olfanoa, allowing time for Asemu to arrive and engage him.
Undying Loyalty: Utterly devoted to the Vagan cause to the bitter end. He even glimpses a vision of the Eden they seek as he dies.
Daz Roden
Voiced by: Tora Take (JP)
A Vagan soldier who acts as Zeheart's handler during the latter's infiltration mission into Tordia. He later serves Zeheart in the Earth Occupation Forces. He ultimately dies when he overloads his mu-szell and crashes his Dorado L into the Gundam AGE-1 Flat.
Dying Moment of Awesome: Took out an opponent way out of his weight category through sheer bloody-minded determination.
Epic Fail: His first on-screen outing in a mobile suit, in which Vargas and two of his similarly elderly drinking buddies fend him off with a hand-held rocket launcher and the garden sprinkler system.
Hostage Situation: Takes Romary hostage at the graduation to prevent Zeheart from being arrested by the military police.
Mauve Shirt: Villainous example. Aside from being Zeheart's handler and advisor, he doesn't really do much, he's just given a name, a face, and a personality. He ultimately dies in a kamikaze attack against the AGE-1.
Self Destructive Charge: Tosses everything into a final charge at the AGE-1. He cripples it, effectively knocking Flit out of the battle.
Senseless Sacrifice: Subverted. While his self destruction attack fails to kill Flit,it does manage to forced Flit to retreat.
Taking You with Me: Attempts this on Flit. He fails to kill him, but he does cripple the AGE-1.
Mukured and Lalaparly's son. He helps out at the Madorna Workshop. He's not as skilled with mobile suits as his father, but he finds other ways to make up for it.
Be Yourself: Can't match his father's skill as a mobile suit designer, and is totally fine with that. He's found other things to excel at instead.
Gadgeteer Genius: Managed to build a mobile suit simulator out of an old Genoace cockpit without his father's help.
Third Generation
Earth Federal Forces
Kio Asuno
Voiced by: Kazutomi Yamamoto (JP)
The third protagonist, he is Flit's grandson and Asemu's son. He is 13 years old at the start of his story.
Heroic BSOD: When Shanalua tells him that she'll be executed as a spy if she goes back to the Diva with him.
I Know Mortal Kombat: The reason he can pilot the AGE-3 so well is because Flit gave him a MS Battle Simulator disguised as a video game when he was younger.
Psychic Powers: Not only unlike his father he is an X-Rounder, but so powerful that in his first episode he could detect the Vagan's attack on orbital base Big Ring. From Earth.
Tykebomb: Flit trained him with an MS Simulation game when he was growing up.
Wide-Eyed Idealist: He's oblivious to Wootbit's antipathy until Wootbit makes it explicitly clear that he doesn't like Kio. And when Shanalua is discovered as a spy, he thinks that if he just explains to Grandpa how she's really a good person she can come back and it'll be all right.
Asemu Asuno
Kio's father, he went on a mission shortly after Kio's birth and went missing in action. His whereabouts are currently unknown.
Hot Dad: watch the ED to see Asemu of the 3rd Generation.
Never Found the Body: Went MIA the year Kio was born. The only thing recovered was the AGE Device.
Retirony: The mission he went MIA on was supposed to be his last mission.
Flit Asuno
Asemu's father and Kio's grandfather, he has now retired and left the Earth Federal Forces. He still fights against the Vagan though, and is responsible for building the Gundam AGE-3 as well as training Kio in using it. He is 64 at the start of Kio's story.
Badass Grandpa: The very first thing he does in his appearance in the third generation is save Kio from a Vagan mobile suit. And then he jumps off of the Core Fighter while in flight to get to the G-Cepter.
Retired Badass: Retired from the military years ago. Still awesome.
Dude, Where's My Respect?: He's kicked a lot of Vagan ass and saved the Federation from certain doom over 50 years. He's even been Commander-in-Chief. However, almost everyone treats him like crap because he's old and retired, and only Algreus is willing to listen to any ideas he has.
Expy: One could compare his third generation appearance to Bask Om, with the goggles and all.
General Ripper: He's gotten even worse on this count, to the point where the destruction of Vaigan and the extermination of its people is all he lives for now. Shanalua's pretty freaked out by what he's trying to mould Kio into.
What the Hell, Grandpa?: He didn't attend his grandson's birth. Although he did spend quality time with him later...by training him in mobile suit simulators, behind the backs of his wife and his daughter-in-law in order to allow Kio to inherit the Gundam.
A friend of Kio's from childhood. She follows him when he decides to help some stranded orphans and ends up on the Diva when it's de-mothballed.
Expy: The protagonist's childhood friend? Is assigned to take care of a trio of kids who may or may not be orphans? Wendy is the third generation's equivalent of Fraw Bow.
Kicked Upstairs: Her commander had severe doubts about her competence (suspecting that she only got as far as she did through family connections), and gives her the Diva captaincy to get her out of his hair.
Lieutenant Commander Newbie: She has about fifteen minutes between her promotion and having to take command.
Nepotism: Subverted. She apparently got her initial rank of lieutenant from family connections, but then her promotion to Captain of the Diva was mostly because they wanted her out of the way.
New Meat: Abis spots two telltale signs of her inexperience the first time he sets eyes on her.
Nice Girl: She's very polite, is quite aware that she's unready to be a captain, takes the initiative to help evacuate a group of civilians, and is shown helping to console young evacuees as early as her second appearance.
Pointy-Haired Boss: It's clear that she was promoted to Captain way before she was ready for the position.
UnfortunatePunny Name: Her first name is reminiscent of the infamous 'netoare genre', whilst her surname... well, it's pronounced exactly the way you'd hope it wouldn't be.
Jerkass: To Kio, at least at first. He thought Kio was a Spoiled Brat...then he actually sat in the cockpit of the Gundam during a battle. After that, he loosened up.
More Expendable Than You: Refuses to have Madorna pilot the G-Hopper into the battlefield because he believes Madorna to be more valuable to the Diva crew, instead volunteering himself to do it.
War Is Hell: Learned this when he watched Kio pilot the Gundam from the G-Hopper's seat.
Vagan
Lord Fezarl Ezelcant
The leader of Vagan. He began the war in AG 108 to return the descendents of Mars' abandoned colonists to Earth, viewing it as a paradise. He's also an incredibly powerful X-Rounder.
Anime Hair: It's hard to concentrate on his speech when you're staring at that corkscrew thing on top of his head....
Visionary Villain: He wants to end warfare. As with most Gundam villains with this goal, he's trying to do it by... starting a huge war.
Zeheart Galette
A commander in the Vagan forces who reports directly to Ezelcant. He was in cold sleep for an amount of time between the second and third generation and pilots another custom red suit in the attack on Kio's city.
Kick the Dog: Despite his sympathetic nature in Generation 2, he starts this time by attacking a square of celebrating civilians and ignoring the city's military targets.
A group of three Vagan pilots who stationed themselves in the desert. They attacked from beneath the sand, and had already sunk three Federation battleships before they met the Diva. Led by Godom Dynam.
Due to the Dead: Godom and Gratt pay respect to the fallen Deymon at the end of 31, and vow revenge.
Everything's Even Worse with Sharks: Their mobile suits have shark-like dorsal fins, which stick above the sand's surface while they're moving beneath the sand.
Expy: To the Black Tri-Stars. They even have their own version of the Jet Stream Attack.
