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Spoilers for all previous Gundam entries in the Cosmic Era continuity, including Mobile Suit Gundam SEED and Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny, will be left unmarked.
From the main series
Voiced by: Hideyuki Hori (Japanese); Michael Dobson [Ocean dub] (English)
The original Coordinator, he gained international fame and fortune excelling at basically everything ever (from professional sports to cutting-edge scientific research); he eventually revealed that his spectacular success was largely due to having been genetically engineered. He released instructions for his enhancement process to the public, inadvertently coining the term "Coordinator" at the same time. Eventually assassinated by Blue Cosmos.
In the Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Astray side stories it is revealed that his brain was kept alive inside the "GG Unit", a device resembling a very large futuristic boombox, which eventually came into the possession of the Junk Guild. Equipped with a holographic avatar to interact with the living, Glenn now serves as the captain of the salvage ship/Gundam carrier Re-Home.
- The Ace: A brief overview of the man's accomplishments: earning a PhD from MIT at 17, winning a silver medal at the Olympics, becoming a football star, an ace air force pilot, and a world-renowned aerospace engineer (in that order), travelling to Jupiter and back in a ship of his own design (releasing the information on how to make Coordinators to the public as he left), and designing the PLANTs during his free time on the trip.
- Alliterative Name: George Glenn.
- Born Lucky: Because he was engineered to be the best at everything during birth, you could say that his creator effectively rigged the genetic lottery in his favour.
- Born Winner: A main reason why he and all subsequent Coordinators are hated by "Naturals", as they would be given a head start many people born naturally can never have.
- Brain in a Jar: More like Brain in a Capsule. When his body was killed, his mind was preserved, deemed too valuable to lose. Fortunately, the capsule contains a holographic projector and the ability for him to speak and see, averting a And I Must Scream situation.
- Broken Pedestal: George Glenn was Earth's greatest hero and has won the admiration of everyone. After his confession that he was a genetically-engineered human, many people were disgusted and look at him with contempt.
- My God, What Have I Done?: In the SEED Astray series, Glenn expresses regrets over the events he started by revealing the process to make Coordinators. Resulting in racism, war and genocide. He also regrets that people took his term "coordinators" to name genetic engineered humans, since it was never meant to name a race but simply people who can lead humanity into a better future which is not related to their genes.
- One-Steve Limit: Averted; he has the same first name as Flay’s father, George Allster.
- Posthumous Character: In SEED, he has been dead for several years.
- Renaissance Man: He was skilled at absolutely everything he tried, from Olympic level sports to PhD engineering to the no-doubt extremely complicated process that creates Coordinators like himself.
- Riddle for the Ages: Who were the scientists that created George Glenn and what happened to them after the revelation that he was a Coordinator?
- Too Cool to Live: An in-universe example; people were so pissed at how awesome he was that they assassinated him!
- Virtual Ghost: Though technically still alive, Glenn's only physical presence aside from the unwieldy life-support system containing his brain is an Arnold Rimmer-style holographic projection of his old self in a captain's uniform, complete with goofy white skipper hat.
Voiced by: Kazuya Nakai (Japanese); Brian Drummond [Ocean dub], Ethan Murray [NYAV Post dub] (English)
A blind monk who is one of the few individuals trusted by both the Earth Alliance and ZAFT, he acts as a mediator on the rare occasions that the two sides get along well enough to discuss anything. Among other things, he also maintains an orphanage on Earth. There is a fair bit more to him than meets the eye.
- Almighty Janitor: Unless he's got the influence akin to the Pope or the Dalai Lama, it's rather confounding how a mere priest can have the network of connections and resources he does at his beck-and-call (enough for him to have an unconscious Kira flown all the way up to the PLANTs). He's also the only person besides Erica Simmons (and later Durandal in SEED Destiny) that seems to have any kind of knowledge of "the SEED".
- Eyes Always Shut: Is never seen without the look of serene bliss on his face.
- Friend to All Children: He took care of the orphans after all.
- Good Shepherd: He's one of many decent characters in the show and ran an orphanage on an island near Orb.
- Hidden Depths: In the exterior as a blind preacher, he is actually a powerful individual with connections and resources from all organizations (Junk Guild, PLANT, and Earth Alliance).
- Non-Action Guy: He never takes part in any battle and is often the first one to be hurried off if the conflict comes to him. This allows him to be one of the few mediators between the two sides, as everyone knows he does not have any violent motives.
- Parental Substitute: To a whole mess of orphans.
Voiced by: Kozo Mito, Toshihiko Seki [Special Edition] (Japanese); Mark Oliver [Ocean dub] (English)
Mu La Flaga's deceased father. He considered his son too unworthy to be his true heir, and is later revealed to have cloned himself in an effort to gain a more appropriate successor. He went on to deny said clone any sense of identity and lose interest in him when the clone was revealed to be physically fragile, which ended with his death in a sudden fire. Whoops.
- Above Good and Evil: This is how he saw himself; whether it's because of his money or his warped belief in his "superior" genetics, Al firmly believed he was above human laws.
- Abusive Parent: Anyone who effectively disowns his young son because said son has his mother's genes is not going to win any Father of the Year awards, to say nothing of his treatment of Rau.
- Control Freak: To the point that he disowned his own biological son for not being enough like him.
- Domestic Abuse: Cut Mu out of the will for sharing his wife's genetics. That probably qualifies him.
- Dramatic Irony: Al treated Mu and Rau horribly and is a good example of how not to be a parent, disowning the two of them for not living up to his standards. His own clones Rau and Rey along with his son Mu all go onto becoming decorated and well-known soldiers who become substitute father/mentor figures. Rau, Rey and Mu also become three of the best Natural pilots known to the Cosmic Era while Rau and Rey become the only known Naturals to effectively pilot Coordinator-tailored machinery.
- Financial Abuse: Of Mu and his wife. He held onto most of the money while they lived alone.
- Jerkass: Not evil per se, but definitely a colossal douche.
- Man of Wealth and Taste: Is dressed in a suit and tie in all of his few appearances, such as twisting Dr.Hibiki's arm into illegal cloning through the promise of funding.
- Narcissist: His style of parenting is what psychiatrists term "narcissistic abuse." He disowned Mu for daring to be something more than a vehicle for his own ego, and upon seeing his clone, the first words out of his mouth are "This is me, right?" Al seems to have been incapable of viewing people as anything more than extensions of his own personality, and that's without getting into his delusions of grandeur.
- Parental Abandonment: He lost any interest in both of his sons when they were children.
- Posthumous Character: Dies years before SEED begins, but is nonetheless an enormous part of the plot, given that he not only inadvertently created the Big Bad, but also funded the Ultimate Coordinator project, the process that eventually led to Kira and Cagalli's births.
- Pretty Boy: It's safe to assume he was one in his youth, considering how his younger clones Rau and Rey are textbook examples of this trope.
- Pride: In addition to being a textbook narcissist, Al's hubris knew no bounds. Le Creuset calls him out on it posthumously in a rant to Mu.
- Riddle for the Ages:
- If the few quotes we have from him are a fair representation, he honestly seems to have thought he was something more than merely human. Given that his clones Rau Le Creuset and Rey Za Burrel and his son Mu are heavily implied to be this timeline's Newtypes, perhaps there is some credibility to that claim. The novelization explains that Al had an almost psychic intuition for business and always knew where the money was similar to Mu's battle intuition.
- His death, and whether Rau (who was all of about ten at the time) had a hand in it, or not. Le Creuset's enjoyment of the man being dead years later isn't really proof, he never says anything definitive, and there's no official answer. Given the sort of person we know Al was, Rau is almost certainly not the first or only one who hoped for his demise.
- There is an extremely strong implication that he was a LOGOS member, but while SEED Destiny introduces LOGOS – who wear similar fancy suits at a meeting – it never confirms this.
- Screw the Rules, I Have Money!: Cloning humans is illegal. Al doesn't care.
- Small Role, Big Impact: His actions led to both the birth of the protagonist of SEED and the creation of the Big Bad of the same show.
- Smug Snake: In contrast to his sons who are respectively The Ace and one hell of a
Magnificent Bastard. - Übermensch: He certainly thought he was one, but at the end of the day he's little more than a rich creep with an ego the size of a planet.
- The Unfettered: He was willing to do anything to get what he wants.
- Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Whilst he never saw the results of his narcissistic desire to secure his legacy via cloning, his actions resulted in a collossal amount of damage.
- Villainous Legacy: He's Rau Le Creuset's genetic progenitor and source of his Freudian Excuse, making him responsible for most of the war escalation Rau causes at the end of SEED despite being long dead.
- A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing: Weirdly, the first time we see his face is in a picture Rau tosses Mu's way — Al with a young Mu playing on his shoulders. While he is pretty much the definition of a terrible parent, they both look happy in the photo — showing that Al was able to appear like a normal human and decent parent for some stretch of time despite his dismissals, machinations, and eventual double life. Mu doesn't have fond memories of him, but is still completely shocked on learning what his father was really capable of.
Voiced by: Eiji Yanagisawa (Japanese); Fred Handerson [Ocean dub], Cam Clarke [NYAV Post dub] (English)
A very brilliant, very ambitious, and totally amoral scientist who was behind the Ultimate Coordinator project.
- Abusive Parent: How abusive? When he needed a test subject for the project, he used one of his own developing embryos... Kira Yamato.
- Cigarette of Anxiety: Implied. In the one shot of him stressing over his research, there is an ashtray on his desk permeated with cigarette butts.
- Domestic Abuse: If you think that refusing to return your developing child for a science experiment qualifies you, then yes.
- Dr. Jerk: A plaque in the Mendel Colony shows that Dr. Hibiki was also an MD.
- Even Evil Has Standards: Whether it's this or Pragmatic Villainy, he's still the one who points out to Al Da Flaga that cloning him would be illegal. Implying that he only agreed to do so to receive the funding he needed.
- In the SEED Freedom novel, he thinks the Destiny Plan is a foolish idea because people can make choices outside their own genes, not to mention immoral even for him in how it robs people of free will.
- Evilutionary Biologist: Not only did he work on the Ultimate Coordinator project, but he is also the one who cloned Rau Le Creuset.
- For Science!: His motivation is progress for its own sake.
- Mad Scientist: Had no problem using his children for science.
- Like Father, Like Son: If there's one moral thing Kira inherited from his biological father, it's the belief that humans should have a choice in deciding their own futures.
- Pet the Dog: Dr. Hibiki apparently some consideration for his family; he thought he would be giving his son the best life possible by making him the Ultimate Coordinator and the photo of his wife embracing their infant children implied that he trusted Via to hold his greatest scientific achievement and their son, Kira.
- Posthumous Character: Long dead before SEED starts.
- The Unfettered: Nothing will stop him from getting things done, even if it’s repulsive.
- Unknown Rival: To Aura. In the novel, Aura is revealed to have disliked Ulen Hibiki because of his rejection of the Destiny Plan, and considers her "children", the Accords, and their conflict with Kira Yamato and Cagalli Yula Attha, Ulen's children, as a feud between their families. Ulen, however, is long dead by the time this fight happens.
Voiced by: Houko Kuwashima (Japanese); Erica Schroeder [NYAV Post dub] (English)
Ulen Hibiki's wife, also implied to be his scientific partner. She does have standards, though, as she's horrified when he goes too far with his experiments.
- Brainy Brunette: Well, she has to be if she’s a scientist.
- Give Him a Normal Life: She tells her younger sister Caridad to take Kira and Cagalli in, before she dies alongside Ulen and Al Da Flaga.
- Motherly Scientist: Her scenes in the anime showcase her maternal concern for the subjects of the Ultimate Coordinator project, beyond the one that happens to be her son. Incidentally, Kira was the only one to survive.
- Posthumous Character: Died before the story began.
- Strong Family Resemblance: She very much looks like an adult, gender-flipped Kira.
Caridad voiced by: Kikuko Inoue (Japanese); Rebecca Shoichet [Ocean dub], Erin Fitzgerald [NYAV Post dub] (English)
Haruma voiced by: Yasunori Matsumoto (Japanese); Lee Tockar [Ocean dub]
Kira's mother and father. They raised Kira on the Moon at Copernicus before moving to what they believed would be the relatively-safer Heliopolis.
- Good Parents: Caridad and Haruma love Kira and worry very much about him, but were understanding of his reluctance to see them during the Archangel's brief layover in Orb.
- Nephewism: Caridad and Haruma are in reality Kira's (and Cagalli's) aunt and uncle respectively.
- Yamato Nadeshiko: Caridad is a very loving and caring mother for Kira, who doesn't seem at all stunned by the horrific war her boy goes through.
From Mobile Suit Gundam SEED CE.73: Stargazer
Deep Space Survey and Development Organization (DSSD)
Voice Actors: Sayaka Ohara
A Coordinator scientist working on the GSX-401FW Stargazer Gundam project, Selene longs to open deep space up for exploration. Calm and collected, she puts her talents as a pilot to good use when Sven attacks the DSSD's base of operations, piloting the incomplete Stargazer into combat.
- Action Girl: Surprisingly yes. Selene seems like a helpless damsel in distress type, but when she climbs into the Stargazer she shows everyone, from the audience to Sven Cal Bayang, exactly what she's capable of.
- Deflector Shields: The Stargazer features these.
- Dying Alone: Averted. Selene didn't wanted to die alone, therefore she saved Sven so they can die together. This gets subverted in the stinger and the manga of SEED Stargazer where both of them survive.
- Flawed Prototype: The kinks have yet to be ironed out of the Stargazer, and it rapidly runs out of power.
- Heroic Sacrifice: Grabs onto the Strike Noir with the Stargazer and orders the space station to fire on her. Subverted by her survival.
- Identical Stranger: She looks a lot like Sven's mom, only with green hair.
- Lady of War: Feminine, intellectual, polite, and capable of holding her own against Sven and the Strike Noir.
- Slipknot Pony Tail: In zero gravity, much to Sven's amazement.
- Super Prototype: The Stargazer, with it's new propulsion system, shielding, and incredible speed can run rings around most military suits. It also has a two-seater cockpit and a learning AI.
- Taking You with Me: Does it to Sven. They both survive.
- Took a Level in Badass: When she sorties in the Stargazer.
- Tron Lines: The Stargazer has bright yellow lines over its body to indicate that it's absorbing energies.
Voice Actors: Jun Fukuyama
A Coordinator researcher who serves as the test pilot for the Stargazer, Sol is Edmond du Clos' nephew and adopted son, and a good friend of Selene's. He pilots the Stargazer alongside her during the final confrontation with Sven Cal Bayang and the Earth Forces.
- Hair of Gold: Sol's blond hair serves to accent his general innocence.
- Meaningful Name: "Sol" may refer to his sunny personality and the Stargazer's core technology, which utilizes "solar wind" for propulsion.
- Nice Guy: From what little we see of him, he is one of the most pleasant characters in Stargazer.
- Parental Abandonment: Edmond acted as a substitute father for him.
Voice Actors: Joji Nakata
The chief of security for the DSSD, Edmond Du Clos is a former Earth Alliance major, and tank commander. When ZAFT attacks the city where the DSSD's ground base is located, he climbs back into his tank to take them on.
- Badass Normal: Manages to kill a mobile suit with a tank, a feat that no other Natural is seen to pull off in the entire series.
- Chivalrous Pervert: If some of his comments to Selene can be taken at face value.
- Cool Old Guy: Definitely.
- Face Death with Dignity: When Edmond is nearing death, he sees Selene's shuttle going to space. He smiles and dies knowing that he accomplished his mission.
- Former Regime Personnel: Was once an officer for the EA, but those days are behind him.
- Heroic Sacrifice: Takes an enemy mobile suit with him.
- Majorly Awesome: Used to be an Earth Alliance major.
- Parental Substitute: He is Sol's uncle and adoptive father figure.
- Tanks for Nothing: Subverted. Edmond's tank is anything but cool in the Cosmic Era. It's plain ordinary and useless against Humongous Mecha. Despite all this, however, he manage to damage and disable a Mecha-Mook, by making full use of his tank's capabilities (most notably its low profile) and his own skills as an officer.
From Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Astray
Junk Guild
The Junk Guild is a large salvage organization made up of both Coordinators and Naturals, active both on Earth and in space. They are also hired on occasion to conduct repairs or for construction projects. They are completely neutral in any and all wars, and, theoretically, it is illegal throughout the Earth Sphere to attack a Junk Guild ship. Nonetheless, many Junk Guild ships possess weapons to defend themselves, and should not be underestimated.
Voice Actor: Masaya Onosaka
A Natural member of the Junk Guild, and one of Astray's protagonists. He is impulsive, passionate, and a little stupid, but he's a genius mechanic and gets along well with almost everyone he meets. He pilots the Astray Red Frame, after finding it in the ruins of Heliopolis.
- Ace Pilot: Not up to, say, Kira's or Athrun's level, but this guy has gone toe-to-toe with some very experienced pilots and come out alive, or even the victor, on many an occasion. All this despite having no military training.
- Badass Normal: To top off what is described above, he's just a Natural with no special abilities. He's got none of the super-human abilities that Coordinator pilots have, does not have a SEED mode like Cagalli has or spatial awareness like Mu.
- BFS: The Gerbera Straight II. It's a 150-meter long katana, scaled appropriately...It should be noted that it's just that a katana. Not a vibrating katana, not a katana that is super heated; it's just a 150-meter long katana.
- Gadgeteer Genius: If it's mechanical, he can fix it. And upgrade it. No exceptions.
- Inconsistent Spelling: The Tokyo Pop translations use "Lowe Gear" for his name. Everywhere else uses "Lowe Guele".
- Katanas Are Just Better: The Red Frame's signature weapon: the mobile suit-sized katana called the Gerbera Straight. Lowe swapped out the Red Frame's beam sabers for it due to the fact that solid weapons don't drain the suit's power.
- Swiss-Army Weapon: Uses his own Tactical Arms in VS Astray. Which can switch between BFS, beam bow, sword arm, working pincer, and propulsion system.
- Technical Pacifist: Lowe generally dislikes fighting; to quote the man himself, "Don't worry, I'm a Junk Tech; I don't kill."
Voice Actor: Megumi Toyoguchi (SD Gundam G Generation SEED), Masayo Kurata (Gundam SEED Astray Promotional Video)
Another Natural in Lowe's Junk Guild team. She has some self-confidence problems but is a skilled mechanic and decent pilot. She harbors a crush on Lowe, to which he is oblivious. She also collects George Glenn memorabilia. She pilots a customized BaCUE that once belonged to ZAFT commander Andrew Waltfield.
- Fangirl: Of George Glenn.
- Stripperiffic: From the waist up, she typically wears little more than a cloth across her chest.
Voice Actor: Show Hayami
A Coordinator on Lowe's team, he has a particular interest in Naturals, and finds observing Lowe's antics to be highly amusing. He often serves as the voice of reason on the Junk Guild. He pilots a worker variant of the GINN.
- Flanderization: The concept of Coordinators through Liam. Despite the Designer Babies aspect of the Coordinators, they can be seen to be as emotional, impulsive and irrational as any Natural, as well as have social and family structures along with the corresponding emotional ties like in any Natural society. And yet Liam talks as if Coordinators are more like Vulcans, stating how the Naturals' behavior fascinates him. On the other hand his own character inverts this trope as he softens up and accepts his own emotions and impulsiveness as time passes by.
Voice Actor: Naomi Shindo (SD Gundam G Generation SEED), Ai Orikasa (Gundam SEED Astray Promotional Video)
Her real name is unknown. A former scientist and friend of Orb's Erica Simmons. She serves as the team's leader and captain of HOME and, later, ReHOME. She and Lowe seem to think on the same wavelength at times, though she is considerably more level headed.
- Sophisticated as Hell: "Lowe! You are hereby ordered to kick major ass!"
Voice Actor: Rikako Aikawa
An AI that Lowe found on board a derelict ship, named for the only readable marking, which he now carries around in a briefcase-like computer. Hachi is his constant companion and co-pilot of the Red Frame, as it has Mobile Suit combat algorithms in memory in case of an attack. In Destiny Astray, it is given to Jess Rabble and co-pilots the Out Frame, since it does not wish to accompany Lowe to Mars.
- Deadpan Snarker: Occasionally when reacting to whatever Lowe's doing.
- Inconsistent Spelling: Some English translations simply call it "8", as that is what "Hachi" translates to.
- Mysterious Past: Its true origins are never revealed, although a large number of similar AI units were shown being evacuated from Orb when the Alliance attacked.
- Originally, it was implied that Hachi was actually the learning computer from the original RX-78-2 Gundam, with the ship resembling the core fighter. This was downplayed in Destiny Astray.
Voice Actor: Hideyuki Hori
An AI patterned off of the brain of the original Coordinator, which the Junk Guild came into possession of while on Earth. After the Professor builds him a holographic projector to use as a "body", he becomes the acting captain of the ReHOME. He... isn't exactly the legendary figure one would expect...
- Brain Uploading: It is said this is how he came to be in his current form.
- Broken Pedestal: He's something of a jokester and doesn't take much of anything seriously. Kisato is highly disappointed, as she'd imagined George Glenn to be a cool, larger-than-life figure, not this goofball. He eventually calls her out on this, saying that it's unfair to expect him to be anything more than human, especially when history has played up his achievements so much. Kisato relents and resolves to give him another chance.
Former Orb scientist, she joined the Junk Guild after Orb's fall in the First Bloody Valentine War. Although a competent mechanic and engineer, she is rather clumsy and prone to emotional outbursts.
- She Cleans Up Nicely: Stunned everyone when she attended a party in formal clothing.
Voice Actor: Sachiko Kojima
A mysterious boy introduced in X Astray sent to the Junk Guild by Rev. Malchio, he is yet another clone of Al da Flaga. He is a skilled pilot and a highly empathic and kind boy. He pilots the Dreadnought (X Astray) Gundam, a prototype to the Providence, which becomes particularly important because it is equipped with an N-Jammer Canceller.
He apparently dies in his battle with Canard, but later shows up as the Supreme Librarian of Librarian Works, piloting the Nix Providence. It is unknown whether this is the actual Prayer, or a Carbon clone of him.
- Actual Pacifist: His empathy makes it near-impossible for him to harm anyone. Even in his climactic battle, he doesn't fight back so much as deliver a Mind Hug to his opponent.
- Attack Drone: The Dreadnought was ZAFT's testbed for the DRAGOON system, though it doesn't carry as many as the Providence.
- Delicate and Sickly: Just like Rau Le Creuset and Rey Za Burrel, he has shortened telomeres and his health is getting worse through X Astray. He is so sickly he is able to fake his own death while Canard is holding him at the end of that manga to reappear in Vs Astray… maybe.
- Face–Heel Turn: If that really is him in Librarian and not a Carbon clone. Actually, he is more of a The Mole as he actually doesn't agree with the Librarian's aims and when he battled Gai, Lowe and Canard, he was trying to prove that Carbon Humans can't be used as soldiers.
- Forced into Evil: The librarian used his genes to be able to get "Sir Matias' Legacy" and then created him."
- Good All Along: His Vs Astray incarnation.
- Improbable Age: One of the youngest Gundam pilots in the franchise.
- Improbable Aiming Skills: Able to block a beam shot by hitting it with another beam shot.
- Plot-Relevant Age-Up: As a member of Librarian, he is quite a bit older than his original appearance. This could be a side product of his clone defects.
- Psychic Powers: The kid is one of most explicit examples of a Cosmic Era Newtype, which contrary to popular belief, do exist in the setting.
Serpent Tail
A small but well-known mercenary group with a reputation for professionalism. They are true mercenaries: taking no side save the one that pays them. Other than that, they tend to stay out of battles if there's no profit involved... though they will give aid to a select few who have earned their respect, such as the Junk Guild crew.
Voice Actor: Kazuhiko Inoue
Leader of the Serpent Tail mercenary group, Astray's other protagonist, and an accomplished mercenary. Though he is a Coordinator, he does not side with ZAFT, instead going along with whoever pays him. Despite this, he has a strong code of honor and morals, which leads to him and Lowe establishing a mutual friendship. He pilots the Astray Blue Frame, heavily modified to suit his tastes.
- BFG: Tactical Arms II! Ho boy!
- BFS: Tactical Arms II can become one or if not, split into two which he outright use in combat.
- Hunter of His Own Kind: He is one of the Combat Coordinators, Coordinators created by Blue Cosmos to fight other Coordinators. They were designed with superior combat traits to typical Coordinators, ignoring any other traits, and put under mind control. Gai managed to break the mind control and became a mercenary.
- Swiss-Army Weapon: Blue Frame Second's main weapon is Tactical Arms, which can switch between BFS, Gatling gun and propulsion unit. When upgrade it to Blue Frame Second Revise, it gains sword arm mode.
- Worthy Opponent: He sees Lowe as this after their initial encounter, where Lowe's creativity and determination made up for his lack of experience in a mobile suit. Since then they have a relationship of mutual respect, and will often aid one another in a crisis.
Voice Actor: Katsumi Toriumi
The other combatant in Serpent Tail, Elijah is Gai's wingman and an accomplished fighter of his own. Despite being a Coordinator, he does not have the physical benefits they usually enjoy, which hurts his piloting somewhat. He pilots a custom GINN, and later a ZAKU Phantom.
- Badass on Paper: Elijah may be a Coordinator and the wingman of Gai but this does not make him any more fearsome on the battlefield. He is a Coordinator in name-only, lacking any of their enhanced genetics and is a poor pilot. He gets better as his experience grows.
- Honor Before Reason: Continues piloting his outdated GINN well into Destiny, because it has sentimental value. He only upgrades to the ZAKU when the GINN is irreparably damaged.
- My Greatest Failure: Having to deliver a Mercy Kill to his mentally unstable friend, Goud Veia. Librarian Works plays on this by sending a Carbon clone of Veia to attack him.
Voice Actor: Kumiko Nishihara
The only woman in Serpent Tail, and an expert in explosives and tactics. She left the Earth Alliance because her daughter, Kazahana, is a Coordinator.
- Ambiguously Brown: Especially noticeable in Super Robot Wars W.
Voice Actor: Yuu Kobayashi
Loretta's six-year-old (eight in Destiny) daughter, and Serpent Tail's liaison to their clients. Despite her age, she is extremely competent and fearless in the face of battle, though her concern for her fellow Serpent Tail members is obvious.
- Disappeared Dad: Her father is never mentioned, and it is unknown what became of him.
- Improbable Age: Coordinator or not, she acts nearly twenty years older than her age. It's Hand Waved that she's a genius on top of being a Coordinator.
Mercenary Unit X
Mercenary Unit X is an indepentend mercenary group, reformed from the former Eurasian Federation special forces unit, Task Force X. The group is led by Canard Pars, with Meriol Pistis as his second-in-commandVoiced by: Soichiro Hoshi
A product of the "Ultimate Coordinator" program appearing in that resulted in Kira Yamato, appearing in Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Astray, Canard was a previous test subject discarded as a failure. Because of this, he has developed an obsession with Kira, and wishes to kill him to prove himself not a failure. In X Astray, he gets into conflict with the Junk Guild upon learning that they have an N-Jammer Canceller, which he wishes to incorporate into his Hyperion Gundam to make it a match for the Freedom.
After his battle with Prayer, he founds his own mercenary squad: Mercenary Group X, consisting of the crew of the Earth Alliance ship he operated out of (who stole the ship when they defected). He returns as an ally in both Destiny Astray and Vs Astray.
- Character Development: After his battle with Prayer, he calms down considerably, and lets go of his obsession with Kira.
- Discard and Draw: Canard's Dreadnaught H loses the original's DRAGOON system (as Canard can't use it) in exchange for the Hyperion's Lightwave Shield and a pair of BFS Armblades and BFG Shoulder Cannons.
- Explosive Overclocking: Even after Canard equips the Hyperion with an N-Jammer Canceller and nuclear generator which lets him use his Lightwave Shield indefinitely, the shield can still be overclocked which risks causing the nuclear generator to go critical. Something that Canard nearly does when Prayer traps him in a beam cage during their final battle.
- Flawed Prototype: Canard himself is one to Kira Yamato as the "Ultimate Coordinator", a previous test subject who was discarded as a failure. How exactly he is a 'failure' is never elaborated upon, though it is notable that Canard is unable to operate a DRAGOON system, while Kira can.
- Psycho Knife Nut: His primary melee weapons are the Armor Schneider combat knives. He has six of them.
- Stone Wall: His Hyperion Gundam is probably the most defensive Gundam ever produced: it has a miniature version of Artemis's Lightwave Shield, which makes it all but invincible when it's active, limited only by the Gundam's power reserves. If it got an N-Jammer Canceller, it could activate the shield indefinitely.
Mars Colonies
A small group of colonies established in orbit around Mars. As they are very recently constructed, they are not entirely self-sufficient, and are often low on resources. Some Mars colonies have even begun to follow a plan similar to Durandal's Destiny Plan (in order to make the most efficient use of their limited human resources), and it is implied that they are where he got the idea. They are not interested in Earth's wars, but do send a delegation at the outbreak of the Second Bloody Valentine War to determine exactly what the political situation is.Voice Actor: Jun Fukuyama
The young heir apparent to his home colony, Ergnes is a Coordiantor raised for leadership all his life. He is a passionate young man who despises injustice and unfair treatment. He pilots the Δ Astray, and later the ∇ Astray ("Turn Delta").
- Bully Hunter: When he was in school.
- Catchphrase: "I CANNOT STAND THAT!"
- Good Is Not Nice: In fact, he's quite a Jerkass.
Ergnes' assistant, and a Coordinator raised to act as a mediator. As such, he's very good at settling arguments peacefully. He is Ergnes' bodyguard during his mission to Earth, and pilots a Guardshell Mobile Armor.
- Stepford Smiler: Some lines of his suggest he is not entirely happy with having his life and skillset planned out for him.
- The Straight Man: his calmness helps balance out Ergnes's temper.
A Martian Coordinator who returned with Lowe to the Earth Sphere to search for Ergnes' older sister, who has been missing for years. He is impulsive and arrogant, and believes Martians to be superior to Earth-born humans. He briefly steals the Red Frame, but later returns it and pilots an custom M-1 Astray equipped with Lowe's "Mars Jacket" armor.
- Brainwashed and Crazy: Of a more subtle variety: he is conditioned to be unfailing loyal and adoring to Ergnes' sister.
- Fantastic Racism: His belief in Martian superiority
Librarian Works
The antagonists of Vs Astray, Librarian is a secret society that attacks the Earth Sphere following the conclusion of the Second Bloody Valentine War. They seek to cause a third war and overthrow Lacus and Cagalli, as they believe they are ill-suited to ruling the Earth Sphere. They have access to a technology that allows them to create "Carbon Humans", genetically-modified humans who have DNA and (somehow) memories of other people spliced into their genome.Librarian's best pilot, a mysterious man whose face is always hidden by his helmet. His true identity is unknown, although due to his age and exceptional piloting skills, he is rumored to be a Carbon clone of Kira Yamato. He pilots the Gale Strike.
- Ace Pilot: So good that he's initially mistaken for Kira Yamato.
- Mask Power: that helmet never comes off.
- No Name Given: that error message is the closest we get to a name for him.
- The Reveal: It ultimately comes out that is not Carbon-cloned from Kira, but from Gai Murakamo instead.
A Carbon clone of a series of Earth Alliance produced clones, mixed with the DNA of Goud Veia. Although the Earth Alliance controlled these clone pilots carefully through brainwashing, this brand-new Socius possesses the free will his originals never did. He pilots the Hail Buster.
Voice Actor: Tetsu Shiratori
Another Carbon clone, this time of Elijah Kiel's old friend. He has a split personality, one kind and gentle, the other murderous and violent. His DNA was also used as a template for Socius. He pilots the Vent Saviour Gundam.
- Ax-Crazy: his violent side, which kills indiscriminately.
- Inconsistent Spelling: Oh dear Lord. Is his first name "Goud" or "Gud"? And is it "Vair", "Veia", "Bair", "Bea", or what?
- Killed Off for Real: Twice over, if you count his original.
Unique among Librarian's Carbon Humans in that she isn't copied from any specific person, but is still instilled with enough combat knowledge and ability to make her an ace, though the process has left her mentally unstable. She pilots the Nebula Blitz Gundam, which appears to be capable of teleportation.
- Expy: A dead ringer for Elpeo Ple, down to her looks, role in the story, and the fact that she has a bunch of clones.
- Heel–Face Turn: One of the clones joins the Junk Guild, and fights against the rest. At the end of the story, four more Lilys join up with the Junk Guild.
- Mood-Swinger: Due to her mental instability and conditioning.
Other Characters
- Back from the Dead: Librarian Works Carbon-clones him for their side as a psychological tactic against Lowe.
- Incurable Cough of Death: He was already dying of tuberculosis when he and Lowe first met.
- Katanas Are Just Better: Somehow able to cut through MS weapons with his ordinary, human-sized katana.
- Mentor Occupational Hazard: It really should come as no surprise that he dies soon after teaching Lowe what he needs to know.
- Old Master: He is quite a skilled swordsman and mobile suit pilot.
Voice Actor: Yuji Ueda
The protagonist of Destiny Astray, Jess is a freelance photojournalist. He declares himself a seeker of "the truth" and prides himself on his integrity as a journalist. He is hired by Matias Adukurf to record the various conflicts of the Bloody Valentine War, and proceeds to get caught up in a political SNAFU at the beginning of Seed Destiny. He first piloted a Raysta, but was given the Astray Out Frame by Lowe as an apology for totaling his first suit.
- Actual Pacifist: He's a journalist, not a soldier. He's not above defending himself if need be, but he's not exactly good at combat.
- Hot-Blooded: He and Lowe just seem to click when they meet.
- Intrepid Reporter: Well, he does throw himself into combat situations.
- Super-Powered Robot Meter Maids: The Out Frame is the sister unit to one of ZAFT's next-generation Gundams, the Testament, making it one of the most advanced mobile suits around. Lowe got his hands on the Testament's spare parts when he found them within GENESIS Alpha, and cobbled together a non-nuclear copy of it. It is also capable of equipping any of the Mecha Expansion Packs in the series: the Striker units, the Impulse's Silhouettes, the ZAKU Wizards, and even the Astray series Tactical Arms. Jess uses it for journalism and as a mobile home.
Voice Actor: Akio Ōtsuka
An abandoned Coordinator from "Circus". He is assigned by Matias Adukurf as Jess's bodyguard. He's a very capable pilot, but will only enter the fight to protect Jess, as per his contract. He pilots a variety of ZAFT mobile suits before eventually getting the Testament Gundam, which he continues to use.
He later shows up in Vs Astray as a member of Librarian Works. He pilots a Regen Duel Gundam.
- Abusive Parents: the reason he was abandoned as a Coordinator child? His hair is two-toned.
- Badass in a Nice Suit: Always wears a suit. Even when piloting.
- Face–Heel Turn: In Vs Astray. Though he always has been a mercenary; perhaps they just offered him a good job.
A 13-year-old Coordinator girl who often travels with Jess and Kaite. Her origins are a mystery, as she was picked up in suspended animation in orbit by a Junk Guild ship. She is extremely polite and friendly with most everyone.
- Expy: She has tons of similarities to Lacus Clyne, but lacks any of the political power Lacus wields.
- Mysterious Past: Revealed in Delta Astray: she is the older sister of Ergnes Brahe, future leader of the Mars colonies, and was intended to be the public face of Mars. Due to her suspended animation, she is now biologically younger than her brother.
- Supreme Chef: This is one reason Jess likes having her around, as her cooking is fantastic.
A wealthy industrialist with ties to LOGOS, but is actually acting as a double agent for Chairman Durandal. He was once told that he "has no grasp of history", so he hires Jess Rabble to document war situations (history in the making) for him.
- Defector from Decadence: His family has been involved with Blue Cosmos and LOGOS for a long time, and he was raised the same way as his megalomaniacal twin sister Matisse. He, however, has a stronger sense of morality, and is pretty firmly on the heroic side.
- Knowledge Broker: His main occupation.
An informant who enjoys messing with people's lives. He takes a particular interest in Lowe after observing his battle with Serpent Tail, and enjoys following their exploits and occasionally causing trouble for them.
- Even Evil Has Standards: When he learns that Ash Gray has targeted the Junk Guild, he immediately uses his resources to help them out.
- It Amused Me: Pretty much the only reason he does anything.
- Knowledge Broker: Though he's not quite as neutral as brokers usually are, dispensing information in order to manipulate others into further his own goals.
- What Happened to the Mouse?: He disappears after X Astray and is never heard from again.
