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Karaba

Hayato Kobayashi

Voice Actors: Kiyonobu Suzuki (Japanese, TV), Nobuyuki Hiyama (Japanese, Movies), C. Adam Leigh (English)

Formerly a Federation pilot of the White Base, he now serves as the field commander and general leader of Karaba on Earth, who lends the AEUG much-needed manpower and firepower in their stints on Earth.

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• Adoptive Peer Parent: To Katz, Letz, and Kikka, the trio of orphaned children from White Base. Kamille comments on how this makes him Katz's Absurdly Youthful Father.
• Betty and Veronica Switch: Hayato's the hardworking, well-meaning, simple, down-to-earth guy who married Frau to help her give three orphans a home and a family. Amuro's rich, famous, handsome, glamorous, dangerous, brooding and problematic. Then Hayato does something very, very stupid. And the show makes it clear her old best friend Amuro's got something to do with it.
• Bystander Syndrome: The Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam Day After Tomorrow manga suggests that Hayato originally had this mentality, in spite of being aware of the Federation growing more corrupt and crooked. After a very heated argument with Kai, he eventually wound up becoming the leader of Karaba.
• The Captain: Of the Audhumla. He's the overall leader of Karaba, though, so he's referred to in the English dub as "Director Hayato".
• Get A Hold Of Yourself Man: Even with Stout Strength, it has about as much effect on Katz as the touted original did on Amuro.
• Horrible Judge of Character: Once upon a time in the last war, Hayato was enraged at being next to a Zeon ship in a neutral Side because Zeon had killed his friend Ryu. Seven years later and he's somehow convinced that a guy he doesn't know very well, and whom Kai and Amuro insist is the infamous Char Aznable, is a swell babysitter to look after his hotheaded and reckless 15-year-old in a war zone.
• The Lancer: Hayato's Karaba to the AEUG, in terms of operation leadership.
• The Leader: Of the Karaba forces.
• Marriage of Convenience: Word of God as to why he and Frau got married.
• Older and Wiser: Age has apparently improved Hayato, who's seemingly the most stable cast member. Then massively subverted dealing with Katz...
• Parental Abandonment: Inverted and played straight. Thinks it's a perfectly normal thing to let his idiotic teenager run off to a war in space. (Over both his wife's explicit protests and the ample opportunity to keep him with Karaba and under his own supervision.)
• Stepford Smiler: Hayato previously showed an ability to work with Amuro for a long time while still being The Resenter. There's not much reason to believe things actually changed.
• Took a Level in Badass: Hayato now looks physically much more imposing, is the leader of an entire paramilitary force, and is effectively Amuro's boss. Unfortunately for things like a Tragic Mistake and some other inexplicable behavior, he seems to have taken a corresponding level in Dumbass as well.
• Tragic Flaw: Carries over from the previous show. His remnant insecurity and issues with Amuro leads to getting both his son and then himself killed over the course of this show and the next.
  • Sending Katz to the AEUG is a Tragic Mistake. Yes, it's all pretty much structured like a huge classical tragedy.
• Ugly Guy, Hot Wife: Hayato's barely five feet tall and still no looker, but it's what he does with Katz that makes the difference particularly egregious. Not that we ever see them together.
• What Happened to the Mouse?: The only former White Base crew member not shown at the end of the third movie, probably because the above-mentioned Tragic Mistake is still the same.

Amuro Ray

Voice Actors: Tōru Furuya (Japanese), Matthew Erickson (English)

Main mecha: RMS-099 Rick Dias, MSK-008 Dijeh

People end up repeating the same mistakes.

Pilot of the original Gundam during the One Year War, Amuro has gone into semi-retirement in order to deal with his post-traumatic stress disorder. He's also being held under house arrest and close surveillance by the Federation, due to his feats as a Newtype. He eventually returns to action, and forms a brief, but close partnership with Kamille.

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• Absence Makes the Heart Go Yonder: Kissing another woman the episode after his Implied Love Interest leaves. It's both a Generation Xerox moment^*  since his mother Kamaria had a boyfriend while she and his father were separated for years and by space, and played with since said love interest is married herself. Also, Amuro only reciprocates Beltorchika's interest in him after comparing her to Frau, making her a Replacement Goldfish.
• Ace Custom: After returning into action with a red custom Rick Dias (basically the AEUG's Elite Mook mobile suit), he gets the MSK-008 Dijeh (which has both the Zeon-ic aesthetics of their mobile suits while maintaining a Federation/Gundam-ish coloring).
  • In at least two side-stories Amuro gets his own custom White Zeta Gundam, officially designated MSZ-006-3.
• Ace Pilot: He's Amuro Ray. Smashing a transport freighter into a mobile suit is just the start of it.
• Achilles in His Tent: Where Amuro starts; as in — and due to — Mobile Suit Gundam, he's still doing this, and continues to angrily sulk in his room and hesitate for a bit even after he breaks out to join the fight. (Char points out that by doing so, he's helping the Titans.)
• Adapted Out: A New Translation removes several arcs like the one where the AEUG storms the Titan base at Mount Kilimanjaro. As such the Dijeh never appears in the compilation movies.
• Anti-Hero: Same as he ever was; both not wanting to fight and being quite violent, wanting recognition and isolating himself; etc, etc. Anyone expecting him to be unambiguously heroic is disappointed. Lampshaded when Katz calls him a hero – both Amuro and Frau have tears in their eyes.
• Anywhere but Their Lips: Frau Bow. Almost immediately averted by Beltochika, at which point Amuro looks noticeably shocked.
• Betty and Veronica: For this particular redhead, Frau is still his sweet, mature, deeply loving best friend. Newcomer Beltorchika is a sexy girl with ... attitude issues. Turns into a Betty and Veronica Switch when you realize how childish Bel is and remember Frau's married. Unsurprisingly, he doesn't appear to choose by the end of the third movie.
  • He's also now Veronica for Frau with regards to Hayato's Betty. And then there's another switch.
• Big Brother Mentor: During the Hong Kong arc, Amuro sort-of takes Char's place as Kamille's mentor, as Char goes back to space.
• Big Damn Heroes: Hitting the Asshimar with a precision-strike cargo freighter. Double Subverted with Mirai and her children in New Hong Kong — Amuro initially trying this just gets himself captured and them placed in jeopardy on a battlefield, but he ends up saving a drowning Hathaway's life and getting everyone to safety, anyway.
• Big Damn Reunion: He has one with Frau and the kids in Cheyenne that's so damn big, it's basically left unchanged in the compilation trilogy. Later he has a smaller, more platonic, equally happy one with Mirai, although that also gets complicated. Subverted with Char, where they're not exactly thrilled to see each other again, and with Hayato, where it's just mundane, although the first reunion on this list may explain that one.
• Broken Pedestal: Katz and to a lesser degree Kamille do not take their idol's shellshock well.
• Byronic Hero: He was raised to a relatively high place in society and trapped at the same time, and hates it all. He's torn between what's going on in the world and having to fight again, dealing with massive past tragedy and trauma. His loves are all lost, temporary, unavailable, or unhealthy. He doesn't particularly want to play by anyone's rules. He openly compares his life at the beginning to hell. Plus, he gets to spend most of his time in a black leather jacket. He and Lord Byron would have a lot to talk about. (It also gives him a small window into dealing with Char.)
• Chick Magnet: Amuro's all grown up, rich, and famous — and Frau's still in love with him, Beltochika's now superglued to his arm trying to embody the "magnet" part, and Stephanie more-or-less tells Hayato to give him her number. Kamille even asks Four if she's "an Amuro fan", saying he'd be jealous. (Way to go, 0079.)
• Destructive Romance: Good for his combat capabilities. Not good for anything else. Caught in a bad one with Bel. He bitterly refers to her as an Oldtype — even at a later point when she's behaving more maturely — and generally treats her less nicely than not only his Implied Love Interest but Mirai, who's an actual friend (implying Bel isn't even that). Given the parallels between her and her Gender Flip Char, it makes sense.
• Does This Remind You of Anything?: Word of God says that all of Amuro's pacing in his backyard has less to do with Katz getting on his nerves and more to do with Katz getting in the way. With Frau.
• Enemy Mine: "To me, he'll always be Char Aznable, and no one else." He manages to cooperate with him as "Quattro".
• Expecting Someone Taller: Beltorchika thought he'd look more warlike. Not that she minds.
• Gilded Cage: He has a mansion with servants in Cheyenne and a quiet, undemanding job with the Federation military. And not one single illusion about not being heavily monitored. He's so off-the-radar that Char can't find him — although Frau did, Amuro seems surprised she made it. In the end, he finds it easier to break out than he'd perhaps thought.
• Good Old Fisticuffs: In this installment, it's him in Hong Kong vs. a lot of guys working security for the Luio Company.
• Hairstyle Inertia: Exactly the same as it was in 1979/0079. It not only looks out-of-date when many other characters are sporting full-fledged '80s Hair, it's an easy way of signalling just how "stuck" he's been, emotionally and physically.
• Hero of Another Story: Amuro eventually becomes the Field Leader of Karaba, an Earth-based Resistance movement.
• He's Back!: First one: avoiding government agents and then ramming a mobile suit with a transport. His true one is when he pilots the Rick Dias and is able to adapt to the seven years advanced technology and hits Hi-Zacks through a thick fog.
• Hotter and Sexier: Amuro went from a very innocent 15 year-old who was canonically just discovering girls in the last show to an equally dangerous Byronic Hero with the associated difficult love life. He also strips and has a Shower Scene, and he's not in Innocent Fanservice Boy territory anymore, either.
• Implied Love Interest: With Frau Bow, still. No, the romantic or sexual quotient of their long-running involvement isn't made any less murky — except that their storyline now seems to borrow heavily from Casablanca.^*  Except she is the one at the airport telling him the equivalent of "If you don't get on that plane, you'll regret it..." However, Amuro is in full Nice Guy mode where she's concerned.^*  He now explicitly worries about her, tries to keep her safe and comfortable, makes arrangements for her, and even feeds her — and wears a tie properly! Significantly, any viewer of Mobile Suit Gundam will note pretty much everything she used to do for him, he now does for her. (She may be his best friend, but she's somebody else's wife – and he seemingly does a lot more for her than her actual husband. This is even lampshaded by her actual husband.)
• Knight in Sour Armor: Even after having escaped Federation surveillance, Amuro isn't happy about much and doesn't know how to deal with the relatively more energetic and innocent Kamille. He basically goes straight back to his coping strategies from the previous war until Bel snaps him away from the pattern.
• Lighter and Softer: A New Translation takes out most of his brooding and paranoia and makes his relationship with Bel somewhat healthier. Subverted in that he still manages to conceal-carry in an airport and hijack a plane in a 2005 production.
• Love Triangle: The one with Frau and Hayato has apparently switched from an All Love Is Unrequited Type 5 when they were teenagers to a Type 4 where he now shows a lot more reciprocal interest in Frau (despite her having a Marriage of Convenience with Hayato). The one with Bel and Frau where he uses the former as a Replacement Goldfish for the latter is either a Type 4, 7, or 10, depending on whom you think is reciprocating^*  Is Amuro having an affair with Frau and a convenient masochistic relationship with the handy Beltorchika, whom even he doesn't appear to like much sometimes? That's 4. Is he in a reciprocal relationship with Bel and still pining after the unavailable Frau? That's 10. Does he actually care about both of them and do they reciprocate? That makes it 7.
• Madonna-Whore Complex: Amuro seems to have one of these going with his Implied Love Interest and Destructive Romance; however, a lot of things^*  if one of the first things that she says to him "Is it ok if [I] bother you tonight?" isn't suggestive enough, Tomino outright said that they obviously wanted to sleep with each other in a description of the movies, and that you can hear Amuro cursing Moment Killer Katz in his head. See Does This Remind You of Anything?. would indicate that his intentions toward pregnant, motherly Frau are not quite pristine. Similarly, Beltorchika's sensuality isn't what attracts him to her. Subverted.
• Nice Guy: World-weary Amuro's now a Shell-Shocked Veteran who's Darker and Edgier than he was as the naïve protagonist of the last show (reflected in his general use of ore where he was entirely boku at 16). Meeting Frau and the kids (and then Mirai and her kids) immediately brings this back out of him, though, in spades. He didn't bury it too deeply.

• Out of Focus: A product of the series mostly following AEUG's exploits in Space, and Amuro being the Field Leader of the Earth-based resistance. Amuro still makes it out pretty good however, getting several string of spotlight episodes.
• Psychic Powers: He can empathically pick up what Four is trying to say more clearly than Kamille.
• Replacement Goldfish: He tries to substitute the hyper-present Beltorchika for the absent Frau to fill several needs. He then proceeds to ignore her at various points – which is exactly the way he treated Frau in the previous series, making it something between a Call-Back and a Continuity Nod. It works out only slightly less badly than Char's attempt to swap Kamille for Lalah. Unlike Char, Amuro's doing it quite consciously.
• Retired Badass: Was this initially, than he hijacks a transport freighter...
• Shell-Shocked Veteran: He's been suffering for years from a combination of PTSD, government-induced paranoia, and his own tendencies to brood and isolate. Feels quite justified at Refusing the Call this time, except he has a very hard time explaining the dangers of war to people like Katz and Kamille.
• Ship Tease: The usual with Frau, to the point of having her with him and Bel at the end of the compilation movies. And there's an episode's worth with Stephanie Luio.
• Stern Teacher: Double subverted. Amuro's moody and gripes about Kamille's fighting style and tactics, but compared to almost every adult Kamille's encountered so far, Amuro's pretty easy on him. Then he ends up sending him back to space at mobile suit gunpoint. Hey, guess it's not a slap…
• Still Got It: "This isn't a runway!" (Katz). That, or being able to mentally calculate how to take down a mobile armor with a freighter and the exact moment to bail from that plane, all without breaking a sweat.
• Tempting Apple: Gets one from Bel at their first meeting. Bites it.
• Took a Level in Badass: Who needs a Gundam? Between his cargo plane hijackings or further attempts to make a one-man action movie rescuing Mirai and her family, Amuro is frequently more interesting to watch without an MS.
• Took a Level in Cynic: Amuro's far less of an idealist than he was at 16.
  • Notably, it's debatable whether he still has any fond memories of his Newtype encounter with Lalah Sune, or if the trauma of her death simply overwhelmed him^* despite Amuro at the end of the original series having been both seemingly at peace with it and still viewing her with great affection. However, when Kamille describes what Amuro recognizes as a connection Kamille has formed with Four, Amuro tells him in no uncertain terms that he should stop seeing Four and it'll only end badly^* and whether that's trauma, cynicism, or Newtype paranoia is another debate.
  • He's also in an unhealthy relationship with someone he doesn't even like much, because it's apparently better than being traumatized alone. That her appeal is as a Replacement Goldfish may additionally qualify him for a level in jerkass, as well.
• Trade Your Passion for Glory: Invoked very loudly by Katz at the beginning, a few years after Rocky III came out in Real Life. It doesn't work. Deconstructed in that Amuro's suffering from depression, PTSD, and government surveillance more than he's coasting on his laurels, and while he may have an ostensibly safe and cushy life, he hates both it and the thought of any fighting, past or potential.
• Troubled, but Cute: Shellshocked Veteran and Jerk with a Heart of Gold. Also effortless Chick Magnet and still frequently a very Nice Guy.
• Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Bringing Katz along with him on his escape to join Hayato and Karaba almost instantly takes Katz out of his hands and sets the kid up on his fatal path to die in a war far from his family. Even having a Properly Paranoid moment and pressing his OYW gun on Katz as a parting gift doesn't help. Making it even worse is the way he specifically told Frau that everything would be fine and she didn't have to worry.

Beltorchika Irma

Voice Actors: Maria Kawamura (Japanese), Onalea Gilbertson (English)

A young flier who joins the Audhumla and takes a rapidly-escalating romantic interest in the famous Amuro.

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• Action Girl: She's a competent small plane pilot and gunner and has no qualms about filming a battle raging right above her head.
• Anywhere but Their Lips: Averted; she kisses a startled Amuro smack on the mouth. The iconic shot was later used for Flay Allster and Kira in Gundam SEED, as well as Nena Trinity and Setsuna in Gundam 00.
• Betty and Veronica: Looks and acts like the Veronica to Amuro's Archie and Frau's Betty, but she's actually the far more-easily available, "less complicated" one.
• Celeb Crush: Overlapping with Hero Worship. Amuro is a well-known war hero in-universe. Not only that, since she feels she "knows" him, Beltorchika immediately starts making decisions about the things she thinks would be best for him, like telling Kamille to give him the Mk-II. The flipside is when she (understandably) ends up noisily crying about not understanding Amuro at all. Unfortunately, this just leads her to pester people like Mirai and still not really listen when she's told relationships take time.
• Character Development: Subverted. In her last couple of appearances, Bel returns to behaving like a nicer person. However, this is where she started. Not only is it circular, there's no real explanation for why she Took a Level in Jerkass or what motivated her to stop, just a tame "got out of hand".
• Clingy Jealous Girl: Clingy yet has no real love rival, or none that she's aware of. She still rapidly becomes jealous of anything else taking Amuro's interest or thunder, and manages to continue like this for most of the time she's on-screen.
• Destructive Romance: She and Amuro reinforce some very mutually unhealthy tendencies. For all Amuro talks about needing to get back into Space and for all his relationship with Beltorchika seemingly allows him to fight and move, he does not get there in this show.
  Kamille: [...] that man and that woman, licking each other's wounds!
  Four: Sick, huh?
  Kamille: Yeah. ^* And the other unhealthy relationships Kamille gets mad about are his parents' and Reccoa and Char's, so this is a pretty big Lampshade Hanging of just how destructively bad, considering this one is a few days old at the time.
• Fangirl: Even to the point of Perverted Sniffing. And meeting Amuro does nothing good for her temperament.
• Flat Character: Beltorchika revolves around Amuro, behavior changes included. Other than that, we don't know much about her.
• Foil: Frau Bow, especially considering how they're shown in sequential episodes. They're both orphans from the One Year War with intense interest in Amuro, but Frau's wise, modest, motherly, helpful, stays off the battlefield, and despite her deep devotion to him, has other, major things in her life (she's also married to Hayato, making her technically unavailable). Bel's more on the childish side, more overtly opinionated, sexually aggressive, jumps in fights and not only throws herself at Amuro but literally attaches to him for much of her screentime. They are both, however, women that Amuro has been motivated to fight for (although as a Replacement Goldfish in Bel's case) and both have had their moments of calling out Amuro for refusing to fight when needed.
• Gender Flip: Of Char Aznable. They're both blonde and attractive, characterized by action, aggression, and willingness to leap into battle, lean towards red clothing (she even wears a red qipao in Hong Kong and has a pink pilot jumpsuit that's almost the same salmon shade as his), and both of them converse with Amuro over motivating him to lend his efforts in fighting the Titans — as well, both have some major trouble getting along with Kamille, not to mention the rest of their allies. It shades to You Are What You Hate, since Bel is first disconcerted by Char (which triggers Amuro) and then states she doesn't like him. It makes the Destructive Romance part far less surprising. ^* Amusingly, by the time she's eased up on her more abrasive qualities and becomes less clingy, Char isn't opposed to cordially sharing a drink with Amuro after he delivers his speech in Dakar (although Amuro still ends up speaking more hostilely and suspiciously of her to Kamille than he ever does of Quattro).
• Groin Attack: Whips one out to drop a guy in a hostile situation in Hong Kong.
• Intrepid Reporter: Plays one in Dakar. She ends up getting an important live feed, but she's still working for Karaba, not as an actual reporter.
• Lady in Red: She's openly and physically interested in Amuro, and then it's lampshaded with a tight red dress she wears in Hong Kong.
• Lighter and Softer: The second compilation movie moves her toward Adaptational Nice Girl and takes out most of her grating personality, but Kamille still calls her selfish and says she'll get Amuro killed, so not everything is changed.
• Love Makes You Crazy: Her spree of bitchy and childishly unpleasant behavior seems to be entirely triggered by her relationship with Amuro, without reason, though she does eventually settle down, again without reason. Part of their Destructive Romance.
• Meaningful Appearance: She has green eyes, like the younger Sarah Zabiarov, and behaves very similarly to the way Sarah does around Scirocco. In her case, she's greedy for Amuro's attention and presence and her jealousy qualifies her for Green-Eyed Monster for several episodes, too.
• Overly Long Name: Which is why she's usually just called "Bel", by Amuro and by fandom.
• Properly Paranoid: Double Subverted. Doesn't like "Lt. Quattro" when she first sees him. "I don't feel any peacetime intelligence in him at all. He doesn't look like the sort of person who can live without war." Repeats her mistrust in another episode, then she warms up to him. Then CCA happens.
• Real Life Writes the Plot: Heavy and persistent rumor has Kawamura being a muse and Love Interest for Tomino before marrying Zeta mecha designer Mamoru Nagano. As well as being recycled for Reccoa and Scirocco, it... would explain a lot about Beltorchika when almost nothing else does.
• Red Is Violent: See Gender Flip. Her biplane is changed from red to blue in the compilation trilogy, where she's far less antagonistic.
• Replacement Goldfish: Although unknown to her, Amuro blatantly makes her one for the unavailable Frau, with Bel even arriving almost as soon as Frau leaves. Amuro is still in need of someone to protect and fight for, but despite Beltorchika being available, attractive and interested to the point of kissing him without asking "for encouragement", he doesn't show any signs of reciprocating until he abruptly asks her about having lost her family in the One Year War — the circumstances he started fighting and protecting Frau under. He's still shown with both of them at the end of the third movie.
• Satellite Love Interest: Most of her early episodes consist of her clinging to Amuro's arm and the strident way she tries to represent what she thinks are his interests. She's a contributing member of Karaba and re-takes a level in amiability, but even nicer, she has no characterization beyond "Amuro's girlfriend".
• Suspiciously Similar Substitute:
  • Solely because of her light blonde hair, she's widely viewed as one for Sayla.^* Even in things like hairstyle, eye design, and makeup, though, they have nothing in common, and that's without getting into polar opposite personalities. However, she may actually have been meant to have more in common with the other Deikun sibling; see Gender Flip.
  • Her first interaction with Kamille has her asking how he likes her plane, giving us this general lampshade.
    Kamille: Nice replica.
• Tempting Apple: She gives Amuro an apple at their first meeting and gets him to take a bite from it. (It's not even lessened by Kamille already chomping on one in the background.)
• Took a Level in Jerkass: She shows up as a seemingly Nice Girl – then promptly takes a major one right after getting together with Amuro. Although it takes up most of her screentime, she is much calmer and more pleasant in the end, subverting this.
• Unlimited Wardrobe: Bel has a very high "screentime to different outfit" ratio.

Other Earth Federation Personnel

Lila Milla Rira

Voiced by: Mayumi Asano (Japanese, movies).

Main mecha: RMS-117 Galbaldy β

A tough take-no-prisoners type who is assigned to assist the Titans early on. She shows the still-rookie Jerid a thing or two and then gets blown to smithereens by Kamille.

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• Ace Custom: Averted. Her red mobile suit is a stock Galbaldy Beta.
• Action Girl: She is no slouch in the asskicking department as Jerid found out the hard way when he tries to antagonize her personally.
• Badass Normal: In the sense that she's not a Newtype.
• Betty and Veronica: She and Mouar have a bit of this trope. Lila's the gung-ho Veronica hardass who knocks Jerid on his rear and snarks at him whilst Mouar is the calmer more strategic Betty who counters Jerid verbally rather than physically.
• Colonel Kilgore: She's accused of being one by Jamaican, but it's clearly meant as an insult.
• Heel–Face Door-Slam:
  • After seeing 30 Bunch with her own eyes; the atrocities of the gassing plants serious doubts in her mind about the Titans even as she verbally denies that they were responsible. The shock of it contributes to her death. Still, she gets a brief cameo in the finale as one of the spirits summoned by Kamille, implying she did indeed get over her some of her enmity towards him after she died.
  • Averted in A New Translation where the condensing of the narrative means that the gassed Colony was never visited and Lila remains ignorant of the Titans actions. Though she's still distrustful of the faction she never has her faith significantly shaken like she did in series before her death.
• I Let Gwen Stacy Die: To Jerid. Kamille's not happy about it either.
• Mauve Shirt: She's clearly an excellent pilot, and her death is played as bad luck on her part.
• Mentor Occupational Hazard: Tries to show Jerid how to be more professional and less of a bully. Doesn't last long.
• Ms. Fanservice: In the short time that she appears before she gets killed the viewer manages to see her breasts.
• Scarf of Asskicking: She wears one over her military outfit.
• Shower Scene: Gets the first one of the TV series. (As a result, we get to see what a Shower Scene in space would realistically look like.)
• Sleeves Are for Wimps: Her uniform is sleeveless and she was able to kick Jerid's ass.
• Spell My Name With An S: Lila/Lyla.
• We Hardly Knew Ye: Only gets a couple of episodes to do anything in.

Buran Blutarch

Voiced by: Hidetoshi Nakamura

Main mecha: NRX-044 Asshimar

A Federation officer seconded to the Titans and the initial commander of the Sudori, Buran takes in Rosamia Badam after her initial run at the Audhumla is unsuccessful.

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• Adapted Out: He doesn't appear in A New Translation.
• An Arm and a Leg: His Asshimar loses a leg when Amuro strikes him with a shuttle. It gets repaired in the next episode.
• Even Evil Has Standards: Notably he views the AEUG as antagonists rather than villains. When Rosamia voices her fears that they will ultimately drop a colony onto earth, Buran disagrees and argues that such a cruel act wouldn't be in the AEUG's nature.
• Elite Mook: An exceptionally skilled pilot for having such a minor role in the story, he puts Kamille, Char, AND Amuro on the ropes on multiple occasions.
• Extra Eyes: The Asshimar appears to be a typical mono-eye, but it also has three extra sub-eyes that follow tracks along the inside of its triangular face. It's somewhat more apparent when Kamille smashes its optic with his spray shot.
• Fantastic Racism: He has an issue with Spacenoids and refers to the AEUG as Space Invaders.
• Lightning Bruiser: The Asshimar is a big, bulky, and very fast Mobile Suit. It allows Buran to run circles around the AEUG Mobile Suits all the while blasting them with powerful beam weapons. They try to exploit a chink in his armor during transformation, but both times it only slows him down and the suit is still very functional after.
• Mauve Shirt: Buran is a named and characterized Mook Lieutenant who pursues the crew for a couple of episodes after Jaburo.
• Punch-Clock Villain: In comparison to many of the villainous Federation members, Buran's just a man doing his job. He's patient with his soldiers and doesn't agree with the Titan propaganda about the AEUG being evil. Notably he welcomes Rosamia's team in in spite of the longstanding Jurisdiction Friction between Titan and Federation troops. Rosamia's strange and overly-grateful nature puts him off but he never voices this as not to be rude.
• Reasonable Authority Figure: He's entirely pragmatic about the AEUG, and kind to Rosamia, despite a general unenthusiasm for having Cyber-Newtypes or the Titans in general.
• Transformation Is a Free Action: Averted. The Asshimar transforms pretty quickly so it's not often an issue but at one point Kamille lands a hit on him while the MS's chest armor is still folding up. Even when being blasted at an unarmored part, the Asshimar was still able to function.
• Transforming Mecha: The Asshimar, one of the first transforming mobile suits that the protagonists fight. They even comment on how odd it is to see as they'd only previously encountered Scirocco's machine.

Axis

Haman Karn

Voiced by: Yoshiko Sakakibara (Japanese), Valerie Howell (English), Tracy Sutton (EN, Dynasty Warriors: Gundam)

Main mecha: AMX-004 Qubeley

The proof of our might will be forever etched in your minds.

The leader of the renegade Axis faction of Zeon, Haman Karn is a former associate of Char Aznable's, and regent for the young Mineva Lao Zabi. She arrives midway through the series and plays both sides of the conflict against one another.

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• Ace Custom: Pilots a standard Gaza-C in the series but has one decked out in her own custom purples in A New Translation.
• Ace Pilot: She is a highly skilled pilot, being able to fight evenly with Kamille and actually defeating Char at the end of Zeta.
• Astral Projection: Haman fully exerting her pressure as a Newtype to try and battle Scirocco results in this. One particular onlooker notes that it just looks like Haman and Scirocco are staring each other down while their mobile suits are stationary.
• Attack Drones: Better known as 'funnels', they're the main weapon of her personal mobile suit, the Qubeley.
• Badass Boast: "The proof of our might will be forever etched into your minds."
• The Bad Guy Wins: As of the end of Zeta. The Titans have been destroyed, the AEUG are in shambles and on the run, and she's personally defeated Char. Fortunately, the Argama gets a chance to continue the fight in Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ.
• The Baroness: Haman is cold, scheming, aristocratic, perfectly at home with weapons, and tough as nails.
• Big Bad Duumvirate: She and Scirocco form one by the end to deal with the AEUG.
• Broken Bird: Kamille gets a Newtype glimpse of a younger, more idealistic Haman who admired Char... and she's furious at him for prying that deeply and easily, even though she's an equally powerful Newtype.
• Broken Pedestal: Char was a massive one for her. The way she sees it, he ran away from his responsibilities on Axis to play pilot with the AEUG, leaving her, then a sixteen-year-old girl, to run a quasi-fascist dictatorship on her own. There are indications that she might not be completely wrong.
• Celeb Crush: From the momentary glimpse into her past, it's implied she had one on Char, long before the series started.
• The Chessmaster: She's good enough to give Char, Jamitov, and even Scirocco cause for concern.
• Corruption of a Minor: Her control of Mineva hasn't had a good effect on the little girl. Char calling her out for it leads her to attempt to reverse the damage. This also forms her own backstory, along with a hefty helping of Break the Cutie — being forced to become an absolute dictator at sixteen will do that to a person.
• Cyber Cyclops: Played Straight with her Gaza-C, the version she uses in both canons is a mono-eye. Averted with the Qubeley which is the first of the Zeon suits to utilize two eyes.
• Dual Wielding: The Qubeley's lack of a shield and incorporation of a detached ranged weapons system allows her do this a lot.
• Duel to the Death: Proposes one to Char, but he takes a third option via trying to kill both of them.
• Empty Eyes: Haman has very distinct purple ones. They link her to both Lalah Sune and Scirocco, in terms of immense Newtype power as well as "having seen some things".
• Even Evil Can Be Loved: She may be dependent on her, but Mineva has a lot of ladies dedicated to her welfare and it's still Haman she wants for reassurance.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Mineva may be useful to her, but she does genuinely care for her. She's the only one Haman shows any warmth to.
• Evil Regent: Mineva's for outsiders, although for Axis itself and its people, she seemingly does a competent and skilled job.
• Evil Wears Black: Other than the lining of her clothes and cape, she dresses head to toe in it.
• Good Eyes, Evil Eyes: Haman has narrow, serpentine ones. They do signify how cunning she is, but they're meant to play up her bad qualities, not her good ones.
• Graceful Ladies Like Purple: Haman may be lethally graceful, but along with black and pink, she likes this, too.
• Hero-Worshipper: Formerly, of Char, overlapping with a Celeb Crush. This took a massive beating after he left to join the AEUG (leaving her to pick up the pieces back on Axis), but there's still a bit of a spark there.
• Hope Spot: During her psychic duel with Kamille. When they both inadvertently see bits of each other's memories, Kamille's takeaway from the experience is that it's a sign that Newtypes can understand each other. While she recognizes the possibility, she instead gets furious over Kamille being "vulgar" and "insolent" by seeing into her mind.
• If I Can't Have You…: Towards Char. Interestingly, it's not that romantic — she's painfully aware of how major a political player he could be if he applied himself.
• Improbable Age: She's only twenty years old, according to Char, which is pretty young to be leading Axis. But it becomes clear very quickly that she's more than qualified for her position.
• It's Personal: She develops a major grudge towards Kamille by the end, as when she's by herself, she singles him out as the most important opponent for her to defeat after he accidentally pries into her past. Played with in regards to Char. All of her interactions with Char are in line with how she treats every other leader she meets—with condescension and thinking how best to use them as tools. But the way she openly demeans Char, contrasting to how much she "only" internally insults and dismisses Scirocco and Jamitov gives hints of this trope.
• Jerkass Has a Point: Even Char acknowledges that her anger at him for leaving her to run Axis when she was just a teenager isn't all that unreasonable, given how warped her personality became from the pressure.
• Karma Houdini: She not only gets away at the end of Zeta, she and her faction are the only ones to really win, with her warranty still good for the moment.
• Kingmaker Scenario: Haman's fleet has the power to settle a battle between the Titans and AEUG, leading both to try and form alliances with her.
• Lady of War: The leader of Axis and all its military forces, including sortieing at the head of battles in her custom Qubeley.
• Light Is Not Good: The Qubeley boasts a mostly-white scheme. It's wielded by the person who manages to become the biggest threat to the Federation and galactic peace at that point.
• A Lighter Shade of Black: During this series, Axis is a less evil entity than the Titans and even assists the AEUG in combating them. Haman herself comes across as more restrained and human than characters like Bask or Scirocco.
• The Man Behind the Man: Uses Mineva Zabi as a Puppet King and figurehead while she runs the show. No one's really fooled, but that doesn't matter to Haman.
• Manipulative Bastard: Takes advantage of Axis's status as a Wild Card to play the AEUG and Titans against each other. Similarly she aggravates the factionalism within the Titans as well. Everyone's aware of this, they just can't risk Axis and its resources allying with their enemies.
• Misanthrope Supreme: Haman hates people in general, and plans to grind the human race under her jackboots as punishment for their perceived failings.
• Murder Is the Best Solution: Her attitude towards Jamitov. In two out of three meetings she tries to kill him - the third time, Scirocco does the job for her and lets her take the blame. Notably, she doesn't object to this.
• My Country, Right or Wrong: Haman wants strength for Axis, and regardless of any other conflict, will do whatever it takes to ensure they come out on top.
• My Significance Sense Is Tingling: Able to sense the presence of other Newtypes.
• Names to Run Away from Really Fast: Appropriately for a successor to Gihren Zabi, she shares a name with Haman, the Hate Sink genocidal Evil Chancellor from the Book of Esther who was the equivalent of Hitler to the Jews pre-Adolf, and who still has a holiday dedicated to celebrating his failure and demise, and to blotting out his name, every year. It is not a flattering moniker.
• Named After Someone Famous: Per Tomino in the first issue of Monthly Newtype, Haman's name comes from American futurist, nuclear strategist, and founder of the Hudson Institute, Herman Kahn, who argued in On Thermonuclear War for nuclear deterrence through second strike capability; and, like O'Neill, believed mankind's future laid in colonization of the stars.
• No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: Gives Char the beating of his life during their climactic confrontation, wrecking the Hyaku-Shiki in minutes while taking no damage herself, and forcing Char to attempt a Mutual Kill.
• Pet the Dog: For all of her scheming and less-than-ideal approach when it comes to raising Mineva, she's still a caring guardian, as she goes out of her way to reassure her when not putting up a front in the presence of the AEUG or Scirocco.
• Pink Means Feminine: Her hair, the lining of her tunic, and her Qubeley's accent color. It appears in strong, significant small doses to remind you she is very female.
• Playing Both Sides: Haman is actively courted by both the AEUG and the Titans. She could not care less about either of them, but actively plays them both to her own advantage.
• Puppet King: She was chosen to replace her deceased father, Maharajah Karn, as governor of Axis at the age of sixteen in order to give the ambitious Zeon military command someone easy to control. It... didn't work out so well.
• Psychic Link: Momentarily forms one with Kamille, and it's surprisingly one of the few times she's caught off guard by anything in this series because the experience is completely foreign to her.
• Psychic Powers: She's a Newtype, like most of the other major players in Zeta.
• Regent for Life: Whether or not Haman intends to give up her position as regent or not isn't explored (as Mineva is only seven) but she certainly gives off this vibe.
• Spell My Name With An S: Is her last name Karn, Kahn, or Khan? Most officially localized materials stick with the former.
• Super Prototype: Her Qubeley.
• Technopath: Only in her Qubeley, and with the aid of the Qubeley's psycommu system.
• Tomboyish Name: The original Biblical Haman was a man.
• Unusual Weapon Mounting: The Qubeley stores its funnels in a protruding abdomen, giving the mobile suit a decidedly insectoid appearance.
• Used to Be a Sweet Kid: Kamille's glimpse of the younger her, since it's impossible to lie on a Newtype level. Then her father died and Char left, so she was put in charge of Axis...
• Villainous Crush: Used to have one on Char, and despite his perceived betrayal, a bit of the spark's still there.
• Villain with Good Publicity: "Lady Haman" is very well-thought of by her people.
• Wild Card: Which side Axis Zeon will join is a major plot point.
• Woman Scorned: Played with. In the brief glimpse of her past, it's shown that she was fond of Char, which definitely isn't the case by the time Haman is introduced in the series, with the exact circumstances of their falling out left ambiguous. However, aside from openly talking down to him, Haman doesn't treat Char any worse than she would any other opponent.

Mineva Lao Zabi

Voiced by: Miki Itō (JP), Katie Rowan (EN)

I request that you assist us in reviving the Zabi family.

Dozle Zabi's daughter, Mineva is the last living member of the Zabi family. While she is de jure the ruler of what remains of Zeon and treated as such, it quickly becomes apparent that the seven year old girl is naturally under the domination of her regent Haman.

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• Antiquated Linguistics: Bordering on Spock Speak at times. This is partly because she doesn't write her own speeches.
• A Child Shall Lead Them: Subverted, she's just a figurehead.
• Body Double: Possibly. It's revealed at the end of the 1st Neo Zeon War that Mineva has been replaced with a double, but when exactly the switch was made isn't made clear. A New Translation implies that it's after the end of the Gryps Conflict at the earliest, but the original animated continuity lacks any similar hints. Her appearance in Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn does not address it at all.
• Creepy Child: Played with. Mineva's a child, and she's the dictatorial head of The Remnant of The Empire. Yet she's also a genuinely scared and lonely little girl who's totally dependent on Haman and simply does not know what life is like outside of Axis.
• First Friend: It's pointed out All There in the Manual that meeting Shinta and Qum was this for her.
• Last of Her Kind: She's the last Zabi. Maybe. It's complicated.

Civilians

Kai Shiden

Voiced by: Toshio Furukawa (JP), Scott Roberts (EN)

A veteran of the One Year War, Kai was one of the White Base's top pilots, alongside Amuro Ray and Sayla Mass. He returns in Zeta as a journalist/AEUG spy, operating in the rainforest.

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• Badass in a Nice Suit: Kai looked pretty badass saving Reccoa from some soldiers while wearing a white suit in the middle of a jungle.
• Big Damn Heroes: His first appearance has him saving Reccoa from some soldiers who had captured her.
• Deadpan Snarker: Not surprising. Made snarkier in the dub. He says pounding on his cell and calling for help makes him feel better.
• Demoted to Extra: Like all of his former crewmates, his role in Zeta is considerably smaller than in the previous series.
• Face of a Thug: It's better than it was when he was a kid, but at the end of the day, Kai still looks as though his paycheck is coming from a Mafia Don.
• Gratuitous English: Kai's glorious letter in the tv series in fluent Engrish included the warning "Captain Quattro, he is a CHAR", which has led to mirth and memes among the English-speaking fandom ever since.
• Gun Twirling: In an Establishing Character Moment, still has the Character Tic from last series. Identifies him even before he introduces himself.
• Hero of Another Story: He may have left his piloting days behind with White Base, but Kai's clearly seen his share of adventures and become more badass down the line.
• Intrepid Reporter: And he can appear anywhere at any time, including the Vatican!
• Knight in Sour Armour: He actually seems to have cheered up a shade or two from being The Eeyore of the last show, but then he doesn't have to be a soldier anymore.
• Older and Wiser: Still cynical, snarky, and bitter, but he is willing to give far more of a damn about things, care who he allies himself with, and be far less of a needless loudmouthed jerk.
• Sharp-Dressed Man: White suit, fedora, and tie.
• Took a Level in Badass: Holy cow Kai does a complete 180 in time for Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam and the various sidestories going on at that point. Stylish, competent, able to engage in tactical espionage action in the RAINFOREST in a white business suit, all while juggling a career of journalism. To top it off, in sidestories like Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam Day After Tomorrow he comes off as a freaking UC James Bond without his own mobile suit while he kicks copious amounts of ass.
• You're Not My Type: Although Reccoa is grateful for Kai's rescue of her, she remains unimpressed by his attempts to flirt. She also coldly calls him out for presuming to be on a first name basis with her (although a bit more politely and less angrily than Sayla in the original series).

Frau Bow (Kobayashi)

Voiced by: Rumiko Ukai (Japanese), Kristin Nowosad (English)

Amuro's best friend and fellow former White Base crewmember, Frau visits him with her children as he's in Federation custody in Cheyenne and gives him a critical emotional lift to escape.

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• '80s Hair: Far from the most obvious example in the show, but she grew her chin-length teenage '20s Bob Haircut out into something shoulder-length and more fluffy.
• Adoptive Peer Parent: She's 22 or 23 tops, and her children are 15, 13, and 11. With Hayato for the White Base kids Katz, Letz, and Kikka, whom she was a Parental Substitute for when she was 15.
• Anywhere but Their Lips: A meaningful kiss on the cheek from Amuro in-series or a close embrace in the first movie — but still it's referred to in side materials and by everyone involved as "the kiss scene". Except by Tomino, who disagrees.
• Armor-Piercing Question: Because she loves Amuro, in a variant on her You Are Better Than You Think You Are moment from the first show, she finally calls him "Lieutenant" and quietly asks him what he gains from returning to being a child and to consider that. Dismayed, Amuro immediately starts plotting to break free.
• Babies Make Everything Better: Not in this case, unfortunately. Frau's pregnancy is portrayed in a positive light, but it's certainly not doing anything to fix the rest of her chaotic life. She chides Amuro that he "doesn't know anything about it", and says she needs to raise the child to be strong. As it happens, we never see the kid.
  • Amuro still says "have a good kid for me" in the movies.
• Betty and Veronica: Is the Betty to Amuro's Archie and Bel's Veronica, but her marriage to Hayato would not only make a relationship adulterous, but just plain hard. She's the more distant, "complicated" one.
  • From a different triangle, it's Frau (Archie), Hayato (Betty), and Amuro (Veronica). Then there's yet another Betty and Veronica Switch when Hayato gets insecure and tragedy eventually happens (Amuro has, of course, been her childhood BFF all along).
• Big Damn Reunion: Even being spied on and with everything else complicating their lives, she and Amuro are very happy to see each other again, although the crying comes later, and isn't happy.
• Bilingual Bonus: The very first thing she says to Amuro in Japanese is "Okaerinasai", which is exactly what you say to welcome someone home... despite her having just shown up in Cheyenne with little announcement. It says a lot about how close they are, and makes Amuro's response confirming they aren't married all the more pointed and strange for the audience.
• Chekhov's News: Delivered verbally. Amuro asks Frau if she's even legally able to leave North America for Japan, and she shrugs, saying yes, for whatever reason, she has a visa. She immediately goes on to say that Katz is probably right and it's proof the Earth Federation is careless. Amuro doesn't seem to give it more thought at the moment, but given it's the Federation monitoring him and not the Titans, he does later escape without them seeming hugely interested in finding him or returning him to custody.
• Continuity Nod: Frau may apparently be a modest, respectable, expectant mother, but look at her when she's sitting down in Amuro's living room and you'll see she's still wearing a rather short pink skirt, with bare legs.
• Did They or Didn't They?: It's ridiculously difficult to tell whether her relationship with Amuro is platonic, UST, or romantic, now or ever; including the two episodes she appears in. Shrug of God continues to be the most you get from Tomino.
• Expy: Play it again — A woman whose husband is fighting with La Résistance meets her Old Flame, involved in a nest of spies, who wants nothing to do with the current conflict. (There's also a famous goodbye at the airport.) Tomino decided to hit a few notes from Ilsa Lund and Casablanca. Visually, she's a fairly striking match for Penelope Smallbone from Octopussy.^note  Not really a coincidence, given Octopussy was the last Bond before Zeta. It's also not the only thing in Z derived from the movie — Vageena, Quattro Vageena, anyone?
• Foil: To Beltorchika Irma, in terms of dress, behavior, influence on Amuro, and just about anything you can think of. Highlighted when she's shown together with her and Amuro at the end of the final film.
• Imperiled in Pregnancy: Downplayed, but a second-trimester Frau is on the run with her three other kids and looking to drop out of sight due to Hayato's paramilitary activities; we later see exactly how much danger the Titans put families and even younger children in with Mirai and her kids. One of the first things Amuro says to Frau is asking whether it's even okay for her to be traveling so much.
• Implied Love Interest:
  • Still this, but Amuro now worries about, pays attention to, makes arrangements for, shows a lot of care and affection to and even feeds Frau (and the kids, of course) — a big change from the original show.
  • Like before, it's a bit less implicit on her side. A New Translation has her say "Atashi, motto Amuro to issho ni itakatta" ^* "I wanted to be [together] with you more, Amuro." All There in the Manual says it was done just in case anybody was confused in the original with her pregnancy and his brooding. See Love Triangle.
• Leaning on the Fourth Wall: Frau teases Amuro about "still having a thing for Sayla". Aside from some never-specified in-show context (Amuro immediately changes the subject), that's either a Shout-Out to Tomino's completely different novel continuity of the last show^note  the only one where Amuro and Sayla are romantically involved. Amuro doesn't want to talk about it because he also dies), or it's a Call-Back to Sayla bringing up Amuro's feelings for Frau in a late episode of Mobile Suit Gundam — and Amuro immediately changing the subject!
• Light Equals Hope: She wears a pale yellow dress and coat and even stands under a lamppost for a literal lampshading of this while an unhappy and imprisoned Amuro is dressed in a black suit and tie, talking about how his life is hell, and roaming his backyard at night. The light is still shining at the end of the scene, but he leaves her alone there and she cries.
• Love Triangle: Married to Hayato and six months pregnant with his child, but she is only ever seen/portrayed with Amuro, and openly confesses to wanting more time with him; Word of God has Amuro inwardly pissed at Moment Killer Katz.
• Marriage of Convenience: With Hayato sometime post-0079 for the sake of Katz, Letz, and Kikka. This is very explicitly Word of God as this, and not romantic.
• Meaningful Rename: Invoked twice by Amuro. First, he calls her "Frau Kobayashi" just to point out a) she's married, b) she's not married to him, c) and she's married to Hayato — all of which surprised the 1985 audience. In the following episode, he calls her "Frau Bow" again, like he did for Mobile Suit Gundam — a sign that things are more the way they used to be, or that he really just can't see her as anyone else.
• She Is All Grown Up: No revelations and not very much implied; Amuro's just very happy to see her and behaves far more warmly and nicely than he did when they were 15. Downplayed.
• Tender Tears: Overlapping with Tears of Remorse. She cries quietly when she can't fix things with Amuro, he having walked away and left her standing in his backyard. It's notable because she only cried over extremely serious things in the original show and Amuro was still far more giving and receptive than he was back then.^*  The most-likely explanation is a mix of hormones, stress, and their war having ended a long time ago yet any happiness seeming unsustainable.
• What Happened to the Mouse?: The baby she's expecting has never been seen or referred to.

Mirai Yashima (Noa)

Voiced by: Fuyumi Shiraishi (Japanese), Mariette Sluyter (English)

Former pilot of White Base and now married to a famous Federation defector, Mirai and her two small children are trying to stay out of harm's way. They meet Amuro again in New Hong Kong.

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• Big Damn Reunion: She's overjoyed to accidentally bump into Amuro again. He reciprocates by acting like his happy 15 year-old self.
• Demoted to Satellite Love Interest: In the original Mobile Suit Gundam, she took on the important role of first mate and helmsman of the White Base. But when she reappears in Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam as Mr. Bright's wife, she makes very few appearances, instead staying on Earth to take care of her children, and even though her husband soon becomes one of the key figures of AEUG.
• Hostage Situation: She and her children are kidnapped and put in a small boat near a battlefield, meaning that they can either potentially be killed by friendly/enemy fire or drown if their boat is sunk. They manage to survive (though little Hathaway falls into the sea and his mother has to give him CPR).
• Happily Married - Loved I Not Honor More: Despite Beltochika completely failing to understand this, and being physically separated from her spacebound spouse, Mirai shows a great deal of care for Bright, saying that she raises their two children taking his wishes and feelings into consideration as though he were there. In fact, Beltochika asks her how can that be possible, so Mirai calmly explains that she and her kids know well how hard Bright and Co. are fighting out there.
• Silk Hiding Steel: The woman almost never loses her cool, whether it's towards Beltochika saying too much, or towards the Hostage Situation she and her kids are forced in.
• Yamato Nadeshiko: With heavy emphasis on the will of iron that goes along with "serenity, patience, grace, and acceptance" while her husband is away.

Hathaway and Cheimin Noa

Voiced by: Brett Bauer and Caitlynne Medrik (English)

Bright and Mirai's young son and daughter.

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• Blue Boy, Pink Girl: Hathaway has a blue shirt and shorts and Cheimin has a pink dress and hairbow.
• Children Are Innocent: Hathaway is around six years old and Cheimin is no older than five, and they're very cute and mostly concerned with playing with their toy glider. Subverted when Hathaway then almost drowns in the middle of a battlefield, and Double Subverted when Cheimin keeps a Plucky Girl attitude and is still really excited to meet Kamille, see his Gundam, and hold hands with him, anyway.

Wong Lee

Voiced by: Yukimasa Natori (Japanese, TV), Kazumi Tanaka (Japanese, Movies), Dean Galloway (English)

An overbearing representative of Anaheim Electronics sent as a liaison with the AEUG fleet.

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• Adaptational Nice Guy: Wong is toned down considerably for A New Translation. He doesn't beat up Kamille and he's less abrasive in general. His Pet the Dog moment is kept for the movies and he's much less contrarian.
• "Ass" in Ambassador: He's a representative of Anaheim Electronics, which gives the AEUG considerable funding. This in turn gives Wong a lot of nominal authority, which he abuses pretty much all the time.
• Badass Normal: Said to be a practitioner of Kung Fu (see above) and casually kicked Kamille's ass (himself a judo practitioner and also a Newtype). On a slightly bigger scale, he's more than willing to directly pitch in in battle if the need arises, as he's shown piloting a mini-mech to help hold off Titans forces on the moon to let Kamille make his escape.
• Break the Haughty: Downplayed- Bright puts him in his place during a major operation when Wong lets his own authority get to his head and Bright calls the latter out for his combat inexperience. In Gundam ZZ, Wong tries to give Judau Ashta the same ass-kicking he gave Kamille for slacking off, only to get Kneed in the gut by the latter and left writhing.
• Brutal Honesty: All the time. Needless to say, it gets right under the Argama crew's skin.
• Good Is Not Nice: Lee is firmly on the AEUG's side and opposes the Titans, however he's also an insufferable Jerkass who throws his weight around.
• Honest Corporate Executive: The fact that he staunchly allies with the AEUG when the Titans are in power for the majority of the series and would be more profitable to support puts him here.
• Jerkass: Makes his second appearence by beating the crap out of Kamille for missing a meeting. Wong Lee remains a pushy and unpleasant jackass to the Argama crew.
  • Jerk Ass Has A Point: For all his faults. Lee's actually got the right idea (or, at least, a well-reasoned one that's worth considering) most of the time. It's pretty much the only reason nobody on the Argama ever tries to shove him out of an airlock.
  • Jerk with a Heart of Gold: There's the moment listed below, and it's shown that Wong backs the AEUG out of principle rather than for monetary reasons. When faced with a possible colony drop at his current location, he refuses to evacuate, believing in the AEUG as well as standing his ground in the case that they fail.
• Pet the Dog: Gave Shinta and Qum drinks and said children shouldn't be afraid to ask for things.
• Reasonable Authority Figure: Played With. Wong is difficult to deal with as a person and even more difficult as a superior. In the later parts of Zeta and in ZZ Wong essentially fulfills the role of a Commander Contrarian largely played against Bright and the other AEUG officials in ways that make it clear he's in the wrong. With that said, Wong does sympathize with the AEUG and that stands in contrast to the callous War-Profiteering Anaheim Electronics is infamous for; at one point he even sorties with the TITANS in a Junior Mobile Suit.
• Screw the Rules, I Make Them!: Shoves his weight around the Argama by saying that the AEUG's allies, Anaheim Electronics, would support him on his attack plans. Even if they were dumb.
• Stern Teacher: Shades of this before getting Flanderized into a total jerk ass later in the series.

Stephanie Luio

Voiced by: Mako Yuda (Japanese, TV), Rio Natsuki (Japanese, Movies), Debbie Munroe (English)

A businesswoman who runs New Hong Kong's Luio Company and funds Karaba.

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• Distaff Counterpart: Of Wong Lee, supposedly; Kamille refers to her as such after she slapped him for seeming insubordination.
• Iron Lady: She runs her family's corporation, deals with politicians, and funds and funnels supplies to Karaba on the side. (Complete with The '80s version of Power Hair and a blazer.) Unhesitatingly sics her goons on Amuro the second he mentions her father's name in public.
• Mukokuseki: It may still be common enough practice to use a Western first name in "New" Hong Kong, but Stephanie also has reddish-blonde hair and blue eyes. What exactly her background is meant to be is a bit of a mystery, compounded by the fact that we never see her fully Chinese-named dad.
• Pink Means Feminine: For all her Iron Lady ways, she wears a knee-length pink skirt. (And Kamille does, in fact, sense her as a 'womanly' presence, in addition to being strong.)
• Related in the Adaptation: In A New Translation, she's introduced as Wong's daughter instead; funnily enough, in the original series, she was described as his Distaff Counterpart. This would ultimately only be the case for the movie continuity as Mobile Suit Gundam Narrative would re-establish her father as Woomin Luio.
• Ship Tease: A surprising amount packed into her sole episode with Amuro, considering she orders him beaten unconscious and temporarily holds him prisoner, then they run around New Hong Kong together talking war and strategy and dodging mobile suit gunfire. Arguably she has more with him than his Destructive Romance with Beltorchika — which might very well be the point.
• Team Mom: She does show a more maternal side eventually to Kamille and the Noa kids, as well as arranging passage to a safer location for Mirai, Hathaway, and Cheimin. Also to Karaba in general, considering how she's shown as a major donor and supplier.
• The Triads and the Tongs: She has goons at the ready and her company is also a front for all sorts of illegal activity.
  Stephanie: This is Hong Kong City. You can't trust anyone.
• Twinkle in the Eye: Gets one with an Audible Gleam right before unleashing a merciless beatdown-by-thug on Amuro.

Sayla Mass

Now living by the ocean in Africa, Char's younger sister is seemingly the quietest of the former White Base crew.

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• The Cameo: She only gets a brief scene as The Voiceless listening to Char's speech at Dakar on a radio, since her actor You Inoue was unavailable. In the movies, she's lying by a resort pool and has a meeting with Kai, with a few pre-recorded lines since Inoue was deceased by 2004. The sequel does make it clear that she's Non-Idle Rich, but you'd never know it here.