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In General

An elite military organization formed by the Earth Federation following the end of the One Year War. Intended to combat Zeon remnants and other insurgents, the Titans use this excuse as justification to oppress Spacenoids and secretly plot to usurp the Earth Federation so they can rule the Earth Sphere themselves.

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• Became Their Own Antithesis: By the end of the series, after having been cost their support from the Earth Federation and being taken control of by Paptimus Scirocco, the Titans find themselves helping Axis Zeon fight against the Earth Feds and AEUG, even though their original purpose was to defend the Earth from Zeon.
• Dragon-in-Chief: Although they operate as a section of the EFSF, the Titans are the main antagonists of Zeta Gundam and the Federation spends most of the show either powerless or unwilling to reign them in.
• Elite Army: Titans officers are ranked one degree higher than regular EFSF officers, and the Titans generally have access to more advanced mobile suits than they do.
• Fascist, but Inefficient: The Titans are packing some of the best experimental gear and technology out there, often carrying the bigger sticks versus the AEUG besides the titular Zeta Gundam, and they are brutally authoritarian with most of the political hemisphere in their grubby fingers. But everyone is so busy manipulating and outdoing each other or undermining operations in favor of pushing their own plans that their enemies get the opportunity to constantly slip through their grasp, and for all the technology at their fingertips, only a handful of pilots can actually make any use of it compared to the number of aces their opposition packs. Combine this with making enemies of everyone thanks to being Stupid Evil with no qualms for collateral damage and abuse of authority, and this gradually tears apart their efficiency at the seams.
• Meet the New Boss: They have Zeon's Nazi aesthetic and Master Race philosophy, only they champion Earthnoid supremacy as opposed to Spacenoid supremacy.
• Mirroring Factions: Formed to fight against Zeon, only to become every bit as tyrannical as Zeon was.
• N.G.O. Superpower: They're technically just a branch of the Earth Federation and not a full-on government, but they enough military might and political resources to effectively be their own faction.
• Not-So-Omniscient Council of Bickering: The Titans are filled with a variety of corrupt figures looking to use it for their own ends. Bask just wants to oppress Spacenoids, Jamaican is a pencil-pusher concerned only with his own authority, Scirocco wants to co-opt it so he can use it to realize his vision of an ideal society, Jerid wants to eventually succeed Jamitov as the Titans' leader, and Jamitov has a truly bizarre plan that involves using the Titans to instigate a war that will trigger the collapse of the Earth Federation, all so he can lead the Earthnoids into space to form a new society with himself in charge.
• The Remnant: Not as many as Zeon, but even after the Titans are defeated remnants of theirs continue to pop up, such as the New Desides in Gundam Sentinel.
• State Sec: The ostensible duty of the Titans is to suppress Zeon movements that still remained hostile after the One Year War finished. In practice, they use their authority to crush any Spacenoid opposition to the Earth Federation's rule, be it peaceful or not, and their end goal is to expand their authority until they've basically replaced it as the de facto Earth Sphere government.
• Stupid Evil: One consistent rule that nearly everyone not Scirocco or Jerid follows is a complete disregard for how anyone views their morally-bankrupt war crimes. They have virtually a blank check courtesy of the Earth Federation, and they abuse this via exploitation, violence and greed with gusto, even towards Earth-born people they should be protecting. Commanders like Jamaican and Ben are willing to wipe out entire cities and colonies for the crimes of not capitulating at their feet in fear and full compliance, while Bask and Jamitov are such utter bastards at the top of the food chain that their own men don't care much for them. This reaches a logical conclusion when their crimes are too large to hide from Earth and the Federation anymore, losing all of their support and funding at the same time that internal politicking is getting everyone killed off internally where the AEUG doesn't get them first.

Leadership

Jamitov Hymen

Voice Actors: Masaru Ikeda, Tomomichi Nishimura (Japanese), Steve Olson (English)

The leader of the Titans, Admiral Jamitov Hymen has grander ambitions than simply running the Earth Federation's State Sec. He hopes to gain control of the whole Earth Sphere for himself, and is prepared to use any means necessary to get that power.

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• 0% Approval Rating: By the end, the only person upset at all with his death is Bask while the rest of his subordinates go over to Scirocco.
• Ambition Is Evil: Jamitov's ambitions are what get the series started with he and the Titans having amassed so much power within the Earth-Sphere and becoming a major threat to any who get in his way.
• Armchair Military: Never takes part in combat operations, even in a command role.
• Beard of Evil: His goatee.
• Big Bad Wannabe: Jamitov is the leader of the Titans hoping to use them to expand his personal power, but it becomes apparent that he doesn't have nearly as much control over his private army as he thinks he does. The other members, especially Scirocco, prove to be much more threatening to the AEUG and in Episode 46, Scirocco kills him to assume command proper.
• The Chessmaster: Not nearly as much as he was in 0083, but he does alright in the first half of the series. Come the second half, he's utterly outclassed by Haman and Scirocco, and in A New Translation he loses this quality altogether.
• Commissar Cap: When in uniform, he wears an officer's cap.
• Despotism Justifies the Means: Jamitov's end goal is to use the Titans to supplant the Earth Federation and gain control of the Earth Sphere himself.
• Disc-One Final Boss: He's the leader of the Titans for most of the show, up until he is killed in Episode 46, allowing Scirocco to take over as the Big Bad.
• Dodge the Bullet: Despite being pretty old and a non-combatant, either Jamitov has real good combat instinct or he has to be some subtle Newtype because he outright dodges gunfire from Quattro in a narrow hallway before escaping.
• Evil Mentor: Late in the series he takes Jerid under his wing.
• Evil Old Folks: Is the most elderly character in the show and the on in charge of the corrupt State Sec.
• Flat Character: For such a key figure in UC history, Jamitov's characterization, motivations, and personality aren't really explored, leaving him as something of a cipher.
• Greater-Scope Villain Operation Stardust Memory. He only makes a cameo appearance but 90% of the corrupt actions the Federation pulls in that series have his backing.
• Hidden Agenda Villain: We know for most of the series that the Titans aren't just about hunting Zeon, but it takes a little while for Jamitov's true motives to become apparent.
• Horrible Judge of Character: Perhaps the single greatest example of this trope in history. He chooses Bask for his Dragon, Jerid for his disciple, and allows Scirocco to acquire considerable power under him. All three of these men couldn't care less about his plans - Bask just uses Jamitov as a way to kill more Spacenoids, Jerid plans to eventually supplant Jamitov, and Scirocco plans to supplant Jamitov without the 'eventually'. For the icing on the cake, he repeatedly attempts to court favor with Haman Karn, though she tries to kill him in every single meeting they have. In Bask's case at least, this may be All According to Plan as explained in Well-Intentioned Extremist below.
• Insane Admiral: Literally. He suffers from obvious megalomania and is an Earth Federation admiral.
• Kick the Dog: When he has AEUG leader Blex assassinated.
• Knight Templar: Jamitov aims for a united human populace free of the confines of Earth. It's just that that vision involves himself as the one in charge and any threat to him is to be snuffed out.
  Ajis: "These are troubled times that we live in. We need a military force that's just and noble. To keep the world in proper order."
  Beltorchika: "Who's words are those? It doesn't sound like everyday conversation."
  Ajis: "His excellency Jamitov said them."
• Large and in Charge: Not to Bask's degree, but Jamitov is quite tall and the leader of the Titans.
• Manipulative Bastard: According to side materials and several statements made throughout the series, Jamitov's grand plan is to stir up a Civil War in order to cause the downfall of the Earth Federation and humanity's departure into space. Unfortunately for him, his scheme ends up getting hijacked by Scirocco.
• Non-Action Big Bad: He's the leader of Titans, and the Big Bad for most of the show, yet he never participates in any combat operations in any sort of role.
• Pet the Dog: In episode 45, Axis smashes the Gate of Zedan and the debris strikes their ships. When an aide asks if Jamitov is ok, Jamitov brushes it off, saying that they should save their concern for the rest of the fleet. Bask, by contrast, calls them idiots for getting hit by the debris.
• Pragmatic Villainy: When they test out Four's ability to remotely pilot the Psycho Gundam it puts her through an inordinate amount of pain. Jamitov has the test terminated when its clear that Four's been pushed to her limit and considers terminating the project if all it does is kill the pilots. Dead people aren't useful to the Titans after all.
• Smug Snake: Jamitov's smart and a survivor, but he also thought a blood pact would be enough to control Scirocco of all people.
• Take Over the World: A variation. He doesn't want to take over Earth, but to abandon it and take over the Colonies.
• Unwitting Pawn: In A New Translation he's being used by Bask, who joins the long list of people who intend to usurp him as leader of the Titans. He only fails because Scirocco pulls the trigger first.
• War for Fun and Profit: Uses the war against the AEUG to secure his own power.
• Well-Intentioned Extremist: According to side material, a link, and several scenes throughout the series, Jamitov actually hates Earthlings and is trying to get them into space. He hired a mad dog like Bask to brutalize colonists and stir up rebellion, triggering the collapse of the Earth Federation and a mass exodus to the colonies with him in charge. This is made more explicit in the New Translation movies, where he is shown struggling to rein in Bask's violent excesses.

Bask Om

Voice Actors: Daisuke Gōri (Japanese), Noah Umholtz (English)

Jamitov's Number Two, Captain Bask Om serves as the Titans' field leader. A hulking brute with a pathological hatred of all space colonists, Bask is responsible for the worst of the atrocities associated with the Titans' name.

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• Adaptational Jerkass: He is much worse in Gihren's Greed: The Menace of Axis V, which adds more crimes to his name such as being the one to blow up Jaburo if he gets the chance and overthrowing and executing Jamitov if he isn't deposed by the end of the campaign, which is followed up with a war on the Jupiter colonies and the Earth Sphere being thrown in chaos.
• Ambiguously Brown: How darkskinned Bask is seems to vary from scene to scene.
• Bad Boss: Do not question this man's orders, however insane they might seem.
• Bald of Evil: He's one of the nastiest characters in the franchise and he's completely bald (although he usually disguises it with his Commissar Cap.
• Being Tortured Makes You Evil: More justified in this case than most—he hasn't joined the side that tortured him, after all.
• The Captain: A senior naval captain and one of the few Titans' officers to hold actual command rank.
• Colonel Kilgore: He definitely has elements of this.
• Commissar Cap: Wears one sometimes.
• Corporal Punishment: Administers it to anyone who displeases him, most notably Bright.
• Deadly Gas: Orders two massive colony gassings.
• The Dragon: To Jamitov. As the field commander of the Titans he is the one that oversees most of their dirty work.
• Dragon Their Feet: Was nowhere to be seen when Scirocco blew Jamitov away. He's killed shortly afterwards. Interestingly, the movie trilogy corrects this oversight: Bask is given a scene alongside Scirocco's speech, guessing right away that he killed Jamitov, only to be let himself be baited by Yazan into focusing on the AEUG instead. Pointedly, it's Yazan and not Reccoa who bumps him off later.
• Dragon with an Agenda: He doesn't share Jamitov's politics or ambitions and just wants to kill a lot of colonists.
• Electronic Eyes: Maybe. See Eye Scream and Goggles Do Nothing below.
• Evil Cripple: If the theories about his being blind are true. See Eye Scream below for further details.
• Eviler than Thou: With the exception of Yazan, Bask is easily one of the most monstrous characters within the series and most other villains end up looking less evil when placed next to him. Jerid, Jamaican, and even Jamitov manage to look like A Lighter Shade of Black when interacting with him.
• Eye Scream: It's been theorized that Bask's trademark goggles are used to allow him to see as he seldom removes them and never in a situation in which he'd have to use his sight due to damage done to him during his torture in the One Year War.
• First-Name Basis: Everyone calls him Bask or Captain Bask, including his subordinates.
• Flat Character: Receives very little character development in the actual show despite being a major antagonist. On the plus side, it makes his evil really stand out. Side materials have attempted to remedy this.
• Freudian Excuse: He spent most of the One Year War in a POW camp, being tortured by Zeon. Given that this information is only available in side materials it's played as an explanation, not a genuine excuse.
• General Failure: All he's good for is killing people uselessly, be they Spacenoids and his own troops.
• General Ripper: Obsessed with the colonists and the AEUG in particular, to the point where he ignores Scirocco's murder of Jamitov in order to focus on the Argama.
• Goggles Do Nothing: Possibly. No one's sure if Bask's eyes are functional, or if he needs the goggles to see. Either way they do a great job of invoking Red Eyes, Take Warning.
• The Good Captain: The biggest inversion you’re likely to see, Bask is a violent psychopath hated by everyone, even his own men.
• The Heavy: Bask is the face of the Titans' brutality and the one leading the charge for the first quarter, though he eventually hands it off to Scirocco. He's also the one responsible for the 30 Bunch incident that caused the AEUG's formation in the first place.
• Insane Admiral: Bask's brutality is so extreme that madness may well be the best explanation for it, with side materials indicating he has a truly horrible case of PTSD. What makes his insanity all the worse is that many of the colonists he hates would probably have lost friends and loved ones to Zeon’s indiscriminate genocide of the Sides’ inhabitants and would therefore have just as much reason to hate Zeon as he does, but it’s debatable if he even realizes this.
• Interservice Rivalry: He despises Scirocco, viewing him as a snake in the grass with a smug attitude. Scirocco isn't that fond of Bask either and views him as a larger threat to his goals than Jamaican.
• Jerkass: Unpleasant, violent, and difficult to reason with; and this is just how he is to his allies.
• Lack of Empathy: If you're a Spacenoid, you're less than human as far as he's concerned.
• Large and in Charge: He's the second in command of the Titans (and takes the field more often than his superior officer Jamitov) and towers over most of the cast.
• Manipulative Bastard: He has his moments in the show, even if just to screw over Spacenoids. After all, he helped set the stage for the Titans' rise to power via letting Operation Stardust succeed.
• More Despicable Minion: Ostensible Big Bad Jamitov Hymem is quite hands-off in his villainy, even as the commander of the horrific Titans forces and seems to be genuine in his intentions to want humanity to live in Space. By contrast, Bask Om is a total nightmare who oversees experimentation on children to create unstable super soldiers and gasses colonies opposing him. He's even far more personal, ordering the hostage circumstances that led to the death of Kamille's mother.
• Non-Action Guy: He'll slap his subordinates around, and he isn't afraid to lead from the front, but Bask is not a combatant.
• Non-Standard Character Design: Bask stands head and shoulders above the rest of the cast, and has a peculiarly elongated face that looks like it belongs on a far fatter man (Bask is big, but hardly overweight). And that's without mentioning the goggles that he almost never takes off, or his darker skin tone.
• Put on a Bus: Bask is the main villain for the first few episodes but leaves things in Jamaican's hands in episode 5 and returns to the base. He's benched until episode 39, baring a non-speaking cameo where he meets with Jamitov, and the role of central antagonist is passed on to Scirocco.
• Red Eyes, Take Warning: His goggles fulfill this purpose.
• Revenge: Side materials hint that the reason why he hates colonials so much is the fact that he was made into a POW and horrendously tortured by Zeon in the One Year War. It’s a testament to how insane he is that he focuses his wrath on all colonists, considering they were the ones who bore the brunt of Zeon’s genocide and would logically have just as much reason to hate Zeon as he does.
• Scary Ambiguously Brown Man: He’s big, he has dark skin, and he’s not someone you want to anger.
• Scary Shiny Glasses: His goggles function as an equivalent. His eyes are only visible a handful of times and for the most part, you'll only see a sinister pair of flat red lenses.
• Shell-Shocked Veteran: If the sidestories are to be believed Bask never really left that Zeon POW camp.
• The Starscream:
  • Averted in the series. Bask draws a clear distinction between a Dragon with an Agenda and The Starscream. Bask doesn't share Jamitov's Knight Templar goals and uses the Titans to wreak havoc amongst the colonies, but ultimately he and Jamitov are never in conflict and Bask does seem to have at least some loyalty to him. Notably Bask advised against Jamitov's trusting of Scirocco, accurately guessing that Scirocco was a threat to their organization.
  • Played Straight in A New Translation. Bask's use of the Colony Laser is advised against by Jamitov and Bask says to Yazan that such a weapon will abolish the chain of command and allow him to take power. He does still seem legitimately angered when he correctly believes that Scirocco killed Jamitov to take command himself, even if that does finally put him in charge of his own side of the Titans.
• When All You Have Is a Hammer…: His solution to most problems? Punch them in the face◊. No, really!
• Would Hit a Girl: In addition to hitting Reccoa in the face, Bask has no problem with shoving a non-combatant woman (Kamille's mother) inside of a capsule, ejecting said capsule into space, and then sending Jerid out to shoot it down under the excuse that it's a bomb.

Paptimus Scirocco

Paptimus Scirocco

Voice Actors: Bin Shimada (Japanese), Jonathan Love (English)

Main mecha: PMX-000 Messala, PMX-003 The O

I'm merely a witness to history.

An Earth Federation technical officer and fleet commander, Scirocco hails from Jupiter, where he and his fleet were sent to collect helium gas. He is eventually recruited by Admiral Jamtiov when the latter decides he needs reinforcements; unbeknownst to Jamitov, Scirocco has his own ambitions for the Earth Sphere, and is a very powerful Newtype to boot.

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• The Ace: A dark example of the trope to the villains' side. Scirocco is a brilliant commander, diplomat and fighter, constantly gaining more territory and winning battles for the Titans. Unfortunately for his ostensible superiors, the only thing on his mind is his personal advancement.
• Ace Pilot: Scirocco pilots the suits he designs flawlessly. He frequently goes toe-to-toe with the likes of Kamille and Char.
• Airborne Aircraft Carrier: His ship, the Jupitris, is the largest in the Titans' fleet, and the suits he designs are all decidedly oversized as well. This is justified, as the Jupitris is actually a transport vessel analogous to the supertankers of today and his mobile suits are all oversized to mount the numerous thrusters and verniers they need to operate in Jupiter's gravity well.
• A Lighter Shade of Black: Gihren's Greed establishes him as one to Bask Om. Scirocco may be a ruthless authoritarian, but he's not nearly the Insane Admiral Bask is and won't plunge the Earth Sphere into a new age of chaos and war if he's made leader of the Titans, as the game pushes you to do.
• All Girls Want Bad Boys: With the exception of Mouar—who's dating Jerid at the time—most of the female cast Scirocco interacts with find themselves falling for him, as seen with Sarah and Reccoa. While he can talk a good game, ultimately people are just pawns to him and their lives are ruined and ultimately ended in the process, killed while fighting to fulfill his own ambitions to conquer the galaxy.
• Almighty Janitor: Even though Scirocco starts as a Lieutenant, he's able to accumulate a hefty amount of influence from within them until he's effectively become one of their top commanders.
• Ambition Is Evil: Much of the conflict in Zeta is due to Scirocco's lust for power leading him to bump off or manipulate both enemies and allies, leading to many of the people around him being killed or left irreparably broken.
• Arch-Enemy: To hero Kamille, Scirocco for his own part seems to form a borderline-obsessive relationship with him after sensing his Newtype powers and fighting him. He fixates on convincing Kamille his own cynical ideals to correct humanity are right and reacts with anger when Kamille refutes him. Kamille likewise decides Scirocco is the ultimate example of evil in the setting and sets his mind to destroy the Big Bad.
• Armour Is Useless: Averted by his final mobile suit, The O, which is the only suit in-show to withstand multiple beam rifle bursts with no damage due to its incredibly thick plating.
• Asskicking Leads to Leadership: His MO. Scirocco gains prestige in the Titans through sheer tactical acumen, impressing Admiral Jamitov and frequently takes the time to subtly assassinate his way up the ranks. By the time he betrays and murders Jamitov, his rule is unopposed and turns even the dwindling fleet into a deadly effective army, backed with Haman's Neo Zeon forces.
• Astral Projection: He has a Newtype battle against Haman where the two of them throw projections of themselves at one another.
• Badass Bookworm: He's a technician and mobile suit designer, but also an Ace Pilot to rival Amuro and Char.
• Bad Boss: While he doesn't outright kill them as he's wont to do with his superiors, Scirocco places no value on the lives of his men and many of his schemes—including his assassination of Jamitov—involve orchestrating conflicts between the Titans and other factions, with many of his underlings dying in the process, much to his apathy.
• Bad Powers, Bad People: Scirocco's Newtype abilities are powerful to the point he can destroy someone's mind and proves to be a grade above any other one introduced throughout the UC. Unfortunately, he's also very amoral and happily uses his abilities to force others to his side in his quest to Take Over the World, not caring about the mental or emotional damage he causes.
• Bastard Understudy: Presents himself as a loyal and efficient devotee and servant to Jamitov's cause. In reality he's just using the Titans as a stepping stone so he can enact his own agenda for the galaxy, they just happen to be the power base he's chosen and kills Jamitov when he gets the chance.
• Batman Gambit: Knowing Char's past with Haman will break down negotiations between the AEUG and Axis, he allows for them to meet while he withdraws his fleet, then sweeps in to ally himself with Haman, allowing a replenishment of resources for his now wavering force of Titans.
• Beauty Is Bad: A conventionally attractive man, Scirocco uses his looks in combination with his oily charisma to manipulate the women around him into following his schemes so he may rule the Earth Sphere, without a care for all the killing along the way.
• Beneath Suspicion: His MO for gaining power in the Titans. When Jamaican demands Scirocco relinquish Von Braun to him, Scirocco seemingly does so without issue even after Jamaican punches him and takes the post demanded of him while secretly setting up his boss to die.
• Beware the Superman: The single most sinister Newtype in the UC verse, Scirocco is a shining example of why normal humans were so afraid of them.
• Big Bad: Seemingly starting off as an Enigmatic Minion to the Titans and Jamitov, Scirocco quickly makes it clear he's wrestling more and more power from his boss, is handily the most dangerous part of the fleet and eventually, kills off Jamitov and Bask and takes the position in name. Although he's nominally sharing his position with Haman Karn by the end, he is clearly the main story antagonist to Zeta.
• Big Bad Duumvirate: Late into the series, Scirocco forms a duo alongside Haman Karn after he deposes of Jamitov and takes control of the Titans.
• Blood Oath: He gives one to Jamitov when pledging his allegiance to the Titans. It doesn't stop him from perforating Jamitov the moment he gets the chance.
• Boring, but Practical: Scirocco keeps his ship, the Jupitris, from his days as an Earth Federation officer as his base of operations. While it's lacking in combat capability, its vast hanger space makes it ideal to store and launch a plethora of mobile suits.
• The Casanova: A very dark take, using his good looks and charming facade to manipulate multiple women into doing his bidding. He's a gender-flipped Femme Fatale at points.
• The Charmer: He corrupts Sarah and Reccoa quite thoroughly to his side and he's such an audacious leader that after assassinating Jamitov, he gets practically all of the remaining Titans to abandon the technical second-in-command Bask for his own faction.
• The Chessmaster: Scirocco is a master manipulator of people and effortlessly maneuvers around both tactical battles and playing his superiors to consolidate power under himself, eventually getting strong enough to kill Jamitov and assume control of the Titans.
• Chronic Backstabbing Disorder: Scirocco pretty much betrays everyone in order to achieve his goals. If you work for him, hire him, or care about him, watch out—he's just using you.
• Consummate Liar: Scirocco can talk a good game about the benevolent new world he claims to be making and gives subordinates big speeches on their role in it but every indication from his constant betrayals and lack of interest in the lives of his followers indicates it's all the well laid facade of a power hungry man.
• Contrasting Sequel Antagonist: Both Scirocco and Gihren Zabi are charismatic demagogues capable of inspiring strong loyalty in their followers and who have their sights on taking over the Earth Sphere. But while Gihren was already the de facto ruler of Zeon by the time the show started, Scirocco starts off just another Lieutenant of the Titans and spends much of the series carefully manipulating his way into more power. Gihren simply sought to rule the Earth for his own ends, while Scirocco, for whatever it's worth, does seem to have some vision of a glorious future for the Earth Sphere. Gihren was also a Non-Action Big Bad, while Scirocco is an extremely capable mobile suit pilot and combatant.
• Control Freak: On the surface more composed and easy going than most but Scirocco ultimately desires a world under his thumb and tellingly responds to anything that gets in the way of him having absolute power with violence. Case in point when Jamaican strong arming Von Braun from him leads to him setting up an entire military conflict to set up his superior's death for his own benefit.
• The Corrupter: Scirocco gives grandiose speeches and charms Jerid, Sarah and Reccoa to his side, using a combination of guile and his psychic powers to influence them to follow him, often to disastrous ends for his pawns.
• Cultured Warrior: In addition to being a skilled mobile suit pilot, Scirocco is also a charismatic speaker with interests in history and politics, though he uses this for admittedly dark ends.
• Curtains Match the Window: Sometimes his hair and eyes are purple. Sometimes they are grey. They always match.
• Custom Uniform: His white Titans uniform appears to be the only one of its kind.
• Cyber Cyclops: Most of the suits he designs, including The O. He's got a very Zeonic preference for monoeyes.
• The Cynic: Scirocco is convinced humanity is destined for apathy and destruction without his guidance, claiming his model of ruling the world as a 'genius' knowing what's right for them has been the only way the world has ever functioned and laughs at Kamille's idea of having people operate with their own freewill.
• Dark Messiah: Believes that only he can save the Earth Sphere. Sarah views him as the savior of humanity and Scircco encourages this view.
• Death by Irony: He's always telling people not to make the mistake of underestimating his Newtype powers, but makes the same mistake himself when he faces off against Kamille at the end of the series.
• Deceptive Disciple: To Jamitov, who he puts up the front of being a loyal Lieutenant to only to constantly wrestle more and more power over the Titans from, culminating in drawing Jamitov into a trap with Haman and killing him to assume control over the fleet.
• Defiant to the End: Although he's formed an alliance with Neo Zeon, after his fleet is destroyed by the colony laser, Scirocco decides to fight Kamille to the death out of rage for ruining his plans.
• Diabolical Mastermind: Towards the end of the series, Scirocco has commandeered the Titans as a personality cult for his own agenda and set himself up as one of the most powerful leaders in the Earth Sphere, despite starting off the series a simple hired mercenary from Jupiter.
• Disc-One Final Boss: He's the main villain of the Gryps Conflict with Haman as the secondary member of the Big Bad Duumvirate but Zeta concludes with his death at Kamille's hands, while Haman lives on to be the Big Bad solo of Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ which picks up where Scirocco's series ends and acts as a continuation to the story of.
• Dragon-in-Chief: Seemingly a simple minion to the Titans, Scirocco is clearly their most competent strategist and strongest pilot, ever taking more and more power for himself until finally killing Jamitov himself to officially take control.
• Dual Wielding: The O quad-wields with its four arms.
• Dying Curse: His last words bring about Kamille's comatose state at the end of the TV series.
• Enemy Mine: He and Haman team up at the end to go after Char. They make for a lethal duo.
• The Engineer: In addition to piloting it, Scriocco designed his own mobile suit and throughout the series works on upgrading it as well.
• Enigmatic Minion: Poses as an underling to the Titans to grant himself access to a base from which he can draw power. Although Scirocco becomes more and more a key player to the work's conflict as he climbs ranks and gets more and more screen time but the enigmatic aspect never ceases, with almost nothing about Scirocco's past or the exact details of his end goal ever being revealed.
• Ephebophile: Hinted at with his thorough seduction of the fifteen-year-old Sarah Zabiarov, though he never shows any genuine sexual interest in her, Scirocco is more than happy to manipulate her attraction towards him to his own selfish ends.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: He does seem to have cared about Sarah, to the extent that a man like him ever cared about anything other than himself, as evidenced by his attack on Katz after her death.
• Even Evil Has Standards: Exploited, as he uses his pragmatist decisions to become a more appealing leader than the Ax-Crazy brass above him. He's just as terrible a person, if not more so, than any of the Titans, but he's actually intelligent in how to direct that evil, and takes steps towards efficiency and tangible results rather than expecting everything will just magically work out because of his authority.
• Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: In his final battle with Kamille, he writes off the hero's questioning of all his evil acts as the rambling of "just a kid", completely ignoring the mass death he's wrought and now being called out for.
• Evil Counterpart: Given that they're both Newtype Ace Pilot mobile suit designers with mental issues, one can see Scirocco as an older, more jaded, cynical Kamille, with his intelligence amplified into true genius, but his empathy almost completely gone. They're also representative of differing attitudes towards Newtypism, with Kamille being held up by other characters as an example of Newtypism at it's best, while Scirocco is the posterboy for Beware the Superman.
• Evil Genius: To the Titans. Scirocco comes up with most of the tide-turning battle tactics and even personally designs most of the revolutionary mobile suits he himself pilots. Unfortunately for the higher ups, Scirocco's intelligence comes with utterly uncontainable ambition and he will take any opportunity to stab in the back for more power.
• Evil Is Bigger: His mobile suits tend towards the large, with The O standing head and shoulders above every AEUG machine in production, and being at least twice as wide.
• Evil Mentor: To multiple characters:
  • Sarah Zabiarov is an impressionable Child Prodigy. Scriocco takes advantage of her crush on him to turn her into his most loyal soldier. Setting her up to be a puppet ruler of mankind, his eloquent speeches sway her to follow him every step of the way as he weaves his war to rule the galaxy.
  • Scirocco also uses his psychic powers to connect to fellow Newtype and AEUG member Reccoa Londe, who finds herself drawn too and later attracted to him. Scirocco sets her up as a pawn and eventual replacement for Sarah after her death, turning her into a villain and traitor to her former friends.
  • The impressionable, boisterous Jerid Messa wants nothing more than glory in battle and Scirocco knows exactly what to say to have him dancing to his tune. Under his guidance, the latter graduates from The Bully to a full on fascist enforcing soldier. For added scumminess points, whilst directing Jerid's next moves, Scirocco even makes an attempt to steal his girlfriend.
  • Even Yazan Gable is something of a student of his. By promising the bloodthirsty soldier the chance to kill, he gets the master pilot following his lead, with Yazan fully devoted to him and helping him kill of Jamaican. By the end of the series, Yazan is so willing to follow Scirocco he follows him as he betrays the Titans leadership and helps wipe out their remaining rivals.
• Eviler than Thou: Jamitov never had any shot at fulfilling his convoluted Evil Plan when Scirocco, a much more effective political schemer and manipulator, was right under him. Near the end, Scirocco kills Jamitov and swipes his private army right out from under him.
• The Evils of Free Will: The basis of his Knight Templarism. Scirocco believes that humanity is populated by chaotic creatures that need the guidance of a genius like himself to function properly.
• Expy: Is heavily based off of Amandara Kamandara aka Emperor Oldna Poseidal, the Big Bad of the previous Tomino-directed series, Heavy Metal L-Gaim. He himself has several expies in the form of Tassilo Vargo, Gilbert Durandal, Ribbons Almark, and a Captain Ersatz in Kurow Kirishima.
• Face of an Angel, Mind of a Demon: Underneath his handsome and feminine facial features is a deceptive and ruthless mind bent on imposing his will upon the Earth Sphere.
• False Friend:
  • To Jamitov he presents himself as an unwaveringly loyal soldier after his recruitment and shows his worth in tactical acumen while secretly plotting to betray his superior to take the Titans for himself.
  • With Jerid he plays the role of commander interested in grooming the younger man into a capable soldier. In reality he sees Jerid as nothing but muscle and happily deploys him on dangerous missions without a second thought and even tries hitting on Jerid's girlfriend while he's out on one.
• Fatal Flaw: His pride. Throughout his tenure, Scirocco makes it quite clear he believes he's the one and only person with the right to rule humanity and this attitude comes back to bite him when Kamille destroys the Titans with the colony laser and rather than fall back with his ally Haman he wrathfully fights the hero to the death in a rage for having his plans ruined.
• Faux Affably Evil: Scirocco puts on the guise of a kind and reasonable man and while, with great difficulty, he is capable of forming attachments with others, he lies and manipulates others so much there's little reason to believe his demeanour is genuine.
• Final Boss: He's the final opponent of the series, facing Kamille in one last confrontation at the end of the Final Battle, once the dust settles and all of the antagonists (save Haman) have been dealt with.
• From Nobody to Nightmare: He was just a minor official from Jupiter, but managed to manipulate his way into becoming the supreme leader of the Titans.
• Frontline General: Scirocco is a combatant in addition to a strategist and makes the most of his tactical and combat capabilities by joining in the fray during fights, whether by commanding a vessel in combat or even personally piloting a mobile suit.
• Glorious Leader: Appears to be aiming for this role, with his tendency to make appeals to emotion when he speaks and his constant drive to gain more and more power for himself.
• A God Am I: A complex he most likely suffers from. Even if he can care about other people, almost everything about Scirocco's claims for a betterment of mankind sound insincere and his cold-hearted used and disposal of everyone around him indicates a man who just wants power and to twist any ideals he can to his own ends.
• Half the Man He Used to Be: After getting impaled by the the nose of Zeta's Waverider form, the next shot shows that the nose has buried itself so deep into the cockpit and through his body that he's been completely bisected at the waist.
• The Heavy: Scirocco manipulates the rest of the characters in the series in the name of his vaguely established goals. He takes this a step further by offing Jamitov to become the Big Bad.
• Heavy Worlder: Scirocco is from Jupiter, and his final mobile suit, The O, is meant to operate in his homeworld's gravity. As such, when flown in outer space or Earth's orbit it transforms from a heavily-armored Mighty Glacier to a Lightning Bruiser and becomes even more dangerous. All his other suits qualify as well to greater or lesser degrees.
• Hidden Agenda Villain: Decades after the original series ended, Scirocco's exact goals are still shrouded in mystery, beyond his goal to Take Over the World, he never makes it clear is he seeks anything beyond power or is some manner of a Well-Intentioned Extremist. The fact he lies so much makes it impossible to tell what his real ultimate goal is.
• Ignored Enamored Underling:
  • He's quite clearly aware of Sarah's crush on him but Scriocco has no interest in her beyond seeing her as a means to fill the role of Puppet Queen for him to rule behind after his conquest to unify mankind underneath him. Interestingly, though he manipulates her feelings, he does seem to care about her on some level, as he becomes uncharacteristically infuriated when she's killed, beyond what one would expect of him losing a useful tool.
  • To Reccoa as well. Scirocco knowingly charms her believing she's a capable candidate for his proxy ruler as well, which eventually leads to her switching sides. He begins setting her up to take Sarah's place after she's killed but unlike Sarah, Scirocco seems both callous to her feelings and never truly proves he cares for her as he does Sarah.
• Immune to Bullets: Not quite but very close: The O's thick armor allows it to tank beam fire from the Qubeley's funnels outright, something that no other suit is able to do.
• Insufferable Genius: Acts haughty to Titan workers examining his machine, chastising them as being beneath the capability of understanding his mobile suit and asserting his intellectual superiority.
• Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: He's stabbed through by the nose of the Zeta's Waverider mode, through his machine, into his own physical body.
• Improbable Age: He's twenty-six yet manages to work himself into a high-enough ranking position within the Titan fleet to be able to assume control after assassinating their leader, Jamitov.
• It's All About Me: Scirocco thinks of no one but himself in the name of advancing his ambitions. He's capable of forming bonds to some people like Sarah but otherwise is wholly focused on being able to control everything he can and to this end throws in his lot with the war criminal Titans, betrays and murders his comrades and casually makes deals with enemy factions to empower himself.
• Karmic Death: The single most powerful Newtype in the UC who's used his powers to gain much of the prestige he can throughout the series and even fights in combat with his abilities is finally stopped when Kamille manages to reach out to the souls of other dead Newtypes, including Sarah and convinces her she can be together with a dead Scirocco. The souls of the dead aid Kamille and shut down the controls of the O, leaving Scirocco helpless as Kamille skewers him and his machine.
• Klingon Promotion: A more cautious and slow paced example than most, Scirocco slowly assumes more power in the Titans, arranging for Jamaican's death to move up the ranks and eventually personally kills Jamitov, then arranges for Bask's death to assume command unquestioned.
• Knight Templar: Scirocco believes that humanity requires an absolute dictator to keep that masses' uncontrolled emotions from ruining the elites.
• Lack of Empathy: Perhaps best demonstrated by the nature of his Psychic Powers. The defining trait of a Newtype is their ability to perform empathic connections with others, understanding them without misconceptions and drawing on their strength through bonds of friendship. Scirocco simply uses it to better manipulate people, and shows no sign of seeing those he connects with as anything more than useful tools.
• Large and in Charge: The O is considerably larger than any regular issue suit of its era, or any Gundam that doesn't have "Psyco" attached to its name.
• Last-Name Basis: Almost every character in this series is addressed by their first name. Even subordinates address their superiors as such: that's how we get Lieutenant Jerid and Captain Bright. Scirocco is the one exception, with everyone but Sarah, addressing him by his last name.
• Light Is Not Good: Scirocco wears a custom white Titans uniform, but is a ruthless manipulator. In his case, any symbolism of brightness is blinding from his manipulations and lies, rather than illuminating of the truth.
• Lightning Bruiser: His last mobile suit, the extremely dangerous PMX-003 The O. Justified in that his mobile suits were designed to operate in a Jovian (Jupiter's) gravity well, which is much stronger than the Earth's.
• The Man Behind the Man: Behind the Woman, actually, is heavily implied to be his ultimate goal, with Scirocco's claims that he believes it will be a woman who becomes the ruler of mankind. Further to this is aligning himself with Reccoa, whom he calls an ideal leader and to whom he elaborates his plan.
• The Man in Front of the Man: While acting as a mercenary for the Titans at first, Scirocco actually plays his superiors, arranging for or directly causing their deaths, which allows him to take absolute control of the Titans right out from under Jamitov's nose.
• Manipulative Bastard: Scirocco toys with the emotions of his subordinates and enemies alike in order to provoke the response he wants.
• Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane: It's unclear if Reccoa and Sarah follow Scirocco out of being charmed by his words in the form of regular human communication or he's taking advantage of the fact both are Newtypes and he can connect with them mentally to converse with them supernaturally.
• Meaningful Name: 'Scirocco' is a powerful Mediterranean wind, fitting for a man who bowls through the ranks of the Titans to become their leader.
• Mid-Season Upgrade: The O, which he adopts during the last few episodes.
• Mighty Glacier: The O is designed to be one of these in a Jovian gravity well. Turned loose on Earth it becomes a Lightning Bruiser.
• Mind Manipulation: Though the exact extent of Scirocco's use of his powers is left purposefully vague, the mental projections Reccoa and other characters see of him heavily imply that he is able to telepathically communicate with them.
• Mind Rape: Scirocco has powerful mind influencing Newtype abilities and even as he dies from a fatal wound, is able to reach out and crush Kamille's mind in retribution.
• Misanthrope Supreme: Scirocco looks at 99% of humanity with utter disdain and sees them as little more than cattle whom must be beaten into submission and presented a totalitarian regime to live without killing each other. He attempts to justify his beliefs by claiming a small handful of geniuses have always dictated what's right and wrong and insists his mind alone should be what guides mankind.
• Morality Pet: While she's very much a pawn to his schemes, Scirocco does harbor affection towards Sarah and even sounds more genuine than his usual Faux Affably Evil self when he speaks with her. Tellingly, he goes absolutely ballistic with her death and Reccoa actually has to talk him into a tactical retreat rather than attacking her killer.
• Mr. Fanservice: Scirocco's good looks and magnificent bastardry make him rather popular with the female fanbase.
• Multi-Armed and Dangerous: The O has four arms, each of which carries a beam sabre he wields to lethal efficiency in close quarters combat.
• My Significance Sense Is Tingling: His psychic powers allow him to be able to sense other Newtypes, as shown when he's able to feel Kamille and later Reccoa's presences when they near.
• Mysterious Past: Other than being from Jupiter, precious little is known about Scirocco's past prior to joining the Titans. Along with his vague end goal, it makes him all the more enigmatic.
• Narcissist: Scirocco isn't totally callous when it comes to his pawns, but he's close enough, and has difficulty seeing them as anything more than possessions or extensions of his will. Even his Utopia Justifies the Means rhetoric has a certain "only I can save the world" edge to it, and his grandiose nature and inability to empathize with those who are not exactly like himself, makes him a strong candidate for being a pathological narcissist.
• Not So Stoic: The only times we really see his frigid exterior crack is when Sarah dies and he forgets all about the psychic battle he was waging just moments before in favor of going after her killer and when the controls for The O lock up and the Zeta Gundam is about to impale him. But that last one's a little more understandable.
  "The O... the controls are dead! What's wrong? WHY ISN'T IT MOVING?!?"
• Oh, Crap!: When he realizes the psychic ghosts Kamille has connected with have disabled the O, he's in a state of pure shock.
• Pet the Dog: He does sincerely care for Sarah and at one point encourages her to stay with him when she wants to fight in her mobile suit, noting he's just sent Yazan out on a dangerous mission and wants to keep her safe. There is some Pragmatic Villainy involved, as Scriocco plans to make her ruler of humanity but he also makes it clear he does care for her wellbeing.
• The Philosopher: A darker take but Scirocco's quite happy to expound (what he claims) his ideal utopia would consist of and lectures the likes of Kamille on his world of efficiency run with himself in the shadows.
• Playing Both Sides: Plays the Titans, the Axis, and the AEUG against one another as he climbs to power. Only Haman Karn really catches on.
• Pragmatic Villainy:
  • Scirocco has no morale qualms over the barbaric moves of Bask but has Sarah reveal to the AEUG his plans to bomb the station the Argama is being repaired at so he can have his superior's plans upset and the man assassinated, allowing Scirocco to gain more power within the Titans.
  • Additionally, while he never states a moral problem with the Cyber Newtype program, it seems he finds it inefficient (and it is shown to produce mentally unstable soldiers who cause loads of collateral damage). Scirocco takes no part in the conditioning and drugging of the Child Soldiers and instead operates using diplomacy and setting up assassinations when he needs to advance his own schemes.
• Pride: Scirocco very much believes only he can lead humanity on the right course and is unwilling to conceive that anyone else could do right by the human race. Additionally, he refuses to be beaten and made to flee and despite having forged an alliance with Haman Kahn, chooses to stay and fight Kamille to the death after his Titan fleet is destroyed.
• Prince Charming Wannabe: This is how Mouar sees Scirocco. He fails to impress or seduce her in any way. She is not wise to his evil intentions sadly, she dies before the point where it becomes more evident. She just remains indifferent to his charms and really likes the down to Earth Jerid much better.
• The Proud Elite: He's somewhat of a Foil to Quattro's former (and future) identity of Char Aznable in this regard, considering himself a higher form of humanity who has the right to look down upon and judge all others. But unlike the noble-blooded Char who uses his aristocratic upbringing to justify his elitism, Scirocco is an elitist of the mind, feeling that it's his great genius that gives him superiority.
• Psychic Link:
  • After meeting with Reccoa, she sees frequent projections of Scirocco, which may be a result of him communicating with her and eventually leads to her defecting to the Titans.
  • With his close subordinate, Sarah, even after her death some manner of bond prevails, as her spirit returns to protect him in his final battle with Kamille.
• Psychic Powers: One of the most powerful Newtypes to ever appear in-series, to the point where he's able to Mind Rape the equally powerful Kamille as he's dying and is more or less broadcasting his presence to everyone in his general vicinity.
• Purple Is Powerful: His hair and eyes are frequently shown in this color and tellingly he's the most powerful Newtype ever put to screen.
• Opportunistic Bastard: Quickly becomes much more actively controlling of events but initially he uses a chance at recruitment to the Titans to wow Admiral Jamitov with his seeming devotion through a Blood Oath, taking in the seeming additional soldier is what leads to both a succession of victories for the Titans and ultimately a change in leadership when Scirocco kills his way through the ranks, including bumping off Jamitov himself to take absolute power.
• Renaissance Man: Starship captain, battlefield strategist, psychological mastermind, a smooth-talker, mobile suit designer, and Federation ace. He's a busy man.
• Sensitive Guy and Manly Man: He and Yazan Gable form a very twisted variant. Scirocco's a cultured psychological predator, with Psychic Powers, grand ambitions, and superb manipulative skills. Yazan's an actual predator with a nearly feral nature, no powers and a direct way of handling problems. They get along very well.
• Shadow Dictator: As a man who likes to fly under the radar Scirocco's plan involves setting up Sarah (later switching to Reccoa after her death) to become the ostensible ruler of humanity whilst he stays in the shadows, directing her decisions and ensuring history follows the course he wishes for.
• Signature Headgear: His headband which has an almost tiara-like look. It never receives any dialogue indicating a purpose but given Scirocco's manipulative tendencies and typical attempts to get people to trust him, it could signify a softening of his image to viewers, much like his bright and sleek uniform.
• Social Darwinist: He views humanity as being separated into masses and elites. Scircco finds the masses to be disgusting as their unchecked emotions hold elites like himself back.
• Soft-Spoken Sadist: Befitting of his refined and seemingly-polite manner of speech, Scirocco rarely raises his voice, remaining calm and composed even while plotting to betray and murder almost everyone around him.
• Sore Loser: Scircco destroys Kamille's mind as revenge for killing him.
• Space Fighter: The Messala's altmode transforms from a mobile suit to armor, which allows it to fly around swiftly and combat like a dogfighter.
• The Starscream: Although he bides his time, acting as a mysterious but loyal henchman, he eventually murders Jamitov and Bask so he can take over the Titans, firmly standing as one half of the newly-formed Big Bad Duumvirate for the remainder of the show.
• The Stoic: Beyond a put-on mild mannered politeness, Scirocco speaks in a reserved tone, rarely getting excited or angered even in the midst of the war he's participating in.
• Straw Feminist: Scirocco resembles an unflattering caricature of a male feminist. He preaches about a peaceful future where woman are the rulers of mankind, while at the same time using such rhetoric along with his own charisma to manipulate the women around him, and his end goal is implied to be to set a woman up as a figurehead while he rules from behind-the-scenes.
• Straw Hypocrite: Scirocco preaches to his followers in the Titans that he intends to help them win the Gryps Conflict. Given his tendency to use and throw them aside as he sees fit, his allegiance to them is clearly one born out of needing a military force for the sake of convenience as opposed to any true care or loyalty to them.
• Super Prototype: The PMX series, the set of unique and extraordinarily powerful mobile suits that he designed and built aboard the Jupitris. Of these, the PMX-003 The O is perhaps the one most iconically associated with him.
• Take Over the World: Scirocco talks like a Visionary Villain, but since his actual objectives are never made clear (and let's face it, he's far from the most trustworthy person in the Universal Century) his motivations are pretty up in the air. The one thing that is clear is that he wants to rule the world.
• Taking You with Me: A variation. As he's dying he lashes out with his Psychic Powers and manages to Mind Rape Kamille into a coma.
• Tranquil Fury: His response to Jamaican's taking of Von Braun from him. Even after being punched in the face he remains mostly composed, it's only behind his superior's back he covertly leaks his plans to the AEUG to set up his death.
• Transforming Mecha: His first mobile suit, the PMX-000 Messala, which transforms into a mobile armor.
• Übermensch: The first example in the franchise, who plans to ram his sense of morality (whatever that may be) down everyone's throats.
• The Unfettered: Scirocco is wholly given to his goals (whatever they may be) and coldly uses, manipulates and murders any he needs to during the Mêlée à Trois during the Gryps Conflict so he can take absolute power over the world.
• Utopia Justifies the Means: While his status as a Consummate Liar makes the genuine belief suspect to say the least, Scirocco uses the rhetoric of a benevolent conqueror and claims to plan to save all of humanity with an iron-fisted rule.
• Villain in a White Suit: Scirocco's white uniform, which seems to be unique among the Titans and makes him stand out as someone who draws attention to himself rather than fall into rank.
• Villainous Breakdown: While normally calm and composed and capable of making the rational choice even under duress, Kamille wiping out his fleet sees him enraged, deciding to fight the hero to the death rather than leveraging his alliance with Haman to fall back and continue plotting.
• Villainous Friendship:
  • He and Yazan Gable get along quite well, to everyone's surprise and confusion. That being said Scriocco deploys Yazan with little thought to his safety and Yazan doesn't even comment on Scirocco's death after outliving him. The implication of the scene is much more symbolic of a Social Darwinist respect between the franchise's most powerful Newtypes working alongside arguably one of the best Oldtype pilots for each other's ability.
  • With Sarah he's objectively a horrible, manipulative "friend" to his underling, who blatantly has a crush on him Scirocco strings along to use her as a soldier and possibly intended Puppet Queen but he goes ballistic when she's killed, for once dropping from his usual rational behavior to swear vengeance before being calmed down.
• Villainous Legacy:
  • His final action in the series is to fry Kamille's brain. This is part of what causes Char to lose hope and descend further into his neuroticism, setting the stage for Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's Counterattack.
  • His actions also result in both the AEUG and the Earth Federation Forces being decimated in their final battle against the Titans and leave Haman Karn's Neo Zeon as the rising power in the Earth Sphere, setting the stage for their own campaign to conquer the Earth Sphere in Gundam ZZ.
• Villainous Valor: After the Titans fleet is wiped out, rather than fallback with his new ally Haman, he elects to fight Kamille to the death in a rage for his plans being ruined. Even with his schemes in tatters he continues to wax his philosophy to the hero, convinced his way was right and ready to show it to the end.
• Villain Respect: During an early mission where he's pitted against the AEUG he compliments their strategy while alone, even saying he can sympathize with their goals even if he's being employed to fight them.
• Villain with Good Publicity: Barring Bask, Scirocco is well-received from the moment he comes to the Titans and discreetly arranges for the murder of antagonistic superiors like Jamaican to keep his reputation clean as he climbs the ranks. By the time he kills Jamitov to pit the blame on Haman, his popularity is such practically the entire remaining fleet ditches Bask, the second-in-command, to follow his lead.
• Visionary Villain: The idea is toyed with, while Scirocco claims to have plans for humanity that involves peace, he lies so much and so clearly lusts for power that it's hard to tell if he's being truthful or not.
• War for Fun and Profit: Scirocco didn't start the war with the AEUG, but he's more than willing to manipulate it for his own ends, with the ultimate goal to Take Over the World. Whether that domination's for the better or the worse is the big question.
• Warrior Poet: A very dark example. Scirocco is both a skilled fighter with a gun and mobile suit, as well as a devious plotter with his own philosophy to "fix" the world. He frequently engages Kamille and Quattro in combat whilst delivering his own political thoughts, usually trying to convince them he's in the right.
• Well-Intentioned Extremist: Although it's hard to say if he's full of shit or not on it, Scirocco claims to have grand plans to rule humanity as an absolute dictator to prevent them from destroying each other and that all the pain and suffering he causes is in the name of a noble end.
• Wicked Cultured: Scirocco is a well spoken man with interests in history and future politics, which only serves to emphasize his desire to take control over everything.
• A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing: To the Titans leadership. Scirocco presents himself as a tactically brilliant lieutenant who can efficiently meet any objectives he's given. In reality he's making a point of climbing the ranks (working in assassination where necessary) to take over the organization for himself. Symbolically he even dresses in a clean bright outfit as though he's trying to signal he's not a threat.
• Worthy Opponent: Views Haman Kahn, one of the only women he can't manipulate and the first Newtype pilot to give him pause, in this light.
• Xanatos Gambit: A frequent plot of Scirocco's is to pit members of the AEUG and Titans against one another, later stringing Neo Zeon into the mix. To gain more power he sets up conflicts between the sides, eventually setting the stage for a battle between the Titans and Axis, allowing himself to either see his employers win or dwindle in number but forge an alliance with Neo Zeon's Haman Khan to bolster his own ranks. He winds up also killing Jamitov to take power over the Titans in the chaos.
• Xanatos Speed Chess: When Jamaican pulls rank on Scirocco to force him to relinquish control of Von Braun, Scirocco improvises by seemingly allowing him control, while putting in motion a plot to use the AEUG and Yazan to kill him off and assume more power for himself.
• You Have Outlived Your Usefulness:
  • While Scirocco is more than happy to work under Jamaican, he's nothing but a stepping stone and as soon as Scirocco believes him to be of no more use, simply leaks his plans to the AEUG and then has Yazan put in place an attack to have him killed.
  • Even his allegiance to the Titan leadership is nothing more than a root to power for him and despite gaining the absolute trust of Jamitov, once Scirocco feels he's ready to make his power play, personally kills the Titans leader and later has Bask killed as well, assuming complete control over the organization.

Commanders

Jamaican Daninghan

Voice Actors: Keaton Yamada (Japanese), Roger Rhodes (English)

Jerid and Yazan's superior officer, Jamaican is a sycophantic Titans' commander who hangs onto every word Bask and Jamitov say. He and his men chase the Argama throughout the first half of the show.

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• Asshole Victim: Admit it—when Yazan killed him, you either didn't care at all or cheered.
• Bad Boss: Drives Jerid and Mouar to (temporarily) ally with Scirocco.
• Bullying a Dragon: Jamaican has a habit of getting under the skin of a couple of dangerous characters, namely Scirocco and Yazan. He holds himself above them with his rank but that's barely a deterrent for people like them.
• Dirty Coward: He was happy to hide behind Yazan and let him soak up enemy fire. In the end, this really didn't work out for him.
• Forehead of Doom: Often times exaggerated by sporadic moments of less-than-quality animation, but Jamaican is frequently remembered by many Gundam fans for his frighteningly-large forehead.
• Hate Sink: Jamaican isn't a sympathetic villain like Buran, Jerid, or Mouar; and he isn't a bombastic monster like Yazan or Bask. Jamaican is just a micromanaging asshole that you'd much more likely meet in real life, and the narrative plays up his smug and annoying traits to make him a character to just hate rather than elicit fear or awe with that hate.
• Killed Off for Real: Yazan lures Emma to kill Jamaican for interfering with his bloodlust.
• Lack of Empathy: Jamaican isn't a psychopath like Yazan or Bask but he cares about nothing other than his own career.
• Non-Action Guy: Jamaican is more of an Armchair Military type of character much like Bask and Jamitov; this further contrasts him with the MS Pilot Titans.
• Non-Indicative Name: This straight-laced, fascistic, white bloodclot is probably the least Jamaican-looking person you could imagine. He is, however, both a jerk and a chicken.
• Porn Stache: Jamaican wears his moustache Adolf Hitler style.
• Pragmatic Villainy: As much of a smug kiss-ass Jamaican is, he also tries to aim for some degree of efficiency within the military.
  • Bask feels that the Titans should only be composed of Earthlings and doesn't want Spacenoids employed whilst Jamaican argues that skill and loyalty are more important and that if they have them Spacenoids should be Titans.
  • While he and Lila clash because of Jurisdiction Friction (Jamaican wanting the Titans to be in charge of the pursuit whilst Lila feels he's muscling out the Earth Federation's staff) he does point out her Leeroy Jenkins tendencies and how they end up putting their plans in danger.
  • When they've lost their foothold on the moon, Jerid demands a mobile suit so he can engage the enemy. Jamaican denies the request and while it's clear he's being an ass about it, he also feels that its better that they cut their losses rather than waste more soldiers.
• The Rival: Views Scirocco as as his rival within the Titans. Scirocco feels differently.
• Smug Snake: Jamaican is smug, condescending, and severely overestimates his abilities. His desire to outdo much more dangerous Titans like Scirocco and Yazan always ends with him coming up short.
• Starter Villain: His entire purpose is to chase Kamille and the Argama for the first part of the show, and then die right around the time that Scirocco, Yazan, and the rest of the real threats appear.
• We Have Reserves: Jamaican views his soldiers as resources rather than people. While he doesn't deliberately throw them away in futile operations (at one point ordering Jerid, whom he hates, to stand down lest he die pointlessly), there is no personal care or attachment that he places on their lives. The deaths of grunts are acceptable losses provided they die performing useful operations.
• What Happened to the Mouse?: Jamaican's death scene is cut from A New Translation and he just dissapears after the attempted Colony Drop. With the massive casualties it's easy to presume that he was Killed Offscreen.

Jerid Messa

Voice Actors: Kazuhiko Inoue (Japanese), Ethan Cole (English)

Main mecha: RMS-106 Hizack, RMS-117 Galbaldy β, RMS-108 Marasai, RX-110 Gabthley, RX-160 Byarlant, NRX-055 Baund Doc (pink)

I'll make that pompous fool kneel before me someday.

Kamille's rival, Jerid possesses the personality of a school bully, and the attitude to match. He seeks to one day run the Titans himself, and to that end, aims to destroy Kamille and the stolen Gundams as a means of improving his reputation.

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• Ace Custom: Averted. Despite being The Rival, Jerid never pilots a custom suit, his suits either being standard edition grunts (Hizack, Galbaldy, and Marasai) or Super Prototypes (Gundam Mk. II, Gabthley, Byarlant, and Baund Doc). There is a design for his own custom Baund Doc in blue, but the series and movies ultimately gave him the standard pink version.
• Ace Pilot: Reaches this status around the same time Kamille does.
• Adapted Out: A New Translation removes his RMS-117 Galbaldy β and he goes from the Hi-Zack to the Marasai. In the original he took up the Galbaldy to honor Lila, as it was her mech, after she died. Since she survives to participate in the attack on Jaburo he never gets in one and goes straight to the higher performing Marasai.
• Alas, Poor Villain: Jerid's a total bastard, but the sheer pointlessness of his death is still rather sad. Even Kamille apparently agrees.
• Amazon Chaser: One of the main reasons he fell for Lila.
• Ambition Is Evil: In a personal moment Jerid admits to Lila that his main goal is to someday rule the Titans and much of his actions in the story are to advance that goal. Interestingly enough it acts as something of a sympathetic point for Jerid highlighting his Villainous Underdog status and him as a fairly small pilot with big dreams.
• Anti-Villain: Jerid is a jackass who doesn't care about civilian casualties and will do anything to win a fight. And when you're on a team with Yazan Gable, Paptimus Scirocco, and Bask Om that leaves you looking pretty good, as does his genuine concern for his subordinates and his love for Mouar.
• Archenemy: He and Kamille reach this status by the midpoint of the show. There's nothing Jerid won't do if it means getting rid of Kamille, and Kamille for his part, hates Jerid more than anyone save Scirocco, but pays less attention to him as the war goes on.
• At Least I Admit It: While he has committed a number of hypocritical acts, Jerid often cops to his own actions and uses them as a means to tell off Kamille for being just as hypocritical at times.
• Badass Normal: For most the show, Jerid demonstrates no Newtype powers. He's still one of the few people who can give Kamille a run for his money.
• Battle Couple: Him and Mouar form a villainous, but deadly efficient version of this.
• The Bully: Has the personality of a classic high school bully.
• Can't Catch Up: He can never quite reach Kamille's level of skill, though that doesn't stop him from being extremely dangerous, especially when in Unstoppable Rage mode.
• Cartwright Curse: Falls for Lila and Mouar, both get killed off. Also a partial cause of this for Kamille.
• Character Development: Though Jerid's morality never significantly changes he does go through a lot of development. He starts the series as an arrogant Military Maverick eager to flaunt the Titans' right to do anything they want. His encounter with Lila makes him take his ambitions much more seriously and with Mouar he becomes a much more capable team player and leader in the field, becoming a lot more patient and tactically minded. There's also a number of scenes of him sticking his neck out for his allies. His belief in the Titans grows stronger as well, turning him from what would normally be just a Schoolyard Bully All Grown Up who flaunts the Titans' power, to a dedicated fascist who embraces Titan ideals and not just the power that comes with them.
• Char Clone: In a story where Quattro Bajeena/the original Char Aznable exists, it is almost impossible to notice... but his rivalry with Kamille, his experience of learning about battle and his relationship with the women in his life recalls a lot of the tensions Amuro and Char had during the One Year War.
• Contrasting Sequel Antagonist: As explained above, Jerid's role in the story is very much like Char's from the previous series. Where they contrast is their personality. While Char is determined to beat Amuro in combat, he never allows his rivalry to distract him from his other ambitions plotting revenge against the Zabi Family. He is something of a Chessmaster who uses battles, even losing ones, to further his agenda. Jerid meanwhile is a hothead who's rivalry with Kamille turns into a full-blown obsession.
• Dragon with an Agenda: Towards Jamitov, acting as his bodyguard and enforcer while planning to take control of the Titans at the first opportunity. After Scirocco's coup, Jerid acts as one of his best pilots, though his focus on killing Kamille and the fact that Scirocco doesn't really have an inner circle may cost him his dragon status.
• Deceptive Disciple: To Jamitov, and one could argue, Scirocco. All Jerid cares about is leading the Titans one day, and he'll kiss up to whoever he has to in order to get there.
• Dropped a Bridge on Him: Kamille kills Jerid early in the final battle with a few lucky shots. The sheer pointlessness of it sends Kamille into a Heroic BSoD.
• 11th-Hour Superpower: Finally gains a Gundam equivalent, in the form of the Baund Doc, just in time for his final throwdown with Kamille.
• Empowered Badass Normal: In the last few episodes, Jerid begins to unlock his Newtype potential. The Irony.
• Even Evil Has Standards:
  • When his first sortie with Kamille in the Zeta Gundam gets Siddeley, one of his subordinates killed, Jerid is ashamed that it happened, especially since he was the CO. In contrast, Scirocco was barely phased by it, simply commenting to Mouar that Jerid should have killed two of the enemy pilots to make up for it.
  • He isn't a fan of gassing colonies — but he still follows orders on it and doesn't protest.
• Flawed Prototype: Only a single Byarlant was ever produced, since the machine, while fast and highly maneuverable, lacks the ability to utilize most handheld weapons, leaving it dependent upon built-in beam sabres and guns.
• Foil: To Kamille, whose progress he mirrors throughout the show. They're both young, arrogant ace pilots with a chip on their shoulder and something to prove. Jerid's Jerk Jock persona makes for a marked contrast with Kamille's Insufferable Genius, while his desire for promotions and personal glory, and weak Newtype status, set him apart from the genuinely committed, frighteningly powerful Kamille.
• Fragile Speedster: The Gabthley and especially the Byarlant are this when compared to the Gundam Mark II and Zeta Gundam. The Byarlant in particular is fast and very agile, but lacks armor when compared to its rivals.
• Glory Seeker: He seeks to one day lead the Titans and joined up for the fame. Dodges being a full-on Glory Hound due to his concern for the troops under his command, and willingness to accept blame when he feels he hasn't lived up to his standards.
• Handicapped Badass: Jerid spends a couple of episodes on crutches. He still tracks Kamille and Four across the mountains to deal with them.
• Hero Killer: As the series goes on, Jerid's competence grows. This is crystalized in episode 30 when Mouar dies and Jerid snaps and goes on a truly savage offensive. After hurting himself and being out for six episodes, Jerid returns with his own unique Mobile Suit (The Byarlant) and a chillingly effective demeanor. Though he never reaches Yazan's level, Jerid ascends to a noteworthy position in the Titans and subsequently kills Four, Ajis, and Apolly in addition to dozens of AEUG and Axis suits.
• Hot-Blooded: Hot headed and quick to rush into combat with no real plans.
• Hypocrite: His rivalry with Kamille, which eventually grows more one-sided on Jerid's end, is full of hypocrisy. Jerid accidentally kills Kamille's mother and not only does he not feel guilt about it but when he later encounters Kamille, he's out right flippant about it. Kamille kills Jerid's love-interest, Lila, in self-defense? Well that's the most heinous action imaginable and Jerid become hellbent on killing Kamille for the remainder of the series. Not that it makes him any less wrong about other times Kamille kills his allies.
• Idiot Ball: Jerid manages to catch Kamille's mobile suit in a Waist lock and decides to take his time in crushing the cockpit in the waist section with his arms to inflict a slow and painful death. This is incredibly dumb because 1. the arm motors don't have the high output that is necessary to compress the waist section of a standard mobile suit, let alone Kamille's, which is probably reinforced to withstand some degree of crushing pressure and 2. it woud've been much faster to just shoot Kamille at point-blank or push a beam saber through him given what little time Jerid had at the moment.
• It's Personal: With Kamille. At first he's motivated out of embarrassment of being being in combat by a child but then later his love interest Lila becomes a causality and he now he's out for vengeance.
• Jerkass: A jerk to almost everyone who crosses his path. Though when you're a member of the Titans and that's the worst thing that can be said of you, you're diving right into Anti-Villain territory.
• Jerkass Has a Point: Jerid is the only character to consistently call Kamille out on his Moral Myopia. For his own part, Jerid's fully aware that he himself is no better; he's just stopped caring.
• Jerk Jock: Jerid definitely gives off this vibe. It's easy enough to see him as the quarterback in an eighties teen movie.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Downplayed, but as the series goes on Jerid's more humanizing traits surface more frequently such as the care he has for people close to him (Kacricon, Mouar, etc.) while he also tries to reign in his more impulsive acts. Though a villain, Jerid's standards show themselves as he's placed up against much more cruel characters like Scirocco.
• Just Following Orders: While he may not have had the inclination to do so himself, he's comfortable with carrying out war crimes if it was Bask or Jamitov who gave the order.
• Killed Off for Real: Kicked into an exploding battleship, while screaming in frustration at his inability to match Kamille.
• Know When to Fold 'Em: Surprisingly yes. Jerid starts out as a Hot-Blooded idiot, but by the series' midpoint his ability to tell when a battle has been lost is what makes him officer material.
• Lightning Bruiser: The NRX-055 Baund Doc is a huge transformable mobile armor/mobile suit with thick armor plating, a powerful armament, and enough thrusters to let it keep up with the Zeta in terms of both agility and speed.
• Love at First Punch: He had a crush on Dark Action Girl Lila, who beat him up at least twice during practice.
• Mecha-Mooks: Initially pilots a Hizack, the standard mook suit.
• Military Maverick: A villainous example. Jerid's got the Jerk Jock militant attitude about him and he's suitably undisciplined and prone to rash thinking. His first showing as a mobile suit pilot had him perform flashy unsafe maneuvers and crash into a government building, injuring many. Though unruliness and a disregard for safety and protocol is common within the Titans who largely play to their own rules and even with that Jerid does try to be a team player as that's how he feels he'll be able to rise in the ranks.
• Might Makes Right: Claims that the Titans possessing power gives them the right to do as they please.
• Mook Promotion: Begins the show as a non-entity, before evolving into Kamille's archrival.
• Necessarily Evil: How he views the worst of the Titans' actions.
• Overshadowed by Awesome: Jerid consistently comes out on the worse end of his fights with Kamille, making him appear to be a relatively poor pilot. The thing to remember, though, is that Kamille is a supremely powerful Newtype in a Super Prototype suit and Jerid is not. Whenever he fights somebody other than Kamille, he tends to acquit himself just fine.
• Pet the Dog: When pursuing the AEUG with his own team, the Garuda takes a shot through the cockpit and starts to plumet. Jerid breaks from the fight to check on the team, only re-engaging when they confirm they've switched to the secondary bridge and can pull out of their dive.
• Real Men Wear Pink: Or pilot a pink Baund Doc anyway. A custom color scheme for his Baund Doc exists, but wasn't animated for some reason, leading him to use Rosamia's colors instead.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: He and Mouar are a romantic variation. He's the red to her blue.
• The Rival: To Kamille, though as the series goes on, it becomes one sided on Jerid's part.
• The Social Darwinist: Has some shades of this, considering his Survival Mantra (mentioned below) and his declaration that 'the Titans have the power; that gives them the right'.
• Super Prototype: Becomes a test pilot for numerous new models, including the Gabthley, Byarlant, and Baund Doc, all of them far better than your average mook suit, and none of which ever entered mass production.
• Survival Mantra: "If you're weak, you won't survive." Recites this as he competes with his comrades to board a shuttle fleeing Jaburo, which was rigged to go up in a mushroom cloud.
• Took a Level in Badass: Jerid evolves from a worthless Villain of the Week to an Ace Pilot in a Super Prototype mobile suit, whose threat level is near that of Big Bads Haman and Scirocco. Even Haman herself was shocked during his Unstoppable Rage at her after she attempted to assassinate Jamitov: he would have killed her had the AEUG not interfered. He's also responsible for killing Apolly near the end.
• Transforming Mecha: The Gabthley and the Baund Doc both transform between mobile armor and mobile suit.
• Unholy Matrimony: With Mouar. Somewhat one-sided because Mouar isn't really villainous, just an antagonist.
• Unstoppable Rage: You do not want to fight Jerid after killing one of his allies. You really don't.
• Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Accidentally plays a key role in the Titans' downfall several times. Firstly, mocking Kamille's name set in motion the events that led to Kamille becoming a Gundam pilot. Then his killing of Kamille's mother cemented Kamille's loyalty to the AEUG cause. Finally, a botched attempt to kill Kamille at Dakar led to accidentally hitting the Federation Assembly building while the legislature was in session, on live television, thus supporting the AEUG's message that the Titans were a dangerous rogue agency that needed to be shut down.
• Villainous Underdog: Jerid is outgunned, outclassed, and overpowered by Kamille. That never stops him from giving near as good as he gets.
• Villainous Valor: Given that his entire shtick boils down to "Fight the telepathic and telekenetic hero and his Super Prototype with my own skills and a mook suit" this trope is definitely in play.
• Weak, but Skilled: He's not the Titans' top pilot, but he tends to give a remarkably good accounting of himself despite weak/nonexistent Newtype powers and a long line of inferior suits.
• You Killed My Father: Mother actually. His and Kamille's long and bloody feud begins with Jerid's accidental murder of Kamille's mother, Hilda. Even then, everyone else that gets caught in it is either by coincidence or from Taking the Bullet.

Yazan Gable

Voice Actors: Hōchū Ōtsuka (Japanese), Corby Proctor (English), Ryan Ballantine (EN, Dynasty Warriors: Gundam)

Main mecha: ORX-005 Gaplant, RX-139 Hambrabi

A Titans officer with a love of bloodshed, Yazan is the most capable Oldtype pilot introduced in the show. Raised by a mother who disdained all trappings of culture, Yazan is an almost feral predator, who lives only to prove his superiority.

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• Ace Pilot: One of the Titans' best MS pilots, with the highest killcount of the war. Tactically, he's a classic bushwhacker, using the terrain, and superior tactics to outmanouvere Newtypes and Super Prototypes.
• A Father to His Men: Perhaps one of his very few redeeming qualities. Yazan was shown to care for his squad-mates, most notably ensigns Dunkel Cooper and Ramsus Hasa. During their sorties he was shown to offer encouragement to the wingmen under his command, and when Ramsus was killed in battle, Yazan was deeply shocked by the loss of his brother-in-arms and carried out a fierce counterattack to avenge him. He also acknowledges the good work of the maintenance crew, an uncommon occurrence among the ranks of Titans.
• Ambiguous Situation: Although the fandom generally views him as a very skillful Oldtype, Scirocco appeared to have seen Newtype potential in him, which he tried to foster. During his duel with Reccoa, it is implied that he was able to sense her to some degree.
• Anime Hair: Part-bouffant, part-Mohawk, part-mullet, part balding... it's quite the look, isn't it?
• Ax-Crazy: Downplayed. Yazan is brutally violent and questionably sane, but his evil, rather than his madness, receives the most emphasis, and his general characterization is that of a vicious, uncaring thug rather than a cackling madman.
• Badass Normal: Yazan is neither a Newtype nor the pilot of a Super Prototype. He still kills more AEUG members than any other Titan, at a point in the show when those without special abilities or suits were generally being relegated to the backburner. Kamille lampshades this during their first battle, noting "He's got lots of experience, but I don't feel any psychic pressure. He's just strong." Not only does he survive into the events of ZZ, albeit humiliated. But eventually re-emerges in MSV-R: The Return of Johnny Ridden as an even more dangerous ace.
• Blood Knight: Yazan's always spoiling for a fight; he enjoys both the adrenaline rush of combat and the chance to kill AEUG members.
• Book Dumb: An uneducated brute, but far from stupid. Most of his victories in fact, come from outsmarting the opposing pilots.
• The Brute: Yazan is the Titans' and then Scirocco's attack dog. He's invaluable due to his cunning, viciousness, and skill as a pilot, but is never promoted past Lieutenant because he's simply not the kind of guy you give any real authority to.
• Combat Pragmatist: Yazan's an ambush predator by nature. He utilises the terrain, decoys, team attacks, and anything else that will give him an advantage. The man may be a Blood Knight, but there's no Honour Before Reason.
• Comic-Book Fantasy Casting: According to character designer Yoshikazu Yasuhiko, Yazan is modeled on Sting, specifically his role as Feyd-Rautha Harkonnen in Dune (1984) (which came out the year before Zeta); Yazan's famous turtle tattoo is likewise a nod to Sting's album "The Dream of the Blue Turtles", which came out the same year.
• Dragon Their Feet: Of Scirocco's main subordinates, Yazan is the only one to survive his death returning in ZZ, brain damaged but still violent and troublesome.
• Even Evil Has Standards: Subverted - he refused to partake in a gassing operation but this is because he prefers to kill one-on-one.
• Eviler than Thou: The most morally black character in Zeta. Yazan is consistently depicted as a violent and cruel powerhouse who strikes fear in the hearts of enemies and allies alike. Jerid, Gady, Mouar, Sarah, and many other Titans are unnerved by the kind of man he is. It's especially prominent in his objection to the colony gassing; Yazan sees one of the Titans most vile acts and doesn't think it's evil enough.
• Evil Is Not Pacifist: Yazan is a serious war-junkie, joining the Titans so he would have an excuse to act on his violent impulses. Without war he'd be in serious trouble.
• Expy: There's the aforementioned resemblance to Feyd-Rautha, but he has his own Fountain of Expies in Rakan Dahkaran, Ash Grey, Ali Al-Saachez, Decil Galette, and Luciano Bradley, and has a Distaff Counterpart in Rezun Schneider. Curiously enough, his Japanese voice actor actually voiced Feyd-Rautha in the TV Asahi's Japanese dub of Dune (1984).
• Extra Eyes: The RX-139 Hambrabi features five Zeonic monoeyes, allowing it to see in all directions.
• Flawed Prototype: The Gaplant was rushed into production and has a blind spot. This does not stop Yazan from being very dangerous with it.
• The Friend Nobody Likes: Subverted. When he's first introduced, Yazan is clearly this with Jamaican, Jerid, Mouar, and Gady all finding him too dangerous and disobedient. Jamaican tries to leave him for dead and Gady treads lightly around him. When Yazan is transferred to Scirocco's unit he fits right in and finds a lot of other like-minded monsters to pal around with. He's also much more respectful of Scirocco's command than any of the other Titans.
• He-Man Woman Hater: Yazan has no respect for females who think they can fight.
• Hero Killer: Kills Katz, Henken, the entire crew of the Radish, Reccoa and Emma (all in the space of one episode, plus Bask in the movie trilogy), arranges for the death of Jamaican and one of the Argama's Bridge Bunnies, and damn near kills Kamille himself on several separate occasions, to the point where the young man is actually terrified of him.
• Jerkass: When he's not being a sadistic brute, Yazan really does enjoy getting under everyone's skin. By the time he's reassigned from the Alexandria, pretty much all the staff that he hadn't managed to kill hated him.
• Karma Houdini: Although he does get his ass kicked by Kamille near the end of Zeta, he still manages to escape with his life and remains at large, as proven near the beginning of ZZ.
  • It doesn't end there. He's somehow still serving as a pilot for the Federation in the 0090s (according to the manga MSV-R: The Return of Johnny Ridden). Further supplementary materials reveal that he eventually retired from the service and found his way back to the Shangri-La colony, where he became a security guard at a junkyard, possibly the one owned by the Ashta family. He soon got bored with this, however and in 0094 joined forces with a Neo-Zeon group, most likely the Sleeves, shot his way out of the colony and was never heard from again.
• Lack of Empathy:
  Kamille: Don't you realize that people are dying!?
  Yazan: Yeah! And soon you'll be joining them!!
• Lightning Bruiser: His two main Mobile Suits, the Gaplant and the Hambrabi are fast and very deadly. They can also take some punishment, moreso than the standard Titans suits.
• Make It Look Like an Accident: Gets Emma Sheen to fire at him, than dodges so that the blast will hit Jamaican, whom he hated.
• Momma's Boy: His mother, with her disdain for education and intellectualism, definitely left her mark on her thuggish son, who has nothing positive to say about his father (or his mother for that matter).
• More Despicable Minion: Paptimus Scirocco is a suave Dark Messiah who operates on a (possible) Well-Intentioned Extremist agenda. Yazan Gable lacks such complexity, openly admitting to signing up to join the Titans to legally commit murder, betrays Jamitov for Scirocco when there's a split in the ranks out of a firm belief in I Fight for the Strongest Side! and makes sexist remarks about women occupying ranks in the military.
• Pet the Dog: He does compliment the Titans that deliver him hardware, even going for a handshake despite how uncomfortable they are with his mere presence. He also had no reason to save Reccoa from her mobile suit's explosion and take her prisoner, though that may have partially been due to his Ambiguous Situation as a potential Newtype.
• Politically Incorrect Villain: His misogyny is just the tip of the iceberg.
• Pragmatic Villainy: There's how he and his wingmen, Dunkel and Ramsus, gang up against other mobile suits, and in spite of being openly dismissive of female pilots, is more than willing to cooperate with Reccoa to try and take down Kamille.
• Psycho for Hire: The first one to appear in the franchise, and the prototype for all the ones that follow. If you're a fan of Rakan Dahkaran, Ali Al-Saachez or Decil Galette, thank this guy. He follows his blood-lust rather than any ideological code and post-Zeta is willing to work with any faction or group for the opportunity to kill even if they're the Federation or Zeon.
• Put the "Laughter" in "Slaughter": He's positively giddy whenever he scores kills and gets the upper hand in battle.
• Sensitive Guy and Manly Man: The Manly Man to Scirocco's Sensitive Guy.
• Shoulder Cannon: The Hambrabi has two.
• Slasher Smile: Just look at that grin!
• Smarter Than You Look: Yazan's behaviour in battle is more or less like a wild beast in the body of a human, but that doesn't mean his brain is also like an animal's. In fact, he is quite smart when it comes to improvising ambushes in the battlefield, and most of his victories come from his Combat Pragmatist nature.
• Terrible Trio: He forms one with wingmates Dunkel Cooper and Ramsus Hasa.
• Too Dumb to Fool: Possibly "too oldtype to connect" or "too crazy to care", but Yazan shakes off the Newtype images projected from Reccoa as being illusions.
• Transforming Mecha: Pilots a Gaplant and then the Hambrabi.
• Unfriendly Fire: Is nearly shot down by the Alexandria's guns when Jamaican opens fire on Kamille during a battle between the two of them. He later arranges for Jamaican to die in a very similar fashion.
• Villain Cred: He sees a kindred spirit in Scirocco and admires his skill as a manipulator and pilot. Sirocco is the only commanding officer Yazan ever respected.
• Villainous Friendship: He at least enjoys the company of both Scirocco and is shown to care for his subordinates like Dunkel Cooper, Ramsus Hasa, and Adol Zeno.
• Walking Shirtless Scene: In his first appearances, he has a yellow version of the Titans' getup. After transferring to Scirocco's command, he plays this straight whenever he's not piloting.
• Wolverine Claws: The Hambrabi has a pair, being one of the few non-beam melee weapons in the series.
• Would Hit a Girl: In Yazan's own words, the AEUG are made up of "women and children". He still thoroughly enjoys killing their members.
• Would Hurt a Child: As his quote above shows, he believes his enemy's line has children as well as women and he loves getting to hurt the children that make up their ranks whenever he gets the chance.
• Would Not Shoot a Civilian: Subverted. Yazan's refusal to participate in the colony gassing makes him look like an example of this, only for him to then reveal that his issue is actually the use of the gas—he doesn't find it fun unless you kill them yourself. He subsequently shows no compunctions about participating in the Grenada Colony Drop which would have killed thousands, if not millions of noncombatants. Standards he does not have.

Kacricon Cacooler

Voiced by: Kōji Totani (Japanese), Ben Jeffery(English)

Main mecha: RMS-106 Hizack, RMS-108 Marasai

Jerid's wingmate during the early episodes of the series, Kacricon's calmness and experience temper Jerid's frequently impulsive behavior.

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• Antivillain: Hell, he's less evil than Jerid.
• Big Brother Mentor: To Jerid. Yeah, a villainous example.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: He's good friends with Jerid and clearly loves someone named Amelia.
• Idiot Ball: Normally, he's smarter than Jerid and better at keeping himself together, but when re-entering the atmosphere, he calls Jerid a coward and instead decides to see if he can get an easy kill. Re-entry is not the time to be playing games, and he pays for it with his life.
• Kick the Dog: Downplayed. When Bright voices his displeasure at Bask's actions, Kacricon hits him. Though compared to the violent beating Bask and the others deal out, Kacricon's actions come across as an evil version of the Bright Slap than the cruelty the others got into.
• Killed Off for Real: Kamille slashes his reentry parachute, and he burns up in the atmosphere.
• Mentor Occupational Hazard: Attempts to show Jerid how to do things a little less hot-headedly and jerkassedly. Doesn't last long for it.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: The controlled Blue Oni to Jerid's more reckless Red. Kacricon approached situations with a calmer head and tried to reign Jerid's recklessness in.
• Villainous Friendship: He and Jerid are very friendly with each other. Notably when Jamaican orders Kacricon to discipline Jerid for his failure and take charge Kacricon makes it clear that he's going to look for an opening to deploy Jerid so he can get a win under his belt and get back in the leadership's good graces.

Ben Wooder

Voiced by: Ryusuke Obayashi (Japanese, TV series), Tadahisa Saizen (Japanese, movies)

Acting captain of the Sudori, Ben Wooder and his crew pursue Kamille and Amuro throughout the former's time on Earth. A dedicated officer, Wooder has an antagonistic relationship with Four Murasame, the Cyber-Newtype sent to help him.

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• Dying Moment of Awesome: See Villainous Valour below.
• Full-Name Basis: Four always calls him by his full name while the rest of the cast puts him on a Last-Name Basis.
• The Good Captain: He's a Titans officer, but he sincerely cares about his men and the mission, to the extent of asking everyone to abandon ship before launching his final kamikaze attack.
• Jurisdiction Friction: Zig-Zagged. He's a Titan officer serving under a Federation commander, Buran, but he respects Buran and there's no real enmity there Wooder even promises to avenge him after Buran is killed. When Four enters the picture he clashes with her, and has a distaste for Cyber-Newtypes and Four's ignoring of his orders.
• Just Following Orders: Fully believes that a soldier's task is to follow any and all orders he receives, regardless of their morality.
• Kick the Dog: Frustrated with the lack of cooperation by the Hong Kong authorities with the capture of the AEUG he has the city bombed and drops the Psyco Gundam on top of it.
• Last-Name Basis: The only character other than Scirocco to be called by his last name.
• Manipulative Bastard: Perfectly willing to hold Four's desire for her memory over her head.
• Mauve Shirt: He's just another Titans officer, though he gets considerably more focus than most.
• Non-Action Guy: Downplayed. Compared to his predecessor, Buran, who was an MS pilot, Wooder is for the most part an organizer and administrator rather than a fighter. That said, unlike Jamaican, he does get physical when he needs to, attempting to pilot the Psyco Gundam and even getting into a gun fight and operating a turret in his final battle.
• Smug Snake: He's arrogant, overconfident, and more than willing to use Four's desire to get her memories back against her.
• Villainous Valour: When Four goes AWOL, Wooder pilots the Psyco Gundam into combat himself, despite not being a Newtype and having no real idea of how to use it. At the end, with all his mobile suits shot down, and Four and the Psyco out of commission, he orders everyone off the ship, and attempts to crash it into the Audhumla to stop it from escaping. The members of his crew who stay behind with him display similar valor; ironically, all Titans officers abandoned ship while everyone who stayed behind were regular Federation officers.
• Would Hurt a Child: He captures Mirai, Hathaway, and Cheimin and holds them hostage, in order to get the AEUG forces he's pursuing to surrender. Mirai is clearly (and naturally) frightened for her children and repeatedly tells the soldiers not to touch them. Wooder later has them all put in a small boat in the middle of a battlefield while pretending to release them.

Gady Kinsey

Voiced by: Naoki Immamura (Japanese), Steve Olson (English)

Jamaican's replacement as captain of the Alexandria.

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• Boring, but Practical: In contrast to the more flashy Titans commanders using their super weapons, psychic soldiers, etc. Gady's tactics are fairly basic. He leads a near successful attack on the Argama and Radish with a standard ambush plan all the while positioning Yazan where his recklessness would hurt them the least. Even Jerid was surprised that it all came together.
  "Guess Gady knows what he's doing after all."
• The Captain: Of the Alexandria, taking the reigns from Jamaican.
• Dragon Their Feet: By series end Gady is one of the only significant commanders left in the Titans, having survived his superiors in Jamitov, Bask, and Jerid. The final battle has him in a leadership role under Scirocco.
• Enemy Mine: Initially dislikes Scirocco but eventually has his ship join up with the former's fleet. In the movies, Scirocco trusts him enough to let him come along with his other loyal retainers to the meeting with Axis.
• Even Evil Has Standards:
  • When he takes over the Alexandria he puts Mouar and Jerid up front because recognizes their skill unlike Jamaican. However he's less than happy to put Yazan in charge of the MS team because of how violent and unpredictable he is and Gady only does so under orders from Scirocco.
  • In Episode 42 he claims his ship has engine problems and can't help with the gassing of a colony.
• Evil Genius: Not to the degree of Scirocco, but he's still a fairly skilled manager and a decent enough tactician.
• I Did What I Had to Do: He takes this attitude when he and Jerid attempt a colony gassing, viewing it as necessary to send a message that the Titans are the one's in control and the colony's allegiance to the AEUG had condemned them. During Bask's later gassing of a Colony, Gady backs out of the procedure claiming engine trouble.
• Laser-Guided Karma: He lets Haman disable the Colony Laser. Then the AEUG takes it back from Haman and proceed to fire it, killing Gady and destroying his ship.
• Mauve Shirt: Unlike Jamaican who was a full fledged Starter Villain, Gady is more akin to Wooder or Buran. He has a place in the story as an antagonist but it's mostly as a named and characterized minion of a higher rank than a significant player in the series.
• Reasonable Authority Figure: For the Titans, Gady lacks the self-interest and cruelty of many of the other Titans commanders. He's much nicer to Jerid than Jamaican was and he puts Jerid in charge of their MS teams, even offering Mouar a major position. As skeptical as he is of Reccoa he still listens to them when their Newtype abilities indicate danger.
• Smug Snake: Though higher functioning than Jamaican.
• Villainous Cheekbones: His sunken cheeks highlight his cheekbones. It's especially prevalent when he's with Jamaican as Gady's gaunt face contrasts quite noticeably with Jamaican's soft jowly one.
• You Are in Command Now: After Jamaican gets offed by Yazan and Emma, Gady is given command of the Alexandria.

Junior Officers and Soldiers

Mouar Pharaoh

Voiced by: Yoshiko Sakakibara (Japanese, TV), Marika Hayashi (Japanese, Movies), Jennifer Holder (English)

Main mecha: RX-110 Gabthley

A Titans officer who rescues Jerid during his time on Earth, Mouar becomes Jerid's closest friend and constant companion upon his return to space, eventually revealing that she has a crush on him.

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• Anti-Villain: One of the more moral Titans, Mouar lacks the characteristic callousness and violence that other officers possess. Her debut was even her trying to help Jerid, who to her was just a random officer she just met, into an escape vehicle.
• Battle Couple: With Jerid. The two of them make a surprisingly effective combo, frequently tagteaming opponents in their Gabthley's.
• Even Evil Has Standards:
  • Is as displeased as Jerid is by the Titans' use of WMDs, though as in his case, she simply follows orders rather than objecting.
  • She's also against civilian casualties, even criticizing Jerid's riskier behavior around them.
• I Let Gwen Stacy Die: Like Lila, she becomes one to Jerid.
• Just Following Orders: As stated above, she has reservations about some of the more deplorable actions the Titans have her do, but she doesn't object to carrying them out.
• Killed Off for Real: See Taking the Bullet.
• Love Makes You Dumb: Dies believing Jerid, a known thug, is the only one who "can lead the world on the right path" despite his disastrous track record.
• Multi-Armed and Dangerous: The Gabthley possesses a pair of claws that it can deploy from its legs. They're used as manipulators in its Mobile Armor mode but skilled pilots can use them as a second pair of arms in the Mobile Suite mode.
• Only Sane Man: In addition to being calm, reasonable, and far more moral than her teammates, she's the only woman in Zeta (other than Haman) to resist Scirocco. Being voiced by the same person probably helps.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: The blue to Jerid's red.
• Savvy Guy, Energetic Girl: Inverted, as she is the one that has to try and curb Jerid's less rational, Hot-Blooded moments. She's actually exceptionally savvy, as she's able to pick up on Scirocco manipulating Sarah and making use of Jerid being unable to think things through.
• Single-Target Sexuality: She only has eyes for Jerid, and makes it a point of ignoring Scirocco's attempts at complimenting her. Keep in mind that Scirocco was able to use a combination of charisma, manipulation, and his Newtype powers to sway Sarah away from her adamant Thou Shalt Not Kill stance she was introduced with and convince Reccoa to make a Face–Heel Turn after one conversation. Scirocco, perhaps picking up on this, doesn't try again.
• Taking the Bullet: Intercepts a blast from the Zeta to save Jerid.
• Transforming Mecha: Her last suit, the Gabthley.
• Unholy Matrimony: Eventually gets together with Jerid.
• Would Not Shoot a Civilian: In contrast to the rest of the Titans's callous disregard for civilian life. She even intervenes when Jerid takes aim at Kamille on a street full of civilians.

Four Murasame

Voice Actors: Saeko Shimazu (Japanese, TV), Yukana (Japanese, Movies), Carol-Anne Day(English)

Main mecha: MRX-009 Psyco Gundam

Were you sent here to make my life a misery?

One of the Cyber-Newtypes produced in the Titans' labs, Four Murasame is the original pilot of the Psyco Gundam. A war orphan who's left bereft of her memories by the Titans' experiments, Four is willing to do anything to get them back. She and Kamille share a brief romance when they meet off-duty.

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• Anti-Villain: She's a pitiable war orphan enslaved in a nightmare of drugs and Mind Rape. When we see her with the only person who shows her some kindness and gives her a few normal moments, she's a pretty Nice Girl when not reminded of combat or her horrific circumstances.
• Back for the Dead: She unexpectedly returns for one episode at Kilimanjaro just to reunite with Kamille and be killed off during a Heel–Face Door-Slam.
• Betty and Veronica: Mercurial, enigmatic and problematic Veronica for Kamille.
• Blue-and-Orange Morality: She expresses disgust over the Titans taking Mirai, Hathaway, and Cheimin hostage, but in the next episode, she consciously makes the decision to take the Psyco Gundam from Wooder and contribute to the bombing and destruction of Hong Kong. In the same scene, she confesses to Kamille that the Titans would give her back her lost memories if she destroys the Gundam Mk. II that he pilots and immediately shouts that Kamille isn't being kind to her. She says this when he's been nothing but kind, and the implication is that she'll only consider Kamille being kind to her if he lets her kill him.
• Boyish Short Hair: A contrast to Rosamia's; hers is waif-like and relatively androgynous-looking.
• Brainwashed and Crazy: As a Cyber Newtype.
• Broken Bird: The experiments she underwent at the Cyber-Newtype labs evidently left her mind fractured.
• Cute and Psycho: Though she's not exactly to blame; it's a side-effect of having her psyche torn down and then rebuilt from the ground up with drugs and psycho-indoctrination on repeated occasions.
• Dehumanization: Along with Rosamia earlier, the first Gundam pilot in the franchise to be treated less as a person and more as a weapon with no free will, spawning a later Fountain of Expies. What was only hinted at in Rosamia's first appearance is made explicit here. Four doesn't even operate independently, but travels with a minder from the lab.
• Dies Differently in Adaptation: She dies earlier in the Compilation Movie, where her apparent death after helping Kamille return to space seems to have become her real one this time around when she's very clearly shown to be shot in the head by Wooder.
• Evil Is Bigger: The MRX-009 Psyco Gundam. Or maybe it's "Psycho".
• Everyone Calls Her "Barkeep": Her true name is never revealed.
• Four Is Death: Indeed...
• Heel–Face Door-Slam: She starts turning around and is promptly killed by Jerid (or Wooder in the Compilation Movie).
• It's All About Me: Her Moral Myopia means she's perfectly willing to commit mass murder in the Psyco Gundam, burn down Hong Kong, and attempt to kill Kamille - the first person to treat her like a human being - as long as it gets her memories back for her. A lot of that can probably be attributed to extreme psychological problems from being transformed into a Cyber-Newtype and using her powers, as she acts more reasonably in other circumstances.
• It's All Junk: Once she discovers Kamille's true identity as the pilot of the Mk. II she's been ordered to destroy, she crushes the rooftop where she and first Kamille kissed.
• Laser-Guided Amnesia: She's apparently a war orphan picked up by the Titans and trained as a Tykebomb. Confirmed in a novel. The treatment removed her prior memories, and one of her goals is to get them back.
• Love at First Sight: With Kamille.
• Mysterious Past: She isn't too happy about having one, and one of the biggest holds the Murasame Institute has over her is their promise to give her memories back. Though she might not have a past at all.
• Names to Run Away from Really Fast: The Psyco Gundam. Four herself could count if you're familiar with Japanese beliefs about certain numbers.
• Noblewoman's Laugh: Frequently employs it.
• Psychic Powers: Courtesy of being a Cyber Newtype.
• Sanity Slippage: When they said that Cyber Newtypes tend to be mentally unstable, they were not kidding. Four goes from having a wistful romantic scene with Kamille to trying to crush him with the Psyco Gundam scarily fast.
• State Sec: The Newtype lab is allied with the Titans.
• Star-Crossed Lovers: With Kamille, and this gets played out through several episodes, one apparent death, and her real one in Kamille's arms.
• Super-Soldier: She's an experiment in "remodelling" a human's brain to artificially induce Newtype abilities.
• Teens Are Monsters: Her entire persona is that of a particularly broken and psychotic teenager in the midst of a rebellion.
• Took a Level in Badass: Between appearances.
• Tyke-Bomb: An artificially created or "Cyber" Newtype, which has left her mentally unstable and in possession of Psychic Powers.
• Weapon of Mass Destruction: The Psyco Gundam.
• With Great Power Comes Great Insanity: It's implied that psychotic instability is an inherent fault in the Cyber Newtype program. The stronger they are made to be, the more insane they end up.
• You Are Number 6: As she says, she was the fourth one at the lab. Calling her "Number Four" is a Berserk Button.

Rosamia Badam

Voice Actors: Kayoko Fujii (Japanese, TV), Yuu Asakawa (Japanese, Movies), Jennifer Bain (English)

Main mecha: ORX-005 Gaplant, NRX-005 Baund Doc (pink), MRX-010 Psyco Gundam Mk-II

"Big brother, I found you."

The first, and arguably craziest, Cyber-Newtype introduced in Zeta, Rosamia is a psychological mess. Encountering Kamille during her time off, she latches onto him as a substitute for her deceased brother.

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• Anime Accent Absence: She's a survivor of the Colony Drop that wiped out Sydney, but has no trace of an Australian accent.
• Anti-Villain: Much like Four, Rosamia would probably not be an enemy were it not for the horrific Cyber Newtype experiments turning her into a crazy combatant that ultimately has to be put down for everyone else's safety.
• The Baroness: She comes off this way at first, but is actually a Cute and Psycho Tyke-Bomb.
• Big Brother Worship: An Invoked Trope, Rosamia was conditioned to believe that Kamille was her beloved older brother in order to make it easy for her to infiltrate the Argama. When that doesn't fully work, she later gets reprogrammed to believe Gates is her brother so that she can more closely follow his orders.
• Cute and Psycho: As in the case of Four, it isn't her fault.
• Demoted to Extra: In the compilations. Partly because her character arc was mostly a retread of Four's, mostly because her original voice actress had been through a messy divorce with the director.
• Dropped a Bridge on Her: Going hand in hand with her being Demoted to Extra in A New Translation. Rosamia only appears in her initial arc fighting Kamille and Quattro on Earth and then flees. However her ghost still appears in the climax to assist Kamille meaning that she died offscreen at some point.
• Drugs Are Bad: They are the reason why she is such an Ax-Crazy Mood-Swinger psycho.
• Establishing Character Moment: She's first seen as ruthless and cold, then has a huge Villainous BSoD and screams that the sky will fall on her...
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Rosamia can be very empathetic. Even though her "love" of Kamille is at least in part constructed from her damaged mind, she does come to value Shinta and Qum as friends.
• Evil Is Bigger: The Psyco Gundam Mk. II.
• Funny Schizophrenia: Rosamia's insanity and childishness lead to at least as much silliness as drama.
• Green Rooming: She shows up as a new player in episode 14 but then leaves the show after episode 15. She finally returns in Episode 39 along with Bask and has her backstory and significance in the series elaborated on.
• Laser-Guided Amnesia: She's very attached to her big brother, but due to the Titans' manipulations, she's completely forgotten what he looks like so she can instead attach herself to whomever would benefit the Titans' plans for her.
• Lightning Bruiser: Both the Baund Doc and the Psyco Gundam II are extremely fast for their size.
• Innocent Fanservice Girl: She forgets to get dressed between completing her physical and hugging Kamille.
• Names to Run Away from Really Fast: The Psyco Gundam II.
• Psychic Link: With Gates Capa.
• Psychic Powers: Another Cyber Newtype. She's powerful enough—and insane enough—to spook the Hell out of Kamille in their first encounter; he describes it as though his mind were being drawn into a great darkness. To put that in perspective, he says something very similar about Scirocco.
• Psychopathic Manchild: She believes that the AEUG plan to make the sky fall. She's a girl in her late teens with the fears of a little girl. On the other hand, she's explicitly stated as being among the few survivors of Zeon's Colony Drop at the start of the One Year War; being traumatized and having a phobia of similar experiences is kind of understandable, and the Zeon's Cyber Newtype treatments likely made it all worse.
• Replacement Goldfish: If a character is of the right age, and is a powerful enough Newtype, she'll mistake them for her older brother. She does it to Kamille and has it used against her by Gates.
  • Rosamia is, in turn, Kamille's Replacement Goldfish for Four. In several instances, he hallcuinates Four in Rosamia's place.
• Sanity Slippage: She gets progressively more unstable in every appearance.
• Split Personality: Rosamia Badam is a hardcore soldier. Rosammy is a scared little girl looking for her brother.
• Super-Soldier: Crazy as she is, her Cyber-Newtype abilities still make her a deadly foe in combat.
• Teens Are Monsters: She's 17.
• Transforming Mecha: The Gaplant and Baund Doc.
• Trauma Button: Numerous given her backstory and all of the Cyber-Newtype experiments. The most prominent being Doctors, gunfire, and alarms. All of which she's constantly exposed to with her role in the Titans.
• Tyke-Bomb: Another Cyber Newtype, and even crazier than Four.
• Weapon of Mass Destruction: The Psyco Gundam II.
• Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: "The sky! It's falling! NOOOOOOOO!"
  • Doctors are almost as scary. As with the pathological fear of colony drops and what we know about the Artificial Newtypes, this almost certainly has a very unpleasant story behind it.
• With Great Power Comes Great Insanity
• Womanchild: Rosammy is, as mentioned elsewhere, mentally five years old, and can be seen chasing Haro and squabbling over candy right alongside the kids. At one point, Kamille says that the kids are babysitting her.
• Younger Than They Look: As noted by Shinta and Qum, Rosamia looks like she could pass for Kamille's older sister. They're the same age.

Sarah Zabiarov

Voice Actors: Yuko Mizutani (Japanese, TV), Chizuru Ikewaki (Japanese, Movie II)/Kaori Shimamura (Japanese, Movie III), Maizun Jayoussi English)

Main mecha: RMS-108 Marasai, RMS-106 Hizack, PMX-000 Messala, PMX-002 Bolinoak Sammahn

Master Paptimus will bring forth a new world for humanity!

A young prodigy, Sarah is initially recruited as a Newtype cadet by the Titans, but soon throws her loyalty and support behind Scirocco.

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• Affably Evil: Sarah is a pretty nice person, but she also freely chooses to do some pretty bad things over the course of the series, and her real Heel–Face Turn doesn't come until after she's dead.
• Anti-Villain: She wants to be a good person, but is blindly loyal to Scirocco, causing her to do horrible things under Scirocco's influence. Sometimes his orders go too far even for her.
• Because You Were Nice to Me: In return for Katz's kindness in letting her out of confinement, she tells Katz about Yazan's Gaplant's blind spot.
• Boring, but Practical: Sarah's final mobile suit, the PMX-002 Bolinoak Sammahn.
  • Sarah herself, to a degree. Her Psychic Powers are not the strongest, but unlike most Newtypes, she's completely sane and functional in and out of battle.
• Clingy Jealous Girl: After Reccoa joins the Titans, Sarah sees her as competition for Scirocco's attention and consistently butts into conversations with them to make sure she at least isn't getting ignored. Even before then, Sarah sees Scirocco's civil interactions with the otherwise Ax-Crazy Yazan to be a point of worry and quickly rushes to his side when the latter's out of earshot.
• The Dark Side Will Make You Forget: Is initially introduced arguing with Jerid over her stance of not taking lives, but all it takes is a few words of praise from Scirocco, and she's quick to comply with his schemes which very much include killing others and being complicit in it because she wants more of his attention.
• Dating Catwoman: She and Katz share a mutual attraction.
• Forgotten Fallen Friend: Sarah is introduced as close to a female peer named Siddeley, who is almost immediately killed off. Siddeley is never mentioned again and practically none of Sarah's expected grief or trauma is shown. It would actually help explain why she clings to Scirocco, but it's not used that way.
• Friendly Enemy: Towards Kamille, who she has a level of respect for.
• Heel Realization: Post-mortem, she ends up finally realizing that Scirocco was in the wrong when she sees he has no one else besides her to protect him after having seen Kamille's friends and a few of his fallen foes come to his aid seconds before.
• Green-Eyed Monster: She's clearly jealous of Scirocco's relationship with Reccoa near the end of the series. This is exploited by the latter to get her to do increasingly risky things in order to prove her loyalty to him and ultimately gets her killed.
• Ignored Enamored Underling: Scirocco is aware of her affection, using it to keep her loyal.
• Love Makes You Dumb and Evil
• Love Martyr: For Scirocco. She throws away her moral principles to protect him and dies Taking the Bullet for him, all the while seemingly remaining an Ignored Enamored Underling.
• Love Triangle: Sarah actually does sincerely like Katz quite a bit... just not enough to leave Scirocco for. However, once they both get killed, his spirit is finally able to convince hers to stop protecting Scirocco, implying Katz is victorious after all.
• My Master, Right or Wrong: To say that she will do anything for Scirocco isn't much of an understatement.
• Perky Female Minion: Regardless of which point in the series, if she's not being actively jealous, she's usually this.
• Precocious Crush: On Scirocco. It's a very dark take on the trope, and ultimately gets her killed.
• Rose-Haired Sweetie: Sarah actually is a friendly, nice, and romantic 14 year-old...who happens to be completely loyal to the bad guy. Kamille lampshades it when he asks her why she can't just be a Nice Girl.
• Signature Headgear: Keeps her short hair in place with distinctive green ponytail holders or hair clips, as seen in the picture. They clash horribly with the Titans uniform and emphasize that she is a fairly normal teenager and isn't completely unsympathetic to Katz, Kamille, and the others.
• Super Prototype: After an initial appearance in the mook suit Marasai Scirocco assigns her his Messala and later upgrades her to the Bolinoak Samaan.
• Teen Genius: In theory anyway. She's a competent enough pilot while 14 years old, but her behavior otherwise leaves a lot to be desired.
• Thou Shalt Not Kill: Zigzagged. She's introduced insisting she won't kill people if she doesn't have to, but her immediate infatuation with Scirocco and efforts to prove herself to get his attention result in her eschewing this if it means Scirocco might compliment her. Most of the time. She ends up having second thoughts over bombing an entire city that the Argama is docked at because of the civilians there, and tells Kamille about it to get his help in disarming the bomb she set.
• Undying Loyalty: To Scirocco. Literally. Even after she dies, her ghost returns to defend Scirocco, and only the intervention of Katz' own ghost takes her away from the battlefield.
• Unwitting Pawn: Kamille tries to argue that she's this to Scirocco. She laughs at his concern.
• The Vamp: Not normally, but Katz is so smitten with her that he practically begs her to take advantage of him.
• Well-Intentioned Extremist: She believes that what Scirocco's doing will make a better world, and supports him. Whether or not he believes in the world he's promising, she does.
• Wolverine Claws: The Bolinoak Sammahn has one on its left arm.

Gates Capa

Voiced by: Kazuki Yao

Main mecha: NRX-055 Baund Doc (grey)

The last of the Cyber-Newtypes, Gates is seemingly cheerful young man who isn't above using his manipulative skills to get what he wants. He works for Bask and the Titans researcher Loren Nakamoto, and is Rosamia Badam's partner in the last stages of the war.

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• Adapted Out: Taken out of A New Translation. Rosamia being Demoted to Extra cut her return arc and thus Gates wasn't needed.
• Affably Evil: Cheerful, open, and utterly dedicated to the Titans' cause. He'd be a great kid to be friends with if he weren't helping the government experiment on young girls.
• Big Brother Mentor: Subverted, as Rosamia is brainwashed into seeing him as one.
• Boring, but Practical: He doesn't have nearly the power of Rosamia or Four, but he's also much less likely to descend into the mental breakdowns both ladies are famous for.
• Drugs Are Bad / Super Serum: Possibly. Dr. Hasan exposits that a lot of drugs in someone's system heavily points to that person being a Cyber-Newtype, but it's ambiguous if that's the case with Gates, since he isn't nearly as off-kilter as Four and Rosamia, and heavily reinforced drug use would certainly contribute or outright cause the mental instability in the later two cases.
• Enigmatic Minion: Because he's such a different case compared to Four and Rosamia, it's difficult to tell if his being fully devoted to the Titans means he legitimately believes in their cause, or he's been changed enough from his Cyber-Newtyping to the point where that's a non-issue and he's just subservient.
• Flatline: Upon Rosamia dying, he immediately experiences a Freak Out, screams uncontrollably, and the next sound we hear is this. It's heavily implied that because he was brought along almost solely to maintain a link with Rosamia, that link extended to him dying at the same time she did.
• Flawed Prototype: His NRX-055-1 Baund Doc is the prototype that Rosamia and Jerid's models (the NRX-055) are based off of: it's notable for being the only one with a two-seater cockpit and the only one that's never seen to transform into mobile suit mode. Notably the Hyaku-Shiki downs it in a single shot with a beam rifle, whilst Rosamia's model tanks several shots from the exact same weapon.
• Freak Out: Experiences one upon Rosamia dying.
• Lightning Bruiser: His Baund Doc.
• Manipulative Bastard: Downplayed. He was only brought on by Rosamia's need for a brother to help keep her under control, and is never shown manipulating other characters.
• Meaningful Name: His name is a (sadly obscure) reference to the actions of another oppressive State Sec organization. CAPA v. Gates was a major early '80s lawsuit against Los Angeles Police Chief Daryl Gates (who would later become a national pariah for his disastrous handling of the Rodney King riots) by the Coalition Against Police Abuse over the LAPD's Public Disorder Intelligence Division's unlawful surveillance and other misconduct against various left-wing organizations and other "undesirables".
• Only Sane Man: In comparison to the rest of the Cyber-Newtypes.
• Psychic Link: His mind is linked with Rosamia.
• Psychic Powers: He's a Cyber-Newtype and thus possesses a similar sense of telepathy to a regular Newtype.
• Punch-Clock Villain: Titan and Cyber-Newtype he may be, he never is seen doing much of actual villainy during his short amount of screentime.
• Super-Soldier: Subverted. He never actively fights anyone onscreen, and it's heavily implied the extent of his Cyber-Newtype enhancements was solely just to help keep Rosamia on a tight leash.
• Those Two Guys: He's usually stuck with handler Loren Nakamoto.
• Tyke-Bomb: Like the other Cyber-Newtypes, he was conditioned from childhood to be a soldier for the Titans.
• Villainous BSoD: In the anime, Rosamia's death sends him into one and it's heavily implied to have a psychic backlash that kills him. In the novels, this is outright confirmed.
• We Hardly Knew Ye: Showed up for a grand total of two episodes, and is absent from the movie remake altogether.
• What Happened to the Mouse?: We don't get to see what happens to him after he freaks out following Rosamia's death. Apparently, Tomino's original plan was for him to be accidentally killed by Rosamia before her final fight with Kamille. Why this was cut is unclear.
• With Great Power Comes Great Insanity: The only Cyber-Newtype to avert this trope. But to be fair, he doesn't seem to have such "Great Power" in first place.

Dunkel Cooper and Ramsus Hasa

Voiced by: Masami Kikuchi & Shingo Hiromori (Japanese), Adam Hunter and Brendan Hunter (English)

Main mecha: RX-139 Hambrabi

Yazan Gable's wingmates during the later stages of the conflict, Ensigns Dunkel and Ramsus share their superior officer's aggression and love of violence.

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• Badass Normal: Both are Oldtypes.
• Birds of a Feather: Why they can get along with Yazan.
• Combat Pragmatist: Like Yazan, Dunkel and Ramsus don't play fair, double or triple teaming enemies whenever they can.
• Extra Eyes: The Hambrabi has five of them.
• Killed Off for Real: By Emma Sheen, moments before Yazan kills her.
• Psycho for Hire
• Slasher Smile: Ramsus favors Reccoa with a pretty good one in Episode 38.
• Sociopathic Soldier: From what we see of them, neither Ramsus nor Dunkel will be winning any awards for respect for human life.
• Terrible Trio: Alongside Yazan.
• Transforming Mecha: The RX-139 Hambrabi, which converts from a fast moving mobile armor to an equally quick mobile suit.
• Villainous Friendship: Seem to get along well with one another.

Ajis Aziba

Voiced by: Kazuki Yao (JP), Victor Atelevich (EN)

Main mecha: NRX-044 Asshimar

An uncommonly idealistic and kind Titans lieutenant. Ajis encounters Beltorchika being harassed by Federation soldiers and sends them away, unknowingly helping her reach a rendezvous with Char. After that when fighting breaks out, Ajis takes an Asshimar and engages the AEUG. Char's words make Ajis reconsider and after watching Jerid fighting in a populated area, Ajis tries to reason with him, only to be killed.

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• Adapted Out: The Dakar arc is cut from A New Translation and thus Ajis was removed from the movies.
• Obliviously Evil: It's shown that like Emma, he is a Titans member who isn't fully aware of the atrocities the higher ups allow and commit. When Jerid insists on interrupting Char's broadcast, Ajis instead makes the argument that if the Titans are truly in the right, the broadcast should pose no threat to them (which it does).
• Punch-Clock Villain: He's a moral and fairly upstanding man who's a Titan. He pulls rank on a couple of lecherous Federation Soldiers that were harassing Beltorchika and tries to discourage fighting within a city. When an Asshimar is shot down and is about to crash into the civilian district, he and Kamille manage to avert the damage.
• Sacrificial Lamb: In spirit, his death represents the crumbling public image of the Titans as their savagery brings Karaba and the AEUG more supporters.
• Transforming Mecha: The Asshimar, the mech that Buran was seen piloting.

Franklin and Hilda Bidan

Voiced by: Takko Ishimori (Japanese, TV), Ikuya Sawaki (JP, Movie) & Gara Takashima (JP), Steve Olson & Michelle Armeneau (English)

Kamille's parents, who both worked on the Gundam Mk. II that has finished construction on their home colony by series start. They both have a strained relationship with their son, albeit each for different reasons, and Kamille hijacking one of the Mk. II units unfortunately begins a series of events that end in their deaths.

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• Adaptational Nice Guy: Downplayed with Franklin in the first movie, where he still does just about everything else, but he isn't shown hitting his wife and can't seem to imagine her getting killed the way she did.
• Hate Sink: Franklin barely gets much screentime and is only relevant for the first episodes of the series. It doesn't stop him from being such an indignant bastard that the only reason anyone minds his kicking the bucket is the effect it has on a now-orphaned Kamille.
• Hypocrite: Franklin complains about Kamille daring to aim a beam rifle at his own father despite the latter hesitating to shoot, then wildly attacks Kamille with intent to kill almost immediately. This makes Quattro shoot him for Kamille's sake.
• It's All About Me: Kamille's father physically assaults both Hilda and Kamille for daring to bring up the mistress he was cheating on his wife with, shrugs off Hilda's death fairly fast implying it's mostly the danger to himself he's concerned about, and steals Quattro's Rick Dias hoping to win enough favor with Bask to get an even better position than before - even if he has to kill Kamille to do it.
• Offing the Offspring: Having stolen Quattro's Rick Dias, Franklin nearly kills his son when he believes the Titans will still protect him if he goes back to them.
• Parental Neglect: They are both guilty of this.
• Too Dumb to Live: Franklin decides that instead of trying to just make a break for it once he's got the Rick Dias, he should pick a fight with the Red Comet and Kamille to test his own Gundam Mk. II creations, despite being more of an engineer than even a test pilot. He gets killed by crossfire with it being implied Quattro took the shot once it became clear that he wouldn't be coming back to the AEUG peacefully.
• When You Coming Home, Dad?: Kamille honestly loves his mother and from the brief hints of Kamille's childhood that we see, Hilda's just as fond of her son. However, Hilda ended up devoting herself to her work, leading to the Parental Neglect and some understandable friction between them.