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Moonrace

Loran Cehack

Voice Actor: Romi Park (jp) Annika Odegard (en)

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Main mecha: SYSTEM ∀-99 Turn A Gundam

A young boy from the Moonrace who was on a mission to scout Earth, along with Keith and Fran Doll. The three split up to explore, and Loran was first attacked by wolves, only to be saved by the local lord, then nearly drowned before being saved by Kihel and Sochie Heim, daughters of a prominent local family. After being hired as a driver and mechanic by the household, Loran acclimates to Earth living and concludes that it is time for the Moonrace to return. The Moonrace coincidentally does come back while Loran is participating in a coming-of-age ceremony (while nude, incidentally), but they attack Nocis City and Vicinity Town immediately. This awakens the "White Doll" statue on the moutain—which turns out to be a mobile suit of immense power, the Turn A Gundam.

Ace Pilot: After getting through some How Do I Shot Web? issues, he's the best pilot on the Earthrace side. What's more impressive is that it's not until he starts fighting Mahiros on the moon that he racks up any actual kills.
All-Loving Hero: He has a great deal of sympathy for both sides and believes that if they both calmed down for five minutes they could sort it all out amicably.
Apologetic Attacker: Especially in the beginning of the conflict between the Earthrace and Dianna Counter.
Becoming the Mask: He's originally sent to Earth as a scout to determine if the planet is habitable again.
Beware the Nice Ones: Loran is basically one of the nicest guys ever, but he can kick as much ass as any Gundam protagonist.
Big Damn Heroes: Frequently saves the day for the militia.
Book on the Head - part of his training to be Laura Rolla is working on his posture using this trope.
Clark Kenting: The Laura Rolla disguise. He carries himself differently and changes his speaking style a little, and it is effective on the Dianna Counter for an embarrassingly long time; of them, only Harry seems to have caught on. It helps that "Laura" shows up after the Dianna Counter became aware of Kihel Heim, and Loran is decidedly not anyone's idea of a mobile suit pilot.
Conflicting Loyalty: He identifies strongly with both the Moonrace and the Earthrace.
Consummate Liar: Downplayed. He turns out to be very good at keeping secrets and coming up with on-the-spot explanations for small holes in his story. Guin's take on Loran is that he's genuinely a good human being because he overcompensates for the secret(s) he has to hide, and this is largely borne out by how many white lies we see him have to tell as a Moonrace on Earth (which may justify why he was chosen for the mission) and pilot of the White Doll.
David Versus Goliath: When he sorties the Turn A against the massive WaDoms. And then we see a hint of the Turn A's true capabilities when he grabs one in one hand and flips it over. Turns out the Turn A is the Goliath in every fight.
Determinator: In ep 26, Loran attempts to stop Corin Nander from destroying a Turn-A-looking float by outrunning his mecha, on foot.
Disguised in Drag: As the White Doll's pilot, he pretends to be a girl named "Laura Rolla". He doesn't normally dress differently, but twice had two attend a party dressed as a woman.
Dude Looks Like a Lady: And the militia uses it to throw the Moonrace forces. He is even given a crash-course in how to carry himself like a debutante, to make the proper impression at a ball, and he works it so well that even people he's previously met seem to think he and Laura are different people.
Falling into the Cockpit: In fine Gundam tradition. He is also nude at the time, apart from a toy fish. It Makes Sense in Context.
Going Native: Becomes very close to people on Earth and winds up as their Ace Pilot against Dianna Counter's forces.
Hand-or-Object Underwear: The toy fish he was wearing on a string around his neck, when he first discovers the White Doll.
The Heart: He spends a lot of time trying to convince people not to fight.
The Hero: He sheds his naivete without hardening it into cynicism, instead remaining idealistic and encouraging diplomatic and peaceful efforts whenever he can, which helps Dianna and Kihel bring the two sides together.
In Touch with His Feminine Side: Dressing as "Laura" was not Loran's idea, but he goes along with minimal complaint. He takes training to pass as Proper Lady seriously, and in the narration even admits he enjoyed spending time with Kihel in the process.
Inconsistent Spelling: His name in katana is "Rōran (ロラン)", which both his signature in episode 47 and the artbooks romanized as "Rolan" (an existing name). Dynasty Warriors Gundam and the English subs finally established "Loran" as official, possibly so the nickname "Laura" would make sense.
Iconic Item: The fish bath toy that he brings from the Moon. He carries it with him for quite a while (even to the adulthood ceremony) and in the final episode, Sochie chucks it into the river because it's a reminder of him. A piece of official artwork reveals that he and Diana found it in the river by their house.
Kid Has a Point: Out of all the characters in the series Loran is the only one who ever acknowledges that the Turn-A is just a machine and that it therefore is not responsible for the destruction that was caused in the past, but the person/people who were controlling it were.
Knight in Shining Armor: Well, Knight in a shining white Gundam anyways. Loran is probably the most honorable character in the series, consistently sticking to his word, while also being one of, if not the, most gentle characters as well. He even has many other traits typically associated with knights besides honor, such as both self-control and, as far as viewers are aware in the series, chastity. His relationship with Dianna could even be interpreted as a type of Chivalric Romance or Bodyguard Crush. As if to emphasize this, in episode 40 one of his old friends, Donna, on the moon describes him as the "Queen's Knight".
Lady and Knight: The Knight to Dianna's Lady.
Mid-Season Upgrade: The first Gundam TV series protagonist since OYW-era Amuro Ray to avert this. Though given the multiple reveals about the Turn A, it's safe to say that it doesn't need any upgrades in the first place. Though the Turn A itself can absolutely work as an upgrade if Loran started with a different suit instead.
Mundane Utility: He uses his Gundam for all sorts of non-combat purposes, like transporting livestock or using its arms and shoulders to stand in for a destroyed bridge. Probably the most famous instance is his use of the Gundam to do an industrial-sized load of hospital laundry.
The Narrator: Does the next episode and last-episode narrations. They are in-character to the point he vocally express ignorance of the events shown to the audience, such as Kihel and Dianna switching places.
Nice Guy: Loran is one of the most polite, good-natured, caring, and easygoing main characters in the Gundam franchise. And unlike certain other pilots, absolutely none of it is an act.
Oblivious to Love: Loran is completely unaware of Sochie's feelings for him, not helped by her fairly antagonistic attitude towards him for the majority of the series. The fact that she sees him in a romantic light is obvious to viewers however, due to the annoyance she typically expresses at seeing Loran and Kihel (really Queen Dianna) together. In-universe it is apparently not that hard to see either, as in episode 26 Miashei expresses surprise with Loran when it becomes clear that he has no idea how Sochie feels about him. She even specifically states that she can't believe he is the "only one who doesn't get it".
Please Put Some Clothes On: After having piloted the White Doll nude for a while, Sochie goes to find something for him to wear.
Secret Identity: The public known the White Doll's pilot as a girl named "Laura Rolla". The Militia members who work with him, and certain civilians (Guin, the Heim sisters, Keith and Fran) are in on it out of necessity, but they keep up the act for propaganda and it's how Loran is able to contact the Moonrace without raising suspicions.
Secret-Keeper: Even considering his job as a Moonrace survivalist on Earth, he's quite good at keeping secrets. Dianna trusts him, and he never betrays that.
Technical Pacifist: Loran never kills anyone if he can help it, but he will resort to it after every other option has failed. That this doesn't happen until the Whales is getting ready to leave the moon should be some proof of how Ace an Ace Pilot he is. In the entire series, he only kills 2 people.
Undying Loyalty: To Queen Dianna. In his eyes, she can do no wrong.
Weak, but Skilled: Not inside the Gundam, where he's able to easily defeat most enemies he comes across, but outside it. Notably, Loran is around the average size for a teenager in the series, but consistently finds himself facing opponents who are physically larger or more muscular than him when outside the Gundam. This gives them an advantage when a confrontation arises, but Loran constantly manages to hold his own with a surprising amount of competence for one so against violence. It becomes clear even that he must have received some training in combat at some point in the past while he was on the moon, because not only is he skilled in the use of firearms, but he's also an excellent swordfighter as well. The latter comes in handy many times, such as when he fights the King of Adeska in episode 32.
What the Hell, Hero?: Keith snaps at him for following Guin's orders too readily, causing him to re-evaluate his actions.
Wide-Eyed Idealist: At the beginning. He just goes along with what he's ordered (from both Guin and Dianna Counter) because he assumes the leaders are acting in completely good faith. He wises up after a while, though he remains an idealist.
With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility: He feels this way about the Gundam, even before everyone learns just how powerful the Turn A is. So much so that when it's stolen by Ghingnham's faction, he actually starts acting more cheerful and relaxed because he no longer feels the pressure of being the most important person on any battlefield.

Queen Dianna Soreil

Voice Actor: Rieko Takahashi

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The Leader of the Moonrace. Once scouts determine that the Earth is livable again, she brings her forces to Earth to recolonize it, a goal that turns out to be far more dangerous and complicated than she thought. Over the course of the story, she re-evaluates her intentions and duty.

Airplane Arms: Now and again—she does an airplane walk soon after her arrival on Earth, and a full-tilt one while disguised as Kihel.
The Atoner: Develops into one of these, with a smidge of Guilt Complex, as the series goes on. She routinely begins to blame herself for actions of people in the present day due to the way they were treated in the past while she was queen. One example is Teteth, who suffered discrimination when she lived on the moon from various members of the Moonrace, which leads her down a path of hatred towards Dianna and eventually results in her death. Dianna blames herself for this, citing Teteth's death as a result of her sins. Another is the RRET team, whose ancestors were sent by her long ago and are discriminated against for growing up on Earth. And in general she feels bad whenever she sees the direct results of the war between the Earthrace and Moonrace.
Beware the Nice Ones: She may be kind, friendly, and genuinely desire peace, but she's not afraid to summarily declare someone guilty of treason and then pick up a rifle to carry out the sentence herself.
Big Good: She eventually grows into this as a result of her experiences.
Both Sides Have a Point: Falls into this during some of her discussion with Agrippa. For example, in episode 44 Agrippa states that he kept the Dark History a secret from the rest of the Moonrace because it would cause their violent instincts to awaken. Shortly after the history is revealed to everyone on the moon the people angrily gather around the palace and begin rioting throughout the city. So he appears to be right. However, Dianna in turn points out that had he not enacted numerous policies that limited the freedoms of the people they would not have been placed into a wary state of mind and therefore would not have been so easily triggered by learning about the Dark History.
Brought Down to Normal: The episodes she spends under Kihel Heim's identity. She gains new insight about the people who live on Earth and grows quite frustrated with having lost the ability to do anything until she manages to switch back. She ends the series this way, too, settling on Earth and passing her identity to Kihel.
Character Development: She comes to realize that trying to force the Earthrace to accept colonization by the Moonrace was a bad idea rooted in a hasty personal desire to return to the Earth again, and searches for a more conciliatory avenue of resettlement.
Compressed Hair: On two occasions she manages to stuff all her hair into a fairly small turban.
Crazy-Prepared: Her family has a special coded melody that they use to encrypt transmissions. Dianna uses this in episode 37 to transmit her location to Harry on the Willgem.
Didn't Think This Through: She decided to bring Dianna Counter to Earth because she thought her people were ready, but she didn't think about the Earthrace's opinion on the matter. Because she didn't attempt a mutual agreement on migration, Inglessa treats them as invaders and the more-advanced Dianna Counter forces cause widespread death and destruction.
The High Queen: Of the Moon.
Hime Cut: With attachments to keep the sideburns in place. Also gelled to stay neat in low-G.
Human Popsicle: She and other members of the Moonrace, as a way to extend her lifespan.
Identical Stranger: With Kihel. It becomes a major plot point.
Lady and Knight: The Lady to Loran's Knight.
Lonely at the Top: Her duties as Queen and cold sleep separated her from her lover, Will Game.
Meaningful Name: Dianna is from Diana, the Roman goddess of the Moon, while her last name, Soreil, is a derivative of "soleil", which is French for "sun".
My God, What Have I Done?: When she visits Vicinity in the guise of Kihel, and especially when she sees what has happened to Sochie and Kihel's mother as the result of their father's death.
Really 700 Years Old: Probably younger than 700, but she is at least 300, thanks to cold sleep.
Rousing Speech: The finale of episode 44 has Dianna giving one of the best in Gundam history. With this speech Dianna manages to apologize for all of the events of the series that came about from her decision, explains her decisions, and silences and awes an entire crowd at the same time. She truly presents herself as she is. Even Kihel notes her as being the one true Queen Dianna. After the speech there are only a few people, such as Gym and Guin, that remain unswayed.
Diana to the entire moon: To my dear loving Moonrace. I must apologize for allowing your insecurity, and I have no good excuse. However, it was my responsibility as your "Queen Dianna". What you saw was the miserable history of mankind. However, that is our heritage as the Moonrace. I wanted all of you to be aware of it. It was for that reason that I broadcast the data from the Winter Palace. We must be aware of it. As mankind always had the potential to repeat the Dark History's mistakes. Perhaps that is simply mankinds unavoidable destiny. However, it is my wish for us to overcome this fate and instead work together to build up a new history. We will show the people of Earth that it is everyone's duty! I would also like to relay this to the ten million Moonrace currently hibernating in the Winter Palace. From now on, there must be permanent contact between the moon and the Earth. Our ancestors lived life according to nature, grew old, and died naturally. That is how humans should live. I think that it is our turn to live in that manner. For this, we must borrow Earth's strength. Let our two people's walk hand in hand together now so that the same mistakes need never be repeated again.
Royals Who Actually Do Something: She's no figurehead; Dianna Counter is her personal army and recolonization has been her dearest wish for a few centuries now. She also laments the significant amount of paperwork involved in queening as well, and leaps at any opportunity to directly assist people. Episode 45 sees her, along with Kihel, attempting to kill Agrippa for everything that he's done and she is only stopped from doing so because Midgard kills him first. During the finale she leads the the final charge against the Turn-X and its Moonlight Butterfly.
Tough Leader Façade: Her public persona is impeccably serene and composed. Around Kihel, and as Kihel, she shows a more whimsical and sensitive side.
Tragic Dream: Reveals in episode 42 that the centuries she has spent in stasis have taken a toll on her body and that it was her wish to return her to Earth with her people, live out the remainder of her life there, and to die like a normal person. With Kihel taking her place as Queen of the Moon in the final episode this will most surely happen eventually.
Who Wants to Live Forever?: Late in the series, she tells Kihel that she'd like to live out the rest of her natural lifespan and pass away.
Twin Switch: A variation with Kihel.
Your Days Are Numbered: While Dianna's body is biologically 19 years-old, the centuries she's spent in cold sleep have still weakened it, meaning that she doesn't have that much longer to live.

Harry Ord

Voice Actor: Tetsu Inada

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Main mecha: MRC-F20 SUMO Gold Type

The leader of Queen Dianna's Royal Guard, easily recognizable by his mask-like red sunglasses. He's an expert pilot, unfailingly loyal to his Queen, and very sharp. He's quick to react to any insult to Dianna, but outside of that he's clear-headed and able to work with the enemy at need.

Ace Pilot: He's known for being the pilot of the gold SUMO and as noted below, he's one of the best pilots in the series.
Berserk Button: People betraying, threatening, insulting, and/or harming Dianna. Pretty understandable since he's one of her Royal Guard.
Bodyguard Crush: On Kihel.
The Champion: He's loyal to Dianna no matter what, and will readily engage even Moonrace forces to defend her. Even when she's actually Kihel.
Chewing the Scenery / Milking the Giant Cow / Skyward Scream: Behold, his wrath!
Cool Shades: His epic shades that look like bug eyes. (They are apparently high-end civilian models; Jacob gets a pair of his own later on, and complains about the price.
Curb-Stomp Battle: In episode 43 he decimates an entire Mahiroo team on in his, within just a few seconds.
Declaration of Protection: He says this to Kihel after she (as Dianna) reverses the Sunbelt occupation policy. At this point he's figured out who she really is, but says that he would still lay down his life for her.
Defector from Decadence: Was originally part of the Ghinganam faction, but he left because of Gym and Stero's Glory Hound barbarism.
Enemy Mine: A hazy example in Episode 22, where he temporarily aids the Militia with his gold SUMO because Poe's squad is attacking an excavation site full of Moonrace technicians and the real Queen Dianna.
Giant Poofy Sleeves: His outfits often involve these.
Impossibly Tacky Clothes: Any time Harry is out of uniform, he sticks out spectacularly.
Improbable Weapon User: His weapon in the SUMO is a 'heat fan', a bizarre, swiveling axelike weapon that looks like this◊ (for the record, the handle is in the round end).
Kiai: During the final battle, he lets out a cry of "UNIVEEEEEEERSE!"
Large Ham: The normally calm Harry becomes an epic ham when he's pissed.
Making a Spectacle of Yourself: His oversized glasses look ridiculous.
Official Couple: With Kihel.
Paper-Thin Disguise: He poses as an ordinary technician by wearing plain glasses (and tacky clothing) in episode 22. It's sufficient to make Loran and Queen Dianna not realize who he is.
Roaring Rampage of Revenge: After Midgard takes Dianna into space without Harry, despite his desperate efforts to reach them before take-off, he curses Midgard's name and vows to kill him if he dares to harm her. He makes good on this when Midgard tries to shoot Dianna in episode 44.
Serious Business: If you casually refer to Queen Dianna's ass in his presence, you will regret it.
Sunglasses at Night: He always wears his sunglasses.
Suspiciously Similar Substitute: Harry is a Quattro Bajeena substitute—in other words that one time Char had made a Heel–Face Turn. He wears sun glasses instead of a masked helmet, pilots a golden mobile suit instead of a red one, and isn't villainous in any way. For the last part, this is despite the fact that he had an excuse to be written as such, due to his parents having been commoners on the moon who died due to not being provided with the best cryogenic technology. Despite taking on Char's role as The Rival and The Dragon for a good portion of the series, his overall personality leans more towards Quattro's as well.
Skyward Scream: When unable to prevent the Gendarme from launching, he stands on the edge of his cockpit and screams towards it that he will hunt Miran and Midgard down and take revenge if they harm Dianna.
Undying Loyalty: He will do anything to protect Dianna. This eventually extends to Kihel.
Would Hit a Girl: Episode 37 sees him punching Kihel in the chest in order to knock her out and hand her over to Gym, so that Dianna can escape his notice. He later admits that he does this to also put Kihel in a position to take Agrippa down on the moon and he remains with her for her safety, but this still shows the lengths he's willing to go to protect Dianna. Made even more notable by the revelation shortly after that he is in love with Kihel.

Agrippa Maintainer

Voice Actor: Hiroya Ishimaru

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Dianna's Chancellor and the man in charge of the cryogenic stasis chambers that house ten million of the Moonrace. While Dianna is pursuing her agenda on Earth, Agrippa declares military law and gradually takes control of the Moon.

Bad Boss: Along with Gym he authorizes the Turn-X to be activated at all costs, which requires power to be drawn from all over the moon. A technician points out that this could damage the life support capsules and hospitals.
Big Bad Wannabe: Trying to be king of the Moon seldom works out very well when you're so hopelessly, hilariously outclassed by your enemies and subordinates.
Chekhov's Gunman: He's namedropped early on as being part of a faction opposed to Dianna's wish to recolonize Earth, but he doesn't appear onscreen until much later.
Dirty Old Man: He sexually harasses Lily everytime they speak, much to her disgust.
Evil Chancellor: He plots to become King of the Moon. This leads to him taking over rulership of the moon almost as soon as Dianna leaves it, taking up residence in her palace, plastering his family symbol around the moon, and even keeping the Moonrace's citizens unaware of the war raging on Earth.
Hoist by His Own Petard: He gives the Ghingnham faction free reign to stop Dianna and keep the Earthrace off the moon. They proceed to pick fights in the worst possible places, including the Palace grounds where Agrippa himself is in danger from them.
Jerkass Has a Point: He isn't wrong when he points out that Dianna precipitated the whole conflict by deciding to return the Moonrace to Earth. Even though Midgard kills him for being a threat to lunar stability, he concedes that he made some good points about Dianna's responsibility for the situation.
Knight Templar: He fears that Dianna's push to recolonize Earth will lead to a repeat of the devastating wars from the Dark History. To keep this from happening, he enacts a number of laughably severe martial law restrictions on the moon in her absence...
Large Ham: Especially when he starts on his Breaking Speech towards Dianna.
Meaningful Name: His family are the caretakers of the Moonrace's cryogenic stasis chambers.
The Man Behind the Curtain: He's built up as the shadowy, intimidating face of the Moonrace rebellion throughout the series, but when we actually meet him, he's an incompetent Smug Snake being transparently manipulated by the true Big Bad, Ghingnham.
Non-Action Guy: He's a politician, not a mobile suit pilot, hence why he lets the Ghingnham faction off its leash.
Personal Dictionary: As Dianna drily notes, 'people with violent tendencies' dovetails pretty much exactly with 'people I don't like'.
Self-Fulfilling Prophecy: He defends having kept the Dark History a secret because it would cause their violent tendencies to reawaken, pointing to the riots as proof. Dianna says that it was Maintainer's authoritarian policies beforehand, which made the whole population uneasy and suspicious.
Smug Snake: He tries to take control of the Moon while Dianna is away, but he's outclassed by people like Lily and Gym.
Unwitting Pawn: To Gym, who uses Agrippa's ambitions to cement his own power-base on the Moon.
Utopia Justifies the Means: He wants to keep the Moon peaceful and free of conflict, so he intends to exile anyone with violent tendencies to Earth.
Well-Intentioned Extremist: Tries for this, but fails the basic logic exam. He wants to keep the Moon safe by ejecting all warlike elements - unfortunately, he chose the Ghingnham faction to enforce this and defend his kingdom, and doesn't really have a concrete definition of what 'warlike elements' actually are.

Gym Ghingnham

Voice Actor: Takehito Koyasu (jp) Scott McNeil (en)

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Main mecha: CONCEPT-X 6-1-2 Turn X

A leader of one of the Moon's political factions. Gym Ghingnham has spent his life playing war games and is eager to put his talents to use in the war against the Earthrace. Although he initially wears a facade of cooperativeness, he is intent on pursuing his own agenda: wresting control from Dianna and becoming the warlord leader of the Moonrace. He discovers the Turn X and becomes its pilot to further this end.

Ace Pilot: He may be an Armchair Military brute, but he's also a genuinely skilled and creative pilot who's very good at making use of the Turn X's massive arsenal and Combining Mecha properties to outwit, disorient, and overpower his opponents. Anyone who can fly nine machines at once and use them all to deadly effect is a force to be reckoned with.
Ambiguous Situation: It's never addressed how he is able to operate the Turn X's Psycommu, a system that ordinarily can only be used by Newtypes or Cyber-Newtypes. Information from various side material may explain this:
- In the Tsuki no Kaze manga by Akiman, it's implied that he has Newtype ancestry.
- Both Gaia Gear by Tomino and the Turn A Gundam novel by Harutoshi Fukui (of Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn fame) describe a far future of the Universal Century in which the technology of the Psycommu has advanced to the point where even Oldtypes can utilize it.
Armchair Military: Along with the rest of his faction. Prior to the events of the series, he'd never been in a real battle, instead spending his time running war simulations in cold sleep. Paradoxically, this makes him and his friends even more dangerous - they see war as a fun game, rather than something with real and devastating consequences.
Ascended Fanboy: At heart, Gym is basically the worst kind of Gundam weeaboo, given a superpowered mobile suit with which to wreak havoc on the world.
Ax-Crazy: Most of the time he's a calculating but ruthless battle commander, but stepping into the Turn X brings out his proclivity for this.
Bad Boss:
- He tests the power of the Turn X by blasting several Mahiroos, and later kills Sweatson Sutero largely for getting in his way.
- Along with Agrippa he authorizes the Turn-X to be activated at all costs, which requires power to be drawn from all over the moon. A technician points out that this could damage the life support capsules and hospitals, but Gym orders him to do it anyways.
Big Bad: Once the conflict moves into space, it becomes clear that he's pulling the strings on Agrippa and trying to revive the era of warfare.
Blood Knight: He feels that human beings are naturally driven to fight, and that they have to engage in battle to evolve.
Covered with Scars: Supposedly as a result of his centuries of combat experience. Given that that was all simulated, though, they're either cosmetic or caused by improbably careless use of training equipment.
Cultured Badass: His family have long been warriors, and he considers his team to be superior by virtue of their birth.
Detachment Combat: The Turn X can separate into nine sections, all of which are armed, and Gym is a good enough pilot to use this in a variety of deadly and creative ways, from splitting it apart to avoid attacks to partially transforming its anatomy in order to fire off shots from an unexpected direction.
Humans Are Warriors: His motivating belief is that mankind should embrace their fighting instincts to thrive.
I Have You Now, My Pretty: He threatens to rape Kihel, late in the series.
Katanas Are Just Better: He constantly wears one and has a tendency to draw it whenever he's making a point. He also gives Loran one to duel with at the climax of the final episode. Ironically, Loran actually manages to break Gym's aged sword just before he gets cocooned.
Large and in Charge: Gym physically towers over most other characters, and is one of the few visibly muscular characters in the series.
Large Ham: Oh yes. During one communication with Agrippa, he constantly undoes the other man's attempts to size down the giant projection of Gym's face. And as the series progresses, he only gets even more hammy, as though he is being corrupted by the Turn X's sheer power.
The Man in Front of the Man: To Agrippa, whom he is nominally subordinate to but outstrips in terms of competence, with Gym being the true villain of the series.
Obfuscating Stupidity: He deflects people trying to negotiate or undermine him by claiming that he's just a simple soldier. (Unfortunately, it's not stupidity he obfuscates with so much as rationality - at no point does it ever seem like he's not the smartest guy in his faction.)
Proud Warrior Race Guy: With the race in question being humanity.
Sanity Slippage: He gets quite wild-eyed in the penultimate episode as he starts to go all-out with the Turn X.
Slouch of Villainy: Kicks back in his captain's chair like it's a La-Z-Boy.
Spell My Name With An S: The spelling of his last name is officially "Ghingham" in Dynasty Warriors: Gundam, but the pronunciation is closer to "Ghingnham." The official English translation of the Turn A Gundam anime uses Ghingnham.
Übermensch: Wants to force the world to conform to his lunatic view of how reality works.
Villain Has a Point: Rightly points out to both Guin and Michael that they can't expect to instantly receive an audience with Agrippa as soon as they arrive on the moon. Especially when they did not announce their eventual arrival beforehand.
War for Fun and Profit: For Gym, it's all about fun which he never wants to see end - he seems to see Guin's attempts at the "profit" part as ancillary at best. Tomino was sending a message here of how only someone who was a total psychopath would enjoy war so completely.
You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: In episode 49, Gym kills his loyal subordinate Sweatson Sutor for interfering with his battle against the Turn A Gundam. In the final episode, Gym sternly warns Merrybell that, despite raising her, he won't hesitate to kill her if she also interferes.
- However, when he starts losing, he yells at Merrybell to come help him.

Meam Midgard

Voice Actor: Ryuji Mizuno

Agrippa Maintainer's secretary and chief agent on Earth. Callous, calculating, and quite willing to sacrifice anyone he meets for his goals.

Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work: He kills Agrippa partially to spare Dianna from having to do the deed herself.
Chronic Backstabbing Disorder: If he believes their existence threatens the stability of the Moon, there's nobody he won't betray. Including Agrippa and Queen Dianna at the same time.
Heel–Face Door-Slam: Tries to repent for his actions after his My God, What Have I Done? moment (see below). Unfortunately for him, Harry has had quite enough of his Chronic Backstabbing Disorder for one lifetime, and decides the best way for him to repent is to be reduced to a smear on the wall.
Hypercompetent Sidekick: Again, to Agrippa. He's basically the only reason why his boss is a legitimate threat.
Fantastic Racism: He consistently treats Earthrace folk as either barbarians or threats to the Moon.
Improbable Aiming Skills: He shoots Teteh, who was brawling in the middle of a dustcloud at the time, very neatly through the forehead.
Lean and Mean: Notably skinnier and taller than the rest of the cast. Midgard is also one of the more ruthless villains in the series.
Looks Like Cesare: Dark hair, sallow skin, baggy eyes... yep.
My God, What Have I Done?: After realizing that he's awakened the Moonlight Butterfly.
Non-Action Guy: He's not a soldier or suit pilot except in the direst of straits - he took a job as Keith's factory floor boss while laying low - though he'll happily stab you in the back if necessary.
Obviously Evil: Perhaps the most immediately sinister-looking character in the show.
Pragmatic Villainy: Dislikes messy, casualty-high operations, mostly because they'd draw too much attention to him. It's why he offs Teteth.
The Starscream: He murders Agrippa once the latter's incompetence becomes clear and intends to kill Dianna because her policies led to a Smug Snake like Agrippa seizing power. Midgard intends to take power after killing Dianna, but Harry executes him before he can do anything.
Well-Intentioned Extremist: Values the stability of the Moon above everything else. Everything.
Smug Snake: High-functioning, but a bit too overconfident for his own good.

Teteth Halleh

Voice Actor: Yumi Touma

An agent of the Moonrace. She's first encountered as Will Game's girlfriend and works by maneuvering the people around her (particularly men) or plain force, and holds a burning grudge against Queen Dianna.

Berserk Button: The instant she sees Dianna, Teteth picks up a rock and rushes to bash in her head. She's told that it's actually Kihel, and realizes that it would make no sense for Dianna to be there and dressed like that. (However, it really is Dianna still in disguise.)
Boom, Headshot!: How she dies.
Bloodless Carnage: Played with. While she dies from a gun shot and there is a noticeable wound no blood ever comes from it. Furthermore, just a few minutes later when her body is seen for the last time the wound has completely disappeared.
Cool Big Sis: Was this to Bruno and Jacop at some point; they even call her "Big Sis." She uses this to manipulate them into an assassination attempt on Dianna.
Evil Redhead: She's not as evil as some, but she's a ruthless manipulator and will stop at nothing to get revenge on Dianna.
Dark Action Girl: She's a capable Mobile Suit pilot and has no qualms about fighting on foot as well.
Fantastic Racism: Her mother was an Earth woman who went to the Moon with Dianna Counter, and both she and Teteh were subject to a lot of prejudice.
It's Personal: She blames Dianna for what happened to her mother.
Ma'am Shock: She laughs incredulously when Loran calls her "ma'am."
Missing Mom: Her mother Linda is a Human Popsicle. Linda eventually is unthawed, but by that point Teteth is long dead.
Mugged for Disguise: At the Sunbelt declaration ceremony, she seduces a drunk Dianna Counter soldier long enough to strip him so she can sneak into the Soleil.
Tragic Keepsake: She keeps a doll that her mother gave her on her person.
The Vamp: Her preferred method of operating is to charm men into assisting her with whatever act of sabotage or attack she's going for.

Phil Ackman

Voice Actor: Tsuyoshi Koyama

Main mecha: JMA-0530 WaDom

The leader of Dianna Counter's ground and mobile suit troops. Phil is a militaristic man who views the Earthrace as primitive.

Colonel Kilgore: Whenever there's a discussion of tactics, Phil's position is almost always to push forward and attack.
"We haven't yet received orders saying we can't blow them to pieces."
Colonel Badass: When fighting the Ghingnham forces near the end of the series, he doesn't back down an inch.
Easily Forgiven: Dianna elects not to press charges against him and Poe, mainly because there are bigger fish to fry and they make him look calm and rational in comparison.
Fantastic Racism: Is very contemptuous of the Earthrace.
Glorious Leader: He makes a stab at this, giving a grand speech to Dianna Counter about taking back Earth and Moonrace superiority and etcetera. It doesn't pan out when the mutiny fails.
Karma Houdini: He faces no long-term repercussions for his mutiny, even after everything is resolved.
Large and in Charge: He's very tall and broad, towering over his subordinates.
Loophole Abuse: The above quote is him rationalizing his decision to go out and forcibly retrieve the engineers that have been recruited by the Militia—Dianna Counter has been ordered not to attack the Militia itself, but nobody said anything about the Moonrace defectors.
The Starscream: He grows dissatisfied with Dianna's handling of the invasion and mutinies against her.

Poe Eiji

Voice Actor: Yumiko Nakanishi

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Main mecha: JMA-0530 WaDom, MRC-F20 SUMO

A lieutenant in Dianna Counter and Phil's immediate subordinate.. She is impatient and easily irritated by the obstacles the Militia throws in her path. She is tasked with defeating the White Doll at first, which proves to be no easy task.

Action Girl: It's just bad luck that her assignment is to stop the most powerful mobile suit ever built.
Bifauxnen: She has a very short haircut and her uniform is kind of baggy (she's never seen out of it, either).
Fantastic Racism: Like Phil, she sees the Earthers as a bunch of warlike barbarians and constantly gripes about having to fight them.
Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain: Even though she's harsh and has no qualms about crushing the Militia, she spends the first part of the series constantly being outdone by the Gundam or ordered to retreat when she doesn't want to.
Mid-Season Upgrade: Switches from the WaDom to the more nimble SUMO.
Not So Harmless: When she upgrades to the SUMO, she becomes a far more formidable foe for Loran. At one point she even manages to briefly overwhelm Harry Ord.
Not So Stoic: She's a professional soldier and a hardass to her subordinates, but takes her failures very personally. The fact that there's an entire episode titled "Crybaby Poe" is probably the most clear indicator of this.
Not Worth Killing: She regards the Earthrace's militia as annoying barbarians and is very disgruntled about having to swat aside their biplanes, until they start using mobile dolls in greater force.
Subordinate Excuse: Part of the reason she rebels against Dianna is Phil's promise that she will be Queen of the Moon beside him.
Unknown Rival: She develops a personal grudge against the Turn A for continually evading her, but for Loran's part it's just another Moonrace machine he needs to stop.

The Rhett Team

Main mecha: FLAT-L06D FLAT

The Rhett Team are a group of mobile suit pilots whose ancestors were sent to Earth in generations past to prepare for its recolonization. They view the moon and Dianna with a religious reverence, but they're disdained by Dianna Counter for the time they've lived on Earth and their unruly way of fighting.

Action Girl: Cancer.
All of the Other Reindeer: The soldiers of Dianna Counter find them outlandish and barbaric, with one saying that they have been corrupted by the Earth's atmosphere, and give them inadequate support.
Back for the Finale: The surviving members of Rhett Team appear in the finale after leaving the story when Cancer and Muron went to space. They finally get to return to the moon.
Blue-and-Orange Morality: The only guide to their actions is whether or not they believe it will help or please Dianna. When she personally gives them orders to assist in her efforts at peace they happily obey, but they would have been just as compliant if she'd ordered them to act belligerently.
Boisterous Bruiser: This is basically their modus operandi.
Brawn Hilda: Though she's not tremendously unattractive, Cancer has some elements of this.
Cool Big Sis: Cancer serves this role for most of them, except for Grandpa.
A Good Way to Die: When it becomes clear that they're going to die in space, Cancer and Muron kick things off with a big party to celebrate all they accomplished for Dianna.
Going Native: Sort of, as far as Dianna Counter's concerned.
Heel–Face Turn: They're initially antagonists who start battles recklessly and cause a lot of trouble for both sides, and they have very little in the way of rules of engagement (as seen by their assault on the fiend hospital). There's a sense of Blue-and-Orange Morality to them; once they find Dianna they wind up as Loran's allies because they'll do whatever Dianna wants, and what she wants is to stop the fighting.
Heroic Sacrifice: Cancer and Muroon hold off the Ghingnham fleet long enough for Loran to destroy the Mistletoe asteroid before it crashes into Von City. While they survive the battle, their suits are rendered inoperable and they are last seen drifting in space with only five days worth of air left and little hope of rescue.
Hot-Blooded: All of them are prone to hammy violence.
Killed Offscreen: Although we only see them days before they would run out of oxygen, Cancer and Muron were set adrift in space, and it seems no one found them in time, if at all.
Large and in Charge: Cancer. She's the tallest of them, and wears a vest that shows off her impressive muscles.
New-Age Retro Hippie: They resemble a mix of Native American tribals and Woodstock hippies.
One of the Kids: Muron. He's seen building sandcastles at one point.
Put on a Bus: When Cancer and Muron go to space, the rest of Rhett Team remains on the Earth and vanish until the epilogue.
Rank Scales with Asskicking: Cancer doesn't need a mobile suit to take out her enemies.
Sleeves Are for Wimps: Cancer has the sleeves torn off her shirt to show off some very impressive arms.
Spanner in the Works: For all factions. When they show up, it usually means that things are about to get a lot more chaotic.
Undying Loyalty: To Queen Dianna, no matter what anyone in Dianna Counter thinks. Their loyalty is especially notable since they have never been to the moon or met Dianna before the series, yet are more loyal to her than some of the people that actually came to Earth with her in the end.
The Unfettered: They will do anything to help Queen Dianna recolonize Earth and prove their loyalty—up to and including conducting a raid on a military hospital. Cancer and Muron also intend to take the warheads and detonate them on Earth so that they can't be used to harm Dianna.
Walking Shirtless Scene: Muron only puts on a shirt when he needs to wear a spacesuit.

Merrybell Gadget

Voice Actor: Rio Natsuki

Main mecha: G-M1F Bandit

Merrybell is an aide to Gym Ghignham. She oversees the maintenance of his mobile suits and assists in excavating the Mountain Cycle on the Moon. She shares his enthusiasm for battle and violence.

Ax-Crazy: When she gets a hold of the Turn A, she has no reservations about activating its most destructive capabilities, including the Moonlight Butterfly.
Blood Knight: Like the rest of the Ghingnham fleet, Merrybell lives for war.
Cloud Cuckoo Lander: A rather dark one: like most of the Ghingnham fleet, she views war as a game, but she's a lot more enthusiastic about fighting then the rest.
Dark Action Girl: She's the pilot of the of one of the Bandit mobile suits that were excavated alongside the Turn X and quite good at it.
Giggling Villain: She giggles a lot in keeping with her childish personality.
Limited Wardrobe: She's perpetually wearing her flightsuit.
Perky Female Minion: To Gym.
Psychopathic Womanchild: She's flighty and capricious with a penchant for handstands and other casual gymnastics. That, and gleeful mass destruction.
Walking the Earth: Joins Guin on a sailboat after the war is over.
Wrench Wench: Along with being a mobile suit pilot, Merrybell is also a mechanic who assists in the excavation and reactivation of suits from the lunar Mountain Cycle.

Sweatson Stero

Voice Actor: Tora Uganda

Main mecha: G-838 Mahiroo

An obese pilot in the Ghignham Fleet.

Acrofatic: Sweatson is obese, but at one point he's shown piloting his Mahiroo as a mobile fighter, which means that he actually is quite skilled at hand to hand combat.
Blood Knight: Like the rest of the Ghingnham Fleet, Sweatson lives for combat and frequently says that his "DNA is boiling" for battle. His reaction to the Dark History is a feeling of vindication.
Drinking on Duty: Has beer during a cease-fire break.
Everyone Has Standards: Subverted. Whenever someone says that nobody of the Moonrace would fight in some location because it would cause great destruction or loss of life, Swetson immediately roars in and demonstrates that he's the exception.
Fat Bastard: He's an obese Jerkass who loves fighting.
Jerkass: He's constantly abusing his subordinates.
Karmic Death: Sweatson loves to bully his subordinates for no real reason. Sweatson is ultimately killed by his boss Gym for no real reason.
Leeroy Jenkins: Sweatson often fights even without Gym's approval. He even fights insides Gengham without regard for how severe the risk of destroying the city is. This tendency gets him killed when he fights against the Turn A when Gym doesn't want him to.

Corin Nander

Voice Actor: Yasuhiko Kawazu

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Main mecha: TAF-M9 Eigail, AMX-109 Corin Kapool

A convict and dangerously skilled pilot who is brought to Earth by Dianna Counter in order to counteract the White Doll. He is by far the oldest character (chronologically) in the show, being well over 2000, but due to brain damage caused by centuries of being frozen he's unstable and childish, and obsessed with putting a stop to the White Doll, which he calls the "Gundam", a name he remembers from his days as a soldier of the OZ organization.

Ace Custom: The Corin Kapool is a regular Kapool with a WaDom fist (converted to work as a Rocket Punch!) and a Minch Drill, painted red and with a squad leader's horn.
Ace Pilot: After getting a Kapool tuned and customized to his liking, he uses it to beat a Mahiro in a mid-air battle.
Back for the Finale: After walking out of the series about halfway through, he walks back in to participate in the Final Battle.
Bad Boss: Bruno and Jacop are terrified of him, although Corin doesn't act with malice towards them so much as he assumes they'll enjoy attacking dangerous Militia troops as much as he does.
Berserk Button: The Turn A Gundam. Expanded in the Super Robot Wars games to any white-colored Gundams. Blame Wing Zero for that trauma.
Boxed Crook: He was placed in cold sleep for a long-forgotten crime committed millennia ago. Agrippa Maintainer has him released to join the fight for Earth.
Bunny-Ears Lawyer: He may be a skilled pilot and able soldier, but he's kind of... odd. See the Psychopathic Manchild entry below.
Carry a Big Stick: His Eagail's massive club is amongst the first handheld mobile suit weapons used in the show. It's the one thing that carries over to his custom Kapool.
Disney Death: He appears to fall into an underground river of lava (we see him thrown clear of his Eagle, but still troublingly close to an active flow), but shows up a number of episodes later as a monk.
Dumbass Has a Point/Jerkass Has a Point: In his introduction, he is shown to have what seems to be a completely irrational hatred of the White Doll. However, as time proves, he is completely correct about the Turn A being a threat to humanity, having lived through the Dark History. That being said, he becomes well aware enough to know that in Loran's hands, the Turn A can be the force for positive change in humanity's fate.
Foreshadowing: Long before the truth of the Dark History is revealed, Corin mentions the word "Gundam" and past memories of it being a force of destruction. Not only does this foreshadow the Dark History, it also hints at his own past being different from other members of the Moonrace as well. Though he is not the only one to mention the word Gundam, he is the only one to mention having actual memories of it, making his eventual flashback to Wing Zero make even more sense.
Heroic Sacrifice: He knocks Merrybell out of the battle with a Kapool and frees the Turns from one another, giving Loran the chance to defeat Gym before the Moonlight Butterfly destroys civilization, but he dies in the process.
Hot-Blooded: Very hammy and very, very eager to fight.
Innocent Blue Eyes: Underlining the whole Psychopathic Manchild thing. Pure Is Not Good, remember?
Jerk Jock: He's a loud, brutish fitness fanatic who's constantly stretching and exercising.
Kick the Dog: He attacks Nocis City without warning or orders solely to lure out the Gundam.
Knight Templar: He'll go to any length to stop the Turn A, because he knows how dangerous it truly is. He then extends this courtesy to the Turn X as well.
Large Ham: Every word Corin speaks and every action he takes is very over the top.
Laughably Evil: During his stint as a villain, Corin does many horrible things, but his mannerisms are too amusing for the audience to hate him. After his Heel–Face Turn, we at least get to see why he's nuts towards the White Doll, and a few frames are all it takes for most anyone to understand why.
Made of Iron:
- Tumbles off the top of the Gallop and can still get up and run while firing an RPG.
- Not to mention he somehow survived an encounter with Wing Zero. It takes something like direct contact with the Moonlight Butterfly to kill him.
Military Maverick: Apparently, his inability to obey orders is one of the reasons he was locked up in the first place. He still hasn't learned his lesson, as he ignores Dianna's orders to spare Loran, even though she warns him that she will execute him for insubordination if he disobeys.
My Life Flashed Before My Eyes: During the final battle, when the Turns reveal their full power, he relieves his memories of his encounter with the Wing Zero Custom.
No Indoor Voice: NONE WHATSOEVER. EVEN AS A FREAKING MONK.
Pet the Dog: The way he treats the children at the festival after becoming a monk.
Psychopathic Manchild: Apparently it's a side effect of being cold-imprisoned for so long. While his mind was still awake. He eventually shakes it off, ultimately and pointedly forcing Miashei and Sochie to stay well away from the Turns by stealing their Kapools.
Rocket Punch: He straps one onto his Kapool and... uses it to perform a Groin Attack on the Turn X.
Scary Black Man: It's not immediately obvious because of his albinism.
Share the Male Pain: A particularly bizarre example of this trope: Corin feels the pain, when Sochie kicks his mobile suit in his "groin".
Tattooed Crook: He's got a large blue one on his face. (It's apparently a side effect of cold sleep.)
Time Abyss: He was already present and alive at the time of the founding of the Dianna Counter. Him already knowing that the Turn A is a Gundam, of course, was already a big clue to this, but it is eventually revealed that he came from the After Colony era of the Dark History, making him significantly older.
Walking the Earth: After failing in his initial mission to destroy the White Doll, he styles himself as a traveling monk and seems to walk out of the series, but comes back to help after witnessing the Turn A in action in the last few episodes.

Fran Doll

Voice Actor: Kumiko Watanabe

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The second member of the Moonrace scout team sent to the Earth. She finds a job at a printing press and moves onto journalism from there. She's instrumental in publicizing Loran as "Laura Rolla," but her photographs and articles become problematic for the Luizianna and Inglessa governments as the war goes on.

Beta Couple: With Joseph. Not that there's much of an Official Couple, but they quietly and mostly without fuss get together while Sochie is tsunning at Loran and Loran is dedicating himself to Dianna.
Bifauxnen: She has a very short haircut and wears a tie and trousers in a pre-WWI era of technology, when most women wear skirts. Basically she looks like a newsboy.
Camera Fiend: Her big box camera is always with her, and she likes taking photos for fun too. She eventually upgrades to a Moonrace digital camera.
Contemplate Our Navels: Does this in episode 25 after witnessing Moonrace soldiers burn and raid a town for its food supplies. Fran is told by an escaping citizen, while taking pictures, that no one will publish them, which causes her to ponder how the world got to its current state when not long ago she was publishing stories about peace and negotiations.
Heroic BSoD: When she learns that the Luzianna newspapers are taking her war articles and suppressing them so that people will think the negotiations are working.
Going for the Big Scoop: She's determined to report on the war no matter how dangerous it is and gets back to taking her pictures fairly quickly after her BSOD, even though there's little chance of them being published.
Intrepid Reporter: She ends up on the frontlines in her effort to report on the war and continues taking pictures in every circumstance, even when she's practically in the crossfire of mobile suit battles on the Moon.
Nerves of Steel: At one point, she pulls a Big Damn Heroes for a woman by diving in front of a WaD and threatening the pilot with her camera, warning them that she'll publicize their atrocities if they fire. And the WaD backs down.

Keith Laijee

Voice Actor: Jun Fukuyama

The third member of the scout team sent from the Moon. Keith becomes a baker and has absolutely no interest in fighting whatsoever, but the necessity for provisions makes his business a huge success as he sells his bread to both factions.

Action Survivor: Ends up becoming this thanks to the conflict between the Earthrace and Moonrace.
Actual Pacifist: By selling bread to both sides, he hopes to (and succeeds in) creating a neutral area around his business that neither side will fight in.
A Day in the Limelight: One episode is all about Keith and his struggles to survive and protect his girlfriend with not much more than a bread truck in the war zone.
Going Native: Probably the most out of himself, Loran, and Fran. He even sells the FLAT that they arrived in to the Militia.
I Just Want to Be Normal: He really has no interest in the war, except that it interferes with his desire to settle down and bake bread for the rest of his life.
Non-Action Guy: He refuses to take up arms for either side and would rather retreat and rebuild than fight.
This Is Unforgivable!: Towards the Ghingnham faction and their allies when they destroy his factory, which he'd successfully maintained as a neutral safe zone till then, and severely injuring Verlaine in the process.
What the Hell, Hero?: On the receiving end of this from Fran Doll. After she witnesses the death and destruction in one town she's extremely angry to see him selling provisions to the soldiers causing it.

Bruno & Jacop

Voice Actor: Kazunari Tanaka and Hidenari Ugaki

Main mecha: NRS-P701 Gozzo, NRS-P701R Godwin

A pair of soldiers sent to assist Corin Nander. Although troublesome, they really aren't all that threatening—they're more afraid of their boss than anything else and most of their plans end up derailed until they end up on the Militia side largely by accident and become bridge pilots on the Gallop and then Willgame.

Amusing Injuries: They frequently get knocked around with no ill effects. At one point they even get kicked in the face by a donkey and come out of it with just a bump.
Bridge Bunnies: They serve as this on the Willgame.
Butt Monkeys: In one episode, their plans are foiled by a donkey.
Embarrassing Tattoo: Bruno has a "Lova Dianna" tattoo on his right arm.
Everyone Has Standards:
- When the Willgem quells the riots by repelling the crowds with its engine draft, they ask if this makes them the bad guys.
- They are also very unhappy when Guin and the militia join up with Ghingnham. As soon as they have the chance, they make their escape via smoke-bomb and help Loran's crew steal back the Turn A.
Expys: Their mannerisms and personalities are remarkably similar to those of Tahei and Matashichi from Akira Kurosawa's The Hidden Fortress.
Gonk: Especially Bruno's huge teeth.
Heel–Face Turn: They began as Corin's lackeys and ended up working for the militia... but it was mostly by accident.
Hidden Depths: Beneath all their comic idiocy, they're actually pretty competent soldiers, and a big asset to the Earth Militia.
Heterosexual Life-Partners: The two of them remains friends to the end.
Plucky Comic Relief: Their doofy behavior and luckless antics contribute substantially to the series' lightheartedness.
Suspiciously Specific Denial: When they run into Yanny while deserting the Willgem, Bruno says that they weren't thinking about going back to Dianna at all. Yanny draws a pistol and tells them to get back to their posts.
Those Two Guys: They're almost always around somewhere after they're introduced, but never have a huge impact on the plot.

Will Game

Voice Actor: Kenichi Sakaguchi

Main mecha: SPA-51 Cannon Illefuto

A descendant of a Moonrace man who lived or rather, was exiled on Earth. Although he's got a house and a farm of his own, he dreams of living on the moon and will do anything to get there, no matter how dangerous.

Adventurer Archaeologist: When we meet him, he's digging through the Mountain Cycles for evidence of the legends surrounding his grandfather.
Foreshadowing: When leaving his farm, he asks Teteth to pilot the Illefuto because he's not very good at it.
Identical Grandson: The only visual difference between him and the first Will Game is clothing. Dianna realizes that they are very different in personality, however, in that Will Game I balanced his dreams with practicality—his grandson, on the other hand, is reckless and impulsive.
I Let Gwen Stacy Die: Dianna feels this way about his grandfather and does everything she can to keep him alive, but he eventually dies in battle against the Militia.
Jumped at the Call: He eagerly joins Dianna Counter so he can get to the Moon.
New Meat: He's only had very basic instruction on piloting a mobile suit when he joins Dianna Counter. It has fatal consequences.
Perma-Stubble: His facial hair is halfway between this and a light beard.
Tragic Dream: More than anything else, he wishes to go to the Moon to prove that the tales about his ancestor were true. According to Teteth, they've sold off most of his possessions to excavate the spaceship near his property. He joins Dianna Counter on her advice because he might get a ride back on a supply ship. Instead they send him into battle with his dilapidated mobile suit and lack of experience, and he dies.
Unwitting Pawn: To his "wife" Teteth, whose encouragement and technical help is a ploy to further her own plans. Then he becomes one Dianna Counter, who use him and his unaffiliated mobile suit to start the shooting in a battle so that they don't take responsibility for it.
Wild Card: He freely allows the Militia to excavate the spaceship near his farm and is friendly enough—until Dianna (disguised as Kihel) and Loran try to talk him out of joining Dianna Counter. Then he has no problem pointing his mobile doll's cannon at them.

Horace Niden

Voice Actor: Hirohiko Kakegawa

An impassive, laid-back Moonrace engineer who is recruited by the Earth Militia to help with their salvaged technology.

Actual Pacifist: He's not interested in the war - he just wants to take a poke at all the Lost Technology lying around.
Beware the Nice Ones: Despite being a Gentle Giant and Actual Pacifist to the core, he can be dangerous in other ways if the situation warrants it - as Guin discovers, his genius for engineering means he's terrifyingly effective at industrial sabotage.
Brainy Specs: He always wears glasses and is one of the smartest members of the cast.
The Engineer: He serves as one for the Militia; it's largely by his efforts that they get the Gallop into working order.
For Science!: Why he helps the Militia. This causes some people to question if they can be trusted by anyone or if they'll just join whichever faction is digging up the coolest Dark History artifacts.
Gentle Giant: Not an extreme example, but he's significantly larger than most of the rest of the cast.
Looks Like Jesus: Not Jesus, but his design follows a similar idea. With his chubby proportions, round face, and haircut, the only thing separating Horace from the Buddha are modern garb and a pair of spectacles.
Mellow Fellow: Managed to bypass the entire conflict between the Earthrace and Moonrace through pure, unadulterated chill - it's impossible to think of Horace as an enemy, so nobody does. As Guin discovers, though, even he has his limits, and it's not wise to push them.
The Mole: During the final arc, Horace and his fellow engineers join Guin so they can sabotage Guin's plans to mass produce mobile suits.
Nice Guy: Horace befriends Sid and his crew over a love of historical technology without any kind of prejudice about the Earthrace.
The Quisling: Accidentally. He's rather surprised to realize that he would be viewed as such by the Moonrace.
The Stoic: There are Buddhist monks who could take lessons from Horace about tranquillity.

Earthers

Sochie Heim

Voice Actor: Akino Murata (jp) Shannon Casorso (en)

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Main mecha: AMX-109 Kapool

Sochie is the headstrong and somewhat tomboyish younger daughter of the Heim family. She's training as an airplane pilot for the Militia when the war begins and develops a hatred towards all of the Moonrace for killing her father and driving her mother insane. She becomes a Kapool pilot and is eager to rush into battle regardless of the odds.

Action Girl: Admittedly, she's almost a Faux Action Girl with how often her Kapool is batted aside, but every pilot in the militia besides Loran has that problem for a huge part of the show thanks to the technology gulf between the two sides, and she manages some surprising upsets against enemies piloting vastly superior machines through skill and cunning, even crippling a few of the Ghingnham Faction’s agile, heavily-armed Mahiroos.
Big Sister Instinct: Even though she's the younger of the two, she tries her best to help Kihel when she's in danger. She eventually extends this to Dianna, saying that she might as well since they're basically the same person.
Bittersweet Ending: Everyone who survives ends up with their romantic interest, living a happy life. Sochie, meanwhile, has lost her fiancee, leaves the militia to look after her mother (who may or may not still be insane), and becomes a Secret-Keeper for her beloved sister taking Dianna's place permanently and living on the Moon while Loran and Dianna move away. She might be able to contact them, but she's clearly pretty unhappy with the situation.
Character Development: Miashei's injury and the nuclear blast sharply decrease Sochie's reckless tendencies. Particularly after the "midnight sunrise," Sochie becomes far more contemplative about her desire for revenge, willing to listen to people from the Moonrace, and much more willing to help Loran when he's trying to slow or mitigate the fighting. He even comments that she's become mature and responsible like a real mobile suit pilot.
Clingy Jealous Girl: Towards Loran. She's shown being annoyed at his growing closeness with her sister (really Queen Dianna) on multiple occassions, competes for his attention, and when she becomes engaged to Gavane actually accuses Loran of wanting him to die. In reality Loran is simply questioning her decision to get married in the middle of a war and without consulting her mother.
Fantastic Racism: She hates the Moonrace for killing her father and struggles with her antipathy for a long time. She's also distrustful over Earth-based foreigners like the Louisianans.
Hot-Blooded: There are few situations where she's reluctant to fight.
Jumped at the Call: She planned to join the militia even before the Moonrace attacked.
Leeroy Jenkins: She routinely tries to take on WaDoms, FLATs, and the like with her Kapool in the beginning. She starts to calm down after a while, when she sees that rash actions have dangerous consequences for her allies particularly after Gavan dies. Lily calls her "Suicide Sochie" at one point.
Noble Bigot: As she meets more people of the Moonrace and sees that they're mostly regular people trying to make a life for themselves, her hatred of them gradually lessens. Particularly through her acquaintance with Loran and Dianna, although she didn't know their origins to start with.
The Ojou: Although she's more tomboyish than her older sister, she's still a wealthy man's daughter.
Operation: Jealousy: The major reason in her becoming engaged to Gavane was basically to make Loran jealous and to hurt him.
Patriotic Fervor: Despite all evidence to the contrary she believes Inglessa can hold its own against the Moonrace.
Pink Means Feminine: Her pilot gear is not entirely pink, but has plenty of pink in it. She starts wearing more as the show goes on, and a pink dress in the ending.
Plucky Girl: She gets sent flying dozens of times in her Kapool, but it doesn't dampen her urge to rush into battle.
Red Oni, Blue Oni: She's the red oni to Miashei's blue—in fact, her reckless tendencies lead to Miashei being seriously injured and hospitalized at one point.
Skyward Scream: She lets one out in the epilogue to vent her frustration over Loran choosing Dianna over her..
Sour Supporter: Complains bitterly whenever she has to help people of the Moonrace. She's also critical of Loran's pacifistic desires.
Took a Level in Badass: Joins the militia and, after they're dug up, becomes a Kapool pilot.
Tsundere: When describing her, Loran pretty much gives the dictionary definition of Type A.
You Killed My Father: Her Fantastic Racism towards the Moonrace begins after her father is killed during the Dianna Counter's arrival on Earth. Later, she admits that she envies Loran his ability to look at both sides without being blinded by hatred.

Kihel Heim