History Characters / AceCombat04ShatteredSkies

* AntiVillain: He's show to be quite an honorable man, in spite of being the closest thing the game has to a BigBad. Over the course of the story he shows care for his wingmen, dislikes cowardice in battle (especially sabotage), pities the weaker enemies he shoots down, and derides the army's tactic of hiding AA guns on top of hospitals.

* CharClone: A classic ''Anime/MobileSuitGundam''-style one: blonde AcePilot, known primarily by a color-themed nickname, and associated with a high-performance upgrade of an existing jet painted in that color, who [[UnknownRival doesn't know much about the protagonist]] until his interest is piqued by said protagonist's obvious potential, and an actual rivalry between them is cemented after [[spoiler:Mobius One shoots down a woman close to him]].

!ISAF

[[folder:Mobius One]]

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One of ISAF's fighter pilots, and later their top ace. Mobius 1 also returns as the playable character for side modes in two later games, putting down a Free Erusea movement in 2006 in the Arcade mode of ''Ace Combat 5'', and in ''Ace Combat 7''[='=]s VR missions, now affiliated with the IUN, fighting yet another movement in 2014.

* OldSoldier: By the time of the VR missions in ''7'' he's been on active duty for 10 years. Viper 2 even calls him an "old timer". Perhaps he's the reason Erusea hasn't gone anywhere near North Point in the main game.

* AFatherToHisMen: As noted by the narrator, 13 prided himself not on his kill record, but on the fact that he never lost any of his wingmen in battle. [[spoiler:This ends during the destruction of Stonehenge.]]

A young boy who's life is changed by the war. He is the narrator of the intermission cutscenes.

* BreakoutVillain: While Thirteen doesn’t survive the events of this game, his role as Mobius 1’s rival throughout the campaign as well as his AntiVillain qualities made him one of the series’ most popular characters, and would serve as a template for many of the other rival aces in the series such as [[VideoGame/AceCombatZero Pixy]], [[VideoGame/AceCombat6FiresOfLiberation Pasternak]], and [[VideoGame/AceCombat7SkiesUnknown Mihaly]].

* OneManArmy: As tradition for ''Ace Combat'' player characters, but he especially embodies this trope due to the fact that, unlike many others, he does not fly with any wingmen for the entirety of the game. Though he is accompanied by [[spoiler:a "Mobius Squadron"]] in the final level, they do not behave any differently than regular ISAF pilots. By the time of the first Free Erusea uprising in ''[=AC5=]''[='=]s Arcade mode, [[OneRiotOneRanger sending him alone is their first course of action]] -- and he succeeds beyond their expectations.

* WeaponOfChoice: Starts with a F-4E Phantom II, then eventually changes to his F-22A Raptor, which becomes available to the player in [[EleventhHourSuperpower the last two missions of the game]] on a normal playthrough. When he [[VideoGame/AceCombat5TheUnsungWar returns]] as player character in [[GaidenGame Operation Katina]], it's his only available plane for a first playthrough. His livery, complete with ISAF emblems, is available in nearly ever game after 04.

* BreakoutVillain: While Thirteen doesn’t survive the events of this game, his role as Mobius 1’s rival throughout the campaign as well as his AntiVillain qualities made him one of the series’ most popular and beloved characters, and would serve as a template for many of the other rival aces in the series such as [[VideoGame/AceCombatZero Pixy]], [[VideoGame/AceCombat6FiresOfLiberation Pasternak]], and [[VideoGame/AceCombat7SkiesUnknown Mihaly]].

* BreakoutVillain: While Thirteen doesn’t survive the events of this game, his role as Mobius 1’s rival throughout the campaign as well as his AntiVillain qualities made him one of the series’ most popular and beloved characters, and would serve as a template for many of the rival aces in the series such as [[VideoGame/AceCombatZero Pixy]], [[VideoGame/AceCombat6FiresOfLiberation Pasternak]], and [[VideoGame/AceCombat7SkiesUnknown Mihaly]].

* BreakoutVillain: While Thirteen doesn’t survive the events of this game, his role as Mobius 1’s rival throughout the campaign as well as his AntiVillain qualities made him one of the franchise’s most popular and beloved characters, and would serve as a template for many of the rival aces in the series such as [[VideoGame/AceCombatZero Pixy]], [[VideoGame/AceCombat6FiresOfLiberation Pasternak]], and [[VideoGame/AceCombat7SkiesUnknown Mihaly]].

* ChildSoldiers: Thirteen says he started training Four to be a fighter pilot when she was still a young girl.

* TheSmurfettePrinciple: Stated to be the only female in Yellow Squadron, and is one of the only two female characters in the story.

* AcePilot: They are notable much more threatening than standard Erusian pilots, even demonstrating the capability for advance manuevers like Pugachev's Cobra.
* TheDreaded: Feared greatly by ISAF at first, so much so that the initial response to them showing up during a strike on Erusea's oil supplies is an order for all planes to flee immediately. Over the course of the game, however, they begin to lose this reputation as Mobious One slowly but surely begins to whittle down their numbers. By the second-to-last mission, the order given to Mobius One is to shoot them down on his own, despite being outnumbered. [[OneManArmy Mobius One successfully complies.]]

* DistantFinale: The final cutscene reveals that the FramingDevice has been a letter sent by him to Mobius One years after the war ended, simultaneously giving Mobius One a perspective on the war from the point of view of the Eruseans and the civilians whose cities and countries were occupied, while also trying to figure out how Yellow 13 thought, figuring a fellow pilot would be the best person to ask.

One of ISAF's fighter pilots, and later their top ace. Mobius 1 returns as the playable character for ''Ace Combat 7''[='=]s VR missions, now affiliated with the IUN and fighting another Free Erusea movement in 2014.

* OneManArmy: As tradition for ''Ace Combat'' player characters, but he especially embodies this trope due to the fact that, unlike many others, he does not fly with any wingmen for the entirety of the game. Though he is accompanied by [[spoiler:a "Mobius Squadron"]] in the final level, they do not behave any differently than regular ISAF pilots.

* AcePilot

* WeaponOfChoice: Starts with a F-4E Phantom II, then changes to his F-22A Raptor, which becomes available to the player in [[EleventhHourSuperpower the last two missions of the game]] on a normal playthrough. When he [[VideoGame/AceCombat5TheUnsungWar returns]] as player character in [[GaidenGame Operation Katina]], it's his only available plane for a first playthrough. His livery, complete with ISAF emblems, is available in nearly ever game after 04.

* EarlyBirdCameo: Shows up as one of the optional Aces in ''VideoGame/AceCombatZeroTheBelkanWar''

* AmbiguouslyBrown