History Characters / AceCombatZeroTheBelkanWar

* GoshDangItToHeck: [[spoiler:His last words before he gets shot down by Pixy?]] ''"DANG IT!"'' Notable for being the ''only'' time PJ loses his cool; he also sounds genuinely furious, ''not'' like he's toning down his language.

* CharClone: He comes aspects of a ''[[Anime/MobileSuitZetaGundam Zeta]]'' and ''[[Anime/MobileSuitGundamCharsCounterAttack CCA]]''-style one. Sure, he doesn't wear a CoolMask or CoolShades, but he's a blonde AcePilot associated with an aircraft that's at least partly red (implied to have had a bit of RedBaron fame before becoming Cipher's wingman and seeing the "Demon Lord" overshadow him), who's a close ally and, initially, TheMentor to the main character, and then [[spoiler:becomes disillusioned with the reason behind the war and becomes an enemy trying to bring about TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt]].

* SpellMyNameWithAnS: "Galm" is actually supposed to be "Garm(r)," of Norse mythology. See {{Hellhound}} above.

* WorfHadTheFlu: Gelb 2 mentions in his interview that his squad would often be sent from one mission to another without even any basic maintenance on their planes. Combined with being one of only two ace squadrons that don't outnumber you, this is why the player can easily take them out despite them flying Su-37 Terminators, a late-game plane for the player, just a third of the way into the game. [[note]]It's also a CallForward to ''Ace Combat 04'': see MeaningfulName above, and Yellow Squadron in that game, who flew the same plane, was plagued by similar problems.[[/note]]

* ThePoliticalOfficer: Is an air force take on this. Their job is (usually) to execute deserters, defectors, and cowards and maintain air force discipline.

* OldMaster: A rare ace pilot example of this trope. Kellerman was still able to put up a good fight despite his age being well above fighter pilot norm (most pilots range between their early twenties to mid-thirties ; Kellerman is forty-five). He was also founder of the Kellerman Institution, the flight class which trained some of Belka's best pilots. [[spoiler: Among who Michael Heimeroth and Ashley Bernitz, aka [[VideoGame/AceCombat5TheUnsungWar Ofnir 1 and Grabacr 1]].]]

* WeakButSkilled: Silber One, who uses an [=F-4E=] Phantom II and is much more skilled than everyone else in his squadron, despite them using [=F-16C=]'s.

Not much is known about this Sapin squadron save for their involvement with A World With No Boundaries and the romantic relationship between its two members, leader Alberto Lopez and wingman Marcela Vasquez. Lopez did not finish the war alive (he dies in the air in the Mercenary path, succumbs to his wounds in the Soldier path and survives but disappears in mission in the Knight path) while Vasquez, still mourning him, became a dancer.

Wizard favored ambush tactics using regular planes as bait while stealth fighters attacked the target. The Squadron is led by Joshua "Lucan" Bristow. After the war, Bristow kept fighting for various terrorist groups until his arrest and imprisonment.

* JerkAss: Bristow is much more openly antagonistic and ten times more insufferable than even Dominic Zubov, actively seeking to sacrifice himself even if it meant denying PJ and Cipher victory, [[spoiler: after sacrificing his team to them.]]

* BastardUnderstudy: Lorenz Riedel (Gault 7) is Kupchenko's star pupil in ''Zero'', and goes on to create an even more advanced version of his mentor's masterpiece, the XB-0 Hraesvelgr, a decade later while working as an ex-pat mercenary for Estovakia. Just like his mentor, he also takes to the skies to personally try and kill the pilot who downed his beloved creation and ends up dying for it as well.
* BigBad: Originally, Anton [[spoiler: founded A World With No Boundaries with the support of Waldemarr Rald. Just how much influence Rald had with the organization is unknown, but Kupchenko, in the end rises to become the game's Final BigBad, while Rald remains an unseen force in the story and fades into the background.]]

* NeverFoundTheBody: Kupchenko already faked the death of his whole squadron to go set up A World With No Boundaries, after his allegedly fatal fight with Cipher, he is "buried" in a public cemetary in Belka, though it is speculated in suplimentary materials that the grave is in fact empty.

* AntiHero: The Mercenary Ace path characterizes him as some version of one of these -- someone who's fighting for the right cause, but the wrong reasons, whether it's [[OnlyInItForTheMoney the paycheck]], for the fame or infamy, as revenge against Belka, JustFollowingOrders (no matter how abhorrent), [[ColonelKilgore for the opportunity to have "fun"]], [[PsychoForHire the opportunity to kill people legally]] or just [[ForTheEvulz the opportunity to cause mayhem]]. Now, what type of anti-hero Cipher is, be it a NominalHero, an UnscrupulousHero, or a SociopathicHero, is completely up to the player's interpretation.

* CombatPragmatist: On the "Soldier" path. His goal is winning the battle - whether that means his hands are clean or dirty by the end doesn't matter.

* IdealHero: The Knight Ace path characterizes him as this -- someone who spares civilians, non-combatants, and those who drop out of the fight due to battle damage.

--> [[AC:"Damn mercenaries, haven't you already earned enough!"]]

* CatchPhrase: "Yo, buddy! You still alive?". Always said towards Cipher, with a variation later in the game:

* EvilAllAlong: Dialogue between Wizard and Pixy early in the game indicates both are already [[spoiler:members of A World With No Boundaries]] long before Pixy makes his defection apparent.

* FallenHero: He goes from one half of the greatest AcePilot team of the war to an utterly disillusioned extremist willing to plunge the world into chaos by the end of the story. He ''does'' eventually recover, though.

--> You and I are opposite sides of the same coin. [...] There may be a resemblance, but we never face the same direction.

* {{Turncoat}}: Belkan by birth, fighting against Belka as mercenary. [[spoiler: And then flipping sides to A World With No Boundaries, possibly masterminded by Belkan political leadership.]]

* {{Wingman}}: For Cipher, at first.

* TheHero: Definitely is the main character, and a hero of some kind. ''What'' kind he is is up to you.

* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: BigBad of the game? Check. Toughest enemy pilot save for [[spoiler: Pixy and Mobius 1 in the Gauntlet?]] Check.

[[folder:Rot Squadron]]

[[folder:Grun Squadron]]

[[folder:Indigo Squadron]]

[[folder:Gelb Squadron]]

[[folder:Schwarze Squadron]]

[[folder:Schnee Squadron]]

[[folder:Silber Squadron]]

[[folder:Espada Squadron]]

Not much is known about this Sapin squadron save for their involvment with A World With No Boundaries and the romantic relationship between its two members, leader Alberto Lopez and wingman Marcela Vasquez. Lopez did not finish the war alive (he dies in the air in the Mercenary path, succumbs to his wounds in the Soldier path and survives but disappears in mission in the Knight path) while Vasquez, still mourning him, became a dancer.

[[folder:Wizard Squadron]]

[[folder:Sorcerer Squadron]]

[[folder:Gault Squadron]]

-->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/{{David Lodge|Actor}} [EN], Creator/BanjoGinga [JP]

* AffablyEvil: Many of the Aces in the interviews, even the runaway war criminal SchwarzeOne, are polite and willing to help with explaining who Galm One is.

* WeaponOfChoice: [=J35J=] Draken (if the "Cipher" paintjob for the Draken in ''Infinity'' is considered canon) later replaced by the F-15C Eagle for Cipher; F-15C Eagle [[spoiler:later replaced by the ADFX-02 Morgan)]] for Pixy.

* WeaponOfChoice: The F-16C Fighting Falcon.

* WeaponOfChoice: F-16C Fighting Falcon

* WeaponOfChoice: Rot Squadron flies Eurofighter Typhoons.

* WeaponOfChoice: Grun uses the F/A-18C Hornet. [[ShoutOut Thus]], [[StealthPun they're a group of]] [[Radio/TheGreenHornet Green Hornets]].

* WeaponOfChoice: Indigo uses the JAS-39 Gripen C.

* WeaponOfChoice: Su-37 Terminator.

* WeaponOfChoice: They fly [=MiG-31s=].

* WeaponOfChoice: Schnee 1 through 4 use F-14D's and typically use [[AcePilot Sniper tactics]] with Schnee Five (who uses the EA-6B) to blind you so you would not see the missiles coming.

* WeaponOfChoice: Espada One's J-35J Draken and Espada Two's Rafale M.

* WeaponOfChoice: When you fight alongside them in Mission 10, they use the F/A-18C. When you fight them as opponents however, Wizard has half his team use F-16XL's while the other half, include the flight leader Bristow, uses the YF-23A "Black Widow II" Stealth Fighter.

* WeaponOfChoice: Sorcerer uses the F/A-18C when you fight alongside them in Mission 10. They use the F-15 S/MTD Eagle instead when you fight them as opponents.

* WeaponOfChoice: He and his squad uses Su-47's.

* BaldBlackLeaderGuy: Palmer, though he is only a commander under both Kupchenko and Bristow.

--> --'''Larry Foulke ("Pixy")''', on Cipher

->"While you're up here 'fighting for peace', tons of blood is being shed on the ground. Some 'peace' kid."
-> --'''Pixy''', getting fed up with what he sees as PJ's self-righteous attitude

* CharClone: Interestingly, Pixy has some traits of this. Sure, he doesn't wear a CoolMask or CoolShades, but he's a blonde AcePilot associated with an aircraft that's at least partly red (implied to have had a bit of RedBaron fame before becoming Cipher's wingman and seeing the "Demon Lord" overshadow him), who's a close ally to the main character (like Quattro in ''[[Anime/MobileSuitZetaGundam Zeta]]''), and then [[spoiler:becomes an enemy of his, trying to bring about TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt]] (like Char in ''[[Anime/MobileSuitGundamCharsCounterAttack CCA]]''). Not in a [[spoiler:ColonyDrop fashion]], but close enough. Hell, his main paint scheme is a red streak on one wing.

* EvilAllAlong: Dialogue between Wizard and Pixy early in the game indicates both are already [[spoiler: members of A World With No Boundaries]] long before Pixy makes his defection apparent.
* FaceHeelTurn: His defection to [[spoiler: A World with No Boundaries]].

* FashionableAsymmetry: As applied to a CoolPlane's [[NoseArt custom paint job]]. The right wing of his F-15 is painted red, in reference to the same incident that gave him his nickname. [[spoiler:This is also carried over to the prototype Morgan he hijacks after joining A World with No Boundaries]].

** To Cipher; he even states that they're "opposite sides of the same coin" at one point. This applies to all personalities of Cipher. Mercenary Cipher doesn't need a reason to fight, other than the pay or a chance to kill, while Pixy starts this way [[spoiler: but finds a cause to fight for]]. Knight Cipher took pride in what he did, while Pixy ends up [[spoiler: hating the pointlessness of war]]. Perhaps the closest parallel is with a Soldier Cipher: both Galm team members share a willingness to use any means necessary to ensure victory.

* HeelRealization: After being shot down by Cipher, he comes to the conclusion that while "a world with no boundaries" might be an admirable goal in itself, bringing down the world's governments isn't going to change human nature overnight. [[spoiler: He ends up fighting in more "border wars", implied to be the Usean war of the fourth game, to find out what borders actually mean to people, and why they fight for them.]]

* ParentalAbandonment: Larry was born in 1967 to two parents in what was then South Belka (now, North Osea). Sometime during his childhood [[spoiler:Another one of Osea and Belka's many wars broke out, and Pixy's parents were killed while fleeing from the fighting. Pixy spent the rest of his childhood raised in an orphanage, and left the country as an adult to become a mercenary. None of this information is revealed in the game itself but in the [[AllThereInTheManual description of a real world model plane based on his aircraft]], of all things.]]

* RedBaron: "Solo Wing" Pixy, in reference to an incident before the start of the game where he landed his F-15 on only "a wing and a prayer," so to speak.
* RedIsHeroic: His F-15C's right wing is colored in red, [[RedOniBlueOni and works as foil for Cipher's blue]]. [[spoiler: Later averted as he becomes Cipher's enemy]].

* TheNarrator: The OBC documentary he ends up making acts as the FramingDevice for the game as a whole.

* TheLastDJ: Schnee One is an enemy version of this. He was known behind the scenes as "The Eternal 2nd Lieutenant."