History Characters / MobileSuitGundam00Innovades

** Perhaps his biggest mistake is to take the whole DeathIsCheap thing that the Innovades have access to and keep it to himself believing that only he is privileged to use it.

* TheChessmaster: [[spoiler:Plays Ribbons, Ali, Wang, and Nena like a fiddle.]]

* AffablyEvil: Perhaps the most notable example of this trope in the Innovades. Unlike [[FauxAffablyEvil Ribbons]], he shows a constant polite exterior, barely flinching and little arrogance like Revive and Hiling. He also desires to have Tieria join the Innovades and it's all genuine.

* TheChessmaster: [[spoiler:Plays Ribbons, Wang, and Nena like a fiddle.]]

* AffablyEvil: Perhaps the most notable example of this trope in the Innovades. He’s generally polite towards others and his desire to have Tieria join the Innovades is genuine. Unlike [[FauxAffablyEvil Ribbons]], he shows a constant polite exterior, barely flinching and little arrogance like Revive and Hiling.

* PsychoticManchild: At the end of the day, he's someone with the mind of a self-entitled teenager. Whenever something doesn't go his way, he freaks out and complains about it.

* AffablyEvil: Perhaps the most notable example of this trope in the Innovades. He’s generally polite towards others and his desire to have Tieria join the Innovades is genuine.

* NonActionGuy: [[spoiler:Never gets into an actual fight and unlike the rest of the Innovaders, he doesn’t involve himself with the A-Laws. He is the only one of the Innovades aside from Ribbons himself to never wear the A-Laws suit.]]

* NonActionGuy: [[spoiler:Never gets into an actual fight and unlike the rest of the Innovaders, he doesn’t involve himself with the A-Laws.]]

* MyDeathIsJustTheBeginning: [[spoiler:Ribbons had Ali shoot him, only for him to merge with Veda and become more powerful than ever. It would cause both of their downfalls.]]

* MindControl: Abuses his power over Veda to do this to his fellow Innovades when it suits him.

* '''{{Pride}}''': Believes himself to be superior to humanity and entitled to rule over them as a god.

* MyDeathIsJustTheBeginning: [[spoiler:Ribbons had Ali shoot him, only for him to merge with Veda and become more powerful than ever.]]
* NonActionGuy: [[spoiler:Never gets into an actual fight.]]

* EvenEvilHasStandards: While he’s much less heinous compared to the others, even he gets tired of Liu-Mei.

* AssholeVictim: A lot more prominent with her compared to the others. She’s nothing but a major {{Jerkass}} and happily rubbed in Anew’s status to Lyle.

* WouldHitAGirl: He gives Wang Liu Mei the slap that she deserves, [[spoiler:and knocks out Sheryl Nome and Ranka Lee in the epilogue of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LeeEsSjzVQ Scenario 44]] of ''VideoGame/{{Super Robot Wars Z}}2'' as per his agreement with Grace O' Connor.]]

* EvilLaugh: [[spoiler:Laughs after he thinks that he has killed Ribbons.]]

* CoDragons: With Ali. Though Ribbons much more prefers Ali.

* HeelFaceDoorSlam: [[spoiler: He ultimately turns against Ribbons and shoots him, but since it’s [[CloningGambit Ribbons]], he is cloned and brought back in another body and has Ali kill Regene for him. Of course, the latter just merges into Veda. It’s implied he saw this coming anyways and just made Ribbons ''think'' that he didn’t see this coming.]]

* SmugSuper: All of them love to gloat about how they are superior to humans.

[[folder: The Innovators/ Innovades as a whole]]

* AffablyEvil: With the exception of Ribbons, all of the Innovades are genuine about their politeness.

* BornAsAnAdult: Most Innovades are created to be young-adults or teenagers humans. Since they have no age limits, they will "return" to Veda once their tasks are over or die in their mission.

* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes : Most of them care for one another, although Ribbons views the others as nothing more than expendable pawns.
* HeelFaceTurn: After being defeated and Veda ultimately taken by both Celestial Being and the Federation, many of their clones (including the Ribbons-type Innovade and Gaga Force) are shown willingly helping the reformed government to rebuild the future instead of continuing to fight or take revenge. [[spoiler:The sole exception was Anew Returner, the Innovades' double agent within Celestial Being, who had [[DefectingForLove change her alliance]] in the same episode where she died.]]

* NonHumanNonbinary: They are an ArtificialHuman created by Veda for its specific mission and most of them, especially combat-type, doesn't have any specific biological gender and choose their own preferable pronoun to refer themselves. However, both canon and side material confirmed only gathering intelligence-type Innovade like Anew Returner can have gender for fitting with society and any human who undergoes body modification by using or inherited Innovade DNA still restrain their biological gender.

* UnderestimatingBadassery: Constantly through the series. They keep thinking because they're advanced beings that humans are beneath them and they can just easily manipulate and beat them at their discretion. Celestial Being keeps proving them wrong at every turn [[spoiler: and then the humans begin their transition into true Innovators, the very thing they claim to be but can never become. Heck, Aeolia Schenberg pretty much had them screwed over with his backup plans ''before the series even started''.]]
* VillainExitStageLeft: Many of the Innovades Mobile Suits come with built in Core Fighters: high-speed craft designed as an EscapePod that allows for the Innovades to eject should their Mobile Suits get heavily damaged. [[spoiler:By the last episode, Celestial Being had caught on to this tactic too often that Allelujah Haptism [[SinkTheLifeboats tore out Hiling Care's Core Fighter]] before destroying them.]]

* KillSat: Provides the A-Laws with the horrifically appropriately named ''Memonto Mori'' electromagnetic sattelite guns, which are capable of flash-cooking an entire city district and leaving only a crater, or destroying one of the Orbital Pillars.

* NotSoStoic: He barely raises his voice and is generally collected, but if something doesn’t go his way, he gets pretty mad.
* NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist: Ever since a young Setsuna stared at him in awe, he gradually twisted Aeolia's plan to advance humanity to advance humanity into serving his new [[AGodAmI god complex]], admitting he doesn't give a damn about the humans he was supposed to serve once he becomes arrogant enough.
* ObfuscatingStupidity: In Season One, he acts carefree and pretends to not understand Alejandro's schemes. It turns out that he was manipulating everyone for his own gain.
* OneManArmy: With the Reborns Gundam, Ribbons is able to take out three of Celestial Being's Gundams, including the 00 Raiser, in mere minutes and even disable the Ptolemaios II. JustifiedTrope, as the Reborns Gundam was made based on all of Celestial Being's and the A-LAWS's previous mobile suit and mobile armor designs, and utilizes the very latest technology. That said, the 00 Raiser damaged the Reborns Gundam enough that Ribbons is forced to eventually abandon it.

* PetTheDog: During the performance test of the 0 Gundam in Krugis, Ribbons was to dispose of any and all eye witnesses. However, after seeing young Soran Ibrahim gaze up at him in pure awe, he decided to spare the boy, which can be seen as Ribbons showing compassion and mercy for his worshipers. He would even then go to recommend that same boy as a Gundam Meister through Veda, which may have been an extra measure on Ribbons' part to make sure the young child would be spared.

* PsychoticSmirk: When he [[spoiler: first unveils the ''Celestial Being'', the camera suddenly cuts away from the massive battle between Katharon, A-Laws and Celestial Being to Ribbons' wide smirk as the ship unleashes it's WaveMotionGun upon both A-Laws and Katharon's fleets.]]

* ShadowDictator: In the second season. Publicly, the Earth Sphere Federation Federation and A-Laws are led by an unnamed president and Homer Katagiri. In reality, he's the one pulling the strings on both of them from behind the scenes, him having used Veda to elect the former into power, while the latter answers directly to him.
* SlouchOfVillainy: Spends a majority of Season 2 sitting in a massive couch inside what appears to be a castle garden. [[spoiler: He has a near identical looking room aboard the CoolStarship ''Celestial Being''.]]

* TransformingMecha: His second to last MS, the Reborns Gundam/Cannon.

--> ''"You humans keep animals caged out of convenience. I do the same."''
* UnfriendlyFire: [[spoiler: Doesn't give a shit whether he hits the A-Laws in the process of hitting Katharon with the 80m GM Beam Cannon. Going by just how many A-Laws he hit with it and the fact that the WaveMotionGun can move along a wide axis, he seemingly picked the one that'd hit the most A-Laws ships possible.]]

* WhereItAllBegan: [[spoiler:His final mobile suit is 0 Gundam, the very first Gundam in the show and the first mobile suit Ribbons ever piloted. It's also a take back to the original gundam, since the RX-78-2 and 0 look exactly alike and [[Creator/ToruFuruya Ribbons IS Amuro]].]]

* WrestlerInAllOfUs: Actually does a Judo one-arm shoulder throw with [[spoiler: Setsuna's Exia Gundam]] in the FinalBattle [[spoiler: while piloting the 0 Gundam.]]

* AffablyEvil : While he is arrogant like most Innovators, Revive genuinely acts polite and easy-going, still showing respect toward Kati Mannequin, trusts [[spoiler:Louise Halevy when she is selected to pilot the Regnant]], and obviously cares for his fellow Innovators.

* BitchInSheepsClothing: Tells Kati that he is ''different'' from Mr.Bushido and will always follow her orders, only to make sure she will not become suspicious of the Innovators' true colors.

* EvenEvilHasStandards: Revive sees most of Andrei Smirnov's actions as purely selfish, such as [[spoiler:killing his own father and try to push his ideals towards Louise, since he has a crush on her]]. At one point, he presses Andrei to do whatever he has to for Louise's sake if he indeed cares and love hers... but not "poison her mind with his toxic ideals".
* EvilCounterpart: To Lockon Stratos, for favoring long-range combat and being a marginally compassionate member of their respective sides. Which is very ironic the fact his sister, [[spoiler:, Anew, became an OfficialCouple with the 2nd Lockon Stratos.]]

* OhCrap: [[spoiler:When Lyle jams the Cherudim's GN Pistol into his Gadessa's side, Revive gets an EyeTake and flinches as the consecutive GN blasts shred him apart.]]
* PunnyName: [[spoiler:He dies in the final episode entitled ''Rebirth'']].

Hiling Care is an Innovator and the genetic twin of Ribbons Allmark. Joining Revive Revival with the A-Laws, Hiling is eager to battle with the Celestial Being and the Gundams. Hiling also frequently teases her comrades. Hiling pilots a Gadessa and later a Garazzo in several operations against the Ptolemaios II.

* DarkActionGirl: While ''girl'' is still questionable due to combat-type Innovades being classified as "sexless", Hiling acts like a teenage girl and has no problem with people around her treating her like a girl.

* HatesBeingCalledCute: Averted. In the side story ''Mobile Suit Gundam 00V'', she is okay when Amy Zimbalist calls her cute, and she freely admits her type of woman is a bad girl like her.

* LovableSexManiac: She's extremely flirty with her fellow Innovades and Gundam Meisters both, even offering pity sex to Devine Nova in the wake of Bring's death, though he deftly rebukes her.

* PerkyFemaleMinion: Considerably more cheerful than her extremely smug clone, treating war like a game she's defaulted to win.

* ShipperOnDeck: Claims Andrei and [[spoiler:Louise]] were perfect with each other due to their desire of killing and revenge for their family.
--> ''"A man who killed his father and a woman who seeking revenge for her family. You're perfect for each other."''

* TheSmurfettePrinciple: The only woman among the group. [[spoiler:Excluding Anew, who spends most of her screen time as a ManchurianAgent]].
* UndyingLoyalty: To Ribbons, which is make a sense because she was one of his clones.

* ApeShallNeverKillApe: Bring believed that Innovators should not kill one another. [[spoiler:Ironically, he is killed by his fellow Innovade Tieria.]]

%%* EvilRedhead

* RedShirtArmy: [[spoiler:Ribbons creates an army of clones of the brothers and uses them as suicide bombers against Celestial Being.]]
* SendInTheClones: [[spoiler:Ribbons creates an army of clones of them.]]
* SuicideAttack: [[spoiler:The Gaga Forces are essentially to be nothing more than an endless volley of kamikaze Trans-AM missiles.]]

* TakingYouWithMe: [[spoiler:Their clones pilot suicide bomber mobile suits.]]

* FateWorseThanDeath: [[spoiler: Veda ''could'' recreate him in a clone body so he could start his plans anew. But with Tieria in control of the system who has his data buried behind mounds of encryption which likewise corrupted his data, he's pretty much stuck in the very thing he was using for his own plans with little possibility of coming back, if at all in his original form. What's more, humans have begun their evolution to Innovators. So even if he did return, they'll be long evolved enough to deal with him accordingly. Either way, he's never going to get his envisioned world.]]

* FauxAffablyEvil: He is soft-spoken and polite, until something happens he didn't see coming.

--> ''"Ever since the industrial revolution, humanity has used its technological knowledge for conflict and repeatedly risked its own extinction. Though great leaders appeared at the times, they'd reach the end of their lives in a few decades, and the world would return to a state of chaos.('''Regene:''' "That's the history of the world of humanity.")Humanity learns nothing from the past!"''

* VillainousBreakdown: [[spoiler:When he realizes that Setsuna swapped out the 00 Gundam for the Exia R-2, which outclasses Ribbons' 0 Gundam, he screams that Setsuna is nothing more than a human.]]
* VillainousBSoD: Ribbon rarely ever loses his calm smugness. The first time he loses his composure was after witnessing the 00 Raiser [[{{Teleportation}} quantize]]. He was so shaken that he slapped Wang Liu Mei after she mockingly asked about what had him so stunned.
* VillainousValor: Even when he's outnumbered, outgunned, and cornered by Celestial Being late in Season 2, he chooses to fight them all at once rather than run away.

* WouldHitAGirl: He gives Wang Liu Mei the slap that she deserves and [[spoiler: knocks out Sheryl Nome and Ranka Lee in the epilogue of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LeeEsSjzVQ Scenario 44]] of ''VideoGame/{{Super Robot Wars Z}}2'' as per his agreement with Grace O' Connor.]]

A person who looks exactly like Tieria Erde, Regene made his first appearance in the season 1 finale accompanying Louise in an elevator. In season 2, he is seen working with Ribbons and the other Innovators. Although he works closely with Ribbons, the two do not always see eye to eye. As a result, Regene often acts of his own will to complete the plan Aeolia intended in his own way.

* AffablyEvil: He’s generally polite towards others and his desire to have Tieria join the Innovaders is genuine.

* BoomHeadshot: [[spoiler: At least how his body goes out.]]

* HeelFaceDoorSlam: [[spoiler: His “final moments” is to kill Ribbons, but since it’s [[CloningGambit Ribbons Almark]], he takes another body and has Ali kill Regene. Of course, the latter just merges into Veda. It’s implied he saw this coming anyways and just made Ribbons think that he didn’t see this coming.]]
* HiddenAgendaVillain: His wants to usurp Ribbons and stir Aeolia's plan as he sees fit, but his exact vision of the plan is never revealed.
* LastEpisodeNewCharacter: Introduced during the season 1 finale.

* NonActionGuy: [[spoiler: Never gets into an actual fight.]]
* NotQuiteDead: [[spoiler: Becomes one with Veda.]]
* OnlySaneMan: Of the Innovades. Regene is the only one not fanatically loyal to Ribbons and seems to be less against humanity compared to the others. He also doesn’t seem to care about the A-Laws as he rarely involves himself with them.

* SayMyName: Shouts ''RIBBONS ALMARK!'' [[spoiler:when he realizes that he [[CloningGambit failed to kill Ribbons]].]]

* TokenGoodTeammate: [[spoiler: [[{{Downplayed}} Somewhat downplayed.]] Aside from [[ManchurianAgent Anew]], Regene is the only Innovade not to be totally loyal to Ribbons. He has his own plans to carry out Aeolia’s and doesn’t involve himself with the A-Laws much. However, he still helps Ribbons carry out Liu-Mei’s murder, though it does help Celestial Being find where Veda is. In the end however, he helps orchestrate the Innovades’ defeat and change the world.]]
* TheUnfought: Regene's the only Innovator within the series who didn't fight in a mobile suit or mobile armor ''at all''[[spoiler:, despite being the former pilot of the GRM Gundam. Then again, seeing as he's actually a good guy (or at least not really on Ribbons' side), this makes sense]].

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: [[spoiler: Is technically the SoleSurvivor of the Innovades on Ribbons’ side, but doesn’t return in the BigDamnMovie. However, considering he doesn’t really interact with the heroes aside from Tieria, it’s unlikely anyone knew about Regene since he was far more private than the other Innovades.]]

Revive Revival is an Innovator who is the genetic twin of Anew Returner, and pilot of the Gadessa. Joined the A-Laws under the rank of captain, though with a special license like Mr. Bushido to act independent, but unlike him, Revive agrees to follow Kati Mannequin's battle strategies. Revive usually attempts to pinpoint the Ptolemaios II's location using quantum brainwaves and Anew.

* AffablyEvil : While he is arrogant like most Innovators, Revive genuinely acts polite and easy-going, still showing respect toward Kati Mannequin, trusts [[spoiler:Louise Halevy to pilot the Regnant]], and cares toward his other fellow Innovators.

* BitchInSheepsClothing: Tell to Mannequin that he is ''different'' from Mr.Bushido and will always follow her order, only to make sure she will not become suspicious of the Innovators' true colors.
* CloningBlues: Revive Revival is Anew-type Innovade. Unlike her, he is an arrogant and combat-type Innovade.

* EvenEvilHasStandards: Revive can see most of Andrei Smirnov action is purely selfish and to satisfy his own need. Such as [[spoiler:killing his own father and try to push his ideal to Louise since he has crush on her]]. Before leave, he insists to Andrei to do whatever for her sake if he indeed cares and love hers, instead of poison her mind with his toxic ideas.
* EvilCounterpart: To Lockon Stratos, for being favor in long-range battle and their compassionate side. Which very ironic the fact his sister [[spoiler:became an OfficialCouple with the 2nd Lockon Stratos.]]
* EvilTwin: Anew's much more evil twin.
* ISurrenderSuckers: Willingly being captured by Celestial Being, only for [[spoiler:releasing Anew's Innovator persona to help him to take 0-Raiser.]]

* NoRangeLikePointBlankRange: [[spoiler:At the receiving end of Lyle's GN pistols.]]
* OhCrap: When Lyle's about to kill him.

* ScarilyCompetentTracker: All Innovade can do this. But he is the most prominent one who often use his Quantum Brainwaves to track Ptolemy-crew via [[spoiler:Anew Returner.]]
* StrawMisogynist: Not because the idea about women in military, but he can't understand why [[spoiler: Anew Returner being made as woman and believe her ''woman emotion'' made her become too soft toward their ''enemies''. WordsOfGod justified this as most of member of Innovator and Innovade in general are genderless especially for combat-type Innovade, and Anew is '''not''' combat-type Innovade. She an intel gathering-type Innovade, and distinct sex was only given to Innovades that were meant to live and mingle in human society.]]
* VillainRespect: Unlike the other Innovator members, he shows ''some'' respect for Kati Mannequin as field commander.
--> ''" Well, for a human, she's useful."''

* ComfortingTheWidow: Gender-swapped; Hiling oh-so-suggestively offers to "comfort" Divine after his brother Bring is killed, only for her advances to be swiftly shot down.
* DarkActionGirl: While ''Girl'' is still questioned due to combat-type Innovades being classified as "sexless", Hiling act like teenage girl and has no problem with people around her treating her like a girl.

* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: [[spoiler:Her mobile suit, not her (seemingly), but was still screwed regardless.]]
* HatesBeingCalledCute: Averted. In Side story ''Mobile Suit Gundam 00V'', she is okay when Amy Zimbalist call her cute and his type on woman was a bad-girl like her.
* JackOfAllStats: Have no problem fighting in a close-range combat mobile suit like the Garazzo or in a long-range combat one like the Gadessa (though she definitely prefers the former).
* JerkAss: Mocks everyone she meets for fun, even her fellow Innovators. She also often remarks about humanity flaws.

* PetTheDog: ''Mobile Suit Gundam 00V'' show that Hilling appreciate Amy Zimbalist compliment on her as a woman to the point she wants finishing her mission for shake to meet him once again since she feels Amy is interesting person.

* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: She sure loves belittling her opponents. [[spoiler:[[HoistByHisOwnPetard She received one herself courtesy of Hallelujah]] before she dies]].

--> ''"A man who killed his father and a woman who seeking a revenge for her family. You're perfect for each other "''

* VillainousBreakdown: Becomes noticably less composed when things turn against the Innovators.

Devine Nova is Bring Stabity's genetic twin and makes his first appearance piloting the prototype mobile armour Empruss after Celestial Being successfully destroys Memento Mori.

* ApeShallNeverKillApe : Bring believes that Innovators should not kill one another. [[spoiler:Ironically, he is killed by his fellow Innovade Tieria.]]

* TheBigGuy : Both of them are the tallest and most physically imposing Innovators.

* HeelFaceDoorSlam: [[spoiler: His “final moments” is to kill Ribbons, but since it’s [[CloningGambit Ribbons Almark]], he takes another body and has Ali kill Regene. Of course, the latter just merges into Veda.]]

* TokenGoodTeammate: [[spoiler: [[{{Downplayed}} Somewhat downplayed.]] Aside from [[ManchurianAgent Anew]], Regene is the only Innovade not to be totally loyal to Ribbons. He has his own plans to carry out Aeolia’s and doesn’t involve himself with the A-Laws much. However, he still helps Ribbons carry out Liu-Mei’s murder, though it does help Celestial Being find where Veda is. In the end, he helps orchestrate the Innovades’ defeat and change the world.]]

* ArtificialHuman: Created by Veda to serve as its instruments with specific mission.
* BornAsAnAdult: Most of Innovades are created to be young-adults or teenagers humans. Since they have no age limits, they will "return" to Veda if their tasks are over or killed/die in their mission.

* HeelFaceTurn: After being defeated and Veda ultimately taken by both Celestial Being and Federation, many of their clones (including Ribbons-type Innovade and Gaga Force) are shown willingly helping the reformed government to rebuild the future instead of continuing to fight or take revenge. [[spoiler:The sole exception was Anew Returner, the Innovades' double agent within Celestial Being, who had [[DefectingForLove change her alliance]] in the same episode where she died.]]

* UnderestimatingBadassery: Constantly through the series. They keep thinking because they're advanced beings that humans are beneath them and they can just easily manipulate and beat them at their discretion. Celestial Being keeps proving them wrong at every turn [[spoiler: and what's more humans begin their transition into true Innovators, the very thing they claim to be. Heck, Aeolia Schenberg pretty much had them screwed over with his backup plans ''before the series even started''.]]
* VillainExitStageLeft: Many of the Innovades Mobile Suits come with built in Core Fighters: high-speed craft designed as an EscapePod that allows for the Innovades to eject should their Mobile Suits get heavily damaged. [[spoiler:By the last episode, Celestial Being had caught wise to this tactic too often that Allelujah Haptism [[SinkTheLifeboats tore out his opponents' Core Fighter]] before destroying them.]]

* AGodAmI: He literally claims to be both "God" and a Messiah for mankind in the final episode, cementing his egotism.

* BadBoss: He can ''trust'' anyone if he need them. However, Ribbons always manipulate or brainwash his ally to make sure they always obeying his order, and kill them if he finish to use them. Not only at his human ''ally'', but also to his fellow Innovators.

* BitchInSheepsClothing: At first it seems he’s a little more sane than Alejandro, but it turns out he’s actually worse than his boss.

* BrokenPedestal: To Setsuna, as he was the pilot of the Gundam that saved/inspired Setsuna as a child.

* CloningGambit: [[spoiler:He has multiple clone bodies that he can use Veda to upload his consciousness to if his body is killed.]]
* ColonyDrop: Causes the Break Pillar incident when he lets the A-Laws attempt to destroy the African Pillar with the second ''Memento Mori''. Setsuna barely manages to make the beam merely graze it instead of completely destroying it, but the falling autopurging wreckage still causes quadrillions of dollars of damage and kills hundreds of thousands of people.

* DeathByIrony: [[spoiler:He was killed by the very boy he saved, inside the very Mobile Suit he used to save him. And said boy is also the one who inspired his plans and ruined it just when he was on the cusp of completion.]]
* DeathIsCheap: [[spoiler:Was killed at least twice. As apparently all other Innovades, he has a valid backup copy of his memory inside Veda. The reanimation was just a matter of downloading a conscience into a new clone body.]]
* DesperatelyLookingForAPurposeInLife: This is pretty much the reason why he developed into a GodhoodSeeker, refusing to let himself be someone or something that was expendable compared to the plan.
* DiabolicalMastermind: He claims to be akin to a God or a creator figure for mankind and the Innovades alike, but he is far more devilish than anything in his tendency to cozy up to other key players of the Aeolia plan, nearly give them what they want only to steal everything and their lives away from them to further his own ends. [[spoiler: Just ask Setsuna, Alejandro, Wang Liu Mei, Nena, Louise, Regetta, Anew and Tieria.]]

* EvilOverlord: This is what he aspires to be, although he rules from the shadows rather than openly.
* FallenHero: [[spoiler:He was a Gundam Meister created to work with humanity to help them become true Innovators. Unfortunately, Ribbons couldn't stand the idea of serving inferior humans and decided to conquer the world.]]

* FatalFlaw: '''''{{Pride}}.''''' Over the course of the series he manipulates and toys with peoples' lives all around him all just to boost his planet-sized ego, however this often causes problems for him later down the line. He drives his saner allies ([[spoiler:Wang, Regene]]) away , eliminates anyone who doesn't fit in with his way of ruling (KillSat blasting of a peaceful conference in S2) and those he does kept close at hand are either forcibly controlled ([[spoiler:Anew Returner]]) or are practically the extension of himself (Innovades) to begin with.
** His perhaps biggest mistake is to take the whole DeathIsCheap thing that the Innovades have access to and keep it to himself believing that only he is privileged to use it.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: During a discussion he has with Alejandro in season one he makes a small remark hinting of his god complex.
-->'''Ribbons''': Maybe they mistake the power of the Gundam's for the power of God.
* HoYay: {{Invoked}} With Alejandro. Confirmed in the SpecialEdition. It's all an act on Ribbons' part.
* HumanoidAbomination: Unlike most of Innovade who still have some redeeming qualities despite their proud and jerk persona, Ribbons has absolutely none for his character and is close to a SatanicArchetype, and is the only one of them who is capable of possessing or taking over his fellow Innovades' and [[spoiler:Louise's]] mind.

* ItIsDehumanizing: As part of his misanthropy and massive superiority complex side, he refer the all humanity in the world as "it" instead of "their/they/them" and see them as nothing but animals.

* MisanthropeSupreme: Ribbons despise humanity and claim it is too flawed to learn from its mistakes and build a better future. Therefore, he believes he should be the one to take control of the world and force humanity to follow his vision.
--> ''"Ever since the industrial revolution, humanity has used it's technological knowledge for conflict and repeatedly risked its own extinction. Though great leaders appeared at the times, they'd reach the end of their lives in a few decades, and the world return to a state of chaos.('''Regene:''' "That's the history of the world of humanity.")Humanity learns nothing from the past!"''

* NotQuiteDead: Since [[spoiler:his mind is backed up in Veda]], even at the end of the series he isn't truly gone. [[spoiler:Tieria buried Ribbons' backup data behind as much encryption and data locks as he could, ensuring it would never again surface in Veda. It's also hinted that the data is corrupted anyway, possibly as a side effect of all that encryption. So even if he did come back, it wouldn't be the same as before. It's hinted that it's just as well, even if he did return, humans would have long since entered innovation, the very thing he was trying to prevent and thus could no longer lord his egotism over anyone anymore. A fitting punishment for someone as prideful as him.]]

* KickTheSonOfABitch: That said, there are people who deserved his wrath.
** Slaps [[SmugSnake Wang Liu Mei]] when her ambition gets on his last nerve:
--> "Know your place, you greedy bitch!"
** His selling out of Alejandro is easily this considering how much of an arrogant {{SmugSnake}} he is.

* DesperatelyLookingForAPurposeInLife: This is pretty much the reason why he developed a god complex, refusing to let himself be someone or something that was expendable compared to the plan.

* BadassInCharge: The leader of the Innovades, shadow ruler of earth and a dangerous combatant who can go toe-to-toe with Setsuna.

* VillainExitStageLeft: Many of the Innovades Mobile Suits come with built in Core Fighters: high-speed craft designed as EscapePods that allow for the Innovades to eject should their Mobile Suits get heavily damaged. [[spoiler:By the last episode, Celestial Being had caught wise to this tactic too often that Allelujah Haptism [[SinkTheLifeboats tore out his opponents' Core Fighter]] before destroying them.]]