History Characters / MobileSuitGundamIronBloodedOrphansGjallarhorn

* CompositeCharacter: Has many similarities to [[Anime/MobileSuitGundam Garma Zabi]], though his fighting style is more reminiscent of M'Quve, his Kimaris being a Gundamized version of the YMS-15 Gyan. [[spoiler: And he also becomes a CharClone later on.]]

** Of [[Anime/MobileSuitGundam Garma Zabi]], as a purple-haired aristocrat who's [[AffablyEvil genuinely nice]] despite serving an evil faction, a friend of the CharClone [[spoiler:and someone who inevitably gets screwed over by him]].

* {{Expy}}: As a militaristic young lady with a rapid crush on the show's CharClone, she's basically [[Anime/MobileSuitZetaGundam Haman Karn]] except much less savvy and competent at her job.

* ArmedLegs: His Gundam has two folding blades on each foot - one on the toe, one on the heel - to give it a vicious kick. Just as one might expect from a CharClone.

* CharClone: The second enigmatic masked man in ''Iron-Blooded Orphans''. Bonus points, since his reason, comes from his desire for vengeance against the first Char Clone, and his own Gundam is also a Char Clone by masking its generator signature.
** The reason behind it is very similar to [[Anime/MobileSuitGundam00 Graham Aker's]]. Both were seemingly killed by someone and seek revenge.

* CoolHelmet: His pilot suit has an intimidating, high-tech full-face helmet for that extra CharClone cred. It's also thickly-armoured enough to let him take a pistol shot to the face without significant injury, which proves very useful in his final encounter with [[spoiler:[=McGillis=]]].

* {{Deconstruction}}: Of what a noblewoman caught up in the factional politics of major families might actually turn out as, if she had no one else to rely on and tries to be a player with limited cunning and skills. Basically, she's [[Anime/MobileSuitZetaGundam Haman]] [[Anime/MobileSuitGundamZZ Karn]] without the Newtype skills and MagnificentBitch credentials.

* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: He's a Graze pilot, in addition to being the head of the Mars Branch.

* MoreDespicableMinion: While Rustal is pretty evil on his own, he is also a highly [[PragmaticVillainy pragmatic man]] who is just as willing to pass reforms that make society better as he is to crush is enemies underfoot, as long as he also benefits from it. He is also fully aware that he is a terrible person and [[AtLeastIAdmitIt makes no effort to hide it from his underlings]]. Iok is a GloryHound and StupidEvil person who commits horrible war crimes purely because he mistakenly believes he will become more liked for it. He also has a serious problem with self-reflecting and [[NeverMyFault admitting he is not the great leader he wants to be]].

* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: Subverted. Iok is one of the leaders of Gjallarhorn and a commander in the Arianrhod fleet, but he has also taken up being a pilot and has a tendency to fight on the front lines, however, he's a mediocre pilot and his bodyguards live in constant fear of his incompetence getting him killed.

* NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist:

* BroughtDownToNormal: [[spoiler: After the death of [=McGillis=] and the fall of Tekkadan, Gaelio has his pseudo-AV system removed, allowing him to live a normal life, albeit having to spend some time in a wheelchair.]]

* LightningBruiser: [[spoiler: In comparison to the original Kimaris, and the FragileSpeedster Vidar, Kimaris Vidar is this, being a heavily armored unit capable of both beating down a squadron of Graze and keeping up with Bael.]] Interestingly, this is due to [[spoiler: Alaya-Vijnana Type-E]] allowing the unit to achieve it's full potential, as the base form was often very straightforward and limited in what it was capable of, as well as limited in its attack strategies.

* PoweredArmor: His pilot suit is unusually heavily armoured and contains a powered exoskeleton [[spoiler:to let him walk despite his injuries]]. It turns out to be very useful for keeping him alive when he gets into a fight outside his cockpit.

** [[spoiler: In the end, he signs legislation finally banning the use of ChildSoldiers. Conveniently enough, the development of the AV Type-E had already rendered them obsolete.]]
** [[spoiler: This is best shown in the finale where ]].
* PresidentEvil: [[spoiler:The epilogue hints at him becoming something like this. While he now presides over a Gjallarhorn that's more democratic thanks to some reforms he's implemented, he's still actively responsible for many of the atrocities their old regime committed and shows no signs of giving up his own corrupt behaviors.]]

** Rustal Elion: Greed. Rustal only cares about expanding his own sphere of power in Gjallarhorn by whatever means necessary, no matter who he has to sacrifice or how many people he has to kill to set an example.

* NiceJobFixingItVillain: Rustal's refusal to [[spoiler: barter with Orga's terms of surrender could also be considered a case of this. Rustal ultimately ends up making [[TheScapegoat scapegoats]] out of Tekkadan but this also serves as the final push for the public to finally accept the outlawing of "Human Debris".]]

* NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist: A case could be made. He talks a lot about the need for Gjallarhorn and maintaining order in the world, but is perfectly willing to contradict his own espoused ideals to get what he wants and every good deed he does do also benefits him in some way.

* SevenDeadlySins: At the very least, the heads of the involved families seem to embody one particular sin.
** Rustal Elion: Wrath. Rustal [[spoiler: leads the Arianrhod Fleet by way of bloodshed, orchestrating incidents like the Dort Incident, and originally contemplated a FinalSolution to the Tekkadan problem]].
** [=McGillis=] Fareed: Greed. [=McGillis=] only cared about taking control of Gjallarhorn, and was willing to [[spoiler: betray his two closest friends to do it]].

* StarterVillain: He's the antagonist at the start of the series. [[spoiler: And he's killed off shortly after Tekkadan leaves Mars.]]

* TheBadGuyWins: [[spoiler: He ends Tekkadan as an organization, wipes out [=McGillis=]' Revolutionary Fleet, and succeeds in reforming Gjallarhorn into a more democratic system with himself at the top, all of which furthers his personal reputation.]]

* BrokenPedestal: [[spoiler:Julieta loses her respect for him (slightly) once she realizes he's not the man she thought he was. Though she still entrusts herself to him as the man who raised her.]]

* DeathGlare: [[spoiler: He delivers a piercing cold glare to Iok when he calls on the alliance between their families]].

* DiabolicalMastermind: One of the Gjallarhorn Seven Stars, who in addition to serving as commander of the Arianrhod Fleet controls a shadowy network of spies and mercenaries through which he's able to do things like engineer proxy wars to destabalize his political rivals or make deals with {{Corrupt Corporate Executive}}s and mob bosses.

* EvenEvilHasStandards: It's implied he ''really'' did not care for [[spoiler:Iok's stunt in framing and slaughtering the Turbines in misplaced retribution against Tekkadan.]] He stops Iok from completing the deal, apologizes to Mcmurdo and agrees to call it even with him and is quite pissed at Iok for a while afterwards, having him under house arrest.

* AFatherToHisMen: Rustal cares deeply for his subordinates and they practically worship him in return. [[spoiler: That being said, he is willing to send them on suicide missions and target them in {{False Flag Operation}}s.]]

* TheGlovesComeOff: Rustal's handling of [[spoiler:Tekkaden's final fight can be seen as him not leaving anything to chance. Despite Tekkadan losing all but two of their remaining mobile suits, Rustal doesn't even give Minazuki a chance to fight at full strength. Knowing that he's facing an ace who is reknowned for his piloting skills and willingness to fight dirty, Rustal instead treats him like a real threat and throws absolutely every thing at him. After using a kinetic orbital strike to severely damage Barbatos he sends his ace pilot Julietta in a highly advanced mobile suit to finish him off.]]

* InternalReformist: Despite supporting the corrupt system of Gjallarhorn for most of the series, [[spoiler: it's he who reforms Gjallarhorn completely following [=McGillis=]' exposing of the crimes of the Seven Stars. This is heavily implied to have been his goal all along, or at least something he does to earn himself good favor and provide an excuse to take full control of Gjallarhorn.]]

* PragmaticVillainy:
** [[spoiler: In episode 45 he attacks only the Revolutionaries, Tekkadan and [=McGillis=] as he knows that Outer Earth Joint Regulatory Fleet is only following [=McGillis=] out of duty and with him dead, they will give up quickly.]]

** His PetTheDog situation is also a case: [[spoiler: Tekkadan's military prowess was dead with the loss of their remaining Gundams, with Akihiro and Mikazuki along with them. Furthermore, by having positions under Kudelia where they could live and work peacefully just as they wanted anyway, there was no longer any need to pursue them and see them as threats.]]

* VillainousFriendship: He held the "Bearded Man" in high regard. Noting how he'd sacrificed everything from his family to his own name for the sake of Rustal's ambitions. After his passing Rustal has a moment of silence, calling him "My Friend" (the episode's title).

* WellIntentionedExtremist:
** Rustal is ruthless but not unreasonable. He is perfectly willing to take extreme measures to realize his goals, but he is also heavily pragmatic and takes no pleasure in excessive violence. [[spoiler: This is best shown in the finale where he is heavily implied to be aware of Tekkadan's survival but looks the other way around since they're officially dead on paper. And for him, that's good enough]].
** Rustal's refusal to [[spoiler: barter with Orga's terms of surrender could also be considered a case of this. Rustal ultimately ends up making [[TheScapegoat scapegoats]] out of Tekkadan but this also serves as the final push for the public to finally accept the outlawing of "Human Debris".]]

* HonorBeforeReason: Yeah, Carta, I'm sure this ragtag army of hot-blooded young men with '''five''' mobile suits whose MoralityChain you offed are going to politely accommodate you like gentlemen in a three-on-three honorable duel.

* FightingFingerprint: [[spoiler:In its first combat outing, the Gundam Vidar charges its targets at high speed, impaling them with its saber, much like the Kimaris would with its lance. It soon deviates and incorporates kicks and pistol shots into its repertoire though.]]

* RoyalRapier: The original Kimaris's main weapon was a colossal JoustingLance that was devastating but cumbersome. That wouldn't fit the Vidar's FragileSpeedster fighting style, and so it's been replaced with something a little more appropriate with the same aristocratic connotations - a delicate but wickedly sharp fencing epee with a [[DetachableBlades replaceable blade]].

* ShedArmorGainSpeed: The original Kimaris was extremely fast, but its bulk made it easy prey to more agile foes. In addition to lightening its weapons, Vidar massively stripped down its armor in order to give it greater freedom of movement and a better power-to-weight ratio, leaving several key components exposed (including the lower parts of the Ahab reactors) and cutting out slots in the remaining plates to further reduce their weight. All of this means that the Vidar is the most fragile Gundam ever built, but is so obscenely fast that actually landing a hit is nearly impossible.

* Fighting Fingerprint: [[spoiler:In its first combat outing, the Gundam Vidar charges its targets at high speed, impaling them with its saber, much like the Kimaris would with its lance. It soon deviates and incorporates kicks and pistol shots into its repertoire though.]]

* DealWithTheDevil: Besides his motive of revenge against [=McGillis=], it's implied that Vidar owes some sort of debt to Rustal. [[spoiler:Having been saved by Rustal after being defeated by [=McGillis=] at the end of season 1, and surgically enhanced with Alaya-Vijnana so that he could continue to fight, he is only able to seek his revenge thanks to Rustal.=]

* DentedIron: [[spoiler: The strain the Alaya Vijnana Type-E put on his nervous system eventually leaves him crippled.]]

** The Kimaris Vidar has ''drill knees.'' While they might seem like secondary weapons, Episode 45 demonstrates their potential when Vidar uses them to ''saw an enemy Graze clean in half.''
* BeYourself: Surprisingly, he does this for Julieta, as while she toys with the idea of getting AV enhancements, after seeing Gaelio's in action and being egged on earlier by the head mechanic, he tells her flat out that she's fine just the way she is, and doesn't need to change herself physically to become a better pilot.

* CoolHelmet: His pilot suit has an intimidating, high-tech full-face helmet for that extra CharClone cred. It's also thickly-armoured enough to let him take a pistol shot to the face without significant injury, which proves very useful in his final encounter with [[spoiler:McGillis]].

* DramaticUnmask: [[spoiler: He finally unmasks himself in episode 43 when he confronts [=McGillis=]]]

* MaskingTheDeformity: In Season 2, it's revealed that, in addition to wearing the mask to hide his true identity, he had sustained facial scars from his fight with [=McGillis=] in the finale of Season 1, which his faceplate mask helps to hide. After revealing himself, however, this becomes a SubvertedTrope, as he no longer needs to hide his true identity anymore.

* {{Revenge}}: Vidar tells Julieta that he's fighting for revenge, although [[spoiler:it becomes apparent later on that it's not necessarily ''his'' revenge he's fighting for - he's more bewildered by than angry at McGillis, and sees it more as a duty to Ein and Carta than something he wants to do for himself.]]

* HatedByAll: Virtually no one likes Iok. He's a self-entitled and oblivious excuse of a soldier and will cause problems everywhere. [[spoiler:His death dismays no one.]]
* HateSink: As a LethallyStupid, self-righteous GeneralFailure whose blunders cause loads of unnecessary deaths on both his own side and to civilians, there's not a whole lot to like about Iok. [[spoiler:Tellingly, he's the only one of Rustal's three subordinates to die, and in a manner which is equal parts incredibly brutal and darkly appropriate.]]

* BigBrotherInstinct: His conversations with his younger sister seems to comprise mostly of him good-naturedly (and sometimes tactlessly) teasing her, but he does genuinely care for her. [[spoiler: See his battle with [=McGills=] in the season one finale. He says that he trusted [=McGillis=] enough to entrust (note the word choice) Almiria to him, and when [=McGillis=] seemingly mockingly reassures him that he'll make the girl happy, Gaelio absolutely loses it.]]