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* AbsurdlySharpBlade: His two most treasured possessions are the Gundam Bael's pair of arming swords, which are made out of an incredibly hard golden variant of the alloy used in Gundam frames that lets them be sharper than any other known weapon without compromising their durability. They let even a single-reactor suit cut through nanolaminate-coated armour like a knife through butter.
* AceCustom: As one of Gjallarhorn's top pilots, he gets a couple:
** A rare example of one of these that is ''also'' a SuperPrototype - his first suit is a Schwalbe Graze (a fast and agile but difficult-to-handle prototype of the standard Gjallarhorn Graze that was given to a select number of elite pilots) painted in his personal blue. Unlike Gaelio's, though, it doesn't appear to have anything that makes it special apart from the colour scheme.
** The Graze Ritter he receives as head of the Outer Earth Regulatory Joint Fleet is considerably more special. The standard Ritter is already the pinnacle of current-gen suit technology, a 'ceremonial' machine that marries the EB-06 Graze's ease of handling with extra armour, extra thrusters, and a more versatile and better-engineered melee weapon. His, like Carta's, is an EB-06rs, the commander variant, with even more armour on the chest and shoulders, and is painted in his personal colours (blue and yellow), but he hasn't stopped there - the hardware and software is tweaked and enhanced for maximum mobility when fighting in atmosphere, and it carries an extra sword to suit his fighting style. The end result is a current-gen machine that's almost a match in performance for the next-gen EB-08 Reginlaze, and is a surprisingly small step down in performance from his secret weapon, the deadly Grimgerde.
* AcePilot: A strong contender for the best pilot in the series. He's one of only two characters in the show to have killed a Gundam, and the only one to have done it while flying a single-reactor suit with a manual control system. Not only that, but he can reliably keep up with the other guy, Mikazuki, in combat (whether as an ally or an enemy) despite the aforementioned disadvantages.
* AffectionateNickname: Almiria, his young fiancee, calls him "Macky", highlighting both her youth and her fondness for him. The fact that he ''allows'' her to call him that without a hint of complaint shows that he's dedicated to making the relationship work, even if he's not particularly enthused by it.
* AlasPoorVillain: For all the thing's he done throughout the series, [[spoiler: one can't help but feel sorry for him as he's slowly bleeding to death and dying in his former friend Gaelio's arms.]]
* AllThereInTheManual: "Montag" is actually [[spoiler:his birth surname]], according to side material.
* AmbiguouslyEvil: What [=McGillis=] really wants is only known to himself. Despite his cold working relationship with Tekkadan, [=McGillis=] has shown a certain degree of sympathy towards them [[spoiler: mostly because they share similar backgrounds]]. At first glance his ideal of reforming Gjallarhorn sounds noble but his methods to achieve them can alienate supporters. Many characters throughout the show have differing opinions of him, depending on what relationship they share. By this point, calling him good or evil might be irrelevant.
* AntiVillain: [=McGillis=] straddles the line between AntiHero and AntiVillain, but seems to ultimately fit the latter more. During his introduction as a Gjallarhorn officer, he acts as decent, honorable and chivalrous man; he loathes the corruption that has taken over Gjallarhorn, and though he fights against the protagonists, he doesn't show any antagonism towards them besides strictly military goals. Later in the series, [[spoiler: he actually makes contact with Tekkadan under his alias "Montag" and aids them against Gjallarhorn, both in combat and with his political connections, as part of his plan to reform Gjallarhorn. He's also perfectly fine with betraying people who trust him -- including his own family, and people he's been friends with since childhood -- making it hard to call him a "hero" even when he's ultimately helping the protagonists, however.]]
* ArrangedMarriage: He's betrothed to Gaelio's younger sister, who's ''nine''. It's not made clear what he really thinks about it.
* AsskickingEqualsAuthority: [[spoiler:His goal is to ''make'' Gjallarhorn work this way -- he wants to destroy the corrupt and nepotistic Seven Stars and replace Gjallarhorn's command structure with an extreme meritocracy, where your ability to get results is the only criteria used to judge people.]]
* AwesomenessByAnalysis: Within seconds of seeing Mikazuki fight Gaelio, [=McGillis=] determines the Barbatos' weaknesses and becomes the first character to actually put up a decent fight against Mika.
* BadassAbnormal: [[spoiler:He was one of the best pilots in the solar system before he got an Alaya-Vijnana implant and boarded a Gundam. With it, he's a force of nature who manages to effortlessly carve through dozens of suits and fight one of the two most powerful machines in the show, the Kimaris Vidar, to a draw.]]
* BadassNormal: He's one of the finest pilots in the show, despite his lack of cybernetic enhancement, and a bona-fide MasterSwordsman. [[spoiler:He even manages to defeat a Gundam in a straight duel while piloting a single-reactor suit, something nobody else in the show manages (except Julieta on a technicality).]]
* BastardBastard: Being the son of a mistress, he's initially ostracized by the other noble families as a child and seemingly regarded as dangerous as a young man, at which point he's put into an arranged marriage to a young girl specifically to limit his political power. [[spoiler:He's even willing to sacrifice his childhood friends (trueborn children of their respective Seven Stars families) to accomplish his goals. The bastard part turns out to be a subversion later on, when it's revealed that he's adopted.]]
* BecomingTheMask: He tells Orga, who knows that he is [=McGillis=], that "Montag" is his true name.
* BigGood: While he's really only nominally "good", in Season 2 he's the only member of the Seven Stars openly pushing for reforms and Tekkadan's key ally in Gjallarhorn.
* BoringButPractical: The Gundam Bael doesn't have any flashy weapons like giant maces, giant lances, stinger tails, drill knees, railguns, or scissor shields. All it has are two swords. But in the hands of a skilled pilot like [=McGillis=], Bael's two swords are all it needs to fight evenly with a mobile suit as powerful as the Kimaris Vidar.
* BladeBelowTheShoulder: Both of his Season One suits have this as a secondary function for their weapons:
** The claw of the Schwalbe Graze's forearm-mounted GrapplingHookPistol can be used to parry and stab when attached to the suit.
** The Grimgerde's swords are stowed beneath its two shields when not in use, and can be flipped around in their mounts to become these.
* BlueBlood: The Fareed family is one of Gjallarhorn's Seven Stars. Even though [=McGillis=] is a bastard, his family name accords him a lot of respect. [[spoiler: Though later it's revealed that he was adopted off the streets, and when this is publicly revealed he's stripped of his rank and position.]]
* BrokenAce: He's an exceptionally skilled mobile suit pilot and analytical to the point where it only takes him a few minutes to figure out Mikazuki's fighting style and counter it, as well as a charismatic speaker and a very intelligent organizer. At the same time, although he doesn't show it, the abuse his suffered as a child clearly left its mark on him and warped his worldview to where he believes he can only trust himself.
* BrokenBird: Rare Male example. [[spoiler:After surviving a horrific childhood, [=McGillis=] dedicated himself to tearing down the institutions that inflicted it on him, even at the cost of the few good things in his life. He himself says that he doesn't really understand what happiness ''is''.]]
* BrokenPedestal: Downplayed example for Mika. [[spoiler:He originally admired Mika's pure power, believing it to be what he wanted to finally fix the world. He's disappointed when he realizes that Mika is aimless, meaning that despite his great power he can't and won't change the world.]]
* CharacterTic: Fiddling with a strand of his blonde hair any time he's deep in thought.
* CharClone: A blond, morally-ambiguous antagonist with a complicated family history who eventually ends up [[spoiler:donning a mask and flying a red mobile suit. It appears to be a GoodCostumeSwitch, signifying his alliance with Tekkadan against the corrupt Gjallarhorn. However, this puts him in direct opposition to his friends and allies, who he continues to work with face-to-face, making hard to cheer for him as he arranges their downfall.]]
** If anything, [=McGillis=] takes after the novelization version of Char the most. The latter actually worked with the ''Pegasus'' (the novel version of the ''White Base'') in moving to overthrow the Zabis and take over Zeon for himself (even for the same reasons [=McGillis=] wants to take over Gjallarhorn - to free it from the Zabis' corruption). On that end, it should be noted that [[spoiler:one of the first things Char did after taking over Zeon was to turn on the ''Pegasus'' crew as well as reengage the war with the Federation]]. Alongside, his rivalry with Amuro was notably less intense here, [[spoiler:such that Amuro nearly defected to Char's side at A Bao A Qu (and even implored his comrades on the ''Pegasus'' to follow him), but was gunned down by one of Char's subordinates before he could.]]
** This also unsurprisingly extends to the Grimgerde--whose performance, speed and body structure borrows from a majority of the iconic red custom suits in the franchise (such as the [[Anime/MobileSuitGundam Zaku and the Gelgoog]], the [[Anime/MobileSuitGundamUnicorn Sinanju]], and even the [[Anime/MobileSuitGundam0083StardustMemory Gerbera Tetra]]). However, it's profile and movement are more reminiscent of the units piloted by [[Anime/MobileSuitGundam00 Graham Aker]], another Char clone, from his design mostly seems to derive.
*** In a bit of irony, he does meets post CCA "TheAtoner" Char in ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWars30''. Char doesn't disagree with his goals but is quick to tell him his means are problematic.
* TheChessmaster: Zig-zagged. He runs impressively complex plans over long periods of times, but random happenstance and miscalculations also undercut his efforts at times.
* CoolSword: The Grimgerde's signature Valkyrie Swords are the two coolest blades in the show - razor-sharp, comprised of a rare ultra-hard alloy that gives them their unique golden sheen, and capable of being flipped around in their mounts beneath its two shields to serve as [[BladeBelowTheShoulder arm-blades]]. [[spoiler: While they disappear with the Grimgerde's refit, he retains these two swords and equips them to Gundam Bael. [[AllThereInTheManual Bael's model kit instructions]] reveal the swords to be part of Bael's traditional loadout, making it altogether very likely that [=McGillis=] got them in the first place specifically because of his life-long fixation on the mobile suit.]]
* DarkAndTroubledPast: [[spoiler:Episode 43 reveals that [=McGillis=] used to be poor, and would kill just for food, even if the food was rotting. Due to his good looks, he was picked up as a child prostitute, where he met his future adopted father, Iznario Fareed. Sadly Iznario was a pedophile who adopted [=McGillis=] just to have regular sex with him.]]
* DarkMessiah: Sets himself up as one after [[spoiler:gaining control of Gundam Bael, declaring himself the inheritor of Agnika Kaieru's legacy.]]
* DeathGlare: He delivers a terrifying glare to Isurugi when [[spoiler: he interrupts [=McGillis=] comforting Almiria over the revelation that [=McGillis=] was the one who "killed" Gaelio.]]
* {{Determinator}}: Once [=McGillis=] starts his EnemyCivilWar, he becomes determined to see it through to the end. Displays this last badass credential in episode 49. [[spoiler:The Bael gets trashed, he's got a hunk of metal in his side, but he manages to bash into Rustal's ship, sneak on board, and attempt to complete the mission ''on foot''.]]
* DickDastardlyStopsToCheat: If he'd only been able to resist EvilGloating to Gaelio as he betrayed him, he wouldn't have left any spanners in his plan. Although Gaelio is his friend and someone he respects, so he likely at least wanted to give him some explanation for what was happening.
* DidntThinkThisThrough: After an entire series of ManipulativeBastard moves that had almost everyone dancing to his tune, [[spoiler:his plan of seizing Gundam Bael to force a symbolic victory over Gjallarhorn doesn't exactly work as he planned. Rustal honestly doesn’t give a damn about the symbolism, and destroys [=McGillis=]'s carefully cultivated heroic image by revealing that Gaelio survived, and it was [=McGillis=] who had tried to murder him. Soon after, Gjallarhorn throws all of their power at Tekkadan and [=McGillis=]. Rustal's sheer pragmatism allows him to crush the attempted revolution, though [=McGillis=] certainly gets a few counters in before Gaelio [[KarmicDeath kills him.]]]]
* DramaticUnmask: Does this when he's about to fight Gaelio in Mikazuki's place in Episode 24.
* DualWielding: His Grimgerde is highly unusual for being able to do this with its two swords: most suits only have one melee weapon, or else such large, heavy ones that using two at once would be highly impractical. As the Grimgerde is so light and high performance by design compared to many other suits from and beyond it's era, it uses these weapons to deadly effect by manipulating them along its center of gravity. When he is promoted to command of the Outer Earth Regulatory Joint Fleet, he equips the Graze Ritter that's a symbol of his office with two swords as well, and while they don't have any of the Valkyrie Swords' fun gimmicks, he's still extremely effective with them. [[spoiler: And he equips Bael with the very same swords he used in the Grimgerde.]]
* EmpoweredBadassNormal: [[spoiler:He gets an Alaya-Vijnana implant to pilot Gundam Bael.]]
* EnemyMine: He plotted one with Tekkadan in order to ensnare the corruption within Gjallarhorn, [[spoiler: as well as eliminating the heirs of House Issue and House Bauduin.]]
* EntertaininglyWrong: He believes that Rustal's troops were stunned in awe of Bael's pure power during his final duel with Gaelio, but in reality, Rustal ordered them to not interfere.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes:
** Actually shown to genuinely care about Almiria to some degree. He wasn't simply mocking Gaelio when he promised she would have a happy life.
** His relationship with Carta and Gaelio is explored in detail across the first season and it's shown that he grew up with them as his only friends. [[spoiler:He even admits privately that he does value them as both looked past his low birth and showed him genuine affection. However it's that geniune affection that he uses to successfully manipulate and send them to their deaths to further his own ambitions. In spite of his cruelty these betrayals are some of the few things he seems to look at with a kind of regret]].
* EvilCannotComprehendGood: He has serious problems with wrapping his brain around trust, loyalty, friendship, and altruism as motivators. It results in him burning bridges he never needed to burn by backstabbing people who like and trust him in order to achieve his goals.
* ExpressiveMask: His golden domino mask has tiny, motorized shutters inside the eye holes that allow it to blink with him.
* TheExtremistWasRight: [[spoiler:Zigzagged. In the end, despite dying and his coup failing miserably, [=McGillis=]'s actions did cause a revolution in Gjallarhorn. The Seven Stars get disbanded in favor of a Democratic Leadership. A Commoner-born Julieta is being prepped to take over the leadership, and the corruption has all been phased out. Unlike his own ideal, however, it's done by prioritizing the laws and people already part of Gjallahorn rather than creating his ideal of one based on power.]]
* FaceDeathWithDignity: [[spoiler:He spends his final moments perfectly calm, confessing to Gaelio he always thought of him as a friend deep down shortly before passing.]]
* FalseFriend: [[spoiler:Manipulates and betrays the two people who loved him most, Gaelio and Carta, though he states after killing Gaelio that he was the only person he considered a real friend in his life]].
* {{Foil}}:
** To Orga. While Orga views Tekkadan as his family and depends as much on them as they do on him, [=McGillis=] views his friends as hindrances to his goal and [[spoiler:attempts to have them killed, especially since their deaths would be politically advantageous for him.]] He remains emotionally distant from his revolutionary followers.
** He's one to Mikazuki as well. Both are AcePilots and OneManArmies, but while Mikazuki possesses no real goals of his own beyond a desire to protect his friends and family, [=McGillis=] is a man driven purely by ambition and is perfectly willing to throw longtime friends under the bus to achieve it.
* FatalFlaw: His LackOfEmpathy leads him to assume people will act only in immediate self-interest, which means he betrays and alienates people that he may have been able to win to his side by appealing to friendship and personal loyalty. If they survive his opening move against them, they tend to become bitter, devoted enemies.
* FreudianExcuse: [=McGillis=] had a ''horrific'' childhood. [[spoiler:He grew up as an orphan on the streets and at one point killed someone for some food before being taken in by Iznario, who treated him less as an adopted son and more like a personal SexSlave that he abused on a regular basis. It's all but stated that his motivation to bring down Gjallarhorn's regime is in part from the circumstances of his upbringing.]]
* FriendToAllChildren: [=McGillis=] is especially good at dealing with kids, and seems to have a particular fondness for them, [[spoiler:likely as a result of his own awful childhood.]]
* FromNobodyToNightmare: [[spoiler: [=McGillis'=] DarkAndTroubledPast casts this for him. Starting his life as a lowly StreetUrchin to become a [[SexSlave "Child Escorter"]], and eventually rising through the ranks of society as the ambiguously proclaimed bastard son of Iznario Fareed; one of the Seven Stars that rules Gjallarhorn and heir to the Fareed Family. With ambitions to rise even higher than that.]]
* GameBreakingInjury: [[spoiler: In his first real outing in the Gundam Bael he ends up being unable to use it properly due to the injury to the hand he sustained from Almiria]].
* GoldColoredSuperiority: The Grimgerde's Valkyrie Swords are that odd golden color for a reason - they're made out of an ultra-hard alloy that lets them be [[AbsurdlySharpBlade ridiculously sharp]] without compromising their durability. They are sharp enough to leave gashes on nano laminate armor (and are the ONLY bladed weapons seen capable of doing so until the end of season 1) just by striking, and can cut through MS frames like butter, but their true value lies in the fact that they're so ridiculously hard and sturdy that they can bat away other mobile suits like they were flies, which is demonstrated once on a Graze and repeatedly on the Kimaris. Valkyrie Frames may not have the brute strength of Gundams, but with weapons like these, they don't need it, [[spoiler: and now those very same swords are equipped to Gundam Bael.]] Season 2 indirectly reveals that the reason why these swords are so strong is because they were originally meant to be used against Mobile Armors, and considering how sturdy the Hashmal was, it's no surprise that the blades can easily slice through nanolaminate armor like it was wet clay and smack around other Mobile Suits.
* GratuitousGerman: Montag is German for "Monday".
* HeroicBastard: Is the bastard son of Iznario Fareed, and yet his final goal is to reform Gjallarhorn. He may cross over into BastardBastard as his methods become more extreme, however. [[spoiler:Episode 33 reveals that there's a rumor that he's not actually a blood relation of Iznario at all, and the next episode confirms that he was adopted.]]
* HeroWorshipper: He idolizes Agnika Kaieru, the founder of Gjallarhorn.
* HiddenDepths: The calm, charming, friendly Gjallarhorn heir who pushes Gjallarhorn and the Seven Stars to live up to the lofty ideals they claim to respect -- who is actually [[spoiler:a traumatized and emotionally stunted survivor of horrific child abuse who wants to burn the system to the ground and rebuild it with himself as its uncontesed ruler.]]
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: [=McGillis=]'s habit of backstabbing allies with the ''potential'' to become threats to his plans is sometimes a self-fulfilling prophecy -- they only turn against him ''because'' he backstabbed them.
* InSeriesNickname: Mikazuki called him "the Chocolate Man" when facing him in combat after their encounter on Mars (when [=McGillis=] apologized for a traffic accident involving Cookie and Cracker by giving them chocolate). His fiance calls him "Macky".
* InternalReformist: He realizes that Gjallarhorn is corrupt and wants to expose the corruption. He is aware of the fact that Gjallarhorn is an advocate for bionic modification, yet they hide the truth to the outside. In order to reveal the disorder to the public, [[spoiler:he used the Graze Ein as a living proof, having him cause havoc in Edmonton when the election was being held, and should Togonosuke become the prime minister of Arbrau, the collusion between Iznario and Henri Fleurs will be brought to the surface and Gjallarhorn will lose the trust of the other powers.]]
* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler:He's killed by Gaelio, the best friend he betrayed.]]
* KickTheDog: [[spoiler: [=McGillis=] later reveals his crimes to Gaelio, with full intent of killing him, though not before reminding him that his little sister is still engaged to [=McGillis=] and he plans to take good care of her.]]
* KillTheOnesYouLove: Before sending [[spoiler:Carta off on a mission against Tekkadan where he [[UriahGambit fully expects her to die]] without accomplishing her goals -- which will further ''his'' plans quite nicely --]] he has a conversation with her that includes a reminder that they've genuinely been good friends since childhood. Later, [=McGillis=] [[spoiler:murders his only friend in cold blood in Episode 25. At least until season 2 reveals he's alive. It's also subverted, as Gaelio points out that [=McGillis=] was never really friends with Gaelio.]]
* KnightlySwordAndShield: Whenever he gets to choose his suit's loadout, he'll go for a pair of plain, lightweight, and very sharp [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knightly_sword arming swords]], just like his hero, the Calamity War Gundam pilot Agnika Kaeru.
* LackOfEmpathy: Zigzagged. On the surface, he's friendly and charming, but in reality he's willing to murder his "friends" in cold blood if doing so advances his goals. [[spoiler:It eventually comes out that he ''forced'' himself to act that way. They were genuinely his friends and he did genuinely care for them, but he showed them no mercy regardless, because he judged his goals more important than their happiness -- or his own.]]
* LastStand: [[spoiler:With him and his fleet pushed to Mars, [=McGillis=] does a suicide charge on the Arianrhod Fleet and makes a final attempt to kill Rustal, before ultimately being killed by Gaelio.]]
* ALighterShadeOfGrey: To Rustal in Season 2. However ruthless or power hungry [=McGillis=] may be, he's not nearly as malicious and corrupt as Rustal is.
* LightningBruiser: Valkyrie-class suits like his Grimgerde approach this from a different direction than their Calamity war design rivals, the Gundam brigade. They don't have Alaya-Vijnana control systems to boost their agility or twin Ahab reactors to boost their strength, speed, and durability - instead, they're simply ultra-minimalist designs made out of the lightest, toughest materials possible, letting them squeeze far more performance out of their standard reactors than any other suit without compromising their durability. While this means they have to rely on their center of gravity to do any significant damage with this melee weapons, this makes them absolutely deadly in melee combat due to the amount of force this allows them to put behind their blows while moving around incredibly quickly.
** The Bael naturally falls into this as well, its wing thrusters affording it amazing agility and even a little bit of atmospheric flight, combined with all the raw power we've come to expect out of Gundam Frames. This allows [=McGillis=] to easily weave through the battlefield cutting down enemy Mobile Suits and dodging most attacks.
* LongHairedPrettyBoy: Dons a white-haired wig in his masked persona.
* MakeSureHesDead: Delayed example. [[spoiler:After meeting Vidar, [=McGillis=] asked Isurugi to double-check what happened to Gaelio after the battle at Edmonton. According to Isurugi, he was recovered but ultimately perished and then cremated]].
* ManipulativeBastard: His LackOfEmpathy means that he tends to see other people as little more than tools for his purposes, and will use manipulation and deceit as a first resort because he [[EvilCannotComprehendGood literally cannot imagine other ways to convince someone to help him]].
** Episode 25 hammers this trope home. [[spoiler:He brags to Gaelio how he plans to use Ein as an example of what happens when Gjarllarhorn allows one of their own to push oneself into abomination territory to achieve terrifying power, used both Carta and Gaelio to further his own objectives and plans to use Gaelio's sister as a stepping stone for himself.]]
** In season 2 [=McGillis=] [[spoiler: forms an alliance with Tekkadan, in which if they help him overthrow the Seven Stars, he would leave Mars in complete autonomy, with Orga as their leader. Sounds good on paper, but during the Mobile Armor crisis it comes out that [=McGillis'=] true motive is to make Tekkadan completely dependent on him and doesn't view their alliance as an "equal partnership."]]
* MasterSwordsman: The single finest swordsman in the series, possibly rivaled only by the cybernetically-enhanced Mikazuki. While most mobile suits are equipped with massive, brutal melee weapons, he prefers to load his out with a pair of relatively small swords, and then effortlessly carve through the enemy with them, whether they be bodged-together {{Mook Mobile}}s or LightningBruiser Gundams. ([[spoiler:This is further emphasized when Episode 43 reveals he actually has his own AV implant like the Tekkadan boys. He just doesn't bother using it because ''he's that good''--and apart from the fact that Gjallarhorn outwardly looks down on it.]])
* MaskOfSanity: He's a [[spoiler:traumatized child abuse survivor who is largely incapable of empathy and has a dangerous obsession with destroying not mere the people, but the entire ''social order'' that presided over his suffering]], but in public he's a charming, popular, and dutiful member of the upper crust.]]
* MysteriousPast: [[spoiler:He's rumored to be unrelated to Iznario, but Iznario had some reason for adopting [=McGillis=] and claiming him as an heir. Episode 43 reveals it to be a particularly-distasteful one: he was a child prostitute who Iznario adopted to become his regular SexSlave]].
* NearVillainVictory: [[AntiVillain While he's not exactly a villain]], [[spoiler:he came dangerously close to winning the battle against the Arianrhod Fleet through Tekkadan. If Shino had hit Rustal's flagship with shot, the Arianrhod Fleet would have lost its leader and [=McGillis=] likely would've won. It's only through a split second intervention by Julieta that the shot misses and Rustal survives.]] Even after that, [[spoiler:his final engagement with Rustal's fleet, he managed to board Rustal's flagship and came surprisingly close to reaching him, only being stopped by Gaelio.]]
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: He's not really a hero either, but [[spoiler:he's seizure for power with Gundam Bael leads to him dragging Tekkadan into a destructive CivilWar that ends in the destructive of both [=McGillis=]'s fleet and Tekkadan, and his political rival Rustal taking full autocratic control of Gjallarhorn.]]
* NiceJobFixingItVillain: Yes, he manages to pull this simultaneously with NiceJobBreakingItHero. [[spoiler:While his rebellion ends in failure, it does push Rustal into a corner where he has to implement most of the reforms [=McGillis=] was pushing for and weed out the corruption in Gjallarhorn.]]
* NotSoSimilar:
** He tries to use a NotSoDifferentRemark towards Mikazuki since they are both very skilled Gundam pilots and both grew to greatness from poor beginnings. However, towards the end he realizes that he and Mikazuki aren't as similar as he thought. He, [=McGillis=], is a schemer with plan after plan he wants to carry out with his strength. Mikazuki however has no real goals or plnas. He is basically a wild dog to be directed by whoever has his leash.
** He tries to invoke this towards Vidar. [[spoiler:Both being near unstoppable and powerful enough that the mooks are terrified of interfering, and they are a solitary existence that relies on power. Gaelio defies it, however, as he works in unison with the spirit of Ein in Type-E Alaya Vijiyana, meaning he isn't alone, and defeats [=McGillis=] by giving his all to the spirit of someone he considered a friend.]]
* NotSoStoic: [[spoiler:During his suicide run on the Arianrhod Fleet, he's visibly excited and starts ChewingTheScenery, then suffers a breakdown as everything he's done falls apart..]]
* NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist: It's continuously brought up that [=McGillis=] is an ambitious man and that his view of the future Gjallarhorn exists around himself as it's leader. However the narrative has him blur the line between this trope, WellIntentionedExtremist, and a KnightTemplar. His MightMakesRight rhetoric is clear but the end goal he aims at a better world free from the abuse and corruption of the current administration. InUniverse, however, this trope becomes the main narrative that Rustal and his forces use to paint [=McGillis's=] rebellion.
* OfficerAndAGentleman: A high-ranking member of Gjallarhorn, and a member of the Fareed family, one of the Seven Stars that originally founded Gjallarhorn and still exerts considerable influence over it. He fits the bill in terms of behavior, as well, working against the corruption in Gjallarhorn while maintaining a disciplined and dignified demeanor.
* OhCrap: A brief look of panic crosses his face when he hears Vidar's voice for the first time [[spoiler:as it's Gaelio's voice.]]
* OldManMarryingAChild: Downplayed. Though [=McGillis=] is a mature adult and his fiancee is a young girl due to their ArrangedMarriage, she seems genuinely fond of him and he's respectful and polite to her in return. [[spoiler:His backstory is also a darker version of this: his adoptive father Iznario retained him as a bed-warmer.]]
* OneManArmy: He's an exceptional combatant who's obsessed with personal strength above all else, and can and will take out entire squads all on his lonesome. [[spoiler:After getting the Bael, he becomes even more dangerous and even more confident in his abilities, culminating in trying to take on the mightiest fleet in the solar system single-handed. He gets impressively far, but it's soon revealed that Rustal (a firm disbeliever in one-man armies) was deliberately luring him in so he'd have nowhere to run when Vidar came for him.]]
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness:
** In the second season, he easily spots a ploy to wear down his forces in a war of attrition, makes a move to resolve it himself, then realizes Tekkadan is involved and sees a chance for a voice of reason to be heard - until he realizes that he's up against one of the Human Debris kids previously with the Brewers and stationed on earth, who would have no idea that he's allied with them. By which time he's forced to kill Aston and his Graze Ritter is already in a deadlock. This is literally the first OhCrap we've gotten out of him ''in two seasons.''
** Being a reserved and polite person in almost all situations, him ''shouting'' at Iok [[spoiler:(who is attacking him on Mars) not to come close]] really emphasizes [[spoiler:how dangerous Hashmal is to everyone, should it be activated by approaching Mobile Suits]].
** During the fight between the Barbatos Lupus and Hashmal Mobile Armor, he is visibly in silent shock during the whole fight. A testament to just how berserk and unrelenting the former was in finishing off the latter.
** In his one man charge on [[spoiler:the Arianrhod fleet in episode 49, he finally drops his stoic attitude and starts screaming and smiling like a manic as none of Arianrhod's forces can touch him.]]
* OutGambitted: He managed to thwart the proxy war Rustal had arranged in Arbrau using Tekkadan as guerrillas by stepping in after a month to put down the conflict personally.
* PaperThinDisguise: [[spoiler:Mikazuki sees through it in an instant. Downplayed in that only Mikazuki recognized him behind a mask and wig combo and they don't explain HOW the boy noticed in the first place besides the implication of Mikazuki's trademark oddness.]]
* PerpetualFrowner: Everytime we see [=McGillis=] as a child, he has the same creepy grimace. Given how horrific his past was, it's hard to blame him for never smiling.
* PetTheDog: He gets a few moments.
** In the third episode, after he and Gaelio nearly run over Cookie and Cracker, [=McGillis=] gives the girls candy and recommends they go in for a medical checkup, offering to pay the bill if it's too expensive for them.
** At his engagement ball, when he sees Almiria is distraught at a ball for him spending time with an adult woman instead of her, he stops what he's doing and goes to dance with her on the balcony.
** [[spoiler:When Almiria tries to kill herself after learning the truth about her brother's (supposed) death and [=McGillis=]'s role in it, [=McGillis=] blocks her from stabbing herself and promises to keep making her happy once he returns from his battle with the Arianrhod Fleet.]]
** [[spoiler:When Orga backs of of their deal he accepts this without problems and offers himself as a diversion so Orga and some others can escape to Chryse]]
* PlayingBothSides: [[spoiler:As [=McGillis=], he seeks to capture Kudelia to put an end to her revolution and he convinces Gaelio to convert Ein into a cyborg so he can use the full power of a powerful mobile suit against Tekkadan. As Montag, he warns Kudelia of Nobliss's plans and acts like he genuinely supports her. When Mikazuki calls him on this, [=McGillis=] claims that that he's using Kudelia to reform Gjallarhorn into a free and non-corrupt organization. Ultimately his endgame is to overthrow the Seven Star family, but for what goal he pursues this remains ambigious.]]
* PoorCommunicationKills: In season two, despite having secretly declared common cause with Tekkadan, his official duties with Gjallarhorn force him into conflict with them when Arbrau and the SAU go to war. Not having any way to let the frontline pilots know that he's on their side, he's forced to fight in earnest as they do their best to kill him.
* PsychopathicManchild: Type C: He's very intelligent and capable of formulating impressive plans, but his [[DarkAndTroubledPast horrific childhood]] means he has serious trouble understanding the feelings of others and often fails to consider the consequences of his actions. It's very telling that the person he gets along the best with is his nine-year-old fiancee.
* RapeAsBackstory: [[spoiler:He was sexually abused by his adoptive father Iznario, and before that worked as a child prostitute. His obsession with Agnika Kaieru began as a form of {{Escapism}} from all of this.]]
* RedEyesTakeWarning: The Bael is unique among any observed Gundam Frames in that its optics are red by default, and it is no less powerful or dangerous than any of its "brothers".
* RedIsHeroic: In most shows, a CharClone in a red suit is very, very bad news. Problem is, red is strongly associated with our heroes, Tekkadan, in this one. As a result, [=McGillis=] does battle with them in a blue uniform and mobile suit, [[spoiler:and fights ''alongside'' them against Gjallarhorn by donning the iconic CharClone mask and jumping into a sinister-looking red SuperPrototype, the Grimgerde. Ultimately, the "heroic" part is subverted; he has no qualms about setting up {{Uriah Gambit}}s for his unfortunate allies.]]
* RedOniBlueOni: He's very calm and composed compared to his impulsive comrade Gaelio.
* ScrewTheMoneyIHaveRules: When Coral tries to bribe him, [=McGillis=] responds that if Coral continues, he will be forced to arrest him.
* ScrewTheRulesIMakeThem: Invoked. [[spoiler:He claims the Gundam Bael for himself and tries to use Gjallarhorn's own rules, stating that the pilot of the Gundam Bael has absolute authority over Gjallarhorn, to force the other Seven Stars to submit to his rule. It's a desperation move attempting to counter Gaelio's revelation that [=McGillis=] tried to kill him. It's partially successful -- [=McGillis=]'s existing friends and allies side with him, while his enemies under Rustal and Iok declare open warfare against him, but the neutral families decide to stay out of it until the issue is decided one way or another.]]
* SherlockScan: [=McGillis=] quickly identified that there were no problems with the aiming system as he deduces that Barbatos Gundam has natural agility in space. He also figured out that the only thing that isn't well-armored is the thrusters.
* ShirtlessScene: Goes shirtless for the first time in Episode 43 [[spoiler:revealing that he has what appears to be a more advanced version of the Alaya-Vijnana system installed on his back.]]
* SimpleYetAwesome: The Gundam Bael is equipped with a pair of swords and nothing else, though [=McGillis=] proves that with its agility and capability for atmospheric flight, that's really all it needs.
* TheSociopath: [[spoiler:Aside from being a ManipulativeBastard, according to Gaelio, [=McGillis=] always saw his friends as mere means to an end of fulfilling his ambitions, which is why he had no qualms about sacrificing Gaelio and Carta. [=McGillis=] himself admits that the only emotion he feels is anger.]]
* TheStarscream: Plots to usurp his father's seat on the Seven Stars, as one step in his plan to reform Gjallarhorn. He succeeds at the end of Season 1 after helping to expose his father's crimes.
* TheStoic: [=McGillis=] is a very calm person who almost never lets his emotions show. In the first season, the only time his stoic veneer cracks is when [[ActuallyPrettyFunny Tekkadan delivers a half-naked Todo to him.]]
* SuperPrototype: Both of his suits [[spoiler: and Bael]]:
** The Schwalbe Graze is a high-mobility prototype of the standard Graze that was deemed too difficult and dangerous to handle for general adoption. His use of it is a badge of honour by his organisation for his piloting skills.
** The Grimgerde takes this back even further - it's one of the last survivors of the Valkyrie-class, a SimpleYetAwesome Calamity War design that was built alongside Gjallarhorn's Gundam brigade and became the basis of the only fully modern suit of the present era, the Graze. Needless to say, the LostTechnology of the Calamity War means it's considerably deadlier and more advanced than its cheap-and-cheerful mass-produced offspring, and while it may be less durable, nothing is even able to so much as graze it.
** [[spoiler: ASW-G-01: ''Gundam Bael'': the very first and oldest of the original 72 Gundam Frames that parttook in the Calamity War, and is ultimately what all of the other 71 Gundam Frames are based off of. Agnika Kaieru; its' original and first Pilot trusted only in his piloting skills and his twin swords to achieve victory against the Mobile Armors. 300 years later, with improvements to both Mobile Suit technology and weaponry, Bael still stands as a formidable opponent on the battlefield even going against the heavily-upgraded ASW-G-66 Gundam Kimaris and fighting it to a draw in its last sortie.]]
* TakingYouWithMe: In Episode 49, [[spoiler:he launches a suicide attack on the Arianrhod Fleet in a last ditch effort to kill Rustal. When he confronts Gaelio in Rustal's ship, he fires at Gaelio in a split second after the latter fired at him. Unfortunately, Gaelio kills him before he can succeed, and [=McGillis=]' shot is blocked by Gaelio's mask.]]
* TheMenFirst: In episode 49, he dismisses the crew of his Halfbeak [[spoiler:before attempting to solo the entire Arianrhod Fleet]]. It's genuinely unclear whether it's because of this trope, or because [[spoiler:he really believes his own hype about personal strength that much, and thinks they're an unnecessary burden.]]
* ThisCannotBe: When [[spoiler:Gaelio maims the Bael, [=McGillis=] is utterly shocked, never imagining that he could have possibly lost against the friend he betrayed.]]
* TokenEvilTeammate: As 'Montag', he's a reliable, helpful, and alarmingly ruthless ally to Tekkadan in the later parts of Season One.
** He continues this role to Tekkadan for Season 2, now more openly via having them ally with his Outer Earth Orbit Regulatory Joint Fleet.
* TokenGoodTeammate: For the Seven Stars in Season 2, in addition to (ironically) being the Token Evil Teammate of Tekkadan and their allies. Of the Seven Stars we see get developed, [=McGillis=] is the only we see who's not elitist and who appears to legitimately believe in rooting the corruption out of the organization.
* TragicKeepsake: In Season 2, [=McGillis=] pilots a Graze Ritter [[spoiler:like Carta did, ostensibly to honor her memory. Despite the fact that he was the one who [[UriahGambit deliberately sent Carta to her death]], this may be a sincere gesture, given that he later tells Gaelio that he and Carta were the only real friends he ever had.]]
* TheUnfettered: Will do anything to rid corruption. [[spoiler:Even kill his best friend.]]
* UnscrupulousHero: Bordering on NominalHero. [=McGillis=] wants to reform Gjallarhorn, he's just not above betraying everyone close to him and manipulating and disposing of his allies in his pursuit of it.
* VillainousValor: He's not afraid to risk his own life in mobile suit battles to further his own agenda. It helps that he's an AcePilot with high performance mobile suits.
** Especially evident in Episode 46, where he fights [[spoiler: Gaelio]] in the heavily armed and upgraded Kimaris Vidar with the unmodified Bael almost to a stalemate. And this is despite his heavily outnumbered forces being decimated and in retreat.
** Again in Episode 49, rather than run and hide, he [[OneManArmy singlehandedly]] decides to take on and hopefully wipe out the Arianrhod Fleet by himself.
* VillainHasAPoint: Yes, he may not exactly be the most trustworthy person, but he probably wasn't wrong in questioning [[spoiler: Gaelio's]] becoming a {{hypocrite}} by Episode 46.
* VillainousBreakdown: A slow and drawn out example, in several stages. [[spoiler:When it becomes clear that his forces cannot defeat Rustal's and Iok's on their own and that Tekkadan is going to go to ground in an attempt to survive rather than fight to the end, [=McGillis=] decides to attack Rustal's fleet ''by himself'' in an attempt to kill Rustal himself. In the process he [[LargeHam completely lets loose]], ranting about how great men such as himself and Gaelio are the only ones who can change history. It's unclear how much of his are his true feelings and how much is an act for posterity. Once he's lost ''that'' fight and he's dying in Gaelio's arms, he becomes much calmer and speaks of more intimate, personal things, like his genuinely valuing Gaelio's friendship despite having tried to kill him.]]
* VillainRespect: He compliments Tekkadan and Mikazuki quite a few times. Especially when they are working together. In season 2, he joins forces with Tekkadan. While both sides are wary of one another, [=McGillis=] actually goes out of his way to hold back against members of Tekkadan's earth branch (he recognized them from their movements), only fighting back when his Graze got damaged, swiftly killing Aston in self defense. Orga in turn makes sure [=McGillis=] makes it out of the conflict unscathed, and afterwards he and Mika are seen amicably speaking to one another, with [=McGillis=] offering Mika chocolate (which he accepts), and comparing him favorably to the founder of Gjallarhorn.
* WalkingSpoiler: He's the series's main CharClone, and those are usually both mysterious and extremely plot-important.
* TheWarOfEarthlyAggression: Representative of it, as a visitor from Earth inspecting the Earth forces on Mars.
* WeHaveReserves: When [=McGillis=] tells Orga that casualties in [[spoiler:the final battle against Arianrhod]] are inevitable, Orga punches him in the face for treating Tekkadan like Orga's soldiers and not Orga's family. To his credit, he does apologize immediately afterwards.
** Despite this and despite Vidar's insistence that he cares nothing for his men and is just using them all as sacrifical pawns [[spoiler:He goes out of his way to make sure Isurugi survives and is disapointed when Isurugi dies despite that. And he tells his remaining men to save themselves in the final charge against Rustal while he goes it alone. It's unclear if he's playing some kind of complex game with that or if Gaelio is wrong and he's not as detached and heartless from his allies as they seem to think.]]
* WellIntentionedExtremist: He's willing to kill fellow Gjallarhorn soldiers and [[spoiler:sacrifice his friends]] to reform Gjallarhorn. [[spoiler:Gaelio believes that [=McGillis=] is a subversion: after spending the inter-season timeskip investigating [=McGillis=], Gaelio determines that [=McGillis=]'s reform rhetoric is just an excuse to claim power for himself.]]
* WildCard: [[spoiler:[=McGillis'=] true allegiance is to his ideals, and he's willing to [[ShootTheDog sacrifice his friends and allies]] to see them achieve. This makes him especially hard to determine the actual sincerity in what he says or his actions.]]
* WorthyOpponent: [[spoiler:He considers Gaelio as this when Gaelio reveals he's using the remains of Ein's Alaya-Vijnana and brains as a system in Gundam Vidar.]]
* WrongGenreSavvy: [=McGillis=] seems convinced he's a StockShonenHero in a SuperRobot anime and is a firm believer in [[OneManArmy individual strength]] over large armies. This is why he allies with Tekkadan, as they have several OneManArmy pilots who [=McGillis=] views as kindred spirits. His nemesis however is Rustal Elion, an unscrupulous military commander who leads the strongest fleet in the Earth Sphere and is capable of employing strategies which mobilize his fleet's power to the fullest, to the point where even [=McGillis=] and his fellow OneManArmies can't surmount it.
* YouHaveFailedMe: Actually quite averted. [[spoiler:When Tekkadan fails to help him win against Rustal, and Orga backs out of their deal, he's disapointed in misjudging their resolve but accepts this with no issue. He even goes out in Bael to help cover their escape while Orga and some others flee from their base to the city. He claims he's just trying to escape himself and is just coincidentally being of use of them in the process but he maintains his attack until he sees Orga is clear then salutes and bids him farewell so he clearly geniunely wanted to aid them.]]
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[[folder:Gaelio Bauduin]]
!!!Voiced by: Creator/MasayaMatsukaze (Japanese, adult), Creator/MegumiHan (Japanese, young), Creator/RobbieDaymond (English, adult), Creator/CristinaVee (English, young)
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-> '''Main mecha''': EB-05s Schwalbe Graze (purple), ASW-G-66 Gundam Kimaris, ASW-G-66 Gundam Kimaris Trooper

A Gjallarhorn officer, and [=McGillis=]'s closest ChildhoodFriend. Also the heir apparent to the Bauduin Family, one of Gjallarhorn's "Seven Stars".

[[spoiler: For Season 2 spoilers, see Vidar's character entry.]]
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* NGOSuperpower: They are technically a private army, but possess much greater military power than humanity's governments.

A young Gjallarhorn officer from Earth, visiting Mars on an inspection tour. He is the illegitimate son of Iznario Fareed, the leader of Gjallarhorn. He later adopts the masked persona "Montag" to advance a secret agenda. After the death of Carta Issue, [=McGillis=] becomes the commander of Outer Earth Orbit Joint Regulatory Fleet and is trying to resolve the distrusts towards Gjallarhorn. His influence increases gradually by participating in the Seven Stars senate as the representative of House Fareed.

* DickDastardlyStopsToCheat: If he'd only been able to resist EvilGloating to Gaelio as he betrayed him, his plan might not have failed quite as disastrously.

* MaskOfSanity: He's a [[spoiler:traumatized child abuse survivor who is largely incapable of empathy and has a dangerous obsession with destroying not mere the people, but the entire ''social order'' that presided over his suffering]], but in public he's a charming, popular, and dutiful member of the upper crust.

* AlasPoorVillain: [[spoiler:The poor girl dies as a victim of [=McGillis=]'s schemes for power, blissfully unaware [=McGillis=] was only using her.]]

* DiesWideOpen: After her final defeat, she succumbs to her injuries in her cockpit, her eyes still open.

* TheChessmaster: [[spoiler: In episode 45, he has one of his supporters act as one of the revolutionaries and fire a Dainsleif railgun thus giving him the moral high ground to use them against [=McGillis=].]]

* 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 suboardinates to die, and in a manner which is equal parts incredibly brutal and darkly appropriate.]]

%%* TheDragon: She's this to Rustal.

* BigBad: He's the closest Season 1 has to one. He's the backer of most of Gjallarhorn's activities and much of the plot revolves around his scheme to acquire more power for himself by having his candidate become Prime Minister of Arbrau.

!!!Voiced by: Creator/TakahiroSakurai, Creator/NatsumiFujiwara (Young) (Japanese), Creator/SteveStaley, Creator/DorothyEliasFahn (Young) (English)

!!!Voiced by: Creator/MasayaMatsukaze, Creator/MegumiHan (Young) (Japanese), Creator/RobbieDaymond, Creator/CristinaVee (Young) (English)

* AnAxeToGrind: He pilots Graze variants all the way through the show, which naturally means his primary melee weapon is the standard GR-H01 axe. His final suit, the Graze Ein, steps things up a little by giving him ''[[DualWielding two]]'' of them, though.

* WeaponOfChoice: Whenever he gets to choose his suit's loadout, he'll go for a pair of plain, lightweight, and very sharp [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knightly_sword arming swords]], just like his hero, the Calamity War Gundam pilot Agnika Kaeru.

* BreakTheHaughty: The Hashmal arc is this for Iok in a nutshell. [[spoiler: Iok goes to Mars, thinking that he'll destroy the inert Hashmal with ease and earn his family an Order of the Seven Stars. Instead, he accidentally awakens Hashmal and only survives because his bodyguards sacrifice themselves and Julieta rescues him. After Julieta gives Iok a dressing down, she has Vidar babysit him for the rest of the battle. Afterwards, [=McGillis=] ends up embarrassing him in front of the rest of Gjallahorn's top brass during the debriefing. Rustic then tells Iok that he will end his alliance with the Kujan family unless Iok can prove that he is capable of restraint. [[VillainousBreakdown Iok doesn't take that well.]]]]
* TheBrute: He's this for the Arianrhod Fleet. While he is one of the Seven Stars, due to his incompetence as a strategist, the only thing he contributes to Rustal's forces besides the men he commands as head of House Kujan is his own skills as a mobile suit pilot. Even when he's commanding an operation, his main tactic is just to have his forces hammer away at the enemy with firepower.

* CruelAndUnusualDeath: [[spoiler: Akihiro crushes him to death with Gusion's scissors.]]

** Iok is a GlorySeeker to an [[LeeroyJenkins absolute fault]]. He frequently rushes into battle without much of a plan outside of seeking personal glory. The only reason he doesn't die is through a combination of [[UndyingLoyalty his men always saving him]] or through [[BornLucky sheer luck]]. [[spoiler: He tests his luck one too many times come the final episode, where even his men couldn't protect him from the wrath of Akihiro.]]

** To Julieta. Iok is primarily a sniper, while Julieta prefers melee combat. Iok was born into authority, while Julieta had to work to become an Arianrhod pilot due to her status as a commoner. Iok is incompetent and doesn't realize it, while Julieta is skilled but realizes that she has room for improvement. Naturally, the two of them can't stand one another.

* KnowNothingKnowItAll: It's become increasingly apparent as Season 2 goes along that Iok got to his high ranking position [[{{Nepotism}} through his family name]], not through any actual deeds. Even [[SourSupporter Julieta]] takes him to task on his lack of knowledge about the Calamity Wars and the Mobile Armors.

* LethallyStupid: Iok's defining traits are his complete incompetence and his utter obliviousness to that fact. He starts out merely handicapping his own side, but his idiocy starts getting people killed and derailing plans in a big way when [[spoiler: he wakes up a long-dormant Mobile Armor]].

* PetTheDog: He and Julieta hate each other and he's endangered her life more than once, but when her suit ends up mangled against the Barbatos Iok is shocked and expresses hope that she's ok.

* BrokenPedestal: [[spoiler: Becomes one to Julieta 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.]]

* CoatCape: Most of the time, he's seen wearing his dark green overcoat in this manner, including the image of him shown above. It makes for an interesting parallel with Orga.

* 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.

* FantasticRacism: Like most of Gjallarhorn, Rustal looks down on Tekkadan for being "space rats."

* VillainHasAPoint: While he leads the rebellion against [=McGillis=] and his claim that he wants to reform Gjallarhorn and do away with its outdated ways, he notes straightforwardly that, in using Bael to become the new leader of Gjallarhorn, [=McGillis=] is relying on the very same rules and standards of the past that he claims to want to get rid of. He further elaborates that it's founder's legacy has very little to do with Gjallarhorn's history following the Calamity War and that if he truly wanted to fix Gjallarhorn then he should be rejecting Agnika Kaieru as a relic of the past.

** 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."]]

* AceCustom: He is handed down Gaelio's Schwalbe Graze, equipped with a rifle instead of a lance. [[spoiler: ''[[UpToEleven Ein himself]]'' becomes one after being merged with the [[ManInTheMachine Graze Ein and Gundam Vidar]].]]

* 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.

* BunnyEarsLawyer: Julieta has no problem with speaking her mind and blatantly insulting her superior officer Iok, which are generally not qualities one seeks from a soldier. However, she's a skilled enough pilot that she can get away with it.

* DickDastardlyStopToCheat: If he'd only been able to resist EvilGloating to Gaelio as he betrayed him, his plan might not have failed quite as disastrously.

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* {{Foil}}: To Orga. While Orga views Tekkadan as his family and depends as much on them as they do on him, [=McGillis=] views his friends as hindrances to his goal and [[spoiler:attempts to have them killed, especially since their deaths would be politically advantageous for him.]] He remains emotionally distant from his revolutionary followers.

* PoorCommunicationKills: In season two, despite having secretly declared common cause with Tekkadan, his official duties with Gjallarhorn force him into conflict with them. Not having any way to let the frontline pilots know that he's on their side, he's forced to fight in earnest as they do their best to kill him.

* OneHeadTaller: Inverts this in her childhood flashback scenes with Gaelio and [=McGillis=] where, despite being about the same age and female, she visibly towers over both.

* SwordPlant: She and her bodyguards do this during her second encounter with Tekkdan, doesn't stop Akihiro from [[CombatPragmatist shooting them mid-speech]] however.

* InvincibleVillain: It's an unwritten rule in the Post Disaster setting that you don't mess with the Arianrhod Fleet. Half of it is because they're the largest and most heavily-armed formation in the largest and most heavily-armed military force in the solar system. The other half is because they're led by this guy. Rustal is the sort of person whose existence explains why Gjallarhorn has maintained its rule for three centuries despite its corruption and decay - he's got the political nous, the strategic genius, and the utter ruthlessness necessary to eliminate any serious threat to their authority. The story of Season 2 is the story of Orga and McGillis picking a fight with him out of blind hubris and gradually realising why that was a terrible, terrible idea.

* VillainousBreakdown: [[spoiler: After Rustal threatens to end his alliance with the Kujan family over Iok's recklessness, Iok snaps and enters a hasty alliance with Teiwaz's Jasley in a desperate attempt to redeem himself in Rustal's eyes.]]

* BunnyEarsLawyer: Julieta has no problem with speaking her mind and blatantly insulting her superior officer Iok, which are generally not qualities one seeks from a solider. However, she's a skilled enough pilot that she can get away with it.

* CoDragons: Along with Julieta, he is one of Rustal's strongest pilots. Of the two, Julieta is more dedicated to Rustal's cause, but Vidar has the stronger mobile suit.

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Has periwinkle-colored hair.

* ActuallyPrettyFunny: He laughs when Tekkadan delivers Todo to them.

* DidntThinkThisThrough: After an entire series of being a ManipulativeBastard that had almost everyone playing to his tune, [[spoiler:his plan of seizing Gundam Bael to force a symbolic victory over Gjallarhorn doesn't exactly work as he planned. Rustal could honestly give less of a damn about the symbolism, and his revealing Gaelio is still alive destroys [=McGillis=]'s carefully cultivated image and ousts him as a traitor. Not long thereafter, Gjallarhorn throws all of their power and then some at Tekkadan and [=McGillis=], and Rustal's sheer pragmatism ends up ultimately killing them off, though [=McGillis=] certainly gets a few counters in before Gaelio [[KarmicDeath offs him.]]]]

* DualWielding: His Grimgerde is highly unusual for being able to do this with its two swords - most suits only have one melee weapon, or else such large, heavy ones that using two at once would be highly impractical. As the Grimgerde is so light and high performance by design compared to many other suits from and beyond it's era, it uses these weapons to deadly effect by manipulating them along it's center of gravity. When he is promoted to command of the Outer Earth Regulatory Joint Fleet, he equips the Graze Ritter that's a symbol of his office with two swords as well, and while they don't have any of the Valkyrie Swords' fun gimmicks, he's still extremely effective with them. [[spoiler: And he equips Bael with the very same swords he used in the Grimgerde.]]

* DidntThinkThisThrough: After an entire series of being a ManipulativeBastard that had almost everyone playing to his tune, [[spoiler:his plan of seizing Gundam Bael to force a symbolic victory over Gjallarhorn doesn't exactly work as he planned. Rustal could honestly give less of a damn about the symbolism, and his revealing Gaelio is still alive destroys McGillis's carefully cultivated image and ousts him as a traitor. Not long thereafter, Gjallarhorn throws all of their power and then some at Tekkadan and McGillis, and Rustal's sheer pragmatism ends up ultimately killing them off, though McGillis certainly gets a few counters in before Gaelio [[KarmicDeath offs him.]]]]

*** In a bit of irony, he does meets post CCA "TheAtoner" Char in SuperRobotWars30. Char doesn't disagree with his goals but is quick to tell him his means are problematic.

* TheChessmaster: [[spoiler: In episode 45, he has one of his supporters act as one of the revolutionaries and fire a Dainsleif railgun thus giving him the moral high ground to use them against [=McGillis=]]]

* MidSeasonUpgrade: Actually reversed as Iok's incompetence and frequent defeats cause him to actually get downgraded as the season goes on. His custom Reginlaze is what he starts out with but it gets wrecked during the Hashmal incident. After that he's instead given a commander unit Graze as Reginlazes are limited production so he can't easily replace it. He customizes it with his favored black and yellow paintjob and adds the surviving sword from his first mobile suit, but this custom Graze is ALSO destroyed in a reckless charge. After that, the only thing Rustal is willing to trust him with is a generic colored and equipped regular Graze. To the surprise of no one[[spoiler:he gets defeated AGAIN as challenging Gundam's in an underpowered grunt goes about as well as you expect and this time Iok gets killed]]

* TheExtremistWasRight: [[spoiler:Zigzagged. In the end, despite dying and his coup failing miserably, [=McGillis=]'s actions did cause a revolution in Gjallarhorn. The Seven Stars get disbanded in favor of a Democratic Leadership. A Commoner-born Julieta is being prepped to take over the leadership, and the corruption has all been fazed out. Unlike his own ideal, however, it's done by prioritizing the laws and people already part of Gjallahorn rather than creating his ideal of one based on power.]]