Mobile Suit Gundam 00/Characters/Other

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Marina Ismail
The elected-in figurehead princess of Azadistan, a country so wrought with civil war that she is able to look out her window at any point in the series and see part of the capital burning. Marina is also the head of the Reformist political party, causing her to be very popular among some of her people, but vehemently hated by the conservatives. Inexperienced as a leader, and being only a figurehead, she often has no control over her country's situation despite her wishes for peace. After attracting the attention (probably not that kind of attention) of Setsuna, she's been unable to shake him off, and now he probably couldn't shake her off.

Voiced by Ayumi Tsunematsu (Japanese) and Paula Lindberg (English) -
 * Actual Pacifist: Hates weapons so much that she can't even fathom using a gun for self-defense. Somewhat understandable due to her background, but still...
 * Blue Eyes
 * Deconstruction: She's what Relena Peacecraft would be if portrayed in a very cynical (towards pacifism) series, and holy shit, does she get put through the wringer.
 * Also the Idol Singer princess character (think Lacus Clyne). She's very inspiring with a song she writes about peace, and Setsuna says what everyone in the audience is thinking, that she's a lot more competent as a singer/good will ambassador than as the leader of a country- and he meant it as a compliment.
 * Compressed Hair: During her world tour in season 1.
 * Everything's Better with Princesses: Probably why she's not Queen, President, or Prime Minister.
 * Arguably more like Everything's Worse With Princesses in this case, as good things rarely happen when Marina's on screen. Either to other characters or Marina herself.
 * Technically, she's mostly a figurehead, albeit one with some measure of diplomatic power, but most to all of her efforts keep getting subverted.
 * Expy: She's the Relena/Lacus to Setsuna's Heero/Kira.
 * Fallen Princess: In season 2.
 * Friend to All Children: In season 2.
 * He Will Not Cry, So I Cry for Him: Does this for Setsuna.
 * Hime Cut
 * Identical Stranger: See Replacement Goldfish below.
 * Odango Hair: Her princess hairstyle in season 1.
 * Platonic Life Partners: According to Setsuna and her, and they make sure to emphasize this.
 * Politically-Active Princess: Although she's not very good at it. While phrased as a compliment, her closest adviser tells her outright that she's far better at charitable work and being a good will ambassador than she is at politics and ruling.
 * Rebellious Princess: Deconstructed. She tries to be one, but never can do anything productive.
 * Replacement Goldfish: To a degree, Setsuna sees her as a mother figure - it doens't help that she does look like a younger version of his Missing Mom.
 * Royal Blood
 * Tall, Dark and Bishoujo
 * Tomboy and Girly Girl: Even earlier in Season 1, Shirin came off as more tough compared to Marina, fitting this in an emotional capacity. It just played straighter, with the toughened-up Shirin, in season 2.
 * Woman in White: In the second season.
 * Yamato Nadeshiko
 * Tomboy and Girly Girl: Even earlier in Season 1, Shirin came off as more tough compared to Marina, fitting this in an emotional capacity. It just played straighter, with the toughened-up Shirin, in season 2.
 * Woman in White: In the second season.
 * Yamato Nadeshiko
 * Yamato Nadeshiko

Shirin Bakhtiar
Marina's best friend, adviser and lady in waiting, who does not doubt to scold Marina when she hesitates. .

Voiced by Michiko Neya (Japanese) and Ellen Kennedy (English) -
 * Adrenaline Makeover: Contrast her flowing dresses from season 1 with her baggy pants and tight t-shirt in the second one.
 * The Consigliere
 * Gray Eyes
 * Les Yay: Arguably, with Marina.
 * Meganekko
 * Plucky Girl
 * Sarcastic Devotee
 * : The reason she.
 * Sexy Secretary: In a degree during the first season.
 * Subordinate Excuse: Although she and Klaus started as Platonic Life Partners, the novelization stated that they had a Relationship Upgrade..
 * Tall, Dark and Bishoujo
 * Tomboy and Girly Girl: She and Marina are a grown-up version.
 * Subordinate Excuse: Although she and Klaus started as Platonic Life Partners, the novelization stated that they had a Relationship Upgrade..
 * Tall, Dark and Bishoujo
 * Tomboy and Girly Girl: She and Marina are a grown-up version.

Louise Halevy
Ordinary High School Student. Bratty Teenage Daughter. Clingy Jealous Girl in regards to her boyfriend Saji Crossroads. Annoying in the eyes of almost everyone, possibly useless in the plot...

What? Oh My God! Why did someone ?! The poor little girl! ? SNIFFFF.

That was the story of Miss Louise Halevy, at least in season 1. She survives said ordeals and four years later we see her again, but she's now an embittered and hurt Ill Girl who works for the A-LAWS, hellbent on getting her revenge on Celestial Being, and a combination of her past trauma and background meddling have done neither her body nor her mentality too many favors.

Voiced by Chiwa Saitou (Japanese) and Kelly Sheridan (English) -
 * Anti-Villain: Type II in the second season.
 * Beauty Is Never Tarnished: VERY cruel aversion.
 * Blue Blood
 * Blue-Green Eyes:.
 * Break the Cutie: Both she and Saji, oh so much.
 * Broken Bird: In season 2.
 * Completely Missing the Point / Horrible Judge of Character: Very much in season 2.
 * Dangerously-Short Skirt: Wore one in the second season, where she Took a Level in Badass.
 * Elegant Gothic Lolita: Her party dress from episode 8 is similar to these.
 * Hair Decorations: Uses red barettes in her hair, and in her Elegant Gothic Lolita episode she changed them for a dark blue hairband.
 * Expy: Partially, the Stellar to Saji's Shinn. . She is also a bit of a Quess Paraya Expy.
 * In the second season, she's basically Katejina Loos played more sympathetically.
 * Genki Girl: Cruel deconstruction of the archetype.
 * Heroic BSOD:.
 * Hey, It's That Voice!: If only she could turn back time like her..
 * Ill Girl:
 * Important Haircut: Had Rapunzel Hair in the first season, sports later a pageboy style that makes her look like a borderline Bifauxnen.
 * Innocent Bystanders: Deconstructed cruelly.
 * Unless.
 * The fact that this is also the year 2311 might also help;, considering it's common enough for people in most first-world countries now to think it little more than a curiosity.
 * Take a Third Option
 * Did Not Do the Research:.
 * Latin Lover: Subverted that she doesn't act like one towards Saji.
 * Magic Skirt: Wears one in the first season, and "it took effect" in the second ED.
 * Moe: In season 1.
 * Misblamed:.
 * Moral Myopia: Genocide committed by Celestial Being and Nena Trinity is bad! But genocide committed by the A-Laws and me is OK!
 * Ironically, Nena calls her out on her Moral Myopia during their battle, while Louis calls Nena on her's, and neither of them register what the other is saying because of their Moral Myopias.
 * The Ojou and Spoiled Sweet: A more childish version, though not mean enough to be a Rich Bitch. She did try to endear herself to Kinue and loved her mother genuinely, after all.
 * Ordinary High School Student / SweetHearts: In the beginning.
 * Rapunzel Hair: In Season 1 only. See Important Haircut above.
 * Revenge and Well-Intentioned Extremist:.
 * Screw the Rules, I Have Connections And Money:
 * She Cleans Up Nicely: Fits in quite well in kimonos and EGL dresses.
 * Spell My Surname With A B: Louise Haleby.
 * Star-Crossed Lovers: With Saji, in season 2.
 * Considering episode 19,, the trope seemingly is still valid for them.
 * And in episode 24,
 * Tag Along Girl: For the A-Laws.
 * Took a Level in Jerkass: Due to some mentality-destroying drugs. Thanks, Ribbons. Thanks alot.
 * Unstoppable Rage: If she ever gets in the view of Celestial Beings, she will yell on the top of her lungs "CELESTIAL BEIIIIIIINNNGGGG!!!!!". However, subverted that although no one amongst her allies can stop her rage, one of her enemies CAN.
 * Used to Be a Sweet Kid:.
 * The Ojou and Spoiled Sweet: A more childish version, though not mean enough to be a Rich Bitch. She did try to endear herself to Kinue and loved her mother genuinely, after all.
 * Ordinary High School Student / SweetHearts: In the beginning.
 * Rapunzel Hair: In Season 1 only. See Important Haircut above.
 * Revenge and Well-Intentioned Extremist:.
 * Screw the Rules, I Have Connections And Money:
 * She Cleans Up Nicely: Fits in quite well in kimonos and EGL dresses.
 * Spell My Surname With A B: Louise Haleby.
 * Star-Crossed Lovers: With Saji, in season 2.
 * Considering episode 19,, the trope seemingly is still valid for them.
 * And in episode 24,
 * Tag Along Girl: For the A-Laws.
 * Took a Level in Jerkass: Due to some mentality-destroying drugs. Thanks, Ribbons. Thanks alot.
 * Unstoppable Rage: If she ever gets in the view of Celestial Beings, she will yell on the top of her lungs "CELESTIAL BEIIIIIIINNNGGGG!!!!!". However, subverted that although no one amongst her allies can stop her rage, one of her enemies CAN.
 * Used to Be a Sweet Kid:.
 * Took a Level in Jerkass: Due to some mentality-destroying drugs. Thanks, Ribbons. Thanks alot.
 * Unstoppable Rage: If she ever gets in the view of Celestial Beings, she will yell on the top of her lungs "CELESTIAL BEIIIIIIINNNGGGG!!!!!". However, subverted that although no one amongst her allies can stop her rage, one of her enemies CAN.
 * Used to Be a Sweet Kid:.
 * Used to Be a Sweet Kid:.

Saji Crossroad
Introduced as an Ordinary High School Student and neighbor of Setsuna, with no real impact on the plotline. He had a part time job as a pizza delivery boy (his neighbor was in a terrorist paramilitary organization); he dealt with his girlfriend's mother (Azadistan was on the verge of civil war). etc. If he was in trouble, it made the fan base wish something bad would just happen already.

Then, it did. And some more. .... We take it back, Saji. Sorry about that.

Voiced by Miyu Irino (Japanese) and Gabe Khouth (English) - "Saji: "I can't pull the trigger. I can only. even so, I... I...!" * anyway, since This Is Something He's Got to Do Himself* Wow!"
 * Break the Cutie and Butt Monkey: If something could go wrong for him, it certainly did. And then It Got Worse.
 * Brown Eyes
 * But Not Too Foreign: Japanese-American.
 * Character Development: Perhaps the best example in the show. See the following quote from Episode 18 of the second season.
 * Break the Cutie and Butt Monkey: If something could go wrong for him, it certainly did. And then It Got Worse.
 * Brown Eyes
 * But Not Too Foreign: Japanese-American.
 * Character Development: Perhaps the best example in the show. See the following quote from Episode 18 of the second season.
 * Character Development: Perhaps the best example in the show. See the following quote from Episode 18 of the second season.


 * Completely Missing the Point: He gets better.
 * Curtains Match the Window
 * Deuteragonist / The Ishmael: In season 2 according to Mizushima himself.
 * The Engineer: Well, duh!
 * Expository Hairstyle Change: Cut his hair a bit shorter for season 2.
 * Expy: Arguably, of both Shinji Ikari from Neon Genesis Evangelion and Shinn Asuka from Gundam Seed Destiny, as well as Hathaway Noah from Chars Counterattack.
 * First Guy Wins
 * Heroic Resolve: Thanks to a Crowning Moment of Awesome Character Development.
 * Ho Yay: With Setsuna..
 * If You Kill Him You Will Be Just Like Him: Why he.
 * Innocent Bystanders: Deconstructed cruelly.
 * It's All My Fault and My God, What Have I Done? (After early in season 2.
 * Nice Guy
 * Non-Action Guy:.
 * Ordinary High School Student / SweetHearts: He and Louise start like this.
 * Parental Abandonment: His and Kinue's parents were dead before the story started.
 * Relationship Voice Actor: Saji is voiced by Miyu Irino, while Setsuna is voiced by Mamoru Miyano. The two seiyus previously worked together in Kingdom Hearts as main characters Sora and Riku. One could notice the similarities of the said characters including their plot involving a girl, Power of Friendship of sorts and fighting a mysterious organization which includes an Evil Read Head voiced by Keiji Fujiwara.
 * Sensitive Guy and Manly Man: Him and Setsuna respectively, specially in Season two.
 * Spell My Surname With An S: He is known as Saji Crossroads to some fans.
 * Star-Crossed Lovers: With Louise, in season 2.
 * Straight Man: To his girlfriend Louise. This role will be very important in the second season.
 * This Loser Is You: He gets better in the second season.
 * Tragic Keepsake: ..
 * Why Do You Keep Changing Jobs?: In the entire series, we saw him as a student, as a Pizza delivery guy, as a space engineer, as a, as , and.
 * Sensitive Guy and Manly Man: Him and Setsuna respectively, specially in Season two.
 * Spell My Surname With An S: He is known as Saji Crossroads to some fans.
 * Star-Crossed Lovers: With Louise, in season 2.
 * Straight Man: To his girlfriend Louise. This role will be very important in the second season.
 * This Loser Is You: He gets better in the second season.
 * Tragic Keepsake: ..
 * Why Do You Keep Changing Jobs?: In the entire series, we saw him as a student, as a Pizza delivery guy, as a space engineer, as a, as , and.
 * Tragic Keepsake: ..
 * Why Do You Keep Changing Jobs?: In the entire series, we saw him as a student, as a Pizza delivery guy, as a space engineer, as a, as , and.

Kinue Crossroad
The older sister to Saji and JNN reporter. She was obsessed with Celestial Being's founder, Aeolia Schenberg. She believes that by investigating into Aeolia, she can uncover the true motives of Celestial Being. Through her investigation, she interviewed Schenberg's great grandson and other people possibly linking to either the Gundams or Schenberg. Later, she suspected Laguna Harvey, president of Linear Train Industries, to be somehow connected to this and wanted to interview him. She couldn't get permission to interview him, but saw Ali Al-Saachez leaving from his estate and hoped to get any sort of information from him..

Voiced by Aya Endo (Japanese) and Anna Cummer (English) -
 * Alliterative Name
 * Beware the Honest Ones:.
 * Brown Eyes
 * But Not Too Foreign
 * Cool Big Sis
 * Curtains Match the Window
 * Going for the Big Scoop
 * Horrible Judge of Character:.
 * Hot Scoop
 * Intrepid Reporter
 * Like Father Like Daughter: Her father's also a reporter..
 * Parental Abandonment
 * Promotion to Parent: To Saji.
 * Spell My Surname With An S
 * Tall, Dark and Bishoujo
 * Promotion to Parent: To Saji.
 * Spell My Surname With An S
 * Tall, Dark and Bishoujo
 * Tall, Dark and Bishoujo
 * Tall, Dark and Bishoujo

Ali Al-Saachez
By his own admission, the worst kind of human to ever exist. Ali starts out as a freedom fighter who recruits kids to fight in the name of 'God', this turns out to be false, as he didn't believe in God and was just a terrorist, period. One of those kids was Setsuna, and he also assaulted Ireland at one point, killing Lockon's parents and little sister. Later he became a mercenary and was reunited with Setsuna in battle. He continues to do really nefarious things afterwards, notably bribing and then killing Intrepid Reporter Kinue Crossroad For the Evulz.

Next, he meets up with Team Trinity, and kills Johann and Michael... for the lulz, incidentally hitting the karmic hammer to their sister Nena (who had ). He stole Michael's Throne Zwei and was about to kill Nena, until he was interrupted by Setsuna, and the activation of Trans-Arm forced him to retreat. He is later seen in space and engaged in a fatal battle with Lockon; Ali got the Throne Zwei damaged heavily. When The Federation was formed, Ali was frustrated since it takes away his joy: war.

But it didn't really happen as apparently Ribbons hired him. And the next thing he did in his debut on the second season is... burning down the whole Azadistan, probably for the lulz... .

Voiced by Keiji Fujiwara (Japanese) and Scott McNeil (English) - "Setsuna F. Seiei: That's a Gundam. And its color... IMPOSSIBLE! Ali Al-Saachez: That's right! I'm that impossibility!"
 * Ace Pilot: In the race for being the best of the series, on par with Graham Aker and possibly even . Feats include matching the Exia in swordplay (in an enact and in Throne Zwei) and taking on both Seravee and 00 at the same time, and coming out on top (in the Arche).
 * Arch Enemy
 * Attack Drones: Both the Throne Zwei and the Arche were equipped with these.
 * Ax Crazy
 * Badass
 * Badass Beard of Evil: Shaves it in the second half of the first season. Sports it again during the entire second season.
 * Badass Boast: After seeing Setsuna and Marina arrive, this exchange occurs:


 * Badass Normal: Able to defeat Gundams in less tech-advanced suits.
 * Bad Samaritan
 * Boisterous Bruiser: Oh, so much. To Nightmare Fuel degrees.
 * Blood Knight: He lives only for war, it's his only source of joy. He even admits it openly.
 * Card-Carrying Villain
 * Colonel Kilgore
 * Corruption of a Minor: And How!
 * Evil Gloating
 * Evil Is Not Pacifist
 * Evil Mentor: To Setsuna and the other Kurdish Child Soldiers.
 * Evil Redheads: Probably the worst ever in the Gundam series.
 * Expy: He's an unholy mix of Gauron (with Setsuna as his Sosuke), Yazan Gabal, and Char at his worst. He now has his own expy in Gundam AGE's Decil Galette.
 * The Fagin
 * Fan Nickname: Look down...
 * Faux Affably Evil
 * For the Evulz: Yes, most of the atrocities he did are for the lulz. The money is nice too, but he mainly does it for fun.
 * Green Eyes
 * Gundamjack
 * Hero-Killer
 * Hey, It's That Voice!: Keiji Fujiwara is his Japanese voice, Scott McNeil is his English voice.. We now wonder if Prince Ali was a Velociraptor in his past life..
 * Hot Guys Are Bastards
 * I Have Many Names
 * I Surrender, Suckers:.
 * Lack of Empathy
 * Large Ham
 * Last Second Chance:.
 * Law of Chromatic Superiority: Look at his mobile suits except the first, his A-shirt, his pilot suit and even his hair.
 * Lovable Rogue: He introduced himself as one of these. But that was just a cover for his EVIL.
 * Playing Against Type: On a basis that both of his VAs previously voiced Gundam protagonists. His Japanese seiyu does Eledore, while his English voice actor dubbed Duo. Ali's character seems to be a mixture of both, only evil.
 * Plot Armor: He is known to negate this when fighting the protagonists, but he was protected by it . Then you know where the hatred for this Plot Armor go:.
 * Psycho for Hire
 * Put the Laughter In Slaughter
 * Scarf of Asskicking: Inverted, but he is shown in flashbacks training Child Soldiers while wearing it.
 * Sharp-Dressed Man: He was a Badass in a Nice Suit twice. First when he took out, and later.
 * Sinister Minister: Took on this identity to corrupt the kids in Kyrgyz.
 * Smug Super
 * Sociopathic Soldier: After gaining permanent employment with Ribbons.
 * The Sociopath
 * Tall, Dark and Snarky: Yes he's tall, but the dark and snarky parts stand out most.
 * Tattooed Crook
 * Villain Decay: In Season 2.
 * War for Fun and Profit: Mostly for fun. He doesn't care about money much, but if there's a smell of blood somewhere...
 * The Sociopath
 * Tall, Dark and Snarky: Yes he's tall, but the dark and snarky parts stand out most.
 * Tattooed Crook
 * Villain Decay: In Season 2.
 * War for Fun and Profit: Mostly for fun. He doesn't care about money much, but if there's a smell of blood somewhere...

Klaus Grado
He is the commander and the de facto leader of the Katharon Rebel Group, which opposes the Earth Sphere Federation and its elite squad A-Laws.

Voiced by Tokuyoshi Kawashima (Japanese) and Alistair Abell (English)

Tropes associated with Klaus:
 * Action Survivor
 * Badass Longcoat
 * Determinator
 * General Failure: Inverted.
 * Official Couple: With Shirin.
 * Perma-Stubble
 * Rebel Leader
 * Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right
 * Spell My Name with an "S"
 * Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right
 * Spell My Name with an "S"