Mobile Suit Victory Gundam/Characters

Uso Evin

 * Accidental Pervert: How many times does he go through Marshmallow Hell?
 * Ace Pilot : Of mobile suits, para-gliders and hovercrafts. Uses all styles throughout the series, but prefers Bushwhacking.
 * A Sinister Clue: Not too apparent because his mother taught him to use both hands. This also the reason why his mother fitted the targeting sensor on the V2's left "eye".
 * Badass Bookworm: The library is the first thing he visits, and his friends know it too.
 * Blood On These Hands: He got over several of these moments. Most notably, he personally took a woman (and her children) to the grave of her husband, even though (and because) he was the one that had killed him.
 * Blue Eyes
 * Break the Cutie
 * Clasp Your Hands If You Deceive: He joins the tips of his fingers when he won't tell two women from the shrike team who's prettier, amusingly enough.
 * Chick Magnet : The number of older women who tease him is staggering... might be because the kid is a Cute Shotaro Boy. They don't end well.
 * Child Soldier : Trained by his own mother no less.
 * Combat Pragmatist
 * Cool House: His house looks like a simple wood house, but has a basement with a supercomputer (albeit an outdated one), spare electronic equipment, data banks filled with scientific, technological and historical information, a independent backup generator and finally a mobile suit simulator.
 * Cool Pet: The Badass Haro his Dad built for him, that doubles as a Killer Rabbit. After all, it can scare away enemies with machine gun noise, uppercut the ones who do get close, create bubbles that can be used as a holographic projector or protection from the vacuum of space and does grab Uso so that he doesn't fall to his death. Best of all though, it can pilot the Gundam.
 * Cute Shotaro Boy
 * Daisuke Sakaguchi: In his debut role.
 * Determined Homesteader: Well he tries, but is forced to leave anyway.
 * Dual Wielding: Averted, until he combines two beam sabers to form a much longer one. And even then, it's only for a few seconds.
 * Gundamjack: Even though he didn't do this to get his Gundam, stealing the enemy ace pilot's mecha while said pilot is flying it after crashing on it with a paraglider warrants a mention.
 * Guns Akimbo: He uses it correctly since he is trained to use both hands and he just uses the rifle closest to the target.
 * Heroic BSOD : Due to the nature of this series, he suffers several of them. The most notable one is after he recovers his mom's helmet
 * Hurting Hero
 * I Know Mortal Kombat: Uso learned a lot about mobile suit technology, and trained on simulators that his dad left him, well before even getting into that Shokew.
 * Improbable Age: Yes, he's a pilot at age 13. More or less justified because his mom designed his Gundam *and* because of his life in Kassarelia. Hell, Chronicle gets razzed a fair amount just because he kept getting beat by Uso.
 * Its All My Fault: He is prone to believing he could have prevented someone's death, but he manages to get past these moment and it doesn't result in a Guilt Complex.
 * Just a Kid: Takes advantage of this whenever he can.
 * Nice Guy: He's a very kind boy outside the battlefield.
 * Not Distracted By the Sexy: Several times, like with Lupe's "interrogation" and the Bikini Babe Assault.
 * Reluctant Warrior: As with most Gundam protagonists, even though he really doesn't want to fight, he is forced to pilot both because his homeland and his friends are threatened and because he is just that good a pilot.
 * Shoot the Bullet: Blink, and you will miss Uso shooting Katejina's beam while he is fighting Chronocle for the last time.
 * Spell My Name With an S: Uso/Üso/Usso Evin/Ewin/Ebbing
 * Teach Him Anger:  taught him to not hesitate in killing if he had the chance as a parting gift, which does increase Uso's effectiveness as a pilot and most likely allowed him to survive the war.
 * Trauma Conga Line: He suffers several of these, perhaps one of the most notable being when the shrike team starts dying.
 * Wise Beyond Their Years: Even when not taking into account of how well he handles emotional trauma, he is far more mature when compared to his peers (Shakti, Odelo, Warren, etc., who cope like normal kids would) and perhaps even some adults.

Shakti Kareen

 * Ambiguously Brown:
 * Break the Cutie
 * Determined Homesteader: More so than Uso, to the point of madly seeding the land when the fighting escalates around her.
 * Fatal Flaw: After finding out about, she abandons the League on multiple occasions to reason with Cronicle/Maria, wilfully dismissing that the former has his own plans and the latter is being used by Kagatie. She wises up near the end (see below).
 * Plucky Girl
 * Promotion to Parent: She takes care of little Karl, a baby orphan from their war zone.
 * Psychic Powers: With Healing Hands included.
 * Wise Beyond Their Years: Not immediately, but towards the end when.
 * Yumi Kuroda: Debut role, too.
 * Hey Its That Voice: Dub!Katara, is that you?!
 * Psychic Powers: With Healing Hands included.
 * Wise Beyond Their Years: Not immediately, but towards the end when.
 * Yumi Kuroda: Debut role, too.
 * Hey Its That Voice: Dub!Katara, is that you?!
 * Yumi Kuroda: Debut role, too.
 * Hey Its That Voice: Dub!Katara, is that you?!

Marbet Fingerhut

 * Ace Pilot
 * Action Girl
 * Cool Big Sis
 * No Periods Period: Subverted: in episode 38 she feels like crap and Odelo tells Uso that it may be because of her period.
 * Team Mom
 * Tsundere (to Oliver)
 * Team Mom
 * Tsundere (to Oliver)

Oliver Inoue

 * Corporal Punishment: Brutally punches Uso in the face, It's in order to teach him to be more responsible, after he ended up in a 6 on 1 fight and nearly got captured.
 * OUCH.
 * Kavorka Man: Subverted - he doesn't have good looks and clashes with Marbette, but otherwise he is a pretty decent guy and a damn efficient Team Dad.
 * New Old Flame: To Marbet.
 * Team Dad
 * The Leader: Of the Shrike Team.
 * The Leader: Of the Shrike Team.

Odelo Henriks

 * Badass Normal: Becomes a competent pilot in his own right.
 * Dogged Nice Guy: To Elischa Kransky.
 * Jerk With a Heart of Gold
 * The Lancer: To Uso. Unusually for the franchise, he is actually far more hot-headed and immature than the hero, but then again calm and kind Heroes often tend to have Hot Blooded Lancers. (See Cyborg 009, Captain Tsubasa, or even the Sailor Moon anime).
 * Those Two Guys: Him and Warren
 * Took a Level In Badass

Warren Trace

 * Action Survivor: Sorta
 * Butt Monkey
 * Dogged Nice Guy: To Martina.
 * Fish Out of Water: Poor guy tries to offer Martina flowers, but gets yelled at by her because he picks up flowers that purify the air of the space colony.
 * Leeroy Jenkins: He is very trigger happy.
 * Macross Missile Massacre: His attack of choice.
 * Rica Matsumoto

Suzy Relane

 * Action Survivor
 * The Cutie
 * Girlish Pigtails
 * Orphans Ordeal
 * Satomi Koorogi

Elischa and Martina Kransky

 * Action Survivor
 * Bridge Bunny: Both girls help handle the White Ark shuttle, sometimes even helping out with mantainment. In addition, Elischa seems to have a keen eye for detail.
 * Heroic BSOD: Being from the colonies, neither take it well when . Warren and Shakti call them out on it.
 * Girlish Pigtails: Martina has a side ponytail, tied with a yellow band. It contrasts with Elischa's boyish haircut.
 * I Just Want to Be Special: Elischa expresses frustration at not having fighting skills
 * Konami Yoshida: Martina
 * Michiyo Yanagisawa: Elischa
 * Plucky Girl: Specially Elischa
 * Orphans Ordeal: Both sisters are war orphans.
 * She's Got Legs: Elischa has a rather short Magic Skirt which shows off her rather nice legs.
 * She's Got Legs: Elischa has a rather short Magic Skirt which shows off her rather nice legs.

Karel and Tomache Masarik

 * Action Survivor: Karel
 * Ambiguously Brown: Contrasting with their Blue Eyes.
 * Badass Normal: Tomache becomes a pilot, though he's not at the level of Usso, Marbet or Odelo.
 * Bridge Bunny: Karel
 * Orphans Ordeal: Again, both brothers are orphans
 * Tomokazu Seki: Tomache

The Shrike Team (Junko Jenko, Connie Francis, Mahelia Merril, Kate Bush, Helen Jackson, Peggy Lee. Later also Francesca "Franny" O'Hara, Miriella Katan and Yuka Meirash)

 * Action Girls
 * Amazon Brigade
 * Blonde Brunette Redhead: Sort-of. There's only one blonde (Peggy) and only one brunette (Connie, and maybe Junko and Mahelia if we count their hair colors as different shades of reddish brown). The other girls, save for bluehaired Miriella and lavender-haired Yuka, have different shades of red hair.
 * Cool Big Sis: All of them are this to Usso, but Mahelia fits the most. They really love to tease him.
 * Dark Skinned Redhead: Kate Bush
 * Death By Irony: See below for why it's ironic.
 * Hair of Gold: Peggy Lee, the blonde of the group
 * Hot Amazon: All of them, specially Junko and Mahelia.
 * Meaningful Name: "Shrike" is a bird known for being a butcher to their prey, and the members of the team do employ very aggressive tactics, triggering several core explosions on their introduction and not allowing enemy's to retreat.
 * Names to Know In Anime: Several of the girls were voiced by very well-known seiyuus:
 * Atsuko Tanaka (Yuka)
 * Kae Araki (Peggy)
 * Narumi Hidaka (Miriella)
 * Rika Fukami (Helen)
 * Satomi Koorogi (Connie)
 * Shinobu Adachi (Kate)
 * Yuko Kobayashi (Junko)
 * Revenge: It's not a good idea for them to try this. At all.
 * Tall Dark and Bishoujo: Connie, the only member of the team with dark hair.
 * Theme Naming: Five of the original six members are named after famous Western singers. Connie, Kate and Peggy are named directly after Connie Francis, Kate Bush and Peggy Lee respectively; Mahalia and Helen are named after Mahalia Jackson and Helen Merrill, but with the last names switched around.
 * Tomboyish Ponytail: Kate
 * Took a Level In Kindness: It's subtle, but it's obvious that the children have mellowed them out by the end when they are compared to their initial appearance.
 * You Gotta Have Blue Hair: Miriella has blue hair amd Yuka's is lavender, which offer contrast with the other girls's more realistic hair colors (with Dark Skinned Redhead Kate as a sort-of exception)
 * Took a Level In Kindness: It's subtle, but it's obvious that the children have mellowed them out by the end when they are compared to their initial appearance.
 * You Gotta Have Blue Hair: Miriella has blue hair amd Yuka's is lavender, which offer contrast with the other girls's more realistic hair colors (with Dark Skinned Redhead Kate as a sort-of exception)

Mueller

 * Action Girl
 * Badass Damsel: When
 * Hot Scientist: A very beautiful blonde with stunning Green Eyes. A genius-level engineer who designed and built mobile suits.
 * Hot Scientist: A very beautiful blonde with stunning Green Eyes. A genius-level engineer who designed and built mobile suits.

Hangelg Evin

 * Hot Dad
 * Kenyuu Horiuchi
 * Tall Dark and Snarky
 * Tall Dark and Snarky

Other Members

 * Badass Grandpa: Most of the people in the higher ranks of the League are rather old. This does NOT mean they're physically less capable than others.
 * Cowardly Lion: The Fake Jinn Generham.
 * Heroic Sacrifice: The end of the Reinforce Jr. is of the most poignant moments in the series.
 * Specially when two of the old dudes (Leonard and Romero) take a damaged suit and attempt to use it as a turret.

Fonse Kagatie

 * Bald of Evil
 * Big Bad
 * Evil Chancellor
 * High Class Glass
 * The Man Behind The Empire

Queen Maria Pia Armonia

 * Anti Villain: She's a saintly woman who knows that she's being used for evil purposes, but thinks she can do nothing to change the situation.
 * Blue Eyes
 * Emi Shinohara
 * Healing Hands
 * Psychic Powers: An extremely strong Newtype, she not only had the Healing Hands but also Telepathy and empathy.
 * The Woman Wearing the Queenly Mask
 * The Woman Wearing the Queenly Mask

Chronicle Asher

 * Ace Pilot
 * Aloof Little Brother: To Maria.
 * Badass Normal: One of the few char clones without newtype like special abilities.
 * Badass Teacher: A very competent one.
 * Char Clone: Perhaps the most down to Earth.
 * Clasp Your Hands If You Deceive
 * Cool Mask: To the degree that when he met Duke Fleed in a Super Robot Wars Destiny 4koma, they do a Combination Attack together outside their mecha.
 * Dragon With an Agenda
 * Eyes of Gold
 * Evil Redheads
 * Licked By the Dog: Flanders (a dog) REALLY likes him.
 * Lighter and Softer: Like with Katejina, Super Robot Wars Destiny tones down his villainy considerably and emphasizes his nature as the Noble Top Enforcer of the empire. Again, this makes recruiting him more plausible.
 * Noble Top Enforcer - Pragmatic Villainy: Not that he is against war, it's just that he would much rather win with the least amount of casualties possible.
 * Overshadowed By Awesome: On a meta level, since he is the closest a Char Clone ever got to being normal.
 * Pick On Someone Your Own Size
 * Smug Snake
 * Spell My Name With an S: Cronicle is the most common spelling, but Chronicle also exists.
 * Interestingly, the kana of his name reads "クロノクル" (kuronokuru) instead of the normal "クロニクル" (kuronikuru).
 * Tomoyuki Dan: His most well known role. Until he became Kisame Hoshigake and Chris Nolan's Batman, that is.
 * Interestingly, the kana of his name reads "クロノクル" (kuronokuru) instead of the normal "クロニクル" (kuronikuru).
 * Tomoyuki Dan: His most well known role. Until he became Kisame Hoshigake and Chris Nolan's Batman, that is.

Katejina Loos

 * Absolute Cleavage: Most memorably after she kills off the last member of the Shrike Team and proclaims that Chronocle and Uso are fighting for her love.
 * Ace Pilot
 * Adrenaline Makeover - Evil Is Sexy: As she loses her composure and adquires fighting/piloting skills, her hair flows more and she also gains more visible cleavage.
 * Ax Crazy: By the end, she pretty much tries to kill anyone that irks her. Even if it is a 13 year old who is trying to save her.
 * Becoming the Mask: She appears to have done this, but actually she had switched sides near the beginning of the series  and had tricked the kids into believing she had been trying to spy for the League Militaire. This also results in Uso being even more reluctant to kill her.
 * Badass Normal: After receiving military training from Chronocle. Subverted in the novel, where she became an artificial newtype.
 * Blondes Are Evil: Not so much at the beginning, but at the very end... WHOA.
 * Brown Eyes: Through often rendered red in fanart.
 * Dark Action Girl
 * Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: In the beggining, it was already bad enough to the point that she thought that Uso had to delude himself into wanting to protect Marvet and herself, but by the end she reaches the point where just the influence of Shakti's pacifism makes her sick, thus triggering a murderous rampage.
 * Face Heel Turn: She starts by helping Chronocle get into the Victory Gundam, and it escalates from there.
 * Femme Fatale
 * Its All About Me: A defining aspect of her personality. Early on it's a bit hard to spot, but her lack of consideration for her father and the fact that she let Shakti take care of baby Karlmann as soon as she could were early warnings of what was to come. This characteristic of hers is even noted by a old woman after Katejina insists for someone else to fight in the gundam instead of Uso.
 * Lighter and Softer: Super Robot Wars Destiny noticeably tones down both her behaviour and Chronicle's in the Victory Gundam plot, effectively turning them into the closest thing the Zanscare Empire has to Token Good Teammates. Unsurprisingly, this was done so saving them doesn't seem like a terrible idee.
 * Love Makes You Evil: A very twisted example.
 * Manipulative Bitch: Especially towards Uso and Chronocle.
 * Kumiko Watanabe
 * Rescue Romance: She fell in love with Chronicle after he rescued her from a rapist.
 * Shotacon - Ephebophile: Even though she tries to repress it, she develops a slight attraction for Uso after she sees him pilot the Victory.
 * Unholy Matrimony: With Chronicle.
 * We Have Reserves
 * We Have Reserves

Tassilo Vago

 * Non Action Guy
 * Big Bad Wannabe
 * The Starscream

Fuala Griffon

 * Ai Orikasa
 * Ace Pilot
 * Ax Crazy: At the second half
 * Dark Action Girl
 * Foe Yay: With Uso; she finds him -wets lips- cute.
 * Gratuitous English: Refers to Usso as "Boy".
 * Interrupted Suicide
 * Pet the Dog: She and Suzy shared a rather cute moment.
 * Rose Haired Girl: Subverted, as she's not a good girl.
 * The Dragon: To Tassilo, in the later episodes.
 * The Only One Allowed to Defeat You: With Uso
 * With Great Power Comes Great Insanity: Heavily implied (but not said) to have been made into a artificial newtype, making her a far more dangerous pilot but even more insane.
 * With Great Power Comes Great Insanity: Heavily implied (but not said) to have been made into a artificial newtype, making her a far more dangerous pilot but even more insane.

Duker Iku

 * Badass Biker
 * Badass Moustache
 * Battle Couple: With Dark Action Girl Renda
 * Even Evil Has Loved Ones: He and Renda are Zanscares, and Duke is rather ruthless as, but they genuinely love each other.
 * Leeroy Jenkins: He  to attack Usso's group.
 * Kazuhiro Nakata
 * Spell My Name With an S: Is his last name Iq or Iku ?

Renda de Paroma

 * Ambiguously Brown
 * Battle Couple: With Duker
 * Biker Babe
 * Cultured Badass: She's a good artist, and is seen drawing rather pretty sketches in her notepad once.
 * Dark Action Girl
 * Rica Matsumoto

Lupe Cineau

 * Ax Crazy
 * Bunny Ears Lawyer: Quite effective fighter. Quite quirky in regards to, um, interrogating enemies.
 * Cloudcuckoolander
 * Dark Action Girl
 * Green Eyes
 * Miki Ito
 * Ms. Fanservice: She and Usso share one of the... oddest Furo Scenes ever. And you get to see quite a bit of her body in it.
 * Shotacon: She ends up asking Uso to have a baby with her. In the middle of the battlefield. It may also explain her "interrogation" techniques.
 * Tomboyish Ponytail

Arbeo Pippiniden

 * The Captain
 * The Leader: Of the Pippiniden Circus.
 * The Leader: Of the Pippiniden Circus.

Kwan Lee

 * Cruel and Unusual Death: The camera zooms out to show the shuttle departure from the mass rail, but the viewer can still see
 * Jurota Kosugi
 * Kill the Cutie: What he did to
 * Mauve Shirt
 * Real Men Pilot Pink Mobile Suits: The Memedorza, despite its ridiculous looks, is a Lightning Bruiser.

Godwald

 * Ace Pilot
 * Deserted Island: It appeared that we was on this, though in this case it was a building ... In Space, but he was just punishing his trainee.
 * Flawed Prototype: His Suit, the Abigor, gives him some troubles.
 * Stern Teacher
 * Honor Before Reason: To the point of refusing help from an opposing faction. It also meant that he felt that he had to repay Uso for helping him and his subordinate.
 * Teach Him Anger: To Uso; see above
 * Took a Level In Kindness: Thanks to Uso.

Other Zanscare troops

 * Antagonist in Mourning: Several examples, as per usual Gundam Fare
 * Honor Before Reason:, Gira   Naturally, when he finds out he was defeated by a 13 year old, young enough to be playing, he can't take it.
 * Majorly Awesome: The leader of the Utari Gira trio came very, very close to killing Uso, despite piloting a relatively outdated grunt suit.
 * Revenge Before Reason: Gary Tan, who in his urge to avenge Sabat pilots a barely tested mobile suit under the effect of painkillers, and when his mobile suit is destroyed even tries to shot at the cockpit with a pistol.
 * You Have Failed Me: Zanscare is perhaps the most severe example of this troupe in the franchise, since there are several death penalties.
 * You Have Failed Me: Zanscare is perhaps the most severe example of this troupe in the franchise, since there are several death penalties.