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Tropes associated with the Meisters:

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Meisters as a whole

• Ace Pilots
• Badass Crew
• Big Damn Heroes
• Byronic Heroes
• Character Development
• Dark and Troubled Past: All but Tieria. Setsuna is a Self Made Orphan Child Soldier, Lockon has both dead parents and a Dead Little Sister thanks to a terrorist attack, and Allelujah has Survivor Guilt for killing (and presumably eating to survive) his fellow escapees from the Super Soldier program.
• Estrogen Brigade Bait: Let's see...
  • Setsuna is a Stoic Cute Shotaro Boy in season 1. In the second season, he grows up to be quite Tall, Dark and Handsome.
  • Lockon is a Badass Nice Guy and Even the Guys Want Him.
  • Allelujah is a Tall, Dark and Handsome quiet guy. His Split Personality, Hallelujah, is a Tall, Dark and Snarky Ax Crazy Blood Knight and the meisters' cool and sexy Crazy Awesome Token Evil Teammate.
  • Tieria is an effeminate-looking guy with glasses. And then he crossdresses! WOW! Even The Girls and Guys Want Tieria Tieria!
• Female Gaze: The second ED animation, which featured Setsuna and Allelujah in Shirtless Scenes, a close-up shot of Lockon's crotch and a sort-off Wet Sari Scene involving Tieria.
• Five-Man Band: In the second season.
  • The Hero: Setsuna F. Seiei
  • The Lancer: Lockon Stratos (AKA Lyle Dylandy)
  • The Big Guy / The Smart Guy: Tieria Erde (He is both and )
  • The Chick: Allelujah Haptism (Becomes both the Token Evil Teammate whenever Hallelujah re-emerges.)
  • Sixth Rangers: Soma Peries and Saji Crossroad
• Four Is Death
• Four-Temperament Ensemble: Setsuna = phlegm, Lockon = sanguine, Tieria = choleric, and Allelujah = melancholic.
• Nakama
• Shoulders of Doom: All of their Gundams have something attached to their respective shoulders.

Setsuna F. Seiei

"I am a Gundam."

The main character of the series. Formerly known as Soran Ibrahim, Setsuna is a kid soldier who was recruited in a movement to fight in the name of God, under the guidance of Ali Al-Saachez. As a requirement to do so, Setsuna is told to kill his parents and does so. During the ensuing battle, he was saved by a Gundam and after realizing that Ali is bad, he grows to resent him and war in general, and later on swore to become a Gundam: One who destroys conflict. He is later recruited by Celestial Being as a Gundam Meister and pilots Gundam Exia. In the 2nd season, he pilots the titular 00 Gundam.

Setsuna is also neighbors to Saji Crossroad, though his involvement with Celestial Beings strains their normal relationship. He is somehow close to the Azadistan princess Marina Ismail, whom he may consider as a mother or older sister figure. (She happens to look quite a bit like his Missing Mom, and has the same voice to boot.)

Voiced by Mamoru Miyano (Japanese) and Brad Swaile (English)

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• Alliterative Code Name: If you don't include his middle initial.
• Anti-Hero: Type III
• Ascended Fanboy
• Asexuality
• The Atoner: For being a child soldier and for killing his parents.
• Badass
• Badass Abnormal
• Bash Brothers: With Saji, in the second season. Saji pilots the 0-Raiser, he docks it with Setsuna's 00 Gundam and both mechas form the 00-Raiser.
• Berserk Button: Should you a) threaten the well being of his comrades/friends or b) happen to be Ali Al Saachez, he will be not be amused in the slightest, to put it nicely.
• Betty and Veronica: Marina could be the Betty, while Nena is the Veronica. And Feldt is the Third Option Love Interest. After Nena's death, Feldt may take over as the new Veronica for being more fanservicey than Marina.
  • He chooses the Betty (Marina) in the manga adaptation of the Movie. The manga adaptation also shows him using his ELS abilities to restore her youth and eyesight and even marrying her. However The mangaka has said that it represents their mutual understand of each other is and is purely symbolic.
    • Meanwhile the movie leaves it ambiguous and it can be seen as a son returning to his mother.
• Bunny Ears Lawyer: Okay, he has severe social problems and thinks he IS his Gundam, but that doesn't stop him from kicking ass.
• Catch Phrase: "I AM GUNDAM!", "Exterminating the targets!"
• Character Development: It's obviously not as extreme as some of the other characters, but its interesting to note the change in attitude over the show, from emotionally repressed, to still stoic, but more caring. His aloofness is now more out of being a veteran of combat and he even dispenses advice to both Saji and Lyle that get them out of their respective funks. Essentially, he's cooler.
• Chaste Hero: First season. He sneaks into Marina's bedroom at night. Is unable to understand the Unfortunate Implications.
  • Celibate Hero: Second season. He's more aware of the subject, but still...
• Child Soldier: In a way, this is somewhat a Deconstruction of the typical Gundam protagonist. Here we have a person who's been "conscripted" by circumstance and forced to do horrific things from childhood...and we get to see the psychological damage that it's caused him. Most Gundam leads would fit the UN definition of a Child Soldier, but the shows usually gloss over the specific long-term effects of combat on children and teens; not here.
• Contemplate Our Navels: Remember when he said he did not want to write a letter to anyone about anything? He lied.
• Eleventh Hour Superpower: The Trans-Am Burst which dramatically expands the range of the various abilities of his Gundam in Transam Mode. And, for that matter, Transam itself played something of a similar role in season 1.
• Evolutionary Levels: He became an innovator in the end, as a result of using the 00 Raiser.
• Expy: Said to be a mixture between Heero Yuy and Sousuke Sagara. He is also of Amuro since he said something similar about Red Suits like when he saw Ali in his RED gundam. When he meets Heero in Super Robot Wars Z 2: Hakai-Hen, they get along well and become Bash Brothers.
• Fan Nickname: Jihad-kun, Solid Setsuna, Kira and Set-Light or Setsulight. For the last three, look down..
• Fan Service Pack: He was visibly short in season 1. But by season 2, he was able to catch up and becomes Tall, Dark and Handsome.
• Hates Being Touched: In regards to both himself and his Gundams.
• Hazel Eyes: During and after his Innovation late in season 2, he now also has Eyes of Gold.
• The Hero: Naturally, although he is previously The Lancer to Neil until the latter's death.
• Hey It's That Voice: Mamoru Miyano is his Japanese voice, Brad Swaile is his English voice... we now wonder if Setsuna keeps a black notebook and a bag of potato chips inside Exia or 00.
  • Or apple, as seen in the first ending sequence.
• Hollywood Atheist
• Hot Blooded: He has his moments.
• Ho Yay: With both Lockon, Tieria, Saji and some Foe Yay with Graham and Ali.
• I Have Many Names
• I Like Swords: Obviously because Heroes Prefer Swords. Let's see what he has...
  • Absurdly Sharp Blade
  • BFS Beam: The Trans-Am Raiser.
  • Blade Below the Shoulder: Exia has these.
  • Cool Sword
  • Dual-Wielding: Exia and 00 have this as an arsenal.
  • Knife Nut
  • Laser Blade: Exia has four beam sabers.
  • Swiss Army Weapon
  • Throwing Your Sword Always Works: Especially if targets are hard to reach or very small.
• Improbable Age: 16 in the first season, 21 in the second. Somewhat justified because of his back-story.
• It's Personal: He * hates* Ali. Period. This will likely extend to Ribbons as well, now that Setsuna has learned that his previously-unidentified "hero" from childhood is evil.
• Luckily, My Shield Will Protect Me: Both Exia and 00 have one, with 00's being two smaller ones that can combine into a bigger one.
• Magnetic Hero
• Marina Is Not His Girlfriend, And He Is Not Her Boyfriend: The scene is notable for having absolutely none of the usual embarrassment involved in this trope; both deliver an absolutely deadpan denial.
  • He emphasized that again when Feldt gave him flowers and thought Marina might be mad about this.
  • In the manga adaptation of the movie he marries Marina. He even used his ELS abilities to restore Marina's youth and eyesight.
  • The movie on the other hand leaves it ambiguous.
• Men Don't Cry: Averted when Lockon I/Neil died where he shed lots of Manly Tears.
• The Messiah: Being the first genuine Innovator, he fits. Not to mention his Prophetic Code Name.
• Messianic Archetype
• My Hero Zero: Idolizes the GN-000 0 Gundam. In season 2, he pilots the titular GN-0000 00 Gundam, which can combine with the GNR-010 0 Raiser to form the GN-0000+GNR-010 00 Raiser.
• Mysterious Middle Initial: Subverted that it's not his real name. And said Code Name has a prophetic meaning.
• Mythology Gag: His birthday is April 7, 2291. In the real world, Mobile Suit Gundam was first broadcast on Japanese television on April 7, 1979. Relena Peacecraft/Darlian also shares the same birth date.
• Named After Somebody Famous: He is named after the main star of Turtles Can Fly, the first film to be made in Iraq after the fall of Saddam Hussein. The film is about war orphans.
• Not Good With People: In season 1 at least.
• Papa Wolf: Very much so in season 2, sensing his comrades all on the brink of death pissed him off to the point that he unknowingly initiates the "Trans-AM burst mode", completely turning the tide of the battle.
• The Paragon
• Platonic Life Partners: Both him and Marina say they are like this.
• Prophetic Code Name: A Moment From The Holy Eternity. If you translate it to Japanese except the From , which you will remove the other three letters after F, you'll get Setsuna From Seiei. The Director says it represents the moments of revolutions in the long history of mankind, hinting at Setsuna being the true Innovator, the one who is going to bring revolution to mankind.
  • If that is not enough, Just watch episode 24 where his mobile suit enable global telepathy, break the mind control powers of certain innovators, and reverse the form of radiation poisoning that had been slowly killing a couple characters. Mind, we already knew it could do all of these; just not on that scale.
• Scarf of Asskicking: Inverted. He wears one only in his civilian outfit, so he does most of his asskicking when he's not wearing it.
• Screaming Warrior
• Self Made Orphan
• Sensitive Guy and Manly Man: Saji and him are like this in season 2.
• Shell-Shocked Veteran: Of the "high-school senior" variety.
• Shipper On Deck: Saji/Louise fanboy in season 2, to the extreme of slashing off Andrei Smirnov's A-Head when he attempted to kill Saji.
• Shirtless Scene: He and H/Allelujah in the second ED.
• Shout Out: His entire characterization has many references to Square Enix games, namely;
  • Kingdom Hearts: For his Relationship Voice Actor with Saji.
  • Final Fantasy VII: For having Exia use the omni-slash against Throne Zwei.
  • Final Fantasy VIII: First for his rivalry with Graham that mirrors that of Squall Leonheart and Seifer Almassy's. Second with his Gundams using GN blades (GN is sometimes pronounced as "gun" in this series, you get the idea). Third with the 00 Raiser's Trans-Am Raiser being identical to Squall's Blasting Zone Limit Break.
  • His personality is also similar to typical Final Fantasy main leads, especially Cloud and Squall.
• Soran Ibrahim Is Dead: And if you mention that name to Setsuna, chances are he'll be shocked. Very, very shocked.
• Spell My Name With an "S": Is his last name Ibrahim, Ebrahim or Ybrahim?
• Stalker With a Crush: Subverted. He follows Marina around for quite a number of times in season one, but that's due to him being a Not Good With People Chaste Hero.
• The Stoic
  • Not So Stoic "LOCKOOOOOOOOONNNNNNN!!!!!"
• The Three Faces of Eve: His three potential Love Interests fit this trope really well, with Marina being the mother and wife figure, Nena being the child and seductress, and finally, Feldt as the maiden and wife figure.
• Thousand Yard Stare
• Tyke Bomb
• Walking the Earth: He, Lyle/Lockon II and the rest of CB at the end of the series. Not just the Earth, but space as well.
• Where It All Began: He ends up destroying the 0 Gundam, the very Mobile Suit that saved him during the very first episode using his original mobile suit, the Exia Gundam. Also, before the said battle took place, he had the Exia descend to battle in the same manner during its debut.

Lockon Stratos

"Targeted and firing!"

The resident sniper of Celestial Being and the pilot of Gundam Dynames. Lockon acts like a big bro towards the rest of the Meisters, and is the most easy going, accompanied with a Haro. His past is dark, as he was a survivor of a terrorist attack (initiated by the same group Setsuna was under). Lockon eventually got to know better and directed his anger to Ali Al-Saachez. Unfortunately, when fighting Ali himself, Lockon was badly wounded and was eventually killed, but not after he shot down Ali's Throne Zwei, severely ruining the machine and considerably put him out of action for a good while.

Thus was the story of the Lockon known as Neil Dylandy.

In the second season, Neil's twin younger brother Lyle, a member of Kataron, took the name of Lockon Stratos and pilots the successor of Dynames: the Gundam Cherudim. He's just as skilled as his predecessor, but at first he tends to act as if he knows nothing about piloting (though later, he shows a more intense and emotional side).

Voiced by Shinichiro Miki (Japanese) and Alex Zahara (English) for obvious reasons.

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Tropes associated with Lockon.

• Badass
• Badass Normal: Lockon's teammates are two Tyke Bombs (a Child and a Super Soldier to be specific) and an Artificial Human. He always manages to hold his own.
• BFG
• Catch Phrase: "Targeted and firing!"
• Dead Little Sister: Her name's Amy. Although Neil keeps his rage and angst to a minimum, it's still there. He subverts the standard of becoming an Anti-Hero, and instead fills the gaps with Celestial Being's members. Lyle, on the other-hand, moved on with his life after the incident.
• Determinators: Both of them are able to pull impressive showings while either injured or using battered Gundams during their respective battles in each season's finale.
• Divergent Character Evolution
• Friendly Sniper: The Gods of the trope.
• Green Eyes: It Runs in The Family perhaps?
• Guns Akimbo
• The Gunslinger
• Legacy Character
• Macross Missile Massacre: All the Lockons' Gundams have these.
• Meaningful Code Name: In reference to their aiming and firearms expertise.
• Not So Different: Despite Lyle's claim that he is not like his brother Neil, his time spent with Celestial Being had some instances that parallels him to his twin brother.
• Revenge: Neil's biggest motivation. Lyle subverts this as he does NOT fully embrace it.
  • Double-Subverted thanks to loss of Lyle's girlfriend Anew. His bullet will very likely either go through Setsuna or an Innovator.
    • As of episode 24, his bullet went through Ali. And the trope was triple-subverted because Lyle did NOT kill Ali to avenge his twin brother. He did try to give Ali a Last Second Chance, the other refused, and then BANG. Wow.
• Sensitive Guy and Manly Man: It should be noted that the twins are both Sensitive and Manly men, depending on the situation they are in.
• Separated At Birth: Heavily subverted, as both Neil and Lyle decided to stay out from each other's life. It is sad.
  • The fact that they Never Got to Say Goodbye to each other before Neil dies, makes it even sadder.
• Sibling Yin-Yang: So much that their names tell it; Neil means cloud, while Lyle means Island.
• Take Up My Sword
• Talking to Himself: With Keiichiro Aoyama in Super Robot Wars Z 2.
• Uncanny Family Resemblance

With Neil:

• The Ace: Arguably fits the role of The Hero better than Setsuna, shown to be very respected by the rest of CB, and a Badass Normal to boot.
  • Broken Ace: A milder case. Yes he is a great and respected team leader to his comrades, but deep inside, he's a guy with huge issues on revenge.
• Always Someone Better: He is this to Lyle. Isn't It Sad?
• Berserk Button: Terrorism. He is aware of the irony.
• Beware the Nice Ones
• Big Brother Mentor
• Breaking the Fourth Wall: He awfully seems to be addressing the audience with his last words: "Hey, are you all satisfied with this kind of world? I... hate it."
• Dead Person Conversation: Manages to tell Tieria to calm down when he's struggling with inner turmoil. He would later do this to Setsuna as well, telling him the past can never be changed.
• Death By Disfigurement: Look down
• Death Is Dramatic
• Dying Alone In Space
• Dying Moment of Awesome
• Even the Guys Want Him: Lots of fanboys go weak at the knees for him. Stupid Sexy Lockon indeed. Tieria alone can be a proof to this.
• Eye Scream: Courtesy of Patrick
  • Eyepatch of Power: Wears one near the end of his life.
• Fan Nickname: Stupid Sexy Lockon!
• Finger Gun: He loves doing this, even when he's dying.
• Grasp the Sun: Right before he dies, he grasps the Earth, then flicks his finger to where Japan where the original viewers are; see Breaking the Fourth Wall above.
• Handicapped Badass
• Handsome In Mink: His vest has fur in its collar. He's also sporting a Squall-like bomber jacket in the very first ED.
• Heroic Sacrifice: Subverted when he took the slash meant for Tieria.
• Improbable Aiming Skills: "I'm the man who can shoot beyond the stratosphere."
• Killed Off for Real
  • He's Just Hiding: Come back, Neil... come back...
• Knight in Sour Armor: His Famous Last Words blatantly reflect it.
• Magnetic Hero
• My Life Flashed Before My Eyes
• Nice Guy
• The Obi-Wan
• Our Hero Is Dead
• Really Dead Montage
• Revenge Before Reason: Decides to go after Ali despite still recovering from his his eye injury and his Gundam not being fully repaired.
• Spirit Advisor: For the rest of the CB in season 2.
• Stupid and Senseless Sacrifice
• Supporting Leader
• Taking The Beam Saber: He shields Tieria from Patrick's attack at the cost of his right eye.
• Tall, Dark and Handsome
• Unknown Rival: To Ali.

With Lyle

• Angsty Surviving Twin: Averted. He didn't pursue Ali to avenge Neil's (and even their family's) death.
• Attack Drones: The Cherudim's shield bits.
• Backup Twin: Deconstructed as Lyle goes way out of his way to ensure that those around him don't try to compare him to Neil. Things worked out well, fortunately.
• Black Sheep
• Chekhov's Gunman
• Code Name: Lockon Stratos for Celestial Being. Gene-1 for Kataron.
• Conspicuous Trenchcoat
• Double Agent: For Kataron; subverted in that his CB comrades know he's a double agent and don't care.
  • Becoming the Mask: At the finale, he finally embraces his identity as a Gundam Meister and left Kataron.
• Early Bird Cameo: He's the one visiting the Dylandy grave early in season 1.
• Gun Kata: He's so awesome at it. VERY Awesome.
• Handsome Lech: Subverted, since it's a part of Lyle's Jerkass Facade to distance himself from Neil's borderline Marty Stu image among the Celestial Being crowd and tell them he's no one's Replacement Goldfish.
• Heartbroken Badass: After Anew's death.
• Indy Ploy
• Jerk With a Heart of Gold: One who's willing to put on a Jerkass Facade if needed.
• The Lancer
• Let's Get Dangerous: He's quite a daredevil really.
• Men Don't Cry: Averted hard when Anew died where he shed lots of Manly Tears and goes on a Heroic BSOD.
• Middle Child Syndrome: He fits this well, considering that Neil was the older twin and they had a Dead Little Sister.
• My Sibling Will Live Through Me: Subverted, big time.
• Obfuscating Stupidity: Made even more apparent in 4 months for 2312 where he found out that Anew was an innovator but neglected to tell her or anyone else.
• Relationship Voice Actor: The seiyus of Lyle (Shinichiro Miki) and Anew (Ryouko Shiraishi) also does Bob and Chiaki from Tenjou Tenge. The said characters are also lovers. What's more, in a scene in the Tenjou Tenge manga Chiaki protests about Bob spacing out while making love to her, while in episode 18 Lyle protests about Anew spacing out while they're kissing. Talk about payback.
• Smoking Is Cool
• Star-Crossed Lovers and Fatal Attraction: With poor Anew.
• Suspiciously Similar Substitute More like Double Agent Backup Twin, but he got better.
• Swiss Army Weapon: The Cherudim's dual handguns have a built in axe for short-range combat.
• Tall, Dark and Snarky
• The Unfavorite: One that doesn't even need a family to be it. He's finally accepted by the CB people in episode 13 of season 2. Almost got subverted after Setsuna killed his brainwashed girlfriend Anew to save him, but he did calm down.
• Walking the Earth: He, Setsuna, and the rest of CB at the end of the series. And it also involves space travel.

Allelujah Haptism

The third of the Gundam Meisters, pilot of Gundam Kyrios, and later Arios. Allelujah is a product of a Super Soldier program, but a failed one. He has another personality named "Hallelujah". While Allelujah is calm and amiable, Hallelujah is a sociopathic person who laughs in the face of deaths... of many of his enemies. In the events of the series, however, Allelujah lost Hallelujah and was forced to continue on his own. He's Back...

He seems to be acquainted towards White-Haired Pretty Girl Soma Peries, another product of that said program. He knew her as MARIE! Parfacy, which suggests a history between them. After successfully reaching out to her, they got together and he took her to CB with him, eventually becoming a Battle Couple later in the story.

Voiced by Hiroyuki Yoshino (Japanese) and Richard Ian Cox (English)

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• Alliterative Name: Hallelujah Haptism.
• Anti Heroic Safe Mode
  • Anti-Hero: Hallelujah is a Type V
• Ax Crazy: Hallelujah.
• Battle Couple: With his girlfriend Soma/Marie, in the second season. When she returns to action in the GN Archer, she docks it with the Arios Gundam together and form the Arios Archer.
• The Big Guy: Allelujah in season 1. In season 2, he became more of a male version of The Chick. Hallelujah on the other hand fights more like The Brute due to being the Token Evil Teammate.
• Blood Knight: Hallelujah.
• Bound and Gagged: Spends the first few episodes of Season 2 like this.
• Boy In White: During his time at the HRL Super Soldier program shown in Flashbacks.
  • White Shirt of Death: Subverted during his escape. Played straight by the other Super Soldier escapees Hallelujah killed though.
• Child Soldier
• Combat Pragmatist: Hallelujah, a notable example being him smacking Hilling's Garazzo around using his beam rifle as a club.
• Creepy Good: Hallelujah is a Magnificent Bastard and a psycho that'll do anything to stay alive and enjoys killing people. The others don't see much of him outside of battle, though.
• Demoted to Extra: He got pretty shafted for facetime for the latter part of season one, Crowning Moment of Awesome aside. It seems he'll be getting a bit more of spotlight in the second, what with the subplot involving him and Soma. Sadly, after his/Soma's subplot was resolved, the two faded into the background again but still made a good showing whenever they did appear.
• Destructive Savior: Hallelujah.
• Evil Is Hammy: Hallelujah.
• Evil Laugh: Hallelujah loves doing this.
• Fan Nickname: Doubleujah for obvious reasons, Baptismal Boy for is name and Hannibal Haptism due to his first appearance in season 2.
• First Guy Wins and Victorious Childhood Friend: He is the very first boy that Marie knew personally and befriended. And they end up together.
• Friends With Benefits: Hinted to be this with Sumeragi. Lucky guy.
• Hallelujah Made Me Do It
• Heroic Sociopath: Hero = Allelujah (probably); Sociopath = Hallelujah (most definitely).
• He's Just Hiding: Isn't that right, Hallelujah!?
  • He's Back: Hallelujah is officially back as of episode 24 of season 2.

Hallelujah: * laughing like Hell* "The Super Soldier is back!

• I Am Not Left Eyed: Allelujah/Hallelujah can, in fact, become both of them at once the moment he pushes his hair back, so that it won't conceal any eye. When he does, much ass is kicked.
• I'm a Humanitarian: Implied, but he wouldn't be above it. When stranded in space as a child and running out of food and oxygen, Hallelujah shoots his friends, blood dripping down his face and front. You may draw your own conclusion. Goes into No Party Like a Donner Party on Allelujah's part, given the circumstances, but for Hallelujah...
  • At one point in the first season, Hallelujah mentions that he's not above drinking blood to survive (if I recall correctly), for further implications.
• Jekyll and Hyde
• Lightning Bruiser: His Gundams are all hard-hitting speedsters. As Doublelujah, he can have the strength and reflex of two people.
• Men Don't Cry: Averted when Lockon I/Neil died.
• Mismatched Eyes: His left eye is gray, and the right is gold.
• Montague Counterpart and Official Couple: As of episode 7 of S2, Allelujah/Soma is canon. Let's just hope they don't end up Strangled By the Red String...
  • They do not.
• No Holds Barred Beatdown: Whenever Hallelujah emerges, notable examples include episode 10 (poor Adjutant Ming.), and in the finale where he tears Hilling Care a new asshole.
• Peek-a-Bangs: And take warning at which eye is covered...
• Put the Laughter In Slaughter: Hallelujah loves this.
• The Quiet One: Allelujah. Only Allelujah.
• Race Lift: He's originally mixed Russian and Chinese, but was retconed as a Kazakh.
• Real Name As an Alias: Marie actually named him Allelujah.
• "The Reason You Suck" Speech: Hallelujah does this to his opponents, specially if he's about to kill them.
• Religious and Mythological Theme Naming: Duh!
• Reluctant Warrior: Not as pronounced as most examples but he definitely has a thing against killing people, especially if they can't really fight back. He expresses some self-disgust when having to bomb a base and expresses relief when he gets to bomb a crop field. Since Hallelujah is a total psychopath, he has a few moments arguing with himself.
• Sensitive Guy and Manly Man: Allelujah and Hallelujah can be seen as the two in one body. Allelujah is a sensitive person while Hallelujah is a sociopathic tough guy. Likewise, his/their girlfriend/s Soma/Marie can also be seen as a two in one body for this trope's female counterpart.
• Shirtless Scene: He and Setsuna in the second ED.
• Split Personality: Triggered by stress and sparkles.
  • Split Personality Merge: Did this in both season's finale.
• Super-Powered Evil Side: Hallelujah!
• Super Soldier: He is number E-057 to be specific.
• Survivor Guilt: See I'm a Humanitarian above.
• Swiss Army Weapon: The Kyrios is equipped with a a shield that can also function as a pincer with a retractable heat blade in the center.
• Talking to Themself
• Tall, Dark and Handsome: Allelujah stands 6'2, has dark hair and complexion and is undeniably good-looking.
• Tall, Dark and Snarky: Hallelujah stands 6'2, an Ax Crazy Blood Knight and Crazy Awesome Token Evil Teammate.. And also has dark hair and complexion and is also undeniably good-looking.
• Token Evil Teammate: Hallelujah once again.
• Transforming Mecha: His Gundams.
• True Love's Kiss: With Marie once they hook up.
• Tyke Bomb
• Walking the Earth: Along with the rest of CB, however slightly different in that he and Marie left CB to walk the Earth on their own in order to find the meaning behind their existence.
• Weapon of Choice: Hallelujah really likes scissors/pincers
• What Do You Mean Its Not Symbolic: His name, his eyes and his Gundams.
• The Worf Effect: Allelujah in the second season. Seriously, except for his battle against Revive Revival, he just can't win tough battles on his own. It takes Hallelujah to re-emerge to beat the shit out of his opponents.)

Tieria Erde

Yes, that's a guy.

He... yes, that is a "he". (Be careful! It's a trap!). Anyway, he is the fourth of the Meisters, piloting Gundam Virtue (and Nadleeh) and later Seravee (and Seraphim). Tieria is known to be able to establish a direct connection to Veda, Celestial Being's supercomputer, and acts aloof and bemeaning towards the rest of the Meisters. This, however, changes due to the interactions he has with Lockon Stratos later on, where he starts to act more human-like. He is serious and pragmatic, but his past is completely shrouded by mystery.

Seems like he got an Evil Twin amongst Ribbons' company. He is killed physically by Ribbons near the end of the series, but his mind got transfered to Veda, abling him to return as a holographic figure from time to time.

Voiced by Hiroshi Kamiya (Japanese) and Samuel Vincent (English)

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• All Love Is Unrequited: The fact that Tieria had strong feelings for the first Lockon has been pretty much accepted by fandom, though the exact nature and extent are heavily debated. While Lockon did care for Tieria, though, his issues would've made very hard for him to fully reciprocate his teammate's love for him.
• Aloof Ally: Pre-Character Development.
• Ambiguously Gay / Straight Gay / Gayngster: Some speculate he qualifies as either one due to his feelings for Neil, but, like the exact nature of his feelings, this is debated.
• Armor-Piercing Slap: If he's not the one pimp-slapping people, he is the one getting slapped.
• Artificial Human: Strongly hinted at since season one, but not explicitly stated until episode 7 of season two.
• Ascend to A Higher Plane of Existence
• Attractive Bent Gender: AAAARRRGGH!!!!
• Badass Bookworm
• Become a Real Boy: Both adhered to and subverted. He learns to live like a human over the course of the series. He becomes attached to Neil Dylandy, breaks away from VEDA, and adopts parts of the Ptolemaois crew as a surrogate family. For a time he even insists that he IS human. Yet in the end, he gives up his physical body, accepts himself for what he is, and finds fulfillment by merging with VEDA as an AI.
• Berserk Button: A couple, but he cycles through them. He started out so violently devoted to Veda that if anyone (i.e. Setsuna and Allelujah) messed up its plans he'd lock them in a padded room for a week at best, and try to kill them at worst. After Veda ditches him, he throws all of his affection onto Neil "Lockon Stratos" Dylandy, and God help you if you insult him in front of Tieria.
• BFG: A trademark of his Gundams.
• Bishonen
• Boom Headshot: Subverted in that he didn't quite die.
• Chekhov's Gun: The TRIAL system.
• Death Is Cheap: As for all other Innovators.
• Defrosting Ice Lord, thanks to his Character Development.
• Evil Twin: Regene Regetta. They have the same DNA. Events on episode 24 of Season 2 will make you wonder about the "Evil" part though.
• Fan Nickname: "Vowels", because his name is full of 'em. Also "Moeria", because his fangirls think he looks adorable when he's upset.
• Fetish Fuel Station Attendant: His background story pretty much confirms that he is a male version of Robot Girl, he dons a pair of glasses, is very much a male Tsundere, is so pretty that he'd count as a TRAP, which is perfect for you who want to dress him up with all those fetishized female outfit, then... Goes all out in crossdressing by using fake boobs, a pretty dress and a very much feminine voice. And if you think that's not enough, he even gets a gratuitious Shower Scene.
• Four Is Death: He is the fourth meister. He piloted four Gundams in the series, not counting the 00 Gundam seen in a Flash Back, including the GN-004 Nadleeh. Speaking of the 00 Gundam, it is the only fourth generation Gundam and it's powered by two GN Drives; one from the very first (O) Gundam and the other is from Setsuna's previous (Exia) Gundam that was part of the third generation Gundams (It's 1+ 3=4). In the second season, he is revealed to be part of the Innovades, a group that consist of four pairs. And finally, guess what happened to him near the Grand Finale? Yup, he was killed, only physically, but still killed. Oh, and to be specific, that happened on episode 24.
• Full-Name Basis: He call others by their full names rather than either last or first ones. He seems to have dropped the habit by season two, though.
• Genius Bruiser: While he is a Badass Bookworm, while fighting inside his Gundams, he can be both The Big Guy and The Smart Guy.
• He's Just Hiding: He is. Inside Veda to be precise.
• Ho Yay: With Lockon, oh so much.
  • Foe Yay: With Ribbons, oh daaaaaaayum!
• Hunter of His Own Kind: In Season 2.
• Inferiority Superiority Complex
• Judge, Jury, and Executioner: He is the sole operator of the TRIAL System. Once he's judged somebody unfit to be a Gundam Meister, the TRIAL system allows him to shut down their Gundam and kill them. Need I say more?
• Loving a Shadow: Not explicitly shown nor stated, but he still thinks of Neil in Season 2, four years after his death.
• Men Don't Cry: Averted when Lockon/Neil died where he shed the most Manly Tears.
• Messianic Archetype: He got himself physically killed to save his friends and humanity from Fucking Ribbons by merging with Veda, and then he had his Seraphim Gundam use the Trial system to eliminate Ribbons' minions by emitting a red cross while it's in a Crucified Hero Shot.
• Multi-Armed and Dangerous: Seravee has four BFGs, two on its shoulders and two in its knees. These all are capable of sprouting hands equipped with beam sabers in addition to the Seravee's normal pair, allowing Seravee to simultaneously fight with six beam sabers at one time.
• My Death Is Just the Beginning: Ribbons struck him down, in which he merged with Veda and became more powerful than Ribbons could ever imagine.
  • To clarify after he is maimed and killed by Ribbons, his consciousness merges with Veda. Then he knocks every last ship he can out of the sky and then schools Setsuna on plans of Aeolia Schenberg, and he does all of this while shot in the head. Easily, Tieria's biggest Crowning Moment of Awesome.
• Mysterious Past: While his origins are revealed in season two, his past STILL remain a mystery.
• Not Quite Dead
• Pinocchio Syndrome: He "suffers" from these in the second season.
• Pronoun Trouble: His choice of first-person pronoun in Japanese is indicative of his mental state; masculine "ore" pre-defrostment, more reserved "boku" after he's defrosted, and gender-neutral "watashi" at his most fragile. How the English dub will deal with this remains to be seen...
  • He once even managed to use all three of these in a row (ore to boku to watashi) when he cried on screen the first time.
• Purple Is Powerful
• Real Men Wear Pink: While he's hardly Mr Super Manly Man, that pink cardigan of his definitely counts.
• Real Name As an Alias
• Red Eyes Take Warning
  • Eyes of Gold: Everytime he connects with Veda. That is, until FUCKING RIBBONS and the other Innovators hijacked Veda. He regains them back though, but..
• Shut UP, Hannibal: When sick of listening to Ribbons, he pulls the gun in his garter on him, and then when that doesn't shut him up he jumps out a window. Wow.
  • And later, When he's immobilized Bring Stabity's mobile suit, Bring is sure that Tieria won't strike the killing blow. After all, as Innovators, they're both the same. Tieria angrily retorts that he's not an Innovator, but a human, and kills Bring.
• The Spock: Pre-Character Development.
• Stoic Spectacles: And fairly big ones at that)
• Stupid Sexy Trap: Fangirls went ABSOLUTELY weak at the knees when he showed up in drag. It was a trap, yeah, but he made such a GREAT trap that fangirls were all "We love T-chan as male AND female, kthx".
  • Despite Lockon taking all the credit, there are a fair share of male fans that also go weak in the knees for him.
• Tall, Dark and Snarky: Pre-Character Development.
• Token Non-Human
• Took a Level In Kindness: Very much in season two.
• Tsundere: Arguably, after his defrostment.
• Ubermensch
• The Voice: After Ribbons gunned him to death, his mind left his physical body and merged with Veda. The only way for him to make his presence felt is through his voice. Unless you're Ribbons, in which case... hoo boy...
• Wholesome Crossdresser: In episode 8 of season two, complete with fake breasts and long hair extensions... and a hidden pistol in his garter.
  • Tall, Dark and Bishoujo Lady in Red: How he appeared to be in the said episode.
• You Gotta Have Purple Hair