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This is the character sheet for the ''[[Gundam]]'' series ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam SEED]]''.

 

== Heliopolis ==

 

=== Kira Yamato ===

 

The main character, who was attending a technical college on Heliopolis when the series began. Naturally, he ends up [[Falling Into the Cockpit]] of the Strike Gundam. He's a [[Born Winner|Coordinator]], which he attempts to hide at first, but it quickly comes out into the open. Kira undergoes the most [[Character Development]] of anyone in the series; starting as a somewhat goofy but generally normal kid, he forces himself to become cold and nearly mechanical in order to deal with the realities of war, but eventually breaks out of this and becomes much more idealistic (but no less determined) before the series ends.

 

* [[Badass]]: He doesn't ''want'' to be kicking twelve different kinds of ass, but that won't stop him from doing it if he has to.

* [[Beam Spam]]: With the Freedom.

* [[Falling Into the Cockpit]]: Actually ''thrown'' in by Murrue in order to save his life during the ZAFT commando raid on Heliopolis.

* [[Forgiveness]]: Forgives both Athrun and Yzak, even choosing to spare the latter (who shot down a shuttle full of civilians) in the middle of a battle.

* {{spoiler|[[Happily Adopted]]}}

* [[The Hero]]

* [[Martial Pacifist]]: He'd ''much'' rather talk things out than fight over it. This being ''[[Gundam]]'', it doesn't work out that way.

* [[Mecha Expansion Pack]]: The Strike, which is near-useless without one of its three Striker packs.

* [[Mid-Season Upgrade]]: The Strike to the Freedom.

* [[Multiform Balance]]: The Strike. Aile Striker is more or less a [[Jack of All Stats]], while the Launcher Striker is a [[Mighty Glacier]] with heavier weaponry but less mobility, and the Sword Striker is a borderline [[Lightning Bruiser]] (not quite as fast as the Aile, but faster than the Launcher) balanced by the fact that it lacks ranged firepower.

* [[Technical Pacifist]]: After getting the Freedom, he aims to disable MS and spare the pilot, rather than destroying them outright. He will break this rule if he has to though, most notably against {{spoiler|Le Creuset}} who couldn't be stopped any other way.

* [[Teen Genius]]

* [[Tragic Keepsake]]: The origami flower he was given by a little girl he'd helped protect {{spoiler|and who was later shot down by Yzak}}.

* {{spoiler|[[Twincest]]}}: With Cagalli. Averted just in time.

 

=== Miriallia "Miri" Haw ===

 

One of Kira's friends from Heliopolis. Dates Tolle and serves as Kira's [[Mission Control]], Miri is probably the most level-headed of the press-ganged civilians. After {{spoiler|Tolle dies}}, she goes through a period of [[Cute and Psycho|growing instability]] before getting over it and eventually {{spoiler|ending up in a relationship with Dearka}}.

 

=== Sai Argyle ===

 

 

* [[Bridge Bunnies]]: Their leader in the latter half of the show.

* [[Easily Forgiven|Easily Forgives]]

* [[Hollywood Nerd]]

* [[Romantic False Lead]]: A more sympathetic one than usual.

* [[Shut UP, Hannibal]]: Pulls it on Flay.

 

 

=== Tolle Koenig ===

 

One of Kira's friends. Dates Miriallia and looks up to Kira. The one to come up with the idea to join the ''Archangel'''s crew, he's always looking to make himself useful. One of the [[Bridge Bunnies]] at first, he eventually spends enough time in the simulator to graduate to Skygrasper pilot, and begins to help Kira and Mu in battle. During the mid-series [[Wham! Episode]], he {{spoiler|is killed by Athrun while attempting to help Kira}}.

* [[The Big Guy]] / [[The Lancer]]: Plays this role to Kira early in the series.

* [[Bridge Bunnies]]

* [[Hot-Blooded]]: Tolle is certainly the most enthusiastic of the Heliopolis crew, and constantly pushes to improve himself. Over the course of the series, he goes from refugee, to bridge crew, to combat pilot!

* {{spoiler|[[Killed Off for Real]]}}

 

=== Kuzzey Buskirk ===

 

One of Kira's friends, he's something of a minor character compared to the rest of the Heliopolis crew. He's the most average of the clique, lacking any outstanding quality comparable to Sai's confidence, Miriallia's warmth, or Tolle's determination. When the ''Archangel'' reaches {{spoiler|Orb, he decides not to stay on}}.

 

* [[The Generic Guy]]

* [[Heroic Self-Deprecation]]

 

=== Flay Allster ===

 

Living on Heliopolis at the beginning of the series, Flay is actually the daughter of the Atlantic Federation's Vice Foreign Minister, George Allster. She'd recently begun dating Sai at the beginning of the series, though Kira had had a crush on her for some time. A fairly air-headed type, the war is not kind to her. After having the misfortune to {{spoiler|witness her father's death}}, she... [[Freak-Out|reacts badly]]. Using her [[Fille Fatale|feminine wiles]], she manipulates Kira emotionally and sexually, in the hopes of {{spoiler|getting him to die in battle, after taking as many fellow Coordinators with him as possible}}. Separated from the ''Archangel'''s crew at Alaska, she {{spoiler|ends up in Rau Le Creuset's custody, where he uses her to bring the N-Jammer Canceller to the Earth Alliance. Assigned to the crew of the ''Dominion'', she escapes its destruction but is killed by Rau during his [[Final Battle]] with Kira}}.

* [[Becoming the Mask]]: Pretends that she loves Kira because she blames him for her father's death and wants to make sure he'll die as punishment, but later she finds herself really falling in love with him. Sai even [[Lampshade Hanging|says it]] [[What the Hell, Hero?|to her directly]].

* [[Bridge Bunny]]: Gets upgraded to this when she works with Natarle in the Dominion, even earning a [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]] when {{spoiler|she tries to tell the Archangel to retreat during Azrael's horrendous [[Villainous Breakdown]]}}.

* [[The Dark Chick]]: Towards Azrael, following her coming aboard the ''Dominion''.

* [[Don't You Dare Pity Me!]]: Says something along those lines to Kira in the backhalf of the series.

* [[Freak-Out]]: After her father's death.

* {{spoiler|[[The Gwen Stacy]]}}: To Kira.

* [[It Meant Something to Me]]: Whether she wants to acknowledge it or not.

* [[Magic Skirt]]

* [[The Ojou]]: In the beginning, before her dad died.

* [[Parental Abandonment]]: Her mom died when she was a child, then her dad George died in front of her.

* {{spoiler|[[Redemption Equals Death]]}}

* [[Rich Bitch]]

 

=== Murrue Ramius ===

 

A Lieutenant stationed on the ''Archangel'', she's forced to take command after the ZAFT attack on Heliopolis. Though uncertain of herself at first, she eventually grows to be a capable officer and a dangerous opponent to ZAFT. Keeping the ''Archangel'' in one piece through space, reentry, and all over Earth, she {{spoiler|defects after the Earth Alliance betrays the ''Archangel'' at Alaska}}.

* [[Field Promotion]]: Lieutenant to Captain.

* [[Gainaxing]]: You know the ''Archangel'''s taken a nasty hit when Murrue gets bouncy.

* [[Her Heart Will Go On]]: ''Twice.''

* [[The Leader]]: Of the ''Archangel'' crew, Type IV. Ramius is a capable officer and has the full respect of everyone working for her.

* [[Official Couple]]: With Mu La Flaga.

* [[Team Mom]]

* [[Tragic Keepsake]]: Her locket. It's {{spoiler|a memento of her previous boyfriend, a mobile armour pilot}}.

* [[Woman in White]]

 

=== Mu La Flaga ===

 

 

* [[Abusive Parents]]: Al Da Flaga was an asshole, all right, and his mother seems to have been a relative non-entity.

** {{spoiler|[[Go Out with a Smile]]}}: We can't see his face, but we can hear him ''laughing''.

** {{spoiler|[[Famous Last Words]]}}: "Didn't I tell you [[Catch Phrase|I'm the man who can make the impossible possible]]!"

* [[Can't Act Perverted Toward a Love Interest]]: Subverted! He's clearly into Murrue pretty much from the beginning and boy does he make it clear.

* [[Field Promotion]]: Lieutenant to Lieutenant-Commander

* [[Lonely Rich Kid]]: As a child, via [[Parental Abandonment]].

* [[The Kirk]]: To Murrue's [[The McCoy|McCoy]].

* [[Red Baron]]: The Hawk of Endymion.

* [[Mad Scientist's Beautiful Daughter|Rich Bastard's Handsome Son]]

* [[Space Fighter]]: His Mobius Zero, which is actually one of the more realistic designs out there.

* [[Sympathy for the Devil]]: A poignant scene towards the end of the series has Mu sympathizing with ''{{spoiler|Rau le Creuset}}'' in a conversation with Murrue; Mu is the only character who seems to fully consider what effect his past had on him. He does, however, state firmly that what he's doing can't be excused.

* [[Tempting Fate]]: "I'll be right back, with victory in hand."

 

=== Natarle Badgiruel ===

 

 

* [[The Captain]]: Of the ''Dominion'' and the first of the ''Archangel''.

* {{spoiler|[[Dying Moment of Awesome]]}} and {{spoiler|[[Heroic Sacrifice]]}}: {{spoiler|She ultimately rises up against Azrael, trapping him on the bridge of the ''Dominion'' with her after ordering the rest of the crew to abandon ship.}}

* [[Field Promotion]]

* {{spoiler|[[Go Out with a Smile]]: Smiles as Ramius opens fire on her and Azrael}}

* [[Military Brat]]: Her [[Freudian Excuse]].

* [[Number Two]]: To Murrue at first.

* [[Talking to Himself]]: She and Flay share the same voice in the Japanese version.

* [[Woman in White]]

 

=== Ensign Arnold Neumann ===

 

The soft spoken helmsman of the ''Archangel'', Mr. Neumann is one of the unsung heroes of the show. Taking on a leadership role among the ship's NCO's in times of crisis, Neumann's greatest contribution to the survival of the ''Archangel'' is without a doubt his insane piloting skills.

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* [[Field Promotion]]: From Chief Petty Officer to Ensign.

* [[Love Hurts]]: In some of the video games based on ''SEED'' it is revealed that Neumann had a thing for the ''Archangel'''s [[Number Two]], Badgiruel. This means that he had to {{spoiler|help kill her when Ramius ordered the ''Dominion'' sunk.}} Ouch.

* [[Man in White]]

 

=== Muruta Azrael ===

 

The leader of the anti-Coordinator terrorist group Blue Cosmos and a powerful figure in the Atlantic Federation. Boyish. Charming. Takes his evil [[Up to Eleven]]. He joins the crew of the ''Dominion'' with his squad of modified soldiers, more or less subverting Badgiruel's position as captain. {{spoiler|Killed when the ''Dominion'' is destroyed in combat with the ''Archangel''}}.

* [[Ax Crazy]]: You get hints about just how crazy he is throughout the show. Then the last few episodes hit and ''[[Villainous Breakdown|holy]] [[Bad Boss|crap]]''.

* [[Bad Boss]]: Controls Shani, Cortho, and Orga through drug addiction, and everyone else through fear. Really starts to show after his [[Villainous Breakdown]].

* [[Bishonen]]: Which accounts for his ridiculous popularity with the female fanbase.

* [[Blond Guys Are Evil]]

* [[Disproportionate Retribution]]: Huh. So you wanted to kill all Coordinators because some of them bullied you when you were a kid?

* [[Driven by Envy]]: Heavily implied by his backstory. He's less angry about the Coordinators being better than humanity than he is about them being better than ''him''.

* [[Evil Is Petty]]

* [[Evil Laugh]]: Gives an epic one when he receives the plans {{spoiler|to ZAFT's defenses and N-Jammer Cancellers}}.

* [[Freudian Excuse]]: See above. Subverted in that it is intended to make him ''more'' despicable, not ''less''.

* [[He-Man Woman Hater]]: Has some aspects of this. He's openly contemptuous of Badgiruel after finding out she's a woman, and is the only character in-series to use the word "bitch" to describe a female character.

* [[Lack of Empathy]]: Couldn't find it with a compass and a road map.

* [[Light Is Not Good]]: Has a [[Religious and Mythological Theme Naming|religious name]] and [[Man in White|wears a white suit]], but...

* [[Muggle Power]]: His mom didn't make him a Coordinator, so no one gets to be one.

* [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast]]: He's named after the ''Angel of Death''.

* [[Non-Action Big Bad|Non-Action Villain]]: Toyed with. He's no fighter, but he's certainly willing to go to the front and place himself in the line of fire.

* [[Not So Different]]: From Patrick Zala. Lampshaded by Uzumi Nara Atha.

* [[Playing Against Type]]: [[Nobuyuki Hiyama]] is ''not'' known for this kind of role.

* [[Politically-Incorrect Villain]]: [[Fantastic Racism|Ya]] [[He-Man Woman Hater|think]]?

* [[Put the Laughter In Slaughter]]: Azrael is taking a little too much enjoyment in watching people get nuked.

* [[Revenge Before Reason]]: Prioritises destroying the Plants over stopping [[Wave Motion Gun|Genesis]], and you know, saving the human race.

* [[Unwitting Pawn]]: Of {{spoiler|Rau Le Creuset}}. He never suspects a thing.

* [[Villainous Breakdown]]: And how! By the end he's a screaming, ranting mess.

* [[Villain with Good Publicity]]: A curious example. His racism is well known and publicised, but in the Earth Forces, [[Fantastic Racism|anti-Coordinator sentiment]] is hardly uncommon. He's all but worshipped by the OMNI high command, and is a well-respected figure in the Atlantic Federation. What he's hiding from everyone is what an [[Axe Crazy|utter]] [[The Sociopath|psycho]] he is, and the fact that he [[Lack of Empathy|couldn't care less]] about [[We Have Reserves|individual Naturals]].

* [[We Have Reserves]]: Azrael doesn't give a damn about casualties, and actually goes so far as to classify Shani, Cortho, and Orga as equipment, rather than soldiers, making them totally expendable.

 

=== Captain William Sutherland ===

 

A member of the OMNI General Staff and a card-carrying member of Blue Cosmos, Captain Sutherland is a key member of Azrael's network and provides his link to the upper echelons of the Earth Forces' military. The mastermind behind the use of the Cyclops system at JOSH-A, Sutherland sees to it that the worst of Azrael's proposals are made a reality by the military.

 

=== Shani Andras, Clotho Bauer, and Orga Sabnak ===

 

 

* [[Ax Crazy]]: At least in combat; outside of battle they tend to ignore everyone around them. Shani is probably the worst.

* [[Being Tortured Makes You Evil]]

* [[Berserk Button]]: Okay, they're all pretty unstable, but Shani's even more likely to snap than usual if someone whom he considers weak tries to stop him.

* [[BFG]]: The Calamity is a flying artillery platform, and after the Buster, features the largest cannons seen in series.

* [[Blond Guys Are Evil]]: Orga.

* [[The Brute]](s): The three of them serve as Azrael's Brute squad, providing the Earth Forces with [[Axe Crazy|vicious]], [[We Have Reserves|expendable]] muscle.

* [[Death From Above]]: The Raider and the Forbidden are both flight capable. Typically Clotho provides fire support, while Shani closes with the target.

* [[Fan Nickname]]: "The Druggies", for obvious reasons.

* [[Flawed Prototype]]: They manage to be this and [[Super Prototype]] at the same time. While it's true that they have far superior combat skills to their successors in the [[Gundam Seed Destiny|extended]], they're also [[Psycho Prototype|highly unstable emotionally]], cannot be trusted with any jobs outside of piloting, and have a two hour time limit on combat that is absolutely crippling when it comes to usability. The later versions essentially swap out the better piloting skills for increased loyalty and versatility, and a far longer time limit (they only have to be maintained once a day).

* [[Half the Man He Used To Be]]: Orga {{spoiler|is bisected by Athrun.}}

* [[Horror Hunger]]: The withdrawal symptoms are fatal, and exceedingly painful.

* [[Kick Them While They Are Down]]: A [[Laughing Mad]] Clotho tries to attack the disabled Buster towards the end of the Jachin Due battle. {{spoiler|He's annihilated by Yzak for his trouble}}.

* {{spoiler|[[Killed Off for Real]]}}: All three of them, eventually.

* [[Laughing Mad]]: {{spoiler|Clotho}} following the deaths of {{spoiler|Shani and Orga}} is left a laughing, [[Empty Shell]].

* [[Luckily, My Shield Will Protect Me]]/[[Deflector Shields]]: Shani's Gundam, the Forbidden, incorporates both, in the form of a pair of shields attached to the superstructure that redirect beam weapons away from his Gundam.

* [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast]]: The Calamity, The Raider, and The Forbidden? I think I'm going to be...somewhere else for a while.

* [[Not a Game]]: Clotho seems to have trouble understanding that he isn't playing a video game. He keeps right on killing, not out of patriotism or loyalty, but because he hates to lose.

* [[Peek-a-Bangs]]: Shani's help to enhance his rather emo appearance when he's out of combat.

* [[Psycho Serum]]: Used partly to increase combat performance and partly to ensure loyalty; the effects of withdrawal are ''fatal'', precluding any attempt at desertion.

* [[Psychotic Smirk]]: Orga often features one.

* [[Put the Laughter In Slaughter]]: All of them, but especially Shani.

* [[Restraining Bolt]]: Their [[Psycho Serum]] serves as one. The effects of withdrawal are fatal, firmly anchoring their loyalty to Azrael.

* [[Sanity Slippage]]: A little more with every episode.

* [[Slasher Smile]]: All three, but most frequently Shani.

* [[Slave Mooks]]: They're only loyal to Azrael because they will die without frequent doses of [[Psycho Serum]].

* [[Sore Loser]]: Clotho, who rants about how much he hates to lose at one point. Clearly the boy has spent too much time around Azrael.

* [[Teeth-Clenched Teamwork]]: None of them are team players, which occasionally devolves into them actually fighting ''each other'' instead of their enemy. Orga is rather careless about what he's shooting at, Clotho hates it when his teammates need to hitch a ride on his flight-capable Gundam, and Shani prefers to ignore his teammates' existence entirely during combat. Still, when they do cooperate, it really sucks to be the other guy.

* [[Transforming Mecha]]: Raider switches between a normal MS mode and an almost bird-like flight mode, while The Forbidden features a retractable superstructure and deflector shields.

 

=== Rau Le Creuset ===

 

Athrun's commanding officer and Patrick Zala's right-hand man, Le Creuset is a feared ZAFT ship captain and mobile suit pilot, renowned for his ability and his ruthlessness. He is assigned to hunt down the ''Archangel'', and is later given command of the assaults on Alaska and Panama, and the defence of Jachin Due. Aways masked, Le Creuset is an enigmatic figure with a grudge against Mu La Flaga. He is eventually revealed to be {{spoiler|a clone of Mu La Flaga's father, created to be a perfect "son"}}. This doesn't work out very well; he inherits a serious case of {{spoiler|[[Cloning Blues]], manifesting physically as premature aging due to shortened telomeres}}. This eventually leads him to decide that he is in a uniquely objective position to judge humanity as a whole. He [[Nietzsche Wannabe|finds them wanting]], and decides that {{spoiler|he will [[Omnicidal Maniac|engineer the self-destruction of the entire human race]]}}, a goal he has been working towards since the start of the series. A very dangerous man, Rau originally pilots a series of [[Elite Mook]] mobile suits, but eventually upgrades to the [[Bigger Stick|Providence]].

 

* [[Ace Pilot]]

* [[Arch Enemy]]: To Mu and later Kira.

* [[Broken Ace]]: A villainous example, to say the least.

* [[Bunny Ears Lawyer]]: He's not so much "quirky" as he tends to act on his own initiative more than his superiors might wish. And then there's the whole "constantly wearing a mask" thing. Damned if he doesn't get results, though.

* {{spoiler|[[Cloning Blues]]}}: More psychological than anything else, though see below. He believes that he has no real identity, and a result his sense of self-worth is more than a little damaged.

** {{spoiler|[[Clone Degeneration]]: Rau's telomeres are too short, leaving him effectively dying of old age at 28 years old. He's forced to take increasingly large doses of drugs to counteract this, and is subject to seizures at irregular intervals as his body breaks down.}}

* {{spoiler|[[Death Seeker]]: Wants to die, with the caveat that [[Suicidal Cosmic Temper Tantrum|everyone else goes first]].}}

* {{spoiler|[[Double Agent]]: Serves as ZAFT's best field commander, while passing state secrets along to Azrael. His ultimate goal is for both sides to kill each other off to the point of extinction.}}

* [[The Dragon]]: He acts as Patrick Zala's right hand man, though {{spoiler|he's really a [[Dragon with an Agenda]] and the series' [[Big Bad]]}}.

* [[Evil Counterpart]]: To no fewer than ''three'' characters: Mu (as his {{spoiler|cloned "brother" and fellow [[Mentor]]}}), Kira (they're both results of {{spoiler|[[Genetic Engineering]] experiments}}, with Le Creuset showing how badly Kira could have turned out if he hadn't ben raised by the right people), and Lacus (on a purely philosophical level).

* [[Faux Affably Evil]]

* {{spoiler|[[Freudian Excuse]]: Was cloned by a [[Jerkass]] father whose first words upon seeing his new son were "this is me, right?" Said father went on to [[Parental Abandonment|abandon]] and possibly abuse him. Add in his [[Clone Degeneration]], and the fact that he's a dying man at twenty-eight, and his actions become much more understandable, if not excusable}}.

* [[Go Out with a Smile]]: Well, he ''did'' think {{spoiler|everyone else was going to be following along shortly}}.

* [[Hannibal Lecture]]: Constantly and brutally. Once he gets going he doesn't seem to be able to stop.

* [[Mid-Season Upgrade]]: Le Creuset actually upgrades his suits throughout the show, starting with a Ginn High Manouvere Type, than flying a CGUE, a DINN, and the first of the new GuAIZs. It's not until the finale, however, that he gains a Gundam, in the form of the Providence.

* [[Mighty Glacier]]: Averted. The Providence is big and slow, but the speed with which the Dragoons move more than counterbalances this defect, and as his sword-fight with Kira shows, the suit's still quick where it counts.

* [[Nietzsche Wannabe]]: His life has more or less convinced him that all existence is fundamentally meaningless.

* [[The Obi-Wan]]: In a rare antagonistic example, he acts as Athrun's and Yzak's.

 

=== Athrun Zala ===

 

Kira's former best friend and one of ZAFT's elite pilots, he spends the first half of the show trying to capture Kira and the Strike. Much more cynical than Kira, he considers himself the realist of the two, and believes Kira is being manipulated by the Naturals. He too grow progressively darker and more bitter as the series progresses, culminating in a [[The Gloves Come Off|brutal fight]] between he and Kira in the middle of the series. Afterwards he slowly recovers, {{spoiler|pulls a [[Heel Face Turn]]}}, and ends up dating {{spoiler|Kira's sister, Cagalli}}. Pilots the Aegis and then the Justice.

* [[Arranged Marriage]]: With Lacus Clyne, as set up by their respective fathers. They both seem okay with the arrangement, even if it does {{spoiler|end up becoming a moot point when they both fall for other people}}.

* [[Badass]]: Few of the people in this series can ''survive'' a fight with [[Born Winner|Kira]]. Athrun regularly goes one on one with him, and darn near kills him a couple of times.

* [[The Cynic]]: God yes.

* [[Deuteragonist]]

* [[Gadgeteer Genius]]: Created the Haros and Birdy.

* [[Green Eyes]]

* {{spoiler|[[Heel Face Turn]]}}

* [[Knight in Sour Armour]]: Big time. He's bitter, cynical, and depressed, but he really does want to make the world a better place.

 

=== Yzak Joule ===

 

A member of the Le Creuset team, he's the most bloodthirsty and callous of the group. He has little respect for anyone he considers weak, and absolutely ''zero'' respect for Naturals as a consequence. He's close friends with Dearka, who shares many of his views, and has a developing rivalry with Athrun. He has no particular hate for the Earth Alliance (just contempt) until he's wounded during a battle with the Strike. After the resulting [[Physical Scars, Psychological Scars|scarring]], he develops a massive [[It's Personal|hate-on]] for Kira. Extremely temperamental and impulsive, he's the member of the group most loyal to ZAFT as a whole and Le Creuset personally. Pilots the Duel.

* [[Anti-Villain]]: He's a [[Jerkass]], but his worst [[Kick the Dog]] moments aren't intentional, and he ''does'' really [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold|care about his friends]].

* [[Armour Is Useless]]: Averted. The Armour Shroud saves Yzak's life during his final run-in with [[Super Soldier|Shani Andras]].

* [[Blue Eyes]]

* [[The Brute]]: Of Le Creuset's [[Five-Bad Band]]: he's the most aggressive and bloodthirsty of the team.

* [[Eleventh-Hour Ranger]]

* [[Even Evil Has Standards]]: While not very high standards, he still has them. He is ok with shooting down a fleeing enemy shuttle (after all, the enemy that runs away will come back to fight you another day), but shooting down the enemy when they are helpless and actually trying to surrender? That makes him frown. After all, if you kill surrendering enemies, the rest will fight [[To The Death]], making your job much harder and cost you more casualties.

* [[Fantastic Racism]]

* [[Hair-Trigger Temper]]

* {{spoiler|[[Heel Face Turn]]}}: Sort of. He {{spoiler|aids the Three Ships Alliance}}, but only against the Earth Alliance.

* [[Sour Supporter]]: Of Athrun.

* [[Teens Are Monsters]]: Early on.

* [[White-Haired Pretty Boy]]

 

=== Dearka Elsman ===

 

A member of Athrun's team, he, along with Yzak Joule, formed the darker half of the foursome. Snarky and condescending at times, he eventually {{spoiler|defects to the Three Ships Alliance after being captured mid-show}}, when he realises that {{spoiler|Naturals are people too}}. Pilots the Buster.

* [[Dark-Skinned Blond]]

* [[Deadpan Snarker]]

* {{spoiler|[[Heel Face Turn]]}}

* [[Heterosexual Life Partners]]: With Yzak.

 

=== Nicol Amalfi ===

 

The youngest and most sensitive member of the Le Creuset Team. He looks up to Athrun, but is often bullied by Dearka and (especially) Yzak. He pilots the Blitz, and pulls his weight in combat despite the fact that he's not as skilled as the rest of the team. A genuinely [[Nice Guy]], Nicol's only real character flaw seems to be his belief in [[My Country, Right or Wrong]]. He's eventually {{spoiler|killed by Kira before his climatic battle with Athrun}}.

* [[The Dark Chick]]: On a team consisting of a [[Manipulative Bastard]], a cynical [[The Stoic|stoic]], a [[Hot-Blooded]] [[Jerkass]], and a [[Deadpan Snarker]], Nicol's a genuinely [[Nice Guy]]. Moreover, his caution, use of the Mirage Colloid, and reliance on planning and technology (which would normally make him the [[Evil Genius]]) leave him the odd man out on a team that isn't noted for its sense of tact.

* [[Evil Counterpart]]: Serves a very similar role to Athrun as Tolle does to Kira, though he's not "evil" in any meaningful sense.

* [[Invisibility Cloak]]: His Gundam's Mirage Colloid system.

* [[In the Back]]: Tries it on Kira.

 

=== Lacus Clyne ===

 

The daughter of PLANT Supreme Council Chairman Siegel Clyne, Lacus is an extremely popular [[Idol Singer]] and political activist, and is engaged to her friend Athrun. Early in the series she is picked up by the ''Archangel'' and meets Kira, an event which will come to define the rest of her life. She eventually {{spoiler|abandons ZAFT after her father's assassination, waging a propaganda war (and then a physical one) against Chairman Zala}}. The public face of her father's moderate political stance, the "Clyne Faction", and later {{spoiler|the Three Ships Alliance}}, Lacus is a pleasant, friendly, idealistic girl, who is a heck of a lot smarter than you'd think.

* [[Blue Eyes]]

* [[Celebrity Resemblance]]: Mitsuo Fukuda [[Word of God|said in a 2003 interview]] that Lacus was based on [[Audrey Hepburn]].

* [[Establishing Character Moment]]: Two very important ones early on in the show. First, asking Mu if he knows her father because he mentioned his name, giving us the impression she is ditzy and a little too innocent. The second, and far more important, happens two episodes later, where she reprimands ''Rau'' of all people for trying to start a battle, showing us that she [[Obfuscating Stupidity|is more than she appears.]]

* [[The High Queen]]: Despite not being a queen, only <s>minor royalty</s> the daughter of a democratically elected leader.

* [[Lady and Knight]]: She's the Lady to Kira Yamato's Knight

* [[The Leader]]: Type IV to the Three Ships Alliance.

* [[Martial Pacifist]]: She wants this war over ''now''. And if that means leading her own army against ZAFT and the Earth Forces, so be it.

* [[Missing Mom]]: Unlike Athrun's, hers is simply never mentioned.

** [[Homage Shot]]: Her exit from her escape pod at the end of episode 7 and the beginning of episode 8 was a nod to Lalah Sune's exit from her shuttle in episode 34 of ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam]]''.

* [[Nice Girl]]

 

=== Patrick Zala ===

 

 

* [[Abusive Dad]]: See [["What the Hell?" Dad]], below.

** [[Archnemesis Dad]]

* [[Bad Boss]]: Don't question Patrick's orders. It won't end well.

** [[Non-Action Big Bad]]: Of ZAFT. Patrick may be a military man, but he's never in combat, is only ever shown in a command role and {{spoiler|fails to do a proper job the one time he tries to kill someone}}.

* {{spoiler|[[Blood From the Mouth]]: When he was shot by his subordinate whom he just shot a few seconds back}}

* [[Jumping Off the Slippery Slope]]: First he runs against, and defeats, his old friend and former political ally for the position of PLANT Supreme Council Chairman. Then he {{spoiler|has said friend framed for treason and assassinated}}. It only gets ''worse'' from there.

* {{spoiler|[[Karmic Death]]}}

* [[Love Makes You Evil]]: His [[Start of Darkness]] was his wife Lenore's death.

* [[A Nazi by Any Other Name]]: Brags about Coordinators being a [[Master Race]] that deserves to rule the world? Plots the genocide of his Natural adversaries? Wins an election and then promptly suspends the democratic process? Why yes, he is a Nazi.

* [[Putting on the Reich]]: All of ZAFT does this, but it's most noticeable on Patrick.

* [[Rousing Speech]]: Gives a great (if totally evil) one on the anniversary of the Bloody Valentine.

* [[Smug Snake]]: Fueled by his [[Fantastic Racism]] and belief that Coordinators are a [[Superior Species]].

* [[Start of Darkness]]: It's implied that he was a warmer father figure and a better human being prior to Lenore's death at Junius 7.

 

=== Siegel Clyne ===

 

Siegel Clyne is Lacus's father. He helped found ZAFT with Patrick Zala, and is the PLANT Supreme Council Chairman at the beginning of the series. Leader of the moderate faction of Coordinators, he and his allies believe in coexistence with the Naturals, but they're steadily losing ground to the radical faction favoring all-out war. Eventually voted out of office and replaced by Patrick Zala, he is soon thereafter {{spoiler|assassinated by his successor}}.

 

=== Ezalia Joule ===

 

 

* [[Absurdly Youthful Mother]]: She's 33. Her son, Yzak, is 16. That means she was 17 when she gave birth to him. In real life, it's unlikely for a woman like this to success in politic. In a country with aggressive pro-birth policy, [[Fridge Brilliance|it makes sense]].

 

=== Andrew Waltfeld ===

 

Known as "the Desert Tiger", Waltfeld is a feared ZAFT commander operating in the Libyan desert. He serves as the first major opponent Kira faces other than Athrun and his team, and poses a serious threat to the ''Archangel'' and her crew, despite being a pretty decent guy. Meeting him forces Kira to further reevaluate his moral stance on the war. Apparently {{spoiler|killed in combat with}} Kira, an event that pretty much pushes the kid over the edge, he eventually {{spoiler|resurfaces as the captain of Lacus's ship, the ''Eternal'', and pulls a [[Heel Face Turn]]}}.

 

=== Aisha ===

 

Girlfriend of Andrew Waldfeld, the Desert Tiger, and a capable pilot in her own right. Just as sympathetic a character as Andy, she's rather friendly toward Kira and Cagalli when they encounter each other. She's {{spoiler|killed in action by Kira}}.

* [[Battle Couple]]: With Andy.

* [[Celebrity Voice Actor]]: Vivian Hsu, who [[Do-It-Yourself Theme Tune|sang the second opening]]. [[Fumi Hirano]] is her [[The Other Darrin|Other Darrin]] for the [[Compilation Movie|Special Editions]].

* {{spoiler|[[Disposable Woman]]}}: Played for tragedy.

* [[Expy]]: She's the [[Mobile Suit Gundam|Crowley Hamon]] to Andy's Ramba Ral - though {{spoiler|he ends up outliving her in a reversal from the original series}}.

 

=== Cagalli Yula Athha ===

 

The adopted daughter of {{spoiler|Uzumi Nara Atha, Chief Representative of the Orb Union}}. Also a rebel leader, guerilla soldier, and a capable, if brash, politician. Hates ZAFT and distrusts the Earth Forces. Eventually revealed to be {{spoiler|Kira's twin sister}}. She provides the military backbone of the Three Ships' Alliance. Pilots a Skygrasper and then {{spoiler|the Strike Rouge}}.

 

* [[Badass Adorable]]

* [[Badass Normal]]: Despite being a Natural, she doesn't hesitate to take on Coordinators. Even when they're in mobile suits and the most heavily armed thing she has is a ''jeep''.

* [[Happily Adopted]]: Very much so. Her relationship with Uzumi is incredibly loving, especially compared to what characters like Athrun and Mu have (had) to endure with their actual birth fathers.

* {{spoiler|[[Mad Scientist's Beautiful Daughter]]: Averted. See Kira's entry.}}

* {{spoiler|[[Princesses Prefer Pink]]}}: Well, the Strike Rouge ''is'' pink.

* [[Rebel Leader]]: Leads [[La Résistance|a cell of Arab freedom fighters]] against the Desert Tiger.

* [[Tomboy and Girly Girl]]: The tomboy to Lacus' girly girl

** {{spoiler|[[Tomboy Princess]]}}

* {{spoiler|[[Twincest]]}}: With Kira. Averted just in time.

 

=== Lord Uzumi Nara Attha ===

 

The leader of Orb {{spoiler|and Cagalli's adopted father}}, Lord Izumi is completely dedicated to maintaining Orb's neutral stance. This becomes ever more difficult as the war spirals out of control. Faced with increasing pressure to choose a side in the ZAFT-Earth Alliance conflict, he refuses to compromise his nation's ideals. In the end, he {{spoiler|commits suicide in the process of self-destructing Orb's mass driver to keep it out of the Earth Alliance's hands}}.

== Others ==

=== George Glenn ===

 

The original Coordinator, he gained international fame and fortune excelling at basically everything ever (from professional sports to cutting-edge scientific research), he eventually revealed that his spectacular success was largely due to having been genetically engineered. He released instructions for his enhancement process to the public, inadvertently coining the term "Coordinator" at the same time. Eventually assassinated by Blue Cosmos.

 

=== Reverend Malchio ===

 

A blind monk who is one of the few individuals trusted by both the Earth Alliance and ZAFT, he acts as a mediator on the rare occasions that the two sides get along well enough to discuss anything. Among other things, he also maintains an orphanage on Earth. Responsible for {{spoiler|1=smuggling Kira into the PLANTs after his climatic battle with Athrun}}, he turns out to be a staunch ally of {{spoiler|the Clyne faction}}.

 

=== Al Da Flaga ===

 

Mu La Flaga's deceased father. He considered his son too weak to be his true heir, and is later revealed to have {{spoiler|cloned himself}} in an effort to gain a more worthy successor. He went on to deny {{spoiler|said clone (Le Creuset) any sense of identity}}, which ended with his death in a "mysterious" fire. Whoops.

 

=== Dr. Ulen Hibiki ===

 

A very brilliant and very ambitious scientist who was behind the Ultimate Coordinator project. {{spoiler|He also cloned Al Da Flaga and created Rau Le Creuset (And [[Gundam Seed Destiny|Rey Za Burrel]]. And other cloned kids, who ultimately died). And then we see that the subject of the Ultimate Coordinator project... was one of his kids.}}

 

=== Via Hibiki ===

 

Ulen Hibiki's wife, also implied to be his scientific partner. She ''does'' have standards, though, as she's horrified when he goes too far with his experiments -- {{spoiler|especially if they involve their own babies...}}

* {{spoiler|[[Dead Little Sister|Dead Older Sister]] For Caridad Yamato.}}

* {{spoiler|[[Hot Mom]]: Kira and Cagalli's [[Missing Mom]], who has Cagalli's features and Kira's color scheme.}}

* {{spoiler|[[Give Him a Normal Life]]: She tells her younger sister Caridad to take Kira and Cagalli in, before she dies alongside Ulen and Al Da Flaga.}}

* {{spoiler|[[Posthumous Character]]}}

 

=== Caridad Yamato ===

 

Kira's mother. {{spoiler|Actually, his and Cagalli's maternal aunt, since her older sister was Via Hibiki. She and her husband Haruma raised Kira, while Lord Uzumi of Orb raised Cagalli.}}

 

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