Monday, January 24, 2011

Characters: Mobile Suit Gundam Wing

Characters: Mobile Suit Gundam Wing

The Character Sheet for the best-known-in-America Gundam series, Gundam Wing.


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    Gundam Pilots 

Heero Yuy alias Odin Lowe Jr.

Voice Actors: Hikaru Midorikawa (Japanese), Mark Hildreth (English), Manuel Campusano (Latin America)

"Mission complete."

The male lead of Gundam Wing, and the pilot of the titular Wing Gundam. Known as the "Perfect Soldier", Heero was trained as a soldier since his childhood (and even more after the death of his father, Odin Lowe, and would even risk his life to accomplish his mission. Despite being initially portrayed as The Stoic, his encounter with Relena Darlian would change his life forever.
  • The Atoner: Ever since he accidentally killed a little girl he had befriended and her puppy.
  • Badass
  • BFG
  • Bishie Sparkle: Episode 26.
  • Blue Eyes: Prussian blue, actually.
  • Catch Phrase:
    Heero: Mission accepted.
    Heero: Mission complete.
    HeeroI'll kill you./I'll destroy you. (in the Toonami edit; it's left uncensored in the Midnight Run version).
  • Celebrity Resemblance: The creators said that Heero was designed after actress Yuki Uchida.
  • Character AlignmentTrue Neutral —> Chaotic Good
  • Character Derailment: Some fans started accusing Frozen Teardrop of this. Some time after Endless Waltz, Heero apparently went on a rampage and killed many people; when he was finally caught, Preventer put him in cryo-stasis, knowing full well that it would likely damage his memory. And then after he's thawed, Wu Fei orders him to kill Relena.
  • Character Development: Starts quite unemotional, but develops more genuine care for people.
  • Code Name
  • Crossover Ship: Gets paired with Kawarou Nagisa in a Super Robot Wars 4koma.
  • Crowning Moment Of Awesome: His "I Will Survive!" speech before blasting the last remaining debris from the Libra that's hitting Earth.
  • Death Seeker: He gets better.
  • Friend To All Living Things: He likes playing with dogs and the official artwork has him smiling as he plays with a weasel.
  • The Hero: No Pun intended.
  • Heroic Sacrifice: He does this several times, most notably when Lady Une threatens to destroy the colonies with missles and, of course, the series finale. He survives each time. (He probably has to or the story wouldn't move.)
  • Heterosexual Life Partners: With Quatre, during the second part of the series.
    • It could also define his relationship with Duo pretty well, alongside Odd Friendship.* Ho Yay: Fans love to pair him up with Duo, despite the fact that said pairing is virtually non-existent and non-canon throughout the entire series (including the official mangas) - and Duo actually seems to be rooting for Heero/Relena.
    • There is a little more room for him and Trowa, though, as they get along well and co-work nicely. Trowa seems to have more Ho Yay going on with Quatre, tho.
    • Foe Yay: With Zechs.
    • Heero and Trowa do get to wear military uniforms, and in Heero's case it's an OZ cadet one when he spies on Queen Relena.
  • Human PopsicleFrozen Teardrop reveals that while the other Gundam pilots are already middle-aged adults, Heero is still a "boy" because he has been frozen in a cold hibernation capsule.
  • Implausible Fencing Powers
  • Ineffectual Death Threats: Heero is pretty much the poster boy for this trope.
  • Indy Ploy: Heero isn't big on forward planning, but he can improvise like nobody's business.
  • Intergenerational Friendship: With a little girl and her puppy. It ended tragically sad to say..
  • Made Of Iron: More like made of Gundanium. He's tougher than his freaking mech.
  • Magnetic Hero: Earns the respect of the other Gundam pilots (who accept him as a sorta-leader) and the Worthy Opponent Zechs.
  • Mid Season Upgrade (Upgrades to the Endless Waltz version of his Mobile Suit in Super Robot Wars 64 if you fill out all the bars of the Wing Zero Custom.)
  • Mukokuseki: While his eyes are somewhat more slanted than other characters', Heero has brown hair and blue eyes even though he is supposed to be Japanese, whereas the Chinese Wufei is much more obviously Asian in appearance. May be justified due to Heero being only half-Japanese at most, as explained in Frozen Teardrop which says that Hitman With A Heart Odin Lowe was his biological dad..
  • My Hero Zero: Well, Heero's Mid Season Upgrade Gundam is called Wing Zero.
  • Named After Somebody Famous: in-universe, and there's a little bit of irony...
  • Never Live It DownTries to kill himself only twice.
    • Twice is kind of a lot, when it's suicide. Still fits the profile of the trope, though.
    • The amount of undisguised suicide attempts may be only two, but he also tended to use relatively minor setbacks to inflict unnecessary damage to himself. There was absolutely no reason for him to stay on top of the hatch when he blew up Wing. Just saying. People do seem awfully quick to forget his big "I WILL SURVIVE!" during the finale, though.
    • There's only two true suicide attempts in the series, maybe, but in Episode Zero he attempts to shoot himself in the head to atone for the deaths of the little girl and puppy he killed, only to be interrupted by Doctor J.
    • Guess that makes him an Heero.
    • It really depends on which times you count. For the unarguable ones, the time in Episode Zero is clearly one, hitting the kill switch on his suit when Relena finds him on the beach is two, and standing on the Wing's hatch when it self destructs is three. But his reputation also comes from the more ambiguous events, such as allowing himself to pass out when he lands face down in the water after firing the torpedoes at his Gundam, waiting much too long to deploy his parachute when he jumps out the window of a hospital, and going around to all the relatives of one of his victims asking them to kill him. Counting them all brings it up to a total of five, plus an indeterminate number more.
  • Numerical Theme Naming: "Heero" is derived from hitotsu, "one" in Japanese; "Yuy" is derived from yuitsu, "alone" or "only". In other words, Heero Yuy- "the one and only".
    • Lampshaded by Doctor J somewhat in the CG short Gundam Evolve 7- where he tells Relena that Heero was 'number one' and 'exceeded all expectations', then remembering to himself his christening of the boy as 'Heero Yuy'. This troper can only hope he's aware of his own pun...
  • Official Couple: The Yaoi Fangirls will fight it to their last breath, but every single sidestory supports 1xR. And these sidestories are all written by members of the anime's writing staff.
  • Pint Sized Powerhouse
  • Popularity Power: To date, Heero remains the most popular character in the series, with him constantly appearing in Gundam Ace's "Top 30 Male Characters" poll (with him usually appearing in the Top 10), and in Newtype magazine's "Top 30 Male Characters of the 90s" poll, he ranked #6.
  • Robeast (the Zonder turns him into one in a 4koma)
  • Say My Name: "Relena!"
  • Sensual Spandex
  • Shipper On Deck: He's awfully focused on helping Quatre find Trowa after Quatre's Roaring Rampage Of Revenge, even going so far as to tell Quatre that he can't fight until he finds Trowa again.
  • Sleeves Are For Wimps
  • The Stoic --> Hitman With A Heart and Kuudere
  • Super Soldier: Doctor J and Odin Lowe raised him from a Child Soldier and then turned him into this, complete with super strength, computer hacking, sabotage and demolition, mobile suit piloting, and espionage skills.
  • Talking To Himself (In Super Robot Wars F, Super Robot Wars F Final, Super Robot Wars Alpha and Super Robot Wars Alpha Gaiden with Masaki Andoh. It led to a save-quit skit where Masaki imitates Heero under an unknown character portarait, but Heero tells him to cut it out.)
    Masaki (Behind unknown character portrait): So this is where it ends... But don't forget that your mission is still unfinished. 
    Heero: What are you trying to pull, Masaki? 
    Masaki: Geh! Didn't see you there Heero... Well, then! Catch you guys later!

  • Take A Third OptionWhen given the choice of surrendering his Gundam or allowing the colonies to be attacked, he chooses to self-destruct Wing instead.
    • Happens again in Episode Zero- Doctor J gives him the orders for Operation Meteor, in option form- to go along with the plan, to escape, or...a third option. Guess which one he takes.

  • Tall Dark And Snarky: Minus the "Tall".

  • Theme Naming: In addition to the numerical theme, his name was intentionally designed to be evocative of Amuro Ray's.

  • Transforming Mecha: The Wing and Wing Zero Gundams.

  • Trouser Space: Guess where he keeps his gun...


Duo Maxwell

Voice Actors: Toshihiko Seki (Japanese), Scott McNeil (English), Eric Osorio (Latin America)

"I might run and hide, but I never tell a lie."

The pilot of the Gundam Deathscythe.

Trowa Barton

Voice Actors: Shigeru Nakahara (Japanese), Kirby Morrow (English), Arturo Siann Vidal (Latin America)


"'Those who have laid eyes on a Gundam shall not live to tell about it.' Those are the orders I have been given."

The pilot of the Gundam Heavyarms.

Quatre Raberba Winner

Voice Actors: Ai Orikasa (Japanese), Brad Swaile (English), Luis Tenorio (Latin America)


"You're afraid to die, aren't you guys? Well, then you shouldn't be fighting at all!"

The pilot of the Gundam Sandrock, Quatre is the heir to the Winner estate. He is also the co-leader of the Maganac Corps. Despite being a Gundam pilot, he is actually a kind-hearted person.

Chang Wufei

Voice Actors: Ryuzou Ishino (Japanese), Ted Cole (English), Jose Gilberto Vilchis (Latin America)

"Fighting a weak enemy always makes me feel so empty afterwards."

The pilot of the Shenlong Gundam, Wufei is driven by his warrior's pride, and would fight in the name of justice.

    Other Major Characters 

Relena Darlian (Relena Peacecraft)

Voice Actors: Akiko Yajima (Japanese), Lisa Ann Beley (English), Mireya Mendoza (Latin America)

"My name... my name is Relena Darlian. What's yours...?"

The female lead of Gundam Wing, Relena Darlian is the daughter of Vice-Foreign Minister Darlian, an influential politician from the United Earth Sphere Alliance. At the beginning of the series, she was portrayed as a reserved and shy girl who was only seen among her peers as "the richest girl in school", until a chance encounter with Heero Yuy changed her life forever.

Zechs Merquise (Milliardo Peacecraft)

Voice Actors: Takehito Koyasu (Japanese), Brian Drummond (English)

"My hands are too stained with blood. I'm completely unfit to head the Peacecraft monarchy. But I'm sure she would be able to head the country... as you'd intended."

Zechs Merquise is a high-ranking OZ soldier and the main rival of Heero Yuy. He is known among OZ as the "Lightning Baron" (later the "Lightning Count"). His mask actually hides his secret past: he is actually Milliardo Peacecraft, Relena's older brother and King Peacecraft's son.

Treize Khushrenada

Voice Actors: Ryotaro Okiayu (JP), David Kaye (EN), Luis Tenorio (SP)


The charismatic leader of OZ and Zechs's best friend.

Lucrezia Noin

Voice Actors: Chisa Yokoyama (Japanese), Saffron Henderson (English)



Lady Une

Voice Actors: Sayuri Yamauchi (Japanese), Enuka Okuma (English)



Dorothy Catalonia

Voice Actors: Naoko Matsui (Japanese), Cathy Weseluck (English), Angelica Diaz (Latin America)


"Hurry up and start a war!"

The granddaughter of Romefeller Chairman Duke Dermail, Dorothy Catalonia is the polar opposite of Relena; while Relena follows her family's philosophy of total pacifism, Dorothy fully embraces war.

Mariemaia Khushrenada

Voice Actors: Rei Sakuma (Japanese), Maggie Blue O'Hara (English)


"History is much like an endless waltz. The three beats of war, peace, and revolution continue on forever. However, history will change upon the day of my coronation."

The daughter of Treize Khushrenada, Mariemaia is one of the main antagonists of Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz, who believes that she's the rightful heir to the Earth Sphere Unified Nation. She is also the co-leader of her namesake army, the Mariemaia Army.

Dekim Barton

A former associate of the original Heero Yuy, Dekim Barton is the main villain of Endless Waltz. He is the co-leader of the Mariemaia Army, as well as the leader of the Barton Foundation.

    Other Characters 

Catherine Bloom



Sally Po

Voice Actors: Yumi Touma (Japanese), Moneca Stori (English, first), Samantha Ferris (English, second)



Hilde Schbeiker

Voice Actors: Kae Araki (Japanese), Marcy Goldberg (English)



Gundam Scientists


The five Gundam Scientists, Doctor J, Professor G, Doktor S, Instructor H, and Master O, were known as the creators of the five Gundams. Before that, they were the creators of the Tallgeese, the first mobile suit, and the Wing Zero, the mobile suit that the five Gundams were based on.

Howard



Duke Dermail



Colonel Tsubarov



Quinze

A former associate of the original Heero Yuy, Quinze is the co-leader and founder of the colonial rebel faction, White Fang, who seeks to declare war on Earth.

Otto

Voice actors: Toshiyuki Morikawa (Japanese)

"Long live... KING ZECHS!"


Lieutenant Nichol

Voice actors: Toshiyuki Morikawa (Japanese)



Vice-Foreign Minister Darlian and Mrs. Darlian



Zayeed "Master" Winner


Quatre's father and the patriarch of the Winner family. He has a strained relationship with Quatre, when he forgoes his family's pacifist beliefs to become a Gundam pilot.

Dr. Iria Winner


Katherine Winner



Field Marshall Noventa



General Septem



Sylvia Noventa

Voice actors: Kumiko Nishihara (Japanese)



The Maganac Corps


The Maganac Corps are a mercenary/resistance faction founded by Rashid. They would assist Quatre during their missions.

The Little Girl And Her Dog



Leia Barton



The Real Trowa Barton



Sister Helen and Father Maxwell



Odin Lowe



Long Meiran aka Nataku



Midii Une



King Peacecraft


The monarch of the Sanc Kingdom and the father of Princess Relena and Prince Milliardo (AKA Zechs Merquise). He adopted Heero Yuy's Total Pacifism beliefs for Earth and developed a diplomatic relationship with Heero. On AC 182, King Peacecraft was killed along with the royal family during the Alliance's invasion of the Sanc Kingdom, except for the two children.

The Real Heero Yuy


The charismatic leader of the colonies, the original Heero Yuy was the creator of the Total Pacifism philosophy, encouraging its citizens it peacefully oppose the United Earth Sphere Alliance. His philosophy was later adopted on Earth by the Peacecraft family, who would later develop a diplomatic relationship with Heero Yuy. Yuy's assassination on April 7, AC 175 would throw the colonies into chaos.

1 comment:

  1. Zechs was not "killed off for real" in "Frozen Teardrop". A fake, potentially a clone, was shot instead of him. This is clearly revealed in the story. Please go read this part. BTW, I would add "cute bruiser" to Quatre's list. And Relena's hair is not Brown-blond. It's dark blond, to be specific.

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