After War Gundam X/Characters

Some or all of these characters need descriptions. A list of tropes is not a description.

The following are the characters of After War Gundam X and the tropes they embody.

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Garrod Ran

• Accidental Pervert: He's watching over Tiffa during the Dolphins arc. Then, unaware of his presence, she strips naked and goes skinny-dipping with the 'phins. Whoops? (She doesn't catch him, though.)
• Badass Normal
• Character Development: He has to learn to be less reckless and interact better with others as time passes.
• Dogged Nice Guy: A little, towards Tiffa.
• Expy: He and Judau Ashta have a fair bit in common.
• Falling Into the Cockpit
• Green Eyes
• Hot-Blooded
• Idiot Hero: He starts out as this, but drops it more and more as the series progresses.
• Kidanova: Both Tiffa and Ennil have feelings for him. Some fans would add Pala as well.
• Kid Hero
• Loners Are Freaks: His inability to connect adequately with people causes him quite the trouble at first; Ennil is one of them, as she genuinely liked Garrod before It Got Worse...
• Lovable Rogue
• The Messiah
• Street Urchin: He's hinted to have spent some time as one after he lost his father and only relative at an early age.
• Wataru Takagi

Tiffa Adill

• Barrier Maiden: As a Newtype.
• Betty and Veronica The Betty to Ennil's Veronica
• Blue Eyes: Representing innocence.
• Character Development: Similarly to Garrod, Tiffa has to gradually learn that she can't be alone all the time.
• Expository Hairstyle Change: Tiffa temporarily lets her Rapunzel Hair down and loose when possessed by Lucille Lilliant
• Fainting Seer She can see the future. And almost anything she sees is, well, not pleasing. After Tiffa helps Garrod use the Satellite Cannon for the first time, she has an epic Heroic BSOD; Jamil explains to Garrod that this happened because she, among other things, can sense the pain and death of people in the battlefield. OUCH.
• Friend to All Living Things and Innocent Fanservice Girl: Newtype dolphins ring a bell?
• Ill Girl: Played with. Though Tiffa's a bit delicate, the one time she was seriously about to die happened when Olba Frost, right after her Heroic BSOD in the beginning, injects her with poison.
• Hime Cut
  • Letting Her Hair Down: Only once, though: when possessed by Lucille's spirit.
• The Messiah
• Mika Kanai
  • Playing Against Type: She normally plays Genki Girl characters. Meaning, she would've normally played Pala or maybe even Toniya here...
• Mysterious Waif
• Rapunzel Hair
• Precognition: The bulk of Tiffa's powers.
  • Seers: Her other one.
• Shrinking Violet and Shy Blue-Haired Girl
  • Proper Lady: As she starts shredding her phobia of people away.
• Soul Jar (For Lucille, briefly)
• Wise Beyond Their Years

Jamil Neate

• A Father to His Men
• Badass
• Cheerful Child: When young. But after the Colony Drop, he becomes...
  • Broken Bird: As an adult, and one of the rare male examples.
• Composite Character: Mix one part Zeta-era Amuro Ray, one part post-Zeta Kamille Bidan, one part Quattro Bajeena and one part Bright Noah in a blender and set to liquefy. Add Hotblooded Sideburns to the result.
• Dark and Troubled Past
• Good Scars, Evil Scars Has one across his eye, covered by his shades)
• Hey, It's That Voice!: Kenyuu Horiuchi aka "Mashmyer Cello"
• Hotblooded Sideburns: He had those even as a kid!
  • Somewhat subverted, as he's not that Hot-Blooded on the outside. Played straight when he overcomes his cockpit phobia and returns to piloting MS.
• Kid Hero Used to be one... and it psychologically scarred him to the point that he simply could not pilot a mobile suit for 15 years.
• Likes Older Women: Somewhat in his backstory. Unfortunately, All Love Is Unrequited. And she was was sealed in a capsule.
• Shell-Shocked Veteran
• Sixth Ranger: When he returns to action.
• Sunglasses at Night: He ditches his Cool Shades at series' end, though.
• Supporting Leader
• Team Dad
• The Stoic
• Zen Survivor

Sala Tyrrell

• Armor-Piercing Slap: Uses it at least once against Garrod.
• Clingy Jealous Girl: She showed jealousy towards Tiffa at first and was rather curious about what Lucille meant for Jamil, but she eventually got over it.
• Good-Looking Privates
• Magic Skirt
• Playing Against Type: This was the debut role of a then barely teenaged Yumi Kakazu. Yes, THAT Yumi Kakazu.
• Sexy Secretary
• Subordinate Excuse: To Jamil
• Team Mom: Tries to be this, but doesn't always succeed.
• Yumi Kakazu: Debut role.

Roybea Roy

• Alliterative Name: Unless you think his last name is "Loy"
• Badass Long Hair
• Bishonen
• The Casanova: Though an admirably well-intentioned one.
• Chivalrous Pervert: Is a Casanova, yeah, but he genuinely cares for every single girl he pursues: a Girl Next Door, an Ill Girl, a dead lady who gave him his Gundam and is hinted to be his first great love, the Femme Fatale from La Résistance who is shot to death and perishes in his arms, Sala whom he'd rather let go to Jamil, the guy she loves, than losing her friendship and respect and Ennil whom he hooks up with in the end.
• Gatling Good: The Leopard Gundam comes equipped with two of these—one on the wrist and the other carried as a weapon.
• Hey, It's That Voice!: Takumi Yamazaki aka "George de Sand"
• Ladykiller in Love: He eventually gets hit with this.
• The Lancer: To Garrod, in battle.
• Lightning Bruiser: The Leopard is very fast, and very heavily armed/armoured. What stops it from reaching Game Breaker status is that it cannot fly.
• More Dakka: With built in gatling guns, grenade launchers and missiles, Roy's Leopard is set to do some damage.
  • Macross Missile Massacre: Why settle for bullets, when you can also unload every conveivable missile type on the planet.
• Second Love: With/to Ennil
• Sensitive Guy and Manly Man: With Witz.
• Spell My Name with an "S": Roybea Roy? Loybea Loy? Roybea Loy? Loybea Roy?
• Walking Armoury: Even for a Gundam, the Leopard is loaded for bear.

Witz Su

• The Big Guy: In battle.
• Dead Little Sister: Better said, dead father and little brother.
• The Dutiful Son: Has problems with his mother because he refuses to be one.
• Hot-Blooded
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Let's not forget the mobile-suit sized stash of gold he drops off to his family so they can have a good life until he comes back home
• Kazuya Nakai: Debut role, even! He really put his gunz on...
• Transforming Mecha

Toniya Marme

• Bridge Bunny
• Cool Big Sis (to Tiffa and Garrod)
• Dark-Skinned Blond
• Kotono Mitsuishi
• Ms. Fanservice
• Shipper on Deck: Actively supports Garrod's romantic attempts towards Tiffa.

Shingo Mouri

• Bridge Bunnies
• Daiki Nakamura
• Mission Control
• Nice Guy
• Non-Action Guy
• Ridiculously Average Guy
• Shipper on Deck: Garrod/Tiffa fanboy.

Dr. Tex Farzenberg

• Badass Pacifist: While he takes his profession's oath to "do no harm" seriously, he and Ennil manage to incapacitate and escape from the UNE forces at one point, using a faux Fan Service scene.
• Frontier Doctor
• Non-Action Guy
• The Medic
• Spell My Name with an "S"
• Warrior Therapist

Kid Salsamille

• Cross-Dressing Voices (his seiyuu is Motoko Kumai, who also voiced Li Syaoran)
• Gadgeteer Genius
• Motoko Kumai
• Mr. Fixit
• Non-Action Guy
• Shipper on Deck: Another Garrod/Tiffa shipper.
• Teen Genius
• The Smart Guy

Ennil El

• Action Girl
• Alliterative Name
• Badass Normal: Did we mention her signature machine is a customized Jenice, and she manages to be a very tough opponent it it?
• Bare Your Midriff
• Betty and Veronica: The Veronica to Tiffa's Betty.
• Broken Bird
• Crazy Prepared: Hid a flashbang in her Victoria Secret Department at some point in case she'd ever need it.
• Distaff Counterpart: To Ramba Ral. See expy, below.
• Expy: Blue machine? Bonds with a protagonist over drinks? Connections to the Space Colonies due to her father being a high-ranking war hero? Ennil is either this series's equivalent to Ramba Ral or her Disappeared Dad Nada El was this series's equivalent to Ramba Ral.
• Femme Fatale
• If It's You It's Okay: Despite her outward appearance, is very selective of her sexual interests. Had a genuine sexual interest in Garrod, and due to his hideously awful trust issues, he pulled a gun on her instead. Took her quite awhile to get over that.)
• Ms. Fanservice: Dark Action Girl style before her Heel Face Turn.
• Playing Against Type: Voiced by Chieko Honda aka Elpeo Puru.
• Sixth Ranger
• Stripperiffic
• Tomboy and Girly Girl: With Toniya.
• Woman in Black: Or dark blue?
• Yandere: Briefly, but she gets better.

Pala Sys

• Action Girl
• Genki Girl
• Miki Nagasawa
• Plucky Girl
• Shorttank
• Spell My Name with an "S" Pala, Paula, Perla...?
• Tomboy and Girly Girl: With Tiffa.
• Wrench Wench

Carris Nautilus

• The Atoner
• Bishonen: To the point of Viewer Gender Confusion.
• Blond Guys Are Evil: Or start out that way in his case.
• Blue Eyes
• Ill Boy: He is an artificial Newtype, and boy does it suck to be one. He does, however, seem to accept his fate by series' end.
• Playing Against Type: Yuko Mizutani.
• "The Reason You Suck" Speech: To Garrod
• Suicide by Cop: Attempted, by pointing an unloaded gun at Garrod in an attempt to atone for his sins. He gets better
• The Smart Guy: When he joins the group.
• Super Soldier
• Teens Are Monsters: At first.
• Tyke Bomb
• Utopia Justifies the Means
• Well-Intentioned Extremist: He genuinely wants to bring peace to the world. But the means he'll use are... rather extreme.

Lucille Lilliant

• Alliterative Name
• And I Must Scream: Kept inside a capsule, in a forcibly induced coma, for 15 years.
• Barrier Maiden
• Cool Big Sis: To young Jamil
• Fan Disservice: She's seen naked during the whole time she's been locked inside her capsule. While Lucille's extremely beautiful and we don't see stuff usually related to Fan Disservice (fluids, blood, Guro, etc.), it's not fanservicy because as mentioned above, she's basically unconscious all the time and the circumstances surrounding her nudity are terrible..
• Girl in a Box
• Grand Theft Me: A rare heroic example.
• Mika Kanai. Yup, Tiffa's seiyuu. Justified in-story: when she takes control of Tiffa's body, her thoughts and psychic link to Jamil are heard in Tiffa's voice.
• Rapunzel Hair
  • Hair of Gold: Was a beautiful blonde woman.
  • Hime Cut

Lancerow Dawell

• The Ace
• Anti-Villain
• Badass
  • Badass Long Hair: Check out that ponytail.
• Bishonen: A less extreme case than many on the show.
• Char Clone: Averted. He's got a lot in common with MSG Char, but lacks the blond hair, sunglasses/mask, and jackassery associated with most of them.
• Evil Redhead
• Expy: Of Char Aznable. Specifically, his Mobile Suit Gundam incarnation. Take a look at the Febral.
  • Also a Palette Swap of Treize Khushrenada.
• Good-Looking Privates
• Significant Green-Eyed Redhead
• Heel Face Turn
  • Eleventh-Hour Ranger
• Punch Clock Villain
• The Rival: To young Jamil
• Worthy Opponent: To Jamil and Garrod, albeit briefly.
• Zen Survivor

Major Nomoa Long

• Driven to Suicide: With his project in ruins, Nomoa decides to kill himself rather than surrender to Garrod.
• Evilutionary Biologist
• For Science!
• High-Class Glass
• Lack of Empathy
• Mad Scientist: He's the one behind the Cyber Newtype project in this universe, making Carris what the is today.
• Majorly Awesome: Averted hard.
• The Man Behind the Man: To Carris.
• Manipulative Bastard: Preys on Carris' hopes of saving the world in order to get him to do what he wants.
• Officer and a Gentleman: Subverted. Nomoa has the rank and the look one associates with this (complete with High-Class Glass), but is one of the most flat out evil characters in the show.
• Revenge: Seeks vengeance on both United Nations Earth and the Space Revolutionary Army for abandoning him and ignoring his research.
• Smug Snake: As standard for Gundam's evil scientists.

Shagia Frost

• Badass Longcoat
• Beta Test Baddie: He's a Category F Newtype and resents everyone with greater talents and stronger Psychic Powers.
• Big Bad: Takes on this role by the end. At times he and Olba seem to be a Big Bad Duumvirate, although Shagia is undoubtedly the senior partner.
• Bishonen
• Blue Eyes
• The Chessmaster
• Chronic Backstabbing Disorder: Probably the biggest example in the whole Gundam franchise, which is saying a lot.
• Combination Attack: He and Olba do this frequently.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: His love for his brother is one of his few humanising traits.
• Final Solution: All Newtypes must die.
• Freudian Excuse The reason why he and Olba wanted to start a war that would kill everybody? They're mad at the world for being considered worthless failures, as they were born as Category Fs and not "proper" Newtypes. This leads them to despise the very concept of Newtypes as inherently superior humans.
• I Just Want to Be Special: A part of his Freudian Excuse.
• Karma Houdini:He's crippled but still alive at the end.
• Manipulative Bastard
• Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: Kills the only two people who really wanted a war.
• Nietzsche Wannabe
• Psychic Link: With Olba.
  • Twin Telepathy
• The Resenter: Towards Newtypes and all those who support them.
• Sibling Team
  • Siblings in Crime
• Smug Snake: Whether Shagia is one of these, or a genuine Magnificent Bastard is a matter of some contention among the fanbase.
• The Starscream
• Teens Are Monsters: He's 19.
• Those Two Bad Guys: Initially this is how he and Olba come off. They're actually far more dangerous than that.
• Toshiyuki Morikawa
• Villainous Breakdown: AND HOW!
• War for Fun and Profit: Shagia sees the war as a way to quietly exterminate all Newtypes and those who believe in them, making himself and Olba look better in comparison.

Olba Frost

• Ax Crazy
• Beta Test Baddie: He and Shagia feel that the existence of Newtypes has led to their own talents being overlooked.
• Big Brother Instinct: Inverted: he's the younger one.
  • Nozomu Sasaki (Olba's seiyuu) even got sick of saying the phrase "nii-san" (big brother) when the series finally ended.
• Bishonen
• Blue Eyes
• Combination Attack: Often.
• The Dragon: To Shagia; at times they're closer to a Big Bad Duumvirate, though with Olba as the junior partner.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Shagia is probably the only person on earth that Olba gives a damn out.
• Final Solution: Like Shagia, Olba wants a Newtype genocide.
• Freudian Excuse
• I Just Want to Be Special
• Karma Houdini:Survives the end of the show unscathed, although he does have to watch his brother get crippled.
• Nietzsche Wannabe
• Psychic Link: With Shagia
  • Twin Telepathy
• Psycho Supporter: Of his brother. In addition to being an Axe Crazy Nietzsche Wannabe, Olba's brother complex is so strong that he more or less subordinates his entire identity towards making his brother's dreams become a reality.
• The Resenter: Of Newtypes, their fans, and the rest of the world.
• Sibling Team
  • Siblings in Crime
• Smug Snake
• Teens Are Monsters: Also 19.
• Those Two Bad Guys: Initially this is how he and Shagia come off. They're actually far more dangerous than that.
• Undying Loyalty: To his older brother.
• War for Fun and Profit
• "Well Done, Son" Guy: Really, really wants to have his beloved older brother's approval.
• Yandere: Apparently, one of the rare male examples. Could be a case of Never Live It Down, though.

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