This is a list of fictional characters from the Japanese anime television series, Mobile Suit Gundam 00, the eleventh incarnation of the Gundam media franchise.
Celestial Being Gundam Meisters The series focuses on the four mobile suit pilots of the paramilitary organization Celestial Being. The pilots, referred to as , pursue the complete eradication of armed conflict mainly through the deployment of the revolutionary Gundam units in aggressive armed interventions.
Setsuna F. Seiei is the primary protagonist of the series and was discovered by Celestial Being at the age of 16 for having special potential as a pilot. He is currently a Gundam Meister and pilots Gundam Exia, specialized in melee combat. Setsuna's real name is ( Suran Ibrahim); with Setsuna F. Seiei being his codename. He was once a child soldier of Kurdish descent in the war-torn Krugis Republic. During this time, he murdered his own parents under Ali Al-Saachez's influence in order to prove his devotion to God, and hence bears a deep hatred towards Saachez. Due to his previous religious brainwashing (and awakening from it), Setsuna claims he no longer believes in God, yet still debates the role of God in people's lives, suggesting that he would like to believe in God. After going into hiding at the end of the first season, Setsuna reappears four years later and rejoins Celestial Being as the pilot of 00 Gundam during his fight with the Innovators and then 00 QAN[T] during his battle with the ELS. Disappearing at the end of the fight, Setsuna F. Seiei reappears decades later. Throughout the series he had a connection with Marina Ismail, though whether or not the connection was romantic was never truly explored, as it seems (from certain flashbacks) that Marina reminds him of his beloved mother whom he had to kill to join Ali Al-Saachez's guerrilla group when he was a child. Both deny romantic feelings when asked; nevertheless Marina is one of the most important people for Setsuna. Feldt Grace openly displayed romantic feelings for him in the movie. His last appearance is shown 50 years after his departure, paying a visit to a now elderly Marina Ismail who is almost blind, and she bursts into tears as soon as she hears his voice. Setsuna is shown to have become a Human-ELS hybrid and he seems to have not aged since he left.
Neil Dylandy is the first Lockon Stratos who decided to join Celestial Being because his parents and younger sister were killed in a terrorist bombing. As the eldest pilot, he sports a more easy-going, flamboyant personality as compared to the other Gundam Meisters. He owns an orange Haro to help pilot the Gundam Dynames and has a personal feud with Ali Al-Saachez, who plotted the terrorist bombing that caused the death of his family. He acts as the leader of the team, becoming the closest friend to both Setsuna and Tieria, and lost his aiming eye shielding Tieria. Despite being injured, he searched for revenge against Ali Al-Saachez, and succeeds in shooting down Saachez's machine at the cost of his own life. His death is one of the biggest impacts to Setsuna and prompts him to "change" as Neil could not (which would develop into Setsuna becoming the first true Innovator). After being killed at the climax of the first season, his younger twin brother Lyle Dylandy chooses to take up the title of Lockon Stratos and becomes the pilot of the Cherudim Gundam.
First seen in episode 9 of the first season visiting the grave site of his family. Four years after the death of Neil Dylandy, Setsuna F. Seiei recruits Neil's twin brother, Lyle, to become the new Lockon Stratos and pilot of the Cherudim Gundam. He is shown to be easy-going like his brother, but continues to struggle with distinguishing himself from Neil. He becomes romantically interested in the Innovator Anew Returner until she is killed by Setsuna, who was protecting Lyle from her in a brainwashed state. Originally a double agent from the anti-government organization Katharon, Lyle leaves Katharon and becomes a full-time member of Celestial Being at the end of the second season. During the events of the movie, Lyle pilots the Gundam Zabanya during the fight with the ELS. While Dynames and Cherudim both have a sniping scope trigger, Zabanya doesn't, as the first two were designed with Neil's Sniping Style, while Lyle is more of a "happy trigger" (despite the fact that his on-hit per shot ratio is incredibly high).
Allelujah Haptism spent his childhood as an orphan in the Human Reform League as a Super Soldier experimental subject in a supersoldier project, designated "E-57", while his true name is forgotten, he is "baptised" by Marie Parfacy as "Allelujah" when they met for the first time when they were children at the Super Soldier Institute (at that moment Marie had lost her five senses so she was bedridden and could only communicate using her quantum brainwaves, with E-57 being the very first person who could hear and answer her, she gives him that name stating that they should be grateful to be alive). While generally gentle and rational compared to the other Gundam Meisters, the experiments and trauma of killing his fellow subjects in order to survive during their escape gone awry caused him to manifest a second personality in the form of , a bloodthirsty and outright sadistic personality. He is the pilot of Gundam Kyrios and later Gundam Arios, as well as one of the pilots of Gundam Harute, all of which specialize in high mobility and are able to transform into fighter jets. Allelujah's rival in combat is another subject of the Super Soldier program, Soma Peries whom he shared a deep connection with that Hallelujah realized long before he did. Though Allelujah managed to reach common ground with his alter ego to reach his full potential as a super soldier (Allelujah manages the tactical side of the battle, while Hallelujah manages the combat reflexes), Hallelujah "died" in battle against Soma as Allelujah recognizes Soma as Marie Parfacy, a fact that Hallelujah knew and kept hidden to protect Allelujah so he would continue to fight for their survival. Allelujah is captured and imprisoned during the four-year time-skip between both seasons, and ends up being rescued by his companions after the other three Meisters reunite. During his subsequent encounters with Soma, she reverts to being Marie, and Allelujah convinces her to join Celestial Being, with the two becoming lovers. During moments that he is near 00 Raiser's Trans-Am System, the Hallelujah persona resurfaces, and it is shown later that after being exposed to Setsuna's Trans-Am Burst the Hallelujah persona was fully restored and "resurrected". Despite Hallelujah acting like a bloodthirsty psychopath, he only acts when Allelujah is in danger of dying, acting as a last resort self-defense mechanism. While Hallelujah shouldn't be able to care for Marie (as a psychopath can't feel empathy), he does care for Allelujah's physical and emotional well-being, and will take over to ensure that Allelujah will be able to protect Marie. As with Soma Peries, it is shown that Hallelujah could easily take over the body and become the main personality but chose not to, preferring to remain in a dormant state. In the series aftermath, Allelujah and Marie have apparently left Celestial Being to find their place in the world. During the events of the movie, Allelujah and Marie rejoin Celestial Being to fight the ELS in the Gundam Harute, a dual piloted Mobile Suit. Allelujah has Heterochromia iridum; throughout the first season, his left gray eye represents his Allelujah personality and his right golden eye represents Hallelujah until the latter's destruction, after which both his eyes become visible.
Gundam Meister of the heavily armored Gundam Virtue/Nadleeh, its successor unit Gundam Seravee/Seraphim and finally the Gundam Raphael. Tieria treats Veda's orders with high regard, valuing the mission above all else. As a result of his arrogance and cold attitude towards others, his relationship with the other Gundam Meisters got off to a rocky start. However, his attitude towards the other Meisters and the Ptolemaios crew gradually improves after being protected by Lockon Stratos from an attack in a battle against the AEU and the Union, an action which costs Lockon the use of his dominant eye. Of all the Gundam Meisters, Tieria is the most enigmatic, with an unknown past and a peculiar connection with the Innovators. Contrary to the other Meisters who were either K.I.A. or M.I.A. by the end of the first season, Tieria continued to work for Celestial Being during the four-year time-skip. At the end of the second season, Tieria is killed by Ribbons Almark while trying to stop him from taking control of Veda. Tieria, however, manages to upload his consciousness into Veda itself, subsequently ending the battle by remote-controlling Seraphim from Veda's core and activating its Trial System to shut down all enemy mobile suits. He briefly returns in the movie in a new body and pilots Gundam Raphael briefly before sacrificing himself once more to save Setsuna. He eventually ends up uploaded into Setsuna's 00 Qan[T] and is last seen when the Gundam departs to the ELS homeworld. His fate is unknown, although the 00 Qan[T] returns to Earth in the epilogue and a Tieria-type Innovator briefly appears aboard the Sumeragi. While Tieria never showed romantic feelings for anyone (as he was completely focused on his mission) he starts to show care for others after Neil sacrifices his eye to shield him. Tieria develops a close bond to Neil, and in the second season after Neil's death when he doubts if he should tell his crewmates who are behind the A-Laws' schemes (as he is an Innovade too), the "ghost" of Neil comes to comfort him, stating that Aeolia gave the Gundams to them, the Gundam Meisters. While he never truly reciprocates her feelings, Mileina Vashti stated that no matter which form he takes she loves him.
Crew of the Ptolemaios
Supporting the Gundam Meisters is the crew of the led by Sumeragi Lee Noriega. At the end of the first season, the Ptolemaios was severely damaged and many of its crew were killed. During the second season, the new Ptolemaios II enters service crewed by the surviving members of the original Ptolemaios. They are later joined by Saji Crossroad and Soma Peries, the latter after recovering her memory as Marie Parfacy.
Sumeragi is the tactical forecaster of the Celestial Being mothership Ptolemaios. As the most senior ranking officer on the ship, she is the de facto captain. She plans all the strategies the Gundam Meisters take part in, and her strategic predictions are almost always accurate. Her real name is . In the beginning of the second season, Sumeragi is reluctant to rejoin the others until the encouragement from her companions helps her find the resolve to help them. At the end of the series, she remains with Celestial Being.
Originally a civilian and a senior high school student studying aerospace engineering, Saji is also Setsuna F Seiei's neighbour at Setsuna's residence in Japan. Orphaned prior to the start of the series, Saji was cared for by his sister Kinue. A gentle person with a submissive personality, he is often pushed around by his overbearing girlfriend Louise Halevy and continued to make ends meet with a delivery job at a pizza parlor. Despite his unaggressive nature, Saji has been caught up in the wake of the Gundams' actions, with Louise suffering and Kinue dead. As a result, Saji has developed a deep hatred for the Gundams, blaming them for the loss of his loved ones as he leaves for space to live his dream as an engineer.