Characters / Mobile Suit Gundam 00 AEU

Mobile Suit Gundam 00 Character Index
Celestial Being
Gundam Meisters | Crew Of The Ptolemios | Team Trinity | Celestial Being MiscPower Blocks
Advanced European Union | Human Reform League | The Union of Solar Energy and Free Nations Antagonists
A-Laws | Innovades Other Characters

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Kati Mannequin

A respected Colonel from the AEU known for her brilliant strategies. She is the love interest of Patrick Colasour and is constantly pursued by him. When the three world powers unite to fight the Gundams, she become friends with HRL colonel Sergei Smirnov. In the second season, she joins the A-LAWS to investigate them. It is also revealed that she and Celestial Being's strategist Sumeragi Li Noriega, or better said Leesa Kujou, are past acquaintances.

Voiced by Minami Takayama (Japanese) and Cathy Weseluck (English)

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• Action Survivor: She’s a tactician, not a fighter.
• Aloof Dark-Haired Girl: Not one to talk when non-seriously. She’s very much respected by her men for this.
• Anti-Villain: While she's working against Celestial Being and even becomes part of the A-LAWS in Season 2, she makes it clear that she's only trying to stop Celestial Being from wreaking further havoc, and opposes the more questionable decisions and actions of the A-LAWS.
• Brainy Brunette: She's nearly as good a strategist as Sumeragi.
• The Brigadier: She's promoted to this rank in the finale.
• The Chessmaster: Is just as good at this as Sumeragi.
• Colonel Badass: She's a colonel, one of the most skilled strategist in a series filled with skilled strategists, and almost always manages to keep calm under pressure. It's not a coincidence that Patrick keeps calling her Colonel even after she is promoted to General.
• Connected All Along: It is revealed that Kati had studied tactics in the AEU alongside Leesa Kujo, aka Sumeragi Lee Noriega. They didn't recognise each other until the second season althrough they have fought each other in the first season.
• Defrosting Ice Queen: Is ultra serious at first, but her humanity starts to show as the series goes on.
• Enemy Mine: Twice with Celestial Being and Kataron. First when the AEU orbital elevator collapse, she helps Celestial Being destroy the debris to minimize civilian casualties. Second, during the final battle, she shows up with other A-Laws defectors to help Celestial Being fight the Innovades, but she makes it clear to Sumeragi that she still considers Celestial Being to be an enemy and will attempt to arrest them once their mutual enemy is defeated.
• Even Evil Has Standards: While working against Celestial Being and later being part of the A-Laws, she's clearly disgusted by the various war crimes that the latter commit against civilians and other noncombatants. It comes to a head late in Season 2, when following the incident at the AEU Orbital Elevator, she performs a Heel–Face Turn and ends up replacing the late Pang Hercury as leader of the ESF Coup Faction, leading them against the A-Laws Fleet in space.
• Evil Counterpart: To Sumeragi for a good part of the series. Howver, Kati always falls squarely in as Lawful Evil and is willing to work with Celestial Being if the situation calls for it.
• Guile Heroine: Much like Sumeragi, she relies on her wit to get her out of her situations.
• Heel–Face Turn: She joins the ESF Coup d'Etat faction after A-LAWS brings down the orbital elevator.
• Hero Antagonist: She seeks to stop Celestial Being because their interventions are a threat to the AEU. While she does join the A-Laws, it's to investigate their suspicious activities and she remains a heroic character to the end.
• Iron Lady: Seldom lets her emotions show while she's on duty. She is known as "The Iron Lady" after all.
• Jade-Colored Glasses: She feels that Celestial Being's goal is impossible and that her old friend Kujo is naive for believing in them.
• Married to the Job: She has dedicated her life to serving the AEU. However, she later marries her subordinate Patrick.
• Ms. Exposition: Runs down some of the information to Patrick.
• Obfuscating Stupidity: She figured out VERY quickly Patrick had a thing for her, but doesn't openly reveal she knows until he makes it blatantly obvious. During that time, she artfully used his crush to positively motivate him to follow orders.
• Opposites Attract: She's serious while Patrick is very unprofessional, but Patrick falls in love with her and she's later shown to reciprocate.
• Raven Hair, Ivory Skin: Brown hair, yet fair skin.
• Reasonable Authority Figure: She's harsh and strict, but ultimately her heart's in the right place.
• Red Baron: "The Iron Lady"
• Redemption Promotion: Goes from Colonel to Brigadier General after ditching the A-Laws.
• "The Reason You Suck" Speech: To the A-LAWS fleet.
• Savvy Guy, Energetic Girl: Inverted with her and Patrick's dynamic.
• Tempting Fate: During her university years, Kati commended Kujo^note Sumeragi's tactics and joked she hates to face her in the battlefield. Guess what happens in the friendly fire incident? And during the whole series?
• The Strategist: As good as, if not, better than Sumeragi. Well, Sumeragi does look up to her.
• Sugar-and-Ice Personality: She’s absolutely harsh and takes no shit. She’s also very caring towards her men and is shown to have standards.
• They Call Me MISTER Tibbs!: Patrick refers to her by her rank, even after he starts actively trying to woo her. And even on their wedding day!
• Tomboy and Girly Girl: According to flashbacks, she's the tomboy to Sumeragi's girly girl.
• Token Good Teammate: In A-Laws, along with Soma Peries, she the the one who suspicious and questioned A-Laws extremist ideology and action. Which ultimately leads her to defect from this organization along with Patrick to be part of ESF Coup d'Etat faction to defeat A-Laws and the Innovators.
• What the Hell, Hero?: She's none too happy about how the ESF's labcoats have been treating Descartes, perhaps remembering the other super-soldiers she's been acquainted with.
• Worthy Opponent: She sends a complimentary message addressed to Kujo^note Sumeragi after one battle.
  Colonel Kati Mannequin: I express my respect for the tactics of Lessa Kujo of Celestial Being. Colonel Kati Mannequin, Autonomous Peace-Keeping Force.

Patrick Colasour

Main mecha: AEU-09 Enact, GNX-603T GN-X, GNX-609T GN-XIII, GNX-803T GN-XIV

The Ace of AEU, who's prevailed in 2000 simulation battles!

... Well, okay. To make it short, this guy is the resident loser of the series, whose barks are bigger than his bite. He first appears in an exhibition of the Enact and got owned by Setsuna. Later on, he reappears to fight the Gundam again... and got blasted by Tieria without him even trying. He is known as a playboy, but when he meets his new commander Kati Mannequin (and got punched in the face for being late), he instantly fell in love for real and found a new goal in life: to win her heart.

Voiced by Kenji Hamada (Japanese) and Trevor Devall (English)

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• Ace Pilot: He is a legitimately accomplished pilot; Patrick is just not up there with more out-of-this-world guys like the Meisters, Graham, and Ali.
• Almost Kiss: He tries to kiss Kati in the movie, but is interrupted.
• Anti-Villain: All he really wants in life is to prove his skill as a pilot by defeating the Gundams and to win Kati's love. He never does anything villainous beyond fighting the Meisters and he ultimately joins them against the Innovades for the final battle.
• Appropriated Appellation: His nickname of "The Immortal Colasaur" originated as a joke by his fellow pilots mocking his ability to survive certain death despite his apparent lack of piloting skills, but Patrick assumes that the nickname is a genuine compliment and happily adopts it.
• Badass Boast: Until the Big Damn Movie, just... the boast.
• Badass on Paper: As mentioned, he's got 2000 simulation battles for his exemplary resume. However, Patrick does grow into a legitimately experienced pilot even if he can never hope to beat the Gundams (though he'll most assuredly survive the encounter no matter the odds).
• Boisterous Bruiser: Especially when he's trying to impress Kati.
• Book Dumb: He's not particularly bright, but is an exceptionally skilled pilot.
• Born Lucky: Say what you want up his losing streak, surviving the entire series with the amount of near fatal attacks he has you could probably trap him in one town then get every resident to fire machine guns at him and the chances are he will still be breathing.
• Butt-Monkey: From episode 1, whenever he takes the field against a Gundam you know what's about to happen.
• Can't Catch Up: Compared to the other enemy aces he falls behind in effectiveness in season 2 as he is never able to acquire a better unit beyond a GN-X (the lowest tier of a GN powered suit). That's not to say he's a bad pilot, but he isn't quite as flashy and is never able to quite regain the effectiveness he had in the season 1 finale.
• Captain Crash: Almost every time he sorties, he crashes his mobile suit.
• The Chew Toy: He’ll take a lot of abuse from his superiors.
• Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: He's actually a skilled pilot and his loses to the Meisters are usually attributable to the superiority of the Gundams over his mobile suits. When he gets a GN-X, which is comparable in ability to the Meisters's Season One Gundams, he becomes a genuine threat to the Meisters and proves to be truly skilled when he fights the A-Laws and Innovades alongside the Meisters during the final battle. This is further demonstrated in the movie.
• Death Is Dramatic: Subverted. It often looks like he gets a dramatic death scene, only for him to show up unharmed a few scenes later.
• Determinator: He won’t stop until he has to.
• Dogged Nice Guy: To Kati, who can't stand him. It works out for him.
• Expy: There are a lot of fandom comparisons between him and Jeremiah Gottwald. Right down to the Redemption Promotion par excellence. Banpresto caught on to this and made the two of them Vitriolic Best Buds in Super Robot Wars Z2. Where Jeremiah is, Patrick is usually not too far behind. They insult each other every chance they get.
• Fiery Redhead: He’s rather gung-ho and more than ready for a fight.
• French Jerk: He's French and is a Jerkass until Kati forces him to mellow out.
• Genius Ditz: He's the AEU's top pilot. This appears to be his only real skill other than being seemingly unkillable.
• Genki Guy: Being a Butt-Monkey does not lessen his energy one bit.
• Gold Fish Poop Gang: He’ll likely get his ass kicked and be seen as a nuisance by his foes. At least until near the end.
• Happily Ever After: He and Kati get this treatment (complete with wedding bells) in the epilogue of episode 25 in season 2.
• Happily Married: To Kati after Season Two. The two of them love one another very much, even if his inability to remember that she is a general gets on her nerves.
• Heel–Face Turn: Shows up to fight the Innovades during the final battle alongside Kati and the other A-Laws defectors.
• Henpecked Husband: Remains as deferential to Kati after they get married.
• Heroic Sacrifice: Sacrifices himself to save Kati's life during the final battle. Subverted when he turns up alive in the epilogue.
  • Attempts one again in the movie but subverted again as Setsuna saves him before his GN-XIV self-destruct kicks in.
• Hot-Blooded: If he wants to kick ass, he will even if he’s outclassed.
• Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain: He's so hopelessly outclassed by the Gundams.
• Keet: It’s not hard to excite him.
• Ladykiller in Love: He's known as The Casanova, but once he meets Kati he doesn't have eyes for anyone else.
• Large Ham: Barely goes a moment without screaming.
• Leeroy Jenkins: Will get into a fight without hesitation.
• Lethal Joke Character: He's a total goofball whose piloting skill is in-universe Informed Ability... and he takes out Lockon's eye, setting him up for his eventual death.
• Likes Older Women: Kati is about 4-5 years older than him.
• Love at First Punch: Literally! Kati punches Patrick for being late to a meeting. He falls in love with her from then on. Technically speaking, it was the second punch that did it, but since it came almost immediately after the first one...
• Miles Gloriosus: "King of Mock Battles."
• My Master, Right or Wrong: Doesn't really have much of a sense of morality beyond following Kati's orders.
• Near-Death Experience: Constantly gets shot down by the Meisters, only to miraculously survive. In the movie, when an ELS start to assimilate his GN-XIV, he activates his self-destruct to take it with him, but Setsuna saves him.
• No One Could Survive That!: The writers loved toying with this one.
• Opposites Attract: His admittedly one-sided crush towards the far more serious Kati. Which is later shown to be not quite so one-sided...
• Overshadowed by Awesome: He's not the AEU's best pilot for nothing. He's just... well, just not on the same level as Graham or Ali.
• Plot Armour: The Gods of plot armour smile upon him like none other. It's even famous in-universe and in the fandom.
• Put on a Bus: After the 4 months Time Skip, he and Kati was nowhere to be seen. Then he got out and kicked mucho ass... until getting blasted again (this time voluntarily however). Nonetheless, Orange-kun taught him well.
• Red Baron: Colasour the Indestructible. Subverted that it doesn't note his badassery, it's a mocking insult on his survival rate against Gundams without actually defeating them. He converts this into Colasour the Ridiculously Lucky after marrying Kati at the end of season 2.
• Redemption Equals Death: Subverted. He seems to die shortly after teaming up with Celestial Being, but the epilogue reveals that he somehow survived.
• Redemption Promotion: Becomes a lot more skilled after rebelling against the A-Laws.
• Running Gag:
  • His ability to survive anything without a scratch. If there was a nuclear apocalypse, the only things that would survive are cockroaches, Patrick, and Yazan Gable.
  • In the movie, his inability to remember that his wife is now a general and not a colonel. ^note It is implied that it is his own way to be affectionnate with Kati (cf their conversation before the battle with the ELS in the movie).
• Savvy Guy, Energetic Girl: Again, inverted with him and Kati. He’s happy-go-lucky while Kati is a stern, smart woman.
• Straw Loser: There to show how badass others are. At least at first.
• Subordinate Excuse: After meeting and falling in love with Kati, he follows her whenever she changes posts.
• Small Name, Big Ego: First episode he boasted of his accomplishments while the suit he was piloting was being torn limb from limb, and that was just the first episode.
• Throw the Dog a Bone: Gets to lay down the law and even make his inevitable unit-trashing look awesome for the finale, which finally wins his beloved Kati's heart.
• Token Good Teammate: Patrick admit his sole reason why he accept to join A-Laws because he wanted to protect Kati and has no personal revenge toward Celestial Being despite being roughly seven times defeated by them. Which ultimately leads him to defect from this organization along with Kati to be part of ESF Coup d'Etat faction to defeat A-Laws and the Innovators.
• Took a Level in Badass: He's never shown to be an incompetent combatant in the movie, skillfully fighting ELS in his GN-XIV.
  • Actually this happened at the end of the second season with the final battle against the A-Laws and the Innovades. The first thing he does in that battle: he takes down an Ahead, a mobile suit more advanced that his GN-XIII in seconds.
• Undying Loyalty: Completely loyal to Kati and seems to be incapable of dying.
• Unknown Rival: Is usually pitted against Tieria in the first season, but Tieria never acknowledges his existance.
• Well-Trained, but Inexperienced: Patrick Colasour has completed 2000 simulation battles, but gets stomped in all of his battles with the Gundam Meisters. Downplayed in that the Gundam Meisters have really good tech and when Patrick has to fight against mobile suits on par with his (however few times that occurs), he gets to show why he's considered one of the AEU's aces.

Emilio Ribisi

Sumeragi’s deceased boyfriend. His death caused some of her personal issues today.

Voiced by Yasuyuki Kase (Japanese) and Michael Adamthwaite (English)

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• One True Love: Evidently, Sumeragi never found love again after his death.
• Posthumous Character: Died long before the series kicks off.
• Small Role, Big Impact: Only shows up in a flashback, but his death would weigh heavily on Sumeragi.

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