There are several villains in the Gundam franchise that could be considered sociopathic.
- Mobile Suit Gundam:
- Gihren Zabi, the de facto Big Bad, is an Evil Prince with a Lack of Empathy so severe it's almost awe-inspiring. Caring nothing for others, Gihren turns his brother's funeral into a political rally, condescends to his other siblings, isolates his father while plotting to steal his position, and uses Weapons of Mass Destruction to lethal effect. Ambitious, overconfident, manipulative, and a brilliant orator, Gihren lacks the sadism and For the Evulz motivation of many psychopaths and sociopaths, but nevertheless profiles as a charismatic, Machiavellian personality taken to such an extreme that there really is no other word for it. He also has the shallow affect, limited emotional range, shamelessness and total fearlessness associated with the most extreme psychopaths—even at the end, when his sister has a gun against his head it never seems to cross Gihren's mind that he could possibly lose.
- Char Aznable, like Gihren, shows limited emotion, shamelessness and recklessness, in addition to being extremely charismatic and chameleon-like. It's not a coincidence that by Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's Counterattack he's looking a lot like Gihren.
- Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam has Sociopathic Soldier Yazan Gable, a thuggish Blood Knight who admits that he only joined the army so that he could legally kill and injure people. Willing to kill superiors whom he disagrees with, and loyal only to those he considers stronger than him, Yazan's a low-functioning sociopath who has managed to find his niche in the world.
- Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ has Glemmy Toto, a superficially charming and affable young man, who views everybody around him as a means to an end. He treats Leina and his army of Puru clones as tools to be discarded at will, becomes stalkerishly obsessed with Roux after meeting her once, and demonstrates no loyalty whatsoever to any of his superior officers. The series also includes Rakan Dahkaran, a higher-functioning Yazan expy who fights for whoever seems strongest, and is willing to do any job, no matter how vile, if ordered to.
- Katejina Loos, of Victory Gundam, is an interesting Character Development example. She starts out as one of the heroic main cast with Uso. However, even then, you could see signs of her condition rising to the surface. After she is captured by the Empire, she charms her way into joining the BESPA and manipulates everyone else around her. She then turns against the Federation Forces and tries to kill Uso on multiple occasions. She kills off five of the established cast members. She does all this to fuel her own ego and to take advantage of any situation given to her. Supplementary materials confirm that part of this is due to mind-altering substances, though...while always something of a sociopath, Katejina still held standards and was generally against violence, thus she wouldn't have become evil had she not fallen for Chronicle. As such, there are a number of officially licensed video games where she is kept off that path and remains good, or otherwise she is pulled from it before she becomes too far gone.
- Mobile Fighter G Gundam seemingly has a high-functioning example with Prime Minister Wong, ruler of Neo Hong Kong and ruler of the world at the beginning of the series because his country won the last Gundam Fight. Not content with ruling through a fair victory in the 13th Gundam Fight, Wong plots to make his control over Earth and space permanent by using the Devil Gundam. He forms a Big Bad Duumvirate with Master Asia, but he has no respect for Master Asia's philosophies nor interest in his own motivation. Wong will happily manipulate him along with everyone else and gloats with laughter when a coughing fit prevents Master Asia from attacking him. Wong makes no effort to understand the motivations of the fighters either and is often confused or bored by their passionate behavior while he shamelessly tries to rig their matches. He kidnaps Allenby to make her the Devil Gundam's pilot and discards Master Asia as soon as his plans are advanced enough. And yet, for all of this, Yasuhiro Imagawa's notes (which can be viewed on the American G Gundam DVD extras) establish Wong as Well-Intentioned Extremist of the My Country, Right or Wrong variety, calling him "the only man who could successfully help Neo Hong Kong thrive on the declined Earth" and even crediting him with single-handedly rebuilding his nation (which is notably the only nation depicted in G to not have a space colony of their own).
- A better example of this trope in G is brought to us by the secret final Big Bad of the series, Major Ulube Ishikawa. A career soldier who even before crossing paths with the Devil Gundam is enough of a General Ripper to engineer a carefully-plotted scheme to seize the then-Ultimate Gundam's power for himself. Though he fails in this goal, he is able to successfully frame Domon Kasshu's father Raizo as a traitor, absolving himself and his fellow conspirator Dr. Mikamura of any blame. What really tips him for Sociopath status, though, is in how effectively he spends the first 46 episodes manipulating everyone around him into thinking he's a Reasonable Authority Figure, particularly Raizo's son and series hero Domon Kasshu. When he finally drops the manipulations and reveals himself he is positively ecstatic, executing all his lieutenants in short order because he feels with the Devil Gundam's power he can "handle everything on my own". What separates him from Wong, though, is in how petty his villainy truly is under their seemingly similar goals (specifically, while Ulube talks a good game about Neo-Japan ruling the universe, when push comes to shove he admits that it was his defeat by Master Asia, and subsequently realization that "power rules this universe", that motivated him to make a grab for the Devil/Ultimate Gundam in the first place).
- Muruta Azrael of Mobile Suit Gundam SEED. He's smug, arrogant, condescending, misogynistic, loses his temper at the drop of a hat, finds the very idea that he could lose to be inconceivable, and views his subordinates as expendable pawns in his personal vendetta against the Coordinators. His superficial charm cannot cover his inner monstrousness for long, with continued exposure to him alienating even his staunchest supporters, and while he's bright, he has a definite inability to learn from experience. Even his bravery — he does after all, lead the assault on ZAFT from the front — stems from his arrogance, and he's far more afraid of losing than he is of dying.
- Azrael's like-minded rival in the PLANT colonies, Patrick Zala, is also one of these, fittingly so since he is the counterpart to granddaddy Gundam sociopath Gihren Zabi. While he starts off as simply a Well-Intentioned Extremist and The Stoic, as the war goes on Zala becomes more and more bloodthirsty, deciding firstly that all Naturals must die and then targeting dissenting opinions on his own side (most notably Lacus Clyne's father, who is horrifically gunned down on Zala's orders). He is not above Offing the Offspring, attempting to kill his son Athrun twice, and at the end is so far gone that he is willing to shoot a soldier that has faithfully served him since the beginning of the war, just for questioning him. Ironically this is his undoing, as the soldier in question survives just long enough to draw his sidearm and repay Zala in kind.
- In Mobile Suit Gundam Seed Destiny:
- Azrael's successor, Lord Djibril, is a classic example of a low-functioning sociopath. He's short-sighted, has an explosive temper and No Indoor Voice, and his first reaction to any sort of rebellion or insubordination is to deploy Weapons of Mass Destruction against the target. He's also a General Failure and Dirty Coward who leaves his subordinates to clean up his messes, and generally has no redeeming qualities whatsoever.
- Even Gilbert Durandal himself checks a few notable boxes. Gilbert is able to put up a convincing and gentlemanly veneer to gain sympathy of the masses. But underneath it all, Gilbert is too emotionally detached to make meaningful and lasting relationships. On top of having an inflated ego, he's thoroughly manipulative coupled with the need to control over everyone to keep them in line and is incapable of understanding the idea that people can change for the better in spite of their worst qualities.
- Mobile Suit Gundam 00 has Yazan Expy and Psycho for Hire Ali Al-Saachez, who will do anything if the price is right, enjoys violence for its own sake, and can't keep up the facade of being an actual human being for more than a few moments at a time. He once used religious rhetoric to create an army of child soldiers and got them to murder their own parents, despite the fact that he himself has no belief in God. Why? Somebody paid him to do it. He cheerfully describes himself as the worst kind of human being.
- Mobile Suit Gundam AGE has sociopathic child soldier Decil Galette, who views his own troops and his enemies as toys in a game he's playing. As an adult he persists in this attitude, and is absolutely hated by his own side for the way that his egoism and Lack of Empathy impact their efforts. As a child commander, he retreats from a winning battle out of boredom. He holds a mutual grudge against protagonist Flit; on Flit's end, it's for killing a Love Interest. Decil is just as angry... over the fact that Flit beat him up for doing so. As an adult, Decil's psychic powers aren't as unique an asset, as his brother is promoted over him and Decil is treated as an Elite Mook with the more-numerous X-Rounders of Generation 2. He routinely breaks formation to fulfill his grudge against Flit but his ego far outweighs his abilities. Finally, when he starts using his allies as Cannon Fodder again, Zeheart withdraws all support and allows Asemu Asuno to kill him.
