; [EZ, W, BT, BP, EW] : The female lead of
Gundam Wing. Relena first appears as the daughter of the Alliance's Vice Foreign Minister. When he was called away to work at the beginning of the series, Relena went home alone. This set up her encounter with Heero Yuy, who had washed ashore on the beach near the spaceport. Her encounter with the mysterious Gundam pilot spurred the young girl to learn more about him, despite his threats towards her. While visiting a colony with her father, Mr. Darlian was killed by Lady Une. As he was dying, he revealed that Relena is actually the daughter of the Peacecrafts, the leaders of the fallen pacifist Sanc Kingdom. During a fight between Heero and Zechs Merquise, Relena discovered from Lucrezia Noin that Zechs is her older brother. Soon afterward, Relena assumed her birthright, and restored the Sanc Kingdom according to her family's ideals, having opened the nation's borders as a neutral haven to those who wished to escape the growing war. Since Romefeller regarded the nation's pacifist stance as a threat, it began to focus most of its military attention on the Sanc Kingdom, particularly after Heero and Quatre arrived, seeking sanctuary from OZ assassins. With another invasion threatening to destroy the kingdom, Relena surrendered to protect her people, and formally dissolved the nation. At Dorothy Catalonia's urging, Relena accepted Duke Dermail's offer to become the public face of Romefeller, and she was formally declared Queen of the World. Though this was merely meant to be a public relations move, Relena garnered most of Romefeller's support, despite Dermail's intent to use Relena as a figurehead. When her brother (now going by his true name Milliardo Peacecraft) appeared as the leader of White Fang, Treize Khushrenada dismissed Relena from her position. He reasoned that now that she had laid the foundation for peace, he would provide what the military might require to bring it to fruition. Freed from her responsibility, Relena went to space, where she and Heero unsuccessfully attempted to reason with Milliardo, and dissuade him from escalating the war. After the war, Relena became the Vice Foreign Minister of the newly formed Earth Sphere Unified Nation, and assumed her adopted father's surname again. She spearheaded the creation of the Preventer Organization, and disarmament talks as an influential, high-ranking official. Relena was kidnapped by Dekim Barton, having intended to use her symbolic power to ensure Mariemaia's dominance. His motive for the kidnapping was for Relena to encourage the citizens to rebel, and take action themselves, to ensure peace. However, like Dermail before him, Barton drastically underestimated both Relena's character and her popularity. After Dekim's defeat, and the end of mobile suit warfare, Relena moved on to her next project, the
terraformation of Mars. From early on, it is made obvious that Relena is in love with Heero, and he with her over time, which Heero's fellow Gundam pilot Duo acknowledged. At the end of the sequel novel series
New Mobile Report Gundam Wing: Frozen Teardrop, Relena was asked by Heero to marry him, and she accepted his proposal. In the epilogue, which took place 5 months after the events of the final chapter, Relena is living happily with Heero on Mars, and the two were shown discussing their plans on marriage, and starting a family of their own. Relena Darlian / Relena Peacecraft was given voice by
Akiko Yajima in Japanese and
Lisa Ann Beley in English. ; [EZ, W, BT, EW] : A young woman who works as a knife thrower and acrobat for a travelling circus. In the
Episode Zero manga, it was shown that when she was four years old, her family's circus wagon was caught in the crossfire of an Alliance bombing, which resulted in the death of her parents, and which separated her from her two-year-old brother Triton. Cathy was adopted by the members of her parents' circus, and grew up with them. When the Gundam pilot Trowa Barton asked to join the circus, Cathy convinced the manager to let him. She soon adopted a big sister attitude with Trowa, even after learning that he is the pilot of the Gundam Heavyarms. She also helped take care of Trowa's friends, including having fed Wufei, when he stayed with the circus following the failed Treize assassination, and having cared for Heero for over a month after he self-detonated the Wing Gundam. When Trowa lost his memory, Catherine happened upon him wandering the streets, and convinced him that she really was his older sister, trying to shelter him from the war (and his fellow Gundam pilots). However, when Quatre came to find Trowa, Trowa had a feeling that he knew Quatre and decided to leave again, promising to come back to Catherine. The novelization of
Endless Waltz revealed that Trowa was, in fact, Triton Bloom, but neither he nor Catherine knew this. Catherine Bloom was given voice by
Saori Sugimoto in Japanese, and both
Moneca Stori (
Gundam Wing) (until episode 13) and then
Cathy Weseluck from episode 35 til the end of the series (
Endless Waltz) in English. ; [W, BP, EW] : Hilde was a volunteer soldier of the OZ Space Army, who signed up with the organization shortly after they made their move for space. Soon after joining, she attempted to recruit Duo Maxwell, discovering rather suddenly that he was a Gundam pilot. Some time after Duo's capture, Hilde quit OZ and became an artist, letting Duo stay in her apartment after he escaped from OZ. When White Fang rose up, Hilde broke into Libra to steal data on the mobile dolls and met Relena. During her escape, Hilde was attacked by mobile doll versions of the OZ-13MSX1 Vayeate and OZ-13MSX2 Mercurius and was almost killed, when Duo came to her rescue. She and Duo are never explicitly said to be a couple, but many of their actions (such as Duo being away in
Battlefield of Pacifists because he got on Hilde's nerves, and later calling to apologize) suggest that this may be a possibility. Hilde appeared again at the end of
Endless Waltz, working at her scrapyard with Duo. Hilde Schbeiker was given voice by
Kae Araki in Japanese and Marcy Goldberg in English. ; [EZ, W] : Relena's adoptive father, Darlian was once the right-hand man of the Peacecraft family. When the Sanc Kingdom was invaded, he took Relena to safety, and adopted her as his own daughter. As tensions between Earth and the colonies rose, Darlian advocated peace with the oppressed colonies, even while the Alliance sought tighter control. Somehow, Darlian learned the truth of Operation Meteor, and became a target of Dekim Barton, only to be saved by the young Heero Yuy. He wouldn't be so lucky later on, when OZ's Lady Une threw a bomb into a room he was occupying for a meeting, mortally wounding Darlian and killing everyone else. As he died, Darlian told Relena the truth about her parents. ; [EZ, W, EW] : The head of the Long Clan and formal leader of colony A02026. His granddaughter Meilan was married to Chang Wufei, making him related to the future Gundam pilot in a way. When Operation Meteor's true form was revealed, it was planned for A02026 to be the colony dropped on the Earth, an action that Wufei greatly opposed. Before the brash young man could leave, Shirin gave him the clan's heirloom, a
jade statue of their guardian, the two-headed dragon Altron, to sell for supplies. In the series, Wufei returns to the colony after receiving the Altron Gundam to rediscover his purpose. When OZ attacked A02026 to root out the Gundam, Shirin activates the colony's self-destruct system to keep his people out of OZ's hands, and to give Wufei a reminder of what he's fighting for. ; [EZ] : The granddaughter of Master Long Shirin, the spirited and tomboyish Meilan was wed to Chang Wufei in AC 194. The two didn't get along at all, with practically opposite personalities and philosophies. Wufei especially angered Meilan with his insistence that justice wasn't real. In response to the sexist attitude displayed by many of her male peers, Meilan insisted on being called
Nataku, after a guardian warrior god. Later that year, Colony A02026 came under attack by the Alliance, with the intent of purging the aging colony. Taking the
Prototype Leo (the Tallgeese) Master O had in his collection, Meilan fought off the Alliance Leos, despite the toll the machine took on her body. When Wufei tried to come to her rescue in the incomplete Shenlong Gundam, Meiran took an attack meant for him, which mortally wounded her. With the Alliance in retreat, Wufei took Meilan back to his favorite field of flowers, where she died peacefully in his arms. ; [EZ] : A former member of OZ and a professional assassin, Odin Lowe was the mentor to the boy who would become the Gundam pilot Heero Yuy. It is unknown exactly how long the two had been together, but flashbacks suggest that it was quite a long time (Heero is shown to be about four or five in several scenes). In AC 187, Lowe was hired by Dekim Barton to kill General Septem of the Alliance; however, this was simply a plot by Dekim to get his revenge on Lowe, who was actually the assassin of the original Heero Yuy. Lowe taught his young ward how to survive on his own and fight, but the most important lesson he gave the child was to live by his emotions, saying that "you never know when some idiot will come along and change the world". Even as he died, Lowe reminded the child of this philosophy, leaving him alone with the remainder of his mission. ; [EZ, EW] : The priest in charge of the Maxwell Church, Father Maxwell handled the adoptions of the orphan children whom the Alliance caught. All the children were adopted except for young Duo, who chose to stay at the church under the watchful eyes of the Father and Sister Helen. Father Maxwell was very accommodating, allowing Duo to say or do most anything, simply saying "Boys will be boys." His honest hope was that the child would grow up to become the greatest priest in the Earth Sphere. A group of rebels decided to hole up in the church to avoid the Alliance. Duo offered to steal a mobile suit for them, and thus was out of the church when the Alliance attacked. Father Maxwell was killed, and Sister Helen, as she died, told Duo that up until his last breath, Father Maxwell continued expounding on Heero Yuy's philosophy of non-violence. ; [EZ, EW] : A kindly nun, Sister Helen worked at the Maxwell Church and helped take care of Duo. When the youth refused to cut his long hair, Sister Helen braided it for him, a style which Duo keeps to this day. Though she admonished him for still thinking like he was an orphan, and some of his stranger actions surprised her, she still treated him with love and respect. One day, a group of rebels hid in the church and Duo offered to steal a Leo for them, but while he was away, the Alliance destroyed the church, killing everyone inside. Duo found the fatally wounded Sister Helen, who expressed her motherly love for him one last time before dying. ; [EZ, EW] : Solo was the leader of a group of orphans living on colony V08744. In AC 187, a virus broke out on the colony, but the vaccine was reserved for the rich. When Solo contracted the virus, his best friend sneaked into an Alliance base to steal the vaccine. He was too late, and Solo died, but the vaccine was given to the other orphans. Solo's friend, who never contracted the virus despite never receiving the vaccine, attributed it to his friend's protection, and named himself "Duo" in honor of his fallen friend, who had told him that they would always be together. ; [EZ] : A young civilian girl, Middie was picked up by a group of mercenaries because she was apparently orphaned. She served as the group's cook, forming a bond with a nameless soldier who was about the same age. As a present, she gave him a cross and told him that God would protect him. However, it was soon revealed that Middie was actually an Alliance spy, and had sold the mercenaries out in return for the money to take care of her sick father and brothers (the cross she gave No-Name was a transmitter). She was attracted to No-Name, but didn't truly realize her feelings until after he was gone. ; [W] : One of Quatre's twenty-nine test-tube baby older sisters. Iria works as a doctor on a Winner Corporation mining satellite. She took care of Quatre when he returned to space, and eventually brought him back to their father, Zayeed. When OZ attacked Zayeed, her and Quatre's shuttle was knocked off balance, causing Iria to hit her head, apparently knocking her out. She does not appear for the rest of the series. ; [EZ] : Zayeed's wife and the mother of Quatre. Due to complications arising from natural birth in space, most colonists were test-tube babies. Though these complications were eventually corrected, the Winner family had been in space all along and still possessed them. Despite this, Katherine insisted on bearing her husband's son naturally. Though the birth was successful, it cost Katherine her life. Choosing not to burden his son with the guilt of his mother's death, Zayeed told Quatre that he was a test-tube baby like his sisters, which fostered resentment in the young man for quite some time. ; [EZ, W] : Quatre's father and the head of the Winner Corporation. Like many people, he adopted Heero Yuy's philosophy of absolute pacifism, believing that violence only begets more violence. As a result of this, a rift formed between him and his son when he learned that Quatre was a Gundam pilot. Zayeed refused to sell out to OZ, even when his employees wished to do so, and he ended up being killed in defiance. ; [EZ] : A colonial diplomat, the charismatic Heero Yuy soon became the representative for all the colonies in the Alliance. He won popularity thanks to his desire for colonial independence and his philosophy of absolute pacifism. His message gained so much support that OZ had Odin Lowe assassinate him on April 7, AC175. In the chaos following his death, Alliance control on the colonies tightens and the designers of OZ's Tallgeese mobile suit, who later became the Gundam scientists, resigned in protest. ; [SY] : An eccentric engineer who created the Lemming, a mobile suit with performance levels nearing those of a Gundam. The Lemming's main feature, the Lemming System, affects the mind of anyone within its effect radius, forcing them into a kind of berserker rage. Madam L apparently cared more about research than family, since she allowed her daughter Sei to pilot the dangerous machine, which cost Sei her life. ; [SY] : A young woman who had a chance encounter with Duo Maxwell at the colonies one day. What he didn't realize is that Sei's mother, Madam L, is an engineer who had designed the deadly and powerful Lemming mobile suit. During a test flight of the Lemming, Sei is killed by its special Lemming System. ; [SY] : The test pilot of the Lemming following Sei's death. During her flight, she encountered Duo, who had borrowed the Wing Gundam Zero to destroy the machine. The ensuing battle led the two into space, where the Lemming System affected Adodera's mind to the point where she opened the cockpit hatch without wearing a helmet, killing herself. ; [TI] : A 14-year-old choir girl and the
protagonist of ''Tiel's Impulse''. Her older brother was an OZ test pilot who was driven mad by the Gundam Lucifer's ZERO System Ver 2.0. In order to find him, she came up with the plan to sneak into the colony where Romefeller built their mass production Gundams, all under the auspices of a choral performance. During the Gundamjack, she stole the Wing Gundam Seraphim, whose ZERO System Ver 2.5 would be used to help her track down her older brother. However, the race to find her brother results in her losing her two best friends before finally encountering him. When she finds her older brother, he is completely mad, thanks to the ZERO System; when his sister refused to join him, the two fought and ended up falling into the Earth's atmosphere, dying in the process. ==Cast==