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Heero Yuy, Gundam pilot
Heero Yuy, Gundam pilot

Heero Yuy (ヒイロ・ユイ, derived from Japanese 1, hi) is the name of two fictional characters from the anime series Mobile Suit Gundam Wing and its sequels. One is a martyred pacifist leader, while the other is a young soldier (ironically) named in his honor. The latter Heero is the main character of Gundam Wing and its OVA sequel Endless Waltz.

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Heero Yuy, the Politician

One of the most important figures in the After Colony world, Heero Yuy was a charismatic politician from the colonies. In AC 165, the colonists elected him as their chief representative and used his incredible personal magnetism to help unite the colonies. Yuy began preaching a policy of pacifism and non-violence, urging the world's nations to disarm. This won him many supporters, including the prestigious Peacecraft family, monarchs of the Sanc Kingdom. In AC 174, he began making a goodwill tour of the colonies and began preparations for a colonial independence movement. One year later, on April 7 AC 175, Yuy was felled by an assassin's bullet; present at the time were his aides Dekim Barton and Quinze. Following Yuy's death, the United Earth Sphere Alliance began tightening the colonists' freedoms even further, cutting off communications between the colonies, lest rebellion ferment. Ironically enough, the act of killing Heero Yuy did just that.

Heero Yuy, Gundam Pilot

Biographical Information

Personality

Heero Yuy is a complicated character. His cold, businesslike demeanor seems more fitting for a war-torn veteran than a fifteen-year-old boy. When Relena meets Doctor J, the engineer comments that Heero is actually a very kind-hearted young man who keeps his emotions reigned in while fighting. He also exhibits a dry sense of humor, often used in response to Duo's attempts at jokes. On many occasions, Heero espouses the philosophy that being emotional on the battlefield will only result in heartbreak, so soldiers need to be able to fight without caring about their opponents. However, he believes that there's nothing wrong with showing emotion in normal situations. The most important philosophy to Heero's life, however, is the one his mentor Odin Lowe espouses: that the best way to live life is by one's emotions.

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Early life

Little is known about the early life of the young man who would become the pilot of Wing Gundam. His first documented appearance is at age eight, where he was the ward of Odin Lowe, a former member of OZ and then a professional hitman who ironically was the one who killed the original Heero Yuy. In addition to protecting the boy (and giving himself an alibi), Lowe taught the child how to survive on his own and how to handle a gun. In AC 188, the pair went to colony L3-X18999 on a mission to assassinate the Alliance's General Septum. While Lowe handled the assassination, the child was sent to aid the colonial rebels who had clashed with the Specials. Taking an RPG, the boy attempted to destroy the communications tower (operated by a then-12-year-old Lucrezia Noin), but Instructor Treize Khushrenada moved his Leo in the way, protecting Noin but badly injuring himself. Escaping, the boy found Lowe fatally wounded. As he died, he told the boy to live by his emotions, reminding him that it only takes one foolish person to change the world. Left alone, the boy began wandering the colonies until he was discovered by Doctor J. Admiring the child's bearing, J offered him the chance to pilot a Gundam and free the colonies. His mentor's words ringing in his ears, the boy accepted.

In AC 191, a young boy greatly resembling Lowe's ward appeared at the Saint Gabriel Academy in the Sanc Kingdom, where he encountered the young Relena Peacecraft (then Darlian) and assisted in an anti-Alliance attack. Though there is some doubt cast on whether this is the same boy or not, it seems highly likely.

In AC 194, the boy was assigned to destroy an Alliance base on a colony. After planting the explosives in the daytime, he took the time to relax, planning on destroying the base that night. While in a park, he met a young girl who was out walking her dog and made friends with her. That night, when he triggered the explosives, a nearby Leo was knocked onto an apartment building, crushing it before it exploded as well. Investigating the ruins, he found the girl's dog, dead. The direction leaves no doubt that the girl also died. When he buried it, and possibly the girl, out of remorse, Dekim Barton ordered Doctor J to retrain the boy, saying that emotions would be a detriment to a "weapon". Whether this training was carried out or not remains unknown, but this incident left the boy with a great sense of self-loathing and remorse, which cumulated in several suicide attempts. It also would explain how Heero, in the series, displays little to no emotion.

Shortly before Operation Meteor, word leaked that Vice Foreign Minister Darlian had learned about the plan. The Barton Foundation sent a hit team to assassinate him. Doctor J offered the boy three options: aid the assassination, stop it, or ignore the whole thing. He decided to stop the attempt, saving Darlian's life. Later, as he visited the makeshift grave he had made for the girl, Doctor J informed the boy that they would indeed be carrying out Operation Meteor as Dekim decreed it. Once more, he had three options: go along with the genocidal plan, kill J and run away, or change the plan.

On April 7, AC 195, the young man climbed into Wing Gundam's cockpit, intent on carrying out his own version of Operation Meteor. As he prepared to depart, Doctor J decided to give him a codename. Picking one appropriate for the mission, he dubbed the young pilot "Heero Yuy", and sent him to Earth to free the colonies as his namesake had once intended...

Operation Meteor and the Eve Wars

As Wing Gundam entered the atmosphere, Heero found a civilian shuttle in his path, ironically containing Vice Foreign Minister Darlian and his daughter Relena. Contemplating the destruction of the shuttle, he was interrupted by an Alliance patrol squadron, led by OZ's ace pilot, Zechs Merquise. Even with Wing's incredible capabilities, Zechs managed to get close enough to grapple the Gundam with his Leo freefalling towards the ocean below and then escape, sending the two machines to the bottom of the ocean. Washing up on the beach, Heero's unconscious body was found by Relena, but he soon escapes her and the medics that arrive shortly. After escaping, he enrolled in the Saint Gabriel Academy as a cover for his activities. Coincidentally, Relena attends school there as well, and when she invited the mysterious boy to her birthday party, he shredded the invitation and said that he would kill her.

Still believing that his life was worthless, Heero attempted to destroy Wing and kill himself so that he wouldn't hurt anyone again. He broke into an Alliance naval base and prepared several torpedoes to destroy the Gundam. However, he was interrupted first by Relena, who had sought him out instead of attending her own party, then by another Gundam pilot. Duo Maxwell, pilot of the XXXG-01D Gundam Deathscythe, had found Wing and planned on keeping it for spare parts. After an altercation where Heero ended up taking multiple gunshot wounds and both Gundams were damaged from Heero's attempt to destroy Wing, Heero was then taken to an Alliance hospital under guard. Duo managed to break him out, but as they jumped from the tall building, Heero didn't open his parachute, with the intent of committing suicide. Relena, who was present, called out to him; this caused him to finally open the chute, saving his life but breaking his leg in the process. However, he managed to set the bone manually, much to Duo's dismay.

Later, Vice Foreign Minister Darlian was assassinated by OZ for supporting colonial independence. Relena, who was present, was labelled a potential risk and marked for death as well. She was rescued by Doctor J, who told her about Heero and his mission. Returning to Earth in time for a party at the school, Relena confronted Heero and told him that she learned the truth about him from Doctor J and that she still supported him, and he had no reason to consider her an enemy. Unfortunately, OZ sent a mobile suit team to attack the school with the intent of killing Relena. Heero drove them off before running away as well, still stunned by the fact that he not only couldn't bring himself to kill the girl, but that he actually saved her from certain death.

In mid-May, Heero was informed of an OZ meeting at the New Edwards Base in California, although in truth it was actually an Alliance peace conference aimed at better relations with the Colonies. Proceeding there with Duo as his back-up, the pair ran afoul of two more Gundam pilots, Trowa Barton and Quatre Raberba Winner. During the fight, a shuttle bearing OZ markings attempted to flee. Seeing this, Heero flew up to the shuttle in Wing and destroyed it. Unfortunately, the whole thing had been a set-up. OZ's leader Treize had lent his shuttle to the Alliance's pacifists for their evacuation, including Field Marshall Noventa, who had been urging for peace with the colonies. In reaction, General Septum, a hotheaded and radical Alliance general, declared war on the colonies.

After hearing the news from the final Gundam pilot Chang Wufei about what really happened, Heero was in shock. Heero became consumed by feelings of guilt and was unable to fight back against OZ's Leos forcing Duo and Quatre to protect him. Heero's mental state returned to normal when he learns from Sally Po that OZ was planning to detonate all the missiles at the New Edwards Base to kill them all and destroy everything in one stroke. Heero used the Wing Gundam to enter the missile silo complex and disarmed the missile that was set to trigger all the other missiles to explode.

Some time later, Heero received word that OZ was transporting its new OZ-12SMS Taurus model and chose to attack the transport route. During the battle, he encountered Zechs, who wanted to test his new OZ-00MS Tallgeese against Wing. In the middle of their duel, however, Lady Une threatened to use the Alliance's missile satellites to attack the colonies unless the Gundams surrendered. Doctor J broke into the transmission, offering his surrender but not that of the Gundams. That was Heero's cue; under orders, he hit the self-destruct button, destroying Wing and nearly killing himself. Trowa recovered him and spent a month nursing him back to health. After recovering, Heero sought penance for killing the Alliance members by tracking down their families and offering to let them kill him as payback. During this course, Heero and Trowa were met by Noin, who had an offer from Zechs.

The pair travelled to OZ's Antarctica Base, where Zechs had been rebuilding Wing in secret. His reason: to get the duel he had been denied by Une's intervention. Heero agreed, but said that he would use Trowa's XXXG-01H Gundam Heavyarms instead; he felt that using the rebuilt Wing would make him feel beholden to Zechs and affect his fighting. The two dueled, only to be interrupted once again, this time by Relena, who had a letter from Noventa's wife urging the boy not to be so careless with his life. In this confrontation, it was revealed that Zechs was actually Relena's older brother, Milliardo Peacecraft. Trowa then arrived in Wing, saying that OZ's pursuit team was on the way. Zechs offered to cover everyone's escape, shouldering the blame.

At this point, OZ began making a play for the colonies. By acting friendlier than the harsh Alliance, the organization won many supporters and succeeded in turning colonial sentiment against the Gundams. Abandoning Wing on Earth, Heero went to space to fight OZ there and had attended school under Duo Maxwell's name for his cover, as his code name would had only attracted more attention to himself. Learning that Duo had been captured, he broke into an OZ base to kill the youth, but instead decided to rescue him. Shortly thereafter, Heero learned that the Gundam engineers had been captured and were on the Lunar Base, building new machines for OZ. He went there to deal with them, but was captured by Trowa, who had entered OZ as a cadet to spy on them.

Recognizing Heero's skill, OZ set him to work piloting the new mobile suit Mercurius, with Trowa in the OZ-13MSX1 Vayeate to make sure he didn't try anything. A short while later, a new Gundam began destroying colonies seemingly at random. OZ dispatched Heero and Trowa to deal with it. They learned that the Gundam was the XXXG-00W0 Wing Gundam Zero, and it was piloted by Quatre. Distraught over his father's death and his mental stability affected by the ZERO System, Quatre had decided to destroy the colonies for their betrayal. During the battle, Trowa took an attack that would have killed Heero, destroying the Vayeate. Taking advantage of the distraction, Heero managed to capture Quatre, only for OZ to grab them both as well as Wing Zero. OZ had the boys test the ZERO System, but the effects made Heero rampage through their base until Quatre commandeered Mercurius and managed to stop him. Escaping from OZ, the pair went back to Earth.

When the two pilots arrived on Earth, they learned that OZ had put a bounty on their heads. Remaining with former Alliance members, Heero initially resisted Quatre's suggestions to go to the pacifist Sanc Kingdom. Instead, he left Quatre and signed up with a group of mercenaries fighting OZ, using his position as a Gundam pilot to gain their trust. However, OZ had just deployed the new OZ-02MD Virgo mobile doll, and Heero found himself facing death once more. He was saved by the intervention of both Quatre and Noin, the latter who delivered Wing's buster rifle and asked them to come to the Sanc Kingdom. Finally relenting, Heero agreed, and headed to a reunion with Relena, the nation's sovreign.

Though he remained in the Sanc Kingdom, Heero was averse to the nation's ideals, as he made plain to Relena on at least one occasion. Behind the young princess' back, Lucrezia Noin convinced Heero to protect the nation as part of an underground defense force, consisting of Wing Gundam and several OZ-12SMS Taurus. After saving Relena's life from an OZ ambush, she agreed to allow the defense force, but tried to keep Heero from leaving by making him promise not to go searching for battles. Heero agreed, but quickly broke his word when he learned that Treize Khushrenada was under house arrest at his mansion in Luxembourg. Upon arriving, Heero fought several Virgos, but found himself outnumbered and his Gundam disabled. Receiving a message from Treize, he abandoned his Gundam and entered the mansion. After their first face-to-face meeting, Treize gave Heero a new mobile suit, the OZ-13MS Gundam Epyon, with which to determine his own path in life. Unfortunately, Epyon's ZERO System proved too much for Heero to handle, often driving him to the verge of berserker frenzies. When OZ launched its final attack on the Sanc Kingdom, Heero continued fighting even after Relena surrendered and formally dissolved the nation. After that point, Heero encountered Zechs, who was piloting Wing Zero. The two Gundams' ZERO Systems drove their pilots to battle until they collapsed from the mental overload caused by their ZERO Systems. Having a brief conversation, the pair agreed to exchange Gundams, putting Wing Zero back in Heero's hands.

As the space-borne rebels called White Fang rose to power, Heero attempted to assassinate Relena who had become Romefeller's chief representive. However after Relena's speech about her plans to change Romefeller into a peaceful World Nation, Heero chose to spare Relena and give her the chance to do so. Heero then headed back to space with Sally Po and met up with Peacemillion, the spaceship designed by the Gundam engineers. Achieving mastery of the ZERO System, Heero loaned it out to Wufei and Trowa, giving the former the conviction to join the other Gundam pilots and restoring the latter's memories when the two of them utilized it. When White Fang began using the ZERO System to coordinate its mobile doll forces, Heero removed the system from Wing Zero and put it in Quatre's XXXG-01SR Gundam Sandrock, enhancing his leadership skills with the system's abilities. Throughout the final conflict, Heero faced off with Zechs many times, always wondering if Epyon's system was telling Zechs that his desire to eliminate the Earth was the correct path.

After Duo revealed that Relena was being held prisoner on White Fang's space station Libra, Heero infiltrated the ship to rescue her. The two encountered Zechs, but were unable to convince him to stop his plans. As he prepared to head into the final battle, Heero promised Relena that he would live through the war, and return to her. Heero immediately went after Zechs, and the two engaged in a duel that spanned Libra's airspace and the station's interior. Though both Gundams received heavy damage, Heero came out on top as word of the peace agreement came to them. Unfortunately, Libra had been set on a collision course with Earth. Flying into the upper atmosphere, Heero used Wing Zero's twin buster rifle to finish off Libra, and bring the war to an end.

Blind Target

In the spring of AC 196, Heero Yuy had apparently taken on a normal civilian life and enrolled in school on the colonies. However, he was approached by two men in suits who wanted to buy both Wing Zero and his services as a pilot for "the coming conflict". Realizing that this was not an isolated incident, Heero began an investigation. He learned that the people who approached him were former White Fang soldiers who wanted to start another war with the Earth. After bombing a conference full of representatives, White Fang attempted to assassinate Relena, the leading figure in the peace process. However, Heero rushed to her aid and thwarted the assassins. Taking Relena and her aide Chris Marley along, Heero met up with the other Gundam pilots and hid out at an abandoned colony. After driving off White Fang's attempted invasion and securing Relena, Heero confronted Chris with the fact that she was a White Fang spy. Heero then revealed that the new White Fang's leader, Commander Sogran, had ulterior motives. He, Trowa, and White Fang member Ralph Kurt confronted Sogran, who revealed that he simply wanted to sell the Gundams to a mobile suit manufacturer, and didn't care about the "brainless masses" of White Fang. At this point, it was revealed that Sogran's message was sent throughout the base, telling the White Fang members of his deceit. Leaving Sogran to their mercies, Heero returned to his quiet way of life.

Battlefield of Pacifists

That summer, Heero and Duo decided to help Relena's movement towards total disarmament. While she investigated former weapons manufacturers, the two pilots snuck into their bases, searching for hidden mobile suit construction lines. However, with the notion that OZ's lost mobile doll plant might not be a rumor, Heero decided to investigate it further. His first act was to speak to Dorothy Catalonia, who as the granddaughter of Romefeller's chief representative, would be privy to any such knowledge. Initially, Dorothy coyly pretended not to know anything and offered to let Heero spend the night at her mansion. The next morning, she revealed that she had invited Relena along, hoping to spark a romantic meeting. However, both Heero and Relena were more concerned with Vulkanus, so Dorothy gave them the only information she had on it and allowed them the use of her database. While they worked, Relena offered Heero a position with Preventer, but he declined, citing his desire to work alone. Eventually, they managed to discover Vulkanus' orbit, and with Relena's help, Heero returned to space. Using Wing Zero's high speed booster to catch up with the other pilots, Heero arrived just in time to help them fight off the Perfect Peace People and the OZ-16MSX-D Scorpio. Wing Zero dealt the finishing blow to the Scorpio, and when Quatre proposed his idea of destroying the Gundams by sending them to the sun, Heero agreed.

Endless Waltz

December 24, AC 196 - Quatre carried out the plan to destroy the Gundams by sending them, with Vulkanus, into the sun. In the meantime, Heero continued to look out for Relena from the shadows. His investigation into the colony X18999 quickly let him learn that she had been captured, and he enlisted Duo's aid in a rescue attempt.

Infiltrating the colony, Heero's Leo came across Wufei and his XXXG-01S2 Altron Gundam. Unfortunately for Heero, Wufei was working for the people who kidnapped Relena. Meanwhile Trowa attacked Duo with a Serpent Custom, being previously captured by Wufei. Heero fought his best against Wufei, but the decades-old Leo was unable to hold up to a modern Gundam, and Heero was defeated. Sensing what was happening, Trowa intervened to let Heero escape.

Heero and Duo found that they were too late to save Relena, but learned that the coup was being carried out by their former boss Dekim Barton, who wanted to drop the colony on Earth as part of a renewed Operation Meteor. Rushing to prevent its fall, Trowa reveals that he was only pretending to support the plan, and the trio were able to stabilize the colony. After getting word from Quatre that the Gundams were safe, Heero devised an escape plan by pretending to be unconscious. Taking a shuttle, he met with Wing Zero in space and hurried to Earth to save Relena.

However, his path was blocked by Wufei, and a battle from space to Earth ensued. Feeling that the battle was pointless, Heero allowed Wing Zero to plunge into the ocean, asking Wufei to reconsider his actions. Knocked unconscious in the fall, Heero was woken up by Wing Zero, which told him that he still had a mission to accomplish.

Flying to Brussels, Heero used Wing Zero's signature twin buster rifle blast to heavily damage Dekim's shelter with precise accuracy. Yet Serpent Custom units attacked Wing Zero as he fired upon the shelter, which resulted in its destruction. Battered and exhausted, Heero entered the shattered base, only to collapse into Relena's arms shortly after promising never to kill again. As the world moved towards peace and mobile suits were eliminated for good, Heero continued to watch over Relena as he began living his life free from war and violence. There is an important change in the movie versus the manga. In the movie, he is shown walking off into the sunset, or rather stars, while the manga shows a panel of him working as a bodyguard for Relena.

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