Setsuna F. Seiei

Setsuna F. Seiei, also known as Soran Ibrahim and Kamal Majirif, is the main protagonist from the Mobile Suit Gundam 00 series.
== Charactah Account ==
Setsuna is taciturn, introverted, and righteous against war. He believes there are key disturbances that affect the world from coming together in peace and harmony. He labeled specific people and/or forces as a source of conflict towards the world's path to peace. He has little tolerance for diplomats and politicians, believing that their negotiations only prolong wars and cause more strife (due to personal experience). He's got a vendetta to settle and his past battle experiences stirs old bitter feelings, increasing his combat potential as a beneficial side effect. Though a self proclaimed atheist, he often questions the motivations of God with people and worldly events. He idolizes the Gundams so much that he wants to embody Exia as himself, a Gundam. He's a traditionalist in honor and a martyr for his cause in Celestial Being. 
In a letter to Marina Ismail, he revealed more in depth into his feelings and thinking. Setsuna wanted to understand the lesser aspects of humanity. He wanted to know why the world is filled with people with innate dark intentions and inconsiderate of other people's suffering. He wanted to find these answers with his Gundam in hopes to bring mutual understanding and peace.
After a 5 year hiatus, Setsuna has taken an unofficial role as the leader of the Gundam Meisters. He's now able to assert and express his feelings to people without reservation. Setsuna's ideals are still the same, but his recent experiences lead him to believe the importance of self change and the need to fight for a better future. His determination and strong self confidence motivates and inspires people around him. He's more understanding and compromising, but also capable making hard-but necessary-decisions that would lead people to dislike him. He has no problems making life defining decisions for other people when they can't make the choice and would kill if necessary.
== Appearance ==
=== Anime ===
* Mobile Suit Gundam 00
* Mobile Suit Gundam 00 Movie: A Wakening of the Trailblazer
* Mobile Suit Gundam 00 Recap
* Mobile Suit Gundam 00 Special Edition
* Mobile Suit Gundam 00: Revealed Chronicle
* Mobile Suit Gundam 00: Second Season
=== Light Novels ===
* Mobile Suit Gundam 00 Second Season
=== Manga ===
* Mobile Suit Gundam 00
* Mobile Suit Gundam 00 - Blue Memories
* Mobile Suit Gundam 00 - Bonds
* Mobile Suit Gundam 00 2nd Season
* Mobile Suit Gundam 00 In Those Days
* Mobile Suit Gundam 00 Second Season
* Mobile Suit Gundam 00I 2314
=== Video Games ===
* Another Century's Episode Portable
* Dai-2-Ji Super Robot Taisen Z Hakai-hen
* Dai 3-Ji Super Robot Taisen Z Jigoku-hen
* Dai-2-Ji Super Robot Taisen Z Saisei-hen
* Dai 3-Ji Super Robot Taisen Z Tengoku-hen
* Dynasty Warriors: Gundam 3
* Dynasty Warriors: Gundam Reborn
* Gundam Assault Survive
* Gundam Tri Age
* Gundam Versus
* Mobile Suit Gundam 00
* Mobile Suit Gundam 00: Gundam Meisters
* Mobile Suit Gundam Extreme VS.
* Mobile Suit Gundam Extreme VS. Full Boost
* Mobile Suit Gundam Extreme VS. Maxi Boost ON
* Mobile Suit Gundam: Gundam vs. Gundam
* Mobile Suit Gundam: Gundam vs. Gundam Next
* Mobile Suit Gundam: Gundam vs. Gundam Next Plus
* SD Gundam G Generation 3D
* SD Gundam G Generation Overworld
* SD Gundam G Generation Wars
* SD Gundam G Generation World
* Super Robot Wars Operation Extend
* Super Robot Wars UX
* Super Robot Wars V
== Trivia ==
* Setsuna's name could be denoted to state his personality. Translated it means 'Moment from eternity' indicating Setsuna's place as the first Genuine Innovator.
* Setsuna is part of the Kurdish people.
* Coincidentally, both Setsuna's Japanese and English voice actors have also voiced Death Note character Light Yagami. Setsuna's Japanese voice actor, Mamoru Miyano, has also won the "Best voice actor award" for both roles at the 2008 Tokyo International Anime Fair. However, he never won any awards in the most prestigious event of the anime industry, the Anime Grand Prix (Animage), either as Light Yagami or as Setsuna F. Seiei.
* In the first ending theme, Setsuna appears eating an apple in a clear reference to Miyano's (as well as Brad Swaile's) role as Light Yagami.
* Setsuna's English voice actor, Brad Swaile, previously played Amuro Ray from the original Mobile Suit Gundam series, Quatre Raberba Winner in Gundam Wing, Dearka Elsman in Gundam SEED and Auel Neider in Gundam SEED Destiny. As a result of this, at times, Setsuna sounds more or less exactly like Amuro in Season 2. However, while voicing Setsuna when he is young, Swaile sounds more like he did playing Auel. Amuro and Setsuna being voiced by the same voice actor is also an interesting irony compared to their Japanese voice actor. In the Japanese version, Amuro Ray and Ribbons Almark are voiced by Tohru Furuya, a fact that has become the base of many fan-jokes (Ribbons Almark pilots the 0 Gundam, which is very much based on the RX-78-2 Gundam).
* Setsuna's personality is very similar to that of Heero Yuy from Mobile Suit Gundam Wing.
* Setsuna's real name may be based off Soran Ebrahim, a Kurdish child actor who portrayed the protagonist of the film [Turtles Can Fly].
* Setsuna did develop a second brain through the GN particle exposure, as mentioned in a Great mechanic's DX interview. This second brain is known as a Quantum brain, it is made up of a network of GN particles/Quantum brainwaves.
* Although not official, Setsuna displays a strong dislike for GN Fang-equipped mobile suits in Super Robot Wars Z2, which can be inferred to be due to the ruthless armed interventions carried out by the Trinity Gundam Meisters. He refused to accept the "Gundam with Fangs" as a true Gundam, until its pilot kindly informs him that the weapons are not in fact GN Fangs, but fin funnels.
* Setsuna is the first Gundam protagonist of Middle Eastern descent (although he has a Japanese name as an alias).
* Setsuna is described as someone who does not believe in God. He believed in Gundam (especially his own) as his savior.
* Alongside Gundam Wing's main character Heero Yuy, Setsuna is an example of the few Gundam protagonists that do not show romantic scenes with a female ​​character throughout their story in the motion picture. But it is obvious that Heero has some sense of affection for Relena Darlian, while Setsuna's feelings for Marina Ismail are still questionable, and could be interpreted as feelings similar to what he once had for his mother. His kiss with Nena Trinity can not be categorized as a romantic scene due to the fact that Setsuna did not consent to it (nor did he approve of Nena to begin with). However, the manga adaptation of the 00 Movie features additional take on Marina and Setsuna's reunion. The two were reunited and married metaphorically as if they were themselves fifty years back before the ELS Conflict.
* Besides the Exia Repair and Exia Repair II, Setsuna's Gundams' weaponry would consist of seven swords. Exia's main armaments consists of the GN Sword, a pair of GN Blades, two GN Beam Sabers and two GN Beam Daggers. The main weapons of his next mobile suit, the 00 Raiser consists of the GN Sword III, two GN Sword IIs, two GN Beam Sabers and a pair of bladed GN Shields. Lastly, the 00 Qan(T)'s main armaments consist of the GN Sword V and six sword bits.
* Unlike most of the others Gundam series' protagonist (e.g.: Kira Yamato, Amuro Ray, Garrod Ran, etc.), Setsuna was taught how to fight even before he became a Gundam Meister.
* When in the last fight of both seasons against a mobile suit with GN T Drive Setsuna's Gundam always ends up losing its head and left arm, this pays homage to how the RX-78-2 Gundam lost it's head and left arm in it's last fight.
* In Super Robot Wars Z2, Setsuna's Ace Bonus (bonus that earned after reaching 70 kills) is 50% more damage against units with Solar Furnaces and Gundam-type units. This may be based on Setsuna's obsession with Gundam.
* A joke about Setsuna's obsession with Gundam occurs in Super Robot Wars Z2 Hakai-hen in scenario 34. In that scenario, Setsuna amazed with Ranka Lee's ability to stop the rampaging Zentradis with her song, Seikan Hikou. He then said (in Japanese): "An overwhelming power that can change everything. Is that song also a Gundam?"
* Setsuna establishes a respectful rivalry with Heero Yuy in Super Robot Wars Z2 Hakai-hen and keep the relationship in the game's sequel, Super Robot Wars Z2 Saisei-hen. The peak of their rivalry is when Heero said that Setsuna have surpassed the Gundam, which is then replied by Setsuna by saying that Heero's praise is the greatest compliment he had received.
* In scenario 55 of Super Robot Wars Z2 Saisei-hen, the last scenario of Macross Frontier storyline, Setsuna managed to exploit 00 Raiser's Trans-Am Burst System to aid Ranka Lee in her attempt to communicate with an army of extraterrestrial race known as Vajras. This is a contrary to what happens in Awakening of the Trailblazer, where he was not able to use the same method to communicate with the ELS.
* While Setsuna's pilot suit is usually blue, in both of his return appearances in Season 2 and the movie while working undercover, he is seen with a black suit.
* In Dynasty Warriors Gundam 3, Setsuna has a special quote if he uses a Combination SP Attack with the DLC character Graham Aker where the two reveal their star signs to each other. Setsuna as an Aries, whose element is the sun seems to be a reference to the GN Drives being solar reactors and the seemingly infinite radiance they produce. It is also backed up that his being saved by the 0 Gundam occurred at sunset.
* Setsuna and his personal Mobile Suits (Exia, 00, 00 Qan[T]) were among the inspirations for Ultraman Zero, a recurring character of the Ultra Series who also Shared the same voice actor. In comparison to Setsuna;
** Both of their weapons of choice are known for being swords. Exia's habit of throwing its GN Beam Daggers and GN Short Blade parallels that of Zero's Zero Sluggers.
** Their final form involves having their skin turned metallic.
** Both are kind but do not really show it.
** These similarities were taken further in the 2014 game Lost Heroes 2, where both Ultraman Zero and 00 Qan[T] can perform the combination attack called GN Ultimate Zero Sword (GN Ji En Urutimeito Zero Soudo). Afterwards, they ended it with their quote "We are Gundam/Ultraman!" while Zero remarks how Setsuna can't decide the catchphrase properly, prompting the latter to apologize.
** Both have interacted with a character voiced by Yuichi Nakamura - Graham Aker/Mister Bushido and Ultraman X.
* Setsuna's English voice actor Brad Swaile is credited as "Brian Swaile" on Right Stuf's North American DVD release of Mobile Suit Gundam 00.
* To obtain both the "ELS Innovator" and the "Innovator" variant of the Setsuna AI Pilot in Gundam Breaker Mobile, players must build it from event blueprints during a limited time when it is available as a build project. This is very resource-intensive process, as each part requires a combination of twelve total Material which can only be obtained by rolling the current gacha capsules on specific weeks to get the number of necessary material for the part. it would take at least twelve rolls over four weeks to craft the AI.
* Setsuna appears in the Gundam Extreme Vs. series as the pilot of the Exia and Exia Repair, Avalanche Exia, 00 Gundam, 00 Gundam Seven Sword, Qan[T] and Qan[T] Full Saber and is tied with Char Aznable for piloting the most units in the series.
** Due to Setsuna's poorly worded but iconic "I am Gundam", several characters, including Char, will be confused and believe Setsuna to be crazy enough to think he's an actual Gundam. Mikazuki Augus will mistakenly think that "Gundam" is supposed to be Setsuna's name.
** Exia Setsuna will be surprised by the development of the Gundam Meisters' units in the future, particularly the 00's twin GN Drive and the Dynames' successor units.
** Several characters will try their spin on Setsuna's iconic "Setsuna F. Seiei slashing through the future!" such as Tatsuya Yuuki and Banagher Links.
** Because of similarities between both units and their pilots, Setsuna will mistake Amuro Ray's RX-78-2 Gundam for the 0 Gundam. He also mistakes the red lights of the RX-0 Unicorn Gundam to be the same as Trans-Am.
* In DLC SD Gundam Battle Alliance, ELS Setsuna is the last boss and was from Graham's imagination to test his own mind.
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== External Links ==
* Setsuna F. Seiei at The Gundam Wiki
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