Patrick Zala

'''Patrick Zala While it isn't known as to how Patrick Zala was prior to the start of Gundam SEED, it's easy to say that the death of his wife when Junius Seven transformed him into a bitter and vengeful man. At first, he seems like a mirror image of sorts to his First Gundam counterpart Gihren Zabi: a charismatic man and capable leader. It was this that lead him to take over as ZAFT Supreme Chairman unlike Gihren, who used his charm to steal his power from his father. However, as the series continues, Patrick's mask starts slipping further and further as major losses take into effect. By the time the Second Battle of Jachin Due takes place, he's a paranoid man who has killed those he thought lead to devastating losses, shot at his own son because of his actions and actually advocated the complete eradication of the Natural side of the human race. Ironically, his break down would mirror that of his Earth Alliance "rival", Muruta Azrael. '''

'''When Rau Le Creuset and Athrun return to debrief over the events at Heliopolis, Patrick is seen sitting in their shuttle. He makes it clear to them that they didn't see him. He also slips to Athrun that he had omitted the fact that the Strike is being piloted by an Orb Coordinator, so as not to incite interference from the moderates. Prior to a council meeting, Patrick met with Siegel, making it clear that they must wipe out the Naturals and the Coordinators take their place. Siegel counters that third-generation Coordinators exhibit lack of fertility; Patrick says that the PLANT scientists will figure out a solution and refuses to allow humanity to revert to being Naturals. Because of his strong desire to end the war, Patrick became a popular figure, allowing him to overtake Siegel in the upcoming election and become the next Chairman. His rise to power as the Chairman of PLANT gave him great military power for expansion, which he used in Operation Spitbreak. Officially, the operation was to take out the Alliance's last mass driver at Panama; unofficially, he had his forces deploy instead to take out Alliance headquarters JOSH-A, without the approval rest of the PLANT Council. However, Rau secretly leaked intel of this attack to the Alliance, which compelled Blue Cosmos to sacrifice the Eurasian forces with the Cyclops system to eliminate half the attack force. The aftermath involved near insanity for Zala. Believing that the moderates had betrayed him, he ordered their arrest and if necessary, death in which he had Siegel Clyne killed. He got even more furious when Lacus Clyne gave the new Freedom mobile suit to Kira Yamato, whom he presumed to be an Alliance spy. He sent his own son, Athrun Zala/Justice after the suit and gave Athrun strict orders to use extreme measures of eliminating the pilot and anyone else that comes into contact with the suit so the details of the Freedom's key component, the Neutron Jammer Canceller does not fall into the hands of the Alliance. But when Athrun returned without either'''