Zechs Merquise

Evil-doer
Full Name	Milliardo Peacecraft
Alias	Zechs Merquise Lighting Count
Origin	Mobile Suit Gundam Wing
Occupation	OZ Colonel Commander-In-Chief of the White Fang
Powers / Skills	Combat Mobile Suit Piloting
Hobby	Repressing dissidents against OZ.
Goals	Exact revenge against the Earth government for toppling the Sanc Kingdom. Create a world without conflict led by his sister Relena.
Crimes	Oppression Terrorism
Type of Villain	Anti-Villain

Zechs Merquise is the secondary antagonist of Mobile Suit Gundam Wing. He is a Colonel in the OZ special forces and a close associate of Treize Khushrenada. Secretly, he is actually Prince Miliardo Peacecraft of the Sanc Kingdom, a nation conquered by the Romefeller Foundation. After leaving OZ, Zechs joins the White Fang and becomes their Commander-In-Chief to lead them in creating a world without conflict. He later appears as one of the main protagonists in Mobile Suit Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz.

He is voiced by Takehito Koyasu in the Japanese version of the anime, and by Brian Drummond in the English version of the anime.

History

Background

Milliardo Peacecraft was among the heirs to the Sanc Kingdom throne, until the attack by the United Earth Sphere Alliance. Ever since that incident, he donned his signature mask and alias Zechs Merquise to join the Alliance and eventually OZ in order to exact revenge from within.

Mobile Suit Gundam Wing

He would in his shuttle first encounter Gundam pilot Heero Yuy entering Earth to commence his attack. He and his underlings would try to pursue and shoot down Heero's machine. Zechs would then go into a Leo and manages to shoot at Heero's spacecraft, which then transforms into the Wing Gundam. After Heero takes out two pursuing Aries, Zechs would take his turn and grapples onto the Wing Gundam; he then exits the cockpit, parachutes himself, and leaves the weight of the Leo to drag the Wing Gundam down into the ocean. He would then get picked up by his shuttle and later report to Treize, who sends him to retrieve the fallen Gundam.

Zechs and his team would search for the Wing Gundam; however, once they found it, the salvaging team gets assaulted by Duo Maxwell's Deathscythe Gundam.

After that incident, he would eventually receive the Tallgeese at the Mediterranean base at the same time Trowa Barton assaults the Corisca Base with his Heavyarms Gundam. 

While hearing the report on Corsica Base, Lucrezia Noin would call Zechs' shuttle, and they converse over her decision to join OZ because of her love for outer space in spite of her actually hating wars. Later, he would relax at a night club with Noin, and they talk about the lively atmosphere of the place in relation to the youth of the soldiers and whether losing those troops is inevitable or not. Meanwhile, Otto calls Zechs about the status of fixing up the Tallgeese. After Wufei's attack on the OZ dormitories in the Lake Victoria Base and the destruction of the shuttle carrying the Taurus mobile suits, Zechs would try to comfort a distraught Noin and invite her to join with him in their next battles.

OZ would later begin its revolution against the Alliance, which started to take on a more peaceful route. On the day of Field Marshal Noventa's meeting for making peace with the colonies, Zechs and Noin join in on the usurpation of the Alliance's Nairobi Base. After the attack, Zechs delivers his speech to call for more allies and less resistance.

Mobile Suit Gundam Wing Endless Waltz

Zechs appears as a member of the Preventers, a peacekeeping organization led by Lady Une formed to prevent conflicts and wars from breaking out.

Gallery

Milliardo at the time of the Sanc Kingdom's destruction

Trivia

• Zechs Merquise's silver mask, red uniform and secret identity as an exiled prince and brother of the female lead make him an obvious homage to Char Aznable from the original Mobile Suit Gundam.