Murrue Ramius as minor character in Gundam SEED.
She is voiced by Kotono Mitsuishi in the Japanese version, and by Carrie Keranen, who voiced Mami Tomoe and Casca in the NYAV Post dub and Lisa Ann Beley in the Ocean Group Dub in the English dubbed.
Personality[]
Murrue is a caring and compassionate woman who greatly cares for those serving under her command. Despite her kind nature, she is fully capable of being a disciplined soldier when the situation deems it necessary, but still dislikes having to send her people into bad situations, and will devote time and resources to finding them, as she refuses to leave her them behind.
Background[]
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Appearance[]
Murrue always tries to seem very stern and commanding, but she's also very beautiful and looks young for a military officer, and like most female characters in in the series she's depicted as being unusually buxom. She has light brown eyes and hair, and usually wears her Earth Alliance military uniform; for a while, posing as "Maria Bernes", Murrue wore a tight yellow top and blue jeans.
History[]
First Alliance-PLANT War[]
A citizen of the Atlantic Federation, Murrue became an officer of the Earth Alliance Forces. As a technical officer, she was involved in the development of Phase Shift armor at the Haven Island Technical Institute in the Atlantic Federation. Murrue arrived at Heliopolis as an executive officer of the Earth Alliance's newly built mobile assault ship Archangel, but with the death of her superiors, including the ship's captain, when the ZAFT forces attacked the space colony to steal the G weapons, she became its acting captain. While she initially suggested that Mu La Flaga, the most senior officer present, should command the ship, he declined because his role as one of the ship's only pilots meant he cannot stay on the bridge.[1]
Promoted when the Archangel rendezvoused with Rear Admiral Duane Halberton's 8th Fleet,[2] Murrue descended to the planet's surface during the Battle of Orbit and landed in Africa.[3] There, she allied her group with the Desert Dawn resistant group to fight against the ZAFT forces commanded by Andrew Waltfeld during the Desert Dawn Campaign.[4][5] The battered assault ship finally made its way to Alaska, arriving several months after leaving Heliopolis, after several ocean battles and an extended repair stopover in the neutral Orb Union.[6]
Captain Ramius and the Archangel deserted the Earth Alliance during Operation Spitbreak, after learning they, along with most of the Eurasian Federation forces, were made decoys by the Atlantic Federation to lure the ZAFT forces within JOSH-A before activating the Cyclops System. The reason for blindsiding Ramius was the fact that her crew was "tainted" by having a coordinator (Kira Yamato) aboard, and the Earth Alliance could not accept him as one of them.[7] Reunited with Kira - now piloting the stolen ZGMF-X10A Freedom Gundam - Ramius and Archangel joined the Orb forces at the Battle of Orb, trying to defend the island from the Alliance's attempt to forcefully take the country's mass driver.[8][9]
Just before Orb self-destructed its mass driver, the Archangel and Orb's ship, the Kusanagi, launch into space.[10] At the Mendel colony, they join forces with the Clyne Faction, a ZAFT renegade group led by Lacus Clyne and Andrew Waltfeld aboard the stolen FFMH-Y101 Eternal. United against the escalation of violence by both ZAFT and the Earth Alliance, they form the Three Ships Alliance.[11]
However, the new Archangel-class ship Dominion found their hiding place. Its captain, Natarle, tried to convince Murrue to surrender and discuss their problems with the proper authorities, hoping to avoid a battle with her former CO. However, Murrue responded back about her doubts about the Alliance, since it was being controlled by the extremist group Blue Cosmos.[12]
At the Second Battle of Jachin Due, the Three Ships Alliance helped end the war and avoided total devastation to both factions. Both sides, led by the radical leaders Patrick Zala and Muruta Azrael, were intent on exterminating each other, just exactly as Rau Le Creuset planned for the complete annihilation of humanity.
Over the course of the war, Murrue developed a romantic relationship with Mu La Flaga. On the final day of the war, Mu was apparently killed protecting Archangel from her sister ship Dominion's positron attack. In overwhelming grief, rage and anguish, Murrue ordered the Archangel's own positron cannon to return fire, killing both Azrael and Natarle. As the battle continued to rage on, Murrue bursted into tears over losing her beloved.
After the war, Murrue, and most of the Archangel's crew, were given new identities and residence in Orb, adopting the alias Maria Bernes (マリア・ベルネス, Maria Berunesu?). She was seen sitting alone drinking a cup of tea facing an empty chair where Mu should be sitting, if he were still with her.[13]
Battle of Heliopolis[]
She was first seen defending the prototype GAT machines from the attacking ZAFT forces. During the process, Hamana, one of her colleagues, gets shot by one of the ZAFT intruders. When Murrue is injured by the approaching ZAFT pilot, Kira runs to her. Both he and the soldier stop in hesitation after seeing each other: Kira discovers the last ZAFT pilot is the same childhood friend he was remembering earlier - Athrun Zala - and so does Athrun recognize Kira. Amidst this, Murrue shoots at Athrun, who then falls back and goes into the GAT-X303 Aegis unit. She and Kira then enter the remaining GAT-X105 Strike unit.
Assuming command at the suggestion of Ensign Natarle Badgiruel, Lt. Ramius was shown to be a competent commanding officer with an excellent intuitive grasp of her crew's and her ship's capabilities. While she initially suggested that Lt. Mu La Flaga, the most senior officer present, should command the ship, he declined because his role as one of the ship's only pilots means he cannot stay on the bridge. She becomes promoted to Lt. Commander when the Archangel rendezvoused with Rear Admiral Duane Halberton's 8th Fleet.
Desert Dawn[]
After the 8th Fleet held off the ZAFT attackers in the Battle of Orbit, Murrue descended to the planet's surface and lands in Africa, fighting her way through ZAFT forces commanded by Andrew Waltfield.
Equatorial Skirmishes[]
While moving through the Red Sea and Arabian Sea following Desert Dawn, Murrue and her crew encountered more ZAFT attackers, which they have been trying to avoid. Eventually, the belligerents near Orb's coast, and the latter warns the two sides about fighting near their waters. Cagalli, who fought in Desert Dawn and then boarded the Archangel, revealed herself as the daughter of Uzumi Nara Athha, Orb's leader. After the Orb fleet fakes an attack on the Archangel to convince the ZAFT forces to leave, she and the other two higher-ups meet with Athha and have a talk. He at one point requests a copy of the Strike's data, and Kira, with his Coordinator abilities, collaborates with Morgenroete. The Archangel then departs Orb and makes its way to Alaska.
Operation Spitbreak[]
The battered assault ship finally made its way to Alaska, arriving several months after leaving Heliopolis, including an extended repair stopover in the neutral Orb Union.
Upon arriving at JOSH-A, the officers of the Archangel crew were enquiry by William Sutherland and the other higher ups. There, he mentions Kira Yamato's genetic type as a Coordinator and uses that fact against them. He also reveals his true agenda of eliminating Coordinators.
The Archangel deserted the Earth Alliance after learning they, along with most of the Eurasian Federation forces, were made decoys by the Blue Cosmos controlled Atlantic Federation to lure the ZAFT forces within JOSH-A before operating the Cyclops System. The reason for blindsiding Ramius was the fact that her crew was "tainted" by having a Coordinator (Kira Yamato) aboard, and could not accept him as one of them.
Battle of Orb[]
Following that incident, the Archangel crew made their way to Orb for sanctuary, after cutting ties with the Alliance.
When the Earth Alliance threatens the Orb Union, the Archangel joined the Orb forces at the Battle of Orb, trying to defend the island from the Alliance's attempt to forcefully take the country's mass driver.
Just before Orb self-destructs its mass driver, Archangel and Orb's ship Kusanagi launch into space. At Mendel they join forces with the stolen support ship Eternal, a ZAFT renegade group led by Lacus Clyne and Andrew Waltfield. United against the escalation of violence by both ZAFT and the Earth Alliance, they form the Three Ships Alliance, or Clyne Faction.
Battle of Mendel Colony[]
However, the new Archangel-class ship Dominion found their hiding place. Its captain, Natarle, tried to convince Murrue to surrender and discuss their problems with the proper authorities, hoping to avoid a battle with her former CO. However, Murrue responded back about her doubts about the Alliance, since it was being controlled by the extremist group Blue Cosmos.
Second Battle of Jachin Due[]
In the Second Battle of Jachin Due, the Clyne Faction helped ending the war and avoiding total devastation to both factions. Both sides, led by the radical leaders Patrick Zala and Muruta Azrael, were intent on exterminating each other, just exactly as Rau Le Creuset planned for the complete annihilation of humanity.
Over the course of the war, Murrue develops a romantic relationship with Mu La Flaga. On the final day of the war, Mu is apparently killed protecting the Archangel from her sister ship Dominion's positron attack. In overwhelming grief, rage, and anguish, Murrue orders the the Archangel's own positron cannon to fire back, killing both Azrael and Natarle, with the latter calling for the attack and sacrificing her life to defeat the former. As the battle continued to rage on, Murrue burst into tears over losing her beloved.
After the war, she settles in Orb. In the epilogue, she is seen sitting alone drinking a cup of tea facing an empty chair where Mu should be sitting, if he were still with her.
Second Alliance-PLANT War[]
After the war, Murrue Ramius, and most of the Archangel's crew, lived in Orb, and was adopted to its military due to her contributions in the previous war. She worked as the head of Morgenroete's Shipbuilding Section B, adopting the alias Maria Bernes (マリア・ベルネス Maria Berunesu?). She met Talia Gladys, as she was being responsible for the repairs of the Minerva, when it arrives from Orb after the events of Break the World. "Maria" was frequently seen in the company of Andrew Waltfield.
After the departure of Minerva, Murrue, along with Waltfeld, thwarted an attempted assassination of Lacus Clyne. After Orb's membership into the Earth Alliance, Murrue reunited the original crew, and relaunched the Archangel, which was revealed to be upgraded to operate underwater. Before departure, they abducted Cagalli from her political wedding with Yuna Roma Seiran.
Battle of Dardanelles[]
A fight between ZAFT and the Alliance and Orb duo forces goes on. The Minerva attempts to fire its Tannhauser cannon, the Freedom shoots it out of nowhere, and the Archangel arrives. Murrue and her forces go on to try and stop the battle, although ZAFT didn't fully understand their intentions.
Battle of Crete[]
The Archangel involved itself again in trying to keep Orb forces from the fighting. Unfortunately, ZAFT misinterpreted their actions as causing confusion on the battlefield.
Battle of Berlin[]
During the Battle of Berlin, the unconscious body of the captured Neo Roanoke was presented to Murrue. To Murrue's shock, Roanoake's physiology was discovered to be completely identical to Mu's, concluding that the Phantom Pain captain was none other than her colleague and lover, Mu La Flaga, who was believed to be killed in the previous war. While Roanoke was still amnesiac, he began to making romantic advances to Murrue, unwittingly rekindling his love for her, making Murrue rather uncomfortable.
Operation Angel Down[]
Following the exposure of LOGOS, ZAFT decides to eliminate the Archangel. However, Captain Gladys at first offered the Archangel to surrender, which Murrue, revealing her true identity to her counterpart, politely refused. A furious battle then followed suit. She and her crew manage to escape destruction by ejecting and detonating one of the Archangel's spare engines as they submerged, appearing to the Minerva that they have been sunk. They make repairs after arriving at Orb.
Second Battle of Orb - Operation Fury[]
On the Second Battle of Orb, Murrue provided Neo the Skygrasper, accepting that he was no longer the man that she once loved. The Archangel then went on to defend the Orb from the ZAFT fleet, which was after Lord Djibril, revealing themselves to the Minerva. They engaged in a dogfight, in which Neo involved himself, stating that he had a score to settle with the Minerva. Neo then blurted out that he will help the Archangel defeat the Minerva, saying he's the man who "can make the impossible possible," which Murrue recognized as Mu's signature line. Soon enough, Murrue ordered the Archangel to submerge, discouraging the Minerva from attacking and enabling them to attack the underwater ZAFT fleet. When Djibril fled into space, the ZAFT forced to withdraw from Orb territory. Subsequently, Murrue herself, along with the crew of the Archangel received special promotions from Cagalli, joining Orb's 2nd Space Fleet. At this point, Murrue became the full-fledged captain of the Archangel, a post she filled in an unofficial capacity during her Earth Alliance days.
Battle of Messiah[]
At the final showdown in the Battle of Messiah, Murrue and Talia once again faced off against each other in a fierce battle. At this point, Mu's memories of Murrue fully returned at last, when he saved her and the Archangelfrom the Minerva's "Tannhäuser" positron blaster cannon by using his mobile suit as a shield, much like he did in the previous war. This time, Mu survived without a scratch, thanks to his ORB-01 Akatsuki's reflective beam coating, which allows the Akatsuki to neutralize most of the positron blast, while the remainder was blocked by the Akatsuki's beam barrier, followed by disabling the "Tannhäuser" with its "Shiranui" Space Pack. With Mu's memories returned, Murrue was seen to have tears of joy. Murrue ordered to have the Archanagel barrel-rolled over the Minerva and fired its Gottfrieds over the ZAFT ship, completely disabling its weaponry. As the Archangel passed by the damaged Minerva, Murrue paid her respects to Talida Gladys with a salute in an acknowledgment.
At the end of Gundam SEED Destiny: Special Edition, Murrue and Mu are seen together at Orb, watching the sunset.
2 years later, she and Mu would join the newly formed international peacekeeping organization Compass.
Quotes[]
"We have no way of knowing what awaits us in the future, so all we can do is live in the present and do what we think is the right thing at this exact moment, and if we find out it was all a mistake, then that's when we'll waste time moaning and crying about it, and then we'll go right on to the next thing."
"You kids don't understand anything! By declaring that you're neutral and have nothing to do with this, you can still distance yourselves from what's happening? You don't really believe that, do you?"
Trivia[]
- Her name could be an allusion to Marko Ramius, from "The Hunt for Red October". In the Tom Clancy novel and movie, Marko was the captain of the submarine Red October. While the reference could be a coincidence, the fact that the Archangel now has submarine capabilities, and especially her defection from the EA to Orb (Marko defects from the Soviet Union to the USA) shows that it could be an intentional reference.
- Both incidentally and coincidentally, Murrue's English voice actor, Lisa Ann Beley, has also voiced as Sumeragi Lee Noriega in Gundam 00 and Relena Darlian in Gundam Wing.
- As the entry of SEED series in Super Robot Wars since Super Robot Wars Alpha 3 (which is shift the position of UC series as the most dominant Gundam series in Super Robot Wars), Murrue also took Bright Noa's role as the captain of the main mothership from Gundam series.
- The elongated hexagonal pendant she often has something to do with her father. It is more likely, due to Mu's initial reaction to is, a token given to the family, from the military, of fallen mobile armor pilots. The alternative possibility (with no evidence) is that it belonged to her father.
- Murrue shows many similarities Star Trek Character, Dr. Leonard McCoy. They both act the reasonable and passionate member of their respective Power Trio, balancing out the cold, heartless logical thinking. She also has a love/hate relation with Natarle Badgiruel, as McCoy had with Spock, for they would both argue amongst each other with clashing ideals, yet still respected each other as a friend and collage.
- Her Japanese voice actor Kotono Mitsuishi is best known for playing Sailor Moon/ Usagi Tsukino in the franchise of the same name along side in the 90's anime Tōru Furuya who voiced Tuxedo Mask /Mamoru Chiba.
- In Super Robot Wars Alpha 3 a node to Kotono Mistuishi has Murrue and Misato Katsuragi acknowledge each other and form a bond with each other.
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