Gauron
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Gauron is a fictional character from the light novel, manga, and anime series Full Metal Panic!. His Japanese voice was portrayed by Masahiko Tanaka and the English voice was provided by Mike MacRae.
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[edit] Fictional Background
While little is known about Gauron at the present, he is Sousuke’s strongest and most formidable enemy throughout the TV series. He’s a terrorist of the highest caliber sponsored by a mysterious organization, but little is known about Gauron’s benefactors other than the fact that they appear to be more formidable and possess greater resources than even the notorious Soviet KGB. Believed to be Japanese, or at least of Asian ethnicity [1], Gauron and Sousuke have a long and bloodstained history together. He was once a captain in MITHRIL although he left before all the major characters entered [2]. Sousuke left a big scar on Gauron’s forehead when he and then Soviet Spetsnaz commander Major Kalinin ambushed Gauron in a sniper attack back in Sousuke’s Afghan guerrilla days [3]. This is but one of many battle scars Sousuke inflicts upon this vicious manslayer over the course of the series.
A formidable AS pilot of tremendous talent, Gauron's dangerous Codarl AS has bested Mithril's frontline AS, the M9 Gernsback, in battle on several occasions. Even Sousuke and his ARX-7 Arbalest have great difficulty competing against Gauron's fearsome skill in their many confrontations across the course of the series.
He also appears to have a nearly supernatural ability to survive certain death, including the destruction of his AS, and the sniper attack. The Sniper Attack was explained with a metal plate in his skull, and his survival of his AS' self-destruct was explained with Gauron using the Lambda Driver at the last moment to protect his body.
A possible explanation for Gauron not fearing death, even in the face of his AS self destructing is revealed by Leonard Testarossa in the book 'Continuing on My Own' who tells Sousuke that Gauron was suffering from cancer.
It is later revealed in "The Second Raid" that Gauron worked for Amalgam, his code name being "Mr. Iron".[4]
[edit] Second Raid
In "The Second Raid", it is revealed that Gauron is alive, presumably through the Lambda Driver. He reveals to Sagara that the young guerrilla Sagara he knew in Helmajistan would have been the perfect person to kill him, but in the present day, he claims that Sagara has become 'weak' and 'soft' from his time at High School. He tells Sagara that one of his agents, one of the twins mentioned below, has killed Kaname, when in truth, Leonard Testarossa's Arm Slave bodyguards killed the agent. He had previously trained two twin sisters, who he named Yu-Fan, and Yu-Lan [5]. They are both formidable fighters, in an Arm Slave, (a Soviet/Amalgam Shadow at the beginning of the series, and a Venom in the end.) They do not survive the series, Yu-Lan being killed by Leonard Testarossa's bodyguards and Yu-Fan being killed by the psychotic leader of the Amalgam Execution Squad, Gates in the final battle.
[edit] References
- ^ Hints suggest that Gauron is of Cambodian descent since he said that he was once with the Khmer Rouge.
- ^ The booting sequence of his AS shows his rank during Second Raid.
- ^ The area where Gauron was thought to be dead in the anime is in Helmajistan.
- ^ "Dancing Very Merry Christmas" Novel
- ^ The novels depicted the twin assassins as males. Their names were Fei Won and Fei Xu
