Garma Zabi

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Garma Zabi
Mobile Suit Gundam character
Garma Zabi on a specialty magazine cover
Voiced by	Katsuji Mori (Japanese) Brian Dobson (MSG)
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Age	20
Date of birth	UC 0059
Date of death	UC 0079
Nationality	Principality of Zeon
Known relatives	Degwin Sodo Zabi (Father) Cicero (also spelled Saslo or Sasro)Zabi, Gihren Zabi, Dozle Zabi(Brothers) Kycilia Zabi (Sister)
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Allegiance	Principality of Zeon
Rank	Captain
Mobile weapons	Dopp Fighter, Gaw MS-06FS Zaku II Commander Mass Production Type (Garma Zabi Custom)

In the fictional universe of Mobile Suit Gundam, Garma Zabi (ガルマ・ザビ, Garuma Zabi^?) is the youngest son of Sovereign Degwin Sodo Zabi. He is also the commander of the Zeon Earth Attack Force.

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The handsome young Garma is as ravishingly suave as his siblings are ugly and unattractive and, unfortunately for him, as naïve as they are experienced and calculating. He is loved greatly by the Zeon people and is clearly his father's favourite child, acting mainly as the commander of the North American Zeon forces under the command of his brother Dozle Zabi, residing temporarily in California. Garma is also carrying on a doomed romance with Icelina Eschonbach, the daughter of the former mayor of New York City. When his old military academy schoolmate and best friend Char Aznable lands on Earth in pursuit of the White Base, which was forced off course during a space battle and landed smack dab in the heart of Zeon-controlled territory, Garma eagerly gives the Red Comet his support and that's when the beloved Zabi scion's naïveté shines brightest. Overly eager to prove himself to his sister Kycilia and hell-bent on becoming a hero to his people, Garma fails to ever see the vengeance-motivated treachery that burns within Char against the Zabi family, until it was far too late.

When Garma launches his Gaw MS carrier fleet and Char, scouting in his Zaku, notices that White Base is burrowed in an old half-destroyed sports dome, he tells Garma that the White Base is in front of his fleet, when it was really behind them. (although it could be disputed that Char was correct in their location, the White Base was completely covered by the dome, enabling them to attack Garma from behind.)The White Base's assault comes as a shock to the young Garma. It is in these final moments that Char famously tells Garma to, "Blame it on the misfortune of your birth". Desperate and enraged, Garma takes control of his ships helm and attempts a kamikaze on the ship, however he is unsuccessful.

His heroic death comes as a shock to his family, his father Degwin and brother Dozle in particular. A magnificent funeral service is held for him in which his eldest brother Gihren uses Garma's death as propaganda in his famous "Sieg Zeon" speech. From then on, taking vengeance for Garma's death becomes a priority for Earth bound Zeon officer Ramba Ral and his troop as they assume pursuit of the White Base.

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In some of the Gihren's Greed series of strategy games, it is possible to prevent Garma's death. Gihren's Greed: The Blood of Zeon (Dreamcast, Playstation) has a bonus scenario in which Garma succeeds the Zabi family and leads the "New Zeon"; his opposition consists of the Earth Federation and Char's Neo Zeon. However, in the Playstation 2 version of Gihren's Greed, Garma's fate is inevitable, though through the right choices players can prevent the deaths of Ramba Ral and the Black Tri-Stars.

Garma's death is also preventable in the Gundam vs. Zeta Gundam video game. Through beating Haman Karn's default scenario, several OYW pilots are unlocked, including Garma. Garma's scenario allows him to survive the One Year War and escape to Axis, which, along with doing the same with most of the others, unlocks a special scenario where Axis returns earlier, and greatly strengthened.

In Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin, while the plot elements concerning Garma's death play out essentially the same, the action is shifted from New York to Los Angeles. Garma is headquartered at Los Angeles City Hall, and lives somewhere in the Hollywood/Beverly Hills area. Garma is stated in the manga to have died in his Gaw over Long Beach, California.