Patrick Zala
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| Patrick Zala | |
|---|---|
| Mobile Suit Gundam SEED character | |
| First appearance | Gundam SEED episode 7 |
| Last appearance | Gundam SEED episode 50 |
| Voiced by | Kinryu Arimoto (Japanese) Andrew Kavadas (English) |
| Profile | |
| Age | 48[verification needed] |
| Nationality | PLANT [GS] |
| Known relatives | Lenore Zala (wife, deceased) Athrun Zala (son) |
| Genetic type | Coordinator |
| Information | |
| Allegiance | ZAFT [GS] |
| Rank | National Defense Committee Chairman [GS] PLANT Supreme Council Chairman [GS] |
Patrick Zala (パトリック・ザラ Patorikku Zara?) is a fictional antagonist from the Mobile Suit Gundam SEED anime series, set in the Cosmic Era timeline of the Gundam metaseries.
Patrick Zala, father of Athrun Zala, is the National Defense Committee Chairman who later becomes the radical leader of the PLANT Supreme Council. He lost his wife, Lenore Zala, in the Bloody Valentine Tragedy and blames all Naturals for her death.
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His grief over the death of his wife, Lenore, made him a man driven by hatred and revenge. This makes him easily manipulated by ZAFT Commander Rau Le Creuset, whom Patrick believes to be his right-hand man. Instead, Le Creuset plans to destroy all of humanity, Naturals and Coordinators alike.
When Rau and Athrun returned to the PLANTs for a hearing concerning the destruction of Heliopolis, Patrick informed them that in his report he omitted the fact that the Strike is being piloted by a Coordinator, prior to the hearing.
Patrick makes it clear to PLANT Supreme Council Chairman Siegel Clyne at a council meeting that all Naturals should be wiped out for the sake of all Coordinators, whom he believes have evolved into a race that is superior to the Naturals. He dismisses Siegel's concerns about the lack of fertility in third generation Coordinators, believing that the PLANTs will find a solution.
His rise to power as the Chairman of PLANT gives him great military power, which he uses during Operation Spitbreak. The aftermath of this disastrous operation drives him to near insanity; he has his closest friend Siegel Clyne assassinated, attempts to have Lacus Clyne killed, and later ruthlessly shoots his own son, Athrun, when he refuses to divulge the location of the missing mobile suits ZGMF-X10A Freedom and ZGMF-X09A Justice.
Patrick eventually has ZAFT build the GENESIS superweapon and uses it in an effort to destroy all Naturals. After revealing its destructive power, he delivers a speech in which he refers to Coordinators as "the new mankind." Patrick soon manages to destroy the Earth Alliance space fleet along with their lunar base at the Ptolemaeus Crater with GENESIS, effectively winning the battle. He then decides to fire on Earth, even though ZAFT's space fleet is still in the line of fire of GENESIS in hopes of destroying all Naturals.
ZAFT Commander Ray Yuki strongly objects to destroying all life on Earth, but is fatally shot by Patrick, who then continues as planned. Mortally wounded, Commander Yuki manages to shoot Patrick several times, thus sealing his fate.
As he lies dying in Athrun's arms, Patrick tells his son to fire GENESIS on Earth and make his vision of a Coordinators' world come true. Instead, Athrun self-destructs the Justice at GENESIS's power core to destroy the superweapon, vaporizing Patrick's corpse in the process.
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Patrick Zala's legacy lived through a group of Coordinators who supported his genocidal policies, including ZAFT Green veteran Sato. In Cosmic Era 73, they carried out an attempt to exterminate the Naturals by dropping the Junius Seven Space Colony on Earth, an event which became known as "Operation Break the World" and ultimately led to the outbreak of thr Second Bloody Valentine War.
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