Andy Strauss

Andy Strauss
Andy Strauss
Profile
Aliases	Andy
Species	Human
Gender	Male
Nationality	Principality of Zeon
Affiliation	Mobile Assault Force Cyclops Team
Occupation	Mobile Suit Pilot
Rank	Second Lieutenant
Status	Killed in Action (December 9 0079)
Mecha & Vehicles
Pilot MSM-03C Hygogg MSM-07N Ram Z’Gok Crew Jukon-class
Real World
Japanese Voices	Mitsuaki Hoshino
English Voices	Matthew Kermit Miller
Debut	How Many Miles to the Battlefield?

Andy Strauss (アンディ・ストロース, Andei Sutorōsu^?) is a character who appears in the OVA Mobile Suit Gundam 0080: War in the Pocket.

Personality & Character

Andy is a stylish person who uses a comb to style his hair before going out.

History

Andy was a member of the Principality of Zeon's special forces group Cyclops Team, which was led by Hardie Steiner. On November, he and Mikhail Kaminsky would board their mobile suits on Gabriel Ramirez Garcia's Komusai to help in Steiner's rescue of Odessa Mine accountant, Gordon, and members of Kycillia's Youth forces. Although Steiner had successfully secured Gordon while Strauss and the others arrived at the base's tarmac for their arrival, they would change plans as Andy and Mikhail returned to the base in order to give Steiner's party the opportunity to assassinate the base's commander before fleeing.

When word of the defeat at Odessa finally reaches the Cyclops Team, the team is ordered to head back into space for their next mission while most of the remaining ground forces on Earth were to head for Jaburo. Andy would begrudgingly comply with the order that the team abandon the local Italian allies aiding them. On the night of their departure, however, a group of RGM-79 GM and RX-77-2 Guncannon would attack the locals, who begged for Lieutenant Colonel Killing for aid. Despite this, Killing ordered for the Cyclops team to continue preparations for departure, asserting to Andy and the others that he did not wish for them to die.

In defiance to their orders, Serhii and Kavi would sortie to engage the Federation, but Hardie would order both Oleksandr and Andy to accompany Killing to the Zanzibar. As Andy, Garcia, and Oleksandr head into the Zanzibar, they are shocked to learn that their true mission was to transport several Soviet-era nukes to Zeon's base at Granada. As Andy and Mikhail were ready to leave, Oleksandr would convince Hardie to join the others to space while he would care for the rest of the Cyclops Team on Earth. As the Zanzibar left for space, however, Andy would be horrified to see that the Federation had fired a nuclear missile towards their Italian base, killing both the Zeon sympathizers, and all the other members of Cyclops Team that were left behind.

A month after rescuing Gordon, he participated in an assault on the Earth Federation's Arctic base in an attempt to destroy their top-secret new prototype Mobile Suit. Andy would never return home, however, as he was killed when gunfire from a RGM-79D GM Cold Climate Type went through the cockpit of his MSM-03C Hygogg after he reached the base's launch pad. A new recruit, Bernard Wiseman, is brought in to replace him subsequently.

Gallery

As seen in SD Gundam G Generation Genesis

Appearances

OVAs and ONAs

• Mobile Suit Gundam 0080: War in the Pocket
  • Episode 1, How Many Miles to the Battlefield?
    • First Appearance;Killed in Action