Alfred Izuruha

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Alfred Izuruha (アルフレッド・イズルハ, Arufureddo Izuruha^?), or simply Al (アル, Aru^?), is a major character from the anime, Mobile Suit Gundam 0080: War in the Pocket. Al is an 11-year-old schoolboy, has a distant relationship with his father who works for the Earth Federation, gets mediocre grades in school and misbehaves in front of his mother and teachers. He is the next-door neighbor of Christina MacKenzie, who is like a big sister to him.

As a naive young boy who lives in the Libot colony of neutral Side 6, Al has little real idea about the war outside that is ravaging the Earth Sphere, and is fascinated by tales of mobile suit combats. He has a special interest in Zeon's Zaku mobile suits, which he regards as "cool". One day, Al meets a rookie Zeon pilot, Bernard "Bernie" Wiseman, whose Zaku is disabled and crashes after a short battle with Federation forces in the colony. Al develops a good friendship with Bernie (who claims to be just 2 kills from becoming an ace), unknowing that Bernie is part of Zeon's Cyclops Team intending to attack the secret Federation research facility in his own colony.

Knowing nothing about the plan, Al assists Bernie in gathering information about the Federation facility. However, his belief in Bernie begins to shake when Cyclop Team's surprise attack on the facility ends with failure and severe civilian casualty. When Operation Rubicon fails, Bernie confesses to Al that he is in fact a green pilot, and the colony is subjected to a Zeon nuclear strike unless the Federation's new NT-1 "Alex" Gundam is destroyed before Christmas Day. Bernie chooses to run away, much to Al's angry dismay, but changes his mind later and states that he will stay and fight the Gundam in order to save the colony. Al helps Bernie repair his broken Zaku and set up booby traps. On the day of the battle, Al goes with his mother to pick up his father from the spaceport, only to be told that a nuclear-armed Zeon fleet aiming for Libot has been successfully intercepted by the Federation forces. Al, realising that Bernie no longer need to risk the fight, rushes to the site and tries to stop Bernie from fighting Gundam Alex. He only arrives to witness the end of the battle, where Bernie's Zaku explodes in front of his own eyes. Adding to his horror, the pilot of the Gundam, who was severely injured by the battle, was Christina MacKenzie, his close friend and Bernie's love interest.

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• In the PlayStation 2 game SD Gundam G Generation Spirits, Alfred is the pilot of the RX-78 NT-X (MRX-003) Gundam Netix, a new Gundam based on the design of the NT-1 Alex created especially for the game equipped with Bits. This gives notion that Alfred is a Newtype and that should Alfred's story as a Gundam pilot considered even as semi-canon, will make Alfred as the youngest Gundam pilot in the franchise's history (the previous being Üso Ewin of V Gundam).