Trowa Barton

Trowa Barton is one of the five leading characters from the anime Mobile Suit Gundam Wing.

About the character

Template:Spoiler Trowa Barton is one of the five pilots who participated in Operation Meteor, in which five space colonies launched a respective pilot and his advanced mobile suit to Earth to wage war against the oppressive Earth Sphere Alliance. Trowa is the pilot of the XXXG-01H_Gundam_Heavyarms, and uses it's sheer firepower to unleash destruction upon his enemies. In order to remain undercover, he is employed as a circus performer who has a way with acrobatics and animals. Despite a job that requires a joyful disposition, he maintains a very distant persona. He is silent most of the time and at times uses his actions to speak.

Eventually he joins up with the other Gundam pilots, and even strikes up a friendship with one of them, Quatre Raberba Winner, despite that he remains rather distant. When the pilot of the XXXG-01W Wing Gundam Heero Yuy self-detonated his mobile suit as a sign of defiance, it was Trowa who nursed Heero back to health, not to mention join him in his travel to Antarctica to duel with Zechs Marquise. Trowa lent Heero the Heavyarms for the duel since Heero did not want any special treatment from Zechs, even after Zechs showed them that he had rebuilt the Wing Gundam. Trowa later repaid the favor by taking the Wing Gundam to deal with OZ's search party that was looking for Zechs. Eventually Trowa went to outer space, but left the Heavyarms behind on Earth.

While in space Trowa chose to infiltrate OZ and based on his piloting record, becomes the pilot of a prototype mobile suit, the OZ-13MSX1 Vayeate, which was created by the Gundam Scientists.

After the events of Gundam Wing, we learn that Trowa Barton is not Trowa's true name. During the course of Endless Waltz, the audience discovers the real Trowa Barton is the son of Dekim Barton, the ambitious and bloodthirsty head of the Barton Foundation, and is dedicated to conquering the Earth Sphere in the name of the Barton family. Doktor S, the engineer who created Heavyarms, and one of his assistants end up shooting Trowa out of the fear that Trowa will execute the original objective of Operation Meteor (To drop a colony onto Earth and assume control of the Earth Sphere with the five Gundams). A nameless mechanic that Trowa had been rather friendly with offers Doktor S and the assistant to take Heavyarms and sabotage Operation Meteor on the condition that he is allowed to use Trowa's name.

Since then, the enigmatic and silent young man who chose to take the Gundam Heavyarms has been known as Trowa Barton. Trowa's true identity is a mystery even to Trowa himself. From the prequel manga, Trowa worked previously as a mercenary mobile suit pilot and may possibly be Triton Bloom, the supposedly dead younger brother of Catherine Bloom.