ANDREW WALTFELD SPOILER!

Andrew Waltfeld is the ZAFT commander known as the Desert Tiger, a coffee obsessive who can discuss bean blends with Kira one day and try to kill him in a mobile suit the next. That contradiction is exactly why his desert arc works. Waltfeld is an enemy commander, but he is not a cartoon villain. He understands that soldiers on both sides are people and forces Kira to confront the fact that recognizing an opponent's humanity does not make the next battle disappear. Their fight appears to kill Waltfeld and his partner Aisha, but Waltfeld survives, losing an eye and an arm. Later he rejects the direction Patrick Zala is taking ZAFT, joins Lacus Clyne's side and becomes captain of the Eternal. The man Kira once had to defeat eventually fights beside him to stop the war.