Bruno J. Global
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Bruno J. Global (ブルーノ・J・グローバル Burūno Jei Gurōbaru?) is the fictional captain of the SDF-1 Macross in the anime series The Super Dimension Fortress Macross. He is named Henry J. Gloval in the Robotech English-dubbed adaptation. Captain Global is an Italian (ex-Soviet/Russian in Robotech) submarine skipper who was involved in the refit of the crashed Alien Space Ship-1 into SDF-1 Macross. He is the ship's plankowner and sees her through many adventures and hardships battling the Zentradi during the series.
Before commanding the Macross, Global's commanding officer during the Earth Unification Wars was Misa Hayase's father. He was the captain of the U.N. Navy submarine Marco Polo and the UN Spacy Oberth class space destroyer Goddard, which engaged and destroyed her hijacked sister ship Tsiolkovsky in the first ever use of reaction weaponry in real ship-vs-ship space combat.
After Space War I, he took an administrative position in the U.N. Government and designed the Human emigration project, a space colonization scheme followed by the U.N. for the following years, to ensure the survival of mankind and its culture in case of further appearances of Zentradi and Supervision Army fleets. In both Macross and Robotech, he became an admiral, as well as commander of the UN Spacy, after the battle against Boddole Zer (Robotech's Dolza). He survives the Macross series to become U.N. Representative in 2014, and retiring from the Spacy as a full Admiral.
Global pulls out and lights up his smoking pipe when he feels nervous.
He married Miho Global in March 2003. It's unknown if they had any children, or if they survived the Battle with the Boddole Zer Main Fleet. In Robotech, details of Gloval's personal life have never been revealed.
In Wildstorm's Robotech comic series "From the Stars" (but not Macross), the character of Henry Gloval was portrayed as a Captain in the Russian Navy and was in command of the Minsk, a Russian Oscar-class guided missile submarine when the SDF-1 crash landed on Macross Island in 1999. According to the bio on Captain Gloval on the Robotech website, Gloval and the crew of the Minsk were the first human beings to arrive at the SDF-1's crash site and were responsible in securing the site before an international team of scientific experts could arrive to examine the wreckage. In Robotech (but not Macross), he died when the SDF-1 was destroyed by Khyron the Backstabber in the show's finale (episode 36 "To the Stars" of Robotech).
The voice of Captain Global/Gloval in the Japanese Macross was provided by Michio Hazama and in Robotech by Greg Finley.
[edit] Legacy
- As a tribute to the series, the character design for Nemo in Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water, looks almost exactly like Global. In the AD Vision English dub of the series, it is taken a step further as the voice for Nemo resembles Gloval from Robotech.
- The Battlecruiser Captain of StarCraft and StarCraft: Brood War bears some minor resemblance to Global, and speaks in a manner and tone similar to him as well.
