Anatole Eli Leonard is a fictional character appearing in the Robotech Universe. His full name is also given as Anatole Westophal Leonard in the novelizations. In the original The Super Dimension Cavalry Southern Cross series, he was called Claude Leon. In the Robotech animation, he was voiced by Greg Finley. Robotech is a popular science fiction and anime franchise that was launched by an 85-episode animated television series about three successive extraterrestrial invasions of Earth. ... Super Dimension Cavalry Southern Cross. ...

Supreme Commander Anatole Eli Leonard of the Army of the Southern Cross

Post Global War

Primary continuity

Television series version

Almost nothing is known for certain about General Leonard's career before he was granted the Supreme Commandership of Earth's forces.

Wildstorm comics version

In the Wildstorm comics which depict the post Global War period, Leonard is introduced as the director of Earth's Destroid Project weapons program. It was intended to replace the Project Valkyrie which had been placed on hold due to several test pilot accidents. Distrustful of the growing United Earth Government, Leonard recruited a young T.R. Edwards to help secretly further sabotage other UEG sponsored Robotechnology projects. This plan failed due to the interference of Roy Fokker. Leonard decided to bide his time and over the course of the years leading to the second Robotech War. Thomas Riley (T.R.) Edwards is a fictional character appearing in the Robotech Universe. ...

Secondary continuity

Eternity/Academy comics & novelizations version

Anatole Leonard was first active in the years following the Global Civil War as a behind the scenes organizer against the rebuilding of the crashed alien ship which would become known as the SDF-1. Most notable of the organizations that he worked with and helped to fund was The Faithful, a religious order that deemed the SDF-1 and Robotechnology to be a tool of the Devil. Leonard would also engineer the kidnapping of Dr. Emil Lang's sister, Nina, in the hopes that she would use her own celebrity status as a rock star to speak out against Robotechnology. These tactics failed and Leonard disappeared only to re-emerge years later as Governor of Brasilia in South America during the Zentraedi Malcontent Uprisings that followed the First Robotech War. This would lead to his formation of the Army of the Southern Cross and a tense but steady relationship with the Earth based Robotech Defense Force which would eventually come under his command as Supreme Commander of the United Earth Forces. Leonard had a strong dislike towards Robotechnology and advocated the development and use of Earth designed mecha and weapons independent of the technology gained from the crashed SDF-1 and the alien based protoculture. The SDF-1 Macross , is a fictional interstellar spacecraft from The Super Dimension Fortress Macross, an anime series that aired in Japan in 1982-1983, and its American adaptation Robotech (1985). ... Dr. Emil Lang is a fictional character appearing in the Robotech universe. ... The Army of the Southern Cross is a fictional military organization in the Robotech universe. ... In The Super Dimension Fortress Macross Japanese animated series, the Protoculture was the first civilization in the known universe. ...

Second Robotech War

Primary continuity

Television series version

Supreme Commander Leonard has the duty of protecting Earth's sovereignty from the technologically superior Robotech Masters. This means using attritional warfare most of the time, in an effort to wear down the Masters' dwindling supply of protoculture.

Ordered to step up assaults on the Robotech Masters by the Prime Minister of the United Earth Government (Wyatt Moran), Leonard develops several strategies to drive the invaders back from Earth orbit. It is when General Emerson is placed as the on-site commander of the forces at Moon Base Luna and ALuCE-1 (Advanced Lunar Chemical Engineering) base, done so by Leonard, that the tide begins to finally turn against the Masters.

In the final episode of The Robotech Masters story, the Robotech Masters manage to break through the defensive screen put up by the United Earth Forces (by this time including reinforcements from hyperspace). One of their ships targets the Earth forces' command center, killing General Leonard and those who did not evacuate.

Secondary continuity

Novelization version

During the battle with the Robotech Masters, Supreme Commander Leonard's tactics proved to be wasteful in men and equipment as he stubbornly sent large groups to attack the Masters' flagships. With a bigoted attitude towards aliens, he preferred to kill captured bioroid pilots rather than learn from them. Leonard frequently clashed with more the more compassionate Chief of Staff Rolf Emerson who seeked peaceful negotiations with the Robotech Masters. In the fictional Robotech universe, the Robotech Masters are a species of humanoids native to the moon Tirol. ...

In the final battle, an attack force by the Masters targeted the Southern Cross Command towers in Monument City. Realizing defeat, Leonard was killed when he refused to evacuate with the rest of his aides.

Notes

The novelization and comic versions of Supreme Commander Leonard are substantially different from that of the character in the television series, the primary source of story continuity [1]. The Robotech television series portrayal of Leonard is in turn substantially different from the Claude Leon character inspiration in The Super Dimension Cavalry Southern Cross. The voice actor of Leonard (Greg Finley, one of the staff writers for Robotech), recently affirmed in an interview that Leonard was a good guy. [2] According to Finley, he was written and voiced "to be regarded as a tough, no nonsense, military man" who followed the orders of civilians (in this case, the Prime Minister of the UEG).