Phil Maxwell

Phil Maxwell
Phil's human appearance in Detonation
Character profile
Other names	Chief
Gender	Male
Species	Human (at birth) Terra Forming Unit (revived)
Homeworld	Eltria
Date of death	0027 (original)
Background
Affiliation	Planet Reclamation Committee
Occupation	Chief
Magic
System	Formula
Device	Variant Weapon
Production
Japanese name	フィル・マクスウェル (Firu Makusūeru)
First app.	Detonation
Voiced by	Kouichi Yamadera
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Phil Maxwell (フィル・マクスウェル Firu Makusūeru) is the main antagonist of Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha Detonation and the overarching antagonist of Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha Reflection.

He is the last chief of Planet Reclamation Committee (エルトリア惑星再生委員会・地上研究所 Erutoria Wakusei Saisei Iinkai Chijō Kenkyūjo).

Name

Phil's family name is presumably a reference to the United States car company Maxwell.

Alternate continuities

Movie

Phil only appears in Detonation. Phil will appear in Iris' flashback about Eltria's history.

40 years before the events of Detonation, Phil and his workers works on the laboratory to revive the Planet Eltria. Iris is Phil's first creation of the android. After they meet and seen Yuri's abilities, Phil and other workers believed she must be the key of reviving the Planet Eltria, so they hope Yuri can stay together with Iris in the laboratory. Sometimes later, due to the government has been give up on reviving the planet and suspect the laboratory might be working on a certain illegal project, the revive project was forced to abandoned. After the cancellation, Phil has been thinking on how to convince the government to continue their projects. Later on, Phil decided to stopped the revive project and begin his new plan of joining an illegal faction, in attempt to sell both Iris and Yuri as mass weapons. Phil then told Iris goes outside to playing with young Granz Florian and Elenoa Florian, while he created several Iris Units to kill all the laboratory workers, as they won't provide any usefulness for his new plans. When Yuri discovered what Phil was doing, she went to confront Phil and want him to explains the chaos he caused. He explained that he was tired of experiment ever since he lost everything thanks to the government, so he decided to creates a "new world". Soon, Phil was killed by Yuri. When Phil was almost dead, he talked with Iris via telepathy and lied her that Yuri went "berserk" and killed all the laboratory workers included himself, just so he could put all the blames on Yuri. Due to Phil added his information data inside Iris' body, after his death, his soul was transferred into Iris' body. Even since Phil's soul transferred to Iris' body, he has been waiting for his resurrection.

In Detonation, Phil was waiting for Iris creating an Iris Unit so he can transfer his soul into that android's body. When Yuri was free from Iris' control, he suddenly appeared and tries to attack Dearche, but Stern and Levi protects her from his assault. The souls trio was shocked at this and they can't believe that Phil is still alive when he was supposed to be killed by Yuri 40 years ago. Phil then activated his System "Alter" and easily defeated the souls trio. After Phil controlling Yuri and Iris, he and the others was teleport to the Tokyo Station. Phil then challenge both Amitie Florian and Nanoha Takamachi while the others was fight against Dearche and Kyrie Florian. After seeing Nanoha's abilities, Phil was quite impressed at her abilities and stated that he never meet such a perfect human like her in his entire life. Phil then told Nanoha that he want to adopt her as his daughter and obtains her powers to rule the "new world" he desired for.

As the battle continues, while trying to dodge Nanoha's attacks, Phil stated he didn't expect Nanoha to be strong enough to keep the battle on-going for so long. Once Fate T. Harlaown arrived to assist Nanoha, they defeated Phil with Blast Calamity XF and destroyed most of his body parts. After he was defeated, Fate stated she will imprison him for his crimes. Soon, Phil warned Fate and the TSAB mages that if they dared to sent him into the jail, he will use the satellite cannon created back when Iris and Kyrie arrived on Earth to destroy the planet. Phil then tried to sent a "gift" to the space, which revealed to be his information data that allows him to transfer his soul to other androids. The "gift" Phil attempted to sent was soon destroyed by Nanoha as they tries to stop the satellite canon from destorying the Earth. After Nanoha stopped the cannon and being sent into the hospital, Phil was imprisoned by the TSAB mages.

Brave Duel

It's mentioned by his daughter Iris Sevenfield in INNOCENTS (Duel:eX), a bonus chapter published in the Detonation pamphlet. He is a environmental scientist and an old friend of Granz Florian. However, his name is yet to be revealed as the bonus chapter is published before the release of Detonation and to avoid spoiler.

Powers

Due to being based on Iris Unit's android body, like the other androids and Mobile Shell, Phil is immune to magic. In combat, Phil wields two black Variant Weapons with form-changing function similar to the Variant Unit.

Protective Clothing

Phil's Invasive Armed Suit

Phil wears a Invasive Armed Suit (侵攻武装 Shinkō Busō) named Maxwell (マクスウェル Makusūeru), it was based on Iris Unit with some function changes. It allows Phil to activate System "Alter" without any problem, unlike Nanoha and the Florian sisters which have a time limit and injures user's body after activate it.

Spells

Spell	System	Category	Type	Rank
Accelerator	Formula Eltria Formula Midchilda	Support	Transport
System "Alter"	Formula Eltria Formula Midchilda	Attack	Magic-enhanced attack