History Anime / SaintSeiyaOmega

* BigGood: Well, Athena herself is a given, as usual within the franchise. However this series also has Seiya and the other main four Bronze Saints from the classic series, now known as the Legendary Saints, featuring as this trope to a lesser degree than her.

** Kouga is the only saint able to stand up to [[spoiler: a certain Gold Saint named Mycenae who's gone through a FaceHeelTurn]], Kouga musters up his Light element, he's the only one left standing, and it doesn't look like he's going to go down...! Only for Mars to show up, [[DangerouslyGenreSavvy say that he's too dangerous]], and soundly beat him to a pulp.

The newest entry in the ''Manga/SaintSeiya'' franchise, which aired from April 1st, 2012 to March 30th, 2014. It follows a new generation of Saints, and the main character is Pegasus Kouga, who seems to be very much like [[{{Determinator}} Sei]][[IdiotHero ya]] in terms of personality. Seiya himself also appears as a Gold Saint. Saori Kido is still present, as the goddess Athena; she also raised Kouga as a parent. She is kidnapped by the god Mars, leaving Kouga and his fellow Saints to save her. Other Saints include: Aquila Yuna, Lionet Souma, Dragon Ryuhou, Orion Eden and Wolf Haruto.

* BestHerToBedHer: A variant with the permanently-masked female Saints. Traditionally, if they show their faces to someone they must (a) fall in love with them, or (b) kill them. Now consider the amount of ClothingDamage in a fight between Cloth-wearers and... well, you can see where we're going with this. Yuna deconstructs and eventually defies this - she's ''not happy'' about the tradition, and tends to fight at a handicap to prevent her mask from getting broken. Eventually (with a bit of encouragement from Kouga) she decides that it just isn't worth the effort, lets her mask get wrecked to win a fight, and gives tradition a big middle finger from then onwards. There's a reason she's bare-faced in the picture above.
** It was played straight in the original series with [[spoiler:Shaina]] (at least to the extent that she does fall in love with [[spoiler:Seiya]] when he destroys her mask, but it seems to be subverted (or just averted) in all occasions in Omega. As explained above, Yuna just refuses the tradition. [[spoiler:Gemini Paradox]] doesn't use the mask at all and says she'll just love [[spoiler:or kill, when in "evil" mode]] anyone who sees her. And [[spoiler:Gemini Integra]] gets her mask destroyed by [[spoiler:Paradox]] but of course the trope is just averted because of the [[spoiler:UnfortunateImplications HoYay [[BrotherSisterIncest Sister-Sister]] in the love case, and because they were already trying to kill each other before this happens. They end up loving each other as sisters in the end but for totally different reasons.]]

* DamselInDistress: Saori[=/=]Athena, as per tradition. And [[spoiler: Aria, her impersonator]].

* DesignatedGirlFight: Averted. There are fights between heroines and villainesses, but the battles are too often mixed-gender to really call them 'designated'. In particular, [[ActionGirl Yuna]] has more than a fair share of victories against male villains under her belt, whilst Souma's [[YouKilledMyFather personal grudge]] against [[DarkActionGirl Sonia]] makes ''him'' her most frequent opponent.
** The Gold Saint arc actually has the biggest subversion so far: [[spoiler:Ryuho and Souma fight, respectively, the females Gemini and Scorpio, while Yuna fights the male Cancer.]]

* DesignatedVictim: [[SarcasmMode Oh no, how can this be! Athena has been kidnapped yet again]].
* {{Determinator}}: ''[[DeconstructedTrope Deconstructed!]]'' When Kouga is the only saint able to stand up to [[spoiler: a certain Gold Saint named Mycenae who's gone through a FaceHeelTurn]], Kouga musters up his Light element, he's the only one left standing, and it doesn't look like he's going to go down...! Only for Mars to show up, [[DangerouslyGenreSavvy say that he's too dangerous]], and soundly beat him to a pulp.

* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: The Silver Saint Musca Fly, a creepy old man who's ''way'' too into stealing children's Cloths. The fact that there are perfectly non-sexual (if definitely not moral) reasons for doing so, since Mars has put out a bounty on the things, in no way prevents him from coming across as a walking AMBER Alert.

* FamedInStory: The five man band from the original series are this, being called the legendary saints. It seems that at some point they had all become Gold Saints between the original series and Omega.
** So far, from the original band, only Sagittarius Seiya [[spoiler:and Libra Shiryu]] are gold saints. The others remain in the bronze class. ''[[BadassCrew Not that doesn't stop or slow them the slightest anyways...]]''

* FiveManBand: Interesting in that, while the main nakama is a Five-Man Band, they don't neatly fall into the classic positions, instead sharing many of the positions within them.
** Kouga: TheHero, TheLeader
** Souma: TheLancer, TheBigGuy (having the biggest raw power of the five main Bronze Saints).
** Yuna: TheLancer (being as prominent a Lancer as Souma), {{The Smart G|uy}}al, surprisingly ''not'' TheChick (or at least not as much as Ryuhou)
** Ryuhou: TheChick / TheHeart, TheLancer (to Haruto)
** Haruto: TheSmartGuy
** [[spoiler: Eden: SixthRanger, TheBigGuy (even MORE raw power than Souma, he's the most powerful member of the team period)]]
** [[spoiler: Subaru: [[SixthRanger Seventh Ranger]]]]

* GreaterScopeVillain: [[spoiler: Possibly twice, if you count Medea being revealed as TheManBehindTheMan, manipulating Mars so that he'll create a world in which she and Eden will rule.]] The second time in that case would be [[spoiler: Abzu, the god of darkness, who proves to be too much to be controlled by Aria's staff as Medea had planned. Abzu simply breaks the staff rather than be expelled form his host, Koga, as Eden had hoped. Medea winds up getting killed in order to ensure that he doesn't kill Eden, the one person she cared about]].
** The second season has [[spoiler:the person behind the Pallasites (or at the very least, the Class-1s, Europa and Miller), who is heavily hinted to be Saturn in the form of Steel Saint turned Bronze Saint Subaru]].

* HandWave: In episode 68, the gang comes across some civilians who were not turned to stone by Pallas's curse because they have naturally strong cosmos. This potential plot point goes virtually nowhere. It simply serves as an explanation as to why Koga is not suspicious when he comes across Pallas running through the streets of the city.
** About the most plot relevant event it leads to is the introduction of the Equuleus Saint. Celeris, a citizen of Pallasvelda with a strong Cosmo, impressed the dying Equuleus Saint who gave him his cloth. Celeris then gave the cloth to Subaru, making him a real Bronze Saint, after having been impressed by the boy's bravery.
* HannibalLecture: Along with a side-order of LotusEaterMachine, this is the standard defence mechanism for the Darkness Ruins. In a darkly amusing subversion, though, it's so horrified/disgusted/outraged by Aria's [[ElementalRockPaperScissors powerful Light cosmo]] that it doesn't bother with either, and just skips straight to insulting her.

* HumanResources[=/=]LivingBattery[=/=]PoweredByAForsakenChild: Mars's EvilPlan requires him to harvest Cosmo from Saints on an industrial scale, slowly killing them in the process. [[spoiler:This is why he took over the [[SuperheroSchool Palaestra]] - it's basically a giant Cosmo farm.]]

* [[InfinityPlusOneElement Infinity+1 Elements]]: Light and Dark, though they have more of an emphasis on the 'Plus One' than the 'Infinity'. The reason being that despite their advantages the above mentioned "whoever's cosmo burns brightest wins" still applies. However to date (ep 8) both elements are incredibly rare among saints, and of the known Light element users two are deific [[spoiler:the real and 'fake' Athena]], one is [[spoiler: a reincarntion of one of the five Wisdom Kings and a Gold Saint]], Seiya, and the other is the massively gifted Kouga. There does however seem to be a bus load of low level dark element users among the Martian {{Mook}}s. The advantages of these elements are that they seem to be NonElemental in regards to the standard 5 (but directly counter each other). Dark also seems able to cause a [[FieldPowerEffect Field Power Drain]] to non-dark users.

* LegacyCharacter: The Dragon Cloth has been passed through close peers for three generations: Dohko[[note]]240 years ago before he became the Libra Saint, seen in ''Next Dimension'' and recent data books[[/note]] (Master) to Shiryu (Disciple), later Shiryu ([[spoiler:Father]]) to Ryuuhou ([[spoiler:Son]]).

* RedShirtArmy: Along with its heavier use of {{Mooks}}, the second season reintroduces this in the form of the Steel Saints, young soldiers equipped with technological pseudo-Cloths who serve to bulk out the numbers of Athena's forces due to the massive casualties the war against Mars inflicted. As one Steel Saint irritably noted, they're at a disadvantage against even their opposite numbers, the similarly feeble Class-4 Pallasites.
** With the introduction of retired Saints donning Steel Cloths, this becomes better due to them being able to defeat Class-4 Pallasites with far greater ease.

* TransformationSequence: but of course!

* UnwittingPawn: [[spoiler:What Aria's role ultimately amounts to.]]

*** [[spoiler: And even Mars and his loyal followers who want to create a better world are this to Medea.]]

** Episode 27; [[KillTheCutie no more words needed]].

*** Note, however, that other Cerberus Saints have been present at [[SaintSeiya other installments]] [[SaintSeiyaTheLostCanvas of the franchise]]. So, we may assume that at least some of the former constellations are among Athena's lines since day one. WordOfGod has also already stated that 88 is only a hypothetical number, meaning there might be many more Clothes out there from which we never heard of (the Clothes' Cemetery in Jamir did have an awful lot of abandoned Clothes, after all).

Following the relative success of ''Saint Seiya: Sanctuary Battle'', Namco Bandai announced that a game based on ''Omega'' is on the works. It is known as ''Saint Seiya Omega: Ultimate Cosmo'' for the {{P|layStationPortable}}SP. It will feature many of the characters from the anime and an original story. You can see a trailer [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAgClK3xy0g here]]

* [[spoiler:AllYourPowersCombined: The Omega is this, as it requires Saints to unite their Cosmos into one.]]

* [[spoiler: BiggerBad]]: [[spoiler: Possibly twice, if you count Medea being revealed as TheManBehindTheMan, manipulating Mars so that he'll create a world in which she and Eden will rule.]] The second time in that case would be [[spoiler: Abzu, the god of darkness, who proves to be too much to be controlled by Aria's staff as Medea had planned. Abzu simply breaks the staff rather than be expelled form his host, Koga, as Eden had hoped. Medea winds up getting killed in order to ensure that he doesn't kill Eden, the one person she cared about]] .
** The second season has [[spoiler:the person behind the Pallasites (or at the very least, the Class-1s, Europa and Miller), who is heavily hinted to be Saturn in the form of Steel Saint turned Bronze Saint Subaru]].

* [[spoiler: CelebrityImpersonator: Aria, who is presented as Athena]]

* [[spoiler: HandicappedBadass: Shiryu may have lost his five senses and is being consumed due to Mars' curse, but his Cosmo is still strong enough to ''force a [[LightningBruiser GOLD SAINT]]'' into retreat.]]

* [[spoiler:KillTheCutie]]: A particularly brutal example in episode 27. [[spoiler:Building up Aria for nearly 20 episodes just to ultimately give her the most violent death in the show so far... too heavy.]]

* [[spoiler: UnwittingPawn: What Aria's role ultimately amounts to.]]

* [[spoiler: WorthyOpponent: Harbinger towards Kouga after the latter showed his {{Determinator}} credentials. Also Titan and Seiya towards each other. And before that Titan to Harbinger when he realizes Harbinger isn't just a thug.]]

** About the most plot relevant event it leads to is the introduction of the Equleus Saint. Celeris, a citizen of Pallasvelda with a strong Cosmo, impressed the dying Equleus Saint who gave him his cloth. Celeris then gave the cloth to Subaru, making him a real Bronze Saint is when a random civilian inherits the Equleus Cloth by impressing through bravery.

** The second season plays up Pallas as the new BigBad. [[spoiler:She's merely a pawn as her Primary Pallasites all follow orders from Saturn.]]

** The second season has [[spoiler:the person behind the Pallasites (or at the very least, the Class 1s, Europa and Miller), who is heavily hinted to be Subaru]].

* EvilCounterpart: Pallas's Pallasites are organised quite similarly to Athena's Saints, with Level-1 Pallasites being their answer to Gold Saints, Level-2 being Silver, Level-3 being Bronze, and Level-4 being Steel. Unfortunately for the good guys, they're quite a bit more powerful than their opposite numbers, with a Level-3 being able to give a Silver Saint a run for their money, and [[spoiler:a Level-1's borrowed weapon alone being enough to give its wielder a lethal advantage over one of the most powerful Gold Saints]].

** The pallasites are named after [[spoiler:Saturn's moons]]. Their armors are called [[spoiler:"Chronotectors"]]. Also, they can [[spoiler:stop time to normal humans with low/no cosmo]]. Later, the castle that is pretty much the pallasites' fortress is sealed with [[spoiler:"the gate of time"]]. Pallas is the [[spoiler:God of Love]]. So what does all this babble and theme of [[spoiler:time]] have to do with Pallas?. Of course, [[spoiler:nothing, those were Saturn's forces all along]].

* ISurrenderSuckers: Geki pretends to bow down to Mars, only to headbutt a Marsian in the stomach.

* JapaneseBeetleBrothers: Two brother Marsians based on the kabuto and kuwagata beetles show up in episode 9.

* {{Astrologer}}: Some saints understandably study astrology, given it influences all saints. Yuna in particular is a learned one. Even more for [[spoiler:Geminis Paradox, she can read the stars and show to an opponent the different possibilities for the future with the Crossroads Mirage technique. Her sister Geminis Integra says she can read the stars in the same way]].

** It was played straight in the original series with [[spoiler:Shaina]] (at least to the extent that she does fall in love with [[spoiler:Seiya]] when he destroys her mask, but it seems to be subverted (or just averted) in all occasions in Omega. As explained above, Yuna just refuses the tradition. [[spoiler:Geminis Paradox]] doesn't use the mask at all and says she'll just love [[spoiler:or kill, when in "evil" mode]] anyone who sees her. And [[spoiler:Geminis Integra]] gets her mask destroyed by [[spoiler:Paradox]] but of course the trope is just averted because of the [[spoiler:UnfortunateImplications HoYay [[BrotherSisterIncest Sister-Sister]] in the love case, and because they were already trying to kill each other before this happens. They end up loving each other as sisters in the end but for totally different reasons.]]

[[quoteright:250:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/omega12345_3501.jpg]][[caption-width-right:250:Have you ever felt your own Cosmo?]]

* LetsSplitUpGang: Done in the second season [[spoiler: so that they can find the path in Pallas castle that leads to Pallas. Each path being named after worlds from NorseMythology and the Saints split up into groups of two-four, while Integra and Ikki go off on their own.]]

** In episode 53, Souma channels [[GGundam Domon Kasshu]]: "My soul is burning! It tells me to defeat you!"

Following the relative success of ''Saint Seiya: Sanctuary Battle'', Namco Bandai announced that a game based on ''Omega'' is on the works. It is known as ''Saint Seiya Omega: Ultimate Cosmo'' for the [[PlayStationPortable PSP]]. It will feature many of the characters from the anime and an original story. You can see a trailer [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAgClK3xy0g here]]

* {{Astrologer}}: Some saints understandably study astrology, given it influences all saints. Yuna in particular is a learned one. Even more for [[spoiler:Geminis Paradox, she can read the stars and show to an opponent the different possibilites for the future with the Crossroads Mirage technique. Her sister Geminis Integra says she can read the stars in the same way.]]

** There were. [[spoiler:Medea is the real BigBad, Mars was just an UnwittingPawn on her plans]].

* [[spoiler: BiggerBad]]: [[spoiler: Possibly twice, if you count Medea being revealed as TheManBehindTheMan, manipulating Mars so that he'll create a world in which she and Eden will rule.]] The second time in that case would be [[spoiler: Abzu, the god of darkness, who proves to be too much to be controlled by Aria's staff as Medea had planned. Abzu simply breaks the staff rather than be expelled form his host, Koga, as Eden had hoped. Medea winds up getting killed in order to ensure that he doesn't kill Eden, the one person she cared about.]]
** The second season has [[spoiler:the person behind the Pallasites (or at the very least, the Class 1s, Europa and Miller), who is heavily hinted to be Subaru.]]
* BlindObedience: On the part of all of Mars' underlings, notably Leo Mycenae and Eden. Though the latter [[spoiler: has trouble reconciling Mars' cruelty to Aria with his obedience.]]

* CrossoverCosmology: The Greek gods are real, and apparently so is [[spoiler:the Hebrew {{God}}]], which is required by Mars' plan to re-create [[spoiler:the Tower of Babel and charging it up with loads of Cosmo from all 7 elements.]] And then [[spoiler:the ''real'' BiggerBad turns out to be Abzu, who is basically a Titan from Sumerian pantheon.]]

** Episode 10 features the granddaddy of all {{Curb Stomp Battle}}s, with a side-order of NoHoldsBarredBeatdown. [[spoiler:Team Kouga never stood a chance.]]

** Episode 18: Souma fights Sonia and the fight is dead even, with Souma's [[UnstoppableRage rage]] giving his Cosmo enough of a boost to go head to head with her. However, Kouga eventually calms Souma down by reminding him [[ThePowerOfLove where a Saint's true power springs from]]. Cue '''[[TranquilFury tranquil fury]]''' and Souma WIPING THE FLOOR with Sonia, who runs away to save her butt.

** Every fight with a Class 1 Pallasite seems to have to be this as a requirement. The only one that managed to be evenly matched was Aegeon vs Ikki.

* DistressedDamsel: Saori[=/=]Athena, as per tradition. And [[spoiler: Aria, her impersonator]].

* FaceHeelTurn: [[spoiler:The Gold Saints, with the exception of [[ChekhovMIA Seiya]], are now Mars's elite guard. [[TheJuggernaut This is a bad thing.]]]] [[spoiler: It turns out a few of the gold saints are still on Athena's]]
** Mentioned by [[spoiler:Sonia as the Gold Cloths themselves have turned on Athena as well, which is why those who are loyal to Mars are able to wear them]]. Naturally there are [[spoiler:exceptions to this that include Aries Kiki and [[TheReveal LIBRA]] [[GoodAllAlong GENBU]]]].

** Yuna: TheLancer (being as prominent a Lancer as Souma), [[TheSmartGuy The Smart Gal]], surprisingly ''not'' TheChick (or at least not as much as Ryuhou)

* GetAHoldOfYourselfMan: Yuna gives an EPIC concussive pep-talk to Kouga [[spoiler:after Eden defeats him and takes back Aria]].

* IKnowYouAreInThereSomewhereFight: [[spoiler:Episodes 49 and 50 feature this, with the Bronze Saints, Seiya and Saori trying to reach Kouga after he's been possesed by Abzu.]]

* {{Infinity Plus One Element}}s: Light and Dark, though they have more of an emphasis on the 'Plus One' than the 'Infinity'. The reason being that despite their advantages the above mentioned "whoever's cosmo burns brightest wins" still applies. However to date (ep 8) both elements are incredibly rare among saints, and of the known Light element users two are deific [[spoiler:the real and 'fake' Athena]], one is [[spoiler: a reincarntion of one of the five Wisdom Kings and a Gold Saint]], Seiya, and the other is the massively gifted Kouga. There does however seem to be a bus load of low level dark element users among the Martian {{Mook}}s. The advantages of these elements are that they seem to be NonElemental in regards to the standard 5 (but directly counter each other). Dark also seems able to cause a [[FieldPowerEffect Field Power Drain]] to non-dark users.

* LosingTheTeamSpirit: In a blatant violation of [[ShonenDemographic Shonen]] {{True Companions}}hip, Souma left the party for his vendetta against Sonia ([[AesopAmnesia and this is after learning a lesson about not letting your personal issues get to you]]), Haruto left the party ''yet again'' due to a vaguely mentioned complex about his ninja family, Ryuuhou actually follows ''him'' instead of helping escorting Aria, and [[spoiler:Kouga nearly calling it quits after Eden takes Aria from him and Yuna]]. The audience probably have done a Cosmo-powered FacePalm.

* {{MacGuffin}}: Starting with episode 13 we are introduced to the Cosmo Crystals.

* OlderThanTheyLook: Due the artstyle you wouldn't say that many of the returning characters are on their mid-thirties to forty. This is a notable inverse of…
** YoungerThanTheyLook: The mantle the originals carried in their series, now belongs to the new characters. For proof…''Haruto is only 13 years old.''

** [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] in Haruto's case by basically being a ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'' character in Saint form.
* ParentalAbandonment: Following ''Saint Seiya'''s tradition, most of the main characters are parentless in some way or another. So far the only exception is Ryuhou, with both biological parents known and alive, and that's because Shiryu and Shunrei's [[PlotArmor Plot Armors]] are sturdier than Gold Cloths.
** Lets list it, Kouga [[spoiler: was probably abandoned when the meteorite carrying Abzu came]], Aria [[spoiler: probably the same for her]], Souma only had a father and he was killed [[spoiler:by Sonia]], Haruto [[spoiler: also only had a father, who has more or less disowned him for becoming a saint]], Yuna's [[spoiler:parents were killed in a war that devastated her hometown]] and the Eden [[spoiler: dear god Eden, he loses pretty much everything. In the start of the series he had his mother, father and stepsister... Too bad they were a family of evil. He first lost his childhood friend Aria to his father, then his stepsister who he loved deeply died in battle. He and Kouga beat his father, only for his mother to kill his father. And his mother gave her life to save his]]

** [[spoiler: The battle between Yuna and Pavlin has shades of Hyoga Vs Camus. With the teacher facing their respective student to test their resolution in protecting Athena and if they have what it takes to carry on, the main difference is that the former has both ending up killing themselves and in this one is... [[NeverFoundTheBody more ambigous]]]].

* TheSpartanWay: Palaestra seems to be a departure from this method as seen the original story. Budding Saints still go through their own TrainingFromHell, but by the looks of things [[NoEndorHolocaust children aren't dying by the]] [[InferredHolocaust boatloads when they fail to live up to the standards set.]]

* TinTyrant: Mars

* [[WeirdMoon Weird Mars]]: While Mars is slightly smaller than Earth, here it appears to only be about the size of the moon.

** Episode 27; [[KillTheCutie no more words needed.]]
** Around episode 40, Mars had finally [[spoiler: realized the error of his ways and it looks like he's going to stop the destruction of earth, it proves too late and earth's cosmo goes to Mars.]]
** Episode 48, which includes [[spoiler: Koga finally finding his adoptive mother Saori, but falling victim to an illusion of her getting killed by Medea which allows her to get the god of darkness Abzu to posses him. He kills Amor and promptly moves towards Athena.]]
** Episode 49, [[spoiler: Abzu manages to curse everyone with the same corruption that causes those who burn their cosmo to be engulfed by darkness, and Eden's plan to use Aria's staff to cleanse Koga of Abzu fails miserably, with Aria's staff being broken and thrown into a seemingly bottomless pit.]] Then [[spoiler: Medea sacrifices herself to make sure that Abzu's attack does not kill Eden. Abzu then continues on her merry way to murder Athena.]]

** Actually, this can be chalked up as a {{RetCon}}, as the show features characters whose cloths are based on obsolete/inactive constellations, as shown by one character who is referred to as the saint of the Reindeer (Rangifer) constellation, thus taking us beyond the 88 active constellations.

* BerserkButton: Mars remained calm as he beaten his opponent until Seiya arrives and he loses it.

* ScarfOfAsskicking: It is pretty much everywhere. Every major badass has one from Seiya, to Eden

* [[spoiler: WorthyOpponent: Harbinger towards Kouga after the latter showed his {{Determinator}} credentials.]]

* {{Astrologer}}: Some saints understandably study astrology, given it influences all saints. Yuna in particular is a learned one.

-->'''Kouga''': '' As long as someone is there to carry it on, the legend of SaintSeiya will live on!''

* Narm: Episode 56,you can't watch it with a straight face.

** Lets list it, Kouga [[spoiler: was probably abandoned when the meteorite carrying Abzu came]], Aria [[spoiler: probably the same for her]], Souma only had a father and he was killed [[spoiler:by Sonia]], Haruto [[spoiler: also only had a father, who has more or less disowned him for becoming a saint]], Yuna's [[spoiler:parents were killed in a war that devastated her hometown]] and the Eden [[spoiler: dear god Eden, he loses pretty much everything. In the start of the series he had his mother, father and stepsister. Too bad they were a family of evil. He first lost his childhood friend Aria to his father, his stepsister who he loved deeply died in battle. He and Kouga beat his father, only for his mother to kill his father. And his mother gave her life to save his]]
* PositiveDiscrimination: All over the place in ''Omega'', pretty much all of the newly introduced Female Saints (Yuna, Pavlin, Sonia, Paradox) barring Yuna's friends are extremely competent in fighting prowess, intelligence or both, and in some cases they prove to be even more effective than the regular male Saints; this is even more notable with Gemini Paradox, who might be the very first female Gold Saint ever, she wasn't diminished to wear Pisces or Virgo Cloths which could be seen as quite feminine Cloths, she is the Gemini Saint, the Gold Saint who is generally seen as one of the strongest among the Gold Saints, especially in Paradox's case as she is Saga and Kanon's successor, two extremely strong Gold Saints in their lifetime.
* PowerCrystal: Now each Cloth has one, due crystal pendants being the new vessels for the cloths, they're officially called Cloth Stones.

** Episode 48, which includes [[spoiler: Koga finally finding Saori, but falling victim to an illusion of her getting killed by Medea which allows her to get the god of darkness Abzu to posses him. He kills Amor and promptly moves towards Athena.]]