History Characters / AlitaBattleAngel

Character page for ''Film/AlitaBattleAngel''.

* DropTheHammer: Ido's weapon as a hunter-warrior is a huge, [[RocketPoweredWeapon rocket-powered]] cross between a hammer and pickaxe that's nearly as large as Ido himself. It can [[IKEAWeaponry break-apart]] for storage.

[[folder: Hugo]]

* AscendedExtra: Hugo has a much larger and central role in the story here compared to the manga, appearing earlier in the story and actually helping out Alita with her early Hunter-Warrior missions. He didn't get introduced in the manga until after she had already [[spoiler: had her final fight with Makaku/[[AdaptationNameChange Grewishka]].]]

[[folder: Screwhead]]

[[folder: [=McTeague=]]]

[[folder: Clive Lee]]
!! Clive Lee
[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/cliveleealita.jpg]]

* AdaptationalHeroism: By virtue of being DemotedToExtra, Clive Lee ends up as this. In the manga he was one of the primary antagonists of the Scrapyard arc, along with Zapan and Grewishka. [[spoiler: Clive Lee was specifically that Hunter Warrior who tried to hunt down Hugo after he became wanted.]] This aspect of his character does not get adapted into the film, instead being given to Zapan.

[[folder: Grewishka]]

* AdaptationNameChange: Grewishka's name is derived from his OVA counterpart's name, Grewcica. The design of both very strongly takes after the manga's Makaku (including the grind cutters-launching arm and his core being worm-like) and he takes on a very similar role for the first half of the plot. He even makes an almost identical threat to Alita, specifically turning her into a living pendant. [[spoiler: His eventual role as Vector's muscle is the main point of divergence.]]

* VillainForgotToLevelGrind: Averted at first. During their first encounter, Grewishka puts up a decent fight again Alita, but ultimately loses to her. Afterwards he receives a new body and a new weapon, courtesy of Doctor Chiren, which he then uses to battle Alita again, this time coming dangerously close to killing her and is only driven off because of outside interference. [[spoiler: Ultimately played straight during their final encounter. Grewishka manages to get the drop on Alita, but her improved body, weapon, and skills as a warrior prove to be too much for him, resulting in a CurbStompBattle that ends in the latter's favor.]]

[[folder: Nyssiana]]

[[folder: Romo]]

[[folder: Amok]]

[[folder: Jashugan]]

[[folder: Kinuba]]

[[folder: Stinger]]

[[folder: Exploder]]

[[folder: Gerda]]

* ChainsawGood: He has two retractable buzzsaws on his arms alongside his cyborg hands, and tries to cut Alita to pieces with them.

* BreastExpansion: When Alita gets the Berserker body and it shapeshifts to suit her mental image of herself, Nurse Gerhad eyeballs Alita's slightly larger bust and remarks that she's older than Ido initially thought. This is probably a reference to [[MythologyGag one of the omake gags in the manga]], although she pales compared to her manga [[BoobsOfSteel counterpart]].

!!!'''Voiced By:''' Cecilia Gómez (Latin American Spanish dub), Mone Kamishiraishi (Japanese dub), Creator/RebeccaBenhamour (French dub)

* BreakoutCharacter: InUniverse in the sport of Motorball. Her very first tryout results in people booing her...and then the CarnivalOfCriminals all try to kill her with predictable results. Once that starts, she becomes the breakout star of the sport, and it's how she gets the title of Battle Angel. [[spoiler:By the time she's readying for the Champion's League, all of the fans are chanting her name.]]

* CuteBruiser: Alita appears to be a young woman and is a little on the short side, but is able to take down warriors far larger than herself using her martial arts skills. [[spoiler:With the Berserker body, Alita can muster enough raw strength to literally tear her cyborg opponents limbs or heads off.]]

** In all versions [[spoiler:he's explicitly lying to Hugo that he can get him to Zalem if he raises enough money. The OVA implies that he was doing so in order to manipulate Hugo into doing his dirty work and was planning to [[KickTheDog hustle him out of this money to boot]]. In the film, much like in the manga, Vector is shown to have a legitimate soft-spot for Hugo. He even offers to make Hugo his right-hand man and tries to convince him to give up on his goal of reaching Zalem, likely because he knows first-hand what [[AndIMustScream that entails]]. On the opposite end, much like he does in the OVA, he ends up harvesting Chiren for her organs once she proves to have [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness outlived her usefulness.]]

* NormalFishInATinyPond: The Flashback scenes show [[spoiler:that the berserkers were mass produced EliteMooks.]] By the time the movie happens, this technology is considered lost ([[EarthThatUsedToBeBetter at least on Earth]]), so Alita[[spoiler:in her berserker body]] is almost unstoppable for Iron City standards.

!!!'''Voiced By:''' Arturo Castañeda (Latin American Spanish dub), Creator/NobunagaShimazaki (Japanese dub), Antoine Ferey (French dub)

!!!'''Voiced By:''' Dafnis Fernández (Latin American Spanish dub)

!!!'''Voiced By:''' Raúl Anaya (Latin American Spanish dub), Ken Uo (Japanese dub)

!!!'''Voiced By:''' Idzi Dutkiewicz (Latin American Spanish dub), Creator/TakanoriHoshino (Japanese dub)

!!!'''Voiced By:''' Cecilia Gómez (Latin American Spanish dub), Mone Kamishiraishi (Japanese dub), Rebecca Benhamour (French dub)

[[caption-width-right:350:''"Not bad, for a meatboy!"'']]

* KarmicTransformation: [[spoiler: He becomes a cyborg himself after having made a living stealing body parts from cyborgs.]]
* LaserGuidedKarma: Although not entirely a bad person, he is still part of a gang that rips cyborgs apart to sell their parts. On one occasion, he knowingly abandons a helpless victim to be killed by his boss. [[spoiler: He eventually becomes a cyborg himself and dies limbless.]]

[[folder: Tanji]]

* AscendedExtra: Tanji was only a very minor character in the manga, only briefly appearing twice [[spoiler: and dying in his second appearance.]]

[[folder: Koyomi]]

* NiceGirl: She gets along well with Alita even after learning of her [=URM=] past.

[[folder: Nova]]

* AdaptationExpansion: Vector's empire in the film is expanded to include him financially sponsoring several motorball players [[spoiler: further showing why Vector has employed Hugo and his gang to steal organs and cyborg parts for him]].
* AdaptationalVillainy: [[ZigzaggedTrope Zigzagged]] as Vector is more villainous than his original manga counterpart while ''less'' villainous than his portrayal in the OVA.
** In all versions [[spoiler: he's explicitly lying to Hugo that he can get him to Zalem if he raises enough money. The OVA implies that he was doing so in order to manipulate Hugo into doing his dirty work and was planning to [[KickTheDog hustle him out of this money to boot]]. In the film, much like in the manga, Vector is shown to have a legitimate soft-spot for Hugo. He even offers to make Hugo his right-hand man and tries to convince him to give up on his goal of reaching Zalem, likely because he knows first-hand what [[AndIMustScream that entails]]. On the opposite end, much like he does in the OVA, he ends up harvesting Chiren for her organs once she proves to have OutlivedYourUsefulness.]]
** Also picked up from the OVA was his direct antagonism towards Alita. In the manga, he was never directly involved with her, simply questioning Hugo on his relationship with her and later [[spoiler: blowing her off when Hugo goes into hiding after becoming wanted]]. In the OVA he specifically employees Grewishka to go out and attack Alita, seeing her as a potential threat to his business ventures. In the movie, he's implicitly told by Nova to eliminate Alita, leading him to hire Grewishka like in the OVA, and later trying to set up Alita's motorball debut to end in her death.

* NormalFishInATinyPond: In his own words, if he lived in Zalem, he would be at the bottom of the food chain. But in Iron City, he is a king. [[spoiler: Although it could have been a lie.]]

* WickedCultured: Downplayed but he quoted ''Literature/ParadiseLost'' to Hugo, asking him if he really wants to go to Zalem as "I'd rather rule in hell than serve in Heaven". [[spoiler: Given the truth about what going to Zalem entails that might have been a half-hearted PetTheDog moment]].

[[folder: Chiren]]

* BrainInAJar: [[spoiler: The consequence of betraying Vector.]]
* HeelFaceDoorSlam: [[spoiler: She saved Hugo when she saw Alita's feelings for him and was about to abandon her plans to go to Zalem, but she was reduced to a brain, heart, and eyes for her betrayal]].

* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: For pulling a HeelFaceTurn and saving [[spoiler:Hugo's]] life, [[spoiler:Dr. Chiren]] gets reduced to a BrainInAJar for her troubles. Although given [[spoiler: her desire to go to Zalem and what that entails, the same thing might have happened to her anyway if she had continued serving Nova]].

* SparedByTheAdaptation: [[spoiler: Both versions end up being reduced to body parts in jars, but her brain and eyes indicate that she's still alive]].

[[folder: Centurions]]

[[folder: Zapan]]

* AlasPoorVillain: It's possible to feel just a moment of sympathy for him as he wails about [[spoiler: His face being sliced off]]. although seeing the state he left Hugo in can quickly snuff out that pity.

* TheBerserker: Alita tends to transition quickly between TranquilFury and ferociously attacking. She is impetuous and inclined to [[LeeroyJenkins rush into battle without adequate forethought or preparation]]. [[spoiler: The military body Alita finds and later wears is even called "the Berserker body."]]

* BigAnimeEyes: Given she's not human [[spoiler:(or from Earth to begin with)]], Alita's eyes are larger than normal, and her flashback shows that it's apparently a Martian thing. And the film is even based on a manga\anime, though, ironically, her design in the movie is based on a late ''Last Order'' artstyle where she does ''not'' have BigAnimeEyes. For added irony, her most prominent trait in the manga are her pouty lips, not her eyes.

* CuteBruiser: Alita appears to be a young woman and is a little on the short side, but is able to take down warriors far larger than herself using her martial arts skills. [[spoiler: With the Berserker body, Alita can muster enough raw strength to literally tear her cyborg opponents limbs or heads off.]]

* HeroesLoveDogs: Her first meeting with a stray dog has her feeding, petting and hugging it. [[spoiler: She is absolutely enraged when Grewishka kills it.]]

* NormalFishInATinyPond: The Flashback scenes show [[spoiler:that the berserkers were mass produced EliteMooks.]] By the time the movie happens, this technology is considered lost ([[EarthThatUsedToBeBetter at least on Earth]]), so Alita[[spoiler: in her berserker body]] is almost unstoppable for Iron City standards.

* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: [[spoiler: Ido determines that her technology must be URM. She had been part of the failed attack on Zalem, three hundred years ago.]]

* ShowyInvincibleHero: From the very moment she first enters combat to the end of the movie, fairly few things the city can throw at her actually present a significant challenge for her. Most are dispatched with almost contemptuous ease, but **damn** if it isn't awesome to see her put a whole room full of bounty hunters in their place. In fact, the only real failure she suffers in a battle is not because an enemy overpowers her, but because '''her old body falls apart on its own''' because it simply wasn't designed to be pushed to the extremes she pushed it to. And then it turns out her new body [[spoiler:had a strong HealingFactor all along in addition to its other features, just in case she was not quite powerful enough already.]] Unfortunately, her various loved ones are not quite so superhuman, which provides most of the drama and tension of the movie.

* VillainKiller: [[spoiler: Zapan, Vector, Screwhead, Grewishka, Nyssiana, Romo, Stinger, and Exploder]] all learned the hard way what happens when you're bold enough to either challenge her or threaten her loved ones. [[spoiler: Zapan]] is the only one who survived.

* DropTheHammer: Ido's WeaponOfChoice as a hunter-warrior is a huge, [[RocketPoweredWeapon rocket-powered]] cross between a hammer and pickaxe that's nearly as large as Ido himself. It can [[IKEAWeaponry break-apart]] for storage.

* RaceLift: Manga Jashugan was a DarkSkinnedBlond. Here he's played by the palest of the pale Creator/JaiCourtney, with red hair.

* BerserkButton: Being an animal lover, he's guaranteed to go after your head, even if there isn't presently a price on it, if you kill a dog in front of him.

* NiceJobFixingItVillain: If he hadn't dispatched the puppy, [=McTeague=] would just have continued to sit there and be inactive. Instead, he did the one thing that pushes a berserk button, causing [=McTeague=] to directly get involved to defend Alita and unleash his cyberhounds on Grewishka while his arm is badly damaged and thus making sure he couldn't use his new weapon to defend himself as the pack starts to rip him apart.

* IllGirl: She had a condition that confined her to a wheelchair. It motivated her father to build a cyborg body for her, but she sadly never got to use it, and the new Alita inherited it.

* BigAnimeEyes: Given she's not human [[spoiler:(or from Earth to begin with)]], Alita's eyes are larger than normal, and her flashback shows that it's apparently a Martian thing. And the film is even based on a manga\anime, though, ironically, her design in the movie is based on a late ''Last Order'' artstyle where she does ''not'' have BigAnimeEyes.

* BreastExpansion: When Alita gets the Berserker body and it shapeshifts to suit her mental image of herself, Nurse Gerhad eyeballs Alita's slightly larger bust and remarks that she's older than Ido initially thought. This is probably a reference to [[MythologyGag one of the omake gags in the manga]].

* EvilGenius: According to Rodriguez, he and Cameron specifically looked for an actor who could pull a convincing EvilGenius ''easily'', until some of them finally remembered Ed Norton. In fact, Rodriguez points out that Norton's image of Nova reminds him of [[RenaissanceMan Cameron's own]] SuperpoweredEvilSide, "Mij".

* HellBentForLeather: His Hunter-Warrior getup: gloves, [[BadassLongcoat coat]], [[NiceHat even fedora]]. It's implied that Alita's own later thing for leather comes from him.

* NiceHat: His broad-brimmed leather fedora in his Hunter-Warrior outfit.

!!!'''Voiced By:''' Setsuji Sato (Japanese dub)

* BaldBlackLeaderGuy: From the rare Heel side.

* TheRedBaron: Her skill on the Motorball circuit leads to Alita being dubbed "Battle Angel". "The face of an angel, with a body made for battle".

* LightIsNotGood: Nova, the GreaterScopeVillain of the film, dresses entirely in white, has pale blond hair, and his VillainOverride is signaled by the controllee's eyes turning a bright blue. Even his name indicates associations with light.