History Characters / Battletoads

* BrutishCharacterBrutishWeapon: His generic smash hit in the arcade game turns his hands into a giant stone hammer.

* TurnsRed: In every game he's in. Whether it's changing the pattern of his attack, jumping faster and more often, or simply increasing the speeed at which he attacks, Robo-Manus always seems to fight much harder as he nears defeat.

* {{Catchphrase}}: "When brain power fails, brute force prevails!"
* DropTheHammer: His generic smash hit in the arcade game turns his hands into a giant stone hammer.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Concept art for Robo-Manus shows he had a [[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/battletoads/images/e/ea/RoboManusHumanoidForm.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20200929030216 smaller, less-monstrous humanoid form]] resembling Franchise/RoboCop, as well as his sprite in the original NES game. [[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/battletoads/images/e/ef/RoboManusToyConcept.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20200927031755 Additional concept art for an unreleased toy]] indicates that he would've undergone a horrific mutation (complete with his [[BodyHorror torso splitting in half]] to become his signature ShouldersOfDoom) into his more recognizable form for battle. This was likely left out of the earlier games due to technical limitations at the time.

!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/EricBauza (2020)

!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/EchoKellum (2020)

* CatchPhrase: "When brain power fails, brute force prevails!"
* DropTheHammer: His generic smash hit in the arcade game turns his hands into a giant stone hammer.

!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/KathleenBarr (pilot episode), Siobhan Hewlett (2020)

* PurpleIsPowerful: The reboot changes he'd colors of clothing to purple, likely to invoke this and draw away from the FanService aspect.
* RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver: She wears mostly black with a red cape.

* CyberCyclops: He's typically depicted with a [[{{Series/Battlestar Galactica|1978}} Cylon]]-like visor with a [[RedEyesTakeWarning red]] or purple light serving as an eye. His appearances in Battletoads and Double Dragon and the arcade game give him a more angular visor with two eyes.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Concept art for Robo-Manus shows he had a [[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/battletoads/images/e/ea/RoboManusHumanoidForm.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20200929030216 smaller, less-monstrous humanoid form]] resembling [[{{Film/RoboCop}} RoboCop]], as well as his sprite in the original NES game. [[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/battletoads/images/e/ef/RoboManusToyConcept.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20200927031755 Additional concept art for an unreleased toy]] indicates that he would've undergone a horrific mutation (complete with his [[BodyHorror torso splitting in half]] to become his signature ShouldersOfDoom) into his more recognizable form for battle. This was likely left out of the earlier games due to technical limitations at the time.

* SerpentStaff: In ''Battlemaniacs'', the Dark Queen uses a snake-themed staff that fires energy projectiles.

* BuxomIsBetter: Her original design was particularly busty.

* FiveManBand: When including the allies they have...
** TheLeader: Zitz. He leads the team into action and accepts bounty targets.
** TheLancer: Rash. He provides most of the cynical snark to liven up the team.
** TheBigGuy: Pimple. He's the bulkiest of the toads and provides most of the muscle.
** TheSmartGuy: Professor T. Bird. He designed the toads' ship and provides most of the enemy intel.
** TheChick: Princess Angelica. She's the only female to be affiliated with the toads.

Characters in ''{{VideoGame/Battletoads}}'' and the reboot.

* NotSoAboveItAfterAll: When she's flustered or angry, she quickly resorts to juvenile namecalling even after asserting that she's unflappable.

* TurnsRed: Literally as well in the Arcade game. His jumps become much quicker and harder to avoid after he's been roughed up a bit

* HartmanHips: Her reboot design. Though her curves were overall toned down, the Dark Queen kept her huge hips and legs.

* AnAxeToGrind: His jumping charge attack in the arcade game turns his leg into a battle-axe.

* TheBadGuyWins: At the end of the reboot, she gets revenge on the ones who depowered her and finally achieves the status of ruler of the universe, [[PyrrhicVillainy though she is forced to be a benevolent ruler]].

* AttackOfThe50FootWhatever: While Robo-Manus is one of the taller characters in the series by default, especially in the Gameboy game, his appearance in the arcade game takes it UpToEleven, with him clocking in at 76' 8" tall and weighing 12,931 lbs for his appearance as the final boss. He's shown in another gargantuan form during the flashback in the reboot comic.

* WasOnceAMan: The [[AllThereInTheManual original backstory]] of the Battletoads, all three of them were formerly human video game testers working for the Psicone Corporation who got permanently trapped inside of the virtual world of the ''Battletoads'' video game they were working on thanks to sabotage by he game's jealous creator.

* CloudCuckoolander: Described as the most mentally unstable of the toads in the original games. The reboot keeps this trait and makes it more obvious with Rash being easily the craziest of the toads, often spacing out and utilizing much more surreal and slapstick transformations in his attacks

* TheBadGuyWins: At the end of the reboot, she gets revenge on the ones who depowered her and finally achieves the status of ruler of the universe, [[PyrrhicVillainy though she is forced to be a benevolent ruler.]]

* WillOTheWisp: She transforms into a glowing wisp-like energy form to move around the arena during her fight in ''Battlemaniacs", and after her defeat.
* VillainousBreakdown: One the Dark Queen’s most defining traits in both versions is how [[HairTriggerTemper easy she is to set off.]] In particular [[SoreLoser she never takes defeat well]] and many of the endings in the games have her furiously cursing the toads.

* IKnowMaddenCombat: Pimple's dash attack in the arcade game turns his head into a giant football helmet. He even yells "Touchdown!" when he nails an enemy with it.

!!The Topians
[[folder:UTO and PIA]]

The primary antagonists of the 2020 reboot. A pair of egomaniacal, hedonistic cosmic entities that, like the Dark Queen, seek to conquer the universe.

* CloudCuckoolander: Described as the most crazy and eccentric of the toads in the original games. The reboot keeps this trait and makes it more obvious with Rash being easily the most eccentric of the toads, often spacing out and utilizing much more surreal and slapstick weapons.

* ImpossibleHourGlassFigure: Her original design had large breasts and large hips connected by a pretty spindly waist. Her reboot design shrinks her chest, tuening her into an example of HartmanHips instead.

* DumbMuscle: He's definitely not the brightest of the toads, but he more than makes up for it with his brute strength.

* TheBadGuyWins: At the end of the reboot, she gets revenge on the ones who depowered her and finally achieves the status of ruler of the universe, though she is forced to be a benevolent ruler.
* BigBad: Of most games except the reboot.

* HartmanHips: Her reboot design, not that her original design was [[CurvesInAllTheRightPlaces lacking in the hips department]].
* MsFanservice: Big breasted, large and chunky hips, little clothing. Yeah, she counts.

!!!'''Voiced by:''' Echo Kellum (2020)