History Characters / ChoujuuSentaiLiveman

* ContrastingSequelMainCharacter: The Livemen are a clear inversion to the [[Series/TaiyouSentaiSunVulcan Sun Vulcan]] team. While the intial trio has the same air/land/sea motifs, the Livemen are a group of aspiring scientists from Earth Academia while the Sun Vulcan are affiliated with the military. Moreover, the Livemen starts has at least 1 female member and they they have additional 2 men joining the team midway in the series while the Sun Vulcan are a trio of men from the beginning to the end, although their initial team leader is replaced with a new leader midway in their home series.

* ContrastingSequelMainCharacter: The Livemen are a clear inversion to the [[Series/TaiyiuSentaiSunVulcan Sun Vulcan]] team. While the intial trio has the same air/land/sea motifs, the Livemen are a group of aspiring scientists from Earth Academia while the Sun Vulcan are affiliated with the military. Moreover, the Livemen starts has at least 1 female member and they they have additional 2 men joining the team midway in the series while the Sun Vulcan are a trio of men from the beginning to the end, although their initial team leader is replaced with a new leader midway in their home series.

* {{Fanservice: Spends both the beginning and end of episode 22 in a cute, one-piece blue swimsuit.

* SwissArmyTool: His ring, which can fire lasers that home in on their targets, as well as create and enlarge Zuno Beasts.

!!Guardnoid Gash

!!Kenji Tsukigata/Dr. Kemp | Actor: Yutaka Hirose

* HeelFakeTurn: [[spoiler:In the penultimate episode he fakes turning good so he can get close to the Livemen and defeat them, boosting his IQ to 1000.]]

!!Rui Senda/Dr. Mazenda | Actor: Akiko Kuruso

!!Gou Omura/Dr. Obular | Actor: Tohru Sakai

!!Arashi Busujima/Dr. Ashura | Actor: Yoshinori Okamoto

* ActingForTwo: There is a significant gap between Arashi and Ashura's characters that is best described with this trope.

* BroughtDownToNormal: [[spoiler:After Bias deems him a liability, he revokes all of the enhancements he used to increase Ashura's intelligence and strength, reverting him to Arashi again.

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!!Colon | Voice: Creator/MakotoKousaka

[[caption-width-right:250:some caption text]]The [[RobotGirl android]] ally built by the trio's late mentor, she is capable maintaining the [=GranTortoise=] base, as well as provide in-battle assistance to our heroes whenever possible. Although a machine, she carries many human emotions.

!!Masako Omura | [-Actress: -]

* [[spoiler: TheUnfettered: He will do anything to make sure he gets the twelth brain, no matter how horrible. And he will never give up.]]

* [[spoiler:VillainWithGoodPublicity: Interestingly, he was one of these among the other villains. Once the villains realized what type of person Bias really was, all of them except for Gash, who knew already, and Kemp, who had went completely insane, turn on him one by one.]]

* [[spoiler:AlasPoorVillain: Like Mazenda, played straight.]]

** EmpoweredBadassNormal: While Bias hates any non-genius, even he found Arashi's strength as something not to be wasted.

* DumbMuscle: Arashi is a gang leader, but not because he's smart.

An alien from the technologically-advanced planet of Guild. He joins Volt after hearing of Bias' reputation from across space. Notable for his arrogance and his apparently unlimited life force. [[spoiler:Actually a robot built by Bias to spur on his students by acting as a rival]].

* SixthRanger: Joins Volt not longer after Guildos.

A poor student of Academia. When Kenji, Gou, and Rui had joined up with a terrorist unit called Brain Army Volt, Yuusuke swore to destroy them for the loss of two of his four friends, not to mention the destruction of the entire college.

* IdiotHero: Begins as a HotBlooded rebel but grows into the role of a dependable, courageous leader.[[note]]The actor had a freewheeling playboy image as a singer, and relished the opportunity to prove that he could do 'serious'.[[/note]] You really could see the difference between his early self and his self in ''Gaorangers vs Super Sentai''.
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%%* TheMcCoy

* ProductPlacement: Jou's apparently a ''Seicross'' fan, and has a Toys/MyPetMonster doll on the rear-view mirror of his car.

* HyperCompetentSidekick: In the early episodes, she'd often be doing the mental legwork of the 3. Later episodes downplayed this.

* NonProtagonistResolver: [[spoiler: Yusuke may be the main character and the one who thwarts ThePlan, but Megumi is the one that actually defeats Bias.]]

* [[TheSmartGuy The Smart Girl]]: Technically all three, being Academia alumni, count as this - but Megumi was ranked near the top (third, under Kenji and Rui) while the guys were near the bottom.

* TheSpock: Barely, and only compared to Yuusuke and Jou ''early on''. She's far more TheHeart.

* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: She and [[TheCutie Colon]] for friends, but [[DarkChick Mazenda]] replaces Colon in enemies. Ironically, both girly girls are not really human.

%%* TheBigGuy

%%* IKnowMaddenKombat
* KidAppealCharacter: Compared to Tetsuya.
* MisterSeahorse: Becomes "pregnant" with [[MonsterOfTheWeek Vegazuno]]'s offspring, giving birth to Vegababy.

* TookALevelInBadass: Given that he's the youngest of the five and that there wasn't much to show that he could do this, it's very surprising to see him continuously destroy Guildos' personal Guild-zuno until Guildos ''himself'' basically self-destructs from the strain of reviving him.

!!Colon
The [[RobotGirl android]] ally built by the trio's late mentor, she is capable maintaining the [=GranTortoise=] base, as well as provide in-battle assistance to our heroes whenever possible. Although a machine, she carries many human emotions.

* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Girly Girl to Megumi's Tomboy. (Friend version)

* WhatIsThisThingYouCallLove: Averted - she falls in love with a damaged Jimma, then later Yuusuke.

!Brain Army Volt
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[[caption-width-right:283:The members of Volt: Gash, Dr. Obular, Prof. Bias, Dr. Kemp, and Dr. Mazenda. Not pictured: Dr. Ashura, Guildos, and Butchy.]]

[[folder:Great Professor Bias (SPOILERS)]]
!! '''Great Professor Bias''' | [-Actor: Creator/JojiNakata-]
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The leader of Volt. He believes that humanity should be ruled by the intelligent. Far from being a CardCarryingVillain, he encourages and motivates his subordinates to learn from their mistakes and increase their intelligence.

* [[spoiler:TheAgeless: Has been using the brains he already gathered to prevent aging. However, if he goes too long without renewing it, he will instantly age to his true form.]]
* AGodAmI: All but said in the show itself, but this adequately sums him up. He has a truly massive god complex [[spoiler:and his true goals seem to be dedicated to satisfy his complex with no care for anyone else. The show is just one long power play on his part.]]
* [[spoiler:AlasPoorVillain: Averted. He doesn't get any in-universe mourning and his death isn't portrayed sympathetically, and the Livemen and Colon outright celebrate when he dies. Once you remember what he did in the final arc, his death becomes more karmic than sad.]]
* BenevolentBoss: He's probably the nicest of the Showa Big Bads. [[spoiler:Except it's all an act.]]
* BigBad: Obviously. Notably, the protagonists are aware of him but don't know what he looks like until the penultimate episode, where Yuusuke bursts into Bias' [[{{Squick}} Brain Room]] and demands to know if he's Bias. [[spoiler:He fires a beam at Yuusuke, who puts a sword into him in return.]]
* [[spoiler:TheChessmaster: Manipulates all of the villains save for Gash to further his own goals.]]
* TheCorrupter: Kenji and Gou were shown to be as kind as the future Livemen before Bias made them into Kemp and Obular, and Arashi was ultimately revealed to be a JerkWithAHeartOfGold in contrast to be cold Ashura. [[spoiler:And it's ultimately revealed he's done this many, many, many times before.]]
* [[spoiler:EvilCounterpart: To all of the heroes. They are all geniuses who extremely value youth, but while the Livemen give it proper respect and accept that it doesn't last, Bias is out to retain his youth using whatever means necessary.]]
* [[spoiler:HateSink: He subverts any genuine and altruistic qualities to his underlings only seeing them as tools for his end goal, and gleefully throws them under the bus once he has no more use for them. He even has the gall to reject [[RedemptionRejection an offer to turn a new leaf]] from Megumi and what makes his death [[KarmicDeath karmic]] is he ends up aging rapidly into an old man, and his last moments comes off as satisfying beyond expectations, which cements his status as one of the most repulsive villains in the franchise]].
* ItIsPronouncedTroPAY: His name is pronounced in Japanese ''Biasu'' (rhymes with "Pierce", sorta), not ''Baiasu'' as the English word "bias" is pronounced in Japanese.
* [[spoiler:KarmicDeath: The man with one of the greatest god complexes in all of ''Sentai'' who wanted to maintain his youth ended up dying as an (still completely evil) old man.]]
* LaserGuidedKarma: [[spoiler:See Karmic Death above. The way he died was actually pretty fitting.]]
* LighterAndSofter: Compared to [[Series/DengekiSentaiChangeman Bazoo]], [[Series/ChoushinseiFlashman Ra Deus and Lee Keflen]], and [[Series/HikariSentaiMaskman Zeba]], Bias is much kinder, actually showing mercy to his students. [[spoiler:Ultimately subverted; those moments were not altruistic at all and were used to further his own goals. Underneath his cover, he's just as bad as those four villains.]]
* [[spoiler: MassHypnosis: Bias pulls this in the penultimate episode. On Earth. The ''whole'' Earth. Only Yuusuke (who's actually inside the Brain Base by that point) and Colon (who's a robot) are unaffected.]]
* [[spoiler: MasterActor: He did a really good job at hiding his true self for so long on multiple occasions.]]
* [[spoiler:OmnicidalManiac: He proclaims that he is willing to kill all life on earth to prove his godhood to Yuusuke.]]
* OrcusOnHisThrone: Justified. Bias is the leader, but Volt's agenda involves his students having to develop and get smarter through their experiments, so Bias generally stands aside. [[spoiler:And his true plan also requires this, as he has to maintain a good amount of concentration in order to maintain the Mass Hypnosis.]]
* [[spoiler:ReallySevenHundredYearsOld]]
* [[spoiler:RedemptionRejection: When Megumi offers him a new chance at life after becoming a young boy, he vehemently refuses so he can grow up to become Great Professor Bias again.]]
* [[spoiler: TheSociopath: Any emotions he had shown are fake. He simply pretended to have them in order to manipulate his followers. In addition, he shows other sociopathic traits, such as caring only for himself and becoming more erratic and anxious as Kemp and Mazenda get smarter.]]
* [[spoiler: TheUnfettered: He will do anything to make sure he gets the twelth brain, no matter how horrible. And he will never give up.]]
* [[spoiler:TheUnfought: The Livemen never had a true fight with him. Along with the true Big Bad of ''Timeranger'' and the final Big Bad of ''Flashman'', Bias is the only final Big Bad to not get an epic final battle.]]
* [[spoiler:VillainWithGoodPublicity: Interestingly, he was one of these among the other villains. Once the villains realized what type of person Bias really was, all of them except for Gash, who knew already, and Kemp, who had went completely insane, turn on him one by one.]]
* WalkingSpoiler: He becomes much more interesting [[spoiler:and repulsive]] when we learn more about him.

[[folder: Guardnoid Gash]]
!!Guardnoid Gash
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''Not'' formerly anything. Bias' right-hand robot. In charge of making defeated Brain Beasts grow to incredible sizes with the Giga Phantom. Also has an absurdly powerful [[HandCannon Gashgun]] and a sword, and is by far the strongest fighter in the show.

* [[spoiler:AlasPoorVillain: Subverted, for the same reasons as Bias. Has the excuse of being built an evil mother without the breadth of personality Guildos and Butchy had, ''barely''.]]
* BattleButler: [[spoiler:Although he is technically The Dragon -]] Heavy emphasis on the 'Battle'.
* TheBrute: He's a super strong robot with little personality and gets little focus. He soon has to share the spotlight with Ashura. [[spoiler:In actuality, he's...]]
* [[spoiler:TheDragon: After Bias's true nature is revealed, it becomes clear that Gash has been, is, and always will be Bias's one and only Dragon.]]
* CastingGag: Or something. His V.A., Hideaki Kusaka, was in every Sentai series beginning with [[Series/DenshiSentaiDenziman Denjiman]] prior to this one (and almost all of them afterwards), usually as a suit actor, and on several occasions playing the sentai Robot. In a change of pace, this is about the only time he's used purely as a Voice Actor.
* CharacterTics: He polishes his gun so much it's a wonder he hasn't taken the paint off.
* ImplacableMan: He normally serves as Bias' bodyguard, but when he actually needs to do something, he turns into this. It's particularly noticeable when he's [[spoiler:hunting down Mazenda to take her brain; ''all five'' of the heroes jumping him doesn't do squat.]]
* [[spoiler:KarmicDeath: The single strongest character and the most loyal servant of Bias is killed after his arm is cut off and as a direct result of his obedience.]]
* [[spoiler:LetThemDieHappy: His final words are him trying to cheer the old, senile Bias up. It ends up making Gash, a robot, more human, while exactly what he says to make Bias happy only serves to make Bias more despicable by showing that even as what he became, Bias is still a soulless megalomaniac.]]
* MakeMyMonsterGrow: Unusually, he also does this, with the [[{{BFG}} Giga Phantom]] enlargement bazooka(?) which fires out a spiral of enlargement energy... or something. [[spoiler:FridgeBrilliance begins to hit once the extent of his power is shown - you begin to wonder just why Bias needs Kemp, Mazenda, and Oblar at all.]]
** On a smaller scale, he also radiates Chaos Phantom Energy onto Zuno-juu cores to create/realize a Zuno-juu.
* NighInvulnerability: It's worth noting that he's the single most powerful human-sized ''thing'' in the show.
* OutOfFocus: Unlike Bias and his students, he's just a really strong robot who also enlarges the monsters. [[spoiler:Then it's revealed that he's the only one in on Bias's plan...]] He can be seen in the 'throne' scenes doing ''something'' or other. Polishing his Gashgun seems to be a favorite.
* SpellMyNameWithAnS: The GUIS fansub calls him Gush, possibly since [[UnfortunateNames Gash is a crude slang term for a vagina.]]
* UndyingLoyalty: Stays with Bias and comforts him [[spoiler: as he dies on the exploding Brain Base, even though he could have easily just escaped.]] Of course, that might have just been his programming.

[[folder: Kenji Tsukigata/Dr. Kemp]]
!!Dr. Kemp | Actor: Yutaka Hirose
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Formerly Kenji Tsukigata, Dr. Kemp is a vain and power-hungry man who considers himself Bias' star pupil and can transform into the monstrous Beauty Beast Kemp. Later, he becomes Fear Beast Kemp. Yuusuke's rival.

* [[spoiler:AlasPoorVillain: Interestingly, this was initially subverted until ''Gaoranger vs Super Sentai'' revealed that Yuusuke did mourn him.]]
* [[spoiler:AxCrazy: Ultimately loses it during the finale.]]
* BioAugmentation: The route he takes to become Bijuu-Kemp and Kyoujuu-Kemp.
* TheDragon: While everyone except Gash is trying to be Bias's Dragon and they're all technically CoDragons, Kemp stands out as this. [[spoiler:Unfortunately for him, he stood no chance against Gash thanks to Bias's true plan, but at least he was one of the only two Bias thought could succeed, along with Mazenda.]]
* '''{{Jerkass}}''': Sure, everyone in Volt except for maybe Gash and Butchy is one, but Kemp is one ''even for a villain.'' When he mentally reverts to a 16-year old in one episode, he's also shown to have always been a bit of a prick even before he actually turned evil.
* JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope: He gets crazier and crazier as the series goes on, ultimately losing it after [[spoiler:he realizes he was Bias and Gash's pawn the whole time.]]
* LaughingMad: The second he realizes that [[spoiler: he's the only one of Bias' "students" still alive]], he starts laughing, while Gash, in the background, trains the Gashgun on him.
* OneWingedAngel: His alternate forms: Beauty Beast Kemp and the monstrous Fear Beast Kemp. [[spoiler:And finally Fear Beast Zuno.]]
* UnfortunateCharacterDesign: Beauty Beast Kemp is, to put it lightly, a little silly looking.
* [[spoiler:UnwittingPawn: But unlike the others, learning this doesn't cause him to hate Bias like the other villains. Instead, it drives him even crazier.]]
* UsedToBeASweetKid: Not exactly, as an episode shows even as a young teen he was kind of a self centered jerk with an inflated ego but he DID have humanity at one point. He had dreams of helping humanity, geniunely appreciated Yuusuke's friendship and was a bit of a romantic towards a girl they both knew and went out of his way to engineer a flower for her. When he was hurt in a lab accident both the girl and Yuusuke went to save him and did all they could to help him. When he meets the girl in the present and she calls him out for the evil man he has become Kemp does indeed feel guilty and hesitates briefly although he mentally powers through by focusing on Bias and how great he's convinced he can become. Even when he's reverted to his 16 year old self who's still rather arrogant and rude Megumi calling him out completely shames him and he does apologize and prepare to make it up to her until his original personality is triggered again. Tragically, there was a good man in Kemp but Bias's manipulations and his own ego and obsession keep him from being able to access it.

[[folder:Rui Senda/Dr. Mazenda]]
!!Dr. Mazenda | Actor: Akiko Kuruso
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Formerly Rui Senda, Dr. Mazenda is a cold-hearted woman who converted herself into a cyborg to eliminate her human emotion and affection. Later upgrades herself to Machine Mazenda, wherein 90% of her body (everything below the head) is mechanical. Megumi's rival, [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments Yuusuke's former crush.]] Not quite as fanatically devoted to Bias as Kemp or is.

* [[spoiler:AlasPoorVillain: Unlike the above three, this was played perfectly straight the moment she died.]]
* AnatomyArsenal: Including several {{Arm Cannon}}s in her finger, palm, and elbow. Gets worse with her Machine Mazenda upgrade.
* TheBaroness: The 'harsh' type.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: Flashbacks show that even before joining Volt, Rui was extremely arrogant and condescending to anyone she deemed as inferior to her. See Kick The Dog for more.
* BottomlessMagazines: Averted - her built-in weapons all require ammo. (Her (Five) Finger-gun requires her to insert a magazine into her hand, for example, and she's not shown using them continuously.) Yuusuke catches on and exploits this when she upgrades into Machine Mazenda, forcing her to run out.
* CrazyPrepared: [[spoiler:When she started having her first real doubts about Bias, she enables her body to become completely mechanical.]]
** More mundanely, she had a Brain Beast standing by with extra ammo during her first appearance as Machine Mazenda.
* CyberneticsEatYourSoul: Played straight at first, and even then she's not completely happy with trading off her humanity for eternal beauty. [[spoiler:Subverted later on - she regains some of her humanity only after she becomes fully mechanical to prevent Bias from taking her brain.]]
* {{Cyborg}}: And she upgrades herself as necessary.
* KickTheDog: When they first entered the Academy, Yuusuke developed a crush on her and wrote a very heartfelt love letter. But instead of respectfully declining, she outright told him that someone who barely passed the entrance exam had no right to ask out one of the top students and even laughed in his face.
* [[spoiler:RobotGirl: Converts herself into Robo Mazenda, once she fully realizes what Bias has planned for her brain.]]
* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Girly Girl to Megumi's Tomboy. (Enemy version)
* [[spoiler:UnwittingPawn: Bias didn't care about her as much as he did about her brain. She seems to have had some inkling of this, and generally isn't as blindly loyal to him throughout the series like Kemp is.]]

[[folder:Gou Omura/Dr. Obular]]
!!Dr. Obular | Actor: Tohru Sakai
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Gou Omura is one of the three transformed ex-students of Academia, he considers his human form to be inferior and mutates himself into the monstrous "perfect lifeform" Obular. He has a major inferiority complex, which motivated his transformation. Jou's rival.[[spoiler: Later on, he eventually pulls a HeelFaceTurn and lives to tell about it.]]

* [[spoiler: TheAtoner: what he becomes after recovering his memory, post-Volt - he seems to have found God by the end, ironically.]]
* [[CantCatchUp Can't Catch Up]]: He's not actually a born genius like Kemp and Mazenda, getting where he did through hard-ass studying (and got into Volt by applying, rather than being invited like they were).
* DeconstructedCharacterArchetype: of the ChildProdigy. Go was very smart, but only because his EducationMama enforced a harsh study regimen onto him instead of letting him have fun. This leaves him emotionally stunted and leads to the above mentioned trope, purely to show that he is capable of becoming powerful in his own right.
* EducationMama: Has one, but she lightens up after seeing what happened to him and nurses him back to health after he becomes Omura Gou again.
* [[spoiler: MadeOfIron: It's subtle, but he seems to have retained some degree of his former mutated physique - Gash shoots him ''several times'', in the back and at close range, as he tries to protect Mazenda, which he shrugs off.]]
* {{Mutant}}: Obular shot himself up with a virus to rebuild himself into Beastman Obular, and is biologically no longer human - and unlike Kemp, [[ModeLock he can't change back into human form]]. (It took getting turned into Obular-Zuno to undo this and he ultimately wills himself back to being human, at the expense of considerable stress on his mind and body.)
* SoleSurvivor: He ends up being [[spoiler: the only surviving member of Volt.]]
* [[spoiler: TraumaInducedAmnesia: Suffers from this for a while, as a result of the stress of becoming human again. (20 episodes later, a coincidental run-in with a Brain Beast cures it.)]]
* [[spoiler:UnwittingPawn: During the final arc, it's heavily implied that Bias didn't let him into Volt out of pity, but simply to make Kemp and Mazenda try harder.]]

[[folder:Arashi Busujima/Dr. Ashura]]
!!Dr. Ashura | Actor: Yoshinori Okamoto
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Formerly Arashi Busujima, an underworld crime boss. Bias artificially increases his intelligence to transform him into the genius Dr. Ashura, making his brainpower as formidable as his fighting abilities.

* ActingForTwo: There is a significant gap between Arashi and Ashura's characters that is best described with this trope.
* [[spoiler:AlasPoorVillain: Like Mazenda, played straight.]]
* BadassNormal: Arashi is tough enough to fight Brain Beasts to a draw [[spoiler: and actually blows one up with a suicide attack]].
** EmpoweredBadassNormal: While Bias hates any non-genius, even he found Arashi's strength as something not to be wasted.
* TheBrute: Shared with Gash, and in a way that takes advantage of his ridiculous intelligence.
* DontThinkFeel: Ashura's weakness is that, ultimately, he thinks his way through his fighting style, as if he's placing a higher priority on outwitting through brute processing rather than simply winning - sort of like calculating for chess when the game's played with D6 dice. He's actually smart enough to get away with it most of the time, but Red Falcon eventually exploits this and beats him.
* DyingMomentOfAwesome: Big time, by [[spoiler: strapping himself with dynamite and blowing himself up along with a powerful monster.]] Especially awesome given that an earlier episode explicitly stated that the Biomotion Buster was the only thing that could destroy a Brain Beast, but Ashura...[[DyingAsYourself no, sorry, Arashi]] proved them wrong.
* DumbMuscle: Arashi is a gang leader, but not because he's smart.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: He's fully on the Volt-train, but isn't as bloodthirsty as Kemp and Mazenda.
* GeniusBruiser: Ashura gets into hand-to-hand combat more than the other two.
* [[spoiler:UnwittingPawn: After his death, Bias tells Kemp and Mazenda that this was all he was, used to make them try harder. It's also implied that this was the real reason Gou was let into Volt.]]

[[folder:Guildian Guildos]]
!!Guildian Guildos
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An alien from the technologically-advanced planet of Guild. He joins Volt after hearing of Bias' reputation from across space. Notable for his arrogance and his apparently unlimited life force. [[spoiler:Actually a robot built by Bias to spur on his students by acting as a rival]].

* [[spoiler:AlasPoorVillain: Not as much as the others, but still there.]]
* [[spoiler: AssholeVictim: He can't quite believe that he's a robot, and his last few minutes are spent in anguish as he tries to wrap his mind around it (he spends the entirety of the HumongousMecha fight wandering up a cliff face basically asking "why? WHY?" before exploding - "TELL ME, BIAS!!").]]
* BodyHorror: [[spoiler: His RoboticReveal - half his face blowing off, tubes and metal spurting out from his body, and in a nice touch in post-production, his voice gets static-y a second before his body starts failing.]]
* CastFromHP: Can revive specialized Brain Beasts without enlarging them this way, and he has quite a lot of HP.
* [[spoiler: TomatoInTheMirror: He initially believed himself to have unlimited life force, and found out the hard way that there was something inaccurate about that...]]
* [[spoiler:UnwittingPawn: Was created so Kemp and Mazenda would try harder.]]

!!Chibuchian Butchy
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* [[spoiler:AlasPoorVillain: Played the straightest of them all.]]
* [[spoiler:HeelFaceTurn: In episode 44, "Butchy's reckless driving of tears!", he is like this after his robot parts appear from within himself, and when he hears "Spark! To The Ocean" being played on a keytar by Megumi - he even protects her from some attacking Jimmas. However, he got remote detonated by Bias, ''[[TearJerker where Megumi could see him die]]'', but not before waving and saying "Farewell" to her.]]
* ShooOutTheClowns: After he dies, all the occasional comic relief moments from the series are completely gone and the plot starts going in full-serious mode.
* [[spoiler:TomatoInTheMirror]]: He really has every excuse to not be in his right mind during his last episode.

* UsedToBeASweetKid: Not exactly, as an episode shows even as a young teen he was kind of a self centered jerk with an inflated ego but he DID have humanity at one point. He had dreams of helping humanity, geniunely appreciated Yuusuke's friendship and was a bit of a romantic towards a girl they both knew and went out of his way to engineer a flower for her. We he was hurt in a lab accident both the girl and Yuusuke went and did all they could to help him. When he meets the girl in the present and she calls him out for the evil man he has become Kemp does indeed feel guilty and hesitates briefly although he mentally powers through by focusing on Bias and how great he's convinced he can become. Even when he's reverted to his 16 year old self who's still rather arrogant and rude Megumi calling him out completely shames him and he does apologize and prepare to make it up to her until his original personality is triggered again. Tragically, there was a good man in Kemp but Bias's manipulations and his own ego and obsession keep him from being able to access it.

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!!Dr. Kemp

!!Dr. Mazenda

!!Dr. Obular

!!Dr. Ashura!!! | Actor: Yoshinori Okamoto

!!Dr. Ashura

'''The Livemen:'''
!!! '''Yuusuke Amamiya/Red Falcon''' | [-Actor: Daisuke Shima-]

!!! '''Jou Oohara/Yellow Lion''' | [-Actor: Kazuhiko Nishimura-]

!!! '''Megumi Misaki/Blue Dolphin''' | [-Actress: Megumi Mori-]

!!! '''Tetsuya Yano/Black Bison''' | [-Actor: Seiro Yamaguchi-]

!!! '''Junichi Aikawa/Green Sai''' | [-Actor: Jin Kawamoto-]

'''Brain Army Volt:'''

!!! '''Great Professor Bias''' | [-Actor: Creator/JojiNakata-]

!Guardnoid Gash

!Dr. Kemp

!Dr. Mazenda

! Dr. Obular

!Dr. Ashura

!Guildos

!Butchy

'''Others'''
!Colon

The [[RobotGirl android]] ally built by the trio's late mentor, she is capable maintaining the [=GranTortoise=] base, as well as provide in-battle assistance to our heroes whenever possible. Although a machine, she carries many human emotions.

* BattleButler: Of a sort, as she takes care of their base and jumps into battle on occasion - more emphasis on the 'Butler' part. She's even blown up a Brain Beast.
* ChineseGirl: Her design aesthetic. She even has {{Odango}}-like parts[[note]]detachable and officially called "Colon's Bonbon(s)", which she can use to visualize data[[/note]] on her head and her body design has a {{Qipao}} thing going.
* GuyInBack: Was essentially this during Live Boxer's first combination against Giga Volt, by wiring herself directly into it (to cover for a burned-out circuit).
* MissionControl: Mostly fills this role.
* SixthRanger: Fills this role when necessary (mostly supporting fire and indirect combat only - she's physically durable but not particularly strong).
* [[SuperPoweredRobotMeterMaids Super Powered Robot Maid]]: Is rather over-engineered for her intended purpose. You kinda have to wonder what intended purpose Dr. Hoshi had in mind for her.
* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Girly Girl to Megumi's Tomboy. (Friend version)
* UnfortunateNames: When you read her name, just... do your best to think of the punctuation mark and not the body part. (It's a homophone for 'Cologne' in Japanese, if that helps.)
* VerbalTic: Likes to add "-Colon" to the end of her sentences. It's something of an affectation and she does it less and less as the show progresses.
* WhatIsThisThingYouCallLove: Averted - she falls in love with a damaged Jimma, then later Yuusuke.

* TheLancer: Serves as Yuusuke's second-in-command of the team. Ironically, Yuusuke did not get HIS mecha in the first episode.

* ZettaiRyouiki: Grade A, but the blue jacket she wears early on subverts the image a little.

* OneOfTheBoys: Is the only female member in the group.

* [[spoiler:AlasPoorVillain: Subverted. He doesn't get any in-universe mourning and his death isn't portrayed sympathetically, and the Livemen and Colon outright celebrate when he dies. Once you remember what he did in the final arc, his death becomes more karmic than sad.]]

%%* TheHeart
* HorseArcher: Does the motorcycle version of this.

* '''{{Jerkass}}''': Sure, everyone in Volt except for maybe Gash and Butchy is one, but Kemp is one ''even for a villain.''

%%* MsFanservice

Formerly Rui Senda, Dr. Mazenda is a cold-hearted woman who converted herself into a cyborg to eliminate her human emotion and affection. Later upgrades herself to Machine Mazenda, wherein 90% of her body (everything below the head) is mechanical. Megumi's rival, [[CrowningMomentOfFunny Yuusuke's former crush.]] Not quite as fanatically devoted to Bias as Kemp or is.