History Characters / EVOSearchForEden

* AllYourPowersCombined: [[spoiler: After fusing with Gaia in the PC-98 version, you're able to draw on all the powers of the dominant species of Earth from each Era - Fish, Amphibian, Dinosaur, Reptilian and Mammal]]

* AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: [[spoiler: Happens in the ending of the PC-98 version, after defeating the final boss]].

* TimeAbyss: The player character is this in the original PC-98 game. Unlike the SNES version, who jumps forward in time every so often, the PC-98 version continues through time [TheSlowPath the old fashion way]. By the end of the game, the player character has lived for over ''4.6 billion years''.

* AllYourPowerCombined: As an EvilCounterpart of the Main Character, in her ultimate form, she has access to the powers of all the civilizations she's consumed prior to the game.

* VideoGameCrueltyPunishment: If you attack and eat the elder or the child Ikustega whose father sacrificed himself to be eaten by '''you''' for some EVO points before the Bee King's stage, you will die. Gaia still revives you, but she also chastises you for doing it. If you go back to the their place, even though you only eat one of them, they aren't there and will never return.

* WalkingSpoiler

-->''"Well, I guess I have to believe you're actually here."''

%%* SequentialBoss
* WolfpackBoss: Somewhat. You fight three in a row, not at once.

A Yeti living behind an ice wall who belives that the Crystal will let him rule the world and defeat all other creatures besides his family. He finally meets his end by the Protagonist's hands.

%%* BigfootSasquatchAndYeti

%%* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes

The wife of Sir Yeti and the actual FinalBoss of Era 4. She fights the Protagonist to avenge her husband but is defeated.

%%* BigfootSasquatchAndYeti

A descendant of the Yeti family who appears in Era 5. He plans on defeating the Protagonist to end the humiliation, waiting in the sanctuary in the Monkey-Human cave.

%%* YouKilledMyFather

* GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere: You could remove all of the level he's fought in as well as the cloud over Africa and the game would be the same. They're mostly there to show what happened in the sea after life colonized land.

!!Bolbox (Volvox)/The Creature in the North and the Eight Crystals

Bolbox is a single, giant cell who thinks he's a human that has evolved greatly with the power of the Crystal, which has been revealed to be eight separate Crystals rather than one. He made it to the entrance to Eden before the Protagonist and revived the Queen Bee, empowered and enlisted the Tyrasaurs, and cared for Cro-Maine, making all of them his devoted followers. He is the only one besides the Protagonist actually looking for Gaia, making him the closest to a Big Bad this game gets. Notably, he directly contrasts the Protagonist in that he used the Crystals to a massive extent and, instead of moving ahead in the evolution chain, obtained great power by becoming a single cell. He is the Final Boss, using revived forms of Debustega and certain enemies, all of which got a power boost. After his defeat, the Protagonist is allowed access to Eden.

* ArtifactOfDoom: Consuming all the crystals has made him an hyperintelligent and highly advanced being.
* BigBad: He is the only one besides the Protagonist planning to enter Eden.

* InterspeciesRomance: Plans to with Gaia, though he's not aware of it.

* UltimateLifeForm: Self-proclaimed, but he is a candidate for the title, albeit one who has taken a directly opposite evolutionary path from you (towards a super-sized single-cell lifeform).

The main character. At the start of the game, Gaia sets before him a test, the Survival of the Fittest, the victor of which will join Gaia in Eden. She grants the protagonist a fish body, in a era where the Earth is almost all ocean. After helping to create a world of oxygen for land-dwelling life, he evolves into an amphibian. After cleansing Pangaea of the giant insects that were consuming all resources, he further evolves into a reptile. After surviving the fall of the dinosaurs, he can choose whether to become a bird or mammal. After enduring the Ice Age, he can keep his former form or even opt to evolve into a human. During each of these eras, he discovers that a mysterious force is destructively interfering with evolution on Earth, and this becomes part of the challenge he must overcome to prove himself to Gaia.

The embodiment of the Earth. Gaia is charged by her father, the Sun, to test all of her children with Survival of the Fittest. Whoever wins get to be with her, form civilization, and basically marry her. She shows favor to the Protagonist and will revive him if he dies. [[spoiler: She does end up with him after he defeats Bolbox, his only major competitor.]]

* BigGood: Although this title could also be given to the Sun.
* CatchPhrase: "I am Gaia."
* {{God}}: She takes this role in Chapter 5 in the UsefulNotes/PC98 version, where she takes the player to Eden, where Eve is waiting for him.
* InnocentFanserviceGirl: Gaia is naked (although she is only seen from the shoulders up).
* InterspeciesRomance: If the Protagonist [[spoiler: is not human. His only competitor... is definitely not human.]]
* LivingMacguffin: The goal of the game is to become Gaia's consort and create sentient life on Earth. To do so, you must prove yourself to be superior to all other life forms on the planet.
* PhysicalGod: She manifests herself on Earth a few times in the PC-98 version, first appearing in the ocean and last appearing during the final battle.

* ProperlyParanoid: The fish class is the weakest class of enemies. If anyone went onto land and evolved, they would return much stronger than him, as shown in how easy the enemy versions of him are.

* TheDragon: If she's not part of a Duumvirate with her husband.

* TakingYouWithMe: Since she sees that the Insect community is going to be done for since her husband's dead, she plans to take the Amphibians down with her.

The main character. At the start of the game, Gaia sets before him the test of the Survival of the Fittest, so that he will be worthy of joining her in Eden. He begins with a fish body, and after helping to create a world of oxygen, he evolves into an amphibian. After cleansing Pangaea of the giant insects, he further evolves into a reptile. After surviving the fall of the dinosaurs, he can choose whether to become a bird or mammal, and can even opt to evolve into a human by the end. Over the course of his long existence, he discovers that a mysterious force is destructively meddling with evolution on Earth, and this becomes another challenge he must overcome to prove himself to Gaia.

* TheChosenOne: Considering how much [[ThatOneBoss Gaia is]] [[ThatOneLevel going to revive you...]] However, it is outright stated that there is a Chosen One.

%%* PlayerCharacter
* UltimateLifeForm: Becoming this is the goal of the game.

* TimeAbyss: It is unclear whether the Martian voices in each era are the same two individuals every time, but considering that each era covers literally millions of years and that the Martians are present through it all, their species as a whole can only be this.
* TheUnfought: Barring the one time you can attack them. Justified in that the game is centered on Earth beings and are technically not in Gaia's power. They're not ''deliberately'' evil, anyway.

The main character. He is informed about the test of Survival of the Fittest and reaching Eden at the beginning of the game by Gaia after evolving into a fish. After helping to create a world of oxygen, he becomes an amphibian. After defeating the last of the giant insects, he further evolves into a reptile. Later on, he can choose his whether to become a bird or mammal, and can even opt to evolve into a human by the end. Over the course of his existence, he discovers that a mysterious force is destructively meddling with evolution on Earth, and this becomes another challenge he must overcome to prove himself to Gaia.

!!Life

The main character. He is informed about the test of Survival of the Fittest and reaching Eden at the beginning of the game by Gaia after evolving into a fish. After allowing a world of oxygen, he becomes an amphibian. After defeating the last of the giant insects, he is further evolved into a reptile. He can choose his evolutions into becoming a bird or mammal later on. While no one else seems to care about Gaia, he solves troubles caused by a Crystal that's messing with evolution.
* AnimalisticAbomination: Can possibly become one.

* HumansAreSpecial: Of all his evolutions, him becoming a human is treated as the most significant of them all, moreso in the original PC-98 game.

* NominalHero: His motivations are purely selfish: Survive, become powerful and marry Gaia. When he does something good, it's because he's eating someone else who's causing problems for the world. As often as not, though, the people he fights are just edible and/or in his way..

Two voices that speak throughout the game. They usually give explanations on certain mechanics and note something important coming up. In reality, they are Martians who are using the Crystals to improve Earth's civilization, but their efforts have gone horribly wrong. The Crystals ended up unbalancing evolution to the point of chaos, creating the various super-predatory threats that the Protagonist is forced to defeat in every era, up to and including Bolbox itself. The Martians come to regret their actions after seeing the full extent of their damage in Era 5.

* ObliviouslyEvil: If they hadn't created the Crystals to accelerate Earth's evolution, then most of the game's era bosses never would have become as monstrous and era-wrecking as they did, and Bolbox would have never evolved into a gargantuan, freakish amoeba capable of threatening even Gaia herself. The Martians never intended for ''any'' of this to happen.

Two voices that speak throughout the game. They usually give explanations on certain mechanics and note something important coming up. They are really Martians and were responsible for the plot, creating the Crystals to improve Earth's civilization. The Crystals ended up causing chaos and mutated the Insects, increased the knowledge of certain flying animals, powered up the Yetis, upgraded the Rogons, and mutated Bolbox. They start to regret their actions after seeing the full extent of their damage in Era 5, apologizing for what they did.

* TheHeavy: If not for them creating the Crystals, then a crushing majority of the antagonists of the game would have never become as monstrous and evil as they were, whereas Bolbox would have never evolved into a gargantuan, freakish amoeba.

* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Their attitude in the Mt. Condor secret scene and ending show this.
* TheUnfought: Barring the one time you can attack them. Justified in that the game is centered on Earth beings and are technically not in Gaia's power. They're not evil, anyway.
%%* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom

* WellIntentionedExtremist: They wanted to speed up Earth's growth. They ended up creating massive chaos, culminating in the monstrous evolutions of Bolbox.

* LightIsNotGood: Her main form looks angelic and divine, but she is a truly deranged OmnicidalManiac who takes a sadistic glee in what she does. On the other hand, both of her true forms are more [[ObviouslyEvil noticeably]] [[DarkIsEvil sinister]] in appeareance.

%%* SpellMyNameWithAnS
%%* TyrannosaurusRex
%%* WolfpackBoss

*** Her [[AttackOfThe50FootWhatever Ultimate Form]], in which [[spoiler: she becomes a gargantuan-sized monstrosity with an insectoid body, long, spidery legs and multiple wings growing from her back while retaining her [[BeastWithAHumanFace feminine face]], for the definite final battle of the game.]]

* BigCreepyCrawlies: Her Ultimate Form is [[spoiler: rather arthropod-like in nature, having a wasp-like body with a stinger and six, long spindly legs. She's also the size of the moon itself in this form and still has her usual human-like head for added creepiness.]]

*** In her Ultimate form, [[spoiler: she now looks like a moon-sized insectoid monstrosity with multiple feathered wings on her back while having her usual face, complete with a dark blue color scheme]].

* DeaderThanDead: After the player defeats her for good in the climax, Lucifer succumbs and explodes into atoms which then dissolve into nothingness, vanishing from the Solar System forever.

*** For the decisive FinalBattle, she assumes her "Ultimate Form", transforming into a [[spoiler:moon-sized aberration with several wings and a gnarled insectoid body while keeping her usual face.]]

* EldritchAbomination: Can possibly become one.

* TheVoiceless: Except for one possible laugh during the second boss, he never has any text.

!!Kuraselache (Cladoselache) Leader

* AscendedExtra: In the PC-98 version, he is just a regular NPC amongst other cladoselache. In the SNES version, he becomes the first boss.

!!Tyrasaurus (Tyrannosaurus) Clan

Three Mammoths who appear in Era 4. The Yetis have not reached them yet, so they decided that the Yetis were scared of them. When they think a Yeti (actually the Protagonist) comes, they attack.

* ArtifactOfDoom: The Crystals.
* BigBad: Bolbox, the only one besides the Protagonist planning to enter Eden.

* DeaderThanDead: After the player defeats her in the climax, Lucifer succumbs and explodes into atoms, vanishing from the Solar System forever.
* HumanoidAbomination: Her first appearance is hinted at during the second chapter from a fallen Lunarian. The third chapter reveals her connection to the Lunarians, before she finally appears from a fallen "Lucifer-tyranno," in the form of a six-winged woman made of light energy.

%%* {{Satan}}

!!Cladoselache/Kuraselache Leader

The StarterVillain of the game. He rules the sea with an iron fist and, wanting to prevent the creatures from leaving, forces everyone not to even speak about a world filled with oxygen. He's defeated by the Protagonist, letting the Strolites create a new world with oxygen.

The strongest of the Ikustega. He is the first boss of Era 2 and is very conscious about his body. Is defeated by the Protagonist, proving his strength to the Elder.

!!Tyrannosaurus/Tyrasaurus Clan

!!Cro-Maine

!!Bolbox/The Creature in the North and the Eight Crystals

* BlackAndGrayMorality: Yes, they used the Crystal, but they DO have a point. The Whales DID leave.
* GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere: You could remove all of the level he's fought in as well as the cloud over Africa and the game would be the same.

* BossRush: The eight Crystals, with occassional attacks by Bolbox.

* PaperThinDisguise: When the Lunarians return to earth, she deceives them again; since they're already wary of her after the last time she did so,, she adopts the alias of "Lucifel". Worse, half of them fall for it.

%%* BigBad

%%* BlobMonster