History Characters / GreatMazinger

%%* BattleAura

* {{Expy}}: of [[Manga/DemonLordDante God]].

* GreaterScopeVillain: He played this role in ''Anime/MazingerZ''.

* TheManBehindTheCurtain: [[spoiler: Only in the ''Grendizer'' manga do we learn his true nature - he's a bunch of pickled organs in a vat, still alive but utterly helpless, who disguises himself with a hologram.]]
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Bizarrely, while Tetsuya, Jun, Kouji and Sayaka [[spoiler:obliterated his army]], they never found his subterranean empire's capital, nor attacked him. He remained in the underground, and we never saw what happened to him after that point in the anime. You had to read the Anime/UFORoboGrendizer Ota's manga to find out what was his fate.

** DragonInChief: Considering how strongly fans have embraced him for being such a bad ass he's pretty been accepted as the true BigBad of Great Mazinger. Considering how much the Emperor just sits around this would be easy even if the Great General wasn't a total bad ass.

* ManBehindTheMan: He was Gorgon's true leader.

He was a colleague of Dr. Kabuto, a well-meaning scientist. He was born in Germany on 9-6-1902. He was an unwanted child, a fact his mother reminded him of constantly. Scorned and beaten by his parents, he found shelter in books, and became very smart... However it only served for him to be accused of cheating by his teachers, and to be beaten by his classmates.

In college he did not fare much better. People ignored him and he convinced himself that all of them envied him. Back then he met Juzo Kabuto –Kouji's grandfather- and fell in love with a Japanese exchange student, Yumiko. He thought she returned his feelings, but when he found out that she and Juzo were a couple, Hell –who was already unstable and was convinced that everybody was envious of him or out to get him- flipped out completely, convinced himself they were pretending being his friends to hurt him and attempted to kill both of them. After that incident people began to stay away him, and he suffered more humiliations and beatings –even when he was trying being nice- and he vowed to himself that in the future he would make them pay.

During the rise of Hitler, he got seduced by the idea of taking over the world and forcing everybody to kneel before him. He secretly built several Doomsday devices for Hitler –but he kept most of his technologic breakthroughs for himself- and performed human experiments with Jews in Auswitchz. When Germany was defeated, he ran away and kept a low profile for a while.

Several years later he ran into Juzo Kabuto –now known as Dr. Kabuto- and accompanied him on an archaeological expedition to the Greek island of Bardos, where ruins of the ancient Mikenese Empire were found. There they discovered that the ancient Mikenese civilization had the technology to build giant robotic warriors. Hell killed all scientists in the expedition –save Dr. Kabuto-, stole that technology and used it to create an [[{{Robeast}} army of fighting machines with which he planned]] to [[TakeOverTheWorld conquer the world]].

However, Dr. Kabuto used this technology coupled with a powerful alloy he'd created to build a robot, Mazinger Z, to halt Hell's plans for world conquest. Again and again Dr. Hell's robots were destroyed by Mazinger Z, sometimes due to the in-fighting between his lieutenants Baron Ashura and Count Brocken. After nearly all of his robots had been destroyed Mazinger Z and his allies traveled to Dr. Hell's island headquarters, and Hell and [[spoiler:[[NeverFoundTheBody Count Brocken were apparently killed while attempting to flee in the Gool, their giant airship]].]]

See [[Characters/MazingerZ Mazinger Z characters page]].

* EvilChancellor

In episode 57, Dr. Hell was on the verge of succeeding, but he was humiliatingly defeated. Humiliated and disheartened, [[VillainousBSOD he thought of giving up]], but finally he chose swallowing his pride and asking Gorgon for help. Gorgon agreed [[spoiler: in fact, he just pretended he did. In reality, he intended to watch Dr. Hell, weakening him as he pretended to be helping him, and finally destroying him and Mazinger-Z to allow the unopposed rise of the Mykene.]]

Gorgon was prideful, boasting and daring, and despite his [[spoiler:supposed]] alliance with Dr. Hell, he constantly showed his scorn for Hell and often showed contempt towards his henchmen. Ashura and Brocken were terrified from him, and only Pygman talked back [[spoiler:(However he showed respect towards Ashura after his/her death)]]. His Robeast were more powerful than Hell's ones [[spoiler:and actually they succeeded where Hell's monsters failed]] and their shapes and powers were inspired on creatures of Classic Mythology. He had no troubles showing his strength and power, but above all he was a deceitful schemer.

* CoDragons: The first of the Mycenae Empire's seven generals, who all hold equal rank.

* CoDragons: Another of the seven generals.

* AFatherToHisMen: Subverted. He is the most ruthless of the Mycenae generals willing to sacrifice his own Warrior Beasts to destroy the Great Mazinger, but has no qualms about killing his own Warrior Beasts off if he thinks the situation warrants it.

* CoDragons: Another of the seven generals.

* CoDragons: Yet another of the seven generals.

* CoDragons: Another of the seven generals.

* CoDragons: Another of the seven generals.

* CoDragons: The last of the seven generals

* KilledOffForReal: Only in the Anime/UFORoboGrendizer manga. And it was ACCIDENTAL.

* OrcusOnHisThrone: He NEVER did ANYTHING throughout the series. He just sat on his throne as his lackeys planned the war. The only proactive action he did was [[spoiler:reviving Dr. Hell]], and that did not work as well when you think about it.

* [[WhatHappenedToTheMouse What Happened To The Big Bad?]]: One of the most strange instances of this trope. Tetsuya, Jun, Kouji and Sayaka [[spoiler:obliterated his army]] but they never found his subterranean empire’s capital, nor attacked him. He remained in the underground, and we never saw what happened to him after that point. You had to read the Anime/UFORoboGrendizer Ota’s manga to find out what was his fate.

* CoDragons

* [[spoiler:KilledOffForReal]]

* CoDragons

* [[spoiler:KilledOffForReal]]

* CoDragons
* [[spoiler:KilledOffForReal]]: [[spoiler: In the final battle, he and General Ligern face off against Mazinger Z but when trying to retreat he is shot by a Koshiryoku Beam and died from the blow.]]

* CoDragons

* [[spoiler:KilledOffForReal]]: [[spoiler: In the final battle, he and Angoras face off against Mazinger Z but he is hit by Koshiryoku Beam through his chest causing him to die.]]

* CoDragons
* [[spoiler:KilledOffForReal]]: [[spoiler: In the final battle, Scarabeth stayed by Hell's side and presumed dead when the Demonika was attacked and destroyed by the Mazingers and their female companions.]]

* CoDragons
* CombatPragmatist: He did not mind fight dirty at the slightest.
* [[spoiler:KilledOffForReal]]

* CoDragons:

* [[spoiler:KilledOffForReal]]

* OurGhoulsAreCreepier: And how! His army was the tiniest of the seven divisions (and only four soldiers were seen in the movie and in the series: Dante, Zugar, Psychoveia and Mamirez), but they used fear and bizarre psychic abilities to destroy their enemy inwardly and outwardly.

* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: Out of ALL villains in the WHOLE trilogy he is the most badass}- BY FAR!. During his duel with Great Mazinger, he beat the crap out of the giant robot, and in fact [[spoiler:he believed he had killed Tetsuya, declaring his victory before dying.]]

* HurtingHero: He lost his parents when he was a little child. And although on the surface he looks like a hot-tempered, arrogant {{Jerkass}}, that is a cover to hide that he is plagued with neuroses and insecurities, and is deadly frightened of being abandoned again.

* HurtingHero: She has constant grief of all sides. Her coping method is becoming so badass and self-reliant as possible.

* BodyHorror: Oh, my God, where begin? He resembles a giant skeleton wearing a ragged robe wrapped around his body. His skull is upside down. His waist is another bigger inversed skull. And his true face is mounted on his left arm, replacing his hand. Oh, and it is wreathed in flames.

%%* SinisterScythe: His
%%* StrippedToTheBone

* ButNotTooBlack: In the manga, Jun has much lighter skin and her father was Caucasian rather than African-American.