History Characters / MaoyuuMaouYuusha

* [[spoiler:AnArmAndALeg: Demon Queen rips off one of her arms while under the influence of TheCorruption.]]
** [[IncrediblyLamePun Maid]] [[MadeOfIron Of Iron]]: It doesn't seem to have bothered her nearly as much as you'd expect.

* {{Expy}}: Resembles Emma the Maid from ''Manga/VictorianRomanceEmma'' (In the ''Comp Ace'' manga version).

* {{Meganekko}}

** At least once she seems to encourage a threesome between the Demon Queen, Hero AND Lady Knight

[[folder: The Protagonists and their companions]]

The male lead protagonist. A young and powerful human warrior, he came to the Demon World to end the evil of the demons by killing their leader, the Demon Queen. Instead, he learns the harsh reality the Human/Demon war was never a battle between Good and Evil but a period of turmoil where both weak, innocent humans and demons are oppressed and taken advantage by the corrupt and powerful from both sides. Wishing to end the war the right way with the least repercussions, he agrees to become the Demon Queen's ally in her plans to stop the war.

* [[LikeAnOldMarriedCouple Like A Married Couple]]: Since the Hero and the Demon Queen belong to each other, he is technically her "husband". They even act like a married couple. A sweet, (mostly) innocent, wide-eyed married couple.

** He eventually battles the possessed Demon Queen and the ghosts of pretty much every previous ruler of demonkind at the same time. Except it's not really a fight. It's him kicking all their asses simultaneously, then snapping her out of it.

* PowerfulAndHelpless: Hero is a PersonOfMassDestruction and the only one powerful enough to defeat the Demon King... but when he actually meets the Demon King and talks things over, he realises that humans and demons should make peace instead. Unfortunately, "millenia-long racial tension" turns out to be the first enemy that he has no idea how to fight. While Hero does eventually grow into a capable diplomat and GuileHero (and his combat skills still see use on occasion), in early arcs he's pretty much limited to teleporting his more politically-savvy allies around and offering exposition of the human world.

The female lead protagonist. The 43rd ruler of the Demon World and the youngest to rule by demon standards, she is a powerful sorceress but has no experience in battle. Wise and smart, her vast knowledge comes from the "Exterior Library", a hidden dimension where knowledge of the past and future is kept and where her clan lived. Despite her knowledge, she is considered incompetent by the warmongering demon clans. Seeing what would happen to the war if it didn't end without the problems that it cause fixed, she awaited the arrival of the Hero so she could ask for his help to end war the right way. After finally getting him as her ally, she and the Hero travel to the Human world where she takes the identity of the Crimson Scholar, a human noble who has come to help the lower classes.

* ActionGirl

* ChurchMilitant/[[WarriorMonk Warrior Nun]]: A former member of the Holy Sliver Crown Knights.

* IronLady: Badass, thy name is Lady Knight]].

* [[spoiler:JumpedAtTheCall: Accepted Winter King's offer to become the new Supreme Commander of the Southern Kingdoms Forces.]]

* LadyOfWar
* TheLancer: To the Hero.
* LightningBruiser
* MagicKnight

* Anti-Villain: His actions are mostly motivated by his loyalty to the empire and its church by extension. Part of the problem is his belief that his duty as a royal is to maintain "peace of mind" which he defines as stability.

* Anti-Villain : Much like the Royal Prince Marshal, his aims have no actual villainy in them. This is taken farther by his fair tactics and [[EvenEvilHasStandards horror of the tactics used]] [[spoiler:by the Lily Knight Captain to breach Gateway City's walls]], as well as the Royal Prince Marshal keeping [[spoiler:the Imperial Army's betrayal of the Blue Demon Army]] hidden from him.

* Warrior Prince: Well, king in this case.

* CharacterDevelopment: Big Sister Maid goes from a lowly serf to someone that, albeit unintentionally given the circumstances, [[spoiler: inspires a revolution in the Southern countries that causes the majority of the rest of the plot.]] And then, after witnessing that WarIsHell, [[spoiler: strikes out on her own to avert the Hero and Demon Queen having to potentially die, garners the respect of Archduke Fire Dragon, dives into the background lore few truly know about even in-universe, and ''talks the reasonable part of the Key Expedition Army into a ceasefire by herself.'']]

* GagBoobs: Both the anime and manga get a lot of comedic mileage out of her [[https://i.imgur.com/5jph5Is.gif bountiful]] [[https://i.imgur.com/oOtYQzc.gif bosom]].

* GagBoobs: Both the anime and manga get a lot of comedic mileage out of her bountiful bosom.

* TheJailBaitWait: [[spoiler: Demon Queen has known Hero was her fated one since the moment ''he was born''.]]

* AManIsNotAVirgin: Inverted. Despite his battle prowess (and the amount of woman attracted to him) he is a virgin and shy around girls. Head Maid regularly reminds Demon Queen of this fact.

** Especially in the Anime version where Creator/JunFukuyama channels his [[CodeGeass Lelouch]] Voice in a few scenes.

* {{Badass}}: The Hero is a person of fairly arbitrary power, and every fight he takes part in rapidly becomes a CurbStompBattle in his favour. This includes battles against entire armies.
** He's so {{Badass}}, that in an alternate universe proposed by Demon Queen, she was the Hero of the Demon World, sent to plead her case to Hero, who would be the King of the Human World who would have all but ''levelled'' the Demon World.

* {{Badass}}

* {{Badass}}: Hero says he fought South Arctic General in the past...meaning that the walrus-demon ''survived fighting against Hero''. That speaks for itself.
** HandicappedBadass: Has a peg-leg in Maoyuu Maou Yuusha - Other Side of the Hill.

->Voiced by: Creator/TatsuhisaSuzuki (Warrior Youngster / Gunjin Shitei), YuukiKaji (Noble Youngster / Kizoku Shitei), TakumaTerashima (Merchant Youngster / Shounin Shitei)

* TheChessmaster: [[spoiler:His plan to stir up economy by stockpiling consumables, making their prices rise, and handing out bonds for payment of future harvest. At first, it seems like an attack to weaken the Southern Nations, by destroy their advantages of abundance of food, by making their supply bleed to Central. However, [[WildMassGuessing if you think about it carefully,]] those plans actually are aimed towards Central, since too high prices can cause civil unrest, and with the wheat contracts, the nobles practically sold their assets toward Union, leaving nothing for them and their subjects but a glut of gold. This causes hyperinflation of the Central gold coins, where people are hungry but food is overpriced. Young Merchant's actual goal, is not merely to stockpile wheat, but to devalue Central gold coins, and by doing so, establish wheat as an alternative currency, therefore separate the lagging Central economy from the prosperous Southern economy, where the Union can continue to profit.]] The author has certainly ShownTheirWork on this plotline.

* AManIsNotAVirgin: Inverted. Despite his battle prowess he is a virgin and shy around girls. Head Maid regularly reminds Demon Queen of this fact.

* ThePaladin: While he does believe in the Spirit of Light, he's not as religious as Lady Knight.

* PowerfulAndHelpless: Hero is a PersonOfMassDestruction and the only one powerful enough to defeat the Demon King... but when he actually meets the Demon King and talks things over, he realises that humans and demons should make peace instead. Unfortunately, "millenia-long racial tension" turns out to be the first enemy that he has no idea how to fight. While Hero does eventually grow into a capable diplomat and GuileHero (and his combat skills still see use on occasion), in early arcs he's pretty much limited to teleporting his more politically-savvy allies around.

* VillainHasAPoint: While still believing the Demon Queen was an opponent he couldn't argue against the data proving that the war has actually improved Human living overall.

* TheChessmaster: [[spoiler:His plan to stir up economy by stockpiling consumables, making their prices rise, and handing out bonds for payment of future harvest. At first, it seems like an attack to weaken the Southern Nations, by destroy their advantages of abundance of food, by making their supply bleed to Central. However, [[WildMassGuessing if you think about it carefully,]] those plans actually are aimed towards Central, since too high prices can cause civil unrest, and with the wheat contracts, the nobles practically sold their assets toward Union, leaving nothing for them and their subjects but a glut of gold. This causes hyperinflation of the Central gold coins, where people are hungry but food is overpriced. Young Merchant's actual goal, is not merely to stockpile wheat, but to devalue Central gold coins, and by doing so, establish wheat as an alternative currency, therefore separate the lagging Central economy from the prosperous Southern economy, where the Union can continue to profit.]]

* TheChessmaster: [[spoiler:His plan to stir up economy by stockpiling consumerable, making their prices rise, and handing out bonds for payment of future harvest. At first, it seems like an attack to weaken the Southern Nations, by destroy their advantages of abundance of food, by making their supply bleed to Central. However, [[WildMassGuessing if you think about it carefully,]] those plans can also backfired toward Central, since too high prices can cause civil unrest, and with the bonds, the nobles practically sold their assets toward Union, leaving nothing for them and their subjects. You can guess what happened if people got starving but food is rare or overpriced. Either way, the Union wins.]]

* {{Badass}}: The Hero a person of fairly arbitrary power, and every fight he takes part in rapidly becomes a CurbStompBattle in his favour. This includes battles against entire armies.

* {{Expy}}: While it could be accidental, She looks quite a bit like Videogame/{{Touhou}}'s Koakuma[[note]]Being both red-headed demons with long hair[[/note]], especially in the TV series.

* RedHeadedHero

* HannibalHasAPoint: While still believing the Demon Queen was an opponent he couldn't argue against the data proving that the war has actually improved Human living overall.

%%* LadyOfBlackMagic:

* {{Expy}}: Resembles Emma the Maid from VictorianRomanceEmma (In the ''Comp Ace'' manga version).

* {{Badass}}: The Hero is basically unstoppable, and every fight he takes part in rapidly becomes a CurbStompBattle in his favour. This includes battles against entire armies.

* BlackAndWhiteInsanity: The Hero used to believe that the humans were good, demons were bad and he can solve the world's problems by defeating the Demon Queen but....
** CharacterDevelopment: He later realizes how naive he was and starts to wise up and gets rid of his earlier misconceptions.

* CharlesAtlasSuperPower: Hero's strength is unreal, and it shows he just trained really hard for it.
** Turned out to be untrue as he really was just the chosen one, possessing the fighting strength and combat/spell knowledge of the 13 heroes that had come before him in the cycle that unlocked once the appointed time had come for him to begin his journey.

* [[spoiler:TheCorruption: The spirits of the former Demon Kings possesses her briefly later on.]]

* [[spoiler:GlowingEyesOfDoom: When corrupted.]]

* HeroicSpirit: While in the Temple of the Dead with the former Demon Lords' spirits. [[spoiler:Cruelly subverted when it actually ''fails her''; she gets possessed by said spirits.]]
* [[spoiler:HeroKiller: Demon Queen's SuperpoweredEvilSide is the first villain who has been a legitimate threat to one of the heroes. Head Maid is certain that if Demon Queen can't regain control of herself then she won't survive another encounter.]]

* IAmNotPretty: Thinks she's not pretty for focusing on her studies rather than on beauty however...
** HollywoodNerd: She really is hot.

* [[spoiler:KlingonPromotion: In Maoyuu Maou Yuusha Gaiden, it is revealed she lead a coup and became the Demon Queen immediately after her predecessor, the 42th Demon King, was weakened and defeated by a group of human heroes.]]

* [[GentlemanAndAScholar A Lady and a Scholar]]: Although the way she dresses makes her look more like WickedCultured.
* LadyOfBlackMagic: Although she barely uses any.

** MagicalGirlfriend: Though Hero counts as her "Magical Boyfriend" as well
* MinoredInAsskicking: According to her, she knows enough magic to get by in a fight.
** It's clear that she's far below Hero and his companions though.

* [[MostDefinitelyNotAVillain Most Definitely Not The Demon Queen]]: In the 4komas, [[ButtMonkey Demon Queen]] is absolutely horrible about maintaining her secret identity; she frequently forgets not to wear her horn headband out in public and often refers to herself as Demon Queen by accident. Everyone in the village starts calling her Demon Queen as an endearing nickname and concludes she can't be the Demon Queen due to being so harmless and inept.

* [[OrcusOnHisThrone Orcus On Her Throne]]: Justified, since she's more like figurehead rather than a true ruler.

* [[spoiler:PutOnABus: For a long time she barely appears in person; mostly in occasional flashbacks.]]
* [[KingIncognito Queen Incognito]]: To hide the fact she's the Demon Queen, she takes the identity of a human noble named "the Crimson Scholar" who recently graduated from a prestigious academy.

** [[spoiler:EvilRedhead: While corrupted.]]
* SatanIsGood

* [[spoiler:SuperpoweredEvilSide: While under the influence of TheCorruption.]]