History Characters / SSSSGridman

* TheDragon: [[spoiler: For the majority of the series, she thinks [[BiggerBad Alexis Kerib]] is this to her, but it turns out she was this to ''him.'']]

[[folder:Rikka Mama]]

* IJustWantToHaveFriends: [[spoiler:Alexis Kerib sought out Akane because of her extreme negative emotions and desire to be in control of her life. He brought her to the false Nerima where she was allowed to create the city and make versions of everyone within it that would exist solely to be her friend and love her unconditionally. Despite this, and the fact that the world is a simulation of the real one, she has not been perfect with this and desperately wants Yuta, Akane, and Sho to be her friends. The three do admit that if they had met Akane under different circumstances, it would have come out that way, but instead they met her in the form of a petty [[MisanthropeSupreme misanthropic god]].]]

!!!'''Voiced by:''' Yume Miyamoto (JP), Creator/JillHarris (EN)

* ImpossiblyGracefulGiant: Despite being giant-sized in the ''real'' world, Gridman is able to pull off aerial flips and jump kicks with no problem at all. [[spoiler: {{Justified}} as he's actually a small being in {{Cyberspace}}, plus the fact that he's digital.]]

* {{Deconstruction}}: Of the SmartGuy/[[TheLancer Lancer]] type character. Despite his glasses, Utsumi is not any smarter or more talented than his two friends (who are similarly average), and the only thing he's really knowledgeable about are mostly useless geek facts about the ''Ultra'' series. He doesn't even know how to use Junk properly; Rikka does. That said, the {{Reconstruction}} is that his importance is not based on his contributions or his functions, but on the fact that he is [[ThePowerOfFriendship a loyal friend]] no matter how bad things get.

* MythologyGag: His power-copying ability is a reference to Khan Knight, an unused concept of ''Gridman'' wherein the third quarter of the show, Takeshi Todo was supposed to steal Gridman's data and becomes the hero's own evil doppelganger before making a HeelFaceTurn and becoming Gridknight. [[spoiler:It should be no surprise, then, that this is exactly what happens to Anti.]]

* RomanticTwoGirlFriendship: With Akane. Rikka has just as many, if not more, romantic undertones in her friendship with Akane as she does in her friendship with Yuta.

* RomanticTwoGirlFriendship: With Rikka. Akane has just as many, if not more, romantic undertones in her friendship with Akane as she does in her interactions with Yuta.

* MismatchedEyes: [[spoiler:When the bandage finally comes off, his right eye has turned from red to blue.]]

* CreepyGood: Creepy tendencies aside, she appears to be on the side of the heroes for now.

* KarmaHoudiniWarranty: Granted, while she gets away with the above in the short term, [[spoiler:the above emotionally shatters Akane, leaving her unresponsive as Alexis orders her to continue making Kaiju. Eventually [[EvilerThanThou Alexis]] decides put her to use by [[AndIMustScream transforming her into a Kaiju herself]]. When that form is defeated Alexis absorbs Akane and uses her [[PoweredByAForsakenChild negative emotions as a battery to power himself up.]]]]

* AloofDarkHairedGirl: Rikka tends to act more reserved and mature compared to her friends. And according to the first audio drama, her black hair was beautiful enough for Rikka to be a hair model for a magazine.

* ClippedWingAngel: [[spoiler:Gridman until the final battle.]]

* {{Foil}}: To Akane. Both are pretty girls, fairly popular, [[BettyAndVeronica and have a thing for Yuta]]. What makes them different is that Rikka is occasionally aloof and mature, but is also emotional, worries a lot, and loves her friends. Akane is a lovable, flirtatious social butterfly in public, but behind closed doors she shows her true nature as a spiteful and angry murderer [[spoiler:and below ''that'' level, is an emotionally-wounded hikkikomori who just wants a world she can control and doesn't know how to handle even ''this'' life slipping away from her]].

* LightningBruiser: Although being a strength-oriented form, Max Gridman has ''no'' trouble in performing somersaults.

* SmokeOut: "Lucky Smoke Screen"

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Characters in ''Anime/SSSSGridman''.

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* FamousLastWords: [[spoiler:Just before he's sealed away after a punch to the face from Gridman:]]
-->'''Alexis:''' ''This is... ...the power of life which is... ...finite?''

* RealityEnsues: [[spoiler:Yuta was stabbed by Akane, forcing him to be hospitalized until the NGJHS quartet fixed Junk, allowing "Yuta" to reawaken and revealing that he was possessed by an amnesiac splintered half of Gridman. It only gets better from that point, right? Not. As the final voice drama established, after Gridman left Yuta's body, the real Yuta is yet to recover from the injury of Akane's attack, and he is required to do medical checkups according to Rikka and Utsumi]].

* RealityEnsues: While no one seems to pay any attention to the scruffy looking older man carrying four katanas on him, he does have difficulty entering doorways because all of the scabbards and handles are too wide.

* RealityEnsues: Anonymous was made with every last bit of Akane's hatred, down to the depths of her heart. Consequently its creation proved to be immensely emotionally draining on her and proved to be her final creation.

* AllYourPowersCombined: [[spoiler:In the final episode, despite being a monster and not originally a fragment of Gridman, he gains an Accepter and presumably fuses with Gridman's original form to defeat Alexis. This also probably saved his life, as he had been impaled by Alexis moments beforehand, and fusion allowed him to heal/survive long enough for Anosillus the 2nd to rescue him.]]

* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: [[spoiler:Rikka, Yuta, and even Samurai Calibur's kindness to him confuses/infuriates him at first, but when Akane and Alexis discard him, the Gridman Alliance become the only people left in the world that he even knows, and their continued patience with him complete his transformation from monster to ally.]]

* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: [[spoiler:Rikka, Yuta, and even Samurai Calibur's kindness to him confuses/infuriates him at first, but when Akane and Alexis discard him, they become the only people left in the world that he even knows, and their continued patience with him complete his transformation from monster to ally.]]

* {{Yandere}}: She has no problem cheerfully ordering the murder of classmates, teachers, and strangers for random slights against her. A little justified since [[spoiler:she is the creator of this realm and the people she orders to be murdered are essentially sentient computer programs, but then she straight up stabs one of her closest friends and crush, just because he was Gridman]].