History Characters / SkullgirlsMainCharacters

* {{Leitmotif}}: Moonlit Melee. Arguably "The Lives We Left Behind" as well, although that's shared with Painwheel's.

* TheHeroine: She's confirmed to be the main protagonist of the game and is a NiceGirl who uses her wish [[spoiler: to give Painwheel a normal life.]]
* HeroicHost: Is the host to Samson.

%%* TheProtagonist: More or less.

* SupportingProtagonist: Despite being the main protagonist of the game she has an ''extremely'' small role in the story compared to the likes of Peacock, Valentine, and Painwheel. She didn't even have a speaking role in anyone else's storyline until Squigly's story was added.

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[[caption-width-right:275:'''''Toil and Trouble''''']]

!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/ErinFitzgerald (English) / Creator/RieTanaka (Japanese)\\

* RedEyesTakeWarning: With yellow scleras. Though he's actually a good guy, being one of Peacock's creations .

%%* SupernaturalGoldEyes

* AbnormalLimbRotationRange: If one pays attention to her normals, you can see that she forces her limbs into various positions to force out the Gae Bolga parasites. Her standing Hard Kick in particular is gruesome enough with her leg bending backwards at the knee.

* BladeBelowTheShoulder: The Gae Bolga Matrix parasite is threaded through her entire skeleton, but the [[RetractableWeapon retractable]] blades emerge from below BOTH Shoulders and BOTH Knees.

** Subverted completely in Umbrella's story after breaking free from Brain Drain's control. She takes off her mask shortly afterwards and is shown with a friendly smile on her face when she talks with Umbrella. When she arrives with TheCavalry at the end, it's shown that she can [[ExpressiveMask even smile through her mask]].

* ThatThingIsNotMyChild: Her ending, unfortunately, where she returns to her parents, but scares them and is called a monster.

* EarnYourHappyEnding: In Umbrella's story, Umbrella's mere presence was generating so much energy that it disrupted Brain Drain's signal to Painwheel, and after a beating she's able to regain enough control and rage to fully separate herself from the doctor. And unlike Filia's, Big Band's, or her own ending, she gets a great deal out of the end - the Renoir family offers to undo her cybernetic surgery, she becomes fast friends with Umbrella, and she reunites with her best friend Filia (and Samson). The ending shows all of them at Umbrella's slumber party looking as jolly as they can be, surgery scars aside.

* GlowingMechanicalEyes: The way her eyes light up behind her mask during her story mode's opening cutsceen give the impression that she has these.

* VoiceOfTheLegion: All of her spoken dialogue has a reverb effect.

* DeadlyDoctor: She dresses like a nurse and uses many hospital equipment as her weapons, such as a saw, scalpels, syringes, body bags and an entire hospital bedroom.

-->Why ya so bad at video games?

-->Poke!\\

-->"Ain't I a stinker?"

-->''Show's over, friend.''

* UnsportsmanlikeGloating: Many of Salty Parasoul's win quotes are this.
-->"Beating ''you'' down is the only ''therapy'' I need."

* BeamSpam: One of her supers.

* BodyHorror: Venus's way of fighting is to manipulate space and make her body grow monstrous. Also she has mouths where her ribs are supposed to be.
* ChekhovsGunman: As of the non-{{canon}} storylines, they appear in [[EarlyBirdCameo statue and stained-glass-window]] form in the background of the Grand Cathedral and Final Atrium stages, only appearing in the flesh in Double's {{Cliffhanger}} ending and TheStinger to Robo-Fortune and Black Dahlia's stories

* DeadAllAlong: In Eliza's story mode, [[spoiler:Double reveals that Eliza ''killed'' Aeon and Venus. It's also heavily suggested that Double and the Skull Heart [[FightingAShadow is all that's left]] of their mother, Queen Lamia. But if that's the case, then who is Double talking to in her story mode, and why does the Trinity appear in Double's, Robo-Fortune's, and Black Dahlia's endings? Are they stuck in the afterlife or Limbo?]]

* OneBadMother: The Great Mother. Not only did she turn the Thenoite meteor that crashed into her kingdom into the Skullheart, but is also implied that her soul/consciousness is bonded to it. It is even implied that Double, the agent of the Trinity was created using her remains.

* {{Stripperific}}: Venus. Even beyond Ms. Fortune or even D. Violet; Venus only ''uses lingerie.''

* VisualPun: Aeon has a hourglass for torso. She has a literal ImpossibleHourglassFigure.

* FieryRedhead: Subverted, as her background lists "Logic" as one of her likes and "Overly emotional people" as one of her dislikes.

* ChekhovsGunman: As of the non-{{canon}} storylines, they appear in [[EarlyBirdCameo statue and stained-glass-window]] form in the background of the Grand Cathedral and Final Atrium stages, only appearing in the flesh in Double's {{Cliffhanger}} ending and TheStinger to Robo-Fortune and Black Dahliah's stories

* MultipeHeadCase: Abaddon has ''at least'' three heads.

* HumanoidAbomination: While it could be argued that they could be this, [[spoiler: Venus' concept description seems to imply she is this, since the true form of her and her parasite "[[YouCannotGraspTheTrueForm exist beyond the threshold of human comprehension"]].]]
* ImpossibleHourglassFigure: [[spoiler: Aeon takes this to the extreme, having a [[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/vsbattles/images/e/ef/Aeon.jpg.png/revision/latest?cb=20161106122133 literal hourglass in place of a torso]].]]

%%* SiblingYinYang: See RedOniBlueOni above.

[[folder:The Trinity]]

* BodyHorror: [[spoiler:Venus's]] way of fighting is to manipulate space and make her body grow monstrous. Also she has mouths where her ribs are supposed to be.
* ChekhovsGunman: As of the non-{{canon}} storylines, they appear in [[EarlyBirdCameo statue and stained-glass-window]] form in the background of the Grand Cathedral and Final Atrium stages, only appearing in the flesh in [[spoiler: Double's]] {{Cliffhanger}} ending [[spoiler: and TheStinger to Robo-Fortune's story.]]

* DeityOfHumanOrigin: They once belonged to [[{{Precursors}} an ancient, highly-advanced civilization]]. [[spoiler:Eliza betrayed and killed them, and it's unknown how Venus and Aeon came to be the eldritch entities they now are]].

* {{Hikikomori}}: Aeon is stated to be a shut-in {{otaku}} according to her bio in the vote-in character details. [[spoiler:It explains the collection in the room we meet her...]]

* NoNameGiven: The Mother's name was initially unknown, though one of Double intro quotes hinted it was [[spoiler: Lamia. This was eventually confirmed in Eliza's Story Mode, then apparently later disconfirmed in an info-dump, leaving her true identity unknown.]]
%%* OneBadMother: The Mother.
* {{Ouroboros}}: [[spoiler:Aeon's parasite Khronos.]]

%%* ScarfOfAsskicking: Venus.
* SheWhoMustNotBeSeen: The Mother. [[spoiler:Her cameos are in the form of a statue and a window in the Cathedral's stage and Double's ending as a shadow.]]

%%* TerribleTrio
* TokenGoodTeammate: [[spoiler: [[ImpliedTrope Implied.]] While nothing's explicitly confirmed, during the aftercredits scene of Black Dahlia's story mode, when she's alone, Aeon makes a comment about how "if [Venus]'d seen what was waiting after the credits, [she] wouldn't want the game to end either." Combined with Fukua's cryptic warnings about TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt in Black Dahlia's story mode proper, and her grumbling about how she told a certain "hourglass-waisted lady" it wouldn't work, it seems that Aeon at the very least has cooled down on her bloodlust a little bit.]]
* VaginaDentata: [[spoiler:Venus is apparently host to a trio of parasites in her abdomen that fight on her behalf. While they're not actually housed in her vagina, [[http://wiki.shoryuken.com/Skullgirls/Venus the allusion to it is undeniable]].]]

* VisualPun: [[spoiler:Aeon has a hourglass for torso. She has a literal ImpossibleHourglassFigure.]]
** [[spoiler: The mouths that grow from Venus' ribs and stomach? They're called ''Ab''-baddon parasites.]]

* EvenEvilHasStandards: Well, [[DownplayedTrope it's less that she's evil]] and [[TokenGoodTeammate more that she's loyal to evil people]]. In Umbrella's story mode, after finding out that the little girl is actually a princess of the Renoir family who orphaned her, Cerebella reluctantly (albeit still somewhat angrily) goes along with Eliza in her plan to abduct her and put her up for ransom. When Eliza decides to stop playing around and go in full force, Cerebella knocks her out with a blow to the head and angrily tells Umbrella to leave before she regrets what she did. For all the rage she's suppressing over the tragedy her family caused, she still can’t bring herself to kidnap a child.

* FanDisservice: Double is unquestionably the ''queen'' of this, with the curvy nun with a generous HartmanHips figure quickly showing her true colors by turning herself inside out to reveal the teeth and goo spewing abomination within. It only gets worse from there, as Double herself has breasts that are constantly bouncing like lava lamps and sometimes a curvy human-like figure emerging from the ma ss, but again surrounded by and covered in goo, teeth, faces wincing in agony and whatever else Double is brandishing.

* HatOfPower: Emphasis on ''power'', Vice Versa can lift and carry grown elephants with ease, to say nothing of adults caught by it and give them a severe beatdown. In-game, Cerebella uses Vice Versa to deal monstrous amounts of damage with his grabs, blockbusters and body-flinging punches.

!!Double / "Sister Agatha" / [[spoiler: Queen Lamia]]

* FanDisservice: Double is unquestionably the ''queen'' of this, with the curvy nun with a generous HartmanHips figure quickly showing her true colors by turning herself inside out to reveal the teeth and goo spewing abomination within. It only gets worse from there, as Double herself has breasts that are constantly bouncing like lava lamps and sometimes a curvy human-like figure emerging from the mass, but again surrounded by and covered in goo, teeth, faces wincing in agony and whatever else Double is brandishing.

* TheFriendNobodyLikes: This is in effect between characters whenever Double is someone's fighting partner in a match. Half the cast don't have any kind or encouraging things to say when they're swapping out for Double even though they're teammates, ranging from disturbance to outright hatred.

!!!'''Filia voiced by:''' Creator/ChristineMarieCabanos (English) / Creator/AyanaTaketatsu (Japanese)\\

!!!'''Samson voiced by:''' Creator/PatrickSeitz[[labelnote:*]][[https://twitter.com/Seitz_Unseen/status/593583795078475778 Credited as]] "Del Stetson" before ''2nd Encore''[[/labelnote]] (English) / Creator/TakashiKondo (Japanese)

!!!'''Parasoul voiced by:''' Creator/ErinFitzgerald (English) / Creator/RieTanaka (Japanese)\\

!!!'''Black Egret soldiers voiced by:''' Creator/KaijiTang, Bobby Thong, Creator/ErikKimerer, and Jason Wishnov (all English) / ? (all Japanese)

'''Samson voiced by:''' Creator/PatrickSeitz[[labelnote:*]][[https://twitter.com/Seitz_Unseen/status/593583795078475778 Credited as]] "Del Stetson" before ''2nd Encore''[[/labelnote]] (English) / Creator/TakashiKondo (Japanese)

'''Black Egret soldiers voiced by:''' Creator/KaijiTang, Bobby Thong, Creator/ErikKimerer, and Jason Wishnov (all English) / ? (all Japanese)

[[folder:Filia]]

[[folder:Cerebella]]

[[folder:Parasoul]]

* ExpressiveAccessory: Her collar.