History Characters / SymphogearSymphogearWielders

* {{Expy}}: Let's see. Hot-blooded, rage-filled and associated with the color red. Lost her family to an explosion from an ongoing war, with the resulting trauma leading to her seeking acception from a manipulative figure. Following their words leads to her causing more innocents to caught in the crossfire, becoming the same thing that ruined her life. Changing weapons shows her character reaching a turning point. After getting defeated by the pacifistic hero and her blue-haired friend, she properly becomes a hero... Wait a minute, isn't this [[Anime/GundamSEEDDestiny Shinn Asuka]]?

* {{Expy}}: Let's see. Hot-blooded, rage-filled and associated with the color red. Lost her family to an explosion from an ongoing war, with the resulting trauma leading to her seeking acception from a manipulative figure. Following their words leads to her causing more innocents to caught in the crossfire, becoming the same thing that ruined her life Changing weapons shows her character reaching a turning point. After getting defeated by the pacifistic hero and her blue-haired friend, she properly becomes a hero... Wait a minute, isn't this [[Anime/GundamSEEDDestiny Shinn Asuka]]?

* ActionGirl: As is expected for the main characters and fighters in what is primarily a HotBlooded action show, all of the girls have plenty of kick-ass fighting prowess and explosive, over-the-top attacks they get to show off over the course of the series.
* AdaptiveArmor: In XDU the symphogears are shown to be able to adapt to various situations to help fight better.

* AsLongAsItSoundsForeign: Besides the... English, the beginning phrase of each girl's activation songs is gibberish. Or Old Norse. Or ''[[VideoGame/ExaPico Ar tonelico]]'''s {{Conlang}}. Apart from containing the name of each girl's relic, the rest is nonsense.

** The X-Drive surpasses every other form with no drawbacks, but requires an absolutely ludicrous amount of phonic gain to activate, to the point of requiring nearly every human alive to sing.
** S2CA overcomes the strain of the Superb Song using Hibiki's Armed Gear, but makes the technique incredibly slow and cumbersome to where it's only useful against large and near-immobile targets.

** G3FA converts all of the armor from the Gears into a CombinedEnergyAttack that's much easier to use than S2CA, but still slow and leaves the users completely defenseless afterward.

* FusionDance: A Symphogear can be used together with any other [[AncientArtifact relic]] the user has, either simply to boost the other relic's power or to combine with it, such as fusing a piece of of Dainsleif into each Gear to create the Ignite Module. ''XDU'' shows that this can be used to treat the other relic like a Symphogear itself, creating a Duo-Relic form, or to combine with basically any other source of magic or advanced technology.

* HotWings: [[spoiler: Blazing X-drive's wings, previously Solid light or brightly colored wings in the Standard version, turn into Wings made out of firey PureEnergy.]]

* {{Leitmotif}} and MoodMotif: All of the Symphogear users sing their songs as a way to debilitate the Noise. The songs also actively change throughout the series as a way to show their current personality[=/=]CharacterDevelopment or when their Symphogears are upgraded. For example, Hibiki's songs earlier in the series are LighterAndSofter, but gets progressively more HotBlooded as the show goes on. If their Symphogears are downgraded, they use their old songs.

* TheMagicGoesAway: [[spoiler: The Symphogears's relics are seemingly completely destroyed in the final episode of XV on their way out of escaping the earth's core after stopping the Yggdrasil program, though whether or not Shem-ha recreated them after Hibiki convinces her to let them live is uncertain. However, given events in XDU, it's likely that the wielders got their relics back.]]

** [=Zwei Wing=]'s Tsubasa ("wing") and Amou ("heaven wing"). Also fits the valkyrie theme, and Tsubasa's BrokenBird status.
** Further emphasis on this in Kanade/Hibiki's theme songs, which use the same instrumental but have lyrics echo-ing to each other. Kanade's song is called ''Kimi to Iu Oto Kanade Tsukiru Made'' ("Until I die, I will play this sound called 'you'"), Hibiki's is ''Watashi to Iu Oto Hibiki Sono Saki ni'' (Beyond the resonance of this sound called 'me'"), which embodies nicely the baton pass between them (a played sound will resound).

** Tsubasa has an Oriental style like those from the FeudalJapan era. The kanji are showcased in very deep and complex strokes, and makes {{Shout Out}}s to famous paintings.

* AmbiguouslyGay: It's hinted throughout the show that she might want to be more than just friends with Hibiki. This is especially compounded in G, in which Ver uses Miku's love for Hibiki to control her through the Shenshou Jing, and the lyrics of ''Waikyou Shenshou Jing'' hint Miku's feelings for Hibiki being much more intense and possessive than she lets on.
* AffectionateNickname: Hibiki often refers to Miku as her sunshine/sunflower.

* {{Toku}}: During ''Anime/SSSSGridman'' event, she gain an ability to transform her gear into this fighting off against {{Kaiju}}. And that's not even counting the collaborations with ''Franchise/{{Godzilla}}'', ''Manga/{{Ultraman}}'', ''Film/{{Gamera}}'' and ''Series/MashinSentaiKiramager''.

* EarlyInstallmentCharacterDesignDifference: In Season 1 Chris' hair is Lavender colored, the rest of the series on-words it's White.

* PintsizedPowerhouse: Being among the smaller character in Symphogear, her offensive capability is the highest among all Symphogear users.

* BoobsOfSteel: Being the TokenAdult, Maria is clearly the most well-endowed girl in the series. Unlike Chris, however, her combat style revolves around getting up close and beating or slashing the crap out of her enemies. She ranks up there as one of the more powerful Symphogear users, and if you're still questioning her badassery after her poor performance in ''G'', well, she ends up dominating and killing Garie, being the first to score a kill against any Auto-Scorers.

* BigSisterInstinct: Towards Hibiki and Chris after softening up. Despite her cool, stoic exterior, she's always available to bail them out of trouble as a senior Symphogear user should. Best shown in her CruelToBeKind act to keep Hibiki from fighting and her SenpaiKohai moment with Chris.

* SenpaiKohai: Establishes this dynamic with Chris during the YouAreNotAlone moment in episode 12 of ''G''.

* SenpaiKohai:
** After the YouAreNotAlone moment, she slowly begins to regard her relationship with Tsubasa as this. Though Tsubasa points out in the finale's epilogue that Chris doesn't consistently refer to her as senpai.
** She also takes her role as Shirabe's and Kirika's senpai very seriously and considers them her cute kohais.

Tsubasa's former partner in [=Zwei Wing=], Kanade was the sole survivor of a Noise attack that killed her family when she was young. After being recovered by Genjuro and Ryoko, she wholeheartedly agreed to be tested for compatibility with the Third Relic, Gungnir, in exchange for the opportunity to exact revenge against the Noise. Unlike Hibiki, she can manifest the Gungnir in the form of [[BladeOnAStick a spear]]. Unfortunately, she dies in the beginning, forced to perform a [[HeroicSacrifice Swan Song]] to defeat a concentration of Noise that massed around one of their concerts.

* BladeOnAStick: The Gungnir, which also has a {{BFS}} mode.

* BladeOnAStick: Her Armed Gear, like the other Gungnir.
* BrickJoke: The opening does not even display the name of her Symphogear. Instead, it showcases a black and a white BladeOnAStick, which is the Gungnir she wields, and Kanade's, respectively.

* HeroicBastard: She's stalwart in her heroism and duty, and is the product of Genjuuro's father and his brother's wife, making her his half-sister and a bastard.

* WhipItGood: The weapons of the Nehushtan Armor.

** CombatTentacles: A pair of them that 'floats' by her sides, not unlike [[Videogame/DissidiaFinalFantasy Cloud of Darkness]]. [[WhipItGood She even uses them as whips]]!

* ContraltoOfDanger: Not counting [[Creator/MiyukiSawashiro Finé]], [[Creator/NanaMizuki Tsubasa]] has the deepest vocal range of the Symphogear users, and is accordingly the most action-oriented; her songs are also sung in the same tone.

* ShortHairwithTail: Gives the illusion of her hair being permanently tied back. Although as a child, she instead kept all of her hair long and in actual pigtails.