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!!Nox / Noximilien Coxen
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/noximilien.png]]
[[caption-width-right:350:"Yes, yes! I can do it! I'll fix my life's clock!"]]
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Benjamin Pascal (FR), Creator/ArthurBostrom (EN, Season 1), Creator/KaijiTang (EN, Season 3), Luca Violini (IT)
A [[TimeMaster Xelor]] who serves as the first season's primary antagonist, Nox is both incredibly powerful and [[AxCrazy quite insane]]. He travels the world and drains wakfu from everything he finds, reducing whole regions to barren wastelands. The series begins with him encountering Grougaloragran, and his obsession with the Dragon and his enormous supply of wakfu eventually sets him in opposition to Yugo.
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* AlasPoorVillain: Yugo certainly feels bad for him after seeing him [[TearsOfRemorse break down]], but he's seemingly the only character present who feels that way. The audience meanwhile, ''especially'' those among them who [=re/watch=] the finale with full knowledge of Nox's [[TheGreatestStoryNeverTold secret]] StartOfDarkness...
* AllForNothing: [[spoiler:His plan was ultimately doomed from the start as 200 years of research, gathering wakfu, and committing all sorts of atrocities in the process nets him... 20 minutes back in time, nullifying both his victory against the heroes ''and'' his life's work in one fell swoop.]]
-->'''Nox''': All the Wakfu gathered in 200 years... [[spoiler: FOR TWENTY MISERABLE MINUTES]]!?
* AnguishedOutburst: [[spoiler:When he completes his 200-year-long mission only to find that it was AllForNothing]], he's reduced to ranting and screaming at the Eliacube in raw grief and rage, demanding to know why it lied to him. The anger and ranting parts quickly fade to pure grief and sorrow.
* AntiVillain: His ultimate goal is to [[spoiler:save his family]]. His ruthlessness isn't from lacking a conscience, he's operating under the assumption that [[spoiler:every bad thing he does will be undone once he succeeds, since his goal is to go back in time, therefore also setting the universe back to before he committed them. [[TragicVillain He fails]] [[TheBadGuyWins not by the heroes' intervention (he won against them)]], [[HopeSpot but after his success]] [[AllForNothing it turns out he couldn't go back far in time even with the greatest source of wakfu]]]].
* ArcVillain: He's the main antagonist of the first season, aiming to collect enough Wakfu to go back in time and undo his mistakes, regardless of what atrocities he has to commit along the way.
* TheAtoner: From his point of view, his entire villainous quest is this.
-->'''Nox:''' If you could redeem yourself for a terrible mistake for the price of some lives, would you do it?
* AxCrazy: His obsession with the Eliacube [[spoiler:and bringing back his family]] ''really'' took its toll on his sanity.
* BadBoss: Nox wastes his minions for the slightest objections or speaking at the wrong time and regularly threatens them.
* BadassBoast: A rather subdued one right before his fight with [[OurDragonsAreDifferent Grougaloragran.]]
-->'''Nox:''' [[WeWillMeetAgain Goodbye?]] Oh, your friends are going to be so disappointed... you should have said ''[[KilledOffForReal farewell...]]''
* BadassBookworm: A master Xelor which usually looks more like a traditional Wizard who's though enough to trade blows with Dragons.
* BattleAura: He '''surges''' with wakfu when he pulls out all the stops.
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Before he became a genocidal tyrant, Nox wanted to have a legacy that would outlast him, to leave his name marked in history so he would be remembered for something grand. [[spoiler: He certainly got that in the end...]]
* BeyondTheImpossible: Time manipulation isn't unheard of in this setting. Some characters have managed to travel back and forward through time; Powerful Xelors and the god himself can cause indefinite time loops over certain areas. Nox on the other hand, doesn't want to do any of that. He wants to [[spoiler:reverse time for the entire Krosmos and ultimately succeeds...in a fashion]]. Even Qilby, an actual Eliatrope with far more knowledge of how the Eliacube works than Nox ever did [[spoiler:as its creator]], was impressed when told about it from Adamai.
* BigBrotherIsWatching: His clock lair is filled with multiple surveillance lens that show the images watched and projected by his countless Noxines spread across the world, allowing him to watch and spy multiple people and multiple places from a very long distance.
* BigNo: He lets a few out at times, such as when Yugo interfering with the Eliacube transports Nox's mobile fortress to Mount Zinit before it was finished draining [[spoiler:the Tree of Life]].
* TheBusCameBack: Makes a reappearance in Season 3 as one of the phantoms tormenting Yugo by Oropo.
* BusmansVocabulary: Occasionally sprinkles his dialogue with references to clockwork.
* TheChessmaster: He is able of finding back Grougaloragran by sending one of his Noxines spy on the Brotherhood of the Tofu while they are searching for Oma Island and Yugo's family, knowing that they have strong chances of finding them, with the brotherhood being completely oblivious about the Noxine's presence. He later tricks the whole Sadida kingdom military by sending his Noxines and minions attack the Sadida kingdom borders as a giant distraction while Killweedos who has infiltrated the kingdom is making a teleporation portal close to the Tree of Life, allowing him to reach the tree with minimal resistance.
* ClockPunk: All of his machinery is made of gears and other clock parts. His [[BaseOnWheels mobile headquarters]] is essentially a giant pocket watch with legs.
* ClothingDamage: His armor and clothing is severely damaged in his fight against Grougaloragran. We still don't see any of his skin, though.
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Living for so long with only an ancient relic for a companion has made him go a ''little'' crazy.
* CombatPragmatist: Prefers to attack his opponents while they are immobilized by his time powers, and has no issues using his zombies and noxines as support against particulary strong opponents or to attack Yugo from behind while he was distracted by Ogrest during their final battle.
%%* ContemplativeBoss
* CoolSword: One shaped like [[ImprobableWeaponUser a giant clock hand]].
* DeflectorShields: Still with a clockwork theme. Notably to stop Grougal's fire breath.
* DespairEventHorizon: The point where he hits this isn't when his StartOfDarkness into becoming a WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds in his OriginsEpisode is completed. It's when [[spoiler:his 200-year-long quest turns out to be AllForNothing and he realizes there's truly no bringing his family back nor erasing all of the world-scarring atrocities he committed in pursuit of that goal. All he can do is somberly bid the heroes a sincere farewell and use the last of his power to teleport himself to his family's graves, where he [[ReducedToDust turns to dust]]]].
* DetrimentalDetermination: One of the most ''gut-wrenchingly'' saddening cases of this trope ever put to animation. He's spent ''200 years'' ceaselessly and obsessively collecting wakfu wherever he can, often forcibly extracting it from living beings without their consent under the justification that it won't matter once he changes history so these events never happened, and he's turned himself into little more than a monstrous zombie along the way whilst extending his lifespan to ensure he lives long enough to complete his goals. Every time something or someone gets in his way (or, in Grougaloragran's case, tries to talk him down), Nox always manages to work his way through or around it and keeps on going regardless of any setbacks. [[spoiler:All of this so he can travel back in time to before his family died as an indirect consequence of his mistakes, and prevent their deaths while also erasing all the harm he's caused others to get there from the timeline. Tragically, Nox doesn't see until he's actually ''won'' and begins reversing time that his quest was doomed from the start, as not even one of the single most powerful sources of wakfu in the world is enough to reverse time by more than ''twenty minutes'', meaning that all the death, destruction and misery he caused to achieve his goals can't ever be erased, which in turn means that the only legacy he'll leave behind once he turns to dust is that of a hated, mad genocider. This brutal revelation [[VillainousBSOD hits Nox like a country-sized ton of bricks]]]].
* DiseaseBleach: The OriginsEpisode depicts Noximilien's once-blonde hair turning white as his SanitySlippage advances and his appearance, hygiene and well-being decline.
* DramaticIrony: It's a bit of Fridge Brilliance, but with Grougaloragran [[spoiler:effectively killed and forced to reincarnate with his past life's memories gone]]; after Nox dies, the audience are the only ones who know what his tragic true motives for trying to reverse time were, and the World of Twelve will not remember him as anything other than a genocidal mad despot. The effect intensifies after viewing Nox's OriginsEpisode.
* DyingAlone: [[spoiler:After seeing his plan could never succeed, Yugo convinces the others to let Nox leave. Then the credits show his armor scattered on his family's grave, implying Nox either [[DrivenToSuicide killed himself]] or [[NoImmortalInertia died of old age]] after he stopped draining wakfu.]]
* DyingAsYourself: {{Implied}}. After [[spoiler:he achieves his PyrrhicVictory which furthermore drains all his collected wakfu stores]], during his resulting VillainousBSOD his body's movements becomes more fluid and human whereas throughout the series they were all rigid and jerky as if he was part-clockwork underneath his bandages (and he seriously probably was); plus his voice sounds more and more like he did in the OriginsEpisode. Implying the Eliacube was releasing its 200-year-long hold on his mind as he realized just what he'd done, what he'd become and that he was truly never going to [[spoiler:see his family again]].
* EvilCounterpart: He's this to Yugo. They both had humble and idyllic beginnings as caring people (Yugo being a restaurant owner's adoptive son in his current incarnation, Nox being a clockmaker in a rural home), yet are also more ambitious or spirited than their humble homes could accommodate. They love and value their family very greatly. They're also both willing to fight to their deaths in order to save what they love at all costs, but Yugo fights for the loved ones he still has, whereas Nox has lost all of that and fights to get it all back.
* EvilGenius: He has created himself a great number of very advanced devices and weapons powered by the energy of the Eliacube such as his armor, his giant clock lair equiped with spider legs and surveillance lens, energy beam weapons, spider tanks and mounts for his minions, the small bug-like robots called the Noxines that serve as scouts and wakfu collectors, Egole's collar that increases his speed to a phenomenal degree, teleportations portals, his Zombies minions and the very powerful robot using Statis energy Razortime.
* EvilLaugh: His frequent bouts of completely psychotic laughter are the first indication that he has a few screws loose behind his façade of calm and smug superiority.
* EvilSoundsRaspy: He has a slightly raspy-sounding voice when he isn't speaking in a low tone.
* ExpressiveMask: The eye-lenses on his helmet come with shutters that act as metal eyelids with a range of expressions for Nox's mood, although they only appear sometimes. Other times, we get the full, unsettling effect of those unblinking, glowing, expressionless eyes.
* TheFaceless: Never takes his mask off on-screen. It's easy to think that [[CoolMask his mask]] ''is'' his face.
* FauxAffablyEvil: Wavers between facetiously polite and outright patronizing, usually while he's actively trying to beat you so he can suck your life force dry.
* {{Flight}}: He can levitate at will.
* FromNobodyToNightmare: He used to be a loving husband, a good father and a mere watchmaker. Then he found the Eliacube...
* GadgeteerGenius: He was already this as a simple watchmaker, 200 years ago. And his engineering and inventing talent has only increased over time and with the use of the Eliacube's energy.
* GigglingVillain: His speaking voice is as far as you can get from a baritone, too.
* GlowingEyesOfDoom: His eyes glow the same light blue as the Eliacube.
* GoalInLife: [[spoiler:SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong by going back in time to save his family, and coincidentally reverse every atrocity he's committed along the way. [[AllForNothing He fails.]]]]
* AGodAmI: {{Exaggerated}}. He screams during his RageAgainstTheHeavens speech at his StartOfDarkness that the completion of his BeyondTheImpossible goals will make him more powerful than the god of time himself. [[spoiler:And he technically ''succeeds'' at the end, if not nearly as well as he could've hoped]].
* TheGreatestStoryNeverTold: Only Grougaloragran is ever told Nox's entire plan, and afterward is left in no situation to reveal it. Even Yugo only had a hunch that Nox was anything more than a power mad despot, but that's all history will remember him as.
* HeelRealization: [[spoiler:Once his attempt to travel back in time fails because he couldn't go nearly far enough, Nox realizes he was deluded to put so much faith behind the (probably hallucinatory) words of the Eliacube.]] Put simply, it ''destroys'' him.
* HistoricalVillainUpgrade: InUniverse. By the time of Season 2, most of the world, having no way of knowing his sympathetic motivations, see him as a power-hungry madman.
* HorrorHunger: Claims to hunger for wakfu in the beginning of the series, but it's ultimately subverted as he's not using the wakfu to feed himself, but his plans.
* IAmNotLeftHanded: He almost never goes full out due to his frugal nature, but his fight with Grougaloragran reveals just how powerful he can be.
* IWantThemAlive: He instructs [[RightHandAttackDog Igôle]] to bring back Adamaï without damaging him ''too much''.
* KnightOfCerebus: While he's present since the beginning, we don't really see how serious he gets until season 1 episode 13. If you want to see just how serious things get with him... [[spoiler:had he won, the first season would've had a ''happier'' ending.]]
* LaughingMad: He giggles to himself with every other line, and that's on a ''good'' day.
* {{Leitmotif}}: A few, all of which feature the ticking or chiming of clocks. [[ThemeSongReveal Used for sinister foreshadowing]] in the StartOfDarkness episode, when the beginning of Noximilien's descent into madness is accompanied by his villainous leitmotif from the beginning of the series.
* LimitedWardrobe: {{Downplayed}} bordering on {{averted}}. He wears several different armors and robes over the course of Season 1, although he never loses his signature helmet and mummy-like bandages.
* LimpAndLivid: In the OriginsEpisode, Noximilien's posture grows hunched, limp-armed and creepy-eyed as his SanitySlippage advances, and by the time he [[spoiler:finds out about his family's deaths and completely snaps]], his demeanor is anything ''but'' reassuring.
* LivingOnBorrowedTime: He's been kept alive by the Eliacube for two-hundred years. And based on the mystery of what's underneath his helmet and bandages and the inhuman, marionette-like way he moves, he might've extended his life using other artificial means we're better off not knowing about.
* LoveMakesYouEvil: His entire crusade [[spoiler:to suck all life he encounters dry of its wakfu until he has enough to [[BeyondTheImpossible turn back time]] is motivated by saving and rejoining his dead family, and nothing and no-one will stand in his way]].
* MadScientist: What he developed into during the last 200 years.
* MagicKnight: He's got the armor, he's got the spells, and he's even got the sword.
* MaliciousMisnaming: Nox mockingly calls Grougaloragran "Rigolo-ragran" in the original dub at one point during their battle, "rigolo" being French for "funny".
* MeaningfulName: "Nox" means "night" in Latin, fitting his time theme coupled with his morbid and tragic nature. His name is also similar to "noxa", which means damage towards organisms, fitting how he sucks all significant life he encounters dry of wakfu for his plan and leaves death and desolation in his wake. Also applies to his invention the Noxines, in addition to sounding like "toxine".
* MeaningfulRename:
-->'''Noximilien:''' [[spoiler:My children]] called me "[[spoiler:Daddy]]", [[spoiler:my wife]] called me "[[spoiler:Milien]]". From this instant, the world shall learn to call me "'''''Nox'''''"!
* MeaninglessVillainVictory: A particularly heartbreaking example occurs to him when he [[spoiler:completes his 200-year-long quest to collect enough wakfu to make the Eliacube reverse time, so he can reunite with his family and prevent both their deaths and erase all the evil he committed afterwards to reach this goal... and he discovers that all the wakfu, which included one of the single most powerful wakfu sources in the world, is only enough to reverse time by ''twenty minutes'' instead of 200 years]].
* MummiesAtTheDinnerTable: Nox keeps a mechanical puppet theatre that he uses to reenact [[spoiler: scenes with his family.]]
* MultipleChoicePast: Has shades of this with certain details rather than his actual origin. In his OVA, [[spoiler:his family is seen as blonds. In the show, his vision of wife shows her with black hair and all of his kids are seen with different hair colors. In his OVA, he mentions the Eliacube directly by name. In the show, he refers to it as "The Cube" and is surprised when Grougaloragran states its real name.]]
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: When Nox is finally defeated, [[spoiler:realizing that he's never getting his family back and his mistakes will never be erased, Nox is clearly ''crushed'' and spends the last few minutes of screen-time he has crying in remorse. For all his delusions, Nox genuinely ''did'' figure all his horrible actions would be undone by turning time back]].
* NobleDemon: More AxCrazy than usual but he [[spoiler:wants his family back]] and has a twisted respect for fathers that would die for their families i.e. Alibert.
* NoImmortalInertia: {{Implied}}. After [[spoiler:he uses up all his wakfu stores and subsequently departs]], his connection to the Eliacube [[LivingOnBorrowedTime which has kept him alive for two-hundred years]] is implicitly severed based on the way the cube immediately powers down. After this, the last we see of Nox is his armor, bandages, and [[ReducedToDust a pile of dust]] atop [[spoiler:his family's graves]], implying that he rapidly aged into dust.
* NotEnoughToBury: The CreativeClosingCredits of the Season 1 finale show there's nothing left of Nox but his armor, bandages and a pile of dust.
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* OmniscientMoralityLicense: Nox kills with no remorse [[InvokedTrope because he assumes his ultimate success will render all negative consequences of his actions irrelevant]]. [[spoiler:That's because he believes all his evil deeds would be undone if he set the universe back to before he did them. The problem is he actually ''can't'' do that because there isn't enough wakfu in the world to go back nearly far enough. [[HeelRealization He doesn't take this revelation well.]]]]
* PapaWolf: The guy was ready to go BeyondTheImpossible by [[spoiler:reversing time in order to save his family]].
* PetTheDog:
** He [[spoiler:cures Alibert]] because he admires [[PapaWolf his love for his son]].
** He leaves Igole with the child that took him in when he was injured. He seems to remember Igole was the family pet before he was one of his minions.
* PossessionImpliesMastery: {{Averted}} in regards to the Eliacube. Nox had it in his possession for 200 years, and even by the present day he admits [[BlackBox there is so much about it he still doesn't understand despite his experimentation with it]]. He is shocked when Yugo manages to tap into its power within minutes of being around it when it took him years, if not decades to do the same.
* PostMortemComeback: In Season 3, he manifests in Yugo's nightmares and attacks him, apparently a projection of Yugo's guilt over being unable to save him.
* PowerFloats: The rare times he's actually on the ground it's because he ran out of power.
* PowerGlows: He constantly glows of a teal-colored wakfu light, which depends on the armor he's currently wearing. The more wakfu he employs, the bigger the aura.
* PreAsskickingOneLiner: Nox's entrance in episode 2, complete with FalseReassurance.
-->'''Nox:''' Good morning, everyone, my name is Nox. Do as I say and everything will go... well... not ''that'' bad.
* PreInsanityReveal: His StartOfDarkness OriginsEpisode gives us an utterly heart-rending look at the man he once was in the beginning before the Eliacube drove him mad.
* RageAgainstTheHeavens:
-->[[spoiler:'''Noximilien:''' I'll fight time -- that great, deceiving fool! Soon I'll be as powerful as the god Xelor! Yes, even more powerful... [...] DO YOU HEAR ME, XELOR?! I'll surpass you and I'll bring back my family!]]
* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: Exact age unknown, but he's been stealing wakfu for 200 years.
* RedemptionRejection: Upon [[AuraVision sensing]] Nox actually still [[IKnowYoureInThereSomewhereFight has a speck of goodness in him]], Grougaloragran tries to persuade Nox to give up his mad crusade and claims trying to turn back time [[NotQuiteTheRightThing will unleash an]] ApocalypseHow. Nox laughs it off and decides it's a XanatosGambit, since if he tries and winds up ending the world instead of achieving his goals in the worse-case scenario, [[DespairEventHorizon he's too far gone]] [[CrapsackWorld to care what]] [[SuicidalCosmicTemperTantrum happens to the world]].
* ReducedToDust: Downplayed. This is all that's left of him besides his armor and bandages, implying [[NoImmortalInertia his true age spontaneously caught up with him]].
* RetractableWeapon: Nox's sword, appropriately looking like a clock's hands, deploys bit by bit in his hand whenever he needs it.
* ReverseArmFold: He's fond of combining this posture with PowerFloats when he's not actively using his arms to fight an opponent.
* SanitySlippage: His OriginsEpisode confirms that he had one due to the Eliacube getting into his head, and it gets harrowingly depicted in the spirit of the trope image.
* SelfDisposingVillain: As it turns out, Nox is so ''ruthlessly'' effective at taking care of the heroes this ends up being the only possible way he can be stopped: [[spoiler:Nox's ultimate downfall comes when he fails to realize he can ''never'' attain enough wakfu to go back two-hundred years and instead burns his entire supply going back twenty minutes, ''just'' before his victory. Nox ''[[VillainousBreakdown freaks]]'' at this.]]
* SignificantNameShift: He's usually prone to referring to his foes by patronizing or mocking nicknames, and if he starts referring to you by name, it indicates he's developed a serious respect for you. This happens midway through Nox's duel with Grougaloragran after the mad Xelor realizes just how powerful and capable his opponent really is, and it happens [[spoiler:when he bids Yugo a somber farewell after his VillainousBreakdown]].
* SingleTear: A tear notably escapes from beneath his mask when he completely breaks down over the realization that [[spoiler:his two-hundred-year-long quest to RetGone his family's deaths, and all the atrocities he committed to get there in the belief it would all be reset once he won, were AllForNothing]]. [[SympathyForTheDevil It clues Yugo in that Nox isn't just the heartless lunatic Yugo judged him to be]].
* SphereOfPower: His time-stops cover a spherical region.
* StartOfDarkness: A bonus episode was produced depicting Nox's life before the Eliacube, and how he came to be obsessed with gathering wakfu.
* SteppingStonesInTheSky: {{Justified}} by time being frozen around him. He impressively uses mid-air blocks of rubble as stepping stones during his original skirmish with Grougaloragran.
* SuperMode: In his final duel with Grougaloragran, after Nox realizes just how powerful his dragon opponent really is and after Grougal has fought off Nox's minions, Nox resorts to sampling a chunk of his wakfu stores to empower himself, causing a mass of writhing wakfu to sprout on his back and forming twin energy hammers.
* SwordBeam: His clock sword can fire cutting projectiles.
* SympathyForTheDevil: Yugo at first judges Nox to be nothing more than a psychopathic madman, but after the mad Xelor utterly breaks down, Yugo evidently gets a hunch about Nox's [[AntiVillain true]] [[LoveMakesYouEvil colors]] when Nox's only response to Yugo angrily chewing him out for his madness and the realization that the Eliacube's words were all in his head is to sob and shed a SingleTear. Sadly it's too little too late for Yugo to do anything to save Nox -- all he can do is [[SaveTheVillain stop the Sadidas]] from taking revenge of the mob variety before Nox teleports away to die. Bear in mind, this kid was pretty much [[PrepareToDie ready to]] [[UnstoppableRage KILL Nox]] in revenge for [[spoiler:Sadlygrove's [[HeroicSacrifice death]]]] before this point. Season 3 reveals Yugo genuinely feels terrible about being unable to save Nox to the point of [[PostMortemComeback being haunted]].
* TearsOfRemorse: {{Implied}}. The broken SingleTear he sheds (see above) is probably as much a tear of crippling guilt as it is a tear of grief and failure.
%%* TeleportSpam
* TeleportSpam: Teleports a lot, either to get away from someone, to dodge an attack, or to taunt them.
* ThisCannotBe: Has so many variations of of this that it's practically a catchphrase, especially in the season 1 finale.
* ThisIsGonnaSuck: Nox's understated reaction when he realizes that his magic powers are inhibited and that Grougal is about to breath fire on him at point blank, with enough strength to alter Oma Island's geography and make the volcano erupt.
-->'''Nox:''' Eh eh eh, this is going to hurt a little... ''[braces for impact]''
* TimeMaster: Controls time, though not as much as he would like to be.
* TimeStandsStill: He's able to freeze time for everyone else in his immediately vicinity.
* TragicHero: Nox turns out to be an antagonistic type as his motivations are revealed, and [[spoiler:when his efforts are AllForNothing]]. [[spoiler:He's insanely and utterly driven to succeed at any cost in reversing time so he can bring back his dead family, with the added justification that if he succeeds in his goal it'll also RetGone all the atrocities he's ruthlessly committing on others to get there. TheBadGuyWins, but it turns out all his 200-year-long efforts were doomed from the start, as all the wakfu he collects (which includes part of one of the ''most potent sources of wakfu in the world'') are only enough to reverse time by ''twenty minutes'']]. Though no-one but the audience knows at the end why Nox really did what he did, even Yugo feels bad upon witnessing his VillainousBSOD and lets him escape, [[spoiler:at which point Nox dies as a SelfDisposingVillain]].
* TragicTimeTraveler: His plan turns out to be [[spoiler:to get enough Wakfu energy to go back in time and save his family, who dies centuries ago. However, by the time he seemingly achieves his goal and travels back in time, it turns out that over 200 years of gathering Wakfu only allowed him to travel back ''20'' minutes, rendering everything he did for naught.]]
* TragicVillain: Nox has caused mayhem and death all over the world in his frantic quest for gathering Wakfu and is feared and hated by nearly everyone, but [[spoiler:none know that all of his crimes are meant to revert time in order to save his family, and that if his plans succeed, not only will he be reunited with his beloved family, but the rewind will also [[RetGone undo all his previous atrocities]]; he's well-aware of the latter point, which is what enables him to justify all the extremes he goes to. All the more tragic [[WrongTimeTravelSavvy at the end where his plans fail]] [[AllForNothing and all that's left of him is his legacy of death and madness]].]]
* TronLines: Has them on his armor and masks, surging with Wakfu whenever he's charged up.
* TwitchyEye: He sometimes twitches one of the eye lenses in his ExpressiveMask.
* TheUnfettered: Nox wants to [[spoiler:turn back time to before his family died or he did anything evil]], so he doesn't give a damn about who he steps over along the way. [[spoiler: [[{{Deconstrution}} Nox deconstructs this]] as there was no Plan B when his Plan A ends up AllForNothing.]]
* TheUnreveal: We never see what's behind this mask. The closest we get is a distant shot from behind. Perhaps for the best.
* UselessUsefulSpell: His time-stop ability is generally reserved for very strong opponents -- so strong that they're usually able to [[MoveInTheFrozenTime overcome it]] through raw (will)power.
* UnwittingPawn: [[spoiler:To Oropo who arranged for him to find the Eliacube, setting him on his path to insanity and his later rampage.]]
* VillainousBreakdown: After [[spoiler:his grand scheme finally unfolds, only to end up]] discovering that [[spoiler:200 years' worth of collecting wakfu could only send him back in time by about 20 ''minutes'',]] Nox degenerates into a ranting mess, [[CompanionCube screaming at the Eliacube]] and demanding to know why it "betrayed" him. It ultimately results in...
* VillainousBSOD: After [[spoiler:Yugo chews him out for committing 200 years of atrocities because of his insane delusions]], Nox [[spoiler:finally has a HeelRealization, and doesn't put up a fight when the soldiers of Sadida show up to arrest him. In the end, he just bids Yugo a morose farewell before teleporting away, leaving the Eliacube behind]].
* VillainTeleportation: Him and Yugo both have teleportation abilities, but Yugo's require him to create portals with hand gestures and slide in and out of them, whereas Nox can shift from one spot to another in an instantaneous flicker without the need for gesturing.
* TheWatchmaker: This was his profession before his StartOfDarkness, and as a villain he is unmovingly hellbent on going BeyondTheImpossible to reset the Krosmoz [[spoiler:back to when his family were still alive]]; something which Nox notes during his RageAgainstTheHeavens speech is beyond even the time god Xelor's power.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: [[spoiler:Wants his family back, after severely neglecting them over an object and indirectly causing their deaths, so he's stealing the wakfu (life energy) from plants, animals and ''people'' to use it to travel back in time to change the past, thereby indirectly reverting all of his atrocities along the way. He's well aware of this, but if his plan works none of said horror wouldn't happen in the first place]]
* WindUpKey: The hole in his chest is there for a reason.
* WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity: The Eliacube gave him powers far beyond anything he could have achieved on his own, but at the cost of his sanity. [[spoiler:His family's death later makes him go off the deep end.]]
* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: Most definitely. It's bad enough when you realize ''why'' he's the BigBad, but in the finale [[spoiler:when he realizes that two centuries of work were for absolutely nothing, you can't help but feel for the guy]].
* WorthyOpponent: Nox isn't one for using the names of others, a bit understandable given that his grand scheme would make doing so rather pointless. However, he has a tendency to call those he respects by name instead of blithe insults. The list is incredibly small and consists of Grougaloragran, [[spoiler:Alibert]], and eventually [[spoiler:Yugo]].
* WrongTimeTravelSavvy: Nox wants to move the universe back in time to before [[spoiler:his family died]], which Grougaloragran says is likely impossible and to try would simply destroy the universe. Nox recognizes the possibility, but brushes it off as an acceptable risk. Since if he's right, everything he'd done up until then will have been reverted, while if he's wrong he'll be content to die with the universe in tow. [[spoiler:[[DoubleSubversion Nox actually manages the time rewind without disastrous consequences, but found a different problem he didn't think of]]: that even with the largest wakfu source in the world, he couldn't go ''nearly'' far enough back.]]
-->'''Nox: [[spoiler:[[AllForNothing TWENTY MISERABLE MINUTES!!!]]]]'''
* YouFool: He shouts this at Yugo during their last battle when Yugo tries to grab the Eliacube, claiming he's the only one who understands the cube well enough to safely touch it.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Igôle]]
!!Igôle
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Nox's pet. Igôle's collar has been tinkered with by his master, making him incredibly fast.
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* AmplifierArtifact: His collar, infused with Xelor magic, boosts his physical abilities much higher than they usually would be, giving him SuperSpeed and, in a pinch, providing the very same TimeStandsStill ability Nox uses.
* FluffyTheTerrible
* FreudianExcuse: Igôle has been stuck for two hundred years with Nox, subject to his ramblings and occasional death threats, and most likely being kept alive by unstable magic just so that Nox can have some remnant of his old life. It's left the poor animal rather high strung. [[spoiler: His last appearance also strongly implies that he pines after the absence of Nox's children, which ultimately forms the basis of his HeelFaceTurn.]]
* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler: Becomes a pet to a little girl who heals him after he gets hurt (and reminded him of Nox's daughter).]]
* JustEatHim: Does this to both Az and Adamai at one point.
* MadEye
* MixAndMatchCritters: Common in this world. Igole mostly resembles a hyena, but his body shape is reminiscent of a lizard, and he acts partly like a dog.
* PreciousPuppy: Shown as one in flashbacks.
* RightHandAttackDog
* ShapeshifterModeLock: Induce one for Adamaï, forcing him into the form of a Tofu.
* SuperSpeed: Thanks to the Xelor magic infused in his collar, Igôle can run at incredible speeds allowing him to run on water, move faster than the eye can track, and cross hundreds of miles easily.
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: [[spoiler: Igôle is the one who led Nox to the Eliacube, and even went so far as to inadvertantly revive it by treating it as a chew toy.]]
* VacuumMouth: Possesses a powerful vacuum breath, which allows him to eat something as big as Adamai.
* WalkOnWater: Due to his incredible speed, he can cross the ocean by running.
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[[folder:Nox's Zombies]]
!!Frisco, Marama, Tartufo and Killweedos
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A foursome of mummified warriors who serve Nox when he needs something more powerful and restless than his minions or Igôle, respectively an undead Sacrier, Feca, Cra and Sadida. The first three appears during the climatic battle against Grugaloragran, Killweedos is later deployed [[spoiler: to secretly open a path to the Tree of Life.]]
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* AttackAttackAttack: Frisco the Sacrier is the most offensive attacker of the group, literally pounding Grougal in the ground with no respite.
* ColdSniper: Tartufo fighst from far away with his energy arrows.
* CombatTentacles: Frisco uses them [[YouWillNotEvadeMe to pull enemies to him.]] They're apparently made of blood. Killseedos uses Sadida brambles to fight.
* DeaderThanDead: [[spoiler: Marama is crushed by the Razor Time, while the other three are crushed under the thorns of a Tree of Life-empowered Amalia.]]
* DubNameChange: Deserboss name is changed to Killweedos in the English Dub.
* EliteMook: To Nox, as he only employs them for serious challenges.
* EnemyRisingBehind: Killweedos can move through trees and vegetation, and pulls this trick on Eva when he notices her.
* FromASingleCell: Due to the combination of a zombie and a plantman Killweedos can regenerate from almost any attack almost instantly, healing from all the attacks thrown at him by the Brotherhood of the Tofu until he's finally destroyed by a super powerful attack from Amalia empowered by the tree of life.
* GreenThumb: Killweedos has powers over the plants even stronger than real Sadidas have, being able of returning the plants that Sadida guards tried to use on him against them. In fact he can even fuse with plants such as trees or giant roots, an ability that no living Sadida has ever demonstrated.
* LuckilyMyShieldWillProtectMe: Marama, unsurprisingly, can use his Feca powers to intercept everything with his shield, even the attacks from Grougaloragran.
* MindControl: Killweedos can take control of Sadida guards by creating special Voodoo dolls with their hair that turn them into his mindless minions.
* NighInvulnerable: Due to them being zombies all of them, especially Killweedos, can take a tremendous amount of punishement without being incapacited or harmed in any way.
* PunnyName: Killweedos/Deserboss has an ironical but appropriate name for a rogue Sadida.
* ThousandYardStare: While the other three' eyes are covered in bandages, Killweedos has this, and it's pretty creepy.
* TheUndead: All of them. It is a special power used by the Xelors.
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[[folder:Timerazor]]
!!Timerazor/Razor Time
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Nox's most powerful and dangerous creation, Razor Time is a mecha that harnesses the raw power of Stasis to blast away anything in its path, and is only deployed by Nox when the time comes to unleash untold destruction.
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* DubNameChange: From Timerazor to Razor Time in the English Dub. In the second season of the Italian dub it is called "The Terminator" instead.
* DidntNeedThoseAnyway: Despite losing an arm to Ruel's DrillTank, it still tries to finish off the heroes [[spoiler:before Joris takes it down.]]
* HeroKiller: [[spoiler:It kills Dally, after all.]]
* MiniMecha: It's not ''huge'', but it still towers over most of the characters.
* PersonOfMassDestruction: Unlike all of Nox's other creations, the Razor Time runs on and uses Stasis energy rather than Wakfu, which allows it to destroy just about anything in its path. It casually blows away acres of trees standing between Nox and the Tree of Life, even the increased defenses the Sadida forces try to spring up to block Nox's path, and Nox noticeably didn't bring it out to fight Grougaloragran because the point was to capture and drain the dragon, not blow him up.
* PurpleIsPowerful: It glows purple and its energy blasts are purple as well, and it's Nox's most powerful weapon.
* SuperStrength: Matches Dally while he's merged with Rubilax in a contest of strength, and when it manages to distract him it easily tosses him aside.
* SuperToughness: Eva and Amalia's best attacks barely make it flinch. Dally even with Rubilax's demon form can hardly slow it down. It even manages to keep going after a direct hit from Ruel's DrillTank tears off one of its arms.
* WaveMotionGun: It's main attack is to fire balls or beams of Stasis energy.
[[/folder]]
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!!Nox / Noximilien Coxen
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[[caption-width-right:350:"Yes, yes! I can do it! I'll fix my life's clock!"]]
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Benjamin Pascal (FR), Creator/ArthurBostrom (EN, Season 1), Creator/KaijiTang (EN, Season 3), Luca Violini (IT)
A [[TimeMaster Xelor]] who serves as the first season's primary antagonist, Nox is both incredibly powerful and [[AxCrazy quite insane]]. He travels the world and drains wakfu from everything he finds, reducing whole regions to barren wastelands. The series begins with him encountering Grougaloragran, and his obsession with the Dragon and his enormous supply of wakfu eventually sets him in opposition to Yugo.
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* AlasPoorVillain: Yugo certainly feels bad for him after seeing him [[TearsOfRemorse break down]], but he's seemingly the only character present who feels that way. The audience meanwhile, ''especially'' those among them who [=re/watch=] the finale with full knowledge of Nox's [[TheGreatestStoryNeverTold secret]] StartOfDarkness...
* AllForNothing: [[spoiler:His plan was ultimately doomed from the start as 200 years of research, gathering wakfu, and committing all sorts of atrocities in the process nets him... 20 minutes back in time, nullifying both his victory against the heroes ''and'' his life's work in one fell swoop.]]
-->'''Nox''': All the Wakfu gathered in 200 years... [[spoiler: FOR TWENTY MISERABLE MINUTES]]!?
* AnguishedOutburst: [[spoiler:When he completes his 200-year-long mission only to find that it was AllForNothing]], he's reduced to ranting and screaming at the Eliacube in raw grief and rage, demanding to know why it lied to him. The anger and ranting parts quickly fade to pure grief and sorrow.
* AntiVillain: His ultimate goal is to [[spoiler:save his family]]. His ruthlessness isn't from lacking a conscience, he's operating under the assumption that [[spoiler:every bad thing he does will be undone once he succeeds, since his goal is to go back in time, therefore also setting the universe back to before he committed them. [[TragicVillain He fails]] [[TheBadGuyWins not by the heroes' intervention (he won against them)]], [[HopeSpot but after his success]] [[AllForNothing it turns out he couldn't go back far in time even with the greatest source of wakfu]]]].
* ArcVillain: He's the main antagonist of the first season, aiming to collect enough Wakfu to go back in time and undo his mistakes, regardless of what atrocities he has to commit along the way.
* TheAtoner: From his point of view, his entire villainous quest is this.
-->'''Nox:''' If you could redeem yourself for a terrible mistake for the price of some lives, would you do it?
* AxCrazy: His obsession with the Eliacube [[spoiler:and bringing back his family]] ''really'' took its toll on his sanity.
* BadBoss: Nox wastes his minions for the slightest objections or speaking at the wrong time and regularly threatens them.
* BadassBoast: A rather subdued one right before his fight with [[OurDragonsAreDifferent Grougaloragran.]]
-->'''Nox:''' [[WeWillMeetAgain Goodbye?]] Oh, your friends are going to be so disappointed... you should have said ''[[KilledOffForReal farewell...]]''
* BadassBookworm: A master Xelor which usually looks more like a traditional Wizard who's though enough to trade blows with Dragons.
* BattleAura: He '''surges''' with wakfu when he pulls out all the stops.
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Before he became a genocidal tyrant, Nox wanted to have a legacy that would outlast him, to leave his name marked in history so he would be remembered for something grand. [[spoiler: He certainly got that in the end...]]
* BeyondTheImpossible: Time manipulation isn't unheard of in this setting. Some characters have managed to travel back and forward through time; Powerful Xelors and the god himself can cause indefinite time loops over certain areas. Nox on the other hand, doesn't want to do any of that. He wants to [[spoiler:reverse time for the entire Krosmos and ultimately succeeds...in a fashion]]. Even Qilby, an actual Eliatrope with far more knowledge of how the Eliacube works than Nox ever did [[spoiler:as its creator]], was impressed when told about it from Adamai.
* BigBrotherIsWatching: His clock lair is filled with multiple surveillance lens that show the images watched and projected by his countless Noxines spread across the world, allowing him to watch and spy multiple people and multiple places from a very long distance.
* BigNo: He lets a few out at times, such as when Yugo interfering with the Eliacube transports Nox's mobile fortress to Mount Zinit before it was finished draining [[spoiler:the Tree of Life]].
* TheBusCameBack: Makes a reappearance in Season 3 as one of the phantoms tormenting Yugo by Oropo.
* BusmansVocabulary: Occasionally sprinkles his dialogue with references to clockwork.
* TheChessmaster: He is able of finding back Grougaloragran by sending one of his Noxines spy on the Brotherhood of the Tofu while they are searching for Oma Island and Yugo's family, knowing that they have strong chances of finding them, with the brotherhood being completely oblivious about the Noxine's presence. He later tricks the whole Sadida kingdom military by sending his Noxines and minions attack the Sadida kingdom borders as a giant distraction while Killweedos who has infiltrated the kingdom is making a teleporation portal close to the Tree of Life, allowing him to reach the tree with minimal resistance.
* ClockPunk: All of his machinery is made of gears and other clock parts. His [[BaseOnWheels mobile headquarters]] is essentially a giant pocket watch with legs.
* ClothingDamage: His armor and clothing is severely damaged in his fight against Grougaloragran. We still don't see any of his skin, though.
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Living for so long with only an ancient relic for a companion has made him go a ''little'' crazy.
* CombatPragmatist: Prefers to attack his opponents while they are immobilized by his time powers, and has no issues using his zombies and noxines as support against particulary strong opponents or to attack Yugo from behind while he was distracted by Ogrest during their final battle.
%%* ContemplativeBoss
* CoolSword: One shaped like [[ImprobableWeaponUser a giant clock hand]].
* DeflectorShields: Still with a clockwork theme. Notably to stop Grougal's fire breath.
* DespairEventHorizon: The point where he hits this isn't when his StartOfDarkness into becoming a WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds in his OriginsEpisode is completed. It's when [[spoiler:his 200-year-long quest turns out to be AllForNothing and he realizes there's truly no bringing his family back nor erasing all of the world-scarring atrocities he committed in pursuit of that goal. All he can do is somberly bid the heroes a sincere farewell and use the last of his power to teleport himself to his family's graves, where he [[ReducedToDust turns to dust]]]].
* DetrimentalDetermination: One of the most ''gut-wrenchingly'' saddening cases of this trope ever put to animation. He's spent ''200 years'' ceaselessly and obsessively collecting wakfu wherever he can, often forcibly extracting it from living beings without their consent under the justification that it won't matter once he changes history so these events never happened, and he's turned himself into little more than a monstrous zombie along the way whilst extending his lifespan to ensure he lives long enough to complete his goals. Every time something or someone gets in his way (or, in Grougaloragran's case, tries to talk him down), Nox always manages to work his way through or around it and keeps on going regardless of any setbacks. [[spoiler:All of this so he can travel back in time to before his family died as an indirect consequence of his mistakes, and prevent their deaths while also erasing all the harm he's caused others to get there from the timeline. Tragically, Nox doesn't see until he's actually ''won'' and begins reversing time that his quest was doomed from the start, as not even one of the single most powerful sources of wakfu in the world is enough to reverse time by more than ''twenty minutes'', meaning that all the death, destruction and misery he caused to achieve his goals can't ever be erased, which in turn means that the only legacy he'll leave behind once he turns to dust is that of a hated, mad genocider. This brutal revelation [[VillainousBSOD hits Nox like a country-sized ton of bricks]]]].
* DiseaseBleach: The OriginsEpisode depicts Noximilien's once-blonde hair turning white as his SanitySlippage advances and his appearance, hygiene and well-being decline.
* DramaticIrony: It's a bit of Fridge Brilliance, but with Grougaloragran [[spoiler:effectively killed and forced to reincarnate with his past life's memories gone]]; after Nox dies, the audience are the only ones who know what his tragic true motives for trying to reverse time were, and the World of Twelve will not remember him as anything other than a genocidal mad despot. The effect intensifies after viewing Nox's OriginsEpisode.
* DyingAlone: [[spoiler:After seeing his plan could never succeed, Yugo convinces the others to let Nox leave. Then the credits show his armor scattered on his family's grave, implying Nox either [[DrivenToSuicide killed himself]] or [[NoImmortalInertia died of old age]] after he stopped draining wakfu.]]
* DyingAsYourself: {{Implied}}. After [[spoiler:he achieves his PyrrhicVictory which furthermore drains all his collected wakfu stores]], during his resulting VillainousBSOD his body's movements becomes more fluid and human whereas throughout the series they were all rigid and jerky as if he was part-clockwork underneath his bandages (and he seriously probably was); plus his voice sounds more and more like he did in the OriginsEpisode. Implying the Eliacube was releasing its 200-year-long hold on his mind as he realized just what he'd done, what he'd become and that he was truly never going to [[spoiler:see his family again]].
* EvilCounterpart: He's this to Yugo. They both had humble and idyllic beginnings as caring people (Yugo being a restaurant owner's adoptive son in his current incarnation, Nox being a clockmaker in a rural home), yet are also more ambitious or spirited than their humble homes could accommodate. They love and value their family very greatly. They're also both willing to fight to their deaths in order to save what they love at all costs, but Yugo fights for the loved ones he still has, whereas Nox has lost all of that and fights to get it all back.
* EvilGenius: He has created himself a great number of very advanced devices and weapons powered by the energy of the Eliacube such as his armor, his giant clock lair equiped with spider legs and surveillance lens, energy beam weapons, spider tanks and mounts for his minions, the small bug-like robots called the Noxines that serve as scouts and wakfu collectors, Egole's collar that increases his speed to a phenomenal degree, teleportations portals, his Zombies minions and the very powerful robot using Statis energy Razortime.
* EvilLaugh: His frequent bouts of completely psychotic laughter are the first indication that he has a few screws loose behind his façade of calm and smug superiority.
* EvilSoundsRaspy: He has a slightly raspy-sounding voice when he isn't speaking in a low tone.
* ExpressiveMask: The eye-lenses on his helmet come with shutters that act as metal eyelids with a range of expressions for Nox's mood, although they only appear sometimes. Other times, we get the full, unsettling effect of those unblinking, glowing, expressionless eyes.
* TheFaceless: Never takes his mask off on-screen. It's easy to think that [[CoolMask his mask]] ''is'' his face.
* FauxAffablyEvil: Wavers between facetiously polite and outright patronizing, usually while he's actively trying to beat you so he can suck your life force dry.
* {{Flight}}: He can levitate at will.
* FromNobodyToNightmare: He used to be a loving husband, a good father and a mere watchmaker. Then he found the Eliacube...
* GadgeteerGenius: He was already this as a simple watchmaker, 200 years ago. And his engineering and inventing talent has only increased over time and with the use of the Eliacube's energy.
* GigglingVillain: His speaking voice is as far as you can get from a baritone, too.
* GlowingEyesOfDoom: His eyes glow the same light blue as the Eliacube.
* GoalInLife: [[spoiler:SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong by going back in time to save his family, and coincidentally reverse every atrocity he's committed along the way. [[AllForNothing He fails.]]]]
* AGodAmI: {{Exaggerated}}. He screams during his RageAgainstTheHeavens speech at his StartOfDarkness that the completion of his BeyondTheImpossible goals will make him more powerful than the god of time himself. [[spoiler:And he technically ''succeeds'' at the end, if not nearly as well as he could've hoped]].
* TheGreatestStoryNeverTold: Only Grougaloragran is ever told Nox's entire plan, and afterward is left in no situation to reveal it. Even Yugo only had a hunch that Nox was anything more than a power mad despot, but that's all history will remember him as.
* HeelRealization: [[spoiler:Once his attempt to travel back in time fails because he couldn't go nearly far enough, Nox realizes he was deluded to put so much faith behind the (probably hallucinatory) words of the Eliacube.]] Put simply, it ''destroys'' him.
* HistoricalVillainUpgrade: InUniverse. By the time of Season 2, most of the world, having no way of knowing his sympathetic motivations, see him as a power-hungry madman.
* HorrorHunger: Claims to hunger for wakfu in the beginning of the series, but it's ultimately subverted as he's not using the wakfu to feed himself, but his plans.
* IAmNotLeftHanded: He almost never goes full out due to his frugal nature, but his fight with Grougaloragran reveals just how powerful he can be.
* IWantThemAlive: He instructs [[RightHandAttackDog Igôle]] to bring back Adamaï without damaging him ''too much''.
* KnightOfCerebus: While he's present since the beginning, we don't really see how serious he gets until season 1 episode 13. If you want to see just how serious things get with him... [[spoiler:had he won, the first season would've had a ''happier'' ending.]]
* LaughingMad: He giggles to himself with every other line, and that's on a ''good'' day.
* {{Leitmotif}}: A few, all of which feature the ticking or chiming of clocks. [[ThemeSongReveal Used for sinister foreshadowing]] in the StartOfDarkness episode, when the beginning of Noximilien's descent into madness is accompanied by his villainous leitmotif from the beginning of the series.
* LimitedWardrobe: {{Downplayed}} bordering on {{averted}}. He wears several different armors and robes over the course of Season 1, although he never loses his signature helmet and mummy-like bandages.
* LimpAndLivid: In the OriginsEpisode, Noximilien's posture grows hunched, limp-armed and creepy-eyed as his SanitySlippage advances, and by the time he [[spoiler:finds out about his family's deaths and completely snaps]], his demeanor is anything ''but'' reassuring.
* LivingOnBorrowedTime: He's been kept alive by the Eliacube for two-hundred years. And based on the mystery of what's underneath his helmet and bandages and the inhuman, marionette-like way he moves, he might've extended his life using other artificial means we're better off not knowing about.
* LoveMakesYouEvil: His entire crusade [[spoiler:to suck all life he encounters dry of its wakfu until he has enough to [[BeyondTheImpossible turn back time]] is motivated by saving and rejoining his dead family, and nothing and no-one will stand in his way]].
* MadScientist: What he developed into during the last 200 years.
* MagicKnight: He's got the armor, he's got the spells, and he's even got the sword.
* MaliciousMisnaming: Nox mockingly calls Grougaloragran "Rigolo-ragran" in the original dub at one point during their battle, "rigolo" being French for "funny".
* MeaningfulName: "Nox" means "night" in Latin, fitting his time theme coupled with his morbid and tragic nature. His name is also similar to "noxa", which means damage towards organisms, fitting how he sucks all significant life he encounters dry of wakfu for his plan and leaves death and desolation in his wake. Also applies to his invention the Noxines, in addition to sounding like "toxine".
* MeaningfulRename:
-->'''Noximilien:''' [[spoiler:My children]] called me "[[spoiler:Daddy]]", [[spoiler:my wife]] called me "[[spoiler:Milien]]". From this instant, the world shall learn to call me "'''''Nox'''''"!
* MeaninglessVillainVictory: A particularly heartbreaking example occurs to him when he [[spoiler:completes his 200-year-long quest to collect enough wakfu to make the Eliacube reverse time, so he can reunite with his family and prevent both their deaths and erase all the evil he committed afterwards to reach this goal... and he discovers that all the wakfu, which included one of the single most powerful wakfu sources in the world, is only enough to reverse time by ''twenty minutes'' instead of 200 years]].
* MummiesAtTheDinnerTable: Nox keeps a mechanical puppet theatre that he uses to reenact [[spoiler: scenes with his family.]]
* MultipleChoicePast: Has shades of this with certain details rather than his actual origin. In his OVA, [[spoiler:his family is seen as blonds. In the show, his vision of wife shows her with black hair and all of his kids are seen with different hair colors. In his OVA, he mentions the Eliacube directly by name. In the show, he refers to it as "The Cube" and is surprised when Grougaloragran states its real name.]]
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: When Nox is finally defeated, [[spoiler:realizing that he's never getting his family back and his mistakes will never be erased, Nox is clearly ''crushed'' and spends the last few minutes of screen-time he has crying in remorse. For all his delusions, Nox genuinely ''did'' figure all his horrible actions would be undone by turning time back]].
* NobleDemon: More AxCrazy than usual but he [[spoiler:wants his family back]] and has a twisted respect for fathers that would die for their families i.e. Alibert.
* NoImmortalInertia: {{Implied}}. After [[spoiler:he uses up all his wakfu stores and subsequently departs]], his connection to the Eliacube [[LivingOnBorrowedTime which has kept him alive for two-hundred years]] is implicitly severed based on the way the cube immediately powers down. After this, the last we see of Nox is his armor, bandages, and [[ReducedToDust a pile of dust]] atop [[spoiler:his family's graves]], implying that he rapidly aged into dust.
* NotEnoughToBury: The CreativeClosingCredits of the Season 1 finale show there's nothing left of Nox but his armor, bandages and a pile of dust.
%%* OffhandBackhand
* OmniscientMoralityLicense: Nox kills with no remorse [[InvokedTrope because he assumes his ultimate success will render all negative consequences of his actions irrelevant]]. [[spoiler:That's because he believes all his evil deeds would be undone if he set the universe back to before he did them. The problem is he actually ''can't'' do that because there isn't enough wakfu in the world to go back nearly far enough. [[HeelRealization He doesn't take this revelation well.]]]]
* PapaWolf: The guy was ready to go BeyondTheImpossible by [[spoiler:reversing time in order to save his family]].
* PetTheDog:
** He [[spoiler:cures Alibert]] because he admires [[PapaWolf his love for his son]].
** He leaves Igole with the child that took him in when he was injured. He seems to remember Igole was the family pet before he was one of his minions.
* PossessionImpliesMastery: {{Averted}} in regards to the Eliacube. Nox had it in his possession for 200 years, and even by the present day he admits [[BlackBox there is so much about it he still doesn't understand despite his experimentation with it]]. He is shocked when Yugo manages to tap into its power within minutes of being around it when it took him years, if not decades to do the same.
* PostMortemComeback: In Season 3, he manifests in Yugo's nightmares and attacks him, apparently a projection of Yugo's guilt over being unable to save him.
* PowerFloats: The rare times he's actually on the ground it's because he ran out of power.
* PowerGlows: He constantly glows of a teal-colored wakfu light, which depends on the armor he's currently wearing. The more wakfu he employs, the bigger the aura.
* PreAsskickingOneLiner: Nox's entrance in episode 2, complete with FalseReassurance.
-->'''Nox:''' Good morning, everyone, my name is Nox. Do as I say and everything will go... well... not ''that'' bad.
* PreInsanityReveal: His StartOfDarkness OriginsEpisode gives us an utterly heart-rending look at the man he once was in the beginning before the Eliacube drove him mad.
* RageAgainstTheHeavens:
-->[[spoiler:'''Noximilien:''' I'll fight time -- that great, deceiving fool! Soon I'll be as powerful as the god Xelor! Yes, even more powerful... [...] DO YOU HEAR ME, XELOR?! I'll surpass you and I'll bring back my family!]]
* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: Exact age unknown, but he's been stealing wakfu for 200 years.
* RedemptionRejection: Upon [[AuraVision sensing]] Nox actually still [[IKnowYoureInThereSomewhereFight has a speck of goodness in him]], Grougaloragran tries to persuade Nox to give up his mad crusade and claims trying to turn back time [[NotQuiteTheRightThing will unleash an]] ApocalypseHow. Nox laughs it off and decides it's a XanatosGambit, since if he tries and winds up ending the world instead of achieving his goals in the worse-case scenario, [[DespairEventHorizon he's too far gone]] [[CrapsackWorld to care what]] [[SuicidalCosmicTemperTantrum happens to the world]].
* ReducedToDust: Downplayed. This is all that's left of him besides his armor and bandages, implying [[NoImmortalInertia his true age spontaneously caught up with him]].
* RetractableWeapon: Nox's sword, appropriately looking like a clock's hands, deploys bit by bit in his hand whenever he needs it.
* ReverseArmFold: He's fond of combining this posture with PowerFloats when he's not actively using his arms to fight an opponent.
* SanitySlippage: His OriginsEpisode confirms that he had one due to the Eliacube getting into his head, and it gets harrowingly depicted in the spirit of the trope image.
* SelfDisposingVillain: As it turns out, Nox is so ''ruthlessly'' effective at taking care of the heroes this ends up being the only possible way he can be stopped: [[spoiler:Nox's ultimate downfall comes when he fails to realize he can ''never'' attain enough wakfu to go back two-hundred years and instead burns his entire supply going back twenty minutes, ''just'' before his victory. Nox ''[[VillainousBreakdown freaks]]'' at this.]]
* SignificantNameShift: He's usually prone to referring to his foes by patronizing or mocking nicknames, and if he starts referring to you by name, it indicates he's developed a serious respect for you. This happens midway through Nox's duel with Grougaloragran after the mad Xelor realizes just how powerful and capable his opponent really is, and it happens [[spoiler:when he bids Yugo a somber farewell after his VillainousBreakdown]].
* SingleTear: A tear notably escapes from beneath his mask when he completely breaks down over the realization that [[spoiler:his two-hundred-year-long quest to RetGone his family's deaths, and all the atrocities he committed to get there in the belief it would all be reset once he won, were AllForNothing]]. [[SympathyForTheDevil It clues Yugo in that Nox isn't just the heartless lunatic Yugo judged him to be]].
* SphereOfPower: His time-stops cover a spherical region.
* StartOfDarkness: A bonus episode was produced depicting Nox's life before the Eliacube, and how he came to be obsessed with gathering wakfu.
* SteppingStonesInTheSky: {{Justified}} by time being frozen around him. He impressively uses mid-air blocks of rubble as stepping stones during his original skirmish with Grougaloragran.
* SuperMode: In his final duel with Grougaloragran, after Nox realizes just how powerful his dragon opponent really is and after Grougal has fought off Nox's minions, Nox resorts to sampling a chunk of his wakfu stores to empower himself, causing a mass of writhing wakfu to sprout on his back and forming twin energy hammers.
* SwordBeam: His clock sword can fire cutting projectiles.
* SympathyForTheDevil: Yugo at first judges Nox to be nothing more than a psychopathic madman, but after the mad Xelor utterly breaks down, Yugo evidently gets a hunch about Nox's [[AntiVillain true]] [[LoveMakesYouEvil colors]] when Nox's only response to Yugo angrily chewing him out for his madness and the realization that the Eliacube's words were all in his head is to sob and shed a SingleTear. Sadly it's too little too late for Yugo to do anything to save Nox -- all he can do is [[SaveTheVillain stop the Sadidas]] from taking revenge of the mob variety before Nox teleports away to die. Bear in mind, this kid was pretty much [[PrepareToDie ready to]] [[UnstoppableRage KILL Nox]] in revenge for [[spoiler:Sadlygrove's [[HeroicSacrifice death]]]] before this point. Season 3 reveals Yugo genuinely feels terrible about being unable to save Nox to the point of [[PostMortemComeback being haunted]].
* TearsOfRemorse: {{Implied}}. The broken SingleTear he sheds (see above) is probably as much a tear of crippling guilt as it is a tear of grief and failure.
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* TeleportSpam: Teleports a lot, either to get away from someone, to dodge an attack, or to taunt them.
* ThisCannotBe: Has so many variations of of this that it's practically a catchphrase, especially in the season 1 finale.
* ThisIsGonnaSuck: Nox's understated reaction when he realizes that his magic powers are inhibited and that Grougal is about to breath fire on him at point blank, with enough strength to alter Oma Island's geography and make the volcano erupt.
-->'''Nox:''' Eh eh eh, this is going to hurt a little... ''[braces for impact]''
* TimeMaster: Controls time, though not as much as he would like to be.
* TimeStandsStill: He's able to freeze time for everyone else in his immediately vicinity.
* TragicHero: Nox turns out to be an antagonistic type as his motivations are revealed, and [[spoiler:when his efforts are AllForNothing]]. [[spoiler:He's insanely and utterly driven to succeed at any cost in reversing time so he can bring back his dead family, with the added justification that if he succeeds in his goal it'll also RetGone all the atrocities he's ruthlessly committing on others to get there. TheBadGuyWins, but it turns out all his 200-year-long efforts were doomed from the start, as all the wakfu he collects (which includes part of one of the ''most potent sources of wakfu in the world'') are only enough to reverse time by ''twenty minutes'']]. Though no-one but the audience knows at the end why Nox really did what he did, even Yugo feels bad upon witnessing his VillainousBSOD and lets him escape, [[spoiler:at which point Nox dies as a SelfDisposingVillain]].
* TragicTimeTraveler: His plan turns out to be [[spoiler:to get enough Wakfu energy to go back in time and save his family, who dies centuries ago. However, by the time he seemingly achieves his goal and travels back in time, it turns out that over 200 years of gathering Wakfu only allowed him to travel back ''20'' minutes, rendering everything he did for naught.]]
* TragicVillain: Nox has caused mayhem and death all over the world in his frantic quest for gathering Wakfu and is feared and hated by nearly everyone, but [[spoiler:none know that all of his crimes are meant to revert time in order to save his family, and that if his plans succeed, not only will he be reunited with his beloved family, but the rewind will also [[RetGone undo all his previous atrocities]]; he's well-aware of the latter point, which is what enables him to justify all the extremes he goes to. All the more tragic [[WrongTimeTravelSavvy at the end where his plans fail]] [[AllForNothing and all that's left of him is his legacy of death and madness]].]]
* TronLines: Has them on his armor and masks, surging with Wakfu whenever he's charged up.
* TwitchyEye: He sometimes twitches one of the eye lenses in his ExpressiveMask.
* TheUnfettered: Nox wants to [[spoiler:turn back time to before his family died or he did anything evil]], so he doesn't give a damn about who he steps over along the way. [[spoiler: [[{{Deconstrution}} Nox deconstructs this]] as there was no Plan B when his Plan A ends up AllForNothing.]]
* TheUnreveal: We never see what's behind this mask. The closest we get is a distant shot from behind. Perhaps for the best.
* UselessUsefulSpell: His time-stop ability is generally reserved for very strong opponents -- so strong that they're usually able to [[MoveInTheFrozenTime overcome it]] through raw (will)power.
* UnwittingPawn: [[spoiler:To Oropo who arranged for him to find the Eliacube, setting him on his path to insanity and his later rampage.]]
* VillainousBreakdown: After [[spoiler:his grand scheme finally unfolds, only to end up]] discovering that [[spoiler:200 years' worth of collecting wakfu could only send him back in time by about 20 ''minutes'',]] Nox degenerates into a ranting mess, [[CompanionCube screaming at the Eliacube]] and demanding to know why it "betrayed" him. It ultimately results in...
* VillainousBSOD: After [[spoiler:Yugo chews him out for committing 200 years of atrocities because of his insane delusions]], Nox [[spoiler:finally has a HeelRealization, and doesn't put up a fight when the soldiers of Sadida show up to arrest him. In the end, he just bids Yugo a morose farewell before teleporting away, leaving the Eliacube behind]].
* VillainTeleportation: Him and Yugo both have teleportation abilities, but Yugo's require him to create portals with hand gestures and slide in and out of them, whereas Nox can shift from one spot to another in an instantaneous flicker without the need for gesturing.
* TheWatchmaker: This was his profession before his StartOfDarkness, and as a villain he is unmovingly hellbent on going BeyondTheImpossible to reset the Krosmoz [[spoiler:back to when his family were still alive]]; something which Nox notes during his RageAgainstTheHeavens speech is beyond even the time god Xelor's power.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: [[spoiler:Wants his family back, after severely neglecting them over an object and indirectly causing their deaths, so he's stealing the wakfu (life energy) from plants, animals and ''people'' to use it to travel back in time to change the past, thereby indirectly reverting all of his atrocities along the way. He's well aware of this, but if his plan works none of said horror wouldn't happen in the first place]]
* WindUpKey: The hole in his chest is there for a reason.
* WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity: The Eliacube gave him powers far beyond anything he could have achieved on his own, but at the cost of his sanity. [[spoiler:His family's death later makes him go off the deep end.]]
* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: Most definitely. It's bad enough when you realize ''why'' he's the BigBad, but in the finale [[spoiler:when he realizes that two centuries of work were for absolutely nothing, you can't help but feel for the guy]].
* WorthyOpponent: Nox isn't one for using the names of others, a bit understandable given that his grand scheme would make doing so rather pointless. However, he has a tendency to call those he respects by name instead of blithe insults. The list is incredibly small and consists of Grougaloragran, [[spoiler:Alibert]], and eventually [[spoiler:Yugo]].
* WrongTimeTravelSavvy: Nox wants to move the universe back in time to before [[spoiler:his family died]], which Grougaloragran says is likely impossible and to try would simply destroy the universe. Nox recognizes the possibility, but brushes it off as an acceptable risk. Since if he's right, everything he'd done up until then will have been reverted, while if he's wrong he'll be content to die with the universe in tow. [[spoiler:[[DoubleSubversion Nox actually manages the time rewind without disastrous consequences, but found a different problem he didn't think of]]: that even with the largest wakfu source in the world, he couldn't go ''nearly'' far enough back.]]
-->'''Nox: [[spoiler:[[AllForNothing TWENTY MISERABLE MINUTES!!!]]]]'''
* YouFool: He shouts this at Yugo during their last battle when Yugo tries to grab the Eliacube, claiming he's the only one who understands the cube well enough to safely touch it.
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[[folder:Igôle]]
!!Igôle
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Nox's pet. Igôle's collar has been tinkered with by his master, making him incredibly fast.
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* AmplifierArtifact: His collar, infused with Xelor magic, boosts his physical abilities much higher than they usually would be, giving him SuperSpeed and, in a pinch, providing the very same TimeStandsStill ability Nox uses.
* FluffyTheTerrible
* FreudianExcuse: Igôle has been stuck for two hundred years with Nox, subject to his ramblings and occasional death threats, and most likely being kept alive by unstable magic just so that Nox can have some remnant of his old life. It's left the poor animal rather high strung. [[spoiler: His last appearance also strongly implies that he pines after the absence of Nox's children, which ultimately forms the basis of his HeelFaceTurn.]]
* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler: Becomes a pet to a little girl who heals him after he gets hurt (and reminded him of Nox's daughter).]]
* JustEatHim: Does this to both Az and Adamai at one point.
* MadEye
* MixAndMatchCritters: Common in this world. Igole mostly resembles a hyena, but his body shape is reminiscent of a lizard, and he acts partly like a dog.
* PreciousPuppy: Shown as one in flashbacks.
* RightHandAttackDog
* ShapeshifterModeLock: Induce one for Adamaï, forcing him into the form of a Tofu.
* SuperSpeed: Thanks to the Xelor magic infused in his collar, Igôle can run at incredible speeds allowing him to run on water, move faster than the eye can track, and cross hundreds of miles easily.
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: [[spoiler: Igôle is the one who led Nox to the Eliacube, and even went so far as to inadvertantly revive it by treating it as a chew toy.]]
* VacuumMouth: Possesses a powerful vacuum breath, which allows him to eat something as big as Adamai.
* WalkOnWater: Due to his incredible speed, he can cross the ocean by running.
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[[folder:Nox's Zombies]]
!!Frisco, Marama, Tartufo and Killweedos
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A foursome of mummified warriors who serve Nox when he needs something more powerful and restless than his minions or Igôle, respectively an undead Sacrier, Feca, Cra and Sadida. The first three appears during the climatic battle against Grugaloragran, Killweedos is later deployed [[spoiler: to secretly open a path to the Tree of Life.]]
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* AttackAttackAttack: Frisco the Sacrier is the most offensive attacker of the group, literally pounding Grougal in the ground with no respite.
* ColdSniper: Tartufo fighst from far away with his energy arrows.
* CombatTentacles: Frisco uses them [[YouWillNotEvadeMe to pull enemies to him.]] They're apparently made of blood. Killseedos uses Sadida brambles to fight.
* DeaderThanDead: [[spoiler: Marama is crushed by the Razor Time, while the other three are crushed under the thorns of a Tree of Life-empowered Amalia.]]
* DubNameChange: Deserboss name is changed to Killweedos in the English Dub.
* EliteMook: To Nox, as he only employs them for serious challenges.
* EnemyRisingBehind: Killweedos can move through trees and vegetation, and pulls this trick on Eva when he notices her.
* FromASingleCell: Due to the combination of a zombie and a plantman Killweedos can regenerate from almost any attack almost instantly, healing from all the attacks thrown at him by the Brotherhood of the Tofu until he's finally destroyed by a super powerful attack from Amalia empowered by the tree of life.
* GreenThumb: Killweedos has powers over the plants even stronger than real Sadidas have, being able of returning the plants that Sadida guards tried to use on him against them. In fact he can even fuse with plants such as trees or giant roots, an ability that no living Sadida has ever demonstrated.
* LuckilyMyShieldWillProtectMe: Marama, unsurprisingly, can use his Feca powers to intercept everything with his shield, even the attacks from Grougaloragran.
* MindControl: Killweedos can take control of Sadida guards by creating special Voodoo dolls with their hair that turn them into his mindless minions.
* NighInvulnerable: Due to them being zombies all of them, especially Killweedos, can take a tremendous amount of punishement without being incapacited or harmed in any way.
* PunnyName: Killweedos/Deserboss has an ironical but appropriate name for a rogue Sadida.
* ThousandYardStare: While the other three' eyes are covered in bandages, Killweedos has this, and it's pretty creepy.
* TheUndead: All of them. It is a special power used by the Xelors.
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[[folder:Timerazor]]
!!Timerazor/Razor Time
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Nox's most powerful and dangerous creation, Razor Time is a mecha that harnesses the raw power of Stasis to blast away anything in its path, and is only deployed by Nox when the time comes to unleash untold destruction.
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* DubNameChange: From Timerazor to Razor Time in the English Dub. In the second season of the Italian dub it is called "The Terminator" instead.
* DidntNeedThoseAnyway: Despite losing an arm to Ruel's DrillTank, it still tries to finish off the heroes [[spoiler:before Joris takes it down.]]
* HeroKiller: [[spoiler:It kills Dally, after all.]]
* MiniMecha: It's not ''huge'', but it still towers over most of the characters.
* PersonOfMassDestruction: Unlike all of Nox's other creations, the Razor Time runs on and uses Stasis energy rather than Wakfu, which allows it to destroy just about anything in its path. It casually blows away acres of trees standing between Nox and the Tree of Life, even the increased defenses the Sadida forces try to spring up to block Nox's path, and Nox noticeably didn't bring it out to fight Grougaloragran because the point was to capture and drain the dragon, not blow him up.
* PurpleIsPowerful: It glows purple and its energy blasts are purple as well, and it's Nox's most powerful weapon.
* SuperStrength: Matches Dally while he's merged with Rubilax in a contest of strength, and when it manages to distract him it easily tosses him aside.
* SuperToughness: Eva and Amalia's best attacks barely make it flinch. Dally even with Rubilax's demon form can hardly slow it down. It even manages to keep going after a direct hit from Ruel's DrillTank tears off one of its arms.
* WaveMotionGun: It's main attack is to fire balls or beams of Stasis energy.
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