History Characters / Xenogears

!!!Voiced by Creator/HideyukiTanaka (Japanese)

* DemiurgeArchetype: Deus is the GreaterScopeVillain and a powerful machine who killed everyone on the ship that was transporting it and promptly crashed on another planet. It then proceeded to create a race of humans on said planet. The [[TheTheocracy state religion]] of the [[TheEmpire Sacred Empire of Solaris]], known as Ethos, worships it as the god of the world, and it even has a false Messiah and false Eve in its human interface Miang Hawwa. However, the true God is the Wave of Existence, who Deus came into contact with, and in contrast to Deus, it is a benevolent deity who wants to save the humans from Deus. With all the Gnostic influence and themes that permeate the story, Deus serves as the perfect insert for the Demiurge, the god that created the material universe and seeks to solely use humanity to further it's selfish goals.

* KarmaHoudini: PlayedWith. By all accounts, Krelian manages to achieve everything he wanted and gets away with it;
he manipulates Solaris for centuries, torments your party so many times whether intentionally or with other people, turns most of the population of the world into Wels, and gets to travel with the Wave Existence back into its home dimension without so much as a slap on the wrist. However, he leaves the story having been convinced he was not as right as he thought while not getting Elly. So while he gets away with his actions, the result is bittersweet for him, and he goes with the Wave Existence alone.

* BoobsOfSteel: Dominia is the most serious and threatening of the Elements, and the most well-endowed.

* Foreshadowing: An early tell that the mysterious Red Gear of Id is actually Weltall is that almost every Gear in the game has distinct movement sound effects unique to them (Brigander's hover jets, Stier's roller wheels or Vierge's galloping sprint). Id's gear clearly uses Weltall's distinct footstep sound.

* CharacterTitle: The [[AMechByAnyOtherName Gear]] named Xenogears is the titular mech of the game.

* KarmaHoudini: Krelian manages to manipulate Solaris for centuries, torments your party so many times whether intentionally or with other people, turns most of the population of the world into Wels, and gets to travel with the Wave Existence back into its home dimension without so much as a slap on the wrist.
** PlayedWith: Despite reaching his goal, he admits that he his desire to "go to walk with God" was born by the fact that no one else could love him, while Fei and Elly have finally achieved happiness together after 10,000 years of searching for each other. His story is over, while Fei and Elly have lifetimes ahead of them as the badasses who defeated God with ThePowerOfLove. Even though Krelian gets what he wants, his last words to Fei and Elly is how much he envies them.
* LeftHanging: During the game, Krelian appears with blond-colored hair. In the Nisan flashback scenes, however, he has midnight blue-colored hair. The hair color change is never explained in the game nor in [[AllThereInTheManual Perfect Works]].
** A simple explanation: He dyed it/used the nanomachines to change his color to better reflect the look of the Gazels that represent upper-class society. It would've been harder to infiltrate the upper echelons of Solaris with blue hair.

* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: At the end of the game, Krelian admits that he has done so many horrible things that he can't even call himself ''human'' anymore. A shot of Ramsus's fetal form appears behind him as he says this, pointing out one last time that he grew a [[DesignerBabies Designer Baby]] ''just so he could mind fuck the kid beyond insanity.''

* ButNotTooBlack: SubvertedTrope: While his biracial physical appearance fits this trope to an extent with the white hair and blue eyes, his canonical experiences of oppression on multiple levels including race and his response to them being similar to BIPOC experiences entirely subvert the trope.

[[caption-width-right:350:Grahf]]

* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Karellen, a reference to Childhood's End.

* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Carlin Ramses.

The head Ministry that controls Solaris and behind many of the planned genocides and wars that have occurred over the many, ''many'' years since created by Deus.

[[folder:The Elements (Domina, Kelvana, Tolone, and Seraphita)]]

* FourElementEnsemble: The Elements are divided according to the four classical elements, and have corresponding personalities to match.

* WeaponSpecialization: He specializes in fighting with whips, even when piloting a Gear. When in Gears, the whips become closer to chains instead, but still use whips as equipment.

* HollywoodPsych: An ''extreme'' example, bordering on being the harmful InsaneEqualsViolent {{stereotype}} of dissociative identity disorder. His fusion into one would also qualify as ''retraumatization'' and not any kind of proper care.

* WhipItGood: His weapon of choice. When in Gears, the whips become closer to chains instead, but still use whips as equipment.

* ImplacableMan: After fighting against your party of three {{Humongous Mecha}}s ''without'' using his mecha and ''barely'' losing, he still keeps going after you.
* INeedYouStronger: His primary motivation for tormenting Fei.

* MentorArchetype: As the Wiseman, he drops by from time to time in the story, giving Fei additional help and guidance. He disappears just as quickly.

** He saves Elly as she falls while trying to stop the Hecht from destroying Norturne. The incident also provides a pretty good clue as to who Grahf really is...
** A subtler instance is during the fight with him on the Goliath. Grahf never attacks Elly during the battle, instead targeting only Fei and Rico.

* SuicidalCosmicTemperTantrum: After losing his lover, being [[ManipulativeBastard influenced by Miang]] and meeting the [[PhysicalGod Wave Existence]], he became a villain. He doesn't share any of the other villains' goals, though; he just decided life sucks so much he'll help them destroy humanity.

* WildCard: A major villain who sometimes works with Krelian and Miang, but is not under their control.

* PapaWolf: Towards Emeralda, oddly.

* ReluctantWarrior: After the events at Lahan village, Fei the guilt and confusion over what happened makes him very hesitant to jump into battle. For a short time after, anytime he is asked to fight, he either declines, or rants about how much he hates being told to fight and just wants to be left alone. While he does develop and realize he can fight for those who need protection, he never truly moves on from disliking fighting.

* TheChosenOne: He's one of the incarnations of the Contact. His power is almost at PhysicalGod levels.

* HeroicBSOD: This is what triggers Id's appearances.

* ItSucksToBeTheChosenOne: None of Fei's incarnations have had it easy, to say the least.

* ReluctantWarrior: "I hate fighting. And Gears..."

* HiddenDepths: Bart is a low more intelligent and persceptive than people often think, he just acts HotBlooded partially to motivate himself better.
* HotBlooded: Especially noticeable when the plot is about his personal nemesis. He's actually more calm than people tend to realize, but he acts quite determined to psych himself up.

* StepfordSmiler: For as confidant and brash as he can seem, Bart is actually insecure about his status as the future king of Aveh. He also admits to Fei that while he seems to like fighting, he actually dislikes it, but knows he has to fight to retake his home. Part of why Sigurd tries to convince Fei to stay with the crew is because Bart needs a person he can be open with and not feel the need to hide how he feels.

* CallingTheOldManOut: Id blames everything that happened to him, everything he had become on his father Khan, saying if he wasn't so focused on his work he would've actually ''done something'' to save his own family.

* TheJuggernaut: Almost nothing can stop Id once he gets going. Vanderkaum's massive, powered-up Dora? Just a warm up act. Ramsus and Bart? Don't even slow him down. Sigurd jumps the Yggdrasil to crush him? Id picks the entire ship up and slams it into Bart instead.

* BareYourMidriff: Whether in Gebler, in the Elements or aboard the Yggdrasil, Sigurd always modifies his outfits to expose his abdomen above his waist and below his chest. This actually resembles the traditional clothes of his mother's people from the Ignas desert, but it also makes him fanservice. But most of this is AllThereInTheManual -- it's not quite as obvious ''in game'' that he dresses this way.

* BareYourMidriff: In her teenage body. Since it appears [[ClothingDamage tattered]] on the official art, it's likely due to not adjusting to her sudden growth spurt.

* ShoutOut: Her win animation is very similar to Aeris' from ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'

* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Myyah Hawwa, partly a reversal of Elly's name.