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* VillainousFriendship: Despite being [[CharClone A CHAR]], Heinrich never betrays Zin, and Zin's loyalty is never a question.

* CharClone: Always, playing with types 2 and 3.

* ElectronicEyes: Soma has CoolShades to hide them, taking after Heinrich. While Heinrich drops the [[CharClone Quattro]] shades, he doesn't.

* CaptainEthnic: Only Asian in Unica.

* WeakButSkilled: In comparison to the rest of Unica, who usually dominate combat, Ryunosuke often has to outmaneuver his opponents.

* GracefulLoser: He admits his defeat to Virgil, complimenting his good defensive work.

* AwesomenessByAnalysis: He catches on quickly to beybladers' styles and habits in the stadium.

* AwesomenessByAnalysis: Zin left her as a BlankSlate, but also a very fast learner. It shows when she TookALevelInBadass to end the Ancient Europe Arc, and when she learns to speak English very fast before Season 2.

* CuteMute: Not actually mute, but [[TheQuietOne quiet]] and unable to get herself understood or to understand others. It is fixed when Moby puts her through English class from late Season 1 to the beginning of Season 2.

* HighHopesZeroTalent: When Paul gets the Core out of her Beyblade for the first time, she's clueless and even loses to him. It's averted when training actually pays off.

* LoserProtagonist: Mnemosyne rarely plays official matches from the World Championship to the end of the Greek Arc (roughly 3/4ths of Season 1), at which point she's 1-3. [[spoiler:Then, at the beginning of Season 2, the guy who defeats her isn't the team leader, he's the weakest.]]
* MysteriousWaif: We learn about her as the plot progresses.

* TheStoic: She's the center of all kinds of unwanted attentions in Season 1 and she knows it, but it never shows.

* AlphaStrike / AttackAttackAttack: His basic "strategy" is going straight on the offensive with his strong and fast Beyblade, and leave the opponent with as little breathing room as possible.
* BadassNormal: Marco is the only consistent challenger to Erik before the plot starts. After training alone for a year, he rivaled Erik's childhood TrainingFromHell. Besides Erik, he was the only one to perform a OneHitKill special attack (the ''Lightspeed Shellbreaker'' in his case) without Heinrich's Cell.

* HardWorkHardlyWorks: Averted. He puts himself through intense physical training, and while he is AlwaysSecondBest to Erik, he makes short work of the vast majority of his opponents in often [[CurbStompBattle shockingly short matches]].

* ImprovisedTraining: Put himself through one before the plot that could almost qualify as TrainingFromHell. [[spoiler:In Japan, he runs through the mountains. He climbs to the top of a small mountain in Norway. He makes a round-trip across a river in Greece. He doesn't do anything in France, and [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness everyone knows there's a problem]].]]

* LightningBruiser: His Beyblade is a very fast combat build. It loses spin rather quickly though.

Beyblade has become a mainstream sport since the recent rise and reign of domination of Erik Bernstein. The story follows two beginners, Virgil and Mnemosyne, and their path to success. However, their debut in the World Tournament is marred in controversy, with the parts manufacturer Neoblade being suspected of underhandedly influencing events to some nefarious aims, especially when Virgil and Mnemosyne become the tournament's finalists despite being completely new. In light of those events, Moby, the World Beyblade Federation's chairman, has the finalists sorted into two teams: Unica and the Light Stones. Those teams' mission is to investigate tournaments for possible influences from Heinrich Häuser, Neoblade's CEO, and his partner in crime, Zin.\\
The arcs alternate in focus between the Light Stones and Unica, each arc focusing on one member of the team, as they are sent in their Bladers' home countries.

* BroughtDownToNormal / BroughtDownToBadass: Season 3 inflicts one of the two to '''EVERYONE except the new antagonists.''' [[spoiler:Neoblade material is banned from use, as part of the WBF's ban on all but the new WBF-sanctioned BF Blade parts. The antagonists from Season 2 are the first (having trained to fight with the C-Square) but the main characters can still use their signature attacks, like Erik's ''Death Star'', making them the second.]]

* GrandTheftPrototype: In episode 18, the WBF steals Cells and Cores from Neoblade's labs. Technically, the Cell and the Core are in testing and early mass-production stages rather than prototypes.
* HourglassPlot: [[spoiler:Season 3 puts Heinrich and Zin as mentor figures against the increasingly desperate WBF trying to get rid of them by all means.]]
* {{Jobber}}: [[spoiler:The depowered Season 2 antagonists are small fry to the WBF teams in Season 3. A few do put up a fight, but are still victim to TheWorfEffect.]]
* LoopholeAbuse: Defied. There's a rule saying that one can't attack the opposing Blader directly. A few characters ignore the rule, but the WBF punishes every such instance with a fine.

* MultinationalTeam: Unica and the Light Stones are made up of people with different nationalities, even though they are citizens of their respective countries from the moment they form the teams, thanks to Moby and Dick [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections pulling some strings]]. Non-national teams do have the liberty of having bladers from several countries, but this is mostly seen with the less important teams.
* PowersInTheFirstEpisode: Virgil and Mnemosyne start the series with their respective GameBreaker. Played with in Virgil's case, as he does not know how to use his.
* RenegadeSplinterFaction: Neoblade can be taken as this to the WBF, given it's directed by Heinrich who used to work here. [[spoiler:Eventually subverted when Heinrich is revealed to not be the "terrorist" he was branded as and the WBF pulls a face-heel turn.]]

* PersonalityPowers: The Cell's energy can be used in whatever way the user wishes, often falling into this.

* BoringButPractical: When compared to the Cells, the Cores' lack of flash is what comes to mind first. However, Core users do much better than Cell users early on.

* CombinationAttack: ''Final Nova'', a super-upgraded ''Death Star'' where Virgil, Vlad and Erik simultaneously perform the ''Death Star'', issuing their command into a single Blade. It's by far the most powerful attack used at this point in the series, destroying the dish and causing damage to the stadium as well as knocking out all but one of the Bladers in the match, with the Light Stones relying on [[TheBigGuy Vlad]]'s physical sturdiness in order to win the match.
* HeroicBSOD: Everyone during their arc, most often starting with the ArcVillain team's first appearance and ending just before the finals. Like Unica, all members suffer more (Virgil nearly gives up on life) or less (Vlad is only slightly less responsive than usual) from it. The exception is Erik, who had one from the World Tournament until after the Asian arc.

* TheFellowshipHasEnded: At the end of Season 1. Naturally, during Season 2, they reunite.

* DieOrFly: In the first World Tournament, Raimund and Marco's intimidating playstyles worked against them since they pressured Virgil into using the Cell, even without knowing it was there, popping up a ''Miracle Shot'' for the former, and a ''Death Star'' for the latter. Against Mnemosyne, whom he had just seen beating Erik's ''Death Star'', he thought [[SelfFulfillingProphecy he was helpless]].

* FlatEarthAtheist: Inverted: Virgil vehemently refuses to acknowledge his Cell-induced victories were not miracles bestowed upon him by God until the square-off in Vatican, despite being proven wrong at least twice.

* PaintItBlack: [[spoiler:Against Iulia. His visuals changed colors from white and gold to dark tones of gray with occasional white; and he changed his visual element from light to darkness. In Germany, he keeps the dark visuals.]]

* ReadTheFreakingManual: During the World Tournament, Heinrich remarks that Virgil is unable to use his Cell at will, but he can't figure out why. [[spoiler:It's because Appius took Heinrich's note for himself.]]

* SignatureMove: Associated with the ''Miracle Shot'' attack (read: a short-ranged PureEnergy blast) he used against Raimund. Even though it was never used willingly until the German tournament.

-> [[WorldsStrongestMan The perennial Number One Beyblader.]] [[TheAce A prodigious 22-year-old blader with unrivaled fame and talent]], [[BrokenAce and a sad]] [[TrainingFromHell justification for those]]. The inventor and pioneer of special attacks in Beyblade. Largely apathetic to the rest of the team at the beginning, but once he comes to terms with his loss, he becomes a CynicalMentor AloofAlly to his teammates.

* AbusiveParents: His father put him through [[TrainingFromHell very intense training]] at age 6, to the point he ran away 10 years later. Then he was scouted by the WBF and trained by Dick, who served as a surrogate parental figure and was arguably worse. Johann's abusive behaviour returns in Germany, where he tries to get Erik shaken by picking at his nerves.

* ChallengeSeeker: He tries to train [[AlwaysSecondBest Marco]] the hard way, because he thought he had found [[TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou the one who would come to defeat him]]. Then Mnemosyne showed up and beat him without even him posing much of a challenge, and he almost stopped Beyblading forever.

* DeathOrGloryAttack: The ''Death Star'' is extremely powerful, but also extremely taxing to use: the strain it takes on Erik makes him unable to use it twice within a day without becoming tired. Dick supposes that's why Mnemosyne actually survived it: her blade was spinning at least twice as fast as his and it was his third ''Death Star'' that day.

* IneffectualLoner: Whenever he goes it alone, it goes wrong in some form. He's so poor a team blader that it causes problems in Germany, the first arc in which he doesn't serve as the replacement Blader.

* MegaManning: While generally a target, he uses Marco's ''Lightspeed Shellbreaker'' against Mnemosyne in a one-off match.
* MissingMom: She divorced Johann and left Erik to him.
* MookHorrorShow: In his pool at the first WBF Tournament Arc, he hit '''30 blades out of the arena in one shot''' with the ''Death Star''. And before that, in one of the first Beyblade matches on-screen, he takes on 100 beybladers by himself and wins. [[spoiler:The trope gets turned on its head when the fight itself is actually studied - several of the top Bladers were not here and multiple others threw the fight, were severely held back by the crowd, or were targeted by Erik from the get-go.]]

** RivalsTeamUp: [[spoiler:When 2v2 Beyblade starts in the epilogue, Erik seeks out Marco, not the Light Stones.]]
* SacrificedBasicSkillForAwesomeTraining: He could've been even more of a terror than he already is, were he trained to take on one opponent at a time instead of designing all his special attacks to take out several opponents at once, which in a one-on-one battle makes his attacks very much flailing around until one part of the attack connects. While ''Death Star'' still hits and usually for the win, it eats his energy like popcorn, with three in a day making him nearly faint.

* SoreLoser: He takes his first defeat extremely badly, and the second one only lampshades how broken he was and how weak his façade actually was.

* DarkMagicalGirl: She begins [[StepfordSmiler behaving like one]], and even pulls out the look once. She only gets the ability to use the Cell (and thus any of her "magic") once she's done with her problems, though.
* DissonantSerenity: She hides her issues and her depression well, but it gets more obvious with time. [[spoiler:None of her teammates moves a finger, and even Gerhard doesn't manage to get through to her: it's [[FriendlyEnemy Jun]] who reassures her.]]
* DrunkenMaster: Sometimes Beyblades while not sober. It earns her a compliment from the Supa Hot Fighters, but it doesn't work out against Lan, as Min's spirits is down in the dumps during that match, leaving her unable to work as that.* HomeRunHitter: Her contact ring, outside of defense, is geared towards ringing out the opponent.
* LethalJokeCharacter: She looks the weakest of all the team, but her defense build completes the Light Stones' playstyle coverage and her versatility allows her to outplay her opponents.
* MaskOfSanity: In China, it's excessively clear that she puts on a face. The first crack shows when she herself notices she's shaken in her match against 2-Payne.

* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Her issues in China are made obvious when she doesn't do any of her whimsy playstyle-switching antics, shutting down into her base defense game for her matches against [=Stanl337=] and Bruce. She recognizes this during her match against Lan, but, due to not thinking straight, starts making stupid moves.

* AttackAttackAttack: Vlad's base strategy is in the vein of Marco's, "attack and don't give the opponent one chance to think".

* BoringButPractical: His Beyblading style is simply AttackAttackAttack. He also denounces special attacks as waste of energy, and prefers flat-out empowering his blade with his Cell, which makes it look like he has a Core. It works very well for him, as he has the best win rate of the Light Stones during the entire Season 1. Zin even ranks him World's third-best blader no later than the Asian arc, and Vlad goes on to justify this ranking.
* CombatPragmatist: [[spoiler:When Alyona uses her Cell against him, he decides to borrow Virgil's Cell and use it against her, going as far as breaking character to do so.]]
* DefeatingTheUndefeatable: Vlad's winning streak is lampshaded in Germany, with him "not having a single clean tournament loss". His loss in the World Tournament to Mnemosyne was a controversial victory tainted by the cheating accusations on her, and his loss to Lev was because Lev had a Cell while Vlad didn't. His only clean loss is to Jin, and the Chinese tournament did not make the WBF records, as China was not part of the WBF.
* GlassCannon: Vlad is the attack build of the Light Stones, and his build is very specialized.

* MadeOfIron: [[spoiler:Subverted against Alyona. She tried to injure him by attacking his blade full-power with her Cell post-knockout, shooting it straight to his knee. Vlad's blade came out unscathed, and he came out unscathed since the blade hit his kneeguard.]]

* MotherRussiaMakesYouStrong: He's clearly patriotic and likes his country even though he ran away from his training center and became a Liechtenstein citizen. It's made clear in the Russian arc that he only stays in Liechtenstein or Switzerland during breaks because he is forced to.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: How he manipulated Virgil to get his Cell. Virgil falls for his "I want to believe" speech, but everyone else can see this is just a means to get his hands on the Cell. Vlad admits this to Virgil's face later on, though Virgil denies that.

* AbsentMindedProfessor

* OlderAndWiser: Nobody notices it but Paul. Erik even labels him a freak during almost all of Season 1.

* TeamDad: Manages to become one.

* HeroicBSOD: Except Coach Paul, everyone gets one of them in Season 1, for various reasons, and suffer more (Mnemosyne almost runs away) or less (Raimund has a conflict of interest between his desire to make up lost time with his friends and his job of beating them at the tournament) from it.

* TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers: When compared to the rest of Ultimate D-Struction: [=Stanl337=], Emiah, and Qing. Nerys is clearly the [[OnlySaneMan Only Sane Girl]].

* BloodBrothers: They're all unrelated to each other (barring Sacha and Sandro), but share a near-brotherly bond of friendship.

-> A 20-year-old ChineseGirl. Though she looks like she's [[TheDitz the stupid member of the team]], she was a high rank blader in her own right and a surprisingly reliable contestant. She entered the world tournament after having been expelled from the Forbidden City Clan, but was eventually defeated by Marco. The fight she put up against him made her a nice choice to fill the Light Stones. Less showy than the rest of the team, but that's because she is a Defense blader.

* AnimeChineseGirl

* {{Odango}}: Usually has those.

-> The Clan's {{Miko}}-like coach. Idol of every ChineseGirl blader, especially Min. Despite being outsmarted by Wen, she still is very intelligent, more than she lets on. She also complements Jin and Wen's cold-hearted tactics by being soft-spoken, good-hearted, and more than everything someone who likes fair fights.

* MotherlySidePlait

* {{Bishonen}}: Notable in that he is the only one in Unica.

* {{Bishonen}}

* {{Bishonen}}

* ButNotTooBlack: While fully Irish, he is the son of a black immigrant and thus looks positively black when juxtaposed to his teammates.

* DoesNotLikeShoes

* SweaterGirl: When the weather isn't too hot for that.