Line #121 Characters/BlasterMaster


1	Characters in the ''VideoGame/BlasterMaster'' series.
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3	For characters introduced in ''VideoGame/BlasterMasterZero'' and the appearances of the ''Metafight'' cast in ''Zero III'', check [[Characters/BlasterMasterZero the respective page]].
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5	[[foldercontrol]]
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7	!!''Metafight'' Canon (Japanese Version)
8	[[folder: Kane Gardner]]
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10	[[quoteright:150:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mef09.jpg]]
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12	The original protagonist of the series, Kane Gardner is the youth chosen by NORA to pilot the Metal Attacker, a battle tank made to blast mutants invading their home planet, Sophia the 3rd. Accompanied by Metal Attacker, Gardner sets out to defeat Goez and the Invem Dark Star Army once and for all.
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14	Kane Gardner was replaced by Jason Frudnick in the Western ''Blaster Master'' series. Despite this, his design would later serve as the basis for Jason's new design in ''Blaster Master Zero''.
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16	->Appears in:
17	-->''Metafight''\
18	[[spoiler:''Blaster Master Zero'']] (Mentioned only)
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21	[[/folder]]
22
23	[[folder: Jennifer Cornet]]
24	A NORA scientist responsible for the creation of the Metal Attacker.
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26	Due to the vastly different plot in the Western version of the series, she is removed completely from the ''Blaster Master'' series. However, her design serves as the basis for the character of Eve in the series reboot, ''Blaster Master Zero''.
27
28	->Appears in:
29	-->''Metafight''\
30	[[spoiler:''Blaster Master Zero'']] (Mentioned only)
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32	* AdaptationNameChange: [[spoiler: Her mention in ''Zero'' gives her the same last name as Kane, implying (and confirming in III) [[AdaptationRelationshipOverhaul another trope at play]].]]
33	* LadyNotAppearingInThisGame: Despite appearing on the box art and being prominently featured in the manual, Cornet never actually appears at any point except during the game's ending.
34	* TheGhost: She's all over the covers, but she never directly appears in game. She does have her own profile in the manual and shows up at the congratulations screen with Kane, narrowly preventing her from becoming LadyNotAppearingInThisGame.
35	[[/folder]]
36
37	[[folder: Goez]]
38	The leader of the Invem Dark Star Army. Goez is also known as the Mutant Overlord, an immensely powerful mutant who commands all others in the known universe. He is the final boss of ''Metafight'' and the final obstacle Kane Gardner must face to save his planet.
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40	In ''Blaster Master'', Goez appears as the final boss of the game, as he does in ''Metafight''. However, due to his near-omission from the Western version of the plot, his presence is never addressed in any other game in the series [[spoiler: until VideoGame/BlasterMasterZeroIII]].
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42	* AllThereInTheManual: Goez is mentioned in the ''Blaster Master'' manual as the "Master Boss" that the manual says is too powerful to be shown in the manual's boss gallery, narrowly averting DubInducedPlotHole and GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere.
43	* GalacticConqueror: He is a most feared interplanetary tyrant who conquered Sophia, and it is Kane Gardner's job to retake Sophia.
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45	[[/folder]]
46
47	!!''Blaster Master'' Canon (Western Version)
48	[[folder:Jason Frudnick]]
49	!!Jason Frudnick
50
51	Your average high school boy who winds up finding a battle tank below the Earth when his pet frog Fred jumps down a pit. Jason replaced Kane Gardner as the protagonist of the ''Blaster Master'' series.
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53	Appears in:
54	->''Blaster Master''
55	->''Blaster Master'' (Literature/WorldsOfPower novelization)
56	->''Blaster Master 2''
57	->''Blaster Master Boy''[[note]]Technically, the character in this game is VideoGame/{{Bomberman}}[[/note]]
58	->''Blaster Master: Enemy Below''
59	->''Blaster Master: Blasting Again''[[note]]Flashbacks and mentions only[[/note]]
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61	* AdaptationNameChange: In the original games, he's just called "Jason." It was ''Worlds of Power'' that gave him the last name "Frudnick." Meanwhile, the ''Sunsoft Game Times'' comic instead called him "Jason B. Masters." It wasn't until the time of ''Blasting Again'' that someone decided "Frudnick" should be his canon name.
62	* TheAllAmericanBoy: Before his subterranean adventures, he was a fairly average looking New Yorker living with his pet frog in a peaceful looking town.
63	* BigNo: In the ''Worlds of Power'' novel; how he reacts after supposedly killing Fred, the boss of Level 7. However, in the end it was revealed to be a mutant disguised to look like Fred, meant to torture Jason psychologically.
64	* CompositeCharacter: ''Boy''/''Jr.'' gives him the explosive prowess of a Bomber.
65	* DownTheRabbitHole: Falls into a deep hole in his backyard to kick the plot off. Bonus points for [[FollowTheWhiteRabbit chasing Fred all the way there.]]
66	* DroppedABridgeOnHim: Was killed in action prior to the events of ''Blasting Again''.
67	* FallingIntoTheCockpit: In the original game, he just found SOPHIA III while he was searching for Fred.
68	* HappilyMarried: To Eve, as of ''Blasting Again''.
69	* TankGoodness: Pilots a battle tank named SOPHIA III.
70	* WeakButSkilled: Outside of the SOPHIA III in the overworld, Jason is largely underequipped, as his only method of attack is a weak and slow peashooter. However, he's capable of many things that the SOPHIA III can't do, such as climbing ladders, entering dungeons, swimming (prior to the Dive upgrade), shooting mines which are too low for the tank's cannon to hit, and crawling through tight spaces.
71	[[/folder]]
72
73	[[folder:Eve]]
74	!!Eve
75
76	The woman who would become Jason Frudnick's wife prior to the events of ''Blasting Again''. In reality, she is the original owner of the SOPHIA-III and passes it to her and Jason's children, Roddy and Elfie, after her death. Her true origins are somehow tied to the new mystery occuring below the planet's surface.
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78	Appears in:
79	->''Blaster Master'' (Literature/WorldsOfPower novelization)
80	->''Blaster Master: Blasting Again''
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82	* AdaptationalDyeJob: She is described as red-headed in the ''Worlds of Power'' novel. In ''Blasting Again'' and ''Zero'', she's blonde.
83	* BluntMetaphorsTrauma: In the ''Worlds of Power'' novel, her understanding of the human language results in several funny manglings of popular phrases.
84	* CanonImmigrant: She's one of the aspects of the ''Worlds of Power'' novel to ascend to canon, as detailed in a backstory of ''Blasting Again''.
85	* DamselInDistress: Gets captured by the Plutonium Boss at some point during Jason's adventure to search for Fred in the ''Worlds of Power'' novel.
86	* DroppedABridgeOnHim: In ''Blasting Again'', she died of an unknown illness prior to the start of the game. [[SpiritAdvisor She comes back to help out later.]]
87	* EnergyBeing: In ''Blasting Again'', it's revealed that the shapeshifting "Lightning Beings" are actually other survivors of her race.
88	* HappilyMarried: To Jason, as of ''Blasting Again''.
89	* HumanAliens: In the ''Worlds of Power'' novelization, she's an alien who looks like a typical American teenage girl.
90	* SpiritAdvisor: To her son Roddy in ''Blasting Again'', after Elfie is captured. However, [[BigBad Kaiser]] can see and speak to her too. It may have something to do with her true nature as some form of EnergyBeing.
91	* SpockSpeak: In the ''Worlds of Power'' novel, she finds it easier to communicate in the human language by not using contractions. This also results in [[BluntMetaphorsTrauma manglings of popular phrases]].
92	* TheUnpronounceable: When she introduces herself to Jason, she reveals her name to be "Yvtrkizj".
93	* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: In the ''Worlds of Power'' novelization, she discovered Earth while out exploring and radioed back to her world with the coordinates. Unfortunately, at that same time, her planet was being destroyed by the Plutonium Boss, and her transmission led him right to the location of his next meal...
94	[[/folder]]
95
96	[[folder:Fred]]
97	!!Fred
98
99	Jason's pet frog. He escapes from his tank and comes into contact with a crate of radioactive material, [[MiracleGroMonster causing him to become giant]] and jump down a hole to the mutant-infested caverns below. Part of Jason's mission involves rescuing Fred.
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101	Appears in:
102	->''Blaster Master''
103	->''Blaster Master'' (Literature/WorldsOfPower novelization)
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105	* ActionPet: Not in a good way: he's pitted against his owner Jason in the Waterworks stage.
106	* AmphibianAtLarge: He becomes a giant frog boss that must be defeated twice after touching radioactive material.
107	* MiracleGroMonster: In the original NES game, he grows enormously after coming into contact with radioactive material.
108	* NuclearMutant: He becomes an AmphibianAtLarge after hopping onto a radioactive chest.
109	* UnexplainedRecovery: In the ending, he's back to his normal size again.
110	* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: There's no mention of him in any games after the first. By the time of ''Blasting Again'', he's presumably long since dead.
111	[[/folder]]
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113	[[folder:Roddy Frudnick]]
114	!!Roddy Frudnick
115	[[quoteright:150:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/roddy.jpg]]
116	[[caption-width-right:150:Roddy in ''Blasting Again'']]
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118	The son of Jason and Eve, and current pilot of SOPHIA J-7.
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120	Appears in:
121	->''Blaster Master: Blasting Again''
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123	* HalfHumanHybrid: Half-human from his father, half-alien from his mother. However, it doesn't seem to give him any special abilities.
124	* HeroicBSOD: After Elfie is captured while he's helpless to do anything. Eve comes back and helps snap him out of it.
125	* RedOniBlueOni: As evident by their clothing, the hot-headed red to his sister's more level-headed blue.
126	* TakeUpMySword: Takes over as the pilot of SOPHIA in the battle against the Lightning Beings after Jason is killed.
127	* TankGoodness: Takes after his father in that respect.
128	[[/folder]]
129
130	[[folder:Elfie Frudnick]]
131	!!Elfie Frudnick
132	[[quoteright:110:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ellfie.jpg]]
133	[[caption-width-right:110:Elfie in ''Blasting Again'']]
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135	The daughter of Jason and Eve, and Roddy's older sister. Serves as Roddy's spotter while he's on missions.
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137	Appears in:
138	->''Blaster Master: Blasting Again''
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140	* DamselInDistress: About halfway through the game, her base gets attacked by Kaiser's minions and she's captured.
141	* HalfHumanHybrid: Like Roddy, she's technically half-human, half-alien. Although nothing seems to come of it.
142	* MyGreatestFailure: Took over as Jason's spotter after Eve died. However, due to her inexperience, on one of his missions she failed to notice that he was heading into a trap until it was too late. She considers his death to be ItsAllMyFault.
143	* MrFixIt: Responsible for repairing and upgrading SOPHIA.
144	* MissionControl: Serves as Roddy's spotter (until she's kidnapped, anyway).
145	* RedOniBlueOni: As evident by their clothing, the blue to her younger brother's red. In their first cutscene she reminds him not to get too carried away.
146	[[/folder]]
147
148	[[folder:The Plutonium Boss]]
149	!!The Plutonium Boss / Mutant Lord
150	[[quoteright:256:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/bm_boss8.png]]
151
152	The leader behind the mutant threat in ''Blaster Master''. The Plutonium Boss is ''not'' the final boss of the original ''Blaster Master'', and in the original Japanese version wasn't even relevant to the plot; he became an AscendedExtra when the well-known US localization promoted him to the role of BigBad. While it only appears in its original form in the first game, ''Zero'' and ''Zero II'' have featured variations of it as bosses.
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154	Appears in:
155	->''Blaster Master''\
156	''Blaster Master'' (Literature/WorldsOfPower novelization)\
157	''Blaster Master: Blasting Again'' (Mentioned only)\
158	''Blaster Master Zero'' (as the Skeleton Boss)\
159	''Blaster Master Zero II'' (as Cerbeboss)\
160	''Blaster Master Zero III'' (as Metal Cerbeboss)
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162	* AscendedExtra: The Plutonium Boss effectively displaced Goez as the main antagonist in the western localization of the original game. This carries over to ''Blasting Again'', where he is mentioned post-humously and has ties to the current mutant invasion.
163	* BigBad: Of the first game.
164	* DemBones: It is featured in ''Zero'' in a skeletal form called "Skeleton Boss", again in ''Zero II'' where it now has three heads and is referred to as "Cerbeboss", and in ''Zero III'' with one head replaced with a metal exoskeleton and referred to as "Metal Cerbeboss".
165	* DemotedToExtra: Never mentioned at all in ''Zero'', and only appears in a skeleton form called "Skeleton Boss" that can be destroyed with a single Acceleration Blast. Its role is replaced by the Mutant Lord, who is a separate character in this game and is based on the FinalBoss of the original game.
166	* AFormYouAreComfortableWith: Inverted; the novel states that the Plutonium Boss has no true form, but appears differently to each person based on their greatest fears.
167	* GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere: There's no explanation of what it is or where it comes from in the game itself.
168	* HoistByHisOwnPetard: In the novel, it's said that it normally takes many, many years for the Plutonium Boss to absorb enough radiation to destroy a planet. However, while on Earth, it's been building a giant machine that will help greatly speed up the process. When Jason confronts it, his gun has absolutely no effect (the Boss is able to literally ''eat'' the shots). So instead, Jason shoots the machine, and the Boss is sucked into it and destroyed.
169	* IKnowWhatYouFear: According to the ''Worlds of Power'' novelization, it has no true form, but appears as whatever is most frightening to whoever looks at it.
170	* PlanetaryParasite: In the novelization, when it arrives on a planet, it burrows underground and starts feeding on radiation from the planet's core. Eventually, it destroys the planet from the inside out, then moves on to another world.
171	* StationaryBoss: Only its head moves around.
172	[[/folder]]
173
174	[[folder:Kaiser]]
175	!!Kaiser
176	[[quoteright:320:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/kaiserfight.jpg]]
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178	The final boss of ''Blasting Again'', and leader of the Lightning Beings.
179
180	Appears in:
181	->''Blaster Master: Blasting Again''
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183	* AGodAmI: His answer when Eve asks if Kaiser intends to be the next Plutonium Boss is to invoke this trope.
184	* BigBad: Of ''Blasting Again''.
185	* DamageSpongeBoss: See all those green lines in the upper right corner of the image? Those are his ''health bars''. And he's got ''fifteen'' of them.[[note]]Fortunately, since each bar is for a different part of his body, some of your special weapons can hit several of them at once. Not so fortunately, you do need to deplete all of them, and once you get down to the last few bars, it's not always clear which part of his body still has health left and needs to be shot at.[[/note]]
186	* EvilFormerFriend: Toward Eve, although it's unclear if they were friends or just acquaintances. They knew each other from when they were both SOPHIA pilots.
187	* {{Kaiju}}: Roddy's SOPHIA unit is about the size of his ''head''.
188	* NotSoDifferentRemark: Eve tells him that his willingness to destroy humanity and take their world from them makes him no different from the Plutonium Boss.
189	* TheSocialDarwinist: He believes that the Plutonium Boss was able to destroy their world because their people had become too weak, and that the survivors had to become stronger at any cost. The result? With the exception of Eve, they're now a bunch of horrible mutant monsters trying to wipe out humanity and take Earth for themselves.
190	* WasOnceAMan: Or whatever his and Eve's species used to be. Now he's a mutant the size of a skyscraper.
191	[[/folder]]
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193	[[folder:Alexander]]
194	!!Alexander
195	[[quoteright:320:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/alex_bmoverdrive.jpg]]
196	A biologist fighting to save his family from a viral outbreak.
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198	Appears in:
199	->''Blaster Master Overdrive''
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201	* AmbiguouslyBrown: He has the darkest complexion of any playable character in the series, besides VideoGame/{{Shantae}} in ''Zero''.
202	* BadassBookworm: He's a biologist by trade, and faces the mutant outbreak head-on.
203	* DrillTank: The Drill Kit upgrade lets his SOPHIA break through solid rock obstacles, similar to ''Blaster Master 2''. Unlike ''2'', however, it can also be used on the offensive as a DashAttack.
204	* FamilyMan: Both his wife and child were afflicted by the virus, which rendered them comatose. [[ItsPersonal He wants nothing more than to save their lives.]]
205	* GadgeteerGenius: He built his own SOPHIA unit as a research vehicle. Once the mutants harvested it for parts, he built a second one in order to fight against them.
206	* GrapplingHookPistol: The Anchor Kit upgrade for his SOPHIA lets him fire a grapple in order to access otherwise unreachable heights. Then a second Anchor Kit can be acquired to let him fire a second consecutive grapple.
207	* GrenadeLauncher: One of the fire settings on his blaster rifle. A slow but powerful projectile that explodes a set distance away from Alex, as indicated by a [[CrosshairAware targeting reticle]]. Upgrading this weapon increases the firepower and blast radius.
208	* HomingLaser: One of the settings on his blaster rifle. A single shot is fired off and zones in on the nearest enemy. Upgrading this lets it be fired rapidly, reaching BeamSpam levels.
209	* OneSteveLimit: Averted. The ''Worlds of Power'' novelization has a character named Alex Bufoni, but there's no indication that he and ''Overdrive's'' Alexander are one and the same.
210	* RageHelm: Rather than Jason's helmet and visor, Alex opts for a red helm with [[RedEyesTakeWarning glowing red eyes]], shaped in an angry grimace.
211	* RayGun: One of the settings on his blaster rifle. Shoots straight forward and does moderate damage. Upgrading this enables rapid fire, making it a [[GatlingGood laser machine gun]].
212	* SeanConneryIsAboutToShootYou: On the [[http://img.jeuxvideo.fr/photo/03273676-photo-blaster-master-overdrive.jpg title screen]], he's pointing his blaster rifle towards the camera.
213	* ShouldersOfDoom: His armor sports some big honkin' shoulder pads.
214	* SmartBomb: In place of Jason's grenades, Alex can acquire Blast Bombs from defeated enemies. He can only carry one at a time, but it will destroy all on-screen enemies at once. The blast pattern changes depending on what projectile his current primary weapon is set to.
215	[[/folder]]

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