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11	!!The Izumi Family
12	[[folder:Ken Izumi]]
13	[[quoteright:280:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/chargemanken_ken.jpg]]
14	[[caption-width-right:280:Our "Hero".]]
15	The hero of the series, Ken is a ten/twelve-year-old boy who saves the Earth from the Juralians. He uses the power of light to turn into Chargeman Ken and defeat the Juralians.
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17	* AdaptationalHeroism: Boken-O manga Ken is far less brutal towards his enemies than his anime counterpart.
18	* AgeLift: Ken in the Boken-O manga adaptation (see Papa's folder below) is older, taller and more muscular than the anime version. As a [[TheSeventies 70s]] shonen protagonist, said manga Ken also sports [[BigOlEyebrows thick eyebrows]] and [[HotBloodedSideburns sideburns]].
19	* ApologeticAttacker: In Episode 35, when he infamously [[spoiler:drops Dr. Volga as a human bomb on a pursuing Juralian spaceship.]]
20	* AxCrazy: This may be unintentional on the producers/writers' part, but Ken tends to act like [[{{Sadist}} a deranged sadist]], examples include mercilessly shooting a Juralian in the back, after a) Ken spent the entire episode pining after it and b) it was running away and posed no threat to him; and the time he used Dr. Volga as a bomb, despite there being little to no indication that he even was implanted with a bomb to begin with.
21	* BigBrotherBully: He frequently plays mean-spirited pranks on his younger sister Caron.
22	* BroughtToYouByTheLetterS: Ken's casual outfit is a yellow jumpsuit with a large letter K on it.
23	* CurbStompBattle: Almost every battle Ken fights is this, as it's pretty much guaranteed he'll win; he can even come up with [[NewPowersAsThePlotDemands never-before-seen abilities]] to beat his enemies, most of which he only uses once.
24	** In the [[http://www.mmcafe.com/nico.html#www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm9752182 TV Land manga version]], Ken [[http://www.mmcafe.com/nico.html#www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm9752258 only takes a single panel or two on average]] to defeat a Jural.
25	* DistractedByTheSexy: Ken has a weakness for girls. The Juralians often use this to their advantage.
26	* DoesNotLikeSpam: Hates tomato juice.
27	* {{Expy}}: Ken is one of Kantaro from Creator/KnackProductions prior work's protagonist, Kantaro Hoshi of ''Anime/AstroGanger''. Ken looks like Kantaro with brown hair instead of black, and they both have a burning hatred for an alien race (Ken hates the Juralians, Kantaro hates the Blasters). But while Kantaro is often chided by his father for his recklessness and violence, and told not to hate them all for killing his mother, Ken never gets any pushback and is portrayed as in the right no matter what.
28	* TheGoodGuysAlwaysWin: Ken ''always'' wins his battles against the Juralians effortlessly without a scratch on him. Subverted in [[http://www.mmcafe.com/nico.html#www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm9752034 the manga's second chapter]], where he is (at first) defeated and badly injured, leading him to have a [[HeroicBSOD BSoD moment]]. He gets hurt again later in the same chapter when the same villain hits his still-injured heel.
29	%%* HeroicBSOD: He gets one in the manga.
30	* {{Jerkass}}: Ken ''revels'' in killing Juralians, often in human disguises, plays cruel pranks on his sister and pet robot, and then there's [[spoiler:[[WhyAmITicking Dr. Volga's death.]]]]
31	* KarmaHoudini: No one ever calls him out for, at best, his cruel pranks/abusive behavior towards [[ButtMonkey Barrican]] and [[TagalongKid Caron]], and at worst, causing mass genocide, while also killing a few humans ([[WhyAmITicking such as Dr. Volga]]) in the process.
32	* KidHero: A young boy who repeatedly saves the world.
33	* LightIsGood: Ken uses it to power up himself and is the hero of the story.
34	* NewPowersAsThePlotDemands: Since the show never stops to explain exactly ''what'' Ken's powers even are, there are constantly moments where Ken will suddenly develop new abilities, such as super strength or telepathy, in order to resolve the plot. Many of these abilities will only be used in one episode and never be seen again.
35	* ObfuscatingInsanity: In Episode 23, he pretends to be insane in order to be committed to a mental hospital and investigate the Juralians underneath it. At the end of the episode, he pretends that he's still insane and thinks Barican is a Juralian to mess with him.
36	* PintSizedPowerhouse: At one point, he successfully punches in the stomach a [[spoiler:Jural]] boxer, Tiger M, who earlier [[CurbStompBattle has beat up and killed a grown man]] (and is said to have killed 13 boxers before as well).
37	* RefugeInAudacity: Part of the reason his KarmaHoudini instances are so goddamn laughable.
38	* SociopathicHero: Ken revels in shooting down Juralians (including one he spent the episode being in love with), playing cruel jokes on his sister and pet robot [[InformedSpecies "dog"]] and he's the cause of Dr. Volga's [[UndignifiedDeath infamous]] [[WhyAmITicking death]]. This was possibly unintentional. Not to mention the fact that there have been numerous episodes where he flat out murders animals for even being in league with the Juralians.
39	* UnnecessaryCombatRoll: He often engages in these, such as in the first episode and opening sequence.
40	* WouldHarmASenior: Instead of saving Dr. Volga when the Juralians plant a bomb in his brain, Ken opts to throw him to his death instead.
41	[[/folder]]
42
43	[[folder:Caron Izumi]]
44	[[quoteright:180:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/chargemanken_caron.jpg]]
45	Ken Izumi's younger sister.
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47	* AdaptationalDyeJob: Her hair is blonde in the anime but (save for one panel) dark in the manga's first chapter. It becomes a shade lighter in the second chapter, only to become dark again by the final chapter.
48	* AgeLift: Caron in the Boken-O manga adaptation also looks slightly older than her anime counterpart.
49	* AnnoyingYoungerSibling: She's three years younger than Ken and often gets on his nerves.
50	* DemonicPossession: Is, at one point, possessed (through biting) by a doll sent by the Juralians.
51	* GirlWithPsychoWeapon: Caron becomes one in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3SMJ9KpjIk&feature=related episode 45]], due to her piano teacher (who, predictably, is a disguised Juralian) brainwashing her into trying to kill Ken. She's snapped out of it when her mother [[GetAHoldOfYourselfMan slaps her]].
52	%%* HairOfGoldHeartOfGold
53	* ImplausibleHairColor: She has blonde hair despite being Japanese.
54	* PrecociousCrush: On Hoshi-kun. Sadly, it doesn't last, [[spoiler:mainly because he's dead by the end of the episode.]]
55	* TagalongKid: She and Barican often follow Ken around on his shenanigans.
56	[[/folder]]
57
58	[[folder:Barican]]
59	[[quoteright:263:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/chargemanken_barican.jpg]]
60	The Izumi household's pet [[InformedSpecies "robot dog"]] or... something, and Ken's best friend.
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62	* AdaptationalBadass: As with pretty much every other thing in the Boken-O manga, Barican gets some level of badass upgrade.
63	** His reaction when Maou is trying to abduct Caron in the first chapter? ''Headbutting Maou in the chest.'' [[TheChewToy It doesn't work.]]
64	** He later repeats the same strategy with random Juralian mooks who were also trying to abduct Caron. This time it works.
65	** [[HeroicSacrifice He sacrifices himself]] to protect Caron again in the final chapter.
66	* AdaptedOut: He is nowhere to be seen in the later chapters of the TV Land manga version.
67	* BadassAdorable: Barican can be this in rare occasions, such as when he smashes the Kichigai Record where it bursts into flames in episode 16.
68	* DyingMomentOfAwesome: In the Boken-O adaptation, he 'dies' (read: his head falls off) protecting Caron from falling debris caused by Maou's rampaging giant robot, but not before pointing out where she is to Ken. [[spoiler:[[BackFromTheDead It is implied he gets better]], being a robot and all.]]
69	* {{Gonk}}: He certainly looks... weird, to be sure.
70	* GuardianEntity: Manga Barican always protects Caron from harm, leading to the aforementioned moments of badassery.
71	* InformedSpecies: Barican is referred to as a "robot dog" and/or "grandpa robot", and the only thing he ''genuinely'' resembles is a robot, and even then...
72	* {{Leitmotif}}: A bouncy flute theme with a jew's harp.
73	* PluckyComicRelief: Is pretty much (supposed to be) this in all media.
74	* RobotBuddy: To Ken.
75	* SomethingWeForgot: During Episode 57, Barican jumps at a Juralian to force him to release Caron, but ends up being left in the ocean after Caron is saved.
76	* VitriolicBestBuds: With Ken. They get on each other's nerves but fight well together.
77	[[/folder]]
78
79	[[folder:Hiroshi Izumi (aka Papa)]]
80	Ken and Caron's father.
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82	* AdaptationalBadass: In [[http://www.mmcafe.com/nico.html#www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm9752034 one of the two manga tie-in adaptations made during the anime's original run]] (published in the now-defunct manga magazine Boken-O), he made Ken's gadgets [[spoiler:after receiving word from a gravely-injured alien that the Earth is in imminent danger, three years before the actual invasion takes place]].
83	* AllThereInTheManual: Both his and his wife's first names (Hiroshi and Saori, respectively) are only revealed in a character profile published years after the anime's original run.
84	* {{Herald}}: Boken-O Dad asks Ken to don the suit he made and save the earth from the Juralians.
85	* InformedAttribute: Once claims to be a physician, although we never see him practice medicine onscreen. In fact, this claim is made ''to his wife''; apparently, she doesn't have any clue about his job either.
86	* OmnidisciplinaryScientist: His Boken-O counterpart. In the first chapter, he is revealed to dabble (or have dabbled) in astronomy, as well as being the inventor of Ken's suit and other gadgets. He is later seen performing laboratory tests on a capsule dropped by Ken's friend Lily [[spoiler:who turns out to be an alien in disguise.]]
87	* UnnamedParent: In-series he is only referred to as either 'Papa' (by his children) or 'Mr. Izumi' (by everyone else).
88	[[/folder]]
89
90	[[folder:Saori Izumi (aka Mama)]]
91	Ken and Caron's mother.
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93	* AllThereInTheManual: Likewise; see in Papa's folder.
94	* {{Housewife}}: She appears to be a homemaker, since her primary job is looking after the house and raising her children.
95	* UnnamedParent: Likewise; see in Papa's folder.
96	[[/folder]]
97
98	!!The Juralians and Other Extraterrestrials
99
100	[[folder:Juralians in General]]
101	[[quoteright:288:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/chargemanken_juralians.jpg]]
102	An alien race that seeks to conquer Earth.
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104	* AlwaysChaoticEvil: Generally, but {{Subverted\|Trope}} sometimes with [[spoiler:[[DarkActionGirl X-6]] and [[NatureLover J-7]].]]
105	* ChestInsignia: All of them have a sign with a blue outline, red center, and yellow inbetween on their chest.
106	* {{Cyclops}}: They all have one eye, except Maou-sama.
107	* DittoAliens: Every single one, barring Maou-sama (who, oddly enough, looks human, [[{{Irony}} the same race he is trying to wipe out]]), is identical.
108	* EvenEvilHasStandards: They kill a man who is willing to betray his species and help them kill 30,000 people in exchange for money.
109	* EvilSoundsDeep: They generally sound deeper than human characters. In some cases, their human disguises will have high-pitched voices until the audience either gets to hear their thoughts or they ditch the disguise entirely.
110	* EyeBeams: Firing beams from their eyes is their preferred method of attack.
111	* FangsAreEvil: They all have pointy teeth.
112	* InformedFlaw: Juralians are repeatedly described as "emotionless" in the series, despite clearly and consistently showing emotion, and Maou mentions in Episode 8 that emotions have been forgotten by the Juralians.
113	* ImmuneToBullets: Normal bullets won't hurt them. It takes a blast from Ken's ray gun to kill them.
114	* HumanoidAliens: They look fairly humanoid despite having antennae and one eye, among other things.
115	* {{Humanshifting}}: In the anime, they use this ability to disguise themselves as various people to trick Ken and other people. Their methods are so good one human even unknowingly marries a Jural. It is unclear whether they still have this ability in the Boken-O manga, since this adaptation only shows aliens of other species donning human disguises.
116	* MissingReflection: If a human is actually a Juralian in disguise, their reflection won't appear in a mirror.
117	* {{Mooks}}: Serve as this to their leader/king/emperor, [[BigBad Maou-sama]].
118	* PaperThinDisguise: Both played straight and subverted. Some can pull off quite convincing human disguises; others ... not so much. (From the viewers' perspective anyway.) Apparently, among some Juralians, having purple hair in their human forms is a thing.
119	* PlanetLooters: Serve as this, although some of the dialogue in Episode 47 implies that they are a DyingRace.
120	* RedShirt: Most of them are killed very quickly.
121	* SpaceNomads: In the manga, Maou claims that the Juralians traveled from two million light years away to conquer Earth.
122	* {{Shapeshifter}}: Juralians can shapeshift into humans.
123	* ShapeshiftingSeducer: A standard tactic among the Juralians.
124	* TopHeavyGuy: In their natural form, Juralians have a noticeably top-heavy frame, [[https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DUYd71DVoAE8f8T.jpg further accentuated by their narrow waists and thin tentacles.]]
125	* WeaksauceWeakness: Juralians - in the manga at least - are [[KillItWithFire weak to fire]] (according to Maou). That ''might'' explain why Ken's ray gun can kill them quickly.
126	* WeHardlyKnewYe: Nearly every Juralian that appears in an episode dies by the end of the episode, with the sole exception of Maou-sama.
127	[[/folder]]
128
129	[[folder:Maou-sama]]
130	[[quoteright:259:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/chargemanken_maoh.jpg]]
131	The main antagonist. He is radically different from the other Juralians, as he resembles a very tall human with a pointy chin, bluish-purple skin, and a third Juralian eye. He seeks to conquer Earth for its resources, and is a ruthless, unforgiving, cruel, yet incompetent leader, considering some of his schemes.
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133	* AdaptationalVillainy: The anime's Maou is an incompetent ham prone to [[ZanyScheme overly-complicated plans]] that rarely, if ever, work; Boken-O's Maou, on the other hand, is a more cunning, ruthless, and significantly less hammy figure who uses - even ''forces'' - members of other alien races to do the dirty work for him and the Juralians.
134	* AdaptationalDecay: By contrast, TV Land's Maou is defeated by Ken in the same chapter as his first (and only) appearance, [[CurbStompBattle within the space of four panels]].
135	* ANaziByAnyOtherName: A totalitarian dictator with an entrenched cult of personality who seeks to wipe out the "inferior" race to take over their resources and give their homeland to his own race? [[UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler Who you gonna call?]]
136	* AssholeVictim: For all his crimes he commits during the invasion of Earth, [[spoiler:he eventually dies in Episode 65 when his spaceship explodes.]]
137	* AttractiveBentGender: Surprisingly. In Episode 10, he turns into a cute, fragile little girl, which causes Ken to fall in love with [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/chargemanken_hitomi.jpg "her".]]
138	* BadBoss: [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]]: during one of his minions' concern about Ken Izumi, he ignores it and says that humans' attempts to stop them are futile, and, in Episode 8, has one of his minions whip [[DarkActionGirl X-6]] for failing to kill Ken.
139	* BaldOfEvil: His head, however, is covered with a blue hat/outgrowth/whatever it is supposed to be.
140	* BatmanCanBreatheInSpace: In the TV Land manga version, the Izumi siblings first encounter a gigantic Maou ''in outer space'' while going on a picnic to Mars.
141	* BigBad: He is responsible for the invasion of Earth in the first place.
142	* CreepilyLongArms: Alongside his ''very'' lengthy legs, his arms are very long. Can also [[TentacleRope turn into tentacles]] in the manga.
143	* CreepyLongFingers: For extra creepiness, they're also hollow and tube-shaped.
144	* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: Except in the Boken-O manga, where he is simply called 'boss' by one of his underlings and 'Jural' (''Jural-seijin'') by everyone else. Speaking of which, he is never called 'Maou' in any of the manga adaptations.
145	* EvilSoundsDeep: One of, if not ''the'', characters with the deepest voice in the series.
146	* FauxAffablyEvil: A composed, soft-spoken villain who almost always addresses his nemesis politely, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEAfUPe2XFY&t=1m00s and at one point even apologizes to his teacher for violently kidnapping her]]. That said, he's still a monstrous dictator who has no qualms with executing children. Best shown in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTTl2GhupNE Episode 10]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVdQiBMRw5k Episode 11.]]
147	* ForgottenPhlebotinum: Boken-O Maou sports certain abilities like being turning his arms into tentacles, [[LongNeck stretching his neck]] and [[DeathRay shooting a laser beam that can melt metal]] from his mouth. Which he never uses beyond the first chapter because he spends the rest of the manga either using non-Juralians as pawns or riding a robot.
148	* HighCollarOfDoom: It's exaggeratedly huge and resembles a pair of tentacles.
149	* ItsPersonal: Boken-O Maou's feud with Ken is getting more and more personal with each chapter. This all comes to a head in the end when Maou comes to Ken's house riding a giant robot with the express purpose of killing the Izumis once and for all.
150	* LackOfEmpathy:
151	** He despises the human race - in fact, pretty much anything that is not Juralian - and cares very little for his own minions. [[EnemyMine The one time he joins Ken to save Earth from a meteor]], it is because he would have nothing to conquer.
152	** Amplified in the Boken-O version, where he sends non-Juralian aliens to kill Ken.
153	* LargeHam: Considerably, although not so much as other examples.
154	* LeanAndMean: He is [[http://i.imgur.com/pEnDT.png pretty tall]] and ''incredibly'' mean.
155	* TheMenFirst: In episode 10, he orders his men to escape before where they are explodes.
156	* PerpetualSmiler: Maou is almost always seen smiling, though it is downplayed.
157	* OjouRinglets: [[spoiler:[[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/chargemanken_hitomi.jpg In his "Hitomi" form.]]]]
158	* SatanicArchetype: His name literally translates to "Demon King", and one point Ken refers to him as a "devil".
159	* SpikesOfVillainy: He has these on many parts of his body, such as his chin.
160	* SinisterSchnoz: A very pointy one, too!
161	* ThirdEye: Unlike the rest of the Juralians, Maou has three eyes: two human ones and a red Juralian one.
162	* VillainousCheekbones: They are very [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/hp3sl5978_png_100.png noticeable]].
163	* WouldHurtAChild: ''Oh yes.'' Aside from trying to kill Ken and trying to execute Caron in Episode 10, he is the one to come up with and initiate Operation Mad Green in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cV3nu0fwYjM Episode 36]], which involves poisoning the food supply at ''child hospitals, [[NothingIsScarier killing/disfiguring/doing God knows what]] to newborns.''
164	** Maou's first appearance in the manga involves grabbing Caron using his [[TentacleRope tentacle-like arms]].
165	** Manga Maou forces a (non-Jural) alien named Lily to kill Ken by holding her parents hostage. [[spoiler:[[KickTheDog And then proceeds to kill her ''and'' her parents upon releasing them.]]]]
166	* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Invokes this trope towards Lily and her parents in the manga.
167	* ZanyScheme:
168	** Many, many schemes of Maou are ridiculous and destined to failure, with the only non-zany, genuinely evil one being the [[TamperingWithFoodAndDrink Operation Mad Green.]] For example, in the very first episode he has his men ''kidnap all children in the world'' and hold them as hostages, and in the second he creates a set of rockets that deliberately explode in mid-air and create fog ''only to disadvantage Ken in a fight,'' instead of firing them on Ken's house.
169	** Averted in all four chapters of the Boken-O manga, where Maou is more brutally direct. First, he makes all the mutated plants in the botanical garden Ken's class went to come alive. Next, he coerces and compels non-Juralian aliens to kill Ken for him - one of them even managing to gravely injure Ken. Finally, when all means have apparently failed, Maou controls [[HumongousMecha a giant robot]] across the city, heading towards the Izumi family residence to kill Ken and family himself.
170	[[/folder]]
171
172	[[folder:[=X-6=]]]
173	[[quoteright:259:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/chargemanken_x_6.jpg]]
174	One of the Juralian soldiers who appears in Episode 8. She is sent to assassinate Ken Izumi, but when he saves her from a falling tree, she suffers an emotional breakdown and can't bring herself to kill him.
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176	* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: She can't bring herself to kill Ken after he saves her from a falling tree without knowing who she is.
177	%%* DarkActionGirl
178	* GracefulLoser: When she tries and fails to kill Ken again in the hospital, she gracefully accepts her loss because his saving her life without knowing who she is made her remember empathy the Juralians have lost.
179	* HeelFaceDoorSlam: When she tries and fails to kill Ken again in the hospital, she gracefully accepts her loss because his saving her life without knowing who she is made her remember empathy the Juralians have lost. When she runs away from him, several Juralians come and kill her for betraying them in favor of their enemy.
180	* MakeUpIsEvil: She wears dark blue eyeshadow and red lipstick when disguised as a human woman.
181	* VillainousBSOD: When she tries and fails to kill Ken again in the hospital, she breaks down and gracefully accepts her loss because his saving her life without knowing who she is made her remember empathy the Juralians have lost.
182	--> '''Ken:''' ''(wakes up)'' Ah! You're the lady from before! Now I see! You're a Juralian, aren't you?!\
183	'''Maou:''' Kill him! Why won't you kill him?!\
184	'''X-6:''' I can't kill him. I just can't kill him! Chargeman Ken, why did you save me before?\
185	'''Ken:''' Why? Because it was just common sense.\
186	'''X-6:''' I've lost, Chargeman Ken. There's something left in me that I thought I'd abandoned. ''(runs away)''
187	* WeHardlyKnewYe: [[spoiler:She dies by the end of the episode.]]
188	[[/folder]]
189
190	[[folder:[=K-11=]]]
191	A Juralian soldier who disguises himself as Ken Izumi. He kidnaps Ken and [[CoolTeacher Nagisa]] and attempts to murder Ken's family.
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193	* MasterOfDisguise: Is extremely good at disguising as Ken. Only a single, largely minor thing ends up blowing his cover: [[spoiler:he drinks tomato juice without a second thought.]]
194	* WinkDing: Apparently, it can cause people to fall down spontaneously.
195	[[/folder]]
196
197	[[folder:Hoshi-kun]]
198	[[quoteright:259:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/chargemanken_hoshi.jpg]]
199	A student and a football player who gets transferred to Ken's school.
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201	* BadassNormal: Lasts significantly longer in a fight with Ken than the average Jural. In his Juralian form, no less!
202	* CurbstompBattle: He is ''good'' at playing football, scoring all three touchdowns in an 18-point shutout! [[spoiler:He gets curbstomped himself when Ken fights him as a Jural.]]
203	* InASingleBound: Shown to be capable of jumping very high.
204	* ImprobableSportsSkills: See {{In A Single Bound}} above.
205	[[/folder]]
206
207	[[folder:The Delinquent]]
208	A juvenile delinquent who hides out at the warehouse. He has recently beaten up Ken's class and class B and they return for vengeance.
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210	* BadassBiker: Has epic motorcycle skills and successfully fights off a group of his equals; however, he is villainous.
211	* BloodKnight: A villainous example. He loves fighting [[spoiler:and is one of the few Juralians to stand his ground against Ken and ''beat him up.'']]
212	%%* {{Jerkass}}: Very.
213	* NoNameGiven: He is only known as the Delinquent.
214	[[/folder]]
215
216	[[folder:[=J-7=]]]
217	A kind, gentle young man who fights Ken in a UsefulNotes/{{Kendo}} duel. He is an undercover Juralian sent to kill the townspeople; however, unlike the rest of the Juralians, he genuinely values Earth and thinks it is beautiful.
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219	* HeelFaceTurn: He was sent to kill the townspeople but abandoned his mission when he realized the beauty of Earth.
220	* MasterSwordsman: Is extremely good at kendo and manages to hit Ken.
221	* MySpeciesDothProtestTooMuch: [[spoiler:He is one of the two Juralians to be a good guy, the other one being X-6, but, unlike X-6, who starts to question her species' values during the episode, J-7 is a good guy from the start. He doesn't survive.]]
222	* NatureLover: He says [[spoiler:to the Juralians]] that Earth is full of beautiful things, and, instead of trying to destroy it, [[spoiler:the Juralians should embrace Earth. [[TemptingFate They don't listen.]]]]
223	* TokenGoodTeammate: [[spoiler:To the rest of the Juralians.]]
224	* WeHardlyKnewYe: [[spoiler:Dies, just like X-6.]]
225	[[/folder]]
226
227	[[folder:Mr. Fukuda]]
228	A character seen in Episode 50. The head of National Space Development Agency... supposedly. He adopts an enormous group of children from the orphanage.
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230	%%* {{Jerkass}}
231	* SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil: Of ''children'', no less.
232	* VillainWithGoodPublicity: He's a respected businessman and philanthropist, which he uses in order to acquire children.
233	* WouldHurtAChild: [[spoiler:The very reason he adopts the children is that he wants them to serve as child workers for the Juralians.]]
234	%%* WeHardlyKnewYe
235	[[/folder]]
236
237	[[folder:"KMIY"]]
238	A pair of shady men who appear in Episode 25. They blackmail Yuichi into helping them burn down buildings [[spoiler:because they're actually Juralians]].
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240	* FatAndSkinny: One is stocky, and one is lean.
241	* NoNameGiven: Yuuichi only refers to them as "Mister!" when they start approaching him, but they never actually introduce themselves.
242	* SunglassesAtNight: The stocky man wears opaque sunglasses in both of his scenes.
243	[[/folder]]
244
245	[[folder:Zairasu]]
246	A non-Juralian alien coerced by Maou to conquer the Earth for the Juralians under the promise of a reward in the Boken-O manga.
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248	* BeardOfEvil: His human disguise has a goatee.
249	* BrainInAJar: Apparently his only remaining non-bionic body part. Also doubles as [[AchillesHeel his weakness.]]
250	* {{Cyborg}}: Most of his body seems to be this.
251	* HornsOfVillainy: He sports a pair on his helmet/headgear.
252	* MechanicalHorse: He rides a flying bionic stingray piloted by Juralian mooks. [[SpaceX A space stingray.]]
253	* TheBadGuyWins: At first he successfully pulls off what no Juralian ever did: defeat and injure Ken and give him [[HeroicBSOD Heroic B.S.O.D.]] in the process. [[NearVillainVictory He eventually gets defeated.]][[/folder]]
254
255	[[folder:Lily]]
256	A young alien from the planet Apollo forced by Maou to assassinate Ken by holding her parents hostage in the Boken-O manga.
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258	* AlasPoorVillain: [[spoiler:Ken is [[HeroicBSOD utterly shocked]] at seeing her death at the hands of the Juralians, leading him to go on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge.]]
259	* CompositeCharacter: She is pretty much the Boken-O manga's equivalent of X-6, Miyuki from Episode 20 [[spoiler:(A Juralian in disguise)]] and Hitomi[[spoiler:/Maou]].
260	* FalseReassurance: Maou said he would let her parents go if she kills Ken for him. [[ExactWords He does]], [[spoiler:before proceeding to have the whole family killed since [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness they are no longer of any use to him]]]].
261	* HostageSituation: The Juralians hold her parents captive, promising to release them if she kills Ken.
262	* InsectoidAliens: Her true form looks like this.
263	%%* ShapeshiftingSeducer
264	* SorryThatImDying: [[spoiler:She lives long enough to be able to apologize to Ken for tricking him and telling him that she enjoyed her time with him]].
265	[[/folder]]
266
267	!Minor Characters
268
269	[[folder:Nagisa]]
270	Ken's teacher.
271	----
272	* BrainwashedAndCrazy: Becomes this for Episode 13.
273	* DamselInDistress: Becomes this for Episode 45, when the Juralians abduct her along with Ken.
274	%%* HotTeacher
275	* MsFanservice: {{Downplayed\|Trope}}; though she was presumably intended to be this, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=heJ4YuGqpSY&t=50s what's with]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=heJ4YuGqpSY&t=2m04s scenes and sounds]] like these.
276	%%* SenseiChan
277	[[/folder]]
278
279	[[folder:Dr. Volga]]
280	[[quoteright:260:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/chargemanken_drvolga_4.jpg]]
281	A West German professor who likes snacks. [[WeHardlyKnewYe He is murdered immediately]], but then he appears on the TV like nothing happened, present at the reception of Japan's leading scientists.
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283	* BreakoutCharacter: Only in one episode. In spite of this, said episode is probably the most commonly parodied and referenced.
284	* GoodHairEvilHair: A beard of good. [[spoiler:{{Subverted\|Trope}}, as he becomes a human bomb, but he doesn't know this.]]
285	* WeHardlyKnewYe: [[spoiler:He dies ''twice'', first at the start of the episode, shot by Juralians, and then at the ending, dropped as a human bomb at the Juralian spaceship.]]
286	* WhyAmITicking: The case with him. [[spoiler:He is revived as a human bomb by the Juralians, who intend to use him to kill Japan's leading scientists. Instead, he gets used by Ken as a way to destroy a Juralian spaceship.]]
287	[[/folder]]
288
289	[[folder:Dr. Yoshizaka]]
290	A recurring scientist who Ken often meets with during his missions.
291	[[/folder]]
292
293	[[folder:Yuichi]]
294	[[quoteright:261:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/chargemanken_yuichi.jpg]]
295	A little kid around Ken's age and an aspiring arsonist. [[DomesticAbuse Also a victim of familial and domestic abuse between his parents,]] [[FreudianExcuse which is precisely why he becomes an arsonist.]]
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297	* AbusiveParents: His parents' relationship was ''very'' strained, and the resulting abuse from his mother caused him to burn his house down. They seem to become better by the end of the episode, though.
298	* FlawExploitation: By the Juralians.
299	%%* FreudianExcuse
300	* KillItWithFire: His way of "solving" his parents' abuse. Of course, the Juralians exploit this.
301	* ParentalNeglect: A victim of this; his parents are shown in a nasty argument, and when they notice he is sitting outside their room, they tell him to go to bed and even kick his toy car away.
302	* TearsOfRemorse: When he meets Ken.
303	[[/folder]]
304
305	[[folder:Mental Clinic Director]]
306	[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin A mental clinic director.]] However, he is also a megalomaniac who seeks to rule over the ashes of the world, which is why he builds a rocket factory under the mental clinic. He is helped by the Juralians.
307	----
308	* DrivenToSuicide: Shoots himself after Ken defeats his Juralian allies.
309	* EvilOldFolks: Seems to be in his sixties.
310	* PrettyLittleHeadshots: The only clue given that he shoots himself is a sound effect over a still image; there is no blood shown when the camera shows his corpse, either.
311	* TakeOverTheWorld: His ultimate goal.

Context Characters / ChargemanKen