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| 7 | The characters page for ''Devilman'' and its adaptations. Still under heavy construction. |
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| 9 | '''Note:''' Any characters who appear only in the 1972 ''Anime/{{Devilman}}'' anime, ''Manga/DevilmanGrimoire'' or ''Anime/DevilmanCrybaby'', or any {{trope}}s relating to the difference in characterizations between the 1972 anime, ''Crybaby'', and the original manga, are placed in separate character pages. For them, click [[Characters/Devilman1972 here]], [[Characters/DevilmanGrimoire here]] and [[Characters/DevilmanCrybaby here]]. |
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| 11 | For characters specifically related to one of its sequels, ''Manga/DevilmanLady'', click [[Characters/DevilmanLady here]] (though it's currently under heavy construction). |
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| 13 | As always, beware of '''unmarked {{spoiler}}s'''. |
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| 19 | !!Main Characters |
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| 21 | [[folder:Akira Fudo]] |
| 22 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/devilman_akira.png]] |
| 23 | [[caption-width-right:350:Click [[labelnote:here]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/devilman_akira1.png[[/labelnote]] to see Akira after his transformation]] |
| 24 | ->'''Voiced in Japanese by:''' Ryoichi Tanaka (original series & ''Devilman Lady''), Creator/ShowHayami (''The Birth'', ''The Demon Bird'' and ''CB Chara Nagai Go World'' OAV's, ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWarsDD''), Creator/TomokazuSeki (''Shin Cutey Honey''), Creator/ShinichiroMiki (''Devilman'' PSX, Mahjong PC game), Shinji Takeda (''Amon: The Apocalypse of Devilman''), Creator/KazuyaNakai (''CR Devilman Awakening''), Creator/IsshinChiba (''Devilman II Resurrection'') Creator/ShintaroAsanuma (''Cyborg 009 vs. Devilman''), Creator/KoukiUchiyama (''Crybaby'') |
| 25 | ->'''Voiced in English by''': Alan Marriot (''The Birth'' and ''The Demon Bird''), Creator/BrettWeaver (''Shin Cutey Honey''), Creator/BrycePapenbrook (''Cyborg 009 vs. Devilman'' & ''Re: Cutie Honey''), Griffin Burns (''Crybaby'') |
| 26 | ->'''Voiced in Latin American Spanish by:''' Miguel de Leon (''The Birth'' and ''The Demon Bird''), Creator/EmilioTrevino (''Crybaby'') |
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| 28 | Our protagonist and hero. Akira was a normal high school boy before being roped into Ryo’s Devil-Fusing scheme, and the resulting fusion of man and demon has turned him into something greater than both: he has the physical capabilities of a demon and the morals of a human being, allowing him to take on the demonic hordes without losing his morality in the process. |
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| 30 | Before his fusion, he was a meek and soft-spoken young boy. After his transformation, he becomes more aggressive and confrontational, but there are several moments that show him to be the good person that he once was deep down. |
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| 32 | * AccidentalPervert: In the second OVA, Akira [[CatapultNightmare wakes up from a particularly bad dream]]. It ended with the image of Miki impaled on a demon's teeth. While Miki checks to see if Akira's alright, Akira [[PantyShot bats Miki's nightgown upwards to make sure she's fine]]. After a bop on the nose and some talk, [[SubvertedTrope Akira, demon infused jackass that he is, more or less negs Miki and makes fun of her panties.]] |
| 33 | * AdaptationalVillainy: He appears in Mazin Saga (a reboot/re-imagining of Anime/MazingerZ) as an antagonist, where he is the grandson of Dr. Hell. |
| 34 | * AlasPoorYorick: After [[spoiler:Miki is dismembered and Akira kills everyone involved,]] he hugs her head to his chest and sobs in an incredibly [[TearJerker tear-jerking]] scene. |
| 35 | * AllGirlsWantBadBoys: At first, Miki seems to like Akira for his more aggressive and HotBlooded nature, but it’s soon subverted when Akira begins to push her away as a result of said behavior. |
| 36 | * AndTheAdventureContinues: [[spoiler:The good ending of the NES game has [[GreaterScopeVillain God]]'s angels appear after he ensures mankind's survival and evolution into demons, showing his fight is far from from over.]] |
| 37 | * AnimalMotifs: In the OVA Akira is shown to be very fond of rabbits, symbolic of his meek, innocent nature. Devilman's appearance evokes the appearance of a dragon (the scales and horns) and a wolf (thick black fur, and a long furry tail). Nagai claimed that Devilman was symbolism of how even the most ordinary young men could become fierce warriors if faced with a crisis, and they would become a powerful war machine. As Devilman Akira has all the ferocity of a dragon, and the nobility of a wolf. |
| 38 | * BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler:He is reborn in the second to last chapter of Devilman Lady, resurrected from the fetus created by Satan's halves]]. |
| 39 | * BerserkerTears: This has happened a few times in multiple adaptations and sometimes continues on after his transformations into Devilman. |
| 40 | * CameBackWrong: A softer version: Akira is a VERY shy and gentle boy when he starts the manga, but once he gets Amon's powers and becomes Devilman, he becomes WAY more callous and cocky, to the point that some characters are actually jarred by the change. |
| 41 | ** Same deal happens in the Toei anime, only Akira dies only for his body to be possessed by Amon/Devilman. |
| 42 | * ChasteHero: In the original manga, Akira shows no romantic or sexual interest in anyone. Miki is nothing more than a friend with a one-sided crush. |
| 43 | * ChickMagnet: Once his body merges with Amon. He's significantly more muscular and confident, and girls begin to take note of him. Though it's clear he has eyes for Miki and Jun Fudo. |
| 44 | * ClassicalAntiHero: Before merging with Amon. |
| 45 | * CowardlyLion: He was one before merging with Amon, as he would try to stand up for people even when he's afraid. It's most apparent in the original manga when he [[spoiler: willingly goes into an unopenable hidden chamber with nothing to go on but Ryo's word, and grimly accepts to attempt demonic merging, a process that drove Ryo's father to suicide, though only because it's their only means of survival.]] |
| 46 | * CuteLittleFangs: Occasionally sports these in human form, particularly in LighterAndSofter fare such as ''Anime/Cyborg009VsDevilman'' and ''Anime/CBCharaGoNagaiWorld''. |
| 47 | * DeclarationOfProtection: Towards Jun Fudou in ''Devilman Lady''. |
| 48 | * DecoyProtagonist: In the ''AMON'' manga, he only stars for about half the first volume and later only appears during flashbacks, his body is completely taken over by Amon who stars the series from start to finish, but with a slight twist that in this version he isn't that different from Akira's Devilman persona itself. |
| 49 | * DemonicPossession: In ''Lady'', he is able to possess anyone while he's a ghost. |
| 50 | * DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: This is his goal in ''Devilman vs. Hades''. Should Hades brings Miki back to life, he intends to kill the god anyway. |
| 51 | * DisappearsIntoLight: [[spoiler:Akira in human form and Satan do this at the end of ''Violence Jack''. Both falling together as a ball of light that eventually disappears.]] |
| 52 | * {{Expy}}: Of Ryo Utsugi, the protagonist of ''Manga/DemonLordDante''. |
| 53 | ** ExpyCoexistence: Akira and Utsugi also both appear in ''Devilman Lady'' and ''Grimoire''. |
| 54 | * FallenHero: [[spoiler:''Shin Violence Jack'' strongly implies that he is the Skull King, the leader of the demons of Skull Castle and wants to destroy Jack/Amon. Jack attempts to make him remember who he is, which causes Akira's face, his true face, to return.]] |
| 55 | * FanservicePack: Fusing with Amon gave Akira a killer human body (and less compunction to [[ShamelessFanserviceGirl cover it up]]). Makes the average man wish Amon was real just for that reason. |
| 56 | * {{Guyliner}}: Side effects from merging with Amon. |
| 57 | * HalfHumanHybrid: [[spoiler:Akira is implied to be part angel at the end of ''Devilman Lady'' as angels can only reproduce with other angels, and likewise only give birth to angels. Even as humans Jun and Ran's angelic nature means they could only conceive with each other.]] |
| 58 | * HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: [[spoiler:How he dies in the manga. And the LiveActionAdaptation. [[RecurringElement And]] Anime/DevilmanCrybaby]]. |
| 59 | * HappilyMarried: With Miki in ''Devilman Saga'', in his current incarnation as Yuuki Fudo. |
| 60 | * HeroicBuild: Fusing with Amon gives Akira a boost in height, makes his face sharper/more mature, and gives him a considerable amount of muscle. |
| 61 | * HeWhoFightsMonsters: A problem Akira is all too aware can happen to him, which is why he places so much emphasis on his identity as Devilman. Akira may have the body of a devil, but he aspires to retain his human heart at all costs. This is even more apparent in the ''Amon'' manga where the whole last part focuses on this; Akira has a vision of himself eating a human and from there is afraid that he is losing himself, that the demon is controlling his body when he is slaughtering other demons, he even starts fearing that Devilmen might have just been an illusion [[spoiler: and at one point, when he starts believing that Devilmen do not exist and he is just a demon, he suffers an HeroicBSOD and collapse]]. In the original manga, [[spoiler: the death of Miki and her family is where Akira loses his sense of purpose, since they were the last people he cared about after Ryo betrayed him.]] Afterward, Akira writes off humanity as a cruel and spiteful race, not worth defending; even though this makes all of his sacrifices in vain, but he's too angry to care. Akira then declares war on Satan, claiming that if he feels so strongly about his SocialDarwinist goals, then he'll gladly see which one of their two factions will survive -- it will either be devilmen or demons that inherit the Earth. Akira also wants this due to [[spoiler: Ryo/Satan's indirect hand in causing Miki's death]] and is content risking his life for the sake of revenge. The irony here is that Akira was afraid of losing his humanity to Amon's one sided, blood thirsty addiction to combat, but Akira effectively becomes Amon in all but name during the story's finale, having ultimately lost the internal struggle of maintaining his human heart. |
| 62 | %%* HotBloodedSideburns: Though he did not fit the trope until after becoming a Devilman. |
| 63 | %%* {{Hunk}}: His body becomes one after merging with Amon. |
| 64 | * ItsPersonal: Akira has a deep personal hatred for Jinmen, who across many adaptions is prone to eating people Akira cares about. Making it worse, Jinmen always has the audacity to show off how the souls of those he's eaten [[FateWorseThanDeath live on in his shell in torment]], and then laughing about it. Akira makes sure his death is brutal. In Devilman Lady, [[spoiler: when Akira meets Jinmen in hell, he tells the demon that he will never forgive Jinmen for what he did, and kills him a second time. Just to rub it in, when Jinmen regenerates as a tiny turtle, Akira smashes him with a rock.]] |
| 65 | * JerkWithAHeartOfGold: After merging with Amon, Akira becomes brash, arrogant and confrontational. But he still has a soft spot for Miki and his adoptive family, loyalty to Ryo and a belief that human life is worth fighting for. |
| 66 | * LastOfHisKind: [[spoiler:By the time he dies, Akira is the last human in existence.]] |
| 67 | * LoveAtFirstSight: |
| 68 | ** It's complicated. ''Shin Devilman'' shows that upon meeting Ryo for the first time Akira felt soothed by Ryo's appearance. [[spoiler:Only after the memories implanted by Psycho Jenny kick in does he believe it's because they are childhood friends.]] |
| 69 | ** Another interpretation is why Akira is in love with Jun Fudo in ''Devilman Lady'' after she falls in Hell. |
| 70 | * LovesMyAlterEgo: [[spoiler:As he doesn't know it until the end of ''Devilman Lady'', Jun is the female half of Satan]]. |
| 71 | * MasculineGirlFeminineBoy: A downplayed example, but he was originally the feminine boy to Miki's masculine girl. Fusing with Amon decidedly changed this. |
| 72 | * MeaningfulName: Akira means "bright", which is a fitting reflection of Akira's optimism and compassion. His last name Fudo means "strength", an obvious reference to his demonic power as Devilman. However, Fudo also conveys a Buddhist concept of "immovable will", which fits with the story's theme of Akira's human conscience remaining immovable in the face of his demonic corruption -- hence becoming a devilman, a devil with the heart of a human. |
| 73 | * MentalTimeTravel: In Devilman Lady, Akira discovers he has this power much to his own surprise. He tests the depths of this power when he wants to know [[spoiler: if Lan is actually Ryo in disguise as a female. He gets pretty far back into Lan's memories, until he hits a dead end where he sees nothing but the empty void of outer space. Presumably, Satan has mental defense mechanisms that shield Lan's memories, otherwise if he went back far enough he'd know Lan is one half of Satan's soul, while Jun is the other.]] |
| 74 | * MyGreatestFailure: How he feels about [[spoiler: Sachiko and Miki's deaths, with the latter leaving a huge impact all the way to ''Devilman Lady'']]. Tellingly, his intention to help Jun really sticks out because she was the first person he cared about and loved [[spoiler:after [[CosmicRetcon the universe rebooted]]]]. |
| 75 | * NiceGuy: Akira keeps his kind heart even after being possessed by Amon. |
| 76 | ** Akira was so nice pre-merging, in fact, that he was considering [[JapanesePoliteness removing his shoes]] before entering the Asuka household. [[SkewedPriorities In the middle of being chased by a demon.]] |
| 77 | * NoPlaceForMeThere: [[spoiler:He chooses to reside in Hell after the events of ''Devilman'' and not Heaven. Hell might be a terrible SocialDarwinist prison of pointless torture, but he sees Heaven as a prison basked in light filled with obedient slaves of God and that such a place lacks the justice he sought.]] |
| 78 | * NominalHero: [[spoiler:Starts out as one in ''Devilman vs Hades'' where he only cares about reviving Miki. When he ends up reviving the dead across Earth and creating a second hell where people as animals rape, eat, and kill each other. Making a land where the strong pick on the weak. Only by interacting with Barakarasu and Philomela does he start to soften enough that he decides to try to take and then use Hades power to revive humanity properly.]] |
| 79 | * NotSoDifferentRemark: In Devilman vs Hades, Akira invades hell in order to wrestle control of the souls of the dead from Hades. Akira ends up reviving all of Earth in the process of trying to revive Miki, but Persephone scolds Akira, informing him that removing those souls improperly would leave the revived humans as feral monsters; little better than zombies, and the rare few who do remain sane will suffer immensely. Making it worse, Akira shows no remorse for this blunder. In other words, Akira caused untold amounts of misery all for the sake of one person he loved, the consequences be damned. Sounds a bit like Satan's obsession for Akira, doesn't it? |
| 80 | * ObliviousToLove: Akira is completely unaware that Ryo is gay (to the point that Ryo's indirect confession of being so in ''Shin Devilman'' flies way over his head), much less that he's in love with ''him''. |
| 81 | ** In a more mundane sense, Akira doesn't realize that Miki already loved him for who he was before the demon transformation. To be sure, Miki enjoyed the boost in confidence and strength that came with the ''new Akira'', but it was the kind and gentle Akira that Miki loved years before Amon entered into the picture. |
| 82 | * ParentalAbandonment: Akira lives with the Makimura family full-time. In some versions of the story, his family perished in an incident. |
| 83 | * ProneToTears: According to Miki, Akira used to cry so much that his nickname was “The Fire Alarm of Higashi Elementary”. In Crybaby, he has not grown out of it. |
| 84 | * {{Reincarnation}}: [[spoiler:In ''Violence Jack'', he is reincarnated as the titular big man himself. After disappearing with Satan near the end, however, Amon takes over as Violence Jack and continues fighting to protect humanity in Akira's stead in ''Shin Violence Jack'']]. |
| 85 | * RelatedInTheAdaptation: He is [[Anime/MazingerZ Dr. Hell's]] grandson in ''Mazin Saga''. |
| 86 | * RescueRomance: He's the rescuer in this sense after saving Jun Fudo numerous times as the latter [[BodyguardCrush falls for him]]. |
| 87 | * RestrainingBolt: In ''Grimore''. While Amon has full control of Akira, Akira has enough influence over Amon to keep him from laying so much as a claw on Miki's head no matter how hungry and tempted Amon gets. |
| 88 | ** This applies to Devilman vs Hades too. Amon realizes that Akira's love for Miki will keep him tethered to this world, and allow him to resist his influence. Therefore Miki's soul needs to be destroyed so it can't be used to help Akira resist his control. To illustrate how real a fear this was, displaying Miki's corpse during Amon's battle with Hades instantly paralyzes Amon, and allows Akira to assert control. |
| 89 | * RevengeBeforeReason: [[spoiler:Ryo offers peace between demonkind and devilmen when Akira approaches him. Akira, unwilling to accept it despite it meaning his devilmen followers survival, wastes time contemplating what to fight for as justification against Satan until he remembers Miki. Once she dies partly cause of his own inaction, Akira chooses to let humanity kill themselves while he leads the devilmen into a pointless war against Satan for revenge, getting them all killed.]] |
| 90 | * TheReveal: [[spoiler:Yuki Fudou is ''not'' Akira Fudou in Devilman Saga. It's revealed the armors are possessing him and others because they are the AlternateUniverse version of said demons. Making him a human incarnation of Amon]]. |
| 91 | * RoaringRampageOfRevenge: Does this to [[spoiler:the torturers responsible for the deaths of Mr. and Mrs. Makimura, as well as the lynch mob that murdered Miki, Tare and Masa. In ''Devilman vs Hades'', it's revealed that afterwards, he extended this to ''wiping out mankind'', not even bothering to wait for either humans to wipe each other out or be destroyed by Satan and his demons]]. Even Persephone and the other gods of Hades are shocked to hear this. |
| 92 | * SameCharacterButDifferent: In Mazin Saga, he is now a bad guy who works for Dr. Hell (who is also his grandfather in that series). |
| 93 | * SchoolUniformsAreTheNewBlack: Rarely seen out of it. |
| 94 | * SecondLove: In ''Devilman Lady'', He falls in love with Jun Fudo (not related) when she appeared in Hell in which he does have sex with her. He then makes it his goal to protect her. Sadly it doesn't go anywhere as she [[spoiler:is literally the second half of Satan]]. |
| 95 | * {{Sizeshifter}}: His initial interaction with Amon's armor allows him to become giant, and even after returning to human size gains additional height and mass from the experience. |
| 96 | * ShrinkingViolet: Akira was originally very timid and non-confrontational before becoming Devilman. |
| 97 | * StarCrossedLovers: ''Twice'' no less. [[spoiler: Miki is murdered and Jun is the LiteralSplitPersonality of Satan/Ryo]]. |
| 98 | * TallDarkAndHandsome: He's a [[ShrinkingViolet wimpy nobody]] at first, but once he merges with Amon he stands taller and leaner, with wild hair, intense eyes and an impressive physique. [[ChickMagnet This doesn't go unnoticed.]] |
| 99 | * TheHeroDies: [[spoiler:At the hands of Ryo, every time.]] |
| 100 | * TheirFirstTime: In ''Lady'', this applies with him and Jun, and it's more consensual than what the latter goes through. Keep in mind that this is the original Akira, as he never (and ever will) had a RelationshipUpgrade with Miki... at least, not until ''Devilman Saga'', where he (in his current incarnation as Yuuki) and Miki are married. |
| 101 | * ThouShaltNotKill: Played with. Akira has no problem killing other demons, but he draws the line at killing humans and other Devilmen. [[spoiler: He breaks this rule after seeing Miki's corpse.]] |
| 102 | * TookALevelInBadass: After merging with Amon. Even outside of his Devilman form, he's far stronger, faster and more confident than any normal human. |
| 103 | * TookALevelInJerkass: Amon's influence causes Akira to become more aggressive and callous over time, but he still remains centered enough in his morality that while he's no longer a straight up NiceGuy he's a JerkWithAHeartOfGold at worst. Unfortunately he takes an even bigger level in jerkass after [[spoiler:[[JerkassWoobie Miki is murdered]]]]; and various spin-offs show the extreme toll this takes on his sanity. |
| 104 | * TookALevelInKindness: Akira shows a surprising amount of kindness [[spoiler:in ''Devilman Lady'' showing a very caring and supportive attitude towards Jun. He saves his aggression towards his enemies. Especially Jinmen]]. |
| 105 | * WasItAllALie: [[spoiler:Part of Akira's reason for opposing Satan near the end of the manga was his belief everything him and Ryo did was a lie and that he was only being used by Satan. Only when Satan cries for him does Akira realize otherwise.]] |
| 106 | * WithGreatPowerComesGreatHotness: Akira was just a skinny OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent. After fusing with the devil warrior, Amon, he gets a super powerful body with muscles, a manlier face, and a six-pack. He becomes a ChickMagnet because of this. |
| 107 | * WhyCantIHateYou: Played with. Despite hating that [[spoiler:Ryo took so much from him and caused him so much pain, he reveals in ''Devilman Lady'' he still cares about Ryo.]] |
| 108 | ** ''Neo Devilman'' reveals that he did hate [[spoiler: Ryo/Satan for wiping humankind and killing his friends and adoptive family; but after he died and saw Ryo's crying face, Akira realized that there was some good in him after all.]] |
| 109 | * WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: Becomes this after [[spoiler: Miki's brutal death, leading him to wage a mutually destructive war against Satan and his demons. ''Devilman vs Hades'' reveals that it was Akira, rather than the demons or humans themselves, who wiped out humanity after Miki's death.]] |
| 110 | * YourApprovalFillsMeWithShame: In Devilman Lady, Sirene calls Akira Amon during their battle to the death in hell. In Sirene's eyes Akira has effectively reached a peak of power and brutality that reminds her of Amon's majesty in his glory days, and as far as she's concerned that makes Akira the same as Amon. There is some ambiguity if Sirene's obsession is erasing Akira and projecting Amon's identity onto Akira, or if she views him to be a worthy replacement for Amon given how much he's advanced. Akira for his part is disgusted, and claims that her obsession with Amon is unhealthy. |
| 111 | ** There's a scene from the Cyborg 009/Devilman crossover manga, where a female devilman tells Akira that he reminds her of Amon. According to her, Amon defended a tribe of devilmen in the past that she's descended from. Even though Akira clarifies that he's in control and Amon is dormant, she still compliments Akira saying that she's willing to give praise to Amon's successor for helping them. Akira is not fond of the comparison to Amon, and asks her to call him Akira, but you can tell that she doesn't care for his reservations. |
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| 115 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/devilman_amon.png]] |
| 116 | The alter ego of Akira, and the half-demon half-human protector of mankind. Akira transforms into this whenever he needs to fight and does so by violently morphing into a goat/bird-legged batlike creature. |
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| 118 | The demon Akira possessed, Amon, is famous among demons as one of the most powerful demons of all time. Amon began life as a demon called the White Monster and was adopted by a tribe of Sirenes. After the tribe was mostly wiped out by t-rexes, he joined the united demon tribe formed by Satan alongside two other survivors: an albino known as the White Sirene and on who had lost her wings called Sheena. After learning of the legend of Deathless Amon from Kaim, the White Monster climbed Amon's ladder and challenged the legendary demon, eventually winning their battle and claiming Amon's power and name for himself. |
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| 120 | * AdaptationDyeJob: Played with. In other media such as the 1972 anime and ''Cyborg 009 vs. Devilman'', he's green. In the ''Amon'' OVA, he's gray while Amon himself is red. The original manga mixes the above image and green skin. |
| 121 | * AntiHero: In every iteration of his character, he's not exactly heroic, but not even villainous either. In the anime, while he's a {{Jerkass}}, he does try to save people, but in every other incarnation, he wants to have a good fight which would end his opponents. He loses this trait in the later parts of the manga and ''Devilman Lady''. |
| 122 | * TheBerserker: How he fights. If you make an enemy out of him, [[CruelAndUnusualDeath expect your corpse to be anything but intact]]. |
| 123 | * BloodKnight: He just ''loves'' a good fight, and said lust for battle bleeds over into his Akira personality. |
| 124 | * ComboPlatterPowers: Of the LovecraftianSuperpower variety. Devilman can: |
| 125 | ** {{Flight}}: Spontaneously grow wings to fly with. |
| 126 | ** HealingFactor: He certainly has this, but it's typically not instant. In one amusing instance Ryo simply puts his severed arm on the stump and his body does the rest. [[spoiler:Getting cut in half at the waist does seem to be a limit to what his regeneration can handle.]] |
| 127 | ** IntangibleMan: Phase through solid objects. Being able to pass through steel is a high end demon power. |
| 128 | ** PlayingWithFire: Fire a "Devil Beam" which, in the manga, is more like heat generation. Both versions are a HandBlast. |
| 129 | ** PureEnergy: He can also fire a "Devil Arrow" from his antennae. |
| 130 | ** PowersViaPossession: How Akira got his powers, but in an interesting way. |
| 131 | ** PsychicPowers: Use {{Telepathy}}, PsychicRadar (limited to violence). Both of these powers are rather weak in him, as he's more action oriented. |
| 132 | ** {{Shapeshifting}}: Transform at will, though this is limited to his Devilman and human forms, though versions in between are also common. Devilman is also a SizeShifter; his full height is somewhere along the lines of 3-5 meters in height. |
| 133 | ** SuperStrength: Tear apart demons with his bare hands. |
| 134 | ** SuperToughness: Survive injuries that would kill a normal human ten times over. [[spoiler:Except getting split in half at the torso...]] |
| 135 | ** {{Teleportation}}: This is how demons possess other beings and things, by effectively [[TeleFrag telefragging]] into them. |
| 136 | * DemonicPossession: Inverted in the manga, where Devilman is essentially the result of a ''human'' possessing a ''demon'', but played straight in the anime and ''Grimoire'', where Amon's possession of Akira killed his original personality. |
| 137 | * FullFrontalAssault: In the original manga Akira does not wear any clothing while in his Devilman form, as his transformations destroy his clothing. |
| 138 | * FusionDance: Just like normal demons Devilman can still fuse with other things, but he typically avoids this. |
| 139 | %%* GoodIsNotNice |
| 140 | * GoodIsNotSoft: As the demons he happily rips apart can testify. |
| 141 | * HasAType: Strong willed and determined girls who resemble Miki. Nike, Silene, and Miki all have some resemblance to each other. |
| 142 | * HorrifyingHero: Anyone who sees him is instantly '''horrified'''. [[spoiler: This turns against him in the manga and ''Crybaby'' in which multiple people find him horrific and the same as a normal demon, and [[HeroWithBadPublicity he becomes hunted as a result]].]] |
| 143 | * JerkWithAHeartOfGold: At his most heroic, Amon isn't too bad of a guy. Such as in the Toei Animation anime and Grimoire. |
| 144 | * LoveRedeems: In the Toei anime, he fully intended to destroy humanity as planned once he took over Akira's body. However seeing Miki changed all that, and he becomes branded as a traitor by nearly every demon. |
| 145 | * MeaningfulName: Amon or Ammon, was the Egyptian king of the gods, which is fitting for Amon since he's considered the champion of all demons. Amon means "the hidden one", which reflects the fact that he's hidden inside Akira's body for the duration of the story. Ammon was a god associated with the air, and was known as a "roaring stream" when he fought his foes, which is an apt description of the overwhelming power Amon wields in combat. |
| 146 | * NobleDemon: Unlike in other series, Amon works in tandem with Yuki Fudou in ''Devilman Saga'', even choosing to not MercyKill Vulva and try to release the humans fused with him like Yuki wanted, even when it failed in the end and all three die in the attempt to defuse. [[spoiler:While he's later implied to take over Yuki at night, he does so to fight and slay demons. Returning it to Yuki during daytime to live his life.]] |
| 147 | ** The Amon manga shows him in a flattering light too. Amon lived as a drifter in the prehistoric Earth, avoiding unnecessary fights and traveled alone rather than in a pack. When he's willing to talk to people he's mild mannered and doesn't act like he's someone worthy of obeying or following. This puts him in contrast with Satan, who Amon hates for viewing herself to be superior to the demons. |
| 148 | * NoNameGiven: In the Toei anime, he is simply "Devilman". In the manga and other adaptations, it's Amon. |
| 149 | * OneManArmy: He is capable of slaughtering demons by the hundreds. Best demonstrated during the Black Sabbath where he kills every demon possessing humans. |
| 150 | * ThePowerOfLove: Amon felt genuine love for the demon Nike and it even managed to overwhelm Akira in ''Shin Devilman''. Likewise his falling in love with Miki in the 1970s anime and ''Grimoire'' bring out the best in Amon. |
| 151 | * ShapeshiftingExcludesClothing: In most adaptations Akira is completely naked when he returns to his human form, as his transformation into Devilman destroys his clothing. Averted in ''Devilman Crybaby'' and the 1972 anime, where he has MagicPants in both. |
| 152 | * SlasherSmile: He possesses a grin that looks to be one. Later dropped this late in the manga and in ''Devilman Lady''. |
| 153 | * SmallNameBigEgo: Akira likes to believe that the demon Amon rivals Satan. [[spoiler:Not only is it not true as each time Satan attacked him Akira is always defeated in a CurbStompBattle, but the one time it didn't happen in the final battle of ''Violence Jack'' was precisely because Satan refused to attack him.]] |
| 154 | * SparedByTheAdaptation: |
| 155 | ** He survives with Miki in the Toei anime, fully embracing his identity as Akira. |
| 156 | ** Survives completely in the NES game, which is a faithful adaptation of the manga. |
| 157 | * SuperPoweredEvilSide: Depending on adaptations, he is either ChaoticEvil or NeutralEvil, but hates Akira. In others such as ''Devilman Lady'', they become the same person, since not a hint of Amon's old personality was in that series. |
| 158 | * WalkingShirtlessScene: Akira rips his shirt (and sometimes his pants), whenever he transforms. |
| 159 | * WalkingWasteland: [[spoiler: When Amon is in control he can [[BodyHorror melt]] things just by walking near them and if a vision by the Bonds of Hinduism is to be believe he could do this to the entire world if given the opportunity]]. |
| 160 | [[/folder]] |
| 161 | |
| 162 | [[folder:Ryo Asuka]] |
| 163 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/devilman_ryo.png]] |
| 164 | ->'''Voiced in Japanese by:''' Creator/YuuMizushima (''The Birth'', ''The Demon Bird'' and ''CB Chara Nagai Go World'' OAV's), Creator/ToruFurusawa (''Devilman'' PSX), Creator/TomokazuSeki (''Amon: The Apocalypse of Devilman''), Creator/YumiKakazu (Mahjong PC game), Creator/MasakazuMorita (''CR Devilman Awakening''), Creator/SoichiroHoshi (''Devilman II Resurrection''), Creator/SatoshiHino (''Cyborg 009 vs. Devilman''), Creator/AyumuMurase (''Crybaby'') |
| 165 | ->'''Voiced in English by:''' Creator/ChristopherCoreySmith (''Cyborg 009 vs. Devilman''), Creator/KyleMcCarley (''Crybaby'') |
| 166 | ->'''Voiced in Latin American Spanish by:''' Creator/RicardoMendoza (''The Birth'' and ''The Demon Bird''), Miguel Angel Leal (''Crybaby/male''), Kerygma Flores (''Crybaby/female'') |
| 167 | |
| 168 | Akira's best friend, who is the one responsible for him becoming Devilman. He's very loose on morals and believes in extreme methods in order to wipe the demons. Ryo is also very possessive and territorial towards Akira and dismissive of everyone else. |
| 169 | ---- |
| 170 | * AboveGoodAndEvil: Ryo's attitude, given his disregard for law and individual human life. Potentially justifiable, considering all of humankind is at stake. [[spoiler:Makes plenty of sense in hindsight, once it's revealed he has been Satan all along and then subverted when it's shown is actually a very empathetic person who happens to have faults like any other person.]] |
| 171 | * AdaptationalAttractiveness: |
| 172 | ** He's not particularly {{Bishounen}} in the original manga [[spoiler: (before transforming into Satan, at least)]], but becomes more so in the [=OVAs=]. ''AMON'' exaggerates his prettiness, [[spoiler: especially in Satan form]]. |
| 173 | ** [[spoiler:In the original manga Akira asks a fellow Devilman if Satan is as beautiful as an angel, having realized in his conversation with Ryo that he was Satan. Though Ryo look more {{Hunk}} like in the manga compared to later adaptations making him prettier to go with this statement.]] |
| 174 | * AdaptationRelationshipOverhaul: The live action movie completely removes Ryo's romantic feelings for Akira and instead makes them HeterosexualLifePartners, this might have been because the actors playing either character were twin brothers. |
| 175 | * AdaptedOut: Ryo was left out of the original anime, though the developers later stated that they would have liked to have included him at some point, though what role he would have had is unknown, owing to the series' divergence from the Manga's story. He was in the [=OVAs=], playing the same role he did in the manga, but was left out of ''Devilman Grimoire''. The character Himura, who appears in both the anime and ''Grimoire'', resembles him, however. |
| 176 | * AllForNothing: At the end of the original manga, [[spoiler:it's implied that Ryo, after defeating Akira in battle, is killed in the same orb of heavenly light sent by God that destroyed Russia. For as many lives as the war between humans and devils took, in the end ''no one'' wins.]] |
| 177 | * AmbiguouslyBi: While his interest in Akira was originally depicted as SingleTargetSexuality, later additions to the series have provided evidence that Ryo can be attracted to other people, definitely men and possibly women. |
| 178 | ** In the original manga Ryo’s attraction to Akira (in order to avoid conflict with the MoralGuardians) was explained as being because [[spoiler:Satan, being a {{Hermaphrodite}}, possesses a vagina, following this same logic Ryo should also experience attraction towards women since Satan has a penis too.]] |
| 179 | ** [[spoiler:In ''Violence Jack'', an amnesiac Ryo falls in love with Miki. Granted it’s part of a complex plot to punish himself for his actions in the manga, but still, he didn’t strictly speaking need to set it up so that they’d fall in love with each other for the both to end up enslaved by the Slum King.]] |
| 180 | ** In ''Devilman Lady'', [[spoiler:the two main characters are two halves of Satan’s being, one of them is bisexual and the other is an intersex individual. This is to say nothing of how Jun resembles Akira in a number of ways, which Lan no doubt subconsciously desires. That said, both Jun and Lan feel deep emotional longing for Akira when he shows up as a ghost, even though neither of them understand Satan's feelings are influencing them.]] |
| 181 | ** In general, the details of Ryo's sexuality seem to be a case of DependingOnTheWriter. |
| 182 | * AnguishedDeclarationOfLove: Amazingly, despite how central Ryo's feelings for Akira are to his character -- [[spoiler: to the point that even his true persona as Satan desperately wanted to save him --]] Ryo never told Akira directly how he feels. Ironically, [[spoiler: '''Xenon''' of all people is who Satan confesses the truth of his love for Akira to, something that Xenon mocks his master for, since his love cost them countless demons and Amon.]] This shows how emotionally repressed Ryo is, and how stubbornly tight lipped he is about sentimentality. |
| 183 | ** Crybaby subverts this a bit. In the aftermath of Akira [[spoiler: losing the war to Satan, the latter gives a roundabout love confession when he acknowledges that he was wrong about love not existing. Akira is the proof Satan finally needed, and turns to him expecting an answer... only to realize he's dead. Satan reacts to Akira's death poorly, and weeps bitterly in a way the manga Satan did not. Satan doesn't admit he loves Akira here directly, but the sentiment is there.]] |
| 184 | ** In Devilman Lady [[spoiler: Jun Fudo refuses to leave Akira behind in hell, admitting that the emotional pain of going anywhere in the universe without him is too much to bear. Jun is a split personality of Satan, who doesn't understand why she's so drawn to Akira but she shows in black and white that Ryo/Satan really did love Akira. It's telling that it takes a split personality, with none of Satan's pride or conceit, for the message to finally get across to Akira. Amusingly, when Satan is reborn from Jun and Lan's fusion, he doesn't bother to discuss the topic of romance between them and just demands they go to war with heaven '''right now'''. Satan isn't much of a romantic, it'd seem.]] |
| 185 | ** In Devilman Saga [[spoiler: Ryo confesses his love to Yuuki Fudo, who is basically Akira's counterpart for this timeline, much to the latter's shock. Ryo admits that he loved Yuuki since they were kids, and if the reality they're both men unsettles him then Yuuki should be aware Ryo is a hermaphodite and can "love men like a woman". Yuuki reacts to it with disgust, not emotionally ready to accept the truth about Ryo's body; realizing that it's not going well Ryo makes the excuse that it was just a joke. Ryo's tears behind Yuuki's back reveal that it wasn't.]] |
| 186 | * AnimalMotifs: Birds and serpents: |
| 187 | ** Ryo's last name Asuka literally means "flying bird". Ryo has fluffy hair, not unlike the fluffy feathers of a bird. Ryo also wears fancy clothing, not unlike how male birds use their bright colors to show off. Satan takes this to the next level, as she is literally an angel, and angels are commonly associated with birds. In Lady, angels are compared to [[LightIsNotGood birds of prey]] however, reminding you that angels may be beautiful but they are extremely powerful and dangerous. Some versions of Satan even have feathers fused to her skin, as if they were scales on her body, taking this imagery further than just the wings on her back and head. |
| 188 | ** Per the Bible, Satan is believed to have been the Serpent who tempted Adam and Eve. In Revelation, Satan is explicitly called a dragon. Lady's story alludes to this when Akira calls Satan the Serpent of Light on more than one occasion. When confronting Lan (who Akira assumes is Satan in a human disguise) he calls her the Serpent of Light to express his disgust towards Satan. Satan never takes on the form of a dragon, but some versions of her design show Satan to have sharp teeth and claws on her fingers -- not unlike a dragon. |
| 189 | * AntiHero: While Akira can be more virtuous and leave a demon alone if it backs down and becomes non-hostile, Ryo shows no such compulsions and uses everything in his power to destroy them. With that being said, the story does go out of its way to show that Ryo isn't exactly a ''bad'' person either as, while he certainly has unhinged and even bloodthirsty tendencies, he's still a flawed human being capable of having empathy and kindness for others. [[spoiler:Even after he awakens to his true nature as Satan and acts upon it, Ryo still retains his humanizing qualities.]] |
| 190 | * BadassLongcoat: And it's pretty damn well animated in the [=OVAs=]. |
| 191 | * BecameTheirOwnAntithesis: At the end of the original manga, [[spoiler:Ryo admits to Akira's severed corpse that he's become no better than his [[{{God}} father]], doing the exact same thing to humanity that God did to the demons. Ryo feels genuine remorse for what he's done, but it's far too late to change what happened.]] |
| 192 | * BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: Ryo is apathetic -- and at times even condescending -- towards other humans, with the exception of Akira because Akira was the only one who reached out to him and befriended him. Tiana, the Native American girl he befriended in ''Shin'', was one of the few others he eventually came to care about. |
| 193 | * BerserkButton: Don't hurt Akira in front of him. Hell, in his introductory scene, he pulls a rifle at the Dosu Roku gang who were picking on Akira! |
| 194 | * BigBadFriend: [[spoiler:To Akira once he discovers his real identity.]] |
| 195 | * ButNotTooForeign: Ryo has a Japanese father and a white mother. |
| 196 | * CharacterizationMarchesOn: At first, he's shown to be very loose on morals and very violent and sadistic, but mellows out in later volumes. FridgeLogic if you consider that [[spoiler: Ryo is an amnesiac Satan, so he lacked in human morals, social skills and common sense during the first volume.]] |
| 197 | ** Expanded upon on other manga/side stories. [[spoiler: Ryo is shown to be shy when he was young in Devilman Saga and towards Tiana in Shin Devilman. It is also revealed that Ryo can't bring himself kill animals even to survive in the wilderness.]] |
| 198 | ** [[spoiler:''Devilman Saga'' reveals that Yuuki Fudou and Ryo Ouji Asuka got along well because they both are pacifists. Ryo seeks power despite hating war is to maintain peace.]] |
| 199 | * CoincidenceMagnet: Ryo is terrified that all of the cynical predictions he makes keep coming true. [[spoiler: It turns out that none of these are coincidences. These predictions are likely just fragments of Satan's commands to his demon army.]] |
| 200 | * CompositeCharacter / DecompositeCharacter: Yes, Ryo manages to be both of these in ''Devilman Grimoir'', where he, Himura Iwao and Zannin are now fused into one character, while [[spoiler:his true Satan form is now a seperate character altogether]]. |
| 201 | * CrazyJealousGuy: He does NOT like the idea of Miki hanging around Akira and treats her with contempt. The ''AMON'' manga makes it so [[spoiler: Ryo/Satan choose to broadcast the video about the devilmen and betraying Akira in the process: he realized that Miki was more important in Akira's life than him. When Dosu-Roku finds out, he calls Satan out for this, saying that he basically [[DisproportionateRetribution doomed humankind for an insanely petty reason]].]] |
| 202 | -->'''Ryo:''' The only one who saves Akira will be me... and me alone! |
| 203 | %%* CreepyGood: [[spoiler:But not for long.]] |
| 204 | * DespairEventHorizon: Ryo gradually goes from viewing Akira as the savior of humankind to viewing the fight against the demons to be a pointless and futile one. |
| 205 | ** Also has a big one when he suddenly realizes that [[spoiler: he's not actually Ryo Asuka.]] |
| 206 | * DiesDifferentlyInTheAdaptation: [[spoiler:Implied to die against Akira in the NES game as the FinalBoss. His defeat means Akira can live with Miki at the end of the game]]. |
| 207 | * DudeLooksLikeALady: See AdaptationalAttractiveness above, but as shown after he [[spoiler: transforms into Satan]], Ryo has very androgynous features and becomes more so in later adaptations. Also, in ''Devilman Saga'', he was bullied as a child for his girly features. This is toned down somewhat in ''Crybaby'', where he looks a lot more masculine. [[spoiler: Upon becoming Satan once more, he immediately reverts back this trope however, making it a subversion.]] |
| 208 | * EntitledToHaveYou: He has shades of this when it comes to Akira. |
| 209 | * EvilFormerFriend: At first, he’s best friends with Akira. Now, [[spoiler:(as Satan)]], they’re enemies. |
| 210 | * {{Flanderization}}: He was perfectly capable of strategizing and even being a dead serious, outright scary person in the original story, but some adaptations tend to focus almost entirely on [[spoiler: his one-sided MadLove for Akira]]. |
| 211 | * FalseSoulmate: Ryo is in love with Akira, to the point that he views Akira's continued existence to be a goal more worthy than humanity being saved. This carries over to Satan, whose love for Akira puts their plan to bring about demon supremacy in danger. Despite this love for Akira, Satan places value on Akira's demonic urges and encourages him to embrace them, which is contrary to Akira's loving, and justice guided nature. Satan is aware that Akira embodies the best of what humanity represents, but they struggle to resist Ryo's human heart so that the demonic supremacy plan can go on as intended. The tragedy is that Ryo/Satan '''could''' be a good fit for Akira romantically if they could let go of their hubris, but as it stands Satan is a toxic influence. |
| 212 | ** The story also takes lengths to imply that if Ryo is Akira's false soulmate, then Miki is the more healthy, ideal partner for Akira. Miki understood that Akira still had a human heart, even if he had become a demon. In the Amon manga Akira nearly loses his soul to Amon, and Satan tries to prevent this takeover from happening, hugging him intimately. As soon as Miki walks in the room, Akira's hostile possession is cured instantly. In the Amon OVA, Satan uses her magic to awaken Akira so that he can fight back against Amon, but Satan's influence doesn't empower Akira to win against Amon. The memory of Miki's love allows Akira to cry again, getting him back in touch with his humanity, and he finally wins against Amon. In Devilman vs Hades, when Akira's soul is being taken over by Amon, Miki's corpse is able to shock Akira back to consciousness. Miki's love for Akira is so powerful that her body comes back to life and comforts an unconscious Akira whose soul was in limbo thanks to Hades. Miki is Ryo's greatest obstacle to Akira's love, and Ryo is all too aware of it. |
| 213 | * {{Foil}}: To Akira, in several ways, both abstractly and aesthetically. Most apparently, Ryo is a pale man with blonde hair and light eyes, usually dressing in bright or white colors, while Akira is a typical Japanese boy with black or brown hair and eyes, favoring his black school uniform for clothing. It's also consistent that Ryo typically keeps a cool head and [[TheUnfettered doesn't bother with laws and morals]], while Akira used to be prone to panic and despair, and later becomes outwardly aggressive, but always strives to stay on the side of good. Ryo is coldly practical, always considering long term and grand scheme solutions, but Akira is often unable to accept sacrifices for the greater good when it comes to innocent life and can't sit idly by when someone is in need. |
| 214 | ** Before Akira merged with Amon: Akira was timid, gentle and plain, while Ryo was a charismatic, confident, wealthy young man, unafraid of getting his hands dirty or breaking the rules. |
| 215 | ** After Akira merged with Amon: Akira becomes brasher and wilder in appearance and behavior, but Ryo remains clean cut and refined, and takes a methodical approach in all endeavors. |
| 216 | ** Akira as Devilman: Akira uses his powers to tear demons limb from limb, while Ryo stays human and acts as his strategist and manager. Ryo falls deeper into cold pragmatism while Akira struggles to hold onto his humanity. [[spoiler: When Ryo takes his true form as Satan, he is beautiful and serene, contrasting Devilman's fearsome appearance. Satan fights to destroy humanity and make a world for demons and Akira, while Akira continues to fight demonkind and resist Ryo's offers of eternal companionship. Whereas Satan's {{Pride}} keeps him from stopping despite moments where he questions his actions until it's too late, Akira acts solely on his emotions as they both refuse to back down and doom the world.]] |
| 217 | * FriendToAllLivingThings: Ryo is compassionate to all animals on earth. [[spoiler:Satan likewise wanted to protect them as much as he does demonkind.]] |
| 218 | * GenderBender: [[spoiler:One of his main abilities, as an angel, is to shift between male, female and intersex]]. |
| 219 | * GreenEyedMonster: Ryo really doesn't like seeing Akira and Miki together, as shown in side story "One Summer Day". |
| 220 | * TheHeavy: Albeit not a villainous example; Ryo is the entire reason that Akira became Devilman in the manga. [[spoiler:Ryo's true self turns out to be a more traditional heavy as well.]] |
| 221 | %%* HeManWomanHater: Only when Miki is concerned. |
| 222 | * HeterosexualLifePartners: Ryo's relationship with Akira is very emotionally intense, particularly in the first volume in the manga. [[spoiler: The ''heterosexual'' part is ultimately subverted, at least on Ryo's side.]] |
| 223 | * HollywoodGenetics: It's very unlikely for a half-Japanese person to have natural blonde hair and blue eyes. [[spoiler: While one might think this is due to actually being Satan, the original Ryo Asuka also had this coloring.]] |
| 224 | * IfItsYouItsOkay[=/=]SingleTargetSexuality: [[spoiler: Ryo's only ever had eyes for Akira, but by human standards he wouldn't be exactly gay, since his true form is a supernatural {{Hermaphrodite}} angel. That being said, Akira's the only human he truly cares about, despite his true form Satan hating humanity as a whole.]] |
| 225 | * IgnoredEpiphany: Played with. [[spoiler:Despite knowing nothing awaits but death if the demons and devilmen face each other, Ryo accepts that fighting is inevitable because of how well he knows Akira. So he fights in a final battle with resigned acceptance.]] |
| 226 | * IncompatibleOrientation: |
| 227 | ** [[spoiler: He has feelings for Akira and is violently protective of him. Except Akira cares for Ryo, but he leans more towards Miki than to him. He finally gets to confess his feelings for him (actually Yuuki Fudou, Akira's current incarnation) in ''Devilman Saga''. [[HopelessSuitor Goes as well as expected.]] Zigzagged in Manga/DevilmanLady, where Akira does have a relationship with Jun Fudou, one of Satan's halves and a split part of Ryou himself; he falls for her hard enough to vow to protect Jun for the rest of his life once he reincarnates.]] |
| 228 | ** [[spoiler:By the end of ''Devilman Lady'' Ryo's relationship with Akira has grown into every potential relationship possible. A best friend, an enemy, a lover (Jun Fudou), a mother (also Jun Fudou), and father (Ran Asuka). To say their connection to each other is complicated is putting it mildly.]] |
| 229 | * {{Irony}}: |
| 230 | ** [[spoiler: Despite being the cause of humanity's self destruction, and the leader of the demonic invasion to begin with, Ryo ends up expressing more sorrow over the extinction of mankind than Akira did. The tragedy of their situation is that Akira and Ryo end up in different places at the end of the story. Akira the hero stops caring about anyone, while Ryo learns the value of human life and what it means to love. Too bad for Satan she learned that truth too late to save Akira or humanity.]] |
| 231 | ** [[spoiler:In a roundabout way, Akira falls in love with Jun Fudo, who is the other half of Satan/Ryo]]. |
| 232 | * LateArrivalSpoiler: Sequels and spinoffs not only don't hide [[spoiler: his plotting nature and obsession with Akira, they greatly exaggerate it.]] |
| 233 | * MeaningfulName: Ryo can be read as "distant" or "cool", which suits Ryo's calm and detached personality. Asuka can be read as "flying bird" [[spoiler: which is fairly appropriate given Ryo's angelic form as Satan.]] |
| 234 | * MuggleBestFriend: Ryo intended for both himself and Akira to be possessed by demons, but somehow escaped this fate. Later in the series this makes him feel helpless and he starts to look for a method to become a devilman himself. [[spoiler: He eventually gains the power of a demon- in fact, one of the most powerful demons of them all, because he’s Satan himself.]] |
| 235 | * MurderTheHypotenuse: In the ''AMON'' manga, [[spoiler:Ryo wants to be Akira's most important person so badly that he's willing to kill Miki just so she can't]]. No matter how directly or indirectly, he is ultimately responsible. He plans this in Go Nagai Chara World as well, but the situation never plays out like he wants. |
| 236 | * OfficialCouple: Enters a intimate and happy relationhip with Miki in ''Violence Jack''. [[spoiler:That is ultimately part of his goal to punish himself for killing Akira, and ends with both of them dying helping Violence Jack against Satan's darkside, Slum King]]. |
| 237 | * ParentalAbandonment: His mother died with he was a child, and his father died shortly before the beginning of the manga. |
| 238 | * PhenotypeStereotype: He's part white, so of course he's blond and blue-eyed. [[spoiler:Until it's revealed the real Ryo Asuka looks nothing like him.]] |
| 239 | * [[spoiler:PosthumousCharacter: the real Ryo Asuka died in a car crash long before the manga even began.]] |
| 240 | * PragmaticHero: Bordering on an UnscrupulousHero. He has good intentions, but isn't above doing questionable or heinous things to achieve them. |
| 241 | * SanitySlippage: Ryo's actions during most of the original manga were him suffering a breakdown after the death of his pet dog and father as well as learning about the existence of demons, with Akira noticing a considerable change in him. His unhinged and apathetic attitude partly caused by alcohol and drugs to help keep his sanity. ''Shin'' Devilman, especially the story about him and Akira residing with the Native Americans in the 1800s, features the much kinder person he was before he learned about demons. [[spoiler:It was precisely because he went mad trying to cope with his fear and paranoia concerning devilkind that Satan was able to understand the weaknesses of humanity.]] |
| 242 | * SelfFulfillingProphecy: Played with. [[spoiler:Ryo gradually begins to realize that something's just not right about him, as every one of his predictions concerning the demons has played out ''exactly'' as he thought. It's heavily implied that, as an amnesiac Satan, Ryo was subconsciously sending orders to Zenon on how to thwart humanity.]] |
| 243 | * TomatoInTheMirror: [[spoiler:As it turns out, the Ryo we've been following for the entire story wasn't the ''actual'' Ryo Asuka. In reality, "Ryo" is actually Satan who had himself brainwashed and took the place of the real Ryo Asuka, who died in a car accident before the story began. It is played with a bit, however, as "Ryo's" human heart was entirely the real deal, indicating that the original Ryo does live on through him somewhat.]] |
| 244 | * VocalDissonance: In the Playstation 1 game, Ryo has a voice that sounds deeper and more masculine than his usual voice, to the point where he sounds like a grown adult, even though he's supposed to be around 16 or 17 (the manga makes it very clear that he is below 18). |
| 245 | ** And then there's the Mahjong PC game, where he literally sounds like a girl or a young boy at best, even though he physically looks too old to have that kind of voice. |
| 246 | * {{Yandere}}: In the adaptations, he ended up [[spoiler:being responsible for Miki's death explicitly because of his violent, possessive feelings over Akira]] while he's more stable in the manga (see above). |
| 247 | [[/folder]] |
| 248 | |
| 249 | [[folder:Miki Makimura]] |
| 250 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/devilman_miki.png]] |
| 251 | ->'''Voiced by:''' Sumie Sakai (original series), Jun Konomaki (''The Birth'', ''The Demon Bird'' and ''CB Chara Nagai Go World'' OAV's), Miho Yamada (''Devilman'' PSX), Creator/KotonoMitsuishi (''The Legends Of Devilman'' Audio CD), Creator/AtsukoEnomoto (''Amon: The Apocalypse of Devilman''), Creator/MikaKanai (Mahjong PC game), Creator/AiNonaka (''CR Devilman Awakening''), Creator/SaoriHayami (''Cyborg 009 vs. Devilman''), Creator/MegumiHan (''Crybaby''), Creator/CristinaValenzuela (''Cyborg 009 vs. Devilman'', ''Crybaby'' & ''Re: Cutie Honey'' - English dubs) |
| 252 | |
| 253 | Our protagonist's LoveInterest, and an all-around sweethearted girl. |
| 254 | ---- |
| 255 | * ActionGirl: She can be one, and it borders on being a [[JapaneseDelinquents Sukeban]]. Most of the time, she's downgraded to more of a NeutralFemale. In contrast, Miko becomes a bit of a demon hunter in the third OVA and is something of a right-hand-lady to Akira. |
| 256 | ** After being reunited with her body in ''Shin Violence Jack'', Miki gains command of Cerberus, riding atop the three headed canine as a mounted warrior. |
| 257 | ** Miki is also this in ''Devilman Grimoire'', where she is shown punching out Himura after he and Dosu Roku's gang accost her and Akira. Afterwards she brags about it while having dinner with Akira and her family. And now, after 40 years, [[spoiler: Miki has finally become a Devilman herself.]] |
| 258 | * AdaptationalBadass: In the [=NES=] game, she is one of the playable characters and is capable of slapping a demon to death. |
| 259 | * AllGirlsWantBadBoys: Averted or downplayed in most adaptations, but played completely straight in the manga. She's originally tough, bossy and somewhat meanspirited, picking on Akira for his cowardice and sensitivity. Once he merges with Amon, she openly admits to finding him arousing, volunteering to carry his bags, cheering on his schoolyard brawls and fantasizing about him in the shower. She even downplays her tomboyishness to appeal to Akira, feigning fright and weakness for Akira's attention, something even her little brother picks up on. |
| 260 | * AlliterativeName: ''''M''''iki ''''M''''akimura. |
| 261 | * AnArmAndALeg: [[spoiler:It wasn't enough that someone had to tear open her backside with a trench knife, her attackers completely cut her to pieces and burned the pieces of her body on pikes. When Akira sees her head lifeless on top of a pike, he snaps and incinerates her killers.]] |
| 262 | * BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler: In other stories such as ''Violence Jack'' she comes back to life. ''Devilman vs Hades'' ends ambiguously to leave it whether only Persephone, Miki, or both revive in its ending.]] |
| 263 | * CharacterizationMarchesOn: In the manga, Miki noticeably had a meaner streak, where she was something of a BigSisterBully towards Tare (though to be fair, he did annoy her a lot) and was outright hostile towards Dosu-Roku and his gang, telling them to go kill themselves (though they did harass and antagonize her and Akira at first), and when Akira (prior to becoming Devilman) is too scared to fight them off, Miki belittled him for it, calling him a "Crybaby". However, in most of the adaptations, spin-offs, crossovers and sequels to Devilman, Miki's meaner traits are either heavily toned down, or outright removed, though she is still hot-tempered in most of her appearances. |
| 264 | * {{Chickification}}: Miki in just about everywhere else outside the original manga, [[ActionSurvivor somewhat]] in ''Crybaby'', the first [[OriginalVideoAnimation OVAs]] and ''Devilman Grimoire''. Originally she pushed Akira into becoming more active and insisting that he fought back against people who bullied him, and eventually [[WomenPreferStrongMen she liked Akira even more]] when he became more aggressive in his Devilman days. Other adaptations however, like the Anime and the final [[OriginalVideoAnimation OVA]], like to portray Miki in a more pure light; she is not shown to be amused by Akira being aggressive and certainly does not encourage him to fight anyone, and even in ''AMON'' where she retains her original personality, the aggressive part is still gone. |
| 265 | * {{Chuunibyou}}: Believes herself to be a witch in ''Devilman Grimore'', to the point where it started embarrassing Akira as they grew up. |
| 266 | * CruelAndUnusualDeath: [[spoiler: No matter which version of Devilman you watch (except Toei Animation's in which she lives), this inevitably happens to her. Best she gets? Decapitated with a katana after finding the chopped up remains of her kid brother, then your corpse chopped up and put on display. Second up, shot in the leg, seeing your friend's murdered corpse, having your back cut wide open, then your corpse chopped up and put on display. Worst? Having your back cut wide open, and still being very much alive but too injured to fight back as you are stabbed repeatedly in front of your best friend.]] |
| 267 | * CuteWitch: In ''Grimoire'', she likes to wear a pointed witch's hat and a dark cape to evoke this image. |
| 268 | * EthicalSlut: Alongside her implied Sukeban status, she calls her own obsession with post Badass level up Akira as being a "massive slut" in the second OVA. |
| 269 | * FaceDeathWithDignity: [[spoiler:Horrifically subverted. When Miki's home is stormed by an angry mob, she initially puts on a brave facade and holds her own against several attackers, even killing a few. Once she sees Tare's decapitated body and comes face-to-face with an attacker cruelly holding her brother's severed head, Miki completely breaks down and the reader is shown a mental image of two Mikis--one representing her hotblooded, aggressive side and the other representing her soft, sweet side--being ruthlessly torn apart.]] |
| 270 | * GoodIsNotNice: Downplayed. She's a NiceGirl overall, though she still has her jerkish moments (See JerkWithAHeartOfGold). |
| 271 | * GoofyPrintUnderwear: In ''Demon Bird'', Miki gets her panties made fun of by Akira while [[CatapultNightmare checking in on him.]] They depict two anthropomorphic apples skipping together with the caption [[GratuitousEnglish "You are mine"]]. |
| 272 | * HappilyMarried: With Yuuki Fudo (Akira Fudo's current incarnation) in ''Devilman Saga''. |
| 273 | * JapaneseDelinquent: It's implied she's a sukeban in the manga. |
| 274 | * JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Even though she's sometimes mean to her younger brother, Tare, when he pisses her off and is verbally abusive towards the delinquent characters, she's still a kind hearted girl who cares about those around her. |
| 275 | * KillItWithFire: Miki uses home-made Molotov cocktails to attack the people who break into her house late in the manga. |
| 276 | * KillTheCutie: [[spoiler:One of the nicer girls in the story is slated for a shocking murder caused by a witch hunt when she is unable to flee (And in ''Crybaby'', unable "pass the baton" to Akira), setting up Akira to become a WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds. Arguably, Miki's death reflects the [[HumansAreTheRealMonsters death of human goodness itself]]; once she's dead, humanity is beyond the hope of salvation.]] |
| 277 | * LoveInterest: To Akira in ''Devilman'', Ryo in ''Violence Jack'', Amon in the 70s ''Devilman'' anime and ''Grimoire'', and Jun Fudo's younger brother Hikaru Fudo in ''Lady''. |
| 278 | * MasculineGirlFeminineBoy: Initially Miki is the masculine girl to Akira's feminine boy, being a HotBlooded tomboy as opposed to Akira being a ShrinkingViolet. However, this stops being the case entirely after Akira's fusion with Amon. |
| 279 | * MeaningfulName: Miki means "beautiful" and can alternatively be read as "flower", which are apt descriptions for the character. Her last name Makimura means "shepherd", which could be an allusion to the desire for Christians like her to become the "good shepherd". |
| 280 | * MoralityPet: She is one for Akira, following his transformation into Devilman, this is noticeable especially [[spoiler:when Akira hits the DespairEventHorizon upon witnessing her gruesome murder]]. |
| 281 | ** In the Toei anime, she's the reason Amon turned back against his own kind after being sent to destroy humanity. |
| 282 | * MsFanservice: There are a couple instances where Miki is depicted in {{Fanservice}}-y situations, such as when she's shown completely nude taking a bath in volume 2 of the original manga or when she's swimming with Akira in the ocean during a sidestory. It ''is'' a Go Nagai series, after all. |
| 283 | * NoGuyWantsAnAmazon: In the manga, she seems somewhat ashamed to have Akira witness her aggressive side, probably due to believing that he wouldn't be interested in a tough woman. |
| 284 | * PluckyGirl: To the point that [[ActionGirl you can play as her in the NES game]], and even have to defeat a mini-boss while using her. The only way to stop her when she has a goal in her mind would be killing her. [[spoiler: Sadly, that's exactly what happens in the manga. Which makes her horrendous death by ''[[{{Gorn}} stabbing and dismembering]]'' ''even more'' tear jerking]]. |
| 285 | * SacrificialLion: [[spoiler:She gets killed near the end of the series when she tries to stand up for Akira.]] |
| 286 | * SparedByTheAdaptation: |
| 287 | ** She survives in the 70s anime series and ''Devilman Grimoire''. Notably, those are the only adaptations where [[spoiler: Ryo/Satan doesn't exist.]] |
| 288 | ** She lives in ''CB Chara Nagai Go World'' in which he does exist. |
| 289 | ** She also survives in the good ending of the NES game, which is otherwise a faithful adaptation of the original manga. |
| 290 | * ThisWasHisTrueForm: [[spoiler:After being impaled by Slum King in ''Violence Jack'', Miki reaches out for Ryo's corpse before dying. Her body disappears and reveal that Miki's soul had used a dog as its vessel.]] |
| 291 | %%* {{Tomboy}} |
| 292 | * {{Tsundere}}: She has her moments in ''CB Chara Nagai Go World'' and the Toei anime where she has a tendency to hit Akira. |
| 293 | * YouDontLookLikeYou: Miki Fudou in ''Devilman Saga'' looks more like Jun Fudou and acts more like her than Miki Makimura. This is odd as Miki's cameo in ''Devilman Lady'' shows her as distinct from Jun and a middle ground between her ''Devilman'' self and a more modest girl. Ironically enough, Jun herself looked a lot like Miki when she was younger, sharing the same bob-cut. |
| 294 | ** She also falls under this in ''Crybaby'', where her hair is even shorter, lacks a headband and dresses in different clothes. Her personality in that adaptation is also drastically different, being a borderline NiceGirl as opposed to a JerkWithAheartOfGold like in most versions. |
| 295 | [[/folder]] |
| 296 | |
| 297 | !!Demons |
| 298 | |
| 299 | %%!!Maegawa |
| 300 | |
| 301 | [[folder:Agwel]] |
| 302 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/devilman_agwel.png]] |
| 303 | |
| 304 | ->'''Voiced by:''' Toshihiko Nakajima (''The Demon Bird''), Akimitsu Takase (''Devilman'' PSX), Hiroshi Shirokuma (''Crybaby'') |
| 305 | ---- |
| 306 | * AdaptationalUgliness: Surprisingly, this applies to him in ''CB Chara Nagai Go World'', as he's portrayed as a revolting creature that Akira confuses for fecal matter, and is so actively grossed out by him that he genuinely flinches when Agwel tries to touch him. |
| 307 | * ButtMonkey: He attempts to fight Akira in ''CB Chara Nagai Go World'', only to keep falling from heights at his expense. |
| 308 | * EyeScream: Akira impales his eyes to release his hold on him. |
| 309 | * ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: Both he and Ghelmer does not appear in ''Devilman Lady'', despite the former stating he'll see Akira in Hell. |
| 310 | * {{Intangibility}}: Has the ability to phase himself and others through the walls. |
| 311 | * OffWithHisHead: Or at least an anatomical equivalent as akira tears his head off and into the ceiling. |
| 312 | * ThoseTwoGuys: With Ghelmer as one of Sirene's right hand demons. |
| 313 | [[/folder]] |
| 314 | |
| 315 | [[folder:Ghelmer]] |
| 316 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/devilman_ghelmer.png]] |
| 317 | |
| 318 | ->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/FumihikoTachiki (''The Demon Bird'' and ''CB Chara Nagai Go World'' OAV's), Creator/JinYamanoi (''Devilman'' PSX), Creator/TakumiYamazaki (Mahjong PC game), Masao Komaya (''Crybaby'') |
| 319 | |
| 320 | A mantis-like demon and one of Sirene's two henchmen, capable of manipulating water to attack victims and opponents. He also has the ability to possess anyone who consumes him after turning into seemingly-ordinary water. |
| 321 | ---- |
| 322 | * AdaptationalExpansion: ''Crybaby'' expanded his role further, by possessing a sleazy reporter under his control, and Miki. However Akira is able to get him out of the latter's body. |
| 323 | * AlienBlood: He has purple blood in the OVA. |
| 324 | * KillItWithWater: Can puppet his drowning victims after they've swallowed his spirit. Thankfully he never goes so far as to merge with his prey. |
| 325 | * ThoseTwoGuys: With Agwel as one of Sirene's right hand demons. |
| 326 | * WeaksauceWeakness: His outer watery shell can evaporate with the greatest of ease from Devilman's [[PlayingWithFire heat generation]]. |
| 327 | [[/folder]] |
| 328 | |
| 329 | [[folder:Sirene]] |
| 330 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/devilman_sirene.png]] |
| 331 | ->'''Voiced by:''' Haruko Kitahama (original series), Kyôko Satomi (Mazinger Z vs. Devilman), Creator/YoshikoSakakibara (''The Demon Bird'' and ''CB Chara Nagai Go World'' OAV's), Creator/AtsukoTanaka (''Devilman'' PSX, ''Crybaby''), Creator/TomokoKawakami (Mahjong PC game), Creator/MasumiAsano (''CR Devilman Awakening'') |
| 332 | The lover of Amon and one of the 100 Demon Soldiers that serves under Demon General Zann. Called upon by Zenon to slay Akira, she has become a major character and rival to Devilman. In ''Devilman Saga'' she is a solitary warrior who becomes synchronized with her alter-ego Shiranui. |
| 333 | ---- |
| 334 | * AdaptationalDyeJob: In the 1972 Toei Anime, Sirene has a predominantly blue colour scheme that resembles that of Devilman himself. Her feathers are also changed from white to black. |
| 335 | * AdaptationalHeroism: Sirene's popularity means that she has been cast in quite a few more heroic roles over the years. |
| 336 | * AdaptationalModesty: The Toei anime and the live-action film gives her a shoulder top-dress to avoid showing nudity. Averted in other adaptations. |
| 337 | * AdaptationalVillainy: In the Toei anime, she lacks the redeeming traits that she had in the manga and in most depictions of her. |
| 338 | * BlueAndOrangeMorality: Sirene is a rather complex character, in that she's neither good or evil, and seems to have her own moral code. |
| 339 | * BondVillainStupidity: In the Toei anime, she takes her sweet time trying to kill Miki, rather than just kill her then and there. Doing so gave Devilman the opportunity to save Miki just in time, and resulted in her death. |
| 340 | * BreakoutVillain: She is a CreatorsFavorite for Go Nagai and also makes appearances and influences on future works. |
| 341 | * DemonicPossession: [[spoiler:After Medusa restores her near the end of ''Lady'', she ends up possessing the barely dead Devilman Noir, with their different appearances fusing together.]] |
| 342 | ** This also takes place in ''Shin Violence Jack'', where she merges with a young woman by the name of Sara. |
| 343 | * DetachmentCombat: One of her signature techniques involves her firing off one of her forearms at great speed. She can control the forearm's trajectory after launching it, and can even make it slice through objects as a DeadlyDisc by commanding it to [[SpectacularSpinning rapidly rotate]] as it homes in on its target. [[HoistByHisOwnPetard This backfires horribly]] during the latter half of her battle with Akira. |
| 344 | * DiesDifferentlyInTheAdaptation: She dies rather anti-climatically in the 1972 anime due to BondVillainStupidity rather than fusing with a demon or Kaim. |
| 345 | * EarlyBirdCameo: Sirene appears among the other demons Akira sees when he looks through the Demon Mask, several chapters before she's introduced to the story as a whole. |
| 346 | * FatalFlaw: In Demon Knight, Ryo suggests her obsession with beauty eventually led to her defeat, as if she were to have fused with more demons throughout her life, she would have surely overwhelmed Devilman. |
| 347 | * FullFrontalAssault: She goes around and fights completely naked. |
| 348 | * HairSubstituteFeature: She has "hair" of full-feathered wings. |
| 349 | * HarpingonAboutHarpies: She has several physical traits in commons with harpies, the hybrids between women and birds from Greek Mythology. These includes large feathered wings, bird-like claws and tail, and plumage growing over her face and over her genitals, similarly to facial and pubic hair. |
| 350 | * HeelRealization: |
| 351 | ** In ''Devilman Lady'', where she realizes her actions concerning Akira and Amon was a self-destructive {{Lust}} and that she had been causing Kaim pain because of her actions. |
| 352 | ** In ''Devilman Saga'' Shiranui and Sirenes megalomania is brought under control by [[MoralityPet Kaim]], who keeps both from becoming deranged bloodthirsty warriors. |
| 353 | * HiddenHeartOfGold: She is shown to care about her fellow demons, especially Kaim, showing that despite being ruthless and bloodthirsty, she has a conscience. |
| 354 | * {{Irony}}: In the original stories, she attacks Akira for resisting Amon's possession. In ''Shin Violence Jack'', she is the alter ego of a woman named Sara. And just like Akira, Sara retains her sense of self, and attacks all of her demonic rapists in quick succession. |
| 355 | * LastOfHerKind: The rest of the Sirene Tribe were killed fighting a tyrannosaurus, eaten by Sirene's mother and Amon, or Absorbed by the Deathless Amon, and her mother died giving birth to her. |
| 356 | * LovesMyAlterEgo: Sirene loved Amon that resides in Akira; she also shows some interest in Akira's more agressive personality as Devilman, which resembles a LighterAndSofter Amon. In ''Neo-Devilman'' she becomes more interested in Akira himself, not for his demon heritage but for his determination. |
| 357 | * MaleGaze: As well as being naked, there are always shots of her breasts and buttocks. |
| 358 | * MsFanservice: Sirene is often described as one of the most beautiful demons, to the point where she has been mistaken for an angel more than once. Despite being a demon, she has the general appearance of a beautiful young woman with blue eyes, light skin, slender physique and a pair of voluptuous breasts. She [[ProudBeauty proudly exhibits]] her incredible beauty appearing always completely naked. |
| 359 | * PetTheDog: While she's a bloodthirsty demon, she has a very humanizing moment in which she weeps for Kaim as he sacrifices herself for her and makes it entirely clear that she doesn't want him to die. When she attempts to kill Akira after fusing with Kaim, she declares her desire to honor her fallen loved one by taking Devilman's life and proving that Kaim's sacrifice had meaning. All in all, it's one of the first moments that cue the reader into the idea that humans and demons really aren't ''that'' different. |
| 360 | * ProudWarriorRaceGuy: She boasts in having killed numerous demons with her claws. |
| 361 | * SpellMyNameWithAnS: Is it Sirene, Siren, Selene, or Silene? (Presumably Sirene, though as she is visually based on a siren from Greek mythology.) |
| 362 | * StarterVillain: The villain of the first arc of the manga, and tends to be the first or second antagonist in most adaptations. |
| 363 | * TakenForGranite: Begs Medusa in ''Devilman Lady'' to turn her to stone as atonement for letting her obsession consume her and causing Kaim to suffer. |
| 364 | * TrulySingleParent: Sirene's species are able to reproduce asexually, but unless the sirene has matured to a certain age the process is fatal. |
| 365 | * YouSexyBeast: Akira claims that logically, he should be horrified by the sight of Sirene. However, Akira seems to appreciate the beauty of Sirene's death smile, and admits that she really was beautiful. Maybe that's his devil side talking. |
| 366 | [[/folder]] |
| 367 | |
| 368 | [[folder:Kaim]] |
| 369 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/devilman_kaim.png]] |
| 370 | ->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/UnshoIshizuka (''The Demon Bird'' and ''CB Chara Nagai Go World'' OAV's), Creator/TakumiYamazaki (Mahjong PC game), Creator/RikiyaKoyama (''Crybaby''), Atsuki Tani (''VideoGame/SuperRobotWarsDD'') |
| 371 | A demon who walks on four legs and is Sirenes companion, subordinate, and friend. In ''Devilman Saga'' he returns as the Devilman form of Muso Kaisaka, a man dedicated to Shiranui who became Sirene. |
| 372 | ---- |
| 373 | * AdaptationalHeroism: Although he doesn't always appear alongside Sirene, if she's portrayed as a heroic character, you can expect him to be as heroic as she is thanks to the nature of their relationship. |
| 374 | * AntiVillain: Kaim is a demon and like them he seeks Humanity's extinction, but his noble qualities are a forefront of his character in most stories and adaptations. Kaim's love for Sirene, his selflessness, and his general lack of KickTheDog moments all make him more sympathetic than the average demon. Despite his very limited role in the story, Kaim serves as the first indication that demons aren't ''that'' different from humans when you get down to it. |
| 375 | * AlienBlood: He bleeds white when he rips his own head off in the OVA. |
| 376 | * AGoodWayToDie: He's willing to sacrifice himself if it'll let his love interest Sirene take Devilman down with her. |
| 377 | * CombiningMecha: A biological example of the trope; after he tears off his head and Sirene merges with him, his body gives her just enough time and strength to brutally injure and almost kill Devilman. She could have killed him, but believed she had already won just before she finally ran out of time and died. |
| 378 | * DeclarationOfProtection: Dedicates the rest of his life in Hell during ''Devilman Lady'' to protect the petrified Sirene. When both are freed untold ages later, they both reincarnate on Earth by possessing vessels. |
| 379 | * HeroicSacrifice: He sacrifices his body & life to his beloved Sirene so she can have the honor of killing Devilman. |
| 380 | * LoveMartyr: It doesn't matter that Sirene rarely if ever returns Kaim's feelings, he is completely devoted to her and would do what he feels is best to aid Sirene. |
| 381 | * NobleDemon: More than willing to [[spoiler: tear off his own head and offer to [[CombiningMecha merge with the dying Sirene]] for one last desperation attack against Devilman]]. |
| 382 | * ThePowerOfLove: Kaim acts on his love for Sirene to guide his actions. [[spoiler:In ''Lady'' its shown he only possesses people who feel powerful love for another, as he does to Hayami who had feelings for Jun Fudou.]] |
| 383 | * WifeHusbandry: If Kaim's love for Sirene is romantic, then this applied, because [[spoiler: he essentially raised her after her mother died giving birth to her]]. |
| 384 | [[/folder]] |
| 385 | |
| 386 | [[folder:Jinmen]] |
| 387 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/devilman_jinmen.png]] |
| 388 | ->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/TakeshiAono (''The Demon Bird'' and ''CB Chara Nagai Go World'' OAV's), Hiroshi Naka (''Devilman'' PSX), Creator/TakumiYamazaki (Mahjong PC game), Creator/HochuOtsuka (''Cyborg 009 vs Devilman''), Creator/JamiesonPrice (''Cyborg 009 vs. Devilman'' - English dub), Akio Hirose (''Crybaby''), Creator/BinShimada (''VideoGame/SuperRobotWarsDD'') |
| 389 | An evil demon turtle who relishes in eating humans and wearing their living faces as death mask trophies. |
| 390 | ---- |
| 391 | * AdaptationalAttractiveness: While not exactly being drawn in a more enticing fashion, he's drawn in a far cuter way, to the point of being a RidiculouslyCuteCritter like the rest of the characters in CB Chara Go Nagai World. |
| 392 | * AdaptationalHeroism: Surprisingly, he's one of the good guys in CB Chara Go Nagai World. He's even a family man in that version. |
| 393 | * AdaptationalNiceGuy: In the live action movie, he lacks the sadistic enjoyment he gets from devouring humans and merely eats them for sustenance. He also [[EvenEvilHasStandards opposes Satan's desire to wipe out all of humanity]]. |
| 394 | * AndIMustScream: Anyone who falls victim to him are damned to an eternity as a sentient tile in his shell. |
| 395 | * BeardOfEvil: Has a messy beard after possessing a human in ''Shin Violence Jack''. |
| 396 | * BreakoutVillain: Though he was a one off villain he's easily become one of the most famous of Devilman's enemies and one of the Manga's most recognized characters. |
| 397 | * CorruptedCharacterCopy: Of Film/{{Gamera}}. |
| 398 | * TheCorruption: He influences the {{Jerkass}} Kamei in ''Devilman Saga'', turning the greedy man who [[EveryoneHasStandards understood the dangers of the Demon Armors and wanted them under careful watch]] into a twisted Devilman who relishes in eating humans and keeping their faces on his back. |
| 399 | * CruelAndUnusualDeath: How Devilman always kills him. Either by tearing off his shell on his back, fusing and overpowering his will, or smashing the face on his underbelly, which incidentally releases the souls of those he's eaten to Heaven, and crushed by a large rock while as a small turtle in Hell. |
| 400 | * DiesWideOpen: in most adaptations, once Devilman dispatches Jinmen by impaling him through Akira's trapped loved one (which depends on the work), Devilman solemnly closes their eyelids. |
| 401 | * EatenAlive: He devours his victims before displaying their faces on his shells, while they moan out in pain. Or, in his own words: |
| 402 | --> "However... killing other living beings is a sin! '''Isn't it? [[ExactWords That's why I ate them without killing them!]]''' ''Without Killing! Without Killing!'' '''I Ate Them!''' [[EvilLaugh Kah Kah Kah Kah!]] '''Don't you think they're happy to have been eaten by me?!!!'''" |
| 403 | * EvilGloating: He loves to gloat at Akira's weakness when he has eaten Sachiko (manga and ''Cyborg 009 vs. Devilman'') or his mother (OVA). |
| 404 | * {{Expy}}: An almost identical demon appears in ''Strange Days''; the only evidence that it's not Jinmen himself is that he gets killed and that [[spoiler: Jinmen was long dead at this point]]. |
| 405 | ** In terms of design (not counting the OVA version), he's also somewhat of an expy to Film/{{Gamera}} - in some of his appearances, he's even able to fly by retracting his limbs and rotating at speed, the same way Gamera flies. |
| 406 | * FateWorseThanDeath: ''Devilman Lady'' reveals that all those he eats are dragged into hell with him when he dies. |
| 407 | * HatedByAll: There is not a single character in-universe who even remotely likes Jinmen. Even the other demons [[EvenEvilHasStandards hate his guts]]. |
| 408 | * HumanShield: His preferred DirtyCoward tactic of choice. He tries to get in Devilman's head by lording over the fact that his victims, now grafted onto his shell, are still cognizant and are able to truly die should Devilman get ahead of himself. It takes reassurance from Sachiko (or Akira's mother in the OVA) for Devilman to [[ShootTheHostage go through them to finish Jinmen off for good,]] [[MercyKill and thus sparing them]] from AFateWorseThanDeath |
| 409 | * InsaneTrollLogic: He claims to have the moral high ground against Devilman because [[ThouShaltNotKill he keeps his victims alive even after he's consumed them]]. |
| 410 | * LackOfEmpathy: He is not only sadistic, but also completely lacking in empathy. |
| 411 | * {{Jerkass}}: In addition to his sadism and general cruelty, Jinmen makes it a point to be as unpleasant as possible. He revels in the feelings of negativity and his personality is a means to provoke those feelings. |
| 412 | * JokerImmunity: He always comes back in each installment, no matter how many times he is killed and defeated. |
| 413 | * ObviouslyEvil: Just look at him. Does he look even remotely harmless? |
| 414 | * MoreDespicableMinion: In various ''Devilman'' works, he serves as a recurring PsychoForHire who is employed by many BigBad characters, and manages to be worse than all of them. While {{Satan}}, leader of the demons, is an AntiVillain who truly loves [[spoiler:Akira Fudo]], Lord Xenon stays in the shadows, and other bosses tend to have redeeming qualities, Jinmen slaughters innocent humans for fun, then [[SoulEating eats their souls]] and [[FateWorseThanDeath traps them in his shell so he can hear their screams]]; taunts them ''and'' Devilman throughout their fight; uses the heads on his head as shields; and enjoys every minute of it. There's nothing about him that will be missed, and [[EvenEvilHasStandards even other demons are disgusted by his sadism]]. |
| 415 | * {{Sadist}}: Takes pleasure in the suffering of enemies and anything he deems below him, even other demons. |
| 416 | * SmugSnake: While taunting Akira over the victims he consumes, he seriously thinks Akira is too weak to kill him. Unfortunately for Jinmen, Akira's weakness doesn't last for long and eventually bites Jinmen in the ass. |
| 417 | * ThisWasHisTrueForm: His original form is a normal sized turtle. |
| 418 | * {{Troll}}: Played ''VERY MUCH'' for horror. He enjoys mocking other people and riling them up out of petty sadism, and he does the latter in the most horrifying manner possible, namely by deliberately showing off how the people he eats remain alive and in severe distress and mental anguish as faces on the tiles of his shell to Akira, and he always does it to a loved one, either Sachiko or his own mother. |
| 419 | * VillainDecay: He's a pretty horrifying villain overall. However, in CB Chara Go Nagai World, he's reduced to a harmless, comedic character. |
| 420 | * VillainsWantMercy: He’s generally reduced to begging for his life by the end of the fight, pity that Devilman isn’t in the mood to be merciful. |
| 421 | * WouldHurtAChild: Consumed Sachiko, which forced Devilman to MercyKill her. |
| 422 | * YouDontLookLikeYou: The OVA design, which is markedly different from most other interpretations of the character; he has eyes which can extend, and is considerably more varied in colour. That design would later be used for Devilman Lady. |
| 423 | [[/folder]] |
| 424 | |
| 425 | [[folder:Zann]] |
| 426 | ->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/JinYamanoi (''Devilman'' PSX), Takuma Suzuki (Mahjong PC game), Masaharu Sato (''CR Devilman Awakening'') |
| 427 | A general of demonkind and leader of the 100 Demon army, Zann makes brief appearances in the series. The head of Le Phare Inc. security, Jason Gouda, becomes his alterego in ''Devilman Saga''. |
| 428 | ---- |
| 429 | * BadBoss: Jason Gouda cruelly kills humans who aren't able to synchronize with the demon armors of his subordinates in ''Devilman Saga'', then eating their remains with glee as Zann. |
| 430 | * AdaptedOut: Doesn't appear in ''Crybaby''. |
| 431 | * TheBusCameBack: After stopping his fellow demons from killing Akira during the original manga, he disappeared for the rest of the story. He finally makes a return as one of the mechanical demons in ''Devilman Saga''. |
| 432 | * WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity: Jason Gouda quickly goes mad with power, relishing in how he's become an ubermensch and cruelly killing and eating humans too weak to synchronize with the demon armors. Thoughts that Zann himself shares with him. |
| 433 | [[/folder]] |
| 434 | |
| 435 | [[folder:Psycho Jenny]] |
| 436 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/devilman_psychogenie.png]] |
| 437 | ->'''Voiced by:''' Reiko Muto (Original Series), Creator/YujiMitsuya (''CB Chara Nagai Go World''), Creator/MitsukiSaiga (''Amon: The Apocalypse of Devilman''), Creator/SakuraNogawa (Mahjong PC game), Creator/YasuhiroTakato (''Crybaby'') |
| 438 | ---- |
| 439 | * AdaptationalUgliness: In the ''Amon'' OVA, she's a large head with arms and legs, with an uglier looking face. |
| 440 | * AdaptationalDyeJob: Her hair colour often varies depending on the adaptation. Her hair is white in the manga and the [=PS1=] game, purple in the 70s anime and in ''Cyborg 009 Vs. Devilman'', and red in ''CB Chara Nagai Go World'', ''Devilman Crybaby'' and the ''Amon'' OVA. |
| 441 | * AdaptedOut: In the live-action movie, where she doesn't appear at all. |
| 442 | * AffablyEvil: She is never seen being rude and is often very polite and friendly. |
| 443 | * ArtEvolution: Her body configuration is often inconsistent in a singles series. |
| 444 | * {{Cephalothorax}}: Her torso is her head. Though this also depends on the continuity; sometimes it's only her upper body, sometimes it's just her entire body, and sometimes she has a regular if diminutive torso. |
| 445 | %%* CoDragons: Alongside fellow dragon Lord Zenon. |
| 446 | * DeathByAdaptation: The Toei anime treats her as one of Zenon's MonsterOfTheWeek villains, so she falls towards this. |
| 447 | * EnigmaticMinion: Played with in that Psycho Jenny clearly knows more about the innerworkings of the Devilman universe than her master (including the fact that [[spoiler:they are trapped in a neverending time loop by God]]), but never openly defies Satan at any point. |
| 448 | * ExoticEyeDesigns: Geometric-shaped, in fact. |
| 449 | %%* HypnoticEyes |
| 450 | * MonstrousHumanoid: Usually is depicted with her limbs coming directly out of her head. In other versions she's shown as a nude female with her head in the middle of her torso or simply a female humanoid with a big head. |
| 451 | * NonstandardCharacterDesign: Most demons's character designs are animal-like, creepy or menacing. Psycho Jenny's is just weird, almost comical. |
| 452 | * PerpetualSmiler: Literally: she has no other expression. |
| 453 | * PsychicPowers: Powerful enough to hypnotize Satan himself. |
| 454 | * TheQuietOne: Very rarely speaks unless spoken to. Even her brief appearance in ''Lady'' she never spoke at all. |
| 455 | * SpellMyNameWithAnS: Psycho Jenny or Psycho Genie? |
| 456 | * TheStoic: As said above, she probably knows the entire tragedy behind the series, but she obeys Satan without a doubt and never even comments on any event. |
| 457 | * UndyingLoyalty: To Satan. She'll follow his orders no matter what. |
| 458 | * YouDontLookLikeYou: She has been hit by this no less than three times over the years: |
| 459 | ** In the 1972 anime she has no body, and instead resembles a disembodied vampire head. Her glowing eyes (though smaller) and perpetual grin remain, though. |
| 460 | ** In ''Grimoire'' she has a right hand in place of her arms and legs and five pupils in each eye. |
| 461 | ** during the prehistoric chapters of ''Amon: the Darkside of Devilman'' she looks more like a goblin. |
| 462 | [[/folder]] |
| 463 | |
| 464 | [[folder:Caliorruar]] |
| 465 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/caliorruar_7.jpg]] |
| 466 | Satan's mount. |
| 467 | ---- |
| 468 | * TheBrute: It's unknown how its power compares to other demons, but it is said to be incredibly powerful in all promotional materials. |
| 469 | * DecompositeCharacter: Much like how Zenon resembles the three faced, winged giant, version of Satan described in the Divine Comedy, Caliorruar is based on the seven headed dragon form Satan is said to take in the Book of Revelations. |
| 470 | * EvilCounterpart: To Agira from the Devilman Corps. |
| 471 | * GiantFlyer: Massive and flying. |
| 472 | * NoNameGiven: Its name is AllThereInTheManual. |
| 473 | * OurDragonsAreDifferent: Hydra-like in this case. |
| 474 | [[/folder]] |
| 475 | |
| 476 | [[folder:Zenon]] |
| 477 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/devilman_xenon.png]] |
| 478 | ->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/HidekatsuShibata (Original Series), Shigezo Sasaoka ([[spoiler:''Violence Jack: Harlem Bomber'']]), Creator/ShozoIizuka (''CB Chara Nagai Go World''), Katsunosuke Hori (''The Legends Of Devilman'' Audio CD), Creator/MikaKanai, Creator/ShinichiroMiki, Creator/TakumaSuzuki, and Creator/TakumiYamazaki (Mahjong PC game), Creator/RyuzaburoOtomo (''CR Devilman Awakening''), Avu-Chan (''Crybaby'') |
| 479 | ---- |
| 480 | * BadBoss: In the Toei anime, he's willing to kill anyone who fails him, or wants to live a peaceful life, as witnessed when he has a demon, Lita, stabbed [[MakeAnExampleOfThem as an example]] for wanting a peaceful life. |
| 481 | * BackgroundBoss: In the NES game where he is fought against before Satan. |
| 482 | * BigBad: In the 1972 anime and ''Grimore'', he is the sole main villain as Satan/[[spoiler:Ryo]] is AdaptedOut. [[spoiler:He is also this as the Slum King in ''Violence Jack'', until Satan [[HijackedByGanon usurps his place]] in the final chapters.]] |
| 483 | * CoDragons: Along with Psycho Jenny. When Satan is not around, he serves as the DragonInChief. |
| 484 | * CompositeCharacter: |
| 485 | ** In ''Devilman Lady'', [[spoiler:he is revealed to be the a result of 5 demons fusing into one. The demons being Demon Lord Dante, Liger, Maria, Judah and a nameless female bird demon (who fused with Liger before he merged with the other 3)]]. |
| 486 | ** In ''Grimoire'', [[spoiler:Zenon is merely one of the demon forms of Ryo Utsugi aka King Solomon. Ryo Utsugi serves as the BigBad.]] |
| 487 | * DemonicPossession: He, more than any other demon, requires a host. His power after obtaining one makes it easier for demonkind to possess others. [[spoiler:Which is why he tricks Dantes reincarnation Ryo Utsugi into going to hell in ''Lady''. Though he resists initially Ryo's personality is consumed as he embraces becoming a monster, setting up the events of Grimore.]] |
| 488 | * DragonInChief: For much of the original manga, Zenon is the mastermind behind everything and most of the demons are working for him. Eventually the protagonists point out that he himself answers to Satan, but since Satan doesn't take over as the BigBad until the very end, Zenon is TheHeavy. |
| 489 | * DragonWithAnAgenda: Some adaptations depict him as having his own plans counter to Satan's. |
| 490 | * EvenEvilHasStandards: It's implied in the original manga that he believes in the betterment of demonkind and when Silene calls for help he sends a small squadron of demons to back her up. It makes his criticism of [[spoiler:Satan for sacrificing Amon]] come across less as PragmaticVillainy and more a quasi PetTheDog moment. |
| 491 | * GeniusLoci: [[spoiler:''Shin Violence Jack'' strongly implies Skull Castle is Zenon himself. The three skulls at the top of the castle even being placed where the three main heads of Zenon reside. The main head even having the third eye.]] |
| 492 | * LiteralSplitPersonality: |
| 493 | ** [[spoiler:Each head can separate into its own separate individual. Liger, Yuda, Maria, the original body, and the unnamed female bird each existing separately in ''Lady'' as they work towards their plans.]] |
| 494 | ** [[spoiler:Both the Slum King and his son are halves of Xenon in ''Violence Jack'']]. |
| 495 | * MakeMyMonsterGrow: After regaining his memories, Satan commands Zenon to take the form of a dragon during the final battle in ''Violence Jack'', which he rides into battle in the same way he did with Caliorruar in ''Devilman'', but even with this boost in power, both Satan and Zenon are defeated. |
| 496 | * {{Satan}}: Well, he is not Satan himself, but his two forms resemble two depictions of Satan The Divine Comedy Version (being a demon with 3 faces) and [[spoiler:The Dragon of Revelation. Akira in ''Lady'' does state he is Satan when fused with Satan.]] |
| 497 | * ScaledUp: Can take the form of a multi-headed dragon if he wishes, [[spoiler:which he does at the end of ''Violence Jack'']]. |
| 498 | * ServileSnarker: Zenon's loyalty to Satan and his goals is never in question, but this did not stop him for criticizing Satan for [[spoiler: sacrificing Amon and other powerful demons so that Akira could become Devilman]]. |
| 499 | * TheUnfought: In both the original anime and manga, Akira never fought him. Subverted in the NES where he is the second-to-final boss, and in ''Crybaby'' where the two finally battle on-screen, though Psycho Jenny intervenes. |
| 500 | [[/folder]] |
| 501 | |
| 502 | [[folder:Satan ('''MAJOR UNMARKED SPOILERS''')]] |
| 503 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/satan_devilman_ova.png]] |
| 504 | ->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/SakikoTamagawa, Creator/YuuMizushima, Creator/YumiKakazu, Creator/TomokazuSeki, Creator/MasakazuMorita, Creator/AyumuMurase |
| 505 | |
| 506 | The real identity of Ryo Asuka. Actually an angel, but allied with and the ruler of demonkind. Their main goal is the obliteration of humankind so that demons can regain control of the earth. |
| 507 | ---- |
| 508 | * TheAtoner: Taken to extreme levels in Manga/ViolenceJack, where [[spoiler:he purposefully allows themself to become a sex slave to Takatora "Slum King" Doma to atone for killing Akira and exterminating humanity, as well as making sure Akira comes back to kill them in the end.]] |
| 509 | * AntiVillain: All Satan wishes is to free demonkind, let them retake their rightful place on Earth, and stop God from condemning them. Despite Satan's dislike of humanity in ''Devilman'' Satan very much cared for all other life on earth as much as he does demonkind. |
| 510 | * BigBad: The main antagonist of ''Devilman'', [[spoiler:[[DecoyAntagonist or not]]]]. |
| 511 | * BigGood: In ''Devilman Lady'', along with Akira. |
| 512 | * CosmicPlaything: [[spoiler:God regularly destroys and recreates the universe for the sole purpose of tormenting Satan by having them relive the loss of Akira forever and ever.]] |
| 513 | * DeathByAdaptation: Maybe? [[spoiler: The NES game has them making the same monologue they did in the manga, but is defeated by Devilman in the good ending is achieved]]. |
| 514 | * EvolutionaryLevels: [[spoiler:''Lady'' reveals Satan can make humanity evolve even sooner into their next stage of life: ''demonkind''.]] |
| 515 | * HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:Satan redeems themself at the end of the manga version of ''Devilman Lady'', where they join Akira is his war against God]]. |
| 516 | * HeelRealization: At the ''very'' end of the Devilman, they realize that [[spoiler:their wiping out humanity was just as bad as God wiping out the demons]]. ''AMON'' implies that they came to the realization earlier on, [[IgnoredEpiphany not that it changed anything]]. |
| 517 | * {{Hermaphrodite}}: In his/her true form, having both breasts and male genitalia. |
| 518 | * ILetYouWin: [[spoiler:The final battle of ''Violence Jack'' has Satan only stand around and never attack Devilman. Even when Devilman was on the verge of attacking them they only tried to dodge, implied to be Satan not wishing to kill Akira again like they did at the end of the original manga.]] |
| 519 | * KarmaHoudini: A mixed bag. Satan is never brought to justice by Akira, and Akira dies in the process of trying to get revenge. However, God's punishment of Satan forces Satan to suffer an eternal time loop where Akira dies. |
| 520 | ** KarmaHoudiniWarranty: [[spoiler:They are subjected to a FateWorseThanDeath in Violence Jack, where they have their limbs sliced off and is kept as a sex-slave for Takatora Doma (Slum King). Satan even intended for this to happen to atone for the death of Akira.]] |
| 521 | * LaserGuidedAmnesia: Forgets their true nature as Satan several times, but eventually remembers it. |
| 522 | * LightIsNotGood: Presented as such in the original manga. Spinoffs, sequels, etc. have portrayed Satan differently. |
| 523 | ** Inverted in Manga/DevilmanLady, [[LightIsGood where they are now one of the heroes]]. |
| 524 | * LiteralSplitPersonality: |
| 525 | ** [[spoiler:Honey and Ryo Asuka are revealed to be halves of Satan near the end of ''Violence Jack''.]] |
| 526 | ** [[spoiler:One of the final twists in Manga/DevilmanLady, where they split into the heroine Jun Fudou and the [[{{Genderbender}} gender changing Lan Asuka]].]] |
| 527 | * LoveMakesYouCrazy: Although ''Amon'' revealed God has set the situation up [[YouCantFightFate to ensure Satan goes mad from love no matter what]]. |
| 528 | * LukeIAmYourFather: [[spoiler: The White Monster that became Amon the Brave, was born from a piece of Satan that was severed after leaving Heaven.]] |
| 529 | * OtherworldlyAndSexuallyAmbiguous: Satan and all the other angels are shown to be {{Hermaphrodite}}s. |
| 530 | * PersonOfMassDestruction: True to Biblical lore, as God's most beautiful and powerful angel, Lucifer possesses vast, otherworldly power capable of wreaking havoc on a cosmic scale. Satan's battle with Akira wrecks the entire planet, consuming the Earth with natural disasters. A glancing energy beam, that Akira narrowly dodges, slices the moon in half with a single blow. Satan overpowers Amon (considered the champion of all demons) in the pre-historic era, and defeats Akira with not even a single scratch on her. In Chibi Chara Satan pulls off two amazing feats. Satan creates a dimensional distortion around the entire perimeter of the sun [[note]] You could store 2 million Earths inside the sun, so it stands to reason Satan has the power to destroy the Earth many times over with ease[[/note]] in order to pull God (who is drawn as a chibi Go Nagai for comedy) out of the sun's center. Satan shows absolutely no signs of exhaustion or stress from this massive display of power. Soon after Satan uses her telekinesis to easily overpower Mazinger and Akira at the same time, and flies around with them as if she was a teacher scolding small children. Short of God, Satan is immensely and uniquely powerful in the world of Devilman, and should not be trifled with. |
| 531 | * SatanIsGood: Albeit, in a more misguided way. Played straight in Manga/DevilmanLady. |
| 532 | * ScrewYourself: [[spoiler:Satan does this via Jun Fudou and Lan Asuka in Manga/DevilmanLady, allowing Akira to be reborn in the process.]] |
| 533 | * SplitPersonalityMerge: [[spoiler:Jun and Asuka at the end of Manga/DevilmanLady.]] |
| 534 | * TimeTravel: Uses it in Shin Devilman during the time where they had forgotten they were Satan. They traveled with Akira to kill demons in the past who were attempting to change the future. |
| 535 | * WalkingSpoiler: It's difficult to discuss Satan without mentioning that they were impersonating the deceased Ryo Asuka. |
| 536 | [[/folder]] |
| 537 | |
| 538 | !!Devilmen |
| 539 | [[folder:Mikiko Kawamoto]] |
| 540 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/miko_apocalypse.png]] |
| 541 | ->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/RieTanaka (''Amon: The Apocalypse of Devilman'') |
| 542 | |
| 543 | A girl fused with the demon Tollg, one of the first Devilmen. |
| 544 | ---- |
| 545 | * AdaptationalBadass: In the manga, she's basically a victim of the Demon Busters who disappears after being rescued by Akira. In other continuities, mainly the ''Amon'' spinoff manga and OVA and a couple ''Neo-Devilman'' stories, she's a full fledged member of the Devilman Corps and has real fight scenes (albeit a losing one in the OVA). |
| 546 | * AdaptationalIntelligence: In her dedicated ''Neo-Devilman'' story, Miko is said to be an academic high-achiever despite being a delinquent and not studying much. This is never brought up in any other material. |
| 547 | * AffectionateNickname: Miko, Mi-Ko or Mico depending on the translation. |
| 548 | * TheAtoner: A former shoplifter, she thinks her body change is a punishment by God. |
| 549 | * BadassLongcoat: In the ''Amon'' OVA, she wears a black trenchcoat without anything under in order to fastly cover and uncover her acid spitters. |
| 550 | * DemotedToExtra: Despite being one of the most consistent core members of Akira’s devilmen group, Mikiko got reduced to a mere cameo in ''Crybaby'' where she is seen being a test subject for human scientists. |
| 551 | * FullFrontalAssault: As her weapons are located where her naughty bits should be, the fastest way to get them ready for battle is stripping down. For this reason, some of Miko's versions in ''Devilman'' media even opt to go around fully naked all the time. |
| 552 | * FreakinessShame: She's naturally afraid of people seeing her mutated body. She gets over it in continuities where she's shown to become a Devilman Corps fighter, turning out comfortable enough to even ditch clothing altogether. |
| 553 | * SoleSurvivor: In some continuities, she is shown to be one of the few people who survive the final battle. Whether that's among the population of the Kanto Region of Japan or the entire human race depends on the loop. |
| 554 | * SuperSexOrgans: She can emit a powerful acid from orifices in her breasts and genitals, the last of which is actually Tollg's face. |
| 555 | * TorpedoTits: An acid variation, thanks to two of Tollg's blasters being where her upper chest would be. |
| 556 | [[/folder]] |
| 557 | |
| 558 | [[folder:Bonds of Hinduism]] |
| 559 | A group of six Hindu monks fused with demons who help Akira. |
| 560 | ---- |
| 561 | * BaldMystic: They originally are just monks so the baldness comes with the territory, but their fusion with demons elevates them into this as they are now supernatural. Also overlaps with ChromeDomePsi as they have psychic powers in particular. |
| 562 | * DeterminedDefeatist: In the ''Amon'' manga, they are constantly stating how screwed they all are by the menace of Amon, but they actually never stop trying to save the day. |
| 563 | * MyBrainIsBig: The only sign they are Devilmen are their enlarged skulls. |
| 564 | * PsychicPowers: Their specialty. They have psychic powers that surpass Akira and the rest of the founding Devilman Corps put together, although possibly not Psycho Jenny. |
| 565 | * VaguenessIsComing: In the ''Amon'' manga. |
| 566 | [[/folder]] |
| 567 | |
| 568 | [[folder:Agira]] |
| 569 | Devilman's mount in the Devilman Corps. |
| 570 | ---- |
| 571 | * AllThereInTheManual: The Demon Bible artbook gave his fused demon's name as Lamegdlle. Canonically dubious, though; with ''Neo-Devilman'' officially naming him Agira, it's currently unclear if Lamegdlle's name is non-canon or if Agira and Lamegdlle are meant to be respectively his name and his first fused demon's. |
| 572 | * TheAssimilator: He's talented at fusing, and absorbs even individual parts of demons to enhance his body. |
| 573 | * TheBigGuy: Is the largest Devilman by a huge margin and probably the strongest next to Akira himself. |
| 574 | * BloodKnight: Before being part of the Devilman Corps, he just went around killing demons. |
| 575 | * DesperatelyLookingForAPurposeInLife: Before meeting Devilman. |
| 576 | * GiantFlyer: Especially in his last form. |
| 577 | * GoodCounterpart: To Caliorruar, Satan's own dragon mount. |
| 578 | * HorseOfADifferentColor: Akira rides it during battles. |
| 579 | * HumanoidAbomination: Even back when he was still (relatively) human, he had antennae, a pincer arm and a couple human faces in his stomach. |
| 580 | * MultipleChoicePast: (See: AllThereInTheManual) |
| 581 | * NinetiesAntiHero: His backstory in his dedicated ''Neo-Devilman'' story pictures him as a big dude roaming the country while butchering demons with an ArmCannon, a cape and a nasty expression on his face. |
| 582 | * NoNameGiven: He was never named in the original manga, receiving instead his official name in ''Neo-Devilman'' (his story in the anthology was later integrated into the Revised Edition of ''Devilman'', though). |
| 583 | * OurDragonsAreDifferent: His mount form is a massive draconic monster. |
| 584 | * TheStoic: He lives to fight, not to emote. |
| 585 | [[/folder]] |
| 586 | |
| 587 | [[folder:Yamanobe]] |
| 588 | An assistant of Akira's parents while they were exploring the ice cave of the Himalayas. When they were attacked by the awoken demons Yamanobe wound up fusing with one and becoming a Devilman. Yamanobe would return to Japan, join the Devilman Corps and ultimately die protecting the Makimura household. |
| 589 | ---- |
| 590 | * AdaptationDyeJob: In the Devilman: The Birth OVA he has brown hair, in the NES game he's blonde. |
| 591 | * AdaptationalHairstyleChange: Likewise in the OVA he has a full beard and in the NES game he has a PornStache. |
| 592 | * CanonForeigner: He was created for the novelized retelling and never appeared in any of the manga. He's also a playable character in the NES game. |
| 593 | * SenselessSacrifice: he dies trying to save Miki from the AngryMob, but they wind up getting her anyway. |
| 594 | * YouShallNotPass: Pulled this while defending the Makimura household. |
| 595 | [[/folder]] |
| 596 | |
| 597 | !!Humans |
| 598 | |
| 599 | [[folder:Mr. and Mrs. Makimura]] |
| 600 | -->Voiced by Taimei Susuki (Mr. Makimura), Natsumi Sakuma, Rihiko Yoshida (Ms. Makimura) (Original series) |
| 601 | |
| 602 | The parents of Miki and Tare who took Akira in. |
| 603 | ---- |
| 604 | * CruelAndUnusualDeath: [[spoiler:They both become subjected to ColdBloodedTorture by the Demon Hunters]]. |
| 605 | * GoodParents: The two are kind and loving parents, even raising Akira as one of their own as he lost both of his parents. |
| 606 | * MenAreTough: Mr. Makimura in the manga. He is a gruff, scruffy man, and his response to Akira's fighting in school is that it's good for men to fight a lot while they're young. [[PlayingWithATrope Played straight]] in the worst way possible when Akira finds him ''still alive'' in the Demon Hunters' torture chamber, having undergone unspeakable torture along with his wife (who has already perished). He lives just long enough to utter Akira, Miki and Tare's names (meaning that he's trying to tell Akira to get out of there and go straight back and protect Miki and Tare) before he also expires. |
| 607 | * PapaWolf: During the demon's opening onslaught, Mr. Makimura grabs a rifle to protect his family. When push comes to shove he successfully fights off an attacking demon with it. |
| 608 | * SparedByTheAdaptation: Devilman can save them in the NES game, thus surviving from their cruel fates in the manga. |
| 609 | [[/folder]] |
| 610 | |
| 611 | [[folder:Tare Makimura]] |
| 612 | |
| 613 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/screenshot_2024_02_18_105619.png]] |
| 614 | |
| 615 | The younger brother of Miki. |
| 616 | ---- |
| 617 | * AdaptedOut: He does not appear in the NES game. |
| 618 | * BoomHeadshot: [[spoiler:Poor kid gets his head stapled to the staircase by a crossbow bolt in ''Amon: Apocalypse of Devilman''.]] |
| 619 | * BringMyBrownPants: He mentions several times that he pisses himself when afraid. He does so in the Amon OVA when he witnesses the carnage Akira can create. |
| 620 | * CruelAndUnusualDeath: [[spoiler: He gets brutally decapitated by the angry mob, and said mobber proudly displays his severed head after throwing his body downstairs]]. |
| 621 | * EmbarrassingNickname: His given name is Kensaku, Tare being the Japanese word for drip, in reference to his week bladder [[EarlyInstallmentWeirdness (interestingly he only expresses an issue with this name in the first episode of the 1972 anime)]]. |
| 622 | |
| 623 | [[/folder]] |
| 624 | [[folder: The Dosu-Roku Gang]] |
| 625 | A gang of neighborhood delinquents from Akira and Miki's school. |
| 626 | ---- |
| 627 | * HeelFaceTurn: They join Akira once he saves them from demon possession and are more than happy to assist Akira and Miki once the demon invasion and the complications arising from it intensify. |
| 628 | * {{Gonk}}: About as goofy and hideous-looking as Nagai's 70's artstyle will allow while still looking human. |
| 629 | * IHaveYouNowMyPretty: They try this on Miki twice. Ryo intervenes with a hunting rifle the first time, and devil charged Akira beats them all soundly via fisticuffs the second. |
| 630 | * RedBaron: They all mention their cool gang names like Masa [[ChainPain The Chain]] as they help Akira investigate mysterious happenings at their school. [[LampshadeHanging Miki remarks that she feels like she's in a yakuza movie.]] |
| 631 | * WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Go, the round stocky hoodlum isn't seen or heard from after Akira successfully comes to Miki's defense. |
| 632 | |
| 633 | [[/folder]] |
| 634 | |
| 635 | !!Divine Beings |
| 636 | [[folder:God]] |
| 637 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/god_devilman.jpg]] |
| 638 | The creator of the universe. He intends to destroy anything that does not fit his vision of order. |
| 639 | ---- |
| 640 | * BigBad: Of the overall series, as he intends to destroy everything that falls outside his order, and also set up Satan's rebellion while [[spoiler:resetting everything after Akira dies just to punish Satan over and over again]]. Once Satan does a HeelFaceTurn in ''Manga/DevilmanLady'', he and Akira directs take the fight to him. |
| 641 | * DisproportionateRetribution: |
| 642 | ** [[spoiler:He personally punishes Satan in an infinite loop where he has to relive every time Akira dies]]. |
| 643 | ** [[spoiler:His response to mankind perpetually evolving into demons each time he creates them is to exterminate them. It doesn't matter if they still retain their humanity or not, whether they have advance flourishing civilizations or live thriving in nature in a primitive society, they are all guilty and sent to hell as punishment.]] |
| 644 | * EternalRecurrence: |
| 645 | ** [[spoiler:Before ''Devilman'', God had perpetually created and destroyed earth as humans evolve into Gods, which are demons, every single time he creates them. His attempt to do so in ''Devilman'' resulted in Satan opposing him for the unjust sin of genocide.]] |
| 646 | ** [[spoiler:Spin-offs and the chapter concerning Tare's friend have implied humans were on the verge of evolving in Devilman as well, meaning God had every reason to let each side wipe each other out.]] |
| 647 | * [[EvilVsEvil Evil vs. Evil vs. Evil]]: God may be evil in ''Devilman'' but, after the story goes to great lengths to show the sheer level of cruelty that both humans and demons can stoop to, by the end you ''really'' can't say that He's any worse than the other sides of the conflict. In the end, humans, demons, and even Heaven are '''all''' evil in their own right. |
| 648 | * GodIsEvil: Not only is Satan's actions a direct parallel of his father in ''Devilman'' meant to be a bad thing, but ''Devilman Lady'' even suggests he is the Gnostic Demiurge, with even his own son Jesus coming to oppose him. [[spoiler:Akira himself comes to this view of God after seeing hell and learning about heaven.]] |
| 649 | * GreaterScopeVillain: For the entirety of ''Devilman'', ''Violence Jack'', and ''Manga/DevilmanLady''. Satan, the Slum King, and Satoru are the leaders of the demonic forces, but God is the tyrant who Satan is rebelling against, and [[spoiler:is personally resetting the time loop over and over again so Satan will be tormented and never turn good]]. |
| 650 | * InfernalParadise: [[spoiler:Akira reveals in ''Lady'' that Heaven is nothing but a prison of light for those who worship him to be his slaves, nothing like the paradise humans have envisioned.]] |
| 651 | * ManipulativeBastard: After Heaven suffered a humiliating defeat at Satan and demonkind's hands, God preferred a long gambit [[spoiler:creating humans, knowing that the demons and Satan will forget their origins, begin a war against them that would weaken each side enough Heaven could descend afterwards and crush the victor. His extermination of all life in Russia earlier was to prevent demonkind being strong enough to win the next battle.]] |
| 652 | * MurderIsTheBestSolution: His response to anything he hates is to kill it, demonize it, and toss it into hell. |
| 653 | [[/folder]] |
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