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| 2 | [[foldercontrol]] |
| 3 | |
| 4 | !!The Hero and Family |
| 5 | |
| 6 | !!!The Hero |
| 7 | [[folder:The Hero]] |
| 8 | !!Madason (Luca in Anime/DragonQuestYourStory) |
| 9 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/dqvhero.png]] |
| 10 | -->Voiced by: Creator/KonamiYoshida (his child self in the Drama [=CDs=]), Creator/RyoHorikawa (his adult self in the Drama [=CDs=]), Takeru Satoh (Your Story) (Japanese), Creator/YuriLowenthal (adult, Your Story), Julian Lerner (young, Your Story) (English) |
| 11 | |
| 12 | TheHero of ''VideoGame/DragonQuestV'', though not TheChosenOne. The only son of Pankraz and Mada, he has been traveling around the world with his father for as far back as he can remember. Possesses a natural touch with monsters, managing to earn their trust and loyalty with surprising ease. |
| 13 | ---- |
| 14 | * ActionDad: By the final third of the game he'll be kicking ass alongside his BadassFamily consisting of his wife, son and daughter. |
| 15 | * AdorablyPrecociousChild: During the first act, he is a cute but serious, committed and responsible kid who has been travelling with his father all over the world to find his disappeared mother. |
| 16 | * BigGood: He is the driving force to take down Nimzo, after all. |
| 17 | * BlowYouAway: Many of his offensive magics are wind elemental. |
| 18 | * BornUnlucky: His Luck stat is the worst. [[GameplayAndStoryIntegration Explains]] his TraumaCongaLine. |
| 19 | * BreakingOldTrends: After a four-game string of sword-swinging swashbucklers for heroes, the protagonist of ''Dragon Quest V'' is for all intents and purposes a monster-shepherd who favors staves. [[spoiler:It's ''his son'' who will be swinging the legendary sword in this game]]. When gathered in a group with other heroes, his staff, turban, and cloak make him stick out like a sore thumb. |
| 20 | * BreakTheCutie: Saying he had it rough growing up is putting it lightly. It's even shown in his artwork, where as a child he has [[{{Keet}} a big grin]] on his face while as an adult he's [[PerpetualFrowner always frowning]]. |
| 21 | * CanonName: Has TWO of them. |
| 22 | ** The one used in the US releases of DQV is Madason. |
| 23 | ** His name in the ''Dragon Quest: Your Story'' movie is Luca. The trope gets played with, with the ending revealing [[spoiler:that it's actually a ''Dragon Quest'' virtual reality game and the player always calls his characters Luca.]] |
| 24 | * ChickMagnet: He can marry one of three different women, and various other [=NPCs=] have shown an interest in him, to boot. |
| 25 | * CombatMedic: He hits hard and his spell line makes him a reliable source of healing. In fact he's very much like that of the Priest class rather than the Hero class. [[spoiler:[[GameplayAndStoryIntegration Must be because he's not actually the chosen one.]]]] |
| 26 | * DecoyProtagonist: Played With. [[spoiler:He's TheHero, but the actual ChosenOne is his son. This is only highlighted by the fact his son's stats]], like those of all the other human characters, are dismal compared to the protagonist's, though. |
| 27 | * DisappearedDad: Right after [[spoiler:his children's birth, he is turned to stone by Ladja and his statue is found and stolen by grave robbers. His children spend eight years searching for him]]. |
| 28 | * {{Determinator}}: Nothing the villains throw at him (and they throw a ''lot'') causes him to stay down for very long. |
| 29 | * EpicFlail: Flail of Destruction, obtainable only in the Bonus Dungeon. |
| 30 | * FireForgedFriends: With Prince Harry. See his entry for more on this. |
| 31 | * FluffyTamer: He inherited the ability to befriend monsters from his own mother, a woman who could purge the evil out of monsters. |
| 32 | * GenerationXerox: After [[spoiler:the hero's mother Queen Madalena was captured by the Evil Order of Zugzwang, King]] Pankraz leaves his kingdom to go on a journey along with his son and Sancho in order to her after she had given birth to their son the Hero. Later, the Hero pursues the same quest while searching [[spoiler:for his wife who was also captured by the Order of Zugzwang]], right after giving birth to their son and daughter. |
| 33 | * HappilyMarried: Getting him here is a plot point. |
| 34 | * HeavyEquipmentClass: Capable of using heavier weapons and armour, although his ultimate weapon is a staff rather than a sword. |
| 35 | * HelloInsertNameHere: The player can choose his name, although he does have a CanonName though. |
| 36 | * HenpeckedHusband: If the Hero marries Debora, she will treat him--and refer to him as--a servant more often than not. |
| 37 | * HeroicMime: Played straight, but also played with: [[spoiler:You get to hear two sides of the same conversation at one point, making clear that a simple Yes/No prompt on one side doesn't equate the hero saying ''just'' Yes or No.]] Also, if the Hero gets afflicted with the Confusion status, he will try to talk a monster out of attacking him. |
| 38 | * HeroesPreferSwords: Played with. He can wield some of the swords, but not the legendary one. Averted in that his weapon in artwork, as well as his implied "personal" weapon towards the end, are both magic wands, and played straight because he is one of many characters that can equip the game's strongest weapon, the Metal King Sword. His personalized strongest weapon that only he can wield, though, is the Dragon Staff. |
| 39 | * HeterosexualLifePartners: With Prince Harry. The Hero helps him take his kingdom back and marry the love of his life and in turn Harry is always willing to aid him in whatever way he can. This is further proven when the Hero invites Harry to be the best man at his wedding and [[spoiler: when Harry orders a worldwide search for the Hero when he goes missing]]. |
| 40 | * HistoryRepeats: The first act of the story is marked by the MainCharacter being protected and guided while travelling through the wilderness. The third act of the story is marked by the MainCharacter protecting and guiding his children while travelling through the wilderness (assuming, of course, that they're in the party). |
| 41 | * {{Hunk}}: As an adult. |
| 42 | * HypercompetentSidekick: [[spoiler: His son is the chosen one, making him the true hero of the story, but the main character's certainly no slouch when it comes to battling evil and every KidHero could do with having a mentor.]] |
| 43 | * ImprobableAge: Begins his adventuring ''under the player's control'' at '''six'''. Prior to this, he's been traveling around with his father for basically his entire life. |
| 44 | * InSeriesNickname: In the DS version's party chat, he tends to have different nicknames based on your bride of choice or other characters in the game. Debora often calls him things along the lines of "Servant", whereas Flora/Nera almost always calls him [[AffectionateNickname "Darling"]] (DS version) or [[AffectionateNickname "Sweetie"]] ([=PS2=] version). Tuppence usually just calls him variants on "Your Majesty". |
| 45 | * ItsPersonalWithTheDragon: Beyond saving the world, his primary motivation is to avenge his father's death by killing Ladja, who he encounters several times throughout his life, each time making their feud even more intense. In comparison, he only encounters both Korol and Nimzo once before their respective deaths. |
| 46 | * {{Keet}}: The one conversation we get to see his young self have showed him to be a very happy, excitable boy. [[BreakTheCutie Too bad this doesn't last]]. |
| 47 | * KingIncognito: A bonafide king who wanders the land wearing literal rags. And although it's convenient to be treated as a traveler instead of royalty, he wears them because he had worn rags for his entire life - both as a child and as a slave - and likely feels uncomfortable in anything else. |
| 48 | * LightningBruiser: Very strong, fast and durable. |
| 49 | * MadeASlave: After Ladja murders his father, he kidnaps him and Harry and turns them into slaves to the Order of Zugzwang, being forced to build a temple for ten years. |
| 50 | * MagicKnight: He is good with both magic and physical attacks. |
| 51 | * TheMedic: For most of the game, and not counting recruited monsters, he is the only party member who learns several healing spells. |
| 52 | * MissingMom: Finding her becomes his goal in life. |
| 53 | * PerpetualFrowner: Generally shown frowning in all artwork of him, [[CosmicPlaything with good reason]]. |
| 54 | * RedOniBlueOni: The red to Harry's blue. He is emotional, impulsive and prone to jump into a dangerous situation, regardless of the consequences; Prince Harry, contrastingly, is, post-CharacterDevelopment, quiet, cautious and tends to think before speaking and acting. |
| 55 | * SecretLegacy: [[spoiler:Starts out unaware of his past or the full truth of his heritage.]] |
| 56 | * SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong: Subverted. When the Hero travels back in time to retrieve the Gold Orb, is also possible to try and warn your father Pankraz about the events that will lead to his eventual death, and although he agrees to "take it to heart" he still dies nonetheless. |
| 57 | * StableTimeLoop: The Hero as a kid meets up a young man in Whealbrook who is interested in seeing the Gold Orb you're carrying. Said orb was later destroyed by Ladja before the first Time Skip. You learn that the Gold Orb is needed to raise the Zenithian Castle to the skies from underwater. You then visit the Faerie Palace, travel back in time using a picture, find your younger self, and switch the decoy orb with the Gold Orb. The orb Ladja destroyed was a fake, and the young man early in Whealbrook was your older self. |
| 58 | * TheStoic: Implied to be a rather serious, somber person through other character's dialogue, and is generally always shown with a rather grim expression on his face in artwork. Considering his life though, this is completely justified. |
| 59 | * StrongFamilyResemblance: Becomes more obvious as he ages, even [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] at times. |
| 60 | * SupernaturallyYoungParent: Being a statue for eight years will do that to you. |
| 61 | * SupportingProtagonist: He is plenty heroic but as said before, he isn't the ChosenOne. [[spoiler: Since his son is the true hero of the story, he is relegated to this in the later parts of the game.]] |
| 62 | * TakenForGranite: [[spoiler:During the games second TimeSkip. Also AndIMustScream if he is actually ''aware'' of time passing.]] |
| 63 | * TookALevelInBadass: The Hero starts as a little child who needs to be bailed out of danger and grows into a mature, powerful warrior prince. |
| 64 | * TheUnchosenOne: Although the player character of Dragon Quest V wasn't actually ''"The Legendary Hero"'' of folklore, he was still the driving force behind the eventual defeat of Grandmaster Nimzo and his cronies. Ironically, you don't even have to bring the real hero along! |
| 65 | * VirtuousCharacterCopy: Madason is a leader of monsters whose InfinityPlusOneSword is a draconic staff that lets him turn into a dragon, [[spoiler:and is indeed a royal]], all of which makes him a heroic character copy of the Dragonlord, the BigBad of ''VideoGame/DragonQuestI''. |
| 66 | [[/folder]] |
| 67 | |
| 68 | !!!Parents of The Hero |
| 69 | |
| 70 | [[folder:Pankraz]] |
| 71 | !!Pankraz (Papas) |
| 72 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/300px_dqv_ds_pankraz.png]] |
| 73 | -->Voiced by: Creator/AkiraKamiya (in the Drama [=CDs=]), Takayuki Yamada (CG Movie) (Japanese), Parker Simmons (English) |
| 74 | |
| 75 | A powerful warrior and the village chief of Whealbrook, Pankraz has spent the last several years of his life searching for answers, as well as for the Zenithian equipment and TheChosenOne capable of wielding it. He's brought his young son along on this journey, though he feels some guilt about this. |
| 76 | ---- |
| 77 | * ActionDad: He's your dad! The game does a very good job juggling Pankraz's badassitude without ever overshadowing your character. |
| 78 | * CoolSword: [[spoiler:Also doubles as a TragicKeepsake.]] |
| 79 | * CrutchCharacter: By far and away the most powerful character introduced until maybe halfway into the game. Will easily OneHitKill any monsters when he's in your party. He beat ''two'' bosses on his own. Without breaking a sweat. |
| 80 | * DeadManWriting: After his study is finally located, you obtain the Zenithian Sword, and a letter where he wants you to fulfill his objective to find the legendary hero and your mother. |
| 81 | * FamilyUnfriendlyDeath: [[spoiler:After defeating two of the Big Bad's henchmen, Kon the Knight and Slon the Rook, he is then forced to stop because the BigBad uses well... YOU as a shield. After taking a ''lot'' of blows from the henchmen in an uneven rematch (even though he just stands there without defending himself, it takes them a while to kill him because he's ''just that strong''), he is then Kafrizzed to ashes, all in front of his son.]] |
| 82 | * GetAHoldOfYourselfMan: Delivers one to [[spoiler:Prince Harry.]] [[spoiler:[[CharacterDevelopment It helps him out a lot.]]]] |
| 83 | * HeroicSacrifice: Pankraz lets himself be killed by Ladja's enforcers, Slon the Rook and Kon the Knight, to save his son's life, whom Ladja is holding hostage. |
| 84 | * HotBlooded: An awesomely competent one. |
| 85 | * InTheHood: In Tact's True Dragon Quest V Event, he wears one as not to surprise his son that his father wasn't killed by Bishop Ladja. |
| 86 | * KingIncognito: King Pankraz of Gotha travels around the world posing as a mercenary in order to find his kidnapped wife. |
| 87 | * LightningBruiser: Will randomly attack two times a turn and hits very hard. |
| 88 | * OnlyOneName: Subverted at least in the English script, despite being from a series where this trope is very common. Of course, his last name (Gotha) is only mentioned when he's telling some guards who he is. |
| 89 | * PapaWolf: God help you if you touch a hair on his son's head and he knows about it. Nothing less than TheDragon's interference will save you. This makes sense since his son is not only, well, ''his son'', but also all he has left of his wife. |
| 90 | * {{Retirony}}: [[spoiler:Before traveling to Coburg, he mentions that once his business there is finished, he plans on settling down for a bit to let his son enjoy his childhood.]] |
| 91 | * SensitiveGuyAndManlyMan: To Sancho's Sensitive Guy. Pankraz is a brooding, stoic swordsman who tries to keep his emotions in check for his son's sake, while his servant and friend is a pudgy, kind-hearted man who wears his heart on his sleeve at all times. |
| 92 | * SparedByTheAdaptation: During ''VideoGame/DragonQuestTact'''s True Dragon Quest V Event, he's unintentionally saved by Majellan and Mindini from Ladja's Kafrizz when they return to the Dragon Quest V game world by teleportal. |
| 93 | * SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: As a manly ActionDad whose personal quest is taken up by his son, Pankraz is quite similar to Ortega of ''VideoGame/DragonQuestIII'', albeit much more involved in the story. |
| 94 | [[/folder]] |
| 95 | |
| 96 | [[folder:Madalena]] |
| 97 | !!Madalena "Mada"(Martha) |
| 98 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/dragonquestv_madalena.jpg]] |
| 99 | -->Voiced by: Creator/ReiSakuma (in the Drama [=CDs=]), Chikako Kaku (CG Movie) (Japanese), Cissy Jones (English) |
| 100 | |
| 101 | Pankraz's much-beloved and very much missed wife, and the main character's MissingMom. Her disappearance is what drove Pankraz to seek out the legendary hero. |
| 102 | ---- |
| 103 | * BarrierMaiden: [[spoiler:Tries to seal Nimzo in Naidira near the end of the game. [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness Unfortunately he anticipated it.]]]] |
| 104 | * BlessedWithSuck: [[spoiler:Her powers made her a prime target for the villains; in order to protect her, the Loftians locked her away and had her constantly praying for ''them'' instead.]] |
| 105 | * GildedCage: [[spoiler:Her room in her birthplace effectively functioned as this.]] |
| 106 | * GirlInTheTower: [[spoiler:{{Invoked}}: when visiting her room at her old hometown, Parry directly compares it to a fairy-tale tower.]] |
| 107 | * GodsNeedPrayerBadly: [[spoiler:Why she was kidnapped.]] |
| 108 | * HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:She tries. It doesn't work.]] |
| 109 | * MissingMom: Finding her is the hero's dream. |
| 110 | [[/folder]] |
| 111 | |
| 112 | !!!The Heavenly Brides |
| 113 | |
| 114 | [[folder:Shared Traits]] |
| 115 | |
| 116 | Shared traits of all the brides. |
| 117 | ---- |
| 118 | * ActionMom: After joining during the third part of the game. |
| 119 | * BattleCouple: Becomes one with the main character. |
| 120 | * ChekhovsGunman: Although all three of them have the potential, the one the main character marries will always [[spoiler:become the mother of TheChosenOne]]. |
| 121 | * ColorCodedCharacters: Each potential wife has a different hair color and contrasting theme colors in their wardrobe: |
| 122 | ** Bianca = Blonde hair; green tunic/dress and orange cloak, very simply made. |
| 123 | ** Nera = Blue hair; pastel shades of blue, white and lavender/blush pink. |
| 124 | ** Debora = Black hair; rich red and darker pink. |
| 125 | * CosmicMotifs: Art from ''Dragon Quest Rivals'' associates [[SolarAndLunar Bianca with the sun, Nera with the moon]], and Deborah with the stars. |
| 126 | * ExpressDelivery: Courtesy of GameplayAndStorySegregation, though [=NPC=] chatter makes it clear more time passes than the player might realize during their travels. |
| 127 | * {{Fainting}}: The [[spoiler:Pregnancy Faint]] variant of this trope on the way to Gotha. |
| 128 | * HappilyAdopted: [[spoiler:None of them are actually related to the folks who raised them. None of them care about this.]] |
| 129 | * HappilyMarried: No matter which one ends up with the hero, they become this. |
| 130 | * MissingMom: [[spoiler:Gets torn away from her children and husband for ten years.]] |
| 131 | * OlderThanTheyLook: [[spoiler: Being a statue for ten years works wonders for your skin.]] |
| 132 | * PlayingWithFire: All of them learn Kasizzle, though their exact spell lists vary. |
| 133 | * PregnantBadass: Only briefly though. |
| 134 | * RecurringElement: |
| 135 | ** Nera and Bianca both fit in the franchise's Mage archetype, with offensive fire magic and a weapon selection of knives, whips, and staves. Nera, with her additional magic offenses, fits it slightly better than Bianca. |
| 136 | ** Deborah, meanwhile, is an heir to the Martial Artist archetype, using weapons that give her [[CriticalHitClass higher DPS and more critical hits]] than the other brides. |
| 137 | * SecretLegacy: [[spoiler:Descended from a Zenithian bloodline; hence, Heavenly Bride.]] |
| 138 | * SwordAndSorcerer: |
| 139 | ** Bianca has an advantage in physical equipment choices (and in the original version a slight edge in strength and stamina), making her the Sword, while Nera has the edge in offensive and support magic, making her the Sorcerer. |
| 140 | ** The DS remake tweaks this trope into a PowerTrio--Deborah's sheer physical prowess in combat makes her the Sword to Nera's Sorcerer, leaving Bianca between them as a MagicKnight. |
| 141 | * RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: [[spoiler:They will become Queen of Gotha a ways through the game.]] |
| 142 | * TakenForGranite: [[spoiler:Mixed with AndIMustScream, if aware of her predicament. [[note]]It seems to vary depending on the bride, or rather, how much they ''admit'' to varies.[[/note]]]] |
| 143 | * ThreeFacesOfEve: Bianca, whose maternal instincts drive her to protect cute little animals, wears her hair in a MotherlySidePlait, and is most commonly associated with the hero's children, is the mother. Nera, who is innocent and virginal, with [[VideoGame/DragonQuestHeroes a love for fairy tales]] and a capacity to fall in love at first sight, is the maiden. Deborah, a MsFanservice prone to immense physicality, is the seductress. |
| 144 | [[/folder]] |
| 145 | |
| 146 | [[folder:Bianca Whitaker]] |
| 147 | !!Bianca Whitaker |
| 148 | [[quoteright:346:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/346px_dqv_ds_bianca.png]] |
| 149 | -->Voiced by: Creator/MariaKawamura (in the Drama [=CDs=]), Kasumi Arimura (CG Movie) (Japanese), Creator/StephanieSheh (English) |
| 150 | |
| 151 | Daughter of the Roundbeck innkeeper Whitey Whitaker, Bianca is the main character's childhood friend, and two years older than him (as she's very quick to remind him). A complete {{Tomboy}} as a child, she does her best to keep a positive attitude no matter how terrible things seem. |
| 152 | ---- |
| 153 | * BadassAdorable: When Bianca first joins the party, she is a cute, pigtailed ten-year-old who, unlike the Hero, is able to burn monsters to death. |
| 154 | * TheBeastmaster: While she lacks the player's affinity for {{Mons}} in general, she shares a relationship with the TeamPet sabrecat. In her SpinOff appearances, she'll summon him when using her {{Limit Break}}s, to be either her HorseOfADifferentColor as in ''Monster Battle Road'' or her AttackAnimal as in ''Dragon Quest Heroes''. |
| 155 | * BraidsOfAction: Whether she wears it as GirlishPigtails or a MotherlySidePlait, Bianca's hair is worn in a practical braid suited for adventure. |
| 156 | * ChildhoodFriendRomance: Once TheHero reunites with her in the second act, it becomes clear she's started looking at her old ChildhoodFriend in a new light now that [[SheIsAllGrownUp He is All Grown Up]]. Whether she is {{Victorious|Childhood Friend}} or {{Unlucky|Childhood Friend}} depends on whether she becomes the chosen bride. |
| 157 | * ChildMage: Qualifies as one during her ghostbusting stint. |
| 158 | * CostumeEvolution: Bianca's original design features her in a plain dress and cape, but her appearances in certain spinoffs and adaptations often put her in more fur, leather, or homespun clothing to better distinguish her from Nera being drenched in finery. |
| 159 | ** ''VideoGame/FortuneStreet DS'' reworked her main dress to be assembled from other materials and added obvious stitchwork at the seams; it also gave her elbow pads, heftier boots, and a hood for her cape. |
| 160 | ** ''Anime/DragonQuestYourStory'' elaborated on Fortune Street's ideas by replacing her orange cape with tanned leather, adding fur at her boots and shoulder, giving her a leather breastplate and guard [[FashionableAsymmetry on her left arm]], hanging a knife on her hip, and tousling up her hair. |
| 161 | ** ''VideoGame/DragonQuestHeroes'' kept her original dress, and fancied it up with some ornate detailing (much the same as it did for every legacy character), but it notably gave her a bow and arrow. |
| 162 | * DivergentCharacterEvolution: While whips were prominently featured among Bianca's weapon list in her game of origin, ''VideoGame/DragonQuestHeroes'' gave Bianca the use of bow and arrow to distinguish her from [[VideoGame/DragonQuestVIII Jessica]], who also has an association with the whip. Bianca's use of the bow persisted through ''VideoGame/DragonQuestOfTheStars'', but as of ''VideoGame/DragonQuestTact'' she has again adopted whips. |
| 163 | * DudeMagnet: Bianca has several people head over heels for her and others comment on her beauty. Should Bianca not get married to the Hero, she actually gets herself a number of would-be suitors. |
| 164 | * FirstGirlWins: Knew the main character even before the game proper begins, being his childhood friend and all. |
| 165 | * FluffyTamer: While it doesn't get much attention, it's the smell of Bianca's ribbon that allows the TeamPet sabrecat to recognize the protagonist. Her affinity for the sabrecat is played up in other appearances, where she appears as TheBeastmaster and can summon him to help her. |
| 166 | * TheGadfly: Bianca's characterization in the movie adaptation sees her having this type of relationship with the hero (Luca). She repeatedly lovingly trolls him to get under his skin. |
| 167 | * GirlishPigtails: As a child. |
| 168 | * GuestStarPartyMember: During the Uptaten Towers in the first generation and later in the Engagement Challenge [[SubvertedTrope unless chosen as the bride]]. |
| 169 | * HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: She has blond hair and she's a very kind, spunky lady. |
| 170 | * ImpliedLoveInterest: |
| 171 | ** Bianca features as {{The Protagonist}}'s wife in almost all official media (down to being the only bride who ever appears in the game's cover art), and his son and daughter are most often depicted as blonds, which only happens in their game of origin if Bianca is their mother. In Novels and CD Theatres, Bianca is the wife, and when they appear in the ''Monster Battle Road'' series, it's Bianca who is identified as the "[[spoiler:daughter of the sky]]"[[note]]A backstory detail that isn't learned until well after the wedding.[[/note]], while Nera is only identified as a "noble daughter". |
| 172 | ** While Nera has specific mechanical advantages if she's chosen as the bride, the story favors Bianca--she's the protagonist's ChildhoodFriend, she was an essential part of the childhood adventure involving the protagonist's pet sabrecat and the golden orb [[note]]This is reinforced by cover art for the game, which always depicts the protagonist, Bianca, and the sabrecat[[/note]], Nera already has a competing LoveInterest in Crispin Burns and outright double-checks with you if you try to marry her, and both story events and {{NPC}} chatter alike [[EveryoneCanSeeIt nudge the player to choose Bianca]]. Even if Bianca is ''not'' chosen as the bride, party chat from Tuppence and Madchen implies that the Hero still carries a bit of a torch for her. |
| 173 | ** The film adaptation goes meta with this [[spoiler: when it turns out the story is actually taking place in a VR world. The "player" decides he plans to marry Nera for once since he normally went for Bianca in the past, but the developer lets him know that the "hero" still has desires of his own. Naturally those desires entails him actually wanting to marry Bianca.]] |
| 174 | * IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: Assists the main character with the EngagementChallenge despite her own feelings for him, and would have left them completely unvoiced if Nera hadn't figured it out and spoken up on her behalf. |
| 175 | * JackOfAllTrades: With [[SwordAndSorcerer Deborah taking the Bianca's place as the Sword to Nera's Sorcerer]], Bianca instead becomes a MagicKnight balancing them both out. |
| 176 | * JustAStupidAccent: In TheRemake English translation for the Nintendo DS and ''VideoGame/DragonQuestHeroesTheWorldTreesWoeAndTheBlightBelow'', she speaks with a Cornish accent. |
| 177 | * TheLadette: In the film, Bianca is quite rowdy and even more outgoing than the Hero is. |
| 178 | * LittleMissBadass: When she's ghost-hunting with the main character as a child. |
| 179 | * MatchmakerCrush: Bianca supports the hero on his EngagementChallenge set by Rodrigo to marry Nera despite her own obvious feelings for the hero. The film takes this a step further by having Bianca trying to coach Luca through his actual proposal. |
| 180 | * MotherlySidePlait: She wears a [[BraidsOfAction Braid of Action]] over her right shoulder, and she is a compassionate, warm person (she went into a haunted mansion when she was a child to protect a kitten) and a nurturing mother to her children. |
| 181 | * PluckyGirl: It does not matter what happens to Bianca (which includes being kidnapped and turned to stone right after giving birth to her children, and spending eight years as a statue before being rescued), she never loses hope that the Hero can defeat Nimzo, and she does not hesitate in rejoining her husband to fight the very monsters who tried to destroy her life. |
| 182 | * ThePollyanna: Tries to stay positive no matter what; when she realizes her hopes for the Hero's love are challenged by his mission to claim the legendary shield, [[StepfordSmiler she stifles her personal feelings]] and remains encouraging. |
| 183 | * RememberWhenYouBlewUpASun: When adventuring, she will occasionally make {{Call Back}}s to your ghost-hunting adventure as children. |
| 184 | * SheIsAllGrownUp: The most dramatic case of this among the brides, since the hero already knew her quite well as a child. Judging from her dialog, Bianca's become rather impressed with TheHero as well. |
| 185 | * StepfordSmiler: Flirts with this during the EngagementChallenge, stifling her feelings for TheProtagonist when she realizes that despite him coming back into her life, he's seeks to marry another woman. |
| 186 | * ThemeNaming: Bianca is [[ColorMotifs an Italian name that means "white", while Nera means "black".]] |
| 187 | * {{Tomboy}}: Very happy to be an adventurer, but her family comes first. |
| 188 | * TomboyAndGirlyGirl: |
| 189 | ** Bianca is the tomboy to Nera's girly girl; she's an OutdoorsyGal who wears boots and a short dress, keeps her hair in a practical [[BraidsOfAction Braid of Action]], can wear select pieces of heavier armor like the Iron Cuirass and Metal King Helm, and has more aggressive spells. |
| 190 | ** The movie dials up the contrast by [[AdaptationPersonalityChange dialing up Bianca's masculine traits]], turning her into TheLadette and an UnkemptBeauty. |
| 191 | ** In the Battle Road games, Bianca is associated with the {{fire|Is Masculine}} ring and has a more energetic and active LimitBreak animation. |
| 192 | * YankTheDogsChain: If the main character chooses not to marry her, the HopeSpot prior to his decision can feel like one of these. |
| 193 | [[/folder]] |
| 194 | |
| 195 | [[folder:Nera Briscoletti]] |
| 196 | !!Nera Briscoletti (Flora) |
| 197 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/300px_dqv_ds_nera.png]] |
| 198 | -->Voiced by: Creator/KikukoInoue (in the Drama [=CDs=]), Haru (CG Movie) (Japanese), Creator/XantheHuynh (English) |
| 199 | |
| 200 | Rodrigo Briscoletti's beloved younger daughter[[note]]originally his only child prior to the DS version[[/note]]. Nera is a model [[TheIngenue maiden]]: demure, compassionate, good with children and animals... After completing her 'domestic goddess training' at the Heavens Above Abbey, she'll be ready to marry whoever can win her father's favor. |
| 201 | ---- |
| 202 | * AscendedExtra: In the original version of the game, TheHero never met Nera during childhood, but she gets a brief appearance during in {{Updated Rerelease}}s when she appears when the hero and Pankraz disembark from the boat at the start. |
| 203 | * BadassAdorable: Is the latter from the get go and begins gaining points in the former if chosen. |
| 204 | * ChildhoodFriendRomance: She's known Crispin since they were small, and while ''he'' hopes to win her hand in marriage, she sees him [[LikeBrotherAndSister as an older brother]]. If the protagonist chooses to marry Bianca, the FlorenceNightingaleEffect will eventually kick in and they will wind up happily married; otherwise, Crispin will ultimately marry another woman. |
| 205 | * CoordinatedClothes: Nera and Deborah have very different tastes in clothing, [[DownplayedTrope but they wear the same belt]]. |
| 206 | * CurtainsMatchTheWindow: Dark blue hair and eyes. |
| 207 | * CuteWitch: She's the most natural spellcaster of the three brides. |
| 208 | * EarlyBirdCameo: In the original game, Nera only meets TheProtagonist when he arrives in her hometown, but in {{Updated Rerelease}}s of ''Dragon Quest V'', she briefly appears at the start of the game alongside her father when Pankraz and son are disembarking from the ship. |
| 209 | * FlorenceNightingaleEffect: Happens between her and Crispin, should you choose not to marry her. |
| 210 | * ForgottenFirstMeeting: In {{Updated Rerelease}}s, Nera first meets the hero as a child when she is helped onto her father's ship by the hero's father Pankraz. Nera only makes the connection if she was chosen as the bride via Party Chat in Littlehaven or after talking to the ship's captain. |
| 211 | * GoodBadGirl: Implied during banter; when an NPC notices some scratches on the Hero's back, Nera sheepishly admits that she's responsible for them. |
| 212 | * {{Housewife}}: A kind princess who can cast a wide variety of offensive spells, but her specific training was in homemaking. |
| 213 | * IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: She notices Bianca's feelings for the Hero, so she convinces her father to give the Hero a choice in whom he should marry. |
| 214 | * LadyOfBlackMagic: She's very demure and graceful, and learns many offensive spells that can cause massive damage. |
| 215 | * LoveAtFirstSight: {{Invoked}} when she first runs into the main character in her hometown. |
| 216 | * MagikarpPower: Of the three brides she takes the most work to get off the ground, starting at a lower level and with no spells other than midheal (albeit with some rather good starting equipment), however she does have quite the potent spell list that can make it worth the effort of training her. |
| 217 | * MeaningfulName: Her original name is of course representative of the idea that she is a delicate flower (at first). Her name in the US version is intended to contrast with Bianca's; it is the feminine form of "Nero", which is Italian for "black", whereas Bianca means "white". |
| 218 | * TheMedic: Learns Midheal. Just Midheal... but she is still the only bride to learn any healing magic. |
| 219 | * ModestRoyalty: She must have inherited it from her dad. |
| 220 | * PerfectlyArrangedMarriage: She objects to the idea that her husband is being chosen for her, until [[LoveAtFirstSight she realizes that the main character is one of her marriage candidates]]. |
| 221 | * PinkMeansFeminine: She wears a lot of pink, and as such is touted as very beautiful. |
| 222 | * PluckyGirl: A bit more reserved than most, but still speaks her mind nonetheless. |
| 223 | * ThePollyanna: She keeps up an overall positive outlook throughout the game. |
| 224 | * PrincessClassic: She's a princess who is kindhearted, gentle, and loving. |
| 225 | * PrincessesPreferPink: Her clothes are noticeably fancier than Bianca's simple green dress/orange cloak, [[ModestRoyalty yet not as over-the-top]] as her older sister's. |
| 226 | * ProperLady: As noted above, she's the model maiden and a princess. |
| 227 | * RomanticRunnerUp: Of the IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy in the film. Despite having a more overt crush on Luca compared to the game, she ultimately convinces him to back out of their engagement after picking up on how close Luca really is with Bianca. |
| 228 | * ShrinkingViolet: Was one as a child, but grew out of it over time. |
| 229 | * ShyBlueHairedGirl: The most reserved and demure of the three brides just so happens to be the one with blue hair. |
| 230 | * SiblingYinYang: |
| 231 | ** Nera is SpoiledSweet, kindhearted and gentle, while Deborah is a SpoiledBrat with a sharp tongue and [[BrutalHonesty a blunt attitude]]. |
| 232 | ** Deborah and Nera together are SwordAndSorcerer--Deborah has much less magical ability than the other brides, while a fully-trained Nera has the broadest range of spells and the most powerful attack spell Kaboom. |
| 233 | ** Deborah and Nera both have some support spells, but while Nera has the respectable party-supporting spell Midheal, Deborah has enemy-crippling spells Dazzle, Snooze, and Kasap. |
| 234 | * SilkHidingSteel: Her spell list is predominantly a variety of support and utility spells, but when her levels get into the late twenties she'll develop the powerful Kasizzle, Kafrizzle, and Kaboom. |
| 235 | * SirNotAppearingInThisTrailer: During the period of the original Japanese release, Nera's existence was hidden from all advertising and even the game's instruction manual, and would only be alluded to as "F-san" at most ("F" for "Flora"). |
| 236 | * SquishyWizard: The most magic-oriented of all the brides, with the largest selection of spells. |
| 237 | * StuffBlowingUp: Her last spell learned is the powerful Kaboom spell. |
| 238 | * ThemeNaming: Nera is [[ColorMotifs an Italian name meaning "black", while Bianca means "white".]] |
| 239 | * TomboyAndGirlyGirl: |
| 240 | ** Nera is the girly girl to Bianca's tomboy; she wears heels and an opulent dress, lets her hair down to the small of her back and has a big bow in it, and learns more support and utility spells. |
| 241 | ** In the Battle Road games, Nera is associated with the {{water|Is Womanly}} ring and her LimitBreak is more graceful (albeit just as devastating). |
| 242 | * WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: She has a fear of heights, something she shares in common with her potential daughter Madchen. |
| 243 | [[/folder]] |
| 244 | |
| 245 | [[folder:Debora Briscoletti]] |
| 246 | !!Debora Briscoletti (Deborah) |
| 247 | [[quoteright:270:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/270px_dqv_debora_biscoletti.png]] |
| 248 | |
| 249 | Nera's temperamental older sister, Debora never bought into that whole '[[ProperLady lovely and demure]]' crap. For her, it's all about doing as she pleases and getting everything she wants. Her parents have basically given up on ever seeing her married, focusing on their more obedient daughter instead. |
| 250 | ---- |
| 251 | * AlphaBitch: A smug beauty that believes herself to be greater than everyone else. |
| 252 | * CombatStilettos: Debora has zero issues adventuring in her high-heeled pumps. The player can acquire them as part of her outfit in ''VideoGame/DragonQuestIX''. |
| 253 | * CoordinatedClothes: Nera and Deborah have very different tastes in clothing, [[DownplayedTrope but they wear the same belt]]. |
| 254 | * CriticalHitClass: Deborah's selection of available weapons includes claws, the hallmark weapon of the classic Martial Artist vocation (itself a CriticalHitClass), Hela's hammer (which gets a guaranteed CriticalHit... provided it connects), and even an extra OneHitKill spell in Whack (which only Deborah learns--all the brides learn its more advanced form Thwack). She also has four times as many double-hit weapons as the other brides, not only having access the falcon-knife earrings, but also her own personal akillics, the diamond akillics, and the full-fledged falcon blade. |
| 255 | %%* DeadpanSnarker: A master of it. |
| 256 | * DefrostingIceQueen: If chosen as the main character's bride. |
| 257 | * GirlyGirlWithATomboyStreak: Deborah's makeup and attire are too fabulous for anyone to rightfully claim that she's a proper {{Tomboy}}, but she also has [[ExaggeratedTrope a unique predilection for violent, hypermasculine weaponry]]. |
| 258 | * HeroesPreferSwords: Bianca and Nera can only wield a pair of light, magic swords (the siren sword and faerie foil) meant only for women, but Deborah, who has three times as many sword options, can heft the heavier blades like the iron broadsword. |
| 259 | * HiddenDepths: Has the most CharacterDevelopment out of all the wives. It runs the entire course of the game, to boot, and sometimes it can be ''very'' subtle. As just one example of how subtle it gets: [[spoiler:the evening before the bride choice, one NPC mentions that this is just as heavy a situation for Bianca and Nera as it is for Madason, and they must be up fretting too. Check on Bianca and, and sure enough, it's true... but then Nera is, rather famously, snoozing away. ''Debora'' is the one wide awake, and gets quite flustered when you speak to her, especially if you feign non-interest in her. Even then, it seems she loves Madason [[CannotSpitItOut but can't bring herself to admit it]].]] |
| 260 | * HiddenHeartOfGold: Implied at times. Graduates to JerkWithAHeartOfGold by the end. |
| 261 | * IcyBlueEyes: They fit her perfectly. |
| 262 | * ItsAllAboutMe: Why everyone has given up hope of her getting married by the time you arrive. Even after you marry her she still qualifies. |
| 263 | * InterplayOfSexAndViolence: The sexiest of the brides is also the most physically aggressive. |
| 264 | * LadyOfWar: ''Far'' more of a physical fighter than the other brides (to the point that she gets an exclusive weapon type which are also the strongest double-attack weapons in the ''franchise''), and doesn't learn as many spells, though the ones she does get still synergize well with her ability to crush enemies flat. |
| 265 | * LoveAtFirstSight: [[spoiler:If chosen, reveals this during a Party Chat shortly before challenging the final boss.]] |
| 266 | * MessyHair: Her hair goes ''everywhere'', ponytail be ''damned''. It's more of a '''mane''' than anything. Reappears in ''[[VideoGame/DragonQuestIX IX]]'' and ''[[VideoGame/DragonQuestX X]]'' as a female hairstyle choice. |
| 267 | * MsFanservice: Deborah has more curves than the other brides ''combined'' and wears the shortest skirt of them all, showing more bare leg than anyone else. |
| 268 | * MyFriendsAndZoidberg: Subject to this at times from her own father, such as when she inserts herself into the engagement challenge right at the end. |
| 269 | * [[MyGodYouAreSerious My Goddess, You Are Serious]]: Her father's reaction should you marry her. Of course, he throws his full support behind the wedding, and after the wedding, he confesses you've made him very happy, as he'd given up any hope of Debora getting married long ago. |
| 270 | * ObfuscatingStupidity: ...Maybe. [[spoiler: Almost certainly, if the ending and certain hints throughout the game are anything to go by.]] |
| 271 | * OddNameOut: Bianca and Nera share ThemeNaming that employs ColorMotifs, while Deborah's name is completely unrelated. |
| 272 | * PrettyInMink: Wears a white fur wrap like a boa. |
| 273 | * RichBitch: And yet an marriage option. |
| 274 | * SiblingYinYang: |
| 275 | ** Nera is SpoiledSweet, kindhearted and gentle, while Deborah is a SpoiledBrat with a sharp tongue and [[BrutalHonesty a blunt attitude]]. |
| 276 | ** Deborah and Nera together are SwordAndSorcerer--Deborah has much less magical ability than the other brides, while a fully-trained Nera has the broadest range of spells and the most powerful attack spell Kaboom. |
| 277 | ** Deborah and Nera both have some support spells, but while Nera has the respectable party-supporting spell Midheal, Deborah has enemy-crippling spells Dazzle, Snooze, and Kasap. |
| 278 | * SomethingAboutARose: Debora wears three roses pinned in her hair as ornaments. |
| 279 | %% * SpoiledBrat: In contrast to Nera. |
| 280 | %% * {{Tsundere}} |
| 281 | * TheUnfavourite: Still well loved and given whatever she wants, but as mentioned above, her folks have more or less given up on her ever getting married. |
| 282 | * UnkemptBeauty: That hair of hers never seems to lie still. |
| 283 | * WeaponBasedCharacterization: While Bianca and Nera share the same exact weapon options (a selection of knives, whips, magic staves, and a couple of light swords), Deborah can use hammers, heavier swords, and even claws. |
| 284 | * WolverineClaws: Deborah's akillics, which can hit twice in one turn (and are more powerful than the falcon-knife earrings, which is the only double-hit option the other brides can use). An enhanced set, the diamond-akillics, are even stronger. |
| 285 | [[/folder]] |
| 286 | |
| 287 | !!!The Children of the Heavenly Union |
| 288 | |
| 289 | [[folder:Shared Traits]] |
| 290 | |
| 291 | Shared traits of the twins. |
| 292 | ---- |
| 293 | * BadassAdorable: They are two cute, cheerful eight-year-old children. Parry is the only who can use the Zenithian Sword and learn the Zap family of Spells, and Madchen learn most of the game's strongest spells. |
| 294 | * BadassFamily: They're the hero's kids! It would be a disservice if they didn't qualify, just like their mother, father, and paternal grandfather before them. |
| 295 | * CheerfulChild: Both are optimistic and endlessly curious. |
| 296 | * ColorCodedForYourConvenience: Depending on who the main character marries, they could end up with blond, blue, or black hair. |
| 297 | * HalfIdenticalTwins: Parry and Madchen are nearly identical, though Parry is mainly a physical whereas his sister is the magic powerhouse. Also, for whatever reason, Parry is the only who can wield the Zenithian Sword, even though both children are descendant of ''VideoGame/DragonQuestIV'''s legendary hero Solo/Sofia. |
| 298 | * HarmfulToMinors: Poor kids have to deal with a lot, being adventurers at their age. The remakes drive this home with Party Chat; some of what they say after certain traumatic events is just heart-wrenching. |
| 299 | --> '''Madchen''': "...Daddy? Can you hold my hand?" |
| 300 | * HelloInsertNameHere: They have official names, but you can name them whatever you'd like. |
| 301 | * HeroOfAnotherStory: [[spoiler:Party chat will reveal that the twins spent a long time looking for their mother and father. So much so that one can roughly piece together where they went and what they did before arriving at the Porgie residence]]. |
| 302 | * ImprobableAge: They start adventuring with their father at the tender age of eight, much like Bianca. |
| 303 | * MeaningfulName: Their default names are partly derived from their grandparents on their father's side: Pankraz -> ''Pa''rry and Mada -> ''Mad''chen. |
| 304 | * ParentalAbandonment: [[spoiler:Their parents had been turned to stone shortly after they were born]]. |
| 305 | * PinkGirlBlueBoy: Parry's outfit is entirely blue, while Madchen wears a dark pink/purple cape, and official art shows her white robe has a very light pinkish tinge to it. |
| 306 | * SiblingYinYang: Mostly averted, but there is one example: Parry loves heights while Madchen is afraid of them. |
| 307 | * StrongFamilyResemblance: Both are compared to their father more than their mother. Parry's happy with this; Madchen is more disappointed that she isn't told she resembles her mother more often. |
| 308 | * SuperpowerfulGenetics: [[spoiler:Parry is the Legendary Hero; Madchen has inherited a host of evil-sensing powers from her grandmother. Both learn plenty of powerful spells, including several not learned by either parent.]] |
| 309 | * ThemeTwinNaming: See MeaningfulName above. Obviously, it's [[HelloInsertNameHere up to the player]] whether or not this is played even straighter or {{Averted}}. |
| 310 | * UntoUsASonAndDaughterAreBorn: Are born in the second part of the game. |
| 311 | [[/folder]] |
| 312 | |
| 313 | [[folder:Parry]] |
| 314 | !!Parry (Rex/Ten/Alus) |
| 315 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/300px_dqv_parry_ds.png]] |
| 316 | -->Voiced by: Creator/KonamiYoshida (in the Drama [=CDs=]), Hudson Loverro (English) |
| 317 | |
| 318 | The main character's son, and almost the spitting image of his father (except with his mom's hair color). A cheerful, amiable child, he loves traveling with his family and seeing the world. |
| 319 | ---- |
| 320 | * AdorablyPrecociousChild: He had to grow up fast. [[spoiler: He's a prince after all.]] |
| 321 | * ChildMage: The more physical of the two but learns some of the strongest spells in the game. |
| 322 | * TheChosenOne: [[spoiler:Yup, turns out Pankraz was searching for his future grandson all along.]] |
| 323 | * CombatMedic: Learns Omni-Heal and Kazing, making him even better at healing than his dad. |
| 324 | * CompositeCharacter: In ''Your Story'', he is the only child born to Lucas and [[spoiler:Bianca]], in lieu of the tradition of the Hero and his wife having twins. |
| 325 | * CuteBruiser: A male example. |
| 326 | * {{Expy}}: Explicitly modelled after [[Anime/DragonBallZ Son Gohan]], as Akira Toriyama was in the midst of writing the Cell arc during the development of Dragon Quest V. |
| 327 | * FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: The foolish sibling, though he's more reckless than foolish. |
| 328 | * GenerationXerox: Implied to be very similar to the Hero when he was a kid, though thankfully he doesn't get quite as broken as he does. |
| 329 | * HeavyEquipmentClass: As capable with heavier weapons and armor as his father. [[spoiler:And he can use the Zenithian equipment on top of that!]] |
| 330 | * TheHero: [[spoiler: He's the ChosenOne destined to defeat Nimzo, making him and his mother the only members of the party with any relevance to the prophecy.]] |
| 331 | * HeroesPreferSwords: Always shown wielding swords in artwork [[spoiler: to confirm his status as TheHero]]. |
| 332 | * HotBlooded: Amusingly, if Debora is his mother, it's implied he gets it from ''her''. |
| 333 | * IdiotHero: {{Justified|Trope}}, given that he's only ''eight''. |
| 334 | --> '''Parry''': "Everyone's happy! H-A-P-Y! I mean, H-A-P-P-Y!" |
| 335 | * {{Keet}}: Parry is a small, cheerful kid who even thinks of his legendary sword as a toy. |
| 336 | * LightningBruiser: With a dash of TheMedic thrown in. Just like Daddy! |
| 337 | ** More or less takes up after his Grandfather, who used swords and healing magic primarily. |
| 338 | * MagicKnight: [[spoiler: He is the chosen one, after all.]] |
| 339 | * MamasBoy: Once his mother is rescued, he spends a good deal more time talking about her than the hero. |
| 340 | * MessianicArchetype: Everybody is looking for this guy's second coming. |
| 341 | * PintsizedPowerhouse: He's absolutely tiny and yet is a capable tank. |
| 342 | * PottyFailure: In several Party Chat conversations, he alludes to having trouble with wetting the bed. |
| 343 | * RedOniBlueOni: The red to Madchen's blue. |
| 344 | * ShockAndAwe: Can learn the Zap family of lightning spells as per tradition for ''VideoGame/DragonQuest'' protagonists. |
| 345 | * ShonenHair: Mostly in the form of big, spiky bangs. Also very fitting, given his age. [[Creator/AkiraToriyama Not surprisingly]], this makes him look quite a bit like [[Anime/DragonBallZ Son Gohan]], especially if Bianca or Debora is his mom. |
| 346 | * WarriorPrince: Unlike his father, he was born and raised as a prince, however he's also spent pretty much all of his life fighting and it shows. |
| 347 | [[/folder]] |
| 348 | |
| 349 | [[folder:Madchen]] |
| 350 | !!Madchen (Tabitha/Sora) |
| 351 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/375px_dqv_madchen_ds.png]] |
| 352 | -->Voiced by: Creator/KaeAraki (in the Drama [=CDs=]) |
| 353 | |
| 354 | Daughter of the main character. Inherited his gentle hand with monsters, and loves playing with them just as much as she does with more ''traditional'' pets, like kitties and puppies. |
| 355 | ---- |
| 356 | * AdaptedOut: In the film adaptation, Parry is an only-child. |
| 357 | * AdorablyPrecociousChild: Even more so than her brother because she tends to take her role as a [[spoiler: princess]] more seriously. |
| 358 | * BlackMagicianGirl: Has access to a pretty powerful spellpool. |
| 359 | * ChildMage: Less physical then her brother but her spells more than make up for it. |
| 360 | * CuteKitten: Talk to a cat while she's in the party, and Party Chat with her afterward. Nine times out of ten, [[CutenessProximity she'll be delighted]]. |
| 361 | * CuteWitch: At only eight, no less. |
| 362 | * DaddysGirl: She's more attached to her father, especially in incidents when she asks to hold his hand. |
| 363 | * DetectEvil: Can sense evil presences and direct her family towards them. [[color:white:Gets it from her grandmother.]] |
| 364 | * EvenTheLovingHeroHasHatedOnes: While she loves monsters like her dad, the monster she hates is Bishop Ladja, who was responsible for her grandfather's death, turning her mom and dad into stone, and killing King Korol. |
| 365 | * FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: The responsible sibling. |
| 366 | * FluffyTamer: Shares daddy's love for monsters, and often laments their bad reputation. |
| 367 | * FriendToAllLivingThings: Even moreso than her dad. |
| 368 | * AnIcePerson: Madchen learns the whole family of Ice spells. |
| 369 | * InnocentProdigy: Talented and knowledgeable mage capable of considerable insight, particularly when compared to her brother, and likely to become an experienced adventurer... while retaining her fear of heights and the dark, her naivety, and her childish innocence. |
| 370 | * LittleMissBadass: She may be eight but she packs firepower and isn't afraid to use it. |
| 371 | * MultiMeleeMaster: Her spellcasting would suggest that she favors staffs, but her sprite carries around a [[HeroesPreferSwords rapier-style blade]], and she can also use whips with ease. Her original SNES sprite did show her holding a staff at all times, though. |
| 372 | * PluckyGirl: Would rather try to tame monsters than to fight them, but is more then willing to be part of the action if need be. |
| 373 | * PrincessProtagonist: She is the Princess of Gotha and one of the Chosen Children fated to defeat Nimzo, the Grandmaster of Nadiria. |
| 374 | * RedOniBlueOni: The blue to Perry's red. |
| 375 | * SquishyWizard: Skill-wise, she tends to take after her mother; this is most obvious when it's Nera, and least obvious when it's Debora. |
| 376 | * StuffBlowingUp: Madchen learns the Bang line of explosive spells. |
| 377 | * TheUnchosenOne: [[spoiler:She shares this with the main character. Her brother can use the Zenithian equipment; she can't. This doesn't stop her from helping to save the world.]] |
| 378 | * VoluntaryShapeshifting: Learns Puff!, letting her transform into a fire-breathing dragon during battle. |
| 379 | * WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Afraid of heights, and extreme darkness to a lesser extent. Despite this, she soldiers through all the towers and dungeons with little more than asking Daddy to hold her hand a few times. |
| 380 | [[/folder]] |
| 381 | |
| 382 | !!!Families of the Brides |
| 383 | |
| 384 | [[folder:Mr. Whitaker]] |
| 385 | !!Mr. Whitaker (Duncan) |
| 386 | |
| 387 | Bianca's father, who runs the Roundbeck Inn with his wife. Better known by his nickname 'Whitey'. |
| 388 | ---- |
| 389 | * NiceGuy: Is a ShipperOnDeck for the main character and Bianca but understands why he wouldn't marry her in the remakes. |
| 390 | * OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Is always called 'Whitey' even by his own wife. |
| 391 | * ShipperOnDeck: He all but asks the main character to marry his daughter. |
| 392 | [[/folder]] |
| 393 | |
| 394 | [[folder:Rodrigo Briscoletti]] |
| 395 | !!Rodrigo Briscoletti (Ludman) |
| 396 | [[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/dragonquestv_rodrigobriscoletti.jpg]] |
| 397 | -->Voiced by: Suzuki Matsuo (CG Movie) (Japanese), Frank Todaro (English) |
| 398 | |
| 399 | Nera and Debora's doting father, and the richest man in Mostroferrato. To try and ensure that Nera marries somebody fully capable of taking good care of her, he sets up an EngagementChallenge. Usually jovial, with an open mind and open heart; however, he's also somewhat of a traditionalist, and has a major stubborn streak -- once he's got his mind set on something, nothing can dissuade him. |
| 400 | ---- |
| 401 | * BigFun: He's very fat and very jovial. |
| 402 | * TheCameo: |
| 403 | ** He cameos suddenly and unexpectedly in ''Heroes''. [[spoiler:Chasing down Bjørn, as is his family's duty]]. |
| 404 | ** In ''[[VideoGame/DragonQuestXI Dragon Quest XI]]'' (3DS and Definitive versions), a monster ruins the impending marriage by turning the three brides into copies of Rodrigo. After the Luminary undoes the curse, Rodrigo invites him to perform a marriage rehearsal with one of his fellow party members, which gets some interesting reactions from them. |
| 405 | * ChekhovsGunman: [[spoiler: Particularly if you marry Bianca, he's introduced as another one of the many [=NPC=]s the Hero has to deal with to get an item he needs, in this case the Zenithian Shield. Then you have to help him seal away the ancient evil his ancestors fought in order to get the Ultimate Key. Lessened considerably if Nera or Debora is your wife, where he'll remain a somewhat important NPC throughout due to being your father in law.]] |
| 406 | ** The remakes increase this factor by giving him and his daughter(s) a quick scene on the boat Pankraz and the Hero were on before they returned home, well before he becomes relevant in any capacity. |
| 407 | * CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: He may not look it, but the EngagementChallenge the Hero is forced to participate in is said to be what he did to win the hand of his wife, meaning he scaled the inside of a volcano. [[spoiler: He shows some of this side once Bjørn gets unsealed.]] |
| 408 | * DotingParent: Well, towards Nera at least. He has given up hope for Debora. |
| 409 | * EngagementChallenge: One that has apparently existed in his family for generations. |
| 410 | * GratuitousEnglish: [[KeepItForeign In the Italian version]], he sprinkles English words into his speech. |
| 411 | * GratuitousItalian: In the English Version. |
| 412 | * PassiveAggressiveKombat: If you pick Bianca in the DS version, he says that he's not surprised by your decision, that you're a sensitive man, and that you must've realized that Nera would've been humiliated if you'd picked Debora over her. If you read between the lines, he's blaming Debora's surprise toss of her own hat into the ring for Nera not getting chosen. Yowch! |
| 413 | * ReasonableAuthorityFigure: He keeps true to his word for his challenge, and even if you don't marry Nera, he'll still arrange the wedding for you. |
| 414 | * SealedEvilInACan: [[spoiler:His ancestor sealed away a monster in the past and it is his duty to make sure it stays sealed.]] |
| 415 | * SelfMadeMan: He's descended from a line of sages, but his wealth is all his own. |
| 416 | * SinsOfOurFathers: [[spoiler:An ancestor of his sealed away a great evil, but the seal is due to break... ohhh, fairly soon. And the monster's going to be ''maaaaaddd''...]] |
| 417 | * UglyGuyHotWife: His wife is considered to be very beautiful, though Rodrigo is kind, charismatic and rich, so the marriage isn't that unbelievable. Also, he apparently went through quite a lot to win her hand in marriage. |
| 418 | * UnclePennybags: |
| 419 | ** If you marry one of his daughters, he will lavish gifts on you throughout the game. Even if you don't and choose Bianca instead, he'll still pay for the wedding and bridal veil, let you sleep at his casino for free, and even put his ship at your command just like he did for your father at the beginning of the game. |
| 420 | ** He's also just a nice guy and is renowned in the setting for generosity and for giving a sizable chunk of his wealth to charity. He gets most of that money from owning a casino resort, so he's probably a pretty fun guy too. |
| 421 | [[/folder]] |
| 422 | |
| 423 | [[folder:Romana Briscoletti]] |
| 424 | !!Romana Briscoletti |
| 425 | |
| 426 | Rodrigo's loving wife, who does her best to reign in his stubborn streak. Very proud of her dear Nera; her other daughter...? Not so much. |
| 427 | ---- |
| 428 | * AbsurdlyYouthfulMother: Apparently looks very good for a mother of two. [[spoiler: Nera and Debora aren't biologically hers, but she still has to be around fifty]]. |
| 429 | * BewareTheNiceOnes: Implied. Rodrigo and Debora are both scared of her when she's angry. |
| 430 | * BlueBlood: Unlike her husband, she is actually from noble birth and so Rodrigo did the EngagementChallenge to win her hand, though she was already in love with him. |
| 431 | * CloserToEarth: Generally much calmer than Rodrigo. |
| 432 | * DotingParent: Towards Nera, though less so than Rodrigo. She still loves Debora, though she's stricter with her. |
| 433 | * HypercompetentSidekick: Implied to be equally as, if not more involved in the Briscoletti business than Rodrigo is. |
| 434 | * LoveAtFirstSight: She says that she fell in love with Rodrigo the moment she laid eyes on him, and would've married him even if he hadn't completed the EngagementChallenge. |
| 435 | * UglyGuyHotWife: She's stated to be quite a looker, though Rodrigo has plenty of other desirable qualities that make him a good partner. |
| 436 | [[/folder]] |
| 437 | |
| 438 | !!!Close Family Friends |
| 439 | |
| 440 | [[folder:Saber]] |
| 441 | !!Saber (Borongo) |
| 442 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/549px_dqv_saber_ds_5.png]] |
| 443 | |
| 444 | A great sabrecat that the main character and Bianca meet and befriend as a young cub. The very fact that [[FluffyTamer they were able to tame it so easily]] shocks many others, as sabrecats have a nasty reputation. Has many possible names. |
| 445 | ---- |
| 446 | * AndroclesLion: Saber becomes the hero's loyal companion after he and Bianca save him from two cruel kids' abuse. |
| 447 | * ButThouMust: You don't get to [[HelloInsertNameHere insert a name for it]]; instead, Bianca runs through a list of names for you to pick from. [[note]]Your choices are, in order: Saber, Leo, Spot, Mohicat, Tom, Purrcy, Moggy, Punk, Pyjamas, Baumren.[[/note]] All of those names come from a book in the Roundbeck inn. |
| 448 | * CuteKitten: As a cub. People are shocked that Sabrecats can even be tamed. |
| 449 | * FluffyTheTerrible: Possible names for this fearsome feline include Spot, Purrcy and Pyjamas. The more typically badass name Saber is his CanonName, though. |
| 450 | * FragileSpeedster: He's functionally a monk in the form of a pet monster. |
| 451 | * PantheraAwesome: He's a great sabrecat, which in layman terms means he's a badass leopard monster. His species is also among the most feared in the world, yet he fights by your side and is a staple of your party. |
| 452 | * PuzzleBoss: [[spoiler:Make sure the main character has Bianca's Ribbon in his inventory before fighting it, then use the Ribbon as a battle item to jog its memory. Without this, it absolutely cannot be beaten.]] |
| 453 | * MonsterProtectionRacket: The inhabitants of the village it terrorized can't believe the hero was able to tame it instead of kill it and end up believing the two were in cahoots all along. |
| 454 | * ShooTheDog: After killing Pankraz and kidnapping both the Hero and Prince Harry, Ladja lets Sabre loose to get rid of it. It does not stick. |
| 455 | [[/folder]] |
| 456 | |
| 457 | [[folder:Sancho]] |
| 458 | !!Sancho |
| 459 | [[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/250px_dqv_ds_sancho.png]] |
| 460 | -->Voiced by: Creator/KozoShioya (in the Drama [=CDs=]), Kendo Kobayashi (CG Movie) (Japanese), Shaun Conde (English) |
| 461 | |
| 462 | Pankraz's close friend, often left behind to mind the homestead while Pankraz goes traveling with his son. Acts as a doting uncle to the main character. |
| 463 | ---- |
| 464 | * BreakTheCutie: Sancho's heart [[UndyingLoyalty bleeds deeply for his friends]], and by the time you get to adventure with him in Chapter 3, he is a very sad and broken man. |
| 465 | * CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Gets to show it in chapter 3. |
| 466 | * CurtainsMatchTheWindow: His brown hair matches his eyes. |
| 467 | * HonoraryUncle: First to the main character, then to Parry and Madchen as well. |
| 468 | * MightyGlacier: Sancho has great attack, health and defense but is incredibly slow and has very specific equipment options. |
| 469 | * ModernMinstrelsy: Portrayed in the English translation of the DS game as a rather wince-worthy European Spanish stereotype, complete with constant references to siestas, paellas and tortillas and random "sí"s, "olé"s and "anda"s for no reason. |
| 470 | * NiceGuy: Sancho doesn't have a bad bone in his body. The only character he's ever shown getting mad at is [[TheSociopath Ladja]], for good reason. |
| 471 | * ParentalSubstitute: Sancho took care of Parry and Madchen for eight years, during which they traveled across the world until they finally managed to find and de-petrify their parents. Although he is their family's loyal servant, he is treated by the twins as their "dear uncle". |
| 472 | * SadClown: Sancho is clearly the game's comic relief character, however, he's generally such a broken man that you feel more sorry for him than anything. |
| 473 | * SensitiveGuyAndManlyMan: Pankraz and Sancho. Pankraz is a brooding, stoic swordsman who tries to keep his emotions in check for his son's sake. His servant and friend Sancho is a pugdy, kind-hearted man who wears his heart on his sleeve at all times. |
| 474 | * SkintoneSclerae: Sancho has sclerae the same color as his skin. |
| 475 | * SupremeChef: According to party chats. |
| 476 | * SurvivorGuilt: [[spoiler:Has a nasty case of it that only worsens as time passes.]] |
| 477 | * TenderTears: Sancho is prone to TearsOfJoy, especially when you reunite with him in chapter 2. Also prone to the opposite and sobbing at reminders of all the tragedy in his life. |
| 478 | * ThirdPersonPerson: In the DS translation. |
| 479 | * TrademarkFavoriteFood: Sancho loves his paella. |
| 480 | * UndyingLoyalty: Towards Pankraz, you, and later [[spoiler: your wife and kids]]. Hence why he beats himself up so badly after Pankraz [[spoiler: dies and you go missing]]. When you find him again in chapter 2 he is a nervous wreck. He recovers somewhat before you and your [[spoiler: wife go missing again]]. However, he finds an outlet raising [[spoiler: your kids]] and in chapter 3 he is every bit as loyal to you as he ever was to Pankraz. |
| 481 | [[/folder]] |
| 482 | |
| 483 | [[folder:Tuppence]] |
| 484 | !!Tuppence (Pippin) |
| 485 | [[quoteright:155:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/dragonquestv_tuppence.gif]] |
| 486 | |
| 487 | The son of Thruppence, Tuppence is a soldier who's eager to help the main character and the kids during their travels. Has the potential to become a truly powerful warrior, but starts out untrained and rough around the edges. |
| 488 | ---- |
| 489 | * AdaptedOut: Like Madchen, Tuppence is not included in the film adaptation, ''Your Story''. His role in the party is effectively replaced with a friendly slime named Goo. |
| 490 | * AgeLift: Looked to be around thirty in the original version of the game, while in the remake he is specifically stated to be about the same age as the Hero when he's recruited. |
| 491 | * BadassNormal: The only human character with no magic, though he has good stats and equipment options. |
| 492 | * BromanticFoil: Functions as one to the Hero, despite him already being married by the time Tuppence is recruited. |
| 493 | * CasanovaWannabe: Tuppence loves the ladies... the ladies just don't love him back. |
| 494 | * ChekhovsGunman: He first appears as a generic young boy in Gotha's inn during the second part of the game. Because the player character doesn't age during the timeskip, by the end of it they're about the same age. |
| 495 | * ChivalrousPervert: Provides a lot of humor in Chapter 3. |
| 496 | * DeadpanSnarker |
| 497 | * DelusionsOfEloquence: Fancies himself a refined ladies man, despite being a common soldier. |
| 498 | * TheGamblingAddict: Although he knows he's not that good at it. |
| 499 | * TheGenericGuy: In the original game, completely gone in the remake, where he's a fleshed out character. |
| 500 | * HeavyEquipmentClass: Not only capable with heavier weapons and armour, but have the highest number of sword options of the human characters. |
| 501 | * HopelessSuitor: Towards Debora if the Hero didn't marry her. |
| 502 | * JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Generally more focused on women than anything else, and can be pretty spiteful to the Hero about his luck with women, despite him being his king. But beneath this, Tuppence proves to have a strong sense of justice and a genuine desire to bring peace to the world. |
| 503 | * LightningBruiser: Tuppence has great stats all around and access to almost all equipment. His one huge flaw is his complete lack of any magic power. And he starts at level one. |
| 504 | %%* LovableSexManiac |
| 505 | * MagicallyIneptFighter: Can't use magic. At all. |
| 506 | * MauveShirt: And well aware of it. |
| 507 | * OptionalPartyMember: Though easy to obtain, he's also easy to miss, as [[YouALLLookFamiliar he looks almost like a regular NPC soldier]] and you have to talk to him before he'll join. |
| 508 | * UndyingLoyalty: As soldier of Gotha, he is duty bound to be this to his king, [[spoiler: you]]. He'll still snark about it though. |
| 509 | * YouALLLookFamiliar: In the original, he has the same sprite as a normal soldier. The DS remake gives him a unique look, but it's still very similar to the soldier sprite. |
| 510 | * WithFriendsLikeThese: Tends to be unusually rude to his king, to the point of planning to steal his wife from him after he dies. He does respect him as a leader though, he's just envious of his skill with the ladies. |
| 511 | [[/folder]] |
| 512 | |
| 513 | !!Realm of the Faeries |
| 514 | |
| 515 | [[folder: Honey]] |
| 516 | !!Honey (Bella) |
| 517 | [[quoteright:305:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/dragonquestv_honey.png]] |
| 518 | |
| 519 | A mischievous, cheerful faerie sent to recruit a great warrior from the human world. She brought back a six-year-old main character. |
| 520 | |
| 521 | ---- |
| 522 | * BadLiar: Her reaction to learning Saber is a sabrecat kitten, among others. |
| 523 | * DemotedToExtra: Despite being a party member for a small portion of the adventure, Honey does little else for the rest of the game. |
| 524 | * TheFairFolk: Honey is a tiny pixie-like fairy. |
| 525 | * GenkiGirl: Very excitable and cheery. |
| 526 | * GuestStarPartyMember: Only a party member for a short portion of the game. |
| 527 | * NumberTwo: She's specifically stated to be Treacle's right-hand faerie. |
| 528 | * PointyEars: She has long, thin pointy ears. |
| 529 | * ShipTease: She's implied to have a crush on the Hero, though nothing can come of it. |
| 530 | * SquishyWizard: Her physical stats are awful and she is much better suited to casting spells. Too bad you can't control her. |
| 531 | * ThemeNaming: Honey, Treacle, and Caramel are all syrup-like names. |
| 532 | * YouCanSeeMe: Honey takes the eight-year-old hero to solve Faerie Lea's problem because nobody else can see her. |
| 533 | [[/folder]] |
| 534 | |
| 535 | [[folder:Queen Treacle]] |
| 536 | !!Queen Treacle (Powan) |
| 537 | [[quoteright:334:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/dragonquestv_treacle.png]] |
| 538 | |
| 539 | The current ruler of Faerie Lea. |
| 540 | |
| 541 | Her predecessor was incredibly harsh, but Treacle herself is kind and compassionate, and believes that everyone can coexist peacefully. |
| 542 | |
| 543 | ---- |
| 544 | * TheFairFolk: Treacle is a wingless pixie. |
| 545 | * TheHighQueen: Of Faerie Lea. |
| 546 | * PointyEars: She has long, thin pointed ears. |
| 547 | * ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Promises to help the main character after they help her. |
| 548 | * ThemeNaming: Honey, Treacle, and Caramel are all syrup-like names. |
| 549 | * YourPrincessIsInAnotherCastle: In the third act, the Hero needs to seek the aid of the faeries to retrieve the Golden Orb. After beating a forest maze and making his way back to Faerie Lea, the Hero meets Queen Treacle again... who says he must go to ''another'' hidden Faerie Palace located ''somewhere else'' and talk to Queen Caramel to get the Golden Orb. |
| 550 | [[/folder]] |
| 551 | |
| 552 | [[folder:Dwight Dwarf]] |
| 553 | !!Dwight Dwarf (Zaile) |
| 554 | |
| 555 | Also known as "Da White Dwarf!" His father created "Lots About Locks", a book that lets the bearer become a MasterOfUnlocking. Because of this, he was banished from Faerie Lea by Treacle's predecessor. However, Dwight believes ''Treacle'' was the one responsible, and has set out to take revenge. Fancies himself a great superhero, so he wears a hooded cape and calls himself "Da White Dwarf!" |
| 556 | ---- |
| 557 | * BoisterousBruiser: Talks like one, has trouble living up to it. |
| 558 | * BoisterousWeakling: For all of his talk, Dwight gets beaten relatively easily by a young boy. [[spoiler: And when they meet up again years later, he's no stronger than he was before.]] |
| 559 | * CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Dwight is introduced as an idiot who gets beaten by a six year old. [[spoiler: When the Hero reunites with him at least twenty years later... he's still level one. However, at higher levels Dwight proves to be a formidable fighter with good stats and access to some nice magic]]. |
| 560 | * TheDitz: Dwight isn't evil, he's just stupid. |
| 561 | * FragileSpeedster: As a party member his only good stat is his agility, which increases by seven each level on average, he loses this at later levels when his other stats start to catch up with him, but that won't be for a while. |
| 562 | * HeelFaceTurn: Not that he was ever really a villain. |
| 563 | * InsistentTerminology: "Not Dwight Dwarf! Da White Dwarf!" |
| 564 | * InformedAttribute: His sprite and art depict him wielding an axe, but his monster-companion equipment class (shared with Starkers, the Killing Machine, and Barbatos) [[{{Irony}} can't equip axes for weapons]]. |
| 565 | * JustLikeRobinHood: Seems to be his thing, considering he steals a book about lock picking and opposes a "tyrant". [[spoiler: When he joins the party, the first ability he larns is Nose For Treasure, furthering his image as a thief]]. |
| 566 | * KingMook: Dwight is a [[InvertedTrope smaller, punier]] variant of the Robbin' 'Ood and other Hood monsters. He most closely resembles Kandata's henchmen from the same game, who are full-grown but have the same green skin. |
| 567 | * MagikarpPower: [[spoiler: When he joins the party, it's pretty late in the game and the rest of the party will likely be around level thirty compared to his level one. his stats are also pretty low. However, he has a crazy high agility growth and will likely cap his speed far earlier than every other character, and afterwards will have a sudden surge in stat gains for his other attributes, to the point where he'll end up a LightningBruiser at higher levels. To top this all off, he learns some very nice all purpose spells leveling up and is generally a very versatile teammate.]] |
| 568 | * MasterOfUnlocking: Implied to be, considering his dad is a master locksmith and that he stole a book about lock picking. |
| 569 | * MilesGloriosus: Considers himself a revolutionary super hero, despite just being a level one dwarf with his facts mixed up. [[spoiler: When the party meets him again he considers himself to be both TheRival and TheLancer despite being... a level one dwarf]]. |
| 570 | * MiniMe: Despite being identified as a member of the dwarf species, Dwight is depicted as a [[UndergroundMonkey midget variant]] of the hood monster-family down to the ubiquitous hatchet, though his green skin and magenta cowl make him more colorful than the other members. (Robbin' 'Ood himself, another {{NPC}} derived from the hood family, appears as an enemy later in the game). |
| 571 | * OptionalPartyMember: You can recruit him in Chapter 3 after making it back to Faerie Lea, but you don't need to. |
| 572 | * UnknownRival: Considers himself Treacle's arch nemesis, while she is barely aware of his existence. [[spoiler: After the timeskip, he considers himself the Hero's rival, despite being some nobody he beat up when he was six.]] |
| 573 | * UnwittingPawn: The Winter Queen feds Dwight the lie that Queen Treacle kicked his grandfather out of Faerie Lea so he steals the flute of the Herald of Spring. |
| 574 | [[/folder]] |
| 575 | |
| 576 | !!Coburg's Royal Family |
| 577 | |
| 578 | [[folder:Prince Harry]] |
| 579 | !!Prince Harry (Henry) |
| 580 | [[quoteright:205:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/205px_dqv_harry.png]] |
| 581 | -->Voiced by: Creator/KappeiYamaguchi (in the Drama [=CDs=]), Kentaro Sakaguchi (CG Movie) (Japanese), Creator/ZenoRobinson (adult), Elijah Rayman (young) (English) |
| 582 | |
| 583 | The heir-apparent of King James, and a complete RoyalBrat who enjoys tormenting others simply because he can. However, he soon receives a very rude, very harsh awakening... |
| 584 | ---- |
| 585 | * AssholeVictim: At the end of the first generation, he plays this fully straight; after the timeskip, he changes his mood and tells the player that it was Pankraz's parting words that started his change in tone. |
| 586 | * TheAtoner: Justifiably blames himself for Pankraz's death and has sworn to help his son no matter what to make up for it. He lives up to his word. |
| 587 | * BashBrothers: With the Hero during the first part of his journey in adulthood, after they go their separate ways he still shows an interest in tagging along and continuing this, but is too caught up in his duties to do it. |
| 588 | * BrattyHalfPint: As a kid, he was an obnoxious, pampered brat who enjoyed tormenting others simply because he could. |
| 589 | * BreakTheHaughty: His conceit and meanness got him kidnapped, Pankraz killed, and him and the Hero enslaved. When Harry manages to break free ten years later, his hubris and mean-spiritedness has been thoroughly beaten out of him. |
| 590 | * CharacterDevelopment: Gets the most out of anyone in the whole game with the possible exception of Debora. |
| 591 | * ChivalrousPervert: Harry has a soft spot for the ladies, though his marriage with Maria hampers that considerably. |
| 592 | * DecoyProtagonist: {{Deuteragonist}} anyway. Early on, the game makes it appear like Harry is going to be longstanding party member with the Protagonist. The prologue of the game even have the two getting captured and forced into slavery together. Harry ends up getting PutOnABus early into the [[TimeSkip Second Era]], after retaking his Kingdom. |
| 593 | * DotingParent: He has spoiled his son Hendrick more than a bit. |
| 594 | * FallenPrincess: Harry used to be a pampered, spoiled and obnoxious brat. Then he was kidnapped by Ladja's minions and made a slave together with the Hero. |
| 595 | * FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: The foolish sibling to Wilbur's responsible sibling. [[spoiler: Ironically, after his character development, Harry has become much more competent and responsible than Wilbur has.]] |
| 596 | * FireForgedFriends: As children, he does nothing but bully the main character [[spoiler: but after Pankraz's death the two are forced to spend the next ten years working as slaves. This, combined with his guilt over Pankraz's death causes Harry to act much kinder to the main character and the two proceed to pull a prison break and travel the world together. Even after they go their separate ways, the bond of friendship between them runs strong to the point where Harry makes his entire kingdom go searching for the main character when he goes missing]]. |
| 597 | * FreudianExcuse: His mother passed away and was replaced by the Queen Consort, who is more interested in caring for her own son than for him. |
| 598 | * FreudianExcuseIsNoExcuse: Kid Harry was a spoiled jerkass because of his uncaring stepmother, but as Pankraz points out, Harry's father, unlike his stepmother, does care about him, and would be terribly upset if anything happened to him. |
| 599 | * GenerationXerox: His own son, Prince Kendrick, is the same selfish brat his father once was, despite Harry's insistence that he doesn't know where he gets it from. He even does the same prank Harry first did to the Hero when he was a kid, this time to the Hero's children. Not to mention Kendrick shares the same sprite with the young Harry. However, he also gets somewhat stronger discipline. |
| 600 | * GuestStarPartyMember: One who can level up and is on the party for several hours. |
| 601 | * HappilyMarried: [[spoiler:To Maria]]. |
| 602 | * HeterosexualLifePartners: Though he only travels with him for a section of the game, Harry and the Hero have an unbreakable friendship that continues for the rest of the game. [[spoiler: When the Hero is turned to stone, Harry organizes a worldwide search to find his friend.]] |
| 603 | * HotForPreacher: [[spoiler:Develops a crush on her right when she takes her vows.]] |
| 604 | * HypercompetentSidekick: [[spoiler: As Wilbur's adviser, it's clear that he's the one running the kingdom. He doesn't have a problem with it though.]] |
| 605 | * {{Irony}}: After tormenting everyone and trying to make you into his "Lacky", he is then kidnapped and turned into a slave. |
| 606 | * ItAmusedMe: Teases and torments others... why? He's the prince, of course! |
| 607 | * TheLancer: To the main character, even when they're not travelling together it's clear Coburg will always have Gotha's back. |
| 608 | * MadeASlave: [[spoiler:Along with the main character.]] |
| 609 | * MagicKnight: In combat. Compared to the Hero, he has more emphasis on magic than fighting. |
| 610 | * ModestRoyalty: After his character development, [[spoiler: he refuses to take his half-brother's throne and instead becomes his adviser.]] |
| 611 | * NiceGuy: Again, he becomes this after his character development. |
| 612 | * PrinceCharmless: Predates the TropeNamer. |
| 613 | * RagsToRoyalty: Inverted at the end of Chapter 1, then played Straight after escaping slavery. |
| 614 | * ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Eventually becomes this when he returns back to Coburg after being enslaved. |
| 615 | * RedOniBlueOni: The red to the Hero's blue. |
| 616 | ** He's also the red to Wilbur's blue. |
| 617 | * RichesToRags: [[spoiler: He goes from a spoiled obnoxious prince to a slave. Then back to royalty after ten years of slavery.]] |
| 618 | * RoyalBrat: Definitely as a child. |
| 619 | * SurvivorGuilt: [[spoiler:Admits in a secret message that he struggled with this, wondering why he lived instead of Pankraz, though it does end up making him into a better person and ultimately the Hero's best friend.]] |
| 620 | * TookALevelInKindness: He becomes a whole lot nicer once he grows up. |
| 621 | * TheUnfavourite: Wilbur is clearly favored over him by the Queen, while James is far too caught up in his work to pay much attention to either. |
| 622 | * TheWisePrince: [[spoiler: After considerable character development.]] |
| 623 | [[/folder]] |
| 624 | |
| 625 | [[folder:King James]] |
| 626 | !!King James |
| 627 | |
| 628 | Ruler of Coburg; father of Harry and Wilbur. Somewhat at a loss as to how to get his chosen heir to shape up and stop being such a royal pain. [[spoiler:Dies during the first timeskip.]] |
| 629 | ---- |
| 630 | * DotingParent: Absolutely spoils Harry, causing his bad personality. |
| 631 | * TheGoodKing: Considering even Pankraz admires him, this is a given. |
| 632 | * MinorMajorCharacter: [[spoiler: Doesn't get much screen time, but the mission he sends Pankraz on ends up killing him off and throwing Harry and the Hero into slavery. His death during the timeskip also causes the power struggle that sparks one of the first major plots of the game's second act.]] |
| 633 | * WeHardlyKnewYe: He gets killed off after only a few appearances on screen. |
| 634 | [[/folder]] |
| 635 | |
| 636 | [[folder:Queen Dowager]] |
| 637 | !!Queen Dowager |
| 638 | |
| 639 | King James' current wife. Highly ambitious, she dreams of seeing ''her'' son take the throne rather than watching her bratty stepson ascend. |
| 640 | ---- |
| 641 | * AmbitionIsEvil: Her ambition for her son to take the throne leads to a lot of Coburg's problems. |
| 642 | * FakeKing: She is locked away in a cell and replaced by an impersonator by her ''allies''. |
| 643 | * HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:After the events in Coburg are wrapped-up she ceases her influence over the kingdom and allows Harry and Wilbur to lead as they should]]. |
| 644 | * HoistByHisOwnPetard: After successfully having Harry kidnapped, she is betrayed by her 'allies' and is replaced by a fake queen, turning her son into ''their'' puppet rather than her own. By the time the party comes across her years later, she's willing to immediately confess to everything just to put an end to it. |
| 645 | * GodSaveUsFromTheQueen: She was ambitious enough to get her stepson kidnapped; and her substitute spends years crushing Coburg's peasants. |
| 646 | * StageMom: Royal variation; she can't rule herself, so she pushes her son towards the throne despite his own wishes, and doesn't care who she tramples on it to make it happen. |
| 647 | * UnwittingPawn: [[spoiler:She was easily manipulated into throwing Coburg into turmoil by trying to off Harry and put her reluctant son on the throne]]. |
| 648 | * WickedStepmother: She does not care for her stepson Harry, and she actually plots to put her own son on the throne over him. She is entirely transparent about planning this. |
| 649 | [[/folder]] |
| 650 | |
| 651 | [[folder:Prince Wilbur]] |
| 652 | !!Prince Wilbur (Dale) |
| 653 | |
| 654 | Harry's younger half-brother. Despite his mother's ambitions, he has no real interest in taking the throne, and would rather be just a normal kid. |
| 655 | ---- |
| 656 | * AChildShallLeadThem: [[spoiler:Takes over for King James after the latter's death at the ripe old age of ''5''. Ultimately subverted, however, as Wilbur proves to be as competent of a leader as you'd expect a little boy to be, and is clearly just a puppet for his mother. Later on, while he continues to rule, it's pretty clear Harry's doing most of the work for him.]] |
| 657 | * TheDutifulSon: [[spoiler: Takes over Coburg after his stepfather's death and continues to follow his mother's orders to the letter, despite how evil they may be in contrast to Harry, who willingly turns against his kingdom for a period of time for the sake of doing what's right.]] |
| 658 | * FakeUltimateHero: A rare sympathetic example, the Queen works hard over the timeskip to build up Wilbur's reputation and is thus seen as the clear candidate to take the throne [[spoiler:after the king's death]]. However, these claims are all baseless and Wilbur is a completely talentless ruler, though he redeems himself due to clearly not wanting any part of the scheme whatsoever. |
| 659 | * FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: The responsible sibling to Harry's foolish sibling. [[spoiler: Reversed later on, when it's Harry who proves to be the more competent ruler.]] |
| 660 | * TheGoodKing: [[spoiler: While he's not a particularly competent king, Wilbur proves to be a kind man who wants the best for his people, but understands that he is incapable of giving it to them.]] |
| 661 | * IJustWantToBeNormal: He has no interest in ruling and prefers to be just a regular kid. |
| 662 | * ReasonableAuthorityFigure: [[spoiler:Despite his lack of talent or desire for his position, Wilbur is at the very least as kind and courageous as his brother becomes and provides the hero with any help that he can supply.]] |
| 663 | * RedOniBlueOni: The blue to Harry's red. |
| 664 | * UnwittingPawn: Is unknowingly a part of Queen Consort's plans. |
| 665 | [[/folder]] |
| 666 | |
| 667 | [[folder:Maria]] |
| 668 | !!Maria (Marina) |
| 669 | [[quoteright:149:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/dragonquestv_maria.png]] |
| 670 | -->Voiced by: Creator/AyaHisakawa (in the Drama [=CDs=]) |
| 671 | |
| 672 | A [[DefectorFromDecadence former member of the Order of Zugzwang]], she turned her back on their teachings when she shielded a child slave from harm. MadeASlave herself by Ladja, she managed to escape to the abbey and become a Nun of the Above. |
| 673 | ---- |
| 674 | * BewareTheNiceOnes: Generally as caring and kind as you'd expect a nun to be, however when Harry flirts with other women near her, she gets ''scary''! |
| 675 | %%* BigBrotherWorship |
| 676 | * DefectorFromDecadence: She couldn't stand what the Order of Zugzwang was doing, so she was thrown into slavery by Ladja. She and her brother orchestrate an escape which the Hero and Harry become a part of. |
| 677 | %%* FriendToAllLivingThings |
| 678 | * HappilyMarried: [[spoiler:To Harry.]] |
| 679 | * HotterAndSexier: Very mildly in the remake, where instead of a regular nun's dress with habit, she wears a slightly more colorful dress that exposes some cleavage. |
| 680 | * IncorruptiblePurePureness: Even as a slave, she remained kind and virtuous. |
| 681 | * MadeASlave: After she criticized the Order. |
| 682 | * MoralityPet: To her older brother Joshua, a soldier of Zugzwang who [[ConflictingLoyalty finds himself torn between his loyalty to the order and his love for his sister]]. |
| 683 | * NaughtyNun: Mild example. In the remakes, she wears a dress that sports noticeable cleavage and no habit or coif to distinguish her sprite from that of the other nuns. |
| 684 | * RagsToRoyalty: [[spoiler:Eventually marries Harry.]] |
| 685 | [[/folder]] |
| 686 | |
| 687 | !!Other Important Characters |
| 688 | |
| 689 | [[folder:Count Uptaten and Miss Count]] |
| 690 | !!Count Uptaten (Eric) and Miss Count (Sophia) |
| 691 | |
| 692 | Once a happily married couple, their lives were tragically cut short when monsters raided their castle and slaughtered everyone inside. However, their sad tale did not end there... Thanks to the interference of some nasty spirits, they have been unable to move on to the afterlife. |
| 693 | ---- |
| 694 | * LawOfInverseFertility: Wanted children, but were never able to conceive. |
| 695 | * OurGhostsAreDifferent: They are not the slightest bit evil for one. |
| 696 | * ShoutOut: In the English translation of the UpdatedRerelease, the count and his wife are a big, fat send-up of Count von Count from ''Series/SesameStreet''; Uptaten in particular parodies von Count's mannerisms. |
| 697 | * ThemeNaming: The Count and his wife are themed around counting numbers, a natural part of their ShoutOut to ''Series/SesameStreet''. |
| 698 | |
| 699 | [[/folder]] |
| 700 | |
| 701 | [[folder:Monty the Monster Monitor]] |
| 702 | !!Monty the Monster Monitor (Monster Gramps) |
| 703 | [[quoteright:212:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/dragonquestv_monty.png]] |
| 704 | |
| 705 | An elderly fellow who has an expert hand with monsters, and encourages others to pursue the fine art of monster training. Recommends to the main character that he get a wagon to make traveling easier, and helps him out by caring for any monsters he isn't taking along with him at any given moment. |
| 706 | ---- |
| 707 | * AlliterativeName: His name is '''M'''onty the '''M'''onster '''M'''onitor. |
| 708 | * CoolOldGuy: He is a nice and kind-hearted elderly man and former monster-tamer who is happy to teach the Hero how to recruit monsters, as well as taking care of the Hero's monster allies. Also extends to Psaro in ''VideoGame/DragonQuestMonstersTheDarkPrince'', where despite his eventual hatred of humans, he allows him to show how to become a Monster Wrangler. |
| 709 | * CovertPervert: Some characters suspect him of being one due to him keeping [[PlayboyBunny Carla/Inatts]] around. |
| 710 | * FluffyTamer: A master of monsters who's perfectly willing to help others see how to do so themselves. Prior to ''V'', he tamed a Abracadabrador, Drooling Ghoul, and a Pteranodon to fend off 3 Beleths laying siege to Rosehill. |
| 711 | * OldMaster: In ''The Dark Prince'', he's the final wrangler for the Endor Arena's S Rank. |
| 712 | [[/folder]] |
| 713 | |
| 714 | [[folder:Toilen Trubble]] |
| 715 | !!Professor Toilen Trubble |
| 716 | -->Voiced by: Creator/HyoieOGrady (In ''VideoGame/DragonQuestMonstersTheDarkPrince'') |
| 717 | |
| 718 | An old researcher studying spells that were once lost to the sands of time. |
| 719 | ---- |
| 720 | * ChekhovsSkill: Toilen's stealing comes in handy later in the game to [[spoiler:steal the Sands of Time from Dr. Helix Helix and save Psaro from being conned by a Succubat disguising herself as Rose.]] |
| 721 | * DarkAndTroubledPast: ''The Dark Prince'' reveals he was an orphan and had a younger brother who was frail and died, causing him to be alone and resorting to stealing to get by. |
| 722 | * FeudEpisode: [[spoiler:Despite a rocky start when they first met, Toilen and Psaro become good friends by bonding over their common problems, though after visiting Zenithia and Psaro declaring his intent in finding Estark and becoming the Master of Monsterkind, [[WhatTheHellHero Toilen berates him for siding with monsterkind, since he's human and declares that they're on opposite sides of the future battlefield]] before leaving Rosehill. He gets better, though. when he helps to save Psaro from being hoodwinked by a Succubat disguised as Rose.]] |
| 723 | * PunnyName: His name is a pun on "toil and trouble" from the witches of Macbeth. |
| 724 | * SpannerInTheWorks: [[spoiler:Toilen steals the Sands of Time from Dr. Helix Helix to rewind time and help Psaro unmask "Rose" as a Succubat, foiling Aamon's plan to drive Psaro insane into using the Secret of Evolution after having Rose murdered by humans.]] |
| 725 | * TheHermit: He's holed up in his house near Zoomingale, hard to work on his research, much to his neighbor's chagrin. Technically a far cry from his younger years, where he was hunting down magical reagents in Nadiria during Psaro's quest to become the new Master of Monsterkind. |
| 726 | [[/folder]] |
| 727 | |
| 728 | [[folder:Crispin Burns]] |
| 729 | !!Crispin Burns (Andy) |
| 730 | -->Voiced by: Creator/NobuoTobita (in the Drama [=CDs=]) |
| 731 | |
| 732 | A childhood friend of Nera, he becomes one of her most dedicated suitors. Though he doesn't consider himself truly worthy of somebody so wonderful, he's determined to do his best to ''become'' worthy, and earn her love...! |
| 733 | ---- |
| 734 | * ButtMonkey: Constantly getting friend-zoned his entire life and [[spoiler: ends up getting burned alive]]. Most of the townspeople also talk bad about him behind his back. [[spoiler: He does get [[ThrowTheDogABone thrown a bone]] no matter who you pick, marrying his lifelong crush Nera if Bianca or Debora is chosen or falling for and marrying the equally beautiful Ashlee if Nera is chosen.]] |
| 735 | * CampStraight: Very foppish but also madly in love with Nera. |
| 736 | * ChildhoodFriendRomance: He can be either an UnluckyChildhoodFriend if you marry Nera, or a [[VictoriousChildhoodFriend Victorious]] one if you chose either Bianca or Debora. |
| 737 | * CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: For all of his foppishness, [[spoiler: Crispin makes it farther than every other candidate during the Engagement challenge, and though he loses to the main character, if Bianca was chosen he attempts it again for no reason beyond proving his worth to Nera.]] |
| 738 | * {{Determinator}}: [[spoiler: Manages to make it towards the end of the EngagementChallenge through his love for Nera alone. If he loses but Nera isn't chosen as the bride, he'll scale the volcano again just to prove himself.]] |
| 739 | * GracefulLoser: [[spoiler:Completely steps down and allows the Hero to marry Nera after he wins the EngagementChallenge and, if the Hero actually goes through with it and marries her, will be happy for the two of them and find love with another woman.]] |
| 740 | * HappilyMarried: [[spoiler:No matter who you choose to marry, he'll end up like this. Either to Nera (Bianca or Debora) or to the beautiful foreigner Ashlee (Nera)]]. |
| 741 | * MeaningfulName: From his name alone, you can pretty much guess that [[spoiler:his trip into the volcano doesn't end well]]. |
| 742 | * NiceGuy: Clearly holds no ill will towards the Hero, despite him being his biggest rival for Nera's heart and potentially taking her away from him. |
| 743 | * NonActionGuy: Mocked by the townspeople as being one, and admits himself to being "A lover, not a fighter". [[spoiler: And yet proves to be capable of making it to the center of a volcano by himself]]. |
| 744 | * OvershadowedByAwesome: While his lack of battle experience and his supposed talent in magic amounting to only the most basic attack spells, he does better than everyone else in the competition and notably manages to get quite far in the volcano despite his disadvantages--all by himself, no less, while the protagonist (who succeeds where Crispin fails) relies on a party. |
| 745 | * QuirkyBard: Crispin's art from the original release of the game indicates that he's a handsome {{Bishounen}} and flautist, while the game indicates his talent in magic... is somewhat overstated. |
| 746 | * TheRival: To the Hero during the EngagementChallenge, although he's a very friendly one. |
| 747 | * SecondLove: [[spoiler: If Nera is chosen, then he will meet and fall in love with the beautiful dancer Ashlee and later on in the game get married to her. Things seem to work out pretty well for him no matter what.]] |
| 748 | [[/folder]] |
| 749 | |
| 750 | [[folder:Queen Cleohatra]] |
| 751 | !!Queen Cleohatra (Isis) |
| 752 | |
| 753 | The ruler of the desert kingdom of Helmunaptra, she is descended from one of the previous Legendary Hero's companions. Cleohatra protects the Zenithian Helmet while awaiting the arrival of the Legendary Hero. |
| 754 | ---- |
| 755 | * FamousAncestor: She doesn't say which of the Hero's companions is her ancestor, but the abilities of her lineage would seem to imply that it's [[VideoGame/DragonQuestIV Meena]]. |
| 756 | * PsychicPowers: She has telepathy and foresight. |
| 757 | * PunnyName: Her entire kingdom is based on headgear. Making it a [[PlanetOfHats Kingdom of Hats]]? |
| 758 | * WhamLine: [[spoiler:She's the one who reveals that the hero's a prince.]] |
| 759 | [[/folder]] |
| 760 | |
| 761 | [[folder:Dr. Agon]] |
| 762 | !!Dr. Agon (Pusan) |
| 763 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/dragonquestv_dragon.png]] |
| 764 | -->Voiced by: Ken Yasuda (CG Movie) (Japanese), Creator/NeilKaplan (English) |
| 765 | |
| 766 | A strange, old fellow found trapped in a dungeon. Extremely cheerful, but a tad... loopy. Has a very strange way of speaking. Claims to be Zenithian. |
| 767 | ---- |
| 768 | * TheAgeless: Doesn't seem to be any older after spending twenty years in a mine cart with no food or water. [[spoiler: Since he's god, it doesn't really matter to him.]] |
| 769 | * CharacterDevelopment: [[spoiler: In the years since Dragon Quest IV, the Zenithian Dragon has mellowed out, lost most of his HolierThanThou attitude, and found a new admiration for humanity - which is why he created the Dr. Agon identity and went to visit the earth in the first place.]] |
| 770 | * {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: As shown when he's sitting in a mine cart trapped in an endless loop for 20 years. |
| 771 | * CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: For all of his general weirdness, when he meditates, he proves capable of powering the entire land of Zenithia! [[spoiler: Being the Zenithian Dragon, he is literally a god.]] |
| 772 | * CrystalDragonJesus: [[spoiler:He's the Zenithian Dragon]]. |
| 773 | * {{Expy}}: Of, believe it or not, [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Ned Flanders]]! |
| 774 | * GodInHumanForm: He claims to be a Zenithian, [[spoiler:however as the Zenithian Dragon he's that and so much more]]. |
| 775 | %%* GodWasMyCopilot |
| 776 | * GuestStarPartyMember: Though he does little more than screw around. |
| 777 | * TheNeedless: Trapped on a mine cart for 20 years with no food or water... |
| 778 | * TheMainCharactersDoEverything: ...literally one screen away from where some guy has set up house after being hired by archaeologists to investigate the place. [[FridgeLogic Couldn't he have given the poor guy a hand?]] |
| 779 | * NonActionGuy: Even though he travels with the party for a dungeon, he doesn't assist in battles whatsoever. [[spoiler: And he totally could have too!]] |
| 780 | * ObfuscatingStupidity: Both Madchen and Tuppence suspect this of him. [[spoiler: Turns out they were right.]] |
| 781 | * PhysicalGod: [[spoiler:He's the Zenithian Dragon, and while he's lost a considerable amount of his power, he's heavily implied to still be far stronger than the party is.]] |
| 782 | * PunnyName: [[spoiler:Dr Agon = Dragon, get it?]] |
| 783 | * ShapeshifterModeLock: He gets stuck in human shape when the Dragon Orb gets lost. |
| 784 | * TimeAbyss: He tells you outright in party chat that's he's lived a thousand times longer than anyone in the party and laughs when they react skeptically to it. |
| 785 | * TookALevelInKindness: [[spoiler:Back in ''IV'', the Zenith Dragon was an arrogant, HolierThanThou jackass who saw humanity as inherently beneath him and the other Zenithians, and his screentime almost exclusively involves him talking down to and insulting [=Solo/Sofia=] and their party. As Dr. Agon, however, he's mellowed out considerably and is a much kinder and benevolent deity, and even made the Agon persona specifically so he could walk among humans more easily.]] |
| 786 | * TricksterMentor: [[spoiler:For the period of time he travels with the party, he gives the Hero and his children some surprisingly specific advice, and is later revealed to have been clearly trying to guide the Chosen one's through their personal hardships so that they can better fight evil]]. |
| 787 | * VerbalTic: The DS version's translation gives us a rather literal Flan-diddly-erization. |
| 788 | * TheWorfEffect: [[spoiler: Nimzo actually managed to beat him in a fight!]] |
| 789 | * WorfHadTheFlu: [[spoiler:Though it's implied that he lost a considerable amount of his power when the Gold Orb was lost.]] |
| 790 | * YeOldeButcheredEnglish: [[spoiler:Upgrades to this after regaining his power. Switches back in the ending.]] |
| 791 | [[/folder]] |
| 792 | |
| 793 | !!The Order of Zugzwang |
| 794 | |
| 795 | [[folder:Grandmaster Nimzo]] |
| 796 | !!Grandmaster Nimzo (Mildrath) |
| 797 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/dqvds___nimzo___first_forme.png]] |
| 798 | [[caption-width-right:350:[[labelnote:''Click for his Final Form.'']]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/dragonquestv_nimzosecondform.png[[/labelnote]]]] |
| 799 | -->Voiced by: Creator/ShozoIizuka (in the Drama [=CDs=]), Arata Iura (CG Movie) (Japanese), Paul Guyet (English) |
| 800 | |
| 801 | The Demon Lord of Nadiria, and the "god" of the Order. He seeks to take over the Light World. |
| 802 | ---- |
| 803 | * ArchEnemy: To [[TheChosenOne The Legendary Hero]] destined to defeat him, [[spoiler:who turns out to be the Hero's son.]] |
| 804 | * AttackReflector: Casts Bounce in most of his appearances, reflecting spells cast at him back to their users. |
| 805 | * TheBackwardsR: In the American release his text has a Cyrillic-looking font. |
| 806 | * BadBoss: He demands absolute obedience and perfection from the Order, and will ''not'' tolerate any form of failure. [[spoiler:King Korol finds this out the hard way.]] |
| 807 | * BadassArmFold: Nimzo's first form keeps his arms crossed over his chest during the whole battle. |
| 808 | * BreathWeapon: Breathes [[AnIcePerson C-C-Cold Breath]] in his first form, and Scorching Flame in his final form. Later appearances such as ''Dragon Quest IX'' would expand it to skills such as Air Pollution and Hellfire. |
| 809 | * ChekhovsGunman: In the original version a couple of [=NPCs=] mention a Demon Lord that's trying to enter the world, though you don't even learn his name until near the end of the game. The remakes adds more information. |
| 810 | * TheChessmaster: Alluded to with the ChessMotif. His plan to take over the Light World is fairly intricate: [[spoiler:1. Take Zenithia out of commission in the Zenith Dragon's absence. 2. Capture Madalena to open a portal. 3. Prevent the birth of The Legendary Hero destined to stop him. 4. Gather strength until he's powerful enough to enter the world.]] Bishop Ladja and The Order of Zugzwang are his pawns that carry out the plan in the Light World. |
| 811 | * ChessMotif: In the official American release, he is named after a Chess grandmaster, and his minions are named after chess pieces. |
| 812 | * ContinuityNod: [[spoiler:He is perhaps the biggest thread that connects this game with ''VideoGame/DragonQuestIV''.]] |
| 813 | * EldritchAbomination: [[spoiler:His true form can only be described as grotesque, demonic, and as inhuman as possible.]] |
| 814 | * EvilOldFolks: [[spoiler:Takes on the form of a demonic looking old man when the party finally encounters him, however this is merely a guise for his true form, which is far more incomprehensible and demonic.]] |
| 815 | * FlunkyBoss: Summons 2 Killing Machines and/or Wrecktors during the first phase of the final battle. |
| 816 | * GreaterScopeVillain: Nimzo is indisputably the ultimate evil of the game, but Ladja has far more KickTheDog moments as well as a history with the Hero, making him closer to the game's main antagonist. |
| 817 | * HavingABlast: Casts Kaboom in both forms, as well as Kaboomle when fought as a Legacy Boss in ''Dragon Quest IX''. |
| 818 | * HealThyself: Uses Meditation to rapidly recover his wounds in most appearances. |
| 819 | * HoistByHisOwnPetard: [[spoiler:He's responsible for Madalena's abduction, which kicks off the long chain of events that will end with his defeat at the hands of her son and his family.]] |
| 820 | * MeaningfulName: His original Japanese name (''Mirudorasu'') has two meanings. |
| 821 | ** Both parts of his original name tie in to the colors of his first default form you encounter while in Mt. Zugzwang and his later, far more terrifying second form. |
| 822 | ** Part of his original name is a transliteration of the Vedic destruction deity '''Rudra''', whose title was the "mightiest of the mighty" and was red in appearance, tying in to Nimzo's destructive abilities and increased attacks in his final form. |
| 823 | * NamedAfterSomebodyFamous: His name comes from Aron Nimzowitsch, a Russian chess grandmaster. Translations of Nimzowitsch's chess books popularized the term "zugzwang"[[note]]Which also doubles as Mt. Zugzwang, his base of operations[[/note]] in the English-speaking world, and he is also famous for [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immortal_Zugzwang_Game a chess match he won by putting his opponent in zugzwang in the middlegame, a rare feat]]. Nimzo's [[TheChessmaster carefully orchestrated plan to conquer the Light World]] is what drives most of the game's plot. |
| 824 | * OneWingedAngel: [[spoiler:Played with in that his first form isn't really a form, but an avatar he's manipulating with his powers, while his final form is his regular form.]] |
| 825 | * OrcusOnHisThrone: [[spoiler:He subverts this trope despite being sealed in Nadiria, as mentioned in his bestiary entry for ''VideoGame/DragonQuestIX''.]] |
| 826 | -> "Some thought he could only command from afar, but he has more than enough mental and physical ability to rule the world." |
| 827 | * PhysicalGod: [[spoiler:Though he isn't a ''true'' god.]] |
| 828 | * PlayingWithFire: Casts Kafrizz in both forms, as well as breathing Scorching Flame, the early version of Scorch in his final form, in addition to casting Kafrizzle and breathing both Scorch and Hellfire. |
| 829 | * TheRemnant: [[spoiler:He is heavily implied to have been a follower of Aamon from ''VideoGame/DragonQuestIV'' who managed to complete his master's goal of achieving godhood through the Secret of Evolution.]] |
| 830 | * SealedEvilInACan: [[spoiler:He basically can't leave Nadiria, so he captured the Hero's mother, Madalena, in order to fix this.]] |
| 831 | * StatusBuffDispel: Uses Disruptive Wave to erase his enemies' buffs in addition to debuffs used on him. |
| 832 | * StatusInflictionAttack: Casts Kasap in most of his appearances to lower his enemies' defence. |
| 833 | * TheUnfought: [[spoiler:In the ''Dragon Quest: Your Story'', he doesn't actually appear, but rather a virus in the virtual reality game injected into his code takes his stead. The virus is still referred to as "Nimzo" by Luca and in the credits.]] |
| 834 | * WasOnceAMan: [[spoiler:In one of the biggest late game twists, Nimzo is revealed to not actually be an almighty demon god, but rather a regular man who simply achieved pseudo-godhood through perfecting the Secret of Evolution that Psaro and Aamon were trying to achieve in ''VideoGame/DragonQuestIV'']] |
| 835 | * YouHaveFailedMe: He leaves King Korol to die after he's mortally wounded by the party. The remakes makes it even ''worse'', by having Ladja kill him. |
| 836 | * YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Korol had already done what was required of him for Nimzo's master plan, so he had no use for his minion anymore. |
| 837 | * YouKilledMyFather: [[spoiler: Or mother, more accurately. In the original version Nimzo personally kills Madalena when she attempts to seal him away shortly after reuniting with the Hero. In the remakes, Ladja attacks her instead but fails to kill her and is defeated by the Hero. Nimzo then finishes her off himself as she attempts to seal him.]] |
| 838 | * YouNoTakeCandle: The official American release has him speak with a [[TheBackwardsR Cyrillic-looking font]] and poor grammar, giving the impression of a Russian speaking English imperfectly. |
| 839 | [[/folder]] |
| 840 | |
| 841 | [[folder:Bishop Ladja]] |
| 842 | !!Bishop Ladja (Gema) |
| 843 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/dragonquestv_ladja.png]] |
| 844 | -->Voiced by: Creator/HirotakaSuzuoki (in the Drama [=CDs=]), Kōtarō Yoshida (CG Movie) (Japanese), Creator/JasonMarnocha (English) |
| 845 | |
| 846 | Nimzo's right hand man. He oversees the Order's operations in the Light World alongside King Korol, and is also easily the most evil character in the game. |
| 847 | |
| 848 | ---- |
| 849 | !!Tropes associated with him: |
| 850 | * ArchEnemy: To the Hero, whose life he destroyed. It becomes mutual later in the game. |
| 851 | * AscendedExtra: In the SNES original, he was still a presence but ultimately a lackey, didn't have a unique appearance, and gets chumped about two-thirds of the way through the game. In the [=PS2=] remake onwards, [[BreakoutVillain thanks to the begging of the fans,]] he has much more to do and appears at a major point in each generation of the story. |
| 852 | * AttackReflector: Just like his master, Ladja will cast Bounce to protect himself from enemy spells. |
| 853 | * BigBad: In the remakes, as well as in ''Your Story'' where Korol is completely absent. |
| 854 | * BreakoutVillain: |
| 855 | ** Ladja doesn't do all that much in the first edition of the game, but what little he does includes murdering Pankraz. This GutPunch left such a big impression on fans that later {{Video Game Remake}}s saw fit to make him an AscendedExtra, [[CompositeCharacter giving him Kon's position]] as the villain who turns the bride to stone [[spoiler:and establishing that he's TheDragon for Nimzo.]] |
| 856 | ** He's big enough that ''[[VideoGame/DragonQuestX Dragon Quest X]]'''s Death Master vocation is even based on him and his scythe. |
| 857 | * BreathWeapon: Breathes Inferno during the first proper fight against him, as well as [[AnIcePerson C-C-Cold Breath]] and Burning Breath in the last fight at Mt. Zugzwang. |
| 858 | * CutscenePowerToTheMax: When he summons a Kafrizz fireball outside of battle... ''bad things happen''. |
| 859 | ** He does have Kafrizz in battle, albeit considerably depowered. His SinisterScythe and [[spoiler:petrification spell]], not so much. |
| 860 | * TheDragon: In a way to both Korol and Nimzo. While he is actually below Korol in rank, he is one of the only members of the order with contact with Nimzo. [[spoiler:His loyalties with Korol also prove nonexistent as he immediately kills him the moment he loses his usefulness.]] |
| 861 | * DragonInChief: While Korol is the High Priest of the Order, Ladja very much gives off the impression that he is the true force behind it and is thus the direct antagonist for most of the game. [[spoiler:This is further proven when he effortlessly destroys Korol after he fails his mission.]] |
| 862 | * EstablishingCharacterMoment: [[spoiler:His NoHoldsBarredBeatdown on the main character and Harry, and his brutal murder of Pankraz.]] |
| 863 | * EvilGenius: Of the Order of Zugzwang. [[spoiler: He's actually more of TheDragon than Korol is.]] |
| 864 | * FishEyes: How he's depicted in ''Your Story'', making him much grosser and creepier. |
| 865 | * GratuitousForeignLanguage: Based on his broken English, he apparently has a thick Russian accent. |
| 866 | * HateSink: He's easily the most hated character in-game and is driven to cause even the player to want to seek revenge against him. Even Madchen who says she loves all monsters will easily express her contempt for him. |
| 867 | * TheHeavy: Though he's TheDragon, Ladja is by far the biggest presence of evil felt in the game and the only one with any real connection with the Hero. |
| 868 | * HopelessBossFight: The first one against him. Justified, [[spoiler:considering you're ''a six year old child'' at that point.]] |
| 869 | * {{Jerkass}}: He frequently abuses and mocks the Hero throughout the whole game. |
| 870 | * KickTheDog: Does this so frequently throughout the game that it's practically guaranteed any appearance he puts in will result in something horrible happening to the Hero or his loved ones. Examples include... |
| 871 | ** His entire introduction, which he spends delivering a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown to the Hero and Prince Harry--both six-years-old--laughing all the while. Then when the Hero's father, Pankraz, shows up to save the day, [[spoiler:Ladja uses the Hero as a human shield, forces Pankraz to allow himself to be beaten nearly to death by Slon and Kon, then personally delivers the coup de grace by incinerating him before the Hero's very eyes with Kafrizz. Afterwards, he ships the Hero and Prince Harry off to a slave labor camp.]] |
| 872 | ** Just after the Hero comes to rescue his wife from Kon the Knight, Ladja shows up to [[spoiler:turn both the Hero and his wife into statues--[[AndIMustScream possibly aware]]--so that they can "slowly watch the world come to its end."]] |
| 873 | ** Ladja waits until the exact moment when the Hero [[spoiler:reunites with his mother, Madalena, whom he's spent years looking for, only to nearly kill her in front of him just for maximum emotional impact.]] |
| 874 | * KingMook: To the Necromancers from his master's own army. |
| 875 | * MacGuffinGuardian: Guards the other Dragon Eye in Talon Tower. |
| 876 | * MeaningfulName: His original name is an anagram of the English word 'mage'. |
| 877 | * NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: [[spoiler:He has absolutely no reservations about beating two six year old children nearly to death. In fact, he seems to ''enjoy'' it. He'll spend a few turns just standing around ''laughing at you'' before he gets around to slaughtering you.]] |
| 878 | * OffscreenVillainy: Makes Maria [[MadeASlave into a slave]] after she shielded a child slave from the Order of Zugzwang's harm. |
| 879 | * TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Gives one to [[spoiler:King Korol]] in the remakes, right before [[spoiler:killing him]]. |
| 880 | * TheRuntAtTheEnd: Ladja has an unusually humanoid design, and sticks out like a sore thumb besides the bevy of {{Beast M|an}}en that make up the upper echelons of the Order of Zugzwang. |
| 881 | * {{Sadist}}: Gets joy out of all the pain and suffering he causes. |
| 882 | * SinisterScythe: Uses one in his initial boss fight with the Hero and Prince Harry, while even holding it close to the former's neck after Pankraz beat Slon and Kon to get the King of Gotha to stand down or his son will die. While it doesn't show up in the game after this moment, spinoff appearances from ''Battle Road II'' onwards gives his scythe more prominence, using skills like Scythe Cyclone and Grimmer Reaper. |
| 883 | * TheSociopath: Has no positive qualities and is obsessed with causing the most amount of pain for the hero as possible. |
| 884 | * VillainousBreakdown: [[spoiler:As the Hero continues to unravel the Order's plans, he becomes more and more obsessed with killing the Hero himself.]] |
| 885 | * WouldHurtAChild: Unsurprisingly, [[spoiler:as he beats the Hero and Harry with an inch of their lives when they're just kids.]] |
| 886 | * YankTheDogsChain: Combines this with one of his beloved Player Punches near the end when [[spoiler:he blasts Madalena right after she and the main character reunite, then mocks both of them about it. Subverted when it turns out she survived the attack. Double subverted when Grandmaster Nimzo finishes the job.]] |
| 887 | * YouKilledMyFather: At the end of Act 1 [[spoiler:he murders Pankraz early in the story and attempts to do the same thing to Madalena shortly after she and her son reunite. While he fails to kill her, she's unfortunately killed by his master, Nimzo, shortly afterwards.]] |
| 888 | [[/folder]] |
| 889 | |
| 890 | [[folder:King Korol]] |
| 891 | !!King Korol (Ibuul) |
| 892 | [[quoteright:339:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/dragonquestv_kingkorol.png]] |
| 893 | High Priest of the Order of Zugzwang. Over the years, he works tirelessly to establish the Order as a PathOfInspiration, promising that they will lead the world to a new age of peace in the White King's Paradise. Their ''actual'' plans, of course, aren't quite so... '''nice'''. |
| 894 | |
| 895 | ---- |
| 896 | !!Tropes associated with him: |
| 897 | * AlliterativeName: '''K'''ing '''K'''orol. |
| 898 | * AssholeVictim: Once Korol fails to defeat the heroes and his usefulness comes to an end, Ladja shows up just to rub salt in the wound by declaring him a mere puppet and proves his point by incinerating him. Of all of Ladja's victims, this is the only one who deserves zero sympathy for the role he played in the Order's plans. |
| 899 | * AttackReflector: Just like Nimzo and Ladja, he can cast Bounce. |
| 900 | * BreathWeapon: Breathes [[AnIcePerson C-C-Cold Breath]]. |
| 901 | * ContrastingSequelAntagonist: King Korol is a SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute for [[VideoGame/DragonQuestIII Baramos]], but where Baramos balanced a fiery BreathWeapon with varied magic, Korol has less magic versatility but a stronger BreathWeapon of the icy variety. In addition, while Zoma revives Baramos despite Erdrick killing the Archfiend, Nimzo has no more use for him and leaves him to die...[[spoiler:or has Ladja kill him in the remakes.]] |
| 902 | * TheDragon: While he's head of the Order of Zugzwang, he's still second to Grandmaster Nimzo, the "God" of the order. [[SubvertedTrope Although it turns out Ladja beat him out for the position.]] |
| 903 | * DiscOneFinalBoss: After exploring the whole world, finding one way to reach a previously inaccesible area, storming the temple of the Order of Zugzwang, and fighting their way through a confusing and labyrinthine dungeon -Crocodilopolis-, the heroes battle and defeat King Korol, the head of Order... and then they find out he was only a puppet, and they must find the path to Nadiria -the underworld- to save the world of the real BigBad. |
| 904 | * EvilSorcerer: He is a powerful magic caster who leads an evil cult. |
| 905 | * GreenAndMean: He is an evil green humanoid crocodile. |
| 906 | * HumiliationConga: First the party attack the Order's main base Crocodilopolis in the Light World, then they wipe out his defenses, including Queen Ferz. When he himself fights the party and is defeated and dying, he begs Nimzo to strike the party down, but Nimzo abandons him for his failure, leaving him to die in shame. Made even worse in the remakes, where not only does Nimzo abandon him, but he also sends Ladja to tell him [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech exactly why he sucks]] and then execute him. |
| 907 | * AnIcePerson: Korol's most dangerous skills are the blizzard-like [[BreathWeapon C-c-cold Breath]] and the icy [[PowerNullifier Disruptive Wave]]. |
| 908 | * MeaningfulName: His original name ties him in to the White King's Paradise as it is a slight transliteration of the word ''ivory''. |
| 909 | * MinorMajorCharacter: Despite being the head of the organization responsible for literally every problem in the game, the main character only meets Korol once, and after which his entire presence becomes overshadowed by Ladja's. |
| 910 | * NeverSmileAtACrocodile: A humanoid crocodile who leads an evil cult and is a dangerous sorcerer. |
| 911 | * PathOfInspiration: How he paints the Order of Zugzwang. |
| 912 | * PuppetKing: After Korol's defeat, Ladja reveals to him that this was his true purpose, a simple figurehead meant to rally humans to the Order, only to be executed by Ladja, Nimzo's true right-hand man, once Korol had outlived his usefulness. |
| 913 | * ReligionOfEvil: What the Order actually ''is''. |
| 914 | * ReptilesAreAbhorrent: He is an evil reptilian sorcerer. |
| 915 | * SquishyWizard: While he's a deadly mage, his physical attacks are absolutely pathetic. |
| 916 | * StatusBuffDispel: His Disruptive Wave removes all stat buffs from the party. |
| 917 | * StuffBlowingUp: His main offensive spell is Kaboom. |
| 918 | * SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: A LizardFolk SorcerousOverlord who plays the front man for a demonic being from another world? [[VideoGame/DragonQuestIII Baramos did it first.]] |
| 919 | * UnwittingPawn: Ladja and Nimzo were actually playing him the whole time. |
| 920 | * VerbalTic: He has one -- Snap! -- in addition to his [[GratuitousForeignLanguage Russian accent]]. |
| 921 | * YouHaveFailedMe: After Korol fails to defeat the Hero and his party, Korol begs Grandmaster Nimzo for help, only for Ladja to appear, tell Korol he was never anything more than a puppet, and kill him. |
| 922 | * YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: He gets killed off by Ladja since he is no longer useful. |
| 923 | [[/folder]] |
| 924 | |
| 925 | [[folder:Queen Ferz]] |
| 926 | !!Queen Ferz (Ramada) |
| 927 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/dragonquestv_queenferz.png]] |
| 928 | |
| 929 | The High Priestess of the Order of Zugzwang, as well as a master illusionist. Helps Korol oversee the Crocodilopolis and lure would-be followers and slaves into their clutches. |
| 930 | |
| 931 | ---- |
| 932 | !!Tropes associated with her: |
| 933 | * AmbiguousGender: Ferz's feminine characteristics consist of her name, her choice of guise in Madalena, and [[PinkMeansFeminine her pink skin]]--otherwise she boasts the same masculine body as every other Cyclops or Gigantes (that said, the cyclops in general have no known sexual dimorphism to speak of). |
| 934 | * TheArchmage: Unique for a Cyclops, Ferz casts Kacrack [[note]]Kacrackle[[/note]] and Kasizz[[note]]Kasizzle[[/note]], a distinct departure from her SmashMook brethren. She also has the use of the Morph spell to disguise herself as Madalena, and may or may not be capable of brainwashing crowds. |
| 935 | * BreathWeapon: Ferz can use the Inferno skill to drench the party in flames. |
| 936 | * ContrastingSequelAntagonist: Like Atlas of ''VideoGame/DragonQuestII'', she's a KingMook of the Cyclops monster family, but unlike Atlas, who took the SmashMook premise to its logical extreme, Ferz is TheArchmage. |
| 937 | * {{Irony}}: Despite being built like a SmashMook, Ferz is a mage who casts high-level spells. |
| 938 | * MasterOfIllusion: Can transform as Madalena to disguise her true identity. |
| 939 | * MeaningfulName: As part of her original name (essentially "rama") means branch and ramadas are open-air structures that involve arbor, which sometimes includes vines... and vines are deceptively shady, which fits into her role as the Order's shapeshifter with her openly brazen Madalena disguise. |
| 940 | * MinorMajorCharacter: As the High Priestess of the Order, she clearly has a lot of power, and yet we only really find out about her when she's encountered as a boss. |
| 941 | * MightyGlacier: [[spoiler: In battle, she will most likely always attack last, but that attack will hurt. A lot.]] |
| 942 | * PinkMeansFeminine: The only physical characteristic Ferz has to indicate her femininity is her pink-purple skin tone. |
| 943 | * RareRandomDrop: Less than one time in four thousand, she might drop her oaken club when she's beaten in battle. Because you really needed an [[JokeItem oaken club]]. |
| 944 | * KingMook: She's a Gigantes that serves as the High Priestess of the Order. |
| 945 | * SecondaryColorNemesis: With her green garb and pink-purple skin, Ferz is colored just right for a villainess. |
| 946 | * ShapeshifterGuiltTrip: [[spoiler:Tries to fool the main character and his allies by posing as Madalena. If successful, she curses them before her boss fight.]] |
| 947 | * TheSmurfettePrinciple: Ferz is the only female in both the Order of Zugzwang and the cyclops monster-type. |
| 948 | * SpikesOfVillainy: Ferz's design is nearly identical, but her version of the monster-type's typical club is sometimes rendered with extra spikes. |
| 949 | * UglyAllAlong: Ferz poses as TheHero's lovely mother, Madalena, but is in reality a titanic, masculine brute. |
| 950 | * UniformityException: |
| 951 | ** Ferz [[AmbiguousGender may or may not be the only female cyclops in the franchise]]. |
| 952 | ** Among the Cyclops monster family, she's uncommonly clever and conniving and has unique magic and breath skills. |
| 953 | ** She's the only leading member of the Order of Zugzwang to not have a design original to ''VideoGame/DragonQuestV''; as a PaletteSwap of the Cyclops, she's a variant of the monster family that first appeared in ''VideoGame/DragonQuestII''. |
| 954 | [[/folder]] |
| 955 | |
| 956 | [[folder:Kon the Knight and Slon the Rook]] |
| 957 | !!Kon the Knight (Jami) and Slon the Rook (Gonze) |
| 958 | |
| 959 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/dragonquestv_kontheknight.png]] |
| 960 | [[caption-width-right:350:Kon the Knight]] |
| 961 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/dragonquestv_slontherook.png]] |
| 962 | [[caption-width-right:350:Slon the Rook]] |
| 963 | -->Kon voiced by: Creator/WataruTakagi (in the Drama [=CDs=]) (Japanese), Creator/SteveBlum (English) |
| 964 | -->Slon voiced by: Creator/WataruTakagi (in the Drama [=CDs=]) (Japanese), Creator/TrevorDevall (English) |
| 965 | |
| 966 | Bishop Ladja's personal enforcers and bodyguards. Work well as a team, but are just as deadly during solo work. |
| 967 | |
| 968 | ---- |
| 969 | !!Tropes associated with both villains: |
| 970 | * TheBrute: As Ladja's bodyguards, the two rely on physical power, though Kon also uses magic. |
| 971 | * TheDividual: Not particularly different from one another and only ever seen apart during their respective final battles. The biggest differences between them are that Slon is really stupid and relies on physical attacks, while Kon like to make horse puns and uses magic in addition to physical attacks. |
| 972 | * DumbMuscle: Both of them, though Slon is considerably dumber than Kon is. |
| 973 | * KingMook: To the Warhogs, Thwarthogs, Pummel Horses, and Revaulting Horses. |
| 974 | * MookLieutenant: Similar to [[VideoGame/NamcoXCapcom Dokumezu and Dokugozu]], they can command various monsters such as Slime Knights, Samiginas, Black Dragons, Hypothermions, and Wax Murderers, in addition to returning monsters like [[VideoGame/DragonQuestII Hawk Men, Orcs,]] and Hellions, most prominent in ''Your Story''. |
| 975 | * NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: [[spoiler:They get one from an infuriated Pankraz, but then give him one themselves when Ladja threatens to murder the main character.]] |
| 976 | |
| 977 | !!Tropes associated with Kon: |
| 978 | * BlowYouAway: Casts Kaswoosh during battle. |
| 979 | * BreathWeapon: Breathes [[AnIcePerson Freezing Blizzard]] in battle, which is retained by him in several spinoff appearances. |
| 980 | * ClimaxBoss: Kon is the last opponent before the last timeskip, and marks the transition to the fatherhood portion of the game. He even has an appropriately climactic setup, [[spoiler:kidnapping the Hero’s wife and having a unique battle setup where the kidnapped wife needs to weaken him in order to damage him]]. |
| 981 | * EvilTowerOfOminousness: The Knightmare Towers is his base, with various monsters such as Hawk Men, Hellions, Orc Kings, Hula Ghouls, and the Chimaera and Orc Pawns guarding his throne room. |
| 982 | * HellishHorse: Kon is a grey/white-skinned and red/purple-maned giant humanoid horse who serves the Grandmaster of Nadria. |
| 983 | * LightningBruiser: Kon is strong and fast, having various spells like Kaswoosh, Kasnooze, and Frizzle, in addition to various skills such as Rodeo Crash, an ability that fully utilize his horse hooves. |
| 984 | * OurCentaursAreDifferent: Kon is an inverted centaur, having a horse head on a human body. |
| 985 | * PlayingWithFire: Casts Frizzle during his boss battle and is retained for several spinoff appearances. |
| 986 | * PungeonMaster: Kon enjoys making horse related ones. |
| 987 | * TakingYouWithMe: In the original SNES version, it's Kon who [[spoiler:turns the Hero and his wife to stone with his last breath, upon realizing the wife is of Zenithian heritage]]. |
| 988 | * YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: [[spoiler:When Chancellor Jeeves hands the Bride over to Kon, he "rewards" him by savagely beating him and leaving him to die.]] |
| 989 | !!Tropes associated with Slon: |
| 990 | * ArtEvolution: Initially has the same appearance as the Warhogs and the Thwarthogs, right down to the weapon and shield he wields, though the remakes from the [=PS2=] version onwards gives him a different shield with spikes on it and an axe-like longsword, which is retained for most modern appearances. |
| 991 | * ButForMeItWasTuesday: Due to being encountered in Talon Tower during the 3rd Generation, he barely remembers the Hero from when Ladja killed Pankraz. |
| 992 | * FullBoarAction: Resembles a purple or light purple humanoid boar. |
| 993 | * MacGuffinGuardian: Guards one of the Dragon's Eyes in Talon Tower. |
| 994 | * MightyGlacier: Slon is stronger than Kon, having various physical skills such as Mince, but is also much slower. |
| 995 | * SpikesOfVillainy: From the [=PS2=] remake onwards, his shield has spikes on it, which is retained for most modern appearances. |
| 996 | [[/folder]] |
| 997 | |
| 998 | ---- |
| 999 | !!Other Villains |
| 1000 | [[folder:Winter Queen]] |
| 1001 | !!The Winter Queen |
| 1002 | [[quoteright:275:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/dragonquestv_winterqueen.png]] |
| 1003 | |
| 1004 | The Winter Queen is an elemental ice spirit who lives in the north of Faerie Lea. |
| 1005 | |
| 1006 | She is responsible for postponing the coming of Spring by fooling Dwight into robbing the flute of the Herald of Spring. |
| 1007 | |
| 1008 | ---- |
| 1009 | !!Tropes associated with her: |
| 1010 | * AmazingTechnicolorPopulation: She has grey skin to differentiate her from ordinary Blizzybody enemies. |
| 1011 | * AstonishinglyAppropriateAppearance: Her blue hair and her ivory armor match her ice and snow spells. |
| 1012 | * BreathWeapon: In addition to her ice spells, she has an attack called Cold Breath. |
| 1013 | * ElementalHairColors: She is a blue-haired ice elemental monster. |
| 1014 | * ElementalHairComposition: Her hair is made of the same freezing blue flames that she wields. |
| 1015 | * EndlessWinter: She plots to keep the Herald of Spring asleep so she can keep her powers for as long as possible. |
| 1016 | * GodSaveUsFromTheQueen: She delays the coming of the Spring just so that her powers remain undiminished. |
| 1017 | * AnIcePerson: She can use the ice spell Crack. |
| 1018 | * UnwittingPawn: She tricks Dwight Dwarf into believing Queen Treacle banished his grandfather from Faerie Lea, knowing he would be dumb enough to steal the flute of the Herald of Spring in retaliation. |
| 1019 | [[/folder]] |
| 1020 | |
| 1021 | [[folder:Bjørn the Behemoose]] |
| 1022 | !!Bjørn the Behemoose |
| 1023 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/dragonquestv_bjornthebehemoose.png]] |
| 1024 | |
| 1025 | Bjørn is an ancient and powerful demon who was sealed away by Rodrigo Briscoletti's ancestor one century and half ago. |
| 1026 | |
| 1027 | Aware that the seal is weakening, Rodrigo intends to get his daughters married to someone strong just in case that Bjørn finally breaks out of its sealing jar. Eight years after the Hero's wedding, Bjørn indeed breaks free, and stomps his way to Mostroferrato to destroy his hated nemesis Rodolfo Briscoletti, and everyone in the way. |
| 1028 | |
| 1029 | ---- |
| 1030 | !!Tropes associated with him: |
| 1031 | * AttackOfThe50FootWhatever: He is the size of a mountain, and easily one of the largest bosses in the franchise. His appearances in ''Dragon Quest Heroes'' and ''Dragon Quest X'' emphasizes this even further, with the heroes only being about as big as his three eyes. |
| 1032 | * AscendedDemon: After completing the game and Stark Raving T'N'T Board, he is reincarnated as Rebjørn and can become a bonus party member in ''Dragon Quest V''. Though Bjørn argues coming back as small and cute is a case of ResurrectionSickness and begs the Hero to help him grow gigantic again. |
| 1033 | * BigDamnHeroes: [[spoiler: Stops Nadraga's avatar body from leaving Nagaland long enough until the Hero infiltrates it and destroys the Astoila God within]]. |
| 1034 | * BreathWeapon: His skill "Inferno" lets him expel out burning flames. |
| 1035 | * BroughtDownToBadass: As Rebjørn. |
| 1036 | * GoodWingsEvilWings: In contrast to Queen Treacle and her fairies' butterfly wings, Bjørn has one pair of furred, black bat wings. |
| 1037 | * GruesomeGoat: He is a massively powerful and destructive goat-like demon. |
| 1038 | * HornsOfVillainy: Two long, curvy mountain goat horns sprout from both sides of his head. |
| 1039 | * ItsPersonal: Bjørn holds a huge grudge against Rodolfo Briscoletti, the one who managed to seal him away. Even as [[AscendedDemon Rebjørn]] he still blames the man for all his misfortunes, and doesn't care The Hero defeated/de-powered them. |
| 1040 | * {{Kaiju}}: The size of a small mountain; even from a distance, his presence is overpowering. |
| 1041 | * LeakingCanOfEvil: Rodolfo Briscoletti's jar is barely able to hold him back after 150 years, [[RedIsViolent bubbling red and shaking]]. After Bjørn is defeated and the protagonists visit his prison again [[BlueIsCalm its blue and benign]] in appearance. Bjørn escapes again, but now as Rebjørn a friendlier AscendedDemon you can recruit. |
| 1042 | * MightyGlacier: He is physically imposing, and fast enough to act twice per turn. |
| 1043 | * MonsterIsAMommy: In ''Dragon Quest X'' he's the father of little Rebjørn, whom he accidentally swallowed up, even [[MooseAreIdiots idiotically thinking]] for a while his own child was a treasure he lost, sending the Hero and their allies on a FetchQuest inside him to retrieve "his treasure"/Rebjørn. |
| 1044 | * MooseAreIdiots: Played with due to his appearance. Bjørn is a LightningBruiser in battle, but a bit of a laid-back ditz in all other areas. |
| 1045 | * OurDemonsAreDifferent: He is a humongous, bat-winged, goat-like, moose-faced demon with three eyes. |
| 1046 | * RidiculouslyCuteCritter: As Rebjørn when he's reincarnated as a bonus party member. |
| 1047 | * SealedEvilInACan: Bjørn was imprisoned in a man-sized jar which was locked away in the Pothold, a fortress to the northwest of Mostroferrato. He ends up getting resealed when The Hero defeats him (and released again if their party idiotically mess with the lid). |
| 1048 | * ShockAndAwe: His skill "Lightning" lets him pull down lightning bolts from the sky. |
| 1049 | * {{Superboss}}: He's technically an optional boss, however the Ultimate key he drops is incredibly handy and can even get you a piece of the Zenitian Armour if you know where to look. Good luck with that though, he's of comparable strength to DiscOneFinalBoss King Korol. |
| 1050 | * TimeAbyss: Has either large patches of moss/grass or trees growing on parts of his body to emphasize just how ancient Bjørn truly is. |
| 1051 | * TimeLimitBoss: In ''Dragon Quest Heroes'', he's [[GodzillaThreshold summoned by Velasco]] when the Pillar of Light is destroyed. He is later fought in a post-game quest and must be defeated before he destroys the heroes' airship. |
| 1052 | * ThinkingUpPortals: Summons other monsters and demons to attack you in ''Heroes''. |
| 1053 | * ThisIsMyNameOnForeign: His name means "bear" in Norwegian. |
| 1054 | * WhatTheHellIsThatAccent: Only has a few lines of dialogue as he tries to find Rodolfo, and speaks with a thick Nordic accent. |
| 1055 | * WombLevel: A stage is set inside his belly in ''Dragon Quest X'' after he swallows the party alive. |
| 1056 | * WorthyOpponent: Immediately upon breaking free of his seal, he ignores rampaging [[ItsPersonal and instead pursues Rodolfo]], but fails to understand 150 years [[WeAreAsMayflies is a long time]] - the man he seeks is long dead, so decides you'll be a good appetizer. |
| 1057 | * YearOutsideHourInside: After breaking free, Bjørn seems to think he has only remained imprisoned for some few days instead of one hundred fifty years. |
| 1058 | * YouWillNotEvadeMe: Boasts no one can hide from him when seeking Rodolfo (as the giant can cross a country in several steps, running isn't an option either) but the latter is a PosthumousCharacter. |
| 1059 | [[/folder]] |
| 1060 |
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