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| 12 | [[WMG:[[center: [- '''[[Characters/EdensZero Main Character Index]]'''\ |
| 13 | [[Characters/EdensZeroCrewOfEdensZero Crew of Edens Zero]] ([[Characters/EdensZeroShikiGranbell Shiki Granbell]], [[Characters/EdensZeroShikisCompanions Shiki's Companions]]) | [[Characters/EdensZeroCrewOfEdensOne Crew of Edens One]]\ |
| 14 | [[Characters/EdensZeroOracionSeisGalactica Oración Seis Galáctica]] ([[Characters/EdensZeroOracionSeisGalacticaAssociates Associates]]) | '''Interstellar Union Army'''\ |
| 15 | [[Characters/EdensZeroGrandShikiCosmos Grand Shiki Cosmos]] ([[Characters/EdensZeroSakuraCosmos Sakura Cosmos]] [=[=][[Characters/EdensZeroBlueGarden Blue Garden]], [[Characters/EdensZeroSunJewel Sun Jewel]][=]=]) | [[Characters/EdensZeroOthers Others]]\ |
| 16 | [[Characters/EdensZeroUniverseZero The Final World]]-]]]]] |
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| 18 | !Spoilers for the first 140 chapters (Seasons 1 and 2 of the anime) are unmarked. Expect unmarked spoiler names as well. Administrivia/YouHaveBeenWarned! |
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| 22 | !Interstellar Union Army |
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| 24 | [[folder:In General]] |
| 25 | !!Interstellar Union Army |
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| 27 | The Cosmic Government's military organization that was formed to strike down the evil that runs rampant through the cosmos. |
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| 29 | * BadassArmy: They prove to be a formidable force during the Aoi War, expertly keeping the Nero Empire's army occupied in space over Nero 66, and clearing through Nero's personal forces at the Temple, despite their enemy's far greater numbers. [[spoiler:After Nero and Shura's deaths, the army dismantles the Empire entirely in short order.]] |
| 30 | * CodeName: Most named members of the army are known by codenames, each based on that member's powers, personality, or other theme. On the other hand, other members such as Sam and Agie have normal-sounding names. |
| 31 | * EnemyMine: [[spoiler:During the Lendard arc, the army forms an uneasy alliance with the ''Edens Zero'' crew and Elsie's SpacePirate crew, two of their biggest targets, in order to defeat Ziggy.]] |
| 32 | * HeroAntagonist: Their role against the ''Edens Zero'' crew amounts to this, as the army at large is still genuine in their efforts to keep the peace, and the heroes are technically criminals for violating numerous travel laws and knowingly allying themselves with outlaws. |
| 33 | * MildlyMilitary: There are distinguished officers and soldiers who wear customized military uniforms and attires that make them stand out from the fully armored rank and file soldiers. |
| 34 | * MilitariesAreUseless: Generally {{averted}}. At worst, the army impedes the ''Edens Zero'' crew from facing whichever villains they're up against, but as their performances in the Aoi and Kaede Wars demonstrate, they're quite effective at battling, distracting or crippling enemy forces on a scale far beyond the crew's limited scope, making things easier for the heroes whether the army realizes it or not. |
| 35 | * MilitaryMage: The army includes Ether Gear users in its ranks, with the scale ranging from lowly {{Mooks}} to the likes of the Oración Seis Interstellar. |
| 36 | * {{Mooks}}: The army has a large amount of soldiers at their disposal and the Oración Seis Interstellar command over their own personal squads of them. |
| 37 | * OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: All but two officers with known {{Code Name}}s (Justice/James Holloway and Creed/Seiji Hōjō) are only ever known by those aliases. |
| 38 | * SpaceNavy: They have an entire armada of battleships dedicated to bringing in as few as one particularly dangerous SpacePirate. In fact, each member of the Oración Seis Interstellar has command over his or her own fleet of respective class of warships. |
| 39 | [[/folder]] |
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| 41 | !!Oración Seis Interstellar[[note]]"Interestelar" in the simulpub[[/note]] |
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| 43 | [[folder:In General]] |
| 44 | A band of six elite warriors within the Interstellar Union Army, devised to counteract the threat of their lawless counterparts, the Oración Seis Galáctica. While they have a responsibility to uphold and follow the laws and regulations of the Cosmic Government, they have the clearance to act according to their own judgement at any point of their choosing, skipping the red tape to act as the law itself. |
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| 46 | * AlmightyJanitor: A variation in that the members' actual army ranks don't apply to their duties as members of the Oración Seis Interstellar, and thus subordinates like Justice and superiors like Jaguar (a captain) are able to speak to and work with each other as equals. |
| 47 | * ArtifactName: Despite [[spoiler: the deaths of Jaguar, Cure and Justice]], the team are still called as the Oración Seis Interstellar and that there seemed to be no attempts of appointing new members as replacements during the three year-timeskip. |
| 48 | * CommandingCoolness: In the English version, several members of the team are addressed as "commander" by their subordinates, making them this with regards to their power. No such address is given in the Japanese version, which sticks with the all-encompassing honorific ''-sama'' for everyone except Jaguar, who is explicitly ranked as ''taisa'' (the equivalent of both a [[TheCaptain navy captain]] and an [[ColonelBadass army colonel]]). |
| 49 | * DubNameChange: Their name is simply "Oración Seis" in Japanese, but it's written in kanji that means "Interstellar Six Prayer Generals" (星系六祈将), which serves as a reflection of Galáctica's Japanese name, ''Ginga Rokumashō'' (銀河六魔将), meaning "Galactic Six Demon Generals". |
| 50 | * DwindlingParty: By the end of the Lendard arc, [[spoiler:the team is reduced to half its number, with Jaguar being killed by Poseidon Nero on Nero 1, and Cure and Justice both perishing on Lendard (the former getting obliterated by the ''Edens Zero'' after being ousted as a traitor, and the latter being erased by the Chronophage).]] |
| 51 | * ForGreatJustice: Their entire reason for existence is to bring peace and justice to the universe, no matter how morally questionable their actions may be. They also end their council meetings with a prayer to use their sacred powers to achieve their goal. |
| 52 | * GoodCounterpart: What they at least claim to be, though it's actually downplayed in that they are shown to be ruthless to anyone who stands in their way, with Justice stating they have the right to freely kill whomever they deem deserving. It's also indicated that some of them are motivated less by a desire to do good and more by personal ends. |
| 53 | * GratuitousSpanish: The group's name in the simulpub is "Oración Seis Interestelar", which is Spanish for "Interstellar Prayer Six", much like the Oración Seis Galáctica introduced before them. The official volume version reduces this by straight-up using the English word "Interstellar". |
| 54 | * JudgeJuryAndExecutioner: According to Justice, each one of the Oración Seis Interstellar has the right to at any point determine and kill anyone they deem as "evil". |
| 55 | * NotSoOmniscientCouncilOfBickering: {{Downplayed}}. While the Oración Seis Interstellar are a team who communicate with each other for joint operations via online Prayer Councils, they hardly ever work together or meet each other in person, leading to conflicts in interest. [[spoiler:This bites them in the ass when it's revealed in the Lendard arc that Cure has conducted his treasonous actions without their knowledge for thirteen years until he is exposed by Holy.]] |
| 56 | * ShoutOut: |
| 57 | ** They are the fourth group in Creator/HiroMashima's works to be called "Oración Seis", and the first to share the name with another in the same series[[note]]in the [[DubNameChange English version]], at least[[/note]]. The biggest difference here is that this Oración Seis is on the side of the law, unlike all previous incarnations, which are all criminals. |
| 58 | ** The commando carriers of the Interstellar members are named after members of the Oración Seis from ''Fairy Tail''. [[spoiler:The fact that Cure's ship is named after Brain--the Seis's leader and only irredeemable member--ends up being {{Foreshadowing}} to his [[EvilAllAlong true nature]].]] |
| 59 | * PlanetDestroyer: The Oración Seis Interstellar are considered to be on par with the Oración Seis Galáctica who are considered powerful enough to destroy planets meaning they can do the same. |
| 60 | * SuddenNameChange: The English simulpub translation adds the word "Interestelar" ([[GratuitousSpanish Spanish]] for "Interstellar") to the name, but the official volume editions replace it with the English term. |
| 61 | * TwoGirlsToATeam: The members are four men (Justice, Jaguar, Eraser, and Cure) and two women (Holy and Feather). |
| 62 | * WorldsBestWarrior: The Oración Seis Interstellar are roughly on par with the Oración Seis Galáctica, who are each considered this. |
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| 65 | [[folder:Justice]] |
| 66 | !!Justice (James Holloway) |
| 67 | !!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/DaisukeNamikawa (Japanese), Creator/RobertMcCollum (English)[[labelnote: Foreign [=VAs=]]]Darwin Le Roy (Latin American Spanish), Taric Mehani (French)[[/labelnote]] |
| 68 | !!!'''Ether Gear:''' [[StarPower Star]] [[EnergyAbsorption Drain]] |
| 69 | [[quoteright:210:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ez_justice_anime.png]] |
| 70 | [[caption-width-right:210:[[labelnote:Click here to see his Ether Gear activated]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ez_justice_eg_form.png[[/labelnote]]]] |
| 71 | ->''"In the name of Justice, I will not let you see tomorrow."'' |
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| 73 | The commanding officer of the ''Angel Feather'', one of the Interstellar Union Army's commando carriers. He shares a bitter history with his nemesis, the space pirate Elsie Crimson, and will stop at nothing to bring her and her allies to justice. |
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| 75 | Justice has much in common with Elsie, including his mastery over "Star Drain", an Ether Gear that allows him to absorb a planet's Ether and bend it to his will, not unlike the power of Heavenly Body Magic from the Dark Ages. His Ether Gear also changes his hair blue and forms a curious pattern around his right eye... |
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| 77 | * AlphabeticalThemeNaming: One that's more prevalent in Japanese than in English: as an {{Expy}} of [[Manga/RaveMaster Sieg]], he has a code name and real name that begin with the katakana ''ji'' (ジ),[[note]]''Jasutisu'' (ジャスティス) for "Justice", ''Jēmusu'' (ジェームス) for "James"[[/note]] just like Jellal and his alias, "Siegrain".[[note]]The prefix "Sieg" is spelled in Japanese as ''Jīku'' (ジーク), similar to "Siegfried", which is pronounced with a "z" sound in German that's rendered as a "j" sound in Japanese.[[/note]] |
| 78 | * ArchEnemy: He is this for Elsie Crimson, and will go to any length to see that she's brought down. This stems from Elsie unintentionally starting a CivilWar on their homeworld that destroyed their kingdoms when they were younger. |
| 79 | * BadassBoast: When discussing who could have been powerful enough to defeat Drakken Joe, one of the [[WorldsStrongestMan Oración Seis Galáctica]], this exchange occurs: |
| 80 | -->'''Victory:''' That's insane!!! There's an Ether master out there as good as Drakken or Elsie, that's ''not'' in the Oración Seis Galáctica?!!\ |
| 81 | '''Justice:''' ''(activating his own Ether Gear)'' There's one right here, isn't there?\ |
| 82 | '''Victory:''' [[{{Touche}} Well, yeah, but come on]]. |
| 83 | * BureaucraticallyArrangedMarriage: He and Elsie were originally engaged as part of a political marriage to fuse their kingdoms. That was until Elsie caused the war that destroyed their kingdoms, and killed any chance of romance blossoming between them. |
| 84 | * TheCaptain: He is the officer in charge of the commando carrier ''Angel Feather''. In terms of actual rank, he's implied to be a [[CommandingCoolness commander]] since he is a direct subordinate to Jaguar, an actual captain. |
| 85 | * CodeName: "Justice" is not his real name, as further established when Elsie utters his real name. |
| 86 | * CorruptedCharacterCopy: As Mashima's staple {{Expy}} of [[Manga/RaveMaster Sieg Hart]], Justice serves as one for both Sieg and [[Manga/FairyTail Jellal]]. Rather than a reluctant WellIntentionedExtremist like the former, or a BrainwashedAndCrazy villain who becomes TheAtoner like the latter, Justice is a firmly neutral InspectorJavert who's motivated by {{revenge}}. His relationship with Elsie is also a dark reflection of Jellal and Erza's: while Jellal betrayed Erza because of his brainwashing, Justice has a deeply personal yet understandable grudge against Elsie. |
| 87 | * CurbStompBattle: He thrashes Shiki in their fight on Foresta, with Shiki unable to land a single hit on him. Shiki barely survives his Grand Chariot before Elsie swoops in to save him. |
| 88 | * DeadAlternateCounterpart: [[spoiler:Universe 3's version of Justice is killed along with Elsie in the Lendard arc when the planet is consumed by the Chronophage, [[DeathByDeaging de-aging them from existence]]. Universe 1 and 2's Justice, on the other hand, are last seen alive and well.]] |
| 89 | * DeathByDeaging: [[spoiler:Staying on Lendard as the Chronophage rewinds its time by 260 years causes him and Elsie to rapidly age in reverse until they're finally erased from existence, though the scene cuts away after showing them to be young children, allowing them to briefly relive their childhood romance in their last moments.]] |
| 90 | * DeathEqualsRedemption: [[spoiler:At the end of the Lendard arc, James realizes he was mistaken about Elsie and Homura being evil criminals, finally giving up on arresting them. Since Elsie chooses to stay behind in Lendard when a Chronophage eats its time, James stays behind with her to at least not let her be alone in her final moments.]] |
| 91 | * DeathFromAbove: His SignatureMove, Grand Chariot, drops seven pillars of starlight from the heavens in the shape of the Big Dipper. It's also a ShoutOut to [[Manga/RaveMaster Sieg]] and [[Manga/FairyTail Jellal]], who have the same move. |
| 92 | * DisproportionateRetribution: If he finds out that anyone so much as spoke on friendly terms to Elsie, he considers that grounds for that person's immediate termination, no matter how small the relationship. He instantly attacks Shiki and Homura on Foresta for this reason. |
| 93 | * DoNotCallMePaul: He detests it when Elsie almost exclusively calls him James during their fight on Foresta, declaring that he abandoned his old name after Elsie betrayed their fatherland. [[spoiler:He drops this after his HeelRealization in the Lendard arc.]] |
| 94 | * DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:James chooses to stay on Lendard with Elsie as the Chronophage consumes it in the Lendard arc, realizing how he wasted his life seeking vengeance against Elsie while willfully ignoring the anguish she felt over destroying their homeworld.]] |
| 95 | * DyingDeclarationOfLove: [[spoiler:{{Downplayed}}. Though he doesn't say it to Elsie, he acknowledges her as his FirstLove in their final moments as they're de-aged from existence.]] |
| 96 | * EarlyInstallmentCharacterDesignDifference: In the manga, at least, Justice is colored with brown eyes on Chapter 1's cover spread, while the cover of Volume 14 recolors his eyes as a shade of light blue. The anime, on the other hand, ignores the change and uses the brown eyes. |
| 97 | * {{Expy}}: Not readily apparent at first, but his Ether Gear changes his hair color to blue and creates a distinct set of TronLines around his eyes, making him look exactly like Jellal from ''Manga/FairyTail'' and, by extension, Sieg Hart from ''Manga/RaveMaster''. He also has a rocky relationship with Elsie Crimson, an {{Expy}} of Erza Scarlet from ''Fairy Tail'', and shares Jellal's [[Creator/DaisukeNamikawa Japanese]] and [[Creator/RobertMcCollum English]] voice actors. |
| 98 | * FaceDeathWithDignity: [[spoiler:After giving up his life's goal to arrest Elsie, James chooses to let the Chronophage erase him along with her to "purify" all the time they wasted senselessly fighting and hating each other. The two smile at each other in their final moments.]] |
| 99 | * FacialMarkings: His [[TronLines Ether lines]] form around his right eye when he uses his Ether Gear; these markings match the eye tattoo sported by Sieg and Jella from ''Manga/RaveMaster'' and ''Manga/FairyTail'' respectively. |
| 100 | * AFatherToHisMen: Although he is stern towards Victory and Creed, and issues them orders they don't fully agree with, he still cares deeply for their well-being. [[spoiler:Creed's death is enough for him to shed ManlyTears and declare judgement against his killer, whom Jesse (the culprit) falsely says is Homura.]] |
| 101 | * FoeRomanceSubtext: He gets ribbed by his colleagues for always chasing after Elsie as if he was in love with her, and Elsie herself makes teasing, almost flirtatious remarks during their encounters. However, Justice won't stand for any of it, asserting that he harbors nothing but hatred for her. This gets complicated when it's revealed they were engaged as kids, but their relationship never had the chance to flourish before Elsie caused his family's death. |
| 102 | * ForGreatJustice: His entire reason for turning in one of the cosmos's most notorious SpacePirates is to bring down the "hammer of justice", enough that he uses it as his CodeName. Elsie counters that what he follows is a false justice rooted solely in vengeance. [[spoiler:He comes to this realization himself in the Lendard arc, where he admits his sense of justice was warped by narrow-minded anger and hatred that he had no one else to take out on, and thus declares that [[ThatManIsDead the man Justice is no more]].]] |
| 103 | * GoOutWithASmile: [[spoiler:At the end of the Lendard arc, both he and Elsie welcome their deaths at the hands of the Chronophage with a smile, content to have finally made peace with each other after years at each other's throats.]] |
| 104 | * HeelRealization: [[spoiler:He experiences this in the Lendard arc after Homura risks her life to save him from Acnoella despite his belief that she murdered Creed in cold blood, followed by Elsie shutting down Acnoella's dragon swarm and tearfully renouncing her will to fight. This leads to him sharing a last heart-to-heart with Elsie, where he admits that he's been unfairly blaming her for starting their planet's civil war when he knew she had no better options, and that it makes no sense why Homura would kill Creed.]] |
| 105 | * HyperspaceWardrobe: Just like Elsie (and [[Manga/FairyTail Erza]], by extension), Justice's Ether Gear lets him instantly switch out of his white military armor into a different outfit created from a planet's Ether that enhances his combat ability. |
| 106 | * {{Hypocrite}}: He preaches about "justice" and enforcing its ideals, but focuses so much of his efforts on bringing Elsie down that he doesn't fight the true injustices going on around him, letting innocents who actually need saving suffer, likewise attacking people for next to no offenses other than just talking with Elsie. |
| 107 | * IChooseToStay: At the end of the Lendard arc, [[spoiler:James chooses to remain on Lendard so Elsie won't be alone after she decides the same, allowing the Chronophage to erase them both.]] |
| 108 | * InspectorJavert: He's a law enforcer on the prowl for Elsie Crimson, a [[LovableRogue charming and honorable]] SpacePirate whom he considers to be the evilest villain in the cosmos. When he finds out that Shiki is an open friend of Elsie, he considers that to be grounds enough to kill him and imprison his friends, further justifying himself with Shiki's relationship to Ziggy, who has since performed a FaceHeelTurn. Even when Shiki begins to accomplish more against Ziggy than the government has, Justice refuses to see Shiki as anything other than an enemy. |
| 109 | * KissOfDistraction: In the Foresta arc, Elsie and Justice share a kiss just to use the opportunity to non-fatally stab each other at the same time, showing that any opportunity for romance between them is long gone. |
| 110 | * KnightTemplar: {{Downplayed}}. He takes offense to Shiki's criticism to the government's methods for carrying out the law, such as fully sanctioning the Oración Seis Interstellar to use lethal force on whomever they personally judge to be evildoers, whenever they see fit. In Justice's case, however, he doesn't exert this authority on anyone except for Elsie and those he suspects to be associated with her. Aside from that, his [[SympathyForTheDevil sympathy towards Guilst's population in the Chronophage attack]] shows that he's not a bad person, just one who's blinded by self-serving justice. |
| 111 | * MistakenForRomance: Due to his history with Elsie, Justice's colleagues tease him by comparing his pursuit of Elsie to something out of a love story. Every time they do, he responds by reasserting his desire to throw her in jail, if not outright kill her. |
| 112 | * ManlyTears: Although he is stern and humorless, and one of the universe's most powerful fighters, he cries openly over [[spoiler:the death of Creed in the Nero 66 arc, delivering a tearful speech over what a kind, young man who fought to change his home and the world for the better.]] |
| 113 | * NoBodyLeftBehind: [[spoiler:The Chronophage eats the planet Lendard's time with Justice in it, causing him to vanish from existence.]] |
| 114 | * NoKillLikeOverkill: In their first fight, Shiki barely has a chance to mount an offensive before Justice goes all out. Even when the poor guy can barely fight back, Justice decides to hit him with Grand Chariot, intending to utterly obliterate Shiki on the spot. Keep in mind, he's only doing this because Shiki is just an associate of Elsie, and Shiki is only fighting him due to Justice capturing Homura. |
| 115 | * NoSenseOfHumor: Victory's jokes about him secretly being in love with Elsie go straight over his head. |
| 116 | * NotSoStoic: He doesn't show much emotion unless Elsie is involved and he lets out his rage at her. |
| 117 | * OneManArmy: With his Grand Chariot, Justice is able to decimate dozens of ships at once in the Aoi War. |
| 118 | * TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou: Defeating and arresting Elsie is his sole goal in life, and he will ''not'' let anyone else kill her before he can do it himself, demonstrated when [[spoiler:he "saves" her from being killed by Ziggy in the Lendard arc, but keeps her cuffed in a warehouse to await proper judicial proceedings and execution]]. |
| 119 | * PowerDyesYourHair: His Star Drain changes his color from pure white to blue, making his status as a Sieg/Jellal {{Expy}} all the more apparent. |
| 120 | * PuppyLove: A flashback to his and Elsie's childhood in the Foresta arc shows Elsie teasing him by offering and then backing out of a kiss, since they were part of a BureaucraticallyArrangedMarriage and thus bound to do it sooner or later. [[spoiler:In their final moments on Lendard, James and Elsie are sent back to their childhood by the Chronophage, allowing them to relive this for a brief moment.]] |
| 121 | * RedBaron: He's known as the "Celestial Judge", referencing his [[StarPower Star]] [[EnergyAbsorption Drain]] Ether Gear and enforcement of his own justice. |
| 122 | * ReusedCharacterDesign: Justice is the second character created by Hiro Mashima to share the same design as Sieg Hart from ''Manga/RaveMaster'', following Jellal/Siegrain from ''Manga/FairyTail''--third if you count [[MirrorSelf Mystogan]] from the latter series. |
| 123 | * RevengeBeforeReason: While he's typically a good man whose heart bleeds over any senseless loss of life, all bets are off once Elsie enters the picture, changing him into a zealous InspectorJavert who will stop at nothing to see her dead for the injustices he and countless others have suffered at her hands, which comes at the expense of everyone else around him. |
| 124 | * ShoutOut: |
| 125 | ** Justice's Star Drain gives him several of the same techniques used by [[Manga/RaveMaster Sieg]] and [[Manga/FairyTail Jellal]] due to being an {{Expy}} of them both, namely [[SuperSpeed Meteor]] and [[DeathFromAbove Grand Chariot]]. It also throws some of Erza's skillset into the mix with their ability to summon weapons and change into different battle outfits at will. |
| 126 | ** His first [[CurbStompBattle fight]] with Shiki is reminiscent of [[Manga/FairyTail Jellal's battle with Natsu during the Tower of Heaven arc]], up and including using [[SuperSpeed Meteor]] to SpeedBlitz Shiki before attempting to finish him with [[DeathFromAbove Grand Chariot]], down to expressing surprise that Shiki is still in one piece, let alone still alive, afterward. |
| 127 | * SillyRabbitCynicismIsForLosers: He embodies this mindset in his conflict with Elsie, who embodies [[SillyRabbitIdealismIsForKids the opposite]]. Upon first discovering their nation's corruption as children, James's proposed solution was to wait until he came of age so he could reform the government himself, but Elsie--certain that time was of the essence and too much was at stake--denied his choice in favor of exposing the corruption immediately, resulting in the war that destroyed their home. When Elsie argues that the loss of their nation also prevented the loss of the Kaede Cosmos itself, he dismisses this as twisted logic and fires back that her subsequent [[FallenPrincess descent into piracy]] only proves that his sense of justice isn't as false as she says. |
| 128 | * SkewedPriorities: His one and only interest in the universe is capturing and/or killing Elsie Crimson and anyone who openly associates themselves with her; anything else, no matter how dire, is a non-issue to him. This is best illustrated in the Foresta arc, where he not only marks Shiki for death just because he's Elsie's friend, but also states that he couldn't care less about Ziggy or Poseidon Nero, whom he knows are responsible for the arc's conflict in one way or another. |
| 129 | * StarCrossedLovers: With Elsie. They were engaged when they were children and clearly liked each other, but Elsie's actions resulted in a war that destroyed their kingdoms. Justice blames Elsie for what happened and seeks to arrest her in revenge, but there's still a lingering attraction between them. [[spoiler:The two make amends in the Lendard arc, but think it's too late for them to restart their romance after wasting so many years as enemies. Instead, they rekindle their childhood romance for a few moments while their ages are being reversed by the Chronophage before being [[DeathByDeaging fully de-aged from existence]].]] |
| 130 | * StarPower: His Star Drain allows him to [[EnergyAbsorption absorb the Ether of planets]] and manipulate it however he wants, either forging battle gear or using it in the form of energy attacks. For bonus points, he says that Star Drain was compared to Heavenly Body Magic during the Dark Ages, a ShoutOut towards Jellal's brand of magic in ''Fairy Tail''. |
| 131 | * StellarName: His cross-bladed spear, Antares, is named after [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antares the brightest star in the Scorpius constellation]]. |
| 132 | * SuperSpeed: His Meteor technique lets him fly around at speeds faster than Shiki can react. It also allows him to perform a SpeedBlitz attack, Meteor Frenzy. |
| 133 | * SympathyForTheDevil: He feels this way about the Chronophage wiping out most of [[WretchedHive Guilst's]] population, considering it a tragedy regardless of how the majority of them were {{Asshole Victim}}s. |
| 134 | * ThatManIsDead: In the Lendard arc, [[spoiler:he declares that the man known as Justice no longer exists after realizing how badly his narrow-mindedness has skewered his sense of justice.]] |
| 135 | * TogetherInDeath: [[spoiler:After making peace with Elsie in the Lendard arc, the two remain together on Lendard to let the Chronophage erase them from existence, spending their final moments in each other's embrace.]] |
| 136 | * WeUsedToBeFriends: He and Elsie were on much better terms when they were younger and they even seemed to have some PuppyLove for each other. Since then, he feels nothing but hatred for Elsie and is willing to fight her to the death whenever they meet, all because Elsie caused the destruction of their kingdoms to save the Kaede Cosmos. |
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| 139 | [[folder:Jaguar]] |
| 140 | !!Captain Jaguar |
| 141 | !!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/AtsushiOno (Japanese), Creator/JasonMarnocha (English) |
| 142 | !!!'''Ether Gear:''' [[OurWerebeastsAreDifferent Unnamed Jaguar Trasformation Ether Gear]] |
| 143 | [[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ez_jaguar_anime_0.png]] |
| 144 | [[caption-width-right:250:[[labelnote:Click here to see Jaguar's Ether Gear transformation]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ez_jaguar_beast_form.png[[/labelnote]]]] |
| 145 | ->''"Long have I awaited this day... The day The Temple's defenses would be weak... The day... I hunt down Poseidon Nero."'' |
| 146 | |
| 147 | Justice's superior officer, and a former member of the Oración Seis Galáctica, feared for his unmatched brutality in combat. His Ether Gear transforms him into a ferocious jaguar-like beast. |
| 148 | ---- |
| 149 | * AmbiguouslyHuman: His NonStandardCharacterDesign and HellishPupils, as well as the spots around his eyes following his debut appearance, make him look vaguely alien. |
| 150 | * AnimeHair: His hair is shaped like a blazing flame. |
| 151 | * BoomHeadshot: [[spoiler:In Universe 2 and 3, he dies after Nero pierces him through the head with his Empire Dice.]] |
| 152 | * TheCaptain: Jaguar holds the rank of captain over Justice outside the Oración Seis Interstellar, and is one of the most powerful and capable warriors in the army; due to an official translation inconsistency, he's instead made into a ColonelBadass at one point.[[note]]The military rank used in Japanese is ''taisa'', which is equivalent to captain in the Navy and colonel in the Army.[[/note]] |
| 153 | * CoatCape: He wears one over his military uniform, which he [[TheCoatsAreOff throws off]] before using his Ether Gear. |
| 154 | * CurbStompBattle: [[spoiler:Jaguar demolishes Fabiano while raiding Nero's palace, despite Fabiano's standing as Nero's most powerful soldier. He also does this to Brigandine and Killer when they attempt to ambush him.]] |
| 155 | * DeadAlternateCounterpart: [[spoiler:Universe 2's Jaguar is killed by Nero in the Nero 66 arc, which carries over to Universe 3's Jaguar.]] |
| 156 | * DroppedABridgeOnHim: After being built up as a foremost officer in the army, defeating three of Ziggy and Nero's most powerful minions combined, and getting a bit of extra characterization as an ex-member of the very faction he fights against, [[spoiler:Jaguar gets a SurprisinglySuddenDeath at the hands of Nero right as his battle with Ziggy goes underway, as Nero proves himself a NoNonsenseNemesis against such an accomplished warrior.]] |
| 157 | * EarlyInstallmentCharacterDesignDifference: For his first manga appearance, his face lacks the jaguar-like spots he has around his eyes from his second appearance onward. The anime forgoes this early design entirely, giving him his updated look from the start. |
| 158 | * ForgottenFallenFriend: [[spoiler:While his teammates mourn his death, Justice is more affected by the cold-blooded murder of his subordinate Creed than the loss of his superior officer. Holy also doesn't bring up Jaguar's name when calling out Cure for creating the evil that affects their comrades in the army.]] |
| 159 | * GoodIsNotSoft: Jaguar beats out the rest of the Interstellar Union Army in terms of sheer brutality against his enemies, ripping through swaths of Nero's forces like a hot knife through butter. Mind you, the series establishes that evil empire or not, [[PunchClockVillain its soldiers are folks with ordinary lives outside their military duties]]. |
| 160 | * LightningBruiser: He is as strong as he is fast in his jaguar form, and it takes Ziggy, a GravityMaster, to stop him in his tracks. |
| 161 | * MagicPants: His clothes change along with him when he transforms into his namesake beast with his Ether Gear. [[spoiler:They revert back to normal after Jaguar is killed.]] |
| 162 | * MeaningfulName: He's codenamed "Jaguar" because he can transform into a jaguar-like beast on the fly. |
| 163 | * MookHorrorShow: His assault on the Temple plays out like this, with the mutiladed and dismembered bodies of imperial soldiers raining down around him like broken action figures as he tears through them mercilessly. This gets {{lampshaded}} by one terrified soldier who wonders if he's in a slasher flick. |
| 164 | * MysteriousPast: Apart from the mention that he was once a member of the Galáctica, nothing is revealed of why he reformed and joined the Interstellar Union Army, or why he wants to kill Nero so badly. [[spoiler:With TheReveal that Cure was involved in some of the Galáctica's origins, it's unknown if he was an UnwittingPawn like Nero and Drakken, or if he rose to infamy on his own like Ziggy and Acnoella.]] |
| 165 | * OneManArmy: He demonstrates this when he busts into Nero's palace, which has an entire army of imperial troops guarding the place, and proceeds to brutally claw his way through Nero's troops while single-handedly dispatching [[spoiler:Fabiano, Brigandine, and Killer]]. |
| 166 | * OurWerebeastsAreDifferent: He can shift into a bipedal jaguar form on the fly thanks to his Ether Gear. |
| 167 | * PerpetualFrowner: He's always shown frowning, giving him a fierce and commanding appearance. |
| 168 | * RedBaron: He's called the "Beast Lord", referencing his power to [[OurWerebeastsAreDifferent transform into a jaguar]]. |
| 169 | * ReformedCriminal: Jaguar was a member of the Oración Seis Galáctica, described as a man beyond anyone's control, before he joined the Interstellar Union Army, rose to the rank of captain, and joined the team devised to destroy the Galáctica. |
| 170 | * TheStoic: Something he shares in common with his subordinate Justice is his firm facial expression. |
| 171 | * ThereWasADoor: Jaguar does this when he personally invaded Nero's palace, shocking Fabiano and his troops of his entrance. |
| 172 | * ThisWasHisTrueForm: [[spoiler:When Jaguar is killed by Nero's surprise attack, he reverts back to human form with his head being pierced through by the Emperor's dice.]] |
| 173 | * TooPowerfulToLive: Jaguar is acknowledged by Nero as a warrior on equal footing to himself and Ziggy, being an ex-Galáctica member and making short work of Nero and Ziggy's most powerful minions. [[spoiler:It's for this exact reason that Nero kills Jaguar as soon as Ziggy immobilizes him, deeming his competence to be a threat.]] |
| 174 | * WipeTheFloorWithYou: [[spoiler:He puts Fabiano through an especially brutal version of this, thrusting his claw straight through the man's chest and dragging him through the floor so hard that it shatters the tiles.]] |
| 175 | * WorldsStrongestMan: According to Brigandine, Jaguar is the strongest member of the Oración Seis Interstellar, who themselves stand on par with the Galáctica, six of the strongest outlaws. This makes sense considering he used to be one of the Galáctica himself. |
| 176 | * WorthyOpponent: He has the [[VillainRespect respect]] of Nero, who praises his abilities and chastises Ziggy for underestimating him. [[spoiler:This doesn't stop Nero from [[CombatPragmatist killing Jaguar off]] the very first chance he gets, though.]] |
| 177 | [[/folder]] |
| 178 | |
| 179 | [[folder:Holy]] |
| 180 | !!Holy |
| 181 | !!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/AyaEndo (Japanese)[[labelnote: Foreign [=VAs=]]]Creator/LilianaBarba (Latin American Spanish), Garance Thenault (French)[[/labelnote]] |
| 182 | !!!'''Ether Gear:''' [[ImMelting Melt]] |
| 183 | [[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ez_holy_6.png]] |
| 184 | ->''"I wonder if my spell is working its magic yet. Let all the filth just melt away..."'' |
| 185 | |
| 186 | The stunning yet treacherous commanding officer of the battleship ''Midnight''. She harbors a personal vendetta against Deadend Crow, the android who robbed her of her little sister and her dignity in a mass murder known as the Bloody Atmos Day Incident. |
| 187 | :: |
| 188 | Holy's Ether Gear, "Melt", grants her the deadly power to dissolve anyone and anything she chooses. |
| 189 | ---- |
| 190 | * AntiClimax: Her "immaculate military operation" for arresting Shiki, which she'd planned to do after defeating Crow. [[spoiler:Not only does she call it off with zero fanfare after the crew's kindness makes her lose her nerve, but as she tells Shiro and Ibuki, the whole strategy from the start was to just [[DistractedByTheSexy seduce Shiki with her body]].]] |
| 191 | * BathingBeauty: She gets three bath/shower scenes within the span of five chapters, and they're all played for {{Fanservice}}. |
| 192 | * BecomingTheMask: [[spoiler:{{Downplayed}}. She becomes a tentative crew member aboard the ''Edens Zero'' so she can arrest them once Crow is taken care of, but the crew's unconditional hospitality and support slowly warm Holy into aborting her plans. However, she doesn't stick around to join the crew for good, opting to return to the Interstellar Union Army once their partnership is complete.]] |
| 193 | * BitchInSheepsClothing: She puts on a motherly and kind facade when interacting with the ''Edens Zero'' crew to win them over, but she really sees them as pawns to get revenge against Crow, and plots to betray them all. |
| 194 | * BrokenBird: On the surface, she's a cool and collected FemmeFatale with a bit of a playful streak, but beneath it all, she struggles with the loss of her sister, Sara, and a personal humiliation she suffered thanks to Deadend Crow, warping her into a vengeful and ruthless woman. |
| 195 | * BroughtDownToNormal: Her Ether Gear is momentarily blocked by Deadend Crow's Ether jammer when inside his body, allowing her to have a more personal confrontation with her nemesis. |
| 196 | * BuxomBeautyStandard: She's very busty, which is noted by her admirers when they're gawking at her swimwear. |
| 197 | * TheCaptain: She's the commander of the ''Midnight'', a commando carrier in the Interstellar Union Army. |
| 198 | * CrazyPrepared: Despite her shock and distress over God Acnoella's involvement with Ziggy, Holy was still prepared enough to have her fleet equipped with anti-dragon weaponry for just such an occasion. |
| 199 | * CurtainsMatchTheWindow: Her purple eyes match the color of her hair. |
| 200 | * DarkAndTroubledPast: [[spoiler:Holy herself is a survivor of the Bloody Atmos Day Incident, where Deadend Crow not only killed her little sister among the one million human casualties, but also strung Holy herself up naked in public for ten days, grossly humiliating her.]] |
| 201 | * DavidVersusGoliath: Her battle against Crow, a 420-meter-tall colossus of an android; even the [[HumongousMecha Steel Sorceres 94]] she pilots to fight him is barely any larger than his navel. |
| 202 | * DeathGlare: She shoots one towards Deadend Crow when she finds him on Lendard, becoming her default expression whenever he's around. |
| 203 | * DefiantToTheEnd: When confronting Deadend Crow's avatar inside his own body, Holy is helpless due to her Ether Gear being jammed, yet she still has the defiance to try and punch him. |
| 204 | * DidntSeeThatComing: |
| 205 | ** Like the rest of the ''Edens Zero'' crew and their allies, despite providing intel on Ziggy and Deadend Crow's alliance on Lendard, Holy has a look of shock and panic when discovering that God Acnoella has teamed up with Ziggy as well. |
| 206 | ** When Holy finds Cure inside the chamber with Crow's power source, her first thought is that he's come to give her backup. [[spoiler:She's blindsided when he shoots her in the abdomen and reveals himself as that power source, and that he and Crow are more or less the same person.]] |
| 207 | * EnemyMine: Being an army officer makes her an enemy of the ''Edens Zero'' crew by default, but she teams up with them as a GuestStarPartyMember to take down Ziggy, since he teamed up with her ArchEnemy, Crow. |
| 208 | * EtTuBrute: She's both horrified and incensed when she is shot and betrayed by [[spoiler:Cure, who reveals himself to be not just responsible for Crow's existence and the Bloody Atmos Day Incident, but an all-around psychopath who brushes off the deaths his actions have caused.]] |
| 209 | * FanDisservice: Though it happened off-screen, [[spoiler:Crow's description of stripping her naked, hanging her up in public, and leaving her to [[PottyFailure defecate herself]] paints an uncomfortably disgusting image.]] |
| 210 | * TheFashionista: The outfits she wears are luxurious and exotic, and she seems genuinely excited when trying out new outfits in the ''Edens Zero''[='=]s Dress Factory. |
| 211 | * FeminineWomenCanCook: She enjoys cooking by her own admission, and prepares an exquisite meal for Shiki and his friends while proposing their alliance on Dahlia. |
| 212 | * FemmeFatale: She's an alluringly beautiful woman who smooth-talks her way into an alliance in the ''Edens Zero'' crew while also plotting to betray them once they've served their purpose to her. |
| 213 | * TheGadfly: She enjoys teasing Justice about his obsession with his "ex-girlfriend" Elsie, alluding to their arranged marriage that went to hell. |
| 214 | * GallowsHumor: She's shown to have a pretty twisted sense of humor, seeing as her response to Eraser mentioning all the lives lost during the battle on Nero 66 is to jokingly ask if he meant [[{{Pun}} "erased"]]. |
| 215 | * GuestStarPartyMember: She works alongside the ''Edens Zero'' as an honorary crew member in the Lendard arc, effectively filling in for [[spoiler:Witch, who previously died in the Aoi Cosmos]]. |
| 216 | * HeadTurningBeauty: She's incredibly attractive and has pretty much every guy in Dahlia gawking at her when she walks through the resort. She gets a similar reaction from most of the Edens Zero crew. |
| 217 | * HidingBehindYourBangs: Her hair covers her left eye, befitting her mysterious and sinister nature. |
| 218 | * HypocriticalHumor: Complains about to Hermit about the ''Edens Zero''[='=]s pilot suit having a CleavageWindow, to which Hermit retorts that pretty much all of Holy's outfits expose her even more with their NavelDeepNeckline. |
| 219 | * ImMelting: Her "[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Melt]]" Ether Gear produces this effect, turning people into gooey piles of sludge and reducing otherwise indestructible metal to molten slag. |
| 220 | * ItsPersonal: Holy says right off the bat that someone she knew was caught in the Bloody Atmos Day Incident, giving her a deeply personal reason to team up with the ''Edens Zero'' crew so she can fight Crow face-to-face. [[spoiler:It quickly turns personal with her teammate Cure as well when he reveals his compliance in this.]] |
| 221 | * LaserGuidedKarma: She spends the majority of the Lendard arc plotting to betray the ''Edens Zero'' crew while working alongside them against Deadend Crow. [[spoiler:In the end, she's the one who gets stabbed in the back by Cure, one of her own teammates from the army.]] |
| 222 | * MsFanservice: She's a FemmeFatale who's always dressed to leave as little to the imagination as possible, assuming she's dressed at all in certain scenes, and is regarded by colleagues and strangers alike to be one of the most attractive women in-universe. |
| 223 | * NavelDeepNeckline: Her ordinary dress exposes a good portion of her upper chest; her swimsuit takes it further down to her waist. |
| 224 | * TheNicknamer: She gives the same pet names ("my dear/precious/etc.") and honorifics (mainly ''-kun'' for boys and ''-chan'' for girls) to many of her allies and enemies; special mention goes to "Little Drakky" (''Dra-chan'') for Drakken Joe. Tellingly, she doesn't do this for Ziggy or Crow. |
| 225 | * NoMrBondIExpectYouToDine: She invites Shiki and his companions to a poolside lunch in her resort suite to negotiate an EnemyMine against Ziggy and Deadend Crow. |
| 226 | * PayEvilUntoEvil: She melts a group of men behind the ''Edens Zero'' crew's back for threatening and sexually harassing other parkgoers on Dahlia. While this demonstrates Holy's two-faced nature, they're still {{Asshole Victim}}s for planning to do [[AttemptedRape something far worse]] to Rebecca. |
| 227 | * PottyFailure: PlayedForDrama. According to Crow, people complained about the smell of Holy's dung when [[spoiler:he had her crucified in public; the utter humiliation this brought Holy only intensified her murderous hatred of Crow.]] |
| 228 | * ThePowerOfHate: {{Implied}} to be the reason how [[spoiler:she withstood being crucified by Deadend Crow without food or water for ten days straight, leaving her the SoleSurvivor among countless other women and girls who were put through the same torture, as she's shown wearing a hateful yet determined expression over Crow stealing her sister and dignity.]] |
| 229 | * {{Revenge}}: She has a personal vendetta against Deadend Crow for the Bloody Atmos Day Incident, where [[spoiler:he killed her younger sister and strung Holy herself up naked in public to humiliate her.]] |
| 230 | * RevengeIsSweet: [[spoiler:Although Holy doesn't get to land the killing blow, she gives a satisfied and peaceful smile after watching the ''Edens Zero'' crew annihilate Deadend Crow and Cure through her, Eraser and Feather's efforts, declaring her battle to avenge Sara to be over at last.]] |
| 231 | * ShamefulStrip: She suffered this when she was younger [[spoiler:on Bloody Atmos Day, when Crow stripped her and all the other female survivors naked and hung them up in the town square for ten days for his own amusement.]] |
| 232 | * ShamelessFanserviceGirl: She's perfectly aware of her own beauty, and flaunts herself at every opportunity so she can take advantage of others. [[spoiler:Her strategy for capturing Shiki also would've involved seducing him with her body, and she playfully fondles her own breasts while describing it to her subordinates.]] |
| 233 | * ShutUpHannibal: [[spoiler:When Cure waxes poetic on how he's [[AboveGoodAndEvil both good and evil]] when justifying the deaths of Sara and a million others, Holy furiously punches him [[PunchedAcrossTheRoom across the room]] and declares he's ''only'' evil, and therefore has no right to consider himself part of the Oración Seis Interstellar.]] |
| 234 | * SlasherSmile: She displays one when she sees Deadend Crow with her own eyes on Lendard, showing her delight at the thought of revenge. |
| 235 | * SignatureHeadgear: She always wears a headdress shaped like horns, which she wears even while bathing or piloting a Knight Gear. |
| 236 | * SmugSmiler: She frequently has a smug or impish smile on her face. It turns into a SlasherSmile when she gets ''really'' serious. |
| 237 | * SoleSurvivor: [[spoiler:She was the only survivor of Deadend Crow's massacre on Bloody Atmos Day, [[ShamefulStrip stripped naked]] and hung up in the town square for ten days to rot. There were other women who survived the initial slaughter and wound up right next to her, but they all starved to death or succumbed to their injuries.]] |
| 238 | * SultryBangs: Holy's long hair is often covering her left eye, giving her a sultry appearance that complements her [[FemmeFatale seductive]] and [[TheTease flirtatious nature]]. |
| 239 | * SupremeChef: She's an excellent cook, which helps in [[ThroughHisStomach easing Shiki's crew into working with her]]. |
| 240 | * TheTease: She enjoys being flirtatious and teasing men such as Justice or Weisz. |
| 241 | * TeethClenchedTeamwork: The alliance between Holy and the ''Edens Zero'' crew in the Lendard arc is a mostly tense affair, with most of the crew openly voicing their distrust of her, only treating her as one of their own because of Shiki orders. [[spoiler:However, their partnership ends on peaceful terms after they go the extra mile to help her work through her past trauma despite their apprehension of her.]] |
| 242 | * TraitorShot: When she [[EnemyMine teams up with Shiki's crew]], there are several [[{{Mouthscreen}} close-up shots of her giving a coy or sinister smile]], making it obvious she's planning to betray them. |
| 243 | * WomanOfWealthAndTaste: She seems to have a taste for luxury and refined things, shown when she contacts Justice from a luxury bar during the Foresta arc, and owning a fancy private rooftop suite in Dahlia. |
| 244 | * WorthyOpponent: She has this view of Shiki after [[spoiler:he is branded as one of the Oración Seis Galáctica, admitting that while she didn't support the decision, she never opposed it, either, which is her way of acknowledging his strength.]] |
| 245 | * YouAreAlreadyDead: Her Ether Gear comes with a delayed effect that causes her victims to [[ImMelting melt]] after a certain period of time. |
| 246 | * YouAreNotReady: [[spoiler:After grievously wounding Holy, Cure admits that he fully intends for her to be the one to someday destroy Deadend Crow since she's taken up the role of his ArchEnemy, but adds that it's not yet that time. Holy and the ''Edens Zero'' crew take exception to that and prove him wrong.]] |
| 247 | * YouKilledMyFather: She seeks {{revenge}} on Deadend Crow for killing her little sister, Sara, during Bloody Atmos Day. [[spoiler:Her revenge also turns to include Cure when he reveals his part in this.]] |
| 248 | [[/folder]] |
| 249 | |
| 250 | [[folder:Eraser]] |
| 251 | !!Eraser |
| 252 | !!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/MasayaMatsukaze (Japanese) |
| 253 | !!!'''Ether Gear:''' [[PowerOfTheVoid Unnamed Erasing Ether Gear]] |
| 254 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ez_eraser.png]] |
| 255 | ->''"I will erase everything that stands in my way. There's far too much dust on this canvas."'' |
| 256 | |
| 257 | An easygoing officer in charge of the commando carrier ''Hot Eyes''. His Ether Gear allows him to erase things from existence with a mere stroke of his hand, ranging from people to entire fleets. |
| 258 | ---- |
| 259 | * AmbiguouslyHuman: He looks human, but he can safely go out into the vacuum of space without any sort of protection, whereas other characters cannot, making it unclear how human he is. |
| 260 | * AwesomeButImpractical: His [[PowerOfTheVoid Ether Gear]] is remarkably powerful, letting him wipe out an entire fleet of three-thousand ships with a wave of his hand. On the other hand, it also has long Ether-charging periods in between uses, and there's a limit to the size of what he can erase before he runs out of Ether, preventing him from using it as often as he wants. |
| 261 | * BadassCape: His bodysuit comes with one, giving him a striking appearance when he's in action. |
| 262 | * BigDamnHeroes: In the Lendard arc, he arrives in time to [[spoiler:prevent Cure/Crow from sealing the hole in the giant android's body made by Holy, allowing the ''Edens Zero'' crew an unimpeded shot to his core.]] |
| 263 | * BridalCarry: He carries an unconscious Homura to her crewmates this way in the Lendard arc to help her before [[spoiler:the planet is consumed by the Chronophage]]. |
| 264 | * BrutalHonesty: He tactlessly calls himself and the rest of his team "stupid" like Feather when trying to alleviate her guilt for [[spoiler:never keeping tabs on Cure, who turned out to be powering Deadend Crow from the inside for the past thirteen years]]. |
| 265 | * BunnyEarsLawyer: Eraser's somewhat immature for a man of his position, bragging to Justice about getting to Nero 66 before him and denying his orders to wait on standby until he and Jaguar get there, but he does take his job very seriously in spite of this. |
| 266 | * TheCaptain: He's the commander of the ''Hot Eyes'', a commando carrier in the Interstellar Union Army. |
| 267 | * EnemyMine: In the Lendard arc, he and Feather make a surprise team-up with the ''Edens Zero'' crew to help them take down [[spoiler:the fused Deadend Crow and Cure]]. |
| 268 | * ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: He's codenamed "Eraser", and he has the power to [[PowerOfTheVoid erase things]]. |
| 269 | * FacialMarkings: He has Ether lines around his left eye and forehead. |
| 270 | * AFatherToHisMen: He drops his smile to briefly mourn the men who were killed during his squadron's assault on Nero 66 while he was charging up the Ether necessary to use his power. |
| 271 | * {{Foil}}: To his teammates Justice and Feather, who are both TheStoic and often hostile towards their enemies, while Eraser is a PerpetualSmiler who's more easy-going and personable. He's also shown to be more willing to listen to enemies within reason than Justice, and is stated to be more chatty during Prayer Councils than the more quiet Feather. |
| 272 | * FormFittingWardrobe: He wears a perfectly toned spandex bodysuit that'd make him look stark naked if not for the lack of genitalia. |
| 273 | * KnowWhenToFoldEm: |
| 274 | ** In the Nero 66 arc, he immediately orders all his troops to evacuate when [[spoiler:Hermit warns that 20,000 imperial antimatter bombs are about to detonate and wipe out Nero 66 along with the entire sector]]. |
| 275 | ** In the Lendard arc, he returns Homura to the ''Edens Zero'' crew and leaves without a fuss on account of [[spoiler:the Chronophage making its way towards Lendard]]. |
| 276 | * LongHairedPrettyBoy: He's a PrettyBoy like Justice, with long, black locks to set him apart. |
| 277 | * MakesUsEven: [[spoiler:He declares this in the Lendard arc after safely delivering an unconscious Homura to her crew after she saves Justice's life in the battle against God Acnoella, reminding the crew that they're still enemies despite this.]] |
| 278 | * MellowFellow: He usually acts laid-back and relaxed, even in the heat of battle, and never loses his cool when something goes wrong. |
| 279 | * NecessaryDrawback: His erasing Ether Gear has two that prevent it from being a full-on StoryBreakerPower: one is that it takes long periods of time to charge the necessary [[MagicByAnyOtherName Ether]] to use it; the other is that targets of greater size or mass take more Ether out of him to erase. |
| 280 | * OOCIsSeriousBusiness: At the end of the Nero 66 arc, Holy notes that Eraser is oddly quiet whereas Feather is speaking up, which is typically the other way around for them. Eraser says it's because he's still reeling from all the lives lost in the war. |
| 281 | * OneManArmy: He demonstrates this in the Nero 66 arc by erasing a sizeable portion of Nero's imperial fleet in a matter of moments with his Ether Gear. |
| 282 | * PerpetualSmiler: His lazy smirk is present in nearly every scene he's in. The few times he doesn't smile are when he sees his own men and civilians getting killed. |
| 283 | * PowerDyesYourHair: His black hair changes to stark white when his Ether Gear is active. |
| 284 | * PowerOfTheVoid: His Ether Gear allows him to erase anything in his line of sight with a blinding streak of light simply by waving a hand over his target. |
| 285 | * RedBaron: "White Flash", referencing the visual effect of his [[PowerOfTheVoid Ether Gear]] activating. |
| 286 | * ReasonableAuthorityFigure: He proves himself on multiple accounts to be one of the most reasonable members of his team, such as when he accepts the rebel army Oasis's help against the Nero Empire despite Oasis's status as a civilian organization, and listening without a moment's hesitation when the ''Edens Zero'' crew warns the army of impending disaster. |
| 287 | * SympatheticInspectorAntagonist: Being an officer of the Interstellar Union Army automatically makes him an enemy to the ''Edens Zero'' crew, but he readily sets all hostilities aside to cooperate when the situation demands it, and he mourns when his men or any civilians die under his watch. He also acknowledges that some of the Oración Seis Galáctica like Elsie are less dangerous and malevolent than others, targeting them more for their unchecked power than anything else. |
| 288 | [[/folder]] |
| 289 | |
| 290 | [[folder:Feather]] |
| 291 | !!Feather |
| 292 | !!!'''Ether Gear:''' [[MagicalEye Eye of Venus]] |
| 293 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ez_feather.png]] |
| 294 | ->''"My fleet has your ship surrounded. You will not be able to leave this planet."'' |
| 295 | |
| 296 | An officer who only speaks whenever the need for it arises. She commands a fleet of ''Racer''-class warships, which are regarded as the fastest vessels in the entire army. |
| 297 | :: |
| 298 | Her Ether Gear is the "Eye of Venus", and much like Noah's Eye of God, it allows her to observe any living person's position in the universe. |
| 299 | ---- |
| 300 | * AcePilot: Thanks to her [[CombatClairvoyance Eye of Venus]], she's an incredibly good starfighter pilot who can easily navigate through an asteroid field while still dodging attacks. |
| 301 | * AloofAlly: She takes no interest in her teammates' affairs, not helped by how their work typically doesn't require them to meet outside their online Prayer Councils. [[spoiler:She comes to deeply regret this attitude when she realizes her power could have helped expose her teammate Cure as Deadend Crow thirteen years earlier had she simply bothered to keep tabs on him.]] |
| 302 | * BigDamnHeroes: In the Lendard arc, she comes to the ''Edens Zero'' crew's rescue with Eraser in tow to [[spoiler:help them defeat the fused Cure and Deadend Crow by providing Hermit with the targeting solution to ensure maximum damage]]. |
| 303 | * TheCaptain: She's the commander of the ''Racer'', a commando carrier in the Interstellar Union Army. |
| 304 | * CharacterizationMarchesOn: She's portrayed as TheQuietOne in her debut appearance, and her first lines of dialog in her second appearance are treated as [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness out of character]] for her. In every scene she's in after that, she's just as talkative as any other character. |
| 305 | * CombatClairvoyance: Her Eye of Venus is able to predict her enemy's movements on top of tracking their general location. |
| 306 | * CurbStompBattle: {{Downplayed}}. Feather herself doesn't get defeated during her ill-fated battle with the ''Edens Zero'' crew, but her army gets beaten pretty handily and Shiki manages to incapacitate with her gravity before she gets a chance to react. |
| 307 | * EmotionlessGirl: She has a serene and neutral facial expression that almost never changes. |
| 308 | * EnemyMine: In the Lendard arc, she and Eraser make a surprise team-up with the ''Edens Zero'' crew to help them take down [[spoiler:the fused Deadend Crow and Cure]]. |
| 309 | * ExoticEyeDesigns: Her pupils resemble four small diamonds forming a larger diamond. |
| 310 | * EyesAlwaysShut: She usually keeps her eyes closed unless she's using her [[MagicalEye Eye of Venus]]. |
| 311 | * FeatherMotif: Befitting her name, there are a number of feathery symbols on her uniform, and her starfighter has a pair of feathered wings. |
| 312 | * {{Foil}}: She serves as one for Eraser, whom she's paired with for a good portion of the Lendard arc. Both are among the Oración Seis Interstellar's nobler officers, but Feather is emotionally distant and tends to keep to herself during most Prayer Councils, contrasting Eraser's more relaxed and talkative personality. |
| 313 | * FormFittingWardrobe: She wears a bodysuit that emphasizes her large breasts. |
| 314 | * GoodIsNotNice: She is firmly on the side of good and justice, but she's also stern, aloof, and as dedicated to arresting the ''Edens Zero'' crew as she is with any criminal. This does not prevent her from [[EnemyMine assisting her enemies]] when the need arises, though. |
| 315 | * ICantSenseTheirPresence: During the Lendard arc, she realizes she's unable to detect any presences on Lendard's surface while also finding Cure's ship conspicuously empty. This leads to her discovery that [[spoiler:Cure has secretly been inside Deadend Crow's body for thirteen years, and was sending out a signal that was interfering with her Ether Gear to keep her from finding him.]] |
| 316 | * IndifferentBeauty: Her beauty is remarked on by the nearby bystanders, but she ignores them. |
| 317 | * ItsAllMyFault: She blames herself and her lack of interest in her friends for the team's failure to realize that [[spoiler:Cure was inside Deadend Crow and behind his attacks for all of thirteen years, despite Cure camoflauging his location from her Ether Gear to ensure she could never find him in the first place.]] |
| 318 | * LogicalWeakness: Her Eye of Venus allows her to predict her enemies' moves, but this advantage it be rendered moot if said enemies move too fast for her to react properly. |
| 319 | * MagicalEye: Her Ether Gear, appropriately named the "Eye of Venus", lets her observe the exact position of every person in the world through her pair of eyes, which is covered in Ether lines shaped like diamonds. |
| 320 | * OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Feather is known among her team to be TheQuietOne during their councils, so they're surprised when Feather speaks up after the Nero 66 arc to discuss the threat of the other Oración Seis Galáctica members after [[spoiler:the death of Poseidon Nero]]. |
| 321 | * OhCrap: She has a minor one when Shiki manages to approach her without her noticing, noting that he isn't where the Eye of Venus said he'd be, and that such a large discrepancy has never occurred before. |
| 322 | * TheQuietOne: Her introduction has her completely silent. According to Holy, it's rare for her to speak during meetings. |
| 323 | * SignatureHeadgear: She wears a feather-patterned facial plate that covers the edges of her face. |
| 324 | * SuperEmpowering: She has a technique known as Ether Connect that allows her to temporarily share her Ether Gear with her troops. |
| 325 | * SympatheticInspectorAntagonist: To a lesser extent than Eraser. She's generally a cold person and one of the more antagonistic officers towards Shiki and Elsie, but she also acknowledges that they're hardly as evil as most of the Oración Seis Galáctica, and willingly intervenes to aid the ''Edens Zero'' crew in the Lendard arc when the need arises. |
| 326 | * UnderestimatingBadassery: When Feather confronts the crew on Blue Garden, she comes equipped with a small army whom she's shared her power with. Despite all that, she's completely blindsided by how strong Shiki and his friends are, allowing them to kick her men to the curb and escape completely unscathed. |
| 327 | * WouldNotShootACivilian: Feather and her men strictly order not to open fire on any civilians when trying to apprehend enemies of the law. When she does give the order to fire on Shiki on Blue Garden, it's only after assessing the situation with her Ether Gear, assuring her men that no innocents will be in harm's way. |
| 328 | [[/folder]] |
| 329 | |
| 330 | [[folder:Cure ('''Unmarked Spoilers''')]] |
| 331 | !!Cure |
| 332 | !!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/SeiichiroYamashita (Japanese) |
| 333 | !!!'''Ability:''' [[HealingFactor Regeneration]] |
| 334 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ez_cure.png]] |
| 335 | ->''"The universe needs good and evil. And I '''am''' good and evil."'' |
| 336 | |
| 337 | The ''Brain Dust''[='=]s commanding officer, an android with the power of regeneration. Unknown to his comrades, he is the mastermind behind several of the Oración Seis Galáctica--most notably Deadend Crow--who maintains a twisted balance of "light" and "darkness" in the cosmos. |
| 338 | ---- |
| 339 | * AboveGoodAndEvil: {{Downplayed}}; he claims to be both good and evil to morally justify creating villains for heroes to someday fight. [[ShutUpHannibal Holy simply calls him nothing but evil]]. |
| 340 | * AchillesHeel: [[spoiler:Just like Deadend Crow, Cure is powered by a vital core hidden inside his navel, which Jinn [[AttackItsWeakPoint targets]] to bypass his HealingFactor in Universe Zero.]] |
| 341 | * AssholeVictim: Once it comes to light what a murderous, manipulative, self-righteous piece of trash he is, none of his teammates mourn for him when they help the ''Edens Zero'' blast him to smithereens. |
| 342 | * BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler:The CosmicRetcon undoes Cure's death in the Lendard arc, bringing him back as one of the final villains working for the BigBad.]] |
| 343 | * BeneathSuspicion: Since the Oración Seis Interstellar almost never interact in person or take interest in each other's business, no one on the team ever suspects Cure's involvement with any of the Galáctica until after Holy chances upon him inside Crow's power chamber. It's partially because of this that he gets away with staying hidden inside Crow's body for thirteen years, albeit with some {{Hand Wave}}d precautions against being found. |
| 344 | * BeyondRedemption: [[spoiler:Cure is one of the few villains to remain an irredeemable monster in Universe Zero, where most other villains are changed for the better thanks to the CosmicRetcon making key improvements in their lives]], evidenced by how he's embraced being purely evil while deluding himself into thinking he's a FallenHero. |
| 345 | * BigBadEnsemble: Being TheManBehindTheMan to three of the Oración Seis Galáctica--Drakken Joe, Poseidon Nero, and Deadend Crow--makes Cure one of the secret overarching antagonists of the series, though he amounts to little more than a BigBadWannabe. |
| 346 | * BigBadWannabe: As the true mastermind behind the major villains Drakken, Nero, and Crow--the last of whom is outwardly part of the Lendard arc's BigBadDuumvirate--Cure seems poised to be one of the series's biggest and most influential threats. However, the scope of his plans is nowhere close to the real BigBad's [[TheMultiverse multiversal]] threat, and he's destroyed by a team of supporting characters in far shorter order than any of the villains he created. |
| 347 | * CardCarryingVillain: |
| 348 | ** ZigZagged. He's aware that he's a villain and considers his actions to be NecessarilyEvil, but [[KnightTemplar he's convinced that he's also a hero]] because good has no purpose without evil in the universe. Holy counters that he's just insane. |
| 349 | ** As shown in the final arc, [[spoiler:Universe Zero's version of Cure is a member of the Oración Seis Galáctica who fully embraces his role as a great evil plaguing the cosmos, forgoing whatever nuanced morality he claims to have had.]] |
| 350 | * TheCaptain: He serves this role for the commando carrier ''Brain Dust'', which he actually controls remotely to avoid giving away his true location within Deadend Crow. |
| 351 | * TheCorrupter: Cure was able to turn Drakken and Nero into two of the most notorious villains in the cosmos simply by giving them access to their power and leaving them to their own devices, which led them to corrupt themselves. |
| 352 | * CreateYourOwnHero: {{Invoked}}. By nudging potential villains down the path of evil, he knowingly ensures that equally powerful forces of good will rise to stop them. This backfires on him with Holy (ArchEnemy to Cure's ultimate creation, Crow) and the ''Edens Zero'' crew (all affected in some way by Drakken and/or Nero), who play instrumental roles in Cure's downfall. |
| 353 | * CreateYourOwnVillain: {{Invoked}}. He's deliberately given villains such as Drakken, Nero, and Crow their power and let them grow into cosmic threats so [[EngineeredHeroics he or his fellow army officers can protect the universe from them]]. |
| 354 | * DeadAlternateCounterpart: Universe 3's version of Cure gets killed in the Lendard arc by the ''Edens Zero'' crew once Holy ousts him as a villain. |
| 355 | * DemotedToDragon: [[spoiler:The CosmicRetcon moves Cure down from an independent BigBadWannabe to one of the Oración Seis Galáctica in Universe Zero, where they all directly serve the BigBad.]] |
| 356 | * EngineeredHeroics: Due to his belief that GoodNeedsEvil, he creates powerful villains--either by his own hand like Crow, supplying them with their power like Drakken and Nero, or simply giving them bad names like Elsie and Nox--and lets them run rampant until a hero rises and joins the army to destroy them, with the rest of his team none the wiser. |
| 357 | * EvilAllAlong: First seeming like just another member of the army's elite peacekeeping force, he turns out to be a psychotic KnightTemplar who kickstarted the rise of many intergalactic criminals, including Deadend Crow, out of some delusion over BalanceBetweenGoodAndEvil. |
| 358 | * EvilFeelsGood: [[spoiler:He adopts this mindset in Universe Zero, where he's realized that being evil has freed him from the burden of having to save anyone with his EngineeredHeroics, and encourages Jinn to give it a try.]] |
| 359 | * EyeBeams: He's able to fire lasers from his eyes, though he doesn't use this power [[spoiler:until he fights Jinn in Universe Zero]]. |
| 360 | * FusionDance: After Holy destroys Crow's power source, Cure responds by merging himself into Crow's body, taking direct control and melding their personalities into one. |
| 361 | * GlassCannon: Cure is a powerful hand-to-hand combatant, but has a fragile body that can easily be destroyed. However, he has a HealingFactor to balancce it out. |
| 362 | * GloryHound: What his ultimate motivation is all about, combined with his philosophy of creating evil. He wants good to win as a way to shine brighter, which involves making the Interstellar Union Army recognized by the public as such through [[EngineeredHeroics creating villains who are evil as sin]], allowing innocents to die for the sake of ongoing conflict. |
| 363 | * GoodPowersBadPeople: He has the power to heal, regenerate, and restore stamina for himself and others, which would seem fitting for an officer of an intergalactic peacekeeping force. However, he uses this power to turn Deadend Crow into a PerpetualMotionMonster, which makes Crow one of the most dangerous criminals in cosmic history. |
| 364 | * HandBlast: He can fire a laser from his index finger, which he uses to pierce Holy's stomach and reveal his treachery. |
| 365 | * HateSink: Cure proves himself to be of a despicable sort when he's revealed to be not just the one pulling Deadend Crow's strings, but also the one who created Drakken Joe and Poseidon Nero, convinced he's a WellIntentionedExtremist when he's really a delusional KnightTemplar who sees the senseless deaths they've caused as NecessarilyEvil. |
| 366 | * HealingHands: His regenerative powers extend to healing other people and fixing objects. The downside to this is that he can't regenerate two targets at the same time, and he can't restore something once it's been completely destroyed. |
| 367 | * HealingFactor: His main power is regeneration, which lets him instantly put himself back together from any damage inflicted upon him, even getting [[ImMelting melted]] by Holy's power. |
| 368 | * KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler:Although he's brought BackFromTheDead by the CosmicRetcon, he's definitively killed in Universe Zero after getting his core destroyed by Jinn.]] |
| 369 | * KnightTemplar: {{Downplayed}}. He doesn't deny that he's evil since he helped create some of the greatest evils the cosmoses have ever known, but he also believes he's equal parts good because he helped create its greatest heroes. |
| 370 | * LackOfEmpathy: He thinks nothing of killing millions in order to create villains and heroes he needs for BalanceBetweenGoodAndEvil. He's especially unmoved when Holy holds him accountable for Crow's massacre on Bloody Atmos Day, including the death of her eight-year-old-sister; to Cure, as he says, it was simply a necessary evil to turn Holy into the champion of justice she is today. |
| 371 | * LiterallyShatteredLives: [[spoiler:He's destroyed this way in Universe Zero when Jinn pierces his core with a Windstorm Dracolance.]] |
| 372 | * LongLived: Being an android, he's been around for over 200 years at a minimum, judging by how he was the one to give Drakken his power when the latter was still a child. |
| 373 | * MacGuffinSuperPerson: The Lendard arc [[MacGuffinPersonReveal reveals]] him to be Deadend Crow's "main body" who directly fuels Crow's power source, allowing him to regenerate and rampage without ever tiring for thirteen years. When Holy destroys the power source, [[FusionDance Cure merges with Crow directly]] to keep him running. |
| 374 | * TheManBehindTheMan: He is the secret creator of Deadend Crow, who was established as part of the BigBadDuumvirate with Ziggy and God Acnoella in the Lendard arc. He also played a direct part in the rise of Drakken Joe, the series' DiscOneFinalBoss before Ziggy, and Poseidon Nero, who [[EvilVersusEvil directly rivaled Ziggy]]. However, he amounts to little more than a BigBadWannabe. |
| 375 | * MeaningfulRename: As the final arc shows, [[spoiler:Cure's name in Universe Zero is combined with Deadend Crow's to become "Deadend Cure", showing that Cure doesn't hide his villainy in this world]]. |
| 376 | * NecessarilyEvil: Cure believes his own evil actions to be this, including the creation of Deadend Crow and his massacre of over one million humans, because the Interstellar Union Army can't be the "good" the universe needs if it has no "evil" from which to protect it. |
| 377 | * NeverMyFault: [[spoiler:Universe Zero's Cure sees himself as a FallenHero who [[ThenLetMeBeEvil embraced evil]] after getting his EngineeredHeroics thwarted by the Interstellar Union Army. As Jinn points out, he's just being delusional for thinking he was a hero to begin with.]] |
| 378 | * NoBodyLeftBehind: He gets blasted to atoms by the ''Edens Zero''[='=]s [[WaveMotionGun Star Bringer]] along with Deadend Crow after [[FusionDance fusing]] with him, with Feather immediately confirming his death via his lack of a body. |
| 379 | * NonStandardCharacterDesign: His long, fish-like face is one of the more unique designs in the series, with prominent lips and a facial plate that covers his forehead and nose. |
| 380 | * PsychoticSmirk: Once he's revealed to have been EvilAllAlong, his stony expression is replaced with a deranged sneer, which inches towards SlasherSmile territory when he explains Crow's bloody attack on Holy's home planet as being part of the "greater good". |
| 381 | * RoboticPsychopath: He's a TokenRobot among the Interstellar Union Army, and is also a madman who's convinced he must sustain the army's purpose of existence through EngineeredHeroics, caring nothing for the innumerable lives lost in the process. |
| 382 | * TheStoic: He has an impassive and stone-faced demeanor most of the time and almost always speaks calmly, though he allows himself to start dropping {{Psychotic Smirk}}s once he explains his true motives to Holy, and becomes NotSoStoic in his VillainousBreakdown. |
| 383 | * TokenEvilTeammate: While each of his teammates is capable of doing some morally ambiguous things to achieve peace and harmony, they are all genuine in protecting those they believe to be good or innocent. Cure, on the other hand, is nothing short of pure evil, as he sacrifices those same innocents to fuel the army's sustained battle against the Oración Seis Galáctica. |
| 384 | * TokenRobot: He's the only robotic member of the Oración Seis Interstellar. |
| 385 | * WalkingSpoiler: Nearly his entire character is unexplored until TheReveal of his true colors and impact on the story as a whole in the Lendard arc. |
| 386 | [[/folder]] |
| 387 | |
| 388 | !!Fleet Officers |
| 389 | |
| 390 | !!!Justice's Fleet |
| 391 | |
| 392 | [[folder:In General]] |
| 393 | * FreudianTrio: Justice is the methodical Superego; Victory is the openly expressive Id; and Creed is the Ego who shares both traits. |
| 394 | [[/folder]] |
| 395 | |
| 396 | [[folder:Victory]] |
| 397 | !!Victory |
| 398 | !!!'''Voiced by:''' Yūki Sanpei (Japanese), Joe Hernandez (English)[[labelnote: Foreign [=VAs=]]]Brandon Montor (Latin American Spanish), Arnaud Laurent (French)[[/labelnote]] |
| 399 | !!!'''Ether Gear:''' [[AttackOfThe50FootWhatever Titan's Fist]] |
| 400 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ez_victory_anime_9.png]] |
| 401 | ->''"This is what victory looks like!!!!"'' |
| 402 | |
| 403 | A large and boisterous officer aboard the ''Angel Feather''. He uses the Ether Gear "Titan's Fist" to morph into a powerful giant. |
| 404 | ---- |
| 405 | * AmbiguouslyBrown: He is depicted with dark skin and light hair in the monochromatic images of the manga, but colored art gives him light-brown skin and medium-brown hair, while the anime gives his skin a more reddish tone. |
| 406 | * AttackOfThe50FootWhatever: His Ether Gear allows him to grow to giant size and deliver devastating attacks, powerful enough to take down the strongest squadron in Beast, Poseidon Nero's commando team. |
| 407 | * BigDamnHeroes: When a tired Shiki and Homura are confronted by Beast Squad 1 on Foresta, Victory easily crushes the squad with one attack and has them arrested. {{Subverted}} when Justice [[CavalryBetrayal decides to go after Shiki]], to Victory's chagrin. |
| 408 | * TheBigGuy: He's the most hand-on physical fighter on Justice's team. Also, he turns into [[AttackOfThe50FootWhatever an actual "big guy"]] with his Ether Gear. |
| 409 | * BoisterousBruiser: As TheBigGuy in Justice's team, he confidently makes one-liners involving how much he lives up to the name "Victory". He's also more laid-back and has a bigger sense of humor than his other crewmates. |
| 410 | * CasuallyPowerfulGiant: As a titan, he has to watch his step to avoid harming others by accident, demonstrated when he nearly steps on Homura when she's been shrunken by Creed in the Foresta arc. |
| 411 | * CurbStompBattle: During the Foresta arc, he's able to defeat all three members of Beast Squad 1--someone Shiki and Homura find too powerful for themselves to take on--in a single punch, which helps demonstrate Victory's superior level of power. |
| 412 | * EveryoneHasStandards: He has no love for criminals, but he sees Justice's willingness to kill Shiki for his friendship with Elsie as being too extreme, yet can't do anything to stop it. |
| 413 | * HotBlooded: He's a BoisterousBruiser with a short fuse, so he naturally gets this way when it comes to fighting. |
| 414 | * ImmuneToFire: When in his titan form, Victory's fist resists being burned by Gowen's [[PlayingWithFire Flame Bolt]], which is said to reduce everything it touches to cinders. |
| 415 | * JerkWithAHeartOfGold: He's rough-mannered and easy to anger, but he's also a noble army officer who gets along with his crewmates, and doesn't take his duties to zealous extremes like Justice does. |
| 416 | * LanternJawOfJustice: He's a heroic law enforcer with a square chin. |
| 417 | * MyMasterRightOrWrong: Victory often questions or objects to Justice--his superior officer--over several matters, such as seeing Shiki's friendship with Elsie as due cause to kill him rather than simply arrest him. Nevertheless, once Justice issues an order, Victory sees it through. |
| 418 | * PermaStubble: His chin has a rugged five-o'-clock shadow at all times. |
| 419 | * PragmaticHero: When Creed notes that it's likely less than 10% of Guilst's population managed to get off-world before the Chronophage turned back time, Victory points out most of the population contributed to the WretchedHive the planet was, and thus [[AssholeVictim not really worth mourning over]]. |
| 420 | * RuggedScar: Has a thin scar running up his right cheek to the top of his nose. |
| 421 | * ShipperOnDeck: He jokingly pairs Justice together with Elsie, in spite of the fact that Justice absolutely loathes her. |
| 422 | * SmarterThanYouLook: He looks like a tough and irritable BoisterousBruiser, but he also proves himself to be more rational than Justice when [[spoiler:Creed is seemingly killed by the ''Edens Zero'' crew and returned to his ship to [[MakeAnExampleOfHim make an example of him]], with Victory pointing out that the body is much too clean to be used as a proper intimidation tactic]]; he also visibly questions [[spoiler:Jesse's story that Homura deceived and murdered Creed, though he doesn't suspect that Jesse is the true culprit]]. |
| 423 | * SympatheticInspectorAntagonist: Being a part of the Interstellar Union Army makes him an enemy to the ''Edens Zero'', but only because it's part of his military duty. Besides that, he has no real animosity for anyone except the most heinous of lawbreakers, and eventually comes to appreciate the ''Zero''[='=]s help in the ongoing fight against Ziggy's forces. |
| 424 | * SympathyForTheHero: Despite being on opposite sides of the law to the ''Edens Zero'' crew, Victory comes to recognize their heroic deeds in fighting Ziggy, and remarks that they'd make for better good guys than the army itself with how the ''Zero'' keeps beating them to the punch. |
| 425 | * ThoseTwoGuys: He primarily serves this role with Creed, reporting in to Justice and bringing him up to speed with current events. However, Victory winds up getting far less CharacterFocus than Creed, [[spoiler:who subsequently dies, ending this part of their dynamic for good]]. |
| 426 | * UnderestimatingBadassery: After the confrontation on Foresta, he dismisses the ''Edens Zero'' crew as hardly much of a threat compared to Elsie and Nero. What he doesn't know is that these are the same folks who helped defeat Drakken, a threat of equal stature, albeit with secret help from Noah. He does, however, come to realize their strength in [[SympathyForTheHero a positive light]] following [[spoiler:the three-year TimeSkip]]. |
| 427 | [[/folder]] |
| 428 | |
| 429 | [[folder:Creed]] |
| 430 | !!Creed (Seiji Hōjō) |
| 431 | !!!'''Voiced by:''' Yūdai Mino (Japanese), Shannon [=McKain=] (English)[[labelnote: Foreign [=VAs=]]]Eduardo Ramírez (Latin American Spanish), Arnaud Laurent (French)[[/labelnote]] |
| 432 | !!!'''Ether Gear:''' [[SupernaturalSealing Ether Lock]] |
| 433 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ez_creed_anime_8.png]] |
| 434 | ->''"Those with no creed can never defeat us."'' |
| 435 | |
| 436 | A mild-mannered, bespectacled officer aboard the ''Angel Feather''. Creed can conveniently imprison others in cages of solid Ether he creates with his Ether Gear, "Ether Lock". |
| 437 | ---- |
| 438 | * AdaptationDyeJob: The lighter part of his multicolored hair is pale blue in colored manga artwork, which is changed to brown in the anime and ''Pocket Galaxy''. |
| 439 | * AwesomenessByAnalysis: The Foresta arc shows that his SpecsOfAwesome can detect and identify other people by their Ether readings. |
| 440 | * BigDamnHeroes: After Victory takes out Beast Squad 1 before they can harm Shiki and Homura on Foresta, Creed rounds up the squad within his Ether Lock. {{Subverted}} when Justice immediately [[CavalryBetrayal orders him to arrest Homura]], which he reluctantly does. |
| 441 | * ConnectedAllAlong: Creed's identity outside the Interstellar Union Army is Seiji Hōjō, [[KingIncognito a member of the shogunate family]] on Homura's home planet. |
| 442 | * CavalryBetrayal: After rescuing Shiki and Homura from Commando Team Beast's strongest squad, Creed is ordered by Justie to put Homura under arrest while he deals with Shiki personally. Creed is reluctant, but complies. |
| 443 | * DeadAlternateCounterpart: [[spoiler:Universe 2 and 3's versions of Creed get [[AccidentalMurder accidentally]] shot in the heart by Jesse, his own companion, in the Nero 66 arc.]] |
| 444 | * DidIJustSayThatOutLoud: When Creed admits how beautiful he thinks Homura is and stops just short of a full-blown LoveConfession, his reaction after that makes it clear he let it slip in the heat of the moment. It's particularly funny since he'd just pointed out all the times Homura was ThinkingOutLoud in the preceding conversation. |
| 445 | * DiesWideOpen: [[spoiler:After Jesse shoots Creed in the heart by accident. Homura [[DueToTheDead closes Creed's eyes]] for him in respect.]] |
| 446 | * DroppedABridgeOnHim: [[spoiler:After getting a fair dose of development in the Nero 66 arc, including a GivenNameReveal and some headway in his relationship with Homura, he's suddenly shot by complete accident while trying to calm the panicking Jesse.]] |
| 447 | * DueToTheDead: [[spoiler:Homura respectfully shuts his [[DiesWideOpen open eyes]] after Jesse accidentally shoots him, and has his body sent to Justice with a detailed log explaining what happened. Unfortunately, thanks to Jesse cravenly erasing the log and pinning the blame on Homura to cover his tracks, Justice misinterprets this act of honor as the crew [[MakeAnExampleOfThem rubbing Creed's death in his face]].]] |
| 448 | * DyingDeclarationOfLove: [[spoiler:In Creed's final moments after being shot in the heart by Jesse, he confesses his love to Homura and wishes he could've walked the streets of Oedo with her.]] |
| 449 | * FriendlyEnemy: Although the ''Edens Zero'' crew and Interstellar Union Army are on opposite sides of the law, Creed is nothing short of a NiceGuy towards Homura, and has no ill will towards her crew, going as far as offering an [[EnemyMine alliance]] with them in the Nero 66 arc. |
| 450 | * GivenNameReveal: Creed reveals his real name to be Seiji Hōjō in the Nero 66 arc in a last effort to convince Homura into working together with him. Homura immediately recognizes his family name as belonging to the most powerful clan on her planet. |
| 451 | * HopelessSuitor: Creed gets a crush on Homura when they meet on Foresta, but several factors (his capture of her under Justice's orders, his general antagonism towards Elsie's crew, and his PoorlyTimedConfession of his feelings) ensure that Homura wants nothing to do with him. However, she warms to him when he explains his true identity and goals. [[spoiler:Unfortunately, he dies before getting the chance to take things further.]] |
| 452 | * TheIdealist: Though he's aware of the crime and corruption that plagues the universe, he also cherishes its freedoms and envisions a new society on his planet where his people can reach that same level of understanding, rather than stifle themselves with outdated traditions and beliefs. |
| 453 | * InternalReformist: As part of Oedo's shogunate family--the highest class in his planet's society--Creed has come to believe his planet's class system to be outdated and pointless compared to the freedoms other planets enjoy, and strives to use his experiences away from home to reform their customs and broaden their culture. |
| 454 | * KingIncognito: A non-royalty variant: this subordinate of an Interstellar Union Army commander reveals himself in the Nero 66 arc as a member of Oedo's shogunate family, which holds absolute ruling power. Homura, who'd spent the whole arc being rude and dismissive towards him, is mortified to learn she'd been insulting one of her homeworld's overlords, and immediately [[PoseOfSupplication grovels in apology]]. |
| 455 | * TheLostLenore: [[spoiler:{{Downplayed}}. While not 100% confirmed if she reciprocates, he becomes this to Homura after he's killed in the Nero 66 arc, as his DyingDeclarationOfLove begins to fuel her sense of SurvivorGuilt about those closest to her, and she continues thinking back to him sadly three years after his death.]] |
| 456 | * LoveAtFirstSight: Right after he's ordered to trap Homura with his Ether Lock, Creed thinks to himself about how pretty she is when he gets a better look at her. He later confesses that he fell for Homura at first sight because both come from Oedo, and seeing her reminds him of home. |
| 457 | * AMatchMadeInStockholm: When he first meets Homura, Justice orders him to capture her just because she's on friendly terms with Elsie. Creed is soon taken by her beauty when he gets a better look at her in her miniaturized cage, which develops into a full crush after she thanks him for [[ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight releasing her to save her life]]. |
| 458 | * MauveShirt: He starts out in a minor supporting role as one of ThoseTwoGuys under Justice, but gets a fair bit of CharacterFocus and ShipTease with Homura in the Nero 66 arc [[spoiler:in the scenes leading to his death]]. |
| 459 | * NamedAfterSomebodyFamous: The family name "Hōjō" is shared with the real-life Hōjō clan, who controlled the UsefulNotes/KamakuraShogunate--and, consequently, Japan itself--from the 12th to 13th centuries. Fittingly, Creed[=/=]Seiji himself comes from the shogunate of an entire planet. |
| 460 | * NiceGuy: He's one of the most pleasant officers serving in the army, and an idealist who believes in freedom for humans and robots to live however they choose. |
| 461 | * TheNondescript: Homura [[DidIJustSayThatOutLoud accidentally]] calls him the "forgettable man in glasses" upon seeing him again on Nero 66, much to his chagrin. |
| 462 | * NonStandardCharacterDesign: Compared to other characters, he has a slightly more angular head and square eyes. |
| 463 | * NothingPersonal: When he and Homura meet again on Nero 66, he tells her he was JustFollowingOrders for trapping her back on Foresta, and that he doesn't see Homura as an enemy despite her being an ally to a {{Space Pirate}} he's enemies with. |
| 464 | * OneDegreeOfSeparation: He's a subordinate to Justice who also comes from the same planet as Homura, specifically as part of its governing family. |
| 465 | * PoorlyTimedConfession: When Homura says she can't trust him with regards to working together, Creed blurts out that he could never lie to someone as beautiful as her. Cue blushing and awkward silence. |
| 466 | * PowerOfTrust: {{Invoked}} when Creed reveals his true identity to Homura--moreso that they come from the same planet than their difference in Oedo's hierarchy, which he seeks to reform--so she'll accept his help in stopping the All-Link System. It works, though partially because he's at the top of the social ladder on their planet. |
| 467 | * ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight: When Victory almost crushes a shrunken Homura by accident in the Foresta arc, Creed immediately lets her out of her cage so she can avoid harm, despite knowing it will let her get away despite Justice's orders to bring her in. This gets {{lampshaded}} by Gowen and Hyoga, who are mildly impressed by his act of conscience. |
| 468 | * ShipTease: He gets this with Homura after falling in LoveAtFirstSight with her on the Foresta arc, with several hijinks revolving around him failing to hide his feelings while she would rather avoid him. [[spoiler:Unfortunately, things fall apart when Creed is killed right after he gains Homura's trust.]] |
| 469 | * SmartPeopleWearGlasses: He's the most analytical of his companions, and the only one to wear glasses. |
| 470 | * SpecsOfAwesome: He's a mild-mannered, glasses-wearing dork, but he's also a respected officer of the Interstellar Union Army whose power can easily contain certain foes that the main cast struggle with. |
| 471 | * SupernaturalSealing: His Ether Lock allows him to imprison people in Ether cages, which then [[IncredibleShrinkingMan shrink to the size of a matchbox]], allowing him and Victory to carry their prisoners away easily. |
| 472 | * SympatheticInspectorAntagonist: At his worst, he only captures Shiki and Homura under Justice's orders, while he's justifiably hostile towards actual criminals like {{Space Pirate}}s. Beyond this, Creed is a perfectly friendly and reasonable officer who holds nothing against the ''Edens Zero'' crew for being friends with someone as notorious as Elsie, and willingly tries teaming up with Homura to stop the All-Link System. |
| 473 | * ThinkNothingOfIt: He becomes uncomfortable when Homura begins groveling in front of him the moment she learns he's actually from Oedo's shogunate, encouraging Homura instead to look past their class differences and treat each other as equals. |
| 474 | * ThoseTwoGuys: He initially serves this role with Victory as subordinates to Justice, bringing him up to speed on current events and clashing with lesser opponents. However, he grows out of this in the Nero 66 arc when his CharacterFocus kicks in, [[spoiler:and his death permanently breaks this dynamic]]. |
| 475 | * TooGoodForThisSinfulEarth: He's an officer who emodies the best of the Interstellar Union Army, having both compassion and a strong sense of justice in a universe frought with corruption and prejudice. [[spoiler:He winds up getting shot when Jesse, unable to contain his burning hatred for Elsie Crimson, freaks out at the sight of him together with Elsie's friend Homura.]] |
| 476 | * YankTheDogsChain: Mere moments after finally earning Homura's trust in the Nero 66 arc, [[spoiler:Jesse accidentally shoots him dead in a panic over seeing Creed getting friendly with one of Elsie's allies.]] |
| 477 | * UptownGuy: Creed is a part of Oedo's ruling class who falls for Homura, a commoner girl from the same planet. |
| 478 | [[/folder]] |
| 479 | |
| 480 | !!!Holy's Fleet |
| 481 | |
| 482 | [[folder:Shiro and Ibuki]] |
| 483 | !!Shiro and Ibuki |
| 484 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/holy_soldiers.jpg]] |
| 485 | [[caption-width-right:300:Shiro (right) and Ibuki (left)]] |
| 486 | |
| 487 | Two of Holy's soldiers aboard the ''Midnight''. |
| 488 | ---- |
| 489 | * AnimalMotifs: Shiro's is a bear, seen by the cute bear head and ear-shaped icons on her hat. |
| 490 | * MeaningfulName: "Shiro" and "Ibuki" are the Japanese words for "white" and "breath", respectively. |
| 491 | * PlayfulCatSmile: Shiro has one when she smiles, reflecting a more impish nature. |
| 492 | * RedOniBlueOni: Shiro is the chipper and childish Red Oni, while Ibuki is the calm and refined Blue Oni. |
| 493 | * ShoutOut: Their dynamic with each other and Holy is similar to those of Reina and Irene's minions--Sopra and Range for the fromer, Juliet and Heine for the latter--from ''Manga/RaveMaster'' and ''Manga/FairyTail'' respectively. The combined meaning of their names ("white breath") is also reminiscent of "White Kiss", Reina's [[BlowYouAway air-elemental]] Dark Bring. |
| 494 | * SignatureHeadgear: Shiro's is her bear hat, and Ibuki's is her crossed headbands |
| 495 | * TeethClenchedTeamwork: They squirm over having to work with the ''Edens Zero''[='=]s [[MaouTheDemonKing Demon King]] and Elsie's SpacePirate crew, but put up with it knowing they'll get to stab both in the back once it's over. [[spoiler:They're bummed out when Holy ultimately calls it off and leaves on good terms with Shiki after the Kaede War.]] |
| 496 | * ThoseTwoGirls: They share the same spot in the bridge of the ''Midnight'' and confide with their leader about her plans. |
| 497 | * TraitorShot: They both smile deviously with Holy when discussing her "immaculate military operation" against the ''Edens Zero'' crew in the Lendard arc. |
| 498 | [[/folder]] |
| 499 | |
| 500 | !!!Feather's Fleet |
| 501 | |
| 502 | [[folder:Sam and Agie]] |
| 503 | !!Sam and Agie |
| 504 | |
| 505 | Two officers who serve on Team Alpha in Feather's squadron. |
| 506 | ---- |
| 507 | * AfroAsskicker: Agie has a nice-looking afro and is a soldier of the Interstellar Union Army. |
| 508 | * CoordinatedClothes: Each one sports a single feathered wing on his left and right shoulder, respectively. |
| 509 | * FacialMarkings: Agie has a wing-shaped marking resembling the letter "F" next to his left eye. |
| 510 | * NonStandardCharacterDesign: Their skinny and square faces, respectively, are among the more unique-looking among the series' characters. |
| 511 | * SympatheticInspectorAntagonist: They're only after Shiki and his crew because they're branded as illegal vigilantes, and take care that their men don't harm any civilians. |
| 512 | * ThisCannotBe: Their general reaction to their team getting wasted by the ''Edens Zero'' crew, despite getting [[SuperEmpowering empowered]] with Feather's CombatClairvoyance. |
| 513 | * ThoseTwoGuys: They stand out from the rank and file troops of Feather's forces. |
| 514 | * WalkingShirtlessScene: Apart from his shoulders and arms, Sam's ripped chest and back is entirely bare. |
| 515 | * TheWorfEffect: They're single-handedly taken down by Homura during a showcase of the ''Edens Zero'' crew's power after the Nero 66 arc. Judging by their team's shocked reaction, they're not ones to get beaten so easily. |
| 516 | [[/folder]] |
| 517 | |
| 518 | !!Galactic Intelligence Agency |
| 519 | |
| 520 | [[folder:In General]] |
| 521 | * CovertGroup: They specialize in espionage and the like, sending moles to infiltrate other groups and either destroy them from the inside or use them as a means to an end. |
| 522 | * DubNameChange: ZigZagged. The acronym "G.I.A." exists in the Japanese version, but it only fits the English equivalent of the full Japanese title: ''Gingakei Chōhō Kikan''. |
| 523 | * WellIntentionedExtremist: While they do infiltrate dangerous criminal organizations with the intent of having them dismantled and brought to justice, there's no denying that they're pretty morally bankrupt themselves. They have absolutely no qualms against manipulating or killing innocent bystanders if it means completing the mission, which has led to several occasions where the ''Edens Zero''[='=]s crew have been placed in mortal danger upon getting caught up in their schemes. |
| 524 | [[/folder]] |
| 525 | |
| 526 | [[folder:Noah Glenfield]] |
| 527 | !!Noah Glenfield |
| 528 | |
| 529 | The director of the G.I.A.'s Sakura Cosmos branch, known to the public as master of the adventurers guild Shooting Starlight. |
| 530 | |
| 531 | ->See Characters/EdensZeroSakuraCosmos for more information. |
| 532 | [[/folder]] |
| 533 | |
| 534 | [[folder:Amira]] |
| 535 | !!Amira |
| 536 | !!!'''Voiced by:''' Megumi Satō (Japanese), Creator/EmiLo (English)[[labelnote: Foreign [=VAs=]]]Vanesa Silva (Latin American Spanish), Lou Viguier (French)[[/labelnote]] |
| 537 | !!!'''Ability:''' [[{{Humanshifting}} Mirror Face]] |
| 538 | [[quoteright:306:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/edens_zero_amira_anime.png]] |
| 539 | |
| 540 | A spy from the G.I.A. with a mission to defeat Drakken Joe. She uses a special ability called "Mirror Face" to shapeshift into any nearby person, copy their personality, and read their memories. |
| 541 | ---- |
| 542 | * AmbiguousSituation: The captured Labilia aboard the ''Belial Gore'' in World No.30 is revealed to be Amira in disguised, but given all the differences between this world and World No.29, it's unclear whether or not Amira actually took Labilia's place in the previous world. |
| 543 | * AmbiguouslyHuman: She normally appears like a regular human woman, but with her shapeshifting powers and the way parts of her face disappear before she transforms, it's unclear just how human she actually is. |
| 544 | * CaptureAndReplicate: |
| 545 | ** She subjects Homura to this when the ''Edens Zero'' crew arrive on Digitalis, hacking the game to make her log into a prison cell so she can take her place. Rather than directly model her DigitalAvatar after Homura, however, she chooses the form of a male WarriorPrince and passes it off as another one of Homura's quirks. |
| 546 | ** {{Inverted}} in the Belial Gore arc, where she saves Labilia from imprisonment and takes her place. |
| 547 | * DeliberatelyDistressedDamsel: After Rebecca leaps into World No.30 in the Belial Gore arc, the Labilia she finds captured by Drakken Joe turns out to be Amira, who took the real Labilia's place as a chance to get closer to Drakken. |
| 548 | * EasilyForgiven: ZigZagged and {{parodied}}. After impersonating Homura and deceiving the crew on Digitalis, Amira convinces Shiki to trust her by giving a [[BlatantLies paper-thin apology]] and asking to be his friend. The rest of the crew, especially Homura, aren't quite so keen. |
| 549 | * EnemyMine: Amira teams up with the ''Edens Zero'' crew aboard the ''Belial Gore'' when she finds out they're there to take Drakken Joe down. |
| 550 | * EyelessFace: One or both of her eyes vanish when she's about to change form into someone else. |
| 551 | * GeniusDitz: She has a ditzy manner of speech, but is also a MasterOfDisguise who can fool just about anyone. |
| 552 | * GotMeDoingIt: Due to mimicking Homura for so long, Amira accidentally blurts out her true identity and powers while channeling her "DidIJustSayThatOutLoud" quirk. |
| 553 | * GuileHero: Not surprising for her job as a spy. For the entirety of the Belial Gore arc, she didn't participate in a single fight, but her role was crucial in destroying Drakken Joe's life support system. First, she convinced the main cast to leave Shiki to distract Drakken Joe and the rest of them focused on destroying the life support system. Secondly, she convinced Jinn to destroy the security device that guards the system from hacking by revealing the true purpose of the system and playing on his love for his sister. |
| 554 | * {{Humanshifting}}: Her spy work revolves entirely around her power to perfectly change into whomever she wants. |
| 555 | * ItAmusedMe: This is her reason for allying with the ''Edens Zero'' crew aboard the ''Belial Gore'', thinking that actually beating Drakken Joe there and then is much more fun than just securing his weakness and reporting back to HQ. |
| 556 | * JustAMachine: She expresses this mindset towards the {{Living Program}}s of Digitalis when she tries to harm one who looks like a little girl, saying it's not like hurting a "real" child. |
| 557 | * KarmaHoudini: Although her plan winds up getting foiled, she gets off scot-free for impersonating Homura on Digitalis and nearly killing her after her cover gets blown. |
| 558 | * LikeIsLikeAComma: Her somewhat ditzy inflection in Japanese is rendered this way in the English translation. |
| 559 | * ManipulativeBitch: She uses her master of mimicry to take Homura's place in the ''Edens Zero'' crew without a hint of suspicion, and almost successfully makes the real Homura take the fall once she's deemed the crew to be of no further use. Later, she gains Shiki's trust by asking to start over as friends with a blatantly empty apology, knowing thanks to her experience as Homura that Shiki can't resist the word "friend". |
| 560 | * MasterOfDisguise: She can mimic just about anyone, from their appearance to their behavior and speech patterns. |
| 561 | * TheMole: She infiltrates the ''Edens Zero'' crew on Digitalis by taking Homura's place so she can get close to Jamilov and find Drakken Joe. |
| 562 | * MorphWeapon: She carries an Ether pistol on Digitalis that can be converted into a sniper rifle. It's unknown if it can also change form in the real world. |
| 563 | * NavelDeepNeckline: She wears a SpyCatsuit with an open front that goes all the way down to her navel, barely covering the outer halves of her bust. |
| 564 | * NothingPersonal: She frames Homura and tries to kill Shiki's crew because they might blow her cover and ruin her plans to go after Drakken Joe in the Digitalis arc. When she comes back during the latter part of the Belial Gore arc, she makes it clear she was only doing her job, and is all for making an alliance with the crew this time. |
| 565 | * PetTheDog: After Drakken Joe is captured, she promised to not prosecute the people who are in debt to him too hard due to her inevitable ascension in the corporate ladder. |
| 566 | * SignatureHeadgear: She wears a distinctive hair clip shaped like a leaf branch. |
| 567 | * {{Telepathy}}: She can read others' memories when mimicking their appearance, which helps when it comes to her disguises. |
| 568 | * TortureIsIneffective: Amira claims that her line of work requires being put through training to become resistant to torture. This partially motivates her to take Labilia's place in the Belial Gore arc, enduring the ColdBloodedTorture Drakken puts her through so Labilia wouldn't have to. |
| 569 | * VaporWear: Her SpyCatsuit has an opening at the front and the sides to make it quite obvious that she isn't wearing any underwear. |
| 570 | * WellIntentionedExtremist: It's her mission to capture Drakken Joe and bring him to justice, but she's willing to manipulate innocent people to achieve that goal, and is just as willing to kill them if her cover is blown. |
| 571 | [[/folder]] |
| 572 | |
| 573 | [[folder:Jesse]] |
| 574 | !!Jesse |
| 575 | !!!'''Voiced by:''' Yūji Murai (Japanese), Creator/KyleMcCarley (English)[[labelnote: Foreign [=VAs=]]]Nicolás Carmona (Latin American Spanish)[[/labelnote]] |
| 576 | [[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/edens_zero_jesse_anime.png]] |
| 577 | |
| 578 | Amira's subordinate, who operates as a mole within Elsie Crimson's crew. |
| 579 | ---- |
| 580 | * AccidentalMurder: [[spoiler:Jesse accidentally shoots Creed in the heart when Creed tries to non-violently detain him for disobeying orders not to kill Homura.]] |
| 581 | * AmbiguousSituation: Jesse is particularly knowledgeable of Homura, as Amira says she used info he had on Homura to impersonate her on Digitalis, and he's aware that she is Madame Kurenai's daughter. However, how he acquired this information is unclear, not helped by their lack of interaction despite sharing a handful of scenes together. [[spoiler:His final act relating to Homura is to [[FrameUp frame her]] for his own AccidentalMurder of Creed, and only because she was a convenient target.]] |
| 582 | * BlatantLies: In the Nero 66 arc, [[spoiler:when Justice declares he will deliver retribution to Creed's killer, Jesse lies to Justice's face that Homura seduced and shot Creed, putting a target on the ''Edens Zero'' crew's back to save his own sorry skin. This is despite Homura never using guns because she's far more proficient with swords, and is as noble as anyone can be.]] |
| 583 | * BullyingADragon: When Elsie is BroughtDownToNormal by Ether-sealing cuffs courtesy of Justice, Jesse delights in kicking and taunting her while she's left at his mercy, even though she's one of the six most powerful outlaws in the universe. [[spoiler:He almost gets away with it and even successfully [[BreakTheBadass breaks her]] by killing Gowen and Hyoga, though Hyoga is the one who gives him his just desserts.]] |
| 584 | * ChekhovsGunman: He's first seen on the cover of Chapter 1, and makes a few insignificant appearances among Elsie's other crew members, suggesting he may be a member of her crew. It isn't until Chapter 33 that he's revealed to be Amira's fellow government spy. |
| 585 | * CombatPragmatist: Because he has no combat skill to speak of, he instead relies on traps and cunning to outwit far more powerful enemies. [[spoiler:This serves him in the Lendard arc, where he sets up a successful ambush that kills Gowen and Hyoga, Elsie's two strongest subordinates, while they're distracted by their tied-up captain.]] |
| 586 | * DeadAlternateCounterpart: [[spoiler:Universe 3's version of Jesse is killed by Hyoga while trying to take his revenge against Elsie in the Lendard arc.]] |
| 587 | * DestroyTheEvidence: At the end of the Nero 66 arc, [[spoiler:the ''Edens Zero'' crew sends Creed's body back to the army while providing a log detailing his death. Unfortunately, Jesse gets to it first and quickly deletes the log before his fellow officers can read it, fearing they'll find out his involvement.]] |
| 588 | * DirtyCoward: Jesse proves himself to be a cowardly, self-serving snake when [[spoiler:he denies his AccidentalMurder of Creed, [[DestroyTheEvidence erases the evidence]] provided by the ''Edens Zero'' crew that would expose him, and frames Homura--the woman Creed was trying to protect when he died--as his murderer, just to get out of Justice's crosshairs.]] |
| 589 | * FreudianExcuse: The reason for his hatred for Elise, beyond just failing to infiltrate her crew, is because [[spoiler:his parents were casualties in the civil war she unintentionally ignited when she was a young girl.]] |
| 590 | * HateSink: Though he's shown to have [[FreudianExcuse understandable motivations]] for despising Elsie, he squanders much of that sympathy by being a SmugSnake and a DirtyCoward who [[spoiler:frames the innocent Homura for his own AccidentalMurder of a superior officer, and sadistically murders two of Elsie's top men just to make her suffer.]] |
| 591 | * HidingBehindYourBangs: The whole upper half of his face is covered by his hair, hinting at his treachery as a spy. His eyes peek through and become visible when he's angry, shocked, terrified, or being gleefully sadistic. |
| 592 | * ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: [[spoiler:A dying Hyoga [[TakingYouWithMe takes Jesse with him]] by impaling him straight through the chest with an ice spike.]] |
| 593 | * KarmaHoudini: {{Downplayed}}. [[spoiler:Jesse gets a KarmicDeath in the Lendard arc, but suffers no direct consequence for his AccidentalMurder of Creed and framing of Homura for it, and [[PosthumousVillainVictory gets his revenge on Elsie to boot]]. While Justice pieces together Homura's innocence on his own shortly afterward, it never occurs to him that Jesse was the one responsible.]] |
| 594 | * KarmicDeath: [[spoiler:After years of plotting against Elsie culminates in him killing two of her best crewmen in front of her, he's immediately killed by one of them before he has the chance to savor his victory.]] |
| 595 | * KickTheDog: [[spoiler:He kills an unsuspecting Gowen and Hyoga right in front of a bound Elise so he can [[TargetedToHurtTheHero make her suffer]] knowing she couldn't save them. Unfortunately for him, Hyoga [[MutualKill gets even]].]] |
| 596 | * KickThemWhileTheyAreDown: He takes the opportunity to kick and taunt Elsie when she's BroughtDownToNormal by Justice's Ether-sealing cuffs in the Lendard arc, enjoying every moment of it like the {{Sadist}} he is. |
| 597 | * MisplacedRetribution: Jesse despises Elsie so much that he treats any of her friends and crewmates with the same amount of hatred, despite doing nothing to personally harm him. [[spoiler:It's bad enough that he accidentally kills Creed while freaking out over him getting friendly with Homura.]] |
| 598 | * TheMole: He's introduced as a minor crewman aboard Elsie's ship before he's revealed to be a G.I.A. agent spying on her. Elsie turns out to be far less gullible than he gives her credit for, though, as she'd known about it for a month and prevented any sensitive info from leaking. |
| 599 | * NeverMyFault: [[spoiler:After Jesse accidentally shoots Creed dead, he refuses to take responsiblity and insists that [[WhyDidYouMakeMeHitYou Creed brought it on himself]]. By the time he returns to the army, he immediately pins the blame on the ''Edens Zero'' crew, later specifying that Homura--who just happened to be nearby--was the one who shot him.]] |
| 600 | * NoRangeLikePointBlankRange: [[spoiler:How he kills Hyoga. Unfortunately for Jesse, this puts him in range for Hyoga to [[TakingYouWithMe return the favor]].]] |
| 601 | * NotSoHarmlessVillain: Elsie doesn't take Jesse at all for a threat for how easily she exposes him as a spy within her crew, but being as unstable and crafty as he is, he manages to do some serious harm: on Nero 66, [[spoiler:he kills Creed by accident when freaking out over his fraternization with Homura, whom Jesse later pins the blame on]]; and on Lendard, [[spoiler:he successfully [[BreakTheBadass breaks Elsie]] by killing Gowen and Hyoga in front of her, the former by [[OffWithHisHead cutting his head off]], and the latter by [[BoomHeadshot shooting him in the head]].]] |
| 602 | * OhCrap: |
| 603 | ** He reacts this way at the start of the Foresta arc when Elsie and the Princess Guard reveal they've not only known he was TheMole for some time, but have already intercepted all sensitive information he tried leaking to the army. |
| 604 | ** In the Nero 66 arc, he has a major FreakOut over [[spoiler:accidentally shooting Creed in the heart when he catches him and Homura together, having meant to aim for Homura.]] |
| 605 | * OneDegreeOfSeparation: [[spoiler:He's a native of Lendard just like Elsie and Justice, and he appears to have some kind of knowledge of Homura, though that knowledge goes unrevealed.]] |
| 606 | * PosthumousVillainVictory: [[spoiler:By killing Gowen and Hyoga in front of Elsie, Jesse ultimately succeeds in [[BreakTheBadass breaking her]] to the point where she's DrivenToSuicide, though he doesn't live long enough to see her go through with it, let alone relish in her suffering.]] |
| 607 | * RedemptionRejection: When Elsie exposes Jesse as a spy to the rest of her crew after already catching onto him a month earlier, she still gives him the chance to stay, explaining that the reason she waited so long was because she honestly hoped he'd come around after treating him like family. He flatly refuses, seeing as how [[spoiler:she is the reason his real family is dead]]. |
| 608 | * {{Sadist}}: When Justice leaves a cuffed and powerless Elsie under Jesse's watch in the Lendard arc, Jesse delightfully stomps on her and details how much he and Justice are looking forward to her [[JackBauerInterrogationTechnique government interrogation]] over her allies and assets, knowing it will be long and painful for her because she'd never talk that easily. |
| 609 | * ShutUpKirk: After being treated as family by Elsie, who'd already known he was spying on them for a month, he rejects Elsie's offer to remain in her crew when his espionage is exposed, firmly siding with the Interstellar Union Army. As he reveals on Lendard, it's because [[spoiler:she's responsible for his parents' deaths that he refuses to become a part of her [[TrueCompanions pirate family]]]]. |
| 610 | * SlasherSmile: His ordinary smug grin becomes this in the Lendard arc when he indulges himself in beating and taunting Elsie, and when [[spoiler:he brutally kills Gowen and Hyoga in front of her]]. |
| 611 | * SmugSnake: Jesse spends his time in Elsie's crew gleefully anticipating the day he can bring her down, confident he won't be caught before then. He's [[OhCrap blindsided]] when Elsie casually reveals she'd known he was plotting against them for about a month as he tries luring him into a trap. [[spoiler:This attitude crops up again and bites him in the Lendard arc, where he spends so much time relishing in finally getting one over on Elsie and her two top men that he leaves himself open for Hyoga to retaliate with a [[TakingYouWithMe dying icicle through the chest]].]] |
| 612 | * SpellMyNameWithAnS: At one point, his name is spelled by Kodansha as "Jessie" with an "i", [[GenderBlenderName the diminutive form of "Jessica"]]. |
| 613 | * TearsOfRemorse: [[spoiler:Jesse sheds tears out of guilt and [[TearsOfFear panic]] for accidentally killing Creed, one of his comrades. However, they cease to provide him sympathy when he shifts the blame onto Homura to avoid taking responsibility.]] |
| 614 | * ThisCannotBe: In the Lendard arc, Jesse can only gape in shock over how quickly things turned against him when [[spoiler:Hyoga impales him with an ice crystal right after Jesse shoots him in the head.]] |
| 615 | * ThoseTwoGuys: He and Behrman share this dynamic when he's posing as a member of Elsie's crew, though it ends with little fanfare once he's ousted as a government spy. |
| 616 | * WhyDidYouMakeMeHitYou: [[spoiler:Immediately upon shooting Creed in the Nero 66 arc, Jesse immediately tries to shift the blame onto him for standing firmly between him and Homura, whom Jesse was intending to shoot to begin with.]] |
| 617 | * YouKilledMyFather: [[spoiler:He blames Elsie for the deaths of his parents, who were Lendard natives, in the CivilWar caused by her actions.]] |
| 618 | [[/folder]] |
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