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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]] ('''Associates''') | [[Characters/EdensZeroInterstellarUnionArmy 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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| 20 | [[foldercontrol]] |
| 21 | |
| 22 | !Elsie's Pirate Crew |
| 23 | |
| 24 | [[folder:In General]] |
| 25 | The crew of Elsie Crimson's fleet, which is headed by her personal vessel, the ''Skull Fairy''. They are notorious for robbing space ports blind throughout the universe, but their merciful nature towards their victims makes them one of the less pressing dangers to cosmic security. Inspired by the hospitality Demon King Ziggy showed Elsie when she was a refugee of war, the crew serves as a ragtag family for those who've lost everything. |
| 26 | ---- |
| 27 | * BadassCrew: Though they don't get a whole lot of on-screen action together, they're a tight group and staunch allies of the ''Edens Zero'' crew who follow their Princess's orders without question. |
| 28 | * TheDreaded: They have a reputation as dangerous criminals, and their presence inside Shooting Starlight makes everyone panicked and wary of them. |
| 29 | * NeverHurtAnInnocent: For all their crimes, they never harm civilians if they can help it. This is acknowledged by the Interstellar Union Army, who tend not to prioritize them when other organizations in the Galáctica pose a threat. |
| 30 | * ThePiratesWhoDontDoAnything: They're the most dreaded band of pirates in the universe, but they never once engage in any kind of piracy on-screen, more often acting as a gang of harmless ruffians than anything. |
| 31 | * RagtagBunchOfMisfits: All the pirates are implied to be this by Elsie's stance on welcoming anyone regardless of their background, since she herself is a FallenPrincess, and her two next-in-command used to be a firefighter and a doctor. |
| 32 | * RecurringElement: The name of the ship "''Skull Fairy''" harkens back to the ''Manga/FairyTail'' series, especially considering the ship's owner is an {{Expy}} of one of its main characters. Their Jolly Roger also distinctly resembles the Fairy Tail guild emblem turned 90 degrees counterclockwise. |
| 33 | * SpacePirates: Elsie's crew is nested mostly in the romanticized Type 2 pirates that operate a massive fleet of warships locked in a SternChase with the SpacePolice, led by a cross between [[Manga/FairyTail Erza Scarlet]] and Anime/CaptainHarlock. |
| 34 | * TrueCompanions: Elsie subscribes to the idea that everyone aboard her ship is a part of her family, and should always be given a fair chance even when they mean harm to each other. |
| 35 | [[/folder]] |
| 36 | |
| 37 | !!Leadership |
| 38 | |
| 39 | [[folder:Elsie Crimson]] |
| 40 | !!Elsie Crimson |
| 41 | |
| 42 | The Pirate Queen and captain of the ''Skull Fairy''. |
| 43 | |
| 44 | ->See Characters/EdensZeroOracionSeisGalactica for more information. |
| 45 | [[/folder]] |
| 46 | |
| 47 | !!Princess Guard |
| 48 | |
| 49 | [[folder:In General]] |
| 50 | Elsie's second- and third-in-command, as well as her closest and most trusted confidants. |
| 51 | ---- |
| 52 | * AstonishinglyAppropriateAppearance: Their fiery/cold personalities are reflected in their ElementalHairColors and clothing designs (Gowen has flame tattoos, and Hyoga has snowflake-pattered armbands). |
| 53 | * BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler:Their deaths in Universe 3 are overwritten by the CosmicRetcon caused by Etherion's activation, sending the ''Edens Zero'' crew back in time to the MergedReality of Universe Zero.]] |
| 54 | * DeadAlternateCounterpart: [[spoiler:Universe 3's Gowen and Hyoga are killed by Jesse moments apart from each other; Gowen via [[OffWithHisHead decapitation]], Hyoga via [[BoomHeadshot shot to the head]]. The two seen in Universe 2, on the other hand, are last seen alive and well.]] |
| 55 | * ElementalHairColors: Their hair colors match their respective [[ElementalPowers elemental Ether Gears]]. The Fire Ether Gear user Gowen has red-orange hair that looks like a flame, while the Ice Ether Gear user Hyoga has light blue hair. |
| 56 | * {{Expy}}: Gowen and Hyoga's clashing personalities and contrasting powers, and their ability to work together in spite of them, makes them a send-up to [[Manga/FairyTail Natsu and Gray's dynamic]]. |
| 57 | * FireIceDuo: Gowen uses Fire Ether Gear and Hyoga uses Ice Ether Gear. They're also a RedOniBlueOni who are always at odds with each other. |
| 58 | * LostInTranslation: In Japanese, the team name "Princess Guard" is written in kanji meaning "Fairy Knights", which the English translation doesn't retain. |
| 59 | * MysteriousPast: All that's known about their pasts is that Gowen and Hyoga were once a firefighter and a doctor, respectively. How they wound up becoming SpacePirates is a total mystery. |
| 60 | * NumberTwo: They're identified as Elsie's "Number Two" and "Number Three", but neither of them agree on which holds which position. |
| 61 | * OddCouple: Their personality traits are [[RedOniBlueOni polar opposites]] (the hot-headed Gowen and the cool and collected Hyoga), and for added oddity, one used to be a doctor and the other a firefighter. Nevertheless, they make an efficient team together. |
| 62 | * RedOniBlueOni: Gowen is the passionate and thick-headed Red, and Hyoga is the stoic and analytical Blue. They also dress in the same colors. |
| 63 | * SecretKeeper: Elsie's trust in them is strong enough to let them in the know about Jesse's espionage. |
| 64 | * StevenUlyssesPerhero: Both their names are Japanese words, "Gowen" (''Gōen'') meaning "mighty flame" and "Hyoga" (''Hyōga'') meaning "glacier". Therefore, both are named after their ElementalPowers. |
| 65 | * SurprisinglySuddenDeath: [[spoiler:They're both abruptly killed in Universe 3 on Lendard when Jesse lures them into a trap, though Hyoga manages to [[TakingYouWithMe take Jesse with him]] in his last moments.]] |
| 66 | * TargetedToHurtTheHero: [[spoiler:Jesse brutally kills them both in front of Elsie while she's [[BadassInDistress chained up]] on Lendard, all for the sake of [[BreakTheBadass breaking her]] and adding to her torment.]] |
| 67 | [[/folder]] |
| 68 | |
| 69 | [[folder:Gowen]] |
| 70 | !!Gowen |
| 71 | !!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/ChiharuSawashiro (Japanese)[[labelnote: Foreign [=VAs=]]]Pablo Sosa (Latin American Spanish), Romain Altché (French)[[/labelnote]] |
| 72 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ez_gowen_anime.png]] |
| 73 | |
| 74 | A hot-headed ex-firefighter whose '''[[PlayingWithFire Flame Bolt]]''' Ether Gear reduces anything it touches to cinders. |
| 75 | ---- |
| 76 | * BroughtToYouByTheLetterS: The back of Gowen's tank top is decorated with a flaming letter "F". |
| 77 | * FieryRedhead: Gowen's hair is more of a reddish brown, but his bull-headed and passionate persona fits the bill. |
| 78 | * FiremenAreHot: He's an ex-firefighter and a total {{Hunk}}. |
| 79 | * OffWithHisHead: [[spoiler:In the Lendard arc, he gets decapitated when he walks into a laser wire trap laid by Jesse.]] |
| 80 | * PlayingWithFire: He is able to generate and control fire. |
| 81 | * SleevesAreForWimps: His lack of sleeves emphasize his big, muscular design. |
| 82 | * SuperStrength: He's strong enough to match blows with Victory's [[AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever giant form]]. |
| 83 | [[/folder]] |
| 84 | |
| 85 | [[folder:Hyoga]] |
| 86 | !!Hyoga |
| 87 | !!!'''Voiced by:''' Kōki Ōsuzu (Japanese)[[labelnote: Foreign [=VAs=]]]Diego Becerril (Latin American Spanish), Maxime Guerville (French)[[/labelnote]] |
| 88 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ez_hyoga_anime.png]] |
| 89 | |
| 90 | A cool-headed ex-doctor who creates barricades of ice that block Ether attacks with his Ether Gear, '''[[AnIcePerson Ice Wall]]'''. |
| 91 | ---- |
| 92 | * BadassLongcoat: Hyoga wears a sleek coat with a high collar, giving him a striking image as one of Elsie's elites. |
| 93 | * BoomHeadshot: [[spoiler:Jesse shoots him blank in the head in Universe 3, though Hyoga lives long enough to [[TakingYouWithMe get even]] and free Elsie.]] |
| 94 | * ElementalBarrier: He can create ice barriers. |
| 95 | * AnIcePerson: His powers are centered around ice. |
| 96 | * TheMedic: As an ex-doctor, he's entrusted with taking care of his crew's injuries, though [[InformedAttribute this is never seen in practice]]. |
| 97 | * SorryThatImDying: [[spoiler:His last words before he expires in the Lendard arc are an apology to Elsie.]] |
| 98 | * TakingYouWithMe: [[spoiler:He's fatally shot by Jesse in Universe 3, though he takes the guy down with him by freezing his heart and punching a hole through his chest with a last-ditch attack, alongside freeing Elsie from her shackles.]] |
| 99 | [[/folder]] |
| 100 | |
| 101 | !!Other Crewmen |
| 102 | |
| 103 | [[folder:Behrman]] |
| 104 | !!Behrman |
| 105 | !!!'''Voiced by:''' Shōhei Kajikawa (Japanese), Jay Preston (English)[[labelnote: Foreign [=VAs=]]]Óscar Olivares (Latin American Spanish), Sébastien Lemoine (French)[[/labelnote]] |
| 106 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ez_behrman_anime.png]] |
| 107 | |
| 108 | One of the more prominent members of Elsie's crew. |
| 109 | ---- |
| 110 | * BigDamnHeroes: He shows up on a hoverbike to recover Elsie after she and Justice have given each other a serious beating on Foresta. |
| 111 | * CoolShades: These, apart from his hairstyle, serve to make him stand out among the other crew members. |
| 112 | * RecurringExtra: He doesn't get a whole lot of screentime or characterization, but shows up a fair number of times whenever Elsie is around. |
| 113 | * ThoseTwoGuys: He's sometimes paired up with Jesse, the only other distinct member of the crew besides Gowen and Hyoga, before Jesse gets ousted as a spy. |
| 114 | [[/folder]] |
| 115 | |
| 116 | [[folder:Jesse]] |
| 117 | !!Jesse |
| 118 | |
| 119 | One of the ''Skull Fairy''[='=]s crewmen. He is expelled from the crew after being exposed as a spy working for the Interstellar Union Army. |
| 120 | |
| 121 | ->See Characters/EdensZeroInterstellarUnionArmy for more information. |
| 122 | [[/folder]] |
| 123 | ---- |
| 124 | !Crew of the ''Belial Gore'' |
| 125 | |
| 126 | [[folder:In General]] |
| 127 | The crime lord Drakken Joe leads a powerful syndicate that controls the Sakura Cosmos from behind the scenes. Their base of operations is the ''Belial Gore'', Drakken's personal space fortress. The ''Belial Gore'' was the heart of all criminal activity on Guilst, housing an entire sector of one of the planet's cities. After Guilst is lost to the Chronophage, the fortress becomes a sort of independent state. |
| 128 | ---- |
| 129 | * InconsistentSpelling: Before the ship's name is shown in the manga proper, it's spelled as "Berial Goer", then "Belial Goer", and finally "Belial Gore". The English anime dub and subtitles stick with "Belial Goer". |
| 130 | * RecurringElement: The ''Belial Gore'' shares part of its name with [[InconsistentSpelling Berial/Belial]], one of the Oración Seis from ''Manga/RaveMaster''. |
| 131 | [[/folder]] |
| 132 | |
| 133 | !!Leadership |
| 134 | |
| 135 | [[folder:Drakken Joe]] |
| 136 | !!Drakken Joe |
| 137 | |
| 138 | The Dark Alchemist and CEO of the ''Belial Gore''[='=]s moneylending company. |
| 139 | |
| 140 | ->See Characters/EdensZeroOracionSeisGalactica for more information. |
| 141 | [[/folder]] |
| 142 | |
| 143 | !!Inner Circle |
| 144 | |
| 145 | [[folder:In General]] |
| 146 | A trio of operatives who are most often seen lounging by Drakken's side. |
| 147 | ---- |
| 148 | * BadassCrew: They're a tightly knit group of deadly assassins who are experienced enough make it past ''Edens Zero''[='=]s minimum defense system of turrets and mechanical tentacles without breaking so much as a sweat. While their skills aren't enough to protect them from Witch in her fully powered Battle Dress, they still win by duping the crew into letting their guard down by [[FakingTheDead faking their deaths]] (Seth and Diego) and [[ISurrenderSuckers surrender]] (Maria), rather than through brute force. |
| 149 | * EliteMooks: Although they serve right alongside Drakken, possess their own unique skills, and have a bit of characterization, they aren't his strongest minions and get taken out all at once with little fanfare. Unfortunately for the ''Edens Zero'' crew, the trio's loss dupes the Shining Stars into underestimating them. |
| 150 | * HeroKiller: DoubleSubverted. They're supposed to be this before Witch gives them a CurbStompBattle, but they use their defeats to slip right under the crew's noses, seize control of ''Edens Zero'', and deactivate the Shining Stars. |
| 151 | * PraetorianGuard: {{Subverted}}. All three of them are the closest to Drakken's side out of all his minions, and are built up almost to the same degree as him. When they finally make their move in the Belial Gore arc, they're easily taken out by Witch and get replaced by the Element 4 as the arc's primary QuirkyMinibossSquad. |
| 152 | * RankScalesWithAsskicking: {{Subverted}}. While they're all trusted enough to serve directly by Drakken's side, and they're highly powerful in their own right, the Element 4 far outclass these three in power and importance to Drakken. Not that their lesser combat skill makes them any less dangerous, though. |
| 153 | * TwoGuysAndAGirl: In terms of the main fighting force, Maria is the girl, and Seth and Diego are the two guys. |
| 154 | * WhatHappenedToTheMouse: After they get beaten in the ''Edens Zero'' crew's second go-around against Drakken, nothing is ever said about what happens to these three once their plan to infiltrate the ship gets exposed, such as whether they were arrested with Drakken or quietly go into hiding. |
| 155 | [[/folder]] |
| 156 | |
| 157 | [[folder:Maria Slime]] |
| 158 | !!Maria Slime |
| 159 | !!!'''Voiced by:''' Yurie Kozakai (Japanese), Creator/EmiLo (English)[[labelnote: Foreign [=VAs=]]]Josefina Becerra [Season 1], Gabriela Ortiz [Season 2] (Latin American Spanish)[[/labelnote]] |
| 160 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ez_maria_anime.png]] |
| 161 | |
| 162 | An alien space slime who takes the form of a human woman. She has elastic powers that allow her to stretch her legs to superhuman proportions. |
| 163 | ---- |
| 164 | * CuteSlimeMook: Her true form is an adorable little green slime creature with a big, round head and a froggy mouth. However, she's powerful enough in her human form to be one of Drakken Joe's EliteMooks. |
| 165 | * EarlyInstallmentCharacterDesignDifference: Maria is drawn with a lock of IdiotHair following her debut appearance, which is updated in the Japanese volume edition to include the new style. |
| 166 | * EvenEvilHasStandards: She works for a notorious crime boss, but she is noticeably repulsed by Spider's lecherous behavior. |
| 167 | * IdiotHair: She's given a distinctive curly lock of hair atop her head after her initial appearance in the manga. |
| 168 | * ImprovisedWeapon: With her adhesive feet, she can rip the tiles off of a ship hallway's ceiling as a makeshift flail. |
| 169 | * KickChick: Her RubberMan powers focus on her legs, which she uses to attack and block off people. |
| 170 | * MeaningfulName: Her surname alludes to her true nature as a SlimeGirl, plus her ability to make her limbs loose and rubbery like slime. |
| 171 | * MsFanservice: A well-built buxom woman with a beautiful face, good figure, and the clothes to show it off. Spider can barely contain himself around her. |
| 172 | * OralFixation: She's hardly ever seen without sucking, licking, or otherwise holding onto a lollipop. |
| 173 | * RubberWoman: She has the ability to stretch her legs, which are also adhesive. |
| 174 | * SensualSpandex: Her outfit is noticeably tight all over. |
| 175 | * ShapeshifterDefaultForm: Her preferred appearance is that of an attractive young purple-haired human woman. |
| 176 | * SlimeGirl: Her usual form is a CuteSlimeMook, but she can take take a half-way form between it and her usual attractive human form to become a buxom green slime woman. |
| 177 | * TheSmurfettePrinciple: She's the sole female member of Drakken's inner circle. |
| 178 | * SoleSurvivor: {{Subverted}}. She seems to be the only member of her strike team to survive the initial encounter with the ''Edens Zero'' crew after Seth and Diego use their SelfDestructMechanism. However, their deaths turn out to be a ploy for her to gain the crew's sympathy so she can catch them off-guard while the others seize the ship. |
| 179 | * SpeciesSurname: Her full name is {{Foreshadowing}} to the reveal that she's a SlimeGirl. |
| 180 | [[/folder]] |
| 181 | |
| 182 | [[folder:Seth Anderson]] |
| 183 | !!Seth Anderson |
| 184 | !!!'''Voiced by:''' Taisuke Nakano (Japanese), Jason Charles Miller (English)[[labelnote: Foreign [=VAs=]]]Óscar Miranda [Season 1], Raymundo Armijo [Season 2] (Latin American Spanish), Patrice Dozier (French)[[/labelnote]] |
| 185 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ez_seth_anime.png]] |
| 186 | |
| 187 | A gunslinging cowboy android with an impossibly fast trigger finger. |
| 188 | ---- |
| 189 | * ContagiousAI: Seth's android body is just a carrying case. His true form is a sentient ComputerVirus, which allows him to hack into ''Edens Zero''[='=]s systems and shut the Shining Stars down. |
| 190 | * TheGunslinger: He's the QuickDraw type who's so fast on the draw that he can unholster his gun, fire it, and reholster it before anyones notices he's even taken a shot, least of all [[YouAreAlreadyDead the one who got shot]]. |
| 191 | * KilledOffscreen: {{Subverted}}. The next time he's mentioned after losing to Witch, he's said to have already committed suicide via SelfDestructMechanism, but he turns out to be FakingTheDead. |
| 192 | * NinjaPirateZombieRobot: He's a skeleton cowboy android who looks like he walked out of a SpaceWestern. |
| 193 | * QuickDraw: Seth is able to draw his gun, shoot Spider in the head, and holster his weapon before Spider even realizes he's been shot. |
| 194 | * RevolversAreJustBetter: Being a robot cowboy, he carries a good old-fashioned revolver with physical ammo when nearly everyone else in the universe uses more modern guns or Ether blasters. |
| 195 | * SelfDestructMechanism: He self-destructs after getting defeated by Witch, which Sister assumes Drakken programmed him against his will to do to avoid interrogation as a sort of CyanidePill. In reality, it's a tactic done to upload his A.I. into the ''Edens Zero''[='=]s computer system and shut the Shining Stars down. |
| 196 | * SkeleBot9000: He's an android with a metallic SkullForAHead. |
| 197 | * SmokingIsCool: Despite being a robot, he always has a lit cigar in his mouth to go with his cowboy theme. |
| 198 | [[/folder]] |
| 199 | |
| 200 | [[folder:Diego Reyes]] |
| 201 | !!Diego Reyes |
| 202 | !!!'''Voiced by:''' Reigo Yamaguchi (Japanese), Creator/KellenGoff (English)[[labelnote: Foreign [=VAs=]]]Javier Jiménez [Season 1], Hiram Cárdenas [Season 2] (Latin American Spanish), Bertrand Nadler (French)[[/labelnote]] |
| 203 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ez_diego_anime.png]] |
| 204 | |
| 205 | An android whose most notable asset is his brute strength. |
| 206 | ---- |
| 207 | * AndroidIdentifier: As a more humanoid robot than his teammate Seth, his face is made up of screwed-in plates to make his robotic nature more evident. |
| 208 | * TheBrute: He's the most physically capable of his team, capable of tearing through machines like tissue paper with his bare hands. |
| 209 | * InvisibilityCloak: He has a stealth mode to make himself completely invisible, which he uses to fake his own death after Seth self-destructs. |
| 210 | * KilledOffscreen: {{Subverted}}. The next time he's mentioned after losing to Witch, he's said to have already committed suicide via SelfDestructMechanism, but he turns out to be FakingTheDead. |
| 211 | * MightyGlacier: He doesn't showcase any particular speed or agility, but he's tough enough to rip ''Edens Zero''[='=]s machine tentacles to shreds without moving an inch. |
| 212 | * PerpetualFrowner: His face doesn't change much from a frown while talking. |
| 213 | * ScarfOfAsskicking: He wears a striped scarf around his neck, and he's one of the top enforcers of one of the most dangerous men in the Sakura Cosmos. |
| 214 | * SelfDestructMechanism: {{Subverted}}. Similar to Seth, he appears to be programmed by Drakken to explode and avoid interrogation against his will as a sort of CyanidePill, which seems to happen after the team defeated by Witch. In reality, only Seth self-destructs while Diego uses an InvisibilityCloak to fake his own death. |
| 215 | * StealthExpert: Thanks to his [[InvisibilityCloak stealth mode]], he's able to completely fool the ''Edens Zero'' crew with a fake suicide by self-destruction, allowing him to reemerge and take Connor hostage once the rest of the crew is taken out. |
| 216 | * SuperStrength: His big, burly muscles give him enough strength to rip through machinery easily. |
| 217 | * TopHeavyGuy: Not disproportionately so, but his upper body and arms are more muscled than his legs. |
| 218 | [[/folder]] |
| 219 | |
| 220 | !!Element 4 |
| 221 | |
| 222 | [[folder:In General]] |
| 223 | Drakken's special forces unit. Each member is considered to be a part of Drakken himself, and possesses a form of elemental Ether Gear that forms the basis of his alchemy. |
| 224 | ---- |
| 225 | * BarrierMaiden: On a much smaller scale than the norm, they serve as this for Drakken himself, as he relies on their elemental Ether to maintain the balance of his own Ether due to his incredibly advanced age. Once they're defeated, Drakken's power level plummets below his informed PlanetDestroyer capabilities (though he's still plenty powerful enough to give Shiki a nasty CurbStompBattle). |
| 226 | * ClassicalElementsEnsemble: Each member represents the classical elements of fire, water, wind, and earth. Fie turns into flames to move around and has fire-based sniping abilities; Laguna manipulates water and turns people who cry in his presence into water; Sylph conjures and controls wind; and the earth-themed Daichi sprouts and manipulates vegetation from his and other's bodies. Each element is also [[AlchemicElementals fundamental to Drakken's alchemy]], which makes sense once it's revealed that their Ether helps keep Drakken's in balance. |
| 227 | * ElementalHairColors: They all have hair colors that match the element they use: blue for [[MakingASplash Laguna]], orange for [[PlayingWithFire Fie]], green for [[BlowYouAway Sylph]], brown for [[DishingOutDirt Daichi]]. |
| 228 | * EliteFour: They're far stronger than the trio who hangs around Drakken's office, and Drakken considers calling on them to be crossing the GodzillaThreshold. |
| 229 | * RecurringElement: Their team name is a reference to Phantom Lord's ClassicalElementEnsemble of the same name from ''Fairy Tail''. |
| 230 | * ThemeNaming: Each member has a codename that ties back to their natural element. |
| 231 | [[/folder]] |
| 232 | |
| 233 | [[folder:Laguna Husert]] |
| 234 | !!Laguna Husert |
| 235 | |
| 236 | The Spirit of Water. After Drakken's arrest, Laguna goes into hiding until he is welcomed aboard the ''Edens Zero'' as a new ally. |
| 237 | |
| 238 | ->See Characters/EdensZeroCrewOfEdensZero for more information. |
| 239 | [[/folder]] |
| 240 | |
| 241 | [[folder:Sylph]] |
| 242 | !!Sylph (Kleene Rutherford) |
| 243 | |
| 244 | The Element of Wind. Along with her brother, Jinn, she defects from Drakken's side to have her illness treated by the ''Edens Zero'' crew, which she eventually joins permanently. |
| 245 | |
| 246 | ->See Characters/EdensZeroCrewOfEdensZero for more information. |
| 247 | [[/folder]] |
| 248 | |
| 249 | [[folder:Fie]] |
| 250 | !!Fie |
| 251 | !!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/ToshikiMasuda (Japanese)[[labelnote: Foreign [=VAs=]]]Eduardo Martínez (Latin American Spanish), Creator/AlexisTomassian (French)[[/labelnote]] |
| 252 | [[quoteright:194:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ez_fie_anime.png]] |
| 253 | ->''"The Flame Sniper Fie never misses his mark."'' |
| 254 | |
| 255 | The Flame Sniper, a bloodthirsty marksman with impossibly precise aim. His Ether Gear, '''[[PlayingWithFire Flame]] [[ElementalWeapon Ammo]]''', gives him the power to cloak his bullets and body in flames. |
| 256 | ---- |
| 257 | * AccentAdaptation: As an equivalent to his Kansai dialect in the original Japanese, Kodansha's English translation gives him a Bronx dialect. |
| 258 | * AnimeHair: His vertically-aligned, orange spiky hair invokes the image of FlamingHair. |
| 259 | * AxCrazy: He blatantly goes directly against Drakken's orders not to kill the ''Edens Zero'' crew because he can't resist the urge. He does, however, recognize when he's slipped up, and limits his kills to those he has free reign to do so on. |
| 260 | * ColdSniper: {{Downplayed}}. Fie is too HotBlooded to match the description, but he's ruthless enough to shoot Weisz down shortly after Laguna fails to catch him. |
| 261 | * CripplingOverspecialization: He's at his most dangerous from multiple kilometers away, because when he's shooting from short range, any standard issue android can quickly figure out where he is and anticipate his moves from his flaming-hot heat signature. |
| 262 | * ElementalShapeshifter: He can change his entire body into a flame, which lets him slip through ventilation ducts. |
| 263 | * ElementalWeapon: Thanks to his Ether Gear, his sniper rifle can shoot bullets that are WreathedInFlames. |
| 264 | * EyepatchOfPower: He has one that covers not just his right eye, but the whole portion of his face around it. Oddly, it's the eye he uses to aim with on his sniper rifle. |
| 265 | * FacialMarkings: His Ether lines creep up his face in the shape of flames or rising heat waves. |
| 266 | * FieryRedhead: He's the Element 4's fire specialist with a HotBlooded disposition, so of course he has fiery orange hair. |
| 267 | * HateSink: There is nothing remotely likable about Fie, nor does he have any FreudianExcuse to even slightly justify his actions; he's just a murderous psycho for the sake of being one. |
| 268 | * HeroKiller: {{Downplayed}}. He doesn't kill anybody, but he does come dangerously close with Weisz by shooting him through the abdomen, which leaves him bedridden and slowly dying. |
| 269 | * HotBlooded: As is standard for a fire user, he mentions getting "fired up" when he's behind the scope. |
| 270 | * TheIdiotFromOsaka: He speaks with a Kansai dialect despite there being no Kansai in this universe, but has several stereotypical traits: he's boisterous, violent, easily carried away, and not nearly as crafty as he thinks he is. |
| 271 | * ImprobableAimingSkills: Fie accurately shoots Weisz through the chest across seven kilometers (4.35 miles)--including distance decay--and has a good enough scope of Weisz's friends to [[BoomHeadshot aim for their heads]]. |
| 272 | * JustAMachine: Like most of his team, Fie has a prejudice against robots, which he demonstrates when he shoots and pelts the android Hermit with a heavy drone and mockingly asks if she's even capable of feeling pain. |
| 273 | * LongRangeFighter: He's the team sniper, and while his Ether Gear gives him some close-quarter combat skill, he becomes deadlier the further away he is from his enemies. He winds up losing to Hermit because he can't get far away enough to avoid her range of detection, losing his element of surprise. |
| 274 | * MacheteMayhem: He's primarily a ColdSniper, but he also keeps a machete on hand, which he uses to cut off Weisz's arm in World No.29. |
| 275 | * ManOfKryptonite: His ability to become WreathedInFlames makes him one to robots and androids, since he can [[WeakToFire melt straight through their metal bodies]]. |
| 276 | * PlayingWithFire: He's a fire-type Ether Gear user, which lets him create flaming bullets and transform himself into fire. |
| 277 | * PunnyName: His name in English and Japanese (''Fai'') is one letter[=/=]kana and syllable shy of the word "fire" (''faia''). |
| 278 | * RedBaron: He calls himself the "Flame Sniper", both for his marksmanship and his [[PlayingWithFire fire powers]]. |
| 279 | * {{Sadist}}: He shows nothing but glee at the prospect of hurting others, from grinning madly as he cuts off Weisz's arm to demanding Hermit to tell him if she feels pain while in the middle of attacking her. |
| 280 | * ScaryTeeth: His mouth is full of razor sharp teeth that he shows off whenever he sports a SlasherSmile. |
| 281 | * SlasherSmile: This is practically his default expression, but gets especially pronounced before, during, and after he's about to shoot somebody, and when he hacks Weisz's arm off with a machete. |
| 282 | * StupidEvil: When paired off against Hermit, Fie gives her a harder time in close quarter combat. However, he much prefers to finish her off while flaunting his sniping skills, which gives Hermit a perfect opportunity to track him down and box him in his own weapons stash. |
| 283 | * TattooedCrook: He's an AxCrazy sniper whose hands are covered in a flame decals. |
| 284 | * WalkingShirtlessScene: He wears nothing on his upper body except for a diagonal pants strap and a necklace of fangs. |
| 285 | * WouldHarmASenior: He kills the original Sibir--an unarmed, frail old man--for harboring the ''Edens Zero'' crew instead of turning them in as per Drakken's orders. |
| 286 | * WouldHitAGirl: Though he considers Hermit to be JustAMachine rather than a real girl, he still holds nothing back against her in battle. |
| 287 | * WreathedInFlames: While he specializes in covering his bullets in flames, he can also cover his whole body in flames, giving him the ability to melt through metal by touching it. |
| 288 | [[/folder]] |
| 289 | |
| 290 | [[folder:Daichi]] |
| 291 | !!Daichi |
| 292 | !!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/AtsushiImaruoka (Japanese)[[labelnote: Foreign [=VAs=]]]Jaime Collepardo (Latin American Spanish), Creator/ChristopheLemoine (French)[[/labelnote]] |
| 293 | [[quoteright:272:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ez_daichi_anime.png]] |
| 294 | ->''"Want some chocolate?"'' |
| 295 | |
| 296 | The Element of Earth, an alien sadist who struggles with an addiction to torturing people. His Ether Gear, '''[[GreenThumb Pain's Tree]]''', inflicts extreme pain in his victims by growing roots and branches inside their bodies. |
| 297 | ---- |
| 298 | * AlwaysSomeoneBetter: He brags about how he's abstained from torturing folks for 60 days straight, showing off a commemorative coin awarded by his [[TropaholicsAnonymous self-help group]] before going OffTheWagon. Sister shows how green he is by revealing a 10-year commemorative coin from the same group before laying on the hurt. |
| 299 | * AstonishinglyAppropriateAppearance: He's an alien who can use his power to manipulate earth and wood. His skin is also covered in earthen plates, and his head and hair vaguely resemble a tree. |
| 300 | * BewareTheSillyOnes: While his goofy appearance and behavior when he isn't torturing people makes him the most comedic minion on Drakken's payroll, he's still an unhinged {{Sadist}} who loves [[WouldHitAGirl torturing women]]. |
| 301 | * TheBrute: He's the largest and bulkiest member of the Element 4, and the most excessively violent. |
| 302 | * CombatSadomasochist: He starts off purely sadistic, but his fight with Sister awakens the masochist in him, making him realize how being tortured gets him off as much as torturing someone. |
| 303 | * ExoticEyeDesigns: His eyes are a pair of jagged blemishes in his face, giving him a truly creepy look. |
| 304 | * FatBastard: He's a big, fat, depraved TortureTechnician. |
| 305 | * FauxAffablyEvil: He appears to be friendly and cheerful, offering Rebecca a chocolate bar when he first appears before her. When he gets into the swing of torturing people, however, he turns into a roaring, ranting {{Sadist}}. |
| 306 | * FunnyAfro: His hair becomes this after suffering a NonFatalExplosion from Sister's [[PhlebotinumOverload Overheal Destroy]]. |
| 307 | * GigglingVillain: He breaks into fits of manic giggling when he goes OffTheWagon on his torture ban. |
| 308 | * GlasgowGrin: There are stitches on the ends of his mouth that extend it into a creepy SlasherSmile. |
| 309 | * {{Gonk}}: While the other three Elements are human-looking, Daichi resembles a large humanoid golem with a cracked face and arms covered in earthen plates. Furthermore, his eyes look like they're covered with scars, and he [[TheNoseless lacks a nose]]. |
| 310 | * GreenThumb: His Ether Gear lets him grow roots and branches inside people's bodies, which is useful in keeping them from running away and torturing them from the inside. |
| 311 | * HateSink: He's a disgusting, perverted alien with a disturbing addiction to torturing people, with nothing to redeem him or mitigate his evil. |
| 312 | * JustAMachine: He appears to harbor this belief like most of his teammates, since he questions whether or not androids can feel pain like humans do, and is sadistically delighted when he tortures Sister and finds she indeed can. |
| 313 | * LovesTheSoundOfScreaming: He gets ecstatic over hearing Rebecca's cries of pain when he grows tree roots through her body. |
| 314 | * MeaningfulName: "Daichi" is the Japanese word for the earth/land itself, referencing his status as the Element of Earth. |
| 315 | * NoSenseOfPersonalSpace: He makes his debut by emerging from the ground between Rebecca's legs, and proceeds to loom very closely to her. |
| 316 | * OffTheWagon: He's a struggling torture addict trying to resist his sadistic urges, but after spending 60 days torture-free by the time Rebecca is left at his mercy, he readily gives in to his urges to torture her until Laguna intervenes. |
| 317 | * {{Sadist}}: He enjoys inflicting ColdBloodedTorture so much that he goes to group therapy to keep his addiction under control. However, the group is very lax on what ''doesn't'' count as "torture", such as a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown, which isn't enough to curb his sadistic tendencies. Eventually, he caves completely and exerts total dominance over whoever he finds at his mercy, enjoying every moment of it. |
| 318 | * SimpletonVoice: He has a creepy, childish voice in the anime that makes him sound none too bright. When his torture urges kick in, however, his voice becomes much deeper. |
| 319 | * SlasherSmile: He constantly shows a creepy smile with a mouth full of large squared teeth. |
| 320 | * SuperStrength: He has incredible strength that lets him bend a metal coin with his bare fingers with a bit of effort. |
| 321 | * TortureTechnician: {{Exaggerated}}. He's ''addicted'' to torturing people, and has [[TropaholicsAnonymous group therapy sessions]] tailored for helping those just like him kick their addiction. He's also the one who carries out Labilia's ColdBloodedTorture, but in his words, tying her up and giving her a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown that leaves her a bloodied mess doesn't count as "real torture". |
| 322 | * WouldHitAGirl: His urge to inflict ColdBloodedTorture flies off the charts when he's surrounded by pretty women, whom he sees as the best victims. He's also the one Drakken puts in charge of giving Labilia a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown. |
| 323 | [[/folder]] |
| 324 | |
| 325 | !!Other Operatives |
| 326 | |
| 327 | [[folder:Jinn]] |
| 328 | !!Jinn (Kris Rutherford) |
| 329 | |
| 330 | Sylph's older brother, a cyborg mercenary who originally worked for Rogue Out, now working as her assistant. His affiliation with Drakken ends when the ''Edens Zero'' crew offers to help treat his sister, whose life was put in danger by Drakken. |
| 331 | |
| 332 | ->See Characters/EdensZeroCrewOfEdensZero for more information. |
| 333 | [[/folder]] |
| 334 | |
| 335 | [[folder:Spider / Jamilov]] |
| 336 | !!Spider / Jamilov |
| 337 | !!!'''Voiced by:''' Tatsumaru Tachibana (Japanese), Jon Allen (English)[[labelnote: Foreign [=VAs=]]]Assad Schwarz (German), Daniel Streeter (Latin American Spanish), Creator/DonaldReignoux (French), Mattia Bressan (Italian), Rodrigo Antas (Portuguese)[[/labelnote]] |
| 338 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ez_spider_anime.png]] |
| 339 | [[quoteright:300:[[labelnote:Click here to see him as Jamilov]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ez_jamilov_anime.png]][[/labelnote]] |
| 340 | |
| 341 | A genius hacker and lowly computer technician in Drakken Joe's syndicate. Spider is known in the Digitalis RPG ''Rogue Fantasia'' by his player avatar, Jamilov, a scythe-wielding mass murderer who uses his hacking expertise to get away with killing [=NPCs=] and other players without getting banned. |
| 342 | ---- |
| 343 | * ArcVillain: He's the main villain of the Digitalis arc, where he's found hunting down players and slaughtering [=NPCs=] ForTheEvulz. |
| 344 | * AssholeVictim: After proving himself a complete piece of garbage who kills left and right ForTheEvulz, he gets shot and killed by a superior henchman of the very man he thought was his closest companion. |
| 345 | * AxCrazy: He enjoys killing other players in ''Rogue Fantasia'', which he is completely aware [[YourMindMakesItReal kills them in real life]], forcing them to remain logged in so he can savor their final moments. However, he doesn't get the same thrill from killing [[WhatMeasureIsANonHuman the fully sentient NPCs]] since [[NoBodyLeftBehind they just crumble away into coding]], not that this stops him. |
| 346 | * BadBoss: He reprograms ''Rogue Fantasia'' enemies into loyal soldiers so he can slaughter them all and farm experience points, and casually feeds them to his LivingWeapon to turn into ammunition. |
| 347 | * BoomHeadshot: Seth shoots him in the head on Drakken's orders for [[YouHaveFailedMe damaging his cred]]. |
| 348 | * CardCarryingVillain: He lives up to his title as a genius hacker and mass murderer, and he makes sure to let everyone know that he's blood brothers with Drakken Joe. |
| 349 | * CharacterCatchphrase: "They really don't do it for me!"[[labelnote: Japanese]]Daa~me daa![[/labelnote]] |
| 350 | * TheCracker: An evil hacker who's able to easily take control of ''Edens Zero''[='=]s systems, at least until the superior PlayfulHacker Hermit intervenes. |
| 351 | * DelinquentHair: His DigitalAvatar has a prominent mohawk. |
| 352 | * DigitalAvatar: Jamilov, the identity he goes by in ''Rogue Fantasia'', is simply the online persona of Spider, and looks a great deal more terrifying than he does in real life. |
| 353 | * DirtyCoward: He won't fight unless he either has an unfair advantage or safely at his computer where he can't be reached. The moment when these aren't available to him, he folds like the wimp he is. |
| 354 | * TheDreaded: He is feared by ''Rogue Fantasia'' players and [=NPCs=] alike for hacking others' accounts to indulge in his bloodthirsty pleasures without getting banned. |
| 355 | * EnergyWeapon: His scythe in ''Rogue Fantasia'' can transform into a mouth that fires a laser beam. |
| 356 | * EvilLaugh: When cackling about his kills and skills, he belts out a [[SignatureLaugh distinctive]] "Bya ha ha!" |
| 357 | * EvilIsPetty: Once his account on Digitalis is blocked and he's permanently kicked out of the game, he hacks ''Edens Zero'' as revenge. When that gets foiled by Hermit, he goes crawling to Drakken and whines for him to kill the crew just because he was embarrassed by them. Drakken has him killed for this reason, since some punk hacker getting defeated by some space-faring crew he doesn't know, and for the dumbest of reasons, is bad for his VillainCred. |
| 358 | * FaceDeathWithDespair: When Hermit bluffs him with a fake laser cannon switch aimed straight at his ship, Spider wets his pants shrieking like a little girl. |
| 359 | * FacialMarkings: His DigitalAvatar has a veiny pattern running up the left side of his face. |
| 360 | * FamedInStory: While he's just a small-fry in Drakken's syndicate, Rebecca recognizes him as one of the top five computer hackers in the Sakura Cosmos, with Spider clarifying (i.e., boasting) that he's the Sakura Cosmos's number one hacker. |
| 361 | * FourEyesZeroSoul: Spider wears OpaqueNerdGlasses outside of Digitalis, and is an established computer hacker and serial killer. |
| 362 | * AGodAmI: He considers himself to be a god on Digitalis due to his programming abilities making himself invincible. This leads to his VillainousBreakdown when Hermit proves to be [[AlwaysSomeoneBetter more than a match for him]]. |
| 363 | * {{Gonk}}: His real-world appearance is a stubbier version of his DigitalAvatar with tiny eyes, thick lips, and an acne-ridden nose. |
| 364 | * {{Griefer}}: He hacks other players' accounts to retool ''Rogue Fantasia'' in his favor, including the "no killing players or [=NPCs=]" rule, which gets them banned in his place. The fact that players die in real life if they're killed in-game, and that the [=NPCs=] are fully sentient lifeforms, makes him a particularly deadly version of this. |
| 365 | * HateSink: He murders innocent people in front of the heroes' eyes, and acts like an obnoxious {{Troll}} in real life. He dies an unmourned AssholeVictim at the hands of the man he deluded himself into thinking was a brother-in-arms. |
| 366 | * HellBentForLeather: As Jamilov, he wears a leather jacket with a fur collar, befitting his personality as a psychotic cutthroat. |
| 367 | * HidingBehindYourBangs: His MessyHair covers his left eye and he's a hacker who relies completely on cheating methods. |
| 368 | * ICallItVera: He calls his SinisterScythe in ''Rogue Fantasia'' "Maria", which is apparently based on his obsession with Maria Slime. The actual Maria is less than flattered. |
| 369 | * InvincibleVillain: He's pathetically weak IRL, but on Digitalis, he exceeds his own limitations with infinite health and strength cheats, allowing him to take Shiki's hits without a scratch. Once Hermit takes his buffs away, however, he's easy pickings. |
| 370 | * KnightOfCerebus: His senseless massacre of the town of Crysta is the primary reason why [[LemonyNarrator Xiaomei]] warns readers/viewers that the Digitalis arc will be "exceedingly sadistic". |
| 371 | * LeanAndMean: He's one of the lankiest and most violently insane characters in the series, both through his DigitalAvatar and in real life. |
| 372 | * LivingWeapon: His scythe, Maria, has a mind of its own and can transform into a set of jaws that eat through anything it wants. |
| 373 | * MadEye: Jamilov's right eye bulges slightly more than the left, especially when he's grinning about how wickedly evil he is. |
| 374 | * ManiacTongue: There's hardly a scene where he lets out a laugh without his pointed tongue dangling out. |
| 375 | * {{Narcissist}}: He egotistically calls himself a "winner" in ''Rogue Fantasia'' and IRL, both on account of his hacking expertise. He also brags about working with Drakken Joe, one of the most dangerous warriors in the cosmos, and insists on people calling him the number one hacker in the Sakura Cosmos when Rebecca says he ranks in the top five. |
| 376 | * NerdInEvilsHelmet: While he parades around Digitalis with a terrifyingly psychotic-looking monster for a DigitalAvatar, he's really an {{Otaku}} who acts like a stereotypical {{Troll}}. Nerdy as he is, however, he is still every bit as AxCrazy as his DigitalAvatar looks, since he murders other players in the most painful and sadistic of ways, knowing fully well that they'd die in real life. |
| 377 | * ObviouslyEvil: He checks off so many standard "evil" character design choices with his DigitalAvatar, from his fur-and-leather wardrobe straight down to his jagged physical features. |
| 378 | * OpaqueNerdGlasses: In real life, he has thick glasses with an X-marking on the lenses that block out his eyes. |
| 379 | * RedBaron: As a serial killer in ''Rogue Fantasia'', he holds the straight-to-the-point title of "Mass Murderer Jamilov". |
| 380 | * ScaryTeeth: His DigitalAvatar comes with a SlasherSmile that's filled to the brim with razor-sharp teeth. |
| 381 | * SignatureLaugh: His EvilLaugh, "Bya ha ha!" It's also how the heroes can tell who he is in real life. |
| 382 | * SinisterScythe: His weapon in ''Rogue Fantasia'' is a serrated scythe, which he uses to kill. It's also a LivingWeapon that can turn into a set of jaws to gobble up enemies and buildings whole or fire a laser beam from its mouth. |
| 383 | * SinisterSchnoz: His DigitalAvatar sports a long and pointed nose, and is established right away as a murderous villain. It gets horribly bent out of shape after he suffers Shiki's NoHoldsBarredBeatdown. |
| 384 | * SmallNameBigEgo: He thinks he's a member of Drakken Joe's inner circle, and constantly advertises himself as such. In reality, he's nothing but a tech support worker who got a passing compliment from Drakken for fixing his PC, which Spider took way too seriously. When they meet again, [[ButForMeItWasTuesday Drakken hardly remembers him]]. |
| 385 | * ThinChinOfSin: Jamilov has metal plates on his chin that emphasize its pointed shape. |
| 386 | * {{Troll}}: He's a textbook example of a {{Gonk}} InternetJerk with a laugh that's both [[EvilLaugh wicked]] and [[AnnoyingLaugh obnoxious]], talking like a troll poster does whenever people are in mortal peril. |
| 387 | * YouAreAlreadyDead: He dies getting [[BoomHeadshot shot in the head]] by Seth, but it happens so fast that Spider doesn't notice he's been shot, spending his last moments quivering in fear and confusion before slumping over. |
| 388 | * YouHaveFailedMe: When Drakken finds out Spider lost pathetically to the ''Edens Zero'' crew after running his mouth over their affiliation, he orders Seth to [[BoomHeadshot shoot him in the head]]. |
| 389 | [[/folder]] |
| 390 | |
| 391 | [[folder:Drakken's Secretary]] |
| 392 | !!Drakken's Secretary |
| 393 | !!!'''Voiced by:''' Motoki Sakuma (Japanese) |
| 394 | |
| 395 | Drakken's slug-like alien secretary. |
| 396 | ---- |
| 397 | * AdaptedOut: He makes no appearance in what would've otherwise been his introduction in ''Pocket Galaxy''. |
| 398 | * ConditionedToAcceptHorror: He doesn't bat an eye after Drakken messes up a debtor's mouth with a glass bottle. |
| 399 | * DeadAlternateCounterpart: After Rebecca's time leap, he becomes one of the casualties when Drakken rampages mindlessly as a TentacledTerror. |
| 400 | * ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: He gets impaled by Drakken through a computer monitor after his boss mutates into a TentacledTerror. |
| 401 | * NoNameGiven: His name is never spoken, and he's only credited as a subordinate in the anime. |
| 402 | * NonActionGuy: He's the one person within Drakken's top brass who has no combat ability. |
| 403 | * PoliticallyCorrectVillain: He is a SecretaryOfEvil, but he takes a moment to chastise his boss for making derogatory remarks against a race of pig-like aliens. |
| 404 | * RecurringExtra: He has the least amount of focus among any of Drakken's subordinates. |
| 405 | * SecretaryOfEvil: He acts as secretary for the Sakura Cosmos's most powerful crime lord. |
| 406 | [[/folder]] |
| 407 | ---- |
| 408 | !Nero Empire |
| 409 | |
| 410 | [[folder:In General]] |
| 411 | The Nero Empire--more commonly known simply as TheEmpire--is [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin the empire ruled by Poseidon Nero]]. It was built within a single generation by Nero himself under the guidance of his Empire Dice, causing much bloodshed and oppression until its influence spread across the entire Aoi Cosmos, superseding every government on every planet within its borders. Boasting a fleet of 60,000 ships and 100,000 battlecruisers, among a few other weapons of mass destruction, the Empire is by far the largest subfaction within the Galáctica. |
| 412 | ---- |
| 413 | * ChildSoldiers: The Empire is shown to use these, as the ''Edens Zero'' crew contends with a young boy plowing through the streets of Sandra in an armored truck. |
| 414 | * CruelAndUnusualDeath: Several imperial soldiers suffer some of the most grizzly deaths out of any Mashima series: |
| 415 | ** On two separate occasions, [[BadBoss Shura]] uses his gravity to [[LudicrousGibs crush his own soldiers into a bloody paste]]: one happens [[GoryDiscretionShot partially off-screen]] to a general who innocently called [[SexySecretary Ijuna]] his "consort"; the other happens in full view to a squad of soldiers defending the All-Link System, the sight of which nearly causes Rebecca to puke. |
| 416 | ** During his raid on the Temple, [[GoodIsNotSoft Jaguar]] tears through dozens of soldiers with such brutality that limbs and body parts rain down all around him. One terrified soldier likens their body parts to broken action figures, while another thinks he's stumbled into a SlasherMovie. |
| 417 | * DecapitatedArmy: [[spoiler:As soon as word breaks out that Nero is dead, the entire army surrenders with very little resistance.]] |
| 418 | * PunchClockVillain: With a few exceptions that genuinely enjoy causing tyranny and death, the vast majority of the Empire's supporters are just ordinary folks fighting to make ends meet. |
| 419 | * StandardEvilEmpireHierarchy: |
| 420 | ** The Emperor: Poseidon Nero, founder and leader of the evil Nero Empire, is part of a BigBadEnsemble with [[BigBad Ziggy]] during the Aoi Cosmos arcs, and takes up an OrcusOnHisThrone role while his henchmen fight the Aoi War on his behalf. [[spoiler:He ultimately dies in battle against Ziggy instead of the heroes, who are too weak to stop him themselves.]] |
| 421 | ** The Right Hand: Poseidon Shura is [[TheEvilPrince Nero's son]] and TheHeavy of the Aoi Cosmos arcs. He is given duties of the General, has [[ItsPersonalWithTheDragon a personal animosity towards Shiki]], and actively [[TheStarscream plots behind his father's back to seize power]]. |
| 422 | ** The General: Fabiano, the strongest officer of the Oceans 6, acts as Nero's personal guard at the Temple. |
| 423 | ** The Guard: The Oceans 6 are Nero's PraetorianGuard and field commanders of his army. One of its members, Callum, is an EvilCounterpart to Jinn, being a RivalTurnedEvil. |
| 424 | ** The Oddball: Ijuna holds the unique position of Shura's SecretaryOfEvil within the Empire. [[spoiler:She also turns out to be an EvilCounterpart to Laguna, and a turncoat from the heroic rebel army Oasis.]] |
| 425 | ** [[spoiler:TheManBehindTheMan: Cure, a high-ranking officer of the Interstellar Union Army that opposes the Empire, turns out to be directly responsible for Nero's rise to power.]] |
| 426 | * WhatMeasureIsAMook: {{Discussed}}. One of the Empire's soldiers calls [[RebelLeader Goodwin]] out for not considering any of the soldiers his rebel army killed when he's [[AFatherToHisMen furious over the deaths of his own soldiers at imperial hands]]. Goodwin responds that [[VillainHasAPoint the soldier has a point]], and that just because the hates Empire and everything it embodies, that doesn't mean he personally hates the people who are a part of it. He settles the argument by inviting the enemy soldiers for drinks once the war is over. |
| 427 | [[/folder]] |
| 428 | |
| 429 | !!Royal Family |
| 430 | |
| 431 | [[folder:Poseidon Nero]] |
| 432 | !!Poseidon Nero |
| 433 | |
| 434 | The Emperor of the Aoi Cosmos. |
| 435 | |
| 436 | ->See Characters/EdensZeroOracionSeisGalactica for more information. |
| 437 | [[/folder]] |
| 438 | |
| 439 | [[folder:Poseidon Shura]] |
| 440 | !!Poseidon Shura |
| 441 | !!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/KenichiSuzumura (Japanese) |
| 442 | [[quoteright:180:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ez_shura_anime_8.png]] |
| 443 | ->''"Don't get it twisted. Women are a Glee a dozen. And everything in this cosmos belongs to me."'' |
| 444 | |
| 445 | The adopted human son and imperial heir of Poseidon Nero. Much like Shiki, Shura is a '''[[GravityMaster Satan Gravity]]''' user who prefers to manipulate the gravity of objects, turning anything around him into a weapon. Due to his lonely and unloving upbringing under his father, however, Shura is also a cruel, wild, and violently insane deadbeat, turning him into one of Shiki's most hated enemies. |
| 446 | ---- |
| 447 | * ZeroPercentApprovalRating: |
| 448 | ** Shura is so universally hated by the people of Aoi that public opinion for the Empire tanks to record lows once Nero puts him in charge of dealing with the robot uprising. This is to say nothing of his subordinates, who only follow him out of fear, and promptly abandon him when things take a hairy turn. [[spoiler:{{Subverted}} when Ijuna remains the one person in the universe to remain by his side after falling in love with him.]] |
| 449 | ** During the final arcs, this trope is shown to be [[spoiler:{{downplayed}} with Universe Zero's Shura, who has a better reputation as a BenevolentDictator after becoming Emperor, but is still dismissed as an InadequateInheritor to Nero by some of his subjects. Once he dedicates himself to cleaning up Nero's messes by turning TheEmpire into TheRepublic, his approval ratings skyrocket.]] |
| 450 | * AbsoluteXenophobe: He takes FantasticRacism against robots and androids to its furthest extreme by ordering the genocide of every living machine in the Aoi Cosmos, using the war against Ziggy as a front to exterminate what he considers to be an inferior race. |
| 451 | * AdoptedIntoRoyalty: Nero took the human Shura on as his son and heir according to the will of his Empire Dice. |
| 452 | * AdoptionAngst: He despises his adoptive father, who [[ParentalNeglect never showed him any love]], which motivates Shura to [[TheStarscream plot Nero's assassination]] to get him out of his hair for good. [[spoiler:His Universe Zero self has no such qualms, seeing his father as a misguided but well-meaning ruler whose shoes he feels responsible to fill.]] |
| 453 | * AlasPoorVillain: [[spoiler:After spending nearly all of his appearances being a psychotic, unpleasant, and irredeemably evil piece of garbage, he goes out with a humanizing death scene where Ijuna's choice to be TogetherInDeath with him [[VillainousBSOD drives him to tears]], realizing too late that a monster like him has the capacity to love and be loved by somebody, even if that somebody never would have loved him if he didn't drive her mad in the first place.]] |
| 454 | * AlwaysSomeoneBetter: Shura is built up as someone more powerful than Shiki, having a [[TheGift natural talent]] for gravity that he practically trained himself from scratch, and boasting a fine balance of [[StrongAndSkilled skill and strength]] that Shiki lacks. This becomes a non-factor by the time they actually meet, which comes after Xenolith puts Shiki through roughly [[YearInsideHourOutside 35 days worth of training in one week]] to level the playing field. |
| 455 | * AmbiguousStartOfDarkness: The precise details of what transformed Shura from [[UsedToBeASweetKid a seemingly ordinary boy]] to a [[PsychopathicManchild wicked and insane manchild]] are not given. All that's made for sure is that he spent his entire life unloved by anyone--least of all [[ParentalNeglect his own father]]--until he snapped, with the implication that [[TheDarkSide dark gravity]] had something to do with it. |
| 456 | * ArrogantKungFuGuy: He fancies himself as the "king of gravity" due to his raw power and natural aptitude for Gravity Ether Gear, even though his only formal training in the [[FantasticFightingStyle Magimech Arts]] was from a single session as a child under Ziggy. Besides that, his fighting style mainly consists of simply lifting and crushing things, and he lacks the SemanticSuperpower that users of "true" gravity have. |
| 457 | * AxCrazy: Shura is a violently unstable fellow prone to acts of extreme violence and graphic homicide over seemingly trivial details. |
| 458 | * BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler:The CosmicRetcon that results from the ''Edens Zero'' going back in time to Universe Zero also means Shura's death in the Aoi War gets wiped from history.]] |
| 459 | * BadBoss: Shura is a horrendous leader who treats the Imperial army the same way he treats anybody else: by turning them into bloody paste when they rub him the wrong way or don't follow his orders. |
| 460 | * BenevolentBoss: As shown in the final arcs, [[spoiler:Shura is a much more compassionate leader in Universe Zero than the BadBoss she was before the CosmicRetcon, viewing the Oceans 6 and Ijuna as his trusted companions.]] |
| 461 | * BenevolentDictator: Shura behaves like one [[spoiler:in Universe Zero, where he succeeds Nero as TheEmperor. Rather than the depraved tyrant the ''Edens Zero'' crew expects him to be, he's a genuinely well-meaning ruler who's helped bring the Empire to prosperity, but nearly makes the same rash decisions he made in the old world in response to the [[EarthShatteringKaboom Foresta crisis]], which would permanently tarnish his reputation as a leader if not for Shiki's intervention.]] |
| 462 | * BigBadWannabe: Given his strength, connections to Ziggy, and personal animosity with Shiki, he certainly seems poised to become a major antagonist moving forward. [[spoiler:In the end, he's so OutGambitted by Nero that his plans to achieve power were AllForNothing from the start.]] |
| 463 | * BloodKnight: Shura is such a bloodthirsty maniac that he becomes ecstatic when Shiki shows he's good enough to keep up with him in a fight, asking to be his friend on the spot. Even after Shiki gets on his bad side, Shura would rather keep fighting him just to prolong Shiki's suffering, and is let down when Shiki pushes him into making their battle into "a boring old fight to the death" by going into Overdrive. |
| 464 | * BreakTheHaughty: He spends the majority of the Nero 66 arc completely self-assured in his superiority over Shiki, as well as his victory over Ziggy and Nero, but that all comes crashing down when [[spoiler:he gets OutGambitted by Nero and is soundly defeated by Shiki's ultimate Black Sky attack]]. |
| 465 | * CardCarryingVillain: He's very well aware of what a black-hearted monster he is, and he relishes that fact at every opportunity with a mile-wide grin, something he throws in Shiki's face when getting lectured over the weight of people's lives. |
| 466 | * TheCasanova: Taken to horrifying extremes. He describes women as "a [[FictionalCurrency Glee]] a dozen", but once he grows tired of two of the girls clinging to him, he doesn't simply ditch them, but murders them to set an example. |
| 467 | * CharacterTics: He has a tendency to puff his cheeks when he's belting out an EvilLaugh or indulging in some EvilGloating. |
| 468 | * DeadAlternateCounterpart: [[spoiler:His Universe 2 and 3 selves die when Ziggy destroys Nero 66 to kill Shiki in the Aoi War, but it's presumed that his Universe 1 self is still alive since Universe 1's Ziggy doesn't come BackFromTheDead.]] |
| 469 | * DelinquentHair: He has messy green hair that's shaved on the right side of his head to show what an irresponsible deadbeat of a son he is. |
| 470 | * DisproportionateRetribution: His response to any minor slight against him is to senselessly kill and/or torture whoever it was that insulted him. Case in point, when Shiki refuses Shura's friendship, he goes straight for the Four Shining Stars, maiming Sister and Hermit while taking Witch hostage, just to see the look of anguish and fury on Shiki's face. |
| 471 | * DragonInChief: Shura serves this role in the Nero 66 arc, where he's left in charge of the Empire's entire military force for the Aoi War while Nero [[OrcusOnHisThrone sits on his throne]] in accordance to the Empire Dice's will to not interfere, and winds up being the most central and active threat the ''Edens Zero'' crew faces. [[spoiler:{{Subverted}} when Nero reveals that Shura was dancing in the palm of his hand the entire time, as the Emperor turns his son's assassination plot against him on its head right as Shura tries carrying it out.]] |
| 472 | * DrunkOnTheDarkSide: Because he UsedToBeASweetKid, it's {{implied}} that Shura's monstrous and extravagant behavior is a result of his heart falling into [[TheDarkSide dark gravity]], likely as a result of being driven mad by a lifetime of emotional neglect. |
| 473 | * TheEmperor: [[spoiler:Universe Zero's Shura succeeds Nero as ruler of the Empire, but unlike the EvilOverlord his original self would have become, this Shura is a BenevolentDictator. He ceases to be this when he abolishes the Empire and forms the [[TheRepublic Aoi Cosmos Republic]].]] |
| 474 | * EstablishingCharacterMoment: In his first scene, he's seen in the company of two women while confronting a new call girl for failing to reply the other night. Instead of punishing her, he drops the other women straight to the ceiling when they tell him not to pick on her, killing them with a SickeningCrunch. As the new girl stares up at their [[GoryDiscretionShot off-screen remains]] in horror, Shura tells her he has plenty of women to spare because he owns everything in the cosmos, [[RainOfBlood letting the pair's blood pour down all over him]]. This all establishes him as a RoyalBrat, a PoliticallyIncorrectVillain, and an AxCrazy maniac. |
| 475 | * EvenEvilCanBeLoved: [[spoiler:Originally, Ijuna only came to have feelings for Shura because she used her Ether Gear to keep her mind from breaking after Shura's torture. However, Ijuna realizes that her feelings for him didn't go away after Laguna cut the string tying her to Shura, and embraces him knowing that he was UnknowinglyInLove with her. The feeling of being genuinely loved by someone, even though it was someone whom he messed up so badly that she ended up crazy enough to love someone like him, reduces Shura to tears.]] |
| 476 | * EvilCounterpart: Serves as one to Shiki, his exact opposite in many regards besides being a fellow GravityMaster trained by Ziggy and an adopted child under a non-human (grand)father. Shiki is compassionate, uses his gravity to protect and spread joy to his friends, and values lives of everyone whether they're human, machine, good, or evil; on the other hand, Shura is cruel, enjoys figuratively and literally crushing anyone who stands in his way, and values nobody's lives outside his own, least of all the lives of "worthless" things like robots. |
| 477 | * EvilLaugh: He often breaks out into childish cackling, being the gleeful and proud villain that he is. |
| 478 | * EvilIsPetty: As a villain, he takes just about any excuse he can to squash lives and get what he wants, no matter how insignificant. This ranges from killing a general just for [[SheIsNotMyGirlfriend calling Ijuna his "consort"]], to physically and emotionally tormenting Shiki for [[NotGoodWithRejection not wanting to be his friend]]. |
| 479 | * TheEvilPrince: As Nero's only son and heir, Shura wants to inherit the throne as soon as possible, which he tries by baiting Nero into a death match with Ziggy, all so Shura can officially claim everything in the Aoi Cosmos as his own. |
| 480 | * FatalFlaw: {{Pride}} is the worst of his many, many character flaws, as he's so self-assured of his own power, brilliance, and superiority to everyone that he doesn't even entertain the possibility of failure. [[spoiler:Nero winds up seeing Shura's treachery to a mile away because of this, and completely undermines his plan to use his own {{Antimatter}} bombs against him by sending them all back to Shura before he has the chance to detonate them.]] |
| 481 | * FlatEarthAtheist: He lives in an age where CasualInterstellarTravel is a part of everyday life, and he himself boasts superhuman powers from a bygone era, yet he scoffs at the idea that Nero's dice are magical Relics that grant him absolute victory. |
| 482 | * ForTheEvulz: There's no rhyme or reason behind his desire for carnage and absolute control; he simply has all the power and privilege in the cosmos to take whatever he wants, so he takes it. |
| 483 | * GravityMaster: His "Demon King" Ether gives him access to the same gravity powers as Shiki and Ziggy, which he uses in a manner more similar to [[MindOverMatter telekinesis]] by lifting a derelict spaceship out of the ground, ripping individual pieces off a machine, controlling cables and wires like rope to restrain targets, and crunching a boulder into a javelin. He also uses far more brutal methods on people, such as "dropping" people onto the ceiling, crushing them into bloody pulps, and [[spoiler:plucking Shiki's eye right out of its socket]]. |
| 484 | * {{Guyliner}}: He wears black eyeliner resembling streams of tears, which he's had even since he was a child. |
| 485 | * HateSink: He is written to be so repulsively evil, being a psychotic and power-hungry prince who carries out grotesque acts of violence far beyond Mashima's usual standards, that it makes even an AllLovingHero like Shiki refuse to be his friend. [[spoiler:This gets {{downplayed}} in his death scene, which humanizes him by showing how pitifully lonely and starved for affection he really is.]] |
| 486 | * HatedByAll: Shura stands as one of the most despised characters in-universe. His father has [[ParentalNeglect zero affection for him]], his subjects think [[ZeroPercentApprovalRating he's an incompetent buffoon]], his minions' reactions to working for him range from indifference to outrage to fearful obedience, and [[EvenTheLovingHeroHasHatedOnes Shiki has sworn to never, ever be his friend]]. Even the one who has shown him any love and sympathy, Ijuna, only does so because she's under a delusion induced by her own Ether Gear. [[spoiler:In the end, Ijuna's genuine affection for him after being freed from her Ether Gear's influence [[SubvertedTrope subverts]] this.]] |
| 487 | * TheHeavy: Though Nero is the villain in charge of TheEmpire that the ''Edens Zero'' crew battle in the Aoi Cosmos saga, Shura is the one who spearheads the saga's climactic Aoi War and gets the more [[ItsPersonalWithTheDragon personal interaction]] with Shiki, while Nero spends most of the action [[OrcusOnHisThrone sitting on his throne]] and never meeting the crew face-to-face. |
| 488 | * HeelFaceTurn: |
| 489 | ** During the Nero 66 arc, this is [[spoiler:{{subverted}}, as he dies right as he's finally humanized by [[EvenEvilCanBeLoved Ijuna's love for him]], making this a HeelFaceDoorSlam.]] |
| 490 | ** Following the Lendard arc, this is [[spoiler:played straight thanks to the CosmicRetcon, which brings him BackFromTheDead and radically alters his past to the point where he never becomes a villain to begin with.]] |
| 491 | * HellBentForLeather: When he's not being a WalkingShirtlessScene, he's wearing a shirtless leather jacket with pants. |
| 492 | * HumanizingTears: [[spoiler:After spending all his time acting like a cruel and black-hearted monster, Shura undergoes a tearful VillainousBSOD when Ijuna concludes that Shura's love for her is genuine and accepts her own love for him without her self-brainwashing, which she asserts is proof that he has a human heart.]] |
| 493 | * {{Hypocrite}}: He calls Shiki a hypocrite for hesitating to accept Shura's friendship over their clashing beliefs, but then tries to convince Shiki into abandoning his ideals that AndroidsArePeopleToo, which ensures that Shiki turns him down. |
| 494 | * IJustWantToBeLoved: He dealt with soul-crushing loneliness since he was a child, unloved by his own father and having nobody else to love, which eventually drove him to madness. It's all but stated that he still craves some form of affection from somebody, but realizes his chances of that happening are impossible because of his lust for power and penchant for senseless carnage. [[spoiler:When Ijuna falls in love with him despite it all, he's [[VillainousBSOD reduced to tears]] over getting the kind of love he thought a monster like himself could never have.]] |
| 495 | * ImprovisedWeapon: Using his [[GravityMaster Gravity Ether Gear]], Shura can use just about any object around him as a weapon. He uses this to his advantage when fighting in the ash fields of Nero 66, which are littered with crashed ships and ammunition he can fling at Shiki, at one point breaking a missile down into individual pieces for an increase in ammunition. |
| 496 | * InLoveWithTheMark: {{Inverted}} with regards to [[spoiler:Universe Zero's Shura, who was originally spied on by his world's Ijuna, but fell in love with her despite fully knowing her intentions. However, Ijuna eventually [[BecomingTheMask reciprocated his feelings]], and they became engaged.]] |
| 497 | * InterspeciesAdoption: Shura is a human who was adopted by an alien with obvious [[FishPeople fish man]] features like tentacle AlienHair. |
| 498 | * JustAMachine: He sees no value in the lives of androids, which he proudly and repeatedly demonstrates by sentencing all robots in his cosmos to death, programming a battalion of {{Robot Soldier}}s to perform a suicide attack on Shiki against their wills, and [[ItIsDehumanizing referring to Witch as an "it"]] while putting her through ColdBloodedTorture. |
| 499 | * LackOfEmpathy: By his own admission, he's the kind of person who takes the value of every person's life very lightly, unless that life is his own. It's for this reason that he's able to slaughter people at the drop of a hat. |
| 500 | * LadykillerInLove: [[spoiler:Taken more literally than usual, since he actually kills the women he's tired of, but it counts towards Ijuna, who started out as just one of many women he'd take to his torture chamber to have his way with. At some point, Shura started to develop feelings for her, but brushed it off as an effect of Ijuna's Ether Gear, which causes people to fall in love. He finally has a LoveEpiphany when Ijuna reveals her power doesn't work on someone who's never loved or been loved by anyone before, proving that even a monster like him is capable of loving someone else.]] |
| 501 | * LaughingMad: One of the many signs of his mental instability is his tendency to cackle like a maniac when killing or insulting others. |
| 502 | * LimaSyndrome: [[spoiler:Shura thinks that he's only taken a liking to Ijuna--the woman he tortured and humiliated in every way possible--because her Ether Gear causes people to fall in love. However, in their final moments, Ijuna reveals that her Ether Gear shouldn't have worked on Shura because he'd never known love before, proving that whatever feelings he had for her were genuine.]] |
| 503 | * LoveEpiphany: [[spoiler:After being long convinced that his feelings for Ijuna are just a product of her Ether Gear, Shura realizes with Ijuna's help that he fell in love with her all on his own because her power doesn't work on anybody who's never been loved by anyone.]] |
| 504 | * MadEye: From the point of his introduction, he can hardly go a scene without one of his eyes bulging to show what an unstable madman he is. |
| 505 | * MaouTheDemonKing: Though Shura doesn't use the title himself, his Ether is classified as the "Demon King" type, which gives him [[GravityMaster gravity powers]]. |
| 506 | * MaskOfSanity: He's known to be a brutally violent and deeply disturbed man from the get go, but when he's in front of his father and the general populace, he keeps up the appearance of a respectful son and a charismatic politician. |
| 507 | * MeaningfulName: "Shura" is the Japanese name of the [[ReligiousAndMythologicalThemeNaming Hindu demigod of war]]. It can also refer to someone who is in a situation where they must fight endlessly in a relentless and inhuman manner, which matches Shura's personality to a T. |
| 508 | * TheMostWanted: Although he's the adoptive son of one of the Oración Seis Galáctica, who are this by default, Nero is so old that the Interstellar Union Army fears Shura's ascension to the throne far more than anything the Emperor can do, and thereby prioritizes Shura's elimination above all else in the Aoi War. |
| 509 | * NoBodyLeftBehind: [[spoiler:His Universe 2 and 3 selves get blasted to atoms by the {{Antimatter}} bombs together with Ijuna in the Nero 66 arc.]] |
| 510 | * NotGoodWithRejection: He proves himself this in a platonic sense when Shura tries getting Shiki to be his friend so they can [[WeCanRuleTogether team up against Ziggy]]. Shiki rejects him for being a genocidal, robot-hating bigot who refuses to change his ways, which Shura sees as due cause to thrash the Shining Stars and kidnap Witch [[TargetedToHurtTheHero just to get back at him]]. |
| 511 | * NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist: |
| 512 | ** Shura promotes himself as a WellIntentionedExtremist with his plans to wipe out all robots in the Aoi Cosmos with the All-Link System, which he publicly declares is the only way to stop Ziggy's conquest. In private, he admits he just [[JustAMachine hates robots]] and was looking for an excuse to destroy them all. |
| 513 | ** In the final arcs, this trope is featured as [[spoiler:a {{subversion}} with his Universe Zero self, who carries out the same plan from a genuine desire to stop the supposedly renegade Xenolith, and sees the plan itself as DirtyBusiness.]] |
| 514 | * OneTrueLove: Ijuna insists that Shura is her predestined love bound to her by the RedStringOfFate, even though he's an utter monster who's never known love or how to love others in his entire life. [[spoiler:In a twist, this is played straight: Shura developed LimaSyndrome over the days he spent torturing Ijuna, who had UsefulNotes/StockholmSyndrome for him, triggering her Ether Gear ability that brainwashed her into loving him in the first place. Ijuna's discovery of this causes her to embrace her feelings for him, and they spend their final moments TogetherInDeath.]] |
| 515 | * OneWingedAngel: Shura's Overdrive form gives him various aquatic attributes, most notably Nero's TentacleHair and fish-like scales around his legs, which leaves him far more inhuman-looking. |
| 516 | * OverlordJr: His father is TheEmperor of the Aoi Cosmos, yet Shura is far worse: while Nero has a superficially noble desire to protect humankind, Shura feels entitled to owning everything in the cosmos, including people. |
| 517 | * PetTheDog: His decision to give Ijuna a secretarial position implies this, showing that for all his talk about women being expendible, she is the one exception. [[spoiler:This is proven true when it's confirmed he spared her from the horrific torture he put her through because he'd fallen UnknowinglyInLove with her.]] |
| 518 | * PimpedOutCape: [[spoiler:Universe Zero's Shura wears an extravagant, regal cape with a [[FurAndLoathing fur collar]] to highlight his status as TheEmperor.]] |
| 519 | * PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: From the moment he's introduced, she's shown to be a massive sexist who treats women as objects, comes up with sickening ways to humiliate and torture them, and murders them without batting an eye when they rub him the wrong way. He's also one of the most bigoted characters towards robots and androids in the series, targeting them specifically because he feels they're worthless. His kidnapping of Witch combines these vices by having him grope her while calling her Shiki's "toy". |
| 520 | * PracticallyJoker: He has a lot in common with ComicBook/TheJoker: he has green hair, he's AxCrazy, he murders people ForTheEvulz, he [[PutTheLaughterInSlaughter laughs at death and mayhem]], and he becomes fixated on making TheHero suffer for [[NotGoodWithRejection refusing his friendship]]. Some parts of his design look like they come straight from Creator/JaredLeto's [[Film/SuicideSquad2016 portrayal]], namely the [[DelinquentHair punk hairstyle]], [[CreepyShadowedUndereyes makeup]], and [[TattooedCrook body tattoos]]. [[spoiler:He also has a victim-turned-sidekick who's fallen madly in love with him akin to ComicBook/HarleyQuinn, except Shura's affections for her turn out to be real and not a way to wrap her around his finger.]] |
| 521 | * PsychopathicManchild: On top of being a murderous sociopath, he's also incredibly childish, laughing at the SpaceBattle between his men and the Interstellar Union Army and asking how many died like a little boy watching a fireworks display. He also attacks the Four Shining Stars to get back at Shiki for rejecting his offer of friendship by breaking his "precious toys" like a schoolyard bully would. |
| 522 | * PsychoticSmirk: When he's not wearing a SlasherSmile, he's constantly making this expression to show what an unhinged monster he is. |
| 523 | * APupilOfMineUntilHeTurnedToEvil: As with Shiki, Shura learned his Gravity Ether Gear from Ziggy, and he UsedToBeASweetKid before falling to TheDarkSide. |
| 524 | * ReligiousAndMythologicalThemeNaming: |
| 525 | ** The name Shura itself is the Japanese name for Asura, a power-hungry demigod of war found in Hindu and Buddhist mythology, which perfectly suits his nature. |
| 526 | ** His adoptive family name comes from the Greek god of the sea, Poseidon, reflecting how his father is Emperor of a cosmos filled with oceans. |
| 527 | * RestorationOfSanity: [[spoiler:Thanks to the changes in history brought about by the CosmicRetcon, Universe Zero's Shura doesn't suffer from ParentalNeglect, becoming a more mentally and emotionally stable person as a result.]] |
| 528 | * RoyalBrat: Since he's the adopted son of TheEmperor, Nero, Shura is absurdly strong and entitled, to the logical detriment of his underlings. |
| 529 | * RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: Despite his status as a prince, Shura acts as a FrontlineGeneral for the Imperial army, being the first to confront the heroes directly the moment they get involved. |
| 530 | * {{Sadist}}: He enjoys watching his victims writhing in agony, whether it's putting crushing them into bloody stains with gravity, cutting them up or humiliating them in his torture chamber, or seeing their friends' and loved one's emotional anguish over it. |
| 531 | * SheIsNotMyGirlfriend: |
| 532 | ** He ''very'' explicitly refers to Ijuna as his "secretary", nothing more, which comes off as odd given his tendencies as TheCasanova. [[spoiler:This is because Shura knows Ijuna's feelings for him were only artificially induced by her Ether Gear, so he figures that whatever feelings he has for her must also be fake...until Ijuna reveals that her power worked because he'd fallen in love with her for real and didn't realize it.]] |
| 533 | ** {{Downplayed}} when Shura appears in [[spoiler:Universe Zero, where he's openly engaged to Ijuna, but gets angry when someone calls her his bride, since they technically haven't wedded yet.]] |
| 534 | * SketchySuccessor: |
| 535 | ** The people of Aoi view him as one to Nero, who provides some manner of social stability despite his tyranny, while Shura is a psychotic, warmongering manchild who's hated and feared by everyone who works under him. |
| 536 | ** {{Downplayed}} with regards to [[spoiler:Universe Zero's Shura, who actually becomes TheEmperor as a BenevolentDictator. He's still a reckless, irresponsible BloodKnight whom Nero predicts will become a tyrant without intervention, while his ascension prompts Oasis to rebel because they don't trust a "spoiled rich kid" to effectively run a government, but thanks to Shiki helping him keep his act together, Shura proves his doubters wrong by forming the [[TheRepublic Aoi Cosmos Republic]] to take responsibility for the Empire's transgressions.]] |
| 537 | * SlasherSmile: As an AxCrazy, [[TheSociopath sociopathic]] dirtbag, Shura makes this expression when he's about to go off and murder somebody. |
| 538 | * SmugSuper: He's totally full of himself as a villain, but seeing as his gravity is powerful enough to stop the ''Edens Zero'' itself in midair, his confidence isn't unfounded. |
| 539 | * TheSociopath: Shura is selfish, entitled, unstable, violent, and remorseless. He also views people as his possessions, and when he tries to reach out to people on a personal level like when he wants Shiki to be his friend, it's mostly just as a means to an end. |
| 540 | * SoreLoser: Shura can't stand the idea of somebody being better than him, least of all his own father, because he never makes any plans while accounting for how they could possibly go wrong. [[spoiler:He nearly gets himself blown up over this by trying to detonate the bombs he was planning to kill Nero with, because he refuses to believe Nero could have OutGambitted him.]] |
| 541 | * TheStarscream: Shura has designs to take his adoptive father's place as Emperor, which is why he arranges a war against robot-kind is to make Nero take the fall and be killed by Ziggy. |
| 542 | * StrongAndSkilled: As a GravityMaster who's touted as being stronger than either Shiki or Ziggy, Shura shows he has the raw power to stop a warship like the ''Edens Zero'' in midair with a wave of his hand, and the technique to dismantle machines to their base components in a matter of seconds. On top of that, he's quick to point out that just because his gravity works more on objects, that doesn't mean he can't use it on himself as effectively as Shiki can, making him a challenging fighter in hand-to-hand combat as well. |
| 543 | * StupidEvil: Every atrocity he commits is done purely for self-indulgence, whether it's slaughtering his own men for not doing their jobs right, wasting perfectly capable {{Robot Soldier}}s out of [[JustAMachine prejudice]], or getting untold numbers of planets reduced to dust just to kill two powerful people. Because of this, his [[ZeroPercentApprovalRating approval ratings are in the pits]] and nobody likes or respects him, which only fuels his desire to commit more evil. |
| 544 | * TattooedCrook: His eyes, chest, shoulders, arms and hands are covered in tattoos, and he's a twisted young prince who kills people in horrific ways without a moment's notice. |
| 545 | * TentacleHair: Shura's Overdrive changes his DelinquentHair into a full head of tentacles just like his adoptive father, Nero. |
| 546 | * TogetherInDeath: [[spoiler:By the end of the Nero 66 arc, Shura and Ijuna die embracing each other in the planet's explosion, realizing and accepting that their twisted love for each other is genuine.]] |
| 547 | * TookALevelInBadass: [[spoiler:The CosmicRetcon makes Shura far more powerful than he was before, capable of holding his own against Shiki after the latter regains his full power from three years in the future, where he became of the [[WorldsBestWarrior Oración Seis Galáctica]].]] |
| 548 | * TookALevelInKindness: An {{exaggerated}}, non-CharacterDevelopment example. [[spoiler:Shura starts off as a psychotic, hedonistic deadbeat who kills his own men for the slightest insult, and only finds true love after torturing and humiliating Ijuna until he [[AMatchMadeInStockholm unwittingly drove her insane enough to love him back]]. Once the CosmicRetcon occurs, Shura's history is completely altered and turns him into a well-meaning BenevolentDictator who has a stable relationship with Ijuna, whom he'd never imagine putting through any sort of harm.]] |
| 549 | * TortureTechnician: He makes something of a sick hobby out of torturing captured soldiers of LaResistance, and brings Witch into the mix to torment Shiki. [[spoiler:Ijuna, formerly the "princess" of Oasis, was one of his favorite victims, as he came up with some sickening methods of torture and humiliation, which included taking her on "walkies" as his naked HumanPet with [[AssShove a bomb shoved up her rectum]].]] |
| 550 | * UnderestimatingBadassery: Shura is so convinced he's the ultimate GravityMaster that he underestimates how much of a challenge people can give him. He's caught off guard when Shiki puts up a good fight against him, though he takes it very well, knowing he's found himself a WorthyOpponent. [[spoiler:This is especially the case with Nero, whom he pegs as an aging doddard who's weaker fighter than Ziggy, and doesn't expect it when Nero actually appears to kill the Demon King with his own hands.]] |
| 551 | * UnknowinglyInLove: [[spoiler:Shura turns out to be in love with Ijuna, whom he orphaned and turned into his personal plaything before he fell for her and turned her into his secretary. Because he knows what a heartless monster he is, however, he figures that he's just been brainwashed by her Ether Gear, which forces people to fall in love. He only realizes his feelings are genuine after Ijuna explains her powers don't work on someone who's never known love before.]] |
| 552 | * UnwittingPawn: [[spoiler:Ironically, his plans to kill Ziggy only end up working in Ziggy's favor, as Shura and Nero's wrestling over the anti-matter bombs gives Ziggy the weapons he needs to [[StableTimeLoop cause the spacetime distortion that would lead to Shiki's death and his own birth]].]] |
| 553 | * UsedToBeASweetKid: Back when he first learned how to use his Gravity Ether Gear as a little kid, Shura appeared to be just as excitable and innocent as Shiki. Cut to the present day, where he's a psychotic, murderous deadbeat of a prince, likely as a result of falling into [[TheDarkSide dark gravity]]. |
| 554 | * VillainousBSOD: [[spoiler:He experiences one right before his death when Ijuna permanently embraces her love for him and leads him to a LoveEpiphany, which reduces him to tears over the realization that the heartless monster he's always believed himself to be is capable of loving somebody at all, and that his evil has ironically created the first person in his life to truly love and care for him.]] |
| 555 | * VillainousBreakdown: [[spoiler:Shura loses all the smug confidence he'd built up over the course of the Aoi Cosmos saga when he learns how thoroughly OutGambitted he was by the father he was trying to kill, refusing to accept defeat and nearly getting himself killed in the process. This leaves him blindsided to an attack by Shiki, whom he'd left for dead without bothering to check if he survived, leaving him ranting and raging for the rest of their fight before he's finally defeated.]] |
| 556 | * WalkingShirtlessScene: Shura is introduced completely topless, showing off all the tattoos covering his upper body. He takes to wearing a leather jacket for most of his scenes after that, but doesn't wear a shirt underneath, and goes back to being topless after going into Overdrive. |
| 557 | [[/folder]] |
| 558 | |
| 559 | !!Imperial Court |
| 560 | |
| 561 | [[folder:Ijuna '''(Heavy Spoilers)''']] |
| 562 | !!Ijuna |
| 563 | !!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/HisakoKanemoto (Japanese)[[labelnote: Foreign [=VAs=]]]Harumi Nishizawa (Latin American Spanish)[[/labelnote]] |
| 564 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ez_ijuna_anime.png]] |
| 565 | ->''"I wouldn't expect you to understand... You'll never know the strength of destiny's bonds. Or the madness of a man who doesn't know love."'' |
| 566 | |
| 567 | Shura's personal secretary, formerly a member of Oasis known as the "Princess". Believed dead by her old comrades, she was in fact captured and put through unspeakable tortures by Shura until she developed UsefulNotes/StockholmSyndrome and fell desperately in love with him, joining the Empire to be by his side. Ijuna's Ether Gear, '''[[RedStringOfFate Red Destiny]]''', produces strings of red Ether that cause two people bound by them to fall in love, while severing the strings changes that love into murderous hatred. |
| 568 | ---- |
| 569 | * AdaptationDyeJob: Her hair color is black in colored manga art, but is changed to a dark reddish-brown in the anime. |
| 570 | * BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler:The CosmicRetcon that results from the ''Edens Zero'' going back in time to Universe Zero also means Ijuna's death in the Aoi War gets wiped from history.]] |
| 571 | * BeingTorturedMakesYouEvil: She went from a heroic rebel from Oasis to a loyal imperial soldier after getting put through days of ColdBloodedTorture by Shura and gaining Stockholm syndrome for him. |
| 572 | * BirdsOfAFeather: [[spoiler:When Ijuna realizes she still cares for Shura after getting freed from her brainwashing, even though he killed her father and made her life hell, she concludes she's just as big of a piece of garbage as he is, turning their twisted relationship into true, mutual love.]] |
| 573 | * BrokenBird: She was a warm and friendly romanticist who acted as TheHeart of Oasis, but Shura's torture broke her into becoming cold, cruel, and [[AMatchMadeInStockholm absolutely devoted to him alone]]. |
| 574 | * CleavageWindow: {{Exaggerated}}. The window is so big, the fabric directly beneath it is torn and barely held together by the threads. |
| 575 | * CombatStilettos: She wears high heels that she uses to kick Laguna in their fight. |
| 576 | * ConditionedToAcceptHorror: She doesn't bat an eye any time Shura tortures or gruesomely kills anybody with her around, which is implied to be because he put her through the same kinds of horrors. |
| 577 | * DarkActionGirl: She's a soldier strong enough to give Laguna a hard time in battle, and uses her Ether strings to brutally pierce through him. |
| 578 | * DarkAndTroubledPast: Three years ago, Ijuna was caught by the Empire while trying to rescue some captured teammates from Oasis. Shura took an fancy to Ijuna and used a different woman's body to convince the rest of Oasis that she was killed so he could have her all to himself. After days of cruel and humiliating ColdBloodedTorture that left her near death, Ijuna cracked and developed Stockholm syndrome for Shura, pitying him for how utterly alone and unloved he was, which then blossomed into a twisted romance towards her captor. |
| 579 | * DarkMistress: She has something going with Shura, which is revealed to be because she's a victim of Stockholm syndrome who's completely fallen for him after days of soul-crushing torture and isolation. For his part, Shura is aware of her feelings, but appears to be more amused by them than anything. However, he becomes very volatile when she gets mistaken for his [[SheIsNotMyGirlfriend "consort"]], [[spoiler:an early indicator that their love is mutual]]. |
| 580 | * DeadAlternateCounterpart: [[spoiler:Her Universe 2 and 3 selves die when Ziggy destroys Nero 66 to kill Shiki in the Aoi War, but it's presumed that her Universe 1 self is still alive since Universe 1's Ziggy doesn't come BackFromTheDead.]] |
| 581 | * DeathFakedForYou: When she first went missing, Oasis found what they believe to be Ijuna's corpse with [[FacialHorror her face mangled beyond all recognition]] by Shura. In reality, it was a stranger's corpse that Shura set up so she could keep her all to himself. |
| 582 | * EmotionBomb: Her red strings act as an actual [[RedStringOfFate Red Strings of Fate]] that brainwash any two people connected by one into falling in love. On the other hand, cutting the string instantly afflicts them with an intense HatePlague that compels them to try and kill each other; this doesn't end until at least one of them kills the other, or until their Ether is normalized, seen when Laguna turns Shiki and Rebecca into water and back. |
| 583 | * ExpositoryHairstyleChange: Ijuna used to have shoulder-length black hair when she was member of Oasis, but after she joined the enemy side, she has her hair cut to a very short length as a sign that she cut her connection to the rebel army. |
| 584 | * TheHeart: Laguna says that she was the "backbone" of Oasis along with Goodwin, and her presumed death both devastated them and intensified their hatred of the Empire. |
| 585 | * HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:{{Downplayed}}. After Laguna lifts the brainwashing she placed on herself, Ijuna seems to return to her old self and betrays the location for the All-Link System. However, while this is instrumental in Shura's defeat, she still remains completely devoted to him, and chooses to die together with him rather than return to Oasis.]] |
| 586 | * HolographicTerminal: She has access to one, seen when she transfers command of the Oceans 6 to Shura. |
| 587 | * HonoraryPrincess: The rest of Oasis calls her "Princess" because she's the daughter of their original leader, not because she's royalty. |
| 588 | * HumanPet: Of all the many tortures Shura inflicted on her, she says the worst of them was when he took her out on "walkies", which consisted of her being [[ShamefulStrip stripped naked]] and walked like a dog in public, with a bomb [[AssShove shoved up her rectum]] on top of that. |
| 589 | * IChooseToStay: [[spoiler:Although Laguna manages to free her from her self-inflicted mind control that made her fall in love with Shura, Ijuna believes herself to be [[IveComeTooFar too far beyond saving]] and sneaks away to be TogetherInDeath with Shura before Laguna can give her the care she needs or reunite her with her old teammates.]] |
| 590 | * IgnoredEnamoredUnderling: Ijuna believes herself to be this for Shura because he's never known how to love anybody besides himself. [[spoiler:When it dawns on her that he actually has fallen in love with her against his own judgment, she happily accepts him even after Laguna returns her to her senses.]] |
| 591 | * LoveIsAWeakness: ZigZagged. Ijuna fully embraces her love for Shura because of the power it's given her, but also admires Shura for his lack of love for anyone, because it allows him to kill without hesitation. In that sense, she aspires to follow Shura's example in renouncing all love except for what she feels towards him. |
| 592 | * LoveMakesYouEvil: She joined the Empire and abandoned Oasis because she'd come to believe Shura was her OneTrueLove after getting tortured by him and developing Stockholm syndrome. [[spoiler:As Laguna figures out, her own Ether Gear brainwashed her into loving Shura without her realizing it. Unfortunately, lifting her brainwashing doesn't undo the sympathy she felt for Shura that triggered it, and she falls in love with him for real upon realizing Shura feels the same way about her.]] |
| 593 | * MasterOfThreads: Her Red Destiny creates red Ether strings that can penetrate flesh or block any attack, including water thanks to her strings' Ether-steeling. They also have EmotionBomb properties modeled after the RedStringOfFate, forcing two people to fall in love when tied by the strings, and hate each other when the strings are severed. |
| 594 | * AMatchMadeInStockholm: {{Deconstructed}}. Ijuna started out feeling nothing but contempt for Shura with the rest of the Empire, but days of inhumanly cruel ColdBloodedTorture was so much for her to bear that she developed Stockholm syndrome for him, and eventually fell in full-blown love with him, just to keep herself from falling apart completely. [[spoiler:After it's revealed her love is simply a result of self-brainwashing, only for her to realize this wouldn't have worked if Shura hadn't fallen in love with her for real, Ijuna completely embraces her love for Shura, acknowledging her feelings as proof that she's just as crazy as he is.]] |
| 595 | * MoreThanMindControl: Laguna initially pegs Ijuna's FaceHeelTurn as an obvious case of brainwashing, but Ijuna claims that she joined the Empire of her own volition because [[LoveMakesYouEvil she's fallen in love with Shura]]. [[spoiler:After learning more of how her Ether Gear works, Laguna quickly figures out that she unknowingly brainwashed herself into loving Shura, and promptly restores her mind as it was before. However, this doesn't erase the sympathy she felt for Shura that led to her self-brainwashing in the first place, which she realizes only worked because Shura developed feelings of his own for her, leading her to accept her love for him as genuine in the end.]] |
| 596 | * NoBodyLeftBehind: [[spoiler:She gets blasted to atoms by the {{Antimatter}} bombs together with Shura in the Nero 66 arc.]] |
| 597 | * PersonalityPowers: Ijuna is a romanticist who believes in the RedStringOfFate, and finds it perfectly befitting that her Ether Gear powers are directly modeled after it. |
| 598 | * PowerGlows: Unlike other Ether Gearists, who gain TronLines on some part of their body when their powers are active, Ijuna's Ether Gear makes her entire hands and forearms glow red. |
| 599 | * PowerIncontinence: [[spoiler:Because of her TraumaticSuperpowerAwakening, Ijuna had little direct control over her Ether Gear and wound up using it on herself without realizing it, brainwashing her into believing Shura is her OneTrueLove.]] |
| 600 | * RedEyesTakeWarning: She has red-colored eyes, indicating her as a villain while also matching her theme of the RedStringOfFate. |
| 601 | * RedStringOfFate: Her entire character is themed around this, from her Ether Gear creating actual red strings that force people to fall in love (and make them hate each other when the strings are cut), to her belief that she and Shura are figuratively bound together by it. |
| 602 | * RedemptionRejection: [[spoiler:After Laguna frees her from her own brainwashing, she realizes she and Shura still love each other and returns to him, accepting her own madness and throwing away her chance at reuniting with her comrades in Oasis.]] |
| 603 | * {{Sadist}}: Ijuna has developed a sadistic side after being tortured and humiliated by Shura three years earlier, seen when she enjoys watching Shiki and Rebecca fight each other to the death against their will under her Ether Gear's influence, and violently kicks Laguna while he's down to make him listen to her DarkAndTroubledPast. |
| 604 | * SecretaryOfEvil: She's the personal secretary and DarkMistress of one hell of an EvilPrince who gruesomely murders others without fazing her. |
| 605 | * SexySecretary: She's a picturesque woman whose outfit is way too revealing than necessary for her secretarial position. |
| 606 | * ShipTease: A flashback to her old life suggests that she used to be interested in Laguna when he was with Oasis, demonstrated by her {{Tsundere}} reaction when she blushes at his suggestion that he's her OneTrueLove, and pouting when he reveals he was joking. [[spoiler:Just when it seems their chance at a relationship is restored after Laguna frees her from her self-imposed brainwashing, it gets [[ShipSinking sunk]] when Ijuna rejects redemption and embraces her love for Shura, the man she brainwashed herself for.]] |
| 607 | * StepfordSmiler: She smiles calmly and sensually as she describes the torture and humiliation she endured at Shura's hands, namely getting walked naked through the streets on a leash with [[AssShove a bomb shoved up her rectum]], showing just how hopelessly devoted to Shura she is. |
| 608 | * TheStoic: She rarely changes her cold expression when watching Shura maim and kill others in front of her, or when she describes the horrors Shura put her through. |
| 609 | * SympathyForTheDevil: Shura is a monster who has committed countless crimes and tortured her to the point of insanity, but Ijuna feels sorry for him because he has never loved or been loved by anyone. This has caused her to develop Stockholm syndrome and convince herself that she's in love with Shura. |
| 610 | * TogetherInDeath: [[spoiler:Instead of escaping from Nero 66 before it's destroyed by Shura's AntiMatter bombs, Ijuna stays together to die with Shura, having realized that her Stockholm syndrome goes so deep that she can no longer live without him.]] |
| 611 | * TraumaticSuperpowerAwakening: Ijuna first discovered her ability to bind two people together in love while she was being tortured and humiliated by Shura for days on end. [[spoiler:This also came with PowerIncontinence, as she had no conscious control over her powers at the time, giving it the side effect of bonding her to Shura in love as a coping mechanism without her realizing it.]] |
| 612 | * WalkingSpoiler: Most of her character hinges around TheReveal of her being a supposedly dead member of Oasis. |
| 613 | * ThatWomanIsDead: When Laguna recognizes her as Oasis's "Princess", she coldly declares her old self he knew to be dead, affirming herself as an imperial soldier. |
| 614 | * YouKilledMyFather: During her time as an Oasis member, her father's death was one of many reasons she had to fight the Empire. Now, however, she couldn't care less about it. |
| 615 | [[/folder]] |
| 616 | |
| 617 | !!Oceans 6 |
| 618 | |
| 619 | [[folder:In General]] |
| 620 | The top officials and elite fighting force of the Empire, handpicked by Nero to enforce his rule throughout the Aoi Cosmos. |
| 621 | ---- |
| 622 | * AntiVillain: By and large, the Oceans genuinely have the safety of the Empire's people at heart. To ensure this, however, most of them are willingly complicit in the large-scale eradication of innocent androids to protect the Aoi Cosmos's human population from a RobotWar. |
| 623 | * {{Biomanipulation}}: The younger Oceans all use Empire Ether, which lets their Ether Gear reconfigure other people's Ether to weaken their abilities on top of improving their own. As Laguna can attest to, this is something any Ether Gearist can learn in the Aoi Cosmos, but the Oceans are by far the most dangerous with it. |
| 624 | * PraetorianGuard: Aside from Shura, they are the most powerful warriors in the Empire, selected by Nero himself. |
| 625 | * TwoGirlsToATeam: Lyra and Mirrani are the only girls in this team of six. |
| 626 | * VillainousFriendship: Among the younger generation, at least, there's a big enough sense of camaraderie between them that they all hang out together, maintain a group chat, and try warning the others whenever there's danger. [[spoiler:They even flee Nero 66 together in an escape pod prepped by Nasseh.]] |
| 627 | * WeakButSkilled: {{Downplayed}}. [[SortingAlgorithmOfEvil By all accounts]], the Oceans are more powerful than any of the {{Quirky Miniboss Squad}}s faced before them, but most of their powers center around using [[{{Biomanipulation}} Empire Ether]] to handicap or outwit their opponents instead of simply outmuscling them. Negating their Empire Ether helps even the playing field, [[spoiler:and not a single one of them holds a candle to anyone in an Overdrive state]]. |
| 628 | [[/folder]] |
| 629 | |
| 630 | [[folder:Callum Steelford]] |
| 631 | !!Callum Steelford |
| 632 | !!!'''Voiced by:''' Shūhei Iwase (Japanese)[[labelnote: Foreign [=VAs=]]]Creator/MiguelAngelRuiz (Latin American Spanish), Ronan Rivet (French)[[/labelnote]] |
| 633 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ez_callum_anime.png]] |
| 634 | ->''"We may have trained together as kids, but if we're meeting again as enemies, then I will destroy you."'' |
| 635 | |
| 636 | A taciturn man who trained at the same Skymech Dojo as Jinn on the planet Guilst. Callum uses the Ether Gear '''[[SuperSmoke Carburetor]]''' to harness the power of fog and mist, with his Empire Ether adding the effect of atomizing his enemies. |
| 637 | ---- |
| 638 | * AdaptationDyeJob: He is light-skinned and his hair is completely grey in colored manga art, with different shades for his mohawk and shaved sides. In the anime, the shaved parts are brown, and he has slightly darker skin. |
| 639 | * AlwaysSomeoneBetter: He wastes no time reminding Jinn that he never once defeated Callum in a spar, and proves it by dominating most of their fight. [[spoiler:This becomes a case of TemptingFate when Jinn not only improves enough to resist his Empire Ether, but also takes him down by [[SuperMode Overdriving]].]] |
| 640 | * AmbiguousStartOfDarkness: All that's known about Callum's past is that he was Jinn's FriendlyRival. Whatever turned him into a loyal soldier of a totalitarian empire goes unexplained. |
| 641 | * TheComicallySerious: He's mostly a humorless character, but his [[HopelessWithTech inability to grasp the team's group chat]] adds a nugget of humor to him. |
| 642 | * ElementalShapeshifter: One of his skills allows him to change into a cloud of mist to attack, evade, and teleport. |
| 643 | * EveryoneWentToSchoolTogether: He and Jinn trained together at the same Skymech Dojo on Guilst nine years before the events of the story. |
| 644 | * ExpositoryHairstyleChange: His current hairstyle is a buzzcut mohawk to fit his role as a hardened soldier. This contrasts with his longer hair from nine years ago, where he was more friendly and full of wanderlust. |
| 645 | * FacialMarkings: His Ether Gear's TronLines appear across his face. |
| 646 | * FantasticFightingStyle: Like Jinn, Callum is also trained in Skymech Ninjutsu, which allows him to control [[SuperSmoke mist]] the same way Jinn controls [[BlowYouAway wind]]. |
| 647 | * FirstFriend: Despite his old assertion that he had no friends before joining the ''Edens Zero'' crew, Jinn acknowledges Callum as this, because he was the only student at the Skymech Dojo to treat Jinn with any respect outside of [[VitriolicBestBuds holding his own victory streak over his head]]. |
| 648 | * ForgottenFriendNewFoe: Jinn doesn't recognize Callum right away when they meet as enemies on Nero 66, which is justifiable by the nine-year gap and Callum's ExpositoryHairstyleChange. Once Callum calls him out on this, however, Jinn sees the resemblance and the memories come flooding back. |
| 649 | * HeroicBuild: While not exactly heroic, he has the stockiest body out of the whole team. |
| 650 | * HopelessWithTech: When communicating in the Oceans group chat, Callum replies with a nonsensical, adorable sticker that reads "NICE", making Nasseh wonder when Callum will learn how to properly use the chat. |
| 651 | * McNinja: Just like "Kris Rutherford", Jinn's real name, "Callum Steelford" is a decidedly non-Japanese name for a ninja. |
| 652 | * MusclesAreMeaningful: He's one of the more muscular Oceans, and fittingly seems to favor a more direct physical approach to fighting. |
| 653 | * {{Ninja}}: He's a Skymech Ninja just like Jinn, which allows him to move about and attack with ninja-like techniques associated with the wind and weather. |
| 654 | * NobleDemon: Despite being loyal enough to his empire to kill his former friend, he shows he has enough of a heart to care for the well-being of lower-ranking imperial troops after ordering their evacuation from [[spoiler:the anti-matter bomb explosion that destroys Nero 66.]] |
| 655 | * NonIndicativeName: A real-life carburetor--the namesake of his Ether Gear--is a component for a spark ignition engine that mixes air and fuel to make it combustable; only part of this process involves spraying the liquid fuel as a mist. The Ether Gear itself, meanwhile, utilizes mist as an elemental force of nature. |
| 656 | * RivalTurnedEvil: He was a FriendlyRival back when Jinn first knew him, but in the present, he's a soldier of an evil empire who doesn't question his orders to eradicate all robots. |
| 657 | * SkilledAndStrong: Compared to the rest of the younger Oceans, who rely more on their [[{{Biomanipulation}} Empire Ether]] as a gimick to overcome their opponents, Callum has trained in his Ether Gear's inherent power years before learning to apply his Empire Ether to it, making him an overwhelming physical and technical challenge for Jinn. |
| 658 | * TheStoic: He's ordinarily a stony-faced and serious person, which clashes with his more friendly demeanor from when he and Jinn knew each other nine years ago. |
| 659 | * SuperSmoke: His Ether Gear lets him change into a cloud of fog to move around and rain projectiles at his opponents. With help from his [[{{Biomanipulation}} Empire Ether]], he can also [[NoBodyLeftBehind slowly dissolve others into mist]]. |
| 660 | * TookALevelInJerkass: When he and Jinn met nine years ago, Callum was a much more friendly and approachable person who overlooked Jinn's cybernetics when the rest of their classmates teased him for it. In the present day, he's a cold young man who's willfully complicit in the attempted genocide of the Aoi Cosmos' entire android population. |
| 661 | * TheTransmogrifier: With his Empire Ether, he can use his Ether Gear to turn others into mist, which would kill them. |
| 662 | * UnusualEyebrows: His forked eyebrows help him stand out among Nero's forces. |
| 663 | * VillainTeleportation: His mist Ether Gear grants him teleportation skills better than most villains the ''Edens Zero'' crew faces, since he can [[YouWillNotEvadeMe instantly appear wherever he needs to in order to attack]]. |
| 664 | * WalkingShirtlessScene: Apart from his cape, shoulder pads and chest straps, he has no shirt. |
| 665 | * YouWillNotEvadeMe: He marks targets with hand and fist prints from a distance, then instantly warps to them to strike the marked area. |
| 666 | [[/folder]] |
| 667 | |
| 668 | [[folder:Lyra]] |
| 669 | !!Lyra |
| 670 | !!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/IkumiHasegawa (Japanese)[[labelnote: Foreign [=VAs=]]]Wendy Malvárez (Latin American Spanish)[[/labelnote]] |
| 671 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ez_lyra_anima.png]] |
| 672 | ->''"The show is about to begin. And I wanna play, too. I am just a punk kid, after all."'' |
| 673 | |
| 674 | A cheeky B-Cuber who prioritizes fun and games over her imperial duties. Her Ether Gear, '''[[RandomEffectSpell Gambler's]] [[DeathDealer Rush]]''', gives her the power to change the values and properties of playing cards, either to cheat at games or produce random elemental attacks. |
| 675 | ---- |
| 676 | * AmbiguouslyGay: Lyra seems to have an interest in Rebecca when she first meets her. She orders the brainwashed Rebecca to strip naked before she releases her from Nasseh's hypnosis, and she looks pleased to stare at Rebecca's naked body. |
| 677 | * BadInfluencer: On top of being an Imperial soldier, she's also a B-Cuber who hosts weekly parties and livestreams her AbsurdlyHighStakesGame with Rebecca unedited across the entire Aoi Net, which also happens to be a thin cover for a PublicExecution. |
| 678 | * CheatersNeverProsper: Lyra cheats at Lost Card, which entails drawing a higher number out of five cards to win, by using her Ether Gear to change her numbers to "5" and her opponent's to the lower number. Once Rebecca figures this out ([[NotCheatingUnlessYouGetCaught by cheating with her own Ether Gear, no less]]), Rebecca manages to expose Lyra by ripping her number 4 card in half, putting them in a staggered deck to make it look like five cards, and hiding the real number 5 card in her [[VictoriasSecretCompartment person]]. |
| 679 | * CurtainsMatchTheWindow: A curious variation. She has a case of heterochromia with a black right iris and a white left iris, matching her hair that has both white and black strands. |
| 680 | * DeathDealer: Her Ether Gear allows her to manipulate cards, turning them into weapons with ElementalPowers, and changing their values so she can [[FixingTheGame cheat at games]]. |
| 681 | * DubNameChange: Her Ether Gear's Japanese name is "Gambler Rush", without the apostrophe and S for "Gambler". |
| 682 | * ElectronicEyes: [[spoiler:Her left eye is artificial, having lost the real one to Nero in a game.]] |
| 683 | * ElementalPowers: Along with changing the numbers on her cards, her Ether Gear likewise gives them different elemental properties like [[ShockAndAwe lighting]] and [[PlayingWithFire fire]]. However, she states the effects are random so even she doesn't know what the effects will be. |
| 684 | * EvenEvilHasStandards: Lyra enjoys hanging out with Shura compared to [[ZeroPercentApprovalRating nearly everyone else in the Empire]], despite him being a well-known sociopathic madman, though she draws the line at doing "pervy stuff" with him. [[spoiler:After Shura's scheming gets the whole planet Nero 66 doomed to obliteration, however, Lyra decides she "just can't with him anymore" and ditches him like the rest of the Oceans.]] |
| 685 | * EyeScream: The reason she has heterochromia is because [[spoiler:she was beaten at Lost Card by Emperor Nero, who took her left eye as compensation, leading her to replace it with [[ElectronicEyes an artificial one]]]]. |
| 686 | * FixingTheGame: Her Lost Card game involves players laying out five numbered cards for each other and drawing a higher number than the opponent, but thanks to her Ether Gear, she rigs the game by changing the cards' values as they're drawn, allowing her to pull a winning card no matter what her opponent picks (though she takes a few dives for the sake of entertaining her audience). Rebecca catches on when she uses her [[TimeRewindMechanic Reverse]] power to shift the outcome by switching her 5 for a 1 and pulling another card besides Lyra's 1, just for the outcome to stay exactly the same. |
| 687 | * FurAndLoathing: Her [[PrettyInMink pink mink coat]] doesn't just sell her image as a popular digital influencer; she's also a ruthless imperial soldier and serial mutilator. |
| 688 | * JustAKid: Subjected to this trope by the soldiers under her charge, who feel she's too young and careless to lead them, and would feel better with Fabiano or other the old Oceans' guidance. She simply retorts that [[AsskickingLeadsToLeadership it's because of her sheer power]] and ability to mess with her opponent's Ether that she became part of the Oceans. |
| 689 | * MakingASpectacleOfYourself: She has gaudy heart-shaped glasses with pink lenses on her forehead, though she never wears them over her eyes. |
| 690 | * PlayingCardMotifs: She's introduced playing with some cards, at one point turning the entire deck into nothing but scythe-wielding jokers and scattering the deck as she prepares to engage her enemies. Her TronLines also form a heart symbol on her hands, resembling a card suit. |
| 691 | * PsychoPink: Her pink coat and hair accessories make her look cute, but she's also revealed to be a twisted girl who steals people's body parts when they lose to her, and she can make a mean SlasherSmile to boot. |
| 692 | * {{Sadist}}: She's the host of a SadisticGameShow based around [[AbsurdlyHighStakesGame high-stakes]] StripPoker games, where the loser is not only stripped totally naked, but loses any body part of the winner's choice. Her bone-chilling SlasherSmile she makes when confessing how many times she's won, and how she'll be taking Rebecca's legs by the end of their game, says it all. |
| 693 | * ShamelessFanserviceGirl: She doesn't mind losing her clothes in her livestream show just to give her audience what they want. Of course, that's only because she [[FixingTheGame rigs her games with her Ether Gear to ensure she wins in the end]]. |
| 694 | * SignatureHeadgear: She always wears a pink ponytail ribbon and heart-shaped glasses to show off her flashy, spunky personality. |
| 695 | * SlasherSmile: Lyra gives a creepy evil grin when she confesses how she's won at Lost Card over a hundred times and only ever lost once to Nero, which resulted in [[spoiler:the loss of her left eye]]. |
| 696 | * VillainWithGoodPublicity: She's a famous livestreamer who enjoys being adored by the people of Aoi, even though she's also one of the Empire's elite forces who help Shura's plans for robot genocide, and has dismembered over a hundred people in [[AbsurdlyHighStakesGame Absurdly High-Stakes Games]]. Unfortunately for her, her popularity comes crashing down when Rebecca ousts her as a cheater in the middle of a cosmic stream, which sends her into a VillainousBreakdown and leads her to RageQuit. |
| 697 | * WalkingSwimsuitScene: She always wears a leotard swimsuit beneath her fur coat and leggings, deliberately giving her audience some eye candy when she loses her clothes. |
| 698 | * YouthfulFreckles: She's a freckled girl whose youth among the Empire's soldiers is repeatedly called to attention. |
| 699 | [[/folder]] |
| 700 | |
| 701 | [[folder:Nasseh]] |
| 702 | !!Nasseh |
| 703 | !!!'''Voiced by:''' Shōmaru Zōza (Japanese)[[labelnote: Foreign [=VAs=]]]Creator/VictorUgarte (Latin American Spanish)[[/labelnote]] |
| 704 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ez_nasseh_anime.png]] |
| 705 | ->''"What a shame... Just like that, they're out of commission."'' |
| 706 | |
| 707 | A self-proclaimed hypnotist who enjoys twisting others' minds and emotions for his own amusement. His hypnotic power comes from his Ether Gear, '''[[HypnoRay Eye of Horus]]''', which influences the minds of humans and androids alike. |
| 708 | ---- |
| 709 | * ArmCannon: His [[MiniMecha Sea Devil]] is equipped with an Ether machine gun in its hands and missile launchers in its knuckles. |
| 710 | * BloodKnight: He's a self-professed fan of PoweredArmor battles, which he exclaims while piloting his Sea Devil MiniMecha against Weisz's Arsenal Suit. |
| 711 | * CombatPragmatist: Mosco picks a fight with Nasseh by using his champion-level SumoWrestling techniques, but Nasseh ignores the rules of sumo by kicking him in the head, showing he can't be bothered to fight by other people's rules when he doesn't need to. |
| 712 | * CrazyPrepared: After the Oceans get beaten by the crew, Nasseh shows he had the foresight to [[spoiler:get an escape pod prepped for them all, which they use to flee Nero 66's impending destruction]]. |
| 713 | * DodgeTheBullet: His reflexes are quick enough that he can dodge Happy's Ether bullets, though Happy has noted before that his aim is far less effective when he isn't being held by Rebecca. |
| 714 | * EmotionBomb: He can influence people's emotions with his hypnosis, shown when he fills Rebecca and Weisz with uncontrollable sadness and fear, respectively. |
| 715 | * FacialMarkings: He has a distinct eye-shaped mark on his forehead, and he gets TronLines down his face and eyes when activating his Ether Gear. |
| 716 | * FightsLikeANormal: Because Nasseh's Ether Gear relies solely on MindManipulation, he falls back on physical combat and piloting a Sea Devil MiniMecha when Weisz counters his powers. |
| 717 | * HiddenDepths: Despite coming off as a SissyVillain, he reveals during his fight with Weisz that he's a fan of {{Mini Mecha}}s and ShootEmUp games, and is annoyed that [[FirstPersonShooter FPS]] or [[ThirdPersonShooter TPS]] games are the first things that comes to kids' minds when they think of "shooting games". |
| 718 | * HypnoRay: A biological example. His Ether Gear sends out electric signals that reconfigure his victims' Ether to make them follow his suggestions, whether it's altering their personalities, making them act like animals, or just plain PsychicAssistedSuicide. It also affects androids, who are typically ImmuneToMindControl, though it takes longer for the effect to kick in. The downside is that these signals can be easily jammed or blocked by protective gear like Weisz's Arsenal Suit. |
| 719 | * {{Hypocrite}}: He claims that Weisz's Ether Gear is no fair since it disables his Sea Devil so easily, which is pretty rich given that Nasseh's own MindManipulation powers come with very few limitations on who or what it can affect. |
| 720 | * LightningBruiser: His [[MiniMecha Sea Devil]] is huge and appropriately strong, and is fast enough to catch Weisz off guard and slam him through several structures thanks to its built-in thrusters. |
| 721 | * MacrossMissileMassacre: He can fire a huge amount of missiles from his [[MiniMecha Sea Devil]]'s knuckles, more than one would think could fit there. |
| 722 | * MiniMecha: He pilots a Sea Devil, a Knight Gear suit that's considerably smaller than Sibir and Madame Kurenai's {{Humongous Mecha}}s, but still too big to be considered PoweredArmor like Weisz's Arsenal Suit. |
| 723 | * MoreDakka: As if having machine guns in its hands isn't enough, his Sea Devil can create a gigantic barrage of Ether bullets above it to invoke major BulletHell on his foes. |
| 724 | * NoNonsenseNemesis: {{Downplayed}}. He hypnotizes his most dangerous enemies the first chance he gets, which is enough to make them unable to act, and [[ShootTheMedicFirst prioritizes Pino]] once he finds out about her [[PowerNullifier Ether Gear-nullifying]] {{EMP}}. The issue is that he prefers to indulge himself by giving his enemies comical and humiliating suggestions when he can just as easily [[PsychicAssistedSuicide order them to commit suicide]], and when he does, it's done slowly so he can savor their final moments. This gives the heroes ample time to figure out how his powers work, resulting in his defeat. |
| 725 | * NonIndicativeName: His Eye of Horus doesn't invoke the [[EyeOfHorusMeansEgypt real-life Egyptian symbol]] at all, let alone any eye-related imagery. It also has no relation or resemblance to Noah and Feather's MagicalEye powers, the Eye of God and Eye of Venus (both of which are subject to DubNameChange from "God Eye" and "Venus Eye"), respectively. |
| 726 | * NotSoHarmlessVillain: His hypnotic suggestions seem restricted to turning the heroes into {{Hypno Fool}}s at first, making Weisz behave like a scaredy cat, Rebecca a crybaby, Mosco an {{Ojou}} and later a GyaruGirl, Pino a mole, and Happy a pigeon. The comedy gets thrown out the window when he subjects Weisz and Rebecca to PsychicAssistedSuicide. |
| 727 | * PrettyBoy: He has an androgynous face, long eyelashes, slender build, and talks in a refined yet smug fashion. |
| 728 | * PsychicAssistedSuicide: His "fatal hypnosis" technique involves hypnotizing his victims into ''wanting'' to die, which they attempt to do by strangling themselves with a look of ecstacy on their faces. |
| 729 | * PsychopathicManchild: Nasseh shows a childish side to himself when he starts putting the crew through [[HypnoFool hilarious and humiliating hypnotic suggestions]], laughing like a child, before resorting to PsychicAssistedSuicide. He takes it further while piloting his Sea Devil, having the time of his life and talking about video games while causing massive CollateralDamage. |
| 730 | * {{Sadist}}: He prioritizes his own entertainment above all else when hypnotizing his enemies, especially when ordering them to strangle themselves so he can indulge in their final moments. He also doesn't mind having to fall back on his [[MiniMecha Sea Devil]], since it gives him the pleasure of fighting hand-to-hand. |
| 731 | * SissyVillain: His androgynous PrettyBoy appearance makes him look almost as effeminate as the girls on his team |
| 732 | * SmugSmiler: He's always seen with some sort of smug smile, even shrugging off Shura murdering Cyca with a comment to the effect of "Well, that's Shura for you." |
| 733 | * WhiteHairBlackHeart: His hair is stark white, and he's a through-and-through Sadist and PsychopathicManchild. |
| 734 | [[/folder]] |
| 735 | |
| 736 | [[folder:Mirrani Lucra]] |
| 737 | !!Mirrani Lucra |
| 738 | !!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/AyumiMano (Japanese)[[labelnote: Foreign [=VAs=]]]Gabriela Gris (Latin American Spanish)[[/labelnote]] |
| 739 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ez_mirrani_anime.png]] |
| 740 | ->''"You see, my hunting style...is to pick off my prey one by one. I bring them to my world to shatter them."'' |
| 741 | |
| 742 | A serene woman who projects a calm face to hide her inner thoughts. With her Ether Gear, '''[[MagicMirror Mirror Trick]]''', she is able to freely pass through mirrors and drag others into the world within them. |
| 743 | ---- |
| 744 | * BedlahBabe: Her clothes have the design of something an Arabian belly dancer would wear, with a midriff-baring buttoned vest and baggy, translucent pants over short shorts. |
| 745 | * BeneathTheMask: She's introduced, she presents herself as a KnightTemplar who aids Shura's genocide against the Aoi Cosmos's robots with cold indifference, marked by her lack of reaction to the death of the Oceans' TokenRobot, Cyca. [[spoiler:After being defeated, everything about herself is revealed to be a calculated front she put up out of fear toward Shura, as she already agrees with Homura that robots are living people with hearts, and is in fact devastated by what Shura did to Cyca, her grandfather figure.]] |
| 746 | * BrokenTears: [[spoiler:Upon defeat, Mirrani cries openly over her helplessness to stop Shura from killing Cyca, her beloved grandfather figure.]] |
| 747 | * ConfusionFu: Her mirror-based fighting style is made for this. Once she drags her foe into her PocketDimension, she can use any mirrors in the area to hide and pass between, or shatter them to attack from multiple angles by launching the shards as projectiles or pummeling her foe from within, making it difficult for Homura to predict her attacks. |
| 748 | * DivideAndConquer: Her preferred strategy is to trick individuals in groups into falling into her mirror world while being replaced by their mirror doppelgangers. This allows her to pick off the separated victims on her own time while also causing chaos in the enemy group as they struggle to deal with the sudden hostiles. |
| 749 | * DoppelgangerAttack: Her Mirage Trigger technique creates five clones of herself that rush towards her opponent at once, which she resorts to using after Homura destroys all her mirrors beyond use. |
| 750 | * HidingBehindYourBangs: Her hair always covers her right eye and her combat style specializes in deceptive attacks with mirrors. |
| 751 | * InconsistentSpelling: Kodansha's simulpub originally spelled her name as "Milani", which was changed to "Mirrani" in the volume edition once its [[PunnyName mirror-related theme]] became apparent. |
| 752 | * JustAMachine: She comes off as yet another in a long line of villains who think machines like her teammate Cyca aren't living people, not batting an eye when Shura blows his head off. [[spoiler:Then it turns out to be a rare subversion for the series; she not only knows they're alive, but actually loved Cyca like a grandfather, and was TryingNotToCry over his death.]] |
| 753 | * KnightTemplar: She claims in her fight with Homura that everything she and the Oceans do is for the good of the Aoi Cosmos, blatantly disregarding the lives of the androids they aim to destroy, because [[JustAMachine she doesn't see them as "alive" to begin with]]. [[spoiler:{{Subverted}} once Mirrani confesses it was all an act she put on out of fear of Shura, and that she's completely aware she's on the wrong side.]] |
| 754 | * MagicMirror: Her Ether Gear gives her control over mirrors by freely through any reflective surface and creating copies of herself. With her Empire Ether, she can also trap her opponents inside mirrors and replace them with their own [[MirrorSelf evil reflections]], who target their allies while their real selves watch helplessly. |
| 755 | * MirrorSelf: Her Ether Gear creates these, bringing the reflections of those who look into them to life, and switching them out their real world selves to attack anyone nearby. Their reversed features from the mirror also carry over to the real world; for example, Homura's reflection is left-handed and has her mole under her right eye. |
| 756 | * MyCountryRightOrWrong: [[spoiler:Upon her defeat, Mirrani admits that she strongly disagrees with the direction Shura is taking the Empire, and only acts otherwise because she's afraid of what Shura would do if she disobeys. Nevertheless, while she lets Homura free of her mirror world, she also doesn't betray her teammates and alerts them all about the ''Edens Zero'' crew's power.]] |
| 757 | * PocketDimension: She uses her Ether Gear to freely send herself and her opponents to the "mirror world", the realm inside mirrors where everything besides themselves is flipped horizontally, [[PaintingTheMedium including the sound effects]]. She can also warp herself into mirrors within the mirror world to use them to her advantage. |
| 758 | * ThePowerOfGlass: She can telekinetically shatter mirrors and manipulate their shards to shred her enemies, or to use them as portals large enough to land punches and kicks through. |
| 759 | * PunnyName: Her name is derived from the word "mirror", and can be read in Japanese as "''mirā ni''" ("inside the mirror"), alluding to her powers. |
| 760 | * PerpetualSmiler: Mirrani almost always wears a cold and uncaring smile, whether it's listening to Shura's plans to destroy all robots or watching him kill Cyca in front of her. [[spoiler:However, she turns out to be a StepfordSmiler who was TryingNotToCry during Cyca's death, and sheds BrokenTears once she's beaten by Homura, showing just how terrified she is by what Shura has done.]] |
| 761 | * StopHittingYourself: A variation: she can enchant mirrors so that when her opponents strike their own reflections, they themselves take damange. Homura overcomes this through [[HeroicSpirit sheer endurance]]. |
| 762 | * SwapTeleportation: She inflicts this on people and their own reflections whenever they look into a mirror that's under her control. The reflection then becomes an EvilDoppelganger that attacks the victim's allies, while the original is trapped within the mirror to face Mirrani personally. |
| 763 | * TokenGoodTeammate: [[spoiler:Unlike almost everyone else who fights for the Empire, Mirrani fully believes that what they're doing is wrong, but her fear of Shura leaves her TrappedInVillainy.]] |
| 764 | * TrappedInVillainy: [[spoiler:She grew up wanting to join the Oceans 6 to be like her grandfather figure, Cyca. Now that she is one, she's made complicit in Shura's crusade to destroy all bots in the Aoi Cosmos, forced to fight out of fear of Shura after he executes Cyca in front of her.]] |
| 765 | * TryingNotToCry: [[spoiler:She smiles when Shura blasts Cyca's head to pieces, but a [[OnceMoreWithClarity flashback]] following her defeat shows that [[StepfordSmiler she was forcing it]] while on the verge of tears, both over losing a loved one and [[TearsOfFear out of fear that she could be next]].]] |
| 766 | * WeaponizedTeleportation: She can teleport herself through any surface of glass of her mirror dimension. She uses this power to transport her limbs through multiple glass shards and attack Homura. |
| 767 | [[/folder]] |
| 768 | |
| 769 | [[folder:Cyca]] |
| 770 | !!Cyca |
| 771 | !!!'''Voiced by:''' Motoki Sakuma (Japanese)[[labelnote: Foreign [=VAs=]]]Abraham Toscano (Latin American Spanish), Laurent Stachnick (French)[[/labelnote]] |
| 772 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ez_cyca_anime.png]] |
| 773 | ->''"As a fellow machine, I am ashamed of his behavior. Baring his fangs against the great Nero Empire..."'' |
| 774 | |
| 775 | An old mechanical reverend, and the only robotic member of the Oceans. |
| 776 | ---- |
| 777 | * BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler:The CosmicRetcon in the final arc undoes the death he suffers before the Aoi War.]] |
| 778 | * BadassPreacher: {{Downplayed}}. He's a priest who's part of Nero's elite fighting force, but he says that he is one of the team's weaker fighters. |
| 779 | * CoolOldGuy: He's shown to have been like a grandfather to Mirrani back when she was young, supporting her dream of joining the Oceans. |
| 780 | * DroppedABridgeOnHim: He's introduced as one of Nero's PraetorianGuard, but suffers a SurprisinglySuddenDeath in his second scene. |
| 781 | * NoTrueScotsman: He harbors this sentiment towards Ziggy, feeling ashamed that a fellow machine would dare to oppose the empire. |
| 782 | * ParentalSubstitute: [[spoiler:Mirrani has seen him as a grandfather since she was little, and, though she hides it behind a [[StepfordSmiler cold smile]], is devastated when Shura kills him.]] |
| 783 | * ReligiousRobot: He's a robotic priest with the look of a Buddhist monk, though it's unknown what kind of religion he actually practices. |
| 784 | * SurprisinglySuddenDeath: His death at Shura's hands comes out of nowhere. |
| 785 | * TokenRobot: He's the sole robot among the Oceans. Shura takes this as due cause to kill him, refusing to fight the robotic Ziggy with another robot on his side. |
| 786 | * TheUnfought: Shura disposes of him before Cyca ever gets a chance to face any of the heroes in combat. |
| 787 | * WeHardlyKnewYe: He gets offed by Shura with only two scenes and three lines of dialogue under his belt, [[spoiler:though he gets a posthumous flashback as Mirrani's ParentalSubstitute to give him a little extra characterization]]. |
| 788 | * YourHeadAsplode: Shura kills him this way, obliterating his head with a FacePalmOfDoom. |
| 789 | [[/folder]] |
| 790 | |
| 791 | [[folder:Fabiano]] |
| 792 | !!Fabiano |
| 793 | !!!'''Voiced by:''' Yūya Murakami (Japanese)[[labelnote: Foreign [=VAs=]]]Héctor Estrada (Latin American Spanish)[[/labelnote]] |
| 794 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ez_fabiano_anime.png]] |
| 795 | ->''"Your Majesty... We should take him to war. For the people of Aoi, let us strike down the Demon King."'' |
| 796 | |
| 797 | One of the Oceans' veterans, and their most powerful member. He uses an Ether Gear that transforms his body into solid Aoi Crystal. |
| 798 | ---- |
| 799 | * BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler:He's resurrected from his death in the Aoi War thanks to the CosmicRetcon.]] |
| 800 | * BodyToJewel: His Ether Gear lets him transform his body into a hard, crystalline substance for attacking and defending. |
| 801 | * TheDragon: He's Nero's most powerful soldier, and stays closest to his emperor's side while his teammates are assigned to Prince Shura. Unlike other examples in the series, he doesn't face the heroes, [[spoiler:instead getting fatally curb-stomped by Jaguar.]] |
| 802 | * DroppedABridgeOnHim: He's built up as the strongest fighter in the Empire behind Nero and Shura, but is [[spoiler:killed in an unceremonious CurbStompBattle against Jaguar]]. |
| 803 | * ElementalPunch: He attacks by turning his arm into crystal and landing a devastating punch. |
| 804 | * EvenEvilHasStandards: He's a {{Warhawk}} who believes TheEmpire is for the good of the Aoi Cosmos, but he's still repulsed by Shura's callous murder of Cyca, whom he fully regards as one of their own, showing that he has no prejudice against machines like other villains do. |
| 805 | * MyMasterRightOrWrong: As much as he can't fathom Nero's decision to [[OrcusOnHisThrone sit on his throne]] and let TheEmpire fall apart, he loyally stands by his Emperor's side to repel the Interstellar Union Army's invasion. [[spoiler:He gets killed by Jaguar for his trouble.]] |
| 806 | * OldSoldier: Mirrani states he's one of the "old Oceans", implying he's served the empire for a long time. |
| 807 | * OnlySaneMan: He's the only Ocean to speak out against Nero putting [[TheCaligula Shura]] in charge of TheEmpire's offensive and doing absolutely nothing to stop it. |
| 808 | * OvershadowedByAwesome: He's frequently reputed as Nero's strongest soldier, but he's woefully overshadowed by Jaguar, who stands on equal footing with Nero himself. |
| 809 | * SuperToughness: His Ether Gear allows him to turn his body into incredibly hard and durable crystal. [[spoiler:It ends up being a PowerupLetdown against Jaguar, who easily punches through it.]] |
| 810 | * TranquilFury: He calmly glares at Jaguar ripping apart his soldiers calmly before activating his Ether Gear to attack him. |
| 811 | * {{Warhawk}}: His immediate response to Ziggy's attack on Foresta is to wage war on him, arguing that it's for the good of the Aoi Cosmos. |
| 812 | [[/folder]] |
| 813 | |
| 814 | !!Beast |
| 815 | |
| 816 | [[folder:In General]] |
| 817 | Poseidon Nero's commando team, which is divided into multiple squadrons based on rank and power. |
| 818 | ---- |
| 819 | * TheGhost: Only Beast Squads 1 and 6 are present and accounted for in the story. |
| 820 | * KnightTemplar: The team is authorized to end the robot uprising on Foresta by purging the whole planet of robots. However, among their victims are perfectly innocent robots who didn't fall under the BigBad's influence, whom they treat as equally dangerous. |
| 821 | * MyMasterRightOrWrong: They swear total allegiance to Poseidon Nero, so when he orders them to destroy all robots in existence in response to a machine uprising in a single sector, they carry it out without question. |
| 822 | * QuirkyMinibossSquad: They act as the primary antagonists of the Foresta arc, and a good few of the showcased members have goofy designs and cartoonish personalities, [[BewareTheSillyOnes while also willing to use lethal force]]. |
| 823 | * SortingAlgorithmOfEvil: After Beast Squad 6 gives Shiki and company a hard time but are ultimately triumphed over, the stronger and more monstrous-looking Beast Squad 1 are sent in almost immediately to clean house and get things back on track. It's then taken further when Justice and his men note that Nero still hasn't sent out the Oceans, the true elites under his command, implying that Nero doesn't view the situation as truly threatening. |
| 824 | [[/folder]] |
| 825 | |
| 826 | !!!'''Squad 1''' |
| 827 | |
| 828 | [[folder:In General]] |
| 829 | !!!'''Voiced by:''' Shunichi Maki, Sōma Shiomi, Takuya Nakashima (Japanese)[[labelnote: Foreign [=VAs=]]]Tanguy Goasdoué [Mask] (French)[[/labelnote]] |
| 830 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ez_beast_squad_1_anime.png]] |
| 831 | |
| 832 | The most powerful squad of Beast, who are dispatched to pick up Squad 6's slack after they're taken down by Shiki's crew. |
| 833 | ---- |
| 834 | * BaitAndSwitchBoss: When they confront Shiki and co and prepare to show what they can do, they're suddenly one-shotted by Victory and arrested by Creed in a handful of panels, leading to Shiki's battle against Justice. |
| 835 | * BarbarianLonghair: The {{Tengu}} mask man has a long and messy mane, giving him a tough appearance. |
| 836 | * EliteMooks: Explicitly stated to be the strongest of squad in Nero's commando team, hence why they have the call-sign Beast Squad 1. However, they're also noted by Victory and Creed to be weaker than Oceans, the true elites of the Aoi Cosmos' Emperor. |
| 837 | * LizardFolk: One of them is a reptilian alien. |
| 838 | * MalevolentMaskedMen: The member with the most focus wears a {{Tengu}} mask, which suits a cruel and fearsome soldier of Nero's Empire like himself. |
| 839 | * NoNameGiven: None of them are identified by names, since their one and only role is to [[TheWorfEffect lose to the Interstellar Union Army]]. |
| 840 | * WeHardlyKnewYe: They're beaten and slapped in cages before getting any meaningful characterization, let alone having their names and abilities revealed. |
| 841 | * TheWorfEffect: Moments after being hyped as warriors much stronger than Squad 6 and preparing to fight the intimidated heroes, they're easily taken down by Victory and Creed, all to show off the Interstellar Union Army as a force to be reckoned with. |
| 842 | [[/folder]] |
| 843 | |
| 844 | !!!'''Squad 6''' |
| 845 | |
| 846 | [[folder:In General]] |
| 847 | A squadron sent to suppress the machine uprising on the planet Foresta. Their presence leads to the ''Edens Zero'' crew's first open conflict with the Empire. |
| 848 | ---- |
| 849 | * FreudianTrio: Mora is the clear impulsive and violent member of the trio, but Britney and Orc's roles are different from how they appear at first glance: the former seems to be detached and coldly practical, but later turns out to have angry and violent tendencies, which puts more emphasis on the latter's solemn task orientation. |
| 850 | * RecurringElement: Each member alludes to a minion of Shuda from ''Manga/RaveMaster'' in some way: Mora's "[[StickySituation Glue Tear]]" and Britney's "[[SuperSmoke Smoke Bar]]" share their names with Dark Brings used by Poosya and Georco, respectively,[[note]]the latter being mistranslated by Tokyopop as "Smoke Bay" in ''Rave Master''[[/note]] while Orc (a {{cyborg}}) wears a pendant shaped like the number 70, referring to Poosya's co-lackey [[{{Bowdlerise}} Rugar/Rugass]] 70 (also a cyborg). |
| 851 | * TerribleTrio: They rank among Beast's weaker squads, if not ''the'' weakest, and--with the exception of Orc--are revealed to have wacky personas sooner or later. However, they still pose a good challenge for Shiki and his crew. |
| 852 | * WhatHappenedToTheMouse: The manga makes it unclear if they were arrested like Squad 1, killed in the resulting chaos of Foresta's near destruction, or managed to escape. Orc is eventually brought back in the anime adaptation of the Sandra arc, confirming he made it off Foresta and is still a high-ranking soldier until he's captured by Oasis, but Mora and Britney remain unaccounted for. |
| 853 | [[/folder]] |
| 854 | |
| 855 | [[folder:Orc]] |
| 856 | !!Orc |
| 857 | !!!'''Voiced by:''' Takahiro Fujiwara (Japanese)[[labelnote: Foreign [=VAs=]]]Ismael Verástegui (Latin American Spanish), Serge Biavan (French)[[/labelnote]] |
| 858 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ez_orc_anime.png]] |
| 859 | |
| 860 | An orc-like O-Tech who can transform his robotic Blast Man Arm into a variety of firearms. |
| 861 | ---- |
| 862 | * ArmCannon: His Blast Man Arm can convert itself to fire different forms of ammunition, from multiple explosive blasts at once to GatlingGood level of Ether bullets. |
| 863 | * ArtificialLimbsAreStronger: When not in firearm form, Orc's Blast Man Arm gives him incredible SuperStrength, letting him single-handedly carry a robot's head over twice his own size, tear through metal like scrap paper, chuck a drone at enemies like a frisbee, and withstand a direct punch from Shiki's Gravity Fist. |
| 864 | * BadassArmfold: He drops in on Shiki like this while casually sitting on the wreckage of the last drone ship he destroyed and declaring his intent to fight him. |
| 865 | * {{Cyborg}}: He's an O-Tech whose mechanical with a mechanical arm at the very least. |
| 866 | * DefiantToTheEnd: Even when finally overpowered and defeated by Shiki's Overdrive, Orc scoffs at him, claiming that Shura, another GravityMaster, is far more powerful. |
| 867 | * ADogNamedDog: Exactly as his name suggests, he's an alien who looks like an orc. |
| 868 | * EarlyInstallmentCharacterDesignDifference: He has ordinary arms in his very first appearance, while later chapters give him his mechanical arm, which [[OffModel sometimes disappears in certain panels]]. |
| 869 | * LostInTranslation: ZigZagged. The first usage of the term "O-Tech" comes up when Britney addresses him as such in the Japanese version, which is written in kanji meaning "half-machine", but the English translation drops the name in favor of having Britney call him half-machine. Later on, however, "O-Tech" becomes a recurring term for all cyborgs, forcing the translation to be addressed. |
| 870 | * OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: When he first encounters the ''Edens Zero'' crew, he's seen casually carrying the decapitated head of and spine of a HumongousMecha-sized robot, seemingly ripped out by the neck. |
| 871 | * OurOrcsAreDifferent: He is a space alien who resembles the "revisionist" variety of orc, with a stocky build and a prominent, if warped, sense of duty. |
| 872 | * SinisterShades: On top of his intent to purge entire planets of their robot population who were brainwashed to kill humans against their will, he's got a pair of black shades. |
| 873 | * SwissArmyAppendage: His Blast Man Arm is usually just a standard [[ArtificialLimbs robot arm]], but can change into different kinds of firearms, such as a missile launcher, a Gatling gun, and a straight-up energy cannon. |
| 874 | * VillainForgotToLevelGrind: {{Downplayed}} in his anime-exclusive rematch with Shiki in the Sandra arc. Previously, he was so strong that Shiki needed to Overdrive to defeat him, leading Orc to upgrade his Blast Man Arm to make him even more powerful in just a week. By that time, however, Shiki had crammed over a month's worth of training within that week, so Orc gets his arm crushed and his whole body pinned down by a simple punch from Shiki's base form. |
| 875 | [[/folder]] |
| 876 | |
| 877 | [[folder:Mora]] |
| 878 | !!Mora |
| 879 | !!!'''Voiced by:''' Yoshiaki Hasegawa (Japanese)[[labelnote: Foreign [=VAs=]]]Creator/CarlosHernandez (Latin American Spanish), Jérémy Prévost (French)[[/labelnote]] |
| 880 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ez_mora_anime.png]] |
| 881 | |
| 882 | A ghastly man with a penchant for mayhem, especially if it involves smashing bots. His Ether Gear, '''[[StickySituation Glue Tear]]''', gives him the power to create, control, and transform into a powerful adhesive. |
| 883 | ---- |
| 884 | * AccentAdaptation: The official manga translation gives him a FunetikAksent that turns him into an EvilBrit who makes frequent use of slang such as "innit", "rubbish", and "oi". |
| 885 | * BreakTheHaughty: He's so confident in the NighInvulnerability his Ether Gear gives him that when Homura starts covering him in clumps of dirt, rocks, and wood to slow him down, he assumes she must be trying to make a getaway because she can't hurt him and returns to his non-sticky form. He only has a split second to realize [[OhCrap he's left himself wide open]], and is left a bruised, blubbering mess shortly afterward. |
| 886 | * CaneFu: He uses his cane as both a blunt melee weapon and a means of firing glue projectiles. |
| 887 | * CreepyShadowedUndereyes: He has dark circles around his eyes. |
| 888 | * {{Intangibility}}: He can use his Ether Gear to turn his body into glue, which allows physical attacks to pass or splatter through him without any effect. The only way Homura can land a finger on him is to trick him into switching out of his glue form by covering him in forest debris. |
| 889 | * JustAMachine: He's another of several villains with this mindset towards robots, which he sees as subhuman beings whose only worth is being destroyed, fueling his indiscriminate murder of brainwashed and innocent robots. |
| 890 | * LeanAndMean: He's one of the thinnest and most unpleasant characters in the manga. |
| 891 | * LogicalWeakness: The natural outcome to his ability to change into glue is that anything can and will get stuck to him and hinder his movements. This becomes problematic when he has to fight in the middle of a jungle, where there's plenty of dirt, grass, twigs, and other debris to cling onto him. Of course, he can simply change out of his glue form to get unstuck--[[HoistByHisOwnPetard but that comes at the cost of his invulnerability]]. |
| 892 | * NightmareFace: During his fight with Homura, his face starts melting while he laughs with a deranged grin on his face. |
| 893 | * NonStandardCharacterDesign: His design is overall more cartoonish than the majority of Mashima's characters, with his lanky appearance and huge, sunken eyes. |
| 894 | * PerpetualSmiler: He wears a huge, open smile no matter what he feels, whether it's [[SlasherSmile joy at killing bots]] or [[OhCrapSmile shock at Shiki's abilities]]. He finally loses it after Homura defeats him and reduces him to a sobbing wreck. |
| 895 | * PlayingWithFire: Downplayed in that he can't actually use fire, but his Hot Melt ability allows him to heat up his glue until it becomes a scalding liquid. |
| 896 | * {{Sadist}}: He finds sadistic glee in killing weak and helpless robots, and he glues his opponents down so he can KickThemWhileTheyAreDown. However, he prefers living foes more because the latter actually express their terror and despair as he's killing them better, and he tortures Homura with hot glue falling onto her exposed skin while telling her to keep screaming and show him more despair. |
| 897 | * SignatureLaugh: "Sha ha ha ha!" |
| 898 | * StickySituation: He fights by manipulating glue in bullets or waves at his targets, which are so powerful that it takes all of Shiki's gravitational strength to pull his friends out of it. This gets [[HoistByHisOwnPetard turned on him]] when Homura takes advantage of his sticky form to cover him in so much debris his movement becomes restricted. |
| 899 | * SquishyWizard: His glue ability is the only thing keeping him from taking damage. When Homura turns his Ether Gear against him forcing him to turn it off just to move again, she's finally able to land a blow and knocks him out in one hit. |
| 900 | * TortureTechnician: Shows he can dabble in this in his fight with Homura, where he heats up his glue and drips it onto her body to burn her. |
| 901 | * VerbalTic: In Japanese, he ends several of his sentences with "''-ssho''", which is slang for ''deshō'' ("don't you think?"), and at one point works it into a cruel jab against robots by calling them '' '''shō'''monai tetsukuzu'' ("worthless scrap metal"). The English version's answer to this tic is the British slang word "innit?" ("isn't it?"), with his insult being [[IncidentalMultilingualWordplay seamlessly changed]] to "inf-innit-ly worthless pieces of scrap". |
| 902 | * VoluntaryShapeshifting: He can turn his own body into glue, giving him RubberMan powers and allowing attacks to pass through him. This can also work ''against'' him, however, since it likewise means [[WeaksauceWeakness objects like rocks and dirt can stick on him]]. Homura exploits this by kicking up enough dirt at him that they clump up enough to immobilize him, forcing him to turn off his Ether Gear to unstick the objects and leave himself vulnerable. |
| 903 | [[/folder]] |
| 904 | |
| 905 | [[folder:Britney]] |
| 906 | !!Britney |
| 907 | !!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/HarumiSakurai (Japanese)[[labelnote: Foreign [=VAs=]]]Angie Villa (Latin American Spanish), Caroline Pascal (French)[[/labelnote]] |
| 908 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ez_britney_anime.png]] |
| 909 | |
| 910 | An intellectual young woman who harbors some deeply seated anger and jealousy issues. She uses the Ether Gear '''[[SuperSmoke Smoke Bar]]''' to change her body into deadly gases. |
| 911 | ---- |
| 912 | * ClingyJealousGirl: She has some sort of history with a [[BrainlessBeauty prettier yet stupider girl]] hitting on a man she either liked or was in a relationship with, which causes her to completely flip her lid whenever she sees other girls of similarly lacking intelligence. |
| 913 | * EnemyScan: Her glasses allow her to analyze people and their Ether Gear after witnessing it in action for a short period of time. |
| 914 | * EnragedByIdiocy: She gets riled up when she takes Rebecca to be a BrainlessBeauty for thinking that shooting or kicking her smoke form would work, since it reminds her of [[ClingyJealousGirl a prettier yet stupider girl who tried stealing her man]]. |
| 915 | * IdiotHair: She has a curly lock of hair atop her head. Ironic, considering her intelligence and usually cerebral demeanor alongside how she's EnragedByIdiocy. |
| 916 | * InsufferableGenius: She has a keen intellect that allows her to run circles around Rebecca, but spends the entire fight mocking Rebecca for her inferior intelligence. |
| 917 | * {{Intangibility}}: Like Mora, Britney's Ether Gear makes her completely impervious to physical harm and Ether weapons, which puts Rebecca at a disadvantage since her usual skill-set has no method of getting past it. It takes a tactical retreat combined with a EurekaMoment for Rebecca to figure out how to beat her. |
| 918 | * LogicalWeakness: Her smoke form has the properties of smoke and acts like it. Rebecca uses this to buy time for her retreat by running through a path of flames since Britney's smoke form can't follow as well because smoke rises due to the upward current caused by heated air. Also, being smoke means [[WeaponsThatSuck she's very vulnerable to suction forces]]. |
| 919 | * MakeThemRot: Her Poison Mist attack generates deadly nitrogen that causes any living thing it comes in contact with to rot and disintegrate. Rebecca falls victim to this, [[BodyHorror causing her skin to start sloughing]] before she [[TimeRewindMechanic rewinds time]]. |
| 920 | * NoNonsenseNemesis: When Rebecca corners herself in an appliance shop, Britney only takes a moment to mock her before flooding the room with corrosive nitrogen to [[MakeThemRot rot her to death]]. The only reason it doesn't work is because it triggers Rebecca's Cat Leaper, rewinding time. |
| 921 | * PoliticallyCorrectVillain: Britney scolds Mora for insulting machines in general, reminding him that their teammate Orc is a half-machine O-Tech. |
| 922 | * ShockAndAwe: Her Spark Heaven attack allows her to generate electricity in her smoke form, harming people and short-circuiting robots. |
| 923 | * SlasherSmile: Her mouth twists into a creepy grin while she watches Rebecca's skin rot away from the effects of her Poison Mist. |
| 924 | * TheSmurfettePrinciple: She's the sole female soldier within her squadron, and the only one shown for Beast as a whole. |
| 925 | * SpecsOfAwesome: She wears glasses that analyze her opponents' Ether readings, and is a talented Ether Gear user to match. |
| 926 | * TheStoic: She's most often seen to be cold and impassionate in battle, calmly analyzing her enemies' skills and weaknesses. That [[NotSoStoic ends]] when she shows herself to be EnragedByIdiocy. |
| 927 | * StoicSpectacles: She ordinarily has a calm demeanor and wears glasses. |
| 928 | * SuperSmoke: She can turn her body into smoke, which she can also make [[ShockAndAwe electrically charged]] or [[MakeThemRot corrosive nitrogen]]. |
| 929 | * SuperSpeed: Her smoke form is fast enough to catch up with and overtake Rebecca while she's using Cat Leaper's speed boost. |
| 930 | * ATwinkleInTheSky: Rebecca defeats her by using a specialized vacuum to suck her smoke form in, then punts it into the sky. |
| 931 | * VillainsOutShopping: She mentions that she's a subscriber for STEM Girls, a B-Cube channel run by Rebecca's friend Miyako. |
| 932 | [[/folder]] |
| 933 | ---- |
| 934 | !Church of Saintfire |
| 935 | |
| 936 | [[folder:In General]] |
| 937 | A religious organization on the planet Miltz that worships Mother. Saintfire Nox is the Archbishop and "founder" of their order. |
| 938 | ---- |
| 939 | * AssholeVictim: It is hard to feel sorry for them being wiped out by Ziggy after it's revealed [[spoiler:they're the reason why Rebecca never knew her parents.]] |
| 940 | * CorruptChurch: They became this to the point of killing anyone who has relations to the founder of the church or possesses unknown pedigrees. [[spoiler:Rachels finds this out the hard way when their fanatics kill Connor and their daughter, Rebecca, in multiple previous timelines.]] |
| 941 | * EverybodysDeadDave: Nox is the only known surviving member of the organization; the rest are wiped out by Ziggy. |
| 942 | * HeelFaceDoorSlam: According to Saintfire Nox, the church was already abandoning their extremist practices and reforming into a SaintlyChurch before Ziggy came and killed everyone. |
| 943 | * KilledOffscreen: The Church of Saintfire is wiped out to the last man by Ziggy and his forces, all of which happens offscreen. |
| 944 | * SmallRoleBigImpact: Despite never appearing onscreen, they are the reason why [[spoiler:Saintfire Nox--a.k.a. Rachel, Rebecca's mother--was forced to abandon her family, which leads to Rebecca meeting Shiki and everything that follows.]] |
| 945 | * WouldHurtAChild: [[spoiler:The church's fanatics killed Rebecca while she was still a child in countless timelines.]] |
| 946 | [[/folder]] |
| 947 | |
| 948 | [[folder:Saintfire Nox]] |
| 949 | !!Saintfire Nox |
| 950 | |
| 951 | The Archbishop of the Church of Saintfire. |
| 952 | |
| 953 | ->See Characters/EdensZeroOracionSeisGalactica for more information. |
| 954 | [[/folder]] |
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