Line #75 Characters/Heroman


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13	[[folder: Main Characters]]
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15	!Joseph Carter "Joey" Jones
16	-->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/MikakoKomatsu
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18	The UnluckyEverydude protagonist and the KidHero [[KidWithTheRemoteControl With The Remote Control]] for Heroman.
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20	%% * AlliterativeName
21	* AlwaysSaveTheGirl: When it comes to his LoveInterest Lina and his CoolBigSis Holly. This bring a tiny bit of conflict in Episode 21, [[spoiler:where Joey and Psy are led to believe that Lina's brother Will kidnapped Holly. On one hand, Joey admits that he would hurt anyone who hurts Holly, but Joey doesn't want to indirectly hurt Lina either.]]
22	%% * BadassAdorable
23	* BarrierWarrior: He comes up with uses for his energy shield that catch his less canny foes offguard.
24	* BashBrothers: Joey and [[VisualNovel/{{Demonbane}} Kurou]] form a tag team during their duo battles in Arkham City, their friendship is one of the three-cross series friendships in VideoGame/SuperRobotWarsUX.
25	* BewareTheNiceOnes: Mess with him, he wont bat an eyelash. [[BerserkButton Mess with his family, friends, or giant robot,]] [[CurbStompBattle you won't know what hit you.]]
26	%% * ByThePowerOfGreyskull: "Heroman... Engage!"
27	%% * ChronicHeroSyndrome
28	* DisguisedInDrag: His older sister insists that he needs to sneak into a hospital to talk to one of the patients. Interestingly enough, he didn't have to alter his appearance much; he just needed to put on a dress.
29	* DudeLooksLikeALady: He greatly admires his father and strives to be like him. Alas, genetics being the fickle bitch that it is, he favors his mother instead. ''Greatly'' favors. As in, looks exactly like her.
30	%% * ForceField
31	%% * TheHero
32	%% * IndyPloy: A dab hand at on-the-fly improvisation and inventive use of his and Heroman's powers. Forget the {{Kamehame Hadoken}}s and {{Force Field}}s - it's when he brings out the [[LethalHarmlessPowers magnets]] that you should ''really'' be worried.
33	%% * {{Keet}}
34	%% * KidHero
35	%% * KidWithTheRemoteControl
36	%% * [[OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent Ordinary Middle School Student]]
37	* ParentalAbandonment: Both parents died. Joey idolized his father for being a hero.
38	* RightHandOfDoom: His bulky control gauntlet gives him this appearance. [[spoiler: Not to mention it's red colored 'upgrade' in episode 26 that looks like [[Manga/DGrayMan Allen Walker's hand]].]]
39	%% * SuperSpeed
40	%% * TakingYouWithMe: [[spoiler: He attempts this against Kogorr. He's stopped seconds before he can go through with it, though.]]
41	* TookALevelInBadass: At the start of the series, he spends most of his time hiding behind his RobotBuddy. By twenty or so episodes in, [[BarrierWarrior it's the other way around]].
42	%% * UnluckyEverydude
43	* WrongGenreSavvy: The justification for [[spoiler: his evading the government's attempts at capturing him and Heroman]] was that [[spoiler: it was clear that the media was being manipulated into making them look like the bad guys]], and [[spoiler: the fear that he'd wind up as an experiment alongside Heroman.]] Agent Hughes scolds him for the latter, saying that it was a silly assumption.
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45	!Heroman
46	-->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/RyotaTakeuchi
47
48	The titular character and Joey's RobotBuddy who comes to life after getting hit by lightning.
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50	%% * AmericanRobot
51	%% * TheBigGuy
52	%% * CoolToy: Very.
53	%% * GentleGiant: Unless you hurt Joey, which is a good way to invoke his UnstoppableRage.
54	* HumongousMecha: Although his usual size isn't that big, (he can fit inside some buildings if he crouches) he transforms into a more generic case at one point in the anime.
55	* EmpathicWeapon: His power growth seems to be directly related to Joey's CharacterDevelopment. Also bears more than a passing resemblance to Joey's personal hero, his father. Hmmm...
56	%% * LivingWeapon
57	%% * LightningCanDoAnything: His origin.
58	* MakeMeWannaShout: The sonic emitters on his PoweredArmour, which pack a vicious punch.
59	%% * MidSeasonUpgrade: His NIA-sponsored PoweredArmour.
60	%% * NewPowersAsThePlotDemands: Not as much of a drawback as one might think.
61	%% * PerpetualFrowner
62	%% * RobotBuddy
63	* ShockAndAwe: What most of his powers are based around, in accordance with the whole '[[LightningCanDoAnything coming to life after being zapped with alien lightning]]' thing.
64	%% * [[spoiler:UnstoppableRage]]
65	* TheVoiceless: The most we get are the occasional grunt and scream during battle.
66	%% * WaveMotionGun: [[spoiler:The O Spark.]]
67
68	!Simon "Psy" Kaina
69	-->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/RyoheiKimura
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71	Joey's HandicappedBadass best friend.
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73	%% * AmbiguouslyBrown
74	%% * AnimeHair: As [[Anime/CowboyBebop Spike Spiegel's hair]] on crack.
75	%% * DisguisedInDrag: Does this to sneak into a hospital.
76	%% * DistressedDude: Had a few occasions of this.
77	* HandicappedBadass: Being unable to walk properly does not seem to impede him from riding a skateboard, assisting the professor in his plans, and even kicking ass right alongside Joey with a sweetass guitar.
78	%% * TheLancer
79	* MusicalAssassin: Most of his contributions to battle consist of interfering with the Skrugg HiveMind using sweet guitar riffs on a modified guitar.
80	%% * OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent
81	%% * ShoutOut: [[Film/BackToTheFuture1 His orange jacket seems familiar somehow...]]
82
83	!Lina Davis
84	-->'''Voiced by:''' Maya Obata
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86	Resident cheerleader, DamselInDistress, and Joey's LoveInterest. She is the sister of Will.
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88	* AllGuysWantCheerleaders: A rare inversion: it's our ''cheerleader'' who really wants the average, "nerdy/loser" hero, much to her [[BigBrotherInstinct brother's chagrin]] -- Lina is more to take the initiative on her feelings, while Joey's a bit more subtle and reserved about it.
89	* ConflictingLoyalty: Develops this when she grows torn between [[spoiler:heeding Will's warning to stay away from Joey. That, along with Joey lying to her about seeing Will again, only settled her doubt in him.]]
90	%% * DamselInDistress: she was this even when she was only a child
91	%% * GirlNextDoor
92	%% * [[IKnowYoureInThereSomewhereFight I Know You're In There Somewhere Fight]]: The gang -- but especially Lina -- towards [[spoiler:Will and Nick.]]
93	* LimitedWardrobe: Only ever seen in her cheer leading outfit or a swimsuit.
94	%% * LockedOutOfTheLoop: Constantly. She is very miffed by this.
95	%% * LoveHurts
96	* MagicSkirt: Very brief panty shot during her introduction in the manga, but played straight in the anime where we never get a single panty shot due to the series airing on Creator/TVTokyo. [[note]] The series aired on Creator/TVTokyo and they don't allow panty shots, their censorship standards have been kinda strict since 1997 [[/note]]She gets several more in volume two of the manga, later on along with most of the rest of the cheerleading squad.
97	%% * MomentKiller: Goes through great lengths of this in Episode 10.
98	%% * MoralityPet: To Will.
99	%% * PluckyGirl
100	* TagAlongKid: Insists on following Joey and friends into the city during the Center City invasion arc, despite being the only one to ''not'' join in the fight against the leader of the Skrugg. This fact allows her to avoid becoming TheLoad, however.
101	%% * ThePollyanna
102	* %% ThePowerOfLove: [[spoiler:Being Will's MoralityPet, Lina is able to break Will's Skrugg-infested brainwashing numerous times.]]
103	%% * SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan
104	%% * UptownGirl: Which is why Lina's dad wants Lina to stay away from Joey -- that, and it's implied that [[BigBrotherInstinct Will]] told their father about Joey.
105	%% * VictoriousChildhoodFriend
106
107	!Matthew "Professor" Denton
108	-->'''Voiced by:''' [[Creator/YuichiNagashima Cho]]
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110	The science teacher at Joey's school whose successful contact with aliens led to the Skrugg attack on Central City.
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112	* TheAtoner: He feels it's his responsibility to help Joey fight the Skrugg. After all, he told them where Earth was in the first place. This being a light-hearted kids' show, he doesn't spend much time angsting over it.
113	* {{Catchphrase}}: [[GratuitousEnglish EGUZAKTORY!]]
114	%% * GoneHorriblyRight: His attempt to contact aliens probably wasn't his best idea in the world...
115	%% * LargeHam
116	%% * MadScientist: A benign one.
117	%% * TheMentor
118	* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Goes into a brief HeroicBSOD when he realizes that it's his fault that the Skrugg found the Earth.
119	* OneOfTheKids: Often seems rather less mature than his teenage friends.
120	%% * {{Otaku}}
121	%% * ScreamsLikeALittleGirl
122	%% * ScaryShinyGlasses: Whenever he's busy formulating his latest demented/brilliant scheme.
123	%% * TheSmartGuy
124	%% * TeamMom
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126	[[/folder]]
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128	[[folder: Joey's family]]
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130	!Holly Virginia Jones
131	-->'''Voiced by:''' ArisaOgawasawa
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133	Joey's [[TheLadette ladette-ish]] [[CoolBigSis older sister]] who returns to Central City following the Skrugg invasion.
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135	%% * [[AnnoyingYoungerSibling Annoying Older Sibling]]
136	%% * BrattyTeenageDaughter
137	%% * CoolBigSis: Shows ''very'' faint glimmers of this on occasion.
138	* DisappearedDad: Unlike Joey who was too small to remember their father, Holly can't forgive him for [[spoiler:dying in an act of heroism, which she saw as abandonment.]]
139	%% * {{Fangirl}}: For Heroman.
140	%% * JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Despite her attitude, she truly does care about Joey and helps him out whenever she can.
141	%% * PerkyGoth
142	%% * TheLadette
143	%% * {{Tomboy}}
144	%% * WrongGenreSavvy: At times.
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146	!Virginia "Grandma" Jones
147	-->'''Voiced by:''' Sumie Sakai
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149	Joey's grandmother.
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151	%% * MiniatureSeniorCitizens
152	%% * ParentalObliviousness
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154	!Brian Carter Jones
155	-->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/TesshoGenda
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157	Joey's deceased father.
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159	%% * DisappearedDad
160	%% * LanternJawOfJustice: A particularly impressive one.
161	%% * PosthumousCharacter
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164	!Catherine Mae Jones
165	-->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/SatsukiYukino
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167	Joey's deceased mother.
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169	%% * MissingMum
170	%% * PosthumousCharacter
171	* StepfordSmiler: According to Holly while her mother was always cheerful in front of her children, she had to cry when she was alone.
172	* TellMeAboutMyFather: Inverted, she was always telling Joey stories about her husband, what affected him a lot.
173	* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: While we did saw a grave and date, we still don't know how she died.
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175	[[/folder]]
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177	[[folder: Center City residents]]
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179	!William "Will" Davis
180	-->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/MakotoYasumura
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182	TheBully and Lina's protective older brother [[spoiler:who gets turned into a Skrugg.]]
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184	%% * [[spoiler:AntiHero]]
185	* AntiHeroSubstitute: [[spoiler:After his return in Episode 19, he has Skruggified versions of most of Heroman's powers, all the way up to wall-crawling and the FacePalmOfDoom, as well as a [[WellIntentionedExtremist thoroughly uncompromising attitude]].]]
186	%% * [[spoiler:BadassLongcoat]]
187	%% * BigBrotherInstinct: Seems to be the main reason he doesn't like Joey.
188	%% * [[spoiler:BodyHorror]]
189	%% * [[spoiler:BrainwashedAndCrazy]]
190	* BreakTheHaughty: [[spoiler:Not only does he pretty much lose everything he's ever had in a moment of jealous spite, but all the [[CursedWithAwesome power he's gained]] hasn't prevented the Skrugg from doing one damned thing.]]
191	%% * TheBully: To Joey.
192	* GreenEyedMonster: He was driven to infiltrate the Skrugg Base because he became jealous of Joey's new power. [[spoiler:[[FromBadToWorse That doesn't go well for him.]]]]
193	* HeelFaceRevolvingDoor: [[spoiler: JerkJock -> BrainwashedAndCrazy -> SixthRanger -> WellIntentionedExtremist -> AntiHero.]]
194	* HiddenDepths: He bullies Joey for seemingly no reason, AndThatsTerrible. But at the same time, he truly does bear sincere love for his sister, and really only wants to protect her and be her hero. He is also revealed to have a strong sense of the responsibility when he stepped down as Captain of the football team, not considering himself worthy after he [[spoiler:indirectly caused Psy's disability.]]
195	* {{Hypocrite}}: Sees Joey as worthless and wants him away from his sister, despite that his own best friend Nick is a SpoiledBrat and a DirtyCoward who displays a lack of competency and in general is not someone to rely on.
196	* JerkassToOne: Joey is the only person he is actively rude towards for no good reason, even after all the times he's saved Lina.
197	%% * JerkJock
198	%% * JerkWithAHeartOfGold
199	* MySisterIsOffLimits: He doesn't want Joey anywhere near Lina, [[spoiler:even after he's exiled from his house on account of being an alien hybrid.]]
200	* RefusedByTheCall: He likes to insist that ''he's'' the hero. In the manga he attempts to prove himself both by assaulting the Skrugg ''three separate times'' and fails each time before learning his lesson. In the anime he fails only once and [[spoiler: winds up getting kidnapped and brainwashed by the Skrugg as a result.]]
201	%% * [[spoiler:RivalTurnedEvil: Well, not ''evil,'' per se, just a bit...[[WellIntentionedExtremist extreme]].]]
202	%% * [[spoiler:SixthRanger]]
203	%% * [[spoiler:TookALevelInBadass]]
204	%% * WalkingSpoiler
205	%% * [[spoiler:WasOnceAMan]]
206	* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: [[spoiler:We never saw if he survived the final battle.]] The implication was probably that [[spoiler: he's really dead.]]
207	%% * WrongGenreSavvy: Is pretty much the king of this on this show.
208
209	!Nicholas "Nick" de Carlo
210	-->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/AkioSuyama
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212	Will's CowardlySidekick [[spoiler:who also gets turned into a Skrugg.]]
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214	%% * [[spoiler:BrainwashedAndCrazy]]
215	%% ** [[spoiler:MoreThanMindControl. He started liking it.]]
216	%% * CowardlySidekick
217	%% * [[spoiler:DrunkOnTheDarkSide: Having no real power as a human, he went a bit crazy when he got Skruggified.]]
218	* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler:Quite thoroughly. First he got squashed by falling rubble. Then Joey [[NeverFoundTheBody found his mangled carapace]] [[AvertedTrope under the resultant pile of debris]]. [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill Then the base exploded]]. Given that that's the last we hear of him for the rest of the season, without even the NotQuiteDead moment that Kogorr gets after ''his'' first defeat, it's safe to say that he's very, very dead.]]
219	%% * [[spoiler:NeverFoundTheBody]]
220	%% * NumberTwo: To Will.
221	%% * [[spoiler:RivalTurnedEvil]]
222
223	!Vera Collins
224	-->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/NaomiShindo
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226	HotTeacher who teaches math at Joey's school.
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228	%% * HotTeacher
229	%% * SenseiChan
230
231	!Stan Lee
232	-->'''Voiced by:''' Atsushi Li
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234	He wants coffee.
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236	%% * TheCameo
237	%% * CreatorCameo
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239	[[/folder]]
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241	[[folder: American government]]
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243	!Axel Hughes
244	-->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/HirokiTochi
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246	A member of the [=NIA=] sent to Central City to gain information on Heroman.
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248	%% * BadassNormal
249	%% * [[spoiler:HeelFaceTurn]]
250	%% * InspectorJavert
251	%% * ReasonableAuthorityFigure
252	%% * TallDarkAndHandsome
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254	!The President
255	-->'''Voiced by:''' Bin Sasaki
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257	The President of the United States.
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259	%% * EyesAlwaysShut
260	* NotSoStoic: [[spoiler:His stern, contemplative appearance takes something of a dent in Episode 16, when he reacts to Heroman obliterating the MR-1 with a loud, enthusiastic, [[Series/{{Heroes}} Hiro Nakamura]]-esque "YATTA!"]]
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262	!Watkins
263	-->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/YosukeAkimoto
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265	An aide to the president.
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267	* RidiculouslyAverageGuy: He looks just like a generic politician.
268	* SmugSnake: He is the one who was putting pressure on President to do "something" about Heroman. And he also [[spoiler: without knowledge of the President ordered research on Koggor's eye]], what didn't end well.
269	* EvilChancellor: Subverted, despite being clearly a SmugSnake [[spoiler: he warns President about Skrugg attack and escapes with him to the bunker]].
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271	[[/folder]]
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273	[[folder: Antagonists]]
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275	!Kogorr
276	-->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/UnshoIshizuka
277
278	The leader of the Skrugg and the resident BigBad.
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280	* BadBoss: [[spoiler:All the way up to ''eating'' his subordinates.]] The Skrugg really ought to charge for workers' comp.
281	%% * BigBad
282	%% * [[spoiler:DiscOneFinalBoss: Subverted - he got taken out within the first nine episodes, and then returned in style for the series climax.]]
283	%% * [[spoiler: EldritchAbomination]]
284	* OneWingedAngel: [[spoiler:His combat form. His ''resurrected'' form, meanwhile, is [[EldritchAbomination something else entirely]].]]
285	* SpellMyNameWithAnS: The Japanese site calls him 'Gogorr', but Creator/StanLee himself uses 'Kogorr'.
286	* TookALevelInBadass: While he was a formidable foe, some fans were wondering if he didn't end as a victim of VillainDecay. [[spoiler: Until he returned from death and turned into an EldritchAbomination world eater... whilst ''keeping'' the cunning attitude that made him such a threat in the first place.]]
287	%% * VillainousBreakdown: [[spoiler:During his first defeat.]]
288	* WhyWontYouDie: [[spoiler: Says this when Heroman shows up again to stop Joey's kamikaze attack. Considering that Heroman had his entire abdomen annihilated moments prior, this is understandable.]]
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290	!Dr. Minami
291	-->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/YasunoriMatsumoto
292
293	An EvilGenius with connections to the White House and the military.
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295	%% * DastardlyWhiplash: He twirls his mustache quite often.
296	%% * EvilCounterpart: Him and MR-1 to Joey and Heroman. Also, he's the evil MadScientist to Denton's good.
297	%% * EvilGenius: ''Yes''.
298	%% Yes?
299	* GeneralRipper: Does a rather good job of being this despite not actually being a military officer, thanks to his ties with the armed forces and obsession with Heroman.
300	%% * LargeHam: Rivaling or ''beating'' Denton.
301	%% * LaughablyEvil
302	%% * MadScientist: Oh, ''lordy''.
303	%% ZCE are not allowed.
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305	* TheNapoleon: Takes increasingly-ridiculous measures to compensate for his diminutive stature, culminating in dangling from his team's tilt-rotor like a tiny green-and-white marionette.
306	%% * ObviouslyEvil
307	* PunnyName: "Minami" sounds almost exactly like "[[Film/AustinPowers Mini Me]]", a reference to his height.
308	%% * [[spoiler:TheStarscream]]
309	%% * SmallNameBigEgo
310	* UnknownRival: In VideoGame/SuperRobotWarsUX, Doctor Minami regards [[VisualNovel/{{Demonbane}} Doctor West]] his greatest rival, but West has no idea who he is. It turns out Minami hates West because West doesn't know who he is.
311	%% * VampireVords
312
313	!Amanorich and Stallion
314	-->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/AnriKatsu and Masufumi Kimura
315
316	ThoseTwoGuys who work for Dr. Minami.
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318	%% * GogglesDoNothing
319	%% * ThoseTwoGuys
320
321	!Veronica
322	-->'''Voiced by:''' Ryoko Gi
323
324	Dr. Minami's assistant.
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326	%% * DarkActionGirl: Surprisingly enough.
327	%% * EmotionlessGirl
328	%% * EnigmaticMinion
329	%% * [[spoiler:KarmaHoudini]]
330	%% * ServileSnarker: One of the few deflationary pressures on her boss's massive ego.
331	%% * TheStoic
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