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Peorth
Angel: Gorgeous Rose
The fourth goddess of the series (fifth in the TV series, where Lind was introduced before her), she enters the story when Keiichi accidentally calls her up one day much like he did Belldandy, and against Keiichi's will – he's learned enough by the point she appears to know that another goddess living with him isn't going to end well – decides to stay with him. She is part of the Earth Help Center, a rival organization to the Goddess Help Line that Belldandy works for, and holds the same rank and classification as Bell• .
Upon arriving on Earth, she immediately and continually tried to seduce Keiichi, believing what he really needed was to have his carnal desires reawakened – Keiichi resists, and she falls in love with him as a result – with the possibility of his seeing her as more useful than Belldandy being an added bonus. For a time, Peorth harbored a deep resentment towards Belldandy because Bell had reported the removal of a bug in Yggdrasil as a team effort after the bug knocked Peorth out. Believing Belldandy was pitying her, she held a grudge... though Bell is eventually able to clear it up as a misunderstanding, and in later appearances the two are on much friendlier terms, although Peorth's incessant flirting with Keiichi puts some strains upon this new relationship.
- Becoming the Mask: She initially tries to win Keiichi's heart to steal him from Belldandy, but gradually falls in love with him for real.
- Butt-Monkey: She is the most prone to be humiliated out of any of the goddesses. Over the course of the story, she...
- ...receives her first service call in who-knows-how-long, only to discover it's for Keiichi, who doesn't want her and has already contracted with her (in Peorth's mind only) bitter rival.
- ...has most of her plans on trying to seduce Keiichi comically backfired.
- ...is the point-goddess during the "Demon Child" arc and gets de-aged into a kid and loses her powers as a result.
- ...tries and fails to return to Heaven as a result of the Gate going on strike. In the end, Urd and Skuld adopt an offhand comment from Keiichi and get her through the Gate by shooting her out of a railborne mortar.
- Buxom Beauty Standard: Her well-endowed figure is one of the reasons she's considered so alluring.
- Chekhov's Gift: Implied. While she did gauge Urd in order to provide her with a First Class license, it's implied that Peorth actually meant it as a personal gift to Urd to praise their mutual friendship. Urd eventually declined the licensing for unrelated reasons, however.
- Composite Character: Of all the Norns, really – she has Belldandy's rank, responsibilities, and power level; Urd's fashion sense and tendency towards being a seductress; and Skuld's temper.
- Formal Characters Use Keigo: Peorth's speech pattern in the original Japanese is rather antiquated and polite, used in Real Life only by upper-class women raised before World War II, thus extremely unfitting for a girl who looks and dresses like her. Studio Proteus/Dark Horse opted to translate this by having her use Gratuitous French (see above).
- Fountain of Youth: During the Mysterious Child arc, Velsper uses his control of Yggdrasil to "rewind" Peorth's time, turning her into a child. Unlike with Urd 10 volumes earlier, Peorth lost her powers almost completely. Also unlike Urd (and Belldandy during this arc), Peorth did NOT return to normal once the system was fixed – after a few months, the sys-admins were able to restore her powers, but not her original form.
- Gratuitous French: In the Dark Horse manga translation, Peorth is extremely fond of peppering her speech with French and antiquated English... at least when she's not angry or apathetic. Even Gorgeous Rose is named "La Rose Magnifique" in the original Studio Proteus translation.
- Green Thumb: Her magic is based on the element of Earth, mainly associated with roses and vines. Her angel, Gorgeous Rose, follows suit.
- Love Goddess: Occasionally tries to play this role for Keiichi and Belldandy, if not Keiichi and herself.
- Married to the Job: Even when it seems that she is slacking off at Tariki-hongan, she has actually been on duty the whole time, supervising Urd in particular so that she can evaluate whether she can upgrade her to Goddess First Class. It doesn't mean she didn't enjoy her time there.
- Meaningful Name: Peorth is the name of the Anglo-Saxon rune ᛈ, which has an uncertain meaning; linguists associate it as part etymologic roots meaning "apple tree" or "pear tree", albeit it's also linked to a wood-wind musical instrument as part of a runic poem.
- Meido: Makes anyone who's working under her for special missions wear maid outfits. Poor Chrono.
- Mode Lock: After she's turned into a kid, fixing Yggdrasil doesn't restore her adult body; she's still a kid the next time she appears (albeit with her powers back). It takes the combined efforts of all three Norns plus the personal intervention of Hild herself to allow Peorth to grow up again.
- Ms. Fanservice: Possibly the most obvious example in the series. Her default "robes" – a black tanktop with a boob window, black bikini bottom, and leather accoutrements – are even more revealing than what Urd wears. Lampshaded by Lind in one instance, during an ESCAPE of all times.
- Oblivious to Love:
- She completely misinterprets Tamiya's interest in her, thinking him gay for Keiichi.
- She also follows the advice of a trashy romance novel; this is especially ironic considering she fancies herself a love goddess.
- O.O.C. Is Serious Business: When she gets turned into a kid, her clothes ''don't'' shrink with her, meaning they become very loose. After Velsper points this out, she immediately covers up in embarrassment, leading him to lampshade her sudden change in attitude.
- Not So Above It All: During her early stay at Tarikihongan, Peorth was mostly there to put Urd and Skuld in their place; eventually she found herself pulled down to their schemes and causing as much trouble as them.
- Petal Power: Peorth's Storm of Roses attack in the anime, though in the manga she uses whole roses instead of just the petals.
- Proud Beauty: She's a vain woman who's quite proud of her good looks.
- The Rival: With Belldandy at first. Then, with both Urd and Skuld for TV rights.
- Sex Goddess: In her original introduction in Chapter 66, she even states that she's in charge of fulfilling the carnal/earthly desires and that she's the "best at it" in her agency.
- Shipper on Deck: Eventually ships Keiichi/Belldandy but initially shipped Keiichi/herself.
- Spanner in the Works: Peorth is shown to cause procrastination in Heaven every time she comes back with souvenirs from the Earth. Productivity does plummet.
- Stripperiffic: She wears a very revealing outfit that resembles a one-piece swimsuit adorned with oversized belts.
- Sublime Rhyme: By lucky coincidence, her name rhymes with "fourth".
- Sweet Tooth: She is markedly fond of pastries and can spend a considerable time just savoring their scent and appearance alone. She'll refuse to eat any pastry that is not pristine up to her standards. It's also implied that she likes to advertise such things in Heaven among other stuff.
- Unknown Rival: Sees herself as a The Rival to Belldandy but Bell is initially clueless to Peorth's animosity.
- Vitriolic Best Buds. First and foremost, with Lind. After her come Urd and Skuld.
- Well, Excuse Me, Princess!: The tone of the series would have been completely different if it had been Peorth picking up the phone in Chapter/Episode One.
- Wrong Genre Savvy: She attempts to win Keiichi's heart by following the dating methods she read in romance and porn manga. During that time, she also assumes that she's in a hentai manga. This is lampshaded by the narrator when she fantasizes having sex with Keiichi after a date.
Lind
One Winged Angel Lind; Rind
Angel: Cool Mint and Spear Mint
The fifth Goddess to appear in the comic (fourth in the TV series). Lind is a Valkyrie, a member of the battle division of Heaven, also known as the Fighting Wings. Like the Goddesses Belldandy and Peorth, Lind carries a First Class License. However, unlike the other two, Lind's license is classified as "Special Duty, Limited", which denotes her position as a Valkyrie. Her elemental domain is ice, even though she is able to control fire and lightning beams perfectly.
Lind had to deal with a lot of teasing and pity in her younger days because her angel only has one wing – turns out she ended up with Binary Angels, Spear Mint and Cool Mint, who each only have a single wing, but no one in Heaven besides Lind knew that because she could only summon one at a time. She has also established close friendships with Keiichi Morisato, Belldandy, and Peorth.
- Action Girl: She is a Valkyrie, after all. That's kinda their thing.
- Blood Knight: She admits at one point that she is fond of breaking things.
- Cast from Hit Points: She has booster patches on her shoulders that can keep her going past her limits. When things look dire against the Angel Eater, she prepares to use all of them, even knowing she probably will never be able to fight again afterward.
- Combat Pragmatist: When she discovers that the Angel Eater had piggybacked onto her angel Spear Mint, she doesn't hesitate to rip the angel and the Angel Eater out of her.
- Conditional Powers:
- Her angels won't come out at the same time – not because she isn't powerful enough, but because there was never an instance where she really needed them. It took her a long time to realize this. Incidentally, this is exactly the same thing that prevented Skuld from successfully hatching Noble Scarlet.
- As a Valkyrie and a member of the Fighting Wings, Lind can drop power restrictions very easily, but she risks both her physical integrity and her life by doing so.
- Crippling Overspecialization: Best at fighting out of the goddesses, but the worst at magic. Her attempts to fix Keiichi's house are so bad she and Peorth pass it off as being the demon Hagal's doing.
- Defrosting Ice Queen: Starts out seemingly cold and impersonal, but eventually warms up to the point of considering Keiichi a lifelong friend.
- Emotionless Girl: Subverted. She makes a point to show Belldandy that she is indeed full of emotions, but she's not that good in the way of conversation or interpersonal relations.
- Fashionable Asymmetry: Wears her hair longer on one side than the other, probably ties in to her angels having only one wing each.
- Giftedly Bad: She is so uniformly awful at restoration magic that the objects she tries to fix become distorted in a half-ruined mess. Later becomes a plot point when Peorth orders Lind to "fix" the Gate to Hell, knowing it would become so screwed up it couldn't possibly close - thus giving Keiichi and the Norns enough time to escape.
- Gold and White Are Divine: She's never seen in anything other than her Valkyrie uniform, which is white with blue trim.
- Good Old Fisticuffs: She can use magic, but mostly fights using her halberd and bare hands.
- An Ice Person: Her elemental domain is ice.
- I Am Not Left-Handed:
- Pulls this on Hild when she reveals that she has more than one angel.
- Her using a huge halberd is simply her way of being polite and giving her opponent a chance. She's actually deadlier without it.
- In-Series Nickname: One-Winged Lind, see One-Winged Angel below. She also has another one – (Twin-Angel Lind, a nickname known by only a few).
- Iron Lady: At the outset, she betrays very little emotion. When she realizes that she unwittingly became the host of the Angel Eater and puts all the goddesses at the temple in peril just by her mere presence, Skuld is understandably upset at her; Lind does feign shame, but argues that she's not going to dwell on it or lose precious time apologizing.
- Meaningful Name: She's named after the Norse giantess/princess Rindr, who was a lover of Odin and gave birth to Váli/Bous, Balder's death avenger.
- Not So Stoic: She was so intent on becoming a great fighter that she even forgot how to smile. Before she went to Tarikihongan, she was shown to be a straight arrow with a no-nonsense behavior (to compensate for the fact that her angels only have one wing each and she was unable to call them out simultaneously, meaning almost no one knew she had two angels at all). After defeating the Angel Eater, she's able to summon both her angels, counts the goddesses and (especially) Keiichi as intimate friends, and even becomes BFFs with Peorth. She just needed to relax a little.
- Plucky Girl: One of the few goddesses able to fight without her angel (both of them) taken from her, despite the sheer amount of shock that angel removal usually causes (most other goddesses lose consciousness).
- Power Limiter: Her halberds function as these, lowering combat potential instead of increasing it. It's implied that this is both for training and to limit collateral damage.
- Took a Level in Cheerfulness: Frustrated by her inability to call forth both angels at once (and the resulting sadness of them never meeting), Lind chalked it up to "weakness" and threw herself into Valkyrie training with incredible ferocity. This gained her a reputation as a Goddess of extreme violence and kept anyone from trying to get close to her. Eventually, she is able to call out both her angels by realizing that she lacked a belief in herself and a trust towards others during her fight with the Angel Eater planted inside of her by Hild in an attempt to replace her angels with devils. She has since become more open and smiles often.
- Unwitting Instigator of Doom: She unknowingly carries the Angel Eater into striking distance of four powerful goddesses, and it has possession of her angel Spear Mint, whose cries of distress lure out every angel who hears them.
- When She Smiles: Lind becomes a lot less chilly and intimidating, almost to the point of being downright cute.
- Worlds Greatest Warrior: Lind's job description as one of the strongest Valkyries in Heaven.
Chrono, Ere & Ex
Chrono, Ere & Ex as they appear in the movie; click here to see Chrono as she appears in the manga
Chrono voiced by: Masako Jo (JP, TV Series), Yui Horie (JP, Movie), Rebecca Soler and Alissa Brodsky (EN, TV Series), Tara Sands (EN, Movie)
Ere voiced by: Chiemi Chiba (JP, TV Series), Rumi Kasahara (JP, Movie), Alissa Brodsky (EN, TV Series), Elizabeth Cartier (EN, TV Series), Barbara Goodson (EN, Movie)
Ex voiced by: Yoko Honna (JP, TV Series), Akiko Yajima (JP, Movie), Emily Blau (EN, TV Series), Karen Neill (EN, TV Series), Emily Brown (EN, Movie)
Ere voiced by: Chiemi Chiba (JP, TV Series), Rumi Kasahara (JP, Movie), Alissa Brodsky (EN, TV Series), Elizabeth Cartier (EN, TV Series), Barbara Goodson (EN, Movie)
Ex voiced by: Yoko Honna (JP, TV Series), Akiko Yajima (JP, Movie), Emily Blau (EN, TV Series), Karen Neill (EN, TV Series), Emily Brown (EN, Movie)
Three goddesses who maintain Yggdrasil. They generally help Peorth and Lind and such by giving relevant exposition, or lines to increase dramatic tension. They also serve as people for Peorth or Lind to give orders to, allowing the commanding character to verbally direct the conflict, and to explain the dangerous nature of certain actions. Chrono in particular is given a greater focus in the manga.
- Adaptation Expansion: Chrono has brown hair in her first appearance in the movie where she plays a minor role; she is blonde in the manga, where she is shown to be a potential Valkyrie.
- Ascended Extra: Chrono gets her own story arc in volumes 37 & 38.
- Bit Character: Ere and Ex are not given any significant plot in neither manga nor anime.
- Bridge Bunnies: In the movie and TV series.
- Call-Back: A goddess (Chrono) that is a superb fighter but is severely lacking in other aspects of being a goddess? Hello again, Lind! This does set a precedent where the focus on fighting forces the Valkyries to neglect other abilities that are second-nature to normal goddesses.
- Canon Immigrant: They were originally introduced in The Movie (and then appeared in the TV series) before being added to the manga several years later.
- Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: Chrono might seem fragile and ditzy, but she's actually an extremely fierce and fearsome fighter; her fighting abilities even surprise Belldandy and Urd; Chapter 238 shows she was able to throw the latter into a tree without either Norn being able to counter her. She's a serious Valkyrie candidate who is also being investigated by Lind for promotion.
- Cute Bruiser: It's a remarkable thing when a character with such poor sense of orientation like Chrono is at the same time a tremendously able fighter and martial artist, amply demonstrating it while fighting with Velsper... who is a cat... and while she's wearing a maid dress.
- The Ditz: Played with, as the mission as entrusted by Peorth required this particular set of "assets" from Chrono.Narrator: Chrono was foolish by nature.
Narrator: Chrono had no sense of direction.
Narrator: Now would be a good time to mention that Chrono was also clumsy. - Everything Has Rhythm: The arc involving Chrono coming to Earth has her realizing this trope applies to her combat ability as well.
- Good Is Not Dumb: Invoked. Chrono is by no means dumb, but she's so insecure that it affects her confidence, her decision-making, and her self-esteem.
- Heroic Self-Deprecation: Chrono subdues a program note by round-kicking it to stun it, showing a remarkable display of dexterity. Keiichi is floored by the awesomeness of her move and tells her so. She's not very used to the praise and it's implied that no one in Heaven has told her anything of the sort before, so it becomes a huge boost to her confidence.
- Hidden Purpose Test: Chrono was not only being tested on her ability to retrieve the program entrusted to her, she was also sent to Earth so she could get brownie points in her pursuit of becoming a Valkyrie. In the end, when she has ostensibly shown her chops, Lind is willing to give her a commendation for Silver Wings based on her performance.
- Immortality Begins at Twenty: Subverted with Chrono. She has the appearance of a girl in her mid-teens, younger than Belldandy but older than Skuld.
- Meaningful Name: Their names suggest that they might be lesser Norns of Time; the original Norse mythology mentions that there are many other Norns aside from the three main ones:
- Chrono is a word of Greek origin referring to time and its measurement;
- Ere is an archaic English word of Germanic origin meaning "before", mainly used in poetry;
- Ex is a prefix of Latin origin meaning "formerly" (among other meanings)
- Never Accepted In Her Hometown: Chrono has never received such praise and admiration from anyone in Heaven like she received from Keiichi and Belldandy. It's implied that Peorth sent her to Earth to boost her confidence, which is something that she had always been lacking.
- Nightmare Face: Normally cute, Chrono is prone to making these kind of expressions whenever a cat shows up either in conversation, in reality, or in her own memories.
- She also makes this face when she realizes she's talking to Urd "The Exchanger of Means and Ends", despite having already met her previously.
- Ninja Maid: Chrono, who happens to be a Valkyrie in training, is forced by Peorth to wear a maid outfit when she goes to Earth to deliver a program to Belldandy.
- Replacement Goldfish: The three of them perform maintenance on Yggdrasil, which is the job that Belldandy, Peorth, Urd, and Skuld used to do.
- Self-Deprecation: Chrono is well aware that she is clumsy and easily confused, so she beats herself up with this constantly. She's even told by Belldandy that she should seriously drop it.
- Spanner in the Works: Chrono for Peorth. Chrono is terrible at office work and multitasking; she makes quick decisions and actions that are often wrong and disastrous. While this line of thought does not help her in her current task, it makes her an extremely talented fighter and a noteworthy candidate for the Fighting Wings; Peorth sees these attributes in her and sends her on a mission that will showcase them, and she makes sure that Lind is there to witness her accomplishments. It works out perfectly.
- Super-Reflexes: Chrono can attack way faster than what Belldandy can react to; this is remarkable, considering Belldandy is already a licensed Valkyrie.
- Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: Chrono has an intense, blinding fear of cats.
Troubadour
Click here to see Troubadour in the TV Anime
Voiced by: Kōichi Yamadera (JP), Dan Green (EN)
A plum-tree spirit, and Urd's old flame. He left Urd to pursue a golden nightingale because all plum-tree spirits are expected to do so.
- Crazy Jealous Guy: He gets violently jealous when it comes to Urd, often employing a song that results in the victim being reduced to a bug-filled corpse. Keiichi nearly met this fate but for a timely counterattack from Urd.
- Early Installment Character-Design Difference: After Art Evolution kicks in, he trades his muscles and rugged facial features in Urd's Volume 4 flashback for a slimmer figure and a smooth face. His hair also become longer and he gains Pointy Ears to give him an elf-like appearance.
- Jerkass: He is very easily offended and often uses Disproportionate Retribution to exact satisfaction. He's remarkably out of touch regarding almost everything that he comes in contact with.
- Nature Spirit: Is the spirit of a plum tree, although his powers seem to be music-based.
- Pointy Ears: Gains them after Art Evolution.
Tyr
The Almighty, Kami-sama, Daitenkaicho
Voiced by: Shinji Ogawa (JP-OVA), Hidetoshi Nakamura (JP-TV), Dave Underwood (EN-OVA), Marc Thompson (EN-TV)
Close-up of Tyr as he appears in the 1993 OVA
Tyr, the Almighty ("Daitenkaicho", "ruler of heaven" in the original Japanese) is the head god. As the Almighty, all goddesses ultimately answer to him and he is responsible for maintaining reality, time, and probability as we know it. His attitude and personality is very commanding, but he is very polite and forgiving; He has forgiven the Norns for disobeying his orders multiple times (as is suggested by Keiichi in the manga). The Almighty One is very blunt and straight-forward. He does not understand how humans act and communicate, possibly because He has not been to Earth in a long time.
Throughout the manga and anime his face is never seen – it's always shrouded in shadow, turned away, too close-up, or he's speaking via proxy. All that can be discerned is that he is tall and well-built, with long black hair – it's stated that Skuld looks a lot like him. He also has many seals on his hands, neck, and on his ears, which just goes to show how insanely powerful he is.
He is shown to have a rather low opinion of mortals in general and Keiichi in particular, and does not like being challenged.
- Alternate Continuity: The Tyr from O/AMG is related to the Norse Mythology version where Tyr is the leader of the Aesir instead of Odin. In this media's case in particular, the Norns are his daughters, where in the original myth they are not related (and as a matter of fact, the Norns are actually Jotun giantesses and are Valkyries too; also, there are more than three Norns).
- Always Someone Better: It's shown that Ansuz and Hild are equally powerful; this implies that Tyr is more powerful than either of them. As such, the office holder of the Daitenkaicho is stronger than the Daimakaicho.
- Amicable Exes: It's said by Ansuz that Tyr still loves and misses Hild very much. These two wives of his are also surprisingly friendly with each other too. Calling them exes may even be a stretch given how it's implied they would be together if it were possible.
- Demonic Possession: Rather Divine Possession in this case but, anyway, Tyr has the power to possess other beings and communicate and use his powers through them, which he has demonstrated twice: Once with Yuki Gomorrah, a student/fortune teller at Nekomi Tech, and once with the Gate of Judgement.
- Department of Redundancy Department: The Dark Horse character profiles always lists him as, "The Almighty: Almighty."
- Divine–Infernal Family: Downplayed; he's not biologically related to Hild, but he is her ex-husband and fathered Urd with her.
- Engagement Challenge: Even though Keiichi passed the test that would allow him to remain with Belldandy, Tyr insists that he'll only accept it if Keiichi performs a miracle. Which in this case is a bike timetrial that makes the Isle of Man TT race look downright easy.
- The Faceless: His face is never fully shown. The only thing that is ever shown of him in the manga is his arm; this might be an actual Mythology Gag, as the mythological Tyr only has one hand, having lost the other one to the wolf Fenrir. Another clue to his appearance is that Skuld bears a strong resemblance to him, if Hild's remarks and a close-up in the 1993 OVA is of any indication.
- God: He is "the almighty", ruler of heaven, the guy in charge of everything, etc. Although, he's not the only god.
- Not So Above It All: He doesn't want to give Belldandy's hand away in marriage because he doesn't think that either she or Keiichi will bear the pain of losing each other. The Lake Goddess even catches a glimpse of him crying over this before he leaves the Gate's body.
- Parent with New Paramour: When he was forcibly separated from Hild, he married Ansuz; she gets along with Urd in spite of not being her mother.
- Screw the Rules, I Make Them!: He's able to lie with impunity (which Bell calls him out on), and refuses to accept K1 and Bell's passing the Judgement Gate's trial, forcing Keiichi to further prove himself.
Celestine
Voiced by: Hiroshi Yanaka (JP), Steve Blum (EN)
A high-ranking god as well as Belldandy's first love and her mentor, serving as the Big Bad of the movie.
- Big Bad: The main antagonist of the film.
- Broken Pedestal: Poor, poor Belldandy. She crossed the Despair Event Horizon after he was defeated and sealed away, and only being given amnesia could fix her.
- Canon Foreigner: Only appears in The Movie; not even MENTIONED elsewhere. Though he could be the figure accompanying Belldandy to her Doublet ceremony in the manga.
- Evil Mentor: To Belldandy, he was an Anti Villainous Mentor.
- Expy: Of the biblical Lucifer.
- Fallen Angel: In his case, his initial rebellious act was to abolish the Gate of Judgement; in turn, he was stripped from his powers and physical body, and sealed to drift across space.
- Grand Theft Me: Towards the end of The Movie, he possesses Keiichi's body.
- Knight of Cerebus: He's an Anti-Villain, but he's a much more serious antagonist than most of the canon villains.
- Laser-Guided Amnesia: He erases Belldandy's memories of Keiichi as a part of his Evil Plan
- Love Redeems: As Celestine possesses Keiichi's body, he manages to feel and witness the love between Keiichi and Belldandy, which helps him change his mind...
- Rage Against the Heavens: He was deeply frustrated with Heaven's methods, thinking they weren't enough to make people happy. Then he tried to destroy the Gate of Judgement, and things went From Bad to Worse.
- Walking Spoiler: It's hard not to talk about him without revealing a major plot twist that occurs halfway through the movie.
- Well-Intentioned Extremist: His goal is to destroy the world in order to build a new world free of suffering.
- White Mask of Doom: The punishment he received from the gods traps him in the form of a miniature white mask a couple of inches long, with his characteristic hexagonal forehead mark.
Morgan le Fay
Morgan, as she appears in the movie; click here to see Morgan in human form
Voiced by: Ayako Kawasumi (JP), Lia Sargent (EN)
A beautiful fairy and Celestine's messenger.
- Aloof Dark-Haired Girl: Fits the trope when she's first introduced in the movie in her human appearance. She's just as physically able as the goddesses themselves.
- Anti-Villain: She's not really evil. See "Broken Bird" below.
- Batman Can Breathe in Space: In the opening scene of The Movie, when she releases Celestine from imprisonment, she can walk on the surface of the Moon with no protection.
- Broken Bird: Lost her loved one when they couldn't go through the Gate of Judgement, which embittered her deeply.
- Canon Foreigner: Only exists in The Movie.
- The Dragon: To Celestine.
- Dark Magical Girl: Perhaps the best example in the whole franchise, as she isn't downright evil but very, very troubled.
- Foil: To Belldandy concerning Keiichi's affections.
- Forceful Kiss: On Keiichi. She does seem to be genuinely attracted to him, but it's also part of her plan to transfer Celestine to him so that Celestine could fully possess him when Belldandy receives the vaccine program.
- Voluntary Shapeshifting: She is seen taking on the form of a human girl or Celestine himself.
- Walking Spoiler: N'aww! Really?
The Gates
Gate of Heaven as she appears in the manga
The personifications of the various portals between dimensions/realms. All Gates from the system have exactly the same appearance save for their garb and all have exactly the same memory backup.
This entry includes tropes related to the Gates of Hell, though these are not shown to be proper characters.
- Adaptation Expansion: Inverted, as the Gate of Judgement has more substance in the manga: the Gate of Judgement first appeared in the movie, though it appeared as inanimate. There, Keiichi and Belldandy go through it almost effortlessly. In the manga depiction, the Gate appears in the same humanoid form as the Gate of Heaven, to enforce judgement upon Keiichi and Belldandy after they literally went through Hell. Crossing it and the ordeal itself was emotionally enormous in this version, though.
- Animate Inanimate Object: Subverted. The gates of the Heaven's Gate system are very much conscious, living beings with personalities and humanoid forms; they just happen to be gates.
- Anthropomorphic Personification: They are living gates who can take humanoid form.
- Bratty Half-Pint: They have powers and knowledge beyond the goddesses' own, but they are severely lacking in social cues. As such, Gate of Heaven looks down on everyone in the Temple, especially Keiichi.
- Enfant Terrible: Though diminutive compared to the goddesses at the temple, the Gate of Heaven is considerably stronger than all of them. The Gate of Judgement does not take lightly the fact that Keiichi and Belldandy were able to step out of the illusion inside her and promptly cuts the glitch with great force.
- Evil Counterpart: Subverted. While the Gates system of Heaven features living gates, there's no indications that the gates that lead to Hell are alive or even have similar nature as their counterparts.
- Exactly What It Says on the Tin: As the Gate of Judgement points out, the personifications will appear just because there are gates in heaven.
- Hive Mind: As mentioned on the description, all of Heaven's Gates share the same memory and are (mostly) identical to one another.
- I Just Want to Have Friends: The Gate of Heaven is an eternal beholder with endless curiosity whom no one talks to. Curious as to why a great number of goddesses have gathered at the temple and the rumors from gods and goddesses passing by regarding that place in particular, the Gate promptly visits the temple, effectively locking every opening in and out of heaven.
- Ingesting Knowledge: The Gate system feeds on the information from the beings that pass through it. This happens inconsequentially and the passers-through don't mind; however, because of this matter-of-fact approach the Gate of Heaven initially doesn't take "no" for an answer because she has never experienced negativity from anyone that goes through her, considering she's barely perceived to begin with. This makes her seem rude and carefree.
- Jerkass: The Gate of Heaven behaves like this toward Keiichi because she doesn't know better, treating him as if he were stupid, though eventually she comes to appreciate his input. Belldandy is not exactly thrilled by this.
- O.O.C. Is Serious Business: Every Gate shown has the same vocal tic (outlined below). When the Gate of Judgement stops using it, that clues Keiichi into the fact that Tyr the Almighty had hacked the gate and was meddling in his trial.
- Paper People: Invoked. Heaven's Gates are personifications of two-dimensional portals; their humanoid bodies show mass and volume, and feature everything in a normal body except arms. Their "coat" moves and behaves like their upper limbs, and fulfills every function related to arm and hand movement
. When they're deployed, they show only their heads or no anatomic features at all. - Road Trip Across the Street: Happens twice:
- The Gate of Heaven opens permanently at Tarikihongan Temple so that she can visit Keiichi and the Goddesses frequently. This comes up again during the coup against Hild, where Lind and Peorth escape Heaven's shutdown directly to the temple.
- Hild places a Gate of Hell a corner away from the temple for convenience.
- Verbal Tic: Every Gate ends their sentences with na no, translated in English as "you know?". When one of the Gates doesn't do this, it's a plot point (see above).
- Visual Innuendo: Gate of Heaven accepts deploying herself once again to allow Peorth to return to Heaven under the condition that Keiichi inserts an enormous key inside her chest; she makes it sound extremely dirty, so much that Urd and Peorth are horrified at the prospect and Belldandy has one of her jealousy outbursts.
Ansuz
- Alliterative Name: Her official title is the Interspecies Intimacy Inquisitor.
- Cute Bruiser: She's the mother of Belldandy and Skuld, so she has plenty of cute to spare; she's also a brutal fighter. She can fight one-to-one with Hild to a stalemate.
- Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?: The first thing she does when she barges into Hell is telling Hild to shut up because single people have no perspective in marriage matters. This triggers their fight, though it turns out just to be friendly, albeit absurdly violent, banter.
- Friendly Enemy: She and Hild enjoy each other's company a lot, as it seems that there are not many other beings that can talk with them on equal terms. Ansuz even expresses disappointment at Hagal telling her that she has to leave Hell lest she becomes trapped in there.
- Hands-Off Parenting: Due to her obligations, her daughters and her step-daughter were raised by mentors and tutors, and were basically left to their own devices. Though they have a mutual amicable relationship, they are not particularly close to each other; when she shows up in Niflheim to enforce the Gate of Judgement, the Norns are actually more surprised than happy to see her once again.
- The High Queen: She is the highest-tier goddess featured in the manga and the wife of the Daitenkaicho.
- Hot-Blooded: She is more than willing to give Hild a run for her money in both banter and battle. She is also shown to enjoy it. This is very much unlike any other goddess shown in the manga except Lind.
- Invisible Parents: It's shown that her daughters and Urd are fostered and mentored by other gods and goddesses because of her responsibilities.
- Ironic Echo: When Hild first appeared, Belldandy admonished her for waiting for Urd to call her to show up, knowing that she should have come at the very moment her daughter needed her and not a single minute after. Ansuz appears for the first time precisely after Hild calls out Belldandy on her hypocrisy regarding Keiichi; Ansuz actually shows up as disconnected from the situation as possible and not due to any personal reasons, meaning Ansuz didn't come because her daughter Belldandy needed her but out of her duty administering the Gate of Judgement. At least Hild showed up out of concern!
- Married to the Job: Apparently, interspecies romance is so prevalent in the universe that she is constantly and unequivocally busy for most of the manga until the last arc.
- Mercury's Wings: She has two sets of wings sprouting from both sides of her head.
- The Missus and the Ex: Her sparring with Hild is incredibly violent until Urd brings them down from their adrenaline rush. They actually don't mind each other that much and are downright friends. She is also very friendly and familiar with Urd, arguing that her existence is the biggest plus to Hild and Tyr's life-threatening relationship and that she is more than worth the trouble they went through.
- Nepotism: Subverted. She enforces the Judgement Gate on Belldandy regardless of her being her daughter.
- "Not So Different" Remark: From Hild, according to Keiichi. When she fights Hild, he notices that he finds them equally monstrous.
- Parent with New Paramour: She is Tyr's second wife. She has a good relationship with both Hild and Urd.
- Replacement Goldfish: Hild taunts her with this in order to make her mad, considering that Ansuz is the Daitenkaicho's second wife.
- Thinking Up Portals: She is able to open a portal directly to Hell on her own with no qualms nor requiring any permission from the Daimakaicho whatsoever.
The Lake Goddess and The Bard
The Lake Goddess is the subject of the hypothetical scenario given to Belldandy and Keiichi when they go through the Gate of Judgement. In her case, she contains Belldandy. The Bard in turn contains Keiichi.
She is a minor goddess tied to a small lake, which is stumbled upon by The Bard. They begin a relationship, notwithstanding the fact that as a mortal, he will grow old.
- Came Back Strong: Twice over:
- She was originally a human girl, sacrificed to insure prosperity for her village, and became a goddess.
- She was given the drive and the courage to persevere by Keiichi and Belldandy, from which she redefined herself as a Goddess. She gained enough power to break free from a prison as devised by Tyr himself and she came out confident enough to challenge his authority. Ponder that for a moment to put in perspective just how damn strong she became.
- Deity of Human Origin: The Lake Goddess was originally human.
- The Determinator: She first cuts her bounds to the lake in despair due to the death of the Bard and she is in turn punished by being contained for all eternity; only, she caught a glimpse of Keiichi and Belldandy before being encased, which gave her hope for the future. During the Daitenkaicho's trial of Keiichi, the Lake Goddess breaks off her eternal shackles and helps the couple through their trial, much to the surprise of the Daitenkaicho.
- Deus ex Machina: She pulls Keiichi from the void once he falls from the Daitenkaicho's bike course, which would have meant his death. Serves as double and triple, because she is literally a goddess and she gives Keiichi his motorcycle back.
- Fate Worse than Death: The Lake Goddess spends a near-eternity encased due to her breaking her vows. Good thing Keiichi and Belldandy gave her a glimmer of hope.
- Honest Axe: Her job: if someone drops something in her lake she appears with a more valuable copy and asks them if it's what they dropped, and rewards them if they answer honestly. In a variation, the reward isn't necessarily the copy: while the bard was rewarded with a gold and a silver copy of the harp he had dropped and the goddess gets the impossibly sharp copy of the axe they had dropped, Keiichi got the track of Tyr's challenge receive pleasant scenery.
- Loophole Abuse: The Lake Goddess does it repeatedly:
- When she decides to leave the village she uses the Honest Ax scenario on herself to procure an ax capable of cutting her bonds.
- When she returns after breaking her seal Tyr points out she's still bound to the lake... And the Lake Goddess replies she learned to carry it around, making the bond to the lake meaningless.
- A First-class goddess is forbidden to lie in exchange for her power... But the Lake Goddess, being a former human who became a goddess under exceptional circumstances, doesn't have a license, and can lie.
- Mental Story: Most of the arc takes place in the heads of the Goddess and the Bard. Keiichi and Belldandy are inside their bodies, but cannot act on their own, just witnessing the scenario.
- Morality Ballad: The scenario was supposed to teach Keiichi and Belldandy about the dangers of their relationship and how much are they bound to lose when they are separated by Keiichi's death. In turn, the scenario taught the Lake Goddess to persevere beyond her eternal punishment and help Belldandy and Keiichi through their trial in defiance of the Daitenkaicho.
- The Power of Love: Her love for the Bard makes her break off her ties to the lake, earning her an eternity of punishment; the love between Belldandy and Keiichi brings her back.
- Pyrrhic Victory: The Goddess used to be a maiden from a nearby village who was drowned in the lake as a sacrifice to end a period of severe drought. The earth spirits offer her to keep her life in exchange for guarding the lake. Though she initially thrived as a goddess, the village eventually disappeared and people stopped visiting the lake, making her duties somewhat pointless. Then came the bard, who offered his whole life in order to keep her company. Her losing him to old age drives her to the point of despair, making her break her vows and be sealed for an eternity of punishment and training.
- Star-Crossed Lovers: The Bard decides to spend the rest of his mortal life with the Lake Goddess.
Third Class Earth Spirit
Voiced by: Isshin Chiba (JP); Sean Schemmel (EN)
An Earth-bound minor god that inhabits Megumi Morisato's apartment. Initially bitter because construction workers inadvertently drove a stake through his leyline (the source of a spirit's power) when they built the apartment building, an encounter with Belldandy led to him mellowing out a bit. He is sworn to protect Megumi.
- The Determinator: He is put into a mouse's body by Belldandy to remain inconspicuous towards Megumi. When Mara takes possession of Megumi's body, she confines him into an inert plush toy. Out of sheer willpower, the Earth Spirit is able to make the plush toy move and he heads towards NIT to save Megumi. He is ran over a couple of times and a dog chews him out, but he makes it to campus, where he is able to attack Mara.
- Did You Just Flip Off Cthulhu?: When he first battles Belldandy he doesn't realize who she is and how much she outranks him. Belldandy has to peg him down before she makes him see the error of his ways.
- Guardian Angel: After he is given his leyline back, he is tasked with protecting Megumi where possible.
- House Fey: He is one for Megumi even though he is not bound to the apartment anymore when Belldandy restored his leyline. He protects the apartment and Megumi because he swore to Belldandy he would do so.
- Jerkass Gods: When first encountered, he is not very happy that humans severed his leyline, making him lose most of his powers. In retribution he haunts the apartment, keeping most prospective tenants away.
- Jerkass Has a Point: He is effectively stranded inside the apartment when his power line is severed. He just took it a step too far by targeting humans that had nothing to do with it.
- Not So Above It All: He grows very fond of Megumi as he is tasked to protect her from harm.
- Poltergeist: He behaves this way towards anyone that dares enter the apartment.
Stringfellow
Stringfellow in flight
A magical broom that belongs to Urd and is in the possession of Belldandy. Stringfellow is the fastest broom in heaven.
- Crazy Jealous Guy: It is utterly in love with Belldandy and it's tremendously overprotective of her.
- Distinguishing Mark: It's no special broom other than having some runes and feathers tied to it.
- Foil: To Gluhen Des Herzen. Stringfellow requires little more than a pep talk to be insanely fast.
- Innocent Innuendo: He only wants to be with Belldandy because he wants her to sweep the floor by using it. No more, no less.
- Utility Magic: It's a racing broom, but it's more than content to be used by Belldandy to just sweep the floor.
- Shout-Out: Its namesake is the protagonist of Airwolf, Stringfellow Hawke.‡
