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Misurugi Empire

One of the biggest and most prosperous empires of the setting where everyone living in it uses the Light of Mana for their everyday needs. The villains of the setting.

All spoilers regarding Sylvia's entry will remain unmarked. You Have Been Warned!

Jurai and Sophia

Emperor Jurai Asuka Misurugi and Empress Sophia Ikaruga Mitsurugi

Jurai Voiced by: Kōichi Yamadera (Japanese), David Wald (English)
Sophia Voiced by: Megumi Hayashibara (Japanese), Allison Sumrall (English)

The late Ruling Couple of the Misurugi Empire and Ange, Julio, and Sylvia's parents.

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• Death by Origin Story: Sophia's death helps kickstart the plot of Cross Ange.
• Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: Sophia was blonde and was very kindhearted to the end.
• Killed Offscreen: It is mentioned in "Goodbye From the Gallows" that Jurai was hanged by the higher-ups for high treason in keeping Ange's status as a Norma a secret.
• Mama Bear: Sophia was killed in the process of evacuating and shielding her daughter when her Norma status was revealed.
• Papa Wolf: Jurai protected Ange from her own secret, to the point he simulated mana effects with the baptism machine for the ritual.
• Parental Hypocrisy: They may have been otherwise Good Parents, but under their rule, they continued to persecute all Norma except their own daughter.
• Secret Secret-Keeper: Went to great lengths to hide that their daughter was a Norma, even from herself.
• Taking the Bullet: Ange's mother shields her daughter from a soldier's bullet at the cost of her own life.

Julio

Prince Julio Asuka Misurugi

Voiced by: Kosuke Toriumi (Japanese), Blake Shepard (English)

Prince of the Misurugi Empire. Reveals the secret that Ange is a Norma, as a plan to take control of the empire by himself.

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• Antagonistic Offspring: Indirectly has his father executed for protecting Ange for being a Norma.
• Arc Villain: He is the villain of the first half. However, he is disposed of soon after Ange demolishes his fleet and prepares to finish him.
• Arch-Enemy: To Ange, but only early on.
• Big Bad Wannabe: He's made out to be the main antagonist of the first 11 episodes of the series, in which he is the one responsible for exposing Ange as a Norma and forcing her to fight the DRAGONs, and oversees the Norma's oppression and attempted extinction later on. Unfortunately for him, he is just not on the same level of threat as the real Big Bad, Embryo.
• Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: In public he is well-behaved, but is incredibly ruthless and hateful underneath.
• Blue Blood: Part of the Misurugi royalty.
• Bond Villain Stupidity: Sees fit to accompany his fleet to the Arzenal purge, not thinking anything could happen to him. Proven dead wrong when Embryo informs his enraged sister of his nearby location.
• Bullying a Dragon: He thinks putting Ange out for good by exterminating Arzenal will be a walk in the park. He forgot a couple things: 1) she's the one piloting the super-prototype he's been tasked with retrieving, and 2) already has a massive bone to pick with him from his previous attempts at having her killed. No points for figuring out the results (although it is Embryo that kills him).
• Cain and Abel: The Cain to Ange's Abel, with him attempting to kill her multiple times. She would have done the same to him if it weren't for Embryo intervening.
• Colonel Kilgore: He hates the Norma so much he interprets Embryo's world resetting plan as a pretext for a purge, which he instigates on Arzenal. Embryo is clearly not pleased when he finds out, as his plan was to include the Norma.
• Corrupted Character Copy: Both Julio and Clovis la Britannia from Code Geass are older brothers of the protagonist who have very similar appearances, are incredibly racist (towards Norma and Elevens, respectively) and pathetically beg for their lives before being killed. However Clovis, for all his faults, genuinely cared for his family and became the man he was from losing Lelouch and Nunnally (due to believing they had been killed). Julio, by contrast, has always been the way he is and is consistently shown to care for nobody but himself, to the point of being responsible, whether directly or indirectly, for the deaths of both his parents, on top of committing multiple unspeakable crimes that even Schneizel would find disgusting. Essentially, Julio is what Clovis would be if he had absolutely no redeeming qualities.
• Corrupt the Cutie: He convinces Sylvia that Ange was responsible for the death of their mother.
• Death by Racism: His purge of Arzenal only leads to his sister coming for his hide. (Except that Embryo does the deed of killing him for her.)
• Disc-One Final Boss: Julio serves as the initial antagonist for the first half, but several episodes after he's killed during the siege of Arzenal, there's still another villain for Ange and the Norma to take down: Embryo.
• Dirty Coward: He is reduced to a howling mess when Ange cuts through his fleet and the front hull of his ship and shoots him in the leg. He goes so far as to offer Ange reinstatement into the royal line in exchange for sparing him. However, in his final moments, Julio begs Embryo to kill her, only to be killed himself instead.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Subverted with his relationship towards his younger sister Sylvia. He may hold a soft spot for Sylvia, but he's using her as an Unwitting Pawn.
• Evil Laugh: He laughs maniacally having Ange captured in "Traitorous Homeland".
• Evil Is Petty: As if outing his sister Ange as a Norma and inadvertently (yet showed no remorse towards this) getting their mother killed and father hanged wasn't enough, he then manipulates Sylvia in to pulling a Wounded Gazelle Gambit to get Ange to go rogue, come after her, and then capture her, just so he could humiliate and break her more for his own amusement, before having her killed and claiming the royal heirloom ring. This guy might as well be the embodiment of this trope for going to that much effort for something like that. He then takes it up a notch by invading Arzenal and killing everyone there just to finally settle the score for good. It doesn't go over so well for him in the end.
• The Evil Prince: Two appearances in, he already has the evil category covered pretty well.
• False Flag Operation: He one over on Ange by baiting her with her sister Sylvia to come to her rescue, forcing Ange into a clash against the police and royal guard. Made more insidious in that Sylvia has been been turned against her, throwing Ange into a Heroic BSoD and guaranteeing her capture, breaking of her spirit, and subject to a public flogging and execution, all to retrieve the ring his mother gave to Ange. He also planned to use Embryo's plan for instrumentality as a means to just up and kill everyone at Arzenal, and possibly go to war against the Rosenblum Kingdom in the process. But it winds up failing once Embryo figures out his true intentions.
• Fantastic Racism: He hates Norma with every fiber of his being, and wishes "to restore the purity of the royal bloodline". However, it's heavily hinted that his hatred isn't so much aimed at the Norma but towards Angelise, whom he felt had it all despite being exactly the kind of being their society ought to be condemning. Even his attempted genocide on Arzenal was all because of his status of being The Unfavorite among the family compared to his sister.
• Fatal Flaw: His hatred of Norma, and specifically Ange, ends up doing him in.
• Feeling Oppressed by Their Existence: Even after exposing Ange as a Norma, it wasn't enough for him to have her life ruined in exile. He has Sylvia lure her out of exile away from the safety of Arzenal via a Wounded Gazelle Gambit so he can have her humiliated even more and executed in public.
• Final Solution: He wants to kill the Norma because he misinterprets Embryo's wish to reset the world.
• Freudian Excuse: He claims to Liza that their parents have always favored Ange over him and he got jealous of it.
• Green-Eyed Monster: He envied Angelise for being favored over him to take the reins as empress of Misurugi, which led to him taking her out of the picture by outing her as a Norma.
• Hate Sink: Oh, boy is he ever! Not only is he responsible for Ange getting publicly outed as a Norma and exiled, the fall of the former Misurugi Empire, and their mother killed (inadvertently, since his intended target was Ange), he manages to pin it on Ange in Sylvia's eyes, and baits Ange into escaping from Arzenal so he can hang her personally. All of this means that his death by overkill doesn't feel like overkill.
• Horrible Judge of Character: He believes that Liza and Embryo were on his side and that they would help him in his genocide of the Norma except Liza was a dragon wanting to take down Embryo and Embryo just uses him as a pawn for his own plans. This plays out further with Embryo after Ange is ready to kill him as he begs Embryo to kill Ange, believing that Embryo would do the deed but kills him instead.
• Kick Them While They Are Down: He takes it further by turning Sylvia against Ange and having the latter lured into a false rescue mission and a subsequent public lashing and execution. Then orders Tusk to be killed when he tries to rescue her so that they won't escape alive. Prepares to kick more injured puppies and the neighboring kingdom meant to oversee them as he invades Arzenal to purge all Norma in "Arzenal Burns", which leads to Ange coming for his hide once and for all.
• Minor Injury Overreaction: After getting a shuriken thrown by Ange in his face, he reacts... very poorly.
• Narcissist: Only cares for himself as he murdered both his parents, attempted to kill his sister, and used his other sister as a pawn in his schemes just to benefit himself. When he later tries to use Embryo, the one man who has authority above him, as a pawn to fulfill his petty revenge scheme, it ends up with him being killed.
• Parental Incest: Implied, as he refers to Liza as "Mama" while they're having sex and confines to her about how Sophia always favored Ange.
• Politically Incorrect Villain: Hates Norma so much that he all too eagerly ousts his sister whose favored status he has envied as one, and later tries to have her along with the rest of the Norma massacred in "Arzenal Burns".
• Psychopathic Manchild: He often throws tantrums and calls for his assistant Liza to comfort him when things go wrong. He thinks little of Normas and often laughs maniacally, orchestrating several Batman Gambits to ruin Ange's life just because he was The Unfavorite, then winds up committing a misguided mass genocide on all Norma in an attempt to appease Embryo and tie up loose ends with his sister once and for all. Not surprisingly, this ends incredibly poorly for him.
• Royal Brat: Can't take being passed over in favor of his younger sister as next in line for the throne, so he has her taken out by outing her as a Norma, and having his own father arrested and hanged for high treason. With him getting humiliated by his own sister in front the Kingdom's population during her attempted execution eventually leads to him using Embryo's resources to just kill all Norma out of petty revenge.
• Sadist: Finds great pleasure in killing and seeing others suffer, his family is no exception.
• Scars Are Forever: The immediate facial scar from the shuriken wound is in Dragon Song.
• Self-Made Orphan: His mother dies in "The Fallen Imperial Princess" as a result of his actions, and "Goodbye From the Gallows" reveals that he had his father executed off-screen.
• Smug Snake: Julio thinks he's in complete control, but he's actually being played like a fiddle by Liza and Embryo.
• The Sociopath: Definitely so. Even his parents and his sister Ange ultimately were just obstacles on his way to power and bluntly disregards anything the other kingdoms have to say about him or his rule. His attempt to try and overrule Embryo's plan on the other hand...
• Stupid Evil:
  • He misinterprets Embryo's wish to reset the world as free license to massacre the Norma, including his main target, Ange, even though Embryo wanted them extracted to be used elsewhere. Embryo snitches on his location to Ange, who proceeds to wipe out Julio's fleet and stop her treacherous brother, with Embryo snatching the final kill from her.
  • It is also implied that until he actually saw it for himself, he had no idea the ring had the ability to control Villkiss, which ended up being instrumental to his downfall.
• The Stool Pigeon: Julio exposes Ange as a norma in "The Fallen Imperial Princess".
• Take a Third Option: Different from other trope examples in that he's given the third option, and gladly accepts it. When Embryo points out the first two choices (surrendering to the DRAGONs or fight the DRAGONs themselves) and the council refuses both choices, Embryo then states the third choice which is to reset everything. That said, he only decides to do it out of his own personal grudge against Ange and has no intention of keeping her, or any of the other Norma needed, alive for Embryo's plan. the instant he's found out, he's promptly killed for this.
• Token Motivational Nemesis: He does get the ball rolling, but reveals his true colors to Ange in "Goodbye From the Gallows", mere episodes before she brings about his undoing. Still, it really says something about how a trusted family member could so quickly become the target of Ange's infernal wrath.
• Tyrant Takes the Helm: He takes over as Emperor following the upheaval caused during the day of the Baptism, orders the execution of all Norma because of his sister humiliating him at her execution, and comes close to starting a war between kingdoms when his soldiers nearly kill Emma, who is a Rosenblum citizen by affiliation, during the massacre of Arzenal.
• The Unfavorite:
  • Claimed that his mother never once complimented him, with the family as a whole paying more attention to Ange than him.
  • He is also not favored by any of the other rulers, with the Rosenblum Kingdom calling him an outright monster. Unlike his family, he dismisses the insult not caring about his status in the least, infuriating the other kingdoms' leaders in the process.
• Villain with Good Publicity: Indirectly responsible for his father getting arrested (and later hanged) and mother killed, and absolutely merciless towards Norma, to the point he orders a massacre in "Arzenal Burns". It's heavily suggested that he also hates anyone who willfully allies themselves with Norma, as Emma is nearly gunned down in the massacre against the Norma at the Rosenbum-affiliated Arzenal.
• Villainous Breakdown: He doesn't take it well when Ange gets away and gashes him in the cheek with a shuriken and completely breaks down when she confronts him from Villkiss and threatens him.
• Villains Want Mercy: Julio breaks down completely when Ange comes for him in Villkiss and threatens to kill him, to the point of offering to reinstate her into the royal family.
• You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: While not directly said on screen, his words towards Momoka during Ange's execution suggest she won't be spared either, due to her past ties and for having served her "mission" to bait Ange back to the kingdom.
• You Monster!: He gets called this by the Rosenblum king when talking about Misty being Bound and Gagged by Ange during her escape from Arsenal. He simply retorts back that Ange isn't his sister anymore, much to the King's anger.

Sylvia

Princess Sylvia Ikaruga Misurugi

Voiced by: Nao Tōyama (Japanese), Cindy Lou Parker (English)

The youngest princess of the Misurugi empire.

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• And This Is for...: While publicly whipping Ange in "Goodbye From the Gallows" she gives one of these for every lashing.
• Annoying Younger Sibling: To the point of being a thorough Deconstruction of the Little Sister Heroine trope. She seems at first like a sweet, defenseless little sister worthy of being the target of Big Brother Instinct, but eventually proves to be a selfish, cowardly, sadistic, and manipulative bitch- until her massive Character Development in "Beyond Time".
• Being Tortured Makes You Evil: If her earlier corruption via Julio and the mana hadn't set her down that path completely, then being enthralled by Liza certainly helped finish the job.
• Cute Is Evil: Subverted. She initially seems to be a complete bitch hiding underneath a cutesy façade, but it is made clear that Julio and Embryo are to blame for her actions.
• Damsel in Distress: At the end of "Salia's Gloom" when she communicates with Momoka. Except that it's a trap for Ange.
• Dirty Coward: She tortures people and tries to have her sister killed till she's in danger and starts begging for her life; she's definitely Julio's sister.
• Evil Cripple: When she finally shows her true colors and decides to whip Ange in public personally. Or so she thinks, but Sylvia is really just being manipulated by Julio and Embryo - once those two are gone, she undergoes a Heel–Face Turn. Albeit at gun point by Ange.
• Fallen Princess: Sylvia becomes one after the Mana Network was cut off from her world in the final episodes; in the final episode, heeding her now-estranged sister’s words to “kill and survive”, she and any surviving members of the royal family were forced to fend for themselves without their magic in the now-destroyed Misurugi Empire.
• The Farmer and the Viper: Ange decides to risk her life to save Sylvia. Instead, she whips Ange and condemns her to die.
• Girlish Pigtails: She ties her hair into twin tails, emphasizing her "innocence" (i.e. her penchant for being horribly impressionable).
• Head-in-the-Sand Management: In the final episodes, Sylvia is unable to help the nobles escape when asked to. Ange knocks some sense into her.
• Heel Realization: At the end of "Distorted World", she realizes her wrongdoings after Ange leaves her behind.
• Horrible Judge of Character: Believes her brother is innocent despite being one responsible for the murder of their parents and she thinks Embryo actually cares for her when he only cares for himself, these two just use her as a pawn.
• My God, What Have I Done?: Towards the end of "Distorted World", she's devastated over what she has become after Ange leaves her behind.
• Never My Fault: Sylvia doesn't acknowledge that it's her own actions that caused Ange to lose her patience with her, at least until Ange calls her out on this in "Distorted World", to which she realizes the truth and resolves to become a better person.
• Nightmare Face: Practically every time she feels helpless, she resorts to making a scary face. This seems to run in the family, since her brother also sports a few.
• The Ophelia: She can be seen as becoming one after Ange is revealed to be a Norma (the one thing shunned by society), her parents are both killed in their attempt to hide the secret, and while Ange is in exile, her elder brother Julio (the one responsible) turns Sylvia against her and lures her out of exile by having her pull a Wounded Gazelle Gambit. After capturing their disinherited sister, Sylvia laughs hysterically, calls out Ange for killing her parents and demands she apologize for being a Norma as she whips before an execution. After Ange escapes, things only get worse: after having a nightmare over what just happened, an attempt to seek comfort from Julio goes south when she spots his secretary (and mole from a dimension of dragonic humanoids) Liza, who promptly captures her and puts her under her thrall, Sylvia is seen screaming the name of her once beloved sister. Episodes later, with Julio dead and Embryo freeing her from Liza's control, she's even worse, whipping Liza in retaliation and for failing to bring her what she wanted to read, and has a moment of slack-jawed horror when Ange shows up, asking if she plans to kill her like she the rest of her family as she still blames her for until Liza delivers her Wham Line. From then on, with nobody else in the Imperial Palace, she looks increasingly unkempt and scared for her life as the palace is under siege, and later, the Mana is cut off with her left out of the loop. She is initially presented in an unsympathetic and cowardly light, as it turns out she was healed from her injuries long ago, but she also undergoes a Trauma Conga Line in a station she is in no way fit for.
• Refuse to Rescue the Disliked: In "Distorted World", she tries to beg Ange to save her after the Mana network is cut off. Ange understandably isn't inclined to rescue the girl who betrayed her to the Misurugi citizens and incorrectly blamed her for killing her entire family.
• Relative Ridicule: She blames Ange for killing her family, including Julio.
• Sadist: She takes pleasure in seeing Normas suffer even her sister as she whips her to near death along with Liza.
• She Knows Too Much: She is caught from behind by Liza in Dragon Song after spotting the latter's secret.
• Sole Survivor: At the end of the series, she becomes one of the two remaining members of the Misurugi family, the other being Ange.
• A Taste of the Lash:
  • She publicly whips Ange in "Goodbye From the Gallows".
  • She frequently whips Liza after she's made her slave as payback for the torture she suffered at her hands and what she did to Julio.
• Tears of Fear: She has a tearful "Oh, Crap!" when Ange is about to force her to walk at the end of "Distorted World".
• Tears of Remorse: At the end of "Distorted World", Sylvia cries out of regret for hurting her sister after she leaves.
• Throwing Off the Disability: Ange forces her to stand on her feet after she points out Sylvia's leg injuries were completely healed.
• Took a Level in Badass: After Ange calls out Sylvia for her actions during the final battle with Embryo, she became the leader of the mana-human survivors in the new world.
• Troubling Unchildlike Behaviour: A 12-year-old girl who is so eager to whip those she doesn't like is not normal, and a heavy indication of Julio and Embryo’s influence.
• Ungrateful Bitch: When she whips Ange after coming to rescue her. Ange calls her out on this, and she eventually sees it.
• Villainous Princess: She, sister of the heroine Ange, is a Decoy Damsel who is secretly in league with Embryo and Julio. Though she is an Anti-Villain who was deceived by them into thinking that the oppression of Norma is right, and Ange eventually sets her straight.
• Villains Want Mercy: In "Distorted World", she begs Ange to rescue her. However, because of what she did early on in the series, Ange understandably refuses.
• Walking Spoiler: For about half of the series, she appears to be a good little sister and Damsel in Distress. It’s not until she tries to stab Ange that she is revealed as an antagonist, and most of the tropes refer to her antagonism.

Liza

Liza Landog / Lizardia

Voiced by: Yukana (Japanese), Katelyn Barr (English)

Julio's aide who's always beside him and the Guard Chief of the Misurugi Empire. She is secretly a spy for DRAGON species infiltrating the Mana world in order to locate Aura.

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• Animal Theme Naming: Her real name is a play on the word 'Lizard'.
• Bodyguard Babe: Julio's guard chief.
• Bystander Syndrome: Watches Ange get tortured and nearly hung from the gallows in "Goodbye From the Gallows". It's left ambiguous if she's simply keeping up her act that prevented her from intervening, or if she willingly went along with the execution as Ange was slaying her kind by the dozens at this point. She does show remorse for her actions later on in spite of this.
• Bound and Gagged: During her captivity with Embryo, where she is made as Sylvia's slave. Justified, as it is shown later that the roars and screams of the people of Aura can put the citizens of Mana under some apparent Mind Control.
• Conflict Ball: A lot of trouble could have been avoided had she tried to somehow communicate with Ange and the other Norma instead of outright having a portal open over Arzenal, or just opening the portal over Misurugi instead from the get go.
• Create Your Own Villain: Capturing and mind controlling a traumatized and unstable Sylvia comes back to bite her in the ass when Embryo frees Sylvia and allows her to whip her as payback.
• Easily Forgiven: Ange forgives her involvement in the destruction of her family and what she ended up going through as a result without an apology. At the same time, Liza was visibly remorseful over everything and cowered in shame, while Ange offered thanks for alerting Momoka to her location in the Misurugi castle where she had been held by Embryo.
• Evil Chancellor: The right hand of Julio. As it turns out, she has been using him to coax out information about Aura's whereabouts.
• Foreshadowing: It's a blink-and-you'll-miss-it but during "The Fallen Imperial Princess", she pops a pill in her mouth. That's the medicine to keep her from reverting into a DRAGON.
• Forgiven, but Not Forgotten: Momoka mentions she still hasn't forgotten what transpired between her and Ange as she mercifully saves her from the Misurugi dungeon.
• I Have You Now, My Pretty: She's captured by Embryo in "Dark Angel of Destruction" and is forced to watch her allies getting slaughtered.
• Little Bit Beastly: She's a covert DRAGON operative, and can grow wings, as well as a prehensile tail.
• Meaningful Name: Her last name is an anagram of "dragon".
• Made a Slave: Forced to be Sylvia's "pet" after being exposed as a DRAGON.
• Mole in Charge: She works for the DRAGON-kind to free their leader, Aura, and it's revealed that Julio, who kickstarted the series's plot, is just being led around by her.
• Poor Communication Kills: In her role as The Mole. Has a portal opened over Arzenal for the dragons to lay wreckage, even though the Normas are forced into killing them.
• Pragmatic Hero: Goes to some extreme measures to get Aura back. See Shoot the Dog for more.
• Riddle for the Ages: How and when did she become Julio's bodyguard?
• Screw This, I'm Outta Here:
  • She takes off after Ange slashes the hull off of Julio's cruiser and is ready to kill him.
  • After she tells Sylvia that Embryo killed Julio, she flees to join Sala and the others.
• Shoot the Dog: Serves under, and manipulates, Julio, and as such is either partly or entirely responsible for the following: the usurping and death of the Ange's parents, Ange being forcibly removed from society and sent to Arzenal where she is sent off to be Cannon Fodder and likely to die, triggering a DRAGON invasion on Arzenal which annihilates half the base and results in many Norma casualties, and Julio's subsequent attempts to kill Ange, which culminate in a massacre of the remaining Norma. All of this is as a mole for the DRAGONs whose leader is being held in Misurugi palace, but still, she does some serious damage, including some she could have avoided.
• Shoot the Shaggy Dog: Her above cited efforts are almost all for naught after she is caught by Embryo, and that the person whose life was thrown into constant adversity as a result, Ange, is responsible for turning the tide, serves as extra irony.
• The Stool Pigeon: Tortured by Embryo into revealing the DRAGONs plan to invade and retake Aura, leading the latter to spring a trap on them.
• Supernatural Gold Eyes: Signs that she is the mole of the DRAGON.
• Unwilling Suspension: She's chained up and held naked when the scene switches to Embryo's room in "Dark Angel of Destruction", with the latter musing at how his trap went without a hitch. She's like this again later while being whipped by Sylvia.
• The Vamp: She has a sexual relationship with Julio, taking advantage of his Mommy Issues to keep him under her control.
• Well-Intentioned Extremist: She may be out to help her kin by freeing Aura, but helping depose of a benevolent leader and also being responsible for the death of his wife and all but ruining their daughter's life in the process was a very lowly thing to do.