Here are the characters in DanceDanceRevolution.
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Arcade Game/Play Station/Xbox Characters
Afro/Boldo/Disco
Disco
Debuted in DDR 1st Mix as the default Player 1 character. Appeared in almost all DDR mixes.- Carpet of Virility: His 1st Mix outfit showed his chest hair.
- Disco Dan: His alternate name is Disco.
- Dub Name Change: Afro in Japan, Boldo/Disco overseas.
- Meaningful Name: The hairdo and the reference to a music genre.
- Purple Is Powerful: In Supernova, he wears a purple shawl, while in X, his outfit is mainly purple. He's also the dance king of the series.
- Series Mascot: Some DDR songs in pop'n music have him as the character.
Akira
Alice
Alice
- First Snow: She's from Hong Kong, whose winter doesn't have snow (being at the extreme low of subtropical, there's not much variation all-year). Considering that she dislikes snow, she must have a bad experience while seeing her first one. Which takes the background art for "ever snow" into a whole new light, isn't it? (It features Alice playing with snow).
- Ship Tease: With Zero if you see their dialogues in X's Street Master Mode. In their X2 biographies, Alice is anxious while preparing for her newest DJ show, expecting that "someone" will arrive there. Meanwhile, Zero is patiently waiting for "someone" in the backstage. Hmmm...
- Shout-Out: Her Dream Sequence in her Street Master Mode storyline is a Nod to Alice in Wonderland (Minus the scene in which Emi's a robot).
- Shrinking Violet: Debuting in Dance Dance Revolution 5thMIX, she is the only character to look away from the screen when selected.
- Yamato Nadeshiko: Seems to be the proper lady of the female cast. Yet she's not even Japanese (she's a Hongkonger).
Astro
Astro
Ronpei "Baby-Lon" Babahara
Baby-Lon
- Bunnies for Cuteness: Dresses up as a bunny in X2 to enhance the cuteness of course.
Bonnie/Queen
- Always Second Best: Her Street Master Mode sees her lose the first place to Afro. Keep in mind that Afro's a dance king, yet he somehow manages to channel it in the wheels.
- No Sense of Direction: She easily gets lost sometimes. Not helped by the fact that she can't quite adjust to Japan's (relatively) small roads.
Charmy
- Bowdlerise: In non-Japanese versions of 3rdMIX, she's given silver pantyhose in order to prevent Panty Shots.
Concent Be-Fu
- The Protagonist: Of Supernova 2's Hyper Master Mode, since he's the only character you can choose.
- Rainbow Pimp Gear: You can customize Be-Fu in Hyper Master Mode with custom parts that can ease/amp up the difficulty of the mode. Because every combination is possible, he can look like a mismatched mess once you get your perfect combination.
Concent Kyo-Fu
- Evil Counterpart: Though the evil is not explored at all. He's basically Concent Be-Fu with a red coloring and "angry" eyes.
Dark Rinon / The Dark One
- Elite Mooks: She has a slew of other-colored mooks, who function as bosses of the Replicant-D Action songs. All of them feature in Valkyrie dimension's video.
- Good Colors, Evil Colors: She is basically Rinon but with a more elaborate suit, which is colored dark violet instead of light blue.
- Promoted to Playable: If you beat Over The "Period" in the first phase of Replicant-D Ignition in DDR 2014, you'll unlock her.
- Put on a Bus: After briefly being a playable character in 2014, she disappears in DDR A, only having a cameo in the Rinon's Adventure event.
- Superpowered Evil Side: In Replicant-D Ignition, it's shown that the Dark One is actually Rinon with the different-colored gems attached to her.
Dark Zukin
- The Blank: A blank-faced, monochrome individual who dances energetically. Creepy.
- Evil Counterpart: Robo-Zukin with a monochrome design, an blank face, and a red "D" in place of Concent's eyes.
Devil Zukin
- Bowdlerise: In Western and European releases, her name was changed to Evil-Zukin. (sometimes "Black Zukin" or "Bat-Zukin").
Emi Toshiba
Emi
- Girliness Upgrade: Wears mostly boy-ish outfits in the earlier games, in the later ones she mostly wears dresses and hairbands.
- In the Hood: Wears a light blue polka dot jacket with a hood in X2.
- Meaningful Name: Her full name, Emi Toshiba, is an obvious tribute to Toshiba-EMI, the record company who produced the Dancemania songs that the earlier games were dependent on as licenses.
- Pink Means Feminine: Her X costume is a pink-and-white party dress. Her X2 costume, meanwhile, features hot pink pants.
- Robot Girl/Robotic Reveal: In Alice's Dream in her story in Street Master Mode of X, she reveals herself to be a robot.
- Smart People Build Robots: Hilariously, her X2 biography states that she dislikes anything computer-related and freaking mobile phones.
- True Blue Femininity: Pre-Supernova, Supernova, and X2 costumes all feature blue as a dominant color. Helps that she also has bluish purple hair.
August "Gus" Mills
- Cool Shades: Every appearance. It's initially a transparent yellow one in Supernova, but is changed to dark blue in Supernova 2, purple in X, then red in X2.
- Delinquent Hair: Has a mohawk, initially blond, but later dyed dark orange in Supernova 2, then green starting in X, though definitely not a delinquent.
- Gorgeous Gaijin: That spandex and A-shirt (in Supernova and Supernova 2, respectively, in case you're wondering) are quite nice. Oh, and he's German.
- Future Spandex: Wears a green sci-fi-like spandex in Supernova.
- Phenotype Stereotype: He's a German. Of course he has blond hair and blue eyes.
Jennifer "Jenny" Hurley
- Tomboy: Unlike most of the other girls, she is described as being tomboyish.
- Underwear of Power: In Supernova, she wears as her lower parts nothing but an underwear.
Julio
- Black and Nerdy: Apparently smart enough to skip several grades at school. He also knows Morse code.
- Occidental Otaku: He likes shuriken-throwing and sushi. His Supernova 2 alternate is also a ninja outfit.
Louis Concent-III
- Everyone Looks Sexier if French: Dresses up like a stereotypical French king and has a French first name.
Naoki
- Coordinated Clothes: He wears either black or white Gothic Lolita in 2010 and II along with jun.
- Before that, he and jun have had matching red and black outfits in Hottest Party 2 and both of their new outfits in Hottest Party 3.
- Nonstandard Character Design: Sticks out in Hottest Party 2 where he, U1, and jun look significantly more Animesque than the rest of the cast.
PiX
PiX
- Lilliputians: Not shown in the game itself, but its height is stated as a mere 3 pixels in its X2 biography. Its world is an "extremely small 2-dimensional world".
- Massive Numbered Siblings: There are over 500 billion of them. Mostly because it's the only a little larger than a bacteria. You can choose up to 12 of them in Supernova.
- No Biological Sex: An alien the size of three pixels of a computer screen. It more often dances like a female, though.
Queen-Zukin
The Queen of Dreamland, at least in-universe.- Distaff Counterpart: As always, to Concent. But whereas Louis Concent-III is the king of robots, Queen-Zukin is the queen of dreams.
- Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette: It's unknown if that black thingy above her face really is her hair, but her face is pale white and she definitely evokes the appearance.
- The Peeping Tom: Her biography states that she likes peeping and...peeping.
v* Sleeves Are for Wimps: Supernova 2 alternate and X.
- Spiky Hair: As revealed in his Supernova 2 alternate, his hair is extremely spiky.
Rinon
Rinon
- The Bus Came Back: She's absent in DDR 2013, but she can be unlocked in Replicant D-Ignition (DDR 2014) by clearing MAX. (Period) during the second phase of the event. Months later, Rinon can now be selected by default once again.
- Good Colors, Evil Colors: The only Rinon who is on our side has a suit that prominently features light blue. All other Rinons whom we must "defeat" by playing the Replicant-D songs are of various (darker) colors. The Dark One is colored dark violet (see her entry above).
- Series Mascot: For X2 only. She appears again in X3 without any significant role, but is removed from the roster in DDR 2013. She later returned in the next game, though.
- She started becoming the mascot again after her reappearance in DDR 2014, with the Replicant-D-ignition event and Rinon's Adventure in DDR A.
- Younger Than They Look: She has a childish appearance, but that may amount to 8 years at the very least. Her age is listed as 1 year and 2 months. Justified, as she's an alien.
Robo-Concent "Robo-Zukin" de Zukin
- Distaff Counterpart: One to Concent Be-Fu, who is completely in the shape of a robot, while Zukin has a human face.
- Pink Means Feminine: Her concent suit is colored pink. In contrast, Concent Be-Fu's is blue.
- Wings Do Nothing: Has light blue wings, but, as far as we know, they're just for show.
Ruby Camilo
- Age-Inappropriate Dress: She's 15. That makes her the third-youngest character (after Baby-Lon, who is, well, a baby, and Julio) and the youngest female character in the post-Supernova games. Yet she dresses so skimpily as to merit the Ms. Fanservice status...
- Ambiguously Brown: Justified as the majority of Dominicans are multiracial; she might not be black and/or white in the purest sense.
- Arachnid Appearance and Attire: Her bra is lined with some kind of spider web fibers in her Supernova 2 alternate.
- Stripperriffic: Her Supernova 2 alternate consists of her wearing short pants, a bra with some spiderweb-thingy and...nothing else.
Victory-Concent
- The Bus Came Back: He returns in DDR A after his absence in 2013. Though he became...
- Demoted to Extra: Unlike every other character in DDR A, he is not a selectable character through e-AMUSEMENT, only being able to appear randomly.
- Eventually subverted in subsequent online updates of A when he's absent yet again, even if Random is the player's character option.
- Primary-Color Champion: Blue head, claws, and feet, (dominantly) red armor, and gold accents.
Yuni
A spoiled rich girl who'd rather spend time outside of her mansion.- The Cameo: The very first of the many cameo characters in Wreck-It Ralph, shown at the beginning of the movie announcing the closure of the arcade.
- Hot Teacher: Dresses up as a teacher in Supernova 2 alternate, just because.
- Occidental Otaku: Goes to Japan only to buy some takoyaki. Oh, and she dresses up in a sailor fuku in X2.
- Sailor Fuku: Decides to wear one in X2 after seeing it in television.
- Tomboy and Girly Girl: She and Alice are a girly girls to Emi's tomboy.
- Trademark Favorite Food: She seems to have a thing for takoyaki.
Zero
Zero
- The Quiet One: He's socially awkward. Except around Alice.
Wii Characters
Rena
- Genki Girl: She's quite cheerful and fun whenever her Character Blog's appear on the DDR from Staff site.
- Guest Fighter: She appears as a playable character in X2 AC and X3 vs. 2ndMIX.
- Musical Theme Naming: Hers is a bit tricky, but one can guess that it comes from "serenade". In her interview with the staff of Furu Furu Party (the Japanese equivalent of Hottest Party 2), though, she worries that she's the odd-man out of the names of the Hottest Party cast.
- Say It with Hearts: Talks with hearts, stars, and music notes on her Character Blog and profile on the X2 site.
U.G. (a.k.a Uncle Glide)
- Cool Shades Star-sunglasses in Hottest Party 1-3. It's a shame they used regular huge sunglasses in Hottest Party 4...
- Musical Theme Naming: "Glide" is one of Yuichi Asami's favorite synthesizers.
Chordia
- Musical Theme Naming: Chordia is obviously derived from "chord".
- Of Corsets Sexy: She wears a bodice in Hottest Party 1.
Root
- Fanservice: All Girls Want Bad Boys, after all, and he really does look like a bad-boy delinquent punk. He even enjoys skateboarding and wears a punkish ponytail.
- Forehead of Doom, though on his profile, he insists that all people with wide-foreheads are good people.
- Musical Theme Naming: Root's name comes from the "root" of a chord.
Harmony
- Ms. Fanservice: In every Hottest Party, she has worn Daisy Dukes.
- Musical Theme Naming: You can guess where "Harmony" comes from, can't you?
- Pretty in Mink: Her outfit has a fur-trimmed hoodie and boots.
Danca
- Musical Theme Naming: Danca is obviously a corruption of "dancer".
- Perpetual Smiler: In Hottest Party 1, he is always grinning.
- Put on a Bus: Is missing, along with Gaku and Domi, from Hottest Party 4.
Domi
- Ms. Fanservice: Her outfits are damn hot. She even wears all-leather in Hottest Party 2.
- Musical Theme Naming: Domi and Dyna are sisters, and their names come from "dominant chord" and "dynamic chord" respectively.
- Put on a Bus: Is missing, along with Gaku and Danca, from Hottest Party 4.
Gaku
- Goggles Do Nothing: He wears silly-looking goggles that have lights on them in Hottest Party 2.
- Musical Theme Naming: Another tricky and not-so-obvious one. His name comes from "gigaku/bugaku", a type of mask worn in Japanese dance-dramas.
- Put on a Bus: Is missing, along with Danca and Domi, from Hottest Party 4.
- Real Men Wear Pink: Gaku's the only male Hottest Party character have a pink outfit. He has a pink jacket in Hottest Party 1.
jun
- Coordinated Clothes: She wears either black or white Gothic Lolita in 2010 and II along with Naoki.
- Before that, she and Naoki have had matching red and black outfits in Hottest Party 2 and both of their new outfits in Hottest Party 3.
- Nonstandard Character Design: Sticks out in Hottest Party 2 where she, U1, and Naoki look significantly more Animesque than the rest of the cast.
Dyna
- Musical Theme Naming: Domi and Dyna are sisters, and their names come from "dominant chord" and "dynamic chord" respectively.
Bridget
- Musical Theme Naming: Bridget comes from "bridge" as in a bridge of a song. Might also come from a violin bridge.
- Of Corsets Sexy: Wears a bodice in Hottest Party 3.
Ceja
- Goggles Do Nothing: She wears goggles around her neck in Hottest Party 4.
- Fanservice: Her alternate outfit in Hottest Party 4 looks like a sexy flight stewardess/Navy Girl.
- Musical Theme Naming: Ceja is Spanish for "violin bridge"...according to a source I read. If not, someone please correct. 8D;
Pia
- Musical Theme Naming: Pia comes from "piano", both the instrument and the dynamic. Also ties in with Forte with "piano forte".
Forte
- Musical Theme Naming: Forte comes from the musical dynamic meaning "strong". Also ties in with Pia with "piano forte".
- Shirtless Scene: Just barely, those teases. The HP 2 male back-dancer outfits have the male dancers show off their chests.
Gliss
- Musical Theme Naming: Her name comes from "glissando".
Sharp
- Cloud Cuckoolander: In his profile, he mentions that he's happy to have bought land on the moon, where he intends to build a dance contest.
- Shirtless Scene: Just barely, those teases. The HP 2 male back-dancer outfits have the male dancers show off their chests.
Hip
- Musical Theme Naming: He and his blonde counterpart are named for the musical genre of "Hip-Hop".
- Shirtless Scene: Just barely, those teases. The HP 2 male back-dancer outfits have the male dancers show off their chests.
Hop
- Musical Theme Naming: He and his red-headed counterpart are named for the musical genre of "Hip-Hop".
- Sharp-Dressed Man: The HP 1 male back-dancer outfits sport this.
- Shirtless Scene: Just barely, those teases. The HP 2 male back-dancer outfits have the male dancers show off their chests.
Bossa
- Musical Theme Naming: She and her brunette counterpart are named for the musical genre of "Bossa Nova".
Nova
- Musical Theme Naming: She and her green-haired counterpart are named for the musical genre of "Bossa Nova".
