Characters from Doraemon: Nobita and the Robot Kingdom. As per character page policy goes, SPOILERS ARE UNMARKED.
For the characters that are from the main series, go here.
Poko
A child robot that comes to Earth due to the accident that occurred when he and his mother tried to escape from the guard robots. He saved the gang from Suneo's malfunctioned pet robot but got injured in the process so the gang journeys to his world to find a way to repair him.
- Adorably Precocious Child: He has to be one, after being forced to stand on his own after his mother Maria gets captured. And is the key in leading Doraemon and gang to the robot planet to save everyone.
- The Ageless: Poko and Jeanne are both children in Jeanne's flashbacks. But since Poko is a robot, cut to the present Jeanne is now a young woman but Poko's still a little kid.
- All-Loving Hero: Still dotes on Jeanne, remembering her as the nice, lively little girl from the past, even after Jeanne had turned into a tyrannical queen. It's more evident in the manga where he continues sticking to her side after Jeanne's near-death encounter.
- Children Are Innocent: Even robot children. Poko still firmly believes Jeanne could be changed to the side of good, and he turns out to be right.
- Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: Has a head of blond hair, and is absolutely the nicest, kindest character introduced in the film.
- Missing Child: A missing robot kid, teleported from the Robot Planet to Tokyo by his benefactor in a blind attempt to save him.
- Ridiculously Human Robots: To the point where the gang couldn't tell he's one until Poko's ear falls off.
- Robot Antennae: Has a protruding robotic antenna from his ear.
- Robot Kid: Self-explainatory.
- Robotic Reveal: He was assumed to be human by the gang. But then his ear falls off.
- Strong Family Resemblance: Even taking into account that he's a robot, Poko looks just like his mother, with fine blond hair, hazel eyes and a mechanical ear. While imprisoned with Maria, Doraemon recognizes her as Poko's mother through the ear-antenna.
- Trauma Button: Owing to being mauled by robot dogs in Dester's army, the moment he sees Suneo's malfunctioning robot pet Asobo, Poko promptly freaks out.
Maria
Poko's mother and the nanny to Jeanne as a child, who also raised Jeanne as a mother-figure after the queen's death.
- Good Parents: Dotes on her son and her surrogate daughter.
- Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: Just like her son, and she's a kind, gentle mother even to Jeanne who's not biologically related to her.
- Heroic Sacrifice: In her prologue, after being trapped by falling rocks, she allows herself to be taken by Dester's robot army encouraging her son to escape and leave her behind. However, her emotions weren't removed and she was merely taken into a cell.
- Parental Substitute: She becomes one for Jeanne after Jeanne's original mother died.
- Ridiculously Human Robots: One that looks exactly like a human, and filled with kindness and compassion.
- Robot Antennae: Just like her son Poko.
- Strong Family Resemblance: Strongly resembles her son, right down to the antenna ear. Which helps Doraemon recognize her as Poko's missing mother.
- You Will Be Spared: Out of all the robots Jeanne and Dester captured, Jeanne made sure she was the only one to retain her emotions as she can't bring herself to remove hers, while still keeping her as a prisoner.
Doctor Chapek
How he's dressed outside his lab.
A human doctor who offers his services to both human and robot patients, and a friend to Poko and Maria. When Doraemon and gang crashes on the Robot Planet he offers them a place to stay.
- Cool Old Guy: He is a hospitable old man who allows Doraemon and company stay in his house.
- Gadgeteer Genius: He was able to repair Poko when he was critically damaged, has created a teleportation device that saved Poko from being captured by the robot guards, saved Doraemon and Maria's life from death, and repaired Doraemon's time machine.
- Labcoat of Science and Medicine: Being a scientist and roboticist, who spends every scene inside his laboratory in a labcoat.
Kurinpa
"Paa! Paa!"
A robotic kangaroo-rodent-like critter who hangs around at Dr. Chapek's quarters.
- Be the Ball: Kurinpa's method of traveling have him curling into a ball, rolling and bouncing all over the place.
- Keet: Speaks in a high-pitched voice, keeps bouncing around, hyperactive 24-7, as shrill as he's loud...
- Mechanical Animals: A robotic rodent-like critter. His robotic features are very likely the reason why he didn't freak Doraemon out despite being based on a rodent.
- Robot Buddy: To Dr. Chapek, and later to the rest of the team.
- Team Pet: To Dr. Chapek, and later to the gang when they're searching for the Rainbow Valley.
- Verbal Tic: His speeches are often peppered with "Paa! Paa!" in-between.
Queen Jeanne
In her reign as Queen.
When She Smiles, indeed.
The ruler of the Robot Kingdom, a young teenage girl who is the queen of the kingdom and is behind the order to remove the robots' emotions.- Adaptation Dye-Job: From redhead in the manga to blonde in the anime.
- Adaptational Nice Guy: She's a lot, a lot nicer in the anime film, where her Heel–Face Turn occurs sooner than her manga counterpart.
- Cool Crown: A jeweled tiara.
- Defrosting Ice Queen: After she gets rescued by the heroes and nursed back to health in the Rainbow Valley, and seeing Poko's insistence to heal her no matter what, gives Jeanne a change of heart.
- Freudian Excuse: Her father was killed while saving a robot from an accident resulting in her believing that robots with emotion caused her father's death thanks to Dester's manipulation during her grieving.
- God Save Us from the Queen!: The misogynistic Queen of the robot empire who forces segregation between humans and machines, and orders all captured robots to be stripped of their emotions.
- Heel–Face Turn: She becomes nicer after being healed by the citizens in the Rainbow Valley. And seeing that it is possible for humans and robots to co-exist in peace.
- Important Haircut: In the manga, she cuts her hair when she announces to remove the emotions of all robots in the kingdom. Averted in the movie, where she keeps her long hair.
- My God, What Have I Done?: When she realize Poko is still loyal to her and understands the error of her ways. Her return to the castle have her making amends for her actions, but Dester got in the way.
- Never Found the Body: Dester assumes she's dead after falling off the cliff, where he then returns to the palace to take over. She's still quite alive.
- Royals Who Actually Do Something: After her heel face turn, she leads everyone to the castle to announce the removal of the emotion removal law, and upon discovering that Dester usurped her and that he intends to take all the robots to the emotion removal factory, she puts herself in front of the line alongside other humans in order to protect the robots from Dester's mooks.
- Used to Be a Sweet Kid: She used to be an innocent and lively little princess who's Spoiled Sweet and likes to make friends, as shown in the flashbacks. It's even sadder in the manga-exclusive prequel that shows Jeanne's past as Poko's playmate.
- When She Smiles: Once she realizes her tyranny and strives to be better.
Dester
Queen Jeanne's robot advisor, second-in-command, and a high-ranking commander of the kingdom's robot army, Dester is a ruthless tyrant who believes having emotions - especially kindness, empathy and compassion - is a sign of weakness.
When Jeanne gets crowned queen, under Dester's suggestion they implemented a new law, the "Robot Reproduction Process" where robots are to be stripped of emotions into becoming machines, and having robots who refused to comply with the process hunted down and forcefully extracted of their emotions, as well as humans who assisted in evacuating their robot allies captured. However, there is more to him than it appears.
- Adaptational Wimp: In the manga, he made one last attempt at attacking the gang, only for Gian to blast him down with a compact-sized Air Cannon. In the anime he does the same... and passes out on his own, without the gang doing anything.
- Badass Cape: Has a long, regal one in purple.
- Bad Boss: In the anime he allows one of his robot mooks to be killed in his attempted assassination on Jeanne. There's also the climax in both manga and anime where he sends his robot base into a rampage, ignoring how his robot guards are still outside the area, with implications (especially in the film) that he trampled all over his own guards while trying to attack the heroes.
- Black Knight: His appearance, being clad in black armor and wearing a horned helmet, makes him a robotic version. Or so it seems...
- Boomerang Bigot: Dester initially appears to be this, being a robot who despises his own kind and demands for all robot citizens in the kingdom to be stripped of their emotions and becoming complete machines. And then comes the Unrobotic Reveal and the revelation that he's a human with Fantastic Racism.
- Broken Faceplate: His helmet splits apart in his final scene, leading to the Unrobotic Reveal.
- Break Them by Talking: At King Atom's funeral, he explicitly points out to a grieving Jeanne that the death of her father was caused by robots having emotions.
- Contrasting Sequel Antagonist: The previous two robot-focused Doraemon movies, Doraemon: Nobita and the Steel Troops and Doraemon: Nobita and the Tin Labyrinth, deals with robotic tyrants who displays Fantastic Racism towards mankind and organic life-forms, and wants to eliminate humans so that machines can rule over what's left. In contrast, Dester is a villain in a setting where robots and humans co-exists peacefully, who displays Fantastic Racism towards machines and wants to enslave robots under his tyranny, a rule opposed by the human citizens who had grown attached to their robot allies.
- There's also a fun Casting Gag that Dester and Napogistler (from Doraemon: Nobita and the Tin Labyrinth) shares the same VA, Shūichirō Moriyama. Who went from a robotic tyrant who hates humans to a human despot who despises robots.
- Crazy-Prepared: To the point of weaponizing his fortress into a gigantic mecha as a last-ditch attempt to take down the heroes.
- Dragon Ascendant: He starts off appearing as Jeanne's dragon, but later attempts an assassination on Jeanne which she barely survives. He then takes over the entire kingdom in her absence.
- Evil Chancellor: The advisor to Jeanne who encourages the "Robot Reproduction Plan", putting the whole kingdom into chaos, and later attempts to kill Jeanne when she's no longer useful to him.
- Evil Sounds Deep: In the anime, Dester has a deep, raspy, sinister-sounding voice, even before the revelation that he's the main villain.
- Evil Twin: Is this to Doctor Chapek, revealed at the end of the picture.
- Fantastic Racism: He has a huge aversion to robots, seeing them as mere slaves for humankind to take advantage of, and spreads his racism to the queen during her griefing to king Atom's demise.
- Humans Are the Real Monsters: When his true identity as a human masquerading as a machine is revealed, he's easily the worst of the lot.
- Obviously Evil: Red eyes? Check. Sinister-looking helm? Check. Protruding horns? Check. Look and sounds evil? Check. A surprise that he's the picture's true villain who's pulling the strings behind Jeanne's tyranny? Not really.
- Red Eyes, Take Warning: The anime gives him glowing red eyes that flashes fiercely when he's mad, as seen when taunting the captured Doraemon.
- Taking You with Me: He attempts to do this to Doraemon and Maria by launching the room they're inside as a rocket to the moon before collapsing from Doraemon's head attack. He ultimately fails as Poko saves the three before the rocket explodes.
- Tin Tyrant: As an overlord in black armour who rules the Robot Kingdom after a Tyrant Takes the Helm moment.
- Underestimating Badassery:
- Upon discovering that Doraemon is not from his planet, he has the impression that the robot cat is pretty weak and forces him to fight against Kongfighter for his amusement. Guess who not only defeats the giant robotic ape, but ruins his plans in the long run...
- He dismisses Nobita as a buffoon when Nobita pilots an impromptu robot using the Anything Remote into battle. But then Nobita's mech managed to break his fortress' legs.
- Unrobotic Reveal: Dester, who spends most of the film assumed to be Jeanne's robot advisor, is revealed to be Dr. Chapek's twin brother underneath his mechanical helm.
- The Usurper: He attempts to murder Jeanne by controlling a robot droid and making her fall off a huge cliff, immediately claiming himself king after attempting the heinous act and convincing the chancellors to make it official. This backfires on him, as she survives and redeems herself during her recovery at the Rainbow Valley, antagonizing the usurper.
- Would Hurt a Child: He's perfectly content drawing his sword on Poko. Or piloting his fortress into trampling over the main cast.
King Atom
He looks semi-translucent because this is a still from a Happy Flashback.
Jeanne's father and the former monarch of the Robot Kingdom, a land populated by humans and robots where they co-exist in peace. He was unfortunately killed in an accident when trying to save a robot laborer, and his demise serves as a catalyst for Dester's takeover.
- Adaptation Dye-Job: He's dark-haired in the manga, while the anime gives him a lighter brown shade of hair.
- Benevolent Boss: If him giving up his life to save a robot laborer is any indication.
- Cool Crown: Befitting a noble king. His daughter Jeanne gets a tiara instead.
- The Good King: A lawful, noble monarch of a kingdom where humans and robots co-exists, where he treats everyone equally and is respected by humans and robots alike.
- Good Parents: As Jeanne's sole parent after the queen's death, and she clearly loves him more than anything else, to the point of hiring Maria as Jeanne's personal nursemaid after the passing of the queen so Jeanne can have a maternal figure. Sadly this only results in Dester taking advantage of King Atom's death to manipulate Jeanne.
- Posthumous Character: He's long dead for years when the story begins in proper.
- Stupid Sacrifice: He decides to sacrifice himself to save a robot worker from being stomped by a falling robotic crane. This decision led to catastrophe for the kingdom, as Dester convinces a grieving Jeanne that it was the robot's fault, leading to the law of emotion removal being applied.
- Unwitting Instigator of Doom: His decision of sacrificing himself to save a robot worker resulted in the fall of the robot kingdom.
Kongfighter
With Doraemon.
A powerful fighting champion in the robotic gladiatorial arena, reputed to be unbeatable with 300 victories prior. And since Dester holds a grudge against robots, upon learning Doraemon is a robot from earth instead of his world he decides to pit Doraemon against his best champion.
- The Ace: Him fending off Doraemon's "Typhoon Straw" attack (manga) or "Instant Copy Machine" (anime) with relative ease shows that he has vast experience fighting various robots with different abilities and his undefeated streak is more than a mere statistic.
- Because You Were Nice to Me: Implied to be the reason why he helps Doraemon, after Doraemon shows him a brief moment of empathy by asking if Kongfighter would like to escape along.Kongfighter: [to Doraemon] Your kindness is a treasure! Don't let them remove it!
- David Versus Goliath: With Kongfighter as the Goliath when fighting Doraemon. Who's smaller than Kongfighter's fist.
- Defeat Means Respect: After Doraemon is declared the gladiator battle's winner, Kongfighter sees the robot cat as an ally.
- The Dreaded: He's the strongest gladiator in the arena, defeating 300 robots in a row before fighting Doraemon.
- Epic Flail: His right hand, which can extend into a spiked ball on a chain. He uses this ability to cover the entire arena to flush out the real Doraemon from multiple clones.
- Furry Reminder: It's not too evident in the manga (since it's print media) but in the anime Kongfighter moves like an angry gorilla when charging toward Doraemon.
- Graceful Loser: In the anime, before the decision of removing his emotions is made, he takes his defeat this way, saying that Doraemon's intelligence was superior to his brutal strength.
- Hoist by His Own Petard: In the anime, at least. Kongfighter's attempts at sending his flail at Doraemon accidentally knocks himself in the cranium thanks to Doraemon spreading the Tickling bugs and distracting him enough to lose control of it. The manga on the other hand have him getting subdued by Tickling Bugs.
- Hold the Line: His last scene have him fending off Jeanne's robot soldiers so that Doraemon can flee with the others.
- Honor Before Reason: He demands himself to be killed rather than suffer the humiliation of defeat. Doraemon however managed to convince him to change his mind.
- Killer Gorilla: He is a robotic one. Though subverted when he joins Doraemon's side.
- Shoulders of Doom: Has massive, armoured, shoulder pads as part of his attire. The manga have blades protruding from them which can be launched as a ranged attack, while in the anime it's a set of spikes.
- Throwing Your Sword Always Works: In the manga Kongfighter has the ability to launch his shoulder-blades as ranged projectile attacks. His anime incarnation lacks this power for some reason.
- What Happened to the Mouse?: His last scene in both the manga and anime have him getting cornered by robot soldiers. It's very likely they arrest Kongfighter and have him stripped of emotions, as per the rules of the battle states; however, since Doraemon and the gang overthrow Dester in the end Kongfighter probably gets restored to normal.
Robby
I'm a working robot... not programmed to play ball...
A robot farmer which is arrested by Dester's androids and has his emotions forcefully removed by the "Robot Reproduction Process".
- Advertised Extra: Despite his minor role in the story and not even meeting the heroes, he's advertised in the posters of the movie.
- Babysitter Friendship: Robby has a good relationship with the daughter of his owners and takes breaks to play ball with her. His relationship severely deteriorates after his emotions were removed, refusing to play with her as he states that he's only programmed to do farm work.
- Empty Shell: He becomes one after undergoing forced emotion removal, speaking in a monotone tone and refusing to play with the daughter of his owners, waiting for any order to follow that involves doing farm work.
- Robo Speak: He speaks this way, which is more prominent when he has his emotions removed.
- Sacrificial Lamb: His main role in the story is to show what happens to robots when their emotions are removed.
- What Happened to the Mouse?: His last scene in the animated movie has him deprived of all emotions, traumatizing his owner's child. Averted on the manga, where he has his emotions restored.
