Characters from Doraemon: Nobita and the Spiral City.
The Wind-Up City
The Sower
In his rampaging form
As A Form You Are Comfortable With when conversing with Nobita.
The literal god who created the universe, before the dawn of time. Yeah, somehow God does exist in the Doraemon universe.
- A Form You Are Comfortable With: When communicating with Nobita, the Sower assumes the form of a boy Nobita's age. When Nobita comments on how he thought "the creator of the universe would be more intimidating" the Sower then shapeshifts into an angry Tamako, scaring the bejesus out of Nobita before laughing at the fact that Nobita's afraid of his mother.
- Big Creepy-Crawlies: When he shapeshifts into a giant stag beetle.
- Big Good: It turns out The Sower is the bringer and the creator of all life in the universe, including the Ranch Planet of Living Toys Nobita and gang find themselves in.
- Deus ex Machina: Appears to save Nobita who had fallen down a chasm, provide some exposition, and then leaves.
- Energy Beings: His default form is a solid mass of gold energy, though he circumvents around the issue by assuming various forms for himself.
- Fertility God: He planted most of the life in the universe as experiments, including Earth and Mars before the beginning of time. However, he deems Mars a "failure" before moving on to other worlds.
- The Great Serpent: He briefly shape-shifts into a gigantic golden snake when trying to pursue everyone down a tunnel.
- Gold and White Are Divine: The divine creator of the universe depicted as a gold-white mass.
- Green Thumb: He can control plants from afar, using vines to lift Nobita from the chasm and in the finale distract Onigoro by creating leaf-people to trick him into shooting at nothing.
- Lightning Can Do Anything: He uses lightning bolts from the heavens to bestow intelligence on the animals in the Egg Factory.
- The Maker: Of the universe.
- Passing the Torch: After his short conversation with Nobita (as he rescues the latter from falling down a chasm), he decide Nobita and gang are friends of the environment and is worthy of being keepers of the planet he created, at which point he willingly relegates the planet's ownership to them. It's quite likely he had witnessed Nobita and gang's actions in Doraemon: Nobita and the Kingdom of Clouds which inspired his decision.
- Voluntary Shapeshifting: He can shapeshift into anything he wants, but his original form is a solid, formless mass of gold (which Onigoro and his underlings mistook for a gold deposit).
Pibu and Popi
- Brainy Pig: They're both toy pigs and among the most intelligent animals in the toy planet, elected to be the mayors of Spiral City and be left in charge of it's growth and development.
- Never Bareheaded: Pibu's always seen with his baseball cap with a "P" on it, while Popi's has her bow on all the time.
- Uplifted Animal: Thanks to being bestowed intelligence by the Sower.
Ain Motain and Thomas Meedison
Two more stuffed animals hatched from the Egg Factory which are bestowed intelligence by the Sower, Ain Motain and Thomas Meedison are respectively a horse and a goat.- My God, You Are Serious!: Doraemon and gang's reactions at Ain Motain and Thomas Meedison holding a council meeting with Pibu, Popi and the other animal representatives in the Spiral City is somewhere along the lines of "Aw how cute, they're playing politicians"... in actuality, they are holding a serious meeting.
- Named After Somebody Famous: Albert Einstein and Thomas Edison, in that order.
- Uplifted Animal: Ditto as the above.
Goji-chan
Gian's toy Not Zilla which he brought to life with the Life Key, and enlarged with the Growth Ray for good measure.- Gentle Giant: He looks intimidating, but is a massive softie who enjoys cuddling with his owner, Gian.
- T. Rexpy: The manga have him looking like Godzilla, but he's more of a stuffed T-Rex in the anime.
Wooky
A stuffed monkey belonging to Shizuka who became one of the Spiral City's residents thanks to the Life Key.- Mischief-Making Monkey: The naughtiest toy character in the entire story, to the point of screwing with the Life Key by bringing various objects in the human world to life... and then dragging them into the toy world.
- Pint-Sized Powerhouse: Despite being a stuffed monkey, Wooky can hold his own fighting against one of Onigoro's clones.
- Rummage Fail: When he's told by Nobita to retrieve the Fourth Dimensional Pocket, but as Nobita couldn't speak monkey, he then draws a half-circle and tell Wooky to "find something like this". Wooky then returns with a sack containing assorted half-circle objects including Nobita's underwear, a protractor, bowls, soup ladles, a watermelon slice from the fridge, a toy ship, half a baseball and finally, the Fourth Dimensional Pocket.
The Villains
Onigoro
"We're taking over toy world!"
A convict and wanted criminal by the Tokyo police, who unexpectedly found the unguarded Anywhere Door leading to the planet of toys. Stumbling into the Egg Factory, Onigoro unintentionally clones himself multiple times, and intends to take over the toy world.- Adaptational Wimp: Even worse in the anime. In the manga Nobita needs the Fourth Dimensional Pocket to take him down (by releasing a giant stuffed toy of a monster to scare Onigoro into submission before shooting the inflating bullets). In the anime Nobita just shoots and wins.
- Big Bad: The main villain of the picture, who escaped the authorities from Tokyo after breaking out of prison and snuck into the world of toys.
- Contrasting Sequel Antagonist: After a human-hating robot despot, a powerful netherworld demonic overlord and a horde of alien parasites who intends to assimilate the universe, the long stories series gave us a "normal" human criminal for once.
- Harmless Villain: The one time he put Doraemon and gang in actual danger is aboard the space station, where they have the advantage of being in an enclosed space and actually having guns allowing them to tie up everyone. The final battle easily demonstrates they're easily outmatched by Doraemon, Nobita, their friends and the toys of Spiral City.
- Heel–Face Brainwashing: While the OG Onigoro and most of his clones are escaped convicts and criminals, they all end up being fused into Hokuro at the conclusion of the story, and the goodness in Hokuro the odd clone is the only one of them which remains. A later scene back in Tokyo have a news report stating that Onigoro-as-Hokuro had surrendered himself to the authorities and is willingly serving time in prison, with his criminal behaviour before his escape somehow missing.
- Inflating Body Gag: Most of the clones, including the OG Onigoro, are defeated in the final battle from being shot by Nobita's inflatable pellet gun. They're then strung up like balloons and captured with ease.
- Me's a Crowd: He unintentionally cloned himself into multiple copies after entering the Egg Factory. His clones don't really see eye-to-eye, but they're willing to let the OG Onigoro be in charge of everything.
- Would Hurt a Child: He had no qualms trying to have Doraemon and gang tied up and locked in a space station about to explode. Or, in the finale, try shooting at Nobita with live ammunition.
Hokuro
"The mole's bringing me all the bad luck!"
A clone of Onigoro who uniquely had a mole on his upper lip. He's also unexpectedly a benevolent, non-violent member of the clones who gets dragged into the original Onigoro's plans by chance.
- Butt-Monkey: He really doesn't have the best of luck among the various Onigoro clones, from being scared by Goji-chan while trying to take a pee, to being assigned by his boss to carry a fireman's ladder, forced to drag Doraemon and gang and all his colleagues halfway across the forest after consuming the "Human Steam Engine Set" (in the manga it's Gian who does that) and later tasked with guard duty when a feast is happening. He actually remarks that his mole "brings him all the bad luck".
- Distinguishing Mark: The huge mole on his upper lip can be seen from a mile away. To the point that some dubs actually called him "Big Mole".
- Forced into Evil: He doesn't want to be among Onigoro and the other criminals, but he doesn't have a choice since he's seen with the other villains.
- Fusion Dance: Towards the end of the story, when the original Onigoro and the clones are arrested and put through the Cloning Machine to have the cloning process reversed, all of them somehow merged into a single entity, inside Hokuro, who can be identified by his mole.
- Spanner in the Works: Onogoro and his minions already have Doraemon and gang trapped aboard the space station, but Hokuro, tasked with tying up everyone, couldn't bring himself to hurt Shizuka (since she was the only member on board who treats him decently). So he instead leaves a few notches loose allowing Shizuka to struggle free from her bonds and release Doraemon and the others.
- Token Heroic Orc: The only clone that isn't outright evil, and in fact mostly benevolent.
- Uniformity Exception: He sticks out from the other clones thanks to his mole.
- Wouldn't Hurt a Child: The exact opposite of his boss. In the anime the final battle had him charging along with the other clones, but then he saw Shizuka, the nice girl who treats him with some decency while aboard the space station, at which point he decides just to drop his weapon and give up.
