The heroes and villains of Doraemon: Nobita's Drifts in the Universe.
Space Knights Troupe
As a whole:
- Ace Pilot: Mostly Lian, but they're all excellent when it comes to piloting their ship.
- And the Adventure Continues: They end the adventure continuing their search for a suitable new home planet.
- Badass Cape: All of them wear capes, including Freya (whose cape is the size of a hankerchief) and Log (the... robot).
- Badass Crew: A band of Space Knights can only be such.
- Cast of Expies: They seem to be a direct counterpart to the main cast, save for Suneo:
- Lian and Nobita: The human protagonist which the story focuses on, both of them being impatient hotheads at times, but genuinely care for their friends.
- Log and Doraemon: The Robot Buddy to their human besties, being made from advanced technology. Their bodies are also comprised mostly of spheres.
- Freya and Shizuka: The token girl of their respective teams, sharing the same feminine attitudes, who cares greatly and secretly harbors a crush on Lian / Nobita. They both share an interest girly, fashionable things as well which they get to bond with.
- Goro-Goro and Gian: The muscle and powerhouse of each respective team, which despite their overall demeneour are just Gentle Giants at heart.
- Space Cadet: Their unit serves under these aboard the Milky Way Drifting Fleet.
Lian
"Mother? Is that... you?"
- Big Damn Reunion: It's probably only temporary, but the final scene has Lian and Commander Liebert, having averted disaster and defeating Angolmois, seeing an illusion of their mother and wife created by the God's Tree Fruit. And for the first time in over a decade, they can be a complete family again.
- The Captain: Younger than most examples of the trope, but he's still the Space Knights' leader.
- It's All My Fault: His reaction, after realizing his attempts in gunning down Angolmois had unintentionally damaged a control panel.
- Missing Mom: His mother died before the events of the story, back when Lian was a toddler. This leads to Lian's father becoming a ruthless General Ripper and causes a schism between father and son.
- Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: While trying to stop Angolmois by activating a control panel forcing the mothership to crash into the Milky Way Drifting Fleet, Lian fires a fatal shot through Angolmois... and ends up damaging said control panel, causing the mothership to start crashing into the Milky Way Drifting Fleet.
Freya
"Uncharted planet up ahead!"
- The Atoner: Feels an overwhelming guilt for being a spy serving Angolmois, and is genuinely remorseful for nearly getting her Earthling friends killed - especially when Shizuka offers her a gift for the rescue. She quickly returns to assist Lian, the Space Knights, and her easrth friends to escape the hangar.
- Dope Slap: She favours swooping down and thumping Lian on the back of his head to get him to concentrate, much to Lian's annoyance.Lian: "Stop doing that!"
- Fairy Companion: Serves as one to Lian.
- The Mole: She secretly serves Angolmois, and feeds information and data to him. But that's because she believes she's doing it for the better.
- My God, What Have I Done?: When she realize the earthlings are her friends, after she plots to have them killed.
- Not Brainwashed: Turns out she's willingly serving Angolmois, unlike Commander Liebert who is affected by the villain's mental powers.
- Redemption Promotion: The scene after she redeems her betrayal by helping Lian and the others escape the hangar says it all:Lian: I want you guys to meet a new friend and ally of ours. Go on, don't be shy.[ cue Freya sheepishly coming out]
- Regretful Traitor: Genuinely remorseful for selling out the humans to Angolmois.
- Ship Tease: When Shizuka comments on her close relationship with Lian, Freya insists they are Just Friends, but admits that she would do anything to make Lian happy.
- Take Back Your Gift: When Shizuka offers Freya a gift, in the form of a hand-knit sweater (which she initially made for her dolls), Freya instead raises her voice that she can't accept any gifts and casts it aside, much to Shizuka's surprise. After all, it was Freya's sabotage which nearly got Shizuka and all her friends killed on the tree-man planet...
- Welcome Back, Traitor: After she deflects from Angolmois' side, the gang immediately welcomes her back, Lian and Shizuka especially.
- Well-Intentioned Extremist: Much like Liebert, she's willing to turn against the earthlings because she believes it's for the better good. Though she did deeply regret it, especially when Shizuka offers her a gift.
- Winged Humanoid: A fairy-like alien with wings on her shoulders.
Log
"Use my battery! We're getting out of here!"
- Cute Machines: He looks like a mechanical soccer ball with googly eyes!
- Eye Take: Log has this expression a lot in perilous moments, due to his robot eyes extending out.
- Heroic Sacrifice: Downplayed, but after the heroes made it to Lian's ship, docked in the hangar, they realize Commander Liebert's men had stripped the batteries. Log decides to use his own batteries - both the main and spare - so they can pilot the ship, and ends up losing consciousness once they're out of range (much to Doraemon's shock, since both robots have found a mutual buddy). However he gets recharged in the climax and quickly goes back to normal.
- One-Wheeled Wonder: How he travels around - a single wheel under his feet.
- Robot Buddy: The robot pal to Lian, much like what Doraemon is to Nobita. Log even bonds well with Doraemon!
Goro-Goro
"Goro-goro-goro!"
- Back-to-Back Badasses: When he's fighting alongside Gian in the hangar against robot security.
- The Big Guy: The largest and strongest member of Lian's crew and their backbone in direct confrontation.
- Curb-Stomp Battle: Early in the adventure when Lian and the Space Knights meet Doraemon and gang for the first time, Gian, being a hothead as usual, threatens to beat up Lian for "abducting" them. Cue Goro-Goro giving Gian a gentle Tap Onthe Head... and knocking Gian out cold.
- Gentle Giant: He may be a giant alien creature, but he wouldn't hurt a fly. He only attacks if his friends are provoked or threatened.
- Pokémon Speak: If he isn't growling and mumbling, he's saying "Goro-Goro!"
- The Unintelligible: Lian and the other Space Knights seem to understand him, though.
The Milky Way Drifting Fleet
Councilman Mazoura
When addressing the Fleet's council.
- Big Fun: A gigantic fish-monster-esque alien (at least five times the size of an average human), but also a jovial person and wise leader of the councils. He's especially fond of Lian, the young Space Knights Cadet.
- Big Good: The wise leader aboard the Milky Way Drifting Fleet.
- Ear Fins: His ears are giant fins.
- Fish People: He's a giant catfish alien.
- Parental Substitute: Lian sees him as one since his real father, Commander Liebert have seemingly ditched his family for his duties as Commander of the new Independence Army Fleet.
- Reasonable Authority Figure: Leads the council of aliens and humans aboard the Milky Way Drifting Fleet, and sees to it that no harm comes to the people under his leadership."Attention! Don't you realize every second you spend here arguing, the Independence Army moves closer to the mothership?"
The Independence Army
Commander Liebert
After being ordered by Angolmois to kill his own son.
- Archnemesis Dad: Commander Liebert and Lian openly opposes each other's actions, the former believing a full-scale invasion on other planets is the best solution, and the latter rejecting due to believing violence isn't the best solution.
- Brainwashed and Crazy: Downplayed, he's still in control of his actions and well aware of what he's doing, but Angolmois hypnotizing him from behind inspires him to kickstart a war.
- Colonel Badass: One can only be such to be in charge of an intergalactic army.
- Fighting from the Inside: When Angolmois finally manipulates him into shooting Lian. Liebert wins, turning his pistol from Lian to Angolmois and pulling the trigger, mortally injuring the villain. His bond with his son, Lian, is stronger than Angolmois can control after all.
- General Ripper: In charge of the Independence Army's invasion forces.
- Thicker Than Water: Ultimately, Liebert's relationship with his son proves stronger than Angolmois' influence, resulting in Liebert shooting the villain instead of Lian.
- Warhawk: His final solution for finding an uninhabited planet? Launch an invasion on peaceful alien worlds. Although his actions are later revealed to be due to Angolmois' influence.
- Well-Intentioned Extremist: Even before falling under Angolmois' control, Commander Liebert already have plans on taking drastic, violent actions, including invasion on other worlds, because he wanted to seek a new world for the millions and millions of inhabitants within the Milky Way Drifting Fleet.
- When You Coming Home, Dad?: Because of his rank and position as the Commander of the newly-formed Independence Army, Commander Liebert had started neglecting Lian, his only child. And that Angolmois is controlling him via brainwashing.
Angolmois
- And I Must Scream: His fate is likely one of the most horrific, but also well-deserved among villains in Doraemon's Long Tales. Getting petrified in blob form, sealed and packed in a garbage can before getting sent into a Black Hole… and nobody's going to cry about it.
- Big Bad: The main villain and source of all things that went wrong in the story.
- Blob Monster: He's a shapeless blob-like immortal alien underneath his disguises.
- Expy: As the entire story is a Star Wars homage, Angolmois is a straight-up Palpatine clone, a hooded villain with great mental powers, manipulating the hero's father and intending to kickstart an intergalactic war for his own amusement.
- Hidden Villain: The True Big Bad of this story. Though, he's Obviously Evil for being a cloaked, hooded figure the whole time.
- Implacable Man: He's an invincible, immortal blob-like alien. Once his physical body is destroyed, he can crate another by assimilating more junk into himself.
- In the Hood: His original form have him clad in hooded robes.
- Literally Shattered Lives: While revealing his true blob form and trying to assimilate the heroes, Angolmois ends up getting Doraemon's Coagulation Light pointed on him, which cause him to harden and shatter into pieces. Doraemon points out that the effects are merely temporary and Angolmois could reform once it wears off, though.
- Made of Evil: Subverted; Angolmois is suggested to be this, as he has powerful Psychic Power despite being assembled with primitive components, but he does display a degree of consciousness, awareness and sadistic glee. Like manipulating Liebert into shooting his own son.
- The Man in Front of the Man: He who appears to be Commander Liebert's advisor turns out to be mentally controlling Liebert and the entire military, turning the unit into a dictatorship ready to invade and conquer peaceful alien worlds.
- Mind Control: Inflicted on Commander Liebert and the entirety of the Milky Way Drifting Fleet's army, re-christening them into the Independence Army, a military unit dedicated to interplanetary invasion.
- Red Eyes, Take Warning: His eyes glow red when he's using his mental powers to corrupt his victims.
- SkeleBot 9000: His first form under the cloak is a skeletal robotic frame.
- Telepathy: Sometimes he doesn't need to speak directly to his minions, instead projecting his thoughts into their minds.
- This Was His True Form: A pulsating blob. His previous bodies are either robot parts or assorted junk.
- Treacherous Advisor: To Commander Liebert. There's more than him than he initially appears, however.
- TV Head Robot: His second form after assimilating a pile of trash, with a TV in place of his head which displays his face.
