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Crew of Edens Zero (Shiki Granbell, Shiki's Companions) | Crew of Edens One
Oración Seis Galáctica (Associates) | Interstellar Union Army
Grand Shiki Cosmos (Sakura Cosmos [Blue Garden, Sun Jewel]) | Others
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Oración Seis Galáctica

The Oración Seis Galáctica are a band of the six most powerful warriors in the cosmos, each one supposedly capable of crushing entire planets.

In General

Anti-Human Alliance: By the final arc, the whole group is made up of androids (including former humans) who share the Big Bad's vision for a world where humans are extinct.
Artifact Name: Even if one or two members are defeated, they are still called the "Oración Seis Galáctica" ("Seis" meaning "Six", the group's maximum number at any given time), with the Cosmic Government branding those they deem a threat to the universe as new members filling in the vacancy. At the end of Lendard arc, Shiki and Nox remain as the only members left before the two are transported to Universe Zero, effectively ending the group in Universe 3.
Big Bad Ensemble:
- Zig-Zagged. Most of its members have the strength and influence to match Ziggy, the overall Big Bad, enough that some of them either oppose him (as with Nero) or team up with him (as with Crow and Acnoella). However, it's established that not all of them are evil, as Elsie fights on the same side as the heroes. This is especially true as Shiki, The Hero himself, is branded as a member after the Time Skip without becoming a Villain Protagonist.
- For the final arcs, the Cosmic Retcon sees the whole group Demoted to Dragon under Void, the true Big Bad.
Changing of the Guard: A villainous example. The Cosmic Retcon almost completely alters the original team, with God Acnoella being the only constant. The rest consist of Cure (who is renamed Deadend Cure), Xenolith (later revealed to be an Evil Knockoff made by Müller), and three never-before-seen members: Joker Helix, Lightning Law, and Lady Freyja.
Dub Name Change: Unlike the Oración Seis from Rave Master and Fairy Tail, whose names are written with kanji but read like a borrowed Spanish phrase, this group's name differs from its Japanese name, which is read strictly in its home language as "Ginga Rokumashō", meaning "Six Galactic Demon Generals".
Gender-Equal Ensemble:
- The group at the outset is evenly split between three males (Drakken, Nero, and Crow) and three females (Elsie, Acnoella, and Nox), with two former member from both sexes (Jaguar and the previous Nox). This holds true as the roster changes, the male Shiki and Ziggy taking Drakken and Nero's places in Universe 3.
- For the final arcs, the new ensemble is made up of the male Cure, Müller, and Law, and the female Acnoella, Joker, and Freyja.
Gratuitous Spanish: Their name is loosely Spanish for "Galactic Prayer Six".
Not-So-Omniscient Council of Bickering: Despite being known as the Oración Seis Galáctica, the members don't really work together as a group and they mind each other's business as they lead their respective organizations with their own agendas in the cosmos. However, the prospect of two or more Galáctica members meeting each other is alarming to the Cosmic Government and the appearance of most Galáctica members in one place will bring the full attention of the Oración Seis Interstellar members coming to their location.
Not Always Evil: Although they're all branded as outlaws for good reason, some of them—such as Elsie Crimson—aren't evil so much as varying shades of grey. This is further solidified with Shiki, The Hero, being registered as one of the Galáctica simply for suspicious activity (flying an unregistered ship once owned by the Big Bad, being friends with Elsie, harboring members of Drakken's syndicate, etc.) once his power is recognized as a potential threat.
Planet Destroyer: While it hasn't been shown, each member is said to be capable of crushing a planet on their own, whether it's through raw power, sheer influence, or the technology at their disposal.
Praetorian Guard: In Universe Zero, the Galáctica are all the handpicked minions of Void, the Big Bad, and are treated as the ultimate final adversaries for the Edens Zero crew.
Recurring Element: Their English name can be traced back to Rave Master^notetranslated as "Oracion Six", and Fairy Tail after that, while their Japanese name is written similarly to the kanji used in the latter series^note. Also like both previous series, they're an elite group of outlaws who stand among the strongest characters in their respective series at their time of introduction.
World's Best Warrior: Each one of these six is reputed to be the cosmos's best warrior, and a Planet Destroyer at that. The fact that several of its members can stand toe-to-toe with the Big Bad, who can crush a planet with relative ease, shows that their strength is no exaggeration.

Members at the Start of the Story

Elsie Crimson

Voiced by: Sayaka Ohara (English), Colleen Clinkenbeard (English)^{Foreign VAs}

"No... We will continue to welcome all. Just like the Edens Zero, when they rescued a small girl with nowhere else to go. I believe our time together creates bonds between us. Thus you build a family when you live life on a ship."

The armor-clad, scarlet-haired Pirate Queen who conquered the Seven Cosmic Seas. She is good friends with Demon King Ziggy, who entrusted her with delivering the Edens Zero to Shiki, making her one of Shiki's most valuable and powerful allies. Her Ether Gear, Star Drain, allows her to absorb the Ether of planets and forge it into battle gear.

Always Someone Better: According to Elsie herself, she stood on equal footing with Valkyrie when she was still a child. Nowadays, she's strong enough to deliver a Curb-Stomp Battle to Homura—who struggled to beat a weaker training robot copying Valkyrie—in a matter of seconds with a single foot.
Ambiguously Evil: Downplayed. While she's firmly on the heroes' side and has moral standards that many of the Oración Seis Galáctica would gleefully cross, she still has moments that make her less altruistic than she seems, namely when she "half-jokes" about selling Shiki and his friends about selling them into slavery, and feeling no remorse from anybody she steals from.
Anti-Hero: She's a notorious Space Pirate and damn proud of it, and she has the occasional Ambiguously Evil moment, but she's ultimately a staunch ally to the main heroes who has a strict moral code, and fights to protect the universe when it's threatened by Ziggy.
Arch-Enemy: She is the personal nemesis of Justice from the Interstellar Union Army, who has sworn to apprehend and kill her at all costs for instigating the war that destroyed their fatherland and everything they cared about.
Badass Cape: Her big, black cape oozes authority and power.
Bare-Handed Blade Block: Exaggerated. She's powerful enough to catch a swing from Homura's sword with her toes, following up with tossing Homura aside with the same foot.
Beneath the Mask: On the surface, she's a Lovable Rogue who playfully engages in cat-and-mouse with her nemesis, Justice/James, and copes with her childhood trauma with the support of her True Companions. However, watching two of her closest companions die in the Lendard arc causes her facade to crumble, exposing her as a horribly guilt-ridden girl who believes she's cursed to spread death to all her loved ones, and is distraught that her actions have turned her and James into mortal enemies.
Benevolent Boss: She treats her crew well overall, and they repay her kindness and strength with the utmost respect. She's also merciful towards traitors in her crew, as demonstrated when she reveals she'd known Jesse was a spy the whole time, and offers him a chance to truly be a part of her crew and family; when he refuses, she simply sends him back to the Interstellar Union Army.
Big Good: She shares this role with Noah, Nadia, and Rachel in Universe Zero, where she's the Interstellar Union Army's director of operations in the Kaede Cosmos.
Break the Badass: Jesse succeeds in doing this to Elsie in Universe 3 by forcing her to watch helplessly as he lures her crewmates Gowen and Hyoga to their grizzly deaths while she's Brought Down to Normal, just to make her suffer for causing the war that killed his parents, which reminds her of all the lives lost because of her. While he ends up biting it at Hyoga's hands, her ego is destroyed so badly that she's Driven to Suicide when all is said and done.
Broken Ace: Elsie is one of the finest warriors in the cosmos, and a Lovable Rogue with a loyal crew of space pirates at her beck and call. She also has to live with the fact that she helped start a Civil War that destroyed her and many others' lives, including that of her fiancé, when she was only a child. She's further broken in Universe 3 when Jesse—a revenge-seeking survivor of the war—murders her closest crewmates Gowen and Hyoga while she's at his mercy, which eventually leads her to commit suicide.
Bureaucratically Arranged Marriage: Back when they were children, Elsie was engaged to James/Justice so that his kingdom could be absorbed into hers when they came of age, neither knowing at the time that it was to secure a supply route for her parents' weapons development. Nevertheless, they fell in love before their relationship was destroyed by the civil war.
Card-Carrying Villain: Downplayed since her alignment is more morally gray, but she says that she lives for plundering and war about as casually as trying to remember the time, and beams with pride as her crew recounts her beginnings as a pirate (i.e., desperately looting ports and houses when she was low on supplies).
Clothes Make the Superman: Elsie can create different outfits from the Ether of other planets to enhance her already impressive fighting power.
Color-Coded Characters: Between her and fellow Star Drain user Justice, Elsie's Ether Gear is colored red as opposed to Justice's blue, which also applies to their Ether attacks in the anime.
Corrupted Character Copy: While still a heroic figure compared to Erza, her character basis from Fairy Tail, Elsie is more of an Anti-Hero with a real criminal record as a Space Pirate who pragmatically copes with war and death she caused by accident, as opposed to the more heroic Knight in Shining Armor who harbors guilt over things beyond her control.
Dark and Troubled Past: She's the Fallen Princess of a former kingdom who exposed a conspiracy that would have destroyed her entire home cosmos. This resulted in a Civil War with the loss of all her friends and family, and earned her the hatred of fellow survivors—namely her fiancé, Justice/James—who've made it their goal to kill her.
Dark Is Not Evil: She's normally dressed in black armor, and she's the most notorious piratess in the cosmos, but she's also a Lovable Rogue and a Token Good Teammate within her criminal class.
Dead Alternate Counterpart: Universe 3's Elsie is de-aged from existence along with Justice in the Lendard arc when they willingly remain on the planet as the Chronophage consumes it, while Universe 1 and 2's Elsie's are last seen still alive and well.
Death by De-aging: Her Universe 3 self goes out this way by staying on Lendard as the Chronophage rewinds its time by 260 years, which causes her and Justice to rapidly age in reverse until they're finally erased from existence.
Death Equals Redemption: Universe 3's Elsie takes this course of action with James/Justice when her guilt over the war and death she caused as a child catches up to her in the Lendard arc, allowing the Chronophage to devour her as a way to atone.
Death from Above: Her Grand Chariot attack functions exactly as it does in other Mashima works, raining seven pillars of light down from the sky to smite her enemies.
Doom Magnet: She considers herself to be this in the Lendard arc after witnessing Jesse kill Gowen and Hyoga to spite her for causing his parents' death in the civil war, leading her to reflect on all the loved ones she's lost because of what happened, either directly or indirectly.
The Dreaded: She has such a fearsome reputation that nearly everyone in Shooting Starlight tries to avoid her, and the very thought of her causes Rebecca to shudder uncontrollably with terror. Reputation aside, however, she turns out to be a Friendly Pirate.
Driven to Suicide: Universe 3's Elsie chooses to let the Chronophage erase her when it eats Lendard's time, broken and tired from all the fightinng after witnessing Gowen, Hyoga, and Jesse kill each other, followed by Elsie killing her own mother.
Energy Absorption: Her Ether Gear lets her absorb the Ether from planets themselves, which she then instantaneously crafts into suits of armor and battle gear, or to perform attacks akin to Heavenly Body Magic.
Expy: Her name, appearance, and title are all distinctly modeled after Erza Scarlet, one of the protagonists of Mashima's previous series, Fairy Tail. Both their powers also revolve around outfits that enhance their already incredible powers, though Erza stores her armor in Hammerspace while Elsie creates hers out of thin air; both lost their right eye as children because of horrible circumstances; and both harbor Unresolved Sexual Tension with a fellow Expy of Sieg (Jellal for Erza, Justice for Elsie), though in Elsie's case, there's real hostility shared between her and Justice, whereas Jellal was only Erza's enemy while Brainwashed and Crazy. For added bonus, she shares Erza's Japanese and English voice actors, Sayaka Ohara and Colleen Clinkenbeard.
Evil Redhead: Downplayed. She is a crimson-haired beauty who also happens to be a Space Pirate, but she's morally grey at worst, and a Token Good Teammate for the Oración Seis Galáctica.
Eyepatch of Power: She wears one across her right eye, which she lost during the war that ravaged her kingdom, adding to her imposing appearance.
Face Death with Dignity: In the Lendard arc, Universe 3's Elsie allows the Chronophage to erase her from existence along with Justice to "purify" all the time they wasted senselessly fighting and hating each other, both spending their final moments at peace with each other.
Facial Markings: If one looks closely when her Ether Gear is in effect, she gains the same Tron Lines around her right eye, almost completely concealed by her eyepatch.
Fallen Princess: She's a princess from the Kaede Cosmos who rebelled against her family upon discovering their Dark Secret, triggering a war that cost her her family, friends, and eye. After wandering the cosmos as a refugee, she was rescued by Ziggy and left in charge of his ship, which she had no clue how to maintain, forcing her to become a pirate to survive.
Family of Choice: She and the rest of her pirate crew consider each other to be family, which was inspired by her experiences with Ziggy and the Four Shining Stars giving her a loving family life she never had with her distant, superficially loving biological family. When faced with the return of her biological mother, who has become God Acnoella, Elsie ruthlessly cleaves her and half and obliterates her, not caring that they're related.
Friendly Pirate: Despite being a wanted pirate, Elsie is a very amicable person and a valuable ally to Shiki's crew who comes to help them whenever she's not out plundering or fighting the Interstellar Union Army.
Go Out with a Smile: At the end of the Lendard arc, both she and James welcome their deaths at the hands of the Chronophage with a smile in Universe 3, content to have finally made peace with each other after years at each other's throats.
Good All Along: Downplayed. Elsie is introduced as an Ambiguously Evil presence in pursuit of Shiki, but after a tense confrontation over ownership of the disguised Edens Zero, it's revealed that she's Ziggy's friend who was delivering the ship to Shiki out of goodwill, and wanted to test his worth. However, that does not change the fact that she is a shameless criminal who betrayed her planet and caused its destruction (albeit unintentionally) to save her home cosmos.
Handy Feet: When she challenges Homura to fight her in the Spa of Eden, Elsie catches Homura's Ether sword with her toes and throws her across the room.
Happily Adopted: She viewed Ziggy and the Four Shining Stars as her only family after the war on her planet killed her cold, unloving family.
Hated Hometown: She despises her homeworld because the government her parents led was rotten to the core, which turned the very planet into the Perpetual Motion Machine world that Lendard is currently known to be, where soldiers and weapons of mass destruction are produced ad infinitum.
The High Queen: Elsie's Universe Zero self becomes the beloved queen of Lendard thanks to the Cosmic Retcon preventing the Civil War on her planet from ever happening.
Honor Before Reason: Her devotion to Ziggy for saving her life becomes a major flaw of hers when he's resurrected and becomes the Big Bad, as she can't bring herself to truly hate him. This leads to a Moment of Weakness in the Nero 66 arc where she spares Ziggy's life while he's left weak from his battle with Nero, vowing to treat him as an enemy the next time they meet, while Ziggy mocks her for her foolishness.
Hopeless with Tech: She was a Type 2 in her childhood, at least. The whole reason she turned to piracy was because she didn't know the first thing about how to run an advanced spaceship like the Edens Zero, and helped herself to other people's homes just to make ends meet.
I Choose to Stay: At the end of the Lendard arc, Elsie chooses to remain on Lendard as it's being eaten by the Chronophage to atone for the war she brought to her people, rather than flee with the rest of her crew; Justice decides to be Together in Death with her.
I Did What I Had to Do: Deconstructed. Although betraying her kingdom led to bloodshed that cost the lives of her and Justice's families, Elsie still stands by her decision because the entire Kaede Cosmos would have suffered a worse fate had she not taken action. However, it's because of this that Justice convinces himself that Elsie feels no remorse for it, when she's simply been able to press on with her crew's support. The Lendard arc further shows that Elsie is in fact completely crushed by what she's done, and—after losing two of her closest crewmates to Jesse out of revenge—she finally gives Justice a Heartfelt Apology.
I Owe You My Life: When she was still a child, Elsie was picked up by Ziggy as a refugee of war and lived as a part of his family with the Four Shining Stars and Shiki. It's for this reason that she agrees to deliver the Edens Zero to Shiki following Ziggy's death. It's also for this reason that she feels obligated to stop Ziggy when he comes Back from the Dead as an enemy, and why she ultimately chooses to spare his life in a Moment of Weakness during the Nero 66 arc.
I Will Fight No More Forever: In the Lendard arc, she renounces all desire to fight after Gowen and Hyoga's deaths at Jesse's hands bring forth the crushing guilt she's tried to repress for the death and bloodshed she caused years ago.
Impoverished Patrician: She's the Fallen Princess of a planet whose kingdom was destroyed by a war that she herself caused, becoming a refugee who was taken in aboard the Edens Zero, and eventually turning to piracy after running out of provisions.
Improbable Age: She was strong enough to match Valkyrie in a fight as a child, and presently stands as one of the most powerful warriors in the galaxy with thousands of ships at her command, despite only being in her early twenties at most.
Inconsistent Spelling: Elsie's name is translated in French as "Erzy", leaning harder into her similarities to Erza.
Killed Offscreen: The scene cuts away as her Universe 3 self is de-aged from existence, last showing her as a young child in her last moments with Justice.
Lovable Rogue: She might be the biggest outlaw in the cosmos, but she is also a Friendly Pirate, a good-natured Troll, and a loyal friend of Ziggy, which puts her on good terms with Shiki.
Meaningful Name: Her last name matches the color of her hair. The Lendard arc reveals it isn't her real surname, however.
A Mother to Her Men: She views her pirate crew like the family she never had, and always looks out for their best interests, regardless of how they may harm her as in Jesse's case.
My Greatest Failure: Although Elsie tries to justify the Civil War she incited against her parents as being for The Needs of the Many, she still suffers from horrible guilt because of it, since she was still just an innocent child who never meant for any of it to happen, and didn't realize the consequences her actions would bring until it left her with immeasurable blood on her hands.
Never Got to Say Goodbye: By the end of the Lendard arc, she and Ziggy both die without ever getting a chance to speak with each other properly after the latter is released from the Edens One's control, with their last conversation being Ziggy giving her a warning while Fighting from the Inside. She also never gets a proper farewell with her or Shiki's crews before her death, since she was having a moment with Justice, and Eraser opted to have everyone respect their privacy; while Shiki and Hermit piece together that she didn't survive, her own crew has no clue what happened to her at all.
No Body Left Behind: Her Death by De-aging in Universe 3 involves staying on Lendard as the Chronophage rewinds its time by 260 years, centuries before she was ever born, which erases her from existence.
One-Woman Army: Thanks to her skill ranking her as one of the strongest warriors in the cosmos, she effortlessly wipes out an entire mob of frenzied robots with nothing but her Grand Chariot.
Other Me Annoys Me: Universe Zero's Elsie, who is Lendard's queen and one of the Interstellar Union Army's directors, is mortified to know that she was a Space Pirate in the world before the Cosmic Retcon, despite her subjects being able to picture it perfectly.
Perfectly Arranged Marriage: Her Bureaucratically Arranged Marriage with James/Justice led to Puppy Love between the two of them, though the Civil War she started all but killed their chance at romance. Their relationship in Universe Zero, where they're still engaged, shows them to be a happy, loving couple.
Pirate Girl: She's a female Space Pirate with an eyepatch and a massive fleet of spaceships at her command.
The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything: She's an infamous Space Pirate queen, and indeed has a history of plundering every port of the cosmos, but is never seen engaging in any sort of piracy on-screen.
Punny Name: According to Mashima, the "-sie" in her name is meant to sound like "sea", because she's a pirate.
Puppy Love: A flashback to her and Justice/James's childhood in the Foresta arc shows her teasing James by offering and then backing out of a kiss, since they were part of a Bureaucratically Arranged Marriage and thus bound to do it sooner or later.
Red Baron: She has multiple titles such as the "Armored Space Pirate" and the "Pirate Queen".
Red Herring: The Lendard arc falsely sets Elsie up as the true Big Bad who's been controlling Ziggy all along, with plenty of scenes—her Death Glare over a murdered Jesse and Princess Guard's bodies, Hermit investigating her past conversation with Ziggy, and Elsie brutally killing her mother and taking control of God Acnoella's Mook Maker machine—painting her in a suspicious light before she's exonorated by further explanations (her Death Glare was a Heroic BSoD; Hermit was suspicious of what Ziggy said, not Elsie; and she needed Acnoella's machine to deactivate her dragon swarm).
Reused Character Design: Just as Jellal from Fairy Tail shares his design with Sieg Hart from Rave Master, Elsie's design is recycled from Erza Scarlet from Fairy Tail. Appearance aside, though, the two characters couldn't be more different, with Elsie being an Ambiguously Evil Lovable Rogue compared to Erza's Good Is Not Soft Knight in Shining Armor.
Royals Who Actually Do Something: Deconstructed. As the princess of her planet, she acted against her parents' corruption by selling their darkest secrets out to more trustworthy nations, hoping to reach a diplomatic resolution. Unfortunately, this happened when she was too young to fully grasp the consequences of what she was doing, which wound up exacerbating the conflict into a fully blown Civil War and tarnished her reputation.
Self-Made Orphan: An accidental example where her parents and the rest of her family were killed in a war she unintentionally triggered, albeit because they were warmongers who threatened the Kaede Cosmos. A more deliberate example occurs when her evil mother, Shaya, is revealed to have survived the war as God Acnoella, whom Elsie obliterates without hesitation or mercy.
Shameless Fanservice Girl: She's the only one who doesn't get embarrassed by Shiki seeing her in a Modesty Towel when the girls are just out of the bath, and she makes fun of Justice for holding her captive on Lendard when she's hardly wearing anything.
Shed the Family Name:
- As revealed in the Lendard arc, the surname "Crimson" is just an alias. Her real full name is Elsie Le Lendard, signifying her as the crown princess of Planet Lendard, which she renounced for its corruption. She only declares her original name again as a passcode to deactivate her mother's dragon swarm.
- As shown in the Reunion arc, Universe Zero's Elsie still goes by Le Lendard.
Silly Rabbit, Idealism Is for Kids!: Zig-Zagged. On the one hand, she resents Justice for clinging to his naive idealism that he could have reformed their planet's government once he came of age, since Elsie already saw how little time they had before the entire Kaede Cosmos was doomed to full-scale invasion. On the other hand, she herself naively clings to the idea that anyone can be considered a member of her family once given the chance, which includes knowingly welcoming a spy and traitor like Jesse, underestimating how much he truly hates her.
Space Pirate: She's a Lovable Rogue who sails the cosmic seas and plunders planets to provide for her loyal crew. This also makes her an enemy to the Interstellar Union Army, especially Justice, who hated her since before she became a pirate and sees her crimes as justification for revenge against her.
Star-Crossed Lovers:
- With Justice. They were engaged when they were children and clearly liked each other, but Elsie's actions resulted in their kingdoms starting a war that destroyed their lives. Justice blames Elsie for what happened and seeks to arrest her in revenge, but there's still a lingering attraction between them. Only their Universe 3 selves make amends in the Lendard arc, rekindling their childhood romance for a few moments while their ages are being reversed by the Chronophage before being fully de-aged from existence.
- In the final arcs, this is averted in Universe Zero, where the war never took place thanks to the Cosmic Retcon, allowing them to remain happily together.
The Tease: She gets a bit of this with Justice, though she leans into it more than he's willing to. This is especially evident when she and her fleet slip right through Justice's fingers, smugly telling him she's "not that easy", and when she pokes fun at him for cuffing her on Lendard while she's practically naked.
Together in Death: After making peace with Justice in Universe 3, the two remain together on Lendard to let the Chronophage erase them from existence, spending their final moments in each other's embrace.
Token Good Teammate: She is one of the few non-villainous members of the Oración Seis Galáctica, serving instead as a steadfast ally to the main Edens Zero crew. Her lack of villainy is also discussed by the Oración Seis Interstellar, who note that she never specifically hurts the civilians she robs, and was branded mainly because she's an incredibly powerful pirate, not an evil one.
Took a Level in Cheerfulness: Elsie is retroactively made into a happier person in Universe Zero thanks to the Cosmic Retcon stopping the Civil War from ever happening, meaning she never suffers the guilt of destroying the lives of her subjects.
Troll: She taunts Shiki's crew by claiming she's going to capture them and sell them to slavers, then challenges Shiki to duel her when he decides to take her ship. In truth, she wasn't on the ship to begin with, the versions of her and the crew found there were all Kawpicatts, and she was planning to give him the ship either way; she simply thought to make things more "fun".
Unresolved Sexual Tension: Elsie has enough lingering affection for Justice, her ex-fiancé to act like The Tease towards him despite all their hostility for each other, but is also resigned to the fact that Justice hates her too much to accept any feelings he has left for her, driven home by their mutual Kiss of Distraction during their battle in the Foresta arc. In the final arcs, the Cosmic Retcon erases the events that lead to their animosity altogether, making them a loving couple once more.
Unwitting Instigator of Doom: The Civil War she incited on her planet was completely unintentional, as she hoped that selling her parents' Dark Secret out to more trustworthy countries would lead to a more peaceful and diplomatic resolution. It also allowed Ziggy to take control of the ruins of her planet to use her parents' technology to further his goals for galactic domination, making her efforts All for Nothing.
Warrior Princess: In addition to being a Space Pirate, she's also a former princess whose combat ability rivaled that of Valkyrie when she was just a child, and she is addressed as "Princess" by her crew.
White Sheep: Elsie is the innocent, good-hearted daughter of corrupt, power-hungry warmongers, and betrayed her parents as a child when they sought to conquer the entire Kaede Cosmos.
You're Not My Mother: Elsie doesn't consider God Acnoella—formerly known as Shaya—to be her mother, because she never showed any interest in anything besides wealth and power, only pretending to love her children to save face in front of them. When faced with her in the Lendard arc, Elsie kills her in a heartbeat before Acnoella can finish her shameless Evil Gloating.

Drakken Joe

Voiced by: Taiten Kusunoki, Mikako Komatsu [child] (Japanese), Armen Taylor (English)^{Foreign VAs}

"See? It was a learning experience, right? You want to dream about being heroes? Going on adventures? Fine. But there are some people in the cosmos that you just shouldn't mess with. Get the message?"

The Dark Alchemist, a merciless loan shark who controls the Sakura Cosmos's underworld as its kingpin, notorious for turning the once peaceful planet Guilst into a criminal hive. His Ether Gear, Alchemist, allows him to transmute anything and anyone into whatever material or form of matter he wants.

Adaptation Dye-Job: The anime gives him dark gray slacks and keeps the dark purple coloration of his shirt shown in colored images, while Pocket Galaxy gives him a brighter orange-and-red shirt with dark blue jeans.
Alchemy Is Magic: His "Alchemist" Ether Gear was created on the basis of alchemy he learned from a book.
Almighty Idiot: Downplayed when he loses control of his Overdrive, which mutates him until he becomes a giant, crazed beast in body and mind, barely able to maintain his usual intelligence and practicality. However, he exerts just enough self-control to focus on multiple tasks at once with his amorphous tentacles, such as activating Satellite Blaze to dispose of Noah, seeking out and absorbing Rebecca, and morphing an extra hand with a gun to try and kill Shiki again.
All of the Other Reindeer: The other humans of Drakken's homeworld were so accepting of their short lifespans that they called Drakken a freak for wanting to live longer, believing 15 years to be plenty of time.
Ambiguous Start of Darkness: The only details of his past known are that he Used to Be a Sweet Kid who wanted to extend his own short life to make more friends, but has since come to value money and immortality far more than friendship. What exactly triggered this transformation is never clarified.
Bad Boss: He shows no mercy to any of his subordinates who make him look soft, demonstrated when he has Spider killed for crawling back after dropping Drakken's name and getting wiped by a bunch of "grunts" like the Edens Zero crew. On top of that, none of them are aware that he's draining their life force and adding it to his own.
Beard of Evil: He's the evilest man in his neck of the universe, complete with an evil goatee.
Benevolent Boss: Downplayed; he only behaves like one in Universe Zero, where he's more fair to his men and less needlessly cruel to his debtors, but still punishes people who fail to make their money back.
Berserk Button: The one thing that's sure to set him off is being made to look soft, because he can't conduct his Loan Shark business if other people start to underestimate him.
But for Me, It Was Tuesday:
- Spider started bragging about being one of Drakken Joe's Sworn Brothers to everyone he meets after Drakken complimented him as such for fixing his computer. By the time they meet again, Drakken can't be damned to remember anything about the guy, and has zero trouble killing him for his failures.
- Zig-Zagged when he meets Weisz personally in the heroes' do-over aboard the Belial Gore. When Weisz finds out his mother was killed by Drakken's life-absorption machine and goes on a Roaring Rampage of Revenge, Drakken honestly has no clue what he's talking about. Thanks to a background check he did on the crew earlier, however, he recognizes Weisz as an alternate version of the same kid whose arm he cut off for stealing his money 50 years ago, and tries to "rectify" the situation by cutting the alternate Weisz's off.
Card-Carrying Villain: He's built an entire Loan Shark business around his name, and he cares so deeply about his reputation that he has Spider killed for getting himself beaten after openly associating himself with him.
Character Catchphrase: "That smells like money."
Clipped-Wing Angel: Hermit reversing his life-support causes him to morph into an eldritch Tentacled Terror. While still incredibly powerful with full access to his Superpower Lottery moveset, he's noted to be weaker than before and becomes little more than a crazed beast. Ultimately, a single powerful blow from Shiki's Overdrive form is all it takes to knock him out of his monster form and defeat him.
Climax Boss: He's the first overarching villain of the series who has ties to virtually every other evil goings-on up to that pont, and the final opponent Shiki defeats in Sakura Cosmos, with Rebecca awaking her time-leaping powers and Shiki going into full Overdrive for the first time in the process of fighting him.
Creepy Shadowed Undereyes: The black circles around his eyes serve to make him look more intense and unsettling.
Cruel Mercy: He has a policy against killing his debtors for failing to make money, because they can't pay him back if they're dead. Instead, when one poor sap winds up owing him millions, he shatters the poor man's jaw and offers to let him go through a Fate Worse than Death of his own choice until he can pay back the money.
Dark Lord on Life Support: He has a so-called "life-support machine" that's kept him alive for 200 years by absorbing the life force from everyone on whatever ship or planet he's on. Without using it regularly, his age starts to catch up to him; however, using it for as long as he has leaves him on the verge of a physical breakdown, forcing him to pursue Rebecca's Cat Leaper as his last chance to survive.
The Dark Side Will Make You Forget: His original motivation to extend his own life via draining life force was simply to live long enough to grow up, see other worlds, and make friends. As the years went on, however, he became so fixated on power and wealth that his purpose for living changed to not dying ever.
Defeat Means Friendship:
- Subverted. Right after Drakken gets beaten and his age catches up to him, Shiki tries talking Weisz out of shooting him in revenge, arguing that you can befriend anyone if you just reach out. Right after that, Drakken feebly and literally reaches his hand out to Weisz...and then asks him with a crooked smile to give him more life. It's unclear whether Drakken did this on purpose to mess with Weisz, or if his mind has eroded so much that it's all he knows anymore.
- As shown in the final arcs, this is downplayed in Universe Zero, where he gets so confused and fed up with Shiki's unyielding attempt to befriend him that he gives up on fighting him, but still takes Shiki's advice of saving the people of Guilst from the Chronophage to heart, since Drakken was far more moral in this world to begin with.
Defiant to the End: After he's been defeated by Shiki, with his body wasting away and his mind even further gone, Drakken is still bent on helplessly asking people to give him more life, all with a twisted grin on his face.
Disc-One Final Boss: Drakken is the first major overarching villain in the story, and the biggest threat the Edens Zero crew face within the Sakura Cosmos, but once he's defeated, his power and influence is immediately dwarfed by the next major villain reveal.
The Dreaded: Law enforcement officers consider him to be the most evil man in the Sakura Cosmos, which is on top of him being one of the six strongest warriors in the cosmos. The Edens Zero crew learns to fear him themselves after he beats them, rounds them all up, gives them a nasty Breaking Speech, and kills Shiki in front of them, the last of which turns him into a walking Trauma Button for Rebecca.
Dub Personality Change: The English dub makes him more of a Cold Ham with a Creepy Monotone compared to the Japanese version's more Faux Affably Evil take and deep voice.
Early Installment Character-Design Difference: His hair becomes darker, spikier, and less detailed as the series progresses. His goatee and sideburns also grow progressively thicker after his first appearance.
Elemental Hair Composition: His hair becomes a mass of crystals in his Overdrive form.
Even Evil Has Standards:
- For all his gleeful and unrepentant criminal activity, some of which involves forcing people to Work Off the Debt through unsavory means, he draws the line at setting up security cameras in Rebecca's private bathroom. This proves to be his undoing, as it gives Rebecca a window of opportunity to escape into the next timeline.
- As shown in the Reunion arc, Drakken has a stronger moral compass in Universe Zero than he did in previous worlds, leading him to harvest the life force of animals instead of people, though he doesn't deny it's not much of an improvement. Shiki uses this as an angle for getting him to evacuate Guilst from the Chronophage's oncoming attack, since it shows Drakken cares enough about people's lives to not want to lose them.
Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: In an effort to sway Rebecca to his side, he shows her a recently tortured and bloodied Labilia as a "gift", assuming that Rebecca would be overjoyed to see her tormentor get what she deserves. He doesn't register how horrified Rebecca is by this.
Evil Counterpart: He serves as one for Shiki, starting out as a kid who just wanted to visit new places and make friends just like Shiki did, but eventually grew up to be his polar opposite: a cruel man who pursues as many people as he can to selfishly extend his own life, rather than to enrich it like Shiki does.
Evil Old Folks: What he becomes when the effects of his life-support machine wear off, withering away his age but leaving his tendency for evil fully intact.
Evil Sounds Deep: The Japanese version of the anime gives him a very deep voice that makes him sound just as intimidating and cruel as he is.
Evil Versus Evil: He goes into active conflict with Madame Kurenai after anticipating her betrayal and hijacking her Satellite Blaze as compensation.
Eviler than Thou: His evil and menace completely outstrip every other villain the Edens Zero crew faces in the Sakura Cosmos: the government considers the likes of Illega (who enslaves and petrifies women) and Rogue Out (an immoral band of mercs) to be "cute little babies" in comparison; the mass murderer Jamilov/Spider is just a lowly tech employee who is executed by him; he easily outwits and humiliates Madame Kurenai right when she's about to destroy an entire settlement; and he held Sibir on a tight leash as the fixer of his gang 50 years ago.
Faux Affably Evil: Drakken Joe acts quite hospitable towards Rebecca in an effort to get her to join his crew, though by this point, she and the audience are already made fully aware of the heartless monster he really is.
Fisher King: Drakken had this effect on Guilst, turning it from a popular tourist spot into a hopelessly corrupt Wretched Hive perfectly geared towards his moneylending business.
Freudian Excuse: He was born as a human guinea pig with a projected lifespan of 15 years, which left him terrified of dying so young once he found out that humans on other planets could live for decades. He then found a book on alchemy and figured out a way to drain others' life force to extend his own lifespan, initially so he could live a normal life and make more friends before his morality crumbled, which turned him into the heartless scumbag he is today.
From Nobody to Nightmare: He started his life as a human guinea pig who wasn't supposed to live past 15 years. After learning alchemy, he started draining the life of everyone around him, and his greed only grew bigger until he became one of the most infamous criminal bosses in the Sakura Cosmos.
Full-Name Basis: While he's often just called "Drakken", he's sometimes addressed by his full name.
Greed: He considers money to be the most important thing in the universe, and the quickest way to get his attention with a scheme is to promise a big payout.
Hate Sink: His sympathetic childhood motivations aside, Drakken is a repulsive, sociopathic Loan Shark who puts his customers through a Fate Worse than Death not just so he can wring them out of all their money, but also to siphon their life force to keep himself young, all while proudly displaying his evil on his shoulder. However, the Cosmic Retcon turns him into a more honorable and sympathetic person in Universe Zero, subverting this in the end.
Hero Killer: He demonstrates his sheer brutality in the Belial Gore arc when he personally shoots Shiki in the head for refusing to submit when he and his friends have been captured. This—coupled with the loss of Weisz's arm, Happy and Pino getting junked, and Drakken's assassins wiping out the rest of the crew—completely breaks Rebecca and Homura's spirit.
Hidden Depths: If the flashback image of Drakken from 50 years ago is to be believed, the nickname "DJ Zombie" wasn't just an abbreviation of "Drakken Joe Zombie"; he was an actual disc jockey on top of being a budding crime lord.
Hypocrite: Weisz calls him out on his "Thou Shalt Not Kill (with exceptions)" rule when it's revealed he keeps them around to feed off of their life force, causing many of them (including Weisz's mother) to die. Drakken not only doesn't come up with a retort, but later throws his "rule" out the window completely by slaughtering his own men upon turning into a giant monster in a last ditch effort to get their life force directly, and rambling about his killing intent during parts of his Madness Mantra.
I Have Many Names: He's most commonly known as the "Dark Alchemist" because of his alchemy and underworld connections, but he's also known as "Undead Joe" and "DJ Zombie" because he's been around for over 200 years, giving him an Uncanny Valley look.
Immortality Immorality: For the past two centuries, Drakken has stolen the life force of countless people just so he could keep himself young for as long as possible, setting up shop on different planets and amassing countless debtors so he'll have enough people in the proximity for it to work. When this starts putting a deadly tax on his body, his solution is to capture the innocent Rebecca to harness Mental Time Travel powers she doesn't fully grasp, and forces her to watch her friends suffer and die when they get in his way.
Immortality Seeker: Drakken is a Life Drinker whose end goal is to live forever because he has a serious Mortality Phobia from being bio-engineered to die by the age of 15, keeping himself alive for over 200 years. When his usual method starts pushing his body to its limits, he decides to take Rebecca's Ether Gear for himself so he can remain young via Mental Time Travel.
Knight of Cerebus: While the series has its share of frightening and/or murderous villains before he steps into action, Drakken's relentlessly cruel and violent nature, history of killing planets and countless people for entirely selfish purposes, and success in dealing the Edens Zero crew's first crushing defeat—including Shiki's death in one timeline—help hammer home just how dark the series can be.
Laughing Mad: After Drakken is finally defeated and starts aging into an old man, he appears to lose what little of his mind he had left from his Clipped-Wing Angel form, letting out an empty laugh without noticing the gunshots Weisz spitefully lands next to his head.
Life Drinker: Drakken's "life-support machine" works by draining the life energy of everyone around him bit by bit, after which he climbs into a Healing Vat hooked up to the machine to rejuvenate his old and decrepit body. This leads to his victims getting their lifespans shortened, with the unlucky ones getting sick and dying young.
Living on Borrowed Time: He's been doing this for centuries thanks to his Life Drinker machine, as his normal biology would've seen him die by age 15.
Loan Shark: He runs a moneylending business where his debtors have to pay him back under threat of a Fate Worse than Death—and Drakken makes it a policy to always collect his dues. He's annoyed by Guilst's destruction by the Chronophage because it was the site of a big part of his business and clientele, which has now forced him to search for new stomping grounds.
Madness Mantra: In his Clipped-Wing Angel form, he almost completely loses his grip on reality and repeatedly mutters everything he wants.
"Give me...life... Give me...power... No, I kill. Mine. Kill... Mine. I will live. Kill. Be my life. Give it..."
Mortality Phobia: He became plagued with this as a child when he found out that humans on other planets could live for decades, while he himself was supposed to die by the age of 15, driving him to become an Immortality Seeker. Once his method of stealing life from other humans starts pushing his body to its limits, he's desperate enough to consider Mental Time Travel as his best method of staving off death and remaining young forever.
The Most Wanted: The Cosmic Government considers his capture to be priority #1 when he escapes from Guilst, since keeping his villainy confined to a single planet at least meant peace for the rest of the cosmos.
Necessarily Evil: Drakken takes this stance in Universe Zero in contrast to his old self before the Cosmic Retcon. Though he doesn't go into detail, he claims that his business has saved just as many lives as it's ruined, and is required to maintain the Balance of Good and Evil in the world, echoing the beliefs of Cure, the one who set him on his path to power.
Nightmare Face: While his main body has an Eyeless Face, he broadcasts a demented version of his usual face with bulging Fish Eyes and a crooked smile, and spawns hordes of blob monsters with creepy jagged mouths and Black Eyes of Evil that he uses to speak to Rebecca.
No Immortal Inertia: Drakken suffers from Rapid Aging after Shiki defeats him and the others reverse his life-support machine, instantly turning him into a decrepit, mentally broken man.
Noble Demon: Universe Zero's Drakken strictly adheres to his Thou Shalt Not Kill rule (when it applies to humans, anyway), in stark contrast to his old self, a Hypocrite who claims he doesn't kill people just so he can leech off of their life force. This becomes a major redeeming factor for him, as Shiki convinces him to evacuate Guilst in advance of the Chronophage's attack.
Non-Indicative Name: His aliases of "Undead Joe" and "DJ Zombie" aren't because he's actually the living dead, but because his unaging appearance and immortality give him a creepy, unnatural vibe like a zombie.
O.O.C. Is Serious Business: His Universe Zero self is a stone-cold kingpin like he was in the previous world, but when Shiki starts making incessant offers of friendship, Drakken suddenly gets agitated and flummoxed to such a comical degree that it comes as a surprise to his own minions, with Diego even finding his temper tantrum "cute".
One-Winged Angel: His Overdrive form functions as this, as he turns into a humanoid beast with a reptilian tail and crystalline hair. However, he doesn't get much time to showcase the full extent of his Overdrive before he loses control of it, mutating into a larger, destructive, but overall weaker monster.
Pay Evil unto Evil:
- He has Spider executed for his failures in the Digitalis arc, but as he was an unrepentant Serial Killer and Troll, it's hard to mourn for him.
- Exaggerated and deconstructed when he appears to completely break Labilia through Cold-Blooded Torture (unaware that it's actually the shapeshifter Amira, who's trained to endure torture) and offers to let Rebecca keep beating her to her heart's content as payback for her constant torment. However, as much of a petty Alpha Bitch Labilia is, Rebecca's utter horror towards his cruelty paints Drakken as the bigger monster.
Pitiful Worms: He has this mindset towards anyone who still tries to defy him once he's already won because anyone who refuses to work for him becomes a pest and should be treated like one. He uses this as a loophole in his "I don't kill people" rule, since bugs aren't really people.
Plot-Irrelevant Villain: Despite being the most prominent antagonist of the story up until his defeat, he is not directly connected to the Edens Zero crew's goal of finding Mother beyond serving as their biggest hurdle before crossing Dragonfall. The crew doesn't even learn he's after them until they've finished assembling the Four Shining Stars, and his biggest contribution to the plot (outside of having a hand in a few major characters' backstories) is when he unlocks Rebecca's time-leaping Ether Gear in a bid to take it for his own personal gain.
Pragmatic Villainy: He makes it a personal rule to never kill any of his debtors or enemies, so long as they're able to earn him even the smallest amount of money. That, and he needs them close enough to leech off their life force. The only exceptions are whenever someone damages his Villain Cred or whenever killing would actually be in his best interest.
Raised in a Lab: He and all the other humans of his home planet were born for this exact purpose, bio-engineered to die by the age of 15 to keep them within manageable numbers. His discovery of natural human longevity is what kickstarts his pursuit for longer, and eventually eternal, life.
Really 700 Years Old: Drakken has kept himself in the prime of his youth for over 200 years thanks to a life-stealing machine, which lets his influence spread all the way back to Weisz's childhood 60 years ago and beyond.
Reasonable Authority Figure: Drakken becomes one in Universe Zero. Though he doesn't believe Shiki's claims that he comes from an alternate universe at first, and is irritated by Shiki's illogical attempts at befriending him, he's much more willing to listen when Shiki reveals what he knows about Drakken's past, and follows his word to save the people of Guilst before the Chronophage attacks it.
Red Baron: He's called the "Dark Alchemist" for his underworld connections and alchemical Ether Gear. He's also known as "Undead Joe" and "DJ Zombie" because of his unnaturally long life spanning over 200 years.
Red and Black and Evil All Over: The anime adaptation colors his Overdrive this way. His black body becomes more of a dark brown, while the Tron Lines across his body change from purple to red.^note
Sanity Slippage: The reversal of his life-support machine doesn't just horribly mutate his body, but turns him into a mumbling, roaring, almost incoherent monster. He briefly breaks out of it long enough to realize he's about to get beaten, right before he loses most of his mental faculties again from Rapid Aging, leaving him a hollow, cackling old shell of himself.
Scatterbrained Senior: His Rapid Aging turns him into a decrepit and apparently senile old man, with his face freezing into an evil smile when Weisz shoots right next to his head.
Shameless Fanservice Guy: This guy acts very nonchalant when he takes a bath while Rebecca is in the same room.
Smug Super: He tends to wear an arrogant and self-assured smirk while looking down on the Edens Zero crew for thinking they have a prayer of beating him. However, the way he brings the crew to their knees without relying on brute force shows he has the influence to back it up.
The Sociopath: Drakken outright describes the concepts of friendship and empathy as the most worthless things in the cosmos, viewing people as little more than assets to help give him more money, power, and a longer lifespan. This makes the revelation of his childhood, where he started out wanting nothing more than to make friends, all the more jarring.
Spiky Hair: His hair starts out as rather spiky and feathery, becoming more vertically inclined as his design changes.
Superpower Lottery: His "Alchemist" Ether Gear gives him an impossibly wide array of powers beyond others seen before him, including: turning a glass bottle into impossibly heavy metal ore; melting glass into water; dissolving solid Ether into gas; making Edens Zero's nearly invulnerable hull as flimsy as scrap paper; turning rubble into explosives; and generating electricity. It also works on human bodies, including his own, turning himself into super-heavy ore or others into stone, morphing his hand into a Blade Below the Shoulder, or molding a fully functional hand gun out of flesh.
Tentacled Terror: His Clipped-Wing Angel form is a giant, muscular beast with a wolf-like head, giant horns that cover his beady eyes, and most prominently, multiple fleshy tentacles growing from his back that can extend throughout the building and manipulate whatever they touch, allowing him to multitask to the best of his ability.
Thou Shalt Not Kill: Zig-Zagged. Drakken claims to live by this rule so he can squeeze as much money as he can out of people in ways that would make his debtors wish he'd kill them. He does, however, make exceptions against his own men for damaging his Villain Cred, and Shiki himself for his persistent Determinator attitude. In the end, however, he's ousted as a Hypocrite who keeps people alive just so he can leech of of other people's life force, which shortens his victims' lives and causes fatal illnesses—neither of which counts as "killing" in his book.
Took a Level in Kindness: A downplayed, non-Character Development example. While he still remains a dangerous crime lord, the Cosmic Retcon alters his history enough that he's no longer Beyond Redemption, turning him into a more sympathetic figure with a stronger moral code, and giving him a greater leaning towards running his moneylending empire out of necessity rather than pure greed.
Transmutation: His Ether Gear has the effect of magically transmuting anything into different materials or forms of matter, including his own body. His alchemy is also how he built his life-support device, as it allows him to "transmute" the life energy of other humans into his own so he can live for centuries.
Uncanny Valley: He got the name "Undead Joe" because he never seemed to age no matter how many decades passed, which gave his already intimidating presence a far more eerie vibe to those who've seen him.
Uncertain Doom: He's last shown as a shriveled, 200-year-old man before getting carted off to jail, still alive but with barely any time left to live, never to be mentioned whether or not he actually died in the end. It's ultimately rendered moot when the Cosmic Retcon brings him back to his youth.
Unwitting Pawn: As revealed in the Lendard arc, Cure was The Man Behind the Man to Drakken, who was set on his rise to power thanks to Cure's influence, just so he could one day be defeated and contribute to the Balance Between Good and Evil.
Used to Be a Sweet Kid: When Drakken was little, all he wanted was to escape his fate of dying before adulthood so he could secure a bright future for himself and make plenty of friends, making him similar to Shiki. This was before he found out he could survive by sucking the life out of other people, triggering his path towards becoming the most evil man in the Sakura Cosmos.
Villain Cred: He's built his entire Loan Shark business around being The Dreaded, which he believes motivates his debtors to pay their dues without suffering the horrible consequences. He also makes it a priority to punish anyone who could damage his reputation, namely a bunch of inexperienced kids like the Edens Zero crew who think they can snoop around his ship without consequence.
Villain Forgot to Level Grind: Though Drakken doesn't battle the heroes in Universe Zero, he ceases to pose the same threat after the Edens Zero crew goes back in time to Universe Zero and starts tapping into their full strength from three years in the future, evidenced by Shiki's manhandling of Nero, Drakken's rival in power. The Galáctica also have a higher power level cap in this Universe than others, meaning he no longer fits the bill to be counted as one.
Villain Respect: Subverted. He's initially interested solely in Edens Zero and Rebecca than the rest of the crew. However, his respect for them seems to build when they show off what they and their ship are capable of, namely by moping the floor with his three closest associates, forcing him to rely on the Element 4. Then it's revealed he sent the three to act as prisoners and destroy the crew from within, showing that he actually views the whole crew as a bunch of naïve wannabe adventurers who are in way too deep over their heads.
Villain Team-Up: In Universe Zero, Drakken works with Poseidon Nero, one of the Oración Seis Galáctica from the previous world, who outwardly appears to have been Demoted to Dragon, but in fact runs a joint operation with him behind the scenes.
Your Days Are Numbered: Drakken's quest for immortality began because he and the other humans of his planet were bio-engineered to live no longer than the age of 15. He's successfully staved off death for over 200 years by stealing the life force of other humans, but this method has put such a major tax on his body that he views Rebecca's Cat Leaper as his last chance to survive.

Poseidon Nero

Voiced by: Takaya Hashi (Japanese)^{Foreign VAs}Benoît Allemane (French)

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"It matters not if my son resorts to foolish tactics. It matters not if the Empire falls. Nor if millions...or even billions die. The ultimate result will be the same. I will be victorious."

The Emperor of the Aoi Cosmos. Using his most treasured possessions, the Empire Dice, Nero can predict any future event that will lead him to absolute victory, allowing him to build his Empire within a single generation. His Ether Gear, Wormhole, creates portals between different points of space.

Affably Evil: Universe Zero's version of Nero is a great deal more light-hearted and jovial than his behavior in the previous world suggests, despite helping Drakken run his criminal empire.
Ambition Is Evil: Nero is an alien who's sacrificed the lives of everyone closest to him—his friends, family, and people—to build his Empire into one of the most powerful threats in the universe, all in the name of victory.
Arc Villain: While it's his son who drives most of the action in the Aoi Cosmos saga, Nero functionally serves as the saga's main villain, being the one who built and controls The Empire that the Edens Zero crew battles.
Back from the Dead: Nero almost invariably dies in the Aoi War of previous Universes, but thanks to the Cosmic Retcon, his death is swept aside.
Bad Boss: Though not nearly as bad to his men as his son, who threatens and slaughters them left and right, Nero is still apathetic to seeing them get slaughtered and mutilated so easily by Jaguar, and he's the one who took Lyra's left eye.
Badass Longcoat: His imperial robes come with a pimped out longcoat held together by a chain, exuding his authority as the Aoi Cosmos's emperor, and his raw power as one of the Galáctica.
Big Bad Ensemble: He shares the spotlight as the Aoi Cosmos saga's main villain with Ziggy, the overarching Big Bad, as he governs The Empire that comes under threat by Ziggy's forces while also facing opposition from the Edens Zero crew. In the end, he gets dethroned and killed by Ziggy himself.
Blue-and-Orange Morality: Rather than discern between right and wrong, Nero's entire morality hinges between "victory" and "defeat", as per the will of the Empire Dice. As long as he knows what must be done to bring him victory, whether it's short-term or long-term, he will do everything in his power to see it done, no matter how monumental the cost. Anything besides that—including the happiness of his son, whom he adopted because the dice told him too—is of no interest to him.
The Coats Are Off: He flings off his royal robes and Badass Longcoat whenever he decides to stop holding back.
Combat Pragmatist: He doesn't hesitate to pierce Jaguar's skull with his dice when the latter is held down by Ziggy's gravity.
Cthulhumanoid: He's an alien with a human face with tentacles for hair and a beard.
Dead Alternate Counterpart: He's killed in just about every Universe where Ziggy wages war on him, with Universe 1 (where he doesn't appear) being one of the few where he survives.
Demoted to Dragon: Downplayed in Universe Zero, where Nero ostensibly goes from being part of the Aoi Cosmos arcs' Big Bad Ensemble with Ziggy to one of the Element 4 working for Drakken, but according to Nero himself, he and Drakken are equal partners who rule the Sakura Cosmos together.
Despotism Justifies the Means: His Empire Dice show him whatever he needs to do to remain in power, which he follows to the letter without heed to anyone who would suffer from the taxation, censorship, and oppression that comes with expanding and maintaining that power.
Egopolis: He has an entire sector in the Aoi Cosmos named after him, if not (according to the Japanese version) the entire Cosmos itself. There's also three planets that bear his name called "Nero 1", "Nero 66", and "Nero 73", which indicating that there are at least 70 other planets with the same kind of designation.
The Emperor: Unlike Drakken Joe, who controls the worlds he conquers behind the scenes, Nero rules openly, and is uncontested in his control of the Aoi Cosmos. His minions take Ziggy's meddling on his planets as an open challenge to his authority, and they treat his decrees as those of an unstoppable ruler.
Et Tu, Brute?: As one of Ziggy's old friends, Nero is troubled by the Demon King's desire to kill him and seize his Empire for himself, and sits in his throne room waiting for the opportunity to talk with him. When Ziggy declares he has no friends, however, Nero loses all sentimentality and views him as an enemy from then on.
Even Evil Has Standards: Universe Zero's Nero has more standards than he did in the old world, never stooping to the level of tyranny he and Shura were capable of before. When it appears Shura is about to cross that line, Nero trains Shiki to ensure he's strong enough to stop his son.
Evil Counterpart: Nero is one to the pre-Face–Heel Turn Ziggy. Both are the adoptive fathers (or grandfather, in Ziggy's case) to a gravity user, but unlike Ziggy, who lovingly raised Shiki and saw value in all life, Nero cared nothing for Shura and only ever thought for himself. Despite their differences, however, the two found some common ground and became good friends, at least before Ziggy turned evil.
Evil Old Folks: He is the ruthless emperor of the Aoi Cosmos who razes planets to expand his rule and shows no concern for his subjects' wellbeing. He's also one of the oldest characters in the series, yet his spandex uniform beneath his robes shows he's incredibly ripped for his age.
Eviler than Thou: Non-violently proves himself as this to Shura, whose plot to assassinate him with his own anti-matter bombs gets turned on its head when Nero warps the bombs straight to Shura so he'd blow himself up instead. To rub salt in the wound, Nero points out the sheer obviousness of Shura's treachery from the get-go, and dares his son to go through with it when Shura tries convincing himself it's a bluff.
Fatal Flaw: Overconfidence and arrogance. Because his dice guarantee victory for Nero so long as he follows what they foresee, he's so assured by their power that he doesn't consider they never tell him if or when he has already won, causing margins of error on his part. Ziggy exploits this weakness simply by Playing Possum and letting Nero believe that ripping his head off would be lethal for him. Furthermore, by choosing to rub his victory over Shura in his face, he delays Shura's chance to destroy himself, and leaves himself open to an attack from Ziggy he fails to see coming, leading to Nero's death.
Future Spandex: He wears a futuristic-looking spandex combat suit beneath his imperial regalia, showing off just what good a physique he has despite being so old.
Galactic Conqueror: He's an Evil Overlord who's taken over the Aoi Cosmos (effectively one quarter of the known universe), razing countless planets and oppressing his people to secure power.
I Am Not Left-Handed: At first it seems Nero has no combat ability of his own, instead relying on his Empire Dice as a way to ensure his victories. It isn't until the middle of his battle with Ziggy that he reveals he's been hiding his Ether Gear, something his own son never knew he had, which gives him the edge to (seemingly) kill the Demon King and completely throw a wrench in Shura's schemes in one fell swoop.
Improbable Weapon User: He uses the Empire Dice as a weapon that he can direct where they go. They also hit with enough force to pierce clean through flesh, bone, and metal.
Informed Attribute: Although Nero and Ziggy's friendship is mentioned a few times, with a flashback showing one of their interactions, it's never shown how or why they became friends, since Nero was otherwise a cold and unfeeling galactic tyrant.
Intergenerational Friendship: Universe Zero's Nero considers himself to be friends with Drakken, despite Drakken's denial and the 100-year age gap, with Nero being the younger of the two, against appearances.
Invincible Villain: The Empire Dice are collectively a Relic that ensures Nero cannot be defeated, both through divination and as a weapon that's guaranteed to strike whomever he wills it to, so long as he abides by their tellings. When Ziggy manages to crush the dice, Nero loses the edge they gave him and is killed.
It's All About Me: His Motive Rant to Fabiano proves that he doesn't give a damn about whether his son destroys his Empire, or how many innocents would die in the process as long as he comes out on top in the end.
Knight Templar: Subverted. According to Commando Team Beast, Nero is the one who issued the order to purge all robots on Foresta in response to their rebellion against humanity under Ziggy's influence, seemingly to protect humans and other organic life. As more is revealed about Nero's character, it becomes obvious he doesn't view himself as a good or wise ruler; just one who's wholly and shamelessly out for himself.
Lack of Empathy: He takes this to an extreme degree, not only paying no heed to the suffering of his subjects under his oppressive rule, but also spending years neglecting Shura, his own adoptive son, which shows in just how twisted and poorly adjusted Shura has become as an adult.
Long-Lived: Nero is confirmed in later arcs to be half as old as Drakken Joe, who kept himself alive for over 200 years, making Nero at least a century old.
Making a Splash: Nero has the ability to conjure up deluges of water in Universe Zero, tying into his new position as the Element 4's Element of Water. Since he still has his Wormhole ability, it's not stated whether he uses a second Ether Gear, or if controlling water is an inherent ability he has, or if he simply uses Wormhole to transport water from other places.
Named After Somebody Famous: Nero shares his name with one of the most infamous Roman Emperors in history, which nicely reflects his nature as a ruler, albeit of a different stripe than the historical Nero.
Not So Above It All: Nero is a more lighthearted person in Universe Zero despite his grim appearance and behavior, shown when he acts offended that Drakken doesn't consider themselves to be "pals" after Shiki makes the claim that they are.
Noble Demon: Universe Zero's version of Nero shows off more of the Emperor's admirable traits that ushered his friendship with Ziggy, including his willingness to help Shiki overcome his blocked off power for the sake of stopping his son from becoming a tyrant. He also had the noble motivation of building his empire to end all interplanetary warfare in the Aoi Cosmos, not out of an obsessive pursuit of victory.
Not-So-Harmless Villain: Downplayed. His title as one of the Oración Seis Galáctica shows he's not someone to mess around with, but because he's so old and spends most of his time sitting on his throne while his Empire wages war, his enemies view him as the lesser immediate threat than Shura, who is confident Nero stands no chance against Ziggy, the Big Bad. When he steps up to the plate, Nero proves himself to be crafty enough to kill Jaguar when he's held in place by Ziggy, and powerful enough to nearly kill Ziggy with his bare hands.
Odd Friendship: Nero and Ziggy were genuine friends before the latter went rogue, even though Nero is an Evil Overlord who lacks any ounce of compassion for his subjects, and Ziggy used to be a paragon of friendship and equality between humans and machines.
Orcus on His Throne: Nero is the kind of villain to sit on his throne and do nothing so long as it's willed by the Empire Dice, which is what he does for half the Aoi Cosmos saga, leaving his son full control of the situation and authority over the Oceans 6 while his Empire falls apart around him. This ends once the Interstellar Union Army and Ziggy himself come barging through his palace, letting Nero prove his true mettle as one of the strongest warriors in the cosmoses.
Parental Neglect: Nero has never once shown any kind of affection to his adoptive son, Shura, who was eventually pushed over the edge and became an undisciplined sociopath because of it.
Power at a Price: According to him, the Empire Dice will always lead him to victory, but in exchange, everything he's ever cared about can and will be sacrificed in return to ensure that victory. The more he gives up, the greater the certainty of his victory. To build his empire, he sacrificed his friends, family and people. In this case, he trades that very same empire as the price for the ability to kill Ziggy.
Rank Scales with Asskicking: Being The Emperor of the Aoi Cosmos, Nero far outstrips any of his most powerful and skilled soldiers, leading him to be considered one of the Oración Seis Galáctica. He proves his power isn't just for show when he holds his own in a fight with Ziggy, the Big Bad and strongest machine in the universe.
Recurring Element: Mashima previously used the name "Wormhole" in Rave Master, where it belongs to a spatial magic that sends its target to the Void Between the Worlds, rather than creating portals across stretches of space.
Religious and Mythological Theme Naming: Poseidon is the Greek god and ruler of the seas, reflecting on his role as supreme overlord of the oceanic Aoi Cosmos whose followers treat his words as decrees to be followed without question.
Retired Monster: Averted in Universe Zero, where he meant to require quietly on Guilst after passing his throne to Shura, but wound up partnering with Drakken and actively controlling the Sakura Cosmos behind closed doors.
Shadow Dictator: Downplayed in Universe Zero, where Nero runs Drakken's moneylending company behind the scenes as Drakken's equal partner, allowing them to control the Sakura Cosmos together.
Seers: His Empire Dice allow him to accurately anticipate future events and guarantee his victory. Notably, Lyra claims he's the only person who's ever beaten her at Lost Card, a game that relies on Lyra's Ether Gear in such a way that even Rebecca's Time Rewind Mechanic can't outfox her card drawing directly.
Stupid Evil: Nero is transfixed on following whatever his dice tell him to do to achieve victory, no matter what the cost. This includes permitting the fall of his own empire—the very same empire for which he sacrificed everything dearest to him to build—for the sake of winning a single fight against the Ziggy.^note Ziggy lampshades the absurdity of this.
Tentacle Hair: All his "hair", including his mustache, is made up entirely of tentacles.
Thinking Up Portals: His Ether Gear allows him to create these. To demonstrate how powerful it is, he transports the entirety of Shura's 20,000 anti-matter bombs light years across from his location to Shura's without any visible effort on his part.
Took a Level in Kindness: A downplayed, non-Character Development example. Before the Cosmic Retcon, Nero was an Evil Overlord who didn't care about anything other than personal victory, although he managed to form an Odd Friendship with the good Demon King Ziggy. In Universe Zero, he's still a villain who helps run Drakken's criminal business, but Nero formed his own Empire in a misguided effort to bring peace to the Aoi Cosmos, and is more Affably Evil than he was before.
Unwitting Pawn: As revealed in the Lendard arc, Cure was The Man Behind the Man to Nero, who was set on his rise to power thanks to Cure's influence, just so he could one day be defeated and contribute to the Balance Between Good and Evil.
Villain Teleportation: He can use his Ether Gear to teleport himself or objects of his choosing seemingly anywhere in the universe. He uses this to get behind Ziggy and rip his head off, and he uses it to send all of the anti-matter bombs at the Temple to Shura's location on another planet.
Villain Forgot to Level Grind: He's just as powerful in Universe Zero as he was before, but once Shiki taps into his Galáctica-level power from the future, Nero gets completely wiped. The Galáctica also have a higher power level cap in this Universe than others, meaning he no longer fits the bill to be counted as one.
We Used to Be Friends: Nero and Ziggy were good friends back in the day, but that friendship ends once Ziggy performs a Face–Heel Turn and openly declares war on the humans under Nero's rule. While the thought of being betrayed by Ziggy stings Nero, he shows no mercy once Ziggy makes it clear it's over between them.
Weaponized Teleportation: Nero can apply his Ether Gear to combat in ways such as creating rows of portals to reach his arms and grab his opponent through.
Weird Beard: He has a mass of tentacles hanging from his mouth like a giant mustache.
Your Days Are Numbered: The Interstellar Union Army reckons that Nero's death isn't too far off because of his age, which spurs them to start taking measures to keep his son from taking over the Empire once that happens.

Deadend Crow

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"THIS IS WHERE...YOUR LIVES HIT A DEAD END!!!!"

The Titan of Eternal Darkness, a 420-meter^note1378 feet-tall android with a body like a living fortress. He is most infamous for causing the Bloody Atmos Day Incident, a terrorist attack on Planet Swan that resulted in one million human casualties.

Achilles' Heel: Crow can only be meaningfully damaged by attacking the core in his navel, which is protected by his virtually indestructible metallic skin that only Holy manages to expose by melting it away. A single blast to the core from the Edens Zero's Wave-Motion Gun reduces Crow to nothing.
Anti-Magic: He has an Ether jammer that blocks the Ether Gear of anyone inside him. Kleene's Ether Gear is able to cancel its effects by absorbing the jamming signal itself from the outside.
Arch-Enemy: He's this for Holy, who wants him dead for attacking her homeworld and killing one million of her people, including her little sister.
Big Bad Duumvirate: Downplayed. He and God Acnoella form an Anti-Human Alliance with Big Bad Ziggy in the Lendard arc, sharing the position of Arc Villain with him, but Crow acts more as The Brute than an actual partner. Subverted altogether when Cure is revealed to be The Man Behind the Man to Crow.
Breath Weapon: While in Overdrive, he can fire a Wave-Motion Gun from his mouth with enough firepower to blow off one of the Edens Zero's wings.
The Brute: Out of the Lendard arc's Big Bad Duumvirate, his position amounts to little more than extra muscle brought on to destroy the Edens Zero, his biggest assets being his sheer size and power.
Casually Powerful Giant: As a Humongous Mecha, he's able to crush a building full of humans just by stepping on it.
Dead Alternate Counterpart: Universe 3's version of Crow, who is featured in the Lendard arc, is destroyed by the Edens Zero crew. He isn't accounted for in other Universes, but is presumed to still be alive and at large.
Energy Absorption: His body has the ability to absorb all Ether-based attacks used on him. Holy uses this to her advantage, since the resulting Tron Lines give her a visual layout of his inner workings, allowing her to feel out his vulnerable core.
Eye Beams: His eyes can fire powerful laser beams that massively damage whatever they hit.
Face Framed in Shadow: Half of his face is perpetually covered in shadow like the rest of his surroundings, highlighting his colossal size compared to other characters. His more normal-sized Remote Body has distinctly normal lighting.
For the Evulz: He's driven to crush, eat, and torture humans for no reason other than his own sick entertainment.
Four Is Death: In a variation, he's described as 420 meters tall. The numbers 4 and 2 are read in Japanese as "shini", which means "deathly". He also has a reputation for massacres and slaughter, and he has the word "Deadend" in his name.
Fusion Dance: Cure performs one on him after Holy destroys Crow's power source, merging their personalities and wills into one.
Giant Equals Invincible: He's a gigantic, Nigh-Invulnerable machine who can easily shrug off all physical ammunition and absorb all energy attacks the Edens Zero throws at him. It takes a full-powered shot from the ship's Star Bringer through a hole in his armor straight to his core to destroy him.
Hate Sink: Crow is a living engine of destruction who gleefully destroys organic life For the Evulz, and his senseless act of terrorism drove Holy down a path of vengeance. Justified when it's revealed Cure deliberately built him to be an irredeemable bastard for "good" to rise up against as part of his delusion that Good Needs Evil.
Hero Killer: Subverted. He punches Kleene with enough force to leave a crater in the ground, making the crew fear for her life. She's soon found injured but alive, having evidently shielded herself with her wind before being struck.
Horned Humanoid: His Overdrive form gives him antler-like protrusions on his upper face.
Humans Are Insects: He's an android who sees no value in humans beyond being toys for his own sick pleasure, which is reason enough for him to join forces with Ziggy in an Anti-Human Alliance.
Humongous Mecha: He truly lives up to the "Titan" part of his title, being a staggering 420 meters^note1378 feet tall. He's so large and imposing that Connor, who caught a glance of him while escaping Lendard, confused him for some sort of gigantic war mech. Cure pilots him as one after hooking his own body up to Crow's in a mad attempt to finish the heroes off.
Hypocrite: He assumes Kleene to be some kind of monster when she absorbs his Ether jammer signal, despite being a mass-murdering monster of an android himself.
Killer Robot: He's a Humongous Mecha who was built with the sole purpose of spreading senseless death and chaos across the universe, with over one million human deaths to his name.
Lightning Bruiser: He turns into one when he goes into Overdrive, granting him the speed to outrun the Edens Zero at maximum haste while keeping the power to cripple the ship with a single strike.
Magnum Opus: He's considered to be this by his creator: Cure, who deals in making despicable, universe-threatening villains for the Interstellar Union Army to destroy as part of his obsession with Balance Between Good and Evil. Compared to villains like Drakken Joe and Poseidon Nero, who have sympathetic backgrounds or scant redeeming qualities, Crow is nothing short of pure, twisted evil, which suits Cure's needs perfectly.
Mighty Glacier: He mostly stays in one spot during his fight with the Edens Zero crew, with a swarm of smaller attack drones keeping most of the crew from ganging up on him at once, but his Nigh-Invulnerability and devastating attacks still make him a dangerous opponent.
The Minion Master: He spawns an infinite number of human-sized attack drones inside his own body when Holy, Jinn and Laguna break in.
Names to Run Away from Really Fast: He's called "Deadend" because that's what awaits anyone who crosses paths with him.
Nigh-Invulnerable: His body is durable enough to shrug off all physical ammunition, and he can absorb energy attacks, making him virtually impossible to destroy. Only Holy's Ether Gear has an affect him, barely managing to expose his vulnerable core, as does Eraser's Ether Gear when Crow covers it up.
No Body Left Behind: He's obliterated by a full-powered Star Bringer straight to his core, leaving nothing behind when the light clears and the dust settles.
One-Winged Angel: He knows how to Overdrive, which gives him a more inhuman face, blows up his size, and gives him a boost of speed on top of his size.
Perpetual-Motion Monster: His power source allows him to keep fighting and killing without ever tiring. This is because it's actually being fuelled by Cure, whose regenerative powers keep Crow running forever.
Person of Mass Destruction: The "Bloody Atmos Day" Incident he caused in the Yukino Cosmos resulted in over one million human deaths within a day, made possible by his nature as a Humongous Mecha who treats humans the same way a brutish child would destroy an ant colony.
Red Baron: He is known as the "Titan of Eternal Darkness", befitting his gargantuan stature and devastating acts of terrorism.
Remote Body: He manifests his own personality through a human-sized copy of himself to confront Holy inside his own body, and isn't affected when Holy melts the smaller body down.
Sadist: He targets humans purely because he loves watching them suffer. He's reported to have cackled like a madman when he caused the Bloody Atmos Day Incident, and he flashes a Slasher Smile as he brags about stripping the survivors naked and crucifying them in public for all to see.
Shockwave Stomp: Crow can send a shockwave that tears an entire city block apart with a single Ground Punch.
Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: Crow and Ziggy's alliance is shown to be very headache-inducing for Ziggy when Crow accidentally steps on a building filled with humans whose skills he was trying to absorb for himself. In Ziggy's own words, Crow is like an uncontrollable beast he tries keeping on a leash.
To Serve Man: His reason for allying with Ziggy is to gorge himself on the Kaede Cosmos's human population for no stated reason other than For the Evulz.
Uncertain Doom: Applies to his Universe Zero self, since he was brought Back from the Dead by the Cosmic Retcon like all the other characters, but was stopped by the Interstellar Union Army before he could wreak any serious havoc on Swan, with no account of what became of him afterwards.
Villainous Widow's Peak: He has a pointed hairline to his slicked back hair, with three nodes sticking out of it in a triangular arrangement.
Would Hurt a Child: Holy and her eight-year-old sister, Sara, were not spared from his villainy when the former was a preteen. While Sara was randomly crushed by falling debris, he deliberately picked Holy out with the rest of the survivors to be string up in the nude and left to starve to death while he watched.

God Acnoella

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"I have no use for human children. They are nothing but trouble. I prefer machines. All of them... listen to their mother."

The Mother of Dragons, an android woman who uses Planet Lendard's Möbius System to mass-produce a legion of cybernetic dragons under her thrall.

Amazing Technicolor Population: The cover of Volume 21 shows that Acnoella has blue skin, though it's justified by the fact that she's an android.
Back from the Dead: Her death in Universe 3 during the Lendard arc is undone by the Cosmic Retcon.
Bad Boss: Despite proclaiming to love her dragon "children", she doesn't bat an eye at them killing one of their own in the crossfire against Justice, implied to be because she can always make more.
Beyond Redemption: As demonstrated in the final arc, Acnoella remains the same Evil Matriarch as always in Universe Zero, making her one of the few villains who aren't changed for the better by the Cosmic Retcon, with Elsie requesting the Edens Zero crew to take her down for good.
Big Bad Duumvirate: She forms an Anti-Human Alliance with Ziggy (the pre-established Big Bad) and Deadend Crow in the Lendard arc, allowing Ziggy to use her Möbius to construct his army while serving her own agendas.
Big Bad Wannabe: Downplayed. Her power, resources, and ambition make her a legitimate threat to the universe, but she still falls short of the far grander scope of the true Big Bad's plans, to say nothing of how swiftly she's defeated by her own daughter.
Boomerang Bigot: She has a low enough opinion of humans to want to rid the universe of them, despite being one originally.
Brain Uploading: It's implied this is how she was transformed into an android.
Card-Carrying Villain: She's an Evil Matriarch who openly gloats over the planets and civilizations her dragons have brought to ruin. This is in stark contrast to her past as a human, where she made an effort to be a Villain with Good Publicity until Elsie's rebellion stalled her plans for conquest.
Corrupted Character Copy: She's an Expy who lacks all the redeeming character traits of her Fairy Tail character basis. Whereas Irene was a formerly benevolent queen who genuinely loved Erza until she became a Weredragon against her will and was Driven to Madness, Acnoella was an evil queen who never cared for Elsie to begin with, and wholly embraces her rebirth as a machine. Irene also redeems herself by choosing to die over harming Erza any further, while Acnoella dies by Elsie's hand as shamelessly evil as she ever was.
Dead Alternate Counterpart: Universe 3's version of Acnoella, who is featured in the Lendard arc, gets herself killed by Elsie. She isn't accounted for in other Universes, but is presumed to still be alive and at large in them.
Demoted to Dragon: She is part of the Lendard arc's Big Bad Duumvirate, but the Cosmic Retcon makes her into a follower of Void, the Big Bad.
Draconic Humanoid: Downplayed. She gains dragon-like horns in her battle form, and her eyes are shown to be reptilian behind her goggles, but she still resembles a human more than she does a dragon.
Dragon Rider: She patrols Lendard on top of one of her cybernetic dragons, and part of Justice's confrontation with her takes place on the same dragon's back.
Dragon Tamer: She's called the "Mother of Dragons" because she manufactures robotic dragons that are entirely obedient to her, and in numbers sufficient to challenge entire fleets of battle-ready warships. Also, while she can fight on her own, it's her dragons that she commands to do most of the fighting for her.
The Dreaded: The mere presence of Acnoella and her dragons on Lendard is enough to get an Oh, Crap! reaction out of Elsie and Holy, both being warriors of equal stature.
Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Downplayed. She genuinely cherishes the dragons as her own children, though not enough to prevent her from sending them to fight and die in droves.
Evil Matriarch: She proudly considers herself to be a mother to cybernetic dragons who spread senseless death and destruction across the cosmos. She's also a nemesis to her biological daughter, Elsie, whom she only pretended to love to keep up appearances as a benevolent queen.
Expy: Not readily apparent at first given her current design, but her old human form and The Reveal of her identity shows she's one for Irene Belserion from Fairy Tail, both being villains who are mothers to Elsie and her character basis, Erza, respectively, and are queens associated with dragons (Acnoella builds artificial dragons, while Irene ruled a peaceful dragon kingdom and invented Dragon Slayer magic).
Flight: She has the ability to levitate in midair in her transformed state.
A God Am I: As her name suggests, she believes herself to be a god thanks to her ability to create and control dragons.
God Save Us from the Queen!: Her true identity is Shaya Le Lendard, the queen of the Planet Lendard. She's also a total despot who helped build weapons of mass destruction to help her family conquer the entire Kaede Cosmos, and turned her efforts to creating mechanical dragons when that fell through.
Half the Woman She Used to Be: She suffers this in Universe 3 when Elsie ambushes her from behind, slicing her vertically in half up between the legs. This alone doesn't kill her, though it leaves her open to be finished off by her daughter's Grand Chariot.
Hand Blast: One of the few personal attacks she is shown using is a burst of explosive energy that she generates from her fingertips.
Hate Sink: She's a repulsively evil android who wants to rid the universe of human life despite originally being one, and openly brags over the chaos she's inflicted upon the universe in the name of glory for her homeworld. It's enough that Elsie, her daughter whom she never loved to begin with, is so fed up with Acnoella's evil that she kills her mother on the spot in Universe 3.
Hellish Pupils: Her eyes have slit pupils like a reptile, at least in her transformed state.
Horned Humanoid: She gains a total of six horns on her head when she enters her battle mode.
I Have No Son!: Zig-Zagged. She very much regards her dragons as her children, but she's disowned her daughter Elsie for rebelling against their family, and is all but said to have lost interest in her other, unseen daughters.
Inconsistent Spelling: The Japanese transliteration of her name is Akunera, but its official English translation is spelled with an "o" as "Acnoella",^note which other languages forego.
Karmic Death: Her greed and lust for power as a human ensured that her daughter Elsie rebelled against her, ultimately leading Elsie to grow in power and kill her in Universe 3 during the Lendard arc.
Keystone Army: Justice and Homura surmise that beating Acnoella is necessary to deactivate her dragon swarm. The key actually turns out to be Möbius itself, and it takes Elsie using her authority as Acnoella's daughter and Lendard's princess to shut them down manually through it.
Luke, I Am Your Father: She turns out to be the formerly human mother of Elsie Crimson.
Mook Maker: Her dragons are built through the Möbius System, a perpetual motion machine of her own invention on Lendard that endlessly spawns mechanical soldiers.
Navel-Deep Neckline: The robe she wears has a very low neckline that exposes her cleavage.
One-Winged Angel: She enters a more draconic, combat-appropriate form—implied to be her Overdrive—when she decides to face Justice personally. She becomes a Clipped-Wing Angel when Elsie cuts her in half from behind before she can react.
Red Baron: She is known as the "Mother of Dragons" because she builds swarms of cybernetic dragons in the image of the ones at Dragonfall, and regards them all as her children.
Reports of My Death Were Greatly Exaggerated: She's a survivor of the Civil War on Lendard who was thought dead by those who knew her, albeit reborn as a machine.
Robot Girl: She's an attractive android lady who would pass off for a human if not for her blue skin.
Robot Master: More specifically, a Robot Dragon Master who creates and commands mechanical dragons with a Mook Maker machine.
Surprisingly Sudden Death: When the Lendard arc sets up an epic showdown between Acnoella and Justice in Universe 3, Elsie pops up behind her without warning and makes short work of her before she can finish her Evil Gloating.
Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: Though they share the same ambition to Kill All Humans, Acnoella and Ziggy have a difficult partnership from what's been shown of it, with Acnoella throwing shade at Ziggy for thinking he can order her around like she's his subordinate, and threatening to have her dragons devour him and his machines if they betray her.
Took a Level in Badass: According to Pino, the Cosmic Retcon made Acnoella more powerful in Universe Zero than she was in the previous world, suggested by the larger and tougher dragons she has under her control. However, it ends up being an Informed Ability, as Homura in Overdrive still manages to defeat her with a single Dragon Flash despite being weaker than Elsie, the one who killed Acnoella before.
Two Aliases, One Character: The Lendard arc reveals her to be a seemingly unrelated character with a different name: Shaya Le Lendard, the titular planet's queen and Elsie's mother.
Uncertain Doom: She is last seen in Universe Zero getting slashed across the chest by Homura's Dragon Flash, leaving her ultimate fate up in the air.
Villains Want Mercy: Acnoella weakly pleads for Elsie to stop her Grand Chariot against her while sliced in half by her daughter. Because Elsie already knows what an irredeemably evil wretch her mother is, it doesn't work.
Was Once a Man: Acnoella was originally a human from Lendard who abandoned her humanity to become an ageless machine. More specifically, she was once Lendard's queen and Elsie's mother, Shaya Le Lendard.
White Hair, Black Heart: Her hair is a stark white, but she's an Evil Matriarch. As an Expy of Irene Belserion, she was originally an Evil Redhead.
Wolverine Claws: Her fingers are long, monstrous talons, though she loses them right before battling Justice and going into her battle mode.

Saintfire Nox (Unmarked Spoilers)

Saintfire Nox (Rachel)

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"Rebecca... If there's one thing I want you to know, it's this... Not a single day went by that I didn't think of you. I've always loved you."

The Archbishop of the Church of Saintfire, a cult on Planet Miltz with jurisdiction over time. Her true identity is Rebecca's mother and Connor's ex-wife, Rachel. Like her daughter, Rachel uses the Ether Gear Cat Leaper, but she has exhausted her time-reversing power after countless failures to find a world where she and her family could live happily together.

Accent Adaptation: Rachel speaks with a rural Tosa dialect in Japanese, just like her daughter does when she gets angry or flustered. For Kodansha's translation, she's turned into a Southern Belle.
Action Mom: Rebecca's mom is one of the greatest fighters in the cosmos, capable of putting up a serious fight against the Big Bad in an Offscreen Moment of Awesome.
Always Someone Better: Rachel is a more skillful Time Master than Rebecca thanks to her age and experience. She's also a superior Dominatrix to Sister, who can easily turn the tables on hardcore Sadists like Daichi and Clown, yet gets pinned down by Rachel and starts yelping in pain within seconds.
Amazingly Embarrassing Parents: Rachel is comically affectionate and smothering towards Rebecca after they make up, with her first proposed acts of family bonding being to take a bath together and sleeping in the same bed as Connor.
Amicable Exes: After their reunion, Rachel and Connor are shown to love each other as passionately as they did eighteen years ago before Rachel was forced to leave him for his own protection from her cult.
Badass Preacher: As an archbishop and one of the Galáctica, she allegedly put up one hell of a fight against Ziggy, being the Sole Survivor of her church during his invasion.
Bathtub Bonding: She offers this to Rebecca in one of her Amazingly Embarrassing Parents moments, but gets turned down. Rachel finally gets her way in the Miltz arc along with Homura, Happy, Pino, and Feather (her Number Two in Universe Zero).
Big Good: She becomes one of the Edens Zero crew's most vital allies in the final arcs when the Cosmic Retcon turns her into the Interstellar Union Army's director of operations in the Yukino Cosmos, which allows her to pass her knowledge of the previous world to her fellow directors and the Oración Seis Interstellar once her memories return, thereby granting the Edens Zero crew special permission to get their waymark to Mother on Planet Miltz.
Brought Down to Badass: She has long since lost her Cat Leaper's Time Rewind Mechanic after using it thousands of times to try and protect her family, but she still has her Super-Speed, which she used to give Ziggy a run for his money off-screen before he finally captured her.
Dirty Business: As much as she realizes it was the only way to protect her family, Rachel feels horribly broken up over having to leave Connor and send Rebecca away, especially after she'd learned Rebecca's caretakers ran off and left her to fend for herself.
Do Not Call Me "Paul": Inverted. She's formally called Saintfire Nox, but prefers to be called by her real name, Rachel.
Forbidden Love: Her marriage with Connor was considered taboo to her church, who didn't take kindly to outsiders having a relationship with their soon-to-be Archbishop, punishing them with death. With this custom being long-abandoned by the time she reunites with Connor, they more than happily pick up where they left off.
Good Shepherd: Despite being forced into leadership of a Corrupt Church and being branded as one of the Galáctica because of it, Rachel remains a good and honest woman, and notes that the church started to abandon its corrupt practices and traditions sometime after she assumed her title.
Happily Married: She spent the happiest years of her life while married with Connor before her church's followers tore them apart. They officially get back together in Universe Zero after their memories return.
High Priest: She's the Church of Saintfire's Archbishop.
Horrible Judge of Character: She entrusted some followers within the church to take care of Rebecca when she was still young, leaving them enough money for her to live comfortably. She only learned after the fact that these followers dumped Rebecca on the streets and ran off with the money, and has regretted it ever since.
Legacy Character: "Saintfire Nox" is just a title that's passed down to the leaders of her family's church, which took on a life of its own thanks to her mother's reputation as The Dreaded, permanently associating it with the Galáctica.
Ms. Exposition: Besides explaining how and why Rebecca was abandoned, Rachel provides pivotal information on Mother's imminent death and the true nature of Universe Zero, transitioning the series into its final arc.
Muggle–Mage Romance: She's descended from a long line of the universe's most powerful Time Masters, but settled down with an ordinary space captain (then a lieutenant commander) like Connor.
Mysterious Parent: Rebecca is shocked to find out her long-lost mother is one of the Galáctica, and an archbishop who can control time.
Naked on Arrival: She's naked in her first official appearance because she's inside one of Ziggy's People Jars.
Old Flame: She and Connor were Happily Married before she was forced to leave him with their unborn daughter. When they find each other again after eighteen years, they resume their loving, passionate relationship without a hitch.
Peggy Sue: She's the only character not on board the Edens Zero to regain her memories of everything before the heroes trigger a Cosmic Retcon with Etherion. This allows her to use her new authority as one of the Interstellar Union Army's directors to aid the Edens Zero crew in their search for Mother.
Rank Scales with Asskicking: As her church's Archbishop, she is also its most powerful member with Super-Speed and Time Master abilities.
The Runaway: In her younger days, she ran away from home because she didn't want anything to do with the Church of Saintfire, which lead to her meeting and marrying Connor.
Shared Family Quirks: She has her daughter's explosive temper and violent tendencies, right down to the "zeyo/ducky" Verbal Tic. Also, similar to Rebecca, Rachel has issues with video livestreams, failing to realize the camera is zoomed in too close to her face.
Sole Survivor: In multiple ways: she is the only known survivor of Ziggy's attack on the Church of Saintfire, the only living mother in Ziggy's collection of People Jars, and the last remaining member of the Galáctica's original roster besides the newcomer Shiki.
Super-Speed: By Sister's account, Rachel possesses speed that puts Rebecca's to shame, as she allegedly had Sister tied up and pinned to the ground a split second after waking up.
Superpowerful Genetics: Her Cat Leaper ability is passed down through the women in her family, with Rachel inheriting hers from her mother, and Rebecca receiving her own Cat Leaper from Rachel.
Time Master: Like her daughter, Rachel has Cat Leaper, which is a power all the women of their family have. By the time she's introduced, however, she's already used up her ability to reverse time after thousands of attempts to stop her husband and daughter from getting killed.
Token Good Teammate: To both the Church of Saintfire and the Oración Seis Galáctica in general. Like Elsie and Shiki, Rachel isn't villainous despite being branded as one of the most dangerous criminals of the cosmoses; she was just forced to become the leader of her mother's Corrupt Church because her husband and daughter would be killed if she refused.
Tom the Dark Lord: Despite being one of the six most powerful criminals in the cosmos, her actual first name is the rather unassuming "Rachel".
Ugly Guy, Hot Wife: Rachel looks like a slightly older and more mature version of her daughter Rebecca, who already qualifies as Ms. Fanservice. Meanwhile, her husband is the middle-aged, balding, overweight Captain Connor.
Unreliable Expositor: During her exposition about Universe Zero, Rachel raises a point that going there would create a Merged Reality where time travel is completely impossible. While she's right to an extent (a Merged Reality means no pre-existing Universes to jump between), Rebecca discovers Rachel was wrong when it comes to 90-second time reversals, which she can still do, but only when she taps into her Ether's full power by getting completely naked.
Verbal Tic: She sometimes ends her sentences with the particle zeyo in Japanese, and more frequently uses the word "ducky" in English, both of which are Shared Family Quirks with Rebecca.
Walking Spoiler: She's revealed as Rebecca's long-lost mother upon introduction, making her role in the story a spoiler right away.

Past Members

Jaguar

A former member of the Galáctica. Once a warrior beyond anyone's control, he has since reformed and became a captain in the Interstellar Union Army.

See EDENS ZERO: Interstellar Union Army for more information.

Nox's Predecessor (Unmarked Spoilers)

Saintfire Nox (Rebecca's Grandmother)

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The mother of the current Saintfire Nox, Rachel. She was the original Nox to be branded as one of the Oración Seis Galáctica, and her death forced her daughter to take up her position as Archbishop.

Ambiguously Evil: She was the Arshbishop at the height of her church's corruption, and she's the reason the name Saintfire Nox became associated with the Galáctica, but it's unclear how much of that is through her own evil, or if it was forced upon her like Rachel.
The Dreaded: Her power was feared by everyone who knew her, which led to the government branding her and her innocent successor as one of the Galáctica.
Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Implied. She was The Dreaded to the cosmos at large, but Rachel was able to run away from the Church without incident, and they only came after her after her mother passed away years later. This suggests that Rachel's mother cared enough to let her live her own life.
High Priest: She was the Archbishop of the Church of Saintfire before Rachel, the current Nox. Whether or not she was as evil as her church's fanatics is unknown.
Legacy Character: She took on the name Saintfire Nox, which belonged to their church's founding Archbishop. When she died, the name was passed down to her daughter, Rachel.
Only Known by Their Nickname: The only name she's known by is her inherited title; she's otherwise an Unnamed Parent.
Posthumous Character: She already died by the time her granddaughter Rebecca was born, and is mostly defined by her legacy and her usage of Cat Leaper that made her feared by all in the cosmoses. Her death is also what led her church's fanatics came for her runaway daughter to fill the vacancy, forcing Rachel to abandon Connor, and later Rebecca, so they wouldn't be killed
Silver Fox: She's visibly old and covered in wrinkles, but still captures the same beauty as her daughter and granddaughter.
Superpowerful Genetics: Her Time Master powers are inherent in all women in her bloodline, and Rachel and Rebecca are no different.
Time Master: She could use Cat Leaper just like her daughter and granddaughter.

Later Members (Unmarked Spoilers)

New Member #1

Shiki Granbell

The Demon King of Edens Zero, whose power grows at an alarming rate three years following the Aoi War. This—combined with his interplanetary travel violations, allegience with known criminals, and inheritence of Ziggy's power—leads the government to brand Shiki as one of the Galáctica despite his heroic efforts against Ziggy.

See his page for more information.

New Member #2

Ziggy

The Mechanical King of Edens One, who becomes one of the Galáctica some time after killing Emperor Nero in the Aoi War. Since then, Ziggy wages a three-year war on humanity by bringing the machines of over a dozen planets under his control, but is stopped at every turn by Shiki and his allies.

See EDENS ZERO: Crew of Edens One for more information.

Final Arc Members

Deadend Cure (Universe Zero)

See EDENS ZERO: Interstellar Union Army

Müller (Universe Zero)

See EDENS ZERO: Crew of Edens One

Joker Helix

See EDENS ZERO: Crew of Edens One

Lightning Law

See EDENS ZERO: Crew of Edens One

Lady Freyja

See EDENS ZERO: Crew of Edens One

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Oración Seis Galáctica

Members at the Start of the Story

Elsie Crimson

Voiced by: Sayaka Ohara (English), Colleen Clinkenbeard (English)^{Foreign VAs}

Drakken Joe

Voiced by: Taiten Kusunoki, Mikako Komatsu [child] (Japanese), Armen Taylor (English)^{Foreign VAs}

Poseidon Nero

Voiced by: Takaya Hashi (Japanese)^{Foreign VAs}Benoît Allemane (French)

Deadend Crow

God Acnoella

Saintfire Nox (Rachel)

Past Members

Jaguar

Saintfire Nox (Rebecca's Grandmother)

Later Members (Unmarked Spoilers)

Shiki Granbell

Ziggy

Deadend Cure (Universe Zero)

Müller (Universe Zero)

Joker Helix

Lightning Law

Lady Freyja

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Oración Seis Galáctica

Members at the Start of the Story

Elsie Crimson

Voiced by: Sayaka Ohara (English), Colleen Clinkenbeard (English) Foreign VAsMarieke Öeffinger (German), Trinidad Valenzuela (Latin American Spanish), Pamela Ravassard (French), Elisa Giorgio (Italian), Rebeca Joia (Portuguese)

Drakken Joe

Voiced by: Taiten Kusunoki, Mikako Komatsu [child] (Japanese), Armen Taylor (English) Foreign VAsRodrigo Saavedra (Latin American Spanish), Julien Kramer (French), Luca Ghignone (Italian)

Poseidon Nero

Voiced by: Takaya Hashi (Japanese) Foreign VAsBenoît Allemane (French)

Deadend Crow

God Acnoella

Saintfire Nox (Rachel)

Past Members

Jaguar

Saintfire Nox (Rebecca's Grandmother)

Later Members (Unmarked Spoilers)

Shiki Granbell

Ziggy

Deadend Cure (Universe Zero)

Müller (Universe Zero)

Joker Helix

Lightning Law

Lady Freyja

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Voiced by: Sayaka Ohara (English), Colleen Clinkenbeard (English)^{Foreign VAs}

Voiced by: Taiten Kusunoki, Mikako Komatsu [child] (Japanese), Armen Taylor (English)^{Foreign VAs}

Voiced by: Takaya Hashi (Japanese)^{Foreign VAs}Benoît Allemane (French)