Exactly What It Says on the Tin.

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• Badass Grandpa
  • Badass Arm Fold
  • Badass Cape: Complete with Dramatic Wind.
  • Badass Mustache
• Cool Old Guy
• Did You Just Flip Off Cthulhu?: Lucy, did you just defy the Celestial Spirit King? And he listened?
• Large and in Charge
• Large Ham: Not only that, but half the fandom fell over in their chairs when they heard who was doing his voice.
• Reasonable Authority Figure
• Red Eyes, Take Warning: A benevolent example.
• The Power of Friendship: What finally convinces him to allow Leo back into the Celestial Spirit World.
• Time Master: Time stops when he appears in the human world, except for those he addresses.

There are twelve different types of golden Zodiac keys, only one of each existing in the world. They can be used to summon one of the twelve spirits of the Zodiac. Incidentally, all the gold keys introduced in the series come into Lucy's possession.*

With the exception of three, which are in the possession of Yukino Aguria.

Aries

The Ram. She is a meek spirit who can conjure fluffy pink clouds of wool in battle. Her master was the abusive Karen Lilica until Angel killed Karen and took her key as the spoils of battle. After Angel is defeated, Aries comes into Lucy's possession.

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• Apologizes a Lot: Even to her opponents before wool-bombing them (which doesn't even hurt them anyway).
  • Apologetic Attacker
• Badass Adorable
• Break the Cutie: Her first two owners are extremely abusive to her. Karen wasn't above using her as a living shield, and even threatened to beat her. Angel, meanwhile, pits her against her dear friend Leo, knowing it would be hard on them both. Thankfully, she recovers nicely once she contracts Lucy.
• Broken Bird
• Catch Phrase: "Sumimasen" ("I'm sorry")
• Extreme Doormat: Put up with all her abuse without saying a word.
• Fighting Your Friend: She is forced by Angel to fight Leo.
• Form-Fitting Wardrobe: Her clothes highlight her curves rather well.
  • Collared by Fashion/Slave Collar: A big poofy one, but one nonetheless.
  • Detached Sleeves
  • Impossibly Low Neckline
  • Minidress Of Power
  • She's Got Legs
  • Zettai Ryouiki: Grade A.
• Gender Bender: Possibly. Aries is a ram, after all.
• Hello, Nurse!: The men around her go wild every time she's summoned, to her great embarrassment.
• Horned Humanoid
• Hourglass Hottie
• Improbable Weapon User: She uses Wool Magic which, given their reactions, seems to paralyze her opponents with the sheer pleasure the softness of the wool produces.
• Mundane Made Awesome: Wool Magic.
• Rose-Haired Girl
• Sensei Chan: In the second OVA.
• Ship Tease: Gets quite a bit with Leo.
• Shrinking Violet

Taurus

The Golden Bull. He possesses Herculean strength, but is constantly distracted by Lucy's breasts. He is one of the spirits owned by Lucy at the start of the story.

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• A Load of Bull
• An Axe to Grind
• The Big Guy
• Butt Monkey: Has won only one fight to date, and that was against a relatively low-power enemy.
• Incredibly Lame Pun: Is fond of these, usually involving cow-related things.
• Lovable Sex Maniac
  • Buxom Is Better: A huge believer of this trope.
  • Distracted by the Sexy: His biggest downfall half the time.
  • Stealth Pun: He's horny.
• Took a Level in Badass: After the Time Skip, when Lucy learns how to use Combination Attacks between her spirits. Suddenly, Taurus is not so harmless.
• Too Kinky to Torture
• Underwear of Power
• Walking Shirtless Scene
• The Worf Effect

Gemini

The Twins. They have the power to mimic the appearance of anyone and read their minds. They are Angel's signature spirits and follow her orders without question until Lucy proves to be a more caring master.

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• Ditto Fighter
• Early-Bird Cameo: They appeared on chapter cover pages well before their first real appearance.
• Heel Face Turn
• Telepathy: They can read the minds of anyone they copy, but forget once they lose that transformation.
• Voluntary Shapeshifting: They can copy up to two people at once. For every new transformation they acquire, they lose their oldest one.
• Wonder Twin Powers: They're two people. Both of them are required to use their magic.

Cancer

The Giant Crab. He is a hairstylist who wields scissors that can cut through virtually anything. Lucy inherits his key from her mother, and owns him by the time the story begins.

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• Absurdly Sharp Blade: His scissors can slice through metal.
• Cool Shades
• Dual Wielding
• Improbable Weapon User: Dual Wielding scissors.
• Not Completely Useless: He gets to shine for one fight against Flare, who has Prehensile Hair.
• Verbal Tic: "-ebi"*
  Ebi is Japanese for "shrimp" despite him being supposedly a crab.
  • In the dub, it's "baby", which makes a bit more sense, given that he's a hairdresser.

Leo

See Fairy Tail Tenrou Group.

Virgo

The Maiden. She is a sadomasochistic spirit dressed as a maid who can burrow underground and manipulate earth. Originally owned by Duke Everlue, she makes a new contract with Lucy after the duke is arrested.

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• Absolute Cleavage: In her Gonk form.
• A Form You Are Comfortable With: She appears in whatever form she thinks will please her master most. In the case of Duke Everlue, it was a fat, really disgusting Old Maid. In the case of lucy, it's a more traditional Meido.
• Chained by Fashion: Just on her wrists.
• The Comically Serious
• Cloud Cuckoo Lander: A rather quiet one, though
• Dishing Out Dirt
• Disproportionate Retribution: Pretty much all the time she asks Lucy for punishment over anything. Even when she does things right.
• Dull Eyes of Unhappiness
• Emotionless Girl
• Fan Disservice: At least under ownership of Everlue.
• Gonk: Under Duke Everlue, who thinks she looks attractive like that. With Lucy? Not so much.
• Heel Face Turn
• Meido
  • Ninja Maid
• Marilyn Maneuver/Panty Shot: Happened while protecting Lucy from this trope. The anime didn't approve.
• Ms. Fanservice: Has been slowly shifting to this since Lucy took her in.
• Poor Communication Kills: In the Grand Magic Games arc, Team Natsu has three months to train until the tournament begins when Virgo invites them to spend a day in the Celestial Spirit World to party. It's only after the day is over that one day in the spirit world equals three months in the human world.
• Rose-Haired Girl
• Tunnel Queen
  • This Is a Drill: In the Brought Down to Normal Highschool AU.
• Too Kinky to Torture: "Are you going to punish me?"
  • Heck the one time they did punish her, it clear she's really enjoying it.
• Voluntary Shapeshifting: She adapts her looks to her owner's taste.
• Zettai Ryouiki

Libra

The Heavenly Scales. She has the power to manipulate the gravity of any target. She is under Yukino's ownership.

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• Belly Dancer: Her attire, complete with My Breasts are Down Here.
• Gravity Master
• Mask Power: Has one that covers the lower half of her face.
• My Breasts are Down Here
• Stripperiffic

Scorpio

The Scorpion. He can produce sandstorms from the tail-shaped cannon on his back. He is also Aquarius' boyfriend. He is initially owned by Angel until he decides Lucy would make a much better master.

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• BFG: His main weapon, which is also his tail, shoots out sand.
• Dishing Out Dirt
• Gratuitous English: "We are!" and "Yeah!"
• Heel Face Turn
• Morality Pet: To Aquarius.
• Multicolored Hair
• Official Couple: With Aquarius.
• Perma Stubble
• Verbal Tic: He always says "We" instead of "I". Also seems very fond of the phrase "We are!" in the anime. In the manga he only says it when he's summoned, but in the anime he starts out every single sentence with this.
• Walking Shirtless Scene

Sagittarius

The Archer. He is a master bowman in a horse costume who never misses his target. His key is given to Lucy by the natives of Galuna Island as a reward for rescuing them.

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• Captain Obvious
• Expressive Mask: The head part of his costume changes its expressions according to the situation.
• Genius Ditz/Literal-Minded: Possibly a combination of the two of these, or at least an innocent version of the first. When asked if he can produce fire for Natsu, he stated that he can not. Only later does he realize that the issue at hand was if fire could be produced. Granted, it's partly a case of Poor Communication Kills, but it seems like a weird thing to distinguish.
• Verbal Tic: "Moshi, moshi!" (Hello, hello)
  • In the Funimation dub, he just says a multitude of weird-sounding greetings, goodbyes, and conjunctions. ("Yes sir-ee!" "See you later, alligator.")

Capricorn

The Goat. He was given to Zoldio by Lucy's mother until her daughter came of age, but Zoldio fused with him and became a being named Caprico. He is freed by Leo and joins his rightful owner afterward.

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• Badass in a Nice Suit
• Bare Your Midriff: His suit while possessed by Zoldio.
• Battle Butler
• Brutal Honesty: In the anime only, he seems reluctant to say something to Lucy, but she tells him not to worry about being honest. Unfortunately for her, he had quite a few issues with her weight when he was carrying her in his arms.
• Cool Shades
• Grand Theft Me: Became the victim of this after Zoldio, his owner who was supposed to give his key to Lucy, went nuts and took over Capricorn's body, forcing him to stay in the human world for 17 years. Note that just three years are enough to nearly kill Leo, and a week would have been brutal torture for Aries, so it's hard to imagine the kind of pain he might have been in by the time he was freed.
• The Mentor: Becomes one for Lucy after coming under her possession, helping her to learn more about her magic. In the anime, he also takes her being a Heartfilia very seriously, right down to cheerfully insisting she follow her heritage and become a proper lady.
• The Stoic
• Three-Point Landing

Aquarius

The Water Bearer. She is a powerful spirit who carries an urn filled with a limitless supply of water. She is one of the first spirits owned by Lucy, but hates her master's guts and often attacks her instead of her intended targets.

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• Action Girl: Usually whenever Aquarius shows up, someone's about to get hurt. Badly.
• Elemental Baggage: One of the few aversions in the series. Lucy can't summon her without an existing body of water.
• Jerkass: To everyone except Scorpio and Juvia.
• The Load: As fierce a fighter she is, there are moments where she just flat out abandons Lucy when she's really needed, such as the battle with Angel in the Nirvana arc (leaving when Scorpio was summoned and revealing he's her boyfriend), and during the underwater battle in the Grand Magic Games arc (counters one attack before splitting). In both cases, Lucy winds up in real danger as a result.
• Making a Splash: Just look at her name.
• Odd Friendship: With Juvia.
• Official Couple: With Scorpio.
• Oh Crap: When she realizes Hughes can wrest control of water from her.
• Pet the Dog: In the anime only, she cries out for Lucy's safety in the Edolas arc when her master is attacked and she herself is powerless.
• Reliable Traitor: Despite her tendency to berate, mock, and even attack Lucy, the latter can almost always count on her destructive power as a last resort.
• Tsundere: Though her dere only shows around (and for) her boyfriend.
• Unfriendly Fire: Not just because she's a Jerkass around Lucy; her power is inherently just so destructive. In fact, this is used to Lucy's advantage when Aquarius is being controlled by Sherry.
• You Gotta Have Blue Hair

Pisces

The Paired Fish. The two attack their target in pairs. They seem like fish at first, but their true form is a mother and her child. They are owned by Yukino.

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• Absolute Cleavage: The mother, combined with Cleavage Window.
• Action Mom: The mother.
• Ambiguously Brown: The son in human form.
• Badass Family
• Bishōnen: The son fish in human form.
• Dark-Skinned Blonde: The son, again.
• Hot Mom: The mother fish in human form.
• Kick Chick: The mother.
• Let's Get Dangerous: When summoned in their human forms, they know it's time to fight hard.
• Making a Splash: Being fish helps.
• Prongs of Poseidon: The son in human form.
• Voluntary Shapeshifting: They can shift between a fish-like and humanoid form at will.
• Walking Shirtless Scene: The son.
• Weaksauce Weakness: Ironically enough, they can't fight in water, and revert back to being fish.
  • Hoist by His Own Petard

Ophiuchus

The Snake Charmer. This massive, mechanical snake-like spirit is regarded as a thirteenth Zodiac spirit. It is owned by Yukino as her most powerful spirit.

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• Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever
• The Sixth Ranger: The thirteenth of the twelve Zodiac spirits.
• Thirteen Is Unlucky
• The Worf Effect: Gets cut down by Kagura before it can show its true power.

Spirits who are summoned using common silver keys are not typically summoned for combat purposes, but are rather done for casual reasons.

Nikora/Plue

The Canis Minor. Nikora is a common breed of celestial spirit, and the minimal amount of magic power it takes to summon it makes it an ideal pet. Lucy owns her own Nikora, which she names Plue.

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• Call a Smeerp a "Rabbit": He looks like a pretty funny dog to us.
• Fake Cross Over/Mythology Gag: From Rave Master, Hiro Mashima's other work.
• Spell My Name with an S: Nikora/Nicola
• Team Pet: Moreso than Happy, who is at least The Smart Guy.

Horologium

The Clock. He is a talking grandfather clock who Lucy tends to summon to use as shelter from hazardous environments.

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• Big Damn Heroes: Saves Lucy from the collapsing Nirvana and from being sucked through the Anima, and Wendy from one of Hades's attacks. Does it yet again when saving Arcadios from lava. This is basically Horologium's hat.
• Chekhov's Gunman: His ability to conceal people inside his body comes in handy.
• Nigh Invulnerable: Moreso than the other spirits, since he is specifically a defensive spirit that can hide others inside of his body. He has been shown to protect people from inter-dimensional magic, falling rocks, a One-Hit KO spell, lava, and cold weather.
• Verbal Tic: "...he/she says." Justified in that the inside of his body is totally soundproof, and he must relay the words of whatever people inside him say to everyone else.
  • The English dub takes this a step further: he not only says what people say, but how they say it, such as "...he/she yells furiously" or "...he/she asks tearfully," just to make good with the lip-locking.

Lyra

The Lyre. She is typically summoned for her phenomenal singing voice.

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• Blush Sticker
• Cat Smile
• The Empath: Her songs reflect what those around her feel at the given moment.
• Genki Girl
• Harp of Femininity

Crux

The Southern Cross. This cross-shaped spirit has an encyclopedic knowledge of celestial spirits and their owners, which he searches for by sleeping.

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• Cool Old Guy
• Eyes Always Shut: Unless he screams.
• Jump Scare: In-Universe; anyone besides Lucy gets scared silly when Crux finds something.
• The Scream: When he finds what he's looking for, he awakens with a startling scream.
• Senior Sleep Cycle: Only Lucy can tell when he's looking for information or is actually asleep.
• Snot Bubble

Caelum

The Chisel. It is one of Angel's contracted spirits that acts more like a weapon than a sentient being.

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• BFG/BFS: Caelum is one.
• Frickin' Laser Beams

Pyxis

The Compass. It is a penguin with a compass on its head.

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• Corner of Woe: It and Lucy try to be useful for Team Natsu in the "Sky Labyrinth" challenge of the Grand Magic Games. Then Erza tells them she already has her own compass.
  • Throw the Dog a Bone: The anime thoroughly expands the challenge by adding an area that screws with Erza's compass, giving Pyxis the chance to show why it's more useful than any ordinary compass with its superior sense of direction.
• Everything's Better with Penguins
• What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway?