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Spoilers for all works set before the end of Fairy Tail are unmarked. Examples pertaining to 100 Years Quest can be spoiler tagged if deemed necessary.

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The Sirius Team

These are all the members of Fairy Tail singled out to participate in an annual exam on the guild's sacred ground, Sirius Island, along with their partners and those conducting the exam.

Besides the main protagonists, these characters are all secondary protagonists.

In General

• Badass Crew: Most of these members are the reason why Fairy Tail easily outnumbers the other guilds the number of badasses that can walk-on directly into the Grand Magic Games team without any significant loss in ass-kicking quality.
  • They are the only guild that is capable of taking on and defeating entire Empires, as shown with their war against Alvarez and the Spriggan 12, by far their most powerful enemy (altought even they did need help from multyple other guilds to win that fight).
  • Their entire reason of participating in the Grand Magic Games was to prove a point and stop other guilds from looking down on them. If they had any ambitions beyond adventuring, fighting and drinking, like what Sabertooth and Phantom Lord had, it is almost certain they would be the most feared, most powerful, most dreaded guild in the world.
• Combined Energy Attack: Almost the entire crew combined their powers with Laxus's to attack Acnologia. All for naught though, as the dragon waved it off.
• Fire-Forged Friends: It's usually combat teamwork that causes the guild members to form close friendships.
• Fish out of Temporal Water: They spent seven years inside the Fairy Sphere after the Sirius Island incident.
• Mass "Oh, Crap!": When Acnologia attacks after they fight Grimoire Heart. And again when it returns during the Tartarus arc.
• Mr. Fanservice: All the male guild members of Fairy Tail are rather easy on the eyes. Though with Makarov, he was a looker in his younger days.
• Ms. Fanservice: All of the female guild members of Fairy Tail are just as attractive, if not more than the males.
• Older Than They Look: They all appear physically seven years younger than they are chronologically.
• True Companions: Fairy Tail's most sacred rule is look out for your teammates because they are all family.

Guild Master

Makarov Dreyar

Makarov Dreyar

Voiced by: Shinpachi Tsuji (Japanese), R. Bruce Elliott (English)^note Other languages: Francisco Reséndez (Latin American Spanish); Gilbert Lévy (French); Angelo Nicotra (Italian)

Makarov is the current guild master of Fairy Tail. Being one of the guild's oldest surviving members at almost 90 years old, he is a master of many forms of magic—including the size-increasing Giant magic—which has ranked him among the Ten Wizard Saints, those who are widely regarded as the most powerful wizards on the entire continent. The members of his guild often give him grief for the trouble they cause between him and the Magic Council, but he loves them as if they were all his children. Despite this, he has difficulty finding a good successor, as fate puts him back in charge whenever someone else takes the position. To date, he has served as the guild's third, sixth, and eventually eighth master.

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• All for Nothing: He is deeply ashamed to find that disbanding Fairy Tail to protect it from the Alvarez Empire was a fruitless decision, since not only was the Emperor unwilling to negotiate a peace offering, he was also Zeref all along.
• The Archmage: The title of Wizard Saint isn't just for show; it's an indicator that the Council acknowledges him as one of the ten mightiest wizards on the continent, and he sure as hell shows it.
• Archnemesis Dad: Makarov is the rare heroic example of his son, Ivan Dreyar. He has excommunicated Ivan for being a threat to the guild.
• Asskicking Leads to Leadership: Played with. When first introduced, he's definitely the most powerful wizard present in the guild as its leader and thus it's played straight. However, it becomes increasingly subverted as time goes on, first with the reveal of the actual strongest member of Fairy Tail being Gildarts, but since he's away from the guild so often and so long he's often not even considered into the equation. Then other younger members of the guild such as Laxus, Natsu, and Erza grow even stronger and are all but stated to have surpassed him by the original series' end, but none of them feel like they have the leadership qualities he does and are fine with letting him keep the title out of respect.
• Badass in Distress: Being one of Fairy Tail's most powerful fighters, this usually happens whenever he decides to get in on the action, with some outside force rendering him powerless, trapped, and sometimes even near death.
• Badass Longcoat: His Wizard Saint uniform, which he can instantly change into when he decides to get serious.
• Beard of Sorrow: His beard over the second Time Skip can be seen as one. He's significantly more depressed than he was in the first part of the series, facing a nearly hopeless war with Alvarez and blaming himself for not stopping it.
• Big Good: Serves as such as the master of the series's titular guild. He later gets outranked by Mavis's spirit, becoming her Number Two.
• Break His Heart to Save Him: He does this to the entire guild after their war with Tartaros when he suddenly disbands Fairy Tail, leaving everyone confused, angry, or heartbroken. Only later do they learn that Makarov did it so they wouldn't be targeted by the Alvarez Empire in case his peace negotiations with them fell through.
• Cast from Lifespan: Casting Fairy Law shaves years off his lifespan depending on the number of enemies he uses it on, hence why he's very careful when using it.
• Dirty Old Man: He isn't afraid to show off that his guild has some pretty girls. His perverted ways are downplayed in the anime, though, and largely disappear from the series altogether after a while.
• Dope Slap: The way he punishes his guildmates for disobedience is to use his magic to deliver an open-palm chop on top of their heads and admonish them by yelling, "BAD!", scolding them like pets. However, he also uses this opportunity to instead cop a feel of Lucy's behind. Bizarrely, this scene is totally cut from the anime (several scenes like this were toned down or left out of the first anime), which elects to gloss over the punishment and instead sees them thrust into an odd filler/omake where everyone gets mixed into a body swap magic debacle and promptly forget they're supposed to be punished.
• Drama-Preserving Handicap: Even though Mavis saves him from death after Makarov casts an otherwise fatal version of Fairy Law, he is left heavily weakened from the use of the spell and stuck in a wheelchair for about a year before he regains his mobility.
• Eccentric Mentor: Quirky, clumsy old man? Check. One of the series' strongest wizards who often guides or speaks to wizards about what life and magic is? Check.
• Establishing Character Moment: Shows his guild a stack of complaints from the Magic Council for troubles they'd caused, scolds them all for getting the council mad at him again...then burns the whole stack and says, "Screw the Magic Council!"
• A Father to His Men: He considers himself a father to his guild in much the same way they consider themselves his children. This means you should think twice about hurting his kids.
• Foil: To Mavis. They both care a great deal for the guild as a whole, but Mavis is significantly more pragmatic when it comes to making strategies, which may be due to her having fought in a war and having Zeref's curse. This is exemplified when Makarov decides to use Fairy Law at the cost of his own life in spite of his belief that Mavis could come up with a winning strategy that doesn't require him to do that, simply because he can't bear to see his "children" suffer any longer.
• Friendly Fireproof: His Fairy Law spell is a holy light that smites those that Makarov considers an enemy. To everyone else, it is a warm, soothing light.
• Frontline General: Whenever his guild goes to war, Makarov will always throw himself into the action and fight side-by-side with them.
• Gold C Olored Superiority: Has gold on his Wizard Saint robe, uses Light Magic, and has a bright yellow aura for his magic. He's also been the guildmaster of Fairy Tail for a long time, with all the badassery that implies.
• Handicapped Badass: After casting a massive-scale version of Fairy Law to severely cripple Alvarez's overwhelming forces, Makarov, despite being rejuvenated by Mavis and Zeref's last touch of magic, is still too weak to stand on his own and must move around in a wheelchair or remain sitting down.
• Heroic Sacrifice:
  • Subverted when he attempts to sacrifice himself to Acnologia on Sirius Island so his guild can escape, but the others refuse to leave him.
  • He performs a successful one when he uses Fairy Law to wipe out the Alvarez Empire's army, dying as a result. However, Mavis manages to restore him to life while she's dying along with Zeref. He still suffers the drawback of being incredibly weakened for a full year after the use of the spell, however.
• Holy Hand Grenade: His ultimate spell is Fairy Law, a radiant burst of light that burns away his enemies while leaving his guild unharmed.
• Informed Ability: It’s stated early on that Makarov can use different kinds of magic like Wind and Ice, but he’s never shown this in the series.
• Kneel Before Zod: Inverted. He gives his enemies the count of three to kneel to him. If they don't, he drops Fairy Law on them.
• The Leader: He is the Third Guild Master of Fairy Tail, and the one who calls all the shots. He is also technically the Sixth Master, because Macao kept his seat warm during his time as the Fourth Master, and when he tried passing the mantle to Gildarts, Gildarts gave it right back to him. Makarov's so angry about this that he declares he will remain guild master until he dies. He is also the Eighth Master because Erza became the Seventh briefly after Fairy Tail's reformation, because he wasn't available.
• Let's Get Dangerous!: He acts like a goofy old man most of the time. But when his kids are in the middle of a life-or-death battle, expect him to bring the hurt alongside them.
• Light/Darkness Juxtaposition:
  • Against his rival Jose of Phantom Lord, matching his Light Magic against his opponents Shadow Magic. Bonus points for netting the win with Fairy Law.
  • Once again against his former mentor Hades, who counters his own use of Fairy Law with Grimoire Law.
• Light 'em Up: The anime gives him a plethora of light-based spells, often counteracting the dark magic his opponents like Jose and Hades use.
• Light Is Good: He is a user of powerful light magic, wears a white and gold coat, and is the guild master of Fairy Tail.
• Manly Facial Hair: Has a prominent moustache, and has proven time and time again just why he is the guildmaster of Fairy Tail.
  • Grows more prominent in the Alvarez arc, where he grows a full beard, and manages to defeat Jacob of the Spriggan 12.
• Manly Tears:
  • After expelling Laxus for the Battle of Fairy Tail, he turns away so his grandson won't see him crying.
  • He's moved to Tears of Joy when his entire guild attacks Acnologia to save him rather than run away.
  • He sheds Tears of Remorse when he realizes he disbanded Fairy Tail for nothing in the Alvarez Empire arc.
• Mentor Occupational Hazard: Subverted multiple times to the point of becoming a Running Gag; he ends up on death's door multiple times in the series, but he always gets back on his feet. It doesn't help that his many attempts at retiring always blow up in his face. Even when he does finally die in the Alvarez Empire arc, he's eventually restored to life by Mavis.
• Miniature Senior Citizens: He's barely taller than a six-year-old child. His Giant magic can change that, however.
• Mythical Motifs: One with giants, with his Sizeshifter Magic letting him grow to immense stature.
• Obi-Wan Moment:
  • Right as he's pinned down by Acnologia, Makarov simply laughs heartily and declares he has no regrets because he got to act like a true parent to the very end. The moment is interrupted when his guild comes back to save him.
  • He has another such moment when he's about to use Fairy Law on the Alvarez Empire's army, knowing that using it on that many opponents at once would go well over his remaining lifespan and kill him. He simply says he regrets nothing and orders Mavis not to interfere when she tries making up a new strategy to save him.
• Old Master: He fits the trope of an unassuming, tiny old man who is also one of the most Badass wizards in his guild and sets an example for his younger members.
• Papa Wolf: As the self-proclaimed father of his guild, expect to see him bring hell to the doorstep of any fool who dares harm his children, human laws be damned.
• The Paragon: His main goal isn't to crush evil, but rather to inspire good in others.
• Parental Substitute:
  • As Fairy Tail's guild master, he considers everyone there to be his children. His children deserve his love, protection and support (and occasionally his discipline, like hot-headed Natsu). While Lucy suffers a Heroic BSoD during the guild war with Phantom Lord, Makarov tells the former she doesn't have to blame herself for everything that has happened and Fairy Tail is behind her, so she can openly share her feelings.
  • He is also a surrogate grandfather to Asuka, since she's the daughter of his guild children. He is often seen giving her piggyback rides.
• Parental Abandonment: His mother died right after his birth, and his father died only four years later. It's implied he was raised by the guild after that.
• Passing the Torch: One of the series' Running Gags is his inability to do this. Just when he thinks he's found a good successor, something happens that leads him to consider him being master until the day he dies. Whenever someone does get picked, they shift the position right back onto him simply because they don't find themselves worthy.
• Pint-Sized Powerhouse: Even without his Sizeshifter abilities, Makarov can kick plenty of ass at his usual, diminutive size.
• Power Perversion Potential: Takes advantage of his Rubber Man powers to grope girls' behinds.
• Relative Button: He loves his guild members so much he views them as children, so threatening them will immediately set him off. Phantom Lord found this out the hard way.
• Rubber Man: His Giant Magic not only makes him huge, but he can also extend his arms with it.
• Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right!: The entire guild embodies this, but Makarov is the one who encourages this kind of behavior whenever the higher ups refuse to take action.
• Sizeshifter: His magic gives him this ability, fittingly called Giant. Unlike the standard example of this trope, however, he's one of the strongest characters in the series.
• Targeted to Hurt the Hero: Discussed. Zeref plans to do this to him in the Alvarez Empire arc to further motivate Natsu into killing him, but he's saved in the nick of time by Mest. Zeref later informs Natsu of his (temporary) death just to spite him, however.
• Where Did We Go Wrong?: He grieves over how horribly Laxus turned out early in the series, even spelling it out in the Battle of Fairy Tail arc's English dub.
• You Shall Not Pass!: He tries to do this against Acnologia to allow the rest of the guild to escape Sirius Island. However, his kids refuse to leave his side.

S-Class Wizards

Gildarts Clive

Gildarts Clive

Voiced by: Kazuhiko Inoue (Japanese), Jason Douglas (English)^note Other languages: Marc Bretonnière (French); Roberto Certomà (Italian)

Gildarts is renowned as the most powerful member of Fairy Tail, bar none. He's also the father of Cana Alberona. His magic, Crush, effectively reduces anything he touches to dust. He takes on jobs that have never been completed for tens or even hundreds of years, and thus only visits his guild a couple of years at a time for short periods of time. After his return from Sirius Island, he is selected to become Fairy Tail's fifth master, but due to his extreme wanderlust, he shoves the position back onto Makarov.

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• The Ace: He is said to be the strongest wizard in the guild, full stop. To elaborate, Natsu is a fighter who is about as strong as both Erza and Mirajane, and is able to beat Laxus (albeit with Gajeel's help and after he was worn down from using Fairy Law). However, Natsu makes a point that he could never beat Gildarts. The only times he's lost a fight that we know of are against Acnologia and August, both of whom are the few antagonists whose powers are more broken than his.
• Action Dad: Not only is he the most powerful wizard in Fairy Tail, he's also Cana's dad.
• Artificial Limbs: He lost his left arm and leg to Acnologia, replacing them with metallic limbs. They also happen to contain their own Holder-type magic, which allows him to get in a good hit on August.
• Badass Cape: It's tattered because of all the battles it has seen. He replaces it after the second Time Skip with a fancier, fur-lined cloak.
• Battle Aura: One of the few characters shown to use one. It's so powerful, it actually reduces Natsu, one of the most Hot-Blooded Determinators in the series, to Tears of Fear.
• Beware the Silly Ones: The guy is an absent-minded goofball of a dad, both to the guild's younger generation and his biological daughter. But piss him off, and that Death Glare of his will be the last thing you ever see.
• The Big Guy: His Crash Magic is the most destructive magic in all of Fairy Tail (which is saying something), and he is considered their best fighter, bar none.
• Blood Knight: Gildarts loves a good scrap in the name of good fun, even admitting to God Serena's Historia that it's a shame they would never be able to fight at their full potential since said replica is nowhere near as powerful as the deceased real one.
• The Bus Came Back: He decides to go Walking the Earth right after Makarov passes the mantle of guild master to him. He eventually returns in the final battle against the Spriggan 12 in the Alvarez Empire arc.
• Chivalrous Pervert: He is susceptible to Male Gaze and keeps a Porn Stash in that satchel of his. However, he's a great guy at heart.
• Cloudcuckoolander: While he isn't totally stupid, he is very absent-minded to the point where he could walk into a wall and he wouldn't even notice because it'd smash to pieces before it even touched him.
• A Day in the Limelight: The manga has two chapters that focus primarily on Gildarts while he's Walking the Earth. Notably, they play out without a word of dialogue.
• Deus Exit Machina: For most of the story his magic and strength border on Story-Breaker Power, with very few characters around who could even hope to challenge him, so for a good while he's kept away trying to complete the 100-year quest, only rarely appearing for calm and comedic moments. The only times he seriously gets involved in the action is when real powerhouses like God Serena, August, and Acnologia are around, because he actually has to put in effort to beat them.
• Does Not Know His Own Strength: While it's almost exclusively Played for Laughs, Gildarts is prone to causing property damage just by walking into walls without thinking. This means that if he's not careful, he could seriously hurt or even kill someone by complete accident. Luckily, he manages to keep himself in check when around his guild.
• Doting Parent: After Cana musters the courage to tell him she's his daughter, he ends up being reduced to a sappy pile of mush whenever she's in the vicinity. Ironically, Cana has since preferred Gildarts to give her some space.
• Friend to All Children: He has a warm, fatherly relationship with Natsu and everyone from his age group who grew up at the guild. This especially includes Cana, who he didn't realize was his daughter for the longest time.
• Genius Bruiser: He shows some rather sharp perception skills when it comes to fighting enemies he knows nothing about at first glance. He demonstrates this best in the Alvarez Empire arc, deducing that the Historia of God Serena is weaker than the genuine article, and later figuring out August's magic and weakness.
• Handicapped Badass: He was reduced to wearing Artificial Limbs after an encounter with Acnologia went horribly wrong, and yet he still stands far above the rest of his guild.
• Heroic Build: Despite being middle-aged and over twice the age of the series' younger male fighters, his physique is far more developed and much more muscular. His muscles also aren't just for show; his physical strength alone has been shown to be glaringly and obviously superior to every opponent he faces.
• Innocently Insensitive: For 12 whole years, despite always being kind to Cana, his constant absence and preoccupation with guild matters seriously hurt Cana's self-esteem without him knowing when she first tried to tell him she was his daughter. Once he learns the truth, he makes up for all the times he neglected her by being as mortifyingly doting as possible.
• Lightning Bruiser: In the rare instances where he's forced to go all out against an opponent, Gildarts is shown to have not just strength and endurance, but a fair bit of agility to boot. This is especially noticeable in the Sirius Island arc when he's able to match Blue Note blow for blow while his opponent has a crushingly heavy gravitational field in effect.
• The Leader: He is the Fifth Guild Master of Fairy Tail, the successor of Marakov. As master, he issued two orders. 1.) Revoke Laxus's exile and reinstate him as a guild member, and 2.) designate Marakov as his successor. Then he left on a long journey so Marakov couldn't force the issue.
• Long-Lost Relative: Who would have thought that Cana was his daughter once he realizes the truth about her?
• Married to the Job: His penchant for accepting jobs that would last years at a time led to him separating from his wife, Cornelia. It was also because of this that he never even knew Cana was his daughter until she finally told him.
• Megaton Punch: His ultimate technique, Haja Kensei,^note Break the False to Reveal the Truth is capable of sending even the heaviest of Mighty Glaciers flying.
• Mighty Glacier: When faced with opponents who are significantly weaker than him, he can whup their butts while literally standing in a single spot. This is especially demonstrated during Natsu's battle with him in the S-Class exam, where Natsu considers making him budge a few feet as a major accomplishment.
• Nice Guy: He is one of the downright coolest guys you could hope to meet in Fairy Tail.
• No-Sell: His magic, Crush, can be used to cancel any spell that's thrown at him by disintegrating it.
• Oh, Crap!: He gets the shock of his life when he finally realizes that Cana has been searching for him for many years.
• Optional Boss: He's an optional boss in Fairy Tail (2020) in a Duel Boss fight with Natsu after the latter passes the S-Class Exam unlocked after the epilogue hearkening back to their fight during the Sirius Island Arc. As this is Natsu post-Avatar Arc, Natsu actually wins to even Gildarts' surprise, though to Gildarts' credit he's able to keep standing despite his injuries (including tanking a Fire Dragon King's Demolition Fist to the face as the finishing blow) while Natsu passes out from his own and magic drain.
• Papa Wolf: The one surefire way to elicit a Death Glare from Gildarts is to threaten to harm his kids, be they his younger guildmates or his real daughter.
• Parental Substitute: He has this mindset with the majority of youngsters who grew up with Fairy Tail. Since most of them are orphans, he is effectively a second father to them.
• Perma-Stubble: He has a five-o'-clock shadow that almost reaches Manly Facial Hair levels of awesome. Then he actually grows a beard.
• Person of Mass Destruction: Destructive Savior doesn't even begin to cover what he can do with his magic. It's so bad, the entire city of Magnolia has a "Gildarts Shift" that reconverts the entire layout of the city to have a single, straight road to the Fairy Tail guildhall, just to prevent him from walking into a house by accident.
• Playboy Has a Daughter: When he finds out Cana is his biological daughter, he goes through at least thirteen women's names just to find out which of them might be her mother, though he eventually pieces together that she's the daughter of the only woman he ever loved. He becomes a Doting Parent to her afterwards.
• Porn Stash: He has one in his travel bag. Natsu finds it.
• The Power of Love: The love for his own daughter is what allows him to help her and Fairy Tail hold off Acnologia and stop him from destroying Sirius Island and to later help his friends fight the Alvarez Empire.
• Power Incontinence: Sometimes he does not fully control his powerful magic, with the unfortunate consequence that unwittingly destroys some object in the neighborhood.
• Really Gets Around: He goes through the names of no fewer than thirteen women he slept with to determine which one could be Cana's mother. That being said, Cana's mom was the only woman he ever settled with before or since.
• Remember the New Guy?: Only happens in the anime, which omits every mention of Gildarts up to just a handful of episodes before his introduction, and yet everyone in the guild remains just as excited to see him again.
• Secret-Keeper: As Makarov's sole (attempted) successor, Gildarts is granted the knowledge of Lumen Histoire only permitted to Fairy Tail's guild masters.
• There Was a Door: Taken to ridiculous extremes, where simply walking into a wall is enough to smash a hole through it.
• Touch of Death: His Crush magic is about as dangerous as it sounds when used on the human body, causing people to split apart into tiny blocks. At best, however, it would just turn them into bite-sized duplicates of themselves.
• Unfit for Greatness: Played with. After the Sirius Island arc, Makarov decides to name Gildarts the fifth master of Fairy Tail. He marks the occasion with an almost immediate letter of resignation, saying that being guild master isn't really his style.
• Walking the Earth: He spends more time away on guild missions than he does at the guild itself.
• World's Strongest Man: To a certain extent, he has all the makings of this by virtue of being the strongest wizard of the strongest magic guild in Fiore, barring Acnologia, who isn't human to begin with (not anymore, anyway). This is further toyed around in the Alvarez Empire arc, where his opponents are two other contenders for this trope. The first, God Serena, is actually a replica of the recently deceased strongest of the Ten Wizard Saints who turns out to be far less powerful than he was in life, making a comparison of strength forever indeterminable between them; the other, August, manages to withstand Gildarts and claims a near victory if not for his decision to spend his own life. With both of them gone by the end, Gildarts's official standing remains undetermined.
• Would Harm a Senior: Has no problems fighting August, who's roughly as old as Makarov.

Erza Scarlet

Erza Scarlet

See her entry on the Strongest Team page.

Mirajane Strauss

Mirajane Strauss

Voiced by: Ryōko Ono (Japanese), Monica Rial (English)^note Other languages: Rossy Aguirre, Olinca Hidalgo [singing voice] (Latin American Spanish); Kelly Marot (French); Emanuela Damasio (Italian)

Mirajane is Fairy Tail's administrator and barmaid, as well as a famous pin-up model for Fiore's Weekly Sorcerer magazine. While she acts rather scatterbrained on the surface, her affable nature hides an indomitable will. Once a more abrasive young teen who'd regularly go on missions with her younger siblings, Elfman and Lisanna, she has since retired from field work following Lisanna's assumed demise in X782, though she becomes more active again after Lisanna returns.

She is an expert at using Transformation Magic to alter her appearance, clothes, and voice in any way she chooses. However, her true power is Takeover: Satan Soul, an ability that gives her the forms and powers of fearsome demons she defeats.

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• The Ace: Besides being among the guild's wizards with the largest reserves of pure energy and magical power, Mirajane is also among the most expert magicians of knowledge in magic and versatility in terms of skills.
• Awesome, but Impractical: Satan Soul: Alegria. It's the most powerful of her transformations ever shown by far, but after just a few seconds of use, it drains her of so much of her energy that she's unable to stand. This leaves her completely defenseless when Irene Belserion, the strongest woman of the Alvarez Empire, shows up.
• Badass Adorable: She may seem sweet, but she's also one of Fairy Tail's elite S-Class wizards, and she can turn into terrifying demons to boot.
• Badass Longcoat: Her Satan Soul: Sitri form has one.
• The Bartender: Her main role in the guild after the loss of her younger sister is passing out bar in the guild hall. She's definitely got the friendly, good advice part down.
• Beware the Nice Ones: She's polite, ditzy, and caring to a fault. Hurt one of her siblings and friends, however, and then she'll show you she still lives up to her old title of "Demon Woman". Freed finds this out the hard way.
• Beware the Silly Ones: She acts pretty ditzy most of the time and has an air of helplessness about her, but she is one of the strongest mages in the guild and can become terrifying if she's given a reason to get serious.
• Big Damn Heroes: She punched out Seilah just after she had paralyzed Erza, rescuing Erza, Minerva, Lector, and Frosch.
• Big Sister Instinct:
  • It's this instinct that causes her to reawaken her Satan Soul powers when Elfman is being subjected to Fried's Cold-Blooded Torture during the Battle of Fairy Tail. Later on, learning that Seliah made Elfman into one of her People Puppets and put Lisanna's life in danger in the process gives her a Slasher Smile whens she finally confronts the demon.
  • Even seeing a Lisanna that she knew was a fake in 100 Years Quest get attacked by Skullion was enough to push her into a rage and forget all about fighting Lucy to deal with him.
  • The Grand Magic Games arc has a scene that shows Mirajane has adopted Yukino as a little sister (for resembling Lisanna). She notices that Yukino is missing, searches for her, and upon finding her, gives her a hug and a pep talk.
• Broken Bird: Although she has since outgrown the Troubled, but Cute part, Mirajane was ousted from her hometown, causing her to develop a withdrawn, and later a very rough and violent, personality. A few years later, her younger sister was thought to have died, and she took on a more sweet and caring personality to make sure she wouldn't lose her brother as well. With the return of her sister two years later, however, Mirajane appears to have recovered completely.
• Buxom Beauty Standard: Her large chest is a major reason why she has so many admirers and is such a successful pin-up model.
• Conveniently an Orphan: Her and her siblings' parents died when they were very young, which gave them one less reason to stay in their hometown after their banishment.
• Cool Big Sis: She's very kind and supportive not just to her siblings, but also to any junior member of the guild, particularly Lucy.
• Covert Pervert: Seems to have BDSM tendencies, especially judging by her spanking of Bound and Gagged Erza due to a penalty game.
• Curb-Stomp Battle: Most of her battles are hardly even a challenge for her once she steps into her Satan Soul form. Her match with Seilah has her on the receiving end of this, however.
• Cursed with Awesome: She originally hated her Takeover powers since she and her siblings were banished from their hometown because of them, and she didn't consider herself human anymore. She managed to accept them after her siblings showed her they had the same kind of magic.
• Dark and Troubled Past: She was orphaned, exiled from her hometown because of her powers and then presumably lost one of her younger siblings.
• Dark Is Not Evil: Almost to the point of exaggeration. Her powerset, known as Satan Soul, involves taking over and transforming into powerful demonic beings and using their abilities in combat. She is also one of the kindest, bubbliest, and good-natured people in the entire series.
• Death Glare: Her eyes in her demon forms are this by default. She'll also flash the same glare in her usual form whenever someone sufficiently angers her.
• Demonic Possession: Inverted; she's the one who possesses demons, as explained by Makarov during a flashback.
• Dissonant Serenity: Often has a cheerful smile even in situations when others would be upset. Sometimes, even when she herself is upset, she'll have this expression before suddenly breaking into comedic tears.
• Dude Magnet: She's very popular with men due to her sweet personality and attractive appearance.
• Elemental Powers: Thanks to her Take Over, Mirajane not only gains the strength and the appearance of the absorbed demons in which she transforms but permanently gains the use of their magic, which is for the most part Darkness Magic, but with her default module Satan Soul she has proven to be able to use some Lightning Magic spells and can use Water Magic with enough power and ability to turn a whole river against her enemies
• Even the Girls Want Her: Lucy has been seen looking at her modeling pictures. In the Fantasia arc, it's been stated that she has captured the hearts of men and women across the land.
• The Exile: She and her younger siblings were exiled from their home because its citizens were fearful of her Takeover powers.
• Expository Hairstyle Change: After her sister Lisanna was attacked by their brother Elfman, she changed her hair from a ponytail to a forehead tail. The new hairstyle is more in keeping with the sweeter personality she developed.
• Feminine Women Can Cook: Double Subversion. Many have said that she's a good chef, but she's easily the most feminine out of all of the cast. However, interestingly enough, she was even able to cook when she was a tomboyish bully.
• Finger-Licking Poison: To her Satan Soul form, toxic gas is merely a delicious dessert.
• The Force Is Strong with This One: Although for two years she has chosen not to train any more and not to accept to solve the guild's quests, Mirajane still maintains her position to hold levels of resources and magic power far more extensive than almost all the guild wizards. In the course of the manga, everyone who she has faced said that they perceive a strong aura of energy around her. Also, when she re-activated her basic form Take Over: Satan Soul after more than 2 years, she released so much power and energy that she had destroyed the ground around her. Not to mention that she unleashed the water power of an entire river against Fried and ended him with an attack of dark magic so great that everyone in the city saw it.
• Former Teen Rebel: In complete contrast to her present self, she was a loud-mouthed, Hot-Blooded Jerkass who liked to pick on Natsu and the rest of her juniors. However, she still dearly loved Elfman and Lisanna, and the latter's supposed death caused Mira to develop her current persona so she wouldn't lose Elfman as well.
• Friendly Rivalry: With Jenny Realight, and sometimes with Erza if their former rivalry even comes up anymore.
• Girly Bruiser: She is the Team Mom of the guild, is incredibly gentle, and is said to be the guild's Team Chef. She also has a modelling gig with Weekly Sorcerer Magazine. Her Satan Soul forms, however, make her very much a bruiser.
• Good Eyes, Evil Eyes: She had Tsurime Eyes when she was younger and when she uses Satan Soul. As a young adult, she has Tareme Eyes.
• Heroic BSoD:
  • She goes through a major one when Lisanna is injured and then sucked into the Anima, teleporting the latter to Edolas.
  • She has yet another one when Freed beats the crap out of Elfman and she goes on a Roaring Rampage of Revenge against the former. She calms down after the battle is over.
• Heroic Sacrifice: After Lisanna is ensnared by Azuma's explosives so Mirajane would fight at her fullest, she instead shields Lisanna, not wanting to lose her a second time.
• I Am Legion: Her ultimate Satan Soul in the Alvarez Empire arc, Alegria, is composed of all the souls of Tartaros's demons that she could find.
• I Am Not Left-Handed: Pulls this on Kamika during the Castle Rescue, admitting she holds back around others and then proceeding to go all out with Satan Soul.
• Idiot Hair: Invoked. As part of her Expository Hairstyle Change as an adult (as a teenager she had a Tomboyish Ponytail), she purposely makes an upward ponytail by gathering and tying the hair covering her forehead, to better fit with her sweet and bubbly personality. Her hair actually ended up adapting to it and remains pointed upwards even when it's not tied.
• Inconsistent Spelling: The Italian dub spells her first name as "Mira Jane".
• Indifferent Beauty: While it's been mentioned that she's won the hearts of men and women all over the country, she never actually uses her looks to her advantage.
• Informed Ability: Her Satan Soul: Sitri is hyped up as one of her most powerful forms during the Grand Magic Games arc, but doesn't really seem any more powerful than her base Satan Soul. The only win she gets with it is curbstomping Jenny Realight who wasn't that powerful to begin with. Its next two fights are against Zirconis, which has no effect on the Dragon due to not being Dragon Slayer Magic, and then against Seliah after Satan Soul proves ineffective, who responds by immediately going into her Etherious Form and curbstomping Mira.
• Innocent Blue Eyes: She has light blue eyes, emphasizing her sweet, compassionate nature.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Even though she was a rude and abrasive bitch in her youth, she still loves her younger siblings. In the present, she's a full-blown Nice Girl.
• Kamehame Hadouken: Her base form Satan Soul's Soul Extinctor fires a large blast of dark energy like this and in its first use blocked out the sky.
• Lady of Black Magic: A young and beautiful sorceress and the image girl of the guild who dresses in a simple but at the same time also very elegant way, equally capable of using vast forms of magic at an impressive power when she accesses her Demonic Possession powers.
• Lady of War: Mirajane is by far the most graceful and elegant female member of Fairy Tail and the most famous one for her beauty and attractiveness, however this does not mean that she cannot also be one of her most dangerous and fearsome members.
• Let's Get Dangerous!: Any time she's forced to use Satan Soul in battle, she drops her sweet and friendly side to show her foes a world of pain.
• Lightning Bruiser: Her Take Overs lets her fly and move with incredible speed and make shock-waves with her punches and kicks. Just like most of the main fighters in this guild, Mirajane has physical skills so developed that they are totally superhuman in addition to her powerful magic and his immense magic power, so much so that she has a Super-Strength much higher than that of Elfman combined with a speed that is just so paranormal as to be able to keep up with another real Lightning Bruiser like Azuma. However, unlike the rest of the guild members, she is the only (along with her brother) partially justifiable due to her magic based on the Demonic Possession.
• Little Big Sister: She's Elfman's older sister, but doesn't look like it since he's way bigger and really protective of her.
• Little Miss Badass: Before Mirajane joined Fairy Tail, she defeated a demon attacking a church with her Satan Soul; unfortunately, it resulted in her exile from her hometown. She also reached S-Class at the age of 16, making her the second youngest to do so after Erza.
• Magic Knight: Just like the majority of the strongest wizards in this guild, Mirajane has trained and specialized in a fighting style that mixes the use of her magical powers with her ability as a martial artist because of her demonic powers that give her superhuman physical abilities.
• Mark of the Beast: When she first used Satan Soul as a child to stop a demon in her hometown's church, she took on several of its traits such as a deformed right arm and protrusions similar to ears on her head, though the majority of the changes were obscured by the cloak she took to wearing.
• Marked Change: Her default Satan Soul form gives her a crack-shaped marking over her eye.
• Meaningful Name: The first half of her name (and frequent nickname), Mira, means "peace." It was more of an Ironic Name during her rebellious years, but it suits her adult persona extremely well.
• Morphic Resonance: When she transforms into animals or when she's using her Satan Soul, she always maintains her forehead ponytail.
• Ms. Exposition: She takes up this role early in the series, explaining things about the guild or guilds in general to Lucy (and thus to the audience).
• Ms. Fanservice: Her Satan Soul forms give her a more Stripperific look. She even wins a fanservice contest against another model in the Grand Magic Games.
• Mystical White Hair: She's a wizard with pure white hair.
• Mythical Motifs: Demons, with her magic being Take Over Satan Soul, having the nickname She Devil, and several darkness-based powers.
• Navel-Deep Neckline: When she activates Satan Soul, she gets an outfit whose neckline goes past her navel.
• Nice Girl: Mirajane is kind and courteous to all of her Guild Mates. Flashbacks reveal that she developed into this after Lisanna's disappearance, as she was rather rude and somewhat cruel to the members of Fairy Tail but still cared for siblings.
• No-Sell: Thanks to Satan Soul, things like poison have no effect on her. It prevents her from being turned into a demon by Tartaros because she already can turn into one, and made her immune to Seilah's Macro.
• Obfuscating Stupidity: Zig-zagged. She comes across as a cloudcuckoolander at times, but there are a few moments that imply she's trying to hide her inner pain through her act. It's also mentioned that she tends to act like The Ditz as part of a persona she assumes.
• People Puppets: She gains Seilah's Macro curse when she uses Takeover on her, allowing her to command Elfman to save her. After the second Time Skip, she has full access to Seilah's form and abilities.
• Perky Goth: In her youth, though she wasn't so much "perky" as she was Hot-Blooded.
• Person of Mass Destruction: Her Take Over: Halphas form, according to her brother, is so powerful that Makarov himself has forbidden its use because it is potentially capable of breaking down and razing an entire city.
• Pink Means Feminine: She usually wears pink dresses and is one of the more feminine members of Fairy Tail.
• Power Gives You Wings: Her default Satan Soul form gives her leathery wings.
• Power Makes Your Voice Deep: Zigzagged in the anime, where Ryōko Ono provides a much deeper and more foreboding voice for Mirajane's standard Satan Soul form during the first series, but not in her other forms, while the 2014 series onwards dropped the voice change altogether. A straighter example occurs in the English dub, where Monica Rial provides the same deep voice for her two Satan Soul forms, and a slightly lower than her character's usual voice for her anime-exclusive Demon God: Halphas form.
• Powers via Possession: Her family's trademark magic, Takeover, allows her to takes the forms and abilities of specific creatures she encounters. Her particular brand is Demonic Possession, except in her case, she's the one doing the possessing.
• Proper Lady: Lisanna's assumed untimely demise mellowed her into one of these. At the start of the main narative, she is a polite and friendly young woman who dresses in a feminine and modest style. The threatened death of her brother turned her into Silk Hiding Steel.
• Psychosomatic Superpower Outage: Her sister's apparent death was such a shock that she hadn't been able to use her full power ever since until she was threatened with the loss of her remaining sibling.
• Purple Is Powerful: Her Satan Soul has a purple aura, and is powerful enough to make her an S-Class mage in Fairy Tail.
• Red Baron: She used to be called "Demon Woman" or "She-Devil", and for good reason.
• Reformed Bully: Mirajane used to pick on the younger members of the guild quite often, and was a Sitcom Arch-Nemesis to Erza. However, she Took a Level in Kindness after Lisanna's death, as she didn't want to lose anyone else.
• The Rival: To Erza. They even had their own version of Natsu and Gray's slugfests when they were younger, though now they are good friends. She is also this to Jenny Realight of Blue Pegasus due to their modeling careers.
• Roaring Rampage of Revenge: She decides to take revenge for Elfman the moment he gets beaten down by Freed in the Battle of Fairy Tail.
• Save the Villain: She claims that her Takeover: Mirajane-Seilah was an example of this, as Lisanna points out that Seilah was about to die. Gray's still incredulous that Mirajane counts stealing her body as an example of this.
• Shameless Fanservice Girl: She quickly agrees to a modelling contest in her fight with Jenny to show off her body. Though she at least has more control over herself than Erza.
• Shipper on Deck: One omake and anime episode has her comment to Lucy that she and Natsu would make a cute couple, completely driving Lucy up the wall when she thinks Natsu is trying to ask her out. By the end of the omake, she starts to suggest Gray might be interested in her, implying her main interest is in Lucy's love life as a whole
• Shut Up, Hannibal!: She does this to Laxus when he mocks Shadow Gear and Lucy for their weakness in the war with Phantom Lord, and points out that Makarov insisted that no one was to blame, adding that includes Laxus himself, who didn't help. Laxus is unfazed, though.
• Sleeves Are for Wimps: Wears spaghetti strap dresses. As a child, she wore tank tops.
• Sibling Team: With Elfman and Lisanna until the latter's death. Subverted again when Lisanna comes back.
• Silk Hiding Steel: She is so sweet, adorable, and spacey, that it's easy to forget she's an S-Class wizard.
• Sitcom Archnemesis: She was once this to Erza in her childhood, making Natsu and Gray's Volleying Insults look downright good-natured in comparison.
• Smarter Than You Look: She may look like a ditz, but she knows a lot about transformation magic and how Fairy Tail works.
• Stripperiffic: Her Satan Soul Takeover shows off more skin than her usually modest dresses, giving her a much more voluptuous appearance.
• Superpower Lottery: It is very clear that, between her and her siblings, Mirajane has undoubtedly received the best lottery prize for the various types of Take Over. Not to mention that in a guild in which the overwhelming majority of the strongest magicians assert themselves as such primarily for its unnatural superhuman and / or combative physical abilities, powers of an elemental nature, raw high magical power etc., she is truly one of the few in the guild who has a magic with truly terrifying potential and versatility. In addition, her ability to absorb any type of demon and their power permanently makes her really dangerous for some of her companions as Natsu (which houses the power of the demon END) and Gray (whose power of Devil Slayer is likely to "demonify him ").
• Team Mom: She's the entire guild's mother, which is kind of creepy considering she's also their poster girl.
• Tears of Joy: When Lisanna hugs her and Elfman right when they're visiting her grave, Mira cries in disbelief and then joy that she has her long-lost little sister back in her arms.
• The Tease: It comes with her status as an in-universe gravure model. She'll sometimes use her transformation magic to turn into other women (Lucy usually becomes the unwilling target) and makes sexy poses for the men.
• Tender Tears: In most of her emotional moments, her tears are more subdued compared to the males.
• Terrible Artist: Her drawings look like those of a kindergartener.
• Tomboy and Girly Girl: She was the tomboy to her younger sister Lisanna's girly girl back when they were younger, because she was more physically aggressive and wore boyish clothes, though this is no longer the case in the present.
• Tomboyish Ponytail: In flashbacks, she was a more brash and tomboyish Jerk with a Heart of Gold, and had a ponytail instead of her present free-flowing and up-do hairstyle.
• Unstoppable Rage: Her first use of Satan Soul after Lisanna's Disney Death was when Fried threatened to kill Elfman, pushing her past her Rage Breaking Point and giving Fried a Curb-Stomp Battle. After that, however, she exerts much more control over her transformations.
• Used to Be a Tomboy: When she was younger, Mirajane was a Perky Goth who bad-mouthed everyone and always picked fights with Erza. It comes as a shock given the gentle and feminine Team Mom she is now, though piss her off and she'll show you she can be just as vicious now as back then.
• Voluntary Shapeshifting: Her take-over magic allows her to become various demons.
• Willfully Weak: She says that when she's with others, she restrains herself to avoid causing collateral damage to her allies. So when she's separated from them, well.... This is justified, as her backstory was fleshed out in Chapter 381.
• Worf Had the Flu: While she was fighting evenly against Azuma of Grimoire Heart, she was hampered by both a lack of magical energy (as despite regaining access to her magic she still wasn't reaccustomed to consecutive uses of her Satan Soul after using it against Elfman and Evergreen earlier during their S-Class Exam match) and the ticking bomb on Lisanna having too little time for her to win in, forcing her to abandon the fight and protect Lisanna from the explosion, which knocked her out.
• Wreathed in Flames: Satan Soul: Sitri emits fire from her feet and around her body, which she can use offensively.
• You Monster!: After Mirajane used Satan Soul to defeat the demon attacking her hometown's church, the town's citizens straight-up called her a monster because they were fearful of her powers.

Laxus Dreyar

Laxus Dreyar

Voiced by: Katsuyuki Konishi, Hideyuki Hayami [young] (Japanese); Patrick Seitz, Mary Morgan [young] (English)^note Other languages: Carlos Monroy (Latin American Spanish); Patrick Béthune (French); Alessandro Budroni, Monica Vulcano [young] (Italian)

Laxus is the heir to the position of guild master, being the grandson of Makarov Dreyar and the son of the exiled wizard Ivan Dreyar. Growing up as a powerful and merciless young man who views Fairy Tail by strength alone, he has a rocky history with the guild that eventually leads to his decision to mutiny against his grandfather called the Battle of Fairy Tail. When his guildmates foil his plans, however, he is forced to confront his long-buried compassion for his family and friends. Following his temporary expulsion and a period of soul-searching, Laxus atones for his misdeeds and is eventually welcomed back into the guild.

On top of being an expert lightning wizard who can create and manipulate electricity, Laxus had a Dragon Slayer lacrima artificially implanted in his body by his father, Ivan, making him a second-generation Lightning Dragon Slayer. While he is technically a "fake" Dragon Slayer as he was not taught by a dragon, his magic is no less effective or dangerous.

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• The Ace: He's one of the absolute strongest members of the guild, so much so that the very idea of anyone besides Gildarts beating him was deemed impossible before Natsu and Gajeel finally managed to bring him down together. He gets even better after he irons out his jerkish personality, not only beating Jura (considered to be the strongest human being alive) in a fair fight, but also being the only person to defeat one of the Spriggan 12 (wizards of an even higher caliber than Jura) without direct assistance from anyone else at their full power (for reference, the only others to do that were Jellal, and Acnologia). In 100 Years Quest, he stomps the Dragon Eater Kiria and goes the distance against a serious Erza while Brainwashed and Crazy to the point despite it being a Double Knockout Erza concedes Laxus won, and later in the Labyrinth of Dogra he defeats Dragon Eaters Skullion and Madmole at the same time, with the arrogant Moon Dragon God Selene herself admitting he's a top contender for the strongest Fairy Tail has to offer. He also turns out to be quite the Chick Magnet, too.
• Adaptational Dye-Job: He has orange eyes in the manga, which are changed to bluish-gray in the anime.
• Ambition Is Evil: Laxus wants to become the guild master as soon as Makarov retires, which eventually pushes him to conspire with the Raijin Tribe and form an Evil Plan to usurp him.
• Antagonistic Offspring: A variation with his grandfather, Makarov, whose shadow he resents living under even though Makarov only wants what's best for him. That contempt only grew once Makarov expelled his own son and Laxus's dad, Ivan, even though both were fully aware Ivan is a scumbag who brought harm to their guild. He's even downright gleeful when he hears Makarov is on death's door during the Battle of Fairy Tail, as it means he'll get to be in charge and make his own name. He ultimately abandons his hatred of Makarov when he realizes he doesn't have it in his heart to do so.
• Anti-Villain: Before his Heel–Face Turn, Laxus wants to turn Fairy Tail into a guild everyone can respect. Unfortunately for the rest of the guild, this means rooting out the weaklings and/or goofballs (i.e., everyone there), and crushing anyone who talks smack about it.
• Arc Villain: He's the main antagonist of the Battle of Fairy Tail arc, where his efforts to become leader involve manipulating a battle royal between the members of his own guild by taking members of the beauty pageant hostage, and then threatening to destroy the town and hoping that Makarov surrenders the title of guild master to him.
• Arrogant Kung-Fu Guy: His dominant personality trait at the start of the series is his tendency to rub his strength in everyone's faces, and pummel those who doubt him. Getting beaten by Natsu with Gajeel's assistance is what finally brings him down to earth.
• The Atoner: After his Heel–Face Turn, Laxus returns to the guild and works hard to make amends for his actions during the Battle of Fairy Tail arc, and generally for having been an arrogant jerk.
• Badass Longcoat: He's almost always seen with a fur-lined Coat Cape, unless The Coats Are Off.
• Badass Transplant: Laxus' Dragon lacrima was implanted into his body at a young age by his father Ivan, which massively boosted his magic potential. Just how "badass" it is becomes truly apparent when 100 Years Quest reveals that Dragon lacrima is in fact the processed heart of an actual Dragon. Laxus's in particular belongs to Elexion, the deceased Yellow Dragon and Lightning/Thunder Dragon King, i.e. a Dragon who would have been on the same level as the Fire Dragon King Igneel.
• Being Evil Sucks: His plans to usurp his grandfather as Fairy Tail's guild master by conspiring with the Raijin Tribe to stage the Battle of Fairy Tail costs him his membership.
• Big Damn Heroes: Towards the end of the Sirius Island arc, Laxus helps Fairy Tail save the day when he steps in to overpower Hades on Sirius Island.
• The Big Guy: Inherited powerful levels of magic from his grandfather Makarov, and is a powerful melee fighter to boot. As such, he is typically the powerhouse of whatever team he is a part of, even managing to take down Jura, a Wizard Saint stated to be stronger than Makarov.
• Break the Haughty: He's a cocky, hot-headed wizard who often devises plans to get what he wants. For this, he gets admonished by Makarov and expelled from Fairy Tail. By the time he returns to help his friends on Sirius Island, he's learned his lesson.
• The Bus Came Back: He's completely absent following the Battle of Fairy Tail until the Sirius Island arc, where he helps Fairy Tail turn the tide against Grimoire Heart.
• Calling the Old Man Out: When he was younger, Laxus called out Makarov for kicking Ivan out of the guild, straining their relationship as a result. During the Grand Magic Games, Laxus calls on Ivan for demanding his cooperation in talking about Lumen Histoire.
• Character Development: At the beginning of the series, Laxus considers strength to be the most important thing in the world, and making sure everyone knows how strong he is. After being forced to realize that his friends are more important to him than he realizes (and getting taken down by Natsu for good measure), he leaves to do some soul-searching and comes back a much kinder, humbler man.
• Chick Magnet: He begins showing these traits quite prominently right after the Grand Magic Games, attracting a bunch of female admirers without even trying. He ends up being quite popular with the ladies once he joins Blue Pegasus during Fairy Tail's one-year disbandment, too. At the end of the original series, while giving an overview of Fairy Tail couples, Lucy includes Mira, Lissana, and Cana as potential girlfriends for him before concluding that there are "too many girl rumors" for him.
• Coat Cape: Laxus is consistently seen wearing a big, fur-laced coat over his shoulders, only discarding it during his time wandering while expelled from the guild.
• The Comically Serious: This is best shown during the scenes with the rest of the guild. Before his Heel–Face Turn, he was often off to the side ignoring everyone's wild antics. Even after mellowing out, he remains rather serious while others like Natsu are off starting a Bar Brawl or acting weird.
• The Coup: His main plan in the Battle of Fairy Tail is to have his guildmates fight each other and take over as guild master.
• A Day in the Limelight: Fairy Tail: Lightning Gods focuses entirely on Laxus and his team during their membership in Blue Pegasus.
• Discard and Draw: In 100 Years Quest, Laxus is forced to remove his dragon lacrima messily to prevent himself from being killed by the spirit of Elexion, the dragon whose heart the lacrima was made from. This in theory should remove his ability to use his Dragon Slayer Magic since the lacrima was its true source, not himself. However, Laxus is able to retain it by quickly devouring all the released magic power of Elexion from Kirin's coffin, which contained the dragon's soul and might have been included, that he just destroyed, making him a "natural" Dragon Slayer.
• Dislikes the New Guy: When Lucy first joins Fairy Tail, Laxus is dismissive of her to the point that he indirectly calls her out for inadvertently helping a guild war with Phantom Lord come into play. And like most of the other guild members, Laxus also resents Gajeel and Juvia for understandably causing Fairy Tail pain and suffering; it partially fuels his desire to forcefully usurp Makarov. Even before that, he has a poor relationship with all his guildmates except for the Raijin Tribe.
• Dub Name Change: He's called the Thunder Dragon Slayer by Kodansha, and the Lightning Dragon Slayer by Funimation, with his Dragon Slayer attacks named accordingly.
• Evil Plan: Laxus concocts a plot to have the wizards in Fairy Tail fight each other and take his grandfather's place as guild master by force.
• The Exile: Laxus goes into exile after his grandfather expels him from the guild for causing pain and suffering. Fortunately, he returns in time for the Grand Magic Games once Gildarts revokes Laxus's expulsion.
• Face Realization: After kicking many dogs and beating the crap out of Natsu and Gajeel during his stint as an Arc Villain, he decides to Rage Quit and destroy Magnolia off in one fell swoop with Fairy Law. No one is more surprised than him when no one is affected by the spell, which only affects those the caster considers in their heart of hearts to be an enemy. This revelation causes Laxus to suffer a major Villainous Breakdown rather than admit he actually cares about anybody; only when he's defeated and calms down does he finally accept it.
• Fangs Are Evil: Pronounced canines are actually a common trait among Dragon Slayers, but he did not have them until he actually started using his Dragon Slayer magic in the middle of his berserk rage against Fairy Tail.
• Fatal Flaw: Laxus has two: his first flaw is his pride and his second flaw is his wrath. While he is a fairly competent wizard who takes pride in his abilities as a Dragon Slayer, his impatience and temper got the best of him when he organized the Battle of Fairy Tail. Despite regretting what he did, it was too late, and he was expelled from the guild. The guilt-ridden look on his face says it all.
• Freudian Excuse: Laxus was a cheerful kid who loved Makarov. However, when Makarov kicked Laxus's father Ivan out of Fairy Tail for endangering his comrades, Laxus resented both his grandfather for valuing his True Companions more than his family. Since he's one of the biggest jerks in the series, who even went so far as to threaten to destroy Magnolia if Makarov didn't hand it over to him because he wanted to make Fairy Tail stronger, it's not a very good excuse. He eventually got better.
• Game-Breaking Injury: Laxus contracts a deadly concentration of Devil Particles during his fight with Tempester in the Tartaros arc. His infection is so bad that even after Porlyusica saves his life, he suffers from recurring heart attacks and violent body spasms afterward whenever he overexerts himself, which greatly hampers his effectiveness in battle against Wall Eehto. He manages to cure himself completely by tricking Wall into neutralizing a Jutsu Shiki barrier that takes the particles with it.
• Geometric Magic: Following the second Time Skip, he's learned to write jutsu-shiki just like Fried does. He uses it into tricking Wall Eehto into eliminating the Devil Particles in his body by negating the runes.
• Good Scars, Evil Scars: He has a Rugged Scar shaped like a lightning bolt across his left eye, making him look like a big, intimidating bully.
• Graceful Loser: Laxus takes his expulsion from the guild with dignity before he goes into exile.
• Hair-Trigger Temper: Laxus does not have the best temperament, being very easy to aggravate such as when his pride is insulted or if he becomes to impatient to think straight.
• Headphones Equal Isolation: Before his expulsion from the guild, he is always seen wearing headphones and is hardly ever around the rest of the guild except to mock how weak they all are. He stops wearing them starting with the Grand Magic Games after he learns to be a team player.
• Heel–Face Turn: He tries to destroy Fairy Tail from the inside out in order to remake it in his own image. After being snapped out of his obsession, however, he embraces his kindhearted nature.
• Hidden Depths: Despite his poor social skills, none of his friends ever imagined he would fit right in with the Blue Pegasus guild as a host and ladies' man after Fairy Tail disbands.
• Holy Hand Grenade: He knows how to perform Fairy Law, one of the Three Great Fairy Magics, which casts a bright light on the battlefield that attacks anyone the user sees as his enemy.
• Hulking Out: When he reveals he's a Dragon Slayer during the Battle of Fairy Tail, he immediately grows in girth complete with enlarged canines and scales appearing on his arms. This hasn't happened since.
• Identical Grandson: He looks like a tall, muscular version of young Makarov. Hades double takes when Laxus charges in, and calls Laxus "boy" which he used to call Makarov. He also bears a strong resemblance to his great-grandfather, Yuri.
• Inconsistent Spelling: The Italian dub renders his first name as "Luxus".
• Insult of Endearment: Even after his Heel–Face Turn, he still refers to Makarov as "geezer" or "old man", but any previous malice or jealousy is long gone.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Although he can be blunt with his fellow guildmates, such as Lucy, Laxus is a generally alright individual who's willing to help and empathize with others.
• Kick the Dog: After refusing to help fight Phantom Lord, he ridicules Shadow Gear for being weak enough to lose to Gajeel, and taunts Lucy about starting the guild war. Erza and Mirajane, being two of Lucy's True Companions, understandably do not react well to it.
• Lack of Empathy: Hearing about Phantom Lord's assault on Fairy Tail causes no emotional reaction or interest in helping his guildmates.
• Life-or-Limb Decision: At the climax of his fight with Kirin in 100 Years Quest, Laxus is forced to punch a hole into his own chest and rip out his dragon lacrima (aka the processed heart of the Lightning Dragon King Elexion) in order to avoid being killed and absorbed by Elexion's spirit trapped inside Kirin's magical coffin. Kirin is aghast at this, not just for the physical damage Laxus inflicted upon himself but the fact that without the lacrima Laxus would lose access to his Dragon Slayer magic. This doesn't end up a problem, however, as Laxus proceeds to devour Elexion's freed spirit/magic power from the coffin and, with a lie that ends up freezing up Kirin in place, finishes his shocked foe off.
• Light 'em Up: He knows how to perform Fairy Law which is one of the "Three Great Fairy Magics" distinct to the Fairy Tail guild.
• Light Is Not Good: He's a lightning wizard whose name comes from "lux", the Latin word for "light". He's also the Token Evil Teammate of Fairy Tail. However, he firmly becomes Light Is Good after his Heel–Face Turn.
• Lightning Bruiser: All puns aside, this guy's abilities are ridiculous. He's hard enough to hit as it is, and when things really get dicey, he can actually turn himself into lightning, which makes him ridiculously fast. He's one of the toughest sons of bitches in a guild where being tough is par for the course, and his lightning magic is ridiculously powerful. This doesn't even take into account him being a Dragon Slayer, who are already versatile fighters by default.
• Manly Tears:
  • When he is expelled, Fairy Tail gives him the send-off of a lifetime to let him know that they still consider him one of their own, causing him to cry on his way out.
  • He is rather composed following Makarov's death during the Alvarez Empire arc, not because he doesn't care, but out of respect of his grandfather's wishes. It's only after Mavis makes her own sacrifice to bring him back to life that Laxus cries, overcome with joy.
• Meaningful Name: His name is derived from "lux", a unit of measurement for light, and the Latin word for "light" itself.
• My God, What Have I Done?: After he is defeated by Natsu and Gajeel in the Kardia Cathedral; the moment he realizes his mistakes, Laxus has a guilt-ridden look on his face.
• Mythical Motifs: Dragons, as with most wielders of Dragon Slaying Magic.
• No Social Skills: He's quite lacking when it comes to talking with other people, demonstrated when he tugs on Lisanna's face and roughly pats her head to make sure she's real, seeing how she supposedly died the last time he knew her. This is likely due to him always keeping his distance from the rest of the guild for years.
• Orcus on His Throne: Justified during the Battle of Fairy Tail. No matter how much he hates Fairy Tail's reputation, he doesn't have the stomach to directly kill anyone.
• Pet the Dog: Even before learning his lesson, he did treat the Raijin Tribe with respect and had a fair amount of pride in their abilities, with them being his only friends within the guild.
• Pride: This is the reason for his rebellion, and his defining character trait before the Battle of Fairy Tail. He is overly confident in his own strength and hates seeing his guildmates make a mockery of themselves; unfortunately for Laxus, it's also his Fatal Flaw. After his return, he still has pride in his admittedly monstrous abilities, but it's majorly toned down and he no longer believes his power makes him better than everybody else.
• Psycho Electro: He's a Thunder Dragon Slayer who starts out as an arrogant and sociopathic douchebag, and later attempts to stage a mutiny against Makarov. He drops this after his Heel–Face Turn.
• Rage Quit: After overpowering Natsu and Gajeel, Laxus decides he's had enough of his battle royal and casts Fairy Law to try and destroy Magnolia. However, the spell backfires on Laxus, leading to his Villainous Breakdown.
• Ride the Lightning: He can turn himself into a bolt of lightning to dodge an attack or travel short distances.
• Self-Imposed Exile: After Fairy Tail's dissolution, Laxus once again goes into exile and joins Blue Pegasus along with the Raijin Tribe.
• Shock and Awe: On top of his abilities to create lightning bolts and turn himself into electricity, he's also a Thunder Dragon Slayer, which grants him abilities such as an electric Breath Weapon that's akin to a Wave-Motion Gun, and the power to toss a literal javelin of pure electricity.
• Smug Smiler: Before his Heel–Face Turn, there's hardly ever a scene where there isn't a shit-eating grin plastered on his face. However, he's never ever been seen with one since, and when he does.
• Smug Super: Pre-Character Development, he was a self-absorbed Jerkass but also the strongest member of the guild outside of both Makarov and Gildarts, and he made sure everyone around him knew it. Post-development has him tone it down considerably.
• The Social Darwinist: Laxus, being a Well-Intentioned Extremist, initially believes that Fairy Tail should adopt this ideal in order to become stronger, rooting out anyone who holds them back. He thus crafts the Battle of Fairy Tail around the idea of survival of the fittest, forcing his guildmates to pick each other off until only the strongest remain standing. After he's beaten by Natsu, however, he abandons this mindset entirely.
• Sore Loser: When Laxus's plans are foiled, he decides use Fairy Law to destroy Magnolia instead of losing, figuring that he should have done this the get-go and organize Fairy Tail like he wants to. Unfortunately for him, it fails because he actually didn't have the heart to kill anyone, and it only contributes to his defeat because he wastes so much magical energy casting it combined with his worsening mental state Natsu is able to bring him down.
• Super Mode: 100 Years Quest reveals the red lightning he used to defeat Wall Eehto is in fact his own power-up form: Red Lightning Dragon Mode. In this form, Laxus uses his own blood to empower and create the eponymous red lightning, which possesses properties distinct enough from regular lightning that Wall couldn't absorb it and didn't have time to build an immunity before Laxus tore him apart.
• Surpassed the Teacher: For the longest time, Laxus was motivated by a desire to become stronger than his grandfather Makarov. Ironically, it was only after he stopped caring about that did he actually succeed. By the Sirius Island arc, Laxus had grown in power to the point he could break even with Hades, a foe that earlier in the arc had completely thrashed Makarov. By the Grand Magic Games, he defeated Jura, a member of the Wizard Saints who had surpassed Makarov in power by becoming the fifth-strongest, after a hard-fought battle. By the Alvarez Empire arc, he has definitely surpassed Makarov like he always wanted before his Heel–Face Turn to by defeating Wall Eehto of Alvarez's Spriggan 12 on his own, a wizard whose power explicitly surpasses that of his grandfather.
• Tame His Anger: Before his Heel–Face Turn, whenever Laxus wasn't rubbing in his superiority over his guildmates, he was gritting his teeth in anger at how weak those same guildmates seemed to be or getting pissed at hearing others call Fairy Tail weak. When he learned Gajeel was allowed to join the guild despite his part in the guild war with Phantom Lord, he launched multiple lightning bolts at him in anger to the point Jet and Droy started getting uncomfortable and shot one at Levy when she yelled at him to stop. Finally, his anger boiled over and he started his attempted takeover, threatening to kill Natsu and Gajeel during their fight and then attempting to kill everyone in Magnolia with Fairy Law before he realized deep down he didn't have the stomach for it. After he accepts his banishment and returns, his anger is far less pronounced and is mainly aimed at anyone who would try and hurt the guild.
• The Stoic: As a result of his self-imposed exile, he has a much calmer demeanor than his loud, obnoxious bragging.
• Token Evil Teammate: Upon his introduction, he shows just how much he doesn't fit in with the rest of the guild by smugly announcing his superiority to a roomful of Fairy Tail wizards, and later refusing to help bail them out of a guild war against Phantom Lord unless they make Lucy "his woman". It's at this point that Mirajane bitterly asks how he's even a member of Fairy Tail.
• Took a Level in Jerkass: He started to slip down the path of being a jerk once Makarov expelled Ivan from Fairy Tail before the series begins.
• Took a Level in Kindness: He becomes much less of a jerkass after his Face Realization and getting beaten by Natsu, prompting him to return to help Natsu and his friends against Hades in Sirius Island.
• A Tragedy of Impulsiveness: Laxus's impatience and unwillingness to wait for Makarov's retirement turns him against Fairy Tail.
• Used to Be a Sweet Kid: His flashback reveals that Laxus was indeed a bright young lad who looked up to his grandfather and thought Fairy Tail was an amazing guild. But all of that changed when he started having to deal with people knowing him only as "the master's grandson" rather than on his own terms. Makarov expelling Ivan, his own son and Laxus's father, seemed to have been the last straw for Laxus.
• The Usurper: After he gets tired of waiting for Makarov to retire, Laxus stages the Battle of Fairy Tail to usurp his grandfather's position as guild master. It doesn't work.
• Villainous Breakdown: Laxus starts to lose it when the Raijin Tribe is defeated by the "weaklings" he looked down on. When the Thunder Palace is destroyed by the guild working together and Natsu talks down at him for underestimating them, he starts roaring as he attempts to beat Natsu into a pulp. When Fairy Law activates and fails, the implication of what that means makes him go completely berserk as he tries to kill Natsu.
• Weaksauce Weakness: Like all Dragon Slayers, he also suffers from motion sickness. While it's never been shown, he's apparently had it for a while, though he tells Mirajane not to tell Natsu.
• Well-Intentioned Extremist: A minor example. Laxus wanted to make Fairy Tail a stronger guild. Unfortunately, his plan for doing so was to take it over by force and boot out everyone who didn't meet his ideal of a powerful wizard.
• Worthy Opponent: In his own, round-about way, he considers only Natsu and Erza strong enough to fight the Raijin Tribe during the Battle of Fairy Tail. He also considers Mystogan the only member of Fairy Tail capable of standing a chance against him one-on-one. As for Gildarts, however, he's away from the guild so often that he doesn't even count in his eyes.

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Gajeel Redfox

Gajeel Redfox

Voiced by: Wataru Hatano (Japanese), David Wald (English)^note Other languages: Alfonso Obregón Inclán (Latin American Spanish); Jérémy Zylberberg (French); Christian Iansante (Italian)

Gajeel is an Iron Dragon Slayer who is capable of transforming any part of his body into a metal weapon. Frustrated after the disappearance of his dragon, Metalicana, Gajeel starts out as one of Fairy Tail's most merciless and hated rivals from the Phantom Lord guild. However, as fate would have it, he ends up joining Fairy Tail after his old guild dissolves following their guild war. Against all odds, he works past his former adversaries' resentment and suspicion, eventually proving himself a trusted ally and valued friend.

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• 11th-Hour Superpower: He gains his Iron-Shadow Dragon Mode to survive the possessed Rogue's attack in the Grand Magic Games arc. He also activates his Dragon Force by eating the iron in Bloodman's anti-magic particles in the Alvarez Empire arc.
• The Ace: It's not brought up that often in the present, but he was the most powerful wizard in Phantom Lord short of Master Jose Porla (a Wizard Saint like Makarov) himself, being considered more powerful than even the guild's Element 4, their equivalent of S-Class wizard. Even after joining Fairy Tail his battle power has consistently ranked with the top wizards of the guild.
• Aloof Ally: He is mostly this as a member of Fairy Tail, given his and his guildmates' mutual contention over what he understandably did in Phantom Lord. Even when that hostility subsides, he prefers to stick to himself just because he finds the other ungodly annoying.
• Anguished Declaration of Love: In the Alvarez Empire arc, he reveals that he reciprocates Levy's feelings as he's being Dragged Off to Hell by Bloodman. He does it mainly because he's certain it's a Dying Declaration of Love, and is mortified after Irene inadvertently rescues him with her Universe One spell, but he sticks by his word.
• Arrogant Kung-Fu Guy: He fits this bill to a tee, considering himself to be the strongest Dragon Slayer around until Natsu gets the better of him. Once that happens, Gajeel becomes quite pissed and driven to show him up every chance he gets, to the point where calling Natsu the stronger fighter ticks him off.
• The Atoner: For assaulting Fairy Tail during the guild war with Phantom Lord, Gajeel accepts Makarov's offer to join the former guild and atone for his misdeeds.
• Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever: In 100 Years Quest during the Wood Dragon God arc, he's super-sized to "mountain" levels by Brandish in order to lay a smack down on the gigantic Dragon God Aldoron and manages to do a decent level of damage. It's only a temporary Power-Up, which comes in handy when Aldoron tries to impale him on a giant wooden spike and his time limit runs out, letting the missile miss him completely.
• Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other: Gajeel describes his dragon parent Metalicana like a jerk and vocally expresses he couldn't care less what happened to him when he disappeared (a sharp contrast to Natsu obsessively looking for Igneel and Wendy practically being reduced to tears at the memory), but when they finally do reunite and start throwing barbs at each other, he's noticeably tearing up when Metalicana's time runs out and he vanishes.
• Ax-Crazy: Back when he was in Phantom Lord, he enjoyed attacking the "Fairy asses" and wrecking their guild while laughing maniacally, beat up Lucy far more than necessary while she was taken hostage, and had a habit of pulverizing his own guild mates if they even slightly annoyed him (like taking issue with the aforementioned violence toward Lucy). He later gets toned down into an Anti-Hero Blood Knight.
• Badass Longcoat: His outfits may vary, but almost all of them turn out to be this. He gets an even more impressive one after the second Time Skip as The Captain of the Magic Council's Detention Enforcement Unit.
• Badasses Wear Bandanas: He wears a bandana on occasion, such as the Grand Magic Games arc.
• Barbarian Longhair: He has long, wild hair to match his violent personality.
• Battle Couple: He and Levy first become this during their partnership for the S-Class exam, sticking together for a few of their battles that follow, including Torafuzar from Tartaros and Bloodman from the Alvarez Empire.
• Belligerent Sexual Tension: He gets a ton of this with Levy, though it's understandable there would be some tension between them since he brutalized her as a war call for Fairy Tail.
• BFS: One of his Dragon Slayer Secret Arts, Karma Demon: Iron God Sword, produces a massive sword that he swings on his target. In the anime, it's so big that it towers over the treetops!
• Big Brother Instinct: Given his rather aggressive relationship with Natsu, it's worth noting that he never acts this way with Wendy. He's comforted her when she was upset on several occasions.
• The Big Guy: His Iron Dragon Slayer Magic and melee prowess made him one of Phantom Lord's toughest and most savage fighters. He mellows out a bit after joining Fairy Tail, but still remains a heavy hitter for whatever team he belongs to.
• Blade Below the Shoulder: A standard attack for him is his Iron Dragon's Sword, which turns his arm into a sword. He takes it up to Chainsaw Good in the anime.
• Blood Knight: He's eager to start a war with Fairy Tail in the Phantom Lord arc, and relishes every moment he gets to fight. He never quite shakes off his thirst for battle after joining Fairy Tail, making himself Levy's partner during the S-Class trial on Sirius Island mainly for the chance to beat everyone else up, much to her annoyance.
• Breath Weapon: His Iron Dragon's Roar is a whirlwind of metal shrapnel that skewers his target.
• Can't Catch Up: Played with. He feels he's far behind the other Dragon Slayers, and it indeed takes him longer to get the staple features such as an Exceed partner and motion sickness (which, while far from a benefit, is stated to only plague highly developed Dragon Slayers). In the end, however, he more or less stands on equal footing with the others, even achieving Dragon Force after absorbing Bloodman's anti-magic particles.
• The Captain: After the second Time Skip, he becomes head of one of the Magic Council's Detention Enforcement Units. He lets the position get to his head even after rejoining Fairy Tail, flaunting his authority over his guildmates.
• Casting a Shadow: His Iron-Shadow Dragon Mode, gained after eating Rogue's shadows in the Grand Magic Games, allows him to shroud his attacks in shadow and makes him an Intangible Man.
• Character Development: He starts out as a merciless Blood Knight who serves as Jose's second-in-command and is willing to cause havoc on friend and foe alike. After joining Fairy Tail following Phantom Lord's demise, however, he becomes a Jerk with a Heart of Gold while proving that he is at least willing to make amends for his misdeeds. While still a jerk, he's considerably more affable, and he fully adopts Fairy Tail's philosophies.
  • In 100 Years Quest, Gajeel's pride and Blood Knight tendencies are more restrained than in the original series. This is perhaps best shown in his rematch against God Serena. Rather than try to get vengeance for the Curb-Stomp Battle he suffered, Gajeel instead swipes the MacGuffin Serena was carrying and allows him to leave thinking he's won.
• Characterization Marches On: Phantom Lord Gajeel is a remorseless thug who goes out of his way to hurt people. After joining Fairy Tail, Gajeel is established as a Jerk with a Heart of Gold who is deeply loyal to his guild.
• Chrome Champion: His Iron Dragon's Scales completely cover his body, giving an added layer of Super-Toughness.
• Curb-Stomp Battle:
  • He curb-stomped Shadow Gear when Phantom Lord launched a full-scale assault on Fairy Tail. But he found himself on the receiving end of one when he faced Natsu after the latter recharged himself on a bunch of fire after their long brutal fight.
  • In 100 Years Quest, he gets absolutely bodied by God Serena in the Labyrinth of Dogra when he tries to fight the former Wizard Saint head-on. In the end, he has to settle for a sneak attack to deny his foe the prize he sought.
• Dark Is Not Evil: Well, it is at first, since he begins as little more than a violent savage dressed in black. Once he joins Fairy Tail, he becomes much kinder and more protective, even if he never quite shakes off all of his old tendencies.
• A Day in the Limelight: Gajeel is the main protagonist of Fairy Tail: Rhodonite, which delves further into his backstory before joining Phantom Lord.
• Death Glare: He's very good at making a bone-chilling glare whenever he's pissed. He is even said to have that "evil look" in his eyes when he was still a kid.
• Death Seeker: It's eventually revealed in the Alvarez Empire arc that his troubled past still has a tight grip around his neck, so he's been looking forward to the day when he can finally die, preferably by fighting for his loved ones. He assures Levy that it was just a comeback to Bloodman's death threats, so he might have been lying.
• Defeat Means Friendship: Averted; he remains hostile with Fairy Tail after losing to them in the Phantom Lord arc, and is still sore about the whole thing when he joins the guild. It isn't until his new friends start rubbing off on him that he starts to ease up.
• The Dragon: Not only is he literally called a Dragon Slayer, he was Jose's right-hand man and most dangerous subordinate during the Phantom Lord arc.
• The Dreaded: During his career as a S-Class wizard of Phantom Lord, he was widely recognized and feared as the strongest and most threatening fighter of the entire guild (even more than the Element Four).
• Dreadful Musician: A Running Gag in the series is that any much anticipated Fanservice show with the Fairy Tail ladies will be canceled and replaced by Gajeel doing a terrible lounge act. Oddly enough, both Wataru Hatano and David Wald are decent singers in real-life.
• Elemental Armor: As the Iron Dragon Slayer, Gajeel can coat parts of or his whole body with his Iron Dragon's Scales, which he boasts is far stronger than ordinary iron.
• Emerald Power: His magic has a green aura, and is as much a force to be reckoned with as the other Dragon Slayers.
• Evil Counterpart: He is originally Natsu's counterpart; both are Dragon Slayers, but while Natsu uses his power to protect his friends, Gajeel flaunts it and doesn't care who he hits in the process. Thanks to some Character Development, however, they turn out to be similar.
• Extra-ore-dinary: Gajeel's Dragon Slayer magic revolves around the element of iron. This gives him to the ability to shapeshift parts of his body into metal weapons like clubs and swords, cover his entire body in iron-hard scales, and use of a tornado of metal shrapnel as a Breath Weapon. He can also eat iron and metal to recover stamina.
• Fake Defector: Shortly after joining Fairy Tail, Gajeel infiltrates Raven Tail as a double agent on Makarov's orders to see what their plans are.
• Fangs Are Evil: All Dragon Slayers have fangs, but Gajeel comes closest to playing it in this direction due to his Jerk with a Heart of Gold and Sociopathic Hero nature.
• Fling a Light into the Future: Like the other Dragon Slayers who were raised by dragons, Gajeel was an orphan born 400 years in the past who was brought up with the potential to slay Acnologia, and then sent through Eclipse to an era when the world's magic energy would be at its most abundant (i.e., the present). Unfortunately, the plan went wrong and the Dragon Slayers were separated, with Gajeel eventually winding up as an enemy to the other Dragon Slayers.
• Forgiven, but Not Forgotten: By the time of Phantom Lord's demise, Fairy Tail has accepted Gajeel's redemption but they're still unnerved by his horrific deeds as Phantom Lord's most powerful wizard. This gets thrown out the window in the aftermath of the Battle of Fairy Tail.
• Forgotten First Meeting: He was actually raised by the dragons and Anna alongside Natsu, Wendy, Sting, and Rogue when they were children. However, getting sent through Eclipse at such a young age ended up messing with his memories so he could only remember Metalicana.
• The Friend Nobody Likes: After joining Fairy Tail, almost everyone has expressed understandable dismay about how his actions in the guild war, which left pain and suffering among the guild members. Around the time of Laxus's expulsion, however, most of this resentment is thrown out of the window.
• Goth: His taste in clothing mixes this with a few punk elements. For bonus points, even his powers correspond to the many piercings that he has.
• Green and Mean: His magic power tends to be depicted as green-colored in the anime, and he is one of the more destructive and violent members of the guild, post-Heel–Face Turn included.
• Heel–Face Turn: He joins Fairy Tail after Phantom Lord's demise. It especially comes as a shock to Natsu's team, since Gajeel swore he'd be back for revenge the last time they saw him, only to suddenly find him fighting for the home team, as it were.
• Hellish Pupils: He has slitted reptilian eyes, a staple of any Dragon Slayer.
• Hidden Depths: He's a muscle-bound and bloodthirsty warrior who enjoys ripping others to shreds. He's also a talented jazz songwriter, with only half the talent in singing and playing. He also shows some completely unexpected chops as a law enforcer when he becomes captain of the Magic Council's custody unit, to the point where his old friends think he's an impostor.
• I'm Taking Him Home with Me!: He becomes driven to get a cat companion (Exceed) of his own upon realizing the other Dragon Slayers have one. He even says this when he meets Panther Lily.
• Inconsistent Spelling: The Italian dub renders his first name as "Gajil".
• Innocently Insensitive: Since he's clearly not the most thoughtful and delicate guy around, he tends to inadvertently say some hurtful things to Levy, particularly regarding her size.
• Inspector Javert: Played for Laughs. After becoming captain of the Magic Council's custody unit, Gajeel decides to arrest Natsu and his friends for reasons that range from somewhat justified (Natsu for resisting authority and Lucy for indecent exposure) to downright silly (Juvia for being "criminally drenched" and Wendy...just because). It's taken a bit more seriously with Gray, whom he's fully prepared to bring the hammer down on for being a part of Avatar despite being a former friend of his. Even after learning that Gray was The Mole, Gajeel doesn't plan to let him off lightly for playing a part in Avatar's schemes.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He may have been a complete jerk who brutally attacks both friend and foe alike without a care in the world, but he decides to atone for his misdeeds once Phantom Lord is defeated and becomes a good-hearted person.
• Kung-Fu Wizard: Just like Natsu, Gajeel is a Dragon Slayer who specializes almost exclusively in hand-to-hand combat.
• Lightning Bruiser: He's impressively fast for someone who specializes in iron magic, and he hits like a tank. His Iron-Shadow Dragon Mode only makes him that much faster, allowing him to move faster than the human eye.
• Meaningful Name: The name "Gajeel" (Gajiru) comes from gaji-gaji, the Japanese onomatopoeia for biting and gnawing. And as revealed in Rhodonite, the surname Redfox is actually a name he got when he grew up, referring to his past as a Street Urchin.
• Metallic Motifs: Iron, being tough and dangerous to those in his way, but can slowly warm up to others with prolonged exposure.
• Metal Muncher: As an Iron Dragon Slayer, Gajeel can eat anything made of iron or any other metal, whether it's raw or refurbished.
• Mundane Utility: Usually he transforms his arms into swords or clubs to fight with, but he has also been seen using them as shovels, pick axes, and hammers whenever he is doing construction work.
• My Kung-Fu Is Stronger Than Yours: He and Natsu get into petty squabbles whenever they learn new yet similar abilities. Hilariously in the Tartaros arc, they wind up landing a finishing blow to each other while showing off their Iron-Shadow Dragon and Thunder-Fire Dragon Modes, respectively.
• Mythical Motifs: Dragons, being raised by a Metal Dragon and wielding magic based off it's abilities.
• Never Got to Say Goodbye: Gajeel was raised by Council member Belno after Metalicana disappeared on him, but he was so rowdy that he never had a decent conversation with her. When he finds her killed by Tartaros seven years later, he regrets never being able to thank her for the trouble she went through looking after him.
• Nice Mean And In Between: The meanest (brutal, anti-heroic, and an initial enemy of Fairy Tail) of Fairy Tail's three Dragon Slayers, compared to the nice Wendy and in-between Natsu. Unlike most examples, however, he's a good person at heart and is even kind to Wendy at times.
• Nigh-Invulnerability: His Iron Dragon's Scales are virtually impenetrable, taking serious Armor-Piercing Attacks or going up against even harder armor to make a dent. Getting his iron refortified into steel by the carbon in Torafuzar's Hell's Darkness curse makes it even tougher.
• No Brows: Gajeel has metal studs in place of eyebrows. A drunken Levy pokes fun at him for it in the Christmas omake.
• No-Sell: His iron lungs can filter out the toxin in anti-magic particles used by Etherious, which are otherwise lethal to ordinary wizards.
• Not So Above It All: He is initially shown as a purely vicious and intimidating character, and has no interest in being friends with anyone. But when he's encouraged to at least make an effort, he whips out a tacky suit and starts playing a terrible rock ballad, the first of many indicators that he fits right in with the guild.
• Official Couple: With Levy. It becomes a curious case because before his Heel–Face Turn one of his first victims is Levy, and she has the worst of it, but after he joins Fairy Tail he becomes more protective of her than anyone else in the guild. Now he is even the father of her baby.
• Older Than They Look: Gajeel is initially suggested to be older than 80 when he's unable to pass a barrier that prevents anyone of that age from crossing during the Battle of Fairy Tail, even though he looks to be in his early 20s at the oldest. However, Mashima officially revealed this to be a Red Herring in the "Explain the Mysteries of Fairy Tail" section of Volume 15, where he suggested something else besides his age was at work. It's all but stated later on to be because of Metalicana, who was sealed inside Gajeel's body at the time.
• One Head Taller: He's often paired up Levy, who's tiny enough for him to use her head as an elbow rest.
• Other Me Annoys Me: Averted, he is one of the few people to get along with his Edolas counterpart, who is a well-dressed Guile Hero, and instead work together in a very effect Brains and Brawn pairing. It helps that they share a love of the same music and rather humorously see each other as they perceive themselves.
• Papa Wolf: To his unborn child in 100 Years Quest. When the alchemist Sai uses his Love Bond to transform Gajeel into Levy, Gajeel is pissed not just because Levy's body could be hurt but also their child, which causes him to unhesitatingly and in a rage bludegon Sai with a massive Solid Script: Iron spell.
• Parental Abandonment: Just like Natsu and Wendy, Gajeel was raised by a dragon who up and vanished seven years ago. Unlike those two, however, he couldn't care less where he went. Also just like those two, it turns out Metalicana was sealed within him the entire time.
• Pitbull Dates Puppy: Gajeel is a rough and violent Blood Knight who gets paired up with Levy, a short, sweet, and friendly Cute Bookworm.
• Police Are Useless: Downplayed somewhat during his stint as a Rune Knight, as he does manage to successfully arrest the members of Avatar, but much like the previous Council, he doesn't show up until after the battle has more or less already been won by Team Natsu.
• Red Baron: He is known as "Kurogane", which means "Black Steel". It's a Non-Indicative Name, however, since his magic is neither black nor steel. That changes in the Tartaros arc when he gets a magic upgrade that refurbishes his iron into steel, and in the Alvarez Empire arc when he finally achieves Dragon Force, turning his body into black metal.
• Redemption Demotion: In Phantom Lord, he is regarded as the one wizard who beats out the Element 4, his guild's equivalent to S-Class membership. In Fairy Tail, he loses that rank and is even passed over for the S-Class promotional exam, with the rationale that he's "not ready yet". Given his level of power, however, this hardly remains an issue for him.
• Reformed, but Rejected: After joining Fairy Tail around the time of Phantom Lord's demise, the guild members are understandably unwilling to forgive him for demolishing their first guildhall, injuring Shadow Gear and ultimately causing them pain and suffering. That starts to change when he takes a hit for Levy when she pisses off Laxus, one of her own guildmates. In time, any apprehension surrounding his membership is hardly ever brought up again.
• The Mole: At first he seems to be spying on Fairy Tail from within on behalf of Raven Tail's master and Makarov's son, Ivan, during the Battle of Fairy Tail arc. This is subverted when he reports his findings on Ivan to Makarov at the end of the arc, revealing him to be on Fairy Tail's side.
• The Rival: He quickly becomes one for Natsu upon their first confrontation in the Phantom Lord arc. After that arc, however, their rivalry quickly gets Out of Focus and is typically Played for Laughs whenever it is brought up.
• Sarcasm-Blind: The entire reason he became captain of the Magic Council's custody enforcement unit is because he took Warrod's joking suggestion much too seriously.
• Shapeshifter Weapon: He can transform his body parts into iron weapons, including pillars, swords, hammers, lances, and drills.
• Ship Tease: He starts getting this with Levy in the Sirius Island arc, despite having a contentious first impression in the Phantom Lord arc. Eventually they become an Official Couple, and are even implied to be expecting a baby in the ending. Confirmed now in Fairy Tail: 100 Years Quest.
• Sixth Ranger: Like Juvia, Gajeel is a main character like the Strongest Team, as he often fights beside them, which is especially prominent during the Edolas arc where he is the only other member of Fairy Tail to not be out of action throughout the arc aside from the Strongest Team and Mystogan; in the same arc, he, Natsu and Wendy end up fighting and defeating the Arc Villain Faust as a trio.
• Slasher Smile: He grew up a bloodthirsty, borderline evil Dragon Slayer, so almost every time he smiles is bound to be this.
• Sleeves Are for Wimps: His arms are always bared to show off his muscled arms.
• Spam Attack: His Iron Dragon's Lance: Demon Logs turns his arm into a large spearhead, from which a large number of steel spears are fired towards his target in rapid succession.
• Stealth Pun: His Dual Element Dragon Mode fits in quite well the name of Levy's team "Shadow Gear".
• Super-Senses: Like any Dragon Slayer, Gajeel has a heightened sense of smell and hearing.
• Super-Strength: He can swing around his building-sized BFS with ease, and during the battle against King Faust's giant dragon robot Dorma Anim he pinned it down on his own to set up Natsu's finishing blow.
• Sword and Sorcerer: Gajeel is the sword to Levy's sorcerer. Although he's a magic-user as well, he's more of a Kung-Fu Wizard who specializes in using Shapeshifter Weapons.
• Tall, Dark, and Snarky: A fairly mild example when it comes to the snark, but he does have his moments when gawking at his friends, especially Natsu. He's definitely tall and dark, though.
• Token Evil Teammate: Even after joining Fairy Tail and being marginally accepted, he still remains the guild's resident Ax-Crazy Blood Knight. He later moves away from this thanks to Character Development.
• Vague Age: His official profile leaves his age unknown, and it is never confirmed throughout the series, but he would approximately be the same age as Natsu. While he is initially suggested to be be over 80 years old (perhaps even older),^note During the Battle of Fairy Tail, he finds himself unable to cross a barrier designed to keep people at the minimum age of 80 from crossing the Q&A section of Volume 15 confirmed that this was not the case.
• Weaksauce Weakness: Like Natsu, all Dragon Slayers suffer from crippling motion sickness when riding any form of transportation. Gajeel notes that he never used to have this problem until the Grand Magic Games, where Sting comments that it is a mark of a true Dragon Slayer.
• Would Hit a Girl: Fairy Tail's war with Phantom Lord starts with Gajeel beating Levy and her friends half-to-death. He also completely wails on Lucy while holding her hostage in the same story arc, which was exaggerated from the manga where he threw knives at her head to intimidate her instead.
• You Can't Go Home Again: With Eclipse's destruction after the X791 Grand Magic Games, Gajeel is unable to return to his original timeline along with the other Dragon Slayers who were sent to the present.
• You Remind Me of X: His foster mother, Councilor Belno, used to say that Gajeel reminded her of her dead son.

Panther Lily

Panther Lily

Voiced by: Hiroki Tochi (Japanese), Rick Keeling (English)^note Other languages: Antoine Tomé (French); Emiliano Coltorti (Italian)

^{Click here to see his battle form}

Panther Lily is an Exceed who was born and raised in Edolas. Banished from his home after aiding an injured human, Mystogan, he turned against his kind as Commander of the Edolas Royal Military's 1st Magical Warfare Division. After he and Gajeel gain their mutual respect in battle, Lily joins Fairy Tail as the Dragon Slayer's partner. He is abnormally large for an Exceed while in Edolas, and he can use Aera to fly like the rest of his kind. He assumes a much smaller form after traveling to Earth-land, though he can undergo a Battle Mode Shift to temporarily return to his original form.

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• Action Pet: He is this to Gajeel. While the other Dragon Slayers have talking, winged cats as pets, Gajeel has one that can turn into a gigantic humanoid panther who wields a BFS.
• Anti-Villain: After his exile from Extalia, he aids Faust's plan to bestow a limitless supply of magic to his kingdom. However, that plan involves destroying both Fairy Tail and his own kind, and he's partially motivated by hatred towards his own kind.
• BFS: The maximum length of his Bustermarm's blade is four times his own size. The Musica Sword is similarly gigantic.
• Badass Adorable: Downplayed. Although he's most capable in his Battle Mode, he still commands a lot of respect in his Sleep-Mode Size.
• Boomerang Bigot: He is an Exceed who came to resent his own kind for exiling him over something as small as aiding an injured human.
• Category Traitor: Panther Lily is considered a traitor to the Exceeds because he dared to bring the dying Mystogan to Extalia for medical attention.
• Cats Are Magic: He can transform into a humanoid form and wield a humongous blade in combat alongside his fellow wizards.
• The Comically Serious: He's one of the most serious and dutiful members of Fairy Tail, yet it's hard to take him seriously in his Sleep-Mode Size.
• Dark Is Not Evil: Has dark fur and is the most intimidating looking Exceed upon his introduction. But even at his worst he was a Noble Demon and in his backstory was willing to face exile if it meant saving a child.
• Defector from Decadence: When he rescued Mystogan from certain death, he was charged with treason for bringing a human to Extalia and exiled due to the Exceed's irrational hatred towards humans. Lily became a Fallen Hero and joined the Edolas Army at least partially because he wanted to exact revenge on the "kingdom of lies", though he admits that deep down he could never truly hate Extalia. Seeing his kind work together to save Extalia—which he thought they'd never do—is what triggers his Heel–Face Turn.
• Early Installment Character-Design Difference: He initially sports a mohawk in his first appearance without his helmet, but it's removed in his very next appearance with no explanation.
  • In the first anime series, he's shown wearing shoes. From the second series onwards, he's barefoot.
• The Exile: He was exiled from Extalia after bringing the injured Mystogan to their kingdom, let alone refusing to leave him for dead. This contributes to his Face–Heel Turn.
• Face–Heel Turn: After Panther Lily was exiled from his homeland, he joined the Edolas Army to bring down his own kind.
• Fallen Hero: He was once a beloved knight from Extalia who turned into an Affably Evil army commander seeking revenge against his own kind.
• Fear of Thunder: He trembles at the mere mention of thunder, holding his ears down whenever there's a lightning storm.
• Fluffy the Terrible: The largest, most powerful Exceed in the series goes by the name Lily.
• Freudian Excuse: Even though he joined the Edolas Army to exact revenge on Extalia for his banishment, it still doesn't excuse his actions as the fall of Extalia would have involved a number of innocent exceeds like Happy's parents as casualties.
• Friend to All Children: Rather subtle, but it's there. He saved a very young Mystogan's life and lived with him afterwards, gets along very well with Wendy, is at times seen accompanying Alzack and Bisca's daughter Asuka, and is adored by Coco.
• Fun Size: His Sleep-Mode Size is much smaller and cuter than his rugged humanoid form. Gajeel, despite picking him for being bigger and stronger than Natsu and Carla, isn't at all put off by this, to the shock of his friends.
• Gender-Blender Name: Especially since he's called Lily more often than his full name.
• Genius Bruiser: Unlike Gajeel, Lily takes the time to study his opponent before rushing straight into battle.
• Grin of Audacity: He picks up this trait from Gajeel, even mimicking his trademark laugh.
• Heel–Face Turn: It starts when he witnesses his own change their ways and attempt to rescue their country, motivating him to abandon his resentment. He is also impressed by Gajeel's determination to save his own guild that he joins Fairy Tail as his partner.
• Heroic Build: His Battle Mode is extremely well-toned.
• Hero with Bad Publicity: The Exceeds in Extalia distrust him ever since he brought Mystogan to their land to heal him.
• Heterosexual Life-Partners: He becomes very good friends with Gajeel, remaining by his side after Fairy Tail's dissolution, and is as heartbroken as Levy when he appears to be Dragged Off to Hell by Bloodman.
• Inconsistent Spelling: Funimation typically spells his name as one word, "Pantherlily". Also in Japanese, the two parts of his name are initially separated by an interpunct, though this is dropped over time.
• In-Series Nickname: He's most commonly just called "Lily" by his allies.
• It's Personal: He helps Faust's plan to destroy the Exceed out of revenge for being exiled by his kind.
• Made of Iron: After training with Gajeel for three months, he somehow manages to resist searing acid that can melt through solid rock.
• Meaningful Name: He is a magical cat who resembles a panther.
• Morality Pet: He serves as one to Gajeel, who becomes even less of an Ax-Crazy Jerk with a Heart of Gold with him around.
• Muscles Are Meaningful: Is rather bulky in his battle form, moreso than any other Exceed, and is a very capable fighter, managing to go toe-to-toe with Gajeel in their first encounter.
• Mythology Gag: The Musica Sword he picks up from a Grimoire Heart Mook is named after the Musica blacksmith family from Rave Master.
• Non-Human Sidekick: He becomes one to Gajeel, who was desperate to have a talking, flying cat of his own just like Natsu and Wendy.
• Not So Above It All: There's moments where he joins in the antics of his eccentric guildmates.
• Not So Stoic: Gajeel manages to break through to the Blood Knight underneath in their fight, judging by Lily's smile. Also, he's afraid of thunder.
• Only Sane Man: He's absolutely bewildered by the guild's antics. Lampshaded when Erza says she's impressed by his maturity, and he remarks that it's only because everyone else is immature.
• Perpetual Frowner: He's constantly frowning by default.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: He's the calmer and more methodical Blue to Gajeel's wild and reckless Red.
• Redemption Demotion: He has become much less effective in fights since his Heel–Face Turn, mostly because of the limited amount of time he can spend in his battle form since coming to Earth-land. However, this becomes less of a problem as he trains to remain in his battle form for longer periods of time.
• Retractable Weapon: His Bustermarm is a BFS that can extend up to four times his own size. Once that's destroyed, he replaces it with the Musica Sword, which can not only grow just like the Bustermarm, but can also shrink to fit his Sleep-Mode Size.
• The Rival: The anime-only Key of the Starry Heavens arc gives him one in Samuel, a fellow Exceed with the same Sizeshifter ability as him. After each of their fights, Samuel gradually evolves into a Friendly Enemy, and eventually a FriendlyRival.
• Rugged Scar: Has a small scar at the top of his eye and is the most badass of the Exceed.
• Scary Black Man: He has black fur and, in his human-sized form, he has an intimidating presence.
• Sizeshifter: He can change at will from his regular form to the much larger and more combat-oriented Battle Mode.
• Sleep-Mode Size: The normally human-sized Lily is reduced to a tiny, adorable form more common for an Exceed in Earth-land, which becomes his default form between battles.
• The Stoic: He stands among the serious members of the Fairy Tail guild.
• Trademark Favorite Food: He has a fondness for kiwis, according to his profile. The anime shows him gushing over them, which amuses Happy and Carla to no end.
• Vocal Dissonance: He keeps his low voice in his Sleep-Mode Size.
• Voluntary Shapeshifting: After going to Earth-land, he gains the ability to temporarily transform into his hulking regular body for limited amounts of time, with all of his strength and sword fighting skills intact.
• Winged Humanoid: He can use Aera in his Battle Mode.
• Worthy Opponent: He became impressed with Gajeel's powers and fighting style during their battle in Edolas, and agreed to join Fairy Tail as his companion once he renounced his loyalty to Faust.
• You Can't Go Home Again: Along with Happy, Carla, and all the other Exceed living on Extalia, he can't return to Edolas after being sent through the reversed Anima portal, separating him from Mystogan and Coco.

Juvia Lockser

Juvia Lockser

See her separate character page.

Cana Alberona

Cana Alberona

Voiced by: Eri Kitamura (Japanese), Jamie Marchi (English)^note Other languages: Annabelle Roux (French); Ana Lobo (Latin American Spanish), Paola Majano (Italian)

Cana is the guild's resident alcoholic, capable of drinking entire barrel-fulls of booze at a time. She's also the daughter of Gildarts Clive. She is a practitioner of Card Magic, which she uses to cast a variety of spells and read fortunes. Joining Fairy Tail at a young age to search for Gildarts after her mother's death, she has been at the guild longer than any members of her generation, and never fails to get along with anybody.

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• The Alcoholic: She's extremely addicted to alcohol, drinking up to 30 percent of Fairy Tail's total alcohol by herself, and has no desire to stop. This is mostly Played for Laughs since despite how much she drinks, she only gets tipsy and not actually drunk and gets Suddenly Sober if the situation becomes serious.
• All for Nothing: She spends 12 years trying to become an S-Class wizard and tell Gildarts that she's her daughter. In the end, her fifth S-Class exam on Sirius Island is canceled when Grimoire Heart arrives, she abandons Lucy to complete her exam, and when she reaches Mavis's grave, she realizes that her efforts were for naught. Though she does manage to confess to Gildarts who she is anyway.
• Ambiguously Bi: While Cana has mentioned being interested with boys, she also makes a habit of groping and flirting with her fellow female guildmates rather often, especially Lucy after the two became close. She also seemed to enjoy Flare cleaning every nook and cranny of her body with her hair.
• Big Damn Heroes: After realizing her own idiocy in continuing the S-Class exam on Sirius Island, Cana rushes back to her allies and uses Mavis's powers to help them defeat Grimoire Heart. Too bad it ends up as a Negated Moment of Awesome
• Boisterous Bruiser: Not as strong as some of the other members of the guild, but she's always ready for a fight and responds to Natsu's challenges often.
• Buxom Beauty Standard: Her ample bust often gets her the attention of the opposite sex, especially since she's always wearing revealing tops that emphasize her chest.
• Cannot Spit It Out: Deconstructed. She spent twelve whole years unable to tell Gildarts she is his daughter not only because she was far too soft-spoken and timid as a little girl, but also because he would always set out on a job for months at a time almost as soon as he came to visit. It reached the point where she believed she had to become an S-Class wizard just to muster the courage to tell him, but four consecutive failures only made it that much worse. Eventually, she finally tells him until the fifth exam is canceled.
• Cards of Power: Cana is capable of using her cards to create magical explosions, water geysers, scantily-dressed women, and at least once uses them to put a person to sleep.
• Cerebus Retcon: Her hard-drinking habits are mostly Played for Laughs until it's revealed in the Sirius Island arc that she took up drinking after failing her S-Class exam four consecutive times.
• Chekhov's Skill: After several failed and/or non-combative uses, she casts Fairy Glitter to destroy the crystal containing Mavis's body in the Alvarez Empire arc, bringing her back to life.
• Commonality Connection: She had a crush on Macao because he could keep up with her drinking, and she cared enough about his opinion that she even slowed down on the alcohol when he requested it. But then she found out he got a new girlfriend, which ended her crush and she started to drink twice as hard.
• Death Dealer: When not using her cards to cast spells, she throws them like shurikens.
• Determinator: She never backs down from a fight, even against stronger opponents.
• Easily Forgiven: Despite abandoning Lucy in the middle of Fairy Tail's war with Grimoire Heart, Lucy takes it all in stride since she knew what was at stake for her.
• Failure Knight: She has tried the S-Class test four times before the series began, but never succeeded, causing some serious self-esteem issues. Her fifth exam is cancelled before it can be finished, but by then, she manages to get over it.
• Fortune Teller: Her magic also gives her the ability to predict future events. As shown in the anime, she took it up to predict when her father would return to the guild.
• Giving the Sword to a Noob: She gets Fairy Glitter for a short-time loan in the Sirius Island arc, and only because she finds Mavis' grave before the others in time of need. Then it turns out that even with that magic in her possession, she's incapable of using it correctly, and is swiftly defeated with Bluenote, who lampshades this trope. Later, however, she manages to get a better handle on it for the Grand Magic Games.
• Godiva Hair: Her hair conveniently covers her lady parts whenever she's in the guild bathhouse.
• Good Bad Girl: She's a heavy drinker and partier, but is still a good-hearted and heroic member of Fairy Tail.
• Hard-Drinking Party Girl: Cana's responsible for 30% of the consumption of alcoholic drinks in the guild, and started drinking twice as much ever since her bottle buddy Macao got a new girlfriend. In fact, she so exemplifies the rowdy, crass, alcohol-lover that her Edolas opposite is a well-spoken, modestly dressed lady who never ever drinks alcohol.
• Heroic BSoD: She falls into a brief one after she realizes that she abandoned Lucy and her friends in favor of continuing the S-Class exam.
• Hidden Depths: According to Mavis, despite relying on a kind of Holder-type magic many would consider weak, she has an immense amount of latent magic power inherited from her father, which allows her to use the ultra-powerful Fairy Glitter once she gets a good handle on it. She also frequently notices things amiss when her friends somehow seem off, such as when she discovers Elfman's brainwashing after he supposedly gave up on trying to save Lisanna in the Tartaros arc.
• Idiot Ball: She grips it during the Sirius Island arc, acting as if the S-Class exam is still going on while her guildmates are under attack. Fortunately, she manages to come to her senses.
• Inconsistent Spelling: Several official Japanese sources, as well as the Italian translations, write her name out as "Kana". However, the official English translations of the manga and anime spell it as "Cana".
• Informed Ability: According to Mashima, Cana still ranks somewhere between the third and fourth place as the strongest female wizard of the guild (obviously after Mirajane and Erza) despite taking away her ability to use Fairy Glitter spell, that she can only use when Mavis grants her the power to do it (not to mention the way she struggles to control it and give it the right strength), it is very difficult to believe that she can be considered not only a peer but perhaps even superior than wizards like Juvia and Evergreen. Also Wendy and Lucy in the end of the manga, with all the power-ups they've reached and earned, they are clearly a lot more badass than her. Even Bisca and Laki, despite their background role, seem stronger than Cana both before and after the first Time Skip (also having had 7 years to train while Team Sirius was frozen in time is a factor to consider). Not to mention the fact that she always failed every S-Class promotion exam in which she participated. Though if she was ranked by the time Lucy first joined the guild and Evergreen was on a mission the whole time, then it may be justified.
• It's All About Me: She falls into this during the Sirius Island when she abandons Lucy in the middle of Grimoire Heart's attack just so she can get to Mavis' grave. Thankfully she snaps out of it and goes to help out.
• Jerkass Realization: She hits one when she realizes that she abandoned her friends on Sirius Island to continue the S-Class exam despite everything that's going on.
• The Lad-ette: She's the heaviest drinker in Fairy Tail, and she's always eager to fight. She also occasionally speaks in masculine Japanese.
• Light 'em Up: Her strongest spell is Fairy Glitter, one of the Three Great Fairy Magics alongside Fairy Law and Fairy Sphere, and one of the heaviest-hitting spells in the series that can vanquish virtually any enemy in a ray of light. While she originally could only use the spell if Mavis lends it to her, by the time of the Alvarez arc and 100 Year Quest, she can use the spell at will, implying Mavis must have granted it to her permanently.
• Luke, You Are My Father: Her motivation for becoming an S-Class wizard is to tell Gildarts that he is her father, because she thinks standing on equal footing with him will give her the confidence she needs to do so. Once she realizes she doesn't need to achieve the rank, she tells him all the same.
• Meaningful Name: Her name comes from the Major "Arcana" tarot cards, fitting for a card wizard.
• Missing Mom: Her mother, Cornelia, died when Cana was only six, leading her to seek out her wandering father, Gildarts.
• Ms. Fanservice: She's one of the secondary characters that most often gets played for fanservice, due to her curvy figure and revealing outfits.
• My God, What Have I Done?: She abandons Lucy and Fairy Tail on Sirius Island in favor of passing the S-Class exam, which she fully well knew was suspended for a life-or-death battle against Grimoire Heart. When she reaches Mavis's grave, her abandonment haunts her to the point that she says the trope name almost verbatim and returns to the fray, no longer caring about being an S-Class wizard.
• Never Gets Drunk: Played With. She can get tipsy, but it almost never actually affects her combat performance and it's completely at odds with her inhumanly high alcohol consumption rate. The only time she ever passes out is when Bacchus beats her in a drinking match.
• Noodle Incident: She crossed paths with Erza's friend Shô at some point offscreen and learned his Card Conversion spell.
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business:
  • She usually has a goofy and laid-back demeanor, but when the situation is serious she drops her goofy mannerism and becomes a serious and analytical mage, even becoming Suddenly Sober if she was previously tipsy.
  • She's usually kind and loyal to her teammates, so when she suddenly acted like a jerkass in the S-Class exam by betraying Lucy it was a clear sign the exam meant a lot to her.
• Oh, Crap!: Cana has a moment of utter shock when she realizes that she unintentionally abandoned Lucy.
• Orphanage of Love: An omake reveals that she was raised in a church after her mother passed away, which made her a Friend to All Children that lived there.
• Skewed Priorities: Played for Drama in the Sirius Island arc. As the only S-class candidate who's outright desperate to pass the exam, she insists on continuing the exam even after it is canceled, and even knocks out Lucy to proceed alone.
• The Snark Knight: Her heavy drinking and troubled past have given her a very blunt, dry personality.
• Stripperiffic: Her choice of clothes for her upper torso always tends to be revealing, often consisting of nothing more than a bikini top that leaves her neckline and midriff exposed.
• Tears of Remorse: She bursts into tears once she realizes that she had abandoned Lucy in favor of becoming an S-Class wizard during the Sirius Island arc.
• A Tragedy of Impulsiveness: Her impatience in continuing the S-Class exam causes her to abandon Lucy and the rest of her friends. When she realizes this after reaching Mavis's grave, she's completely devastated. Fortunately, she snaps out of it.
• The Transmogrifier: She can transform other people into cards temporarily.
• Tomboyness Upgrade: She used to be more girly when she was a child, and her tomboy habits only started to manifest once she started drinking.
• Tomboy with a Girly Streak: While she's mostly a tomboy due to her masculine speech and hard-drinking hobby, she does have a girly side as seen by the feminine clothing she often wears, such as her high heels sandals and capri pants.
• Tsundere: After dropping the "father" bomb with Gildarts, her attitude towards him becomes this, getting annoyed every time he tries smothering her or flirting with other wizards, but always caring about his well-being all the same.
• Underwear Swimsuit: She wears lingerie when she goes to the pool at Ryuzetsu Land. Ironic considering that she always wears bikini tops.
• Unexpected Virgin: Despite her flirtatious personality, she is revealed to be a virgin when she remains one of the only Fairy Tail members unaffected by Larcade's pleasure-inducing spell.
• Walking Swimsuit Scene: She almost always wears a skimpy bikini top, so her midriff is never covered.
• "Well Done, Daughter!" Girl: For a very long time, Cana wanted to become an S-Class wizard so she could impress Gildarts and make herself worthy of being his daughter. To Gildarts's credit, he doesn't know Cana is his daughter until she finally tells him. After that, their relationship blossoms.
• You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Once Lucy gives her a lead on how to pass the S-Class Exam, Cana knocks her unconscious and abandons her to finish it. She ultimately regrets it by the time she arrives as Mavis's grave.
• You Remind Me of X: Mavis tells Cana that she bears a striking resemblance to her Childhood Friend Zera, and ponders that she would be just like Cana had she lived long enough. Then, after an Imagine Spot of Zera as a scantily-clad alcoholic, she takes it back.

Elfman Strauss

Elfman Strauss

Voiced by: Hiroki Yasumoto (Japanese); Christopher Sabat, Anastasia Muñoz [young] (English)^note Other languages: Ricardo Brust (Latin American Spanish); Julien Chatelet (French); Andrea Lavagnino (Italian)

^{Click here to see his original design}

Elfman is Lisanna and Mirajane's middle brother who strongly believes in pride through physical strength and manliness. His form of Takeover, Beast Soul, transforms him into a variety of ferocious beasts and monsters. His magic went awry during a mission with Lisanna and Mirajane; following Lisanna's disappearance, he can only transform his right arm. Two years later, he regains his Full-Body Takeover abilities during the battle with Phantom Lord.

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• Anime Hair: His hair is spiky and wild Shonen Hair.
• Belligerent Sexual Tension: He and Evergreen are constantly at each other's throats, but they still have plenty of cute moments to show it's not all rough between them.
• Big Brother Instinct: Played straight with his younger sister Lisanna, but inverted with Mirajane, whom he is a Big Little Brother to. Truth in Television is that he's the only male in the family, so age doesn't matter.
• The Big Guy: Is among the most physically oriented fighters in the guild, specializing in Beast Take Overs to enhance his already immense strength. Notably, despite his much slimmer sister Mirajane managing to Punch Catch him on Sirius Island, by the Tartaros Arc his physical strength has grown enough to outmuscle an opponent she was struggling with, putting him ahead of his siblings in raw power.
• Big Little Brother: Although he towers over Mirajane, he is the middle sibling between her and Lisanna.
• Boisterous Bruiser: He prides himself in both his strength and manliness, and can pack quite a wallop.
• Boisterous Weakling: Early on, in spite of his preaching the value of manliness, he could only manage partial transformations, which only amounts to punching someone harder, and his guildmates see him as something of a joke. He somewhat overcomes this when he masters Full-Body Takeover and defeats Sol in the Phantom Lord arc, but from then on, he still loses more fights than he wins compared to his guildmates.
• Brainwashed and Crazy: In the Tartaros arc, after Seilah forces him into making a Deal with the Devil to spare Lisanna's life, she brainwashes him into planting a bomb in his guildhall. While his friends survive and he manages to give Seilah her just desserts, he suffers tremendous guilt over it.
• Bruiser with a Soft Center: Despite his bluster and overemphasis on his extreme manliness, he's a huge softy at heart and prone to crying when he's overemotional.
• Butt-Monkey: He hardly gets any respect as a fighter from his guildmates, who can easily knock him out cold.
• Characterization Marches On: In early chapters, he was almost as much The Rival to Natsu and Gray as the two were to each other. This fades over time as he spends more time interacting with his sisters and Evergreen, the latter of whom brings out his argumentative side.
• Close-Range Combatant: His Beast Soul increases his already immense physical prowess, making him a literal beast in terms of power, though they offer little to no ranged options.
• Determinator: Probably the only one who can outdo Natsu in this. His solution to fighting Bacchus, who was too fast and erratic for him to even land a hit, was to transform into a Lizardman with spiked scales. He then told Bacchus that it would be a battle to see which could take more punishment, his body or Bacchus' hands.
• The Exile: Elfman was exiled from his hometown along with his siblings due to their Take-Over powers.
• Every Year They Fizzle Out: While he's quite physically powerful and tough, it's mentioned by other characters that he's bad in "the crunch", and they're right; despite a lot of pretty impressive performances, Elfman loses most of his fights. He does have a few major victories under his belt, however, such as Sol from Phantom Lord, Erza's rival Bacchus from Quattro Cerberus, and an Offscreen Moment of Awesome against the Spriggan 12's Ajeel.
• Fluffy the Terrible: Mashima thought the name "Elfman" sounded cute for someone so muscle-brained.
• Fundoshi: He wears one as his initial outfit of choice, and it has the word "man" written on the back.
• Genius Bruiser: Okay, maybe calling him a "genius" is overshooting it, but he's certainly smarter than he seems and is capable of thinking up quick and clever plans, notably his plan to take down Rustyrose and his cunning use of his transformations against Bacchus.
• Gentle Giant: He was much more soft-hearted before Lisanna's apparent untimely death hardened his resolve to not let the same happen to his surviving sister. He's still gentle to those he cares about, though.
• Hot-Blooded: This is his core definition of manliness. He even grows Hot Blooded Sideburns for the Grand Magic Games to compliment it.
• Large Ham: He'll do anything to prove he's "A REAL MAN", even if he has to shout it.
• Lightning Bruiser: His Weretiger form boosts the speed of his attacks while retaining his muscular form.
• Manly Tears: He's not afraid to cry because he is a man.
• My God, What Have I Done?: He beats himself up over bombing his own guildhall and nearly killing his friends as part of a deal with Seilah to spare Lisanna's life in the Tartaros arc, even though no one blames him because he was brainwashed into doing it. It takes starting a friendly Bar Brawl and getting himself pummeled for him to finally forgive himself.
• My Greatest Failure: Lisanna, Elfman, and Mirajane's younger sister, almost died while trying to calm Elfman down when his Takeover magic went awry. It's alleviated greatly when Lisanna turns up alive two years later. In the Tartaros arc, however, Seilah controls him into nearly killing Lisanna again, forcing him into a desperate Deal with the Devil to save her.
• My Sister Is Off-Limits: Upon Lisanna's return and hearing some of the guild members commenting on Lisanna's cute appearance, Elfman begins to knock away from his sister.
• Mythical Motifs: Beast, fitting with his Take Over Magic and manly personality.
• Our Werebeasts Are Different: His Beast Soul Takeover allows him to absorb the powers of beasts and monsters and assume their forms. Initially, he is only able to transform his right arm as any attempt at a Full-Body Takeover makes him go berserk. By the Phantom Lord arc, however, he gets a full handle on it and can transform whenever he wants.
• Partial Transformation: His Beast Arm ability only lets him transform his right arm. Even after mastering his Full-Body Takeover, he still uses this from time to time.
• Power Makes Your Voice Deep: His Full-Body Takeovers make his already deep voice even lower.
• Powers via Possession: He is a Takeover wizard, which allows him to absorb the attributes of a certain creature. In his case, his Beast Soul allows him to take over monsters and beasts.
• Real Men Cook: According to Lisanna, he is an excellent chef. He is, naturally, a real man.
• Rugged Scar: He sports a stitched scar along his right cheek, adding to his tough "manly" exterior.
• Save the Princess: According to him, this is something that men do as men.
  Elfman: It is the destiny of wealthy heiresses to be chased, and those who protect them are men.
• Ship Tease: He gets plenty of this with Evergreen following their partnership in the S-Class exam, as much as they mutually deny it.
• Sibling Team: He is this whenever he fights alongside Mirajane and Lisanna. While his combat compatibility with Mirajane is unknown, he manages to edge out an off-screen win against Ajeel, one of the Spriggan 12 who should be noted are at least strong as the mightiest wizard in Ishgal, together with Lisanna. He had hoped to take Lisanna as his partner on the S-Class exam, but she instead chose to go with Juvia, leaving him to take Evergreen.
• Super-Toughness: His Lizardman form gives him spiked scales that are virtually impervious to physical damage. It allows him to level the playing field against the heavy-hitting Bacchus during the Grand Magic Games, turning their battle into an Endurance Duel.
• Testosterone Poisoning: He is always talking about the concept of manliness, refusing to believe that something unnatural could be attributed to anything but an awesome man.
• Throw the Dog a Bone: After being butted around and overshadowed for much of the series, Elfman gets a moment to shine in the Grand Magic Games when he wins his match against Bacchus, an opponent who is said to rival Erza in strength, which also counts as Fairy Tail's first actual victory in the tournament. Not only that, but those 10 points he earns go a long way since Fairy Tail wins the tournament by 9 points.
• Top-Heavy Guy: He gets really beefy over the three-month training Time Skip while preparing for the Grand Magic Games.
• Unskilled, but Strong: He's a purely physical fighter and doesn't have a lot of magic skill, but it usually takes just a single hit for him to take down his opponents when given the chance.
• Verbal Tic: Usually ends a sentence with "otoko" ("man") or something similar.
• Voluntary Shapeshifting: He usually just transforms his arm, but he's capable of doing a Full-Body Takeover.
• The Worf Effect: Eflman is a mighty combat wizard, a manly man with muscles, so anyone who can defeat him is worthy of being called a formidable villian. Thus, he is defeated by such villains whenever he participates in any major story arc.

Lisanna Strauss

Lisanna Strauss

Voiced by: Harumi Sakurai (Japanese), Carrie Savage (English)^note Other languages: Sandra Olarra (Latin American Spanish); Caroline Combes (French); Valentina Pallavicino (Italian)

Lisanna is the the youngest of the Strauss siblings uses a variety of Takeover called Animal Soul to assume the forms and abilities of animals. She's also Natsu's childhood sweetheart, and helped him hatch Happy as an egg. Though she was seemingly killed after a mission with her siblings went tragically awry, it turned out that she was actually sucked into the parallel world of Edolas. After being mistaken for her own Edolas counterpart by her friends from her old world two years later, her true identity is discovered after getting sent back to Earth-land with the others, and she happily reunites with her friends and family.

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• Adaptation Expansion: The anime gives her relationship with Natsu a lot more focus than the manga, especially in flashbacks. This eventually resulted in her being brought back in the manga.
• Animal Motifs: While she has numerous Animal Soul Take Overs, her most commonly seen one is cats.
• Animorphism: Her style of Takeover allows her to take on the attributes and forms of animals.
• Asian Fox Spirit: Her Animal Soul: Nine-Tailed Fox allows her to assume the form of a kitsune, complete with a kimono, fox ears, furred and clawed arms and legs, and nine tails with which she can manipulate at will to launch a simultaneous Tail Slap.
• Book Dumb: She's said to dislike studying, according to her profile.
• Cat Girl: Due to her particular brand of Takeover, Animal Soul, she can turn herself into a white tiger-girl complete with sharp claws. This appears to be her preferred transformation for combat given how often she uses it.
• Childhood Friend Romance: Apparently with Natsu before her supposed death. Subverted since she later comes back, but nothing has happened between them. However, that hasn't stopped the anime producers from injecting the series with tons of Ship Tease moments between them.
• Childhood Marriage Promise: In a joking way with Natsu.
• Confusion Fu: She's a very versatile fighter with all the different animal forms she can assume.
• Dead Person Impersonation: When she first arrived in Edolas, that world's version of her siblings mistook her for the one from their world, who had coincidentally died, so she reluctantly took on the role so as to not cause them any grief. However, her cover is blown when the reversed Anima forces her to return to Earth-land, though by that point, her siblings from Edolas had already figured out who she really was.
• The Exile: She was exiled from her hometown along with her older siblings due to her Takeover powers.
• Fatal Flaw: While it hasn't gotten her or anyone else killed, Lisanna has underestimated someone at the exact moment when she should be completely on her guard on a few occasions.
• Feminine Women Can Cook: She tells Natsu that her sister taught her everything about how to cook.
• Flat Character: As a result of being Out of Focus, she doesn't exactly have as many characteristics that make her stick out from the rest of the cast aside from her care for her family.
• Flight: One of the more common uses of her powers is to completely or partially transform into a bird and fly.
• Fragile Speedster: She classifies herself as this, and when facing Wall Eehto's Weakness Soldiers, goes after the fast ones.
• Fur Bikini: She wears a striped bikini in her Cat Girl form.
• Girlish Pigtails: She begins wearing pigtails after the second Time Skip.
• Harping on About Harpies: Her Animal Soul can change her arms into wings and her lower part of the body into bird legs and tail.
• Hartman Hips: While her bust isn't as ridiculously large as some of her fellow guild mates, her hips seem very large and shapely by comparison.
• Heroic Self-Deprecation: She feels responsible for Mirajane's Heroic Sacrifice against Azuma in the Sirius Island arc. Elfman, who'd also lost to one of the Seven Kin of Purgatory, resulting in himself and his partner Evergreen being seriously injured, notes that their opponents are simply too strong.
• He's Just Hiding: An In-Universe example. It turns out she doesn't die during Elfman's rampage, but is simply knocked out and gets caught in one of the Anima portals that transports her to Edolas. Though one has to wonder how Mirajane could watch Lisanna's body suddenly disappear and misinterpret it as dying, seeing as she was right there when it happened.
• Hypnotic Eyes: Gains them with her Animal Soul: Snake, with which she intended to use on Lucy. It fails thanks to Lucy putting on Capricorn's shades.
• I Choose to Stay: Subverted. While this is her initial choice when Earth-land's Natsu and Happy appear at the Edolas Fairy Tail, as she doesn't want to upset Edolas' versions of her siblings, it is rendered moot once the Anima is reversed, forcing her to return to Earth-land. It also turns out Edo!Mirajane and Edo!Elfman knew her secret all along, and they wish her well as she heads back.
• Idiot Ball: Instead of leaving Azuma unaware of Mirajane's abilities while he fights her, she practically brags about what her sister is capable of which ruins the element of surprise.
• "I Know You're in There Somewhere" Fight: The anime reveals she tried this to calm Elfman when he went on a rampage during his Full-Body Takeover attempt. The key word here is "tried".
• Inconsistent Spelling: Her first name is spelled as "Lisana" in the Italian dub.
• Innocent Blue Eyes: She shares her sister's baby blues, and is a real sweetheart.
• Kindhearted Cat Lover: She is noted to have a fondness for cats in her profile. It's quite telling that her favorite combat form is part-cat, and she was more than happy to help Natsu raise Happy.
• The Lost Lenore: She and Natsu were close when they were kids and her death affected him greatly. It's ultimately subverted with the reveal that she didn't die, though they've barely had any meaningful interactions since.
• Mystical White Hair: Just like her brother and sister.
• Nice Girl: She's cheerful and friendly, and it's said that this part of her enabled her to fit in at the Edolas Fairy Tail despite their Lisanna had died.
• Not Quite Dead: She was thought to have been killed during Elfman's rampage, followed by being dragged into a mysterious hole in the sky. However, the reality is that she was transported to Edolas, where she had been living all along.
• Offscreen Moment of Awesome: In the Alvarez Empire arc, she and Elfman somehow manage to edge out a win against Ajeel, one of the strongest wizards on the face of Earth-land. While most of what we see involves the two siblings struggling, their exact method of victory is not shown.
• Out of Focus: You'd think that someone who plays a huge part in Natsu's background development would be high up on the established side-character list, or, at the very least, begin to hang around Natsu again due to their childhood friendship. That has not been the case ever since her return from Edolas. It wasn't until their mutual imprisonment in the Tartaros arc that they actually had a long conversation with each other since their reunion post-Edolas.
• Partial Transformation: Though she is also adept at the Full-Body version.
• The Pollyanna: According to Natsu, she always had a smile on her face no matter the circumstances.
• Posthumous Character: Subverted. She is initially assumed to have been inadvertently killed by Elfman about two years before the start of the series, making her only appearances through flashbacks. However, it turns out that she's actually caught in an Anima portal after Elfman attacks her, and she is transported to Edolas.
• Powers via Possession: Like her siblings, she uses Takeover magic to obtain the form of any animal she comes into contact with.
• Shipper on Deck: She is quite supportive of Natsu's relationship with Lucy, especially in the anime. She also ships Elfman and Evergreen.
• Ship Tease: It's implied she had a crush on Natsu in their childhood and liked to pretend she was his wife when they took care of Happy.
• Snake People: Her Animal Soul: Snake turns her lower body into a snake that can coil around and constrict people while leaving her head and upper body still humanoid but covered with scales.
• Tareme Eyes: She has round eyes that match her friendly personality.
• Tomboy and Girly Girl: She was once the girly girl to Mirajane's tomboy, though since Mirajane became more feminine after Lisanna's supposed death, this is currently averted.
• Took a Level in Badass: After the second Time Skip, she's able to help her brother take on Ajeel, one of the strongest wizards on the face of Earth-land, and win.
• Voluntary Shapeshifting: Like all Takeover wizards, she can transform into different creatures at will, with animals being her specialty.
• Walking Spoiler: Pretty straightforward for people getting into Fairy Tail: a former dead person turns out to be Not Quite Dead.
• You Can't Go Home Again: Eventually subverted. For a while, Lisanna is unable to return to Earth-land thanks to her being stuck in Edolas. Around the time of Faust's defeat, however, she finally returns to Earth-land and reunites with her guildmates.

Levy McGarden

Levy McGarden

Voiced by: Mariya Ise^note temporarily replaced by Ikumi Hayama when Ise went on maternity leave (Japanese), Kristi Kang^note credited as Kristi Bingham until episode 19 (English)^note Other languages: Irma Carmona (Latin American Spanish); Annabelle Roux (French); Gaia Bolognesi (Italian)

Levy is the de facto leader of Shadow Gear, one of the many teams that make up the backbone of Fairy Tail. Her magic is called Solid Script, which allows her to transform any word she writes into solid objects with those properties. An avid bookworm, Levy is one of Lucy's closest friends in the guild, which came about when Levy found out Lucy was working on a novel.

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• A-Cup Angst: The "Fairy Punishment Game" omake shows her getting very self-conscious about her chest when Gajeel makes her dance in a revealing bunny girl outfit next to Lucy.
• Anger Born of Worry: Since the guy she cares most for is also a temperamental and reckless warrior, Levy is prone to letting him have it when he does something that puts his own life at risk. Especially when he comes back after he was seemingly Dragged Off to Hell by Bloodman in the Alvarez Empire arc, though her anger is counterbalanced well by her joy at seeing him alive.
• Babies Ever After: By the time of 100 Years Quest, Levy has become pregnant with Gajeel's child.
• Badass Adorable: She's cute and tiny, and a powerhouse in her own right.
• Badass Bookworm: While she's not as into fighting as some of her other guildmates, Levy is an avid reader and a skilled linguist, which allows her to decode runic spells and enchantments in record time. She even qualifies for the S-Class rank with her skills.
• Badass Longcoat: Not quite as badass as Gajeel's, but it's definitely a step up from her usual wear and impressive on her as a member of the Magic Council.
• Battle Couple: While her love is a bit more one-sided than most, she and Gajeel are frequently seen fighting together starting in the Sirius Island arc.
• Belligerent Sexual Tension: Levy and Gajeel get off on the wrong foot when he beats up her and her friends in a horrific act of cruelty to provoke Fairy Tail into a guild war during the Phantom Lord arc. Once Gajeel begins shaping himself up, though, Levy finds herself slowly gaining a crush on him.
• Berserk Button: For the love of Mavis, do not call her little.
• Break the Cutie: While she always pulls through on account of being a Plucky Girl, the poor girl goes through more hell than anyone ought to be. Notable events include Levy and her friends getting pulverized and crucified by Gajeel, kicking off the main action in the Phantom Lord arc; being left the Sole Survivor of a dragon invasion in a Bad Future; and having to watch Gajeel, who she's since fallen in love with, get Dragged Off to Hell in front of her in the Alvarez Empire arc.
• Breakout Character: Levy was originally designed as one of the many background characters designed to populate the guild. However, beginning with the Phantom Lord arc, she started becoming more directly involved in the story until she became a major recurring character in her own right, in large part thanks to her romantic subplot with Gajeel.
• Celibate Heroine: She once rejected at least three guys who like her, two of them being her own teammates and both almost instantaneously. It's possibly subverted after the second Time Skip, where we're treated to a scene of Gajeel and Levy sharing a bed together in the Alvarez Empire arc, and when she whispers something about a baby to him the finale. Confirmed as subverted by the 100 Years Quest, where she's pregnant with Gajeel's child.
• Cute Bookworm: Since her magic involves reading and turning words into solid object, this is a given.
• The Cutie: She is incredibly endearing and adored by almost everyone in her guild.
• Crucified Hero Shot: Gajeel pins her, Jet, and Droy to a tree like this and brands her stomach with the Phantom Lord symbol, setting off the war between their two guilds.
• Did They or Didn't They?: In the Alvarez Empire arc, she and Gajeel are seen in separate panels with blankets that share the same star patterns the night before the war with Alvarez, subtly implying that they may have done it. The finale, in which Levy mutters something about a baby to Gajeel with a tearful, happy look, seems to have called off all bets.
• Everyone Can See It: She is regularly teased by her friends over her crush towards Gajeel. Even her two teammates, both of whom had their eye on Levy for the longest time, concede that she loves him more than them.
• Fanservice Pack: Inverted. Some of her first few appearances in the manga made it seem she had breasts as large as any other girl in the series. Mashima confirmed that she became flat later on to stand out in this World of Buxom.
• Flowers of Femininity: She sometimes wears a hair bandana with a flower on it which makes her look even girlier.
• Goggles Do Something Unusual: Levy keeps a pair of Gale-force Reading Glasses, which allow her to read anywhere between 2 to 120 times the normal speed, a useful tool for decoding ancient texts and such.
• Hand on Womb: Levy often places her hands on her womb when she thinks or talks about the child she and Gajeel are expecting.
• Hartman Hips: Revealed to be her strong point, according to her profile.
• He Is Not My Boyfriend: Even though her feelings for Gajeel become totally obvious once she starts falling for him, Levy fervently denies any of it.
• The Heart: She demonstrates her role as the guild's moral center when she dismisses the S-Class exam that divided them and left them vulnerable to Grimoire Heart's attack.
• Heroic Self-Deprecation: Despite everything she has done and the people she has helped or saved, her opinion on herself is rather low, particularly concluding that she's not much of a fighter.
• Iconic Outfit: Since the Sirius Island arc, she tends to wear an orange dress that often shows off her back and legs, as well as red sandals.
• Inconsistent Spelling: The Italian dub spells her name as Levy Mac Garden.
• Implied Love Interest: Her relationship with Gajeel becomes ambiguously romantic when they first partner up for the S-Class exam. As the series goes on, however, her love for Gajeel becomes less subtle despite her never outright stating it. It stops being this completely when Gajeel ends up confessing his love for her when they both think he's about to die in the Alvarez Empire arc.
• Little Miss Badass: She's a petite teenager who's also a very capable fighter.
• Love Epiphany: She realizes she's begun falling for Gajeel after they get into a fight in during the S-Class exam when he appears to care more about beating up the other examinees than focusing on helping her pass, only for him to come to her rescue when she's attacked by Grimoire Heart's scouting team. Her realization is more pronounced in the anime where, while telling herself she hates him, her mind suddenly starts wandering to all the times he helped her in the past.
• Minored in Ass-Kicking: Levy's primary role is The Smart Gal. Her fighting ability, while formidable, is secondary.
• Morality Pet: She's the only one besides Panther Lily who can bring out Gajeel's kinder, softer side.
• Only Sane Woman: She is one of the very few Fairy Tail members without any ridiculous quirks, which makes her well-suited as Lucy's friend.
• Opposites Attract: With Gajeel. He's an Extra-ore-dinary Jerk with a Heart of Gold, while Levy is The Heart and a Squishy Wizard.
• Pitbull Dates Puppy: Levy is a short, sweet, and friendly Cute Bookworm who develops a crush on Gajeel, a rough and violent Blood Knight.
• Rescue Romance: When Gajeel joins Fairy Tail, Levy is naturally terrified of Gajeel since he pulverized and crucified her and her friends in the Phantom Lord arc. However, she overcomes that fear when he atones by blocking Laxus's attack meant for her. From then on, their relationship improves considerably.
• Semantic Superpower: Her Solid Script, in a nutshell, is writing out words that physically become the word she writes. This has allowed her to create elements like fire, iron, and air, but also more unconventional things, like writing "silence" to block out sound-based attacks, or "mask" to filter out deadly toxins.
• Sexy Backless Outfit: The dress she wears starting with the Sirius Island arc constantly shows off her back.
• Ship Tease: She starts getting plenty of it with Gajeel once he saves her from getting unjustly attacked by Laxus in the Battle of Fairy Tail arc.
• Signature Hair Decs: She is most commonly seen wearing a ribbon in her hair like a bandana.
• Single Woman Seeks Good Man: She doesn't start falling for Gajeel until he proves that, as a member of Fairy Tail, he is willing to atone for all the horrible things he did to her and the guild back when he was a member of Phantom Lord. After that, there is a direct correlation between her growing affection for him and his growth as a better man under the influence of Makarov and Fairy Tail in general (though Gajeel himself cedits Levy for that).
• Squishy Wizard: Her incredible magical abilities aside, Levy has the build of your average teenage girl, which makes her quite vulnerable in a World of Badass.
• Sword and Sorcerer: Levy is the sorcerer to Gajeel's sword, normally a Squishy Wizard who can also act as The Medic with her ability to create iron for him to eat.
• Took a Level in Badass: She's hardly much of a fighter when she starts out, getting beaten up and hospitalized in her first major plot-related role. It isn't until the Alvarez Empire arc that she gets a noticeable boost in combat skill, effortlessly getting herself out of the same traps and situations that caused her trouble before.
• Tsundere: She's a Type B who is normally a sweetheart to all of her friends, but is far more harsh around Gajeel, for understandable reasons.
• Underwater Kiss: A key scene that practically solidifies Levy's love for Gajeel occurs when she gives him air using this method to save him from drowning in the Tartaros arc...only to be reminded that she could just make air bubbles with her magic, to her complete embarrassment.
• Weak, but Skilled: She isn't exactly one of Fairy Tail's powerhouses, but her sharp mind and unbelievably versatile magic more than make up for her lack of physical prowess.
• Words Can Break My Bones: Her Solid Script involves using magic to create giant letters that take on the properties of what's written. For instance, "Fire" creates giant flaming letters, "Iron" creates metal letters, etc.

Raijin Tribe

The Raijin Tribe^note "Thunder God Tribe" are a three-man team who serve as Laxus' personal bodyguards. They don't socialize much with the rest of the guild at first and support Laxus's desire to become guild master, but open up to them after the Battle of Fairy Tail. After the battle with Tartaros, the Raijin Tribe and Laxus join Blue Pegasus, only to rejoin Fairy Tail following its reorganization.

Raijin Tribe in General

• Antagonist Abilities: The magics and spells they use are so complex, versatile, and effective that only two of the guild's elite S-Class members are capable of defeating Fried and Evergreen, while Bickslow only goes down with the teamwork between Lucy, Happy, and Loke.
• Anti-Villain: They fight their own guild in the Battle of Fairy Tail, but only out of a genuine desire to help Laxus reshape the guild.
• Badass Crew: These guys are capable of subjugating an entire dark guild all on their own, and they're the only members of Fairy Tail that Laxus unambiguously praises for their strength during his Social Darwinist phase.
• Demoted to Extra: Downplayed. Although they get some periodic action against major opponents in later arcs, their overall prominence in the story takes a backseat after their significant introductory roles during the Battle of Fairy Tail. They become major characters along with Laxus in Gaiden, however.
• Dub Name Change: They're called the "Thunder God Tribe" in the Del Rey translation, and the "Thunder Legion" by Funimation.
• Easily Forgiven: Unlike Laxus, the rest of the team are fully accepted back into Fairy Tail one day after attempting to betray them all.
• Establishing Character Moment: The first thing we see the Raijin Tribe do in the show is take down a dark guild, which shows what their true characters are like.
• Heel–Face Turn: After the Battle of Fairy Tail, the three drop their hostility towards the rest of the guild.
• Loners Are Freaks: Before their Heel–Face Turn, most of them had no friends in Fairy Tail besides each other and Laxus.
• Magical Eye: They all specialize in different forms of eye magic: Bickslow can control others' bodies through eye contact, while Evergreen can turn them to stone. Fried's ability isn't well-defined, though his right eye turns black when he uses his Dark Écriture.
• Power Limiter: As all of them have powerful magical eye abilities, they have taken steps to avoid their abilities going off at inopportune times. Evergreen wears glasses, Bickslow wears a grated visor, and Fried goes with bangs.
• Quirky Miniboss Squad: They serve as such for Laxus during the Battle of Fairy Tail, their personal quirks signifying that they truly belong with Fairy Tail more than they initially let on.
• Story-Breaker Power: Let's face it, all the magical skills that each of these 3 members possess are far too superior to those of the protagonists on paper. Evergreen for example, at the beginning, had petrified Erza during the beauty contest and Fried was able to create problems for all members of the guild with his runes) to the point that they are either Demoted to Extra or taken out of commission early on in some of the later arcs.
• Superpower Lottery: Of all of Fairy Tail's wizards, they possess the most powerful and dangerous arsenal of magic, disputed only by the Three Great Fairy magics, Mirajane's Takeover (which pulverizes Fried) and Gildarts's Crush.
• Took a Level in Kindness: They become more sociable with the rest of the guild after Laxus gets expelled. During the fight with Wahl, they declare that they're fighting as much for the sake of the guild as a whole as they are for Laxus.
• Two Guys and a Girl: Fried and Bickslow are the guys, and Evergreen is the girl.
• Undying Loyalty: The team's loyalty to Laxus is immense to the point where, after Laxus leaves for Blue Pegasus when Fairy Tail disbands, the team tags along with him.

Fried Justine

Fried Justine

Voiced by: Jun'ichi Suwabe (Japanese), John Burgmeier (English)^note Other languages: Ricardo Bautista (Latin American Spanish); Stéphane Ronchewski (French); Patrizio Cigliano (Italian)

Fried is the leader of the Raijin Tribe, and the most loyal to Laxus. He specializes in writing jutsu-shiki, runic enchantments that affect the environment around him to his liking. He can also produce similar effects on people with his Dark Écriture spell.

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• Agony Beam: By writing out Dark Écriture runes like "Pain" and "Suffering", he can cause intense pain to his victims.
• Ambiguously Gay: The anime and extras in the manga hint at him being this, if not bisexual, such as when he asks Laxus to dance with him at the post-tournament ballroom party, or when he blushes and grins at nude images of the Tri-men in the Volume 33 extras. This all being on top of his already existing fondness of Laxus and general disinterest in women, of course.
• The Atoner: For harming Cana Alberona in the Battle of Fairy Tail, he throws his match with Cana in the S-Class exam on Sirius Island.
• Attack Reflector: His Dark Écriture: Reflect was able to repel Cana's lightning spell right back at her.
• Badass Longcoat: He has a long, red coat at all times.
• Barrier Warrior: He usually uses his runes to form force fields around to his enemies to trap them inside and prevent them from going out (unless he magically transcribes a clause in the runes that allows them to escape satisfying certain requirements). At the beginning of the saga of Alvarez, he proved able to enclose the entire city in a protective magical field capable of resisting, albeit with a significant effort, two powerful cannonades of well over 100 battalions of the Alvarez Empire.
• Big Damn Heroes: He and Bickslow come to their guildmates' rescue from Rustyrose in the Sirius Island arc.
• Black Knight: His "Absolute Shadow" spell gives him the appearance of one, which also boosts his physical strength.
• Bullying a Dragon: He makes this mistake when he tortures Elfman in front of Mirajane, who reawakens her demonic Satan Soul powers and unloads her sisterly fury on him.
• Clipped-Wing Angel: He turns into a demon with his "Darkness" spell to fight Mirajane's Satan Soul. However, he still finds himself hopelessly outmatched even with the power boost.
• Dark Is Not Evil: He's known as "Fried the Dark" and most of his spells have a shadowy appearance to them. He's also the most sympathetic member of the Raijin Tribe and the one who always objects to Laxus's more extreme actions before becoming a true-blue member of Fairy Tail.
• Distracted by the Sexy: Invoked when he intentionally pretends to be distracted by Lucy and Cana's swimsuits in order to throw their fight.
• The Dragon: He is Laxus's strongest subordinate during the Battle of Fairy Tail, being the primary organizer of the battle and following Laxus' orders, including eliminating guild members who break the rules.
• Dub Name Change: His jutsu-shiki are known as "enchantments" in the English dub. This becomes a tad problematic when the story introduces magic literally called "Enchant" in the Japanese version, which is functionally different.
• Emerald Power: Has green hair and is powerful enough to be considered the leader of the Raijin Tribe.
• Flanderization: His simple yet genuine devotion to Laxus gets overblown when Laxus returns at the end of the Sirius Island arc, acting like a total Fanboy.
• Gratuitous French: "Dark Écriture" means "Dark Writing".
• Hair Antennae: He has two antennae shaped like lightning bolts.
• Hero-Worshipper: After his Heel–Face Turn, he becomes prone to geeking out whenever Laxus is in the vicinity.
• Hypocrite: Cana calls him out for claiming Juvia is untrustworthy because of her past, when he's the one whose attacking his fellow guild members.
• Inconsistent Spelling: His name is spelled as "Freed" in the Del Rey translation, and the Funimation dub.
• Important Haircut: He shaves his long hair to a buzz cut in a traditional act of penance for his actions after the Battle of Fairy Tail. It's significant enough to make Makarov reconsider retiring as guild master. However, he undergoes a Hair Reboot in his next appearance, made all the more jarring in the anime since it happens the very next episode.
• Logical Weakness: As his magic is wholly dependent on the runes he writes, he needs remarkably fast reaction times in order to write them out in combat. He even freely admits his most impressive and complicated spells require time to write out and cast and he has been caught flat-footed by swift enough foes (such as when Mirajane wrecked his rapier during their fight when he tried to write out a rune and he was forced to get distance from her to successfully cast again).
• Long-Haired Pretty Boy: He has long hair and is very much a Bishōnen.
• My Master, Right or Wrong: Fried objects to Laxus's more extreme orders during the Battle of Fairy Tail, but that doesn't stop him from carrying them out, however reluctantly.
• Noble Top Enforcer: Downplayed. Fried genuinely objects when Laxus orders him to use lethal force in the Battle of Fairy Tail, but the only reason Laxus is telling his subordinates to kill people is that he doesn't have the necessary hatred in his heart to do it himself.
• Not So Above It All: He comes off as an aloof and stern man under normal circumstances, but after he becomes more open with his guildmates, he proves to be just as silly as they are.
• Oh, Crap!: When he realizes that he made Mirajane transform into her Satan Soul form.
• Power Gives You Wings: He can use his Dark Écriture to grow energy wings and fly.
• Powered Armor: His "Shadow" form covers his body in black armor that drastically increases his strength.
• Purple Is Powerful: His Dark Écriture spells have a purple and black coloration and are some of the most effective in the guild.
• Red Baron: "Fried the Dark".
• Royal Rapier: He uses his sword to write his runes and as a weapon, often combining the two such as enhancing a rapier strike with Dark Écriture: Destruction or Slay.
• Superpower Lottery: Having jutsu-shiki that can literally do anything that is written is certainly a useful skill to have, especially if he is given time to set them up beforehand, which allow him to contain the likes of his guild's own master. And the sheer number of things he can do with his magic is astounding, such as depriving oxygen from those who break his rules.
• Tears of Remorse: After Mirajane spares his life despite all the terrible things he'd done to the guild in the Battle of Fairy Tail, he breaks down in tears and apologizes for everything.
• Took a Level in Cheerfulness: He goes from being one of the guild's most aloof members to an absolute goofball in his adoration of Laxus.
• Touch of Death: He briefly mentions one of his Dark Écriture spells is called "Death", which would presumably cause this if successfully cast on a target.
• Trap Master: He is a complete specialist in this area, as well as very powerful (to the point that he is able to disseminate various circles of runes able to lock up an entire city inside and easily retain much more powerful and / or experienced wizards like the Saint Wizard Makarov).
• Would Hit a Girl: He shows no qualms in putting a girl in danger, as Cana found out the hard way.

Bickslow

Bickslow

Voiced by: Yoshihisa Kawahara (Japanese); Scott Freeman [2012–2015], Tyler Walker [2015–2020] (English)^note Other languages: Abraham Toscano (Latin American Spanish); Emmanuel Gradi (French); Alessandro Quarta (Italian)

Bickslow is a wizard who uses a form of seith magic called Human Possession to manipulate five souls that inhabit dolls and follow him everywhere. He can also steal and control other people's souls with his Figure Eyes ability.

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• Aura Vision: He can detect and follow people through their souls.
• Beam Spam: One of his most common attacks with his "babies" is multi-directional magic beams.
• Black Magic: His Human Possession is stated to be this, and is weak against White Magic, which neutralizes his dolls.
• Catchphrase: "Let's go, babies!"
• Combat Pragmatist: He's not just a competent and stronger wizard, but he's also a very skilled acrobat, using his stunts to get the drop on others. Not to mention destroying his dolls isn't likely to slow him down, as he can just stick their souls into any inanimate objects that happen to be lying around and continue from there. Furthermore, his ability to manipulate his surroundings to his advantage during a fight allows him to defeat Gray, one of the most promising candidates for S-rank promotion.
• Cool Mask: He covers his eyes with a sallet-like visor whenever he isn't using his Figure Eyes, which is almost all the time.
• Creepy Good: He's loyal to the guild and not that bad of a guy, but he still wears a sinister visor over his upper face and spends half his time leering at people and the other half with his (branded) tongue out.
• Dark Is Not Evil: Wears dark and intimidating armour, has a Magical Eye that lets him possess souls, but (barring his debut arc) is just as heroic as the rest of Fairy Tail.
• Deadly Gaze: His Figure Eyes, which can literally rip a person's soul right out of them.
• Delinquent Hair: His hair is styled in a mohawk with two edges sideways.
• Emerald Power: His magic has a green aura, and is just as powerful as the rest of the Raijin Tribe.
• Facial Markings: He has a black shikigami-shaped tattoo on the center of his face.
• Good Costume Switch: He loses his skull-marked shoulder pads and gains a tuft on the back of his hood after his Big Damn Heroes moment in the Sirius Island arc, making him look more like a knight.
• The Hyena: You'd be hard-pressed not to find him laughing about something.
• Inconsistent Spelling: The English and Italian dubs spell his name as "Bixlow".
• Informed Flaw: He's said to suffer from Power Incontinence regarding his Figure Eyes, hence his mask. However, he's seen without his mask on numerous occasions, and with no issue.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He likes teasing his friends, but he always sticks by their side.
• Maniac Tongue: He starts out as one of Fairy Tail's Token Evil Teammates, and he's prone to laughing maniacally with his tongue sticking out, doing this even after his Heel–Face Turn.
• Not Distracted by the Sexy: When Lucy and Cana try to use sexy tactics to distract him and Fried, he announces that he doesn't care and attacks.
• Only Sane Man: In a hilarious case of utmost Irony, despite being The Hyena and the best example of Creepy Good among Fairy Tail, Bickslow is actually the member of the Raijin Tribe whose respect and admiration for Laxus is the most grounded and down to earth by comparison. Freed is the epitome of a Fanboy with his absolute and 100% overboard adoration of their leader and Evergreen has a case of Big Brother Worship for the guy. Bickslow, on the other hand, while just as willing to cheer for Laxus as loudly as the other two, has several times pulled absolutely bemused and confused expressions when Freed's or Evergreen's worship goes too far and ironically this makes him something of the Straight Man in comparison while still having absolute Undying Loyalty towards his leader.
• People Puppets: His Figure Eyes allow him the ability to take control of the souls of living things who come into direct eye contact with him, and to manipulate them as if they were his dolls.
• Power Incontinence: He has this problem with his Figure Eyes, wearing a Power Limiter mask to get a better handle on it.
• Secret-Keeper: He figured out that Loke was a celestial spirit long before the rest of the guild by looking at his soul, and didn't tell anyone until it was brought to light.
• Shipper on Deck: He likes to tease his friends over the slightest hint of a relationship, such as Lucy/Loke and Elfman/Evergreen.

Evergreen

Evergreen

Voiced by: Saori Seto (Japanese), Caitlin Glass (English)^note Other languages: Azucena Miranda (Latin American Spanish); Catherine Desplaces (French); Anna Cugini (Italian)

Evergreen is a young woman obsessed with fairies, only joining Fairy Tail because she liked the name. She uses her Stone Eyes ability to turn people into stone, and she can produce fairy dust to perform a variety of attacks and abilities.

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• Badass Longcoat: She starts wearing one after the Edolas arc.
• Belligerent Sexual Tension: Starting with their partnership in the Sirius Island arc, Evergreen and Elfman develop a contentions relationship that just makes their tender moments stand out all the more.
• Blasting Time: Her aptly named "Fairy Bomb: Gremlin" spell can cause things to blow up. And it is powerful enough to put K.O. Elfman in full Takeover mode.
• Deadly Gaze: Her Stone Eyes are a non-lethal variation that turns her enemies to stone. However, she declared that if she wished, she could accelerate the aging of the statues until they were reduced to dust, thus killing her victims.
• Emerald Power: Her dress and guild mark are a bright green colour, and she is a very formidable member of Fairy Tail.
• Everyone Can See It: No matter how much they deny it, anyone who sees Evergreen and Elfman together never fails to pick up on their Belligerent Sexual Tension.
• Expository Hairstyle Change: After the events of the Edolas arc, Evergreen starts wearing her hair down as opposed to her sidetail when introduced.
• Flechette Storm: Her "Fairy Machine Gun: Leprechaun" fires a storm of golden needles at her enemies.
• Friendly Address Privileges: Only Laxus and the rest of the Raijin Tribe call her "Ever". Elfman also starts calling her this beginning in the Sirius Island arc.
• Glass Cannon: She would have been easily a valid opponent of Erza and Mirajane for the title of the strongest woman of Fairy Tail if it were not that which, unfortunately, after her Demoted to Extra, those few times that she tries to fight against a badass character, in any narrative arc she's easily subdued and beaten. In her fight against Erza, Evergreen has continued to try to widen the distance between her and her rival as much as possible and only when she was literally taken with her back to the wall (or in this case a tube) that she felt completely defenseless. For what little was seen at the beginning of her fight with Mirajane in the Sirius Island, for the latter was enough to hit her with a single attack stronger than her "Fairy Machine Gun: Leprechaun" spell to put her briefly out of action.
• Gold-Colored Superiority: Her magic manifests as golden blasts that are befitting of a member of the Raijin Tribe.
• Green-Eyed Monster: She hated Erza for being called "Titania" (Fairy Queen), as she believes such a title belongs to her. She lets go of her grudge when Erza says that the name means nothing to her.
• He Is Not My Boyfriend: She repeatedly says this about Elfman, against all contrary evidence.
• Oh, Crap!: She realizes she's screwed the moment Erza is about to force her to surrender.
• Lady of Black Magic: Evergreen moves and behaves most of the time with an elegant and graceful posture, but when she has to fight she will not hesitate to unleash against you millions of pins of light formed by a highly explosive magical powder produced by her wings. Furthermore, her Stone Eyes eliminates in a single glance any human opponent without artificial eyes or protections, and, in the saga of Sirius Island, she shows that she has also learned to use the Letter magic with skill enough from at rewrite the barriers formed by basic runic languages of Fried.
• Long Range Combatant: Her magic gives great offence from a distance and the mobility to maintain it, but up close she has almost no options besides her Taken for Granite Magical Eye, which is why Erza Scarlet was able to overcome her.
• Mythical Motifs: Outright invoke fairies as one, being the name of her magic, whose attacks she names after different types, and lets her manifest wings.
• No Eye in Magic: She can turn people to stone with eye contact, but it doesn't work if she or her target is wearing glasses.
• Power Gives You Wings: She can sprout fully functional dragonfly-like wings using her fairy dust.
• Power Incontinence: Just like Bickslow, she can't fully control her eye magic, hence why she wears glasses.
• Proud Beauty: Well aware of being very beautiful and she is far more than satisfied when someone recognizes it (see Vain Sorceress).
• Ship Tease: Ever since their interaction in the Sirius Island arc, Evergreen and Elfman find themselves in several romantic positions whether they like it or not.
• Theme Naming: Her spells are all named after creatures commonly found in fairy tales.
• Unknown Rival: She really wants to defeat Erza during the Battle of Fairy Tail and had long since resented her for being known as "Titania", the queen of fairies. Erza doesn't take her seriously and says Evergreen can have the nickname if she wants it that badly.
• Vain Sorceress: By far the most vain of the women of this guild and faithful to this status, she tends to always dress (obviously with green color) in an elegant and sensual way at the same time, even in the toughest moments of wars that Fairy Tail faces.

Affiliates

These Fairy Tail members, while participants in the exam, were not present on the island when it was attacked and thus were not labeled as "missing".

Loke

Loke

See his entry on the Celestial Spirits page as Leo.

Mest Gryder / Doranbalt

Mest Gryder / Doranbalt

Voiced by: Shuhei Sakaguchi (Japanese); Alex Organ [2012–2018], Christopher Wehkamp [2018–2020] (English)^note Other languages: Benjamin Pascal (French); Alessandro Campaiola (Italian)

^{Click here to see his pre-timeskip appearance}

Mest is a wizard who can use memory-altering magic to wipe and edit others' memories, and a form of teleportation magic called Direct Line to travel long distances in the blink of an eye. Dispatched by Makarov to gather top-secret intel from the Magic Council, he works his memory charm on himself to disguise himself as an intelligence operative named Doranbalt, ironically turning against his own guild. However, he discovers himself to have been a bona fide member of Fairy Tail all along. Despite all the confusion, Mest proves himself a valuable ally to the guild.

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• Ambition Is Evil: His ambition to boost his reputation among the Council drives him to do some pretty amoral things, such as manipulating young Wendy into helping him disband her own guild.
• Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny!: His faked persona amounts to this, where he gets easily distracted by just about anything and everything such as snow and rocks, and usually even tries eating them.
• Backstory Invader: Subverted. He's introduced in the Sirius Island arc as Mystogan's pupil, right when his candidacy for the S-Class trial is announced, but then other characters start to realize that they don't remember that much about him, at which point his presence becomes suspicious. He's an infiltrator from the Council who used magic to alter the guild's memories. Ironically, he's finally revealed to really have been a member to begin with, but he did a Memory Gambit on himself to infiltrate the Council.
• Big Damn Heroes:
  • He rescues Wendy and Carla from Face's self-destruction at the last moment in the Tartaros arc.
  • In the Alvarez Empire arc, he manages to save Makarov moments before he's blown to oblivion by Emperor Spriggan, a.k.a. Zeref.
• Catchphrase: "I want to know what it's like!"
• Deep Cover Agent: He tries to become this when he infiltrates the Council by wiping his own memories of Fairy Tail. This goes about as well as you'd expect when the Council's intolerance for the guild rubs off on him, and he ends up re-infiltrating Fairy Tail for the Council.
• Didn't Think This Through:
  • He sacrificed his own memories to protect the guild from the Council, not anticipating that he would wind up putting the guild at risk himself.
  • In the Alvarez Empire arc, he tries taking out their strongest enemy by brainwashing one of his own allies into trying to kill him, and during peace negotiations, no less. Sadly, he failed to account for how resilient and angry one of the most powerful wizards alive could be.
    • Although, had their fight not been interrupted by Irene's Universe One spell, Natsu and Lucy actually stood a good chance of beating August, as his magic would stalemate against a slayer wizard like Natsu while leaving him vulnerable to a holder type wizard like Lucy.
• Drowning My Sorrows: A Filler arc shows him becoming a wasted alcoholic complete with a Beard of Sorrow over the Time Skip after failing to save anyone from the destruction of Sirius Island.
• Extreme Omnivore: He resorts to eating snow, gnawing on rocks, and munching on flowers to keep up his charade.
• Fake Memories: His memory manipulation afflicts others with this. He uses it to get Fairy Tail to think he's a longtime member, again to cover up the dragon attack during the Grand Magic Games, and finally to make Brandish think her own surrogate grandfather figure August is an enemy she needed to kill.
• Fatal Flaw: He has a knack for very poorly thought out plans. Not only did he end up making his infiltration of the Council far more complicated than it needed to be, but he also nearly destroys any hope of a peaceful resolution with Alvarez due to his paranoia.
• Flash Step: He's able to do this thanks to his Direct Line.
• Good Scars, Evil Scars: He has a scar on the left side of his face, which really helps make his true allegiances more ambiguous.
• Inconsistent Spelling: His name on the Council is officially spelled as "Doranbalt" by Kodansha, and as "Doranbolt" in the Funimation dub.
• I Did What I Had to Do: When Mest brainwashes Brandish into trying to kill August in the middle of a ceasefire negotiation with the Alvarez Empire, he initially justifies his actions by saying it was to protect Fairy Tail. It's subverted after this immediately and epically blows up in his face, as he realizes he seriously messed up.
• Imposter Forgot One Detail: While undercover at Sirius Island, Mest purports to be Mystogan's disciple in order to convince Wendy (Mystogan's Childhood Friend) to help him. However, Panther Lily immediately suspects something amiss since he knew Mystogan kept a distance from as many people as he could, making it unlikely he'd take on a disciple at all. It turns out that while Mest's story was bogus exactly as Lily suspected, he was only right insofar as Mest himself thinking he was an imposter.
• Laser-Guided Amnesia: His memory alteration magic can afflict this on other people. He even does this on himself when he goes undercover at the Council, not even realizing the guild he was trying to dissolve was the one he came from.
• Memory Gambit: He erased his own memories of being in Fairy Tail so he could secretly help Makarov gather top-secret Council intel on the Alvarez Empire without being suspected. Makarov was quick to point out the fallacy of this plan.
• Memory-Wiping Crew: A one-man crew, to be precise, but he is able to alter others' memories—including his fellow councilors'—whenever something big goes down that threatens national security.
• Mistaken for Pedophile: Erza seems convinced that he is one, as seen in the Sun Village arc when he pops up looking quite interested in her during her Imagine Spot of Jellal leaving her after she's been turned into a child. After seeing Wendy and a human Carla in swimsuits in the Alvarez Empire arc, however, he seems to be coming into this role on his own.
• The Mole: He's a Council agent who pretends to be a Fairy Tail member to dig up dirt on the guild. Ironically, he really is a Fairy Tail member who started out as mole in the Council, but erased his own memories to avoid suspicion.
• Morality Pet: He develops a protective fondness of Wendy during the Sirius Island arc, despite using her to dissolve her guild.
• Obfuscating Stupidity: He fakes a strange personality quirk in order to blend in better with Fairy Tail, in his case getting distracted by totally random things.
• Only Sane Man: He serves as this for Fairy Tail, gawking at their recklessness and apparent disregard of how powerful their enemies can be. He also doesn't approve of the Council's extremist approach towards eliminating Fairy Tail's threat to their credibility.
• Pragmatic Hero: He doesn't hesitate to do some pretty extreme things to protect his guild, from threatening to slit Cobra's throat for valuable intel, to turning Brandish against her deadliest ally to kill him.
• Reason Before Honor: He decides to alter Brandish's memories to make her think that August is her enemy, which makes her stab him in the chest. Natsu doesn't approve of this, but Mest tells him he did it for the guild. August, however, is not amused.
• Red Herring: It initially appears that he's one of Grimoire Heart's Seven Kin of Purgatory sent to find Zeref on Sirius Island. It turns out that he's an agent of the Magic Council who plans to expose that they're (unknowingly) harboring the Black Wizard and get rid of Grimoire Heart in one fell swoop.
• Red Is Heroic: By the time of the Alvarez Empire arc, Mest wears a red muscle shirt as part of his attire.
• Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right!: He is usually willing to forgo Council protocol in order to save as many lives as he can, an early indicator that he was a member of Fairy Tail the entire time.
• Survivor Guilt: As the apparent Sole Survivor of the attack on Sirius Island, he heavily blames himself for failing to get anyone off the island in time, particularly Wendy, whom he dragged into the situation by asking her to be his S-Class exam partner. It's alleviated when Fairy Tail returns safe and sound.
• Teleportation: His Direct Line allows him to teleport in straight directions across long distances, though there's a limit to how far he can travel each time, and how many times he can do so.
• Tomato in the Mirror: He learns at the end of the Tartaros arc that he was a Fairy Tail member all along, but erased his own mark and memories to make a more convincing disguise.
• Walking Spoiler: It's almost impossible to talk about this guy without giving away his true identity, especially the one he has hidden from himself.
• What the Hell, Hero?: In the Alvarez Empire arc, Mest manipulates Brandish's memories so that she tries (and nearly succeeds at) killing August. Natsu is extremely pissed, especially since Brandish had just finished peace talks with August anyway.
• "X" Marks the Hero: Has an x-shaped scar on his cheek, and is a mostly heroic character, both before and after The Reveal.

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