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Renais Cardiff Shishioh
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Voiced by: Yumi Kakazu (JP)
Codenamed as "Lion Reine," Renais is the daughter of Liger Shishioh and Guy's first cousin. She's a rogue agent of the high-tech criminal organization BioNet. When she was young, her mother was murdered by BioNet agents, and Renais was forcibly turned into a cyborg and made into one of their agents. She didn't take it so well, and turned on her captors. She was restrained and left in a BioNet facility to die until she was discovered and rescued by her father. Liger was able to repair her though the use of a GS Ride added to her systems, but could not solve a critical flaw in her construction: a severe overheating that requires her to wear a cooling jacket. In order to get revenge for the death of her mother, Renais joined GGG France (Chasseur).
- Action Girl: She's an on-field agent for Chasseur, getting into the thick of things when the action is going down.
- Alone with the Psycho: Seems to happen to her a lot. Her encounter with Gimlet goes this way, with him binding her with his Combat Tentacles and preparing to crush her to death until KouRyu hits the truck they're on with her MASER, knocking him loose... and prompting Renais to berate her for giving away their presence too soon. And then there's her first encounter with Pillnus...
- Anti-Hero: More accurately, "Anti-Heroine". She's gruff, anti-social, and blows away Gimlet and then crushes his head after he's been beaten by GaoFighGar.
- Battle Couple: With J, eventually.
- Cleavage Window: Her outfit after "equipping" has an opening in the chest area.
- Combat Pragmatist: Just like her cousin.
- Cyborg: Due to modifications from both Bio-Net and Liger, 50% of her body is mechanical.
- Fair Cop: She's a member of a special anti-crime organization who also qualifies as Ms. Fanservice.
- Gratuitous French: She uses the occasion French term in her speech, which is unsurprising, given that her mother was from France.
- Guys Smash, Girls Shoot: Unlike Guy and J, she prefers to use firearms, with a shotgun appearing to be her favorite.
- Madness Mantra: "It's hot...", generally when stressed out/flashing back to her Unwilling Roboticization. She works it into a small Badass Boast in the end.
- Ms. Fanservice: She has a large chest, and frequently changes into skintight outfit with a Cleavage Window.
- Nom de Mom: "Cardiff" is her mother's maiden name. Renais has been, and intended to continue to be, just a Cardiff for life due to her dad being a Casavona with Renais' status being rendered as a bastard due to her parents not forming any legal marriage. It's not until recent events that she began to sympathize with her dad to a decent degree to be willing to inherit her dad's surname.
- Offhand Backhand: In the form of several point-blank discharges of her pistol into Gimlet's stomach. Not that it helped.
- Parental Neglect: Implied. Her relationship with Liger isn't as warm as Guy and Leo's.
- Phlebotinum Rebel: Didn't work out so well for her for a while.
- Spell My Name With An S: Renais/Renee/Rune/Lune Cardiff/Cerdiff/Kirdif. The eyecatch at the end of Final 06 romanizes it as "Renais Kerdif Shishioh."
- We Can Rebuild Him: Unlike with Guy, this was done against her will. The first time was by BioNet, then again by Liger.
- Younger Than They Look: Maybe. Mikoto makes a comment in the first episode that Renais would be in high school if she hadn't been made into a cyborg, which would qualify her. However, the official site lists her as being 19, which makes things debatable.
Papillion Noir
Voiced by: Ayako Kawasumi
A bioengineer who has been assigned to the Main Order Room in-between the events of GGG and FINAL. She's the Love Interest of Kousuke Entouji.
- The Aloner: Her replicant is the only human one left when GGG arrives. The rest dissolved early on.
- Back from the Dead: Subverted in that the Papillon encountered on repli-Earth is actually a replicant of the real Papillon. After the destruction of Pisa Sol, she fades away with the rest of its creations.
- Clone Angst: Her replicant suffers from this when meeting GGG for the first time on Repli-Earth. They snap her out of it almost immediately.
- Hot-Blooded: Averted/Inverted like the rest of the new GGG members. In her case, she always speaks in a gentle, level tone.
- Shared Universe: She's a walking reference to GaoGaiGar's sister show Betterman. She went to college with Asami, was friends with Yanagi and Kaede, and her mother was a Posthumous Character that played a major background role. Even Papillion's power, the Sensing Mind, originates from Betterman.
- Trademark Favorite Food: Downplayed, but she seems to have a thing for mushrooms.
- We Hardly Knew Ye: Appears in the first episode of FINAL as a Bridge Bunny, then gets killed off in the very next episode, with barely anything established about her. The version of her we know better is her replicant.
Professor Ryosuke Takanohashi
Voiced by: Kiyoshi Kobayashi
One of the world's top 10 scientists, he has been assigned to the Main Order Room in-between the events of GGG and FINAL. He takes up the late Professor Leo Shishio's place.
- Wholesome Crossdresser: In one part of his introduction montage, he appears in an stereotypical hawaiian-girl Coconut-shell and grass-skirt outfit.
Noriyuki Yaginuma
Voiced by: Mitsuaki Madono
The new GGG Chief after Taiga returned to his position as President of the Space Development Corporation.
- Badass Bureaucrat: Bureaucrat, definitely as described below. Badass, that comes as a default requirement for a GGG member, and he shows this if only by keeping his cool even in the face of the universe being destroyed.
- Obstructive Bureaucrat:
- Invoked, but as a very, very mild version mostly Played for Laughs. He is meant to be a parody of the stereotypical old school senior Japanese bureaucrat given a "descent from heaven" from a government position to another private entity, who will be clueless and hopelessly disconnected of the realities of the field, take his time to do everything, and use a Personal Seal to stamp approval documents even in emergencies.
- The worst that happens here is that several bridge bunnies have to urge him a few times into approving Final Fusion faster, to which he will comically say "Well, if you all say so...", go "heave-ho" at raising from his seat to get his stamp, blow on it to humidify it and stamp his approval for scanning, all while taking his time.
- He is basically meant as a foil to Taiga, but is still as well-meaning.
- Nerves of Steel: Given that nothing, and literally nothing will faze him, and prevent him from enacting his mannerisms as described above, you could argue he has this.
- Reasonable Authority Figure: You can say what you will about his slow mannerisms, but he will do the right thing, do it right and keep his level attitude about everything.
GGG Mecha
Kouryuu & Anryuu/Tenryuujin
Kouryuu (Full Body)
Anryuu (Full Body)
Tenryuujin (Close-up)
Tenryuujin (Full Body)
Anryuu (Full Body)
Tenryuujin (Close-up)
Tenryuujin (Full Body)
Voiced by: Yukari Tamura (JP)
Kouryuu (Light Dragon) and Anryuu (Dark Dragon) are twin sister machines developed by GGG France with the same lineup as their four Dragon Brothers. Their alt-forms are a MASER truck and MLRS Launcher truck respectively. When the two sister' sympa-rates reach 100%, they are both able to combine their bodies via Symmetrical Docking and merge into Tenryuujin (Heavenly Dragon God).
- Call-Back: Tenryuujin's "Dance of Light and Dark" is based on an attack Pasder used in Part 1, and she uses an attack called "Projectile/Bullet X Lite" to take out Puranus.
- Combining Mecha: A more feminine example, although she can't combine with the others because of their designs.
- Dual Wielding: Tenryuujin's Double Nail Fire are plasma swords on both of her hands.
- Guile Heroine: During Tenryuujin's "Dance of Light And Dark", she essentially waits in the shadows, taunting the opponent and misdirecting them until she can move in for the Finishing Move.
- Half the Woman She Used to Be: Puranus splits Tenryuujin straight down the center.
- Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: By Puranus. Doesn't take, as Puranus stabs them straight down the center—naturally, Kouryuu and Anryuu are barely damaged as individuals, and Fusion Out in order to escape.
- Improbable Aiming Skills: Tenryuujin acknowledges the massive amount of computational power that her strongest attacks requires to actually work.
- Interspecies Romance: Super Robot Wars W suggests Kouryu might be attracted to human males as she was shown offering Quatre of Mobile Suit Gundam Wing to kiss her.
- Light Feminine and Dark Feminine: In a similar notion to their brothers, Kouryuu and Anryuu have rather polarizing personalities, with Kouryuu being more of The Cutie Genki Girl whereas Anryuu is the more like a Dark Action Girl minus the bad personality mixed with a hint of tomboyishness.
- Macross Missile Massacre: Anryuu carries an impressive 210 missiles.
- Reflecting Laser: Tenryuujin's Dance of Light and Dark. Justified in that she provides the reflective surfaces.
- Running Gag: Kouryuu is just like her brothers, Enryuu and Rairyuu. She's actually shown also having problems with a flight pack.
- Tomboy and Girly Girl: Anryuu's tomboy and Kouryuu's girly girl.
- Transforming Mecha: Kouryuu can transform into a MASER truck while Anryuu transforms into a MLRS launcher truck.
United Nations
Rose Aproval
Voiced by: Mizuka Arima
Secretary General of the U.N.
- Batman Gambit: Pulls a masterful one when she banishes GGG. This means they are effectively free to investigate whatever is happening on the other side of the universe, and no one can say anything. Also, this nicely avoids any finger pointing or blame game.
- Canon Immigrant: She first appeared in episode 43.2 of GaoGaiGar Blockade Numbers.
- Guile Hero: Definitely heroic, but not shying away from being a shrewd politician and acting like one.
Antagonists
Bio-Net
Gimlet
Voiced by: Takeshi Aono
A member of Bio-Net.
- Catchphrase: "That won't do!"
- Curb-Stomp Battle: Delivered by GaoFighGar.
- Gratuitous French: All of his attacks are random french words and it's hilarious.
Shu Wanibuchi
A close high school friend of Guy and Mikoto who became an agent for Bio-Net.
- All Love Is Unrequited: It's implied that he has feelings for Mikoto, but she only cares for him as a friend.
- The Rival: He was this to Guy in their younger days.
- The Resenter: Due to Guy beating him at everything that they did. Made worse when Guy became a cyborg and later an evoluder, and surpassed Shu.
- Your Days Are Numbered: Due to his body being a prototype, he knows that he doesn't have long to live.
The 11 Planetary Masters of Sol
In General
- A.I. Is a Crapshoot: They're actually A.I.s created by Abel to rebuild the Trinity Star System in the event the Z-Master was destroyed. Problem is, they don't know where to stop and are willing to destroy the entire universe to reach that goal. Notably, even Cain seemed to realize their existence was a horrible idea, given he set up Genesic GaoGaiGar to wipe them out far ahead of time.
- Attack Its Weak Point: Their Loud G-Stone. While Pisa Sol can regenerate them after this, it seems that if it weren't for her, destroying this would destroy them for good. Pisa Sol can be considered one for the whole group, as destroying her took all the replica Sol Lords with her.
- Can't Catch Up: As it turns out, The Loud G-Stone has a higher, stable output than the G-Stone and thus won't decrease in power. However, by the same token, it can't increase either, meaning the Sol Masters can't actually power up like the heroes can and can be outperformed.
- Dirty Coward: For all their power, they spend most of FINAL choosing to engage GGG as indirectly as possible. And even when they do finally decide fight GGG themselves, it's only after stacking the odds as hard as they can in their favor. Guy lampshades this behavior in the epic "Reason You Suck" Speech he gives to Palparepa during their final battle.
- Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: They fail to take the power of courage into account when facing GGG, which ultimately leads to their downfall. In fact, it's implied they fear it because it allows the G-Stone to surpass the power of their Loud G-Stones.
- Gone Horribly Right: They're doing exactly what Abel created them to do. Problem is doing so risks the entire universe and they have no qualms about doing so.
- Healing Factor: Thanks to Pisa Sol and the Pas-Q machine, they can endlessly regenerate from even the most fatal of wounds. The entire reason GGG fought so hard to destroy them despite it ultimately being futile was to overtax Pisa Sol's regenerative abilities and leave her vulnerable for Guy to finish her with the Goldion Crusher.
- In the Hood: With the exception of three members, all of them wear hooded cloaks.
- Key Stone Army: Pisa Sol is really the only reason they're able to keep the GGG crew on the ropes as well as they do in the final battle, as each of the Braves is able to beat one of them one on one and only lose the second round due to being taken off-guard. The moment Pisa Sol is destroyed, the rest of the Replica sol Masters fade out of existence.
- Knight of Cerebus: By far the most powerful and efficient enemies of the entire series. To put it simply, every little victory GGG manages to get during FINAL is quickly followed by a huge defeat at their hands.
- Not-So-Well-Intentioned Extremist: While there goal to restore the Trinary Solar System is ostensibly noble, their horrific actions and less than noble personalities kill any sympathy they might have garnered.
- Omnicidal Maniacs: Zigzagged. Unlike most examples, the universe's destruction isn't actually their endgame, restoring their home universe is. Unfortunately, their plan involves using the Pas-Q machine to absorb all the dark matter in the current universe, which would destroy it and all life that dwells in it. And even more unfortunately, they don't damn about the consequences.
- Psycho Rangers: Despite being created long before GGG or any of its members existed, the Sol Masters coincidentally serve as Evil Counterparts to the Braves and all of them aside from Pisa Sol square off with their respective rivals in FINAL's climax.
- Smug Super: They have egos the size of galaxies and unfortunately they're more than strong enough to back up their boasts. Downplayed, however, in that as powerful as they are, they're only able to do as well as they do because of Pisa Sol's healing. In a fair fight, each of the GGG robots are actually capable of defeating them one on one and Genesic GaoGaiGar would've wiped all of them out within moments of emerging if Pisa Sol wasn't regenerating them.
- Theme Naming: Their names all begin with P. Most of them also have names based off planets.
- Toyless Toyline Character: Despite most of them having a mecha form, none of them have ever had toys made of them, not even Palparepa who's got a ton of screen time.
Palparepa
Voiced by: Kiyoyuki Yanada (JP)
- All There in the Manual: The full name of Palparepa's first mech is Palparepa PLUS according to an Eye Catch.
- Caped Mecha: Palparepa PLUS has one. He loses it after becoming Palparepa Prajna with the cape turning into wings.
- Deadly Doctor: He's a skilled biologist and has no issues using his practice in combat.
- Evil Counterpart: To Guy. He performs "Chemical Fusion" with a giant ball-and-stick molecule to form his own mecha, Palparepa PLUS, which has its own Yin-Yang Bomb attack and can deploy various tools from its back. He's also the main attacking force of the Masters, and gets the most screen time.
- Evil Knockoff: Well this is sorta subverted seeing as how GaoGaiGar wasn't even thought up when he and the other Sol Masters were made, making GaoGaiGar and GGG the Evil Knockoff to them! He also has an attack called God And Devil which functions the same as Hell and Heaven.
- Eye Scream: Guy finishes him by ripping the Loud G-Stone out of his eye socket.
- Graceful Loser: He truly believes that only the strongest is allowed to exist, so, when Pisa Sol is destroyed and they start to vanish, he peacefully remarks that as "the law of the material world", accepting the fact that they lost.
- The Heavy: Especially early on in Final where he is responsible for moving the plot along while Palus Abel dictates things from the shadows.
- Hoist by His Own Petard: He attempts to infect Guy with nanomachines to disable him. He failed to realized that as an Evoluder, Guy is now a Technopath and after a few minutes manages to take control of the nanobots and send them right back at Palparepa.
- Light Is Not Good: Has a white mech and in confrontations with GaoGaiGar is represented by God. His mech is also named for the Sanskrit word for Wisdom or Insight, with Buddhist connotations.
- Palparepa Prajna subverts this at first, being a dark green color but played straight after being affected by his own nano machine virus.
- Odd Name Out: Does not seem to be named for or otherwise represent a part of our Solar System.
- One-Winged Angel: Injects himself with his own Doping Cylinders to become Palparepa Prajna.
- Palette Swap: In the opening of FINAL episode 8 and the Super Robot Wars games, Palparepa Prajna has the same color scheme as Palparepa PLUS.
- "The Reason You Suck" Speech: He is fond of giving these to Guy. He later finds himself on the receiving end of one from Guy in the last episode.
- This Cannot Be!: His reaction to Guy breaking free of his Chemical Bolts and GGG of his Paras Particles.
- Villainous Breakdown: He has a huge one when battling Guy in Japan, even when Guy starts to overcome his power, he gets over it.
Palus Abel
Voiced by: Sayuri Yamauchi (JP)
- Big Bad: Of Final, while Palparepa does most of the heavy lifting among the Masters of Sol, Abel is the one leading them all.
- The Chess Master: Abel fancies herself this, commanding the rest of the Sol Masters, despite having no mech form of her own and was able to trash Kaidou easily.
- Evil Counterpart: To Kaidou.
- Evil Knockoff: She's a younger clone of the real Abel.
- Out-Gambitted: Thought she had things won when Pisa Sol replicated the Sol Masters several dozen times each...playing right into the heroes' hands by draining so much of Pisa Sol's energy she had to recharge, leaving her vulnerable to the Goldion Crusher.Abel: It appears you've lost, doesn't it?
Soldato-J: You think so?
Renais: I knew she wouldn't notice.
(cue Oh, Crap! from Abel) - Smug Snake: Treats the battle with GGG as a game.
- Theme Naming: Well, not really—'Paulus' is just 'little' in Latin, but her status as Big Bad and representative of the Red Planet suggests that her planet is Mars.
Pei La Cain
- Evil Counterpart: To Mamoru.
- Evil Knockoff: Of the real Cain. Lampshaded by Mamoru.Mamoru: Just a mindless program based on Cain!
- Mind Rape: Does this to Guy when Guy and Palparepa were clashing Hell and Heaven against God and Devil, causing Guy, who was matched with Palparepa at that moment, to lose concentration just long enough for him to lose the fight.
- Theme Naming: The wiki believes his name is meant to evoke 'Gaia' or 'Terra', making him the master representing Earth.
Pia Decem
- Co Dragon: With Pillnus.
- Evil Counterpart: To Soldato J. He pilots a massive flying ship, and can perform Giga Fusion to merge with it into a truly enormous mechanoid. He is also very fast.
- Grim Reaper
- Sinister Scythe
- Vader Breath: Has no dialogue, except for this. (In fact, when you play his dialogue in SRW Alpha 3, this is all you get.)
- Theme Naming: Probably named for "Planet X"/the hypothetical tenth planet, but his death theme is more reminiscent of Pluto.
Pillnus
Voiced by: Tomoe Hanba (JP)
- Arm Cannon: Her left hand is often replaced by a stinger-like weapon that can fire bursts of heat.
- Beware My Stinger Tail: In addition to the one in the usual place, has one at the end of her left arm.
- Chain Pain: One of her abilities is to extend the chains from her outfit to bind her enemies.
- Co-Dragons: Seems to share this role with Pia Decem.
- Combat Tentacles: Her right arm becomes one; going with the whole 'Dominatrix' theme, she wields it like a whip.
- Dominatrix: Her personality in a nutshell. She also prefers to bind her opponent with chains.
- Dressed Like a Dominatrix: She wears a Domino Mask and a skimpy red leather outfit that is embedded with spikes and wrapped with chains.
- Evil Counterpart: To Renais. Like Renais, she doesn't have a mech, but she works very well alongside J's counterpart, Pia Decem. They also both have wings (well, Renais has radiator panels thanks to her cooling coat, but they look like wings), and both use heavy weaponry.
- Flight: Via her four wings.
- I Have You Now, My Pretty: Whenever she captures Renais, expect such behavior. Never with J, just Renais.
- Insectoid Aliens: Her black-and-yellow-striped abdomen and wings mark her as such.
- Sexy Backless Outfit: Exaggerated. Pillinus's bikini is backless, with only her chains holding the outfit together.
- Spikes of Villainy: Lots, including on her collar and headband. She even has spikes where her nipples would be.
- Stripperiffic: Her outfit leaves next to nothing to the imagination.
- Terms of Endangerment / The Nicknamer: Calls Renais her "kitty" (Neko-chan), on the basis that Renais is (in her view) much softer and more easily tamed than a proper lion/Shishioh. It's just as
uncomfortable as it sounds. - Theme Naming: Named for Venus, which perfectly suits her personality.
- Vapor Wear: She's clearly not wearing anything under those chains, least of all a bra.
- Whip of Dominance: Her right arm becomes a whip-like tentacle which complements her sadistic and domineering personality and her entire Dominatrix motif.
- Winged Humanoid: A humanoid female with four insectoid wings.
Pisa Sol
- Evil Counterpart: To Mikoto. Although very passive, she enables her entire team to fight. Also to Goldymarg—or rather, her Fusion with the Regeneration Machine is the Evil Counterpart to the Goldion Crusher, which is connected to both Goldymarg and Mikoto; of course, Pisa Sol's sun makes light become matter, rather than the other way around.
- Light Is Not Good: Is the Sol Master representing the sun.
- Load-Bearing Boss: What else would you call someone who, when defeated, causes the UNIVERSE to implode?!
- Theme Naming: Named for the sun, Sol.
Percurio, P-Vater, Polturn, Puranus & Ptulone
- Blow You Away: Ptulone.
- Dual Wielding: Polturn.
- Evil Counterparts:
- P-Vater: ChoRyuJin, presumably; while their abilities aren't really mirrors, ChoRyuJin was the first to be powered up by the power of The Power, which of course comes from Jupiter. P-Vater's shockwave missile and chainsaw arms might be Evil Counterparts to the Eraserhead and ChoRyuJin's extendable arms/tonfas, respectively.
- Polturn: Volfogg, both stealthy, purple ninjas with Wolf themes that Dual Wield blades; both capable of interfacing with computer systems (Volfogg for his information-gathering role, Polturn as The Cracker.)
- Ptulone: GekiRyuJin, both wield air and electromagnetism. If Ptulone is meant to evoke Neptune, it's an appropriate counterpart since Neptune is so closely associated with storms.
- Puranus: TenRyuJin, both wield lasers and missiles; also, Uranus was the god of the sky, and TenRyuJin is the heavenly dragon god(dess).
- Percurio: Mic Sounders. He's the Swing musician to Mic's rocker, and flies around on his own stage, the "BluBalloon". His horn-like head and tapered tip also bring to mind a gramophone to Mic's CD player.
- Katanas Are Just Better: Polturn.
- Macross Missile Massacre: Puranus.
- Musical Assassin: Percurio.
- Ninja: Polturn.
- Shields Are Useless: Puranus finds this out the hard way.
- The Brute: P-Vater, before turning into a mech is visibly larger than the rest of the Sol Masters are. While his mecha form isn't very large compared to the others', its design suggests a certain amount of heft and a strong 'construction vehicle' theme.
- The Cracker: Polturn.
- Theme Naming:
- Percurio: Mercury.
- P-Vater: Jupiter (IVPITER).
- Polturn: Saturn.
- Puranus: Uranus.
- Ptulone: Neptune, for all that he sounds like he should be Pluto, at least according to the wiki.
