Here is a list of characters from the manga series Getter Robo.
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Ryoma Nagare
As seen in Armageddon
His pilot suit as seen in Super Robot Wars X-Ω
If there’s a hole it’s a man’s job to thrust into it!
New Getter Robo
First Appearance: Getter Robo manga
Also Featured: Everywhere else aside Hien manga.
Voiced By: Akira Kamiya (classic anime, Daikessen), Hideo Ishikawa (Armageddon, Shin vs Neo, New, Arc), Douglas Taylor (Armageddon dub), Lex Lang (New dub), Adam Gibbs (Arc dub)
Main character of the first series and main character in general, featured in every adaptation of the series.
At the beginning of the manga, Ryoma Nagare is a hotblooded but immensely skilled young martial artist out to avenge his father's sabotaged reputation by proving his fighting style the strongest. While enacting this revenge by crashing a national karate tournament and defeating everyone there, he attracts the attention of the Saotome Laboratory, who are looking for physically and mentally superior candidates to pilot their new Getter Robo. After demonstrating his worth by killing three assassins sent after him, Ryoma is recruited into the team and pilots Getter-1 in defence of humanity against both the Dinosaur Empire and the Hundred Demons Empire over the course of Getter Robo and Getter Robo G.
In Shin Getter Robo, however, after the development of the titular robot and the onset of attacks from mysterious enemies specifically targeting the Getter, Ryoma begins having visions of the future of humanity. This causes him to quit piloting Getter for sixteen years. Eventually, however, the situation becomes dire enough that the only way to save humanity is for him to pilot Shin Getter once more for the climax of Getter Robo Go.
Though he does not appear in person in the Arc manga, his legacy continues with his son, Takuma Nagare, piloting the Getter-1... as well as the future beckoned by the Getter Rays looming ever closer.
- A Chat with Satan: In the Arc anime, the spirits of Ryoma and Tahir appear before Takuma and Baku and more or less play this role as they explain the nature of evolution to them, seemingly to test their commitment to protecting humanity and their willingness to create their own futures.
- A Father to His Men: In the Go Manga, he beats the ever-loving tar out of a group of drug-peddling Yakuza who dealt drugs that killed one of his students.
- Abusive Parents: Ichigan Nagare apparently substituted proper child rearing with intense karate training and Might Makes Right fighting philosophy. This may explain a great deal about Ryoma's violent tendencies.
- Adaptational Heroism: He is less violent and ruthless in the 1970's anime, and he's also a soccer player instead of a vengeful karateka.
- Affectionate Nickname: 'Ryou' to his True Companions.
- Arrogant Kung-Fu Guy: In his manga introduction he derides the moves of the fighters competing at the tournament he crashes as a 'mere dance', rather than true martial arts. He then beats the shit out of all of them to prove the point. He does the same to another dojo in the "Moon Wars" drama CD.
- Ax-Crazy: Rare heroic (or anti-heroic) example. Ryoma is unquestionably dedicated to protecting humanity from its enemies, and he does generally make an effort to prioritise the safety of innocents, but he's just a little too willing to resort to brutal violence at the drop of a hat.
- Badass Biker: In chapter four of G he kicks the ass of what he thinks are Hyakki Empire goons while on a motorbike.
- Badass Boast: Many times, just like any good Hot-Blooded protagonist should.Ryoma: The stage is set, Gore. We're going to give you a taste of fear! We won't just kill you! We'll show you the true horror of Getter!
- Another significant one from New:
Ryoma: Keep this in mind, alright? Someday I will crush the Getter and condemn it back to the dark hell it came from. - Badass Longcoat: In Armageddon, and in the last chapter of Go.
- Barbarian Long Hair: In Go and Shin Vs Neo to indicate the passage of time and increased badassery, which he keeps tied back.
- Also sports an even wilder version in his appearance in Honey VS while training in the mountains.
- Bare-Handed Blade Block: Pulls one off in the first chapter, though it causes his hands to bleed.
- The Berserker: In and out of the Getter, Ryoma is no stranger to throwing himself into a fray to deal absolutely brutal beatdowns, regardless of how much damage he's sustained.
- Blood Knight: For Ryoma Nagare, fighting is living, and vice-versa. Or did you think all those Slasher Smiles were just for show?
- Blue Is Heroic: His pilot suits usually incorporate blue as a main color.
- Big Damn Heroes: In Armageddon, after being presumed dead for ten years (he was actually sent forward in time) he shows up in the Black Getter to save the Getter team and kill Invaders.
- Big Ol' Eyebrows: In case the Go Nagai influence wasn't clear enough. They're especially big and bushy in Armageddon.
- Boxed Crook: Basically how he starts Armageddon. Framed for Saotome's murder prior to the start of the series, Ryoma spends three years in jail only for Saotome to show up alive and well and causing a ruckus. So the UN lets Ryoma free to pilot Getter again... so that he can commit the murder he was imprisoned for to begin with.
- Can't Kill You, Still Need You: Stops Go from destroying Shin Getter after he discovers its true nature despite agreeing with him on how dangerous it is, because it's humanity's only chance for survival at that point.
- Charles Atlas Superpower: In Getter Robo Go, he breaks a sword on his chest and crushes a dinosaur’s skull with his bare hands.
- Combat Compliment: During his fight with Hayato when they first meet.
- Combat Parkour: The New Getter Robo version of Ryoma is especially agile, with a penchant for using backflips and handsprings to dodge attacks.
- Combination Attack: Comes up with the Final Dynamic Special
. This indicates his friendship with Kouji, Tetsuya and Duke in the crossover specials. Also comes up with the Final Getter Tomahawk and Double Shine Spark with Go in Armageddon. - Composite Character: In Armageddon, he is a composite of himself and Shinichi Kuruma from Majuu Sensen (Another series created by Ken Ishikawa).
- Determinator: Always.
- Disappeared Dad: To Takuma. Though, in fairness to him, Takuma's mother states that he did not know she was pregnant when he departed to perform his Heroic Sacrifice for humanity's sake.
- Disney Death: In chapter 10 of the original manga he seemingly dies in a big explosion after already being severely wounded. The characters even comment that even Ryoma wouldn't have been able to survive it. But naturally, since they Never Found the Body, it turns out he actually survived and got captured by the Hyakki Empire.
- Dissonant Serenity: While getting absorbed into Shin Getter at the end of Go, the normally hotblooded Ryoma is absolutely, unnervingly calm.
- Drives Like Crazy: According to Benkei, anyway.Benkei: I feel a lot safer piloting a Getter than riding in a car with you behind the wheel, Ryou!
- Easy Amnesia: After his above-mentioned Disney Death, Ryoma loses his memories and spends a brief period of time Brainwashed and Crazy by the Hyakki Empire. Being called out to by his name triggers a Freak Out as fragments of his memories start to return, though he doesn't remember everything until he witnesses Musashi's Heroic Sacrifice.
- Everyone Has Standards: Human experimentation and biological weapons enrage him far more than any other atrocities the villains commit.
- Future Me Scares Me: Swears off piloting Getter Robo after the events of the Shin Getter Robo manga, where a testing accident with Shin Getter leads him to have several prophetic dreams of the nightmarish Getter Emperor, culminating in an incident where he temporarily passes through a time portal to come face-to-face with Emperor itself—and realizes he is the thing's pilot.
- Freudian Trio: Id in all versions aside 70’s anime. Especially in New Getter.
- Genius Bruiser: The Armageddon version has him handy enough to customize a Getter 1 into the Black Getter.
- Godzilla Threshold: After his experiences in the Shin Getter Robo manga, Ryoma is acutely aware of how dangerous Shin Getter is, outright stating that it could destroy the world/humanity and coming to blows with Hayato over using it. But by the end of Go the situation is so dire that he accepts that it is the only way to save mankind.
- Good Is Not Nice: Almost every incarnation of him is an aloof roughneck due to an intense upbringing from his father, though he's not completely incapable of developing bonds with others and socializing, making him more of a Jerk with a Heart of Gold.
- Downplayed in his pre-Getter Robo Go incarnations. He can be somewhat rough around the edges, but he's otherwise a loyal and heroic man. Seeing the nightmare future of the Getter and the destruction of the Saotome Lab hardens him into the more ruthless person he is in Go.
- Heroic Sacrifice: In the original manga (though he survives) and at the end of Armageddon and New Getter.
- Hot-Blooded: The absolute king of this trope. The man quite literally maintains his sanity thanks to his galaxy-level nekketsu passion.
- Hot-Blooded Sideburns: So much that he's the one featured in the main page's picture.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: In some versions, even his rather tame portrayal in Devilman Vs Getter Robo has it's moments.
- Kid Hero: In the Koji Kabuto mold, he's around sixteen/seventeen years old at the start of the manga.
- Kidnapped by the Call: Courtesy of Professor Saotome.
- Laughing Mad: Briefly in episode 13 of New, when overtaken by Getter Rays.
- Made of Iron: Physical toughness is a requirement for piloting a Getter Robo, but Ryoma gets stabbed and his tendons severed in one arm and it doesn't even slow him down.
- Never Bring a Knife to a Fist Fight: In the first episode of New, a loan shark pulls a knife on him, only to piss himself when Ryoma simply grabs the blade with his bare hand while grinning.
- Then subverted later on in the episode when Ryoma is attacked by an actually trained assassin wielding a sword; it is treated as a legitimate threat, and Ryoma needs to fend him off using a knife he pulls out of his own shoulder.
- Offscreen Moment of Awesome: In New, a scene ends with Ryoma surrounded by a large group of yakuza all wielding knives and weapons. A while later, it cuts to all the yakuza beaten up without a single scratch on Ryoma.
- One-Man Army: In the first episode of Armageddon, he solo pilots a Getter against an entire horde of Getter-G models, and absolutely demolishes them.
- The New version is this outside of the cockpit no less, going on two separate rampages against legions of Oni while storming their base.
- Revenge: Ryoma's life since birth was dedicated to martial arts and getting stronger for the goal of avenging his father's sabotaged reputation. He achieves it in the first chapter of the manga, forcing his way into a national karate tournament, beating up everyone there on live television and 'redeems' martial arts...
- And Then What?: ...and then he goes home and realizes that while he felt alive for the first time that day, he's now accomplished his entire life goal and has no idea what he's supposed to live for now. It's at this point that Saotome Labs comes calling in the shape of three assassins sent to test his worth.
- Scarf of Asskicking: Obviously on his pilot suit, but his Armageddon design (which was borrowed from Majuu Sensen protagonist Shinichi Kuruma) features an even more iconic red one.
- Screw Destiny: Discussed with Hayato in Shin over the role of the Getter Rays in humanity's future. Where Hayato's view is that the Getter Rays guided humanity this far and that You Can't Fight Fate, Ryoma insists that he will move forward with his own power and make his own future.Ryoma: It's been said... If obeying destiny is destiny itself, then disobeying is destiny, also!
- Unfortunately for Ryoma, since the Shin manga was released after Go, the audience already knows that Ryoma's attempt to defy his fate by never piloting Getter again will fail, since Mandatory Unretirement means that sooner or later the Getter draws him back in, and by the end of Go he resigns himself to the fact that he will never be able to escape it.
- Serial Escalation: Ryoma in New tops every other incarnation in being Hot-Blooded and even manages to top himself in the last episode.
- Slasher Smile: Often, but New Getter version really takes the cake.
- Sleeves Are for Wimps: His regular clothes in New include a denim jacket with cut off sleeves.
- Spanner in the Works: In Armageddon he shows up out of nowhere in a Big Damn Heroes moment. The next episode the villains lampshade this, saying he "had a bad habit of wrecking our plans."
- 10-Minute Retirement: In New Getter, after witnessing the Bad Future that the Getter could lead to, he leaves the team in an attempt to prevent disaster, much like he did in the manga. Except unlike the manga, where he only got pulled back into piloting the Getter a full sixteen years later, in New he only manages a few days at most before a villain attack forces him back into the cockpit.
- Throwing Your Sword Always Works: During his fight with assassins in New Getter.
- Took a Level in Badass: In Getter Robo Go, he comes back as an even bigger badass than before.
- Training from Hell: In the original manga he mentions training with his father, which apparently involved fighting tigers with his bare hands.
- Transformation Name Announcement: CHANGE GETTAAAAA ONE! SWITCH ON!
- "GETTER EMPEROR CHANGE!" The voice that quakes the Universe itself was, indeed, that of Ryoma Nagare. "CHANGE GETTER EMPEROR ONE!"
- The Unfettered: Quite literally the fighting philosophy he was raised with: in battle there is nothing 'sacred' or 'profane', there is only winning at any cost, until all enemies are defeated.
- Although, he does noticeably hesitate at the prospect of killing the body-puppeteered Tatsuhito, as well as fighting in a laboratory filled with humans the Dinosaur Empire were experimenting on for fear of collateral damage. In both cases, Professor Saotome and Hayato remind him that the fate of the human race is on the line and such sentiment will only get him killed, which Ryoma grimly accepts.
- Unstoppable Rage: Ryoma isn't an especially calm or careful guy in combat at the best of times, but the Armageddon version in particular enters battle running on nothing but pure burning fury, edging on Revenge Before Reason at times.
- Walking Shirtless Scene: When he's not wearing his pilot suit he tends to go shirtless into battle instead, such as during the assault of the Chiryu clan on Saotome Labs. Why? Uh, manliness, we suppose.
Hayato Jin
As seen pre-timeskip in Armageddon
As seen post-timeskip in Armageddon
His pilot suit as seen in Super Robot Wars X-Ω
Older Hayato as seen in the Getter Robo Arc anime
If you still plan to declare war on the world... we'll crush your plans to dust! Even if it costs us everything!
Getter Robo Go manga
First Appearance: Getter Robo manga
Also Featured: Everywhere else.
Voiced By: Keaton Yamada (classic anime), Naoya Uchida (Armageddon, Shin vs Neo, New, Arc), Yasunori Masutani (Daikessen), Bill Wise (Armageddon dub), Kirk Thornton (New dub, as Todd Crump), Justin Doran (Arc dub)
The second member of the original Getter Team introduced. More intelligent and calm than Ryoma, but in many continuities also even crazier than him.
In Getter Robo, Hayato Jin starts out as the sadistic, sociopathic leader of a violent campus group who murders dissenting underlings and plots terrorism out of boredom. His intelligence and combat prowess causes Professor Saotome to send Ryoma to judge his worth as a Getter pilot, only for their confrontation to be interrupted by an attack from the Dinosaur Empire. Though initially terrified out of his mind, Hayato soon accepts joining the team and pilots Getter-2 in the fight against humanity's enemies all the way through to Getter Robo G.
In Shin Getter Robo, Hayato continues research into the Getter Rays and becomes a scientist, being one of many invited by Professor Rando to the North Pole. However, Hayato soon discovers that it was a trap to convert the world's greatest minds into cyborg slaves. Managing to escape but suffering injuries in the process preventing him from piloting the physically demanding Getter machines, Hayato recruits a new team to pilot his new Getter Robo Go in order to fight against Rando's world-conquering schemes.
By the time of Getter Robo Arc, he has fully revived Saotome Labs and acts as The Mentor to a new trio of Getter Pilots.
- The Ace: He's characterized as this in the 70s anime, as right from the very start, as he's shown to have more kicking power than Ryoma Nagare, who is the Soccer Clubs captain, and being able to throw around the heavyweight Judo fighter Musashi Tomoe despite the vast difference in weight between the two, on top of being good-looking and highly intelligent too, to the point where the two desperately wish that he'd join their respective clubs at Asama High.
- Adaptation Dye-Job: In the anime adaptation of Getter Robo Arc, the older Hayato has white hair even though it's black in the manga. This also makes him look a little bit like Doctor Saotome.
- Adaptational Heroism: He's kind of a dick in the original anime, but is mostly a moody loner. This is in sharp contrast to the manga, where he's a homicidal psychopath and terrorist.
- Admiring the Abomination: In Shin, he, like Ryoma, sees a vision of the future with the Getter Emperor. Unlike Ryoma, however, who is horrified and questions what monsters humanity will turn into, Hayato is excited by seeing how far Getter will come, motivating him to want to discover more about the Getter Rays.
- Ax-Crazy: Manages to pull out this and The Stoic at the same time.
- Badass Longcoat: In Ah and Hien.
- Bad Boss: In his first appearance of the manga, he brutally kills his minions, sometimes for no reason at all. He does get better but still has some tendencies that make others fear him.
- Bloodlust: Differs from Blood Knight Ryoma in that rather than loving fighting, Hayato starts off the series satisfying his boredom through terrorism and killing. When he finds another purpose in life, namely studying the Getter Rays, these tendencies tone down significantly, though he's certainly still capable of being as batshit insane and lethal as ever.
- Character Development: Grows significantly over the course of the series. In Getter Robo Go he even gets engaged.
- Characterization Marches On: New Hayato goes from the Ax-Crazy character to..... An Ax-Crazy character that is also The Stoic. This happens in the manga too in his debut where he learns the threat of the Dinosaur Empire and that he needs to take a serious approach. Unlike the manga, New omits this which makes his sudden character change quite abrupt.
- Deadpan Snarker: He tends to be the most prone of this among the three pilots, as seen with this gem from Armageddon:Ryoma: Hayato! What was that!?Hayato: (calmly reloading gun) It had big claws and a long tail, so I'd say it was a monster.
- Death Seeker: Hints of this in his post Shin Getter Robo characterization, as more and more friends die while he's left behind.
- Evil Laugh: Lets out a sinister little chuckle as he and his agents pursue Go.
- The Fatalist: As he discusses with Ryoma in Shin, and Kamui in the Arc anime, the reason Hayato continues utilising the Getter Rays despite the danger they pose is in part to ensure the sacrifices of the past (such as Musashi and Benkei) are not in vain... and in part because he believes that humanity's fate is tied to the Getter, and that this cannot be avoided or changed no matter what path it sets them on. It proves to be a defining difference between himself and Ryoma.Hayato: We've been used by this energy and lived because of it...Ryoma: Bullshit. I'm not being used by some energy. I'm living through my own power, and I'll create my own future!Hayato: If the Getter Rays urged forth mankind's evolution, then we can't defy our destiny.
- Femme Fatalons: In his first appearance.
- For Science!: Of all the original Getter pilots, Hayato is the one most inclined to follow in Dr. Saotome's footsteps as a researcher of the Getter Rays. In fact, the New version's motivation in joining the team is to find out more about them.
- For the Evulz: In original manga, he starts a revolution in his school, takes control of one of it's buildings and plots to kill Japan's prime minister out of boredom. In New, he leads terrorists to satisfy his sadistic thirst of killing.
- Freudian Trio: Ego to Ryoma’s Id.
- Hot Blooded Sideburns: However, he doesn't have them in the 70s anime adaption, the crossovers, or Getter Robo Devolution.
- Improbably High I.Q.: In his introductory chapter, it's claimed his IQ is 300.
- Japanese Delinquents: In the original manga, he's the leader of a gang of them.
- Nightmare Fetishist: Hayato is so fascinated by the Getter Rays that, as covered above under Admiring the Abomination, he is practically giddy and awestruck by witnessing the future of the Getter and where humanity will be lead by it.
- Not So Above It All: Hayato may be very serious but even he is not above joining in with the antics of the cast..... Even in his own dark way.
- In Go, Hayato caught the crew mucking around by spectating Go and Gai arm wrestling. Instead of telling them to get back to work, Hayato stabbed two knives into the table with the blades facing inwards so that the loser gets their arm sliced.
- When Takuma, Baku, Kamui and the Getter D2 pilots get in a huge brawl over an argument, Hayato simply watches from the camera room and lets them get the fight out of their systems. Dr. Shikishima even lampshades this by reminding Hayato he used to be just like them in his youth.
- The Devilman VS Getter Robo manga has a teenaged Hayato smitten and attracted to Miki Makimura just as much as Ryoma and Musashi were.
- Not So Stoic: In original manga he starts panicking at the first encounter with dinosaurs, to the point of peeing himself and pass out after piloting Getter for the first time. In New, after helping defeats Oni in Getter for the first time he drops his stoic persona and tries to destroy Satome Research Lab, while grinning like a maniac.
- Odd Friendship: With Ryoma. The other man even points this out in the Shin Getter Robo manga.Ryoma: You and I have our differences, but I guess that's what makes it interesting.
- Seemingly broken by the time of Getter Robo Go, even coming to blows over the usage of Shin Getter, but Go points out that it looks like they're having fun as they fight each other.
- Offscreen Moment of Awesome: Episode 3 of New had an Oni outbreak in the laboratories where the staff were unable to stop them with guns and conventional military weapons, forcing them to free the unstable Hayato who tried destroying the laboratory the night before. The scene ended with an unarmed Hayato flashing an evil grin at the Oni. The next scene showed a bunch of Oni remains splattered all over the hallways while Hayato was unharmed and covered in (their) blood.
- Older and Wiser: In Armageddon, Shin vs Neo and manga continuity starting from Go.
- Omniscient Morality License: Pulls it out a few times to justify more amoral actions against the enemies. Surprisingly doesn’t use it in the Go manga, when Go calls him on sacrificing people’s lives to find out how neutralize Rando’s nuclear devices.Hayato: Don’t worry. I’ll ask them to forgive me when I see them in hell.
- O.O.C. Is Serious Business: His composure fails him and he fights unusually recklessly during the battle with the Devil King in G, because it is made up of his former friends from his student rebellion days (including his cousin) who became Hyakki cyborgs after he left. Hayato blames himself for their fate, and personally delivers the coup de grâce.
- Please, Don't Leave Me: While not the character you'd expect this from, he lets out an anguished cry as Ryoma, Go and Tahir depart in Shin Getter Robo in the Getter Robo Go manga.Hayato: YOU CAN'T LEAVE ME BEHIND AS THE ONLY SURVIVOR AGAIN!
- Pay Evil unto Evil: He's a strong believer in this philosophy.
- Real Men Wear Pink: In the showdown with Shin Dragon in Armageddon, he's kicking ass in a giant robot while wearing a pink work shirt. And it works.
- Sink or Swim Mentor: To Go during the start of, well, Go, sending powerful assassins after him to see if he's worth recruiting. It's even implied he has done this to others, who failed the test.
- The Smart Guy: Smartest of the Getter Power Trio.
- The Stoic: Probably the one person who manages to be stoic and Ax-Crazy at the same time.
- Sole Survivor: By the time of Arc, he's the only protagonist from the original manga and G still alive, and this clearly weighs heavily on his mind.
- Slasher Smile: Oh so very often, but Go manga version really takes the cake, probably outclassing even New incarnation.
- Tall, Dark, and Snarky: Normally quite aloof and composed... unless he starts letting his Ax-Crazy side show.
- Tear Off Your Face: His introduction in the original manga, Hayato punishes a would-be deserter with this. A second guy "only" loses his eyes, ears, and nose.
- Terrorists Without a Cause: In New he leads a terrorist cell. At one point of his henchmen calls him on the fact he don’t give a damn about their cause and uses them as his personal tool to kill people.
- This is actually a Setting Update of the original manga, wherein he was the leader of one of 1970s Japan's notoriously violent campus radical groups.
- The Name Is Bond, James Bond: How he introduces himself to Go, with an added dash of Ax-Crazy for flavour."My name is Jin... Hayato Jin, the man who will show you hell!"
- The Unfettered: Makes Ryoma look merciful and soft-hearted by comparison. Hayato is consistently calculated and ruthless in achieving his goals, to the point of even sacrificing multiple people— one of whom is his fiancé— in order to diffuse Rando's bombs through trial and error.
- Yakuza: In the 90s he became a gangster instead of a terrorist as the only terrorists making the news in Japan at the time were the Aum Shinrikyo cultists, which wouldn't suit his personality very well.
Musashi Tomoe
As seen post-timeskip in Armageddon
His pilot suit as seen in Super Robot Wars X-Ω
You're overlooking the number one most important thing when it comes to piloting Getter! It's... courage, wisdom, and a righteous heart that yearns for justice!
Getter Robo
First Appearance: Getter Robo anime
Also Featured: Getter Robo manga, Shin Vs Neo, Armageddon
Voiced By: Toku Nishio (classic anime), Shinpachi Tsuji (Armageddon, Arc), Yasuhiko Kawazu (Daikessen, Robot Girls Z), Kiyoyuki Yanada (Shin Vs Neo), Steve Sanders (Armageddon dub)
A young and idealistic judo fighter with a big heart.
The third member of the team to be introduced, Musashi Tomoe was training in solitude atop Mount Daisetsu when the Dinosaur Empire attacked a nearby village, turning the humans there into apes. Musashi's strength allowed him to survive until Ryoma, who was sent to investigate, crash landed his Getter machine nearby. Assisting the injured pilot in repairing and operating the machine during battle, Musashi became enamoured with the Getter Robo and begged Saotome to allow him to pilot it. Though the Professor initially refused, Musashi snuck aboard the bear unit anyway. His physical fortitude and spirit proved essential in winning the day, allowing him to become the team's official third member, piloting Getter-3.
- Adaptational Badass: Musashi pilots the Getter Poseidon in the Armageddon Moon Wars drama CD, something he does not do at all in the original anime, manga or even most Super Robot Wars games outside of those from the classic era.
- Audience? What Audience?: He immediately has to explain to Ryoma who is he talking to.
- Back from the Dead: In Arc, he's the leader of the Getter Crusaders. However, the version of Musashi we see is far more genocidal and cruel due to being essentially Getter Emperor's half-remembered imprint of the real deal.
- Badass Boast: While he gets one in most of his Heroic Sacrifice moments, he gets one in Arc that's played for horror instead of awesomeness because it's a horrible thing to hear come tumbling out of Musashi's mouth.
- Colonel Musashi: We have been chosen by the God called Getter to become the greatest life form in the universe! Why does Getter act to advance human evolution? That's because... it has chosen us to become the rulers of all space! The pinnicle of Evolution is... Universal Domination.
- Breaking the Fourth Wall: In Devilman vs Getter Robo after we get to see his
shower scene.Musashi: Sorry, I’m not Michiru. - Canon Immigrant: Musashi debuted in the anime, and migrated over to the manga. This is a large part of why his 70s anime and manga equivalents are by far the most similar of the gang, and why Musashi tends to behave in a rather Wrong Genre Savvy fashion in general.
- Charles Atlas Superpower: He can make big monkeys fly with his judo.
- Determinator: Very much this. Even when skewered through the stomach by a Dinosaur Empire infiltrator, he manages to overpower them with his sheer grit and protect the Getter. Its this determination that earns him the respect of Ryoma and Hayato, despite them finding him silly otherwise.
- Face–Heel Turn: Though it's not immediately apparent, his future timeline clone Colonel Musashi in the Getter Emperor timeline. He seems normal at first, barring his casual ability to be revived by cloning in the event of his death, but eventually it becomes clear he's a cruel, murderous Getter worshipping cultist who preaches about the Getter granting humanity the Divine Right of Kings mere seconds after having his soldiers brutally execute surrendering enemies.
- Fat Idiot: Though he does get smarter as the story progresses.
- Freudian Trio: Superego to Ryoma’s Id and Hayato’s Ego.
- The Fundamentalist: Colonel Musashi, specifically towards the Getter itself. He even gets red in the face while praising the Getter Team from the past, or rather their Getter, Arc. His wording makes it unclear if he even sees the Arc team as anything other than the components of their Getter.
- Colonel Musashi: Everyone, well done! Just as I would expect from God's warrior, Getter Arc!
- Gentle Giant: Both the most physically hefty and the most generally good-natured of the main trio.
- Gonk: Not that cartoonishly ugly, just... plainer compared to others.
- The Heart: Though not perfect, he's by far the kindest and most optimistic of the team, and cares the most about his fellows.
- Heroic Sacrifice: In every continuity, although it varies between versions. In the manga and in Shin vs Neo he makes the Getter Rays generator explode to wipe out the Mechasaurus army. In the classic anime, he crashes the lady command into the bridge of Invincible Battleship Dai.
- Mood Dissonance: At the end of his introductory manga chapter, Musashi is gushing over how cool the Getter Robo is... in the same panel as Ryoma declaring vengeance on the Dinosaur Empire for the horrific human experiments they both just witnessed.
- Nice Guy: He's a friendly, cheerful person, with the worst thing about him is that he (rightfully) has a high opinion of his own strength and durability.
- Parental Substitute: In Armageddon. After Michiru and Saotome's deaths and Ryoma's imprisonment, Musashi takes Genki in. Too bad he also dies soon afterwards, so Benkei (who's his old friend in this Alternate Universe) raises Genki... as Kei.
- Plucky Comic Relief: In most of his incarnations, he's the most overtly goofy and comedic of the gang.
- Ramming Always Works: His Heroic Sacrifice in the classic anime. At the end of the first series, Musashi crashed the Lady Command into the core of the Dinosaur Empire's landship Dai, while taking heavy fire, through increasingly narrow corridors.
- Signature Move: His Daisetsuzan Oroshi he performs while piloting Getter-3, spinning the enemies above the Getter's head before throwing them in the air.
- They Killed Kenny Again: Humorously, there's a bit of a running gag involving him dying in some way, due to his Heroic Sacrifice in the original manga, to the point where virtually all reboot continuities and games featuring him will kill him off. The only time it's possible to save him will involve secrets (and these routes are non-Canon as far as story goes).
- Took a Level in Badass: From plucky comic relief, to taking on the Dinosaur Empire solo in the original Getter Robo, to leading the Getter Crusaders in Ark.
- Took a Level in Jerkass: His Ark incarnation is noticeably far crueler and more violent than any other version of him, as a symbol of the Bad Future involved. He's been fully converted to the kill-or-be-killed ideals of the Getter Emperor, in large part due to the fact that it's barely even him in there anymore.
- True Companions: Forms this with Ryoma and Hayato. His heroic sacrifice and death DEVASTATES them, and leaves a mark that remains even in Getter Emperor itself.
- Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: Early in the classic anime he was terrified of reptiles, making more difficult for the Getter team to fight the Mechasaurus. Then he learned to overcome his fear after Hayato locked him up in a room filled with snakes and frogs.
- Wrong Genre Savvy: The Manga version clearly thinks he's in the Lighter and Softer classic anime world, and not the Darker and Edgier world of the manga, much to the annoyance of his teammates.
Benkei Kuruma
As seen pre-timeskip in Armageddon
As seen post-timeskip in Armageddon
As long as I'm here, Getter will survive!
Shin Getter Robo
Voiced By: Joji Yanami (classic anime), Shōzō Iizuka (Armageddon), Masaya Takatsuka (Daikessen), Kiyoyuki Yanada (Arc), Lowell B. Bartholomee (Armageddon dub)
The second pilot of the third Getter Machine, Benkei attempts to carry on the legacy of its original pilot.
- Ambiguously Brown: Noticeably darker-skinned, especially in Armageddon.
- Big Brother Mentor: To Genki.
- Big Guy Fatality Syndrome: His death in the manga marks a running theme of Getter-3's pilots dying.
- Deadpan Snarker: Compared to Musashi, he's a little more willing to lightly rib his teammates and make jokes at their expense, especially towards Ryoma in Shin.
- Divergent Character Evolution: In his manga incarnation, he's basically just Musashi but again. However, the anime of G was happy to flesh him out and show how he differentiates from Musashi, mostly by playing up his laidback, easygoing side and love of baseball over judo. Armageddon differentiated them further by aging Benkei up and illustrating him as the most down-to-earth member of the team, as well as casting him as the Team Dad to the younger pilots. The arc of having to live up to Musashi's legacy has also carried into a lot of his appearances.
- Flat Character: In the original manga of G, he doesn't really have much going for his character, other than being a replacement for Musashi. In the anime adaptation of G and Armageddon, however, he is more fleshed out and has more going for his character than he did in the manga, being more or less the "normal" one of the crew and the most mature and grounded.
- The Friend Nobody Likes: In Shin Getter Robo, to the point that they look forward to the idea of replacing him with another pilot and refer to him as Dumb Muscle to his face. Averted however, as losing him still shakes the team badly, even causing Ryoma to lose faith in Dr. Saotome and the Getter Rays.
- Gentle Giant: A big tough guy, but also loveable and friendly.
- Gonk: Again, more plain than outright ugly.
- Heroic Sacrifice: In Shin Getter Robo, he sacrifices himself to hold off the Andromeda Country's initial attack after he loses control of Getter Dragon.
- Inadequate Inheritor: The Shin Getter Robo manga brings up the idea that the other members of the Getter Team never really accepted him the way they did Musashi—they openly regard him as the worst pilot of the group and largely useless. This also comes up somewhat in Armageddon, where he doubts his ability to act in the way Musashi did, as a balance to Ryoma and Hayato.
- Stout Strength: In the anime, he's a bit more muscular so he looks less like Musashi, unlike his manga counterpart.
- Suspiciously Similar Substitute: To Musashi. Many later depictions toy with the fact that they basically fill the same role, including Shin Getter Robo (where it's heavily implied that the other pilots consider him replaceable), Armageddon (where the two are old friends and Benkei views Musashi as his senior), and New Getter Robo (where they're the same character).
- Team Dad: In Armageddon, he fills this role to the new piloting team, being the one who sticks closest to them and does his best to mentor them.
Benkei Musashibo
Appears in: New Getter Robo
Voiced By: Kiyoyuki Yanada (original), Michael McConnohie (New dub)
Wild man raised by Buddhist monks who has sworn vendetta against the Oni for massacring his group. He carries a sword connected to them, and pilots Getter-3.
- Canon Foreigner: He does not appear in the manga.
- Composite Character: A mixture of Musashi, Benkei and Baku. His appearance is heavily modeled after Baku Yamagishi, while his name and elements of his personality are derived from Musashi Tomoe and Benkei Kuruma.
- Expy: His design and personality is heavily based off of Baku Yamagishi from Getter Robo Arc, even wearing the same clothes as Baku when not in his Getter pilot suit.
- Fat Idiot: He is both the fattest and the least intelligent member of the group. That being said, he's mechanically apt enough to repair Getter-1 for Ryoma despite the fact that it was his first introduction to the machine, remarking that he learned how to repair machines from stealing motorcycles, in spite of a motorcycle and the Getter Machines, highly advanced aircraft capable of combining into mecha, completely different. And he's also smart enough to realize the Getter is dangerous and must be destroyed.
- Freudian Trio: Superego to Ryoma’s Id and Hayato’s Ego.
- Fundoshi: Wears one in his debut episode...
- Going Commando:...but only that episode.
- Genius Bruiser: He might look, and act stupid due to his upbringing, but he shows off his smarts by repairing the Getter-1 for Ryoma when they first meet, even though this is the first time he's seen such a machine, and the fact that he explains that he learned how to work with machines due to stealing motorcycles in the past only makes him look smarter in spite of it being such a ridiculous comparison.
- Gonk: Again, not THAT ugly...
- Groin Attack: Gets to be on the receiving end from Michiru.
- Heel–Face Turn: He starts off as an aggressive thug who robs people, that is until he meets a Buddhist monk known as Bonze, who converts Benkei to buddhism, which changes Benkei for the better.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He is bad tempered, dimwitted and vulgar, but his heart is ultimately in the right place.
- Kavorka Man: Attracts some village woman in his debut and is found in a storehouse with two of them by his side. The villagers say he kidnapped them but one of them did not seem distressed when they were with him.
- Manly Tears: He violently bursts into tears screaming out of sorrow upon realizing that the elderly Buddhist monk who took him in as well as all of his friends in the monastery he found a new home in are gone forever, turned into Oni, yet retains his dignity as an adult man while doing so.
- No Social Skills: He doesn't understand that showing your genitals to a woman is wrong on many levels, as a result of his sheltered upbringing and low intelligence.
- Only Sane Man: The reason why the professor picked him for the team. He wanted to destroy the Getter when he learned of the possible future. To help balance out Ryoma and Hayato.
- Public Domain Character: Sorta. Musashibo Benkei is a real, legendary warrior monk, which explains why this Benkei has a buddhist background, but he has little in common with his namesake and appears a few centuries too early to be the real deal. But naming the character after both Getter-3's most famous pilots and one of Japan's most famous folk heroes was probably too good to pass up.
- Roaring Rampage of Revenge: Has a sworn vendetta against Oni.
- With Friends Like These...: While they are both part of the same team, Musashibo and Ryoma do not get along. When they are not fighting, Ryoma often takes advantage of Musashibo's lack of common sense by manipulating him into doing things that get him into trouble, such as tricking him into showing Michiru his gentialia.
Go Teams
Go Ichimonji
Getter Robo Go Manga Go
Armageddon Go
First Appearance: Getter Robo Go manga.
Also Featured: Getter Go anime, Shin Vs. Neo, Armageddon.
Voiced By: Takeshi Kusao (Go anime), Tomokazu Seki (Armageddon), Jun Fukuyama (Daikessen), Takahiro Sakurai (Shin Vs. Neo, Arc), David Stokey (Armageddon dub)
Young student with unusual physical features, Hayato gets him to pilot Getter Robo Go. He pilots Getter Go.
- Adaptational Backstory Change: In Armageddon, he is an artificial human created by Professor Saotome. This is a big contrast to his portrayal in Getter Robo Go and Shin Vs. Neo where he's a normal guy born to a normal family.
- Adaptation Deviation: In Armageddon, Go is drastically altered from his original manga counterpart in both personality and background, having only his name and appearance in common.
- Adaptational Personality Change: In Getter Robo Go and Shin Vs. Neo, Go is quite boisterous, cocky and full of attitude. In Armageddon, on the hand, he is stoic and doesn't show much emotion.
- Artificial Human: In Armageddon.
- Back from the Dead: Returns as pilot of Getter Robo Tarak in anime adaptation of Getter Robo Arc.
- Big Brother Instinct: Towards Sho in manga and Kei in Armageddon. Justified in Armageddon, since he is Michiru's Opposite-Sex Clone and thus he is Kei's brother.
- Charles Atlas Superpower: In early chapters of Go, he comes across as borderline superhuman.
- Death Glare: The Armageddon version has quite the impressive one.
- Declaration of Protection: To Kei aka Genki in Armageddon.
- Desperately Looking for a Purpose in Life
- Determinator: The best evidence is probably his fight with Ryoma, while he gets beaten over and over again but keeps coming.
- Expy: In the anime adaptation of Getter Robo Go, he bears a strong resemblance to Koji Kabuto.
- The Hero: Of the second trio in Getter Robo Go.
- Hidden in Plain Sight: Intentionally plays like a mediocre gym student to hide his abilities.
- Hot-Blooded: It seems that the Getter makes this a requirement when picking its Getter-1 pilots.
- I Am Not Left-Handed: Actually, Go is left handed, but uses his right in sporting events so that he can hide his true abilities, something that Hayato notices.
- I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: After hitting on Sho few times it's him who pushes her into Schwartz Koff's arms.
- Living on Borrowed Time: In the anime adaptation of Getter Robo Arc, he returns piloting Getter Robo Tarak. During his brief reunion with Sho, he tells her he's not sure how he came back from being absorbed by the Getter Rays at the end of the Getter Robo Go manga, but all he knows is that he doesn't have much time left, hence why he's fighting to hold back the invading forces.
- Power Echoes: In the English dub of Armageddon only, whenever Go speaks it has a subtle reverb to it, presumably to emphasise his status as an Artificial Human.
- The Quiet One: The Armageddon version of Go doesn't really talk much outside of combat and is generally The Stoic.
Sho Tachibana
As seen in the Getter Robo Go manga
First Appearance: Getter Robo Go manga
Also Featured: Go anime, Shin Vs Neo.
Voiced By: Yuko Kobayashi (Go anime), Chizu Yonemoto (Daikessen), Yuu Asakawa (Shin Vs Neo, Arc)
Skilled swordfighter and daughter of professor Tachibana, who has built Getter Robo Go alongside Hayato, to fight Professor Rando. Pilots Getter-2.
- Action Girl: A proficient swordswoman and a kickass Getter pilot.
- Adaptation Dye-Job: She's brown haired in most official adaptation of the manga, along with Super Robot Wars X-Ω and Arc, but she's a redhead in Shin vs Neo.
- The Cameo: She makes a brief appearance in the first episode of Armageddon.
- Defrosting the Ice Queen: Quite cold initially, but gradually warms up to the team as they grow to trust one another.
- Demoted to Extra: She appears in the first episode of Armageddon, but only as a brief cameo.
- Iaijutsu Practitioner: Her sword technique. In the first chapter of the manga, while testing Go's abilities, she unsheathes her sword, unleashes several strikes, and sheathes it again all in the blink of an eye.
- The Lancer: As is traditional for the pilot of Getter-2.
- Lady of War: Graceful, resolved, can slice you into a thousand tiny pieces.
- Not So Stoic: She is horrified and shocked when she sees that her brother, Shinichi, was turned into a cyborg.
- Official Couple: With Schwartz Koff.
- The Stoic: She's usually very calm and quiet, however...
Gai Daidou
As seen in Armageddon
His pilot suit in Armageddon
His pilot suit in Getter Robo Go manga
First Appearance: Getter Robo Go manga
Also Featured: Go anime, Armageddon, Shin Vs Neo
Voiced By: Akira Kamiya (Go anime), Yasunori Matsumoto (Armageddon), Tetsu Inada (Daikessen), Toshiharu Sakurai (Shin Vs Neo), Edwin Neal (Armageddon dub)
Young mechanic who gets to pilot Getter-3 in Getter Robo Go after the first man chosen by Hayato to pilot it goes crazy.
- Beware the Nice Ones: When a mechanic buddy of his is beaten up, he goes berserk and beats up the ex-wrestler that did it.
- The Big Guy: He's large and in charge, and operates the heavy lifting Getter-3 configurations of whatever Getter he's in.
- Big Guy Fatality Syndrome: Like most Getter 3 pilots, he winds up dying. In his case, being absorbed by Shin Getter after a suicidal attempt to destroy it.
- Cargo Cult: Really loves the Getter. This ends up being Played for Drama when he loses his sanity and spews out cult-like babble about the Getter Rays as he's devoured by the Getter.
- Gentle Giant: Normally, though this doesn't stop him from getting into a brawl with a bunch of racist pilots that beat up his friends.
- Genius Bruiser: He's a gigantic, muscular man, but he's highly intelligent, well educated, and has an affinity for machinity.
- Go Mad from the Revelation: An overload of Getter Rays leads to him losing his sanity and trying to destroy the Getter, only to be absorbed by it. His final words making it clear that grasping the Getter's true form shattered his mind.
- Gonk: But doesn't get it as badly as Musashi and Benkei did. Actually he's kind of cute, in a youthful way.
- Nice Guy: He has his eccentricities and a definite Hot-Blooded side for sure, but he's also a genuinely kind soul.
- The Smart Guy: Out of the three he's got the most knowledge on machines, being a mechanic and all.
Kei Minamikaze
As seen in Armageddon
First Appearance:' Getter Robo Go Manga
Also Featured: Armageddon
Voiced By: Narumi Hidaka (Armageddon), Emi Uwagawa (Daikessen), Katherine Catmull (Armageddon dub)
- Ascended Extra: Goes from a minor supporting character in the original Go manga to the female lead of Armageddon.
- Boyish Short Hair: Has short green hair in Armageddon.
- Break the Cutie: The Shin Getter gives her brain damage.
- Also, her backstory in Armageddon. Take a cute little girl raised as a boy, but otherwise happy and normal. Have her witness her beloved older sister's demise in an horrible incident and witness the death of her dad, apparently at the hands of one of her Big Brother Mentors, few afterwards. Watch her become a Creepy Child whose life isn't exactly much better from then on. Watch people blame her for the world going to shit and try to kill her, with only a desperate gambit by Benkei sparing her life... And then see her recover and grow into a Hot-Blooded Action Girl.
- Composite Character: Kei in Armageddon is a mix of Kei from manga and Sho As well as Genki and Michiru Satome.
- Full-Frontal Assault: Armageddon. Justified Trope: she had just come out of an Out-of-Clothes Experience.
- Genki Girl: Pun not intended, but she retains this trait from her manga counterpart even in Armageddon.
- Lady of War: Anime version
- Samus Is a Girl: Only in Armageddon. She's actually Genki, who in that particular continuity was a girl treated as a boy, and then went through a horrifying Break the Cutie.
- Ship Tease: A lot of it between her and Go in the manga.
Āḥ Team
Takuma Nagare
First Appearance: Getter Robo Arc manga
Voiced By: Yūma Uchida (Japanese), Andrew Love (English)
Ryoma's son, pilot of Getter Arc (āḥ).
- Anime Hair: His hair resembles a pair of horns or ears.
- Hot-Blooded: As expected of Ryoma's son, he's loud and passionate.
- Instant Expert: Can pilot any Getter Machine perfectly with zero training.
- In the Blood: Takuma was literally born with Getter Rays in his DNA due to his father being a pilot, hence the above.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: As much as he butts heads with Kamui in the manga, when he hears how his human mother is kept hostage by Emperor Gore III, Takuma manages to take advantage of the dinosaur populace gathering to see off the Getter Arc and Saurus teams to briefly reunite Kamui and his mother, all under the guise of cheering for the glory of Dinosaur Empire and knowing full well that Gore can't do a damn thing about it.
- Like Father, Like Son: Many characters, from humans to dinosaurs, note just how similar he is to his father in looks and behavior.
- As Professor Shikishima points out, when choosing a personal weapon, Takuma wound up choosing the exact same .44 Magnum that Ryoma once used against the Dinosaur Empire.
- Made of Iron: A group of thugs beating Takuma down with metal pipes and even stabbing him was not enough to stop him. Taking a hit from Kamui and dishing one of his own back to knock him down was enough to completely shock the other Saotome Institute soldiers present as no others have been able to take a hit without losing conscience.
- Offscreen Moment of Awesome: In the finale, he and Baku manage to plow their way through a bunch of guards to reach Kamui's prison cell without even a scratch on them.
- Sir Swearsalot: Especially in the dub where he drops F-bombs quite often.
- Trademark Favorite Food: Downplayed but Takuma has a fondness for convenience store rice balls.
- True Companions: Takuma and Baku have had a long history together as friends. Takuma's decision to stay at the Saotome Institute was mainly because Baku wanted to stay.
- Would Hit a Girl: Takuma had no qualms against hitting a female pilot during a fight. In his defense, she (along with a few others) were antagonizing Takuma for messing up a combination sequence during practice.
- You Killed My Mother: He wants revenge on the man who killed his mother.
Sho Kamui
First Appearance: Getter Robo Arc manga
Voiced By: Arihiro Mukaino (Japanese), Scott Gibbs (English)
Half reptilian pilot of Getter Kirik (hrīḥ), son of Emperor Gore and a kidnapped human woman.
- Berserk Button: Commenting on his face is something you do not want to do.
- Blue Blood: Due to being Emperor Gore's younger son, he is the Dinosaur Empire's prince despite his half-blooded nature.
- The Dreaded: Getting on Kamui's bad side is something all the Saotome Institute pilots avoid doing.
- Half-Human Hybrid: Thanks to his parentage, he's both human and Reptilian in DNA.
- Heel–Face Revolving Door: Initially a member of the Getter Team, his experience in the Bad Future causes him to turn against the team and embark on a mission to Kill All Humans to prevent the Getter Emperor from coming into existence. In the final scene of the anime, Kamui is seen reconciling with his former teammates to fight the Getter, returning to a face.
- Manly Tears: In the final episode of the Arc anime, he is shown shedding these when his mother dies in his arms.
- Momma's Boy: He cares a lot about his human mother, something that is taken advantage of by Emperor Gore III.
- Well-Intentioned Extremist: Decides to destroy humanity to prevent Getter Emperor's Dark Future.
Baku Yamagishi
First Appearance: Getter Robo Arc manga
Voiced By: Kazuhiro Sunseki (Japanese), Joe Daniels (English)
Younger brother of Messiah Tayel, pilot of Getter Khan (hāṃ).
- Big Little Brother: Messiah (big brother) is a shorty, but Baku (little brother) is one big dude
- Big Guy Fatality Syndrome: Subverted. He's the one Getter-3 main Pilot who doesn't get killed or absorbed into the Getter.
- Big Ol' Eyebrows: His eyebrows are quite noticeable and prominent.
- Genius Bruiser: He is a very strong fellow, given his size, and also has some skill in hacking and programming.
- I Choose to Stay: Part of the Adaptation Expansion of Arc's anime has him decide to stay with Getter Emperor in order to attempt to understand just what the Getter Rays are and that they aren't inherently evil, believing that the future can be changed. He shows up without explanation in the final scene, leaving it ambiguous why he returned to the past or if he found a way to challenge the idea that Emperor's rise is fate.
- Seers: To some level he is one. He says his ability pales compares to his brother, but he still manages to predict or accurately sense Getter related disturbances with good accuracy. Sounds freakishly occult, but with a heavy helping of Fridge Brilliance once it's revealed the Getter Emperor is a singularity that redefines space-times in the universe it exists in/will exist in, along with The Reveal Andromeda Country come from the future! It is likely he gets his premonitions from interference or feedback by the Emperor via his connection to the Getter Rays, so as to nudge him in the direction that will cause the Emperor to be born.
- Stout Strength: Baku is strong enough to easily lift a pair of large military men and fight them on equal grounds. The anime reveals that his build is all muscle and not fat.
Darkness Team (Non-Canon)
Ryo
First Appearance: Getter Robo Darkness
The Darkness counterpart of Ryoma Nagare.
- Artificial Limbs: Lost both his arms sometime before the start of the series and had they replaced with a pair of robotic arms. Said arms give him superhuman strength, allow him to directly interface with the Getter Robo, and contain a power amplifier for the Getter Robo.
- Beware the Nice Ones: As cheerful as he his, he is a skilled fighter who effortlessly kills weaker Ideas, and thats when he isn’t pissed off.
- Genki Guy: Is constantly upbeat and cheerful when the team isn’t out on missions.
- Hot-Blooded: He wouldn’t be a version of Ryoma if he wasn’t this.
- Never Be Hurt Again: Losing everyone he cared about has caused Ryo to have a difficult time connecting with others out of fear he would just lose them again.
- Nice Guy: Compared to his canon counterpart his nicer traits are a major part of his character.
Hayato
First Appearance: Getter Robo Darkness
The Darkness counterpart of Hayato Jin.
- Addiction-Powered: Hayato is a drug addict who has modified his body to allow him to consume large quantities of drugs that could kill a normal person. He has injected himself with so many stimulants that he now possesses superhuman strength and heightened mental processes, though he suffers some serious side effects.
- Ax-Crazy: When he loses his cool he becomes even more vicious than the original Hayato.
- Functional Addict: Is hopelessly addicted to drugs, but is typically the most calm and intelligent member of the team.
- This Is a Drill: Hayato’s weapon of choice is are several long drill like spears.
- The Stoic: The most reserved member of the time, most of the time.
- With Great Power Comes Great Insanity: As a side effects of all the drugs he’s consumed, Hayato can easily fly into a murderous rage if he doesn’t keep his emotions in check.
Musashi
First Appearance: Getter Robo Darkness
The Darkness counterpart of Musashi Tomoe.
- Action Girl: The only female of the team and she kicks just as much ass as her teammates.
- Artificial Human: She is an artificial being created by the vain Idea Ionus using the pieces of various women.
- Gender Flip: Subverted. While she fills the role of the original Musashi, she is a completely different character entirely rather than being a gender swapped version of him.
- Guys Smash, Girls Shoot: Fights with a large rifle that shoots lasers due to lacking the hand-to-hand combat experience her teammates have.
- Ms. Fanservice: Typically falls into this role outside of combat.
- Only Sane Man: Typically acts the voice of reason between the contrasting personalities of Ryo and Hayato.
Other Characters
Saotome Laboratory & successors
Professor Saotome
As seen in the 70s anime
As seen in Armageddon
Voiced by: Kousei Tomita (original series, Shin vs Neo), Mugihito (Armageddon), Masaharu Sato (Daikessen), Kinryuu Arimoto (New), Takayuki Sugo (Arc), John Paul Shephard (Armageddon dub), Abe Lasser (New dub)
- Adaptational Villainy: Serves as the Big Bad of Darkness, seeking to use the Getter Rays to mutate all the people on Earth, while killing off everyone who is too weak to be mutated.
- Back from the Dead: He is killed by Hayato at the beginning of Armageddon, but is resurrected by the invaders.
- Cool Old Guy: Specially in New.
- Disappears into Light: His fate in the manga, when the Saotome lab is enveloped in a massive wave of Getter Rays from the Shin Dragon.
- Dying as Yourself: One way to interpret his death in Armageddon.
- Face–Heel Turn: He becomes one of the main antagonists in Armageddon after being turned into one of the Invaders.
- Good All Along: The Armageddon version. It seems he wanted to pull a monster of a plan that went wrong in the third episode and it got delayed by some thirteen years, and killed 99% of mankind.
- Good Is Not Nice: Cantankerous even on a good day, and absolutely ruthless when he needs to be, but he'll do what has to be done to protect humanity and the Getter Robo.
- Go Out with a Smile: Smiles as he bids farewell to the original Getter team before he dies in Armageddon.
- Jerk With Aheart Of Gold: He's a stern, grumpy, and at times, ruthless, old man, but he still ultimately has the best interests of Earth in mind, and he genuinely cares about his kids.
- The Professor: The resident tough-as-nails expert on Getter Rays and giant robots.
- Made of Iron: In most continuities but in the first three episodes of Armageddon he just keeps seemingly dying but still lives. Unless Inagawa had him intentionally infected himself with Invaders, like Cohen and Stinger, and he was faking pain.
- Mad Scientist: In Armageddon. Then again, it's Armageddon.
- Not that he doesn't have his moments in manga and New, but there he is on good guy's side.
- He goes off the deep end in the Shin Getter Robo manga, where he spends several weeks exposing himself to high levels of Getter Rays while trying to excavate the metamorphosing remains of the Getter G.
- Manly Tears: When Michiru calls him out for not seeming to care when his son, Tatsuhito, is dead, Saotome snaps back at her that they should count themselves lucky that he and Ryoma survived since it means the Getter project can still go ahead. However, Ryoma notes that the Professor is actually crying as he turns away in the rain.
- Sanity Slippage: Dives headfirst into full-on Mad Scientist territory after Benkei's death/the beginning of Getter Dragon's metamorphosis as he becomes consumed by his obsession with the Getter Rays.
- Taking You with Me: In Armageddon, to the Invader Parasite that's trying to flee from his body when he gets hit with the Stoner Sunshine.
Michiru Saotome
As seen in Super Robot Wars X-Ω
Her pilot suit
Voiced by: Rihoko Yoshida (original series), Miki Nagasawa (Armageddon), Yukiko Minnaka (Daikessen), Takako Honda (New), Jessica Hedrick (Armageddon dub), Wendee Lee (New dub)
Professor Saotome's daughter.
- Adaptational Intelligence: In New, Michiru is a biologist with an active role in the Institute, whereas her manga and TV anime counterparts had no inclinations towards science.
- Age Lift: Michiru is given a more mature appearance in New. A flashback shows her lookig similar to her 1974 anime counterpart complete with her trademark headband.
- Backup from Otherworld: Her soul arrives alongside Musashi's to dispel her father's Invader assisted Lotus-Eater Machine.
- Better to Die than Be Killed: In Armageddon Michiru was infected with The Virus. Upon discovering her infection, she messed up deliberately with a combining test flight to commit suicide before it took over her. The result was her being crushed to death inside her jet.
- Unwitting Instigator of Doom: The consequences of said action were simply horrifying. Genki went insane after witnessing her death and it takes her (yes, her) more than ten years to recover. Dr. Saotome believed that Michiru had been killed by the Getter guys, and blamed them for Michiru's death, and then... yeah.
- Feminine Women Can Cook: An entire chapter of the original manga was essentially dedicated to Musashi trying to eat as much of her cooking as possible (to win her over, admittedly, but he still enjoyed it quite a bit)
- Identical Stranger: To Hayato's Missing Mom in the original anime.
- Ms. Fanservice: In Devilman vs Getter Robo.
- Took a Level in Badass:
- The 70's anime version did actually join in battles, to the point she flew the Liger machine in Getter G!
- The New version is a deadpan snarker hot scientist. Awesome!
Tatsuhito Saotome
First appearance: Getter Robo manga
Other appearances: 70s anime, New, Darkness
Professor Saotome’s oldest son, who typically dies in every version of Getter Robo he appears in.- Ascended Extra: Has a much bigger role in Darkness, being the commander of the Getter team and the original pilot of Getter-3.
- Heroic Willpower: In New, he manages to resist being transformed into an Oni long enough to perform a Heroic Sacrifice.
- Plot-Triggering Death: In the original anime his death at the hands of the Dinosaur empire is what convinces Ryoma to pilot the Getter Robo.
- Spared By Adaptation: So far Darkness is the only adaptation where he doesn’t die.
Genki Saotome
Professor Saotome's son and Michiru's younger brother.- Ascended Extra: In Armageddon, Genki is elevated to a member of the main cast due to being revealed as Kei.
- Creepy Child: Only in Armageddon. But the kid's creepiness in that continuity is enough for the whole franchise. And honestly, you can hardly blame the poor kid.
- Break the Cutie - Go Mad from the Revelation: After witnessing Michiru's death and noticing the truth behind it, poor Genki totally lost it.
- Gender Flip: In Armageddon due to becoming a Composite Character with Kei.
- Hollywood Autism: In the official English translation of Armageddon's first episode, Benkei makes a offhanded reference to Genki having autism, which was seemingly brought on by Michiru's death. Which falls head first into this trope. It should be noted that the original Japanese merely mentions "closing off their heart".
- Raised as the Opposite Gender: Again, only in Armageddon.
- She Is All Grown Up: In Armageddon... because Genki not only is a girl there, but she is Kei.
Dr. Shikishima
The chief of the weapons department at Saotome Labs. He is a Mad Scientist recognizable by the scar over his eye and his deranged appearance.- Bunny-Ears Lawyer: He's genuinely batshit insane in a "frothing-at-the-mouth, laughing maniacally while violently and aimlessly thrashing about" way, but make no mistake, he is good at his job.
- Cool Old Guy: He might be genuinely, absolutely, completely insane, but he's as much of a badass as he is a crazy person!
- Cyborg: He's turned himself into one of these by the time of Getter Robo Arc.
- Expy: He's rather similar to the manga version of Dr. Juzo Kabuto, as they're both balding Mad Scientists who work with giant robots that have a distinctive scar over an eye, with the two main differences aside from Shikishima lacking a mustache is that he's even crazier than Juzo is as well as that he merely develops weapons for giant robots rather than making them himself. He even cybernetically upgrades one of his arms in Getter Robo Arc so that he can do a Rocket Punch, much like the eponymous mecha from Mazinger Z.
- Gonk: He isn't exactly winning any beauty contests even without his balding head and the scar over his eye, due to his highly deranged appearance, namely how one of his eyes is wide open and staring (think Uncle Ruckus from The Boondocks) while the other is regular in comparison, the inconsistently missing amount of teeth he has, and there's also many exaggerated and OTT facial expressions as well.
- Mad Scientist: More like a COMPLETELY, FUCKING, NUTS scientist! He's one of the craziest characters in the series.
- No Kill like Overkill: A favorite design philosophy of his. As aside from the Hand Cannon he developed that wound up becoming Ryoma's signature weapon, he also created a minigun for Getter-1 that fires missiles instead of bullets.
- Nightmare Fetishist: Definitely. For starters, he likes seeing his creations kill and destroy, as he's overwhelmed with joy upon seeing Ryoma apparently kill a member of the Chiryu Clan with the Hand Cannon he developed, and his response to being held hostage by the same member is to excitedly belt out multiple suggestions as to how Ryoma should kill him in graphic detail, such as having Ryoma shoot off everything but the right side of his face while his brains spew out everywhere, or having him spill out his intestines with a single shot. This actually genuinely freaks out the Chiryu Clan member who has holding him hostage to the point where he lets him go, not wanting to be around such a freak. He's actually disappointed when he wound up surviving after all thanks to being let go!
- Rocket Punch: He's installed one into himself after becoming a Cyborg in Getter Robo Arc. He even tries to show off that you can give yourself a handshake for Rule of Cool purposes to Takuma Nagare.
Allies & Civilians
Schwartz Koff
First Appearance: Getter Robo Go manga.
Also Featured: Armageddon
Voiced By: Kunihiko Yasui (Armageddon, Arc), Moriya Endō (Daikessen), Dan Bisbee (Armageddon dub)
Racist and misogynist pilot of American mecha Stilva, part of forces opposing Rando.
- Adaptational Nice Guy: He is somewhat nicer in Armageddon, but not by much, namely in that his racism is severely downplayed and arguably no longer a character trait of his, as his animosity towards Japanese people is changed into one towards Japan itself due to how it's actions affected the Earth in the story.
- Amazon Chaser: After being rescued by the Japanese woman, Sho, he becomes smitten with her tough nature and starts to see the error of his ways.
- Freudian Excuse: His grandpa was killed at Pearl Harbor and his dad's business was beaten by Japanese companies.
- Hate Sink: He's this as first, as there's literally nothing to like about him, as not only is he extremely, cartoonishly, juvenilely racist against Japanese people, he's also an extremely toxic person who'll be mean and rude to just about anybody, even his partner, John Rembert. That being said. he gets slightly better after his character development.
- Jerkass: Racist and a misogynist but...
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: After some character development.
- Worthy Opponent: Starts to get a spark of begrudgingly towards Go when the two fight fist to fist.
John Rembert
First Appearance: Getter Robo Go manga.
Pilots Stilva with Schwartz Koff, but gets a lot less focus, spending a lot of time injured.
- Eagleland: Has shades of Type 1, as opposed to Schwartz's Type 2.
- Foil: For Schwartz.
- Only Sane Man: For Schwartz again.
Messiah Tayel
First Appearance: Getter Robo Go manga.
Voiced By: Nozomu Sasaki (Arc)
Mysterious child who claims to have been send by God to help Getter Team. Pilots Getter-2 when he, Ryoma and Go hijack Shin Getter.
- Anthropomorphic Personification: Not in a literal sense, but he basically serves as an avatar for the Getter Rays due to his exceptionally strong connection to them. He likens himself to a computer program that already knows its purpose.
- Bald Mystic: Has the monk look down pat in spite of his youth.
- Creepy Child: At times but he does have a sense of humor.
- Dark Is Not Evil: The Green Earth religion is heavily implied to be a cult, and he has unsettling eyes and a creepy amount of awareness regarding everything, but he's with the heroes all the way through.
- Deadpan Snarker: His reaction to two of his followers' trying to coax him to abandon the Getter Team is to dryly wonder if they can be saved.
- Fluffy Tamer: Manages to pacify and befriend a Dinosaur Empire beast using his powers. Not that this stops Ryoma and Go from ripping it to shreds moments thereafter.
- High Priest: Of the Green Earth cult— er, religion. Apparently his followers number in the millions.
- Inconsistent Spelling: Tayel, Tahir, Tayrr...
- Psychic Powers: A powerful Esper, thanks to his connection to the Getter Rays
Jack and Mary King
First Appearance: Getter Robo anime.
Voiced By: Makio Inoue and Yumi Nakatani (Getter Robo), Tamotsu Nishiwaki and Chieko Atarashi (Shin vs. Neo)
A brother-sister duo hailing from the good ol' US of A, Jack and Mary King pilot the cowboy-themed Texas Mack.
- Adaptational Badass: In the original anime, they were mostly incompetent; in Shin vs. Neo, they're considered peers to the Getter team.
- Adaptational Heroism: Borderline villains in the original, but respectable (if rather brash and crude) in Shin vs. Neo.
- Americans Are Cowboys: So much so that the Texas Mack's cowboy hat is a separate unit, and it has a giant robot horse in Shin vs. Neo.
- Ascended Extra: They were one-off characters in the original anime, but became major characters in Shin vs. Neo.
- Composite Character: Their Shin vs. Neo counterparts take a lot of inspiration from Schwartz Koff, such as being friendly with Sho and serving as the American Getter counterpart, as well as being generally more important to the plot.
Akira
Appears in: Getter Robo Daikessen
A playable protagonist who exclusively appears in Getter Robo Daikessen.
Lady Raikou Minamoto
Voiced by: Romi Park (Japanese), Mona Marshall (English)
First Appearance: 'New Getter Robo
- Cute Bruiser: Outside of combat and strategy meetings, she is upbeat and hearty. She's also skilled enough to fight on par with Ryoma.
- Expy: A stretch, but she would be one to Kei Kuruma from Armageddon, since both are gender flips of male characters (Genki Saotome for Kei, and Raikou herself to Raikou... himself?).
- Gender Flip: The historical Minamoto no Raikou was male— though Raikou herself doesn't care whether she is seen as a man or woman.
- Heroic Suicide: Kills herself via Seppuku to power-up her katana.
- Hot-Blooded: Almost as much as Ryoma, if you can believe it.
- Lady of War: Is the leader of the army fighting against Seimei and manages to fight her way through his fortress to try and confront him directly.
Emperor Gore III
First Appearances: Getter Robo Arc
Voiced by: Ryōtarō Okiayu
Kamui's half-brother and the leader of the Dinosaur Empire at the time of Arc.
- Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: While he puts up a friendly, polite facade in front of Getter Team and Hayato and speaks in favor of humans and Dinosaur Empire putting their past grudges behind, fighting together against common enemy and working towards peaceful coexistence, it's all an act; he intends to use Kamui as The Mole within Saotome Research laboratory so they can destroy Getter Robo and take over the surface when the humans' usefulness to him runs out. He promises to Kamui that once their plan comes to fruition, he will be rewarded with a high ranking position and allowed to live in peace with his human mother, but as Professor Han implies it's nothing but lies in order to coerce Kamui to go along with the plan.
- Enemy Mine: Enters an alliance with the Saotome Laboratory in order to combat the Andromeda Empire.
- Puppet King: When Kamui pulls his coup, he spares Gore, as he still has plenty of loyalists. Instead, Gore is reduced to a figurehead while Kamui develops BUG.
Professor Han
First Appearances: Getter Robo Arc
Voiced by: Kenichi Ogata
A scientist of the Dinosaur Empire.
- Cool Old Guy: An elderly Dinosaur scientist who hopes that humans and Dinosaurs can coexist in peace someday.
- Everyone Has Standards: Near the end of the war at Arctic, Han was tasked by his superiors to execute all humans involved in research of Dinosaur/human hybrids. He couldn't go through with it, and since all of his superiors who knew about the order were killed in battle, he talked the newly appointed Emperor Gore III into giving the humans refuge instead.
- Gentle Giant: Absolutely gigantic even compared to other Dinosaurs, but very polite and peaceful.
- Like a Son to Me: It's heavily implied he was involved in Kamui's upbringing before he was sent off to Saotome Labs.
- Token Heroic Orc: He's shown to be a fairly level-headed and kind individual, ashamed of Dinosaur Empire's past misdeeds towards humankind and frustrated that the treatment of human prisoners has to be kept secret, and laments that Kamui's mother is used by Gore III to coerce him into being The Mole for the Empire within Saotome Research Lab. He sheds Tears of Joy when Takuma manages to reunite Kamui with his human mother in full view of the Dinosaur Empire populace that came to send off Getter Arc and Getter Saurus teams.
Villains
Dinosaur Empire
Emperor Gore
First Appearance: Getter Robo manga
Also Featured: Getter Robo 70s anime.
Voiced By: Hiromu Jin (classic anime), Kōzō Shioya (Daikessen), Kenji Utsumi (classic anime in Super Robot Wars, Shin Vs Neo)
Leader of the Dinosaur Empire and main villain of the first manga and classic anime.
- Adaptational Badass: His Shin vs. Neo counterpart is strong enough to go toe-to-toe with Shin Getter Robo after becoming a cyborg.
- Alas, Poor Villain: He was a cruel, monstrous sort who did countless horrible things, but when he finally faces his end, even Ryoma and Hayato seem to be pitying him more than hating him—not least because, having lost so many battles, failed to accomplish any of his goals, and ultimately been abandoned by the people he was trying to save, he comes across as more pathetic than terrifying. It becomes especially evident when they realize that his goal to protect his people wasn't just bluster. Not only do they try to fulfill his request for an honorable death (if only to avenge Musashi and his other victims properly), but they're outraged at the Hundred Demons Empire for killing Gore, and immediately recognize them as an even more irredeemable threat.
- Anti-Villain: Original Manga version only, and Shin vs Neo to an extent—of the "well-intentioned" variety, mind. Though he wants to save his people, he has absolutely no regard for humanity and thinks nothing of killing as many people as possible to ensure their survival.
- Back from the Dead: In Shin VS Neo.
- Badass Cape: Often seen wearing one.
- Big Bad: Of the original series and the first installment of the manga.
- Composite Character: His Shin vs. Neo counterpart borrows a lot of traits from Burai, including being resurrected as a cyborg by alien technology, large horns that grant him unique abilities, and controlling a UFO identical to Burai's.
- Cyborg: In Shin VS Neo.
- Dragon-in-Chief: To Great Demon Yura in the anime.
- Dropped a Bridge on Him: Invoked. In the end he wants to die a warrior's death in a fight with Getter Robo, but is denied that chance by Demons, who shoot him in the back. Even Ryoma is pissed about it.
- Evil Overlord: More misguided than "Evil", since he does care about his own people and wants revenge on humanity for stealing the dinosaurs' land. But he still counts as this, since he wants to eradicate all of humankind.
- Inconsistent Spelling: Is it Gore, Gor or Goru?
- Large Ham: Most of times he doesn't speak, he yells.
- Obviously Evil: Zigzagged. Despite his menacing appearance, he's just fighting for his own race's survival.
- Non-Action Big Bad: In the original series and manga. Averted in Shin VS Neo, where he actually fights Shin Getter Robo personally after being resurrected and modified.
- Undignified Death: He gets killed by a random Hundred Demons Empire robot, right after declaring his intent to die in courageous battle with the Getter Dragon. Even Ryoma and Hayato seem to believe he deserved to go out better than he did.
- Villain Ball: Often show to hold a large one. It's later revealed that his extreme recklessness is a result of being so desperate to conquer the Earth before his race will be forced to return into the magma.
- Worthy Opponent: At the end, he and Getter Team become this for each other.
- Would Hurt a Child: The Dinosaur Empire has a pretty big bodycount, and in the manga, it explicitly includes children.
Yura the Great
The true leader of the dinosaur empire in the anime.- Canon Foreigner: Only appeared in the first anime.
- Giant Foot of Stomping: He ends up crushed under the foot of a gigantic apatosaurus.
- Greater-Scope Villain: In the first anime.
- The Man Behind the Man: To Emperor Gore.
- This Cannot Be!: His reaction to their sudden defeat.
General Bat
First Appearance: Getter Robo manga
Also Featured: Getter Robo 70s anime.
Voiced By: Kenichi Ogata (classic anime), Tomohisa Asou (Daikessen), Norio Wakamoto (Shin Vs Neo, Arc)
A high-ranking commander in the Dinosaur Empire's army.
- Bizarre Alien Biology: In the classic anime, he survived being stabbed by Zanki thanks to having multiple hearts.
- Death by Adaptation: The classic anime kills him off when he actually survived in the manga.
- The Dragon: The Dinosaur Empire's top military officer and Gore's right-hand man.
- Know When to Fold Them: When facing off against the Hundred Demons Empire with only a fraction of the army remaining after Gore's disastrous raid, he makes the rather painful decision to evacuate the Earth's surface. He spends most of the journey down apologizing to Gore for abandoning him, as the alternative would likely mean the Empire's extinction.
- Obfuscating Disability: In episode 12 of the Getter Robo Arc anime, he joins Kamui's uprising. He reveals that he had complete awareness of his surroundings.
- When I Was Your Age...: In his appearance in the Getter Robo Arc anime, he has become senile and rambles on and on about his days fighting against Ryoma Nagare.
Empress Jatego
First Appearance: Getter Robo Go manga.
The new leader of the Dinosaur Empire after Gore's demise secretly manipulating Rando for her own goals.
- Distaff Counterpart: For Gore.
- Eviler than Thou: Gives one to Rando.
- Large Ham: Apparently unable to not yell whenever she talks about Getter Robo.
- Legacy Character: For Gore.
- The Man Behind the Man: For Rasetsu and Rando.
- You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Towards Rando.
Hundred Demon Empire
Emperor Burai
Earth doesn't belong to dinosaurs. It belongs to demons!
Getter Robo manga.
First Appearance: Getter Robo manga
Also Featured: Getter Robo anime, Getter Robo G anime and manga.
Voiced By: Joji Yanami (classic anime), Hisao Egawa (Daikessen)
Leader Of Hundred Demons Empire, an empire of horned demonic cyborgs.
- Asshole Victim: He gets killed twice, both at the end of Getter Robo G, and at the end of Shin Getter Robo after he's brought back from the dead, and Burai was such a despicable character that he really deserved what was coming to him, and not one person mourns for him.
- Big Bad: Of Getter Robo G.
- Back from the Dead: In the Shin Getter manga, time-travelling Insects from the Getter Emperor's era found the drifting hulk of the Hundred Demon Empire vessel and restored Burai to life, in hopes that he would destroy the Getter and prevent the Getter Emperor from ever existing.
- Card-Carrying Villain: Takes pride in all the evil things he does.
- Contrasting Sequel Antagonist: Unlike Emperor Gore, who was a misguided Well-Intentioned Extremist simply looking out for his people, Burai is just a power-hungry, sadistic tyrant with zero noble intentions.
- Eviler than Thou: Towards Gore.
- From Nobody to Nightmare: Burai was initially just a student coming along on an arctic exploration, who was sent into the crashed remains of an Alien ship specifically because he was expendable. The core of the ship was still active and modified him into the demonic creature we all know, and he used the repaired ship and the Arctic team to found the Hundred Demon Empire.
- Hate Sink: Arguably one of the most evil villains in the series, second only to Professor Lando.
- Kick the Dog: An interesting example. While Gore isn't entirely sympathetic, not counting how he just wants him and his people to be able to live on the surface again, even if he has to wage war against humanity, who he has racist views towards, and also genuinely caring for his people. Him having Gore killed when he just wanted to die honorably in battle definitely counts as this, as the Getter Team were disgusted by the cruelty of such an action even if Gore was their mortal enemy.
- Playing Both Sides: Starting an all out war between the Demon Empire, the Dinosaur Empire and the Getter Team to force Gore into making a final, desperate attack - either the Getter Team or the Dinosaur Empire would be defeated, leaving him with only one enemy, or at least the two weakening each other.
- The Sociopath: While Gore at least cared about his people, Burai only sees those around him as pawns to benefit him.
- Time Travel: As confirmed in the Shin Getter Robo manga, the crashed ship that transformed Burai was part of a fleet fighting a losing battle against the Getter Emperor, something that was implied in the original chapter but not confirmed as the exact details had likely not been conceptualized.
- Would Hurt a Child: Has no problem enslaving children.
Marshal Hidler
First Appearance: Getter Robo manga
Also Featured: Getter Robo G anime and manga.
Voiced By: Kenichi Ogata (classic anime)
The highest commander in the Hundred Demons Empire's army.
- The Dragon: He's Burai right-hand oni and usually the one leading the attacks against the Getter team.
- Those Wacky Nazis: And with the Punny Name to match. He's got the mustache and the name that evokes Adolf Hitler.
- Would Hurt a Child: In the Getter Robo G anime, he executes the kid agent Jimushiki via firing squad for helping the Getter Team defeat a Hyakki Robot after becoming friends with Genki
Professor Rando & Allies
Professor Lando
First Appearance: Getter Robo Go manga.
Also Featured: Getter Robo Go anime.
Voiced By: Daisuke Gōri (Go anime), Kōzō Shioya (Daikessen)
The main villain of the Getter Robo Go manga, a Mad Scientist with dreams of world domination. In order to do so, he convinces the world's goverments to fund the creation of a scientific laboratory at the north pole, where different scientific teams could work together for a better future; he then proceeded to turn nearly all of the greatest scientists he invited there into his cybernetic slaves. The Japanese team managed to escape, thanks to Hayato, who then, together with Doctor Tachibana, created a secret organization to thwart his plans.
- Adaptational Villainy: His anime counterpart is actually something of a tragic figure, as he didn't start out evil and was instead driven insane by accident by one of his own experiments with brains and computers, and is arguably no longer himself anymore. His manga self has no such qualities and is instead completely evil.
- Arch-Enemy: For Hayato, as they're both the commanders of their respective forces and .
- Asshole Victim:He is killed near the end by Empress Jatego, and it's a well deserved fate for all the destruction he has caused.
- Bald of Evil: Well, balding actually, but still.
- Captain Ersatz: Of Doctor Hell.
- Cyborg: He has a half-mechanical head.
- Cybernetics Will Eat Your Soul: What he subjects other people to.
- Eviler than Thou: Gets to be on the receiving end from Hayato at one point. And later gets another one from the Dinosaur Empire.
- Hate Sink: Like Burai, Lando is an absolutely horrendous and despicable person.
- Herr Doktor: He is German, hence his name: Alrich Zu Lando.
- Hijacked by Ganon: His plan gets hijacked by the Dinosaur Empire.
- Mad Scientist: With an army of enslaved cyborg scientists under his command.
- Obviously Evil: The cybernetics only enhance the ominous and unhinged look he has about him perpetually.
- Shock and Awe: Can generate lightning.
- Take Over the World: His primary motivation
- Unwitting Pawn: To the Dinosaur Empire.
- You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Once the Dinosaur Empire emerges to take centre stage as the main villains once more, leading to...
- Your Head A-Splode: Jatego uses her powers to cause Lando's head to explode.
Rasetsu
First Appearance: Getter Robo Go manga
Professor Rando's right hand of unknown motives and abilities.
- Adaptational Backstory Change: See Same Character, But Different.
- The Dragon With An Agenda.
- Dude Looks Like a Lady: Manga only. In the anime, Rasetsu is in fact female.
- Expy: Of Baron Asura, they're even named after a being from Hindu Mythology (Rasetsu is the Japanese translation for the word Rakshasa). Hell, in the anime, Rasetsu has two different faces, except instead of being Two-Faced, she has a face growing out of her chest.
- Gender Flip: Is female in the anime, rather than being male like in the manga.
- Same Character, But Different: In the manga, Rasetsu is an androgynous, effiminate male who is actually a reptillian in disguise. In the anime however, Rasetsu is a female, mutated human with a demonic face that comes out her chest.
- Lizard Folk: What he is revealed to be later on in the manga.
- Sissy Villain: He is very effeminate and androgynous looking.
Yasha
First Appearance: Getter Robo Go manga
The commander of the Dragon Turtle and another top ranking minion of Professor Rando. Notable for being completely different in the anime and the manga, as he's a two-headed monster in the anime, with the two heads being two different beings, and in the manga, he's a man who can turn into a monster.
- Adaptational Attractiveness: He looks like a normal, if hairy, guy in the manga, while in the anime he was a two headed monster.
- Bad Boss: He gouges out Hellraisers eyes for failing to defeat Getter Robo and then has him wired into his own mecha, Giga, as punishment.
- Body Horror: In the anime, at least. He's actually two different beings who share one body, and aside from his heads, there's nothing even remotely human about him.
Oni
Seimei
First Appearance: New Getter Robo
Voiced By: Takehito Koyasu (Japanese), Kim Strauss (English)
Powerful wizard who rules his own dimension and commands the Oni. He kidnaps Getter Robo and it's pilots to provide him a challenge.
- Ambiguously Human: He looks human, and his contemptuous dismissal of his lackeys as mere Oni and puppets would seem to imply that he is not an Oni himself, yet his seemingly mystical abilities as well as a monstrous One-Winged Angel form make it very clear that he is far from a normal person.
- Blood Knight: Deliberately waits for Ryoma and the Getter to reunite so that he can have a satisfying challenge.
- Card-Carrying Villain: The Oni are mindless beasts, the Oni Gods want to save the world from Getter Rays... Seimei's just evil.
- Curb-Stomp Battle: In his final fight he utterly smashes Getter at least until Ryoma gets back, at which point the roles are reversed.
- Expy: Of Abe no Seimei, half-legendary historical figure.
- Large Ham: Once he gets his One-Winged Angel form, he makes Dio look subtle.
- Our Monsters Are Weird: His monster form is just bizarre.
- The Man Behind the Man: For the Oni.
- One-Winged Angel: twice
- Vain Sorceress: Gender-flipped example. He declares his intent to get revenge on the Getter Team (and Ryoma specifically) for wrecking his body.
- Why Don't Ya Just Shoot Him?: ...Because it would be boring, or so he tells one of his right-hand women (who are Oni) when she counsels him to destroy Ryoma and the rest of the Getter Team before they can find one another.
Four Oni Gods
First Appearance: New Getter Robo
Voiced in Japanese by: Tesshō Genda (Tomo-Ten), Banjo Ginga (Jikoku-Ten), Yusaku Yara (Zojo-Ten), Daisuke Gōri (Komoku-Ten)
Voiced in English by: Taylor Henry (Tomo-Ten), John Daniels (Jikoku-Ten), Francis C. Cole (Zojo-Ten), Richard George (Komoku-Ten)
Four godlike beings that appears at the end of New Getter Robo, real masterminds behind the Oni and Semei.
- A God Am I: Or so they declare themselves to be, at least in comparison to the human protagonists. The Getter Team are not impressed, and the next-episode preview narration lampshades the arrogance of the claim. They are powerful, however they pale in comparison to the Getter that rules over the New universe: Kyodai Dragon.
- Chest Blaster: Virudhaka.
- Cool Sword: Virudhaka's.
- Expy: Of four gods from another Ishikawa's manga, Kyomu Senki Miroku.
- Final Boss, New Dimension: The final fight against them takes place in a dimension filled with Getter Energy that's all but outright stated to be the far, far distant future, after every other living thing in that universe has been incorporated into the Getter.
- The Man Behind the Man: For Seimei.
- Mega Manning: Virudhaka (red head) creates a drill with his arm to block Hayato's.
- Resurrective Immortality: It seems that as long as at least one of them survives, the rest can revive.
- The Stoic: Vaisravana (gold) and even more Virudhaka.
- Well-Intentioned Extremist: Will stop at nothing to destroy the threat of Getter Energy. They would probably get along with the Anti-Spirals.
Invaders
Mr. Cohen and Mr. Stinger
First Appearances: Majuu Sensen, Getter Robo Armageddon
Voiced By: Ikuya Sawaki (Cohen, Majuu Sensen), Daisuke Gōri (Cohen, Armageddon), Kenta Miyake (Cohen, Armageddon in Super Robot Wars), Banjo Ginga (Stinger, Majuu Sensen), Masashi Hirose (Stinger, Armageddon)
- Adaptational Badass: While both Cohen and Stinger already had supernatural abilities in Majuu Sensen, Cohen having the ability to reproduce henchmen from his own body, and Stinger having a body made of iron/stone, they are given more dangerous, god-like abilities in Armageddon, being able to transform into planet-sized beings and to destroy planets with minimal effort.
- Adaptational Dye-Job: Cohen originally had white hair in Majuu Sensen, before it was changed to blonde in Armageddon, and then changed back to white in Arc. And Stinger originally had normal Beige skin in Majuu Sensen, before being changed to blue in Armageddon, and then changed back to Beige, with his hair also being changed to blonde, in Arc.
- Adaptational Heroism: Implied, but left ambiguous. In the anime adaptation of Arc, they are part of Ron Schweitzer's group, suggesting that they are now good guys, though because their appearances are merely small cameos, we know very little about their versions seen there.
- Adaptational Jerkass: While Stinger was definitely not a good guy in Majuu Sensen, being more than happy to take part in the atrocities committed by Genzo and his group, he was at-least more Affably Evil and believed that he was taking part in a cause to help evolve humanity as part of god's will. In Armageddon, however, Stinger is noticeably much more gleeful and cruel, giggling and laughing, while he and stinger are either trying to convert any life form they meet into becoming Invaders like them, or committing mass genocide towards those who refuse.
- Adaptational Name Change: In Majuu Sensen, Cohen was originally named Dr. Shaft, and Stinger was called Dr. Valvia.
- Adaptational Personality Change: Averted with Cohen, whose personality in Armageddon is exactly the same as that in Majuu Sensen. Stinger, however, plays this trope straight, where he is given a Joker-eque, Psychopathic Manchild personality in Armageddon, who constantly giggles with a creepy constant grin to boot, unlike in Majuu Sensen, where he originally had a more calm, Affably Evil personality who rarely, if ever even cracked a smile or laughed at all.
- Adaptational Wimp:
- Subverted. Mr. Cohen doesn't have the power to produce his "sons" from his own body like he did as Dr. Shaft in Majuu Sensen, but he now has all sorts of other powers related to the Invaders.
- Though their appearances in the anime adaptation of Arc are just a one second cameo, it's made very clear that they don't have supernatural, god-like abilities like they did in Majuu Sensen or Armageddon and are now just harmless human scientists. They are also Killed Offscreen by Kamui and his group.
- Amazing Technicolor Population: Stinger has blue skin for some reason.
- In Majuu Sensen, it is suggested that Stinger's body is made of either steel or rock, as a result of self-experimentation.
- Body Horror: Because Cohen and Stinger are controlled by the Invaders, they have the ability to puke out alien slime, and then there is their giant monster form in the final episode.
- In Majuu Sensen Cohen, or Dr. Shaft as he is called in that series, has the ability to reproduce children from his own body.
- Breath Weapon: The third episode has Cohen puking Invader slime.
- Big Bad Duumvirate : Of Armageddon.
- The Cameo: They appear in the final episode of the anime adaptation of Arc as part of the group of humans in the Dinosaur Empire that Kamui rounds up to be executed by firing squad.
- Canon Immigrant: Cohen and Stinger both originally appeared in another series by Ken Ishikawa called Majuu Sensen, where they also went by different names (see above).
- Cheshire Cat Grin: Stinger, who is always seen with a creepy grin.
- Death of Personality: Though they continue talking as if nothing has changed, once they go full Invader Cohen and Stinger speak as if they're not human and never have been. This is partially to provide some view on the Invaders' perspective on things and partially to show that the original Cohen and Stinger have been completely subsumed into the Invaders and no longer view themselves as "human".
- Dragon Ascendant: In Majuu Sensen, Cohen and Stinger were scientists who worked for Genzo Kuruma (though Cohen was a Dragon with an Agenda). In Armageddon, they both serve as the series Big Bad, while using Dr. Saotome as a puppet for their goals of converting humanity into becoming Invaders.
- Eldritch Abomination: Their final form, a massive combination of them and seemingly endless Invaders capable of using Jupiter's moons as a focus for one hell of a Wave-Motion Gun.
- Evil Counterparts: When piloting Metal Beast Getter G, Cohen is the counterpart to Benkei and Stinger is the counterpart to Hayato.
- Evil Old Folks: Both are elderly men, nearing their 70s, and are also incredibly evil.
- Evil Sounds Deep: Cohen has a very deep voice.
- Stinger also had this in Majuu Sensen, as opposed to the more high-pitched voice given to him in Armageddon.
- Evilutionary Biologist: In Majuu Sensen, they are both scientists that are part of Genzo Kuruma's team, who seek to evolve humanity by turning them into half human/half animal hybrids, known as Majuu. This is carried over in Armageddon, where they chose to become part of the Invader species and want to convert humans and all organic life into becoming part of the same species too, for the sake of evolution.
- Face–Monster Turn: Though it's ambiguous if they could ever be considered "faces", Cohen and Stinger become worse once they fully succumb to invader infection.
- Faux Affably Evil: They are, if anything, both well-mannered and polite. They are also genocidal aliens who will convert or kill any life-form they come across.
- Gonk: Cohen's plain, thuggish, and even weird looking, but Stinger looks outright inhuman.
- Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: Inverted. Cohen has blonde hair and an incredibly cruel streak. Also Stinger, who is given blonde hair in Arc.
- Humanoid Abomination: They look basically human, but any humanity they once had is long gone; they're little more than meat puppets for the Invaders, and they're occasionally seen melting down into a mess of eyes and teeth.
- Mook Maker: The third episode has Cohen puking Invader slime and in the finale a whole armada of Elite Mooks come from him.
- In his original appearance in Majuu Sensen, he has the ability to spawn henchmen, which he calls his "children", from his own body, as already mentioned above on Body Horror.
- Mythology Gag: Their obsession with evolution is a call back towards their original incarnations, Dr. Shaft and Dr. Valvia.
- Not-So-Harmless Villain: Being The Man Behind the Man aside, they play second fiddle to Saotome most of the time in Armageddon...Then they begin hurling moons, planets, black holes and eventually an Invader Dimension at Earth and all in the final two episodes!
- Obviously Evil: Everything about them seems dubious, not least the fact that Stinger seems to have stone-like skin.
- One-Winged Angel: Their ultimate form, sometimes nicknamed the "Invader King" or "King of Invaders" by fans.
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The Other Darrin: Cohen and Stinger were both originally voiced by Ikuya Sawaki and Banjo Ginga in Majuu Sensen, before later being voiced by Daisuke Gōri and Masashi Hirose in Armageddon.- Cohen is voiced by Kenta Miyake for his appearance in Saisei-Hen, since Gouri died before the game was made.
- Perpetual Smiler: Both of then rarely make any other expression other then a Psychotic Smirk.
- Reused Character Design: Both Stinger and Cohen use the designs of Dr. Barbia and Dr. Shaft from Majuu Sensen, but it's clear that neither of them are the same characters as their counterparts from that manga.
- Scary Black Man: It isn't being angry that makes Cohen scary. Aside from hosting Invaders it is his entire mannerisms that make him scary. Even more-so in Majuu Sensen, where he has the ability to reproduce kids from his own body.
- Sinister Shades: Mr. Cohen wears a pair of Pince-nez sunglasses to reflect his evil nature..
- The Man Behind the Man: The ones that most likely infected Saotome and Michiru.
- Unusually Uninteresting Sight: No one ever takes any notice of Stinger's blue skin and polygonal face or Cohen's gigantic size and blond hair.
Andromeda Empire
Great Queen Meldosa
First Appearances: Getter Robo Arc
Voiced by: Romi Park
The leader of the Andromeda Empire.
Koumei
First Appearances: Getter Robo Arc
Voiced by: Takaya Hashi
A commander in the Andromeda Empire's army.
- Named After Somebody Famous: Named after the famous strategist in Three Kingdoms – Shu, Wei, Wu, Zhuge Liang (Koumei being the Japanese name of his stylename Kongming).
Carter McDonald
First Appearances: Getter Robo Arc
Voiced by: Fumihiko Tachiki (Japanese), John Swasey (English)
An Earthling who joined the Andromeda Empire. He turns out to be a survivor of the Hundred Demons Empire and wants to avenge Emperor Burai.
- Last Stand: In the Getter Robo Arc anime, he pilots Uzahra with the remnants of the Hundred Demons Empire in his last fight against the Getter Robo Arc.
- Revenge: His primary motivation.
Professor Jacov
Professor Jacov
First Appearances: Getter Robo Hien: The Earth Suicide.
Originally a professor that was developing plants to cure people, Jacov came up with the idea to use them to wipe out humans, and created the monsters Plant Beast to achieve his goal.- And I Must Scream: The results of being devoured by his Plant Beast.
- But for Me, It Was Tuesday: When the Getter Team confronts him and calls Jim out for killing people they cared about, Jacov was confused about who they are referring to since he has quite a lot of victims.
- Evilutionary Biologist: Used his knowledge about plants to develop the dangerous Plant Beasts.
- Hoist by His Own Petard: He created the Plant Beasts to achieve his goal in destroying humanity, and he ultimately ended up getting killed by a Plant Beast.
- Karmic Death: He uses Plant Beasts to kill and devour a lot of people and he ended up getting devoured by a Plant Beast controlled by his son, can't be more karmic than that.
- Kill All Humans: His goal.
- Mad Scientist: He wanted to use Plant Beasts to destroy humanity.
- Misanthrope Supreme: He desired to destroy humanity and saw them as worthless.
The Getter's True Form
The Getter (Unmarked Spoilers)
The Getter
The final evolution of the Getter: Getter Emperor
Appears in: Entire series
The Getter Rays themselves are all but outright stated to collectively be an enormous, reality-spanning Eldritch Abomination seeking either a race that can properly master its use, or a race that it can eventually overtake to create universe-devouring death knights such as its ultimate embodiment seen in Armageddon, the Getter Emperor. For this reason it can be seen as the true Big Bad of the entire franchise, even if it's not evil so much as it has a severe case of Blue-and-Orange Morality.
- A Form You Are Comfortable With: While the Getter Rays themselves cannot normally communicate directly with humans owing to their nature, places with exceptionally high Getter Ray levels can allow the ghosts of those that have been absorbed into the rays to manifest and deliver messages or warnings on behalf of the Getter, as demonstrated in the Go and Shin manga and the Arc and New animes.
- At one point, Shin Getter speaks to Go in a dream, appearing as a huge, Getter-silhouetted Celestial Body with slightly human features.
- Adaptational Villainy: Downplayed, as the Getter Rays function on Blue-and-Orange Morality, but they are portrayed much more villainously in Darkness than in any other incarnation of the franchise, to the point that the Getter Robo of that series runs on Anti-Getter Rays.
- Anthropomorphic Personification: More like Robotic Personification, but each Getter Machine acts as this to the Getter in one way or another. It's most obvious with the Shin Getter and the Getter Emperor. The Getter Rays themselves are the very incarnation of life and evolution, though it's decidedly not an anthropomorphic entity in any way.
- Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence: In the Shin and Go portions of the manga canon, which were written by Ishikawa himself, this is what happens to those who are absorbed into the Getter Rays. In Shin this is implied to be the end goal of the Getter Rays themselves.Dr. Saotome: Again, all will take on one form... And take one great leap hereafter...
- The Assimilator: Any Getter machine that absorbs enough Getter Rays becomes this, with a Bad Future seen by Ryoma in Shin and New having all of humanity being fused to Getter machines and the Shin Getter Robo in Go by absorbing matter just by touching it. The Getter Emperor is formed by the Shin Getter Robo merging with Mars (presumably) and capable of absorbing the entire universe and potentially even the multiverse if left alone.
- Ax-Crazy: Judging by how it acts through the Shin Getter and ESPECIALLY when it takes over Ryoma, it is most certainly this.
- Benevolent Abomination: Despite their incomprehensible values and inscrutable motives, the Getter Rays are on humanity's side and seem to be committed to ensuring our survival and further evolution... Except we see several bad futures that show that this may not be a good thing, and even the people the Getter seems to favor most have expressed belief that it could eventually destroy humanity.
- Big Bad: Pretty much the whole reason most of the other villains are doing what they're doing is to stop the Getter from growing too strong and destroying them. Some villains have even been created or enabled by the Getter Rays such as the Invaders or Professor Jacov.
- Blue-and-Orange Morality: Owing to it being a very good example of an Eldritch Abomination, despite all the terrible things it does it can't really be considered 'evil' by our definition. It simply does what's natural to it, evolving as much as it can and devouring whatever doesn't make the cut. Really, it makes sense considering that it's the embodiment of evolution and life; that's much like how it goes in real life. New suggests that this is due to the robot running wild, as that version of Ryoma is informed by an unknown voice that the Kyodai Dragon is only "one of the shapes that the Getter can lead to."
- The Getter is invested in the future of humanity, yet at the same time many human civilians have died due to being caught up in its attacks. When Go calls it out on this, it simply assures him that all of them returned to where they came from, suggesting that as a Sentient Cosmic Force that goes beyond life and death it has a very different outlook on both.
- Clipped-Wing Angel: One of versions of the Getter Emperor that appears in Devolution is incomplete, only being formed from the Getter Emperor Eagle Machine. It’s still powerful enough to destroy an entire planet if given a chance.
- The other version of said mech that appears in Devolution (i.e. the protagonists' own getter) also falls into this trope as it is a fragment of the Getter emperor that has been broken off and shrunk down to a more manageable size.
- Creepy Good: Though 'good' is probably too strong a word, the Getter is firmly on humanity's side, or at the very least is committed to protecting us on the path to evolution's pinnacle. It just also happens to be an absolutely terrifying cosmic horror that can (and has, or will) drive people insane or assimilate them, and destroy entire races and worlds.
- Deconstruction: The Getter itself is this towards the concept of Serial Escalation, as it is revealed that the reason why the Getter Machines keep getting more and more powerful is that they're essentially vessels for an Eldritch Abomination that's also a Sentient Cosmic Force.
- Demonic Possession: The Shin Getter has such a high Getter Ray storage capacity that it's practically alive, hence its crazy eyes and mannerisms when piloted. It does this to pilots as well, most notably Ryoma in New Getter Robo at the end of the series.
- It can also animate the discarded husks of the prototype Getter machines, as seen in Shin and New.
- The Dreaded: To the Dinosaur Empire, who proclaim that as long as Getter Robo exists they have no future... and also to the universe as a whole after the Emperor's awakening.
- Eldritch Abomination: The biggest and baddest one in the franchise, responsible for the creation of all other abominations such as the Invaders, the initial form of the Shin Dragon in Armageddon and the Emperor.
- Emerald Power: Obviously, since it is Getter Energy.
- Evil Versus Oblivion: Most of the other villains in the franchise are the evil versus the Getter's oblivion.
- Greater-Scope Villain: Though it itself doesn't usually take the villain reins directly in most series, with the other villainous factions acting to move the plot against the Getter Team.
- Go Mad from the Revelation: The track record of people that catch a glimpse of the Getter's true nature and manage to emerge mentally stable from the experience is, frankly, not all that great. At best, they tend to become convinced that the Getter is dangerous and should be destroyed, like Go and Ryoma. At worst, they undergo Sanity Slippage like Gai or even become brain dead like poor Kei.
- Hopeless Boss Fight: The conflict we see in the future between the Getter Emperor fleet and the Andromeda Empire is presented like this. The 'battle' amounts to Getter Emperor slowly approaching their planet to consume it while they desperately throw everything they have at it— and Emperor No Sells all of it. It's such a one sided and hopeless fight that the only chance the Andromeda have is to try wiping out Getter Robo in the past.
- Kryptonite Factor: To the Dinosaur Empire, weakening them in much the same way that regular radiation does regular humans, hence why they were forced underground when the Getter Rays first started showering the planet's surface. Several Saurian schemes in the original manga involve terraforming the planet to make it habitable for their people once again. Of course, this weakness to Getter Rays is also what makes the Getter Robo the ideal weapon to push back against their invasion.
- Mechanical Abomination: Due to manifesting through machines most of the time.
- Mysterious Backer: The reason Dr. Saotome and the heroes are able to do much of anything.
- Omnicidal Maniac: Ironically enough given that it's life itself, if allowed to progress uncontrolled it will devour the entire universe as the Getter Emperor and likely go on to destroy other universes in the Getter multiverse as well.
- Key word is "uncontrolled" as New and Arc imply that the key to preventing the Emperor's rampage is taking down any out of control Getter Robos before they get too powerful.
- One-Winged Angel: The Getter Emperor is the ultimate form of this to all the other Getter Machines, and the closest the Getter entity itself gets to a 'true form', physically speaking. The Emperor itself does this through its own evolution, going from the size of a planet to an abomination the size of a galaxy that can kill the God of the universe in a single punch.
- Seeking Ultimate Strength: The true nature of Getter Rays is revealed to be a Sentient Cosmic Force, manifesting as Getter Emperor in the Bad Future, turning into a serial Planet Eater who is motivated by its growth and further evolution while assisting its race of preference, than by any malice.
- Self-Constructed Being: In Devolution the Precursors that became the Getter Rays created a universe-wide network made of stars to create a body to carry out their will, which called itself the Will of the Universe.
- Sentient Cosmic Force: The fact that the MacGuffin energy source that powers the main cast's strongest asset is both sentient and unwittingly evil is a major plot twist in the franchise as a whole.
- Walking Spoiler: For a certain value of "walking", but even discussing the Getter's potential character attributes without spoiling nearly everything about the central conflict of the franchise's meta-narrative is the next thing to impossible.
- What Measure Is a Non-Human?: Though they explicitly do not hold any malice towards other races, the Getter Rays favour humanity specifically to the point that the future Colonel Musashi believes that the Getter chose mankind to rule the universe, even if it means the destruction of countless other worlds and species. Kamui calls this out in the Arc anime, pointing out that their lives should be of equal value yet the Getter seems perfectly okay with letting Saurians go extinct.Kamui: Favoring one race and leaving the other to die... is an atrocity that must be stopped!
- Somewhat zigzagged with the Dinosaur Empire. On the one hand, exposure to Getter Energy is crippling if not downright fatal to Saurians, which is what drove them beneath ground to begin with. On the other hand, they don't seem to have a problem accepting Emperor Gore's spirit into themselves, and Kamui himself is one of the Chosen Children of Getter despite being half-Saurian.
