Characters / Guyver

Here is a list of characters from the manga series Guyver.

The Guyvers

The first three Guyvers. From left to right: Guyver I(Sho Fukumachi), Guyver II(Oswald A. Lisker), Guyver III(Agito Makishima)

From left to right: Foreground: Guyver III, II, I, and II-F Background: Gigantic Dark and Guyver Gigantic

The Guyver is the product of a Uranus bio-adapted armor bonding and enhancing a human host. The armor itself adapts itself to the user so the power of the merged being depends on the host's potential. As humans were engineered to be bio-weapons, the bio-armor system increases their powers far beyond even the aliens that created them. Later, humans that had been merged with the armor were referred to as 'Guyver', which in the Uranus' language means 'beyond normal' or 'Abnormal'. This is because a Guyver is beyond the control of the Uranus' psychic domination.

Traits common to all guyvers include:

• Achilles' Heel: Two.
  • There's a bullseye on the 'forehead' of any Guyver, also known as the Control Metal/Medallion. Since the Control Metal is vital, damaging it will cause a host's Guyver form to go wonky and destroying it will cause the armor to eat the host alive.
  • The Mega Smasher. It's a Guyver's most powerful weapon, but firing it requires opening the chest armor, and a Zoanoid strike while the armor is open can cause serious damage even to the Nigh-Invulnerable Guyver.
• Energy Weapon: The Head Beam, a small laser fired from— you guessed it— the head.
• Flight: All Guyvers possess a Gravity Orb on their waists which allows them to fly, among other things.
• From a Single Cell: The Guyver's Control Metal can regenerate the host completely with their memories intact even from only the smallest scraps of tissue on the control metal.
• Head Blast: The Guyver suits come with a small laser emitter mounted roughly on the forehead. It's one of the weaker weapons at the Guyver's disposal, but benefits from being more precise and faster firing than something like the Pressure Cannon and Mega Smasher.
  • The Sonic Buster overlaps with this trope and Breath Weapon given its sound based nature and the emitters being mounted roughly where the Guyver's mouth would be normally.
• Healing Factor: The bio-armor provides massive regenerative capabilities up to and including From a Single Cell.
• Person of Mass Destruction: ALL GUYVERS. A single Guyver is equal to 1000 normal Zoanoids and a squad of Hyper-Zoanoids.
• Phlebotinum Rebel: By definition, the Guyvers are this, as a Guyver is specifically what a human bonded with the alien bio-armor is called. Not only does the Control Metal on the armor free humans from the Uranus' psychic control, but the first thing the first Guyver did when the Uranus tried to give it orders was to blast one of their ships with the Mega Smasher. See Wave-Motion Gun below.
• Sphere of Destruction: Whenever a Guyver transforms, they are surrounded by a spatial distortion caused by the armor entering normal space from a sub-dimension. Anything around the host while transforming will be destroyed.
• Super-Scream: The Sonic Buster is a powerful sound cannon fired from the Guyver's 'mouth'. It can disintegrate matter or cause foes to grip their ears in pain.
• Super-Strength: All Guyvers posses super strength, which is further enhanced by the Gravity Orb on their waists.
• Wave-Motion Gun: The Megasmasher! A massive particle cannon fire from the Guyver's chest that can cut a swath of destruction for miles.
• Vibroweapon: High Frequency Swords on the elbows of the Guyver can cut through almost anything.

Sho Fukamachi - Guyver I

"GUYVER!"

Bio Booster Armor

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Voiced by: Takeshi Kusao (Japanese, OVA's) Kenji Nojima (Japanese, anime), Tom Fahn (English, OVA's) Chris Patton (English, anime)

The main character. Formerly an Average High Schooler, Sho becomes Guyver I's host after accidentally activating it, giving him the strength needed to oppose Chronos and their schemes.

• Anti-Hero: Has shades of being a Classical Anti-Hero at first. Later matures into either a Knight in Sour Armor or straightforward hero depending on who you ask.
• Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever: As Guyver Gigantic Exceed
• Big "NO!": When he dons the Guyver unit for the first time. Another finding out that he killed Enzyme II, his father.
• Clone Angst: Very briefly touched upon after Sho's first instance of regenerating after being almost completely incinerated where he muses that he's technically a clone of the original Sho Fukamachi. Probably wisely for his sanity, however, he decides not to dwell on it.
• Cursed with Awesome: His perspective on the Guyver armor, which he has often lamented being unable to be free of. Understandable, since it has made him and his loved ones the target of an Evil Corporation, and the Guyver's powers are pretty freaky.
• Good Thing You Can Heal: He can heal from anything, provided that the Control Medallion has a piece of him.
• Fusion Dance: With Aptom. And yes, it is awesome.
• Heart Is an Awesome Power: Being the most sensitive of the Guyvers, Sho came off as being weak... in recent chapters, this seems to FINALLY be paying off.
• Heroic BSoD: After killing Enzyme 2, his father. He grows out of this after Aptom's return.
  • Another when they find out Imarakum Mirabilis is Masaki Murakami. Again, Aptom gets him out of it.
• Heroic Safe Mode: Damage to Sho's brain knocks him out of commission and the Guyver Unit acts to protect itself. This is what kills Enzyme II, tragically.
• The Hero: In recent chapters, he's become this.
• Heroic Willpower: What allows him to hijack the Gigantic upgrade away from Agito Makishima.
• Ordinary High-School Student: Until he got Guyver I.
• Ridiculously Average Guy: Compared to Agito, Risker, and Valkyria he's extremely average, being a student while the other three have had combat training. It makes his acts of heroism and his levels in badass all the more dramatic.
• Took a Level in Badass: During the Second Battle of Cloud Gate.
  • Further proven where he's sliced off Agito's arm and leg!
• Unskilled, but Strong: For a large part of the manga Sho's only able to give Chronos trouble because of the raw power advantage he has over Zoanoids while having no combat training. Played up in his fight with Lisker, who's equally powerful and also a black belt, and is crushing Sho until his suit malfunctions.
• Victorious Childhood Friend: With Mizuki.

Agito Makishima - Guyver III

Zeus

WARRIOR OF DARKNESS!!

Voiced by: Hideyuki Tanaka (Japanese, OVA's) Katsuyuki Konishi (Japanese), Steve Blum (English, OVA's) Brian Jepson (English, anime)

The third Guyver ever revealed, Agito helps Sho and the others fight Chronos in their plans for world conquest. However, he has his own agenda, which comes in conflict with Sho's desire.

• Affably Evil: He consistently treats his allies with respect, and is actually much more understanding towards Sho than most of the latter's friends are. Just don't forget that he's got his own agenda.
• Batman Gambit: First Battle of Arizona HQ.
• Combat Pragmatist: Has no qualms with innocents dying from his actions. This is why Imarakum couldn't beat him.
• A God Am I: Refers to himself as Zeus, the god who will overthrow Chronos and take over the world in its place.
• Good Thing You Can Heal: Like all Guyvers, Agito possesses a healing factor. Which is a very good thing as he seems to be especially prone to getting his limbs sliced off.
• Foil: To Sho. They're both Guyver wearers with a grudge against Chronos, and either could have been the hero of the series, but their background and motivations are completely opposite. Sho's an Ordinary High-School Student who was given a Guyver suit, Agito's a trained Chronos fighter. Sho's fighting to protect his friends, while Agito only cares about power.
• The Lancer: Plays this role to Sho off and on.
• Heel–Face Turn: After Sho finally defeats him he seems to have taken a level in kindness. Time will tell if this sticks.
• Hunk: While it doesn't show well though his school uniform, Agito regularly trains for strength and martial arts, and when he's wearing a tanktop or naked, it shows.
• Jerkass: To Sho once he starts leading Zeus' Thunderbolts again as Dark Gigantic.
• Manipulative Bastard: Has no qualms with using people as tools.
• Nominal Hero: He's against Chronos and extremely helpful to Sho and the others, but not an especially good person. He fights for personal power and ambition, and to ensure his own freedom, he'll conquer the world himself.
• The Starscream: Starts out working for his father, and then Richard Guyot. Manages to use Richard to depose his father, but is unable to defeat Richard, and ends up going fully rogue.
• Student Council President: Used to be one at the start of the series.

Inspector Valkyria F. Lisker - Guyver II-F

Guyver II-F

Formerly an inspector of Chronos, Valkyria Forsberg Lisker betrays them after becoming the host the Guyver II-F, a copy of the original Guyver II. Currently, it is unknown why did she betray Chronos.

• Action Girl: The only female Guyver.
  • Dark Action Girl: After she allies herself with Guyot, opposing not only Chronos but the Guyver heroes as well. Specifically, she wants Revenge on Sho for killing her step-brother, the original Guyver II.
• Canon Immigrant: She first appeared in Guyver: Out Of Control OVA, substituting Oswald. Years later she appeared in the mainline manga story.
• Cruel and Unusual Death: Suffers the same fate as Lisker in Out Of Control.
• Ms. Fanservice: Every time that she dismisses her G-unit.
• Flawed Prototype: Her Control Metal is just a prototype manufactured by Chronos based off of what they learned from Oswald Lisker (Guyver II). Since it's only a prototype and not a perfect copy there is a time limit to how long she can stay transformed, her guyver form is prone to power fluctuation, and her clothes are not replaced by the armor.
• Heroic RRoD: Her G-unit causes her to get exhausted.
• Hour of Power: Valkyria's Control Metal is a prototype created by Chronos and not a perfect copy of a true Guyver control metal. There is a limit to how long she can stay transformed.
• The Nudifier: Her experimental, imperfect Control Medallion destroys whatever she was wearing when she summoned her armor, inevitably leaving her naked on its dismissal
• The Reveal: She's Lisker's step-sister.
• Revenge: Wants to kill Sho for killing Lisker— though she claims its not out of affection for her brother, but because she had defined herself by trying to surpass him in all things, and Sho killing him robbed her of that.
• Secretly Dying: Possibly. Even when she's not transformed, she is plagued by bouts of fatigue and dizziness as a result of becoming a Guyver; her powers may come with a fatal expiration date.
• Suddenly Blonde: was a redhaired chick in Out Of Control. In the manga, she's blonde. Justified, she's from Scandinavia. That, and related to Lisker this time around.

Inspector Oswald A. Lisker - Guyver II

Guyver II

Voiced by: Norio Wakamoto (Japanese, OVA's) Unshou Ishizuka (Japanese), Gary Michaels (English, OVA's) Jason Douglas (English)

An Inspector sent to Chronos Japan, he becomes Guyver II's host after accidentally activating it and fights against Sho. Unfortunately for him, his Control Medallion was damaged, allowing Sho to destroy it and resulting in Lisker being consumed by his own bio-armor.

• Bad Boss: In the OVA he brutally killed off a dozen Zoanoids to test his power, in the 2005 anime he was more patient with his coworkers at least.
• Cruel and Unusual Death: Dies getting devoured by his G-unit.
• Distaff Counterpart: Valkyria is this to him in Out Of Control. averted in the manga as she is Oswald's step-sister
• Killed Off for Real: People are quite sure the two Guyver I Is are different people.
• Retcon: The original design of Guyver II was very similar to Sho's only the sonic busters and breathers were paired up. The OVA gave a much better design and Takaya re-drew art for book one.
• Smug Snake: In the first OVA.
• The Rival: In the 2005 anime, he and Zerbebuth were in the same training group. This leads to them competing over who can defeat the renegade Guyvers. When Lisker finds an injured Zerbebuth during Guyver III's invasion of the headquarters, he kills his old rival without a thought.
• Spell My Name With An S: People argue over Risker or Lisker.
• The Starscream: Had vibes in the 2005 anime.
• We Hardly Knew Ye: Died at the end of the only chapter where he got to see action, which later even the writer admitted was a waste of the character. In somewhat of a remedy, the 2005 series has him survive until the destruction of Chronos Japan and gives him a subplot where he was old rivals with Zerbebuth from Chronos boot camp.

Guyver 0

The original Guyver from millions of years ago. He appears to have been a regular prehistoric human that Uranus bonded with a Guyver For Science!, only to terrify them with not only his destructive power but complete immunity to their mental control.

• Gone Horribly Right: This is the origin of: ABORT! SWEETJESUSITHASAPARTICLECANNONFORATORSO!
• Oh, Crap!: His wordless reaction when Archanfel manages to use the Unit Remover to separate him from the Guyver Control Metal.
• Posthumous Character: He only appeared twice and it was in the far distant past. Yet his brief rebellion is what caused the Creators to leave in the first place.
• You Rebel Scum!: Being bonded with a Guyver made him immune to the Creators' mental control, and he turned against them.

Guyver Allies

Tetsurou Segawa

Voiced by: Kozo Shioya (Japanese, OVA's) Kousuke Takaguchi (Japanese, anime), Victor Garcia (English, OVA's) Lowell Bartholomee (English, anime)

Sho's best friend and resident Genre Savvy sidekick. It was his suggestion to take a shortcut home through the swamp that led to the fateful encounter with the Guyver Unit.

• Big Ol' Eyebrows
• Genre Savvy: Thanks to his love for the sci-fi, most of his guesses about the Guyer and Chronos are right.
• The Glasses Gotta Go: Doesn't help that he's a fugitive.
• Human Resources: "Zoanoids are made of people?!"
• Ordinary High-School Student: Until X-Day.
• True Companions: To Sho.

Mizuki Segawa

Sho's Lover

Voiced by: Yuko Mizutani (Japanese, OVA's) Nana Mizuki (Japanese, anime), Melissa Fahn (English, OVA's) Luci Christian (English, anime)

Tetsurou's sister, and Sho's Love Interest.

• Break the Cutie: Doesn't take it well when she's brought into the plot, sees people turning into monsters and getting killed around her.
• Damsel in Distress: She gets kidnapped by Chronos in their attempt to captured Sho. And again when Aptom is out for revenge and tries to force Sho into becoming Guyver I.
• Oblivious to Love: Tetsuro is at disbelief that she didn't notice Sho's crush.
• Ordinary High-School Student: Until X-day.
• Post-Historical Trauma: Finding out the origin of humanity was too much for her.
• Say My Name: Her calling out for Sho has snapped him out of more than one state of dormancy.
• Tomboy and Girly Girl: In the middle of the spectrum roughly, she's more a damsel but dresses less girly than Shizu, the action girl. But compared to Natsuki she's a girly girl.
• Victorious Childhood Friend: With Sho.

Shizu Onuma - Zoalord Griselda

Voiced by: Michiko Neya (Japanese), Brittney Karbowski (English)

• Brake Angrily: In episode 10 of the original OVA.
• Combat Medic: not only she has healing abilities, but she's also a proto-zoalord. Meaning that even hyper Zoanoids struggle against her.
• Cute Monster Girl: as Griselda
• Love Martyr; Becoming Griselda is such a strain that she is not expected to survive two years.
• Breast Expansion: When transforming into Griselda (vol 18, chapter 111).
• The Medic: can heal once transformed.
• Morality Pet: To Agito.
• Supreme Chef: She whips out an excellent breakfast on the run with materials that were in a minifridge, and her chamomile tea is to die for.
• Team Mom

Masaki Murakami/ Imarakum Mirabilis

Voiced by: Mitsuaki Madono (Japanese), Andrew Love (English)

^SPOILERS

First shown as a journalist that takes interest on Sho and Chronos, Murakami is a proto-Zoalord bent on destroying Chronos, and by extension, Richard Guyot. He was Revived by Archanfel, becoming Imarakum Mirabilis, the 13th Zoalord

• Alliterative Name: Masaki Murakami
• BFG: The Max Factory Zoanoid Buster Custom gun he packs in his anime appearances, an elephant rifle in a very big pistol.
• Brainwashed and Crazy: Possibly. He still has his past memories, so there could be something else instead
• Cool Shades: wears these, even at night.
• Combat Pragmatist: forces to Zoanoids to fight each other against their will. [[spoiler: doesn't
• The Dragon: To Archanfel. possibly his friend too.
  • Co-Dragons: along with Hamilcar Barca
• Expository Hairstyle Change: His hair becomes more stylish once he becomes Mirabilis
• Flawed Prototype: As a prototype Zoalord, he's weaker than other Zoalords (though stronger than an average Zoanoid by a long shot) and doesn't have long to live. now that he's a full-fledged Zoalord, it doesn't seem to be the case anymore.
• Hand Cannon: His Zoanoid Buster supergun, which can take the head off a Zoanoid in one shot. This was actually an invention of the anime adaptations, as the manga did have him use an ordinary revolver at one point, but it obviously did nothing to Zoanoids. When the 2005 series rolled around, this weapon was brought back.
• Intrepid Reporter: His world traveling got him captured and made into a prototype Zoalord. He introduces himself to Sho as a reporter when they meet afterward, although that seems to just be a cover to handwave why he's hunting Chronos until he's ready to tell the whole story.
• Face–Heel Turn: Now a Zoalord.
• Knight Templar: Will stop at nothing to destroy Archanfel's enemies
• Revolvers Are Just Better: Depending on the media, averted and played straight. In the manga for one scene he wielded a revolver, it did nothing to the Zoanoid. However the Buster Gun has a rotating chamber holding only three bullets but can take off a Zoanoid's head with one shot, so played straight there.
• Sugar-and-Ice Personality: In the 2005 anime.
• Sdrawkcab Alias: His name is Murakami backward
• Team Dad: Or Team big brother with Odagiri being the team dad.
• That Man Is Dead: Claims that, even though he has memories of his past, he's no longer is Murakami anymore

Toshiaki Hayami - Biofreezer

Voiced by: Takeharu Onishi (Japanese), Illich Guardiola (English)

Bio-Freezer

Formerly part of Odagiri's team, Hayami tries to help Sho and Co. defeat Chronos' regime. As he had a virus that could melt his brain, he took the risk and became a Lost Number.

• An Ice Person: can freeze anything at his proximity.
• Bad Ass Bookworm: he's a scientist, after all.
• Dark Is Not Evil: he may be a Lost Number, but it's clear he's on Sho's side.
• Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?: He might be only as strong as a Zoanoid and he's exhausted after using his power. But he's a much better teammate against Enzyme III instead of another Guyver.
• Four Is Death: He used his ice powers four times.
  • Inverted in that he's the fourth aid and the only one to succeed in becoming a Lost Number.
• Heroic Sacrifice: Aptom will never forget what Hayami did for him.
• Incurable Cough of Death: His lifespan is quite short and using his powers makes it shorter.
• Last of His Kind: The sole survivor of Odagiri's group.
• Let's Get Dangerous!: the Enzyme III never saw it coming. neither did Kabrarl Khan.
• Overshadowed by Awesome: unfortunately, for such an interesting power, he's surrounded by already powerful people. until he took one for the team
• Sensitive Guy and Manly Man: Kind of forms this with Aptom respectively.
• The Smart Guy: He knew a lot about Cloud Gate's security and used more strategy to fight when he could.
• Team Dad: Acts like a dad or big brother to Sho during the rescue of Aptom.
• This Looks Like A Job For Aqua Man: Hayami isn't worth much in a straight fight but thus far his freezing ability has pretty much been critical for every victory against Enzyme IIIs.
• Took a Level in Badass: being able to freeze Enzyme III without even touching them counts as this.

Aptom

Voiced by: Tetsu Inada (Japanese), Robert Kraft (English)

I will defeat you Fukamachi!

Hayami! Your sacrifice won't be in vain!

Sho's Rival, Aptom is a Lost Number whose power was defined by copying their opponents looks. After some modifications by Barcas and Sho injuring him, He gains the abilities to absorb other Zoanoids and copy everything about them, even their powers and appearances.

• Anti-Hero: A Knight in Sour Armor.
• Appendage Assimilation: thanks to his powers. Chaos Mode takes it to a whole new level
• Body Horror: as Chaos Mode and Evil Aptom
• Continuity Drift: Partially, one of the few in the manga actually, but he never attempts a doppelganger attack again after book seven, except in book 14 to teach Sho a lesson.
• Doppelgänger Attack: does this against The Hyper-Zoanoid five's remaining members.
• From a Single Cell: the same case with the Guyvers. But this one is born out of Physical trauma, apparently.
• Full-Frontal Assault: after Sho defeats him a second time, he loses his clothing. happens again when Hayami sacrifices himself.
• Fusion Dance: An awesome union with Sho. Even Shin is amazed.
• Genetic Memory: thanks to his absorption powers.
• Good Costume Switch: His recent form after being rescued by Sho and Hayami. After Hayami sacrifices his body to let aptom absorb him and revive, Aptom who is deeply touch by his sacrifice, decides to carry out his wish to help destroy Chronos (it helps that Aptom hated Chronos anyway). His new form is insect-like and resembles his previous form yet blends in a few of Hayami's zoanoid traits and has white as the primary colors. Overall, the form itself very humanoid and looks closer to a Guyver than a zoanoid.
• Good Scars, Evil Scars: has a scar across his face.
• Good Thing You Can Heal: same case as the Guyver units.
• Heel–Face Turn: Thanks to Hayami.
• Hive Mind: Probably.
• Jerkass: How he started and especially in book five and pre-time skip.
  • Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Post-Character Development.
• Last of His Kind: Only one of his team to survive.
• Logical Weakness: Some shape-shifting regulation devices override any unwanted changes - meaning that Aptom cannot infect or absorb anyone who uses those devices. This includes the Guyvers (thanks to the control medal on their forehead) and the Zoalords (thanks to their zoacrystals).
• Mega Manning: once he absorbs his target, he gets their powers.
• Scars Are Forever: no matter how much his body gets damaged, his scar stays on.
• Shapeshifter Weapon: he is one.
• Shut Up, Hannibal!: Blew up one of Khan's head-vines when it called Aptom shallow for absorbing the dying Hayami, who wanted it that way.
• Spikes of Villainy: as Evil Aptom.
• Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: with the Guyvers, namely Sho. It gets better.
• The Lancer: for Sho now that Agito is leading Zeus' Thunderbolts. fittingly enough, he has a lance.
• The Only One Allowed to Defeat You: Kills Sho's pursuers because he has a grudge against Sho and considers him his prey. He also helps Sho get over his mental block and re-summon the Guyver because he won't fight Sho at less than full strength.
• Took a Level in Kindness: After being rescued by Sho and Hayami from Cloud Gate, being freed from Kahn's control, and Hayami sacrificing his body to allow Aptom to absorb him and regenerate back to normal, Aptom is deeply touched by both Sho and Hayami's heroism and the effort that gave to save him. Aptom becomes more mellow and friendly after and is less aloof while hanging around Sho and his group more.
• Voluntary Shapeshifting: that's how he gets his new forms.
• Warrior Therapist: Brutally helps Sho snap out of his patricide-induced Heroic BSoD and get him back in the game, so he can fight him properly. Because at this point he's still a bad guy, he's able to threaten and terrorize him and Mizuki enough to break through his block.

Natsuki Taga

Voiced by: Tomo Adachi (Japanese), Kira Vincent-Davis (English)

• A Day In The Lime Light: The first chapter of book 28 has her and Toki discussing events. Partially re-cap but at least we hear their thoughts on the matter.
• Call-Back: She wasn't last seen since book 1 then returned in 9.
• Cool Big Sis: She's not that much older than Sho or Mizuki but has shades of it.
• Nerds Are Sexy: She was part of the same sci-fi club as Tetsuro and yet is quite attractive...leads to...
• Tom Boy And Girly Girl: Acts and dresses, without crossing to Action Girl statues, to Shizu and Mizkui respectively.

Aso and Toki

• A Day In The Lime Light: The first chapter of book 28 has he and Natsuki discussing events. Partially re-cap but at least we hear their thoughts on the matter. It's a better way than usual.
• Butt-Monkey: Toki, Aso's punching bag.
• What If?: Some fans see Aso as being an older and tougher Tetsuro, and Toki as Sho if he hadn't gained the Guyver and grew up.

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Chronos

Zoanoids

Zoanoids are enhanced humans capable of transforming into a powerful and monstrous bio-weapons. The process of creating Zoanoids originated from extra-terrestrial visitors that manipulated Earth's biosphere for millennia until they created the perfect bio-weapon for their needs: humans. The first Zoanoids were created by the Uranus, approximately 110,000 years ago, as the final outcome of their bio-weapons development program.

• All There in the Manual: Often in the data files the height, weight, and abilities of a Zoanoid that appeared for a page or two.
• BFG: A Hyper Zoanoid in book 27 has a large beam cannon for a torso!
• Boss in Mook's Clothing: Enyzme III is classified as Zoanoid or a 'Guyver Killer' yet they have regeneration and anti-Aptom virus.
• Dual Wielding: Vamores have two shoulder cannons, some Zoanoids in book 14 had four to six!
• Elite Mooks: Hyper Zoanoids.
• Man of Kryptonite: The Enzyme series are very powerful Zoanoids to begin with, but they have acid blood that's especially destructive against the material that makes up a Guyver's armor. And since it's in their blood, it makes seriously hurting them without getting extremely messed up in the process very difficult for a Guyver.
• Red Shirt Army: They're devastatingly effective against even human militaries, but are cannon fodder against even a single Guyver at its base level of power.
• Spikes of Villainy: Many.
• We Hardly Knew Ye: Numerous Zoanoids and Hypers with various powers are quickly killed off. Sadly the ones that tried to stop Guyver IIF in book 26 didn't get data files!

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Genzo Makashima

Voiced by: Kenichi Ogata (Japanese), Brando Austin (English)

• Arch-Enemy: At least as long as he lasts in volume 1, to Sho.
• The Berserker: As Enzyme I
• Boom Head Shot: In the OVA he gets half his head blown off with the pressure cannon...it just knocked him out for a moment.
• Determinator: He fought past the specs, and then there's his fight in the OVA.
• Gorn: His fight in the OVA series.
• Hero Killer: Kills Sho for the first time in their battle. Good Thing You Can Heal, Sho.
• Man of Kryptonite: The Enzyme was created specifically to damage Guyver armor.
• More Teeth than the Osmond Family
• Un Known Rival: Sho wonders who he is when they first and...oh boy does Genzo make himself known to Sho.
• You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Commanded to self-destruct upon his victory against the Guyver.

Hyper-Zoanoids

Hyper-Zoanoids are a recent innovation of Chronos and where not originally envisioned by the Uranus. Hyper-Zoanoids are enhanced zoanoids that are much stronger than standard zoanoids with unique abilities. Unlike standard zoanoids, they are much harder to create and the process for making them requires constant oversight as processing conditions are unique for every individual.

Hyper Zoanoid Team Five

• Adaptational Early Appearance: Team 5 showed up in the first half of the OVA series; instead of the Manga and 2005 Anime, where they appeared in the Relics Point arc.
• All Your Powers Combined: Neo-Zxtole has all the abilities of Team Five and then some!
• Body Horror: Elegen's death, being absorbed into Aptom's body while still alive, is a pretty notable example even in a series as violent as this one.
• The Brute: Darzerb, in terms of power, he's pretty professional when it comes to antagonizing the protagonists.
• Even Evil Has Standards: In the first OVA Gaster thought it was cruel he was dragging out his fight and offered to end it quickly.
• Fragile Speedster: Thancrus, with his super-fast running and blade arms. So fragile he's always the first member killed off in any version.
• Glass Cannon: Gaster, whose missiles and explosive liquid spraying abilities make him a formidable ranged combatant, but that's about it.
• Golden Super Mode: 'Powered Zxtole' from episode six of the OVA is powered up by Elegen which beats Neo-Zxtole for first Deadly Upgrade.
• Half the Man He Used to Be: Thancrus, after being vertically bifurcated by Guyver III in the Manga and 2005 Anime.
• Macross Missile Massacre: Gaster's main power.
• Mighty Glacier: Darzerb, with his unparalleled strength and laser-proof skin, but no particular movement abilities.
• Person of Mass Destruction: Neo-Zxtole.
• Playing with Fire: Darzerb.
• Super-Strength: Darzerb and Zxtole.
• Spam Attack: Gaster's missiles.
• Shock and Awe: Elegen's power.
• Shoulders of Doom: Gaster stores his missiles here.
• Spell My Namewithan S': All of them but Zektole/Zector/Ex-Tole/Zextor ect. is the worst.
• Taking You with Me: Zxtole's last move.
• Took A Level In Bad Ass: Zektole when he became Neo-Zxtole.
• True Companions: The team are extremely loyal friends, and Neo-Zxtole is willing to sacrifice his life when the others are dead so he can get a chance to defeat Aptom.
• Tunnel King: One of Zektole's abilities.
• We Hardly Knew Ye: Each member except for Zxtole, who doesn't have a back story, but he made up for it with a lot of cool moments. Thancrus is the saddest case, always being killed off first in any version with practically no development. In the original manga we don't even get to see what his human form looks like besides a vague outline in the distance before he gets killed.

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The Zoalords

The Council of Twelve

Archanfel

Voiced by: Yasunori Matsumoto (Japanese), Grey Haddock (English)

The original zoalord that the Uranus created to command their zoanoid armies. Archanfel was completely loyal to the creators until the day they equipped a human with a bio-armor unit. Afterwards, they fled the earth for fear that such a power would fall into archanfel's hands. In the present day, Archanfel is the founder of Chronos and the leader of the 12 holy commanders. For all of his power, he has a hidden weakness that may spell the end for him soon.

• The Ace: Considering he's a bishounen who looks to be 20, apparently immortal, the strongest person on the planet arguably, built up a secret organization, and rules over the world, he's a dark version and leads to..
  • Broken Ace: He may have a sympathetic back story that fleshes him out but he's pulled off quite a lot of stuff...also he's slowly dying.
• All Your Powers Combined: Since the zoacrystals of the other 12 zoalords came from archanfel and the bio-energy used to empower the crystals was focused through his own form and crystal, many assume and even state that Archanfel can use all of the same abilities as the other zoalords.
• Awesomeness Is a Force: The sheer magnitude of his charisma can stun the unwary.
• Angelic Motif: His name is only a letter away from Archangel....
• Anti-Villain: He saved the world once, and has been slowly dying ever since then. Now he's out for revenge, and humanity will become his tool.
• Big Bad: Creates Chronos and uses it to take over the world. In spite of that however he doesn't seem to pursue his goals out of a petty, selfish desire for power and authority which leads too...
  • Big Bad Ensemble: With Guyot and Apollon.
• Demiurge Archetype: Archanfel is a being of light created by a group of beings from the heavens, has angelic attributes, and successfully took over the world. He is also a massive control freak who named his company after a Titan, and despite his own awesome power is no god himself. Everything he does in the setting is to increase his own control over humanity, be it information control or otherwise.
• Earth-Shattering Kaboom: What happened when he used all of his powers to destroy the asteroid the creators sent to destroy the earth. So..Kaboom but not quite so earth-shattering.
• Evil Overlord: Evil in the sense that he's taken over the world, caused lots of destruction and death all for his own ambitions. That said, he never does these things because he enjoys them or thinks humanity deserves it.
• Full-Frontal Assault: There are many instances in the manga where Archanfel is depicted nude, particularly when it shows flashbacks to pre-history, although to be fair, they hadn't really invented pants yet.
• Light Is Not Good: He resembles an angel and is the child of a heavenly host. He's also the Big Bad and almost killed the heroes with a thought.
• Parental Abandonment: Feel betrayed by the Uranus when they up and left him alone on earth after they created him to be their great general.
• Pet the Dog: His back story in book 15 gives him some sympathy. In Volume 32 he's also been protecting and playing games with Tetsuro and Mizuki during their stay on his island.
• Rage Against the Heavens: The Ouranos abandoned him. He seeks to stabilize his condition, and then go after them.
• Really 110,000 Years Old
• Spell My Name With An S: Has been translated at least three different ways since the series began. Archanfel, Arcanfel, Alkanphel, and so on.
• Super Prototype: Archanfel is the first and only true zoalord. He was engineered specifically to be a zoalord. All of the other zoalords are just humans processed to mimic his biology and implanted with zoacrystals grown from samples harvested from his zoacrystal. It's even been stated that even if all 12 of the other zoalords combined their power, they still stand no chance against Archanfel. Not quite true. He jobs to Guyot in his first appearance.
• The Man Behind the Monsters:
• Time Abyss: He's been around for 110,000 years, longer than recorded history.

Doctor Hamilcar Barcas

Voiced by: Saburo Kamei (Japanese), Klaus Vaux (English)

• Arch-Enemy: He and Agito have a special hatred for one another.
• Evil Genius: Invented many of the unique Zoanoid types in the setting, including Enzyme II.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Was devastated by Li and Waferdanos's sacrifices.
• Hero Killer: As the guy who made Enzyme II, he's indirectly responsible for one of Sho's worst defeats. Sho lived this time though.
• Laser-Guided Karma: Everything Agito put him through by killing his friends? That's exactly what Barcas did to Sho.
• Pet the Dog: Despite his Moral Event Horizon, there's something really shocking and sad about how badly he wanted Li Yentsui and Waferdanos to survive.
  • Barcus: *while getting pushed through a portal by Waferdanos to safety: You two follow me!
• Really About 500 Years Old
• You Killed My Father: Sho has yet to confront him, but Barcas turned Sho's father into Enzyme II, making that death Barcas's fault indirectly.

Sin Rubeo Amniculus

Voiced by: Dai Matsumoto (Japanese), John Gremillion (English)

• Really About 400 Years Old
• Deflector Shields: While pretty much all Zoalords are capable of this, he stands out for being able to protect the entire Cloud Gate.
• The Dragon (Technically third in command of Kronos proper after Barcas, but Barcas can rarely be bothered to actually govern anything)
• Drinking Game: Take a shot whenever he's surprised.
• Heterosexual Life-Partners: At times with Purgstall.
• Only Sane Man: At times and is pretty much this with Purgstall dead.
• Secret-Keeper: He and Purgstall are the only ones, aside from Barcus and Imakarum who know that Archanfel is dying.
• Spam Attack His Zoalord form shot a good dozen beam attacks in unison, from over a kilometer away, it counts
• Team Dad: To the Zoalords at times.
• Well-Intentioned Extremist: He isn't a fan when civilians get harmed but believes in Chronos.

Waferdanos

Voiced by: (Japanese), Lowell Bartholomee (English)

• And I Must Scream (He was rooted in place on a tiny isolated island with no one to talk to but his own semi-intelligent extensions for 'A HUNDRED THOUSAND YEARS'. It's no wonder he's fanatically loyal to Dr. Barcas.)
• Dark Is Not Evil: Extremely loyal to Barcus and explaining if not for him he would never learn self-respect or more about the world.
• Heroic Sacrifice: An antagonistic version to help stop an arguably worse person, Agito.
• Really 110,000 Years Old
• Terraform: a prototype intelligent terraforming engine.

Friedrich von Purgstall

Voiced by: Hiroshi Tsuchida (Japanese), (English)

• Elemental Powers: Lightning.
• Really About 250 Years Old
• Secret-Keeper: He and Shin are the only Zoalords, aside from Imakarum and Barcus of Archanfel's sickness.
• Shock and Awe
• Spell My Name With An S (Fried'rich von Purg'stall, or even Purukshuterl)
• Unskilled, but Strong: Unlike Imakarum he wasn't a fighting Zoalord but he does have a lot of raw power and when his heart into it he gives Sho a good fight.
• Well-Intentioned Extremist: Disliked civilians getting hurt even more than Shin.

Richard Guyot

Voiced by: Kinryū Arimoto (Japanese), Bill Wise (English)

• Arch-Enemy: More to Agito and Murakami than Sho.
• Big Bad Ensemble: One of the other major antagonists alongside Archanfel and more recently Apollon.
• BFG: Had the Unit Remover last.
• Dangerous Forbidden Technique: Creating a quasi-black hole that's powerful enough to defeat Archanfel. It's forbidden because...look, meddling with black holes is just not safe - that, and using it almost completely wipes him out.
• The Determinator: As shown in his battle with Archanfel, Guyot's response to an impossible situation is to go all in.
• Elemental Powers: Gravity.
• Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: In an interview, Takaya gives a Pet the Dog moment when he declares that Guyot has never known love thus it's why he's so cold and cruel.
• Eyes Do Not Belong There: His Zoalord form has way too many eyes on the sides of his head and his torso, among other places.
• Implacable Man (What does it TAKE?!)
• Person of Mass Destruction: Capable of destroying the world with his gravity powers.
• Shout-Out: His bandaged face in book 16 looks a lot like Darkman.
• The Starscream

Cablarl Khan

Voiced by: Winston Parish (English)

• Evil Mentor: Seemed to have been Hiyern's and Krummenic's teacher.
• Laser-Guided Karma: Is finally killed by Aptom, using Hayami's freeze attack, but only after Sho destroys his giant form with the Exceed's new power.
• One-Winged Angel:Devours thousands of lesser zoanoids to take on a monstrous dragon form.
• Spell My Name With An S: Cabraal/Kablar/Kabral
• Wave-Motion Gun: In his final Dragon form his entire neck becomes a big mouth for housing a giant beam.

Luggnagg de Clumegnig

Voiced by: Tomohisa Asou (Japanese)

• Spell My Name With An S (Kurumegnik, Klumeggnik... some research into Gulliver's Travels may clear that up)

Edward Caerleon

• Sacrificial Lion. Sadly his super cool power is cut short to show how deadly Apollyon is.
• Probably closer to 200 at most
• We Hardly Knew Ye: He's not dead yet, maybe, but he didn't get much chance to shine before losing his crystal.

Li Yentsui

• Batman Gambit: His last two plans failed, leaving a door open in front of him, and then trying to cut off Agito's escape.
• The Starscream: Averted, for a moment he seems rebellious during a meeting only to fight and die for protecting a relic.
• Weak, but Skilled: His power isn't that destructive and may have limits but he used it very effectively.

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Others

Apollyon

• Blade Below the Shoulder: Creates a gigantic sword strong enough to cut through the Guyver Gigantic XD's armor.
• Gotta Catch Them All: His plan so far has been gathering all the Zoacrystals on Earth for as yet unknown purposes.
• Implacable Man: Has single-handedly beaten as many Zoalords as the Guyvers have, and killed several.
• Malevolent Masked Man: Has never been seen without his mask or armor on.
• Mega Manning: Has thrown every one of his Zoalord opponent's powers against them.

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