This bring a tiny bit of conflict in Episode 21, where Joey and Psy are led to believe that Lina's brother Will kidnapped Holly. On one hand, Joey admits that he would hurt anyone who hurts Holly, but Joey doesn't want to indirectly hurt Lina either.
Barrier Warrior: He comes up with uses for his energy shield that catch his less canny foes offguard.
Bash Brothers: Joey and Kurou form a tag team during their duo battles in Arkham City, their friendship is one of the three-cross series friendships in Super Robot Wars UX.
Disguised in Drag: Invoked when he (or rather, his older sister insists that) he needs to sneak into a hospital to talk to one of the patients. Interestingly enough, he didn't have to alter his appearance much; he just needed to put on a dress. Which leads us to...
Dude Looks Like a Lady: He greatly admires his father and strives to be like him. Alas, genetics being the fickle bitch that it is, he favors his mother instead. Greatly favors. As in, looks exactly like her.
Indy Ploy: A dab hand at on-the-fly improvisation and inventive use of his and Heroman's powers. Forget the Kamehame Hadokens and Force Fields - it's when he brings out the magnets that you should really be worried.
Parental Abandonment: Both through death. Joey idolized his father for being a hero.
Right Hand of Doom: His bulky control gauntlet gives him this appearance. Not to mention it's red colored 'upgrade' in episode 26 that looks like Allen Walker's hand.
Wrong Genre Savvy: The justification for he evading the government's attempts at capturing him and heroman were that it was clear that the media was being manipulated into making them look like the bad guys, and the fear that he'd wind up as an experiment alongside Heroman. Agent Hughes scolds him for the latter, saying that it was a silly assumption.
Heroman
Voiced by: Ryota Takeuchi
The titular character and Joey's Robot Buddy who comes to life after getting hit by lightning.
Humongous Mecha: Although his usual size isn't that big, (he can fit inside some buildings if he crouches) he transforms into a ,ore generic case at one point in the anime.
Empathic Weapon: His power growth seems to be directly related to Joey's Character Development. Also bears more than a passing resemblance to Joey's personal hero, his father. Hmmm...
Handicapped Badass: Being unable to walk properly does not seem to impede him from riding a skateboard, assisting the professor in his plans, and even kicking ass right alongside Joey with a sweetass guitar.
All Guys Want Cheerleaders: A rare inversion: it's our cheerleader who really wants the average, "nerdy/loser" hero, much to her brother's chagrin — Lina is more to take the initiative on her feelings, while Joey's a bit more subtle and reserved about it.
Conflicting Loyalty: Develops this when she grows torn between heeding Will's warning to stay away from Joey. That, along with Joey lying to her about seeing Will again, only settled her doubt in him.
Magic Skirt: Very brief panty shot during her introduction in the manga, but played straight in the anime where we never get a single panty shot. She gets several more in volume two of the manga, later on along with most of the rest of the cheerleading squad.
Moment Killer: Goes through great lengths of this in Episode 10.
Tag Along Kid: Insists on following Joey and friends into the city during the Center City invasion arc, despite being the only one to not join in the fight against the leader of the Skrugg. This fact allows her to avoid becoming The Load, however.
The science teacher at Joey's school whose successful contact with aliens led to the Skrugg attack on Central City.
The Atoner: Mild case. He feels it's his responsibility to help Joey fight the Skrugg. After all, he told them where Earth was in the first place. This being a light-hearted kids' show, he doesn't spend much time angsting over it.
Parental Abandonment: Unlike Joey who was too small to remember their father, Holly can't forgive him for dying in an act of heroism, which she saw as abandonment.
Break the Haughty: Dear Lord. Not only does he pretty much lose everything he's ever had in a moment of jealous spite, but all the power he's gained hasn't prevented the Skrugg from doing one damned thing.
Hidden Depths: Yes, he bullies Joey for seemingly no reason, And That's Terrible. But at the same time, he truly does bear sincere love for his sister, and really only wants to protect her and be her hero. He is also revealed to have a strong sense of the responsibility when he stepped down as Captain of the football team, not considering himself worthy after he indirectly caused Psy's disability.
Refused by the Call: He likes to insist that he's the hero. In the manga he attempts to prove himself both by assaulting the Skrugg three separate times and fails each time before learning his lesson. In the anime he fails only once and winds up getting kidnapped and brainwashed by the Skrugg as a result.
Not So Stoic: His stern, contemplative appearance takes something of a dent in Episode 16, when he reacts to Heroman obliterating the MR-1 with a loud, enthusiastic, Hiro Nakamura-esque "YATTA!" See also: Crowning Moment of Funny.
Smug Snake: He is the one who was putting pressure on President to do "something" about Heroman. And he also without knowledge of the President ordered research on Koggor's eye, what didn't end well.
Evil Chancellor: Subverted, despite being clearly a Smug Snake he warns President about Skrugg attack and escapes with him to the bunker.
Dangerously Genre Savvy: In a series filled with Dangerously Genre Savvy antagonists, he takes the cake, starting with little things like failing to ignore the big nasty robot chewing through his forces, and going all the way up to faking an obvious weak spot in his Eldritch Abomination form in order to lure Heroman into a trap.
Disc One Final Boss: Subverted - he got taken out within the first nine episodes, and then returned in style for the series climax.
Why Won't You Die?: Says this when Heroman shows up again to stop Joey's kamikaze attack. Considering that Heroman had his entire abdomen annihilated moments prior, this is understandable.
An Evil Genius with connections to the White House and the military.
Dangerously Genre Savvy: Does not ignore the flaws in MR-1 and actually improves upon them. He's also capable of spotting and ruthlessly exploiting Heroman's own deficiencies.
General Ripper: Does a rather good job of being this despite not actually being a military officer, thanks to his ties with the armed forces and obsession with Heroman.
The Napoleon: Takes increasingly-ridiculous measures to compensate for his diminutive stature, culminating in dangling from his team's tilt-rotor like a tiny green-and-white marionette.
Unknown Rival: In Super Robot Wars UX, Doctor Minami regards Doctor West his greatest rival, but West has no idea who he is. It turns out Minami hates West because West doesn't know who he is.
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