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Palutena's Army

Pit

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Lady Palutena

Palutena, Goddess of Light

Voiced by: Aya Hisakawa (JP), Ali Hillis (EN, Uprising), Brandy Kopp (EN, Smash Bros. series)

Debut: Kid Icarus

^{Click here to see her appearance in Kid Icarus} 

"Despite the Underworld invasion, the people haven't given up hope!"

The Goddess of Light and the ruler of Skyworld. Palutena goes to great lengths to protect her people, and those who dwell on the surface lands below. She's benevolent, kind, playful, and a massive troll towards Pit, but still gives him advice and provides him with the Power of Flight when it's needed.

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• Adaptational Attractiveness: Her Brawl redesign, which itself is a more glamorous look than both her original appearance (which still made her look divine) and her appearance in Of Myths and Monsters (where she appears more homely than the first game). It would later become her official appearance in subsequent games, undergoing some subtle design changes to make her look more youthful in them.
• Adaptational Nice Guy: In the American version of the original Kid Icarus, which replaced the original Japanese Bad Ending with a new Golden Ending. So instead of there being a chance of her turning you into a specknose if your run was especially awful, there's a chance she may grant you a Smooch of Victory.
• And I Must Scream: She suffered under the Chaos Kin's control for three years, being unable to control her body while her soul was constantly under threat of being consumed.
• Attack Drones: Her boss battle has her summon two orbs of light that follow Pit around and fire lasers at him.
• Badass Adorable: She's a gorgeous, yet powerful goddess who has a dorky personality.
• Badass Bookworm: Going hand in hand with her role as The Smart Girl, Palutena is the most knowledgeable god in the game (outside of Dyntos, that is). She also experiments with magics and technologies, sometimes creating new ones.
• Badass in Distress: Throughout the course of the series she has an unfortunate habit of being caught off-guard...
  • At first she was a straight up Damsel in Distress in the original Kid Icarus, being held captive at her own palace by Medusa and requiring Pit to help her.
  • In Of Myths and Monsters, she briefly becomes distressed at the end of the game when she gets turned to stone by Orcos.
  • Finally, Uprising has her become captured and her soul under threat of being consumed by the Chaos Kin. For three years.
• Bathtub Scene: In the beginning of Palutena's Revolting Dinner, Pt. 2; she's enjoying a hotspring bath◊ as she waits for Pit to return with the rest of the food.
• Beauty Equals Goodness: The Goddess of Light, the Big Good of the game, and very beautiful.
• Berserk Button: Don't call her ma'am.
• Beware the Nice Ones: Palutena's one of the more pleasant gods in the game for the most part, and is probably more Genki Girl than goddess. However, as Medusa can attest to before being banished and as Hewdraw learned the hard way, if forced to take a more direct approach, she'll happily remind you why she's the Goddess of Light.
• Beyond the Impossible: During Palutena's Revolting Dinner, when she discovers that the Vegetable Monster is vulnerable to water, she uses her Power of Malestorm to create a storm indoors.
• Big Eater: Judging by her banter with Pit, during which she'll randomly talk about everything from the great meal they could make out of the Kraken to Phoenix eggs making wonderful omelets. Likely where Pit gets it from; Viridi has to snap the both of them out of ordering a pizza during the Aurum invasion of all things.
• Big Good: The Goddess of Light, the ruler of Skyworld, and the one to give Pit his Powers throughout the game.
• Black-and-Gray Morality: In a sense; Palutena is less soft than Pit at punishing evil, so while she isn't evil by any means, her hinted darker side to her may as well be true to form.
• Blunt Metaphors Trauma: She insists she always gets those sayings correct, so maybe not.
• Boss Banter: In Uprising with Pit, and when he's busy either Viridi or Hades. Especially shown in her boss fight, where most of her attacks are telegraphed by a specific phrase.
  "Time for a sacrifice!"
  "This might sting!"
  "Poor you!"
  "Cover your eyes!"
  "Fly away now!"
  "Come out!"
• Brainwashed and Crazy: During the Chaos Kin arc in Uprising. The catch is you have to beat her up without killing her or else you fail the mission. Luckily, you can win the fight without hitting her at all, as knocking down the Chaos Kin causes her to stagger.
• Breakout Character: Her redesign in Brawl, being well received, stayed with her come Uprising; and both the special episode of Palutena's Revolting Dinner and the game got her so many fans, she got promoted to a playable character in Super Smash Bros. from 3DS/Wii U onward.
• Break the Haughty: Possibly. The Chaos Kin's threat to eat her soul must have worked wonders, as after she's revived, Palutena lacks much of the arrogance she started the story out with.
• Butt-Monkey: Palutena's Revolting Dinner puts her in this position, getting hung upside-down, attacked by carrots, and having giant pumpkins explode in her face, all because she was distracted while adding a potion.
• Cain and Abel: The Abel to Medusa's Cain. See Foil below.
• Captain Obvious: Most of her dialogue revolves around her stating the obvious in the Japanese version instead of teasing Pit. Lampshaded by Viridi in Chapter 15.
  Viridi: All hail the goddess of obvious.
• Character Development: Starts off as the largest source of Pit's Butt-Monkey status and, though benevolent, with escalating hints of arrogance when she gets called out by the other gods — her actions ultimately cause her downfall thanks to the Chaos Kin. Following the events of the Chaos Kin arc, Palutena is far more humble, stops teasing Pit as much after he sacrifices himself to save her and Dark Pit, and finally concedes to Dark Pit in Chapter 22 to just how destructive her actions were, when he chews her and Viridi out.
• Classical Anti-Hero: One hell of a gadfly towards her most trusted servant, and arrogant to a fault, but means well, is benevolent and also pleasant compared to many of the other gods.
• Cloudcuckoolander: Can often come off as this, due to her tendency to change the subject and bring up food at random times.
• Cool Crown: A golden laurel crown with a red jewel embedded in it.
• Cool Sword: Does not use one, but the Palutena Blade is modeled after her.
• Curtains Match the Window: Green hair and green eyes.
• Deadpan Snarker: Her snark is usually light-hearted when she talks to Pit, but her deadpan side is most commonly seen when talking with the more morally ambiguous/villainous characters, such as Viridi, Dark Pit and Hades.
  Pit: Is that a switch?
  Palutena: That's what it appears to be.
  Pit: I'm guessing it does something.
  Palutena: They usually do.
  
  Dark Pit: Hold on a second. Your math is a little off. You might want to break out the Brain Age, pal.
  Viridi: I have a brain age of 24!
  Palutena: And that's relevant because...?
• Deuteragonist: Of Uprising, even if she's not physically involved that much in the story.
• Dub Personality Change: In Uprising, Palutena messes with Pit far more often in the English dub than the original Japanese.
  (Chapter 4, Japanese)
  Pit: The only ones talking this time were the two of us, right?
  Palutena: Ah, the fact both of us have so few friends is puzzling, isn't it?
  
  (English)
  Pit: Even though I almost died, I've really enjoyed our time together.
  Palutena: Aww, you poor guy. You really need to make some friends!
• Eat the Camera: Two instances of the camera zooming in on Palutena's mouth this way occur in the tie-in short Palutena's Revolting Dinner. Once when she discovers and approaches the now-sentient carrots (which she still intends on eating despite having been accidentally brought to life by her rejuvination potion) and again when she's comedically fleeing from the giant vegetable monster.
• Expy: Of Athena, the Greek Goddess of Wisdom. Both are among the saner, more rational and pleasant gods, and are full of wisdom on almost any topic, though they still have their not-so-nice moments. Combined with Divergent Character Evolution as her character was fleshed out in Uprising, she has developed into a unique design of its own and is much less a direct interpretation of Athena nowadays and more her own character, even if she remains her analog in-universe.
• Extreme Omnivore:
  • Like Pit, it's implied she'll eat anything. She may have even rubbed off this on him. She makes jokes about how the idea of Pit being turned to a crisp from the lightning might sound delicious, but that she would pull him out of the area where the lightning struck.
  • It's also demonstrated in Palutena's Revolting Dinner where despite the fact that the carrots have been overdosed with her rejuvenation potion and are now sentient, she still intends to eat them.
    Palutena: Well, aren't you all just the cutest? But you're all on the menu, so slicey-dicey and then it's time for a nice, hot oil bath!
• Fanservice Pack: During her own short in Palutena's Revolting Dinner, she gets a nice view of herself enjoying a hotspring bath. Later, her trailer for Smash 3DS/Wii U shows a pair of male gazes of her hips and chest, the changes in aesthetics for both this game and Ultimate accentuate her curves more than in Uprising, and she even gets a taunt in-game where she twirls around her staff, not unlike a pole-dance. Each successive game since Brawl seems to have pushed her a little bit further into Ms. Fanservice territory.
  • Funnily enough, subverted in Ultimate; her design depicts the slit of her dress being shorter, so as not to reveal so much leg.
• Fantastic Nuke: Her Palutena Glam Buster —or Sacred Goddess Clobberlaser— which she uses to finish off Hewdraw should Pit take too long defeating him.
• Fashionable Asymmetry: She only wears a stocking on her left leg, her dress has a slit on her left side and her sandal is accompained by a leg wrap. Meanwhile, she only wears an anklet on her right leg.
• Fatal Flaw: Arrogance. It starts out subtly, until many of the gods point out how her actions to defend her land haven't been scrupulous, such as turning Medusa into a monster and then banishing her to the Underworld, hypocritically pointing out how humans bought Hades' Wish Seed plot easily when she also falls for it, and her, Viridi and Hades leaving so much destruction on their wake during their war. All of these instances finally backfire really hard on her when the Chaos Kin possesses her for three years. Fortunately, she finally concedes to her wrongdoing in Chapter 22.
• Flunky Boss: Her boss fight has her occasionally summon Centurion Knights to aid her.
• Foil: To Medusa and Viridi.
  • Both Palutena and Medusa used to rule Skyworld together, but the two are quite literally as different as night and day. Palutena is the benevolent Goddess of Light, Medusa is the vindictive Goddess of Darkness. Palutena has light powers to contrast Medusa's dark magic and her clothing is gold and white to contrast Medusa's purple dress. Palutena cares for humanity and wishes to protect it, while Medusa despises humanity and wishes to see it destroyed.
  • Palutena and Viridi both help Pit out during the game (the latter to help Palutena), and both of them have similar powers, but their stances on humans are polar opposites of each other. Viridi believes that humans are inherently evil and destructive and incapable of change, and wishes them to die, while Palutena is aware of their flaws, but believes that humans can grow and learn, and wishes to protect them. From a design standpoint, Palutena is tall, curvy, and has more realistic eyes, while Viridi is short, petite, and has rounder eyes.
• A Form You Are Comfortable With: Discussed in her guidance for Bayonetta in Smash Bros.; she and Viridi assure that angels and goddesses can look like anything they want to, and that their true forms don't look like what humans are seeing, but rather only the aspects they can comprehend. How much of that is true or otherwise is never stated — Pit's an angel, and he's not particularly aware of any such ability. It's also entirely possible that they were making all of it up just to mess with him.
• Founder of the Kingdom: According to the manual for Of Myths And Monsters, she is the founder of Angel Land.
• The Gadfly: Uprising has her messing with Pit a lot (especially in the English version). Her pranks include teasing Pit with jokes and puns, not warning him when she's going to speed his wings up, squeezing his head by tightening his laurel crown, and so on. Hell, there's a little comic for the post-game option of turning off all dialogue:
  Pit: I'm in trouble here, Lady Palutena!
  Palutena: (serene smile) You can do it, Pit.
• Genki Girl: If Palutena's Revolting Dinner and her constant teasing with Pit are anything to go by, she's likely like this. Of course, the fact she's like this makes her look less heavenly than previously envisioned.
• God Is Flawed: This is why she takes a strong stance on protecting humanity. She's fully aware of how flawed humanity can be, but also knows that gods can be just as bad, if not worse than humans and when they fight, humans are innocent bystanders caught in the crossfire.
• God of Good: She's the Goddess of Light who helps Pit protect humanity from evil. Though she is hinted to have a darker side to her; given she chose to be good when the darkness goddess Medusa chose to be evil, it's likely that they are not inherit qualities.
• God of Light: She is the Goddess of Light.
• The Gods Must Be Lazy: Invoked; Magnus outright accuses her of "sleeping on the job" on Chapter 2, much to her annoyance.
• Gold and White Are Divine: Her outfit is predominately white and gold, and she is of course the Goddess of Light.
• Good Is Not Soft: Unsurprising, given she's based on Athena. According to some of the other gods, Palutena isn't really the nicest of them all as she appears to be. Additionally, more and more hints at a darker side of her appear as Uprising goes on, demonstrating some of her actions for punishing evil have been rather questionable (such as turning Medusa into a monster on top of banishing her to the Underworld), so it's not hard to see why everyone would wary of her. In the end, she's still more pleasant than the other gods and does show some sort of regret for her past actions, but while she certainly does mean well, she's not pure.
  Medusa: I find it very ironic that you would call yourself the goddess of light. After all, it was you who turned me into a monster. It was you who hunted me down.
  Palutena: You shouldn't blame me for that. I only reflected in your appearance what I saw in your heart.
  Medusa: And what about YOUR heart? I can only imagine what resides there.
• Grand Theft Me: A variation happens when she's possessed by the Chaos Kin, while her soul is separated from her body and at the brink of being consumed if not for her Heroic Willpower.
• Heavenly Concentric Circles: She is the Big Good, and rules the Skyworld as the Goddess of Light. Her redesign brings a downplayed example of this trope. From her asymmetrical belt hang several golden accessories, one of them consisting of a small circle surrounded by two increasingly bigger rings. They aren't exactly concentric but skewed to the top. Her white, glowing halo is designed this way too, being a filled circle encased by a ring. In general, Palutena has round figures as her geometric motif.
• Heroic Willpower: As pointed out by Viridi in Chapter 21, the fact that Palutena was able to resist having her soul devoured by the Chaos Kin for three years proves she has incredible willpower.
• Hero's Muse: Most of what keeps Pit going is his devotion to her. He even outright admits that the reason he fights is because of her. Whether this is an idealistic sort of hero worship or if he has a hidden crush on her is left largely to the viewer's imagination - there's evidence for either, or both.
• Holy Hand Grenade: Her light powers can take this form, such as when she finishes Hewdraw with an enormous beam of vaporizing light.
• Hot Goddess: Oh yes, definitely. Her Smash Bros. redesign turned her outfit into a more realistic AND less subtle one. Especially in 3DS/Wii U and Ultimate, where the different aesthetics accentuate more her body.
• Humans Are Flawed: She's fully aware of the flaws of humanity, but at the same time, she's aware that gods can be just as bad, if not worse. She protects them because she believes humans can grow and change, and while humans may fight with each other a lot, when it comes to wars between gods, they're no more than innocent bystanders.
• Humble Pie: While not the absolute worst of all the gods out there in Uprising[note]]Medusa and Viridi are bent on human genocide, Thanatos and Hades are... well... Thanatos and Hades, Pyrrhon has an incredibly inflated ego, and so on[[/note]], Palutena is still arrogant to a fault and gets arguably the worst fate of all the gods considering the Chaos Kin possesses her body and almost consumes her soul. After this very incident, she's drastically mellowed and concedes to being wrong for contributing to the war.
• I Am Not Left-Handed: It's heavily implied that when you fight against her during Uprising, she is in a very weakened state thanks to struggling with the Chaos Kin for three years (she literally staggers into the boss fight with her, and collapses in exhaustion when the Chaos Kin loses its link with her). In her Guidance for herself in Smash Bros., she indicates she could massacre Pit in a fight if she really wanted to, and in Uprising she can twice demonstrate the ability to charge up a divine Wave-Motion Gun.
• Implied Love Interest: To Pit, though how much varies by region. For the original, it was more implied in the English version. In Uprising, it’s more hinted in the Japanese version (though there are still a few hints).
• Jerkass Gods: Played for Laughs. She simply LOVES teasing Pit.
  Pit: But you would NEVER abuse your power, right?
  Palutena: Of course I would! It's all part of the Goddess's job description.
  Pit: ...I should've gone to school for goddessry.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Downplayed; she enjoys making a ton of jokes at Pit's expense, but she genuinely cares about him deeply, to Mama Bear levels.
• Karmic Transformation: She has a habit of dishing these out. She was the one who turned Medusa into a hideous monster originally, and depending on Pit's performance in the original game, she would bestow a new form on him as well, ranging anywhere from a monster to a full-grown angel.
• Kicking Ass in All Her Finery: In Smash Bros.
• Kick the Dog: After defeating the Great Reaper, when Pit expresses he is glad he's alive and enjoys his time with Palutena, she dismisses it and tells Pit that he really need to make some friends. The original Japanese game had her lament the two's lack of friends instead, making this dialogue limited to the English version only.
• King of All Cosmos: She can certainly dip into this, and many other characters tend to point out when she screws up/teases too much/acts hypocritical. Her apotheosis of this is seen whenever she cooks.
• Lady and Knight: The Lady to Pit's Knight, as his boss (captain of her realm's guard) and inspiration.
• Lady of War: Always shows a composed stance while guiding Pit and in the battlefield, which also carries over to her attacks in Smash Bros. Since she is based on Athena, the goddess of wisdom, law, and just warfare after all, this is not really surprising. Her upbeat and trollish personality make for a bit of a subversion, though.
• Large Ham: Well, more of a small ham when compared to everyone else, Pit included. Her attempts at it sound decidedly more forced than the rest, meaning you'll either be laughing or facepalming in response. Even when possessed by the Chaos Kin, she's still quite over the top, and very expressive in her boss battles.
• Lethal Chef: Figuratively and literally in Palutena's Revolting Dinner; she became a bit too distracted while using a rejuvenation potion, causing vegetables to become sentinent and dangerous. Though, nothing in the short actually suggests she's a bad chef, just easily distracted while handling powerful potions.
• Light 'em Up: She is the Goddess of Light after all. One off her tricks in battle is to simply shine so much it obscures the screen. To scale, Pit complains about the core off the Aurum Hive being as bright as the sun, but Palutena's light harder to see through. Her powers can even take the form of a Holy Hand Grenade if they really need to.
• Light Is Good: The Goddess of Light and the Big Good of the series.
• Light Is Not Good: When possessed by the Chaos Kin.
• Long-Range Fighter: As seen in her boss battle, she prefers to keep her distance from opponents and fire energy blasts. However, her appearance in Smash Bros. shows she can definitely handle herself up close.
• Luckily, My Shield Will Protect Me: Has a personal mirror shield that she uses in battle.
• Meaningful Name: A fairly complicated case — while most agree "Palutena" refers to the Greek goddess Athena, the specific etymology of her name is much less certain. It could be a Japanese Ranguage Portmanteau of Pallas Athena ("Parasu Atena"), but could also be derived from Athena Parthenos, a reference to the Parthenon, or even the Greek name "Parthena" (which would render as "Parutena" with Japanese phonetics).
• Ma'am Shock: Really dislikes to be called such, even if the lifespan of gods is implied to be eternal.
• Mama Bear: Towards Pit, which complements his Undying Loyalty towards her. When the effort to save Palutena and Dark Pit right afterwards destroys Pit's wings, Palutena is so insistent on preventing Pit's inevitable death that she sends Dark Pit to the Rewind Spring to reverse time in Pit's favor, which Viridi describes as "cheating death" and "seedy business".
• Mind over Matter: Chapter 18 shows she has powerful telekinesis, able to toss pieces of Skyworld itself at Pit. It carries over into Smash Bros., where some of her attacks have her telekinetically twirling her staff at opponents, or throwing them using telekinesis.
• Mission Control: Until Chapter 18, when she becomes Brainwashed and Crazy, leaving Viridi to fill her position. Fortunately, it's not permanent.
• Mistress and Servant Boy: Though Pit is the Captain of the Guard, she still has him running her errands as well, usually Played for Laughs.
  Palutena: ...I could use a coffee.
  Pit: Sure! Cream and two sugars, right?
• A Mother to Her Men: Deconstructed, especially when compared to Viridi, who is a straight example of this.
  • Palutena's so used to relying only on Pit that she neglects to train and use the rest of her troops, and when they inevitably die in battle she freely revives them, resulting in an army of weaklings with no incentive to get stronger (even the musclebound Centurion Strongarms, apparently).
  • Worse, she openly disdains their lack of prowess after deploying them (which moderately disturbs Viridi).
  • Further, she also unconsciously babies them. After the Centurions arrive to escort Pit to the Aurum Brain in Chapter 17, Palutena panicks and starts barking at Pit for not protecting them, prompting Viridi to openly criticize Palutena's crummy leadership.
  Palutena: Get it together, Pit! My poor Centurions are struggling. Destroy those enemies NOW!
  Pit: I'm trying my best!
  Viridi: Some goddess needs to go to leadership training...
• My God, What Have I Done?: After being saved from the Chaos Kin, the expression she has clearly says this. Especially when Pit nearly gives up his life for Dark Pit, burning his wings up in the process.
• Mysterious Waif: Interestingly, her rare AR card idol mentions that her history and motivations are little known. Even in Uprising, she gets some questions that she doesn't answer truthfully.
• Never My Fault: Her Fatal Flaw (as seen above), which gets deconstructed as Uprising unfolds.
  • Before the first game, Palutena turns Medusa into a monster and then banishes her to the Underworld as a way to reflect what she saw in Medusa's heart. A pissed off Medusa imprisons Palutena in her temple for it, then (rather justifiedly) chews her out for it in Uprising.
  • After Hades incites humanity to war by falsely announcing the seizure of the Wish Seed when the Phoenix's death beacon ignites, Palutena chastises the humans for being so gullible to believe in such a thing as a Wish Seed, despite the fact that the beacon was lit when Pit killed the Phoenix, while on an errand to get to the Wish Seed first, because they bought it, too.
  • During the Aurum arc, she blames only Viridi and Hades for the Aurum invasion, pointing out that the war between the Underworld and Forces of Nature most likely drew the Aurum to Earth in the first place. Viridi rightfully points out that Palutena and Pit are just as responsible, since they raised quite a bit of destruction themselves fighting Medusa.
  • Most notably, however, after destroying the Lunar Sanctum, Pit notes something escaped from it, with Palutena retorting it probably wasn't important. This ends up in her biggest mistake: the Chaos Kin possessing her for three years with her soul in danger of being eaten. Way to go, Palutena.
  • Possibly as a result of all the events above, a humbled Palutena finally accepts the blame after Dark Pit calls her and Viridi out in Chapter 22 for causing so much destruction with their war.
• New Powers as the Plot Demands: There is virtually nothing this girl can't pull out of her bag of tricks. It's basically Power of *insert whatever power the plot needs here*.
• Nice Girl: The benevolent ruler of Angel Land, civil towards her opposition, and as much as she messes with Pit during his missions, she cares a lot for him as well as her Centurions, reviving them whenever they fall in battle. While she can be quite arrogant, and some of her motives for protecting humanity are somewhat unclear, she still does so and expects them to slowly grow and change. The rest of the gods do hint to not push her too far though, as many of her actions can attest to.
• Non-Standard Character Design: Subtle, but it's there. Like Medusa, and unlike many of Uprising characters, Palutena's eyes aren't anime-esque, but rather more realistic. This carries on to her appearance in Smash Bros. In the anime shorts◊ by SHAFT, they usually soften up by default, but if she gets dangerous◊ or is up to no good◊, they sharpen up.
• Not So Above It All: For a goddess who rules over a mystical land, you'd expect her to act like a Lady of War, but unless you find her in battle, she sure doesn't act like it much, instead being cheerful, positive and "upbeat, upbeat, upbeat".
• Only Sane Woman: If she's not being a gadfly like she usually is, though, she usually keeps her calm and composure no matter the situation. She comes across as this during some interactions with Pit (especially when she's commanding him), as well as during the Aurum arc, in contrast to the childish and short-tempered Viridi and the hammy and chaotic Hades.
  Pit: Twinbellows! Here, boy! Old Pit's gonna teach you even MORE new tricks! And if you're good, I'll take you for a walk... and give you a bath... and a treat. We're gonna rack up some serious Nintendogs trainer points together!
  Palutena: Focus, Pit.
• Opaque Nerd Glasses: In Uprising, she dons a pair on one scene in Chapter 17◊ just to tease Viridi. Alternatively, she does use them in two extra tutorials' artwork (if you bothered to watch the How To Play videos, that is).
• Out of Character Is Serious Business: Downplayed. During her interactions with Lord Dyntos, Palutena is obviously at pains to show respect to the elder god, far more than the etiquette she displays around the other gods.
• Pet the Dog: In Chapter 6 of Uprising, Palutena admits she's the one leaving food everywhere because she thinks Pit might want a little snack and enjoys leaving surprises for him.
• Physical God: While she does get captured on occasion, it should be noted that this only happens when she has her guard down or is caught by surprise. Otherwise, she is among the highest-ranking gods and has no qualms demonstrating her power. Best shown in the Air Battle of Chapter 3 when Pit's fighting Hewdraw; if he takes too long to defeat him, Palutena will summon her "Glam Blaster", a giant column of light, to one-shot it. She also showcases other godly powers throughout the game such as her sneeze causing a meteor to change course at one point during Chapter 13 or creating an opening through a large storm cloud to get to Phosphora's Thunder Cloud Temple in Chapter 14. Chapter 18 has her telekinetically tossing large pieces of Skyworld itself at Pit. Gets taken to its logical conclusion in Chapter 20, where she serves as the chapter's boss, and if that battle plus her dialogue to Pit in her trailer and guidance for Smash Bros. is any indication, she may have been in a heavily weakened state while she was possessed by the Chaos Kin and may only have been using a fraction of her actual power. Additionally, she is the source Pit's huge array of "Powers" which can be seen here https://kidicarus.fandom.com/wiki/Powers. Unlike Pit, who has a limited use of them, she can use them as many times as she wants with no limits. Finally, she supercharges the remnants of the Great Sacred Treasure for Pit to fire a massive Wave-Motion Gun and finish Hades' physical form off.
• Pimped-Out Dress: Her dress from Brawl onward.
• Plucky Comic Relief: During Palutena's Revolting Dinner.
• Pragmatic Hero: Late in the story, Viridi points out to Palutena that reviving the dead is seedy business... while dialogue between Pit and Magnus several chapters before points out that Palutena's army sees no need to get stronger because Palutena keeps reviving them from death.
• Rank Scales with Asskicking: Natch! She is the Goddess of Light, after all, and a seemingly very powerful deity.
• Really 700 Years Old: invoked While her true age is unknown, she's obviously much older than she appears. She is young by goddess standards, though, as Word of God states, her appearance is 22 years old in human years. Lampshaded in the banter between her and Phosphora in Chapter 14.
  Phosphora: You're right, I'm sorry. You're much too young to be called "ma'am".
  Palutena: You know as well as I do the lifespan of gods. And how about you? What's your age?
  Palutena and Phosphora: I'll tell you mine if you tell me yours!
• Requisite Royal Regalia: Dresses quite elegantly as befits a goddess, and doesn't change her clothes whenever she whoops.
• Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness:
  • Dips into this when she's teasing Pit.
    Palutena: The monster situation is quite clamant.
    Pit: Is... that a good thing?
    Palutena: You know. It's importunate, or unpropitious.
    Pit: Are you still speaking English right now?
    Palutena: I'm sorry Pit. I didn't mean to confuse you. Here, let me make this easy for you. Big monsters kill Pit grr!
    Pit: Ah! That makes perfect sense! Thank you!
  • And when Pit faces off against the Hewdraw head.
    Palutena: Despite my winsomeness and equanimity, I do have a strong streak of rascality.
    Pit: I don't even know what that means!
• Sexy Slit Dress: With a single slit that exposes her left leg, showing her thigh-high.
• Shipper on Deck: An easy to miss moment shows her teasing that Viridi has a soft spot for Pit.
• Slapstick: Palutena's Revolting Dinner has her enduring some very Amusing Injuries, and in Smash Bros., she's subject to the same punishment every other fighter is.
• The Smart Girl: She's one of the smartest gods out there, according to the others. And it shows: she has information on (almost) every single enemy, quickly gains much on most of those she initially has nothing on, and she's very rational in comparison to the other gods. Again, unsurprising given she's based on Athena.
• The Strategist: Usually has sound advice for traversing terrain and fighting enemies. She significantly less helpful when it comes to the Aurum, but is nonetheless the most consistently useful help against them after Pyrrhon.
• Staff of Authority: Like the other gods, she has one too. This is her weapon of choice when she decides to get in on the action (either as a boss or in her playable Smash appearance).
• The Stoic: Palutena's emotional range is actually very restrained, always keeping to a genteel or lightly amused tone of voice. Even when holding Pit's dying body, her sorrow is very understated. Moments of emotional intensity — such as when she panics over her Centurions sustaining too much damage from the Aurum -— from her are very rare.
• Sword and Sorcerer: The sorcerer to Pit's Sword, providing him the powers he needs for the game.
• The Tease: Started becoming this as of Uprising, and Smash Bros. takes it further beyond.
• Taken for Granite:
  • In Of Myths and Monsters, when Orcos kidnaps her at the end.
  • Also during Uprising, although she did it to herself as a precaution, as revealed by Petrified Palutena's idol.
• There Is No Kill Like Overkill: Banishing Medusa to the Underworld for trying to kill humanity? Seems legit. Turning her into a hideous monster beforehand after winning the fight? ...uh, you might wanna calm down, girl.
• Unwitting Pawn: After the Chaos Kin breaks out of the Lunar Sanctum, it possessed Palutena for three years and used her to wreak havoc on the human realm.
• Weapon Specialization: Her staff and mirror shield make her stand out noticeably.
• Worf Had the Flu: Downplayed. As Viridi points out later, by the time Pit actually confronts her while she's possessed by the Chaos Kin, she's been resisting its attempts to make off with her soul for three years. It's unknown to what extent this has affected her combat ability, but she is notably staggering when she walks into the arena to fight Pit. (In Super Smash Brothers, she implies she could massacre Pit in a serious fight).

Centurions

Centurions

^{Click here to see his appearance in Kid Icarus} 

Palutena's ordinary soldiers. Unlike the other gods, she usually doesn't bother sending them out because they're rather weak and she doesn't like to see them get hurt, and Pit is already a strong enough military on his own.

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• Abnormal Ammo: Centurion Strongarms will throw dumbbells at Pit for a ranged attack.
• Death Is Cheap: Through dialogue and their Idols, Uprising reveals that the Centurions can be revived. Pit believes this is why the Centurions are so weak. They have no incentive to get stronger if they'll just get revived.
• Dub Name Change: Icarus in the Japanese version. This is referenced in Of Myths And Monsters, where Palutena's army of Centurions is called the Icarus Army.
• Dumb Muscle: The Strongarm Centurions are this. Even Pit says they're all brawn, including their brains.
• Elite Mook: The Centurion Knights.
• Escort Mission: Two Centurion Strongarms need to be defended by Pit in order for him to reach Pyrrhon during the second half of Chapter 17. If both are killed the first time, Palutena will summon two more, but if those are killed, its a Non-Standard Game Over.
• Flight: Despite their tiny wings, they can fly.
• Gag Nose: All Centurions have large noses.
• Irony: They're more of a threat when they turn against their leader.
• Javelin Thrower: Centurion Knights will toss their spears for a ranged attack.
• Luckily, My Shield Will Protect Me: Centurion Knights come equipped with shields. Unfortunately for them, they can easily be destroyed.
• Non-Standard Character Design: Of all the human(-like) characters in the game, Centurions and their variations have the most cartoonish and exaggerated proportions. Unusually, this is because they retained their original designs while other human-like characters such as Pit and Palutena got more detailed and realistic designs.
• One-Hit-Point Wonder: In the first game, it only takes one hit to bring one down. Super Smash Bros. Brawl takes it a step further by having them expire as soon as they hit their target.
• Our Angels Are Different: Their wings are on their heads rather than their backs.
• Red Shirt Army: These guys die so much that even Palutena jokes about it.
• Taken for Granite: In the original, Medusa turned them all into stone. In order to get them back, Pit had to use a hammer to free them.
• Top-Heavy Guy: Centurion Strongarms.
• Undying Loyalty: To Pit. Especially shown during the Aurum arc where despite knowing full well they would probably be killed, they still helped Pit defeat the Aurum.
• Wrestler in All of Us: In Uprising, the Strongarm Centurions are capable of powerbombing Pit and Magnus when they appear as enemies in Chapter 18 and 20, although they can't grab you while you're in the middle of a melee combo.

Other Deities

Zeus

Zeus

"Your training is complete."

A friendly god who aids Pit either by testing him in exchange for gifts, raising his strength, or raising his health bar.

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• All-Powerful Bystander: In some versions of the myths Palutena's analog Athena is stronger than Zeus, but in most Zeus stands far above the other Olympians. And given he casually acts against Medusa and Orcos in areas they control this would seem to be the case too, but besides helping Pit he does nothing to stop them.
• Character Catchphrase: YOU WEAKLING!
• Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: While the tile enemies used in his training tests reappear in Uprising, Zeus doesn't even get a passing mention.
• Cool Old Guy: Wow, Awesome Job, Pit!
• Eccentric Mentor: Sometimes he simply rewards Pit based on his progress, other times he puts Pit through potentially lethal trials, but still rewards him for surviving and gives him the option to decline...although not without mocking Pit if he does leave.
• Holy Halo: Above head version, making him look more like depictions of saints or angels than Zeus...
• Kaleidoscope Hair: In the first game his hair changes colour as Pit's does.
• No Name Given: In the first game and only went under friendly god. Named Zeus in Of Myths and Monsters.
• Sink or Swim Mentor: He'll give you weapon upgrades, only if you pass his training tests. Strength levels only need a high enough score, and of course finding him.

Poseidon

Poseidon, God of the Sea

Voiced by: Ryūzaburō Ōtomo (JP), Fred Tatasciore (EN)

The God of the Sea. Normally neutral, Poseidon prefers to keep to himself and rule the seas while silently observing events on the surface. Annoyed by the antics of the Underworld Army, he aids Pit and Palutena by opening the sea to the Seafloor Palace.

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• Amazing Technicolor Population: Has bluish skin.
• BFG: He himself does not use one, but a weapon called the Poseidon Cannon is modeled after him.
• I Did What I Had to Do: His reasoning for sinking a city to stop the humans from becoming a problem.
  Poseidon: Humans consist of equal parts hubris, envy, and deceit. Sometimes one has to put them in their place.
• Making a Splash: He's the God of the Sea, people.
• One-Shot Character: Completely disappears from the plot after Chapter 7.
• Only Sane Man: Unlike most of the other gods, he has more justifiable reasons for what he does (i.e. sinking a city when those in it were becoming a problem, without going off the handle like Viridi). Granted, however, it's difficult to judge how well he fits this trope due to his rather brief appearance in-story.
• Prongs of Poseidon: Fittingly enough.
• Walking Shirtless Scene: He only wears a white robe.
• We Hardly Knew Ye: Poseidon enters the plot partway through the Chapter 7 air battle, and leaves it the start of the Chapter 7 land battle.
• Well-Intentioned Extremist: Sank a city when its inhabitants were becoming a problem. At least he's calmer about it than Viridi.

Pyrrhon

Pyrrhon, the Sun God

Voiced by: Tetsu Inada (JP), Troy Baker (EN)

"Pyrrhon senses danger... and now, Pyrrhon sees it!"

The self-proclaimed Sun God. He is mostly seen as an oddball among gods. Seems to think he's a superhero.

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• Affably Evil: He's quite friendly, even after his true nature is revealed.
• Amazing Technicolor Population: Has red skin.
• Ambition Is Evil: His desire to take control of the Aurum and be the strongest God resulted in him getting controlled instead, once the Aurum Brain resumed control.
• Barbie Doll Anatomy: He's technically nude, but any naughty bits are nonexistent.
• Beware the Silly Ones: He presents himself as an eccentric, brash, but well-meaning character at first glance, then reveals himself to be far more dangerous than he looks.
• The Chessmaster: He was using everyone's help to get to the Aurum Brain and gain control of the Aurum himself. His plan ends up backfiring about four minutes after his hijack, however.
• Cloudcuckoolander: Or at least he acts like one.
• Creepy Monotone: As Aurum Pyrrhon. He even says "Ow" and "Shazamitylam" in monotone while fighting him.
• Convection, Schmonvection: He's for all intents and purposes Kid Icarus's Human Torch, yet he's able to carry Pit without fear of burning him.
• Cybernetics Eat Your Soul: His attempt to take over the Aurum by combining himself with their core computer backfires viciously on him and he ends up being assimilated.
• Dub Name Change: From "Raz" in the Japanese version.
• Evil All Along: His plan was to merge with the Aurum Brain to become the head of the Aurum Hive Mind and become more powerful than the other gods. This backfires once the Aurum Brain takes him over. Though it seems that Pit defeating him brought him back to his senses, as Palutena mentions that he's pushing the Aurum away, though that may just be the massive fiery exhaust from him exploding pushing them away.
• Evil Is Hammy: Played with. While he is undeniably hammy, once he reveals his true colors, he becomes progressively less so. This is due to the Aurum's personality override.
  Aurum Pyrrhon: SHAZAMITYLAM.
• Evil Is Not a Toy: Taking over the Aurum Brain backfires, as it outwills him eventually.
• Expy: Not only of Helios the sun god but of Helios' ambitious son Phaethon. Phaethon wasn't acknowledged by the other Gods despite being one of them and took drastic action and demanded to drive his father's chariot to prove them wrong. Not only did it backfire on him, but it cost Phaethon his life.
• Fake Ultimate Hero: It's eventually revealed he was merely using everyone to take control of the Aurum.
• Flaming Hair: His hair, like most of his body, is completely Wreathed in Flames.
• Flying Firepower: Can fly in the air and toss fire blasts at enemies.
• For Great Justice: He has a delivery, and its return address is JUSTICE!!! Subverted in the end, when it's revealed he plans to take control of the Aurum.
• Full-Frontal Assault: He's completely nude.
• Gem Tissue: Pyrrhon has a green jewel on his forehead.
• A God Am I: Despite being the self-declared sun god (Palutena refers to him as the sun god when he shows up, but Viridi notes "that's what he claims to be" when Pit expresses confusion and his idol states he's the "self-proclaimed" sun god), but he plans to take control of the Aurum and become, in his own words, a "Level Infinity Epic Supergod-Plus!"
• Hand Blast: Pyhrron uses this to attack the Aurum. Kablooey! Kablammy! The Burning Palm weapon, in addition, seems to be patterned after him.
• Heroic Build: Bordering on Walking Shirtless Scene.
• Hijacking Cthulhu: His ultimate goal is to take over the Aurum Brain and thus the entire Aurum swarm by having Pit weaken it. Unfortunately for him, the Aurum Brain recovers and ultimately wins the battle of minds, turning him into yet another pawn of the Aurum.
• Idiot Hero: He's very heroic, but also very stupid. Turns out, however, he's not quite as heroic or stupid as he first appeared.
• Kamehamehadoken: His Pyro Cannon attack, which he uses in Ch. 17.
• Large Ham: One of the biggest ones in the game. Given that Uprising takes place in a World of Ham, this is really saying something.
• Leitmotif: He has a theme that plays when he's the focus of the scenes in chapters 15 and 17. The theme that plays during chapter 17 can count as a Dark Reprise since it plays when he hijacks the Aurum.
• Light Is Not Good: He's the Sun God and is seemingly on everyone's side, but it's soon revealed he was using them to take control of the Aurum.
• Lord Error-Prone: He means well, but he can be reckless at times. Such as unintentionally making the Aurum Generator stronger with his firepower.
• Miles Gloriosus: Minus the cowardice, at least. He's brash and brave to a fault.
• My Friends... and Zoidberg: Palutena does this to him at one point. His idol refers to him as the self-proclaimed sun god, so this may be because he's not actually a god.
• Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: He ends up making the Aurum Generator stronger when he attacks it with fire.
• No Indoor Voice: Shouts practically every line.
• Not-So-Harmless Villain: Seems like an oddball right? Not exactly...
• Obfuscating Stupidity: He's not nearly as dumb as people think he is. The rest of the cast figures this out all-too late.
• Playing with Fire: He's the Sun God after all.
• The Power of the Sun: Again, he says he's the Sun God.
• Shaping Your Attacks: Pyrrhon can mold his fire attacks into other shapes, his Signature Move being the "Pyro Snake".
• Super-Empowering: After merging with the Aurum Brain, he's capable of enhancing the Aurum troops with his fire powers.
• Third-Person Person: Pyrrhon always refers to Pyrrhon by Pyrrhon's own name!
• Tron Lines: Has yellow markings all over his body.
• What Happened to the Mouse?: Is never seen or mentioned again after the Aurum arc.
• What the Hell, Hero?: He makes the fight against the Aurum Generator harder than it should be by attacking it with fire, and he just sheepishly mutters something close to "oops" and leaves Pit to fend for himself.
  Pit: Ugh, what an idiot!
• Wiki Walk: This is heavily implied just by the mere mention of "Divinipedia". Of course, there's nothing really fishy with his knowledge about the Aurum, given he's the only one of all the gods who seems to know all there is know about them.
• Worthy Opponent: While Pit is being carried into the Aurum Brain atop a platform carried by the Forces of Nature, Hades notes that Pyrrhon is focusing his troops surprisingly closely on Pit himself (as opposed to the platform, presumably). Viridi surmises that the only person he considers an equal is Pit.
• Wreathed in Flames: He is constantly surrounded in a flaming aura.

Viridi, Goddess of Nature

Although she initially appears as an antagonist, Viridi eventually teams up with Pit to rescue Palutena and defeat Hades. For more information, see her section on the Forces of Nature character page.

Lightning Flash Phosphora

Although she initially appears as an antagonist, Phosphora eventually teams up with Pit to rescue Palutena and defeat Hades. For more information, see her section on the Forces of Nature character page.

Lord Dyntos

Dyntos, God of Smithing

Voiced by: Koji Yada (JP), Alan Oppenheimer (EN)

The God of Smithing. He created the Three Sacred Treasures.

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• All-Powerful Bystander: Is one of, if not the most powerful character in the series, outright stated to be more powerful than even Hades and Palutena. And yet he is content to merely forge weapons and replicas of assorted locations and enemies.
• Cool Old Guy: An old man who happens to be a pretty fun guy to hang out with.
• Deadpan Snarker: Frequently pokes at Pit's rudeness and idiosyncracies.
• Eccentric Mentor: His manner of teaching Pit is odd, but he does want to help.
• Expy: Of the Greek god of smithing Hephaestus, who was known for making all the weapons for the Gods and keeping out of their affairs. Though Dyntos appears to be far more powerful than Hephaestus.
• Fashionable Asymmetry: He wears carved blocks of stone on his left wrist and right ankle.
• Hand Wave: Why are enemies and locations from all over the game showing up in the realm of a god that had nothing to do with them? Well, they're copies made by Lord Dyntos.
• Insistent Terminology: He will have people know that it's Lord Dyntos, for the record.
• The Juggernaut: He's potentially the biggest user of this trope in the entire game going by Palutena's description of Dyntos. To put it bluntly, he can recreate virtually anything and everything without any flaws for the most part^note Pseudo-Palutena might be an exception, depending on whether or not he intentionally made her that way and being able to make the copies of what he makes should they be enemies be far superior to their originals makes his actual power that's not seen even more frightening. The Great Sacred Treasure being his personal creation without it being based off of anything else as well as Pseudo-Palutena and the copy of the Immortal Phoenix, are three of his strongest creations and are no pushovers. He even managed to recreate Ornes, Underworld monsters that Pit can only defeat with the Arrows of Light and most definitely with the Great Sacred Treasure which according to Dyntos, far surpasses the Three Sacred Treasures in terms of sheer power. Yeah, Dyntos is by far the most realistically powerful being in Uprising. This isn't even getting to where Dyntos isn't really showing his true potential... seeing how Pit's battle against the recreated Space Kraken takes place in outer space.
• Non-Action Guy: He states that he actively doesn't get himself involved in the affairs of other gods, hence why he never shows up until late into the game. Him piloting the Great Sacred Treasure to battle Pit is an exception, as he has to test him as worthy of such a vessel.
• Old Master: Dyntos is the only god to show his extreme age physically, with his giant white beard. It suits him, because he has enough knowledge of the game's universe that he can recreate any weapon and any being whenever he wants.
• Ready for Lovemaking: Subverted in that there's no actual sexual connotations behind it, but when Pit enters his domain before fighting the Great Sacred Treasure, Dyntos is shown floating in midair, leaning on his side with his hand on his cheek.
• Reality Warper: Dyntos can do virtually anything. For starters, he can, among other things, create replicas of everyone in the game, from enemies to bosses and characters alike. He can even mess with their AI to make them tougher (Such as making an enemy move faster than it normally does). He can even replicate the locations Pit fights them in. He's also capable of replacing Palutena with a clone while putting the real Palutena to sleep despite her being miles away in Skyworld. What makes this frightening is that there seems to be virtually no limit to his powers and Palutena herself implies that he has none, period. As Palutena herself notes, he could potentially take over everything if he wanted to.
• Story-Breaker Power: Potentially. The speed at which he can make copies of anything, not to mention make them all superior, could easily see him as the ultimate conqueror if that's what he wanted to accomplish.
• Top God: If not necessarily the absolute strongest, he's implied to be more powerful than any other god in the series (minus possibly Zeus, who isn’t even in this game). In addition, Palutena refers to him as Lord Dyntos, implying a position of high authority. Then again, if he's based on Hephaestus, it would make sense that he's stronger than the majority of the Gods given he makes the majority of weapons for said Gods and Goddesses and would know their strengths and weaknesses as a result.
• Ultimate Blacksmith: Created the weapons in the game, including the Three Sacred Treasures and the Great Sacred Treasure; he's also made perfect copies of every enemy in the game, as well as a few of the bosses Pit has faced thus far. He's also said to be the one reverse engineering several enemy types (most prominently, the Aurum) into weapons for Pit.

Other Allies

Dark Pit

Dark Pit/Pittoo

Voiced by: Minami Takayama (JP), Antony Del Rio (EN)

"Hey there, Pit-stain."

A mysterious black-winged angel. He can soar through the skies without being granted the power of flight - and is determined to face Pit in battle.

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• Adaptational Badass: In the original Japanese, his attempt to take out the Underworld Guardian breaks his leg and requires him to fly off to heal. The English release gives him a little more spotlight, rewriting the scene so he flies off undamaged.
• Adaptation Personality Change: A unique example that doesn't deter from his character. In the original Japanese version, Dark Pit is more of a Tsundere towards Pit and co. after he pulls
• Anti-Hero: He started out as an opponent for Pit who was unaffiliated to the Underworld Army despite being created by Pandora's Mirror of Truth, only fighting Pit for his own reasons. But after realizing that killing Pit means he'll die as well, he warms up to Pit and becomes one of his most important allies.
• Anthropomorphic Personification: Downplayed. He's supposed to be the embodiment of Pit's dark side, but Pit is so inherently kind and pure that the only negative traits he embodies are Pit's brashness, sharp tongue, arrogance, and thrill for battle.
• Arch-Enemy: Seems to have found one in Pandora.
• Arrogant Kung-Fu Guy: As a manifestation of the darkness in Pit's heart, Dark Pit represents some of the traits Pit keeps to himself — such as a rather arrogant personality and his thrill for battle, which for Dark Pit goes beyond being Hot-Blooded into being an arrogant Blood Knight.
• Ascended Extra: He was originally just a palette swap of Pit in Super Smash Bros. Brawl.
• Badass Adorable: Like his light counterpart, he can kick ass, as shown in chapter 9 when he literally "falcon kicks" the mini-boss at the beginning when Pit can't do any damage with the Sacred Treasures. Ironically in the Japanese version, kicking the enemy actually resulted in him being injured instead of coming out without a scratch like in the English version.
• Badass Driver: Dark Pit has a tendency to take the Lightning Chariot and ram it at his opponents when Pit needs help.
• Bash Brothers: With Pit, eventually.
• Because You Were Nice to Me: In a way. Pit never willingly fights Dark Pit as he has no quarrel with him. Seeing this, as well as the fact he can't live without him (literally), he warms up to Pit, becomes a -reluctant- ally of him, and even helps revive him in Chapter 22.
• Berserk Button:
  • Do NOT call him "Pittoo"!
  Pit: Hey, it's Pittoo!
  Dark Pit: Would you quit calling me that?
  • Medusa's offer to help him defeat Pit in Chapter 6 annoys him to the point that he declares he's postponing dealing with Pit to deal with Medusa.
• Black-and-Gray Morality: Unlike Pit, who sees the world in black and white, he sees things in black and grey. While the Underworld Army are indeed the villains, the Gods they serve aren't any better. He even calls the Gods out on how they treat the world with their powers and place the blame on humans; Palutena even admits he's right.
• Blood Knight:
  • Implied by the following exchange, though he gradually grows out of it after some Character Development:
  Palutena: Pittoo just isn't happy unless he's fighting someone.
  Dark Pit: You say that like's a bad thing!
  • And earlier in Chapter 9:
  Pit: What are you doing here?
  Dark Pit: The same thing you're doing, pummeling Underworld fools. I'm just way better at it.
  Palutena: Maybe you also sensed that Pit could use your help.
  Dark Pit: Don't make me laugh. Now enough talky talk! There's fighting to be done!
• Break the Haughty: According to Chapter 21, the reason for Dark Pit switching sides is because he found out that he can't live without Pit. He won't go into details on what happened to him while Pit was in the ring, but it wasn't pleasant, to say the least. Pit nearly dying for his sake is enough for him to fully switch sides and be Pit's ally.
• Broke Your Arm Punching Out Cthulhu: In the original Japanese version, his Dynamic Entry through the Underworld Gatekeeper's head was actually overkill and he injured himself.
• Brought Down to Normal: After Chapter 22, he loses his power to fly independently as a result of Pandora's revival.
• Brutal Honesty: If the gods are Jerkasses, he'll say it to their faces.
• Butt-Monkey: He may be the Shadow Archetype of Pit, but that doesn't make him immune to the abuse his alter ego suffers. Almost every character refers to him as Pittoo, and Pit kicks his ass several times over the course of the game.
• Canon Immigrant: He made his debut in Super Smash Bros. Brawl as a simple color change for Pit. He was notable for changing Pit's color more dramatically than any of the other costumes, which really only changed his tunic color and slightly changed his wings' tint.
• Can't Live Without You: Dark Pit's change of heart comes when he finds out killing Pit means he dies as well.
• Car Fu: Rams the Lightning Chariot into the Chaos Vortex to prevent the Chaos Kin from escaping. He also runs it through Hades so he could grab Pit and escape with him.
• Clone Angst: It's not fun being seen by the world as nothing more than Pit's Evil Knockoff and getting slammed with a nickname that is basically an onomatopoeia for "spit". Played with in Chapter Six; during the aerial battle segment, Dark Pit is convinced he's the original and wants to kill his "copy" Pit.
• Cloudcuckoolander: Downplayed. Chapter Six indicates that Dark Pit is a little confused he thinks he's the original and that, if he were a clone, he'd have no reason to kill the original... as he explains to Pit while trying to kill him.
  Dark Pit: Come on now. Think about it. If I was a copy, why would I kick my own butt?
• Combat Pragmatist: Whether it's against Pit or the Underworld army, he has a habit of attacking them when they least expect it.
• The Comically Serious: Hades claims he has no sense of humor. In return, Dark Pit just ignores him, unlike Pit.
• Cool Crown: Wears a laurel crown just like Pit.
• Copied the Morals, Too: While Dark Pit may want the original dead, he openly disdains the gods and accuses them of screwing things up to their face. Pit appears to agree to an extent, but he rarely says so.
• Darker and Edgier: He's far more serious and cynical than Pit and isn't one to play nice. But if the game isn't taking things seriously, he also won't be taken seriously.
• Dark Is Not Evil: He's the Anthropomorphic Personification of Pit's dark side, but is only neutral at worst.
• Deadpan Snarker: Being the manifestation of Pit's more negative qualities, Dark Pit is much more loose with the snark.
  Palutena: Pit is still unconscious. With his wings burned up, he can't last much longer. But I thought of a way to save him.
  Dark Pit: Of course you did.
• Decomposite Character: Dark Pit's design was originally a Palette Swap from Super Smash Bros. Brawl.
• Defrosting Ice King: After some Character Development, he softens up to everyone around him, going as far as to save Pit from death.
• Determinator: He is determined to save Pit after the latter saved his life from Chaos Kin. At the cost of losing his ability to fly, he manages to bring Pit's wings back.
• Didn't Think This Through: After healing Pit, he decides to fly off rather than try and explain why he helped, forgetting that he'd lost the power of flight that he stole from Pandora.
• Did You Just Flip Off Cthulhu?: In Chapter 22, he calls out the godhood for their deeds, damaging the world with their constant wars, blaming it on humans and claiming their souls.
• Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?: Literally. The first thing he does upon being created from the Mirror Of Truth is casually backhand Pandora.
• Dub Name Change: From "Black Pit" in the Japanese version.
• Dynamic Entry:
  • In Chapter 9, he charges in from out of nowhere to deliver a literal flying kick to the Underworld Gatekeeper, dropping the boss that Pit was struggling to damage even with the Three Sacred Treasures. Palutena notes that "face-kicking isn't usually this effective."
  • In Chapter 20, he comes out of nowhere to slam the Lightning Chariot into the closing portal to the Chaos Vortex, expanding it for him and Pit to enter.
• Early-Bird Cameo: One of Pit's alternate colors in Super Smash Bros. Brawl is basically Dark Pit with normal Pit's eye color.
• Effective Knockoff: Like Pit, he needs extra power to fly. Unlike Pit, once he has that power, his wings don't burn up after five minutes.
• Enemy Without: Downplayed. He's the personification of Pit's worst qualities... but Pit is such a Nice Guy that his "worst qualities" are his sarcastic sense of humor, brashness, and stubborn behavior. His lone villainous trait is a desire to kill Pit, though even then he's not particularly serious about it, wanting to destroy the underworld forces that created him more. He eventually settles on trying to beat Pit in non lethal games of Light vs Dark.
• Embarrassing Nickname: "Pittoo"; he got this nickname courtesy of Palutena. He's known as Bla-Pi or Kuro-Pi in Japan, short for Black Pit or Kuro Pit, and Tip in French. Regardless of the version, he hates it.
  • Hades takes it a bit farther and gives him the downright childish name of Pitooey.
  • He's less prone to reacting to it as time goes on in Uprising, although he'll still snap at Pit for calling him that in Smash Bros.
  • It also hasn't stuck completely. In Palutena's Guidance in Smash, the others actually call him "Dark Pit" when merely talking about him, but use "Pittoo" to his face, possibly to get a rise out of him (such as Pit greeting him in Dark Pit's codec conversation, and Palutena's victory quote against him). Even the crowd calls him Pittoo when cheering for him.
• Empowered Badass Normal: Like his light counterpart, he has no superpowers of his own and the powers he uses come from gods.
• Establishing Character Moment: The first thing he does upon his creation is to deliver an Offhand Backhand to Pandora when she orders him to kill Pit, showing he takes orders from no one.
• Everyone Has Standards: He's absolutely disgusted with both the Chaos Kin and Hades for desecrating and eating souls, explicitly describing Hades' usage of souls to create monsters as "the sickest thing [he's] ever heard".
• Evil Is Angular: Downplayed. He's more unpleasant than actually evil, and though he's pretty much just a color-swap of Pit, Dark Pit has also Tsurime Eyes and a triangular pattern on the hem of his toga to contrast his counterpart's more rounded lines. Concept art also depicts Dark Pit's wings as being narrower and more pointed than Pit's.
• Evil Counterpart: Parodied. Try as he might, he's almost as much of a Butt-Monkey as Pit.
• Evil Doppelgänger: Starts off as one toward Pit, but subverted midway through when he switches sides. Then he's more of a jerkish twin.
• Evil Knockoff: Was supposed to be one of Pit for the Underworld forces. He's really just neutral at worst, and eventually sides with the heroes later on.
• Evil Sounds Deep: Del Rio voices him with a slightly deeper inflection than he does Pit. Not so much "evil" as "Anti-Hero", though.
• Evil Wears Black: To show his status as Pit's dark side. Downplayed in that he's neutral at worst.
• Fallen Angel: Inverted. Turns against his goddess after the very first order she gave him. She was the goddess of calamity and deceit, so he's much more sympathetic than most examples.
• Finishing Each Other's Sentences: Leads to Pit and Pitoo finishing a motto together in Chapter 21.
• Flawed Prototype: Pandora meant to use the Mirror of Truth to make an Evil Doppelgänger of Pit who would serve the Underworld Army, but Pit smashed it before the process was complete (so Palutena speculates)—Dark Pit is Pit's Evil Counterpart all right, but he's only loyal to himself. Unusually for a "flawed" prototype, Dark Pit seizes a quick advantage over the original when he betrays Pandora and steals her power to give himself the unlimited Power of Flight.
• Flight: Absorbs Pandora's power to be able to fly on his own. He loses this power in Ch 22 when the Rewind Spring revives her.
• Foil: To Pit. Both are on the opposite ends of the Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism; Pit is the optimistic idealist who believes in the good of everyone, human and gods alike. Dark Pit, however, is incredbly cynic, fully aware that humans can be bad and the gods can be just as, if not, outright worse. Also, while Pit is extremely loyal to Palutena, Dark Pit holds no allegiance to anyone but himself... until he allies with Viridi in Smash Bros., if only because their interests and ideals overlap.
• Forgot I Could Fly:
  • He only uses his Pandora-stolen Power of Flight against Pit (providing an incredible boost to his ranged attack prowess) twice in Chapter 6; after that, he just uses flight or battle extraction as escape methods.
  • Also inverted later on Chapter 22; after Pandora revives in the Rewind Spring, he briefly forgot that he couldn't fly.
• Good Feels Good: Heavily implied to be the reason he keeps coming back to save the day and help Pit, not that he'll admit it.
• Good Is Not Nice: He may share Pit's sense of justice, but he's nowhere as nice as him due to his fierce independent streak and his tendency to speak his mind. Especially shown during the Chaos Kin boss battle where if you hit him by accident, he'll hit back.
• Good Wings, Evil Wings: Has dark teal wings (although they appear black in different lighting, or when he's using Pandora's powers to fly), in contrast with Pit's white wings.
• Heel–Face Turn: Probably the biggest thing that sets him apart from all the other evil twins, clones and knockoffs of other Nintendo heroes (e.g. Dark Link, Shadow Mario, Dark Samus, Blood Falcon, etc.), Dark Pit eventually turns on the side of good. Though in the Palutena Conversations in Super Smash Bros., it's implied it's a Hazy-Feel Turn, as he doesn't quite join Pit and Palutena, instead being allied with Viridi's Forces of Nature.
• Hidden Depths: Inverted. Palutena is obviously uncomfortable when she alludes Dark Pit being derived from Pit's apparent dark side.
• Hot-Blooded: A more subdued version, but it's still there.
• I Work Alone: He explicitly states that he's "no pawn" and only serves himself. Medusa's offer to help him kill Pit agitates him into turning against her.
• Incorruptible Pure Pureness: Implied during the Chaos Kin arc. His soul is needed to revive the Chaos Kin according to the ash idol (and Viridi states that the Chaos Kin only went after the purest of souls), and according to Hades, Dark Pit's soul isn't your average one. Given that he's the manifestation of Pit's heart, and the fact that he acts neutral at worst, it would make sense that Dark Pit inherited the purity of Pit's heart.
• In-Series Nickname: Pit, Palutena, and every character in the game insists on calling him Pittoo (as in "Pit Two"). And he doesn't like it one bit.
• Irrational Hatred: Early on, Dark Pit is convinced he's the original and wants to kill Pit. Medusa drops by to encourage Dark Pit to kill his "doppelganger" and even offers to help, only for Dark Pit to be so offended he decides to prioritize her forces instead.
• I Shall Taunt You: During the Boss Battle of Chapter 6, Dark Pit appears to have quickly and quietly gotten over his initial confusion as to whether he or Pit was the original, and instead resorts to calling Pit a puppet and calling himself a reflection of Pit's true self.
• Jack of All Stats: Much like Pit.
• Jerkass Has a Point: It's really difficult to disagree with him when he calls Palutena and Viridi out on how their powers have caused wars, abusing the world with them. Viridi still blames it on humans, whereas Palutena agrees, conceding he has a point.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Abrasive, sarcastic, arrogant, and brash. But hardly a villain.
• The Lancer: Eventually becomes this to Pit.
• Leitmotif: Since Pit does not have one, it's Dark Pit's music that plays during the final leg of Light versus Dark.
• Let's You and Him Fight: Arlon brings Dark Pit to the Lunar Sanctum to put him in Pit's way.
• Mirror Character: Dark Pit is a clone of Pit and represents not only his darker, repressed traits, but some of the positive ones, such as his resentment at being a tool of the gods. While they're opponents when Dark Pit first appears, they reconcile and Dark Pit assists Pit later. He was even created by the Mirror of Truth.
• Mirror Match: Dark Pit engages Pit in battle multiple times in the early game.
• Mobile Menace: His battle extraction is inferior to that of Palutena and Viridi, but Dark Pit can use it whenever he feels like it, while Pit is railroaded. Dark Pit's power of flight is also superior to what Palutena and Viridi can grant Pit, and doesn't threaten to burn his wings no matter how much he uses it.
• Multi-Melee Master: Much like Pit. In Chapter 6, he can be seen wielding a Blade, Club, Staff, Palm, Cannon, and Bow. He will also be seen using whatever weapon Pit has on him when he breaks the Mirror of Truth, and in Chapter 22, he is playable, and can use any weapon in your inventory. After Chapter 6, he seems to settle into using a Silver Bow for land battle and a variant of the First Blade that shoots darkness in air battles.
• Nay-Theist: He dislikes taking orders from the gods and tends to view them as petty squabblers who cause most of the problems in the story... and he's not entirely incorrect.
• Not Distracted by the Sexy: His reaction to seeing Amazon Pandora is that of confusion given that he doesn't stop attacking her and isn't convinced that's the real Pandora, whereas Palutena and Viridi are shocked and Hades is silent from the revelation.
• Not So Above It All: The fact that he and Pit think the same way puts him in this category by default (as shown in Chapter 21, where they finished their motto that they both made up on the spot). During Chapter 22, he also contributes to the Shout-Outs page by telling Hades to break out the Brain Age.
• Offhand Backhand: To Pandora which doubles as an Establishing Character Moment.
• Only Sane Man: He tries to come off as one compared to everyone else. However...
• Parody Sue: He's an edgy, brooding Palette Swap of Pit who claims to be his inner darkness personified, has all his powers, and can fly without divine intervention. He has all the makings of a Villain Sue from an uninspired fanfic... and the rest of the cast know it, and mercilessly mock him for it. In part due to how the original Pit is already a Cloudcuckoolander that doesn't have an evil bone in his body, Dark Pit eventually realizes he isn't actually evil, just slightly more sarcastic than the other characters (which admittedly is a lot), and so he begrudgingly ends up becoming a good guy. And to add insult to injury, he was only able to fly because Pandora was possessing his wings, so as soon as she ditches him, he can't do anything that Pit can't already do.
• Our Clones Are Different: Dark Pit is a clone of Pit created by the Mirror of Truth, appearing identical to the original Pit but with black hair and clothes. He starts out with his own personality (that of a Tsundere) and is fully aware of the fact that he is not Pit, but this doesn't stop him from angsting over his clone status. In fact, the core of his Character Development is him realizing that he does not need to try to be his own person, he's already there.
• Punny Name:
  • Pit -> Pittoo (Pit Two).
  • "Pittoo" is onomatopoeia for the sound of someone spitting, which makes his Embarrassing Nickname more insulting than other versions. Hades exaggerates it into the downright childish "Pitooey" (which is also a logical extension of Hades calling Pit "Pitty").
• Recurring Boss: Fought four times throughout the game, and his chapter has five different scenarios with two randomly selected each time you play plus the final time in center stage.
• Red Eyes, Take Warning: As Pit's Evil Twin, he has the evil red eyes. He's a better guy following his Heel–Face Turn, but you should still take warning.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: The blue to Pit's red. Dark Pit's much less likely to raise his voice and much more likely to keep his cool, provided he doesn't take something as a direct insult.
• Refuge in Audacity: He will mouth off to anyone, no matter how powerful they are or how inadvisable it may be, even responding to Medusa's attempt at recruiting him by bluntly insulting her and targeting her forces, leaving the goddess perplexed and annoyed. Later on, he enrages Viridi by telling her that the ones to blame for the world's imbalance are not the humans, but gods like her with their constant wars.
• Reverse Grip: When separating his bow into twin blades, he tends to hold one in this position, just like Pit.
• Shadow Archetype: Of Pit. As he explains to Pit in much detail. He claims to be Pit's dissatisfaction with Palutena, though his actions and other events throughout the chapters suggest he is Pit's dissatisfaction with himself.
• Sixth Ranger Traitor: He was intended to be an Evil Knockoff of Pit that works for the Underworld Army, but he defected right after he was created and eventually goes on to aid Palutena's forces.
• Sniper Duel: In Chapter 6, if he ends up on top of the mountain, he'll take pot shots at Pit, who can return fire while climbing.
• Straight Man and Wise Guy: The Straight Man to Pit's Wise Guy.
• Synchronization: During the penultimate story arc, Dark Pit alludes to suffering a Fate Worse than Death because Pit was trapped in the ring, but doesn't go into much detail; they also share a dramatic speech that may be a case of Twin Telepathy.
• Turned Against Their Masters: The very first thing he did upon creation was deliver an Offhand Backhand to Pandora and help Pit take her down. Palutena theorizes that he turned on the Underworld Army because Pit smashed the Mirror of Truth before he was completed.
• Tsundere: The Japanese version of the game aims for Dark Pit being a Type A instead of the lone wolf that he is portrayed as in the English version.
• Tsurime Eyes: As a foil to Pit, and they highlight his brash, cocky and impulsive nature.
• Twin Telepathy: During certain portions of the game, he and Pit seem to be able to connect at certain points. Viridi even comments on it.
• Weapon Specialization: He uses a small selection of weapons, but the two most prominent are the Silver Bow and the Dark Pit Staff.
• When He Smiles: Briefly in the aftermath Chapter 21, and during the ending of Uprising. He also smiles whether he wins or loses in "Light versus Dark".
• Wild Card: And damn proud of it. He's unpredictable to the point you don't know who he'll side with until he officially sides with Pit later on in the game. Smash 4 reveals that he currently works for the Forces of Nature post-Uprising, though as he states "Viridi's interests and mine just happen to overlap", this is likely a temporary arrangement.
• Winged Humanoid: He's an angel, so it's to be expected.
• Wings Do Nothing: Averted at first. Absorbing Pandora's power allowed Dark Pit to fly on his own. He loses this power in Ch 22 when the Rewind Spring revives her.
• Would Hit a Girl: Especially if she is Pandora.

Magnus

Magnus

Voiced by: Kenji Nomura (JP), Fred Tatasciore (EN, Uprising), Patrick Seitz (EN, Smash 4)

"My name's Magnus, by the way. Don't hit me, and we'll get along just fine."

The most powerful human warrior of all. As a member of a roaming mercenary group, he has triumphed in countless brutal missions.

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• Anti-Hero: In that he's Only in It for the Money. That being said, he's far more heroic than the standard Anti-Hero.
• Badass Normal: He's a human warrior who can face off against supernatural foes with nothing but his sword. Naturally, this is constantly lampshaded.
• BFS: It's so big that Pit's version of the weapon is classified as a Magnus Club.
• Breaking the Fourth Wall: Averted. Magnus expresses no awareness of the medium, and is even Locked Out of the Loop when Pit and Palutena are simply talking to each other.
• Brutal Honesty: Magnus doesn't pull punches nor minces words. If he's got something to say, he'll say it flat out.
• Brutish Character, Brutish Weapon: Magnus is a burly mercenary who wields a massive sword that is only slightly smaller than his own body. His aggressive fighting style reflects his personality, as he rudely insults Pit and Palutena even as the two help him fight against the Underworld Army.
• Charles Atlas Superpower: He's only a baseline human, but able to beat down and overpower the Underworld forces by himself.
• Close-Range Combatant: He attacks solely with melee attacks seeing as how he lacks the ability to shoot projectiles with his weapon.
• Crusading Widower: It is mentioned by Palutena and his idol description that he had lost a child to the Underworld Forces. He doesn't talk about it much, if at all.
• Deadpan Snarker: Has his moments.
• Did You Just Flip Off Cthulhu?: This memorable line in Ch 2.
  Magnus: Hey, if you're chatting with your precious goddess, give her a message from me. Tell her she's been sleeping on the job! My world is on the edge of collapse.
• Dual Boss: With Gaol in chapter 24.
• Dub Name Change: From "Magna" in the Japanese version. Justified, Magna is the feminine form of the word in Latin.
• Expy: His whole chapter and involvement with Gaol is a Whole-Plot Reference to Berserk, which would cast him as Guts. Both men are anti heroes and are mercenaries who are battling an old, androgynous friend who has become a demon working for the main villain of their respective franchise. In addition both are the World's Strongest Man of their respective stories and use a BFS that can cleave many powerful enemies in half with ease.
• Foil: Serves as one to Pit. Both are skilled warriors, but unlike Pit, who charges into battle with guns ablazing, Magnus handles situations with a more tactical approach.
• Friendly Rivalry: With Gaol, according to the Magnus & Gaol idol.
• Hero of Another Story: It's implied that he goes off living the mercenary life whenever you're not with him.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Sure, he claims to be Only in It for the Money and doesn't act very polite, but he genuinely cares about other people and is open to the idea of working together with Pit.
• Leitmotif: A surprisingly heroic one for a blatant Anti-Hero.
• Lightning Bruiser: Though he's slightly slower than Pit, he can still move pretty fast. He's also strong enough to take on Underworld monsters and Palutena's Army by himself.
• Manly Man: Deep voice, gruff exterior, muscles, and he's a mercenary to boot.
• Meaningful Name: Magnus is Latin for "great" or "powerful", which characterizes his role as the strongest human warrior quite nicely.
• Naked People Are Funny: Magnus objects to the notion of Pit taking off his pants to enjoy a hotspring while the latter is possessing the former.
• Naytheist: While working with Pit in Chapter 2, he tells Pit to let Palutena know that she's slacking off and his world is on the brink of collapse because of it.
• Nerf: His sword lacks the charged shot that Pit can get (as a club). This means you're forced to fight enemies in close-combat while you're controlling him. The normally wimpy Centurions can be the death of you in the highest difficulties.
• People Puppet: Becomes one briefly in chapter 18 when Pit takes control of him.
• Perma-Stubble: In ancient Greece the fashion tended to be full beard or no facial hair at all, so naturally Magnus went with a shave that leaves just enough hair to let people know he can grow a beard. Despite being a mercenary fighting against an increasing number of factions at once, his trim is the same each time he is seen.
• Punch-Clock Hero: He outright states that he does what he does for money. That said, he's still a pretty cool guy.
• Spanner in the Works: If he hadn't found that ring after the dog dropped it, the Chaos Kin would've won.
• Straight Man and Wise Guy: The straight man to Pit's wise guy.
• Tall, Dark, and Handsome: Magnus doesn't just have dark hair either, he's one of the few brown skinned characters in the series.
• Tattooed Crook: Has red tattoos on his right arm.
• Too Many Belts: He has three around his chest, and three on each leg.
• Weapon Across the Shoulder: His default pose.
• Wham Line: In regards to Pit who thinks he blacked out after the Aurum invasion and admits it feels like he and Magnus fought together "yesterday."
  Magnus: Yesterday?! Try THREE YEARS, buddy!
• What Measure Is a Mook?: Magnus is quite annoyed when Pit complains about fighting Centurions, and argues there are so many of them that nobody will notice if a few go missing.
• World's Strongest Man: Strongest human warrior in the world.

Nurse

Nurse

The Nurse from the Hospital who removes the Eggplant Curse.

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• Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: Since the Eggplant Wizard's curse is reduced to a temporary status effect in Uprising, there isn't much need for her. Pit and Palutena mention her and the hospital in Chapter 4 of Uprising, but then Palutena mentions she's not in Uprising and that Palutena's powers will heal Pit instead.
• Flat Character: She has no dialog beyond telling you she will remove the eggplant curse.
• The Medic: In the fortresses.
• White Magic: The only explanation as to how she can get rid of the eggplant curse.

Don

"Look for a hidden door above this stage's entrance."

Gives out information information and teaches Pit new things in the Information Center.

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• Aerith and Bob: Does Don sound remotely Greek to you?
• Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: Is not so much as mentioned in Kid Icarus Uprising. As Palutena and Viridi can give Pit tips at almost anytime telepathically, he'd likely have to be reworked to be good for anything anyway.
• Flat Character: Only serves to give out tips to the player.
• Nonstandard Character Design: He looks more like a modern day hunter.

The Little Girl

The Little Girl

A small child who lives in one of the human towns.

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• Ambiguous Situation: Both in spite and because of her (literally) vanishingly small presence, the little girl is quite the mystery. Why is this girl playing by herself idly in the fields only a short walk from an active battle zone? Why does this girl have no conscious interaction with Pit while he's wearing the ring? Does her resemblance to the girl from Hades' fake wish in Chapter 10 mean anything? Why did she vanish instantly after dropping the ring?
• Empty Shell: Downplayed, and only apparent in hindsight. While Pit is in the ring, he's able to have extended conversations with Magnus and is heavily influenced by the instincts of the dog when the ring is in their possession... but he has no interaction with the mind of the little girl in the slightest.
• Girlish Pigtails: She's a brunette with pigtails, very similar to the subject of Hades' fake wish.
• Grand Theft Me: A rare case where it's done by the hero of the story; the little girl happens upon the ring containing Pit's mind, which inadvertently gives him control of her body.
• Parental Abandonment: If she is in fact the girl in Hades' pretend wish, they were allegedly run over by Hades by accident, although it's unclear if that actually did happen.
• Songs of Solace: Her theme.
• Spanner in the Works: Her playfulness and curiosity ultimately lead to the downfall of The Chaos Kin.
• Stealth Hi/Bye: After the ring is dropped, and the dog takes it, the girl literally disappears as soon as you turn around. Lampshaded by Pit.

The Dog

Another inhabitant of the town attacked in Chapter 18. Loves to eat garbage in the town.

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• Anti-Frustration Features: Can sprint nigh indefinitely, to make up for the Little Girl's slow pace.
• Beneath Suspicion: While The Chaos Kin ultimately plans to torment all life, humanity and the forces of the underworld are its first priority targets, dogs not yet being worth its time...
• Extreme Omnivore: It eats garbage. Gets taken to the point that when you move too close to the garbage pail, the dog will automatically move towards it, even if you try to pull away.
• Grand Theft Me: Along with the little girl by Pit in Chapter 18.
• I Have Many Names: The dog's Idol description states that every human it runs into assigns it another name.

The Chariot Master

The Chariot Master

Voiced by: Hōchū Ōtsuka (JP), Alan Oppenheimer (EN)

A mysterious figure who is the owner of the Lightning Chariot.

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• Alas, Poor Villain: While villain is a stretch, his death is treated as this. Both Pit and Viridi felt it was completely pointless and both regret it had to come to that.
• Ambiguous Situation: He has some deliberately unexplained vehicles of the gods laying around the tower. It could be because he's possibly a god or it could be because he's a gearhead. When confronted, he avoids the question.
• Anti-Villain: He really does nothing villainous, but Pit still has to defeat him to get the Lightning Chariot.
• The Cynic: He responds to Pit's statement that he fights for Palutena and the people under her protection as noble, but foolish, and claims that an angel should fight for better reasons.
• Death Seeker: Hinted at during his level and Boss Fight, and confirmed shortly afterwards.
• The Disembodied: Stated by both him and his Idol description. His body has long been destroyed, and the only thing keeping him going is the fact that he follows the soldier's path in death.
• Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": If he has a name beyond the Chariot Master, it's never been revealed.
• Face Death with Dignity: He dies peacefully and without regret after Pit defeats him.
• Graceful Loser: Takes his defeat and imminent demise quite well, possibly because he wanted it this way.
• High-Speed Battle: His Boss Fight consists of Pit and the Chariot Master chasing each other on separate chariots.
• I Have Many Names; Said almost verbatim during his introduction.
  Chariot Master: I've had many names in my life, but now I am called the Chariot Master.
• The Last Dance: He knows he's old and his final battle will be his last, so he gives it his all when he fights Pit. After he's beaten, he's content with the outcome.
• Last of His Kind: He mentions during the fight that his master and all his comrades have long this passed on while he remains, and he admits that their losses tore at him. The only that keeps him going are his steeds, Phos and Lux.
• Not So Above It All: One test in his tower proves he's not above adding to the Shout-Outs page.
  Pit: Okay, so we've got rolling obstacles.
  Viridi: And don't forget the jump pads!
  Pit: This seems awfully familiar...
  Hades: I guess the Chariot Master has played Donkey Kong.
• Only Sane Man: He's basically the only calm and reasonable character onscreen, considering when Pit encounters him.
• Playing with Fire: Primarily tosses fireballs at Pit.
• Secret Test of Character: His refusal to hand over the Lightning Chariot and forcing Pit to climb the tower to confront him was to test Pit and see if he was worthy to wield it.
• Shadow Archetype: To Pit. While not remotely evil, his fate is one horrible way Pit's life in service to Palutena could turn out. He served his own master loyally for decades, but when his master was killed, he lost all will to live. Had Pit not saved Palutena he could have gone the same way.
• Shock and Awe: Will occasionally call down lightning strikes.
• The Stoic: The most calm and levelheaded character in the game.

The Great Sacred Treasure

The Great Sacred Treasure

A mech made by Dyntos to help Pit defeat Hades.

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• Adaptive Ability: It can change its form to adapt to damage.
• Defeat Means Friendship: Pit has to beat it in a boss battle before Dyntos lets him use it.
• Elemental Powers: Can create tornadoes, shoot fireballs, and fire orbs of electricity.
• 11th-Hour Superpower: You only really use it for the Final Boss.
• Final Boss: Of the Boss Rush. Hades is skipped as the final battle takes up the entirety of the final chapter.
• Gatling Good: Its Pursuit Mode is equipped with a gatling turret.
• Humongous Mecha: A flying one, at that.
• Instant Awesome: Just Add Mecha!: A Transforming Mecha used to take on a Physical God.
• Laser Blade: Uses one to slice Hades in half.
• Lightning Bruiser: Incredibly fast and very powerful.
• One-Hit KO: Its ultimate attack can one-hit kill Pit and blast most of the arena during the battle against it. At the end of the final battle with Hades, you get to use it yourself to vaporize Hades once and for all.
• Orichalcum: What it's composed of, according to Dyntos.
• Secret A.I. Moves: Zigzagged. In its boss fight, it can pull off a multitude of attacks like shooting fireballs, creating tornadoes, firing orbs of electricity and the like. When playing as it, it only uses the light arrows and a fireball as its charged shot, but it also exhibits a number of Transforming Mecha forms that didn't appear in battle.
• Transforming Mecha: According to its idol description, it can change its form to adapt to damage. It has a "pursuit" mode, "mech armor" mode, and an "ultralight" mode.
• Walking Spoiler: As it only shows up for the final two chapters.

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