Big Brother Complex: Parodied in an SRW 4koma where a bunch of heroines with their big brother on the bad guy's side being dramatic results in Kyoji wondering why he's the only one with a little brother. Domon is not amused.
Calling Your Attacks: Well, everyone does this, but Domon's practically turned this into an art form.
Charles Atlas Superpower: Not as absurdly presented as Master "I can stand on lasers 'cause I'm so awesome" Asia, but the guy still can catch machine gun fire with one hand.
And stand up despite being pulled down by a magnet exerting 2,000 G's on him.
"THIS HAND OF MINE GLOWS WITH AN AWESOME POWEEEEEEEEEEER!!! ITS BURNING GRIP TELLS ME TO DEFEAT YOU!!!"
"THIS HAND OF MINE IS BURNING RED!"
Idiot Hero: Even moreso in the 2010 manga retelling of the series.
I Was Just Passing Through: In the early episodes, this is the attitude he takes towards people he helps, usually about five minutes after refusing their pleas because "it's not his problem."
No Social Skills: From the age of ten to twenty, he trained alone with Master Asia. Domon learned how to communicate with his fists amazingly... communicate like a rational human being, not so much.
Pet the Dog: He's a kid magnet as mentioned above, but his kindness towards Gina Rodriguez also deserves a mention. (It helps that she saved him from being murdered by her brother.)
Tomokazu Seki: Who seems to have a habit of playing characters that fit the Stupid Sexy Flanders trope as he plays the protagonist of another famous anime series who also fits that trope as well.
Tsundere: Sometimes borders on a male Type A towards Rain, specially in the last episodes.
The Unfavorite: Hinted to be one of these for being Book Dumb and much younger than his brother. In a subversion, he and his father don't hate each other.
This Is Unforgivable: What better time for him to say this than in the finale, towards the perpetrator who was behind all the crap he has been through? Naturally, we know who he's talking to.
Domon: You piece of filth! My dad! My mom! My brother! Schwarz! My master! You've taken them all from me! And now Rain! Ulube... You'll pay for this. There's no way I'll ever forgive you!
Adaptational Badass: The 2010 manga turns it up a few degrees by actually showing his curb-stomping Neo-Iraq's Scud Gundam with one punch, having him completely manhandle Domon in a boxing match*
in the anime, Domon gets a single cheap shot before they're pulled apart
, and getting an actual draw in their Gundam Fight*
mostly due to Domon fighting while still recovering from said boxing match, meaning he passes out before he can finish the Shining Finger
rather than surviving only because Domon shows him mercy.
Chivalrous Pervert: Teases Rain and flirts with her whenever he can. When she and/or his Four Girl Ensemble are in peril, he'll immediately leap to their aid.
Honor Before Reason: Perfectly willing to kill the Department of Defense agents who tried to assassinate Domon after they tried to butt into their Gundam Fight.
Real Men Wear Pink: He has dyed pink bangs and openly admits his Momma's Boy status in canon). Not to mention that his title in the Shuffle Alliance is the Queen of Spades (though at least in the dub, he remarks on how he's not too keen on that title).
Failure Knight: Can't forgive himself for the Marseilles Tragedy where he was unable to stop his rival Mirabeau from firing at the audience present in their duel.
Honor Before Reason: And proud of it, as he tells Domon Kasshu before their match in the finals.
Knight in Shining Armor: To a degree. He looks the part quite well, and even has a lady of liegue in Maria Louise, but has hidden honor and insecurity issues. And as he reveals in both his first and last match with Domon, when he's in the midst of battle he is fighting for the fight.
Badass: seriously, if it hasn't been made clear just how important it was - this punk forced DOMON to take a draw on their first bout...and with the exception of a very convenient save as well as Plot Armor - almost did him in a second time. Watch the series from beginning to end and you'll see just how much of a big deal this really is.
Cute Bruiser: Small, youthful, strong, fast... and can kick your ass.
Determinator: Well, everyone is, but he deserves special mention for the final match with Domon. You don't get more Determinator than continuing to fight after your Gundam's arms have been ripped off, especially when you take into account how the Mobile Trace System works.
Guile Hero: His first episode is one big Batman Gambit. With Dragon Gundam stolen, Sai Saici poses as a harmless chef and tricks Domon, tricks the bandits who stole it, tricks Domon again, and repeats until he has the Gundam back. And when he's infected by DG Cells in Shinjuku, he opts to man the subway controls in order to run the cars over Domon, rather than engage him directly like the others.
Idiot Hero: When he isn't fighting or doing fight-related things, he's a pretty goofy, immature kid. Sometimes overestimates his own abilities, too.
Let's Get Dangerous: He's the only member of the Shuffle Alliance who forced Domon to acknowledge a draw, rather than being beaten outright.
Sins of Our Fathers: His grandfather Sai Feilong was Neo-China's Gundam Fighter in the 4th Gundam Fight, where he accidentally killed Neo-Egypt's Dahal Muhammed*
the Pharaoh Gundam IV's severed head exploded, destroying the cockpit
; when Muhammed is revived by DG Cells, he tries to kill Sai Saici in revenge.
Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: HATES mummies and anything related to the supernatural. Naturally, Neo Egypt's previous Gundam Fighter has a grudge against his father and, by proxy, him.
Boxed Crook: Argo fights on the agreement that his pirate crew is released from prison should he win the Gundam fight. He has a bomb wired to his chest should he try to go rogue and go back on it.
Car Fu: In Shinjuku, with a particular kind of car. A subway car.
Husky Russkie: Plays it straight and subverts it. He's big, strong and relies on brute force, but remains very calm and cool-headed. The Guyana Highlands arc is proof: Argo was the only member of the Shuffle Alliance who wasn't utterly traumatised after being Brainwashed and Crazy due to the DG Cells in the Shinjuku arc.
Gentleman Thief: To a degree. He was a space pirate before being caught and forced to work for the Neo-Russian government, but even in his worse times he utterly refused to harm or kill the people he and his crew robbed. In fact, his arch-rival Andrew Graham thought he killed his wife and partner Norma... when Argo had actually tried to save her from being Thrown Out The Airlock, but couldn't reach her in time.
Wrestler in All of Us: More subtle than the average example, but he throws out some rassilin' techniques every once in a while.
Gone Horribly Right: Was created to restore the Earth's environment, and attempts to do just that. It's just how it intends to do it that makes it the Big Bad.
Kill All Humans: Concludes it has to do this to restore Earth's environment.
Old Master: Technically he's only fifty, but still.
Well-Intentioned Extremist: He wanted to heal the Earth of the damage that the Gundam Fight inflicted. But he decided the way to do that was to wipe out humanity.
Willfully Weak: While Master Asia never holds back, he never utilized his Shuffle Alliance Mobile Fighter, the King of Hearts, in the series because its actually more powerful than both God and Master Gundam put together. Instead, he used vastly weaker Mobile Fighters to make his battles more fair.
Yosuke Akimoto: Apparently voicing Master Asia is what made him famous in Western fandom.
Kyouji Kasshu
Artistic Age: Judging by flashbacks to Domon's childhood and that photo, Kyoji has always been twenty-eight years old.
Although it's actually a bit of a subversion. The... circumstances... make him rather aloof now, but flashbacks show him to be a pretty nice big brother, and Rain describes his personality as warm.
Cain and Abel: With Domon. Or so the story wants you to believe.
Fetish Fuel Station Attendant: fans of incest, clone/selfcest, and tentacle rape (courtesy of the Devil Gundam) can and do have a field day with the poor guy.
Psychopathic Manchild: For some, since he's seen in his pajamas and leaning on a giant teddybear at one point. He can also be seen as a subversion: yes, he keeps said teddy and some of his reactionsto being in a disadvantage can be seen as childish, but Wong's own cunning plans make him far smarter and more ruthless than the average.
Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: Chapman's return from death is a minor detail to the protagonists... what really grinds their gears is that he's back in the Fight after being disqualified.
George de Sand: Tell me something, Chapman. How can someone return from the grave and then participate in the finals?!
Fallen Hero: Won three Gundam Fights in a row for Britain and was renowned for his British sense of chivalry. By the beginning of the series, he relies on steroids(?) and trickery*
His wife Manon pumped in sensor-jamming fog and launched several unmanned Mobile Suits to fight his side
, which gets him called out by George and Domon. His reason being that he has to keep being a hero, both for himself and for his country.
Flat Character: Only after his return via the DG Cells... he literally has no lines other than to growl menacingly. This is intentional, however: he's meant to contrast with the obnoxious, motor-mouthed Michelo. Also, he's, y'know, kinda dead.
Fallen Hero: He was Neo-Japan's Gundam Fighter in the 12th Fight. Would've possibly remained a good guy if not for his humiliating defeat to Master Asia; after that, it's implied that he never was the same again.
Action Girl: Ends up rivaling Allenby in this department.
The Archer: In addition to a heat naginata, Rising Gundam is equipped with a beam bow. Rain uses the beam arrows to disable the Walter Gundam without hitting its cockpit and injuring Allenby, who's Brainwashed and Crazyand forced into a Berserker state.
Calling the Old Man Out: When her father tries to kill Schwarz and seems unrepentant for ruining the Kasshu family and involving her in his scheming, she gives him a big wake-up call.
Closer to Earth: Somehow she manages to (mostly) keep a cool head and healthy emotional state until near the end of the series, despite spending all that time with Domon.
Combination Attack: Twice with Domon. Once with Shining Finger in Shinjuku, and the second time when they finished off the Devil Gundam with Erupting God Finger Sekiha Love Love Tenkyoken.
Anguished Declaration of Love: A variation. She doesn't declare it to Domon, but begging him not to leave her alone and saying that she loves him with all her heart while under mind control definitely counts as anguished.
Dead Person Impersonation: He is a clone of Kyouji Kasshu (made with DG Cells) who merges with the body of the original Schwarz and becomes the Schwarz we know and love
Also a case of Shown Their Work, since his voice actually is slightly muffled from wearing the mask over his mouth. (Hori apparently did this by putting a sheet of paper over the mic.)
McNinja: The poster boy for this trope (and yet, not quite a true example — unless the Kasshu's are secretly German). Or rather, Schwarz should have been called von Ninja.
The original, deceased Schwartz Bruder was, however, a straight example.
Meaningful Name: His name means Black Brother in German. Guess who he turns out to be?
Subverted with the original, for whom the name was a coincidence with no meaning whatsoever. Kyoji was just incredibly lucky with names, clone-wise.
Suspiciously Specific Denial: When Rain asks the German crew about Schwarz's true nature, they said that the committee had confirmation he was human. Although some of Schwarz's stunts are insane even for G Gundam, so this might not be unjustified.
Technicolor Ninjas: You would think that dressing himself as the German flag would make him less stealthy. It doesn't.
Lima Syndrome: She eventually starts warming up to her prisoner, Argo. In the final episodes, she frees him and his crew without authorization and presumably joins him after the defeat of the Devil Gundam.
Talking to Himself: Averted; though he shares a voice with Master Asia, Stalker never really interacts with the actual cast.
Woolseyism: In the second episode, he starts off speaking in English before stopping, apologizing, and starting over in Japanese. In the dub, he starts off in French before switching to English.
Dr. Raizou Kasshu
Hot Shoujo Dad: An older example, but doesn't look halfway bad for being around his mid 50's.
What Could Have Been: Was supposed to have become a Big Bad alongside Ulube towards the end, but Imakawa (the director) just couldn't imagine him as a bad guy with that voice of his. Thus, he got some small measure of redemption instead.
What the Hell, Hero?: When Domon complains about Rain leaving the Neo-Japanese team, Dr. Mikamura imediately tells him that he's full of shit and that it's his own fault.
Chairman Karato
Beleaguered Bureaucrat: Anyone who has a job managing Domon Kasshu is beleaguered by default.
Characterization Marches On: In Episode 6, he's the jerkChairman of Japan's Gundam Fight committee who tries to rig a simulation to defeat Domon and replace him with another Gundam Fighter. Later in the series he's pretty ineffectual and hopeless when it comes to trying to keep Domon (and sometimes his friends) in line.
Reasonable Authority Figure: Becomes this later, which Domon comments on. (There's a hint of this in episode 12, where he sends Domon and Rain to Shinjuku - which is under siege by the Death Army - without any hesitation.)
Saette Gyuzelle
Body Horror: It's through his horrible situation that we learn about the true extent of the DG Cells.
Brainwashed and Crazy: Under the effect of the aforementioned Cells - he was blacking out from time to time in the cockpit.
Never Got To Say Goodbye: To Rain, who had to come back to Neo Japan right when he was about to ask her for counseling. He wrongfully thought she hated him.
Battle Butler: To a degree, since he's not a frontline fighter but he does help George train. And that "Butler Bensonmum" didn't stay in one piece for that long without mad Mobile Suit skills.
