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Console Patron Units (CPUs)

Debut: Hyperdimension Neptunia

The leaders of the four nations in Gamindustri, representing major home consoles. In battle, they all have a transformation called Hard Drive Divinity (HDD).

General Tropes

• Actor Allusion:
  • In Victory, Noire gets flustered when MAGES.' calls her an "Assistant", referencing how Kurisu Makise - another role from Asami Imai (Noire's Japanese voice actress) - reacts to Rintarou calling her his "Assistant".
  • Also in the Japanese dub, Vert shares the same weapon as Mikoto, another character voiced by Rina Sato.
• Adaptational Nice Guy:
  • Noire and Blanc are much nicer in Re;Birth1 compared to the first game, thanks to their characterizations borrowing heavily from their Hyper Dimension counterparts.
    • In the original game, Noire was very pessimistic about her job as a CPU and suffered from a case of It's All About Me. In Re;Birth1, while still a Tsundere, she's more openly friendly to the people she interacts with, and is more than willing to put her pride aside when her nation is in danger.
    • Blanc in Re;Birth1 is significantly more social than first game's Blanc, as though she does see Neptune as a nuisance, she is able to get along with her just fine, whereas in the original game she spent most of the Lowee segment acting belligerent to and pursuing Neptune and co., hellbent on killing them. She also genuinely cares for her citizens to almost Mama Bear levels and has a particular soft spot for Financier; the original Blanc would often chastise Financier for doing her job. Even in her White Heart form, she sincerely thanks MAGES. for saving them in their fight with Ganache.
  • In Super Neptunia RPG, because of their collective amnesia, they are notably nicer than usual, with Noire seemly lacking her usual prideful attitude, Vert being nowhere near as clingy (likely due to the Candidates not existing in this continuity) or self-obsessed as her canon self, and Blanc appearing less temperamental than her usual characterization. Neptune is largely the same though.
• The Ageless: A CPU never ages, though they can be killed.
• Alternate Self: The Ultra Dimension timeline (i.e. Plutia's world) versions of each of the goddesses, from Gamindustri in The '80s, are their counterparts to the main goddesses we know in the main Hyper Dimension timeline (i.e. Neptune's world). Neptune's counterpart goes further into being an entirely different person with the same color scheme and base personality. Neptune's actual Ultra Dimension counterpart appears in The Stinger for the True End, and would later make her franchise debut in the next canon game.
• Amnesiac Hero:
  • The first game and its remake starts with Neptune losing her memories after being bested by the three goddesses. At one point, Neptune refers to herself as one.
  • In RPG, they notably all lack their memories from their past lives, with Neptune even stating she doesn't remember anything past her name.
• Badass Adorable: They are goddesses after all, with potentially impressive fighting prowess to match that status.
• Badass in Distress:
  • They're all defeated and captured by CFW Magic in the prologue of mk2, with the first half of the plot focusing on their sisters rescuing them.
  • Happens twice in Victory II. Affimojas pretends to surrender so he can slash them all with an anti-Share crystal, leaving them powerless hostages until Gold Third arrive to give them a Hyper Share Crystal. Later, Kurome disguised as Uzume captures them with Dark Purple to brainwash them and empower the Dark CPUs, so the remaining playable cast have to rescue them.
• Big Sister Instinct: All of them have shown to be protective of their respective sisters, with Vert in particular serving as a big sister mentor to all four of them due to not having a sister on her own.
  • Neptune truly loves Nepgear unconditionally, and is willing to defend her when the latter is down. Even with all the crap she gives Nepgear in Victory she will quickly jump to her defense if anyone else, aside from Plutia, does anything to her intentionally or not. When Rei ends up headbutting Nepgear waking up from a nightmare she snaps at her for it.
  Neptune: Yo, lady! What's the big idea, waking up and headbutting my totally awesome little sister!?
  • Despite her aloofness to Uni, Noire deeply cares for the latter's well being, which is shown further in Sisters where she tries to make amends with Uni after the latter becomes disillusioned by her cold and outwardly unfriendly demeanor.
  • Blanc is especially protective of her twins Rom and Ram, as while she can get irritated by the pranks her sisters pull on her (especially from Ram), she wholeheartedly cares for the safety of their welfare and will do anything in her way to make them happy. Attempting to harm either or both of them will incite her anger and send her into a Roaring Rampage of Rescue in order to save them. CFW Trick learned this the hard way in the anime when he kidnapped and attempted to groom them.
  • While Vert's obsession with sisters can be annoying to other characters, she does care for their safety, as shown in Sisters where she takes Ram to a safer spot.
• Bound and Gagged: ASIC keeps the CPUs and Nepgear like this for three years. It's even the name of the trophy you get for viewing the CG image of them.
• Breast Expansion: Nearly all of the CPUs increase in bust size when activating their HDD forms. Neptune, for instance, is a small-chested, young-looking girl in her human form, but as Purple Heart, is a tall, mature woman with big breasts.
• Broken Pedestal: Choosing to go to Planeptune rather than Lastation to figure out what's going on with counterfeit consoles, the Failure Goddesses are incredibly nervous about meeting with such important people right up until they find Neptune and Vert just lounging around in their human forms playing games and eating junk food instead of doing anything to solve the problem, shattering the highly professional image they had of them. Once it comes out that the two of them were hoping the situation would just blow over because the Gold Third was looking into things, Pippih completely loses it and starts demanding that they transform so they'll start taking things seriously.
• Character Blog: Noire, Blanc, and Vert all have one in the first game. They're mostly just Seinfeldian Conversation material.
  White Heart: Tangerines kick ass.
• Colorful Theme Naming: Aside from Neptune, their names are French for the color heavily associated with the consoles they represent. All of them in HDD are named "[insert color] Heart".
• Cool Big Sis: Neptune, Noire and Blanc have a beloved little sister known as a CPU Candidate, whom they all love back. Vert likes to dote over all the Candidates because she doesn't have one of her own.
• Combination Attack: Guardian Force, which requires all four of them to be deployed in the battle.
• Does Not Like Men: Ultra Dimension Noire and Blanc.
  • When Anonydeath showed up outside of his armor masquerading as Peashy's father, everyone besides Noire and Blanc found him cute, and Noire had to remind everyone that he is a man. She also responds "men are the worst" when she hears that Tekken was harassed by men that she beat at the arcade. The only moment she showed some interest in men was in the non-canon CD If A Goddess Was Your Wife CD Track 02 - Noire, which doesn't take place in any universe since Tsunako clarified in one of her 4-komas that it's just the goddesses roleplaying as if they were married so she actually have never show any interest in the opposite gender.
  • Blanc gives off this vibe when she sees Plutia holding the baby IF, Compa, and Peashy, saying she "hadn't detected the stench of a man" the last time she was there (though she'd only used the word "presence" in the Japanese version). Considering that the only man she's seen to have ever dealt with stabbed her in the back and stole her country from her, you can't blame her. Then again, when RED all but proposes to her, Blanc says she doesn't mind either way.
  Blanc: I don't care. It kind of soothes my soul to be called someone's wife, male or female.
• Dub Name Change: They're called Guardian Goddesses, or simply Goddesses, in the Japanese version, though the English version retains occasional mentions of godhood. Sisters would later discard the CPU name all together.
• Exotic Eye Designs: All CPUs and CPU Candidates have a power symbol in their eyes when in HDD. NEXT Form also turns their pupils into plus signs.
• Eye Color Change: The eye color of the CPUs changes when they transform. Neptune goes from purple to blue, Noire goes from red to light blue, Blanc goes from light blue to red, and Vert goes from blue to purple.
• Four-Temperament Ensemble:
  • Neptune is Sanguine, being the most outgoing and cheerful of the four.
  • Noire is Melancholic, being solitary and prone to hide her feelings.
  • Blanc is Choleric, being the quickest to anger.
  • Vert is Phlegmatic, being the voice of reason in the group and generally the nicest.
• Fun with Acronyms: CPU stands for "Console Patron Unit".
• Gamer Chick: The four CPUs have at least played a game in their spare time. Not surprisingly, given that they represent gaming consoles. Vert in particular often spends days shut up in her room playing. It's also Serious Business, with the quartet almost coming to blows in mk2 simply over whose nation has the best party games.
• The Gods Must Be Lazy:
  • The goddesses spend more time on their personal affairs and bonking heads than actually running their lands. Neptune and Vert in particular tend to prioritize their hobbies (eating pudding in Neptune's case, playing MMOs in Vert's) over their goddess duties, though the latter averted this later in the first game by going out and actively fighting monsters.
  • Taken to hilarious effect in the Megami Tsuushin manga, where Neptune's laziness has made her level down and not even be able to take out a common mook. Of course, she ends up having to leech the XP from the others while she stays in the back.
    Neptune: Ooh, I didn't do anything, yet the level up jingle doesn't stop!
    • What's even more hilarious is that this very same manga later shows that if Neptune ever gets serious, she skips "capable" and jumps straight to "hyper-competent", proving that Neptune is brilliant but very, very lazy.
  • VII eventually demonstrates that CPUs are absolutely vital to Gamindustri's survival. On top of a Reality Warper messing around with everyone's memories, it's basically the goddesses losing their positions that drives most of Gamindustri into varying states of dystopia during the G arc.
• Gods Need Prayer Badly:
  • Goddesses gain power with belief. Arfoire uses this to gain power again by spreading false overlord rumors and harvesting their fear in the first game. In the second game, ASIC buys support by giving out modchips.
  • This is actually a gameplay mechanic in the form of shares. More shares translates to more faith and power in a goddess. A certain amount is needed in order to recruit the goddess of each land. In the case of mk2, shares allow you to recruit the CPUs and affect the ending.
  • In Victory, it turns out there used to be a certain CPU a long time ago, but she ended up destroying her believers' faith (and by extension, her nation) through her tyranny. She's still around, and once she gets her power back ultimately becomes the True Final Boss.
  • The overall Nerf imposed over most of everything in VII is justified in-game by the fact that for most of the game, you play when the goddesses have access to only minuscule amounts of faith compared to the usual. The moment they get a huge Share boost thanks to the Hyper Crystal gifted by Gold Third, they get their NEXT Forms.
• Happy Place: In VII's Heart Dimension arc, they're kidnapped by Kurome and subject to a Lotus-Eater Machine, which the other characters get to see due to how the Heart Dimension works.
  • Turns out Neptune's ideal of happiness isn't her own, but the happiness of others. And her dream world isn't different from her current one, so her only desire is to keep living out her peaceful days. IF is understandably confused considering her normal behavior.
  • Noire's idea of happiness is to be a famous idol and voice actress who doesn't have to worry about the responsibilities of ruling a nation. Uni and K-Sha are not pleased to say the least.
  • Unsurprisingly, Blanc's idea of happiness involves having a large pair of breasts. Rom and Ram's reaction is less than amused, thanks to Blanc being a bit of a prick about it.
  • Vert's idea of happiness? Having siblings, as she is the only Hyper Dimension CPU who doesn't have siblings since Microsoft has never made a handheld console to complement the Xbox family and compete with the Vita and 3DS. Additionally, her dream siblings are actually younger versions of herself, to the point where they're also named Vert. This shows that she also wants the experience of being a younger sibling and helps to explain her fixation on Nepgear, who takes traits associated with both younger and older siblings as the situations with Neptune demand, since she usually takes the older sister role among the CPUs. It's also worth noting that her two hypothetical sisters look an awful lot like younger, blonde versions of Noire and Blanc, at least in terms of clothing.
• Heroes Prefer Swords: Neptune and Noire both wield swords, but Neptune focuses on two-handed katanas while Noire prefers one-handed, double-edged swords.
• Heroic Sacrifice:
  • In the normal endings, the four goddesses sacrifice their lives to destroy Arfoire for good. However, after Nepgear finishes her speech, the four goddesses turn out to be A-OK.
  • In Sisters, when Arfoire was revived in the PC Continent, Neptune decides to fight her alone so the other three CPUs can evacuate citizens before the spacetime rift consumes everything. She never came back, and was presumed to have been swallowed by the rift along with Arfoire. She was actually saved by Grey Sister, but then gets captured by Arfoire while asleep in the sealing device.
• Immortality Begins at Twenty: Ultra Dimension CPUs stops aging the moment they obtain a CPU Memory.
• Immortal Immaturity: The CPUs are Really 700 Years Old goddesses who guard over their nation, but are also flawed Bunny-Eared Lawyers who often get on each others nerves from time to time, even in the more tense situations.
• Impossibly-Low Neckline: Noire and Vert's dresses are designed this way. They look like they could've easily fallen off if they weren't tightly worn.
• I'm Taking Her Home with Me!:
  • Hyper Dimension Leanbox is the only one of the four nations without a Candidate, so Vert is always eager to snatch up one of the other CPUs' little sisters, particularly Nepgear. Ultra Dimension Vert also claims Nepgear as her little sister on the basis of providing the CPU Memory that brings back her ability to transform, though she later sets her eyes on Peashy.
  • Neptune also gains this trait in Victory. When she figures out who the baby IF and Compa are, she immediately requests that she be allowed to take them back to her world. Histoire shoots the idea down, so she decides to just make the most of the time she has with them there. She also reacts this way when she first meets Mini-Histy, nearly strangling the poor thing to death with a bear hug.
  • Even Blanc gains this trait in Victory. In the True Ending, Ultra Dimension Blanc outright requests that Hyper Dimension Blanc give her one of her sisters to raise in her dimension. Needless to say Hyper Dimension Blanc will hear nothing of it.
• In-Series Nickname:
  • Neptune has no less than 5 of them, the most of any character in the series, largely stemming from others finding her name hard to pronounce.
    • Nep-Nep / Nepu-Nepu (Japanese) : Used by Compa and B-Sha
    • Nep / Nepu-ko (Japanese) : Used by IF
    • Neppy / Nep-chan (Japanese): Used by Plutia / Pururut
    • Neptuna / Neputenu (Japanese) : Used by Peashy
    • Nepsy / Nep-chi (Japanese): Used by Uzume
  • Vert is nicknamed "Thunder Tits" by Blanc, as a derision to her Big-Breast Pride.
• Leotard of Power: In HDD, they all gain what appear to be high-tech leotards.
• Little Miss Almighty: They're ageless deities who have the appearances of young girls, adolescent teenagers, or older women who look like they're reaching their mid 20s.
• Moe Anthropomorphism: Of various home consoles.
• My Sister Is Off-Limits: Neptune, Noire and Blanc are all quite picky about their sister's love lives.
  Neptune: "Nepgear ain't never going to marry! I'm banning the idea forever!"
• Mythology Gag:
  • Ultra Dimension Blanc is more antagonistic to the other CPUs because of what happened during the SNES CD-ROM. Furthermore, Nintendo decided not to join the bandwagon of CDs, and implemented strict, almost Knight Templar levels of guidelines for releasing games (the Seal of Quality, for example), but the decision had even worse expenses (cartridges would go for 70 USD each). Finally, one of the weirdest case examples of swearing? Conker's Bad Fur Day.
  • For Ultra Dimension Vert, the original Xbox went public early 2000 at Game Developer's Conference somewhere close to the same time as the PS2 had successful sales. Original development started in 1998. Microsoft also wanted to focus on Japan due to successful video game sales there.
• Odd Job Gods: Create a nation, guide its technological growth, and do mercenary work for the people. There's a reason for that last part.
• Out-of-Character Moment:
  • Done intentionally in Re;Birth1, when Blanc and Vert are trying to seduce the Lastation Basillicom Staff Member, Blanc uses the "cute little sister" routine, calling him "Onii-chan". Of course, Vert mocks her later for her unexpected performance, with Blanc claiming that she read in a book that some men like that kind of girls.
  • In VII, Vert shows moments of extreme clinginess for Nepgear, such as where she tries to claim her as her own little sister, that she didn't have in earlier games. In fact, this personality quirk of hers originated from her Ultra Dimension counterpart. Though it may be a nod to her ending in mk2, where she considers adopting Nepgear as a sister.
• Physical God: They're explicitly called "Guardian Goddesses" or simply "Goddesses" in the Japanese version. They're biologically immortal, skilled fighters, and some of them have extra abilities on top of that.
• Power Floats: Once transformed, their feet never touch the ground.
• Power Makes Your Voice Deep: CPUs generally get deeper voices upon transforming. This is most apparent with Neptune, as she physically goes from early teens at best to an adult woman.
• Power Dyes Your Hair: HDD provides a radically different hair color from their base form, usually matching their transformed name.
• Pure Magic Being: Hyper Dimension CPUs are not only powered by Share Energy, but born from it, hence why anything that cancels it out is extremely debilitating to them.
• Really 700 Years Old: This primarily only applies to the Super Dimension timeline CPUs, as the first game states that they've been fighting for "thousands of generations", indicating that they've been around Gamindustri since the world's birth. Of the Ultra Dimension CPUs only Blanc and Rei Ryghts apply as the rest only recently became immortal so they are at most only a few decades older than they appear by the end of the game. The reveal of a child from Uzume's time as Planeptune's CPU being an old man in VII shows that Hyper Dimension's Neptune falls a bit short of this, pushing around 100 at most due to her time in Ultra Dimension, while the others from Hyper Dimension are likely close in age to their appearance.
• Ship Tease: Many of the official art in Re;Birth1 has Neptune and Noire flirting with or teasing each other. Unlike the first game (and subsequent games), were most of the teasing is done through supplementary materials, the sexual tension between them in the remake is far more obvious. Ultra Dimension Noire also has this with Plutia in Victory.
• Sibling Rivalry: Very notable in Victory.
  • Neptune has a rather one sided one with Nepgear. Her increasingly inconsiderate treatment of Nepgear comes after her sister screws things up, both accidentally and not, for her. Notably taking her job but trying to still push that work onto Neptune, indirectly getting her trapped in the alternate dimension twice, stabbing her in the back for trying to make it so she could safely stay with the group, and blaming Neptune for something Plutia did.
  • Despite neither characters being related, Neptune and Ultra Dimension Vert have this dynamic, due to the latter making Nepgear a CPU, and, by Neptune's logic, this making Nepgear Vert's little sister due to being born from the same memory core.
• Strange Minds Think Alike: In the True Ending of mk2, both Blanc and Vert think about the idea of giving one of the former's sisters to the latter.
• Suicide for Others' Happiness: During the Conquest Ending, most of the CPU Candidates voluntarily let you kill them after their CPU sisters force Nepgear to kill them. Uni gets a special mention, as she says she wants to die because her older sister is already dead, so she has nothing left to live for except her sister's dying words of hope that Gamindustri can be saved, which requires that Uni allows herself to be killed by Nepgear. Neptune plays this straight, smiling and stating simply that Nepgear has to kill her or all of their efforts until then will be for nothing.
• Super Mode: Transforming into HDD provides a huge buff to their stats. Then Victory II takes it up a notch with the NEXT Forms, which facilitates the use of skills and comes with a super powerful EXE Drive, though it depowers them completely out of HDD after use, whether or not it hits.
• Took a Level in Jerkass:
  • Neptune becomes this in Victory. While she was apathetic about her job and would get on her friends nerves, she still meant well to them and her citizens. In this game, she's significantly more lazier and egotistical, more than willing to put her wants over others. Her occasional jabs towards Noire is much more mean-spirited, and she is rather uncaring to her sister Nepgear - whom she devoted her love to in the previous game - to the point that she deliberately leaves her in the Ultra Dimension for a day - which, in Ultra Dimension times, is a ten years. Understandably, she is called out for this behavior.
  • Vert is significantly more self-centered and mean-spirited in VII than in previous games. While she still retains her lady-like aspects, she is more than willing to prioritize her gaming over the safety of her citizens, is considerably more willing to bully Blanc about her chest at every opportunity she can find, and won't hesitate to force Nepgear into being her sister regardless of how the latter feels about that.
• Took a Level in Kindness:
  • In contrast to how she acted in Victory, Neptune in VII seemed to have mellowed out quite a bit, and her jabs aren't as insensitive as they were before.
  • Ultra Dimension Blanc started off as a being significantly more unpleasant and antagonistic that her Hyper self. Following her defeat in chapter 3, however, she becomes more open and friendly to the rest of the team, although she still has bad blood with Noire. Iris Heart also states that beneath her tough and easily angered personality is a shy and sensitive young girl.
• Trademark Favorite Food: All of the CPUs at least have one food they enjoy.
  • Neptune just loves pudding. In Re;Birth1, pudding was the first thing Compa fed Neptune when they met, and the girl had never had it before. She'll even eat an Antidote if it's made in pudding form. In Cyberdimension, she shares one to Purple Heart in-game and her goddess self starts craving for more.
  • In the Re;Birth1 continuity, Noire loves pudding. It gets to the point where Neptune and Noire have a contest where the prize is pudding.
  • Blanc loves tangerines. In the first game she even says they kick ass.
  • Vert loves tea, to the point of naming some of her attacks after various types of it.
• True Companions: For all of their faults, they really do seem to care about one another. Neptune even considers the Ultra Dimension CPUs to be this, as she always trusts that they'll do the right thing or they aren't really plotting something morally dubious.
• Unskilled, but Strong: The four goddesses. To put it in a nutshell, they have very few skills despite having the best stats of the whole team. DLC and Re;Birth2 fixed this by turning them all into Game Breakers.
• Verbal Tic:
  • Neptune often uses "Neppu!" ("Nep!" in the English dub) as an exclamation when surprised.
  • Only in the Japanese version, Noire yells "Nowa~!" when startled. It started with Ultra Dimension Noire, but was carried over to her Hyper Dimension self in later installments.
• Visual Pun: The size of the girl's breasts are relative to the size of the console they're based on. For example, since the Wii is smaller than the Xbox 360 and PS3, Blanc is shorter than Noire and Vert and has the smallest bust size of the main quartet (which bothers her to no end). Meanwhile, Vert has the largest bust size since the original Xbox was one of the biggest consoles during its launch (hence the "XBOX HUEG" meme).
• Vitriolic Best Buds:
  • Noire often butts heads with Neptune when she's teased for being a friendless Tsundere, and Blanc is often enraged by Vert's jabs at her small chest, but the four are still very close-knit and face many challenges together.
  • The Ultra Dimension CPUs are overall more selfish and rude to each other compared to their Hyper Dimension counterparts, with Iris Heart being just as dangerous to them as she is to her enemies (such as using Noire, her childhood friend, as an outlet for her pent-up aggression), to the point of bordering on With Friends Like These.... That said, they still manage to be helpful allies to each other, courtesy of Neptune.
  • Also in Victory, Neptune invokes this with Noire and Blanc, as much as they try to deny it. Considering this is Neptune and Blanc and Noire constantly argue whenever they're together, it's not surprising.
• What the Hell, Hero?:
  • Neptune gets called out a lot in Victory, as a result of her unpleasant and apathetic behavior.
    • After abandoning her in the Ultra Dimension for an entire decade, Nepgear calls Neptune "stupid big-sister-who-abandoned-me-in-a-different-dimension".
    • Histoire has a much more scathing opinion of Neptune in the Japanese dialogue where she bluntly states that Neptune is absolutely unqualified to even be Nepgear's elder sister.
    • Neptune even calls herself out on it (very briefly though) when she claims that she fails as a big sister in the prologue. Nepgear however forgives her because they finally get to be alone together (even if it's just the prologue).
    • In true 4th-Wall-Breaking-Neptune fashion, she even goes as far as to use the trophy descriptions (in the original game) to apologize to Nepgear. That's some hardcore guilt.
  • In the same game, Noire gets chewed out by Neptune, who quickly and accurately figures out why Noire would suddenly be not only okay with, but actually encouraging, Plutia's transformation into Iris Heart.
• Worf Had the Flu: What happens when they’re low on Share Energy.
  • ASIC takes most of their shares, allowing CFW Magic to single-handedly wipe the floor with all of them at the start of mk2.
  • The slander of the CPU Shift Period in VII puts their Shares at an all-time low, leading to them getting trashed by Gold Third at the beginning of the Hyper Dimension G arc.

Neptune/Purple Heart/NEXT Purple

Neptune/Purple Heart/NEXT Purple

Parka Dress

^{Jersey Dress (Victory)}

^{Purple Heart (Purple Core)}

^{Purple Heart (Lost Purple)}

^{NEXT Purple (VII)}

Voiced by: Rie Tanaka (Japanese), Melissa Fahn (English)

The CPU of Planeptune, and the self-aware titular protagonist. She transforms into Purple Heart.

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General Tropes:

• A-Cup Angst: While Neptune normally doesn't mind her flat chest, likely because she's perfectly aware of how she looks while in HDD, there are moments where she acts like this.
  • In Re;Birth 1, when Younger and Older Brother begin to pretend she doesn't exist purely because she's flat, she's not above transforming to gain a bit of favor.
  • In Victory, she also reacts negatively when Vert mocks her by calling them raisins.
  Neptune: *mumble, grumble* I'll raisin your face...
  • In VII, she is shown to be quite relieved when she sees that her physically older Ultra Dimension counterpart grew in both height and bust size.
• Accidental Misnaming: Neptune's name is laughably unpronounceable by Compa and random NPCs until IF comes along and lampshades it. This is why she's nicknamed Nep-Nep early on. And those people, who cannot pronounce her name, can pronounce Planeptune totally fine, which doesn't make sense as IF lampshades this.
• All-Loving Hero: Neptune befriends everyone, she's got a big heart and she loves Nepgear.
• Braids of Action: Purple Heart mostly retains Neptune's hairstyle, but it grows out at the back and is tied into two long braids.
• Brilliant, but Lazy: Though she's the least active of the CPUs, she makes up for it by having wit and charisma, though most of the time she's a Know-Nothing Know-It-All.
  • In Victory, when she actually sets her mind to it she is incredibly productive, and at one point breaks down days into hours, minutes, and finally seconds and starts to try to calculate the difference for leap years over the difference in time flow between the two dimensions.
  • In the same game, child IF becomes impressed with her when she shows more of it. She managed to understand all the references IF made in her notebook, and showed quite a bit of knowledge that no one can be blamed for lacking such as the fact that Beelzebub is the demon of gluttony.
  • She also starts reciting pi in lieu of counting down from ten, and shows some political savvy every now and then.
• Cool Ship: One of her attacks transforms her into one. As a bonus, you can get Plutia to do it with her for a double helping of purple laser death... or at least its "dramatization".
• Childish Older Sibling: In the main games sans the first and spin-offs, Neptune is the older of the two Planeptune sisters; but not only does she look younger than Nepgear, she even behaves more childishly than her. This, however, only applies to her human form; her goddess form is a completely different story altogether.
• Cleavage Window: Purple Heart has much of her chest exposed.
• The Comically Serious: Despite being a Lady of War, Purple Heart still has many of Neptune's mannerisms, like loving pudding and getting Arfoire's name wrong.
• Contralto of Strength: Neptune's high-pitched voice drops down considerably whenever she transforms into Purple Heart, a Lady of War capable of cutting down waves of enemies.
• Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: Neptune's normally a Brilliant, but Lazy slacker who would rather goof around and eat pudding than due her job (much to the chagrin of Histoire), but when the situation calls for it, she becomes the serious, sword-wielding Lady of War Purple Heart.
• Does Not Like Spam:
  • Neptune hates eggplants, insisting that they're not "human food" and turn your eyes purple (Neptune has purple eyes, by the way). Even Purple Heart recoils from them. In Victory, Arfoire creates eggplant minions just to torment her, and then transforms into a giant eggplant monster... but by that point, it's becomes so absurd that Neptune stops caring. In Re;Birth 1, her loathing of eggplants returns from Victory despite not having any memory to remember she hates it. And IF and Noire exploit the hell out of it.
  • Unsurprisingly, Ultra Dimension Neptune also hates eggplants, even after they've been cooked. Interestingly, she didn't even know what an eggplant was, but practically vomited from a single bite.
• Friendlessness Insult: Neptune has a tendency to call Noire a "loner" due to her pompous Tsundere attitude. However, most of Neptune's comments come off as playful teasing and Noire herself actually does have friends, she just isn't really open about it.
• Fourth-Wall Observer: One of Neptune's most defining character traits. Being a Meta Girl and all, she makes no attempts to hide the fact that she's a character in a video game that specializes in the most common anime tropes, and is often the one to point out how the scene is going to play out or how weird everyone is acting. Granted, this is generally true to most of the cast, but they at least generally pretend they are not aware until they need to get her to stop it. It gets to an extent that she doesn't even consider alternate versions of any given character to be separate from themselves, as shown when she makes the claim of the group having defeated Afoire a billion times across the various games and anime releases.
• Genki Girl: By far the most cheerful, fun-loving and immature of the four main CPUs... at least when she's not transformed. Rie Tanaka admits that playing Neptune puts some strain on her voice.
• Gondor Calls for Aid:
  • In the original, Neptune wants the other goddesses to help, but they don't want to. She has to beat the crap out of them again to make them help.
  • A minor example occurs in VII when Neptune needs to find an obscure and borderline mythical item to heal Histoire. She stumbles upon Noire and Uni, and the other two CPUs soon follow into helping her out, this time with no petty infighting.
• Katanas Are Just Better: Neptune primarily uses katanas, but also has the option of Broadswords, and Laser Blades. Ultimately many will agree with this trope; turns come up sooner, gun attacks become stronger, and Purple Heart only uses katanas regardless of what she had equipped as Neptune.
• Lady of War: While Neptune is a total goofball, Purple Heart is much more mature, and wields her katana with skill and grace.
• Macross Missile Massacre: Her second EXE Drive "CPU Neptune", which sees Nep transforming into a Cool Ship. Her boss-enemy-only extension takes it a step further by delivering another payload.
• Magnetic Hero: Her friendly personality and strong will to help other people unites all four goddesses despite their hostile past of the Console War. The Ultra Dimension Makers also join her party because they are friends with the Neptune they met in Victory.
• Meaningful Name: Her name comes from the Sega Neptune, a failed Genesis/32X hybrid that was supposed to be an add-on to the Sega Saturn, but was never released to the public.
• Meta Girl: Neptune knows all the conventions of the RPG she's in, and often boasts about being the protagonist.
• Odd Name Out: She's the only one of the four goddesses who is not named after a color.
• Older Alter Ego: Neptune physically and mentally matures into a completely different person as Purple Heart.
• The Pollyanna: Neptune is a perpetually cheerful girl who always tries to make light of the situation.
• Purple Is Powerful: She’s got purple hair and eyes, with a particular emphasis on the color when transformed, and she’s quite strong in both of her forms. Has one of the highest strength stats in the game, and is the only character naturally able to surpass the damage limit.
• Rotating Protagonist: Despite her claim of being the protagonist of the series, this role has been shared with Noire, Blanc, Nepgear, IF, Plutia (who outright claims Neptune isn't the protagonist for Victory), Uzume, and even her alternate selves. Also Vert for one brief section of VII. Her Hyper Dimension version in particular takes offense to this, threatening to sue to developers for "Protagonist Fraud" at one point.
• Signature Hair Decs: Her personal class of head accessories is an arsenal of hair decorations, typically based on video games (such as her default D-Pad ones). She even fits the trope of "young girl with double hairclips".
• The Slacker: Would really like to just laze around playing games and eating pudding all day.
• Split Personality: Neptune is a Genki Girl, while her alter ego Purple Heart seems to be more of a Lady of War. While it's usually downplayed since Neptune and Purple Heart are the same person, in Re;Birth1 there are instances where Neptune is seen talking to Purple Heart, indicating that their different people.
• The Stoic: As Purple Heart, she becomes serious and calm, though she has her moments.
• Storm of Blades: Her "32-bit Mega Blade" SP Skill summons a large sword that she fires at her target. Several of her Combination Attacks will have her summon multiple copies of this sword.
• Sweet Tooth: While she's particularly vocal over her fondness of pudding, she loves eating sweets in general.
• Totally Radical: She tends to use some 80s/90s slang such as "bad dude", her death cry of "I'm... outies...", and even "totally rad" at one point. She also has a tinge of Valley Girl in her voice. Keep in mind that she is supposed to represent Sega, who were all about being Totally Radical in the 90s.
• Weak to Magic: Her low MEN makes her weak against magic attacks.
• Wooden Katanas Are Even Better: Her starting weapon. She found it in a dumpster. Still loves it.

Super Dimension Neptune (Hyperdimension Neptunia/Re;Birth1/reVerse)

• Amnesiac God: After she falls from Celestia, she’s left completely unaware of her identity as Purple Heart. Neptune remembers only her own name (and a few assorted foods), as well as how to fight, but nothing else. In Re;Birth1, she decides to stay an amnesiac because regaining her memories could make her regain the feelings she previously had towards the other Goddesses. In the original, however, she regains her memories and this allows her to remember the truth about why it all started. She stays pretty much the same though.
• Badass Boast:
  • Actually manages to pull a few off, the most notable also being the most hilarious.
  Neptune: One! A game goddess appears to rid the world of the wrong! Two! To rid the world of pirated copies! And three! To be rid of the grumpy old lady! I am Neptune, at your service!
  • In the True Ending, she, as Purple Heart, brags about herself before facing the Final Boss.
  Purple Heart: (English) "Who do you think I am? I am the main character of the game, Neptune!"
  Purple Heart: (Japanese) "Who do you think I am? I am the main character of main characters, Neptune!"
  • After Neptune shows off in Lowee and transforms, Purple Heart then comments that she should have done it in that goddess form.
• Cloudcuckoolander: It is shown throughout the game that her train of thought is not a sturdy one.
• Crunchtastic: She sometimes uses this, as seen with this line addressed to White Heart:
  Neptune: Seriously, what's up with you? You were super mad, and now you're all smirkalicious.
• Declaration of Protection: Neptune told Noire she wants to protect everyone in front of her, and would be happy just seeing the faces of the people she saved...and pudding.
• Drives Like Crazy: Took Compa as a passenger when they flew in goddess form to Lastation, and apparently traumatized the poor girl. The Barrel Roll, Cuban Eight, and Immelmann didn't help.
• Glass Cannon: Neptune is a pure physical fighter. She has one of the highest STR stats, has high AGI and VIT, a decent amount of HP and she possesses the Passive Skill Break Damage Limit, which allows her to deal damage past the 9999 damage per-hit cap. However, her INT and MEN stats are the lowest, which makes her not only weak against magic attacks, but her own magic attacks are rather weak as well.
• Heroic Safe Mode: Neptune goes on a fight-or-flight mode after her attempt to get the other goddesses to help her fight Arfoire.
• Hypocritical Humor: Though it might go unnoticed, Neptune told Compa that a character wielding a giant weapon is cliche...and yet her weapon as Purple Heart is a giant katana. Later on, Neptune herself can also yield swords twice her own size.
• If It's You, It's Okay: Neptune outright told Noire that, even though they're both girls, if Noire loves her, she'll accept her. Given this is Neptune, how serious she was is debatable.
• Instant Expert: Neptune can wield any weapon vaguely shaped like a sword. Even when she finds a bokutō in the dumpster, and has no memory of how to fight, she wields it flawlessly.
• In the Name of the Moon: One of Neptune's battle quotes in the first game is a parody of Sailor Moon's own line.
  Neptune: "Pretty and mysterious Neptune of love and justice! In the name of the Basilicom, I'll punish you!"
• Konami Code: Can occasionally be heard reciting part of this while using her first Limit Break, only to stop and decide that she has no use for codes anyway.
• Laser-Guided Amnesia: Loses her memories after falling from Celestia.
• Moeinvoked: IF calls her some sort of a "moe blob" in one of the cutscenes.
• No Sense of Personal Space: After seeing Black Heart in her human form for the first time, Neptune proceeds to hug Noire from the back, not knowing how embarrassed the latter feels.
• Pokémon Speak: Despite not being a Pokemon, Neptune engages in this.
  Compa:" We'll be serious, then! Go! Nep-Nep, I choose you!"
  Neptune: "Pika!"
• Porn Stash: When she thinks she's dead at the beginning of the game she despairs that she should have finished her game backlog and deleted her hard drive. When Histore tells her to calm down she asks how she can possibly stay calm when someone can see her "special" collections.
• Sword and Gun: Neptune seems to keep a sword and a gun on her, but we never see where she gets the gun. Her appearances in later games write out her handgun proficiency.
• Take a Third Option: Neptune does this as a result of losing her memory. Histoire offers to return it, but she decides not to, as she's gotten friendly with quite a few people with her new personality, and would rather not go back to her former self. She also does this when the other goddesses are debating the Deep Fry debate in chapter 8. None of them like her stance, and declare "war" on her as well.

Hyper Dimension Neptune (mk2/Re;Birth2, Victory/Re;Birth3, VII/VIIR, Sisters)

• Age Lift: While the original game put the Goddesses in the Really 700 Years Old range, this particular Neptune is at most pushing 100 thanks to her time in the Ultradimension, given that a child from Uzume's time as Planeptune's CPU is still around as an old man in VII.
• Aloof Big Sister: In Victory, for the most part, she doesn't seem to care what happens to Nepgear anymore. From everyone making fun of her, to Iris Heart torturing her right in front of everyone, even thinking its a suitable punishment, after Nepgear fought against her alongside Vert because the latter was actually giving her some sisterly attention. The Good Ending even has her leaving Nepgear in the Ultra Dimension when she makes it back to the Hyper Dimension and just spending her time sleeping with Plutia, taking a while to remember that Nepgear is trapped in the past. However, there are also several instances where she shows genuine regret over her treatment of Nepgear.
• Ascended Extra: A kind of weird example, since although the first game had another Neptune as the main character, this Neptune had only a supporting role in mk2, making Victory technically her first time in the protagonist role.
• Broken Pedestal: In Victory, Nepgear loses faith in her sister after she gets abandoned again. This is, however, after she manages to make it to the alternate dimension her sister is in...and her sister leaves her with babies to go to Leanbox.
• Brought Down to Normal: When she is sent into the Ultradimension, she loses her ability to transform into HDD. She initially doesn't mind, seeing it as freedom from being forced to work, but quickly realizes she doesn't like the full implications and decides to rectify it.
• Character Narrator: Noire even has to lampshade the fact that she's just mumbling to herself in Victory.
• Cool Ship: Neptune has the ability to transform into one for one of her special attacks.
• Covert Pervert: Even as Purple Heart, she couldn't resist peeking at the porn Steamax spread around.
• Deadpan Snarker: In mk2, she shows a sarcastic side when talking to Noire after she learns that she was voted the most popular in the other world.
  Neptune: I See. Even with Noire there it's bad times. Not even the great Popular Heart can help?
• Distracted by My Own Sexy: Her first reaction to seeing a clone of her Purple Heart by Ultra Dimension Rei is to fawn over how "good-looking" she is in her own HDD form.
  Neptune: Oh, wow! Who is this stylish, cool, beautiful girl!?
  Neptune: *with sparkling eyes* Still, I approve of me. I look pretty hot!
• Does Not Know Her Own Strength: When trying to keep Rei from running away because she didn't want to be lonely, she nearly chokes the poor girl.
• Dual Wielding: While this is a trait normally related to her counterpart, in her "Nep Nep Combination" Coupling Skill with Older Neptune this Nep gets in on the action by wielding dual-wielding her regular weapon and a smaller 32-bit Mega Blade for a brief portion of the combo.
• Duet Bonding: In mk2, when Neptune and Nepgear produce their Idol Singer video, the two are shown to be very close to each other.
• Dull Surprise: Invoked; she deliberately acts unsurprised when Ultra Dimension Vert reveals herself as Leanbox's CPU.
  Neptune: Oh my gosh. Impossible, you guys. Like seriously. Vert's the CPU of Leanbox? Mind: blown.
  Plutia: Neppy, you don't sound very surprised to me...
• Egopolis: In Victory, Neptune decides that Planeptune needs to have more things Nep, so she convinces Plutia to declare that the new national base measurement be based on Neptune's height (The Nep is equal to 146cm for those who are curious).
• Fanservice Pack: Over the Time Skip between mk2 and Victory, her Purple Heart form has grown in the right places, with her chest in particular being bigger than what it was in mk2 (and by extension the first game). This makes sense, as the Ultra Dimension disables the ability for Hyper Dimension CPUs to transform, and thus a foreigner CPU would need a CPU memory to regain their powers.
• Fastball Special: Neptune gets tossed by the three goddesses towards Nepgear in one of the endings.
• Fatal Flaw:
  • Pride, Pettiness, and Laziness. The first two are discussed shortly after Peashy is kidnapped by Anonydeath as the cause of the fight between the two. And while not directly stated, is implied to be part of the growing Sibling Rivalry with Nepgear.
  • Her laziness comes closer to being an Informed Flaw. While it is repeatedly said that she doesn't do much, it takes very little to actually get her working on anything. This is actually exploited by the Seven Sages.
• Growing Up Sucks: She really does not want to grow older. She admits that she'd likely be totally sexy if she grew up a bit (as proven by her adult self in VII), but she enjoys being young and adorable, and can get all the sexiness needed when she transforms.
• Healing Factor: She has the Regenerate passive as her final of three unlockable passives in VII, which restores 10% of her total health at the start of her turn. This pairs well with her strong defenses in this title to compensate for lower health.
• I Am Not Shazam: Neptune mentions this problem. She tries to teach the babies how to properly pronounce her name, and among their mistakes is Neptunia. She's actually fine with various nicknames just so long as they're not the localized English title of the game. Before anyone asks, this happens in both the Japanese and English audio tracks.
  Neptune: "I'm teaching these kids how to properly pronounce my name. It's important not to confuse my name with the title of the game, so this'll save me some trouble."
• Iaijutsu Practitioner: NEXT Purple's EXE Drive has her charge up her sword before unleashing a single slash that can reportedly cut through concepts.
• Immortality Seeker: She loses her powers upon first arriving in the Ultra Dimension. While initially glad to be rid of the responsibilities that come with being a CPU she decides that she wants to become one again due the fact that she doesn't want to start aging.
• Irony: The S32X Processor Unit is not one of hers, but rather Plutia's, despite being based on the system she was named for.
• Lightning Bruiser: In contrast to the previous games where she's a Glass Cannon, she's this in Victory even in her HDD form. Dishes out good damage, is the only one who can break the damage limit naturally, is a good tank, and moves pretty fast. She also has a large array of buffs that are useful, and she's got a lot of EXE Attacks. Her problem? She can't heal unless you use an item, she has problems dealing a lot of damage thanks to enemy traits that stops her from attacking at full power (even if Neptune has a bigger strength stat than Noire when they have the same levels), and not a lot of debuffs (which in this game, is pretty bad). Most tactics with the Optional Boss fights will involve her almost tanking instead of attacking while the rest of the characters wail on the enemy.
• Limit Break: This entry is notable in Neptune because she has so many of them—no less than fifteen. Neptune is the only character who gets two EXE Drives of her own, and she also gets Combination Attacks with nearly every single non-DLC character in the game — including being required for the single most overpowered one of them all: Guardian Force.
• Malaproper: She has a habit of screwing up common turns of phrase like saying that Nepgear is "wet behind the years" or that she's not about to "spin the bucket" after her crash landing on Ultra Dimension Noire. It goes well with her ditzy personality.
• Malicious Misnaming: In Sisters, her mispronunciation of Arfoire’s name gets increasingly ridiculous (and she continues to do it as Purple Heart, who had no issue getting her name right in previous games). Not that this Arfoire seems to care.
• Ms. Vice Girl: As shown in Victory, Neptune does not like working, gets easily riled up, is petty and a bit insensitive. However, she also knows when it's time to suck it up and do what she has to do, is very friendly to anyone who isn't murderously hostile, is easygoing, cheerful and optimistic, generally assumes the best of others and will become downright heroic when the chips are down. Sometimes it's hard to see because of her carefree approach to life and difficult personality, but Neptune keeps reminding you she's the protagonist for a reason.
• Multi-Melee Master: Thanks to the new gameplay mechanic "Final CPU Form", Neptune gets to use a BFS, a spear, an axe, a gunblade, an airplane, and a Power Fist.
• Mundane Utility:
  • In an optional mk2 scene, the CPU Candidates encounter Neptune in HDD form and assume trouble is afoot. Neptune then says that she transformed just to meet the height requirement of an amusement ride. Nepgear and Uni lampshade it. Even funnier, due to Purple Heart being a Lady of War, she doesn't share the same excitement as her human personality does, which makes the ride less enjoyable for her.
  • In the Revival Ending of VII, she decided to rapidly switch in and out of HDD to burn calories.
• Only Sane Woman: Surprisingly enough, she is forced into this role quite a lot in Victory. During story segments she's usually the one keeping a level head, and in a few comedy scenes she was made into the straight-man. This is a result of being The Older Immortal in a world where her juniors all have several hundred or thousand years less experience than her, and conflicting attitudes to match.
  Neptune: How did I become the only one with any common sense?
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business: During the Conquest ending, she completely drops her joker act and actually calls Nepgear by her full name instead of referring to her as Nep Jr.; understandable, since she is trying to convince Nepgear to kill her.
  Neptune: It's time to grow up, Nepgear!
• Piggyback Cute: After being forced by Plutia, Neptune (as Purple Heart) gives the former a ride on her back.
• Pillar of Light: The finisher extension of her "Neptune Break" EXE Drive is topped off by ramming the enemy into the ground at high speed and creating a huge cross-shaped pillar of purple power.
• Paper Fan of Doom: Her DLC weapon is of a giant paper fan she uses to strike enemies down.
• Shoot the Dog: In Victory, shortly after meeting up with Uni, Ram, and Rom, she tells Plutia to just go ahead and transform and do what she's going to do so as to avoid having her traumatize them in the middle of battle where it would cost them their lives.
• Sibling Yin-Yang: Her relationship with her sister Nepgear gets played up quite a bit. In addition to their personalities, there are mechanical and visual contrasts between them. Neptune naturally ignores the damage cap and enables her partner to ignore enemy traits, Nepgear naturally ignores enemy traits while granting her partner the ability to ignore the damage cap. On a tier by tier basis their HDD forms contrast each other with black and white color schemes.
• Slap-on-the-Wrist Nuke: The CPU Neptune attack has her transform into a spaceship, fly out into space, and then has the scene zoom out to show the entire landmass you're currently on before firing off a Wave-Motion Gun, destroying the entire thing. However there's a disclaimer down on the bottom of the screen:
  *This isn't actually happening.
• Skewed Priorities: In Sisters, her immediate concern with sleeping through two years is which games and tv shows she's missed.
• The Tease: Purple Heart gets touchy-feely with Steamax to stop him from getting away with the Swirl Console, continuing to flirt with him for fun until he faints from overstimulation.
• Tempting Fate:
  • In mk2, she promised Nepgear she'd never leave her again, and now she's Trapped in Another World.
  • She later worries that Mini-Histy will show up panicking about something terrible happening again, noting that it's becoming a pattern. She's proven right immediately after.
• Too Dumb to Live: According to the other CPUs anyway. When she starts to wonder where the Ultra Dimension Neptune is at they point out that, if the Ultra Dimension Neptune had the same general personality as the Hyper Dimension Neptune, she has very likely ended up starving herself to death or worse without the immortality from being a CPU. Hilariously enough, Ultra Dimension Neptune is not only alive and well in The Stinger of the True Ending. Not to mention, as Megadimension Neptunia VII reveals, she's the one who gets to solve the final problem about Croire without even knowing what was going on and just wanted to show it off to her friends in that dimension when she caught her.
• Trapped in the Past: What kicks off Victory's plot is that a dimension rift sucks Neptune into the 1980's.
• Wave-Motion Gun: Twice. The earliest is when using the "Who Done It?! Nova", a mixture of eye lasers and mouth beam from the Inafune Face Ship. The second is a Combination Attack with Plutia, "CPU: Plutia", in which whatever the hell the second part of their attack is is "dramatized" as a Gamindustri-destroying giant purple laser beam.
• The Wonka: Neptune is very eccentric, and others often find it difficult to keep track of her logic. Though she needs a little motivation first to get off her rear, she'll get pretty much anything done once she does.
• You Called Me "X"; It Must Be Serious: Neptune regularly calls Nepgear "Nep Jr.", but during the Conquest route, where Nepgear is ready to kill her sister with the Gehaburn, she tries to convince the latter to grow-up by using her real name.

Spin-offs and Other Media:

• Amnesiacs are Innocent: In RPG, after losing her memories, she is notably naive and easily tricked with promises of snacks.
• Awesome, but Impractical: In Game Maker, Little Neptune built a hybrid console/pudding maker. While it's certainly an interesting plan, being able to have a steady supply of a snack while gaming that you don't have to leave to go get, it is also incredibly unhygienic and gets pulled from stores almost immediately for being a health hazard. So unlike the other Goddesses' consoles requiring the Pirate Makers' sabotage to get the Gold Third to interfere with their distribution, Neptune screwed things up all on her own.
• Butt-Monkey: Poor Nep-Nep. She REALLY got the short end of the stick in Superdimension Neptune.
  • Her body is erased from time not too far in, she eventually merges with IF's bike, and it only goes downhill from there.
  • Neither IF nor Segami treat her well.
  • IF and Segami told Neptune that she's weak which Nep doesn't take criticism well because she likes to think that she's the "ultimate protagonist" when in truth IF is in that game.
  • Nobody likes Bike Neptune or her color scheme for that matter, in fact most of the characters, especially Segami, derisively call her "Crap bike!" Nepgear's nickname of "Maniacal Mechanic" isn't any more flattering.
  • IF and Segami telling Neptune to either shut up or to stop changing topics.
• Combat Medic: Her Paladin class in Cyberdimension gives her access to Sea of Healing to keep the party's health up, while also letting her dish out quite a bit of damage.
• Forced Transformation: The only way she's able to survive the Time Eater in Superdimension Neptune is by merging her soul with IF's bike.
• Jack of All Trades: In Cyberdimension, her class, Holy Knight, is noted to be skilled in pretty much everything combat wise.
• Magic Knight: Can use Fire, Ice, Wind, and Lightning magic alongside her physical fighting skills in Cyberdimension.

Ultra Dimension Neptune (Victory/Re;Birth3, VII/VIIR, Game Maker)

Warning: Due to the spoiler-heavy nature of this character, this entire section is Spoilers Off. You Have Been Warned!

^{Generator Unit (Game Maker)}

"Wow, you have 'Nep' in your name, too?! Crazy!"

Debuting in the True End of Victory, she is a bug catcher from the Ultra Dimension who captures Croire after mistaking her for an overgrown fly. She makes a proper appearance in the sequel Victory II, assisting Nepgear and Uzume in the Zero Dimension with her "Nep-Note", a special specimen book capable of sealing beings that catch her interest by shrinking them down to an appropriate size for the pages. While she is physically older than her Hyper Dimension counterpart, their personalities are quite similar, including fourth-wall breaking and an inability to pronounce Arfoire's name properly.

She doesn't make another appearance again until 8 years later with Game Maker R:Evolution, where she becomes the president/CEO of the Failure Goddesses' company. She also has her own processor unit in the form of the Generator Unit, which originated from the anime.

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• Ascended Extra: In a way, considering her first actual appearance in the series was during The Stinger of Victory.
• Bad Liar: When she deems Croire too dangerous to be let free of the Nep-Note, Croire retorts that Neptune really just wants to continue taking advantage of her dimension hopping. Neptune's denial of this is incredibly forced, as is her attempt to feign ignorance when Croire notes that she'd been sabotaging AffimaX.
• Badass Normal: Unlike the main Neptune, this one doesn't have the powers of a CPU at her disposal. Which makes the fact that she can fight toe to toe against both Vert and Nepgear all the more startling. In fact, one of her early-game weapons is a two-handed greatsword turned into a set of aptly-named Twin Blades, with the description suggesting that whoever is capable of wielding this thing is probably more terrifying than the weapon itself.
• Batman Gambit: In Game Maker she assigns Pippih the task of handling a talkshow appearance to help sell Mushikaiser over F-Sha's Elel Ring despite PR activities being Jagaa's job. Jagaa was seriously considering quitting Victory, fearing that Mushikaiser would not be able to even compete with Elel Ring, so having her handle it when her heart wasn't in it would've ruined things. Pippih on the other hand would completely botch the interview and debate even as early as the rehearsal due to her fear of public speaking and F-Sha would exploit that to make Pippih miserable in an attempt to put an end to Mushikaiser entirely, an action that would enrage Jagaa enough to have her step up to defend her friend and their game with extreme passion rather than abandon them. If any of that had played out any differently, Victory would have very likely ended up collapsing and Mushikaiser being guaranteed to be a failure. That this also resulted in F-Sha demanding a Maker's Duel with an end to her intentional In-Universe Dueling Works and information on the Cursed Discs and the Zaikopath on the line was a happy bonus.
• Brought to You by the Letter "S": "N" in her case after finishing her boss-exclusive Limit Break where the purple N shows up.
• Bug Catching: She was just a random girl who wanted to catch bugs when she caught Croire during The Stinger in Victory.
• But Now I Must Go: A Downplayed Trope. Having made Victory a successful company, successfully taught the Failure Goddesses how to run it and make good games, and recaptured Croire she decides it's time to leave for another dimension to continue her search for bugs. However, she does request that she get to keep Reedio's bike that she's been using the whole game as a roundabout way of getting a reason to revisit as the latter is the only one who can properly maintain the bike.
• Call-Back: Her gun is identical to the one used by her Super Dimension counterpart.
• Collector of the Strange: Her hobby is collecting rare and strange insects to study as specimens.
• Cool Bike: In Game Maker, she is given a bike that resembles the Nep Bike from Superdimension Neptune by Reedio. The opening scene has her crashing it through a window to protect the Failure Goddesses from F-Sha. She also uses this during gameplay when you need to travel, as well as a couple of racing minigames where you race to the finish line either against the clock or various enemies.
• Dimensional Traveler: Unlike other characters who largely wind up crossing dimensions by accident, she apparently does so routinely on her hunt for more things to add to her collection, though she's actually using her captive Croire to do so.
• The Drifter: Despite being from the Ultra Dimension, this Neptune doesn't call any place home and just goes from one to the next in search of new bugs, though she'll be willing to stop and help the people of whatever world she's ended up on.
• Dual Wielding: To further differentiate her from the normal Neptune, this Neptune wields two swords at the same time, although it turns out the other Neptune can also dual wield as shown in their Combination Attack but just chooses not to.
• Easily Forgiven: Sorta. Despite the trouble she caused throughout the Hyper Dimension G arc, Nepgear and the other Candidates save her from Arfoire, even before learning that she was a Fake Defector.
• Enigmatic Minion: Unlike the main Neptune who remains loyal to her friends despite her antics, this Neptune's true loyalty is somewhat confusing at times to say the least, and is frustratingly aloof to a great deal of characters. In the Heart Dimension H arc, it turns out that she has been siding with Hyper Dimension Neptune and her companions all along.
• Evil Wears Black: Her outfit is a black version of Hyper Dimension Neptune's, and despite starting out as an ally, she joins the antagonists midway through. However, she was secretly messing with their plans.
• Fake Defector: While on Kurome's side, she secretly undermines them by misplacing the millionth ran-pig for a mass sacrifice ritual and leaving the portal to Heart Dimension open. Unfortunately, the bad guys saw through her act from the start and attempt to kill her in the 3rd arc.
• Fighting Your Friend: Nepgear and Vert have to fight against her during Vert's story in the Hyper Dimension G arc.
• Friendly Enemy: After her casual greeting and providing a drink, it takes a moment for Vert and Nepgear to process her proclamation of having joined AffimaX and coming to fight them.
• Going Native: Game Maker's dimension is the first one she's even remotely treated as a home since leaving the Ultra Dimension. Though she does ultimately decide to move on, she makes sure to give herself a reason to constantly revisit unlike her one time trip back to the Hyper Dimension to drop Uzume off.
• Gratuitous English: In the Japanese dub, she says "Ride On!" when she gets on her Cool Bike.
• Hero of Another Story: She brings up events from other dimensions she's stopped by on occasion.
• Mundane Utility: The Nep-Note is capable of capturing any sort of creature of any size, draining out its power, and giving it to the wielder. Aside from a single use capturing a transformed Arfoire she's never been shown to use it to capture anything larger than a bug and the only power she's ever been shown to make use of is Croire's dimension hopping ability. Outside of that, she only ever makes use of it as a completely mundane bug specimen book. One might assume her combat style owes to drawing on some insects' Super-Strength, but she's capable of doing that without it in Game Maker where she loses not only Croire but the entire Nep-Note right away.
• Never My Fault: After learning that Arfoire tricked her, Uzume and Umio into feeding her their disliked foods so she could restore her strength and escape from the Nep-Note, Uzume and Umio berate themselves for being such picky eaters... while Neptune simply throws the blame on eggplants for tasting so bad.
• Non-Indicative Name: Officially she's known as "Adult Neptune" in Japan and both that and "Older Neptune" in English to distinguish her from the other Neptune, yet she is the younger one of the two and may not even actually be an adult in the first place.
• Obfuscating Stupidity: She's what happens when Neptune stops slacking off and starts to manipulate events to work out in favor for the heroes. Turns out leaving S-Sha's ritual one ran-pig short of the necessary million and leaving her and Kurome's escape portal open wasn't just her being careless. Unfortunately, both Arfoire and Kurome caught on to her by the early Heart Dimension arc. Meanwhile, Croire is very surprised at how manipulative this Neptune really is.
• One-Handed Zweihänder: Some of her weapons are meant to be used with two hands, yet she uses two with one hand each.
• Perky Female Minion: Despite helping Nepgear and Uzume fight Arfoire in the Zero Dimension, she later works with that same Arfoire under Kurome, but she remains as friendly as ever and was actually trying to sabotage their plans.
• Sealed Evil in a Can: Neptune owns such a can, which is a book that can capture a weakened enemy and use some of their abilities. It constantly drains the energy of its prisoners, but they can break out if they eat enough food. Sadly, this doesn't seem to have any applications in actual gameplay.
• She Is All Grown Up: Others mention that older Neptune is quite the looker. Neptune herself is quite happy to see how she'd look if she grew up.
• Skinship Grope: She was pretty taken with Vert's boobs when they were in a spa together, and took quite a bit of time feeling them up. Vert didn't mind though, and was in fact proud when she complimented them.
• Spanner in the Works: The first time she ever captured Croire, putting an end to her plans in Victory's Stinger, she was just some random bug hunting kid rather than one of the Goddesses or Makers she had been in conflict with previously.
• Summon Magic: Whereas other characters call forth mechas or weapons from out of nowhere, this Neptune can summon...a giant helping of pudding to flatten the enemy. Even more noteworthy is the fact that she brings out two giant spoons to replace her two swords for this one attack.
• Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: At the start of Game Maker, she jumps her bike and rams through a window to save the Failure Goddesses from F-Sha. While it first appears to have survived the stunt, a conversation while exploring the first dungeon reveals that she wrecked it and will have to wait for Reedio to finish repairing it before she can use it to speed up exploration.
• Suspiciously Similar Substitute: Much like Uzume towards Plutia, she plays the similar role like Peashy, despite the fact that she's not a goddess; although the execution is somewhat darker.
• Sword and Gun: A Call-Back to the first game's battle system, in which each of the 4 CPUs wielded a pistol alongside their melee weapon. In the case of adult Neptune, she mainly attacks with her dual swords, and uses her pistol only during special attacks.
• Sword Beam: Her Bash Slam and EX Line combo skills as well as her EXE Drive in Game Maker produce waves of energy from her swords for most of her ranged attacks.
• Sympathy for the Devil: In the VR segments, she expresses pity toward Kurome for being so obsessed with revenge and laments not being able to talk her out of it, but was happy when Uzume (who underwent a Split-Personality Merge in the Revival Ending) said that Kurome didn't dislike the time they spent together.
• Throwing Your Sword Always Works: Her "Nepnicle Combination" EXE Drive starts with her throwing her swords at the enemy, then close the range with pistol fire, before catching the swords followed by a multi-slash combo on the target. Finally she finishes it off with a final pistol shot.
• Token Evil Teammate: While she is not evil, her confusing loyalty makes it hard to pinpoint to whom she had sided with.
• Tron Lines: The blue lines on her outfit glow in the dark.
• Unwitting Instigator of Doom: She stumbled into Heart Dimension by accident and agreed to retrieve the Console for Kurome, then accidentally activated it while taking a closer look in town - leaving it in an alley for her counterpart to find while she ended up in Zero Dimension. Thus, her legitimate accidents set of the events of the game.
• Vague Age: By the official site's own admission, it's not clear whether she's an actually an adult or not.
• You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: After figuring out that Neptune has been sabotaging her plans, Kurome decides that Neptune herself has little value as long as they can take Croire away from her, and orders Arfoire to dispose of her. Fortunately for her, Uzume and the CPU candidates arrive just in time to save her.

Noire/Black Heart/NEXT Black

Noire/Black Heart/NEXT Black

^{Black Heart}

^{NEXT Black (VII)}

^{Ultra Dimension Noire}

^{Ultra Dimension Black Heart}

Voiced by: Asami Imai (Japanese), Erin Fitzgerald (English, first game - MegaTagmension), Erica Mendez (English, Cyberdimension onwards)

The CPU of Lastation who can't be honest with her feelings. She transforms into Black Heart.

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General Tropes:

• BFS: Black Heart's sword is about as large as her body.
• Butt-Monkey:
  • She's the prime target out of the main four for being the butt of jokes or bad luck. Even when finally getting to cosplay openly in VII, it gets ruined for her due to a partial Wardrobe Malfunction that she didn't notice, and unsurprisingly, she has the lowest LUK stat in the game.
  • Her Ultra Dimension counterpart isn't much better. A Running Gag throughout Victory has a character be introduced by falling on her, the first being Neptune, then Nepgear, and finally Yellow Heart, as well as being Iris Heart's favorite whipping girl. It's not to the extent of Nepgear, but it's still noticeable.
  • Even in her own game, she isn't safe. Almost every time a new character joins, there's a scene with her and said character where something embarrassing/humiliating happens to her.
• Character Catchphrase: Usually a variation of "Only does everything", which is a reference to how the PS3 was advertised. It's worth mentioning that as the games went on, she never says this phrase ever again.
• Closet Geek: She enjoys cosplaying and making costumes, though will deny this any time it's brought up.
• Cosplay Otaku Girl: She designs her own clothing, some of which is admittedly meant to be reminiscent of something or someone else. The default design is by her own admission what she imagined a CPU would wear before she ever even became one. Her Face Visor outright says it's intended for cosplay, which she doesn't do or anything.
• Dark Is Not Evil: Her main colour is black, and in spite of her arrogance, she's one of the main heroines.
• Expy: Somehow, Noire really resembles Azusa from K-On!. It's mildly implied that the resemblance was what inspired her to learn how to play a guitar. In the anime, Noire can be seen cosplaying as Azusa in a rapid-fire montage.
• Girlish Pigtails: Typical for a Tsundere, her hair is tied into two waist-length pigtails. Ultra Dimension Black Heart retains this hairstyle, and Hyper Dimension Black Heart gains two small tails as NEXT Black.
• It's All About Me: She's very full of herself when it comes to her status as a CPU. Her pridefullness is further emphasized by her Black Heart, who strives to be the best at anything.
• Jack of All Stats: The most balanced character in the game, being neither strong nor weak at anything. This makes her the perfect allrounder, since she can endure more than Neptune (especially against magic attacks) and Vert, while she can still deal a good amount of damage. Although her LUK is pretty lackluster.
• The Lancer: To the slacky, air-headed and energetic Neptune; Noire is more serious, level-headed and competent as a CPU. Also, Noire has problems with befriending people unlike Neptune.
• Loners Are Freaks:
  • Neptune constantly jokes that she has no friends. Noire panics any time she hears that, and tries to claim that she totally has friends to hang out with.
  • When the three other goddesses visit Lastation, Neptune introduces Noire by commenting that she has no friends. While IF reminds the group that Neptune is the only one saying that, the other goddesses comment that it wouldn't be surprising if it were true given Noire's personality.
  • Amusingly, in gameplay terms, Noire is the only goddess to not have any friendly relationship with any of the other goddesses in terms of Lily Rank. At least Vert and Blanc start off neutral and barely favorable to Neptune, respectively.
• Mystical White Hair: Her goddess form turns her hair white.
• Only Sane Woman: For the most part, Noire tends to be the most rational and level-headed CPUs, considering that the others consist of a Brilliant, but Lazy Genki Girl with a knack for smashing the fourth wall, a calm but easily angered bookworm who swears like a sailor, and a Gamer Chick who wants to claim the others sisters as her own. That's not to say Noire herself is immune from being out there, however.
• Raven Hair, Ivory Skin: Her followers consider her attractive due to having black hair and pale skin.
• Royal Rapier: Her weapon in human form are one-handed short swords.
• Tsundere: Type A. She cares a lot about her fellow CPUs, but she can't be upfront with it, especially toward Neptune. Because of this, Neptune has taken to calling her Ultra Dimension counterpart "Lonely Heart" whenever she falls into her Tsun personality.
• Vocal Evolution: Black Heart originally sounded about the same as Noire, but her voice got deeper after Victory.
• The Workaholic: Compared to the other goddesses, who would rather loaf around (Neptune), read and write novels (Blanc), or play games (Vert), Noire overworks herself to near death.

Super Dimension Noire (Hyperdimension Neptunia/Re;Birth1/reVerse)

• Blood Knight: The Re;Birth1 iteration of Black Heart seems to enjoy showing her moves a lot. Not only that, she is shown to have the most fun when fighting in comparison to the other three CPUs, and she is the only one of the four who is laughing during battles. And she does that a lot.
• Crutch Character: To an extent when she joins in Chapter 2. While the lack of a transformation stops her from adding too much firepower to the party, she comes with a level 2 EX finisher, some nice SP moves, a weapon with wide range and the fourth party member allows experimenting with partner setups.
• For Halloween, I Am Going as Myself: When Chian recognizes her as her goddess, Noire tells her that she is cosplaying herself, so she can keep her cover. Then, Noire tries Clark Kenting after that. Ganache and Singe can tell that she is not cosplaying.
• Faking Amnesia: She does this when she encounters Neptune as Noire, not wanting to reveal her identity.
• Hypocrite: After the Black Heart boss battle, Black Heart states that Neptune only won because it was a 3-on-1 as Purple Heart was backed by IF and Compa, before saying that 1-on-1, it would be a whole 'nother story. When the 4 CPUs were battling in the intro, Purple Heart was dominating the fight and it took Black Heart teaming up with Green Heart and White Heart in a 3-on-1 Enemy Mine against Purple Heart to get her out of the picture.
• Nice Girl: Tsundere personality aside, she's quick to help anyone in danger and is one of the most selfless members of the cast. She spends the most time making sure her nation is well off before eventually joining the party.
• Put on a Bus: After her chapter is finished, she leaves the group for a long time. Though the in-game explanation is that she has to take care of the issues plaguing Lastation, the other two goddesses join your group and oddly enough stick with you despite having just as big of a problem to take care of in their lands. Then you remember Noire doesn't really have a trustworthy subordinate to take care of matters, unlike Vert who has Yvoire and Ran-Ran, and Blanc who has Financier. Consider, also, that Avenir actually put their people in the Basillicom, and they're the problem Noire's trying to solve.
• Reasonable Authority Figure: Which is why Avenir had to fill her Basilicom with Obstructive Bureaucrats to stop her interfering.
• Revolvers Are Just Better: Her pistol of choice.
• So Long, and Thanks for All the Gear: When Noire joins the party in chapter 2, she will leave at the end... taking any items you equipped along with her. Thankfully, she rejoins the group later on, and thanks to thoughtful item distribution she can only be equipped with one item that cannot be replaced.
• Wake-Up Call Boss: Black Heart in Chapter 2. It doesn't help that you fight her immediately after another boss with no chance to heal or save. She is actually pretty standard for a boss, and players who know what they are doing can beat her a few levels under par.
• What You Are in the Dark: Has an opportunity to finish off an amnesiac Neptune, and even considers it for a moment. She discards the idea quickly as such a thing is beneath her. While she is sincere in having a "friendly" challenge against Neptune rather than wanting to outright kill her, if the player loses it is still a game over.
• Willfully Weak: While pretending to be an amnesiac, Noire refuses to use her HDD form.

Hyper Dimension Noire (mk2/Re;Birth2, VII/VIIR, Sisters)

• Alcohol Hic: Her bonus dialogue's first Other option in VII has this happen to her.
• Can't Hold Her Liquor: In one of her voice clips in VII, she can't hold her Root Beer of all things. Combined with Drowning My Sorrows due to having (supposedly) no friends.
• Even the Girls Want Her: K-Sha most certainly does, at least.
• Heroic Suicide: In the Conquest Ending, once she gives up on trying to take Gehaburn from Nepgear, she simply tells Nepgear to hold the sword still... then impales herself, kicking off the bloodbath necessary to prepare Gehaburn for slaying Arfoire.
• Kindhearted Cat Lover: In VII, she befriends a cat early on in her Hyper Dimension G Arc that helps her out several times, such as tricking soldiers looking for her away by making them think it was the source of the noise they heard. K-Sha names it "Blanc", to both Noire and Uni's worry.
• Oblivious to Love: In VII, she never figures out K-sha's in love with her before the later outright confesses to her. Uni compares her to a harem protagonist.
• Power-Strain Blackout: After protecting a group of evacuating mine workers Noire collapsed due to her Share Energy being really low.
• She Is Not My Girlfriend: She tries to claim to K-Sha that she's not in love with her, but K-Sha doesn't agree and Noire has to resign herself to accepting this as part of being her "close friend".
• Sour Outside, Sad Inside: In Sisters, when the party first encounters her, she occupies herself with work, refuses to help save Planeptune, and barely bats an eyelash at her sister returning after 2 years. Deep down, she's actually quite distraught about Neptune's disappearance

Ultra Dimension Noire (Victory/Re;Birth3)

• Everyone Has Standards: As much as she and Blanc butt heads, even she was appalled when Plutia admitted that she (initially) befriended Blanc just to make her cry more later.
• Kick the Dog: She unleashed verbal hell on and demanded an apology from the de-powered and emotionally broken Blanc. This happened right after the latter was publicly defeated, humiliated and betrayed on national TV and finally had her nation seized from her in a political coup. This causes Neptune of all people to step in to prevent her from raining any more abuse on Blanc. When the latter finally cracked and broke down into a crying mess, Neptune makes it clear that she's very upset with Noire.
  Neptune: You've done it again. I'm telling. Teacher, Noire made Blanc cry!
• Mad Libs Catch Phrase: Phrase Catcher variant: Noire is ___ Heart. Inserting words poking fun at her supposed lack of friends or attitude problems. Lonely Heart being one of the more common ones.
• Madness Mantra: After a few hours of Iris Heart giving "her most popular lecture", she comes out of the room babbling like a broken record. It actually continues onto the CPU Hotel and Basilicom maps if you try to talk with her there, your save files for that portion of the story, and finally ends shortly into the next story event involving her.
  Noire: "I AM GOING TO LOWEE. I AM GOING TO LOWEE. THEY WILL HEAR ME COMPLAIN DIRECTLY. IN LOWEE. TO LOWEE... I AM GOING... COMPLAIN DIRECTLY...GOING AND GOING AND GOING AND GOING AND GOING AND GOING AND..."
  Noire: "I WILL GO TO LOWEE. I WILL SAY MY COMPLAINTS DIRECTLY TO HER. GO TO LOWEE. GO TO. GO. TO. GO... GO TO. GO. TO. GO..."
• Make an Example of Them: Fires a Lastation Soldier because he didn't completely listen to a report.
• Mean Boss: As Black Heart, she commands her soldiers in a rather harsh way and threatens to fire them if they mess up at their job.
  Black Heart: (during a report of someone attacking Lastation) You certainly know the foe's number and the scale of damage…?
  Lastation Soldier: Oh, no, sorry… I… uh… didn't listen to the whole report.
  Black Heart: As soon as we're done here, this guy's fired.
• Motor Mouth: When she realizes that she's about to become a landing pad for the third time, courtesy of Yellow Heart.
• Straight Man: Much to her eternal chagrin, she has to play this role for the two Plucky Comic Reliefs, Neptune and Plutia, who seem to see their adventure as an opportunity to set up a three CPU comedy act while she desperately tries to take their mission seriously and keep things on track. She even explicitly tries to pass the role of straight man off to Blanc at one point. Blanc refuses, however, preferring to be, as she puts it, an audience member.
• Suspiciously Similar Substitute: She ends up playing the same general role in this game as IF did in the previous games. Blanc points this out in Chapter 8, though from her perspective it's the other way around, by calling IF Noire-II.
• Suspiciously Specific Denial: She's not lonely, not at all.
• Thousand-Yard Stare: Her eyes become blank after her "long, intimate discussion" with Iris Heart at the start of chapter 3.
  Neptune: Noire?! Your eyes are staring way beyond the horizon...

Spin-offs and Other Media:

• Magically Inept Fighter: One of the two playable characters in Cyberdimension that don't have elemental or magic based skills.
• Mistaken for Spies: In Super Neptunia RPG, while searching the Ancient Archive in Lowee, she gets captured and is seen as a spy for the Resistance.
• Sweet Polly Oliver: In one Hyperdevotion CG scene where she is portraying a male character in a play, she is very handsome.
• Through His Stomach: In the non-canon CD If A Goddess Was Your Wife CD Track 02 - Noire, one of the things Noire's husband enjoys most is her cooking.

Blanc/White Heart/NEXT White

Blanc/White Heart/NEXT White

^{White Heart}

^{NEXT White (VII)}

^{Ultra Dimension Blanc}

^{Ultra Dimension White Heart}

Voiced by: Kana Asumi (Japanese), Wendee Lee (English)

The normally soft-spoken, yet surprisingly ill-tempered CPU of Lowee. She transforms into White Heart.

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General Tropes:

• A-Cup Angst: Her petite figure and small breasts, which stay the same in HDD, is a sore spot, especially when teased by Vert. Can actually double as a reference to how Nintendo is frequently derided as kiddie trash, while the Playstation and XBox counterparts are more heavily stacked (especially the XBox) since they're the more "cool and mature" consoles.
• Badass Bookworm: In her spare time, she references reading a lot, and has even written some embarrassing novels in her spare time. When in battle, she becomes a Blood Knight wielding a giant weapon, pounding her enemies to the dust.
• Berserk Button:
  • Commenting on her small breast size in a derogatory manner is a sure way to set off Blanc, especially since the person doing it is Vert, who takes pride in her buxom figure. These outbursts mostly range from her threatening to kill the person who insulted her to straight-up beating them up, though the latter is less common to happen as Blanc usually holds herself back from any forms of violence.
  • She'll also get greatly upset if her books were to be messed up in any way, usually by Ram and Rom drawing on them. A notable example would be in VII, where she becomes enraged when she finds out that her twins were sketching on her novels without her knowing in order to snap C-Sha out of Kurome's brainwashing. Unlike the first one, she doesn't react as violently as she doesn't want to hurt her sisters, but that doesn't mean she won't angrily scold them for doing so.
• Beware the Quiet Ones: Blanc is normally quiet, calm, and bookish, but she is prone to anger, has a potty mouth, and as White Heart, is brutish and crude.
• Blood Knight: Out of the main CPUs, Blanc is the most eager to get into battle, especially as White Heart. As displayed through her voice lines, she really enjoys getting into a fight and is quick to resort to violence at first whim. In Re;Birth1 though this only applies to her White Heart; Blanc claims, by statement of admission, that she prefers negotiation over fighting.
• Brutish Character, Brutish Weapon: She wields a hammer or an axe depending on her current form, which matches her tough personality.
• Cluster F-Bomb: She can be prone to spewing f-bombs from time to time. In Re;Birth1, she hilariously wins the Q&A contest between her and fake Blanc precisely because of this. She also gets mad at Financier for asking embarrassing questions about her novel writing, which fake Blanc revealed to them earlier.
• Comical Angry Face: Whenever she gets very angry (which is often), her face will be shadowed over with a single glowing red eye.
• Glacier Waif: She has a petite body and is rather slow, but that doesn't stop her from wielding an oversized weapon.
• Glowing Eyes of Doom: Her eyes glow red when she's really angry.
• Gratuitous German: Her attacks are in bad German.
• Hair-Trigger Temper: Blanc normally sounds quite sedate, but it doesn't take much to send her into a profane fury.
• An Ice Person: Most of her elemental Combo and SP Skills are Ice-based, which is fitting given Lowee tends to be located in a northern and snowy area.
• Idiot Hair: Has a large string of hair as White Heart, though she isn't stupid to the least.
• Lady Swears-a-Lot: Despite representing the family-friendly Nintendo Wii, she has quite the potty mouth whenever she gets mad, or is simply transformed.
• Most Fanfic Writers Are Girls: Her hobby is writing light novels, and one of her aspirations in life is to get the Gamindustri Amateur Writer's Prize.
• The Napoleon: The shortest and most temperamental of the four main CPUs.
• Never Bareheaded: All her incarnations wear a hat, possibly influenced by Lowee's perpetual snowfall. White Heart doesn't, but NEXT White gains a cap... which is blown away by her EXE Drive.
• Not So Stoic: Most of the time, Blanc appears to be calm, serious and emotionless on the outside, but she gets angry very easily and often explodes out of rage.
• Pretty in Mink: Her coat has sleeves trimmed with brown fur.
• Red Eyes, Take Warning: When she's extremely angry, her face is obscured by shadow to highlight a glowing red eye. Her transformation into White Heart also gives her red eyes and far less inhibition with her temper.
• Silk Hiding Steel: She does her best to appear proper and ladylike, but her White Heart form is violent, foul-mouthed and tomboyish, and even in her civilian form she has a noticeable temper.
• The Stoic: Blanc is normally calm and inexpressive, often serving as the more logical member of the group... just as long as you don't make her mad.
• Stone Wall: Her offense is only decent, but thanks to her high HP, VIT and MEN stats and her Physical Resist + and Magic Resist + skills, she can take a serious beating, more so than most other physical attackers. Which is rather appropriate for the character representing the infamously durable Nintendo consoles. But she is also the slowest character.
• Sugar-and-Ice Personality: She's mostly either calm or pissed off but she has a soft side.
• Tomboyish Voice: Blanc's normally soft tone gets aggressive and vulgar once she's mad, which becomes her default tone as White Heart.
• Token Wholesome: A-Cup Angst aside, she is the only CPU to not wear revealing clothing in HDD, having a leotard that covers up her aside from her back.

Super Dimension Blanc (Hyperdimension Neptunia/Re;Birth1/reVerse)

• Ain't Too Proud to Beg: Outright begs Neptune and the others to help save Lowee. Keep in mind, this includes two Goddesses she had been at war with for centuries. Although she refused their help at first.
• Bad Butt: In the beginning of the game; mercifully, Blanc never refrains from using her very colourful vocabulary afterwards.
• Crack Pairing: Neptune suggests that maybe Blanc has a thing for Compa, just because Blanc was complaining that Neptune doesn't get upset over being insulted like Compa would.
• La Résistance: Leads one to regain her nation from Conversation/Arfoire.

Hyper Dimension Blanc (mk2/Re;Birth2, VII/VIIR, Sisters)

• Anger Born of Worry: In VII's Hyper Dimension G Arc, she gets separated from Ram and Rom after the Cosmic Retcon, and joins a hunter guild that they're also part of in the hope that she'll run into them. When she finds them just in time to save them from a monster they couldn't handle, she chews them out for putting themselves in such danger in the first place.
• Fangirl: Surprisingly, as shown in mk2, she's a huge fan of Falcom, even asking for her autograph.
• Embarrassing Nickname: She dislikes C-Sha calling her "Blanny" (Blanc-chan in Japanese) and their team the "Golden Pair", though she warms to both over time. The Nepstation at the end of the G arc has Neptune teasingly using the former over and over again until Blanc threatens to [word banned on Nepstation] her if she doesn't shut up.
• Go Out with a Smile: During the Conquest Ending. After getting run through with the demon sword, she smiles and comments on how it hurts less than she expected, before breathing her last.
• Let's Get Dangerous!: Once you get Lowee's shares to 50% and go into the city, she immediately greets Nepgear by saying she'll get serious.
• Mama Bear: In addition to being a protective older sister to Ram and Rom, Blanc is shown to be protective of her nation, acting like a Parental Substitute to all of her citizens (especially children), or at least the ones who aren't backstabbing Jerkasses. As such, it's never a good idea to insult her nation, lest you want a giant hammer (or axe) thrown at you.
• My God, What Have I Done?: Being an Unwitting Pawn and having a new friend think you're a traitor tends to do that. She planned to break into the Basilicom with Rom and Ram to get C-Sha out as penance, but she had to scrap that when the monsters started attacking and leave it to Financier.
• Odd Friendship: Much like the previous games, she and Neptune get along quite well despite the large contrast in their personalities. She also develops a similar, if more one-sided vitriolic on her end, with C-Sha.
• See You in Hell: In the side event mentioned in Decided by One Vote, Blanc says that she will follow Underling to hell for the vote that will make her the most popular of all the CPUs.
• Talk to the Fist: When she finally has enough of Azna=Leb's talking, she decks him in the face. She also does it to the possessed C-Sha to snap her out of it.
• Unwitting Pawn: She's used by a Lowee Corrupt Politician to reveal C-Sha is the source of the fog that empowering monsters around the nation and get her captured by the Revolutionary Army. She is pissed when she finds out.
• Wave-Motion Tuning Fork: Her NEXT Form's EXE Drive caps off with a large cannon that blows her hat off.
• Weaksauce Weakness: Due to her abysmal magic defense, magic attack drops her very quickly. This makes the start of her chapter a bit like Luck-Based Mission.

Ultra Dimension Blanc (Victory/Re;Birth3)

• Because You Were Nice to Me: Implied to be the reason she's so fond of Plutia.
• Break the Haughty: She challenges Neptune, Noire and Plutia to a televised 3-on-1 to prove herself as the only worthwhile CPU. What instead goes public is her losing the battle, and consequently Lowee's faith, her CPU powers, and Lowee itself as Mister Badd overthrows her. When Noire rubs in how her arrogance caused all this, she finally bursts into tears.
• Bruiser with a Soft Center: As Iris Heart points out, she acts aggressive and hostile, but is actually shy and insecure.
• Defeat Equals Friendship: Summed up by Iris Heart easily when they're in prison after defeating Blanc due to Mister Badd, although this might just be Plutia's way of making up to her over the humiliation of being defeated in combat on live TV that essentially stripped her of all her faith and forcibly reverting her into a powerless girl.
  Iris Heart: Let me get to my point. We will be your friends.
• Defrosting Ice Queen: Throughout the game, she gradually opens up to the other CPUs.
• Didn't Want an Adventure: While imprisoned with the others she reveals that, like Plutia, she never intended to become a CPU and became one by accident.
• Good Is Not Soft: Just like Iris Heart, just because she's a good guy, doesn't mean she'll show mercy to an enemy.
• Heroic BSoD: For a brief period after she gets beat up by Neptune, Noire, and Plutia live on camera.
• Humanizing Tears: Having suffered a humiliating defeat against the other goddesses and being insulted by Noire, she immediately drops her cold and hostile attitude and breaks down crying. It's later revealed by Iris Heart that her abrasive behavior was just a facade.
• Hypocritical Humor: She says that Noire has a short fuse... while simply looking at Blanc funny can piss her off.
• I Hate Past Me: She's ashamed of her past self for acting like she was the only worthwhile goddess who didn't need any friends, especially when she sees similar behavior from Rei.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: A Downplayed example. This Blanc is more openly rude and hostile than the Blanc from the Hyper Dimension, but is also friendlier and more openly sociable once she opens up to the others.
• The Older Immortal: When it comes to the main Goddesses of the Ultra Dimension, Blanc is the oldest, having been a CPU for several centuries, while Vert, Plutia, and Noire have only been a CPU for a few years (bordering on decades). The audience and cast are constantly reminded of her age by her habit of referring to the other Goddesses as "brand-new baby CPUs", "newbie", or anything referring to how much younger than her they are. Her age, however, is nothing compared to Rei...
• Red Is Violent: One of the most noticeable design differences with her Super and Hyper Dimension counterparts is that she has red in her robes and her HDD form has red highlights. This also highlights her aggressive attitude.
• Sour Outside, Sad Inside: She acts aggressive and hostile to cover up her insecurities.

Spin-offs and Other Media:

• The Red Mage: In Cyberdimension, she uses both healing/support spells (such as buffing team offense or defense) and elemental spells (of the fire, ice, lightning, and wind varieties.
• White Mage: In Super Neptunia RPG, her weapons, specifically her hammers, typically have healing or defensive skills.

Vert/Green Heart/NEXT Green

Vert/Green Heart/NEXT Green

^{Green Heart}

^{NEXT Green (VII)}

^{Ultra Dimension Vert}

^{Ultra Dimension Green Heart}

Voiced by: Rina Sato (Japanese), Tara Platt (English, first game - Re;Birth3), Carrie Keranen (English, VII onwards)

The busty, (seemingly) refined CPU on Leanbox. She transforms into Green Heart.

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General Tropes:

• Big-Breast Pride: She's quite boastful about being the most well-endowed of the CPUs in their default states, taking particular joy in mocking Blanc for not getting any bigger even after transforming. This leads to frustration for Ultra Dimension Vert when the even bigger Yellow Heart shows up, even wanting to kill her just so she can reinstate herself as the largest bust.
• Blow You Away: Her elemental Combo and SP Skills tend to default to Wind-based attacks, which fits with her color choice.
• Boobs-and-Butt Pose: Her victory pose in HDD.
• Comedic Lolicon:
  • There are several scenes in VII that show her interest in the candidates, including Rom and Ram, isn't exactly platonic.
  Vert: I can't stand this slightly immoral feeling exuding from those immature, soft bodies wrapped in those naughty, adult costumes!
  • This is carried over in Cyberdimension, albeit aimed at Bouquet this time. Notably, there's a scene where Vert starts audibly drooling and panting at the idea of getting to spend time with Bouquet.
• Edible Theme Naming: Several of her attacks and skills are named after types of tea, like "Darjeeling Red" and "Assam Link".
• Formal Characters Use Keigo: Vert speaks in a highly formal manner, using the pronoun "watakushi'' and ending many sentences with "desu wa".
• Fragile Speedster: Her AGI, TEC and LUK are pretty high, and she possesses the Passive Skill Cooldown Reduction to decrease her wait time, but her low HP and VIT hamper her durability.
• Hair Intakes: Gains small intakes as Green Heart.
• Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: Played with. Her blonde hair has remained consistent in her human form, and how nice she is depends on the universe.
  • In every other dimension, she has a motherly and regal-like exterior, but Beneath the Mask she's a haughty, perverted, sister-obsessed Gamer Chick. However, she does mean-well deep down, and would put her desires aside when the situation calls for it.
  • In the Super Dimension, she's a hedonistic but friendly girl whose worst sin is being rather demanding when playing co-op, and later on develops into a more responsible leader of her nation. She even confesses that she doesn't actually care about the Console Wars, and only fights to keep her Shares up.
  • In MegaTagmension, she's a full on Nice Girl who is friendly to everyone she meets, not once teasing Blanc about her bust size (and when she does it's about her writing) or chasing after the Candidates, instead serving as the Shipper on Deck. In fact, she goes along with their goals.
  • In RPG, she's also friendly to Neptune, Noire and Blanc when they first meet her, but that was the result of the collective amnesia they all suffered through.
• Hikikomori: Vert often shuts herself in for days on end to focus on gaming. In Sisters, while most of the world has been reduced to this in the face of the Trendi Phenomenon, Vert was already such a shut-in that her Basilicom has a hidden passage just to deliver food and drinks to her so she won't have to leave.
• Lady of War: Her calm personality, formal speech pattern, majestic appearance and strong offensive power makes her this.
• Ms. Fanservice: She has the largest bust among the four CPUs, and her HDD shows off much more skin than anyone else's.
• Otaku: She loves video games, anime, manga and movies. Most of the time, she is talking about stuff related to them.
• Phenotype Stereotype: She is a busty blue-eyed blond representing America's Xbox 360.
• Siblings Wanted: One of her most defining traits is a desire of wanting a sister (or sisters) of her own, due to being the only CPU without one. She is very open about her fixation towards the other Candidates, particularly Nepgear.
• Stripperiffic: Her HDD outfit is consistently the most revealing of the four, including her NEXT Form and Ultra Dimension counterpart.
• This Is a Drill: Green Heart's spears can transform into these.
• Underboobs: On display as Green Heart.
• Vapor Wear: There's clearly no room for a bra under that dress.
• Yaoi Fangirl: Her Basilicom is filled with erotic magazines and posters of naked, muscular men. It's a rude awakening for any man who wants to ask her out.

Super Dimension Vert (Hyperdimension Neptunia/Re;Birth1/reVerse)

• Brought Down to Normal: Very temporarily, when Conversation/Arfoire stole her powers.
• Cowardly Lion: After losing her powers, she hides in her room and plays games all day, despite swiftly proving she was perfectly able to help herself when the party gets involved. When Arfoire calls her on this at the climax, she calmly admits its true, but has resolved to not be so weak again.
• Cross Player: In the game "Four Goddesses Online", she is stated to play a male character.
• Genre Savvy: Comes with being an avid gamer in-universe. After being chased away by Blanc/Lady White Heart, they met with the leader of the rebels against Lady White Heart who is none other than Blanc herself. While everyone else was confused, she immediately knew that the one they are speaking to is the REAL Blanc/Lady White Heart and the one they met before was a fake. A plot-twist that most seasoned gamers would recognize.
• Heavy Sleeper: When you see Green Heart for the first time, she's just waking up and goes back to sleep while IF was talking with her. A funny nod to the "Red Ring of Death".
  Vert: Most people speak like you at first... but... I don't like... bald people...
• The Hedonist: Green Heart is not just a gamer girl but also a hedonist. Most of her blog talks about her recent parties and the banquets she had.
• Marshmallow Hell: Vert to IF, twice. The first time gets its own CG image as she hugs her during a chapter break. The second time, Vert takes advantage of a cramped space to deliberately smother IF in her chest. IF spends the rest of the scene with a dopey expression and lovehearts pouring out of her head.
• The Nicknamer: She doesn't create them herself, but she picks up upon nicknames Compa assigns characters, and enjoys using them as a means to be less formal.
• The Smart Girl: She is the goddess who always figures quickly out what is going and is very smart. Makes sense, since she's more a magical fighter, thus her INT (intelligence) is much higher than of the other three goddesses.
• The Tease: Loves to fluster IF. She's fairly mild about it, but that's only because of how easy it is for her to press IF's buttons.
• Victoria's Secret Compartment: Played for Laughs with Vert. When given a heat pack to help with Lowee's climate, she puts it "between [her] endowments" and goes back to hugging IF.

Hyper Dimension Vert (mk2/Re;Birth2, VII/VIIR, Sisters)

• Ambiguously Gay: On the one hand, she's definitely fixated on Nepgear in a way that's implied to go beyond just wanting her as an adorable little sister (but only if Nepgear consented). On the other hand, she's Not Distracted by the Sexy when Dogoo Lady attempts to use a "sexy pose" to distract her and Nepgear during their fight and is more confused than anything.
• Cosplay Otaku Girl: Forces Nepgear to wear her costumes in her mk2 ending.
• Determinator: Takes a lot of punishment before she finally is killed in the Conquest Ending.
• Disappointed by the Motive: When she and Nepgear confront S-Sha in Leanbox's Golden Summit to hear her motives, S-Sha explains that she suffered an accident while filming a movie... and initially stops there. Vert rants about S-Sha getting her hyped up for nothing until Nepgear insists on letting S-Sha continue.
• Horned Humanoid: NEXT Green has a unicorn-like horn on her forehead.
• Mercy Kill: During the Conquest Ending route, she requests Nepgear to finish her off with the cursed sword since she has no hope of surviving after the beating Linda gives to her.
• Nose Bleed: Vert gains a new sprite in VII that depicts her nose bleeding, often the result of her obsessing too much. This is definitely indulged when she sees the Steamax x Affimojas ship.
• Onee-sama: Nepgear points out that she is the one most like a big sister among the goddesses, and that it's rather ironic considering she actually has no real sisters. Vert explains that it's merely because she had to keep the other three in line.
• Skewed Priorities: After Gamindustri's rewrite, one of her first actions was making sure her games' save files were intact. Later, Nepgear is appalled when she requests a bunch of games from S-Sha as a reward for capturing the Demon King instead of asking for her nation back.
• Suspiciously Specific Denial: In VII, she claims her wish to S-Sha to order her every single game in Gamindustri complete with pre-order DLC was just her idea of a joke when Nepgear reminds her she was supposed to use it to take back Leanbox while nervously playing it off.
• Yank the Dog's Chain: In Sisters, Vert finally gets a "little sister" in Aneeta Job, a rogue AI turned Vtuber, and both are quite happy with the relationship. The True Ending has Nepgear delete the entire timeline by way of a massive paradox with Aneeta and Ziri's help in order to stop Arfoire, meaning the two never met to start that relationship.

Ultra Dimension Vert (Victory/Re;Birth3)

• Cain and Abel and Seth: While not Nepgear's true sister (except by her own logic), Ultra Dimension Vert plays this trope up when she makes Nepgear a CPU, claiming her as her little sister. It's mostly played for laughs.
• The Conqueror: Vert, this time around, plans on invading other countries to solve her country's problems.
• Disproportionate Retribution: The reason why she wants to kill Yellow Heart? The latter has a bigger rack than her, feeling as though her status as the most voluptuous CPU was taken away from her. Blanc also follows suit, albeit for a different reason.
• Foreshadowing: Only MMO shut-ins with no lives could get a CPU Memory indeed.
• I Take Offense to That Last One: In one of the Nepstation segments, there was a scandal involved with her photo shoot revealing her three sizes and her age. The one thing she was complaining about? Her public age revealed.
• Ma'am Shock: If Yellow Heart having a larger bust than her hadn't already angered her enough, she then proceeds to address her as "Mommy". Meanwhile, Noire and Neptune can barely contain their laughter. She was later concerned that Peashy might call her this again when they're testing if she remembers their names.
• Mistaken for Gay: Her quick attachment to Nepgear raises several eyebrows, but she insists that it's platonic. She actually wants a little sister.
• Never My Fault: During the True End both Verts fight over who gets to be Peashy's "big sister" at what times. When she snaps at the two of them for it, each Vert insists that it was the other's fault for making Peashy upset with them.
• Noblewoman's Laugh: On at least one occasion, she displays this, which is honestly quite expected.
• Secret Identity: When Neptune reveals that she knows who she is, Vert pulls her aside and orders her to keep it to herself so as to not ruin it for the people on the other side of the screen and because a maiden has to have her secrets.
• Sore Loser: She reacts extremely poorly to her and Purple Sister being bested by the other goddesses, complete with a CG of her bawling her eyes out. The other CPUs even call her out for just how sore she is as a loser.
• Spanner in the Works: Mr. Badd's plan to be rid of the goddesses went perfectly. The only thing he couldn't foresee was that a goddess no one knew existed would bail them out.
• Urban Legend of Zelda: Invoked during one Nepstation segment. She reports that somewhere in the game is a hidden minigame "Rock, Paper, Strippers", where you can strip Nepgear by winning. Histoire informs her that there is no such thing in the game.

Spin-offs and Other Media:

• Bridal Carry: In Cyberdimension, she gives one to Blanc in a cutscene, who ends up embarrassed by it.
• Flechette Storm: Her Awakening Special Attack in Cyberdimension showers the area in front of her with magical spearlike projectiles. Think "Gate of Babylon".
• Royal Rapier: Uses this as her main weapon for the Enchanter class in Cyberdimension, which might be a not-so-subtle way of showing she's the star of this spin-off.
• Spell Blade: In Cyberdimension, she has spells to enhance the team's weapons with elemental damages.

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