This page describes the characters appearing in Yoshiyuki Tomino's Overman King Gainer and the tropes associated to them. Please help out with the blurbs.Also, MAJOR SPOILERS AHEAD! Proceed with caution.
Ascended Fanboy: Subverted in that videogame champion Gainer is perfectly aware of the difference between reality and fiction, and really does not like fighting.
Refusal of The Call: He tried to get out of the Exodus in the first few episodes.
Shaming The Mob: In Volume 5 of the manga, Gainer calls out a group of former Exodists who accused Gain of being the cause of their imprisonment, saying that Gain never forced them to go into Exodus.
Supporting Protagonist: Well, not really... but quite often, it is Gain who ultimately wins the day. Gainer does achieve his own victories, though, so this trope only partially stands for him. Besides, most of the fights are about him and someone else.
Turn The Other Cheek: When discovering that Gauli was the one who killed his parents, Gainer does not forgive him, but does not take revenge either, because he thinks it would be pointless.
Victorious Childhood Friend: After a lot of misunderstanding and flip-flopping, he and Sara get together after the Overdevil's defeat.
Wangst: In his defense, he was under Overfreeze at that moment.
Brainwashed and Crazy: Courtesy of Gainer after he had been taken over himself by the Overdevil.
Can't Catch Up: A pretty decent pilot, but she's stuck with a Silhouette Machine for the whole series. Super Robot Wars remedies this by allowing her to pilot an Overman.
Shut Up, Hannibal!: Asuham should know better than to try to deconstruct the motives of someone as Badass as Gain Bijou...
They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot: Not to a huge degree, but his backstory with Asuham and Karin, and the fact that he participated in a failed Exodus could have been elaborated on a little more...
Wasn't the whole point of his backstory with Asuham and Karin that there wasn't really one?
Suicide By Cop: When he falls under Kashmir's control later in the series, and ends up endangering the City Units, he tries to convince Gainer to kill him, even by revealing that he was the one who killed his parents. However, it doesn't work, as Gainer opts for Taking A Third Option.
Well-Intentioned Extremist: An heroic example - he gives priority to the Exodus over everything else. If that means sacrificing some people, or even himself, he won't hesitate - though he won't be proud of it.
What the Hell, Hero?: Gets one of these from Gain - who actually punches him for his killing of Gainer's parents.
Disproportionate Retribution: Gain has a one night stand with my sister? I'll pursue him in the frozen lands, try to capture him at the cost of putting innocent lives in danger, and when that fails, I'll awaken the Overdevil and destroy the world.
Hannibal Lecture: Asuham tries one on Gain in the manga, showing him a concentration camp filled with captured Exodists, and telling him that Gain is to blame for their condition, and for instilling in them false hope of a better life through Exodus. Gain, however, shrugs the lecture off.
Large Ham: At least in Super Robot Wars Z, where his lines when attacking Gain, Aquarion, The Big O, and the ∀ Gundam are presented quite loudly and dramatically, and during a quicksave skit, he gets into a ham contest with another Takehito Koyasu voiced Large Ham, Gym Ghingnham! (this tropers personal favorite skit). Was Asuham one in the show's proper canon? This troper can't remember.
The Scrappy: Among the show's fandom, Asuham is often considered an uninteresting, one-note villain for his obsession with capturing Gain and his Motive Decay.
The Worf Effect: After he has been estabilished as a fearsome opponent even Gainer has to struggle against, Cynthia comes and curb stomps him.
Satellite Character: He's Asuham's right hand man. And...that's it. You could take him out of the story, and nothing would change...
Jin Yassaba
Adult Child: Weird example; he seems to bounce between acting like an immature kid and an extremely stern and capable pilot and leader.
Cool Old Guy: Not that old (see below), but he does fit.
Apparently this was why he was dropped as a character - he's too cool in a world without many cool adults and was threatening to overshadow the others. (The director even apologized to Hisao Egawa for this.)
Freudian Excuse: The reason why he's so dedicated to stopping Exodi from taking place? His parents went into one, and he was discriminated and bullied by other children for that.
Pet the Dog: During his forced stay in a city unit, he saves an impoverished little girl from being bullied and begins to act as a surrogate father figure to her. He later travels with her to her homeland (if this troper recalls correctly, the country was basically India)
Time Stands Still: His Rushrod's Overskill. Sort of; anything that crosses paths with the attack will stop dead in its tracks.
Heel Face Turn: A pretty abstract one with little to no reason given and made up mostly of Contrived Coincidence even though it's spread over several episodes.
Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Adette is bossy, arrogant and rude, but genuinely cares about her students and other people.
Country Mouse: Jaboli again, as Word Of God says. Personality-wise, though, she's not quite as naive. Kejinan and Enge are also hinted to have been born in the boonies.
Dangerously Genre Savvy: Jaboli is the sanest of the bunch, and tries her hardest to point out what not to do in combat. Sadly, Kejinan and Enge don't listen to her...
Despair Event Horizon: Played for laughs when Kashmir tested his new Overman whose overskill is to lower morale and cause doubt in people's minds. They forgot their helmet.
Elite Mooks: They pilot a trio of low-level Overmen who still manage to give some trouble to Gainer...
Only Sane Man: Jaboli again. Poor girl, being forced to put up with Kejinan and Enge...
Punch Clock Villain: They work for the paycheck and for the chance of getting a promotion. That's it. They even considered quitting the job at various points in the show.
Pet the Dog: He adopted Cynthia and was like a father to her.
What Happened to the Mouse?: His fate at the end of the series is not very clear. He's possibly been absorbed by the Overdevil, but no definite word is given.
Expy: It is possible (and I repeat, possible) that Father Llymic, an alien monster from the Dungeons & Dragons 3.5 manual Elder Evils, might be an Expy of the Overdevil, since the two horrors share similar powers and abilities. Of course, it could all be an incredible coincidence...
