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Andre
Animator: stone
- Cerebus Retcon: RHG hasn't shied away from Gorn, but "Gildedguy & the Rock Hard Gladiator" plays this more dramatically, with the many deaths of RHG being incredibly haunting to Andre.
- Evolving Weapon: In "Gildedguy & the Rock Hard Gladiator", Andre's hammer now can split apart and be telekinetically controlled, even allowing Andre to fly by riding it. This appears to be a result of using the hammer in conjunction with Gildedguy's Stellapen.
- Let the Past Burn: Due to his newly acquired hatred of the RHG system, he is seen attempting to destroy all of the remaining RHG colosseums, statues, and monuments, hoping to erase his shameful past and end the idolization of what was essentially a murder spectator sport.
- Shock and Awe: His hammer can generate electricity.
- Survivor Guilt: In "Gildedguy & the Rock Hard Gladiator", he is depicted as regretful of the many deaths caused by the Rock Hard Gladiators system that he had started.
- Uncertain Doom: At the climax of "Gildedguy & the Rock Hard Gladiator", Andre crashes into the ground after an airborne fight with Gildedguy and Arzon, creating a mass of smoke on the impact. When the smoke clears up, Gildedguy and Arzon are unable to find Andre's body, but assuming that he has died, they plant Andre's hammer into the ground as a tribute to him.
FLLFFL "ALFA"
Animator: Terkoiz
With an eluded name and a mysterious purpose, "FLLFFL", or "Alfa" seen through illusion, is arcane. He possesses a foundation of never killing his opponents, a moral code that gives him great control over his emotions. Appearing to be in his late-middle ages, he has always been known to be very dependent on his specialized sword. Although no one knows what it's exactly made of, his sword has always protected himself and destroyed others. No one really knows why he's here, speculations range from creating another legendary weapon to seeking someone who can defeat him.- Breakout Character: His immense popularity has pretty much made him the unofficial mascot of the RHG to the point that he's the first character that pops into anyone's mind whenever RHG is mentioned.
- Cool Sword: His jet-propelled katana.
- Curb-Stomp Battle: Delivers one against Benman and Gel, who are the same person.
- Defeat Means Friendship
- Handicapped Badass: Loses one of his arms in the battle against Pulse, it doesn't hinder much of his fighting ability.
- The Hero's Idol: To Gildedguy, as seen in "Gildedguy & the Rock Hard Gladiator".
- Killed Off for Real: In part due to Terkoiz no longer animating RHGs and the almost nonexistence of continuity, FLLFFL has been killed at least thrice, by being stabbed by Umbrella, getting hit by a train in his fight against Mr. Pix, and being disintegrated by the French. However, a trailer for fatal art
depicts FLLFFL actually surviving his battle with Umbrella... only to again, be later instantly killed by Yupia. - Master Swordsman
- Mysterious Past
- Spell My Name with an "FL": Those two letters are meant to be read as a stylized "A" as shown in his image.
- Thou Shalt Not Kill: Refrains from lethal executions unless circumstances force him to.
Jomm
Animator: Jomm
- Cool Sword: A BFS that can fire powerful blasts of compressed air.
- Mundane Utility: Apparently, his sword makes a good sushi knife.
Yoyo
Animator: Hyun
Too poor to buy a real weapon, this teenager modified the average yo-yo to be an explosive and lethal tool for his opponents. The micro generator inside his yo-yo stores massive amounts of energy as it spins in high speeds, unleashing a devastating shock of power on the next hit.- Meaningful Name: Wields a yoyo.
- Long-Lost Relative: Has a brother by the name of "One". The two were separated as a result of war.
Chuck
Animator: Endo
One day Chuck was out busking on the streets with a nunchuck act that everyone loved. He had just finished his second act and was lighting his smell-good candles for meditation when a truck loaded with containers of toxic waste lost control and fell on him. Ever since the accident, he has been awesome.- Distracted by the Sexy: Easily beaten by Echo for this reason.
- Meaningful Name: He fights with nunchucks.
- Playing with Fire
Oxob
Animator: oxob3000
Oxob used to be a rich stuntman that lived life to the fullest. One day he lost both his hands but since he was rich he can afford to buy mechanical replacements. Later on, these hands were upgraded, constructed in carbon steel and modified with power-concentrating ability. After these upgrades, Oxob was all out of money and turned into a poor guy with no belongings. Despite this, Oxob still tries to live each day with joy, and makes friends wherever he goes. But those who try to pick a fight with him leave with at least a broken nose.- Appeal to Worse Problems: Chastises Gildedguy for making a big deal out of the scars on his hands, which are seemingly less significant than Oxob's own. He remains unaware of the trauma associated with them, as GG used them to seal Bog.
- Artificial Limbs: After losing his hands in a helicopter accident, the government gives him enhanced prosthetic hands.
- Blue Is Heroic: An all-blue character who's on the side of justice.
- Cerebus Retcon: * Downplayed. In "Oxob vs. Jade", Oxob seems to take his defeat mostly in stride and is open to working with Jade for Nemesis. In "Gildedguy vs. Oxob", his defeat is reframed as a trauma-inducing disaster. "Oxob: Origins" does a little work bridging the tonal gap by portraying Oxob as a more tragic character.
- Dark and Troubled Past: Once a prosperous stuntman, he lost his hands and his friends in a helicopter explosion. Following that, he unwittingly becomes the government's guinea pig for nanomachine injections.
- Glowing Eyes of Doom: His eyes glow when he uses his electric powers.
- Ground Pound: Can create a force field with it.
- Lightning Bruiser: Quite literally. Recent animations have given him some degree of super speed through hisimplants.
- Nanomachines: Had these involuntarily injected into him by the government. These grant him enhanced strength and intelligence.
- Perpetual Frowner: After his fight with Xenrath, he almost never smiles.
- Power Fist: His prosthetic hands allow him to attack with these.
- Shell-Shocked Veteran:
- The helicopter crash gave him a nasty case of PTSD, as he lost his hands and his stunt buddies in it. Making matters worse was that shortly after, he became the government's guinea pig for nanomachine injections.
- It happens again following his disastrous battle against Jade. He lost his will to fight after his loss, and it gave him pyrophobia. Gildedguy accidentally setting Oxob's bandages on fire triggers the fight between them.
- Sole Survivor: Of a helicopter explosion that made him lose his arms and stunt buddies.
- Shock and Awe: Has electric powers, which are often incorporated into his punches.
- Trauma Conga Line: A helicopter crash into being a part of a government experiment into having his legs crushed by collapsing concrete into his prosthetics being blown up by Jade.
- Tsurime Eyes: His eyes are slanted and pointy, a la Dragon Ball Z.
- Used to Be More Social: Prior to having his legs crushed in his fight against Xenrath, he was incredibly chipper. In his fights against Jade and Gildedguy however, he has a signficantly less happy dispositon.
- Yellow Lightning, Blue Lightning: The blue lightning to Gildedguy's yellow lightning.
Mr. Pix
Animator: Geo
A computer program designed to gather knowledge and return it to a source, similar to a Google Spider. He has lost an integral part of his programming, the location of his source, and can do nothing but gather information about everything he senses. His quickest method of obtaining information is through the sense of touch, and once he grabs a hold of an object to absorb it, he cannot consciously abort the action. He cannot speak, but can emulate sounds, a la an 8-bit sound driver.- Achilles' Heel: Its head which contains the rest of the matter that makes up its body.
- The Assimilator: Tends to absorb defeated gladiators.
- Blob Monster: Often takes form of a Rubber Man
- Voluntary Shapeshifting
- Shapeshifter Weapon: Ranging from simple melee implements to turning his body into a fully-functional tank.
Fox and Q
Animator: Kidkei
Fox was part of an international space program who auctioned planets on the black market after wiping out their inhabitants. One mission they went to this planet called "Que", known for its ferocious creatures. As the team progressed into the planet's depths, they were wiped out by an ambush of black creatures and Fox barely escaped with his life. Stranded and slowly dying, Fox managed to live for a while until one day he came across another black creature. Unlike the others, this one helped him live and they soon became friends soon after. He returned to Earth with 'Q' (or so he named the creature) and joined a fight club since he's no longer eligible for his former job. In one match he was close to losing, so Q stepped in which disqualified Fox for cheating. That was where he was invited to join Zetabrand and the RHG system.- Flash Step: Fox can perform this from Que's toxic atmosphere mutating his cells.
- Heroic Host: Fox serves as one for Q
- Living Weapon: Q serves as this and Equippable Ally for Fox.
- The Symbiote: Q, although he can exit Fox's body and fight on his own.
- Voluntary Shapeshifting: Q can transform into whatever weapon Fox needs, he can also transform a weapon to wield himself.
Styr
Animator: Supranova
Styr was walking through the woods far from home when he was a young boy. He was lost, helpless, and alone, trying to find food and shelter in a territory that he did not know. He had given up hope of returning home, where his abusive parents had left him on the side of the street to starve. In the deepest corner of the woods, Styr came upon a large spear, one left behind by the native people in that area. Styr, overcome by curiosity, picks up the spear, examines it briefly, and moves on thinking little of what he had just seen. As he is walking away, he hears a whooshing sound coming from where he had just been. The now airborne spear slices through the air toward him, cutting his right cheek to leave a pertinent scar, the scar of ownership. Styr, realizing the power of this tool, uses it to hunt and hone his skills to become a master of this unique weapon.- Summon to Hand: His spear can magically fly back to his hand and can even piece itself back together when broken.
Indestructible Dave
Animator: PlaguedSoul
Dave is a rather famous person, people like to make movies about him. Although he likes to think of himself as your average Joe, he cannot be one. He is unsure when he found out about his powers or when he developed them. He does not have eyes, and he isn't sure why he can still see like he would if he did but just a strange symbol is there. Almost like he sees from the symbol.People seem to think Dave is a criminal, but he only uses his "powers" for good. After a recent exploration of ancient ruins, Dave found a decrepit prison which showed the same symbol on the wall as the symbol for his eye. He began to follow through the prison and came to a room, where there were two skeletons on the ground that wore clothing from the early fifties.
They looked to be explorers, and it seemed they died in that room from something unspeakable... could it have been Dave?
He found one of the skeletons to have a holster and a backpack on, and the other a sheath to a sword. Dave warped in his weapons and they both fit into each casing; he warped his weapons out and looked into the bag. The bag contained a book of magic, with once again the same symbol on his head in there. He set down the book and looked to the pedestal in the center of the room to see that it looked to have once held a human figure, "Could this have been my prison?" Dave said. He got up and lay on it and it fit him perfect, but suddenly the room started to shake and on the ceiling the same body form was there. Dave realized this fast and quickly rolled off the pedestal to land on the ground; he didn't want to be imprisoned again. The room still shook and as he saw the door start to slowly close, Dave quickly grabbed the book and dove through the door. And now you know what he is so far.
- Exactly What It Says on the Tin: He's a guy named Dave who happens to be Nigh-Invulnerable.
Micwizard
Oreo
Animator: oreo
- Expy: His weapon is similar to the Twin Blade from S4League.
- Variable-Length Chain
Murph
Animator: Murph
- Logical Weakness: Being made of inked paper, he's dangerously susceptible to fire.
- Spontaneous Weapon Creation: He's limited to only simple weapons like swords and bows, guns and explosives are out of the question.
The French
Animator: Avanz
A strange gladiator who's a hired hitman from France, he fights gladiators because he's contracted to do so.- Badass in a Nice Suit
- Cool Shades
- Nonstandard Character Design: He is animated like a character from Madness Combat instead of a stick figure.
- Professional Killer: Shows elements of this.
- Weaksauce Weakness: Touching his tie makes him unable to control his movements and go crazy.
Steel
Animator: Steel_Cold
Once known as Andy Walker, Steel became a lab experiment in order to get money to get through college as a mechanical engineer. The scientist experimenting on him, unbeknownst to Steel, was an executive in a mercenary business who enslaved him to fight and do his master's bidding. He someday hopes to escape, although he wouldn't know what he would do once he escaped.- Escaped from the Lab
- Mind over Matter: His power, however it's only limited to everything except himself.
Nhazul
Animator: Nhazul
Nhazul is a purple Rock hard Gladiator with a blue scarf, a very intense popular stickman, and was featured as a Top Stick and was a fighter in Fluidanims. He an elite ninja swordsman with immense strenght and agility. He is best budds with Tentionmaru. Nhazul is also the leader of Zetabrand and carries a large jetpack cross that sheathes his blades, (sword in the top & two daggers in the side). His cross can also be used as a heavy weapon or a shield.Nhazul is all about intense accelerated attacks, force and lightning fast dashes and his arch nemesis is Descrye.- The Hero's Idol: To Arzon, as seen in "Gildedguy & the Rock Hard Gladiator".
- Scarf of Asskicking
Tentionmaru
Animator: Tentionmaru
Tentionmaru (tention) is a badass stick figure that wears a red transformable cape. This Rock hard Gladiator originated from Fluidanims and is a member of Zetabrand and also best budds with Nhazul. Tentionmaru is one of the few over powered(OP) RH Gs that can only be found every few generations. "He is most commonly seen as a light blue stick with white eyes, but his normal form is a black stick with blue eyes", which is only seen if he powered down completely. He mostly uses energy attacks, and along with immense strength, it he can be highly critical to opponants.- Scarf of Asskicking: Wears one that doubles as a Morph Weapon.
- Super Mode: His "Emerald Mode".
Drifts
Animator: Drifts
Benman / Gel
Animator: Zee
- Achilles' Heel: The only way to kill Gel is to stab his head.
- Curb-Stomp Battle: On the receiving end from the same person, twice.
- Improbable Weapon User: Benman wields a bucket.
- We Hardly Knew Ye: Only known for losing to FLLFFL.
WeiEn
Animator: WeiEn
A time-displaced soldier from Imperial China, forced to work for the Rock Hard Gladiators system.- Automatic Crossbows: Wields a pair of these that can be used as melee weapons.
- Living Relic
StickPage Gladiators
Jade
Animator: Camila
- Bifurcated Weapon: Her fans can combine into a spear.
- Combat Hand Fan: Wields a pair of these that can magically combine into a spear.
- Defeat Means Friendship: Becomes good friends with Gildedguy and can be seen cheering him on in Basement Busk.
- Disproportionate Retribution: Beats up Gildedguy in a public display for taking too many hors d'œuvres.
- Etiquette Nazi: Somewhat, as per Gildedguy's interpretation. Her fight with Gildedguy begins because he takes (in her defense, far) too many hors d'œuvres.
- Pink Girl, Blue Boy: The pink to Oxob's blue.
- Playing with Fire: Her weapons control fire.
- Put on a Bus: After Camila switched her focus to animating Glitchtale, she has not been in any major battles of her own, only making minor appearances in other people's animations.
- The Leader: The leader of Clan Nemesis.
- Nonindicative Name: * Zigzagged. Her most salient features (i.e. her weapons, skin, and hair) are not shades of green. However, her eyes when depicted are jade-colored.
Umbrella
Animator: Resh
- Attack Drones: Of the bladed variety.
- Facial Markings: Has irradiated veins around his eyes.
- Heel–Face Turn: Winds up joining Nemesis, an organization that he had been tasked with eliminating.
- I Am Not Left-Handed: Is ambidextrous. Revealed in his fight vs. Frankie.
- Meaningful Name: Wields an umbrella-shaped weapon.
- Parasol of Pain
- Phlebotinum Overdose: His weapon's power source has irradiated him badly, leading to his signature eye markings.
- Swiss-Army Weapon: His umbrella can function as a sword, a shield, a gun, and even a jetpack.
- These Hands Have Killed: After killing FLLFFL, and suddenly regaining his memories of his past, he apologizes and says that he never wanted something like this to happen.
- Unwitting Pawn: After his memory was wiped by the Umbrella Division, he had no idea that what he was doing was wrong, and was just following orders.
ShadowRose
Animator: C3WhiteRose
- Dude Looks Like a Lady: A recurring joke.
- The Charmer: A subtle version.
- Something about a Rose: Appears in his hand, and seems to be made of light. Serves as a barrier and physical attack booster.
Garo
Animator: Blublublublu
- Let's Fight Like Gentlemen: Often imposes a special rule in fighting, where the first person to be knocked down five times immediately loses.
- Save Scumming: His main power in a nutshell.
- Weak, but Skilled: He's no different than an average person without his Negate Link but he wins his fights through careful usage of his power and his conservative fighting style.
- White Collar Worker: Until he gained his powers.
Aero
Ada
Animator: CoZen
- Razor Floss: His sword contains a reel that spans three planets.
Magus
Animator: Anubis
- Life Energy
- Necromancer: Summons a pack of zombies and can resurrect fallen gladiators he has defeated.
King Loxias
Animator: TrulyEpic
- Flash Step
- I Am Not Left-Handed: His attacks hit 20x harder when holding his weapon with both hands but prefers to save it for finishing moves and dire emergencies.
- Instant Runes: Appears whenever he uses his sword's TaxinGladus ability.
- Katanas Are Just Better
- Royals Who Actually Do Something
- Speed Echoes: An integral part of his fighting style, Loxias can leave behind two different kinds of afterimages after a flash step. White afterimages are intangible and serve to distract the opponent's concentration while red afterimages move on their own, which can be hit to inflict fatigue on Loxias.
Fordz
Animator: Fordz
- Impossibly Cool Weapon: A double-ended scythe with thrusters.
The Handyman
Animator/Writer: WafflesMgee
- Blind Seer: Sees the world through echolocation with its "teeth".
- Character Development: This character is intended to be a Plot Device to help other people develop their characters.
- Creepily Long Arms: Is made entirely out of this and Creepy Long Fingers.
- Dream Stealer
- Eldritch Abomination
- Empty Shell: Those defeated by it in their dreams have their minds destroyed, rendering them permanently comatose.
- Face Your Fears: How to defeat it, the victor also gets the bonus of no longer being afraid of the phobia used previously.
- I Know What You Fear: All three types, but limited only to within its Dream Land.
- Mind Rape
- Lotus-Eater Machine: Can inflict a very deep and vivid slumber on people with its "tongue".
- Non-Indicative Name: It is not a utility repairman.
- Perpetual-Motion Monster: This monster is not meant to be fought like a normal gladiator, being more like an immortal force of nature.
- Weakened by the Light
- Win to Exit: Those who are victorious in their confrontation wake up from and never be bothered again.
Shuriken
Animator: Shuriken255
Formerly an ordinary person, he got killed by a bolt of lightning. After three days he was brought back to life, this time with superpowers. He has always dreamed of joining the famous Zetabrand clan and as of March 5, he just did it.- Ascended Fanboy: He was a big fan of Nhazul and Tentionmaru, later becomes part of the official Zetabrand member.
- Dance Battler: Famous for his sync battle style
- Divergent Character Evolution: Meta-wise, originally another Zetabrand knock-off but eventually his animator grew his own talent at making music-synced animations and collaborations.
- Flying Weapon: Wields floating shurikens.
- Meaningful Name: Wields a shuriken.
- Mickey Mousing: His animator's later works feature this.
- Put on a Bus: As Shuriken255 has ceased animating, he has not had any major appearances since "The Imitator 2".
- Scarf of Asskicking: It's blue.
- Shock and Awe: Has lightning-based powers.
Shura
Animator: Dracko
- Bare-Fisted Monk: Prefers to fight hand-to-hand despite possessing a karambit.
- Iconic Item: He wears a red Sarung, a traditional garment worn in Indonesia.
- Super Mode: His Kuda Spirit.
Bog
Animator: ACBeam
Bog is a mysterious entity and it isn't clear what motives he has in mind to pursue. Little is known of Bog and so it is hard to predict what he will do in order to kill. Bog is usually neutral but if he begins to get hungry he and his blood will search for living things to eat and will not be swayed or stopped so easily.—-- Acid Attack: His blood is acidic, and he loves to use it as a weapon.
- Adaptational Abomination: Granted, he's an abomination by default, but the simplified artstyle of most stick figure animations rendered him as a relatively normal, if unnerving figure. "Gildedguy vs. Bog" turns him into a Blob Monster with Black Eyes of Evil who only vaguely resembles a stick figure, thanks to Michael's more detailed art style.
- However, it's worth mentioning that during the fight's Battle in the Center of the Mind segment, he more closely resembles how other artists draw him.
- Ax-Crazy: Seems to take absolute glee in harming others.
- Blob Monster: Portrayals shift between depicting Bog as a fluid, amorphous mass and a more traditional stick figure.
- Body Snatcher: Takes control of Yupia's body during their tag team battle against Syn and Hue after she sustains major damage, but not before giving her a heaping helping of Mind Rape.
- Bloody Murder: Bog can control his blood's properties, changing how corrosive it is, and its viscosity.
- Cheshire Cat Grin: Often seen sporting one of these.
- Combat Sadomasochist: Often grins when being attacked, likely because of the futility of it all given his healing abilities. The only times where he doesn't smile are twice during "Gildedguy vs. Bog"; first when he's getting attacked by a flaming sword, and later during the Battle in the Center of the Mind, where he finally begins to lose.
- Eldritch Abomination
- Healing Factor: Can regenerate so long as some of him remains.
- Humanoid Abomination: A vaguely humanoid... thing with an insatiable bloodlust, acidic blood, and the ability to control his opponents, both physically and mentally.
- I'm a Humanitarian: Seems to have a habit of eating his opponents.
- Kill It with Fire: Fire melts the sludge on his body. After igniting his sword, Gildedguy cut through him like butter.
- Knight of Cerebus: His fight with Gildedguy marks a turning point in animations featuring the latter, as they became darker and more story-focused.
- Lightning Bruiser: Fast, hard-hitting, and makes up for his less-than-durable body with his Healing Factor.
- Man Bites Man: Sometimes chomps on his opponents, a habit which is likely linked to his I'm a Humanitarian status.
- Mind Rape: Pulls this in order to take control of opponents.
- Mysterious Past
- Shapeshifter Guilt Trip: Briefly shapeshifts into an impersonation of Jade to confuse and disorient Gildedguy.
- Voluntary Shapeshifting: As a result of his slime-like properties.
- With Friends Like These...: How does he assist his partner Yupia during their tag team match against Syn and Hue? By mind-raping her and taking control of her body once she's been sufficiently roughed up.
Dojo Duelists
Yupia
Animator: X
Yupia comes from a rich, higher class family of biological scientists and she had been the target of multiple experiments since childhood, due to the experiments she has lost her eyes, but all of her other senses had exceeded the norm.Because of her family's greed she is disgraced by the state of human nature, and wishes to rise above humanity. She has been seeking power since her early ages to make up for her lack of sight, and to quench her thirst for power she wishes to use the worlds knowledge against it.- Abusive Parents: Implied, given that her father has treated her like his guinea pig since childhood.
- Alien Blood: She bleeds pink.
- Attack! Attack! Attack!: Her strategy, which forgoes defensive tactics for maximum attack power.
- BFS: Later uses a giant blade similar to the Buster Sword.
- Black Eyes of Evil: Her eyes, normally hidden by her visor, have black sclera.
- Blind Weaponmaster: Her lack of eyesight has not stopped her from being an incredibly competent swordmaster.
- Blood Knight: Enjoys fighting and cutting up people a bit too much.
- Broken Bird: Turned out the way she did because of the many horrific experiments she was subject to as a child.
- Cyborg: A result of the many experiments conducted on her.
- Escaped from the Lab: Heavily implied.
- Expressive Mask: Her visor serves as one. Her emotions are usually expressed in the form of the shape and color of the waves on it (i.e. red, sharp waves indicate distress), though the visor has displayed eyes on at least one occasion.
- Eye Beams: A variation in which her head can open up to shoot a giant laser.
- Freudian Excuse: She hates humans because her father experimented on her as a child.
- Jerkass: She's pretty bitter and condescending to her opponents, further supported by her dialogue in the fighting game Fatal Art:
- "Don't take it personally. You're simply outclassed."
- Kill All Humans: Heavily implied to be her end goal.
- Light Is Not Good: Her body is white and she wears light pink accessories, and she's a ruthless swordswoman who seeks to erase humanity.
- Mind Rape: Gets this pulled on her by Bog so he can control her.
- One-Way Visor: It serves to hide her freakish eyes and as an Expressive Mask.
- Put on a Bus: Her animator, X, got banned from Hyun's Dojo. As such, she did not have any major appearances for a while.
- The Bus Came Back: X has confirmed that "YUPIA vs. Gildedguy" is in production, marking her first major duel since X originally got banned from the Dojo.
- Spell My Name With An S: A slight variation. Some material spells her name normally, while others write it like an acronym (Y.U.P.I.A.).
One
Animator: Hyun
One travels the lands of Cier in search of his little brother he lost years ago due to the war of Aether and Blackwatch. He tends to stay away from confrontations unless he needs information in which he will do everything in his power to obtain it. Spending most of his life as a Blackwatch slave and surviving the onslaught of Blackwatch soldiers/assassins sent to kill him after his escape, One has grown an intense hatred towards the faction and other governments in power. Not only does he seek unhealthy revenge upon people overtaken by greed and political power, he strives to become stronger and compete in the new Dojo Duels to find more information about his brother.- Ascended Extra: Initially featured as a throwaway character in an unrelated animation by Hyun, One was then adapted to be a Dojo Duelist.
- Cool Sword: It can be thrown like a boomerang and has an acid edge.
- Dark and Troubled Past: Lost his brother, POW, etc...
- Shell-Shocked Veteran: His demo and first duel show that he suffers from PTSD.
- Lightning Bruiser: Swift and powerful.
- Long-Lost Relative: Yoyo.
- I Will Find You: From his character bio.
- Name-Meaning Change: Originally, the title of the first animation with One, "One vs. Many", was a straightforward description of... well, one stick figure vs. many. When Hyun adopted the protagonist as his duelist, One became the fighter's actual name, with the in-lore reason being he was stamped as prisoner #001 by his Blackwatch captors.
Gildedguy
Animator: Gildedguy
A knight, former slush fighter, and retired painter living on the outskirts of what seems to be a large plain next to a mountain. Wielding an extending sword and decked in armor almost 24/7, he's prepared to deal with whatever the world throws at him.As of "Gildedguy vs. Oxob", he's gotten over his trauma induced from his fight with Bog and has returned to dueling; however, he's lost the Stella-Pen.- Arc Symbol: The Stellapent, the five-pointed green star. It's connected to the pen he carries around and possibly Gildedguy himself.
- Ascended Fanboy: "Gildedguy & the Rock Hard Gladiator" shows that he's a big fan of Andre, likely in part due to his fights. Moments later, he ends up fighting Andre himself.
- Armor of Invincibility: His armor is very hard to crack. However, it costs a lot to maintain.
- Art Shift: Due to the animator's preference, fights including him tend to lean more towards more detailed traditional animation.
- Astral Projection: Has a mental one that takes the form of his armor during his fight with Bog, and again during "Gildedguy and the Green-Eyed Cowboy".
- Badass Adorable: He looks like a cutesy toy knight, and has been known to defeat opponents who are much stronger than he is.
- Badass Cape: As part of his knightly design.
- Battle in the Center of the Mind: Ends his fight with Bog by letting him into his body and trapping him in his subconscious.
- Beta Outfit: Has one in the origin episode Gildedguy Gets Up. It starts off as just the standard gray painter's outfit of his workplace with the tattered remains of a moneybag as his cape, but it's later painted gold.
- BFS: Invoked. His blade can grow from about the length of a katana to several hundred meters long depending on the circumstance. It's also pretty flexible, allowing him to attack in multiple directions simultaneously. Gildedguy Gets Up reveals it used to be an ordinary sword that he altered with his magical paint.
- Butt-Monkey: Whenever he's not kicking ass, the universe loves to give him the middle finger. To date, he's been publicly humiliated at an art gallery, chased by no less than five veteran gladiators, hunted by Bog, and was forced to watch bacon being burnt in front of him.
- Cast from Money: His armor requires coins to repair it, partially explaining his poverty.
- Deliberate Injury Gambit: Cuts himself to trick Bog into entering his body, then lets his Astral Projection do the rest.
- Determinator: Beats opponents who are much stronger than him often with just his sheer determination and wits.
- Enemy Within: Bog is still around in his brain, after all. The Green-Eyed Cowboy might be this, or just Gilded's envy made manifest.
- Genius Bruiser: GG often wins by getting his opponents off guard long enough to land a solid hit, or using creative tactics rather than sheer force.
- In "Gildedguy vs Bog". How do you deal with a mind-controlling monster that heals back up when slashed, and has snuffed out the only fire nearby so he can't be burned? Intentionally wound yourself and let him attempt a takeover, repelling him with your willpower instead.
- "Gildedguy vs Jade" has him facing her unarmed in her castle. His winning tactic is to start Trashing The Set and attacking the other guests, distracting her long enough for him to get his sword back and turn the fight around. It comes back to bite him in the ass when he's kicked out of the party, then chased down by the guests.
- One of the turning points of "Gildedguy vs Oxob" has Gildedguy learn that Oxob's electricity gets conducted by his weapons, and turns that against him by tying Oxob up with the Stella-Pen to bait him into trying to electrocute him again, then throwing his tied-up cape to the thunderstruck skies as an Improvised Lightning Rod to shock Oxob back. And the climax of the fight draws on the same understanding: knowing that his armor redirects Oxob's electricity harmlessly into the ground, he retrieves his gauntlets from his backpack instead of his sword so that he can No-Sell his electrical punches.
- Early in "Gildedguy & the Rock Hard Gladiator", a mock fight between him and Arzon reveals that his armor has a weird property of focusing Arzon's wind into high pressure blasts when filtered through his chestpiece's armholes. This becomes relevant at the climax of the fight with Andre, where he improvises a flying device in the style of FLLFFL's jet-sword by strapping his armor around his own sword and climbing onto it with Arzon.
- Green-Eyed Monster: Struggles with this hard during "Gildedguy and the Green-Eyed Cowboy", as he's constantly exposed to people who have what he wants, be it wealth or love. This gives rise to the titular cowboy, who is a representation of his envy. Bonus points for having actual green eyes.
- Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane: While the animator says that Gilded is just a normal person under the armor, the presence of the Green-Eyed Cowboy, his Astral Projection, and apparent connection with the green star seem to imply otherwise.
- As of Gildedguy Gets Up, this trope may be Averted altogether. Despite working with the same paint as everyone else, Gilded somehow manifests the ability to utilize The Power of Creation. He's also the only person able to see the Stellapent.
- Morph Weapon: His sword can extend to massive lengths when he swings it, allowing him to attack from mid-range. A prominent move he does is a Spin Attack that sends the blade all over the place, surrounding him and attacking at all angles.
- The Pen Is Mightier: Carries the Stella-Pen, a mysterious green crystal in the shape of a pen. It has a variety of uses, from acting as an actual drawing tool to repairing his armor to ensnaring foes in green threads. Gildedguy Gets Up reveals it to be a chunk of dried paint that fell off his paintbrush.
- Primary-Color Champion: Downplayed. He normally dons golden armor and a red cape, while his rarely-seen skin is a gray-blue.
- Starving Artist: He's a former painter who's stuck in poverty. Justified, as his armor is Cast from Money.
Skid
Animator: Soapy Bubbles
Originating from Blackwatch, Skid’s heritage is one of pride; notorious for his family’s high ranks in the army and noted within Blackwatch’s legacy. His grandfather played a crucial role in the Aetherian war, and Skid’s own father is a well-respected general, anointed with the task of guarding Blackwatch’s rice preserve. To continue the family legacy, Skid was taught how to fight from a very young age. He was taught skills such as how to kill, as well as the essence of ruthlessness and apathy. Because of this, he learned to not get too emotional over anything. Skid himself is an expert at engineering, and his work with weapon design only reflects his talent as a prodigious inventor.Despite his gifted skills with inventions and his experiences with combat, Skid’s imagination and plans put concern with his father and the rest of the army, cutting him short of being a soldier, let alone a respected one. Skid often utilizes the use of rice in his hypothetical blueprints, which were immediately discarded by his father and other Blackwatch inventors, for it was not their way of life. However, he continues to imagine the potentials of rice, not caring what others thought of his designs. Eventually, his daydreams were so strong that his father forced him to take up a different hobby, and Skid chose skateboarding, eventually using this skateboarding skill alongside his combat training, which furthermore progressed into having made his own hoverboard. While boarding one day, Skid recollects his past daydreams, causing him to believe that rice was the best option for fuel-efficiency instead of Blackwatch's bulky chunks of coal. Therefore, he remodeled his board, this time, with an Aetherian core found from a fallen ship. At last, he was finally satisfied, but others were not. They threatened to take away the board, and Skid himself. In a fit of rage, he left Blackwatch, wandering Cier in order to rise to power.
- Cool Board: Has a modified mechanical hoverboard as his main weapon of choice
- Gadgeteer Genius: Skid himself is an expert at engineering, and his work with weapon design only reflects his talent as a prodigious inventor.
- The Runaway: Blackwatch threatened to take away the board, and Skid himself. In a fit of rage, he left Blackwatch, wandering Cier in order to rise to power.
Chronos
Animator: Jomm
Chronos is a first class hitman. Extremely selective of his targets, he specifically goes after people in possession of Cier's empowered Rice. His goal is to collect enough Rice to supercharge his abilities so he can go back in time to stop the crisis which he inadvertently was responsible for. The event triggered a faction war and his home town was caught in the middle of it, losing everything. As time passes, Chronos needs more Rice to go back to the correct time. However, since Chronokinesis is a heavily taxing power, the more he uses it, the sooner he will die.- The Cameo: Appears after One vs. Skid.
- Opaque Lenses: Wearing a crimson lens glasses
- Professional Killer
- Set Right What Once Went Wrong
- Time Stands Still / Time Master: Chronos can freeze time allowing him to maneuver or attack his enemies without a struggle.
Arzon
Animator: Hanif
An energetic, good-natured, young Dojo Duelist with the ability to manipulate the winds.- Ascended Fanboy: Fan of the Rock Hard Gladiators, such as Andre and Nhazul. In "Gildedguy & the Rock Hard Gladiator", he gets the opportunity to fight against Andre, who briefly sees Nhazul in Arzon.
- Calling Your Attacks: Arzon will name many of his strongest attacks, unlike the other Gladiators and Duelists
- Power-Up Full Color Change: Can change into a powered up form that swaps his gray color scheme with a blue one.
Other
The Imitator
The Imitator
Appears in the Imitator Collabs. First time defeated by Fordz, Second time defeated by Tentionmaru.- Power Copying: Called the Imitator for a reason. He can only copy one person at a time though, not that this is a real problem for him as the end of the second collab shows.
- Dark Is Evil: Colored with #000000, the hexcode for black.
- Defiant to the End: Despite being heavily outmatched, he still chooses to fight everybody in the second collab at the same time. And he actually survives for a while too!
- Ditto Fighter: He copies his opponent's weapons and fighting style.
- Mundane Utility: Used Jomm's sword as a sushi knife.
Enemy Stick Figures
Enemy Stick Figures
Appear in multiple videos and army fights, they usually serve as fodder in gladiator demos. Can have any color but most are black for simplicity.
- Boss in Mook Clothing: Rarely appear, but when they do, they provide a large challenge for a fighter.
- Dark Is Evil: Usually black in color.
- Elite Mooks: Some of them are this.
- Mooks: They come and go in droves.
- Red Shirt Army: Don't usually last very long.
Dominate Stick Figures
Dominate Stick Figures
Two main characters in the video Dominate, Teal and Black stick figure.- Made of Iron: The Black Stick figure, no matter how much Teal attacks him.
