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18th Century Bronze Saints
Pegasus Tenma
A young orphan who was taken in by Suikyo along with Alone. Although he was selfish as a child, he came to realize the error of his ways and grow up to be a strong, dedicated young man. He's deeply loyal to Alone, who forgave his selfish actions as a child. Suikyo taught him how to burn his cosmo, a skill that would later save his life when he donned the Pegasus cloth in order to free Alone from Hades' possession.
- Anime Hair
- Big Bad Friend: His best friend Alone winds up as the vessel for Hades.
- Bully Hunter: He would always take care of Alone's bullies.
- Expy: Of Seiya.
- The Hero: Essentially takes on this role as Seiya is stuck in a coma.
- Honor Before Reason: Defied! He's one of the few saints who realizes that the new saints from the future came to help, so he ignores many reestablished rules in order to help them. He also is willing to work with the Gold Saints whom just a moment ago were trying to murder his best friend because he understands that they had the best of intentions, and are likely his best bet on getting Alone back to normal. There's also his Know When to Fold 'Em moment below.
- Homoerotic Subtext: With Alone. His entire talk about the importance of feeling another man's warmth and how that changed his ways.
- Hot-Blooded: He's pretty much a carbon copy of Seiya, after all.
- Identical Stranger: Shun mistook him for Seiya, and mistook Seiya's spirit for him. His character design would be completely identical if his clothes turned red when he put on his cloth.
- Jerkass: Was one as a child, but grew out of it.
- Know When to Fold 'Em: When he realizes that Shion and Dohko are simply too much for him, he chooses to hop on his horse with Alone and ride away to safety instead of pushing his luck.
- Made of Iron: Notable in that he hasn't had much experience using a cloth, but he was still powerful enough to impress two gold saints.
- That Man Is Dead: His bratty, selfish self as a child. He's not proud of it.
- We Named the Monkey "Jack": He named his horse Pegasus.
18th Century Gold Saints
In General
- Doomed by Canon: The original series established that only Dohko and Shion survived the previous Holy War, putting everyone else's odds of survival at zero. The Saint Seiya Origin manga released during Next Dimension's run reconfirms this, with Pope Shion directly naming the other ten Gold Saints and noting they all died during the Holy War.
- Generation Xerox: Many of them share more than a few similarities to their 20th century successors in design, personality, history, and/or abilities. The only ones who don't are Dohko (the one holdover between lineups), Gestalt (although Shijima takes on some of Aiolos' traits), and Odysseus (and even he has some similarities to Saga thanks to Asclepius).
Aries Shion
See Saint Seiya Gold Saints.Taurus Ox
A loud giant of a man, Ox bears more than a passing resemblance to his 20th century successor, Aldebaran. His strength is so great that he can fight even while sitting down.
- Animal Motifs: As the Taurus Saint, he's strongly associated with bulls. Even his name, Ox, is derived from that of the animal.
- The Big Guy: He's the largest of all the 18th century Saints; so large, in fact, other characters often struggle to reach past his knees.
- Generation Xerox: Like his successor Aldebaran, he is a large, physically imposing Gold Saint of Taurus who is powerful enough to fight enemies without needing to take a proper fighting stance. And just like Aldebaran, he ultimately dies on his feet protecting the Taurus Temple, at least until Odysseus brings him back from the brink.
- Honor Before Reason: Subverted. He eventually lets Shun and Tenma pass.
- I Am Not Left-Handed: He's so strong, that while he's sitting down, he's able to manhandle Specters and give Tenma and Shun a hard time. He only bothers to stand up once Suikyo proves to be tougher than he expected.
- Only Mostly Dead: He nearly kicks it after his battle with Suikyo, so close that his soul is actually SITTING on the shore of Acheron in the Underworld, but Odysseus goes there to get him back.
- The Worf Effect: Soon after he demonstrates how powerful he is against Shun, Tenma, and a small squad of Specters, he's soundly beaten by Garuda Suikyo to show just how strong the Judge is against an experienced opponent.
- You Shall Not Pass!: He refuses to let Suikyo pass through his temple, and ultimately dies standing upright, protecting the temple even in death. Or at least, near-death.
Gemini Cain and Abel
Abel (left) and Cain (right)
Two brothers who share a single body, with one vanishing like a shadow as the other appears. Cain is the elder brother and a noble and just spirit, while his younger brother Abel is wicked and cruel.
- Big Bad Wannabe: Abel desires to use the chaos unfolding around Sanctuary as a chance to overthrow Athena, but ultimately accomplishes little to nothing before Odysseus separates him from Cain and he dies from apoptosis.
- Cain and Abel: And ironically, Abel is the evil one.
- Death of Personality: Abel dies when Odysseus surgically separates him from Cain's mind and triggers apoptosis in him, leaving only Cain behind.
- Evil Brunette Twin: Abel has darker hair than Cain.
- For the Evulz: Seems to Abel's only reason to cast Genromaoken on Suikyo.
- Generation Xerox: The Gemini Saints of the 18th century, much like Saga and Kanon in the 20th, are a pair of brothers with one being pure good, and the other pure evil. Just like Kanon, Abel is a schemer who tries to tempt his brother into villainy, and just like Saga, only one of them is active at a time, with Ikki noting the similarities when he encounters Cain. And just like Saga, the good side is the true personality, with the evil side being a split personality seemingly born from a curse since childhood.
- Jekyll & Hyde: Ironically enough, Cain is the Jekyll when Abel is the Hyde.
- Necessarily Evil: Abel is revealed to be this by Odysseus: as Cain had extra cells that didn't die from apoptosis, a second mind formed inside him, and developed a strong "evil" personality that contrasted Cain's "good", all to take over Cain's body and avoid being destroyed by its immune system.
- Shadow Archetype: To the point their names are written with the kanjis of "Light" and "Shadow".
- Space Master: As the Gemini Saint, they can use Another Dimension to send opponents to an alternate dimension, as well as the powerful Galaxian Explosion.
- Split Personality: Taken to the extremes. Cain and Abel literally can't appear at the same time. If Cain is being dominant, Abel disappears and vice versa. They even go to the extreme to call each other their own shadow. Abel even implies that he's a second personality created by Cain to throw into Abel all his evilness.
- And then Odysseus points out that as a being made of cells destined to die via apoptosis, Abel had no other choice but to cling to evil to sustain his existence, as an opposite to Cain's goodness.
Cancer Deathtoll
Known as the Coffin Maker, Deathtoll is a flamboyant Gold Saint who builds multiple coffins which litter the Cancer Temple. But beneath his quirks and self-serving tendency to ally with the winning side in any given situation, he's remarkably observant and able to discern a person's character with remarkable accuracy.
- Ambiguous Gender Identity: Although Deathtoll at points identifies as male, he is very effeminate, obsessed with beauty, and occasionally refers to himself as a maiden. When he encounters Odysseus, he has him alter his own face to resemble a woman's, going through several different faces before deciding to keep his face the way it is. As a child and an adult, he also asks Odysseus whether he's male or female, with Deathtoll being bullied in his youth by others over their own inability to tell.
- Animal Motifs: Crab
- Ass Kicks You: His Peach Attack and Peach Bomber techniques, which are just him thrusting his rear end into his opponent.
- Baldness Angst: He's not happy when he loses his wig in his battle against Griffon Vermeer, claiming to the Specter that warriors care about their looks until their death. Conversely, he's overjoyed when the Ophiuchus Temple's healing waves cause three short hairs to grow on his scalp.
- Be the Ball: Thanks to Griffon Vermeer's Cosmic Marionettion, Deathtoll is unnaturally twisted into a ball shape and is forced to bounce around to go anywhere. Surprisingly, he isn't much hurt by this, and admits that he likes his new shape, although he finally untwists himself during his meeting with Odysseus.
- Cloudcuckoolander: He is by far the goofiest and silliest character in Next Dimension, with his antics often serving as comic relief. Even his encounter with Odysseus is noticeably lighter in tone compared to those of the other Gold Saints, with Odysseus seemingly unsure of how to react.
- Cramming the Coffin: He uses this as a battle tactic, at one point cramming multiple Specters in one of his coffins before throwing them back into the hole in Yomotsu Hirasaka.
- Evil Redhead: "Evil" may or may not be accurate, but he has red hair. Albeit barely, as he's actually wearing a wig, with his real hair only covering the back and sides of his head.
- Excellent Judge of Character: His judgement about people is almost always accurate, which is something he is quite aware, and boastful of - but he's right, despite being the asshole he is. For example, he knows that Suikyou is a resolved man that hasn't lost his loyalty to Athena, and will stop at nothing in order to convey his message, and that Ikki is very likely to inherit the Leo cloth so he begged Kaizer to stop beating Ikki.
- Generation Xerox: Like Deathmask, he's a dubiously loyal Cancer Gold Saint with the power to send people to the entrance of the Underworld, and decorates his temple with the faces of the dead. That's where the similarities end, though, as Deathtoll proves to be a very different person to his present-day successor.
- Gonk: Oh boy. Far more than his successor Deathmask, who has his moments (especially in the Hades arc).
- Heel–Face Revolving Door: He goes from being a loyal Saint of Athena to an ally of Hades and back again, often within mere panels of each other. He himself admits that he'll just defect to the winning side, although he's willing to take a stand for Athena when he learns Odysseus wants her head.
- I Broke a Nail: He breaks some of his nails while he and Ikki battle Specters in Yomotsu Hirasaka, to his dismay.
- I Surrender, Suckers: His way to deal with Specters is to convince them he's on their side for them to lower their guards so Deathtoll can send them back to Yomotsu, inside coffins this time.
- Prematurely Bald: It can be inferred that he's fairly young, and yet he's almost completely bald. Even in flashbacks as a child, Deathtoll is shown to have prominently receding temples.
- Red Baron: He's known as Deathtoll the Coffin Maker.
- Sissy Villain: Deathtoll is highly emotional and is shown to have a number of effeminate mannerisms, such as striking flamboyant poses, being obsessed with beauty, having an often flowery speech pattern, and freaking out over breaking some nails during a fight against Specters.
- Trap Master: His main method of dealing with Specters is to trap them in coffins, then throw them back into the Underworld. He also possesses the Omerta, a chest which ensnares those who give an answer to a question and traps them for eternity, unless the chest is opened from the outside. Unfortunately, Deathtoll often finds himself trapped in it.
- Undertaker: Appears to serve this role in the Sanctuary, as he builds numerous coffins that lie in his temple. Once the Specters begin their attack, though, he uses them on Hades' soldiers just as he would for the Saints, to stop them from simply coming back from the world of the dead.
Leo Kaiser
A stern, no-nonsense man with the heart of a lion; both metaphorically, and literally. He guards the Leo Temple with the aid of Goldie and Blondie, two giant lions he adopted as cubs.
- Action Pet: Kaiser owns a large lion named Goldie, who wears gold armor similar to his own Cloth. Even though he isn't a Saint, he's more than capable of tearing Specters to shreds. Goldie has a similarly-armored sister, Blondie, though she hasn't been seen protecting the Leo Temple as often as her brother.
- Animal Motifs: He's strongly associated with lions as the Leo Gold Saint, though he goes even farther than Aoilia by having two armored lions to help him guard his temple.
- Badass Transplant: Surprisingly, Kaiser actually has in him the heart of a monstrous lion who was capable of telepathy and coherent thought. Kaiser defeated him to prove his might, but was about to die from his wounds, when the lion requested that Odysseus transplant his heart into such a brave warrior. The downside is he needs to frequently ingest a herb that supresses his immune system, or else his body will reject the heart.
- The Beastmaster: He has a giant lion named Goldie who also helps guard the Sanctuary. He also has another lion, Blondie, but she doesn't get as much focus as her brother.
- Generation Xerox: He strongly resembles his eventual successor Aiolia in appearance, skill, and personality.
- Honor Before Reason: Even when Goldie makes it clear that Tenma and Shun mean no harm, he still doesn't let them through.
- Hot Blooded Sideburns: He sports a pair of impressive sideburns to go along with his fierce personality.
- Lightning Bruiser: As expected of the Leo Saint, Kaiser can deliver powerful blows at the speed of light.
- Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: As badass as having the heart of a powerful lion is, Kaiser needs to take medication frequently to stop his body from rejecting it. He neglects to do so while standing up to Odysseus, and only survives thanks to Odysseus giving it to him after he falls back to sleep.
- Undying Loyalty: To Athena. When Odysseus comes for Athena's head, he refuses to let Odysseus through without a fight, even as his body starts rejecting his transplanted heart.
- We Named the Monkey "Jack": He named one of his lions Goldie, which can cause some confusion, as the Gold Saints are often referred to as "Goldies" by Western fans, particularly in Latin America.
Virgo Shijima
Known as a man of silence, Shijima is a powerful Gold Saint said to be close to the gods.
- Armor Is Useless: Played straight when Pisces Cardinale flings a rose through his Gold Cloth.
- Brown Note:
- He's set up a barrier in the Virgo Temple that creates an anechoic chamber which harms intruders with a fierce buzzing noise. Ikki ends up going deaf when confronted with it.
- Through his mastery of silence, Shijima has come to understand and weaponise "Ungyo", a divine sound representing the end of the universe.
- Determinator: Even when bleeding out and trapped in an inescapable labyrinth, Shijima ensures that no harm will fall upon the young Athena so long as he lives.
- Disability Superpower: Downplayed; to store his Cosmo, Shijima chooses to remain mute as well as keeping his eyes closed, thus cutting off two of his senses. As a child, he also became deaf as a result of his thousand-day meditation, though this was cured by Odysseus.
- Eyes Always Shut: Like Shaka, Shijima keeps his eyes shut to store his Cosmo, although he frequently has them open in later chapters once Athena arrives from the future. His afterimage guarding the Virgo Temple in his absence is almost always shown to have its eyes shut, however.
- Enlightenment Superpowers: As part of his training, he spent a thousand days meditating in the Ganges to communicate with the gods and Buddha, eventually achieving the same powerful techniques as his successor Shaka.
- Four Is Death: In his temple are the Four Doors of Buddha, which traps intruders in an endless void with only four doors as the exit; each representing disease, old age, life, and death. No matter what door is chosen, a horrific outcome awaits the intruder — and if someone happens to open all four at the same time, every outcome will ravage them at once.
- Generation Xerox: While he's very similar to Shaka as a Buddhist Saint with Enlightenment Superpowers, he also ends up being similar to Aiolos by protecting a baby Athena from being killed by the Sanctuary's Pope, even as he's grievously wounded doing so.
- Meaningful Name: Shijima means "silence".
- The Quiet One: Shijima seldom uses his voice to speak, and often communicates via telepathy.
Libra Dohko
See Saint Seiya Gold Saints.Scorpio Ecarlate
A Saint with a curious condition that causes him to occasionally turn invisible.
- Animal Motifs: Scorpions, as the Scorpio Gold Saint. Aside from those traits shown with Milo, Ecarlate's disease came about when he was stung by a scorpion as a boy.
- Blessed with Suck: His invisibility allows him to attack enemies without being seen, but he has little control over it. It's also a condition he contracted as a child, and it would have caused his entire body to outright evaporate if not for a blood transfusion from Odysseus. And when he loses said blood, it doesn't take long for that to happen.
- Body Horror: Ecarlate's invisibility isn't instant. When he confronts Shiryu, his circulatory system appears first, followed by his bones, organs, and muscles before he finally rematerializes.
- Conflicting Loyalty: He should be loyal to Athena as a Gold Saint, but he feels honor-bound to follow Odysseus, as he saved his life as a child. He ultimately sides with Athena, in part because he recognizes who's really inside Odysseus's body.
- Cruel and Unusual Death: Odysseus bursts every blood vessel in Ecarlate's body, draining the golden blood he'd given him as a child and causing his body to undergo sublimation and turn gaseous.
- Facial Markings: Has a set of red lines around his eyes resembling blood vessels (and given how his invisibility works, they may well be just that).
- Finger Poke of Doom: He shares the same long red fingernail Milo uses to fire his Scarlet Needle technique at his enemies.
- Fingore: Downplayed, but his stinger fingernail is broken by Shiryu, impressing him enough to let him pass the Scorpio Temple.
- Generation Xerox: Like Milo, he's a stubborn Saint with a penchant for Cruel Mercy, and his fight against Shiryu shares several beats with the fight between Milo and Hyoga in the Sanctuary arc.
- I Owe You My Life: As a child, Ecarlate's illness meant his body would sublimate and evaporate, but a blood transfusion from Odysseus saved his life. This plays a large factor in his Conflicting Loyalty once news of Odysseus's impending return gets out.
- Invisibility: His gimmick. Not a permanent example, and rather disturbingly, his veins and blood vessels appear first.
- Meaningful Name: Appropriately, his name means "Scarlet" in French.
- Mr. Exposition: It's through Ecarlate that the audience learns just who the soon-to-resurrect Odysseus was, when he tells Shiryu how he saved his life.
- Worthy Opponent: Is properly impressed with Shiryu reaching a new threshold of resolve and enlightenment, embodied by the dragon on his back acquiring a gem as a proof of his indomitable forbearance.
- You Shall Not Pass!: Despite owing his life to Odysseus, he refuses to let him pass the Scorpio Temple. For this, his life-saving blood transfusion is undone, and he evaporates into nothingness as he spends his final moments resisting Odysseus.
Sagittarius Gestalt:
Centaur Form
Actual Form
- Animorphism: Got transformed into a centaur by Odysseus, with his lower half becoming the body of his beloved horse Tanya. Ultimately subverted.
- Adaptive Armor: Wears his Gold Cloth in its object form, that is an actual centaur!
- Be Careful What You Wish For: He wished for his beloved horse to be resurrected, in any way, any shape, as long as he could be with her again. He got turned into a centaur (or so he thought), and did not expect it, but it fulfilled his wish.
- Body Horror: His transformation in the initial stage. He even mentions having initially an unnatural growth in his back, and how his feet turned into hooves, before having a full fledged centaur body.
- Ultimately subverted when Athena gives him a Tomato in the Mirror reveal.
- Conflicting Loyalty: Very surprisingly! From what we can see so far, is totally loyal to Odysseus when he should be loyal to Athena. This especially does not sit well with Hyoga as this smears the name of Sagittarius, which until in the series now was synonymous to Undying Loyalty!
- Expy: Notably averted! He is absolutely nothing like his successor Aiolos.
- Fatal Flaw: Shares this flaw with Hyoga of all people in regards to loved ones! Hyoga even points this out to his face with a poignant "The Reason You Suck" Speech.
- Legendary Weapon: Turns out the arrow Marin found in 1990 was the Ultimate Arrow of Sagittarius, bestowed upon the Sagittarius Gold Saint. Gestalt tries to use it to prove if Athena is the real deal, and she succeeds in stopping the arrow.
- Magic Feather: Odysseus actually tricked his mind into believing he had been turned into a centaur, to allow him to cope with the loss of his favorite horse.
- Meaningful Name: Being the fusion of a man and a horse, yes, this is appropriate. Doubly so when Athena tells him he lost sight of his very own boundaries, and his warped perception bled into reality. This went so far as to make other people recognize him as a centaur, explaining why initially Hyoga seems to have thought he was facing an unmanned Cloth!
Capricorn Izo
- Animal Motifs: Goat
- Absurdly Sharp Blade: Wielder of the Excalibur blade-like attack in his arm (which manifests as a katana instead of an European sword).
- Expy: Izo strongly resembles Iori from Masami Kurumada's other famous manga, Ring ni Kakero. Aside from identical appearances, both are also Japanese katana users.
- Katanas Are Just Better: His use of Excalibur is represented as a large katana, in contrast to the European-style sword used for Shura's version. It remains just as powerful as ever, though.
Aquarius Mystria
- Reasonable Authority Figure: Can honestly be viewed as this compared to most of the other Gold Saints. He does not take Hyoga's story concerning a wounded Athena at face value, but he comes to realize that he is very much devoted to her, and that he can approve of his character after fighting him.
Pisces Cardinale
- Related in the Adaptation: Saint Seiya: Time Odyssey depicts Cardinale as a biological ancestor of Aphrodite, his modern day successor.
Ophiuchus Odysseus
Originally a Silver Saint, Odysseus was a skilled medic who was beloved by Sanctuary for his kindness and knowledge. He died prior to the Holy War of the 18th century, but Athena's time travelling has caused Odysseus to resurrect as the Ophiuchus Gold Saint — the legendary thirteenth Gold Saint said to be cursed.
- 13 Is Unlucky: The Ophiuchus Gold Saint is the thirteenth of their number, and is regarded as an omen of disaster following his earning the fury of the gods in mythological times.
- Ambiguously Evil: His resurrection is hailed as a major distortion in the proper order of the Universe, and he intends to end Athena's life. However, he merely tests the resolve of his fellow Gold Saints, by asking them to weigh their loyalty towards Athena versus their loyalty towards him, even going as far as healing them or solving their long standing issues. It soon transpires that it isn't Odysseus who wants to kill Athena, but Asclepius, who's currently possessing his body.
- Animal Motifs: Snakes
- Back from the Dead: Odysseus died some time before the story began, but is resurrected as the Ophiuchus Gold Saint thanks to Athena's meddling with the past.
- Big Bad Ensemble: Both he and Hades' army aim to kill Athena, but the two act independently of one another.
- Big Brother Mentor: When he was alive, he acted as this to the young Gold Saints, frequently giving them words of encouragement and helping them with their problems, even putting his life at risk to save them.
- Came Back Strong: In life, Odysseus was only a Silver Saint; following his resurrection, however, he became a Gold Saint with power that puts all the others to shame.
- Create Your Own Villain: The only reason Asclepius escaped his prison in Tartarus and revived as Odysseus is because of the Time Crash caused by Saori time travelling to save Seiya's life.
- Covered with Scars: In the past, he was badly burned after saving a young Dohko and Shion from a volcanic eruption, to the point of covering himself with a hood and robe to hide the burn scars. These appear to have vanished as a result of his resurrection.
- Demonic Possession: The resurrected Odysseus actually has the spirit of Asclepius within his body, with the latter taking advantage of Athena's distortion of the timestream to escape his prison and get revenge on her. Asclepius first emerges when Tenma confronts him, and by the time Odysseus reaches the Ophiuchus Temple, Asclepius takes over his body completely.
- Driven to Suicide: How he died in the first place. Odysseus had poisoned himself in a bid to curtail Asclepius' plans to use him as his vessel, only to be told that death isn't an obstacle for him.
- Exact Words: He talks about killing Athena, which would of course have everyone on edge. But he really just wants to get rid of the future Athena causing the distortion that made Asclepius reappear; when Odysseus realizes the real Athena of this era is Sasha, he tasks Tenma with protecting her from the Specters.
- Forced Sleep: The Ophiuchus Temple forcibly puts all of Sanctuary to sleep, and only Odysseus has the ability to wake them up when he needs to (and put them back to sleep when he no longer needs to).
- Healing Factor: Even when he's blown to pieces or reduced to dust, Odysseus can rebuild himself using his extensive knowledge of human anatomy.
- Healing Serpent: He's a prodigious medic (if also a powerful Gold Saint, arguably the strongest among their ranks) and associated with snakes as the Ophiuchus Saint. Fitting for the reincarnation vessel of the god Asclepius himself.
- Heel Realization: In a fashion. First he derides Tenma for being weak and unworthy of his Cloth, because he wants to protect his friends and doesn't care about Athena. He strips him of the Pegasus Cloth, but to his amazement, Tenma refuses to give up, and the Cloth dons itself on Tenma again, and as he finally lands a hit on Odysseus, the latter realizes he is the very monster Suikyou tasked Tenma with killing with all of his resolve.
- Hellish Pupils: When Asclepius takes control of his body, his pupils become slitted like a snake's.
- Loved by All: Odysseus was beloved by everyone in the Sanctuary, and his death was met with much sorrow.
- The Medic: His most prominent skill is to heal people from any injury and illness, even death.
- Not So Stoic: While he's stoic and unflappable in his meetings with most of the Gold Saints, he's noticeably perplexed by Deathtoll's behaviour and demands to make him look more like a woman.
- Reincarnation: According to legend, Odysseus was considered the reincarnation of the god Asclepius. It's eventually confirmed that Asclepius' soul, sealed in the Sanctuary, has decided Odysseus would be his host.
- Secret Test of Character: As he progresses through the Twelve Temples, Odysseus awakens each of the Gold Saints and requests that they help him kill Athena. Each one of them proves to him their resolve to protect the goddess with their life, and upon doing so, he puts them back to sleep, citing that they need to be in their best shape for the oncoming Holy War.
- Serpent Staff: The Ophiuchus Gold Cloth carries Asclepius' Wand, a large gold scepter with a tip styled like a snake's head.
- Split-Personality Makeover: Once Asclepius fully takes control, his Hellish Pupils are permanent, he gains Facial Markings around said eyes, and his white hair turns black.
- Uncanny Valley Makeup: Odysseus has prominent red and blue eyeshadow and red lipstick, giving him an eerie, almost inhuman look. He's shown to lack the lipstick and red eyeshadow in flashbacks, implying they're a result of his resurrection.
- World's Strongest Man: Said to be the most powerful Saint, and we see it's not for show. He can literally No-Sell any technique, piece himself back together from the ones that actually kill him, and is a very effective Warrior Therapist.
Satellites
The Satallites are Artemis's equivalent to Athena's saints. They're warriors dedicated to protecting the moon goddess, almost completely consisting of women archers.
Callisto
- Homoerotic Subtext: For Artemis.
- Number Two: Is this to Artemis.
Scoumoune
- Annoying Arrows
- Boisterous Weakling
- Hoist by His Own Petard: She was about to finish Shun off when Ikki appeared and threw one of her arrows back at her.
Touma
A former Angel, who was banished from the heavenly realm and imprisoned outside Artemis' temple on Olympus. Callisto tasks him with killing the comatose Seiya, in return for his freedom.
- Boxed Crook: He's introduced as a prisoner of Artemis, and is promised release if he kills Seiya.
- Broken Angel: Once, he was a proud warrior of the heavenly realm, but for unknown reasons fell from grace and was imprisoned on the moon. In addition to having a badly damaged Glory with one wing missing, his back has a large scar as if said wing had been torn off of him.
- Canon Immigrant: Touma previously appeared in the Tenkai Hen: Overture movie, which was rendered non-canon in favor of Next Dimension.
- Covered with Scars: His body is covered in numerous scars, with the largest located on his back, resembling the scar where a wing would be ripped off, if he had wings.
- Long Lost Sibling: His primary concern is finding out what happened to his sister, whom he was separated from as a child. Though currently unconfirmed, it's strongly suggested that, like in Tenkai Hen: Overture, Marin is his sister.
- Mysterious Past: As of now, how he became an Angel and why he was locked up on Olympus hasn't been explained.
- Nothing Personal: He's not too excited about being tasked with killing Seiya, someone who can't even fight back, but it's worth it if he gets the chance to find his sister.
- Red Eyes, Take Warning: His eyes have red sclera, though whether this is their natural color or an effect of the mask he wears is unknown. Either way, he's dangerous.
- Restraining Bolt: The mask over his eyes tightens if he rebels against Callisto's orders, eventually crushing him if he should go too far.
- What the Hell, Hero?: He gives one to Shiryu after the latter refuses to go with Hyoga to help Seiya, calling him a coward for wanting to live a safe life while Seiya's friends do all they can to save him. It proves effective enough to kick his ass back into gear.
Gods and Goddesses
Athena / Saori Kido
After Hades' defeat, Saori takes care of the comatose Seiya. She eventually discovers that Seiya's heart is slowly being penetrated by Hades' sword of grudges, which will kill him in three days. Saori chooses to save the life of the man who did so for her so many times and travel back in time in order to destroy Hades' sword in the previous Holy War.
See Saint Seiya Gods characters page from classic page for more info.
Artemis
The Goddess of the Moon and the Hunt, and sister to Athena. Athena goes to her seeking a means to travel back in time in order to destroy Hades' sword and save Seiya. Artemis is so touched by her sister's devotion to Seiya that she agrees, and helps Saori make contact with Chronos, the god of time.Chronos
The formless god of time, whose power is beyond even that of the Olympian gods.- It Amused Me: The only justification given for him turning Athena into a baby is that it was a "prank" for her arrogance.
- Jerkass Gods: While he does grant Athena's request to send her into the past, he opts to revert her into a baby as a joke, and when pressed for an explanation by Hecate, he simply tells her to go away and let him sleep.
- Time Master: As the god of time, he can send people to different points in time and space, and can even affect their age to make them older or younger than before.
- The Voice: Chronos is described as having no form, and he's only "seen" as a voice that other characters can hear.
- You Can't Fight Fate: He tells Athena that no matter what, she won't be able to prevent Seiya's death, and that trying anyway will only result in more lives being lost.
Hades
During the climactic battle between Athena's saints and Hades in 1990, Seiya intervenes before Hades gets the chance to finish off Athena. It's then that the God of the Underworld recalls how in a previous life, the Pegasus Saint was a close friend of his...
See Saint Seiya Gods for more info.
Specters
Garuda Suikyo
Tenma and Alone's childhood caretaker, a friend of Shion and Dohko, and the former Crateris Silver Saint. He left the Sanctuary after the death of his younger brother due to illness. He saved Alone and Tenma from freezing to death as children, and taught the latter how to use his Cosmo and left him with the Pegasus Cloth, before resurfacing as one of the three Judges of Hell.
- Died in Your Arms Tonight: He dies in Dohko's arms.
- Even Evil Has Standards: He is not a fan of Deathtoll's Heel–Face Revolving Door practices.
- First-Episode Twist: The fact that he defected to the Underworld Army is treated as a plot twist, but happens about three chapters in.
- I Did What I Had to Do: He defected because the Specters are holding his brother's soul hostage.
- It turns out to be more complex: he was tasked by Odysseus with taking any action he could to destroy him to prevent Asclepios' return, and he ended up tasking Tenma with this. Also, the Pope gave him a secret mission to fake defecting to Hades and take advantage of the confusion to kill Hades; thus explaining nicely why he, and the Pope seemed to have betrayed Athena. Odysseus realizes he decided to bear this cross, alone, and be viewed as a traitor forever.
- Making a Splash/An Ice Person: Makes sense as his Cloth when he was a Silver Saint is a chalice.
- Seers: With the Crateris Cloth (which becomes a giant chalice when not worn), Suikyo could see the future by pouring water into it and looking into the reflections within it.
Griffon Vermeer
A specter with the power to control other people's movements. One of the three Judges.
- Berserk Button: Being compared defavorably to Suikyo. He could ignore most of the crap Deathtoll spouted at him, but that one comment had him open the can of cruel and unusual punishment.
- Composite Character: He has the surplice and technique of Griffon Minos, but is more similar to Wyvern Radamanthys in personality and other facts, such as him being the first of the Three Judges in being introduced, handling a Gold Saint with little effort, his chatting with a servile Frog Specter, and his distrust towards a former Saint of Athena who is now supposedly on the side of Hades and his Specters and who was chosen over him by Pandora to spearhead the invasion of Sanctuary and as it turns out, the supposed former Saint was actually still on the side of Athena's Saints all along.
- Crazy-Prepared: Even when ending up sealed by Deathtoll, he still could leave one wire tying him to Deathtoll to force him to undo the seal.
- Genre Savvy: Quite aware that Deathtoll is waiting for the opportunity to pull a fast one on him.
- People Puppets: Applied to torture rather than outright manipulation, as Griffin Minos.
- Spikes of Villainy
Wyvern Chagall
The last of the three Judges to be deployed. Pandora sends him out to assassinate Sasha, the 18th century incarnation of Athena.
- Curb-Stomp Battle: He delivers one to Tenma with no effort on his part, showing the power gap between himself and the lower-ranked Specter Tenma just struggled to defeat.
- No-Nonsense Nemesis: When Chagall sees Tenma defending Sasha, he doesn't even bother fighting him at first; instead he tosses him over his shoulder to get to Sasha, casually deflects his Pegasus Meteor Fist with his back turned, then finally uses Greatest Caution to get him to shut up.
- Perpetual Frowner: His default expression is a morose frown that he never breaks, not even when he's being attacked.
Others
Alone
Tenma's childhood friend, and a skilled painter. He's incredibly kind and selfless. He's tricked into taking Hades' sword by Pandora, invoking his possession by Hades.
- And I Must Scream: It's implied that he's still aware of himself within the darkness of Hades' soul, calling out to Tenma for help.
The Pope
The Pope of Sanctuary during the Holy War of the 18th century. After promoting Shion and Dohko to the rank of Gold Saints, he's revealed to be plotting to assassinate Athena after she travels back in time from 1990.
- The Faceless: The Pope's helmet covers his face in shadow, and what he looks like underneath it is unknown.
- Fake Defector: Pandora reveals to the Specters that the Pope is on their side, and is conspiring to have the newly-arrived Athena killed. However, the truth is more complicated. He isn't plotting to kill the current era's Athena, but the Athena from 1990 as he learned years before that her presence would bring untold calamity. Furthermore, he isn't in league with Hades at all, and in fact ordered Suikyo to become a Fake Defector himself so he could get close to Hades and kill him.
- History Repeats: Just as Saga will do in the future, the Pope conspires to have an infant Athena killed. However, it's soon revealed he's doing this not to aid Hades, but to prevent the catastrophes that a time-travelling Athena will inflict on the universe.
- No Name Given: As of now, his name has not been revealed.
- Power Fist: He wears a pair of armored gauntlets, though the sleeves of his robe often hide them.
- Retired Badass: Given how the succession of Popes works, this guy is a former Gold Saint.
- Take Up My Sword: A rare villainous example; after the Ophiuchus Temple puts all of Sanctuary to sleep, he awakens to give Ikki the Sword of Khrysos after he arrives at Athena's altar, before falling asleep again thereafter.
- Well-Intentioned Extremist: He only wants to get rid of the future Athena, not the present one; and only because he's aware her reckless actions to save Seiya's life will cause distortions in spacetime that will threaten all of creation.
Hecate
The Witch of the Moon, Hecate is a witch who resides on Olympus. For a price, she will guide visitors to the Temple of the Moon where Artemis resides.
- Disney Death: At first, it appears Chronos kills her by reducing her to dust and scattering it thousands of light years away. However, she reappears alive and well after Athena and Shun depart for the past, telling Chronos he won't get rid of her that easily.
- Girlish Pigtails: After regaining her youth, she has a pair of pigtails on both sides of her head.
- Miniature Senior Citizens: When she first appears, she's a wrinkled old crone around the size of a child.
- Really 700 Years Old: She's been alive for over 1,000 years, and at first she looks the part. She looks much younger after using Athena's hair to restore her youth.
- Suspiciously Similar Substitute: As a supernatural child (or childlike) who lives in a remote mountain area and aids the heroes, Hecate acts as a female version of Kiki, who is otherwise absent.
- Vain Sorceress: She tricked Saori and Shun in order to take a handful of Athena's hair, in order to make a potion to regain her youth.
- Wicked Witch → Cute Witch
- Will Talk for a Price: She'll help you out if you give her something of great personal value; she's not interested in mere money. That said, while she initially takes the late Dohko's cane when Shiryu requests her aid, she gives it back to him before he travels to the past, claiming she can't keep it because of the strong Cosmo around it.
Sasha
A childhood friend of Tenma and Alone, introduced when Odysseus looks into Tenma's dreams and past memories. She is Athena's incarnation in the 18th century, but is currently trapped in a state of deep sleep.
- Deep Sleep: Some time prior to the story, she fell into a deep slumber from which nothing can rouse her. As it turns out, this is because of Saori travelling back from 1990, and her presence is preventing Athena's and Hades' 18th century selves from awakening.
- Generation Xerox: Par for the course, she is a dead ringer for present Athena / Saori.
