Characters / Sendokai Champions

The Senkuns

From the main team:

• Animal Motifs: The senkuns originally designed with an animal and an element in mind:
  • Zak: Rooster
  • Chloe: Deer
  • Kiet: Panda
  • Fenzy: Squirrel
• In season 3, each senkun will get a sen beast as a companion, which are:
  • Zak: Phoenix
  • Chloe: Unicorn
  • Lon: Chinese Dragon
  • Kiet: Buffalo
  • Fenzy: Cheetah
• Anime Hair: Cloe, Kiet and Fenzy are characters with some of the most extravagant hair on the show, and it seems to be natural. It could be that their earth runs on anime hair color logic, as Ron, their bully, also has fuschia hair and brows. Curiously, all the senkun's parents have normal hair, Zak inheriting that particular shade of blonde from his father. Subverted with Lon, whose hair is a very normal black, only getting red streaks in his sendokai warrior form.
• Calling Your Attacks: Like almost everyone on the show. Only once did Zak perform a technique without naming it, and it was precisely because he did not know his name.
• Color-Coded Characters:
  • Zak: Yellow.
  • Chloe: Blue.
  • Kiet: Green.
  • Fenzy: Pink.
  • Lon: Red, though his hair isn't as color-coded as the rest of the senkuns, only getting red streaks instead of a full head of red hair.
• Curtains Matchthe Window: Each one has eyes and hair of their characteristic color. Subverted with Lon, who has black hair and green eyes despite his color being red.
• Elemental Hair Colors: each of the original 4 senkuns was designed around an animal and an element, which were:
  • Zak: Fire
  • Cloe: Wind
  • Kiet: Earth
  • Fenzy: Lightning
• Facial Markings: After transforming.
• Form-Fitting Wardrobe: Present in their normal outfits, much more noticeable in their Sendokai uniforms
• Technicolor Eyes: Each one has an intense color that matches the color of their Zen energy. Subverted with Lon, whose colour is red yet his eyes are green, then played straight, for at his lowest point when he's seething that he HATES everyone and everything we can see that his eyes have turned red.
• Transformation Is a Free Action: Justified most of the time, invoking their uniforms alongside the Senrok is a step in starting the Sendokai party.
• True Companions: They are very close to each other. A curious case in which they were already good friends from the beginning of the series, with their bonds becoming closer as they faced challenges together.

Zak

• Expy: He bears more of a passing resemblance to Goku from Dragon Ball.
• Happy Dance: It's something he likes to do, and as the name indicates whether he does it or not is a very clear sign of his state of mind.
• The Leader: or Hakuru, but even before the second season Zak was very clearly the Headstrong flavor, with shades of Charismatic and adopting some Levelheaded traits as the second season went on and Zak found his resolve
• Determinator: His defining trait. If it weren't for Zak being so stubborn and headstrong, they would have never even become senkuns, let alone sendokai warriors, and in their lowest points where all seems lost it's always Zak who manages to rally the team to overcome impossible odds, and always tries his hardest to do right by everyone.
• Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: Blonde to match his naturally kind and heroic personality.

Chloe

• Awesomeness by Analysis: The first technique that she learns consists of this, her second technique consists of interrupting this on the opponents in addition to teleporting her.
• The Smart Girl: She's a quick thinker and gets the best grades within their friendgroup, and her abilities have her often playing strategist and coordinating their team plays.

Kiet

• Barrier Warrior: His characteristic technique.
• Big Eater: He likes to eat.
• Lazy Bum: His main flaw, the official website even describes him as the laziest boy in the multiverse. At the beginning of the series this was bordering an unhealthy level, being reluctant to help others and fulfill his obligations. Overcoming this was the central part of his character development.
• The Big Guy: The most robust of the group, and his techniques are based on defense and forcefulness.
• Mighty Glacier: Along with the above, he stands out as the slowest but most resistant member of the group.
• Spikes of Villainy: Inverted, his armor has spikes, but he is one of the heroes.

Fenzy

• Cute Bruiser: She is a small girl, but perfectly competent in Sendokai.
• Fragile Speedster: A little less on the fragile part, at no point is she shown to be less resistant than his companions other than Kiet, and in fact the three techniques she knows are defensive or partially defensive. But in fact she is the fastest of the group and her characteristic technique is based on that speed.
• Girliness Upgrade: She is the tomboy from the group in behavior.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: She can be very rude and somewhat aggressive, but she has her heart in the right place and loves her friends and family very much.
• Mercury's Wings: With the armor.
• Parental Abandonment: Her father is dead in the backstory.
• Tornado Move: Her second technique, summons a tornado useful to attract the Do.

Allies

Tänpo

• Dark and Troubled Past: He lost the last Sendokai Tournament, which led to his allies joining the Zorn.
• Old Master: He is old even by the standards of his species, which has a life expectancy greater than 20,000 years of age.

Lula

• Badass Adorable: Like her species, despite her size and appearance she is good at Sendokai.

Villains

Lon/The Great Zorn

• All Your Powers Combined: Played With. Every time he uses one of the team moves, he can copy the abilities and powers from the teammates he has done the move with - it doesn't have to be a successful move either, or only one, as we see when he uses the failed nero-sen fusion to learn all the other powers the senkun have and use them against Zak's team.
• Anti-Hero: In the first half of Season 2, Lon was brash and arrogant but heroic, until he snapped epically.
• Ax-Crazy: Lon is now utterly demented and dangerous to everyone around.
• The Bad Guy Wins: In very shocking way, he returns from the past as a completely deranged tyrant. The first thing he does is kidnap Chloe and attack the town of the kids just to piss them off.
• Big Bad: He turns The Great Zorn, who up until this point has been the overarching antagonist of the first season and whose rise they were trying to prevent in the second.
• Downer Ending: Not for him, but to his former friends. He attacks the city and kidnaps Cloe, seemingly to make her his empress, though s3 reveals that he actually kidnapped her to ask for her help to save the Earth from a new threat.
• Heel–Face Revolving Door: He wants to make friends and save their dimension, but his own flaws lead him to become an intergalactic tyrant and kidnap Cloe, except that the wants to make a more just world and just took Cloe to ask for her help to save the Earth...it's enough to make you dizzy!
• Fallen Hero: The tragedy of it all is that Lon genuinely tries to be good and do good, but trapped as he is by the psychological wounds his father on him, he is unable to move on, and in the end his desire to acquire the power to be able to correct injustice and get revenge on those who wronged him leads him to become the Grand Zorn and give up on the senkuns.
• Hypocrite: Accuses Zak of stealing his position in the team and Cloe from him when it's Lon who is the newcomer to the team, and in a scene where he took all the powers of the senkuns onto himself. Who's the real thief here...
• I Just Want to Have Friends: Lon truly tried to be friends with the senkuns, but was unable to move past his trauma to see that it doesn't have to be all or nothing, and that just because the team disagreed with what he was doing and refused to follow him, it didn't mean they were any less his friends.
• Irony: Lon seems convinced Zak for stole everything from him, but he calls Zak a thief in the match where Lon copied all of the senkun's powers to fight Zak by himself when it became apparent that the team wasn't willing to hate Zak in Lon's behalf. With this, it becomes tragically apparent that Lon is the cuckoo in the nest here - he's so incredibly jealous of what Zak - his friends, his position in the team, the girl he likes - has, so instead of trying to make his own spot in the team, Lon attempted to fulfill Zak's role when the later left, and fell apart when he found himself unable to live up to it.
• The Power of Hate: Where he gets all that energy.
• Really 700 Years Old: Exactly how he survives 15,000,000 years in the past. Biologically 14,000,000,000 years old and chronologically 14 years old, thanks to the Helmet of the Great Zorn, to which Crhronam-yatt granted inmortality.
• Straw Nihilist: Lon, despite attempts to prove the opposite to himself, in the end comes to despair that his father was right, his friendship with the senkuns was false and he is as alone as he's always been.
• Tragic Villain: Despite what he would become, Lon was just a kid who wanted help. If his parents had not been so horrible to him and to each other, had his father had not pounded into his head to not to trust in anybody, he had many qualities that would have made him a good friend and a great asset to the team, and eventually a hero. However, he quietly spiralled further and further, and in the end turned into warped version of himself while his friends were helpless to do anything but watch (Zak and Cloe in particular looked absolutely heartbroken)

Lon's Father

• Abusive Parents: Not physically, but psychologically - he taught his own son to not trust in anybody, least of all his friends.
• Foil: To Zak's father, and if you think a bit about it, to Zak's family situation in season 1. Where Zak's dad is jovial and encourages his son to have fun and provides sound advice so Zak can continue to grow as a person, Lon's father only teaches Lon to be as nihilistic and embittered as he is, blaming and projecting his wounds on everyone around him.
• Jerkass: The WORST, and boy do I mean W O R S T, parental figure in the series.
• Straw Nihilist: he disdains things like love and friendship, not believing they exist, and lectures his own son about how he shouldn't trust anyone and only look out for himself.
• No Name Given: In the credits his only called Lon's Father - he never gets a name, not even in the narratives.
• We Hardly Knew Ye: A not-lethal example, and almost glad for it because he was awful. He left his son to a travel around the globe before we even get to know him better, leaving poor Lon only with his very questionable lessons, many questions and no way to answer them or seek guidance or help.

Mariscal Zorn/Kento

Sidmodius

Lalith

Kazkrad

• Evil Counterpart: to Zak.

Rival Teams

Professor Sylius' team

• Irony: Professor Sylius is a monkey that controls other monkeys.
• Mad Scientist: Professor Sylius.
• Mind-Control Device: The Atari remote control.

The Norbius

• Awesomeness by Analysis:
• Cyclops
• Hive Mind: They are literally one mine inhabiting múltiple bodies.

Tectroids

• Arm Cannon: After two combinations.
• Humongous Mecha: After three combinations.
• Mecha-Mooks.

The Multiman

• The Dandy
• Green-Skinned Space Babe
• I Lied

Kronex Twins:

• Palette Swap
• Polar Opposite Twins
• Psychic Powers
• Time Travel

Urloks

• Combined Energy Attack
• Earthquakes Cause Fissures: and control stakes.
• Face–Heel Turn: To save their own world in tournament.

Kazkrad Team

• Evil Counterpart: To Senkuns.
• Evil Knockoff
• Psycho Rangers: