Indiegogo DLC Candidates
All of these characters (as well as Marie, Aeon, and Venus) were listed as potential candidates to be added as the fourth and fifth DLC characters to the original game as well as potentially being playable in any possible sequels (with the exception of Juju). Many of them are either mentioned or appear in brief cameos during the story lines. Read here for full details of their stories and potential movesets.
Eliza won the first poll and became the third DLC character, with Beowulf winning the second poll to be the fourth.
Tropes that all of these characters have in common:
- Chekhov's Gunman: Majority of the characters have already had on-screen cameos or a mention by name in the original cast's profiles.
- Promoted to Playable: Annie, Umbrella, and Black Dahlia were part of this list up until they were announced as proper characters for release in 2021. A forum post following the release of Annie's trailer revealed that this may end up being the case for any of the other characters listed below as a result.
- Saved for the Sequel: Any or all of them could have been (or could be), although recent developments have shown that they may not have to wait that long (with the exception of Juju, who was cancelled outright).
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Mrs. Victoria/D. Violet
Mrs. Diana Victoria
Voiced by: Wendee Lee (English) / ? (Japanese)
The tutorial lady. In-universe, she is a teacher at Filia's school.
Tropes associated with Mrs. Victoria:
- Anime Hair: A huge bun in back, and a big curl in front.
- Ascended Extra: Appears in the tutorial stage and in Filia's ending.
- Functional Genre Savvy: She's said to have a lot of knowledge when it comes to fighting games — something that obviously helps when she's in one herself.
- Hot Teacher: Mrs. Victoria is a very good teacher and quite the fetching woman, with a shapely figure emphasised by a tight skirt and sheer stockings.
- Meaningful Name: Her name is Victoria, and she's a teacher. She's guiding her students so they can be victorious in their future endeavours. She also shares both her first and last names with notable members of The British Royal Family, fitting her commanding and formal presence.
- Prim and Proper Bun: At the back of her head.
- Two First Names: Diana Victoria.
Deep Violet
Mrs. Victoria's alter-ego, a dominatrix superhero. She wields the Pazuzu whip and has attacks based on Pagan themes and innuendos.
Tropes associated with D. Violet:
- All There in the Manual: The D stands for "Deep."
- Ambiguously Human: She has purple skin, horns, and a tail despite appearing to be a normal human as Mrs. Victoria.
- The Cameo: Makes a minor appearance in Beowulf's story as one of the fighters captured by Double.
- Dark Is Not Evil: What Batman is to flying rodents, she is to Dominatrix gear.
- Does This Remind You of Anything?: Pazuzu has a rather... suggestive bulging vein, and its drool is thick and white. Not to mention its serpentine mouth. Google what part of the god Pazuzu resembled a serpent. Go ahead, do it. Not to mention that it can "change rigidity when needed." And yes, that is a direct quote from the site.
- Hot as Hell: Horns, check. Pointy tail, check. Ridiculously revealing outfit, double check.
- Split Personality: It's been implied that Mrs. Victoria is unaware of her existence.
- Snake Whip: Her whip, Pazuzu, has a viper's head complete with fangs.
- Stripperific: Bar a domino mask and afew pieces covering up the particularly naughty bits, she may as well be naked.
- Whip of Dominance: Deep Violet, Mrs. Victoria's alter-ego, wields a whip called the Pazuzu Whip and she's a demonic dominatrix and has a thing for dominance.
Stanley
Stanley Whitefin
Voiced by: Christopher Corey Smith (English) / ? (Japanese)
A Dagonian scientist who works at Anti-Skullgirl Lab 8 and a colleague of Dr. Avian, who helped in turning Patricia into Peacock, and Ben into Big Band. He is an ex-member of Lab 4, a lab that specialized in handheld weapons. He is also a sports buff.
Tropes associated with Stanley:
- Ascended Extra: Appears as a background character in the Lab 8 stage.
- Expy: In-Universe, Peacock's buddy Andy Anvil is based on Stanley; the head and love of sports mainly.
- Fish People: A Shark Man, to be precise.
- I Know Madden Kombat: Justified, since he's a sports buff.
- Labcoat of Science and Medicine: As expected. It might have Hammerspace pockets, since he apparently carries a number of weapons in it (including sports implements like baseball bats).
- Nerd Glasses: A shark with glasses, to be exact.
Hive
Hive
Voiced by: Erin Fitzgerald (English) / ? (Japanese)
A member and subject of Anti-Skullgirls Lab 8. While she is a flight-capable ASG soldier, she is also still a teenage girl who can be ill-tempered at times. She and Leduc are like brother and sister. She possesses the Synthetic Parasite Beezle Bomb.
Tropes associated with Hive:
- Bee-Bee Gun: Her Synthetic Parasite gives her this, with bee-shaped missiles and bombs.
- The Cameo: Appears as a background character in the Lab 8 stage and in Peacock's story.
- Powered Armor: Beezle Bomb can function like this, forming into different weapons or shields.
- Shape Shifter Weapon: In combat the Hives of Beezle Bomb cover her arms but she can switch their shape at will.
- Verbal Tic: Has a tendency to hold her B's while speaking, resulting in her sometimes sounding (fittingly enough) like a buzzing bee.
Leduc
Leduc
Voiced by: Kyle Hebert (English) / ? (Japanese)
A member and subject of Anti-Skullgirl Lab 8. A young hero type with a good heart, he and Hive are like brother and sister. He's an idealist, and wields a Synthetic Parasite, the Taranis Generator.
Tropes associated with Leduc:
- The Cameo: Appears as a background character in the Lab 8 stage and in Peacock's story. He also shows up in Peacock's Origin Story in Skullgirls Mobile, as part of the ASG squad sent in to rescue a band of refugees (including the crippled Patricia) from the Medici.
- Collared by Fashion: It covers his mouth. And his scars.
- Meaningful Name: Named after the paralysis livestock can experience from stun bolts.
- Pretty Boy: Which was one of the reasons
Mike Z hated him, until he started brainstorming a playstyle for him. - Shock and Awe: His proposed power-set would largely involve this.
Ileum
Ileum
Voiced by: Laura Post (English) / ? (Japanese)
A member and subject of Anti-Skullgirl Lab 8. Disfigured during the war, she agreed to be grafted with the Synthetic Parasite, Salamander Shell. She is an old-generation ASG operative along with Big Band and the two have been involved in two previous Skullgirl events. Despite her horrific appearance, she is a kind motherly figure to the younger members of Lab 8.
Tropes associated with Ileum:
- Ascended Extra: Appears as a background character in the Lab 8 stage.
- Bad Powers, Good People: She spews forth acid, is horrifying to look at, and is a total sweetheart.
- Body Horror: She appears to be a humanoid made entirely out of intestines. Supplementary materials say the first host of a synthetic parasite was a burns victim, and now wears a mask, and other materials confirm that Ileum was the first of the ASG operatives to recieve one, implying that she was burnt alive during the war.
Fridge Horror sets in when you realize that her current state is an improvement. - Lovecraftian Superpower: A particularly extreme example: Able to squeeze into tiny spaces, able to sprout small drills for use in attacks, can spit highly-corrosive poison at enemies, and the previously mentioned "looks like a humanoid made entirely out of intestines."
- Meaningful Name: The Ileum is a part of the small intestine, and as mentioned before, she appears to be completely made of them.
- Poison Is Corrosive: Her powers allow her to spit or spray a highly toxic substance that is also able to melt living flesh into a puddle.
- Scars Are Forever: She was horribly disfigured in the Grand War.
- Team Mom: Quite contrary to her appearance.
- Technical Pacifist: She avoids fighting due to the nature of her powers.
- White Mask of Doom: Wears one to hide her real face.
Brain Drain
Brain Drain
Voiced by: Kaiji Tang (English) / ? (Japanese)
The psychic second-in-command of Anti-Skullgirl Lab Zero. Along with Valentine, he was responsible for turning Carol into Painwheel and now exerts mental control over her to keep her stable. He is also the creator of Robo-Fortune and the (non-canon) Fukua.
Tropes associated with Brain Drain:
- Actually A Doom Bot: As it turns out, that robotic body Brain Drain's been using this whole time? It's a prototype; the only actual important part is the head. He's more than willing to leave his body behind once he's forced into a corner by Black Dahlia...and leave her a little gift while he's at it.
- Badass Longcoat: He wears a thick padded military coat which resembles a bomber jacket but is as long as a trench coat.
- Bad Boss: It's implied he practices You Have Outlived Your Usefulness. Then there's the fact that he subjects Painwheel to nonstop Mind Rape to keep her in line, and brainwashes Valentine in her scrapped ending as a punishment for her insubordination.
- Battle in the Center of the Mind: His mental manipulation forces Painwheel into one in her story mode. The opponent is another Painwheel which has the transparency and colour scheme of Brain Drain's Astral Projection.
- Boomerang Bigot: He considers "organics" inferior despite having been human himself at one point.
- Brain in a Jar/We Can Rebuild Him: His body is an armour-like robotic shell with a glass skullcap that shows off his brain. Though, as it turns out, the body is very expendable.
- Chekhov's Gunman: Appears in Painwheel's story and intro animation.
- A Day in the Limelight: He receives a lot more screentime in Robo-Fortune's story than he does anywhere else.
- Evil Sounds Deep: His voice is low and normally smooth. Sometimes he slows down or moans out his words in a manner similar to G-Man.
- Greater-Scope Villain: He's responsible for turning Carol into Painwheel, creating Fukua and Robo-Fortune, and he's Valentine's boss (well, one of them anyway). He's even played a part in Black Dahlia's origin story! He's also never directly confronted by any of the main cast and it's likely that less than half of them are even aware of his existence. Black Dahlia does manage to get him at gunpoint, but he escapes with minimal losses. By the end of Marie's Story mode in The Stinger, he eventually learns what Theonite actually is thanks to Valentine's help and uses his new knowledge to create the "Chrome Heart", which he plans on using to get rid of The Trinity once and for all.
- Hidden Depths: Robo-Fortune's story shows he has a mecha figurine on his desk.
- Hypocrite: He was the one who turned Painwheel into what she is now, but he immediately dismisses Valentine's idea of using Ms Fortune for biological weapons research, saying a robot would get the job done better.
- Immortality Seeker: Mentions off-handedly that he has "more than a passing interest in life extension" in Black Dahlia's story mode, which is how he caught on to Lorenzo's suspiciously long lifespan.
- Laughably Evil: Robo-Fortune's story paints him as such, showing him having a far more casual and goofy personality then one would expect. Granted, given the nature of said story, it's safe to to assume that he's not typically like that.
- Laser-Guided Karma: He finally gets some much deserved comeuppance in Umbrella's story, when the resonance between Umbrella's and Painwheel's Skullgirl blood winds up forcefully breaking his psychic hold on the latter. And judging by his facial expression and scream, this was quite painful for him.
- Mr. Fanservice: Bizarrely enough, his secondary body seen in The Stinger of Marie's story mode appears to be rather macho, with his sculpted abs slightly exposed.
- My Greatest Failure: Seems to regard his part in Black Dahlia's creation as this, bitterly stating that he should have left her there to die.
- Omnicidal Maniac: While it was cut from the final release, Valentine's alternate ending paints him as this. Robo-Fortune's ending has him using the Skull Heart to create and army of giant Robo-Fortunes which apparently destroy everything but the rejected DLC characters, all but confirming that he still maintains this belief.
- Power Echoes: His voice has a slight reverb.
- Power Floats: He seems to do this instead of walking.
- Psychic Powers: Has a suite of these at his disposal.
- Astral Projection: He uses it to communicate with others and strengthen Painwheel's brainwashing.
- Mind Control: Does it to Painwheel, and in the cut alt endings to Valentine.
- Rage Against the Heavens: In The Stinger of Marie's story, he turns his attention to the Trinity with the intent to combat them directly. If it weren't for the fact that this is Brain Drain, you might actually root for him.
- The Stoic: Rarely if ever loses control of his emotions...
- Not So Stoic: ...Except in Robo-Fortune's story, where Valentine's letter suggesting the use of Ms. Fortune as a Bioweapon causes him to flip his shit and build Robo-Fortune out of spite.
- Transhuman Treachery: Replaced all of his body parts except for his brain and is the most amoral of the anti-Skullgirls scientists.Brain Drain: Never send an organic to do a machine's job.
Robo-Fortune: BEEP BOOP. Your brain is organic and has the most important job of-
Brain Drain: Moving on. - The Unfettered: His only focus is taking down the Skullgirl, morality be damned. In Big Band's story, he fully advocates attacking Marie while she's holding a building up and unable to defend herself, despite knowing that her dropping that building would kill hundreds of people. When Big Band objects on these very grounds, he orders Painwheel to go on the attack anyways and deal with Big Band too if he tries to intervene.
- Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Long before the events of Skullgirls, Brain Drain found a nearly dead ASG agent and brought her back to the labs because he saw potential in her, leading to her becoming one of the first ASG weapons. That woman would later become Black Dahlia.
- Villain: Exit, Stage Left: He's forced into abandoning his current body in Black Dahlia's story when the titular assassin has him at her mercy.
- Well-Intentioned Extremist: Assuming the cut story content of him having ill-intentions for the world doesn't make it back in, he's this with an emphasis on extremist. He's working to fight against the threat of the Skullgirl, but his means are horrifying and unethical.
- As of the end of Marie's story mode, this goes up to making his own damn Skull Heart for the sake of humanity. Of course, by that point, he has his eyes on other targets...
- Wild Take: Not used in the main game proper, but Skullgirls Mobile gives him a dialogue portrait for when he’s surprised and shouting, where he drops that menacing glare to open his optics wide open, hangs his jaw agape and his brain-visor starts glowing like a police siren.◊
- He makes this face in the game proper during Robo-Fortune's story when she brings back the Skullheart, and Umbrella's story when his psychic link to Carol gets forcefully broken.
Feng
Feng
Voiced by: Kira Buckland (English) / ? (Japanese)
An acrobat in the Cirque des Cartes and Cerebella's roommate. She represents the Ace cards in the circus's playing card theme, and fights using her acrobatic style and the ghost birds on her head.
Tropes associated with Feng:
- A-Cup Angst: Briefly implied in one panel of Cerebella's story mode. Feng is seen sweating and look none-too-amused when Cerebella's much larger chest is seen in close proximity to Feng's own◊. In the World of Buxom that is Skullgirls, Feng stands out due to her lack of assets.
- Anime Chinese Girl: Gives this impression. She is from the local Wutai-analogue, wears a modified qipao, and her Color Motif implies the yin-yang symbol. Unlike Painwheel, she's a rather cute example.
- Bifauxnen: Her short hair and flat chest made many initially mistake her for a feminine-looking guy.
- Boyish Short Hair: She has very short hair, emphasizing her boyish appearance.
- Chekhov's Gunman: Has a speaking role in Cerebella's story.
- Color Motif: Black and white, to symbolize the yin-yang symbol. Her hair is mostly black with the front being white, and as detailed below, her birds also follow the same motif.
- Dragons Up the Yin Yang: The yin-yang one, at least, as part of her Color Motif. Her hair is black and white, and her birds are black with a single (very long) white feather and white eyes and white with a single (very long) black feather and black eyes, so presumably they're also meant imply the symbol.
- Epic Fail: How did she gain her ghost birds? Well, she rearranged the furniture in her apartment, only for the fung shui to be so bad that it opened a portal to the afterlife.
- Gravity Master: In the character mechanic demo showing off Feng's potential gameplay, she could place her birds on the screen, and would affect airborne characters' jump arcs.
- Head Pets: Usually seen with her birds in her hair. This makes more sense than most examples of this trope, though, since the birds are very tiny.
- Heterosexual Life-Partners: with Cerebella, to the point where they're roommates.
- Improbable Weapon User: Concepts include using her birds as projectile attacks.
- Justified Criminal: She serves the Mafia to get money for her family.
- Loyal Animal Companion: Her demonic birds are always perched on her head.
- Magic Misfire: How she got her birds. Natives of the Dragon Kingdom are known to practice geomancy, but Feng is grotesquely unskilled in that particular area — so much so that when she rearranged the furniture in her apartment, the resulting feng shui was so bad that it opened a portal to the afterlife.
- Punny Name: Feng, as in feng shui, as in the Magic Misfire that caused her to get her birds.
- Token Good Teammate: Along with Cerebella and Filia, she is this for the Medici mafia.
Taliesin
Taliesin
A bard in the Cirque de Cartes, he is based on the Jack face card. A handsome but extremely dark character, he has a violin-like Remote Parasite called Muse. His wooden fingers have the ability to turn women's souls into musical instruments which he enjoys collecting. His real fingers are inside Muse's mouth, which she never opens.
Tropes associated with Taliesin:
- Artificial Limbs: His fingers are wooden.
- Ascended Extra: Appears in Cerebella's story.
- Coat, Hat, Mask: His standard design.
- Effeminate Misogynistic Guy: According to sources.
- Expy: Of Vega/Balrog/that guy with a mask and claw from Street Fighter.
- Forced Transformation: He turns souls into instruments.
- Improbable Weapon User: Wields a living violin.
- Instrument of Murder: Muse, a Remote Parasite that looks like a violin.
- Marionette Master: Part of this theme, especially the part where he transforms souls into objects using his fingers.
- Meaningful Name: Named after a famous bard from Welsh folklore.
- Pretty Boy: Hiding his black heart.
- Stealth Pun: He objectifies women. As in, he literally turns them into objects.
- White Mask of Doom: Wears this in his artwork.
Hubrecht
Hubrecht
A strongman in the Cirque de Cartes, he is based on the heart suit of cards. A good-natured gentle giant.
Tropes associated with Hubrecht:
- Ambiguously Gay: Big, muscly, bears a heart motif, and attacks by hugging.
- And Call Him "George": His fighting style is based off being rougher than he intends to be. For example, one of his grabs is a noogie.
- Ascended Extra: Appears in Cerebella's story.
- Badass Normal: No Living Weapons, no Parasites, no swallowed artifacts. Just muscles and playfulness.
- Composite Character: A cross between Mr. Heart from Fist of the North Star and Heart Aino from Arcana Heart.
- Expy: Given his build, his facial features/hair, and being Ambiguously Gay, the parallels with Alex Armstrong cannot be a coincidence.
- He also has parallels with Heart Aino (a Rose-Haired Sweetie who's pretty dumb) and to a minor extent Mr. Heart (a Giant Mook who's part of a Quirky Mini Boss Squad also themed after cards, with him symbolizing the Heart suit).
- And of course there's also his obvious parallels to Lenny, as a dim-witted Gentle Giant who only hurts people by accident.
- Gentle Giant: Who Does Not Know His Own Strength.
- Idiot Hair: Got this too.
- Obliviously Evil: He has absolutely no idea that he works part-time as a mafia hitman. All he thinks he's doing is giving people hugs.
- Rose-Haired Sweetie: A rare male example.
Regina
Regina
The domineering beast tamer at the Cirque des Cartes, she commands a wide range of creatures including several outlandish specimens. She derives no pleasure from her cruelty as it is simply in her cold nature to control others by any means necessary as she does indeed deeply care about her fellow performers. The troupe ultimately answers to Regina, not the ringleader. Her design is based on the Queen face cards.
Tropes associated with Regina:
- Ascended Extra: Appears in Cerebella's story.
- Assist Character: Her proposed play-style makes heavy use of both, with animals coming from off-screen to help her or standing beside her and attacking when commanded. It's also suggested that she commands them to attack in various ways while she fights alongside them and applies additional pressure.
- The Beastmaster: To be expected from from the troupe's beast tamer.
- Bifauxnen: Though it's more Viewer Gender Confusion (despite her obviously feminine figure) than her actually looking masculine.
- Control Freak: Her description paints her as being this way by nature, both towards the animals she trains and the circus members she leads.
- Improbable Weapon User: A riding crop and stool, to be exact. along with being The Beastmaster.
- Iron Lady: It's noted she's the real head of the troupe. (Keep in mind that the devs, while offering Regina as a possibility, have not expressed any definite intentions of making the troupe's actual ringleader a playable character.)
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: As her description states: she's cold and controlling but she cares underneath it all.
- Lady of War: Certainly has the look of one, anyway.
- Non-Standard Character Design: Her face is less Animesque than the rest of the females in the cast. Probably because she's a bit older than most of them and would probably be more "beautiful" than "cute" at that age.
- Regal Ringlets: As befitting her Queen motif.
- Whip of Dominance: She's a domineering beast tamer who wields a riding crop and is described as being pretty quick with it and being a Control Freak.
Beatrix
Beatrix
A magician in the Cirque des Cartes, she has the ability to store knives in her body without seemingly injuring herself. Not only are they rivals, Beatrix's bitter, jaded personality is a stark contrast to Cerebella's cheerfulness. Her design is based on the Club suit.
Tropes associated with Beatrix:
- Bag of Holding: Her Cloak of Damocles.
- The Cameo: Appears in the River King Casino stage sometimes and makes another cameo in Fukua's trailer.
- Human Pincushion: She looks like a knife throwing act gone horribly wrong.
- Perpetual Frowner: In delberate contrast to her rival Cerebella's constantly cheerful demeanor.
- The Rival: To Cerebella, best seen in her Origin Story.
- Stage Magician: Her role in the Cirque des Cartes.
Ottomo
Ottomo (and Tom)
A member of the Medici Mafia family, Ottomo is Lorenzo's mechanical henchman and bodyguard. He's piloted by Tom, a tiny, foul-mouthed Dagonian engineer. Tom is an ex-member of Anti-Skullgirl Lab 4 and was a colleague of Stanley. Tom sold out to the Mafia and, before leaving, stole the M3 (Mighty Metal Man) unit from the lab. While Tom is a cigar-smoking, womanizing, ill-tempered drunkard when he's out of the suit (much to Lorenzo's annoyance), Ottomo is more refined.
Tropes associated with Ottomo:
- Battle Butler: Kinda.
- Bit Character: Appears as a background character in the Medici Tower stage. Peacock is also seen with Ottomo's head in her ending. He appears in Filia's Origin in Skullgirls Mobile being the one to brutally injure Filia and kill Samson's then-host, Dog, forcing the parasite to possess Filia to save her life.
- Cigar Chomper: Tom.
- Dance Battler: At the very least, he was proposed as having the moonwalk for his backward walking animation, and doing the Smooth Criminal lean for his pushblock.
- The Engineer: Despite her tech being antiquated by his standards, he maintains Dhalia's weapons.
- Fish Person: He is a Dagonian. A post on Ahad's Tumblr mentions that he's a salamander, though it's unknown if that still stands, since salamanders hardly count as aquatic creatures. That said, his pink skin makes him look more like a naked mole rat than anything else.
- Hyperspace Arsenal: Tom apparently has a ridiculous array of lethal weaponry crammed into his suit.
- Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: Ottomo's head is impaled and carried around on a knife by Avery in Peacock's ending. This fate could very well likely be Tom's as well if the cockpit was in Ottomo's head, though it’d be less like being impaled and closer to the Dagonian being cleaved right in half.
- Mobile-Suit Human: Well, Mobile Suit Larger Dagonian, but the principle is the same.
- Would Hurt a Child: See Bit Character above.
Yu-Wan
Yu-Wan
Voiced by: Kaiji Tang (English) / ? (Japanese:
Yu-Wan is a Dagonian chef and proprietor of a restaurant in Little Innsmouth. A friend of Ms. Fortune and Minette's employer.
Tropes associated with Yu-Wan:
- Bit Character: Appears in Ms. Fortune's story and as a background character in the Little Innsmouth stage.
- Chef of Iron: A no-nonsense chef who was in the running as a playable character.
- Fish People: As a Dagonian. He's some sort of catfish.
- Fork Fencing: His weapon of choice is a large butcher knife.
- Meaningful Name: "You won."
Scythana
Scythana
A gigantic half-Gigan who was arrested by the Black Egrets. She broke out.
Tropes associated with Scythana:
- Bit Character: She was briefly mentioned on the Canopy Kingdom News during Parasoul's story mode, telling about her recent arrest.
- Chained by Fashion: She's still handcuffed after her escape. Justified, as her handcuffs are magic and cannot be broken. However, she can use them in battle to block, grab, and attack.
- Expy: Arguably of Cody, particularly his appearances in the Street Fighter series from Alpha 3 onwards, with the prison suit and the handcuffs.
- Also has much in common with Regal Bryant, as a convict wearing handcuffs that fights mainly with her feet.
- She also seems to have inspiration from Yuugi.
- Extremity Extremist: Justified since her hands are still cuffed, she mostly uses her feet to fight instead.
- Grievous Harm with a Body: In team fights she'd have the ability to pick up fallen enemies and teammates to use as weapons. In solo matches, a substitute would be provided.
- Half-Human Hybrid: Gigan on her mother's side.
- Horned Humanoid: One long black and white striped horn on her right.
- Institutional Apparel: Prison Stripes. Matches her horn.
- Our Giants Are Bigger: Half-giant, really.
Roxie
Roxie
Mechanic for the Black Egrets.
Tropes associated with Roxie:
- Bit Character: Appears in Parasoul's story and the prequel webcomic.
- Butch Lesbian: A tomboyish-looking woman with a classic manual labour profession; the webcomic makes it unambiguous that she's in a relationship with Molly.
- Deadly Rotary Fan: A possible proposed gameplay mechanic was to have her use propeller blades.
- The Engineer: Her daytime job. Her character art has her brandishing an over-sized rivet gun.
- Expy: Of Rosie the Riveter. Ironically, Rosie is her REAL name, with Roxie just a nickname.
- Sentry Gun: One of her proposed gameplay mechanics.
- Satellite Character: To Parasoul, currently.
- Wrench Wench: As her job is an engineer, it's to be expected.
Panzerfaust
Panzerfaust
A member of the Black Egrets, originally from Anti-Skullgirls Lab 3.
Tropes associated with Panzerfaust:
- Bit Character: Appears in Parasoul's story.
- Dark and Troubled Past: In the past (during King Franz's reign), he was forced to watch the 'Canopy Indoctrination Film' for many hours during numerous surgeries.Parasoul: [horrified] Wait... they put you through what!?Panzerfaust: Is all in the past. Was also very competent film-making worth of repeat viewing. A+++. Would watch again.
- Expy: Of Potemkin, being a massive and incredibly loyal Gas Mask Mook who hits like a truck and can shoot projectiles from his fists.
- Grappling-Hook Pistol: He can fire a grappling hook from his tank arm as seen in the Webtoon comic.
- An Immigrant's Tale: Panzerfaust admits in 'Skullgirls Mobile' that he's a naturalized citizen (And it should be noted that in said game he's fought against two Skullgirls in the past and has joined Parasoul's forces in the modern day).
- Low Clearance: Due to his size, he has broken a ceiling fan and knocked his flexible helmet crest against a door frame in the Webtoon comic.
- Meaningful Name: German for "tank fist." Also an anti-tank weapon in World War II.
- The Right Hand of Doom: His right hand is a tank. As in a literal tank, with treads, cannon and everything.
- Super-Soldier: What else can you call a soldier with a tank for an arm?
- Top-Heavy Guy: Jesus. His legs might as well be sticks!
Adam
Adam Kapowski
Voiced by: Christopher Corey Smith''' (English) / ? (Japanese)
An elite member of the Black Egrets and Umbrella's babysitter.
Tropes associated with Adam:
- Almighty Janitor: Despite being a Badass Normal, his skills are usually relegated to fetching ice cream for Umbrella.
- Ambiguously Brown: His Polish last name and grey-colored eyes have led many to conclude he's Slavic, or at least the Skullverse equivalent.
- Bit Character: Appears in Parasoul and Umbrella's stories.
- Badass Normal: A totally normal person who's highly trained.
- Overshadowed by Awesome: He's a highly competent, elite soldier, but because he has no outstanding skills aside from being good with kids, he's relegated to babysitting Umbrella.
- Butt-Monkey: Not only does he have his status as Almighty Janitor, but the webcomic shows that he can be often picked on by the other Egrets, suffering a Curb-Stomp Battle from Molly, and forced to endure an even bigger one from Panzerfaust.
- The Cameo: His first appearance in actual gameplay is in the Glass Canopy stage, seen in the background dancing with Umbrella.
- Elite Mook: In his proposed battle style, the first two thirds of his health would be represented by faceless Black Egrets with Adam himself taking to the stage for the last 33%. He could have attacks that the other two would not.
- Eyepatch After Time Skip: In Robo-Fortune's ending, coupled with a beard.
- The Generic Guy: Compared to the other, more fantastical characters, Adam stands out by not standing out. He actually gained a surprising amount of popularity for it.
- Helmets Are Hardly Heroic: The only fully uniformed Black Egret seen without a helmet.
- Hyperspace Arsenal: His concepts include fighting with a large amount of weapons. Chris Redfield was one of the inspirations for his playstyle, after all.
Molly
Molly
Voiced by: Cassandra Lee Morris (English) / ? (Japanese)
Communications Officer of the Black Egrets.
Tropes associated with Molly:
- Ascended Extra: Appears in Parasoul's story, though she ends up only making a cameo appearance in Umbrella's story. She has a lot more significance in the webcomic.
- Lipstick Lesbian: Of the not-exceptionally-girly variety. She's certainly femme compared to her girlfriend, Roxie; she fantasises in the webcomic about using Vice Versa to carry the latter around effortlessly in one big, powerful hand alongside a veritable mountain of gifts.
- Mini-Mecha/Spider Tank: She pilots one shaped like a cross between a rotary telephone and a Fuchikoma.
- Mission Control: Her role in the Black Egrets.
- Weak, but Skilled: She's a very weedy woman, but is still able to best Adam in a sparring match through wits and agility.
Isaac
Isaac
A mysterious man, by trade an archaeologist, who owns an equally mysterious device — the Time Glove — that allows him to jump back and forth through time.
Tropes associated with Isaac:
- Adventurer Archaeologist: By necessity. He discovered something during the same dig that uncovered the Theonite he uses to time travel that has resulted in him being hunted.
- The Coats Are Off: His proposed intro would have him disappearing, then reappearing sans coat. At the end of the match, he'll appear from the past to hand his coat to his victorious self or drape it over his defeated self.
- Einstein Hair: Sports on top of his beard.
- He Knows Too Much: He discovered something during a dig that someone seriously wants to cover up.
- Interface Screw: One of his theoretical super moves would temporarily speed up the round timer, making it easy for him to win via time-over.
- No Celebrities Were Harmed: Based physically on fashion designer Kevin Stewart, AKA "Professor Badass."
- Time Paradox: If his future self damages his opponent, but is prevented from performing the time jump later on, his opponent retroactively gets the health back, since the damage technically never happened.
- Tricked-Out Gloves: Uses one to have the ability to Time Travel.
- Unexpected Character: All the other potential characters previously appeared in the game, were mentioned in the game before, or were All There in the Manual; Isaac was included in the prospective characters list because of Mike Z.'s enthusiasm for his playstyle.
- Because of this, the reveal of Isaac's appearance caused a bit of Suddenly Ethnicity. Quite a few people thought he would be white.
- He finally logs an in-game appearance carrying Umbrella to safety (and presumably another time period) in Robo-Fortune's ending.
- Unobtanium: His gauntlet is powered by a unique variant of Theonite that he discovered in one of his digs.
Samson
"Samson"
A darker version of Samson who has seized control of Filia's body.
Tropes associated with this Samson:
- Alternate Self: He's an evil, monstrous version of Samson, though his origins are unclear.
- Alternate Timeline: A suggested origin of his existence is that Aeon retrieved him from a lost timeline. The other is that it's a trick by Double.
- Darker and Edgier: While the normal Samson is a bit rough and sometimes flings Filia about while fighting he has concern for her well-being. This one has his Filia bound up using some unspecified horrible method.
- Divergent Character Evolution: Samson was developed from an early concept for Filia, wherein she was merely a Meat Puppet for the Parasite, who had eaten her body from the inside out and was manipulating her corpse. This concept was discarded in favor of the current version of Filia, but revived as potential DLC.
- Killer Rabbit: One of the deadly and terrible beasts he is capable of incorporating the form of... is wombats.
- Lovecraftian Superpower: Not only is Samson capable of unleashing more powerful versions of Filia's attacks, but he can freely shift himself into a variety of monstrous forms.
- More Teeth than the Osmond Family: He has a large mouth studded with fangs, though unlike his playable self they are evocative of his evil nature.
- Moveset Clone: Being basically the same being, he uses larger versions of Filia/Samson's attacks but with a more brutal, feral approach.
- One-Winged Angel: His design comes from an earlier gameplay concept where all the cast had monstrous super modes.
- Primal Stance: His artwork has him standing on all fours.
- Puppeteer Parasite: Samson takes over Filia using "the vilest of methods."
- To Serve Man: In the early drafts, Samson ate Filia's parents and then consumed her body from the inside out. His brief bio only states that he used the "vilest method" to seize control of Filia's body.
- Spikes of Villainy: His arms and head have large spikes jutting from them in his default form.
- Top-Heavy Guy: His spindly lower limbs make Panzerfaust's legs look sturdy.
Others
Lorenzo
Lorenzo Medici
Click here to see his younger face
The leader of the Medici. He held the power of the Life Gem before it was stolen from him.
- Be Careful What You Wish For: Desperate for revenge, Lorenzo gives Black Dahlia full reign to do whatever she deems necessary to kill the Skullgirl and retrieve the Life Gem, encouraging her to raise hell just to further cement how important the Medici are to the city. Unfortunately for him, while she does succeed in her objectives, this also reignites Black Dahlia's bloodlust, resulting in the executions of Vitale and Eliza, before Lorenzo is killed by Black Dahlia herself after realizing she can use the Skull Heart to get what he could never give her. With Black Dahlia roaming free in another dimension and the city still destroyed from Marie's rampage, Lorenzo's empire is beyond salvation.
- Boom, Headshot!: Lorenzo finally meets his end in Black Dahlia's story mode when she shoots him in the head after getting annoyed with him ordering her around.
- Dark Lord on Life Support: Black Dahlia's story shows that without the Life Gem, Lorenzo needs constant care from a nurse to get by.
- Evil Old Folks: He's still the wicked head of the Medici in the present day, though it's deconstructed since his highly advanced age even with the Life Gem has rendered him little more than a figurehead while Vitale's the one handling all the logistics of running a criminal empire.
- Faux Affably Evil: As a Villain with Good Publicity, Lorenzo took great pains to present himself—at least in public—as a friend to the common people of New Meridian. Once the Life Gem was stolen, his mask of affability was cast aside and the ruthless monster underneath was revealed. In the webcomic, Lorenzo is outraged when Marie razes the suburb of Maplecrest in the webcomic, snapping at Vitale that she isn't just killing the Medici Mafia's soldiers but their entire families—though he's upset about the loss of manpower rendering his organization vulnerable rather than the deaths of innocents—and retaliates by ordering the abduction of the River King's daughters.
- Greater-Scope Villain: As the head of the Medici Mafia, he is responsible for the suffering inflicted on Peacock and Marie as well as being the Arch-Enemy to Parasoul and the one who spearheaded the Contiellos' massacre (though he was being played by Double in that last case). He also has Minette and the River King's other daughters abducted as part of an as-yet unknown scheme.
- Karma Houdini Warranty: After years of secretly controlling New Meridian and all of the suffering on it's people, Lorenzo finally meets his definite endnote in Black Dahlia's story mode when she shoots him in the head herself.
- No Immortal Inertia: After the Life Gem was taken from him by Ms. Fortune, he quickly deteriorated from a middle-aged and toned man to a weak, near-senile geriatric with barely a tooth left in his mouth.
- Older Than They Look: He is Vitale's father, yet the power of the Life Gem makes him look more like Vitale's son. After the Fishbone Gang stole the Gem from him as shown in the Webtoon, he quickly regressed into a decrepit old man more in line with his actual age.
- Smug Snake: When Parasoul attempts to arrest him for human trafficking, he initially threatens to have his "headhunter" Black Dahlia kill her before deciding to simply sue the Renoir royal family for slander using the corrupt courts his son Vitale has bought out.
- Super-Toughness: The Life Gem's power allows him to take a direct hit from Marie's Skullgirl fire with little more than a burnt suit to show for it.
- Villain with Good Publicity: Lorenzo laughs at Parasoul's attempt to arrest him, pointing out how the public views him in high regard and that arresting him would cause an uproar the already-disliked Renoirs would not be equipped to handle. Even King Franz, once an infamous Blood Knight, cautions his daughter to avoid stirring up trouble with Lorenzo without an ironclad case, since doing so would risk a civil war.
Vitale
Vitale Medici
Voiced by: Kyle Hebert (English) / ? (Japanese)
The son and heir apparent of Lorenzo Medici, and the backer of the Cirque de Cartes. Cerebella sees him as a father figure.
Tropes associated with Vitale:
- Cain and Abel: The Cain to Filia's father's Abel. He even has him killed.
- Evil Uncle: An evil Manipulative Bastard who's the uncle of one of the main characters. Namely, Filia.
- Four Eyes, Zero Soul: He is a villain with glasses.
- Greater-Scope Villain: Vitale, like his father, is responsible for much of the suffering that goes on behind-the-scenes, and plays a key role in Celebella's, Ms. Fortune's, and Filia's stories, but is never directly fought.
- Inadequate Inheritor: Lorenzo rants in Black Dahlia's story mode that he views Vitale as this, claiming he's a "vulture" running a carnival of killers and not fit to run the Medici Empire. Realizing that Lorenzo views him as this, despite him having to take the role of running their criminal empire while the Life Gem is gone, prompts Vitale in said story mode to scheme against Lorenzo.
- Kavorka Man: Admittedly, his relationship with Cerebella isn't supposed to be romantic, but still, it's surprising to see how such an attractive girl's loyalty can be won by someone who is so plain-looking (being square-faced and slightly overweight) and a ruthless mobster to boot.
- Karma Houdini Warranty: After years of helping his father, killing his own brother, and manipulating Cerebella emotionally, he finally meets his end in Black Dahlia's story mode while begging her to spare him and promises to give her anything she wants. Fittingly, he's killed by getting shot in the head just like how he killed his brother Marcus.
- Lesser of Two Evils: Called as such by Black Dahlia in her Story Mode; while and his father are both ruthless mobsters, Vitale is more pragmatic, as shown in Mobile's main story mode when he considers negotiating with Parasoul's party when they can't be driven out.
- Manipulative Bastard: Manipulates Cerebella using her love and loyalty to him.
- The Mafia: Takes over the Medici family after his father Lorenzo mysteriously vanishes from public life. During Black Dahlia's story mode, he realizes that Lorenzo never intends to let him take over the family business and plans to secretly overthrow him. Unfortunately, Black Dahlia decides to kill him after killing Eliza.
- The Starscream: While he is loyal to his father in most of the story modes in hopes of earning his approval and even kills his brother under the assumption he betrayed the Medici family, in Black Dahlia's story mode he realizes that Lorenzo intends to use the Life Gem to rule New Meridian's criminal empire forever and decides to overthrow his father with Eliza's support.
- Theme Naming: Vitale of the Medici family, owner of the Life Gem. In the webcomic he even notes how ironic it is that his name means "life" while Lorenzo was the one with borderline immortality.
- "Well Done, Son" Guy: Everything Vitale does is in the hopes of earning approval and recognition from his father, something Black Dahlia mocks him for in her story mode, and even Lorenzo sneers that he's a vulture.
Riccardo
Riccardo
Voiced by: Kyle Hebert''' (English) / ? (Japanese)
One of the Medici's goons.
Tropes associated with Riccardo:
- Butt-Monkey: He was attacked by Samson at the start of Filia's storyline and Ms. Fortune at the start of hers.
- Casanova Wannabe: Flirts with Filia and Minette with disastrous results.
- Ephebophile: Hits on (and sexually harasses) the sixteen-year-old Filia at the beginning of her storyline, and (somewhat more innocently, at least) flirts with the presumably teenaged Minette at the beginning of Ms. Fortune's. In the background of the River King Casino stage, he can be seen stalking Minette.
- Mook: Is a thug employed by Vitale.
- Mugging the Monster: Is on the receiving end of this twice: once when he tried to hit on Filia at the start of her story mode (and pissed off Samson for laying hands on his host), and again at the start of Ms. Fortune's story mode, where he and Lawrence tried to kidnap Minette, only for Ms. Fortune to beat both of them up.
Lawrence
Lawrence
Voiced by: Kaiji Tang (English) / ? (Japanese)
One of the Medici's goons.
Tropes associated with Lawrence:
- Butt-Monkey: He was attacked by Ms. Fortune at the start of her storyline.
- Fat Bastard: Is notably fatter than his partner-in-crime Ricardo, and acts the part of a bastard as well.
- Machete Mayhem: He uses a machete to try decapitating the "flea-bitten furball" trying to stop him and Ricardo from kidnapping Minette. However, considering the "furball" in question was Ms. Fortune, it didn't end well for either of them.
- Mook: Is a thug employed by Vitale.
Dr. Avian
Dr. Avian
Voiced by: Liam O'Brien (English) / ? (Japanese)
A scientist from Anti-Skullgirl Lab 8 who is responsible for the creation of Peacock, Big Band, as well as many other ASGs.
Tropes associated with Dr. Avian:
- Character Death: Lab 8 is destroyed and Dr Avian is killed in Big Band's, Peacock's, Valentine's and Marie's stories. The only story he appears in and survives is Beowulf's.
- Creepy Good: An albino with sharp pointy teeth who happens to be the leader of Lab 8 and a much nicer guy than his fellow ASG Labs scientist Brain Drain.
- No Celebrities Were Harmed: Liam O'Brien voices him with a slight Christopher Lloyd impression.
- Parental Substitute: He appears to have taken on this role for Peacock.
- The Professor: As head of Lab 8. He also has good relationships with his agents, who include Big Band and Peacock.
- Red Eyes, Take Warning: A major subversion: his eyes are a piercing crimson, but he's a fairly genial guy who wants the best for his agents.
- Reluctant Mad Scientist: A member of the ASG labs, who are known to dabble in extreme biomodification (including genetics and experimental cyborg configurations), and yet he seems to be a genuinely good person.
- Unexplained Recovery: In Beowulf's story, Lab 8 is attacked and it's heavily implied Dr. Avian was Killed Offscreen while Big Band was fighting Beowulf. Then Dr. Avian appears in the ending with the rest of Lab 8 none the worse for wear.
The Last Hope
A squad of ninja nurses with holiday-themed code names who fought Skullgirls, until the latest Skullgirl fought them and killed all but one- Valentine. The others were Christmas, Hallow, Easter, and Patty. Valentine uses their old weapons as part of her current style.
- Combat Medic: They were all primarily nurses but were exceptionally good fighters.
- Fiery Redhead: Averted for Christmas. Despite being an able combatant, she was generally strict and solemn with the team.
- Forgotten Fallen Friend: Averted. While Valentine doesn't usually talk about them, she memorializes them by using their signature weapons along with her own.
- Headbutting Heroes: Valentine and Christmas often bickered.
- Improbable Weapon User: Easter fought with body bags, and Patty with an IV stand. The others had somewhat more conventional medic-themed weapons; Christmas used scalpels, Valentine used a bonesaw, and Hallow used poison syringes.
- Master Poisoner: Valentine's Vial Hazard was originally Hallow's shtick.
- Stoic Spectacles: Christmas wore a pair.
Queen Nancy
Nancy Renoir
click here to see her pre-transformation
Parasoul and Umbrella's deceased mother, and the previous Skullgirl. During the war, she prayed for peace at the Grand Cathedral, where she met Double who convinced her to make a wish on the Skull Heart. After giving birth to Umbrella, Nancy then became a Skullgirl so powerful that all the nations had to work together to defeat her.
Tropes associated with Nancy:
- Delayed Reaction: Instead of becoming the Skullgirl instantly, her transformation was delayed long enough to give birth to Umbrella.
- Foil: Compared to her Blood Knight husband, all Nancy wanted was peace. Sadly, Franz's warmongering made her desperate enough to wish on the Skull Heart.
- God Save Us from the Queen!: She was originally The High Queen, but then she made a wish on the Skull Heart and it was all downhill from there.
- Missing Mom: Due to being the Skullgirl, she had to be killed to save the world, and thus is absent from her daughters' lives.
- Predecessor Villain: The Skullgirl before Marie.
- Unwitting Pawn: Like every other Skullgirl, her innocent desire was manipulated by Double to use the Skull Heart and become a Skullgirl.
- Well-Intentioned Extremist: Her wish was for peace, which the Skull Heart twisted by making her a monster that the other nations had to ally to destroy her.
Roberto
Roberto Contiello
Voiced by: Kyle Hebert (English) / ? (Japanese)
Click here for his undead appearance.
Squigly's deceased father and the previous host of Levithan. When Squigly became a zombie he transferred Leviathan to Squigly, releasing her from the control of his wife Selene, the Skullgirl from 14 years ago.
Tropes associated with Roberto:
- Adaptation Expansion: In Squigly's Skullgirls Mobile origin story, he takes a more active role, acting as a right-hand man to Selene as she goes on her mission to take down the Medicis as part of her undead army.
- Heroic Sacrifice: Transferring Leviathan to Squigly. Roberto and Squigly were both killed by the Medici and revived by Selene's wish on the Skull Heart. When he transfers Leviathan, he tells him not to let anyone touch Squigly, including Roberto himself. The implication is he became a mindless servant to the Skullgirl so Squigly wouldn't have to.
- Posthumous Character: Has already been dead for years by the time the game takes place.
Selene
Selene Contiello
Voiced by: Erin Fitzgerald (English) / ? (Japanese)
Squigly's deceased mother and the Skullgirl from 14 years ago, predating Queen Nancy and Marie Korbel. During her birthday party, Selene was given the Skull Heart as a present from a mysterious stranger. The stranger was actually Double, who had told the Medici family that the Contiellos had possessed the Heart. The Medici family crashed the party and began killing the Contiello family, including Squigly. Surviving the initial assault, Selene wished on the Skull Heart to bring her family back to life and became the Skullgirl.
Tropes associated with Selene:
- Luke, I Am Your Father: Sort of Inverted. The reveal that Squigly's mother was a Skullgirl is a surprise to the player, but not to Squigly.
- Posthumous Character: Died 14 years ago by her daughter's hand.
- Predecessor Villain: The Skullgirl before Nancy.
- So Proud of You: After Squigly beats her, she tells her daughter that she's a true upholder of the Continello legacy.
- Roaring Rampage of Revenge: The mobile game shows that she, like Marie, was out for blood against the Medicis for what they did to her family.
- Unwitting Pawn: To Double, who showed up as a party guest and gave her the Skull Heart to set up a situation where the Medicis killed her family, and she made a desperate wish on the Skull Heart to get them back.
Filia's parents
Marcus and Amelia Medici
Marcus and Amelia were Filia's parents. Marcus was the son of Lorenzo and Vitale's older brother, but he and his wife disagreed with the Medici Family's criminal activities and cut ties with them. Sadly, an encounter with the Skullgirl still got them killed, albeit indirectly...
Marcus on the left, Amelia on the right
Tropes associated with Filia's parents
- Deceased Parents Are the Best: They are dead in the main game, but It's clear from Filia's Origin in Skullgirls Mobile that they were loving parents to Filia.
- Not What It Looks Like: Being spared from Marie's wrath (And then trying to skip town) led to Vitale assuming that they had betrayed the Family, leading to their death.
- Reasonable Authority Figure: When Samson reveals that the dog Filia adopted had a parasite, Marcus takes it in stride, especially since Samson helped fight off the Skullgirl.
- You Will Be Spared: Marie agrees to not kill them on the condition they leave New Meridian.
- White Sheep: They abhorred their gangster family and cut ties with them.
Annie's Mother
"But even a wish for purity... isn't pure."
The mother of Annabella, a.k.a Annie of the Stars. Under unclear circumstances, she found the Skull Heart and wished that her beloved daughter would always remain a child so as to never lose her innocence. Her wish was granted and Annabella was made eternally youthful, but she turned into the Skullgirl.
- Braids of Action: Wore her hair in two massive braids.
- Blood Is the New Black: The hem of her dress is all bloody.
- Children Are Innocent: Must've believed this, since her wish was that Annie would never be sullied by the Crapsack World of adulthood. Unfortunately, even if Annie didn't grow up physically, she did grow old mentally, and by the time of the present has become jaded and cynical.
- From Nobody to Nightmare: Prior to becoming the Skullgirl, she seems to have been an ordinary peasant woman.
- No Name Given: She's simply Annie's Mother.
- Impersonation-Exclusive Character: Our only glimpse of her comes from Double trying to give a Shapeshifter Guilt Trip to Annie.
- Parents as People: She genuinely loved her daughter and wanted to protect her innocence, but in the process not only made sure that Annie would lose her as she had to be put down after becoming the Skullgirl, but caused her to experience Who Wants to Live Forever?.
- Predecessor Villain: One of the many Skullgirls preceeding Selene, Nancy, and Marie.
- Small Role, Big Impact: She never appears herself and died centuries ago, but she's the reason Annie is an immortal Skullgirl-hunting Magical Girl Warrior.
Grendel
Grendel
Voiced by: Kaiji Tang (English) / ? (Japanese)
Beowulf's rival during his heydey, Grendel was a Gigan wrestler that fought Beowulf during the time of the Great War, which eventually climaxed at Beowulf winning their final fight, killing him and ripping his arm off in the process. His mother was so distraught at his death that she lashed out against the crowd, forcing Beowulf to kill her too.
- Foreign Wrestling Heel: His role, essentially. And true to the trope as it's used in real wrestling, he was actually good friends with Beowulf when he was still alive. It's a shame the people in charge of the production got to him...
- Posthumous Character: He died before the events of the game.
- Pro Wrestling Is Real: It seems like he and Beowulf truly did butt heads with each other in the ring even if they respected each other outside. Averted during his final match though: the producers drugged him before the battle to lopside the result in Beowulf's favor, though Beowulf didn't find out the truth until much later.
- Worf Had the Flu: He was drugged up to the gills during his match with Beowulf in order to give the Canopy Kingdom propaganda, but Beowulf later proves that he could have defeated Grendel without the handicap.
- Worthy Opponent: Everyone else in Beowulf's story (including Beowulf himself) gives Beowulf stick for killing Grendel while he was drugged, but Grendel himself doesn't blame Beowulf at all for what happened and simply wishes to get a proper rematch; it's implied that he knew the match was fixed behind Beowulf's back.
Aileen
Aileen
Voiced by: ? (English) / ? (Japanese)
- Ascended Fangirl: Goes from being an Annie fan to not only getting hired as the "actress" to play her hero, but becoming a hero in her own right by rallying The Cavalry to save Annie in Gehenna.
- Broken Pedestal: She really believes in the optimistic Annie she sees on the show, and seeing Annie rudely blow off Peacock and Beowulf seriously gets to her.
- Meaningful Name: Aileen appropriately means “light”. This is a hint of the way Aileen facilitates Annie’s character development.
- Morality Chain: Annie acknowledges that Aileen helped her to remember why she fights the Skullgirl and helps people, helping knock her out of the cynicism she's been wallowing in of late. When Aileen is recruited to be Annie's next "life-actress", Sagan notes that she'll keep Annie honest.
- Rebuilt Pedestal: Post-story, while she still wants Annie to make up for being a jerk, she has a much greater appreciation of her heroine Warts and All.
- Secret-Keeper: By the end of Annie's story mode, Aileen is aware of Annie's origins and has been recruited to be the next "life-actress" to pose as Annie to the public. She's not comfortable having to lie, but otherwise has no problems keeping Annie's secrets.
- What the Hell, Hero?: She's not afraid to call Annie, her idol, out on not living up to the virtues she portrays on her show. Even after Annie has proven herself a true hero and given Aileen a dream job, she still requests that Annie appologize to Peacock and Beowulf (and give Peacock a guest spot on the show).
Ferdinand
Ferdinand
A former Egret who was ejected from the force.
- Canon Foreigner: He appears in the webcomic without a hint of presence in the game at the moment.
- Stalker with a Crush: Ferdinand had a shrine to Parasoul in his quarters among other creepy things.
Florence
Florence
Voiced by: ? (English) / ? (Japanese)
Florence is a character that appears in Annie's story. She is the first ever actress to play the role of Annie in the Annie of the Stars show. In the modern day, she has became the real Annie's agent.
- Cool Old Lady: Might not look very old, but she certainly fits the bill.
- Smooth-Talking Talent Agent: Definitely a subversion. It's made clear in Annie's story that the pair care about each other.
- Welcomed to the Masquerade: Experiences both ends of this. The real Annie hired her on as the first "life-double", being privy to Annie's secret and playing her part to deflect suspicion. In Annie's story route, she then acts as the welcomer by recruiting Aileen to be Annie's next life-double and explaining how it will work for the girl.
King Franz
Franz Renoir
Voiced by: ? (English) / ? (Japanese)
Click here for his original appearance.
A ruthless king in his original life, King Franz is the former king of the Canopy Kingdom, husband to Queen Nancy, and father to both Parasoul and Umbrella. He was known for achieving growth for his kingdom through war campaigns, and once sabotaging a peace talk in order to launch an attack on his enemies. He founded the Anti-Skullgirl Labs to combat the Skullgirl, only to decommission them when his wife transformed into one. Presumed deceased after a battle to stop the Skullgirl, in truth he lives in self-imposed solitude, and only a select few know of his continued survival. It isn't until near the end of the Webcomic's first season that he reveals his survival to the entire Kingdom in order to address the new Skullgirl.
- 0% Approval Rating: It's shown that some people of the Canopy Kingdom aren't very fond of him due to certain actions he took while he was still 'alive.'Cerebella, to Umbrella: So your parents meant to do good, huh? Too bad that's not what they DID.
- The Atoner: Umbrella's story mode, the Mobile spinoff, and the webcomic show he's changed after the last seven years of self-imposed exile, being ashamed of many of the things he did even if he believed they were for the good of the kingdom, and he wants his daughters to be better than he was—even chiding Parasoul for making some of the same kinds of hotheaded mistakes he had.
- Blood Knight: The guy was infamous for how ready he was to engage in warfare, even sabotaging peace talks because he'd rather just attack his enemies.
- Evil Parents Want Good Kids: He might've been a warmongerer, but there doesn't seem to be any indication that he wanted his daughters to follow in his footsteps. In the webcomic he chides Parasoul for risking a civil war by rushing in and arresting Lorenzo Medici, and at the end of Umbrella's story mode he expresses pride in Parasoul maturing into a much wiser and more peaceful ruler.
- Off with His Head!: During Parasoul's backstory in Mobile, the last scene shown is Franz as he is about to kill queen Nancy with her in turn using Todd to seemingly decapitate him. By the present day, his head is gone and has now has been replaced with an ethereal flame. When he films a broadcast throughout the Canopy Kingdom to address the recent Skullgirl in the Webcomic, he conceals his head using an Egret helmet in order to keep his decapitation a secret.
- Parasol of Pain: During his life, he wielded his own living weapon named Eroberung.note
- Unexplained Recovery: The last time the public knew he was alive was during the war against queen Nancy with Franz decapitated in the process of dealing the killing blow to his wife. After this, he has an ethereal flame in the place where his head used to be and hides his survival from most of the kingdom until Marie becomes the Skullgirl and addresses them through a broadcast in the Webcomic, albeit while wearing a helmet to hide his decapitation from the public. The woman filming the broadcast even lampshades this by asking one of the soldiers about how he died during the war. The ending of Marie's story mode when she is addressing everyone who died from the Skull Heart includes King Franz with the flame on his head, heavily implying that he may actually be an undead like Squigly now with his wife's living weapon being the only thing keeping him alive.
- Was Once a Man: Used to be a human until his confrontation with Queen Nancy (Whether it was from Queen Nancy's power as a Skullgirl, her living weapon Todd's ability or a combination of the two is unknown). He now has an ethereal flame where his head used to be.
Delilah
Delilah
- Cool Sword: Delilah wielded a pair of hairpin-shaped swords that have since been passed down to Filia, though the latter hasn't been shown wielding them yet.
- Combat Tentacles: Concept art of her and Neferu shows her with Samson bonded to her hair and manifested as a set of bladed tentacles in place of her hair.
- Hero of Another Story: Delilah was Samson's host thousands of years ago, fighting alongside Leviathan's host against Neferu the Crimson Scourge and Queen Lamia.
- Heroic Host: She fought against Neferu and an early Skullgirl—who may or may not have been Queen Lamia—many thousands of years ago, with the Skull Heart being reminded of her by Filia.
- Lady Legionnaire Wear: As revealed by her concept art and brief cameo in the webcomic, Delilah wore petruges to go along with her ancient soldier/gladiatrix aesthetic.
- The Lost Lenore: Samson still mourns her death and very much blames Eliza for it, with her mocking him for still crying over a long-dead and (in her eyes) inadequate host.
Rejected Character
Juju
Juju
The former sniper of the Black Egrets who was initially supposed to be considered as a future DLC character. Unfortunately, because her design sprang from a suggestion made by a fan who proceeded to be less-than-civil about the situation, she eventually became Exiled from Continuity.
Tropes formerly associated with Juju:
- 13 Is Unlucky: Her codename is "Number 13," and she had the supreme bad luck of getting written out of the entire game.
- Ascended Extra: Juju was planned to become a fully playable character, rather than just a name, before being struck from canon. Parasoul originally had a chance of calling Juju by name when using the Silent Scope super, but this was removed after the incident occurred. See the Trivia page for details.
- Assist Character: Like the other Black Egrets, she was one to Parasoul, despite never appearing onscreen in battle. Parasoul's Silent Scope Blockbuster is her radioing Juju to shoot her opponent — or it was, before she was Exiled from Continuity.
- Friendly Sniper: As the sniper for the Black Egrets, she qualifies as this.
- Irony: As a sniper, her job would require a large amount of secret keeping. The reason she was Exiled from Continuity was that her creator decided to blab about her.
- The Sixth Ranger: She was supposed to be this for the Black Egrets.
- Small Girl, Big Gun: Her gun is bigger than she is.
- Sniper Rifle: Her weapon of choice. She was supposed to be the sniper Parasol called on in her Silent Scope Blockbuster, until real life events made that impossible.
