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Devil May Cry
Dante
Dante
- Cheerful Adult: His carefree attitude gets on Winter's nerves.
- Groin Attack: Was the victim of one from Shantae in a Chibi story.
- Paper-Thin Disguise: He and some others dressed up as Tin Soldier Robots to fool the Shroobs. It worked, much to Winter's surprise.
- Robo Speak: He spoke the language of the robots. Even Aerith joined in.
Vergil
Vergil
- Adaptational Heroism: Vergil notably is willing to work together more with his brother and help save the universe during Galaxy 2.
- Jerkass Has a Point: Although he could have been nicer about it, he wasn't entirely wrong in highlighting the potential dangers of Team LAFF and Logue's actions during Chapter 4 of JINXY and the Forgotten Land. It was indeed a risky and reckless venture for a group of young children to explore an unfamiliar area without adult supervision, even if their presence there was unintentional.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He may be a serious, sharp-tongued, and cynical man, but he's still one of the good guys and doesn't hesitate to join his brother in helping out others for the greater good.
DOOM
Doomguy / Slayer
Doom Guy
- Berserk Button: Despite slaying the Icon of Sin, he just couldn't handle Ibuki's shenanigans for a moment longer. She lives.
- Brainwashed and Crazy: He was corrupted by Phazon thanks to the Grimm Prime. He was later freed thanks to Ibuki.
- Don't Touch It, You Idiot!: Ibuki played with Doomguy's figurines and he forcefully put them away and gave her a "Don't touch anything" look. To his dismay, Ibuki went off to touch something else.
- Friend to All Children: He's surprisingly gentle with kids.
- Odd Friendship: He formed one with Ibuki of all people despite their past interactions.
- He also became friends with Team CFVY and helped them with Power-Up boosts.
Dragon Quest XI
The Luminary
The Luminary
- Adaptational Deviation: He doesn't talk at all in the game. Here? He's a chatterbox.
Erik
Erik
- Gentleman Thief: He's a thief, but he's a friendly one.
Veronica
Veronica
- Having a Blast: She tends to use her Kaboom spells quite often, but holds back when Xena is around.
Serena
Serena
- Blow You Away: Her Kaswoosh spells can send you flying, like what happened with Dark Xena. It could also be used as a boost.
- The Medic: She heals people with her Heal spells. She can even revive those with Kazing for those who have fallen.
Sylvando
Sylvando
- Master of Disguise: He was able to disguise himself as Peach to fool Bowletta and Fawful.
- Thrill Seeker: He loves taking risks, viewing them as simple fun yet often does it at the expense of his friends.
Jade
Jade
- Super-Empowering: She had an extra pair of Orichalchum Claws and gave it to Marnie.
Rab
Rab
- Dirty Old Man: Everyone thought this when his porn magazine fell out of his robe, especially Velvet.
- I Read It for the Articles: His excuse for when the heroes looked through his magazine. They didn't listen.
Hendrik
Hendrik
- The Stoic: He's pretty much this... most of the time.
Calasmos
Calasmos
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- Big Bad: One of the main villains of the series. Currently, he is stuck in the universe of Erdrea and is unable to appear in the Mushroom Kingdom/Remnant universe due to the portals being too small for him to enter for the time being. And only his most loyal monsters and his influence are the only ones causing damage to that universe.
- Enemy Mine: While he will not work with the heroes during Galaxy 2, he makes it very clear he is going after both Dark Samus and Ridley
- Evil Versus Evil: Due to Dark Samus's actions during Galaxy 2, Calasmos makes it very clear she and Ridley have earned his wrath by dropping a Phazon Bomb in Erdrea.
- Hate Plague: Does this in his universe, but his influence manages to sneak into the universe of the Mushroom Kingdom/Remnant after the Smash Ball-powered Blast-o-matic incident and started influencing various monsters from different universes, the Grimm included.
- The Faceless: Calasmos can only be seen as a shadowy figure with red round eyes, currently.
- This Page Will Self-Destruct: He has a Malicious Seer perform a Kamikazee blow-up in Dark Samus's face after giving her a powerful warning.
Fairy Tail
- As a Whole:
- Adaptational Deviation: Here Fairy Til is a part of Remnant's history and their magic is instead powerful semblances.
- Back from the Dead They all come back in the final chapter of Skyward Sword, to stick around until Salem bites the dust.
- Famous Ancestor: Many of them are ancestors of the cast of SRS.
Natsu Dragneel
Natsu Dragneel
- 11th-Hour Superpower: Makarov gives him Dragon Force, an ability that turns him draconic, and proceeds to kick Acnologia's tail. Unfortunately, this kills him.
- Playing with Fire: His natural Semblance.
- Related in the Adaptation: He is Tatsumi's ancestor together with Lucy in this universe.
Lucy Heartfilia
Lucy Heartfilia
- Big Damn Kiss: She gives Natsu this before he goes to destroy Acnologia.
- Cool Key: For her Semblance, she can call upon Celestial Spirits to help her in battle.
- Pregnant Badass: She might have sat on the sidelines, but she was able to still help out by calling the celestial spirits to aid her friends.
- Related in the Adaptation: She is Tatsumi's ancestor together with Natsu in this universe.
Gray Fullbuster
Gray Fullbuster
- An Ice Person: His Semblance is Ice-Make.
- Related in the Adaptation: He is Esdeath's ancestor in this universe.
Erza Scarlet
Erza Scarlet
- Berserk Button: Do not harm strawberry shortcakes in front of her, even if by accident as in the finale of Skyward Sword, she shoves a guy against a wall after he accidentally backed into Pyrrha and knocked her strawberry shortcake off her plate and accused him of having no self-respect for desserts.
- Broken Tears: Watching her second home, Argus, be turned into a radioactive ruin sends her over the edge with her crying in defeat.
- Trademark Favorite Food: Strawberry shortcakes.
- Related in the Adaptation: She is Pyrrha's ancestor in this universe.
Laxus Dreyar
Laxus Dreyar
- Curb-Stomp Battle: Takes down Yang with one blow to the head in 3D Land which sends Gloria and Tifa running off a short distance.
- Fish out of Temporal Water: He was trapped by one of Salem's henchmen by using a crystal prison. Centuries later, Nora busts him out of there. Naturally, he freaks out and wonders what the hell is going on.
- Official Couple: He and Zapple started dating after the events of Forgotten Land.
- Recurring Character: After being freed, he shows up from time to time, often assisting the heroes on their adventures.
- Related in the Adaptation: He is Nora's ancestor in this universe. And due to this version of Makarov being an incarnation of Ozma, this also makes him Professor Ozpin’s grandson.
- Ship Tease: He had those with Zapple before they became a couple.
- Team Pet: Electivire.
- Running Gag: His motion sickness often causes him problems.
Mavis Vermillion
Mavis Vermillion
- Adaptational Badass: She was the Spring Maiden in the past, which allowed her to return as Ghost in combination with her Semblance.
- Friendly Ghost: Naturally, she's a happy-go-lucky ghost and a companion of Ozpin.
- White Mage: Her Semblance, Revitalization, allows her to revive plants or give someone another chance at life before they die. It can also purify or keep at bay evil spirits that possess a person.
Kagura Mikazuchi
Kagura Mikazuchi
- Adaptational Backstory Change: Unlike the canon, she is an assassin of the Night Raid guild. She would later become the leader of it and made reforms to ensure a good and well-respected legacy.
- Legacy Character: She became the new leader of the Night Raid guild that would evolve into a respected clan over the years until it was undone by Tyrian Callows.
- My Greatest Second Chance: She was given a second chance to live when Millianna found her and introduced her to Mermaid Heel.
- Order Reborn: Restarts the Nightraid Guild after its demise at the hands of the Creatures of Grimm.
Virgo
Virgo the Maiden
- Big Damn Hero: Twice. Once when the Incursio Armor possesses Lucy and the other time when Tatsumi struggles to gain control of the Incursio Armor.
- This Is Going to Suck: When Tatsumi asks her to summon the Incursio Armor, she at first is hesitant to give it to him. She reluctantly agrees when he points out that it might be the only chance to snap Mine out of her rampage.
Fatal Fury
Terry Bogard
Terry Bogard
- Bring It: He sometimes tends to do this when facing an opponent such as Rathalos or Midbus.
- Calling Your Attacks: He pretty much does this whenever he's in battle, and he does it in style!
- Curbstomp Battle: He annihilates Broque Monsieur without breaking a sweat. Broque is pretty much unharmed, though it did knock the wind out of him.
Final Fantasy
Cloud
Cloud Strife
- The Dragon Slayer: He, along with Tifa and Yuffie, took down Bonetail.
Tifa
Tifa Lockhart
- Friendly Rivalry: To Yang. They sometimes spar against one another and have friendly competitions, but they will also be there for one another if the other girl feels blue. Like how Yang lost her semblance and Tifa was right there with her when she immediately found out.
- Girly Bruiser: Don't mess with her unless you want your lights punched out.
- Healing Potion: Despite having Materia, she mostly uses her fists to attack. That said, she does have Megalixers on standby.
- The Trickster: While not much of a trickster, she did manage to trick Bowser into using the Double Pain badge in Thousand Year Door.
Aerith
Aerith Gainsborough
- Healing Factor: Curaga.
- Projectile Spell: Her Firagas and Blizzagas are this.
- Robo Speak: She joined Dante in speaking robot to fool the Shroobs.
Sephiroth
Sephiroth
- Big Damn Heroes: Frees Esdeath from Eggman's prison, allowing her to save the Rose Xiao-Long family.
- Hero, Rival, Baddie Team-Up: He willingly worked with the heroes to take down a Fawful Behemoth temporarily.
- Official Couple: He and Esdeath started dating since chapter 233 of Super RWBY Gaiden.
- One-Winged Angel: The Trope Codifier himself.
- Ship Tease: He is hinted to have feelings for Esdeath since their first fight. Some of the scenes since are either complimenting or observing her.
- Unaffected by Spice: He tries to pass off like this after trying Min Min's experimental Superspicy Ramen... despite the steam coming from his ears and the waterfall of sweat he's producing.
- Villain Respect: Esdeath earned his respect after their duel.
Fullmetal Alchemist
- As a Whole:
- Adaptational Deviation: Unlike their canon selves, they are part of the Galactic Federation in the Metroid universe and Shou also works for Ridley.
- Defector from Decadence: By the time Samus and the rest of Team SPBRR destroy the BLS Station, the Noble Strike Team reveals that they've also had it with the Galactic Federation's corruption and return to the Mushroom Kingdom with Samus and company.
- The Squad: Roy Mustang, Riza Hawkeye, Alex Armstrong, Olivier Armstrong, Alphonse Elric, Edward Elric, and their Mechanic Winry Rockbell are part of a team called the Noble Strike Team.
Edward "Ed" Elric
Edward Elric
- Adaptational Backstory Change: In canon, he lost his limbs after screwing up with alchemy in a misguided attempt to revive his mother. Here, he lost them after Ridley attacked him after trying to eat Winry.
- Berserk Button: As always; his height.
- Hair-Trigger Temper: Doesn't take much to get this guy angry.
Alphonse "Al" Elric
Alphonse Elric
- Big Little Brother: He's younger than Edward, but due to their respective heights, everyone mistakes him for the older brother.
Winry Rockbell
Winry Rockbell
- Birds of a Feather: Quickly bonds with mechanically talented Futuba, Tails, Souda, and Pietro.
- Wrench Wench: Like her canon self, Winry's a very skilled mechanic with a wrench as her primary weapon.
Roy Mustang
Roy Mustang
- Playing with Fire: His gloves give him the power to create fireballs.
- She Is Not My Girlfriend: Repeatedly denies having feelings for Riza.
Riza Hawkeye
Riza Hawkeye
Alex Armstrong
Alex Louis Armstrong
Olivier Armstrong
Olivier Mira Armstrong
Shou Tucker
Shou Tucker
- Adaptation Deviation: In this universe, he works for the Galactic Federation and also Ridley.
- Cruel and Unusual Death: You'd think Shou would have listened to Ridley's warnings over the Malicious Metroid? Nope. He sticks it out to the bitter end... and how does Nina thank him for showing his love and care? She proceeds to impale through the bastard's gut, then she eats his entire head and finishes his body off by splitting it in half. Ouch.
- Even Evil Has Loved Ones: He is very fond of his pet Metroid Nina.
- Groin Attack: He messed with the wrong cosmic woman, as shown when Rosalina flings him about into several pipes, one of which he lands on between his legs. To add insult to injury, Rosalina drops an ice pack the size of a cinderblock and has it land on his crotch.
- Mask of Sanity: When the heroes confront him, he starts out as just a seemingly eccentric guy, only to quickly reveal just how insane he truly is with his research into Metroids.
- Sanity Slippage: In his starting video logs, we see him as just a normal guy explaining about the X Parasite. However, we soon see him starting to laugh maniacally as each of the videos progresses then proceeds to berate Samus.
Halo
Master Chief
Master Chief / John-117
- Alternate Self: The version of Master Chief that Carman summoned came from a different point in time. Specifically, he originated from the events of Halo 3
- Guest-Star Party Member: He and Cortana were one of the many heroes that Carmen summoned during RWBY: Winter's Dusk.
- I Choose to Stay: He decided to remain on Remnant and not remain asleep in a cryo chamber.
- The Cameo: Master Chief was briefly seen in chapter 38 of Super RWBY Gaiden, where he fought Spartan Locke during the events of Halo 5.
Cortana
Cortana
- Alternate Self: This version of Cortana that Carman summoned came from a different point in time. Specifically, she was brought over from the events of Halo 3.
- Guest-Star Party Member: She and Master Chief were one of the many heroes that Carmen summoned during RWBY: Winter's Dusk.
- I Choose to Stay: She decided to remain on Remnant along with Master Chief as it was better than their current situation.
Metal Gear Solid
Solid Snake
Solid Snake / David
- Caught on Tape: Snake taped all of Adam's plans to Ilia and sent it to Sienna after knocking Adam out.
- Curbstomp Battle: He kicks Ilia's ass and stops her from making a big mistake.
- Disarm, Disassemble, Destroy: Snake went toe to toe against Adam and dismantled his weapon after defeating him. Then along came Master Hand to finish the job...
- Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique: He shocks Ilia to get information out of her. Then tries to get info out of her by balancing a chair off of the balcony of the castle with HER on the chair.
- Retired Badass: His world assumes he is dead, so he spends much of his time lazing around.
- Unmanly Secret: Enjoys spending his free time listening to J-Pop music, which he tries to hide. Samus bluntly tells him everybody knows.
No More Heroes
Travis Touchdown
Travis Touchdown
- Otaku: An anime-loving assassin. He calls Viridi "Little Miss Moe" in Super RWBY Galaxy.
- Laser Blade: His beam katana.
Persona
The Phantom Thieves of Heart
Joker
Akira Kurusu / Joker
- "Eureka!" Moment: The moment when Iris mentions they can't just confront Dark Xena themselves, Akira has an "Aha!" moment and suggests going to Mementos to fight Dark Xena there.
- Finishing Move: He did this to Yaldaboath in his universe before falling into a portal caused by Kamek.
Ryuji
Ryuji Sakamoto / Skull
- Butt-Monkey: He gets this treatment in both the main series and the Chibi spin-off.
- Lost in Translation: He translated his lyrics of One-Winged Angel, not even knowing that the lyrics are in Latin.
- When Sephiroth corrects Ryuji's lyrics and gives it back for Dorothea to sing, he tells him that he should learn Latin. His response?Ryuji: What the eff is Latin?
- When Sephiroth corrects Ryuji's lyrics and gives it back for Dorothea to sing, he tells him that he should learn Latin. His response?
- Nail 'Em: His weapon consists of a nailed bat.
- Skull for a Head: His mask consists of a skull.
Ann
Ann Takamaki / Panther
- Best Friend: Her best friends are Makoto and Futaba.
- Playing with Fire: Using her Persona has her use fire powers to heat things.
Yusuke
Yusuke Kitagawa / Fox
- Eccentric Artist: Yusuke fits this role well due to his personality and love for art.
Makoto
Makoto Niijima / Queen
- Badass Biker: She turns into this when she transforms into her Phantom Thief attire.
- Berserk Button: Anything related to or is Gacha sets Makoto off easily. Chapter 10 of Forgotten Land reveals that this is due to her getting bad items from Gachapons when she was little and throwing them away when she was older, getting mad when video game companies snuck them into games with loot boxes and gacha mechanics, and hearing horror stories about kids stealing their parent's credit cards and putting them in massive debt all because of these loot box mechanics with her realizing it was a predatory mechanic. She wants to destroy Gachapons because she feels like it's a noble cause to destroy it just so no kid could go into a gambling addiction.
- Cool Bike: Her Persona, Johanna, is a bike that Makoto can drive on.
- Homing Projectile: She found a Spiny Shell and threw it at Waluigi when he was closing in on the Smash Mansion with the Smash Invitation in hand.
- The Kid with the Remote Control: She used an RC car to make Waluigi fall into a fountain.
Futaba
Futaba Sakura / Oracle
- A Day in the Limelight: She gains a more prominent role in Winter's Dusk.
- The Atoner: After it's revealed Eggman has control of the entire network, Futaba decides to remake the network of Remnant to atone for accidentally helping Eggman cause havoc. She later succeeded in that goal.
- The Internet Is for Porn: It's heavily implied that she accidentally looked at smut when looking for Ruby. Her reaction says it all.
- Mission Control: She was this for the Schnee Mansion heist.
- My God, What Have I Done?: She had believed that Tails was working with her to uncover Remnant's secrets. Once she realizes that Eggman is helping her, she is horrified. It doesn't help that Eggman makes everything worse when he reveals Salem to the world.
- And then, later on, we see Ironwood demanding a manhunt to search for the one responsible for helping Eggman.
- Official Couple: She and Jade started dating as of JNPR: Freelancer.
- Power-Up: She obtained a ray gun before the event of Galaxy 2. It was later upgraded to shoot ice beams.
- She obtained a Technomage style upgrade based on Sombra of Overwatch. The upgrade allows her to do a variety of things such as projection, cybernetic staircases, and matrix healing outside of her Persona.
- She later created a motorcycle through her technology and can summon it anytime she wants and store it away easily.
- She obtained a Tera Orb for Terastalize.
- She obtained the power of the Winter Maiden after Fria’s passing.
- She obtained a Technomage style upgrade based on Sombra of Overwatch. The upgrade allows her to do a variety of things such as projection, cybernetic staircases, and matrix healing outside of her Persona.
- Ridiculously Fast Construction: Operation: Winter Moonlight has her constructing an igloo to hide in while serving as Mission Control in the span of a few seconds.
- The Rival: She serves as one for Arthur Watts having been attempting to counter his hacking skills in return.
- Team Pet: She caught a Greavard called Spooks, which later evolved into Houndstone. She shares her Dog with her girlfriend Jade Gadd.
Haru
Haru Okumura / Noir
- Caring Gardener: She started to care for an earthworm... before it was promptly taken away and eaten by a Crowber. She even named it Jim.
- Drives Like Crazy: Definitely. She says in Chapter 271 of Gaiden that she just loves to drive and feel the absolute freedom while driving...which translates to rocketing her way through everything.
- Imagine Spot: She has one of these in JINXY and the Forgotten Land she and Chiaki find the blueprint for Fleur Tornado and think that it's a flower tornado. The imagined spot is of her and Kirby creating flowery winds and decorating the Halberd with flowers as well as placing a flower on Meta Knight's mask.
- Power-Up: When exploring a Phazon-corrupted Rightside Down Galaxy, Haru used a Phazon Flower and got a power boost in Phazon. Using the power itself was harmless to her, however, according to Palutena, absorbing Phazon came at a great cost that ended up severely poisoning her.
Morgana
Morgana / Mona
- That Poor Cat: The moment he got that Smash Invite, the chair that Wario was sitting on squished his tail.
Akechi
Goro Akechi / Crow
- The Atoner: Akechi seeks to fix his wrongs starting with helping the heroes.
- The main universe also seeks the same thing, although he admits he is not sure the phantom Thieves would forgive and trust him again.
- Back from the Dead: Xerneas brings the Paper version of him back to life as thanks for his good deed.
- The main universe Akechi was also revived after the Universe Reset.
- He's Back!: Makes a reappearance after his death in the Underwhere of the Paper Universe and is brought back to life by Xerneas.
- Great Detective: He still retains good deduction skills as he figures out why Raven left her husband and daughter.
- Odd Friendship: He forms one with Raven Branwen due to relating to what she is going through.
- Spit Take: Does one of these after overhearing Yang asking Raven if the latter wants to go to Honeyhop Galaxy with her.
- Wise Beyond Their Years: Despite being a young teenager, he has shown to be very wise and can give good advice when needed.
Others
Sojiro
Sojiro Sakura
- Cool Old Guy: He's pretty much a cool, understanding, and approachable middle-aged barista that anyone can talk to.
- Good Parents: This man is a doting and loving father to Futaba. This later extends toward his new foster son, Jataro Kemuri.
- Local Hangout: His cafe in Toad Town is a fairly popular hangout or meet-up spot among the heroes and the residents living in the town.
- Papa Wolf: The first thing that Sojiro does when a brainwashed Ironwood attempts to arrest/murder Futaba? Stands protectively in front of his daughter and attacks Ironwood multiple times... until he is knocked unconscious by the brainwashed Atlesian general.
Sae
Sae Niijima
- Badass Normal: She may not have any Persona powers just like her sister and the Phantom Thieves, but she's not afraid to pick up a gun and kick some serious ass when the situation calls for it.
- Cool Big Sis: She's like this towards Makoto, often making sure that she's safe and well whenever she goes out on an adventure with her friends.
Portal
- As a Whole:
- Adaptational Deviation: The Portal characters exist in the Metroid universe and are a part of the Galactic Federation.
Chell
Chell
- Adaptational Deviation: In the series, Chell was from the same colony as Samus Aran.
- Best Friend: She and Samus were best friends in childhood.
- Power-Up: Chell would have her portal gun upgraded by Ruby during Galaxy 2, allowing her to use it on any surface.
- In Dread thanks to the mechanics, the Portal Gun can turn into a white arm canon version of Samus, allowing the ability to Blue Missile for Repulsion Gel. Plus, a charged beam attack similar to a Turret Fire.
- Related in the Adaptation: She's Cave's niece.
- The Speechless: In this series, Chell lost the ability to speak due to her voice box being ruptured after an explosion from her final Battle with GLaDOS.
- Why Won't You Die?: GLaDOS made it clear Chell is very hard to kill.
GLaDOS
Caroline / Genetic Lifeform and Disk Operating System
- Deadpan Snarker: Like in canon, she's very snarky with everyone.
- Freudian Excuse Is No Excuse: Why is understandable why GLaDOS was mad at Cave, but it did not justify her actions in killing everyone else.
- Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: After Wheatley goes mad with power, she tells everyone that because Wheatley was specifically designed to be a moron, he's left in charge of the whole facility. She states that if she would, she would be slow-clapping at this.
- No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: GLaDOS received a brutal retaliation by Samus, Blake, Chell, and Futaba for the torment she did to Cave with ROB ensuring she did not escape.
- Oh, Crap!: When she realizes that ROB is perfectly okay with his body getting beaten if it means she suffers for it.
- Power-Up: GLaDOS First get a body based on Bastion temporarily during Galaxy 2. She would later receive an android version of her old body with the four famous Vocaloids as AI companions.
- Revenge: GLaDOS does this to Cave by torturing him with his recordings and making his body sphere regenerate every time it gets destroyed over and over again.
Wheatley
Wheatley
- Berserk Button: He does not like being called a moron.
- Genius Ditz: While he's normally an idiot, he does have some moments of wisdom.
- Face–Heel Turn: After replacing GLaDOS, the power immediately got to his head and he turned on everyone. He returns to normal later.
- Odd Friendship: With Caboose.
- Power-Up: Jade implants Wheatley into Epsilon's monitor body. He takes some time to get used to it.
Cave Johnson
Cave Johnson
- Adaptational Deviation: Like Chell, he's from the same colony as Samus Aran.
- Complete Immortality: Cave's AI Sphere can regenerate no matter how damaged or destroyed he gets.
- Everyone Has Standards: He was crazy and he knew it, but even he thought that Shou Tucker was going way too far.
- Honorary Uncle: He was one to Samus, who still calls him Uncle Cave.
- Mad Scientist: His experiment and ideas tend to be that way, he is considered even more insane than even Shou Tucker, another mad scientist.
- Power-Up: He has the immortality of a Personality Core body before being given a new body based on WALL-E and EVE with their abilities plus the ability to make lemonades and milkshakes.
- Related in the Adaptation: He's Chell's uncle.
- Spared by the Adaptation: Unlike in canon, Cave lives as a Personality Core. That said, it did not stop GLaDOS from torturing him.
Red vs. Blue
- As a Whole:
- Recurring Character: The cast, particularly the Reds and Blues have become this since JNPR's Mansion, often in supporting or main character roles.
Sarge
Sarge
- Despair Event Horizon: Similar to canon he falls into one when the fact that the entire Red vs. Blue war is a simulation for training Freelancers finally sinks in Revelation.
- Grievous Harm with a Body: His answer to finding the Diglett in the Isle of Armor? Use Grif as a mallet!
- Laser-Guided Karma: Sarge tends to get this with certain actions he does.
- Pikaboo shows Sarge its true form under its rags after the latter tricks Grif into looking underneath a second time.
- Sarge falls for a trap that makes him a dirty blue in retaliation for going too far with a physical education teacher.
- Shotguns Are Just Better: His weapon of choice.
Simmons
Private Richard “Dick” Simmons
- Phrase Catcher: Usually speaks God Damn it Barb whenever she makes a pun.
- Teacher's Pet: He's pretty much the yes man to Sarge.
Grif
Private Dexter Grif
- Attack! Attack... Retreat! Retreat!: He goes after a few Space Pirates, only to turn the corner and see a whole squad waiting for him. He immediately hightails it out of there as they chase after him.
- But Thou Must!: He refused to go a step further in Super RWBY World. Poochy had other ideas.
- Butt-Monkey: Sarge loves to bully the poor guy.
- Power-Up: Thanks to an experiment by the Medic and Engi, Grif has Dark Ruby’s Semblance.
Donut
Private Franklin Delano Donut
- What He Said: He tends to say random things at times.
Church
Private Leonard L. Church / Alpha / Epsilon
- Killed Off for Real: Just like in the actual web series, Alpha Church dies in JNPR's Freelancer thanks to the EMP. He lives on through Epsilon Church.
- Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy: Both Alpha and Epsilon are terrible shots with the sniper rifle. Epsilon gets better thanks to Jade.
- Phrase Catcher: Usually speaks God Damn it Barb whenever Yang makes a pun.
- Power-Up: Thanks to Jade, Epsilon can turn on "Ghost" mode while inside a robot body.
- Jade also fixed his Sniper rifle so no he can aim, unlike Alpha Church.
Tucker
Private Lavernius Tucker
- Birds of a Feather: Platonic example, but he and fellow pervert Teruteru swiftly hit it off and take to referring to each other as brothers, much to Mahiru's dismay.
- The Casanova: He's trying to pick up chicks, complete with his "Bow Chicka Bow Wow". It never ends well.
- He even goes as far as to flirt with Esdeath. It doesn't go well for him either.
Caboose
Private Michael J. Caboose
- Beware the Nice Ones: Caboose has shown how dangerous it can be to make him angry, so watch out.
- Cloudcuckoolander
- Fluffy Tamer: Despite the horrors of the Sharpedo in the Isle of Armor, Caboose managed to tame every single one of them.
- Nice Guy: Very friendly by default. He even manages to befriend a redeemed Junko Enoshima.
- Summon Magic: After Isle of Armor, Caboose learned magic from Leviathan of Final Fantasy and can use it to summon the Sharpedo he befriended from the Isle of Armor.
- He also kept the Materia need to summon Leviathan much to the summon's chagrin.
- Team Pet: The Sharpedo from the Isle of Armor. He also obtained the Mega Ring and Sharpedonite needed to trigger the Sharpedo's Mega Evolution form.
Doc
Medical Officer Super Private First Class Frank DuFresne / O'Malley
- Split Personality: Similar to the canon material, he develops his O'Malley persona as of Galaxy 2 due to no one realizing he was gone after Kraid launched him into space.
- Who Are You?: This happens to Doc a lot as people tend to forget or not notice him with a few exceptions like in the canon show.
- Doc even lampshaded this back in Chapter 2 of Super RWBY 64.
- This would eventually lead to Doc's O'Malley persona returning earlier than in the canon show.
- Doc even lampshaded this back in Chapter 2 of Super RWBY 64.
Lopez
Lopez the Heavy
- Language Barrier: No one can understand what he's saying, so they wrongly interpret what he's saying, much to his dismay.
Sister
Kaikaina Grif
- Running Gag: Durning JNPR: Freelancer, she kept trying to have sex with anyone, Team JINXY were often those she tried to do much to the team's annoyance.
- She did get to have sex with an Elite before a pissed-off Carolina kills them.
- Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Every time she makes one of her innuendos, anyone who hears it tends to go the other way. Grimm included.
- Hell, even a castle bailed out of there during a Castle Calamity skit.
Carolina
Agent Carolina
- Badass Boast: She says this little gem after Washington wonders why they're still standing.
- Carolina: We're Smash Sisters, bitch!Washington: Smash Sis- *pauses* Wait, you're... Oooh shit.
- Big Damn Hero: Right when Meta and Washington try to take Pyrrha down, Carolina intervenes and saves her. Unfortunately, Washington and Meta flee.
- Identical Stranger: She both resembles and sounds similar to Pyrrha. This is an Actor Allusion to them sharing the same voice actress, Jen Brown.
Washington
Agent Washington / David
- Heel–Face Turn: After Meta impales Jaune, Washington has enough and starts shooting Meta, knocking the Chaos Emerald off of his hand while doing so.
- Put on a Bus: Wash hasn't made an appearance since Super RWBY Sunshine.
- Screw This, I'm Outta Here: After seeing the craziness in Isle Delfino, he had enough and decided to go with the Meta so he could return home.
- The Atoner: He seeks to redeem himself after all the trouble he has caused.
- The Comically Serious: Like in the canon show, he is very dead-serious to the point during Super RWBY Sunshine.
- This Is Gonna Suck: How he pretty much feels after Carolina goes after Tex.
- Turncoat: He allies with the Meta to take down Pyrrha. He later betrays the Meta as well in Galaxy after he had enough of him.
The Meta
The Meta / Agent Maine
- Arch-Enemy: To Pyrrha due to her resembling and sounding like Carolina.
- Cruel and Unusual Death: In Galaxy, The Meta brutally suffers the effect of Spaghettification before being sucked into a Black Hole after being thrown out of the area by an enraged Pyrrha.
- Power-Up: At some point between Sunshine and Galaxy, the Meta obtained the White Chaos Emerald. He later loses it after Washington betrays him
- Put on a Bus: Despite being a major threat to the cast since Uprising, The Meta has not made an appearance since Super RWBY Sunshine.
- The Bus Came Back: The Meta makes an epic return in Super RWBY Galaxy.
- The Speechless: Due to an injury, he communicates by growling.
Tex
Agent Texas / Tex / Epsilon-Beta / Allison
- Curbstomp Battle: Not only does she wipe the floor with the Reds and Tucker, but she also manages to cream JNPR without breaking a sweat.
- Spared by the Adaptation: While the original Tex still died due to the Black Hole, the Epsilon version of Tex survives unlike her canon counterpart, and joins the Freelancer cast in their return to the Mushroom Kingdom.
Locus
Locus / Samuel Ortez
- Affably Evil: He is shown to be very polite to his allies despite being a Mercenary.
- The Cameo: He and Felix show up at the end of JNPR: Project Freelancer, being sent by Hardgrove to kill Church, Epsilon, and anyone associated with them.
Felix
Felix / Isaac Gates
- Butt-Monkey: Chapter 221 of Gaiden sees him repeatedly pick the wrong pipe and get hurt in some way as a result.
- Power-Up: In Chapter 224 of Super RWBY Gaiden, Felix's suit received a permanent upgrade thanks to the Red Chaos Emerald. One of his new abilities shown so far was channeling electricity into attacks.
- The Cameo: He and Locus show up at the end of JNPR: Project Freelancer, being sent by Hardgrove to kill Church, Epsilon, and anyone associated with them.
- The Sociopath: He is crazy for a reason.
The Rising of the Shield Hero
Filo
Filo
- Badass Adorable: Despite her cute appearance, she is capable of fighting enemies on her own.
- Super-Toughness: She ate some Phazon during the events of Galaxy Conquest 2 and only got a stomach bug. Mikan is stunned upon being shown her notes by The Medic.