Characters / Super Robot Quest

Character list of Super Robot Quest

Defense Force Research Institute

Leadership

Major Johnathan Devin

The quest's focus character.

• Awesome by Analysis: His logistical experience has given him an eye for patterns of efficiency. Just one look at the chaos of Sam's lab reveals to him that it's more organised than it first appears, and he can identify what appears at first to be random submarine traffic as resembling supply routes.
• Da Chief: Plays this role as the head of the Institute.
• Experienced Protagonist: As a soldier of the US Army, seconded to the EUDF, Devin has been around the block more than a few times. His experience as a logistician, his actions to evacuate civilians during a Westphalian terror attack on the anniversary of the Day of Starfall, and his ground-breaking capture of a sample of Kaiju flesh are what make him ideal to lead the new Defense Force Research Institute.
• Improvisational Ingenuity: As a logistician, Devin knows how to efficiently make full use of the resources he's got and work out how to get more. The feat that put him on General Peters' radar to lead the DFRI was supervising the preservation of the Defense Force's first sample of kaiju material - which up till that point just melted if cut off from the beasts - by means of judicious jury-rigging of a restaurant's deep freeze.
• Must Have Caffeine: If Major Devin can be said to have one major quirk, it's that he practically mainlines coffee. One call with General Peters has her notice the leaning tower of discarded coffee cups behind Devin, and when one of Devin's assistants notes that his to-do list includes “ALL OF THE COFFEE”:
  Katarina: Sir, you… you can't have all of the coffee. Can you?
  Devin: Watch me.
• Properly Paranoid: When setting up the Institute for the first time, one of his first priorities was security, to make sure whatever tech they develop doesn't get out unless it was on their terms. This paid off as they managed to pinpoint a Westphalian spy cell poking their nose in. Later after an interaction with George Armistead and receiving a suspicious flash drive, he got some guff from the AI girls for analysing it on a closed, isolated terminal, only to be vindicated when it blew up trying to transmit a virus.
• Supporting Protagonist: In any other Super Robot media, the organisational director would just be Da Chief while the story follows The Hero out in the field. In this quest, the director is the focal character while his pilots only get the spotlight on missions.

Defense Force

Captain Haruko Sasaki

• Ascended Fangirl: It's quite clear that she's a fan of, among other things, Super Robot anime, as demonstrated by her intimate familiarity with Brave Lord Valen. She is now part of a project to develop actual Super Robots.
• Closet Geek: She implements full-on tokusatsu Invocations as vocal passcodes to authorize the Jackal's combinations. When Devin gives her a look, Sasaki simply says she's within her rights to do so.
• Implausible Deniability: Takes offense to Devin's claims that she's part of the DFRI's madness, but her Closet Geek Ascended Fangirl tendencies mean that she absolutely is.
• Number Two: Major Devin's straight-laced Executive Officer and field commander.
• Not So Above It All: Despite how professional and thorough she acts on a daily basis, she has a hidden nerdy side.

DFAI-01 Diana

• Mission Control: Is most often seen monitoring the Defense Force Network, watching out for anything that requires the Institute's attention. During the Day of Destruction, she practically takes full battlefield overwatch, coordinating Perseus and its pilots, the Chimera Seeker squadron and the defenders inside the Yukimura Institute against the attacking Kaiju and Infiltrators, while still helping to pilot the Pegasus.

DFAI-02 Adrianna

• Genki Girl: Is extremely excitable, and focuses that energy to weeding out any kind of infiltrator from the Institute, as well as browbeating everyone to be on schedule.
• Overreacting Airport Security: Was created to focus purely on the Institute's security, and her emotional template is based off of Sasaki and her moments of… enthusiasm. Many people are unnerved by this.
  Devin: You're worried about an overly enthusiastic security officer personality. But she WILL keep the infiltrators out?
  Ignatov: Infiltrators, casual visitors, possible familial or conjugal visits.
  Devin: Perfect.
• Target Spotter: Her subroutines have unusually potent targeting solutions, which allow the Pegasus's cannons to hit more accurately.

Engineering

1st Lt. Adam Wilde & Sgt. 1st Class James Henry

• Badass Bookworm: They may be the Institute's chief engineers, but they are still trained soldiers and are capable of flying air support alongside Callaghan when needed.
• Expy: Given Wilde's surname and blond beard, and Henry's beret and stoic demeanour, they are obvious expies of Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman. It's also mentioned that their military division was stationed in Alameda.
• Straight Man and Wise Guy: Guess which is which. Hint: the one surnamed Wilde lives up to his name.
• Transforming Vehicle: Their specialty, which eventually becomes one of the cornerstone technologies of the DFRI. Their Establishing Character Moment is them rolling up to Devin in a truck slated for scrap, and extending power-loading arms from it.

Dr. Boris Ignatov

• Artificial Family Member: Is the creator of the DFRI's Artificial Intelligences, and views them all as his daughters just like they view each other as siblings.
• Not So Stoic: At one point he implies he doesn't consider himself the Only Sane Man... and when tasked to help build a wing of Seeker support craft controlled by rudimentary AI he demonstrates why, cackling like a Mad Scientist right alongside Greg from the Build Team.

EAI-01 Lana

• Battleaxe Nurse: Downplayed. She often finds herself on repair duty fixing the Super Robots/robot chassis of the Super AIs, and her stubborn, argumentative attitude often makes her bedside manner lacking.
• Vitriolic Best Buds: Has this relationship with Jiro Yukimura, with her constantly calling him “clown”, but can come up with brilliant ideas when working together.
• Wrench Wench: She counts as a member of the engineering team, but is restricted to controlling mechanical arms as an AI. She definitely has the focused, no-nonsense, stubborn mindset of an engineer though.

Jiro Yukimura

• Defector from Decadence: He has some issues with his uncle Rin's use of the Super Robot as a mere shield against Sheol's Kaiju, and wanted him to be more proactive. The difference of opinion led Jiro to go out into the world to take pictures of what's really going on, and this route eventually led him to the DFRI and him getting hired by Devin as another engineer.
• Genre Savvy: His initial introduction has him lampshading a few tropes in the quest, like calling the Jackal a Mook Mech if it was on the bad guys' side, and calling the usage of Mercury V as merely a Kaiju shield as the “monster-an-episode” approach (and saying how they won't beat Sheol that way).
• An Odd Place to Sleep: His primary quirk aside from his arguments with Lana would likely be his tendency to get inspiration late at night, which leads to him completing a design and then immediately passing out on the spot.
• Vitriolic Best Buds: Has this relationship with assistant AI Lana, with him constantly calling her “shorty” from her avatar's appearance, but can come up with brilliant ideas when working together.

The Build Team - Anthony, Kelly and Greg

• Expy: Alongside their seniors Wilde and Henry, they are counterparts of Tory Belleci, Kari Byron and Grant Imahara, with the same team name to boot.

Science

Dr. Sam Carlson

• Catchphrase: Has a few.
  • One that is almost instantly echoed by his staff: SCIENCE!
  • A Signing Off Catchphrase after his reports: "Sam Carlson, we're done here!"
  • He likes to preface his lectures with "True fact..."
• Mad Scientist: And proud of it. He's been known to monologue grandiosely if Ivanna doesn't check him.
• Psychic Powers: His field of study before the Institute recruited him. His study into ESP proved instrumental in developing the Man-Machine Interface used to pilot the DFRI's mechs.

Dr. Maximilliene “Max” Brand

• Herr Doktor: Or Frau Doctor in this case; she is a researcher from Humbolt University.
• Imported Alien Phlebotinum: She is the Institute's xenotechnology expert, having come to it with an alien relic to analyse.
• Mad Scientist: With the “hopefully hyperbolic” statements of grandeur to match her brilliance.
• Laughing Mad: Prone to mad cackling whenever she hits a breakthrough.

SCAI-01 Ivanna

• Cloudcuckoolander's Minder: Was created to be this for the Institute's resident Mad Scientists.
• How Unscientific!: Is noted to get visibly upset when new conventions violate conventional laws of physics. After observing ESP Theory managing to physically alter K-Class materials, Katarina has to stop Ivanna from rebooting out of frustration.

Zulu

• Because You Were Nice to Me: Devin endeared himself to him quickly on the sole basis that he wasn't going to get scrapped on a whim.
• It Can Think: Zulu regularly weirds out Legio Galbinus with just how advanced his thought processes and technical skills are, since Kausen in general seem to consider Drones to be roughly equivalent to dogs.
• Mook–Face Turn: Was an ordinary Kausen Drone that was knocked out and captured by the Legion, and with some coaxing by Callaghan and Ichiro, became a Kausen tech researcher at the Institute.

Dr. Mary McCullough

• Motor Mouth: During her introductory speech to Devin, she practically never stops for breath.
• Power Crystal: Her claim to fame is faedium, a special kind of crystal used to store, conduct and amplify power. It soon proves its worth in the DFRI as a way to combine energy from different sources into one usable source, which was a stumbling block in combining different kinds of Transforming Vehicles.

Other

AI-01 Katarina

• Benevolent A.I.: Her basis program is found buried in a pre-Unification bunker hidden deep under the Institute's campus, and with Dr. Ignatov's guidance, became a reliable helper to the DFRI.
• Cool Big Sis: As the Institute's first true Artificial Intelligence, she takes this role to all her younger AI sisters and is always looking for ways to help out.
• Jack of All Trades: She isn't tied to any department of the Institute and can help out in whichever department needs support.

Anna Smith

• Beware the Silly Ones: Beneath her cheerful, mischievous attitude, she is an Intelligence agent to the core. One encounter with her has a stubborn Separatist captive going from "I'll tell you nothing!" to "Anything but That!!" in no time at all.
• The Sneaky Gal: As an Intelligence Services agent and their liaison to the Institute, this is par for the course for her. She makes her first appearance by infiltrating the DFRI without anyone the wiser, and Devin is always wary of her due to her occupation.
• Stealth Hi/Bye: Has a habit of doing these. Her first appearance is surprising Devin and Sasaki in the middle of their base who both pull their sidearms on her.

AI-02 Melinda

• Motor Mouth: Inherits this quality from Dr. McCullough, whom she inherited her brain patterns from. She tends to ramble on about random stuff while prodding everyone else into getting their work done.

Pilots

1st Lt. Richard Callaghan

Super Robot: Custom Jackal; SCR-01 Beowulf

• Ace Pilot: In the cockpit of his Mecha, he is a skilled, agile steamroller that can blaze through enemy fire and rain down unholy punishment from all ranges.
• Berserk Button: He doesn't like it when history gets damaged. When a Kaiju fight ends up wrecking the NDV Admiral Sergey Gorshkov aircraft carrier, he enters a state of Tranquil Fury and moves to smite the Kaiju where it stands.
• Hidden Depths: Has a fascination with historical battles and tactics. In fact, the reason he joined the army was to pay for his history degree.
• Like a Duck Takes to Water: As a radar technical officer, he was expected to remain on the back lines, but Sam Carlson's psychic testing showed that he had aptitude with the Man-Machine Interface, and his adaptability and instinct soon led to him becoming the Institute's first Super Robot pilot.

1st Lt. Oscar Tellison

Super Robot: Custom Phalanx; SCR-02 Perseus Co-Pilot

• Mook Commander: He proves to be a natural leader with ease at commanding lower-ranked troops. Fittingly, he is given an Ace Custom of the Phalanx, mechs that work well in groups, as well as assigned command of the Argonauts.

2nd Lt. Zhang Xiu Ying

Super Robot: SCR-02 Perseus Co-Pilot

• Geo Effects: While undergoing simulation testing, she caught the Institute's attention by maximising her terrain advantage and making life very difficult for her enemies.

Cadet Jessica Satsuma

Super Robot: SCR-03E Thunderbolt

• Attack! Attack! Attack!: Her fighting style can only be described as aggressive. When faced with a problem, she charges at it head-on and hits it until it isn't a problem any more.
• Interspecies Friendship: Is this to Legio Galbinus as a whole and Cavalier in particular. It's her association with them that led to their eventual relations with the Institute.
• Jumped at the Call: When she is told that an alien artifact has chosen her as the ideal candidate with the right amount of conviction, courage and compassion to become a Champion of Varulne, empowering her to enable her to fight an alien force, she wastes no time signing up since it'll mean being able to help her Kausen friends.
• Sentai: Probably the straightest example thus far. In addition to the C-Crystal outright making her a Henshin Heroine that can deal with a crowd of Kaiju infiltrators single-handedly, she can call her craft to her with an Invocation of ”Thunderbolt! Come Here!”, teleport inside, and summon Dramatic Thunder out of nowhere.

SAI-01 Ichiro Banner

Super Robot: Centurion chassis

• Arm Cannon: What the tank gun of his Bulwark tank alt-form becomes when transformed.
• The Berserker: Tends to vent his frustrations in combat, which leads to him doing stupid things like punching his arm into the Brute's side and then firing the cannon attached to it, while blatantly disregarding the fact that doing so is likely to blow his own arm off.
• Beware the Nice Ones: Is friendly for the most part, but has a hidden bank of rage buried within him that's just waiting to come out. When it does, look out.
• Once Done, Never Forgotten: Seems somewhat embarrassed by the "punch, then shoot" incident mentioned above, but everyone considers it his defining moment.
• Sapient Tank: He is an Artificial Intelligence with a robot body that can transform into a Bulwark tank.

The Argonauts - SAI-02 Charlie, SAI-03 Frankie and SAI-04 Iris

Super Robot: Jackal chassis (all three to start), Phalanx chassis (Charlie), Shade chassis (Frankie), Steed chassis (Iris)

• Fighter, Mage, Thief: The basic roles of these three in combat.
  • Charlie's loud and in-your-face fighting style allows him to Draw Aggro and his Phalanx chassis (Buckler IFV alt-mode) is the biggest and most heavily armored of his siblings, making him the Fighter.
  • Iris is the Thief, as her Steed chassis (motorcycle alt-mode) is the smallest and fastest compared to her brothers. She is also equipped with targeting beacons that allow her allies to track targets and hit them with greater accuracy.
  • Frankie pulls double-duty as an offensive and supportive Mage; on offense his heavy energy blaster can lay down impressive firepower, and on support his array of surveillance and engineering tools allow him to monitor his opponents and fix up his siblings. However, his Shade chassis (surveillance van alt-mode) isn't built for direct combat.
• Robo Family: Views each other as siblings, as well as their fellow SAI Ichiro. They squabble just like some too.

Super Robots

SCR-01 Beowulf

Alt-form: Coyote patrol truck

• Ace Custom: Is a custom, upgraded model of the Jackal, the DFRI's first Super Robot model.
• Combining Mecha: Beowulf's specialty is combining with its support units to adapt to any situation.
  • Combining it with the Shepherd cargo truck gives it the Timberwolf formation, a Mighty Glacier that can take blows and dish them out just as hard.
  • Combining it with the TMU/Falcon modular aircraft gives it its Foxhound formation, a Fragile Speedster that can outfly almost anything and deliver punishing lightning blasts.
  • Combining it with both gives it its Super Mode, Beowulf Fenrir.
• Elemental Weapon: Makes use of the electrically-charged Arc-Blade and Arc Cannon, and can also ignite its fists in Inferno Mode.
• Red Is Heroic: Beowulf's color scheme is bright crimson.
• Summon to Hand: Can magnetically call the Arc-Blade to its hand if it loses it mid-combat.

SCR-02 Perseus

Alt-form: Buckler infantry fighting vehicle

• Ace Custom: Like Beowulf, Perseus is a custom, upgraded model of the Phalanx.
• Blood Knight: When plugged into the Psychic Theatre, both Tellison and Zhang can feel Perseus's urge to fight.
• Luckily, My Shield Will Protect Me: The Phalanx transforming robots carry expandable, disposable shields on their arms, and Perseus is no exception.
• Mighty Glacier: Its armor plating makes it as tough, if not tougher, than the Timberwolf.
• Scars Are Forever: On its first incursion against the Westphalians, Perseus received a scar across its eye. Wilde and Henry decided to keep it because it gave Perseus character (and also because Henry couldn't buff it out).
• Super Mode: It can combine with two Sledder support trucks to become Perseus Megas, equipped with Pile Bunkers and a Chest Blaster.

SCR-03E Thunderbolt

Alt-form: Custom Pilum gunship

• Shock and Awe: Its connection with Jessica's C-Crystal allows it to summon literal thunderstorms with every strike.
• Vehicular Turnabout: Was rebuilt from the retrieved chassis of the Westphalian Warlord's custom Pilum gunship.

Allied Organisations

Earth Union Defense Force

Brigadier General Louis Peters

• Da Chief: Is this to Devin as his boss, being the one to assign him leadership of the Defense Force Research Institute.

General George Armistead

• Commander Contrarian: Ostensibly on the same side as the DFRI, even being one of its main sponsors, but is also one of its most stringent critics.
• General Failure: Downplayed; while he's a shrewd and well-connected individual, his forces have dropped the ball on a couple occasions, making life harder for the Institute. For example, his Air Force squadron was slow to assist with a Kausen attack, and the Westphalian attack on the Institute may have took a route that went right through his patrolling territory.
• The Mole: The A New Armsrace interlude reveals that he is indeed a Westphalian mole. That said, it's unknown his level of loyalty, given that he passed Devin a virus-infected flash drive that made the DFRI director paranoid enough to catch another Westphalian plot, which seems to have been the reaction that Armistead intended.
• Obstructive Bureaucrat: He's a known critic of the Super Robot project, and has gotten on Devin's nerves more than once.

Legio Galbinus

Galbinus-Regulus

Alt-Form: Bulwark tank (Centurion chassis)

• The Chains of Commanding: The time spent wrangling his Legionnaires and fighting Tyrannous have worn on him, but he's not about to stop any time soon.
• Grin of Audacity: His plans to stymie Bandit's breakout has him give this sort of smile a few times. Several of the DFRI personnel are a bit taken aback at how sinister his smile is.
• Hero of Another Story: He leads his namesake Legion against the menace of Tyrannous and the Free Brothers.
• Large and in Charge: Towers over even the Beowulf, which is as tall as a two/three-storey building.
• Laser Blade: His melee weapon in robot mode is his tank-gun transformed into an energy halberd.
• The Leader: Of Legio Galbinus.
• Space Police: Was a detective/police officer on Mekaen, assigned to capturing the criminal Tyrannous and his Free Brothers, the battle of which led them all to Earth.

Cavalier

Alt-Form: Coyote patrol truck (Jackal chassis)

• Blood Knight: Was a prizefighter back on Mekaen, and has the time of his life when he's in a scrap.
  Cavalier: C'mon! I'm the Rex of Red Ring-9! You all think you're tough!? Come one, come all! I've got more than enough for all of you!
• Interspecies Friendship: Was the first one to run into and befriend a human, Cadet Jessica Satsuma, and their friendship eventually led to relations between Legio Galbinus and the DFRI.
• Make Some Noise: Uses a concussion blaster in combat that can shake foes apart with pure sound.

Patch

• Face of a Thug: Is initially described as having a sinister, skeletal body with a bone-white color scheme and an arm bristling with mechanical gizmos, but it belies his extreme care and concern for his patients.
• The Medic: His role for Legio Galbinus.

Architect

• The Engineer: His role for Legio Galbinus.
• Large Runt: Is only about twice as tall as a human when most Kausen are easily as tall as houses.
• Techno Babble: Is often seen walking around muttering engineering ideas.

Hotwire

Alt-Form: Engineering truck (Jackal chassis)

• Barrier Warrior: Uses deployable hard-light barriers in combat.
• Communications Officer: His role for Legio Galbinus.
• Gun Nut: Is rather well-versed in the maintenance of Kausen firearms, and Mary and Zulu pick his processor for expertise in refining their own energy blaster.
• Hair-Trigger Temper: He's not called Hotwire for nothing.

Tracker, Nailhead and Breakneck / Axiom

Alt-Forms: Engineering truck (Nailhead), Jackal chassis (Tracker), Sports car (Breakneck)

• Combining Mecha: Three Kausen given alt-forms of a Jackal, an engineering truck and a sports car, who then all combine into one robot.
• Motor Mouth: Breakneck apparently takes after the Blurr method of speaking, that is, so fast that it all blurs together. Though it might be a side-effect of his kinetic module; when he talks with Highway, he speaks with a perfectly ordinary rhythm.
• No Indoor Voice: When the new Kausen combiner Axiom comes along, the medic Patch asks if he can speak slightly softer. Axiom just booms, “No.”
• Scratchy-Voiced Senior: Tracker has a raspy voice and what Callaghan calls a 'crotchety old man who doesn't care' air, and is often seen lecturing Nailhead and later Charlie on their behaviors.
• Super-Speed: Breakneck is equipped with a kinetic module that accelerates him to incredible speeds.
• Working-Class Hero: Nailhead is a simple maintenance worker in civilian life, before going to active duty as a Legionnaire.

Herald

• The Blank: Has no obvious face, just a flickering faceplate.
• Shotguns Are Just Better: As befitting his straightforward speech, he uses a straightforward shot blaster as his primary weapon.
• The Strategist: Is this to Legio Galbinus.
• Terse Talker: Speech: Concise

Hubcap

• The Driver: Is mostly seen as the pilot of the Legion's dropship, Metatrine's Shield.

Drifter

• Bunny-Ears Lawyer: A crazy skirmisher that is still incredibly capable in a fight.
• Draw Aggro: He's really good at drawing enemy attention, of the "punch them in the face and run away laughing" variety.
• The Ghost: Was only mentioned as a potential support unit to be seconded to the DFRI; hasn't yet appeared on-screen.
• Shell-Shocked Veteran: Was a veteran of so many conflicts on Mekaen that he apparently snapped, but is still a functioning (if nonsensical) Legionnaire.

Breaker

• Acid Attack: Uses some form of corrosive gas to break down his opponents' armor. This was his main tool as a salvager back on Mekaen.
• The Ghost: Was only mentioned as a potential support unit to be seconded to the DFRI; hasn't yet appeared on-screen.

Ocular

Alt-Form: Spy drone

• The Speechless: Doesn't speak at all, probably in relation to his mode as a spy drone. He still can communicate with other Kausen.
• Surveillance Drone: Is purely a scout and spy drone that can analyse enemies, offer battlefield data, and disrupt enemy comms.

Delphi

• Benevolent A.I.: Was created by the DFRI specifically to assist Legio Galbinus and counter the likes of the Free Brothers' Oracle Matrix, Chimaira.
• Girl Friday: As an Earth-created counterpart to the Oracle Matrixes of Mekaen, she serves this role to Legio Galbinus, helping them organise and manage their operations and freeing up the higher ranks like Galbinus and Herald to perform other duties.

Varulne

Regency of Varulne

• The Chooser of the One: Was tasked to seek out a pure-hearted champion that they could empower and bring back to Varulne to assist it in protecting their homeworld.
• Super-Empowering: Can produce C-Crystals, which connect to courageous and pure-hearted individuals to augment their capabilities.
• Unreliable Narrator: While nominally allied with the DFRI and willing to provide technology to help defend them against their threats and enhance their space program, Devin can't help but feel like there's more to the story and its description of the conflict than it's telling.
• You Can Talk?: Max didn't know the alien artefact could speak until it did.

Yukimura Institute

Dr. Rin Yukimura

• The Chains of Commanding: Like Galbinus and Devin, the years of holding off Sheol's forces have put a lot of weight on his aged shoulders, but he refuses to buckle under the weight.
• Not So Above It All: Is relatively calm and determined under pressure... until he finds himself arguing Kaiju biology and K-Class material with Dr. Sam Carlson in Ham-to-Ham Combat worthy of the Mad Scientists that they are.
• They Called Me Mad!: The Union Academic Review Board found his Aeon Particle Theorem ridiculous. He took it well, all things considered.

Hiroki Matsumoto

Super Robot: Mercury V

• Ace Pilot: Of the Steamroller type. When piloting Mercury V, he is a titanic brawler that just will not stay down no matter what Sheol's monsters try, but even in just the Falcon Mobile, he prefers blasting through swarms of enemy fliers with its onboard weapons.
• Calling Your Attacks: Shouts out Mercury V's attacks at full volume.
• Good Old Fisticuffs: In the Day of Destruction, he is seen holding off the Kaiju infiltrators with his bare hands and street brawling.
• Hero of Another Story: As the pilot of Mercury V, he is the frontline warrior protecting the world against the Kaiju.
• Hot-Blooded: As is standard for any protagonist in the genre. He'd rather be out on the front lines, flying the Falcon Mobile and harassing enemy forces, than wait around for Mercury to be fully repaired.
• Power Stereotype Flip: Is as Hot-Blooded as any Super Robot protagonist worth their salt, while piloting a Super Robot that makes use of cold as its primary weapon.
• Reformed Criminal: Downplayed, it's mentioned that Hiroki was an ex-Delinquent before being recruited by the institute.

Keiko Hamakawa

• Action Girl: When infiltrator Kaiju get into the Yukimura Institute, the ex-soldier Keiko has no trouble picking up an assault rifle and getting the job done.
• Friend on the Force: Military variant; she is an ex-GSDF soldier who serves as the Yukimura Institute's military liaison and Dr. Yukimura's Number Two.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: The blue to Hiroki's red, whom she constantly has to ride herd on to keep from doing something reckless.

Daichi Sendo

• The Engineer: For the Yukimura Institute.
• Let's Get Dangerous!: Though he may just be a hangar jockey, he is still an ex-Marine and will not hesitate in dealing with Kaiju infiltrators with a Wrench Whack or Forklift Fu. His team are just as unexpectedly competent in fending off infiltrators will all the amenities a Super Robot hangar has to offer.

Dr. Samuel Vaughn

• The Ghost: Hasn't appeared onscreen yet.
• The Smart Guy: Alongside Dr. Yukimura's Aeon Particle Theorem, he is the creator of the Mecha-Enabling Phlebotinum that is Tritonium alloy, which Mercury V is entirely built of.

Mercury V

• An Ice Person: The Aeon Particles that are the source of Mercury V's power seems to have a cooling effect, as it forms frosty vapour around itself when it engages. Mercury V makes judicious use of this ice in almost all of its moves, including Hail Storm, Chill Glare, and its Blizzard Blast Finishing Move.
• Expy: Mercury V has lots of references to Mazinger Z, from its dark color scheme, to its Gale Punch and Gale Spike Rocket Punch moves, to its method of the pilot flying an airborne craft (in Hiroki's case, the Falcon Mobile) that becomes the robot's cockpit/head.
• The Giant: As the Kaiju's primary opponent, Mercury V is the largest of the Super Robots showcased thus far, around the size of buildings while most of the others are the size of houses. Add to that its Tritonium armor, and it's clear why Mercury V's strong point is an opponent that just will not go down no matter what the Kaiju throw at it. Blows from a Kaiju that could cripple the Perseus and down the Pegasus in one blow barely even faze it.

Mander Security Solutions

(Retired) Captain Charles Mander

• Da Chief: For his titular Mander Security Solutions.
• Insistent Terminology: He always refers to his old job as an officer of “His Majesty's Navy, in support of the Earth Union”, and not of the “Defense Force Navy”.

Erika Arthur Drake

Super Robot: Valiant

• Ace Pilot: Pilots Valiant like a Bushwhacker, using its smaller size, its incredibly agile properties, and its dizzying array of support weapons to keep her foes off balance. She even dresses in old-time piloting gear complete with bomber jacket and flight goggles.
• Hero of Another Story: She and Valiant are the ones holding off the likes of the Westphalian Separatists.
• Meaningful Name: Her middle and surnames are a clear reference to Arthur Pendragon, fitting the Arthurian knight aesthetic of Valiant as a whole.
• Samus Is a Girl: She was first introduced by her middle name, and had no indication of being a woman until her first name was revealed.

Patrick

• Badass Driver: Is completely unflappable while driving the Galahad through an active combat zone.
• Battle Butler: While not a direct combatant, he is Erika's manservant and supports her in battle.
• Support Party Member: Assists Valiant in combat by driving the Galahad support truck loaded with all its auxiliary weapons, launching them to Erika at her request.

Dr. Marcus Dinym

• Geek Physique: Has a lanky frame, industrial strength bifocals, and the sharpest mind that Mander has ever seen.
• The Smart Guy: For MSS, as the creator of the Mecha-Enabling Phlebotinum that is the super-magnetic Dinym currents.
• Meaningful Name: Rearrange "Dr. Dinym" and you get "Myrddin", which fits the Arthurian knight aesthetic of Valiant.
• Wizard Beard: As befitting the inspiration behind his Meaningful Name, he has a long grey beard that Mander thinks could be used as a sail.

Valiant

• Detachment Combat: The basis of Valiant's fighting style. Since its limbs are solely held on by Dinym currents and super-magnetism, they can be easily detached, manipulated, and exchanged for other auxiliary limbs and weapons.
• Impossibly Graceful Giant: Valiant is probably the most agile of the Super Robots introduced thus far, due to its supermagnetism.
• Knight in Shining Armor: Valiant has this aesthetic.
• Mecha Expansion Pack: Valiant has a host of auxiliary modular arms with alternate weapons, including a Knightly Sword and Shield, a Battle Boomerang, and even a flak-shooting Arm Cannon.

Operation: Ground Pound

Major Lenora Jenkins

• Beleaguered Boss: Isn't quite as inured to her staff's shenanigans as Devin is, and they can really get on her nerves sometimes.
• Trademark Favorite Drink: Mainlines tea just as much as Devin mainlines coffee.

Norton Gustaff “Gus” Neer

• Bunny-Ears Lawyer: Like most of the other experts in this quest, he's the project's resident engineer who's only described as “highly unorthodox and unpredictable, but efficient."
• Expy: Of the Engineer from Team Fortress 2. His introductory image is him in coveralls, a hard hat, welding goggles, and leaning against a large cannon.
• Steven Ulysses Perhero: His name can be written as N. G. Neer ("Engineer").

Phil

• Expy: Of the Pyro from Team Fortress 2. He commonly appears wearing a hazmat suit and a welding mask, and communicates only in mumbles that Neer can still perfectly understand.

Dr. Albert Schemming

• Expy: Of Dr. Wily, as a mechatronics engineer experimenting with robotic frames, with balding Einstein Hair and a huge moustache. Also, "Schemming/scheming" vs. "Wily"

Dr. Zhang Ru

• Another Dimension: His thesis, similar to Dr. Yukimura's Aeon Particle Theorem, revolves around Fulgur Particles, energy from yet another dimension that can be channeled into a Super Robot.

Victor Forge

• Artificial Limbs: Uses a prosthetic hand on a regular basis - and a lifelike hand made out of nanites when he wants to prank people.
• Nanomachines: His baby is the Polymorph Nanites, which can reconfigure into any shape imaginable around an internal skeleton, though they do consume a lot of power in the process.

Lt. Arnold Weller, Sgt. Anya Rodenko and Sgt. Vincent Smythe

• Ace Pilot: All three of them co-pilot the project's robot, though their piloting style has not been demonstrated yet.
• Bunny-Ears Lawyer: It's been noted that all three of them are verifiably manic, being nuts enough to withstand the nightmare-inducing Fulgur Particles while piloting their super robot.
• Nightmare Fuel Station Attendant: All of them are apparently unfazed by the nightmares generated by the Fulgur Particles and spend their off time joking and comparing each other's nightmares. Jenkins sees it as Gallows Humor to cope with the strain.
  Weller: "What was it this time, fellas? Sank to the core while fully conscious this time.
  Smythe: Piddling, that. Got sucked out into the vacuum of space while seeing the helmet's glass cracking inwards.
  Rodenko: Paralysis followed by slowly oncoming roadkill by tractor."

Enemy Organizations

Free Brothers

Tyrannous

Alt-Form: Pilum gunship

• Bad Boss: Is especially well-known for tearing apart his Kausen Drone Mooks to blow off steam.
• Big Bad: Of the Kausen conflict.
• Cool Plane: Is a cool plane; his alt-mode is a Pilum gunship.
• Cool Sword: In robot mode, he combines his gunship-mode's rotors into a sword.
• Evil Mask: Given that he's an Homage to an evil Optimus Prime/Star Saber, his mouth-covering faceplate gives off this air.
• Names to Run Away from Really Fast: More than a few people have commented how his name screams “I am evil”.
• Non-Indicative Name: He's the leader of a gang of anarchic criminals called the Free Brothers, yet has a name stemming from “tyranny”.

Bandit

Alt-Form: Coyote patrol truck

• Arms Dealer: Is shown making deals with the Westphalians to exchange samples of technology.
• It's Personal: Has been mentioned to severely hold grudges. The Legion suggests using this to their advantage, by using Callaghan and Beowulf (who beat his ass the first time) as bait to draw him out.
• Only in It for the Money: Is frequently shown excited about all the shards he can make from raids and other endeavors, and while he's captured by the Legion, fumes about all the money-making opportunities he's missing out on.
• Unfinished, Untested, Used Anyway: Has a habit of using experimental tech in the field, from deflector shields to cluster bombs, which doesn't always turn out well for him.

Scrapheap

• Aliens of London: When he first speaks, Callaghan wonders why he has a British accent.
• Giant Scrap Robot: When first seen, his rust-marked, cobbled-together chassis is described as “only holding together with duct tape and dreams“.
• Mad Doctor: The Free Brothers' repair specialist, who is wanted by the Mekaen Dominion for their equivalents of malpractice, organ theft and practicing without a license.
• Multi-Armed and Dangerous: His robot form has a crane arm hanging off one shoulder that he uses in combat.

Crackdown

Alt-Form: Police cruiser

• Laughing Mad: His first appearance in one of the side chapters has him cackling like a lunatic.
• Telescoping Robot: His robot body can extend blasters from everywhere.
• Trigger-Happy: Really enjoys the idea of high ordnance, and prefers the "fire-everything-at-everywhere" strategy of combat.

Cinder

Alt-Form: Fire truck

• Pyromaniac: Is very eager to use his flamethrowers to find the melting point of the Legion.

Rangefinder

• The Dragon: Is outright identified as Tyrannous's right hand, though Bandit just sees him as a big dumb brute.
• The Engineer: Seems to come up with many of the Free Brothers' mechanical solutions, like building a supersized Drone and the Predasaur.
• The Pig-Pen: When he gets up close and personal with Bandit, the latter grumbles that he could use a decontaminant.

Tow Bar

Quarry

• Egomaniac Hunter: Seems to have this personality, with the long blaster to go with it.

Throughput

Smelter

Crossfire

Highway

Alt-Form: Motorcycle

• Combat Tentacles: Can extend his arms into these.
• Pintsized Powerhouse: Is noticeably shorter than his fellow Free Brothers, yet when the taller Crackdown gets on his nerves, has no trouble choking him out.
• Super-Speed: Is equipped with an accelerating kinetic module, just like Breakneck.
• We Used to Be Friends: He and Breakneck were once colleagues, until Highway decided that Tyrannous made a better offer than the Council.

Chimaira

• A.I. Is a Crapshoot: The Oracle Matrix of the Kausen vessel Belligerent, she has remained allied with Tyrannous and is a large force-multiplier for the Free Brothers.
• Spaceship Girl: An evil example as the Oracle Matrix of the Kausen vessel Belligerent.

Westphalian Separatist Movement

Koenig / The Red King

• Big Bad: Of the Westphalian Separatist incursions.

PJH / Pak

• Arms Dealer: In addition to supplying the Separatists with resources, he seems to have connections to the other two enemy factions. A side-story shows him selling a Pilum gunship to Bandit to serve as Tyrannous's new body.

Wallace

Yuan

• Robot Master: He is one of the key robot builders for the Westphalian separatists.
• They Called Me Mad!: Implied; after getting over a slump and building a sleeker robot in comparison to the Westphalians' previous Giant Scrap Robots, he declares that the Union will know of his genius.

Warlord

Craft: Custom Pilum gunship

• Cool Plane: Pilots a customised Pilum gunship that's equipped with mechanical arms built for swatting away missiles and absolutely bristling with ordnance.
• The Dreaded: Is a particularly infamous Westphalian commander with ties to the mysterious Red King, who personally leads an attack against the Research Institute in his custom Pilum gunship. Even after he is felled, the Earth Union's Intelligence division is seen double- and triple-confirming that he truly is dead, and even then, General Peters has concerns about a Legacy Character taking up the mantle.
• Face Death with Dignity: Right as the Beowulf unloads its Thunderstrike on him, he keeps recording and transmitting his combat data, praises his foe as a Worthy Opponent, and dies with Westphalia's name on his lips.
• Macross Missile Massacre: Can perform an Alpha Strike by unloading its entire arsenal on a single target.

The Bruces

Craft: The Brute

• Bunny-Ears Lawyer: The Separatist leader Wallace find them absolutely detestable, but they're the only ones mad enough to build their deathtraps and insane enough to pilot them.
• Identically Named Group: They're three separate pilots, all named Bruce.
• Lower-Class Lout: A trio of beer-swilling yahoos who are as crazy as they are uncouth, and hate the Earth Union for imposing “rules”.

Sheol's forces

George Sheol

• Big Bad: Of the Kaiju attacks.
• Evilutionary Biologist: His genetic research was radical, to say the least, with proposals like culling violent impulses from the more "unsavory" members of society, and even lobotomizing them and putting their bodies to good use.
• Mad Scientist: Probably the straightest example in this quest; since he created the Kaiju to menace the Earth Union solely for having his research snubbed.
• Maker of Monsters: The father of the Kaiju.
• Red Right Hand: Whether by chemical overexposure or deliberate application, Sheol has apparently taken on some unnatural physical qualities that echo his evil genius, including pallid green skin, sickly yellow eyes, mad Einstein Hair, and a cane-supported limp.
• They Called Me Mad!: The Union Academic Review Board laughed at his radical genetic research. Unlike Yukimura, he didn't take it well.

Ozawa Harumi

• Gamer Chick: Seems to have this personality and skills. She "pilots" the Titanosaur Kaiju with some Organic Technology shaped into a pair of joysticks, and even commands their flyers like a Real-Time Strategy game, complete with a holographic keyboard and mouse with click-drag attack command actions.
• Locked Out of the Loop: Her Transhuman surgery apparently took five years to complete, which means she was occupied when the DFRI and their Super Robots emerged onto the scene.
• Transhuman: Was apparently a human who joined up with Sheol to become a pilot, with a transformation into a Lizard Folk as part of the bargain.

Percivax's forces

Percivax-Austerus

• By-the-Book Cop: Is a lawmech like Galbinus, but one clearly more focused on procedure and maintaining the Alien Non-Interference Clause.
• Dramatic Irony: Immediately on arriving in the solar system, he assumes that the locals aren't technologically advanced enough to notice his ship's approach. Cut to Adrianna reporting to Devin that she's detected a new Mekaen ship's arrival.
• Skewed Priorities: It may be a part of his apparently political orders from Councilmech Secundus, but he's more focused on apprehending Galbinus for apparently uplifting an indigenous species instead of arresting Tyrannous, brushing him off as a common criminal who will fold when he finds him.

Victoria

Percivax's ship's Oracle Matrix.

• Good News, Bad News: Percivax notes that she has a habit of giving her reports in this manner.