"The tips of these scales...will turn you into a turkey!!"
The male protagonist of Super Robot Wars Advance, Axel Almer is The Dragon of the Shadow-Mirror's Big Bad Vindel Mauser and the lover of Mad Scientist Lemon Browning. When picked as The Hero, he suffers a bout of amnesia and acts like an all-around silly man with strange capabilities to pilot a Humongous Mecha. He also tries to be a Handsome Lech, but horribly and hilariously fail all the time. When faced with his true identity as a Shadow-Mirror operative, he ends up betraying them and eventually be instrumental in destroying the organization.In Super Robot Wars Original Generation, the plot picks his villainous counterpart and is given an extra quirk: he becomes The Rival of Kyosuke Nanbu. This gets expanded due to a rivalry in the form of Beowulf, Kyosuke's Evil Twin in the Shadow-Mirror universe. Like his Advance story if he's not picked as the protagonist, Axel winds up dead following the defeat of the Shadow-Mirror at the end of Original Generation 2....Or so we thought, until he shows up alive and well in Original Generation Gaiden. Turns out the Cry Wolves pulled him and the Soulgain out of the White Star before it was assimilated by the Einst. Although he came close to death during the escape attempt, EinstAlfimi appeared and merged with him moments before that could happen, ensuring his survival. Since the Shadow-Mirror are no more, Axel no longer bears any antagonism towards the Earth Federation Army or Kyosuke, and ends up aiding them several times throughout the game. Although under scrutiny, Axel proved his Heel Face Turn after he saved a Brainwashed and Crazy Lamia Loveless from the clutches of Duminuss earning the trust and gratitude of his new allies.Following Original Generation Gaiden, Axel continued to wander the universe, assisted by Alfimi. He wound up in the Endless Frontier and got a dose of Amnesiac Dissonance while trying to rescue her from a mysterious foe. With his memory gone, he reverted into his "Ahoseru" personality, and went on to have several misadventures. Sometime after dabbling in this dimension, Axel returns to the Original Generation universe. At the onset of the Second Original Generation, Earth is under seige by the Guests. Since his Soulgain is under maintenance on the Kurogane, Axel opts to use the Vysaga until repairs are complete. In the meanwhile, Axel begins training Touma Kanou, pilot of the RaiOh and tangles with Duvan Org in an attempt to rescue Alfimi, when he consumes the latter to gain more power. At the end of the story, Axel takes residence aboard the Kurogane, continuing to train Touma.He, along with the Soulgain, embody these tropes:
Ace Pilot: Goes with saying. Despite the Soulgain getting shafted for repairs following the dimensional jump, Axel proves he's still this in little more than a Laz Angriff. In The InspectorsAnimated Adaptation of Original Generation 2, he's able to trounce Kyosuke to the ICU in a mook-level Ash Saber and even hold off Super Robots like the Grungust Type-3 and Vysaga with a small Laser Blade.
Aloof Ally: Post-Continuity Reboot, Axel is just aloof, in general. When he was with the Shadow-Mirror, the only person who seemed to know what he was thinking was Lemon, and following his Heel Face Turn, it's shown he prefers to keep to himself. While cordial, enough to like and respect his new allies, it takes a little prodding to get him to open up. Alfimi and, to a lesser extent, Lamia are the only people he seems comfortable around.
Big Brother Mentor: Gets saddled with the role of training Touma in martial arts and eventually using the RaiOh's "Direct Motion Link" System, since its controls are similar to the Soulgain.
In the 2nd Original Generation, Axel arrives in the Vaisaga to stop the Justine and the Guests attack on the Kurogane, if the space route was chosen.
Blade Below the Shoulder: It stays hidden until he's about to use Soulgain's Mai Suzaku, or in the final stages of Code: Kirin.
A blade tonfa becomes his Weapon of Choice in Endless Frontier EXCEED.
Book Ends: The Inspector begins and ends with Axel fighting Beowulf, but the second time he's joined by Kyosuke.
Break the Cutie: It's implied his "Ahoseru" personality is the way he used to be before his experiences in the Earth Federation Army back home (and Beowulf) turned him into the Noble DemonAnti-Villain/Anti-Hero portrayed following Continuity Reboot. Confirmed in Endless Frontier EXCEED, where amnesia makes him revert to this personality.
Casanova Wannabe: During his amnesiac self, he adopts this personality.
Defeat Means Friendship: He seems to be moving in this direction in throughout Original Generation Gaiden, though he's not quite up to the "friendship" part. Still, he and Kyosuke get along pretty well now that they're no longer trying to kill each other. However, by the ''Second Original Generation, Axel isn't entirely there. While others accept his prescence, he admits he feels uncomfortable being around them because of the bad blood between them.
Defector from Decadence: Via reboot, Axel used to be a member of the Earth Federation Army back in the Shadow-Mirror dimension, which was supposedly so corrupt and decadent it made the Shadow-Mirror look like heroes.
Desperately Looking for a Purpose in Life: At the end of Original Generation Gaiden, he leaves Earth in order to find his "Heaven". While no longer at odds with the heroes or this dimension's government, Axel admits he doesn't really know what to do in a world without constant war. As of the ''Second Original Generation, he seems to have found a place among the crew of the Kurogane.
Determinator: Holy Moley is he ever. This guy DoesNotQuit, and he will find a way to survive no matter how bad the situation is.
Come to think of it, this trait is probably the reason he was made The Rival to Kyouske, a guy who's also famous for this.
Enemy Mine: Occurs in the last episode of The Inspector. With the rest of his allies dead, Axel accepts the Shadow-Mirror have lost the war, and turns his attention to stopping the Einst and Beowulf. His attitude, and a brief conversation with Lamia, makes it clear that his actions are this trope, and not a Heel Face Turn.
Axel: My battle with him (Beowulf) is my highest priority.
Flanderization: Ironically, it's a fan perception of him that's become flanderized. As an antagonist in Advance, he had roughly three or so appearances in total where he got to interact with Lamia, and most of them involved his hatred of androids. When this carried over to Original Generation 2, the international fandom went into a rage because they had never bothered to investigate his villianous personality, assuming it would be identical to him as a protagonist, which began accusations of this trope. Ultimately, Original Generations changed his personality slightly to make him into a...
Hero Antagonist: While still villainous in a way, the Shadow-Mirror are portrayed more sympathetically, thanks to Beowulf, but Axel's moreso, since his main concern is to eliminate Beowulf before he wreaks havoc in another world, as Beowulf wrecked his. Axel's rivalry with Kyosuke is justified as a means to ensure Kyosuke does not become like Beowulf (at least, according to Axel)
Actually, Axel, at first, had a hard time believing that Kyosuke could be any different from Beowulf.
Hot Blooded: He may act calm, but when he gets riled up, you don't get Tranquil Fury, you get Hot Blooded screaming. Except if he's in "Ahoseru" mode, which means, he's Hot Blooded from the get-go.
Huge Guy, Tiny Girl: Him and Alfimi at the end of Original Generation Gaiden
I Owe You My Life: Aside from Alfimi, Axel is thankful at Hugo Medio, when they reunite in the Second Original Generation for picking him up near the White Star and getting him back to health. Hugo himself is also thankful for Axel's save, but still feels a bit troubled that Foglia is dead, though he doesn't blame Axel for arriving late.
Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He still remains callous for artificial beings following the reboot, but if they did good or do something impressive, he'll recognize and compliment them (or mourn, if something bad happens). Once the Shadow-Mirror is destroyed, he shows with a golden heart more to Alfimi, while maintaining the distant loner, and he's so determined to make sure that all of Lemon's treasures continue to exist in the world, leading him to saving Lamia in Original Generation Gaiden.
Ki Attacks: Axel suddenly develops this after inhaling the air in Endless Frontier EXCEED. With Alfimi's help, he can pull off some credible reproductions of the Soulgain and Vysaga's attacks...on foot.
Late Arrival Spoiler: Endless Frontier EXCEED made no real point trying to hide the fact he survived Original Generation 2, reappeared in Original Generation Gaiden and pulled a Heel Face Turn. This is in full effect as the Second Original Generation has shown him as a playable character. However, he associating with Alfimi is still considered a spoiler, despite her being on the cover of EXCEED with Axel.
Lightning Bruiser: Despite the Soulgain being underpowered in Original Generations Gaiden, the Second Original Generation changes it into this and is one of the best units in game (almost borderline Game Breaker), boasting three ranks of upgrades from the start, HP/EN regeneration, and high damage output (Code: Kirin has the second highest non-Combination Attack damage in the game). Further augumented with Axel being one of the only two pilots that gets the "Attacker" pilot skill *
At 130 Will, increase damage to all attacks by 20%
by default.
Made of Iron: A heroic Advance Axel tries to pull apart Domon Kasshu and Kazuya Ryuuzaki when things get too hot, only to be hit by both combatants for his efforts, and manages to stay on his feet, clutching his stomach. It's later revealed both BARELY missed his vitals; Axel vaguely dodged it by reflex.
Power Fist: In The Inspectors, the Soulgain's right arm is destroyed in his initial scuffle with Beowulf. Problem? Nope, because the Shadow-Mirror replace it with a back-up golden arm for his machine even stronger than before.
Carries over into canon: Soulgain is badly damaged in his efforts to save Alfimi that prior to jumping into the Endless Frontier, he leaves it with Professor Kisaburo. The Second Original Generation reveals the destroyed arm is replaced with the golden one.
Purple Eyes: Hard to notice in the games, but it's much more pronounced in The Inspector.
Shell-Shocked Veteran: His character rewrite displays traits of this, as he comes across as somewhat embittered and well-versed in the horrors of war. In Original Generation Gaiden, he admits to feeling at a lost in a world that is not in constant conflict.
Spanner in the Works: Serves as this in Original Generation Gaiden, in terms of Duminuss' early plans, since it never expected Axel to be alive, had a readjustment in personality and allegiance, and knowledge and activation for "Code: DTD" that he uses to save Lamia.
The Rival: To Lamia in Advance and later to Kyosuke in Original Generation; as of Original Generation Gaiden, he no longer bears any animosity towards either. He's even become something of a big brother figure to Lamia. Likewise, he and Kyosuke get along pretty well and are shown to have a great deal of respect for each other, though Axel is still weary of the possibility that Kyosuke will become another Beowulf.
Interestingly, since his personality rewrite in Original Generations, he shares a lot of similarities with Kyosuke. Notably, they are ace pilots, Determinators, and have a calm demeanor that hides a Hot Blooded side. As of Original Generation Gaiden, Axel has his own perky-girl battle partner and seems to have acquired a knack for surviving things that should have killed him.
Ship Tease/Fan Preferred Couple: Lamia (due to a short, but meaningful conversation prior to the end of Original Generation Gaiden) and Alfimi, although he's still pretty loyal to Lemon even after she's dead. Endless Frontier EXCEED may have cemented him and Alfimi, what with the two of them being ascended to Battle Couple status.
As "Ahoseru" in Advance, he does this to his female allies with little to no success.
Spam Attack: Parts of Soulgain's Byakko Kou and Code: Kirin
Verbal Tic: Only when he's "Ahoseru". Oh, and his Original Generations rewrite sometimes slips it off too, korenara.
The Worf Effect: He and the Soulgain get hit by this at the end of The Inspectors. The mech had been pretty messed up in prologue fight with Beowulf, forcing Axel to use an Ash Saber while the Soulgain underwent repairs. By the time it reappears again, Kyouske has rolled out his Mid-Season Upgrade Alt Eisen Riese that proves itself capable of overpowering the Super Robot.
Note Axel was able to trash Kyosuke by utilizing the long range capabilities of the Ash Saber to exploit the Alt's weaknesses. The Soulgain, while powerful, is made for melee combat, which happens to be Kyosuke's specialty. Makes you wonder why he decided to switch in the first place.
It is debatable how much this trope is in-effect. The Alt Eisen Riese is only able to briefly overpower the Soulgain when Axel briefly underestimates Kyosuke's claymores. While the Soulgain loses its left arm, Axel still continues to fight Kyosuke on an even level until Beowulf arrives and Axel pulls an Enemy Mine with everyone else.
"I can't become human, but I know what being human is like."
Female protagonist of Super Robot Wars Advance, an android, latest creation of Lemon Browning, with a very very busty and shapely body, since Lemon's trying to play "creation of beings nearing perfect humans"...oh, and her outfit doesn't help. She has a no-nonsense personality, but deep down, since she hasn't spend a long time in the living world, she's a bit like a clueless child. When sent to the actual world, she damages her speech box, causing her to develop very broken grammar (woolsey'd into stuttering speech in the localization). As she spends time in the group she infiltrates, she gains some of her own consciousness and this in turn leads her to betray the Shadow-Mirror and eventually be crucial in defeating the whole faction. After realizing she killed her superiors (Axel included), creator and ultimately fails her original mission, she's Driven to Suicide, only to be stopped at the nick of the time. This gets carried over to Original Generation. In addition, she gets...rather close with ExcellenBrowning. Later, her speech box gets repaired, but it only makes things worse as she often gets some occasions where her voice turns into something like a little girl.Lamia gets hammered with lots and LOTS of unfortunate events in Original Generation Gaiden, including getting caught by the Bartoll/ODE System in an exhibition gone awry, before she has a chance to fight back, stripped butt naked and tied up in danger of having her personality drained. Later on, she refuses such a thing and disrupts their battle data, indirectly saving her friends, and later gets bailed out by Kyosuke, only to be shot down by the hive mind of the robot, implying she's Killed Off for Real, and becomes a source of Cliff Hanger, since the trailer of Original Generation Gaiden ends there. Later on, Duminuss rebuilds and reprograms her to turn her against her allies. But shortly after, she's saved by Axel, who gets a genuine Heel Face Turn.She returns in the Second Original Generation, and while she doesn't have any important events to note, Lamia's thankfully much more active in the line of duty and not getting similar series of misfortunes as she did in Original Generation Gaiden. However, at the end of Second Original Generation, Lamia is sent back to the ATX Team to help new member Ariel Org solve her short lifespan problem due to her nature as a product of the Idealant Project, by attempting to reverse-engineer Lemon's design on her.Officially, she pilots the very girly, angelic Super Robot Angelg. In Advance, she can pilot the Ninja Samurai Robot Vysaga, though Axel can use it too. It becomes exclusively for her in Original Generation continuity, until the Second Original Generation, where Axel can also use it. They embody these tropes:
Adaptation Dye Job: Lamia used to have light green hair in Advance, but Original Generations changes it to a brownish-green. Likewise, the Angelg was colored orange back in Original Generation 2. Continuity Reboot places in an appropriate pink.
And I Must Scream: Her whole time being captured and infused with the ODE System by both Wilheim von Juergen and Duminuss. She's still conscious, but everything else, from speech, mind management and actions were all overridden by data, and Duminuss also adds up the removal of the majority of her self-identity. Plus, she's stuck there while she's made tearing down her allies AND demoralizing them to hell. These events are still fresh in Lamia's mind even at the end when she recovered, causing a slight Heroic BSOD.
Archer Archetype: Lamia is mostly calm and collected, calculating and analytical. The Angelg's strongest attacks are long-ranged, and only she can use the machine. Lamia's stats are geared more towards ranged.
Badass in Distress: The ODE Incident turns her into this. Thank God she's back in action ASAP once rescued, thereby avoiding Chickification. For the Second Original Generation, she still remains capable on the battlefield and nobody calls her out on this, so it averts this trope.
Become A Real Girl: Despite her massive ass-kicking capabilities, THIS takes priority.
Came Back Wrong: Combines Type 1 and 3 when she's resurrected by Duminuss and brainwashed. It takes the interference of Axel to make her Come Back Right.
Chekhov's Gun: Code: DTD (Dust to Dust), the "useless instrument that only mess her speech problems up" turns out to be the thing that's used to save her.
Defrosting Ice Queen: Starts out the cold-hearted spy who cares nothing more than completing her mission even at cost of her life, but warms up and values life more highly in the end.
Distaff Counterpart: Lamia certainly gives off the feels of a gender-flipped Heero Yuy, considering they experience similar development (cold soldiers into a warm-hearted person), penchant into blowing themselves up and their mechas have angelic wings (compare the Wing Zero Custom and Angelg). Add to the fact both of them are reallyattractive for the audience of the opposite sex.
Ditzy Genius: A real pro-pilot and has a no-nonsense personality when it comes to battle/war. However, it's really hard to expect her not to be a clueless girl in daily life when it's just six months after she realized her humanity.
Two of them in Tales Of Hearts, each sharing bits of her elements: Richia Spodune shares her voice, green hair and stripperiffic outfit, while Kunzite shares her robotic background, serious, fight-ready (badass) attitude and similar Tin Man - Become a Real Boy story.
Fan Disservice: You do know she was butt naked, all while either Brainwashed and Crazy trying to kill you or is about to be turned into goo, had it not been due to her robotic nature?
Gainaxing: It's only a little thanks to Banpresto "mellowing it down", but it's still prevalent. Any wonders why Tasuku Shinguji calls her "Boin-chan"?
The Gwen Stacy: Temporarily in Original Generation Gaiden, if only so we can see a wangsty Kyosuke and have Axel do his big damn Heel Face Turn.
Heroic BSOD: Mentally, Lamia doesn't fully recover from the ODE Incident. While she blends with her human allies perfectly afterwards, using Code: DTD makes Lamia question her humanity. However, the sight of Garnet Sandi's newborn twins allows her to understand what Lemon was trying to achieve all along.
Angst? What Angst?: This is never brought in the Second Original Generation, likely due to putting duty first.
Kuudere: Possibly, if the events of Original Generation Gaiden turn her slightly to this for Axel. Naturally, Excellen can also make her go "deredere".
Made of Iron: It explains why she survived getting shot butt-naked. If that doesn't impress you, how about surviving being punched by both Domon and Kazuya? Mind you, unlike Axel, she got hit RIGHT ON THE VITALS and shrugged them off just fine. Justified because she's an Artificial Human.
Most Definitely Not A Spy: If Lamia goes five lines of dialogue during the first half of Original Generation 2 without reminding the audience of her nature and raising the more observant heroes' suspicions, it's probably because she wasn't present for the exchange. Luckily (or not so much) for the Shadow-Mirror, Lemon seems to view Lamia as more of a science project than a valuable pawn.
Hammered home when Kyosuke peg's her as The Mole literally within minutes of meeting her.
Names to Run Away From Really Fast: Subverts it by eventually becoming good, but then there's her "permanently evil" self from Axel's Advance scenario. Would you, on the firsthand, really trust someone named after a mythical female monster who Eats Babies?
Pirate: Can be considered her modus operandi as a former Shadow-Mirror operative, pirating enemy data and learning their weaknesses...well, "digital" piracy, anyways.
No One Could Survive That: Aside from her hijinx with the ODE System and Duminuss, Lamia also attempted to self-destruct several times for various reasons; all end in failure.
Noblewoman's Laugh: Played with; she tends to break down into this, but that's not because of nobility, but because she has no idea on how to laugh normally.
Perpetual Molt: At least in The Inspectors, the Angelg displays this.
Ship Tease/Fan Preferred Couple: With Axel after he saved her life and a short, but meaningful conversation at the end of Original Generation Gaiden.
Speech Impediment: Broken grammar or stuttering. To be specific, the former comes in the form of Japanese wordplay, where she says a word written with the same kanji as the word she's trying to say, causing her sentence to come across as nonsensical. Lamia then corrects herself and says the intended word.
Turn The Other Cheek: "Duminuss messed up with me and almost kills me? At least it revived me. ODE System caught me unprepared and killed me? They're only misguided".
Uke: Any fanwork pairing her up with Excellen 99.9% of the time has Lamia be the Uke, although what woman wouldn't be Excellen's Uke?
The Worf Effect: In the beginning of The Inspector, Lamia and the Angelg gets this. The machine spends most of the time not shooting down mooks and its only shining moment is the Phantom Phoenix/Royal Heart Breaker Combination Attack, but aside from that, it also gets pushed so easily by a Shadow-Mirror Mecha-Mook (though she admittedly held back since she was still undercover) and then gets completely overpowered by Axel's Ash Saber. Once Lamia gets the Vysaga, she averts this, while Echidna Iisaki gets a black Angelg and it gets this trope again. In Original Generation Gaiden, Lamia gets another one by the ODE System, though to be fair, she was captured while outside of her machine.
The antagonists of Super Robot Wars Advance, the Shadow-Mirror is an organization that wants to engulf the world in an endless war, with the reasoning that with war comes improvement for humanity and technological advancement. They tend to send spies to the world they are trying to invade and launch a surprise attack based on the information given. Led by Vindel Mauser with Axel as The Dragon, it is also the home of their lead scientist Lemon Browning, who proceeds to carry out the W-Numbers project, creating Artificial Humans as close as possible to a real human for infiltration and sabotage.While they seem to be petty villains back in Original Generation 2, Continuity Reboot fundamentally changes them into a form of misaimed hero. Indeed, The Federation in their dimension are so corrupt, life seems like hell, and with people like Beowulf supporting the government, the Shadow-Mirror look like heroes. They're also responsible for the creation of some of the characters in the Endless Frontier (Haken Browning and Aschen Brodel).
Vindel Mauser (Voiced by Hideyuki Umezu)
The leader of the Shadow-Mirror, this warmonger ex-colonel of his world's Earth Federation Army believes war is the only way for humans to evolve and move forward. He has this mindset due to witnessing his world dwindling into corruption, decadence and weakness from an achieved, but redundant peace by The Federation. His plan came to a halt when the government sent out Beowulf, prompting him to jump to another world (Advance or Original Generation) and lay low until the time comes to strike down the resident government, Take Over the World and fulfill his utopia.While he prefers to be operating behind the shadows, when push comes to shove, he takes to battle with the Zweizergain, a souped up Soulgain-like variant Super Robot. Tropes associated with Vindel:
Karmic Death: Twice! In Advance, Vindel's top subordinate (Axel/Lamia), whom he sent to be the main part of taking over the world, ends up betraying him, forcing themselves into the Zweizergain and blow him up from the inside, along with them; in Original Generation, not only does the man Vindel's trying to find and force to hide in the current dimension (Gilliam Yeager) kill him, but one of his subordinates (Lamia, whom he sees as nothing more than a puppet) also helps.
Well-Intentioned Extremist: Vindel does care enough for the welfare of humanity; Daitetsu Minase even points out that one of Vindel's claims (war helping to foster technological growth and development) is in fact an Awful Truth. It's just Vindel's methods are WAY too extreme, and would eventually render any benefits war could produce useless in the long run.
What he also fails to grasp (at least following Continuity Reboot) is that the world he wishes to create would become just the same as the world he came from; it's...rather ironic and sad, actually.
It almost seems like his primary motivation is the fear of becoming obsolete. After all, Vindel tends to refer to his philosophy in terms of "A world for people like us (me)" and "Our ideal society: a never-ending age of conflict."
Vindel's top scientific researcher, with implications of being Axel's lover, Lemon Browning is the head of the W-Numbers project, creating Artificial Humans to be as close as possible to the real deal. Thus far, she's made 18 products, though the prototype, W00, is instead a test-tube human]], and it would seem that she's most proud with Lamia, her latest creation, as she came closest to a human being. Should the player take Axel's Advance route, Lemon admits that if it wasn't for the situation that ended up with her being his enemy, and that the two of them had met at an earlier point in time, they could've developed a closer relationship.In Original Generation, Lemon's backstory is heavily tweaked. She is the Shadow-Mirror counterpart of Excellen, but a unique take on "What if Excellen died during the shuttle crash?". The result is her parents recovering her body, resurrecting her through robotics and science, but because she wasn't a good enough Replacement Goldfish by her parents, she changes her name to Lemon. The W-Numbers are essentially her progeny: a way for her to understand and emulate her unique nature of something that isn't quite human.Lemon either pilots an Ash Saver in Advance or a customized version of the same machine called "Weiss Saver" in Original Generation. Tropes associated with Lemon:
Ace Custom: Original Generations and Advance Portable only, where Lemon customizes a Mook-level Ash Saver into the Weiss Saver. Aside from adding additional (and upgraded) Sword Breakers, it includes the Over Oxtongue Rifle Ouka Nagisa's Rapiecage uses, while removing the Gun Rapier and Laser Blade from the standard Ash Saver armament.
Mad Scientist: Not so much "mad", but brilliant, though her subject of research is really mad (almost bordering playing God). And look at how she created Lamia...
She's definitely a little crazy, or at the very least, detached. Despite some displays of sentimentality, she seems to view the W-Numbers as closer to science experiments. She's even going along with Vindel's absolutely insane plan. Hell, the worst she has to say about Axel's death is along the lines of "I really liked him, y'know?"
Meaningful Name: "Lemon" is an automotive term referring to faulty used cars. Following The Reveal she's really an undead cyborg of an Alternate Universe Excellen and ultimately rejected for not being a good enough Replacement Goldfish of the original, you have to wonder whether this was intentional or not before Lemon got into Original Generation.
Talking To Herself: She's an Excellen clone...with the same voice actress. Do the math.
This gets played with in Original Generation 2: if Excellen defeats Lemon, not only will Lemon reveal her true identity, but the player is treated to a slightly tweaked ending dialogue. As Kyosuke and Excellen fly off to their new assignments in the epilogue, Excellen states she wants twin daughters named Lemon and Alfimi somewhere down the road (normally, she'd want one daughter named after Alfimi).
Echidna Iisaki (Voiced by Mariko Suzuki)
Also known as "W-16", Echidna Iisaki doesn't appear in Advance, but was loosely mentioned having supposedly assassinated Admiral Leon of the Balms, which in turned got the Balm Alliance assassinating Isamu Ryuuzaki, and should she fail, Lamia would've been the one to do the job (this only occurs in Lamia's story; in Axel's route, he's the one who orchestrates it).In Original Generation, Echidna ascends to the position of the Advance "Rival Lamia" role, usually contacting Lamia and keeping her in check and in line with the infiltration. She seems dutifully robotic and doesn't portray much personality...until the assault at the White Star where, of her own will, takes a fatal attack for Axel, and ends up destroyed. Depending on the continuity, Axel either gets disgusted a doll he hated saved his life, or laments her death will bring despair and lower morale of the Shadow-Mirror.Echidna pilots a Laz Angriff while in The Inspectors, she uses a black Angelg after Lamia defects to the Earth Federation in battle. Tropes associated with Echidna:
Almost certainly intentional: the lack of a distinctive personality and "lives-for-the-mission" nature is honestly a little creepy when you think about it, and contrasts nicely with Lamia's Character Development.
The leader of the Shadow-Mirror, this warmonger ex-colonel of his world's Earth Federation Army believes war is the only way for humans to evolve and move forward. He has this mindset due to witnessing his world dwindling into corruption, decadence and weakness from an achieved, but redundant peace by The Federation. His plan came to a halt when the government sent out Beowulf, prompting him to jump to another world (Advance or Original Generation) and lay low until the time comes to strike down the resident government, Take Over the World and fulfill his utopia.While he prefers to be operating behind the shadows, when push comes to shove, he takes to battle with the Zweizergain, a souped up Soulgain-like variant Super Robot. Tropes associated with Vindel:
Vindel's top scientific researcher, with implications of being Axel's lover, Lemon Browning is the head of the W-Numbers project, creating Artificial Humans to be as close as possible to the real deal. Thus far, she's made 18 products, though the prototype, W00, is instead a test-tube human]], and it would seem that she's most proud with Lamia, her latest creation, as she came closest to a human being. Should the player take Axel's Advance route, Lemon admits that if it wasn't for the situation that ended up with her being his enemy, and that the two of them had met at an earlier point in time, they could've developed a closer relationship.In Original Generation, Lemon's backstory is heavily tweaked. She is the Shadow-Mirror counterpart of Excellen, but a unique take on "What if Excellen died during the shuttle crash?". The result is her parents recovering her body, resurrecting her through robotics and science, but because she wasn't a good enough Replacement Goldfish by her parents, she changes her name to Lemon. The W-Numbers are essentially her progeny: a way for her to understand and emulate her unique nature of something that isn't quite human.Lemon either pilots an Ash Saver in Advance or a customized version of the same machine called "Weiss Saver" in Original Generation. Tropes associated with Lemon:
Also known as "W-16", Echidna Iisaki doesn't appear in Advance, but was loosely mentioned having supposedly assassinated Admiral Leon of the Balms, which in turned got the Balm Alliance assassinating Isamu Ryuuzaki, and should she fail, Lamia would've been the one to do the job (this only occurs in Lamia's story; in Axel's route, he's the one who orchestrates it).In Original Generation, Echidna ascends to the position of the Advance "Rival Lamia" role, usually contacting Lamia and keeping her in check and in line with the infiltration. She seems dutifully robotic and doesn't portray much personality...until the assault at the White Star where, of her own will, takes a fatal attack for Axel, and ends up destroyed. Depending on the continuity, Axel either gets disgusted a doll he hated saved his life, or laments her death will bring despair and lower morale of the Shadow-Mirror.Echidna pilots a Laz Angriff while in The Inspectors, she uses a black Angelg after Lamia defects to the Earth Federation in battle. Tropes associated with Echidna:
