Characters / TerraforMARS

List of characters in Terra Formars.

Bugs I

The first expedition send to Mars to study the planet and the state of local flora and fauna. They were all killed by the first Terra Formars they meet, as their firearms were useless against it.

George Smiles

• Badass Normal: The man had no powers whatsoever, yet he still manages to kill a roach with just a sword.
• Doomed by Canon: It is known from the beginning of the story that the Bugs I mission had no survivors.
• The Hero: Although one of the tragic variety.
• Heroic Sacrifice: Dies killing the first Terra Formars, but not before sending its head back to Earth, warning them about the cockroaches and allowing humans to develop the BUGS procedure and the M.O Operation.
• Heroes Prefer Swords: and boy does he make the most out of it.

Bugs II

Hiruma Ichiro

Voiced by: Tomokazu Sugita

One of the members of the Bugs II crew and one of the only two to survive. During Annex I/Bugs III he is revealed to have become the current prime minister of Japan. His insect base is the Sleeping Chironomid.

• Adaptation Relationship Overhaul: In the live action film, Ichiro doesn't witness Thien's last stand and Komachi feels bitter about his betrayal, so unlike in the manga the two escape together on less than amicable terms.
• The Atoner: Ichiro regrets his actions during the Bugs II mission and tries to make up for it by protecting Akari Hizamaru and Michelle K. Davis during the Annex I mission.
• Authority Equals Asskicking: Bit of a subversion considering he becomes the Prime Minister in Annex I though his power isn't very useful combat wise.
• The Chessmaster: Deftly manipulates the meeting with the other world powers to his advantage such as to secure the interests of the Annex I team (which countries such as the USA are ready to give up on).
• Complete Immortality: His insect base allows him to survive pretty much anything, though someone has to splash liquid on him to awake him.
• Fire-Forged Friends: With Komachi after escaping the Bugs II mission together and becomes an ally as the Prime Minister.
• Gonk: An overweight guy with freckles on his face.
• Guile Hero
• Late-Arrival Spoiler: Reading Annex I before Bugs II will let you know he survives.
• Lower-Class Lout: Grew up in a poor family with a lot of siblings which is part of why he's so desperate for money and attempts to betray the crew in Bugs II.
• Sole Survivor: One of the only two to survive the Bugs II mission.

Akita Nanao

Voiced by: Ayako Kawasumi (Japanese), Cherami Leigh (English)

Member of the Bugs II crew and a childhood friend of Komachi.

• Abusive Parents: Was abused by her stepfather. Komachi killed him after finding out and it's part of the reason the two joined the crew.
• Missing Mom: She is Akari's biological mother.
• Surprisingly Sudden Death: While she and Komachi are puzzled at finding one of the martian roaches, it just walks up to them and casually snaps her neck — abruptly setting the tone for the rest of the story.
• Too Good for This Sinful Earth: Not wanting Komachi to dirty his hands in her defense again, her dying words are for him to talk things out with the roaches.
• Tragic Dream: Wanted to live a quiet life with Komachi after finishing the mission in Bugs II. She's the very first to be killed off in the arc, moments after making contact with the aliens.

Dontello K. Davis

Voiced by: Rikiya Koyama

The commander of Bugs II and the father of Michelle K. Davis. His insect base is the Bullet Ant.

• Action Dad
• Authority Equals Asskicking: He's the commander for a reason.
• Heroic Sacrifice: He lures a horde of roaches inside Bugs II and fights them off until the ship runs out of oxygen. Tragically, Victoria asassinates him just after he loses consciouness.
• One-Man Army: Ship gets overrun by roaches and get surrounded to allow time for the crew to escape. So what does he do? Proceeds to man-handle every single roach in the vicinity.
• Super-Strength: His Base organism for the bug procedure turns him into a Paraponera clavata and boy do the roaches learn the hard way why they are called the strongest insects.
• Wrestler in All of Us: This guy takes out roaches using everything from an argentina backbracker, lariats, and a GODDAMN powerbomb. The last one in particular is later boasted by the narrator as the first bare-handed skill to ever kill a Terraformar.

Zhang Ming-Ming

Voiced by: Ayahi Takagaki

The Lieutenant of Bugs II and Number Two to Commander Donatello K. Davis. Her Insect base was a praying mantis.

• Childhood Friends: With Liu Yiwu.
• Missing Mom: She along with Akita took part in Akari's creation, and he inherited her mantis abilities.
• Slaying Mantis: Her Base operation lets her turn into one.
• Cruel and Unusual Death: Is decapitated with her own arm after a roach tore it off while dodging one her attacks.

Thien

Voiced by: Tomohisa Hashizume

A Thai street kid that joined the BUGS II crew. His insect base is the Desert Locust.

• Cruel and Unusual Death: Dies overdosing on the drug, transforming his body into a human-sized desert locust.
• Broken Tears: After overdosing and transforming into a human sized insect, he laments to Komachi that he has nothing to live for and that he must look gross while crying a river of tears.
• Extremity Extremist: Justified Trope as his base operation gave him freakishly powerful legs and is even called a Muay Thai boxer by God Lee.

Victoria Wood

Voiced by: Ami Koshimizu

• Not the Fall That Kills You…: When the roaches crash the Bugs II ship, Ichiro survives thanks to his revival powers but Victoria has no such luck...
• Opportunistic Bastard: Like Ichiro, she tries to betray the team, but unlike Ichiro, who is doing it for the sake of supporting his family, Victoria is solely in it for herself, planning on double-crossing those in charge of hers and Ichiro's secret mission once she gets back to Earth and using her powers over the Terraformars to gain great power.
• The Worf Effect: Her abilities, which include being able to control the roaches with a special type of venom, and being able to hide inside their corpses and basically use them like suits, are perfectly suited to fight the roaches. Unfortunately for her, the roaches are VERY quick to adapt, and she promptly gets both of her legs sliced off by a newborn roach.

God Li

Voiced by: Kenjiro Tsuda

• I Work Alone: He refused Shokichi and Thien's aid.
• Killed Offscreen: The story cuts to him surprised but not noticeably scared that his flamethrower failed to faze one of the roaches to him already having his head torn apart by the thing as it invades the crew's base.
• The Worf Effect: His flamethrower should've been effective against the roaches, buuuut...

Maria Viren

Voiced by: Nana Mizuki

• Death by Irony: In her dying moments, Maria recalls one time she smashed a roach in half with a sandal.
• Half the Man He Used to Be: A Terraformar chops her in half like she's made of butter.
• Screw This, I'm Out of Here!: She was the first in proposing returning to Earth, only for Li to shot down the idea.

Tejas Viji

• Off with His Head!: He uses his ability to spit out a burst of gas and propel his team's rover away from the roaches at high speeds... but one of them still rips his head off in a split second, mid flight.

Annex I - Squad 1

Komachi Shokichi

Voiced by: Hidenobu Kiuchi (Japanese), Chris Smith (English)

The protagonist of the Bugs II arc and the tritagonist of the Annex I/Bugs III. He's one of two to survive the Bugs II mission and later becomes the leader of the Japanese and American squad for Annex I. His insect base is the Asian Giant Hornet.

• Artificial Zombie: Col. Mai of the Chinese army seizes his body from Mars, infects him with the "zombie" spores, and implants mechanical devices in his brain that makes him completely unable to defy orders from his Chinese superiors.
• Blade Below the Shoulder: While transformed, he has large stings over his arms to inject deadly giant asian wasp venom on enemies.
• Bunny-Ears Lawyer: Comes off as this at times, what with choosing the same 'crying spot' as Sheila and generally goofing around on the trip to Mars. After defeating a powerful Terraformar, he jokes about how one of the attributes of being a hornet is being a badass.
• Came Back Wrong: China stole his body from Mars, reanimated him, and turned him into a cyborg that must obey the orders of the Ubermensch group "We Are The Cosmos." Akari later fights Komachi and, with some help, manages to remove the body-controlling devices and bring him to safety.
• Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: Can come off as a bit of a goofball but he's one of the most skilled fighters in the series.
• Death Seeker: For the duration of the Annex I mission, deep down Komachi wanted to die and join Akita and his old crew in the afterlife. He is mortally injured in a heroic last stand against the roaches and Joseph, but Liu sacrifices his own heart for him and Mai holds him captive as a mind controlled servant. Komachi tries to convince Akari to kill him for good, but Akari resolves to bring him back and shake him off from his grief at losing Akita.
• Domestic Abuse: Killed his childhood friend Nanao's stepfather after finding out he was abusing her
• A Father to His Men: Very protective of the members of his squad.
• Heroic Sacrifice: Draws most of the roaches to him while the younger members of Annex I get to the escape pods. He ends up dying not to the roaches, though, but instead in a Mutual Kill against the traitorous Joseph. Liu replaces Komachi's heart with his own before dying, but Mai captures and controls Komachi''s body afterwards.
• Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: During a brutal fight against Joseph he is stabbed through the heart, but retaliates by severing Joseph into several pieces before passing out.
• Late-Arrival Spoiler: If you read Annex I before Bugs II you'll know that he survives.
• Manly Tears: He is quite prone to these. One could argue that they are more like Tender Tears as he is usually crying for other people.
• Parental Abandonment: His murder of Akita's abusive father led to the financial ruin of his family and his parents disowing him, so Akita was the only one who came visit him in prison.
• Parental Substitute: Tries to be this for Michelle, in a gloriously awkward but heartwarming fashion, considering she's the daughter of Dontello Davis.
• Poisonous Person: One of his insect base powers.
• Reforged into a Minion: His half-dead body is taken from Mars by China and turned into a tool for "We Are The Cosmos."
• Roaring Rampage of Revenge: In the OVA he is overcome by grief and he absolutely destroys any roaches in his way all to avenge his fallen friend Nanao. His rage factor also plays into the second Mars trip when he finds the roach with Nanao's bug DNA.
• Super-Strength: His other insect base power.
• Sole Survivor: One of the only two to survive the Bugs II arc.
• That Man Is Dead: In chapter 196, he tells Akari that "Komachi" is dead, and he has to be given permission from his overseers to do so.
• Tragic Dream: Wanted to live a quiet life with his childhood friend Nanao after finishing the mission in Bugs II. She's the first to be killed off in the arc.
• Unstoppable Rage: When Nanao dies he goes completely berserk on every roach. Now with Annex 1 he still holds the same grudge against them and brutally murders the roach that holds Nanao's bug DNA.

Marcos E. Garcia

Voiced by: Kaito Ishikawa (Japanese), Robbie Daymond (English)

• Batter Up!: While holding his Arachne staff, Marcos plays batter as Akari pitches him balls to deflect through the roaches.
• Berserker Tears: He has an epic case of them that lasts through an entire battle as he takes out his grief over Sheila being killed on a bunch of terraformars.
• Cry into Chest: He briefly rests his forehead on Alex's chest while crying after apologizing for not being able to protect Sheila.
• Childhood Friends: With Alex and Sheila.
• Fragile Speedster: Faster than terraformars and quite strong too but lacks stamina. However, after running out of steam once due to being enraged he calms down and performs much better in the following fight against the roaches.
• Heterosexual Life-Partners: With Alex.
• Hot-Blooded
• Razor Floss: Interestingly, his spider theme gives him a single short thread for him to fight physically with his staff — a set up for Akari instead to be the one who uses threads at long range through his moth transformation.
• Telescoping Staff: "Kumo" can refer to both spiders and "riding a cloud", giving him a bit of a Monkey King theme when he uses his Arachne staff. Downplayed in that it doesn't extend, but instead has detachable ends held together by a short spider silk. He also hands it out to Akari so he can fight the Mole Cricket Terraformar.
• Unstoppable Rage: Downplayed; after Sheila's death he starts beheading roaches left and right in a rage but soon gets exhausted and Komachi has to smash another roach behind him.
• Vitriolic Best Buds: with Alex.

Sheila Levitt

Voiced by: Ai Kayano (Japanese), Erica Lindbeck (English)

• A Death in the Limelight: Episode 4 focuses heavily on her, after she's killed by a terrorformars.
• Childhood Friends: With Alex and Marcos.
• Died in Your Arms Tonight Dies over Komachi's arms, struggling to gasp out a Dying Declaration of Love for him despite the gaping hole in her chest. Komachi understands, but can only ruefully apologize before she passes away.
• Posthumous Character: Dies early on in Annex I but we see a lot of her afterwards in flashbacks from Alex and Marcos.

Kanako Sanjou

Voiced by: Chiaki Takahashi (Japanese), Cherami Leigh (English)

• Winged Humanoid: Her white-throated needletail surgery gives her wings.

Keiji Onizuka

Voiced by: Daisuke Ono (Japanese), Max Mittelman (English)

A Japanese man under the tutelage of the Squad #1 leader Komachi Shokichi from the Annex I project. A former boxing champion who joined the the MARS mission after they fixed his detached retina. His MARS ranking is #8 and his surgery base is the Mantis Peacock Shrimp.

• An Arm and a Leg:
  • His left arm and right eye are disabled while fighting the Weevil Terraformar.
  • Loses his right arm fighting the Dragonfly Terraformar. Still Wins.
  • The Mantis Shrimp Terraformars kicks both of his legs off, but Kenji is able to sprout another pair in time for round 2.
• Back-to-Back Badasses: With Xi Chun-li when fighting the Honeybadger Terraformar.
• Boxing Battler: Remember this guy is the Light-weight boxing champion, Keiji Onizuka.
• Determinator: Absolutely refused to stay down after the Infernalis Terraformar landed powerful blows that would've killed anyone else otherwise. Happens later again when fighting when even after Xi Chun-li injured him signifigantly he not only managed keep getting up but shock and intimidate her and three other Squad 4 members without having to throw a single punch.
• Extremity Extremist: Comes with being a boxer, really.
• Friendless Background: Though he's friendly enough around strangers, he didn't seem to form any friendships while on Earth, and instead mostly spent time taking care of his sick mother. But once he joins the Annex I mission to Mars, he befriends many of the people there due to them recognizing his fame and having lived through a Fire Forged Friendship with them due to the attack from the Terraformars.
• Game-Breaking Injury: Suffered a retinal detachment due to his boxing career. Unfortunately he got conned by someone during the process of finding a treatment, and lost all of his money made as a boxer as a result.
• Healing Factor: Since is surgery type is a crustacean like Sylvester Asimov, he can regrow limbs and bodyparts in a matter of minutes.
• Humble Hero: Next to Adolf Keiji is the most modest and earnest member of the Annex I/BUGS 3 team.
• I Am Not Left-Handed: To fight against a roach with the same powers as his own, Kenji removes his heavy armguards to gain speed and makes short work of it.
• Irony: His favorite food is sashimi (especially shrimp ) guess what his base is...
• Momma's Boy: Comes home every weekend to visit his sickly mother. At one point she even tells him he should be finding a wife and friends.
• Megaton Punch: What makes him and is surgery base so dangerous. Just ask the Infernalis, Dragonfly, and Honeybadger Terraformars.
• Missing Mom: His mother appeared to be sickly, and passed away sometime between when he was a boxer, and before he was selected for the latest Mars mission.
• On One Condition: Agrees to the U-NASA mission for Mars, on the condition that he can get the powers of a creature with really good eyesight. Michelle, his recruiter, says that he may not be compatible, but fortunately he survives the surgery.
• The Power of Friendship: Though he was famous as a boxer, he seemed to largely come from a Friendless Background. However, when he joins the mission, he's humbled by how excited they are to be friends with him, and this gives him a much needed Heroic Second Wind during one of the fights against the Terraformars.

Jared Anderson

Voiced by: Katsui Tara (Japanese), Max Mittelman (English)

Kaiki

Erika Nakanojo

Voiced by: Ai Kakuma (Japanese), Stephanie Sheh (English)

• The Medic

Annex I - Squad 2

Michelle K. Davis

Voiced by: Shizuka Itō (Japanese), Erica Lindbeck (English)

The heroine and deuteragonist of the Annex I/Bugs III arc. Michelle is the daughter of Donatello K. Davis, commanding officer and one of the victims of the BUGS 2 expedition and has the same powers without the Bugs Procedure. Her insect base is the Blast Ant. Leads the American and Japanese no.2 division.

• Action Girl: Most definitive example in a series that's full of them.
• Amazonian Beauty: Michelle hits the weights hard and she has a muscular physique to show for it. It's not certain if the primary cause is the weights or the surgery she went through.
• Badass Abnormal: Even outside of the transformed form, she has the superhuman strength inherited from her father.
• Battle Couple: With Akari in chapter 195, but she's still the one in charge, and she never lets him forget it.
• Belligerent Sexual Tension: It's complicated. She is often annoyed by Akari's more perverted aspects, but she seems to reciprocate his feelings. Joseph seems to play up the Dogged Nice Guy act, but Michelle seems to want nothing to do with him.
• Big Damn Kiss: In chapter 195, combined with Next Tier Powerup. She kisses Akari right in the middle of battle with a swarm of the Martian cockroaches and acquires Akari's Razor Floss abilities. It's implied that this isn't the first time either.
• Big Eater: In a sketch, she helps herself to someone's dessert when it's apparent they aren't going to return.
• Cursed with Awesome: She sees the fact that she inherited her father's powers as this. At age 13, she began showing signs, like manifesting antennae, surviving the "explosion" of an old schoolhouse, and so on.
• Dark and Troubled Past: Mentioned in passing though not fully revealed as of yet.
• Deadpan Snarker
• Defrosting Ice Queen: Mentioned to be this compared to how she used to be prior to the mission, particularly when she reminds her subordinates to not forget that they are human and not above rage, fear, or grief.
• Having a Blast: Her insect ability
• Living MacGuffin: China makes this abundantly clear to her, in the worst possible way.
• My Eyes Are Up Here: It's something of a Running Gag for her to catch one of the males looking at her cleavage and tell them that if she catches them looking lower than her glasses a second time there will be consequences.
• Not So Stoic: She loses her composure when fighting the Bullet Ant Terraformar as it was made from the remains of her father.
• Sugar-and-Ice Personality: Caring and compassionate on one side. Fierce and unforgiving on the other.
• Super-Strength: The power that her Bullet Ant base grants her.
• Stoic Spectacles

Akari Hizamaru

Voiced by: Yoshimasa Hosoya (Japanese), Chris Niosi (English)

The protagonist of the Annex I/Bugs III arc. He is the son of a human who underwent the Bugs Procedure and his insect base is the Bagworm Moth. His inherited base is later revealed to be a Mantis.

• All Your Powers Combined: While fighting Komachi, he copies his hornet transformation and starts overwhelming him with the techniques of several other characters.
• Artificial Human: He's eventually revealed to be this.
• Badass Abnormal: Is introduced fighting a bear in a cage match, unarmed and winning, after it beat him senseless and ate his entire crotch off, only for him to regenerate it all and grow insectoid facial features. Yeah, this man wasn't normal from the start.
• Battle Couple: With Michelle in in chapter 195.
• Belligerent Sexual Tension: With Michelle.
• The Berserker: Can become this under certain conditions.
• Chivalrous Pervert: The "pervert" part is obvious, but he's very protective of the crew's ladies, especially Michelle.
• Conveniently an Orphan: Later revealed to be not so coincidental.
• Determinator
• The Gadfly: Frequently teases the other crew members.
• Heart Is an Awesome Power: His base is the silk moth. One would think (especially after Akita Nanao's fate in Bugs 2) that this is a useless power, but his silk strands are stronger than steel and incredibly versatile in combat, making him among the most powerful members of Annex 1. The narration even boasts that a silk moth's threads are superior than any spider's.
• The Hero: The protagonist of the overall series after the Bugs II arc.
• Hot-Blooded
• Hunk: And how!
• I Owe You My Life: Akari declares Komachi lifted him from rock bottom when he invited him to join Annex I, so he'll do whatever it takes to rescue him, who likewise once lost everything, from being controlled by the We Are The Cosmos.
• Improbable Weapon User: His silk webbing, which he uses in a number of creative ways.
• Inelegant Blubbering: Akari's face is covered in a mix of snot, tears, and saliva when he admits he loved Yuriko after she died. It is definitely not pretty. He can even be heard snorting and sniffling in the anime.
• Katanas Are Just Better: His weapon of choice is a katana sword he can use with incredible skill and strength.
  • Epic Flail: Sometimes attaches his silk to rocks and uses them as such.
• Living MacGuffin: China certainly seems to think so. He's actually an "escaped" human test subject, and China is trying to steal him back.
• Loose Lips: Thoughtlessly blabs on Sheila's crush on the Captain to the entire ship.
• Mr. Fanservice: His muscular body is prominently displayed in all its glory. That being said, unlike Joseph, he isn't seen fully shirtless as nearly as often.
  • On the other hand, most of the clothes he does wear leave very little to imagination.
• Manly Tears: Akari cries when he finds out his childhood friend, Yuriko, died before he could help her.
• Parental Abandonment: Akari had no knowledge of his parents. His father was never shown, and his mother, Nanao Akita, died on Mars during the Bugs 2 mission.
• Papa Wolf: He's shown to be exceptionally good with children.
• Razor Floss: Combining his moth string with his mantis scythes gives him an especially nasty Whip Sword of sorts.
• Slaying Mantis: Becomes this in the later chapters of the manga starting at chapter 133.
• Tall, Dark, and Handsome
• Telescoping Staff: Marco lends his Arachne staff to Akari so he can fight the Mole Cricket Terraformar. Akari proves to be an Instant Expert with it, using the staff's thread and the attached heavy baseballs to beat up the cricket until it tries to flee.
• Tragic Keepsake: Upon facing the mind controlled Komachi, Akari mentions security just confiscated a childish wristwatch he once had to buy after Yuriko tried to shoplift it, and that he'd like Komachi to buy him a new, more mature one as compensation later.
• Trap Master: His Bagworm Moth base allows him to specialize in making nets.
• Unlucky Childhood Friend: In an interesting inversion of the trope it's him on the receiving end of this in the beginning.

Alex K. Stewart

Voiced by: KENN (Japanese), Steve Cannon (English)

• Childhood Friends: With Marcos and Sheila.
• Cry Laughing: Yaeko tries to comfort Alex over Sheila's death and he finds out she is older than him. Alex finds the idea hilarious and starts laughing. He ends up laughing as tears fall from his eyes, showing that he had been Trying Not to Cry the whole time.
• Heterosexual Life-Partners: With Marcos.
• Hunk: He really doesn't break the pattern of Anex I in the slightest.
• Improbable Aiming Skills: His harpy eagle surgery gives him this.
• Mr. Fanservice: Pretty easy on the eyes, isn't he?
  • His M.O. Operation in particular excuses him to show of his very well-built upper body.
• Sleeves Are for Wimps: Justified by his M.O. Operation that granted him the abilities of a harpy eagle, meaning that he uses his upper body for most of his fights. Thus his huge, muscular arms get a lot of screen time. His biceps and triceps are easily some of the largest (if not THE largest) in the series.
• Tall, Dark, and Handsome
• Vitriolic Best Buds: With Marcos.

Yaeko Yanasegawa

Voiced by: Aki Toyosaki (Japanese), Erin Fitzgerald (English)

• Action Survivor: Technically the weakest crew member, yet survives several encounters with the Terraformars and manages to return to Earth.
• Ship Tease: with Alex.

Wolf Redfield

Voiced by: Shinnosuke Tachibana

Peggy Forty

Annex I - Squad 3

Sylvester Asimov

Voiced by: Unshō Ishizuka (Japanese), Patrick Seitz (English)

A Russian soldier who volunteered for the mission after his own daughter who was pregnant with his son-in-law Alexander's child was infected with the alien virus.

• A Father to His Men
• An Arm and a Leg: Loses his right arm shortly after landing on Mars due to a Terrorformars attack. It barely slows him down though, thanks to a Healing Factor ability.
• Blood-Splattered Warrior: After Bvak is defeated, most of his body explodes over Asimov, leaving him fully covered in blood while the bystanders hail him as a God of War.
• Break the Haughty: He steps into Mars full of himself and not a moment after he loses one arm and two people to a single roach while holding back on the Mosaic transformation. He profusely apologises to Ivan for Elena's death with his head on the ground.
• Fighting Your Friend: In his spinoff, Asimov fights his former brother-in-arms Bvak Bevzenko who turned to helping gangsters and a Mad Scientist for a chance to save his daughter from the Alien Engine virus.
• Giant Enemy Crab: A Terraformar hallucinates him as one.
• Healing Factor: That right arm he lost earlier? He regenerated it, then used it to lift up the Terrorformars that interrupted his soliloquy.
• Heroic Sacrifice: He helps Komachi, Liu and Joseph hold off the roaches while the younger members of Annex I escape at the end of their mission.
• Husky Russkie: Big, burly, and hard-drinking. His Tasmanian giant crab base doesn't help. But he's also smarter and more perceptive than he necessarily lets on.
• Papa Wolf: To his actual daughter, his subordinates, and his son-in-law who also happens to be a subordinate and a Papa Wolf in his own right.
• This Is Unforgivable!: He wanted to talk things out with Bvak but finds him tearing his subordinate Tatiana in pieces just for also trying to resolve the incident peacefully. So Asimov greets him, shares some snacks, gives condolences for his daughter's murder... and declares he will beat him to death for what just happened.

Ivan Perepelkin

Voiced by: Kenji Akabane (Japanese), Chris Smith (English)

• Lotus-Eater Machine: His power, as he's a plant base. Jimson weed, to be more precise [1].

Elena Perepelkina

Voiced by: Romi Park (Japanese), Erin Fitzgerald (English)

• Boyish Short Hair: It's blonde.
• Ms. Fanservice: The Asimov spinoff shows her undressing anytime she uses her powers. She has dozens of panty shots and more than one panel where she's nude. The illustrator for the spinoff is Boichi, who naturally turns the Male Gaze on her up to eleven.
• Off with Her Head!: She's the subject of the infamously censored "basketball steal" scene◊.
• The Stoic: Right until the very end.
• The Worf Effect: She's said to be a skilled sniper, so Sylvester is certain she can shoot a net to capture a terraformars from a distance without transforming. The creature dashes past her in an instant with her severed head on hand.

Alexander Asimov

Voiced by: Toru Nara (Japanese), Bryce Papenbrook (English)

• Cool Shades: Almost never seen without his glasses.
• Heroic Sacrifice:
• Papa Wolf: He's on the mission to aid his pregnant wife and unborn child.
• Spanner in the Works: To China.
• Trap Master: He killed several of China's henchmen with one.

Nina Yujik

Voiced by: Yuko Kaida (Japanese), Stephanie Sheh (English)

• Battle Couple: with her husband Aaron.
• Beware My Stinger Tail: Her scorpion powers give her a tail.
• Death by Irony: Torn in half like her husband when an elite roach kicks a large steel ball through her. Notable for being the first one to die after a short time of success for the heroes, and said steel ball was one of the capsules meant to save them.

Aaron Yujik

Voiced by: Masami Iwasaki

• Battle Couple: with Nina.

Sergei Seleznyov

Annex I - Squad 4

Liu Yiwu

Voiced by: Tetsuo Komura (Japanese), Kyle Hebert (English)

• Armor-Piercing Attack: Through a complete mastery of Fa Jin, a hard exterior means nothing when it comes to resisting his strikes.
• Combat Tentacles: His true power.
• Four Is Death: He works for the bad guys, leads a team of renegades, he leads team 4, his fake M.A.R.S Ranking is 44 and his real one is 4. Yep, he fits to a t.
• Game Face: When he fully transforms◊. Add his Scary Shiny Glasses in the mix.
• Heroic Sacrifice: Gives the half-dead Komachi his own heart while dying from his last stand against the roaches.
• I Know Kung Fu: He's a godddamned master, all right. This makes him especially dangerous to the roaches and Asimov as he can deliver piercing blows even with his fist.
• Poisonous Person: He breathes poison ink, and his tentacles are poisonous.
• Tragic Dream: Was recruited by the Chinese Government for the Annex I mission under the promise of fixing his home town. In reality, he knows Akira is his girlfriend's child and China wants him to capture the boy alive, and hand him over for experimentation. He's planning to kill Akira rather than let that happen.

Jet

Voiced by: Hidenori Takahashi (Japanese), Chris Smith (English)

• Arrogant Kung-Fu Guy:
• Graceful Lose R:
• Nothing Personal:
• Proud Warrior Race Guy:

Bao Zhilan

Voiced by: Yuki Ono

• Affably Evil: He's surprisingly cheerful while he's killing and kidnapping other members of Annex I.
• Clones Are People, Too: Each and every one of his clones has a slightly different personality.
• Me's a Crowd: His base lets him clone himself via budding.
• One-Man Army: Literally. In chapter 134, he creates a large army of miniature copies of himself that he uses on Asimov to get around the crab armor.

Xi Chun-Li

Voiced by: Sayaka Ohara

• Child Soldier: Was forced into the Chinese military at the age of 9.
• Determinator: "Give Up" is not a phrase in her dictionary.
• Don't You Dare Pity Me!: She really did not like it when Kenji refused to strike at her.
• Enemy Mine: She briefly works with Keiji to bring down a the Ratel Terraformar.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Hong is the only person she cares about.
• Invisible Streaker: When she's using her powers, she's completely invisible to everyone, but Keiji. This effect does not translate to whatever clothes she's wearing, however.
• Mama Bear: To Hong.
• Please Put Some Clothes On: Said word for word by Keiji who has dynamic vision thanks to his powers, and did NOT want to appear as a pervert.

Hong

Voiced by: Nozomi Sasaki

• Bad Powers, Good People: Sweet, innocent, naive, and the base of her surgery is a bacterial bioweapon.
• Child Soldier: Just like Xi Chun-Li. In fact, she's currently 13.
• Extreme Doormat: Most of squad 4 smacks her around, especially Bao.
• Nice Girl: A true example. She only uses her powers when her comrades, especially Bao, force her to do so. Sometimes at gun point.

Borgijin Dorjiberke

Voiced by: Takahiro Fujiwara

• Faux Affably Evil: Is calm and polite, but that's a mask. He's really just a brutal, murderous thug.
• Kill It with Fire: Literally happens to him after being sprayed with skunk musk and then zapped by Eva Frost. He surprisingly survives.
• Super-Senses: His wolf surgery base gives him an exemplary sense of smell. He can even smell which direction your eyes are facing. Akari uses this against him when a team-mate with a SKUNK base comes to his aid.
• Would Hit a Girl: While he claims differently, gender is not an issue. He'll kill anyone who gets in his way.
• Would Hurt a Child: Age isn't an issue either.

Li

Zheng

Annex I - Squad 5

Adolf Reinhard

Voiced by: Koji Yusa (Japanese), Doug Erholtz (English)

The Leader Annex I Squad 5 (Germany and South-America)

• A Death in the Limelight: Episodes 8 and 9 focus heavily on him.
• A Father to His Men: Cares deeply for his squad, and attempts to keep them out of danger since most of them don't have useful combat powers.
• Beware the Quiet Ones
• Biblical Motifs: He internally recites Exodus 9 when unleashing his Unstoppable Rage upon the Terraformars when they have him and Annex 5 cornered, and it is amazing
  Moses stretched out his staff toward the sky, and the Lord sent thunder and hail, and fire ran down to the earth. And the Lord rained hail on the land of Egypt. So there was hail, and fire flashing continually in the midst of the hail, very severe, such as had not been in all the land of Egypt since it became a nation. The hail struck all that was in the field through all the land of Egypt, both man and beast; the hail also struck every plant of the field and shattered every tree of the field.
• Chocolate Baby: He found his wife was cheating on him and that his child was not his own (ambiguous in the original manga but explicit in the anime and his prequel), but put up with it without saying anything.
• Covered with Scars: Due to going under a high level of experimentation to acquire his powers, there are patches of scars around his whole body.
• Crucified Hero Shot: As seen in the Rain Hard spinoff, if you're going to subject a child to horrible experiments supposedly for the greater good you might as well bind him to a cross as it happens. It also ends on a shot of the broken cross in the church he fought Hein to death, symbolizing him trying to move on from his traumatic past.
• Death Seeker: His Last Stand fight against the Terraformars, in which he unleashes his pent up rage and frustrations against them.
• Defiant to the End: Manages to do a Flipping the Bird to the Terraformars' leader before it's struck by lightning.
• Determinator: Though severely weakened by his extended fight against the Terraformars, he still manages to survive long enough to attack their leader.
• Do Not Go Gentle: Puts up quite a fierce fight before ultimately dying. And unknown to him, even in his death a bomb planted inside of him ensured that none of his squad were captured alive by the Terraformars.
• Facial Horror: He has a scarred lower face and a sizable hole on his right cheek that he barely hides with his high collar.
• Fighting Your Friend: In his spinoff, Adolf fights against Heinrich, a vengeful fellow research subject who was his only friend as a child.
• Flipping the Bird: Does this just as lightning comes down from the sky at the Terraformars leader.
• Friend to All Living Things: Despite his looks and his usual demeanor, he just loves animals and at times he's seen surrounded by them.
• Glasgow Grin: He wears a high collar to hide this from others so as not to scare them away.
• Good Scars, Evil Scars: Most of his body is Covered in Scars.
• Heart Broken Badass: Mainly due to his wife cheating on him and giving birth to someone else's child.
• Heroic Sacrifice: Attempts to do this in order to save his squad. Does it unintentionally when a bomb secretly implanted in him goes off, killing them, but sparing them capture by the Terraformars too.
• Heroic Second Wind: Gains one after his crewmembers risk their lives in an attempt to save him.
• Jerkass: His initial appearance.
  • Jerk with a Heart of Gold: His true nature.
• Nightmare Face: The left side of his mouth has mostly been burnt off.
• Psycho Electric Eel: His Base Organism is an electric eel.
• Shock and Awe: His powers revolve around the use of electricity.
• The Stoic: Rarely displays any emotion. (His high collar helps obscure his expressions as well.)
  • Not So Stoic: Though protrayed a bit more subtly in the anime, in the manga's version of his last stand, Adolf finds himself remembering his painful past. It starts with his horrific childhood and then climaxes with his wife having an affair and birthing a child that wasn't his. As he begins to tire from battle he calls out to the terraformars to fight him more as tears stream from his eyes.
• Taking the Bullet: Does this for Eva in episode 10. He actually succeeds to stop the bullets being shot at them, but unfortunately he's too weakened by that point and they rely instead on large rocks hurled at them via a sling.
• Theme Naming: He's a german man named Adolf who looks after a woman named Eva and his best friend was called Heinrich. There's no actual Nazi motifs to them other than their names, though.
• Traumatic Superpower Awakening: The Mad Scientist in charge of Adolf's experimentation started killing animals and beating Hein in front of him while Adolf was bound to a cross. Adolf awakened his electricity powers in a rage and immediately executed the man.
• Why Am I Ticking?: Unknown to him, a bomb was placed in his body to prevent research from getting into the wrong hands.

Eva Frost

Voiced by: Ayane Sakura (Japanese), Cristina Valenzuela (English)

• Big Damn Heroes
• Break the Cutie: Suffers immensely from this, particularly after Adolf dies protecting her from the rocks being hurled at them.
• Bring My Brown Pants: Happens to her in Episode 3.
• Came Back Strong: Acquired Adolf's power set, and refuses to let herself be terrified any more.
• Full-Frontal Assault: Subjects the Chinese battleship to this. Justified as she didn't have access to clothing until after she joined Squad 1 and 2.
• Good Thing You Can Heal: Later chapters have her regenerate completely from a piece of her own breast, and acquiring Adolf's powers thanks to her base being a planera.
• Go Through Me: Attempts to do this to protect Adolf. Doesn't stop the Terraformars from shooting them however.
• Ironic Name: Her name is "Frost."
• Naked on Revival: While she can grow a new body, she can't grow new clothes.
• Off with Her Head!: Right after Eva first revived, Joseph walked up to her like a jackass and beheaded her so he could copy her powers and make clones of her. Due to a flaw in her planera regeneration, the original Eva does not remember this when she comes back to life again.
• She's Back: After getting blown to shreds in Adolf self-destruction, Eva is still able to regenerate and comes back from out of nowhere and with a lot more confidence to save the protagonists.
• Shock and Awe: Inherits Adolf's lightning abilities after his death.
• Together in Death: With Adolf. At least initially.
• Took a Level in Badass: Is introduced being terrified by a single Martian Roach. By chapter 134, she's not only able to mow through armies of them without breaking a sweat, or using the transformation drug, she can hold her own, one on one, against a Chinese space-faring warship, and the CHINESE are scared. She even manages to force them to do an emergency landing for repairs while she helps Squads 1 and 2 run away.

Isabella R. Leon

• The Worf Effect: She faces off against a particularly bulky terraformar without fear as the narrator remarks raspy crickets are also large and ferocious. She doesn't last a single darn panel as the roach splatters her top half with a single punch.

Wac Ericson

Enrique

Sandra Hoffman

Antonio

Johann

Rachel

Mirapix

Fritz

Annex I - Squad 6

Joseph G. Newton

Voiced by: Akira Ishida (Japanese), Todd Haberkorn (English)

The commander of Squad 6.

• The Ace: He is good at almost anything he does.
• Big Damn Heroes: He pull this when he comes to save Michelle and her friends.
• Big Man on Campus: Was popular in his High School. Winning the gold metal in "The King of the Athletes" decathlon must've contributed.
• Chekhov's Skill: He can quickly regenerate lost limbs despite being a "normal" human with no animal-themed superpowers... His master's degree in Biology comes in handy when he steals Eva Frost's regenerative powers.
• Curb-Stomp Battle: Not even the roaches really stand much of a chance against him.
• Deconstructed Character Archetype: Of The Ace, The Gift, Übermensch, World's Strongest Man and even Badass Family!
• Evil All Along: Joe is presented as the ideal hero and an overall Nice Guy, when in truth he is very messed up due to his upbringing and is plotting against the rest of the Annex I crew for his own benefit.
• Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: Due to his complex over the nature of love, Joseph dares Komachi to kill him in its name. At the same time he enjoys the fight and acknowledges Komachi as an Worthy Opponent, Joseph cannot stand how Komachi is driven by love for people who already dead.
• Feels No Pain: Subverted, when he is shot through the leg he feels immense pain, rolling around on the floor screaming his lungs out clutching the wound... Then double-subverted as he proceeds to dash at his assailants with his full focus on them. The screaming and rolling around was all just a cover for Joe applying Gate control theory to get the pain out of his system.
• Fights Like a Normal: Aside from some of the quirks that his genetics give him, Joseph relies on pure swordsmanship and Good Old Fisticuffs in battle.
• Genius Bruiser: Has a master's degree in Biology and Aerospace Engineering. He is also a decathlon winner and a very capable fighter.
  • According to Michelle, his IQ is 186.
• The Gift: Due to centuries of selective breeding for desirable genetic traits and dispositions within the Newton Family, Joseph is outright freakishly talented at just about anything he tries, has an Improbably High I.Q., and his ability to sleep with only certain parts of his brain at once makes him border on being full-on The Needless. Even his resistance to disease and a gut biology that lets him instantaneously absorb the energy in food factors into this. Against the Chinese squad he also demonstrates insane amounts of control over his body and torque from mastery of Fa Jin well enough to launch the bullets lodged in his leg through one of his assailants, the ability to pivot while falling onto his heels while simultaneously accelerating at full speed like Michael Jordan and Miyamoto Musashi, and the ability to move his eyes independently of one another to avoid getting blindsided by Liu's Combat Tentacles.
  Yeah. Yeah, I see that look all the time. I know what you're thinking. "That's inhuman?!", right? Don't make me laugh. I'm the most human one around here. They don't excel in any of the talents humans have. Even though there are techniques you can learn, and flaws you can iron out through training, they don't put in the effort, and in the end, they rely on some other organism's powers. If you ask me, you're the inhuman ones.
• Healing Factor: He took Eva Frost's regenerative powers for himself.
• Heroes Prefer Swords: His personal weapon is a sword.
• Hunk: Ridiculously muscular and ripped to shreds.
• In-Series Nickname: Joe for short among friends and colleagues.
  • He was also was featured on TV with a nickname of "Speedy Joe".
• Keet: Harshly Deconstructed. The very fact that Joseph has this kind of attitude and the perfect face for it, even if it's just part of how his charisma manifests was decided to be one of the best traits for the next Newton heir. He didn't take getting told that his "stupid face when he laughs" was what got him chosen very well.
• Kick the Dog:
  • In the past, just to prove how love is fragile he ruined the relationship of his best friend Jack and his girlfriend Michelle by bribing a teacher to sexually harass her, resulting in Jack bring arrested for beating the teacher and refusing to explain anything to the authorities for her honor's sake. Joseph made a point to gloat about it to Michelle's face after impregnating her, so then even if she and Jack reunited they would have a hollow life.
  • He callously beheads Eva after she first revived, while she was confused and mourning Adolf following his self destruction, just to steal her powers and make obedient clones of her.
• Large and in Charge: Joseph is the commander of Squad 6 and while he isn't the tallest character in the series, he is still taller than Adolf(180cm) and Akari(177cm) at 187 cm height. Not to mention how ripped he is.
• Lightning Bruiser: Yeah, he is big, but also very fast. In fact, when he was a High School Senior he earned a gold medal in decathlon (a competition known as "The King of the Athletes").
  • That was when he was only 17. Seven years later, at the age of 24, he is way beyond the fighting abilities of about 97% of the cast. Why? Well, he literally single-handily leaves a mountain of dead Terraformars and barely starts sweating from doing so, not even getting a scratch in the process. He looked more annoyed than anything else. Also, Joseph didn't even need a M.O. ability to do it!
• Master Swordsman: Good enough to kill so many Terraformars.
• Mr. Fanservice: The prime example in the series, more so than even Akari.
  • In the anime as well as the flashback in the manga after his real colors were revealed, it was shown that he was rather muscular even in his teen years.
  • Poor Yaeko was absolutely stunned by the sight of his bare upper body, and had pretty much accepted as a fact that if he were to get a hold of her right there and then, she would would get pregnant soon after. This, despite of holding the unconscious Alex in her arms and being terrified of the idea that they'd die in a matter of seconds, let alone the millions of roaches currently facing them!
• More than Mind Control: Is victim to this, thanks to the Chinese battleship commander's M.O. ability.
• Muscles Are Meaningful: Like most of the cast, but he exemplifies it and his remarkably low body-fat percentage makes him look even bigger than he is.
• Not Quite Dead: Komachi makes sure to behead Joseph and slice his head in half, but the powers he stole from Eva still spring him back to life.
• One-Man Army: See Lightning Bruiser above.
• Sex God: Only Michelle seems to be able to resist him.
• Son of a Whore: His actual birth mother was an Albanian or Lithuanian (his father doesn't remember which) prostitute and not the same mom he was raised by alongside his siblings. Apparently his father's nose was too high, and she was otherwise perfectly genetically dispositioned in a bunch of areas down to even her Music accomplishment genes to produce a Newton heir. Learning this from his father arguably made him Go Mad from the Revelation.
• Tragic Keepsake: Implied. His sword was shown to have "George S." on it, possibly in the honor of George Smiles's memory. George Smiles is related to Joseph, most likely a cousin as they have a mutual grandfather in Alexander Gustav Newton. ^*  Interestingly, George Smiles also shares the last name with the Russian President Bladimir A. Smiles. This likely means that the Smiles family as a whole are connected to the Newton clan.
  • Meaning that he cared for him, at least more than their grandfather Alexander.
• Villainous Crush: He's in love with Michelle, but he's not as nice as he seems and the reveal of his dark past involves him abusing another woman named Michelle just to ensure she and his former best friend couldn't be happy together.
• Walking Shirtless Scene: Oh, yes!
• Walking Spoiler: There is more to Joseph that one might expect...
• World's Strongest Man: The pinnacle of centuries of selective breeding to concentrate humanity's most desirable abilities into a single person, he is not called "The Foremost" for nothing.

Marcia

Ichi Security

Sho Saito

An old friend of Akari's who leads the homeless in the severs of Tokyo. His base is the Field Cricket.

Samurai Sword

• Only Known by Their Nickname: She's only known by her codename for some reason.

Tatsuhiro Someya

• Charles Atlas Superpower: He's as powerful as Joseph despite hailing from a completely normal family line.

Joichi Hongo

• I Know Madden Kombat: He fights as if he's playing Soccer.

Asataro Kusama

• Head Turned Backwards: The half-roach infant sneaks behind him and twists his neck backwards, but as an owl-person he just asks what the heck the kid is and tosses him aside.
• The Worf Effect: Much like his master, he jobbed to the Invoker offscreen. And that's despite Asataro having an overwhelming advantage due to the Invoker being scared witless and missing an arm.

Itsuki Kazemura

• Body Horror: He underwent the M.O. operation repeatedly as treatment for an incurable disease while being incompatible with regeneration-based powersets, which left him to fight as a chimera in a constant state of metamorphosis.
• Combo Platter Powers: His long list of animal bases is Joro Spider, Bird, Anaconda, Komodo Dragon, Porcupine, Longhorn Beetle, Przewalski's Horse and Japanese Raccoon Dog.

Others

Terraformars

Genetically engineered super-roaches that were created to help make the environment on Mars more acceptable for humans. However the roaches spread faster than expected and evolved into bizarre humanoid like beings and have an instinctual desire to kill humans much like humans do towards roaches.

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• Adaptational Nice Guy: The ones in the film are capable of understanding mercy and showing it to humans. The ones in all other continuities would gladly use any mercy showed to the to stab the offerer in the back For the Evulz.
• Alien Blood: Their blood is yellow.
• Always Chaotic Evil: Absolutely none of them are shown to have any sympathetic traits at all.
• Antagonist Abilities: They are numerous, extremely powerful and resourceful. They quickly learn from mistakes, gain convenient abilities and immunities with each newborn and realize they can't fully depend on a leader figure once it is defeated by Adolf. One major example is how they acquire the abilities of the Bugs II crew members they effortlessly killed and use them to far better effect.
• Atrocious Arthropods: The Terraformars are humanoid cockroaches who were created to help humans adapt to Mars but evolved and now seek to destroy humans.
• Ax-Crazy: The roaches, including the half-human hybrids, are from birth extremely violent and dangerous towards everything. The "Earthformars" invaders, however, work with much more sublety in the shadows for 17 years to take Japan by storm.
• Bears Are Bad News: Early in Part 3, Tatsuhiro fights a Earthformar who on top of gaining the traits of a bear was also grafted with the claws, jaws and hide of an actual bear so it could pretend to be a statue in an expo at Tokyo Tower.
• Body Horror: Due to their inability to feel pain and disregard for their own lives, they don't care if they undergo surgery that adds to them the traits of other animals or are outright fully transformed into things like a bear and a whale after a Brain Transplant or some such.
• Camping a Crapper: From the beginning of Annex I to when the heroes are dealing with their invasion on Earth, the roaches are shown to frequently capture and kill people who are in bathrooms.
• Child Soldiers: Hating humans is something the roaches have begun learning at a young age, and are shown indoctrinating their young to kill humans. During the Chinese squad's betrayal and the Terraformars attacking the Annex en masse, the older roaches drop several of these things in with knives. To no one's suprise, they are still insanely strong and fast and two of them manage to drag off one of the female Annex crew at breakneck speeds. She is never seen or heard from again.
• Creepy Cockroach: They're giant humanoid roaches that want to wipe out mankind. They might be the most pronounced example in all anime.
• Dark Messiah: Several roaches have developed intelligence and leading ability far greater than the other roaches, making them messianic and leader figures to the roaches in their goal to exterminate mankind.
• Decapitated Army:
  • When Adolf manages to kill the roach leader on Mars, the rest withdrawl for a while and leave the other Annex I squads suspicious. Some time before the war, the roaches began to realize they couldn't depend on a single genius to guide them, and his death enabled them to rethink their strategies and raise the intelligence of each individual member of their race.
  • During the invasion on Earth, the plan is to kill the Invoker on live television to put his army into disarray but Asataro only manages to record him fleeing before (unsuccessfully) blowing him up. As it is, the other roaches realize something went wrong but keep fighting indefinitely.
• Depending on the Artist: In the Asimov spinoff, Boichi portrays the standard roaches in a state of perpetual rage unlike the mostly emotionless behavior they display in the main story.
• Dirty Coward: Thanks to his human-like intelligence the Invoker (and likely the other leader roaches) actually fears for his life, so he'll avoid direct combat and flee in a panic if outmatched. However, what this means is that he can overcome fear like the heroes do so often and also survive against impossible odds.
• Elite Mook: Some of them are bulkier and three times more powerful than their fellows through a high-protein diet from birth, but can't fly. They also learn to acquire the abilities of other animals, changing their appearance like the humans do.
• Evolution Power-Up: They gain the abilities of the Bugs II crew members during Annex I.
• Feel No Pain: Their inability to feel pain works both for and against them, either letting them power through injuries to score a hit or whiff when they don't notice they're missing a foot, or be unable to process a concussion from a punch to the jaw despite being prepared to fight with a missing head.
• Full-Frontal Assault: Most of the roaches are naked, with no visible genitals. The leaders set themselves apart by wearing togas, and a few of their warriors wear makeshift hakamas, both seemingly made from the silkworms also mutating on Mars.
• Gangsta Style: When they're first seen wielding firearms, a couple of them are holding them sideways. They seem to stop doing that in later scenes though.
• Genius Bruiser: As part of their strange evolution the roaches learn incredibly fast, having learned how to use firearms in Bugs II and gaining Bugs Procedure abilities in Annex I.
• Gone Horribly Wrong: They were created to make Mars's environment livable through letting moss and cockroaches, one of the sturdiest animals on Earth, flourish and let their life cycle and the air they exhale create an ozone layer and potentially terraform it entirely after 600 or so years. On the surface, a genius idea to create more living space for the crowded and culturally stagnating Earth. But the cockroaches ended up somehow mutating through what's implied to be alien Lost Technology left on Mars into Lightning Bruiser killing machines with a complete Lack of Empathy. China and several eugenics-obsessed secret societies feeding them info about Earth and Annex I ends up backfiring when they use it to fix Bugs I and go to Earth on it.
• Good Eyes, Evil Eyes: They, including the half-human hybrids, have round eyes with large pupils. Even the ones fused with animals such as bears and whales can be spotted by the looks of their eyes.
• Good Smoking, Evil Smoking: One of the Martian roach leaders seen at the very end of Part 2 enjoys smoking from a pipe.
• Half-Human Hybrid: By forcing captive human women to mate with the roaches, they birth people with the roaches' signature large eyes and Always Chaotic Evil attitude.
• Hate Sink: As entertaining as they can be, the Terraformars are Omnicidal Maniac villains with no redeeming qualities whatsoever. Their human experimentation and the fate of the girl they found early on their invasion is shown in disturbing detail, provoking the seething rage of the protagonists. The Invoker in particular skedaddles his way to safety during the war solely on offscreen victories and contrivances as if its just to annoy the readers.
• The Heavy: Though there are various political schemes going on in the background and the mystery of Rahab, the roaches remain the largest threat.
• The Illegal: After the colonization of Mars goes horribly wrong, the roaches become literal illegal aliens who infiltrate human civilization to defile women and destroy just about everything and everyone For the Evulz. The cherry on top of the trope is that once the roaches unleash their forces over the world, the ignorant masses feel sorry for them on social media for being a product of human greed!
• Kick the Dog: During their invasion of Earth, the roaches start breeding humans for experimentation. That little girl who found them in the Bugs II arc's ending? Raised under captivity for several years and forced to give birth twice but is otherwise unharmed... until the roaches abruptly microwave her and another man to death. As the protagonists begin to learn this is going on, they seethe with murderous rage and swear to wipe the roaches off the face of the Earth.
• Knight of Cerebus: They cause some of the heaviest Mood Whiplashes in the series as characters start dying in droves once they show up.
• Lack of Empathy: Life itself has no value to them. One adult Half-Human Hybrid gives a good glimpse of what goes in the roaches' nihilist minds.
• Lightning Bruiser: All of them are incredibly fast for their large size and any casual swing of their arms can tear people apart like tissue paper or flat out explode them to shreds.
• Made of Iron: Their skin has the toughness of a roach's in a human's scale, on top of being able to survive grievous injuries including beheading for some time. Their head and torso must be critically damaged to make sure they stay down. Definitely, they are cockroaches after years and years of workout in a gym.
• Monster Lord: Evolved Terraformars were first born towards the end of the BUGS2 arc. They have immunities to whatever caused their predecessor's death and have great intelect and leadership ability, such that common roach-men follow their orders the moment they see them. The one leading the Earth invaders in particular is nicknamed "Invoker".
• Obviously Evil: They're towering muscular cavemen with uncanny-looking faces and bulging eyes who kill humans on a whim. And then there's, yes, how the story tends to milk them being a Scary Black Man stereotype in looks and body language for all its worth.
• Off with His Head!: Decapitation is their most frequent means of killing people. This often happens to them as well, though the rest of the body might keep moving for a while unless their "second brain" is destroyed. The Invoker actually has his core organ divided into many pieces all across his torso, so despite suffering decapitation from Ivan and with a gaping hole on his chest his body still races after his head and puts it on backwards before killing the russian leader and getting back to home base.
• Omniglot: Considering the fact that they can operate computers, and surf the internet, they must at least be able to read some human languages, if not understand them when spoken.
• One-Gender Race: The roaches are all male and reproduce upon death by laying eggs which hatch into two or more roaches with improved traits and even immunities to what killed their predecessor. Strangely, nobody is ever concerned about destroying any of those eggs before they grow and hatch. The two known roach-human hybrids are also both male and whatever was done to conceive them in the human experimentation labs is only implied.
• Paper-Thin Disguise: Despite their unnatural apparance, they can walk among civilians just fine by wearing heavy clothing and a hat. This does puts them at a disavantage because they naturally cannot fly while dressed.
• The Plague: The goal of Annex I is capturing some terraformars to research the seemingly incurable Alien Engine virus they carry and that's been spotted on Earth. To match the pyramids they build, the virus just so happens to be shaped like an ankh.
• Power Copying: Stole the powers of the BUGS II crew and some members of the Annex I. Later on Earth they steal the abilities of any living animal they experiment on.
• The Power of Hate: They hate all living things and attack anything in their way. They specifically hate humans in the same way that humans hate cockroaches.
• Precursor Worship: This is one of the theories posited for their unusual behavior. The fact that the Dark Messiah roaches usually wear togas and monk's robes certainly gives credence to this theory.
• Rolling Attack: The roaches can perform this by acquiring the traits of animals like echidnas and armadillos. Going all Knuckles in particular lets them tear through their victims with their back spikes.
• Screw This, I'm Outta Here: When the Invoker is cornered by Asataro, he actually tries bolting out of the helicopter in a panic — an unusual attitude for a martian roach, due to his more human-like mind.
• Starfish Language: The roaches clearly have some kind of very complex language, but they only voice very few sounds, "Joh," "Joj," "Ji," and "Gi" with varying inflections.
• Take Over the World: The roaches managed to invade Earth via the Bugs I ship as seen in The Stinger of the Bugs II arc. Turns out the planet's urban areas and natural resources work just perfectly for them to exponentially raise their numbers and carefully work in the shadows until they can conquer Japan and then the rest of the world.
• The Stoic: The terraformars tend to have a blank expression as they fight, kill and are injured. Even so, they can crack a Psychotic Smirk when they feel like taunting their opponents. Leaders such as the Invoker are more emotional and are capable of feeling fear.
• Unskilled, but Strong: The roaches are incredibly strong. They are strong enough to wipe out even the best off BUGS 2 and Annex 1. But they lack in the skill that the other Annex 1 posses and it sometimes leads to their defeat.
• Villain Respect: In the 2016 Terra Formars film, the Terraformar Overlord orders the roaches to stand down and let Shokichi and Ichiro leave Mars because Shokichi spared his life after Shokichi beat him.
• Xanatos Speed Chess: Their ability to anticipate and counter human armaments and tactics on Earth is downright terrifying. Roaches are attacked by aircraft on a bombing run, send the "Dragonfly" up to deal with them. "Dragonfly" gets taken down by SWAC using a microwave weapon, shoot it down with a home-made rocket makeshift missile. Bombard the area by destroyer, hijack a 747 flying above, by Roaches already on board, and drop it onto the destroyer. The Japanese prime minister sadly proclaims that exterminating a group of Martian Roaches on Earth would require a lot of human casualties.
• We Have Reserves: The Martian roaches don't care about their lives, or the lives of their compatriots. As long as the mission objective is complete and even one roach remains, that roach will rejoice.
• Would Hit a Girl: If the Terraformars have no immediate threats in a battle, they'll capture and rip apart any defenseless human female close by. Despite the gang rape imagery, it is specifically noted they do this either no particular reason or to reduce the chance of their enemies reproducing. However, the Earth invaders hold women captive and force them to bear human-roach hybrids before executing them in microwaving chambers.

We Are The Cosmos

A highly enigmatic group of individuals from various nations working together based in Roma with various facilities scattered around the Earth in various nations.

• Ancient Conspiracy: They are interwoven in several, including the Newtons.
• Arranged Marriage: Most, if not all, of their members are the product of centuries of selective breeding.
• Half-Human Hybrid: As shown in chapter 198, the end goal of their human experimentation on the artificial island was to breed half-human, half-terraformar hybrids, and they succeeded.
• Humans Are Insects: They see humanity, as a whole, as nothing more than obnoxious rutting beasts, at best, despite being humans themselves. In fact, they show more empathy and respect to the Terraformars than to their own species, and that's not very much.
• Morally Ambiguous Doctorate: Nobody, even on their own staff knows what their final objective is, but they're all dedicated to the cause above all else, including human lives, even those of their native countrymen.
• Nonstandard Character Design: The two members that go to recover Joseph's regenerating but seemingly dead body look more like Blame! characters than the neo-astronauts that the Annex and Bugs crews have. They carry outrageous-looking weaponry, wear exotic clothes and have absurd names, in contrary to the multinational Annex crew with sensible enough names for people of their nationality.
• Outside-Context Problem: Their organization is still a complete mystery even after they go to recover Joseph's body, and it seems like no one but Roma planned with them in mind.
• Sigil Spam: Everything they design is marked with "We Are The Cosmos".
• Social Darwinism: They view themselves as the ultimate life-forms, deserving to rule everything they survey, and if you're not strong enough to resist, too bad for you. Even if you are strong enough to resist, the best you can hope for is Condescending Compassion.
• Übermensch: Considering themselves to be "True Cosmopolitans", they answer to no authority or doctrine save their own.
• We Have Reserves: Zig-Zagged. When it comes to their personnel, they ultimately do not care, not even in regards to close family members. When it comes to equipment and research data, that is considered irreplacable, as there's No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup.

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