History Characters / WildArms5

* MrFanservice: Not only does he have the "sexy cowboy" theme going on, some of his alternate costumes [[WalkingShirtlessScene remove his shirt entirely]].
and replaces it with a long jacket and Sarashi sarashi. His Gallows-themed costume replaces his shirt with a short jacket.

* OverprotectiveDad: He tries to be. He even flips out and attacks you when [[spoiler: Carol asks his permission to date Dean. After that battle, he challenges Dean to a duel (though Carol steps in for him).]]

* CallingTheOldManOut: [[spoiler: Does this to Nightburn at Mt. Chug-Chug.]]

* LeanAndMean: Due to his slim physique, it's easy to initially mistake him for the EvilGenius or the DarkChick.

* DarkChick

%%* BadassBaritone

* BareYourMidriff: One of his alternate costumes gives him a midriff shirt.

* {{Gainaxing}}

* ShesGotLegs: Rebecca's ''very'' short shorts.

* ShesGotLegs: Avril's layered (''and'' [[SexyBacklessOutfit backless]]) dress.

* DarkSkinnedBlond

* UltimateEvil

* NiceHat: One that [[EyeObscuringHat covers his face]].
* NoShirtLongJacket: His school uniform costume, modeled after the fashion of JapaneseDelinquents, removes his shirt and replaces it with a long jacket and Sarashi sarashi. His Gallows-themed costume replaces his shirt with a short jacket.

%%* YouGottaHaveBlueHair

* WhoWearsShortShorts

* AdjustingYourGlasses: By the bridge, in his artwork. He also does this right before you fight him the second time.

* FingerlessGloves: Although they do cover his ring fingers and pinkies.

* TheLancer

* TheChick

* TheBigGuy

* TheSmartGuy

* BadassLongcoat

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair

* ActionGirl
* BadassAdorable

* BraidsOfAction
* CannotSpitItOut: To Dean.

* LittleMissBadass

* HornedHumanoid

* BadassBaritone[=/=]EvilSoundsDeep
* BadassBeard

* TheCaptain
* ClassyCravat

* AlienGeometries[=/=]AmazingTechnicolorBattlefield: Its insides are very weird-looking.

* RedEyesTakeWarning

* AntiVillain
* BadassMustache
* BareFistedMonk

* FrickinLaserBeams

!Allies
[[folder:Nightburn Acklund]]
!!Nightburn Acklund
->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/KenjiNomura (Japanese) and Creator/JamiesonPrice (English)

Dean's hero, a legendary Golem Hunter with fanboys all over the world. [[spoiler:Turns out, he's TheQuisling for the Veruni.]]

** RebuiltPedestal: [[spoiler:However, once he sees Nightburn rescuing Honeysday from a golem attack, he sees him as his hero again.]]

* TheQuisling

[[folder:Asgard]]
!!Asgard

A giant golem that serves as a transportation device and ally in battle. He is not player controlled in battle, but [[ProgrammingGame his actions can be programmed from the menu]].

* BarrierBustingBlow: [[spoiler:His ARM cancels out Jotenheim's barrier.]]
* BigDamnHeroes: Rescues the party after they were captured by the Four Sentinels.
* EasilyDetachableRobotParts: His missing arm.
* GrewBeyondTheirProgramming: Implied at the end. [[spoiler: After beating Asgard, Volsung turns Jotenheim around to squash our heroes. Asgard gets back up, roars with what looks very much like ''rage'', and sends his fist through Jotenheim's back.]]
* HandicappedBadass: Only has one arm [[spoiler: until the very end of the game.]]
* HornedHumanoid
* HoverMecha: Pulls his feet up to hover, allowing the player to cross shallow water.
* HumongousMecha
* MechaExpansionPack: [[spoiler:At the very end of the game when he gets an ARM of his own.]]
* ProgrammingGame: Setting up his battle actions.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: Eyes turn red when [[spoiler:he gets his ARM. And when he gets angry.]]
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[[spoiler:A terrible entity possessing Volsung, composed of all the spirits of those who failed to bridge the gap between the races.]]

* GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere: [[spoiler:Rivals [[VideoGame/WildArms2 the Kuiper Belt]] in sheer suddenness. It was very briefly foreshadowed in Volsung's TroubledBackstoryFlashback, but it goes by so fast that it's easy to forget.]]
* GlowingEyesOfDoom: [[spoiler:Its only feature amongst a nebulous black cloud.]]
* IAmLegion: [[spoiler:Though it's made up of many souls, it always refers to itself in singular pronouns.]]
* MadeOfEvil: [[spoiler:Of the frustrations of everyone who tried and failed to broker a peace between humans and Veruni, to be exact.]]
* TheManBehindTheMan: [[spoiler:To Volsung]]

* TheUnfought: [[spoiler:While you do fight the OneWingedAngel form it gives Volsung, you never actually fight it directly by itself.]]

The most violent and unstable of the Four Sentinels, a man so psychopathic [[EvenEvilHasStandards even the other Sentinels question his very presence on the team.]] [[spoiler:He's also the one who killed Greg's family and framed him for it.]]

One of the Four Sentinels. He travels around the world, researching Filgaia's decay. [[spoiler:He's also Carol's adoptive father.]]

!!Persephone]]

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!!Asgard

A giant golem that serves as a transportation device and ally in battle. He is not player controlled in battle, but [[ProgrammingGame his actions can be programmed from the menu]].

* BarrierBustingBlow: [[spoiler:His ARM cancels out Jotenheim's barrier.]]
* BigDamnHeroes: Rescues the party after they were captured by the Four Sentinels.
* EasilyDetachableRobotParts: His missing arm.
* GrewBeyondTheirProgramming: Implied at the end. [[spoiler: After beating Asgard, Volsung turns Jotenheim around to squash our heroes. Asgard gets back up, roars with what looks very much like ''rage'', and sends his fist through Jotenheim's back.]]
* HandicappedBadass: Only has one arm [[spoiler: until the very end of the game.]]
* HornedHumanoid
* HoverMecha: Pulls his feet up to hover, allowing the player to cross shallow water.
* HumongousMecha
* MechaExpansionPack: [[spoiler: At the very end of the game when he gets an ARM of his own.]]
* ProgrammingGame: Setting up his battle actions.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: Eyes turn red when [[spoiler:he gets his ARM. And when he gets angry.]]

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[[folder:Antagonists]]

!!Kartikeya
[[quoteright:151:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/wa5_kartikeya.jpg]]
->'''Voiced by:''' Yutaka Aoyama (Japanese) and Creator/DaveWittenberg (English)
The most violent and unstable of the Four Sentinels, a man so psychopathic [[EvenEvilHasStandards even the other Sentinels question his very presence on the team.]] [[spoiler:He's also the one who killed Greg's family and framed him for it.]]

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!!Persephone
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->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/YukoKaida (Japanese)
One of the Four Sentinels and owner of the Laila Belle TV station FBC. She is portrayed as the most sympathetic of the group.
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!!Volsung
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->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/HirokiTochi (Japanese) and Creator/KyleHebert (English)
The leader of the radical movement to preserve the Veruni race at ''any'' cost.
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* AdjustingYourGlasses: By the bridge, in his artwork. He also does this right before you fight him the second time.

* {{BFS}}: His sword, Gram-Zanber, is taller than him.
* BigBad
* BigDamnHeroes: [[spoiler:Destroys the Hatred right as it's about to attack Dean.]]
* BondVillainStupidity: Lampshaded by himself. During the VeryDefinitelyFinalDungeon, he wonders why he's just waiting for Dean and the gang, and if he's not subconsciously sabotaging himself.
* BoomerangBigot: Volsung is fanatically dedicated to making sure nobody ever "crosses the wall" between Veruni and humans, despite [[spoiler:himself being a Veruni/human hybrid and hence a living example of crossing the wall.]]
* DarkSkinnedBlond
* DemonicPossession: [[spoiler:By the Hatred.]]
* EvilPlan: Reformat the planet so it will stop rejecting Veruni and making them sick. Unfortunately this process will kill every human on the planet. [[spoiler:Then at the end, Dean and co. discovers that was a lie -- his ''real'' goal, [[DemonicPossession fueled by the influence of]] [[TheCorruption the Hatred]], is to create a WorldOfSilence and kill off ''both'' races]].
* FreudianExcuse: [[spoiler:Both sides' rejection of him led to him becoming vulnerable enough to be possessed by the Hatred.]]
* FromNobodyToNightmare: Used to be a scrawny kid. But after [[spoiler:getting possessed by the Hatred,]] he started climbing up the Veruni political ranks really fast.
* HalfHumanHybrid: Volsung is half-human, half-Veruni.
* HighCollarOfDoom
* IcyBlueEyes
* JourneyToFindOneself: [[spoiler:After the end of the game.]]
* ManySpiritsInsideOfOne: [[spoiler: Volsung is possessed by the spirits of those who failed to bridge the gap between the Humans and the Verunis.]]
* OneWingedAngel: [[BodyHorror A rather gruesome one at that.]] Turns into a [[BigCreepyCrawlies giant creepy-crawly]] with MonochromaticEyes and CombatTentacles. His human portion looks like it's been [[FlayingAlive skinned alive]]. He can also grow [[MultipleHeadCase a second head]] that leaks TearsOfBlood.
* ThePowerOfHate: [[spoiler:Uses the Hatred's strength to gain power.]]
* PurpleIsPowerful
* PsychoticSmirk: Tends to do this when he's up to something, usually behind his comrades' backs.
* SelfDuplication: Your first encounter with him was just a clone.
* SlouchOfVillainy: Spends a lot of time doing this. He even ''sleeps'' in this pose.
* SpecsOfAwesome
* TraumaCongaLine: [[spoiler:His father disappeared, then his mother died, then he was chased out of his hometown, then the humans of the town he escaped to rejected him, and finally attacked and possessed by the Hatred.]]
* ThrowingYourSwordAlwaysWorks: One of his attacks. In fact, it counts towards monster encyclopedia completion if you hit it after he throws it into the ground.
* TroubledBackstoryFlashback: [[spoiler:Has a dream about being mistreated by both races, and then being attacked by the Hatred.]]
* WellIntentionedExtremist: He wants to end racism between humans and Veruni. Violently. [[spoiler:Subverted because he's actually not extremist at all, just [[DemonicPossession possessed]] by the embodiment of the rage of every person who failed to bridge the gap between humans and Veruni. Played straight that he ''really'' wanted to do just that back when he was sane.]]
* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: [[spoiler:His secret reason for splitting up the Sentinels.]]

!!Jotenheim

A mysterious device mentioned here and there throughout the game. Turns out to be the radicals' own giant golem.
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* AlienGeometries[=/=]AmazingTechnicolorBattlefield: Its insides are very weird-looking.
* BadassArmFold: During the battle against him.
* BarrierWarrior: Uses a barrier to stop Asgard from attacking.
* EvilCounterpart: To Asgard
* FrickinLaserBeams
* GoodWingsEvilWings: Has metallic "feathered" wings that can flap, but can't actually make it fly.
* GunsAkimbo
* HumongousMecha
* RedEyesTakeWarning
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!!The Hatred

[[spoiler:A terrible entity possessing Volsung, composed of all the spirits of those who failed to bridge the gap between the races.]]
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* EldritchAbomination
* GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere: [[spoiler:Rivals [[VideoGame/WildArms2 the Kuiper Belt]] in sheer suddenness. It was very briefly foreshadowed in Volsung's TroubledBackstoryFlashback, but it goes by so fast that it's easy to forget.]]
* GlowingEyesOfDoom: [[spoiler:Its only feature amongst a nebulous black cloud.]]
* IAmLegion: [[spoiler:Though it's made up of many souls, it always refers to itself in singular pronouns.]]
* MadeOfEvil: [[spoiler:Of the frustrations of everyone who tried and failed to broker a peace between humans and Veruni, to be exact.]]
* TheManBehindTheMan: [[spoiler:To Volsung]]
* UltimateEvil
* TheUnfought: [[spoiler:While you do fight the OneWingedAngel form it gives Volsung, you never actually fight it directly by itself.]]
* WalkingSpoiler
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* BadassGrandpa[=/=]CoolOldGuy: Implied that he was the leader when the Veruni first settled back on Filgaia, which would make him ''over a hundred years old''.

* BillingDisplacement: The cover of the American version features 5 of the 6 main characters, with Carol being strangely absent.

* FingerLickinEvil

* HumanOutsideAlienInside: Unless it's due to censorship, he seems to have no innards.

* ItAmusedMe: The reason he gives for sparing Greg. [[spoiler: But when this comes to bite him in the ass later, he stops finding it funny.]]

* {{Dojikko}}