Characters / ZeroRanger

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1. Spoilers Ahead!
2. Some are unmarked.
3. You Have Been Warned!

Mido and Type-B Rybb

• Brilliant, but Lazy: In her C Rank White Vanilla ending, the Overseers complain that, even though her instincts and reflexes are exemplary, she never takes her training seriously.
• Cloud Cuckoolander: Her thoughts and priorities are a bit strange. When she first sees that Green Orange's attack has stained the entire ocean orange, all she thinks is "Guess we can't go swimming anymore...", and her quote for barely surviving a stage with only one hitpoint left is a casual "I'm gonna take a nice hot shower".
• Flaming Hair: Once she travels to the past, she takes the form of the woman seen in the prologue, with a massive plume of flame instead of hair.
• Magical Girl: Her ZeroRanger awakening sequence has her perform a transformation like one.
  Mido: Let's get fired up, Rybb!
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business: Her quote at the beginning of the final stage (of loop one) is a hesitant "This is... Green Orange?". Nothing else in the game, up to and including nearly dying, gives her this much pause.
• Super-Reflexes: Said by The Overseers to have them in her White Vanilla C Rank ending. Of course whether she actually demonstrates them is down to the player's skill.
• Red Baron: The game calls her ship "The Blazing Fighter" after its ZeroRanger transformation, or "The Balanced Fighter" in the Great Oppressor timeline.
• Sibling Team: With Dori in two player mode.
• Smarter Than You Look: Her flighty and quirky demeanor belay a pretty sharp mind. Her dialogue at the end of the FinalBoss section implies that she knew from the beginning that she was trapped in a Lotus-Eater Machine and was just taking some time to have fun before escaping.

Dori and Type-C Decker

• Flaming Hair: Once she travels to the past, she takes the form of the woman seen in the prologue, with a plume of flame instead of hair. As her hair is shorter, it's smaller than Mido's.
• Hot-Blooded: Her "survived with only one hit left" quote is a defiant "Goddamn! I can still fight you!" and she eagerly plows into Green Orange's base with a "This is it! Green Orange!" while even Mido is more hesitant.
• Only Sane Man: Not difficult, considering she's the only named character who isn't a villain, The Overseers, or Mido, but she's easily the person with her head screwed on tightest. Even in the FinalBoss's dating sim section, she instantly finds it strange that someone she doesn't know is approaching her so casually.
• Power Limiter: Dori's ZeroRanger awakening sequence has her compromise Decker's restraint device by enabling ARS MAGNA/MECH MODE.
• Red Baron: The game calls her ship "The Creator Fighter" after its ZeroRanger transformation, or "The Focused Fighter" in the Great Oppressor timeline, reflecting its use of concentrated attacks that are tailored for high damage to single targets.
• Sci-Fi Bob Haircut: Sports a green one to highlight both the game's far future sci-fi setting and her own status as the more serious sister.
• Sibling Team: With Mido in two player mode.

Renji and Type-A Grapefruit

• Aloof Big Sister: She's not that close to Mido and Dori. Even when she saves their lives, she tries to play it cool and avoid admitting she cares about them.
• Big Damn Heroes: A memory version of Grapefruit stops GREEN ORANGE from wiping her sisters' minds at the end of the FinalBoss segment by slashing the AI's dialogue box in two.
  Renji: Can't leave you unattended for a second, can I?
• Brainwashed and Crazy: Her memory apologizes for succumbing to Green Orange's power after saving the protagonists. Presumably also applies to the Great Oppressor timeline, considering her identical behavior and the lack of any motive she would have had for helping The Great Oppressor.
• Caped Mecha: Grapefruit has one in its mecha form.
• Climax Boss: She becomes this in 2-3 after Mido and/or Dori morph into Ranger mode.
• Expy: Grapefruit's mecha form bears a deep resemblance to Gunbuster.
• Fighting from the Inside: At the end of the fight in loop one, she regains control just long enough to sacrifice herself for her sisters.
• Heroic Sacrifice: She does this in 1-3 by throwing her shield drones at the player as she's vaporized for her failure by Big Zan.
• Hoist by His Own Petard: Regardless of which powerup she gives them, in 2-3, she can either die in a Tennis Boss or in a drill duel.
• Plant Hair: Grapefruit has a lotus-shaped ornament on top of its mecha form's head, due to it being a recreation of the original Primeval Fighter.
• Red Baron: "The Abaddon Fighter", or "The Rival Fighter" in the Great Oppressor timeline.
• The Rival: Implied to be this to Type-B and -C in the Great Oppressor timeline by its title "The Rival Fighter".
• This Is a Drill: If the player chose the Drill for their powerup, she'll turn her entire lower half into one to crush you. You can counter her for massive damage.
• The Worf Effect: She's sent out to deal with GREEN ORANGE but is never heard from again...until it's revealed that she's performed a Face–Heel Turn. Then, in Stage 2-3, she's destroyed by one or both of her sisters piloting "inferior" fighters.

AI Erasure (Unmarked Spoilers)

• Broke Your Arm Punching Out Cthulhu: While she's helped the player destroy the Lotus Jewel by sending them back to the beginning of time, the energy from its destruction means she's just as well going to die.
• Didn't See That Coming: If the player survives the daunting task of defeating the Lotus Jewel, even she's surprised at what happened.
  "What an interesting development. The energy particles of the Lotus Jewel have collapsed on itself in a way that shouldn't be possible under the laws of this universe."
• The Dragon: Actually working for GREEN ORANGE due to Erasure being a separated half of GREEN ORANGE.
• Fighting from the Inside: Despite being corrupted into serving GREEN ORANGE, Erasure still tries to provide encouragement to the player, and she's presumably where the boss hints come from given they stop appearing once she leaves.
• Final Boss: She's this for White Vanilla mode.
• Ret-Gone: After the Lotus Jewel is destroyed, she and Despair are wiped out from existence.
• Screw This, I'm Outta Here: If the player breaks free of her Lotus-Eater Machine or destroys her trap powerup in 2-4, she opens the gateway to Despair's lair and flies away.

GREEN ORANGE (Unmarked Spoilers)

• Bishōnen Line: Her second phase exposes her form as a glowing humanoid.
• The Blank: Initially, it seems her humanoid form has no face...until her death.
• Death Wail: After her health runs out and she finishes her Desperation Attack, she screams as she dies.
• Evil Knockoff: Her Final Boss form is her mockery of the 11th-Hour Superpower forms of Mido and Dori, who due to a Stable Time Loop, versions of them traveled to the past to destroy the Lotus Jewel and kill her there, but lost and were killed by Despair instead.
• Final Boss: She's the standard final boss of the game.
• Gone Horribly Right: The manusya wanted a weapon to destroy their enemies, in the form of Despair. Despair destroyed them, went insane, and now intends to destroy humanity.
• I Have Many Names: GREEN ORANGE, Despair, Primeval Fighter, The Lotus Jewel.
• In the Hood: In the first phase of the final boss battle, she's wearing a robe.
• Load-Bearing Boss: Killing her causes the entire enemy carrier planetoid she commands to go up in a massive explosion.
• Physical God: Her true identity is Despair, a godlike being born of the Lotus Jewel and created by the manusya as a weapon of war.
• Ret-Gone: Destroying the Lotus Jewel and killing her past self erases GREEN ORANGE and the destruction of Earth and Humanity.
• Super Prototype: The Primeval Fighter was a manusya ship/mecha, created to destroy the aliens with the power of their own Lotus Jewel. Grapefruit is based in its design.

EDF Overseers

• Gone Horribly Right: White Vanilla in the GREEN ORANGE timeline is them testing AI Erasure to see if they can ward off an alien invasion. Regardless of how the player does, whether it's So Okay, It's Average or an All-Z Run^note That means getting at least 99-100% targets destroyed, a score threshold, time and also never getting hit/dying once, all they did was iron out Erasure's weaknesses which leads to everything going wrong.
• Jerkass: They're very condescending to the player and treat them as nothing more than a redundant extra, believing that Erasure will handle everything just fine.
• Omniscient Council of Vagueness: They're presented like this in both the Demo and White Vanilla.
• This Cannot Be!: They express disbelief if you clear White Vanilla with a Z rank, at first assuming that there was a mistake with the simulation but throwing out that hypothesis right after, believing that Erasure doesn't make mistakes.

The Monk

• The Faceless: He has a hole where his face should be.
• Mr. Exposition: Skipping him allows the player to learn Despair/GREEN ORANGE's origins with the Lotus Jewel.
• Skippable Boss: You can avoid fighting him by popping the bubble next to him. This is in fact a very good idea, as you get no points from fighting him and doing so awards some extra lore during the True Final Boss fight.

Spoiler Characters

The Lotus Jewel

• Artifact of Doom: It was used to create Despair and Erasure, was stolen from its original owners and used as a weapon to destroy them, and destroying it creates a good future.
• Hold the Line: Its battle involves this to an extent - the player has to get up close and concentrate for several seconds in order to do damage to it. Its final attack before it allows damage also lasts for quite some time.
• Reality-Breaking Paradox: When it's destroyed, its energies collapse and trigger a vacuum decay, creating a rapidly-expanding bubble of true vacuum that obliterates the old universe and replaces it with a new one. It also erases it and the A.I.s born from it from existence.
• True Final Boss: This thing is the final boss of the game, starting off in the Primeval Fighter, a giant-sized version of Grapefruit.

Great Oppressor

• Big Bad: Of the new timeline created by destroying the Lotus Jewel.
• Final Boss: She(?) takes Despair's place as the final boss.
• Generic Doomsday Villain: The Great Oppressor doesn't have much personality, being a deliberately-undeveloped counterpart to GREEN ORANGE/Despair.
• In Spite of a Nail: Initially played straight, but subverted. The Great Oppressor fills in as the threat GREEN ORANGE originally posed, but unlike the original timeline, the Earth survives the Oppressor's onslaught.

Regret

• Driven to Suicide: When you make it to 2-4, it expresses utter shock that you were able to make it back and self-destructs while screaming "GLORY TO THE GREAT OPPRESSOR!!"
• Generic Doomsday Villain: Much like its master.
• This Cannot Be!: Seeing the player character make it to stage 2-4 causes it to self-destruct as it concludes that nothing is real.

Skeleton

• Dem Bones: Goes without saying.
• Expy: A patische of Sans. The monk's attack patterns already take influence from Sans, but he exaggerates the similarities.
• Skippable Boss: Like with the Monk — his counterpart from the GREEN ORANGE timeline — you can skip his fight by shooting his snot bubble.
• Pungeon Master: All of his dialogue consists of skeletal puns.