In the world of Zettai Hero Project, there are many different characters, each with their own goals and motivations.
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Main Characters
The Main Character
...Sadly, he's the Weakest Main Character alive, and gets trounced by Darkdeath Evilman in seconds.
So, thanks to great timing from the World Hero Society, he gets transported to Bizarro Earth, where he must train to become powerful enough to defeat Darkdeath Evilman, and save the world!
- All-Loving Hero: He'd have to be to even tolerate the assholes he lives with.
- All of the Other Reindeer: In true Rudolph fashion, nearly everyone else are dicks until the Unlosing Ranger helps them. Even the main character's own family had been blaming him for their own problems, including wanting a divorce; this is partly due to his sister's repression of the fact that he was the one who saved her from the Cannibal by tenaciously getting in his way (and getting pummeled for it) long enough for the police to arrive.
- Badass Pacifist: ...though he's always been this from day one, protecting his sister from a cannibal by acting as a human shield.
- But Thou Must!: The Main Character has no choice but to become the Unlosing Ranger at the start.
- Big Damn Heroes: Played with. He always comes back to face Darkdeath Evilman, but until the very end, he always gets his ass kicked. Played straight though, when he punches a nuke into the SUN before it blows up Japan.
- Combination Attack: With Dangerama, called the Dangerous Unlosing Hurricane.
- Cosplay: Can equip various bits and pieces from fallen enemies, including the Final Boss.
- Determinator: Shining example, even before becoming the Unlosing Ranger. In a flashback, it's revealed that he had stood up to an insane serial killer/rapist/cannibal who had kidnapped him and his sister. He's beaten to a bloody pulp (literally so: he's hospitalized afterwards, and his sister is traumatized into amnesia just from seeing it), but continues to keep standing up, long enough to keep the serial killer distracted until help arrived. It transfers to his superhero persona very well.
- Dude, Where's My Respect?: He goes from being called a useless fake who's just there to be a nuisance to gaining enough power to punch a nuke into the sun and eventually earning the respect of people all around the world for his unwavering spirit. This rock-solid trust and belief in him causes him to power up into the Unlosing Ranger Omega, culminating in him saving the world.
- Expy: He looks a lot like Haruo Yoshikawa from Magikano.
- The Glasses Come Off: When he transforms into the True Unlosing Ranger.
- Hello, [Insert Name Here]: When Pirohiko asks what the protagonist's name is when passing on the title of Unlosing Ranger, the player can type in whatever name they wish, with the default being "Main Character".
- The Hero: Not so much at first, but he grows into one over the course of the game.
- Heroic Mime: Played With. While he doesn't speak in cutscenes and expresses mainly through his expressions, he does let out an audible "I can do this" when performing skills and shouts "hah" when attacking. Dangerama breaks the fourth wall in the end, asking if he can even talk for an interview.
- Heroic Sacrifice: Supposedly pulls this off at the very end, when he flies a self-destructing Giant Giga Darkdeath Evilman into the sun. But thanks to the Morph Belt, he makes it back in one piece.
- Hidden Depths: He's always been a badass, but no one ever gave him a chance.
- Important Haircut: He gains one from pure Heroic Spirit when he learns the special attack "120% Determination", even going so far as to change his portrait in-game. This marks the point where he goes from being insulted by just about everyone — "The Unlosing Ranger (Temp)", "The Fake Unlosing Ranger", etc. — to actually gaining some respect.
- Iron Butt Monkey: He dies and gets back up again EVERY TIME.
- Messianic Archetype: He's an All-Loving Hero who touches the lives of multiple people, and he sacrifices himself to save the world (though he does survive). It's to the point where one of the people he helped refers to him as the world's savior when naming her baby after him.
- Multi-Melee Master: He can use a large assortment of weapons including guns without any trouble or training, however cut-scenes and the Darkdeath Evilman battles always show him using Good Old Fisticuffs.
- Running Gag: Everyone always says he looks very weak and wimpy, much to his dismay.
- The Power of Trust: The name of his Ultimate Attack, which gains power from all of the people who have faith in him.
Pirohiko Ichimonji
Voiced by: Kyle Hebert (EN)
But he manages to come back as a Spirit Advisor towards the Player Character, so that he can help him become a true hero.
- And Knowing Is Half the Battle: Every "Way of the Hero" segment revolves with this, as a Shout-Out to Etna's previews.
- Back from the Dead: Twice! One during a bet to stall for time for the final battle till he collapses for not letting his operation finish, and the next one after he does wait Jean Noire to perform a complete surgery on him.
- Bunny-Ears Lawyer: He does have great motivational speeches, but his heroics are something to be discussed about. No, really. He is not really the Unlosing Ranger, but one of many who have taken the belt like the Main Character.
- Hidden Depths: Serious case of Survivor Guilt, since the previous Unlosing Ranger died to protect him. Half of the time deeply in denial about his human failings, and half of the time aware of knowing what a hero should be... and ashamed that he couldn't be it.
- Large Ham: HAMMY RANGER!
- Mad Libs Catchphrase: He sometimes ends a statement with "[Noun/Adjective] Ranger!" or, if the opportunity presents itself, something that sounds like an attack name. Bondage Ranger!
- Only Mostly Dead
- Older Than He Looks: He looks and acts like a college student, but some quick math based on what we know about him (he was a cop before, meaning he went through police training, and served as the Unlosing Ranger for 8 years) places him to be in his late 20s or early 30s.
- Stalker with a Crush: Played for Laughs during his Way of A Hero! segments.
- Scarf of Asskicking
- Sleeves Are for Wimps
- Too Dumb to Live: Wakes up late to the battle against the Final Boss and dies due to being hit by a car on while rushing to get to the battle.
- Wise Beyond Their Years: Pirohiko may come off as an idiot, but truly does understand the requirements and traits of being a hero... in his own way.
Etranger
Voiced by: Kate Higgins (EN)
- Anti-Hero: She starts out as a Nominal Hero at best, who even powers up the villain just so Dangerama can't steal the spotlight. She gets better as the story goes on.
- Barrier Maiden: As Super Baby to "defeat" the Final Boss.
- Blue-and-Orange Morality: Dear goodness, she is a complete wreck in moral advice. It's a bit justified since she is a baby, but still, her sense of righteousness is very twisted, possibly because her mother didn't raise her properly.
- Brought Down to Normal: In the true ending, she uses all of her powers to teleport the Main Character back to Earth. This lasts about 12 seconds before she gets her powers back.
- Disappeared Dad: She doesn't miss him that much and loves her poor excuse of a mother, who clearly likes to have her around to get money.
- Foil: To Pirohiko's heroic views. Her moral views are very negative and cynical; it makes you wonder why she is training heroes in the first place. She just took on the job randomly.
- Goo-Goo-Godlike: As the most powerful baby in the world, she's capable of projecting barriers capable of stopping Darkdeath Evilman's attacks, enlarging monsters like Darkdeath Evilman, and projecting herself as a preteen. The only thing she can't seem to do is attack. As a baby, she has yet to learn any attacks, so defending is the best she can do.
- Jerkass: Acts very much like this at the start. Her time spent with the main character and Pirohiko and a Break the Haughty moment soften her up a bit.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: She really wants her mom to be proud of her.
- Little Miss Snarker
- MacGuffin: Averted. The clock necklace she sports isn't central to the plot at all. It does have importance when you compare it to the one the Super Baby wears, which is a big hint to who she really is on Earth.
- Magical Girl: Her powers let her group see events on Earth by transferring the scenes to their retinas, among other stuff.
- Mommy Issues: Holy crap. She tries to avoid facing the truth so much when confronted about it.
- Murder Is the Best Solution: She usually thinks that killing or beating up whoever they're finding on Bizarro Earth will solve all their problems.
- My God, What Have I Done?: She initially doesn't like to admit that it's her fault that she enlarged Darkdeath Evilman using her powers... until he releases a mass genocide explosion around the planet. She starts to weep right afterwards.
- Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: See Pride below.
- Plot-Relevant Age-Up: In the true ending. She herself ages up to her preteen appearance to aid the main character in the final battle. Because she has exhausted herself for holding out for too long against the Final Boss, she can't revert back to her baby form anymore. Not that this bothers her mother at all.
- Pride: Very, very prideful. To the point where she enlarges the already unbeatable Darkdeath Evilman to prevent Dangerama, a rival hero, from beating him.
- Younger than She Looks: Her appearance is a psychic projection: she's really just a very powerful, very smart baby.
Demon General Darkdeath Evilman
Voiced by: Liam O'Brien (EN, as the suit), Grant George (EN), as the young boy
- Badass Bookworm: Inside that metal suit is a Child Prodigy.
- Child Prodigy: A 7-year-old inside a mecha suit with a TV.
- Crazy-Prepared
- Final Boss: The suit is, specifically.
- Heel–Face Turn
- His Name Really Is "Barkeep": His name really is Darkdeath Evilman.
- Humongous Mecha: It is a mecha, but the humongous part only comes in later due to Etranger's jealousy to Dangerama.
- Humans Are Bastards: The child was never rescued when he was kidnapped by an evil organization for his genius, and thus he came to believe heroes don't exist.
- Improbable Age: At 7 years old, he was nominated for a Nobel Prize.
- Large Ham: Liam O'Brien goes all out for this one.
- Make My Monster Grow: Etranger's idea to delay her victory against the Final Boss is doing this to stall the fight, and she doesn't regret it as long as she can finish him off.
- And his true identity inside of his suit doesn't get affected by the growth spurt.
- Names to Run Away from Really Fast: With a name like that, how can you not run away? Even more so when you're just a 7-year old genius.
- Optional Boss:
- In Disgaea D2, he can be optionally fought in a postgame fight.
- In Disgaea 5, whenever Mr. Egg appears in an Item World, there is a chance that instead of a Bonus Character appearing, he will accidentally drop a "Proto" version of Darkdeath instead. Proto Darkdeath can also appear in the "wait, this isn't a movie" Mystery Room if you're on a high enough floor.
- Secret Diary: In Bizarro Earth, diary entries — known as crosstalks by Etranger — reveal how much of a woobie he turned out to be. Not only that, but he was so smart as a baby he could write and talk!
- Sesquipedalian Smith: His original Japanese name was Darkdeath Tanaka.
- The Smart Guy: Joins up with the Unlosing Ranger in the ending. "Can we hurry it up? I'd really prefer it if my giant robot didn't get another parking ticket."
- Suicide by Cop: What he ultimately wants, as he's sick of the world and the heroes' existence.
- Walking Spoiler: It'll take one peek at the right spoiler for you to know everything about him.
- Wham Episode: Darkdeath Evilman is really a young boy attempting Suicide By Hero because no one came to save him in the past; he thinks that heroes don't exist becuase of that, and destroys anyone claiming to be one.
- Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: His endgame plan is to self-destruct the Darkdeath Evilman exosuit, destroying the Earth, if his Suicide By Hero plan doesn't work out, because then the world would have proved heroes don't exist.
Reckless Cop Dangerama
Voiced by: Patrick Seitz (EN)
As the name implies, Dangerama is a stock Cowboy Cop who fights with reckless abandon. Dangerama's the one to protect Super Baby while the Unlosing Ranger trains on Bizarro Earth. He's on an extended guilt trip after being forced to kill his one true love. It takes the Unlosing Ranger to get him over it.- Beneath the Mask: Etranger notes he's a lot more sensitive than he looks.
- Death Seeker: He's just looking for a place to die when he first appears.
- Dude, Where's My Respect?: After fighting Darkdeath Evilman too many times, Medeia and the public starts to get bored about his attempts to fight him.
- Heroic Sacrifice: In one ending, he takes the nuke to the sun and dies with it. But he gets a statue built on his sacrifice next to the Statue of Liberty.
- The Lancer: To the Unlosing Ranger (eventually).
- Meaningful Name: Reckless Cop Dangerama. His antics are so reckless his TV shows keep getting cancelled!
- The Rival: To the Unlosing Ranger.
- Sadistic Choice: In Dangerama's backstory, he had to choose who to save between his wife or a lot of people. He chose to save the most people; his sanity hasn't been the same since.
Bizarro Earth Characters
Noa Daikokudou
Voiced by: Karen Strassman (EN)
The head of the World Hero Society and the head hero instructor. A former evil organization leader who came to form the {=WHS=} after a hero saved her in a critical situation. That hero was the previous Unlosing Ranger who preceded Pirohiko.
- Heel–Face Turn: She used to lead goons in the past, but has since reformed to train heroes, though it's said she's better at training evil organizations than heroes.
- She mostly does this because a hero saved her life once and thus convinced her to create a society of heroes in hopes of shaping up people just like him.
- Star-Crossed Lovers: To the previous Unlosing Ranger until he died protecting Pirohiko.
- Training from Hell: What her training sessions amount to when she is in a bad mood.
The Troublemaker Hero
Voiced by: Liam O'Brien (EN)
A mysterious "hero" who goes around Bizarro Earth causing all kinds of trouble to the Bizarre citizens, directly encouraging their Earth counterparts to be extremely negative. He turns out to be a robot created by the child Darkdeath Evilman as a bizarro counterpart of the Darkdeath Evilman's suit.
Earth Characters
Jose Gaspacho
An old man who dies of a heart attack after witnessing the Unlosing Ranger losing. Has a granddaughter named Maria. His bizarro counterpart is a gnome.
- Back from the Dead: He revives back in Earth after helping his bizarro counterpart. Then he dies yet again after witnessing the Unlosing Ranger losing again, though he still shows up in the next cutscenes regardless.
- Secretly Wealthy: Secret to the player, at least. He's actually the richest man in the world.
Frank Furt
A former automobile engineer who has lost hopes in the world after watching the Unlosing Ranger get defeated one time too many, so he has decided to go on with a terrorist attack out of boredom. His bizarro counterpart is no different than him.
- Edible Theme Naming / Meaningful Name: Frank is considered a loser underdog, so his Bizarro counterpart looks like a dog who hates being called an underdog. A "frankfurter" is a cooked sausage comparable to a hot dog.
- Lighter and Softer: His regular Earth counterpart was only planning to prank-call government buildings.
Donnelly Fisher & Noro Chips
Voiced by: Barbara Goodson (EN) (Donnelly)
Two English schoolmates. Donnelly bullies frail Noro a lot more after watching the Unlosing Ranger lose. Their bizarro counterparts reflect their situations.
- All of the Other Reindeer: Donnelly to Noro. Donnelly is an Alpha Bitch who believes strength and money makes a true hero while Noro is poor and gets her values twisted by Donnelly's antics.
- Alpha Bitch / Rich Bitch: Donnelly.
- The Bully: Donnelly.
- The Chain of Harm: "Big Sis" "bullies" Donnelly, so Donnelly bullies Noro.
- Edible Theme Naming: Fish and Chips.
- The Reveal: The Big Sis in Bizarro Earth is not Donnelly, but her father who's the one who "bullies" Bizarro Donnelly in a sense, whom bullies Bizarro Noro.
- Rich Bitch: Again, Donnelly.
- Slobs Versus Snobs: Noro doesn't really look like a snob herself, but she invokes this in her social status as a farmer girl contrasting Donnelly's heritage.
- Spoiled Brat: Yet again, Donnelly. This is actually the reason why she bullies Noro. Her father demands her to be so great that it drives her crazy, so she lets it all out on others "weaker" than her family.
Medeia Lass & Geo Martin
Voiced by: Karen Strassman (EN) (Medeia), Liam O'Brien (EN) (Geo)
The Intrepid Reporter who keeps the world informed about the final battle, and her Prince fiancé who proposes marriage to her if the Unlosing Ranger loses for real. Their bizarro counterparts are a hopeless couple.
- Batman Gambit: Geo's bet to Medeia should the Unlosing Ranger lose.
- Dogged Nice Guy: Geo thinks Medeia loves him, but he's dead wrong on that.
- Gay Option: Should you defeat Bizarro Medeia, Bizarro Geo turns gay for the Unlosing Ranger.
- Happily Married: In the real ending.
- Hopeless Suitor: Until the true ending, at least.
- Intrepid Reporter: Medeia.
- Punny Name: The media is brought to you by Medeia!
Nadesico Hanakikyo
The mother of the Super Baby and therefore Etranger's mother. She is entirely focused on making her baby Earth's savior to be a huge hit in TV and get a lot of money, thus Only in It for the Money. Her bizarro counterpart makes a fortune by taking heroes to beat on her daughter, the bizarro counterpart of the Super Baby, which is Etranger's bizarro counterpart.
- Shipper on Deck: She wants the Main Character to marry Super Baby, and doesn't see the 12 year difference as a problem. Then she ships herself, the Main Character and the Super Baby at once!
- Socialite: The bad kind.
- Younger Than They Look: As her profile puts it, "Doesn't look like it, but is 35."
Brick Oldllama
Voiced by: Barbara Goodson (EN)
The President of the United States of America. Her bizarro counterpart is a male minotaur who has a haywire sense of justice.
- Gender Bender: For whatever reason, her bizarro counterpart is a male minotaur with her voice.
- Human Sacrifice: She/he doesn't care about sacrificing Japan in order to defeat Darkdeath Evilman. At least until Unlosing Ranger snaps her out of it.
- Married to the Job: Bizarro Oldllama is married to someone whose name is literally Japan.
- Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: After convincing her bizarro counterpart to not sacrifice Japan, she decides not to nuke it. However, when trying to practice one small bow of apology to the Japanese, she ends up head-butting the button for the nuke anyway.
- No Celebrities Were Harmed: This is what you get when you combine Barack Obama's name with his wife Michelle Obama's looks.
- The Pawn: Bizarro Japan is so submissive to Bizarro Oldllama that it doesn't care about being sacrificed, which then gets similarly related to how the in-game Japan obeys the President of the United States without complaints. It's even lampshaded In-Universe by Pirohiko himself.
- Stuff Blowing Up: After Darkdeath Evilman turns into a giant due to Etranger, she is too desperate to blow up Japan with a nuke to finish him off.
Kyoya Asuma & Mana Fujitani
Voiced by: Bryce Papenbrook (EN) (Kyoya), Mela Lee (EN) (Mana)
A young couple from Japan who ran over Pirohiko during a hasty retreat. Their bizarro counterparts are a young Saber Cat couple.
- Cowardly Lion: Both like to run away from their problems to live a carefree life. While running away from a nuke is totally justified, they are planning to marry each other without consulting Mana's father about it, as he doesn't have a good relation with Kyoya. Their bizarro counterparts, meanwhile, are complaining to each other about Bizarro Mana's pregnancy.
- Drives Like Crazy: Kyoya, but it's justified since Japan is in the middle of a Final Boss battle.
- Dumb Blonde: What Mana is meant to be. She casually says she was accidentally conceived and that her baby's birth scene hurts worse than eating pineapples.
- Early-Bird Cameo/History Repeats: Their bizarro versions also run over Bizarro Pirohiko in the first dungeon before they're properly met in person.
- Jive Turkey: Both of them, though Mana has shades of a Valley Girl.
- Lethally Stupid: Okay, you fixed your problem with running away from problems, but how exactly is running straight back to the nuke explosion site a good idea with a pregnant woman on board?!.
- The Medic: Kyoya becomes Jean's assistant in the true ending.
- Named After Somebody Famous: In-Universe, the decide to name their son after the Main Character.
- Running Over the Plot: It's because of them that the plot starts with the Main Character becoming the Unlosing Ranger (against his will).
- Screaming Birth: Right at the Final Boss battle!
- Surprise Pregnancy: Mana, but the surprise comes to the heroes instead.
- Unwitting Instigator of Doom: If they hadn't accidentally run over Pirohiko during their escape from the city, everything would have played out very differently.
Jean Noire
A retired doctor who has lost all motivation to perform surgeries due to the loss of his love. His bizarro counterpart happens to be two halves: Jean and Noire.
- Ax-Crazy: His bizarre counterpart, Bizarro Jean.
- Artifact of Death: The mask Bizarro Noire wears is actually cursed. You only find this out in an alternate ending.
- Badass Normal: The guy doesn't want to operate on people, but he can operate on himself just fine.
- Body Horror: His face is stitched up with scars, but is not as bizarre as his bizarro persona, who is two halves: one of them has an implied Nightmare Face everyone is scared of seeing.
- Expy: Based on the character Black Jack by Osamu Tezuka. Reverse the name, translate to French, there you go.
- Fusion Dance: Once the two halves make up and turn into a whole persona.
- Full-Name Basis: And when you break that up in Bizarro Earth, you get two halves.
- Red Right Hand: Between his Frankenstein-esque sewn on skin, black cloak, and hair shaped like a monster everything about this guy screams evil. He's not.
- Self-Surgery: In seconds, next to no tools.
- You Did Everything You Could: What brought him down.
The Main Character's Family (Mitsuo, Anko, and Choco)
Voiced by: Karen Strassman (EN) (Choco)
The main character's family. A Dysfunctional Family: the parents argue and complain to each other about how useless their son is, and their daughter is on a similar train of thought but has some hope left in the Unlosing Ranger (of the past). Their bizarro counterparts are a single large lizard entity known as Anmitsuchoco.
- Abusive Parents: Mitsuo and Anko constantly berate their own son, considering him weak.
- Adorably Precocious Child: Choco.
- Dramatic Irony: Whenever they insult the new Unlosing Ranger, unaware that he's actually family.Mitsuo: The parents of that fake can't possibly be normal. They're probably freaks of nature.
- Dude, Where's My Respect?/The Unfavorite: Absolutely none of them like the Main Character. At all. Not even the current Unlosing Ranger (who happens to be their son).
- Expy: The Main Character is a silent protagonist running a secret life as a hero (of sorts) who has a younger sister with Girlish Pigtails, brown hair, has a Dysfunctional Family, and is voiced by Karen Strassman. Sounds familiar?
- Girlish Pigtails: Choco.
- In the Blood: An excuse each parent uses to justify their son's uselessness.
- Karma Houdini: They don't get retribution from their son for all the years of abuse, though they feel thoroughly horrible for it.
- My God, What Have I Done?: Their reaction to Choco regaining her memories and revealing that her brother, who they've all abused and berated for being weak ever since he was a child, had nearly died while saving her life.
- Never My Fault: The whole family has put the blame on the main character ever since he and Choco were kidnapped due to their overall negligence. Mitsuo was out walking because he didn't want to deal with the children, Anko was sick that day and let the main character take care of his sister before they were kidnapped, and the reason why the main character was beaten up and crying when he was rescued was because he was protecting the 4-year old Choco at the time, but she completely forgot about it and thought her older brother was just a wimp. Their parents then had the nerve to blame it all on him in order to save face.
- Significant Anagram: Anmitsuchoco is the mixing up of the three family members' names except for the Main Character's.
- After their problems are fixed up, they perform a Fusion Dance with the last member and simply add his name without breaking it down.
- Trauma-Induced Amnesia: Choco during the kidnapping accident. Her amnesia is what causes the whole problem in the family.
