Composite Character / Anime & Manga

Composite Character in Anime & Manga.

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Examples:

• Maybelle West in Agatha Christie's Great Detectives Poirot and Marple takes the role and dialogue of other characters from the original stories. Also, Inspector Sharpe, who only appears in Hickory Dickory Dock (that book wasn't adapted in the series), takes the role of Japp. It is believed that this is because Japp sounds like Jap, an offensive way to call a Japanese.
• Many Historical Domain Characters were composited in The Ambition of Oda Nobuna:
  • Hachisuka Goemon is a Gender flipped composite between Hachisuka Masakatsu, one of Toyotomi Hideyoshi's subordinates, and Ishikawa Goemon.
  • Oda Nobukatsu is a composite of the namesake aka Oda Nobuyuki, his son Tsuda Nobusumi (which explained his name change, as historically Nobukatsu was killed by Oda Nobunaga when Nobusumi was still an infant), and then Oichi, Nobunaga's sister. Yes, he was sent off, crossdressed, to Asai Nagamasa.
  • Saitou Yoshikatsu is a composite of the namesake and his son Tatsuoki.
  • Himiko is the composite of the three Japanese emperors that may be on throne in the latter half of 16th century.
• Atlas from The '80s' Astro Boy. He is a composite of three different characters from the manga: the original Atlas, a minor villain with a new type of AI that allowed him to break the laws of robotics; Cobalt, Astro's "brother"; and the Blue Knight, who was the robot version of Malcolm X. The 2000s series featured the Blue Knight as his own character, but its version of Atlas was still a composite of Atlas and Cobalt.
  • This seems to happen a lot in Astro Boy adaptations. In Astro Boy: Omega Factor numerous characters with secret identities have their original alter-egos replaced with completely different characters from established storylines (Blue Bon being replaced by President Rag as Blue Knight, for instance) and even entirely different Tezuka stories, like Nuka being part of the Deathmask from PrimeRose.
  • Continuing this tradition, Naoki Urasawa's Pluto features a main villain who is a composite of the original Dr Abullah/Goji, Shadow from the 2003 series and a minor robot character from an obscure story from the original manga who was raised to think he was a man. King Darius is also a composite of the original story's sultan Chochi-Chochi Abbaba III (deposed middle eastern ruler who finances Pluto's construction) and Cleopatra from the Cleopatra's Heart story (legitimizes his dictatorship by claiming to be a descendant of a famous historical figure).
• Haruyoshi Shimomura is actually a character in the novels for The Case Files of Jeweler Richard, but he performs none of the same actions in the anime, instead standing in for various other of Seigi's college friends.
• Mariel Lubie from the Code Geass Alternate Continuity manga Suzaku of the Counterattack combines aspects of three characters from the anime (Cecile's Gadgeteer Genius, Euphemia's being role as Suzaku's love interest, and Shirley's "girl next door" qualities) into a single character who meshes better with the story's setting.
• Cyborg 009:
  • The 1967 "Monster Wars" film had the Mythos cyborg Helena merged with the Pu'Awak princess Helen into a "Helena" character that was also codenamed "Cyborg 0010".
  • Due to the above change, the Cyborg 0010 twins of the manga were rechristened Cyborg 0011 in the aforementioned movie.
  • The twist ending of the 2007 Skull Man anime reveals that the titular hero goes on to become Skull, the leader of Black Ghost and the Big Bad of Cyborg 009. He and his girlfriend, Kiriko, also become the parents of Joe Shimamura, the titular 009, rather than the nameless couple from the manga.
• In the anime adaptation of Death Note, the US president whom Mello blackmails, and later dies ,with Word of God stating that it's "believed Kira disposed of", is combined with the character of his replacement from the manga.
• Devilman vs Getter Robo manga combines different versions of probably all characters, aside Emperor Gore - Akira acts like his manga version but has powers of 70's anime Devilman, Ryoma and Hayato are their 70's anime incarnations with few traits of their manga versions and Silene seems to be a mix of anime version and later incarnations from different titles.
  • While Devilman in the manga was the result of the Demon Amon possessing Akira, his 1972 anime counterpart was a demon who killed and took over Akira's body.
• Digimon:
  • Jou's (rarely seen) brothers Shin and Shuu became Jim in the American dub of Digimon Adventure (and dubs based on it). Hilariously enough, the final episode shows the two standing side by side; this is never commented on. Whether or not this was intentional or a translation error is unknown.
  • In a much more minor example, 02's dub also made Adventure's Digitamamon and his cousin who ran a Chinese restaurant the same character.
  • Dorumon in Digimon X-Evolution uses the Dorugamon line, but his Mega form is Alphamon from the Raptordramon line rather than Dorugoramon.
• Dragon Ball:
  • Bulma's personality was based on the princess from Akira Toriyama's one-shot Dragon Boy and her appearance was from Plamo from another one of Toriyama's one-shots named The Adventures of Tongpoo. Her personality is also similar to Akane from Doctor Slump.
  • Chi-Chi is based on and combined from two female characters from Journey to the West. First and most prominently being Princess Iron Fan the powerful Action Girl with wind summoning fan who has a close connection to Sun Wukong as he both fights her and pretends to be her husband, much like how Goku fights Chi-Chi before marrying her (Chi-Chi also wields the wind creating Bansho Fan herself in the games). Secondly there’s The Queen of Women's Kingdom who makes a failed marriage proposal to The Hero Tang Sanzang similar to how Goku misunderstands Chi-Chi’s proposal leaving the latter heartbroken.
  • Cell is a combination of Piccolo, Vegeta and Goku in his various forms (fittingly as he has their DNA inside him). He has Vegeta’s bottomless ego and temper, Piccolo’s cunning and fear tactics and Goku’s eagerness for battle and in his Perfect form has Goku’s laidback nature as well. He also shares Frieza’s sadism and Sore Loser traits.
  • Fanfan an anime-only character from Master Roshi’s past seen in the original series anime is a combination of Ranfan and Colonel Violet. She shares the similar name and being the object of Roshi’s perversion like Ranfan while sharing her appearance and chilled personality with Violet.
  • Garlic Junior from Dragon Ball Z: Dead Zone is a composite of Pilaf and Demon King Piccolo Daimao. Like Pilaf he is The Napoleon being a tiny goblin-like man with world conquering ambitions and even has the same voice actor as Pilaf in both Japanese and English. Like King Piccolo he’s a serious antagonist with a horde of demon-like minions and makes a wish for longevity (though immortality in his case, not just enteral youth).
  • Speaking of King Piccolo, Lord Slug is composite of him (being an evil Namekian who wishes for youth) and Frieza (being a Galactic Conquerer with a Cool Spaceship and Quirky Mini Boss Squad).
  • Janemba from Dragon Ball Z: Fusion Reborn is a combination of Majin Buu and Dabura. Like Buu he’s a child-like Made of Evil being with a high voice, like Dabura he’s a Big Red Devil and wields a Cool Sword.
  • Dr. Myuu from Dragon Ball GT is derived from both Dr. Gero and Dr. Lychee from Dragon Ball: Plan to Eradicate the Saiyans being a moustachioed Mad Scientist who like Lychee is an alien and like Dr. Gero is killed by his own creation.
  • Zamasu aka Goku Black from Dragon Ball Super is a combination of both Turles from Dragon Ball Z: The Tree of Might (an Evil Counterpart to Goku in terms of appearance and nature) and Ginyu (a villain who pulls a Grand Theft Me on Goku and uses his body for evil).
• Mallanox in Eagle Riders, the Frankenslation of Gatchaman II and Gatchaman F, is an example. In Gatchaman II, Leader X employed Gel Sadra as his lieutenant, who was replaced by Count Egobossler in Gatchaman F after the former peacefully died. To transition between both shows, Gel Sadra's original death scene was altered to have Cybercon (Leader X) transform Mallanox into a new form: Happy Boy (Count Egobossler).
• Escaflowne: The Movie writes out Emperor Dornkirk and makes Folken the Big Bad in his place.
• New Getter Robo has Benkei Musashiboh, the third man and The Big Guy of the Getter team. He has traits from both Musashi, the original Big Guy, and Benkei, the one who replaced Musashi after his Heroic Sacrifice.
  • The main robot of New itself counts, being based on Shin Getter's overall looks, with design cues from both Getter Dragon and the original Getter, while performing the latter's role as the first main Getter of that universe1.
  • There's also Kei Kuruma from in Getter Robo Armageddon, based on manga's Kei Minamikaze, with role similar to Sho Tachibana (also from Getter Robo Go) and it is later revealed she was Armageddon's universe's Genki Saotome, original Getter's tagalong kid.
• Getter Robo Devolution has an...interesting twist. It is revealed that the original Musashi Tomoe of that universe had died soon after being born, and the young man being raised as Musashi was none other than Benkei Kuruma.
• Godzilla: Singular Point:
  • Godzilla himself is one. Much like the Godzilla of Shin Godzilla, it can adapt and change forms — with its Amphibia, Amphibia, and Terrestris forms respectively resembling Titanosaurus, Varan, and Gorosaurus, with Terrestris's breath weapon taking the form of Minilla's smoke rings.
  • The show-original kaiju Salunga is a monkey-like blend of Gabara's coloration, skin texture and electricity powers with Baragon's posture, back ridges, long horn and ears
  • The Mandas combine the original Manda's serpentine body and greenish scales with Ebirah's shrimp appendages.
  • The various Kumongas are based on Kumonga, but they have Megalon's drill hands, the Kamanga varation has bladed forearms similar to Gigan or Kamacuras, they have blob creatures within them similar to Hedorah, and the relationship between the Kumongas and the blob creatures are similar to the monsters and Yog from Space Amoeba.
• The 1998 live-action version of Great Teacher Onizuka combined Onizuka's best friends Ryuji and Saejima into one character, and did the same for Alpha Bitches Miyabi and Anko.
• Grimms Fairytale Classics:
  • This series' version of "The Six Swans" gives the evil mother-in-law's role in the story to the Wicked Stepmother.
  • In "The Iron Stove", there's no second princess claiming that the prince/former Iron Stove is her fiancé. Instead, the Hot Witch is both the Big Bad and the Princess' love rival.
• GTO: The Early Years: The 2020 live-action adaptation, being an Adaptation Distillation, has a few:
  • The writers seem to have conflated Aina and Miki into a Composite Character, who tries to get Eikichi to marry her and raise her child. Miki and Yokokawa appear later in the live-action (at the beginning of the Midnight Angels arc), but there's no mention of her having kids.
  • Kamishima seems to have absorbed some of Takezawa's character traits, like his connection to Shinomi.
  • Police Chief Matsuoka has an expanded role and appears to have aspects of Police Chief Matsushima, who doesn't appear.
• In Gundam Build Fighters, Gundam Build Fighters Try and Gundam Build Divers, as the Mobile Suits of that series are actually Gunpla (Gundam plastic models), it's not uncommon to see characters design suits that carry weapons, parts or even systems of other suits. The most insane of these composite creations is Yukio Hidaka's Jegan Blast Master. The base machine is a Jegan from Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's Counterattack, but it has weapons from other machines - the Double Zeta's Hi-Mega Cannon, the Strike Freedom's abdomen beam cannon, the skirts made up of the G-Self's beam rifles and AGE-3 Fortress SigMaxiss Cannons, the feet made up of GN Cannons from the Seraphim Gundam and two Satellite Cannons from the Gundam X!
• Madame Sulliman from Howl's Moving Castle is a combination of two characters from the book: Howl's old magic teacher, who was not affiliated with the king, and Wizard Suliman, the King's head wizard. He is a young man transformed into a dog, who ends up marrying one of Sophie's sisters. Also, while the King of Ingary briefly appears, he has an Adaptational Personality Change, with Madame Suliman taking the more competent role that he had in the book.
• Taken to ridiculous extremes with Josuke, the main character of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: JoJolion. While he's technically the AU counterpart of Josuke (protagonist of Diamond is Unbreakable), early on, we are led to believe his true identity is Yoshikage Kira. Later on, not only do we find out that Kira himself is a Composite Character of Kira and Jotaro, but that Josuke himself is a Fusion Dance (i.e. the literal version of this trope), being a synthesis of Kira and an unnamed man ultimately revealed to be Josefumi Kujo.
  • In terms of his character design, his face and build are almost identical to Jotaro as drawn in Araki's art style from Steel Ball Run onward, he spouts his "ORA!" (although one randomly becomes "ARA!") and Rapid-Fire Fisticuffs when fighting, wears sailor clothes referencing Jotaro's marine profession (though those originally belonged to Kira, who was a ship's doctor), and occasionally bears Jotaro's "raised hand/halt" insignia.
  • His personality has a lot of similarities to Kira from Diamond is Unbreakable, being extremely analytical and mathematically inclined, with some really weird habits such as sleeping under mattresses for comfort. Though he's not amoral or deviant.
  • He also has a strong value for friendship and Guile Hero tendencies like his actual namesake, Josuke. It helps that their Stands work more by affecting the environment than actually combating enemies, so they go about fighting in the same manner.
• Parodied in the final episode of Joshiraku with the appearance of Last Episode, New Character Uzannu Uzatei who copies the characterstics of the five main characters to disrupt their character balance, threatening to replace all of them in a new season which only stars her (which of course doesn't happen). Although her core personality is far too different from the heroines.
• Sumire Saitou from K-On! (2011 manga), one of Azusa's new bandmates, is a combination of Mugi's appearance (without the Big Ol' Eyebrows) and her tea-making-skills, Mio's Shrinking Violet personality, including being Sawako's new favorite cosplay victim, and Ritsu's role as the drummer.
• This is relatively common in the manga adaptations of The Legend of Zelda series.
  • Yuu Mishouzaki's manga for Zelda II: The Adventure of Link depicts Link's Shadow as a resurrected Ganon.
  • In The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening, Link encounters a ghost that must be taken back to its old house, and may also receive the L-2 Sword from the Spirit of the Seashell Mansion. In Ataru Cagiva's manga, Nakura gives Link a powerful sword after being led back to the house he owned in life.
  • The Legend of Zelda (Akira Himekawa):
    • The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (1999):
      • Zelda takes Malon's place as Link's first contact in Hyrule Castle Town, although Malon herself appears later in the story.
      • Dark Link is the demon of the Kakariko Well instead of Bongo Bongo.
      • Nabooru takes over the role of the nameless commander of the Gerudo Fortress, and like the Elite Four Gerudo Thieves, uses scimitars as her preferred weapons.
    • The adaptation of Majora's Mask has several instances due to the compressed plot.
      • There is only one Zora egg instead of seven.
      • Aveil has the same set of swords and fighting style as her Elite Mooks.
      • Twinmold, the boss of the Stone Tower Temple, is a pair of giant flying centipede-like monsters. The manga condenses the two monsters into one.
    • In The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past (2005), Ghanti is temporarily transformed into Trinexx, and she takes Link's place as the one who finishes off Ganon with the Silver Arrow. Her storyline as a bandit who gets stuck in the Dark World comes from Blind the Thief.
    • In The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess (2016), Renado is the original owner of the Hero's Bow, combining him with the ancient hero revered by the Gorons.
• The first Lupin III anime sometimes gave the roles of one-shot Girl of the Week Femme Fatale characters from the early chapters of the manga to Fujiko Mine. A notable example is the episode "Who Had the Last Laugh?" which was adapted from a chapter that featured a pair of sisters named Fuji and Michi, who were combined into Fujiko for the animated version. Another episode is based on a manga chapter where Lupin escapes from prison by tying up and impersonating Zenigata's partner Melon Cop, but in the anime, it's Zenigata himself who Lupin replaces.
• A fairly minor one in Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha The Movie 1st. Two of the more memorable Monster of the Week in the first season, namely the Hell Hound and the Mega Neko, were combined into one in this Adaptation Distillation, having the plot-important kitty grow into a demon panther that serves as the catalyst for Nanoha and Fate's first meeting.
• Marvel Anime:
  • Marvel Anime: X-Men:
    • Takeo Sasaki is basically a Race Lifted verison of Ultimate Proteus, which makes him a combination of the classic Proteus and Legion. His Reality Warper abilities and status as the son of a prominent mutant researcher come from the former, while The Reveal of him being Professor Xavier's mentally unstable illegitimate child comes from the latter.
    • Mastermind is given Sebastian Shaw's role as the Hellfire Club/Inner Circle's leader.
  • Marvel Anime: Blade:
    • Blade himself has the backstory of his original comics incarnation (hailing from London, England) with the costume and weaponry of the Blade from the film series.
    • Noah Van Helsing is a character from the comics, but he also fills Jamal Afari's role as Blade's mentor and has some of the roughness of "Bible" John Carik (the latter two of whom were similarly combined into Whistler in Spider-Man: The Animated Series and the films).
  • In Iron Man: Rise of Technovore, Technovore is initially introduced as basically Extremis combined with Ezekiel's bio-enhancements from the comics. It becomes the more familiar inhuman-robot-virus near the end.
• In the mid-1980s, the Mazinger Z anime was dubbed as "Tranzor Z". While predominately a dub of Toei's 1972 adaptation of Go Nagai's manga, it also has elements from Great Mazinger, including its launch sequence, and what is clearly Tetsuya from the latter series piloting the Brain Condor and docking with Great Mazinger. As a result, while "Tommy" from the Tranzor Z dub is predominately Kouji Kabuto from the Japanese original, he also has elements of Tetsuya.
• Shinn Asuka from Mobile Suit Gundam Seed Destiny is pretty much one to both Amuro and Kamille, his Impulse is similar to the RX-78-2 Gundam, a Combining Mecha consisting of legs as one section, upper body as another, and Space Fighter/Meta Mecha cockpit as the torso, and a very similar red-with-gold-cross design for its shield just like Amuro even his dub voice is Amuro's Zeta dub voice and he has Wangst Unstoppable Rage due to suffering through a Trauma Conga Line, and romantic troubles with their enemy-cum-love interest just like Kamille. His Destiny Gundam also share similarities to Kamille's Zeta Gundam, such as having similar color scheme, both mechs being Lightning Bruisers with a balanced arsenal of high firepower and equipped with speed-enhancing systems (Destiny's Wings of Light and Zeta's Waverider transformation system).
  • Kira Yamato is a mix of Amuro and Loran Cehack, even borrowing Loran's story/romance arc (e.g., Kira/Loran's relationships with Fllay Allster/Sochie Heim and later, Lacus Clyne/Dianna Soriel, with the latter being a platonic couple).
  • Athrun Zala is a mix of Char Aznable and Heero Yuy. Some of Char's traits that appear in Athrun include him piloting red mobile suits and served as Kira's main rival in both shows. Similar to Heero, Athrun pilots transformable mobile suits, and has a tendency to self-detonate his mobile suits.
• Implied In-Universe in Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit. According to the official history of Shin-Yogo, their first king and his band of warriors met a young boy who claimed to be a benevolent water spirit; however, he actually turned into a terrifying demon which they had to slay. What actually happened is that a water spirit Sharing a Body with a boy was attacked by one or more demons, and the group of warriors had to protect him. The boy was killed, like all previous Guardians, though the spirit survived.
• One Piece:
  • Nami's design and personality (and arguably her background story as well) is the result of a long process with several other similar characters. The first apparent character in the process of developing towards Nami was Silk in Romance Dawn, Version 1, who was then followed by another girl called Ann in Romance Dawn, Version 2. Each one of the girls had her own personality which seemed to have been placed into Nami's overall design.
  • Oden from Wano arc is an epic composite of Luffy, Zoro and Sanji. Like Luffy, he’s a destructive and feckless Big Eater and a Magnetic Hero to everyone around him as well as fiercely caring to his allies. Like Zoro, he’s an honourable and booze-loving Master Swordsman who favours a Dual Wielding style and has an aptitude for getting lost. Like Sanji, he’s a Supreme Chef and Always Save the Girl horndog, Oden even utters the “I heard a woman’s voice screaming for help” line himself at one point.
• Pokémon Adventures:
  • A few Pokémon Adventures characters are composite characters, usually mixed with minor characters. Falkner first appeared as the Police character in Elm's lab, for example.
    • Cynthia's grandmother turns out to have used Draco Meteor in Veilstone City, making her take on the role of Wilma, the Move Tutor for Draco Meteor in-game. Also, the owner of Shabboneau Castle is searching for Diancie, where those two characters were separate in-game.
  • Kris was the female protagonist of Pokemon Crystal but Lyra from the remakes is apparently a completely separate character. In Adventures, Crystal was originally a counterpart to Kris, but once Kris was removed from the game series canon in the remakes of Gold and Silver and replaced with Lyra, Crystal became a counterpart to the latter.
  • X from the Pokémon X and Y chapters of Adventures is a counterpart to Calem as the protagonist. However, Y, the manga's counterpart to Serena, is the daughter of Grace^note normally the player character's mom instead of X in addition to being the long-term resident of Vaniville^note i.e. The Rival.
• Pokémon: The Series:
  • Ash was was originally just an anime counterpart of Red, the protagonist of the first generation. Starting around Pokémon Gold and Silver he started loosely following the path of Ethan, the male protagonist of that generation. Ever since, he has co-opted the male protagonist of that generation^note with one exception and often interacts with the female protagonist of said generation^note Again, excepting both Gen 5 ladies; and yes, Lyra counts due to her appearing in Sinnoh. The girls of Gen 7 and 8 likewise do not appear, with the Gen 8 Deuteragonist role instead going to original character Goh. with said female often acting as a Deuteragonist. Not to mention that, starting from the DP saga onwards, he wears outfits based on the playable characters' clothes of each generation. For the anime's chapter of Pokémon Sun and Moon, he started to take on aspects of Lillie, mainly that while she was still a present character and still had the stuff to sort out with her brother Gladion and mother Lusamine, Ash replaced her as the one that Professor Kukui invites into the upper floor of his house (while Lillie gets a mansion instead) and the one who raises Nebby the Cosmog / Cosmoem / Solgaleo.
  • Serena's quest in the middle of the Pokémon X and Y arc is an alternate version of Contests from Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire,^note that is, lacking the battles of the anime's R&S and D&P Contests but being girl-only and having the trainer herself perform on stage as well, neither element present in the actual game Contests, whose remakes were made in that generation. This plus her other primary character aspect effectively made her a Composite of her game counterpart^note Specifically as Player Character with her just starting her journey having followed her mom in foreign lands up to this point, though, as stated above, she isn't the actual lead, and Yancy, an Idol Singer who is Nate's Implied Love Interest.^note Serena's interest being in Ash, who had absorbed Nate's role in the prior saga, again see above.
  • Lusamine in the anime is a combination of her original Pokémon Sun and Moon incarnation and her Pokémon Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon incarnation. She has the toned-down personality of the latter but she combines with Nihilego like the former.
• Due to the time constraints of a feature film, the Angels Zeruel and Armisael were merged into one character in the second Rebuild of Evangelion movie. Notably, Zeruel did not display the ability to absorb and assimilate victims in the original anime, a trait that instead belonged to Armisael.
  • Also, Sahaquiel's appearance. Being more eldritch than in the original, its first form shown, as a big immaterial floating ball of black and white eye-spots takes some hints from Leliel and Matarael, who, naturally, didn't show up in Rebuild.
• Dana Sterling in Robotech is a composite of Komilia Maria Fallyna Jenius and Jeanne Francaix. She's the daughter of Max and Milia/Miriya, appearing as Komilia in the first part of the series, and growing up into Jeanne in the second part.
• Sailor Moon: In the manga, Sailor Tin Nyanko was said to be a woman from Mau who came to work for Shadow Galactica after murdering Sailor Mau, her planet's Sailor Guardian. Her final appearance in the anime, however, reveals that Nyanko was actually a heroic former Sailor Guardian who had been brainwashed and corrupted, implying she was once Sailor Mau before her involuntary Face–Heel Turn. This may also be the case for the other Sailor Animamates.
• In Sonic the Hedgehog: The Movie, Knuckles the Echidna was made a treasure hunter just like Fang the Sniper, and given a hat similar to his.
• Transformers: Armada: Hot Shot combines many aspects of G1 Bumblebee (Kid-Appeal Character, yellow coloration, and "feet-first" transformation) and Hot Rod/Rodimus Prime (sports car alternate mode, cocky teenage-like demeanor, temporarily leading the Autobots after Optimus Prime is killed, and red flame decor on his alt mode after his Mid-Season Upgrade).
• The original Urusei Yatsura manga wrote Lum's Stormtroopers out of the series after Mendou arrived, but the TV show brought them back in far bigger roles. This meant that many episodes would give them lines and scenes that originally belonged to Kosuke, Ataru's friend from the manga who was Adapted Out of the TV series.
• Voltron:
  • The Shirogane Brothers of GoLion, Takashi and Ryou, were melded in Voltron to become Sven. Interestingly, Ryou was introduced as Takashi's Back Up Twin after the outcry over the latter's death six episodes in. So, because of the Never Say "Die" mentality, it seemed natural for WEP to adjust the script accordingly: the "injured and recovering on another planet" Sven healed up.
  • In Go-Lion, the titular robot was broken apart by an unnamed Space Goddess, which Honerva had nothing to do with. In Voltron, the Space Goddess was Haggar (Honerva) in disguise.
• Jiro Horikoshi from The Wind Rises is a composite of real life Jiro, novelist Tatsuo Hori, and Hayao Miyazaki’s father , Katsuji. Jiro designed the planes from the film. Tatsuo was a chain smoker who wrote a novel based on his own life that was set in the same time period based on his wife suffering from TB. Miyazaki Sr. had elements of both men, being a aerospace engineer whose wife also had TB.

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