A lot of Voltes V characters seriously need hugs.
- The Go brothers at the start of the anime, having witnessed their mother die while their father is a Disappeared Dad. Seeing them re-unite is truly heartwrenching.
- Ippei is a Jerkass Woobie. His family moved from Japan to America in search of a better life, but were extremely poor and had to live on the streets. Ippei's father succumbed to a disease, and Ippei's mother took her own life to save her family from a pack of wolves. Ippei had to learn how to fend for himself at a young age. His Only Friend was his horse, Eiffel, and the two competed in many rodeo shows and won several awards... only for Hamaguchi to forcibly kidnap Ippei and separate him from Eiffel for yearsnote . Ippei is a rude, melancholic, self-absorbed Jerk Jock pre-Character Development, and it's not hard to see why.
- Megumi, who's usually The Pollyanna of the group, after her father dies. She is seen picking flowers for him and placing them on his grave, and Ippei feels miserable being unable to help her. Not to mention that the day her father died, she was planning to gift him a sweater she had knitted, which he never got to wear.
- Megumi's father was Secretly Dying of cancer and couldn't bring himself to tell Megumi, so he hid it with his resignation. Despite this, he didn't want to break her heart so he pretended to be alright, even engaging in a friendly spar with her on the day of his resignation. Megumi ends up being possessed by Belgan's mind control ring, and General Oka sacrifices himself to save her when it reveals it's true form and tries to kill them. Later, Megumi is seen trying to hold herself together after his death...Megumi: "They picked you off, one by one..."
- Gohl. From his own family attempting to commit filicide on him due to being born hornless, to him being repeatedly degraded and abused once it was found out his horns were prosthetic. Gohl's First Love died in childbirth and he spent a long time thinking that he never knew his firstborn son... only to find out that his firstborn son is none other than the Evil Prince that has been terrorizing him and his fellow slaves. And after Heinel acknowledges him as his father, he watches him die.
- Lozaria, Gohl's first wife. She was separated from the man she loved and forced to watch him become a slave, and died in childbirth. Her son grew up to be a Warrior Prince who committed several atrocities in the name of "honor", and unknowingly attacked his own father.
- When Gohl was born, the doctor tried to defend him from being killed, begging His Highness to have mercy on him. Even Gohl's mother had to beg her husband to spare their child. Later, that same doctor ends up beaten and tortured (and his family were threatened next) by Zambajil's goons, who hoped he would reveal incrimnating information on him. The poor doctor merely wanted to save a child's life, and was punished for it.
- Katherine, who died saving Heinel. As he held her limp body, she expressed happiness that Heinel showed he cared about her, and said she wished it could be like this forever, before dying.
- Prince Heinel. The Boazanian Empire runs on a Fantastic Caste System where those born with horns live as nobles and those born without them are sentenced to be slaves. When Prince Gohl was born, he was hornless, but his family couldn't bear to lose their son to slavery, and decided to mask it by giving him prosthetic horns. Gohl frequently witnessed the cruel treatment his fellow hornless Boazanians went through, and dreamed of one day creating a society where the horned and hornless co-existed peacefully. On the day of his coronation, his cousin Zambajil, who desired the throne, exposed his horns as prosthetics in front of the public. As a result, Gohl was forcibly enslaved and separated from his wife Lozaria. Gohl spent months working in labor camps, and one day, he found out that Lozaria had died a long time ago in childbirth. Enraged, he used his skill in science and technology to manufacture weapons for slave rebellions against the horned nobles of Boazania. Gohl led multiple slave rebellions before escaping to Earth, as it became too dangerous for him to stay there. Unbeknownst to Gohl, while Lozaria died in childbirth, she delivered a horned baby boy, Prince Heinel. Growing up, Prince Heinel was scapegoated for the actions of a father he never met, and received constant abuse and disdain from those around him. In one of his flashbacks, fellow children pelted him with sticks and stones and physically abused him, and other nobles of Boazania claimed that he would grow up to be a traitor just like his father. Only his maternal grandparents showed him genuine love. Wanting to clear his name, Heinel vowed to one day bring honor to Boazania. He graduated as the top cadet in the Boazanian Institute of Military Sciences and Warfare, and was selected by Emperor Zambajil to command the Boazanian invasion to Earth. In the series finale, he finds out that he's been fighting against his half-brothers and father, which causes him to have a My God, What Have I Done? moment. He begs Zambajil to stop the war, but when Zambajil reveals himself to be a coward and blames Heinel for the invasion, Heinel tosses his dagger at him. This makes Zambajil drop his grenade, engulfing them both in flames. Heinel saves Kenichi from the fire, and his last words are "Father!" as he tearfully looks at La Gohl.
- Mitsuyo, who begged her husband not to leave Earth, died by the time he returned, and never got to see him retake the crown of Boazania.
- Girion, Sakabe, Hamaguchi and all the other innocent lives taken by the Boazanians in their conquest of Earth.
- The puppy from Episode 23, that the Voltes team temporarily befriend, had to watch it's own mother be mauled to death by a mutated monstrous dog.
