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* DanGreen: Should you unlock him in Ape Escape 2.
* GuestFighter: Appears as a playable character in PlaystationAllStarsBattleRoyale.



* RedHeadedHero

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* RedHeadedHeroRedHeadedHero: Plus he's always wearing red.



* NoNameGiven: His actual name hasn't been revealed at all (Hakase is Japanese for Doctor).

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* NoNameGiven: His actual Subverted, as his name hasn't in the first game is written on the doors of the training rooms, Dr. Ozel. It's hard to read, though, and he has not once been revealed at all (Hakase is Japanese for Doctor).called that.



* MsFanservice: Subverted. She has the largest breasts of any character in the series, though this isn't ever brought up, and she doesn't have any jiggle physics or gainaxing. Her outfit shows barely any skin, as well.

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* MsFanservice: Subverted. She has the largest breasts of any character in the series, a noticeably large bust, though this isn't ever brought up, and she doesn't have any jiggle physics or gainaxing. Her outfit shows barely any skin, as well.



* BadassAdorable: Subverted, as he is not usually both badass and adorable at the same time. With the helmet, he's a threatening figure, oftentimes with a deep voice in the english dubs. Without the helmet, however, he's just a cute little white monkey who likes to hang on to people.



The First appears as a street cop in ''2'', a cowboy in ''3'', and an IndianaJones wannabe in Saru Saru Big Mission and the anime.

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The First appears as a street cop in ''2'', a cowboy in ''3'', tall, aloof, and an IndianaJones wannabe in Saru Saru Big Mission cool member of the group. He often uses a unicycle to get around, and the anime.
can go at incredibly fast speeds on it.



The fat, goofy and ambiguously gay member of the group. He often utilizes sumo techniques in battle.






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\n\n* HeyItsThatVoice: In the third game, Steve Blum provides his voice. [[PlayingAgainstType Not that you can really tell]].

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* NiceJobBreakingItHero: It's his fault the monkeys are [[JustForPun going ape]] in the second game in the ''first place''.

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* EvilPlan: Specter pulls a huge one in the second season of the anime. As nothing more then a mere helmet, he had a mutated monkey called Pipo Angel trick the Pipotrons by promising them a wish should they grab five feathers from it. After they do so, Specter gave them a car and had them enter a race, which regardless of who would win (ultimately it was a normal monkey), helped him assimilate the body of Pipo Angel into that of his own. Afterwards, he made the Pipotron Brothers his [[TerribleTrio Terrible Trios]] with hundreds of monkeys at their disposal and had them do odd tasks. Regardless of whether or not Spike and his friends stopped them, the monkeys' activities powered up a machine that was capable of turning every human on Earth into monkeys. He left Earth to make sure that the Pipotron Brothers (who pulled a HeelFaceTurn) couldn't lead Spike to him, and when the Professor made a device to repel the monkey conversion, Specter was able to hack it anyway, making it futile. When Spike finally got up to Specter's base, he proved to be too powerful for Spike to attack, and was only defeated because Casi hijacked his space station and tossed him out into deep space.
** And after that, he STILL had a backup plan, which resulted in creating the Freaky Monkey Five, partially disabling Casi and destroying the teleporter Spike and his friends had been using, freeing all of the monkeys they captured, disabled the Monkey Net, making it useless in capturing them again, and kidnapping the Professor and Kohta. His winning streak more or less stopped there, especially after the Professor was rescued.



* XanatosGambit: Specter pulls a huge one in the second season of the anime. As nothing more then a mere helmet, he had a mutated monkey called Pipo Angel trick the Pipotrons by promising them a wish should they grab five feathers from it. After they do so, Specter gave them a car and had them enter a race, which regardless of who would win (ultimately it was a normal monkey), helped him assimilate the body of Pipo Angel into that of his own. Afterwards, he made the Pipotron Brothers his [[TerribleTrio Terrible Trios]] with hundreds of monkeys at their disposal and had them do odd tasks. Regardless of whether or not Spike and his friends stopped them, the monkeys' activities powered up a machine that was capable of turning every human on Earth into monkeys. He left Earth to make sure that the Pipotron Brothers (who pulled a HeelFaceTurn) couldn't lead Spike to him, and when the Professor made a device to repel the monkey conversion, Specter was able to hack it anyway, making it futile. When Spike finally got up to Specter's base, he proved to be too powerful for Spike to attack, and was only defeated because Casi hijacked his space station and tossed him out into deep space.
** And after that, he STILL had a backup plan, which resulted in creating the Freaky Monkey Five, partially disabling Casi and destroying the teleporter Spike and his friends had been using, freeing all of the monkeys they captured, disabled the Monkey Net, making it useless in capturing them again, and kidnapping the Professor and Kohta. His winning streak more or less stopped there, especially after the Professor was rescued.



* YouWillBeAssimilated: Specter does this quite often in the anime. The first time, the helmet transforms the baby monkey Kohta's body into Specter's form. During the first season finale Kohta's emotions overwhelm the helmet and frees him from it's control. During the second season, he does it again to Pipo Angel, only this time he uses a machine to slowly morph it into a host body that the helmet itself has permanent control over. Lastly, Specter's XanatosGambit in the first half of the second season involved turning every human on Earth into monkeys. He almost succeeds.


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* YouWillBeAssimilated: Specter does this quite often in the anime. The first time, the helmet transforms the baby monkey Kohta's body into Specter's form. During the first season finale Kohta's emotions overwhelm the helmet and frees him from it's control. During the second season, he does it again to Pipo Angel, only this time he uses a machine to slowly morph it into a host body that the helmet itself has permanent control over. Lastly, Specter's XanatosGambit EvilPlan in the first half of the second season involved turning every human on Earth into monkeys. He almost succeeds.

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An eccentric scientist who teams up with Specter in ''Ape Escape 3'' with a plan to split the Earth in two. [[spoiler: Turns out years ago he was a colleague of Aki and the Professor. After a disastrous experiment which left a helmet permanently grafted to his head, he became an outcast to society and hid

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An eccentric scientist who teams up with Specter in ''Ape Escape 3'' with a plan to split the Earth in two. [[spoiler: Turns out years ago he was a colleague of Aki and the Professor. After a disastrous experiment which left a helmet permanently grafted to his head, he became an outcast to society and hid
hid.]]
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He is the only character returning for the new storyline of the Playstation Move reboot. [[spoiler: Here he is a WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds who was forcibly separated from his owner Haru and shot up into space. Due to that (and SpaceIsCold his dislike)

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He is the only character returning for the new storyline of the Playstation Move reboot. [[spoiler: Here he is a WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds who was forcibly separated from his owner Haru and shot up into space. Due to that (and SpaceIsCold his dislike)
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** They become NotSoHarmless in Million Monkeys. Due to being ordered around by a human dictator and his four mutated monkeys, the monkeys dress up in military garb and act rather seriously and use hi-tech gear, realistic mechs. Only the six or so monkeys remaining under Specter's command still act this way, although since they are playable, it can become a case of BewareTheSillyOnes.

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** They become NotSoHarmless {{Not So Harmless Villain}}s in Million Monkeys. Due to being ordered around by a human dictator and his four mutated monkeys, the monkeys dress up in military garb and act rather seriously and use hi-tech gear, realistic mechs. Only the six or so monkeys remaining under Specter's command still act this way, although since they are playable, it can become a case of BewareTheSillyOnes.
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* MsFanservice: Subverted. She has the largest breasts of any character in the series, though this isn't ever brought up, and she doesn't have any jiggle physics or gainaxing. Her outfit shows barely any skin, as well. Unsurprisingly, she's one of the least popular characters.

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* MsFanservice: Subverted. She has the largest breasts of any character in the series, though this isn't ever brought up, and she doesn't have any jiggle physics or gainaxing. Her outfit shows barely any skin, as well. Unsurprisingly, she's one of the least popular characters.

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\n** Because of this, picking her makes Ape Escape 3 slightly easier, as a handful of the monkeys are part of her fan club, and instead of running away or attacking her, simply fall to the ground and stare at her with hearts in their eyes.





* MsFanservice: She has the largest breasts of any character in the series. Ironically, she's one of the least popular characters.
** Even more, she was given a more realistic bust size in the anime, subverting the trope.


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\nKei and Yumi's aunt. She acts as a replacement for Natalie, giving you instructions as well as new gadgets.

* HotAunt: Aunt to Kei and Yumi.
* MsFanservice: Subverted. She has the largest breasts of any character in the series. Ironically, series, though this isn't ever brought up, and she doesn't have any jiggle physics or gainaxing. Her outfit shows barely any skin, as well. Unsurprisingly, she's one of the least popular characters.
** Even more, she was given a more realistic bust size in the anime, subverting the trope.

trope even further.




Specter was a famous circus monkey loved and adored by thousands. One day he found the prototype Peak Point Helmet and put it on, increasing his intelligence but also twisting his mind. He quickly

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Specter was a famous circus monkey loved and adored by thousands. One day he found the prototype Peak Point Helmet and put it on, increasing his intelligence but also twisting his mind. He quickly
quickly escapes the amusement park, after giving all of the other monkeys in the zoo peak point helmets of their own, and leads them to try and take over the world.



** Heck, it's not thoroughly explained how he got the helmet in the first game. The game opens with him putting on the helmet in a very small space with a ball in it, presumably his cage.
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** Heck, it's not thoroughly explained how he got the helmet in the first game. The game opens with him putting on the helmet in a very small space with a ball in it, presumably his cage.
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\n* DistractedByMyOwnSexy: Doesn't listen to a word Specter says during one of their conversations, and instead chooses to admire himself in a mirror.
* HeelFaceTurn




* TheUnintelligible: In Pumped and Primed, they speak odd sounding gibberish with distorted voices. Red speaks in a deep demonic voice, Blue speaks with a higher pitch, and Yellow speaks only in beeps. In Ape Escape 3, they sound much like any other monkey. Subverted in Academy and the anime, where Pipotron Red and Blue can speak perfect English or Japanese (still distorted in the games), whereas Pipotron Yellow talks in beeps in the games and PokémonSpeak in the anime.

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* TheUnintelligible: In Pumped and Primed, they speak odd sounding gibberish with distorted voices. Red speaks in a deep demonic voice, murmer, Blue speaks with a higher pitch, pitched voiced of mostly vowels, and Yellow speaks only in beeps.beep noises. In Ape Escape 3, they sound much like any other monkey. Subverted in Academy and the anime, where Pipotron Red and Blue can speak perfect English or Japanese (still distorted in the games), whereas Pipotron Yellow talks in beeps in the games and PokémonSpeak in the anime.

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The rival and friend of Spike

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The rival and friend of Spike
Spike who has a bad habit of being brainwashed by Specter.



* HeyItsThatVoice: Misty from Pokemon in Ape Escape 2. Hilarious, considering that Jimmy, the protagonist of Ape Escape 2, was voiced by Ash Ketchum.



* HeyItsThatVoice: Ash Ketchum to be exact.



An AI created by the Professor

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An AI created by the Professor
Professor.



* CampGay


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* CampGay

CampGay: To the point where he actually blows a kiss to Kei.
** Then again, he does the same if you pick Yumi.
* FatBastard





* HeyItsThatVoice: Monkey Pink

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* HeyItsThatVoice: Monkey PinkDebi Derryberry, voice of Coco Bandicoot


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* Gasshole: Uses a fart based martial art in Ape Escape 3.
* PlayingWithFire: He also uses two flaming torches in Ape Escape 3.
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Three monkeys who were horribly mutated into

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Three experimental monkeys who that escaped the lab in which they were horribly mutated into
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The trio includes Red, the calm but strong leader, Blue, the talkative speedster, and Yellow, the unintelligible marksman.



* GoldfishPoopGang: In the anime,
* HeelFaceTurn: In Pumped and

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* GoldfishPoopGang: In the anime,
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* HeelFaceTurn: In Pumped andand Primed.



* TheUnintelligible: In Pumped and Primed, they speak odd sounding gibberish with distorted voices. In Ape Escape 3, they sound much like any other monkey. Subverted in Academy and the anime, where Pipotron Red and Blue can speak perfect English or Japanese (still distorted in the games), whereas Pipotron Yellow talks in beeps in the games and PokémonSpeak in the anime.

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* TheUnintelligible: In Pumped and Primed, they speak odd sounding gibberish with distorted voices. Red speaks in a deep demonic voice, Blue speaks with a higher pitch, and Yellow speaks only in beeps. In Ape Escape 3, they sound much like any other monkey. Subverted in Academy and the anime, where Pipotron Red and Blue can speak perfect English or Japanese (still distorted in the games), whereas Pipotron Yellow talks in beeps in the games and PokémonSpeak in the anime.


* PutOnABus: Outside of a minor role in ''Saru Saru Big Mission'', Jimmy hasn't appeared in any subsequent games in the series. He didn't even appear in the anime. However, he was the main character of two short-lived Ape Escape cartoons that aired on Nicktoons (a CGI one made around 2004 by the makers of the games themselves, and an {{Americanitis}} flash cartoon helmed by DougTenNapel in 2010.)


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* PutOnABus: Outside of a minor role in ''Saru Saru Big Mission'', Jimmy hasn't appeared in any subsequent games in the series. He didn't even appear in the anime. However, he was the main character of two short-lived Ape Escape cartoons that aired on Nicktoons (a CGI one made around 2004 by the makers of the games themselves, and an {{Americanitis}} a flash cartoon helmed by DougTenNapel in 2010.)

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->'''Monkey Blue:''' "Then I'll....I'll ask Pink out for a date! And then....[[IfYouKnowWhatIMean (sinister laughter)]]

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->'''Monkey Blue:''' "Then I'll....I'll ask Pink out for a date! And then....[[IfYouKnowWhatIMean (sinister laughter)]]laughter)
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Jimmy is a friend of Spike

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Jimmy is a friend and cousin of Spike
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* EnsembleDarkhorse: Yumi is [[{{Lolicon}} disturbingly popular amongst fans]], almost rivaling Specter in terms of fanart.
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PutOnABus: Outside of a minor role in ''Saru Saru Big Mission'', Jimmy hasn't appeared in any subsequent games in the series. He didn't even appear in the anime. However, he was the main character of two short-lived Ape Escape cartoons that aired on Nicktoons (a CGI one made around 2004 by the makers of the games themselves, and an {{Americanitis}} flash cartoon helmed by DougTenNapel in 2010.)

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* PutOnABus: Outside of a minor role in ''Saru Saru Big Mission'', Jimmy hasn't appeared in any subsequent games in the series. He didn't even appear in the anime. However, he was the main character of two short-lived Ape Escape cartoons that aired on Nicktoons (a CGI one made around 2004 by the makers of the games themselves, and an {{Americanitis}} flash cartoon helmed by DougTenNapel in 2010.)
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The mascots of the series itself, the Pipo Apes are Specter's [[MascotMooks minions]] that cause havoc

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The mascots of the series itself, the Pipo Apes are Specter's [[MascotMooks [[MascotMook minions]] that cause havoc












* CampGay:

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* CampGay:
CampGay







KingMook: Although there are white shorted monkeys in the series, he's actually closer to the green shorts monkeys, as both have goggles and use machinery to attack.


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* KingMook: Although there are white shorted monkeys in the series, he's actually closer to the green shorts monkeys, as both have goggles and use machinery to attack.




RealMenWearPink: He's forced into this situation in the anime. Due to his multiple losses at the hands of the female protagonists (Casi, Helga, and Natalie), Specter makes Ukki Red wear a dress and act as girly as possible. He warms up to it and even knits a quilt with Hegla and Natalie, but afterwards [[AesopAmnesia he reverts back to his old self.]]


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* RealMenWearPink: He's forced into this situation in the anime. Due to his multiple losses at the hands of the female protagonists (Casi, Helga, and Natalie), Specter makes Ukki Red wear a dress and act as girly as possible. He warms up to it and even knits a quilt with Hegla and Natalie, but afterwards [[AesopAmnesia he reverts back to his old self.]]




* AmbiguouslyGay:

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* AllLoveIsUnrequited: He has a crush on Natalie in the anime, but she

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* AllLoveIsUnrequited: He has a crush on Natalie in the anime, but sheanime.




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* LethalChef: Possibly, She likes cooking and she is the only person to like how they taste. The only reason her Sweet Azuki bean porridge turned out well is because a Monkey changed the spice shaker caps. But upon trying it she notes it doesn't taste like how she usually makes it.



He appears in the anime with more or less the same role. He is a bit more zany

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: He created the Pipo Helmet (Peak Point Helmet in the US release) to increase the intelligence of monkeys, although his prototype helmet was unstable and needed to be finished. He left the prototype at the circus where it was ultimately found by Specter, thus beginning the

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He appears in the anime with more or less the same role. He is a bit more zany

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* NiceJobBreakingItHero: He created the Pipo Helmet (Peak Point Helmet in the US release) to increase the intelligence of monkeys, although his prototype helmet was unstable and needed to be finished. He left the prototype at the circus where it was ultimately found by Specter, thus beginning thethe series.
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* EnsembleDarkhorse: Yumi is [[Lolicon disturbingly popular amongst fans]], almost rivaling Specter in terms of fanart.

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* EnsembleDarkhorse: Yumi is [[Lolicon [[{{Lolicon}} disturbingly popular amongst fans]], almost rivaling Specter in terms of fanart.



* MsFanservice: She has the largest breasts of any character in the series. Ironically, she's one of the least popular characterd.

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* Ms.Fanservice: MsFanservice: She has the largest breasts of any character in the series. Ironically, she's one of the least popular characterd.



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!!Jimmy

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!!Jimmy/Hikaru



* FlatCharacter: Kei is no different then his predecessors, and due to the popularity of his sister (in-universe, that is). he has even less development.
* EnsembleDarkhorse: Yumi is [[Lolicon disturbingly popular amongst fans]], almost rivaling Specter in terms of fanart.

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They made reoccurring appearances in the anime, with Yumi being a major character in three episodes (two involving the Pipotrons kidnapping her, and the third involving a drawing contest between her and Pink Monkey.)


* EnsembleDarkhorse: Yumi is [[Lolicon disturbingly popular amongst fans]], almost rivaling Specter in terms of fanart.
* {{Expy}}: Yumi briefly becomes one of [[StreetFighter2 Chun-Li]] in an episode of the anime.
* FlatCharacter: Kei is no different then his predecessors, and due to the popularity of his sister (in-universe, that is). is), he has even less development.
development.
* EnsembleDarkhorse: IdolSinger: Yumi is [[Lolicon disturbingly popular amongst fans]], almost rivaling Specter one in terms both the games and anime. This attracts the wrong attention in both, a rivalry with Pink Monkey in the games and being kidnapped twice by the Pipotron Brothers (as part of fanart.
an attempt to become famous by performing with her) in the anime.



* Ms.Fanservice: She has the largest breasts of any character in the series. Ironically, she's one of the least popular character.

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There's ''really'' not much to say about this guy. The only thing that is known about him is that he has two sisters and a grandma, but that's it.

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There's ''really'' not much to say about this guy. The only thing that is known about him is that he has two sisters and a grandma, but that's it.
guy.



* Expy: They appear to be that of Natalie. Tohko in terms of personality, Tsukushi is terms of appearance.



He is the only character returning for the new storyline of the Playstation Move reboot. [[spoiler: Here he is a WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds who was forcibly seperated from his owner Haru and shot up into space

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He is the only character returning for the new storyline of the Playstation Move reboot. [[spoiler: Here he is a WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds who was forcibly seperated separated from his owner Haru and shot up into space
space. Due to that (and SpaceIsCold his dislike)



* BigBad: For most of the series, excluding Pumped and Primed, where the story is hijacked by a [[GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere Giant Computer Core From Nowhere]], and Million Monkeys, where he is playable and fights against that game's Big Bad. [[spoiler: Subverted in the Playstation Move game.]]

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* BigBad: For most of the series, excluding Pumped ''Pumped and Primed, Primed'', where the story is hijacked by a [[GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere Giant Computer Core From Nowhere]], and Million Monkeys, ''Million Monkeys'', where he is playable and fights against that game's Big Bad. [[spoiler: Subverted in the Playstation Move ''Playstation Move'' game.]]




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The First appears as a street cop in ''2'', a cowboy in ''3'', and an IndianaJones wannabe in Saru Saru Big Mission and the anime.



* BadassBiker: More like a Badass Unicycler, but still.





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\n* WellIntentionedExtremist: Before his fight against Jimmy, Blue Monkey states he holds nothing against him and claims to be doing it for a good cause:
->'''Blue Monkey:''' "Don't take this personally. I'm doing this for all the little monkeys out there!"



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Although her pop idol status remains the same throughout the series, her clothes change like the rest of the group. She resembles a typical pop singer in ''2'', a princess in ''3'', and a schoolgirl in ''Saru Saru Big Mission'' and the anime.

* EvilDiva: Possibly the crowning example.


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* IdolSinger: Pink desires to be a famous singer, and even sings an EarWorm in two of the games. Averted in the anime, ironically.


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* AttentionWhore: In the anime. All of their schemes are wacky attempts to become famous (or "big", as they frequently put it).

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* NoMouth: It's obscured by his moustache.
* NoNameGiven: His actual name hasn't been revealed at all (Hakase is Japanese for Doctor

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* NoMouth: It's obscured by his moustache.
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* NoNameGiven: His actual name hasn't been revealed at all (Hakase is Japanese for DoctorDoctor).



!!Kei & Yumi

* FlatCharacter: Kei is no different then his predecessors, and due to the popularity of his sister (in-universe, that is). he has even less development.
* EnsembleDarkhorse: Yumi is [[Lolicon disturbingly popular amongst fans]], almost rivaling Specter in terms of fanart.

!!Aki

* Ms.Fanservice: She has the largest breasts of any character in the series. Ironically, she's one of the least popular character.
** Even more, she was given a more realistic bust size in the anime, subverting the trope.




* EnsembleDarkhorse: Despite her few appearances, Casi has gotten quite a fan following. Her prominence in the anime helped a bit too.



!!Tohko & Tsukushi

Tohko and Tsukushi are sisters who aid the protagonist in the Playstation Move game.

* Moe: Tsukushi appears to be one.
* {{Tsundere}}: Tohko comes off as this




The grandmother of the protagonists in the Playstation Move reboot. She went missing after trying to build a machine to find [[spoiler: her pet monkey Specter]].

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The grandmother of the protagonists Tohko and Tsukushi in the Playstation Move reboot. She went missing after trying to build a machine to find [[spoiler: her pet monkey Specter]].




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* IWasQuiteALooker: [[spoiler: She was a cute scientist who was responsible for raising Specter.]]



* XanatosGambit: Pulled a huge one in the second season of the anime. As nothing more then a mere helmet, he had a mutated monkey called Pipo Angel trick the Pipotrons by promising them a wish should they grab five feathers from it. After they do so, Specter gave them a car and had them enter a race, which regardless of who would win (ultimately it was a normal monkey), helped him assimilate the body of Pipo Angel into that of his own. Afterwards, he made the Pipotron Brothers his [[TerribleTrio Terrible Trios]] with hundreds of monkeys at their disposal and had them do odd tasks. Regardless of whether or not Spike and his friends stopped them, the monkeys' activities powered up a machine that was capable of turning every human on Earth into monekys. He left Earth to make sure that the Pipotron Brothers (who pulled a HeelFaceTurn) couldn't lead Spike to him, and when the Professor made a device and was only defeated because Casi hijacked his space station and tossed him out into deep space.

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* XanatosGambit: Pulled Specter pulls a huge one in the second season of the anime. As nothing more then a mere helmet, he had a mutated monkey called Pipo Angel trick the Pipotrons by promising them a wish should they grab five feathers from it. After they do so, Specter gave them a car and had them enter a race, which regardless of who would win (ultimately it was a normal monkey), helped him assimilate the body of Pipo Angel into that of his own. Afterwards, he made the Pipotron Brothers his [[TerribleTrio Terrible Trios]] with hundreds of monkeys at their disposal and had them do odd tasks. Regardless of whether or not Spike and his friends stopped them, the monkeys' activities powered up a machine that was capable of turning every human on Earth into monekys. monkeys. He left Earth to make sure that the Pipotron Brothers (who pulled a HeelFaceTurn) couldn't lead Spike to him, and when the Professor made a device to repel the monkey conversion, Specter was able to hack it anyway, making it futile. When Spike finally got up to Specter's base, he proved to be too powerful for Spike to attack, and was only defeated because Casi hijacked his space station and tossed him out into deep space.



* YouDontLookLikeYourself: Specter wears a tuxedo in ''Ape Escape 3'' and ''Saru Saru Big Mission'', and he gets a red cape and leather pants in Million Monkeys and the anime. The Fredorator cartoon gave him MessyHair.

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* YouDontLookLikeYourself: Specter wears a tuxedo in ''Ape Escape 3'' and ''Saru Saru Big Mission'', and he gets a red cape and leather pants in Million Monkeys ''Million Monkeys'' and the anime. The Fredorator cartoon gave him MessyHair.



The mascots of the series itself, the Pipo Apes are Specter's [[MascotMooks

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The mascots of the series itself, the Pipo Apes are Specter's [[MascotMooks
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** HotShotsGolf 4 had the Pipo Ape as an caddie (Europe and Japan only).

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** HotShotsGolf 4 had the Pipo Ape as an caddie caddy (Europe and Japan only).



** This appears to be averted in the Playstation Move reboot, where the helmets seem to be purely cosmetic. Specter himself isn't even under the influence of one.
* TheUnintelligible: They make typical monkey screeching noises throughout the majority of the games. In ''Pumped and Primed's'' Pipo Ape/Team Monkey cutscenes, ''Ape Escape 3'' (in Mesal Gear Solid and Monkey Theater only), and all three animated adaptations, they "Ukki". In the ''Playstation Move'' reboot, they

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* TheUnintelligible: They make typical monkey screeching noises throughout the majority of the games. In ''Pumped and Primed's'' Pipo Ape/Team Monkey cutscenes, ''Ape Escape 3'' (in Mesal Gear Solid and Monkey Theater only), and all three animated adaptations, they "Ukki". In the ''Playstation ''PlayStation Move'' reboot, they



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!!Dr. Tomoki

An eccentric scientist who teams up with Specter in ''Ape Escape 3'' with a plan to split the Earth in two. [[spoiler: Turns out years ago he was a colleague of Aki and the Professor. After a disastrous experiment which left a helmet permanently grafted to his head, he became an outcast to society and hid

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* BrainwashedAndCrazy: Specter captured him and brainwashes him to serve him and fight Spike on TWO different occasions. [[IGotWorse The second time gets worse when the game's real BigBad transforms him into Dark Jake.]]


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* YouGottaHaveBlueHair



* GirlishPigtails



* NoMouth: It's obscured by his moustache.



* EvilAlbino



* VillainProtagonist: In Million Monkeys. After Specter discovers that most of his monkey army is under the command of an imposter of him (actually a shift-shaping monkey mutant who is actually working for a human dictator), he and what little remains of his monkeys decide to take action against them. He doesn't team up with Spike and his friends however, and even fights them at one point.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: In Ape Escape 3, Specter's "Double Paradise Plan". He planned to use a giant machine to chop the Earth in half, with Specter and his monkeys ruling one half and the humans owning the other. However, either Specter [[YouFailPhysicsForever forgot that the Earth would be destroyed if he did it]] or he was AxCrazy at the moment. Regardless, even Kei and Yumi think this plan is crazy.

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* VillainProtagonist: In Million Monkeys.''Million Monkeys''. After Specter discovers that most of his monkey army is under the command of an imposter of him (actually a shift-shaping monkey mutant who is actually working for a human dictator), he and what little remains of his monkeys decide to take action against them. He doesn't team up with Spike and his friends however, and even fights them at one point.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: In Ape ''Ape Escape 3, 3'', Specter's "Double Paradise Plan". He planned to use a giant machine to chop the Earth in half, with Specter and his monkeys ruling one half and the humans owning the other. However, either Specter [[YouFailPhysicsForever forgot that the Earth would be destroyed if he did it]] or he was AxCrazy at the moment. Regardless, even Kei and Yumi think this plan is crazy.

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PutOnABus: Outside of a minor role in ''Saru Saru Big Mission'', Jimmy hasn't appeared in any subsequent games in the series. He didn't even appear in the anime. He However, he was the main character of two short-lived Ape Escape cartoons that aired on Nicktoons (a CGI one made around 2004 by the makers of the games themselves, and an {{Americanitis}} flash cartoon helmed by DougTenNapel in 2010.)
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* ButtMonkey: In the Fredorator cartoon, usually due to the stupidity of the monkeys themselves.



* ISurrenderSuckers: When Kei and Yumi go to fight him a second time

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* TheCameo: The monkeys are so popular in Japan that they frequently appear in other games. Sadly, most of their cameos are [[NoExportForYou removed from the U.S. versions]]:
** MonsterRancher 4 would let you unlock three Pipo Apes if the player inserted the original Ape Escape, Ape Escape 2, and the first SplinterCell.
** HotShotsGolf 4 had the Pipo Ape as an caddie (Europe and Japan only).
** RatchetAndClank: Up Your Arsenal and Ratchet: Deadlocked had a Pipo Ape as a unlockable skin (Japan only).
** MetalGearSolid3 had a AE-styled minigame called "Snake vs. Monkey",[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin involving Snake catching the Pipo Monkeys]].
** A Pipo Ape costume can be bought for a Sackboy in LittleBigPlanet.
* [[TheHatMakesTheMan The Hat Makes The Ape]]:
** This appears to be averted in the Playstation Move reboot, where the helmets seem to be purely cosmetic. Specter himself isn't even under the influence of one.



The Freaky Monkey five are Specter's QuirkyMinibossSquad from the second games onward. They are monkeys mutated by Vita-Z Bananas


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* DemotedToExtra: Only appears in concept art and a comic strip in Ape Escape 2 (with his original name, Hiroki, to boot.)

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The daughter of the Professor, Natalie is who follows in her father's footsteps.

* OnlySaneMan: She's the only character Averted in the Fredorator cartoon, where she's just as zany as the rest of the cast.

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The daughter of the Professor, Natalie is a {{Tomboy}} who follows in her father's footsteps.footsteps.

In the anime, she actually goes out and assists Spike in capturing monkeys, moreso then any other character. Otherwise, she acts like she did in the games.


* OnlySaneMan: She's the only character Subverted midway into the anime's second season, where she is somewhat distraught over the abduction of her father. Averted in the Fredorator {{Fredorator}} cartoon, where she's just as zany as the rest of the cast.



* NiceJobBreakingItHero: He created the Pipo Helmet (Peak Point Helmet in the US release) to increase the intelligence of monkeys . He left the prototype at the circus where it was

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* NiceJobBreakingItHero: He created the Pipo Helmet (Peak Point Helmet in the US release) to increase the intelligence of monkeys . monkeys, although his prototype helmet was unstable and needed to be finished. He left the prototype at the circus where it waswas ultimately found by Specter, thus beginning the



!!Jimmy

Jimmy is a friend of Spike

PutOnABus: Outside of a minor role in ''Saru Saru Big Mission'', Jimmy hasn't appeared in any subsequent games in the series. He didn't even appear in the anime. He was the main character of two short-lived Ape Escape cartoons that aired on Nicktoons (a CGI one made around 2004 by the makers of the games themselves, and an {{Americanitis}} flash cartoon helmed by DougTenNapel in 2010.)



* AcendedExtra: Casi plays a bigger role overall in the anime. She is given an android body in order to save Spike and his friends from shapeshifting monkeys. She later plays a key role in breaking Specter's control over Kohta towards the end of the first season, and is ultimately the one who stops Specter in the season two mid-finale.
* DemotedToExtra: Interestingly, concept art and even an in-game photo of her and Natalie appear in the second game, despite Casi herself not being in it.

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* AcendedExtra: AscendedExtra: Casi plays a bigger role overall in the anime. She is given an android body in order to save Spike and his friends from shapeshifting monkeys. She later plays a key role in breaking Specter's control over Kohta towards the end of the first season, and is ultimately the one who stops Specter in the season two mid-finale.
* DemotedToExtra: Casi never really did much to begin with, but outside of ''Pumped and Primed'' and ''Million Monkeys'', she never appeared outside of the first game. Interestingly, concept art and even an in-game photo of her and Natalie appear in the second game, despite Casi herself not being in it.



* RobotGirl: Becomes this in Million Monkeys and shortly after her debut in the anime.




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* YouDontLookLikeYou: She gets a ponytail in Pumped and Primed onwards, and later has giant "ear bolts" sticking out of her head in ''Million Monkeys'' and the anime.


!!Playstation Move Hero (NoNameGiven, seriously.)

There's ''really'' not much to say about this guy. The only thing that is known about him is that he has two sisters and a grandma, but that's it.

* FlatCharacter: Possibly one of the flattest in video game history.
* HeroicMime: He doesn't say a single thing during gameplay.
* TheFaceless: Other then a brief glance at his mouth, you never the front of his face.
* TheVoiceless: Taken UpToEleven in the cutscenes. There are moments where he says something, but it is ''always'' in text, despite everyone else actually having VAs.



* DistaffCounterpart: Of the Professor from the original series.



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He is the only character returning for the new storyline of the Playstation Move reboot. [[spoiler: Here he is a {{Woobie}} who
WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds who was forcibly seperated from his owner Haru and shot up into space



* SpaceIsCold: In the Playstation Move reboot, Specter is shown to greatly dislike the cold. It doesn't help that he's up in space for most of the game, [[spoiler: and it's hinted that this was a partial reason for his FaceHeelTurn decades earlier.]]



* YouDontLookLikeYourself: Specter wears a tuxedo in ''Ape Escape 3'' and ''Saru Saru Big Mission'', and he gets a red cape and leather pants in Million Monkeys and the anime. The Fredorator cartoon gave him MessyHair.



* TheUnintelligible: They make typical monkey screeching noises throughout the majority of the games. In Pumped and Primed's Pipo Ape/Team Monkey cutscenes, Ape Escape 3 (in Mesal Gear Solid and Monkey Theater only), and all three animated adaptations, they "Ukki". In the Playstation Move reboot, they

!!Freaky Monkey Five/Ukki Five

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when the game's real BigBad transforms him into Dark Jake.]]




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* OnlySaneMan: She

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is who follows in her father's footsteps.

* OnlySaneMan: She
She's the only character Averted in the Fredorator cartoon, where she's just as zany as the rest of the cast.



** It doesn't help that his colleagues also did similar experiments and most of them actually ended up worse for wear. One ([[spoiler: Tomoki]]) has a helmet permanently grafted to his head, and another (Helga's father) created the Pipotrons, who eventually kidnapped him years later.




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* OnlySaneMan: He takes to take things rather seriously, but not as much as his daughter. Subverted in the cartoon and anime, where he's goofier



* DubNameChange: She is called Casey in the original game, then is given her Japanese name in Ape Escape 2 artwork, then called Casi in Pumped and Primed. Most English fans usually refer to her P&P name.

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* EvilKnockoff: Million Monkeys had Virus Casis, which were EvilTwins that were murderous, used machine guns, and could multiply and overwrite Casi herself.


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* LargeHam: Specter's UK actor in the first game hammed it up big time.
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* OnlySaneMan: Ironically, Specter is this in the Fredorator cartoon. He's the only character in it who isn't a CloudCuckooLander.


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* VillainProtagonist: In Million Monkeys. After Specter discovers that most of his monkey army is under the command of an imposter of him (actually a shift-shaping monkey mutant who is actually working for a human dictator), he and what little remains of his monkeys decide to take action against them. He doesn't team up with Spike and his friends however, and even fights them at one point.


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!!Pipo Apes/Monkeys/Pipo Saru

The mascots of the series itself, the

The cartoons and anime discarded the multicolored pants in favor of more uniquely dressed monkeys.


* BewareTheSillyOnes: In the Playstation Move game. They act goofy, but are capable of pulling an invasion of Earth off, [[spoiler: even going so far as to kidnap Specter, who had a HeelFaceTurn, at the end.]]
* HarmlessVillain: The monkeys actions seem to mostly harmless for the most part, consisting of dancing, goofing about, etc. If it weren't for Specter commanding them, these monkeys might not be a threat at all.
** They become NotSoHarmless in Million Monkeys. Due to being ordered around by a human dictator and his four mutated monkeys, the monkeys dress up in military garb and act rather seriously and use hi-tech gear, realistic mechs. Only the six or so monkeys remaining under Specter's command still act this way, although since they are playable, it can become a case of BewareTheSillyOnes.
* TheUnintelligible: They make typical monkey screeching noises throughout the majority of the games. In Pumped and Primed's Pipo Ape/Team Monkey cutscenes, Ape Escape 3 (in Mesal Gear Solid and Monkey Theater only), and all three animated adaptations, they "Ukki". In the Playstation Move reboot, they


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AcendedExtra: Casi
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Casi plays a bigger role overall in the anime. She is given an android body in order to save Spike and his friends from shapeshifting monkeys. She later plays a key role in breaking Specter's control over Kohta towards the end of the first season, and is ultimately the one who stops Specter in the season two mid-finale.
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DemotedToExtra: Interestingly, concept art and even an in-game photo of her and Natalie appear in the second game, despite Casi herself not being in it.
* DubNameChange: She is called Casey in the original game, then is given her Japanese name in Ape Escape 2 artwork, then called Casi in Pumped and Primed. Most English fans usually refer to her P&P name.
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MinorMajorCharacter: In the first game, Casi only mostly appeared on-screen showing you
you how many monkeys the player had to catch. The only time she plays an important role in the game is when Spike returns to the present time finding it overrun with monkeys causing havoc. She informs Spike of what happened to the Professor and Natalie and gives him the penultimate gadget, the RC Car.
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MsFanservice: Casi is this in the anime, almost always wearing a maid outfit from the second season onwards. There's even
even a scene in one episode where it appears that she's stripping
* NinjaMaid: Sometimes becomes this in the anime, namely when taking on Ukki Red and Ukki Pink.
* SuperPoweredRobotMeterMaid: Quite possibly the strongest character in the anime, even stronger then Ukki Red! She spends the majority of the anime on the sidelines though.

!!Grandma [[spoiler:Haru]]

The grandmother of the protagonists in the Playstation Move reboot. She went missing after trying to build a machine to find [[spoiler: her pet monkey Specter]].



* AxCrazy: Increasingly so in the anime. By the end he was willing to blow up the entire

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* AxCrazy: Increasingly so in the anime. By the end he was willing to blow up the entire Earth after being fed up with just about everyone.



* BrainwashedAndCrazy: In the first season of the anime, Kohta was the host for Specter

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* BrainwashedAndCrazy: In the first season of the anime, Kohta was the host for SpecterSpecter.
* GrandTheftMe: Did this to Kohta at first (as a form of BrainwashedAndCrazy), then Pipo Angel (by permanently [[YouWillBeAssimilated assimilating]] it) in the anime.



* YouWillBeAssimilated: Specter does this quite often in the anime. The first time, the helmet transforms the baby monkey Kohta's body into Specter's form. During the first season finale Kohta's emotions overwhelm the helmet and frees him from it's control. During the second season, he does it again to Pipo Angel, only this time he uses a machine to slowly morph it into a lifeless host body that the helmet itself has permanent control over. Lastly, Specter's XanatosGambit in the first half of the second season involved turning every human on Earth into monkeys. He almost succeeds.

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* YouWillBeAssimilated: Specter does this quite often in the anime. The first time, the helmet transforms the baby monkey Kohta's body into Specter's form. During the first season finale Kohta's emotions overwhelm the helmet and frees him from it's control. During the second season, he does it again to Pipo Angel, only this time he uses a machine to slowly morph it into a lifeless host body that the helmet itself has permanent control over. Lastly, Specter's XanatosGambit in the first half of the second season involved turning every human on Earth into monkeys. He almost succeeds.



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!!The Pipotrons/ApeTrons/Pipotron Brothers

Three monkeys who were horribly mutated into


The anime portrays them as goofy [[TheKlutz klutzes]] with the goal of becoming "big". They started out as the Big Bads of season two, demoted to the QuirkyMiniBossSquad once [[HijackedByGanon Specter hijacks the plot]]

* AntiHero
* [[BigBad Big Bads]]: In the first eight episodes of season two and in ''Ape Quest''.
* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: The Pipotrons in the anime are VERY different to the ones in the games.
* GoldfishPoopGang: In the anime,
* HeelFaceTurn: In Pumped and
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: ''Twice'' in the anime. The first time they had to detach a piece of a rocket in order to get Spike to Specter's base, and later in the series finale where Specter tries to shoot the heroes' HumongousMecha only for the Pipotrons' mecha to take it instead. Both are [[DisneyVillainDeath Disney Villain Deaths.]]]]
* HumongousMecha: The Pipotrons use a mecha the size of Earth itself in the finale of the anime. It's crudely made in comparison to the equally huge mechas the heroes and villains are using though.
* TheUnintelligible: In Pumped and Primed, they speak odd sounding gibberish with distorted voices. In Ape Escape 3, they sound much like any other monkey. Subverted in Academy and the anime, where Pipotron Red and Blue can speak perfect English or Japanese (still distorted in the games), whereas Pipotron Yellow talks in beeps in the games and PokémonSpeak in the anime.
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Happens to them in both Pumped and Primed and the anime. Both cases result in their eventual

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!!Spike/Kakeru

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!!Jake/Buzz/Hiroki

The rival and friend of Spike

* AllLoveIsUnrequited: He has a crush on Natalie in the anime, but she
* DemotedToExtra: Only appears in concept art and a comic strip in Ape Escape 2 (with his original name, Hiroki,
to start boot.)
* BrainwashedAndCrazy: Specter captured him and brainwashes him to serve him and fight Spike on TWO different occasions. [[IGotWorse The second time gets worse when


!!Natalie/Natsumi

The daughter of the Professor, Natalie is

* OnlySaneMan: She

!!The Professor/Hakase

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: He created the Pipo Helmet (Peak Point Helmet in the US release) to increase the intelligence of monkeys . He left the prototype at the circus where it was
* NoNameGiven: His actual name hasn't been revealed at all (Hakase is Japanese for Doctor

!!Casey/Casi/Charu

An AI created by the Professor

AcendedExtra: Casi
DemotedToExtra: Interestingly, concept art and even an in-game photo of her and Natalie appear in the second game, despite Casi herself not being in it.
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!!Specter

Specter was a famous circus monkey loved and adored by thousands. One day he found the prototype Peak Point Helmet and put it on, increasing his intelligence but also twisting his mind. He quickly

He is the only character returning for the
new page.storyline of the Playstation Move reboot. [[spoiler: Here he is a {{Woobie}} who

Specter's portrayal in the anime is a little different. In this version of the story, he is actually a sentient Pipo Helmet that controls whatever unfortunate monkey wears it. Otherwise, he's basically the same as he is in the games.


* AxCrazy: Increasingly so in the anime. By the end he was willing to blow up the entire
* BigBad: For most of the series, excluding Pumped and Primed, where the story is hijacked by a [[GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere Giant Computer Core From Nowhere]], and Million Monkeys, where he is playable and fights against that game's Big Bad. [[spoiler: Subverted in the Playstation Move game.]]
* BrainwashedAndCrazy: In the first season of the anime, Kohta was the host for Specter
* ISurrenderSuckers: When Kei and Yumi go to fight him a second time
* PlotHole: It's almost never explained how Specter keeps coming back after he is caught by the heroes. Only Ape Escape 2 and the anime give explanations to his return.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: In Ape Escape 3, Specter's "Double Paradise Plan". He planned to use a giant machine to chop the Earth in half, with Specter and his monkeys ruling one half and the humans owning the other. However, either Specter [[YouFailPhysicsForever forgot that the Earth would be destroyed if he did it]] or he was AxCrazy at the moment. Regardless, even Kei and Yumi think this plan is crazy.
* XanatosGambit: Pulled a huge one in the second season of the anime. As nothing more then a mere helmet, he had a mutated monkey called Pipo Angel trick the Pipotrons by promising them a wish should they grab five feathers from it. After they do so, Specter gave them a car and had them enter a race, which regardless of who would win (ultimately it was a normal monkey), helped him assimilate the body of Pipo Angel into that of his own. Afterwards, he made the Pipotron Brothers his [[TerribleTrio Terrible Trios]] with hundreds of monkeys at their disposal and had them do odd tasks. Regardless of whether or not Spike and his friends stopped them, the monkeys' activities powered up a machine that was capable of turning every human on Earth into monekys. He left Earth to make sure that the Pipotron Brothers (who pulled a HeelFaceTurn) couldn't lead Spike to him, and when the Professor made a device and was only defeated because Casi hijacked his space station and tossed him out into deep space.
** And after that, he STILL had a backup plan, which resulted in creating the Freaky Monkey Five, partially disabling Casi and destroying the teleporter Spike and his friends had been using, freeing all of the monkeys they captured, disabled the Monkey Net, making it useless in capturing them again, and kidnapping the Professor and Kohta. His winning streak more or less stopped there, especially after the Professor was rescued.
* YouWillBeAssimilated: Specter does this quite often in the anime. The first time, the helmet transforms the baby monkey Kohta's body into Specter's form. During the first season finale Kohta's emotions overwhelm the helmet and frees him from it's control. During the second season, he does it again to Pipo Angel, only this time he uses a machine to slowly morph it into a lifeless host body that the helmet itself has permanent control over. Lastly, Specter's XanatosGambit in the first half of the second season involved turning every human on Earth into monkeys. He almost succeeds.

!!Freaky Monkey Five/Ukki Five

The Freaky Monkey five are Specter's QuirkyMinibossSquad from the second games onward. They are monkeys mutated by Vita-Z Bananas


* DubNameChange: A odd case in that all the members had their names changed three times in the US. In Ape Escape 2, they were referred to as their color first, then "Monkey" last, in Ape Escape 3, this was swapped around, and in Ape Escape Academy they were referred to by their Japanese names (example: Blue Monkey in ''2'', Monkey Blue in ''3'', and Ukki Blue in ''Academy'').


!!Monkey Blue/Blue Monkey/Ukki Blue


* AllLoveIsUnrequited: In Ape Escape 3, Blue is shown to have a crush on Pink Monkey, and swears that after he defeats either Yumi or Kei that he will go on a date with her.
->'''Monkey Blue:''' "Then I'll....I'll ask Pink out for a date! And then....[[IfYouKnowWhatIMean (sinister laughter)]]
* GratuitousEnglish: In the anime, he often says a few short lines in English. To be fair, what he says actually fits in context, and some of his lines are [[SurprisinglyGoodEnglish done quite well.]]
* KingMook: He is basically a boss version of the monkeys that wear blue shorts, as both are faster then the other types.
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: In the anime, his clothes and actions are a ShoutOut to Indiana Jones.


!!Monkey Yellow/Yellow Monkey/Ukki Yellow

* CampGay:

!!Monkey Pink/Pink Monkey/Ukki Pink

* HeyItsThatVoice: Monkey Pink
* Yandere: The song Banana Heartbreak implies this, especially the last few lines:
->''Don't you see I love you, don't you see I love you''
->''I can't spend the rest of my life, I can't spend the rest of my life CRYING''
->''So I'll spend the rest of my life, so I'll spend my entire life chasing you! HERE I COME!''

!!Monkey White/White Monkey/Ukki White

KingMook: Although there are white shorted monkeys in the series, he's actually closer to the green shorts monkeys, as both have goggles and use machinery to attack.


!!Monkey Red/Red Monkey/Ukki Red

RealMenWearPink: He's forced into this situation in the anime. Due to his multiple losses at the hands of the female protagonists (Casi, Helga, and Natalie), Specter makes Ukki Red wear a dress and act as girly as possible. He warms up to it and even knits a quilt with Hegla and Natalie, but afterwards [[AesopAmnesia he reverts back to his old self.]]

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