History Characters / EurekaSeven

''Anime/EurekaSeven'' has an absolutely [[LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters whopping cast]], so it only stands to reason that they all get a close looking at.

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* [[Characters/EurekaSevenOthers Others]] [[labelnote:Click to Expand.]]Adrock Thurston, Blau Iglasias Thurston, Axel Thurston, Rose Thurston, Diane Thurston, Yucatán Iglasias, Charles and Ray Beams, William B. Baxter, Martha Baxter, Master Norb, Sakuya[[/labelnote]]

* [[Characters/EurekaSevenOthers Others]] [[labelnote:Click to Expand.]]Axel Thurston, Diane Thurston, Charles and Ray Beams, William B. Baxter, Martha Baxter, Master Norb, Sakuya[[/labelnote]]

* [[Characters/EurekaSevenNewWaveAndNewVisionCharacters New Wave and New Vision Characters]] [[labelnote:Click to Expand.]] Summer Sturgeon, Ruri, Steven Bisson, Gillian Hamilton, Hooky Zueff, Shaun Banks, Pez Wells[[/labelnote]]

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!!Others

[[folder:Axel Thurston]]
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Renton's strict yet loving grandfather.

->Voiced by: Creator/TakeshiAono (JP), Creator/SteveKramer (EN)
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%%* BadassGrandpa
%%* CoolOldGuy
* CrazyPrepared: In the manga, he tells Holland to go to work while throwing a wrench from his toolkit at his head that's ''specifically'' labeled "For Holland".
* GadgeteerGenius: The biggest in the world.
* GoKartingWithBowser: He and Dominic got along really well, even though Dominic was still on the villain team at the time. He even taught Dominic how to fix his bike, and Dominic promised to check up on his grandson. Then again, he never finds out what side Dominic was on at the time.
%%* JerkWithAHeartOfGold
* OutlivingOnesOffspring: Both his son and granddaughter are gone, hence why he's initially not too eager about Renton's thirst for adventure, fearing that he'll lose him as well.
%%* PapaWolf
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[[folder:Diane Thurston]]
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Renton's long lost sister and Holland's ex-girlfriend.

->Voiced by: Creator/SakikoTamagawa (JP), Peggy O'Neal (EN)
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* ChekhovMIA: A defining part of the series is Diane and her disappearance's effect on Renton and Holland. [[spoiler:It is revealed that she had a relationship with Holland and somehow found her way into the control cluster with her father.]]
* DatingWhatDaddyHates: Or what Granddaddy hates, that is. Suffice to say that Axel didn't approve of Holland.
* DemotedToExtra: In the manga, Diane is a much less significant character. Diane is merely mentioned to have left home and her disappearance is not relevant to the plot. Holland's close relationship with Diane also disappears from the narrative and Holland has a mentor-student relationship with Adrock Thurston instead.
* TheFaceless: Her face isn't shown for the first 35 episodes. Under many different circumstances, her face in flashbacks and photographs is always covered.
* FirstLove: To Holland.
* MarriedToTheJob: She was obsessed with her father's research; so much that it affected her relationship with Holland.
* PromotionToParent: She and Axel were the ones who raised Renton after Adroc's death.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Charles and Ray Beams]]
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A pair of mercenaries-for-hire and a loving couple. They hold a grudge against Holland and Gekkostate in general.

->Charles is voiced by: Creator/JurotaKosugi (JP), Creator/PatrickSeitz (EN)
->Ray is voiced by: Creator/AyaHisakawa (JP), Creator/MelissaFahn (EN)
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* AffablyEvil: They're a nice couple...who have a grudge against TheHeroine.
* AnimalMotifs: As Holland seeks out Renton, one person he interrogates compares Ray to a {{kitsune}} and Charles to a {{tanuki}}.
* AntiVillain: Nicer to Renton than the good guys... Unfortunately, their connections to the military along with [[ItsPersonal a personal grudge]] against Eureka make them enemies of the protagonists.
* BattleCouple: They're married and they fight together.
* BeautyMark: Ray has one under her right eye.
* BerserkButton: Ray was cool and collected when [[spoiler:she was trying to take Renton and holding Eureka and the kids hostage to get him to cooperate]]. However when the kids refer to Eureka as "mama", Ray not knowing they are adopted; she loses it and begins to see Eureka as a monster mocking her for her infertility.
* BladeBelowTheShoulder: On Charles's LFO.
* TheCameo: Charles briefly shows up in ''Gravity Boys & Lifting Girl'', which takes place before he becomes a mercenary, as an acquaintance of Ruri's and to impart some advice onto Sumner in his usual fashion.
* ChangelingFantasy: An interesting take [[spoiler: when they adopt Renton]].
* TheCracker: Ray turns out to be an expert hacker.
* DespairEventHorizon: [[spoiler:Charles' death]] for Ray.
* DiesWideOpen: [[spoiler:Charles.]]
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: They make their first appearance in twin [=LFOs=] riding a ''tandem lifting board''.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: They deeply love each other and genuinely cared for Renton.
* EveryoneWentToSchoolTogether: Both of them were in the SOF with Holland.
* {{Expy}}: They share quite a few similarities with [[Anime/MobileSuitGundam Ral Ramba and Crowley Hamon]]. Both Ral and Charles are friendly [[AntiVillain anti-villains]] who meet the hero during his [[TenMinuteRetirement brief wandering after running away from his ship]], pilot blue {{ace custom}} mechas, and [[spoiler:die in an explosion after a failed invasion of said hero's ship]]. And both Ray and Hamon [[spoiler:get their own deaths in the following episode trying to avenge their fallen husbands]].
* ForgottenFallenFriend: Enemy, technically, but this trope is averted either way. The characters who knew them show these two weren't easily forgotten.
* GenderBlenderName: Ray's name is usually for males.
* HappilyMarried: For instance, when Charles meets Renton he points out how hot his wife is.
* HotbloodedSideburns: Charles has them.
* IdiotHair: Ray has single ahoge.
* ItsPersonal: They hate Eureka because Dewey has convinced them that she's to blame for Ray's infertility.
* MamaBear: Ray becomes quite protective over Renton.
* NeatFreak: Both keep their ship, the ''Swan'', utterly spotless, [[spoiler:which signifies Ray's VillainousBreakdown when she trashes the ship in her grief over losing Charles.]]
* PapaWolf: Charles becomes quite protective over Renton.
* ParentalSubstitute: For Renton [[spoiler:when he ran away.]]
* PunchClockVillain
* RealMenWearPink: Charles wears a purplish-pink shawl t-shirt and pink pants.
* ShoutOut: Their names, to pianist RayCharles and/or designers Charles and Ray Eames.
* SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan: Ray is madly in love with Charles -- the man who has proven to be an affable fellow (when not trying to kill the heroine) and still wanted to marry her even though she thought he would be ashamed of her infertility.
* TakingYouWithMe: [[spoiler: After her plan to kill Eureka and convince Renton to let her adopt him fails, she tries to ram her ship against the Gekko in an effort to kill them all including Renton.]]
* VillainousBreakdown: [[spoiler:Ray]] ''loses'' it when [[spoiler:Charles dies]]. It's heart-rending to see the aftermath of [[spoiler:her]] utterly trashing the ''Swan'' in [[spoiler:her]] grief.
* {{Yandere}}: Ray is a MamaBear variety.
* YouMonster: Ray refers to Eureka as one.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:William B. Baxter]]
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William B. "Will" Baxter is a young man living in the overgrown ruins of a town near Gearnus City with his wife Martha, who is suffering from the Desperation Disease.

->Voiced by: Toshio Furukawa (JP), Keith Silverstein (EN)
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* TheBusCameBack: [[spoiler:After Dewey launches his plan to destroy the Scub Coral with Oratorio Number 8, the impact of the attack causes fragments of the Scub Coral to destroy towers across the planet and send debris flying. The debris begins falling across the planet, with William watching the falling debris fly overhead his farm and turns to see Martha fully conscious due to the Command Cluster being destroyed, standing and smiling at him as his farm is engulfed in an explosion from the debris, killing them both.]]
* EmbarrassingMiddleName: Which is why he doesn't tell Renton what "B" stands for.
* HappilyMarried: Despite Martha having Desperation Disease, she and William have a happy and intimate marriage.
* MysteriousMiddleInitial: William doesn't tell Renton what the "B" in his name stands for because it's an [[EmbarrassingMiddleName embarrassing one.]]
* NiceGuy: Cemented in him helping a collapsed Renton to his devotion to his wife.
* SmallRoleBigImpact: Will was the one who taught Renton the facts of nature and love; to really love and be with someone, he needs to keep his word and face the hardships in front of him. When Will asked Renton if there was someone he wanted to be with if the world ever came to an end, Renton immediately realized he wanted to reconcile with Eureka no matter what she thought of him and began to mature more.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Martha Baxter]]
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The wife of William B. Baxter. She suffers from what Renton first identifies as "Desperation Disease."

->Voiced by: N/A
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* TheBusCameBack: [[spoiler:When the control cluster was destroyed by Oratorio Number 8, her consciousness was brought back to her body which allowed her to regain control of her body. Forced out of her comma like state she walks over to the door of their house and looks at William and they both smile right before they are killed when the farm is crushed from debris from the recently destroyed Oratorio Number 8.]]
* EmotionlessGirl: Justified since she's suffering from Desperation Disease.
* HappilyMarried: Despite Martha having Desperation Disease, she and William have a happy and intimate marriage.
* IllGirl: Martha has Desperation Disease.
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[[folder:Master Norb]]
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A powerful Vodarac priest.

->Voiced by: Creator/RikiyaKoyama (JP), Creator/JunFukuyama (JP, young), Creator/JamiesonPrice (EN), Creator/SamRiegel (EN, young)
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* AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: [[spoiler:The final scene of the series implies that he, along with Sakuya and various other people who merged with the Scub Coral, leave with some of the Scub Coral that departs from the planet.]]
* BunnyEarsLawyer: For a venerated holy man, he sure as hell breaks the mold like you wouldn't believe.
* TheChosenOne: In the past, he was chosen by Sakuya.
%%* CoolOldGuy
* FailureKnight: Part of his backstory, to an extent.
* {{Gasshole}}: Crops up whenever he's dragged into religion vs. science discussions, such as ones that bring up elements like the Vodarac, Coralisn. or Sub-Coralian. Tends to coincide and overlay with ObfuscatingStupidity.
* InterspeciesRomance: With Sakuya.
* ObfuscatingStupidity: Don't be fooled by his love for pizza.
%%* OldMaster
%%* SacrificialLion
%%* SmokingIsCool
* StarCrossedLovers: With Sakuya.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Sakuya]]
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Eureka's predecessor. Because she was a girl of mysterious power, the religious authority of Vodarac thought she was some sort of messiah and placed her in the central part of the temple. They banned any disciple from speaking to her, and allowed very few select disciples to care for her in a highly reverent, if sterile, manner. For forty years since her initial appearance, she had no significant contact with anyone. This changed when Norb was assigned to care for her.

->Voiced by: Creator/AkikoYajima (JP), Jennie Kwan (EN)
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%%* TheAgeless
* AndIMustScream: [[spoiler:She was turned into a giant lotus flower after she and Norb traveled to the Scub Coral.]]
* AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: [[spoiler:At the end of the series, the Nirvash states that Sakuya and the other humans who fused with the Scub will go to the universe beyond the rift in the Great Wall.]]
* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: She fell in love with Norb because he was the first person to truly interact with her rather than merely worship her.
%%* TheChooserOfTheOne
* DefrostingIceQueen: She was pretty much an EmotionlessGirl at first, but [[spoiler:Norb]] managed to defrost her.
%%* ExoticEyeDesigns
%%* FacialMarkings
* FlowerMotifs: The lotus.
* HumanAlien: A humanoid Coralian, just like Eureka.
* InterspeciesRomance: With Norb.
%%* OdangoHair
* OlderThanSheLooks: Is ''at least'' Norb's age, but appears younger than Eureka when we see her. Justified as this is probably how she chooses to project herself, and [[spoiler: it was how she looked when she, well, turned into a giant flower]].
* ThePollyanna: Given her backstory, she has every right to be miserable, but she's easily one of the friendliest and most optimistic characters around from what little we see of her.
%%* PurpleEyes
* StarCrossedLovers: With Norb.
* WhenSheSmiles: Norb says he fell in love with her the moment he saw her smile for the first time.
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: She has lavender hair.
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!!''New Wave'' and ''New Vision'' Characters

[[folder:Sumner Sturgeon]]
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The male protagonist of the video game prequels ''New Wave'' and ''New Vision''. After graduating New Wave Academy, a school for future military recruits, he and most of his friends joined the Sawyer Team KLF group. His beliefs and love for Ruri convince him to rebel against the military at the end of the first game, and [[spoiler: deliver a captured Nirvash to Holland and Eureka]].

In the second game, he, Ruri, and Moondoggie fight against the Azure group and corrupted members of the military, including some of Sumner's old friends, to prevent mass destruction.

->Voiced by: Creator/HiroShimono (JP), Creator/SamRiegel (EN)

* TheAce: Explicitly referred to as the ace of the Sawyer Team.
* AcePilot: The star of New Wave (and then the Sawyer Team), after Ruri leaves. Even years later, he hasn't lost his touch and ranks among the best.
* {{Adorkable}}: He can be endearingly flustered and/or enthusiastic. Less so in ''New Vision'', having grown up a bit, but it's still there at times.
* BattleCouple: With Ruri in ''New Vision''.
* BeenThereShapedHistory: [[spoiler:He was the one who delivered the Nirvash to the Gekkostate.]]
* BlackSheep: Of the famous Sturgeon family, after he chose to quit officer academy and join New Wave, and then doubly so after he defected from the military.
* BrokenAce: Becomes this by ''New Vision''. Compared to the AcePilot before who thought everything was new and shiny and amazing, the LegallyDead RetiredBadass he's turned into admits that lifting is now just another way to keep himself fed, and he's beginning to forget how he used to feel back in the old days.
* BrokenPedestal: In ''Gravity Boys & Lifting Girl'', his favourite brother Torino becomes this after Sumner witnesses him shooting (and killing) the brother of one of Sumner's friends.
* TheCameo: Sumner and Ruri make a brief appearance in the anime. He also appears in the manga's epilogue, in a panel alongside [[CanonImmigrant Ruri]], Moondoggie, and Gidget.
* DesperatelyLookingForAPurposeInLife: His main goal, and part of why he keeps chasing after/sticking with Ruri despite her occasionally questionable treatment of him, as he hopes that being with her will help guide him.
* TheDitherer: His main problem: he doesn't really know what he wants to do.
* EveryoneWentToSchoolTogether: He attended the same high school as Gillian and Steven. This being Sumner, he doesn't even remember them.
* ExtremeDoormat: Starts off as one for his family in the ''Gravity Boys & Lifting Girl''.
* FakingTheDead: Albeit not by choice. After defecting from the military, he's declared officially dead rather than a traitor so as to not shame the Sturgeon name, so he just rolls with it.
* {{Fanboy}}: It's somewhat of a RunningGag that he's an LFO fanboy, weirding some people out. He also idolizes B.B. as a teenager, with that respect showing itself even as an adult where he uses the same moniker in a lifting tournament once.
* ForgottenFirstMeeting: With... just about the entire cast barring Hooky. Shaun and Pez tried to mug him once (though they don't seem to remember him either), and he utterly fails to retain any info about Gillian and Steven's existences during the years they attend school together. And, of course, there's the entire mess with Ruri.
* GoodIsNotSoft: He's a genuinely nice and compassionate guy, but when push comes to shove? He ends up killing a fair amount of former allies provided they tried to kill him first.
* GoodLookingPrivates: One of the family servants notes how handsome he is in his military uniform.
* GrewASpine: This is especially noticeable in the Japanese version, where he switches from ''boku'' [[JapanesePronouns to the more assertive]] ''ore'' by the end of ''New Wave''.
* HeelFaceTurn: Mostly for Ruri, hence why he's somewhat bitter in ''New Vision'', believing that she ditched him afterwards.
* IHaveNoSon: His family pulls this on him after the events of ''New Wave''. You don't get much more disowned than being declared LegallyDead so that the family can save face.
* IgnoreTheFanservice: In ''Gravity Boys & Lifting Girl'', he never seems to acknowledge that he knows a ''very'' attractive older woman whom his (more hormonal) friends immediately fall for. According to her, it's because of his SingleTargetSexuality for B.B.
* InnocentlyInsensitive: ''God'', it's almost painful to see how oblivious he is around Gillian.
* IWillFindYou: His objective at the end of ''New Wave'', after losing everything, is to find Ruri.
* JadeColoredGlasses: A mild version in ''New Vision'', in that he's still rather idealistic, but also a fair bit grumpier thanks to his experiences in ''New Wave''.
* JerkassRealization: He initially assumes his classmates are shallow jerks who only see him as a Sturgeon, before realizing that ''he'' was the shallow jerk for immediately dismissing them like that based on an ultimately false assumption.
* LegallyDead: After the events of ''New Wave''. See FakingTheDead above.
* LonelyRichKid: Played with. At age fourteen, he's rich and he's mostly friendless, but it's somewhat self-imposed as he automatically assumes everyone only focuses on his family name. Once he realizes that he's wrong and lets himself become part of a social circle, he's much happier.
* LoveAtFirstSight: He became infatuated with Ruri since the first time he saw her... not that he knows that it was her.
* LoveMartyr: For Ruri, to an extent. Her being TroubledButCute doesn't do wonders for their relationship and Sumner knows it, but he's devoted to her all the same.
* MassiveNumberedSiblings: He has five older brothers. It probably says something about his family that he doesn't seem to be close with any of them but Torino.
* MilitaryBrat: However, rather than staying in officer academy like his father wanted, he joined New Wave.
* NiceGuy: In ''New Wave'', compared to his SugarAndIcePersonality in ''Gravity Boys & Lifting Girl'' and the more [[OnlySaneMan beleaguered attitude]] he develops in ''New Vision''.
* NotSoAboveItAll: Claims he was never competing with Hooky--before insisting that he ''won'' that last 'tie', thank you very much.
* ObliviousToLove: To Gillian's.
* OnlySaneMan: Between him, Ruri, and Moondoggie.
-->'''Sumner:''' There are three of us here, but it doesn't matter. I'm still alone. I guess what I'm trying to say is why don't these two DO ANY OF THE WORK!?
* TheQuietOne: Used to be this. It was part of what attracted Gillian to him.
* RetiredBadass: The retirement was forced on him, what with being LegallyDead, but he amounts to this in the beginning of ''New Vision'', with both Wes and Moondoggie bemoaning how all of his talent as an AcePilot is going to waste.
* SingleTargetSexuality: Without even realizing it! Utter lack of interest in anyone else aside, he was mildly obsessive over both B.B. and the girl he saw once by chance, as others note, but ends up with Ruri--except they're all the same person.
* StepfordSmiler: Develops into one in ''Gravity Boys & Lifting Girl'' upon realizing how empty his life is, having everything decided for him by his family.
* SugarAndIcePersonality: As a teenager, due to believing his classmates only saw him as a Sturgeon. Around others and once he realized that wasn't the case for everyone, he's significantly warmer.
* UnderestimatingBadassery: Frequent in the beginning of ''New Vision''. Unlike some of the other [[AcePilot Ace Pilots]] on this page, Sumner falls off the radar, so most people assume he's your run-of-the-mill punk who pilots an LFO... without realizing that he used to be one of the military's ''best''.
* VitriolicBestBuds: With Moondoggie. Sumner's clearly exasperated with him half the time, but is good friends with him nevertheless.

[[folder:Ruri]]
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Sumner's love interest. In ''New Wave'', she left New Wave Academy after learning about the military's insidious motives. Although her efforts to rebel lead her to aligning with black market dealers, she eventually reunites with Sumner long enough to help him realize what path he should follow.

In ''New Vision'', Ruri is able to meet Sumner again, and they ([[AndZoidberg and Moondoggie]]) try to stop a military scheme that is driving their own pilots insane. After the conflict is over, she and Sumner remain together.

Ruri also made an appearance in the manga adaptation. Here, she is a spy for Gekko State in the military, and helps them fight Dewey's plans, as well as facilitate in Dominic's HeelFaceTurn.

->Voiced by: Creator/MegumiToyoguchi (JP), Creator/MichelleRuff (EN)

* AcePilot: As noted below, she was TheAce of New Wave until she left.
* ActionGirl: She can hold her own both in an LFO and outside of one.
* BadassAdorable: A GenkiGirl who's happy to brawl whether in an LFO or not.
* BareYourMidriff: Both her outfit in ''New Wave'' and in ''New Vision''.
* BattleCouple: With Sumner in ''New Vision''.
* BigEater: If the ramen-eating competition is any indication.
* BluebirdOfHappiness: In ''Gravity Boys & Lifting Girl'', she's associated with this for Gillian's little sister (with the bluebird itself being her AnimalMotif back then).
* BoobsOfSteel: The least fragile out of all the heroines in the E7 world, and has by far the largest chest.
* BrokenAce: She was TheAce of New Wave before Sumner, but possesses a deep-rooted insecurity of being dependent on others.
* BrokenBird: Not immediately obvious, but she's got a fair amount of issues underneath her energetic personality.
* TheCameo: Briefly appears in the anime alongside Sumner.
* CanonImmigrant: Started as a main character in the prequel video games (that are prequels to the anime) and then became a main character in the manga, which is an adaptation of the anime (albeit one that goes in a completely different direction).
* DangerouslyShortSkirt: Wears one as part of her New Wave uniform, and unlike Gillian, she's happy to wield it to its full potential.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: She's grown up on the streets and in poverty.
* DefectorFromDecadence: She left the military of her own volition once she realized how far the corruption ran.
* DoesNotLikeMen: Presumably due to growing up in the slums, she's not hugely fond of the male gender in ''Gravity Boys & Lifting Girl'', citing them all to be idiots (or, to Gillian, perverts), though she doesn't outwardly express it much and seems to later abandon that mindset either way.
* EtTuBrute: Flame's--that is, her old mentor's--betrayal sends her into a HeroicBSOD.
* FieryRedhead: Her hair's a mix between red and brown (though considered red in the manga), and she's certainly got a loud personality to match.
* GenkiGirl: Though it occasionally veers into ObfuscatingStupidity.
* HeroicBSOD:
** As a teenager, she falls into a depressed mood for quite some time after being outed as a girl as B.B.
** Upon realizing Flame's true nature, though she quickly snaps out of it.
* HoneyTrap: She's not above seducing her targets to win their trust before she double-crosses them.
* ImportantHaircut: In ''Gravity Boys & Lifting Girl'', where she cuts her hair as acceptance of her femininity with it now being too short to stuff her under cap.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Though she's lost the grumpiness from her teenage days (in ''Gravity Boys & Lifting Girl''), she's still prone to being flighty and inconsiderate. And like with Holland and Talho, said lack of consideration isn't exactly healthy for her love life.
* ManicPixieDreamGirl: Played straight in ''New Wave'', as the one who forces Sumner out of his comfort zone. Subverted in ''New Vision'', where it becomes clear that she's got her own problems.
* MasterOfDisguise: She's sure fond of it, in any case.
* TheMole: What she was originally in the manga, before making her true allegiance known
* ObfuscatingStupidity: Typically to hide her true motives.
* PaperThinDisguise: Her disguises when she shows up before Sumner are half-hearted at best, and yet he ''still'' can't recognize her, even while ''actively thinking about her''. Granted, this is probably more because of how Sumner is than anything.
* PassionateSportsGirl: In ''Gravity Boys & Lifting Girl'', she ''lives'' to lift. Her passion dies down when she no longer needs it to escape her life, but she still has a fondness for it.
* SelectiveObliviousness: She completely refuses to believe that Flame could be a villain until she has unrefutable evidence that he tried to have her killed.
* ShortTank: The {{Tomboy}} LoveInterest to Sumner with the outfit to match.
* SpiritedCompetitor: She shows signs of this when initially refusing to take on a job as a pizza delivery guy... until she hears that they've got a 5-minute speed record.
* StreetUrchin: She grew up on the streets, and as she notes that she can't remember a time when she wasn't independent, it's likely she's been an orphan for a long time.
* {{Stripperiffic}}: Especially jarring in the manga, where where she first appears as a conservatively dressed scientist, then switches to her ''New Wave'' outfit.
* SweetPollyOliver: As a teenager in ''Gravity Boys & Lifting Girl'', since girls weren't allowed to participate in the lifting tournament.
* TankTopTomboy: In ''New Vision''.
* TheTease: She can be flirty at times.
* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: The Tomboy to Gillian's Girly Girl.
* TomboyWithAGirlyStreak: After embracing her femininity, she enjoys things like make-up and doesn't mind wearing mini skirts, but she's still a tomboy at heart, through and through.
* TomboyishPonytail: In ''New Vision''.
* TookALevelInCheerfulness: Over the course of ''Gravity Boys & Lifting Girl'', she goes from a bitter punk to a GenkiGirl.
* TroubledButCute: A female version, which puts a strain on her and Sumner's relationship, particularly in ''New Vision''. As Sumner notes, most guys wouldn't even think of kissing a girl like her.
* UnsettlingGenderReveal: To the man who tried to assault her in prison while she was sleeping: suffice to say the guy noticed the "boy" was lacking certain... ''parts''.
* WasItAllALie: Gillian asks this after discovering that Ruri is a girl and (falsely) assuming that she's given up lifting, though she admits afterwards that she wasn't really talking to Ruri (but rather venting her feelings about Sumner, having seen some of him in Ruri).
* WhoWearsShortShorts: In ''New Wave''.

[[folder:Steven Bisson]]
One of Sumner's companions when he was a member of Sawyer Team. Between ''New Wave'' and ''New Vision'', an experimental drug given to him by the military drives him insane, turning him into one of the main antagonists of the second game.

->Voiced By: Creator/MasakazuMorita (JP), Creator/LiamOBrien (EN, Uncredited)

* AbusiveParents: When Steven was about to announce his intentions to go against his family's wishes (regarding his fate post-graduation) during his valedictorian speech, his father's response was to rush up to him and strike him in front of the entire audience.
* AlasPoorVillain: [[spoiler:Steven, Ruri, Gillian, and Hooky all mourn him after his death, both because he was their friend and because it wasn't entirely his fault to begin with.]]
* ArrangedMarriage: In one with Gillian, though they apparently break it off sometime between ''New Wave'' and ''New Vision''.
* BigBad: [[BigBadEnsemble One of them]] in ''New Vision''.
* BlackSheep: Presumably became this for his family after choosing not to go to officer academy and instead joining up with New Wave.
* CrazyJealousGuy: For the most part, he hides it well and doesn't let it interfere in his friendship with Sumner, but Steven's definitely taken notice of Gillian's feelings for Sumner. It's hinted to contribute to his SanitySlippage in ''New Vision''.
* EtTuBrute: Sumner's defection is implied to have been one of the nails in the coffin for Steven.
* LonelyAtTheTop: Suggested towards the end of ''New Vision'', where his insanity has its reached its peak and he seems ''genuinely'' glad to see Sumner and co. (who are there to take him down) and invites them to enjoy the view with him.
* MilitaryBrat: Same story as Sumner.
* NiceGuy: He comes across as this in ''New Wave'' (having lost his uptight attitude from ''Gravity Boys & Lifting Girl''), making his SanitySlippage all the more tragic in ''New Vision''.
* NotQuiteDead: Every time you might think the guy's been killed, he turns out to be alive.
* NotSoAboveItAll: As a teenager, he initially comes across as a rule-abiding StudentCouncilPresident, but he still helps referee Sind and Lotte's lifting match, and for all of his insistence that ghosts don't exist, he's just as easily freaked out when they think they see one.
* PsychopathicManchild: Degrades into this once he starts having a VillainousBreakdown.
* RebelliousSpirit: He becomes a downplayed one towards the end of ''Gravity Boys & Lifting Girl''. It may or may not have been what contributed to his SanitySlippage much later on.
* SanitySlippage: In ''New Vision''.
* StudentCouncilPresident: During his high school years.
* TragicVillain: In Ruri's words, he was ultimately another victim of CFS.
* VitriolicBestBuds: With Hooky.
* WeUsedToBeFriends: His opinion of Sumner in ''New Vision'', despite Sumner's belief that they still ''are'' friends.
* WhiteHairBlackHeart: Averted in ''Gravity Boys & Lifting Girl'' and ''New Wave'', but ultimately plays it straight as a BigBad in ''New Vision''.
* {{Yandere}}: Implied towards the end of ''New Vision'', where he seems fixated on Gillian in particular (to the point of firing specifically at her when he attacks Sumner and co.).

[[folder:Gillian Hamilton]]
One of Sumner's companions when he was a member of Sawyer Team, and Steven's fiancée. She works alongside Hooky in ''New Vision'', where she hunts down the traitors Sumner and Ruri.

->Voiced By: Creator/ChieNakamura (JP), Creator/JulieAnnTaylor (EN, Uncredited)

* AntiVillain: In ''New Vision''. She doesn't do anything honestly antagonistic and mostly acts as a harmless PunchClockVillain (with a touch of ItsPersonal).
* ArrangedMarriage: With Steven.
* FriendlyEnemy: In ''New Vision'', albeit with some prodding.
* HeelFaceTurn: In ''New Vision'' alongside Hooky.
* HerHeartWillGoOn: A platonic version. [[spoiler:Even after Gillian's sister dies, Ruri notes that Gillian keeps on lifting, "getting as high up to heaven as she can."]]
* HiddenDepths: The "Fair Lady" chapter reveals much about her mindset and personality when not revolving around her crush on Sumner. InUniverse, Ruri admits to herself that she might've been wrong about upper class girls like Gillian.
* HopelessSuitor: Sumner didn't even realize she existed until they became teammates.
* KillTheOnesYouLove: [[spoiler:She's ultimately the one who pulls the trigger on Steven]].
* OnlySaneMan: During the ramen-eating competition, as the only one to question why they're doing this instead of, you know, capturing Sumner and Ruri like they're supposed to.
* PluckyGirl: Especially in ''Gravity Boys & Lifting Girl'', where she continues to lift after [[spoiler:her sister's death]].
* ProperTightsWithASkirt: Invoked by her, disgusted at how revealing the female uniform for New Wave is.
* SmittenTeenageGirl: She was one for Sumner. As an adult, she keeps her feelings more subdued (partly because she's realized she doesn't really stand a chance).
* SpiritedYoungLady: An upper class girl who gets into lifting--seen as a sport for punks--and ends up joining the controversial New Wave.
* TheSquadette: After Ruri leaves, she's the sole female member of New Wave/the Sawyer Team.
* SugarAndIcePersonality: Nicknamed "Miss Iron-Skirt" by Hooky for a reason. She tends to be uptight and came across as outright cold in her first meeting with Ruri, but she's a caring person underneath.
* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Girly Girl to Ruri's Tomboy.
* UnableToCry: [[spoiler:When Steven dies]].
* WhatDoesSheSeeInHim: Edie, her best friend (and a ChildhoodFriend of Sumner's) asks this regarding her feelings for Sumner.
* WhenYouComingHomeDad: Her father's shown to be frequently busy with work in ''Gravity Boys & Lifting Girl'', though Gillian doesn't seem as affected by it as her little sister.

[[folder:Hooky Zueff]]
One of Sumner's companions when he was a member of Sawyer Team. Initially possessing a crush on Ruri, he considers Sumner his rival until Sumner beats him in a fight. During the timeskip between ''New Wave'' and ''New Vision'', he's promoted to second lieutenant.

->Voiced By: Creator/WataruTakagi (JP), Creator/DerekStephenPrince (EN, Uncredited)

* AntiVillain: In ''New Vision'', as he remains pretty friendly with Sumner and co. in spite of everything.
* CannotTalkToWomen: Steven and Gillian have nicknamed him the Bashful Womanizer for this reason.
* FriendlyEnemy: In ''New Vision''. He's happy to have a ramen-eating competition with the very people he's supposed to be arresting.
* FunnyAfro: When he's not wearing a hat. In Steven's words, that hair can''not'' be within military regulations.
* GracefulLoser: In spite of how obsessed he is over Ruri, he backs down just as promised after losing to Sumner.
* HeWillNotCrySoICryForHim: A gender-flipped version--he cries when Gillian can't.
* HeadbuttingHeroes: He and Shaun don't get along very well, due to a rocky history together. The two end up in outright blows while in Bester, before Sumner and Wes intervene.
* HeelFaceTurn: In ''New Vision'' alongside Gillian.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: For all of his bluster, he's a fairly amiable guy once he warms up to you.
* SerialRomeo: He's quick to develop crushes in the military.
* StalkerWithACrush: Towards Ruri at first. He gets over it quickly.
* UnknownRival: To Sumner, who initially isn't even aware that Hooky is competing him with him for Ruri.
* TeethClenchedTeamwork: Again, with Shaun.
* VitriolicBestBuds: With Steven.

[[folder:Shaun Banks]]
One of Sumner's companions when he was a member of Sawyer Team, as well as being one of the first members.

->Voiced By: Creator/MitsuakiMadono (JP), Creator/DanWoren (EN, Uncredited)

* EveryoneHasStandards: Chews out the vigilante corps in Bester for acting like bullies. [[spoiler:And as Pez notes, Shaun couldn't stand copycats, making it highly unlikely he chose to use CFS of his own volition.]]
* HeadbuttingHeroes: With Hooky, as noted under his section.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: With Pez.
* IdiotHero: He has shades of this during his teenage years, being fairly thick-headed and reckless compared to Pez, Ruri, and even Hooky.
* {{Jerkass}}: Most of the time, and especially at first.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: However, he does have his nice moments. He's a loyal friend (who lays off some of the obnoxiousness once he warms up to you), and he's seen to be pretty displeased over the new corruption in his hometown of Bester.
* NotSoDifferent: Ruri comes to think this way in ''Gravity Boys & Lifting Girl'' when she sees that even a bunch of punks like him and Pez have something they're working towards with all their effort.
* OddFriendship: With Pez, who's his complete opposite in personality.
* PetTheDog: In ''Gravity Boys & Lifting Girl'', the first major sign of Shaun's heart of gold is him choosing to be a SecretKeeper for Ruri/B.B. for no reason other than not wanting to ruin a potential friendship.
* SanitySlippage: Thanks to using the CFS in ''New Vision''.
* SecretKeeper: Knew "B.B" was a girl, but chose not to use it against Ruri, citing to Pez that she would never let him be her friend if he did.
* StreetUrchin: ''Gravity Boys & Lifting Girl'' reveals that he used to live on the streets with Pez.
* TeethClenchedTeamwork: With Hooky.
* ThoseTwoGuys: With Pez.

[[folder:Pez Wells]]
One of Sumner's companions when he was a member of Sawyer Team, as well as being one of the first members alongside Shaun.

->Voiced By: Creator/YasuyukiKase (JP), Erik Davies (EN, Uncredited)

* AntiVillain: In ''New Vision''--unsurprising, given that he was the NiceGuy of the Sawyer team, aside from Sumner.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Though someone who, up until then, had been a rather passive, kind person, [[spoiler:his betrayal of Steven and dying words]] makes it clear why you should ''not'' mess with his best friend.
* DistressedDude: He has to be rescued at one point in ''New Wave'' by Sumner, due to being trapped in a bandit-ridden mine with his LFO too damaged for combat.
* DyingDeclarationOfHate: [[spoiler:What his dying speech to Steven amounts to.]]
* GadgeteerGenius: He manages to get an LFO up and running.
* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:Rather than blaming Sumner for killing Shaun, he blames Steven, believing that he pushed Shaun to using the CFS]].
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:He helps Sumner and Ruri, despite knowing the consequences--that is, Steven kills him for it]].
* HeterosexualLifePartners: With Shaun.
* NiceGuy: Especially when next to Shaun.
* NotSoDifferent: From Ruri, as noted by her. See Shaun's section for the details.
* OddFriendship: With Shaun.
* SecretKeeper: For B.B./Ruri.
* StreetUrchin: ''Gravity Boys & Lifting Girl'' reveals that he used to live on the streets with Shaun.
* ThoseTwoGuys: With Shaun.

!!Others

[[folder:Axel Thurston]]
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Renton's strict yet loving grandfather.

->Voiced by: Creator/TakeshiAono (JP), Creator/SteveKramer (EN)
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%%* BadassGrandpa
%%* CoolOldGuy
* CrazyPrepared: In the manga, he tells Holland to go to work while throwing a wrench from his toolkit at his head that's ''specifically'' labeled "For Holland".
* GadgeteerGenius: The biggest in the world.
* GoKartingWithBowser: He and Dominic got along really well, even though Dominic was still on the villain team at the time. He even taught Dominic how to fix his bike, and Dominic promised to check up on his grandson. Then again, he never finds out what side Dominic was on at the time.
%%* JerkWithAHeartOfGold
* OutlivingOnesOffspring: Both his son and granddaughter are gone, hence why he's initially not too eager about Renton's thirst for adventure, fearing that he'll lose him as well.
%%* PapaWolf
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Diane Thurston]]
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Renton's long lost sister and Holland's ex-girlfriend.

->Voiced by: Creator/SakikoTamagawa (JP), Peggy O'Neal (EN)
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* ChekhovMIA: A defining part of the series is Diane and her disappearance's effect on Renton and Holland. [[spoiler:It is revealed that she had a relationship with Holland and somehow found her way into the control cluster with her father.]]
* DatingWhatDaddyHates: Or what Granddaddy hates, that is. Suffice to say that Axel didn't approve of Holland.
* DemotedToExtra: In the manga, Diane is a much less significant character. Diane is merely mentioned to have left home and her disappearance is not relevant to the plot. Holland's close relationship with Diane also disappears from the narrative and Holland has a mentor-student relationship with Adrock Thurston instead.
* TheFaceless: Her face isn't shown for the first 35 episodes. Under many different circumstances, her face in flashbacks and photographs is always covered.
* FirstLove: To Holland.
* MarriedToTheJob: She was obsessed with her father's research; so much that it affected her relationship with Holland.
* PromotionToParent: She and Axel were the ones who raised Renton after Adroc's death.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Charles and Ray Beams]]
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A pair of mercenaries-for-hire and a loving couple. They hold a grudge against Holland and Gekkostate in general.

->Charles is voiced by: Creator/JurotaKosugi (JP), Creator/PatrickSeitz (EN)
->Ray is voiced by: Creator/AyaHisakawa (JP), Creator/MelissaFahn (EN)
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* AffablyEvil: They're a nice couple...who have a grudge against TheHeroine.
* AnimalMotifs: As Holland seeks out Renton, one person he interrogates compares Ray to a {{kitsune}} and Charles to a {{tanuki}}.
* AntiVillain: Nicer to Renton than the good guys... Unfortunately, their connections to the military along with [[ItsPersonal a personal grudge]] against Eureka make them enemies of the protagonists.
* BattleCouple: They're married and they fight together.
* BeautyMark: Ray has one under her right eye.
* BerserkButton: Ray was cool and collected when [[spoiler:she was trying to take Renton and holding Eureka and the kids hostage to get him to cooperate]]. However when the kids refer to Eureka as "mama", Ray not knowing they are adopted; she loses it and begins to see Eureka as a monster mocking her for her infertility.
* BladeBelowTheShoulder: On Charles's LFO.
* TheCameo: Charles briefly shows up in ''Gravity Boys & Lifting Girl'', which takes place before he becomes a mercenary, as an acquaintance of Ruri's and to impart some advice onto Sumner in his usual fashion.
* ChangelingFantasy: An interesting take [[spoiler: when they adopt Renton]].
* TheCracker: Ray turns out to be an expert hacker.
* DespairEventHorizon: [[spoiler:Charles' death]] for Ray.
* DiesWideOpen: [[spoiler:Charles.]]
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: They make their first appearance in twin [=LFOs=] riding a ''tandem lifting board''.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: They deeply love each other and genuinely cared for Renton.
* EveryoneWentToSchoolTogether: Both of them were in the SOF with Holland.
* {{Expy}}: They share quite a few similarities with [[Anime/MobileSuitGundam Ral Ramba and Crowley Hamon]]. Both Ral and Charles are friendly [[AntiVillain anti-villains]] who meet the hero during his [[TenMinuteRetirement brief wandering after running away from his ship]], pilot blue {{ace custom}} mechas, and [[spoiler:die in an explosion after a failed invasion of said hero's ship]]. And both Ray and Hamon [[spoiler:get their own deaths in the following episode trying to avenge their fallen husbands]].
* ForgottenFallenFriend: Enemy, technically, but this trope is averted either way. The characters who knew them show these two weren't easily forgotten.
* GenderBlenderName: Ray's name is usually for males.
* HappilyMarried: For instance, when Charles meets Renton he points out how hot his wife is.
* HotbloodedSideburns: Charles has them.
* IdiotHair: Ray has single ahoge.
* ItsPersonal: They hate Eureka because Dewey has convinced them that she's to blame for Ray's infertility.
* MamaBear: Ray becomes quite protective over Renton.
* NeatFreak: Both keep their ship, the ''Swan'', utterly spotless, [[spoiler:which signifies Ray's VillainousBreakdown when she trashes the ship in her grief over losing Charles.]]
* PapaWolf: Charles becomes quite protective over Renton.
* ParentalSubstitute: For Renton [[spoiler:when he ran away.]]
* PunchClockVillain
* RealMenWearPink: Charles wears a purplish-pink shawl t-shirt and pink pants.
* ShoutOut: Their names, to pianist RayCharles and/or designers Charles and Ray Eames.
* SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan: Ray is madly in love with Charles -- the man who has proven to be an affable fellow (when not trying to kill the heroine) and still wanted to marry her even though she thought he would be ashamed of her infertility.
* TakingYouWithMe: [[spoiler: After her plan to kill Eureka and convince Renton to let her adopt him fails, she tries to ram her ship against the Gekko in an effort to kill them all including Renton.]]
* VillainousBreakdown: [[spoiler:Ray]] ''loses'' it when [[spoiler:Charles dies]]. It's heart-rending to see the aftermath of [[spoiler:her]] utterly trashing the ''Swan'' in [[spoiler:her]] grief.
* {{Yandere}}: Ray is a MamaBear variety.
* YouMonster: Ray refers to Eureka as one.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:William B. Baxter]]
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William B. "Will" Baxter is a young man living in the overgrown ruins of a town near Gearnus City with his wife Martha, who is suffering from the Desperation Disease.

->Voiced by: Toshio Furukawa (JP), Keith Silverstein (EN)
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* TheBusCameBack: [[spoiler:After Dewey launches his plan to destroy the Scub Coral with Oratorio Number 8, the impact of the attack causes fragments of the Scub Coral to destroy towers across the planet and send debris flying. The debris begins falling across the planet, with William watching the falling debris fly overhead his farm and turns to see Martha fully conscious due to the Command Cluster being destroyed, standing and smiling at him as his farm is engulfed in an explosion from the debris, killing them both.]]
* EmbarrassingMiddleName: Which is why he doesn't tell Renton what "B" stands for.
* HappilyMarried: Despite Martha having Desperation Disease, she and William have a happy and intimate marriage.
* MysteriousMiddleInitial: William doesn't tell Renton what the "B" in his name stands for because it's an [[EmbarrassingMiddleName embarrassing one.]]
* NiceGuy: Cemented in him helping a collapsed Renton to his devotion to his wife.
* SmallRoleBigImpact: Will was the one who taught Renton the facts of nature and love; to really love and be with someone, he needs to keep his word and face the hardships in front of him. When Will asked Renton if there was someone he wanted to be with if the world ever came to an end, Renton immediately realized he wanted to reconcile with Eureka no matter what she thought of him and began to mature more.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Martha Baxter]]
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The wife of William B. Baxter. She suffers from what Renton first identifies as "Desperation Disease."

->Voiced by: N/A
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* TheBusCameBack: [[spoiler:When the control cluster was destroyed by Oratorio Number 8, her consciousness was brought back to her body which allowed her to regain control of her body. Forced out of her comma like state she walks over to the door of their house and looks at William and they both smile right before they are killed when the farm is crushed from debris from the recently destroyed Oratorio Number 8.]]
* EmotionlessGirl: Justified since she's suffering from Desperation Disease.
* HappilyMarried: Despite Martha having Desperation Disease, she and William have a happy and intimate marriage.
* IllGirl: Martha has Desperation Disease.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Master Norb]]
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A powerful Vodarac priest.

->Voiced by: Creator/RikiyaKoyama (JP), Creator/JunFukuyama (JP, young), Creator/JamiesonPrice (EN), Creator/SamRiegel (EN, young)
----
* AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: [[spoiler:The final scene of the series implies that he, along with Sakuya and various other people who merged with the Scub Coral, leave with some of the Scub Coral that departs from the planet.]]
* BunnyEarsLawyer: For a venerated holy man, he sure as hell breaks the mold like you wouldn't believe.
* TheChosenOne: In the past, he was chosen by Sakuya.
%%* CoolOldGuy
* FailureKnight: Part of his backstory, to an extent.
* {{Gasshole}}: Crops up whenever he's dragged into religion vs. science discussions, such as ones that bring up elements like the Vodarac, Coralisn. or Sub-Coralian. Tends to coincide and overlay with ObfuscatingStupidity.
* InterspeciesRomance: With Sakuya.
* ObfuscatingStupidity: Don't be fooled by his love for pizza.
%%* OldMaster
%%* SacrificialLion
%%* SmokingIsCool
* StarCrossedLovers: With Sakuya.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Sakuya]]
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Eureka's predecessor. Because she was a girl of mysterious power, the religious authority of Vodarac thought she was some sort of messiah and placed her in the central part of the temple. They banned any disciple from speaking to her, and allowed very few select disciples to care for her in a highly reverent, if sterile, manner. For forty years since her initial appearance, she had no significant contact with anyone. This changed when Norb was assigned to care for her.

->Voiced by: Creator/AkikoYajima (JP), Jennie Kwan (EN)
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%%* TheAgeless
* AndIMustScream: [[spoiler:She was turned into a giant lotus flower after she and Norb traveled to the Scub Coral.]]
* AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: [[spoiler:At the end of the series, the Nirvash states that Sakuya and the other humans who fused with the Scub will go to the universe beyond the rift in the Great Wall.]]
* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: She fell in love with Norb because he was the first person to truly interact with her rather than merely worship her.
%%* TheChooserOfTheOne
* DefrostingIceQueen: She was pretty much an EmotionlessGirl at first, but [[spoiler:Norb]] managed to defrost her.
%%* ExoticEyeDesigns
%%* FacialMarkings
* FlowerMotifs: The lotus.
* HumanAlien: A humanoid Coralian, just like Eureka.
* InterspeciesRomance: With Norb.
%%* OdangoHair
* OlderThanSheLooks: Is ''at least'' Norb's age, but appears younger than Eureka when we see her. Justified as this is probably how she chooses to project herself, and [[spoiler: it was how she looked when she, well, turned into a giant flower]].
* ThePollyanna: Given her backstory, she has every right to be miserable, but she's easily one of the friendliest and most optimistic characters around from what little we see of her.
%%* PurpleEyes
* StarCrossedLovers: With Norb.
* WhenSheSmiles: Norb says he fell in love with her the moment he saw her smile for the first time.
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: She has lavender hair.
[[/folder]]

!!United Federation Force

[[folder:Dewey Novak]]
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The main antagonist. Once a disgraced military official following Holland's defection, he ultimately seizes control over the United Federation Forces so he can lead a crusade to destroy the Coralians [[TheUnfettered at all costs]].

->Voiced by: Creator/KoujiTsujitani (JP), Creator/KimStrauss (EN)

* AlasPoorVillain: [[spoiler:In spite of all the atrocities he committed, he was still Holland's brother, and so Holland cries for him after his death.]]
* AloofBigBrother: [[spoiler:To Holland.]]
%%* AmbitionIsEvil
%%* AuthorityEqualsAssKicking
%%* BadassCape
* BigBad: The main antagonist of the series who is trying to kill the Coralians.
%%* BitchInSheepsClothing
* BrokenPedestal: For Dominic, who very obviously respects the man up until the point he realizes what a monster Dewey is.
* CainAndAbel: [[spoiler:The Cain to Holland's Abel.]]
* TheChessmaster: In a complicated and carefully calculated plan, he undermines the public's faith in the Sage Council and overthrows them.
%%* ColonelBadass
* DarkMessiah: Becomes one, when the [[spoiler:Ritual of the King]] becomes laid out to us.
* FamilialReveal: [[spoiler:He is Holland's older brother]].
* FauxAffablyEvil: While he can be charming and seductive in order to get what he wants, he is ultimately revealed to be a [[AxCrazy psychotic]] megalomaniac driven solely by his hatred for the Scub Coral [[spoiler: and his brother, Holland]].
* ImpoverishedPatrician: According to the lifestory he recounts to Anemone, he's allegedly descended from a noble family responsible for leading humanity's exodus from Earth. [[spoiler: After Dewey murders his father in order to become the family's new patriarch, the Novak family is deprived of its legitimacy and he and Holland are forced into poverty.]]
* ItsAllAboutMe: While he claims to be acting in the interests of mankind, it is ultimately revealed that he cares about nothing but satisfying his hunger for vengeance against a world which he perceives has wronged him since his childhood.
* KnightTemplar: He sincerely believes in his cause, and he's all the more nasty because of it. [[spoiler: Subverted towards the end of the series when you find out [[OmnicidalManiac his idea of "saving" the world means destroying it.]]]]
* LackOfEmpathy: Despite being prone to melancholy bouts of self-pity over an unhappy childhood (much of it do to his own making), he has no regard for the well-being of those around him and is downright contemptuous of displays of compassion. When Dominic objects to how he repeatedly refers to Anemone as a "thing", he [[EvilLaugh laughs derisively]] at his subordinate's concern before coldly dismissing him.
* LightIsNotGood: He wears an all white uniform and is the BigBad of the series.
* ManipulativeBastard: [[spoiler:How he preys off of Anemone's abandonment issues in Episode 36 is downright creepy. "My sweet little Anemone..."]]
* MyDeathIsJustTheBeginning: [[spoiler:By declaring that his death will bring forth a new world, Dewey shoots himself in the head to set his plan of planetary genocide in motion.]]
* NeverMyFault: Blames Holland for the succession ritual failing when he caused it in the first place.
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: His character bears an uncanny resemblance to [[http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Hitler Adolf Hitler]], the dictator of Nazi Germany, given how he similarly plots a campaign of mass murder and deception that causes devastation on a global scale in order to satisfy his own hatred.
* OmnicidalManiac: [[spoiler: Despite professing to be the savior of mankind, he admits towards the end of the series that his real objective is to preserve humanity's "dignity" by destroying it along with the Scub Coral.]]
* ParentalSubstitute: In the manga, it's implied he was one for Dominic.
* PetTheDog: In the manga, he thinks back to fond memories of the times he and Holland spent together as children before his death (may count as both a CrowningMomentOfHeartWarming, TearJerker, and AlasPoorVillain all at the same time). In the anime, he is depicted as a thoroughly [[ItsAllAboutMe egocentric]] and [[LackofEmpathy coldhearted]] individual with no humanizing moments aside from a brief flashback to his childhood where he is seen visibly grief-stricken over the death of his mother.
* SelfMadeOrphan: Dewey kills his and Holland's father in an attempt to perform the "Sacrificial King" ritual
%%* {{Ubermensch}}
* TheUnfettered: There is ''nothing'' he will not do in pursuit of his goal.
* VillainTeamUp: With the [[Anime/AfterWarGundamX Frost Bros.]] and [[Anime/TurnAGundam Gym Gingham]] in ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWarsZ''.
* VillainWithGoodPublicity: Through his combined talents of charisma and intelligence, he seizes control of the United Federation and begins a murderous campaign to rid the world of the Scub Coral.
* WouldHurtAChild: Or murder them en masse to be more specific.
* WhiteHairBlackHeart: His gray hair is often depicted as white and he's the sociopath BigBad.
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Has gray hair.

[[folder:Anemone]]
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Pilot of the Federation LFO, Nirvash typeTheEND. Prone to violent mood swings that can only be controlled through the use of sedatives, she refuses to listen to anyone other than Dewey. Owns a strange badger-like pet named Gulliver.

->Voiced by: Creator/AmiKoshimizu (JP), Creator/KariWahlgren (EN)

* AcePilot: She's a great pilot who prefers to ambush her opponents and rain blow after blow upon them. However, she's only that way because she uses a PsychoSerum before she pilots.
* AdaptationalHeroism: In the manga. She's a lot nicer, especially [[LesYay toward Eureka]]. And Dominic at the end.
* AngerBornOfWorry: [[spoiler:When she goes to save Dominic after she accidentally attacks him with her mech while he's falling from the sky, clinging to a ref board to try and save her. She admonishes him for doing something so reckless, even though they're ''both'' in a freefall at this point. Now she's normally been pretty harsh on poor Dominic until now, but fortunately for him, she lets it slide. Cue BigDamnKiss.]]
* AntiVillain: As we discover more of her true personality and tragic past.
* AxCrazy: When she takes the serum, Anemone becomes ''viciously'' determined to kill her enemy with, even with overkill.
* BadassAdorable: A cute young lady with pink hair? Check. Can pilot [=theEnd=] like a pro? ''Double'' check.
* BelatedLoveEpiphany: [[spoiler:She realizes she is in love with Dominic around the time of his HeelFaceTurn when she thinks he has abandoned her, which leads to a far more serious DespairEventHorizon for her.]]
* BeneathTheMask: Her DaddysLittleVillain attitude is revealed to be a facade.
* BloodKnight: She loves violence, at least when she is on her PsychoSerum.
* BrokenBird: In the later part of the series reveals that she is in fact a lonely and mentally damaged girl who desperately wants to live a normal life and find someone to love and love her in return. Especially apparent in episode 48, where even Eureka's children note how sad she sounds.
* CharacterDevelopment: Anemone goes from PsychoForHire to angst ridden BrokenBird to [[TookALevelInKindness a nicer young lady]] [[WhenSheSmiles who can give a genuine smile.]]
* ChildhoodFriendRomance: With Dominic in the manga.
* CrazyConsumption: Mmmmm, [[FanDisservice strawberry jam.]]
%%* CuteAndPsycho
* DaddysLittleVillain: For Dewey. Turns out to be a subversion; she puts on a facade of admiring Dewey because she's terrified of being killed by him if she becomes useless in his eyes. In truth, Anemone is disgusted by him.
* DarkActionGirl: A psycho AcePilot who also doubles as the EvilCounterpart to the TheHeroine. [[spoiler:Thankfully, she pulls a HeelFaceTurn.]]
* DarkAndTroubledPast: [[spoiler:Her family was murdered when she was a child and later was diagnosed with Desperation Disease. She was then subject to horrible experiments to become Coralian-like.]]
* DarkMagicalGirl: Shows more traits of this as the series goes on. She's an AntiVillain and the heroine's EvilCounterpart who seeks to please the BigBad and is terrified of being abandoned and finally [[spoiler:makes a HeelFaceTurn thanks to ThePowerOfLove]].
* DefrostingIceQueen: Towards Dominic by the end.
* DevotedToYou: Her bitchy and psycho personality and constant abuse doesn't affect Dominic's devotion to her at all. He will always protect her no matter what.
* DomesticAbuser: She's got it in for poor Dominic for most of the series.
* EmotionlessGirl: Was apparently this before the start of the series, as Dominic and Dewey note that she has a personality now. She does have [[spoiler:Desperation Disease, after all.]]
* EvilCounterpart: To Eureka. Both are the AcePilot of their organization and have a LoveEpiphany when their love interest vanishes. They each even have their own MoralityPet (the kids for Eureka, Gulliver for Anemone). However, Anemone is with the United Federation, while Eureka is a member of Gekkostate. They also contrast in color scheme: Anemone is red (violent and emotional) and Eureka is blue (reserved and calm). [[spoiler:Subverted in the end. She became the way she was because of the constant inhuman expreiments forced on her by Dewey, who she really hates. That and her HeelFaceTurn at the end shows she never was "evil".]]
* EvilIsHammy:
** "Ha ha! Wow, what great reactions! That why - ''I'm going to have to '''kill you!!!'''"''
** Japanese version: "Hello, my look-alike! Want me to kill you?!"
* EvilLaugh: When she fights.
* EvilRedhead: She has pink hair and is an antagonistic towards the main characters. She's also the EvilCounterpart of TheHeroine. [[spoiler:Subverted at the end. She was never "evil" and only did what she did because of Dewey's emotional manipulations of her. She makes a full HeelFaceTurn by the end of the series.]]
* ExoticEyeDesigns: Her purple eyes each have a single straight line etched across them.
* FakeUltimateHero: Dewey dressed her up as one in later arcs.
* FreudianExcuse: The reason behind her personality is the frequent inhumane experiments she was forced to endure at a young age and Dewey's emotional manipulations.
* HairDecorations: Her hair clip and diadem.
* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:She abandons the U.F. Force after Dominic shows up to try and save her in her final battle against Renton and Eureka, which makes her realize he still loves her.]]
* HiddenDepths: She's introduced as a crazy psycho, but then the reveal is brought up on ''how'' she became the way she is. And in a private soliloquy, she admits she desperately wants a normal life with someone she truly loves.
* HumanAllAlong: Her appearance and role (and possibly her name) seem to imply that she is a Coralian. It turns out she's just a human [[spoiler:whose appearance and abilities have been modified by horrible military experiments]].
* IJustWantToBeNormal: Anemone desperately wants to be normal.
* IJustWantToBeLoved: Besides wanting to have [[IJustWantToBeNormal a normal life]], Anemone also wants to find someone to love and who will also truly love her.
* IllGirl: As a result of these grueling experimentations, she regularly suffers from painful headaches, nose bleeds, and emotional instability, most of which can be temporarily treated with a drug injected into a receptor in her neck.
* ImAHumanitarian: During her first encounter with Renton in a dream state she tries to eat him.
* InsecureLoveInterest: Anemone never thought that Dominic would really love someone like her.
* InterspeciesRomance: She (artificial Humanoid Coralian) and Dominic (human).
* ItIsDehumanizing: Dewey and [[MadScientist Deckard]] refer to her as an "it."
* {{Jerkass}}: Moody, callous, and prone to violent outbursts.
* JerkassHasAPoint: While biting him on the lip may have been excessive, Anemone was correct in the fact that Dominic hardly knew anything about her.
* LatexSpaceSuit: She wears a black form-fitting suit with nipple highlights when she pilots [=TheEND=] (and she does ''that'' suspended from all limbs in the cockpit in a way that accentuates her form even more).
* LightFeminineAndDarkFeminine: The dark to Eureka's light.
* LoveHurts: [[spoiler:When Dominic seemingly abandons her, she finally realizes how much he means to her, but believes it's all too late. She delivers a gut-wrenching soliloquy, convinced that she doesn't deserve to live. Fortunately, Dominic arrives just in time.]]
* LoveRedeems: [[spoiler:In Episode 48, her love for Dominic changes her for the better.]]
* MeaningfulName: Named after anemones, flowers linked to bloodshed in Greek and Christian mythology.
* MilitaryBrat: She was found by the Federation military and taken in to be a human military experiment.
* MistressAndServantBoy: Her relationship with Dominic.
* ModestyShorts: Wears them under her dress and they are seen rarely.
* MoodSwinger: Goes from violent to emotionless to cheerful at a drop of a hat.
* MoralityPet: To [[PunchClockVillain Dominic]] -- he acts his kindest when around her.
* MusclesAreMeaningless: Anemone, a girl with a slim body type, manages to easily carry and hold her pet fat badger, Gulliver. An action that causes trouble to the more muscular and older Colonel Jurgens.
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: See MeaningfulName above. Also applies to [=TheEND=].
* NightmareFuelStationAttendant: [[spoiler:One can be pretty sure all those drugs and experimentation had something to do with it, but still...]]
* OfficialCouple: With Dominic.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: In the manga, she has no name, "Anemone" is the name Dominic gave her.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: For most of the series, Anemone hates taking the neurological stimulants. However, the moment she takes them ''willingly'' signifies how desperate she is to please Dewey.
* PhlebotinumGirl: A young girl that definitely isn't a normal human, the pilot of a powerful HumongousMecha and [[spoiler:a test subject of an attempt to copy Eureka's Coralian nature]]. She's used and manipulated as a human weapon, blindly follows the orders of her evil boss and is both very physically frail and mentally unstable.
* PsychicNosebleed: In this case, used as an indicator of the abuse her job puts on her mind and body rather than actual PsychicPowers.
* PsychoForHire: When she is on her PsychoSerum.
* PsychoSerum: {{Zig Zagged}}. She seems to have a growing dependence on a specialized drug, but it serves more as a painkiller which makes her crazy rather than a mutagen.
* PsychoticSmirk: Quite often.
* PurpleEyes: Has purple eyes because of the experiments done on her to become an artificial Coralian.
* RedemptionEarnsLife: [[spoiler:After her HeelFaceTurn, she gets to live and begin a happy life with Dominic.]]
* RedOniBlueOni: The red (loud, emotional, and violent) to Eureka's blue (quiet, reserved, and calm).
* ReverseGrip: [=TheEND=]'s swords.
* RoseHairedSweetie: Inverted. It's pink-haired, orange-themed Anemone that's the near-crazy AntiVillain to Eureka's blue-themed heroine. [[spoiler: Played straight by the end, when she's freed from Dewey's influence and reforms.]]
* SanityStrengthening: She starts off as a violently psychotic TykeBomb, but grows much stabler in the presence of her handler/guardian Dominic. Late in the series, he manages to restore her sanity completely through ThePowerOfLove.
* SingleTargetSexuality: [[spoiler:Realizes that she's Dominic-sexual.]]
* SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan: [[spoiler:She ends up falling for DoggedNiceGuy Dominic who would always take care of her just because he wanted to.]]
* SlasherSmile: Almost all the time when fighting.
* SweetTooth: In the manga.
* TheTease: In the manga, she has fun asking Renton if he wants to sleep with her. She also seems to make passes [[LesYay at Eureka.]]
* TookALevelInCheerfulness: [[spoiler:Being freed from Dewey, plus becoming an OfficialCouple with Dominic made Anemone a truly happy person.]]
* TookALevelInKindness: [[spoiler:At the end of the series, due to her being free from Dewey and no longer being drugged, she becomes more pleasant and friendly.]]
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: She ''loves'' jam.
* {{Tsundere}}: PlayedForDrama. She spends most of the series being absolutely brutal towards poor Dominic. Eventually, [[spoiler:she realizes she is in love with him and she regrets not telling him how she felt before he went AWOL.]]
* {{Tykebomb}}: Raised by [[BigBad Dewey]] to defeat and kill Eureka.
* UnknownRival: To Eureka.
* VillainousBSOD: [[spoiler:After multiple failures against the Nirvash. It gets worse when Dominic seemingly abandons her.]]
* WeWantOurJerkBack: In the manga, Anemone undergoes a treatment that suddenly makes her act sweet and affectionate. This only freaks Dominic out and is relieved when she goes back to normal.
* WhenSheSmiles: Dominic comments that her truly happy face is beautiful in Episode 48.
* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: She was raised to defeat and kill Eureka. She also lost her family in a war and diagnosed with Desperation Disease later on. Afterwards, she was subjected to horrible experiments to turn her into a humanoid Coralian. While she survived, Anemone was left mentally and physically scarred.
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Pink hair, in her case.
* YouHaveFailedMe: She is terrified of being replaced for failing too much.

[[folder:Dominic Sorel]]
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An elite officer in the U.F. Force and Dewey's confidant. He also has the unenviable job of looking after Anemone who, despite [[LoveMartyr being on the receiving end of a very abusive relationship with her]], he is actually fond of.

->Voiced by: Creator/ShigenoriYamazaki (JP), Peter Doyle (EN)

* AdaptationalBadass: Not that he wasn't already a {{Badass}} in the anime, but he gets to see more of the action in the manga. Lampshaded in a sketch with various comments from the cast about the manga series, where Dominic comments that he was pretty cool.
* {{Adorkable}}: He's serious and blunt about his work, but is just ''adorable'' when he's lost or if he's looking dreamily at Anemone.
* AntiVillain: He takes orders from his superiors seriously, but considers himself [[FriendlyEnemy a friend of Renton]] despite being on the opposite side.
* BadassAdorable: Despite being slightly older than TheHero, Dominic gets his {{adorkable}} moments while still being a badass officer.
* BigBrotherMentor: He acts as one to Renton in the manga, particularly in Ch. 20 when Renton's having a HeroicBSOD.
* {{Bishonen}}: Even Anemone comments on it.
* TheCaretaker: To Anemone.
* CharacterDevelopment: Dominic begins to question the motives behind to why he fights and what he should be doing. He eventually realizes how [[spoiler:messed up Dewey is and makes a HeelFaceTurn.]]
* ChildhoodFriendRomance: With Anemone in the manga.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Dominic was a young child when he lost his entire family in the civil war that began in the aftermath of The First Summer of Love and he was taken in by Dewey, who taught him to be a soldier.
* DeathByAdaptation: [[spoiler:He's killed towards the end of the manga.]]
* DeclarationOfProtection: He will NOT stand for something interfering with Anemone's well-being.
* DefectorFromDecadence: [[spoiler:He finally abandons the U.F. Force when he sees several girls being subjected to brutal, and ultimately fatal experiments in an attempt to made them into [=TheEND=]'s pilots. Especially when he realizes Anemone had to go through the same.]]
* DefusingTheTykebomb: He tries to do this for Anemone. [[spoiler:It eventually works.]]
* {{Determinator}}: Did we mention yet that he ''shrugged off laser burns'' to save Anemone in the manga? Not to mention his ShutUpHannibal moment before that, or afterwards when he puts up with the pain--if not putting himself in ''more'' pain--to get him and Anemone out of there.
* DoggedNiceGuy: To Anemone. [[spoiler:[[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming His perseverance ultimately]] [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome pays off.]]]]
* DudeWheresMyRespect: There are men in the military far older than him and yet of much lower rank, who often have trouble obeying his orders. Dominic is also aware that commanding officers give him a hard time following his orders for Dewey as they think he's still a kid.
* EasilyForgiven: The Gekkostate crew decides to trust him implicitly as soon as he shows similarities to Renton, especially his commitment to the one he loves.
* EnemyMine: He and Renton are forced to work together to save Eureka and Anemone.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: "Evil" is a little much for him, but he does has someone he cares about: [[MoralityPet Anemone]]. He's as equally devoted and in love with her as Renton is to Eureka.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Calling him evil is a bit of a stretch, but he will NOT stand for [[spoiler:inhumane experiments performed on young women to make them into pilots for [=TheEND=]. ESPECIALLY if Anemone already suffered through such a treatment herself.]]
* EvilCounterpart: To Renton. Both are relatively new members to an organization, and are given little respect by the other members. The only person of the organization they have a close connection with is an AcePilot girl they quickly become devoted to. Both of them are WideEyedIdealist and go through a BrokenPedestal moment with their organization's leader. However, while Renton is with Gekkostate, Dominic is with the Federation. [[spoiler:Subverted since Dominic was never truly "evil" and made a HeelFaceTurn near the end.]]
* FreudianExcuse: As a result of having been orphaned at a young age and seen the effects of a war, Dominic becomes stoic and blunt towards others, and takes his duty as a soldier seriously.
* FriendlyEnemy: He considers Renton (who is a member of the Federation's enemy) as a friend.
* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:Near the end of the series, he abandons U.F. Force and joins Gekkostate's side.]]
* HeelRealization:
** In the anime, Dominic realizes how sadistic his organization is [[spoiler: when he sees girls, just like Anemone, undergo brutal, and ultimately fatal, experimentation in the lab.]] Cue the VomitDiscretionShot and [[spoiler: his HeelFaceTurn.]]
** In the manga, this occurs when Ruri informs him of Dewey's true motives, with Dominic realizing that everything he's fought for up until now was a lie.
* HeroicBSOD: Coinciding with his HeelRealization above, though it doesn't last for long.
* HeroicSacrifice: In the manga, via YouShallNotPass fashion, [[spoiler:as he shields Renton from a hoard of Coralians.]]
* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: In the manga.
* ImprobableHairstyle: The back part of his hair stands up on its own.
* InnocentlyInsensitive: When Dominic gives Anemone a couple of anemones as a present, she asks if he's mocking her -- he didn't realize that anemones mean "disappearing hope."
* InterspeciesRomance: He (human) and Anemone (artificial Humanoid Coralian).
* LivingEmotionalCrutch: [[spoiler:To Anemome. She finally realizes it after he seemingly abandons her and she hits the DespairEventHorizon.]]
* LoveMartyr: His endurance of Anemone's [[{{Jerkass}} condescending manner]] and [[DomesticAbuse physical assault]] is '''legendary.'''
* MeaningfulName: Originally from the late Roman-Italic name "Dominicus" its translation means "Of Our Lord", "Lordly", "Belonging to God" or "of the Master". This fits with him being the servant of Dewey and Anemone, both who outrank him.
* MistressAndServantBoy: His relationship with Anemone.
* MusclesAreMeaningless: You don't realize it until you see him twist the arms of thugs twice his size without any visible effort, as well as his ability to shoulder Anemone's improbably heavy Gulliver without extreme strain. There's also the stuff he does while saving Anemone in the manga, like shrugging off ''laser burns''.
* MyCountryRightOrWrong: {{Deconstructed}}. Dominic is loyal to Dewey's cause, but comes to be greatly disturbed by his amoral actions and disregard to Anemone's mental well-being.
* NiceGuy: Develops into one Post-HeelFaceTurn; he's now a humble, polite, respectful man to those he initially considered beneath him.
* NoSenseOfDirection: You know you're bad when [[IdiotHero Renton]] calls you out on it.
-->'''Dominic:''' Is "west" the direction of the hand you hold a fork with?
* NotSoDifferent: To Renton, who is also devoted to protecting the girl he loves.
* OfficialCouple: With Anemone.
* OnlyFriend: He is the closest to Anemone (sans Gulliver) and he genuinely cares about her.
* OrphansOrdeal: As revealed in Episode 44. It helps to explain why he's so devoted to Anemone - hers is the closest connection he has with another person.
* PunchClockVillain: He may work for the United Federation, but he's only doing his job.
* ShutUpHannibal: In response to a [[MindScrew hallucinated skeletal Dewey]] trying to BreakThemByTalking, in the manga.
* SingleTargetSexuality: Dominic has no interest in other girls, except one: Anemone.
* SubordinateExcuse: While Anemone doesn't outrank him, it should be clear that he chose this position for something more than a good paycheck.
* SugarAndIcePersonality: He can be cold at times, mainly when on the job, but he's a pretty nice guy otherwise.
* TeethClenchedTeamwork: With Jurgens, pre-HeelFaceTurn.
* ToBeLawfulOrGood: [[spoiler:Once it's clear that this divide exists to begin with, he easily chooses 'good,' even telling Jurgens that there isn't even a choice.]]
* TokenGoodTeammate: Between Dewey, Anemone, and the Ageha squad children, he's about the only one who's actually trying to do the morally right thing.
* TookALevelInKindness: From Ep. 45 and onwards, as signified by his newfound friendship with Jurgens and Gulliver, neither of whom he got along with before due to his previous uptight behaviour.
* VomitIndiscretionShot: In Episodes 43 and 44.
* WideEyedIdealist: A bit subtler than most, but still very naive about how the world and human relationships work.
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Dominic has greenish-black hair.

[[folder:Gulliver]]
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->'''Voiced by:''' None

Anemone's pet badger.

* FatCat: A badger variant. It is immensely overweight, and therefore can not be easily transported or moved.
* MoralityPet: To [[AxCrazy Anemone]]. He is the only one she shows a gentler side to.
* ShipperOnDeck: For Dominic/Anemone. He [[spoiler:puts their hands together as they are all falling from the sky.]]
* TeamPet: For the Federation, but specifically towards Dominic and Anemone.
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Like Anemone, Gulliver appears to really like jam.

[[folder:The Ageha Squad]]
A group of specially-trained children who answer directly to Dewey.

* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: They admire Dewey and follow his orders because of this.
* CuteAndPsycho: The sage Coda notes they're beautiful children. This is right before [[EstablishingCharacterMoment one of them shoots a maid in the head]] with no hesitation.
* EnfantTerrible: Despite their young age, they're some of the most psychotic characters around in the series.
* EvilCounterpart: To Anemone. They all work under Dewey and are CuteAndPsycho. However, Anemone isn't truly "evil" and actually despises Dewey; the Ageha Squad are shown to be more cold-hearted than Anemone and truly admire Dewey.
* FreudianExcuse: [[spoiler: They were victims of an ethnic cleansing. Apparently Dewey was the first one to show them kindness.]]
* NoNameGiven: Their names are never revealed.
* ShadowArchetype: To Anemone. They represent what she could've become had she actually cared for Dewey.
* TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior: They show no qualms with murder and gleefully follow Dewey's messed up orders.
* {{Tykebomb}}: Raised by [[BigBad Dewey]] to help him with his nefarious plans.

[[folder:Captain Jurgens]]
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Captain of the Federation flagship ''Izumo''.

->Voiced by: Tetsuo Komura (JP), Creator/MichaelMcConnohie (EN)

%%* AntiVillain
%%* BadassMustache
* BigBrotherMentor: Mild version to Dominic.
* ColonelBadass: His rank equates to this. Besides, [[spoiler: being willing to take on an entire enemy armada in one ship takes some balls!]]
* DarkAndTroubledPast: His wife and daughter were killed in a battle at Warsaw.
* DefectorFromDecadence: [[spoiler:Sides with Gekkostate after witnessing the inhuman experiments done to make artificial humanoid Coralians.]]
* DemotedToExtra: While a minor character to begin with, he only appears once in the manga and then never again, with the role of facilitating Dominic's HeelFaceTurn going to Ruri instead.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: He draws the line at [[spoiler:horrible experiments and deliberately harming innocent people.]]
%%* AFatherToHisMen
%%* HeelFaceTurn
* ItsPronouncedTropay: His name is pronounced YOOR-gens.
%%* PunchClockVillain
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: For starters, he reads ''Ray=out'' and actually takes it seriously when the heroes reveal information in it.
* ShipperOnDeck: He's all for Dominic/Anemone.
* TeethClenchedTeamwork: With Dominic at first.
* ToBeLawfulOrGood: He chooses good.
* YouShallNotPass: Tries to pull this off in Episode 49 with his crew.

!!''New Wave'' and ''New Vision'' Characters

[[folder:Sumner Sturgeon]]
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The male protagonist of the video game prequels ''New Wave'' and ''New Vision''. After graduating New Wave Academy, a school for future military recruits, he and most of his friends joined the Sawyer Team KLF group. His beliefs and love for Ruri convince him to rebel against the military at the end of the first game, and [[spoiler: deliver a captured Nirvash to Holland and Eureka]].

In the second game, he, Ruri, and Moondoggie fight against the Azure group and corrupted members of the military, including some of Sumner's old friends, to prevent mass destruction.

->Voiced by: Creator/HiroShimono (JP), Creator/SamRiegel (EN)

* TheAce: Explicitly referred to as the ace of the Sawyer Team.
* AcePilot: The star of New Wave (and then the Sawyer Team), after Ruri leaves. Even years later, he hasn't lost his touch and ranks among the best.
* {{Adorkable}}: He can be endearingly flustered and/or enthusiastic. Less so in ''New Vision'', having grown up a bit, but it's still there at times.
* BattleCouple: With Ruri in ''New Vision''.
* BeenThereShapedHistory: [[spoiler:He was the one who delivered the Nirvash to the Gekkostate.]]
* BlackSheep: Of the famous Sturgeon family, after he chose to quit officer academy and join New Wave, and then doubly so after he defected from the military.
* BrokenAce: Becomes this by ''New Vision''. Compared to the AcePilot before who thought everything was new and shiny and amazing, the LegallyDead RetiredBadass he's turned into admits that lifting is now just another way to keep himself fed, and he's beginning to forget how he used to feel back in the old days.
* BrokenPedestal: In ''Gravity Boys & Lifting Girl'', his favourite brother Torino becomes this after Sumner witnesses him shooting (and killing) the brother of one of Sumner's friends.
* TheCameo: Sumner and Ruri make a brief appearance in the anime. He also appears in the manga's epilogue, in a panel alongside [[CanonImmigrant Ruri]], Moondoggie, and Gidget.
* DesperatelyLookingForAPurposeInLife: His main goal, and part of why he keeps chasing after/sticking with Ruri despite her occasionally questionable treatment of him, as he hopes that being with her will help guide him.
* TheDitherer: His main problem: he doesn't really know what he wants to do.
* EveryoneWentToSchoolTogether: He attended the same high school as Gillian and Steven. This being Sumner, he doesn't even remember them.
* ExtremeDoormat: Starts off as one for his family in the ''Gravity Boys & Lifting Girl''.
* FakingTheDead: Albeit not by choice. After defecting from the military, he's declared officially dead rather than a traitor so as to not shame the Sturgeon name, so he just rolls with it.
* {{Fanboy}}: It's somewhat of a RunningGag that he's an LFO fanboy, weirding some people out. He also idolizes B.B. as a teenager, with that respect showing itself even as an adult where he uses the same moniker in a lifting tournament once.
* ForgottenFirstMeeting: With... just about the entire cast barring Hooky. Shaun and Pez tried to mug him once (though they don't seem to remember him either), and he utterly fails to retain any info about Gillian and Steven's existences during the years they attend school together. And, of course, there's the entire mess with Ruri.
* GoodIsNotSoft: He's a genuinely nice and compassionate guy, but when push comes to shove? He ends up killing a fair amount of former allies provided they tried to kill him first.
* GoodLookingPrivates: One of the family servants notes how handsome he is in his military uniform.
* GrewASpine: This is especially noticeable in the Japanese version, where he switches from ''boku'' [[JapanesePronouns to the more assertive]] ''ore'' by the end of ''New Wave''.
* HeelFaceTurn: Mostly for Ruri, hence why he's somewhat bitter in ''New Vision'', believing that she ditched him afterwards.
* IHaveNoSon: His family pulls this on him after the events of ''New Wave''. You don't get much more disowned than being declared LegallyDead so that the family can save face.
* IgnoreTheFanservice: In ''Gravity Boys & Lifting Girl'', he never seems to acknowledge that he knows a ''very'' attractive older woman whom his (more hormonal) friends immediately fall for. According to her, it's because of his SingleTargetSexuality for B.B.
* InnocentlyInsensitive: ''God'', it's almost painful to see how oblivious he is around Gillian.
* IWillFindYou: His objective at the end of ''New Wave'', after losing everything, is to find Ruri.
* JadeColoredGlasses: A mild version in ''New Vision'', in that he's still rather idealistic, but also a fair bit grumpier thanks to his experiences in ''New Wave''.
* JerkassRealization: He initially assumes his classmates are shallow jerks who only see him as a Sturgeon, before realizing that ''he'' was the shallow jerk for immediately dismissing them like that based on an ultimately false assumption.
* LegallyDead: After the events of ''New Wave''. See FakingTheDead above.
* LonelyRichKid: Played with. At age fourteen, he's rich and he's mostly friendless, but it's somewhat self-imposed as he automatically assumes everyone only focuses on his family name. Once he realizes that he's wrong and lets himself become part of a social circle, he's much happier.
* LoveAtFirstSight: He became infatuated with Ruri since the first time he saw her... not that he knows that it was her.
* LoveMartyr: For Ruri, to an extent. Her being TroubledButCute doesn't do wonders for their relationship and Sumner knows it, but he's devoted to her all the same.
* MassiveNumberedSiblings: He has five older brothers. It probably says something about his family that he doesn't seem to be close with any of them but Torino.
* MilitaryBrat: However, rather than staying in officer academy like his father wanted, he joined New Wave.
* NiceGuy: In ''New Wave'', compared to his SugarAndIcePersonality in ''Gravity Boys & Lifting Girl'' and the more [[OnlySaneMan beleaguered attitude]] he develops in ''New Vision''.
* NotSoAboveItAll: Claims he was never competing with Hooky--before insisting that he ''won'' that last 'tie', thank you very much.
* ObliviousToLove: To Gillian's.
* OnlySaneMan: Between him, Ruri, and Moondoggie.
-->'''Sumner:''' There are three of us here, but it doesn't matter. I'm still alone. I guess what I'm trying to say is why don't these two DO ANY OF THE WORK!?
* TheQuietOne: Used to be this. It was part of what attracted Gillian to him.
* RetiredBadass: The retirement was forced on him, what with being LegallyDead, but he amounts to this in the beginning of ''New Vision'', with both Wes and Moondoggie bemoaning how all of his talent as an AcePilot is going to waste.
* SingleTargetSexuality: Without even realizing it! Utter lack of interest in anyone else aside, he was mildly obsessive over both B.B. and the girl he saw once by chance, as others note, but ends up with Ruri--except they're all the same person.
* StepfordSmiler: Develops into one in ''Gravity Boys & Lifting Girl'' upon realizing how empty his life is, having everything decided for him by his family.
* SugarAndIcePersonality: As a teenager, due to believing his classmates only saw him as a Sturgeon. Around others and once he realized that wasn't the case for everyone, he's significantly warmer.
* UnderestimatingBadassery: Frequent in the beginning of ''New Vision''. Unlike some of the other [[AcePilot Ace Pilots]] on this page, Sumner falls off the radar, so most people assume he's your run-of-the-mill punk who pilots an LFO... without realizing that he used to be one of the military's ''best''.
* VitriolicBestBuds: With Moondoggie. Sumner's clearly exasperated with him half the time, but is good friends with him nevertheless.

[[folder:Ruri]]
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Sumner's love interest. In ''New Wave'', she left New Wave Academy after learning about the military's insidious motives. Although her efforts to rebel lead her to aligning with black market dealers, she eventually reunites with Sumner long enough to help him realize what path he should follow.

In ''New Vision'', Ruri is able to meet Sumner again, and they ([[AndZoidberg and Moondoggie]]) try to stop a military scheme that is driving their own pilots insane. After the conflict is over, she and Sumner remain together.

Ruri also made an appearance in the manga adaptation. Here, she is a spy for Gekko State in the military, and helps them fight Dewey's plans, as well as facilitate in Dominic's HeelFaceTurn.

->Voiced by: Creator/MegumiToyoguchi (JP), Creator/MichelleRuff (EN)

* AcePilot: As noted below, she was TheAce of New Wave until she left.
* ActionGirl: She can hold her own both in an LFO and outside of one.
* BadassAdorable: A GenkiGirl who's happy to brawl whether in an LFO or not.
* BareYourMidriff: Both her outfit in ''New Wave'' and in ''New Vision''.
* BattleCouple: With Sumner in ''New Vision''.
* BigEater: If the ramen-eating competition is any indication.
* BluebirdOfHappiness: In ''Gravity Boys & Lifting Girl'', she's associated with this for Gillian's little sister (with the bluebird itself being her AnimalMotif back then).
* BoobsOfSteel: The least fragile out of all the heroines in the E7 world, and has by far the largest chest.
* BrokenAce: She was TheAce of New Wave before Sumner, but possesses a deep-rooted insecurity of being dependent on others.
* BrokenBird: Not immediately obvious, but she's got a fair amount of issues underneath her energetic personality.
* TheCameo: Briefly appears in the anime alongside Sumner.
* CanonImmigrant: Started as a main character in the prequel video games (that are prequels to the anime) and then became a main character in the manga, which is an adaptation of the anime (albeit one that goes in a completely different direction).
* DangerouslyShortSkirt: Wears one as part of her New Wave uniform, and unlike Gillian, she's happy to wield it to its full potential.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: She's grown up on the streets and in poverty.
* DefectorFromDecadence: She left the military of her own volition once she realized how far the corruption ran.
* DoesNotLikeMen: Presumably due to growing up in the slums, she's not hugely fond of the male gender in ''Gravity Boys & Lifting Girl'', citing them all to be idiots (or, to Gillian, perverts), though she doesn't outwardly express it much and seems to later abandon that mindset either way.
* EtTuBrute: Flame's--that is, her old mentor's--betrayal sends her into a HeroicBSOD.
* FieryRedhead: Her hair's a mix between red and brown (though considered red in the manga), and she's certainly got a loud personality to match.
* GenkiGirl: Though it occasionally veers into ObfuscatingStupidity.
* HeroicBSOD:
** As a teenager, she falls into a depressed mood for quite some time after being outed as a girl as B.B.
** Upon realizing Flame's true nature, though she quickly snaps out of it.
* HoneyTrap: She's not above seducing her targets to win their trust before she double-crosses them.
* ImportantHaircut: In ''Gravity Boys & Lifting Girl'', where she cuts her hair as acceptance of her femininity with it now being too short to stuff her under cap.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Though she's lost the grumpiness from her teenage days (in ''Gravity Boys & Lifting Girl''), she's still prone to being flighty and inconsiderate. And like with Holland and Talho, said lack of consideration isn't exactly healthy for her love life.
* ManicPixieDreamGirl: Played straight in ''New Wave'', as the one who forces Sumner out of his comfort zone. Subverted in ''New Vision'', where it becomes clear that she's got her own problems.
* MasterOfDisguise: She's sure fond of it, in any case.
* TheMole: What she was originally in the manga, before making her true allegiance known
* ObfuscatingStupidity: Typically to hide her true motives.
* PaperThinDisguise: Her disguises when she shows up before Sumner are half-hearted at best, and yet he ''still'' can't recognize her, even while ''actively thinking about her''. Granted, this is probably more because of how Sumner is than anything.
* PassionateSportsGirl: In ''Gravity Boys & Lifting Girl'', she ''lives'' to lift. Her passion dies down when she no longer needs it to escape her life, but she still has a fondness for it.
* SelectiveObliviousness: She completely refuses to believe that Flame could be a villain until she has unrefutable evidence that he tried to have her killed.
* ShortTank: The {{Tomboy}} LoveInterest to Sumner with the outfit to match.
* SpiritedCompetitor: She shows signs of this when initially refusing to take on a job as a pizza delivery guy... until she hears that they've got a 5-minute speed record.
* StreetUrchin: She grew up on the streets, and as she notes that she can't remember a time when she wasn't independent, it's likely she's been an orphan for a long time.
* {{Stripperiffic}}: Especially jarring in the manga, where where she first appears as a conservatively dressed scientist, then switches to her ''New Wave'' outfit.
* SweetPollyOliver: As a teenager in ''Gravity Boys & Lifting Girl'', since girls weren't allowed to participate in the lifting tournament.
* TankTopTomboy: In ''New Vision''.
* TheTease: She can be flirty at times.
* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: The Tomboy to Gillian's Girly Girl.
* TomboyWithAGirlyStreak: After embracing her femininity, she enjoys things like make-up and doesn't mind wearing mini skirts, but she's still a tomboy at heart, through and through.
* TomboyishPonytail: In ''New Vision''.
* TookALevelInCheerfulness: Over the course of ''Gravity Boys & Lifting Girl'', she goes from a bitter punk to a GenkiGirl.
* TroubledButCute: A female version, which puts a strain on her and Sumner's relationship, particularly in ''New Vision''. As Sumner notes, most guys wouldn't even think of kissing a girl like her.
* UnsettlingGenderReveal: To the man who tried to assault her in prison while she was sleeping: suffice to say the guy noticed the "boy" was lacking certain... ''parts''.
* WasItAllALie: Gillian asks this after discovering that Ruri is a girl and (falsely) assuming that she's given up lifting, though she admits afterwards that she wasn't really talking to Ruri (but rather venting her feelings about Sumner, having seen some of him in Ruri).
* WhoWearsShortShorts: In ''New Wave''.

[[folder:Steven Bisson]]
One of Sumner's companions when he was a member of Sawyer Team. Between ''New Wave'' and ''New Vision'', an experimental drug given to him by the military drives him insane, turning him into one of the main antagonists of the second game.

->Voiced By: Creator/MasakazuMorita (JP), Creator/LiamOBrien (EN, Uncredited)

* AbusiveParents: When Steven was about to announce his intentions to go against his family's wishes (regarding his fate post-graduation) during his valedictorian speech, his father's response was to rush up to him and strike him in front of the entire audience.
* AlasPoorVillain: [[spoiler:Steven, Ruri, Gillian, and Hooky all mourn him after his death, both because he was their friend and because it wasn't entirely his fault to begin with.]]
* ArrangedMarriage: In one with Gillian, though they apparently break it off sometime between ''New Wave'' and ''New Vision''.
* BigBad: [[BigBadEnsemble One of them]] in ''New Vision''.
* BlackSheep: Presumably became this for his family after choosing not to go to officer academy and instead joining up with New Wave.
* CrazyJealousGuy: For the most part, he hides it well and doesn't let it interfere in his friendship with Sumner, but Steven's definitely taken notice of Gillian's feelings for Sumner. It's hinted to contribute to his SanitySlippage in ''New Vision''.
* EtTuBrute: Sumner's defection is implied to have been one of the nails in the coffin for Steven.
* LonelyAtTheTop: Suggested towards the end of ''New Vision'', where his insanity has its reached its peak and he seems ''genuinely'' glad to see Sumner and co. (who are there to take him down) and invites them to enjoy the view with him.
* MilitaryBrat: Same story as Sumner.
* NiceGuy: He comes across as this in ''New Wave'' (having lost his uptight attitude from ''Gravity Boys & Lifting Girl''), making his SanitySlippage all the more tragic in ''New Vision''.
* NotQuiteDead: Every time you might think the guy's been killed, he turns out to be alive.
* NotSoAboveItAll: As a teenager, he initially comes across as a rule-abiding StudentCouncilPresident, but he still helps referee Sind and Lotte's lifting match, and for all of his insistence that ghosts don't exist, he's just as easily freaked out when they think they see one.
* PsychopathicManchild: Degrades into this once he starts having a VillainousBreakdown.
* RebelliousSpirit: He becomes a downplayed one towards the end of ''Gravity Boys & Lifting Girl''. It may or may not have been what contributed to his SanitySlippage much later on.
* SanitySlippage: In ''New Vision''.
* StudentCouncilPresident: During his high school years.
* TragicVillain: In Ruri's words, he was ultimately another victim of CFS.
* VitriolicBestBuds: With Hooky.
* WeUsedToBeFriends: His opinion of Sumner in ''New Vision'', despite Sumner's belief that they still ''are'' friends.
* WhiteHairBlackHeart: Averted in ''Gravity Boys & Lifting Girl'' and ''New Wave'', but ultimately plays it straight as a BigBad in ''New Vision''.
* {{Yandere}}: Implied towards the end of ''New Vision'', where he seems fixated on Gillian in particular (to the point of firing specifically at her when he attacks Sumner and co.).

[[folder:Gillian Hamilton]]
One of Sumner's companions when he was a member of Sawyer Team, and Steven's fiancée. She works alongside Hooky in ''New Vision'', where she hunts down the traitors Sumner and Ruri.

->Voiced By: Creator/ChieNakamura (JP), Creator/JulieAnnTaylor (EN, Uncredited)

* AntiVillain: In ''New Vision''. She doesn't do anything honestly antagonistic and mostly acts as a harmless PunchClockVillain (with a touch of ItsPersonal).
* ArrangedMarriage: With Steven.
* FriendlyEnemy: In ''New Vision'', albeit with some prodding.
* HeelFaceTurn: In ''New Vision'' alongside Hooky.
* HerHeartWillGoOn: A platonic version. [[spoiler:Even after Gillian's sister dies, Ruri notes that Gillian keeps on lifting, "getting as high up to heaven as she can."]]
* HiddenDepths: The "Fair Lady" chapter reveals much about her mindset and personality when not revolving around her crush on Sumner. InUniverse, Ruri admits to herself that she might've been wrong about upper class girls like Gillian.
* HopelessSuitor: Sumner didn't even realize she existed until they became teammates.
* KillTheOnesYouLove: [[spoiler:She's ultimately the one who pulls the trigger on Steven]].
* OnlySaneMan: During the ramen-eating competition, as the only one to question why they're doing this instead of, you know, capturing Sumner and Ruri like they're supposed to.
* PluckyGirl: Especially in ''Gravity Boys & Lifting Girl'', where she continues to lift after [[spoiler:her sister's death]].
* ProperTightsWithASkirt: Invoked by her, disgusted at how revealing the female uniform for New Wave is.
* SmittenTeenageGirl: She was one for Sumner. As an adult, she keeps her feelings more subdued (partly because she's realized she doesn't really stand a chance).
* SpiritedYoungLady: An upper class girl who gets into lifting--seen as a sport for punks--and ends up joining the controversial New Wave.
* TheSquadette: After Ruri leaves, she's the sole female member of New Wave/the Sawyer Team.
* SugarAndIcePersonality: Nicknamed "Miss Iron-Skirt" by Hooky for a reason. She tends to be uptight and came across as outright cold in her first meeting with Ruri, but she's a caring person underneath.
* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Girly Girl to Ruri's Tomboy.
* UnableToCry: [[spoiler:When Steven dies]].
* WhatDoesSheSeeInHim: Edie, her best friend (and a ChildhoodFriend of Sumner's) asks this regarding her feelings for Sumner.
* WhenYouComingHomeDad: Her father's shown to be frequently busy with work in ''Gravity Boys & Lifting Girl'', though Gillian doesn't seem as affected by it as her little sister.

[[folder:Hooky Zueff]]
One of Sumner's companions when he was a member of Sawyer Team. Initially possessing a crush on Ruri, he considers Sumner his rival until Sumner beats him in a fight. During the timeskip between ''New Wave'' and ''New Vision'', he's promoted to second lieutenant.

->Voiced By: Creator/WataruTakagi (JP), Creator/DerekStephenPrince (EN, Uncredited)

* AntiVillain: In ''New Vision'', as he remains pretty friendly with Sumner and co. in spite of everything.
* CannotTalkToWomen: Steven and Gillian have nicknamed him the Bashful Womanizer for this reason.
* FriendlyEnemy: In ''New Vision''. He's happy to have a ramen-eating competition with the very people he's supposed to be arresting.
* FunnyAfro: When he's not wearing a hat. In Steven's words, that hair can''not'' be within military regulations.
* GracefulLoser: In spite of how obsessed he is over Ruri, he backs down just as promised after losing to Sumner.
* HeWillNotCrySoICryForHim: A gender-flipped version--he cries when Gillian can't.
* HeadbuttingHeroes: He and Shaun don't get along very well, due to a rocky history together. The two end up in outright blows while in Bester, before Sumner and Wes intervene.
* HeelFaceTurn: In ''New Vision'' alongside Gillian.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: For all of his bluster, he's a fairly amiable guy once he warms up to you.
* SerialRomeo: He's quick to develop crushes in the military.
* StalkerWithACrush: Towards Ruri at first. He gets over it quickly.
* UnknownRival: To Sumner, who initially isn't even aware that Hooky is competing him with him for Ruri.
* TeethClenchedTeamwork: Again, with Shaun.
* VitriolicBestBuds: With Steven.

[[folder:Shaun Banks]]
One of Sumner's companions when he was a member of Sawyer Team, as well as being one of the first members.

->Voiced By: Creator/MitsuakiMadono (JP), Creator/DanWoren (EN, Uncredited)

* EveryoneHasStandards: Chews out the vigilante corps in Bester for acting like bullies. [[spoiler:And as Pez notes, Shaun couldn't stand copycats, making it highly unlikely he chose to use CFS of his own volition.]]
* HeadbuttingHeroes: With Hooky, as noted under his section.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: With Pez.
* IdiotHero: He has shades of this during his teenage years, being fairly thick-headed and reckless compared to Pez, Ruri, and even Hooky.
* {{Jerkass}}: Most of the time, and especially at first.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: However, he does have his nice moments. He's a loyal friend (who lays off some of the obnoxiousness once he warms up to you), and he's seen to be pretty displeased over the new corruption in his hometown of Bester.
* NotSoDifferent: Ruri comes to think this way in ''Gravity Boys & Lifting Girl'' when she sees that even a bunch of punks like him and Pez have something they're working towards with all their effort.
* OddFriendship: With Pez, who's his complete opposite in personality.
* PetTheDog: In ''Gravity Boys & Lifting Girl'', the first major sign of Shaun's heart of gold is him choosing to be a SecretKeeper for Ruri/B.B. for no reason other than not wanting to ruin a potential friendship.
* SanitySlippage: Thanks to using the CFS in ''New Vision''.
* SecretKeeper: Knew "B.B" was a girl, but chose not to use it against Ruri, citing to Pez that she would never let him be her friend if he did.
* StreetUrchin: ''Gravity Boys & Lifting Girl'' reveals that he used to live on the streets with Pez.
* TeethClenchedTeamwork: With Hooky.
* ThoseTwoGuys: With Pez.

[[folder:Pez Wells]]
One of Sumner's companions when he was a member of Sawyer Team, as well as being one of the first members alongside Shaun.

->Voiced By: Creator/YasuyukiKase (JP), Erik Davies (EN, Uncredited)

* AntiVillain: In ''New Vision''--unsurprising, given that he was the NiceGuy of the Sawyer team, aside from Sumner.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Though someone who, up until then, had been a rather passive, kind person, [[spoiler:his betrayal of Steven and dying words]] makes it clear why you should ''not'' mess with his best friend.
* DistressedDude: He has to be rescued at one point in ''New Wave'' by Sumner, due to being trapped in a bandit-ridden mine with his LFO too damaged for combat.
* DyingDeclarationOfHate: [[spoiler:What his dying speech to Steven amounts to.]]
* GadgeteerGenius: He manages to get an LFO up and running.
* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:Rather than blaming Sumner for killing Shaun, he blames Steven, believing that he pushed Shaun to using the CFS]].
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:He helps Sumner and Ruri, despite knowing the consequences--that is, Steven kills him for it]].
* HeterosexualLifePartners: With Shaun.
* NiceGuy: Especially when next to Shaun.
* NotSoDifferent: From Ruri, as noted by her. See Shaun's section for the details.
* OddFriendship: With Shaun.
* SecretKeeper: For B.B./Ruri.
* StreetUrchin: ''Gravity Boys & Lifting Girl'' reveals that he used to live on the streets with Shaun.
* ThoseTwoGuys: With Shaun.

!!Others

[[folder:Axel Thurston]]
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Renton's strict yet loving grandfather.

->Voiced by: Creator/TakeshiAono (JP), Creator/SteveKramer (EN)

%%* BadassGrandpa
%%* CoolOldGuy
* CrazyPrepared: In the manga, he tells Holland to go to work while throwing a wrench from his toolkit at his head that's ''specifically'' labeled "For Holland".
* GadgeteerGenius: The biggest in the world.
* GoKartingWithBowser: He and Dominic got along really well, even though Dominic was still on the villain team at the time. He even taught Dominic how to fix his bike, and Dominic promised to check up on his grandson. Then again, he never finds out what side Dominic was on at the time.
%%* JerkWithAHeartOfGold
* OutlivingOnesOffspring: Both his son and granddaughter are gone, hence why he's initially not too eager about Renton's thirst for adventure, fearing that he'll lose him as well.
%%* PapaWolf

[[folder:Diane Thurston]]
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Renton's long lost sister and Holland's ex-girlfriend.

->Voiced by: Creator/SakikoTamagawa (JP), Peggy O'Neal (EN)
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* ChekhovMIA: A defining part of the series is Diane and her disappearance's effect on Renton and Holland. [[spoiler:It is revealed that she had a relationship with Holland and somehow found her way into the control cluster with her father.]]
* DatingWhatDaddyHates: Or what Granddaddy hates, that is. Suffice to say that Axel didn't approve of Holland.
* DemotedToExtra: In the manga, Diane is a much less significant character. Diane is merely mentioned to have left home and her disappearance is not relevant to the plot. Holland's close relationship with Diane also disappears from the narrative and Holland has a mentor-student relationship with Adrock Thurston instead.
* TheFaceless: Her face isn't shown for the first 35 episodes. Under many different circumstances, her face in flashbacks and photographs is always covered.
* FirstLove: To Holland.
* MarriedToTheJob: She was obsessed with her father's research; so much that it affected her relationship with Holland.
* PromotionToParent: She and Axel were the ones who raised Renton after Adroc's death.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Charles and Ray Beams]]
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A pair of mercenaries-for-hire and a loving couple. They hold a grudge against Holland and Gekkostate in general.

->Charles is voiced by: Creator/JurotaKosugi (JP), Creator/PatrickSeitz (EN)
->Ray is voiced by: Creator/AyaHisakawa (JP), Creator/MelissaFahn (EN)
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* AffablyEvil: They're a nice couple...who have a grudge against TheHeroine.
* AnimalMotifs: As Holland seeks out Renton, one person he interrogates compares Ray to a {{kitsune}} and Charles to a {{tanuki}}.
* AntiVillain: Nicer to Renton than the good guys... Unfortunately, their connections to the military along with [[ItsPersonal a personal grudge]] against Eureka make them enemies of the protagonists.
* BattleCouple: They're married and they fight together.
* BeautyMark: Ray has one under her right eye.
* BerserkButton: Ray was cool and collected when [[spoiler:she was trying to take Renton and holding Eureka and the kids hostage to get him to cooperate]]. However when the kids refer to Eureka as "mama", Ray not knowing they are adopted; she loses it and begins to see Eureka as a monster mocking her for her infertility.
* BladeBelowTheShoulder: On Charles's LFO.
* TheCameo: Charles briefly shows up in ''Gravity Boys & Lifting Girl'', which takes place before he becomes a mercenary, as an acquaintance of Ruri's and to impart some advice onto Sumner in his usual fashion.
* ChangelingFantasy: An interesting take [[spoiler: when they adopt Renton]].
* TheCracker: Ray turns out to be an expert hacker.
* DespairEventHorizon: [[spoiler:Charles' death]] for Ray.
* DiesWideOpen: [[spoiler:Charles.]]
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: They make their first appearance in twin [=LFOs=] riding a ''tandem lifting board''.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: They deeply love each other and genuinely cared for Renton.
* EveryoneWentToSchoolTogether: Both of them were in the SOF with Holland.
* {{Expy}}: They share quite a few similarities with [[Anime/MobileSuitGundam Ral Ramba and Crowley Hamon]]. Both Ral and Charles are friendly [[AntiVillain anti-villains]] who meet the hero during his [[TenMinuteRetirement brief wandering after running away from his ship]], pilot blue {{ace custom}} mechas, and [[spoiler:die in an explosion after a failed invasion of said hero's ship]]. And both Ray and Hamon [[spoiler:get their own deaths in the following episode trying to avenge their fallen husbands]].
* ForgottenFallenFriend: Enemy, technically, but this trope is averted either way. The characters who knew them show these two weren't easily forgotten.
* GenderBlenderName: Ray's name is usually for males.
* HappilyMarried: For instance, when Charles meets Renton he points out how hot his wife is.
* HotbloodedSideburns: Charles has them.
* IdiotHair: Ray has single ahoge.
* ItsPersonal: They hate Eureka because Dewey has convinced them that she's to blame for Ray's infertility.
* MamaBear: Ray becomes quite protective over Renton.
* NeatFreak: Both keep their ship, the ''Swan'', utterly spotless, [[spoiler:which signifies Ray's VillainousBreakdown when she trashes the ship in her grief over losing Charles.]]
* PapaWolf: Charles becomes quite protective over Renton.
* ParentalSubstitute: For Renton [[spoiler:when he ran away.]]
* PunchClockVillain
* RealMenWearPink: Charles wears a purplish-pink shawl t-shirt and pink pants.
* ShoutOut: Their names, to pianist RayCharles and/or designers Charles and Ray Eames.
* SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan: Ray is madly in love with Charles -- the man who has proven to be an affable fellow (when not trying to kill the heroine) and still wanted to marry her even though she thought he would be ashamed of her infertility.
* TakingYouWithMe: [[spoiler: After her plan to kill Eureka and convince Renton to let her adopt him fails, she tries to ram her ship against the Gekko in an effort to kill them all including Renton.]]
* VillainousBreakdown: [[spoiler:Ray]] ''loses'' it when [[spoiler:Charles dies]]. It's heart-rending to see the aftermath of [[spoiler:her]] utterly trashing the ''Swan'' in [[spoiler:her]] grief.
* {{Yandere}}: Ray is a MamaBear variety.
* YouMonster: Ray refers to Eureka as one.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:William B. Baxter]]
[[quoteright:350:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/snapshot_dvd_01_10_2013_01_10_00_05_58.jpg]]
William B. "Will" Baxter is a young man living in the overgrown ruins of a town near Gearnus City with his wife Martha, who is suffering from the Desperation Disease.

->Voiced by: Toshio Furukawa (JP), Keith Silverstein (EN)
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* TheBusCameBack: [[spoiler:After Dewey launches his plan to destroy the Scub Coral with Oratorio Number 8, the impact of the attack causes fragments of the Scub Coral to destroy towers across the planet and send debris flying. The debris begins falling across the planet, with William watching the falling debris fly overhead his farm and turns to see Martha fully conscious due to the Command Cluster being destroyed, standing and smiling at him as his farm is engulfed in an explosion from the debris, killing them both.]]
* EmbarrassingMiddleName: Which is why he doesn't tell Renton what "B" stands for.
* HappilyMarried: Despite Martha having Desperation Disease, she and William have a happy and intimate marriage.
* MysteriousMiddleInitial: William doesn't tell Renton what the "B" in his name stands for because it's an [[EmbarrassingMiddleName embarrassing one.]]
* NiceGuy: Cemented in him helping a collapsed Renton to his devotion to his wife.
* SmallRoleBigImpact: Will was the one who taught Renton the facts of nature and love; to really love and be with someone, he needs to keep his word and face the hardships in front of him. When Will asked Renton if there was someone he wanted to be with if the world ever came to an end, Renton immediately realized he wanted to reconcile with Eureka no matter what she thought of him and began to mature more.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Martha Baxter]]
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The wife of William B. Baxter. She suffers from what Renton first identifies as "Desperation Disease."

->Voiced by: N/A
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* TheBusCameBack: [[spoiler:When the control cluster was destroyed by Oratorio Number 8, her consciousness was brought back to her body which allowed her to regain control of her body. Forced out of her comma like state she walks over to the door of their house and looks at William and they both smile right before they are killed when the farm is crushed from debris from the recently destroyed Oratorio Number 8.]]
* EmotionlessGirl: Justified since she's suffering from Desperation Disease.
* HappilyMarried: Despite Martha having Desperation Disease, she and William have a happy and intimate marriage.
* IllGirl: Martha has Desperation Disease.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Master Norb]]
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A powerful Vodarac priest.

->Voiced by: Creator/RikiyaKoyama (JP), Creator/JunFukuyama (JP, young), Creator/JamiesonPrice (EN), Creator/SamRiegel (EN, young)
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* AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: [[spoiler:The final scene of the series implies that he, along with Sakuya and various other people who merged with the Scub Coral, leave with some of the Scub Coral that departs from the planet.]]
* BunnyEarsLawyer: For a venerated holy man, he sure as hell breaks the mold like you wouldn't believe.
* TheChosenOne: In the past, he was chosen by Sakuya.
%%* CoolOldGuy
* FailureKnight: Part of his backstory, to an extent.
* {{Gasshole}}: Crops up whenever he's dragged into religion vs. science discussions, such as ones that bring up elements like the Vodarac, Coralisn. or Sub-Coralian. Tends to coincide and overlay with ObfuscatingStupidity.
* InterspeciesRomance: With Sakuya.
* ObfuscatingStupidity: Don't be fooled by his love for pizza.
%%* OldMaster
%%* SacrificialLion
%%* SmokingIsCool
* StarCrossedLovers: With Sakuya.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Sakuya]]
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Eureka's predecessor. Because she was a girl of mysterious power, the religious authority of Vodarac thought she was some sort of messiah and placed her in the central part of the temple. They banned any disciple from speaking to her, and allowed very few select disciples to care for her in a highly reverent, if sterile, manner. For forty years since her initial appearance, she had no significant contact with anyone. This changed when Norb was assigned to care for her.

->Voiced by: Creator/AkikoYajima (JP), Jennie Kwan (EN)
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%%* TheAgeless
* AndIMustScream: [[spoiler:She was turned into a giant lotus flower after she and Norb traveled to the Scub Coral.]]
* AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: [[spoiler:At the end of the series, the Nirvash states that Sakuya and the other humans who fused with the Scub will go to the universe beyond the rift in the Great Wall.]]
* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: She fell in love with Norb because he was the first person to truly interact with her rather than merely worship her.
%%* TheChooserOfTheOne
* DefrostingIceQueen: She was pretty much an EmotionlessGirl at first, but [[spoiler:Norb]] managed to defrost her.
%%* ExoticEyeDesigns
%%* FacialMarkings
* FlowerMotifs: The lotus.
* HumanAlien: A humanoid Coralian, just like Eureka.
* InterspeciesRomance: With Norb.
%%* OdangoHair
* OlderThanSheLooks: Is ''at least'' Norb's age, but appears younger than Eureka when we see her. Justified as this is probably how she chooses to project herself, and [[spoiler: it was how she looked when she, well, turned into a giant flower]].
* ThePollyanna: Given her backstory, she has every right to be miserable, but she's easily one of the friendliest and most optimistic characters around from what little we see of her.
%%* PurpleEyes
* StarCrossedLovers: With Norb.
* WhenSheSmiles: Norb says he fell in love with her the moment he saw her smile for the first time.
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: She has lavender hair.
[[/folder]]

[[Characters/EurekaSevenGekkostate Gekkostate]] [[labelnote:Click to Expand.]]Renton Thurston, Eureka, Holland Novak, Talho Yuki, Stoner, Maurice, Maeter, Linck, Matthieu, Hilda, Ken-Goh, Mischa, Gonzy, Jobs, Woz, Hap, Gidget, Moondoggie[[/labelnote]]

!!Gekkostate

[[folder:Renton Thurston]]
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The main male protagonist. An ordinary boy bored with his [[NothingExcitingEverHappensHere ordinary life]] and with dreams of becoming a professional [[SkySurfing lifter]], Renton's life is turned upside down when Eureka enters his life. He is one of the only people besides Eureka herself who can pilot the series's signature [[HumongousMecha LFO]], the Nirvash typeZERO.

-> Voiced by: Creator/YukoSanpei (JP), Creator/JohnnyYongBosch (EN)

* ActionDad: Later in the series, Renton becomes the "papa" of Eureka's children.
* AdoptivePeerParent: In the epilogue, Eureka's children are adopted by Renton as well, who is 16, as Maurice, Maeter, and Linck all are shown to have the last name Thurston.
* {{Adorkable}}: Is awkward and blushing around those he admires, and is nonetheless adorable despite it.
* AllLovingHero: If you live on the planet, Renton ''will'' want to protect you.
* AllOfTheOtherReindeer:
** He was snubbed by fellow classmates who thought of him as weird for always looking at his Compac Drive when it suddenly read "Eureka" or when he remembered his sister.
** He was often dismissed or ignored by the Gekkostate crew, teased by the children, and abused physically and emotionally by Holland, who refused to acknowledge him as Eureka's partner. This mistreatment caused him to believe that he was hated by everyone, including Eureka.
* AlwaysSaveTheGirl: No matter what happens, Renton will do anything to protect Eureka.
* AscendedFanboy: He greatly admired the crew of Gekkostate before becoming a member.
* BadassAdorable: A cute, 14-year-old kid who becomes an AcePilot.
* BattleCouple: With Eureka.
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Renton desperately wished for a more "exciting life" and to become a Gekkostate member. However, the mess he got himself into and the poor treatment he received from the rest of Gekkostate had him question his earlier wishes.
* BerserkButton: Renton goes brutally psycho over his opponents at the end of episode 20. It's because of his deadly combination of his love for Eureka, his hatred towards Holland and frustration with his immaturity that makes him berserk instead of the Nirvash. The result: Blood, a dismembered arm, and a horrific scream.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: When he snaps, he snaps ''hard''.
* BigSisterWorship: He deeply loved his older sister, Diane. Her memories has a profound effect on him.
* BookDumb: It's noted that his grades in school are pretty awful.
* BoyMeetsGirl: With Eureka.
* ButtMonkey: {{Deconstruction}}. For much of the first arc. Done intentionally by the crew of the Gekko. However, their mistreatment of him makes him believe that they don't care about him and he runs away as a result. Eventually grows out of it via CharacterDevelopment.
* CharacterDevelopment: Due to the impact of the war, seeing how the lives of everyone around him are affected, and understanding how everyone depends on him due to being the chosen one to stop the war between the Scub Coral and humans, he gradually became more brave, mature, and confident in himself.
* ChastityCouple: With Eureka.
* ChewToy: Holland and Talho made Renton's life completely subject to their own insecurities for the first half of the series.
* TheChosenOne: A literal one. Eureka chose him by falling in love with him.
* ClassicalAntiHero: At first.
* CostumeEvolution: Renton discards the outfit he has worn for the last 49 episodes and dons a new one in the series finale before [[spoiler:going to save Eureka: He uses an entirely new jacket, loses the fanny pack, sports black shoes with red lines, and dark pants.]]
* DeclarationOfProtection: To Eureka.
* {{Determinator}}:
** Renton is a person with strong resolve who is willing to do anything to accomplish something that is important to him without hesitation.
** In the manga, he gets ''shot in the gut'' and ''stabbed'' by enemy soldiers, but managed to carry Eureka around for a bit before passing out and later pilots the Nirvash while still injured.
* DevotedToYou: Once she finally reciprocates his feelings, Eureka becomes hopelessly devoted to him and can barely stand being away from him.
* DoggedNiceGuy: To Eureka. He falls for her at first sight, but waits patiently a long time for her to return his feelings.
* DudeWheresMyRespect: Despite some of the things he has done for them, everyone of Gekkostate (sans Eureka) hardly show him the respect he deserves.
* TheDulcineaEffect: He's ready to do anything to protect Eureka even when he just met her and doesn't even know her name.
* ExpositoryHairstyleChange: His hairstyle starts to be different from episode 42 onwards, which probably signifies his [[ComingOfAgeStory Coming of Age]].
* FailureKnight: Momentarily feels like this in the finale, thinking he failed to save his father, his sister, and Eureka.
* FriendlessBackground: He doesn't appear to have any friends, which is further implied in his inability to pass the ball in soccer as he never actually had anyone to play ''with''.
* GadgeteerGenius: Though it doesn't come up much, Renton is a very competent mechanic. He disassembles Dominic's bike in mere moments to blackmail him, knowing Dominic couldn't fix it without him.
* GoodParents: His response after [[spoiler: Maurice points a gun at him]], is to say he loves him as much as Eureka does, and he'll always do his best for him.
* HeIsAllGrownUp: In seasons three and four, he noticeably grows taller and mature, which is mentioned by several members of the Gekkostate on numerous occasions. By the time he is 16, he has matured considerably and nearly overtowers Eureka, who had been about the same height as him.
* HeroicBSOD:
** Threw up after his MyGodWhatHaveIDone moment below and ended up [[spoiler:[[TenMinuteRetirement running away from Gekkostate for a while]]]].
** In the manga, after Holland reveals the truth about his father.
* HiddenDepths:
** Renton was introduced as BookDumb in the first episode, but it's later revealed that he's actually a genius; seen with his skills in mechanical engineering, his ability to pilot Nirvash, and when he invents the first IFO by combining his knowledge of the Scub Coral and [=LFOs=].
** He shows surprising skill at soccer.
* HumanPackMule: When he goes shopping with Talho and Eureka.
* IAmWhatIAm: Says this a lot, especially as he tried to climb out of his father's shadow early in the series.
* IdiotHero: "Idiot" is a stretch. All of his failures come from naivete and he gets over it thanks to CharacterDevelopment.
* IJustWantToBeSpecial: The first episode has Renton monologue about how dull his entire life has been and his desire to do something worthwhile.
* InnocentBlueEyes: Which serve to represent his initial naivete in the beginning.
* InnocentlyInsensitive: He makes comments about the importance of image that get Eureka reasonably self-conscious about her scars and he doesn't realize it. He also says her CosmeticCatastrophe is awful without realizing she was trying to look pretty for him.
* InsecureLoveInterest: The first half of the series has Renton fear Eureka thinks of him as "uncool" or "pathetic".
* InterspeciesRomance: He (human) and Eureka (Coralian).
* IWillWaitForYou: In the manga ending, Renton refuses to acknowledge that Eureka is dead and will continue to wait upon the day she returns back. The final page indicates they might have finally reunited after 2 years.
* JumpedAtTheCall: {{Deconstruction}}. Renton's decision to quickly join the Gekkostate, the crew he's admired for a long time, comes back to bite him later on. One, he doesn't know ''exactly'' what they're doing on their journeys. Second, he never took into account that badly they would treat him.
* KidHero: 14-years-old at the beginning and the main male protagonist.
* LikeASonToMe: The Beams genuinely cared about him and thought of him as a surrogate son.
* LivingEmotionalCrutch: To Eureka. After he flees from Gekkostate, she is constantly in grief at Renton's absence and determined to see him to the point that she departed from Gekko behind everyone's back, including her three kids, to find Renton. She was finally emotionally at ease when she was reunited with Renton.
* LoveAtFirstSight: He falls deeply in love with Eureka the moment she crashlands near his grandfather's house.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: [[spoiler:When saving Holland, he goes insane and pounds a [=KLF=] into pulp. A bloody arm with a wedding band attached drops out, clicking the realization that he has been killing people and has killed someone. Causes TheseHandsHaveKilled which results in ThouShaltNotKill.]]
* MyGreatestFailure: [[spoiler:The deaths of the Beams had a particular effect on him, making him very guilt-ridden for unintentionally leading them to invade the Gekko and not doing anything to prevent their deaths.]]
* NaiveNewcomer: Renton starts out as one when he joins the Gekkostate. He's a jovial kid who hates his dull life and wishes to have more freedom. Too bad Gekkostate sees him as a gawky, timid, 14-year old snot nose whose sole purpose is to be their ButtMonkey. Renton is enraged that the crew sees him as an immature baby whom they give no respect. Come several episodes later, he's had enough, blows his stack in a firefight, and slaughters a whole KLF squadron ''very'' horrifically. Shortly afterward, Eureka's pissed at the whole crew for egging him all this time, which causes them to drop all ideas of messing with him and treat him as an equal.
* NiceGuy: He is a very outgoing and emotional person possessing strong ideals and compassion.
* NotSoDifferent: With Maurice, Maeter, and Linck. He realizes that they act so bratty to him is because their afraid og him taking Eureka away from them. The eaxct same thing he did when his sister went out on dates.
* RaisedByGrandparents: Grandfather, rather. Sister, too, except she disappeared some time later.
* RealMenWearPink: When he and Eureka do chores, he wears a pink apron and hat.
* RedIsHeroic: Red is his main color scheme -- on the sleeves of his jackets, lining of his hover board, and linings of his shoes.
* ReplacementGoldfish: It can be argued that the Beams, who were unable to have children of their own, saw Renton as this.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: After his MyGodWhatHaveIDone moment, he flees from Gekkostate. It doesn't last, of course.
* ShipperOnDeck: With Eureka, Renton helped Anemone understand her feelings for Dominic.
* SingleTargetSexuality: Renton never had any romantic feelings for any girl until he met Eureka.
* TheseHandsHaveKilled: He completely flips when he realizes that there were people inside the [=KLF=]s he was destroying, and never quite gets over it. He eventually takes up a ThouShaltNotKill stance.
* ThouShaltNotKill: Eventually takes this stance. [[spoiler:The anime finale shows him making one exception to this to destroy the antibody Coralians threatening the Gekko before heading off to save Eureka.]]
* TookALevelInBadass: He was throwing up in the cockpit in the first episodes. By the end, savior of the world.
* TookALevelInCynic: While always an idealist in the end, he goes through the process of shifting from an AscendedFanboy to realizing what kind of mess he's really gotten himself into.
* TragicKeepsake: He keeps Charles's wedding ring with him all the way up to the finale, as a reminder of the world he wants to save.
* UnderstandingBoyfriend: After Eureka is revealed as a Coralian, Renton does not reject her as she feared but rather accepts her for who she is, not what she is.
* WellDoneSonGuy:
** Though somewhat of a celebrity, being the son of a savior, Renton feels uncomfortable being the son of Adroc Thurston. His surname is recognized everywhere he travels, and he constantly feels as if he lives in his father's shadow.
** He wants to earn the approval of the Gekkostate crew, specifically Holland's.
* WideEyedIdealist: He had a rather idealistic, but naive outlook on the world and Gekkostate. Thank to character development, he [[TookALevelInCynic gained a more realistic view.]]

[[folder:Eureka]]
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The main female protagonist. Eureka is a mysterious girl with an affinity for machines who [[EmotionlessGirl has trouble opening up to other people]] until she crash-lands her [[HumongousMecha LFO]], the Nirvash, on Renton's house.

->Voiced by: Creator/KaoriNazuka (JP), Creator/StephanieSheh (EN)

* AcePilot: She was a very experienced LFO pilot to begin with.
* ActionGirl: She's a very competent pilot.
* ActionGirlfriend: Her arrival changes Renton's life and allows him to join Gekkostate and become Nirvash's pilot.
* ActionMom: Though her children are clearly adopted.
* AdoptivePeerParent: Eureka has three adopted children and she's only about 14-16. What's more, they're the children of some people she killed when she was in the SOF. Her horror at her actions prompted her HeelFaceTurn, so she adopted them.
* TheAgeless: Her physical age never changes, as shown in flashbacks set nearly a decade earlier.
* TheAtoner: Has shades of this in regards to her past in the SOF, and it becomes amplified when [[spoiler: the Antibody Coralians show up and start killing people.]]
* BadassAdorable: A cute, MysticalWaif who is an AcePilot.
* BattleCouple: With Renton.
* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: {{Subverted}} pretty hard. After her close call with being encased in scub, Eureka gets some nasty-looking scars that last for quite some time, her hair is left as a short, jagged mess and she loses her eyebrows. She gets reasonably self-conscious about it.
* BelatedLoveEpiphany: Eureka realizes her feelings for Renton upon learning of his departure in episode 24.
* {{Bifauxnen}}: Due to having BoyishShortHair at the time, Eureka looks almost like a male in her soccer attire in episode 39 thanks to her hair loss.
* BlankSlate: The reason for her existence. The Coralians wanted to know what humans would write on the slate.
* BlueIsHeroic: Eureka's main color scheme is blue.
* BodyHorror: When Eureka's Coralian features begin to show towards the end of the series, one of the first stages of her transformation included growing giant luminescent boils growing all over the left side of her body.
* BoyishShortHair: After being absorbed by scub, her hair is is left in kind of a pixie cut style. When she emerges after talking with Sayaka in Episode 41, her hair grows back into a bob hairstyle.
* TheCameo: In ''New Wave'', she [[spoiler:shows up at the end, after Sumner delivers the Nirvash to her and Holland]].
* CharacterDevelopment: As time goes by, she begins to act less a socially awkward girl and more like an actual person as parts of her human side begin to emerge.
* CharacterExaggeration: The manga plays up her EmotionlessGirl aspect in the beginning. She's more stoic and emotionally distant, even to her children.
* CharacterTitle: Her name gives the anime (and manga) its title.
* ChasteHeroine: At first, she doesn't know a thing about romance. She doesn't even know how to get pregnant with a baby. She does grow out of it as she falls in love with Renton.
* ChastityCouple: With Renton.
* TheChooserOfTheOne: She chooses Renton to be her partner after realizing she's in love with him.
* CosmeticCatastrophe: In Episode 36 in an attempt to look pretty for Renton.
* CryCute: In the manga, the first time she shows emotion is when she breaks down in tears after she confesses her dark past as a soldier to Renton.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: She was once a child soldier and killed people as a result.
* DefrostingIceQueen: Goes from EmotionlessGirl to an average emotional girl thanks to Renton.
* DevotedToYou: Renton falls desperately in love with her the moment he meets her, no caring to put up with her initial lack of interest in him and Gekkostate crew's constant abuse just so he can be by her side and protect her.
* DiedInYourArmsTonight: In the manga, she DisappearsIntoLight in Renton's arms.
* DisappearsIntoLight: In the manga.
* EmotionlessGirl: Prior to CharacterDevelopment.
* ExoticEyeDesigns: Eureka has a circle parallel to the iris.
* ExpositoryHairstyleChange: She gets several hairstyle changes reflecting... other changes about her.
* {{Expy}}: Green haired girl with lavender eyes, who is a human version of the alien species mankind failed to communicate with and represents their one hope of communicating with them. Piloted a giant robot for the government as a killing machine. Raises children who are not her own and flies around the world on a skyship with a gray-haired loser in black? Eureka is definitely an expy of ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI'''s own Terra Branford, or at least has an uncanny amount in common.
* FlowerInHerHair: In the final episode, the hairclip that Renton puts on Eureka has a flower on it.
* FreakinessShame: [[spoiler:When Eureka's Coralian attributes begin to manifest themselves, her left arm sheds its skin and she grows a pair of green, butterfly-like wings. At first, she is worried Renton will reject her new form, but Renton admires her new wings and thinks she has become even more beautiful.]]
* FriendlessBackground: She doesn't have any friends and doesn't open her heart to anyone prior to meeting Renton.
* GoodParents: She starts out inexperienced and aloof, but she loves her adopted kids dearly. Her real test comes when [[spoiler: Maurice points a gun on Renton]]. She gently talks him down, reaffirms how much she loves him, and rescues him from doing something he'd regret for the rest of his life.
* HairDecorations: Her hair clips.
* HairReboot: She spends a significant portion (episodes 21-41) of the series with her hair as the short, jagged mess left behind after her close call with being encased in scub, but it grows back instantly when she speaks with Sakuya.
* HeroicBSOD: In the manga, when Renton, in his own HeroicBSOD, told her to leave him alone when she tried giving him some fruits to cheer him up.
* HumanAlien: A Coralian in human form.
* IJustWantToBeBeautiful: In Episode 36 upon realizing the importance of beauty and due to being somewhat disfigured at the time.
* IWillFindYou: Upon realizing that Holland won't go out and search for Renton, Eureka sets off to do it herself.
* IllGirl: In the first season, she often suffers from chronic headaches and by the second season her mental and physical health have deteriorated to point where she can barely stand. This was probably due to the fact that her connection to the Nirvash was deteriorating and she felt that it was favoring Renton as it's pilot rather than herself. Plus, her ailments really put her over the edge after she comes in contact with the Coralians in Episode 11.
* ImportantHairAccessory: Her gold hair clips, especially [[spoiler: the flower one Renton puts on her in the finale]].
* InnocentlyInsensitive: In the first episode, she did an insensitive thing by burning Renton's house down and she does not seem to comprehend why Renton reacted so miserable about it.
* InterspeciesRomance: She (Coralian) and Renton (human).
* LightFeminineAndDarkFeminine: The light to Talho and Anemone's dark.
* LivingEmotionalCrutch: She's the only reason he puts up with and come back to Gekkostate.
* LoveHurts: In the manga, she learns how much it can hurt to love someone when Renton hurts her feelings during his HeroicBSOD. It goes to the point where she temporarily decides to never care about anyone again so she doesn't have to feel pain anymore.
* MachineEmpathy: She's in tune with the Nirvash's feelings. She also treats any other machine as a living thing.
* MagicSkirt
* MaternallyChallenged: She's raising three orphans despite knowing little to nothing about taking care of kids. As a result, she spoils them and gets them presents that aren't too appropriate, such as textbooks that are too advanced for them.
* MessyHair: She loses a significant amount of hair after [[spoiler:being absorbed by the Scub Coral]] in the 19th episode and what is left of it is rather messy. After episode 41, it grows back to a bob haircut.
* MiniDressOfPower: Wears one.
* ModestyShorts: She wears a pair of shorts under her very short dress.
* MoralityPet: To [[GoodIsNotNice Holland]]. Besides [[NumberTwo Talho]], Eureka is the only one of Gekkostate that Holland doesn't take his anger out on.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: The first emotion she ever experienced 3 years ago [[spoiler: when she realized she orphaned the three children she would later adopt]].
%%* MysticalWaif
* NoBrows: She loses her eyebrows after being absorbed by the Scub Coral. She regains them after talking to Sakuya, along with her hair growing back to a bob haircut.
* NoSocialSkills: Due to her backstory as a {{Tykebomb}}, she does not even know what is "cool", [[WhatIsThisThingYouCallLove what love is]] and how to be pregnant with a baby. She eventually becomes a more sociable person towards the end of the series, thanks to the influence of Renton.
* NonHumanLoverReveal: She is later revealed as a Coralian and fears that Renton will reject her, but he rather accepts her for who she is, not what she is.
* NotGoodWithPeople: Seems to be more in touch with machines than humans.
* PainfulTransformation: Growing large, green wings out of your back is ''not'' a pleasant experience.
* PhlebotinumGirl: In her backstory. A young alien girl and the key to piloting the Nirvash who was used and manipulated by the government and blindly followed their orders until she realized what she was doing was wrong and defected along with Holland.
* PinocchioSyndrome: She secretly in her heart wishes to be a human in order to be with Renton.
* {{Protectorate}}: Renton's main motivation is to protect Eureka.
* PurpleEyes: A sign that she's not human.
* RedOniBlueOni: The blue (quiet, reserved, and calm) to Anemone's red (loud, emotional, and violent).
* ReiAyanamiExpy: Short light bluish hair, purple eyes, pale skin, HumongousMecha pilot, HumanAlien, MysticalWaif, NoSocialSkills, an IllGirl, deeply attached to her boss until she becomes closer to the main character and an EmotionlessGirl as a result of her upbringing, prior to a traumatic event that would trigger her CharacterDevelopment, which then was accelerated much further by meeting her LoveInterest.
* SafetyInIndifference: In the manga after realizing LoveHurts, she goes through a period of refusing to feel, deciding that it's easier than leaving herself vulnerable.
* ScarsAreForever: Before leaving Sakuya's Heart, Eureka is offered to have her scars from [[spoiler:being absorbed by the Scub Coral]] fixed but she declines saying that these scars are the outward proof of what she has been through. Upon emerging, Eureka's scars remain, but they have become less prevalent.
* SciFiBobHaircut: After the HairReboot.
* SecondaryCharacterTitle: Her name is the series' title, but she's the deuteragonist.
* ShipperOnDeck: With Renton, Eureka helped Anemone understand her feelings for Dominic.
%%* ShyBlueHairedGirl
* SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan: She falls for Renton because of his good-nature and sensitive personality.
* SugarAndIcePersonality: At first, she mostly comes off as reserved and emotionally distant due to her lack of understanding of human feelings, yet she's a kind and motherly girl. Eventually, her warmer personality takes over.
* ThouShaltNotKill: Like Renton, she eventually decides to fight this way.
* TokenNonHuman: A Coralian member of Gekkostate.
* TookALevelInCheerfulness: She originally was an EmotionlessGirl. She began to develop emotions after adopting her three children, but remained emotionally distant of others. Meeting and falling in love with Renton turns her into a much more cheerful and open girl.
%%* TrueBlueFemininity
* {{Tykebomb}}: She was used by the government and trained to kill almost remorselessly, until one day, when she was checking a pile of corpses looking for wounded people to finish off, she found three orphans, had a huge epiphany, and decided then and there to adopt them and defect from the military.
* WhatIsThisThingYouCallLove: Being an EmotionlessGirl representative of the Coralians, Eureka is extremely confused by the concept of romantic love until she begins to fall in love with Renton. However, she seems to have figured out familial love on her own thanks to her adopted children.
%%* WhenSheSmiles
* WingedHumanoid: After her "big change" in the last few episodes.
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Eureka has turquoise hair.
* YouKillItYouBoughtIt: After killing their parents, she took the kids in and is raising them.

[[folder:Holland Novak]]
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The leader of Gekkostate. Holland was once a member of the military, but defected and formed an anti-government movement. To the public, he is known as the world's top amateur [[SkySurfing lifter]] and is Renton's longtime idol. He pilots the Terminus typeR909, and later the Terminus typeB303 Devilfish.

->Voiced by: Creator/KeijiFujiwara (JP), Creator/CrispinFreeman (EN)

* AcePilot: One of the many things he's famous for.
* ActionDad: In a TeamDad sense for Gekkostate and in a ''literal'' sense when [[spoiler:Talho is pregnant with their child.]]
* AdaptationalHeroism: He is a ''lot'' less of a {{Jerkass}} and much more laid back in the manga. He only hit Renton once, and he arguably deserved it at the time.
* AloofBigBrother: He acts as this towards Renton.
* BadDreams: In one episode, he has a nightmare of the atrocities he committed while part of the SOF.
* BadassInCharge: The leader of Gekkostate who is an AcePilot, former military, and has NervesOfSteel.
* BigBrotherWorship: [[spoiler:He was said to have idolized Dewey and never realized the deep hatred his older brother harbored towards him. His affection for Dewey was such that Holland even joined the military with him, and was made a unit leader.]]
* BigGood: The leader of the main heroes.
* {{Bishounen}}: Mild case of this, despite his PermaStubble. PermaStubble which is all the more hilarious cause he's shown shaving in one episode.
* BrokenAce: Previously the ace of the SOF, and ''definitely'' broken, after everything he went through and did.
* BrokenPedestal: Mild case of this for Renton, who found Holland's image was somewhat more inflated than justified, even admitted by the man himself. [[RebuiltPedestal Eventually he becomes worthy of that hype through character development.]]
* TheCameo: He makes a brief appearance in ''Gravity Boys & Lifting Girl'' to compliment Sumner on his lifting.
* CainAndAbel: [[spoiler:The Abel to Dewey's Cain.]]
* CharacterDevelopment: By seasons 3 and 4, he becomes more mature and caring, due to him learning that he needs to face his problems rather than run away from them if he wants to help save the world and gain the trust and respect of others. He becomes very protective of the crew, particularly Renton and Eureka, to the point where he seems to favor them for important activities. When Talho tells him that she is pregnant with his child, he starts to take on a surrogate father role to the crew and he becomes more open and friendly with them.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: A soldier who was ordered to kill innocent people. [[spoiler:Before that, his parents were dead by the time he was a child. Afterwards, he had to find out that his older brother hated him.]]
* DeadlyUpgrade: Swaps to the 303 in the last act of the series, which requires extremely dangerous drugs just to pilot the thing.
* DeclarationOfProtection: After his CharacterDevelopment kicks in, he swears to do whatever it takes to protect Renton and Eureka.
* DefectorFromDecadence: In the past, when he betrayed the military.
* {{Determinator}}: In the manga, he ''will'' bring back the Amita Drive to Renton and Eureka, even if he has to crawl his way back after being attacked by [=TheEnd=].
* FamilialReveal: [[spoiler:His last name is Novak; he's the younger brother of [[BigBad Dewey Novak.]]]]
* FatalFlaw: A recurring theme in the middle portion of the series with Holland is his instinct to run away from his past and responsibility, using Eureka, Renton (in this case, physically and emotionally abusing him), and lifting as a way to escape, much to Talho's chagrin. Hell, it almost became a literal one when it almost lead Gekkostate straight into a State army trap that takes advantage of this tragic instinct of his until Renton and Eureka's actions and reunion saved the team. CharacterDevelopment helps get rid of this trait.
* AFatherToHisMen: Takes a while, but he grows into this over the course of the series.
* FreudianExcuse: [[spoiler:It was Dewey's efforts to destroy the Scub Coral, and potentially the world, that caused Holland to personally set out to stop him by thinking he can partner with Eureka and unite the humans and Scub Coral to overthrow Dewey. Because of this, Dewey is indirectly responsible for Holland's initial indifference towards the crew, his obsession with Eureka, and bitter resentment towards Renton in the beginning.]]
* GoodIsNotNice: Holland is on the side of good for sure. However, he spends the first half of the series being a jerk to his crew (save Eureka and Talho), even being physically and emotionally abusive to Renton. Thankfully, [[CharacterDevelopment he gets over it]].
* GreenEyedMonster: Arguably the reason for some of his worst {{Jerkass}} moments. Once he gets over it, he is a much nicer guy.
* HeartbrokenBadass: He had a messy first relationship, which is one of many issues that led to the mess he is today.
* HeroOfAnotherStory: While not seen, his defection from the military in the video games (taking place a few years before the anime) has a fair amount of background importance. That said, Holland's story is already shown in the anime, aka the original adaptation; that is, as a hero in the main storyline, Holland's the HeroOfAnotherStory in the spin-off.
* HisOwnWorstEnemy: Let's face it, things would have work out much better in the first half of the series, had he learn to accept that there are ways for him to help save the world and stop Dewey, besides being Eureka's chosen partner, instead of always running away and letting his bitter feelings build up.
* {{Jerkass}}: At his worst moments, especially in the first half of the series.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: At his better moments, especially in the second half of the series, thanks to CharacterDevelopment.
* KickTheDog: [[SarcasmMode Slap the ignorant hero around, Holland! Such a great way to win his loyalty and impress your crew!]]
* TheLeader: He's the captain of Gekkostate.
* LivingLegend: By far and away one of the most famous people in the entire world.
* LaserGuidedKarma: As sad as it is, when you remember how much damage he's done to the crew, especially to Eureka and Renton, over the past two seasons, it is possible that his leg being wounded to the point where he may never be able to truly lift ride again, may be his comeuppance for the actions that lead to said wound.
* ManChild: {{Deconstructed}}. Holland's immature nature has him poorly handling his anger (i.e., emotionally and physically abusing Renton) and straining his relationships with Renton, Talho, and the rest of Gekkostate.
* TheMasochismTango: With Talho. They eventually work things out.
* PapaWolf: Turns more and more into this for Eureka as the series goes on. See Episode 38 for a particularly good example.
* ParentalSubstitute:
** Acts as a father figure to Eureka.
** In seasons 3 and 4, Holland adopts a somewhat secondary father figure to Renton and now treats him like a son.
* TheResenter: He resents Renton for his relationship with Eureka until the second season finale rolls around.
* ScreamingWarrior: Likes to scream while charging into the fray.
* SecondLove: To Talho, [[{{Implied}} possibly]]. [[spoiler:It's hinted near the end that she was in a previous relationship with Dewey, Holland's older brother, before becoming a couple with the latter.]]
* SelfFulfillingProphecy: Holland, attempting to deny Eureka's relationship with Renton, only ends up causing Renton to become TheChosenOne for Eureka regardless of his actions.
* SergeantRock: Sure, Holland might be a MAJOR asshole at times, but he's respected and even liked by the Gekkostate crew because he's competent, wouldn't have them do something he wouldn't do himself, and despite his outward {{Jerkass}} (especially in the first half of the series), is rather concerned for their welfare.
* ShamelessFanserviceGuy: While inside the Gekko he wears nothing but his underwear. Since the ship is his home, he doesn't see anything wrong with it.
* SmokingIsCool: In the manga and novels, he is a smoker, unlike his anime counterpart.
%%* SupportingLeader
* TeamDad: Stern, determined, calls the shots.
* TookALevelInKindness: In the anime, this is a major part of his CharacterDevelopment. He goes from a {{Jerkass}} ManChild to a mature, father-like figure to Renton.
* WhatTheHellHero: After everyone else fails to get through to Holland about his treatment of Renton, it's Eureka's crushed and soft-spoken disappointment in him for what he's done that finally turns him around.
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Holland has gray-taupe hair.

[[folder:Talho Yuki]]
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The pilot of Gekkostate's ship, the ''Gekko'', and cover-girl for their magazine ''Ray=out''. In a relationship with Holland.

->Voiced by: Creator/MichikoNeya (JP), Creator/KateHiggins (EN)

* AdaptationalHeroism: Much like Holland, Talho is much nicer and more mature in the manga.
* TheAlcoholic: She was a heavy drinker in the first half of the series.
* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: Talho's relationship with Holland, but even that is tempered by her insistence that he act more maturely.
* BabiesMakeEverythingBetter: [[spoiler:She and Holland vow to make a better world for their kid.]]
* BareYourMidriff: Before her character development.
* BeAWhoreToGetYourMan: She reveals in episode 30 that her personality and revealing dress style was to capture and maintain Holland's attention and love. Once she gets over her insecurities, she starts dressing up more modestly.
* CharacterDevelopment: In season 3, she decides to become the person she used to be before the Gekkostate and becomes more mature, kind, and caring towards the crew.
* ClingyJealousGirl: The root of her issues is that she can't stand the mere thought of Holland paying more attention to Eureka than her and the fact that she's afraid that he hasn't gotten over his feelings for Diane yet.
* ColorMotifs: Talho's two main outfits consisted of purple and white.
* CoolBigSis: She teases and advises the younger members of Gekkostate. Moreso after her CharacterDevelopment, after which she grows into more of a TeamMom.
* DangerouslyShortSkirt: Before her character development.
* ExpositoryHairstyleChange: As a result of realizing her own immaturity and displeasure with the kind of person she has been recently, she undergoes a physical and emotional change. She ditches her {{Stripperiffic}} look for a more conservative one, including cutting her hair.
* FacialMarkings: The flower tattoo on her left cheek.
* GreenEyedMonster: Due to Holland's dedication to protect Eureka and put her safety above everything in hope of becoming her partner, Talho exhibited great jealousy and resentment towards Eureka, and lashed out in anger towards Holland for not only not taking her own feelings for him into consideration but using Eureka as an excuse to run away from his problems. She also tended to get angry at him when he showed his obsession and affection for his first love, Diane.
* HandOnWomb: [[spoiler: Does this ''very'' frequently after she discovers she's pregnant.]]
* HeterosexualLifePartners: Best friends with Hilda.
* ImportantHaircut: Talho trims her normally unkempt hair as part of her complete outer (and inner) makeover in episode 30.
* InsecureLoveInterest: One of the reason her relationship with Holland was initially rocky was because of Holland's dedication to protect Eureka and his past relationship with Diane made her feel very insecure.
* LethalChef: She tried to cook in the manga and ruined the kitchen so badly that she made cup ramen instead.
* LightFeminineAndDarkFeminine: The dark to Eureka's light.
* MamaBear: Though she teases Renton in the beginning, she is willing to protect him along with Eureka, Maurice, Maeter, and Linck as if they are her own children.
* TheMasochismTango: With Holland. They eventually work things out.
* MoralityPet: Besides [[MysticalWaif Eureka]], Talho is the only one that [[GoodIsNotNice Holland]] doesn't take his anger out on.
%%* MsFanservice
* NumberTwo: Talho is the second-in-command of Gekkostate.
* ParentingTheHusband: Discussed. [[spoiler: She tells Eureka that she'll have to deal with both her baby and Holland's childish antics.]]
* SciFiBobHaircut: After her ImportantHaircut.
* SecondLove: {{Deconstructed}}. She is this to Holland, which she [[GreenEyedMonster has difficulty getting over]] and being the central reason for [[WomanChild immatuirty]] and [[{{Stripperiffic}} choice of style]] -- to keep Holand's attention.
* SettleForSibling: [[spoiler:It's implied she was in a relationship with Dewey before Holland.]]
* ShipperOnDeck: After going through CharacterDevelopment, Talho begins to give Renton good advice on how to strengthen his relationship with Eureka.
* SignificantWardrobeShift: When decides to set her immaturity aside, she abandons her skimpy clothes in favor of a bodysuit.
* {{Stripperiffic}}: Until midway through the series, at which point she ditches the look for a very covering bodysuit.
* TaremeEyes: Representing her motherly personality.
* TeamMom: She softens Holland's harsher tendencies and keeps everyone in line. [[spoiler: Bonus points for being pregnant with the TeamDad's child.]]
* TookALevelInKindness: Starts in episode 30. She loses her immature, temperamental nature. Thus, she becomes more nicer to Renton and Eureka.
* {{Tsundere}}: Towards Holland. Due to his anger and immaturity, she tended to lash out in anger towards him and questioned the length of his true feelings towards her.
* UsedToBeASweetKid: An older example. Prior to joining the Gekkostate, she was well-liked for her maturity and kindness towards others. However, upon joining the Gekkostate, she made major changes in her personality and appearance: Dressing in a {{Stripperiffic}} fashion and having a WomanChild attitude.

[[folder:Stoner]]
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Photographer and main editor of ''Ray=out''. He was also a former member of the military and defected with Holland.

->Voiced by: Creator/YasunoriMatsumoto (JP), Creator/DougStone (EN)

* ActualPacifist: Only takes photographs, never fights.
* ContemplateOurNavels: When he talks about Coralians.
* EruditeStoner: Erudite, yes. Stoner, no. Despite his name, he's never shown to use anything more mind-altering than tobacco.
* NiceHat: Never seen without it, even in the soccer episode.
* NonActionGuy: Despite allegedly being ex-military, he never participates in a single battle throughout the series (and never ''tries'' to).

[[folder:Maurice, Maeter, and Linck]]
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[[caption-width-right:197:Left to right: Maurice, Maeter and Linck.]]
Eureka's adopted children, who she took care of after she killed their parents during a military raid. They are fiercely protective of their "Mama" and like to play pranks on Renton, but warm up to him over time.

->Maurice is voiced by: Creator/MichikoNeya (JP), Creator/MaryElizabethMcGlynn (EN)
->Maeter is voiced by: Eriko Kigawa (JP), Peggy O'Neil (EN)
->Linck is voiced by: Creator/FumieMizusawa (JP), Creator/KateHiggins (EN)

* AttentionWhore: All of them compete with ''everyone else'' for Eureka's attention and affection.
* TheBabyOfTheBunch: Linck is the youngest of them, and also the youngest of member of Gekkostate.
* BrattyHalfPint: Maurice is the most sensible (probably due to being oldest) while Linck is the most immature.
* CharacterDevelopment: All three of them learn to respect and trust Renton, who they previously disliked.
* CheerfulChild: All of them, but Maeter and Linck moreso -- when they're not being mean to Renton or crying, that is.
* CrazyJealousGuy: Maurice becomes this to Eureka as a result of developing something of an OedipusComplex. It starts off with Maurice pranking Renton with his siblings and went UpToEleven in episode 45 when ''[[TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior he pulls a gun on Renton]]'' thinking that Eureka loves Renton more than him. Eureka talks him out of it though and he accepts Renton as his father.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: [[spoiler:Their biological families were killed by Eureka, their adoptive mother.]]
* DoesNotLikeShoes: Linck is the only one of his siblings (an perhaps the only one of Gekkostate) to not wear shoes.
* {{Expy}}: They resemble the three little kids from the original ''Anime/MobileSuitGundam'' quite a lot.
* FreudianExcuse: Their initial dislike of Renton was because they feared he would take away Eureka. The "excuse" comes in the fact that their original families died when they were very young.
* HappilyAdopted: By Eureka, and later by Renton as well.
* HiddenDepths: Maurice has an interest in books and photography, which Stoner introduced him to.
* InterspeciesAdoption: Since Eureka is a Coralian.
* TheLoad: {{Justified}}. None of them do anything remotely important for Gekkostate because they are ''children''. They only serve to be the reason behind Eureka's HeelFaceTurn.
* MoralityPet: To [[EmotionlessGirl Eureka.]] Finding them triggered her HeelFaceTurn.
* MyNewGiftIsLame: Eureka tends to get them textbooks as presents (usually ones that are too advanced for them). She does put thought into it, she just has no idea what they might like. And they need an education, after all.
* NamedAfterSomebodyFamous: The kids are named after Nobel Prize-winning Belgian writer [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Maeterlinck Maurice Maeterlinck]].
* OedipusComplex: While Maeter and Linck still acted like a son and daughter to Eureka, Maurice started to develop this overtime. It started with him blushing and avoiding her to her confusion, but then he turned into a CrazyJealousGuy whenever Renton was with her.
** [[CharacterDevelopment He eventually grows out of it]], coming to see Renton as his adoptive father. By the finale, he's even started dressing like him!
* ParentWithNewParamour: They don't approve their "mama"'s relationship with Renton, usually get in the way of Renton towards Eureka' heart and are afraid that Eureka chooses him over them. They eventually accept him as their adoptive dad.
* SpoiledBrat: Being inexperienced as a mother, Eureka has a tendency to spoil them.
* {{Tagalong Kid}}s: Especially egregious in the finale.
* TookALevelInKindness: They all go from disrespecting and harassing Renton to calling him "papa" and believing that he will save Eureka.
* TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior: Maurice. No normal kid would pull a gun on his mother's boyfriend just because he wants his mama all to himself.
** That said, he remembers being orphaned at a young age [[spoiler: ''by his adoptive mother'']]. And Eureka had just run away [[FreakinessShame due to her arm breaking out in Coralian boils]], setting off his attachment issues. Eureka (and Renton) respond with only love and kindness, and Maurice drops the gun while he cries in Eureka's arms.
* TurnTheOtherCheek: Maurice knows Eureka is the one who [[spoiler:killed his real mother]], but he doesn't hold any grudge against her and loves her as his adoptive mother.
* YouthfulFreckles: Maeter is the only one to have them and, like her siblings, she's energetic.

[[folder:Matthieu]]
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Pilot of the Gekkostate LFO, Terminus typeR606. Laid-back and will do anything for his partner, Hilda.

->Voiced by: Akio Nakamura (JP), Creator/KirkThornton (EN)

* BigBrotherMentor: A lesser example to Renton.
* BlackAndNerdy: Often regarded as a genius by the others.
* BlackBestFriend: He's African-American and acts as this to Holland.
* DemotedToExtra: Hardly appears in the last few episodes.
* FunnyAfro: The only one of the crew to have an afro.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Matthieu is insensitive (playing jokes on Renton), but he does show sympathy towards the young man in regards to Holland mistreating him.
* OfficialCouple: Matthieu and Hilda often act like husband and wife, although they are clearly in a romantic relationship.
* TokenMinority

[[folder:Hilda]]
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Pilot of the Gekkostate LFO, Terminus typeR808. Acts as a big-sister figure for the Gekkostate crew.

->Voiced by: Creator/MayumiAsano (JP), Creator/MeganHollingshead (EN)

* AffectionateNickname: Called "Honey" by Matthieu.
%%* BareYourMidriff
* CoolBigSis: Though Talho gets the lion's share of this.
* DemotedToExtra: Hardly appears in the last few episodes.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: Best friends with Talho.
* NiceGirl: She is a calm, wise, and friendly woman.
* OfficialCouple: Matthieu and Hilda often act like husband and wife, although they are clearly in a romantic relationship.
* TeamMom: Especially before Talho's character development. Hilda's in charge of supplies, cooking, and filling in the CoolBigSis role. Less so after Talho gets more focus and she gets DemotedToExtra.

[[folder:Ken-Goh]]
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Weapons expert of the Gekkostate crew. Also the ''Gekko''[='=]s original owner.

->Voiced by: Tamio Ohki (JP), Creator/BobPapenbrook (EN, episodes 1-28), Creator/KyleHebert (EN, episodes 29-50)

%%* BadassMustache
* ImprobableAimingSkills: A very renowned marksman.

[[folder:Mischa]]
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Physician of the Gekkostate crew. Sometimes gives advice to her crewmates.

->Voiced by: Creator/YokoSoumi (JP), Creator/MaryElizabethMcGlynn (EN)

* AmicablyDivorced: Was once married to Doctor Bear, although they have since divorced.
* TheMedic: The doctor of Gekkostate.
* NiceGirl: Mischa is one of the nicest members of Gekkostate.
* TheSmartGirl: Being the token scientist of the group tends to do this.
* WorkingWithTheEx: With Doctor Bear, although they're on good terms.

[[folder:Gonzy]]
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An enigmatic old man who always hangs around the ''Gekko''.

->Voiced by: Takkou Ishimori (JP), Creator/TonyOliver (EN)

* AdaptationSpeciesChange: The ending of the anime reveals [[spoiler:he is a Coralian]]. In the manga, [[spoiler:he is completely human, but is a former Sage, named Gal Kalmapa, thus allowing him to drop lots of exposition.]]
%%* DisappearsIntoLight
* HumanAlien: [[spoiler:The ending reveals Gonzy is a Coralian.]]
* StealthHiBye: He can appear behind someone -- set down his carpet[[note]]even under their feet![[/note]] and all -- in seconds. Possibly justified by the above trope.
%%* TheWatcher

[[folder:Jobs]]
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Best friends with Woz; snuck into the crew. Jobs handles hardware while Woz handles software.

->Voiced by: Kazayuki Shimura (JP), Creator/DaveMallow (EN)

* AmbiguouslyGay: Jobs is discussed as such in the episode commentaries.
* BromanticFoil: His serious attitude and well-dressed attire is in deep contrast to Woz.
* {{Fanboy}}: Jobs is a BIG fan of Dr. Bear aka Greg Eagan.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: Has a deep friendship with Woz.
%%* MachineMonotone
* MeaningfulName: Living up to his name, Jobs does the random jobs on the Gekko.
* NamedAfterSomebodyFamous: [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Jobs Steve Jobs]], co-founder of [[AppleMacintosh Apple]].
* VitriolicBestBuds: Apparently he and Woz bicker a lot about improving the ''Gekko'''s hardware and software and the repercussions of this.

[[folder:Woz]]
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Best friends with Jobs; they snick into the crew. Woz handles software.

->Voiced by: Yuuichi Nagashima (JP), Creator/DaveWittenberg (EN)

* BromanticFoil: His hippy attitude and grunge attire are a deep contrast to Jobs.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: Has a deep friendship with Jobs.
* InSeriesNickname: Woz is sometimes called "Woz the Whiz."
* NamedAfterSomebodyFamous: [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Wozniak Steve Wozniak]], co-founder of [[AppleMacintosh Apple]].
* NiceHat: Damn, it's a weird one, but it seems to double as a headset.
* PlayfulHacker: He is the ship's hacker
* VitriolicBestBuds: Apparently he and Jobs bicker a lot about improving the ''Gekko'''s hardware and software and the repercussions of this.

[[folder:Hap]]
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Second-in-command of the Gekkostate crew. One of the few people Holland confides his troubles to.

->Voiced by: Taro Yamaguchi (JP), Creator/TonyOliver (EN)

* BewareTheNiceOnes: In the manga, at least, when the [[spoiler: ''Gekko'' is invaded by assassins after Eureka]], he very calmly shoots one in the head, making him one of the only characters with an onscreen kill.
* ChildhoodFriends: He and Holland have been buds since they were three.
%%* EyesAlwaysShut
* GoodScarsEvilScars: Has a barely noticeable scar that divides his left eyebrow.
* NiceGuy: Is easily one of the friendliest of the adult males on the crew.

[[folder:Gidget]]
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One of the more ordinary members of Gekkostate. Has a crush on Moondoggie.

->Voiced by: Fumie Mizusaka (JP), Creator/JessicaStraus (EN)

* AmbiguouslyBrown: Gidget has a tanned skin tone and it's unknown if it's just a sun tan or not.
* BareYourMidriff: Her shirt shows off her stomach area.
* BetaCouple: With Moondoggie. They have the least amount of drama as a couple.
* CoolBigSister: Though even less so than Hilda, due to being much younger.
* TheDitz: She's not very bright.
* HeterosexualLifePartner: Jealous of Talho and Hilda being this, she ''wants'' this kind of relationship with Eureka as the only other teenage girl in Gekkostate.
* NiceHat: A pink and white hat with a purple visor.
* WeaknessTurnsHerOn: In regards to Moondoggie, she mentions that looking at him makes her want to "scoop him up and help him along."

[[folder:Moondoggie]]
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The newest member of Gekkostate before Renton. Jealous of Renton, despite being viewed as a big brother figure by him.

->Voiced by: Creator/MamoruMiyano (JP), Creator/SteveStaley (EN)

* AffectionateNickname: Dubbed "Brother Doggie" by Renton, much to Moondoggie's annoyance.
* AscendedExtra: He gets to be a tritagonist in the video games.
* BetaCouple: With Gidget. They have the least amount of drama as a couple.
* {{Bishonen}}: He's drawn prettier than the other men of Gekkostate, and Gidget mentions his pretty face at one point.
* BromanticFoil: To Sumner in ''New Vision'', being loud and childish next to Sumner's OnlySaneMan status.
* ButtMonkey: In an unusual take on the trope, he was the ship's official ButtMonkey before Renton arrived, and actually resents Renton from taking the position from him. Of course, as Renton [[CharacterDevelopment grows as a character]], Moondoogie reclaims his role as the Butt Monkey.
* CoolBigBro: To Renton, who sees him as a surrogate big brother.
* AFriendInNeed: In ''New Vision'', where he sticks by Sumner, in spite of all their bickering and not necessarily knowing what's going on or agreeing with what they're doing.
* HiddenDepths: [[spoiler:He turns out to be a pretty good ship pilot.]]
* IJustWantToBeBadass: As the series goes on, his usefulness declines, which he's painfully aware of. [[spoiler:Luckily for him, he gets promoted to the Gekko's pilot.]]
* InstantExpert: ''New Vision'' suggests that he's [[spoiler:a (ship) piloting prodigy]].
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Not as bad as Holland, but unsurprising for a teenage male, he's prone to grumpiness and being egocentric. At the end of the day, though, he's still a good guy.
* MeaningfulName:
** According to one of the definitions given by Urban Dictionary, a moondoggie is 1960s slang for a habitual marijuana user. Almost certainly deliberate given the series' large amounts of references to 60s counterculture (and the presence of a character named ''Stoner'').
** It's also a reference to the character in the ''Film/{{Gidget}}'' franchise, just as the character's real name (see OnlyKnownByTheirNickname below) is a reference to James Darren, the actor who played Moondoggie in the three original films.
* NiceHat: A blue hat with a couple of white markings.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: According to his license, his name is actually James Darren Emerson. Nobody ever calls him this.
* TheResenter: He's initially not very fond of Renton due to his jealousy over him.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: At some point pre-series, as seen in the video games, he temporarily left the Gekkostate (implied to be because of being treated like the ButtMonkey, if you assume the "friends" he was complaining about to Ruri were the Gekkostate). At the end of ''New Vision'', he returns and is welcomed back.
* TookALevelInBadass: Eventually [[spoiler:becomes the pilot of the Gekko.]]
* VitriolicBestBuds: With Sumner in the video games. Them constantly bickering didn't stop Moondoggie from giving Sumner his truck or from remaining in the conflict largely to stand by Sumner.

!!United Federation Force

[[folder:Dewey Novak]]
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The main antagonist. Once a disgraced military official following Holland's defection, he ultimately seizes control over the United Federation Forces so he can lead a crusade to destroy the Coralians [[TheUnfettered at all costs]].

->Voiced by: Creator/KoujiTsujitani (JP), Creator/KimStrauss (EN)

* AlasPoorVillain: [[spoiler:In spite of all the atrocities he committed, he was still Holland's brother, and so Holland cries for him after his death.]]
* AloofBigBrother: [[spoiler:To Holland.]]
%%* AmbitionIsEvil
%%* AuthorityEqualsAssKicking
%%* BadassCape
* BigBad: The main antagonist of the series who is trying to kill the Coralians.
%%* BitchInSheepsClothing
* BrokenPedestal: For Dominic, who very obviously respects the man up until the point he realizes what a monster Dewey is.
* CainAndAbel: [[spoiler:The Cain to Holland's Abel.]]
* TheChessmaster: In a complicated and carefully calculated plan, he undermines the public's faith in the Sage Council and overthrows them.
%%* ColonelBadass
* DarkMessiah: Becomes one, when the [[spoiler:Ritual of the King]] becomes laid out to us.
* FamilialReveal: [[spoiler:He is Holland's older brother]].
* FauxAffablyEvil: While he can be charming and seductive in order to get what he wants, he is ultimately revealed to be a [[AxCrazy psychotic]] megalomaniac driven solely by his hatred for the Scub Coral [[spoiler: and his brother, Holland]].
* ImpoverishedPatrician: According to the lifestory he recounts to Anemone, he's allegedly descended from a noble family responsible for leading humanity's exodus from Earth. [[spoiler: After Dewey murders his father in order to become the family's new patriarch, the Novak family is deprived of its legitimacy and he and Holland are forced into poverty.]]
* ItsAllAboutMe: While he claims to be acting in the interests of mankind, it is ultimately revealed that he cares about nothing but satisfying his hunger for vengeance against a world which he perceives has wronged him since his childhood.
* KnightTemplar: He sincerely believes in his cause, and he's all the more nasty because of it. [[spoiler: Subverted towards the end of the series when you find out [[OmnicidalManiac his idea of "saving" the world means destroying it.]]]]
* LackOfEmpathy: Despite being prone to melancholy bouts of self-pity over an unhappy childhood (much of it do to his own making), he has no regard for the well-being of those around him and is downright contemptuous of displays of compassion. When Dominic objects to how he repeatedly refers to Anemone as a "thing", he [[EvilLaugh laughs derisively]] at his subordinate's concern before coldly dismissing him.
* LightIsNotGood: He wears an all white uniform and is the BigBad of the series.
* ManipulativeBastard: [[spoiler:How he preys off of Anemone's abandonment issues in Episode 36 is downright creepy. "My sweet little Anemone..."]]
* MyDeathIsJustTheBeginning: [[spoiler:By declaring that his death will bring forth a new world, Dewey shoots himself in the head to set his plan of planetary genocide in motion.]]
* NeverMyFault: Blames Holland for the succession ritual failing when he caused it in the first place.
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: His character bears an uncanny resemblance to [[http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Hitler Adolf Hitler]], the dictator of Nazi Germany, given how he similarly plots a campaign of mass murder and deception that causes devastation on a global scale in order to satisfy his own hatred.
* OmnicidalManiac: [[spoiler: Despite professing to be the savior of mankind, he admits towards the end of the series that his real objective is to preserve humanity's "dignity" by destroying it along with the Scub Coral.]]
* ParentalSubstitute: In the manga, it's implied he was one for Dominic.
* PetTheDog: In the manga, he thinks back to fond memories of the times he and Holland spent together as children before his death (may count as both a CrowningMomentOfHeartWarming, TearJerker, and AlasPoorVillain all at the same time). In the anime, he is depicted as a thoroughly [[ItsAllAboutMe egocentric]] and [[LackofEmpathy coldhearted]] individual with no humanizing moments aside from a brief flashback to his childhood where he is seen visibly grief-stricken over the death of his mother.
* SelfMadeOrphan: Dewey kills his and Holland's father in an attempt to perform the "Sacrificial King" ritual
%%* {{Ubermensch}}
* TheUnfettered: There is ''nothing'' he will not do in pursuit of his goal.
* VillainTeamUp: With the [[Anime/AfterWarGundamX Frost Bros.]] and [[Anime/TurnAGundam Gym Gingham]] in ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWarsZ''.
* VillainWithGoodPublicity: Through his combined talents of charisma and intelligence, he seizes control of the United Federation and begins a murderous campaign to rid the world of the Scub Coral.
* WouldHurtAChild: Or murder them en masse to be more specific.
* WhiteHairBlackHeart: His gray hair is often depicted as white and he's the sociopath BigBad.
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Has gray hair.

[[folder:Anemone]]
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Pilot of the Federation LFO, Nirvash typeTheEND. Prone to violent mood swings that can only be controlled through the use of sedatives, she refuses to listen to anyone other than Dewey. Owns a strange badger-like pet named Gulliver.

->Voiced by: Creator/AmiKoshimizu (JP), Creator/KariWahlgren (EN)

* AcePilot: She's a great pilot who prefers to ambush her opponents and rain blow after blow upon them. However, she's only that way because she uses a PsychoSerum before she pilots.
* AdaptationalHeroism: In the manga. She's a lot nicer, especially [[LesYay toward Eureka]]. And Dominic at the end.
* AngerBornOfWorry: [[spoiler:When she goes to save Dominic after she accidentally attacks him with her mech while he's falling from the sky, clinging to a ref board to try and save her. She admonishes him for doing something so reckless, even though they're ''both'' in a freefall at this point. Now she's normally been pretty harsh on poor Dominic until now, but fortunately for him, she lets it slide. Cue BigDamnKiss.]]
* AntiVillain: As we discover more of her true personality and tragic past.
* AxCrazy: When she takes the serum, Anemone becomes ''viciously'' determined to kill her enemy with, even with overkill.
* BadassAdorable: A cute young lady with pink hair? Check. Can pilot [=theEnd=] like a pro? ''Double'' check.
* BelatedLoveEpiphany: [[spoiler:She realizes she is in love with Dominic around the time of his HeelFaceTurn when she thinks he has abandoned her, which leads to a far more serious DespairEventHorizon for her.]]
* BeneathTheMask: Her DaddysLittleVillain attitude is revealed to be a facade.
* BloodKnight: She loves violence, at least when she is on her PsychoSerum.
* BrokenBird: In the later part of the series reveals that she is in fact a lonely and mentally damaged girl who desperately wants to live a normal life and find someone to love and love her in return. Especially apparent in episode 48, where even Eureka's children note how sad she sounds.
* CharacterDevelopment: Anemone goes from PsychoForHire to angst ridden BrokenBird to [[TookALevelInKindness a nicer young lady]] [[WhenSheSmiles who can give a genuine smile.]]
* ChildhoodFriendRomance: With Dominic in the manga.
* CrazyConsumption: Mmmmm, [[FanDisservice strawberry jam.]]
%%* CuteAndPsycho
* DaddysLittleVillain: For Dewey. Turns out to be a subversion; she puts on a facade of admiring Dewey because she's terrified of being killed by him if she becomes useless in his eyes. In truth, Anemone is disgusted by him.
* DarkActionGirl: A psycho AcePilot who also doubles as the EvilCounterpart to the TheHeroine. [[spoiler:Thankfully, she pulls a HeelFaceTurn.]]
* DarkAndTroubledPast: [[spoiler:Her family was murdered when she was a child and later was diagnosed with Desperation Disease. She was then subject to horrible experiments to become Coralian-like.]]
* DarkMagicalGirl: Shows more traits of this as the series goes on. She's an AntiVillain and the heroine's EvilCounterpart who seeks to please the BigBad and is terrified of being abandoned and finally [[spoiler:makes a HeelFaceTurn thanks to ThePowerOfLove]].
* DefrostingIceQueen: Towards Dominic by the end.
* DevotedToYou: Her bitchy and psycho personality and constant abuse doesn't affect Dominic's devotion to her at all. He will always protect her no matter what.
* DomesticAbuser: She's got it in for poor Dominic for most of the series.
* EmotionlessGirl: Was apparently this before the start of the series, as Dominic and Dewey note that she has a personality now. She does have [[spoiler:Desperation Disease, after all.]]
* EvilCounterpart: To Eureka. Both are the AcePilot of their organization and have a LoveEpiphany when their love interest vanishes. They each even have their own MoralityPet (the kids for Eureka, Gulliver for Anemone). However, Anemone is with the United Federation, while Eureka is a member of Gekkostate. They also contrast in color scheme: Anemone is red (violent and emotional) and Eureka is blue (reserved and calm). [[spoiler:Subverted in the end. She became the way she was because of the constant inhuman expreiments forced on her by Dewey, who she really hates. That and her HeelFaceTurn at the end shows she never was "evil".]]
* EvilIsHammy:
** "Ha ha! Wow, what great reactions! That why - ''I'm going to have to '''kill you!!!'''"''
** Japanese version: "Hello, my look-alike! Want me to kill you?!"
* EvilLaugh: When she fights.
* EvilRedhead: She has pink hair and is an antagonistic towards the main characters. She's also the EvilCounterpart of TheHeroine. [[spoiler:Subverted at the end. She was never "evil" and only did what she did because of Dewey's emotional manipulations of her. She makes a full HeelFaceTurn by the end of the series.]]
* ExoticEyeDesigns: Her purple eyes each have a single straight line etched across them.
* FakeUltimateHero: Dewey dressed her up as one in later arcs.
* FreudianExcuse: The reason behind her personality is the frequent inhumane experiments she was forced to endure at a young age and Dewey's emotional manipulations.
* HairDecorations: Her hair clip and diadem.
* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:She abandons the U.F. Force after Dominic shows up to try and save her in her final battle against Renton and Eureka, which makes her realize he still loves her.]]
* HiddenDepths: She's introduced as a crazy psycho, but then the reveal is brought up on ''how'' she became the way she is. And in a private soliloquy, she admits she desperately wants a normal life with someone she truly loves.
* HumanAllAlong: Her appearance and role (and possibly her name) seem to imply that she is a Coralian. It turns out she's just a human [[spoiler:whose appearance and abilities have been modified by horrible military experiments]].
* IJustWantToBeNormal: Anemone desperately wants to be normal.
* IJustWantToBeLoved: Besides wanting to have [[IJustWantToBeNormal a normal life]], Anemone also wants to find someone to love and who will also truly love her.
* IllGirl: As a result of these grueling experimentations, she regularly suffers from painful headaches, nose bleeds, and emotional instability, most of which can be temporarily treated with a drug injected into a receptor in her neck.
* ImAHumanitarian: During her first encounter with Renton in a dream state she tries to eat him.
* InsecureLoveInterest: Anemone never thought that Dominic would really love someone like her.
* InterspeciesRomance: She (artificial Humanoid Coralian) and Dominic (human).
* ItIsDehumanizing: Dewey and [[MadScientist Deckard]] refer to her as an "it."
* {{Jerkass}}: Moody, callous, and prone to violent outbursts.
* JerkassHasAPoint: While biting him on the lip may have been excessive, Anemone was correct in the fact that Dominic hardly knew anything about her.
* LatexSpaceSuit: She wears a black form-fitting suit with nipple highlights when she pilots [=TheEND=] (and she does ''that'' suspended from all limbs in the cockpit in a way that accentuates her form even more).
* LightFeminineAndDarkFeminine: The dark to Eureka's light.
* LoveHurts: [[spoiler:When Dominic seemingly abandons her, she finally realizes how much he means to her, but believes it's all too late. She delivers a gut-wrenching soliloquy, convinced that she doesn't deserve to live. Fortunately, Dominic arrives just in time.]]
* LoveRedeems: [[spoiler:In Episode 48, her love for Dominic changes her for the better.]]
* MeaningfulName: Named after anemones, flowers linked to bloodshed in Greek and Christian mythology.
* MilitaryBrat: She was found by the Federation military and taken in to be a human military experiment.
* MistressAndServantBoy: Her relationship with Dominic.
* ModestyShorts: Wears them under her dress and they are seen rarely.
* MoodSwinger: Goes from violent to emotionless to cheerful at a drop of a hat.
* MoralityPet: To [[PunchClockVillain Dominic]] -- he acts his kindest when around her.
* MusclesAreMeaningless: Anemone, a girl with a slim body type, manages to easily carry and hold her pet fat badger, Gulliver. An action that causes trouble to the more muscular and older Colonel Jurgens.
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: See MeaningfulName above. Also applies to [=TheEND=].
* NightmareFuelStationAttendant: [[spoiler:One can be pretty sure all those drugs and experimentation had something to do with it, but still...]]
* OfficialCouple: With Dominic.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: In the manga, she has no name, "Anemone" is the name Dominic gave her.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: For most of the series, Anemone hates taking the neurological stimulants. However, the moment she takes them ''willingly'' signifies how desperate she is to please Dewey.
* PhlebotinumGirl: A young girl that definitely isn't a normal human, the pilot of a powerful HumongousMecha and [[spoiler:a test subject of an attempt to copy Eureka's Coralian nature]]. She's used and manipulated as a human weapon, blindly follows the orders of her evil boss and is both very physically frail and mentally unstable.
* PsychicNosebleed: In this case, used as an indicator of the abuse her job puts on her mind and body rather than actual PsychicPowers.
* PsychoForHire: When she is on her PsychoSerum.
* PsychoSerum: {{Zig Zagged}}. She seems to have a growing dependence on a specialized drug, but it serves more as a painkiller which makes her crazy rather than a mutagen.
* PsychoticSmirk: Quite often.
* PurpleEyes: Has purple eyes because of the experiments done on her to become an artificial Coralian.
* RedemptionEarnsLife: [[spoiler:After her HeelFaceTurn, she gets to live and begin a happy life with Dominic.]]
* RedOniBlueOni: The red (loud, emotional, and violent) to Eureka's blue (quiet, reserved, and calm).
* ReverseGrip: [=TheEND=]'s swords.
* RoseHairedSweetie: Inverted. It's pink-haired, orange-themed Anemone that's the near-crazy AntiVillain to Eureka's blue-themed heroine. [[spoiler: Played straight by the end, when she's freed from Dewey's influence and reforms.]]
* SanityStrengthening: She starts off as a violently psychotic TykeBomb, but grows much stabler in the presence of her handler/guardian Dominic. Late in the series, he manages to restore her sanity completely through ThePowerOfLove.
* SingleTargetSexuality: [[spoiler:Realizes that she's Dominic-sexual.]]
* SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan: [[spoiler:She ends up falling for DoggedNiceGuy Dominic who would always take care of her just because he wanted to.]]
* SlasherSmile: Almost all the time when fighting.
* SweetTooth: In the manga.
* TheTease: In the manga, she has fun asking Renton if he wants to sleep with her. She also seems to make passes [[LesYay at Eureka.]]
* TookALevelInCheerfulness: [[spoiler:Being freed from Dewey, plus becoming an OfficialCouple with Dominic made Anemone a truly happy person.]]
* TookALevelInKindness: [[spoiler:At the end of the series, due to her being free from Dewey and no longer being drugged, she becomes more pleasant and friendly.]]
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: She ''loves'' jam.
* {{Tsundere}}: PlayedForDrama. She spends most of the series being absolutely brutal towards poor Dominic. Eventually, [[spoiler:she realizes she is in love with him and she regrets not telling him how she felt before he went AWOL.]]
* {{Tykebomb}}: Raised by [[BigBad Dewey]] to defeat and kill Eureka.
* UnknownRival: To Eureka.
* VillainousBSOD: [[spoiler:After multiple failures against the Nirvash. It gets worse when Dominic seemingly abandons her.]]
* WeWantOurJerkBack: In the manga, Anemone undergoes a treatment that suddenly makes her act sweet and affectionate. This only freaks Dominic out and is relieved when she goes back to normal.
* WhenSheSmiles: Dominic comments that her truly happy face is beautiful in Episode 48.
* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: She was raised to defeat and kill Eureka. She also lost her family in a war and diagnosed with Desperation Disease later on. Afterwards, she was subjected to horrible experiments to turn her into a humanoid Coralian. While she survived, Anemone was left mentally and physically scarred.
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Pink hair, in her case.
* YouHaveFailedMe: She is terrified of being replaced for failing too much.

[[folder:Dominic Sorel]]
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An elite officer in the U.F. Force and Dewey's confidant. He also has the unenviable job of looking after Anemone who, despite [[LoveMartyr being on the receiving end of a very abusive relationship with her]], he is actually fond of.

->Voiced by: Creator/ShigenoriYamazaki (JP), Peter Doyle (EN)

* AdaptationalBadass: Not that he wasn't already a {{Badass}} in the anime, but he gets to see more of the action in the manga. Lampshaded in a sketch with various comments from the cast about the manga series, where Dominic comments that he was pretty cool.
* {{Adorkable}}: He's serious and blunt about his work, but is just ''adorable'' when he's lost or if he's looking dreamily at Anemone.
* AntiVillain: He takes orders from his superiors seriously, but considers himself [[FriendlyEnemy a friend of Renton]] despite being on the opposite side.
* BadassAdorable: Despite being slightly older than TheHero, Dominic gets his {{adorkable}} moments while still being a badass officer.
* BigBrotherMentor: He acts as one to Renton in the manga, particularly in Ch. 20 when Renton's having a HeroicBSOD.
* {{Bishonen}}: Even Anemone comments on it.
* TheCaretaker: To Anemone.
* CharacterDevelopment: Dominic begins to question the motives behind to why he fights and what he should be doing. He eventually realizes how [[spoiler:messed up Dewey is and makes a HeelFaceTurn.]]
* ChildhoodFriendRomance: With Anemone in the manga.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Dominic was a young child when he lost his entire family in the civil war that began in the aftermath of The First Summer of Love and he was taken in by Dewey, who taught him to be a soldier.
* DeathByAdaptation: [[spoiler:He's killed towards the end of the manga.]]
* DeclarationOfProtection: He will NOT stand for something interfering with Anemone's well-being.
* DefectorFromDecadence: [[spoiler:He finally abandons the U.F. Force when he sees several girls being subjected to brutal, and ultimately fatal experiments in an attempt to made them into [=TheEND=]'s pilots. Especially when he realizes Anemone had to go through the same.]]
* DefusingTheTykebomb: He tries to do this for Anemone. [[spoiler:It eventually works.]]
* {{Determinator}}: Did we mention yet that he ''shrugged off laser burns'' to save Anemone in the manga? Not to mention his ShutUpHannibal moment before that, or afterwards when he puts up with the pain--if not putting himself in ''more'' pain--to get him and Anemone out of there.
* DoggedNiceGuy: To Anemone. [[spoiler:[[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming His perseverance ultimately]] [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome pays off.]]]]
* DudeWheresMyRespect: There are men in the military far older than him and yet of much lower rank, who often have trouble obeying his orders. Dominic is also aware that commanding officers give him a hard time following his orders for Dewey as they think he's still a kid.
* EasilyForgiven: The Gekkostate crew decides to trust him implicitly as soon as he shows similarities to Renton, especially his commitment to the one he loves.
* EnemyMine: He and Renton are forced to work together to save Eureka and Anemone.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: "Evil" is a little much for him, but he does has someone he cares about: [[MoralityPet Anemone]]. He's as equally devoted and in love with her as Renton is to Eureka.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Calling him evil is a bit of a stretch, but he will NOT stand for [[spoiler:inhumane experiments performed on young women to make them into pilots for [=TheEND=]. ESPECIALLY if Anemone already suffered through such a treatment herself.]]
* EvilCounterpart: To Renton. Both are relatively new members to an organization, and are given little respect by the other members. The only person of the organization they have a close connection with is an AcePilot girl they quickly become devoted to. Both of them are WideEyedIdealist and go through a BrokenPedestal moment with their organization's leader. However, while Renton is with Gekkostate, Dominic is with the Federation. [[spoiler:Subverted since Dominic was never truly "evil" and made a HeelFaceTurn near the end.]]
* FreudianExcuse: As a result of having been orphaned at a young age and seen the effects of a war, Dominic becomes stoic and blunt towards others, and takes his duty as a soldier seriously.
* FriendlyEnemy: He considers Renton (who is a member of the Federation's enemy) as a friend.
* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:Near the end of the series, he abandons U.F. Force and joins Gekkostate's side.]]
* HeelRealization:
** In the anime, Dominic realizes how sadistic his organization is [[spoiler: when he sees girls, just like Anemone, undergo brutal, and ultimately fatal, experimentation in the lab.]] Cue the VomitDiscretionShot and [[spoiler: his HeelFaceTurn.]]
** In the manga, this occurs when Ruri informs him of Dewey's true motives, with Dominic realizing that everything he's fought for up until now was a lie.
* HeroicBSOD: Coinciding with his HeelRealization above, though it doesn't last for long.
* HeroicSacrifice: In the manga, via YouShallNotPass fashion, [[spoiler:as he shields Renton from a hoard of Coralians.]]
* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: In the manga.
* ImprobableHairstyle: The back part of his hair stands up on its own.
* InnocentlyInsensitive: When Dominic gives Anemone a couple of anemones as a present, she asks if he's mocking her -- he didn't realize that anemones mean "disappearing hope."
* InterspeciesRomance: He (human) and Anemone (artificial Humanoid Coralian).
* LivingEmotionalCrutch: [[spoiler:To Anemome. She finally realizes it after he seemingly abandons her and she hits the DespairEventHorizon.]]
* LoveMartyr: His endurance of Anemone's [[{{Jerkass}} condescending manner]] and [[DomesticAbuse physical assault]] is '''legendary.'''
* MeaningfulName: Originally from the late Roman-Italic name "Dominicus" its translation means "Of Our Lord", "Lordly", "Belonging to God" or "of the Master". This fits with him being the servant of Dewey and Anemone, both who outrank him.
* MistressAndServantBoy: His relationship with Anemone.
* MusclesAreMeaningless: You don't realize it until you see him twist the arms of thugs twice his size without any visible effort, as well as his ability to shoulder Anemone's improbably heavy Gulliver without extreme strain. There's also the stuff he does while saving Anemone in the manga, like shrugging off ''laser burns''.
* MyCountryRightOrWrong: {{Deconstructed}}. Dominic is loyal to Dewey's cause, but comes to be greatly disturbed by his amoral actions and disregard to Anemone's mental well-being.
* NiceGuy: Develops into one Post-HeelFaceTurn; he's now a humble, polite, respectful man to those he initially considered beneath him.
* NoSenseOfDirection: You know you're bad when [[IdiotHero Renton]] calls you out on it.
-->'''Dominic:''' Is "west" the direction of the hand you hold a fork with?
* NotSoDifferent: To Renton, who is also devoted to protecting the girl he loves.
* OfficialCouple: With Anemone.
* OnlyFriend: He is the closest to Anemone (sans Gulliver) and he genuinely cares about her.
* OrphansOrdeal: As revealed in Episode 44. It helps to explain why he's so devoted to Anemone - hers is the closest connection he has with another person.
* PunchClockVillain: He may work for the United Federation, but he's only doing his job.
* ShutUpHannibal: In response to a [[MindScrew hallucinated skeletal Dewey]] trying to BreakThemByTalking, in the manga.
* SingleTargetSexuality: Dominic has no interest in other girls, except one: Anemone.
* SubordinateExcuse: While Anemone doesn't outrank him, it should be clear that he chose this position for something more than a good paycheck.
* SugarAndIcePersonality: He can be cold at times, mainly when on the job, but he's a pretty nice guy otherwise.
* TeethClenchedTeamwork: With Jurgens, pre-HeelFaceTurn.
* ToBeLawfulOrGood: [[spoiler:Once it's clear that this divide exists to begin with, he easily chooses 'good,' even telling Jurgens that there isn't even a choice.]]
* TokenGoodTeammate: Between Dewey, Anemone, and the Ageha squad children, he's about the only one who's actually trying to do the morally right thing.
* TookALevelInKindness: From Ep. 45 and onwards, as signified by his newfound friendship with Jurgens and Gulliver, neither of whom he got along with before due to his previous uptight behaviour.
* VomitIndiscretionShot: In Episodes 43 and 44.
* WideEyedIdealist: A bit subtler than most, but still very naive about how the world and human relationships work.
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Dominic has greenish-black hair.

[[folder:Gulliver]]
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->'''Voiced by:''' None

Anemone's pet badger.

* FatCat: A badger variant. It is immensely overweight, and therefore can not be easily transported or moved.
* MoralityPet: To [[AxCrazy Anemone]]. He is the only one she shows a gentler side to.
* ShipperOnDeck: For Dominic/Anemone. He [[spoiler:puts their hands together as they are all falling from the sky.]]
* TeamPet: For the Federation, but specifically towards Dominic and Anemone.
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Like Anemone, Gulliver appears to really like jam.

[[folder:The Ageha Squad]]
A group of specially-trained children who answer directly to Dewey.
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* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: They admire Dewey and follow his orders because of this.
* CuteAndPsycho: The sage Coda notes they're beautiful children. This is right before [[EstablishingCharacterMoment one of them shoots a maid in the head]] with no hesitation.
* EnfantTerrible: Despite their young age, they're some of the most psychotic characters around in the series.
* EvilCounterpart: To Anemone. They all work under Dewey and are CuteAndPsycho. However, Anemone isn't truly "evil" and actually despises Dewey; the Ageha Squad are shown to be more cold-hearted than Anemone and truly admire Dewey.
* FreudianExcuse: [[spoiler: They were victims of an ethnic cleansing. Apparently Dewey was the first one to show them kindness.]]
* NoNameGiven: Their names are never revealed.
* ShadowArchetype: To Anemone. They represent what she could've become had she actually cared for Dewey.
* TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior: They show no qualms with murder and gleefully follow Dewey's messed up orders.
* {{Tykebomb}}: Raised by [[BigBad Dewey]] to help him with his nefarious plans.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Captain Jurgens]]
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Captain of the Federation flagship ''Izumo''.

->Voiced by: Tetsuo Komura (JP), Creator/MichaelMcConnohie (EN)
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%%* AntiVillain
%%* BadassMustache
* BigBrotherMentor: Mild version to Dominic.
* ColonelBadass: His rank equates to this. Besides, [[spoiler: being willing to take on an entire enemy armada in one ship takes some balls!]]
* DarkAndTroubledPast: His wife and daughter were killed in a battle at Warsaw.
* DefectorFromDecadence: [[spoiler:Sides with Gekkostate after witnessing the inhuman experiments done to make artificial humanoid Coralians.]]
* DemotedToExtra: While a minor character to begin with, he only appears once in the manga and then never again, with the role of facilitating Dominic's HeelFaceTurn going to Ruri instead.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: He draws the line at [[spoiler:horrible experiments and deliberately harming innocent people.]]
%%* AFatherToHisMen
%%* HeelFaceTurn
* ItsPronouncedTropay: His name is pronounced YOOR-gens.
%%* PunchClockVillain
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: For starters, he reads ''Ray=out'' and actually takes it seriously when the heroes reveal information in it.
* ShipperOnDeck: He's all for Dominic/Anemone.
* TeethClenchedTeamwork: With Dominic at first.
* ToBeLawfulOrGood: He chooses good.
* YouShallNotPass: Tries to pull this off in Episode 49 with his crew.
[[/folder]]

!!''New Wave'' and ''New Vision'' Characters

[[folder:Sumner Sturgeon]]
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The male protagonist of the video game prequels ''New Wave'' and ''New Vision''. After graduating New Wave Academy, a school for future military recruits, he and most of his friends joined the Sawyer Team KLF group. His beliefs and love for Ruri convince him to rebel against the military at the end of the first game, and [[spoiler: deliver a captured Nirvash to Holland and Eureka]].

In the second game, he, Ruri, and Moondoggie fight against the Azure group and corrupted members of the military, including some of Sumner's old friends, to prevent mass destruction.

->Voiced by: Creator/HiroShimono (JP), Creator/SamRiegel (EN)
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* TheAce: Explicitly referred to as the ace of the Sawyer Team.
* AcePilot: The star of New Wave (and then the Sawyer Team), after Ruri leaves. Even years later, he hasn't lost his touch and ranks among the best.
* {{Adorkable}}: He can be endearingly flustered and/or enthusiastic. Less so in ''New Vision'', having grown up a bit, but it's still there at times.
* BattleCouple: With Ruri in ''New Vision''.
* BeenThereShapedHistory: [[spoiler:He was the one who delivered the Nirvash to the Gekkostate.]]
* BlackSheep: Of the famous Sturgeon family, after he chose to quit officer academy and join New Wave, and then doubly so after he defected from the military.
* BrokenAce: Becomes this by ''New Vision''. Compared to the AcePilot before who thought everything was new and shiny and amazing, the LegallyDead RetiredBadass he's turned into admits that lifting is now just another way to keep himself fed, and he's beginning to forget how he used to feel back in the old days.
* BrokenPedestal: In ''Gravity Boys & Lifting Girl'', his favourite brother Torino becomes this after Sumner witnesses him shooting (and killing) the brother of one of Sumner's friends.
* TheCameo: Sumner and Ruri make a brief appearance in the anime. He also appears in the manga's epilogue, in a panel alongside [[CanonImmigrant Ruri]], Moondoggie, and Gidget.
* DesperatelyLookingForAPurposeInLife: His main goal, and part of why he keeps chasing after/sticking with Ruri despite her occasionally questionable treatment of him, as he hopes that being with her will help guide him.
* TheDitherer: His main problem: he doesn't really know what he wants to do.
* EveryoneWentToSchoolTogether: He attended the same high school as Gillian and Steven. This being Sumner, he doesn't even remember them.
* ExtremeDoormat: Starts off as one for his family in the ''Gravity Boys & Lifting Girl''.
* FakingTheDead: Albeit not by choice. After defecting from the military, he's declared officially dead rather than a traitor so as to not shame the Sturgeon name, so he just rolls with it.
* {{Fanboy}}: It's somewhat of a RunningGag that he's an LFO fanboy, weirding some people out. He also idolizes B.B. as a teenager, with that respect showing itself even as an adult where he uses the same moniker in a lifting tournament once.
* ForgottenFirstMeeting: With... just about the entire cast barring Hooky. Shaun and Pez tried to mug him once (though they don't seem to remember him either), and he utterly fails to retain any info about Gillian and Steven's existences during the years they attend school together. And, of course, there's the entire mess with Ruri.
* GoodIsNotSoft: He's a genuinely nice and compassionate guy, but when push comes to shove? He ends up killing a fair amount of former allies provided they tried to kill him first.
* GoodLookingPrivates: One of the family servants notes how handsome he is in his military uniform.
* GrewASpine: This is especially noticeable in the Japanese version, where he switches from ''boku'' [[JapanesePronouns to the more assertive]] ''ore'' by the end of ''New Wave''.
* HeelFaceTurn: Mostly for Ruri, hence why he's somewhat bitter in ''New Vision'', believing that she ditched him afterwards.
* IHaveNoSon: His family pulls this on him after the events of ''New Wave''. You don't get much more disowned than being declared LegallyDead so that the family can save face.
* IgnoreTheFanservice: In ''Gravity Boys & Lifting Girl'', he never seems to acknowledge that he knows a ''very'' attractive older woman whom his (more hormonal) friends immediately fall for. According to her, it's because of his SingleTargetSexuality for B.B.
* InnocentlyInsensitive: ''God'', it's almost painful to see how oblivious he is around Gillian.
* IWillFindYou: His objective at the end of ''New Wave'', after losing everything, is to find Ruri.
* JadeColoredGlasses: A mild version in ''New Vision'', in that he's still rather idealistic, but also a fair bit grumpier thanks to his experiences in ''New Wave''.
* JerkassRealization: He initially assumes his classmates are shallow jerks who only see him as a Sturgeon, before realizing that ''he'' was the shallow jerk for immediately dismissing them like that based on an ultimately false assumption.
* LegallyDead: After the events of ''New Wave''. See FakingTheDead above.
* LonelyRichKid: Played with. At age fourteen, he's rich and he's mostly friendless, but it's somewhat self-imposed as he automatically assumes everyone only focuses on his family name. Once he realizes that he's wrong and lets himself become part of a social circle, he's much happier.
* LoveAtFirstSight: He became infatuated with Ruri since the first time he saw her... not that he knows that it was her.
* LoveMartyr: For Ruri, to an extent. Her being TroubledButCute doesn't do wonders for their relationship and Sumner knows it, but he's devoted to her all the same.
* MassiveNumberedSiblings: He has five older brothers. It probably says something about his family that he doesn't seem to be close with any of them but Torino.
* MilitaryBrat: However, rather than staying in officer academy like his father wanted, he joined New Wave.
* NiceGuy: In ''New Wave'', compared to his SugarAndIcePersonality in ''Gravity Boys & Lifting Girl'' and the more [[OnlySaneMan beleaguered attitude]] he develops in ''New Vision''.
* NotSoAboveItAll: Claims he was never competing with Hooky--before insisting that he ''won'' that last 'tie', thank you very much.
* ObliviousToLove: To Gillian's.
* OnlySaneMan: Between him, Ruri, and Moondoggie.
-->'''Sumner:''' There are three of us here, but it doesn't matter. I'm still alone. I guess what I'm trying to say is why don't these two DO ANY OF THE WORK!?
* TheQuietOne: Used to be this. It was part of what attracted Gillian to him.
* RetiredBadass: The retirement was forced on him, what with being LegallyDead, but he amounts to this in the beginning of ''New Vision'', with both Wes and Moondoggie bemoaning how all of his talent as an AcePilot is going to waste.
* SingleTargetSexuality: Without even realizing it! Utter lack of interest in anyone else aside, he was mildly obsessive over both B.B. and the girl he saw once by chance, as others note, but ends up with Ruri--except they're all the same person.
* StepfordSmiler: Develops into one in ''Gravity Boys & Lifting Girl'' upon realizing how empty his life is, having everything decided for him by his family.
* SugarAndIcePersonality: As a teenager, due to believing his classmates only saw him as a Sturgeon. Around others and once he realized that wasn't the case for everyone, he's significantly warmer.
* UnderestimatingBadassery: Frequent in the beginning of ''New Vision''. Unlike some of the other [[AcePilot Ace Pilots]] on this page, Sumner falls off the radar, so most people assume he's your run-of-the-mill punk who pilots an LFO... without realizing that he used to be one of the military's ''best''.
* VitriolicBestBuds: With Moondoggie. Sumner's clearly exasperated with him half the time, but is good friends with him nevertheless.
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[[folder:Ruri]]
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Sumner's love interest. In ''New Wave'', she left New Wave Academy after learning about the military's insidious motives. Although her efforts to rebel lead her to aligning with black market dealers, she eventually reunites with Sumner long enough to help him realize what path he should follow.

In ''New Vision'', Ruri is able to meet Sumner again, and they ([[AndZoidberg and Moondoggie]]) try to stop a military scheme that is driving their own pilots insane. After the conflict is over, she and Sumner remain together.

Ruri also made an appearance in the manga adaptation. Here, she is a spy for Gekko State in the military, and helps them fight Dewey's plans, as well as facilitate in Dominic's HeelFaceTurn.

->Voiced by: Creator/MegumiToyoguchi (JP), Creator/MichelleRuff (EN)
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* AcePilot: As noted below, she was TheAce of New Wave until she left.
* ActionGirl: She can hold her own both in an LFO and outside of one.
* BadassAdorable: A GenkiGirl who's happy to brawl whether in an LFO or not.
* BareYourMidriff: Both her outfit in ''New Wave'' and in ''New Vision''.
* BattleCouple: With Sumner in ''New Vision''.
* BigEater: If the ramen-eating competition is any indication.
* BluebirdOfHappiness: In ''Gravity Boys & Lifting Girl'', she's associated with this for Gillian's little sister (with the bluebird itself being her AnimalMotif back then).
* BoobsOfSteel: The least fragile out of all the heroines in the E7 world, and has by far the largest chest.
* BrokenAce: She was TheAce of New Wave before Sumner, but possesses a deep-rooted insecurity of being dependent on others.
* BrokenBird: Not immediately obvious, but she's got a fair amount of issues underneath her energetic personality.
* TheCameo: Briefly appears in the anime alongside Sumner.
* CanonImmigrant: Started as a main character in the prequel video games (that are prequels to the anime) and then became a main character in the manga, which is an adaptation of the anime (albeit one that goes in a completely different direction).
* DangerouslyShortSkirt: Wears one as part of her New Wave uniform, and unlike Gillian, she's happy to wield it to its full potential.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: She's grown up on the streets and in poverty.
* DefectorFromDecadence: She left the military of her own volition once she realized how far the corruption ran.
* DoesNotLikeMen: Presumably due to growing up in the slums, she's not hugely fond of the male gender in ''Gravity Boys & Lifting Girl'', citing them all to be idiots (or, to Gillian, perverts), though she doesn't outwardly express it much and seems to later abandon that mindset either way.
* EtTuBrute: Flame's--that is, her old mentor's--betrayal sends her into a HeroicBSOD.
* FieryRedhead: Her hair's a mix between red and brown (though considered red in the manga), and she's certainly got a loud personality to match.
* GenkiGirl: Though it occasionally veers into ObfuscatingStupidity.
* HeroicBSOD:
** As a teenager, she falls into a depressed mood for quite some time after being outed as a girl as B.B.
** Upon realizing Flame's true nature, though she quickly snaps out of it.
* HoneyTrap: She's not above seducing her targets to win their trust before she double-crosses them.
* ImportantHaircut: In ''Gravity Boys & Lifting Girl'', where she cuts her hair as acceptance of her femininity with it now being too short to stuff her under cap.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Though she's lost the grumpiness from her teenage days (in ''Gravity Boys & Lifting Girl''), she's still prone to being flighty and inconsiderate. And like with Holland and Talho, said lack of consideration isn't exactly healthy for her love life.
* ManicPixieDreamGirl: Played straight in ''New Wave'', as the one who forces Sumner out of his comfort zone. Subverted in ''New Vision'', where it becomes clear that she's got her own problems.
* MasterOfDisguise: She's sure fond of it, in any case.
* TheMole: What she was originally in the manga, before making her true allegiance known
* ObfuscatingStupidity: Typically to hide her true motives.
* PaperThinDisguise: Her disguises when she shows up before Sumner are half-hearted at best, and yet he ''still'' can't recognize her, even while ''actively thinking about her''. Granted, this is probably more because of how Sumner is than anything.
* PassionateSportsGirl: In ''Gravity Boys & Lifting Girl'', she ''lives'' to lift. Her passion dies down when she no longer needs it to escape her life, but she still has a fondness for it.
* SelectiveObliviousness: She completely refuses to believe that Flame could be a villain until she has unrefutable evidence that he tried to have her killed.
* ShortTank: The {{Tomboy}} LoveInterest to Sumner with the outfit to match.
* SpiritedCompetitor: She shows signs of this when initially refusing to take on a job as a pizza delivery guy... until she hears that they've got a 5-minute speed record.
* StreetUrchin: She grew up on the streets, and as she notes that she can't remember a time when she wasn't independent, it's likely she's been an orphan for a long time.
* {{Stripperiffic}}: Especially jarring in the manga, where where she first appears as a conservatively dressed scientist, then switches to her ''New Wave'' outfit.
* SweetPollyOliver: As a teenager in ''Gravity Boys & Lifting Girl'', since girls weren't allowed to participate in the lifting tournament.
* TankTopTomboy: In ''New Vision''.
* TheTease: She can be flirty at times.
* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: The Tomboy to Gillian's Girly Girl.
* TomboyWithAGirlyStreak: After embracing her femininity, she enjoys things like make-up and doesn't mind wearing mini skirts, but she's still a tomboy at heart, through and through.
* TomboyishPonytail: In ''New Vision''.
* TookALevelInCheerfulness: Over the course of ''Gravity Boys & Lifting Girl'', she goes from a bitter punk to a GenkiGirl.
* TroubledButCute: A female version, which puts a strain on her and Sumner's relationship, particularly in ''New Vision''. As Sumner notes, most guys wouldn't even think of kissing a girl like her.
* UnsettlingGenderReveal: To the man who tried to assault her in prison while she was sleeping: suffice to say the guy noticed the "boy" was lacking certain... ''parts''.
* WasItAllALie: Gillian asks this after discovering that Ruri is a girl and (falsely) assuming that she's given up lifting, though she admits afterwards that she wasn't really talking to Ruri (but rather venting her feelings about Sumner, having seen some of him in Ruri).
* WhoWearsShortShorts: In ''New Wave''.
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[[folder:Steven Bisson]]
One of Sumner's companions when he was a member of Sawyer Team. Between ''New Wave'' and ''New Vision'', an experimental drug given to him by the military drives him insane, turning him into one of the main antagonists of the second game.

->Voiced By: Creator/MasakazuMorita (JP), Creator/LiamOBrien (EN, Uncredited)
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* AbusiveParents: When Steven was about to announce his intentions to go against his family's wishes (regarding his fate post-graduation) during his valedictorian speech, his father's response was to rush up to him and strike him in front of the entire audience.
* AlasPoorVillain: [[spoiler:Steven, Ruri, Gillian, and Hooky all mourn him after his death, both because he was their friend and because it wasn't entirely his fault to begin with.]]
* ArrangedMarriage: In one with Gillian, though they apparently break it off sometime between ''New Wave'' and ''New Vision''.
* BigBad: [[BigBadEnsemble One of them]] in ''New Vision''.
* BlackSheep: Presumably became this for his family after choosing not to go to officer academy and instead joining up with New Wave.
* CrazyJealousGuy: For the most part, he hides it well and doesn't let it interfere in his friendship with Sumner, but Steven's definitely taken notice of Gillian's feelings for Sumner. It's hinted to contribute to his SanitySlippage in ''New Vision''.
* EtTuBrute: Sumner's defection is implied to have been one of the nails in the coffin for Steven.
* LonelyAtTheTop: Suggested towards the end of ''New Vision'', where his insanity has its reached its peak and he seems ''genuinely'' glad to see Sumner and co. (who are there to take him down) and invites them to enjoy the view with him.
* MilitaryBrat: Same story as Sumner.
* NiceGuy: He comes across as this in ''New Wave'' (having lost his uptight attitude from ''Gravity Boys & Lifting Girl''), making his SanitySlippage all the more tragic in ''New Vision''.
* NotQuiteDead: Every time you might think the guy's been killed, he turns out to be alive.
* NotSoAboveItAll: As a teenager, he initially comes across as a rule-abiding StudentCouncilPresident, but he still helps referee Sind and Lotte's lifting match, and for all of his insistence that ghosts don't exist, he's just as easily freaked out when they think they see one.
* PsychopathicManchild: Degrades into this once he starts having a VillainousBreakdown.
* RebelliousSpirit: He becomes a downplayed one towards the end of ''Gravity Boys & Lifting Girl''. It may or may not have been what contributed to his SanitySlippage much later on.
* SanitySlippage: In ''New Vision''.
* StudentCouncilPresident: During his high school years.
* TragicVillain: In Ruri's words, he was ultimately another victim of CFS.
* VitriolicBestBuds: With Hooky.
* WeUsedToBeFriends: His opinion of Sumner in ''New Vision'', despite Sumner's belief that they still ''are'' friends.
* WhiteHairBlackHeart: Averted in ''Gravity Boys & Lifting Girl'' and ''New Wave'', but ultimately plays it straight as a BigBad in ''New Vision''.
* {{Yandere}}: Implied towards the end of ''New Vision'', where he seems fixated on Gillian in particular (to the point of firing specifically at her when he attacks Sumner and co.).
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[[folder:Gillian Hamilton]]
One of Sumner's companions when he was a member of Sawyer Team, and Steven's fiancée. She works alongside Hooky in ''New Vision'', where she hunts down the traitors Sumner and Ruri.

->Voiced By: Creator/ChieNakamura (JP), Creator/JulieAnnTaylor (EN, Uncredited)
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* AntiVillain: In ''New Vision''. She doesn't do anything honestly antagonistic and mostly acts as a harmless PunchClockVillain (with a touch of ItsPersonal).
* ArrangedMarriage: With Steven.
* FriendlyEnemy: In ''New Vision'', albeit with some prodding.
* HeelFaceTurn: In ''New Vision'' alongside Hooky.
* HerHeartWillGoOn: A platonic version. [[spoiler:Even after Gillian's sister dies, Ruri notes that Gillian keeps on lifting, "getting as high up to heaven as she can."]]
* HiddenDepths: The "Fair Lady" chapter reveals much about her mindset and personality when not revolving around her crush on Sumner. InUniverse, Ruri admits to herself that she might've been wrong about upper class girls like Gillian.
* HopelessSuitor: Sumner didn't even realize she existed until they became teammates.
* KillTheOnesYouLove: [[spoiler:She's ultimately the one who pulls the trigger on Steven]].
* OnlySaneMan: During the ramen-eating competition, as the only one to question why they're doing this instead of, you know, capturing Sumner and Ruri like they're supposed to.
* PluckyGirl: Especially in ''Gravity Boys & Lifting Girl'', where she continues to lift after [[spoiler:her sister's death]].
* ProperTightsWithASkirt: Invoked by her, disgusted at how revealing the female uniform for New Wave is.
* SmittenTeenageGirl: She was one for Sumner. As an adult, she keeps her feelings more subdued (partly because she's realized she doesn't really stand a chance).
* SpiritedYoungLady: An upper class girl who gets into lifting--seen as a sport for punks--and ends up joining the controversial New Wave.
* TheSquadette: After Ruri leaves, she's the sole female member of New Wave/the Sawyer Team.
* SugarAndIcePersonality: Nicknamed "Miss Iron-Skirt" by Hooky for a reason. She tends to be uptight and came across as outright cold in her first meeting with Ruri, but she's a caring person underneath.
* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Girly Girl to Ruri's Tomboy.
* UnableToCry: [[spoiler:When Steven dies]].
* WhatDoesSheSeeInHim: Edie, her best friend (and a ChildhoodFriend of Sumner's) asks this regarding her feelings for Sumner.
* WhenYouComingHomeDad: Her father's shown to be frequently busy with work in ''Gravity Boys & Lifting Girl'', though Gillian doesn't seem as affected by it as her little sister.
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[[folder:Hooky Zueff]]
One of Sumner's companions when he was a member of Sawyer Team. Initially possessing a crush on Ruri, he considers Sumner his rival until Sumner beats him in a fight. During the timeskip between ''New Wave'' and ''New Vision'', he's promoted to second lieutenant.

->Voiced By: Creator/WataruTakagi (JP), Creator/DerekStephenPrince (EN, Uncredited)
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* AntiVillain: In ''New Vision'', as he remains pretty friendly with Sumner and co. in spite of everything.
* CannotTalkToWomen: Steven and Gillian have nicknamed him the Bashful Womanizer for this reason.
* FriendlyEnemy: In ''New Vision''. He's happy to have a ramen-eating competition with the very people he's supposed to be arresting.
* FunnyAfro: When he's not wearing a hat. In Steven's words, that hair can''not'' be within military regulations.
* GracefulLoser: In spite of how obsessed he is over Ruri, he backs down just as promised after losing to Sumner.
* HeWillNotCrySoICryForHim: A gender-flipped version--he cries when Gillian can't.
* HeadbuttingHeroes: He and Shaun don't get along very well, due to a rocky history together. The two end up in outright blows while in Bester, before Sumner and Wes intervene.
* HeelFaceTurn: In ''New Vision'' alongside Gillian.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: For all of his bluster, he's a fairly amiable guy once he warms up to you.
* SerialRomeo: He's quick to develop crushes in the military.
* StalkerWithACrush: Towards Ruri at first. He gets over it quickly.
* UnknownRival: To Sumner, who initially isn't even aware that Hooky is competing him with him for Ruri.
* TeethClenchedTeamwork: Again, with Shaun.
* VitriolicBestBuds: With Steven.
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[[folder:Shaun Banks]]
One of Sumner's companions when he was a member of Sawyer Team, as well as being one of the first members.

->Voiced By: Creator/MitsuakiMadono (JP), Creator/DanWoren (EN, Uncredited)
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* EveryoneHasStandards: Chews out the vigilante corps in Bester for acting like bullies. [[spoiler:And as Pez notes, Shaun couldn't stand copycats, making it highly unlikely he chose to use CFS of his own volition.]]
* HeadbuttingHeroes: With Hooky, as noted under his section.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: With Pez.
* IdiotHero: He has shades of this during his teenage years, being fairly thick-headed and reckless compared to Pez, Ruri, and even Hooky.
* {{Jerkass}}: Most of the time, and especially at first.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: However, he does have his nice moments. He's a loyal friend (who lays off some of the obnoxiousness once he warms up to you), and he's seen to be pretty displeased over the new corruption in his hometown of Bester.
* NotSoDifferent: Ruri comes to think this way in ''Gravity Boys & Lifting Girl'' when she sees that even a bunch of punks like him and Pez have something they're working towards with all their effort.
* OddFriendship: With Pez, who's his complete opposite in personality.
* PetTheDog: In ''Gravity Boys & Lifting Girl'', the first major sign of Shaun's heart of gold is him choosing to be a SecretKeeper for Ruri/B.B. for no reason other than not wanting to ruin a potential friendship.
* SanitySlippage: Thanks to using the CFS in ''New Vision''.
* SecretKeeper: Knew "B.B" was a girl, but chose not to use it against Ruri, citing to Pez that she would never let him be her friend if he did.
* StreetUrchin: ''Gravity Boys & Lifting Girl'' reveals that he used to live on the streets with Pez.
* TeethClenchedTeamwork: With Hooky.
* ThoseTwoGuys: With Pez.
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[[folder:Pez Wells]]
One of Sumner's companions when he was a member of Sawyer Team, as well as being one of the first members alongside Shaun.

->Voiced By: Creator/YasuyukiKase (JP), Erik Davies (EN, Uncredited)
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* AntiVillain: In ''New Vision''--unsurprising, given that he was the NiceGuy of the Sawyer team, aside from Sumner.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Though someone who, up until then, had been a rather passive, kind person, [[spoiler:his betrayal of Steven and dying words]] makes it clear why you should ''not'' mess with his best friend.
* DistressedDude: He has to be rescued at one point in ''New Wave'' by Sumner, due to being trapped in a bandit-ridden mine with his LFO too damaged for combat.
* DyingDeclarationOfHate: [[spoiler:What his dying speech to Steven amounts to.]]
* GadgeteerGenius: He manages to get an LFO up and running.
* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:Rather than blaming Sumner for killing Shaun, he blames Steven, believing that he pushed Shaun to using the CFS]].
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:He helps Sumner and Ruri, despite knowing the consequences--that is, Steven kills him for it]].
* HeterosexualLifePartners: With Shaun.
* NiceGuy: Especially when next to Shaun.
* NotSoDifferent: From Ruri, as noted by her. See Shaun's section for the details.
* OddFriendship: With Shaun.
* SecretKeeper: For B.B./Ruri.
* StreetUrchin: ''Gravity Boys & Lifting Girl'' reveals that he used to live on the streets with Shaun.
* ThoseTwoGuys: With Shaun.
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!!Others

[[folder:Axel Thurston]]
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Renton's strict yet loving grandfather.

->Voiced by: Creator/TakeshiAono (JP), Creator/SteveKramer (EN)
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%%* BadassGrandpa
%%* CoolOldGuy
* CrazyPrepared: In the manga, he tells Holland to go to work while throwing a wrench from his toolkit at his head that's ''specifically'' labeled "For Holland".
* GadgeteerGenius: The biggest in the world.
* GoKartingWithBowser: He and Dominic got along really well, even though Dominic was still on the villain team at the time. He even taught Dominic how to fix his bike, and Dominic promised to check up on his grandson. Then again, he never finds out what side Dominic was on at the time.
%%* JerkWithAHeartOfGold
* OutlivingOnesOffspring: Both his son and granddaughter are gone, hence why he's initially not too eager about Renton's thirst for adventure, fearing that he'll lose him as well.
%%* PapaWolf
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[[folder:Diane Thurston]]
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Renton's long lost sister and Holland's ex-girlfriend.

->Voiced by: Creator/SakikoTamagawa (JP), Peggy O'Neal (EN)
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* ChekhovMIA: A defining part of the series is Diane and her disappearance's effect on Renton and Holland. [[spoiler:It is revealed that she had a relationship with Holland and somehow found her way into the control cluster with her father.]]
* DatingWhatDaddyHates: Or what Granddaddy hates, that is. Suffice to say that Axel didn't approve of Holland.
* DemotedToExtra: In the manga, Diane is a much less significant character. Diane is merely mentioned to have left home and her disappearance is not relevant to the plot. Holland's close relationship with Diane also disappears from the narrative and Holland has a mentor-student relationship with Adrock Thurston instead.
* TheFaceless: Her face isn't shown for the first 35 episodes. Under many different circumstances, her face in flashbacks and photographs is always covered.
* FirstLove: To Holland.
* MarriedToTheJob: She was obsessed with her father's research; so much that it affected her relationship with Holland.
* PromotionToParent: She and Axel were the ones who raised Renton after Adroc's death.
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[[folder:Charles and Ray Beams]]
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A pair of mercenaries-for-hire and a loving couple. They hold a grudge against Holland and Gekkostate in general.

->Charles is voiced by: Creator/JurotaKosugi (JP), Creator/PatrickSeitz (EN)
->Ray is voiced by: Creator/AyaHisakawa (JP), Creator/MelissaFahn (EN)
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* AffablyEvil: They're a nice couple...who have a grudge against TheHeroine.
* AnimalMotifs: As Holland seeks out Renton, one person he interrogates compares Ray to a {{kitsune}} and Charles to a {{tanuki}}.
* AntiVillain: Nicer to Renton than the good guys... Unfortunately, their connections to the military along with [[ItsPersonal a personal grudge]] against Eureka make them enemies of the protagonists.
* BattleCouple: They're married and they fight together.
* BeautyMark: Ray has one under her right eye.
* BerserkButton: Ray was cool and collected when [[spoiler:she was trying to take Renton and holding Eureka and the kids hostage to get him to cooperate]]. However when the kids refer to Eureka as "mama", Ray not knowing they are adopted; she loses it and begins to see Eureka as a monster mocking her for her infertility.
* BladeBelowTheShoulder: On Charles's LFO.
* TheCameo: Charles briefly shows up in ''Gravity Boys & Lifting Girl'', which takes place before he becomes a mercenary, as an acquaintance of Ruri's and to impart some advice onto Sumner in his usual fashion.
* ChangelingFantasy: An interesting take [[spoiler: when they adopt Renton]].
* TheCracker: Ray turns out to be an expert hacker.
* DespairEventHorizon: [[spoiler:Charles' death]] for Ray.
* DiesWideOpen: [[spoiler:Charles.]]
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: They make their first appearance in twin [=LFOs=] riding a ''tandem lifting board''.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: They deeply love each other and genuinely cared for Renton.
* EveryoneWentToSchoolTogether: Both of them were in the SOF with Holland.
* {{Expy}}: They share quite a few similarities with [[Anime/MobileSuitGundam Ral Ramba and Crowley Hamon]]. Both Ral and Charles are friendly [[AntiVillain anti-villains]] who meet the hero during his [[TenMinuteRetirement brief wandering after running away from his ship]], pilot blue {{ace custom}} mechas, and [[spoiler:die in an explosion after a failed invasion of said hero's ship]]. And both Ray and Hamon [[spoiler:get their own deaths in the following episode trying to avenge their fallen husbands]].
* ForgottenFallenFriend: Enemy, technically, but this trope is averted either way. The characters who knew them show these two weren't easily forgotten.
* GenderBlenderName: Ray's name is usually for males.
* HappilyMarried: For instance, when Charles meets Renton he points out how hot his wife is.
* HotbloodedSideburns: Charles has them.
* IdiotHair: Ray has single ahoge.
* ItsPersonal: They hate Eureka because Dewey has convinced them that she's to blame for Ray's infertility.
* MamaBear: Ray becomes quite protective over Renton.
* NeatFreak: Both keep their ship, the ''Swan'', utterly spotless, [[spoiler:which signifies Ray's VillainousBreakdown when she trashes the ship in her grief over losing Charles.]]
* PapaWolf: Charles becomes quite protective over Renton.
* ParentalSubstitute: For Renton [[spoiler:when he ran away.]]
* PunchClockVillain
* RealMenWearPink: Charles wears a purplish-pink shawl t-shirt and pink pants.
* ShoutOut: Their names, to pianist RayCharles and/or designers Charles and Ray Eames.
* SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan: Ray is madly in love with Charles -- the man who has proven to be an affable fellow (when not trying to kill the heroine) and still wanted to marry her even though she thought he would be ashamed of her infertility.
* TakingYouWithMe: [[spoiler: After her plan to kill Eureka and convince Renton to let her adopt him fails, she tries to ram her ship against the Gekko in an effort to kill them all including Renton.]]
* VillainousBreakdown: [[spoiler:Ray]] ''loses'' it when [[spoiler:Charles dies]]. It's heart-rending to see the aftermath of [[spoiler:her]] utterly trashing the ''Swan'' in [[spoiler:her]] grief.
* {{Yandere}}: Ray is a MamaBear variety.
* YouMonster: Ray refers to Eureka as one.
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[[folder:William B. Baxter]]
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William B. "Will" Baxter is a young man living in the overgrown ruins of a town near Gearnus City with his wife Martha, who is suffering from the Desperation Disease.

->Voiced by: Toshio Furukawa (JP), Keith Silverstein (EN)
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* TheBusCameBack: [[spoiler:After Dewey launches his plan to destroy the Scub Coral with Oratorio Number 8, the impact of the attack causes fragments of the Scub Coral to destroy towers across the planet and send debris flying. The debris begins falling across the planet, with William watching the falling debris fly overhead his farm and turns to see Martha fully conscious due to the Command Cluster being destroyed, standing and smiling at him as his farm is engulfed in an explosion from the debris, killing them both.]]
* EmbarrassingMiddleName: Which is why he doesn't tell Renton what "B" stands for.
* HappilyMarried: Despite Martha having Desperation Disease, she and William have a happy and intimate marriage.
* MysteriousMiddleInitial: William doesn't tell Renton what the "B" in his name stands for because it's an [[EmbarrassingMiddleName embarrassing one.]]
* NiceGuy: Cemented in him helping a collapsed Renton to his devotion to his wife.
* SmallRoleBigImpact: Will was the one who taught Renton the facts of nature and love; to really love and be with someone, he needs to keep his word and face the hardships in front of him. When Will asked Renton if there was someone he wanted to be with if the world ever came to an end, Renton immediately realized he wanted to reconcile with Eureka no matter what she thought of him and began to mature more.
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[[folder:Martha Baxter]]
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The wife of William B. Baxter. She suffers from what Renton first identifies as "Desperation Disease."

->Voiced by: N/A
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* TheBusCameBack: [[spoiler:When the control cluster was destroyed by Oratorio Number 8, her consciousness was brought back to her body which allowed her to regain control of her body. Forced out of her comma like state she walks over to the door of their house and looks at William and they both smile right before they are killed when the farm is crushed from debris from the recently destroyed Oratorio Number 8.]]
* EmotionlessGirl: Justified since she's suffering from Desperation Disease.
* HappilyMarried: Despite Martha having Desperation Disease, she and William have a happy and intimate marriage.
* IllGirl: Martha has Desperation Disease.
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[[folder:Master Norb]]
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A powerful Vodarac priest.

->Voiced by: Creator/RikiyaKoyama (JP), Creator/JunFukuyama (JP, young), Creator/JamiesonPrice (EN), Creator/SamRiegel (EN, young)
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* AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: [[spoiler:The final scene of the series implies that he, along with Sakuya and various other people who merged with the Scub Coral, leave with some of the Scub Coral that departs from the planet.]]
* BunnyEarsLawyer: For a venerated holy man, he sure as hell breaks the mold like you wouldn't believe.
* TheChosenOne: In the past, he was chosen by Sakuya.
%%* CoolOldGuy
* FailureKnight: Part of his backstory, to an extent.
* {{Gasshole}}: Crops up whenever he's dragged into religion vs. science discussions, such as ones that bring up elements like the Vodarac, Coralisn. or Sub-Coralian. Tends to coincide and overlay with ObfuscatingStupidity.
* InterspeciesRomance: With Sakuya.
* ObfuscatingStupidity: Don't be fooled by his love for pizza.
%%* OldMaster
%%* SacrificialLion
%%* SmokingIsCool
* StarCrossedLovers: With Sakuya.
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[[folder:Sakuya]]
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Eureka's predecessor. Because she was a girl of mysterious power, the religious authority of Vodarac thought she was some sort of messiah and placed her in the central part of the temple. They banned any disciple from speaking to her, and allowed very few select disciples to care for her in a highly reverent, if sterile, manner. For forty years since her initial appearance, she had no significant contact with anyone. This changed when Norb was assigned to care for her.

->Voiced by: Creator/AkikoYajima (JP), Jennie Kwan (EN)
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%%* TheAgeless
* AndIMustScream: [[spoiler:She was turned into a giant lotus flower after she and Norb traveled to the Scub Coral.]]
* AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: [[spoiler:At the end of the series, the Nirvash states that Sakuya and the other humans who fused with the Scub will go to the universe beyond the rift in the Great Wall.]]
* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: She fell in love with Norb because he was the first person to truly interact with her rather than merely worship her.
%%* TheChooserOfTheOne
* DefrostingIceQueen: She was pretty much an EmotionlessGirl at first, but [[spoiler:Norb]] managed to defrost her.
%%* ExoticEyeDesigns
%%* FacialMarkings
* FlowerMotifs: The lotus.
* HumanAlien: A humanoid Coralian, just like Eureka.
* InterspeciesRomance: With Norb.
%%* OdangoHair
* OlderThanSheLooks: Is ''at least'' Norb's age, but appears younger than Eureka when we see her. Justified as this is probably how she chooses to project herself, and [[spoiler: it was how she looked when she, well, turned into a giant flower]].
* ThePollyanna: Given her backstory, she has every right to be miserable, but she's easily one of the friendliest and most optimistic characters around from what little we see of her.
%%* PurpleEyes
* StarCrossedLovers: With Norb.
* WhenSheSmiles: Norb says he fell in love with her the moment he saw her smile for the first time.
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: She has lavender hair.
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