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%%* CuteBruiser* CuteBruiser: Outside of combat and strategy meetings, she is upbeat and hearty. She's also skilled enough to fight on par with Ryoma.



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%%* GenderFlip* GenderFlip: The historical Minamoto no Raikou was male-- though Raikou herself doesn't care whether she is seen as a man or woman.



* Hotblooded: Has this in common with Ryoma.



%%* GreaterScopeVillain

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%%* GreaterScopeVillain* GreaterScopeVillain: In the first anime.



%%* MadScientist
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%%* MadScientist
%%* ObviouslyEvil
* MadScientist: With an army of enslaved cyborg scientists under his command.
* ObviouslyEvil: The cybernetics only enhance the ominous and unhinged look he has about him perpetually.



%%* UnwittingPawn
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness

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%%* UnwittingPawn
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulnessUnwittingPawn: [[spoiler: To the Dinosaur Empire.]]
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: [[spoiler: Once the Dinosaur Empire emerges to take centre stage as the main villains once more,]] leading to...



* AmbiguouslyHuman: He ''looks'' human, and his contemptuous dismissal of his lackeys as mere Oni and puppets would seem to imply that he is not an Oni himself, yet his seemingly mystical abilities [[spoiler: as well as a monstrous OneWingedAngel form]] make it very clear that he is far from a normal person.



* CurbStompBattle: In his final fight he utterly smashes Getter [[spoiler: at last until Ryoma gets back, at which point the roles are reversed]].

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* CurbStompBattle: In his final fight he utterly smashes Getter [[spoiler: at last least until Ryoma gets back, at which point the roles are reversed]].



%%* NotSoStoic: Cohen.

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%%* * NotSoStoic: Cohen.

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* TheFatalist: As he discusses with Ryoma in ''Shin,'' and Kamui in the ''Arc'' anime, the reason Hayato is motivated to continue using the Getter Rays despite the danger the pose is in part to ensure the sacrifices of the past (such as Musashi and Benkei) are not in vain... and in part because he believes that humanity's fate is tied to the Getter, [[YouCantFightFate and that this cannot be avoided or changed no matter what path it sets them on.]]
-->'''Hayato:''' We've been used by this energy and lived because of it... If the Getter Rays urged forth mankind's evolution, then we can't defy our destiny.

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* TheFatalist: As he discusses with Ryoma in ''Shin,'' and Kamui in the ''Arc'' anime, the reason Hayato is motivated to continue using continues utilising the Getter Rays despite the danger the they pose is in part to ensure the sacrifices of the past (such as Musashi and Benkei) are not in vain... and in part because he believes that humanity's fate is tied to the Getter, [[YouCantFightFate and that this cannot be avoided or changed changed]] no matter what path it sets them on.]]
on. It proves to be a defining difference between himself and Ryoma.
-->'''Hayato:''' We've been used by this energy and lived because of it...
-->'''Ryoma:''' Bullshit. I'm not being used by some energy. I'm living through my own power, and I'll create my own future!
-->'''Hayato:'''
If the Getter Rays urged forth mankind's evolution, then we can't defy our destiny.
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* TheFatalist: As he discusses with Ryoma in ''Shin,'' and Kamui in the ''Arc'' anime, the reason Hayato is motivated to continue using the Getter Rays despite the danger the pose is in part to ensure the sacrifices of the past (such as Musashi and Benkei) are not in vain... and in part because he believes that humanity's fate is tied to the Getter, [[YouCantFightFate and that this cannot be avoided or changed no matter what path it sets them on.]]
-->'''Hayato:''' We've been used by this energy and lived because of it... If the Getter Rays urged forth mankind's evolution, then we can't defy our destiny.
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* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: No one ever takes any notice of Stinger's blue skin and polygonal face nore does Cohen's gigantic size and blond hair appear to be of interest to anybody as well.

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* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: No one ever takes any notice of Stinger's blue skin and polygonal face nore does or Cohen's gigantic size and blond hair appear to be of interest to anybody as well.hair.

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* ReusedCharacterDesign: Both Stinger and Cohen use the designs of Dr. Barbia and Dr. Shaft from ''Majuu Sensen'', but it's clear that neither of them are the same characters as their counterparts from that manga.



* SinisterShades: Mr. Cohen has these.



* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: No one ever takes any notice of Stinger's blue skin and polygonal face.

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* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: No one ever takes any notice of Stinger's blue skin and polygonal face.face nore does Cohen's gigantic size and blond hair appear to be of interest to anybody as well.
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* FinalBossNewDimension: The final fight against them takes place in a dimension filled with Getter Energy that's all but outright stated to be [[spoiler: the far, ''far'' distant future, after everything other living thing in that universe has been incorporated into the Getter.]]

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* FinalBossNewDimension: The final fight against them takes place in a dimension filled with Getter Energy that's all but outright stated to be [[spoiler: the far, ''far'' distant future, after everything every other living thing in that universe has been incorporated into the Getter.]]
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* FinalBossNewDimension: The final fight against them takes place in a dimension filled with Getter Energy that's all but outright stated to be the far, ''far'' distant future.

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* FinalBossNewDimension: The final fight against them takes place in a dimension filled with Getter Energy that's all but outright stated to be [[spoiler: the far, ''far'' distant future.future, after everything other living thing in that universe has been incorporated into the Getter.]]
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* FinalBossNewDimension: The final fight against them takes place in a dimension filled with Getter Energy that's all but outright stated to be the far, ''far'' distant future.

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* CardCarryingVillain: The Oni are mindless beasts, the Oni Gods want to [[spoiler:save the world from Getter Rays]]...Seimei's just evil.

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* BloodKnight: Deliberately waits for Ryoma and the Getter to reunite so that he can have a satisfying challenge.
* CardCarryingVillain: The Oni are mindless beasts, the Oni Gods want to [[spoiler:save the world from Getter Rays]]... Seimei's just evil.




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* VainSorceress: Gender-flipped example. He declares his intent to get revenge on the Getter Team (and Ryoma specifically) for wrecking his body.
* WhyDontYaJustShootHim: ''...Because it would be boring'', or so he tells one of his right-hand women (who are Oni) when she counsels him to destroy Ryoma and the rest of the Getter Team before they can find one another.


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* AGodAmI: Or so they declare themselves to be, at least in comparison to the human protagonists. The Getter Team are not impressed, and the next-episode preview narration lampshades the arrogance of the claim. [[spoiler: They ''are'' powerful, however they pale in comparison to the Getter that rules over the ''New'' universe: Kyodai Dragon.]]


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* ResurrectiveImmortality: It seems that as long as at least one of them survives, the rest can revive.
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** [[spoiler: Unfortunately for Ryoma, [[ForegoneConclusion since the ''Shin'' manga was released after ''Go,'']] the audience already knows that Ryoma's attempt to defy his fate by never piloting Getter again will fail, since MandatoryUnretirement means that sooner or later the Getter draws him back in, and by the end of ''Go'' he resigns himself to the fact that he will never be able to escape it.]]

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** [[spoiler: Unfortunately for Ryoma, [[ForegoneConclusion since the ''Shin'' manga was released after ''Go,'']] ''Go,'' [[ForegoneConclusion the audience already knows knows]] that Ryoma's attempt to defy his fate by never piloting Getter again will fail, since MandatoryUnretirement means that sooner or later the Getter draws him back in, and by the end of ''Go'' he resigns himself to the fact that he will never be able to escape it.]]
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** [[spoiler: Ultimately subverted however, since MandatoryUnretirement means that sooner or later the Getter draws him back in, and by the end of ''Go'' he resigns himself to the fact that he will never be able to escape it.]]

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** [[spoiler: Ultimately subverted however, Unfortunately for Ryoma, [[ForegoneConclusion since the ''Shin'' manga was released after ''Go,'']] the audience already knows that Ryoma's attempt to defy his fate by never piloting Getter again will fail, since MandatoryUnretirement means that sooner or later the Getter draws him back in, and by the end of ''Go'' he resigns himself to the fact that he will never be able to escape it.]]
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* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: Though they explicitly do ''not'' hold any malice towards other races, the Getter Rays favour humanity specifically to the point that the future Colonel Musashi believes that the Getter chose mankind to rule the universe, even if it means the destruction of countless other worlds and species. Kamui calls this out in the ''Arc'' anime, pointing out that their lives should be of equal value yet the Getter seems perfectly okay with letting Saurians go extinct.
--> '''Kamui:''' Favoring one race and leaving the other to die... is an atrocity that must be stopped!
** Somewhat zigzagged with the Dinosaur Empire. On the one hand, exposure to Getter Energy is crippling if not downright fatal to Saurians, which is what drove them beneath ground to begin with. On the other hand, they don't seem to have a problem [[AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence accepting Emperor Gore's spirit into themselves,]] and Kamui himself is one of the Chosen Children of Getter despite being half-Saurian.
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* TheChick: Most versions.
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* EvilLaugh: Lets out a sinister little chuckle as he and his agents pursue Go.
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* AbusiveParents: Ichigan Nagare apparently substituted proper child rearing with [[TrainingFromHell intense karate training]] and MightMakesRight fighting philosophy. [[FreudianExcuse This may explain a great deal]] about Ryoma's [[AxCrazy violent tendencies.]]
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* BoxedCrook: Basically how he starts ''Armageddon''. Three years prior to the series he was thrown in jail after being framed for Saotome's murder, Saotome shows up alive and well and starts causing a ruckus, so the UN lets Ryoma free to pilot Getter again... so that he can commit the murder he was imprisoned for to begin with.

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* BoxedCrook: Basically how he starts ''Armageddon''. Three years prior to the series he was thrown in jail after being framed Framed for Saotome's murder, murder prior to the start of the series, Ryoma spends three years in jail only for Saotome shows to show up alive and well and starts causing a ruckus, so ruckus. So the UN lets Ryoma free to pilot Getter again... so that he can commit the murder he was imprisoned for to begin with.
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* EveryoneHasStandards: Human experimentation and biological weapons enrage him far more than any other atrocities the villains commit.
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* BoxedCrook: Basically how he starts ''Armageddon''. Three years prior to the series he was thrown in jail after being framed for Saotome's murder, Saotome shows up alive and well and starts causing a ruckus, so the UN lets Ryoma free to pilot Getter again... so that he can commit the murder he was imprisoned for to begin with.
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* MoodDissonance: At the end of his introductory manga chapter, Musashi is gushing over how cool the Getter Robo is... ''in the same panel'' as Ryoma declaring vengeance on the Dinosaur Empire for the horrific human experiments they both just witnessed.
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* NightmareFetishist: Hayato is so fascinated by the Getter Rays that, as covered above under AdmiringTheAbomination, [[spoiler: he is ''excited'' by the future of the Getter and where humanity will be lead by it.]]

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* NightmareFetishist: Hayato is so fascinated by the Getter Rays that, as covered above under AdmiringTheAbomination, [[spoiler: he is ''excited'' practically giddy and awestruck by witnessing the future of the Getter and where humanity will be lead by it.]]
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* NightmareFetishist: Hayato is so fascinated by the Getter Rays that, as covered above under AdmiringTheAbomination, [[spoiler: he is ''excited'' by the future of the Getter and where humanity will be lead by it.]]
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* AChatWithSatan: In the ''Arc'' anime, [[spoiler: the spirits of Ryoma and Tahir appear before Takuma and Baku and more or less play this role as they explain the nature of evolution to them, seemingly to test their commitment to protecting humanity and their willingness to create their own futures.]]

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* AxCrazy: Rare heroic (or [[AntiHero anti-heroic]]) example. Ryoma is unquestionably dedicated to protecting humanity from its enemies, but if there's a solution to a problem that ''doesn't'' involve brutal violence then he probably hasn't heard of it.

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* AxCrazy: Rare heroic (or [[AntiHero anti-heroic]]) example. Ryoma is unquestionably dedicated to protecting humanity from its enemies, and he does generally make an effort to prioritise the safety of innocents, but if there's he's just a solution ''little'' too willing to a problem that ''doesn't'' involve resort to brutal violence then he probably hasn't heard at the drop of it.a hat.


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** Another significant one from ''New'':
--> '''Ryoma:''' Keep this in mind, alright? Someday I will crush [[spoiler: the Getter]] and condemn it back to the dark hell it came from.


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** [[spoiler: Ultimately subverted however, since MandatoryUnretirement means that sooner or later the Getter draws him back in, and by the end of ''Go'' he resigns himself to the fact that he will never be able to escape it.]]
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* IajutsuPractitioner: Her sword technique. In the first chapter of the manga, while testing Go's abilities, she unsheathes her sword, unleashes several strikes, and sheathes it again all in the blink of an eye.

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* IajutsuPractitioner: IaijutsuPractitioner: Her sword technique. In the first chapter of the manga, while testing Go's abilities, she unsheathes her sword, unleashes several strikes, and sheathes it again all in the blink of an eye.
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* FluffyTamer: Manages to pacify and befriend a Dinosaur Empire beast-- Not that this stops Ryoma and Go from ripping it to shreds moments thereafter.

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* FluffyTamer: Manages to pacify and befriend a Dinosaur Empire beast-- beast using his powers. Not that this stops Ryoma and Go from ripping it to shreds moments thereafter.

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Mysterious child who claims to have been send by God to help Getter Team. [[spoiler: Pilots Getter-3 when he, Ryoma and Go hijacks Shin Getter.]]

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Mysterious child who claims to have been send by God to help Getter Team. [[spoiler: Pilots Getter-3 Getter-2 when he, Ryoma and Go hijacks hijack Shin Getter.]]



* AnthropomorphicPersonification: Not in a literal sense, but he basically serves as an avatar for the Getter Rays due to his exceptionally strong connection to them. He likens himself to a computer program that already knows its purpose.
* BaldMystic: Has the monk look down pat in spite of his youth.




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* DeadpanSnarker: His reaction to two of his followers' trying to coax him to abandon the Getter Team is to dryly wonder if they can be saved.
* FluffyTamer: Manages to pacify and befriend a Dinosaur Empire beast-- Not that this stops Ryoma and Go from ripping it to shreds moments thereafter.
* HighPriest: Of the Green Earth cult-- er, ''religion.'' Apparently his followers number in the millions.
* PsychicPowers: A powerful Esper, thanks to his connection to the Getter Rays.
* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Tayel, Tahir, Tayrr...

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* AFatherToHisMen: In the ''Go'' Manga, he beats the ever-loving tar out of a group of drug-peddling Yakuza who dealt drugs that killed one of his students.
* AdaptationalHeroism: He is less violent and ruthless in the 1970's anime, and he's also a soccer player instead of a vengeful karateka.



* AFatherToHisMen: In the ''Go'' Manga, he beats the ever-loving tar out of a group of drug-peddling Yakuza who dealt drugs that killed one of his students.
* AdaptationalHeroism: He is less violent and ruthless in the 1970's anime, and he's also a soccer player instead of a vengeful karateka.
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* IajutsuPractitioner: Her sword technique. In the first chapter of the manga, while testing Go's abilities, she unsheathes her sword, unleashes several strikes, and sheathes it again all in the blink of an eye.
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* IAmNotLeftHanded: Actually, Go ''is'' left handed, but uses his right in sporting events so that he can hide his true abilities, something that Hayato notices.

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