History Characters / LiveALive

* EasterEgg: While Pogo goes to get food for her, giving her certain items instead of Haunches of Meat will instead cause her to ''flash'' Pogo, giving him a nosebleed. In the remake, she instead pulls Pogo into the haystack she's hiding in, leaving him a blushing mess but not elaborating any more than that.

* MsFanservice: She's skimpily dressed in seashells, and even flashes Pogo in the SFC version if he gives her clothing.

* ShoutOut: Named after Darth Vader from ''Franchise/StarWars''.[[note]]While there are more 'Darth's in the ''Franchise/StarWars'' verse (like Darth Sidious), the only character who had been introduced with the Darth title during the game's initial release was Vader, so they're referencing the famous space black knight.[[/note]]

* BabiesEverAfter: [[spoiler:In the GoldenEnding, Pogo returns from Lucrece and discovers that Beru has given birth to their child.]]

TheRival to Pogo, a warrior of the Kuu Tribe sent out to retrieve Beru after her escape. Tends to flip his hair and wears a lizard on his crotch. Following the chief's death, he aids Pogo and allies against Odo, becomes the Kuu tribe chief himself, and makes peace with Pogo's tribe.

* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: He kicks Pogo out of the tribe, but it's largely to keep said tribe safe, since the Kuu tribe is after Beru and Pogo refused to take no for an answer when the elder tried to kick her out. Once O-D-O is dealt with and Zaki takes over the Kuu tribe and buries the hatchet with his tribe, the Elder is perfectly fine with letting Pogo back into the tribe with no issue.

* UnwittingPawn: In reality, he's just a pawn for [[spoiler:Oersted]] to take his rage and hatred out on humanity by proving that HumansAreBastards.

* {{Gonk}}: Her battle sprite is very horrendous to look at. And yet killing her off for good won't give you the Lacquered Medicine Box since she is ''a human''.

A biker gang leader who defected from the Crusaders and became Akira's best friend and brother figure. He fends off the Crusaders' rabble and runs the park's taiyaki stand, and eventually assists Akira in unwinding an ongoing conspiracy.

* NotAllowedToGrowUp: When Kaori and Akira join the orphanage, they are both shown as children. When the chapter begins, Akira is clearly a teenager while Kaori does not appear to have aged at all.

* KilledOffscreen: Gets murdered sometime after his first transmission in the beginning.

* DecoyProtagonist: Inverted. It's implied from his hatred of Cube, [[spoiler:his secret order to prioritize the Behemoth's survival over human lives]], and [[Franchise/StarWars being named after one of the most famous villains in media]] that he's a major antagonist. In reality, he's pretty much the closest the Distant Future chapter has to a BigGood.

* MusicalAssassin: Her ultimate move, Sing Hurt, manifests as music notes that attack the enemy.

* GagCensor: Zaki can send his crotch lizard out to attack Pogo, and a smile-face emoji covers his bare junk until it returns. In the original game, this was done via pixelation.

* BigDamnHeroes: If he's not rescued by the time Oboromaru reaches Ode Iou, he'll break out and drop in just in time to save Oboro from the eight guards surrounding him, and breaks Ode's gun for good measure. This is required for a full PacifistRun, as it will prevent Oboromaru from having to add 8 people to his kill count.

* HistoricalInJoke: [[spoiler:If Oboromaru joins him, he thwarts an assassination attempt against him in the credits, which is implied to be the same one that killed him in real-life.]]

* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: Escapes and catches up to Oboro by himself if ignored and implied to have slain Shiro Amakusa in the process.

* KilledOffscreen: Implied to be slain by Ryoma if Oboro ignores him.

* SkippableBoss: Can be ignored. Doing so is essential for the [[PacifistRun zero-kill route]], since saving the Prisoner (which happens upon fighting this boss) prevents him from saving Oboro from a forced fight later on.

A female demoness. While she shares the name with the concubine of UsefulNotes/ToyotomiHideyoshi and the final obstacle of the Tokugawa Shogunate to establish themselves, it's not clear if this is the same person. Summoned by Ode Iou, she's highly loyal to him.

* CharacterTics: Often pokes the brim of his hat with the tip of his gun. In fact, such gesture was even included in the [[https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/live-a-live/images/f/f4/Remake_Sundown_Scenario_Promo_Art.jpg promotional art of the remake]].

->''"Well, if it isn't the mother*** himself! Masaru Takahara! Wanna learn a trick or two? Aight -- I'll teach you how it feels to get your ass beat by the best!"''

* SirSwearsALot: His introduction literally has him calling Masaru a mother***.

** He enthusiastically declares himself "NUMBER ONE" ("ICHIBAN" in the Japanese voiceover). The phrase is Hulk Hogan's CatchPhrase when he wrestled in Japan. 

* DubNameChange: Livingstill is known as Shinderuman[[note]]which literally means "dead man"[[/note]] in the Japanese version (erroneously rendered as "Cindelman" in the pre-remake fan translation).

* FantasticRacism: Hates Cube and mechanical things in general because during a mission, he had his whole squad killed by robots. He later softens up and befriends Cube. [[spoiler:In the epilogue of the story, he even retires from the military to help create medical robots.]]

->''"People are...a bit more complicated than machines."''

* DevelopersForesight: After he introduces you to the Captain Square game, beating it while he's watching elicits a bewildered response from him.

* Present Day Chapter: He's not named, but a man throws a soda can at Great Aja, (as well as insulting him in the remake). Great Aja turns around, jumps out of the ring, gives him an [[BigBallOfViolence offscreen beatdown]], and returns to the ring (the rest is remake-exclusive again) after his son pleads for the heel lucha to leave his dad alone.

* Present Day Chapter: He's not named, but a man throws a soda can at Great Aja, as well as insulting him in the remake. Great Aja turns around, jumps out of the ring, gives him an [[BigBallOfViolence offscreen beatdown]], and returns to the ring after his son pleads for the heel lucha to leave his dad alone.

* VideoGameCaringPotential: If you're not too concerned about forefeiting the PacifistRun, you can save the Edo era incarnation of the dad by killing the man who was about to kill him.

* FearlessFool: What does he do when [[spoiler:Odo eats the chief of the Kuu tribe and spits out his crown? He kicks it right back at the big dinosaur! Bonus points in that he does it without even flinching, unlike Pogo, Beru, and Zaki who are terrified out of their wits.]]

* KavorkaMan: In spite of being a weirdly-shaped ape with a very ugly mug who throws feces and farts around in a casual basis [[spoiler:he still manages to score an entire harem of female gorillas whom he had saved earlier, all of which have his children by the epilogue.]]
* LionsAndTigersAndHumansOhMy: Despite being an animal, Gori is treated no different than the other cavemen in the chapter. The tribe he lives with considers him as much of a person as Pogo as Gori has his own bed in the cave rather than having to sleep outside.

* OutOfFocus: In the story. The amount of moments Gori does anything to change the course of the plot can be counted on one hand, as otherwise he serves as somebody for Pogo to exchange slapstick with and a status-effect focused fighter in battles.

* DamselInDistress: She was kidnapped and ready to be Tyrannosaur food. Thankfully she avoids that fate.

* GildedCage: Implied for as much as one can get in Prehistoric times. Using the Smell skill in the Kuu tribe grounds can have Beru's scent lead to a bedroom with a stone-age en-suite bathroom, implying this was her room before she was set up to be sacrificed.

* GlassCannon: When given the Wildheart Sack, her offensive ability even puts Pogo to shame... but she's much squishier than him or Gori. This is best exemplified with her ultimate skill, Sing Hurt, being the strongest attack in the entire chapter.
* HumanSacrifice: She's meant to be this but manages to get out and find Pogo.
* ICantLookGesture: Hides behind Pogo when [[SoundOnlyDeath Odo gobbles up the Kuu Chief offscreen.]]

* OverratedAndUnderleveled: Beru is a [[DownplayedTrope downplayed example]]. She ''does'' have the potential to be a great party member, but has the problem of only being in the party for a short amount of time before being kidnapped for most of the last part of the chapter. If the player only does a b-line through the plot, it's very likely she will be ''extremely'' underleveled for the chapter's boss fight, and very likely to be one hit killed by the boss' attacks as a result.
* ThePowerOfLove: Her Sing Hurt spell is basically this, representing her bond with Pogo. And given that it's strong enough to rip through a ''Tyrannosaur''...
* RescueRomance: By the end of the story Pogo's efforts to free her from being a sacrifice causes her to return his affection.

* HeelFaceTurn: Very last minute (getting eaten by a T. rex is low on his list of priorities, it seems), but it looks genuine in the aftermath. He was JustFollowingOrders after all, the rest of the Kuu tribe happily join him with making peace with Pogo's clan in the aftermath after the chieftain is dead.

* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: As the chapter has no dialogue, he has no known name, and the cast in of the remake's true ending credits lists his name as "Elder".

* PersonaNonGrata: Kicks Pogo, Gori and Beru out of the tribe's land after the Kuu tribe invades, since they'll come back as long as Beru is there. He lets them come back home once Zaki takes over the Kuu tribe and declares peace.

* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: He kicks Pogo out of the tribe, but it's largely to keep said tribe safe since the Kuu tribe is after Beru and Pogo refused to take no for an answer when the elder tried to kick her out. Once O-D-O is dealt with and Zaki takes over the Kuu tribe and buries the hatchet with his tribe, the Elder is perfectly fine with letting Pogo back into the tribe with no issue.

* ZeroPercentApprovalRating: There's no single character that actually liked him; Zaki and the Kuu tribe were mostly JustFollowingOrders, it's implied that if they disobeyed, they'd be fed to Odo after Beru. It was his influence alone that kept Pogo's tribe at war with the Kuu tribe, once he died, the tribe was quick to make peace under Zaki's new leadership to survive the prehistoric age further; if he was still alive, it's more likely that he'll keep piling up human sacrifices to be fed to Odo and most likely humanity will go extinct before it developed intelligence. And lastly to twist the knife even further, Odo ([[spoiler:or Odio himself when we look at the broader story as a whole]]) naturally doesn't appreciate his worship, for it, he's just another meal.
* ApocalypseCult: Generally, his worship with Odo looks like a case of this recycled in stone age, with him as the 'mad cult leader'. What does this 'cult' do? Threaten whoever do not fall in line to be devoured by Odo, controlling his Kuu tribe with worship and fear and keep doing all of this ad nauseum until humanity eventually goes extinct before true sapience and complex tool use could emerge. For a time where human intelligence hasn't been developed well, it almost worked. His death can be seen as a delusional priest overjoyed that his deity has come to bless him, only for said 'deity' to [[JustDesserts eat him alive as a "blessing"]].
* ArcVillain: He could be considered the Prehistory chapter's main villain; Odo might be the FinalBoss and one of Odio's incarnations, and Zaki the most recurrent antagonist, but in the end he's the plot's main driving force, since it's him the one offering human sacrifices to Odo and the one who orders Beru to be recaptured, while Odo's very late appearance would make it a GreaterScopeVillain and it's obvious that Zaki is only following his chief's orders and even pulls a HeelFaceTurn and helps the heroes to take down Odo towards the end.

* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: As the chapter has no dialogue and he's never fought, he has no known name, and the cast in of the remake's true ending credits lists his name as "Kuu Chief".

* OutlivingOnesOffspring: Her child and their spouse - Yun's parents died when her grandson was younger[[spoiler:, and he can kick the bucket too if he isn't chosen as the Earthen Heart Master.]]

A minor character in the scenario. He's a bandit that bullies the weak and forces Yun to steal, only to be driven away by the Earthen Heart Shifu. The next time he's encountered, he has learned the Indomitable Fist Kung Fu, but still fails to defeat the Shifu. However, it is this second defeat that triggers the chapter's biggest tragedy caused by the BigBad.

* SmallRoleBigImpact: His second fight -- which interrupted the Earthen Heart Shifu's final lesson on self-defense -- is what caused [[spoiler:two of his disciples to die.]]

** The three sisters Chan, Lin and Shan/Xian to Lei Kugo, being the only known females to the Indomitable Fist and Earthen Heart kung-fu respectively. The three sisters all fight with weapons, similar to Lei who comes with a billhook when she joins.
** [[PlayingWithATrope Played with]] when comparing the Xi brothers to Yun Jou. While there is no obvious similarities, the Xi brothers are the most frail defensively like Yun. Alternatively, the Zu brothers can be this to Yun Jou too where the three of them can be TheUnfought [[spoiler:if Lei and Hong were chosen as the disciple. If Yun was chosen as the disciple, this can still be applied to an extent as Yun is the only disciple who is only fought if chosen to be trained where Hong can be optionally fought and Lei is a mandatory fight.]]
* {{Expy}}: Lin, Xian/Shan and Chan are the [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyIV Three Magus Sisters]]...replace Magus with Kung Fu.
* FighterMageThief: The three sisters; Shan/Xian is the Fighter, since her speed is low but is sturdy and her maces pack a punch, Chan being the Mage since all her moves involve shooting fire, and Lin is the Thief, being a FragileSpeedster that can hit pretty hard.
* KungFuProofMook: Yi Pei Kou is resistant to almost ''all'' the physical damage types. The only attack the Shifu has that isn't resisted is Wise Fox's Grace. Yun can compensate with his elemental attacks, but Lei and Hong might have a rough time. Not helping is his Demonkiller's Ambition inflicts Broken Arm, which ''disables'' Wise Fox's Grace.

A senior Enma Ninja and Oboromaru's master. At first he only appears briefly to brief Oboromaru for his mission and share his [[InvisibilityCloak Shadowed Self]] technique, but should Oboromaru try to desert and manage to repel his assassins, Hayate is the one to strike him down.

* PaletteSwap: Hayate's battle sprite is shared with the generic ninjas found in the chapter, being a red and purple colored version. However, Hayate's overworld sprite averts this as it is unique to the other characters in the chapter.

* YouHaveFailedMe: If Oboro leaves his mission, he won't take it kindly, to say the least.

* ActionBomb: If you manage to take it all the way through the palace up the monk guards without it breaking, Mimic Mammet freaks out when a mouse wanders by, then runs into the monks and blows up. This is the only way to bypass these guards "[[TechnicalPacifist non-lethally]]".

* LoopholeAbuse: Why it's necessary for a pacifist run. If it manages to get all the way to the guards protecting Ode Iou's chamber, it blows up after freaking out at a mouse. This technically isn't Oboro's doing, so he's in the clear.

* PaletteSwap: Strangely enough, a heroic variation. It's a palette swap of Oboromaru, with only a few unique sprites. Justified, as it's implied that Oboro somehow imprinted himself onto it when he activated it.

* SmallRoleBigImpact: Mimic Mammet is a party member that shows up late into the chapter, disappears shortly after it joins your party (unless you do some backtracking) and isn't even featured in the remake's trailer for the chapter, but finding it is necessary for completing the chapter while spilling no blood.

* HistoricalInJoke: [[spoiler:If Oboromaru joins him, he thwarts an assassination against him in the credits, which is implied to be the same one that killed him in real-life.]]

* NobleDemon: He's the least evil of the bosses, all he wanted is just seeing how much of a good fighter Oboromaru is rather than inflicting suffering onto others.

Christian rebel who fought for the freedom of Japanese Christians persecuted by the Tokugawa, and executed for it. He's resurrected by Ode Iou based on the grudge he bore of the Shogunate.

* {{Determinator}}: Even if you kill her, she comes back the very next room you go into, and she keeps coming until you have killed her 14 times.
* DirtyOldWoman: If the names of her attacks are anything to go by, what she want to do to Oboromaru is... less than pleasant. [[{{Bowdlerise}} It's toned down in the remake, however.]]

* DeadAllAlong: By her second fight (if "killed" in her human disguise) or if the Prisoner outs her trickery, she reveals herself to be a spirit. As such, Oboromaru removes her from his kill tally and the bonus for killing no human woman still applies if she was killed earlier.

* GratuitousEnglish: In the Japanese script he peppers his speech with English words.

* LoadBearingBoss: When killed, all of his technology ceases function, barring the karakuri that becomes Mimic Mammet.

* PerversePuppet: Stretching it pretty far, but he's converted himself into a karakuri ningyo, builds simpler, more puppet-looking karakuri and serves Ode Iou.

--->'''Mad Dog''': Reckon it might be a good idea to save now, don't you think?

--->'''Mad Dog''': Word of advice? Remember this moment. "Save" it, if you catch my drift.

* PrivilegedRival: Subtly implied if one comapres his equipment to Sundown's; Mad Dog's equipment flavor text describes it as new, tailor made, and very expensive, while Sundown's equipment is described as old, dirty and extremely worn out.

* ProperlyParanoid: Despite being branded a coward by Annie and his own son Billy for not standing up against Crazy Bunch, his fears are not without reasons. The Crazy Bunch have Success Town residents outgunned and outnumbered, and even Annie and Billy, the only residents with backbone, have hard time pushing [[ZeroEffortBoss Pike]] out of the bar. Had it not for Sundown and Mad Dog, the gang will easily run the town to the ground on even the slightest provocation.

* BratsWithSlingshots: Gives Sundown a slingshot hoping that it could be used as a trap. You have to give it back to him since he's the only one who can set it.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: His idolization of Sundown despite the bounty of his head [[spoiler:is very similar to that one boy who believed in Oersted after his life was ruined in a similar situation.]]

!Wayne & Dallas, Clint, James (''Gene'') and Cesar (''Gibson'')

* NamedAfterSomeoneFamous: Creator/JohnWayne, Creator/ClintEastwood, Music/GeneAutry, and Creator/MelGibson. The untranslated original/remake reference UsefulNotes/JesseJames and Creator/CesarRomero.

* YouAllLookFamiliar: Cesar used the same sprites as his chapter's Watanabe in the original game. In the remake they still share a color palette, and Cesar has an unused sprite of crying like Watanabe does.

* CondescendingCompassion: When he meets the Sundown Kid, he treats him in a somewhat polite and courtesious manner, but he clearly shows that he views the cowboy as his inferior, best shown by the fact that he offers to buy him a drink to smooth things over, ordering [[LactoseOverLiquor a milk]] from a barkeep, showing that he views him as a childish man who drinks milk instead of alcohol.

* AdaptationalNiceGuy: In the original script and the unofficial English script, his narcissism about his beautiful face is a lot more pronounced where he only speaks of how Masaru damaged his face after his defeat. In both remake scripts, he is slightly more polite and when defeated, as after lamenting how his beautiful face was ruined, he congratulates Masaru on his victory against him.
* BeefGate: Namkiat hits like a dump truck. If you haven't defeated someone with a long-range attack that can hopefully distract him (Moribe Seishi and his Fleetfoot) or disable his feet (Tula Han's Cross Heel Hold), challenging him as the first boss will get Masaru's ass kicked as Masaru's two default attacks is either quite low in power (Gale Strike) or resisted by Namkiat (Rolling Wheel Kick). To make matters worse, Namkiat is likely to be chosen first by the player as the fighter select screen defaults onto him when loaded.

* LogicalWeakness: Namkiat's weakness to grappling moves fits well as Muay Thai only allows striking with all ground game techniques such as submissions and grappling being prohibited.

* AchillesHeel: Great Aja is weak to Agile and Foot-based attacks that hitting him with Agile attacks inflicts the "Terror" status condition on him which causes him to stay away from Masaru on the field. However, this status infliction is only favorable when defeating him as that will prevent the player from learning his attacks.

* DeathOrGloryAttack: All of his learnable skills (Frankensteiner and Tornado Press) will deal a significant amount of damage if it hits, but will damage its user if they miss. If Great Aja misses the attack, it will take a big chunk of his HP, making him easier to defeat. The damage after missing will still be retained if Masaru uses it, but this doesn’t become a problem in the Dominion of Hate chapter due to Masaru’s impressive HP growth.

* GlassCannon: Great Aja hits very hard with his attacks but has low defense and the second lowest HP at 240. Even Masaru's starting attack Rolling Wheel Kick is more than enough to take Great Aja down. His low defense and his two [[DeathOrGloryAttack Death Or Glory attacks]] makes Great Aja a very fragile opponent.

* FamilyUnfriendlyDeath: [[spoiler:Odie remarks that he "twisted Tula's limbs in such ways he couldn't have even imagined" in the fan translation]].
* MotherRussiaMakesYouStrong: Hails from Russia and is a skilled fighter in his own right. [[spoiler: Too bad this doesn't spare him from Odie's wrath.]]

* GlassCannon: His attacks can easily down Masaru in two or three hits, and he tends to evade attacks easily to boot. However, one or two good attacks will defeat him in turn. Stat-wise, Moribe has the highest IQ at 99 and is even at level 13 (The rest of the fighters at around levels 1-3 while Odie O'Bright himself is level 4) but his HP is a paltry 120. However, all these in-game stats are [[AllThereInTheManual only found in the game's data]].

* CloseRangeCombatant: Every of Max's skills, learnable or not, requires him to get close to his target. One of the tactics against him is to simply kite him with long range attacks, but that defeats the purpose of trying to learn his skills.

** In the remake, he calls Masaru "brother"—just as Hogan would call his opponents. His quote about doing it "for the people" is also an alternative to Hogan's quote about doing it "for the Hulkamaniacs".

* BeefGate: For players wanting to unlock all the attacks, Jackie is ''not'' someone you would want to fight first. Jackie has the highest HP of the mini-bosses fought in the chapter, hits hard with Seize which not only takes out more than half of Masaru's health but also inflicts status effects and disables attacks that use the arms. Jackie is hard enough to learn Worldbreaker's Wrath from, even with all the attacks learned by the other bosses, but attempting to get him to use the attack as the first boss is almost impossible to do so.

--> '''Jackie, [[ThisIsGonnaSuck seconds before giving you a Game Over:]]''' ''"You're gonna get it now!!"''

* SecretArt: He has a secret move that Masaru can learn called "[[DishingOutDirt Worldbreaker's Wrath]]", which requires an obscure set of conditions mixed with luck for him to perform (Specifically you have to immobilize his limbs through status ailments, a hint that is shown in the loading screens).

* TheUnfought: Is never faced in gameplay as the chapter ends right before Masaru agrees to his challenge. [[spoiler:After returning back home after literally vanishing in front of him, it's implied that Masaru resumed the fight and won.]]

* TheAtoner: After [[spoiler:killing Akira's father]], he's done his best to be a better role model for [[spoiler:his orphaned son]]. [[spoiler:His last words even note how men have to make amends of their actions, regardless of consequences.]]
* BadassBiker: Rides around on red-hot motorcycle, and he's even introduced as the trope name in the remake.

* CharlesAtlasSuperpower: Has nothing but his own two fists but is a CrutchCharacter for the actually superpowered Akira.
* CrutchCharacter: Lawless starts out at Level 8 and has high stats for the time he joins. However, he gains ''zero'' stat increases when levelled up except for HP, Accuracy and Evasion and even so, they only increase in small amounts.

* EmpoweredBadassNormal: His moveset pretty much revolves around beating the crap out of others with just his arms and legs as opposed to Akira's preference on psychic illusions mixed with street fighting. [[spoiler: He gains psychic powers after a hefty overdose of Matango.]]

* HotBlooded: Much more subdued than Akira, but when push comes to shove, he's just [[CastingGag as hot-blooded]] [[Creator/HideoIshikawa as]] [[Manga/GetterRobo Ryoma Nagare]], going as far as [[spoiler: overdosing himself just to pilot Steel Titan.]]

* MoralityChain: There's a lot of implications that Lawless was the only thing that kept Akira from going down a more dangerous path while growing up. [[spoiler:He's the one who manages to calm Akira down and keep him from going on a on a potentially murderous RoaringRampageOfRevenge when he finds out what Livingstill and his labrats are up to, and it's very possible he could have ended up like Oersted himself had Lawless not been "the single person" in Akira's life.]]

* NeighbourhoodFriendlyGangsters: ''Ex''-gangster as Lawless used to be a Crusader. He still keeps up the biker image with his leather jacket, shades and styled hair but otherwise spends his days selling taiyaki and fighting off troublemaking Crusaders and even corrupt businessmen.
* NobleDemon: It's not known how much honor the Crusaders had during Lawless's tenure with them, but even he knew the government was up to no good and continued to oppose them, eventually clashing with [[spoiler:Tadashi]]. It's even stated that [[spoiler:the Crusaders became vastly more violent and working for the corrupt government they were fighting against after his departure as their leader since he was singlehandedly preventing them from being scumbags.]]

* SecretRelationship: Possibly with Taeko based on her thoughts and [[spoiler:her heavily mourning his death. Matsu even kisses her in the manga.]]

* BarelyChangedDubName: In the remake he goes from "Toei" to "Tobei", likely to avoid confusion with the Toei company.

* CyberneticsEatYourSoul: Subverted. Despite being "half robot" as Akira describes him, for all his eccentricities, Tobei is a fairly decent man who seems content with his life. [[spoiler:He only ever liquafacts a turtle during the course of the game's plot to save its life, despite putting out the idea of using a liquafacted human to power the Steel Titan. And he only does it upon the request of others to save the character's life, and lets said character have full control over the robot body they inhabit.]]

* MadScientist: Subverted. Tobei is an eccentric man and the resident genius on Steel Titan, but he's on the side of the heroes [[spoiler:though he was previously affiliated with Livingstill and can utilize Livingstill's liquefaction technology that he uses to create Taroimo. The main difference is unlike Livingstill, Tobei doesn't liquefact people against their will, and only did it with Taroimo to save their life. Even though he considers the idea of using a liquefacted human to power the Steel Titan, he doesn't push the issue beyond musing it.]]

* HumongousMecha: And not just in appearance either - his model while in a fight occupies 4 squares in the combat grid instead of the usual 1 of the heroes, making him the largest controllable character [[spoiler:until you get to the last chapter and get the option to fight as the game's bosses if you select Odio as your protagonist]],[[note]]The original game actually has Steel Titan coded as a boss-level enemy which can be controlled[[/note]] and even his feet are larger than the army tanks he goes against. The remake pronounces this further by adding a new battlefield which is a zoomed-out version of the street area the Near Future battles usually take place in, showing that Steel Titan towers over several buildings.

* LimitBreak: A playable variant. The fact that it doesn't activate until the climax of the chapter and contains all sorts of powerful attacks that wouldn't be useful unless there's an active crisis.

* PlayAsABoss: It's for all intents and purposes a playable boss, having absurdly high stats, a massive sprite that takes several tiles, having the bosses usual limit of four skills, and even the boss death animation of slowly dissolving into purple fog.

* StoryBreakerPower: There's a ''reason'' Akira seemingly can't reactive it at will after defeating his incarnation of Odio. The Steel Titan takes on what is arguably Odio's most powerful incarnation [[spoiler:sans the FinalBoss]] and is able to beat it down without breaking a sweat. (Even if the player messes about in the battle, the Steel Titan is likely to still be above half HP by the time it takes the boss down.) It's only ever used one more time outside of it's chapter, [[spoiler:and that's during the end game BossRush against the various Odio incarnations.]]

* SmallRoleBigImpact: Only shown in the beginning of the Near Future chapter but his death by the hands of Lawless is what triggered his son's psychic powers, lead Lawless to leave the Crusaders and to be a BigBrotherMentor to Akira, and eventually end the local incarnation of Odio from destroying Japan.

* DelicateAndSickly: She's bedridden the entire story. [[spoiler:To the point where she asks to be liquefied so she can stay with everyone instead of dying.]]

* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:She offers to be liquifacted to pilot the Steel Titan. Defied almost imminently when Akira pleads for her to not go through with it.]]

* AscendedExtra: She's given a small bit more screentime in Shimamoto's 2019 doujinshi adapting the Near Future chapter, such as initially following Matsu into the Steel Titan [[spoiler:and they share a kiss before he dies.]]

!Aki, Yuki, Kazu and Watanabe

* NotAllowedToGrowUp: Same situation as Kaori, they are shown to be children when Akira and Kaori join the orphanage. Akira grows up and is a teenager after some time has passed but the rest of the children are still the same age and size. It could have been that the other kids were adopted in the time-skip and new kids joined but Watanabe was identified as a child too in the flashback and still appears as one in the present time of the chapter.

* AdaptationalHeroism: It's implied they were JustFollowingOrders in the manga adaptation, and Yamazaki [[YouHaveFailedMe attempts to have them liquified for leading Lawless into Tsukuba]], but after being freed, [[HeelFaceTurn they escape with the heroes and don't burn the orphanage]].

* AdaptationalBadass: In the game, Yamazaki's role is minimal aside from sending the Japanese army to stop Steel Titan. In the manga, he personally gets into battle with a katana and destroys the LH Combat Unit W1 in one stroke after it rebels against him, and even tries to fight Steel Titan head-on before [[spoiler:getting disintegrated by its Halogen Laser.]]
* ArcVillain: Like the Kuu Chief above, they could be considered the Near Future chapter's main villains despite Odeo being the FinalBoss and an incarnation of Odio; they're the ones driving the plot by kidnapping people and liquifacting them in order to awaken Odeo, which in turn causes Akira and Matsu to oppose them, making Odeo more of a GreaterScopeVillain.

* AssimilationPlot: Possibly - they do mention that Odeo being awakened would lead to humanity being "united" and this awakening does involve turning human beings into living fuel for their god through their hatred, but it's ambiguous whether this was just a means to an end or their actual ideal for all human beings - while Doctor Livingstill's dialogue implies the latter, [[{{Hypocrite}} their pleas for being saved once they get assimilated]] implies the former instead.
* AxCrazy: They believe that they are really trying to unite humanity and deliver them away from hatred by capturing innocents to awaken Odeo within the Inko Buddha statue. Given they also freak out when Odeo is about to give them a taste of their own medicine, they're likely just insane {{Knight Templar}}s rather than [[WellIntentionedExtremist Well-Intentioned Extremists]].

* DiesDifferentlyInAdaptation: In the game, Yamazaki is engulfed by the liquefied humans alongside Livingstill and Unryu after Odeo is destroyed. In the manga, [[spoiler: he instead gets deatomized by Steel Titan's Halogen Laser while leading the army against it]]. Livingstill is implied to be vaporized by the Steel Titan's FinishingMove to Odeo. Only Unryu suffers his in-game fate, but before Odeo's awakening.

* HoistByHisOwnPetard: After the Inko Buddha statue/Odeo was destroyed by the Steel Titan, they get assimilated with the pool of liquefied humans they created to awaken him.

* WellIntentionedExtremist: Subverted. They claim that they're summoning the god Odeo to end all human suffering and appear to have been fully convinced themselves that they're saviors and messiahs, but they're reduced into begging for mercy from the liquefied humans once Odeo is defeated, implying that they're just AxCrazy madmen in the first place.
* YouCantThwartStageOne: Their EvilPlan to kidnap 2000 humans and liquefy them is completed when the Steel Titan reaches them. The only thing Akira can do at that point to end this is to kill Odeo with it.

* MacGyvering: He built Cube out of whatever was on the ship at the time, with even a personal note mentioning that the current computer chip designs on Earth are very advanced, but he’ll have to do with what’s available.

* RageBreakingPoint: He's mostly an unassuming nerd that doesn't participate in fights. However, when he hears about the secret orders of the military that Darthe is involved, on top of learning that his friends are dying one by one (though this was before Rachel was confirmed dead), Kato ''snaps'' and starts yelling at Darthe trying to kill him.
* SoProudOfYou: In the remake, if you [[spoiler: go out of your way to visit his room and talk to him after you have defeated OD-10, he tells Cube how proud he is of how far the little RobotBuddy has come]].
* SpannerInTheWorks: Building robots like Cube was only a hobby of his, but [[spoiler:Cube ends up saving Kato and Darthe, as well as being the only one who could stop OD-10 and perhaps all of reality in the end. Him also surviving his murder attempt forces OD-10 in a corner once its attempt to frame Cube for Kato's death failed.]]

* BaldOfAuthority: The 1994 character design of Darthe shows that he is bald underneath his cap and he is also part of the military where the rest are all civilians. This overlaps with...

* CharacterDevelopment: He at first displays himself as unreasonable and robot-hating, but as the crews start getting belligerent, he ends up being the second OnlySaneMan where he clearly wants to live on with the rest and begins warming up to a robot. [[spoiler: The end of his scenario has him decide to create medical robots.]]
* DecoyProtagonist: Inverted. It's implied from his hatred of Cube and [[spoiler:his secret order to prioritize the Behemoth's survival over human lives]] and [[Franchise/StarWars being named after one of the most famous villains in media]] that he's a major antagonist. In reality, he's pretty much the closest the Distant Future chapter has to a BigGood.

* FantasticSlurs: Mostly calls Cube "clank" out of anger. It later turns into an AffectionateNickname as he starts softening up and the malicious name [[InsultofEndearment becomes one of attachment]].

* GeniusBruiser: Knows how to kick ass and [[spoiler:how to patch the Captain Square game to OD-10. He then later retires from the military to build medical robots.]]

* OnlySaneMan: He proves to be this between the whole passengers of Cogito Ergo Sum. His being a jerk to Cube stemmed from a personal trauma that he didn't ask for, he always tried to keep a level-headed attitude (as much as he can) and encourages such calmness when the crews started acting reckless, even if he has to yell for it. And even when Kato, the calmest of the original crews, loses it, Darthe tries his best to explain his situation rationally and still hold that deep down he doesn't want to kill anybody, and eventually leading to ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight. He's also willing to listen to reason, when [[spoiler:OD-10 controls the Cube prototype to kill Rachel and tries to impersonate the real Cube, but instead of just blasting both just to be safe which would've destroyed their only method of stopping OD-10, he instead takes Kato's confirmation when the real Cube correctly answers his question and smashes the imposter.]]
* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight: [[spoiler:He's sent by the military to transport the Behemoth within a civilian ship and in any case things go south, he's to preserve the life of the Behemoth with the crews being considered acceptable sacrifices. In the end, after Kirk died in accident, the Behemoth killed Huey, a Cube imposter assassinated Rachel in her sleep and Captain Hor died in his room due to OD-10 sabotaging his room and trapped him inside, Darthe decided that enough is enough, no more deaths, even Kato's. When the same Behemoth comes to kill him, he ends up fighting and killing it anyway, going against his original orders and giving Cube time to dismantle OD-10 and ultimately prevented more human deaths than necessary. Afterwards, he quit the military and had a career on building medical robots as his final middle finger to the 'Rules'.]]

* ShoutOut: Named after Darth Vader from ''Franchise/StarWars''[[note]]While there are more 'Darth's in the ''Franchise/StarWars'' verse (like Darth Sidious), the only character who had been introduced with the Darth title during the game's initial release was Vader, so they're referencing the famous space black knight.[[/note]].
* SurroundedByIdiots: During the first half of the chapter. He doesn't hide how much the crewmates' constant arguing and bickering get on his nerves, and when everything begins to go from bad to worse, he calls the crewmates out for their perceived incompetence and let things get so badly.

* YouHaveGotToBeKiddingMe: His reaction when [[spoiler:after telling Cube to go look for a second terminal to access OD-10 with, only for them to respond they’re right in front of the Captain Square game console. He’s bewildered at first, only to realise that it’s what Kato was trying to tell Cube about before he passed out [[CrazyEnoughToWork and could actually work]].]]

* TheChewToy: To say that this game hates Huey is an understatement: he's on the losing side of the LoveTriangle, [[spoiler:he's rejected for his ship captain exam and is about to get fired by Capt. Hor, he tried saving Rachel which would have succeeded if OD-10 didn't send a Cube replica to kill her in her cryosleep.]]

* JaywalkingWillRuinYourLife: Huey is a pretty decent and nice character, without glaring flaws like Kirk, Rachel and Darthe. However, he seems to be resigned with the mindset that humans are incapable of surpassing their nature to fight against each other, from minor bickerings to major wars. [[spoiler:Somehow, OD-10 considers that another proof that HumansAreTheRealMonsters and must be eliminated, as Huey's particular line is recorded to its data banks. Huey does not survive the scenario because of his mindset resignation.]]

* {{Foreshadowing}}: Her role in the chapter is a parallel to Alethea's role in the Middle Ages chapter, specifically that [[spoiler:her crazy love for Kirk is similar to how Alethea threw spite at Oersted. Both these acts would cause a ''lot'' of bloodshed that never had to happen.]]
* HopeSpot: Thanks to Huey's HeroicSacrifice, Rachel survived the attack of Behemoth, all she needed was just a rest in the cold capsule, and when she would wake up, she could reflect on her actions and gain respect on Huey post-mortem. [[spoiler:Not if OD-10 had its way, it sent a replica of Cube to ruin her capsule and killing her in her sleep.]]
* LoveMakesYouCrazy: Rachel's denial over Kirk's death makes her immediately believe "Kirk's" (actually OD-10) words to rush to open the airlock to let 'him' back on the ship. This almost causes Kato and Cube to get sucked into space. Shortly after, upon hearing the Behemoth escaped, she immediately rushes out not wanting the Behemoth to hurt Kirk. This directly results in her being critically injured and Huey getting killed protecting her, and ultimately her death later on.

* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Her dumping of Huey for Kirk results in Kirk antagonizing Huey over her choosing him over Huey [[spoiler: and said antagonizing becomes one of the main reasons OD-10 decides to kill the crew]].

* HiddenDepths: He's mostly defined with his impulsive jerkass attitude, but he's also surprisingly an avid reader on wordy books. After his death, it's revealed that he tends to read a book titled "Will Warp Navigation Become A Reality" in his spare time, meaning that he does have a bookish side not too different with... his number one bully victim, Huey.
* JaywalkingWillRuinYourLife: His bullying of Huey leads to [[spoiler:OD-10 deciding to pick him as a first victim of its slaughter of the ship's crewmembers.]]

* TheMcCoy: Despite being named after Captain Kirk and [[TheKirk the trope refers to the middle-man emotion-wise]], he's actually the more impulsive one, being the more gung-ho and illogical, preferring to brute force his way to solve problems. [[spoiler:It gets him to be the first victim, when he decided the best way to fix the WATANABE antenna is to physically tamper with it the traditional way. While in space, where accidents like getting cut off from air supply could happen, though no one could have expected that.]]

* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: His impulsiveness leads him to impatiently try to fix the WATANABE antenna in the traditional way rather than wait for an actual analysis result from the others first. This leads to a conflict with Huey where Kirk bullies him based on their past conflict, which becomes [[spoiler:the catalyst of OD-10 deciding to kill the crews to maintain order, with Kirk himself as the first victim.]]

* TokenGoodTeammate: [[spoiler:He has no recorded voice amongst OD-10's voice databanks that it used to justify that humans are incapable of maintaining harmony, meaning that he'd probably ''not'' bicker and ruin harmony given the chance, and also serves as [[DeconstructedTrope a deconstruction]]: He recognizes the dysfunction of his crews and plans to change the crews once they arrive on Earth; a TokenGoodTeammate in charge will definitely want to restructure his team full of dysfunctional or evil members so the team can actually work properly. It still doesn't prevent him from becoming a target of OD-10's manipulation that costs him his life.]]

* GratuitousEnglish: His Japanese voice lines are exclusively in English, and Sugita is [[PlayedForLaughs clearly taking the piss and pulling off the thickest, corniest fake-American accent he can muster.]]

* JustifiedTutorial: If you choose to play the Distant Future chapter first, his minigame serves as the player’s introduction to the rest of the game’s battle system, as [[spoiler:the only actual fight in this chapter is against the boss.]]

* ShooOutTheClowns: His minigame is the main and usually only source of humour in the Distant Future chapter, [[spoiler:but it gets overwritten when Cube uses it to fight OD-10 and Captain Square is never seen again. The remake even has the battlefield damaged.]]

* AdaptationalBadass: In the original game, the Behemoth appeared as large as any other character in the overworld, and moved just as fast as the player. As a result, Cube could simply strafe around this alien to get to the next objective. With several generations worth of graphical enhancement this is undone in the remake; now the Behemoth is large enough to occupy the width of an ''entire hallway'' and generally moves faster than Cube can move (not to mention its footsteps cause the screen to shake). Running into adjacent rooms to hide away is the best means of losing the Behemoth's trail.

* DeconstructedCharacterArchetype: Of BossInMookClothing. The Behemoth is a frequent enemy in ''Creator/SquareEnix'''s works, either being a full on boss or a BossInMookClothing. While usually difficult to bring down, it isn't invincible by any means and serves as a fun challenge to the player. Live A Live, however, shows just how horrifying it would actually be for a bunch of average Joes to encounter it; they would more than likely die in seconds. [[spoiler:That said, it's also ''still'' not invincible, either. But it would take a person highly trained in military skills and sufficient weaponry to get the deed done; and it would likely be a very quick and bloody encounter rather than a long drawn out slugfest like most Behemoth fights are.]]
* GameplayAndStorySegregation: Of the '[[AntiFrustrationFeatures to the players benefit]]' type. During normal gameplay, the Behemoth will only stalk the hallways of the ship, and will never enter side areas or cabins, as the doors are far too small for it to fit through. [[spoiler:But when Darthe finally puts it down, it's able to enter through the human sized doors into the room where Darthe is.]]
* ImmuneToBullets: Its fur makes it highly resistant to most forms of conventional weaponry. [[spoiler:Key word: ''most''. It corners Darthe when he's toting his carbine, and he promptly shoots it dead]].

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: [[spoiler:It's an unstoppable killer as far as the defenseless Cube is concerned, but it's still just a wild animal, and ends up quickly dispatched by Darthe and his military-grade firearm]].

* XenomorphXerox: While it doesn't physically resemble the creature, the Behemoth's role in the chapter is lifted [[WholePlotReference almost wholesale from Alien's Xenomorph]]: a dangerous creature roams a confined ship, anyone who comes into contact with it has little hope of survival (protagonist included) and [[spoiler: the mission is secretly to study it with the crew considered expendable. You even discover this by finding a hidden message on a terminal in almost the exact same wording as the one in the film.]]

* Twliight of Edo Japan Chapter: A father and son are ninjas of the Watanabe clan trying to steal Ode Iou's treasure. Either they succeed (because Oboro killed the man in the room below) or, after dodging multiple stabs, the father is impaled. In the remake if Oboromaru contributed to their survival and aborts the mission, [[https://youtu.be/GSp_4j2S3dc?t=195 they're seen alive and well]] while Oboromaru is on the run.

* Present Day Chapter: He's not named, but a man throws a soda can at Great Aja, as well as insulting him in the remake. Great Aja turns around, jumps out of the ring, gives him an [[BigBallOfViolence offscreen beatdown]], and returns to the ring after his son pleads the heel lucha to leave his dad alone.

* AscendedExtra: The Watanabes get a more significant presence in the Near Future chapter as Akira is friends with the chapter's resident Watanabe, and [[spoiler:is forced to fight his father as the LH Combat Unit W1, and nearly tears into the Conspirators after realising who he was.]]
* ButtMonkey: Their appearances always have something bad happen to them, and it is played for laughs most of the time (with only two chapters where it isn't). And even in the Near Future chapter, where the disappearance of his father was not played for laughs, the resident Watanabe is still on the receiving end of the short stick when compared to other kids in the orphanage, forced by Akira to do his dirty work (and then ends up sharing Taeko's Furious Fist with him as a punishment for failing to claim the necessary item), getting his TV seat stolen by Yuki every time her favorite wrestler is on screen (and sometimes by getting elbowed to the wall), and [[spoiler:ends up getting an AshFace from the explosion of Doc Tobei's machine in the GoldenEnding.]]
* CerebusSyndrome: If playing in chronological order. The Watanabes in the future chapters are played for less comedy than their ancestors, with the Distant Future having no comedic outings for them, using them to [[spoiler:foreshadow the horror elements of the chapter.]] They're back to a more lighthearted showing in the Medieval Chapter before returning to a darker depiction for the Final Chapter.

* JustLikeRobinHood: The father and son in the Twilight of Edo Japan chapter are thieves who want to steal money from Ode Iou's castle to restore the Watanabe clan to its former glory and share the riches with the poor. Sadly, if the retainer below them is still alive, the father would be killed, leaving his son to run away and drag off his body in tears.

** The father does an impressive job of dodging the spear thrusts against him in the Twilight of Edo Japan chapter and for a second one might think he will pull it off... until he [[TooDumbToLive stops to boast in the middle of the attacks]], which promptly gets him impaled by giving off his location to the man downstairs.
** Wan Tan Na Bei in the Imperial China chapter charges a powerful attack that could rival Heavenly Peaks Descent, making the earth tremble hard enough that even the Indomitable Fist backs away from him. Unfortunately, the attack fails, blows up in Wan Tan Na Bei's face and the Indomitable Fist approach him to fight, leading to a soot covered sobbing Wan Tan Na Bei to [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere unceremoniously run away.]]

* PreFinalBoss: In the Near Future, Kozo Watanabe is this [[spoiler: as the LH Combat Unit W1 where he was liquefied and put into the machine against his will. The fight can be seen as the FinalBoss for Akira fighting on-foot with a conventional party rather than the actual chapter boss which is fought when piloting the Steel Titan]].
* ReforgedIntoAMinion: Kozo Watanabe, the Near Future incarnation of the dad, was [[spoiler:liquefied by Doctor Livingstill and placed into a LH Combat Unit W1, and while he retained his identity, he lost his free will and had to be killed by Akira and his friends.]]
* RunningGag: The father of Watanabe will always die or have something terrible happen to him, with his son running away in tears while dragging off his body. [[spoiler:In the Near Future and Distant Future chapters, it's not PlayedForLaughs, as it's PlayedForDrama in the former and PlayedForHorror the latter.]]

** In the Twilight of Edo Japan chapter, if you kill the enemy retainer beforehand, you can prevent Watanabe's father from dying, allowing them to grab a chest they were after, [[WorthlessTreasureTwist albeit they're only one koban richer]] rather than the vast wealth they were imagining. [[spoiler: The remake adds a further cameo from them if Oboromaru aborts the mission, confirming they fled the castle just fine.]]

* TokenAdult: The Watanabe in the prehistoric age is the only one who's an adult; he looks and [[Creator/TomokazuSugita sounds like]] every other non-elder cavemen in that era (including his dad). The only character younger than him is Pogo, who just reached the age where he's allowed to hunt for food.

** In the Twilight of Edo Japan era, Papa Rat impressively dodges the spear thrusts from a retainer below, and ''could'' have succeeded in claiming the treasure from chests in front of him...but then he decides to stop in place and brag, which predictably led to his death.

* TurnedAgainstTheirMasters: In the Near Future manga, [[spoiler:Kozo Watanabe having been rebuilt into the LH Combat Unit W1 is ordered to kill everyone trying to escape, his son included. Realising he's being ordered to kill his own son, [[PapaWolf W1 immediately tries to gun down Yamazaki instead, only to be killed by his katana.]]]]
* UncertainDoom: In the original game it was made ambiguous if the dad was killed during the Present Day chapter's event - on one hand, having an audience member be murdered by a fighter would definitely ''not'' go unpunished in real life as it did in the game, on the other, every Watanabe event has the father dying or dead in some way or another, and RuleOfFunny could HandWave his death in front of the audience. The remake makes his survival more obvious thanks to the use of BigBallOfViolence and the more cartoonish treatment of his beatdown.

* UnwillingRoboticization: Watanabe's dad in the Near Future was [[spoiler:liquefied and had his mind transferred into a machine known as LH Combat Unit W1, forced to fight Akira against his own will. His last words were begging Akira to take care of his son in the orphanage before exploding.]]

* AxCrazy: They believe that they are really trying to unite humanity and deliver them away from hatred by capturing innocents to awaken Odeo within the Inko Buddha statue. And it's clear that the three are out there.

* CharacterTics: Often pokes the brim of his hat with the tip of his gun. In fact, such gesture was even included in the [[https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/live-a-live/images/f/f4/Remake_Sundown_Scenario_Promo_Art.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20220528044801 promotional art of the remake]].

* PlayAsABoss: It's for all intents and purposes a playable boss, having absurdly high stats, a massive sprite that takes several tiles, and having the bosses usual limit of four skills.

* Middle Ages Chapter: Streibough kills a man named Watt of Nabe during the tournament at the start, whereupon his son runs up on stage while the guards carry his corpse away.

* Final Chapter: Two crying statues are found in Pogo's dungeon. Akira can read their minds, revealing that Death Prophet petrified them for running away too many times. This serves as a hint on how you can encounter it yourself.

* HopeSpot: The Final Chapter variants somehow managed to avoid Odio's genocide... only to incur the ire of the Death Prophet with their constant running away, and end up being turned into statues.

* BaldOfPower: The 1994 character design of Darthe shows that he is bald underneath his cap. The power part comes in where [[spoiler:he is the only one of the crew to keep it together and remain standing throughout the ordeal. On top of that, he is also the one to destroy the Behemoth]].

* DecoyProtagonist: Inverted. It's implied from his hatred of Cube and [[spoiler:his secret order to prioritise the Behemoth's survival over human lives]] and [[Franchise/StarWars being named after one of the most famous villains in media]] that he's a major antagonist. In reality, he's pretty much the closest the Distant Future chapter has to a BigGood.

* ButtMonkey: He's not usually the butt of the joke, but whenever his horse and Sundown are involved, expect the latter to shoot at the former and scare it off. [[spoiler:Not even the O. Dio horse, a reincarnation of the dark lord Odio, is safe.]]

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** In the Twilight of Edo Japan era, Watanabe's dad impressively dodges the spear thrusts from a retainer below, and ''could'' have succeeded in claiming the treasure from chests in front of him...but then he decides to stop in place and brag, which predictably led to his death.
** In the Present Day era, throwing a can at an extremely AxCrazy, [[BloodKnight hormone-ridden wrestler]] probably wasn't a good idea for Watanabe's father.
* TurnedAgainstTheirMasters: In the Near Future manga, [[spoiler:Kozo Watanabe having been rebuilt into the LH Combat Unit W1 is ordered to kill Matsu and Watanabe. Realising he's being ordered to kill his own son, [[PapaWolf W1 immediately tries to gun down Yamazaki instead, only to be killed by his katana.]]]]

* UnluckyExtra: Throughout the timeline, they tend to make only one brief appearance in a given time period, in which the outcome ends badly for them (which means that the dad gets killed more often than not, resulting in Watanabe running off crying, with or without dragging his father's corpse with him).

* BerserkButton: Never steal from his customers. Hong nearly got the wrong end of the knife for it.

All throughout history, recurring again and again, a father and son (their names being some variant on Watanabe) appear. Most basically, the father is killed in some way or another, leaving Watanabe to burst into tears and run off.

* Prehistory Chapter: They're not named, but one of them cries like the other Watanabes when the other falls down a pit trap into an utterly dark room filled with killer prehistoric alligators and most likely not surviving (unlike Pogo, who can fight his way out).

* OutlivingOnesOffspring: Her child and in-law - Yun's parents died when her grandson was younger[[spoiler:, and he can kick the bucket too if he isn't chosen as the Earthen Heart Master.]]

* HereditaryHairstyle: The manga gave him the same spiky hairdo like his son, except with the gold highlights.