History Characters / SSSSGridman

* AmbiguouslyBi: She has some ShipTease with Yuta at the start of the show [[spoiler:and would later get together with him in ''Anime/GridmanUniverse'',]] but her friendship with Akane is also extremely romantically coded, to the point where Akane's Japanese voice actress described [[spoiler:their final scene together as Rikka barely holding back on confessing her love to Akane, among other hints.[[labelnote:Such as]]The LGBT poster and pride sticker seen in [[spoiler:the ideal dream world Akane creates for her]][[/labelnote]]]]

* EvilCounterpart: Akane set him up as one for Gridman.

** His power-copying ability is a reference to Khan Knight, an unused concept of ''Gridman'' wherein the third quarter of the show, Takeshi Todo was supposed to steal Gridman's data and becomes the hero's own evil doppelganger before making a HeelFaceTurn and becoming Gridknight. [[spoiler:It should be no surprise, then, that this is exactly what happens to Anti.]]

* DarkIsNotEvil: He is not much of a villain and while only follows his programing to fight Gridman, he has shown to have some noble qualities. [[spoiler:His Gridknight form may also come off as evil looking due to being a clone of Gridman in his Kaiju form's colors, but by the time he's got it he's pulled a HeelFaceTurn.]]

* MakeMeWannaShout: Zegga's scream is powerful enough to devastate multiple city blocks.

* ThouShallNotKill: Episode 10 reveals that he only kills Kaiju because they aren't actually alive just essentially hatred given form but refuses to kill anything that's actually alive. But spares Anti because [[spoiler:by then Anti has learned enough from humans to become alive.]]

* DoesNotLikeShoes: She always prefers to be barefoot while in her room. By Episode 10, she's uncaringly wandering about the city barefoot, showing her mental state has taken a nosedive.
** Strangely played with as well, as she is almost exclusively the only girl who wears tights under her uniform skirt. She can't get them off fast enough once she enters the safety of her bedroom though.

** FauxAffablyEvil: Mind you, the above mention actually subverts this, as he does end Episode 7 cutting Anti's face with a ''motor saw'' and then again in Episode 11 when [[spoiler:he turned Akane into a Kaiju after she became useless to him...]]

* AmbiguouslyBi: She has some ShipTease with Yuta at the start of the show [[spoiler:and ends up getting together with him in ''Gridman Universe'']], but her friendship with Akane is also extremely romantically coded, to the point of Akane's voice actress describing their final scene together as Rikka barely holding back on confessing her love to Akane, among other hints.[[labelnote:Such as]]The LGBT poster and pride sticker seen in [[spoiler:the ideal dream world Akane creates for her]][[/labelnote]]

* HesNotMyBoyfriend: Part of her dynamic with Yuta is this. Especially when her group of friends tends to ship them a lot, much to Rikka's annoyance.

* MasterOfTheMixedMessage: Prior to the first episode, [[NoodleIncident they had a conversation about]] ''[[NoodleIncident something]]'', but due to Yuta's amnesia both he, and the viewer by extension, has no idea what the conversation was said. While Rikka is annoyed over the fact, she also consistency dodges the question of what happened whenever it gets brought up. There's also her telling Yuta to give her space at school and when he does, ''also'' telling him that he doesn't have to completely avoid her.

* ShipTease: The show gives her some moments with Yuta at the beginning, then gives her even more with Akane later on.

* ThisIsUnforgivable: [[spoiler:Subverted. She ''says'' that she won't forgive Akane for stabbing Yuta, but because she's programmed to love Akane no matter what she does, it's immediately dropped the moment the two meet up.]]

* {{Tsundere}}: A DownplayedTrope, as Rikka's "harshness" towards Yuta is actually rather tame and more out of annoyance that her friends [[HesNotMyBoyfriend keep reading more into their situation]]. Not to mention her general annoyance that Yuta forgot whatever the previous conversation was before the start of the series.

* AmbiguouslyBi: She has some ShipTease with Yuta at the start of the show, but her friendship with Akane is also extremely romantically coded, to the point of Akane's voice actress describing their final scene together as Rikka barely holding back on confessing her love to Akane, among other hints.[[labelnote:Such as]]The LGBT poster and pride sticker seen in [[spoiler:the ideal dream world Akane creates for her]][[/labelnote]]

* CreepyGood: His creepy staring, disheveled appearance, and quiet nature make him come across as quite intimidating and results in him making a bad first impression on Yuta. However, Calibur is a genuinely nice guy, just socially awkward.
* DiagonalCut: Gridman's finishing move when using Gridman Calibur is a diagonal slash that cuts a Kaiju in two.

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