History Characters / SenkiZesshouSymphogearAntagonists

%%* EvilCripple [=/=] EvilOldFolks

[[folder:Maria Cadenzavna Eve]]

[[folder:Shirabe Tsukuyomi]]

[[folder:Kirika Akatsuki]]

[[folder:Serena Cadenzavna Eve]]

* ButNotTooForeign: They're still foreign to the Japanese viewers, but the Cadenzavna Eve sisters are not born in America, but in Europe.
* BroughtDownToNormal: Due to the lack of [=LiNKER=], they are incapable of safely using their Symphogear at the start of AXZ.
* CantCatchUp: Unlike the main trio, Maria, Shirabe, and Kirika need [=LiNKER=] in order to stay synced to their Symphogears. This becomes a pressing concern for them after their HeelFaceTurn as they only have a finite amount of [=LiNKER=] left and thus will prove less effective as combatants in the future whereas Hibiki, Tsubasa, and Chris have no such drawbacks. Shirabe and Kirika are especially distressed by this as they are already limited in the number of things they can do for S.O.N.G. because of their age.
* ClarkKenting: When Kirika and Shirabe infiltrate the school festival to take the protagonists' Symphogears, their only cover is a pair of glasses.
* CombinationAttack: ''Forbidden Wheel of Evil: Zababa Eclipse'', used by IGNITE mode Kirika and Shirabe to defeat Micha in GX Episode 8.
** In GX Episode 13, Shirabe and Kirika also combine their X-Drive gears into what can only be described as a giant buzzsaw Roomba with a set of giant pincers.
* CounterpointDuet: "Edge Works of Goddess ZABABA," a remixed combination of Shirabe and Kirika's battle songs. Appears in episodes 11 and 12 of ''G'' during their duel.
* DarkIsEvil: Downplayed, Maria, Shirabe and Kirika are antagonistic but aren't exactly evil but they do oppose the heroines who wears white symphogears.
* DarkMagicalGirl: Maria, Shirabe and Kirika are anti-villains who think that their actions are for the sake of the others. In GX they're straight-up good guys.
* DecompositeCharacter: Each of the candidates for Finé's next incarnation [[UncannyFamilyResemblance share some of her physical traits]] - Maria having her build and loose hair, Shirabe her hair texture and [[HimeCut cut]], and Kirika her hair colour.
* DifferentAsNightAndDay: They're not related per se, but Kirika and Shirabe's contrasting personalities and character designs evoke this. Their battle themes even sync up with each other!
* TheDividual: Shirabe and Kirika are together for about 95% of their screentime. Their Symphogears originated from the same goddess and their battle songs match perfectly together. ''GX'' takes this further where seem to lose all of their individuality from ''G''.
* EasilyForgiven: In ''GX''... averted. Hibiki and friends might be honestly friendly for them, but the public world hasn't forgiven their involvement in the Frontier incident and treats Shirabe and Kirika getting enrolled in the same school as Hibiki as 'custody' so they can get watched over, and Maria has to play up a propaganda of being a ReverseMole and becoming an idol again to cover that up. And everytime she exits the stage, she gets escorted by FBI agents just so she doesn't do anything funny.

* FightingYourFriend: Shirabe and Kirika in episode 11 and 12.
* GoodCostumeSwitch: During the final battle in ''G'', their Symphogears turns white.
** Shirabe's and Kirika's Symphogears in GX incorporate much more white compared to G to show that they're on the heroes' side now. Meanwhile Maria eventually dons Serena's Airgetlam again, which is completely silver.
* HeelFaceTurn:
** By ''G'' Episode 11, Shirabe becomes the first F.I.S. Symphogear user to agree to help Hibiki if it means saving her friends from Ver's manipulation.
** Kirika, midway through ''G'' Episode 12.
** Maria in episode 13.
* {{Leitmotif}}[=/=]ImageSong: As you can notice, Shirabe and Kirika's battle songs are very similar and could sync up perfectly. "''Edge Works of Goddess ZABABA''" along with ''Just Loving X-Edge'' which are duets which combine their songs from ''G'' and ''GX'' respectively.
* MeaningfulName:
** The name '''Cadenza'''vna; "Cadenza" is a musical term that is generally described as "an elaborate, often improvised solo inserted within an existing piece, typically near the end".
** Kirika's last name "Akatsuki" means "daybreak", whereas Shirabe's last name "Tsukuyomi" is another term for the goddess of the Moon. [[RedOniBlueOni Makes perfect sense given their personalities]].
* RedOniBlueOni: Zig-Zagged with Shirabe and Kirika. They share both personalities.
* RomanticTwoGirlFriendship: Shirabe and Kirika. The implications gives some parallels to Hibiki and Miku's relationship. GX takes this and runs about as close to OfficialCouple as you can get without an on-screen kiss.
* TerribleTrio: Maria is the leader, and Kirika and Shirabe are her younger comrades.
* ThoseTwoBadGuys: While Shirabe and Kirika are part of a trio of antagonistic Symphogear users, they works much more in tandem with each other. Not only do they have a very close relationship, their Relics are from the same Goddess.

!!Custodians

[[folder: Enki]]

* VillainousRescue: [[spoiler:In ''G'', does this to spare Shirabe's soul from being destroyed by Kirika's scythe, though by then she's not exactly a villain.]]

Monsters that do not exist on the same dimension as humanity, rendering normal weapons useless against them. Only the Symphogears possess the ability to defeat them. Solomon's Cane can summon and control them. It is later revealed they were created by [[HumansAreBastards humans]] of long ago. [[spoiler: The climax of G has the heroes finally seal away the dimension where they come from. Even if they survived the explosion of Nephilim there is most likely no way to open the Treasury of Babylon again without Solomon's Cane.]]

* {{Mooks}}: Replacing the Noise as the primary cannon fodder of the series [[spoiler:after the Treasury of Babylonia is destroyed at the end of G]].

* BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler: Seemingly commits suicide at the end of Episode 6 before being revived at the end of Episode 8 by transferring her consciousness into a backup body.]][[spoiler: After a long period of being presumed gone, XV has Carol finally reawaken inside Elfnein's body to protect her from Noble Red.]]

* BigBadDuumvirate: [[spoiler:Averted. Dr. Ver shows up to assist Carol midway through GX, but when he mocks her goals and motives, she dissolves their partnership and attacks with the intent to kill. She indicates afterwards that [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness she would have gotten around to disposing of Ver in any case]]; Ver's impertinence just drove Carol to get it done with sooner rather than later.]]

* BodyBackupDrive: [[spoiler:She keeps on living by transferring all her memories to a new cloned body everytime the active body is destroyed. However, [[MySkullRunnethOver the strain of receiving so many memories at once]] (including the pain experienced upon dying) is starting to eat away at her.]]

* TheChessmaster: Carol manages to play S.O.N.G exactly how she wants them throughout the majority of the season [[spoiler:by destroying the Symphogear users relics and then having them upgraded by Elfnein to use the Ignite mode so that their "cursed melodies" can power the Château de Tiffauges.]]

* DeliberateInjuryGambit: It's revealed in episode 10 that [[spoiler:the beating she received by Hibiki's hands with the Ignite mode at the end of episode 6 was intentional so that her body could record the "cursed melody" of her Ignite mode. This allowed the Auto-Scorers the chance to [[SuicideByCop die by the rest of the Ignite Mode enhanced Symphogear users hands]] so that the Château de Tiffauges could be completed.]]

* DiscOneFinalBoss: Subverted. [[spoiler:Carol kills herself after losing to the IGNITED Symphogears in episode 6 of ''GX'', only to reappear in a new cloned body at the end of episode 8.]]

* EvilCounterpart: While Fine was already this to the Symphogears in the first season, she fits the bill even more, having an actual TransformationSequence and [[spoiler: actually can use a climax song. One that has the power of '''7 Billion of them''', i.e. If the entire population of the planet could use one.]]

* FusionDance: [[spoiler:At the end of GX the mostly amnesic Carol merges her body and consciousness with Elfnein in order to save both their lives and so that the two can have another chance to complete their father's work.]]

* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:The mostly amnesiac Carol gives the last of her memories to Elfnein at the end of Episode 13 so that she could carry on their father's wish.]][[spoiler: She does it again in the final episode of XV, when she chooses to burn away her entire essence instead of both hers and Elfnein's memories, saying that she couldn't bear the thought of Elfnein forgetting her.]]
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: In episode 12, [[spoiler:when her insanely powerful swan song gets siphoned by Hibiki and Maria to power the Symphogears' [[EleventhHourSuperpower X-drive modes]].]]
* HumongousMecha: [[spoiler: By wrapping her self in the strings of Daurdabla, she makes a Mecha Lion that she pilots, with a near impenetrable hide, even to the usual [[EleventhHourSuperpower X-drive]] attacks.]]
* ImageSong: ''Senkin ・ Daurdabla''[[note]]Massacre Harp ・ Daurdabla[[/note]], which she sings to [[spoiler:activate the World Destructor]] in Episode 11. She also has ''tomorrow'', which is dedicated to her father.

* MyDeathIsJustTheBeginning: She immolates herself after being beaten by Tsubasa, Chris, and Hibiki, just so she can't be persuaded to stop it, or even questioned regarding the details. Furthermore, she cannibalized her own memories during the attack so even if Hibiki had somehow managed to save her, she couldn't reveal any pertinent information anyway. For a few episodes, it appears that her plans are being continued posthumously and independently by her remaining Autoscorers [[spoiler:before it's revealed that her suicide allowed her to be reborn into a clone body with a complete set of memories, and with it, a new store of "firepower" for her alchemy to combust.]]

* OneWingedAngel: [[spoiler: While keeping the Symphogears busy with all her remaining Alcanoise, which if not stopped, can destroy the world, she gathers more phonic gain, and wraps the strings of Daurdabla around her body, and creates a Green Mech lion that she pilots. Its hide is so strong that not even the attacks from the new and improved X-drive forms can pierce it, so everyone gives Hibiki the power of their gears, to concentrate all their power into a single fist to do the job and destroy it.]]

* OvernightAgeUp: [[spoiler:By consuming the memories she's amassed over the centuries, she takes on an adult appearance.]]

* PlayingWithFire: [[spoiler: Her Mech lion form breaths fire.]]
* PowerAtAPrice: Carol's alchemy comes from burning her own memories in order to convert the energy into her power. Due to being hundreds of years old, she has a lot of memories to burn, but she runs the risk of losing every single precious memory she has left if she keeps using high level alchemy. [[spoiler:By the season finale Carol is left almost completely amnesic after burning herself dry in the FinalBattle with only a few scattered memories left.]]

* RevengeBeforeReason: The driving force behind her actions is to exact revenge on the world for killing her father. In Episode 12, she reveals that [[spoiler:she knew all along that her father wouldn't have wanted her to destroy the world, but continues to do so anyway.]] Note that the people she wants revenge against, the [[UngratefulBastard Ungrateful Bastards]] that killed her father have been dead for centuries. [[StrawmanHasAPoint She's also unwittingly proving them right.]]

* RedemptionEqualsLife: [[spoiler: A variant. Carol actually survives the final battle but it comes at the cost of her memories. After reconciling with the dying Elfnein, Carol and Elfnein merge into a single being so both can live at the same time.]]
* SecretlyDying: Episode 9 reveals that [[spoiler:her new body is rejecting the strain of receiving all of her remaining memories at once, as well as the shock of her killing her own previous body.]]

* VillainousBreakdown: [[spoiler:When the Chateau de Tiffauges is destroyed, similar to Fine's when Tsubasa destroyed the Kadingr.]]
* VillainousRROD: At the end of Episode 13, [[spoiler:she's lost almost all of her memories and her body is breaking down.]]

* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: [[spoiler: Carol does this to Dr. Ver, first by stabbing him then sending him falling to his apparent death.]]

* DragonTheirFeet: Subverted. In ''GX'' E6, [[spoiler:Carol seemingly commits suicide after being defeated]], yet the Autoscorers still carry on their objectives. At least until the end of ''GX'' E8, [[spoiler:where Carol gains a new body]].

* SuicideByCop: Phara reveals in ''GX'' E10 that their final purpose is to [[spoiler:record the Ignite Module-enhanced Symphogear songs so that Carol may proceed to the final phase of her EvilPlan, using the "cursed melodies" to destroy the world]].

* UndyingLoyalty: While they might snark at her the Autoscorers are ultimately completely loyal to their master Carol enough that [[spoiler:they still carry out her plan even during her supposed death and later willingly die for her plan to complete.]] And as shown in ''XV'' [[spoiler:their loyalty extends even through death as they return through some discarded doll bodies to protect Elfnein from Noble Red and help her reach Miku just because she resembles their master enough.]]

* WhyDontYouJustShootHim: It's unclear why they don't murder the gear users and simply just depower them[[note]]Though in episode 7, it's hinted that Carol was the one who prevented them from doing so[[/note]]. Then at the end of episode 5, Micha and the Alca-Noise gang up on a defeated Shirabe ''with'' the intent of killing her. This is brought up by the main characters in episode 7, where even ''they're'' surprised they weren't killed by them. [[spoiler:As it turns out though [[SuicideByCop there is a good reason why the Symphogear users were left alive.]]]]

* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: Gets sliced in half by Tsubasa's Rasetsu Stance Zero ''GX'' E9. While she passes out for a bit, she reanimates herself to tell Tsubasa and Maria [[SuicideByCop the truth behind the Autoscorers' machinations]], [[spoiler:and promptly blows herself up since her purpose is done]].

* ThisCannotBe: For someone who takes pride in her "Sword Breaker", Phara is absolutely incredulous when [[spoiler:Tsubasa breaks one of her blades and can't grasp how she did that even though Tsubasa's weapons are indeed "swords"]].

* WeaponOfXSlaying: ...Her sword is a "philosophical weapon" imbued with a special kind of magic akin to a {{geas}} that destroys the concept of "Sword". This obviously applies to any blade created by Tsubasa's Ame no Habakiri, but also extends to Maria's Airgetlam. [[spoiler:Tsubasa counters this by changing the philosophy behind her Symphogear, claiming that her weapons are not swords, but wings that will help her pursue her dreams.]]

* BloodKnight: Is excited that [[spoiler: Maria is attempting to fight her with the Black Gungnir during episode 4]] and is very disappointed that [[spoiler: Maria couldn't keep up the transformation for long]].

* FamousLastWords: [[spoiler: "I'm going to be the first!"]]

* LaserGuidedKarma: [[spoiler:She constantly belittles Maria as a useless girl, considering her constant failures against her. She certainly didn't expect Maria to quickly overcome her weakness... then outright ''kill'' her.]]
** And then in Episode 10 Carol reveals that [[spoiler:she had planned that all along.]]

* GoOutWithASmile: [[spoiler:Much like Garie's death, Micha is surprised to see Shirabe and Kirika's teamwork overwhelming her, but nonetheless lets out a gleeful expression before getting gutted by their CombinationAttack.]]

** Aside from giving her an extra power boost, it also comes with drawbacks--Micha's super mode [[spoiler:threatens her life, but so did Garie's death, since she relies on Garie to give her the memories needed to function properly. With her source of energy gone, Micha was living on borrowed time and decided to go out with a bang.]]

* CombinationAttack: ''Forbidden Wheel of Evil: Zababa Eclipse'', used by IGNITE mode Kirika and Shirabe to [[spoiler:defeat Micha]] in GX Episode 8.

* CounterpointDuet: "Edge Works of Goddess ZABABA," a remixed combination of Shirabe and Kirika's battle songs. Appears in episodes 11 and 12 of ''G'' [[spoiler:during their duel]].

* FightingYourFriend: [[spoiler:Shirabe and Kirika in episode 11 and 12.]]
* GoodCostumeSwitch: During the final battle in ''G'', [[spoiler:their Symphogears turns white]].

** [[spoiler:Kirika, midway through ''G'' Episode 12.]]
** [[spoiler:Maria in episode 13]].

* BloodFromTheMouth [=/=] IncurableCoughOfDeath: Often coughs out blood as a sign that her past injuries will eventually overtake her. [[spoiler:It ultimately kills her at the end of the series.]]
* EvenEvilHasStandards: She was on the receiving end of this by Maria in ''G'' Episode 1, but even she had to express displeasure when Dr. Ver [[spoiler:turned Miku into a Symphogear user]].
* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: Maria constantly refers to her as "Ma'am". Also a case of SpellMyNameWithAnS: The way it's pronounced (''maamu?''), it's not really clear if it's meant to be "Mom" (''mama''), or "Ma'am". [[spoiler:Episode 13 shows she was saying the latter but meant the former.]]

* WellIntentionedExtremist: Is trying to save the world from the [[spoiler:Moon's collapse, which, unknown to her, was actually precipitated by Dr. Ver]].

* AlasPoorVillain: [[spoiler:Maria seems genuinely saddened by his death in Episode 12 of ''GX'', though she has no illusions about his total lack of remorse even at the end of his life and continues to regard him posthumously as "the worst of the worst."]]

* BigBadWannabe: [[spoiler:Thinks that he'll use the Chateau de Tiffauges for some grandiose purpose after Carol takes him with her, hot off the heels of his jailbreak. However, she's only interested in the abilities of his Nephilim arm and [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness plans to kill him when he's outlived his usefulness.]] This gets hastened when Ver makes the fatal mistake of trivializing Carol's motives, and she mortally injures him in retaliation and drops him from her plans.]]
* BigDamnHeroes: Villain variant in ''GX'', seeing he comes out of nowhere to [[spoiler:intercept Chris' finishing blow on a weakened Carol before giving in to his inner ham]].

* CruelMercy: [[spoiler:Dealt this by Genjuro, who refuses to allow him to die and be seen as a "hero", instead making sure he'd come back in one piece to face the consequences of his evil deeds.]]
* DeathSeeker: [[spoiler:Once his plans go south, he was wishing anything would kill him so he could be written as having performed a "HeroicSacrifice". A boulder heading towards the jeep where he, Genjuro and Shinji were in would've done the job. Unfortunately for him, Genjuro punches it out, [[CruelMercy making sure he would live to see all his plans unravel and face judgment just like anyone else]]. Ver [[VillainousBreakdown loses it]].]]

* DisneyVillainDeath: [[spoiler:Carol first [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice impales him with extreme prejudice]] then sends him falling down the Château de Tiffauges, with him still yelling like a maniac.]]

* EvilIsHammy: The guy is a cackling cauldron of ham. Somehow, he gets more insane and hammy with each episode. His late re-introduction in ''GX'' has him striking a ridiculous pose after [[spoiler:saving Carol]] and go on to rant constantly about how a true hero should do this and that ([[ItsAllAboutMe oh, and he's the only hero]]).

** Not only that his [[spoiler: HeroicSacrifice itself are ironic as [[Series/KamenRiderRyuki Satoru Toujou/Tiger]] was. ]]

* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:In Episode 12 of GX; after all, how can he be a hero if there's no world to celebrate him? Though he's still a selfish dick, only doing a Face turn because it benefits him, and lets him give a "fuck you" to the one who fatally wounded him, and his thoughts before death are still about how he's still gonna be remembered as a hero, and hoping that at least someone (Maria) would pass the word.]]
* HeroicSacrifice: His mindset is that if he dies, his death will go down in history as this, being the "hero." However, Genjuro denied that. Ironically, in ''GX''... [[spoiler:this happened for real, as he continued to work on reversing Chateau de Tiffauges and Carol's works, and this ends up costing him his life, but he still had enough time to bail out the FIS children, though only so at least someone would pass the word of his heroic sacrifice.]]

* ItsAllAboutMe: When he said "saving humanity", he meant only ''himself''. Everybody else can go die in a hole for all he cares. [[spoiler:Also that's why he instead quickened the moon drop instead of preventing it. In the finale, he even claims a world where he's not considered "hero" on his own terms is not worth existing.]]

* NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist: As a member of F.I.S., he spends much of ''G'' paying lip-service to the notion of saving the world from the descending moon, [[spoiler:only to reveal in the climax that he was using F.I.S. to find Frontier so he could accelerate the cataclysm.]]

* RedemptionEqualsDeath: [[spoiler:[[KilledOffForReal Dies for real]] in Episode 12 after sacrificing himself to destroy the Chateau de Tiffauges.]]

* SpannerInTheWorks: Ends up serving this role to both the protagonists and antagonists of ''GX''. [[spoiler:When he initially appears he blocks one of Chris' blasts meant for Carol, in turn saving her life. He then helps Carol activate the Château de Tiffauges in place of the relic she lost in her fight with the Symphogear users. However, after Carol [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness stabs him in the back]] he teams up with Maria and her group to reverse the Château de Tiffauges dissection of the world.]]

* TakeOverTheWorld: [[spoiler:His endgame, the grandest aspiration for any "hero" to Dr. Ver. However, the "heroes" of human history were incapable of establishing the one-world state through their conquests because the human population was too great in numbers to be ruled by one man. Ver's solution is to cut the human population down to a manageable size to make world domination possible.]]

* TookALevelInBadass: In ''GX'', he's a far cry from the cowardly bastard seen in ''G'' given he [[spoiler:stops and absorbs one of Chris' missiles with his mutated left arm]] and even has time to taunt the Symphogears.
* {{Ubermensch}}: This seems to be how Dr. Ver defines a "hero." [[spoiler:He believes he will become one by destroying civilization and rebuilding it in his image. The notions of humanitarianism or moral constraints never enter his mind. And in ''GX'', Ver is on an incoherent rant about using the Chateau de Tiffauges to transcend good and evil when Carol decides she's had enough of his pseudo-Nietzschean gibbering and disposes of him.]]

** [[spoiler:After Hibiki [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown goes nuts]] [[CurbStompBattle on his Nephilim]], and at the end, when he completely went unhinged as he was being led away in chains after seeing all his plans crash and burn and being denied the "HeroicSacrifice" he always wanted, with nothing to look forward to but the prospects of a lifetime behind bars.]]
* VillainsDyingGrace: [[spoiler:Rather surprisingly Dr Ver actually does go out with some grace after being crushed by pieces of the Château de Tiffauges. Not only does he reverse the effects the Château is having on the planet he also gives Maria all of the data he has on [=LiNKER=] so that S.O.N.G. can create more for the former F.I.S. girls.]]

* AttackOfThe50FootWhatever: [[spoiler:Becomes a city sized monster after its heart fuses with the Frontier completely.]]

* OneWingedAngel: Multiple times. First, it gains a dark skin pigment and red veins after [[spoiler:eating Hibiki's arm]]. Later, in episode 13, [[spoiler:after its heart is fused with the Frontier, Ver manages to make it come back using the ground in a much bigger form that shoots massive fireballs. Then, after Ver transfers all of Frontier's power to the heart, it fuses with the Frontier itself, becoming a city sized abomination.]]

* PlayingWithFire: [[spoiler:Its revived form in episode 13.]]
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Attempts to do this when [[spoiler:Hibiki regenerates her arm and goes berserk. It fails, and the Nephilim is obliterated rather crudely, although Ver manages to retrieve its heart.]]
* SealedEvilInACan: Was initially a disembodied heart, needing energy from consuming relics to generate the rest of its body and grow stronger. [[spoiler:By the end, it becomes too powerful to defeat, so the heroes seal it away in the Noise dimension. [[SubvertedTrope And then they end up destroying it anyway.]]]]

** Saint-Germain reciprocates the feeling, rushing to protect them from Kirika and Shirabe's CombinationAttack and [[spoiler:visibly conflicted when Adam gives her the ultimatum of choosing which one to sacrifice for their life energy]].

* GoOutWithASmile: [[spoiler: Knowing that they were finally able to use their alchemy in a way that benefited humanity, Saint-Germain, Cagliostro, and Prelati die with content smiles on their faces.]]

* WellIntentionedExtremist: It's revealed in episode 6 and 7 that, much like their rival Finé, the Illuminati (or at the very least Saint-Germain) intend to free humanity from the Curse of Balal [[spoiler:by making use of the Lunar Ruins]]. However the way they intend to do this is by [[AMillionIsAStatistic killing as many humans as possible in order to create divine power]].

* ArtificialHuman: Episode 11 reveals that [[spoiler:he is the prototype of humanity, created by the Custodians, who discarded him for "being too perfect."]]
* AxCrazy: The moment he shows up, [[spoiler:he creates a nuclear explosion]] without apparently caring the other alchemists are in the blast zone.
* BeenThereShapedHistory: According to a [[AllThereInTheManual keyword]], he contributed to ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dogme_et_Rituel_de_la_Haute_Magie Dogme et Rituel de la Haute Magie]]'' [[spoiler:when the writer caught a glimpse of his true form and used it as the model for [[DemonLordsAndArchdevils Baphomet]]]].
* BerserkButton: The usually unflappable Adam gets enraged [[spoiler:when someone calls him a puppet.]]

* DiedLaughing: [[spoiler:Just as Hibiki blows a hole through his torso, he muses that humanity doesn't have the power to face the [[GreaterScopeVillain Custodians]], and gives one final EvilLaugh before exploding.]]
* DidntSeeThatComing: Adam's plans comes to a screeching halt [[spoiler:when Episode 11 reveals that Hibiki is a much better vessel for the divine power than Adam is]]. He doesn't take this too well.
* FullFrontalAssault: The moment he transfuses matter to [[spoiler:create a nuclear explosion]] his clothes disintegrate.

* LackOfEmpathy: [[spoiler:He proposes sacrificing Prelati or Cagliostro to gain enough life energy to reach the lunar ruins without a care in the world.]] Saint-Germain even wonders if he has any humanity left. In episode 11 Adam admits to Saint-Germain that he doesn't [[spoiler:since he was never human to begin with.]]
* LaserGuidedKarma: [[spoiler:After Tiki is destroyed in episode 11 she desperately tries to get Adam to hug her. Instead Adam kicks her to the curb in an attempt to try and absorb the divine power. In episode 12 Adam successfully uses his torn off arm as a vessel to hold the divine power but Tiki arrives and holds him to the ground so she can get her hug. This prevents Adam from being able to defend his arm from Hibiki, who manages to destroy both it and the divine power he collected.]]
* LightningBruiser: [[spoiler:His final form is a huge humanoid monster, that moves incredibly fast and hits far harder than in his human form]].

* MeaningfulName: Though "Adam" doesn't seem this way at first [[spoiler: with the reveal he was one of the candidates to ''be'' Adam -- that is "the first man" -- it definitely takes on an important meaning.]]

* NotEvenHuman: [[spoiler:Turns out to be a non-human creature and is subsequently offed in the final battle.]]
* NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist: [[spoiler:Admits to Saint-Germain in episode 10 he actually didn't care if the power of the Lunar Ruins could be used to save humanity, he simply wanted to use its power for himself.]]
* PersonOfMassDestruction: The first thing he does when he finally appears in Episode 4 is to [[spoiler: quite literally nuke the area in order to kill the Symphogear users]].
* OneWingedAngel: [[spoiler:Abandons his human form in the last episode of AXZ to destroy the symphogears, turning into a humanoid monstrosity with horns and ExtraEyes]].
* PsychoPrototype: [[spoiler:To ''humanity''. He was one of the candidates to be the "Adam" of planet Earth, but was passed over in favour of humans because he was [[SuperPrototype "too perfect"]] and therefore [[CreativeSterility incapable of growth and creativity]].]]
* RevealingCoverup: While [[spoiler:the nuclear explosion he makes]] in episode 4 seems like an excessive amount of overkill its revealed in episode 10 that [[spoiler:he intentionally used a blast that big to blow up the research center to prevent the Symphogear users from figuring out how to commit deicide and disrupt his plans.]]
* RoboticReveal: [[spoiler:In episode 11 Adam has his arm slashed by Saint-Germain revealing that it is mechanical and that Adam isn't actually human.]]
* SatanicArchetype: [[spoiler:A primordial "perfect being" who is jealous of humans and wants to surpass the gods who created him, [[DealWithTheDevil never keeps his promises]], and whose true form served as the inspiration for [[DemonLordsAndArchdevils Baphomet]].]]

* VillainousBreakdown: He begins losing it in AXZ Episode 11 when Hibiki [[spoiler:is revealed to be a better vessel for the divine power that he's attempting to collect]]. He completely loses it in the final two episodes of the season [[spoiler:when Tiki prevents him from protecting his arm that was collecting the divine power, leaving him to futilely curse Hibiki's god killing power, and he's reduced to a raving lunatic during the final battle when Hibiki ''just won't die'']].

* ContrastingSequelAntagonist: Serves this role to Carol in ''AXZ''. Both of them grew up thousands of years ago and suffered from the worlds cruelty [[spoiler:even losing a parent in the process which helped shape their worldviews]] before becoming powerful Alchemists. However their goals, powers and motivations couldn't be more different. Whereas Carol gained a deep seated hatred for the world and wanted to complete her plan [[spoiler:in order to destroy the earth in revenge for her fathers death]] Saint-Germain [[TurnTheOtherCheek never blamed humans themselves]] but rather the Curse of Balal and dedicated her life to dispelling it [[WellIntentionedExtremist at any cost]]. Their power sets also contrast; whereas Carol ([[OneWingedAngel most of the time]]) had the appearance of a little girl, kept herself alive by transferring her consciousness into clone bodies, and had to burn her own memories to use her powers, Saint-Germain had the appearance of an adult woman and created a "perfect" body that gave her immortality and allowed her to perform alchemy with no risks. Even their final fates are different; [[spoiler:Carol could never let go of her hatred for the world, constantly rejected Hibiki's help, and died burning out all of her memories whereas Saint-Germain was able to let go of her plan, teamed up with Hibiki to fight Adam, and died saving the world.]]
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Her character bio reveals that [[spoiler:not only was Saint-Germain born a slave who was continuously mistreated by her owners, she occasionally was also "called into bed" and molested by one of them, who taught her how to read for his amusement.]]
* EnemyMine: [[spoiler:At the end of episode 10, she chooses to fight alongside Hibiki to defeat Adam. In episode 12, she assists S.O.N.G. in their efforts to save Hibiki.]]

* FreudianExcuse: [[spoiler:Her flashback shows she was the daughter of a slave, with her father not even recognizing her and her mother starved to death.]]

* OneSceneWonder: [[spoiler: In XV episode 4 she manifested alongside Hibiki's Amalgam and sang a duet with her in the fight against Noble Red... only to nevet appear again until her cameo in the finale alongside the other dead.]]
* ParentalAbandonment: [[spoiler:Her mother died of illness and/or starvation and her "father" never considered her his daughter.]]

* RedemptionEqualsDeath: [[spoiler:When a nuke is fired at Tokyo in order to destroy the divine power, Saint-Germain, alongside Cagliostro and Prelati, sacrificed herself to protect humanity.]]

* WhenSheSmiles: She shows off her first genuine smile in Episode 12. [[spoiler: It also happens to be her last.]]

* FakingTheDead: [[spoiler:Knowing that Adam means to kill the alchemists in the long-run, Cagliostro picks a fight with Maria and Chris and causes a midair collision with them that produces a pyrotechnic explosion. She uses the explosion to fake her own death and fakes Prelati's death in a later battle so they could work on creating the lapis philosophorum.]]

* ObfuscatingStupidity: Despite being looking like the ditziest member of the bunch, she is proven to have a very sharp sense of intuition [[spoiler: by being the first to correctly guess that Adam was going to backstab them and pulled off a very convincing FakingTheDead act to boot]].

* RedemptionEqualsDeath: [[spoiler:She and Prelati arrive to help Saint-Germain destroy the nuke that was about to hit the divine weapon and the three use their combined power to seal the blast at the cost of their own lives.]]

* NotQuiteDead: [[spoiler:Her battle with Tsubasa and Shirabe on the freeway ends with a fiery explosion that seemingly incinerates her. However, Cagliostro saved her so they could begin working on the creation of the lapis philosophorum.]]

* OhCrap: She seriously didn't expect [[BeyondTheImpossible Hibiki]] to just punch the [[spoiler:Yohualtepoztli]] out of existence.

* RedemptionEqualsDeath: [[spoiler:She and Cagliostro arrive to help Saint-Germain destroy the nuke that was about to hit the divine weapon and the three use their combined power to seal the blast at the cost of their own lives.]]

* TheDragon: Serves as Adam's true, most loyal minion, and [[spoiler:as the vessel necessary for Adam to access the divine power.]]

* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: [[spoiler:Tiki is torn in half by Hibiki at the end of episode 11.]]

* OneWingedAngel: In episode 11 [[spoiler:after absorbing the divine power into herself she becomes a giant EldritchAbomination able to level a city in seconds.]]

* ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend: Well, not actually Adam's girlfriend but [[spoiler: after Hibiki and Saint-Germain manage to hurt Adam she activates the divine power and sets to trying to kill them.]]
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: [[spoiler:Once the battle against Hibiki starts going south Adam has Tiki discard her body from the divine power so it won't be destroyed and allows Hibiki to destroy her instead. Afterwards Adam kicks Tiki to the curb in order to reclaim the divine power for himself.]]

[[spoiler:Fudou Kazanari]] who can be found in [[the [[Characters/SenkiZesshouSymphogearSongAndAffiliates S.O.N.G and Affiliates]] page]]

[[spoiler:See [[Characters/SenkiZesshouSymphogearSongAndAffiliates S.O.N.G and Affiliates]] page]]

[[folder:Noble Red's Benefactor]]]]

[[folder:[[spoiler:Fudou Kazanari]]]]

* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Is based off of Count Alessandro di Cagliostro [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alessandro_Cagliostro]].

* DropTheHammer: Her Faustian Robe seems to take the form of a massive hammer. To be more specific, a kendama [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kendama]].

* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Is based off of Francois Prelati [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_Prelati]].

[[caption-width-right:240:Shem-Ha possessing Miku ([[FanNickname Miku Shem-ha]]

A mysterious group of monsters that do not exist on the same dimension as humanity, rendering normal weapons useless against them. Only the Symphogears possess the ability to defeat them. Solomon's Cane can summon and control them. It is later revealed they were created by [[HumansAreBastards humans]] of long ago. [[spoiler: The climax of G has the heroes finally seal away the dimension where they come from. Even if they survived the explosion of Nephilim there is most likely no way to open the Treasury of Babylon again without Solomon's Cane.]]

!!F.I.S.

[[folder:In General]]
* BadassNormal: Sure the F.I.S had Symphogears and a crapton of heretical superweapons. But compared to all of the other villains before and since; the F.I.S were basically five mere mortals who tried to take on the world and make the gods bleed and nearly succeeded.
* ButNotTooForeign: They're still foreign to the Japanese viewers, but the Cadenzavna Eve sisters are not born in America, but in Europe.
* BroughtDownToNormal: Due to the lack of [=LiNKER=], they are incapable of safely using their Symphogear at the start of AXZ.
* CantCatchUp: Unlike the main trio, Maria, Shirabe, and Kirika need [=LiNKER=] in order to stay synced to their Symphogears. This becomes a pressing concern for them after their HeelFaceTurn as they only have a finite amount of [=LiNKER=] left and thus will prove less effective as combatants in the future whereas Hibiki, Tsubasa, and Chris have no such drawbacks. Shirabe and Kirika are especially distressed by this as they are already limited in the number of things they can do for S.O.N.G. because of their age.
* ClarkKenting: When Kirika and Shirabe infiltrate the school festival to take the protagonists' Symphogears, their only cover is a pair of glasses.
* CombinationAttack: ''Forbidden Wheel of Evil: Zababa Eclipse'', used by IGNITE mode Kirika and Shirabe to [[spoiler:defeat Micha]] in GX Episode 8.
** In GX Episode 13, Shirabe and Kirika also combine their X-Drive gears into what can only be described as a giant buzzsaw Roomba with a set of giant pincers.
* CounterpointDuet: "Edge Works of Goddess ZABABA," a remixed combination of Shirabe and Kirika's battle songs. Appears in episodes 11 and 12 of ''G'' [[spoiler:during their duel]].
* DarkIsEvil: Downplayed, Maria, Shirabe and Kirika are antagonistic but aren't exactly evil but they do oppose the heroines who wears white symphogears.
* DarkMagicalGirl: Maria, Shirabe and Kirika are anti-villains who think that their actions are for the sake of the others. In GX they're straight-up good guys.
* DecompositeCharacter: Each of the candidates for Finé's next incarnation [[UncannyFamilyResemblance share some of her physical traits]] - Maria having her build and loose hair, Shirabe her hair texture and [[HimeCut cut]], and Kirika her hair colour.
* DifferentAsNightAndDay: They're not related per se, but Kirika and Shirabe's contrasting personalities and character designs evoke this. Their battle themes even sync up with each other!
* TheDividual: Shirabe and Kirika are together for about 95% of their screentime. Their Symphogears originated from the same goddess and their battle songs match perfectly together. ''GX'' takes this further where seem to lose all of their individuality from ''G''.
* EasilyForgiven: In ''GX''... averted. Hibiki and friends might be honestly friendly for them, but the public world hasn't forgiven their involvement in the Frontier incident and treats Shirabe and Kirika getting enrolled in the same school as Hibiki as 'custody' so they can get watched over, and Maria has to play up a propaganda of being a ReverseMole and becoming an idol again to cover that up. And everytime she exits the stage, she gets escorted by FBI agents just so she doesn't do anything funny.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: A major reason why the F.I.S essentially implodes at the end of G. By the final episodes the remaining members are fighting each other as much as the 2nd division.
* FightingYourFriend: [[spoiler:Shirabe and Kirika in episode 11 and 12.]]
* GoodCostumeSwitch: During the final battle in ''G'', [[spoiler:their Symphogears turns white]].
** Shirabe's and Kirika's Symphogears in GX incorporate much more white compared to G to show that they're on the heroes' side now. Meanwhile Maria eventually dons Serena's Airgetlam again, which is completely silver.
* HeelFaceTurn:
** By ''G'' Episode 11, Shirabe becomes the first F.I.S. Symphogear user to agree to help Hibiki if it means saving her friends from Ver's manipulation.
** [[spoiler:Kirika, midway through ''G'' Episode 12.]]
** [[spoiler:Maria in episode 13]].
* {{Leitmotif}}[=/=]ImageSong: As you can notice, Shirabe and Kirika's battle songs are very similar and could sync up perfectly. "''Edge Works of Goddess ZABABA''" along with ''Just Loving X-Edge'' which are duets which combine their songs from ''G'' and ''GX'' respectively.
* MeaningfulName:
** The name '''Cadenza'''vna; "Cadenza" is a musical term that is generally described as "an elaborate, often improvised solo inserted within an existing piece, typically near the end".
** Kirika's last name "Akatsuki" means "daybreak", whereas Shirabe's last name "Tsukuyomi" is another term for the goddess of the Moon. [[RedOniBlueOni Makes perfect sense given their personalities]].
* RedOniBlueOni: Zig-Zagged with Shirabe and Kirika. They share both personalities.
* RomanticTwoGirlFriendship: Shirabe and Kirika. The implications gives some parallels to Hibiki and Miku's relationship. GX takes this and runs about as close to OfficialCouple as you can get without an on-screen kiss.
* TerribleTrio: Maria is the leader, and Kirika and Shirabe are her younger comrades.
* ThoseTwoBadGuys: While Shirabe and Kirika are part of a trio of antagonistic Symphogear users, they works much more in tandem with each other. Not only do they have a very close relationship, their Relics are from the same Goddess.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Maria Cadenzavna Eve]]
See [[Characters/SenkiZesshouSymphogearSymphogearWielders Symphogear Wielders]] page
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Shirabe Tsukuyomi]]
See [[Characters/SenkiZesshouSymphogearSymphogearWielders Symphogear Wielders]] page
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Kirika Akatsuki]]
See [[Characters/SenkiZesshouSymphogearSymphogearWielders Symphogear Wielders]] page
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Serena Cadenzavna Eve]]
See [[Characters/SenkiZesshouSymphogearSymphogearWielders Symphogear Wielders]] page
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Professor Nastassja Sergeyevna Tolstaya]]
[[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/nastassja_659.jpg]]
->Voiced by: Creator/KikukoInoue

An elderly woman who is the boss and caretaker of Maria, Kirika, and Shirabe. Her goals are unknown.

* AbusiveParents: Maria's flashbacks show that she hit her during trainings to remind her of their objective.
** On the other hand, she truly regretted doing that and only did it to prevent them from surrendering.
* BloodFromTheMouth [=/=] IncurableCoughOfDeath: Often coughs out blood as a sign that her past injuries will eventually overtake her. [[spoiler:It ultimately kills her at the end of the series.]]
* EvenEvilHasStandards: She was on the receiving end of this by Maria in ''G'' Episode 1, but even she had to express displeasure when Dr. Ver [[spoiler:turned Miku into a Symphogear user]].
* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: Maria constantly refers to her as "Ma'am". Also a case of SpellMyNameWithAnS: The way it's pronounced (''maamu?''), it's not really clear if it's meant to be "Mom" (''mama''), or "Ma'am". [[spoiler:Episode 13 shows she was saying the latter but meant the former.]]
%%* EvilCripple [=/=] EvilOldFolks
* EyepatchOfPower: She lost her eye, as well as the use of her legs, during an experiment with the Nephilim which turned awry and cost the life of Maria's sister, Serena.
* ParentalSubstitute: Her demeanor is strict and occasionally harsh, but she's still the closest thing the FIS girls have to a guardian. She expresses a disdain over having to stain their hands with blood and sees them as good girls.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: Is trying to save the world from the [[spoiler:Moon's collapse, which, unknown to her, was actually precipitated by Dr. Ver]].
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: She has dark blue hair.

!XDU
* LastRequest: AU!Maria asked her to take care of Serena before she died in this universe.
* TookALevelInKindness: In Serena-verse, she is shown to be much nicer and more protective of Serena like a typical mother taking care of her child.

[[folder:Dr. John Wayne "Dr. Ver" Vercingetorix]]
[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/dr__ver_292.jpg]]
->Voiced by: Creator/TomokazuSugita

A mysterious researcher from America who transferred to the Second Division in order to study the Sakurai Theory. However, he reveals his true colours when he steals Solomon's Cane and defects to Finé, becoming one of the main antagonists of the season.

* AlasPoorVillain: [[spoiler:Maria seems genuinely saddened by his death in Episode 12 of ''GX'', though she has no illusions about his total lack of remorse even at the end of his life and continues to regard him posthumously as "the worst of the worst."]]
* AndNowYouMustMarryMe: After revealing that saving "mankind" was just saving himself, Ver tells Maria they should talk later about repopulating the human race.
* AwesomeMcCoolname: His full name is John Wayne Vercingetorix.
* AxCrazy: Sadistic, insane, and delights in murdering his enemies or really just anyone that gets in his way.
* BigBad: ''G''[='=]s true antagonist, overshadowing F.I.S. and using them to his advantage.
* BigBadWannabe: [[spoiler:Thinks that he'll use the Chateau de Tiffauges for some grandiose purpose after Carol takes him with her, hot off the heels of his jailbreak. However, she's only interested in the abilities of his Nephilim arm and [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness plans to kill him when he's outlived his usefulness.]] This gets hastened when Ver makes the fatal mistake of trivializing Carol's motives, and she mortally injures him in retaliation and drops him from her plans.]]
* BigDamnHeroes: Villain variant in ''GX'', seeing he comes out of nowhere to [[spoiler:intercept Chris' finishing blow on a weakened Carol before giving in to his inner ham]].
* BitchInSheepsClothing: When he's first introduced in ''G'', he's actually ''very'' sane and down to earth. It didn't take long in that season to reveal how much of a selfish, evil nutjob he is.
* ChewingTheScenery: When his LargeHam is at his peak, expect this to be in full effect.
* CruelMercy: [[spoiler:Dealt this by Genjuro, who refuses to allow him to die and be seen as a "hero", instead making sure he'd come back in one piece to face the consequences of his evil deeds.]]
* DeathSeeker: [[spoiler:Once his plans go south, he was wishing anything would kill him so he could be written as having performed a "HeroicSacrifice". A boulder heading towards the jeep where he, Genjuro and Shinji were in would've done the job. Unfortunately for him, Genjuro punches it out, [[CruelMercy making sure he would live to see all his plans unravel and face judgment just like anyone else]]. Ver [[VillainousBreakdown loses it]].]]
* DespotismJustifiesTheMeans: Basically Dr. Ver's goal when one gets past his rhetoric of heroism.
* DirtyCoward: Typical for a villain, he'll start screaming like a sissy and tries to run whenever things go south for him. To make it even funnier, he trips a lot.
* DisneyVillainDeath: [[spoiler:Carol first [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice impales him with extreme prejudice]] then sends him falling down the Château de Tiffauges, with him still yelling like a maniac.]]
* EntitledBastard: Injects Shirabe and Kirika with PsychoSerum while ordering them to protect him, since they need his biology expertise. They voice their protest, but reluctantly comply.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Even he is rather shocked when he learns about Carol's plan to dissect the world just for knowledge's sake, not because it's ''wrong'' but because he thinks it's dumb to gain all that knowledge and do nothing with it.
* EvilIsHammy: The guy is a cackling cauldron of ham. Somehow, he gets more insane and hammy with each episode. His late re-introduction in ''GX'' has him striking a ridiculous pose after [[spoiler:saving Carol]] and go on to rant constantly about how a true hero should do this and that ([[ItsAllAboutMe oh, and he's the only hero]]).
* {{Expy}}: A villainous Professor who acts like a hero? What the hell is [[Series/KamenRiderRyuki Hideyuki Kagawa/Alternative Zero]] doing here?
** Not only that his [[spoiler: HeroicSacrifice itself are ironic as [[Series/KamenRiderRyuki Satoru Toujou/Tiger]] was. ]]
** He also has traits of [[VideoGame/Borderlands2 Handsome Jack]].
* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:In Episode 12 of GX; after all, how can he be a hero if there's no world to celebrate him? Though he's still a selfish dick, only doing a Face turn because it benefits him, and lets him give a "fuck you" to the one who fatally wounded him, and his thoughts before death are still about how he's still gonna be remembered as a hero, and hoping that at least someone (Maria) would pass the word.]]
* HeroicSacrifice: His mindset is that if he dies, his death will go down in history as this, being the "hero." However, Genjuro denied that. Ironically, in ''GX''... [[spoiler:this happened for real, as he continued to work on reversing Chateau de Tiffauges and Carol's works, and this ends up costing him his life, but he still had enough time to bail out the FIS children, though only so at least someone would pass the word of his heroic sacrifice.]]
* HeroicWannabe: He will do anything and everything he thinks will make him a "hero" without exception, even if it's the very opposite of heroic, regardless of culture. For the entirety of G, he was a CardCarryingVillain, because he somehow thought if the rest of the world didn't acknowledge his non-existent "heroism," it didn't deserve to exist, and ends GX with a HeroicSacrifice only because it would spite Carol who literally stabbed him in the back, and even then wouldn't have done it if he didn't think Maria would spread the word on how "heroic" he was after he died.
* {{Hypocrite}}: "A bunch of selfish jerks who only think about themselves locked me up down here." Says the man who loudly and happily proclaimed that everyone else can go die in a hole for all he cares back in G, and still calls himself "a hero" in GX.
* ItsAllAboutMe: When he said "saving humanity", he meant only ''himself''. Everybody else can go die in a hole for all he cares. [[spoiler:Also that's why he instead quickened the moon drop instead of preventing it. In the finale, he even claims a world where he's not considered "hero" on his own terms is not worth existing.]]
* KnightTemplar: Has the deranged belief that everything he does is right and good, stemming from the conviction that his actions and schemes, through being extraordinary and ambitious, are ''ipso facto'' heroic.
* LaughablyEvil: With all his {{Villainous Breakdown}}s and trippings, it's hard to take him seriously. It still doesn't make him less vile or dangerous though.
* MadScientist[=/=]MadDoctor: Extra emphasis on the mad part.
* ManipulativeBastard: Plays on Maria's insecurities and guilt and exploits Nastassja's need for his biomedical expertise to make both serve his agenda up until the climax of ''G''. The fact that both are aware of what a psychopath he is from the get-go and yet still allow themselves to be manipulated by him is especially worthy of note. Later, he twists Miku's feelings for Hibiki with the Shenshoujing to turn her into a controlled weapon and use her against her friends.
* MookMaker: He wields Solomon's Cane.
* NamedAfterSomeoneFamous: ''Creator/JohnWayne''. Just to emphasize his American-ness.
* NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist: As a member of F.I.S., he spends much of ''G'' paying lip-service to the notion of saving the world from the descending moon, [[spoiler:only to reveal in the climax that he was using F.I.S. to find Frontier so he could accelerate the cataclysm.]]
* ObiWanMoment: He comes back as a "living memory" in ''AXZ'' Episode 5 and 6 during Maria and Elfnein's JourneyToTheCenterOfTheMind in order to help Maria figure out the secret behind [=LiNKER=].
* ObliviouslyEvil: He claims to be a hero, even though he isn't really one.
* RedemptionEqualsDeath: [[spoiler:[[KilledOffForReal Dies for real]] in Episode 12 after sacrificing himself to destroy the Chateau de Tiffauges.]]
* RoomFullOfCrazy: His prison cell in the Undersea Dragon Palace
* {{Sadist}}: Takes enjoyment in murdering soldiers, innocent people, and even ''children'' with his command over the Noise, and cackles with glee as the Sky Tower goes up in flames as a direct result of his intervention.
* SlasherSmile[=/=]LaughingMad: If he's not doing one, he's doing the other. Or both at once. He ''is'' a {{Mad Scientist}}, after all.
* SpannerInTheWorks: Ends up serving this role to both the protagonists and antagonists of ''GX''. [[spoiler:When he initially appears he blocks one of Chris' blasts meant for Carol, in turn saving her life. He then helps Carol activate the Château de Tiffauges in place of the relic she lost in her fight with the Symphogear users. However, after Carol [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness stabs him in the back]] he teams up with Maria and her group to reverse the Château de Tiffauges dissection of the world.]]
* TheSociopath: While not exactly the classical model of a sociopath, seeing as he seems to genuinely believe his own delusional proclamations of heroism and perceives himself as a revolutionary idealist, he is a consummate manipulator, has [[LackOfEmpathy zero regard for the lives of his allies or anyone else]], and is so egotistical and selfish that he would hasten a civilization-destroying cataclysm under the pretense of stopping it, just so that he could rule over whatever little remained.
* TakeOverTheWorld: [[spoiler:His endgame, the grandest aspiration for any "hero" to Dr. Ver. However, the "heroes" of human history were incapable of establishing the one-world state through their conquests because the human population was too great in numbers to be ruled by one man. Ver's solution is to cut the human population down to a manageable size to make world domination possible.]]
* TokenEvilTeammate: The F.I.S. are antagonists, but [[AntiVillain not by much]]. This guy, on the other hand, has no moral compass.
* TookALevelInBadass: In ''GX'', he's a far cry from the cowardly bastard seen in ''G'' given he [[spoiler:stops and absorbs one of Chris' missiles with his mutated left arm]] and even has time to taunt the Symphogears.
* {{Ubermensch}}: This seems to be how Dr. Ver defines a "hero." [[spoiler:He believes he will become one by destroying civilization and rebuilding it in his image. The notions of humanitarianism or moral constraints never enter his mind. And in ''GX'', Ver is on an incoherent rant about using the Chateau de Tiffauges to transcend good and evil when Carol decides she's had enough of his pseudo-Nietzschean gibbering and disposes of him.]]
* VillainousBreakdown:
** Whenever the heroines somehow foil some of his plans... and that happens a lot.
** [[spoiler:After Hibiki [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown goes nuts]] [[CurbStompBattle on his Nephilim]], and at the end, when he completely went unhinged as he was being led away in chains after seeing all his plans crash and burn and being denied the "HeroicSacrifice" he always wanted, with nothing to look forward to but the prospects of a lifetime behind bars.]]
* VillainsDyingGrace: [[spoiler:Rather surprisingly Dr Ver actually does go out with some grace after being crushed by pieces of the Château de Tiffauges. Not only does he reverse the effects the Château is having on the planet he also gives Maria all of the data he has on [=LiNKER=] so that S.O.N.G. can create more for the former F.I.S. girls.]]
* WesternTerrorists: He's American and he is a terrorist.
* WhiteHairBlackHeart: A white-haired mad scientist who has absolutely no qualms about sacrificing people for his own glory.
* WouldHitAGirl: Backhands Maria repeatedly when she tries to defy him and disparages her intelligence with insulting names.
* WouldHurtAChild: ''Murders children'' with the Noise while Nastassja and Maria watch in abject horror.

!XDU
* TheFriendNobodylikes: He is on the good guy side in Fine's Pararell World, and can be very helpful but his crazy attitude on the other hands still rub off the main cast everynow and then.
* GoodAllAlong: At least 2 of his parallel version are this. The Symphogear are aware of his action in their world so they are very caution around him only to turn out he isn't a bad guy.
** One version of him simply want to kept the girls in his world so he can form the idol group and when he heard what his prime counterpart did in the prime world, he find that take over the world and become a hero is such bothersome.
** One version of him while having his mutated left arm and just AxCrazy as the prime one, He is convinced that he can be a hero by helping deal with the Noise.

[[folder:Nephilim]]
A bio-weapon created by Dr. Ver, and one of the keystones of his scheme.

* AttackOfThe50FootWhatever: [[spoiler:Becomes a city sized monster after its heart fuses with the Frontier completely.]]
* TheDragon: Not out of any loyalty, but Ver seems to like using it as an attack dog; fairly easy, given it's attraction to relics.
** DragonInChief: Becomes the team's [[FinalBoss final opponent]] in the last episode. After its defeat, Dr. Ver is taken into custody.
* FinalBoss: In the final episode of ''G''.
* AGodAmI: [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nephilim It's namesake means "Son of God"]]. In the anime, however, it feeds off of Symphogears.
* OneWingedAngel: Multiple times. First, it gains a dark skin pigment and red veins after [[spoiler:eating Hibiki's arm]]. Later, in episode 13, [[spoiler:after its heart is fused with the Frontier, Ver manages to make it come back using the ground in a much bigger form that shoots massive fireballs. Then, after Ver transfers all of Frontier's power to the heart, it fuses with the Frontier itself, becoming a city sized abomination.]]
* OurMonstersAreDifferent: It's completely different from the Noise.
* PlayingWithFire: [[spoiler:Its revived form in episode 13.]]
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Attempts to do this when [[spoiler:Hibiki regenerates her arm and goes berserk. It fails, and the Nephilim is obliterated rather crudely, although Ver manages to retrieve its heart.]]
* SealedEvilInACan: Was initially a disembodied heart, needing energy from consuming relics to generate the rest of its body and grow stronger. [[spoiler:By the end, it becomes too powerful to defeat, so the heroes seal it away in the Noise dimension. [[SubvertedTrope And then they end up destroying it anyway.]]]]

!!The Alchemists

[[folder:Carol Malus Dienheim]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ch_carol.png]]
->Voiced by: Creator/InoriMinase

A young European alchemist, who claims she will destroy the world's miracles. She is a master of ElementalPowers and is the creator and commander of the four Auto-Scorers.

* EleventhHourRanger: [[spoiler: Joins forces with the Wielders during their final battle against Shem-Ha, acting as a substitute to a seventh Symphogear wielder. Their combined power is enough to break down Shem-Ha's barriers, and finally defeat the MadGod]].
* AndThenWhat: Carol's plan in GX is to use her alchemy to find out the secrets of the world which she intends to do by dissecting the world and examining its individual pieces. However, as Dr Ver {{lampshades}} Carol has no plan on what she intends to do ''after'' gaining said knowledge and in fact Carol admits that she doesn't actually want to do anything with the knowledge either.
* BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler: Seemingly commits suicide at the end of Episode 6 before being revived at the end of Episode 8 by transferring her consciousness into a backup body.]][[spoiler: After a long period of being presumed gone, XV has Carol finally reawaken inside Elfnein's body to protect her from Noble Red.]]
* BigBad: The main antagonist of GX.
* BigBadDuumvirate: [[spoiler:Averted. Dr. Ver shows up to assist Carol midway through GX, but when he mocks her goals and motives, she dissolves their partnership and attacks with the intent to kill. She indicates afterwards that [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness she would have gotten around to disposing of Ver in any case]]; Ver's impertinence just drove Carol to get it done with sooner rather than later.]]
* BigDamnHeroes: [[spoiler: In XV she briefly intervenes to stop Millaarc from destroying Elfnein's mind. Later, when the Autoscorers are defeated by Noble Red, Elfnein seemingly summons Daurdabla and equips the Faust Robe, but it quickly becomes clear that the one we're seeing is actually ''Carol'', who has taken over Elfnein's body to protect her.]]
* BodyBackupDrive: [[spoiler:She keeps on living by transferring all her memories to a new cloned body everytime the active body is destroyed. However, [[MySkullRunnethOver the strain of receiving so many memories at once]] (including the pain experienced upon dying) is starting to eat away at her.]]
* BraidsOfAction: Sports a single blond braid and packs a great deal of power in her magic.
* BroughtDownToBadass: [[spoiler:On her return in ''XV'', Carol retains her gargantuan level of raw power, but no longer has anything resembling the same amount of endurance.]]
* TheBusCameBack: [[spoiler:After being absent for the entirety of ''AXZ'' and most of ''XV'' Carol returns to life in episode 7 to help protect Elfnein from Noble Red.]]
-->[[spoiler:'''Vanessa''']]: Another impossible miracle at the last second?
-->'''Carol:''' A miracle, you say? Not at all. I am the murderer of miracles!
* TheChessmaster: Carol manages to play S.O.N.G exactly how she wants them throughout the majority of the season [[spoiler:by destroying the Symphogear users relics and then having them upgraded by Elfnein to use the Ignite mode so that their "cursed melodies" can power the Château de Tiffauges.]]
* ColorCodedCharacters: Gold in her image song CD.
* CurbStompBattle: [[spoiler: Despite being much weaker than she was in [=GX=], she spends her fight against Noble Red ''toying'' with them, blocking their attacks practically with her eyes closed. They don't manage to land a single hit on her.]]
* DarkAndTroubledPast: We've only seen a little of it via flashback, but from the looks of it, her hatred of people might be justified.
* DeliberateInjuryGambit: It's revealed in episode 10 that [[spoiler:the beating she received by Hibiki's hands with the Ignite mode at the end of episode 6 was intentional so that her body could record the "cursed melody" of her Ignite mode. This allowed the Auto-Scorers the chance to [[SuicideByCop die by the rest of the Ignite Mode enhanced Symphogear users hands]] so that the Château de Tiffauges could be completed.]]
* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: [[spoiler: Carol almost manages to take out Shem-ha with a final gambit of a smaller version of the Chateau's World deconstruction. If it weren't for Shenshoujing's unique reflective properties, Carol would have outright killed Shem-ha in her current physical state, as weak as it was, and would at least have delayed the activation of the Yggdrasil program for a little while longer. [[BrokeYourArmPunchingOutCthulhu Too bad it doesn't stick, and she gets subsequently curbstomped right after.]]]]
* DiscOneFinalBoss: Subverted. [[spoiler:Carol kills herself after losing to the IGNITED Symphogears in episode 6 of ''GX'', only to reappear in a new cloned body at the end of episode 8.]]
* DualAgeModes: When using her harp Relic, she can choose to change her body from a child form to that of a woman in her twenties.
* DueToTheDead: [[spoiler: In ''XV'', Carol asks Elfnein to make sure that the Autoscorers receive a proper burial after the battle is over, in an uncharacteristic show of appreciation and regret.]]
--> '''Carol''': [[LampshadedTrope I'm sure that's not something the bad guy is supposed to say.]]
* ElementalPowers: All five that exist InUniverse, those being Wind, Earth, Fire, Water and Light. She mainly uses light-elemental attacks, though, making her an example of LightIsNotGood
* EnergyShield: Has the ability to conjure an extremely powerful three-layered shield called ''Hermes Trismegistus'', which apparently requires knowledge of spiritual power and demon summoning in addition to alchemy. The keywords describe it as the ultimate defense, but Hibiki simply punched her way through it without knowing or caring about its origins.
* EvilCounterpart: While Fine was already this to the Symphogears in the first season, she fits the bill even more, having an actual TransformationSequence and [[spoiler: actually can use a climax song. One that has the power of '''7 Billion of them''', i.e. If the entire population of the planet could use one.]]
* EvilCannotComprehendGood: Due to the FreudianExcuse, she kept refusing to listen to Elfnein's more down to earth warnings, causing her to discard Elfnein. This culminates in episode 12, when Elfnein managed to translate the true meaning of her father's last wish to learn the true secrets of alchemy: [[spoiler:that is, to ''forgive'', and let bygones be bygones. Carol, already too deep in her grief of losing her father and hating the world for getting him killed, decided that such thing can go to hell, she still wants to destroy the world she hated, choosing grief over forgiveness.]]
* FantasticNuke: Lampshaded. Near the end of episode 13, the battle ends with an explosion "like a miniature sun."
* FreudianExcuse: Her father was burned as a witch in front of her eyes by the [[UngratefulTownsfolk ungrateful populace]] of a town he cured from the plague who decried his work as a miracle that never should have happened. This gave her a deep hatred of both the world and the concept of miracles.
* FusionDance: [[spoiler:At the end of GX the mostly amnesic Carol merges her body and consciousness with Elfnein in order to save both their lives and so that the two can have another chance to complete their father's work.]]
* GeometricMagic: Summons large, somewhat circular grids of hexagons when she attacks.
* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:She saves Elfnein and helps S.O.N.G. in ''XV'' Episode 8 although she still thinks of herself as a bad guy.]]
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:The mostly amnesiac Carol gives the last of her memories to Elfnein at the end of Episode 13 so that she could carry on their father's wish.]][[spoiler: She does it again in the final episode of XV, when she chooses to burn away her entire essence instead of both hers and Elfnein's memories, saying that she couldn't bear the thought of Elfnein forgetting her.]]
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: In episode 12, [[spoiler:when her insanely powerful swan song gets siphoned by Hibiki and Maria to power the Symphogears' [[EleventhHourSuperpower X-drive modes]].]]
* HumongousMecha: [[spoiler: By wrapping her self in the strings of Daurdabla, she makes a Mecha Lion that she pilots, with a near impenetrable hide, even to the usual [[EleventhHourSuperpower X-drive]] attacks.]]
* ImageSong: ''Senkin ・ Daurdabla''[[note]]Massacre Harp ・ Daurdabla[[/note]], which she sings to [[spoiler:activate the World Destructor]] in Episode 11. She also has ''tomorrow'', which is dedicated to her father.
** In [[spoiler: [=XV=]]] she has ''Sforzando Reverberation'', which plays when [[spoiler:she awakens within Elfnein to protect her from Noble Red.]]
* InstrumentOfMurder: ''Daurdabla'', the harp relic that forms her faust robe. Her battle song is titled "Massacre Harp" for good reason.
* MyDeathIsJustTheBeginning: She immolates herself after being beaten by Tsubasa, Chris, and Hibiki, just so she can't be persuaded to stop it, or even questioned regarding the details. Furthermore, she cannibalized her own memories during the attack so even if Hibiki had somehow managed to save her, she couldn't reveal any pertinent information anyway. For a few episodes, it appears that her plans are being continued posthumously and independently by her remaining Autoscorers [[spoiler:before it's revealed that her suicide allowed her to be reborn into a clone body with a complete set of memories, and with it, a new store of "firepower" for her alchemy to combust.]]
* NiceHat: Sports a witch's hat, keeping with her heretic powers.
* NotQuiteDead: [[spoiler:While the possibility for her return was left open after the end of ''GX'', since she hadn't made an appearance after fusing with Elfnein, it seemed as if she was gone for good. However, her consciousness returns in ''XV'' E7 after Millaarc tries to destroy her mind, and later she regains control of her body after Elfnein summons Daurdabla.]]
* OneWingedAngel: [[spoiler: While keeping the Symphogears busy with all her remaining Alcanoise, which if not stopped, can destroy the world, she gathers more phonic gain, and wraps the strings of Daurdabla around her body, and creates a Green Mech lion that she pilots. Its hide is so strong that not even the attacks from the new and improved X-drive forms can pierce it, so everyone gives Hibiki the power of their gears, to concentrate all their power into a single fist to do the job and destroy it.]]
* OreOnna: She uses the very masculine pronoun ''ore''.
* OvernightAgeUp: [[spoiler:By consuming the memories she's amassed over the centuries, she takes on an adult appearance.]]
* PreAssKickingOneLiner: [[spoiler: Gives one to Noble Red in XV after transforming.]]
--> '''Carol''': A miracle, you say? Not at all. I am the murderer of miracles!
** She then delivers another one to [[spoiler:Noble Red after they interrupt her thoughts regarding the Autoscorers.]]
--->'''Carol:''' You interrupted my reverie. You know you're going to pay for that, right?
* PlayingWithFire: [[spoiler: Her Mech lion form breaths fire.]]
* PowerAtAPrice: Carol's alchemy comes from burning her own memories in order to convert the energy into her power. Due to being hundreds of years old, she has a lot of memories to burn, but she runs the risk of losing every single precious memory she has left if she keeps using high level alchemy. [[spoiler:By the season finale Carol is left almost completely amnesic after burning herself dry in the FinalBattle with only a few scattered memories left.]]
* RazorFloss: While wielding Daurdabla, she can conjure magic harp strings that can cut through just about anything.
* Really700YearsOld: Although her body is that of a young child, she has stayed alive for centuries by constantly uploading her memories into new homunculus bodies.
* RevengeBeforeReason: The driving force behind her actions is to exact revenge on the world for killing her father. In Episode 12, she reveals that [[spoiler:she knew all along that her father wouldn't have wanted her to destroy the world, but continues to do so anyway.]] Note that the people she wants revenge against, the [[UngratefulBastard Ungrateful Bastards]] that killed her father have been dead for centuries. [[StrawmanHasAPoint She's also unwittingly proving them right.]]
* RedemptionDemotion: Justified pretty well in her case: she burned through most of her memories in the finale of ''GX'', [[spoiler:so by the time she returns in ''XV'', she's basically running on fumes, and she burns through most of what's left in the process of fighting Noble Red and recharging the X-Drives of the cast. Consequently, she suffers a CurbStompBattle at the hands of Shem-Ha]].
* RedemptionEqualsLife: [[spoiler: A variant. Carol actually survives the final battle but it comes at the cost of her memories. After reconciling with the dying Elfnein, Carol and Elfnein merge into a single being so both can live at the same time.]]
* SecretlyDying: Episode 9 reveals that [[spoiler:her new body is rejecting the strain of receiving all of her remaining memories at once, as well as the shock of her killing her own previous body.]]
* ShadowArchetype: Towards Hibiki. They both really looked up to their fathers greatly, and then Carol's father died, Hibiki's father became a BrokenPedestal, while they were shunned by society. Their reaction really differs in the opposite end of spectrums: While Hibiki survived through the harsh world with her father's words and eventually managed to set their relations on recovery, Carol misinterpreted her father's last words to one that he wanted the world destroyed and gleefully accelerated genocide. In a sense, Carol probably is what Hibiki would turn out if she gave in to the grief of her father's departure.
* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Also called Carol Mars Dienheim.
* SuicidalCosmicTemperTantrum: Her grand plan ultimately amounts to this, planning to use the Ignite Module's cursed melody to destroy the entire world via alchemical dissection. When that doesn't work out, she attempts to do it manually with an army of Alcanoise.
* TearsOfBlood: She has this during the final battle of ''GX''.
* TogetherInDeath: [[spoiler: In the final episode of XV, after finally burning up the last of her powers and fading away, Carol is seen together with her father among the spirits of those who died throughout the series.]]
* {{Tsundere}}: [[spoiler:In ''XV'', she tries to flimsily deny saving Elfnein by saying that they're sharing a body and it was a fit of pragmatism that made her emerge to fight off Noble Red. She also shows off more of her softer side when she asks Elfnein to [[DueToTheDead give the Autoscorers a proper burial]] after she sends Noble Red running off for the first time.]]
* UnskilledButStrong: Not within the context of her own season by any means, but compared to the Bavarian Illuminati and Noble Red, Carol is portrayed as a brute-force alchemist who relies on [[CastFromHitPoints memory combustion]] to perform her feats rather than the refined alchemy without drawbacks that the Illuminati can perform. This allows her enough sheer brute power to singlehandedly take on all six Symphogears alone, something the later alchemists can't or aren't willing to do, at the cost of utterly destroying her sanity.
* UsedToBeASweetChild: If her memories are accurate, she was a very nice, inquisitive little girl. [[FridgeLogic Curiously, she's wearing a witch's hat in all her flashbacks outside of her father's lynching and being burned at the stake.]]
* VillainousBreakdown: [[spoiler:When the Chateau de Tiffauges is destroyed, similar to Fine's when Tsubasa destroyed the Kadingr.]]
* VillainousRROD: At the end of Episode 13, [[spoiler:she's lost almost all of her memories and her body is breaking down.]]
* VillainSong: Carol has one called ''Senkin ・ Daurdabla''[[note]]Massacre Harp ・ Daurdabla[[/note]] and immediately demonstrates it to the Symphogears and also sings it to [[spoiler:activate the World Destructor]] in Episode 11.
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: [[spoiler: Carol does this to Dr. Ver, first by stabbing him then sending him falling to his apparent death.]]

!!!The Auto-Scorers

[[folder:In General]]
Four "dolls" created by Carol to serve as her protectors and henchmen.

* ArtificialHuman: Per Chris in ''GX'' E2: "Her movement is not just superhuman, it's [[NotEvenHuman not even human]]!"
* BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler:The Autoscorers return temporarily in ''XV'' E7 through their discarded doll bodies, using the power of the memories left in them, to safe Elfnein and hold of Noble Red long enough for her to regain Carol's powers.]]
* DanceBattler: All use dance as part of their fighting style. Leiur moves like a jazz dancer, Phara moves like a Flamenco dancer with plenty of skirt twirling, and Garie uses ballet. Micha might be an anomaly although it's possible she uses arco dance.
* DragonTheirFeet: Subverted. In ''GX'' E6, [[spoiler:Carol seemingly commits suicide after being defeated]], yet the Autoscorers still carry on their objectives. At least until the end of ''GX'' E8, [[spoiler:where Carol gains a new body]].
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Played with in ''GX'' E5. When Carol sends them to disrupt the city's power supply, Phara (wielding the element of Wind) and Garie (commanding Water) are shown at a wind farm and a hydroelectric plant respectively. They then proceed to destroy those installations with the very element they would normally generate electricity with: in Phara's case, she generates tornadoes that overload the turbines, whereas Garie simply summons torrents to physically damage the stations.
* KissOfDeath: All of the Auto-Scorers (except Micha) are stated to be able to drain people's memories through a kiss, which presumably kills them.
* ReligiousAndMythologicalThemeNaming: All of the Auto-Scorers' surnames are derived from an ancient set of cards, and predecessor to the Tarot. Their first names are suspected to relate to the four archangels: Leiur to Uriel, Phara to Raphael, Garie to Gabriel, and Micha to Michael. Furthermore, each Auto-Scorer wields the element that corresponds to the element of their Archangel in magical esoterica.
* SuicideByCop: Phara reveals in ''GX'' E10 that their final purpose is to [[spoiler:record the Ignite Module-enhanced Symphogear songs so that Carol may proceed to the final phase of her EvilPlan, using the "cursed melodies" to destroy the world]].
* TarotMotifs: Coins, swords, cups and wands.
* UndyingLoyalty: While they might snark at her the Autoscorers are ultimately completely loyal to their master Carol enough that [[spoiler:they still carry out her plan even during her supposed death and later willingly die for her plan to complete.]] And as shown in ''XV'' [[spoiler:their loyalty extends even through death as they return through some discarded doll bodies to protect Elfnein from Noble Red and help her reach Miku just because she resembles their master enough.]]
* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: After watching the Autoscorers move for only a few seconds into their first encounters, Tsubasa, Maria, and Chris separately conclude that they are not human but actually "monsters." This is then used as an excuse to stop holding back and go all out on them.
-->''(after Tsubasa knocks Phara into a bunch of crates)''
-->'''Maria:''' That's going too far! Against another human...
-->'''Tsubasa:''' Too far? When I fought her, I could tell. She was an absolute... monster!
* WhyDontYouJustShootHim: It's unclear why they don't murder the gear users and simply just depower them[[note]]Though in episode 7, it's hinted that Carol was the one who prevented them from doing so[[/note]]. Then at the end of episode 5, Micha and the Alca-Noise gang up on a defeated Shirabe ''with'' the intent of killing her. This is brought up by the main characters in episode 7, where even ''they're'' surprised they weren't killed by them. [[spoiler:As it turns out though [[SuicideByCop there is a good reason why the Symphogear users were left alive.]]]]
* WorfHadTheFlu: [[spoiler:Their ''XV'' incarnations are as loyal as ever, but as they are spares left in a state of heavy disrepair after Carol's fall, they find themselves going from matching the Symphogears blow for blow in ''GX'' to not even lasting ''minutes'' against the weaker Noble Red trio. Garie in particular is shown having trouble with basic motor functions, let alone fighting, and goes down in a single RocketPunch of Vanessa's.]]
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: While the outer parts of their hair appear normal, they each have a coloured portion visible behind their heads: Leiur is yellow, Phara is green, Garie is blue, and Micha is red.

[[folder:Leiur Darâhim]]
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->Voiced by: Creator/ShizukaIshigami

First of the Auto-Scorers, four "dolls" created to protect Carol, to appear in the series, pursuing Elfnein. Uses the element of Earth and attacks by throwing coins.

* AnArmAndALeg: [[spoiler: When the aftermath of her and Phara's fight with Noble Red is shown she's missing an arm.]]
* CastFromMoney: Attacks by throwing coins.
* DishingOutDirt: Her element is Earth, and she utilizes it by hurling coins. She can also create large earth crystals and has SummonMagic that allows her to summon an enormous golem.
* {{Familiar}}: Can summon a gigantic golem shaped like her to do some heavy lifting, such as throwing ''cargo containers'' at Chris or performing underwater operations. She seems to call it her "little sister".
* ReligiousAndMythologicalThemeNaming: After Archangel Uriel.
* TarotMotifs: The suit of coins.
* TheStoic: During her fight with Chris, she never changes expression or tone of voice. She's actually [[NotSoAboveItAll not that serious]], as she always wants to do everything as "flashy" as possible and she strikes the same ridiculous poses as the rest of the Autoscorers.
* WeaponOfChoice: Throws coins. They're powerful enough to destroy trucks and helicopters. She can also stack her coins into DualTonfas to fight at close range.

[[folder:Phara Suyûf]]
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->Voiced by: Masumi Tazawa

Second of Carol's Auto-Scorers to be seen in the series, she attacks Maria after the concert in the first episode. Uses the element of Wind and fights elegantly with a sword.
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* BlowYouAway: Her element is Wind, and she's shown attacking with tornadoes both in the OP and in GX E5. She can also use wind as a form of invisibility, seemingly by transforming herself into air molecules.
* BigDamnHeroes: [[spoiler: In XV she's the first one to be reawakened by Elfnein's desperate cry for help, blocking Vanessa's blow and destroying her arm, because as far as Phara was concerned, it served the same purpose as a sword.]]
* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Phara's ''Sword Breaker'' is absolutely nothing like future philosophical armaments in the franchise, which are objects granted a special power by [[ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve the fact that everyone thinks they have that power]]. ''Sword Breaker'' is instead an ordinary sword that Carol somehow enchanted to destroy anything else thought of as a sword, with how she achieved this going unexplained.
* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: Gets sliced in half by Tsubasa's Rasetsu Stance Zero ''GX'' E9. While she passes out for a bit, she reanimates herself to tell Tsubasa and Maria [[SuicideByCop the truth behind the Autoscorers' machinations]], [[spoiler:and promptly blows herself up since her purpose is done]].
* LaughingMad: After Tsubasa defeats her, she breaks into an insane laughter as she reveals that Carol's plan worked out without a hitch.
* ManOfKryptonite: Her weapon [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Sword Breaker]] makes her one to the sword-wielding Tsubasa and Maria.
* OverlyLongTongue: Which she uses to steal a data chip containing information on Earth's {{ley line}}s.
* ReligiousAndMythologicalThemeNaming: After Archangel Raphael.
* TarotMotifs: The suit of swords.
* ThisCannotBe: For someone who takes pride in her "Sword Breaker", Phara is absolutely incredulous when [[spoiler:Tsubasa breaks one of her blades and can't grasp how she did that even though Tsubasa's weapons are indeed "swords"]].
* WeaponOfChoice: Uses a wind-empowered sword. Specifically...
* WeaponOfXSlaying: ...Her sword is a "philosophical weapon" imbued with a special kind of magic akin to a {{geas}} that destroys the concept of "Sword". This obviously applies to any blade created by Tsubasa's Ame no Habakiri, but also extends to Maria's Airgetlam. [[spoiler:Tsubasa counters this by changing the philosophy behind her Symphogear, claiming that her weapons are not swords, but wings that will help her pursue her dreams.]]

[[folder:Garie Tûmân]]
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->Voiced by: Michiyo Murase

Third of the Auto-Scorers to appear, showing up in the second episode to speak with Carol after her brief encounter with Hibiki. Uses the element of Water and fights using ice crystals and illusions.
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* BloodKnight: Is excited that [[spoiler: Maria is attempting to fight her with the Black Gungnir during episode 4]] and is very disappointed that [[spoiler: Maria couldn't keep up the transformation for long]].
* CuteAndPsycho: Acts very girlish and teasing whether she's talking or threatening someone. She looks positively elated to fight Hibiki, and then there's her nonchalance when it comes to sucking the life out of people.
* FamousLastWords: [[spoiler: "I'm going to be the first!"]]
* GoOutWithASmile: [[spoiler: In XV, after being severely damaged by Vanessa while protecting Elfnein, she manages one last gentle smile when she sees Carol again.]]
--> '''Garie''': That's it, Master... This is what we wanted...
* LaserGuidedKarma: [[spoiler:She constantly belittles Maria as a useless girl, considering her constant failures against her. She certainly didn't expect Maria to quickly overcome her weakness... then outright ''kill'' her.]]
** And then in Episode 10 Carol reveals that [[spoiler:she had planned that all along.]]
* MakingASplash: So far, the most prominent Auto-Scorer, and apparently one of the most versatile and heavily used by Carol. Since her element, unlike the other three, exists in multiple states, she can do things with it that conceivably neither Phara nor Micha (wielding intangible elements of wind and fire) or Leiur (wielding the less versatile element of Earth) can do. Garie can wield water as itself, such as when creating an illusion of Micha when fighting Hibiki, but she seems to prefer using it as ice, which allows her to generate ice shields, ice blades, and even enhance her mobility by skating around on ice paths.
* MickeyMousing: Produces sounds like a music box whenever she moves.
* MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily: Shows off a mouth of shark-like teeth when she grins.
* ReligiousAndMythologicalThemeNaming: After Archangel Gabriel.
* SuicideByCop: She was outright ''thrilled'' to be destroyed by a Symphogear wielder using the Ignite Module. This ''might'' be part of Carol's plan as ''something'' is triggered as a direct result at Carol's base.
* TarotMotifs: Embodies the suit of cups. Because of this, she is the only Auto-Scorer who can not only drain people's memories, but also transfer them to the other Auto-Scorers.
* TheTease: Speaks flirtatiously with a spying bystander before draining him of his life.

[[folder:Micha Jawkân]]
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->Voiced by: Creator/ShioriIzawa

Fourth of the Auto-Scorers to appear. She was awakened by Garie in ''GX'' E3. Uses the element of Fire and fights using high-pressure crystals that can explode.

* AirplaneArms: Pursues Hibiki and Miku with outstretched arms, though this is meant to denote her childlike behaviour.
* AnArmAndALeg: [[spoiler: We get to see the aftermath of her fight with Millaarc, and one of her arms has been torn off and ''lodged in the wall''.]]
* AndYourLittleDogToo: Threatens Hibiki to dissect Miku, then the townspeople, and even the little doggies and kitties, if the former doesn't activate her Symphogear.
* BigEater: It takes a lot of [[ImAHumanitarian soul-sucking humans]] to properly activate her. The first thing she does upon activation is complain about needing even more energy to move properly.
* BloodKnight: Much like Garie, she gets excited at the prospect of fighting the Symphogear users.
* CuteAndPsycho: Childish and airheaded at first glance, but hands out death threats like candy and clearly enjoys fighting.
* FreakinessShame: See WolverineClaws. [[spoiler: During her brief revival to protect Elfnein, Micha comments that her hands are too dangerous to carry "Master". Elfnein reassures her that her hands are cool, delighting Micha]].
* GoOutWithASmile: [[spoiler:Much like Garie's death, Micha is surprised to see Shirabe and Kirika's teamwork overwhelming her, but nonetheless lets out a gleeful expression before getting gutted by their CombinationAttack.]]
* LettingHerHairDown: This actually makes her more dangerous as her hair being loose allows her to spray fire with the force of a jet engine in multiple directions at once.
* MegaTwintails: So large that they double as ''rocket engines''.
* MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily: Has shark teeth like Garie, but displays them more often.
* PlayingWithFire: She can use massive amounts of heat and pressure in her hands to produce super hard crystals on the fly, and cast magic that creates explosions. Combining the two creates a pressure bomb, which Shirabe and Kirika find out about the hard way.
* ReligiousAndMythologicalThemeNaming: After Archangel Michael.
* SuperMode: Implied in Episode 8 when she fights Shirabe and Kirika - after setting herself on fire, she seems to take on an upgraded form where her twintails come loose and her clothes seem to have burned off, revealing her doll body underneath. In this form, she's capable of creating portals to summon multitudes of crystals at once, in a way reminiscent of Gilgamesh from ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight''.
** Aside from giving her an extra power boost, it also comes with drawbacks--Micha's super mode [[spoiler:threatens her life, but so did Garie's death, since she relies on Garie to give her the memories needed to function properly. With her source of energy gone, Micha was living on borrowed time and decided to go out with a bang.]]
* TarotMotifs: Embodies the suit of wands. Because of this, she is the most powerful Auto-Scorer in battle, but cannot drain people's memories and relies on Garie to transfer them to her to keep her functional. She also requires a ton of power to keep functioning.
* VerbalTic: She ends most of her sentences with "zo" or "da zo".
* WingDingEyes: Her pupils gain a yellow diamond upon entering SuperMode, and she's more excitable than ever.
* WolverineClaws: Very prominent in her character design. Surprisingly, they're not her weapon: she fights with, and channels fire, through rods/crystals that she generates from her palms. The "claws" seem to be just her fingers, though her gestures do direct the Alca-Noise. Her claws were made with the sole purpose of destruction though, and so she [[CripplingOverspecialization has difficulty using them for pretty much anything else]], which is something she actually feels bad about.

!!The Illuminati
[[folder:In General]]
* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: While Prelati and Cagliostro tend to not always listen to Saint-Germain's ideas and go off and do their own thing, they do care about her and really see her as their partner.
-->'''Saint-Germain''': "I can't afford to reconsider the steps already taken, even if I have to struggle alone."\\
'''Prelati''': "But you're not alone. Basically, we can't leave you by yourself."\\
'''Cagliostro''': "It's thanks to you that we're here at all. Wherever you go, we go together."
** Saint-Germain reciprocates the feeling, rushing to protect them from Kirika and Shirabe's CombinationAttack and [[spoiler:visibly conflicted when Adam gives her the ultimatum of choosing which one to sacrifice for their life energy]].
* BigBadDuumvirate: The alchemist trio seem to be this for season 4. They're actually CoDragons of their founder Adam.
* ChekhovsGunman: The Illuminati, and their leader Adam, are namedropped by Maria in ''G'' episode 12 as being part of the cover-up regarding the moon dropping on the earth long before they are revealed as being the {{Greater Scope Villain}}s of the series.
* FreudianTrio: Saint-Germain is the Ego, Cagliostro the Id, and Prelati the Superego.
* GenderBender: Cagliostro and Prelati are noted in their character bios to have been men before being turned into women by Saint-Germain. Their names are also taken from historical figures Alessandro Cagliostro and Francois Prelati.
* GoOutWithASmile: [[spoiler: Knowing that they were finally able to use their alchemy in a way that benefited humanity, Saint-Germain, Cagliostro, and Prelati die with content smiles on their faces.]]
* GreaterScopeVillain: The first episode of AXZ reveals they had supported Carol in the creation of the Château de Tiffauges and made F.I.S. cease operations, making them involved with the two previous seasons. The next episode shows they were in competition with Finé for control of the relics throughout the centuries.
* NamedAfterSomebodyFamous: All three are named after real-life alchemists.
* PowerNullifier: Up until the MidSeasonUpgrade, the Faust Robes Saint-Germain's group used were capable of nullifying the Ignite mode and take the Symphogear user out of the fight.
** Their robes are powered by the ''Lapis Philosophorum'' (Philosopher's Stone), which is said to be able to cleanse evil and impurity. The Symphogears' Ignite modules are powered by Dainsleif, which is a cursed object.
* TheRival: The Illuminati are revealed to have been long time rivals against Finé in their goal of analysing relics for their alchemic research.
* TeethClenchedTeamwork: Saint-Germain/Cagliostro/Prelati versus Adam. They don't particularly like him and think his methods of running the Illuminati are shoddy.
* TrueCompanions: Saint-Germain, Cagliostro, and Prelati. The show takes care to reaffirm their bond time and again. Saint-Germain even uses the word "nakama" to describe them.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: It's revealed in episode 6 and 7 that, much like their rival Finé, the Illuminati (or at the very least Saint-Germain) intend to free humanity from the Curse of Balal [[spoiler:by making use of the Lunar Ruins]]. However the way they intend to do this is by [[AMillionIsAStatistic killing as many humans as possible in order to create divine power]].
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: The alchemists kill a dictator and his men and turn them into particles of light to power their alchemy.
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[[folder:Adam Weishaupt]]
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-> '''Voiced By:''' Creator/ShinichiroMiki

The founder and Lodge-master of the Illuminati.

* AnArmAndALeg: Adam's RoboticReveal comes with getting one of his arms ripped off.
* ArtificialHuman: Episode 11 reveals that [[spoiler:he is the prototype of humanity, created by the Custodians, who discarded him for "being too perfect."]]
* AxCrazy: The moment he shows up, [[spoiler:he creates a nuclear explosion]] without apparently caring the other alchemists are in the blast zone.
* BeenThereShapedHistory: According to a [[AllThereInTheManual keyword]], he contributed to ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dogme_et_Rituel_de_la_Haute_Magie Dogme et Rituel de la Haute Magie]]'' [[spoiler:when the writer caught a glimpse of his true form and used it as the model for [[DemonLordsAndArchdevils Baphomet]]]].
* BerserkButton: The usually unflappable Adam gets enraged [[spoiler:when someone calls him a puppet.]]
* BigBad: Of '''AXZ''' once he shows himself in the fourth episode.
* BigOlEyebrows: His eyebrows are thick and oddly shaped.
* BishonenLine: He actually crossed it centuries ago, but has to go back the other way when the stamina expense of maintaining his beautiful form proves too much.
* ClippedWingAngel: PlayedWith. Adam's true form wouldn't be much stronger or weaker than his human-looking one if he were at full strength, but it's much easier for him to maintain when he's already spent a large percentage of his energy and lost an arm. Ditching his human form thus lets him return to his full combat potential, at the cost of being hideous.
* CreativeSterility: The keywords declare this as the reason he was deemed "too perfect", as he had no potential for growth. Everything about Adam, from his prized [[ThePowerOfTheSun chrysopoeia]] technique to his NiceHat, is the product of someone else's genius.
* DiedLaughing: [[spoiler:Just as Hibiki blows a hole through his torso, he muses that humanity doesn't have the power to face the [[GreaterScopeVillain Custodians]], and gives one final EvilLaugh before exploding.]]
* DidntSeeThatComing: Adam's plans comes to a screeching halt [[spoiler:when Episode 11 reveals that Hibiki is a much better vessel for the divine power than Adam is]]. He doesn't take this too well.
* FullFrontalAssault: The moment he transfuses matter to [[spoiler:create a nuclear explosion]] his clothes disintegrate.
* GreaterScopeVillain: As founder of the Illuminati, he has been indirectly involved with all the previous antagonists.
* LackOfEmpathy: [[spoiler:He proposes sacrificing Prelati or Cagliostro to gain enough life energy to reach the lunar ruins without a care in the world.]] Saint-Germain even wonders if he has any humanity left. In episode 11 Adam admits to Saint-Germain that he doesn't [[spoiler:since he was never human to begin with.]]
* LaserGuidedKarma: [[spoiler:After Tiki is destroyed in episode 11 she desperately tries to get Adam to hug her. Instead Adam kicks her to the curb in an attempt to try and absorb the divine power. In episode 12 Adam successfully uses his torn off arm as a vessel to hold the divine power but Tiki arrives and holds him to the ground so she can get her hug. This prevents Adam from being able to defend his arm from Hibiki, who manages to destroy both it and the divine power he collected.]]
* LightningBruiser: [[spoiler:His final form is a huge humanoid monster, that moves incredibly fast and hits far harder than in his human form]].
* LightIsNotGood: Dresses in white and gold and is the BigBad of Season 4.
* LongHairedPrettyBoy: His hair reaches his waist.
* MeaningfulName: Though "Adam" doesn't seem this way at first [[spoiler: with the reveal he was one of the candidates to ''be'' Adam -- that is "the first man" -- it definitely takes on an important meaning.]]
* MrFanservice: Adam has absolutely no compunction with stripping down in front of his female co-workers or attacking his enemies [[FullFrontalAssault completely naked.]]
* NiceHat: He's almost always seen wearing a white fedora, and it constantly covers half his face. Adam can even use his hat as a projectile for combat.
* NotEvenHuman: [[spoiler:Turns out to be a non-human creature and is subsequently offed in the final battle.]]
* NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist: [[spoiler:Admits to Saint-Germain in episode 10 he actually didn't care if the power of the Lunar Ruins could be used to save humanity, he simply wanted to use its power for himself.]]
* PersonOfMassDestruction: The first thing he does when he finally appears in Episode 4 is to [[spoiler: quite literally nuke the area in order to kill the Symphogear users]].
* OneWingedAngel: [[spoiler:Abandons his human form in the last episode of AXZ to destroy the symphogears, turning into a humanoid monstrosity with horns and ExtraEyes]].
* PsychoPrototype: [[spoiler:To ''humanity''. He was one of the candidates to be the "Adam" of planet Earth, but was passed over in favour of humans because he was [[SuperPrototype "too perfect"]] and therefore [[CreativeSterility incapable of growth and creativity]].]]
* RevealingCoverup: While [[spoiler:the nuclear explosion he makes]] in episode 4 seems like an excessive amount of overkill its revealed in episode 10 that [[spoiler:he intentionally used a blast that big to blow up the research center to prevent the Symphogear users from figuring out how to commit deicide and disrupt his plans.]]
* RoboticReveal: [[spoiler:In episode 11 Adam has his arm slashed by Saint-Germain revealing that it is mechanical and that Adam isn't actually human.]]
* SatanicArchetype: [[spoiler:A primordial "perfect being" who is jealous of humans and wants to surpass the gods who created him, [[DealWithTheDevil never keeps his promises]], and whose true form served as the inspiration for [[DemonLordsAndArchdevils Baphomet]].]]
* TheManBehindTheMan: He's the founder of the Illuminati, and the alchemist trio, Saint-Germain more specifically, answer to him.
* ThePowerOfTheSun: Adam's favorite combat technique is to perform chrysopoeia[[note]]one of the major goals of alchemy, transmutation into gold[[/note]], which makes gold the only way any element is made: [[NukeEm by nuclear fusion]].
* VillainousBreakdown: He begins losing it in AXZ Episode 11 when Hibiki [[spoiler:is revealed to be a better vessel for the divine power that he's attempting to collect]]. He completely loses it in the final two episodes of the season [[spoiler:when Tiki prevents him from protecting his arm that was collecting the divine power, leaving him to futilely curse Hibiki's god killing power, and he's reduced to a raving lunatic during the final battle when Hibiki ''just won't die'']].
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: His hair is dark [[PurpleIsPowerful purple]].

[[folder:Saint-Germain]]
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-> '''Voiced By:''' Creator/MinakoKotobuki

A powerful Alchemist who has achieved the state of "perfection" by recreating her body, becoming ageless. She now seeks the power of a god to fully realize her ideals.

* TheAce: Saint-Germain appears to be the most powerful Alchemist seen in the series. Whereas Carol had to [[CastFromHitPoints burn her memories for her powers to work]] and Noble Red [[VillainousRROD actively weaken their bodies every time they use their powers]] Saint-Germain was able to grant herself, and her two closest friends, "perfected" bodies which not only made them immortal but also allow them to use their powers without any risk.
* TheAgeless: She hasn't aged in centuries, possibly even millennia.
* TheAntiNihilist: Has shades of being this. Despite her past, Saint-Germain does not let it color her perception of humanity. Even though there are bad people in the world, that doesn't mean humanity isn't worth saving.
* BigOlEyebrows: Her eyebrows are noticeably thicker than the other female characters'.
* ButForMeItWasTuesday: Outright defied. She has been keeping an exact count of how many people she has had to kill or sacrifice for their goal, which has been nearing 74,000 by the time she makes her debut.
* ContrastingSequelAntagonist: Serves this role to Carol in ''AXZ''. Both of them grew up thousands of years ago and suffered from the worlds cruelty [[spoiler:even losing a parent in the process which helped shape their worldviews]] before becoming powerful Alchemists. However their goals, powers and motivations couldn't be more different. Whereas Carol gained a deep seated hatred for the world and wanted to complete her plan [[spoiler:in order to destroy the earth in revenge for her fathers death]] Saint-Germain [[TurnTheOtherCheek never blamed humans themselves]] but rather the Curse of Balal and dedicated her life to dispelling it [[WellIntentionedExtremist at any cost]]. Their power sets also contrast; whereas Carol ([[OneWingedAngel most of the time]]) had the appearance of a little girl, kept herself alive by transferring her consciousness into clone bodies, and had to burn her own memories to use her powers, Saint-Germain had the appearance of an adult woman and created a "perfect" body that gave her immortality and allowed her to perform alchemy with no risks. Even their final fates are different; [[spoiler:Carol could never let go of her hatred for the world, constantly rejected Hibiki's help, and died burning out all of her memories whereas Saint-Germain was able to let go of her plan, teamed up with Hibiki to fight Adam, and died saving the world.]]
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Her character bio reveals that [[spoiler:not only was Saint-Germain born a slave who was continuously mistreated by her owners, she occasionally was also "called into bed" and molested by one of them, who taught her how to read for his amusement.]]
* EnemyMine: [[spoiler:At the end of episode 10, she chooses to fight alongside Hibiki to defeat Adam. In episode 12, she assists S.O.N.G. in their efforts to save Hibiki.]]
* EvenEvilHasStandards: She shows genuine shock at Adam's callousness towards her and her fellow alchemists.
* FreudianExcuse: [[spoiler:Her flashback shows she was the daughter of a slave, with her father not even recognizing her and her mother starved to death.]]
** However, she doesn't let this turn her into an outright villain.
* TheGunslinger: Her Faustian Robe takes the form of a pistol.
* KnightTemplar: Wants to end oppression on the world, but her radical belief that there's no other way than to rewrite history and destroy the curse of ''balal'' by sacrificing human lives put her in this category.
* IcyBlueEyes: Unlike Prelati and Cagliostro, she has this type of eyes.
* MysticalWhiteHair: Fitting for an ageless alchemist.
* NecessarilyEvil: She and her comrades have taken thousands of lives for their plan to end oppression by remaking the world.
* NotQuiteDead: [[spoiler: She lives on in Hibiki in XV through her Amalgam form, allowing her to assist in combat (and by extension singing). Her soul later appears as a shroud around Hibiki's new X-Drive in XV, the result of the X-Drive and Amalgalm fusing together, and gives Hibiki longer, Kanade like hair made out of PureEnergy.]]
* OneSceneWonder: [[spoiler: In XV episode 4 she manifested alongside Hibiki's Amalgam and sang a duet with her in the fight against Noble Red... only to nevet appear again until her cameo in the finale alongside the other dead.]]
* ParentalAbandonment: [[spoiler:Her mother died of illness and/or starvation and her "father" never considered her his daughter.]]
* RapunzelHair: Her hair is as long as Maria's and seems even thicker.
* Really700YearsOld: Fought against Fine over 400 years ago. Her flashback shows she's even older.
* RedemptionEqualsDeath: [[spoiler:When a nuke is fired at Tokyo in order to destroy the divine power, Saint-Germain, alongside Cagliostro and Prelati, sacrificed herself to protect humanity.]]
* VillainousFriendship: She truly cares about Prelati and Cagliostro and doesn't want to sacrifice them for her goals.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: Desires to remake the world so that no one feels oppressed. In the third AXZ OVA, Saint-Germain muses that although she wants to help free humanity from the subjugation of their souls, her chosen methods of reaching that goal will never be accepted because of how extreme they are.
* WhenSheSmiles: She shows off her first genuine smile in Episode 12. [[spoiler: It also happens to be her last.]]

[[folder:Cagliostro]]
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-> '''Voiced By:''' Creator/ShoutaAoi

A follower of Saint-Germain. A man who had his body altered by Saint-Germain's alchemy into the "perfect form" of a woman. Originally a liar and swindler, she has decided to change her ways, and be honest about her feelings.

* BoobsOfSteel: Among the villains, she has the largest chest and is the most physically active fighter, relying on punches similar to boxing techniques.
* FakingTheDead: [[spoiler:Knowing that Adam means to kill the alchemists in the long-run, Cagliostro picks a fight with Maria and Chris and causes a midair collision with them that produces a pyrotechnic explosion. She uses the explosion to fake her own death and fakes Prelati's death in a later battle so they could work on creating the lapis philosophorum.]]
* {{Gainaxing}}: Her boobs constantly bounce when she moves.
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Is based off of Count Alessandro di Cagliostro [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alessandro_Cagliostro]].
* IdiotHair: Has two of them.
* ImpossiblyLowNeckline: It's a wonder how her breasts don't spill out of her top.
* MinorInjuryOverreaction: Getting a small cut to the cheek makes her go attack an airport in hopes of drawing out the Symphogears to get payback.
* TheNicknamer: Calls the FIS girls "Team Dango" due to their Gear colours, and the 2nd Div girls "Team Stoplight".
* ObfuscatingStupidity: Despite being looking like the ditziest member of the bunch, she is proven to have a very sharp sense of intuition [[spoiler: by being the first to correctly guess that Adam was going to backstab them and pulled off a very convincing FakingTheDead act to boot]].
* PurpleEyes: Has light purple eyes.
* RapunzelHair: Reaches past her waist.
* RedOniBlueOni: The Red to Prelati's Blue.
* RedemptionEqualsDeath: [[spoiler:She and Prelati arrive to help Saint-Germain destroy the nuke that was about to hit the divine weapon and the three use their combined power to seal the blast at the cost of their own lives.]]
* {{Stripperiffic}}: Her Faustian Robe exposes even more than her regular outfit.
* UndyingLoyalty: Not to Adam nor the Illuminati, but to Saint-Germain instead.
* WillNotTellALie: Apparently dislikes how her past self used to lie, and now prefers to be honest with her thoughts.
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Turquoise in her case.

[[folder:Prelati]]
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-> '''Voiced By:''' Creator/RinaHidaka

A former rival of Saint-Germain who was bested by her alchemy and joined her in pursuit of her ideals. Like Cagliostro, she was originally a man before receiving the "perfect form" of a woman. Originally lazy and indulgent in luxuries, Prelati has now become an excellent researcher, but still retains that desire to put fun before work.

* AllWorkVsAllPlay: Before meeting Saint-Germain, Prelati barely had any work ethic. After transitioning, she switched over to being disciplined.
* CuteAndPsycho: Despite her initially calm demeanor, there are hints she's not as stable as she first seemed.
* DeadpanSnarker: At times.
* DropTheHammer: Her Faustian Robe seems to take the form of a massive hammer. To be more specific, a kendama [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kendama]].
* ExhaustedEyebags: While not that noticeable with her glasses, when she takes them off is more obvious she has this.
* GeniusBonus: The "psycho" part makes sense when you realize that the real Prelati had ties with the infamous Gille de Rais.
** It's unknown whether this was intentional, but Prelati had designated fights with Shirabe and Kirika, the youngest Gear users. Historical Prelati was reported to have worked with Gille de Rais in killing children.
* GirlishPigtails
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Is based off of Francois Prelati [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_Prelati]].
* InTheHood: Her faustian robe gives her a hood.
* ItAmusedMe: Helps Cagliostro destroy an airport rather than help Saint-Germain transport Tiki because she found the former more entertaining.
* {{Megane}}: The only alchemist who wears glasses. With her Faustian Robe TheGlassesComeOff.
* NotQuiteDead: [[spoiler:Her battle with Tsubasa and Shirabe on the freeway ends with a fiery explosion that seemingly incinerates her. However, Cagliostro saved her so they could begin working on the creation of the lapis philosophorum.]]
* NiceHat
* NotSoStoic: After confronting Adam, Prelati starts getting more and more emotional, culminating with her crying out Saint-Germain's name out of desperation.
* OhCrap: She seriously didn't expect [[BeyondTheImpossible Hibiki]] to just punch the [[spoiler:Yohualtepoztli]] out of existence.
* PoorCommunicationKills: Instead of trying to explain to the Symphogears why was she fleeing, she chose to fight them, getting defeated in the process and failing to warn Saint-Germain of Adam's intentions.
* PurpleEyes: Like Cagliostro, she has dark purple eyes.
* RedOniBlueOni: The Blue to Cagliostro's Red.
* RedemptionEqualsDeath: [[spoiler:She and Cagliostro arrive to help Saint-Germain destroy the nuke that was about to hit the divine weapon and the three use their combined power to seal the blast at the cost of their own lives.]]
* TheTeetotaler: Implied to be one. She is pouring a glass of wine to honor her friend Cagliostro after she perishes, but also pours herself a glass of milk for the occasion.
* UndyingLoyalty: Not to Adam nor the Illuminati, but to Saint-Germain instead.
* VerbalTic: Comes in the form of "wake da" or "to iu wake da", which can mean "frankly/essentially/in conclusion/etc.". At least one subgroup chose to translate this as her starting off her sentences with "Basically...".

[[folder:Tiki]]
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-> '''Voiced By:''' Hina Kino

An Autoscorer created by Adam, the founder of the Illuminati. She's obsessed with Adam.

* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: Actually ''invokes'' this trope at one point and certainly seems to play it straight as she claims she likes how nasty Adam is.
* BarbieDollAnatomy: Unlike the other Autoscorers, she doesn't even wears clothes that hide that she's a doll.
* BecomeARealBoy: Wants to become human to be with Adam as his wife.
* BlindObedience: Seems incapable of going against Adam's orders and always follows him with a cheerful disposition.
* CuteAndPsycho: She looks utterly adorable and is energetic to match. She's also ''completely'' nuts.
* DissonantSerenity: Always cheerful and energetic, even when mentioning all the bad things Adam is going to do.
* TheDragon: Serves as Adam's true, most loyal minion, and [[spoiler:as the vessel necessary for Adam to access the divine power.]]
* GenkiGirl: She's rather energetic.
* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: [[spoiler:Tiki is torn in half by Hibiki at the end of episode 11.]]
* IdiotHair: Three small ones actually.
* LackOfEmpathy: Like her creator, she doesn't show any empathy or care for Prelati and Cagliostro after they're defeated.
* MickeyMousing: Like Garie, she makes music box sounds when she moves.
* MulticoloredHair: Like the other Autoscorers, her hair is this way, half-green half-blue to be specific.
* OneWingedAngel: In episode 11 [[spoiler:after absorbing the divine power into herself she becomes a giant EldritchAbomination able to level a city in seconds.]]
* PurpleEyes: Like Prelati and Cagliostro she has purple eyes.
* RapunzelHair: Her hair is pretty long too.
* ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend: Well, not actually Adam's girlfriend but [[spoiler: after Hibiki and Saint-Germain manage to hurt Adam she activates the divine power and sets to trying to kill them.]]
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: [[spoiler:Once the battle against Hibiki starts going south Adam has Tiki discard her body from the divine power so it won't be destroyed and allows Hibiki to destroy her instead. Afterwards Adam kicks Tiki to the curb in order to reclaim the divine power for himself.]]

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