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The cast of characters from Hajime Kanzaka's long-running ''LightNovel/{{Slayers}}'' fantasy anime and light novel series.

The [[LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters cast of characters]] from Hajime Kanzaka's long-running ''LightNovel/{{Slayers}}'' fantasy anime and light novel series.

** [[labelnote:Allies]]Luke, Milina, Sylphiel, Martina, Prince Philionel[[/labelnote]]

* [[Characters/MainSlayers Main Characters]]

* [[Characters/SecondarySlayers Secondary Characters]]

* [[Characters/MainSlayers Main Characters]] [[labelnote:character list]]Lina Inverse, Gourry Gabriev, Zelgadis Graywords, Amelia Wil Tesla Seyruun, Xellos, Filia Ul Copt, Valgaav, Pokota, Naga[[/labelnote]]

* [[Characters/MainSlayers Main Characters]] [[labelnote:character list]]Amelia, Filia, Gourry, Lina, Naga, Pokota, Valgaav, Xellos, and Zelgadis.[[/labelnote]]

* [[Characters/MainSlayers Main Characters]]

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The [[LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters cast of characters]] from Hajime Kanzaka's long-running ''{{Slayers}}'' fantasy anime and light novel series.

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The cast of characters from Hajime Kanzaka's long-running ''{{Slayers}}'' fantasy anime and light novel series.

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[[folder:Lina Inverse]]
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-> Voiced by: MegumiHayashibara (Japanese), LisaOrtiz (English; series), Cynthia Martinez (English; movies).

Our beloved AntiHero, Lina is a young BlackMagicianGirl from the land of Zephilia. She is known throughout the world as the "Queen of Destruction" and "Enemy of All Living Things" due to her short temper and skill with Dragon Slaves. Lina usually pursues power and riches for herself, but gets dragged into saving the world along the way.

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* ActionGirl
* AnnoyingYoungerSibling: Lina was one of these to her older sister Luna... at least, until she used her magic to sell [[http://www.inverse.org/e/bkg/chars/lunabath.gif pictures of Luna in the bath]], after which she learned a healthy respect for Luna (more like ''terror'' of her) and never crossed her again.
* AntiHero: Walks between Type IV and V on a regular basis.
* BalloonBelly: Happens on occasion in the anime, but never to particularly noticable levels... despite the sheer quantity of food she can put away.
* BerserkButton: [[{{Understatement}} Has a ton.]]
** The worst one of all to press, which basically guarantees she'll want to kill you, is to threaten or kill children around her. [[spoiler: Zuuma finds this out the hard way when he kills his son right in front of Lina; she ''utterly'' loses her temper and uses the Ragna Blade without chanting beforehand. In season 1, when Rezo turned a child to stone temporarily, she got angry enough to go willingly into Rezo's trap. In the novels, when Gaav "killed" a child in front of Lina, she made a vow to go kill the Demon Lord, when up till that point, she had been terrified of facing him at all.]]
* BigEater: To the core. She often tries to steal food from her friends' plates.
* BlackMage: Lina's self-proclaimed speciality is in the usage of BlackMagic. She still fits under this trope because the ''Slayers'' take on such magic is somewhere between BlackMage magic and BlackMagic proper -- that is, though the magic is fuelled by negative emotions and is drawn from the most powerful Demon Lords, it's treated by humans as simply "magic that is only usable for offense", much like how WhiteMagic is "magic only usable for healing, defense and purification".
* ChekhovsSkill: Lina's exasperated comment in the first book that using a Mazoku's own power against it is like saying "Hey, help me kill you" turns out to be important in the last book, [[spoiler:where Luke-Shabranigdu ''wants'' to die.]]
* DarkIsNotEvil: She practices BlackMagic and is highly destructive, but is still the heroine.
** [[YourMileageMayVary Some may argue on how well she fits this.]] While most unquestionably the protagonist, "heroic" isn't really an accurate description of her. She saves the world out of self-interest, will usually try and stay away from problems unless they're either massively important or she's bribed/forced to do so, admits to considering her own appetites more important than anything else in the world, and has truly earned her bad reputation thanks to her bad temper and willingness to throw excessive amounts of force around.
* DisproportionateRetribution: Is a big believer in returning threats, insults and general annoyances with far more serious "punishments", such as blowing up a whole restaurant because somebody spilt her food.
* EmbarrassingMiddleName: An Embarrassing Title, actually. Lina was honored by the Zephilia Sorcerers' Guild with the official title of... Lina the Pink.
* {{Expy}}: Interestingly, the novel illustrator Rui Araizumi has said that Lina's appearance was modeled on young Audrey Hepburn.
* FieryRedhead
* FirstPersonSmartass: Her narration in the novels.
* GenerationXerox: Her mother was also a sorceress with a small bust, who got together with her swordsman partner.
* GoodIsNotNice: Oh yes.
* [[GuileHero Guile Heroine]]
* HairTriggerTemper: The only sure-fire ways for her to not be pissed off at you are to A) have some uber-rare item that's worth loads or B) offer her lots of food.
* TheHero: [[AntiHero But definitely not the traditional type.]]
* HeroicBSOD: Has a short one in ''NEXT'' after Gourry [[spoiler: is abducted and brainwashed]].
* HeroicSociopath: This is a girl who, in the very first anime episode, blithely starts haggling with the mayor of a village to kill a dragon (which ''she'' set loose in the first place), while that dragon ''is tearing the village apart around them''. She then '''vaporizes the village''' because the dragon deliberately stepped over her, thus proving that her newly discovered nickname was warranted.
* HeroWithBadPublicity: Lina's been arrested and tried for "being Lina Inverse". Justified due to her habit of picking fights with people over petty reason, willingness to steal, and her habit of slinging around really destructive spells in populated areas with no thought for collateral damage.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: As much of a JerkAss as she can be, she does have her softer side.
* LargeHam: Often invokes it. Lampshaded in Episode 16 of the original series.
* MagicKnight: How she uses her powers.
* {{Munchkin}}: An example of this as an actual character.
* PersonOfMassDestruction: With a corresponding reputation
* {{Pettanko}}: Does NOT like to be reminded of her small bust.
** HilariousInHindsight: Compared to many {{Pettanko}} characters, she is rather ample. Strangely enough, though, her bust seems to ''shrink'' every season.
* PlayingWithFire: Aside from pure BlackMagic spells, Lina's favorite go-to spells are Fire Shamanism, with Fireball and, to a lesser extent, Flare Arrow being her usual choices. Non-anime material even says she has a sorcerer's affinity for spells orientated around heat and light.
* RedBaron: Has quite a few, including "The Bandit Killer" and "The Natural Enemy of All That Live". There's also "The Dragon Spooker", and even Lina doesn't understand what that means (it means dragons step past in clear revulsion). Later in the episode a dragon does exactly this.
* {{Red Headed Hero}}ine
* SevenDeadlySins: Lina has Gluttony and Wrath pretty well wrapped up. She's also heavily into Avarice, as her entire reason for becoming a traveling sorceress was to find money -- one thing that she can't stand is the idea of doing a job for free, and both the first and second season have a scene where her response to a person saving her is... ''to accost them for the magical items they used to save her''. In season one, it's Gourry's Sword of Light, trying to offer him a mere 500 silver pieces for it (which Gourry disdainfully points out is only enough for a regular sword), leading to several scenes of her claiming it belongs to her or trying to trick Gourry into believing he promised to give it to her -- ultimately, she declares she's never going to let him leave her side until she gets the Sword of Light from him. Season two has her successfully claim the Magic Amplifier Talismans from Xellos, by offering him a bundle of magical reagents with a salesprice of over 5.5 million gold pieces for them. She also has strong hints of Envy, with comments about how she can't stand the idea of somebody else having this or that strong magical item or powerful spellbook instead of her.
* SheCleansUpNicely: Lina looks quite attractive in a nice dress.
* SkinshipGrope: Does this to Amelia in the Hourglass of Falacies {{fanservice}} manga when both are asleep.
* ThirdPersonPerson: Occasionally addresses herself by her full name ("the beautiful/smart/talented Lina Inverse").
* {{Tsundere}}: (partially averted by going mostly tsun-tsun, but she has dere-dere moments)
* [[WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes Why Did It Have To Be Slugs?]]
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[[folder:Gourry Gabriev]]
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-> Voiced by: YasunoriMatsumoto (Japanese), EricStuart (English; series), ChrisPatton (English; movies)

An archetypal example of the IdiotHero, Gourry is Lina's jellyfish-brained travelling companion. A descendant of the legendary Swordsman of Light, he wields the ancestral weapon. Gourry may have poor memory, but he is an excellent swordsman, and a match against even the powerful demons of the ''Slayers'' world.

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* AlliterativeName
* BadassNormal: He doesn't know a single magical spell at all and is too absent-minded to ever learn one, but he is the most powerful swordsman in the known world. Even with a regular sword, he can perform insane feats of skill -- in fact, come the loss of his Sword of Light, he has to keep stopping in the middle of a fight because his mundane swords break under his strength.
* TheBigGuy
* BodyguardCrush (on Lina)
* BigEater *and* ExtremeOmnivore: Regularly goes toe to toe with Lina when it comes to eating and is just as likely to steal food from her plate as she is to steal food from his. Ironically, while he can't stand the thought of eating fish whole the way Lina does (pointing out in disgust that eating the "guts" the way she does means also eating the grubs she used for bait), he has no problems with eating orc-meat dishes.
* BrainwashedAndCrazy: Happens to him at the end of season 2 but doesn't last long.
* ChickMagnet
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Normally, Gourry seems just a bungling moron. If he needs to reveal his skills, though...
* GeniusDitz: Despite how oblivious he seems, there's nothing he doesn't know about swordswinging, and he occasionally pulls moments of considerable insight -- such as revealing he knew Xellos was a Mazoku all along.
* {{Jossed}}: Gourry does ''not'' have elf ancestry, despite what the first movie may imply. WordOfGod: "The story of the first Slayers movie might suggest that Gourry's ancestor would have married the elf girl, but, when we think about it more calmly, it couldn't happen. Humans get older much faster than the elf race, so, when Rowdy in the movie became as old as Gourry is now, that elf girl was still a child. To [[{{Lolicon}} marry a little girl]] [[LampshadeHanging is a crime]], isn't it? [...] So, I guess that Rowdy married a human girl after the end of that story."
** Though the FridgeLogic is that, if they wanted to marry, surely Mellyroon could have used the Spring of Aging to catch up to her human beau in age?
* IdiotHero: More so in the anime, though.
* LaserBlade: The Sword of Light
* NoodleIncident: Whatever happened between him and Sylphiel in Sairaag
* ObfuscatingStupidity: Only in the original novel series.
* OutOfFocus: He's the least-well known (in terms of back story) of the four main protagonists, despite being the second one introduced; what was thought to have been a hint at part of his ancestry was ret-conned (see {{Jossed}} above).
* RapunzelHair: One of the longest-haired characters in the series.
* SayMyName: Name any media. He'll shout for Lina at least once.
* WordOfGod: ''Many'' things about him have been spoken by Hajime Kanzaka in interviews, namely about his never-mentioned background. Noteworthy life events include a messed-up family that fought over who should possess the Sword of Light, and his running away at the age of 17 with it and living as a mercenary. Interestingly, he met a man who convinced him to find something important to do in life, and he would up meeting Lina shortly thereafter. That man, according to Kanzaka, was [[spoiler:Lina's father.]]
** Kanzaka also noted that Gourry is capable of casting magic with power rivaling that of Lina's, but his [[IdiotHero extremely poor memory]] would prevent him from doing incantations.
** And what little family of his is mentioned is a grandmother and a brother he's supposedly on bad terms with. His hometown is also supposedly named "Elmekia," a name that shares the title of a Shamanistic spell ("Elmekia Lance")
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!!Zelgadis Graywords
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-> Voiced by: HikaruMidorikawa (Japanese), Daniel Cronin (English; up to episode 10), CrispinFreeman (English; episode 18 onwards and in the ''Slayers Premium'' movie) [[hottip:*: [[RetroactiveRecognition Also one of his earliest works in voice acting.]]]]

From a young age, Zelgadis was apprenticed to his great-grandfather Rezo. Zel asked Rezo for power, in order to seek out the Philosopher's Stone, and Rezo transformed him into a 1/3-golem, 1/3-brau demon chimera. Zel performed a HeelFaceTurn and has been trying to restore his human body ever since.

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* AdaptationDyeJob: In the novels and the ''Slayers Premium'' movie (which takes after the novels' character designs), Zelgadis' skin is a bluish-green color; in the anime, it is periwinkle blue.
* AntiHero: Type IV.
* CursedWithAwesome: The curse placed on Zel has given him SuperStrength, SuperSpeed (seen in the first series), [[NighInvulnerable Nigh Invulnerability]] and enhanced magical ability, but it's also made him a hideous freak. He wants desperately ToBecomeHuman.
** ''In Evolution-R'', it's revealed that he could have lived with it, if he didn't discovered that he was being used as a guinea pig in Rezo's quest to cure his sight.
* CelibateHero: Discussed briefly a few times in the novels and in some interviews. When Zel imprisons Lina and Zolf urges him to rape her, he vehemently opposes the idea ([[{{Bowdlerize}} Keep in mind that this is only in the Japanese version and other languages other than English]]). In the novels, he mentions once the painful things that would happen to a woman if he got intimate with her, and Kanzaka himself mentions this in interviews, thusly justifying it on a physical level.
* DeadpanSnarker: He's the most sarcastic, flat-toned character in the series.
* EstrogenBrigadeBait / ButYourWingsAreBeautiful: despite having green-grey skin studded with stones, he's rather handsome.
* FirstNameBasis: WordOfGod has stated Zelgadis' last name (Graywords) in interviews, and the only time it's ever mentioned in canon is by Filia in episode 1 of ''Slayers TRY''.
* FlyingBrick: He's supernaturally strong, NighInvulnerable (it takes a headshot from a CANNON to merely knock him out) and he flies.
* IJustWantToBeNormal: Does NOT like having a rock hard body (pun intended). Constantly searches for a cure.
* IncestIsRelative: For a while, it was thought Rezo might be both Zelgadis's grandfather ''and'' great-grandfather. Fortunately, this turned out to be a translation error.
* JerkAss[=/=]JerkWithAHeartOfGold
* KnightInSourArmor: Flirts with this. He's far more cynical than the setting warrants, but is at heart a pretty decent guy.
* TheLancer: by default.
* MadeOfIron: Well, stone. It is occasionally noted by Lina that the stone skin he hates so much has saved his life many times. And if he ''bleeds'', it's a sign that things [[Main/ItGotWorse will TRULY go downhill]]
* ParentalAbandonment: Unlike the others, ''both'' of his parents are dead, according to [[WordOfGod Hajime Kanzaka.]] [[spoiler:Rezo killed both of them, fearing that they grew suspicious with his experiments.]]
* PutOnABus: Along with Amelia after the first arc of novels. Notable because he and she are major characters in all other media, whereas their replacements were mostly novel-exclusive. He also doesn't appear in the ''Knight of the Aqualord'' manga.
* SeriesContinuityError: In regards to his beef with Rezo, the first season (based off of the original novels) only had him angry for Rezo's transforming him. The fourth and fifth seasons, which are original stories, had Rezo return in a SoulJar, and Zelgadis now vouches that he isn't just angry at him for transforming him, but he's also angry because [[spoiler:Rezo allegedly was creating chimeras for experimentation on a cure for his blindness]]. It's jarring because this implication was never notioned at all beforehand.
** There's also his human appearance: In his FlashbackNightmare in season 1, the human Zel had oval-shaped eyes and dark brown hair; in a season 5 flashback, his eyes are wider and rounder, and his hair is purple.
* ShipTease: With Amelia.
* TheSpock
* StraightMan and UnFunny: So, naturally, he gets the most humiliation heaped on him. (Zelga-bunny!)
* TeenGenius
* WordOfGod: Like Gourry, many things about him are stated in Kanzaka's interviews.
* TheWorfEffect: Being the naturally strongest and most well-protected member of the main cast, a typical seasonal BigBad's favorite method of showing everyone they're serious is making Zel bleed.
* [[YouGottaHaveBlueHair You Gotta Have Purple Hair]]: Has light purple hair; however, in ''Revolution'', it is more bluish.


!!Amelia Wil Tesla Saillune
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-> Voiced by: Masami Suzuki (Japanese), Joani Baker (English; episodes 11-13), VeronicaTaylor (English; the rest of the series), LuciChristian (English; ''Slayers Premium'' movie).

A young princess (younger by a few years in the anime than the novels, actually) who initially mistakes Lina as a '''champion of justice!''' and begins travelling with her out of a desire to do good. Lina finds her annoying, but puts up with her because having a member of the Saillune (Seyruun in the English version) royal family around is handy when the restaurant bill comes due.

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* ActionGirl
* BareFistedMonk: She's the only one in the main four to not wield a bladed weapon, and refuses to do so, though she still insists on fighting physically.
** She only wields a weapon twice, both times in in rather dire situations: in the final episode of the first season, she uses Gourry's Sword of Light to channel the Ra-Tilt, and in the final episode of ''TRY,'' she reluctantly uses one of the five Dark Star weapons (which the Sword of Light is one of) to fight off Valgaav.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: She's normally a sweet girl, but if you endanger someone she cares about, ''watch out!''
* BoobsOfSteel: Her breasts are much bigger than Lina's own, but she's also a decent user of attack magic and a skilled physical fighter. Lina herself lampshades this once ("Whoa, she's ''very'' well-endowed for her age! :O")
* [[spoiler: BrokeYourArmPunchingOutCthulhu: In the finale of Evolution-R, she ''literally'' tries to punch out Shabranigdo and breaks her arm doing so, without hurting him in the slightest or even making him take a step back.]]
* BuxomBabe
* TheChick (Sort of)
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}
* CuteClumsyGirl
* DaddysGirl: Amelia practically defines this trope.
* DoubleTake: When a woman resembling Naga walks by during a crowd scene in the first season.
* EverythingsBetterWithPrincesses: Second Princess of Saillune/Seyruun/[[SpellMyNameWithAnS however you want to spell it]]
* GenkiGirl
* GoodHurtsEvil: Amelia once debilitated Xellos with sheer unbridled perkiness.
* HugeGuyTinyGirl: With her dad. And even when Zel, since she's ''that'' short
* IHaveTheHighGround: But she has trouble with [[{{Dojikko}} the landings]]...
* InTheNameOfTheMoon
* JusticeWillPrevail: It's practically her catchphrase, as she says it at least three times in the first episode of ''Next'' alone.
* LargeHam
* LoveFreak: She's primarily focused on Justice, but Love and Peace are also major parts of her worldview.
* ManicPixieDreamGirl (for Zel, somewhat)
* MartialPacifist: Both played straight and played for laughs; she is especially one in the ''Hourglass of Falces'' manga. The "pacifist" part is in that she does not like wielding blades.
* {{Moe}}: One of the pioneers of this trope.
* MostCommonSuperpower
* NiceGirl
* PutOnABus: See Zelgadis' entry above.
* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething
* SheCleansUpNicely: Amelia always looks beautiful in a nice dress.
* ShipperOnDeck: In Slayers NEXT, we find out she's an ''in universe'' Lina/Gourry fangirl.
* ShipTease: With Zelgadis.
* [[spoiler:TookALevelInBadass]] [[spoiler: During the final fight in Evolution-R, she uses the Ra Tilt to amazing effect against Shabranigdo and PUNCHES the BigBad.]]
* UglyGuysHotDaughter: Amelia is a cute young girl with bigger breasts then the several-years-older Lina Inverse. Her father is... well, in TRY, Amelia sincerely mistakes a forest-dwelling "monster" (sort of a bald ogre) for her dad at first glance.
* WhiteMagic: Her specialty, though she also learned a little BlackMagic from her sister (and wanted to learn the Dragon Slave from Lina)
* WideEyedIdealist
* WordOfGod: Stated that [[spoiler:Naga the Serpent is her missing older sister.]]
* WrongGenreSavvy: She's pretty damn sure she's a MagicalGirl. She's also convinced that [[HeroicSociopath Lina Inverse]] is a shining bastion of purity and goodness (Whenever she's not being directly presented with evidence to the contrary, at least).
* [[YouGottaHaveBlueHair You Gotta Have Purple Hair]]: She is one of many with dark purple hair.
* YouShallNotPass: [[spoiler: Says this to Shabranigdo while PUNCHING him! "I won't let you! You shall not go one step further!"]]

!!Luke

[[WalkingTheEarth A world-trekking bounty and treasure hunter]] with a harsh demeanor and a soft heart. He [[TheRival antagonizes Lina]] to a degree, but ultimately becomes an integral ally for her during the second arc of the [[LightNovel light novels]]. He originally was an assassin, but changed his ways when Milina came into his life.

[[spoiler:Like Lei Magnus and [[AffablyEvil Rezo]], Luke holds a shard of [[BigBad Shabranigdo]] in his soul; unlike the other two, he is, at least, partially aware of Shabranigdo's presence. When Milina is killed in the second-to-last novel, his rage reaches to an extreme that allows Shabranigdo to take over, thus setting off the final battle in the final novel. Lina and Gourry eventually defeat him due to the conflict that still lied within Luke's soul.]]

* AllLoveIsUnrequited: Poor guy...
* {{BFS}}
* TheCameo: At the very end of the manga adaptation of ''Slayers: Evolution-R.''
* DoggedNiceGuy: To Milina, and how.
* FirstNameBasis: No last name of his has been revealed. This is even [[LampshadedTrope lampshaded]] by Lina in the final novel.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold
* [[spoiler:KilledOffForReal]]
* [[spoiler:IKnowYoureInThereSomewhereFight: Like Rezo before him, Luke's human soul is still lingering when Shabranigdo is revived. There is more complication to this battle, but Luke is able to find peace, which proves to be the key to Luke-Shabranigdo's defeat.]]
* TheLancer: Replaces Zelgadis as this role in the novels. In the ''Hourglass of Falces'' manga, he's more TheBigGuy.
* MagicKnight: Wields an enchanted blade like Gourry, and is capable of casting black magic, although not to the same degree as Lina. He even has his own original spell to accomodate his sword: Ruby-Eye Blade.
* [[spoiler:PersonOfMassDestruction]]
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: [[spoiler:When Milina dies from a poisonous stab wound that went untreated due to irresponsible priests, he [[NoKillLikeOverkill ''completely obliterates'' all five shrines in the area and murders all but one of the priests.]] This continues into the final novel.]]
* RedEyesTakeWarning: Not quite, they certainly aren't [[TechnicolorEyes the nice variety]], but he isn't truly nasty either.
* TheRival
* ShinyMidnightBlack: Or stylized green, rather.
* [[spoiler:TomatoInTheMirror: Subverted, he is at least partially aware of Shabranigdo's presence within him, but doesn't try to ignore it or wholly supress him. He freely allows him to emerge when [[TearJerker Milina is killed.]] In the ''Hourglass of Falces'' manga, he even tells Milina to strike him down if Shabranigdo ever emerges from him.]]
* WalkingTheEarth


!!Milina

Luke's partner and fellow mercenary, she was the one who convinced him to quit his assassination job. She is well aware of the fact that he is smitten with her, and brushes off his affections constantly. [[spoiler:During a bodyguarding job in the fourteenth novel, Milina is stabbed with a poisoned knife. She is denied medical care from one man and the other does not know the spell needed to heal the toxins, and Milina dies as a result, cuing Luke's RoaringRampageOfRevenge and Shabranigdo's awakening.]]

* ActionGirl
* BareYourMidriff
* TheCameo: With Luke at the end of the ''Evolution-R'' manga.
* DeadpanSnarker
* EyesOfGold
* FirstNameBasis: Also lampshaded by Lina in the final novel.
* HotterAndSexier: Her midriff-bearing ensemble is skimpified in the ''Hourglass of Falces'' manga.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold
* [[spoiler:KickTheDog]]
* [[spoiler:KickThemWhileTheyAreDown: Unintentionally caused example. She's poisoned, and the priest she was fighting against denies her care. At the next shrine, no one in the clergy knows the Resurrection spell. She then tearfully says goodbye to Luke, and [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge you can guess what happens]] from there.]]
* [[spoiler:KilledOffForReal]]
* {{Kuudere}}
* MagicKnight
* MoralityChain: It's because of her that Luke isn't a cold-blooded killer [[spoiler:or a PersonOfMassDestruction, for that matter]].
* SixthRanger: In ''Hourglass of Falces.''
* UnresolvedSexualTension
* WalkingTheEarth
* WhiteHairedPrettyGirl

!!Xellos the Priest
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-> Voiced by: AkiraIshida (Japanese), David Moo (English; in ''NEXT'' and ''TRY''), MichaelSinterniklaas (English; in ''Revolution'' and ''Evolution-R''), Kurt Stoll (English; in ''Slayers Premium'').

Created over a thousand years ago during the Dark Lord's Resurrection War (or "War of the Monsters' Fall" if you go with the anime translation), Xellos is the loyal servant of the Greater Beast Zelas Metallium. He is twice as powerful as any of the other Priests or Generals due to the fact that he's both a Priest ''and'' General, and one of the most powerful demons in the world overall. He loves deception, and his true motivation is often impossible to determine. Note that he gave ''himself'' the title of The Trickster Priest.

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* AffablyEvil: To the point where its sometimes hard to believe what he really is.
* AntiHero (Type V): In the anime.
* BelligerentSexualTension: With Filia (and how!).
* CatchPhrase: "Now that is a secret!" or "Sore wa Himitsu desu~!" [[ActorAllusion Also later used by the same voice actor in]] HoushinEngi.
* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: It's very hard (if it's even remotely possible) to tell exactly ''whose'' side he's on at any given moment. He's very much like a prototype for [[PiratesOfTheCaribbean Jack Sparrow]], right down to the fact that he can trick you even if you know he's lying.
* DevilInPlainSight: He ''introduces himself'' as The Trickster Priest.
** And yet even when they know he's manipulating them or setting them up for a trap, he STILL succeeds in doing so.
* DubInducedPlotHole: One of the Golden Dragons in ''Slayers NEXT'' refers to him as "Beastmaster Xellos" in the dub. The title "Beastmaster" actually belongs to his mistress, Zelas Metallium.
* EnigmaticMinion: To the Dark Lord Zelas Metallium, one of the five lesser Dark Lords under Ruby-Eyed Shabranigdo, who is more enigmatic then her minion is in the anime -- aside from the occasional mention of her title ([[SpellMyNameWithAnS variously given]] as "Lord Beastmaster" and "Greater Beast"), her sole appearance is a brief cameo shot from behind in the epilogue of ''Slayers Try!''
* EyesAlwaysShut
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold (YMMV): In the anime.
* KickTheDog: His torture of Valgaav reminds us he's a villain.
** KickTheSonOfABitch: Then again, his Woobiness aside, Val kinda deserved it.
* FalseReassurance: Xellos is an absolute ''master'' of deceiving people without technically lying. Notable examples include "I absolutely will not use the Claire Bible manuscript for evil purposes" ([[spoiler:He destroys it]]) and "Lord Hellmaster did not tell me his plan" ([[spoiler:But he figured it out on his own]]).
* LovableTraitor: And [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder not just against the good guys, either]].
* GoodHurtsEvil: He is literally hurt whenever he's around people with overly positive emotions, such as [[GenkiGirl Amelia]].
* HeroicSociopath: In the Anime.
* ItAmusedMe: Sure, he has a [[HiddenAgendaVillain hidden agenda]], but he also spends a lot of his time just screwing around with Lina and co. for the lulz.
* PurpleEyes: And how!
* ReliableTraitor: The heroes know they can trust him to help, so long as doing so aligns with his own interests. No one knows what those interests are, exactly, but he hasn't killed them yet, so...
** He also never lies. He simply leaves out some of the details.
* ShipTease: With Filia, somewhat.
* StealthHiBye
* TokenEvilTeammate
* {{Troll}}: Oh, so very much.
* XanatosGambit / XanatosRoulette / IndyPloy: Impossible to tell. What he says is at odds with what he does, and what he seems to do is at odds with the final result, but he never seems upset upon "losing". Is it all part of The Plan, or is he just making up as he goes along? [[spoiler:It's a secret.]]
* [[YouGottaHaveBlueHair You Gotta Have Purple Hair]]


!!Naga the White Serpent [[spoiler:(Princess Gracia Ul Naga Saillune)]]
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-> Voiced by: MariaKawamura (Japanese), Kelly Manison (English), Eva Kaminsky (English; As Nama in ''Evolution-R.'')

A flaky, obnoxious, drunkard, scantily clad sorceress, Naga was Lina Inverse's first travelling partner, with whom Lina gladly parted ways before she eventually met up with Gourry Gabriev. Unbeknownst to Lina, [[spoiler:Naga is the First Princess of Saillune and thusly Amelia's older sister.]] After her MissingMom was murdered by an assassin, Naga became a RebelliousPrincess, wandering the world and learning BlackMagic. She soon declared herself Lina's rival and began following her around.

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* AnIcePerson: Naga's primary attack spells of choice are Freeze Arrow and Freeze Bullet (the Water Shamanism counterparts to Flare Arrow and Fireball). Her greatest non-{{Golem}}-related spell is a Water Shamanist spell of her own creation which causes a continual cascade of Freeze Arrows to rain down over a target area. Unfortunately, she can't shut it off once it starts.
* AwesomeButImpractical: The SpikesOfVillainy on Naga's costume. They look really cool, but a RunningGag is that she stabs herself in the face when she casts Freeze Arrow.
* BabyGotBack
* BottleFairy: she's the only main Slayers character who is not only a BigEater, but also a hard drinker.
* BuxomBabe: Naga is typically regarded as the bustiest woman in the Slayersverse, and numerous sight-gags are based on how stacked she is -- including one scenario where her breasts almost pushed her off of the narrow ledge she was trying to cross.
* CanonImmigrant: Inverted, if she and Nama are indeed the same person.
* DarkIsNotEvil: Despite Naga's appearance, she's a rather skilled practicioner of WhiteMagic, even mastering the powerful spell "Flow Break" (which dispels everything except white magic), and in contrast to Lina she relies primarily on Water and Earth shamanism spells to attack.
* EasterEgg: The royal crest of Saillune, seen briefly in one or two episodes, incorporates a white serpent. Also several references in the TV series to Naga, such as a woman resembling her passing by during a crowd scene in the first season, and Lina casting one of Naga's signature spells (Zelas Gort) in the second.
* {{Fainting}}: Naga faints at the sight of blood, a result of walking in on her mother's assassination... as well as the resultant bloodbath when the assassin tried to complete his mission and take out his real target, Naga herself, only for Naga to kill him with a spell of her mother's creation. That spell? [[RazorFloss "Chaos String"]]
* GagBoobs: Probably one of the most impressive pair in older anime. It still holds up well even nowadays.
* GoldfishPoopGang: Lina actually nicknames Naga "goldfish poop" for following her around like... yeah.
* MementoMacGuffin: The reason Naga goes around in that {{Stripperiffic}} costume all the time is that it used to belong to her mother and is her last keepsake.
* MostCommonSuperpower: And ''lots'' of it
* MsFanservice
* '''NoblewomansLaugh''': By and away her most defining feature. '''Literally''' taken UpToEleven when she gets 10 clones and all them start laughing.
* NoodleIncident: Why Naga stopped traveling with Lina shortly before she met Gourry is never explained.
* StatuesqueStunner
* {{Stripperiffic}}: Oh yes.
* ThirdPersonPerson: As Nama in Evolution-R.
* UnknownRival: Naga truly believes herself to be Lina's "strongest and greatest rival", and is quick to refer to Lina as being Naga's rival or even her sidekick. Unfortunately for her, though a legitimately talented and powerful sorceress, she's still not quite at Lina's level of power and, more importantly, is much, ''much'' flakier. While Lina can't forget about Naga, as hard as she tries, nobody else seems to have ever heard of her.
* WordOfGod: Originally, it was only fan-speculation as to Naga's relationship to Amelia. It was confirmed as being the truth by an interview with the author, but other than the first season walk through the two have never been shown together on screen. A disguised Naga did speak briefly with Amelia on one drama CD, but she identified herself only as a friend of Lina.
** They also interact quit a lot in Season 5, although no one knows that "Nama" is really Naga, and Naga has lot her memories. Gets lampshaded quit amusingly in one episode when its commented that Amelia and "Nama" "act like sisters".
* [[YouGottaHaveBlueHair You Gotta Have Purple Hair]]

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Allies]]
!!Sylphiel Nels Lahda
-> Voiced by: YumiTouma (Japanese), Stacia Crawford (English, ''Slayers'' and ''Slayers NEXT''); StephanieSheh (English, ''Slayers Revolution'')

A [[TheOjou well-mannered, gentle-natured]] shrine maiden from the city of Sairagg and the first of the party's many [[GuestStarPartyMember additional members]]; she is extremely skilled in WhiteMagic, which, unfortunately, hampers her ability in combat. She is in love with Gourry, but [[AllLoveIsUnrequited he doesn't really notice at all.]]

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* AllLoveIsUnrequited: Poor girl...
* BarrierMaiden: In addition to being an exceptional healer, she can also create strong defensive barriers.
* GuestStarPartyMember: In seasons one, two, and four; however, she is only this during the fight with [[CloningBlues Copy Rezo]] in the novels.
* BlueEyes
* HimeCut
* TheMedic
* NiceGirl
* TheOjou
* ShrinkingViolet
* StaffChick
* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: The "girly" half, with Lina being the tomboy.
* WhiteMage: Even better at the art than Amelia, who usually serves as this for the party.
* [[YouGottaHaveBlueHair You Gotta Have Purple Hair]]

!!Martina Zoana Mel Navratilova
-> Voiced by: Tomoko Ishimura (Japanese), RachaelLillis (English

[[RichBitch The spoiled, overly-dramatic]] princess (later queen) of the kingdom of Zoana who exclusively appears in the second season of the anime (''Slayers NEXT). She antagonizes Lina and follows her around during the course of the season because she destroyed her castle, and [[GoldfishPoopGang often falls into trouble for comedy relief.]] Neverthless, she pulls herself together and gives Lina motivation to fight against [[BigBad Fibrizo]] during the final battle, and marries the swordsman Zangulus soon after.

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* BlueEyes
* CanonForeigner: Created exclusively for ''Slayers NEXT.''
* {{Curse}}: Her specialty; she actually manages to cast one on Lina in an early episode (in which any pain Lina inflicts on someone is cast back at her.
* EverythingsBetterWithPrincesses: [[SpoiledBrat Or]] [[TheLoad not.]]
* {{Expy}}: She is named after a famous lesbian tennis player from Russia. Episode 16 pays a homage to this by invovling her and Lina participating in a game similar to tennis, with lots of FoeYay.
* FairytaleWeddingDress: Wears one in the final episode.
* FourthDateMarriage: Meets Zangulus in episode 23 and marries him three episodes later, having known him for what one can assume is a day or two...
* GoldfishPoopGang
* HappilyMarried: In the final episode of ''Next''.
* HeelFaceTurn: Takes a while to get there, but happens officially when [[spoiler: Gourry is kidnapped by Hellmaster.]]
* IneffectualSympatheticVillain
* TheLoad: Up until the very end, where she [[spoiler: is surprisingly the one to help push Lina into unleashing the Giga Slave on Hellmaster.]]
* LoveAtFirstSight: Crushes on (chronologically) Zelgadis, Gourry, Xellos, and Zangulus at the drop of a hat, and she settles down with the latter by the end of the season.
* MadLove: With Xellos; subverted in regards to the fact that, while visibly annoyed by her affections, he doesn't act violently on them.
* NoblewomansLaugh
* PluckyComicRelief
* PrincessCurls
* PrincessInRags
* RichBitch
* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: Averted until the very end, where she toughens up and tries to motivate Lina when [[spoiler:Gourry is kidnapped and {{Brainwashed}} by Fibrizo.]]
* SpoiledBrat
* [[TalkingToHimself Talking to Herself]]: An in-universe example: she worships a diety she more or less made up herself, and praises herself using "his" voice.
* UnderwearOfPower: Wears what appears to be a pair of yellow panties over her leggings.
* [[YouGottaHaveBlueHair You Gotta Have Sea Green Hair]]

!!Filia Ul Copt
-> Voiced by: HoukoKuwashima (Japanese), Tara Jayne (English)

A high-strung member of the Golden Dragon race, she replaces Sylphiel in ''Slayers TRY,'' acting as a guide for the party in the Golden Dragons' quest to stop Dark Star Dugradigdu. As a member of a race siding with [[{{God}} Ciefeed]], the god of the ''Slayers'' World, she comes to blows with Xellos frequently, often for comedic relief.

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* BelligerentSexualTension: With Xellos, and how! More or less why [[FanNickname XelFi]] is one of the more loved pairings in the series.
* BlondesAreEvil: Well, not evil per se, but her attitude and naivite creates a lot of friction for everyone around her, even putting them in danger several times [[spoiler:(including the final battle, where she is reluctant to kill the BigBad)]]. This also contrasts with her innocent, HairOfGold portrayals in the opening and closing songs.
* BlueEyes
* BreakTheCutie: Firstly done humorously, by forcing her to travel with the rather self-centered, impulsive and irresponsible Slayers crew. Then done seriously when she is forced to confront the fact that the Golden Dragons of the temple she belongs to are basically a CorruptChurch, being willing to sell out an entire other world simply to ensure their world remains unscathed and having massacred an entire race of dragons to try and claim the magical weapon they believed they should be the ones to possess.
* CanonForeigner: She was created exclusively for the anime's third season, [[OddlyNamedSequel TRY]], which was completely original material.
* TheComicallySerious: In the beginning, she was the only one who took the mission seriously
* GuestStarPartyMember
* HolierThanThou
* LawfulStupid: Reaches this at times, mostly due to her HolierThanThou attitude. Otherwise, her alignment waivers between [[LawfulGood Lawful]] and NeutralGood.
* PutOnABus: Once ''TRY'' is over, she is never mentioned again in any other media; this also applies to the other characters originating from that season.
* SecretTestOfCharacter: Does this to Lina and her party in the first episode in order to prove themselves worthy of saving the world. Although she was testing their fighting skill more then their character.
* ShipTease: ([[YourMileageMayVary YMMV]]): With Xellos.
* SpotOfTea: Serves as a RunningGag.
* StraightMan
* {{Tsundere}}: Type B. She usually is "dere-dere", only going into a crazed "tsun-tsun" fueled by her HolierThanThou mentality when [[AffablyEvil Xellos]] is around.
* WideEyedIdealist
* WomanInWhite


!!Pokota (Prince Posel Korba Taforashia)
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-> Voiced by: Yumiko Kobayashi (Japanese), ColleenOShaughnessey (English)

Prince of Taforashia, currently searching for a cure to the Durum sickness that basically wiped out his father's kingdom.

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* BadassAdorable
* BigBadFriend: Duclis betrays him by joining up with the BigBad of ''Revolution''
* BigEater: He eats as much as Lina and Gourry, despite his small size, because he has a large bucket load magical capacity.
* CanonForeigner: Created exclusively for ''Slayers Revolution'' and ''Evolution-R''.
* DestructiveSavior: Like Lina, he can cast the [[SphereOfDestruction Dragon Slave]] and startled Lina the first time he did it.
* FunWithAcronyms: '''Po'''sel '''Ko'''rba '''Ta'''forashia. Get it?
* IShallTauntYou: Constantly calls Lina "Flatty". The first time he taunted her, he dared to call her "Flatty King that came from Flat Kingdom to spread flatness!" [[BerserkButton Needless to say, that set her off enough to throw an Amplified Dragon Slave at him]].
* LaserBlade: Carries a replica of the Sword of Light in his body, which has a tendency to fizz out if overheated.
* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething
* SkinshipGrope: Grabs Lina's chest when the two of them are asleep.
* [[YouGottaHaveBlueHair You Gotta Have Light Purple Hair]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:The Mazoku Lords and their Followers]]
!!Ruby-Eye Shabranigdo
->Voiced by: DaisukeGori (Japanese), Roger Kay (English, ''Slayers''), Marc Thompson (English, ''Slayers Evolution-R'')

The source of evil in the ''Slayers'' world, and one of the four dark lords of the four worlds created by [[GuardianOfTheMultiverse The Lord of Nightmares]]. Many millenia prior to the series proper, he was defeated and split into seven pieces by [[{{God}} Flare Dragon Ciefeed]], and those pieces were subsquently sealed away into the bodies of seven humans, with Ciefeed's intent being that they would be purged [[WeAreAsMayflies quickly due to their short lifespans.]] Unfortunately, this was not the case, as extreme amounts of hatred can force these pieces to reawaken.

So far, three carriers of Shabranigdo have been revealed; two have been destroyed for good (Rezo and [[spoiler:Luke]], with the latter only having been done in the novels) and one was sealed away a thousand years before the series begins (Lei Magnus). The other four carriers are unknown. Shabranigdo is also a potent source of the world's BlackMagic.

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* AstonishinglyAppropriateAppearance
* BigBad
* BigRedDevil: In the anime and games. His two appearances in the novels are bizarrely different in appearance.
* BlackMagic: Two incredibly powerful spells ([[FantasticNuke the Dragon Slave]] and Ruby-Eye Blade) draw power from him.
* DarkIsEvil: His skin is a very dark shade of red, and all of his appearances across the franchise take place in very grim settings, such as a tall tower in the first novel, or in the ruins of Taforashia in the fifth season of the anime.
* EvilMakesYouUgly: In the first novel, and how!
* EvilOverlord
* FinalBoss: In the fifth season of the anime.
* HijackedByGanon: Takes over Rezo's position as the DiscOneFinalBoss in the first novel/first anime season after Rezo awakens him.
* {{Oubliette}}: The sorcerer Lei Magnus's incarnation of Shabranigdo was sealed away (along with Lei Magnus himself) in a block of ice in the [[GrimUpNorth Kaltaart Mountains]]. A game on the [[SuperNintendoEntertainmentSystem Super Famicom]] actually had both sorcerer and demon as the TrueFinalBoss.
* OrcusOnHisThrone: Justified in regards to the fact that he's a being [[SealedEvilInACan that was sealed away in pieces]], but he dawdles quite a bit when he awakens out of Rezo's body.
* PartlyCloudyWithAChanceOfDeath
* [[PiecesOfGod Pieces Of Satan]]
* ThePowerOfHate: Is powered by this. [[spoiler:During the final battle in ''Evolution-R'', he explains to Lina that he was able to cling to Rezo's soul while sealed in the [[SoulJar Hellmaster's Jar]] because of the fear and hatred he grew of her during his first battle with her.]]
* RedEyesTakeWarning
* SealedEvilInACan: [[spoiler:He's sealed alongside Rezo in the Hellmaster's Jar in ''Evolution-R'', and only Xellos is aware of it.]]
* SealedInsideAPersonShapedCan: Seven "cans", even.
* ShapeshifterIdentityCrisis: [[spoiler:Luke's incarnation of Shabranigdo suffers from this ''big time.'' He despises humans for killing Milina, but still loves her, and hates his fellow Mazoku for setting off the incident in the thirteenth novel. He ultimately decides to give Lina and Gourry a large portion of power and give them a fair chance of beating him, and his love for Milina ultimately allows him to die by his own power.]]

!!Hellmaster Fibrizo
->Voiced by: Kazue Ikura (Japanese), Wayne Grayson (English)

Considered to be the strongest of Shabranigdo's five generals, Fibrizo is [[TheGrimReaper the manipulator of human souls and can control life and death at the drop of a hat.]] He is the main antagonist of the eigth novel and of the second season of the anime. His beast form is an amorphous black sphere.

[[NietzscheWannabe A sadistic and manipulative]] being who [[DeathSeeker thrives on murder]], he is able to defeat fellow general [[TheBrute Chaos Dragon Gaav]] with a snap of his fingers, and this sets off his sadistic plan that culminates into the climax of season two. [[spoiler:His plan was to provoke Lina to destroy the world by casting the all-mighty [[FantasticNuke Giga Slave]]; he succeeds in doing so by killing off her friends one by one. Unfortunately for him, the Giga Slave is miscast, and the Lord of Nightmares is summoned. Unamused by his actions, she obliterates him from existence.]]

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* AFormYouAreComfortableWith.
* TheBigBad
* TheChessmaster
* CreepyChild: His human form is in the likeness of an androgynous young boy, which easily fools Lina and the others.
* CrystalPrison: He seems fond of imprisoning others with these.
* DeathSeeker: His ultimate goal is to more or less blow up the world-and himself-in a spectacular fashion. [[spoiler:He gets his wish when he provokes the Lord of Nightmares in the final episode.]]
* DidntSeeThatComing: [[spoiler:The intervention of the Lord of Nightmares.]]
* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: Fibrizo, did you just nuke Gaav by snapping your fingers?
* [[DudeLooksLikeALady Dude Looks Like A Little Girl]]
* GreenEyes
* TheGrimReaper
* MindManipulation: Specializes in this.
* NietzscheWannabe
* SpellMyNameWithAnS: His name was romanized as "Phibrizzo" in the Central Park Media subtitles.
* SphereOfDestruction: His true form is what appears to be an amorphous black sphere.
* ThanatosGambit: Subverted, instead of having something come later, he wanted to die [[GoOutWithABang spectacularly]] along with the rest of the world.
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair
* YourSoulIsMine: He can destroy souls and subsquently kill others by crushing what appear to be little glass spheres-the physical representation of them. He [[DisneyDeath kills]] Amelia, Sylphiel, Zelgadis, Zangulus, and Martina in this fashion.

!!Greater Beast Zelas Metallium

[[TomboyAndGirlyGirl One of the two female Mazoku lords,]] and Xellos' mysterious master. Unlike the other lords, she prefers world domination to destruction, a sentiment shared by her servant. Also, Xellos himself is her only underling. Her beast form is an enormous anthropomorphic wolf with wings.

Zelas appears in the final novel alongside [[TheDarkChick Deep Sea Dolphin]] in a forest near Sairagg; together, the two of them trap Lina and Gourry into [[TheVeryDefinitelyFinalDungeon an enormous sealed-off space]] where [[spoiler:Luke-Shabranigdo]] lied in wait. Milgasia the Golden Dragon reveals hers and Dolphin's identiy when [[spoiler:Luke-Shabranigdo]] is defeated. She makes several cameo appearances in the anime, and is the FinalBoss of a video game for the Super Famicom.

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* AFormYouAreComfortableWith
* AmbiguouslyBrown: Her human form in the anime
* AnimalMotifs: Wolves.
* BigBadassWolf: Her true form.
* TheCameo: In the final episode of ''Slayers TRY,'' we can see her from behind as she is talking to Xellos.
* TheDragon
* EnigmaticMinion: Even more so than Xellos!
* FieryRedHead: Her human form in the novels
* FinalBoss: In the Super Famicom game.
* HotAmazon: Her human form in the novels.
* ItAmusedMe
* LadyOfWar
* SmokingIsCool: Her human form in the anime
* TakeOverTheWorld: She shares the same desire for negative emotions and pain like the other Mazoku, but finds their main objective (world destruction) pointless, opting for this trope instead.
* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: The tomboy half, with Dolphin being the "girly" half.

!!Dynast Grausherra

[[TheChessmaster The tactical, scheming, and ever elusive]] master of disguise among the five generals. He uses all of these trades in order to cause destruction, and he hopes to start a second war between [[GoodVersusEvil the Shinzoku and the Mazoku]], along with the intention to [[spoiler:ressurect the piece of Shabranigdo in Luke]]. He is the main antagonist of the thirteenth novel. His true form is what appears to be a golem-like beast wearing spiky armor.

Dynast sends his general [[ActionGirl Sherra]] to hinder Lina and Gourry, and when she is defeated, he sets off the conflict in the thirteenth novel by impersonating the king of the kingdom of Gairia. Lina is able to defeat him by encasing him in Zanaffar Armor and striking him down with the Ragna Blade. [[NotQuiteDead The main part of his body on the astral plane remains intact, thus ensuring his survival,]] but he is otherwise severely wounded to the point that he can no longer manifest on the physical plane. He has not appeared in the anime or any other media.

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* AFormYouAreComfortableWith
* TheChessmaster
* CriticalExistenceFailure: All that remains of him is a vital piece of his astral body.
* DeathTrap: Lina is able to render his powers useless by trapping him into a set of magic-nullifying Zanaffar Armor, and cuts him down from there.
* TheEvilGenius
* HeWhoMustNotBeSeen: Has no definitive human form.
* MasterOfDisguise
* WordOfGod: Dynast has had at least four different priests and generals made in his lifetime; Zelas only has Xellos, and the other three lords each have one preist and one general.

!!Chaos Dragon Gaav
->Voiced by: JojiNakata (Japanese), DanGreen (English

[[TheBrute The most aggressive of the five generals]]. He was sealed into his human form by Aqualord Ragradia, who hoped that his power would diminish overtime, similar to Shabranigdo's dilemma. However, Gaav's soul fused with the soul of his human host, and because of it, he [[CoolPeopleRebelAgainstAuthority has rebelled against his fellow lords out of the desire to survive]]He is the main antagonist of the seventh novel and the DiscOneFinalBoss of ''Slayers NEXT.'' His true form is a three-headed red dragon.

Gaav spends most of the early novels/second season spreading his influence towards the humans with the help of his underlings, hoping to [[LaResistance secure power and raise a powerful human army.]] It is revealed in the novels that he is doing this in order to [[spoiler:destroy [[PiecesOfGod the piece of Shabranigdo]] sealed in the Kaltaart Mountains]]. Because of his rebellious nature, Hellmaster Fibrizo murders him during a fight with Lina's party.

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* AFormYouAreComfortableWith
* AmbiguouslyBrown: His human form.
* BadassLongcoat: Wears one in human form.
* {{BFS}}: Wields a massive sword that is powerful enough to severely injure the normally NighInvulnerable Zelgadis.
* BlueEyes
* CurbStompBattle: Easily pummles the two boys in the party; it isn't until Lina strikes him with the Ragna Blade that he gets hurt. He survives anyway.
* CoolPeopleRebelAgainstAuthority: Strangely Justified: Because he gained something of a human conciousness when he was sealed into the body of one, a survival instinct not normally associated with the Monster race took over, thus making him no longer able to fight for the goal of [[KillEmAll eliminating all existance.]]
* EnemyCivilWar: Had a brief scuffle with the other lords due to the trope above.
* EvilRedhead
* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: [[spoiler:Hellmaster checks him out in this fashion in the novels; in the anime he disintigrates slowly instead.]]
* LargeHam
* MyGreatestSecondChance: He is the one who gave [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds Val]], the [[LastOfHisKind final ancient dragon]], a portion of his powers and gave him a reason to live again.
* OurDragonsAreDifferent: His true form.
* RapunzelHair
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Gives a short but harrowing one to Amelia about her black-and-white obcession with justice, then proceeds to try to kill her until Zelgadis saves her with a DivingSave.
* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: Normally he would KillEmAll, but his time as a human made him gain human survival instincts. Most of this trope is disregarded, though, because he still desires to overrun the world chaotically.

!!Deep Sea Dolphin

[[ShrinkingViolet The most reserved of the five lords]] (as much as an AlwaysChaoticEvil demonic lord can get) and the only other female. Dolphin resides in the sea that lies to the southeast of the mainland the story takes place in most of the time. In terms of goals and backstory, there is little known about her; however, it's hinted that Dolphin herself was the one to have planned her priest [[TheChessmaster Huraker's]] scheme to [[spoiler:sieze the power of Aqualord Ragradia]] in the ''Knight of the Aqualord'' manga. Her true form is unknown.

Dolpin appears alongside Zelas in the final novel and traps Lina and Gourry into the sub-space where [[spoiler:Luke-Shabranigdo]] awaited them.

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* AFormYouAreComfortableWith
* TheDarkChick
* [[HeWhoMustNotBeSeen She Who Must Not Be Seen]]: Only appeared in the novels, and has no definitive beast form.
* PimpedOutDress: Wears a poofy dress covered in pearls in her human form.
* ShinyMidnightBlack: Her hair in her human form
* ShrinkingViolet: As much as a demon lord can be, anyway...
* TechnicolorEyes: Her eyes in her human form are abnormally shiny...
* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: The "girly" half, with Zelas as the tomboy.
* XanatosGambit: Believed to have started it in the ''Knight of the Aqualord'' manga, where [[spoiler:she sent Huraker off and cause all of that turmoil in order to have Lina gain the power of one of the four Shinzoku lords; from there Huraker would absorb both Lina's and Lyos' powers in order to become [[AGodAmI a demon with the power of the gods.]] Yikes...]]

[[//folder]]

* '''Dark Star Dugradigdu''' is the Dark Lord of [[LostUniverse another world]], who tries to invade Lina's. He was [[GoMadFromTheRevelation driven insane]] when he [[EvilCannotComprehendGood absorbed his godly counterpart]], Volfeed.
* '''Duclis''' is the villain of ''REVOLUTION''. He used to be Pokota's bodyguard. Appearing in the for of a half-man half-gray tiger he sets out on a [[IncrediblyLamePun Roaring]] [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge Rampage of Revenge]] against everyone who he believes turned a blind eye to the suffering of his homeland. And he means ''[[KillEmAll everyone]]''.
* '''Eris''' is a sorceress [[TheDragon who served as Rezo's right hand woman]]. Sought to avenge her master in the second arc of the series' first season.
* '''Vurumugun''' is a sorcerer who serves as a recurring villain with Zangulus throughout the first season. Later revealed to be copies who serve Eris and Copy Rezo.
* '''Gioconda''' is the [[BaitAndSwitchBoss Not-Big Bad]] of ''REVOLUTION''. She serves as Duclis' UnwittingPawn.
* '''Halcyform the White''' is a villain ([[ColourCodedForYourConvenience despite being "the White"]], much to Amelia's confusion) who seeks immortality.
* '''Mazenda''' and '''Kanzeil''' are two mid-ranking servants of Gaav. Mazenda even manages to [[BroughtDownToNormal temporarily strip Lina of her powers]].
* '''Rezo the Red Priest''' is a BlindSeer and VillainWithGoodPublicity, unaware that his efforts to heal his eyes were allowing a SealedEvilInACan to take over his soul. He is the BigBad until near the end of the first arc of the first season.
** '''Copy Rezo''' is a BetaBaddie with CloningBlues and a score to settle. He is the BigBad of the first season's second arc.
* '''Seigram the Formless''' is a Mazoku, low-ranking but very hard to kill due to his skill at dodging every attack via teleportation. In the TV series, he is a generic minion of Gaav. In the novels, he initially serves Greater Beast but defects to Gaav to get revenge on Lina after she cuts him in half.
* '''Sherra''', Dynast's general, is an {{Expy}} of [[GenderBender girl form]] [[RanmaOneHalf Ranma]] in looks, and a main antagonist in the novels before Dynast shows up. [[spoiler: Has a sword that's actually a Mazoku that turns humans into half-demons and can even make them immortal.]]
* '''Valgaav''' is a servant of Chaos Dragon Gaav who attempts to [[AvengingTheVillain Avenge The Villain]] by causing TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt. He's one of TRY's main antagonists.
* '''Zanaffar''' is an intensely powerful sentient armor originally created using the [[MacGuffin Claire Bible]] in order to fend off the Mazoku. It went out of control and killed a whole bunch of people and had to be sealed away under the Holy Tree Flagoon in Sairaag. It serves as the BigBad for the second half of ''Slayers'' (Along with Copy Rezo) and ''REVOLUTION''.

!Other Characters

* '''Dilgear''' is a half-werewolf, half-troll who leads the QuirkyMinibossSquad in season 1... [[MookFaceTurn or so he thinks]].
* '''Jilas and Gravos''' are Valgaav's servants and the TerribleTrio in ''TRY''.
* '''L-sama''' is the Lord of Nightmares, "''She who shines like gold upon the Sea of Chaos''", supreme creator goddess of the ''Slayers'' universe. Despite the name, and the homage the Mazoku pay to her, she mostly doesn't get involved in things. She shows up in the afterwords of the novels/manga as "Author's Official Spokeswoman L", much to the annoyance of the author himself, [[RageAgainstTheAuthor who finds himself on the receiving end of her abuse]].
* '''Lantz''' is a mercenary who twice teams up with Lina in the novels.
* '''Luna Inverse''' is Lina's "ever-persevering, [[TheGhost never-appearing]]" older sister. She is TheChosenOne, a Knight of Ceipheed who wields the Dragon God's power, but prefers staying in her hometown as a waitress. Lina fears her greatly.
* '''Milgazia''' is a Golden Dragon who aids Lina against Gaav (and Dynast, in the novels).
* '''[[strike:Prince]] [[InsistentTerminology First Royal Successor]] Philionel El Di Saillune''' is Amelia's father, and just as much of a LoveFreak as she is.
* '''Wizer Freion''' is the inspector of Ruvinagald in ''REVOLUTION''. He repeatedly tries to arrest Lina for the crime "of being Lina Inverse", although [[CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass he later explains to Xelloss why he was doing this]].
--> Voiced by: DanGreen (English)
* '''Zangulus''' is a WorthyOpponent to Gourry in the first series. Returns in the last part of NEXT and ends up falling for and marrying Martina.
--> Voiced by: BinShimada (Japanese), TedLewis (English)
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