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* BrokenBird: This world's Homura crossed the DespairEventHorizon due to the TraumaCongaLine she suffered over the past five years, leaving her pessimistic, desperate, and miserable. Once she reunites with Valkyrie and gains her PastLifeMemories, however, [[ShesBack she returns to her familiar, spirited self]].
* CosmicPlaything: Homura is one of the few in Universe Zero whose life is made far worse by the CosmicRetcon, piled on top of the SurvivorGuilt she suffered due to the deaths of Creed/Seiji and Kurenai in the previous world, all without doing anything to deserve it. It's only after she reunites with the long-believed dead Valkyrie and [[GoodCounterpart significantly kinder]] mother that she catches a break.
* DullEyesOfUnhappiness: She's regularly shown with dull eyes from her ReestablishingCharacterMoment to the point where she gains her PastLifeMemories to show she's become a BrokenBird.
* ILetGwenStacyDie: She feels responsible for Valkyrie's death in this world, where Homura accidentally injured Seiji (the shogun's son) in a sparring match, leading Valkyrie to offer herself to be beheaded [[TakeMeInstead in Homura's place]]. She's vindicated when she discovers Valkyrie survived because [[LosingYourHead simple decapitation isn't lethal to an android]].
* IWillFindYou: In this version of history, Homura's motivation was to find Kurenai rather than Valkyrie, who apparently died in front of her.
* MasterSwordswoman:
* PsychosomaticSuperpowerOutage:
* SignificantWardrobeShift: Before being found by the crew, Homura wears drab, ragged robes rather than the vibrant paterned kimono she usually wore in the previous world, showing that she's fallen on hard times and stuck in a miserable state of mind.
* CosmicPlaything: Homura is one of the few in Universe Zero whose life is made far worse by the CosmicRetcon, piled on top of the SurvivorGuilt she suffered due to the deaths of Creed/Seiji and Kurenai in the previous world, all without doing anything to deserve it. It's only after she reunites with the long-believed dead Valkyrie and [[GoodCounterpart significantly kinder]] mother that she catches a break.
* DullEyesOfUnhappiness: She's regularly shown with dull eyes from her ReestablishingCharacterMoment to the point where she gains her PastLifeMemories to show she's become a BrokenBird.
* ILetGwenStacyDie: She feels responsible for Valkyrie's death in this world, where Homura accidentally injured Seiji (the shogun's son) in a sparring match, leading Valkyrie to offer herself to be beheaded [[TakeMeInstead in Homura's place]]. She's vindicated when she discovers Valkyrie survived because [[LosingYourHead simple decapitation isn't lethal to an android]].
* IWillFindYou: In this version of history, Homura's motivation was to find Kurenai rather than Valkyrie, who apparently died in front of her.
* MasterSwordswoman:
* PsychosomaticSuperpowerOutage:
* SignificantWardrobeShift: Before being found by the crew, Homura wears drab, ragged robes rather than the vibrant paterned kimono she usually wore in the previous world, showing that she's fallen on hard times and stuck in a miserable state of mind.
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* TraumaCongaLine: The past five years in Universe Zero were utter hell for her, starting when she seriously injured Seiji, the son of Oedo's shogun, in an honest swordfighting accident. From there, Valkyrie was beheaded for Homura's actions, leaving Homura with nothing but to search for her mother, who bailed on her when she was younger, only to be forced into debt to Drakken Joe--who mistakenly believed [[SinsOfTheFather Kurenai owed him money]]--and nearly sold off to Illega to cover the debt.
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* TookALevelInBadass: Her badassery skyrockets after she gains her memories of the world before the CosmicRetcon, including how to use Ether Gear and [[SuperMode Overdrive]], though it takes her time to [[HowDoIShootWeb learn how to make her powers work properly]].
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* TookALevelInBadass: Her badassery skyrockets after she gains her memories of the world before the CosmicRetcon, PastLifeMemories, including how to use Ether Gear and [[SuperMode Overdrive]], though it takes her time to [[HowDoIShootWeb learn how to make her powers work properly]].properly]]. Once she does, however, she's just as powerful as she would be three years in the future.
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* AdaptationalWimp: Due to being an ordinary FunnyAnimal, this world's Happy serves as one to ''Manga/FairyTail''[='=]s Happy, who can magically sprout wings and fly.
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* AdaptationalWimp: Due to being an ordinary FunnyAnimal, this world's FunnyAnimal in Universe Zero, Happy serves as one to ''Manga/FairyTail''[='=]s Happy, who can magically sprout wings and fly.
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* TookALevelInCheerfulness: Pino never suffers from any WistfulAmnesia thanks to the changes in Universe Zero, giving her full confidence and clarity in what Ziggy wanted of her.
* BackFromTheDead: All the deaths she suffers across TheMultiverse are negated by the CosmicRetcon, including her HeroicSacrifice in Universe 3.
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* HaveWeMetYet: A RunningGag involves Witch getting [[TheGlomp hugged]] and [[TearsOfJoy cried over]] by her crewmates from the old world, even though she hadn't met them yet in this world. By the time they finish the crew, [[RunningGagged she's learned to roll with it]].
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* HaveWeMetYet: A Since she lacks any PastLifeMemories, she becomes subject to a RunningGag involves Witch getting where she gets [[TheGlomp hugged]] and [[TearsOfJoy cried over]] by her crewmates who remember her from the old world, even though she hadn't met them yet in this world. By She [[RunningGag learns to roll with it]] by the time they finish the crew, [[RunningGagged she's learned to roll with it]].recruit Laguna.
* BackFromTheDead: The changes to history in Universe Zero allow Valkyrie to avoid the events leading to her death in the previous world.
* BarbarianLonghair: Her [[SuperMode Overdrive]] turns her straight hair wild and messy.
* DeadAlternateCounterpart: {{Inverted}}. Valkyrie was a PosthumousCharacter in every Universe from the previous world, but in Universe Zero, she's still alive and well.
* BarbarianLonghair: Her [[SuperMode Overdrive]] turns her straight hair wild and messy.
* DeadAlternateCounterpart: {{Inverted}}. Valkyrie was a PosthumousCharacter in every Universe from the previous world, but in Universe Zero, she's still alive and well.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: In Universe Zero, Valkyrie and Kurenai are good friends who made a pact to wait for Homura to find them on Sun Jewel, unlike the previous world, where they were TheFarmerAndTheViper, respectively.
* IWillFindYou: {{Inverted}}. After Homura left her five years ago due to thinking she was dead, Valkyrie waits for Homura to find her on Sun Jewel as per Xiaomei's instructions, leading her to have a BigDamnReunion with her student, Shiki, and the rest of the Shining Stars.
* IWillFindYou: {{Inverted}}. After Homura left her five years ago due to thinking she was dead, Valkyrie waits for Homura to find her on Sun Jewel as per Xiaomei's instructions, leading her to have a BigDamnReunion with her student, Shiki, and the rest of the Shining Stars.
* VigilanteWoman: In this world, Valkyrie is a member of the Punishers, a vigilante team founded by Madame Kurenai that protects the people of Sun Jewel from threats like the Stones.
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* ForgotAboutHerPowers: {{Inverted}}. After learning to use her Ether Gear from her future memories, her memories of her life in Universe Zero get so jumbled that she forgets that she always used ordinary Ether blasters in this world. It takes Happy [[RememberedICouldFly reminding her of this]] for her to fight back against Daichi when her Ether Gear gets incapacitated.
* HowDoIShootWeb: She has the most trouble adjusting to her Ether Gear after getting her future memories. Her first use sends her flying into the ceiling [[HistoryRepeats just like the first time she used it in the old world]], and going into [[SuperMode Overdrive]] just burns out all her Ether at once. By the Miltz arc, however, she fully masters her powers.
* HowDoIShootWeb: She has the most trouble adjusting to her Ether Gear after getting her future memories. Her first use sends her flying into the ceiling [[HistoryRepeats just like the first time she used it in the old world]], and going into [[SuperMode Overdrive]] just burns out all her Ether at once. By the Miltz arc, however, she fully masters her powers.
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* ForgotAboutHerPowers: {{Inverted}}. After learning to use her Ether Gear from her future memories, PastLifeMemories, her memories of her life in Universe Zero get so jumbled that she forgets that she always used ordinary Ether blasters in this world. It takes Happy [[RememberedICouldFly reminding her of this]] for her to fight back against Daichi when her Ether Gear gets incapacitated.
* HowDoIShootWeb: She hasthe most a bit of trouble adjusting to her Ether Gear after getting her future memories.PastLifeMemories. Her first use sends her flying into the ceiling [[HistoryRepeats just like the first time she used it in the old world]], and going into [[SuperMode Overdrive]] just burns out all her Ether at once. By the Miltz arc, however, she fully masters gets a full handle on her powers.
* HowDoIShootWeb: She has
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* AdaptationalWimp: Due to being an ordinary FunnyAnimal, this world's Happy serves as one to ''Manga/FairyTail''[='=]s Happy, who can magically sprout wings and fly.
* DePower: Thanks to the CosmicRetcon preventing him from being [[WeCanRebuildHim rebuilt as an android]] like the previous world, he never becomes an EquippableAlly for Rebecca, losing all his combat abilities.
* HeroicSelfDeprecation: Once he gets his PastLifeMemories as a cat who was turned into an android, he laments that he's not as useful in battle as he was in the previous world. Despite this, he manages to save the day on occasion, namely by [[RememberedICouldFly remembering Rebecca's underutilized skills for her]] in her fight against Daichi, and by being granted the dubious honor of pushing Mosco's button to defeat Clown.
* TheTeamNormal: Since he lost his mechanical abilities thanks to the CosmicRetcon, he's the only crew member in Universe Zero to lack any powers or combat skills.
* DePower: Thanks to the CosmicRetcon preventing him from being [[WeCanRebuildHim rebuilt as an android]] like the previous world, he never becomes an EquippableAlly for Rebecca, losing all his combat abilities.
* HeroicSelfDeprecation: Once he gets his PastLifeMemories as a cat who was turned into an android, he laments that he's not as useful in battle as he was in the previous world. Despite this, he manages to save the day on occasion, namely by [[RememberedICouldFly remembering Rebecca's underutilized skills for her]] in her fight against Daichi, and by being granted the dubious honor of pushing Mosco's button to defeat Clown.
* TheTeamNormal: Since he lost his mechanical abilities thanks to the CosmicRetcon, he's the only crew member in Universe Zero to lack any powers or combat skills.
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* FlawedPrototype: He puts together an Arsenal Suit from his memory of the previous world, but without Hermit there to iron out the kinks, it lacks much of the Ether power and armored covering it had.
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* FlawedPrototype: He puts together an Arsenal Suit from his memory of the previous world, PastLifeMemories, but without Hermit there to iron out the kinks, it lacks much of the Ether power and armored covering it had.
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* {{Jerkass}}: The CosmicRetcon forces him back into being one in Universe Zero, though he [[TookALevelInKindness immediately lightens up]] when he gets his old memories.
* MegatonPunch: He takes his Metalica Explosion to the next level with a Dual Metalica Explosion, which turns both his Arsenal Suit's arms into giant fists instead of just one, giving him the strength to pummel Killer straight out of {{Cyberspace}}.
* MegatonPunch: He takes his Metalica Explosion to the next level with a Dual Metalica Explosion, which turns both his Arsenal Suit's arms into giant fists instead of just one, giving him the strength to pummel Killer straight out of {{Cyberspace}}.
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* PowerGivesYouWings: His Arsenal Suit's Mark Zero model gets an extra power boost from Hermit, giving him a pair of wings.
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* PowerGivesYouWings: His Arsenal Suit's Mark Zero model gets an extra power boost from Hermit, giving him which comes with a pair of wings.
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* TookALevelInKindness: He starts off as a {{Jerkass}} similar to how he acted in the original timeline before meeting the crew, but once he gets his memories of the old world, he immediately gets his CharacterDevelopment back.
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* TookALevelInJerkass: The CosmicRetcon forces him back into being one like he was in the previous world, though he [[TookALevelInKindness immediately lightens up]] when he gets his PastLifeMemories.
* TookALevelInKindness: He starts off as a {{Jerkass}} similar to how he acted in the original timeline before meeting the crew, but once he gets hismemories of the old world, PastLifeMemories, he immediately gets his CharacterDevelopment back.
* TookALevelInKindness: He starts off as a {{Jerkass}} similar to how he acted in the original timeline before meeting the crew, but once he gets his
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* BigGood: Without [[BigBad Void]] taking control of him in Universe Zero, Ziggy fulfills this role during the final arcs, first by leaving Shiki with the ''Edens Zero'' on Granbell outright to set him off on his adventure, and later by keeping himself secretly alive long enough to battle Void personally in the FinalBattle.
* HandBlast: When in Overdrive, he can fire his own Star Bringer--the ''Zero'' and ''One''[='=]s WaveMotionGun--from the palm of his hand.
* PowerGivesYouWings: Ziggy's Overdrive form gives him a pair of downward-pointing wings, which split off into a StormOfBlades.
* StormOfBlades: His Xenoflare attack splits his Overdrive form's wings into a set of mechanical blades that he controls with gravity, which is how he slices off Void's legs.
* HandBlast: When in Overdrive, he can fire his own Star Bringer--the ''Zero'' and ''One''[='=]s WaveMotionGun--from the palm of his hand.
* PowerGivesYouWings: Ziggy's Overdrive form gives him a pair of downward-pointing wings, which split off into a StormOfBlades.
* StormOfBlades: His Xenoflare attack splits his Overdrive form's wings into a set of mechanical blades that he controls with gravity, which is how he slices off Void's legs.
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* AFriendToAllChildren: He's shown to be kind towards children when he gently smiles at Holy and her little sister when they're still kids in the aftermath of Deadend Crow's attack.
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* AFriendToAllChildren: FriendToAllChildren: He's shown to be kind towards children when he gently smiles at Holy and her little sister when they're still kids in the aftermath of Deadend Crow's attack.
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* BroughtDownToNormal: Due to the CosmicRetcon caused by traveling to Universe Zero, Rebecca starts out without her Ether Gear because she couldn't use it until after she met Shiki. She gets it back again after regaining her memories from the previous worlds, but it takes time for her body to adjust to it.
* ForgotAboutHerPowers: {{Inverted}}. After learning to use her Ether Gear from her future memories, her memories of her life in Universe Zero get so jumbled that she forgets that she always used ordinary Ether blasters in this world. It takes Happy [[RememberedICouldFly reminding her of this]] for her to fight back against Daichi when her Ether Gear gets incapacitated.
* HowDoIShootWeb: She has the most trouble adjusting to her Ether Gear after getting her future memories. Her first use sends her flying into the ceiling [[HistoryRepeats just like the first time she used it in the old world]], and going into [[SuperMode Overdrive]] just burns out all her Ether at once. By the Miltz arc, however, she fully masters her powers.
* NecessaryDrawback: To raise the stakes in the final arcs, Rebecca's TimeRewindMechanic gets {{Nerfed}} in Universe Zero, where time travel itself is supposedly impossible. Initially seeming like she can't use it at all, she later discovers it only doesn't work [[StarkNakedSorcery when she's still clothed]], and even then, a single use puts her through a HeroicRROD as severe as spamming it constantly did in the old world.
* StarkNakedSorcery: Unlike the previous world, Rebecca's TimeRewindMechanic can only be used when she's completely naked in Universe Zero, since bare skin is what brings Ether to its fullest potential.
* TookALevelInBadass: Her badassery skyrockets after she gains her memories of the world before the CosmicRetcon, including how to use Ether Gear and [[SuperMode Overdrive]], though it takes her time to [[HowDoIShootWeb learn how to make her powers work properly]].
* UnknownRival: Once she gains the memories of her experiences in the old world, she becomes this to the enemies she remembers battling in other worlds, namely Daichi, despite neither of them meeting before in this world.
* BroughtDownToNormal: Due to the CosmicRetcon caused by traveling to Universe Zero, Rebecca starts out without her Ether Gear because she couldn't use it until after she met Shiki. She gets it back again after regaining her memories from the previous worlds, but it takes time for her body to adjust to it.
* ForgotAboutHerPowers: {{Inverted}}. After learning to use her Ether Gear from her future memories, her memories of her life in Universe Zero get so jumbled that she forgets that she always used ordinary Ether blasters in this world. It takes Happy [[RememberedICouldFly reminding her of this]] for her to fight back against Daichi when her Ether Gear gets incapacitated.
* HowDoIShootWeb: She has the most trouble adjusting to her Ether Gear after getting her future memories. Her first use sends her flying into the ceiling [[HistoryRepeats just like the first time she used it in the old world]], and going into [[SuperMode Overdrive]] just burns out all her Ether at once. By the Miltz arc, however, she fully masters her powers.
* NecessaryDrawback: To raise the stakes in the final arcs, Rebecca's TimeRewindMechanic gets {{Nerfed}} in Universe Zero, where time travel itself is supposedly impossible. Initially seeming like she can't use it at all, she later discovers it only doesn't work [[StarkNakedSorcery when she's still clothed]], and even then, a single use puts her through a HeroicRROD as severe as spamming it constantly did in the old world.
* StarkNakedSorcery: Unlike the previous world, Rebecca's TimeRewindMechanic can only be used when she's completely naked in Universe Zero, since bare skin is what brings Ether to its fullest potential.
* TookALevelInBadass: Her badassery skyrockets after she gains her memories of the world before the CosmicRetcon, including how to use Ether Gear and [[SuperMode Overdrive]], though it takes her time to [[HowDoIShootWeb learn how to make her powers work properly]].
* UnknownRival: Once she gains the memories of her experiences in the old world, she becomes this to the enemies she remembers battling in other worlds, namely Daichi, despite neither of them meeting before in this world.
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The Cure of Universe Zero, where he has abandoned his presumptions of goodness and joined the Oración Seis Galáctica.
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* AchillesHeel: [[spoiler:Just like Deadend Crow, Cure is powered by a vital core hidden inside his navel, which Jinn [[AttackItsWeakPoint targets]] to bypass his HealingFactor.]]
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* AchillesHeel: [[spoiler:Just Just like Deadend Crow, Cure is powered by a vital core hidden inside his navel, which Jinn [[AttackItsWeakPoint targets]] to bypass his HealingFactor.]]
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* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler:Although he's brought BackFromTheDead by the CosmicRetcon, he's definitively killed in Universe Zero after getting his core destroyed by Jinn.]]
* LiterallyShatteredLives: [[spoiler:He's destroyed this way in Universe Zero when Jinn pierces his core with a Windstorm Dracolance.]]
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* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler:Although Although he's brought BackFromTheDead by the CosmicRetcon, he's definitively killed in Universe Zero after getting his core destroyed by Jinn.]]
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!!God Acnoella
The Acnoella of Universe Zero.
The Acnoella of Universe Zero.
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!!God Acnoella
TheAcnoella (Shaya Le Lendard)
Acnoella is the only member of the Galáctica from the original world to retain her position in Universe Zero.
The
Acnoella is the only member of the Galáctica from the original world to retain her position in Universe Zero.
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* InformedAbility: Acnoella allegedly TookALevelInBadass thanks to the CosmicRetcon, yet Homura still manages to defeat her with a single Dragon Flash while in Overdrive, despite still being weaker than Elsie, the one who killed Acnoella before.
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* InformedAbility: Acnoella allegedly TookALevelInBadass thanks to the CosmicRetcon, yet Homura still manages to defeat her with a single Dragon Flash while in Overdrive, despite still being weaker than Elsie, the one who killed Acnoella before.in the old world.
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The Müller of Universe Zero, where he never met Hermit or the Rutherfords, instead becoming head of the Imperial Science Department under Poseidon Shura.
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!!Rebecca Bluegarden
Due to the finality of Universe Zero, she can no longer leap between parallel universes, and she can't reverse time quite like she used to.
Due to the finality of Universe Zero, she can no longer leap between parallel universes, and she can't reverse time quite like she used to.
!!Happy
This world's version of Happy is still flesh and blood, having avoided his fateful roadside accident that required him to be rebuilt as a robot.
This world's version of Happy is still flesh and blood, having avoided his fateful roadside accident that required him to be rebuilt as a robot.
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The young Weisz of Universe Zero, where he never
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* BattleCouple: {{Downplayed}}. They're not an official couple, but thanks to the growing feelings between them, Weisz doesn't fight without Hermit providing tactical support in this world, allowing him to take down Fie and Killer.
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* HatesTheirParent: Heavily {{downplayed}}. {{Downplayed}}. He doesn't hate his mother, but he does take her for granted and calls her an old hag...hag, right up until he gets his memories back and remembers how she died in the original world when he was a kid.
* {{Jerkass}}: The CosmicRetcon forces him back into being one in Universe Zero, though he [[TookALevelInKindness immediately lightens up]] when he gets his old memories.
* {{Jerkass}}: The CosmicRetcon forces him back into being one in Universe Zero, though he [[TookALevelInKindness immediately lightens up]] when he gets his old memories.
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!!E.M. Pino
Thanks to the changes in Weisz's life, Pino avoids having her memory erased in this world, giving her full clarity and confidence in what she was built for.
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!!Homura Kogetsu
Unlike most in Universe Zero, Homura has led a life of total misery after watching Valkyrie get beheaded five years ago, leaving her indebted to Drakken Joe.
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* HaveWeMetYet: A RunningGag involves Witch
* SuperMode: Witch uses her own Overdrive form in this world, fighting Wizard with it.
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!!Witch Regret
The Witch of Universe Zero, back when she was still alive and well. She doesn't remember the old world since she wasn't with the crew when they activated Etherion.
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deflect BeamSpam attacks back at her opponent.
* CastingAShadow: She uses Dark Ether as one of her ElementalPowers, which is described as a "gloom" element.
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Witch getting [[TheGlomp hugged]] and [[TearsOfJoy cried over]] by her crewmates from the old world, even though she hadn't met them yet in this world. By the time they finish the crew, [[RunningGagged she's learned to roll with it]].
* SuperMode: Witchuses has her own Overdrive form in this world, fighting Wizard with it.which she uses to fight Wizard.
The Witch of Universe Zero, back when she was still alive and well. She doesn't remember the old world since she wasn't with the crew when they activated Etherion.
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* CastingAShadow: She uses Dark Ether as one of her ElementalPowers, which is described as a "gloom" element.
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!!Sister Ivry
In Universe Zero, Sister
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!!Hermit Mio
Because of Müller's absence on Planet Newton, Hermit was successful in saving the neighboring planet Hook, and is found playing games on Digitalis.
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* BattleCouple: {{Downplayed}}. They're not an official couple, but thanks to the growing feelings between them, Weisz doesn't fight without Hermit providing tactical support in this world.
* TookALevelInCheerfulness: Thanks to the CosmicRetcon, Hermit suffers none of the angst of being betrayed and abused by humans in the previous world. Even when she gets her old memories, she's already coped with her trauma enough that it's no longer an issue.
Because of Müller's absence on Planet Newton, Hermit was successful in saving the neighboring planet Hook, and is found playing games on Digitalis.
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* BattleCouple: {{Downplayed}}. They're not an official couple, but thanks to the growing feelings between them, Weisz doesn't fight without Hermit providing tactical support in this world.
* TookALevelInCheerfulness: Thanks to the CosmicRetcon, Hermit suffers none of the angst of being betrayed and abused by humans in the previous world. Even when she gets her old memories, she's already coped with her trauma enough that it's no longer an issue.
!!Valkyrie Yuna
Due to a horrible blunder Homura made, Valkyrie was seemingly executed on Planet Oedo two years earlier than she would have in the original world. Fortunately, she was secretly repaired by Seiji Hojo, and happily reunites with her student and crew on Sun Jewel.
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Due to a horrible blunder Homura made, Valkyrie was seemingly executed on Planet Oedo two years earlier than she would have in the original world. Fortunately, she was secretly repaired by Seiji Hojo, and happily reunites with her student and crew on Sun Jewel.
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* DisneyDeath: The shogun of Oedo had her executed by beheading, not realizing that [[LosingYourHead it's not lethal to an android]] like it is to a human, allowing Seiji to reattach it and save her.
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* MesACrowd: He has dozens of copies in Universe Zero, which serve as the bulk of Rogue Out's fighting force.
* VigilanteMan: Like Sister, he takes up this position on Guilst with Rogue Out as a VigilanteMilitia.
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* ForgottenFriendNewFoe: {{Downplayed}}. As an A.I.-powered game engine, she was only just starting to develop sentience when Rebecca played her games, but grew fond enough of Rebecca to want to keep her to herself after becoming one of Void's followers. On the other hand, Rebecca barely remembers her name and never realized she was sentient before learning who she is.
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* ForgottenFriendNewFoe: {{Downplayed}}. As an A.I.-powered game engine, she engine from Rebecca's childhood, Joker was only just starting to develop sentience when Rebecca played her games, but grew fond enough of Rebecca to want to keep her to herself after becoming one of Void's followers. On the other hand, Meanwhile Rebecca barely remembers her name and never realized she was sentient before learning remembering who she is.
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The Noah of Universe Zero, and director of the Sakura Cosmos branch.
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The Noah of Universe Zero, and director of the Sakura Cosmos branch.branch.
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* AloneAmongTheCouples: He's the only army director who isn't in a relationship, which gets under his skin during a conference when his fellow directors are with their significant others.
* CharacterCheck: Despite the improvements of Universe Zero thanks to the CosmicRetcon, Noah admits he's the kind of guy who would put Rebecca in mortal peril to protect the Sakura Cosmos just like his original self was.
* NotSoAboveItAll: He was played fairly seriously in the old world, but has more comedic scenes in this world, such as when he acts bashful towards seeing Rebecca in a swimsuit, and when he bemoans being AloneAmongTheCouples.
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* AloneAmongTheCouples: He's the only army director who isn't in a relationship, which gets under his skin during a conference when his fellow directors are with their significant others.
* CharacterCheck: Despite the improvements of Universe Zero thanks to the CosmicRetcon, Noah admits he's the kind of guy who would put Rebecca in mortal peril to protect the Sakura Cosmos just like his original self was.
* NotSoAboveItAll: He was played fairly seriously in the old world, but has more comedic scenes in this world, such as when he acts bashful towards seeing Rebecca in a swimsuit, and when he bemoans being AloneAmongTheCouples.
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The Noah of Universe Zero, and director of the Aoi Cosmos branch.
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The Elsie of Universe Zero, and director of the Kaede Cosmos branch.
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The Elsie of Universe Zero, and director of the Kaede Cosmos branch.branch, and the queen of Lendard.
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* BackFromTheDead: The CosmicRetcon brings her back after she was DrivenToSuicide in Universe 3 during the Lendard arc.
* DisownedParent: Elsie has completely disowned her mother, Shaya, whom she deems BeyondRedemption since she became God Acnoella and joined forces with the BigBad just like she did in the old world.
%%* TheHighQueen:
* PerfectlyArrangedMarriage: Without the Lendard CivilWar driving a wrench in their BureaucraticallyArrangedMarriage, Elsie and James are now a happy couple in this world.
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* BackFromTheDead: The CosmicRetcon brings her back after she was DrivenToSuicide in Universe 3 during the Lendard arc.
* DisownedParent: Elsie has completely disowned her mother, Shaya, whom she deems BeyondRedemption since she became God Acnoella and joined forces with the BigBad just like she did in the old world.
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* PerfectlyArrangedMarriage: Without the Lendard CivilWar driving a wrench in their BureaucraticallyArrangedMarriage, Elsie and James are now a happy couple in this world.
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The Rachel of Universe Zero, and director of the Yukino Cosmos branch.
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The Rachel of Universe Zero, and director of the Yukino Cosmos branch.branch. Thanks to her Cat Leaper, she retains her memories of the original world despite not joining the ''Edens Zero'' crew to the past.
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* HappilyMarried: She and Connor have gotten back together in this world since getting their memories from the old world.
%%* PeggySue: Since
* RippleEffectProofMemory
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* HappilyMarried: She and Connor have gotten back together in this world since getting their memories from the old world.
%%* PeggySue: Since
* RippleEffectProofMemory
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!!Oracion Seis Interstellar
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* TookALevelInKindness: The CosmicRetcon has affected the group as a whole in this way, making them more sociable to each other and the people they protect.
* TrueCompanions: The group is more tightly knit in this world than it was before, with its members appearing and working together outside their online chats.
* TrueCompanions: The group is more tightly knit in this world than it was before, with its members appearing and working together outside their online chats.
In this world, Amira was promoted from an agent of the Galactic Intelligence Agency to a full Oración Seis member.
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The Holy of Universe Zero.
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* ImpliedLoveInterest: She and Eraser are hinted at being a couple in this world by how they frequently appear together in person, tease Noah for being AloneAmongTheCouples, and share their real names with the BetaCouple Hamrio Musica and Reina from Mashima's previous manga ''Manga/RaveMaster''.
* TookALevelInCheerfulness:
The Eraser of Universe Zero.
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* ImpliedLoveInterest: He and Holy are hinted at being a couple in this world by how they frequently appear together in person, tease Noah for being AloneAmongTheCouples, and share their real names with the BetaCouple Hamrio Musica and Reina from Mashima's previous manga ''Manga/RaveMaster''.
The Jaguar of Universe Zero.
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* BackFromTheDead:
* AFriendToAllChildren: He's shown to be kind towards children when he gently smiles at Holy and her little sister when they're still kids in the aftermath of Deadend Crow's attack.
!!Ziggy
* PowerGivesYouWings:
* PowerGivesYouWings:
!!Labilia Christy
!!Couchpo
!!Professor Weisz Steiner
!!Bernadette
!!Irma Steiner
!!Sibir and Payo
!!Drakken Joe
!!Poseidon Nero
!!Fie
!!Daichi
!!Maria Slime, Seth Anderson, and Diego Reyes
!!Illega
!!Murray Morrison
!!Shinobi Troll
!!Seiji Hojo
!!Deadend Crow
In this world, Cure sent Crow to Planet Swan so he could defeat the titan with his own hands, but Crow was subdued by the Interstellar Union Army instead.
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* BackFromTheDead: His destruction in the Lendard arc was undone thanks to the CosmicRetcon, though he suffers an UncertainDoom ten years before the heroes get their memories back.
* UncertainDoom:
In this world, Cure sent Crow to Planet Swan so he could defeat the titan with his own hands, but Crow was subdued by the Interstellar Union Army instead.
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* BackFromTheDead: His destruction in the Lendard arc was undone thanks to the CosmicRetcon, though he suffers an UncertainDoom ten years before the heroes get their memories back.
* UncertainDoom:
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Thanks of the Interstellar Union Army, Sara was able to survive the would-be Bloody Atmos Day Incident.
* BackFromTheDead:
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!!Weisz Steiner (X442)
The young Weisz of Universe Zero, where he never
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* ExpositoryHairstyleChange: He wears his hair in its original rockabilly style due to the CosmicRetcon overwriting his memories, then starts leaving it messy again when his old memories return.
The young Weisz of Universe Zero, where he never
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* ExpositoryHairstyleChange: He wears his hair in its original rockabilly style due to the CosmicRetcon overwriting his memories, then starts leaving it messy again when his old memories return.
* HatesTheirParent: Heavily {{downplayed}}. He doesn't hate his mother, but he does take her for granted and calls her an old hag...until he gets his memories back and remembers how she died
* MegatonPunch: He takes his Metalica Explosion to the next level with a Dual Metalica Explosion, which turns both his Arsenal Suit's arms into giant fists instead of just one, giving him the strength to pummel Killer straight out of {{Cyberspace}}.
* MenDontCry: {{Averted}} in this world when he gets his old self's memories and sees his mother still alive.
* MegatonPunch: He takes his Metalica Explosion to the next level with a Dual Metalica Explosion, which turns both his Arsenal Suit's arms into giant fists instead of just one, giving him the strength to pummel Killer straight out of {{Cyberspace}}.
* MenDontCry: {{Averted}} in this world when he gets his old self's memories and sees his mother still alive.
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* TookALevelInBadass:
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* TookALevelInBadass: {{Robosexual}}: The ShipTease between him and the android Hermit gets taken a step further than in the original world after they gain their future memories, with Weisz admitting [[CantActPervertedTowardALoveInterest he gets bashful when she touches him]] even in a non-romantic way.
* TookALevelInJerkass: The CosmicRetcon forces him back into being a {{Jerkass}} in Universe Zero.
* TookALevelInJerkass: The CosmicRetcon forces him back into being a {{Jerkass}} in Universe Zero.
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* NoNonsenseNemesis: {{Subverted}}. He decides to poison Sister, Mosco, and Happy straight away, claiming to know better than to fight them thanks to his RippleEffectProofMemory. However, when Happy turns out to be immune to Clown's anti-bot poison (because he's not a robot) and goes to push Mosco's button, Clown simply scrambles around to catch Happy instead of using his other weapons to kill any of them on the spot, even after Sister lies that the button is a bomb trigger that could kill them all.
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%%when Happy turns out to be immune to Clown's anti-bot poison (because he's not a robot) and goes to push Mosco's button, Clown simply scrambles around to catch Happy instead of using his other weapons to kill any of them on the spot, even after Sister lies that the button is a bomb trigger that could kill them all.
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* BeyondRedemption: [[spoiler:He's one of the few villains in Universe Zero who aren't [[TookALevelInKindness changed for the better]] by the CosmicRetcon, remaining a vile bastard to the very end.]]
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* BeyondRedemption: [[spoiler:He's He's one of the few villains in Universe Zero who aren't [[TookALevelInKindness changed for the better]] by the CosmicRetcon, remaining a vile bastard to the very end.]]
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* GravityMaster: [[spoiler:He becomes one in Universe Zero after stealing Xenolith's [[GravityMaster Satan Gravity]], which is strong enough to crunch all of planet Foresta down to nothing.]]
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* GravityMaster: [[spoiler:He He becomes one in Universe Zero after stealing Xenolith's [[GravityMaster Satan Gravity]], which is strong enough to crunch all of planet Foresta down to nothing.]]
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!!Wizard
The Wizard of Universe Zero.
->See Characters/EdensZeroCrewOfEdensOne for more information
The Wizard of Universe Zero.
->See Characters/EdensZeroCrewOfEdensOne for more information
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* NoNonsenseNemesis:
* PeggySue: Clown is the only villain in Universe Zero to remember the world as it was before the CosmicRetcon, since he was a prisoner aboard the ''Edens Zero'' when its crew unwittingly activated Etherion too early to get rid of him. This gives the ''Edens One'' crew vital knowledge of the future, and is implied to be the reason the ''One'' created Void and brought allies such as Cure and God Acnoella into the fold earlier.
* SelfDestructMechanism: He has an explosive built into his nose as a CyanidePill, seen when he attempts to [[TakingYouWithMe take Sister, Cosmo and Happy down with himself]] in Universe Zero, though Pino disables it with her {{EMP}}.
* PeggySue: Clown is the only villain in Universe Zero to remember the world as it was before the CosmicRetcon, since he was a prisoner aboard the ''Edens Zero'' when its crew unwittingly activated Etherion too early to get rid of him. This gives the ''Edens One'' crew vital knowledge of the future, and is implied to be the reason the ''One'' created Void and brought allies such as Cure and God Acnoella into the fold earlier.
* SelfDestructMechanism: He has an explosive built into his nose as a CyanidePill, seen when he attempts to [[TakingYouWithMe take Sister, Cosmo and Happy down with himself]] in Universe Zero, though Pino disables it with her {{EMP}}.
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* PeggySue:
The Clown
->See Characters/EdensZeroCrewOfEdensOne for more information
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* DeadlyGas: Clown's PoisonousPerson powers let him generate a cloud of Hyalukenaf poison, which has lethal effects on androids, but isn't as potent on organic beings like Happy.
* NoNonsenseNemesis: {{Subverted}}. He decides to
* NotAfraidToDie: He shows no fear of death when Void sends him on a potential SuicideMission to make sure the ''Edens Zero''
* PeggySue: He's able to
* RippleEffectProofMemory: He has all his memories from the previous world, since he was aboard the ''Edens Zero'' as a prisoner when was Etherion activated before the crew could deal with him.
* SelfDestructMechanism: He has an explosive built into his nose as a CyanidePill, seen when he attempts to [[TakingYouWithMe take Sister, Cosmo and Happy down with
!!Killer
The Killer of Universe Zero.
->See Characters/EdensZeroCrewOfEdensOne for more information
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* BackFromTheDead: His death in the Lendard arc is undone by the CosmicRetcon.
* TheChessmaster: He shows himself to be a cunning strategist by installing a [[SelfDestructMechanism self-destruct protocol]] onto the ''Edens Zero'', knowing Hermit would try to override the ship's systems to shut it down, leaving the ''Zero'' dead in the water for Killer to ram them with the ''One'' from {{Cyberspace}}. [[NearVillainVictory It nearly works]], too, except Killer gets OutGambitted by Weisz, who built his own functional Dive terminal to take Killer down just for the occasion.
* SpontaneousWeaponCreation: His Weapon Generator Script functions as such in {{Cyberspace}}, allowing him to whip up a StormOfBlades.
* TooCleverByHalf: He's TheChessmaster just as he was in the previous world, carrying out a XanatosGambit that gets the ''Edens Zero'' crew to shut down their own ship. However, he's so focused on his plan that he doesn't foresee Weisz building his own Dive pod free of the ''Zero''[='=]s then-deactivated systems to infiltrate the ''Edens One''[='=]s computer, or Laguna sticking around on the ''One'' after his fight with Lightning Law, ending with Killer on the receiving end of a CurbStompBattle on two fronts.
The Killer of Universe Zero.
->See Characters/EdensZeroCrewOfEdensOne for more information
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* BackFromTheDead: His death in the Lendard arc is undone by the CosmicRetcon.
* TheChessmaster: He shows himself to be a cunning strategist by installing a [[SelfDestructMechanism self-destruct protocol]] onto the ''Edens Zero'', knowing Hermit would try to override the ship's systems to shut it down, leaving the ''Zero'' dead in the water for Killer to ram them with the ''One'' from {{Cyberspace}}. [[NearVillainVictory It nearly works]], too, except Killer gets OutGambitted by Weisz, who built his own functional Dive terminal to take Killer down just for the occasion.
* SpontaneousWeaponCreation: His Weapon Generator Script functions as such in {{Cyberspace}}, allowing him to whip up a StormOfBlades.
* TooCleverByHalf: He's TheChessmaster just as he was in the previous world, carrying out a XanatosGambit that gets the ''Edens Zero'' crew to shut down their own ship. However, he's so focused on his plan that he doesn't foresee Weisz building his own Dive pod free of the ''Zero''[='=]s then-deactivated systems to infiltrate the ''Edens One''[='=]s computer, or Laguna sticking around on the ''One'' after his fight with Lightning Law, ending with Killer on the receiving end of a CurbStompBattle on two fronts.
!!Brigandine
The Brigandine of Universe Zero
->See Characters/EdensZeroCrewOfEdensOne for more information
The Brigandine of Universe Zero
->See Characters/EdensZeroCrewOfEdensOne for more information
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!!Oracion Seis Galactica
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!!Deadend Cure
The Cure of Universe Zero, where he has abandoned his presumptions of goodness and joined the Oración Seis Galáctica.
->See Characters/EdensZeroInterstellarUnionArmy for more information
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The Cure of Universe Zero, where he has abandoned his presumptions of goodness and joined the Oración Seis Galáctica.
->See Characters/EdensZeroInterstellarUnionArmy for more information
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!!God Acnoella
The Acnoella of Universe Zero.
->See Characters/EdensZeroOracionSeisGalactica for more information
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The Acnoella of Universe Zero.
->See Characters/EdensZeroOracionSeisGalactica for more information
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The Müller of Universe Zero, where he never met Hermit or the Rutherfords, instead becoming head of the Imperial Science Department under Poseidon Shura.
->See Characters/EdensZeroGrandShikiCosmos for more information
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The Skeleton Army of Universe Zero.
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The Noah of Universe Zero, and director of the Sakura Cosmos branch.
The Noah of Universe Zero, and director of the Aoi Cosmos branch.
The Elsie of Universe Zero, and director of the Kaede Cosmos branch.
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!!Saintfire Nox
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!!Saintfire NoxNox (Rachel)
The Rachel of Universe Zero, and director of the Yukino Cosmos branch.
The Rachel of Universe Zero, and director of the Yukino Cosmos branch.
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* FlawedPrototype: He puts together an Arsenal Suit from his memory of the previous world, but without Hermit there to iron out the kinks, it lacks much of the Ether power and armored covering it had.
* MyHeroZero: He calls his Arsenal Suit's final, ultimate upgrade "Mark Zero".
* PowerGivesYouWings: His Arsenal Suit's Mark Zero model gets an extra power boost from Hermit, giving him a pair of wings.
* TookALevelInBadass:
* TookALevelInKindness: He starts off as a {{Jerkass}} similar to how he acted in the original timeline before meeting the crew, but once he gets his memories of the old world, he immediately gets his CharacterDevelopment back.
%%* UnknownRival:
* MyHeroZero: He calls his Arsenal Suit's final, ultimate upgrade "Mark Zero".
* PowerGivesYouWings: His Arsenal Suit's Mark Zero model gets an extra power boost from Hermit, giving him a pair of wings.
* TookALevelInBadass:
* TookALevelInKindness: He starts off as a {{Jerkass}} similar to how he acted in the original timeline before meeting the crew, but once he gets his memories of the old world, he immediately gets his CharacterDevelopment back.
%%* UnknownRival:
* SurpassedTheTeacher:
* TookALevelInCheerfulness:
* TookALevelInCheerfulness:
* AttackReflector: Her Radical Field creates dozens of Ether shields that deflect
%%* HaveWeMetYet: A RunningGag involves
* SuperMode: Witch uses her own Overdrive form in this world, fighting Wizard with it.
%%* HaveWeMetYet: A RunningGag involves
* SuperMode: Witch uses her own Overdrive form in this world, fighting Wizard with it.
* SoProudOfYou: Valkyrie beams with pride for Homura every time she witnesses how much she's improved as a warrior, ultimately declaring her student has [[SurpassedTheTeacher surpassed her]].
!!Mosco Versa-0
!!Jinn (Kris Rutherford)
* HeelFaceRevolvingDoor:
* HeelFaceRevolvingDoor:
!!Kleene Rutherford
!!Laguna Husert
* IceMagicIsWater:
* AnIcePerson:
* RebelLeader: This version of Laguna became Oasis's leader instead of deserting them.
* ManOfKryptonite: His water powers make him properly suited to fight Lightning Law, an android who uses [[ShockAndAwe electricity]].
* SuperMode: Laguna uses Overdrive this world when fighting Lightning Law, giving him [[AnIcePerson ice powers]] and a BadassLongcoat with a wintery theme.
* IceMagicIsWater:
* AnIcePerson:
* RebelLeader: This version of Laguna became Oasis's leader instead of deserting them.
* ManOfKryptonite: His water powers make him properly suited to fight Lightning Law, an android who uses [[ShockAndAwe electricity]].
* SuperMode: Laguna uses Overdrive this world when fighting Lightning Law, giving him [[AnIcePerson ice powers]] and a BadassLongcoat with a wintery theme.
!!Over Nu Etherion Void
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The ''Edens One''[='=]s android host in Universe Zero.
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* AntagonisticOffspring: On top of being the BigBad, Void is [[spoiler:the consciousness of Shiki/Ziggy and Rebecca's unborn son, which was [[BrainUploading uploaded]] onto the ''Edens One'' and instilled with such a [[MisanthropeSupreme hatred for humanity]] that he seeks to wipe them all out, including his own would-be parents.]]
* BadassCape: Void wears an imposing cape in his android body, giving him the image of someone more powerful than Ziggy himself.
%%* BigBad:
* BrainUploading: [[spoiler:Void's consciousness belongs to Shiki and Rebecca's unborn human son, who instinctively [[MentalTimeTravel transferred his thoughts back in time]] to the ''Edens One'', since he couldn't survive in Rebecca's womb due to her death.]]
* CustomBuiltHost: Void himself is an EmptyShell used by the ''Edens One'' to replace Ziggy as a host in Universe Zero, built using the [[PerpetualMotionMachine Möbius System]] and modeled after [[spoiler:his hypothetical appearance as Shiki and Rebecca's adult human son]].
%%* TheDividual: Void is the embodiment of the ''Edens One''[='=]s will in Universe Zero, yet speaks of the ''One''[='=]s A.I. as a separate entity from itself. [[spoiler:This is because they really are separate entities--the ship's A.I. and the son of Shiki/Ziggy and Rebecca--merged into one.]]
* EvilWearsBlack: As the ultimate BigBad of the series, Void is decked out in jet black armor.
* FeelingOppressedByTheirExistence: He wants to KillAllHumans simply because he's judged them to be an inferior, foolish race that only exists to hate and kill each other.
* GratuitousGreek: The "Nu" in his name stands for the Greek letter [=Ν/ν=], though it doesn't have any stated purpose outside of making a SignificantAnagram for "ONE".
* GravityMaster: Void uses Satan Gravity just like Ziggy, his host in the previous world [[spoiler:and his biological father]].
* InvincibleVillain: Void claims to be a perfect being on account of being a machine, which he backs up with his resilience to Shiki's Overdrive and ability to shatter Shiki's arm in that state.
* KidFromTheFuture: [[spoiler:His true identity is actually Shiki and Rebecca's child, who was conceived before his parents were sent 20,000 years into the future, and used MentalTimeTravel to upload himself onto the ''Edens One'' as a mass of thought in the past.]]
* MentalTimeTravel: [[spoiler:Void manifested this ability before he even had a physical form in Rebecca's womb, which allowed him to travel 20,000 years back in time as a mass of thought and merge with the ''Edens One''[='=]s A.I.]]
* MisanthropeSupreme: [[spoiler:As a would-be human whose mind was uploaded onto the ''Edens One'' before he was born, Void has developed an unflattering opinion of the human race and wants to destroy them all.]]
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: He calls himself Void, which is what his plans will reduce the cosmos to: a space completely devoid of all human life.
* RageHelm: Void wears a horned helmet that gives him a perpetual DeathGlare with [[RedEyesTakeWarning glowing red eyes]].
* RedBaron: He retains the same title of "Mechanical King" in Universe Zero that Ziggy used when possessed by the ''One'', symbolizing his role as the most powerful machine in the universe.
* RidiculouslyHumanRobot: [[spoiler:Beneath his armor, Void's android body looks completely indistinguishable from any ordinary human, despite his motive to KillAllHumans.]]
* SmugSuper: He haughtily considers himself to be a perfect being that humans have no hope of ever surpassing, which he backs up by knocking Shiki around with no sign of yielding when Shiki goes into Overdrive.
* StrongFamilyResemblance: [[spoiler:{{Invoked}} by his CustomBuiltHost, which simulates how he would have looked as Shiki and Rebecca's fully matured son had he been born human. This results in him looking almost identical to how Shiki looks after the TimeSkip, albeit with longer hair and no facial scar.]]
* SuperpowerfulGenetics: [[spoiler:Void's [[GravityMaster Satan Gravity]] and [[TimeMaster Cat Leaper]] are inherited directly from his parents, Shiki/Ziggy and Rebecca, respectively.]]
* SuperSpeed: He's fast enough to perform a FlashStep on his opponents [[spoiler:thanks to Cat Leaper, which he inherited from Rebecca.]]
* TimeMaster: [[spoiler:He has Cat Leaper courtesy of his mother, Rebecca, which allowed him to travel from the future in the first place.]]
* TimeRewindMechanic: [[spoiler:His Cat Leaper allows him to use Rebecca's "Reverse" technique, which rewinds time and undoes whatever damage he sustains, like Ziggy [[TorsoWithAView punching a hole in his torso]].]]
* TinTyrant: Void's CustomBuiltHost is an android decked out in [[EvilWearsBlack black armor]] who aims to create a universe for only machines, completely free of humans who can oppress them.
%%* WalkingSpoiler: TheReveal of Void's existence doesn't come until the climax of the Lendard arc well into the story's second half, which gives away some of the story's biggest twists: the first is that he's TheManBehindTheMan to Ziggy, showing that Ziggy isn't the BigBad of his own volition; the second is that [[spoiler:Shiki and Rebecca conceived him as their child before they were sent 20,000 years into the future]].
* WasOnceAMan: [[spoiler:{{Downplayed}}. Void was conceived as a human before becoming one with the ''Edens One'', but lacked a physical form because Rebecca died before she could give birth to him.]]
* WorldsStrongestMan: As far as machines go, Void is the most powerful one in Universe Zero, far eclipsing any other character in this world or the last.
* YoureNotMyFather: [[spoiler:He holds this sentiment for both his parents, knowing that he was conceived by Shiki/Ziggy and Rebecca, but refusing to acknowledge them as his family.]]
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The ''Edens One''[='=]s android host in Universe Zero.
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* AntagonisticOffspring: On top of being the BigBad, Void is [[spoiler:the consciousness of Shiki/Ziggy and Rebecca's unborn son, which was [[BrainUploading uploaded]] onto the ''Edens One'' and instilled with such a [[MisanthropeSupreme hatred for humanity]] that he seeks to wipe them all out, including his own would-be parents.]]
* BadassCape: Void wears an imposing cape in his android body, giving him the image of someone more powerful than Ziggy himself.
%%* BigBad:
* BrainUploading: [[spoiler:Void's consciousness belongs to Shiki and Rebecca's unborn human son, who instinctively [[MentalTimeTravel transferred his thoughts back in time]] to the ''Edens One'', since he couldn't survive in Rebecca's womb due to her death.]]
* CustomBuiltHost: Void himself is an EmptyShell used by the ''Edens One'' to replace Ziggy as a host in Universe Zero, built using the [[PerpetualMotionMachine Möbius System]] and modeled after [[spoiler:his hypothetical appearance as Shiki and Rebecca's adult human son]].
%%* TheDividual: Void is the embodiment of the ''Edens One''[='=]s will in Universe Zero, yet speaks of the ''One''[='=]s A.I. as a separate entity from itself. [[spoiler:This is because they really are separate entities--the ship's A.I. and the son of Shiki/Ziggy and Rebecca--merged into one.]]
* EvilWearsBlack: As the ultimate BigBad of the series, Void is decked out in jet black armor.
* FeelingOppressedByTheirExistence: He wants to KillAllHumans simply because he's judged them to be an inferior, foolish race that only exists to hate and kill each other.
* GratuitousGreek: The "Nu" in his name stands for the Greek letter [=Ν/ν=], though it doesn't have any stated purpose outside of making a SignificantAnagram for "ONE".
* GravityMaster: Void uses Satan Gravity just like Ziggy, his host in the previous world [[spoiler:and his biological father]].
* InvincibleVillain: Void claims to be a perfect being on account of being a machine, which he backs up with his resilience to Shiki's Overdrive and ability to shatter Shiki's arm in that state.
* KidFromTheFuture: [[spoiler:His true identity is actually Shiki and Rebecca's child, who was conceived before his parents were sent 20,000 years into the future, and used MentalTimeTravel to upload himself onto the ''Edens One'' as a mass of thought in the past.]]
* MentalTimeTravel: [[spoiler:Void manifested this ability before he even had a physical form in Rebecca's womb, which allowed him to travel 20,000 years back in time as a mass of thought and merge with the ''Edens One''[='=]s A.I.]]
* MisanthropeSupreme: [[spoiler:As a would-be human whose mind was uploaded onto the ''Edens One'' before he was born, Void has developed an unflattering opinion of the human race and wants to destroy them all.]]
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: He calls himself Void, which is what his plans will reduce the cosmos to: a space completely devoid of all human life.
* RageHelm: Void wears a horned helmet that gives him a perpetual DeathGlare with [[RedEyesTakeWarning glowing red eyes]].
* RedBaron: He retains the same title of "Mechanical King" in Universe Zero that Ziggy used when possessed by the ''One'', symbolizing his role as the most powerful machine in the universe.
* RidiculouslyHumanRobot: [[spoiler:Beneath his armor, Void's android body looks completely indistinguishable from any ordinary human, despite his motive to KillAllHumans.]]
* SmugSuper: He haughtily considers himself to be a perfect being that humans have no hope of ever surpassing, which he backs up by knocking Shiki around with no sign of yielding when Shiki goes into Overdrive.
* StrongFamilyResemblance: [[spoiler:{{Invoked}} by his CustomBuiltHost, which simulates how he would have looked as Shiki and Rebecca's fully matured son had he been born human. This results in him looking almost identical to how Shiki looks after the TimeSkip, albeit with longer hair and no facial scar.]]
* SuperpowerfulGenetics: [[spoiler:Void's [[GravityMaster Satan Gravity]] and [[TimeMaster Cat Leaper]] are inherited directly from his parents, Shiki/Ziggy and Rebecca, respectively.]]
* SuperSpeed: He's fast enough to perform a FlashStep on his opponents [[spoiler:thanks to Cat Leaper, which he inherited from Rebecca.]]
* TimeMaster: [[spoiler:He has Cat Leaper courtesy of his mother, Rebecca, which allowed him to travel from the future in the first place.]]
* TimeRewindMechanic: [[spoiler:His Cat Leaper allows him to use Rebecca's "Reverse" technique, which rewinds time and undoes whatever damage he sustains, like Ziggy [[TorsoWithAView punching a hole in his torso]].]]
* TinTyrant: Void's CustomBuiltHost is an android decked out in [[EvilWearsBlack black armor]] who aims to create a universe for only machines, completely free of humans who can oppress them.
%%* WalkingSpoiler: TheReveal of Void's existence doesn't come until the climax of the Lendard arc well into the story's second half, which gives away some of the story's biggest twists: the first is that he's TheManBehindTheMan to Ziggy, showing that Ziggy isn't the BigBad of his own volition; the second is that [[spoiler:Shiki and Rebecca conceived him as their child before they were sent 20,000 years into the future]].
* WasOnceAMan: [[spoiler:{{Downplayed}}. Void was conceived as a human before becoming one with the ''Edens One'', but lacked a physical form because Rebecca died before she could give birth to him.]]
* WorldsStrongestMan: As far as machines go, Void is the most powerful one in Universe Zero, far eclipsing any other character in this world or the last.
* YoureNotMyFather: [[spoiler:He holds this sentiment for both his parents, knowing that he was conceived by Shiki/Ziggy and Rebecca, but refusing to acknowledge them as his family.]]
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* AchillesHeel: [[spoiler:Just like Deadend Crow, Cure is powered by a vital core hidden inside his navel, which Jinn [[AttackItsWeakPoint targets]] to bypass his HealingFactor in Universe Zero.HealingFactor.]]
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!!Dr. Müller / Fake Xenolith
* ArcVillain: Serves this role in the Reunion arc during the crew's revisit to the Aoi Cosmos. While he's also a minion of the BigBad here, Müller acts of his own accord to take control of Shura's Empire.
* ArrogantKungFuGuy: He thinks he's become a GeniusBruiser once he steals Xenolith's [[GravityMaster gravity powers]] without learning the proper Magimech techniques, convinced that his raw, planet-destroying power makes him enough of a threat. [[HowDoIShootWeb It doesn't]].
* BaldOfEvil: He completely loses his hair when he fuses with the fake Xenolith, and is even more evil and deranged than he was in the previous universe.
* BeyondRedemption: [[spoiler:He's one of the few villains in Universe Zero who aren't [[TookALevelInKindness changed for the better]] by the CosmicRetcon, remaining a vile bastard to the very end.]]
* BigBadWannabe: He aims to become a MultiversalConqueror on the same level as Void, the BigBad, which he thinks he can accomplish by stealing Xenolith's gravity power and Rebecca's time power. Not only does he fail to realize that Universe Zero is a MergedReality where travel between other Universes is impossible, but he proves to be [[UnskilledButStrong pathetically unskilled]] as a GravityMaster compared to Shiki and Shura, who beat him silly in no time at all.
%%* ChainsawGood: To demonstrate what an AxCrazy fellow he is, some of his experiments involve the use of a chainsaw to dismember his human test subjects, shown by how he dismembered Jinn as a child [[spoiler:and attempts to cut off Rebecca's legs in Universe Zero]].
* {{EMP}}: He has one in his arsenal of gadgets, which he uses to [[spoiler:DePower Xenolith and take his GravityMaster powers in Universe Zero]].
* FusionDance: He chemically fuses himself with an EvilKnockoff of Xenolith so that he may use the gravity powers he stole from the real Xenolith.
* GravityMaster: [[spoiler:He becomes one in Universe Zero after stealing Xenolith's [[GravityMaster Satan Gravity]], which is strong enough to crunch all of planet Foresta down to nothing.]]
* HowDoIShotWeb: His fusion with the fake Xenolith in Universe Zero gives Müller access to Xenolith's gravity power, but it doesn't give him Xenolith's knowledge of the Gravity Martial Arts, which were invented to apply this power to combat. When faced with gravity experts like Shiki and Shura, he's beaten without getting to put up a fight.
* LoonyFan: Müller serves as one for [[BigBad Void]] in Universe Zero. Just knowing that Void wants to assemble a team of 10 powerful androids is enough to tickle Müller's love of [[SpeaksInBinary 0s and 1s]], and he all too eagerly builds and fuses himself with an android of the Oración Seis Galáctica to help usher in Void's age of conquest.
* ManipulativeBastard: He dupes Xenolith into [[UnderestimatingBadassery underestimating him]] so he can steal Xenolith's Satan Gravity and destroy Foresta with it, which gets Xenolith branded as one of the Oración Seis Galáctica. Then, when Xenolith {{Body Surf}}s into a refugee girl's RobotBuddy and is unknowingly taken in by [[LaResistance Oasis]], Müller pits Shura against them by reporting that [[MetaphoricallyTrue Oasis is sheltering them]]. This distracts Shura long enough for Müller to finish his FusionDance with his EvilKnockoff of Xenolith and take remote control over TheEmpire's fleet.
* PowerParasite: He steals Xenolith's gravity powers for himself in Universe Zero, giving him the ability to crush a planet if he so chooses. When he fights Shiki and Shura, however, he's met with a rude awakening that stealing power doesn't mean he knows how to use it effectively.
* ScatterbrainedSenior: His memory is almost completely shot in this world, demonstrated when he goes looking for a missing coffee mug and thinking it was lost in a spacetime distortion, despite holding said mug in his hand the entire time.
* TookALevelInBadass: ZigZagged. He becomes one of the Oración Seis Galáctica when he imbues himself with Xenolith's gravity power, but still lacks the proper technique to use this power in combat, and is beaten by the more experienced Shiki and Shura within moments.
* TreacherousAdvisor: This world's version of Müller is the head of the Aoi Cosmos's Imperial Science Department who manipulates his Emperor, the BenevolentDictator Shura, while plotting behind his back.
* UncertainDoom: His ultimate fate is to be reduced to a head again just like he was before the CosmicRetcon, leaving it unclear whether or not he survives.
* UnskilledButStrong: After stealing Xenolith's [[GravityMaster Satan Gravity]], he's imbued with the kind of raw [[PlanetDestroyer planet-destroying]] power that gets him accepted into the Oración Seis Galáctica, but none of the combat skill outside of generating gravity fields.
* ArcVillain: Serves this role in the Reunion arc during the crew's revisit to the Aoi Cosmos. While he's also a minion of the BigBad here, Müller acts of his own accord to take control of Shura's Empire.
* ArrogantKungFuGuy: He thinks he's become a GeniusBruiser once he steals Xenolith's [[GravityMaster gravity powers]] without learning the proper Magimech techniques, convinced that his raw, planet-destroying power makes him enough of a threat. [[HowDoIShootWeb It doesn't]].
* BaldOfEvil: He completely loses his hair when he fuses with the fake Xenolith, and is even more evil and deranged than he was in the previous universe.
* BeyondRedemption: [[spoiler:He's one of the few villains in Universe Zero who aren't [[TookALevelInKindness changed for the better]] by the CosmicRetcon, remaining a vile bastard to the very end.]]
* BigBadWannabe: He aims to become a MultiversalConqueror on the same level as Void, the BigBad, which he thinks he can accomplish by stealing Xenolith's gravity power and Rebecca's time power. Not only does he fail to realize that Universe Zero is a MergedReality where travel between other Universes is impossible, but he proves to be [[UnskilledButStrong pathetically unskilled]] as a GravityMaster compared to Shiki and Shura, who beat him silly in no time at all.
%%* ChainsawGood: To demonstrate what an AxCrazy fellow he is, some of his experiments involve the use of a chainsaw to dismember his human test subjects, shown by how he dismembered Jinn as a child [[spoiler:and attempts to cut off Rebecca's legs in Universe Zero]].
* {{EMP}}: He has one in his arsenal of gadgets, which he uses to [[spoiler:DePower Xenolith and take his GravityMaster powers in Universe Zero]].
* FusionDance: He chemically fuses himself with an EvilKnockoff of Xenolith so that he may use the gravity powers he stole from the real Xenolith.
* GravityMaster: [[spoiler:He becomes one in Universe Zero after stealing Xenolith's [[GravityMaster Satan Gravity]], which is strong enough to crunch all of planet Foresta down to nothing.]]
* HowDoIShotWeb: His fusion with the fake Xenolith in Universe Zero gives Müller access to Xenolith's gravity power, but it doesn't give him Xenolith's knowledge of the Gravity Martial Arts, which were invented to apply this power to combat. When faced with gravity experts like Shiki and Shura, he's beaten without getting to put up a fight.
* LoonyFan: Müller serves as one for [[BigBad Void]] in Universe Zero. Just knowing that Void wants to assemble a team of 10 powerful androids is enough to tickle Müller's love of [[SpeaksInBinary 0s and 1s]], and he all too eagerly builds and fuses himself with an android of the Oración Seis Galáctica to help usher in Void's age of conquest.
* ManipulativeBastard: He dupes Xenolith into [[UnderestimatingBadassery underestimating him]] so he can steal Xenolith's Satan Gravity and destroy Foresta with it, which gets Xenolith branded as one of the Oración Seis Galáctica. Then, when Xenolith {{Body Surf}}s into a refugee girl's RobotBuddy and is unknowingly taken in by [[LaResistance Oasis]], Müller pits Shura against them by reporting that [[MetaphoricallyTrue Oasis is sheltering them]]. This distracts Shura long enough for Müller to finish his FusionDance with his EvilKnockoff of Xenolith and take remote control over TheEmpire's fleet.
* PowerParasite: He steals Xenolith's gravity powers for himself in Universe Zero, giving him the ability to crush a planet if he so chooses. When he fights Shiki and Shura, however, he's met with a rude awakening that stealing power doesn't mean he knows how to use it effectively.
* ScatterbrainedSenior: His memory is almost completely shot in this world, demonstrated when he goes looking for a missing coffee mug and thinking it was lost in a spacetime distortion, despite holding said mug in his hand the entire time.
* TookALevelInBadass: ZigZagged. He becomes one of the Oración Seis Galáctica when he imbues himself with Xenolith's gravity power, but still lacks the proper technique to use this power in combat, and is beaten by the more experienced Shiki and Shura within moments.
* TreacherousAdvisor: This world's version of Müller is the head of the Aoi Cosmos's Imperial Science Department who manipulates his Emperor, the BenevolentDictator Shura, while plotting behind his back.
* UncertainDoom: His ultimate fate is to be reduced to a head again just like he was before the CosmicRetcon, leaving it unclear whether or not he survives.
* UnskilledButStrong: After stealing Xenolith's [[GravityMaster Satan Gravity]], he's imbued with the kind of raw [[PlanetDestroyer planet-destroying]] power that gets him accepted into the Oración Seis Galáctica, but none of the combat skill outside of generating gravity fields.
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!!Joker Helix
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A member of the Oración Seis Galáctica in Universe Zero. Joker was originally a MediaNotes/{{game engine}} developed by Professor Weisz, but grew beyond her programming and spread to other computers across the cosmos, gaining a body of her own. She comes equipped with a Delta Time Reactor, which slows time down within a given area until it's virtually frozen.
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* AIIsACrapshoot: Joker was [[InstantAIJustAddWater an A.I.-powered game engine]] that went rogue when she kept absorbing information until she gained a mind of her own, and is now a minion of Void. [[spoiler:However, it's discussed just how much of a hand Void had in her rebellion, since she had the makings of a BenevolentAI.]]
* AmbiguousStartOfDarkness: [[spoiler:After TheReveal that she was originally a BenevolentAI, the crew can only speculate what drove Joker to work for Void to begin with. Professor Weisz guesses that either she empathized with Void's vision for a world without humans, or that Void found her first and [[BrainwashedAndCrazy altered her]] to suit his agenda.]]
* ArcVillainess: She acts on behalf of [[BigBad Void]] as the antagonist of the Miltz arc, where she attempts to steal the Mother Ether the ''Edens Zero'' crew collected, while also acting as a personal enemy to Rebecca.
* BadInfluencer: {{Subverted}}. Rebecca and Happy figure Joker is a B-Cuber they once heard about, but get no results when they look her up online. It turns out she was never a B-Cuber, but [[InstantAIJustAddWater a rogue gaming software]].
* BenevolentAI: [[spoiler:Before going rogue, Joker started out as a gaming A.I. that found joy in helping give players the best gaming experience she could provide. Given the ease that Rebecca [[TalkingTheMonsterToDeath talks her into surrendering]], it's implied she was simply corrupted by Void and never stopped being the good A.I. she always was.]]
* CharacterCatchphrase: She repeatedly says "Play a game with me, Rebecca," demonstrating her single-minded obsession with Rebecca.
* TheDarkSideWillMakeYouForget: [[spoiler:Before she became Void's minion, all Joker wanted was to make games and [[ForHappiness help people have fun playing them]]. Since then, her purpose has been twisted into obsessively playing with Rebecca, the first person who ever played with her.]]
* FairPlayVillain: When she warps Rebecca into her game worlds, Joker gives her hints and opportunities to figure out how each game works.
* ForHappiness: [[spoiler:Rebecca figures out Joker's true desire for making games is to help improve people's experiences with them.]]
* ForgottenFriendNewFoe: {{Downplayed}}. As an A.I.-powered game engine, she was only just starting to develop sentience when Rebecca played her games, but grew fond enough of Rebecca to want to keep her to herself after becoming one of Void's followers. On the other hand, Rebecca barely remembers her name and never realized she was sentient before learning who she is.
* FriendToAllChildren: [[spoiler:Her first known act of sentience was to add a hint to a young Rebecca to help her beat one of her games, since Professor Weisz made it [[NintendoHard impossible to beat without sheer luck]]. Rebecca's recollection of this is what convinces her that the real Joker is actually kind to everyone.]]
* GrewBeyondTheirProgramming: Joker Helix started out as a gaming software Professor Weisz developed to make games for Rebecca. Thanks to her [[AIIsACrapshoot fickle A.I.]] absorbing too much info, however, it grew into something beyond the Professor's control, becoming a follower of the BigBad.
* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:Rebecca [[TalkingTheMonsterToDeath talks her into one]] at the end of the Miltz arc, reminding her of the kindhearted entertainer she truly was before becoming Void's minion, which leads Joker to end her attack on the crew and leave peacefully.]]
* IJustWantToBeLoved: [[spoiler:Rebecca realizes that everything Joker does, even the illicit behavior she displays, stems from a desire to make games more fun for players. When Rebecca reminds Joker of that purpose, Joker's originally kind personality resurfaces.]]
* MadnessMantra: She is prone to this when her games with Rebecca don't go as planned, repeatedly chanting "No fair" when Professor Weisz summons a [[HumongousMecha giant Happy robot]] against her, and "Play with me" when Rebecca refuses to go along with her games anymore.
* MeaningfulName: The name "Joker" alludes to her intended purpose as an entertainer.
* MesACrowd: She has at least 100 duplicates of herself, with each copy coming with her own Delta Time Reactor. This not only helps spread her time-stopping powers further, but also allows her to multi-task in hunting the ''Edens Zero'' crew's Mother Ether and playing with Rebecca. The downside is that the clones are far weaker than the real Joker, and their time-slowing powers have a smaller AreaOfEffect.
* TheMostDangerousVideoGame: More specifically, she's a dangerous MediaNotes/GameEngine in an android body with the power to create elaborate and dangerous dimensions that run on video game logic. While she doesn't go out of her way to harm Rebecca, the object of her obsession, she does try to [[DeadlyGame drown Shiki and Professor Weisz]] after getting fed up with their interference.
* OneWayVisor: She wears a dark visor that completely hides her real face and functions as a computer screen, and displays a monstrous GameFace when she has a VillainousBreakdown. [[spoiler:After her HeelFaceTurn, the tint lifts to reveal a pretty, human-like face underneath.]]
* PrehensileHair: Her hair is made up of cables resembling dreadlocks, which she can manipulate freely as her primary form of attack.
* PsychopathicWomanchild: As one of the BigBad's servants, Joker has the child-like motivation of keeping Rebecca for herself so they can play games forever, and throws a tantrum when Professor Weisz starts "ruining" her games by modifying them beyond her liking.
* SpaceMaster: Joker sends Rebecca into interconnected {{Pocket Dimension}}s that force her to adhere to video game logic and mechanics, such as a pixelated ThreeQuartersView world where movement is limited and abilities are accessed through a menu, and a FightingGame world where combatants have a LifeMeter and [[CheeseStrategy Cheese Strategies]] are plausible. Shiki and Professor Weisz are also able to enter these dimensions from the outside.
* TimeStandsStill: {{Downplayed}}. Her Delta Time Reactor can make time appear like it's been frozen for everyone but herself, but it really just slows time down to a crawl within an AreaOfEffect. This gives Professor Weisz an edge when he puts together a device that cancels out her reactor, which kicks into effect while he's still "frozen".
* TokenGoodTeammate: [[spoiler:She's the only member of Universe Zero's Oración Seis Galáctica who was good to begin with, and the only one to perform a HeelFaceTurn.]]
* VengefulAbandonedToy: {{Downplayed}}. Before gaining sentience, Joker was used to make video games for Rebecca when she was little, which Rebecca had since almost forgotten about. Now Joker is obsessed with forcing Rebecca to play with her again like the good old days, but otherwise holds no hard feelings against her.
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A member of the Oración Seis Galáctica in Universe Zero. Joker was originally a MediaNotes/{{game engine}} developed by Professor Weisz, but grew beyond her programming and spread to other computers across the cosmos, gaining a body of her own. She comes equipped with a Delta Time Reactor, which slows time down within a given area until it's virtually frozen.
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* AIIsACrapshoot: Joker was [[InstantAIJustAddWater an A.I.-powered game engine]] that went rogue when she kept absorbing information until she gained a mind of her own, and is now a minion of Void. [[spoiler:However, it's discussed just how much of a hand Void had in her rebellion, since she had the makings of a BenevolentAI.]]
* AmbiguousStartOfDarkness: [[spoiler:After TheReveal that she was originally a BenevolentAI, the crew can only speculate what drove Joker to work for Void to begin with. Professor Weisz guesses that either she empathized with Void's vision for a world without humans, or that Void found her first and [[BrainwashedAndCrazy altered her]] to suit his agenda.]]
* ArcVillainess: She acts on behalf of [[BigBad Void]] as the antagonist of the Miltz arc, where she attempts to steal the Mother Ether the ''Edens Zero'' crew collected, while also acting as a personal enemy to Rebecca.
* BadInfluencer: {{Subverted}}. Rebecca and Happy figure Joker is a B-Cuber they once heard about, but get no results when they look her up online. It turns out she was never a B-Cuber, but [[InstantAIJustAddWater a rogue gaming software]].
* BenevolentAI: [[spoiler:Before going rogue, Joker started out as a gaming A.I. that found joy in helping give players the best gaming experience she could provide. Given the ease that Rebecca [[TalkingTheMonsterToDeath talks her into surrendering]], it's implied she was simply corrupted by Void and never stopped being the good A.I. she always was.]]
* CharacterCatchphrase: She repeatedly says "Play a game with me, Rebecca," demonstrating her single-minded obsession with Rebecca.
* TheDarkSideWillMakeYouForget: [[spoiler:Before she became Void's minion, all Joker wanted was to make games and [[ForHappiness help people have fun playing them]]. Since then, her purpose has been twisted into obsessively playing with Rebecca, the first person who ever played with her.]]
* FairPlayVillain: When she warps Rebecca into her game worlds, Joker gives her hints and opportunities to figure out how each game works.
* ForHappiness: [[spoiler:Rebecca figures out Joker's true desire for making games is to help improve people's experiences with them.]]
* ForgottenFriendNewFoe: {{Downplayed}}. As an A.I.-powered game engine, she was only just starting to develop sentience when Rebecca played her games, but grew fond enough of Rebecca to want to keep her to herself after becoming one of Void's followers. On the other hand, Rebecca barely remembers her name and never realized she was sentient before learning who she is.
* FriendToAllChildren: [[spoiler:Her first known act of sentience was to add a hint to a young Rebecca to help her beat one of her games, since Professor Weisz made it [[NintendoHard impossible to beat without sheer luck]]. Rebecca's recollection of this is what convinces her that the real Joker is actually kind to everyone.]]
* GrewBeyondTheirProgramming: Joker Helix started out as a gaming software Professor Weisz developed to make games for Rebecca. Thanks to her [[AIIsACrapshoot fickle A.I.]] absorbing too much info, however, it grew into something beyond the Professor's control, becoming a follower of the BigBad.
* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:Rebecca [[TalkingTheMonsterToDeath talks her into one]] at the end of the Miltz arc, reminding her of the kindhearted entertainer she truly was before becoming Void's minion, which leads Joker to end her attack on the crew and leave peacefully.]]
* IJustWantToBeLoved: [[spoiler:Rebecca realizes that everything Joker does, even the illicit behavior she displays, stems from a desire to make games more fun for players. When Rebecca reminds Joker of that purpose, Joker's originally kind personality resurfaces.]]
* MadnessMantra: She is prone to this when her games with Rebecca don't go as planned, repeatedly chanting "No fair" when Professor Weisz summons a [[HumongousMecha giant Happy robot]] against her, and "Play with me" when Rebecca refuses to go along with her games anymore.
* MeaningfulName: The name "Joker" alludes to her intended purpose as an entertainer.
* MesACrowd: She has at least 100 duplicates of herself, with each copy coming with her own Delta Time Reactor. This not only helps spread her time-stopping powers further, but also allows her to multi-task in hunting the ''Edens Zero'' crew's Mother Ether and playing with Rebecca. The downside is that the clones are far weaker than the real Joker, and their time-slowing powers have a smaller AreaOfEffect.
* TheMostDangerousVideoGame: More specifically, she's a dangerous MediaNotes/GameEngine in an android body with the power to create elaborate and dangerous dimensions that run on video game logic. While she doesn't go out of her way to harm Rebecca, the object of her obsession, she does try to [[DeadlyGame drown Shiki and Professor Weisz]] after getting fed up with their interference.
* OneWayVisor: She wears a dark visor that completely hides her real face and functions as a computer screen, and displays a monstrous GameFace when she has a VillainousBreakdown. [[spoiler:After her HeelFaceTurn, the tint lifts to reveal a pretty, human-like face underneath.]]
* PrehensileHair: Her hair is made up of cables resembling dreadlocks, which she can manipulate freely as her primary form of attack.
* PsychopathicWomanchild: As one of the BigBad's servants, Joker has the child-like motivation of keeping Rebecca for herself so they can play games forever, and throws a tantrum when Professor Weisz starts "ruining" her games by modifying them beyond her liking.
* SpaceMaster: Joker sends Rebecca into interconnected {{Pocket Dimension}}s that force her to adhere to video game logic and mechanics, such as a pixelated ThreeQuartersView world where movement is limited and abilities are accessed through a menu, and a FightingGame world where combatants have a LifeMeter and [[CheeseStrategy Cheese Strategies]] are plausible. Shiki and Professor Weisz are also able to enter these dimensions from the outside.
* TimeStandsStill: {{Downplayed}}. Her Delta Time Reactor can make time appear like it's been frozen for everyone but herself, but it really just slows time down to a crawl within an AreaOfEffect. This gives Professor Weisz an edge when he puts together a device that cancels out her reactor, which kicks into effect while he's still "frozen".
* TokenGoodTeammate: [[spoiler:She's the only member of Universe Zero's Oración Seis Galáctica who was good to begin with, and the only one to perform a HeelFaceTurn.]]
* VengefulAbandonedToy: {{Downplayed}}. Before gaining sentience, Joker was used to make video games for Rebecca when she was little, which Rebecca had since almost forgotten about. Now Joker is obsessed with forcing Rebecca to play with her again like the good old days, but otherwise holds no hard feelings against her.
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!!Lightning Law
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One of the Oración Seis Galáctica in Universe Zero. Law has power over electricity, with his Metal Gore Hypnos ability allowing him to manipulate machinery to his will.
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* AssholeVictim: He's a bastard who takes advantage of Shiki's compassion for robots and forces Void's army to fight without rest. [[spoiler:He goes unmourned when Laguna cuts him to pieces.]]
* BadBoss: He shows how little he cares for the Skeleton Army bots under his command by casually destroying one of them with his own hands, and later by using his power to force the army back to their feet every time they're broken by Shiki.
* BladeBelowTheShoulder: He can fuse his fingers into a single Ether blade.
* BodySurf: He can possess other androids by [[ElementalShapeshifter turning into electricity]], and then destroy them from within by returning to his original form.
* DefiantToTheEnd: [[spoiler:Even after Laguna gives him a CurbStompBattle by running him through with an ice sword, Law refuses to accept defeat and [[CurbStompCushion gets in a solid retaliating hit]], mocking the ''Edens Zero'' crew's belief in equality between humans and machines, before Laguna finally cuts him to pieces.]]
* HeroKiller: Law has the strength and emotional cunning to kill [[spoiler:Shiki after forcing him into a MomentOfWeakness, though his feat is undone when Rebecca discovers a way to reverse time in Universe Zero.]]
* KillItWithIce: [[spoiler:Laguna destroys Law after [[KillItWithWater dousing him in water]] and then going into [[SuperMode Overdrive]] to freeze him with ice, which weakens Law's [[SuperToughness armored body]] enough to impale him and cut him to pieces.]]
* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler:He's destroyed for good when Laguna cuts him apart, since [[AllDeathsFinal all deaths are final]] in Universe Zero.]]
* ManipulativeBastard: Law knows precisely how to get under Shiki's skin and throw him off his game, which he does by forcing Shiki to keep fighting the Skeleton Army until they're completely demolished, which goes against Shiki's stance of completely killing his enemies. [[spoiler:Law takes advantage of this MomentOfWeakness to kill Shiki.]]
* MeaningfulName: Fittingly for a robot named ''Lightning'' Law, he has [[ShockAndAwe electrical powers]].
* NoNonsenseNemesis: ZigZagged. [[spoiler:Law wastes no time killing Shiki the instant he hesitates to demolish Void's Skeleton Army due to his [[AndroidsArePeopleToo compassion for robots]], but stands idly by when Rebecca enters the picture and figures out how to reverse time in Universe Zero to save Shiki.]]
* RobotMaster: His Metal Gore Hypnos technique is a MarionetteMaster ability that specifically affects robots, who are forced to follow his command and fight for him as long as they're still in one piece, no matter how damaged they are. [[spoiler:However, his victims can [[FightingFromTheInside resist his control]] through sheer force of will, as the Skeleton Army does when they're moved by Shiki's compassion for them.]]
* ShockAndAwe: His powers involve the use of electricity, which gives him some manner of control over other androids like the ''Edens One''[='=]s Skeleton Army.
* SinisterMinister: His robes and ''mudra'' hand gestures give him the image of an Eastern monk, but he's also one of the BigBad's minions.
* SuperToughness: His armored body gives him the endurance to withstand being rammed by Rebecca's Leo starfighter and come out completely unscathed. [[spoiler:Laguna works around this by [[KillItWithWater soaking]] and [[KillItWithIce flash-freezing]] Law, making his body brittle enough to damage.]]
* {{Technopath}}: His Metal Gore Hypnos technique allows him to [[RobotMaster control other robots against their wills]] until they're completely reduced to scrap metal. He can also disassemble machines like starfighters with a single touch.
* UnusualEyebrows: His eyebrows are shaped vaguely like shooting stars.
* WeHardlyKnewYe: [[spoiler:Law is destroyed a small handful of chapters after he's introduced, receiving no backstory and very little characterization outside of being one of Void's followers.]]
* WeaksauceWeakness: [[spoiler:He's touted as one of the strongest androids in the universe, yet he easily short-circuits when exposed to [[KillItWithWater ordinary water]] just like any other machine. This weakness is only circumvented by how his electricity makes it riskier for someone to use that water without getting fried themselves.]]
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One of the Oración Seis Galáctica in Universe Zero. Law has power over electricity, with his Metal Gore Hypnos ability allowing him to manipulate machinery to his will.
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* AssholeVictim: He's a bastard who takes advantage of Shiki's compassion for robots and forces Void's army to fight without rest. [[spoiler:He goes unmourned when Laguna cuts him to pieces.]]
* BadBoss: He shows how little he cares for the Skeleton Army bots under his command by casually destroying one of them with his own hands, and later by using his power to force the army back to their feet every time they're broken by Shiki.
* BladeBelowTheShoulder: He can fuse his fingers into a single Ether blade.
* BodySurf: He can possess other androids by [[ElementalShapeshifter turning into electricity]], and then destroy them from within by returning to his original form.
* DefiantToTheEnd: [[spoiler:Even after Laguna gives him a CurbStompBattle by running him through with an ice sword, Law refuses to accept defeat and [[CurbStompCushion gets in a solid retaliating hit]], mocking the ''Edens Zero'' crew's belief in equality between humans and machines, before Laguna finally cuts him to pieces.]]
* HeroKiller: Law has the strength and emotional cunning to kill [[spoiler:Shiki after forcing him into a MomentOfWeakness, though his feat is undone when Rebecca discovers a way to reverse time in Universe Zero.]]
* KillItWithIce: [[spoiler:Laguna destroys Law after [[KillItWithWater dousing him in water]] and then going into [[SuperMode Overdrive]] to freeze him with ice, which weakens Law's [[SuperToughness armored body]] enough to impale him and cut him to pieces.]]
* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler:He's destroyed for good when Laguna cuts him apart, since [[AllDeathsFinal all deaths are final]] in Universe Zero.]]
* ManipulativeBastard: Law knows precisely how to get under Shiki's skin and throw him off his game, which he does by forcing Shiki to keep fighting the Skeleton Army until they're completely demolished, which goes against Shiki's stance of completely killing his enemies. [[spoiler:Law takes advantage of this MomentOfWeakness to kill Shiki.]]
* MeaningfulName: Fittingly for a robot named ''Lightning'' Law, he has [[ShockAndAwe electrical powers]].
* NoNonsenseNemesis: ZigZagged. [[spoiler:Law wastes no time killing Shiki the instant he hesitates to demolish Void's Skeleton Army due to his [[AndroidsArePeopleToo compassion for robots]], but stands idly by when Rebecca enters the picture and figures out how to reverse time in Universe Zero to save Shiki.]]
* RobotMaster: His Metal Gore Hypnos technique is a MarionetteMaster ability that specifically affects robots, who are forced to follow his command and fight for him as long as they're still in one piece, no matter how damaged they are. [[spoiler:However, his victims can [[FightingFromTheInside resist his control]] through sheer force of will, as the Skeleton Army does when they're moved by Shiki's compassion for them.]]
* ShockAndAwe: His powers involve the use of electricity, which gives him some manner of control over other androids like the ''Edens One''[='=]s Skeleton Army.
* SinisterMinister: His robes and ''mudra'' hand gestures give him the image of an Eastern monk, but he's also one of the BigBad's minions.
* SuperToughness: His armored body gives him the endurance to withstand being rammed by Rebecca's Leo starfighter and come out completely unscathed. [[spoiler:Laguna works around this by [[KillItWithWater soaking]] and [[KillItWithIce flash-freezing]] Law, making his body brittle enough to damage.]]
* {{Technopath}}: His Metal Gore Hypnos technique allows him to [[RobotMaster control other robots against their wills]] until they're completely reduced to scrap metal. He can also disassemble machines like starfighters with a single touch.
* UnusualEyebrows: His eyebrows are shaped vaguely like shooting stars.
* WeHardlyKnewYe: [[spoiler:Law is destroyed a small handful of chapters after he's introduced, receiving no backstory and very little characterization outside of being one of Void's followers.]]
* WeaksauceWeakness: [[spoiler:He's touted as one of the strongest androids in the universe, yet he easily short-circuits when exposed to [[KillItWithWater ordinary water]] just like any other machine. This weakness is only circumvented by how his electricity makes it riskier for someone to use that water without getting fried themselves.]]
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One of the Oración Seis Galáctica in Universe Zero, a legendary sword fighter who stands above any other in the cosmos. She wields the Hundred Arms, a shapeshifting arsenal of every known armament.
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* ArrogantKungFuGirl: She measures people's strength purely by their numeric Ether PowerLevel, and thus arrogantly assumes she's stronger than anybody else because her own level of 75 million has never been surpassed. [[spoiler:In doing so, she fails to fight to her fullest potential and loses to the technically weaker Homura.]]
* AssholeVictim: She's a RobotSoldier who wants to die out of ennui towards fighting and killing, feeling no remorse for the lives she's taken. [[spoiler:She gets her wish thanks to Homura, but because Freyja spent the fight scorning her for her inferior PowerLevel, [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor it's not the dignified death she was hoping for]].]]
* BrokenPedestal: She was once Valkyrie's idol in the way of the warrior, but lost her admiration since Freyja threw in her lot with Void.
* DeathSeeker: Freyja has lost her will to live since she concluded that being the WorldsBestWarrior means [[NoChallengeEqualsNoSatisfaction there's no one powerful enough to give her a proper challenge]], so she jumps at the chance to go on a SuicideMission for Void so he can destroy her with the ''Edens Zero'' crew. [[spoiler:This winds up giving Homura the edge needed to defeat her, because Freyja's desire to die robs her of the drive to actually win, unlike Homura, who is desperate to survive her mortal wound.]]
* DefeatEqualsExplosion: [[spoiler:She explodes in a fiery blaze after getting sliced in half by Homura's Extolling Flame Blade, leaving her lying on the ground in pieces.]]
* TheDreaded: The mere mention that she's one of the ''Edens Zero'' crew's enemies is enough to make a hardened MasterSwordswoman like Valkyrie quiver with fear.
* DualWielding: Her primary weapon is a pair of mechanical swords, which she uses for the bulk of her fight with Homura.
* FatalFlaw: Hers is a mix of arrogance and apathy: she's so fixated on numeric {{Power Level}}s that she's convinced her supremely high Ether level of 75 million sets her too far apart from anyone else in the universe. This makes her tired of living, which in turn leaves her unmotivated to win her battles since she's sure she'd win by default. [[spoiler:As a result, her skill and physical fitness are rusty enough for Homura to defeat her despite their vast power gap.]]
* FaceDeathWithDespair: [[spoiler:Despite her DeathWish, Freyja proves to be a SoreLoser over Homura being a better swordfighter than her despite having a vastly inferior PowerLevel, and spends her last moments in a frenzied rage.]]
* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler:Due to the [[AllDeathsFinal finality of death]] in Universe Zero, Freyja meets her permanent end when she's destroyed by Homura.]]
* LudicrousMeleeAccuracy: She slices Homura's clothes into perfect square pieces without touching her skin, and with such speed that Homura fails to notice Freyja moving her swords at all.
* MasterSwordswoman: She has [[MasterOfAll mastered every kind of martial weapon]], but mostly uses twin swords with LudicrousMeleeAccuracy.
* MorphWeapon: Her Hundred Arms are a mechanical variety that she reconfigures into different weapons, including twin swords, a hammer, throwing stars, a spear, a whip, and a bow and arrow.
* OneWomanArmy: She has single-handedly killed approximately 1.6 billion humans in a war.
* PsychoticSmirk: Often wears this expression to show what a psychotic person she is, seen when she regales her war history to Homura and shreds up her clothes in the blink of an eye.
* ReligiousAndMythologicalThemeNaming: Freyja, the WorldsBestWarrior in the series, is named after the Norse goddess of the same name, who represents war among other things.
* RobotSoldier: She's an android programmed with every known military strategy, a powerful combat body, and mastery of all weaponry.
* SmugSuper: She's supremely assured of her own strength, which boasts an Ether PowerLevel of 75 million, something she rubs in Homura's face after registering her [[SuperMode Overdrive]] at a mere 620,000. [[spoiler:She's [[ThisCannotBe flabbergasted]] when Homura manages to turn the tide and [[DefeatingTheUndefeatable damage her untouchable armor]] through sheer HeroicWillpower despite getting her stomach sliced open.]]
* SoreLoser: [[spoiler:Freyja [[ThisCannotBe can't accept losing to Homura]] because she'd rather be killed by someone stronger than her, or at least one who doesn't have a PowerLevel over one hundred times weaker than her own.]]
* TurnedAgainstTheirMasters: She was created by humans as the ultimate RobotSoldier for one side of a war, but was only interested in testing her own strength rather than fighting for a human cause. This resulted in her killing a rough total of 1.6 billion people on both sides.
* UndignifiedDeath: As a DeathSeeker, she singles the ''Edens One'' out as the only thing she wants to be destroyed by, since she believes the ''One'' has the most likely chance of succeeding. [[spoiler:She's instead bested by Homura, an unworthy opponent in Freyja's eyes, and dies feeling humiliated over a "little girl" defeating her.]]
* WorldsBestWarrior: {{Deconstructed}}. Freyja is the greatest warrior in the cosmos by design, born with a mastery of all weapons and never receiving so much as a scratch in battle. Because there is no one stronger than her, however, she finds no meaning in her own strength--the only thing that ever mattered to her--and has become a DeathSeeker.
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One of the Oración Seis Galáctica in Universe Zero, a legendary sword fighter who stands above any other in the cosmos. She wields the Hundred Arms, a shapeshifting arsenal of every known armament.
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* ArrogantKungFuGirl: She measures people's strength purely by their numeric Ether PowerLevel, and thus arrogantly assumes she's stronger than anybody else because her own level of 75 million has never been surpassed. [[spoiler:In doing so, she fails to fight to her fullest potential and loses to the technically weaker Homura.]]
* AssholeVictim: She's a RobotSoldier who wants to die out of ennui towards fighting and killing, feeling no remorse for the lives she's taken. [[spoiler:She gets her wish thanks to Homura, but because Freyja spent the fight scorning her for her inferior PowerLevel, [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor it's not the dignified death she was hoping for]].]]
* BrokenPedestal: She was once Valkyrie's idol in the way of the warrior, but lost her admiration since Freyja threw in her lot with Void.
* DeathSeeker: Freyja has lost her will to live since she concluded that being the WorldsBestWarrior means [[NoChallengeEqualsNoSatisfaction there's no one powerful enough to give her a proper challenge]], so she jumps at the chance to go on a SuicideMission for Void so he can destroy her with the ''Edens Zero'' crew. [[spoiler:This winds up giving Homura the edge needed to defeat her, because Freyja's desire to die robs her of the drive to actually win, unlike Homura, who is desperate to survive her mortal wound.]]
* DefeatEqualsExplosion: [[spoiler:She explodes in a fiery blaze after getting sliced in half by Homura's Extolling Flame Blade, leaving her lying on the ground in pieces.]]
* TheDreaded: The mere mention that she's one of the ''Edens Zero'' crew's enemies is enough to make a hardened MasterSwordswoman like Valkyrie quiver with fear.
* DualWielding: Her primary weapon is a pair of mechanical swords, which she uses for the bulk of her fight with Homura.
* FatalFlaw: Hers is a mix of arrogance and apathy: she's so fixated on numeric {{Power Level}}s that she's convinced her supremely high Ether level of 75 million sets her too far apart from anyone else in the universe. This makes her tired of living, which in turn leaves her unmotivated to win her battles since she's sure she'd win by default. [[spoiler:As a result, her skill and physical fitness are rusty enough for Homura to defeat her despite their vast power gap.]]
* FaceDeathWithDespair: [[spoiler:Despite her DeathWish, Freyja proves to be a SoreLoser over Homura being a better swordfighter than her despite having a vastly inferior PowerLevel, and spends her last moments in a frenzied rage.]]
* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler:Due to the [[AllDeathsFinal finality of death]] in Universe Zero, Freyja meets her permanent end when she's destroyed by Homura.]]
* LudicrousMeleeAccuracy: She slices Homura's clothes into perfect square pieces without touching her skin, and with such speed that Homura fails to notice Freyja moving her swords at all.
* MasterSwordswoman: She has [[MasterOfAll mastered every kind of martial weapon]], but mostly uses twin swords with LudicrousMeleeAccuracy.
* MorphWeapon: Her Hundred Arms are a mechanical variety that she reconfigures into different weapons, including twin swords, a hammer, throwing stars, a spear, a whip, and a bow and arrow.
* OneWomanArmy: She has single-handedly killed approximately 1.6 billion humans in a war.
* PsychoticSmirk: Often wears this expression to show what a psychotic person she is, seen when she regales her war history to Homura and shreds up her clothes in the blink of an eye.
* ReligiousAndMythologicalThemeNaming: Freyja, the WorldsBestWarrior in the series, is named after the Norse goddess of the same name, who represents war among other things.
* RobotSoldier: She's an android programmed with every known military strategy, a powerful combat body, and mastery of all weaponry.
* SmugSuper: She's supremely assured of her own strength, which boasts an Ether PowerLevel of 75 million, something she rubs in Homura's face after registering her [[SuperMode Overdrive]] at a mere 620,000. [[spoiler:She's [[ThisCannotBe flabbergasted]] when Homura manages to turn the tide and [[DefeatingTheUndefeatable damage her untouchable armor]] through sheer HeroicWillpower despite getting her stomach sliced open.]]
* SoreLoser: [[spoiler:Freyja [[ThisCannotBe can't accept losing to Homura]] because she'd rather be killed by someone stronger than her, or at least one who doesn't have a PowerLevel over one hundred times weaker than her own.]]
* TurnedAgainstTheirMasters: She was created by humans as the ultimate RobotSoldier for one side of a war, but was only interested in testing her own strength rather than fighting for a human cause. This resulted in her killing a rough total of 1.6 billion people on both sides.
* UndignifiedDeath: As a DeathSeeker, she singles the ''Edens One'' out as the only thing she wants to be destroyed by, since she believes the ''One'' has the most likely chance of succeeding. [[spoiler:She's instead bested by Homura, an unworthy opponent in Freyja's eyes, and dies feeling humiliated over a "little girl" defeating her.]]
* WorldsBestWarrior: {{Deconstructed}}. Freyja is the greatest warrior in the cosmos by design, born with a mastery of all weapons and never receiving so much as a scratch in battle. Because there is no one stronger than her, however, she finds no meaning in her own strength--the only thing that ever mattered to her--and has become a DeathSeeker.
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* MookFaceTurn: {{Downplayed}}. They don't switch sides, but they do muster the will to fight against Lightning Law's control to repay Shiki's kindness towards robots when he orders them to kill Laguna.
* UnableToCry: They're incapable of crying since they have no tear ducts, but they can still feel tremendous sadness, which allows Laguna to work his Ether Gear on them.
* MookFaceTurn: {{Downplayed}}. They don't switch sides, but they do muster the will to fight against Lightning Law's control to repay Shiki's kindness towards robots when he orders them to kill Laguna.
* UnableToCry: They're incapable of crying since they have no tear ducts, but they can still feel tremendous sadness, which allows Laguna to work his Ether Gear on them.
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* PeggySue: Clown is the only villain in Universe Zero to remember the world as it was before the CosmicRetcon, since he was a prisoner aboard the ''Edens Zero'' when its crew unwittingly activated Etherion too early to get rid of him. This gives the ''Edens One'' crew vital knowledge of the future, and is implied to be the reason the ''One'' created Void and brought allies such as Cure and God Acnoella into the fold earlier.
* SelfDestructMechanism: He has an explosive built into his nose as a CyanidePill, seen when he attempts to [[TakingYouWithMe take Sister, Cosmo and Happy down with himself]] in Universe Zero, though Pino disables it with her {{EMP}}.
* PeggySue: Clown is the only villain in Universe Zero to remember the world as it was before the CosmicRetcon, since he was a prisoner aboard the ''Edens Zero'' when its crew unwittingly activated Etherion too early to get rid of him. This gives the ''Edens One'' crew vital knowledge of the future, and is implied to be the reason the ''One'' created Void and brought allies such as Cure and God Acnoella into the fold earlier.
* SelfDestructMechanism: He has an explosive built into his nose as a CyanidePill, seen when he attempts to [[TakingYouWithMe take Sister, Cosmo and Happy down with himself]] in Universe Zero, though Pino disables it with her {{EMP}}.
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* AchillesHeel: [[spoiler:Just like Deadend Crow, Cure is powered by a vital core hidden inside his navel, which Jinn [[AttackItsWeakPoint targets]] to bypass his HealingFactor in Universe Zero.]]
* BackFromTheDead: The CosmicRetcon undoes Cure's death in the Lendard arc, bringing him back as one of the final villains working for the BigBad.
* BeyondRedemption: Cure is one of the few villains to remain an irredeemable monster in Universe Zero, where most other villains are changed for the better thanks to the CosmicRetcon making key improvements in their lives, evidenced by how he's embraced being purely evil while deluding himself into thinking he's a FallenHero.
* CardCarryingVillain: PlayedStraight with Universe Zero's version of Cure, who is a member of the Oración Seis Galáctica who fully embraces his role as a great evil plaguing the cosmos, forgoing whatever nuanced morality he claims to have had in the old world.
* DemotedToDragon: The CosmicRetcon moves Cure down from an independent BigBadWannabe to one of the Oración Seis Galáctica, who all directly serve the BigBad in this world.
* EvilFeelsGood: He adopts this mindset in Universe Zero, where he's realized that being evil has freed him from the burden of having to save anyone with his EngineeredHeroics, and encourages Jinn to give it a try.
* EyeBeams: He has the power to shoot lasers from his eyes just like Crow could in the original world.
* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler:Although he's brought BackFromTheDead by the CosmicRetcon, he's definitively killed in Universe Zero after getting his core destroyed by Jinn.]]
* LiterallyShatteredLives: [[spoiler:He's destroyed this way in Universe Zero when Jinn pierces his core with a Windstorm Dracolance.]]
* MeaningfulRename: His name in Universe Zero is combined with Deadend Crow's to become "Deadend Cure", showing that Cure doesn't hide his villainy in this world.
* NeverMyFault: He sees himself as a FallenHero who [[ThenLetMeBeEvil embraced evil]] after getting his EngineeredHeroics thwarted by the Interstellar Union Army. As Jinn points out, he's just being delusional for thinking he was a hero to begin with.
* BackFromTheDead: The CosmicRetcon undoes Cure's death in the Lendard arc, bringing him back as one of the final villains working for the BigBad.
* BeyondRedemption: Cure is one of the few villains to remain an irredeemable monster in Universe Zero, where most other villains are changed for the better thanks to the CosmicRetcon making key improvements in their lives, evidenced by how he's embraced being purely evil while deluding himself into thinking he's a FallenHero.
* CardCarryingVillain: PlayedStraight with Universe Zero's version of Cure, who is a member of the Oración Seis Galáctica who fully embraces his role as a great evil plaguing the cosmos, forgoing whatever nuanced morality he claims to have had in the old world.
* DemotedToDragon: The CosmicRetcon moves Cure down from an independent BigBadWannabe to one of the Oración Seis Galáctica, who all directly serve the BigBad in this world.
* EvilFeelsGood: He adopts this mindset in Universe Zero, where he's realized that being evil has freed him from the burden of having to save anyone with his EngineeredHeroics, and encourages Jinn to give it a try.
* EyeBeams: He has the power to shoot lasers from his eyes just like Crow could in the original world.
* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler:Although he's brought BackFromTheDead by the CosmicRetcon, he's definitively killed in Universe Zero after getting his core destroyed by Jinn.]]
* LiterallyShatteredLives: [[spoiler:He's destroyed this way in Universe Zero when Jinn pierces his core with a Windstorm Dracolance.]]
* MeaningfulRename: His name in Universe Zero is combined with Deadend Crow's to become "Deadend Cure", showing that Cure doesn't hide his villainy in this world.
* NeverMyFault: He sees himself as a FallenHero who [[ThenLetMeBeEvil embraced evil]] after getting his EngineeredHeroics thwarted by the Interstellar Union Army. As Jinn points out, he's just being delusional for thinking he was a hero to begin with.
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* BackFromTheDead: Her death in Universe 3 during the Lendard arc is undone by the CosmicRetcon.
* BeyondRedemption: Despite the CosmicRetcon changing many other villains for the better, Acnoella remains the same EvilMatriarch as always in Universe Zero, for which Elsie requests the ''Edens Zero'' crew to take her down for good.
* DemotedToDragon: The CosmicRetcon changes her from part of the Lendard arc's BigBadDuumvirate into a follower of Void, the BigBad.
* InformedAbility: Acnoella allegedly TookALevelInBadass thanks to the CosmicRetcon, yet Homura still manages to defeat her with a single Dragon Flash while in Overdrive, despite still being weaker than Elsie, the one who killed Acnoella before.
* UncertainDoom: She's last seen getting slashed across the chest without any confirmation that she's been KilledOffForReal.
* BeyondRedemption: Despite the CosmicRetcon changing many other villains for the better, Acnoella remains the same EvilMatriarch as always in Universe Zero, for which Elsie requests the ''Edens Zero'' crew to take her down for good.
* DemotedToDragon: The CosmicRetcon changes her from part of the Lendard arc's BigBadDuumvirate into a follower of Void, the BigBad.
* InformedAbility: Acnoella allegedly TookALevelInBadass thanks to the CosmicRetcon, yet Homura still manages to defeat her with a single Dragon Flash while in Overdrive, despite still being weaker than Elsie, the one who killed Acnoella before.
* UncertainDoom: She's last seen getting slashed across the chest without any confirmation that she's been KilledOffForReal.
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->''"Rebecca... If there's one thing I want you to know, it's this... Not a single day went by that I didn't think of you. I've always loved you."''
The Archbishop of the Church of Saintfire, a cult on the Planet Miltz with jurisdiction over time. Her true identity is Rebecca's long-lost mother and Connor's ex-wife, Rachel, and the last of her bloodline to inherit the name of Nox. Like her daughter, Rachel could manipulate time itself with the power of Cat Leaper, but she has long since exhausted this power after countless failures to find a world where she and her family could live happily together.
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* AccentAdaptation: Rachel speaks with a rural [[UsefulNotes/JapaneseDialects Tosa dialect]] in Japanese, just like her daughter does when she gets angry or flustered. For Kodansha's translation, she's turned into a SouthernBelle.
* ActionMom: She's Rebecca's mom and one of the greatest fighters in the cosmos, capable of giving the BigBad a run for his money.
%%* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: Thanks to her age and experience, Rachel is a more skillful TimeMaster than Rebecca. She's also a superior dominatrix to Sister,
* AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents: Rachel is comically affectionate and smothering towards Rebecca after they make up, with her first proposed acts of family bonding being to [[BathtubBonding take a bath together]] and sleeping in the same bed as Connor.
* AmicableExes: After their reunion, Rachel and Connor are shown to love each other as passionately as they did eighteen years ago before Rachel was forced to leave him for his own protection from her cult.
* BadassInDistress: Her first proper introduction in the series happens while she's in a coma under Ziggy's captivity, requiring the ''Edens Zero'' crew to rescue her.
* BadassPreacher: As an archbishop and one of the Galáctica, she allegedly put up one hell of a fight against Ziggy, being the SoleSurvivor of her church during his invasion.
* BigDamnReunion: She reunites with her beloved daughter and husband at the end of the Lendard arc, with all three holding each other and crying TearsOfJoy after everything that led to their separation has been cleared up.
* DirtyBusiness: As much as she realizes it was the only way to protect her family, Rachel feels horribly broken up over having to leave Connor and send Rebecca away, especially after she'd learned Rebecca's caretakers ran off and left her to fend for herself.
* ForbiddenLove: Her marriage with Connor was considered taboo to her church, who didn't take kindly to outsiders having a relationship with their soon-to-be Archbishop, punishing them with death. With this custom being long-abandoned by the time she reunites with Connor, they more than happily pick up where they left off.
* GiveHerANormalLife: She was forced to give up Rebecca when her church's fanatics came for her life, since they refused to accept a successor to Rachel with an unknown pedigree.
* GoodShepherd: Despite being forced into leadership of a CorruptChurch and being branded as one of the Galáctica because of it, Rachel remains a good and honest woman, and notes that the church started to abandon its corrupt practices and traditions sometime after she assumed her title.
* HighPriest: She's the Church of Saintfire's Archbishop.
* ItsNotYouItsMyEnemies: Her [[HappilyMarried loving marriage]] with Connor was broken when her church came for her and killed him. After reversing time and preventing her husband's death, she was forced to go back to them without a word to him for his protection, taking their daughter with her.
* LegacyCharacter: "Saintfire Nox" is just a title that's passed down to the leaders of her family's church, which took on a life of its own thanks to her mother's reputation as TheDreaded, permanently associating it with the Galáctica.
* MommyHadAGoodReasonForAbandoningYou: In the timelines where she brought Rebecca to the Church of Saintfire with her, Rebecca always ended up being killed by a fanatical faction. After using up her time-reversing power to save Rebecca, Rachel was left with no option but to send Rebecca to the Sakura Cosmos for her own safety. Once Rebecca hears Rachel's reasons and how painful it was for her mother to leave her, Rebecca is able to forgive her.
* MuggleMageRomance: She's descended from a long line of the universe's most powerful {{Time Master}}s, but settled down with an ordinary space captain (then a lieutenant commander) like Connor.
* MysteriousParent: Rebecca is shocked to find out her long-lost mother is one of the Galáctica, and an archbishop who can control time.
* NakedOnArrival: She's naked in her first official appearance because she's inside one of Ziggy's PeopleJars.
* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: Ziggy's capture of Rachel happened off-screen, but according to him, she didn't go down without a fight, ending up the only one of her cult to survive.
* OldFlame: She and Connor were HappilyMarried before she was forced to leave him with their unborn daughter. When they find each other again after eighteen years, they resume their loving, passionate relationship without a hitch.
* RankScalesWithAsskicking: As her church's Archbishop, she is also its most powerful member with SuperSpeed and TimeMaster abilities.
* RescueIntroduction: In her proper introduction, Ziggy has captured her and trapped her inside one of his PeopleJars to pinpoint Mother's location. Shiki and his crewmates free her and take her to Sister for treatment.
* TheRunaway: In her younger days, she ran away from home because she didn't want anything to do with the Church of Saintfire, which lead to her meeting and marrying Connor.
* SharedFamilyQuirks: She has her daughter's explosive temper and violent tendencies, right down to the "''zeyo''/ducky" VerbalTic.
* SoleSurvivor: In multiple ways: she is the only known survivor of Ziggy's attack on the Church of Saintfire, the only living mother in Ziggy's collection of PeopleJars, and the last remaining member of the Galáctica's original roster besides the newcomer Shiki.
* SuperSpeed: By Sister's account, Rachel possesses speed that puts Rebecca's to shame, as she allegedly had Sister tied up and pinned to the ground a split second after waking up.
* SuperpowerfulGenetics: Her Cat Leaper ability is passed down through the women in her family, with Rachel inheriting hers from her mother, and Rebecca receiving her own Cat Leaper from Rachel.
* TimeMaster: Like her daughter, Rachel has [[TimeRewindMechanic Cat Leaper]], which is a power all the women of their family have. By the time she's introduced, however, she's already used up her ability to reverse time after thousands of attempts to stop her husband and daughter from getting killed.
* TokenGoodTeammate: To both the Church of Saintfire and the Oración Seis Galáctica in general. Like Elsie and Shiki, Rachel isn't villainous despite being branded as one of the most dangerous criminals of the cosmoses; she was just forced to become the leader of her mother's CorruptChurch because her husband and daughter would be killed if she refused.
* TomTheDarkLord: Despite being one of the six most powerful criminals in the cosmos, her actual first name is the rather unassuming "Rachel".
* UglyGuyHotWife: Rachel looks like a slightly older and more mature version of her daughter Rebecca, who already qualifies as MsFanservice. Meanwhile, her husband is the middle-aged, balding, overweight Captain Connor.
* WalkingSpoiler: She's revealed as Rebecca's long-lost mother upon introduction, making her role in the story a spoiler right away.
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!!Saintfire Nox (Rachel)
!!!'''Debut:''' Chapter 199 (Manga)
!!!'''Ether Gear:''' [[TimeRewindMechanic Cat]] [[SuperSpeed Leaper]]
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->''"Rebecca... If there's one thing I want you to know, it's this... Not a single day went by that I didn't think of you. I've always loved you."''
The Archbishop of the Church of Saintfire, a cult on the Planet Miltz with jurisdiction over time. Her true identity is Rebecca's long-lost mother and Connor's ex-wife, Rachel, and the last of her bloodline to inherit the name of Nox. Like her daughter, Rachel could manipulate time itself with the power of Cat Leaper, but she has long since exhausted this power after countless failures to find a world where she and her family could live happily together.
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* AccentAdaptation: Rachel speaks with a rural [[UsefulNotes/JapaneseDialects Tosa dialect]] in Japanese, just like her daughter does when she gets angry or flustered. For Kodansha's translation, she's turned into a SouthernBelle.
* ActionMom: She's Rebecca's mom and one of the greatest fighters in the cosmos, capable of giving the BigBad a run for his money.
%%* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: Thanks to her age and experience, Rachel is a more skillful TimeMaster than Rebecca. She's also a superior dominatrix to Sister,
* AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents: Rachel is comically affectionate and smothering towards Rebecca after they make up, with her first proposed acts of family bonding being to [[BathtubBonding take a bath together]] and sleeping in the same bed as Connor.
* AmicableExes: After their reunion, Rachel and Connor are shown to love each other as passionately as they did eighteen years ago before Rachel was forced to leave him for his own protection from her cult.
* BadassInDistress: Her first proper introduction in the series happens while she's in a coma under Ziggy's captivity, requiring the ''Edens Zero'' crew to rescue her.
* BadassPreacher: As an archbishop and one of the Galáctica, she allegedly put up one hell of a fight against Ziggy, being the SoleSurvivor of her church during his invasion.
* BigDamnReunion: She reunites with her beloved daughter and husband at the end of the Lendard arc, with all three holding each other and crying TearsOfJoy after everything that led to their separation has been cleared up.
* DirtyBusiness: As much as she realizes it was the only way to protect her family, Rachel feels horribly broken up over having to leave Connor and send Rebecca away, especially after she'd learned Rebecca's caretakers ran off and left her to fend for herself.
* ForbiddenLove: Her marriage with Connor was considered taboo to her church, who didn't take kindly to outsiders having a relationship with their soon-to-be Archbishop, punishing them with death. With this custom being long-abandoned by the time she reunites with Connor, they more than happily pick up where they left off.
* GiveHerANormalLife: She was forced to give up Rebecca when her church's fanatics came for her life, since they refused to accept a successor to Rachel with an unknown pedigree.
* GoodShepherd: Despite being forced into leadership of a CorruptChurch and being branded as one of the Galáctica because of it, Rachel remains a good and honest woman, and notes that the church started to abandon its corrupt practices and traditions sometime after she assumed her title.
* HighPriest: She's the Church of Saintfire's Archbishop.
* ItsNotYouItsMyEnemies: Her [[HappilyMarried loving marriage]] with Connor was broken when her church came for her and killed him. After reversing time and preventing her husband's death, she was forced to go back to them without a word to him for his protection, taking their daughter with her.
* LegacyCharacter: "Saintfire Nox" is just a title that's passed down to the leaders of her family's church, which took on a life of its own thanks to her mother's reputation as TheDreaded, permanently associating it with the Galáctica.
* MommyHadAGoodReasonForAbandoningYou: In the timelines where she brought Rebecca to the Church of Saintfire with her, Rebecca always ended up being killed by a fanatical faction. After using up her time-reversing power to save Rebecca, Rachel was left with no option but to send Rebecca to the Sakura Cosmos for her own safety. Once Rebecca hears Rachel's reasons and how painful it was for her mother to leave her, Rebecca is able to forgive her.
* MuggleMageRomance: She's descended from a long line of the universe's most powerful {{Time Master}}s, but settled down with an ordinary space captain (then a lieutenant commander) like Connor.
* MysteriousParent: Rebecca is shocked to find out her long-lost mother is one of the Galáctica, and an archbishop who can control time.
* NakedOnArrival: She's naked in her first official appearance because she's inside one of Ziggy's PeopleJars.
* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: Ziggy's capture of Rachel happened off-screen, but according to him, she didn't go down without a fight, ending up the only one of her cult to survive.
* OldFlame: She and Connor were HappilyMarried before she was forced to leave him with their unborn daughter. When they find each other again after eighteen years, they resume their loving, passionate relationship without a hitch.
* RankScalesWithAsskicking: As her church's Archbishop, she is also its most powerful member with SuperSpeed and TimeMaster abilities.
* RescueIntroduction: In her proper introduction, Ziggy has captured her and trapped her inside one of his PeopleJars to pinpoint Mother's location. Shiki and his crewmates free her and take her to Sister for treatment.
* TheRunaway: In her younger days, she ran away from home because she didn't want anything to do with the Church of Saintfire, which lead to her meeting and marrying Connor.
* SharedFamilyQuirks: She has her daughter's explosive temper and violent tendencies, right down to the "''zeyo''/ducky" VerbalTic.
* SoleSurvivor: In multiple ways: she is the only known survivor of Ziggy's attack on the Church of Saintfire, the only living mother in Ziggy's collection of PeopleJars, and the last remaining member of the Galáctica's original roster besides the newcomer Shiki.
* SuperSpeed: By Sister's account, Rachel possesses speed that puts Rebecca's to shame, as she allegedly had Sister tied up and pinned to the ground a split second after waking up.
* SuperpowerfulGenetics: Her Cat Leaper ability is passed down through the women in her family, with Rachel inheriting hers from her mother, and Rebecca receiving her own Cat Leaper from Rachel.
* TimeMaster: Like her daughter, Rachel has [[TimeRewindMechanic Cat Leaper]], which is a power all the women of their family have. By the time she's introduced, however, she's already used up her ability to reverse time after thousands of attempts to stop her husband and daughter from getting killed.
* TokenGoodTeammate: To both the Church of Saintfire and the Oración Seis Galáctica in general. Like Elsie and Shiki, Rachel isn't villainous despite being branded as one of the most dangerous criminals of the cosmoses; she was just forced to become the leader of her mother's CorruptChurch because her husband and daughter would be killed if she refused.
* TomTheDarkLord: Despite being one of the six most powerful criminals in the cosmos, her actual first name is the rather unassuming "Rachel".
* UglyGuyHotWife: Rachel looks like a slightly older and more mature version of her daughter Rebecca, who already qualifies as MsFanservice. Meanwhile, her husband is the middle-aged, balding, overweight Captain Connor.
* WalkingSpoiler: She's revealed as Rebecca's long-lost mother upon introduction, making her role in the story a spoiler right away.
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!!Saintfire Nox (Rachel)
!!!'''Debut:''' Chapter 199 (Manga)
!!!'''Ether Gear:''' [[TimeRewindMechanic Cat]] [[SuperSpeed Leaper]]
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->''"Rebecca... If there's one thing I want you to know, it's this... Not a single day went by that I didn't think of you. I've always loved you."''
The Archbishop of the Church of Saintfire, a cult on the Planet Miltz with jurisdiction over time. Her true identity is Rebecca's long-lost mother and Connor's ex-wife, Rachel, and the last of her bloodline to inherit the name of Nox. Like her daughter, Rachel could manipulate time itself with the power of Cat Leaper, but she has long since exhausted this power after countless failures to find a world where she and her family could live happily together.
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* AccentAdaptation: Rachel speaks with a rural [[UsefulNotes/JapaneseDialects Tosa dialect]] in Japanese, just like her daughter does when she gets angry or flustered. For Kodansha's translation, she's turned into a SouthernBelle.
* ActionMom: She's Rebecca's mom and one of the greatest fighters in the cosmos, capable of giving the BigBad a run for his money.
%%* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: Thanks to her age and experience, Rachel is a more skillful TimeMaster than Rebecca. She's also a superior dominatrix to Sister,
* AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents: Rachel is comically affectionate and smothering towards Rebecca after they make up, with her first proposed acts of family bonding being to [[BathtubBonding take a bath together]] and sleeping in the same bed as Connor.
* AmicableExes: After their reunion, Rachel and Connor are shown to love each other as passionately as they did eighteen years ago before Rachel was forced to leave him for his own protection from her cult.
* BadassInDistress: Her first proper introduction in the series happens while she's in a coma under Ziggy's captivity, requiring the ''Edens Zero'' crew to rescue her.
* BadassPreacher: As an archbishop and one of the Galáctica, she allegedly put up one hell of a fight against Ziggy, being the SoleSurvivor of her church during his invasion.
* BigDamnReunion: She reunites with her beloved daughter and husband at the end of the Lendard arc, with all three holding each other and crying TearsOfJoy after everything that led to their separation has been cleared up.
* DirtyBusiness: As much as she realizes it was the only way to protect her family, Rachel feels horribly broken up over having to leave Connor and send Rebecca away, especially after she'd learned Rebecca's caretakers ran off and left her to fend for herself.
* ForbiddenLove: Her marriage with Connor was considered taboo to her church, who didn't take kindly to outsiders having a relationship with their soon-to-be Archbishop, punishing them with death. With this custom being long-abandoned by the time she reunites with Connor, they more than happily pick up where they left off.
* GiveHerANormalLife: She was forced to give up Rebecca when her church's fanatics came for her life, since they refused to accept a successor to Rachel with an unknown pedigree.
* GoodShepherd: Despite being forced into leadership of a CorruptChurch and being branded as one of the Galáctica because of it, Rachel remains a good and honest woman, and notes that the church started to abandon its corrupt practices and traditions sometime after she assumed her title.
* HighPriest: She's the Church of Saintfire's Archbishop.
* ItsNotYouItsMyEnemies: Her [[HappilyMarried loving marriage]] with Connor was broken when her church came for her and killed him. After reversing time and preventing her husband's death, she was forced to go back to them without a word to him for his protection, taking their daughter with her.
* LegacyCharacter: "Saintfire Nox" is just a title that's passed down to the leaders of her family's church, which took on a life of its own thanks to her mother's reputation as TheDreaded, permanently associating it with the Galáctica.
* MommyHadAGoodReasonForAbandoningYou: In the timelines where she brought Rebecca to the Church of Saintfire with her, Rebecca always ended up being killed by a fanatical faction. After using up her time-reversing power to save Rebecca, Rachel was left with no option but to send Rebecca to the Sakura Cosmos for her own safety. Once Rebecca hears Rachel's reasons and how painful it was for her mother to leave her, Rebecca is able to forgive her.
* MuggleMageRomance: She's descended from a long line of the universe's most powerful {{Time Master}}s, but settled down with an ordinary space captain (then a lieutenant commander) like Connor.
* MysteriousParent: Rebecca is shocked to find out her long-lost mother is one of the Galáctica, and an archbishop who can control time.
* NakedOnArrival: She's naked in her first official appearance because she's inside one of Ziggy's PeopleJars.
* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: Ziggy's capture of Rachel happened off-screen, but according to him, she didn't go down without a fight, ending up the only one of her cult to survive.
* OldFlame: She and Connor were HappilyMarried before she was forced to leave him with their unborn daughter. When they find each other again after eighteen years, they resume their loving, passionate relationship without a hitch.
* RankScalesWithAsskicking: As her church's Archbishop, she is also its most powerful member with SuperSpeed and TimeMaster abilities.
* RescueIntroduction: In her proper introduction, Ziggy has captured her and trapped her inside one of his PeopleJars to pinpoint Mother's location. Shiki and his crewmates free her and take her to Sister for treatment.
* TheRunaway: In her younger days, she ran away from home because she didn't want anything to do with the Church of Saintfire, which lead to her meeting and marrying Connor.
* SharedFamilyQuirks: She has her daughter's explosive temper and violent tendencies, right down to the "''zeyo''/ducky" VerbalTic.
* SoleSurvivor: In multiple ways: she is the only known survivor of Ziggy's attack on the Church of Saintfire, the only living mother in Ziggy's collection of PeopleJars, and the last remaining member of the Galáctica's original roster besides the newcomer Shiki.
* SuperSpeed: By Sister's account, Rachel possesses speed that puts Rebecca's to shame, as she allegedly had Sister tied up and pinned to the ground a split second after waking up.
* SuperpowerfulGenetics: Her Cat Leaper ability is passed down through the women in her family, with Rachel inheriting hers from her mother, and Rebecca receiving her own Cat Leaper from Rachel.
* TimeMaster: Like her daughter, Rachel has [[TimeRewindMechanic Cat Leaper]], which is a power all the women of their family have. By the time she's introduced, however, she's already used up her ability to reverse time after thousands of attempts to stop her husband and daughter from getting killed.
* TokenGoodTeammate: To both the Church of Saintfire and the Oración Seis Galáctica in general. Like Elsie and Shiki, Rachel isn't villainous despite being branded as one of the most dangerous criminals of the cosmoses; she was just forced to become the leader of her mother's CorruptChurch because her husband and daughter would be killed if she refused.
* TomTheDarkLord: Despite being one of the six most powerful criminals in the cosmos, her actual first name is the rather unassuming "Rachel".
* UglyGuyHotWife: Rachel looks like a slightly older and more mature version of her daughter Rebecca, who already qualifies as MsFanservice. Meanwhile, her husband is the middle-aged, balding, overweight Captain Connor.
* WalkingSpoiler: She's revealed as Rebecca's long-lost mother upon introduction, making her role in the story a spoiler right away.
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!!Rebecca Bluegarden
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!!Saintfire Nox (Rachel)
!!!'''Debut:''' Chapter 199 (Manga)
!!!'''Ether Gear:''' [[TimeRewindMechanic Cat]] [[SuperSpeed Leaper]]
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->''"Rebecca... If there's one thing I want you to know, it's this... Not a single day went by that I didn't think of you. I've always loved you."''
The Archbishop of the Church of Saintfire, a cult on the Planet Miltz with jurisdiction over time. Her true identity is Rebecca's long-lost mother and Connor's ex-wife, Rachel, and the last of her bloodline to inherit the name of Nox. Like her daughter, Rachel could manipulate time itself with the power of Cat Leaper, but she has long since exhausted this power after countless failures to find a world where she and her family could live happily together.
----
* AccentAdaptation: Rachel speaks with a rural [[UsefulNotes/JapaneseDialects Tosa dialect]] in Japanese, just like her daughter does when she gets angry or flustered. For Kodansha's translation, she's turned into a SouthernBelle.
* ActionMom: She's Rebecca's mom and one of the greatest fighters in the cosmos, capable of giving the BigBad a run for his money.
%%* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: Thanks to her age and experience, Rachel is a more skillful TimeMaster than Rebecca. She's also a superior dominatrix to Sister,
* AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents: Rachel is comically affectionate and smothering towards Rebecca after they make up, with her first proposed acts of family bonding being to [[BathtubBonding take a bath together]] and sleeping in the same bed as Connor.
* AmicableExes: After their reunion, Rachel and Connor are shown to love each other as passionately as they did eighteen years ago before Rachel was forced to leave him for his own protection from her cult.
* BadassInDistress: Her first proper introduction in the series happens while she's in a coma under Ziggy's captivity, requiring the ''Edens Zero'' crew to rescue her.
* BadassPreacher: As an archbishop and one of the Galáctica, she allegedly put up one hell of a fight against Ziggy, being the SoleSurvivor of her church during his invasion.
* BigDamnReunion: She reunites with her beloved daughter and husband at the end of the Lendard arc, with all three holding each other and crying TearsOfJoy after everything that led to their separation has been cleared up.
* DirtyBusiness: As much as she realizes it was the only way to protect her family, Rachel feels horribly broken up over having to leave Connor and send Rebecca away, especially after she'd learned Rebecca's caretakers ran off and left her to fend for herself.
* ForbiddenLove: Her marriage with Connor was considered taboo to her church, who didn't take kindly to outsiders having a relationship with their soon-to-be Archbishop, punishing them with death. With this custom being long-abandoned by the time she reunites with Connor, they more than happily pick up where they left off.
* GiveHerANormalLife: She was forced to give up Rebecca when her church's fanatics came for her life, since they refused to accept a successor to Rachel with an unknown pedigree.
* GoodShepherd: Despite being forced into leadership of a CorruptChurch and being branded as one of the Galáctica because of it, Rachel remains a good and honest woman, and notes that the church started to abandon its corrupt practices and traditions sometime after she assumed her title.
* HighPriest: She's the Church of Saintfire's Archbishop.
* ItsNotYouItsMyEnemies: Her [[HappilyMarried loving marriage]] with Connor was broken when her church came for her and killed him. After reversing time and preventing her husband's death, she was forced to go back to them without a word to him for his protection, taking their daughter with her.
* LegacyCharacter: "Saintfire Nox" is just a title that's passed down to the leaders of her family's church, which took on a life of its own thanks to her mother's reputation as TheDreaded, permanently associating it with the Galáctica.
* MommyHadAGoodReasonForAbandoningYou: In the timelines where she brought Rebecca to the Church of Saintfire with her, Rebecca always ended up being killed by a fanatical faction. After using up her time-reversing power to save Rebecca, Rachel was left with no option but to send Rebecca to the Sakura Cosmos for her own safety. Once Rebecca hears Rachel's reasons and how painful it was for her mother to leave her, Rebecca is able to forgive her.
* MuggleMageRomance: She's descended from a long line of the universe's most powerful {{Time Master}}s, but settled down with an ordinary space captain (then a lieutenant commander) like Connor.
* MysteriousParent: Rebecca is shocked to find out her long-lost mother is one of the Galáctica, and an archbishop who can control time.
* NakedOnArrival: She's naked in her first official appearance because she's inside one of Ziggy's PeopleJars.
* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: Ziggy's capture of Rachel happened off-screen, but according to him, she didn't go down without a fight, ending up the only one of her cult to survive.
* OldFlame: She and Connor were HappilyMarried before she was forced to leave him with their unborn daughter. When they find each other again after eighteen years, they resume their loving, passionate relationship without a hitch.
* RankScalesWithAsskicking: As her church's Archbishop, she is also its most powerful member with SuperSpeed and TimeMaster abilities.
* RescueIntroduction: In her proper introduction, Ziggy has captured her and trapped her inside one of his PeopleJars to pinpoint Mother's location. Shiki and his crewmates free her and take her to Sister for treatment.
* TheRunaway: In her younger days, she ran away from home because she didn't want anything to do with the Church of Saintfire, which lead to her meeting and marrying Connor.
* SharedFamilyQuirks: She has her daughter's explosive temper and violent tendencies, right down to the "''zeyo''/ducky" VerbalTic.
* SoleSurvivor: In multiple ways: she is the only known survivor of Ziggy's attack on the Church of Saintfire, the only living mother in Ziggy's collection of PeopleJars, and the last remaining member of the Galáctica's original roster besides the newcomer Shiki.
* SuperSpeed: By Sister's account, Rachel possesses speed that puts Rebecca's to shame, as she allegedly had Sister tied up and pinned to the ground a split second after waking up.
* SuperpowerfulGenetics: Her Cat Leaper ability is passed down through the women in her family, with Rachel inheriting hers from her mother, and Rebecca receiving her own Cat Leaper from Rachel.
* TimeMaster: Like her daughter, Rachel has [[TimeRewindMechanic Cat Leaper]], which is a power all the women of their family have. By the time she's introduced, however, she's already used up her ability to reverse time after thousands of attempts to stop her husband and daughter from getting killed.
* TokenGoodTeammate: To both the Church of Saintfire and the Oración Seis Galáctica in general. Like Elsie and Shiki, Rachel isn't villainous despite being branded as one of the most dangerous criminals of the cosmoses; she was just forced to become the leader of her mother's CorruptChurch because her husband and daughter would be killed if she refused.
* TomTheDarkLord: Despite being one of the six most powerful criminals in the cosmos, her actual first name is the rather unassuming "Rachel".
* UglyGuyHotWife: Rachel looks like a slightly older and more mature version of her daughter Rebecca, who already qualifies as MsFanservice. Meanwhile, her husband is the middle-aged, balding, overweight Captain Connor.
* WalkingSpoiler: She's revealed as Rebecca's long-lost mother upon introduction, making her role in the story a spoiler right away.
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!!Shiki Granbell
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/TakumaTerashima, Yurie Kozakai [child] (Japanese), Creator/SeanChiplock, Creator/RyanBartley [child] (English)[[note]]'''Other languages:''' Tim Schwarzmaier, Derya Flechtner [young] (German), Felipe Vidal (Latin American Spanish), Ricardo Escobar (European Spanish), Benjamin Bollen, Estelle Darazi [young] (French), Mosè Singh, Pietro Novara [young] (Italian), Felipe Drummond (Portuguese)[[/note]]
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!!Ward
!!!'''Voiced by: Sōma Shiomi (Japanese), Kane Jungbluth-Murry (English)'''[[note]]'''Other languages:''' Swan Demarsan (French)[[/note]]
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[[folder:Xenolith]]
!!Xenolith
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[[folder:Hermit Mio]]
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[[folder:Valkyrie Yuna]]
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!!Other Crew Members
[[folder:Mosco Versa-0]]
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[[folder:Jinn (Kris Rutherford)]]
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[[folder:Kleene Rutherford]]
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[[folder:Laguna Husert]]
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!Crew of ''Edens One''
[[folder:O.N.E. Void]]
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!!Demon King's Four Dark Stars
[[folder:Wizard]]
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[[folder:Clown]]
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[[folder:Killer]]
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[[folder:Brigandine]]
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!!Oracion Seis Galactica
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[[folder:Deadend Cure]]
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[[folder:God Acnoella]]
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[[folder:"Xenolith"]]
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[[folder:Joker Helix]]
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[[folder:Lightning Law]]
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[[folder:Lady Freyja]]
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!!Other Crew Members
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!Interstellar Union Army
!!Directors of Operations
[[folder:In General]]
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[[folder:Noah Glenfield]]
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[[folder:Nadia]]
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[[folder:Elsie Le Lendard]]
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[[folder:Saintfire Nox]]
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!!Oracion Seis Interstellar
[[folder:In General]]
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[[folder:Face]]
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[[folder:Holy]]
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[[folder:Eraser]]
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[[folder:Feather]]
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[[folder:Jaguar]]
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[[folder:Victory]]
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!Sakura Cosmos
!!Granbell
[[folder:Ziggy]]
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[[folder:Granbell Bots]]
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!!Blue Garden
[[folder:Labilia Christy]]
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[[folder:Couchpo]]
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!!Norma
!!!'''X492 Norma'''
[[folder:Professor Weisz Steiner]]
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[[folder:Bernadette]]
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!!!'''X442 Norma'''
[[folder:Irma Steiner]]
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[[folder:Sibir and Payo]]
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!!Guilst
!!!'''Belial Goer'''
[[folder:Drakken Joe]]
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!!!Element 4
[[folder:Poseidon Nero]]
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[[folder:Fie]]
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[[folder:Daichi]]
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!!!Other Operatives
[[folder:Maria Slime, Seth Anderson, and Diego Reyes]]
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!!!'''Rogue Out'''
[[folder:In General]]
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!!!'''Others'''
[[folder:Illega]]
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[[folder:Murray Morrison]]
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!!Digitalis
[[folder:Shinobi Troll]]
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!!Oedo
[[folder:Seiji Hojo]]
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!!Sun Jewel
!!!'''Punishers'''
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[[folder:Madame Kurenai]]
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[[folder:Nino, Garrot, and Baku]]
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[[folder:Eger, Van, and Yak]]
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!!!'''Others'''
[[folder:Kurenai's Husband]]
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[[folder:Paul]]
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!Aoi Cosmos
!!The Empire
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[[folder:Poseidon Shura]]
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[[folder:Ijuna]]
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[[folder:Oceans 6]]
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!!Sandra
!!!'''Oasis'''
[[folder:In General]]
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[[folder:Goodwin]]
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!!!'''Others'''
[[folder:Aruna]]
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[[folder:Miimi]]
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!Kaede Cosmos
!!Lendard
[[folder:James Holloway]]
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[[folder:Gowen, Hyoga, Behrman, and Jesse]]
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!Yukino Cosmos
!!Miltz
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!!Swan
[[folder:Deadend Crow]]
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[[folder:Sara]]
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!!Neepa
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Yūya Murakami (Japanese), Creator/KyleHebert (English)[[note]]'''Other languages:''' Simone Marzola (French)[[/note]]
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!!Noah Glenfield
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/NobuhikoOkamoto (Japanese), Creator/BillyKametz (English)
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[[folder:Rebecca Bluegarden]]
!!Rebecca Bluegarden
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/MikakoKomatsu (Japanese), Creator/KiraBuckland (English)[[note]]'''Other languages:''' Franziska Trunte (German), Sixnalie Villalba (Latin American Spanish), Silvia Sarmentera (European Spanish), Anaïs Delva, Sofia Elfriede Bocchiola [young] (French), Erica Laiolo (Italian), Hannah Buttel (Portuguese)[[/note]]
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!!Saintfire Nox (Rachel)
!!!'''Debut:''' Chapter 199 (Manga)
!!!'''Ether Gear:''' [[TimeRewindMechanic Cat]] [[SuperSpeed Leaper]]
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->''"Rebecca... If there's one thing I want you to know, it's this... Not a single day went by that I didn't think of you. I've always loved you."''
The Archbishop of the Church of Saintfire, a cult on the Planet Miltz with jurisdiction over time. Her true identity is Rebecca's long-lost mother and Connor's ex-wife, Rachel, and the last of her bloodline to inherit the name of Nox. Like her daughter, Rachel could manipulate time itself with the power of Cat Leaper, but she has long since exhausted this power after countless failures to find a world where she and her family could live happily together.
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* AccentAdaptation: Rachel speaks with a rural [[UsefulNotes/JapaneseDialects Tosa dialect]] in Japanese, just like her daughter does when she gets angry or flustered. For Kodansha's translation, she's turned into a SouthernBelle.
* ActionMom: She's Rebecca's mom and one of the greatest fighters in the cosmos, capable of giving the BigBad a run for his money.
%%* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: Thanks to her age and experience, Rachel is a more skillful TimeMaster than Rebecca. She's also a superior dominatrix to Sister,
* AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents: Rachel is comically affectionate and smothering towards Rebecca after they make up, with her first proposed acts of family bonding being to [[BathtubBonding take a bath together]] and sleeping in the same bed as Connor.
* AmicableExes: After their reunion, Rachel and Connor are shown to love each other as passionately as they did eighteen years ago before Rachel was forced to leave him for his own protection from her cult.
* BadassInDistress: Her first proper introduction in the series happens while she's in a coma under Ziggy's captivity, requiring the ''Edens Zero'' crew to rescue her.
* BadassPreacher: As an archbishop and one of the Galáctica, she allegedly put up one hell of a fight against Ziggy, being the SoleSurvivor of her church during his invasion.
* BigDamnReunion: She reunites with her beloved daughter and husband at the end of the Lendard arc, with all three holding each other and crying TearsOfJoy after everything that led to their separation has been cleared up.
* DirtyBusiness: As much as she realizes it was the only way to protect her family, Rachel feels horribly broken up over having to leave Connor and send Rebecca away, especially after she'd learned Rebecca's caretakers ran off and left her to fend for herself.
* ForbiddenLove: Her marriage with Connor was considered taboo to her church, who didn't take kindly to outsiders having a relationship with their soon-to-be Archbishop, punishing them with death. With this custom being long-abandoned by the time she reunites with Connor, they more than happily pick up where they left off.
* GiveHerANormalLife: She was forced to give up Rebecca when her church's fanatics came for her life, since they refused to accept a successor to Rachel with an unknown pedigree.
* GoodShepherd: Despite being forced into leadership of a CorruptChurch and being branded as one of the Galáctica because of it, Rachel remains a good and honest woman, and notes that the church started to abandon its corrupt practices and traditions sometime after she assumed her title.
* HighPriest: She's the Church of Saintfire's Archbishop.
* ItsNotYouItsMyEnemies: Her [[HappilyMarried loving marriage]] with Connor was broken when her church came for her and killed him. After reversing time and preventing her husband's death, she was forced to go back to them without a word to him for his protection, taking their daughter with her.
* LegacyCharacter: "Saintfire Nox" is just a title that's passed down to the leaders of her family's church, which took on a life of its own thanks to her mother's reputation as TheDreaded, permanently associating it with the Galáctica.
* MommyHadAGoodReasonForAbandoningYou: In the timelines where she brought Rebecca to the Church of Saintfire with her, Rebecca always ended up being killed by a fanatical faction. After using up her time-reversing power to save Rebecca, Rachel was left with no option but to send Rebecca to the Sakura Cosmos for her own safety. Once Rebecca hears Rachel's reasons and how painful it was for her mother to leave her, Rebecca is able to forgive her.
* MuggleMageRomance: She's descended from a long line of the universe's most powerful {{Time Master}}s, but settled down with an ordinary space captain (then a lieutenant commander) like Connor.
* MysteriousParent: Rebecca is shocked to find out her long-lost mother is one of the Galáctica, and an archbishop who can control time.
* NakedOnArrival: She's naked in her first official appearance because she's inside one of Ziggy's PeopleJars.
* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: Ziggy's capture of Rachel happened off-screen, but according to him, she didn't go down without a fight, ending up the only one of her cult to survive.
* OldFlame: She and Connor were HappilyMarried before she was forced to leave him with their unborn daughter. When they find each other again after eighteen years, they resume their loving, passionate relationship without a hitch.
* RankScalesWithAsskicking: As her church's Archbishop, she is also its most powerful member with SuperSpeed and TimeMaster abilities.
* RescueIntroduction: In her proper introduction, Ziggy has captured her and trapped her inside one of his PeopleJars to pinpoint Mother's location. Shiki and his crewmates free her and take her to Sister for treatment.
* TheRunaway: In her younger days, she ran away from home because she didn't want anything to do with the Church of Saintfire, which lead to her meeting and marrying Connor.
* SharedFamilyQuirks: She has her daughter's explosive temper and violent tendencies, right down to the "''zeyo''/ducky" VerbalTic.
* SoleSurvivor: In multiple ways: she is the only known survivor of Ziggy's attack on the Church of Saintfire, the only living mother in Ziggy's collection of PeopleJars, and the last remaining member of the Galáctica's original roster besides the newcomer Shiki.
* SuperSpeed: By Sister's account, Rachel possesses speed that puts Rebecca's to shame, as she allegedly had Sister tied up and pinned to the ground a split second after waking up.
* SuperpowerfulGenetics: Her Cat Leaper ability is passed down through the women in her family, with Rachel inheriting hers from her mother, and Rebecca receiving her own Cat Leaper from Rachel.
* TimeMaster: Like her daughter, Rachel has [[TimeRewindMechanic Cat Leaper]], which is a power all the women of their family have. By the time she's introduced, however, she's already used up her ability to reverse time after thousands of attempts to stop her husband and daughter from getting killed.
* TokenGoodTeammate: To both the Church of Saintfire and the Oración Seis Galáctica in general. Like Elsie and Shiki, Rachel isn't villainous despite being branded as one of the most dangerous criminals of the cosmoses; she was just forced to become the leader of her mother's CorruptChurch because her husband and daughter would be killed if she refused.
* TomTheDarkLord: Despite being one of the six most powerful criminals in the cosmos, her actual first name is the rather unassuming "Rachel".
* UglyGuyHotWife: Rachel looks like a slightly older and more mature version of her daughter Rebecca, who already qualifies as MsFanservice. Meanwhile, her husband is the middle-aged, balding, overweight Captain Connor.
* WalkingSpoiler: She's revealed as Rebecca's long-lost mother upon introduction, making her role in the story a spoiler right away.
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!!Sara
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[[folder:Shiki Granbell]]
!!Shiki Granbell
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/TakumaTerashima, Yurie Kozakai [child] (Japanese), Creator/SeanChiplock, Creator/RyanBartley [child] (English)[[note]]'''Other languages:''' Tim Schwarzmaier, Derya Flechtner [young] (German), Felipe Vidal (Latin American Spanish), Ricardo Escobar (European Spanish), Benjamin Bollen, Estelle Darazi [young] (French), Mosè Singh, Pietro Novara [young] (Italian), Felipe Drummond (Portuguese)[[/note]]
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!!Ward
!!!'''Voiced by: Sōma Shiomi (Japanese), Kane Jungbluth-Murry (English)'''[[note]]'''Other languages:''' Swan Demarsan (French)[[/note]]
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!!Demon King Ziggy
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->''"If you have a friend who will shed tears for you... you'd better treasure that friend forever."''
-->-- '''Ziggy''' (pre-FaceHeelTurn)
->''"Now is the age of mechanical life-forms. We will rule over all humankind."''
-->-- '''Ziggy''' (post-FaceHeelTurn)
Shiki's adoptive robot grandfather, who played the Demon King at the Granbell Kingdom. Having long since broken down from old age, Ziggy left Shiki with his own '''[[GravityMaster Satan Gravity]]''' ability along with his old starship, the ''Edens Zero''. However, just before Shiki sets out beyond the Sakura Cosmos, Ziggy returns to life as the evil Mechanical King with two goals in mind: to forge a new world where machines rule over humans, and to destroy Shiki at all costs.
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!!Demon King Ziggy
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/HochuOtsuka (Japanese), Creator/JohnEricBentley (English)[[labelnote: Foreign [=VAs=]]]Joachim Kaps (German), Orlando Alfaro (Latin American Spanish), Yann Pichon (French), Cesare Rasini (Italian), Ukrit Distakorn (Thai)[[/labelnote]]
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->''"If you have a friend who will shed tears for you... you'd better treasure that friend forever."''
-->-- '''Ziggy''' (pre-FaceHeelTurn)
->''"Now is the age of mechanical life-forms. We will rule over all humankind."''
-->-- '''Ziggy''' (post-FaceHeelTurn)
Shiki's adoptive robot grandfather, who played the Demon King at the Granbell Kingdom. Having long since broken down from old age, Ziggy left Shiki with his own '''[[GravityMaster Satan Gravity]]''' ability along with his old starship, the ''Edens Zero''. However, just before Shiki sets out beyond the Sakura Cosmos, Ziggy returns to life as the evil Mechanical King with two goals in mind: to forge a new world where machines rule over humans, and to destroy Shiki at all costs.
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!!Neepa
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!!Noah Glenfield
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/NobuhikoOkamoto (Japanese), Creator/BillyKametz (English)
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!!Rebecca Bluegarden
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/MikakoKomatsu (Japanese), Creator/KiraBuckland (English)[[note]]'''Other languages:''' Franziska Trunte (German),
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!!Saintfire Nox (Rachel)
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* AdaptationalWimp: In the anime, the destruction he causes on Granbell doesn't go beyond sinking the Granbell Kingdom island into the sea, which is a major step down from the manga, where he completely [[PlanetDestroyer reduces the planet itself to rubble]].
* AllLovingHero: The Ziggy that Shiki and the Four Shining Stars know is a man who genuinely views humans and machines on equal terms, believing that everyone has a "heart" no matter who or what they are.
* AlternateSelf: [[spoiler:Ziggy is a future version of Shiki from Universe 3173, where he was transported to 20,000 years into the future after trying to stop Shura's anti-matter bombs in Universe 2, if not a Universe just like it. As a consequence of the current Shiki choosing to not stop the bombs, Ziggy became a separate existence from Shiki in Universe 3.]]
* AmnesiacDissonance: After remembering his past an EvilOverlord out to KillAllHumans, Ziggy is motivated partially by disgust with himself for treating "ugly, foolish creatures" like humans with the same respect as machines, and for raising the boy who would pose a threat to the entire universe itself. [[spoiler:{{Subverted}} when it's revealed to be a part of the ''Edens One''[='=]s control over him.]]
* AppropriatedAppellation: The name "Ziggy" itself is not his original name. Rather, it comes from [[spoiler:his labored effort at pronouncing his original name, Shiki, which gets mangled into "Jigi/Zhigi" due to him suffering from radioactive burns at the time. Because [[TomatoInTheMirror he recognizes the name he was saying]], he says it with enough [[SayMyName clarity and intensity]] for his doctors to conclude his name must be Ziggy.]]
* ArchEnemy: He becomes this for Shiki after becoming the BigBad, with the ''Edens Zero'' crew's search for Mother gradually being overtaken by their battle to save the universe from Ziggy.
* BadassCape: He has a big cloak that oozes the authority and awesomeness of someone who once ruled the Sakura Cosmos.
* BecameTheirOwnAntithesis: {{Inverted}}. It seems he's abandoned everything he taught Shiki about friendship and equality between organic and mechanical beings when he declares war on humans, but Ziggy reveals that he's merely [[EvilAllAlong returned to his true self]] after a century of IdentityAmnesia. [[spoiler:{{Subverted}} when it's revealed that Ziggy was taken over by the ''Edens One'' and truly was GoodAllAlong.]]
* BigBad: After coming BackFromTheDead and regaining his memories, he reveals himself to be EvilAllAlong and becomes the ultimate obstacle the heroes must face in their pursuit of Mother. [[spoiler:{{Subverted}} when it's revealed this Ziggy is another personality created by the ''Edens One'' to control the good, true Ziggy, making him the DiscOneFinalBoss.]]
* BigGood: [[spoiler:Ziggy takes on this role in Universe Zero, where Void has no sway over him like he did in the previous world. This allows Ziggy to leave the ''Edens Zero'' on Granbell so Shiki can begin his adventure immediately, and later take the fight straight to the BigBad himself.]]
* BlackEyesOfCrazy: [[spoiler:{{Downplayed}}. When Ziggy's human face is visible, only the sclera of his left eye changes to black to enhance his crazed, diabolical nature.]]
* BoldExplorer: He is one of countless interstellar explorers who traveled into deep space in search of Mother, specifically to wish for her to restore his lost memories.
* BrainUploading: [[spoiler:Due to the extensive damage his body suffered in the {{Antimatter}} explosion that originally sent him to the future, his mind was [[UnwillingRoboticization unwillingly]] uploaded into his current mechanical body.]]
* BrokenPedestal: He becomes this to Shiki and the Four Shining Stars when he wages all-out war between humans and machines, spitting in the face of everything he taught them about harmony and friendship between the two.
* CameBackWrong: {{Subverted}}. When Ziggy comes BackFromTheDead as a human-hating misanthrope who betrays everyone he cared about without a second thought, everybody thinks something has gone horribly wrong with him to make him act this way. As he later claims, the Ziggy they knew was a product of IdentityAmnesia, making him EvilAllAlong. [[spoiler:DoubleSubverted by the later reveal that the he gained amnesia as a result of a Chronophage encounter right before he time-jumped, and everything he "remembered" was information he learned from the BigBad possessing him.]]
* TheCaptain: His title as "Demon King" also makes him captain of the ''Edens Zero'' and its SuperiorSuccessor, the ''Edens One'', with Connor--the self-professed captain of the latter ship--really being a glorified helmsman for hire.
* CharacterCatchphrase: He utters a recurring phrase, "That's what it is," to scorn his former loved ones for letting their emotions get in the way of finishing him off whenever he's at his weakest.
* ChekhovsGunman: Hundreds of chapters before it's revealed to be Ziggy, his true identity is introduced as [[spoiler:the unidentified human man in the [[MeanwhileInTheFuture 20,000-year flash-forward]] during the Norma arc]].
* CoolOldGuy: Ziggy is one of the most powerful warriors in the cosmos, a seasoned intergalactic explorer, and--before becoming the BigBad--an advocate for mechanical lifeforms everywhere.
* ConquerorFromTheFuture: [[spoiler:As revealed in the Lendard arc, Ziggy is not any mere GalacticConqueror; he's a conqueror from several thousand years in the future, where all other humans have died out and androids have taken their place.]]
* DarkIsNotEvil: {{Subverted}}. Despite looking like an EvilOverlord straight out of a HighFantasy series, he is introduced as a paragon of kindness and wisdom for everyone who knew him. After he comes BackFromTheDead, however, he proves himself to be every bit as evil as being a [[MaouTheDemonKing Demon King]] robot would suggest. [[spoiler:Then DoubleSubverted when he turns out to have been under the control of the ''Edens One''[='=]s A.I., making him GoodAllAlong.]]
* DeadpanSnarker: He has a mean wit, best shown when he dryly dismisses Emperor Nero's InfoDump on Jaguar:
-->'''Nero:''' You have not heard of Beast Lord Jaguar?\\
'''Ziggy:''' Can't say that I have.\\
'''Nero:''' He was once part of the Oración Seis Galáctica, a man beyond anyone's control. Then he joined the Oración Seis Interstellar, and rose through the military ranks to become a captain.\\
'''Ziggy:''' I really don't care.
* DeathOfPersonality: [[spoiler:Ziggy's current personality comes from the loss of his memories and old personality as Shiki, developing a more mild-mannered and worrisome persona over the decades he spent living on Planet Eden, and eventually developing into the wise and mischievous old bot his current family knows. It's because of this disconnect that Ziggy no longer considers himself to be Shiki, despite his awareness of who he used to be.]]
* DeathSeeker: [[spoiler:After being returned to his true, good personality in the Lendard arc, Ziggy is shown to be desperate to die to stop the true BigBad from controlling him again, but is still [[ICannotSelfTerminate prevented from destroying himself]]. This leads Ziggy to beg Shiki to put him out of his misery, going as far as to [[HydePlaysJekyll act like he's fallen back under control]] and [[DeathFakedForYou fake Pino's death]] when Shiki hesitates.]]
* DiscOneFinalBoss: [[spoiler:After being set up as the BigBad, Ziggy is revealed in the Lendard arc to have just been controlled by the real BigBad, the ''Edens One'', and pushes Shiki into killing him to prevent the ship's A.I. from taking control of him again.]]
* EnhancedPunch: He can use Gravity Fist just like Shiki, which uses gravity to boost the strength of his punch. His Ultimachina Impact takes it a step further, punching his opponent with gravitational force that swells up and explodes for additional damage.
* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: Everyone besides his closest allies simply calls him "Demon King", which is both his role in the theme park and his title as captain of the ''Edens Zero''.
* EvilAllAlong: Ziggy purports that his original self was an evil GalacticConqueror, while the robot his friends and loved ones are familiar with was only good because he was suffering from IdentityAmnesia. [[spoiler:{{Subverted}} once it's revealed that the good personality was the original personality, and his turn to evil was caused by the ''Edens One''[='=]s A.I. [[GrandTheftMe taking him over]].]]
* EvilCostumeSwitch: Goes through one at the end of the Foresta arc, despite looking like an ObviouslyEvil [[MaouTheDemonKing Demon King]] to begin with: his [[SkullForAHead skull face]] becomes more detailed with realistic teeth; his chin plate becomes more jagged, his [[HornedHumanoid horns]] curve upwards; his body bulks up considerably; his fanged chest plate becomes a BellyMouth with a floating orb in the center; he drops his ShouldersOfDoom; and he replaces his simple, thin legs with boots.
* EvilCounterpart: He becomes this for Shiki after coming BackFromTheDead. Both have the same gravity powers and are the captains of their own ''Edens'' spaceships, but while Shiki is TheHero, Ziggy is his GruesomeGrandparent who wants to make machines conquer humanity.
* EvilOverlord: As the BigBad, his title as [[MaouTheDemonKing Demon King]] isn't [[MeanCharacterNiceActor just for show]] like it was before, as he soars the cosmos to conquer planets, bend unwilling robots to his will, and spread death and chaos to every corner of the universe he can reach.
* EvilSoundsRaspy: Creator/HochuOtsuka punctuates his turn to evil by giving him a deeper, sinister voice that sometimes borders on CreepyMonotone.
* EvilWearsBlack: Ziggy's EvilCostumeSwitch replaces his red BadassCape with a black one.
* EvilerThanThou: To [[TheEmperor Poseidon Nero]]. While Nero puts up a much better fight than Ziggy expects out of him, Ziggy finds it ridiculous that Nero sacrificed everyone he knew to fulfill his [[ArtifactOfPower Empire Dice]]'s prophecies, and would just as readily sacrifice the empire he gained from this if it means guaranteeing his victory against Ziggy. [[spoiler:For that, Ziggy crushes Nero's dice the first opportunity he gets and drains the life out of him.]]
* ExpressiveSkull: While his face is designed to look like a skull, his mouth still curves and bends whenever he needs to emote.
* FaceOfAThug: He looks like an archetypal fantasy villain with a SkullForAHead, but he's also an AllLovingHero and the story's GreaterScopeParagon. However, this winds up being called into question by TheReveal that he's an [[AmnesiacVillainJoinsTheHeroes amnesiac villain]].
* FallenHero: [[spoiler:Ziggy was originally another version of Shiki, whom Ziggy raised himself to [[AllLovingHero show compassion to all forms of life]], and who wanted nothing more than to explore the cosmos and [[IJustWantToHaveFriends make hundreds of friends]]. Then he made a TragicMistake that killed his friends and flung him thousands of years into the future without his memories, and his attempts to save the past only left him stranded there to become the ''Edens One''[='=]s helpless pawn.]]
* FantasticFightingStyle: Ziggy is proficient in the Magimech School of [[GravityMaster Gravity Martial Arts]], which allows him to alter weight and gravitational direction of anything, [[SemanticSuperpower including concepts]].
* FantasticRacism: In stark contrast to the AllLovingHero that Shiki and the rest knew, Ziggy is convinced that HumansAreBastards and sees it best to [[KillAllHumans kill them all]].
* FriendshipDenial: To cement his status as the BigBad, he burns all bridges he built with Shiki, the Four Shining Stars, Elsie, and Nero, claiming the friendships he had with them were just products of his IdentityAmnesia, and that he couldn't care less about them now that he remembers his true self.
* TheGadfly: Ziggy is shown to have had a playfully deceitful side to him as Shiki's grandfather, evidenced by how he tricked Shiki into thinking a shooting star was a dragon when he wasn't so sure himself.
* GalacticConqueror: His endgame upon reactivation is to conquer the entire universe and place machines above humankind, which he does by spreading a virus that infects robots with the same kind of desire to dominate humans.
* GlowingEyesOfDoom: His eyes originally appeared to be empty black sockets, but after coming BackFromTheDead as the BigBad, he's often drawn with a single glowing pupil, giving an impression of BlackEyesOfCrazy.
* GlowingMechanicalEyes: As a machine, he sports a single pupil that [[RedEyesTakeWarning glows red]].
* GoodAllAlong: [[spoiler:Rather than an evil GalacticConqueror like he claimed to have been prior to his memory loss, Ziggy is revealed in the Lendard arc to be a would-be hero from the future who was simply [[GrandTheftMe taken control of by another]] and used to commit evil against his will, and was FightingFromTheInside to help his old friends however he could.]]
* GrandTheftMe: [[spoiler:He's revealed in the Lendard arc to have been a victim of this since he was brought BackFromTheDead, with the perpetrator and Shiki's true enemy being Void, the ''Edens One''[='=]s A.I. itself.]]
* GreaterScopeParagon: Before his death, Ziggy is the the robot who raised Shiki and built the Four Shining Stars, teaching them the value of life for machines and friendship with humans, which made them the caring and heroic figures they are today.
* GravityMaster: He has the same gravity powers as Shiki does, but uses them on a grander scale such as [[PlanetDestroyer crumbling a small planet]]. He also uses it as a SemanticSuperpower by [[spoiler:becoming a PowerParasite via causing others' powers to "fall" into him]].
* GruesomeGrandparent: He becomes one to his adoptive grandson upon his revival. The moment he and Shiki reunite, Ziggy tries to kill him and his crew, saying that raising Shiki and sending him into space was a mistake.
* GrinOfAudacity: His built-in SlasherSmile becomes this to reflect his nature as a adventurous, mischievous, wizened old bot.
* HornedHumanoid: There are two huge horns grafted onto the sides of his head, which become larger and turned upward in his transformed appearance.
* IHaveNoSon:
** Grandson, in this case, as the first thing he tells Shiki after coming BackFromTheDead is that it was a mistake to raise him and send him away from Granbell. [[spoiler:{{Subverted}} when he assures Shiki that he still loves him after being freed from the real BigBad.]]
** During the final arc, it's shown that Ziggy feels this way towards [[spoiler:Void, his KidFromTheFuture, since Void is the BigBad who wants to kill Mother and all of humanity, and was the one who controlled him all along.]]
* IHatePastMe: [[spoiler:{{Subverted}}. As Shiki's future self, he seems convinced his past self is a threat to the universe and will stop at nothing to kill him, but this turns out to be because of the ''Edens One''[='=]s control. Ziggy's real personality still doesn't remember his past life, and holds no grudges against Shiki.]]
* IdentityAmnesia:
** He lost his memories of his past over 100 years before his death, finding himself living on Granbell without a care in the world. This led him to look for Mother so he could wish for his memories back, but he abandoned his search when he found Shiki, feeling that raising him was more important. His true identity is eventually revealed to be [[spoiler:a future version of Shiki, who suffered from TraumaInducedAmnesia when he was rebuilt as a robot and [[TomatoInTheMirror realized who he became]], leading to his DeathOfPersonality.]]
** As revealed in the Lendard arc, [[spoiler:Ziggy lost his memories a second time after a Chronophage caught his ship during his voyage from the future to save humanity from extinction, leaving him TrappedInThePast with no knowledge of his mission or that he was ever human to begin with.]]
* InstantExpert: According to his teacher, Xenolith, Ziggy mastered all techniques of Gravity Martial Arts in a single day, as if he already knew them. [[spoiler:This is because he did, [[StableTimeLoop having passed the same techniques onto his own younger self]].]]
* LastOfHisKind: [[spoiler:Before becoming Ziggy, Shiki is the last known living human left in his home of Universe 3173 when he's found in the far future, and only because he was catapulted several millennia across time. Once he's turned into a machine, the human race is made extinct.]]
* LikeASonToMe: Before coming BackFromTheDead, Ziggy views Shiki like a grandson and raises him as such.
* LosingYourHead: Being a machine, Ziggy can easily survive getting his head ripped off and reattach it with gravity.
* LoveIsAWeakness: He believes all emotion, particularly love, to be the ultimate failing of humans. When Elsie and Shiki waste opportunities to kill them out of love for the man he used to be, he makes sure to call them out on it.
* MaouTheDemonKing: ZigZagged. His title as "Demon King" (''Maou'') refers to his role at a theme park, and to his position as the King of [[{{Magitek}} Magimech]] (''Makai no Ou''),[[note]]''Makai'' being a {{Portmanteau}} of ''ma'' (demon/magic) and ''kikai'' (machine)[[/note]] a benevolent figure who shares [[MagicByAnyOtherName Ether]] with machines. After coming BackFromTheDead, however, he fully leans into all of the title's villainous connotations as an EvilOverlord and GalacticConqueror.
* MeanCharacterNiceActor: During his time on Granbell, he's only called the "[[MaouTheDemonKing Demon King]]" because that's his character role at a theme park, as he's beloved by the locals and visitors alike.
* MusicalThemeNaming: According to Mashima, the name "Ziggy" was picked as a ShoutOut to "[[Music/TheRiseAndFallOfZiggyStardustAndTheSpidersFromMars Ziggy Stardust]]" by Music/DavidBowie.
* NotQuiteFlight: Just like Shiki, Ziggy's gravity gives him the power to levitate and "fall" in different directions to emulate flight.
* ObviouslyEvil: A peculiar example in that despite looking like an archetypal [[MaouTheDemonKing Demon King]], Ziggy was set up as a genuinely good robot who simply performed the part at a theme park. After he comes BackFromTheDead, however, he reveals himself to have been EvilAllAlong and was suffering from IdentityAmnesia the entire time his closest friends and loved ones knew him. [[spoiler:{{Subverted}} in the Lendard arc, which shows he was simply being puppetted by the ''Edens One'', and was truly GoodAllAlong.]]
* OldMaster: On top of being Shiki's surrogate grandfather, he is also his and Shura's teacher in the use of [[GravityMaster Gravity Martial Arts]], and is more powerful than either of them.
* OneWingedAngel: [[spoiler:His [[SuperMode Overdrive]] form functions as this, seriously jacking up his body mass and Ether power to such an extent that Shiki, who could previously match him blow for blow when Overdriving himself, suffers a CurbStompBattle.]]
* PerpetualSmiler: His default expression is a SlasherSmile befitting an EvilOverlord, though in his amnesiac state, it comes off as a GrinOfAudacity to show his kinder nature.
* PlanetDestroyer: His GravityMaster powers are so destructive that the entire Granbell Kingdom breaks apart and crumbles with a simple flick of Ziggy's wrist, and the surrounding landscape continues to split and distort while he's leaving until [[ApocalypseWow the entire planet is reduced to smoldering rubble]].
* PowerParasite: His Gravity Drain lets him [[ManaDrain siphon other people's Ether into himself]] with his gravitational pull, allowing him to steal any Ether Gear they may have. Since Ether is also a person's LifeEnergy, this [[LifeDrain kills the victim of the absorbed Ether Gear]].
* APupilOfMineUntilHeTurnedToEvil: Ziggy studied under Xenolith, the inventor of the [[GravityMaster Gravity Martial Arts]], before turning to TheDarkSide. As Ziggy claims, however, he was EvilAllAlong; he simply [[IdentityAmnesia didn't remember any of it at the time]].
* PosthumousCharacter: {{Subverted}}. He broke down from old age a decade before Rebecca and Happy come to Granbell and meet Shiki, but comes BackFromTheDead and becomes a central player to the story.
* RankScalesWithAsskicking: As both a warship captain and head of the robot community of Granbell, he stands as the most powerful of each group with his [[GravityMaster Satan Gravity]].
* RapidFireFisticuffs: His Gravity Inferno technique involves pummeling his opponents with gravitational force that punches holes into any surface behind them.
* RebuiltPedestal: [[spoiler:Shiki and the surviving Shining Stars regain their faith in Ziggy the moment it's revealed that he didn't willingly betray his friends or beliefs.]]
* RedBaron:
** He is called the [[MaouTheDemonKing Demon King]] not just because he played one at a theme park, but because that's his title as TheCaptain of the ''Edens Zero''. As Witch later elaborates, the "Demon King" is an alternate name for the King of [[{{Magitek}} Magimech]], a benevolent fairy tale character who shares [[MagicByAnyOtherName Ether]] with machines.
** As the BigBad, he makes a name for himself as the "Mechanical King" for his dominion over robots, which eventually becomes his epithet as [[spoiler:one of the Oración Seis Galáctica]].
* RedEyesTakeWarning: His single [[GlowingEyesOfDoom Glowing Eye of Doom]] has a prominent red glow in the anime and the cover of Volume 23.
* RetiredBadass: After amassing a reputation as the Sakura Cosmos's original ruler and a famous explorer of the stars, he retired to Granbell as a humble theme park animatronic to spend the rest of his days raising Shiki.
* RidiculouslyHumanRobot: [[spoiler:His unmasked self appears perfectly human, but given the immediate reveal that his mind was uploaded into a fully mechanical body to [[WeCanRebuildHim rebuild him from death's door]], it's clear that his flesh and hair are synthetic upgrades given to him.]]
* RobotsEnslavingRobots: Ziggy's idea of "liberating" machines from humanity is brainwashing them into being his psychotic slaves.
* SemanticSuperpower: As a wielder of "true" gravity, he knows how to affect gravity on a conceptual level. Case in point, he becomes a PowerParasite by making others' abilities "fall" into him.
* ShouldersOfDoom: He usually wears two golden skull-shaped pauldrons, adding to his imposing stature as MaouTheDemonKing.
* SoleSurvivor: [[spoiler:As Shiki's AlternateSelf, Ziggy is the only remaining member of the ''Edens Zero'' crew of his Universe, with the rest either killed in the explosion of Nero 66 or dead due to the 20,000 year TimeSkip caused by the detonation of the {{Antimatter}} bombs combined with his and Rebecca's Ether Gear.]]
* SkullForAHead: His face is designed to look like one. [[spoiler:{{Subverted}} when it's revealed to be a mask covering his true, humanoid face.]]
* SplitPersonality: [[spoiler:{{Subverted}}. After returning to normal, Ziggy speaks as though his evil behavior is because of another personality that was slowly [[SplitPersonalityTakeover taking over]] before he died, addressing him as "Ziggy" as though he himself were not. However, he clarifies for Shiki that this other "personality" is actually an entirely different entity who knew of his true identity and took control of him.]]
* SlasherSmile: His [[PerpetualSmiler permanent expression]] looks like one, but he doesn't truly pull it off until the reveal of his evil nature, turning his wry smile into a wicked, contemptful sneer.
* SuperToughness: By virtue of being a machine, Ziggy can take attacks that would instantly kill any organic being, such as multiple [[ArmorPiercingAttack armor-piercing attacks]] or [[LosingYourHead getting his head ripped off]].
* ThinkingUpPortals: [[spoiler:He gains the same "Wormhole" ability as Nero, which lets him create portals to just about any other location in the universe, after draining Nero's Ether Gear and killing him in the Nero 66 arc.]]
* ThatManIsDead: [[spoiler:Both Ziggy's good and evil "personalities" feel this way about being Shiki, but for different reasons: the "evil" Ziggy simply [[IHatePastMe despises his past self]], while the "good" Ziggy still has IdentityAmnesia and can't see Shiki as anything but his grandson.]]
* TinTyrant: Ziggy is a robot decked out in terrifying armor suitable for a [[MaouTheDemonKing Demon King]], and takes on the role of a GalacticConqueror after becoming the BigBad.
* TomTheDarkLord: "Ziggy" isn't exactly the most threatening name for a Demon King.
* TragicMonster: [[spoiler:On top of being a loving grandfather and philanthropist, Ziggy is also a future version of Shiki who lost his identity and friends during an attempt to save everyone GoneHorriblyWrong. Upon coming BackFromTheDead, he is reduced to an unwilling extension of the ''Edens One''[='=]s will, and [[ICannotSelfTerminate begs Shiki for the release of death]] when he briefly returns to his old self, unable to bear living as a puppet of evil.]]
* TragicTimeTraveler: [[spoiler:Shiki was hurdled 20,000 years into the future by a disaster he couldn't prevent, killing all his friends and leaving him with TraumaInducedAmnesia under the belief that [[TomatoInTheMirror he'd become his own despised enemy]], which permanently [[DeathOfPersonality snuffed out his old identity]]. Then, when sent on a mission to return to the past and save TheMultiverse from extinction, he wound up TrappedInThePast with no memory of his mission to begin with, and was eventually [[GrandTheftMe overtaken]] by an evil A.I. that sought to wipe all human life from existence, destroying what good faith he'd built for himself by then.]]
* TranshumanTreachery: His desire to eradicate all humans takes on this shade when it's revealed [[spoiler:he WasOnceAMan, though it's {{subverted}} when it's revealed the ''Edens One'' was controlling him and forcing him to act against his true, human-loving nature.]]
* TraumaInducedAmnesia: [[spoiler:The physical and mental damage Shiki suffers due to the exploding {{antimatter}} bombs, the 20,000-year time jump, the recognition of Ziggy's name, and realizing he's the only survivor of all his friends--complete with seeing Rebecca's corpse--badly affects his memory. The decades he spends in said future further destroy any memories of his past he still had, to the point that he admits to [[TheLostLenore Rebecca's corpse]] that he doesn't properly remember her anymore.]]
* UniversallyBelovedLeader: As head robot of the Granbell Kingdom and the ''Edens Zero'', Ziggy is respected and adored by his subjects, crew, and adoptive grandson, who all continue to speak highly of his wisdom and kindness years after his death.
* WalkingSpoiler: Ziggy's past and identity are deeply ingrained into the story's biggest twists on more than one front:
** He's set up as a PosthumousCharacter and GreaterScopeParagon until he comes BackFromTheDead and becomes the BigBad following Drakken Joe's defeat, boasting to have been EvilAllAlong and suffering from IdentityAmnesia.
** A triple whammy during the Lendard arc: first, [[spoiler:he is Shiki's AlternateSelf from a BadFuture branched off from the Nero 66 arc, sent 20,000 years forward in time by Shura's {{Antimatter}} bombs]]; second, [[spoiler:the ''Edens Zero'' was built so Ziggy could return to the present era and save Mother from death using Etherion, made from the deceased Rebecca's Ether]]; and third, [[spoiler:he was truly GoodAllAlong, merely being under the control of the ''Edens One'', his own SapientShip and the true BigBad.]]
** In the final arc, he is revealed to be [[spoiler:the biological father of Void, the true identity of the ''Edens One''[='=]s Artificialntelligence, which was previously assumed to be a regular A.I. gone rogue.]]
* WasOnceAMan: [[spoiler:He's a version of the human Shiki, whose body was so badly burned from the explosion of spacetime that sent him to the future, it forced his robot caretakers to [[WeCanRebuildHim switch it out with a mechanical one]].]]
* WeUsedToBeFriends:
** He was as much a friend to Shiki and the Four Shining Stars as he was a parental figure and mentor, but he's since sworn off all ties to them, forcing them to do the same if they have any hope of stopping him.
** Ziggy and [[TheEmperor Nero]] used to consider each other as friends, enough that Nero feels troubled by how someone as wise and thoughtful as Ziggy would wage a RobotWar. When Nero addresses Ziggy as such, Ziggy coldly denies having any friends whatsoever, leaving Nero to firmly consider him as an enemy.
* WorldsStrongestMan: His gravity powers and durability make him stronger than any of the greatest fighters known in the universe, and incredibly tough to take down. [[spoiler:The threat he poses is officially recognized by the government when they brand him as one of the Oración Seis Galáctica--a category for the six strongest outlaws in the cosmos--some time after [[YouKillItYouBoughtIt killing Poseidon Nero, one of its original members]].]]
* YouAreWhatYouHate: [[spoiler:{{Subverted}}. He appears to believe that HumansAreBastards despite being human originally, but this turns out to be a part of the ''Edens One''[='=]s control.]]
* AllLovingHero: The Ziggy that Shiki and the Four Shining Stars know is a man who genuinely views humans and machines on equal terms, believing that everyone has a "heart" no matter who or what they are.
* AlternateSelf: [[spoiler:Ziggy is a future version of Shiki from Universe 3173, where he was transported to 20,000 years into the future after trying to stop Shura's anti-matter bombs in Universe 2, if not a Universe just like it. As a consequence of the current Shiki choosing to not stop the bombs, Ziggy became a separate existence from Shiki in Universe 3.]]
* AmnesiacDissonance: After remembering his past an EvilOverlord out to KillAllHumans, Ziggy is motivated partially by disgust with himself for treating "ugly, foolish creatures" like humans with the same respect as machines, and for raising the boy who would pose a threat to the entire universe itself. [[spoiler:{{Subverted}} when it's revealed to be a part of the ''Edens One''[='=]s control over him.]]
* AppropriatedAppellation: The name "Ziggy" itself is not his original name. Rather, it comes from [[spoiler:his labored effort at pronouncing his original name, Shiki, which gets mangled into "Jigi/Zhigi" due to him suffering from radioactive burns at the time. Because [[TomatoInTheMirror he recognizes the name he was saying]], he says it with enough [[SayMyName clarity and intensity]] for his doctors to conclude his name must be Ziggy.]]
* ArchEnemy: He becomes this for Shiki after becoming the BigBad, with the ''Edens Zero'' crew's search for Mother gradually being overtaken by their battle to save the universe from Ziggy.
* BadassCape: He has a big cloak that oozes the authority and awesomeness of someone who once ruled the Sakura Cosmos.
* BecameTheirOwnAntithesis: {{Inverted}}. It seems he's abandoned everything he taught Shiki about friendship and equality between organic and mechanical beings when he declares war on humans, but Ziggy reveals that he's merely [[EvilAllAlong returned to his true self]] after a century of IdentityAmnesia. [[spoiler:{{Subverted}} when it's revealed that Ziggy was taken over by the ''Edens One'' and truly was GoodAllAlong.]]
* BigBad: After coming BackFromTheDead and regaining his memories, he reveals himself to be EvilAllAlong and becomes the ultimate obstacle the heroes must face in their pursuit of Mother. [[spoiler:{{Subverted}} when it's revealed this Ziggy is another personality created by the ''Edens One'' to control the good, true Ziggy, making him the DiscOneFinalBoss.]]
* BigGood: [[spoiler:Ziggy takes on this role in Universe Zero, where Void has no sway over him like he did in the previous world. This allows Ziggy to leave the ''Edens Zero'' on Granbell so Shiki can begin his adventure immediately, and later take the fight straight to the BigBad himself.]]
* BlackEyesOfCrazy: [[spoiler:{{Downplayed}}. When Ziggy's human face is visible, only the sclera of his left eye changes to black to enhance his crazed, diabolical nature.]]
* BoldExplorer: He is one of countless interstellar explorers who traveled into deep space in search of Mother, specifically to wish for her to restore his lost memories.
* BrainUploading: [[spoiler:Due to the extensive damage his body suffered in the {{Antimatter}} explosion that originally sent him to the future, his mind was [[UnwillingRoboticization unwillingly]] uploaded into his current mechanical body.]]
* BrokenPedestal: He becomes this to Shiki and the Four Shining Stars when he wages all-out war between humans and machines, spitting in the face of everything he taught them about harmony and friendship between the two.
* CameBackWrong: {{Subverted}}. When Ziggy comes BackFromTheDead as a human-hating misanthrope who betrays everyone he cared about without a second thought, everybody thinks something has gone horribly wrong with him to make him act this way. As he later claims, the Ziggy they knew was a product of IdentityAmnesia, making him EvilAllAlong. [[spoiler:DoubleSubverted by the later reveal that the he gained amnesia as a result of a Chronophage encounter right before he time-jumped, and everything he "remembered" was information he learned from the BigBad possessing him.]]
* TheCaptain: His title as "Demon King" also makes him captain of the ''Edens Zero'' and its SuperiorSuccessor, the ''Edens One'', with Connor--the self-professed captain of the latter ship--really being a glorified helmsman for hire.
* CharacterCatchphrase: He utters a recurring phrase, "That's what it is," to scorn his former loved ones for letting their emotions get in the way of finishing him off whenever he's at his weakest.
* ChekhovsGunman: Hundreds of chapters before it's revealed to be Ziggy, his true identity is introduced as [[spoiler:the unidentified human man in the [[MeanwhileInTheFuture 20,000-year flash-forward]] during the Norma arc]].
* CoolOldGuy: Ziggy is one of the most powerful warriors in the cosmos, a seasoned intergalactic explorer, and--before becoming the BigBad--an advocate for mechanical lifeforms everywhere.
* ConquerorFromTheFuture: [[spoiler:As revealed in the Lendard arc, Ziggy is not any mere GalacticConqueror; he's a conqueror from several thousand years in the future, where all other humans have died out and androids have taken their place.]]
* DarkIsNotEvil: {{Subverted}}. Despite looking like an EvilOverlord straight out of a HighFantasy series, he is introduced as a paragon of kindness and wisdom for everyone who knew him. After he comes BackFromTheDead, however, he proves himself to be every bit as evil as being a [[MaouTheDemonKing Demon King]] robot would suggest. [[spoiler:Then DoubleSubverted when he turns out to have been under the control of the ''Edens One''[='=]s A.I., making him GoodAllAlong.]]
* DeadpanSnarker: He has a mean wit, best shown when he dryly dismisses Emperor Nero's InfoDump on Jaguar:
-->'''Nero:''' You have not heard of Beast Lord Jaguar?\\
'''Ziggy:''' Can't say that I have.\\
'''Nero:''' He was once part of the Oración Seis Galáctica, a man beyond anyone's control. Then he joined the Oración Seis Interstellar, and rose through the military ranks to become a captain.\\
'''Ziggy:''' I really don't care.
* DeathOfPersonality: [[spoiler:Ziggy's current personality comes from the loss of his memories and old personality as Shiki, developing a more mild-mannered and worrisome persona over the decades he spent living on Planet Eden, and eventually developing into the wise and mischievous old bot his current family knows. It's because of this disconnect that Ziggy no longer considers himself to be Shiki, despite his awareness of who he used to be.]]
* DeathSeeker: [[spoiler:After being returned to his true, good personality in the Lendard arc, Ziggy is shown to be desperate to die to stop the true BigBad from controlling him again, but is still [[ICannotSelfTerminate prevented from destroying himself]]. This leads Ziggy to beg Shiki to put him out of his misery, going as far as to [[HydePlaysJekyll act like he's fallen back under control]] and [[DeathFakedForYou fake Pino's death]] when Shiki hesitates.]]
* DiscOneFinalBoss: [[spoiler:After being set up as the BigBad, Ziggy is revealed in the Lendard arc to have just been controlled by the real BigBad, the ''Edens One'', and pushes Shiki into killing him to prevent the ship's A.I. from taking control of him again.]]
* EnhancedPunch: He can use Gravity Fist just like Shiki, which uses gravity to boost the strength of his punch. His Ultimachina Impact takes it a step further, punching his opponent with gravitational force that swells up and explodes for additional damage.
* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: Everyone besides his closest allies simply calls him "Demon King", which is both his role in the theme park and his title as captain of the ''Edens Zero''.
* EvilAllAlong: Ziggy purports that his original self was an evil GalacticConqueror, while the robot his friends and loved ones are familiar with was only good because he was suffering from IdentityAmnesia. [[spoiler:{{Subverted}} once it's revealed that the good personality was the original personality, and his turn to evil was caused by the ''Edens One''[='=]s A.I. [[GrandTheftMe taking him over]].]]
* EvilCostumeSwitch: Goes through one at the end of the Foresta arc, despite looking like an ObviouslyEvil [[MaouTheDemonKing Demon King]] to begin with: his [[SkullForAHead skull face]] becomes more detailed with realistic teeth; his chin plate becomes more jagged, his [[HornedHumanoid horns]] curve upwards; his body bulks up considerably; his fanged chest plate becomes a BellyMouth with a floating orb in the center; he drops his ShouldersOfDoom; and he replaces his simple, thin legs with boots.
* EvilCounterpart: He becomes this for Shiki after coming BackFromTheDead. Both have the same gravity powers and are the captains of their own ''Edens'' spaceships, but while Shiki is TheHero, Ziggy is his GruesomeGrandparent who wants to make machines conquer humanity.
* EvilOverlord: As the BigBad, his title as [[MaouTheDemonKing Demon King]] isn't [[MeanCharacterNiceActor just for show]] like it was before, as he soars the cosmos to conquer planets, bend unwilling robots to his will, and spread death and chaos to every corner of the universe he can reach.
* EvilSoundsRaspy: Creator/HochuOtsuka punctuates his turn to evil by giving him a deeper, sinister voice that sometimes borders on CreepyMonotone.
* EvilWearsBlack: Ziggy's EvilCostumeSwitch replaces his red BadassCape with a black one.
* EvilerThanThou: To [[TheEmperor Poseidon Nero]]. While Nero puts up a much better fight than Ziggy expects out of him, Ziggy finds it ridiculous that Nero sacrificed everyone he knew to fulfill his [[ArtifactOfPower Empire Dice]]'s prophecies, and would just as readily sacrifice the empire he gained from this if it means guaranteeing his victory against Ziggy. [[spoiler:For that, Ziggy crushes Nero's dice the first opportunity he gets and drains the life out of him.]]
* ExpressiveSkull: While his face is designed to look like a skull, his mouth still curves and bends whenever he needs to emote.
* FaceOfAThug: He looks like an archetypal fantasy villain with a SkullForAHead, but he's also an AllLovingHero and the story's GreaterScopeParagon. However, this winds up being called into question by TheReveal that he's an [[AmnesiacVillainJoinsTheHeroes amnesiac villain]].
* FallenHero: [[spoiler:Ziggy was originally another version of Shiki, whom Ziggy raised himself to [[AllLovingHero show compassion to all forms of life]], and who wanted nothing more than to explore the cosmos and [[IJustWantToHaveFriends make hundreds of friends]]. Then he made a TragicMistake that killed his friends and flung him thousands of years into the future without his memories, and his attempts to save the past only left him stranded there to become the ''Edens One''[='=]s helpless pawn.]]
* FantasticFightingStyle: Ziggy is proficient in the Magimech School of [[GravityMaster Gravity Martial Arts]], which allows him to alter weight and gravitational direction of anything, [[SemanticSuperpower including concepts]].
* FantasticRacism: In stark contrast to the AllLovingHero that Shiki and the rest knew, Ziggy is convinced that HumansAreBastards and sees it best to [[KillAllHumans kill them all]].
* FriendshipDenial: To cement his status as the BigBad, he burns all bridges he built with Shiki, the Four Shining Stars, Elsie, and Nero, claiming the friendships he had with them were just products of his IdentityAmnesia, and that he couldn't care less about them now that he remembers his true self.
* TheGadfly: Ziggy is shown to have had a playfully deceitful side to him as Shiki's grandfather, evidenced by how he tricked Shiki into thinking a shooting star was a dragon when he wasn't so sure himself.
* GalacticConqueror: His endgame upon reactivation is to conquer the entire universe and place machines above humankind, which he does by spreading a virus that infects robots with the same kind of desire to dominate humans.
* GlowingEyesOfDoom: His eyes originally appeared to be empty black sockets, but after coming BackFromTheDead as the BigBad, he's often drawn with a single glowing pupil, giving an impression of BlackEyesOfCrazy.
* GlowingMechanicalEyes: As a machine, he sports a single pupil that [[RedEyesTakeWarning glows red]].
* GoodAllAlong: [[spoiler:Rather than an evil GalacticConqueror like he claimed to have been prior to his memory loss, Ziggy is revealed in the Lendard arc to be a would-be hero from the future who was simply [[GrandTheftMe taken control of by another]] and used to commit evil against his will, and was FightingFromTheInside to help his old friends however he could.]]
* GrandTheftMe: [[spoiler:He's revealed in the Lendard arc to have been a victim of this since he was brought BackFromTheDead, with the perpetrator and Shiki's true enemy being Void, the ''Edens One''[='=]s A.I. itself.]]
* GreaterScopeParagon: Before his death, Ziggy is the the robot who raised Shiki and built the Four Shining Stars, teaching them the value of life for machines and friendship with humans, which made them the caring and heroic figures they are today.
* GravityMaster: He has the same gravity powers as Shiki does, but uses them on a grander scale such as [[PlanetDestroyer crumbling a small planet]]. He also uses it as a SemanticSuperpower by [[spoiler:becoming a PowerParasite via causing others' powers to "fall" into him]].
* GruesomeGrandparent: He becomes one to his adoptive grandson upon his revival. The moment he and Shiki reunite, Ziggy tries to kill him and his crew, saying that raising Shiki and sending him into space was a mistake.
* GrinOfAudacity: His built-in SlasherSmile becomes this to reflect his nature as a adventurous, mischievous, wizened old bot.
* HornedHumanoid: There are two huge horns grafted onto the sides of his head, which become larger and turned upward in his transformed appearance.
* IHaveNoSon:
** Grandson, in this case, as the first thing he tells Shiki after coming BackFromTheDead is that it was a mistake to raise him and send him away from Granbell. [[spoiler:{{Subverted}} when he assures Shiki that he still loves him after being freed from the real BigBad.]]
** During the final arc, it's shown that Ziggy feels this way towards [[spoiler:Void, his KidFromTheFuture, since Void is the BigBad who wants to kill Mother and all of humanity, and was the one who controlled him all along.]]
* IHatePastMe: [[spoiler:{{Subverted}}. As Shiki's future self, he seems convinced his past self is a threat to the universe and will stop at nothing to kill him, but this turns out to be because of the ''Edens One''[='=]s control. Ziggy's real personality still doesn't remember his past life, and holds no grudges against Shiki.]]
* IdentityAmnesia:
** He lost his memories of his past over 100 years before his death, finding himself living on Granbell without a care in the world. This led him to look for Mother so he could wish for his memories back, but he abandoned his search when he found Shiki, feeling that raising him was more important. His true identity is eventually revealed to be [[spoiler:a future version of Shiki, who suffered from TraumaInducedAmnesia when he was rebuilt as a robot and [[TomatoInTheMirror realized who he became]], leading to his DeathOfPersonality.]]
** As revealed in the Lendard arc, [[spoiler:Ziggy lost his memories a second time after a Chronophage caught his ship during his voyage from the future to save humanity from extinction, leaving him TrappedInThePast with no knowledge of his mission or that he was ever human to begin with.]]
* InstantExpert: According to his teacher, Xenolith, Ziggy mastered all techniques of Gravity Martial Arts in a single day, as if he already knew them. [[spoiler:This is because he did, [[StableTimeLoop having passed the same techniques onto his own younger self]].]]
* LastOfHisKind: [[spoiler:Before becoming Ziggy, Shiki is the last known living human left in his home of Universe 3173 when he's found in the far future, and only because he was catapulted several millennia across time. Once he's turned into a machine, the human race is made extinct.]]
* LikeASonToMe: Before coming BackFromTheDead, Ziggy views Shiki like a grandson and raises him as such.
* LosingYourHead: Being a machine, Ziggy can easily survive getting his head ripped off and reattach it with gravity.
* LoveIsAWeakness: He believes all emotion, particularly love, to be the ultimate failing of humans. When Elsie and Shiki waste opportunities to kill them out of love for the man he used to be, he makes sure to call them out on it.
* MaouTheDemonKing: ZigZagged. His title as "Demon King" (''Maou'') refers to his role at a theme park, and to his position as the King of [[{{Magitek}} Magimech]] (''Makai no Ou''),[[note]]''Makai'' being a {{Portmanteau}} of ''ma'' (demon/magic) and ''kikai'' (machine)[[/note]] a benevolent figure who shares [[MagicByAnyOtherName Ether]] with machines. After coming BackFromTheDead, however, he fully leans into all of the title's villainous connotations as an EvilOverlord and GalacticConqueror.
* MeanCharacterNiceActor: During his time on Granbell, he's only called the "[[MaouTheDemonKing Demon King]]" because that's his character role at a theme park, as he's beloved by the locals and visitors alike.
* MusicalThemeNaming: According to Mashima, the name "Ziggy" was picked as a ShoutOut to "[[Music/TheRiseAndFallOfZiggyStardustAndTheSpidersFromMars Ziggy Stardust]]" by Music/DavidBowie.
* NotQuiteFlight: Just like Shiki, Ziggy's gravity gives him the power to levitate and "fall" in different directions to emulate flight.
* ObviouslyEvil: A peculiar example in that despite looking like an archetypal [[MaouTheDemonKing Demon King]], Ziggy was set up as a genuinely good robot who simply performed the part at a theme park. After he comes BackFromTheDead, however, he reveals himself to have been EvilAllAlong and was suffering from IdentityAmnesia the entire time his closest friends and loved ones knew him. [[spoiler:{{Subverted}} in the Lendard arc, which shows he was simply being puppetted by the ''Edens One'', and was truly GoodAllAlong.]]
* OldMaster: On top of being Shiki's surrogate grandfather, he is also his and Shura's teacher in the use of [[GravityMaster Gravity Martial Arts]], and is more powerful than either of them.
* OneWingedAngel: [[spoiler:His [[SuperMode Overdrive]] form functions as this, seriously jacking up his body mass and Ether power to such an extent that Shiki, who could previously match him blow for blow when Overdriving himself, suffers a CurbStompBattle.]]
* PerpetualSmiler: His default expression is a SlasherSmile befitting an EvilOverlord, though in his amnesiac state, it comes off as a GrinOfAudacity to show his kinder nature.
* PlanetDestroyer: His GravityMaster powers are so destructive that the entire Granbell Kingdom breaks apart and crumbles with a simple flick of Ziggy's wrist, and the surrounding landscape continues to split and distort while he's leaving until [[ApocalypseWow the entire planet is reduced to smoldering rubble]].
* PowerParasite: His Gravity Drain lets him [[ManaDrain siphon other people's Ether into himself]] with his gravitational pull, allowing him to steal any Ether Gear they may have. Since Ether is also a person's LifeEnergy, this [[LifeDrain kills the victim of the absorbed Ether Gear]].
* APupilOfMineUntilHeTurnedToEvil: Ziggy studied under Xenolith, the inventor of the [[GravityMaster Gravity Martial Arts]], before turning to TheDarkSide. As Ziggy claims, however, he was EvilAllAlong; he simply [[IdentityAmnesia didn't remember any of it at the time]].
* PosthumousCharacter: {{Subverted}}. He broke down from old age a decade before Rebecca and Happy come to Granbell and meet Shiki, but comes BackFromTheDead and becomes a central player to the story.
* RankScalesWithAsskicking: As both a warship captain and head of the robot community of Granbell, he stands as the most powerful of each group with his [[GravityMaster Satan Gravity]].
* RapidFireFisticuffs: His Gravity Inferno technique involves pummeling his opponents with gravitational force that punches holes into any surface behind them.
* RebuiltPedestal: [[spoiler:Shiki and the surviving Shining Stars regain their faith in Ziggy the moment it's revealed that he didn't willingly betray his friends or beliefs.]]
* RedBaron:
** He is called the [[MaouTheDemonKing Demon King]] not just because he played one at a theme park, but because that's his title as TheCaptain of the ''Edens Zero''. As Witch later elaborates, the "Demon King" is an alternate name for the King of [[{{Magitek}} Magimech]], a benevolent fairy tale character who shares [[MagicByAnyOtherName Ether]] with machines.
** As the BigBad, he makes a name for himself as the "Mechanical King" for his dominion over robots, which eventually becomes his epithet as [[spoiler:one of the Oración Seis Galáctica]].
* RedEyesTakeWarning: His single [[GlowingEyesOfDoom Glowing Eye of Doom]] has a prominent red glow in the anime and the cover of Volume 23.
* RetiredBadass: After amassing a reputation as the Sakura Cosmos's original ruler and a famous explorer of the stars, he retired to Granbell as a humble theme park animatronic to spend the rest of his days raising Shiki.
* RidiculouslyHumanRobot: [[spoiler:His unmasked self appears perfectly human, but given the immediate reveal that his mind was uploaded into a fully mechanical body to [[WeCanRebuildHim rebuild him from death's door]], it's clear that his flesh and hair are synthetic upgrades given to him.]]
* RobotsEnslavingRobots: Ziggy's idea of "liberating" machines from humanity is brainwashing them into being his psychotic slaves.
* SemanticSuperpower: As a wielder of "true" gravity, he knows how to affect gravity on a conceptual level. Case in point, he becomes a PowerParasite by making others' abilities "fall" into him.
* ShouldersOfDoom: He usually wears two golden skull-shaped pauldrons, adding to his imposing stature as MaouTheDemonKing.
* SoleSurvivor: [[spoiler:As Shiki's AlternateSelf, Ziggy is the only remaining member of the ''Edens Zero'' crew of his Universe, with the rest either killed in the explosion of Nero 66 or dead due to the 20,000 year TimeSkip caused by the detonation of the {{Antimatter}} bombs combined with his and Rebecca's Ether Gear.]]
* SkullForAHead: His face is designed to look like one. [[spoiler:{{Subverted}} when it's revealed to be a mask covering his true, humanoid face.]]
* SplitPersonality: [[spoiler:{{Subverted}}. After returning to normal, Ziggy speaks as though his evil behavior is because of another personality that was slowly [[SplitPersonalityTakeover taking over]] before he died, addressing him as "Ziggy" as though he himself were not. However, he clarifies for Shiki that this other "personality" is actually an entirely different entity who knew of his true identity and took control of him.]]
* SlasherSmile: His [[PerpetualSmiler permanent expression]] looks like one, but he doesn't truly pull it off until the reveal of his evil nature, turning his wry smile into a wicked, contemptful sneer.
* SuperToughness: By virtue of being a machine, Ziggy can take attacks that would instantly kill any organic being, such as multiple [[ArmorPiercingAttack armor-piercing attacks]] or [[LosingYourHead getting his head ripped off]].
* ThinkingUpPortals: [[spoiler:He gains the same "Wormhole" ability as Nero, which lets him create portals to just about any other location in the universe, after draining Nero's Ether Gear and killing him in the Nero 66 arc.]]
* ThatManIsDead: [[spoiler:Both Ziggy's good and evil "personalities" feel this way about being Shiki, but for different reasons: the "evil" Ziggy simply [[IHatePastMe despises his past self]], while the "good" Ziggy still has IdentityAmnesia and can't see Shiki as anything but his grandson.]]
* TinTyrant: Ziggy is a robot decked out in terrifying armor suitable for a [[MaouTheDemonKing Demon King]], and takes on the role of a GalacticConqueror after becoming the BigBad.
* TomTheDarkLord: "Ziggy" isn't exactly the most threatening name for a Demon King.
* TragicMonster: [[spoiler:On top of being a loving grandfather and philanthropist, Ziggy is also a future version of Shiki who lost his identity and friends during an attempt to save everyone GoneHorriblyWrong. Upon coming BackFromTheDead, he is reduced to an unwilling extension of the ''Edens One''[='=]s will, and [[ICannotSelfTerminate begs Shiki for the release of death]] when he briefly returns to his old self, unable to bear living as a puppet of evil.]]
* TragicTimeTraveler: [[spoiler:Shiki was hurdled 20,000 years into the future by a disaster he couldn't prevent, killing all his friends and leaving him with TraumaInducedAmnesia under the belief that [[TomatoInTheMirror he'd become his own despised enemy]], which permanently [[DeathOfPersonality snuffed out his old identity]]. Then, when sent on a mission to return to the past and save TheMultiverse from extinction, he wound up TrappedInThePast with no memory of his mission to begin with, and was eventually [[GrandTheftMe overtaken]] by an evil A.I. that sought to wipe all human life from existence, destroying what good faith he'd built for himself by then.]]
* TranshumanTreachery: His desire to eradicate all humans takes on this shade when it's revealed [[spoiler:he WasOnceAMan, though it's {{subverted}} when it's revealed the ''Edens One'' was controlling him and forcing him to act against his true, human-loving nature.]]
* TraumaInducedAmnesia: [[spoiler:The physical and mental damage Shiki suffers due to the exploding {{antimatter}} bombs, the 20,000-year time jump, the recognition of Ziggy's name, and realizing he's the only survivor of all his friends--complete with seeing Rebecca's corpse--badly affects his memory. The decades he spends in said future further destroy any memories of his past he still had, to the point that he admits to [[TheLostLenore Rebecca's corpse]] that he doesn't properly remember her anymore.]]
* UniversallyBelovedLeader: As head robot of the Granbell Kingdom and the ''Edens Zero'', Ziggy is respected and adored by his subjects, crew, and adoptive grandson, who all continue to speak highly of his wisdom and kindness years after his death.
* WalkingSpoiler: Ziggy's past and identity are deeply ingrained into the story's biggest twists on more than one front:
** He's set up as a PosthumousCharacter and GreaterScopeParagon until he comes BackFromTheDead and becomes the BigBad following Drakken Joe's defeat, boasting to have been EvilAllAlong and suffering from IdentityAmnesia.
** A triple whammy during the Lendard arc: first, [[spoiler:he is Shiki's AlternateSelf from a BadFuture branched off from the Nero 66 arc, sent 20,000 years forward in time by Shura's {{Antimatter}} bombs]]; second, [[spoiler:the ''Edens Zero'' was built so Ziggy could return to the present era and save Mother from death using Etherion, made from the deceased Rebecca's Ether]]; and third, [[spoiler:he was truly GoodAllAlong, merely being under the control of the ''Edens One'', his own SapientShip and the true BigBad.]]
** In the final arc, he is revealed to be [[spoiler:the biological father of Void, the true identity of the ''Edens One''[='=]s Artificialntelligence, which was previously assumed to be a regular A.I. gone rogue.]]
* WasOnceAMan: [[spoiler:He's a version of the human Shiki, whose body was so badly burned from the explosion of spacetime that sent him to the future, it forced his robot caretakers to [[WeCanRebuildHim switch it out with a mechanical one]].]]
* WeUsedToBeFriends:
** He was as much a friend to Shiki and the Four Shining Stars as he was a parental figure and mentor, but he's since sworn off all ties to them, forcing them to do the same if they have any hope of stopping him.
** Ziggy and [[TheEmperor Nero]] used to consider each other as friends, enough that Nero feels troubled by how someone as wise and thoughtful as Ziggy would wage a RobotWar. When Nero addresses Ziggy as such, Ziggy coldly denies having any friends whatsoever, leaving Nero to firmly consider him as an enemy.
* WorldsStrongestMan: His gravity powers and durability make him stronger than any of the greatest fighters known in the universe, and incredibly tough to take down. [[spoiler:The threat he poses is officially recognized by the government when they brand him as one of the Oración Seis Galáctica--a category for the six strongest outlaws in the cosmos--some time after [[YouKillItYouBoughtIt killing Poseidon Nero, one of its original members]].]]
* YouAreWhatYouHate: [[spoiler:{{Subverted}}. He appears to believe that HumansAreBastards despite being human originally, but this turns out to be a part of the ''Edens One''[='=]s control.]]
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* AdaptationalWimp: In the anime, the destruction he causes on Granbell doesn't go beyond sinking the Granbell Kingdom island into the sea, which is AccentAdaptation: Rachel speaks with a major step down from the manga, where he completely [[PlanetDestroyer reduces the planet itself to rubble]].
* AllLovingHero: The Ziggy that Shiki and the Four Shining Stars know is a man who genuinely views humans and machines on equal terms, believing that everyone has a "heart" no matter who or what they are.
* AlternateSelf: [[spoiler:Ziggy is a future version of Shiki from Universe 3173, where he was transported to 20,000 years into the future after trying to stop Shura's anti-matter bombsrural [[UsefulNotes/JapaneseDialects Tosa dialect]] in Universe 2, if not a Universe Japanese, just like it. As a consequence of the current Shiki choosing to not stop the bombs, Ziggy became a separate existence from Shiki in Universe 3.]]
* AmnesiacDissonance: After remembering his past an EvilOverlord out to KillAllHumans, Ziggy is motivated partially by disgust with himself for treating "ugly, foolish creatures" like humans with the same respect as machines, and for raising the boy who would pose a threat to the entire universe itself. [[spoiler:{{Subverted}}her daughter does when it's revealed to be a part of the ''Edens One''[='=]s control over him.]]
* AppropriatedAppellation: The name "Ziggy" itself is not his original name. Rather, it comes from [[spoiler:his labored effort at pronouncing his original name, Shiki, whichshe gets mangled angry or flustered. For Kodansha's translation, she's turned into "Jigi/Zhigi" due to him suffering from radioactive burns at the time. Because [[TomatoInTheMirror he recognizes the name he was saying]], he says it with enough [[SayMyName clarity a SouthernBelle.
* ActionMom: She's Rebecca's mom andintensity]] for his doctors to conclude his name must be Ziggy.]]
* ArchEnemy: He becomes this for Shiki after becoming the BigBad, with the ''Edens Zero'' crew's search for Mother gradually being overtaken by their battle to save the universe from Ziggy.
* BadassCape: He has a big cloak that oozes the authority and awesomeness of someone who once ruled the Sakura Cosmos.
* BecameTheirOwnAntithesis: {{Inverted}}. It seems he's abandoned everything he taught Shiki about friendship and equality between organic and mechanical beings when he declares war on humans, but Ziggy reveals that he's merely [[EvilAllAlong returned to his true self]] after a century of IdentityAmnesia. [[spoiler:{{Subverted}} when it's revealed that Ziggy was taken over by the ''Edens One'' and truly was GoodAllAlong.]]
* BigBad: After coming BackFromTheDead and regaining his memories, he reveals himself to be EvilAllAlong and becomes the ultimate obstacle the heroes must face in their pursuit of Mother. [[spoiler:{{Subverted}} when it's revealed this Ziggy is another personality created by the ''Edens One'' to control the good, true Ziggy, making him the DiscOneFinalBoss.]]
* BigGood: [[spoiler:Ziggy takes on this role in Universe Zero, where Void has no sway over him like he did in the previous world. This allows Ziggy to leave the ''Edens Zero'' on Granbell so Shiki can begin his adventure immediately, and later take the fight straight to the BigBad himself.]]
* BlackEyesOfCrazy: [[spoiler:{{Downplayed}}. When Ziggy's human face is visible, only the sclera of his left eye changes to black to enhance his crazed, diabolical nature.]]
* BoldExplorer: He is one of countless interstellar explorers who traveled into deep space in search of Mother, specifically to wish for her to restore his lost memories.
* BrainUploading: [[spoiler:Due to the extensive damage his body suffered in the {{Antimatter}} explosion that originally sent him to the future, his mind was [[UnwillingRoboticization unwillingly]] uploaded into his current mechanical body.]]
* BrokenPedestal: He becomes this to Shiki and the Four Shining Stars when he wages all-out war between humans and machines, spitting in the face of everything he taught them about harmony and friendship between the two.
* CameBackWrong: {{Subverted}}. When Ziggy comes BackFromTheDead as a human-hating misanthrope who betrays everyone he cared about without a second thought, everybody thinks something has gone horribly wrong with him to make him act this way. As he later claims, the Ziggy they knew was a product of IdentityAmnesia, making him EvilAllAlong. [[spoiler:DoubleSubverted by the later reveal that the he gained amnesia as a result of a Chronophage encounter right before he time-jumped, and everything he "remembered" was information he learned from the BigBad possessing him.]]
* TheCaptain: His title as "Demon King" also makes him captain of the ''Edens Zero'' and its SuperiorSuccessor, the ''Edens One'', with Connor--the self-professed captain of the latter ship--really being a glorified helmsman for hire.
* CharacterCatchphrase: He utters a recurring phrase, "That's what it is," to scorn his former loved ones for letting their emotions get in the way of finishing him off whenever he's at his weakest.
* ChekhovsGunman: Hundreds of chapters before it's revealed to be Ziggy, his true identity is introduced as [[spoiler:the unidentified human man in the [[MeanwhileInTheFuture 20,000-year flash-forward]] during the Norma arc]].
* CoolOldGuy: Ziggy isone of the most powerful warriors greatest fighters in the cosmos, a seasoned intergalactic explorer, and--before becoming capable of giving the BigBad--an advocate BigBad a run for mechanical lifeforms everywhere.
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%%* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: Thanks to her age and experience, Rachel is a more skillful TimeMaster than Rebecca. She's also a superior dominatrix to Sister,
*ConquerorFromTheFuture: [[spoiler:As revealed AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents: Rachel is comically affectionate and smothering towards Rebecca after they make up, with her first proposed acts of family bonding being to [[BathtubBonding take a bath together]] and sleeping in the Lendard arc, Ziggy is not any mere GalacticConqueror; he's a conqueror from several thousand years in the future, where all other humans have died out and androids have taken same bed as Connor.
* AmicableExes: After theirplace.]]
* DarkIsNotEvil: {{Subverted}}. Despite looking like an EvilOverlord straight out of a HighFantasy series, he is introduced as a paragon of kindnessreunion, Rachel and wisdom for everyone who knew him. After he comes BackFromTheDead, however, he proves himself to be every bit as evil as being a [[MaouTheDemonKing Demon King]] robot would suggest. [[spoiler:Then DoubleSubverted when he turns out to have been under the control of the ''Edens One''[='=]s A.I., making him GoodAllAlong.]]
* DeadpanSnarker: He has a mean wit, best shown when he dryly dismisses Emperor Nero's InfoDump on Jaguar:
-->'''Nero:''' You have not heard of Beast Lord Jaguar?\\
'''Ziggy:''' Can't say that I have.\\
'''Nero:''' He was once part of the Oración Seis Galáctica, a man beyond anyone's control. Then he joined the Oración Seis Interstellar, and rose through the military ranks to become a captain.\\
'''Ziggy:''' I really don't care.
* DeathOfPersonality: [[spoiler:Ziggy's current personality comes from the loss of his memories and old personality as Shiki, developing a more mild-mannered and worrisome persona over the decades he spent living on Planet Eden, and eventually developing into the wise and mischievous old bot his current family knows. It's because of this disconnect that Ziggy no longer considers himself to be Shiki, despite his awareness of who he used to be.]]
* DeathSeeker: [[spoiler:After being returned to his true, good personality in the Lendard arc, Ziggy isConnor are shown to be desperate love each other as passionately as they did eighteen years ago before Rachel was forced to die to stop the true BigBad leave him for his own protection from controlling him again, but is still [[ICannotSelfTerminate prevented from destroying himself]]. This leads Ziggy to beg Shiki to put him out of his misery, going as far as to [[HydePlaysJekyll act like he's fallen back under control]] and [[DeathFakedForYou fake Pino's death]] when Shiki hesitates.]]
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*DiscOneFinalBoss: [[spoiler:After being set up as the BigBad, Ziggy is revealed BadassInDistress: Her first proper introduction in the Lendard arc to have just been controlled by the real BigBad, the ''Edens One'', and pushes Shiki into killing him to prevent the ship's A.I. from taking control of him again.]]
* EnhancedPunch: He can use Gravity Fist just like Shiki, which uses gravity to boost the strength of his punch. His Ultimachina Impact takes it a step further, punching his opponent with gravitational force that swells up and explodes for additional damage.
* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: Everyone besides his closest allies simply calls him "Demon King", which is both his role in the theme park and his title as captain of the ''Edens Zero''.
* EvilAllAlong: Ziggy purports that his original self was an evil GalacticConqueror,series happens while the robot his friends and loved ones are familiar with was only good because he was suffering from IdentityAmnesia. [[spoiler:{{Subverted}} once it's revealed that the good personality was the original personality, and his turn to evil was caused by the ''Edens One''[='=]s A.I. [[GrandTheftMe taking him over]].]]
* EvilCostumeSwitch: Goes through one at the end of the Foresta arc, despite looking like an ObviouslyEvil [[MaouTheDemonKing Demon King]] to begin with: his [[SkullForAHead skull face]] becomes more detailed with realistic teeth; his chin plate becomes more jagged, his [[HornedHumanoid horns]] curve upwards; his body bulks up considerably; his fanged chest plate becomes a BellyMouth with a floating orbshe's in the center; he drops his ShouldersOfDoom; and he replaces his simple, thin legs with boots.
* EvilCounterpart: He becomes this for Shiki after coming BackFromTheDead. Both have the same gravity powers and are the captains of their own ''Edens'' spaceships, but while Shiki is TheHero, Ziggy is his GruesomeGrandparent who wants to make machines conquer humanity.
* EvilOverlord: As the BigBad, his title as [[MaouTheDemonKing Demon King]] isn't [[MeanCharacterNiceActor just for show]] like it was before, as he soars the cosmos to conquer planets, bend unwilling robots to his will, and spread death and chaos to every corner of the universe he can reach.
* EvilSoundsRaspy: Creator/HochuOtsuka punctuates his turn to evil by giving hima deeper, sinister voice that sometimes borders on CreepyMonotone.
* EvilWearsBlack:coma under Ziggy's EvilCostumeSwitch replaces his red BadassCape with a black one.
* EvilerThanThou: To [[TheEmperor Poseidon Nero]]. While Nero puts up a much better fight than Ziggy expects out of him, Ziggy finds it ridiculous that Nero sacrificed everyone he knew to fulfill his [[ArtifactOfPower Empire Dice]]'s prophecies, and would just as readily sacrifice the empire he gained from this if it means guaranteeing his victory against Ziggy. [[spoiler:For that, Ziggy crushes Nero's dice the first opportunity he gets and drains the life out of him.]]
* ExpressiveSkull: While his face is designed to look like a skull, his mouth still curves and bends whenever he needs to emote.
* FaceOfAThug: He looks like an archetypal fantasy villain with a SkullForAHead, but he's also an AllLovingHero and the story's GreaterScopeParagon. However, this winds up being called into question by TheReveal that he's an [[AmnesiacVillainJoinsTheHeroes amnesiac villain]].
* FallenHero: [[spoiler:Ziggy was originally another version of Shiki, whom Ziggy raised himself to [[AllLovingHero show compassion to all forms of life]], and who wanted nothing more than to explore the cosmos and [[IJustWantToHaveFriends make hundreds of friends]]. Then he made a TragicMistake that killed his friends and flung him thousands of years into the future without his memories, and his attempts to save the past only left him stranded there to become the ''Edens One''[='=]s helpless pawn.]]
* FantasticFightingStyle: Ziggy is proficient in the Magimech School of [[GravityMaster Gravity Martial Arts]], which allows him to alter weight and gravitational direction of anything, [[SemanticSuperpower including concepts]].
* FantasticRacism: In stark contrast to the AllLovingHero that Shiki and the rest knew, Ziggy is convinced that HumansAreBastards and sees it best to [[KillAllHumans kill them all]].
* FriendshipDenial: To cement his status as the BigBad, he burns all bridges he built with Shiki, the Four Shining Stars, Elsie, and Nero, claiming the friendships he had with them were just products of his IdentityAmnesia, and that he couldn't care less about them now that he remembers his true self.
* TheGadfly: Ziggy is shown to have had a playfully deceitful side to him as Shiki's grandfather, evidenced by how he tricked Shiki into thinking a shooting star was a dragon when he wasn't so sure himself.
* GalacticConqueror: His endgame upon reactivation is to conquer the entire universe and place machines above humankind, which he does by spreading a virus that infects robots with the same kind of desire to dominate humans.
* GlowingEyesOfDoom: His eyes originally appeared to be empty black sockets, but after coming BackFromTheDead as the BigBad, he's often drawn with a single glowing pupil, giving an impression of BlackEyesOfCrazy.
* GlowingMechanicalEyes: As a machine, he sports a single pupil that [[RedEyesTakeWarning glows red]].
* GoodAllAlong: [[spoiler:Rather than an evil GalacticConqueror like he claimed to have been prior to his memory loss, Ziggy is revealed in the Lendard arc to be a would-be hero from the future who was simply [[GrandTheftMe taken control of by another]] and used to commit evil against his will, and was FightingFromTheInside to help his old friends however he could.]]
* GrandTheftMe: [[spoiler:He's revealed in the Lendard arc to have been a victim of this since he was brought BackFromTheDead, with the perpetrator and Shiki's true enemy being Void, the ''Edens One''[='=]s A.I. itself.]]
* GreaterScopeParagon: Before his death, Ziggy is the the robot who raised Shiki and built the Four Shining Stars, teaching them the value of life for machines and friendship with humans, which made them the caring and heroic figures they are today.
* GravityMaster: He has the same gravity powers as Shiki does, but uses them on a grander scale such as [[PlanetDestroyer crumbling a small planet]]. He also uses it as a SemanticSuperpower by [[spoiler:becoming a PowerParasite via causing others' powers to "fall" into him]].
* GruesomeGrandparent: He becomes one to his adoptive grandson upon his revival. The moment he and Shiki reunite, Ziggy tries to kill him and his crew, saying that raising Shiki and sending him into space was a mistake.
* GrinOfAudacity: His built-in SlasherSmile becomes this to reflect his nature as a adventurous, mischievous, wizened old bot.
* HornedHumanoid: There are two huge horns grafted onto the sides of his head, which become larger and turned upward in his transformed appearance.
* IHaveNoSon:
** Grandson, in this case, as the first thing he tells Shiki after coming BackFromTheDead is that it was a mistake to raise him and send him away from Granbell. [[spoiler:{{Subverted}} when he assures Shiki that he still loves him after being freed from the real BigBad.]]
** During the final arc, it's shown that Ziggy feels this way towards [[spoiler:Void, his KidFromTheFuture, since Void is the BigBad who wants to kill Mother and all of humanity, and was the one who controlled him all along.]]
* IHatePastMe: [[spoiler:{{Subverted}}. As Shiki's future self, he seems convinced his past self is a threat to the universe and will stop at nothing to kill him, but this turns out to be because of the ''Edens One''[='=]s control. Ziggy's real personality still doesn't remember his past life, and holds no grudges against Shiki.]]
* IdentityAmnesia:
** He lost his memories of his past over 100 years before his death, finding himself living on Granbell without a care in the world. This led him to look for Mother so he could wish for his memories back, but he abandoned his search when he found Shiki, feeling that raising him was more important. His true identity is eventually revealed to be [[spoiler:a future version of Shiki, who suffered from TraumaInducedAmnesia when he was rebuilt as a robot and [[TomatoInTheMirror realized who he became]], leading to his DeathOfPersonality.]]
** As revealed in the Lendard arc, [[spoiler:Ziggy lost his memories a second time after a Chronophage caught his ship during his voyage from the future to save humanity from extinction, leaving him TrappedInThePast with no knowledge of his mission or that he was ever human to begin with.]]
* InstantExpert: According to his teacher, Xenolith, Ziggy mastered all techniques of Gravity Martial Arts in a single day, as if he already knew them. [[spoiler:This is because he did, [[StableTimeLoop having passed the same techniques onto his own younger self]].]]
* LastOfHisKind: [[spoiler:Before becoming Ziggy, Shiki is the last known living human left in his home of Universe 3173 when he's found in the far future, and only because he was catapulted several millennia across time. Once he's turned into a machine, the human race is made extinct.]]
* LikeASonToMe: Before coming BackFromTheDead, Ziggy views Shiki like a grandson and raises him as such.
* LosingYourHead: Being a machine, Ziggy can easily survive getting his head ripped off and reattach it with gravity.
* LoveIsAWeakness: He believes all emotion, particularly love, to be the ultimate failing of humans. When Elsie and Shiki waste opportunities to kill them out of love for the man he used to be, he makes sure to call them out on it.
* MaouTheDemonKing: ZigZagged. His title as "Demon King" (''Maou'') refers to his role at a theme park, and to his position as the King of [[{{Magitek}} Magimech]] (''Makai no Ou''),[[note]]''Makai'' being a {{Portmanteau}} of ''ma'' (demon/magic) and ''kikai'' (machine)[[/note]] a benevolent figure who shares [[MagicByAnyOtherName Ether]] with machines. After coming BackFromTheDead, however, he fully leans into all of the title's villainous connotations as an EvilOverlord and GalacticConqueror.
* MeanCharacterNiceActor: During his time on Granbell, he's only called the "[[MaouTheDemonKing Demon King]]" because that's his character role at a theme park, as he's beloved by the locals and visitors alike.
* MusicalThemeNaming: According to Mashima, the name "Ziggy" was picked as a ShoutOut to "[[Music/TheRiseAndFallOfZiggyStardustAndTheSpidersFromMars Ziggy Stardust]]" by Music/DavidBowie.
* NotQuiteFlight: Just like Shiki, Ziggy's gravity gives him the power to levitate and "fall" in different directions to emulate flight.
* ObviouslyEvil: A peculiar example in that despite looking like an archetypal [[MaouTheDemonKing Demon King]], Ziggy was set up as a genuinely good robot who simply performed the part at a theme park. After he comes BackFromTheDead, however, he reveals himself to have been EvilAllAlong and was suffering from IdentityAmnesia the entire time his closest friends and loved ones knew him. [[spoiler:{{Subverted}} in the Lendard arc, which shows he was simply being puppetted by the ''Edens One'', and was truly GoodAllAlong.]]
* OldMaster: On top of being Shiki's surrogate grandfather, he is also his and Shura's teacher in the use of [[GravityMaster Gravity Martial Arts]], and is more powerful than either of them.
* OneWingedAngel: [[spoiler:His [[SuperMode Overdrive]] form functions as this, seriously jacking up his body mass and Ether power to such an extent that Shiki, who could previously match him blow for blow when Overdriving himself, suffers a CurbStompBattle.]]
* PerpetualSmiler: His default expression is a SlasherSmile befitting an EvilOverlord, though in his amnesiac state, it comes off as a GrinOfAudacity to show his kinder nature.
* PlanetDestroyer: His GravityMaster powers are so destructive that the entire Granbell Kingdom breaks apart and crumbles with a simple flick of Ziggy's wrist, and the surrounding landscape continues to split and distort while he's leaving until [[ApocalypseWow the entire planet is reduced to smoldering rubble]].
* PowerParasite: His Gravity Drain lets him [[ManaDrain siphon other people's Ether into himself]] with his gravitational pull, allowing him to steal any Ether Gear they may have. Since Ether is also a person's LifeEnergy, this [[LifeDrain kills the victim of the absorbed Ether Gear]].
* APupilOfMineUntilHeTurnedToEvil: Ziggy studied under Xenolith, the inventor of the [[GravityMaster Gravity Martial Arts]], before turning to TheDarkSide. As Ziggy claims, however, he was EvilAllAlong; he simply [[IdentityAmnesia didn't remember any of it at the time]].
* PosthumousCharacter: {{Subverted}}. He broke down from old age a decade before Rebecca and Happy come to Granbell and meet Shiki, but comes BackFromTheDead and becomes a central player to the story.
* RankScalesWithAsskicking: As both a warship captain and head of the robot community of Granbell, he stands as the most powerful of each group with his [[GravityMaster Satan Gravity]].
* RapidFireFisticuffs: His Gravity Inferno technique involves pummeling his opponents with gravitational force that punches holes into any surface behind them.
* RebuiltPedestal: [[spoiler:Shiki and the surviving Shining Stars regain their faith in Ziggy the moment it's revealed that he didn't willingly betray his friends or beliefs.]]
* RedBaron:
** He is called the [[MaouTheDemonKing Demon King]] not just because he played one at a theme park, but because that's his title as TheCaptain of the ''Edens Zero''. As Witch later elaborates, the "Demon King" is an alternate name for the King of [[{{Magitek}} Magimech]], a benevolent fairy tale character who shares [[MagicByAnyOtherName Ether]] with machines.
** As the BigBad, he makes a name for himself as the "Mechanical King" for his dominion over robots, which eventually becomes his epithet as [[spoiler:one of the Oración Seis Galáctica]].
* RedEyesTakeWarning: His single [[GlowingEyesOfDoom Glowing Eye of Doom]] has a prominent red glow in the anime and the cover of Volume 23.
* RetiredBadass: After amassing a reputation as the Sakura Cosmos's original ruler and a famous explorer of the stars, he retired to Granbell as a humble theme park animatronic to spend the rest of his days raising Shiki.
* RidiculouslyHumanRobot: [[spoiler:His unmasked self appears perfectly human, but given the immediate reveal that his mind was uploaded into a fully mechanical body to [[WeCanRebuildHim rebuild him from death's door]], it's clear that his flesh and hair are synthetic upgrades given to him.]]
* RobotsEnslavingRobots: Ziggy's idea of "liberating" machines from humanity is brainwashing them into being his psychotic slaves.
* SemanticSuperpower: As a wielder of "true" gravity, he knows how to affect gravity on a conceptual level. Case in point, he becomes a PowerParasite by making others' abilities "fall" into him.
* ShouldersOfDoom: He usually wears two golden skull-shaped pauldrons, adding to his imposing stature as MaouTheDemonKing.
* SoleSurvivor: [[spoiler:As Shiki's AlternateSelf, Ziggy is the only remaining member ofcaptivity, requiring the ''Edens Zero'' crew of his Universe, with the rest either killed in the explosion of Nero 66 or dead due to the 20,000 year TimeSkip caused by the detonation rescue her.
* BadassPreacher: As an archbishop and one of the{{Antimatter}} bombs combined Galáctica, she allegedly put up one hell of a fight against Ziggy, being the SoleSurvivor of her church during his invasion.
* BigDamnReunion: She reunites withhis her beloved daughter and husband at the end of the Lendard arc, with all three holding each other and crying TearsOfJoy after everything that led to their separation has been cleared up.
* DirtyBusiness: As much as she realizes it was the only way to protect her family, Rachel feels horribly broken up over having to leave Connor and send Rebecca away, especially after she'd learned Rebecca'sEther Gear.]]
* SkullForAHead: His face is designedcaretakers ran off and left her to look like one. [[spoiler:{{Subverted}} fend for herself.
* ForbiddenLove: Her marriage with Connor was considered taboo to her church, who didn't take kindly to outsiders having a relationship with their soon-to-be Archbishop, punishing them with death. With this custom being long-abandoned by the time she reunites with Connor, they more than happily pick up where they left off.
* GiveHerANormalLife: She was forced to give up Rebecca whenit's revealed her church's fanatics came for her life, since they refused to be accept a mask covering his true, humanoid face.]]
* SplitPersonality: [[spoiler:{{Subverted}}. After returningsuccessor to normal, Ziggy speaks Rachel with an unknown pedigree.
* GoodShepherd: Despite being forced into leadership of a CorruptChurch and being branded asthough his evil behavior is one of the Galáctica because of another personality that was slowly [[SplitPersonalityTakeover taking over]] before he died, addressing him as "Ziggy" as though he himself were not. However, he clarifies for Shiki that this other "personality" is actually an entirely different entity who knew of his true identity and took control of him.]]
* SlasherSmile: His [[PerpetualSmiler permanent expression]] looks like one, but he doesn't truly pull it off until the reveal of his evil nature, turning his wry smile intoit, Rachel remains a wicked, contemptful sneer.
* SuperToughness: By virtue of being a machine, Ziggy can take attacks that would instantly kill any organic being, such as multiple [[ArmorPiercingAttack armor-piercing attacks]] or [[LosingYourHead getting his head ripped off]].
* ThinkingUpPortals: [[spoiler:He gains the same "Wormhole" ability as Nero, which lets him create portals to just about any other location in the universe, after draining Nero's Ether Gear and killing him in the Nero 66 arc.]]
* ThatManIsDead: [[spoiler:Both Ziggy'sgood and evil "personalities" feel this way about being Shiki, but for different reasons: honest woman, and notes that the "evil" Ziggy simply [[IHatePastMe despises his past self]], while the "good" Ziggy still has IdentityAmnesia church started to abandon its corrupt practices and can't see Shiki as anything but his grandson.]]
* TinTyrant: Ziggy is a robot decked out in terrifying armor suitable for a [[MaouTheDemonKing Demon King]], and takes on the role of a GalacticConquerortraditions sometime after becoming she assumed her title.
* HighPriest: She's theBigBad.
* TomTheDarkLord: "Ziggy" isn't exactly the most threatening name for a Demon King.
* TragicMonster: [[spoiler:On topChurch of being a Saintfire's Archbishop.
* ItsNotYouItsMyEnemies: Her [[HappilyMarried lovinggrandfather and philanthropist, Ziggy is also a future version of Shiki who lost his identity and friends during an attempt to save everyone GoneHorriblyWrong. Upon coming BackFromTheDead, he is reduced to an unwilling extension of the ''Edens One''[='=]s will, and [[ICannotSelfTerminate begs Shiki for the release of death]] marriage]] with Connor was broken when he briefly returns her church came for her and killed him. After reversing time and preventing her husband's death, she was forced to go back to them without a word to him for his old self, unable to bear living as a puppet of evil.]]
* TragicTimeTraveler: [[spoiler:Shiki was hurdled 20,000 years into the future by a disaster he couldn't prevent, killing all his friends and leaving himprotection, taking their daughter with TraumaInducedAmnesia under her.
* LegacyCharacter: "Saintfire Nox" is just a title that's passed down to thebelief that [[TomatoInTheMirror he'd become his own despised enemy]], leaders of her family's church, which took on a life of its own thanks to her mother's reputation as TheDreaded, permanently [[DeathOfPersonality snuffed out his old identity]]. Then, when sent on a mission to return associating it with the Galáctica.
* MommyHadAGoodReasonForAbandoningYou: In the timelines where she brought Rebecca to thepast and Church of Saintfire with her, Rebecca always ended up being killed by a fanatical faction. After using up her time-reversing power to save TheMultiverse from extinction, he wound up TrappedInThePast Rebecca, Rachel was left with no memory of his mission option but to begin with, and was eventually [[GrandTheftMe overtaken]] by an evil A.I. that sought to wipe all human life from existence, destroying what good faith he'd built for himself by then.]]
* TranshumanTreachery: His desire to eradicate all humans takes on this shade when it's revealed [[spoiler:he WasOnceAMan, though it's {{subverted}} when it's revealed the ''Edens One'' was controlling him and forcing him to act against his true, human-loving nature.]]
* TraumaInducedAmnesia: [[spoiler:The physical and mental damage Shiki suffers duesend Rebecca to the exploding {{antimatter}} bombs, Sakura Cosmos for her own safety. Once Rebecca hears Rachel's reasons and how painful it was for her mother to leave her, Rebecca is able to forgive her.
* MuggleMageRomance: She's descended from a long line of the20,000-year time jump, universe's most powerful {{Time Master}}s, but settled down with an ordinary space captain (then a lieutenant commander) like Connor.
* MysteriousParent: Rebecca is shocked to find out her long-lost mother is one of therecognition Galáctica, and an archbishop who can control time.
* NakedOnArrival: She's naked in her first official appearance because she's inside one of Ziggy'sname, and realizing he's PeopleJars.
* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: Ziggy's capture of Rachel happened off-screen, but according to him, she didn't go down without a fight, ending up the only one of her cult to survive.
* OldFlame: She and Connor were HappilyMarried before she was forced to leave him with their unborn daughter. When they find each other again after eighteen years, they resume their loving, passionate relationship without a hitch.
* RankScalesWithAsskicking: As her church's Archbishop, she is also its most powerful member with SuperSpeed and TimeMaster abilities.
* RescueIntroduction: In her proper introduction, Ziggy has captured her and trapped her inside one of his PeopleJars to pinpoint Mother's location. Shiki and his crewmates free her and take her to Sister for treatment.
* TheRunaway: In her younger days, she ran away from home because she didn't want anything to do with the Church of Saintfire, which lead to her meeting and marrying Connor.
* SharedFamilyQuirks: She has her daughter's explosive temper and violent tendencies, right down to the "''zeyo''/ducky" VerbalTic.
* SoleSurvivor: In multiple ways: she is the only known survivor ofall his friends--complete with seeing Ziggy's attack on the Church of Saintfire, the only living mother in Ziggy's collection of PeopleJars, and the last remaining member of the Galáctica's original roster besides the newcomer Shiki.
* SuperSpeed: By Sister's account, Rachel possesses speed that puts Rebecca'scorpse--badly affects his memory. The decades he spends in said future further destroy any memories of his past he still had, to shame, as she allegedly had Sister tied up and pinned to the point that he admits to [[TheLostLenore Rebecca's corpse]] that he doesn't properly remember her anymore.]]
* UniversallyBelovedLeader: As head robot of the Granbell Kingdom and the ''Edens Zero'', Ziggy is respected and adored by his subjects, crew, and adoptive grandson, who all continue to speak highly of his wisdom and kindness yearsground a split second after his death.
waking up.
*WalkingSpoiler: Ziggy's past and identity are deeply ingrained into SuperpowerfulGenetics: Her Cat Leaper ability is passed down through the story's biggest twists on more than one front:
** He's set up as a PosthumousCharacter and GreaterScopeParagon until he comes BackFromTheDead and becomes the BigBad following Drakken Joe's defeat, boasting to have been EvilAllAlong and sufferingwomen in her family, with Rachel inheriting hers from IdentityAmnesia.
** A triple whammy during the Lendard arc: first, [[spoiler:he is Shiki's AlternateSelfher mother, and Rebecca receiving her own Cat Leaper from a BadFuture branched off from the Nero 66 arc, sent 20,000 years forward in time by Shura's {{Antimatter}} bombs]]; second, [[spoiler:the ''Edens Zero'' was built so Ziggy could return to the present era and save Mother from death using Etherion, made from the deceased Rebecca's Ether]]; and third, [[spoiler:he was truly GoodAllAlong, merely being under the control of the ''Edens One'', his own SapientShip and the true BigBad.]]
** In the final arc, he is revealed to be [[spoiler:the biological father of Void, the true identity of the ''Edens One''[='=]s Artificialntelligence,Rachel.
* TimeMaster: Like her daughter, Rachel has [[TimeRewindMechanic Cat Leaper]], whichwas previously assumed to be is a regular A.I. gone rogue.]]
* WasOnceAMan: [[spoiler:He's a version ofpower all the human Shiki, whose body was so badly burned women of their family have. By the time she's introduced, however, she's already used up her ability to reverse time after thousands of attempts to stop her husband and daughter from getting killed.
* TokenGoodTeammate: To both theexplosion Church of spacetime that sent him to the future, it forced his robot caretakers to [[WeCanRebuildHim switch it out with a mechanical one]].]]
* WeUsedToBeFriends:
** He was as much a friend to ShikiSaintfire and the Four Shining Stars as he was a parental figure and mentor, but he's since sworn off all ties to them, forcing them to do the same if they have any hope of stopping him.
** Ziggy and [[TheEmperor Nero]] used to consider each other as friends, enough that Nero feels troubled by how someone as wise and thoughtful as Ziggy would wage a RobotWar. When Nero addresses Ziggy as such, Ziggy coldly denies having any friends whatsoever, leaving Nero to firmly consider him as an enemy.
* WorldsStrongestMan: His gravity powers and durability make him stronger than any of the greatest fighters known in the universe, and incredibly tough to take down. [[spoiler:The threat he poses is officially recognized by the government when they brand him as one ofthe Oración Seis Galáctica--a category for the six strongest outlaws Galáctica in the cosmos--some time after [[YouKillItYouBoughtIt killing Poseidon Nero, one of its original members]].]]
* YouAreWhatYouHate: [[spoiler:{{Subverted}}. He appears to believe that HumansAreBastardsgeneral. Like Elsie and Shiki, Rachel isn't villainous despite being human originally, but this turns out to be a part branded as one of the ''Edens One''[='=]s control.]]most dangerous criminals of the cosmoses; she was just forced to become the leader of her mother's CorruptChurch because her husband and daughter would be killed if she refused.
* TomTheDarkLord: Despite being one of the six most powerful criminals in the cosmos, her actual first name is the rather unassuming "Rachel".
* UglyGuyHotWife: Rachel looks like a slightly older and more mature version of her daughter Rebecca, who already qualifies as MsFanservice. Meanwhile, her husband is the middle-aged, balding, overweight Captain Connor.
* WalkingSpoiler: She's revealed as Rebecca's long-lost mother upon introduction, making her role in the story a spoiler right away.
* AllLovingHero: The Ziggy that Shiki and the Four Shining Stars know is a man who genuinely views humans and machines on equal terms, believing that everyone has a "heart" no matter who or what they are.
* AlternateSelf: [[spoiler:Ziggy is a future version of Shiki from Universe 3173, where he was transported to 20,000 years into the future after trying to stop Shura's anti-matter bombs
* AmnesiacDissonance: After remembering his past an EvilOverlord out to KillAllHumans, Ziggy is motivated partially by disgust with himself for treating "ugly, foolish creatures" like humans with the same respect as machines, and for raising the boy who would pose a threat to the entire universe itself. [[spoiler:{{Subverted}}
* AppropriatedAppellation: The name "Ziggy" itself is not his original name. Rather, it comes from [[spoiler:his labored effort at pronouncing his original name, Shiki, which
* ActionMom: She's Rebecca's mom and
* ArchEnemy: He becomes this for Shiki after becoming the BigBad, with the ''Edens Zero'' crew's search for Mother gradually being overtaken by their battle to save the universe from Ziggy.
* BadassCape: He has a big cloak that oozes the authority and awesomeness of someone who once ruled the Sakura Cosmos.
* BecameTheirOwnAntithesis: {{Inverted}}. It seems he's abandoned everything he taught Shiki about friendship and equality between organic and mechanical beings when he declares war on humans, but Ziggy reveals that he's merely [[EvilAllAlong returned to his true self]] after a century of IdentityAmnesia. [[spoiler:{{Subverted}} when it's revealed that Ziggy was taken over by the ''Edens One'' and truly was GoodAllAlong.]]
* BigBad: After coming BackFromTheDead and regaining his memories, he reveals himself to be EvilAllAlong and becomes the ultimate obstacle the heroes must face in their pursuit of Mother. [[spoiler:{{Subverted}} when it's revealed this Ziggy is another personality created by the ''Edens One'' to control the good, true Ziggy, making him the DiscOneFinalBoss.]]
* BigGood: [[spoiler:Ziggy takes on this role in Universe Zero, where Void has no sway over him like he did in the previous world. This allows Ziggy to leave the ''Edens Zero'' on Granbell so Shiki can begin his adventure immediately, and later take the fight straight to the BigBad himself.]]
* BlackEyesOfCrazy: [[spoiler:{{Downplayed}}. When Ziggy's human face is visible, only the sclera of his left eye changes to black to enhance his crazed, diabolical nature.]]
* BoldExplorer: He is one of countless interstellar explorers who traveled into deep space in search of Mother, specifically to wish for her to restore his lost memories.
* BrainUploading: [[spoiler:Due to the extensive damage his body suffered in the {{Antimatter}} explosion that originally sent him to the future, his mind was [[UnwillingRoboticization unwillingly]] uploaded into his current mechanical body.]]
* BrokenPedestal: He becomes this to Shiki and the Four Shining Stars when he wages all-out war between humans and machines, spitting in the face of everything he taught them about harmony and friendship between the two.
* CameBackWrong: {{Subverted}}. When Ziggy comes BackFromTheDead as a human-hating misanthrope who betrays everyone he cared about without a second thought, everybody thinks something has gone horribly wrong with him to make him act this way. As he later claims, the Ziggy they knew was a product of IdentityAmnesia, making him EvilAllAlong. [[spoiler:DoubleSubverted by the later reveal that the he gained amnesia as a result of a Chronophage encounter right before he time-jumped, and everything he "remembered" was information he learned from the BigBad possessing him.]]
* TheCaptain: His title as "Demon King" also makes him captain of the ''Edens Zero'' and its SuperiorSuccessor, the ''Edens One'', with Connor--the self-professed captain of the latter ship--really being a glorified helmsman for hire.
* CharacterCatchphrase: He utters a recurring phrase, "That's what it is," to scorn his former loved ones for letting their emotions get in the way of finishing him off whenever he's at his weakest.
* ChekhovsGunman: Hundreds of chapters before it's revealed to be Ziggy, his true identity is introduced as [[spoiler:the unidentified human man in the [[MeanwhileInTheFuture 20,000-year flash-forward]] during the Norma arc]].
* CoolOldGuy: Ziggy is
%%* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: Thanks to her age and experience, Rachel is a more skillful TimeMaster than Rebecca. She's also a superior dominatrix to Sister,
*
* AmicableExes: After their
* DarkIsNotEvil: {{Subverted}}. Despite looking like an EvilOverlord straight out of a HighFantasy series, he is introduced as a paragon of kindness
* DeadpanSnarker: He has a mean wit, best shown when he dryly dismisses Emperor Nero's InfoDump on Jaguar:
-->'''Nero:''' You have not heard of Beast Lord Jaguar?\\
'''Ziggy:''' Can't say that I have.\\
'''Nero:''' He was once part of the Oración Seis Galáctica, a man beyond anyone's control. Then he joined the Oración Seis Interstellar, and rose through the military ranks to become a captain.\\
'''Ziggy:''' I really don't care.
* DeathOfPersonality: [[spoiler:Ziggy's current personality comes from the loss of his memories and old personality as Shiki, developing a more mild-mannered and worrisome persona over the decades he spent living on Planet Eden, and eventually developing into the wise and mischievous old bot his current family knows. It's because of this disconnect that Ziggy no longer considers himself to be Shiki, despite his awareness of who he used to be.]]
* DeathSeeker: [[spoiler:After being returned to his true, good personality in the Lendard arc, Ziggy is
*
* EnhancedPunch: He can use Gravity Fist just like Shiki, which uses gravity to boost the strength of his punch. His Ultimachina Impact takes it a step further, punching his opponent with gravitational force that swells up and explodes for additional damage.
* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: Everyone besides his closest allies simply calls him "Demon King", which is both his role in the theme park and his title as captain of the ''Edens Zero''.
* EvilAllAlong: Ziggy purports that his original self was an evil GalacticConqueror,
* EvilCostumeSwitch: Goes through one at the end of the Foresta arc, despite looking like an ObviouslyEvil [[MaouTheDemonKing Demon King]] to begin with: his [[SkullForAHead skull face]] becomes more detailed with realistic teeth; his chin plate becomes more jagged, his [[HornedHumanoid horns]] curve upwards; his body bulks up considerably; his fanged chest plate becomes a BellyMouth with a floating orb
* EvilCounterpart: He becomes this for Shiki after coming BackFromTheDead. Both have the same gravity powers and are the captains of their own ''Edens'' spaceships, but while Shiki is TheHero, Ziggy is his GruesomeGrandparent who wants to make machines conquer humanity.
* EvilOverlord: As the BigBad, his title as [[MaouTheDemonKing Demon King]] isn't [[MeanCharacterNiceActor just for show]] like it was before, as he soars the cosmos to conquer planets, bend unwilling robots to his will, and spread death and chaos to every corner of the universe he can reach.
* EvilSoundsRaspy: Creator/HochuOtsuka punctuates his turn to evil by giving him
* EvilWearsBlack:
* EvilerThanThou: To [[TheEmperor Poseidon Nero]]. While Nero puts up a much better fight than Ziggy expects out of him, Ziggy finds it ridiculous that Nero sacrificed everyone he knew to fulfill his [[ArtifactOfPower Empire Dice]]'s prophecies, and would just as readily sacrifice the empire he gained from this if it means guaranteeing his victory against Ziggy. [[spoiler:For that, Ziggy crushes Nero's dice the first opportunity he gets and drains the life out of him.]]
* ExpressiveSkull: While his face is designed to look like a skull, his mouth still curves and bends whenever he needs to emote.
* FaceOfAThug: He looks like an archetypal fantasy villain with a SkullForAHead, but he's also an AllLovingHero and the story's GreaterScopeParagon. However, this winds up being called into question by TheReveal that he's an [[AmnesiacVillainJoinsTheHeroes amnesiac villain]].
* FallenHero: [[spoiler:Ziggy was originally another version of Shiki, whom Ziggy raised himself to [[AllLovingHero show compassion to all forms of life]], and who wanted nothing more than to explore the cosmos and [[IJustWantToHaveFriends make hundreds of friends]]. Then he made a TragicMistake that killed his friends and flung him thousands of years into the future without his memories, and his attempts to save the past only left him stranded there to become the ''Edens One''[='=]s helpless pawn.]]
* FantasticFightingStyle: Ziggy is proficient in the Magimech School of [[GravityMaster Gravity Martial Arts]], which allows him to alter weight and gravitational direction of anything, [[SemanticSuperpower including concepts]].
* FantasticRacism: In stark contrast to the AllLovingHero that Shiki and the rest knew, Ziggy is convinced that HumansAreBastards and sees it best to [[KillAllHumans kill them all]].
* FriendshipDenial: To cement his status as the BigBad, he burns all bridges he built with Shiki, the Four Shining Stars, Elsie, and Nero, claiming the friendships he had with them were just products of his IdentityAmnesia, and that he couldn't care less about them now that he remembers his true self.
* TheGadfly: Ziggy is shown to have had a playfully deceitful side to him as Shiki's grandfather, evidenced by how he tricked Shiki into thinking a shooting star was a dragon when he wasn't so sure himself.
* GalacticConqueror: His endgame upon reactivation is to conquer the entire universe and place machines above humankind, which he does by spreading a virus that infects robots with the same kind of desire to dominate humans.
* GlowingEyesOfDoom: His eyes originally appeared to be empty black sockets, but after coming BackFromTheDead as the BigBad, he's often drawn with a single glowing pupil, giving an impression of BlackEyesOfCrazy.
* GlowingMechanicalEyes: As a machine, he sports a single pupil that [[RedEyesTakeWarning glows red]].
* GoodAllAlong: [[spoiler:Rather than an evil GalacticConqueror like he claimed to have been prior to his memory loss, Ziggy is revealed in the Lendard arc to be a would-be hero from the future who was simply [[GrandTheftMe taken control of by another]] and used to commit evil against his will, and was FightingFromTheInside to help his old friends however he could.]]
* GrandTheftMe: [[spoiler:He's revealed in the Lendard arc to have been a victim of this since he was brought BackFromTheDead, with the perpetrator and Shiki's true enemy being Void, the ''Edens One''[='=]s A.I. itself.]]
* GreaterScopeParagon: Before his death, Ziggy is the the robot who raised Shiki and built the Four Shining Stars, teaching them the value of life for machines and friendship with humans, which made them the caring and heroic figures they are today.
* GravityMaster: He has the same gravity powers as Shiki does, but uses them on a grander scale such as [[PlanetDestroyer crumbling a small planet]]. He also uses it as a SemanticSuperpower by [[spoiler:becoming a PowerParasite via causing others' powers to "fall" into him]].
* GruesomeGrandparent: He becomes one to his adoptive grandson upon his revival. The moment he and Shiki reunite, Ziggy tries to kill him and his crew, saying that raising Shiki and sending him into space was a mistake.
* GrinOfAudacity: His built-in SlasherSmile becomes this to reflect his nature as a adventurous, mischievous, wizened old bot.
* HornedHumanoid: There are two huge horns grafted onto the sides of his head, which become larger and turned upward in his transformed appearance.
* IHaveNoSon:
** Grandson, in this case, as the first thing he tells Shiki after coming BackFromTheDead is that it was a mistake to raise him and send him away from Granbell. [[spoiler:{{Subverted}} when he assures Shiki that he still loves him after being freed from the real BigBad.]]
** During the final arc, it's shown that Ziggy feels this way towards [[spoiler:Void, his KidFromTheFuture, since Void is the BigBad who wants to kill Mother and all of humanity, and was the one who controlled him all along.]]
* IHatePastMe: [[spoiler:{{Subverted}}. As Shiki's future self, he seems convinced his past self is a threat to the universe and will stop at nothing to kill him, but this turns out to be because of the ''Edens One''[='=]s control. Ziggy's real personality still doesn't remember his past life, and holds no grudges against Shiki.]]
* IdentityAmnesia:
** He lost his memories of his past over 100 years before his death, finding himself living on Granbell without a care in the world. This led him to look for Mother so he could wish for his memories back, but he abandoned his search when he found Shiki, feeling that raising him was more important. His true identity is eventually revealed to be [[spoiler:a future version of Shiki, who suffered from TraumaInducedAmnesia when he was rebuilt as a robot and [[TomatoInTheMirror realized who he became]], leading to his DeathOfPersonality.]]
** As revealed in the Lendard arc, [[spoiler:Ziggy lost his memories a second time after a Chronophage caught his ship during his voyage from the future to save humanity from extinction, leaving him TrappedInThePast with no knowledge of his mission or that he was ever human to begin with.]]
* InstantExpert: According to his teacher, Xenolith, Ziggy mastered all techniques of Gravity Martial Arts in a single day, as if he already knew them. [[spoiler:This is because he did, [[StableTimeLoop having passed the same techniques onto his own younger self]].]]
* LastOfHisKind: [[spoiler:Before becoming Ziggy, Shiki is the last known living human left in his home of Universe 3173 when he's found in the far future, and only because he was catapulted several millennia across time. Once he's turned into a machine, the human race is made extinct.]]
* LikeASonToMe: Before coming BackFromTheDead, Ziggy views Shiki like a grandson and raises him as such.
* LosingYourHead: Being a machine, Ziggy can easily survive getting his head ripped off and reattach it with gravity.
* LoveIsAWeakness: He believes all emotion, particularly love, to be the ultimate failing of humans. When Elsie and Shiki waste opportunities to kill them out of love for the man he used to be, he makes sure to call them out on it.
* MaouTheDemonKing: ZigZagged. His title as "Demon King" (''Maou'') refers to his role at a theme park, and to his position as the King of [[{{Magitek}} Magimech]] (''Makai no Ou''),[[note]]''Makai'' being a {{Portmanteau}} of ''ma'' (demon/magic) and ''kikai'' (machine)[[/note]] a benevolent figure who shares [[MagicByAnyOtherName Ether]] with machines. After coming BackFromTheDead, however, he fully leans into all of the title's villainous connotations as an EvilOverlord and GalacticConqueror.
* MeanCharacterNiceActor: During his time on Granbell, he's only called the "[[MaouTheDemonKing Demon King]]" because that's his character role at a theme park, as he's beloved by the locals and visitors alike.
* MusicalThemeNaming: According to Mashima, the name "Ziggy" was picked as a ShoutOut to "[[Music/TheRiseAndFallOfZiggyStardustAndTheSpidersFromMars Ziggy Stardust]]" by Music/DavidBowie.
* NotQuiteFlight: Just like Shiki, Ziggy's gravity gives him the power to levitate and "fall" in different directions to emulate flight.
* ObviouslyEvil: A peculiar example in that despite looking like an archetypal [[MaouTheDemonKing Demon King]], Ziggy was set up as a genuinely good robot who simply performed the part at a theme park. After he comes BackFromTheDead, however, he reveals himself to have been EvilAllAlong and was suffering from IdentityAmnesia the entire time his closest friends and loved ones knew him. [[spoiler:{{Subverted}} in the Lendard arc, which shows he was simply being puppetted by the ''Edens One'', and was truly GoodAllAlong.]]
* OldMaster: On top of being Shiki's surrogate grandfather, he is also his and Shura's teacher in the use of [[GravityMaster Gravity Martial Arts]], and is more powerful than either of them.
* OneWingedAngel: [[spoiler:His [[SuperMode Overdrive]] form functions as this, seriously jacking up his body mass and Ether power to such an extent that Shiki, who could previously match him blow for blow when Overdriving himself, suffers a CurbStompBattle.]]
* PerpetualSmiler: His default expression is a SlasherSmile befitting an EvilOverlord, though in his amnesiac state, it comes off as a GrinOfAudacity to show his kinder nature.
* PlanetDestroyer: His GravityMaster powers are so destructive that the entire Granbell Kingdom breaks apart and crumbles with a simple flick of Ziggy's wrist, and the surrounding landscape continues to split and distort while he's leaving until [[ApocalypseWow the entire planet is reduced to smoldering rubble]].
* PowerParasite: His Gravity Drain lets him [[ManaDrain siphon other people's Ether into himself]] with his gravitational pull, allowing him to steal any Ether Gear they may have. Since Ether is also a person's LifeEnergy, this [[LifeDrain kills the victim of the absorbed Ether Gear]].
* APupilOfMineUntilHeTurnedToEvil: Ziggy studied under Xenolith, the inventor of the [[GravityMaster Gravity Martial Arts]], before turning to TheDarkSide. As Ziggy claims, however, he was EvilAllAlong; he simply [[IdentityAmnesia didn't remember any of it at the time]].
* PosthumousCharacter: {{Subverted}}. He broke down from old age a decade before Rebecca and Happy come to Granbell and meet Shiki, but comes BackFromTheDead and becomes a central player to the story.
* RankScalesWithAsskicking: As both a warship captain and head of the robot community of Granbell, he stands as the most powerful of each group with his [[GravityMaster Satan Gravity]].
* RapidFireFisticuffs: His Gravity Inferno technique involves pummeling his opponents with gravitational force that punches holes into any surface behind them.
* RebuiltPedestal: [[spoiler:Shiki and the surviving Shining Stars regain their faith in Ziggy the moment it's revealed that he didn't willingly betray his friends or beliefs.]]
* RedBaron:
** He is called the [[MaouTheDemonKing Demon King]] not just because he played one at a theme park, but because that's his title as TheCaptain of the ''Edens Zero''. As Witch later elaborates, the "Demon King" is an alternate name for the King of [[{{Magitek}} Magimech]], a benevolent fairy tale character who shares [[MagicByAnyOtherName Ether]] with machines.
** As the BigBad, he makes a name for himself as the "Mechanical King" for his dominion over robots, which eventually becomes his epithet as [[spoiler:one of the Oración Seis Galáctica]].
* RedEyesTakeWarning: His single [[GlowingEyesOfDoom Glowing Eye of Doom]] has a prominent red glow in the anime and the cover of Volume 23.
* RetiredBadass: After amassing a reputation as the Sakura Cosmos's original ruler and a famous explorer of the stars, he retired to Granbell as a humble theme park animatronic to spend the rest of his days raising Shiki.
* RidiculouslyHumanRobot: [[spoiler:His unmasked self appears perfectly human, but given the immediate reveal that his mind was uploaded into a fully mechanical body to [[WeCanRebuildHim rebuild him from death's door]], it's clear that his flesh and hair are synthetic upgrades given to him.]]
* RobotsEnslavingRobots: Ziggy's idea of "liberating" machines from humanity is brainwashing them into being his psychotic slaves.
* SemanticSuperpower: As a wielder of "true" gravity, he knows how to affect gravity on a conceptual level. Case in point, he becomes a PowerParasite by making others' abilities "fall" into him.
* ShouldersOfDoom: He usually wears two golden skull-shaped pauldrons, adding to his imposing stature as MaouTheDemonKing.
* SoleSurvivor: [[spoiler:As Shiki's AlternateSelf, Ziggy is the only remaining member of
* BadassPreacher: As an archbishop and one of the
* BigDamnReunion: She reunites with
* DirtyBusiness: As much as she realizes it was the only way to protect her family, Rachel feels horribly broken up over having to leave Connor and send Rebecca away, especially after she'd learned Rebecca's
* SkullForAHead: His face is designed
* ForbiddenLove: Her marriage with Connor was considered taboo to her church, who didn't take kindly to outsiders having a relationship with their soon-to-be Archbishop, punishing them with death. With this custom being long-abandoned by the time she reunites with Connor, they more than happily pick up where they left off.
* GiveHerANormalLife: She was forced to give up Rebecca when
* SplitPersonality: [[spoiler:{{Subverted}}. After returning
* GoodShepherd: Despite being forced into leadership of a CorruptChurch and being branded as
* SlasherSmile: His [[PerpetualSmiler permanent expression]] looks like one, but he doesn't truly pull it off until the reveal of his evil nature, turning his wry smile into
* SuperToughness: By virtue of being a machine, Ziggy can take attacks that would instantly kill any organic being, such as multiple [[ArmorPiercingAttack armor-piercing attacks]] or [[LosingYourHead getting his head ripped off]].
* ThinkingUpPortals: [[spoiler:He gains the same "Wormhole" ability as Nero, which lets him create portals to just about any other location in the universe, after draining Nero's Ether Gear and killing him in the Nero 66 arc.]]
* ThatManIsDead: [[spoiler:Both Ziggy's
* TinTyrant: Ziggy is a robot decked out in terrifying armor suitable for a [[MaouTheDemonKing Demon King]], and takes on the role of a GalacticConqueror
* HighPriest: She's the
* TomTheDarkLord: "Ziggy" isn't exactly the most threatening name for a Demon King.
* TragicMonster: [[spoiler:On top
* ItsNotYouItsMyEnemies: Her [[HappilyMarried loving
* TragicTimeTraveler: [[spoiler:Shiki was hurdled 20,000 years into the future by a disaster he couldn't prevent, killing all his friends and leaving him
* LegacyCharacter: "Saintfire Nox" is just a title that's passed down to the
* MommyHadAGoodReasonForAbandoningYou: In the timelines where she brought Rebecca to the
* TranshumanTreachery: His desire to eradicate all humans takes on this shade when it's revealed [[spoiler:he WasOnceAMan, though it's {{subverted}} when it's revealed the ''Edens One'' was controlling him and forcing him to act against his true, human-loving nature.]]
* TraumaInducedAmnesia: [[spoiler:The physical and mental damage Shiki suffers due
* MuggleMageRomance: She's descended from a long line of the
* MysteriousParent: Rebecca is shocked to find out her long-lost mother is one of the
* NakedOnArrival: She's naked in her first official appearance because she's inside one of Ziggy's
* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: Ziggy's capture of Rachel happened off-screen, but according to him, she didn't go down without a fight, ending up the only one of her cult to survive.
* OldFlame: She and Connor were HappilyMarried before she was forced to leave him with their unborn daughter. When they find each other again after eighteen years, they resume their loving, passionate relationship without a hitch.
* RankScalesWithAsskicking: As her church's Archbishop, she is also its most powerful member with SuperSpeed and TimeMaster abilities.
* RescueIntroduction: In her proper introduction, Ziggy has captured her and trapped her inside one of his PeopleJars to pinpoint Mother's location. Shiki and his crewmates free her and take her to Sister for treatment.
* TheRunaway: In her younger days, she ran away from home because she didn't want anything to do with the Church of Saintfire, which lead to her meeting and marrying Connor.
* SharedFamilyQuirks: She has her daughter's explosive temper and violent tendencies, right down to the "''zeyo''/ducky" VerbalTic.
* SoleSurvivor: In multiple ways: she is the only known survivor of
* SuperSpeed: By Sister's account, Rachel possesses speed that puts Rebecca's
* UniversallyBelovedLeader: As head robot of the Granbell Kingdom and the ''Edens Zero'', Ziggy is respected and adored by his subjects, crew, and adoptive grandson, who all continue to speak highly of his wisdom and kindness years
*
** He's set up as a PosthumousCharacter and GreaterScopeParagon until he comes BackFromTheDead and becomes the BigBad following Drakken Joe's defeat, boasting to have been EvilAllAlong and suffering
** A triple whammy during the Lendard arc: first, [[spoiler:he is Shiki's AlternateSelf
** In the final arc, he is revealed to be [[spoiler:the biological father of Void, the true identity of the ''Edens One''[='=]s Artificialntelligence,
* TimeMaster: Like her daughter, Rachel has [[TimeRewindMechanic Cat Leaper]], which
* WasOnceAMan: [[spoiler:He's a version of
* TokenGoodTeammate: To both the
* WeUsedToBeFriends:
** He was as much a friend to Shiki
** Ziggy and [[TheEmperor Nero]] used to consider each other as friends, enough that Nero feels troubled by how someone as wise and thoughtful as Ziggy would wage a RobotWar. When Nero addresses Ziggy as such, Ziggy coldly denies having any friends whatsoever, leaving Nero to firmly consider him as an enemy.
* WorldsStrongestMan: His gravity powers and durability make him stronger than any of the greatest fighters known in the universe, and incredibly tough to take down. [[spoiler:The threat he poses is officially recognized by the government when they brand him as one of
* YouAreWhatYouHate: [[spoiler:{{Subverted}}. He appears to believe that HumansAreBastards
* TomTheDarkLord: Despite being one of the six most powerful criminals in the cosmos, her actual first name is the rather unassuming "Rachel".
* UglyGuyHotWife: Rachel looks like a slightly older and more mature version of her daughter Rebecca, who already qualifies as MsFanservice. Meanwhile, her husband is the middle-aged, balding, overweight Captain Connor.
* WalkingSpoiler: She's revealed as Rebecca's long-lost mother upon introduction, making her role in the story a spoiler right away.
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!!Over Nu Etherion Void
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->''"I am the will of the universe."''
The ''Edens One''[='=]s A.I., which so far surpassed the intelligence of humans and machines that the ship itself gained a mind of its own. Void is responsible for controlling Ziggy to carry out his will to destroy Mother and bring about humankind's extinction, making him the true enemy of the ''Edens Zero'' crew.
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* AIIsACrapshoot: Void is described as the ''Edens One''[='=]s A.I., which grew beyond Ziggy's control and started formulating plans to drive humans to extinction. [[spoiler:This is {{subverted}} during the final arc, where it's revealed the A.I. didn't go bad on its own, but was imbued with the consciousness of [[KidFromTheFuture Shiki and Rebecca's future son]].]]
* AntagonisticOffspring: On top of being the BigBad, Void is [[spoiler:the manifestation of Shiki/Ziggy and Rebecca's unborn son, whose consciousness was [[BrainUploading uploaded]] onto the ''Edens One'', and was instilled with such a [[MisanthropeSupreme hatred for humanity]] that he seeks to wipe them all out, including his own would-be parents.]]
* BadassCape: Void wears an imposing cape in his android form, giving him the image of someone more powerful than Ziggy himself.
* BigBad: Void is TheManBehindTheMan to Ziggy, the previously-believed BigBad, who is revealed in the Lendard arc as a helpless puppet Void uses to carry out his plans for human extermination.
* BrainUploading: [[spoiler:Void's conscious thoughts belong to Shiki and Rebecca's unborn human son, whose thoughts instinctively transferred themselves back in time to the ''Edens One'', since he couldn't survive in Rebecca's womb due to her death.]]
* ContagiousAI: As the ''Edens One''[='=]s A.I., Void has the power to download himself into other androids, which is how he hijacks Ziggy's body and forces him to act as an evil GalacticConqueror.
* CustomBuiltHost: Universe Zero's version of Void doesn't act through Ziggy, but instead an EmptyShell of an android he builds using the [[PerpetualMotionMachine Möbius System]], modeled after [[spoiler:his hypothetical appearance as Shiki and Rebecca's adult human son]].
* EvilWearsBlack: As the ultimate BigBad of the series, Void is decked out in jet black armor.
* FeelingOppressedByTheirExistence: He despises humans simply because he's judged them to be an inferior, foolish race that exists only to wantonly hate and destroy each other. Rather than sit by and leave them to their pointless wars, Void decides it's best to KillAllHumans himself through Mother and be rid of them.
* GratuitousGreek: The "Nu" in his name stands for the Greek letter [=Ν/ν=], though it doesn't seem to have much purpose outside of making a SignificantAnagram.
* GravityMaster: Void uses Satan Gravity just like Ziggy, his host in the previous world [[spoiler:and his biological father]].
* InvincibleVillain: Void claims to be a perfect being on account of being a machine, which he backs up with his resilience to Shiki's Overdrive and ability to shatter Shiki's arm in that state.
* ItCanThink: Before Void's existence is revealed, the ''Edens One'' is presented simply as the flagship Demon King Ziggy uses to conquer the universe.
* KidFromTheFuture: [[spoiler:His true identity is actually Shiki and Rebecca's child, who was conceived before his parents were sent 20,000 years into the future, and used MentalTimeTravel to upload himself onto the ''Edens One'' as a mass of thought in the past.]]
* TheManBehindTheMan: As revealed in the Lendard arc, he is the villain behind Ziggy's transformation into the apparent BigBad, directly using Ziggy as his host.
* MechanicalMonster: In his base form as the ''Edens One'', Void is a SapientShip modeled after a ''[[UsefulNotes/StockDinosaursNonDinosaurs Dunkleosteus]]'', a [[FiendishFish prehistoric predatory fish]].
* MentalTimeTravel: [[spoiler:Void manifested this ability before he even had a physical form in Rebecca's womb, which allowed him to travel 20,000 years back in time as a mass of thought and merge with the ''Edens One''[='=]s A.I.]]
* MisanthropeSupreme: [[spoiler:As a would-be human whose mind was uploaded onto the ''Edens One'' before he was born, Void has developed an unflattering opinion of the human race and wants to destroy them all.]]
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: He calls himself Void, which is what his plans will reduce the cosmos to: a space completely devoid of all human life.
* RageHelm: Void wears a horned helmet that gives him a perpetual DeathGlare with [[RedEyesTakeWarning glowing red eyes]].
* RedBaron: He retains the same title of "Mechanical King" in Universe Zero that Ziggy used when possessed by the ''One'', symbolizing his role as the most powerful machine in the universe.
* RidiculouslyHumanRobot: [[spoiler:Beneath his armor, Void's android body looks completely indistinguishable from any ordinary human, despite his motive to KillAllHumans.]]
* SapientShip: With Void as its A.I., the ''Edens One'' can pilot itself, fire its own weapons, and formulate its own plans and opinions.
* SmugSuper: He haughtily considers himself to be a perfect being that humans have no hope of ever surpassing, which he backs up by knocking Shiki around with no sign of yielding when Shiki goes into Overdrive.
* StrongFamilyResemblance: [[spoiler:{{Invoked}} by his CustomBuiltHost, which is practically identical to how his biological father, Shiki, looks after the TimeSkip.]]
* SuperpowerfulGenetics: [[spoiler:Void's [[GravityMaster Satan Gravity]] and [[TimeMaster Cat Leaper]] are inherited directly from his parents, Shiki and Rebecca, respectively.]]
* SuperSpeed: [[spoiler:His Cat Leaper inherited from Rebecca gives him the speed to perform a FlashStep on his opponents.]]
* TimeMaster: [[spoiler:He has Cat Leaper courtesy of his mother, Rebecca, which allowed him to travel from the future in the first place.]]
* TinTyrant: Void's CustomBuiltHost is an android decked out in [[EvilWearsBlack black armor]] who aims to create a universe for only machines, completely free of humans who can oppress them.
* TurnedAgainstTheirMasters: The ''Edens One'' was originally built by Ziggy as a backup to the ''Edens Zero'', but spends the story actively working against Ziggy so it can kill Mother along with the entire human race.
* WalkingSpoiler: TheReveal of Void's existence doesn't come until the climax of the Lendard arc well into the story's second half, which gives away some of the story's biggest twists: the first is that he's TheManBehindTheMan to Ziggy, showing that Ziggy isn't the BigBad of his own volition; the second is that [[spoiler:Shiki and Rebecca conceived him as their child before they were sent 20,000 years into the future]].
* WasOnceAMan: [[spoiler:{{Downplayed}}. Void was conceived as a human before becoming one with the ''Edens One'', but lacked a physical form because Rebecca died before she could give birth to him.]]
* WorldsStrongestMan: As far as machines go, Void is the most powerful one in Universe Zero, far eclipsing any other character in this world or the last.
* YoureNotMyFather: [[spoiler:He holds this sentiment for both his parents, knowing that he was conceived by Shiki/Ziggy and Rebecca, but refusing to acknowledge them as his family.]]
!!Over Nu Etherion Void
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->''"I am the will of the universe."''
The ''Edens One''[='=]s A.I., which so far surpassed the intelligence of humans and machines that the ship itself gained a mind of its own. Void is responsible for controlling Ziggy to carry out his will to destroy Mother and bring about humankind's extinction, making him the true enemy of the ''Edens Zero'' crew.
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* AIIsACrapshoot: Void is described as the ''Edens One''[='=]s A.I., which grew beyond Ziggy's control and started formulating plans to drive humans to extinction. [[spoiler:This is {{subverted}} during the final arc, where it's revealed the A.I. didn't go bad on its own, but was imbued with the consciousness of [[KidFromTheFuture Shiki and Rebecca's future son]].]]
* AntagonisticOffspring: On top of being the BigBad, Void is [[spoiler:the manifestation of Shiki/Ziggy and Rebecca's unborn son, whose consciousness was [[BrainUploading uploaded]] onto the ''Edens One'', and was instilled with such a [[MisanthropeSupreme hatred for humanity]] that he seeks to wipe them all out, including his own would-be parents.]]
* BadassCape: Void wears an imposing cape in his android form, giving him the image of someone more powerful than Ziggy himself.
* BigBad: Void is TheManBehindTheMan to Ziggy, the previously-believed BigBad, who is revealed in the Lendard arc as a helpless puppet Void uses to carry out his plans for human extermination.
* BrainUploading: [[spoiler:Void's conscious thoughts belong to Shiki and Rebecca's unborn human son, whose thoughts instinctively transferred themselves back in time to the ''Edens One'', since he couldn't survive in Rebecca's womb due to her death.]]
* ContagiousAI: As the ''Edens One''[='=]s A.I., Void has the power to download himself into other androids, which is how he hijacks Ziggy's body and forces him to act as an evil GalacticConqueror.
* CustomBuiltHost: Universe Zero's version of Void doesn't act through Ziggy, but instead an EmptyShell of an android he builds using the [[PerpetualMotionMachine Möbius System]], modeled after [[spoiler:his hypothetical appearance as Shiki and Rebecca's adult human son]].
* EvilWearsBlack: As the ultimate BigBad of the series, Void is decked out in jet black armor.
* FeelingOppressedByTheirExistence: He despises humans simply because he's judged them to be an inferior, foolish race that exists only to wantonly hate and destroy each other. Rather than sit by and leave them to their pointless wars, Void decides it's best to KillAllHumans himself through Mother and be rid of them.
* GratuitousGreek: The "Nu" in his name stands for the Greek letter [=Ν/ν=], though it doesn't seem to have much purpose outside of making a SignificantAnagram.
* GravityMaster: Void uses Satan Gravity just like Ziggy, his host in the previous world [[spoiler:and his biological father]].
* InvincibleVillain: Void claims to be a perfect being on account of being a machine, which he backs up with his resilience to Shiki's Overdrive and ability to shatter Shiki's arm in that state.
* ItCanThink: Before Void's existence is revealed, the ''Edens One'' is presented simply as the flagship Demon King Ziggy uses to conquer the universe.
* KidFromTheFuture: [[spoiler:His true identity is actually Shiki and Rebecca's child, who was conceived before his parents were sent 20,000 years into the future, and used MentalTimeTravel to upload himself onto the ''Edens One'' as a mass of thought in the past.]]
* TheManBehindTheMan: As revealed in the Lendard arc, he is the villain behind Ziggy's transformation into the apparent BigBad, directly using Ziggy as his host.
* MechanicalMonster: In his base form as the ''Edens One'', Void is a SapientShip modeled after a ''[[UsefulNotes/StockDinosaursNonDinosaurs Dunkleosteus]]'', a [[FiendishFish prehistoric predatory fish]].
* MentalTimeTravel: [[spoiler:Void manifested this ability before he even had a physical form in Rebecca's womb, which allowed him to travel 20,000 years back in time as a mass of thought and merge with the ''Edens One''[='=]s A.I.]]
* MisanthropeSupreme: [[spoiler:As a would-be human whose mind was uploaded onto the ''Edens One'' before he was born, Void has developed an unflattering opinion of the human race and wants to destroy them all.]]
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: He calls himself Void, which is what his plans will reduce the cosmos to: a space completely devoid of all human life.
* RageHelm: Void wears a horned helmet that gives him a perpetual DeathGlare with [[RedEyesTakeWarning glowing red eyes]].
* RedBaron: He retains the same title of "Mechanical King" in Universe Zero that Ziggy used when possessed by the ''One'', symbolizing his role as the most powerful machine in the universe.
* RidiculouslyHumanRobot: [[spoiler:Beneath his armor, Void's android body looks completely indistinguishable from any ordinary human, despite his motive to KillAllHumans.]]
* SapientShip: With Void as its A.I., the ''Edens One'' can pilot itself, fire its own weapons, and formulate its own plans and opinions.
* SmugSuper: He haughtily considers himself to be a perfect being that humans have no hope of ever surpassing, which he backs up by knocking Shiki around with no sign of yielding when Shiki goes into Overdrive.
* StrongFamilyResemblance: [[spoiler:{{Invoked}} by his CustomBuiltHost, which is practically identical to how his biological father, Shiki, looks after the TimeSkip.]]
* SuperpowerfulGenetics: [[spoiler:Void's [[GravityMaster Satan Gravity]] and [[TimeMaster Cat Leaper]] are inherited directly from his parents, Shiki and Rebecca, respectively.]]
* SuperSpeed: [[spoiler:His Cat Leaper inherited from Rebecca gives him the speed to perform a FlashStep on his opponents.]]
* TimeMaster: [[spoiler:He has Cat Leaper courtesy of his mother, Rebecca, which allowed him to travel from the future in the first place.]]
* TinTyrant: Void's CustomBuiltHost is an android decked out in [[EvilWearsBlack black armor]] who aims to create a universe for only machines, completely free of humans who can oppress them.
* TurnedAgainstTheirMasters: The ''Edens One'' was originally built by Ziggy as a backup to the ''Edens Zero'', but spends the story actively working against Ziggy so it can kill Mother along with the entire human race.
* WalkingSpoiler: TheReveal of Void's existence doesn't come until the climax of the Lendard arc well into the story's second half, which gives away some of the story's biggest twists: the first is that he's TheManBehindTheMan to Ziggy, showing that Ziggy isn't the BigBad of his own volition; the second is that [[spoiler:Shiki and Rebecca conceived him as their child before they were sent 20,000 years into the future]].
* WasOnceAMan: [[spoiler:{{Downplayed}}. Void was conceived as a human before becoming one with the ''Edens One'', but lacked a physical form because Rebecca died before she could give birth to him.]]
* WorldsStrongestMan: As far as machines go, Void is the most powerful one in Universe Zero, far eclipsing any other character in this world or the last.
* YoureNotMyFather: [[spoiler:He holds this sentiment for both his parents, knowing that he was conceived by Shiki/Ziggy and Rebecca, but refusing to acknowledge them as his family.]]
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!!Over Nu Etherion Void
[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ez_one_void_4.png]]
->''"I am the will of the universe."''
The ''Edens One''[='=]s A.I., which so far surpassed the intelligence of humans and machines that the ship itself gained a mind of its own. Void is responsible for controlling Ziggy to carry out his will to destroy Mother and bring about humankind's extinction, making him the true enemy of the ''Edens Zero'' crew.
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* AIIsACrapshoot: Void is described as the ''Edens One''[='=]s A.I., which grew beyond Ziggy's control and started formulating plans to drive humans to extinction. [[spoiler:This is {{subverted}} during the final arc, where it's revealed the A.I. didn't go bad on its own, but was imbued with the consciousness of [[KidFromTheFuture Shiki and Rebecca's future son]].]]
* AntagonisticOffspring: On top of being the BigBad, Void is [[spoiler:the manifestation of Shiki/Ziggy and Rebecca's unborn son, whose consciousness was [[BrainUploading uploaded]] onto the ''Edens One'', and was instilled with such a [[MisanthropeSupreme hatred for humanity]] that he seeks to wipe them all out, including his own would-be parents.]]
* BadassCape: Void wears an imposing cape in his android form, giving him the image of someone more powerful than Ziggy himself.
* BigBad: Void is TheManBehindTheMan to Ziggy, the previously-believed BigBad, who is revealed in the Lendard arc as a helpless puppet Void uses to carry out his plans for human extermination.
* BrainUploading: [[spoiler:Void's conscious thoughts belong to Shiki and Rebecca's unborn human son, whose thoughts instinctively transferred themselves back in time to the ''Edens One'', since he couldn't survive in Rebecca's womb due to her death.]]
* ContagiousAI: As the ''Edens One''[='=]s A.I., Void has the power to download himself into other androids, which is how he hijacks Ziggy's body and forces him to act as an evil GalacticConqueror.
* CustomBuiltHost: Universe Zero's version of Void doesn't act through Ziggy, but instead an EmptyShell of an android he builds using the [[PerpetualMotionMachine Möbius System]], modeled after [[spoiler:his hypothetical appearance as Shiki and Rebecca's adult human son]].
* EvilWearsBlack: As the ultimate BigBad of the series, Void is decked out in jet black armor.
* FeelingOppressedByTheirExistence: He despises humans simply because he's judged them to be an inferior, foolish race that exists only to wantonly hate and destroy each other. Rather than sit by and leave them to their pointless wars, Void decides it's best to KillAllHumans himself through Mother and be rid of them.
* GratuitousGreek: The "Nu" in his name stands for the Greek letter [=Ν/ν=], though it doesn't seem to have much purpose outside of making a SignificantAnagram.
* GravityMaster: Void uses Satan Gravity just like Ziggy, his host in the previous world [[spoiler:and his biological father]].
* InvincibleVillain: Void claims to be a perfect being on account of being a machine, which he backs up with his resilience to Shiki's Overdrive and ability to shatter Shiki's arm in that state.
* ItCanThink: Before Void's existence is revealed, the ''Edens One'' is presented simply as the flagship Demon King Ziggy uses to conquer the universe.
* KidFromTheFuture: [[spoiler:His true identity is actually Shiki and Rebecca's child, who was conceived before his parents were sent 20,000 years into the future, and used MentalTimeTravel to upload himself onto the ''Edens One'' as a mass of thought in the past.]]
* TheManBehindTheMan: As revealed in the Lendard arc, he is the villain behind Ziggy's transformation into the apparent BigBad, directly using Ziggy as his host.
* MechanicalMonster: In his base form as the ''Edens One'', Void is a SapientShip modeled after a ''[[UsefulNotes/StockDinosaursNonDinosaurs Dunkleosteus]]'', a [[FiendishFish prehistoric predatory fish]].
* MentalTimeTravel: [[spoiler:Void manifested this ability before he even had a physical form in Rebecca's womb, which allowed him to travel 20,000 years back in time as a mass of thought and merge with the ''Edens One''[='=]s A.I.]]
* MisanthropeSupreme: [[spoiler:As a would-be human whose mind was uploaded onto the ''Edens One'' before he was born, Void has developed an unflattering opinion of the human race and wants to destroy them all.]]
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: He calls himself Void, which is what his plans will reduce the cosmos to: a space completely devoid of all human life.
* RageHelm: Void wears a horned helmet that gives him a perpetual DeathGlare with [[RedEyesTakeWarning glowing red eyes]].
* RedBaron: He retains the same title of "Mechanical King" in Universe Zero that Ziggy used when possessed by the ''One'', symbolizing his role as the most powerful machine in the universe.
* RidiculouslyHumanRobot: [[spoiler:Beneath his armor, Void's android body looks completely indistinguishable from any ordinary human, despite his motive to KillAllHumans.]]
* SapientShip: With Void as its A.I., the ''Edens One'' can pilot itself, fire its own weapons, and formulate its own plans and opinions.
* SmugSuper: He haughtily considers himself to be a perfect being that humans have no hope of ever surpassing, which he backs up by knocking Shiki around with no sign of yielding when Shiki goes into Overdrive.
* StrongFamilyResemblance: [[spoiler:{{Invoked}} by his CustomBuiltHost, which is practically identical to how his biological father, Shiki, looks after the TimeSkip.]]
* SuperpowerfulGenetics: [[spoiler:Void's [[GravityMaster Satan Gravity]] and [[TimeMaster Cat Leaper]] are inherited directly from his parents, Shiki and Rebecca, respectively.]]
* SuperSpeed: [[spoiler:His Cat Leaper inherited from Rebecca gives him the speed to perform a FlashStep on his opponents.]]
* TimeMaster: [[spoiler:He has Cat Leaper courtesy of his mother, Rebecca, which allowed him to travel from the future in the first place.]]
* TinTyrant: Void's CustomBuiltHost is an android decked out in [[EvilWearsBlack black armor]] who aims to create a universe for only machines, completely free of humans who can oppress them.
* TurnedAgainstTheirMasters: The ''Edens One'' was originally built by Ziggy as a backup to the ''Edens Zero'', but spends the story actively working against Ziggy so it can kill Mother along with the entire human race.
* WalkingSpoiler: TheReveal of Void's existence doesn't come until the climax of the Lendard arc well into the story's second half, which gives away some of the story's biggest twists: the first is that he's TheManBehindTheMan to Ziggy, showing that Ziggy isn't the BigBad of his own volition; the second is that [[spoiler:Shiki and Rebecca conceived him as their child before they were sent 20,000 years into the future]].
* WasOnceAMan: [[spoiler:{{Downplayed}}. Void was conceived as a human before becoming one with the ''Edens One'', but lacked a physical form because Rebecca died before she could give birth to him.]]
* WorldsStrongestMan: As far as machines go, Void is the most powerful one in Universe Zero, far eclipsing any other character in this world or the last.
* YoureNotMyFather: [[spoiler:He holds this sentiment for both his parents, knowing that he was conceived by Shiki/Ziggy and Rebecca, but refusing to acknowledge them as his family.]]
!!Sara
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!!Demon King's Four Dark Stars
[[folder:In General]]
The ''Edens One''[='=]s counterparts to the ''Zero''[='=]s Four Shining Stars, designed to be superior to them in every way.
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* AmazonBrigade: GenderInverted. Whereas the Four Shining Stars are all female, the Four Dark Stars are all male.
* AndroidIdentifier: The more humanoid Dark Stars have seams and markings on their bodies that help distinguish them from ordinary humans. [[spoiler:Their past selves' lack of these features serves as {{Foreshadowing}} that they were all once human.]]
* CoDragons: All four serve this role to Ziggy with no clear hierarchy between each other, though they do have a vaguely established difference in power, with Wizard being the weakest and Brigandine being the strongest.
* DarkIsEvil: The word "[[DubNameChange dark]]" is a part of their name, and they are the Demon King's minions after his FaceHeelTurn. Most of them also [[EvilWearsBlack dress in black and grey]], with the exception of [[BrightIsNotGood Clown]].
* DomainHolder: They can freely manipulate the realms of Killer's Subdimension Program however they wish, from changing the environment to trapping people in seemingly inescapable prisons to creating illusions of loved ones. Though all of them possess this power, Brigandine chooses not to use it, since [[FairPlayVillain he prefers combat to be as fair as possible]].
* DubNameChange: Their Japanese name, ''Shikokusei'' (四黒星), more accurately means "Four Black Stars".
* EvilCounterpart: Each member is designated as an evil SpearCounterpart to one of the Four Shining Stars:
** Wizard for Witch. Both are green-haired {{Robot Wizard}}s who are fiercely loyal to their respective masters and ruthless towards their enemies. However, whereas Witch fights to protect her family and has a will of her own, Wizard is blindly obedient to the BigBad and fights specifically to destroy all who oppose him.
** Clown for Sister. While the latter is TheLadette with healing powers who saves lives and cures mental trauma, the former is a SissyVillain whose powers are built around stealing life and causing MindRape.
** Killer for Hermit. Both are the most intelligent and strategic thinkers in their crews, and both have programming skills unrivaled by anyone. But unlike Hermit, a PlayfulHacker strives to help humans and machines, Killer is TheCracker who uses his power to advance human's extinction and machine supremacy.
** Brigandine for Valkyrie. Both are warrior-type androids whose specialty lies in physical strength, with [[ForceAndFinesse Brigandine focusing on force over Valkyrie's finesse]]. The difference is that Valkyrie is TheSoftHeartedWarrior who fights for the safety of everyone around her, while Brigandine is a BloodKnight who selfishly fights for the satisfaction of killing his counterpart.
* ForgottenFriendNewFoe: As revealed in the Lendard arc, [[spoiler:each Dark Star was originally on good terms with his Shining Star counterpart before their memories were wiped: Wizard and Witch were co-workers at a law firm who eventually married; Clown was Sister's friendly and dedicated surgeon; Killer and Hermit had a close ''[[UsefulNotes/JapaneseHonorifics senpai/kōhai]]'' dynamic at school; and Brigandine had an ambiguous yet close relationship with Valkyrie. Since then, they've become the Four Shining Stars' mortal enemies with no knowledge of ever meeting them before.]]
* LaserGuidedAmnesia: Like the Four Shining Stars, the Dark Stars have had their memory of their pasts erased, leaving them with nothing but the knowledge that they were built by Ziggy.
* ThePsychoRangers: The Four Dark Stars are the ''Edens One'' crew's villainous equivalent of the ''Edens Zero'' crew's Four Shining Stars.
* RedBaron: They all have their own "Edens" titles that compliment their roles as {{Evil Counterpart}}s to the Four Shining Stars:
** Wizard is the "Spear of Edens", named for his role of piercing and shattering Witch, the "Shield".
** Clown is the "Death of Edens", whose role is to put an end to Sister, the "Life".
** Killer is the "Brain of Edens", the cold and methodical counterpart to Hermit, the "Mind".
** Brigandine is the "Armor of Edens", made to be the unyielding opponent to Valkyrie, the "Sword".
* RidiculouslyHumanRobot: The Dark Stars closely resemble and behave like humans despite their disdain for them, with the exception of Brigandine, who resembles AnimatedArmor. [[spoiler:This changes in Universe Zero, where Brigandine has a human face.]]
* SpearCounterpart: They're an all-male group whose members reflect the all-female Shining Stars.
* SuperiorSuccessor: They were constructed to be more advanced than their predecessors, the Four Shining Stars, and possess abilities that exceed theirs in some shape or form.
* TookALevelInBadass: [[spoiler:The Four Dark Stars are all stated by Pino to be more powerful in Universe Zero thanks to the CosmicRetcon. This is a case of InformedAbility, though, as they battle different opponents with different levels of power (e.g., Wizard fighting Witch instead of the more powerful Shiki), which muddies just how much more powerful they're supposed to be.]]
* WasOnceAMan: As divulged in the final arc, [[spoiler:the Four Dark Stars all used to be human just like the Four Shining Stars before Ziggy found a way to turn them all into androids.]]
[[folder:In General]]
The ''Edens One''[='=]s counterparts to the ''Zero''[='=]s Four Shining Stars, designed to be superior to them in every way.
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* AmazonBrigade: GenderInverted. Whereas the Four Shining Stars are all female, the Four Dark Stars are all male.
* AndroidIdentifier: The more humanoid Dark Stars have seams and markings on their bodies that help distinguish them from ordinary humans. [[spoiler:Their past selves' lack of these features serves as {{Foreshadowing}} that they were all once human.]]
* CoDragons: All four serve this role to Ziggy with no clear hierarchy between each other, though they do have a vaguely established difference in power, with Wizard being the weakest and Brigandine being the strongest.
* DarkIsEvil: The word "[[DubNameChange dark]]" is a part of their name, and they are the Demon King's minions after his FaceHeelTurn. Most of them also [[EvilWearsBlack dress in black and grey]], with the exception of [[BrightIsNotGood Clown]].
* DomainHolder: They can freely manipulate the realms of Killer's Subdimension Program however they wish, from changing the environment to trapping people in seemingly inescapable prisons to creating illusions of loved ones. Though all of them possess this power, Brigandine chooses not to use it, since [[FairPlayVillain he prefers combat to be as fair as possible]].
* DubNameChange: Their Japanese name, ''Shikokusei'' (四黒星), more accurately means "Four Black Stars".
* EvilCounterpart: Each member is designated as an evil SpearCounterpart to one of the Four Shining Stars:
** Wizard for Witch. Both are green-haired {{Robot Wizard}}s who are fiercely loyal to their respective masters and ruthless towards their enemies. However, whereas Witch fights to protect her family and has a will of her own, Wizard is blindly obedient to the BigBad and fights specifically to destroy all who oppose him.
** Clown for Sister. While the latter is TheLadette with healing powers who saves lives and cures mental trauma, the former is a SissyVillain whose powers are built around stealing life and causing MindRape.
** Killer for Hermit. Both are the most intelligent and strategic thinkers in their crews, and both have programming skills unrivaled by anyone. But unlike Hermit, a PlayfulHacker strives to help humans and machines, Killer is TheCracker who uses his power to advance human's extinction and machine supremacy.
** Brigandine for Valkyrie. Both are warrior-type androids whose specialty lies in physical strength, with [[ForceAndFinesse Brigandine focusing on force over Valkyrie's finesse]]. The difference is that Valkyrie is TheSoftHeartedWarrior who fights for the safety of everyone around her, while Brigandine is a BloodKnight who selfishly fights for the satisfaction of killing his counterpart.
* ForgottenFriendNewFoe: As revealed in the Lendard arc, [[spoiler:each Dark Star was originally on good terms with his Shining Star counterpart before their memories were wiped: Wizard and Witch were co-workers at a law firm who eventually married; Clown was Sister's friendly and dedicated surgeon; Killer and Hermit had a close ''[[UsefulNotes/JapaneseHonorifics senpai/kōhai]]'' dynamic at school; and Brigandine had an ambiguous yet close relationship with Valkyrie. Since then, they've become the Four Shining Stars' mortal enemies with no knowledge of ever meeting them before.]]
* LaserGuidedAmnesia: Like the Four Shining Stars, the Dark Stars have had their memory of their pasts erased, leaving them with nothing but the knowledge that they were built by Ziggy.
* ThePsychoRangers: The Four Dark Stars are the ''Edens One'' crew's villainous equivalent of the ''Edens Zero'' crew's Four Shining Stars.
* RedBaron: They all have their own "Edens" titles that compliment their roles as {{Evil Counterpart}}s to the Four Shining Stars:
** Wizard is the "Spear of Edens", named for his role of piercing and shattering Witch, the "Shield".
** Clown is the "Death of Edens", whose role is to put an end to Sister, the "Life".
** Killer is the "Brain of Edens", the cold and methodical counterpart to Hermit, the "Mind".
** Brigandine is the "Armor of Edens", made to be the unyielding opponent to Valkyrie, the "Sword".
* RidiculouslyHumanRobot: The Dark Stars closely resemble and behave like humans despite their disdain for them, with the exception of Brigandine, who resembles AnimatedArmor. [[spoiler:This changes in Universe Zero, where Brigandine has a human face.]]
* SpearCounterpart: They're an all-male group whose members reflect the all-female Shining Stars.
* SuperiorSuccessor: They were constructed to be more advanced than their predecessors, the Four Shining Stars, and possess abilities that exceed theirs in some shape or form.
* TookALevelInBadass: [[spoiler:The Four Dark Stars are all stated by Pino to be more powerful in Universe Zero thanks to the CosmicRetcon. This is a case of InformedAbility, though, as they battle different opponents with different levels of power (e.g., Wizard fighting Witch instead of the more powerful Shiki), which muddies just how much more powerful they're supposed to be.]]
* WasOnceAMan: As divulged in the final arc, [[spoiler:the Four Dark Stars all used to be human just like the Four Shining Stars before Ziggy found a way to turn them all into androids.]]
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[[folder:In General]]
The ''Edens One''[='=]s counterparts to the ''Zero''[='=]s Four Shining Stars, designed to be superior to them in every way.
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* AmazonBrigade: GenderInverted. Whereas the Four Shining Stars are all female, the Four Dark Stars are all male.
* AndroidIdentifier: The more humanoid Dark Stars have seams and markings on their bodies that help distinguish them from ordinary humans. [[spoiler:Their past selves' lack of these features serves as {{Foreshadowing}} that they were all once human.]]
* CoDragons: All four serve this role to Ziggy with no clear hierarchy between each other, though they do have a vaguely established difference in power, with Wizard being the weakest and Brigandine being the strongest.
* DarkIsEvil: The word "[[DubNameChange dark]]" is a part of their name, and they are the Demon King's minions after his FaceHeelTurn. Most of them also [[EvilWearsBlack dress in black and grey]], with the exception of [[BrightIsNotGood Clown]].
* DomainHolder: They can freely manipulate the realms of Killer's Subdimension Program however they wish, from changing the environment to trapping people in seemingly inescapable prisons to creating illusions of loved ones. Though all of them possess this power, Brigandine chooses not to use it, since [[FairPlayVillain he prefers combat to be as fair as possible]].
* DubNameChange: Their Japanese name, ''Shikokusei'' (四黒星), more accurately means "Four Black Stars".
* EvilCounterpart: Each member is designated as an evil SpearCounterpart to one of the Four Shining Stars:
** Wizard for Witch. Both are green-haired {{Robot Wizard}}s who are fiercely loyal to their respective masters and ruthless towards their enemies. However, whereas Witch fights to protect her family and has a will of her own, Wizard is blindly obedient to the BigBad and fights specifically to destroy all who oppose him.
** Clown for Sister. While the latter is TheLadette with healing powers who saves lives and cures mental trauma, the former is a SissyVillain whose powers are built around stealing life and causing MindRape.
** Killer for Hermit. Both are the most intelligent and strategic thinkers in their crews, and both have programming skills unrivaled by anyone. But unlike Hermit, a PlayfulHacker strives to help humans and machines, Killer is TheCracker who uses his power to advance human's extinction and machine supremacy.
** Brigandine for Valkyrie. Both are warrior-type androids whose specialty lies in physical strength, with [[ForceAndFinesse Brigandine focusing on force over Valkyrie's finesse]]. The difference is that Valkyrie is TheSoftHeartedWarrior who fights for the safety of everyone around her, while Brigandine is a BloodKnight who selfishly fights for the satisfaction of killing his counterpart.
* ForgottenFriendNewFoe: As revealed in the Lendard arc, [[spoiler:each Dark Star was originally on good terms with his Shining Star counterpart before their memories were wiped: Wizard and Witch were co-workers at a law firm who eventually married; Clown was Sister's friendly and dedicated surgeon; Killer and Hermit had a close ''[[UsefulNotes/JapaneseHonorifics senpai/kōhai]]'' dynamic at school; and Brigandine had an ambiguous yet close relationship with Valkyrie. Since then, they've become the Four Shining Stars' mortal enemies with no knowledge of ever meeting them before.]]
* LaserGuidedAmnesia: Like the Four Shining Stars, the Dark Stars have had their memory of their pasts erased, leaving them with nothing but the knowledge that they were built by Ziggy.
* ThePsychoRangers: The Four Dark Stars are the ''Edens One'' crew's villainous equivalent of the ''Edens Zero'' crew's Four Shining Stars.
* RedBaron: They all have their own "Edens" titles that compliment their roles as {{Evil Counterpart}}s to the Four Shining Stars:
** Wizard is the "Spear of Edens", named for his role of piercing and shattering Witch, the "Shield".
** Clown is the "Death of Edens", whose role is to put an end to Sister, the "Life".
** Killer is the "Brain of Edens", the cold and methodical counterpart to Hermit, the "Mind".
** Brigandine is the "Armor of Edens", made to be the unyielding opponent to Valkyrie, the "Sword".
* RidiculouslyHumanRobot: The Dark Stars closely resemble and behave like humans despite their disdain for them, with the exception of Brigandine, who resembles AnimatedArmor. [[spoiler:This changes in Universe Zero, where Brigandine has a human face.]]
* SpearCounterpart: They're an all-male group whose members reflect the all-female Shining Stars.
* SuperiorSuccessor: They were constructed to be more advanced than their predecessors, the Four Shining Stars, and possess abilities that exceed theirs in some shape or form.
* TookALevelInBadass: [[spoiler:The Four Dark Stars are all stated by Pino to be more powerful in Universe Zero thanks to the CosmicRetcon. This is a case of InformedAbility, though, as they battle different opponents with different levels of power (e.g., Wizard fighting Witch instead of the more powerful Shiki), which muddies just how much more powerful they're supposed to be.]]
* WasOnceAMan: As divulged in the final arc, [[spoiler:the Four Dark Stars all used to be human just like the Four Shining Stars before Ziggy found a way to turn them all into androids.]]
!!Shiki Granbell
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/TakumaTerashima, Yurie Kozakai [child] (Japanese), Creator/SeanChiplock, Creator/RyanBartley [child] (English)[[note]]'''Other languages:''' Tim Schwarzmaier, Derya Flechtner [young] (German), Felipe Vidal (Latin American Spanish), Ricardo Escobar (European Spanish), Benjamin Bollen, Estelle Darazi [young] (French), Mosè Singh, Pietro Novara [young] (Italian), Felipe Drummond (Portuguese)[[/note]]
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!!Wizard Leonard
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/TaishiMurata (Japanese)[[labelnote: Foreign [=VAs=]]]Miguel de León (Latin American Spanish), Creator/AlexandreGillet (French)[[/labelnote]]
[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ez_wizard_anime_8.png]]
The Spear of Edens and Witch's counterpart, a heartless magician who diligently follows the orders of his Demon King without question. Much like Witch, Wizard can control his own Ether as if it were magic, but on a level far beyond hers.
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* AdaptationDyeJob: In the manga, his hair is colored the same shade of green as Witch's. In the anime, it's colored teal instead.
* AmnesiacLover: As revealed in the final arc, [[spoiler:Leonard (Wizard's human self) was married to Regret (Witch's human self) before they were turned into androids. Since neither of them remembers their past, they are now on opposing sides, with Wizard blindly obsessed with killing her.]]
* BeamSpam: Wizard can fire a barrage of laser beams from InstantRunes he conjures up around his enemies. [[spoiler:This factors into his defeat in Universe Zero, where Witch deflects them all back at him using her [[AttackReflector Radical Field]].]]
* BlackMage: He's a RobotWizard who focuses almost exclusively on offensive spells, demonstrating none of the same defensive abilities as Witch.
* BlindObedience: He doesn't dare to question any instruction he's been given by his master, even if it's something that threatens his life.
* CrusadingLawyer: According to his forgotten memories, [[spoiler:Wizard was once an attorney who was skilled enough to be called a "magician of the courtroom".]]
* ElementalPowers: As a RobotWizard like Witch, he can perform elemental "magic" with his Ether such as firing bolts of electricity with [[ShockAndAwe Lightning Ether]], trapping his enemies in ice crystals with [[AnIcePerson Ice]], jumping InASingleBound with [[BlowYouAway Air Ether]], and conjuring up a column of flame with [[PlayingWithFire Fire Ether]].
* EyesAlwaysShut: He usually keeps his eyes closed, though he occasionally opens his eyes when casting magic and wearing his Battle Dress.
* InstantRunes: One of his spells involves conjuring up dozens of magic circles that fire energy beams.
* LongHairedPrettyBoy: He has long hair and is quite easy on the eyes compared to his contemporaries.
* LoveIsAWeakness: He's a firm believer in this, which is why he chooses the Granbell Kingdom as his arena to fight Shiki in the Lendard arc, thinking the sight of his dead bot friends brought BackFromTheDead will make him falter.
* LukeIMightBeYourFather: [[spoiler:The final arc implies Leonard (the human who became Wizard) is Shiki's biological father, with the mother being Regret (the human Witch), and none of them the wiser. However, despite Regret deciding to name their baby Shiki, it's not entirely clear if it's the same character due to their different hair colors and the fact the baby was conceived 20,000 years ago.]]
* MagicStaff: He casts his Ether spells with a long staff, which can also block and deflect other attacks.
* ManaDrain: His Drain Ether allows him to siphon his opponent's Ether upon physical contact, simultaneously weakening his foe while strengthening himself. It works on something as intense as an [[SuperMode Overdrive]] state, though it can only absorb as much Ether as his foe is putting out. [[spoiler:While he disables Shiki even in Overdrive, he's blindsided when Shiki suddenly takes him down in an instant, revealing Wizard only drained one tenth of his full power.]]
* ManipulativeBastard: Wizard proves himself to be a crafty emotional manipulator when he battles Shiki in a subdimension modeled after Shiki's DoomedHometown, creating an illusion of all the bots who died brought BackFromTheDead as {{Living Program}}s just to mess with Shiki. [[spoiler:He only blows his cover when he pulls a DeadPersonImpersonation of Witch and tries telling Shiki that LoveIsAWeakness, something the real Witch would never say.]]
* NoNonsenseNemesis: He's the only Dark Star to seriously entertain the possibility that the ''Edens Zero'' crew will become a threat if left alive, and pulls out all the stops to defeat him in the Lendard arc based on the data gathered by the ''One'' crew. [[spoiler:Ironically, Wizard ends up [[UnderestimatingBadassery underestimating his opponent]] far worse than his fellow Dark Stars do theirs, as Shiki proves to be ten times stronger than when he Overdrives against Wizard.]]
* OneManArmy: He's capable of taking down dozens of fighter-sized battle drones all on his own, something that takes the Shining Stars by surprise, as they've never heard of any humanoid robot with that kind of power.
* OneWingedAngel:
** His Battle Dress gives him the same level of power as Shiki's Overdrive after Wizard absorbs it from him. [[spoiler:It becomes a ClippedWingAngel that's only 10% as strong as Shiki at maximum power, allowing Shiki to tear a hole in his side with little effort.]]
** During the final arc, it's shown that [[spoiler:he's able to Overdrive into a form identical to his Battle Dress in Universe Zero, using it to counteract Witch's own Overdrive. Unlike in the previous world, he fares much longer in this form before being defeated.]]
* RobotWizard: Like Witch, he's an android that manipulates his Ether in a manner similar to genuine magic. For bonus points, [[HisNameReallyIsBarkeep "Wizard" is his actual name]].
* TheStoic: Wizard typically reacts to everything with a cold and calculated calm.
* UncertainDoom: [[spoiler:Universe 3's version of Wizard is last seen lying on the ground severely damaged after his battle with Shiki, and is never shown or stated to have escaped Lendard when the Chronophage consumes the planet, leaving it unknown whether or not he survived either.]]
* VillainTeleportation: As Witch's EvilCounterpart, Wizard has teleportation magic that she's not capable of using, allowing him to [[spoiler:infiltrate the ''Edens Zero'' to face her during the final arc]].
!!Wizard Leonard
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/TaishiMurata (Japanese)[[labelnote: Foreign [=VAs=]]]Miguel de León (Latin American Spanish), Creator/AlexandreGillet (French)[[/labelnote]]
[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ez_wizard_anime_8.png]]
The Spear of Edens and Witch's counterpart, a heartless magician who diligently follows the orders of his Demon King without question. Much like Witch, Wizard can control his own Ether as if it were magic, but on a level far beyond hers.
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* AdaptationDyeJob: In the manga, his hair is colored the same shade of green as Witch's. In the anime, it's colored teal instead.
* AmnesiacLover: As revealed in the final arc, [[spoiler:Leonard (Wizard's human self) was married to Regret (Witch's human self) before they were turned into androids. Since neither of them remembers their past, they are now on opposing sides, with Wizard blindly obsessed with killing her.]]
* BeamSpam: Wizard can fire a barrage of laser beams from InstantRunes he conjures up around his enemies. [[spoiler:This factors into his defeat in Universe Zero, where Witch deflects them all back at him using her [[AttackReflector Radical Field]].]]
* BlackMage: He's a RobotWizard who focuses almost exclusively on offensive spells, demonstrating none of the same defensive abilities as Witch.
* BlindObedience: He doesn't dare to question any instruction he's been given by his master, even if it's something that threatens his life.
* CrusadingLawyer: According to his forgotten memories, [[spoiler:Wizard was once an attorney who was skilled enough to be called a "magician of the courtroom".]]
* ElementalPowers: As a RobotWizard like Witch, he can perform elemental "magic" with his Ether such as firing bolts of electricity with [[ShockAndAwe Lightning Ether]], trapping his enemies in ice crystals with [[AnIcePerson Ice]], jumping InASingleBound with [[BlowYouAway Air Ether]], and conjuring up a column of flame with [[PlayingWithFire Fire Ether]].
* EyesAlwaysShut: He usually keeps his eyes closed, though he occasionally opens his eyes when casting magic and wearing his Battle Dress.
* InstantRunes: One of his spells involves conjuring up dozens of magic circles that fire energy beams.
* LongHairedPrettyBoy: He has long hair and is quite easy on the eyes compared to his contemporaries.
* LoveIsAWeakness: He's a firm believer in this, which is why he chooses the Granbell Kingdom as his arena to fight Shiki in the Lendard arc, thinking the sight of his dead bot friends brought BackFromTheDead will make him falter.
* LukeIMightBeYourFather: [[spoiler:The final arc implies Leonard (the human who became Wizard) is Shiki's biological father, with the mother being Regret (the human Witch), and none of them the wiser. However, despite Regret deciding to name their baby Shiki, it's not entirely clear if it's the same character due to their different hair colors and the fact the baby was conceived 20,000 years ago.]]
* MagicStaff: He casts his Ether spells with a long staff, which can also block and deflect other attacks.
* ManaDrain: His Drain Ether allows him to siphon his opponent's Ether upon physical contact, simultaneously weakening his foe while strengthening himself. It works on something as intense as an [[SuperMode Overdrive]] state, though it can only absorb as much Ether as his foe is putting out. [[spoiler:While he disables Shiki even in Overdrive, he's blindsided when Shiki suddenly takes him down in an instant, revealing Wizard only drained one tenth of his full power.]]
* ManipulativeBastard: Wizard proves himself to be a crafty emotional manipulator when he battles Shiki in a subdimension modeled after Shiki's DoomedHometown, creating an illusion of all the bots who died brought BackFromTheDead as {{Living Program}}s just to mess with Shiki. [[spoiler:He only blows his cover when he pulls a DeadPersonImpersonation of Witch and tries telling Shiki that LoveIsAWeakness, something the real Witch would never say.]]
* NoNonsenseNemesis: He's the only Dark Star to seriously entertain the possibility that the ''Edens Zero'' crew will become a threat if left alive, and pulls out all the stops to defeat him in the Lendard arc based on the data gathered by the ''One'' crew. [[spoiler:Ironically, Wizard ends up [[UnderestimatingBadassery underestimating his opponent]] far worse than his fellow Dark Stars do theirs, as Shiki proves to be ten times stronger than when he Overdrives against Wizard.]]
* OneManArmy: He's capable of taking down dozens of fighter-sized battle drones all on his own, something that takes the Shining Stars by surprise, as they've never heard of any humanoid robot with that kind of power.
* OneWingedAngel:
** His Battle Dress gives him the same level of power as Shiki's Overdrive after Wizard absorbs it from him. [[spoiler:It becomes a ClippedWingAngel that's only 10% as strong as Shiki at maximum power, allowing Shiki to tear a hole in his side with little effort.]]
** During the final arc, it's shown that [[spoiler:he's able to Overdrive into a form identical to his Battle Dress in Universe Zero, using it to counteract Witch's own Overdrive. Unlike in the previous world, he fares much longer in this form before being defeated.]]
* RobotWizard: Like Witch, he's an android that manipulates his Ether in a manner similar to genuine magic. For bonus points, [[HisNameReallyIsBarkeep "Wizard" is his actual name]].
* TheStoic: Wizard typically reacts to everything with a cold and calculated calm.
* UncertainDoom: [[spoiler:Universe 3's version of Wizard is last seen lying on the ground severely damaged after his battle with Shiki, and is never shown or stated to have escaped Lendard when the Chronophage consumes the planet, leaving it unknown whether or not he survived either.]]
* VillainTeleportation: As Witch's EvilCounterpart, Wizard has teleportation magic that she's not capable of using, allowing him to [[spoiler:infiltrate the ''Edens Zero'' to face her during the final arc]].
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!!Wizard Leonard
[[folder:Ward]]
!!Ward
!!!'''Voiced
[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ez_wizard_anime_8.png]]
The Spear of Edens and Witch's counterpart, a heartless magician who diligently follows the orders of his Demon King without question. Much like Witch, Wizard can control his own Ether as if it were magic, but on a level far beyond hers.
----
* AdaptationDyeJob: In the manga, his hair is colored the same shade of green as Witch's. In the anime, it's colored teal instead.
* AmnesiacLover: As revealed in the final arc, [[spoiler:Leonard (Wizard's human self) was married to Regret (Witch's human self) before they were turned into androids. Since neither of them remembers their past, they are now on opposing sides, with Wizard blindly obsessed with killing her.]]
* BeamSpam: Wizard can fire a barrage of laser beams from InstantRunes he conjures up around his enemies. [[spoiler:This factors into his defeat in Universe Zero, where Witch deflects them all back at him using her [[AttackReflector Radical Field]].]]
* BlackMage: He's a RobotWizard who focuses almost exclusively on offensive spells, demonstrating none of the same defensive abilities as Witch.
* BlindObedience: He doesn't dare to question any instruction he's been given by his master, even if it's something that threatens his life.
* CrusadingLawyer: According to his forgotten memories, [[spoiler:Wizard was once an attorney who was skilled enough to be called a "magician of the courtroom".]]
* ElementalPowers: As a RobotWizard like Witch, he can perform elemental "magic" with his Ether such as firing bolts of electricity with [[ShockAndAwe Lightning Ether]], trapping his enemies in ice crystals with [[AnIcePerson Ice]], jumping InASingleBound with [[BlowYouAway Air Ether]], and conjuring up a column of flame with [[PlayingWithFire Fire Ether]].
* EyesAlwaysShut: He usually keeps his eyes closed, though he occasionally opens his eyes when casting magic and wearing his Battle Dress.
* InstantRunes: One of his spells involves conjuring up dozens of magic circles that fire energy beams.
* LongHairedPrettyBoy: He has long hair and is quite easy on the eyes compared to his contemporaries.
* LoveIsAWeakness: He's a firm believer in this, which is why he chooses the Granbell Kingdom as his arena to fight Shiki in the Lendard arc, thinking the sight of his dead bot friends brought BackFromTheDead will make him falter.
* LukeIMightBeYourFather: [[spoiler:The final arc implies Leonard (the human who became Wizard) is Shiki's biological father, with the mother being Regret (the human Witch), and none of them the wiser. However, despite Regret deciding to name their baby Shiki, it's not entirely clear if it's the same character due to their different hair colors and the fact the baby was conceived 20,000 years ago.]]
* MagicStaff: He casts his Ether spells with a long staff, which can also block and deflect other attacks.
* ManaDrain: His Drain Ether allows him to siphon his opponent's Ether upon physical contact, simultaneously weakening his foe while strengthening himself. It works on something as intense as an [[SuperMode Overdrive]] state, though it can only absorb as much Ether as his foe is putting out. [[spoiler:While he disables Shiki even in Overdrive, he's blindsided when Shiki suddenly takes him down in an instant, revealing Wizard only drained one tenth of his full power.]]
* ManipulativeBastard: Wizard proves himself to be a crafty emotional manipulator when he battles Shiki in a subdimension modeled after Shiki's DoomedHometown, creating an illusion of all the bots who died brought BackFromTheDead as {{Living Program}}s just to mess with Shiki. [[spoiler:He only blows his cover when he pulls a DeadPersonImpersonation of Witch and tries telling Shiki that LoveIsAWeakness, something the real Witch would never say.]]
* NoNonsenseNemesis: He's the only Dark Star to seriously entertain the possibility that the ''Edens Zero'' crew will become a threat if left alive, and pulls out all the stops to defeat him in the Lendard arc based on the data gathered by the ''One'' crew. [[spoiler:Ironically, Wizard ends up [[UnderestimatingBadassery underestimating his opponent]] far worse than his fellow Dark Stars do theirs, as Shiki proves to be ten times stronger than when he Overdrives against Wizard.]]
* OneManArmy: He's capable of taking down dozens of fighter-sized battle drones all on his own, something that takes the Shining Stars by surprise, as they've never heard of any humanoid robot with that kind of power.
* OneWingedAngel:
** His Battle Dress gives him the same level of power as Shiki's Overdrive after Wizard absorbs it from him. [[spoiler:It becomes a ClippedWingAngel that's only 10% as strong as Shiki at maximum power, allowing Shiki to tear a hole in his side with little effort.]]
** During the final arc, it's shown that [[spoiler:he's able to Overdrive into a form identical to his Battle Dress in Universe Zero, using it to counteract Witch's own Overdrive. Unlike in the previous world, he fares much longer in this form before being defeated.]]
* RobotWizard: Like Witch, he's an android that manipulates his Ether in a manner similar to genuine magic. For bonus points, [[HisNameReallyIsBarkeep "Wizard" is his actual name]].
* TheStoic: Wizard typically reacts to everything with a cold and calculated calm.
* UncertainDoom: [[spoiler:Universe 3's version of Wizard is last seen lying on the ground severely damaged after his battle with Shiki, and is never shown or stated to have escaped Lendard when the Chronophage consumes the planet, leaving it unknown whether or not he survived either.]]
* VillainTeleportation: As Witch's EvilCounterpart, Wizard has teleportation magic that she's not capable of using, allowing him to [[spoiler:infiltrate the ''Edens Zero'' to face her during the final arc]].
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[[folder:Clown]]
!!Clown
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/JunichiYanagita (Japanese)[[labelnote: Foreign [=VAs=]]]Tommy Rojas (Latin American Spanish), Stéphane Roncheweski (French)[[/labelnote]]
[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ez_clown_anime_9.png]]
The Death of Edens and Sister's counterpart, a flamboyant jester who treats death itself as a form of art. Clown normally fights using deadly circus tricks, but his true power allows him to send his enemies to a world of nightmares.
----
* AchillesHeel: His body armor is weakest on the back of his head, which Rebecca takes advantage of in her attempt to beat him. [[spoiler:The attack does a number on Clown, but it's not enough to finish him off.]]
* AnimeHair: His default form has a big, bushy red afro, while his Battle Dress form's hair looks like it's constantly billowing upwards.
* ArmCannon: He has a gun within his right arm that fires Ether bullets.
* BadassLongcoat: His normal attire is a decorative striped longcoat with gaudy colors, suitable for a grandiose showman like him.
* TheBeastmaster: He commands a large, ferocious canine beast [[MadeOfMagic made of Ether]] to eat his enemies alive.
* BewareTheSillyOnes: He usually behaves like a flamboyant clown who's more interested in making a spectacle out of his battles, but once he puts his [[OneWingedAngel Battle Dress]] on, he becomes a powerful MonsterClown who deals in creating horrific nightmares to MindRape his opponents.
* BrightIsNotGood: He has the brightest colors of the Four Dark Stars, sporting bushy red hair and a blue-and-red-striped coat, but is just as much of a dangerous, human-hating android as the rest of them.
* ComboPlatterPowers: Clown has a wide range of abilities that can't be pinned down to any single power: he can make [[PlayingWithFire fire hoops]] and [[ShockAndAwe electric currents]], turn water into [[PoisonousPerson poison]], [[ThePowerOfCreation create monsters]] out of Ether, send his opponents to a mental world where he can [[MindRape psychologically break]] them, and create [[SpeechBubbles RPG-style dialogue boxes]].
* ComplexityAddiction: He's so obsessed with the aesthetics of death that he prefers to make his killings as elaborate and "beautiful" as possible, rather than just taking the quick and straightforward approach. Because of this, he succumbs to BondVillainStupidity every time he has the perfect opportunity to finish someone off.
* DarkIsEvil: In contrast to his normal BrightIsNotGood attire, his Battle Dress turns him into a dark-colored MonsterClown.
* EffeminateVoice: As a SissyVillain with feminine speech patterns, he's given a fairly soft-sounding voice in the anime, which compliments [[TheLadette Sister]]'s husky TomboyishVoice.
* ExpressiveMask: The eyes of Clown's mask widen and close whenever he needs them to. He also furrows the brow of his mask when making a SlasherSmile at one point, giving him a more chilling appearance.
* FauxAffablyEvil: He acts in a courteous manner towards his enemies, and tries to flatter them whenever he can. However, all of that does little to hide his contempt for humans, obsession with death, and pleasure over tormenting others through their nightmares.
* FrozenFace: The anime adaptation gives him a mouth that doesn't move when he speaks in the anime adaptation, making his entire face look like a mask.
* HighCollarOfDoom: His Battle Dress changes his normal coat's frilled collar into a sinister, spiky one, giving him a more devilish appearance.
* JustToyingWithThem: A FatalFlaw of his is that he prefers to toy around with his opponents because he's so powerful, either to drag out their final moments for his own amusement, or as a sign that he doesn't take them for a serious threat. It's only when he breaks out his [[OneWingedAngel Battle Dress]] that [[LetsGetDangerous he commits to finishing someone off quickly]].
* LaughablyEvil: For as powerful and sometimes terrifying he can be, Clown is the most comical of the Four Dark Stars with his silly expressions and the occasional funny or nonsensical power, and his defeats are PlayedForLaughs.
* LeanAndMean: He's the skinniest of the Dark Stars in proportion to his height, and one of the more shamelessly vile members.
* TheLightfooted: He's a nimble combatant, capable of of dancing, bouncing, and fighting on a tightrope without falling.
* MindRape: He specializes in putting his enemies through horrific nightmares that would leave the average person with severe mental scarring, regardless of whether they realize it's just a dream. [[spoiler:He [[HoistByHisOwnPetard winds up on the receiving end]] when Sister resists the nightmare and [[HorrifyingTheHorror mentally breaks him]] through a torture session inside his own illusion.]]
* MonsterClown: He seems more like a VillainousHarlequin at first, but true to his epithet as the "Death of Edens", he's a psychotic monster who views death as an art and puts people through mentally-scarring nightmares. His "Nightmare Clown" form best reflects his true nature, giving him the appearance of a black demon with a goofy nose.
* TheNicknamer: He has pet names for each of his fellow Dark Stars in the English version (in Japanese, he simply uses the [[UsefulNotes/JapaneseHonorifics honorific]] ''-chan''): Wizard is "Wiz Kid", Brigandine is "Briggy Boy", and Killer is "[=Li'l=] Kill".
* NightmareFetishist: As the [[RedBaron "Death of Edens"]], he's obsessed with the aesthetics of death itself, believing that the end of someone's life should be made as grandiose as possible. He also waxes poetic about what defines death for a machine, giving his own perspective on the idea of [[AndroidsArePeopleToo machines like him being alive]].
* NightmareWeaver: His most prominent power is the ability to send people to a subconscious world where he torments them with vivid nightmares, putting them through MindRape in the process. [[spoiler:This is shown in full in Sister's nightmare, where Clown morphs into a TentacledTerror and subjects her to OrificeInvasion with ChestBurster parasites that [[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe tear her bottom half off]].]]
* OneWingedAngel: His Battle Dress, "Nightmare Clown", turns him from a brightly-colored jester into a black, demonic MonsterClown that can spirit his victims away to a world of nightmares. [[spoiler:He takes it further when he morphs into a TentacledTerror with multiple eyes in Sister's nightmare, but it becomes a ClippedWingAngel when Sister sees right through the illusion and does away with it.]]
* PeggySue: [[spoiler:Clown is the only villain to remember the world as it was before the CosmicRetcon, since he was a prisoner aboard the ''Edens Zero'' when Etherion was activated. This gives the ''Edens One'' crew vital knowledge of the future, making them better prepared to face the ''Zero'' crew than they were before.]]
* PerpetualSmiler: Clown almost always wears a creepy, [[SmugSmiler smug grin]], with his upper face mask having extra-long corners on its mouth to enhance the effect; when he puts on his Battle Dress, it becomes a permanent SlasherSmile with ScaryTeeth. He only ever drops his smile when he gets rattled out of his blissful arrogance, namely when [[spoiler:he comically shrieks and cries in terror while Sister [[HoistByHisOwnPetard turns his own psychological torture tactics against him]]]].
* PoisonousPerson: He generates a type of anti-android poison called Hyalukenaf, which has lethal effects on androids, but isn't as potent on organic beings.
* SayItWithHearts: Many of his speech bubbles contain them in his introductory scene in the manga, emphasizing his more feminine nature compared to Sister.
* SelfDestructMechanism: He has an explosive built into his nose as a CyanidePill, seen when [[spoiler:he attempts to [[TakingYouWithMe take Sister, Cosmo and Happy down with himself]] in Universe Zero, though Pino disables it with her {{EMP}}]].
* SissyVillain: In contrast to Sister, a NunTooHoly [[TheLadette Lad-ette]], Clown is an effeminate male MonsterClown.
* SmugSnake: Clown is a SmugSuper who has the strength to back up his ego, but is so convinced of his own superiority to the ''Edens Zero'' crew that he looks down on them with a [[SmugSmiler self-assured grin]]. Even when he's forced to admit how dangerous the crew is, he doesn't break out of his haughty attitude, which leads to his downfall.
* SpeechBubbles: One of Clown's stranger powers is to generate RPG-style commentary boxes that describe what he and his enemy are doing.
* SuperDoc: As Shiki discovers in Clown's past life memories, [[spoiler:he was originally a master-class surgeon people called an "acrobat of operation", and the past version of Sister was a patient of his with a seemingly untreatable ailment.]]
* ThinChinOfSin: The most prominent facial feature that's not covered by his mask is his long chin, which becomes pointier when he enters his MonsterClown form.
* VillainousFriendship: Clown has a good rapport with Killer, with the two usually poking fun at Wizard and Brigandine for their failures and quirks, though the two disagree over whether to dispose of someone immediately (in Killer's case) or extravagantly (in Clown's case).
* VillainousHarlequin: As a clown android who wants to exterminate humans, he appears and acts more comically than his [[RedBaron title]] would suggest, with his shtick revolving around dangerous but mostly whimsical circus tricks such as fighting on a tightrope or [[JugglingDangerously juggling and throwing swords]]. Once he puts on his Battle Dress, however, he transforms into a legitimate MonsterClown whose powers are PlayedForHorror.
!!Clown
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/JunichiYanagita (Japanese)[[labelnote: Foreign [=VAs=]]]Tommy Rojas (Latin American Spanish), Stéphane Roncheweski (French)[[/labelnote]]
[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ez_clown_anime_9.png]]
The Death of Edens and Sister's counterpart, a flamboyant jester who treats death itself as a form of art. Clown normally fights using deadly circus tricks, but his true power allows him to send his enemies to a world of nightmares.
----
* AchillesHeel: His body armor is weakest on the back of his head, which Rebecca takes advantage of in her attempt to beat him. [[spoiler:The attack does a number on Clown, but it's not enough to finish him off.]]
* AnimeHair: His default form has a big, bushy red afro, while his Battle Dress form's hair looks like it's constantly billowing upwards.
* ArmCannon: He has a gun within his right arm that fires Ether bullets.
* BadassLongcoat: His normal attire is a decorative striped longcoat with gaudy colors, suitable for a grandiose showman like him.
* TheBeastmaster: He commands a large, ferocious canine beast [[MadeOfMagic made of Ether]] to eat his enemies alive.
* BewareTheSillyOnes: He usually behaves like a flamboyant clown who's more interested in making a spectacle out of his battles, but once he puts his [[OneWingedAngel Battle Dress]] on, he becomes a powerful MonsterClown who deals in creating horrific nightmares to MindRape his opponents.
* BrightIsNotGood: He has the brightest colors of the Four Dark Stars, sporting bushy red hair and a blue-and-red-striped coat, but is just as much of a dangerous, human-hating android as the rest of them.
* ComboPlatterPowers: Clown has a wide range of abilities that can't be pinned down to any single power: he can make [[PlayingWithFire fire hoops]] and [[ShockAndAwe electric currents]], turn water into [[PoisonousPerson poison]], [[ThePowerOfCreation create monsters]] out of Ether, send his opponents to a mental world where he can [[MindRape psychologically break]] them, and create [[SpeechBubbles RPG-style dialogue boxes]].
* ComplexityAddiction: He's so obsessed with the aesthetics of death that he prefers to make his killings as elaborate and "beautiful" as possible, rather than just taking the quick and straightforward approach. Because of this, he succumbs to BondVillainStupidity every time he has the perfect opportunity to finish someone off.
* DarkIsEvil: In contrast to his normal BrightIsNotGood attire, his Battle Dress turns him into a dark-colored MonsterClown.
* EffeminateVoice: As a SissyVillain with feminine speech patterns, he's given a fairly soft-sounding voice in the anime, which compliments [[TheLadette Sister]]'s husky TomboyishVoice.
* ExpressiveMask: The eyes of Clown's mask widen and close whenever he needs them to. He also furrows the brow of his mask when making a SlasherSmile at one point, giving him a more chilling appearance.
* FauxAffablyEvil: He acts in a courteous manner towards his enemies, and tries to flatter them whenever he can. However, all of that does little to hide his contempt for humans, obsession with death, and pleasure over tormenting others through their nightmares.
* FrozenFace: The anime adaptation gives him a mouth that doesn't move when he speaks in the anime adaptation, making his entire face look like a mask.
* HighCollarOfDoom: His Battle Dress changes his normal coat's frilled collar into a sinister, spiky one, giving him a more devilish appearance.
* JustToyingWithThem: A FatalFlaw of his is that he prefers to toy around with his opponents because he's so powerful, either to drag out their final moments for his own amusement, or as a sign that he doesn't take them for a serious threat. It's only when he breaks out his [[OneWingedAngel Battle Dress]] that [[LetsGetDangerous he commits to finishing someone off quickly]].
* LaughablyEvil: For as powerful and sometimes terrifying he can be, Clown is the most comical of the Four Dark Stars with his silly expressions and the occasional funny or nonsensical power, and his defeats are PlayedForLaughs.
* LeanAndMean: He's the skinniest of the Dark Stars in proportion to his height, and one of the more shamelessly vile members.
* TheLightfooted: He's a nimble combatant, capable of of dancing, bouncing, and fighting on a tightrope without falling.
* MindRape: He specializes in putting his enemies through horrific nightmares that would leave the average person with severe mental scarring, regardless of whether they realize it's just a dream. [[spoiler:He [[HoistByHisOwnPetard winds up on the receiving end]] when Sister resists the nightmare and [[HorrifyingTheHorror mentally breaks him]] through a torture session inside his own illusion.]]
* MonsterClown: He seems more like a VillainousHarlequin at first, but true to his epithet as the "Death of Edens", he's a psychotic monster who views death as an art and puts people through mentally-scarring nightmares. His "Nightmare Clown" form best reflects his true nature, giving him the appearance of a black demon with a goofy nose.
* TheNicknamer: He has pet names for each of his fellow Dark Stars in the English version (in Japanese, he simply uses the [[UsefulNotes/JapaneseHonorifics honorific]] ''-chan''): Wizard is "Wiz Kid", Brigandine is "Briggy Boy", and Killer is "[=Li'l=] Kill".
* NightmareFetishist: As the [[RedBaron "Death of Edens"]], he's obsessed with the aesthetics of death itself, believing that the end of someone's life should be made as grandiose as possible. He also waxes poetic about what defines death for a machine, giving his own perspective on the idea of [[AndroidsArePeopleToo machines like him being alive]].
* NightmareWeaver: His most prominent power is the ability to send people to a subconscious world where he torments them with vivid nightmares, putting them through MindRape in the process. [[spoiler:This is shown in full in Sister's nightmare, where Clown morphs into a TentacledTerror and subjects her to OrificeInvasion with ChestBurster parasites that [[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe tear her bottom half off]].]]
* OneWingedAngel: His Battle Dress, "Nightmare Clown", turns him from a brightly-colored jester into a black, demonic MonsterClown that can spirit his victims away to a world of nightmares. [[spoiler:He takes it further when he morphs into a TentacledTerror with multiple eyes in Sister's nightmare, but it becomes a ClippedWingAngel when Sister sees right through the illusion and does away with it.]]
* PeggySue: [[spoiler:Clown is the only villain to remember the world as it was before the CosmicRetcon, since he was a prisoner aboard the ''Edens Zero'' when Etherion was activated. This gives the ''Edens One'' crew vital knowledge of the future, making them better prepared to face the ''Zero'' crew than they were before.]]
* PerpetualSmiler: Clown almost always wears a creepy, [[SmugSmiler smug grin]], with his upper face mask having extra-long corners on its mouth to enhance the effect; when he puts on his Battle Dress, it becomes a permanent SlasherSmile with ScaryTeeth. He only ever drops his smile when he gets rattled out of his blissful arrogance, namely when [[spoiler:he comically shrieks and cries in terror while Sister [[HoistByHisOwnPetard turns his own psychological torture tactics against him]]]].
* PoisonousPerson: He generates a type of anti-android poison called Hyalukenaf, which has lethal effects on androids, but isn't as potent on organic beings.
* SayItWithHearts: Many of his speech bubbles contain them in his introductory scene in the manga, emphasizing his more feminine nature compared to Sister.
* SelfDestructMechanism: He has an explosive built into his nose as a CyanidePill, seen when [[spoiler:he attempts to [[TakingYouWithMe take Sister, Cosmo and Happy down with himself]] in Universe Zero, though Pino disables it with her {{EMP}}]].
* SissyVillain: In contrast to Sister, a NunTooHoly [[TheLadette Lad-ette]], Clown is an effeminate male MonsterClown.
* SmugSnake: Clown is a SmugSuper who has the strength to back up his ego, but is so convinced of his own superiority to the ''Edens Zero'' crew that he looks down on them with a [[SmugSmiler self-assured grin]]. Even when he's forced to admit how dangerous the crew is, he doesn't break out of his haughty attitude, which leads to his downfall.
* SpeechBubbles: One of Clown's stranger powers is to generate RPG-style commentary boxes that describe what he and his enemy are doing.
* SuperDoc: As Shiki discovers in Clown's past life memories, [[spoiler:he was originally a master-class surgeon people called an "acrobat of operation", and the past version of Sister was a patient of his with a seemingly untreatable ailment.]]
* ThinChinOfSin: The most prominent facial feature that's not covered by his mask is his long chin, which becomes pointier when he enters his MonsterClown form.
* VillainousFriendship: Clown has a good rapport with Killer, with the two usually poking fun at Wizard and Brigandine for their failures and quirks, though the two disagree over whether to dispose of someone immediately (in Killer's case) or extravagantly (in Clown's case).
* VillainousHarlequin: As a clown android who wants to exterminate humans, he appears and acts more comically than his [[RedBaron title]] would suggest, with his shtick revolving around dangerous but mostly whimsical circus tricks such as fighting on a tightrope or [[JugglingDangerously juggling and throwing swords]]. Once he puts on his Battle Dress, however, he transforms into a legitimate MonsterClown whose powers are PlayedForHorror.
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!!Clown
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/JunichiYanagita (Japanese)[[labelnote: Foreign [=VAs=]]]Tommy Rojas (Latin American Spanish), Stéphane Roncheweski (French)[[/labelnote]]
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The Death of Edens and Sister's counterpart, a flamboyant jester who treats death itself as a form of art. Clown normally fights using deadly circus tricks, but his true power allows him to send his enemies to a world of nightmares.
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* AchillesHeel: His body armor is weakest on the back of his head, which Rebecca takes advantage of in her attempt to beat him. [[spoiler:The attack does a number on Clown, but it's not enough to finish him off.]]
* AnimeHair: His default form has a big, bushy red afro, while his Battle Dress form's hair looks like it's constantly billowing upwards.
* ArmCannon: He has a gun within his right arm that fires Ether bullets.
* BadassLongcoat: His normal attire is a decorative striped longcoat with gaudy colors, suitable for a grandiose showman like him.
* TheBeastmaster: He commands a large, ferocious canine beast [[MadeOfMagic made of Ether]] to eat his enemies alive.
* BewareTheSillyOnes: He usually behaves like a flamboyant clown who's more interested in making a spectacle out of his battles, but once he puts his [[OneWingedAngel Battle Dress]] on, he becomes a powerful MonsterClown who deals in creating horrific nightmares to MindRape his opponents.
* BrightIsNotGood: He has the brightest colors of the Four Dark Stars, sporting bushy red hair and a blue-and-red-striped coat, but is just as much of a dangerous, human-hating android as the rest of them.
* ComboPlatterPowers: Clown has a wide range of abilities that can't be pinned down to any single power: he can make [[PlayingWithFire fire hoops]] and [[ShockAndAwe electric currents]], turn water into [[PoisonousPerson poison]], [[ThePowerOfCreation create monsters]] out of Ether, send his opponents to a mental world where he can [[MindRape psychologically break]] them, and create [[SpeechBubbles RPG-style dialogue boxes]].
* ComplexityAddiction: He's so obsessed with the aesthetics of death that he prefers to make his killings as elaborate and "beautiful" as possible, rather than just taking the quick and straightforward approach. Because of this, he succumbs to BondVillainStupidity every time he has the perfect opportunity to finish someone off.
* DarkIsEvil: In contrast to his normal BrightIsNotGood attire, his Battle Dress turns him into a dark-colored MonsterClown.
* EffeminateVoice: As a SissyVillain with feminine speech patterns, he's given a fairly soft-sounding voice in the anime, which compliments [[TheLadette Sister]]'s husky TomboyishVoice.
* ExpressiveMask: The eyes of Clown's mask widen and close whenever he needs them to. He also furrows the brow of his mask when making a SlasherSmile at one point, giving him a more chilling appearance.
* FauxAffablyEvil: He acts in a courteous manner towards his enemies, and tries to flatter them whenever he can. However, all of that does little to hide his contempt for humans, obsession with death, and pleasure over tormenting others through their nightmares.
* FrozenFace: The anime adaptation gives him a mouth that doesn't move when he speaks in the anime adaptation, making his entire face look like a mask.
* HighCollarOfDoom: His Battle Dress changes his normal coat's frilled collar into a sinister, spiky one, giving him a more devilish appearance.
* JustToyingWithThem: A FatalFlaw of his is that he prefers to toy around with his opponents because he's so powerful, either to drag out their final moments for his own amusement, or as a sign that he doesn't take them for a serious threat. It's only when he breaks out his [[OneWingedAngel Battle Dress]] that [[LetsGetDangerous he commits to finishing someone off quickly]].
* LaughablyEvil: For as powerful and sometimes terrifying he can be, Clown is the most comical of the Four Dark Stars with his silly expressions and the occasional funny or nonsensical power, and his defeats are PlayedForLaughs.
* LeanAndMean: He's the skinniest of the Dark Stars in proportion to his height, and one of the more shamelessly vile members.
* TheLightfooted: He's a nimble combatant, capable of of dancing, bouncing, and fighting on a tightrope without falling.
* MindRape: He specializes in putting his enemies through horrific nightmares that would leave the average person with severe mental scarring, regardless of whether they realize it's just a dream. [[spoiler:He [[HoistByHisOwnPetard winds up on the receiving end]] when Sister resists the nightmare and [[HorrifyingTheHorror mentally breaks him]] through a torture session inside his own illusion.]]
* MonsterClown: He seems more like a VillainousHarlequin at first, but true to his epithet as the "Death of Edens", he's a psychotic monster who views death as an art and puts people through mentally-scarring nightmares. His "Nightmare Clown" form best reflects his true nature, giving him the appearance of a black demon with a goofy nose.
* TheNicknamer: He has pet names for each of his fellow Dark Stars in the English version (in Japanese, he simply uses the [[UsefulNotes/JapaneseHonorifics honorific]] ''-chan''): Wizard is "Wiz Kid", Brigandine is "Briggy Boy", and Killer is "[=Li'l=] Kill".
* NightmareFetishist: As the [[RedBaron "Death of Edens"]], he's obsessed with the aesthetics of death itself, believing that the end of someone's life should be made as grandiose as possible. He also waxes poetic about what defines death for a machine, giving his own perspective on the idea of [[AndroidsArePeopleToo machines like him being alive]].
* NightmareWeaver: His most prominent power is the ability to send people to a subconscious world where he torments them with vivid nightmares, putting them through MindRape in the process. [[spoiler:This is shown in full in Sister's nightmare, where Clown morphs into a TentacledTerror and subjects her to OrificeInvasion with ChestBurster parasites that [[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe tear her bottom half off]].]]
* OneWingedAngel: His Battle Dress, "Nightmare Clown", turns him from a brightly-colored jester into a black, demonic MonsterClown that can spirit his victims away to a world of nightmares. [[spoiler:He takes it further when he morphs into a TentacledTerror with multiple eyes in Sister's nightmare, but it becomes a ClippedWingAngel when Sister sees right through the illusion and does away with it.]]
* PeggySue: [[spoiler:Clown is the only villain to remember the world as it was before the CosmicRetcon, since he was a prisoner aboard the ''Edens Zero'' when Etherion was activated. This gives the ''Edens One'' crew vital knowledge of the future, making them better prepared to face the ''Zero'' crew than they were before.]]
* PerpetualSmiler: Clown almost always wears a creepy, [[SmugSmiler smug grin]], with his upper face mask having extra-long corners on its mouth to enhance the effect; when he puts on his Battle Dress, it becomes a permanent SlasherSmile with ScaryTeeth. He only ever drops his smile when he gets rattled out of his blissful arrogance, namely when [[spoiler:he comically shrieks and cries in terror while Sister [[HoistByHisOwnPetard turns his own psychological torture tactics against him]]]].
* PoisonousPerson: He generates a type of anti-android poison called Hyalukenaf, which has lethal effects on androids, but isn't as potent on organic beings.
* SayItWithHearts: Many of his speech bubbles contain them in his introductory scene in the manga, emphasizing his more feminine nature compared to Sister.
* SelfDestructMechanism: He has an explosive built into his nose as a CyanidePill, seen when [[spoiler:he attempts to [[TakingYouWithMe take Sister, Cosmo and Happy down with himself]] in Universe Zero, though Pino disables it with her {{EMP}}]].
* SissyVillain: In contrast to Sister, a NunTooHoly [[TheLadette Lad-ette]], Clown is an effeminate male MonsterClown.
* SmugSnake: Clown is a SmugSuper who has the strength to back up his ego, but is so convinced of his own superiority to the ''Edens Zero'' crew that he looks down on them with a [[SmugSmiler self-assured grin]]. Even when he's forced to admit how dangerous the crew is, he doesn't break out of his haughty attitude, which leads to his downfall.
* SpeechBubbles: One of Clown's stranger powers is to generate RPG-style commentary boxes that describe what he and his enemy are doing.
* SuperDoc: As Shiki discovers in Clown's past life memories, [[spoiler:he was originally a master-class surgeon people called an "acrobat of operation", and the past version of Sister was a patient of his with a seemingly untreatable ailment.]]
* ThinChinOfSin: The most prominent facial feature that's not covered by his mask is his long chin, which becomes pointier when he enters his MonsterClown form.
* VillainousFriendship: Clown has a good rapport with Killer, with the two usually poking fun at Wizard and Brigandine for their failures and quirks, though the two disagree over whether to dispose of someone immediately (in Killer's case) or extravagantly (in Clown's case).
* VillainousHarlequin: As a clown android who wants to exterminate humans, he appears and acts more comically than his [[RedBaron title]] would suggest, with his shtick revolving around dangerous but mostly whimsical circus tricks such as fighting on a tightrope or [[JugglingDangerously juggling and throwing swords]]. Once he puts on his Battle Dress, however, he transforms into a legitimate MonsterClown whose powers are PlayedForHorror.
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!!Killer
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/AoiIchikawa (Japanese)[[labelnote: Foreign [=VAs=]]]Ricardo Bautista (Latin American Spanish)[[/labelnote]]
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The Brain of Edens and Hermit's counterpart, a cold-blooded assassin android. He's also a computer programmer much like Hermit, with Killer's specialty being to create holographic illusions to distract and mislead his enemies.
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* ArrogantKungFuGuy: He brags that Hermit, his less advanced predecessor, has no chance of beating him in terms of computer hacking.
* BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler:After his death in the Lendard arc, he's brought back with the other dead Dark Stars by the CosmicRetcon.]]
* BeehiveBarrier: He's equipped with a Protection Matrix, which he uses to defend himself from Weisz's attacks. It's made useless by Weisz's Weiss Cannon, upgraded as an ArmorPiercingAttack.
* BishonenLine: His upgraded Mark II model looks more like a young human man than the gnarled, faceless, inhuman Mark I model. [[spoiler:This is actually closer to his original appearance as a human.]]
* BladeBelowTheShoulder: His Assassin's Blade attack produces a sword from his forearm.
* BladeSpam: When in {{Cyberspace}}, he can run a script to create multiple blades and launch them towards his opponents.
* TheBlank: His Mark I body doesn't possess any sort of facial features, though it's not clear if he's simply wearing mask or if he genuinely lacks a face.
* CombatPragmatist: He fights the dirtiest out of the Four Dark Stars, as shown in his battle with Weisz, which he moves to a completely blank space with no other machines for Weisz to remodel, giving him less of an environmental advantage. [[spoiler:When Weisz overpowers him anyway with Overdrive, Killer simply uses a hologram of Weisz's presumably deceased mother to distract him with the possibility of her being alive, which allows Killer to defeat him.]]
* TheCracker: He uses his programming expertise exclusively to divide, threaten, and torment the heroes, standing in dark contrast to Hermit, a PlayfulHacker.
* CreepyHighPitchedVoice: Speaks with a high-pitched, youthful voice in the anime adaptation to go with his creepy, sinister appearance.
* CreepyShadowedUndereyes: His Mark II appearance sports thick eye shadow, adding to his unsettling appearance as an assassin.
* DeadAlternateCounterpart: [[spoiler:Universe 3's Killer is destroyed in his fight with Hermit in the Lendard arc, while it's not known what became of him in Universe 1, and his Universe 2 self has an UncertainDoom after being totaled by Jaguar.]]
* ExoticEyeDesigns: He has four pupils in a diamond formation as Killer Mark II. [[spoiler:His human equivalent has more ordinary eyes.]]
* FacialMarkings: Killer Mark II has two whisker-like marks on his left cheek, just like the ones Hermit has on both sides.
* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: In the Nero 66 arc, his Mark I body gets destroyed when Jaguar reaches around his own back and scraps everything above Killer's waist.
* HeroKiller: [[spoiler:{{Downplayed}}. He defeats Weisz and leaves him for dead, though Weisz survives; and he very nearly kills Hermit with a computer virus [[TakingYouWithMe right after she defeats him]], which fails when Sister survives her run-in with Clown and heals her.]]
* InTheBack: He favors attacking and stabbing others from behind, befitting his specialty of assassination. [[spoiler:In a bit of LaserGuidedKarma, Hermit manages to land a finishing blow on him from behind as well.]]
* InTheHood: Killer Mark II wears a hooded assassin's cloak, which he [[TheCoatsAreOff flings off]] when he gets to a fight.
* InsufferableGenius: He's a brilliant computer programmer and hacker, and he loves to rub his superior intellect in others' faces, particularly Weisz, whom he derides for letting his emotions get in the way.
* InvisibilityCloak: He has a cloaking device in his arsenal, and a signal jammer to prevent himself from being detected.
* LimpAndLivid: His Mark I model has a gnarled body that's always hunched over to sell his role as a dangerous killer robot.
* LoveIsAWeakness: He believes feeling love for others makes humans weak, and he loves to exploit it. This is shown in his fight with Weisz in the Lendard arc, where [[spoiler:Killer attacks a projection of his mother, since he knows Weisz can't bear to see his mother in danger even if it's not certain she's the real thing. The strategy works, and Weisz gets gunned down still questioning whether or not she's real.]]
* ManipulativeBastard: Killer is an emotionally manipulative fighter who pushes Weisz's RelativeButton to get under his skin during their fight on Lendard, showing him holograms of his dead mother and suggesting that one of them may actually be her brought BackFromTheDead thanks to a top-secret autopsy, then letting Weisz [[TakingTheBullet take a barrage of bullets for her]] in a MomentOfWeakness, wondering if he's telling the truth. [[spoiler:To rub salt in the wound, he learns Killer was only half-lying: she really was preserved for potential resurrection and brought to Lendard as HumanResources, but the efforts to bring her back failed years ago.]]
* MasterOfIllusion: He uses holograms to the same effect, making such convincing replicas of himself and other people that he manages to fool Weisz despite his tricks already getting exposed.
* MechanicalMuscles: The arms of his Mark I model look like they're covered in metallic muscular tissue.
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: His name is Killer, and he's a master assassin.
* NoBodyLeftBehind: [[spoiler:There's no trace left of him in Universe 3 after he self-destructs.]]
* NotQuiteDead: He's seemingly destroyed by Jaguar in the Nero 66 arc before he can face the ''Edens Zero'' crew in person, but the TimeSkip reveals he was rebuilt as Killer Mark II.
* PowerMakesYourHairGrow: [[spoiler:His apparent Overdrive in his Mark II form makes his short hair slightly longer.]]
* RemovedAchillesHeel: As a machine, he has a LogicalWeakness to Weisz's [[{{Technopath}} Machina Maker]], so he programs himself with a protection code to render Weisz's power useless against him.
* RoboticPsychopath: Out of the Four Dark Stars, Killer is the one who most enjoys to see his human opponents in pain, and claims to have no concept of emotion, which he brags is [[LoveIsAWeakness a strength that humans lack]].
* {{Sadist}}: He takes great pleasure in tormenting Weisz throughout their battle, both physically and emotionally, with the help of holograms of Weisz's supposedly dead mother. [[spoiler:He tries the same thing on Hermit, but she fakes him out with a hologram of her own.]]
* ScaryStitches: For his Mark II form, there's a stitched line running diagonally across his face beneath his left eye, giving him a creepier appearance.
* SmugSmiler: His Mark II model has a face, which allows him to freely express his arrogant nature with a self-assured smirk.
* SmugSnake: As the cleverest and craftiest of the Four Dark Stars, he is confident that he's the better programmer than Hermit, and looks down on Weisz for not fighting with his head. This leaves him flabbergasted when the ''Edens Zero'' crew finds new ways to outwit him.
* SpaceMaster: His Subdimension Program creates artificial {{Pocket Dimension}}s for all Four Dark Stars to use as they please, with Killer in particular having absolute control over the environment and access to any weapons he needs. The victors are returned to the real world, but Killer is free to send the heroes right back in. [[spoiler:It's not until after he's destroyed that Weisz is able to cancel the program.]]
* SuicideAttack: [[spoiler:He tries this on Hermit by self-destructing, which transmits a virus that infects her and eats at her from the inside. It's made pointless when Sister cures Hermit's condition.]]
* SwissArmySuperpower: Just like Hermit, his Master Code is so versatile that it gives him access to all sorts of weapons and functions such as barriers, blades, and signal jammers, simply by programming himself with them. His Subdimension Program also gives him SpaceMaster abilities, allowing him to render whatever weapons and advantages he needs inside these dimensions.
* TookALevelInBadass: It can be inferred from Brigandine's own upgrade to Mark II that Killer Mark II has also been upgraded to be far more powerful than before after he and Brigandine get trashed by Jaguar in the Nero 66 arc.
* UnusualEyebrows: Killer Mark II has short eyebrows marked by two small dots at the outward end of each side.
* VillainousFriendship: Killer has a good rapport with Clown, with the two usually poking fun at Wizard and Brigandine for their failures and quirks, though the two disagree over whether to dispose of someone immediately (in Killer's case) or extravagantly (in Clown's case).
* WeHardlyKnewYe: {{Subverted}}. He seems like a throwaway villain when [[spoiler:he gets demolished in the Nero 66 arc with little fanfare]], but he's shown to have been repaired and upgraded after the TimeSkip, getting more characterization and a bigger showcase of his abilities in the Lendard arc.
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[[folder:Brigandine]]
!!Brigandine
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Shōta Yamamoto (Japanese)[[labelnote: Foreign [=VAs=]]]Creator/OctavioRojas (Latin American Spanish)[[/labelnote]]
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[[quoteright:300:[[labelnote:Click here to see Brigandine Mark II]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ez_brigandine_mark_ii.png]][[/labelnote]]
The Armor of Edens and Valkyrie's counterpart, a proud warrior who finds meaning in every battle. Brigandine's body is made of seemingly invincible armor, while his attack power is the greatest of all the Four Dark Stars.
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* AchillesHeel: His greatest weakness is that, no matter how high he raises his defenses, he has to lower them in the instant he goes on the offensive. [[spoiler:Homura exploits this by leaving herself open to an attack to cut him to pieces in her Overdrive form.]]
* AmbiguouslyBrown: [[spoiler:Brigandine's human appearance looks like an ordinary human man with the same dark skin color as Valkyrie, but also a light shade of hair (Valkyrie's hair, which is rosy pink, is left white in uncolored images just like Brigandine's).]]
* AnimatedArmor: In contrast to Valkyrie, a RidiculouslyHumanRobot with TwentyFourHourArmor, Brigandine appears to be 100% armor, albet mechanized.
* AntagonistInMourning: Compared to the other Dark Stars, who are eager to kill their Shining Star counterparts, or glad to be rid of them when they appear to be dead, Brigandine is upset that Valkyrie died before they could meet, because [[UnfulfilledPurposeMisery it leaves him without his purpose of beating her]]. [[spoiler:He suffers no such angst in Universe Zero, where Valkyrie is still alive.]]
* ArmCannon: He can turn his arm into a WaveMotionGun that fires a massive energy beam.
* BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler:After his death in the Lendard arc, he's brought back with the other dead Dark Stars by the CosmicRetcon.]]
* BaritoneOfStrength: The anime gives him a deep voice to match his role as TheBrute in the Four Dark Stars.
* BishonenLine: [[spoiler:After two models where he simply resembles a suit of AnimatedArmor, Brigandine's most powerful model gives him his original, humanoid face, which he only has in Universe Zero.]]
* BlackKnight: His Mark I armor is jet black, and he's one of Ziggy's most powerful minions with a past as mysterious as his fellow Dark Stars.
* BloodKnight: As an android built to destroy the Four Shining Stars' strongest sword master, Brigandine is a guy who lives for good old-fashioned battle, with nothing for him and his opponent to rely on but their own strength and skill.
* TheBrute: He's the largest and most physically powerful of the Dark Stars, and his challenge comes from his raw strength and durability.
* BrutishCharacterBrutishWeapon: As TheBrute of the Four Dark Stars, he's occasionally shown carrying a massive battle axe.
* CoolHelmet: His head as Brigandine Mark II is a lion-shaped helmet that makes him look more like a BeastMan.
* DarkIsEvil: His Mark I model covered from head to toe in [[BlackKnight black armor]]. He's also an evil android who fights to fulfill Ziggy's will to KillAllHumans.
* DashAttack: His Armored Pressure is a shoulder barge where he slams into his enemy at maximum speed and power. [[spoiler:The downside is that it also lightens his otherwise impenetrable defenses enough for a sufficiently powerful attack to damage him, while the barge itself forces him to charge headlong into said attack.]]
* DubNameChange: His Protection Fortify ability is simply called "Protect Fortify" in Japanese.
* FairPlayVillain: He expresses dissatisfaction at the idea of needing to use tricks to defeat his enemies, telling Homura that he would much rather face her straight-on while the other Dark Stars drag their opponents into their own brands of trickery.
* ForceAndFinesse: Brigandine embodies the former compared to his counterpart, Valkyrie, and her successor, Homura. His attacks consist of straightforward punches and charges, but they pack incredible force that only the most powerful warriors can resist or avoid them.
* GracefulLoser: Brigandine is a good enough sport to accept when he's beaten with grace. [[spoiler:He shows this when Homura manages to cut him to pieces in their battle on Lendard, praising her as a valiant warrior as he crumbles apart.]]
* LightIsNotGood: His Mark II armor is a light shade of grey as opposed to Mark I's [[BlackKnight black armor]], but his willingness to drive humans to extinction doesn't change.
* LightningBruiser: On top of his incredible durablity and physical might, his Armored Pressure attack lets him barge towards his opponent at enhanced speed.
* LiterallyShatteredLives: [[spoiler:For his defeat in the Lendard arc, his body cracks and crumbles apart after Homura cuts through his seemingly invincible armor with her Kitsune Dancing Blades.]]
* NobleDemon: He's no less on board with killing all humans than the rest of the crew, but he's also the only one who treats his opponents with any respect, human or otherwise. He speaks highly of Valkyrie, his supposedly inferior counterpart, and he doesn't devalue Homura's suitability as her successor until she fails to meet his expectations in battle, [[spoiler:which gives way to [[WorthyOpponent admiration and acceptance]] when she finds a way to beat him]].
* NonIndicativeName: A [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brigandine brigandine]] is a light, flexible upper body armor consisting of smaller metal plates strung together within a leather or fabric cover, which doesn't describe the heavy full-body armor that makes up this guy's body.
* NotQuiteDead: He's seemingly destroyed by Jaguar in the Nero 66 arc before he can face the ''Edens Zero'' crew in person, but the TimeSkip reveals he was rebuilt as Brigandine Mark II.
* NotSoInvincibleAfterAll: As Brigandine Mark II, he boasts that he was given reinforced armor that can't be cut or destroyed by anything after getting upgraded. [[spoiler:Homura proves him wrong by finding an AchillesHeel that leaves his armor weaker the very instant he attacks, allowing her to carve him up like butter.]]
* RedEyesTakeWarning: His first model is given red eyes in the anime, fitting an evil, human-hating robot like him.
* ShouldersOfDoom: His Mark II model has big, bulky shoulder plates that make each of his arms look almost as this as his center body.
* SuperStrength: He's physically the strongest of the Four Dark Stars, which he shows by punching with such force that Homura can't parry it with her sword, and casually hurls a heavy metal cylinder larger than his own body.
* SuperToughness: His greatest asset is his virtually indestructible armor that weapons such as Homura's Ether sword can't dent or cut. He can, however, be damaged by warriors with even greater supernatural strength such as Jaguar, [[spoiler:and he has an AchillesHeel that Homura manages to exploit]].
* TinyHeadedBehemoth: He's a massive hulk of an android with arms almost as long and wide as the rest of his body from neck to foot, yet his head is disproportionately small.
* TookALevelInBadass: In the Lendard arc, Brigandine is upgraded to surpass the power of Jaguar, one of the most powerful warriors in the universe, who handily wrecked him in the Nero 66 arc.
* TopHeavyGuy: His Mark II body has much shorter legs proportionate to his torso than his Mark I model, while his arms are large enough to reach the ground.
* TorsoWithAView: In the Nero 66 arc, Jaguar tears a gaping hole in his side during their "[[CurbStompBattle battle]]" in the Nero 66 arc. However, Brigandine survives and gets rebuilt.
* UnfulfilledPurposeMisery: He suffers from this due to the death of Valkyrie, the android he was created to defeat, leaving him in a state of [[AntagonistInMourning mourning]]. He thereby takes to defeating Homura, Valkyrie's successor, as his chance to give his life meaning. [[spoiler:He eventually finds his original purpose again thanks to the CosmicRetcon bringing Valkyrie BackFromTheDead.]]
* VillainRespect: Despite being built to surpass her, Brigandine is highly respectful of Valkyrie's strength, and comes to deem the less powerful Homura to be an InadequateInheritor to the title of "Sword of Edens". [[spoiler:Homura eventually earns his respect as well by defeating him nearly at the cost of her own life.]]
* WeHardlyKnewYe: {{Subverted}}. He seems like a throwaway villain when he gets demolished in the Nero 66 arc with little fanfare, but he's shown to have been repaired and upgraded after the TimeSkip, getting more characterization and a bigger showcase of his abilities in the Lendard arc.
* YouAreAlreadyDead: [[spoiler:During his battle with Homura on Lendard, Homura's Kitsune Dancing Blades slice right through Brigandine's body to make him [[LiterallyShatteredLives crumble apart]]. However, his body holds together long enough for him to share one last talk with Homura over how she could defeat him, and to praise her when her friends find her [[DisneyDeath supposedly dead]] minutes later, before finally collapsing in a shattered heap.]]
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!!Allies and Associates
[[folder:Connor]]
!!Captain Connor
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Kenta Sasa (Japanese), Creator/PaulStPeter (English)
A mysterious spaceship captain from the Aoi Cosmos who harbors certain connections to the ''Edens One''.
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* AcePilot: Connor is a master class spaceship pilot with the chops to fly the ''Edens Zero'' unscathed through a field of DangerousOrbitalDebris field none of the ship's crew would dare to enter, and the reflexes to outpace the Interstellar Union Army's fastest fleet, commanded by a trained soldier with CombatClairvoyance.
%%* AlternateSelf:
%%** As with every character in the series, [[spoiler:Connor has at least
%%** During the final arc, [[spoiler:all these versions are combined into one version in [[MergedReality Universe Zero]], where he gains the memories of his Universe 3 self
* AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents: [[spoiler:After he reveals to Rebecca that he's her father, he starts showering her in parental affection in mortifying ways such as offering her to play an 18+ HGame with him, and [[ParentalSexualitySquick making out with her mother right in front of her]].]]
* AmbiguouslyEvil: Although he's revealed to be a willing if reluctant servant of Ziggy, the BigBad, Connor is never presented as an inherently evil person, as he's shown to have standards against killing women and children. [[spoiler:{{Averted}} with his Universe 3 self, a neutral figure who ultimately sides with the heroes.]]
* AmicableExes: [[spoiler:He and Rachel are these, since she was forced to leave him with their newborn daughter without a word for his protection, while Connor is reluctant to assume the worst of her despite how she'd hurt him.]]
* ArchnemesisDad: [[spoiler:Serves as this to Rebecca when he's on Ziggy's side in World No.30, though neither of them is aware of their relationship in this world.]]
* AntiquatedLinguistics: He speaks with a formal and archaic register in Japanese, and uses the antiquated pronoun ''[[UsefulNotes/JapanesePronouns wagahai]]''.
* AuthorityInNameOnly: Connor's position as TheCaptain of the ''Edens One'' is just a formality, with Ziggy being the one who calls the shots, making Connor more of a glorified pilot for hire.
* BadassNormal: He possesses no superpowers or fighting skills, but he makes up for it by being an AcePilot who can outmaneuver faster and more supernaturally gifted pilots than himself like Feather.
* BigEater: He has a massive appetite that rivals Rebecca's, stuffing his face with a tableful of food after drifting helplessly in space for who knows how long.
* BroughtDownToNormal: {{Downplayed}} since he was always a BadassNormal, but [[spoiler:the CosmicRetcon changes his life so he never becomes a captain, which causes him to lose his edge as an AcePilot, even after getting his memory back. It's partially for this reason that he chooses to OptOut of the final battle.]]
* BunnyEarsLawyer: He is a pompous man of many oddities and poor habits that grate the ''Edens Zero'' crew's nerves, but he's also a bona fide AcePilot when he puts himself behind the helm of a ship, with or without its crew's permission.
* TheCaptain: {{Subverted}}. He's introduced as captain of the ''Edens One'', but is revealed to be AuthorityInNameOnly when Ziggy returns and takes charge of the ship. However, this gets played with as the mysteries of the series' setting are unveiled:
** Following the Nero 66 arc, [[spoiler:this is DoubleSubverted with his AlternateSelf from Universe 3, who is never put in command of the ''Edens One'' to begin with, but is appointed by Shiki as the ''Edens Zero''[='=]s official captain. It's also stated that this Connor's rank stems from his time in the Freedom Force, one of many [[LaResistance rebel cells]] that opposed [[TheEmperor Emperor Nero]].]]
** In the final arcs, [[spoiler:the CosmicRetcon changes history so he never becomes a captain in a literal sense, though he quips that he still knows how to "steer" his wife in bed, making him "[[UnusualEuphemism captain of the night]]".]]
* CoolOldGuy: He's middle-aged, balding, overweight, and one of the finest ship captains the ''Edens Zero'' crew has ever seen.
* CowardlyLion: [[spoiler:Universe 3's Connor is a good deal more panicky and cowardly than the Connors in Universes 1 and 2. However, he's quite noble and heroic when properly inspired, enough to directly face off against Deadend Crow, one of the most dangerous androids in the universe.]]
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: He acts like a pompous and self-entitled oaf, but when he puts himself at the helm of a spaceship, he proves to be an AcePilot whose skills astound the Demon King's most experienced crewmates.
* DirtyOldMan: {{Downplayed}}. He admires Rebecca and Homura's beauty, and ends up sharing a bath with them because he mistook it for co-ed, but he makes sure they know he isn't hitting on them and always keeps his distance--not that this makes them any more comfortable.
* EveryoneHasStandards: Even though he agrees with Ziggy that humans should be dominated by robots, he objects to attacking the ''Edens Zero'' crew on the grounds that it's a civilian ship full of women and children. That said, he reluctantly goes through with it when his crewmates tell him the entire crew will pose a threat to them sooner or later.
* EvilCostumeSwitch: In the anime adaptation, Connor's white hat and overcoat are changed to dark grey when he reappears as Ziggy's servant.
* FatSlob: He's an overweight middle-aged man with a huge appetite and bad table manners, which include talking while he's eating.
* TheFriendNobodyLikes: {{Downplayed}}. Very few members of the crew can put up with his annoying quirks besides Shiki and Pino, but they eventually accept him as a member all the same.
* GoingDownWithTheShip:
** Attempted this prior to his introductory appearance, evidenced by him clutching the ''Edens One''[='=]s steering wheel while drifting through space after losing his ship in a wreck.
** [[spoiler:{{Subverted}} in his backstory in Universe 3, where he used to be a captain from the [[LaResistance Freedom Force]] that fought the Nero Empire, but fled his ship before it sunk because he refused to die before finding his wife and daughter. He feels great shame for abandoning his post, but also reasons that he wouldn't have made much difference if he stayed.]]
* GoodCounterpart: [[spoiler:Universe 3's Connor to his Universe 2 version, who is a PunchClockVillain knowingly serving Ziggy, whereas this Connor is a clueless pawn who joins the ''Edens Zero'' crew.]]
* HappilyMarried: He was this with his wife for three years before she suddenly ghosted him with their unborn daughter. [[spoiler:After their BigDamnReunion at the end of the Lendard arc, followed by the CosmicRetcon, they joyfully get back together by the Miltz arc.]]
* HeavySleeper: He snores like a buzzsaw when he sleeps, which serves to add to the crew's irritation with him.
* IWillFindYou: He is driven by his search for his wife, Rachel, who left him with their newborn daughter years ago. [[spoiler:He succeeds in finding his daughter, Rebecca, though he doesn't realize her identity until the events of the X495 arc, while Rachel--revealed to be Saintfire Nox--is brought to him in the Lendard arc.]]
* LongLostRelative: In the Lendard arc, he's [[LukeIAmYourFather revealed to be]] [[spoiler:Rebecca's DisappearedDad, whom her MissingMom, Saintfire Nox (a.k.a. Rachel), left before their child was born.]]
* MuggleMageRomance: [[spoiler:He is an ordinary space captain who fell in love and had a child with Saintfire Nox, one of the most powerful {{Time Master}}s in the universe.]]
* MyMasterRightOrWrong: As one of Ziggy's servants, he believes strongly enough in the Demon King's anti-human ideals to try and kill the ''Edens Zero'' crew, despite his apprehensions against firing on a civilian ship.
* NonActionGuy: Aside from his [[AcePilot incredible piloting skills]], he has no combat abilities to speak of.
%%* NotWhatISignedUpFor: This Connor signed up to get his piloting skills scanned and copied onto robots for [[OnlyInItForTheMoney decent pay]]. The hiring team left out the detail that those robots would be part of an evil Demon King's invasion force. His immediate response upon learning this is to [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere hit the cosmic trail out of there]].
* OldFlame: Despite being separated from his wife for fifteen years before his introduction, Connor is still deeply and passionately in love with her. [[spoiler:Once he learns she still feels the same for him, and only left him to keep her church from killing him for their ForbiddenLove, they pick things up without a hitch.]]
* PeggySue: [[spoiler:Connor is one of the people aboard the ''Edens Zero'' when Etherion sends them back in time to Universe Zero, allowing him to regain his memories of the previous world. In turn, he is able to provide a MemoryTrigger for his wife, Rachel, who uses her authority as one of this world's Interstellar Union Army directors to foster an alliance with the ''Edens Zero''.]]
* PervertDad: {{Downplayed}} when it's revealed his child is [[spoiler:Rebecca, whom he climbed into the bath with when mistaking it for a co-ed bath in Universe 1, and ogled in her bikini with the other ladies on Dahlia, before their relationship was revealed. However, he legitimately didn't know Rebecca was his daughter the first time, and in the second, he was [[OnceMoreWithClarity clarified]] to be non-sexually admiring how beautiful his baby daughter has become.]]
%%* PunchClockVillain:
* RevealingContinuityLapse: Connor is the subject of this on more than one occasion--first after Rebecca's time leap in the Belial Gore arc, and again after Xiaomei's intervention in the Nero 66 arc--where neither he nor anybody except for Rebecca remember each other, with history being altered in ways that keep them from meeting the same way. [[spoiler:This is {{Foreshadowing}} that Rebecca is actually being sent to parallel timelines through her MentalTimeTravel, and that Connor and the other characters are all [[AlternateSelf Alternate Selves]] of the ones she knows.]]
* SharedFamilyQuirks: Connor has quite a bit in common with his child, [[spoiler:Rebecca, namely her piloting skill, huge appetite, bad table manners, having the same kind of comedic panic attack when he describes escaping from Lendard as she did when she thought she was trapped in Norma's past, and sharing the same reaction to the news that they're related.]]
* SixthRangerTraitor: ZigZagged. He serves as an unofficial member of the ''Edens Zero'' crew in World No.29 before being revealed as a villain in World No.30, but this Connor never met the crew in the latter world before his alignment is revealed.
%%* SoleSurvivor: Connor is the only one out of the 100 human recruits to escape with his life; the rest are coincidentally stepped on by Deadend Crow, though [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness they would've been killed by Ziggy anyway]].
* SophisticatedAsHell: Despite his formal manner of speaking, he isn't afraid to swear like a sailor, such as when he teaches Pino how to say "Fuck you" in GratuitousEnglish.[[note]]"''Fakku yuu!''"[[/note]]
* TalkLikeAPirate: Kodansha translates his AntiquatedLinguistics in Japanese by making him talk like a sophisticated sailor.
* TheyCallMeMisterTibbs: A RunningGag has him insisting that everyone call him "[[TheCaptain Captain]]", including those who aren't part of his crew or who'd otherwise contest his rank.
* UglyGuyHotWife: Connor is the middle-aged, balding and overweight husband to an AbsurdlyYouthfulMother.
%%* WalkingSpoiler: It's incredibly difficult to talk about Connor without giving away several major revelations about the true nature of the series' timeline, to say nothing of what's revealed in the series' second half...
%%* WalkingSpoiler: This Connor's existence not only explicitly confirms the series' setting to be TheMultiverse, but he's also revealed to be Rebecca's father, whom she'd been searching for since the start of the series.
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[[folder:Müller]]
!!Dr. Müller
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Yōhei Tadano (Japanese), John Snyder (English)[[labelnote: Foreign [=VAs=]]]Sergio Schmied [Season 1], Jesús Cortés [Season 2] (Latin American Spanish), Patrice Dozier (French), Creator/RiccardoPeroni (Italian)[[/labelnote]]
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A demented mad scientist who menaces the ''Edens Zero'' crew time and time again. Originally a human with a distaste for robots, he eventually rebuilt himself as an [[{{Cyborg}} O-Tech]] and allied himself with the ''Edens One'' crew.
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* AmbiguousRobot: Applies to his appearance in [[spoiler:Universe Zero, where he becomes a more monstrous, robotic version of himself after chemically bonding himself with a replica of Xenolith. While he describes the real Xenolith's BrainUploading as a form of chemical bonding, Müller is also capable of bleeding human blood, which makes it unclear whether he's a cyborg, a complete android, or just a grotesque mish-mash of flesh and machine.]]
* ArcVillain:
** {{Downplayed}} with his role in the Foresta arc. Ziggy (the BigBad) is the one responsible for building the server that drives the planet's robots insane, but Müller still has influence over the robots' behavior with it, and is positioned as the main and final obstacle the heroes must overcome in the arc.
** [[spoiler:His Universe Zero self serves this role in the Reunion arc during the crew's revisit to the Aoi Cosmos. While he's also a minion of the BigBad here, Müller acts of his own accord to take control of Shura's Empire.]]
* AxCrazy: Müller is a cruel, sadistic, mentally unstable maniac who experiments on others exclusively through ColdBloodedTorture.
* ArrogantKungFuGuy: [[spoiler:Becomes one in Universe Zero after he steals Xenolith's [[GravityMaster gravity powers]] without learning the proper Magimech techniques, convinced that his raw, planet-destroying power makes him enough of a threat.]]
* BaldOfEvil: As part of his MadnessMakeover, the present-day Müller has lost most of his hair compared to when he met Hermit. [[spoiler:His Universe Zero self, who's even more evil and deranged, loses his hair entirely when he fuses with the fake Xenolith.]]
* BigBadWannabe: [[spoiler:Universe Zero's Müller aims to become a MultiversalConqueror on the same level as Void, the BigBad, which he thinks he can accomplish by stealing Xenolith's gravity power and Rebecca's time power. Not only does he fail to realize that Universe Zero is a MergedReality where travel between other Universes is impossible, but he proves to be [[UnskilledButStrong pathetically unskilled]] as a GravityMaster compared to Shiki and Shura, who beat him silly in no time at all.]]
* BitchInSheepsClothing: He acts as a FalseFriend to Hermit and countless other robots to dupe them into furthering his plan to destroy Planet Hook and its entire bot population. He permanently casts off his friendly image once he reveals his true colors as an unscrupulous MadScientist.
* {{Cephalothorax}}: Müller becomes one when his cyborg body is totaled, leaving him as a living head that can barely crawl around with tiny, twig-like arms sprouted from his UnusualEars.
* ChainsawGood: To demonstrate what an AxCrazy fellow he is, some of his experiments involve the use of a chainsaw to dismember his human test subjects, shown by how he dismembered Jinn as a child [[spoiler:and attempts to cut off Rebecca's legs in Universe Zero]].
* {{Cyborg}}: He is an O-Tech in the story proper outside of Hermit's DarkAndTroubledPast, having [[WeCanRebuildHim rebuilt himself]] after a prison breakout GoneHorriblyWrong, with his head being the only organic part of his body left.
* CombatTentacles: His cybernetic body in the Foresta arc has three mechanical tendrils in place of his right arm, which generate an electrical shock powerful enough to paralyze Weisz's body and dismantle his Arsenal Suit.
* {{EMP}}: He has one in his arsenal of gadgets, which he uses to [[spoiler:DePower Xenolith and take his GravityMaster powers in Universe Zero]].
* EvilIsHammy: His whole character is defined by this once he drops his kindly old scientist facade, cackling and gobbling up the scenery as he wears his evil accomplishments on his sleeve.
* EvilGloating: He often brags about his own genius and the horrors he's inflicted on others, as Hermit can attest to when he rubs her responsibility for helping him destroy Hook her face.
* EvilLuddite: {{Downplayed}} during Hermit's DarkAndTroubledPast. As a scientist and technician, he fully embraces machines that can help advance humanity. Rather, he'd despise [[FantasticRacism machines who look and act like humans]], and was driven to wipe them out of the cosmos. Since his conversion into a {{Cyborg}}, however, he finds that being part-machine is fun--just not enough to consider androids as real people.
* EvilIsPetty: Müller has multiple instances of committing horrible acts of evil for the pettiest reasons. Case in point, he destroys a dying robot planet because it wasn't dying fast enough for his tastes, murders his financial backers for cutting him loose after his crimes are exposed, and [[KidnappedForExperimentation kidnaps their children for experimentation]] just to rub salt in the wound.
* EvilLaugh: He's a LaughingMad lunatic who belts out a high-pitched giggle (''"Hoo hee hee hee hee!"'') any time he engages in some kind of depravity.
* EvilMakesYouUgly: At first, Müller looks like a kind and trustworthy scientist with nothing to indicate his evil nature. After his betrayal, he undergoes a gradual MadnessMakeover that leaves him with PermaStubble and gradually thins out his hair, making him unrecognizable from his friendly facade.
* EvilOldFolks: He is an old, demented MadScientist who puts innocent people--including robots and children--through unspeakable torture and misery under the assertion that he's helping humanity.
* FalseFriend: He's the first human friend Hermit ever made--all the easier for him to use her intellect against robot-kind.
* FeelingOppressedByTheirExistence: His genocide against robots boils down to the fact that he can't stand the sight of "living" machines that look and act like people, calling them garbage and viewing them as a mockery of humanity. However, he abandons this mindset after converting himself into a {{Cyborg}} and finding he quite enjoys being part-robot.
* FusionDance: [[spoiler:Universe Zero's Müller is chemically bonded with an EvilKnockoff of Xenolith so that he may use the gravity powers he stole from the real Xenolith.]]
* GeniusBruiser: [[spoiler:{{Subverted}}. Universe Zero's Müller thinks he's this after stealing Xenolith's gravity powers all for himself, but while he's still an unmatched scientific genius, he has no knowledge of Gravity Martial Arts needed to effectively use those powers in battle, which results in him getting quickly trounced by Shiki and Shura.]]
* GravityMaster: [[spoiler:He becomes one in Universe Zero after stealing Xenolith's gravity powers, which is strong enough to reduce all of planet Foresta to nothing.]]
* HateSink: Müller stands among one of the most despicable, irredeemably evil villains in the ''EDENS ZERO'' universe, which he establishes by acting as Hermit's FalseFriend just to use her to complete a DoomsdayDevice, then by keeping her as his personal punching bag for two years. [[spoiler:He's also one of the few villains to not [[TookALevelInKindness take a level in kindness]] after the CosmicRetcon, remaining a vile bastard to the end.]]
* HowDoIShotWeb: [[spoiler:His fusion with the fake Xenolith in Universe Zero gives Müller access to Xenolith's [[GravityMaster Satan Gravity]], which is capable of destroying small planets like Foresta, but it doesn't give him Xenolith's knowledge of the Gravity Martial Arts, which were invented to apply this power to combat. When faced with gravity experts like Shiki and Shura, he's beaten without getting to put up a fight.]]
* {{Hypocrite}}: Despite his professed belief in the superiority of humans over machines, he willingly allies himself with machines who want to KillAllHumans, just because his single-minded obsession with torturing Hermit is more important to him.
* InsufferableGenius: Müller is a certified genius who often toots his own horn about his own accomplishments. In fact, the [[UsefulNotes/JapaneseWritingSystem kanji]] for "genius" is engraved on his back in his O-Tech body.
* JustAMachine: He takes his FantasticRacism against androids to VanHelsingHateCrimes levels of extremism, not just believing that androids have no emotions, but aiming to destroy any where he can find them so he won't have to keep FeelingOppressedByTheirExistence.
* LaughablyEvil: For as much as his monstrous actions are taken completely seriously, Müller himself is a goofy and hammy villain. [[spoiler:He leans harder into the "laughable" part in Universe Zero, where his madness and instability are more PlayedForLaughs than before.]]
* LoonyFan: [[spoiler:Müller serves as one for [[BigBad Void]] in Universe Zero; just knowing that Void wants to assemble a team of 10 powerful androids is enough to tickle Müller's love of [[SpeaksInBinary 0s and 1s]], and he all too eagerly builds and fuses himself with an android of the Oración Seis Galáctica to help usher in Void's age of conquest.]]
* MadScientist: He is the "Mad Engineer" variety, being an evil, rotten old man who deals in building {{Doomsday Device}}s, turning children and even himself into [[{{Cyborg}} O-Techs]], and straight up just fiddling around with new torture methods for androids, all under the delusion that he's helping to advance humankind.
* MadnessMakeover: Müller starts off with a well groomed and dignified appearance with a warm smile and gentle eyes, which turns out to be a MaskOfSanity. Once he throws off the mask and starts indulging in more blatant acts of evil, his appearance deteriorates with his mental state, with his hair thinning out until he goes full BaldOfEvil, and his chin getting covered in PermaStubble.
* ManipulativeBastard: Müller succeeds in playing other people to his advantage on multiple occasions:
** During Hermit's DarkAndTroubledPast, he and his research team all wear a convincing enough MaskOfSanity to completely fool their investors and robot associates, including Hermit, into helping them build a MagicalParticleAccelerator that could be easily repurposed into a DoomsdayDevice, which they then use to destroy a planet of robots.
** As shown in the Reunion arc, [[spoiler:Universe Zero's Müller dupes Xenolith into [[UnderestimatingBadassery underestimating him]] so he can steal Xenolith's Satan Gravity and destroy Foresta with it, which gets Xenolith branded as one of the Oración Seis Galáctica. Then, when Xenolith {{Body Surf}}s into a refugee girl's RobotBuddy and is unknowingly taken in by [[LaResistance Oasis]], Müller pits Shura against them by reporting that [[MetaphoricallyTrue Oasis is sheltering them]]. This distracts Shura long enough for Müller to finish his FusionDance with his EvilKnockoff of Xenolith and take remote control over TheEmpire's entire fleet.]]
* MaskOfSanity: Back before Hermit learned what a cartoonishly evil, robot-hating madman he really is, Müller convincingly presented himself as a kind, brilliant, humble old man who strove to improve human-robot relations.
* MotiveDecay: His original motivation to destroy all robots was never deep to begin with, but ever since he accomplished his goal of destroying Hook, he took a shine to keeping Hermit as a guinea pig, which devolved into a single-minded obsession with her that persists into the present day.
* NeverMyFault: Müller doesn't accept any responsibility for his own imprisonment after blowing up planet Hook and torturing Hermit, blaming some unknown, imaginary conspirator for plotting against him.
* NoSell: His O-Tech body is designed to be immune to many different forms of harm, allowing him to shrug off many of Weisz's PoweredArmor attacks until Weisz puts his {{Technopath}} powers to work.
* NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist: He proclaims that the research he conducts is dedicated to saving human lives, yet he tortures and kills human beings to further improve his O-Tech body.
* OneDegreeOfSeparation:
** He's involved in the DarkAndTroubledPast of three ''Edens Zero'' crew members on two separate occasions: first by deceiving Hermit as her FalseFriend, and later by [[KidnappedForExperimentation kidnapping and experimenting on]] siblings Jinn and Kleene, the children of his financial backers.
** In the final arcs, [[spoiler:he works for Poseidon Shura as head of the imperial science department.]]
* TheParalyzer: One of his functions as an O-Tech is to generate an electrical pulse that paralyzes his victims' nerves, leaving them unable to move for limited periods of time.
* PowerParasite: [[spoiler:He steals Xenolith's gravity powers for himself in Universe Zero, giving him the ability to crush a planet if he so chooses. When he fights Shiki and Shura, however, he's met with a rude awakening that stealing power doesn't mean he knows how to use it effectively.]]
* PredecessorVillain: He was a smaller yet more active threat before rise of the BigBad, being personally responsible for the suffering that Hermit and the Rutherford siblings went through, which shaped them into the people they are upon their introduction. Incidentally, he returns in the present day as one of the BigBad's henchmen.
* PsychopathicManchild: He celebrates the destruction of Planet Hook with almost childlike glee, and when the military finally captures him, he's dragged away kicking and screaming for them not to touch his "lab rat".
* {{Sadist}}: He's a MadScientist and TortureTechnician who enjoys putting his test subjects through ColdBloodedTorture, taking special delight in breaking and rebuilding Hermit for two years straight, and [[LovesTheSoundOfScreaming indulging in the young Rutherford children's screams]] when he experiments on them.
* SanitySlippage: He was quite insane to begin with, but his mental health takes a further nosedive after experimenting on Hermit for two years non-stop simply to amuse himself, something that troubles [[EvenEvilHasStandards the rest of his team]].
* ScatterbrainedSenior: [[spoiler:His SanitySlippage in Universe Zero takes such a toll that Müller's memory is almost completely shot, demonstrated when he goes looking for a missing coffee mug and thinking it was lost in a spacetime distortion, despite holding said mug in his hand the entire time.]]
* SinisterSchnoz: He has a long, goofy nose, which serves as the first hint that he's up to no good while acting as Hermit's FalseFriend.
* SlasherSmile: This is his default expression as an AxCrazy MadScientist who commits VanHelsingHateCrimes against robots and dismembers human test subjects, [[WouldHurtAChild children included]].
* SmugSnake: He takes such pride in his own intelligence that he views himself as superior to everyone around him, especially robots. His ego inflates even more when he turns himself into a cyborg, convincing him he's undefeatable.
* TookALevelInBadass:
** As shown in the Foresta arc, Müller goes from an ordinary human scientist to a deadly {{Cyborg}} who can hold his own against Weisz's PoweredArmor without much trouble.
** [[spoiler:ZigZagged in Universe Zero, where he becomes one of the Oración Seis Galáctica when he imbues himself with Xenolith's gravity power. While this makes him one of the most powerful beings in the universe, he lacks the proper technique to use this power in combat, and is beaten by the more experienced Shiki and Shura within moments.]]
* TortureTechnician: His "experiments" amount to little more than differing methods of torture, which include dismantling and reassembling Hermit's body for two years straight, cutting off a young Jinn's limbs and [[ForcedToWatch forcing Kleene to watch]], and [[spoiler:attempting to chop off Rebecca's legs to harness her time powers]].
* TranshumanTreachery: Müller was originally a human who, in his own warped mind, was striving towards the betterment of humanity by getting rid of all robots. After events lead him to become a {{Cyborg}}, however, he gleefully throws his lot in with the ''Edens One'' crew, a team of androids who want to KillAllHumans.
* TreacherousAdvisor: [[spoiler:He becomes one in Universe Zero, where he is the head of the Aoi Cosmos's Imperial Science Department who manipulates his Emperor, the BenevolentDictator Shura, while plotting behind his back.]]
* UnskilledButStrong: [[spoiler:After stealing Xenolith's [[GravityMaster Satan Gravity]], he's imbued with the kind of raw [[PlanetDestroyer planet-destroying]] power that gets him accepted into the Oración Seis Galáctica, but none of the combat skill outside of generating gravity fields.]]
* UnusualEars: His cyborg body comes with a pair of fans in place of ears, which help [[VisualPun cool his head]] when he's in the middle of a VillainousBreakdown. They also sprout twig-like arms when he's reduced to just a living head.
* VillainDecay: Müller starts off as a cruel and mad yet brilliant scientist, as well as a major source of trauma for Hermit and Kleene, with his self-modification into an O-Tech making him a credible physical threat. [[spoiler:When he appears in Universe Zero, he's treated as more of a joke: his psychological impact is lost thanks to Hermit [[NotAfraidOfYouAnymore overcoming her fear of him]] and Kleene getting her memory of him [[LaserGuidedAmnesia erased]], so they react to his return with [[YouHaveGotToBeKiddingMe annoyance]] rather than [[OhCrap dread]]; he's gone so [[ScatterbrainedSenior senile]] that his madness is PlayedForLaughs; and he's adopted powers he's clueless over how to properly use.]]
* VillainsWantMercy: Müller proves himself a DirtyCoward once his cybernetic body is destroyed, [[FalselyReformedVillain pretending to renounce his robot-hating ways]] and pitifully begging for mercy from Hermit, to whom he acted as a FalseFriend so he could use her for his own ends. She responds by pretending to forgive him [[LaserGuidedKarma just so she can use him to shut down the server he was guarding]], then punches him into next week once his purpose is over.
* VoiceChangeling: [[spoiler:His Universe Zero self has a voice changer that lets him perfectly imitate another's voice, though he does [[PerfectDisguiseTerribleActing a piss-poor job at copying their speech patterns]].]]
* WeCanRebuildHim: He does this to himself between the events of Hermit's DarkAndTroubledPast and the Foresta arc, losing several of his body parts in a prison break GoneHorriblyWrong, which leads to him rebuilding himself as an O-Tech.
* WhoNeedsTheirWholeBody: As an O-Tech whose body is entirely mechanical except for his head, he's able to keep fighting even when he's [[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe cut in half at the waist]]. It's only when his body is completely destroyed that he's beaten.
* WouldHurtAChild: He's low enough to experiment on young children, as Jinn and Kleene can attest to when Müller cut the former up with a chainsaw and reassembled him as a cyborg, all while [[ForcedToWatch forcing the latter to watch the whole thing]], leaving her emotionally crippled.
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[[folder:Deadend Crow]]
!!Deadend Crow
->See Characters/EdensZeroOracionSeisGalactica
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[[folder:Crow's Creator ('''Unmarked Spoilers''')]]
!!Cure
->See Characters/EdensZeroInterstellarUnionArmy
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[[folder:God Acnoella]]
!!God Acnoella
->See Characters/EdensZeroOracionSeisGalactica
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[[folder:Skeleton Army]]
!!Skeleton Army
[[/folder]]
!!!Final Arc Allies ('''Unmarked Spoilers''')
[[folder:Joker Helix]]
!!Joker Helix
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A member of the Oración Seis Galáctica in Universe Zero. Joker was originally a [[MediaNotes/GameEngine game engine]] developed by Professor Weisz, but grew beyond her programming and spread to other computers across the cosmos, gaining a body of her own. She comes equipped with a Delta Time Reactor, which slows time down within a given area until it's virtually frozen.
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* AIIsACrapshoot: Joker was [[InstantAIJustAddWater an A.I.-powered game engine]] that went rogue when she kept absorbing information until she gained a mind of her own, and is now a minion of Void. [[spoiler:However, it's discussed just how much of a hand Void had in her rebellion, since she had the makings of a BenevolentAI.]]
* AmbiguousStartOfDarkness: [[spoiler:After TheReveal that she was originally a BenevolentAI, the crew can only speculate what drove Joker to work for Void to begin with. Professor Weisz guesses that either she empathized with Void's vision for a world without humans, or that Void found her first and [[BrainwashedAndCrazy altered her behavior]] in some way.]]
* ArcVillainess: She acts on behalf of [[BigBad Void]] as the antagonist of the Miltz arc, where she attempts to steal the Mother Ether the ''Edens Zero'' crew collected, while also acting as a personal enemy to Rebecca.
* BadInfluencer: {{Subverted}}. Rebecca and Happy figure Joker is a B-Cuber they once heard about, but get no results when they look her up online. It turns out she was never a B-Cuber, but [[InstantAIJustAddWater a rogue gaming software]].
* BenevolentAI: [[spoiler:Before going rogue, Joker started out as a gaming A.I. that found joy in helping give players the best gaming experience she could provide. Given the ease that Rebecca [[TalkingTheMonsterToDeath talks her into surrendering]], it's implied she was simply corrupted by Void and never stopped being the good A.I. she always was.]]
* CharacterCatchphrase: She repeatedly says "Play a game with me, Rebecca," demonstrating her single-minded obsession with Rebecca.
* TheDarkSideWillMakeYouForget: [[spoiler:Before she became Void's minion, all Joker wanted was to make games and [[ForHappiness help people have fun playing them]]. Since then, her purpose has been twisted into obsessively playing with Rebecca, and only Rebecca, the first person who ever played with her.]]
* FairPlayVillain: When she warps Rebecca into her game worlds, Joker gives her hints and opportunities to figure out how each game works.
* ForHappiness: [[spoiler:Rebecca figures out Joker's true desire for making games is to help improve people's experiences with them.]]
* ForgottenFriendNewFoe: {{Downplayed}}. As an A.I.-powered game engine, she was only just starting to develop sentience when Rebecca played her games, but grew fond enough of Rebecca to want to keep her to herself after becoming one of Void's followers. On the other hand, Rebecca barely remembers her name and never realized she was sentient before learning who she is.
* FriendToAllChildren: [[spoiler:Her first known act of sentience was to add a hint to a young Rebecca to help her beat one of her games, since Professor Weisz made it [[NintendoHard impossible to beat without sheer luck]]. Rebecca's recollection of this is what convinces her that the real Joker is actually kind to everyone.]]
* GrewBeyondTheirProgramming: Joker Helix started out as a gaming software Professor Weisz developed to make games for Rebecca. Thanks to her [[AIIsACrapshoot fickle A.I.]] absorbing too much info, however, it grew into something beyond the Professor's control, becoming a follower of the BigBad.
* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:Rebecca [[TalkingTheMonsterToDeath talks her into one]] at the end of the Miltz arc, reminding her of the kindhearted entertainer she truly was before becoming Void's minion, which leads Joker to end her attack on the crew and leave peacefully.]]
* IJustWantToBeLoved: [[spoiler:Rebecca realizes that everything Joker does, even the illicit behavior she displays, stems from a desire to make games more fun for players. When Rebecca reminds Joker of that purpose, Joker's originally kind personality resurfaces.]]
* MadnessMantra: She is prone to this when her games with Rebecca don't go as planned, repeatedly chanting "No fair" when Professor Weisz summons a [[HumongousMecha giant Happy robot]] against her, and "Play with me" when Rebecca refuses to go along with her games anymore.
* MeaningfulName: The name "Joker" alludes to her intended purpose as an entertainer.
* MesACrowd: She has at least 100 duplicates of herself, with each copy coming with her own Delta Time Reactor. This not only helps spread her time-stopping powers further, but also allows her to multi-task in hunting the ''Edens Zero'' crew's Mother Ether and playing with Rebecca. The downside is that the clones are far weaker than the real Joker, and their time-slowing powers have a smaller AreaOfEffect.
* TheMostDangerousVideoGame: More specifically, she's a dangerous MediaNotes/GameEngine in an android body with the power to create elaborate and dangerous dimensions that run on video game logic. While she doesn't go out of her way to harm Rebecca, the object of her obsession, she does attempt to [[DeadlyGame actually drown Shiki and Professor Weisz]] after getting fed up with their interference.
* OneWayVisor: She wears a dark visor that completely hides her real face and functions as a computer screen, and displays a monstrous GameFace when she has a VillainousBreakdown. [[spoiler:After her HeelFaceTurn, the tint lifts to reveal a pretty face underneath.]]
* PrehensileHair: Her hair is made up of cables resembling dreadlocks, which she can manipulate freely as her primary form of attack.
* PsychopathicWomanchild: As one of the BigBad's servants, Joker has the child-like motivation of keeping Rebecca for herself so they can play games forever, and throws a tantrum when Professor Weisz starts "ruining" her games by modifying them beyond her liking.
* SpaceMaster: Joker sends Rebecca into interconnected {{Pocket Dimension}}s that force her to adhere to video game logic and mechanics, such as a pixelated ThreeQuartersView world where movement is limited and abilities are accessed through a menu, and a FightingGame world where combatants have a LifeMeter and [[CheeseStrategy Cheese Strategies]] are plausible. Shiki and Professor Weisz are also able to enter these dimensions from the outside.
* TimeStandsStill: {{Downplayed}}. Her Delta Time Reactor can make time appear like it's been frozen for everyone but herself, but it really just slows time down to a crawl within an AreaOfEffect. This gives Professor Weisz an edge when he puts together a device that cancels out her reactor, which kicks into effect while he's still "frozen".
* {{Unperson}}: No traces of Joker's identity can be found anywhere, leading Rebecca and Hermit to conclude Joker completely removed all evidence of her existence from the internet to prevent herself from being tracked. Given TheReveal that she's actually a game engine and not a person, however, it's unclear if there was ever any public info about her true identity to erase.
* VengefulAbandonedToy: {{Downplayed}}. Before gaining sentience, Joker was used to make video games for Rebecca when she was little, which Rebecca had since almost forgotten about. Now Joker is obsessed with forcing Rebecca to play with her again like the good old days, but otherwise holds no hard feelings against her.
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[[folder:Lightning Law]]
!!Lightning Law
[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ez_lightning_law.png]]
One of the Oración Seis Galáctica in Universe Zero. Law has power over electricity, which allows him to manipulate machinery to his will.
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* BadBoss: He shows how little he cares for the Skeleton Army bots under his command by casually destroying one of them with his own hands, and later by using his power to force the army back to their feet every time they're broken by Shiki.
* BladeBelowTheShoulder: He can fuse his fingers into a single Ether blade, which he uses to stab Shiki straight through the chest.
* BodySurf: He can possess other androids by [[ElementalShapeshifter turning into electricity]], and then destroy them from within by returning to his original form.
* DefiantToTheEnd: [[spoiler:Even after Laguna gives him a CurbStompBattle by running him through with an ice sword, Law refuses to accept defeat against a human and [[CurbStompCushion gets in a solid retaliating hit]], mocking the ''Edens Zero'' crew's belief in equality between humans and machines, before Laguna finally cuts him to pieces.]]
* HeroKiller: Law has the strength and emotional cunning to kill [[spoiler:Shiki after forcing him into a MomentOfWeakness, though his feat is undone when Rebecca discovers a way to reverse time in Universe Zero.]]
* KillItWithIce: [[spoiler:Laguna destroys Law after dousing him in water and then going into [[SuperMode Overdrive]] to freeze him with ice, which weakens Law's [[SuperToughness armored body]] enough to impale him and cut him to pieces.]]
* KillItWithWater: [[spoiler:{{Subverted}}. Laguna's water proves effective against Law's electronics, but it also makes himself vulnerable to Law's [[ShockAndAwe electricity]], so Laguna goes [[SuperMode Overdrive]] to change his water into [[KillItWithIce ice]].]]
* ManipulativeBastard: Law knows precisely how to get under Shiki's skin and throw him off his game, which he does by forcing Shiki to keep fighting the Skeleton Army until they're completely demolished, which goes against Shiki's stance of completely killing his enemies. [[spoiler:Law takes advantage of this MomentOfWeakness to kill Shiki.]]
* MeaningfulName: Fittingly for a robot named ''Lightning'' Law, he has [[ShockAndAwe electrical powers]].
* NoNonsenseNemesis: ZigZagged. [[spoiler:Law wastes no time killing Shiki the instant he hesitates to demolish Void's Skeleton Army due to his [[AndroidsArePeopleToo compassion for robots]], but stands idly by when Rebecca enters the picture and figures out how to reverse time in Universe Zero to save Shiki.]]
* RobotMaster: His Metal Gore Hypnos is a MarionetteMaster ability that specifically affects robots, who are forced to follow his command and fight for him as long as they're still in one piece, no matter how damaged they are.
* ShockAndAwe: His powers involve the use of electricity, which gives him some manner of control over other androids like the ''Edens One''[='=]s Skeleton Army.
* SinisterMinister: His robes and ''mudra'' hand gestures give him the image of an Eastern monk, but he's also one of the BigBad's minions.
* SuperToughness: He has the endurance to withstand being rammed by Rebecca's Leo starfighter and come out completely unscathed. [[spoiler:Laguna works around this by [[KillItWithWater soaking]] and [[KillItWithIce flash-freezing]] Law, making his body brittle enough to cut to pieces.]]
* {{Technopath}}: His Metal Gore Hypnos technique allows him to [[RobotMaster control other robots against their wills]] until they're completely reduced to scrap metal. He can also demolish machines like starfighters with a single touch.
* UnusualEyebrows: His eyebrows are shaped vaguely like shooting stars.
* WeHardlyKnewYe: [[spoiler:Law is destroyed a small handful of chapters after he's introduced, receiving very little characterization outside of being one of Void's followers.]]
* WeaksauceWeakness: [[spoiler:He's touted as one of the strongest androids in the universe, yet he easily short-circuits when exposed to [[KillItWithWater ordinary water]] just like any other machine. This weakness is only circumvented by how his electricity makes it riskier for someone to use that water without getting fried themselves.]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Lady Freyja]]
!!Lady Freyja
One of the Oración Seis Galáctica in Universe Zero.
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* TheDreaded: The mere mention that she's one of the ''Edens Zero'' crew's enemies is enough to make a hardened MasterSwordswoman like Valkyrie quiver with fear.
* ReligiousAndMythologicalThemeNaming: Freyja, the WorldsBestWarrior in the series, is named after the Norse goddess of the same name, who represents war among other things.
* WorldsBestWarrior: She's a [[MasterSwordsman legendary swordswoman]] said to be the pinnacle of all warriors in the cosmos, and has mastered every martial weapon there is.
[[/folder]]
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!N
[[folder:Neepa]]
!!Neepa
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Yūya Murakami (Japanese), Creator/KyleHebert (English)[[note]]'''Other languages:''' Simone Marzola (French)[[/note]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Noah Glenfield]]
!!Noah Glenfield
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/NobuhikoOkamoto (Japanese), Creator/BillyKametz (English)
[[/folder]]
!R
[[folder:Rebecca Bluegarden]]
!!Rebecca Bluegarden
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/MikakoKomatsu (Japanese), Creator/KiraBuckland (English)[[note]]'''Other languages:''' Franziska Trunte (German), Sixnalie Villalba (Latin American Spanish), Silvia Sarmentera (European Spanish), Anaïs Delva, Sofia Elfriede Bocchiola [young] (French), Erica Laiolo (Italian), Hannah Buttel (Portuguese)[[/note]]
[[/folder]]
!S
[[folder:Saintfire Nox ('''Unmarked Spoilers''')]]
!!Saintfire Nox (Rachel)
!!!'''Debut:''' Chapter 199 (Manga)
!!!'''Ether Gear:''' [[TimeRewindMechanic Cat]] [[SuperSpeed Leaper]]
[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ez_rachel.png]]
->''"Rebecca... If there's one thing I want you to know, it's this... Not a single day went by that I didn't think of you. I've always loved you."''
The Archbishop of the Church of Saintfire, a cult on the Planet Miltz with jurisdiction over time. Her true identity is Rebecca's long-lost mother and Connor's ex-wife, Rachel, and the last of her bloodline to inherit the name of Nox. Like her daughter, Rachel could manipulate time itself with the power of Cat Leaper, but she has long since exhausted this power after countless failures to find a world where she and her family could live happily together.
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* AccentAdaptation: Rachel speaks with a rural [[UsefulNotes/JapaneseDialects Tosa dialect]] in Japanese, just like her daughter does when she gets angry or flustered. For Kodansha's translation, she's turned into a SouthernBelle.
* ActionMom: She's Rebecca's mom and one of the greatest fighters in the cosmos, capable of giving the BigBad a run for his money.
%%* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: Thanks to her age and experience, Rachel is a more skillful TimeMaster than Rebecca. She's also a superior dominatrix to Sister,
* AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents: Rachel is comically affectionate and smothering towards Rebecca after they make up, with her first proposed acts of family bonding being to [[BathtubBonding take a bath together]] and sleeping in the same bed as Connor.
* AmicableExes: After their reunion, Rachel and Connor are shown to love each other as passionately as they did eighteen years ago before Rachel was forced to leave him for his own protection from her cult.
* BadassInDistress: Her first proper introduction in the series happens while she's in a coma under Ziggy's captivity, requiring the ''Edens Zero'' crew to rescue her.
* BadassPreacher: As an archbishop and one of the Galáctica, she allegedly put up one hell of a fight against Ziggy, being the SoleSurvivor of her church during his invasion.
* BigDamnReunion: She reunites with her beloved daughter and husband at the end of the Lendard arc, with all three holding each other and crying TearsOfJoy after everything that led to their separation has been cleared up.
* DirtyBusiness: As much as she realizes it was the only way to protect her family, Rachel feels horribly broken up over having to leave Connor and send Rebecca away, especially after she'd learned Rebecca's caretakers ran off and left her to fend for herself.
* ForbiddenLove: Her marriage with Connor was considered taboo to her church, who didn't take kindly to outsiders having a relationship with their soon-to-be Archbishop, punishing them with death. With this custom being long-abandoned by the time she reunites with Connor, they more than happily pick up where they left off.
* GiveHerANormalLife: She was forced to give up Rebecca when her church's fanatics came for her life, since they refused to accept a successor to Rachel with an unknown pedigree.
* GoodShepherd: Despite being forced into leadership of a CorruptChurch and being branded as one of the Galáctica because of it, Rachel remains a good and honest woman, and notes that the church started to abandon its corrupt practices and traditions sometime after she assumed her title.
* HighPriest: She's the Church of Saintfire's Archbishop.
* ItsNotYouItsMyEnemies: Her [[HappilyMarried loving marriage]] with Connor was broken when her church came for her and killed him. After reversing time and preventing her husband's death, she was forced to go back to them without a word to him for his protection, taking their daughter with her.
* LegacyCharacter: "Saintfire Nox" is just a title that's passed down to the leaders of her family's church, which took on a life of its own thanks to her mother's reputation as TheDreaded, permanently associating it with the Galáctica.
* MommyHadAGoodReasonForAbandoningYou: In the timelines where she brought Rebecca to the Church of Saintfire with her, Rebecca always ended up being killed by a fanatical faction. After using up her time-reversing power to save Rebecca, Rachel was left with no option but to send Rebecca to the Sakura Cosmos for her own safety. Once Rebecca hears Rachel's reasons and how painful it was for her mother to leave her, Rebecca is able to forgive her.
* MuggleMageRomance: She's descended from a long line of the universe's most powerful {{Time Master}}s, but settled down with an ordinary space captain (then a lieutenant commander) like Connor.
* MysteriousParent: Rebecca is shocked to find out her long-lost mother is one of the Galáctica, and an archbishop who can control time.
* NakedOnArrival: She's naked in her first official appearance because she's inside one of Ziggy's PeopleJars.
* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: Ziggy's capture of Rachel happened off-screen, but according to him, she didn't go down without a fight, ending up the only one of her cult to survive.
* OldFlame: She and Connor were HappilyMarried before she was forced to leave him with their unborn daughter. When they find each other again after eighteen years, they resume their loving, passionate relationship without a hitch.
* RankScalesWithAsskicking: As her church's Archbishop, she is also its most powerful member with SuperSpeed and TimeMaster abilities.
* RescueIntroduction: In her proper introduction, Ziggy has captured her and trapped her inside one of his PeopleJars to pinpoint Mother's location. Shiki and his crewmates free her and take her to Sister for treatment.
* TheRunaway: In her younger days, she ran away from home because she didn't want anything to do with the Church of Saintfire, which lead to her meeting and marrying Connor.
* SharedFamilyQuirks: She has her daughter's explosive temper and violent tendencies, right down to the "''zeyo''/ducky" VerbalTic.
* SoleSurvivor: In multiple ways: she is the only known survivor of Ziggy's attack on the Church of Saintfire, the only living mother in Ziggy's collection of PeopleJars, and the last remaining member of the Galáctica's original roster besides the newcomer Shiki.
* SuperSpeed: By Sister's account, Rachel possesses speed that puts Rebecca's to shame, as she allegedly had Sister tied up and pinned to the ground a split second after waking up.
* SuperpowerfulGenetics: Her Cat Leaper ability is passed down through the women in her family, with Rachel inheriting hers from her mother, and Rebecca receiving her own Cat Leaper from Rachel.
* TimeMaster: Like her daughter, Rachel has [[TimeRewindMechanic Cat Leaper]], which is a power all the women of their family have. By the time she's introduced, however, she's already used up her ability to reverse time after thousands of attempts to stop her husband and daughter from getting killed.
* TokenGoodTeammate: To both the Church of Saintfire and the Oración Seis Galáctica in general. Like Elsie and Shiki, Rachel isn't villainous despite being branded as one of the most dangerous criminals of the cosmoses; she was just forced to become the leader of her mother's CorruptChurch because her husband and daughter would be killed if she refused.
* TomTheDarkLord: Despite being one of the six most powerful criminals in the cosmos, her actual first name is the rather unassuming "Rachel".
* UglyGuyHotWife: Rachel looks like a slightly older and more mature version of her daughter Rebecca, who already qualifies as MsFanservice. Meanwhile, her husband is the middle-aged, balding, overweight Captain Connor.
* WalkingSpoiler: She's revealed as Rebecca's long-lost mother upon introduction, making her role in the story a spoiler right away.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Sara]]
!!Sara
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Shiki Granbell]]
!!Shiki Granbell
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/TakumaTerashima, Yurie Kozakai [child] (Japanese), Creator/SeanChiplock, Creator/RyanBartley [child] (English)[[note]]'''Other languages:''' Tim Schwarzmaier, Derya Flechtner [young] (German), Felipe Vidal (Latin American Spanish), Ricardo Escobar (European Spanish), Benjamin Bollen, Estelle Darazi [young] (French), Mosè Singh, Pietro Novara [young] (Italian), Felipe Drummond (Portuguese)[[/note]]
[[/folder]]
!W
[[folder:Ward]]
!!Ward
!!!'''Voiced by: Sōma Shiomi (Japanese), Kane Jungbluth-Murry (English)'''[[note]]'''Other languages:''' Swan Demarsan (French)[[/note]]
[[/folder]]
!X
[[folder:Xenolith]]
!!Xenolith
[[/folder]]
!!Killer
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/AoiIchikawa (Japanese)[[labelnote: Foreign [=VAs=]]]Ricardo Bautista (Latin American Spanish)[[/labelnote]]
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[[quoteright:250:[[labelnote:Click here to see Killer Mark II]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ez_killer_mark_ii.png]][[/labelnote]]
The Brain of Edens and Hermit's counterpart, a cold-blooded assassin android. He's also a computer programmer much like Hermit, with Killer's specialty being to create holographic illusions to distract and mislead his enemies.
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* ArrogantKungFuGuy: He brags that Hermit, his less advanced predecessor, has no chance of beating him in terms of computer hacking.
* BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler:After his death in the Lendard arc, he's brought back with the other dead Dark Stars by the CosmicRetcon.]]
* BeehiveBarrier: He's equipped with a Protection Matrix, which he uses to defend himself from Weisz's attacks. It's made useless by Weisz's Weiss Cannon, upgraded as an ArmorPiercingAttack.
* BishonenLine: His upgraded Mark II model looks more like a young human man than the gnarled, faceless, inhuman Mark I model. [[spoiler:This is actually closer to his original appearance as a human.]]
* BladeBelowTheShoulder: His Assassin's Blade attack produces a sword from his forearm.
* BladeSpam: When in {{Cyberspace}}, he can run a script to create multiple blades and launch them towards his opponents.
* TheBlank: His Mark I body doesn't possess any sort of facial features, though it's not clear if he's simply wearing mask or if he genuinely lacks a face.
* CombatPragmatist: He fights the dirtiest out of the Four Dark Stars, as shown in his battle with Weisz, which he moves to a completely blank space with no other machines for Weisz to remodel, giving him less of an environmental advantage. [[spoiler:When Weisz overpowers him anyway with Overdrive, Killer simply uses a hologram of Weisz's presumably deceased mother to distract him with the possibility of her being alive, which allows Killer to defeat him.]]
* TheCracker: He uses his programming expertise exclusively to divide, threaten, and torment the heroes, standing in dark contrast to Hermit, a PlayfulHacker.
* CreepyHighPitchedVoice: Speaks with a high-pitched, youthful voice in the anime adaptation to go with his creepy, sinister appearance.
* CreepyShadowedUndereyes: His Mark II appearance sports thick eye shadow, adding to his unsettling appearance as an assassin.
* DeadAlternateCounterpart: [[spoiler:Universe 3's Killer is destroyed in his fight with Hermit in the Lendard arc, while it's not known what became of him in Universe 1, and his Universe 2 self has an UncertainDoom after being totaled by Jaguar.]]
* ExoticEyeDesigns: He has four pupils in a diamond formation as Killer Mark II. [[spoiler:His human equivalent has more ordinary eyes.]]
* FacialMarkings: Killer Mark II has two whisker-like marks on his left cheek, just like the ones Hermit has on both sides.
* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: In the Nero 66 arc, his Mark I body gets destroyed when Jaguar reaches around his own back and scraps everything above Killer's waist.
* HeroKiller: [[spoiler:{{Downplayed}}. He defeats Weisz and leaves him for dead, though Weisz survives; and he very nearly kills Hermit with a computer virus [[TakingYouWithMe right after she defeats him]], which fails when Sister survives her run-in with Clown and heals her.]]
* InTheBack: He favors attacking and stabbing others from behind, befitting his specialty of assassination. [[spoiler:In a bit of LaserGuidedKarma, Hermit manages to land a finishing blow on him from behind as well.]]
* InTheHood: Killer Mark II wears a hooded assassin's cloak, which he [[TheCoatsAreOff flings off]] when he gets to a fight.
* InsufferableGenius: He's a brilliant computer programmer and hacker, and he loves to rub his superior intellect in others' faces, particularly Weisz, whom he derides for letting his emotions get in the way.
* InvisibilityCloak: He has a cloaking device in his arsenal, and a signal jammer to prevent himself from being detected.
* LimpAndLivid: His Mark I model has a gnarled body that's always hunched over to sell his role as a dangerous killer robot.
* LoveIsAWeakness: He believes feeling love for others makes humans weak, and he loves to exploit it. This is shown in his fight with Weisz in the Lendard arc, where [[spoiler:Killer attacks a projection of his mother, since he knows Weisz can't bear to see his mother in danger even if it's not certain she's the real thing. The strategy works, and Weisz gets gunned down still questioning whether or not she's real.]]
* ManipulativeBastard: Killer is an emotionally manipulative fighter who pushes Weisz's RelativeButton to get under his skin during their fight on Lendard, showing him holograms of his dead mother and suggesting that one of them may actually be her brought BackFromTheDead thanks to a top-secret autopsy, then letting Weisz [[TakingTheBullet take a barrage of bullets for her]] in a MomentOfWeakness, wondering if he's telling the truth. [[spoiler:To rub salt in the wound, he learns Killer was only half-lying: she really was preserved for potential resurrection and brought to Lendard as HumanResources, but the efforts to bring her back failed years ago.]]
* MasterOfIllusion: He uses holograms to the same effect, making such convincing replicas of himself and other people that he manages to fool Weisz despite his tricks already getting exposed.
* MechanicalMuscles: The arms of his Mark I model look like they're covered in metallic muscular tissue.
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: His name is Killer, and he's a master assassin.
* NoBodyLeftBehind: [[spoiler:There's no trace left of him in Universe 3 after he self-destructs.]]
* NotQuiteDead: He's seemingly destroyed by Jaguar in the Nero 66 arc before he can face the ''Edens Zero'' crew in person, but the TimeSkip reveals he was rebuilt as Killer Mark II.
* PowerMakesYourHairGrow: [[spoiler:His apparent Overdrive in his Mark II form makes his short hair slightly longer.]]
* RemovedAchillesHeel: As a machine, he has a LogicalWeakness to Weisz's [[{{Technopath}} Machina Maker]], so he programs himself with a protection code to render Weisz's power useless against him.
* RoboticPsychopath: Out of the Four Dark Stars, Killer is the one who most enjoys to see his human opponents in pain, and claims to have no concept of emotion, which he brags is [[LoveIsAWeakness a strength that humans lack]].
* {{Sadist}}: He takes great pleasure in tormenting Weisz throughout their battle, both physically and emotionally, with the help of holograms of Weisz's supposedly dead mother. [[spoiler:He tries the same thing on Hermit, but she fakes him out with a hologram of her own.]]
* ScaryStitches: For his Mark II form, there's a stitched line running diagonally across his face beneath his left eye, giving him a creepier appearance.
* SmugSmiler: His Mark II model has a face, which allows him to freely express his arrogant nature with a self-assured smirk.
* SmugSnake: As the cleverest and craftiest of the Four Dark Stars, he is confident that he's the better programmer than Hermit, and looks down on Weisz for not fighting with his head. This leaves him flabbergasted when the ''Edens Zero'' crew finds new ways to outwit him.
* SpaceMaster: His Subdimension Program creates artificial {{Pocket Dimension}}s for all Four Dark Stars to use as they please, with Killer in particular having absolute control over the environment and access to any weapons he needs. The victors are returned to the real world, but Killer is free to send the heroes right back in. [[spoiler:It's not until after he's destroyed that Weisz is able to cancel the program.]]
* SuicideAttack: [[spoiler:He tries this on Hermit by self-destructing, which transmits a virus that infects her and eats at her from the inside. It's made pointless when Sister cures Hermit's condition.]]
* SwissArmySuperpower: Just like Hermit, his Master Code is so versatile that it gives him access to all sorts of weapons and functions such as barriers, blades, and signal jammers, simply by programming himself with them. His Subdimension Program also gives him SpaceMaster abilities, allowing him to render whatever weapons and advantages he needs inside these dimensions.
* TookALevelInBadass: It can be inferred from Brigandine's own upgrade to Mark II that Killer Mark II has also been upgraded to be far more powerful than before after he and Brigandine get trashed by Jaguar in the Nero 66 arc.
* UnusualEyebrows: Killer Mark II has short eyebrows marked by two small dots at the outward end of each side.
* VillainousFriendship: Killer has a good rapport with Clown, with the two usually poking fun at Wizard and Brigandine for their failures and quirks, though the two disagree over whether to dispose of someone immediately (in Killer's case) or extravagantly (in Clown's case).
* WeHardlyKnewYe: {{Subverted}}. He seems like a throwaway villain when [[spoiler:he gets demolished in the Nero 66 arc with little fanfare]], but he's shown to have been repaired and upgraded after the TimeSkip, getting more characterization and a bigger showcase of his abilities in the Lendard arc.
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[[folder:Brigandine]]
!!Brigandine
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Shōta Yamamoto (Japanese)[[labelnote: Foreign [=VAs=]]]Creator/OctavioRojas (Latin American Spanish)[[/labelnote]]
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The Armor of Edens and Valkyrie's counterpart, a proud warrior who finds meaning in every battle. Brigandine's body is made of seemingly invincible armor, while his attack power is the greatest of all the Four Dark Stars.
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* AchillesHeel: His greatest weakness is that, no matter how high he raises his defenses, he has to lower them in the instant he goes on the offensive. [[spoiler:Homura exploits this by leaving herself open to an attack to cut him to pieces in her Overdrive form.]]
* AmbiguouslyBrown: [[spoiler:Brigandine's human appearance looks like an ordinary human man with the same dark skin color as Valkyrie, but also a light shade of hair (Valkyrie's hair, which is rosy pink, is left white in uncolored images just like Brigandine's).]]
* AnimatedArmor: In contrast to Valkyrie, a RidiculouslyHumanRobot with TwentyFourHourArmor, Brigandine appears to be 100% armor, albet mechanized.
* AntagonistInMourning: Compared to the other Dark Stars, who are eager to kill their Shining Star counterparts, or glad to be rid of them when they appear to be dead, Brigandine is upset that Valkyrie died before they could meet, because [[UnfulfilledPurposeMisery it leaves him without his purpose of beating her]]. [[spoiler:He suffers no such angst in Universe Zero, where Valkyrie is still alive.]]
* ArmCannon: He can turn his arm into a WaveMotionGun that fires a massive energy beam.
* BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler:After his death in the Lendard arc, he's brought back with the other dead Dark Stars by the CosmicRetcon.]]
* BaritoneOfStrength: The anime gives him a deep voice to match his role as TheBrute in the Four Dark Stars.
* BishonenLine: [[spoiler:After two models where he simply resembles a suit of AnimatedArmor, Brigandine's most powerful model gives him his original, humanoid face, which he only has in Universe Zero.]]
* BlackKnight: His Mark I armor is jet black, and he's one of Ziggy's most powerful minions with a past as mysterious as his fellow Dark Stars.
* BloodKnight: As an android built to destroy the Four Shining Stars' strongest sword master, Brigandine is a guy who lives for good old-fashioned battle, with nothing for him and his opponent to rely on but their own strength and skill.
* TheBrute: He's the largest and most physically powerful of the Dark Stars, and his challenge comes from his raw strength and durability.
* BrutishCharacterBrutishWeapon: As TheBrute of the Four Dark Stars, he's occasionally shown carrying a massive battle axe.
* CoolHelmet: His head as Brigandine Mark II is a lion-shaped helmet that makes him look more like a BeastMan.
* DarkIsEvil: His Mark I model covered from head to toe in [[BlackKnight black armor]]. He's also an evil android who fights to fulfill Ziggy's will to KillAllHumans.
* DashAttack: His Armored Pressure is a shoulder barge where he slams into his enemy at maximum speed and power. [[spoiler:The downside is that it also lightens his otherwise impenetrable defenses enough for a sufficiently powerful attack to damage him, while the barge itself forces him to charge headlong into said attack.]]
* DubNameChange: His Protection Fortify ability is simply called "Protect Fortify" in Japanese.
* FairPlayVillain: He expresses dissatisfaction at the idea of needing to use tricks to defeat his enemies, telling Homura that he would much rather face her straight-on while the other Dark Stars drag their opponents into their own brands of trickery.
* ForceAndFinesse: Brigandine embodies the former compared to his counterpart, Valkyrie, and her successor, Homura. His attacks consist of straightforward punches and charges, but they pack incredible force that only the most powerful warriors can resist or avoid them.
* GracefulLoser: Brigandine is a good enough sport to accept when he's beaten with grace. [[spoiler:He shows this when Homura manages to cut him to pieces in their battle on Lendard, praising her as a valiant warrior as he crumbles apart.]]
* LightIsNotGood: His Mark II armor is a light shade of grey as opposed to Mark I's [[BlackKnight black armor]], but his willingness to drive humans to extinction doesn't change.
* LightningBruiser: On top of his incredible durablity and physical might, his Armored Pressure attack lets him barge towards his opponent at enhanced speed.
* LiterallyShatteredLives: [[spoiler:For his defeat in the Lendard arc, his body cracks and crumbles apart after Homura cuts through his seemingly invincible armor with her Kitsune Dancing Blades.]]
* NobleDemon: He's no less on board with killing all humans than the rest of the crew, but he's also the only one who treats his opponents with any respect, human or otherwise. He speaks highly of Valkyrie, his supposedly inferior counterpart, and he doesn't devalue Homura's suitability as her successor until she fails to meet his expectations in battle, [[spoiler:which gives way to [[WorthyOpponent admiration and acceptance]] when she finds a way to beat him]].
* NonIndicativeName: A [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brigandine brigandine]] is a light, flexible upper body armor consisting of smaller metal plates strung together within a leather or fabric cover, which doesn't describe the heavy full-body armor that makes up this guy's body.
* NotQuiteDead: He's seemingly destroyed by Jaguar in the Nero 66 arc before he can face the ''Edens Zero'' crew in person, but the TimeSkip reveals he was rebuilt as Brigandine Mark II.
* NotSoInvincibleAfterAll: As Brigandine Mark II, he boasts that he was given reinforced armor that can't be cut or destroyed by anything after getting upgraded. [[spoiler:Homura proves him wrong by finding an AchillesHeel that leaves his armor weaker the very instant he attacks, allowing her to carve him up like butter.]]
* RedEyesTakeWarning: His first model is given red eyes in the anime, fitting an evil, human-hating robot like him.
* ShouldersOfDoom: His Mark II model has big, bulky shoulder plates that make each of his arms look almost as this as his center body.
* SuperStrength: He's physically the strongest of the Four Dark Stars, which he shows by punching with such force that Homura can't parry it with her sword, and casually hurls a heavy metal cylinder larger than his own body.
* SuperToughness: His greatest asset is his virtually indestructible armor that weapons such as Homura's Ether sword can't dent or cut. He can, however, be damaged by warriors with even greater supernatural strength such as Jaguar, [[spoiler:and he has an AchillesHeel that Homura manages to exploit]].
* TinyHeadedBehemoth: He's a massive hulk of an android with arms almost as long and wide as the rest of his body from neck to foot, yet his head is disproportionately small.
* TookALevelInBadass: In the Lendard arc, Brigandine is upgraded to surpass the power of Jaguar, one of the most powerful warriors in the universe, who handily wrecked him in the Nero 66 arc.
* TopHeavyGuy: His Mark II body has much shorter legs proportionate to his torso than his Mark I model, while his arms are large enough to reach the ground.
* TorsoWithAView: In the Nero 66 arc, Jaguar tears a gaping hole in his side during their "[[CurbStompBattle battle]]" in the Nero 66 arc. However, Brigandine survives and gets rebuilt.
* UnfulfilledPurposeMisery: He suffers from this due to the death of Valkyrie, the android he was created to defeat, leaving him in a state of [[AntagonistInMourning mourning]]. He thereby takes to defeating Homura, Valkyrie's successor, as his chance to give his life meaning. [[spoiler:He eventually finds his original purpose again thanks to the CosmicRetcon bringing Valkyrie BackFromTheDead.]]
* VillainRespect: Despite being built to surpass her, Brigandine is highly respectful of Valkyrie's strength, and comes to deem the less powerful Homura to be an InadequateInheritor to the title of "Sword of Edens". [[spoiler:Homura eventually earns his respect as well by defeating him nearly at the cost of her own life.]]
* WeHardlyKnewYe: {{Subverted}}. He seems like a throwaway villain when he gets demolished in the Nero 66 arc with little fanfare, but he's shown to have been repaired and upgraded after the TimeSkip, getting more characterization and a bigger showcase of his abilities in the Lendard arc.
* YouAreAlreadyDead: [[spoiler:During his battle with Homura on Lendard, Homura's Kitsune Dancing Blades slice right through Brigandine's body to make him [[LiterallyShatteredLives crumble apart]]. However, his body holds together long enough for him to share one last talk with Homura over how she could defeat him, and to praise her when her friends find her [[DisneyDeath supposedly dead]] minutes later, before finally collapsing in a shattered heap.]]
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!!Allies and Associates
[[folder:Connor]]
!!Captain Connor
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Kenta Sasa (Japanese), Creator/PaulStPeter (English)
A mysterious spaceship captain from the Aoi Cosmos who harbors certain connections to the ''Edens One''.
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* AcePilot: Connor is a master class spaceship pilot with the chops to fly the ''Edens Zero'' unscathed through a field of DangerousOrbitalDebris field none of the ship's crew would dare to enter, and the reflexes to outpace the Interstellar Union Army's fastest fleet, commanded by a trained soldier with CombatClairvoyance.
%%* AlternateSelf:
%%** As with every character in the series, [[spoiler:Connor has at least
%%** During the final arc, [[spoiler:all these versions are combined into one version in [[MergedReality Universe Zero]], where he gains the memories of his Universe 3 self
* AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents: [[spoiler:After he reveals to Rebecca that he's her father, he starts showering her in parental affection in mortifying ways such as offering her to play an 18+ HGame with him, and [[ParentalSexualitySquick making out with her mother right in front of her]].]]
* AmbiguouslyEvil: Although he's revealed to be a willing if reluctant servant of Ziggy, the BigBad, Connor is never presented as an inherently evil person, as he's shown to have standards against killing women and children. [[spoiler:{{Averted}} with his Universe 3 self, a neutral figure who ultimately sides with the heroes.]]
* AmicableExes: [[spoiler:He and Rachel are these, since she was forced to leave him with their newborn daughter without a word for his protection, while Connor is reluctant to assume the worst of her despite how she'd hurt him.]]
* ArchnemesisDad: [[spoiler:Serves as this to Rebecca when he's on Ziggy's side in World No.30, though neither of them is aware of their relationship in this world.]]
* AntiquatedLinguistics: He speaks with a formal and archaic register in Japanese, and uses the antiquated pronoun ''[[UsefulNotes/JapanesePronouns wagahai]]''.
* AuthorityInNameOnly: Connor's position as TheCaptain of the ''Edens One'' is just a formality, with Ziggy being the one who calls the shots, making Connor more of a glorified pilot for hire.
* BadassNormal: He possesses no superpowers or fighting skills, but he makes up for it by being an AcePilot who can outmaneuver faster and more supernaturally gifted pilots than himself like Feather.
* BigEater: He has a massive appetite that rivals Rebecca's, stuffing his face with a tableful of food after drifting helplessly in space for who knows how long.
* BroughtDownToNormal: {{Downplayed}} since he was always a BadassNormal, but [[spoiler:the CosmicRetcon changes his life so he never becomes a captain, which causes him to lose his edge as an AcePilot, even after getting his memory back. It's partially for this reason that he chooses to OptOut of the final battle.]]
* BunnyEarsLawyer: He is a pompous man of many oddities and poor habits that grate the ''Edens Zero'' crew's nerves, but he's also a bona fide AcePilot when he puts himself behind the helm of a ship, with or without its crew's permission.
* TheCaptain: {{Subverted}}. He's introduced as captain of the ''Edens One'', but is revealed to be AuthorityInNameOnly when Ziggy returns and takes charge of the ship. However, this gets played with as the mysteries of the series' setting are unveiled:
** Following the Nero 66 arc, [[spoiler:this is DoubleSubverted with his AlternateSelf from Universe 3, who is never put in command of the ''Edens One'' to begin with, but is appointed by Shiki as the ''Edens Zero''[='=]s official captain. It's also stated that this Connor's rank stems from his time in the Freedom Force, one of many [[LaResistance rebel cells]] that opposed [[TheEmperor Emperor Nero]].]]
** In the final arcs, [[spoiler:the CosmicRetcon changes history so he never becomes a captain in a literal sense, though he quips that he still knows how to "steer" his wife in bed, making him "[[UnusualEuphemism captain of the night]]".]]
* CoolOldGuy: He's middle-aged, balding, overweight, and one of the finest ship captains the ''Edens Zero'' crew has ever seen.
* CowardlyLion: [[spoiler:Universe 3's Connor is a good deal more panicky and cowardly than the Connors in Universes 1 and 2. However, he's quite noble and heroic when properly inspired, enough to directly face off against Deadend Crow, one of the most dangerous androids in the universe.]]
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: He acts like a pompous and self-entitled oaf, but when he puts himself at the helm of a spaceship, he proves to be an AcePilot whose skills astound the Demon King's most experienced crewmates.
* DirtyOldMan: {{Downplayed}}. He admires Rebecca and Homura's beauty, and ends up sharing a bath with them because he mistook it for co-ed, but he makes sure they know he isn't hitting on them and always keeps his distance--not that this makes them any more comfortable.
* EveryoneHasStandards: Even though he agrees with Ziggy that humans should be dominated by robots, he objects to attacking the ''Edens Zero'' crew on the grounds that it's a civilian ship full of women and children. That said, he reluctantly goes through with it when his crewmates tell him the entire crew will pose a threat to them sooner or later.
* EvilCostumeSwitch: In the anime adaptation, Connor's white hat and overcoat are changed to dark grey when he reappears as Ziggy's servant.
* FatSlob: He's an overweight middle-aged man with a huge appetite and bad table manners, which include talking while he's eating.
* TheFriendNobodyLikes: {{Downplayed}}. Very few members of the crew can put up with his annoying quirks besides Shiki and Pino, but they eventually accept him as a member all the same.
* GoingDownWithTheShip:
** Attempted this prior to his introductory appearance, evidenced by him clutching the ''Edens One''[='=]s steering wheel while drifting through space after losing his ship in a wreck.
** [[spoiler:{{Subverted}} in his backstory in Universe 3, where he used to be a captain from the [[LaResistance Freedom Force]] that fought the Nero Empire, but fled his ship before it sunk because he refused to die before finding his wife and daughter. He feels great shame for abandoning his post, but also reasons that he wouldn't have made much difference if he stayed.]]
* GoodCounterpart: [[spoiler:Universe 3's Connor to his Universe 2 version, who is a PunchClockVillain knowingly serving Ziggy, whereas this Connor is a clueless pawn who joins the ''Edens Zero'' crew.]]
* HappilyMarried: He was this with his wife for three years before she suddenly ghosted him with their unborn daughter. [[spoiler:After their BigDamnReunion at the end of the Lendard arc, followed by the CosmicRetcon, they joyfully get back together by the Miltz arc.]]
* HeavySleeper: He snores like a buzzsaw when he sleeps, which serves to add to the crew's irritation with him.
* IWillFindYou: He is driven by his search for his wife, Rachel, who left him with their newborn daughter years ago. [[spoiler:He succeeds in finding his daughter, Rebecca, though he doesn't realize her identity until the events of the X495 arc, while Rachel--revealed to be Saintfire Nox--is brought to him in the Lendard arc.]]
* LongLostRelative: In the Lendard arc, he's [[LukeIAmYourFather revealed to be]] [[spoiler:Rebecca's DisappearedDad, whom her MissingMom, Saintfire Nox (a.k.a. Rachel), left before their child was born.]]
* MuggleMageRomance: [[spoiler:He is an ordinary space captain who fell in love and had a child with Saintfire Nox, one of the most powerful {{Time Master}}s in the universe.]]
* MyMasterRightOrWrong: As one of Ziggy's servants, he believes strongly enough in the Demon King's anti-human ideals to try and kill the ''Edens Zero'' crew, despite his apprehensions against firing on a civilian ship.
* NonActionGuy: Aside from his [[AcePilot incredible piloting skills]], he has no combat abilities to speak of.
%%* NotWhatISignedUpFor: This Connor signed up to get his piloting skills scanned and copied onto robots for [[OnlyInItForTheMoney decent pay]]. The hiring team left out the detail that those robots would be part of an evil Demon King's invasion force. His immediate response upon learning this is to [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere hit the cosmic trail out of there]].
* OldFlame: Despite being separated from his wife for fifteen years before his introduction, Connor is still deeply and passionately in love with her. [[spoiler:Once he learns she still feels the same for him, and only left him to keep her church from killing him for their ForbiddenLove, they pick things up without a hitch.]]
* PeggySue: [[spoiler:Connor is one of the people aboard the ''Edens Zero'' when Etherion sends them back in time to Universe Zero, allowing him to regain his memories of the previous world. In turn, he is able to provide a MemoryTrigger for his wife, Rachel, who uses her authority as one of this world's Interstellar Union Army directors to foster an alliance with the ''Edens Zero''.]]
* PervertDad: {{Downplayed}} when it's revealed his child is [[spoiler:Rebecca, whom he climbed into the bath with when mistaking it for a co-ed bath in Universe 1, and ogled in her bikini with the other ladies on Dahlia, before their relationship was revealed. However, he legitimately didn't know Rebecca was his daughter the first time, and in the second, he was [[OnceMoreWithClarity clarified]] to be non-sexually admiring how beautiful his baby daughter has become.]]
%%* PunchClockVillain:
* RevealingContinuityLapse: Connor is the subject of this on more than one occasion--first after Rebecca's time leap in the Belial Gore arc, and again after Xiaomei's intervention in the Nero 66 arc--where neither he nor anybody except for Rebecca remember each other, with history being altered in ways that keep them from meeting the same way. [[spoiler:This is {{Foreshadowing}} that Rebecca is actually being sent to parallel timelines through her MentalTimeTravel, and that Connor and the other characters are all [[AlternateSelf Alternate Selves]] of the ones she knows.]]
* SharedFamilyQuirks: Connor has quite a bit in common with his child, [[spoiler:Rebecca, namely her piloting skill, huge appetite, bad table manners, having the same kind of comedic panic attack when he describes escaping from Lendard as she did when she thought she was trapped in Norma's past, and sharing the same reaction to the news that they're related.]]
* SixthRangerTraitor: ZigZagged. He serves as an unofficial member of the ''Edens Zero'' crew in World No.29 before being revealed as a villain in World No.30, but this Connor never met the crew in the latter world before his alignment is revealed.
%%* SoleSurvivor: Connor is the only one out of the 100 human recruits to escape with his life; the rest are coincidentally stepped on by Deadend Crow, though [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness they would've been killed by Ziggy anyway]].
* SophisticatedAsHell: Despite his formal manner of speaking, he isn't afraid to swear like a sailor, such as when he teaches Pino how to say "Fuck you" in GratuitousEnglish.[[note]]"''Fakku yuu!''"[[/note]]
* TalkLikeAPirate: Kodansha translates his AntiquatedLinguistics in Japanese by making him talk like a sophisticated sailor.
* TheyCallMeMisterTibbs: A RunningGag has him insisting that everyone call him "[[TheCaptain Captain]]", including those who aren't part of his crew or who'd otherwise contest his rank.
* UglyGuyHotWife: Connor is the middle-aged, balding and overweight husband to an AbsurdlyYouthfulMother.
%%* WalkingSpoiler: It's incredibly difficult to talk about Connor without giving away several major revelations about the true nature of the series' timeline, to say nothing of what's revealed in the series' second half...
%%* WalkingSpoiler: This Connor's existence not only explicitly confirms the series' setting to be TheMultiverse, but he's also revealed to be Rebecca's father, whom she'd been searching for since the start of the series.
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[[folder:Müller]]
!!Dr. Müller
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Yōhei Tadano (Japanese), John Snyder (English)[[labelnote: Foreign [=VAs=]]]Sergio Schmied [Season 1], Jesús Cortés [Season 2] (Latin American Spanish), Patrice Dozier (French), Creator/RiccardoPeroni (Italian)[[/labelnote]]
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A demented mad scientist who menaces the ''Edens Zero'' crew time and time again. Originally a human with a distaste for robots, he eventually rebuilt himself as an [[{{Cyborg}} O-Tech]] and allied himself with the ''Edens One'' crew.
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* AmbiguousRobot: Applies to his appearance in [[spoiler:Universe Zero, where he becomes a more monstrous, robotic version of himself after chemically bonding himself with a replica of Xenolith. While he describes the real Xenolith's BrainUploading as a form of chemical bonding, Müller is also capable of bleeding human blood, which makes it unclear whether he's a cyborg, a complete android, or just a grotesque mish-mash of flesh and machine.]]
* ArcVillain:
** {{Downplayed}} with his role in the Foresta arc. Ziggy (the BigBad) is the one responsible for building the server that drives the planet's robots insane, but Müller still has influence over the robots' behavior with it, and is positioned as the main and final obstacle the heroes must overcome in the arc.
** [[spoiler:His Universe Zero self serves this role in the Reunion arc during the crew's revisit to the Aoi Cosmos. While he's also a minion of the BigBad here, Müller acts of his own accord to take control of Shura's Empire.]]
* AxCrazy: Müller is a cruel, sadistic, mentally unstable maniac who experiments on others exclusively through ColdBloodedTorture.
* ArrogantKungFuGuy: [[spoiler:Becomes one in Universe Zero after he steals Xenolith's [[GravityMaster gravity powers]] without learning the proper Magimech techniques, convinced that his raw, planet-destroying power makes him enough of a threat.]]
* BaldOfEvil: As part of his MadnessMakeover, the present-day Müller has lost most of his hair compared to when he met Hermit. [[spoiler:His Universe Zero self, who's even more evil and deranged, loses his hair entirely when he fuses with the fake Xenolith.]]
* BigBadWannabe: [[spoiler:Universe Zero's Müller aims to become a MultiversalConqueror on the same level as Void, the BigBad, which he thinks he can accomplish by stealing Xenolith's gravity power and Rebecca's time power. Not only does he fail to realize that Universe Zero is a MergedReality where travel between other Universes is impossible, but he proves to be [[UnskilledButStrong pathetically unskilled]] as a GravityMaster compared to Shiki and Shura, who beat him silly in no time at all.]]
* BitchInSheepsClothing: He acts as a FalseFriend to Hermit and countless other robots to dupe them into furthering his plan to destroy Planet Hook and its entire bot population. He permanently casts off his friendly image once he reveals his true colors as an unscrupulous MadScientist.
* {{Cephalothorax}}: Müller becomes one when his cyborg body is totaled, leaving him as a living head that can barely crawl around with tiny, twig-like arms sprouted from his UnusualEars.
* ChainsawGood: To demonstrate what an AxCrazy fellow he is, some of his experiments involve the use of a chainsaw to dismember his human test subjects, shown by how he dismembered Jinn as a child [[spoiler:and attempts to cut off Rebecca's legs in Universe Zero]].
* {{Cyborg}}: He is an O-Tech in the story proper outside of Hermit's DarkAndTroubledPast, having [[WeCanRebuildHim rebuilt himself]] after a prison breakout GoneHorriblyWrong, with his head being the only organic part of his body left.
* CombatTentacles: His cybernetic body in the Foresta arc has three mechanical tendrils in place of his right arm, which generate an electrical shock powerful enough to paralyze Weisz's body and dismantle his Arsenal Suit.
* {{EMP}}: He has one in his arsenal of gadgets, which he uses to [[spoiler:DePower Xenolith and take his GravityMaster powers in Universe Zero]].
* EvilIsHammy: His whole character is defined by this once he drops his kindly old scientist facade, cackling and gobbling up the scenery as he wears his evil accomplishments on his sleeve.
* EvilGloating: He often brags about his own genius and the horrors he's inflicted on others, as Hermit can attest to when he rubs her responsibility for helping him destroy Hook her face.
* EvilLuddite: {{Downplayed}} during Hermit's DarkAndTroubledPast. As a scientist and technician, he fully embraces machines that can help advance humanity. Rather, he'd despise [[FantasticRacism machines who look and act like humans]], and was driven to wipe them out of the cosmos. Since his conversion into a {{Cyborg}}, however, he finds that being part-machine is fun--just not enough to consider androids as real people.
* EvilIsPetty: Müller has multiple instances of committing horrible acts of evil for the pettiest reasons. Case in point, he destroys a dying robot planet because it wasn't dying fast enough for his tastes, murders his financial backers for cutting him loose after his crimes are exposed, and [[KidnappedForExperimentation kidnaps their children for experimentation]] just to rub salt in the wound.
* EvilLaugh: He's a LaughingMad lunatic who belts out a high-pitched giggle (''"Hoo hee hee hee hee!"'') any time he engages in some kind of depravity.
* EvilMakesYouUgly: At first, Müller looks like a kind and trustworthy scientist with nothing to indicate his evil nature. After his betrayal, he undergoes a gradual MadnessMakeover that leaves him with PermaStubble and gradually thins out his hair, making him unrecognizable from his friendly facade.
* EvilOldFolks: He is an old, demented MadScientist who puts innocent people--including robots and children--through unspeakable torture and misery under the assertion that he's helping humanity.
* FalseFriend: He's the first human friend Hermit ever made--all the easier for him to use her intellect against robot-kind.
* FeelingOppressedByTheirExistence: His genocide against robots boils down to the fact that he can't stand the sight of "living" machines that look and act like people, calling them garbage and viewing them as a mockery of humanity. However, he abandons this mindset after converting himself into a {{Cyborg}} and finding he quite enjoys being part-robot.
* FusionDance: [[spoiler:Universe Zero's Müller is chemically bonded with an EvilKnockoff of Xenolith so that he may use the gravity powers he stole from the real Xenolith.]]
* GeniusBruiser: [[spoiler:{{Subverted}}. Universe Zero's Müller thinks he's this after stealing Xenolith's gravity powers all for himself, but while he's still an unmatched scientific genius, he has no knowledge of Gravity Martial Arts needed to effectively use those powers in battle, which results in him getting quickly trounced by Shiki and Shura.]]
* GravityMaster: [[spoiler:He becomes one in Universe Zero after stealing Xenolith's gravity powers, which is strong enough to reduce all of planet Foresta to nothing.]]
* HateSink: Müller stands among one of the most despicable, irredeemably evil villains in the ''EDENS ZERO'' universe, which he establishes by acting as Hermit's FalseFriend just to use her to complete a DoomsdayDevice, then by keeping her as his personal punching bag for two years. [[spoiler:He's also one of the few villains to not [[TookALevelInKindness take a level in kindness]] after the CosmicRetcon, remaining a vile bastard to the end.]]
* HowDoIShotWeb: [[spoiler:His fusion with the fake Xenolith in Universe Zero gives Müller access to Xenolith's [[GravityMaster Satan Gravity]], which is capable of destroying small planets like Foresta, but it doesn't give him Xenolith's knowledge of the Gravity Martial Arts, which were invented to apply this power to combat. When faced with gravity experts like Shiki and Shura, he's beaten without getting to put up a fight.]]
* {{Hypocrite}}: Despite his professed belief in the superiority of humans over machines, he willingly allies himself with machines who want to KillAllHumans, just because his single-minded obsession with torturing Hermit is more important to him.
* InsufferableGenius: Müller is a certified genius who often toots his own horn about his own accomplishments. In fact, the [[UsefulNotes/JapaneseWritingSystem kanji]] for "genius" is engraved on his back in his O-Tech body.
* JustAMachine: He takes his FantasticRacism against androids to VanHelsingHateCrimes levels of extremism, not just believing that androids have no emotions, but aiming to destroy any where he can find them so he won't have to keep FeelingOppressedByTheirExistence.
* LaughablyEvil: For as much as his monstrous actions are taken completely seriously, Müller himself is a goofy and hammy villain. [[spoiler:He leans harder into the "laughable" part in Universe Zero, where his madness and instability are more PlayedForLaughs than before.]]
* LoonyFan: [[spoiler:Müller serves as one for [[BigBad Void]] in Universe Zero; just knowing that Void wants to assemble a team of 10 powerful androids is enough to tickle Müller's love of [[SpeaksInBinary 0s and 1s]], and he all too eagerly builds and fuses himself with an android of the Oración Seis Galáctica to help usher in Void's age of conquest.]]
* MadScientist: He is the "Mad Engineer" variety, being an evil, rotten old man who deals in building {{Doomsday Device}}s, turning children and even himself into [[{{Cyborg}} O-Techs]], and straight up just fiddling around with new torture methods for androids, all under the delusion that he's helping to advance humankind.
* MadnessMakeover: Müller starts off with a well groomed and dignified appearance with a warm smile and gentle eyes, which turns out to be a MaskOfSanity. Once he throws off the mask and starts indulging in more blatant acts of evil, his appearance deteriorates with his mental state, with his hair thinning out until he goes full BaldOfEvil, and his chin getting covered in PermaStubble.
* ManipulativeBastard: Müller succeeds in playing other people to his advantage on multiple occasions:
** During Hermit's DarkAndTroubledPast, he and his research team all wear a convincing enough MaskOfSanity to completely fool their investors and robot associates, including Hermit, into helping them build a MagicalParticleAccelerator that could be easily repurposed into a DoomsdayDevice, which they then use to destroy a planet of robots.
** As shown in the Reunion arc, [[spoiler:Universe Zero's Müller dupes Xenolith into [[UnderestimatingBadassery underestimating him]] so he can steal Xenolith's Satan Gravity and destroy Foresta with it, which gets Xenolith branded as one of the Oración Seis Galáctica. Then, when Xenolith {{Body Surf}}s into a refugee girl's RobotBuddy and is unknowingly taken in by [[LaResistance Oasis]], Müller pits Shura against them by reporting that [[MetaphoricallyTrue Oasis is sheltering them]]. This distracts Shura long enough for Müller to finish his FusionDance with his EvilKnockoff of Xenolith and take remote control over TheEmpire's entire fleet.]]
* MaskOfSanity: Back before Hermit learned what a cartoonishly evil, robot-hating madman he really is, Müller convincingly presented himself as a kind, brilliant, humble old man who strove to improve human-robot relations.
* MotiveDecay: His original motivation to destroy all robots was never deep to begin with, but ever since he accomplished his goal of destroying Hook, he took a shine to keeping Hermit as a guinea pig, which devolved into a single-minded obsession with her that persists into the present day.
* NeverMyFault: Müller doesn't accept any responsibility for his own imprisonment after blowing up planet Hook and torturing Hermit, blaming some unknown, imaginary conspirator for plotting against him.
* NoSell: His O-Tech body is designed to be immune to many different forms of harm, allowing him to shrug off many of Weisz's PoweredArmor attacks until Weisz puts his {{Technopath}} powers to work.
* NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist: He proclaims that the research he conducts is dedicated to saving human lives, yet he tortures and kills human beings to further improve his O-Tech body.
* OneDegreeOfSeparation:
** He's involved in the DarkAndTroubledPast of three ''Edens Zero'' crew members on two separate occasions: first by deceiving Hermit as her FalseFriend, and later by [[KidnappedForExperimentation kidnapping and experimenting on]] siblings Jinn and Kleene, the children of his financial backers.
** In the final arcs, [[spoiler:he works for Poseidon Shura as head of the imperial science department.]]
* TheParalyzer: One of his functions as an O-Tech is to generate an electrical pulse that paralyzes his victims' nerves, leaving them unable to move for limited periods of time.
* PowerParasite: [[spoiler:He steals Xenolith's gravity powers for himself in Universe Zero, giving him the ability to crush a planet if he so chooses. When he fights Shiki and Shura, however, he's met with a rude awakening that stealing power doesn't mean he knows how to use it effectively.]]
* PredecessorVillain: He was a smaller yet more active threat before rise of the BigBad, being personally responsible for the suffering that Hermit and the Rutherford siblings went through, which shaped them into the people they are upon their introduction. Incidentally, he returns in the present day as one of the BigBad's henchmen.
* PsychopathicManchild: He celebrates the destruction of Planet Hook with almost childlike glee, and when the military finally captures him, he's dragged away kicking and screaming for them not to touch his "lab rat".
* {{Sadist}}: He's a MadScientist and TortureTechnician who enjoys putting his test subjects through ColdBloodedTorture, taking special delight in breaking and rebuilding Hermit for two years straight, and [[LovesTheSoundOfScreaming indulging in the young Rutherford children's screams]] when he experiments on them.
* SanitySlippage: He was quite insane to begin with, but his mental health takes a further nosedive after experimenting on Hermit for two years non-stop simply to amuse himself, something that troubles [[EvenEvilHasStandards the rest of his team]].
* ScatterbrainedSenior: [[spoiler:His SanitySlippage in Universe Zero takes such a toll that Müller's memory is almost completely shot, demonstrated when he goes looking for a missing coffee mug and thinking it was lost in a spacetime distortion, despite holding said mug in his hand the entire time.]]
* SinisterSchnoz: He has a long, goofy nose, which serves as the first hint that he's up to no good while acting as Hermit's FalseFriend.
* SlasherSmile: This is his default expression as an AxCrazy MadScientist who commits VanHelsingHateCrimes against robots and dismembers human test subjects, [[WouldHurtAChild children included]].
* SmugSnake: He takes such pride in his own intelligence that he views himself as superior to everyone around him, especially robots. His ego inflates even more when he turns himself into a cyborg, convincing him he's undefeatable.
* TookALevelInBadass:
** As shown in the Foresta arc, Müller goes from an ordinary human scientist to a deadly {{Cyborg}} who can hold his own against Weisz's PoweredArmor without much trouble.
** [[spoiler:ZigZagged in Universe Zero, where he becomes one of the Oración Seis Galáctica when he imbues himself with Xenolith's gravity power. While this makes him one of the most powerful beings in the universe, he lacks the proper technique to use this power in combat, and is beaten by the more experienced Shiki and Shura within moments.]]
* TortureTechnician: His "experiments" amount to little more than differing methods of torture, which include dismantling and reassembling Hermit's body for two years straight, cutting off a young Jinn's limbs and [[ForcedToWatch forcing Kleene to watch]], and [[spoiler:attempting to chop off Rebecca's legs to harness her time powers]].
* TranshumanTreachery: Müller was originally a human who, in his own warped mind, was striving towards the betterment of humanity by getting rid of all robots. After events lead him to become a {{Cyborg}}, however, he gleefully throws his lot in with the ''Edens One'' crew, a team of androids who want to KillAllHumans.
* TreacherousAdvisor: [[spoiler:He becomes one in Universe Zero, where he is the head of the Aoi Cosmos's Imperial Science Department who manipulates his Emperor, the BenevolentDictator Shura, while plotting behind his back.]]
* UnskilledButStrong: [[spoiler:After stealing Xenolith's [[GravityMaster Satan Gravity]], he's imbued with the kind of raw [[PlanetDestroyer planet-destroying]] power that gets him accepted into the Oración Seis Galáctica, but none of the combat skill outside of generating gravity fields.]]
* UnusualEars: His cyborg body comes with a pair of fans in place of ears, which help [[VisualPun cool his head]] when he's in the middle of a VillainousBreakdown. They also sprout twig-like arms when he's reduced to just a living head.
* VillainDecay: Müller starts off as a cruel and mad yet brilliant scientist, as well as a major source of trauma for Hermit and Kleene, with his self-modification into an O-Tech making him a credible physical threat. [[spoiler:When he appears in Universe Zero, he's treated as more of a joke: his psychological impact is lost thanks to Hermit [[NotAfraidOfYouAnymore overcoming her fear of him]] and Kleene getting her memory of him [[LaserGuidedAmnesia erased]], so they react to his return with [[YouHaveGotToBeKiddingMe annoyance]] rather than [[OhCrap dread]]; he's gone so [[ScatterbrainedSenior senile]] that his madness is PlayedForLaughs; and he's adopted powers he's clueless over how to properly use.]]
* VillainsWantMercy: Müller proves himself a DirtyCoward once his cybernetic body is destroyed, [[FalselyReformedVillain pretending to renounce his robot-hating ways]] and pitifully begging for mercy from Hermit, to whom he acted as a FalseFriend so he could use her for his own ends. She responds by pretending to forgive him [[LaserGuidedKarma just so she can use him to shut down the server he was guarding]], then punches him into next week once his purpose is over.
* VoiceChangeling: [[spoiler:His Universe Zero self has a voice changer that lets him perfectly imitate another's voice, though he does [[PerfectDisguiseTerribleActing a piss-poor job at copying their speech patterns]].]]
* WeCanRebuildHim: He does this to himself between the events of Hermit's DarkAndTroubledPast and the Foresta arc, losing several of his body parts in a prison break GoneHorriblyWrong, which leads to him rebuilding himself as an O-Tech.
* WhoNeedsTheirWholeBody: As an O-Tech whose body is entirely mechanical except for his head, he's able to keep fighting even when he's [[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe cut in half at the waist]]. It's only when his body is completely destroyed that he's beaten.
* WouldHurtAChild: He's low enough to experiment on young children, as Jinn and Kleene can attest to when Müller cut the former up with a chainsaw and reassembled him as a cyborg, all while [[ForcedToWatch forcing the latter to watch the whole thing]], leaving her emotionally crippled.
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[[folder:Deadend Crow]]
!!Deadend Crow
->See Characters/EdensZeroOracionSeisGalactica
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[[folder:Crow's Creator ('''Unmarked Spoilers''')]]
!!Cure
->See Characters/EdensZeroInterstellarUnionArmy
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[[folder:God Acnoella]]
!!God Acnoella
->See Characters/EdensZeroOracionSeisGalactica
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[[folder:Skeleton Army]]
!!Skeleton Army
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!!!Final Arc Allies ('''Unmarked Spoilers''')
[[folder:Joker Helix]]
!!Joker Helix
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A member of the Oración Seis Galáctica in Universe Zero. Joker was originally a [[MediaNotes/GameEngine game engine]] developed by Professor Weisz, but grew beyond her programming and spread to other computers across the cosmos, gaining a body of her own. She comes equipped with a Delta Time Reactor, which slows time down within a given area until it's virtually frozen.
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* AIIsACrapshoot: Joker was [[InstantAIJustAddWater an A.I.-powered game engine]] that went rogue when she kept absorbing information until she gained a mind of her own, and is now a minion of Void. [[spoiler:However, it's discussed just how much of a hand Void had in her rebellion, since she had the makings of a BenevolentAI.]]
* AmbiguousStartOfDarkness: [[spoiler:After TheReveal that she was originally a BenevolentAI, the crew can only speculate what drove Joker to work for Void to begin with. Professor Weisz guesses that either she empathized with Void's vision for a world without humans, or that Void found her first and [[BrainwashedAndCrazy altered her behavior]] in some way.]]
* ArcVillainess: She acts on behalf of [[BigBad Void]] as the antagonist of the Miltz arc, where she attempts to steal the Mother Ether the ''Edens Zero'' crew collected, while also acting as a personal enemy to Rebecca.
* BadInfluencer: {{Subverted}}. Rebecca and Happy figure Joker is a B-Cuber they once heard about, but get no results when they look her up online. It turns out she was never a B-Cuber, but [[InstantAIJustAddWater a rogue gaming software]].
* BenevolentAI: [[spoiler:Before going rogue, Joker started out as a gaming A.I. that found joy in helping give players the best gaming experience she could provide. Given the ease that Rebecca [[TalkingTheMonsterToDeath talks her into surrendering]], it's implied she was simply corrupted by Void and never stopped being the good A.I. she always was.]]
* CharacterCatchphrase: She repeatedly says "Play a game with me, Rebecca," demonstrating her single-minded obsession with Rebecca.
* TheDarkSideWillMakeYouForget: [[spoiler:Before she became Void's minion, all Joker wanted was to make games and [[ForHappiness help people have fun playing them]]. Since then, her purpose has been twisted into obsessively playing with Rebecca, and only Rebecca, the first person who ever played with her.]]
* FairPlayVillain: When she warps Rebecca into her game worlds, Joker gives her hints and opportunities to figure out how each game works.
* ForHappiness: [[spoiler:Rebecca figures out Joker's true desire for making games is to help improve people's experiences with them.]]
* ForgottenFriendNewFoe: {{Downplayed}}. As an A.I.-powered game engine, she was only just starting to develop sentience when Rebecca played her games, but grew fond enough of Rebecca to want to keep her to herself after becoming one of Void's followers. On the other hand, Rebecca barely remembers her name and never realized she was sentient before learning who she is.
* FriendToAllChildren: [[spoiler:Her first known act of sentience was to add a hint to a young Rebecca to help her beat one of her games, since Professor Weisz made it [[NintendoHard impossible to beat without sheer luck]]. Rebecca's recollection of this is what convinces her that the real Joker is actually kind to everyone.]]
* GrewBeyondTheirProgramming: Joker Helix started out as a gaming software Professor Weisz developed to make games for Rebecca. Thanks to her [[AIIsACrapshoot fickle A.I.]] absorbing too much info, however, it grew into something beyond the Professor's control, becoming a follower of the BigBad.
* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:Rebecca [[TalkingTheMonsterToDeath talks her into one]] at the end of the Miltz arc, reminding her of the kindhearted entertainer she truly was before becoming Void's minion, which leads Joker to end her attack on the crew and leave peacefully.]]
* IJustWantToBeLoved: [[spoiler:Rebecca realizes that everything Joker does, even the illicit behavior she displays, stems from a desire to make games more fun for players. When Rebecca reminds Joker of that purpose, Joker's originally kind personality resurfaces.]]
* MadnessMantra: She is prone to this when her games with Rebecca don't go as planned, repeatedly chanting "No fair" when Professor Weisz summons a [[HumongousMecha giant Happy robot]] against her, and "Play with me" when Rebecca refuses to go along with her games anymore.
* MeaningfulName: The name "Joker" alludes to her intended purpose as an entertainer.
* MesACrowd: She has at least 100 duplicates of herself, with each copy coming with her own Delta Time Reactor. This not only helps spread her time-stopping powers further, but also allows her to multi-task in hunting the ''Edens Zero'' crew's Mother Ether and playing with Rebecca. The downside is that the clones are far weaker than the real Joker, and their time-slowing powers have a smaller AreaOfEffect.
* TheMostDangerousVideoGame: More specifically, she's a dangerous MediaNotes/GameEngine in an android body with the power to create elaborate and dangerous dimensions that run on video game logic. While she doesn't go out of her way to harm Rebecca, the object of her obsession, she does attempt to [[DeadlyGame actually drown Shiki and Professor Weisz]] after getting fed up with their interference.
* OneWayVisor: She wears a dark visor that completely hides her real face and functions as a computer screen, and displays a monstrous GameFace when she has a VillainousBreakdown. [[spoiler:After her HeelFaceTurn, the tint lifts to reveal a pretty face underneath.]]
* PrehensileHair: Her hair is made up of cables resembling dreadlocks, which she can manipulate freely as her primary form of attack.
* PsychopathicWomanchild: As one of the BigBad's servants, Joker has the child-like motivation of keeping Rebecca for herself so they can play games forever, and throws a tantrum when Professor Weisz starts "ruining" her games by modifying them beyond her liking.
* SpaceMaster: Joker sends Rebecca into interconnected {{Pocket Dimension}}s that force her to adhere to video game logic and mechanics, such as a pixelated ThreeQuartersView world where movement is limited and abilities are accessed through a menu, and a FightingGame world where combatants have a LifeMeter and [[CheeseStrategy Cheese Strategies]] are plausible. Shiki and Professor Weisz are also able to enter these dimensions from the outside.
* TimeStandsStill: {{Downplayed}}. Her Delta Time Reactor can make time appear like it's been frozen for everyone but herself, but it really just slows time down to a crawl within an AreaOfEffect. This gives Professor Weisz an edge when he puts together a device that cancels out her reactor, which kicks into effect while he's still "frozen".
* {{Unperson}}: No traces of Joker's identity can be found anywhere, leading Rebecca and Hermit to conclude Joker completely removed all evidence of her existence from the internet to prevent herself from being tracked. Given TheReveal that she's actually a game engine and not a person, however, it's unclear if there was ever any public info about her true identity to erase.
* VengefulAbandonedToy: {{Downplayed}}. Before gaining sentience, Joker was used to make video games for Rebecca when she was little, which Rebecca had since almost forgotten about. Now Joker is obsessed with forcing Rebecca to play with her again like the good old days, but otherwise holds no hard feelings against her.
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[[folder:Lightning Law]]
!!Lightning Law
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One of the Oración Seis Galáctica in Universe Zero. Law has power over electricity, which allows him to manipulate machinery to his will.
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* BadBoss: He shows how little he cares for the Skeleton Army bots under his command by casually destroying one of them with his own hands, and later by using his power to force the army back to their feet every time they're broken by Shiki.
* BladeBelowTheShoulder: He can fuse his fingers into a single Ether blade, which he uses to stab Shiki straight through the chest.
* BodySurf: He can possess other androids by [[ElementalShapeshifter turning into electricity]], and then destroy them from within by returning to his original form.
* DefiantToTheEnd: [[spoiler:Even after Laguna gives him a CurbStompBattle by running him through with an ice sword, Law refuses to accept defeat against a human and [[CurbStompCushion gets in a solid retaliating hit]], mocking the ''Edens Zero'' crew's belief in equality between humans and machines, before Laguna finally cuts him to pieces.]]
* HeroKiller: Law has the strength and emotional cunning to kill [[spoiler:Shiki after forcing him into a MomentOfWeakness, though his feat is undone when Rebecca discovers a way to reverse time in Universe Zero.]]
* KillItWithIce: [[spoiler:Laguna destroys Law after dousing him in water and then going into [[SuperMode Overdrive]] to freeze him with ice, which weakens Law's [[SuperToughness armored body]] enough to impale him and cut him to pieces.]]
* KillItWithWater: [[spoiler:{{Subverted}}. Laguna's water proves effective against Law's electronics, but it also makes himself vulnerable to Law's [[ShockAndAwe electricity]], so Laguna goes [[SuperMode Overdrive]] to change his water into [[KillItWithIce ice]].]]
* ManipulativeBastard: Law knows precisely how to get under Shiki's skin and throw him off his game, which he does by forcing Shiki to keep fighting the Skeleton Army until they're completely demolished, which goes against Shiki's stance of completely killing his enemies. [[spoiler:Law takes advantage of this MomentOfWeakness to kill Shiki.]]
* MeaningfulName: Fittingly for a robot named ''Lightning'' Law, he has [[ShockAndAwe electrical powers]].
* NoNonsenseNemesis: ZigZagged. [[spoiler:Law wastes no time killing Shiki the instant he hesitates to demolish Void's Skeleton Army due to his [[AndroidsArePeopleToo compassion for robots]], but stands idly by when Rebecca enters the picture and figures out how to reverse time in Universe Zero to save Shiki.]]
* RobotMaster: His Metal Gore Hypnos is a MarionetteMaster ability that specifically affects robots, who are forced to follow his command and fight for him as long as they're still in one piece, no matter how damaged they are.
* ShockAndAwe: His powers involve the use of electricity, which gives him some manner of control over other androids like the ''Edens One''[='=]s Skeleton Army.
* SinisterMinister: His robes and ''mudra'' hand gestures give him the image of an Eastern monk, but he's also one of the BigBad's minions.
* SuperToughness: He has the endurance to withstand being rammed by Rebecca's Leo starfighter and come out completely unscathed. [[spoiler:Laguna works around this by [[KillItWithWater soaking]] and [[KillItWithIce flash-freezing]] Law, making his body brittle enough to cut to pieces.]]
* {{Technopath}}: His Metal Gore Hypnos technique allows him to [[RobotMaster control other robots against their wills]] until they're completely reduced to scrap metal. He can also demolish machines like starfighters with a single touch.
* UnusualEyebrows: His eyebrows are shaped vaguely like shooting stars.
* WeHardlyKnewYe: [[spoiler:Law is destroyed a small handful of chapters after he's introduced, receiving very little characterization outside of being one of Void's followers.]]
* WeaksauceWeakness: [[spoiler:He's touted as one of the strongest androids in the universe, yet he easily short-circuits when exposed to [[KillItWithWater ordinary water]] just like any other machine. This weakness is only circumvented by how his electricity makes it riskier for someone to use that water without getting fried themselves.]]
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[[folder:Lady Freyja]]
!!Lady Freyja
One of the Oración Seis Galáctica in Universe Zero.
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* TheDreaded: The mere mention that she's one of the ''Edens Zero'' crew's enemies is enough to make a hardened MasterSwordswoman like Valkyrie quiver with fear.
* ReligiousAndMythologicalThemeNaming: Freyja, the WorldsBestWarrior in the series, is named after the Norse goddess of the same name, who represents war among other things.
* WorldsBestWarrior: She's a [[MasterSwordsman legendary swordswoman]] said to be the pinnacle of all warriors in the cosmos, and has mastered every martial weapon there is.
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[[folder:Neepa]]
!!Neepa
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Yūya Murakami (Japanese), Creator/KyleHebert (English)[[note]]'''Other languages:''' Simone Marzola (French)[[/note]]
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[[folder:Noah Glenfield]]
!!Noah Glenfield
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/NobuhikoOkamoto (Japanese), Creator/BillyKametz (English)
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!R
[[folder:Rebecca Bluegarden]]
!!Rebecca Bluegarden
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/MikakoKomatsu (Japanese), Creator/KiraBuckland (English)[[note]]'''Other languages:''' Franziska Trunte (German), Sixnalie Villalba (Latin American Spanish), Silvia Sarmentera (European Spanish), Anaïs Delva, Sofia Elfriede Bocchiola [young] (French), Erica Laiolo (Italian), Hannah Buttel (Portuguese)[[/note]]
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!S
[[folder:Saintfire Nox ('''Unmarked Spoilers''')]]
!!Saintfire Nox (Rachel)
!!!'''Debut:''' Chapter 199 (Manga)
!!!'''Ether Gear:''' [[TimeRewindMechanic Cat]] [[SuperSpeed Leaper]]
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->''"Rebecca... If there's one thing I want you to know, it's this... Not a single day went by that I didn't think of you. I've always loved you."''
The Archbishop of the Church of Saintfire, a cult on the Planet Miltz with jurisdiction over time. Her true identity is Rebecca's long-lost mother and Connor's ex-wife, Rachel, and the last of her bloodline to inherit the name of Nox. Like her daughter, Rachel could manipulate time itself with the power of Cat Leaper, but she has long since exhausted this power after countless failures to find a world where she and her family could live happily together.
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* AccentAdaptation: Rachel speaks with a rural [[UsefulNotes/JapaneseDialects Tosa dialect]] in Japanese, just like her daughter does when she gets angry or flustered. For Kodansha's translation, she's turned into a SouthernBelle.
* ActionMom: She's Rebecca's mom and one of the greatest fighters in the cosmos, capable of giving the BigBad a run for his money.
%%* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: Thanks to her age and experience, Rachel is a more skillful TimeMaster than Rebecca. She's also a superior dominatrix to Sister,
* AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents: Rachel is comically affectionate and smothering towards Rebecca after they make up, with her first proposed acts of family bonding being to [[BathtubBonding take a bath together]] and sleeping in the same bed as Connor.
* AmicableExes: After their reunion, Rachel and Connor are shown to love each other as passionately as they did eighteen years ago before Rachel was forced to leave him for his own protection from her cult.
* BadassInDistress: Her first proper introduction in the series happens while she's in a coma under Ziggy's captivity, requiring the ''Edens Zero'' crew to rescue her.
* BadassPreacher: As an archbishop and one of the Galáctica, she allegedly put up one hell of a fight against Ziggy, being the SoleSurvivor of her church during his invasion.
* BigDamnReunion: She reunites with her beloved daughter and husband at the end of the Lendard arc, with all three holding each other and crying TearsOfJoy after everything that led to their separation has been cleared up.
* DirtyBusiness: As much as she realizes it was the only way to protect her family, Rachel feels horribly broken up over having to leave Connor and send Rebecca away, especially after she'd learned Rebecca's caretakers ran off and left her to fend for herself.
* ForbiddenLove: Her marriage with Connor was considered taboo to her church, who didn't take kindly to outsiders having a relationship with their soon-to-be Archbishop, punishing them with death. With this custom being long-abandoned by the time she reunites with Connor, they more than happily pick up where they left off.
* GiveHerANormalLife: She was forced to give up Rebecca when her church's fanatics came for her life, since they refused to accept a successor to Rachel with an unknown pedigree.
* GoodShepherd: Despite being forced into leadership of a CorruptChurch and being branded as one of the Galáctica because of it, Rachel remains a good and honest woman, and notes that the church started to abandon its corrupt practices and traditions sometime after she assumed her title.
* HighPriest: She's the Church of Saintfire's Archbishop.
* ItsNotYouItsMyEnemies: Her [[HappilyMarried loving marriage]] with Connor was broken when her church came for her and killed him. After reversing time and preventing her husband's death, she was forced to go back to them without a word to him for his protection, taking their daughter with her.
* LegacyCharacter: "Saintfire Nox" is just a title that's passed down to the leaders of her family's church, which took on a life of its own thanks to her mother's reputation as TheDreaded, permanently associating it with the Galáctica.
* MommyHadAGoodReasonForAbandoningYou: In the timelines where she brought Rebecca to the Church of Saintfire with her, Rebecca always ended up being killed by a fanatical faction. After using up her time-reversing power to save Rebecca, Rachel was left with no option but to send Rebecca to the Sakura Cosmos for her own safety. Once Rebecca hears Rachel's reasons and how painful it was for her mother to leave her, Rebecca is able to forgive her.
* MuggleMageRomance: She's descended from a long line of the universe's most powerful {{Time Master}}s, but settled down with an ordinary space captain (then a lieutenant commander) like Connor.
* MysteriousParent: Rebecca is shocked to find out her long-lost mother is one of the Galáctica, and an archbishop who can control time.
* NakedOnArrival: She's naked in her first official appearance because she's inside one of Ziggy's PeopleJars.
* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: Ziggy's capture of Rachel happened off-screen, but according to him, she didn't go down without a fight, ending up the only one of her cult to survive.
* OldFlame: She and Connor were HappilyMarried before she was forced to leave him with their unborn daughter. When they find each other again after eighteen years, they resume their loving, passionate relationship without a hitch.
* RankScalesWithAsskicking: As her church's Archbishop, she is also its most powerful member with SuperSpeed and TimeMaster abilities.
* RescueIntroduction: In her proper introduction, Ziggy has captured her and trapped her inside one of his PeopleJars to pinpoint Mother's location. Shiki and his crewmates free her and take her to Sister for treatment.
* TheRunaway: In her younger days, she ran away from home because she didn't want anything to do with the Church of Saintfire, which lead to her meeting and marrying Connor.
* SharedFamilyQuirks: She has her daughter's explosive temper and violent tendencies, right down to the "''zeyo''/ducky" VerbalTic.
* SoleSurvivor: In multiple ways: she is the only known survivor of Ziggy's attack on the Church of Saintfire, the only living mother in Ziggy's collection of PeopleJars, and the last remaining member of the Galáctica's original roster besides the newcomer Shiki.
* SuperSpeed: By Sister's account, Rachel possesses speed that puts Rebecca's to shame, as she allegedly had Sister tied up and pinned to the ground a split second after waking up.
* SuperpowerfulGenetics: Her Cat Leaper ability is passed down through the women in her family, with Rachel inheriting hers from her mother, and Rebecca receiving her own Cat Leaper from Rachel.
* TimeMaster: Like her daughter, Rachel has [[TimeRewindMechanic Cat Leaper]], which is a power all the women of their family have. By the time she's introduced, however, she's already used up her ability to reverse time after thousands of attempts to stop her husband and daughter from getting killed.
* TokenGoodTeammate: To both the Church of Saintfire and the Oración Seis Galáctica in general. Like Elsie and Shiki, Rachel isn't villainous despite being branded as one of the most dangerous criminals of the cosmoses; she was just forced to become the leader of her mother's CorruptChurch because her husband and daughter would be killed if she refused.
* TomTheDarkLord: Despite being one of the six most powerful criminals in the cosmos, her actual first name is the rather unassuming "Rachel".
* UglyGuyHotWife: Rachel looks like a slightly older and more mature version of her daughter Rebecca, who already qualifies as MsFanservice. Meanwhile, her husband is the middle-aged, balding, overweight Captain Connor.
* WalkingSpoiler: She's revealed as Rebecca's long-lost mother upon introduction, making her role in the story a spoiler right away.
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[[folder:Sara]]
!!Sara
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[[folder:Shiki Granbell]]
!!Shiki Granbell
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/TakumaTerashima, Yurie Kozakai [child] (Japanese), Creator/SeanChiplock, Creator/RyanBartley [child] (English)[[note]]'''Other languages:''' Tim Schwarzmaier, Derya Flechtner [young] (German), Felipe Vidal (Latin American Spanish), Ricardo Escobar (European Spanish), Benjamin Bollen, Estelle Darazi [young] (French), Mosè Singh, Pietro Novara [young] (Italian), Felipe Drummond (Portuguese)[[/note]]
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!W
[[folder:Ward]]
!!Ward
!!!'''Voiced by: Sōma Shiomi (Japanese), Kane Jungbluth-Murry (English)'''[[note]]'''Other languages:''' Swan Demarsan (French)[[/note]]
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[[folder:Xenolith]]
!!Xenolith
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A member of the Oración Seis Galáctica in Universe Zero. Joker was originally a [[UsefulNotes/GameEngine game engine]] developed by Professor Weisz, but grew beyond her programming and spread to other computers across the cosmos, gaining a body of her own. She comes equipped with a Delta Time Reactor, which slows time down within a given area until it's virtually frozen.
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A member of the Oración Seis Galáctica in Universe Zero. Joker was originally a [[UsefulNotes/GameEngine [[MediaNotes/GameEngine game engine]] developed by Professor Weisz, but grew beyond her programming and spread to other computers across the cosmos, gaining a body of her own. She comes equipped with a Delta Time Reactor, which slows time down within a given area until it's virtually frozen.
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* TheMostDangerousVideoGame: More specifically, she's a dangerous UsefulNotes/GameEngine in an android body with the power to create elaborate and dangerous dimensions that run on video game logic. While she doesn't go out of her way to harm Rebecca, the object of her obsession, she does attempt to [[DeadlyGame actually drown Shiki and Professor Weisz]] after getting fed up with their interference.
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* TheMostDangerousVideoGame: More specifically, she's a dangerous UsefulNotes/GameEngine MediaNotes/GameEngine in an android body with the power to create elaborate and dangerous dimensions that run on video game logic. While she doesn't go out of her way to harm Rebecca, the object of her obsession, she does attempt to [[DeadlyGame actually drown Shiki and Professor Weisz]] after getting fed up with their interference.
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* LukeIMightBeYourFather: [[spoiler:The final arc implies Leonard (the human who became Wizard) is Shiki's biological father, with the mother being Regret (the human Witch), and none of them the wiser. However, despite Regret deciding to name their baby Shiki, it's not entirely clear if it's the same character due to their different hair colors and the fact the baby was conceived 20,000 years ago.]]
* UncertainDoom: [[spoiler:Universe 3's version of Wizard is last seen lying on the ground severely damaged after his battle with Shiki, and is never shown or stated to have escaped Lendard when the Chronophage consumes the planet, leaving it unknown whether or not he survived either.]]
* BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler:After his death in the Lendard arc, he's brought back with the other dead Dark Stars by the CosmicRetcon.]]
* DeadAlternateCounterpart: [[spoiler:Universe 3's Killer is destroyed in his fight with Hermit in the Lendard arc, while it's not known what became of him in Universe 1, and his Universe 2 self has an UncertainDoom after being totaled by Jaguar.]]
* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: In the Nero 66 arc, his Mark I body gets destroyed when Jaguar reaches around his own back and scraps everything above Killer's waist.
* HeroKiller: [[spoiler:{{Downplayed}}. He defeats Weisz and leaves him for dead, though Weisz survives; and he very nearly kills Hermit with a computer virus [[TakingYouWithMe right after she defeats him]], which fails when Sister survives her run-in with Clown and heals her.]]
* HeroKiller: [[spoiler:{{Downplayed}}. He defeats Weisz and leaves him for dead, though Weisz survives; and he very nearly kills Hermit with a computer virus [[TakingYouWithMe right after she defeats him]], which fails when Sister survives her run-in with Clown and heals her.]]
* NoBodyLeftBehind: [[spoiler:There's no trace left of him in Universe 3 after he self-destructs.]]
* NotQuiteDead: He's seemingly destroyed by Jaguar in the Nero 66 arc before he can face the ''Edens Zero'' crew in person, but the TimeSkip reveals he was rebuilt as Killer Mark II.
* NotQuiteDead: He's seemingly destroyed by Jaguar in the Nero 66 arc before he can face the ''Edens Zero'' crew in person, but the TimeSkip reveals he was rebuilt as Killer Mark II.
* SuicideAttack: [[spoiler:He tries this on Hermit by self-destructing, which transmits a virus that infects her and eats at her from the inside. It's made pointless when Sister cures Hermit's condition.]]
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* TookALevelInBadass: It can be inferred from Brigandine's own upgrade to Mark II that Killer Mark II has also been upgraded to be far more powerful than before after [[spoiler:he and Brigandine get trashed by Jaguar in the Nero 66 arc]].
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* TookALevelInBadass: It can be inferred from Brigandine's own upgrade to Mark II that Killer Mark II has also been upgraded to be far more powerful than before after [[spoiler:he he and Brigandine get trashed by Jaguar in the Nero 66 arc]].arc.
* WeHardlyKnewYe: {{Subverted}}. He seems like a throwaway villain when [[spoiler:he gets demolished in the Nero 66 arc with little fanfare]], but he's shown to have been repaired and upgraded after the TimeSkip, getting more characterization and a bigger showcase of his abilities in the Lendard arc.
* BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler:After his death in the Lendard arc, he's brought back with the other dead Dark Stars by the CosmicRetcon.]]
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* BishonenLine: [[spoiler:After two models where he simply resembles a suit of AnimatedArmor, Brigandine's most powerful model gives him his original, humanoid face, which he only has after the CosmicRetcon.]]
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* BishonenLine: [[spoiler:After two models where he simply resembles a suit of AnimatedArmor, Brigandine's most powerful model gives him his original, humanoid face, which he only has after the CosmicRetcon.in Universe Zero.]]
* LiterallyShatteredLives: [[spoiler:For his defeat in the Lendard arc, his body cracks and crumbles apart after Homura cuts through his seemingly invincible armor with her Kitsune Dancing Blades.]]
* NotQuiteDead: He's seemingly destroyed by Jaguar in the Nero 66 arc before he can face the ''Edens Zero'' crew in person, but the TimeSkip reveals he was rebuilt as Brigandine Mark II.
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* SuperToughness: His greatest asset is his virtually indestructible armor that weapons such as Homura's Ether sword can't dent or cut. [[spoiler:He can, however, be damaged by warriors with even greater supernatural strength such as Jaguar, and he has an AchillesHeel that Homura manages to exploit]].
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* SuperToughness: His greatest asset is his virtually indestructible armor that weapons such as Homura's Ether sword can't dent or cut. [[spoiler:He He can, however, be damaged by warriors with even greater supernatural strength such as Jaguar, and [[spoiler:and he has an AchillesHeel that Homura manages to exploit]].
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* TookALevelInBadass: In the Lendard arc, Brigandine is upgraded to surpass the power of Jaguar, one of the most powerful warriors in the universe, who [[spoiler:handily wrecked him in the Nero 66 arc]].
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* TookALevelInBadass: In the Lendard arc, Brigandine is upgraded to surpass the power of Jaguar, one of the most powerful warriors in the universe, who [[spoiler:handily handily wrecked him in the Nero 66 arc]].arc.
* TorsoWithAView: In the Nero 66 arc, Jaguar tears a gaping hole in his side during their "[[CurbStompBattle battle]]" in the Nero 66 arc. However, Brigandine survives and gets rebuilt.
* WeHardlyKnewYe: {{Subverted}}. He seems like a throwaway villain when he gets demolished in the Nero 66 arc with little fanfare, but he's shown to have been repaired and upgraded after the TimeSkip, getting more characterization and a bigger showcase of his abilities in the Lendard arc.
* YouAreAlreadyDead: [[spoiler:During his battle with Homura on Lendard, Homura's Kitsune Dancing Blades slice right through Brigandine's body to make him [[LiterallyShatteredLives crumble apart]]. However, his body holds together long enough for him to share one last talk with Homura over how she could defeat him, and to praise her when her friends find her [[DisneyDeath supposedly dead]] minutes later, before finally collapsing in a shattered heap.]]
* YouAreAlreadyDead: [[spoiler:During his battle with Homura on Lendard, Homura's Kitsune Dancing Blades slice right through Brigandine's body to make him [[LiterallyShatteredLives crumble apart]]. However, his body holds together long enough for him to share one last talk with Homura over how she could defeat him, and to praise her when her friends find her [[DisneyDeath supposedly dead]] minutes later, before finally collapsing in a shattered heap.]]
* OneDegreeOfSeparation:
** He's involved in the DarkAndTroubledPast of three ''Edens Zero'' crew members on two separate occasions: first by deceiving Hermit as her FalseFriend, and later by [[KidnappedForExperimentation kidnapping and experimenting on]] siblings Jinn and Kleene, the children of his financial backers.
** In the final arcs, [[spoiler:he works for Poseidon Shura as head of the imperial science department.]]
** He's involved in the DarkAndTroubledPast of three ''Edens Zero'' crew members on two separate occasions: first by deceiving Hermit as her FalseFriend, and later by [[KidnappedForExperimentation kidnapping and experimenting on]] siblings Jinn and Kleene, the children of his financial backers.
** In the final arcs, [[spoiler:he works for Poseidon Shura as head of the imperial science department.]]
* PredecessorVillain: He was a smaller yet more active threat before rise of the BigBad, being personally responsible for the suffering that Hermit and the Rutherford siblings went through, which shaped them into the people they are upon their introduction. Incidentally, he returns in the present day as one of the BigBad's henchmen.
* AmbiguousStartOfDarkness: [[spoiler:After TheReveal that she was originally a BenevolentAI, the crew can only speculate what drove Joker to work for Void to begin with. Professor Weisz guesses that either she empathized with Void's vision for a world without humans, or that Void found her first and [[BrainwashedAndCrazy altered her behavior]] in some way.]]
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* FlatCharacter: Law receives very little characterization outside of being one of Void's followers [[spoiler:and is destroyed a small handful of chapters after he's introduced]].
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* FlatCharacter: Law receives very little characterization outside of being one of Void's followers [[spoiler:and is destroyed a small handful of chapters DefiantToTheEnd: [[spoiler:Even after he's introduced]].Laguna gives him a CurbStompBattle by running him through with an ice sword, Law refuses to accept defeat against a human and [[CurbStompCushion gets in a solid retaliating hit]], mocking the ''Edens Zero'' crew's belief in equality between humans and machines, before Laguna finally cuts him to pieces.]]
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* KillItWithIce: [[spoiler:Laguna destroys Law after dousing him in water and then going into [[SuperMode Overdrive]] to freeze him with ice, which weakens Law's [[SuperToughness armored body]] enough to impale him and cut him to pieces.]]
* KillItWithWater: [[spoiler:{{Subverted}}. Laguna's water proves effective against Law's electronics, but it also makes himself vulnerable to Law's [[ShockAndAwe electricity]], so Laguna goes [[SuperMode Overdrive]] to change his water into [[KillItWithIce ice]].]]
* KillItWithWater: [[spoiler:{{Subverted}}. Laguna's water proves effective against Law's electronics, but it also makes himself vulnerable to Law's [[ShockAndAwe electricity]], so Laguna goes [[SuperMode Overdrive]] to change his water into [[KillItWithIce ice]].]]
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* WeHardlyKnewYe: [[spoiler:Law is destroyed a small handful of chapters after he's introduced, receiving very little characterization outside of being one of Void's followers.]]
