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| 13 | [[WMG:[[center: [- '''[[Characters/EdensZero Main Character Index]]'''\ |
| 14 | [[Characters/EdensZeroCrewOfEdensZero Crew of Edens Zero]] ([[Characters/EdensZeroShikiGranbell Shiki Granbell]], '''Shiki's Companions''') | [[Characters/EdensZeroCrewOfEdensOne Crew of Edens One]]\ |
| 15 | [[Characters/EdensZeroOracionSeisGalactica Oración Seis Galáctica]] ([[Characters/EdensZeroOracionSeisGalacticaAssociates Associates]]) | [[Characters/EdensZeroInterstellarUnionArmy Interstellar Union Army]]\ |
| 16 | [[Characters/EdensZeroGrandShikiCosmos Grand Shiki Cosmos]] ([[Characters/EdensZeroSakuraCosmos Sakura Cosmos]] [=[=][[Characters/EdensZeroBlueGarden Blue Garden]], [[Characters/EdensZeroSunJewel Sun Jewel]][=]=]) | [[Characters/EdensZeroOthers Others]]\ |
| 17 | [[Characters/EdensZeroUniverseZero The Final World]]-]]]]] |
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| 19 | !Spoilers for the first 140 chapters (Seasons 1 and 2 of the anime) are unmarked. Expect unmarked spoiler names as well. Administrivia/YouHaveBeenWarned! |
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| 21 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/which_edens_zero_character_are_you.png]] |
| 22 | [[caption-width-right:350:From left to right: Pino, Weisz, Shiki, Happy, Rebecca, and Homura.]] |
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| 26 | [[folder:Rebecca Bluegarden]] |
| 27 | !!Rebecca Bluegarden |
| 28 | !!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/MikakoKomatsu (Japanese), Creator/KiraBuckland (English)[[labelnote: Foreign [=VAs=]]]Franziska Trunte (German), Sixnalie Villalba (Latin American Spanish), Silvia Sarmentera (European Spanish), Anaïs Delva (French), Erica Laiolo, Sofia Elfriede Bocchiola [child] (Italian), Hannah Buttel (Portuguese), Chutikan Bangdaeng[[/labelnote]] |
| 29 | [[quoteright:163:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ez_rebecca_bluegarden_profile.png]] |
| 30 | [[caption-width-right:163:[[labelnote:Click here to see her appearance after the Nero 66 arc '''(SPOILERS)''']]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/289a8f00_b01f_41e1_a627_8334791862bd.png[[/labelnote]]]] |
| 31 | ->''"It can't be over!!! It hasn't even begun yet!!! I'm--!! After I get out of here, I'm leaving the Sakura Cosmos!! My life is only just getting started!!"'' |
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| 33 | An amateur B-Cuber from Planet Blue Garden and Shiki's first human friend, who strives to hit one million subscribers for her video account, Aoneko Channel,[[note]]"Blue Cat" Channel[[/note]] by traveling to different worlds and recording whatever interesting thing she can find. Rebecca is oftentimes just your average, cheery teenage girl, but turns into a vicious gunslinger when armed with an Ether blaster, with her skills forged through countless hours dumped into FPS games. She eventually learns her own form of Ether Gear called '''[[TimeRewindMechanic Cat]] [[SuperSpeed Leaper]]''', which enhances her speed and allows her to rewind time by a few moments. |
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| 35 | * AcePilot: She's something of a gifted starfighter pilot, enough to handle her own against other pilots like Sylph/Kleene. Like her ImprobableAimingSkills, she gained this from [[IKnowMortalKombat playing games]]. |
| 36 | * AffectionateNickname: A few of her fellow B-Cubers take to calling her "Becky" in Kodansha's translation as a sign of their growing admiration for her. |
| 37 | * AnimalEaredHeadband: She keeps a pair of fake cat ears around, which she wears for her videos. |
| 38 | * AnimalMotifs: She's often represented by cats or depicted as a CatGirl, and her Ether Gear is called Cat Leaper. "The Cat" is also an alias for her, referring to her ability to control time. |
| 39 | * AnArmAndALeg: [[spoiler:The BadFuture version of Rebecca that she sees in her "nightmare" has lost both of her legs from some unknown cause, taking her ability to use Cat Leaper with them and forcing her to wear [[ArtificialLimbs metal prosthetics]].]] |
| 40 | * BadassNormal: Rebecca starts out without any Ether Gear, but is still TheGunslinger with ImprobableAimingSkills who's fully capable of clearing out a room of enemies so long as she has access to a gun. After that, however, Noah informs her that she has always had the power of [[MentalTimeTravel time leaping]], and was ObliviouslySuperpowered the whole time before awakening her power as an Ether Gear. |
| 41 | * BareMidriffsAreFeminine: Some of Rebecca's outfits leave her midriff bare, adding to her image as a feminine GamerChick who loves fashion and cats and usually wears GirlishPigtails. |
| 42 | * BathingBeauty: She spends most of her time on the ship relaxing at the bath, usually once every story arc at a minimum. |
| 43 | * BathtubBonding: She gets a fair bit of this Happy, and joined later by Homura, since they always share the Spa of Eden together. |
| 44 | * BewareTheNiceOnes: She might be a friendly teenager, but she's a friendly teenager with a pair of guns, and [[ImprobableAimingSkills she knows how to use them]]. |
| 45 | * BigEater: She'll eat anything that looks delicious, no matter how much there is or how much she's already eaten. Just saying the ''word'' "delicious" will start her salivating. |
| 46 | * BoomHeadshot: She prefers to deal with her opponents by shooting them in the head with her Happy Blasters. Luckily, these Ether bullets aren't lethal, but she gets her points across by putting a gun up to someone's head. |
| 47 | * BroughtDownToNormal: [[spoiler: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.]] |
| 48 | * CatGirl: She designs her DigitalAvatar on Digitalis to give herself the ears and tail of a cat. She also temporarily transforms into a LittleBitBeastly version when she's in the middle of a time leap [[spoiler:or using Overdrive]]. |
| 49 | * ChekhovsGun: When her Ether Gear first manifests during the Sun Jewel arc, it seems like little more than a convenient power-up for Rebecca that saves her from a pinch. In the Belial Gore arc, it's revealed to be the reason why Drakken Joe is pursuing the ''Edens Zero'' in the first place, and the reason why she or any of her friends are still alive, given that she can rewrite history with it. |
| 50 | * ChildOfForbiddenLove: [[spoiler:Rebecca's parents are Captain Connor and Rachel, the Archbishop of the Church of Saintfire. Because Connor is an outsider of the church, a fanatic faction killed Connor and Rebecca in multiple timelines, with the result never changing as long as Rachel stayed with them. Eventually, Rachel was forced to abandon them both to create a world where they survived.]] |
| 51 | * {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: {{Downplayed}}. Her head isn't always in the clouds, but she can get lost in them easily when she sees something adorable or finds what she feels is the perfect video op. |
| 52 | * DoubleMeaning: She gives her Ether Gear the name "Leaper" because it enhances her leg power to enhance her jumping and speed. By sheer serendipity, she's able to keep this as part of the name after TheReveal that it allows her to perform a [[MentalTimeTravel time leap]]. |
| 53 | * DoesNotKnowHerOwnStrength: Her first attempt at using Ether Gear causes her to carelessly fire a KamehameHadoken through the ''Edens Zero''[='=]s skylight, nearly getting herself sucked out into the vacuum of space. |
| 54 | * DramaPreservingHandicap: |
| 55 | ** To raise the stakes in the final arcs, [[spoiler:Rebecca's Ether Gear loses its TimeRewindMechanic in Universe Zero. She still has access to her SuperSpeed and [[SuperMode Overdrive]], but her more inexperienced younger body isn't immediately adept for it, forcing her to rely on her normal guns once she remembers she carries weapons with her in this new timeline.]] |
| 56 | ** Later on during the final arc, [[spoiler:Rebecca realizes her TimeRewindMechanic still exists, but she has to [[StarkNakedSorcery strip naked]] in order to do it, and it takes a much more serious strain on her body.]] |
| 57 | * EmpoweredBadassNormal: {{Downplayed}}. She appears to break out of being TheTeamNormal during the Sun Jewel arc, when her constant bathing in the Spa of Eden leads her to awaken her own form of Ether Gear, giving her [[InASingleBound great jumping skill]] and [[SuperSpeed enhanced speed]]. After this, however, Rebecca learns from Noah that she's always had special powers, namely the power to rewind time, but was unaware of it prior to the Belial Gore arc. |
| 58 | * FormerFriendOfAlphaBitch: Rebecca and AlphaBitch Labilia were [[WeUsedToBeFriends originally friends]] before the latter's personality got awfully nasty, making Rebecca into her designated bullying victim. However, no matter how cruelly Labilia insults and humiliates her, Rebecca can't truly hate her and [[AFriendInNeed will come to her aid when she's in trouble]]. |
| 59 | * FriendToAllLivingThings: She will accept any friendship whether it's with an animal, a robot, or both, owing this mindset to how she was able to continue her friendship with Happy after he was run over by a truck and revived as a machine when she was just a little girl. |
| 60 | * AFriendInNeed: |
| 61 | ** After Shiki saves her life from his [[AIIsACrapshoot rogue robot]] friends on Granbell, Rebecca proves herself to be a true friend by taking him aboard her ship to escape without any obligation to do so, even though he already offered to stay behind and hold them off. |
| 62 | ** She proves herself to be this to her [[FormerFriendOfAlphaBitch former friend]] Labilia, whom she [[SaveTheJerk jumps in to save from Drakken Joe]] even after all the horrible things the latter has done to her, before realizing Labilia was already saved by Amira to begin with. |
| 63 | * FutureMeScaresMe: [[spoiler:After Rebecca's second jump forward in time to a BadFuture, she's terrified of the state she find herself in, namely the fact that she's lost her legs and can no longer use Cat Leaper. Avoiding becoming this version of herself becomes a major point of drama and tension in the subsequent battles, as the possibility looms large in her head.]] |
| 64 | * GamerChick: She's a self-admitted gamer who spent most of her time playing with Happy over actually adventuring and working. An omake chapter also shows her dealing with the frustration of being mistaken for a {{GIRL}} in an online game. |
| 65 | * GenkiGirl: She can get very excitable at times, especially when she discovers new inspiration for a video, with [[StraightMan Happy]] being there to keep her grounded. |
| 66 | * GirlishPigtails: She occasionally ties her hair into twin-tails that make look youthful and cheeky. |
| 67 | * GirlyGirlWithATomboyStreak: Rebecca is normally a very feminine GenkiGirl who loves fashion and cats, but she adopts a much more masculine and crass attitude when shooting people up with her Happy Blasters. |
| 68 | * GoalInLife: Hers is to become the number one B-Cuber in the cosmos, starting by getting one million subscribers on B-Cube. [[spoiler:She finally achieves her goal over the TimeSkip thanks to Couchpo's mentoring, which lets her hit triple her original goal.]] |
| 69 | * GrandTheftMe: She periodically performs an unintentional version on [[spoiler:herself from the BadFuture, which she mistakes for dreams: first in the Belial Gore arc, where she and Shiki are in the middle of a warzone with robotic drones; and again in the Nero 66 arc, where she's stuck in an unwakeable coma after losing her legs, making Shiki think for a moment that his world's Rebecca has recovered.]] |
| 70 | * GunsAkimbo: She's quite skilled at this to accommodate for her twin Happy Blasters. |
| 71 | * TheGunslinger: She hits three of the four categories when it comes to handling an Ether blaster: the [[ImprobableAimingSkills the Trick Shot]] for dishing out [[BoomHeadshot headshots]] against at least a dozen thugs in a row; [[MoreDakka the Vaporizer]] whenever a single shot won't cut it; and [[GunFu the Woo]] not only from [[GunsAkimbo dual-wielding]], but being able to land headshots while ''upside-down'' and in midair. |
| 72 | * HeIsNotMyBoyfriend: Rebecca gets flustered when Xenolith calls her a "girl captivated by gravity", assuming that he means she's "into" Shiki and denying the very thought of it. |
| 73 | * HeroicRROD: The skin on Rebecca's cheek begins to chip like porcelain whenever she uses her TimeRewindMechanic more than twice in a row, though it heals after a few moments. Using it any more times than that causes more of her body to fracture, and it takes longer for her to heal, as demonstrated when [[spoiler:she fruitlessly tries reversing time to a point before Witch's death for two days straight, leaving half her body covered in cracks.]] |
| 74 | * HighHopesZeroTalent: Despite her lofty aspirations to be a famous B-Cuber, she is a complete amateur who relies almost exclusively on recording whatever random thing catches her interest. This results in videos that are too scattershot and unstructured, making her an easy target of mockery from [[SitcomArchNemesis Labilia]]. As for what she considers to be "good" content, it ranges from letting Shiki fly her ship with no experience to having him dance in a bunny girl costume. [[spoiler:She overcomes this over the TimeSkip when her more experienced B-Cuber friend Couchpo mentors her, not only improving her craft, but boosting her subscriber count to 3 million, three times more than her initial goal.]] |
| 75 | * IKnowMortalKombat: Every single combat skill she knows, from [[ImprobableAimingSkills shooting]] to [[AcePilot starship piloting]], was acquired from playing video games for Mother knows how long. The former is TruthInTelevision, as people who use real guns for the first time after [[BoomHeadshot aiming for the head]] in FirstPersonShooter games are prone to do the same in real life; the latter is more of a stretch. |
| 76 | * ImprobableAimingSkills: Thanks to [[IKnowMortalKombat her skill in FPS games]], she's able to perform no fewer than a dozen [[BoomHeadshot headshots]] within a matter of moments. This is noted as an uncanny skill for a marksman, since [[ShownTheirWork a person's head is too small and evasive to serve as a practical target]]. |
| 77 | * InASingleBound: Her Ether Gear focuses all of her Ether into her legs, which allows her to jump great distances on top of giving her SuperSpeed and [[KickChick superpowered kicks]]. |
| 78 | * InterspeciesFriendship: She is a believer that whether one is human, animal, or machine doesn't matter when it comes to being friends, which stems from her own friendship with Happy, an alien cat who was turned into a machine. |
| 79 | * KickChick: Whenever she isn't armed with an Ether blaster, or when bullets don't work on an enemy, her next option is to kick them. It's partially because of this that she gains a form of Ether Gear that focuses all of her Ether into her legs, making her kicks magically charged and powerful enough to send a grown man flying. |
| 80 | * KindheartedCatLover: While she has a mean temper, she's a sweetheart who is dear friends with Happy and melts over anything that remotely looks like a cat. |
| 81 | * LegFocus: Several of her {{fanservice}} shots are centered around her legs. Her official character profile also lampshades this, making [[SexinessScore "Leg Sexiness" as her custom stat and scoring her a perfect 5-star]]. |
| 82 | * LeotardOfPower: [[spoiler:Her Overdrive after the three-year TimeSkip transforms Rebecca's clothes into a leotard that fully exposes the Ether Gear on her legs.]] |
| 83 | * LetsGetDangerous: She often gives the impression of an ordinary teen out of her depth, but the instant she takes hold of her Happy Blasters, she turns into a master-class marksman. |
| 84 | * LivingEmotionalCrutch: She becomes Shiki's main emotional support as their journey gets more difficult. [[spoiler:She's the only one who can snap Shiki out of his HeroicBSOD after Witch dies, and comforting him helps Shiki accept that he has to move on from their loss.]] |
| 85 | * LoserProtagonist: Like Shiki, she's at the bottom rung of the Shooting Starlight guild, and she's spent most of her time either making weird online videos or holing herself up playing games. |
| 86 | * LosingAShoeInTheStruggle: Anytime Rebecca activates Cat Leaper, her footwear gets obliterated from the sheer power released and she winds up barefoot, with everything up to the shins in tatters. Rebecca later has the foresight to take off her footwear before using her Ether Gear so it doesn't get ruined. |
| 87 | * MacGuffinSuperPerson: Because of her MentalTimeTravel power, she is heavily desired by Drakken Joe, who chases after the ''Edens Zero'' to extract her power for his own purposes. |
| 88 | * MagicalBarefooter: Her Ether Gear is located at her legs. Therefore, she usually needs to be barefoot when she activates it. [[spoiler:Her Overdrive also leaves her barefoot.]] |
| 89 | * MeaningfulRename: Originally, Rebecca just calls her Ether Gear "Leaper" because it enhances her [[InASingleBound jumping power]] and gives her SuperSpeed. However, it gets redubbed "Cat Leaper" in regards to her true nature as "the Cat", whose actual power is to leap through time. |
| 90 | * MentalTimeTravel: Her Ether Gear's true power sends her consciousness back in time to an earlier point whenever she is killed or enters a life-threatening situation. Up to World No. 29 (the 29th timeline created from her time leaping over the past 10 years), she barely retains any memory from previous timelines, but is still able instinctively avoid or change whatever put her in danger. After entering World No. 30 and fully awakening her power, however, she has complete RippleEffectProofMemory. |
| 91 | * MercurysWings: The markings for her Ether Gear are shaped like wings and manifest on her legs. |
| 92 | * MoodSwinger: When the opportunity to fight arises, she turns from a GenkiGirl into a HotBlooded [[TheLadette Lad-ette]] and back in the blink of an eye. |
| 93 | * MsFanservice: Shots of Rebecca tend to be [[MaleGaze set up to emphasize her large breasts, butt, and legs]]. |
| 94 | * MysteriousPast: Apart from being an avid B-Cuber who was abandoned as a child and grew up with an android cat, Rebecca doesn't know very much about herself, let alone why she has the power of MentalTimeTravel. [[spoiler:She's eventually revealed to be a ChildOfForbiddenLove between Captain Connor and Saintfire Nox, the time-manipulating Archbishop of the Church of Saintfire, which forced the latter to abandon her to keep her safe from her cult's more fanatical members.]] |
| 95 | * NamedAfterTheirPlanet: Similar to what she does with Shiki, Rebecca modifies the name of her home planet, Blue Garden, into her surname. |
| 96 | * NecessaryDrawback: |
| 97 | ** In order to keep her TimeRewindMechanic from being too overpowered, Rebecca discovers several limits to it. The first is that she can only consciously rewind time back up to a few minutes; the second is that once she's winded back to a "point", it becomes an anchor that she can't go past; and third, she can only use it two or three times in a short period of time, as any more after that not only causes fatigue, but [[BodyHorror her body starts to crack apart]]. She also notes this particular application of her power is separate from the week-long jump she made during the Belial Gore arc, which she still doesn't know how to use at will. |
| 98 | ** During the final arcs, [[spoiler:after being told by Rachel that her TimeTravelMechanic would be useless in Universe Zero, Rebecca discovers it actually isn't [[StarkNakedSorcery so long as she's completely naked]]. However, the trade-off is that a single Reverse causes her body to crack that gets gradually worse can't heal on its own without treatment.]] |
| 99 | * NiceGirl: She becomes quick friends with Shiki after only a short bit of friction, is wholly unbiased in any relationships between humans and robots (largely due to her own [[WeCanRebuildHim experiences with Happy]]), brings him along on their journey across the universe when he wants to make more friends beyond his planet, and sticks her neck out to save a [[WeUsedToBeFriends friend-turned-bully]] because she doesn't have it in her to actually hate her. |
| 100 | * NoSuchThingAsBadPublicity: [[invoked]] Rebecca gets a huge popularity boost following a shout-out from all the popular B-Cubers she had a hand in rescuing from Guilst. She's not bothered in the slightest that her videos are getting downvoted due to their trashy content, seeing it as the perfect chance to make better videos now that she has the attention. |
| 101 | * ObliviouslySuperpowered: Rebecca is TheTeamNormal early in the series, but gradually develops her own [[MagicByAnyOtherName Ether Gear]] which grants her brief bursts of SuperSpeed. Then comes the Belial Goer arc, where she goes through a TraumaticSuperpowerAwakening over watching Drakken Joe execute Shiki in front of her, unlocking her power of MentalTimeTravel for her to SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong. Later, Master Noah informs her that she's always had this power, and had been unconsciously using it every time her life was threatened without any memories of having done so. |
| 102 | * ParentalAbandonment: She'd been living on her own with Happy since she was just a little girl before meeting Shiki, reasoning that she was abandoned by her parents. [[spoiler:It's eventually revealed both she and her father, Connor, were abandoned by her mother, Saintfire Nox/Rachel: Connor when Rebecca was a newborn, and Rebecca when she was a few years older. Rebecca is able to forgive her mother after learning Rachel [[DaddyHadAGoodReasonForAbandoningYou gave up her family for their protection]].]] |
| 103 | * PluckyGirl: She's capable of pulling through just about any hardship with a smile on her face in the end. She does, however, come close to getting [[BreakTheCutie broken]] after getting kidnapped and suffering a TraumaCongaLine in the Guilst Arc, though she's emotionally resilient enough to remain strong for the other kidnapped B-Cubers until they're all safe. |
| 104 | * PowerDegeneration: Her Reverse ability damages her body when she tries using it three or more times in a row, suffering an unbearable headache and causing cracks to appear on her face. [[spoiler:When she overuses her power in an effort to prevent Witch's death, [[BodyHorror a huge portion of her upper body becomes fractured]].]] |
| 105 | * PowerDyesYourHair: Her hair changes color from ash blonde to white [[spoiler:when she uses Overdrive]]. |
| 106 | * PowerIncontinence: [[spoiler:She briefly has no control over her Ether Gear when she tries using it for the first time in Universe Zero, leading Ether to rocket out of her leg and propel her skyward into the ceiling almost the exact same way she did in Universe 1. She manages to get the hang of it by the time they face Drakken Joe, however.]] |
| 107 | * PrehensileTail: She grows a cat's tail that she can use as an extra limb when [[spoiler:she's in her Overdrive form]]. |
| 108 | * {{Protectorate}}: Shiki is very protective of Rebecca, as she's the first human friend he ever made. He's so angry at the mere idea of Rebecca being hurt that he refuses to accept Noah as his friend because he put Rebecca in danger. |
| 109 | * RebuiltPedestal: She becomes one for [[spoiler:Labilia by the three-year TimeSkip. Labilia was originally inspired by Rebecca's enthusiasm in making her videos, but once Labilia became popular, she was disappointed in Rebecca for never improving her craft, and started cruelly bullying her to take her frustration out on her. After her incurable disease catches up to her and Rebecca starts to become successful, Labilia realizes how unfair she was to her old friend and makes amends with her.]] |
| 110 | * ReluctantFanserviceGirl: She gets annoyed when her clothes get destroyed or stolen, which happens way more often than she would like. |
| 111 | * RememberedICouldFly: [[spoiler:Because her memories of her life in Universe Zero are jumbled up with her "mainline" self, Rebecca completely misses the fact that, despite Happy no longer being a robot and therefore can't transform into Ether Blasters, she still has regular pistols to defend herself with. She only realizes this when Happy himself desperately searches his own Universe Zero memories of how Rebecca would defend herself while she's being tortured by Daichi.]] |
| 112 | * RetroactivePrecognition: Thanks to Cat Leaper's MentalTimeTravel ability, Rebecca can gather information from the future and warn her crewmates about the bad things and unforeseen threats in the previous loop. |
| 113 | * RippleEffectProofMemory: ZigZagged. It's indicated by Drakken that Shiki's Satan Gravity is what causes her memories of World No. 29 to "fall" into World No. 30, as well as to fully awaken her power in the first place. Before that, Rebecca never retained any of her memories from previous time leaps. |
| 114 | * SatisfiedStreetRat: She spent her childhood scraping by on the streets of Blue Garden with no family to speak of, but her flashbacks with Happy show that the two were perfectly content living together. |
| 115 | * ShamefulStrip: |
| 116 | ** She is subjected to this in the Guilst arc by Illega, who disintegrates hers and the other kidnapped B-Cubers' clothes with acid foam as a prelude to turning them into literal furniture. |
| 117 | ** In the Nero 66 arc, Lyra forces her to play a card game where the loser of each round also loses an article of clothing, [[spoiler:[[AbsurdlyHighStakesGame with the loser overall also losing a body part]]. Rebecca gets stripped totally bare before [[TimeRewindMechanic rewinding time]], saving herself from any further indignity.]] |
| 118 | * ShamelessFanserviceGirl: {{Downplayed}}. Rebecca wears a shorter skirt for when she wants to attract viewers for her channel, but she draws the line at unwanted groping and peeping, and she censors her holographic videos for whenever someone tries getting a look up her skirt. |
| 119 | * SharedFamilyQuirks: [[spoiler:Rebecca takes a lot from both of her parents. Her [[BigEater huge appetite]], [[JabbaTableManners poor table manners]], and [[AcePilot aptitude for piloting]] come from Connor, her father, while her [[HotBlooded suddenly aggressive demeanor]] and VerbalTic in combat come from Rachel, her mother.]] |
| 120 | * ShipTease: She has plenty of moments with Shiki that make it look like they're growing romantic feelings for each other. The biggest one is when she kisses him on the cheek as her thanks to him for always rescuing her. |
| 121 | * {{Shorttank}}: She's the female co-star in a {{Shonen}} series who wears {{Fanservice}}-y outfits that often include tank tops, miniskirts and shorts, is fairly girly and loves cats, yet has a hot temper no one wants to mess with, and is one hell of a shooter. |
| 122 | * ShowerOfAngst: After her week-long HeroicBSOD in the Belial Gore arc, Rebecca takes an overdue shower as she breaks down in tears over all she and her friends have been put through. |
| 123 | * SmallNameBigEgo: Rebecca starts off fancying herself as an internet celebrity who needs to go ClarkKenting in public, even though she hardly has any views on her channel. |
| 124 | * StarkNakedSorcery: Rebecca's Ether Gear is at its strongest when she's stark naked. The first time it activates is when she's taking a bath at the Spa of Eden. Later, when she's taking a shower a week after Drakken Joe killed Shiki, Rebecca's [[TimeRewindMechanic Cat Leaper]] causes her to leap to an AlternateTimeline. [[spoiler:In Universe Zero, after Shiki gets killed by Lightning Law, Rebecca strips naked to activate Cat Leaper, allowing her to turn back time and save Shiki's life.]] |
| 125 | * StoryBreakerPower: Her Ether Gear's true power is that of MentalTimeTravel, which allows Rebecca to jump further back than her usual TimeRewindMechanic and undo deadly outcomes for her and her friends. To keep up the tension in the story, Rebecca is unable to fully this power on her own accord the same way her eventually learns to master her rewind power, which is itself a limited ability that takes a harsh toll on her body through constant use. |
| 126 | * StreetUrchin: She grew up on the streets of Blue Garden after being separated from her parents, if not [[ParentalAbandonment abandoned]] by them, and used to live in a shack on the outskirts of the city, with only Happy to keep her company. |
| 127 | * StrongFamilyResemblance: [[spoiler:Rebecca strongly takes after her mother, Saintfire Nox/Rachel, in looks.]] |
| 128 | * SuperSpeed: Rebecca's Cat Leaper gives her greater speed than Weisz's [[PoweredArmor Arsenal Suit]], which she can impart with vehicles she operates. |
| 129 | * SuperpowerLottery: Rebecca's Ether Gear has a built-in TimeRewindMechanic on top of SuperSpeed, which is considerably more impressive than most of her crewmates' abilities. However, she quickly discovers during a reckless test drive of her powers that [[HeroicRROD using it too many times continuously gives her a splitting headache and causes her skin to crack]], revealing that her power has a limit. |
| 130 | * SuperpowerfulGenetics: [[spoiler:Rebecca's [[TimeMaster Time Ether]] is inherited from her mother, Rachel, who comes from a long line of powerful time users from the Church of Saintfire.]] |
| 131 | * SympathyForTheDevil: As much of an insufferable AlphaBitch as Labilia is, Rebecca is horrified to the point of tears when she sees Labilia reduced to a bloodied mess because of Drakken Joe's ColdBloodedTorture. Although it later turns out Labilia was actually spared from the torture thanks to Amira, Rebecca still feels responsible for her capture. |
| 132 | * TheTeamNormal: {{Subverted}}. She starts out as seemingly the only human member of the core team who doesn't have Ether Gear, but makes up for it by being a BadassNormal [[TheGunslinger Gunslinger]] who can fight on equal footing with her friends. However, she spends a good portion of the story working to break out of this by [[EmpoweredBadassNormal learning her own Ether Gear]], which ultimately [[TookALevelInBadass pays off]] in the Sun Jewel arc. After that, though, she learns she's had her powers since she was a little girl; she just didn't consciously know about them until the Belial Gore arc. |
| 133 | * TimeRewindMechanic: Cat Leaper comes with a time-rewind ability she later calls "Reverse", which manifests when she first awakens her Ether Gear after getting dealt a lethal blow during her fight with Nino on Sun Jewel, letting her dodge the attack. [[spoiler:While experimenting with this power on Foresta, she learns that a.) it can only rewind time by one or two minutes at most, b.) each Reverse creates an anchor that she can't move beyond, and c.) using it too frequently [[HeroicRROD puts a serious tax on her body]]. This is treated as a completely separate technique from her one-week time leap to escape from Drakken in the Belial Gore arc, where she feels the entire world move rather than time going backwards.]] |
| 134 | * TookALevelInBadass: She turns from a BadassNormal to EmpoweredBadassNormal when she awakens her "Leaper" Ether Gear during the Sun Jewel arc, which allows her to take down one of the Zaiten Three, Madame Kurenai's most powerful warriors. |
| 135 | * TraumaticSuperpowerAwakening: Two traumatizing incidents in her life lead her to develop her MentalTimeTravel ability: the first was nearly dying in the same car accident that almost claimed Happy's life ten years ago, and the second is during a week-long HeroicBSOD that resulted from witnessing Shiki's death at the hands of Drakken Joe. |
| 136 | * TheUglyGuysHotDaughter: [[spoiler:Captain Connor looks like a fat old man, making it quite unexpected that he's the biological father of the MsFanservice Rebecca.]] |
| 137 | * UnknownRival: [[spoiler:She serves as this for Universe Zero's version of Daichi, who tortured her in Universe 1 but has [[HaveWeMetYet no idea who she is]] in this world because they never met before.]] |
| 138 | * UnresolvedSexualTension: With Shiki. [[spoiler:After the three-year TimeSkip, it's obvious they're attracted to each other, but neither seems ready to actively seek a RelationshipUpgrade.]] |
| 139 | * VerbalTic: When in full GunsAkimbo mode in Japanese, Rebecca ends her sentences with "''zeyo''", a comically super-masculine particle. Kodansha's translation opts to capture that level of weirdness by having her call people "ducky", which is essentially the British equivalent of "darling" or "honey". |
| 140 | * WeakButSkilled: Despite her expert firearm prowess, she still sees fit to recruit Shiki as a bodyguard on account of his superior strength. In terms of Ether Gear, however, she drifts into StrongButUnskilled, since her Ether Gear can change the laws of the cosmos by [[TimeRewindMechanic rewinding time]], but she can't control when it happens. |
| 141 | * WideEyedIdealist: She firmly believes AndroidsArePeopleToo, and is [[BreakTheCutie brought to tears]] when she sees people and machines commit terrible acts against each other just because they don't believe friendship is possible between them. |
| 142 | * YouAreNumberSix: Drakken addresses her as "No. 29" during their first personal encounter, as he is informed of her alias by Noah. This number relates to the amount of time leaps she's made throughout her life, with Drakken calling her "No. 30" when Rebecca makes another leap to [[SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong prevent the crew's disastrous loss against Drakken]]. |
| 143 | [[/folder]] |
| 144 | |
| 145 | [[folder:Happy]] |
| 146 | !!Happy |
| 147 | !!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/RieKugimiya (Japanese), Creator/TiaBallard (English)[[labelnote: Foreign [=VAs=]]]Charlotte Uhlig (German), Lucía Suárez (Latin American Spanish), Neri Hualde [Season 1, ep. 1-12], Belen Rodriguez [Season 1, ep. 13-25] (European Spanish), Karl-Line Heller (French), Creator/SerenaClerici (Italian), Gil Mesquita (Portuguese), Niramon Kitphinyochai (Thai)[[/labelnote]] |
| 148 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ez_happy_profile.png]] |
| 149 | [[caption-width-right:300:[[labelnote:Click here to see his Happy Blaster form]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/20220320_115803.jpg]][[/labelnote]] |
| 150 | ->''"Aye, sir!"'' |
| 151 | |
| 152 | Rebecca's lifelong friend and companion, who also happens to be a talking blue cat bot. Once a regular alien feline from the planet [[ShoutOut Excede]], he was rebuilt as an android after a nearly fatal traffic accident horribly maimed his body. He has long since adjusted to his robotic form, which can be converted into a pair of Happy Blasters that Rebecca uses to fire compressed Ether bullets upon her enemies. |
| 153 | |
| 154 | Not to be confused with the ''Manga/FairyTail'' version of Happy. |
| 155 | ---- |
| 156 | * AnimalJingoism: ZigZagged. He seems perfectly fine with robot dogs as seen on Granbell, but "real" dogs like Nikora ([[InformedSpecies supposedly]]) freak him out. This is in total contrast with ''Manga/FairyTail''[='=]s Happy, who is freaked out by most dogs, but totally fine around Plue/Nikora. |
| 157 | * BadassAdorable: {{Downplayed}}. He's the SeriesMascot who can morph into guns, but his badassery is mostly only when Rebecca is wielding him, since he has terrible aim without her ImprobableAimingSkills. However, he gets [[TookALevelInBadass several upgrades]] to help him fight low-level {{Mooks}} on his own. |
| 158 | * BathtubBonding: He frequently shares bath scenes with Rebecca in the Spa of Eden. |
| 159 | * BewareMyStingerTail: Come the Nero 66 arc, Happy can change his tail into a LaserBlade called the Happy Blade. |
| 160 | * BrainUploading: Happy's robot body is 100% mechanical, with his mind and memories transferred into it fully intact via Professor Weisz's Machina Maker after his accident. |
| 161 | * BreakTheCutie: He's beaten off-screen by one of Rogue Out's members during Rebecca's kidnapping early in the Guilst arc, leaving him to return to the main group in tears and his outer skin badly damaged. |
| 162 | * CatsAreSnarkers: Not to the same extent as his ''Manga/FairyTail'' counterpart, but he has occasional moments of snark, such as when he teases Rebecca for attracting the MaleGaze for her videos if she decides to wear a see-through maid outfit. |
| 163 | * CharacterCatchphrase: "Aye!" and "Aye, sir!" |
| 164 | * ChargedAttack: His Ether Bullet Full Burst technique is a powerful charged shot of Ether that leaves him exhausted afterward. |
| 165 | * ChildhoodFriends: He and Rebecca met as children living on the streets of Blue Garden, and have been inseparable ever since. |
| 166 | * CloudcuckoolandersMinder: He helps Rebecca keep her feet on the ground whenever she starts acting out. |
| 167 | * DeadAlternateCounterpart: Suggested to be the case with the "dream" of a BadFuture that Rebecca sees in the Belial Gore arc, where Shiki "reminds" Rebecca that Happy is dead. [[spoiler:Ultimately confirmed in the Nero 66 arc, with Rachel later suggesting in the Lendard arc that it's a potential outcome in Universe Zero where Happy didn't survive his car accident.]] |
| 168 | * DePower: [[spoiler:Happy's fateful roadside accident never happens in Universe Zero's MergedReality, meaning he not only remains flesh and blood, but the reality where he becomes a machine is overwritten in all universes. This also means he never becomes an EquippableAlly for Rebecca, losing any role he had in battle.]] |
| 169 | * EquippableAlly: As a robot, he can transform his entire body into a pair of [[RayGun Ether blasters]] for Rebecca to fight with. |
| 170 | * {{Expy}}: He is identical to Happy from ''Manga/FairyTail'' in name and most of his appearance (having a black-tipped tail instead of white-tipped), and the name of his home planet is a play on the original Happy's CatFolk race, the "Exceed". The major things that set them apart are that ''EDENS ZERO''[='=]s Happy is more of a StraightMan than TheGadfly, lacks the ability to fly, is a robot who can turn into guns, and is the female lead's NonHumanSidekick instead of the male lead's. |
| 171 | * FirstFriend: Happy and Rebecca are each other's first friend; both were abandoned early in their lives and were all alone until they met, and have been together ever since. |
| 172 | * FromStrayToPet: He was a stray cat who was starving on the streets of Blue Garden until Rebecca found him and adopted him as her beloved best friend. |
| 173 | * FunnyAnimal: He's a talking, perfectly civilized cat alien. |
| 174 | * HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: In the manga, the full extent of the damage to his original body is [[GoryDiscretionShot mostly obscured]], but just enough of his lower body is shown to suggest it was totally ripped off. This is not the case in the anime, which shows his body fully intact, though still bloody and wounded. |
| 175 | * HeroicRROD: He's left burned out if Rebecca fires too much Ether, particularly after they perform a ChargedAttack. |
| 176 | * KillerRabbit: He may look like an ordinary cat, but he's really a robot who can morph into a pair of powerful Ether blasters. |
| 177 | * LonelyTogether: Happy and Rebecca were both abandoned as children. When they had no one in the world, they found each other and have been together ever since. |
| 178 | * MeaningfulName: Just like his home series, Rebecca gave him the name "Happy" because that's how she felt when she met him after being alone for so long. |
| 179 | * NiceGuy: Happy is a sweet, virtuous, and loyal friend to Rebecca with hardly a mean bone in his body. This is in direct contrast with ''Manga/FairyTail''[='=]s Happy, a snide, mischievous, but still good-hearted character. |
| 180 | * NinjaPirateZombieRobot: He's an alien cat android who can also turn into a pair of energy guns. |
| 181 | * OutOfFocus: In ''Manga/MashimaHeros'', he's relegated to a minor cameo aboard the ship along with the Shining Stars to keep Rebecca from using his advanced weaponry as part of an AlienNonInterferenceClause, which also helps avoid confusion with ''Manga/FairyTail''[='=]s version of Happy. |
| 182 | * ParentalAbandonment: He doesn't know what happened to his parents, but he's certain that they abandoned him, since he doesn't know if he was ever given a name. |
| 183 | * PinkGirlBlueBoy: Happy is the blue male robot cat to his fellow SeriesMascot, the small pink RobotGirl Pino. |
| 184 | * RayGun: His weapon form is a pair of blasters that fire non-lethal yet very painful Ether bullets. |
| 185 | * RidiculouslyHumanRobot: More like a "Ridiculously Feline Robot"; he has a completely robotic endoskeleton, but his skin makes him look exactly the way he did before the car accident. |
| 186 | * RobotBuddy: He's been a NonHumanSidekick for Rebecca for most of their lives, but he didn't become this until after his accident and [[WeCanRebuildHim rebirth]] when Rebecca was a kid. |
| 187 | * SatelliteCharacter: His entire role revolves around being both ChildhoodFriends and an EquippableAlly to Rebecca, with Happy getting little to no focus for himself. |
| 188 | * SeriesMascot: He mainly fulfills this role before Pino's introduction, and has more of a presence than her in promotional material for the anime. Since he's an {{Expy}} of a ''Manga/FairyTail'' character, this gives the series more recognition as a work by Creator/HiroMashima. |
| 189 | * StraightMan: Happy always questions Rebecca or rolls his eyes whenever she goes through one of her air-headed moments. |
| 190 | * StreetUrchin: Like Rebecca, he grew up on the streets of Blue Garden after being separated from his parents, whom he's certain abandoned him. |
| 191 | * SwordsSetToStun: He turns into a pair of Happy Blasters that fire Ether bullets. These can inflict injury and knock people out, but [[NonLethalKO they can't kill anyone]], allowing Rebecca to fire them at people's heads without worry. |
| 192 | * TalkingWeapon: He can still communicate while in his blaster form. |
| 193 | * TeamPet: Like the Happy from ''Fairy Tail'', he's the cute talking cat who accompanies the core team in their adventures, although this Happy is also an android with the ability to turn into guns. |
| 194 | * TookALevelInBadass: After the crew's training following the Foresta arc, Happy shows off new transformations like an assault rifle and a [[BewareMyStingerTail laser-bladed tail]]. Taken a step further after the Nero 66 arc, where he's fitted with a Solo Blaster mode to fight on his own. |
| 195 | * TurnTheOtherCheek: [[spoiler:He readily accepts Labilia's apology for her cruel bullying towards him and Rebecca once the two girls make amends after the three-year TimeSkip, mainly because he's willing to forgive anyone Rebecca does the same for them.]] |
| 196 | * WeCanRebuildHim: Happy was reborn in a robotic body after getting run over by a drunk cargo truck driver. Despite his initial fear of being rejected after the procedure, Rebecca still loves him despite his new form. |
| 197 | [[/folder]] |
| 198 | |
| 199 | [[folder:Weisz Steiner]] |
| 200 | !!Weisz Steiner (Year X442) |
| 201 | !!!'''Voiced by:''' Hiromichi Tezuka, Mei Shibata [child] (Japanese), Creator/RayChase (English)[[labelnote: Foreign [=VAs=]]]Julian Tennstedt (German), Mario Vargas (Latin American Spanish), Benoît Du Pac (French), Alessandro Fattori (Italian), Yuri Tupper (Portuguese), Komsan Ratanakornbodi (Thai)[[/labelnote]] |
| 202 | [[quoteright:193:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ez_weisz_steiner_anime.png]] |
| 203 | ->''"Fine. I'm from 50 years ago. I don't get you young people these days."'' |
| 204 | |
| 205 | An alternate version of Professor Weisz from the past who came into the present after the Chronophage consumed fifty years of time from his home planet, Norma. Far from the respected scientist his future self would become, the young Weisz is a degenerate thief who prefers to steal, cheat, and smooth-talk his way through life, but quickly proves himself to be a stalwart friend to the crew. Weisz's Ether Gear, '''[[{{Technopath}} Machina Maker]]''', lets him instantly build and remodel whatever machine he touches to his liking. |
| 206 | |
| 207 | ->For info on Weisz's present-day self, see Characters/EdensZeroSakuraCosmos. |
| 208 | ---- |
| 209 | * AcePilot: He knows his way around a spaceship, and proves to be a more effective pilot than Rebecca thanks to his ability to upgrade the ''Aqua Wing'' to his advantage in mid-flight. Elsie also commends his skill in getting past the wall of spacetime clouds surrounding Norma, though she proceeds to mock him for failing something comparatively simpler like avoiding a TractorBeam. |
| 210 | * AdaptationalNiceGuy: While he's still a greedy and womanizing douchebag with a heart of gold, ''Pocket Galaxy'' does away with some of his scummier moments, such as trying to sell Shiki's team out to Elsie back when he barely knows them, or shooting up Mosco to show Homura he means business on Guilst (though to be fair, Mosco doesn't show up in said scene). He also chooses to hang out with the crew a little longer before deciding to stick around permanently, instead of ditching them once they return to Blue Garden and coming back. |
| 211 | * AlternateSelf: He's not merely Weisz from the past, but an entirely new person created by TemporalDuplication, which allows him to co-exist with his "future" self totally free of time paradoxes that would impact the other's life. It also means he won't necessarily become a professor in 50 years, nor is he guaranteed to live that long. |
| 212 | * AnArmAndALeg: Drakken Joe has his right arm cut off when he's at the villain's mercy (the signature punishment dealt to a thief in the unwritten code of conduct among career criminals), which mirrors how the older Weisz had his right arm severed on Norma fifty years ago. However, it gets undone by Rebecca's time leap into World No.30. |
| 213 | * AwesomeButImpractical: [[spoiler:After Weisz goes into and out of Overdrive for the first time in the Nero 66 arc, he notes that it uses up even more energy than his Arsenal Suit, keeping the suit from becoming totally obsolete despite being nowhere near as powerful or effective as Overdrive.]] |
| 214 | * BaldnessAngst: When Rebecca shows Young Weisz a picture of how he'll look in fifty years, he's shocked and upset by how thin his hair will become. It's suggested by the original timeline's Sibir that this is what motivates his change in hairstyle, though Weisz denies it. |
| 215 | * BookDumb: His character profile gives him two stars in intelligence, and notes that he dislikes studying. Given that his older self dedicated himself to improving his life and becoming a respected professor after losing his arm for stealing from Drakken, this is all but stated to be a case of BrilliantButLazy, as he clearly has potential. |
| 216 | * BuxomBeautyStandard: He loves women with voluptuous bodies. He's thrilled to see the well-endowed members of the Four Shining Stars in swimsuits... Except for the petite Hermit, who he calls a member of the "kiddies' section". |
| 217 | * CantActPervertedTowardALoveInterest: Hermit, whom Weisz shares plenty of ShipTease with, is the only girl who never becomes a target to his perverted antics. [[spoiler:He eventually straight-up admits he's developed serious feelings for her in the final arc when she catches him getting shy over having a hands-on Arsenal Suit inspection from her.]] |
| 218 | * CasanovaWannabe: He fancies himself a smooth ladies' man who will do whatever he can to get his way with them. So far, every girl he's met has been thoroughly unimpressed with him with the exception of Hermit, and he actually has to work on that relationship to get her to like him as even a friend. |
| 219 | * ChivalrousPervert: He loves ogling at beautiful women's boobs and butts. Still, he genuinely cares about his female crewmates and will always go to help a girl in trouble without question. |
| 220 | * CrossPlayer: In the virtual world of Digitalis, Weisz decides to have some fun and makes himself a sexy dark-skinned blonde female avatar with {{Stripperific}} clothing. He soon regrets his decision when he starts suffering from stiff shoulders on account of [[DCupDistress heavy breasts]], and switches back to his usual appearance when trouble starts. |
| 221 | * DislikesTheNewGuy: Weisz is the only crew member who complains about letting Jinn, Kleene, and Laguna stick around due to them being Drakken's "goons", [[{{Hypocrite}} despite getting similar flak from the crew before he officially joined]]. He eventually eases up around Jinn and Kleene in the Foresta arc after learning about their DarkAndTroubledPast, [[spoiler:and Laguna in the Nero 66 arc for the losses they both suffered.]] |
| 222 | * TheDulcineaEffect: He springs into action when he hears a girl is in trouble, though as a CasanovaWannabe, it's a given that he does this for less than altruistic reasons. |
| 223 | * DuplicateDivergence: Being a [[TemporalDuplication temporal duplicate]] of the younger Professor Weisz whose history was [[PointOfDivergence thrown off course]], Weisz never gets shaken into pursuing academics to atone for his life of crime, and thus never becomes a professor. However, he settles into a stable circle of friends who bring out his more heroic side, becoming a seedy but good-hearted space explorer instead. He also focuses more on using his Machina Maker less for philanthropic purposes and more for combat and self-defense, including the invention of his [[PoweredArmor Arsenal Suit]], which the Professor himself has never made. |
| 224 | * EarlyInstallmentCharacterDesignDifference: [[spoiler:His Overdrive form undergoes several last-minute changes between its debut chapter's digital and print release, adding large cables protruding from his back.]] |
| 225 | * EatingTheEyeCandy: He takes any chance he gets to ogle at his female crewmates' breasts and butts. |
| 226 | * EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas: He's gone from a troubled kid to a greedy, womanizing crook, but he never forgets his love for his mother, who died when he was little, and any reminder of her death is a sensitive RelativeButton to him. [[spoiler:His Universe Zero self takes her more for granted since she never died, but once his memories return, he immediately rushes into her arms crying TearsOfJoy.]] |
| 227 | * EveryoneHasStandards: |
| 228 | ** Although he isn't much better than the rest of his old gang of thieves, seeing how he also shares their idea of using Pino's {{EMP}} to make money, he draws the line at their callous mistreatment of her. |
| 229 | ** Despite disliking the Rutherford siblings for their prior association with Drakken Joe, Weisz is horrified and enraged when [[spoiler:Müller gloats how he put Jinn through ColdBloodedTorture and [[ForcedToWatch forced Kleene to watch]]]]. |
| 230 | * ExpositoryHairstyleChange: He stops slicking his hair back after using Arsenal for the first time on Sun Jewel, which signifies his commitment to forging a life for himself apart from his future self, and because [[BaldnessAngst he's afraid of going bald like his future self has]]. |
| 231 | * FireBreathingWeapon: Atlas Flame, an assault rifle instantly modified into a flamethrower. Its name is also a RecurringElement take from the dragon of the same name from ''Manga/FairyTail''. |
| 232 | * FireForgedFriends: He initially starts off wanting nothing to do with the crew, only helping them escape from Norma so he can go on the lam, and almost selling them out to Elsie for his own safety right afterward. After coming back to introduce Homura to the crew just so he can use her to model outfits in the ship's Dress Factory, he winds up unwittingly earning their trust through the small acts of kindness he does along the way, proving that he has come to care for them despite himself. |
| 233 | * FishOutOfTemporalWater: Thanks to the Chronophage rewinding his planet's time, he's fifty years behind where he should normally be, and thus amazed and confused by all the advancements and changes he would've yet lived through. |
| 234 | * ForceAndFinesse: He shares the crew's gunner position with Rebecca when not using his Ether Gear or Arsenal Suit, but unlike Rebecca, who specializes in ImprobableAimingSkills with hand blasters, Weisz leans more towards heavy artillery like assault rifles to mow enemies down. |
| 235 | * TheFriendNobodyLikes: None of his companions are fond of his scumbag and self-serving attitude, to the point that Shiki--an AllLovingHero who practically [[IJustWantToHaveFriends lives to make friends]]--refuses to call Weisz one of his friends. After Weisz helps them rescue Sister and proves he has a HiddenHeartOfGold, however, [[FireForgedFriends the whole crew accepts him]]. |
| 236 | * FutureMeScaresMe: {{Downplayed}}. When Weisz first sees his future self, the only thing he dislikes about himself is his receding hairline, which gives him preemptive BaldnessAngst. He's otherwise flattered to learn what an accomplished genius Professor Weisz is, to the point of boasting about the Professor's achievements as if they were his own. |
| 237 | * GadgetWatches: He wears a special bracelet that can transform into his [[PoweredArmor Arsenal Suit]]. |
| 238 | * GadgeteerGenius: Despite being a crook and lecher, he shows signs of his future self's brilliance by constructing all sorts of powerful weaponry, from Sibir's [[PowerFist Augmenter Arm]], to his very own [[PoweredArmor Arsenal Suit]] (albeit with Hermit's help in the latter case), to a HolographicDisguise app on his phone that uses the Dress Factory's tech to convincingly create any disguise he wants. |
| 239 | * {{Greed}}: A prime motivator for Weisz, who sees it as reason enough to steal from someone. This serves to contrast with his future self, who outgrew his want for wealth and fame after losing his arm as punishment for theft. |
| 240 | * HandsomeLech: He's fairly good-looking, but his flirtations have no success as women are grossed out by him acting like a perverted scumbag. Hermit is the only girl who calls him cool because he never lusts after her. |
| 241 | * HeroicSelfDeprecation: For all his swagger, he typically has a low opinion of himself and uses his "superhero" alter ego, Arsenal, as a projection of the person he'd rather be than the lowlife crook he really is. Hermit, on the other hand, gives him a YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre one-liner when he gets in a rut over his suit getting totaled in the Foresta arc. |
| 242 | -->'''Weisz:''' Sorry, but Arsenal is the champion of justice. Out of the suit, I'm...\ |
| 243 | '''Hermit:''' [[YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre Very cool]]. |
| 244 | * HiddenDepths: Although he does it for perverted reasons, Weisz shows he has an unexpected eye for costume design when he makes an Asian-style PlayboyBunny outfit for Homura, who is pleasantly surprised by how much she likes it after dreading the thought of having to model for him. |
| 245 | * IllKillYou: Weisz utters this as a warning to Laguna in case any of his crewmates die in the Nero 66 arc after learning he's been [[IFightForTheStrongestSide bouncing between whichever group has the best shot at defeating Nero]]. [[spoiler:After Witch's HeroicSacrifice, however, he takes it back on the grounds that Laguna lost friends of his own in the war.]] |
| 246 | * InconsistentSpelling: Two of his attack names, Weiss Cannon and Metalica Explosion, are initially spelled as "Vise" and "Metallica" (with two L's). These were changed by the Lendard arc after it was established their names are references to the dragons Weisslogia and Metalicana from ''Manga/FairyTail''. |
| 247 | * ItsPersonal: |
| 248 | ** Weisz goes on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge against Drakken in the Belial Gore arc after finding out [[YouKilledMyFather Drakken caused his mother to die]]. His hatred for Drakken also colors his impression of Drakken's minions Jinn, Kleene, and Laguna when they join the crew. |
| 249 | ** [[spoiler:When fighting Drakken Joe's crew again in Universe Zero, Weisz decides to go after Fie to settle the score with him for shooting and dismembering him in Universe 1.]] |
| 250 | * JerkWithAHeartOfGold: For all his unrepentant greed and lechery, he treats robots like Happy and Pino very well, and he grows to care for the rest of the crew as they do for each other. He does get embarrassed whenever someone calls him a good person, however. |
| 251 | * TheLancer: Weisz is Shiki's closest male friend who's an amoral, greedy and lecherous JerkWithAHeartOfGold to contrast Shiki's naïve and heroic character. |
| 252 | * LonerTurnedFriend: Weisz starts out as a lone wolf after suffering a nasty split with his old friend and partner in crime, Sibir, prioritizing his own self-interests over Shiki and the gang when they're forced to work together. Despite himself, however, he finds himself gravitating towards the others and decides to stick around. |
| 253 | * LovableSexManiac: He's very open about wanting to have all sorts of perverted fun with his hot female crewmates, but he's still one of the good guys and his perverted antics are always PlayedForLaughs. |
| 254 | * ManIFeelLikeAWoman: He goes for a female DigitalAvatar at Digitalis just so he can feel up his own breasts all he wants. He later uses the same disguise on the ''Belial Gore'', using a face-changing HolographicDisguise app. |
| 255 | * MenDontCry: Compared to his fellow male crewmates, especially [[ProneToTears Shiki]], Weisz hardly ever cries whenever he's sad or devastated, with his crying over his dying mother as a child being a rare exception. [[spoiler:He overcomes this when he reunites with his resurrected mother in Universe Zero, openly crying TearsOfJoy without shame.]] |
| 256 | * MommasBoy: A positive example who had a very loving relationship with his mother, who raised him on her own, and her untimely death is still hard for him. |
| 257 | * MoreDakka: His "Million Bullets" technique is ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: a series of hidden turrets that [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill mercilessly perforate his enemies with a barrage of bullets]]. |
| 258 | * OddFriendship: With Hermit. He's a perverted GadgeteerGenius and she's an ace programmer LittleMissSnarker, yet they get along really well. [[spoiler:It eventually develops into full-on OppositesAttract when Weisz finds himself falling in love with her.]] |
| 259 | * OneHeadTaller: He gets some notable ShipTease with Hermit, who is significantly shorter than him. |
| 260 | * PetTheDog: He shows he's much kinder than he lets on when he saves Pino from his old gang and restores her torn leg for nothing in return, and giving Happy a slight repair job from getting banged up because he "felt bad seeing him". |
| 261 | * PoorCommunicationKills: Weisz's [[WeUsedToBeFriends falling out with Sibir]] kicked off with a misunderstanding over [[TragicKeepsake a stolen pendant belonging to his mother]], which Weisz revealed to no one else but Sibir, unaware that someone else in their gang caught wind of it and snatched it for himself. However, it was Sibir's angry and dismissive response to Weisz's accusations--namely by saying that Weisz has stolen from other people without batting an eye--that caused Weisz to cut all ties with him. |
| 262 | * PowerDyesYourHair: [[spoiler:His Overdrive SuperMode causes his blond hair to turn light blue.]] |
| 263 | * PowerFist: He builds one for himself around his right arm on a few occasions: once to fight off the Interstellar Union Army when they're targeted by Feather, and again in the Reunion arc to [[spoiler:get his revenge on Universe Zero's Fie, who [[AnArmAndALeg cut that arm off]] in Universe 1.]] |
| 264 | * PragmaticHero: He typically resorts to dirty tactics when he has to fight, as demonstrated during the [[TournamentArc Mildian arc]], where he bends the tournament's "no outside help from friends" rule by using Pino's {{EMP}} on an Ether Gear user, whom he proceeds to [[KickThemWhileTheyAreDown vicously stomp on]], and later in the Belial Gore arc, where he stands back to observe Homura's fight with Laguna as a chance to gain information and decide the best way to beat him. |
| 265 | * RaisedByRobots: He was orphaned at a young age, and bought an old robot (revealed in a chapter cover to be an {{Expy}} of [[Manga/RaveMaster Griff]]) just to have someone to keep him company. This robot is the one who taught him how to use Ether Gear, and was [[SelfMadeOrphan accidentally destroyed during Weisz's first attempt at using it]]. |
| 266 | * RecurringElement: A lot of his attacks contain references to dragons from ''Manga/FairyTail'', the spiritual predecessor to ''EDENS ZERO'': |
| 267 | ** The name of his [[FireBreathingWeapon flamethrower]], Atlas Flame, comes directly from Natsu's HonoraryUncle, a dragon WreathedInFlames. |
| 268 | ** His Weiss Cannon[[note]]misspelled as "Vise Cannon" early on[[/note]] and Drum Buster are meant to be a reference to Weisslogia and Skiadrum, the [[HolyHandGrenade White]] and [[CastingAShadow Shadow]] Dragons, respectively; this is made more apparent by Weisz's descriptions of his attacks. |
| 269 | ** Metalica Explosion alludes to Metalicana, the [[ExtraOreDinary Iron Dragon]] and Gajeel's foster father. |
| 270 | ** Grandy Ray and Grandee Wing, the name of Weisz's [[EnergyWeapon laser beam]] and BladeBelowTheShoulder, are more or less a corrupted version of the [[BlowYouAway Sky Dragon]] Grandeeney's name. |
| 271 | ** Ignia Buster is a nod to Ignia, the Fire Dragon God and Igneel's biological son from ''Manga/FairyTail100YearsQuest''. |
| 272 | * RedBaron: By the Lendard arc, he's taken to calling himself the "Flame of Edens" because of his use of heavy artillery--in other words, he [[{{Pun}} packs some serious heat]]. |
| 273 | * RelativeButton: His life with his parents is a very sensitive subject for him: he was picked on as a boy by other kids because [[DisappearedDad his father walked out on them with another woman]], and the death of his mother hit him so hard that a simple misunderstanding over Weisz's TragicKeepsake of her triggered the end of his and Sibir's friendship. Killer takes special advantage of this in the Lendard arc by showing holograms of her to mess with his head, [[spoiler:and Ziggy exhumes her preserved body among thousands of the human mothers he captured just to set an exampe to Weisz]]. |
| 274 | * RevolversAreJustBetter: He carries an old-fashioned revolver in a world where people carry more futuristic-looking guns. Justified due to coming from an age decades before the present. |
| 275 | * {{Robosexual}}: As the series goes on, Weisz starts getting ShipTease with Hermit, a RobotGirl, despite his own mixed feelings about romance between humans and machines. [[spoiler:This culminates in him admitting to having feelings for her in the final arc, not caring about whether or not she's an android.]] |
| 276 | * SeriousBusiness: Weisz takes his superhero persona ''very'' seriously, and gets annoyed whenever anyone goes against the standard conventions, such as a villain attacking in the middle of a heroic speech, or Rebecca gaining SuperSpeed powers that outstrip his Arsenal Suit's own speed, saying it clashes with one of the suit's "selling points" and breaks the "no two people have the same powers" rule for hero teams. |
| 277 | * ShadowArchetype: Young Weisz embodies the less than model citizen Old Weisz was before his maturation, being an ex-organized crime member who struck out alone to conduct his own dirty work. Whereas the professor is charitable, caring, and charming, Young Weisz is greedy, selfish, opportunistic, and shamelessly lecherous. However, Young Weisz proves to be no different from Old Weisz when he shows he cares for humans and machines deep down. |
| 278 | * ShipTease: Despite his womanizing nature, he gets a lot of special focus together with Hermit, one of the few girls he doesn't lust over, instead trading playful jabs with her. [[spoiler:He eventually makes a LoveConfession to her when she teases him for getting embarrassed over Hermit examining him in his Arsenal Suit.]] |
| 279 | * SuperMode: [[spoiler:Weisz first gets his Overdrive form when fighting Nasseh on Nero 66, vastly increasing the range of his creations. His particular form resembles a {{Cyborg}} or RidiculouslyHumanRobot, giving him [[PowerDyesYourHair blue hair]] and (following a [[ArtEvolution design update]]) four cable-like tentacles on his back.]] |
| 280 | * {{Technopath}}: His Ether Gear lets him interface with machines and rebuild them instantaneously, ranging from physical repairs to upgrading ships and weapons, as well as dismantling or destroying them if the need arises. By his own admission, he's nowhere near the level of his older self, who could build a lifelike android body for Happy that's completely indistinguishable from his organic form. |
| 281 | * TookALevelInBadass: His [[{{Technopath}} Machina Maker]] makes him a skilled technician, pilot, and weapon-user, but not so much of a physical fighter. Once he completes his [[PoweredArmor Arsenal Suit]], however, he becomes a hell of a lot more efficient in combat like Shiki, Homura and, shortly afterward, Rebecca. [[spoiler:It's taken further when he first uses [[SuperMode Overdrive]] during his battle with Nasseh, putting him on par with Shiki and Homura again.]] |
| 282 | * TookALevelInJerkass: [[spoiler:Weisz briefly snaps back into his older {{Jerkass}} behavior while experiencing IdentityAmnesia in Universe Zero, and is more confrontational with his now living mother, calling her an old hag. He quickly goes back to his usual self once his memories return.]] |
| 283 | * ToxicFriendInfluence: It's implied that some of his perverted views towards women rubs off on Shiki, who gradually becomes more vocal about wanting to see girls in skimpy clothes after Weisz officially joins the crew. |
| 284 | * TragicKeepsake: He had a pendant that he received from his mother, who was an interstellar explorer before she died. The pendant was stolen and Weisz wrongly assumed Sibir took it, which lead to their falling out. |
| 285 | * UnknownRival: [[spoiler:He serves as this for Universe Zero's Fie, who shot Weisz and cut off his arm in Universe 1, but has [[HaveWeMetYet no idea who he is]] in this world because they never met before.]] |
| 286 | * VocalDissonance: He keeps his usual masculine voice when using a female DigitalAvatar on Digitalis in the anime and ''Pocket Galaxy''. |
| 287 | * WeUsedToBeFriends: He and Sibir were once as thick as thieves, but an argument over a stolen pendant belonging to Weisz's mother caused them to split. Incidentally, the Chronophage rewound time right to around the point when they became enemies. Despite this, Weisz continues to think fondly of Sibir for saving his life, and isn't too perturbed by seeing Sibir's much different, elderly self from the present era, save for one moment when Sibir brings up the "minor disagreement" that led to their falling out. Once Old Sibir returns the pendant and explains what happened, Weisz all but loses any ill feelings he had towards him. |
| 288 | * YouCantGoHomeAgain: His ultimate justification for joining the crew. From his perspective, he and his entire planet were irreversibly thrust into a new time period. Since going back would mean cutting himself off from the rest of the universe behind a spacetime wall, or at the very least facing up to the police hunting him for being part of Sibir's gang, he realizes he can't go back to his old life and disavows Norma as a "dead" planet. |
| 289 | * YouKilledMyMother: In the climax of the Belial Gore arc, Weisz goes ballistic when he finds out his mother's death was caused by Drakken Joe, who drained her life force to keep himself young; this also factors into his later reluctance to accept Drakken's former subordinates on the ''Edens Zero''. |
| 290 | |
| 291 | !!Arsenal |
| 292 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ez_arsenal_anime.png]] |
| 293 | ->''"You will be the first chapter in the Arsenal legend!!! And the legend of me... starts right here!"'' |
| 294 | |
| 295 | Weisz's "superhero" alter ego, which he takes up whenever he wears his Arsenal Suit, an armored exoskeleton he constructed with Hermit's help. This suit runs on his body's Ether and draws out the true potential of his Machina Maker, which he uses to modify the suit with any weapon and gadget he needs. |
| 296 | ---- |
| 297 | * AntiMagic: His suit has an Ether coating, which increases his resistance to all Ether-based attacks, including Ether Gear. |
| 298 | * ArmCannon: Using his Machina Maker, he can turn his arm into a machine gun or an energy cannon. |
| 299 | * AwesomeButImpractical: His Arsenal Suit lets Weisz school his enemies just as well as his crewmates, but it burns through his Ether much faster than usual. Once he runs out, the armor leaves him completely exhausted and falls away, rendering him unable to perform basic Ether Gear skills for a short while. |
| 300 | * BadassLongcoat: The Mk. II upgrade he wears on Nero 66 comes with a longcoat. |
| 301 | * BladeBelowTheShoulder: His Grandee Wing is a massive curved arm blade generated along his lower arm. |
| 302 | * CallingYourAttacks: His own enemies call him out on how he gives his attacks needlessly long names. Arsenal proclaims it's all part of being a hero. |
| 303 | * DisabilitySuperpower: When Weisz becomes temporarily paralyzed in the Foresta arc, he's able to keep fighting by using his Ether Gear to manipulate his suit to move. The downside here is that [[AwesomeButImpractical it uses up much more energy than the suit already does]]. |
| 304 | * DoNotCallMePaul: He gets annoyed when his friends call him by his real name in public. {{Justified}} as he's trying to stay in-character, rather than fool them. |
| 305 | * ExpressiveMask: His mask perfectly expresses his mood during comedic scenes, such as BlushStickers when he suggests Rebecca wear a transparent maid outfit in exchange for his protection. He's also able to shoot a chilling DeathGlare when he gets serious. |
| 306 | * FlawedPrototype: [[spoiler:After getting his memories back in Universe Zero, Weisz builds a prototype Arsenal Suit from memory, since the suit technically didn't exist yet in this world. Because Hermit helped him complete the finished version, this suit lacks its armored plating and much of its power, leading to a struggle against Fie.]] |
| 307 | * GoingCommando: He wears absolutely nothing beneath his Arsenal Suit when he first used it, since he never assumed the armor would fall off once its effects wore off. Later uses has him clothed underneath. |
| 308 | * HenshinHero: {{Invoked}}. He wears a Franchise/KamenRider-like armor and calls himself a great superhero. Whenever he feels he has to do something ill-fitting for a superhero, such as outright attempting to kill somebody, he takes his armor off to perform the deed in his usual identity. |
| 309 | * HypocriticalHumor: He professes to fight for love and justice, yet he's just as much of a lecherous NominalHero as he always is, best demonstrated when he says he'll protect Rebecca if she agrees to model skimpy outfits for him in the Dress Factory. |
| 310 | * ImmuneToMindControl: {{Downplayed}}. His suit gives him an immunity to Nasseh's hypnosis, but only because his specific type of hypnosis is really just electrical signals that Arsenal's helmet interferes with. |
| 311 | * InTheNameOfTheMoon: He tries to make a clichéd pre-asskicking speech when acting like a HenshinHero. [[DeconstructedTrope The villain doesn't wait until he's done to start attacking him]]. |
| 312 | * LargeHam: Weisz becomes a hell of a lot more theatrical and flamboyant as he takes his "hero" shtick and runs away with it. |
| 313 | * LightningBruiser: He becomes this by combining SuperSpeed with his enhanced strength. |
| 314 | * MyHeroZero: He calls his Arsenal Suit's final, ultimate upgrade "Mark Zero". |
| 315 | * TheNicknamer: He randomly gives Baku the tacky supervillain name "Baron von Lion" on the spot when they meet. |
| 316 | * OpenSecret: His "SecretIdentity" is no secret at all to Rebecca and Pino, who can tell who he is by the sound of his voice. |
| 317 | * PowerFist: His ultimate attack, Metallica Explosion, increases the size of his forearm until it's about as huge as he is, and it makes an explosion when it contacts his enemy. |
| 318 | * PowerGivesYouWings: His Arsenal Suit's Mark Zero model gets an extra power boost from Hermit, giving him a pair of wings. |
| 319 | * PoweredArmor: His Arsenal Suit, built with Hermit's help, is a suit of battle armor attuned to his Machina Maker to draw out its full potential. As such, he can modify it with firearms and other weaponry on the fly, and it affords him SuperSpeed to turn him into a LightningBruiser, as well as AntiMagic coating to protect him from Ether attacks. The downside is that [[AwesomeButImpractical it rapidly burns through his own Ether]], making its period of usefulness very short. |
| 320 | * SecretIdentity: PlayedForLaughs, which he tries (and fails) to maintain in front of everyone. He also tries to remain in-character in front of his friends, who aren't fooled for a moment since they can recognize his voice. |
| 321 | * SuperSpeed: His speed can beat out Baku, another known SuperSpeed user. |
| 322 | * WrongGenreSavvy: He can't believe that his enemy doesn't know that the villains aren't supposed to attack the superhero when he's in the middle of making an introductory speech. |
| 323 | [[/folder]] |
| 324 | |
| 325 | [[folder:E.M. Pino]] |
| 326 | !!E.M. Pino |
| 327 | !!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/ShioriIzawa (Japanese), Creator/SarahAnneWilliams (English)[[labelnote: Foreign [=VAs=]]]Helen Blaschke (German), Betsabé Gutiérrez (Latin American Spanish), Piluca Martín (European Spanish), Charlotte Hennequin (French), Laura Cherubelli (Italian), Taís Feijó (Portuguese), Wichaya Wangcherdchuwong (Thai)[[/labelnote]] |
| 328 | [[quoteright:208:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ez_em_pino_anime.png]] |
| 329 | [[quoteright:208:[[labelnote:Click here to see her hypothetical human form]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ez_pino_human.png[[/labelnote]]]] |
| 330 | [[quoteright:208:[[labelnote:Click here to see her appearance after the Nero 66 arc '''(SPOILERS)''']]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ez_pino_ts.png[[/labelnote]]]] |
| 331 | ->''"I found something that I want to do... I found a dream. Someday... I want to be human. [...] And when I am... then I'll eat curry burgers until I'm stuffed."'' |
| 332 | |
| 333 | A tiny "anti-bot" android who specializes in using {{EMP}} to disable technology and Ether Gear. She was built by Ziggy some time between his retirement and death to serve as the so-called Light of Edens, but lost all memory of her past after it was cruelly erased by a gang of thugs. After being rescued by Shiki, Pino pledges him as her new master, joining him to discover the true meaning of her existence, and finding a new sense of purpose by being reborn as a human through Mother. |
| 334 | ---- |
| 335 | * AnArmAndALeg: Her left leg is cruelly torn off by Sibir and replaced with a screw when she can't dance for him. Weisz later restores her leg using his Machina Maker. |
| 336 | * AwesomenessByAnalysis: She can analyze people and their surroundings to determine their advantages and weaknesses. This gets PlayedForLaughs when her constant analysis of everything end up sucking all of Shiki's fun out of a sightseeing tour. |
| 337 | * TheBabyOfTheBunch: She's a very small and childlike robot, so her crewmates treat her as the kid of the crew, and are very protective of her. |
| 338 | * BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: She betrays Sibir after Shiki speaks about her like a living person who needs to be loved and cared for, not a toy to be played with and disposed of. |
| 339 | * BecomeARealBoy: Following her experiences in a [[HumanityEnsues human]] DigitalAvatar on Digitalis, Pino makes it her dream to become a human for real so she can experience tastes and sensations that robots can't, believing that Mother has the power to grant this wish. |
| 340 | * BlessedWithSuck: Her {{EMP}} has many uses that could come in handy in battle against enemies who use Ether Gear and mechanical weaponry, except it also affects her allies nearby, including Shiki and Happy, so she tends to hold her powers back unless she deems it necessary. She eventually overcomes this after the Foresta arc when she upgrades her EMP to target specific individuals so she won't affect her teammates. |
| 341 | * BreakTheCutie: |
| 342 | ** Her debut in the Norma arc quickly establishes her as a traumatized wreck working for Sibir, who berated her, ripped off her leg, and erased her memory to get her to serve him. While she musters the courage to defy Sibir and [[TookALevelInCheerfulness becomes more cheerful]] thanks to Shiki, Sibir himself remains a TraumaButton for her when he meets his more docile, reformed present-day AlternateSelf aboard the ''Belial Gore''. |
| 343 | ** In the Lendard arc, [[spoiler:she breaks down in tears when she deduces that Ziggy has been secretly accessing her data without her knowing, considering herself to be a traitor. Due to the urgency of the situation, however, [[HeroicSafeMode she quickly pulls herself together]].]] |
| 344 | ** During the final arc, [[spoiler:Pino temporarily goes into an AngstComa when she discovers the AwfulTruth about the Four Shining Stars' origins, which she'd originally [[BrainBleach erased from her memory]].]] |
| 345 | * CharacterizationMarchesOn: Pino acts very serious and matter-of-fact when first introduced in the Norma arc, which is a far cry from subsequent arcs, where she's more cheerful and inquisitive. |
| 346 | * CorruptTheCutie: PlayedForLaughs when Captain Connor teaches her how to say "[[PrecisionFStrike fuck you]]" in GratuitousEnglish, which she misinterprets as "fax you" before getting it right. The {{Bowdlerized}} manga translation switches it to "Screw you", but the intent remains. |
| 347 | * TheCutie: Despite suffering her own degree of [[BreakThecutie physical and emotional abuse]], Pino is the most innocent and cheerful member of the crew. |
| 348 | * TheDogBitesBack: After all the abuse she endures from Sibir in the Norma arc, she strikes back against him by shutting his Knight Gear down before his bird can kill Shiki with it, firmly declaring herself to be a living being and not Sibir's toy. |
| 349 | * EarlyInstallmentCharacterDesignDifference: Her design--namely her head, eyes, and mouth--quickly transitions from blocky and robotic to soft and more distinctly human over the course of the manga. Her antennae also immediately jump from angular to ovular between the Digitalis and Mildian arcs. The anime uses her late design from the beginning. |
| 350 | * {{EMP}}: As her PunnyName implies, she can generate relatively harmless electromagnetic pulses that disable all other machinery (electronics, robots, etc.) in an area around her for a few seconds. This also shuts down Ether Gear, including her nearby allies'. |
| 351 | * FaceDeathWithDignity: [[spoiler:When she's convinced she's about to die in the Lendard arc, she calmly accepts her fate with a TearfulSmile, telling Shiki that she hopes to be reborn as a human one day. Fortunately for her, her [[DeathFakedForYou death was faked]] by Ziggy.]] |
| 352 | * GenderBlenderName: "Pino" is a masculine name, yet it's used for a feminine android here. |
| 353 | * GenreSavvy: Lampshaded in the Miltz arc, where she [[spoiler:[[DefiedTrope defies]] Professor Weisz's attempt to give her a flashdrive containing important information [[IfIDoNotReturn in case he doesn't escape with them]], calling it a [[EventFlag "death flag"]].]] |
| 354 | * HumanityEnsues: {{Downplayed}}. She chooses a LittleBitBeastly humanoid form for her avatar on Digitalis, and takes a moment to admire her reflection when she catches a glimpse of it in a window. Weisz uses the same look as a holographic disguise for Pino during the Belial Gore arc. |
| 355 | * IKnowYoureInThereSomewhereFight: She gets a brief one when the newly resurrected Ziggy forces her to follow her programming and join his side, briefly turning her into a mindless drone that starts deleting her own memories of her friends. After being encouraged by Shiki to choose what she wants for herself, she's able to defy her programming and undelete her memories before they're gone forever. |
| 356 | * IWillWaitForYou: As revealed in the final arc, [[spoiler:Pino willingly left herself on Norma to be found by her master, waiting in a specially made briefcase that could resist the Chronophage's time-consuming power.]] |
| 357 | * IdentityAmnesia: Ever since her memory of Ziggy was wiped by Sibir, she has forgotten everything about the purpose of her existence. [[spoiler:She has her memories restored by Ziggy's true, good personality in the Lendard arc, revealing she was built with the power to [[SuperMode Overdrive]] and power up her {{EMP}} to free Ziggy from the true BigBad's control.]] |
| 358 | * ItsAllMyFault: During the Lendard arc, [[spoiler:after Weisz half-heartedly suggests that Ziggy found out about their strategy to beat him because of a traitor in the crew, Pino checks her logs and realizes Ziggy accessed her data multiple times without her noticing, tearfully declaring herself to be the "traitor". Because this clearly wasn't a conscious betrayal, no one holds it against her, least of all Weisz, who already feels guilty for giving her the idea.]] |
| 359 | * LaserGuidedAmnesia: Sibir has her memory of her former master removed so she'd be loyal to him, though she retains her memory of her own name and functions. [[spoiler:Even after getting her memories back in Universe Zero, they still have gaps regarding the secret of the Four Shining Stars, which she removed and entrusted to Professor Weisz.]] |
| 360 | * LaserGuidedTykeBomb: ZigZagged. Pino is revealed late in the Lendard arc to be [[spoiler:Ziggy's contingency against the ''Edens One'', built with two functions she forgets she has due to her LaserGuidedAmnesia: one is her Overdrive, which enhances her {{EMP}} to a frequency that disrupts the ship's possession of Ziggy; the other is a destruction code to be used against the ''One'' itself. With that said, Ziggy didn't restrict her to that role alone, encouraging her to live her life however she chooses.]] |
| 361 | * LittleBitBeastly: Her imagined "human" form always sports a set of rabbit ears similar to her antennae. |
| 362 | * LivingMacGuffin: Sibir holds her hostage so he can use her {{EMP}} abilities to steal military-grade robots and take over the city. Shiki and his friends want to rescue her because she's a friend who doesn't belong in Sibir's era, while Weisz wants her just to get rich off of her. |
| 363 | * MeaningfulName: Just like two [[Manga/BlackJack other]] [[Anime/ErgoProxy characters]] named Pino, her name is a clear allusion to Pinocchio. |
| 364 | * MistreatmentInducedBetrayal: Sibir's cruelty of deleting her memory of her creator and tearing off a leg which he then had his men replace with a screw made Pino very eager to join Shiki, Rebecca, and Happy. |
| 365 | * TheNeedsOfTheMany: {{Downplayed}}. When faced with getting a group of B-Cubers off of Guilst, Pino deems it most "efficient" to abandon TheLoad who'd fallen behind when going back for her would endanger the group's chances of escape, and struggles to grasp Rebecca's decision to go back for her, even though they barely know each other. Once Rebecca does so, however, Pino assures her that she is happy with the outcome. |
| 366 | * TheNoseless: ZigZagged. She is drawn without a nose most of the time, but there is one instance where she has visible nostrils before breaking into TearsOfJoy. |
| 367 | * NotAfraidOfYouAnymore: Pino spends her whole introductory arc terrified of Sibir, who tore off her leg and erased her memories of her master so she'd work for him, and threatened to scrap other androids like her if she didn't follow his orders. After Shiki risks his life to save her, Pino responds by shutting down Sibir's Knight Gear and renouncing herself as his "toy". Sadly, [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome this moment of empowerment doesn't last forever]], as seeing the [[RetiredOutlaw older yet humbler]] Sibir in the Belial Gore arc is a TraumaButton for her, though she gradually warms to him. |
| 368 | * OneDegreeOfSeparation: Before her appearance in the story, she was fixed up by Professor Weisz, Rebecca and Happy's ParentalSubstitute. When they get in touch with him, the professor says that her original master was Ziggy, the Demon King who raised Shiki. |
| 369 | * OnlyKnownByInitials: The meaning of the initials "E.M." in Pino's name is unexplored beyond serving as a [[PunnyName pun]] on "{{EMP}}". |
| 370 | * PinkGirlBlueBoy: Among the two mascot characters, Pino is the small pink RobotGirl to Happy's blue male robot cat. |
| 371 | * PowerGivesYouWings: She receives fairy-like wings when [[spoiler:she enters Overdrive in the Lendard arc]]. |
| 372 | * PunnyName: A double whammy; "E.M. Pino" is a fitting name for a robotic {{EMP}} generator who also [[BecomeARealBoy desires to become human]] like [[Literature/TheAdventuresOfPinocchio Pinocchio]]. |
| 373 | * RidiculouslyHumanRobot: She's an advanced android who can feel joy, fear, and sadness, and is capable of crying on all accounts. Shiki takes this as proof that she, like all other machines, has a heart. |
| 374 | * RippleEffectProofMemory: Apart from Shiki and Rebecca, Pino is the only character who recalls anything from World No. 29 after Rebecca leaps into the next world, which Pino believes to be a memory defect. She is also shown to have a very vague recollection of Captain Connor, whom the crew never encountered in World No. 30, when she tries writing a [[AllThereInTheManual character profile]] on him with only a garbled image and a handful of his personality quirks in mind. |
| 375 | * RobotBuddy: She becomes Shiki's NonHumanSidekick, and is the primary SeriesMascot of ''EDENS ZERO''. |
| 376 | * RoseHairedSweetie: The "hair" in this case is actually a metalic pink helmet, but it reflects her overall innocence. |
| 377 | * SeriesMascot: The latest in Mashima's long tradition of mascot characters, with her design clearly demonstrating the ScienceFantasy setting of the series. |
| 378 | * SixthRanger: Witch considers her to be the next generation to the Four Shining Stars, believing that she'll one day become the "Light of Edens". |
| 379 | * {{Telepathy}}: She uses a data link to communicate mentally with other androids, such as when she and Happy are left on their own and form a strategy against Nasseh in the Nero 66 arc. |
| 380 | * TheSmartGirl: She is the most intellectual member of Shiki's field team, and is responsible for analyzing situations, devising strategies, and serving as a relay between them and MissionControl. |
| 381 | * SpockSpeak: Pino always speaks in a formal, matter-of-fact style befitting of an android, no matter how emotional she becomes. The anime adds a robotic, almost monotonous tone of voice into the mix, and she rarely uses contractions in the English dub. |
| 382 | * SuperMode: [[spoiler:The Lendard arc reveals that she was built with the power to Overdrive, which soups up her {{EMP}} to a specific algorithm and frequency that disables the ''Edens One''[='=]s control over Ziggy.]] |
| 383 | * TaremeEyes: She has big, wide eyes to reflect her bright and innocent personality. [[spoiler:They become TsurimeEyes for a time after the three-year TimeSkip, suggesting that she's become sharper and more experienced, but ArtEvolution reverts them back to their original shape.]] |
| 384 | * TookALevelInBadass: Not to the same extent as the more battle-ready crew members, but after the Foresta arc, Pino upgrades her {{EMP}} to disable specific targets without accidentally affecting her nearby friends, making her more reliable in battle. [[spoiler:After Ziggy restores her memory, she also gains the power to Overdrive, which allows her to cancel out the frequency that's driven Ziggy insane.]] |
| 385 | * TookALevelInCheerfulness: She starts out rather stiff when she meets Shiki and the others (though not opposed to making friends with them despite barely knowing who they are), and then meek and scared when her memories of [[BadBoss Sibir]] are restored. Once Shiki inspires her to leave Sibir, however, she becomes a lot more lively and playful. |
| 386 | * TrappedInVillainy: In the Norma arc, Sibir forces her to designate him as her master and go along with his crimes after deleting her memories of Ziggy and tearing off her leg. Although she'd rather be with her real master despite forgetting him, she can't bring herself to ignore his orders, both because she's terrified of the further abuse she'd suffer from him, and because he'd take his anger out on other androids. Experiencing Shiki's kindness and concern convinces her to defy Sibir. |
| 387 | * TraumaButton: When Pino meets Sibir's older, original self aboard the ''Belial Gore'', she immediately starts cowering in fear of him due to the abuse his AlternateSelf put her through, despite logically understanding that the original is essentially a complete stranger to her. After he saves her from falling rubble in World No. 30, however, she swallows her fear to express her gratitude, which helps her overcome her trauma. |
| 388 | * UnwittingPawn: [[spoiler:It's revealed during the Lendard arc that Ziggy has had complete access to Pino's data for an unspecified amount of time, allowing him to read up on the crew's battle strategies and always remain one step ahead of them. When Pino realizes what he's been doing, she's horribly guilt-ridden about it.]] |
| 389 | * WeakButSkilled: She has little to no combat ability, but her {{EMP}} and analytical skills can give her and her teammates an edge in a fight. |
| 390 | * WhatIsThisThingYouCallLove: {{Downplayed}}. She's capable of understanding the concept of friendship, and considers herself a friend of Shiki. However, she doesn't understand the actions friends take for each other when it's "inefficient", such as going back for a lost friend when it decreases [[TheNeedsOfTheMany the survival rate of the majority]]. |
| 391 | * WistfulAmnesia: Despite getting her old memories of Ziggy deleted by Sibir, she still knows that she can't remember him and is deeply troubled by it. |
| 392 | [[/folder]] |
| 393 | |
| 394 | [[folder:Homura Kōgetsu]] |
| 395 | !!Homura Kōgetsu |
| 396 | !!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/ShikiAoki (Japanese), Creator/LauraStahl (English)[[labelnote: Foreign [=VAs=]]]Katharina Schwarzmaier (German), Gigliola Mariangel (Latin American Spanish), Mayte Mira (European Spanish), Olivia Dalric (French), Creator/GiadaBonanomi (Italian), Amanda Manso (Portuguese)[[/labelnote]] |
| 397 | [[quoteright:248:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ez_homura_kogetsu_anime.png]] |
| 398 | ->''"My name is Homura Kōgetsu. And my blade is the holy power granted me by my master. 'Tis the sword meant to defeat the Demon King."'' |
| 399 | %%"Granted me" is deliberately archaic English, not a typo. |
| 400 | |
| 401 | A young swordswoman from Planet Oedo who has the unfortunate habit of blurting out every thought that crosses her mind. She was mentored by the Four Shining Stars' Valkyrie, whose five-year disappearance leads Homura to join the ''Edens Zero'' crew in the hope of finding her. Homura's Ether Gear, '''[[LaserBlade Soul Blade]]''', is a technique taught to her by Valkyrie that produces swords of solid Ether with which to fight. |
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| 403 | * AllOfTheOtherReindeer: She endured just as much gossip and harassment on her homeworld for being raised by a machine as Valkyrie did just for ''being'' a machine. This factors largely into Valkyrie's decision to leave in search of Homura's real mother, since Valkyrie felt Homura deserved better. |
| 404 | * AlwaysSomeoneBetter: Although she comes across as a MasterSwordswoman to her friends and enemies, she is still just a student to the significantly more experienced Valkyrie, who is far more outclassed by Elsie Crimson. |
| 405 | * AmbiguouslyBi: |
| 406 | ** While Homura makes it quite clear that she's quite interested in men, there are not-so-subtle hints that Homura's also interested in women, such as when she finds Witch's real face to be stunningly beautiful, and how she mentions her heart skipping a beat while blushing furiously over Holy's figure in the bath. |
| 407 | ** The English dub leans more into the implication that Homura is interested in women, namely by blushing while calling Sister attractive at the end of Episode 11, and also forcing herself not to look at Rebecca's NavelDeepNeckline at the end of Episode 15. |
| 408 | --->'''Homura (about Sister):''' I can't say this out loud, but she's kinda cute.\ |
| 409 | '''Homura (about Rebecca):''' Don't turn around and stare at her body drenched in sweat! That would make things really weird! |
| 410 | * AnimalMotifs: Homura eventually gains a fox theme, such as getting drawn with fox ears and a tail. This is appropriate considering the importance of {{Asian Fox Spirit}}s in [[Myth/JapaneseMythology Japanese folklore]] and the UsefulNotes/{{Shinto}} religion. It also suits Homura's Yamato/Japanese styling. |
| 411 | * AnimalThemedFightingStyle: Homura's Five Sword Fencing techniques invoke the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Animals Five Animals]] in their movements, names and stances: |
| 412 | ** Her "Leopard Stance" attacks focus on quick simultaneous slashes invoking a leopard using its speed to attack its prey. |
| 413 | ** Her "Dragon Flash" has her lunge towards the opponent and knock them off balance while thrusting off the ground, then spinning towards the opponent before slashing downward across the chest. The move references the movement of an Eastern Dragon. |
| 414 | ** [[BladeSpam "Snake Strike"]] and [[ArmorPiercingAttack "Snake Bite"]] involve sword thrusts that mimic a snake lunging and biting. |
| 415 | ** Her "Crane Form" is a stance that has her balancing on one leg like a crane and combining two swords into a double-bladed spear, which she can spin to [[BlowYouAway generate wind]]. |
| 416 | ** Homura's "Tiger Form" attacks revolve around use of WolverineClaws that can also [[ShockAndAwe generate electricity]]. |
| 417 | ** In [[spoiler:her Overdrive form]], she develops a sixth fighting style based on the [[AsianFoxSpirit Kitsune]], [[spoiler:which her Overdrive resembles.]] |
| 418 | * AntiquatedLinguistics: She speaks with a formal tone like someone out of the Edo period in Japanese, which Kodansha translates into slightly medieval English. |
| 419 | * BathingBeauty: Homura is seen bathing almost as frequently as Rebecca, although she likes them much better with cold water, because only slightly warm water makes her feel like she's burning. |
| 420 | * BathtubBonding: She takes all of her baths in the Spa of Eden with Rebecca and Happy, which quickly leads the two girls to becoming friends. |
| 421 | * TheBigGirl: She's the main close-range fighter in Shiki's core team, with her specialty being swordsmanship. |
| 422 | * BladeSpam: Her Snake Strike technique is a split-second variety of this attack. |
| 423 | * BlowYouAway: Her Towering Crane Gust attack blows gusts of wind when she turns her swords into a DoubleWeapon and spins it like a pinwheel. It's powerful enough to rival more experienced wind users like Sylph. |
| 424 | * BrokenBird: [[spoiler:She becomes one in Universe Zero, where she lives a life of hardship after Valkyrie is executed in front of her over an accident Homura caused, followed by being forced to fulfill her mother's debts to Drakken Joe, leaving Homura miserable and desperate.]] |
| 425 | * BroughtDownToNormal: [[spoiler:Homura loses her combat experience in Universe Zero due to her trauma over Valkyrie's death blocking her Ether Gear. Once she sees Valkyrie alive in this world, her power returns along with her memory.]] |
| 426 | * BrutalHonesty: Her habit of voicing her innermost thoughts has led to her voicing some unflattering opinions towards people, namely Weisz, who is always informed of how uncomfortable he makes her. |
| 427 | * CallingTheOldWomanOut: {{Defied}}. When Homura has the perfect opportunity to chew her mother out for abandoning her, causing Valkyrie's death, and all the horrible things she has done to the people of Sun Jewel, she simply chooses not to and lets her go--not because she loves or forgives her mother, but because she has virtually no feelings or interest towards her mother whatsoever. She does, however, [[TranquilFury humbly yet coldly]] request her mother to stay out of her life forever. |
| 428 | * CannotKeepASecret: Homura admits keeping secrets isn't something she's good at because of her bad habit to blurt out whatever is in her mind. This is why Witch decides to not tell her any specifics about Etherion, the ship's SecretWeapon. |
| 429 | * CharacterTics: She usually covers her mouth with her sleeve whenever she's saying something that's supposed to be a secret. |
| 430 | * ClothesMakeTheSuperman: {{Averted}}. Unlike the other Shining Stars' Battle Dresses, the "Battle Dress" Homura wears in the Belial Gore arc is purely cosmetic, and doesn't actually make her any stronger. Considering her ImplausibleFencingPowers, this is hardly an issue. |
| 431 | * {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Homura is a very quirky person with a unique mind, bordering on a social disability. She has a near total lack of a social filter, loses focus on other people around her when talking to one person, pathologically speaks her mind, seems incapable of having any internal monologue or holding back her honesty, and considers taking a warm bath to be combat training due to her extreme sensitivity to heat. |
| 432 | * TheComicallySerious: Despite her perpetually solemn face, her tendency to blurt out her thoughts for no reason lends itself to some humorous and awkward situations. |
| 433 | * CoolSword: Homura's Ether Gear allows her to create {{Laser Sword}}s, which take on various forms including twin blades and tiger-like claws, or can be summoned ''en masse'' for a StormOfBlades. |
| 434 | * CosmicPlaything: [[spoiler:Homura is one of the few in Universe Zero whose life is made far worse by the CosmicRetcon: left behind again by her mother, Kurenai; accidentally injuring Creed/Seiji when they're children, which leads to Valkyrie being [[OffWithYourHead beheaded]] in front of her; and being forced into debt to Drakken Joe, who sends her off to get turned into a naked stone statue. Fortunately, she finally catches a break when she discovers Valkyrie survived (since [[LosingYourHead decapitation alone isn't lethal to an android]]), and that this world's version of Kurenai was GoodAllAlong.]] |
| 435 | * CovertPervert: At the end of the Digitalis arc, Rebecca and Homura are sweating buckets while in their jump suits, which Homura [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial insists]] she would never talk about talk about how her sweat is overtaking every inch of her body in oddly specific detail. The English dub takes it further by having Homura openly resist looking at Rebecca's NavelDeepNeckline. |
| 436 | * DamselInDistress: [[spoiler:Homura loses all her skills as a warrior in Universe Zero due to the severe changes in her life, which leads to her being helplessly sold to the deviant Illega to be stripped and turned into stone. Fortunately, Mosco is there to bust her out before Illega can turn her into a statue.]] |
| 437 | * DeathGlare: She gives one to anybody who dares to show any disrespect towards her mentor. This includes her own mother, who caused Valkyrie's death, and only settles for scaring her out of her life with a terrifying glare because she doesn't find her worth anything else. |
| 438 | * DefeatByModesty: Once Kleene blows away most of Homura's clothing during their first battle, the latter runs away from the battle due to the feeling of embarrassment. |
| 439 | * DidIJustSayThatOutLoud: While she doesn't always say so, she is wholly aware of her habit to openly say what she means to keep to herself. |
| 440 | * DoomedHometown: She comes from a village that was attacked by bandits that apparently claimed her father's life. Valkyrie saved her from a trio of them who were on the verge of kidnapping her and selling her to slavery. |
| 441 | * TheDragonslayer: [[spoiler:Her Knight Gear is equipped with Ether that's effective against cybernetic dragons where ordinary Ether ammunition doesn't make a dent, making her invaluable in breaching God Acnoella's swarm of dragons around Lendard.]] |
| 442 | * DualWielding: Her Leopard Stance splits her sword into two short blades. |
| 443 | * DullEyesOfUnhappiness: Homura's ReestablishingCharacterMoment in the Reunion arc shows her with dull, blackened eyes as an early indicator of [[spoiler:how miserable the last five years of her life have been since the CosmicRetcon]]. |
| 444 | * EverythingsBetterWithSamurai: {{Invoked}}. She admits she was going for the image of a Western knight for her swordsmanship, likely as a tribute to her mentor, but ended up looking like a samurai, which Shiki thinks is way cooler. |
| 445 | * ExtremelyProtectiveChild: Homura is very protective of her unofficial adoptive mother Valkyrie. In the past, she only turned violent towards the people of Oedo who harassed her when they insulted Valkyrie. In Sun Jewel, when Garrot desecrates Valkyrie's corpse by licking and decapitating her right in front of Homura, she throws a StormOfBlades at him and then stabs him through the chest with Valkyrie's sword. |
| 446 | * FamilyOfChoice: DoubleSubverted. She grew up under Valkyrie's tutelage since she suffered ParentalAbandonment, but always insisted to everyone else that it was nothing more than a student-and-teacher dynamic. Ever since Valkyrie's disappearance, however, Homura's feelings towards her have changed to the point where she's willing to see her as a mother, and wishes to tell her this when they reunite. These feelings are finally solidified when she finds out what happened to Valkyrie and that [[UnpleasantParentReveal her birth mother is in no way a good person, let alone a good parent]], leading Homura to firmly declare Valkyrie as her one, true mother. |
| 447 | * FantasticFightingStyle: Unlike other Ether Gear users, she has two separate style names: "Five Sword Fencing" when she assumes one of her five fighting styles, and "Warrior Maiden Single-Sword Attack", when using her sword's default form. |
| 448 | * FatalFlaw: Her complete lack of a social filter inevitably becomes problematic when facing against enemies, who end up catching wind of her thought processes and secrets without her meaning to. |
| 449 | * FlowersOfFemininity: Homura is a beautiful and noble LadyOfWar always dressed in elegant kimonos. At Digitalis, her avatar wears a rose in her hair. |
| 450 | * FormalCharactersUseKeigo: She speaks with a formal register in Japanese, reflected by her AntiquatedLinguistics in English. |
| 451 | * FriendlessBackground: She didn't have any friends at Oedo because other kids made fun of her for being raised by a robot. Therefore, she cares deeply about the crew because they're her first friends. |
| 452 | * FriendlyRivalry: Her desire to battle and defeat Shiki is purely out of a good-natured desire for a WorthyOpponent, since they become quick friends not long after they meet each other. |
| 453 | * FullFrontalAssault: She tries to challenge Rebecca to a fight when they're both naked in the bath more than once, but Rebecca declines because fighting naked is too shameless. Elsie, on the other hand, does accept Homura's request for a duel in the middle of their BathtubBonding. |
| 454 | * HappilyAdopted: She's an orphan Valkyrie picked up in a war-torn planet. While Homura only calls Valkyrie her teacher, their bond is closer to mother and daughter. Homura eventually does acknowledge herself as Valkyrie's daughter and successor. |
| 455 | * HeroicBSOD: She spends much of the Sun Jewel arc's final battle in the middle of one after she finds out Valkyrie was DeadAllAlong, and doesn't recover from it until the battle comes to her and snaps her out of her funk, though not before fully processing Shiki and Rebecca's words of encouragement. |
| 456 | * HumongousMecha: [[spoiler:During the assault on Lendard, Homura debuts her personal [[AMechByAnyOtherName Knight Gear]], Warrior Maid 95. Modeled after Valkyrie in both appearance and [[LaserBlade weaponry]], it was made to allow Homura to reliably fight in outer space, something she couldn't accomplish with fighter ships on account of her poor marksmanship.]] |
| 457 | * ILetGwenStacyDie: [[spoiler:Homura feels responsible for Valkyrie's death in Universe Zero, where Valkyrie [[TakeMeInstead offered herself to be beheaded in Homura's place]] when Homura accidentally injured Seiji, the shogun's son. She's alleviated when she discovers Valkyrie survived the execution because [[LosingYourHead simple decapitation isn't lethal to an android]].]] |
| 458 | * INeverGotAnyLetters: The reason Homura never knew why Valkyrie vanished in the first place is because a neighborhood cat ran off with the note her teacher left explaining everything. |
| 459 | * IWillFindYou: Homura joins the ''Edens Zero'' crew to find her teacher, Valkyrie, who disappeared without saying a word. When she finally does find her in the Sun Jewel arc, Homura discovers [[YouAreTooLate she's three years too late]], as Valkyrie has been DeadAllAlong. |
| 460 | * IllNeverTellYouWhatImTellingYou: Every time she says something she ought to be keeping to herself, such as her secret agendas or unflattering opinions towards others, she usually caps it off by saying she won't comment on it. |
| 461 | * ImplausibleFencingPowers: She first demonstrates her Ether Gear's power by slicing a high-speed missile clean in half with her sword. She's also capable of ParryingBullets from unlikely distances. |
| 462 | * InelegantBlubbering: She can't keep her cool and descends into messy tears upon discovering Valkyrie's battered remains on Sun Jewel, realizing her mentor is long dead. |
| 463 | * IronicName: The name Homura means "flame", yet she's hypersensitive to heat and fares poorly against anything above room temperature. |
| 464 | * ItWasAGift: When she was a child, she always carried with her a stuffed toy her biological mother gave her, and still keeps it in a storage device on the off-chance that they would meet so her mother could recognize her in the present day. When she discovers Kurenai cares so little about her that she's long forgotten about the gift, Homura decides to leave it with Valkyrie, [[FamilyOfChoice her one true mother]]. |
| 465 | * JapanesePoliteness: As a YamatoNadeshiko, she always remains polite and apologetic whenever she slips into BrutalHonesty mode due to her [[DidIJustSayThatOutLoud lack of a social filter]]. She also firmly maintains this when confronting her EvilMatriarch birth mother by respectfully bowing on her hands and knees while ''very'' politely telling her that she means nothing to her anymore, and humbly requesting that she stay out of her life forever. |
| 466 | * KickingAssInAllHerFinery: She always goes into battle wearing a beautiful and detailed kimono. |
| 467 | * KimonoIsTraditional: Her nigh-exclusive outfit is a kimono, which makes her stand out as the most old-fashioned looking character in a predominantly ScienceFiction setting. |
| 468 | * LadyOfWar: She's a swordswoman who wears a floral kimono and carries herself with a calm, dignified air. Using her Leopard Stance and Soul Blade, she defeats a group of armed soldiers with almost effortless grace. |
| 469 | * LaserBlade: Her Ether Gear gives her the power to create a katana from her own Ether, allowing it to change shape to suit her fighting style. It also has the power to momentarily transfer its Ether into other people. |
| 470 | * LegacyCharacter: Following the Sun Jewel arc, she decides to take Valkyrie Yuna's place as a Shining Star. The other Shining Stars acknowledge her as Valkyrie Homura. |
| 471 | * ALessonLearnedTooWell: When she first met Valkyrie, Homura was so [[ShrinkingViolet painfully shy]] that she could barely muster the will to introduce herself, so Valkyrie taught her the value of using her words and encouraged her to speak her mind more. Homura took this a bit too closely to heart, as now [[DidIJustSayThatOutLoud she can't help but speak her mind all the time]]. |
| 472 | * LittleBitBeastly: She gains the ears and tails of a fox when [[spoiler:using her Overdrive mode]]. |
| 473 | * MasterSwordswoman: {{Downplayed}}. She has ImplausibleFencingPowers that the best real-life swordsmen can only dream of having, such as slicing missiles, deflecting bullets, and single-handedly decimating groups of enemies. All that said, she's still a young, growing student who cannot begin to compare to [[AlwaysSomeoneBetter her mentor]], and she gradually faces more challenging enemies that showcase just how much experience she still lacks. |
| 474 | * MsFanservice: Homura is a well-endowed young woman with a [[ImpossibleHourglassFigure curvaceous figure]] who wears a kimono that shows off her long legs and features {{Sideboob}}s. She is also subject to a lot of MaleGaze in the manga, which emphasizes her breasts, butt, and legs. |
| 475 | * MyGreatestFailure: [[spoiler:The apparent death of Universe Zero's Valkyrie serves as this for her, because Homura was sentenced to execution after accidentally injuring Seiji and Valkyrie [[TakeMeInstead took her place]]. She's vindicated when Valkyrie returns alive and well.]] |
| 476 | * MythicalMotifs: [[spoiler:Her Overdrive is themed around the [[AsianFoxSpirit kitsune]], manifesting itself by giving her white hair, fox ears and a bushy tail in line with her planet's [[FantasyCounterpartCulture Japan-like setting]].]] |
| 477 | * NeverGotToSayGoodbye: Valkyrie disappeared before Homura could see her off, as she spent their last day together crying over why she was forced to apologize for standing up to a group of neighborhood teens who were badmouthing Valkyrie. Then Valkyrie dies on another planet a couple of years later without Homura knowing for three years. |
| 478 | * NoSocialSkills: She has certain lapses when it comes to talking to others, in part because of her habit of always speaking her innermost thoughts in public. At one point in the Sun Jewel arc, she also instinctively shouts out loud for someone who's seen her mentor in the middle of a crowded building, and continues to do so against Pino's advice until Rebecca finally admonishes Homura. |
| 479 | * OneWomanArmy: She is such a skilled swordswoman that she can wipe out an entire squadron of trained gunmen with ease. |
| 480 | * ParentalAbandonment: She has lost both of her parents: her mother left before the war started to provide for their family, and her father is nowhere to be seen. It later turns out her mom outright ditched her to become the EvilOverlord of another planet, with her father still remaining unknown. |
| 481 | * ParryingBullets: She's capable of using her Soul Blade to deflect bullets back at their firers with impeccable precision, and from across great distances. |
| 482 | * PoseOfSupplication: She kneels and plants her face into the floor on occasions when she's thoroughly defeated or mortified, such as when Elsie soundly defeats her in a duel in the bath with [[HandyFeet just her toes]], or when she finds out on Nero 66 that Creed, the army officer she'd been badmouthing, was actually [[ReallyRoyaltyReveal a member of her homeworld's shogunate family]]. |
| 483 | * PowerDyesYourHair: [[spoiler:Like Shiki, Homura's dark hair changes to white in her Overdrive SuperMode.]] |
| 484 | * PsychosomaticSuperpowerOutage: Suffers this between the Lendard and Reunion arcs [[spoiler:after she causes Universe Zero's Valkyrie to be executed in her place, with the resulting trauma and guilt preventing her from using her Ether Gear.]] |
| 485 | * TheQuietOne: When she was a child, Homura struggled to find the words to even introduce herself. She's since grown out of it thanks to Valkyrie, though at this point, she can't keep anything to herself. |
| 486 | * RaisedByRobots: Homura was all but adopted by the RobotGirl Valkyrie when she was a kid, though Homura insisted Valkyrie was only her teacher when others called Valkyrie her mother. Unfortunately, their parent-child relationship made them targets of FantasticRacism on Oedo, which is why Valkyrie left to search for Homura's birth mother. |
| 487 | * RedBaron: She inherits the title of "Sword of Edens" from her teacher, Valkyrie, as a MasterSwordswoman who manages the ''Edens Zero''[='=]s weaponry. |
| 488 | * RelativeButton: She despises any slight or insult levied against her adoptive mother Valkyrie, whether it's someone who calls her less than human for being an android, or a supposed replica designed to mimic every detail of her.[[note]]It later turns out to just be a training bot copying her.[[/note]] |
| 489 | * ReluctantFanserviceGirl: She gets angry at Weisz when he uses his disguise app to put her in a stripper costume. She also tries to retreat from battle when Kleene uses her wind to steal Homura's clothes and leave her in nothing but her panties. |
| 490 | * SamuraiPonytail: She's a swordswoman from a planet that looks like feudal Japan, and fittingly ties her hair back in a high ponytail. |
| 491 | * ShamefulStrip: Homura undergoes this in the Reunion arc, where she [[spoiler:takes Rebecca's place as one of the girls who get captured by Illega on Guilst, forcing her to undergo the humiliation of having her clothes disintegrated with acid foam.]] |
| 492 | * ShesBack: |
| 493 | ** Homura goes into a major HeroicBSOD in the Sun Jewel arc when she discovers Valkyrie's death, leaving her in a silent slump that her friends can only barely stir her from. Once she cathartically skewers Garrot for [[DesecratingTheDead desecrating her teacher's remains]], she gets her head back in the game and is able to press on with her life. |
| 494 | ** After going through HeroicBSOD throughout the Reunion arc, [[spoiler:she regains her memories and recovers from her PsychomaticSuperpowerOutage the moment she sees Universe Zero's version of Valkyrie didn't die as she previously believed, returning her to the bright LadyOfWar she was in the previous world.]] |
| 495 | * ShowgirlSkirt: She adjusts her kimono so the skirt splits down the front, showing off her legs. |
| 496 | * ShrinkingViolet: |
| 497 | ** She used to be the exact opposite of [[DidIJustSayThatOutLoud the way she is now]] before she met Valkyrie, being so timid that it was a struggle just to introduce herself. |
| 498 | ** Following the events of the Lendard arc, [[spoiler:the CosmicRetcon turns her a great deal more timid and submissive than the usually fierce yet graceful warrior she was in the previous world, all due to the soul-crushing changes to her life that led her to become a BrokenBird.]] |
| 499 | * SignatureHeadgear: She ties back some of her hair in a ponytail with an iconic ribbon that resembles bunny ears. |
| 500 | * SilkHidingSteel: She's an all-around YamatoNadeshiko who is also trained in the art of swordsmanship by one of the Demon King's most powerful fighters. |
| 501 | * SoProudOfYou: During the Reunion arc, Homura holds this sentiment towards [[spoiler:Universe Zero's Kurenai, whom the CosmicRetcon changed from a cruel and unloving mother into a splendid person who did everything she could to reunite with her for five years, and formed a heroic defense force on Sun Jewel so her daughter could have a mother to be proud of.]] |
| 502 | * SpiritedCompetitor: Although she is very modest about it, she openly admits to getting excited whenever she is about to face strong adversaries. It's for this reason why she wants to fight Shiki, because to her, anyone worthy enough to inherit the title of "Demon King" from the one Valkyrie was never able to defeat must be a WorthyOpponent. |
| 503 | * SpontaneousWeaponCreation: Her Ether Gear allows her to create bladed weapons out of Ether. |
| 504 | * TheStoic: Her default expression is a distant, contemplative gaze, and while she still shows emotion, it comes across in less extreme changes than other characters, even when she becomes embarrassed or upset. There are times, however, when she proves to be NotSoStoic, whether she's enraged towards people insulting her mentor, cries inconsolably upon learning Valkyrie's death, or trembling with fear when she and the crew are [[BreakTheBadass mentally broken]] by Drakken Joe. |
| 505 | * StormOfBlades: She shares her ultimate attack, Odin Strike, with Valkyrie. Her first use of it becomes TheWorfBarrage due to her inexperience, though she cleverly turns it around by using them to throw Valkyrie's sword into the air to [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice impale her enemy]]. [[spoiler:She uses it successfully for the first time when Overdriving against Mirrani on Nero 66.]] |
| 506 | * StrongAndSkilled: She's a trained warrior who has enough power to take down several enemies at once and can come up with tactics to deal with tricky enemies. |
| 507 | * SugarAndIcePersonality: Homura is cool and stone-faced most of the time, but she's friendly in general and cares about her friends. She especially has great affection for her teacher, Valkyrie. |
| 508 | * SuperMode: [[spoiler:Like the rest of the team, Homura unlocks her Overdrive after completing her training with Xenolith, first activating it during her fight with Mirrani on Nero 66. Unique to her, she gains [[LittleBitBeastly fox ears and tail]].]] |
| 509 | * SuperSpeed: Her Leopard Stance drastically increases her speed, allowing her to attack multiple enemies in an instant. |
| 510 | * SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: Homura has a habit of blurting out her private thoughts. This bites her in the ass when she reveals her intention to trick information out of Garrot when he captures her. |
| 511 | * SurvivorGuilt: She gradually develops a sense of despair that those closest to her die, particularly after the deaths of [[spoiler:Creed, who gives her a DyingDeclarationOfLove after being shot by Jesse]], and [[spoiler:Kurenai, who is KilledOffscreen by her captors after being set loose by Kurenai]]. |
| 512 | * SympathyForTheDevil: [[spoiler:Despite disowning Kurenai as her mother for being an EvilMatriarch, Homura is distressed when Ziggy reveals how she was captured and left to rot for a year after they parted ways, and finds it difficult to accept that she's already dead when Homura sees her again.]] |
| 513 | * TakeUpMySword: Homura voluntarily takes Valkyrie's place among the Four Shining Stars after her teacher is found to be DeadAllAlong. |
| 514 | * TokenHuman: After Valkyrie is discovered to be dead, Homura decides to join the Four Shining Stars to take her mother figure's place. Therefore, she becomes the first and only human to be a Shining Star. |
| 515 | * TooDumbToLive: ZigZagged. Her [[AllThereInTheManual character profile]] rates her "intelligence" as a below-average two stars out of five, but her tendency to blurt out things she ought to be keeping secret in front of her enemies is less out of stupidity and more because she has a persistent social disorder. Unfortunately, making such simple, life-threatening mistakes makes her come across as rather dim to other people, which [[BerserkButton touches a nerve with Shiki]]. |
| 516 | * WeakToFire: For someone [[IronicName whose name means "flames"]], Homura has a very low heat tolerance, which is both PlayedForLaughs when she can't enjoy a soothing hot bath without breaking out into a sweat, and PlayedForDrama when she almost dies passing out from a heatstroke while surrounded by fire on Red Cave and Foresta. |
| 517 | * WhenSheSmiles: Creed/Seiji thinks Homura looks even more beautiful than usual when she smiles. |
| 518 | * WolverineClaws: Her Tiger Form gives her these. She can also make them [[ShockAndAwe electrically charged]] to deal more damage. |
| 519 | * WreckedWeapon: Her Soul Blade can be broken against a hard enough surface, and will remain in a broken state when summoned until Homura has time to reforge it. |
| 520 | * YamatoNadeshiko: As someone who comes from a planet based on [[FeudalFuture feudal Japan]], she fully embodies the traits of a refined, polite, unwavering Japanese girl who's whole-heartedly devoted to her teacher and helping the rest of the crew she comes to call her friends. |
| 521 | * ZettaiRyouiki: Homura's standard outfit seems specifically designed to cover as much skin as possible, while also exposing the important bits for fanservice purposes. |
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