Line #18 Characters/NiNoKuniSupportingCharacters


1	A list of the supporting cast for ''VideoGame/NiNoKuni''. [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Characters/NiNoKuni Click here]] to return to the main character page.
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4	!Ichi no Kuni/Motorville (Hotroit)
5	[[folder:Allie]]
6	!!Allie /Alicia
7	->Voiced by: Jo Wyatt
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9	Oliver's mother. A kind woman who cares deeply for her child. She loses her life after saving Oliver's in a tragic accident. At the insistence of Drippy, Oliver goes on a quest to save her.
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13	* ActionMom: Not only did she rush to Oliver's aid (at the expense of her own health and well-being... and life), but [[spoiler:in actuality, she is the Great Sage Alicia. As a small girl native to the Other World, she was saved by Shadar before he became evil. When he did, she spent years to become a sage, traveled back (forward?) in time, crossed dimensions to Earth and absorbed Shadar's other self's soul that he had cast off (Oliver) and gave birth to him as part of a plan to save Shadar.]]
14	* AllForNothing: [[spoiler: It turns out that by traveling through Oliver's world with the time spell, she merged with her Soul Mate, meaning there is no way of her ever coming back.]]
15	* HeroicSacrifice: Saves Oliver from drowning in the river, but suffers a heart attack afterwards and dies in the hospital.
16	* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler:Indeed, Oliver's quest to save her turns out to be in vain. Poor lad...]]
17	* RetiredBadass: [[spoiler:Of her own volition, more or less. She had to leave her home world in order to help raise Oliver, which meant that she had to give up her life in that world.]]
18	* SaveTheVillain: [[spoiler:And she pulls one hell of a plan to do so: going forward in time and ''becoming the mother of his'' ''AlternateSelf''!]]
19	* TrulySingleParent: There's no mention of Oliver's father, and there's a reason for that: [[spoiler:Allie -- or rather, Alicia -- took a piece of Shadar's soul inside herself, causing her to become pregnant. In other words, there is literally no father.]]
20	* WalkingSpoiler: Her true identity spoils a major twist towards the end of the game.
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23	[[folder:Phil (マーク Mark)]]
24	!!Phil
25	->Voiced by: Max Cazier (English), Creator/KappeiYamaguchi (Japanese)
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27	Oliver's best friend. He has a hobby of making cars in his spare time. He is a hard working person, but tends to be stubborn and defensive.
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31	* CoolCar: The Philmobile. [[spoiler: You can even obtain it for yourself in post-game!]]
32	* DubNameChange: Phil's name is Mark in the original Japanese version.
33	* FireForgedFriends: Implied with him and Oliver. One of the flashbacks implies that they originally weren't on equal terms, as Phil would occasionally pick on Oliver.
34	* ItsAllMyFault: He blames himself for the [[spoiler: death of Oliver's mother and spends most of the time after the event depressed. He even loses his ambition, which causes a Nightmare to spawn in him.]]
35	* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Shows a bit of a mean side: from teasing Oliver and "Starey Mary", but he genuinely means well.
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38	!Ding Dong Dell (Goronel Kingdom)
39	[[folder:King Tom Tildrum XIV (ニャンダール Nyandal)]]
40	!!King Tom XIV
41	->Voiced by: Lewis Macleod
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43	The "Meowjesty" of Ding Dong Dell. He assists Oliver in his journey after restoring a piece of heart he was missing, giving Oliver his first real wand (as in, one that's not a stick).
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47	* AdiposeRex: Considering his soulmate is a fat cat, this is probably not that much of a surprise.
48	* AnimalJingoism: His ArchEnemy is a rodent king.
49	* CatsAreMean: Completely [[InvertedTrope Inverted]]. [[spoiler: But played straight when affected by manna.]]
50	* CoolCat: His subjects seem to like him.
51	* DubNameChange: His name is Nyandal in the Japanese version.
52	* FaceMonsterTurn: [[spoiler:Thankfully it was reversible.]]
53	* FisherKing: His subjects' personalities generally reflect his, hence why you have to find him some enthusiasm.
54	* FriendToAllChildren: An [=NPC=] in Ding Dong Dell will comment that he sometimes comes into town to play with the local children.
55	* MegaNeko: A cat who is a bit larger than most humans. [[spoiler:Exaggerated due to the manna infliction.]]
56	* NeatFreak: Near the end of the game, he spends a lot of time grooming himself before presenting himself to the town's festival.
57	* PoisonousPerson: [[spoiler:His claw swipes can poison you during his boss fight.]]
58	* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: He becomes this once he's cured of his brokenheartedness.
59	* RoyalWe: Or rather, "Royal One".
60	* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: Helps Oliver and company breach the White Witch's Ivory Tower.
61	* StockAnimalName: Tom. As in tomcat.
62	* TurnsRed: [[spoiler:His monster form starts the battle on all-fours and doesn't have much in the way of attacks. Until you deplete his HP and he stands up...]]
63	* VerbalTic: Like many cat characters, he says words like Purrfect or Purrcisely. He also says "One" in place of first person pronouns.
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66	!Al Mamoon (Babanasia Kingdom)
67	[[folder:Great Sage Rashaad (ソロン Solon)]]
68	!!Great Sage Rashaad
69	->Voiced by: Colin [=MacFarlane=]
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71	A former Great Sage and father to Esther. He works as a Babana merchant in Al Mamoon and initially refuses to help Oliver stand up against Shadar, but warms up to him after he heals his brokenhearted daughter.
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75	* CoolOldGuy: At least once he knows that Esther is freed of her brokenheartedness.
76	* DubNameChange: He's Solon in the Japanese version.
77	* RetiredBadass: Temporarily. He seems to get back into the Sage business after his daughter's heart is restored.
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80	[[folder:Queen Lowlah (カウラ Kaula)]]
81	!!Queen Lowlah
82	->Voiced by: Rachel Atkins
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84	The "Cowlipha" of Al Mamoon. She favors cheese to the point that when she became brokenhearted, that's all she'd eat (in excess). She assists Oliver by providing him a boat after he cures her of her gluttony.
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88	* AbhorrentAdmirer: Subverted. While she has an obvious crush on Marcassin, giving the heroes his photo, and Drippy finds this fact creepy, we aren't shown how Marcassin himself reacts to her fawning over him when they meet for the first time.
89	* AchillesHeel: [[spoiler:The 'Burden' spell when she's turned into a monster.]]
90	* [[AdiposeRex Adipose Regina]]: Supposedly her prodigious size is due to how much she stuffed herself while brokenhearted. We never see her when she's thin, but the Wizard's Companion provides a bust picture of one of her ancestors, who resembled a skinnier version of Lowlah.
91	* BigBeautifulWoman: The CatGirl who runs the inn describes her as beautiful.
92	* BigEater: Brought on by Shadar taking away her restraint.
93	* DubNameChange: She's Kaula in the Japanese version.
94	* FaceMonsterTurn: [[spoiler:Same deal as Tom.]]
95	* LargeAndInCharge: She's taller than Oliver's house!
96	* LossOfInhibitions: Queen Cowlipha, as one of the brokenhearted, loses her restraint and becomes a glutton for cheese. This causes her to refuse to get out of bed and demand more cheese until her restraint is restored.
97	* MeaningfulName: In Japanese, Kaula is a pun on "cow" and "kalipha". This is lampshaded in the English version by making her official title "Cowlipha".
98	* OurGiantsAreBigger: The largest character in the game aside from ''Shadar's final form''! Nothing anywhere explains why she's like this.
99	* RoyalWe: Her speech pattern.
100	* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Cheese.
101	* TurnsRed: [[spoiler:Jumps up on her feet in the second phase of her fight and starts dishing out really painful body slams.]]
102	* VillainousGlutton: She acts this way when heartbroken.
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105	[[folder:Supreme Sage Solomon (ポコロ Pokuro)]]
106	!!Supreme Sage Solomon
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109	A sage who lives within the Temple of Trials. He assists apprentice wizards and runs a competition called the Solosseum.
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112	* BigGuyLittleGuy: Little guy to his servant, Umbopa.
113	* DubNameChange: His name is Pokoro in the Japanese version.
114	* {{Jerkass}}: He doesn't have many nice things to say towards Oliver and Esther, or anyone in general.
115	* MeaningfulName: According to some legends King Solomon was said to be able to tame and control Daemons, in the game Sage Solomon gives Ester an item that lets her do the same thing to get more familiars.
116	* OlderThanTheyLook: He looks about as tall as Oliver, and almost looks around his age. However, he's old enough that he's trained Rashaad, Khulan, Marcassin and Alicia.
117	* PintSizedPowerhouse: Well, we never see him in action, but according to everyone else, he should be pretty powerful. The closest we come to witnessing his power is in [[spoiler:the Solosseum, where he's the final match. Appropriate to the trope, instead of using the biggest, most powerful Nobilia type creatures against you (which are all stronger than normal familiars by their very nature), Solomon just uses gold versions of Oliver, Esther, and Swaine's starter familiars in their base form (so Mite, Drongo, and Hurly respectively). And they're strong enough to kick the ass of a max leveled party of familiars to boot!]]
118	* SickeninglySweet: Invoked by Solomon himself. He appears to hate anything "cute" or "sweet", and refers to the hearts that appear over tamable familiars' heads as "disgusting".
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121	!Teeheeti
122	[[folder:Smiley n' Surly (ニコプッチ Nico and Pucchi)]]
123	!!Smiley n' Surly
124	->Voiced by: Owain Rhys Davies (Smiley) and Matthew Gravelle (Surly)
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126	Two faeries who are friends with Drippy, as he had trained them on their comedy stylings when they were up-and-comers. They put on a comedy routine in the Fairygrounds.
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130	* BokeAndTsukkomiRoutine: Their little comedy bits are this.
131	* DubNameChange: They're Nico and Pucchi respectively in Japanese.
132	* RedOniBlueOni: They're even color coded to match!
133	* ThoseTwoGuys: Aside from just being Drippy's old "butties", they are also Drippy's informants, providing important news to him while he was dormant as a doll. [[spoiler:However, Drippy later tells Oliver (if you speak to him in Nevermore or the Ivory Tower) that the two were idiots that never gave him ''any'' useful information.]]
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136	!Xanadu/Perdida
137	[[folder:Great Sage Khulan]]
138	!!Great Sage Khulan
139	->Voiced by: Abigail Thaw
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141	The Great Sage Khulan was once the queen of the Kingdom of Xanadu. After the Kingdom fell to Shadar, she became brokenhearted and proceeded to do the same to the people of Perdida.
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145	* BrainwashedAndCrazy: While brokenhearted, she was being manipulated by Shadar, acting as his "representative."
146	* ItsAllMyFault: Blames herself for the fall of Xanadu. Oliver and Kublai mention that this is not the case.
147	* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: Once she's cured, she orders Kublai to assist in helping all the world's cities stand up to Shadar's evils.
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150	[[folder:Kublai]]
151	!!Kublai
152	->Voiced by: Creator/MarkLewisJones
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154	The King of the Sky Pirates and master of Tengri, a winged Dragon.
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158	* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: [[spoiler:He's a former commander of Xanadu's airborne division. Who knew?]]
159	* BadassBoast: He's one of the few (or possibly, the ''only'') people you encounter who isn't afraid of the very mention of Shadar, proclaiming that he'll show him what it means to face a "true adversary."
160	* CoolAirship: The Iron Wyvern.
161	* EmotionalBruiser: Oliver takes two parts of his heart over the course of the story.
162	* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: He's probably the only other character aside from Solomon who hardly cares for Oliver's manners, but he loves his land and would do anything to help it and its Queen, [[spoiler:including admitting that he loves Queen Khulan in order to help mend her broken heart.]]
163	* MeaningfulName: He's named after Kublai Khan, the founder of the Yuan Dynasty in China. His soulmate in the other world, [[spoiler: Genghis]], is named after the founder of Mongol Empire.
164	* RedBaron: "King of the Sky Pirates."
165	* SkyPirate: The leader of the only band of Sky Pirates in the world, thanks to their flying airship and their dragon allies.
166	* StarCrossedLovers: [[spoiler:With Khulan at first, of the 'commoner loving royalty' type. That is, until she points out that, since her city was destroyed, she's technically not queen anymore...]]
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169	!Other
170	[[folder:Horace (ミラント Miranto)]]
171	!!Horace / Horologium
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173	A mysterious, ghostly boy who speaks to Oliver in riddles, and rewards him whenever he can figure them out. The player encounters him in various villages throughout the game.
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177	* ChildMage: He claims to be the Sage of Ages and the one who penned the first Wizard's Companion when we first meet him. Drippy doubts him almost immediately (thanks to having never heard of a "Sage of Ages") and thinks that he's just a braggart. [[spoiler:Turns out that he's lost his memory, and ends up being spurred on to regain it after meeting Oliver.]]
178	* DeadpanSnarker: He lets out a few snarks towards Oliver and Drippy, mostly towards the latter.
179	* DubNameChange: He's Miranto in the Japanese version.
180	* ItsAllMyFault: [[spoiler:He feels that leaving Cassiopeia behind and ignoring her for the sake of revenge against the Council is what started this whole mess, and that being forced to wander the world as a ghost, [[LaserGuidedAmnesia blissfully unaware of his actions in life]] for the longest time, is apt punishment for what he had done. When his sidequest is finally over, he gives Oliver the alchemy plans for a powerful wand and simply asks him to save his queen.]]
181	* LaserGuidedAmnesia: The fact that Horace can't remember his life from when he was alive distresses him greatly. [[spoiler: It's later revealed that, among other things, he was a student of the Wizard King, took part in the Wizard Wars, was tasked to train Cassiopeia in magic (which is why he wrote the Wizard's Companion, to be a manual of sorts for the future queen), and was part of the Nazcaan Council of Twelve as the original "Gallus". He left the Council when he realized their true intentions, afraid that they were going to snuff him out like they did the Wizard King, leaving behind Cassiopeia, who had tried to deal with their cruelty to her kingdom by invoking the Forbidden Spell, [[MysticalPlague manna]], which she thought would save her kingdom due to her spellbook's lack of details on certain spells.]]
182	* MyGreatestFailure: [[spoiler: He firmly believes that it was his resignation from the Council of Twelve is what doomed Nazcaa to ruin, and his constant thoughts of revenge for their evils blinded him to his duty to Cassiopeia. Because he had only wrote down spells with their descriptions in the Wizard's Companion he gave, but ''not'' their drawbacks, he inadvertently set Cassiopeia on her StartOfDarkness, who, in a misguided attempt to save her kingdom, used the Manna spell, causing the utter destruction of Nazcaa and the eventual birth of the White Witch.]]
183	* OurGhostsAreDifferent: [[spoiler:In that he's inexplicably a child when you first meet him, despite him dying as an adult.]]
184	* QuestForIdentity: He travels the world trying to figure out who he was.
185	* WalkingSpoiler: He plays a fairly major role in the game's backstory that is only revealed in post-game.
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188	[[folder:Old Father Oak (古の木 Ancient Tree)]]
189	!!Old Father Oak
190	->Voiced by: Alexander Morton
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192	A very old tree that lives in the Deep Dark Wood. He is one of the first people Oliver encounters in the other world. He assists Oliver by giving him his first spells and the Telling Stone, a compendium of knowledge.
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196	* DeadpanSnarker: Towards Drippy.
197	* DubNameChange: He's simply called the "Ancient Tree" in the Japanese version.
198	* TheMentor: Gives Oliver his first spells, as well as his first Familiar.
199	* WalkingTheEarth: Did so in his youth. How he did it is detailed in a Wizard's Companion tale that he gives you.
200	* WiseTree: [[spoiler:Though his backstory implies that he wasn't always so wise.]]

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