Line #498 Characters/TerraforMars


1	List of characters in ''Manga/TerraFormars''.
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5	[[folder: Bugs I]]
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7	The first expedition send to Mars to study the planet and the state of local flora and fauna. They were all killed by the first Terra Formars they meet, as their firearms were useless against it.
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9	!! '''George Smiles'''
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11	* BadassNormal: The man had no powers whatsoever, yet he still manages to kill a roach with just a sword.
12	* DoomedByCanon: It is known from the beginning of the story that the Bugs I mission had no survivors.
13	* TheHero: Although one of the tragic variety.
14	* HeroicSacrifice: Dies killing the first Terra Formars, but not before sending its head back to Earth, warning them about the cockroaches and allowing humans to develop the BUGS procedure and the M.O Operation.
15	* HeroesPreferSwords: and boy does he make the most out of it.
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17	[[/folder]]
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19	[[folder: Bugs II]]
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21	!! '''Hiruma Ichiro'''
22	-->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/TomokazuSugita
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24	One of the members of the Bugs II crew and [[spoiler: one of the only two to survive. During Annex I/Bugs III he is revealed to have become the current prime minister of Japan.]] His insect base is the Sleeping Chironomid.
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26	* AdaptationRelationshipOverhaul: In the live action film, Ichiro doesn't witness Thien's last stand and Komachi feels bitter about [[spoiler:his betrayal]], so unlike in the manga the two escape together on less than amicable terms.
27	* TheAtoner: [[spoiler:Ichiro regrets his actions during the Bugs II mission and tries to make up for it by protecting Akari Hizamaru and Michelle K. Davis during the Annex I mission.]]
28	* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: Bit of a [[SubvertedTrope subversion]] considering [[spoiler: he becomes the Prime Minister in Annex I though his power isn't very useful combat wise.]]
29	* TheChessmaster: Deftly manipulates the meeting with the other world powers to his advantage such as to secure the interests of the Annex I team (which countries such as the USA are ready to give up on).
30	* CompleteImmortality: His insect base allows him to survive pretty much anything, though someone has to splash liquid on him to awake him.
31	* FireForgedFriends: With Komachi [[spoiler: after escaping the Bugs II mission together and becomes an ally as the Prime Minister.]]
32	* {{Gonk}}: An overweight guy with freckles on his face.
33	* GuileHero
34	* LateArrivalSpoiler: [[spoiler: Reading Annex I before Bugs II will let you know he survives.]]
35	* LowerClassLout: Grew up in a poor family with a lot of siblings which is part of why he's so desperate for money [[spoiler: and attempts to betray the crew in Bugs II.]]
36	* SoleSurvivor: [[spoiler: One of the only two to survive the Bugs II mission.]]
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38	!! '''Akita Nanao'''
39	-->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/AyakoKawasumi (Japanese), Creator/CheramiLeigh (English)
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41	Member of the Bugs II crew and a childhood friend of Komachi.
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43	* AbusiveParents: Was abused by her stepfather. Komachi killed him after finding out and it's part of the reason the two joined the crew.
44	* MissingMom: [[spoiler: She is Akari's biological mother.]]
45	* SurprisinglySuddenDeath: While she and Komachi are puzzled at finding one of the martian roaches, it just walks up to them and casually [[NeckSnap snaps her neck]] -- abruptly setting the tone for the rest of the story.
46	* TooGoodForThisSinfulEarth: Not wanting Komachi to dirty his hands in her defense again, her dying words are for him to talk things out with the [[AxCrazy roaches]].
47	* TragicDream: Wanted to live a quiet life with Komachi after finishing the mission in Bugs II. She's the very first to be killed off in the arc, moments after making contact with the aliens.
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49	!! Dontello K. Davis
50	-->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/RikiyaKoyama
51
52	The commander of Bugs II and the father of Michelle K. Davis. His insect base is the Bullet Ant.
53	* ActionDad
54	* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: He's the commander for a reason.
55	* HeroicSacrifice: He lures a horde of roaches inside Bugs II and fights them off until the ship runs out of oxygen. [[spoiler:Tragically, Victoria asassinates him just after he loses consciouness.]]
56	* OneManArmy: Ship gets overrun by roaches and get surrounded to allow time for the crew to escape. So what does he do? Proceeds to man-handle every single roach in the vicinity.
57	* SuperStrength: His Base organism for the bug procedure turns him into a [[StrongAnts Paraponera clavata]] and boy do the roaches learn the hard way why they are called the strongest insects.
58	* WrestlerInAllOfUs: This guy takes out roaches using everything from an argentina backbracker, lariats, and a GODDAMN powerbomb. The last one in particular is later boasted by the narrator as the first bare-handed skill to ever kill a Terraformar.
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60	!! '''Zhang Ming-Ming'''
61	-->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/AyahiTakagaki
62
63	The Lieutenant of Bugs II and NumberTwo to Commander Donatello K. Davis. Her Insect base was a praying mantis.
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65	* ChildhoodFriends: With Liu Yiwu.
66	* MissingMom: [[spoiler:She along with Akita took part in Akari's creation, and he inherited her mantis abilities.]]
67	* SlayingMantis: Her Base operation lets her turn into one.
68	* CruelAndUnusualDeath: [[spoiler:Is decapitated with her own arm after a roach tore it off while dodging one her attacks.]]
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70	!! '''Thien'''
71	-->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/TomohisaHashizume
72
73	A Thai street kid that joined the BUGS II crew. His insect base is the Desert Locust.
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75	* CruelAndUnusualDeath: [[spoiler: Dies overdosing on the drug, transforming his body into a human-sized desert locust.]]
76	* BrokenTears: [[spoiler: After overdosing and transforming into a human sized insect, he laments to Komachi that he has nothing to live for and that he must look gross while crying a river of tears.]]
77	* ExtremityExtremist: JustifiedTrope as his base operation gave him freakishly powerful legs and is even called a Muay Thai boxer by God Lee.
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79	!! '''Victoria Wood'''
80	-->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/AmiKoshimizu
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82	* NotTheFallThatKillsYou: [[spoiler:When the roaches crash the Bugs II ship, Ichiro survives thanks to his revival powers but Victoria has no such luck...]]
83	* OpportunisticBastard: [[spoiler:Like Ichiro, she tries to betray the team, but unlike Ichiro, who is doing it for the sake of supporting his family, Victoria is solely in it for herself, planning on double-crossing those in charge of hers and Ichiro's secret mission once she gets back to Earth and using her powers over the Terraformars to gain great power.]]
84	* TheWorfEffect: Her abilities, which include being able to control the roaches with a special type of venom, and being able to hide inside their corpses and basically use them like suits, are perfectly suited to fight the roaches. [[spoiler:Unfortunately for her, the roaches are VERY quick to adapt, and [[AnArmAndALeg she promptly gets both of her legs sliced off by a newborn roach]].]]
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86
87	!! '''God Li'''
88	-->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/KenjiroTsuda
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90	* IWorkAlone: He refused Shokichi and Thien's aid.
91	* KilledOffscreen: The story cuts to him surprised but not noticeably scared that his flamethrower failed to faze one of the roaches to him already having his head torn apart by the thing as it invades the crew's base.
92	* TheWorfEffect: His flamethrower should've been effective against the roaches, buuuut...
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94	!! '''Maria Viren'''
95	-->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/NanaMizuki
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97	* DeathByIrony: In her dying moments, Maria recalls one time she smashed a roach in half with a sandal.
98	* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: A Terraformar chops her in half like she's made of butter.
99	* ScrewThisImOutOfHere: She was the first in proposing returning to Earth, only for Li to shot down the idea.
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101	!! '''Tejas Viji'''
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103	* OffWithHisHead: He uses his ability to spit out a burst of gas and propel his team's rover away from the roaches at high speeds... but one of them still rips his head off in a split second, mid flight.
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106	[[/folder]]
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108
109	[[folder: Annex I - Squad 1]]
110	!! '''Komachi Shokichi'''
111	-->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/HidenobuKiuchi (Japanese), Chris Smith (English)
112	[[quoteright:210:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/latest_4_9795.png]]
113
114	The protagonist of the Bugs II arc and the [[{{Deuteragonist}} tritagonist]] of the Annex I/Bugs III. He's [[spoiler: one of two to survive the Bugs II mission]] and later becomes the leader of the Japanese and American squad for Annex I. His insect base is the Asian Giant Hornet.
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116	* ArtificialZombie: [[spoiler: Col. Mai of the Chinese army seizes his body from Mars, infects him with the "zombie" spores, and implants mechanical devices in his brain that makes him completely unable to defy orders from his Chinese superiors.]]
117	* BladeBelowTheShoulder: While transformed, he has large stings over his arms to inject deadly giant asian wasp venom on enemies.
118	* BunnyEarsLawyer: Comes off as this at times, what with choosing the same 'crying spot' as Sheila and generally goofing around on the trip to Mars. After defeating a powerful Terraformar, he jokes about how one of the attributes of being a hornet is being a badass.
119	* CameBackWrong: [[spoiler: China stole his body from Mars, reanimated him, and turned him into a cyborg that must obey the orders of the Ubermensch group "We Are The Cosmos." Akari later fights Komachi and, with some help, manages to remove the body-controlling devices and bring him to safety.]]
120	* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Can come off as a bit of a goofball but he's one of the most skilled fighters in the series.
121	* DeathSeeker: For the duration of the Annex I mission, deep down Komachi wanted to die and join Akita and his old crew in the afterlife. [[spoiler:He is mortally injured in a heroic last stand against the roaches and Joseph, but Liu sacrifices his own heart for him and Mai holds him captive as a mind controlled servant. Komachi tries to convince Akari to kill him for good, but Akari resolves to bring him back and shake him off from his [[SurvivorGuilt grief at losing Akita]]]].
122	* DomesticAbuse: [[spoiler: Killed his childhood friend Nanao's stepfather after finding out he was abusing her]]
123	* AFatherToHisMen: Very protective of the members of his squad.
124	* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Draws most of the roaches to him while the younger members of Annex I get to the escape pods. He ends up dying not to the roaches, though, but instead in a MutualKill against the traitorous Joseph. Liu replaces Komachi's heart with his own before dying, but Mai captures and controls Komachi''s body afterwards.]]
125	* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: [[spoiler:During a brutal fight against Joseph he is stabbed through the heart, but retaliates by severing Joseph into several pieces before passing out.]]
126	* LateArrivalSpoiler: If you read Annex I before Bugs II you'll know that he survives.
127	* ManlyTears: He is quite prone to these. One could argue that they are more like TenderTears as he is usually crying for other people.
128	* ParentalAbandonment: [[spoiler:His murder of Akita's abusive father led to the financial ruin of his family and his parents disowing him, so Akita was the only one who came visit him in prison.]]
129	* ParentalSubstitute: Tries to be this for Michelle, in a gloriously awkward but heartwarming fashion, considering she's the daughter of [[spoiler: Dontello Davis]].
130	* PoisonousPerson: One of his insect base powers.
131	* ReforgedIntoAMinion: [[spoiler: His half-dead body is taken from Mars by China and turned into a tool for "We Are The Cosmos."]]
132	* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: In the OVA he is overcome by grief and he absolutely destroys any roaches in his way all to avenge his fallen friend Nanao. His rage factor also plays into the second Mars trip when he finds the roach with Nanao's bug DNA.
133	* SuperStrength: His other insect base power.
134	* SoleSurvivor: One of [[spoiler: the only two]] to survive the Bugs II arc.
135	* ThatManIsDead: In chapter 196, [[spoiler: he tells Akari that "Komachi" is dead, and he has to be given permission from his overseers to do so.]]
136	* TragicDream: Wanted to live a quiet life with his childhood friend Nanao after finishing the mission in Bugs II. [[spoiler: She's the first to be killed off in the arc.]]
137	* UnstoppableRage: When Nanao dies he goes completely berserk on every roach. Now with Annex 1 he still holds the same grudge against them and brutally murders the roach that holds Nanao's bug DNA.
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139	!! '''Marcos E. Garcia'''
140	-->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/KaitoIshikawa (Japanese), Creator/RobbieDaymond (English)
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142	* BatterUp: While holding his Arachne staff, Marcos plays batter as Akari pitches him balls to deflect through the roaches.
143	* BerserkerTears: He has an epic case of them that lasts through an entire battle as he takes out his grief over [[spoiler: Sheila being killed]] on a bunch of terraformars.
144	* CryIntoChest: He briefly rests his forehead on Alex's chest while crying after apologizing for [[spoiler: not being able to protect Sheila]].
145	* ChildhoodFriends: With Alex and Sheila.
146	* FragileSpeedster: [[spoiler:Faster than terraformars and quite strong too but lacks stamina. However, after running out of steam once [[WorfHadTheFlu due to being enraged]] he calms down and performs much better in the following fight against the roaches.]]
147	* HeterosexualLifePartners: With Alex.
148	* HotBlooded
149	* RazorFloss: Interestingly, his spider theme gives him a single short thread for him to fight physically with his staff -- a set up for Akari instead to be the one who uses threads at long range through his moth transformation.
150	* TelescopingStaff: "Kumo" can refer to both spiders and "riding a cloud", giving him a bit of a Monkey King theme when he uses his Arachne staff. Downplayed in that it doesn't extend, but instead has detachable ends held together by a short spider silk. He also hands it out to Akari so he can fight the Mole Cricket Terraformar.
151	* UnstoppableRage: [[spoiler:Downplayed; after Sheila's death he starts beheading roaches left and right in a rage but soon gets exhausted and Komachi has to smash another roach behind him.]]
152	* VitriolicBestBuds: with Alex.
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154	!! '''Sheila Levitt'''
155	-->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/AiKayano (Japanese), Creator/EricaLindbeck (English)
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157	* ADeathInTheLimelight: Episode 4 focuses heavily on her, [[spoiler:after she's killed by a terrorformars.]]
158	* ChildhoodFriends: With Alex and Marcos.
159	* DiedInYourArmsTonight [[spoiler:Dies over Komachi's arms, struggling to gasp out a DyingDeclarationOfLove for him despite the gaping hole in her chest. Komachi understands, but can only ruefully apologize before she passes away.]]
160	* PosthumousCharacter: [[spoiler:Dies early on in Annex I but we see a lot of her afterwards in flashbacks from Alex and Marcos.]]
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162	!! '''Kanako Sanjou'''
163	-->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/ChiakiTakahashi (Japanese), Creator/CheramiLeigh (English)
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165	* WingedHumanoid: Her white-throated needletail surgery gives her wings.
166
167	!! '''Keiji Onizuka'''
168	-->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/DaisukeOno (Japanese), Creator/MaxMittelman (English)
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170	A Japanese man under the tutelage of the Squad #1 leader Komachi Shokichi from the Annex I project. A former boxing champion who joined the the MARS mission after they fixed his detached retina. His MARS ranking is #8 and his surgery base is the Mantis Peacock Shrimp.
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172	* AnArmAndALeg:
173	** His left arm and right eye are disabled while fighting the Weevil Terraformar.
174	** Loses his right arm fighting the Dragonfly Terraformar. Still Wins.
175	** The [[MirrorBoss Mantis Shrimp Terraformars]] kicks both of his legs off, but Kenji is able to sprout another pair in time for round 2.
176	* BackToBackBadasses: With Xi Chun-li when fighting the Honeybadger Terraformar.
177	* BoxingBattler: Remember this guy is the Light-weight boxing champion, Keiji Onizuka.
178	* {{Determinator}}: Absolutely refused to stay down after the Infernalis Terraformar landed powerful blows that would've killed anyone else otherwise. Happens later again when fighting when even after Xi Chun-li injured him signifigantly he not only managed keep getting up but shock and intimidate her and three other Squad 4 members without having to throw a single punch.
179	* ExtremityExtremist: Comes with being a boxer, really.
180	* FriendlessBackground: Though he's friendly enough around strangers, he didn't seem to form any friendships while on Earth, and instead mostly spent time taking care of his sick mother. But once he joins the Annex I mission to Mars, he befriends many of the people there due to them recognizing his fame and having lived through a [[FireForgedFriends Fire Forged Friendship]] with them due to the attack from the Terraformars.
181	* GameBreakingInjury: Suffered a retinal detachment due to his boxing career. Unfortunately he got conned by someone during the process of finding a treatment, and lost all of his money made as a boxer as a result.
182	* HealingFactor: Since is surgery type is a crustacean like Sylvester Asimov, he can regrow limbs and bodyparts in a matter of minutes.
183	* HumbleHero: Next to Adolf Keiji is the most modest and earnest member of the Annex I/BUGS 3 team.
184	* IAmNotLeftHanded: To fight against a roach with the same powers as his own, Kenji removes his heavy armguards to gain speed and makes short work of it.
185	* Irony: His favorite food is sashimi (especially shrimp ) guess what his base is...
186	* MommasBoy: Comes home every weekend to visit his sickly mother. At one point she even tells him he should be finding a wife and friends.
187	* MegatonPunch: What makes him and is surgery base so dangerous. Just ask the Infernalis, Dragonfly, and Honeybadger Terraformars.
188	* MissingMom: His mother appeared to be sickly, and passed away sometime between when he was a boxer, and before he was selected for the latest Mars mission.
189	* OnOneCondition: Agrees to the U-NASA mission for Mars, on the condition that he can get the powers of a creature with really good eyesight. Michelle, his recruiter, says that he may not be compatible, but fortunately he survives the surgery.
190	* ThePowerOfFriendship: Though he was famous as a boxer, he seemed to largely come from a FriendlessBackground. However, when he joins the mission, he's humbled by how excited they are to be friends with him, and this gives him a much needed HeroicSecondWind during one of the fights against the Terraformars.
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192	!! '''Jared Anderson'''
193	-->'''Voiced by:''' Katsui Tara (Japanese), Creator/MaxMittelman (English)
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195	!! '''Kaiki'''
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197	!! '''Erika Nakanojo'''
198	-->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/AiKakuma (Japanese), Creator/StephanieSheh (English)
199	* TheMedic
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201	[[/folder]]
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203	[[folder: Annex I - Squad 2]]
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205	!! '''Michelle K. Davis'''
206	-->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/ShizukaIto (Japanese), Creator/EricaLindbeck (English)
207	[[quoteright:190:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/latest_2834.png]]
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209	The heroine and [[{{Deuteragonist}} deuteragonist]] of the Annex I/Bugs III arc. Michelle is the daughter of [[spoiler: Donatello K. Davis, commanding officer and one of the victims of the BUGS 2 expedition ]] and has the same powers without the Bugs Procedure. Her insect base is the Blast Ant. Leads the American and Japanese no.2 division.
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211	* ActionGirl: Most definitive example in a series that's full of them.
212	* AmazonianBeauty: Michelle hits the weights hard and she has a muscular physique to show for it. It's not certain if the primary cause is the weights or the surgery she went through.
213	* BadassAbnormal: Even outside of the transformed form, she has the superhuman strength inherited from her father.
214	* BattleCouple: [[spoiler: With Akari]] in chapter 195, but she's still the one in charge, and she ''never'' lets him forget it.
215	* BelligerentSexualTension: It's complicated. [[spoiler: She is often annoyed by Akari's more perverted aspects, but she seems to reciprocate his feelings. Joseph seems to play up the DoggedNiceGuy act, but Michelle seems to want nothing to do with him]].
216	* BigDamnKiss: In chapter 195, combined with NextTierPowerup. [[spoiler: She kisses Akari right in the middle of battle with a swarm of the Martian cockroaches and acquires Akari's RazorFloss abilities.]] It's implied that this isn't the first time either.
217	* BigEater: In a sketch, she helps herself to someone's dessert when it's apparent they aren't going to return.
218	* CursedWithAwesome: She sees the fact that she inherited her father's powers as this. [[spoiler: At age 13, she began showing signs, like manifesting antennae, surviving the "explosion" of an old schoolhouse, and so on.]]
219	* DarkAndTroubledPast: Mentioned in passing though not fully revealed as of yet.
220	* DeadpanSnarker
221	* DefrostingIceQueen: Mentioned to be this compared to how she used to be prior to the mission, particularly when she reminds her subordinates to not forget that they are human and not above rage, fear, or grief.
222	* HavingABlast: Her insect ability
223	* LivingMacGuffin: China makes this abundantly clear to her, [[BabyFactory in the worst possible way.]]
224	* MyEyesAreUpHere: It's something of a RunningGag for her to catch one of the males looking at her cleavage and tell them that if she catches them looking lower than her glasses a second time [[PervertRevengeMode there will be consequences]].
225	* NotSoStoic: She loses her composure when fighting the Bullet Ant Terraformar as it was made from the remains of her father.
226	* SugarAndIcePersonality: Caring and compassionate on one side. Fierce and unforgiving on the other.
227	* SuperStrength: The power that her Bullet Ant base grants her.
228	* StoicSpectacles
229
230	!! '''Akari Hizamaru'''
231	-->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/YoshimasaHosoya (Japanese), Creator/ChrisNiosi (English)
232	[[quoteright:227:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/latest_1_4564.png]]
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234	The protagonist of the Annex I/Bugs III arc. He is the son of a human who underwent the Bugs Procedure and his insect base is the Bagworm Moth. [[spoiler:His inherited base is later revealed to be a Mantis]].
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236	* AllYourPowersCombined: While fighting [[spoiler:Komachi]], he copies his hornet transformation and starts overwhelming him with the techniques of several other characters.
237	* ArtificialHuman: He's eventually revealed to be this.
238	* BadassAbnormal: Is introduced fighting a bear in a cage match, unarmed and ''winning'', ''after it beat him senseless and ate his entire crotch off'', only for him to regenerate it all and grow insectoid facial features. Yeah, this man wasn't normal from the start.
239	* BattleCouple: With [[spoiler:Michelle]] in in chapter 195.
240	* BelligerentSexualTension: With [[SugarAndIcePersonality Michelle]].
241	* TheBerserker: Can become this under certain conditions.
242	* ChivalrousPervert: The "pervert" part is obvious, but he's very protective of the crew's ladies, especially Michelle.
243	* ConvenientlyAnOrphan: Later revealed to be not so coincidental.
244	* {{Determinator}}
245	* TheGadfly: Frequently teases the other crew members.
246	* HeartIsAnAwesomePower: His base is the ''silk moth''. One would think (especially after Akita Nanao's fate in Bugs 2) that this is a useless power, but his silk strands are stronger than steel and incredibly versatile in combat, making him among the most powerful members of Annex 1. The narration even boasts that a silk moth's threads are superior than any spider's.
247	* TheHero: The protagonist of the overall series after the Bugs II arc.
248	* HotBlooded
249	* {{Hunk}}: And how!
250	* IOweYouMyLife: Akari declares Komachi lifted him from rock bottom when he invited him to join Annex I, so [[spoiler:he'll do whatever it takes to rescue him, who likewise once lost everything, from being controlled by the We Are The Cosmos]].
251	* ImprobableWeaponUser: His silk webbing, which he uses in a number of creative ways.
252	* InelegantBlubbering: Akari's face is covered in a mix of snot, tears, and saliva when he admits he loved Yuriko after she died. It is definitely not pretty. He can even be heard snorting and sniffling in the anime.
253	* KatanasAreJustBetter: His weapon of choice is a katana sword he can use with incredible skill and strength.
254	** EpicFlail: Sometimes attaches his silk to rocks and uses them as such.
255	* LivingMacGuffin: China certainly seems to think so. [[spoiler: He's actually an "escaped" human test subject, and China is trying to steal him back.]]
256	* LooseLips: Thoughtlessly blabs on Sheila's crush on the Captain to the entire ship.
257	* MrFanservice: His muscular body is prominently displayed in all its glory. That being said, unlike Joseph, he isn't seen fully shirtless as nearly as often.
258	** On the other hand, most of the clothes he ''does'' wear leave very little to imagination.
259	* ManlyTears: Akari cries when he finds out his childhood friend, Yuriko, died before he could help her.
260	* ParentalAbandonment: Akari had no knowledge of his parents. His father was never shown, [[spoiler:and his mother, Nanao Akita, died on Mars during the Bugs 2 mission]].
261	* PapaWolf: He's shown to be exceptionally good with children.
262	* RazorFloss: Combining his moth string with his mantis scythes gives him an especially nasty WhipSword of sorts.
263	* SlayingMantis: Becomes this in the later chapters of the manga starting at chapter 133.
264	* TallDarkAndHandsome
265	* TelescopingStaff: Marco lends his Arachne staff to Akari so he can fight the Mole Cricket Terraformar. Akari proves to be an InstantExpert with it, using the staff's thread and the attached heavy baseballs to beat up the cricket until it tries to flee.
266	* TragicKeepsake: Upon facing the mind controlled [[spoiler:Komachi]], Akari mentions security just confiscated a childish wristwatch he once had to buy after Yuriko tried to shoplift it, and that he'd like Komachi to buy him a new, more mature one as compensation later.
267	* TrapMaster: His Bagworm Moth base allows him to specialize in making nets.
268	* UnluckyChildhoodFriend: In an interesting [[InvertedTrope inversion of the trope]] it's him on the receiving end of this in the beginning.
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270
271	!! '''Alex K. Stewart'''
272	-->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/{{KENN}} (Japanese), [[Creator/SteveStaley Steve Cannon]] (English)
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274	* ChildhoodFriends: With Marcos and Sheila.
275	* CryLaughing: Yaeko tries to comfort Alex over [[spoiler: Sheila's death]] and he finds out she is older than him. Alex finds the idea hilarious and starts laughing. He ends up laughing as tears fall from his eyes, showing that he had been TryingNotToCry the whole time.
276	* HeterosexualLifePartners: With Marcos.
277	* {{Hunk}}: He really doesn't break the pattern of Anex I ''in the slightest''.
278	* ImprobableAimingSkills: His harpy eagle surgery gives him this.
279	* MrFanservice: Pretty easy on the eyes, isn't he?
280	** His M.O. Operation in particular excuses him to show of his ''very'' well-built upper body.
281	* SleevesAreForWimps: Justified by his M.O. Operation that granted him the abilities of a harpy eagle, meaning that he uses his upper body for most of his fights. Thus his huge, muscular arms get a lot of screen time. His biceps and triceps are ''easily'' some of the largest (if not THE largest) in the series.
282	* TallDarkAndHandsome
283	* VitriolicBestBuds: With Marcos.
284
285	!! '''Yaeko Yanasegawa'''
286	-->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/AkiToyosaki (Japanese), Creator/ErinFitzgerald (English)
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288	* ActionSurvivor: Technically the weakest crew member, yet survives several encounters with the Terraformars [[spoiler: and manages to return to Earth.]]
289	* ShipTease: with Alex.
290
291	!! '''Wolf Redfield'''
292	-->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/ShinnosukeTachibana
293
294	!! '''Peggy Forty'''
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297	[[/folder]]
298
299	[[folder: Annex I - Squad 3]]
300
301
302	!! '''Sylvester Asimov'''
303	-->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/UnshoIshizuka (Japanese), Creator/PatrickSeitz (English)
304	[[quoteright:210:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/sylvester_artwork_7897.png]]
305	A Russian soldier who volunteered for the mission after his own daughter who was pregnant with his son-in-law Alexander's child was infected with the alien virus.
306
307	* AFatherToHisMen
308	* AnArmAndALeg: Loses his right arm shortly after landing on Mars due to a Terrorformars attack. It barely slows him down though, thanks to a HealingFactor ability.
309	* BloodSplatteredWarrior: After Bvak is defeated, most of his body explodes over Asimov, leaving him fully covered in blood while the bystanders hail him as a [[RedBaron God of War]].
310	* BreakTheHaughty: He steps into Mars full of himself and not a moment after he loses one arm and ''two'' people to a single roach while holding back on the Mosaic transformation. He profusely apologises to Ivan for [[spoiler:Elena]]'s death with his head on the ground.
311	* FightingYourFriend: In his spinoff, Asimov fights his former brother-in-arms Bvak Bevzenko who turned to helping gangsters and a MadScientist for a chance to save his daughter from the Alien Engine virus.
312	* GiantEnemyCrab: A Terraformar hallucinates him as one.
313	* HealingFactor: That right arm he lost earlier? He regenerated it, then used it to lift up the Terrorformars that interrupted his soliloquy.
314	* HeroicSacrifice: He helps Komachi, Liu and Joseph hold off the roaches while the younger members of Annex I escape at the end of their mission.
315	* HuskyRusskie: Big, burly, and hard-drinking. His Tasmanian giant crab base doesn't help. But he's also smarter and more perceptive than he necessarily lets on.
316	* PapaWolf: To his actual daughter, his subordinates, and his son-in-law who ''also'' happens to be a subordinate and a PapaWolf in his own right.
317	* ThisIsUnforgivable: He wanted to talk things out with Bvak but finds him tearing his subordinate Tatiana in pieces just for also trying to resolve the incident peacefully. So Asimov greets him, shares some snacks, gives condolences for his daughter's murder... and declares he will beat him to death for what just happened.
318
319	!! '''Ivan Perepelkin'''
320	-->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/KenjiAkabane (Japanese), Chris Smith (English)
321	* LotusEaterMachine: His power, as he's a plant base. Jimson weed, to be more precise [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datura_stramonium]].
322
323	!! '''Elena Perepelkina'''
324	-->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/RomiPark (Japanese), Creator/ErinFitzgerald (English)
325	* BoyishShortHair: It's blonde.
326	* MsFanservice: The ''Asimov'' spinoff shows her undressing anytime she uses her powers. She has dozens of panty shots and more than one panel where she's nude. The illustrator for the spinoff is Creator/{{Boichi}}, who naturally turns the MaleGaze on her up to eleven.
327	* OffWithHerHead: [[spoiler:She's the subject of the infamously censored "basketball steal" [[http://i.imgur.com/sllOgh4.jpg scene]].]]
328	* TheStoic: Right until [[spoiler:the very end.]]
329	* TheWorfEffect: She's said to be a skilled sniper, so Sylvester is certain she can shoot a net to capture a terraformars from a distance without transforming. [[spoiler:The creature dashes past her in an instant with her severed head on hand.]]
330
331	!! '''Alexander Asimov'''
332	-->'''Voiced by:''' Toru Nara (Japanese), Creator/BrycePapenbrook (English)
333	* CoolShades: Almost never seen without his glasses.
334	* HeroicSacrifice:
335	* PapaWolf: He's on the mission to aid his pregnant wife and unborn child.
336	* SpannerInTheWorks: [[spoiler: To China.]]
337	* TrapMaster: [[spoiler: He killed several of China's henchmen with one.]]
338
339	!! '''Nina Yujik'''
340	-->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/YukoKaida (Japanese), Creator/StephanieSheh (English)
341	* BattleCouple: with her husband Aaron.
342	* BewareMyStingerTail: Her scorpion powers give her a tail.
343	* DeathByIrony: [[spoiler:Torn [[HalfTheWomanSheUsedToBe in half]] like her husband when an elite roach kicks a large steel ball through her. Notable for being the first one to die after a short time of success for the heroes, and said steel ball was one of the capsules meant to save them.]]
344
345	!! '''Aaron Yujik'''
346	-->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/MasamiIwasaki
347	* BattleCouple: with Nina.
348
349	!! '''Sergei Seleznyov'''
350
351
352	[[/folder]]
353
354	[[folder: Annex I - Squad 4]]
355
356	!! '''Liu Yiwu '''
357	-->'''Voiced by:''' Tetsuo Komura (Japanese), Creator/KyleHebert (English)
358	* ArmorPiercingAttack: Through a complete mastery of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fa_jin Fa Jin]], a hard exterior means ''nothing'' when it comes to resisting his strikes.
359	* CombatTentacles: His true power.
360	* FourIsDeath: He works for the bad guys, leads a team of renegades, he leads team 4, his fake M.A.R.S Ranking is 44 and his real one is 4. Yep, he fits to a t.
361	* GameFace: [[https://36.media.tumblr.com/899b06efdd721a89c60ab73042c010f2/tumblr_nyf0y29ng41rk0k4co1_540.png When he fully transforms]]. Add his ScaryShinyGlasses in the mix.
362	* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Gives the half-dead Komachi his own heart while dying from his last stand against the roaches.]]
363	* IKnowKungFu: He's a godddamned master, all right. This makes him especially dangerous to the roaches [[spoiler: and Asimov]] as he can deliver piercing blows even with his fist.
364	* PoisonousPerson: He breathes poison ink, [[spoiler: and his tentacles are poisonous.]]
365	* TragicDream: Was recruited by the Chinese Government for the Annex I mission under the promise of fixing his home town. [[spoiler: In reality, he knows Akira is his girlfriend's child and China wants him to capture the boy alive, and hand him over for experimentation. He's planning to kill Akira rather than let that happen.]]
366
367	!! '''Jet'''
368	-->'''Voiced by:''' Hidenori Takahashi (Japanese), Chris Smith (English)
369	* ArrogantKungFuGuy:
370	* GracefulLoseR:
371	* NothingPersonal:
372	* ProudWarriorRaceGuy:
373
374	!! '''Bao Zhilan'''
375	-->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/YukiOno
376	* AffablyEvil: [[spoiler: He's surprisingly cheerful while he's killing and kidnapping other members of Annex I.]]
377	* ClonesArePeopleToo: [[spoiler: Each and every one of his clones has a slightly different personality.]]
378	* MesACrowd: [[spoiler: His base lets him clone himself via budding.]]
379	* OneManArmy: Literally. In chapter 134, [[spoiler: he creates a large army of miniature copies of himself that he uses on Asimov to get around the crab armor.]]
380
381	!! '''Xi Chun-Li'''
382	-->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/SayakaOhara
383	* ChildSoldier: Was forced into the Chinese military at the age of 9.
384	* {{Determinator}}: "Give Up" is not a phrase in her dictionary.
385	* DontYouDarePityMe: She ''really'' did not like it when Kenji refused to strike at her.
386	* EnemyMine: She briefly works with Keiji to bring down a the Ratel Terraformar.
387	* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Hong is the only person she cares about.
388	* InvisibleStreaker: When she's using her powers, she's completely invisible to everyone, but Keiji. This effect does not translate to whatever clothes she's wearing, however.
389	* MamaBear: To Hong.
390	* PleasePutSomeClothesOn: Said word for word by Keiji who has dynamic vision thanks to his powers, and did NOT want to appear as a pervert.
391
392	!! '''Hong'''
393	-->'''Voiced by:''' Nozomi Sasaki
394	* BadPowersGoodPeople: Sweet, innocent, naive, and the base of her surgery is [[spoiler: a bacterial bioweapon.]]
395	* ChildSoldier: Just like Xi Chun-Li. In fact, she's currently 13.
396	* ExtremeDoormat: Most of squad 4 smacks her around, especially Bao.
397	* NiceGirl: A true example. She only uses her powers when her comrades, especially Bao, force her to do so. Sometimes at gun point.
398
399	!! '''Borgijin Dorjiberke'''
400	-->'''Voiced by:''' Takahiro Fujiwara
401	* FauxAffablyEvil: Is calm and polite, but that's a mask. He's really just a brutal, murderous thug.
402	* KillItWithFire: [[spoiler: Literally happens to him after being sprayed with skunk musk and then zapped by Eva Frost. He surprisingly survives.]]
403	* SuperSenses: His wolf surgery base gives him an exemplary sense of smell. He can even smell which direction your eyes are facing. [[spoiler: Akari uses this against him when a team-mate with a SKUNK base comes to his aid.]]
404	* WouldHitAGirl: While he ''claims'' differently, gender is not an issue. He'll kill anyone who gets in his way.
405	* WouldHurtAChild: Age isn't an issue either.
406
407	!! '''Li'''
408
409	!! '''Zheng'''
410
411	[[/folder]]
412
413	[[folder: Annex I - Squad 5]]
414	!! '''Adolf Reinhard'''
415	-->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/KojiYusa (Japanese), Creator/DougErholtz (English)
416	[[quoteright:210:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/latest_2_7687.png]]
417
418	The Leader Annex I Squad 5 (Germany and South-America)
419
420	* ADeathInTheLimelight: Episodes 8 and 9 focus heavily on him.
421	* AFatherToHisMen: Cares deeply for his squad, and attempts to keep them out of danger since most of them don't have useful combat powers.
422	* BewareTheQuietOnes
423	* BiblicalMotifs: He internally recites Exodus 9 when unleashing his UnstoppableRage upon the Terraformars when they have him and Annex 5 cornered, and it is ''amazing''
424	--> ''Moses stretched out his staff toward the sky, and the Lord sent thunder and hail, and fire ran down to the earth. And the Lord rained hail on the land of Egypt. So there was hail, and fire flashing continually in the midst of the hail, very severe, such as had not been in all the land of Egypt since it became a nation. The hail struck all that was in the field through all the land of Egypt, both man and beast; the hail also struck every plant of the field and shattered every tree of the field.''
425	* ChocolateBaby: He found his wife was cheating on him and that his child was not his own (ambiguous in the original manga but explicit in the anime and his prequel), but put up with it without saying anything.
426	* CoveredWithScars: Due to going under a high level of experimentation to acquire his powers, there are patches of scars around his whole body.
427	* CrucifiedHeroShot: As seen in the ''Rain Hard'' spinoff, if you're going to subject a child to horrible experiments supposedly for the greater good you might as well bind him to a cross as it happens. It also ends on a shot of the broken cross in the church he fought Hein to death, symbolizing him trying to move on from his traumatic past.
428	* DeathSeeker: His LastStand fight against the Terraformars, in which he unleashes his pent up rage and frustrations against them.
429	* DefiantToTheEnd: Manages to do a FlippingTheBird to the Terraformars' leader before it's struck by lightning.
430	* {{Determinator}}: Though severely weakened by his extended fight against the Terraformars, he still manages to survive long enough to attack their leader.
431	* DoNotGoGentle: Puts up quite a fierce fight before ultimately dying. [[spoiler:And unknown to him, even in his death a bomb planted inside of him ensured that none of his squad were captured alive by the Terraformars.]]
432	* FacialHorror: He has a scarred lower face and a sizable hole on his right cheek that he barely hides with his high collar.
433	* FightingYourFriend: In his spinoff, Adolf fights against Heinrich, a vengeful fellow research subject who was his only friend as a child.
434	* FlippingTheBird: Does this just as lightning comes down from the sky at the Terraformars leader.
435	* FriendToAllLivingThings: Despite his looks and his usual demeanor, he just loves animals and at times he's seen surrounded by them.
436	* GlasgowGrin: He wears a high collar to hide this from others so as not to scare them away.
437	* GoodScarsEvilScars: Most of his body is CoveredInScars.
438	* HeartBrokenBadass: Mainly due to his wife cheating on him and giving birth to someone else's child.
439	* HeroicSacrifice: Attempts to do this in order to save his squad. [[spoiler:Does it unintentionally when a bomb secretly implanted in him goes off, killing them, but sparing them capture by the Terraformars too.]]
440	* HeroicSecondWind: Gains one after his crewmembers risk their lives in an attempt to save him.
441	* {{Jerkass}}: His initial appearance.
442	** JerkWithAHeartOfGold: His true nature.
443	* NightmareFace: The left side of his mouth has mostly been burnt off.
444	* PsychoElectricEel: His Base Organism is an electric eel.
445	* ShockAndAwe: His powers revolve around the use of electricity.
446	* TheStoic: Rarely displays any emotion. (His high collar helps obscure his expressions as well.)
447	** NotSoStoic: [[spoiler:Though protrayed a bit more subtly in the anime, in the manga's version of his last stand, Adolf finds himself remembering his painful past. It starts with his horrific childhood and then climaxes with his wife having an affair and birthing a child that wasn't his.]] As he begins to tire from battle he calls out to the terraformars to fight him more as tears stream from his eyes.
448	* TakingTheBullet: Does this for Eva in episode 10. He actually succeeds to stop the bullets being shot at them, [[spoiler:but unfortunately he's too weakened by that point and they rely instead on large rocks hurled at them via a sling.]]
449	* ThemeNaming: He's a german man named [[UsefulNotes/NaziGermany Adolf]] who looks after a woman named Eva and his best friend was called Heinrich. There's no actual Nazi motifs to them other than their names, though.
450	* TraumaticSuperpowerAwakening: The MadScientist in charge of Adolf's experimentation started killing animals and beating Hein in front of him while Adolf was bound to a cross. Adolf awakened his electricity powers in a rage and immediately executed the man.
451	* WhyAmITicking: [[spoiler:Unknown to him, a bomb was placed in his body to prevent research from getting into the wrong hands.]]
452
453	!! '''Eva Frost'''
454	-->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/AyaneSakura (Japanese), Creator/CristinaValenzuela (English)
455
456	* BigDamnHeroes
457	* BreakTheCutie: Suffers immensely from this, [[spoiler:particularly after Adolf dies protecting her from the rocks being hurled at them.]]
458	* BringMyBrownPants: Happens to her in Episode 3.
459	* CameBackStrong: [[spoiler:Acquired Adolf's power set, and refuses to let herself be terrified any more.]]
460	* FullFrontalAssault: Subjects the [[spoiler:Chinese]] battleship to this. Justified as she didn't have access to clothing until after she joined Squad 1 and 2.
461	* GoodThingYouCanHeal: [[spoiler:Later chapters have her regenerate completely from a [[FromASingleCell piece of her own breast]], and acquiring Adolf's powers thanks to her base being a planera.]]
462	* GoThroughMe: Attempts to do this to protect Adolf. Doesn't stop the Terraformars from shooting them however.
463	* IronicName: Her name is "Frost."
464	* NakedOnRevival: [[spoiler:While she can grow a new body, she can't grow new clothes]].
465	* OffWithHerHead: [[spoiler:Right after Eva first revived, Joseph walked up to her like a jackass and beheaded her so he could copy her powers and make clones of her. Due to a flaw in her planera regeneration, the original Eva does not remember this when she comes back to life again.]]
466	* ShesBack: [[spoiler:After getting blown to shreds in Adolf self-destruction, Eva is still able to regenerate and comes back from out of nowhere and with a lot more confidence to save the protagonists.]]
467	* ShockAndAwe: [[spoiler:Inherits Adolf's lightning abilities after his death.]]
468	* TogetherInDeath: [[spoiler:With Adolf. At least initially.]]
469	* TookALevelInBadass: Is introduced being terrified by a single Martian Roach. By chapter 134, she's not only able to mow through armies of them without breaking a sweat, or using the transformation drug, [[spoiler: she can hold her own, one on one, against a Chinese space-faring warship, and the CHINESE are scared. She even manages to force them to do an emergency landing for repairs while she helps Squads 1 and 2 run away.]]
470
471	!! '''Isabella R. Leon'''
472	* TheWorfEffect: She faces off against a particularly bulky terraformar without fear as the narrator remarks raspy crickets are also large and ferocious. She doesn't last a single darn panel as the roach splatters her top half with a single punch.
473
474	!! '''Wac Ericson'''
475
476	!! '''Enrique'''
477
478	!! '''Sandra Hoffman'''
479
480	!! '''Antonio'''
481
482	!! '''Johann'''
483
484	!! '''Rachel'''
485
486	!! '''Mirapix'''
487
488	!! '''Fritz'''
489
490	[[/folder]]
491
492	[[folder: Annex I - Squad 6]]
493	!! '''Joseph G. Newton '''
494	-->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/AkiraIshida (Japanese), Creator/ToddHaberkorn (English)
495
496	The commander of Squad 6.
497	* TheAce: He is good at almost anything he does.
498	* BigDamnHeroes: He pull this when he comes to save Michelle and her friends.
499	* BigManOnCampus: Was popular in his High School. Winning the gold metal in "The King of the Athletes" decathlon must've contributed.
500	* ChekhovsSkill: He can quickly regenerate lost limbs despite being a "normal" human with no animal-themed superpowers... [[spoiler: His master's degree in Biology comes in handy when he steals Eva Frost's regenerative powers.]]
501	* CurbStompBattle: Not even the roaches really stand much of a chance against him.
502	* DeconstructedCharacterArchetype: Of [[spoiler: TheAce, TheGift, {{Ubermensch}}, WorldsStrongestMan and even BadassFamily!]]
503	* EvilAllAlong: Joe is presented as the ideal hero and an overall NiceGuy, when in truth [[spoiler:he is very messed up due to his upbringing and is plotting against the rest of the Annex I crew for his own benefit]].
504	* EvilCannotComprehendGood: Due to his complex over the nature of love, Joseph dares Komachi to [[spoiler:kill him in its name. At the same time he enjoys the fight and acknowledges Komachi as an WorthyOpponent, Joseph cannot stand how Komachi is driven by love for people who already dead]].
505	* FeelsNoPain: Subverted, when he is shot through the leg he feels immense pain, rolling around on the floor screaming his lungs out clutching the wound... Then double-subverted as he proceeds to dash at his assailants with his full focus on them. [[WoundedGazelleGambit The screaming and rolling around was all just a cover for Joe applying]] [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gate_control_theory Gate control theory]] to get the pain out of his system.
506	* FightsLikeANormal: Aside from some of the quirks that his genetics give him, Joseph relies on pure swordsmanship and GoodOldFisticuffs in battle.
507	* GeniusBruiser: Has a master's degree in Biology and Aerospace Engineering. He is also a decathlon winner and a very capable fighter.
508	** According to Michelle, his IQ is '''186'''.
509	* TheGift: Due to centuries of selective breeding for desirable genetic traits and dispositions within the Newton Family, Joseph is outright ''freakishly'' talented at just about anything he tries, has an ImprobablyHighIQ, and his ability to sleep with only certain parts of his brain at once makes him border on being full-on TheNeedless. Even his resistance to disease and a gut biology that lets him instantaneously absorb the energy in food factors into this. Against the Chinese squad he also demonstrates insane amounts of control over his body and torque from mastery of [[ArmorPiercingAttack Fa Jin]] well enough to launch the bullets lodged in his leg through one of his assailants, the ability to pivot while falling onto his heels while simultaneously accelerating at full speed like Michael Jordan and Miyamoto Musashi, and the ability to move his eyes independently of one another to avoid getting blindsided by Liu's CombatTentacles.
510	--> ''[[SeenItAll Yeah. Yeah, I see that look all the time. I know what you're thinking.]] [[ItIsDehumanizing "That's inhuman?!"]], right? [[ShutUpKirk Don't make me laugh. I'm the most human one around here]]. [[TalentedButTrained They don't excel in any of the talents humans have. Even though there are techniques you can learn, and flaws you can iron out through training, they don't put in the effort]], [[EldritchTransformation and in the end, they rely on some other organism's powers.]] [[NotSoDifferentRemark If you ask me, you're the inhuman ones]].''
511	* HealingFactor: [[spoiler: He took Eva Frost's regenerative powers for himself.]]
512	* HeroesPreferSwords: His personal weapon is a sword.
513	* {{Hunk}}: Ridiculously muscular and ripped to shreds.
514	* InSeriesNickname: Joe for short among friends and colleagues.
515	** He was also was featured on TV with a nickname of "Speedy Joe".
516	* {{Keet}}: Harshly Deconstructed. The very fact that Joseph has this kind of attitude and the perfect face for it, even if it's just part of how his charisma manifests was decided to be one of the best traits for the next Newton heir. [[GoMadFromTheRevelation He didn't take getting told that his "stupid face when he laughs" was what got him chosen very well.]]
517	* KickTheDog:
518	** [[spoiler:In the past, just to prove how love is fragile he ruined the relationship of his best friend Jack and his girlfriend Michelle by bribing a teacher to sexually harass her, resulting in Jack bring arrested for beating the teacher and refusing to explain anything to the authorities for her honor's sake. Joseph made a point to gloat about it to Michelle's face after impregnating her, so then even if she and Jack reunited they would have a hollow life.]]
519	** He callously beheads [[spoiler:Eva after she first revived, while she was confused and mourning Adolf following his self destruction, just to steal her powers and make obedient clones of her.]]
520	* LargeAndInCharge: Joseph is the commander of Squad 6 and while he isn't the tallest character in the series, he is still taller than Adolf(180cm) and Akari(177cm) at 187 cm height. Not to mention how ripped he is.
521	* LightningBruiser: Yeah, he is big, but also very fast. In fact, when he was a High School Senior he earned a gold medal in decathlon (a competition known as "The King of the Athletes").
522	** That was when he was only ''17''. Seven years later, at the age of 24, he is way beyond the fighting abilities of about 97% of the cast. Why? Well, he literally single-handily leaves a '''mountain of dead Terraformars''' and ''barely starts sweating'' from doing so, not even getting a scratch in the process. He looked more ''annoyed'' than anything else. Also, Joseph didn't even need a M.O. ability to do it!
523	* MasterSwordsman: Good enough to kill so many Terraformars.
524	* MrFanservice: The prime example in the series, more so than even Akari.
525	** In the anime [[spoiler: as well as the flashback in the manga after his real colors were revealed]], it was shown that he was rather muscular even in his teen years.
526	** Poor Yaeko was absolutely stunned by the sight of his [[ShirtlessScene bare upper body]], and had pretty much accepted as a fact that if he were to get a hold of her right there and then, she would would get pregnant soon after. This, despite of holding the unconscious [[ShipTease Alex in her arms]] and being terrified of the idea that they'd die in a matter of seconds, let alone '''the millions of roaches currently facing them!'''
527	* MoreThanMindControl: Is victim to this, thanks to the Chinese battleship commander's M.O. ability.
528	* MusclesAreMeaningful: Like most of the cast, but he exemplifies it and his remarkably low body-fat percentage makes him look even bigger than he is.
529	* NotQuiteDead: [[spoiler:Komachi makes sure to behead Joseph and slice his head in half, but the powers he stole from Eva still spring him back to life.]]
530	* OneManArmy: See LightningBruiser above.
531	* SexGod: Only Michelle seems to be able to resist him.
532	* SonOfAWhore: His actual birth mother was an Albanian or Lithuanian (his father doesn't remember which) prostitute and not the same mom he was raised by alongside his siblings. Apparently his father's nose was too high, and she was otherwise perfectly genetically dispositioned in a bunch of areas down to even her [[https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24957535/ Music accomplishment genes]] to produce a Newton heir. Learning this from his father arguably made him GoMadFromTheRevelation.
533	* TragicKeepsake: {{Implied}}. His sword was shown to have "George S." on it, possibly in the honor of George Smiles's memory. George Smiles is related to Joseph, most likely a cousin as they have a mutual grandfather in Alexander Gustav Newton. [[labelnote:*]] Interestingly, George Smiles also shares the last name with the Russian President Bladimir A. Smiles. This likely means that the Smiles family as a whole are connected to the Newton clan.[[/labelnote]]
534	** Meaning that he cared for him, at least more than their grandfather Alexander.
535	* VillainousCrush: He's in love with Michelle, but he's not as nice as he seems and the reveal of his dark past involves him [[spoiler:abusing another woman named Michelle just to ensure she and his former best friend couldn't be happy together]].
536	* WalkingShirtlessScene: Oh, ''yes!''
537	* WalkingSpoiler: There is more to Joseph that one might expect...
538	* WorldsStrongestMan: [[spoiler:The pinnacle of centuries of selective breeding to concentrate humanity's most desirable abilities into a single person, he is not called "The Foremost" for nothing]].
539
540	!! '''Marcia'''
541	[[/folder]]
542
543	[[folder: Ichi Security]]
544	!!Sho Saito
545	An old friend of Akari's who leads the homeless in the severs of Tokyo. His base is the Field Cricket.
546
547	!!Samurai Sword
548
549	* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: She's only known by her codename for some reason.
550
551	!!Tatsuhiro Someya
552
553	* CharlesAtlasSuperpower: He's as powerful as Joseph despite hailing from a completely normal family line.
554
555	!!Joichi Hongo
556
557	* IKnowMaddenKombat: He fights as if he's playing Soccer.
558
559	!!Asataro Kusama
560
561	* HeadTurnedBackwards: The half-roach infant sneaks behind him and twists his neck backwards, but as an owl-person he just asks what the heck the kid is and tosses him aside.
562	* TheWorfEffect: Much like his master, he jobbed to the Invoker ''offscreen''. And that's despite Asataro having an overwhelming advantage due to the Invoker being scared witless and missing an arm.
563
564	!!Itsuki Kazemura
565
566	* BodyHorror: He underwent the M.O. operation repeatedly as treatment for an incurable disease while being incompatible with regeneration-based powersets, which left him to fight as a chimera in a constant state of metamorphosis.
567	* ComboPlatterPowers: His long list of animal bases is Joro Spider, Bird, Anaconda, Komodo Dragon, Porcupine, Longhorn Beetle, Przewalski's Horse and Japanese Raccoon Dog.
568	[[/folder]]
569
570	[[folder: Others]]
571
572	!!Terraformars
573
574	Genetically engineered super-roaches that were created to help make the environment on Mars more acceptable for humans. However the roaches spread faster than expected and evolved into bizarre humanoid like beings and have an instinctual desire to kill humans much like humans do towards roaches.
575	----
576	* AdaptationalNiceGuy: The ones in the film are capable of understanding mercy and showing it to humans. The ones in all other continuities would gladly use any mercy showed to the to stab the offerer in the back ForTheEvulz.
577	* AlienBlood: Their blood is yellow.
578	* AlwaysChaoticEvil: Absolutely none of them are shown to have any sympathetic traits at all.
579	* AntagonistAbilities: They are numerous, extremely powerful and resourceful. They quickly learn from mistakes, gain convenient abilities and immunities with each newborn and realize they can't fully depend on a leader figure once it is defeated by Adolf. One major example is how they acquire [[spoiler:the abilities of the Bugs II crew members they effortlessly killed and use them to far better effect]].
580	* AtrociousArthropods: The Terraformars are humanoid cockroaches who were created to help humans adapt to Mars but evolved and now seek to destroy humans.
581	* AxCrazy: The roaches, including the [[spoiler:half-human hybrids]], are from birth extremely violent and dangerous towards everything. The "Earthformars" invaders, however, work with much more sublety in the shadows for 17 years to take Japan by storm.
582	* BearsAreBadNews: Early in Part 3, Tatsuhiro fights a Earthformar who on top of gaining the traits of a bear was also grafted with the claws, jaws and hide of an actual bear so it could pretend to be a statue in an expo at Tokyo Tower.
583	* BodyHorror: Due to their inability to feel pain and disregard for their own lives, they don't care if they undergo surgery that adds to them the traits of other animals or are outright fully transformed into things like a bear and a whale after a BrainTransplant or some such.
584	* CampingACrapper: From the beginning of Annex I to when the heroes are dealing with their invasion on Earth, the roaches are shown to frequently capture and kill people who are in bathrooms.
585	* ChildSoldiers: Hating humans is something the roaches have begun learning at a young age, and are shown indoctrinating their young to kill humans. During the Chinese squad's betrayal and the Terraformars attacking the Annex en masse, the older roaches drop several of these things in with knives. To no one's suprise, they are [[PintsizedPowerhouse still insanely strong and fast]] and two of them manage to drag off one of the female Annex crew at breakneck speeds. [[NothingIsScarier She is never seen or heard from again]].
586	* CreepyCockroach: They're giant humanoid roaches that want to wipe out mankind. They might be the most pronounced example in all anime.
587	* DarkMessiah: Several roaches have developed intelligence and leading ability far greater than the other roaches, making them messianic and leader figures to the roaches in their goal to exterminate mankind.
588	* DecapitatedArmy:
589	** When Adolf manages to kill the roach leader on Mars, the rest withdrawl for a while and leave the other Annex I squads suspicious. Some time before the war, the roaches began to realize they couldn't depend on a single genius to guide them, and his death enabled them to rethink their strategies and raise the intelligence of each individual member of their race.
590	** During the invasion on Earth, the plan is to kill the Invoker on live television to put his army into disarray but Asataro only manages to record him fleeing before (unsuccessfully) blowing him up. As it is, the other roaches realize something went wrong but keep fighting indefinitely.
591	* DependingOnTheArtist: In the ''Asimov'' spinoff, Creator/{{Boichi}} portrays the standard roaches in a state of perpetual rage unlike the mostly emotionless behavior they display in the main story.
592	* DirtyCoward: Thanks to his human-like intelligence the Invoker (and likely the other leader roaches) actually fears for his life, so he'll avoid direct combat and flee in a panic if outmatched. However, what this means is that he can ''overcome'' fear like the heroes do so often and also survive against impossible odds.
593	* EliteMook: Some of them are bulkier and three times more powerful than their fellows through a high-protein diet from birth, [[SquareCubeLaw but can't fly]]. They also learn to [[spoiler:acquire the abilities of other animals, changing their appearance like the humans do]].
594	* EvolutionPowerUp: [[spoiler: They gain the abilities of the Bugs II crew members during Annex I]].
595	* FeelNoPain: Their inability to feel pain works both for and against them, either letting them power through injuries to score a hit or whiff when they don't notice they're missing a foot, or be unable to process a concussion from a punch to the jaw despite being prepared to fight with a missing head.
596	* FullFrontalAssault: Most of the roaches are naked, with [[BarbieDollAnatomy no visible genitals]]. The leaders set themselves apart by wearing togas, and a few of their warriors wear makeshift hakamas, both seemingly made from the silkworms also mutating on Mars.
597	* GangstaStyle: When they're first seen wielding firearms, a couple of them [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything are holding them sideways]]. They seem to stop doing that in later scenes though.
598	* GeniusBruiser: As part of their strange evolution the roaches learn incredibly fast, having learned how to use firearms in Bugs II [[spoiler: and gaining Bugs Procedure abilities in Annex I]].
599	* GoneHorriblyWrong: They were created to make Mars's environment livable through letting moss and cockroaches, one of the sturdiest animals on Earth, flourish and let their life cycle and the air they exhale create an ozone layer and potentially terraform it entirely after 600 or so years. On the surface, a genius idea to create more living space for the crowded and culturally stagnating Earth. But the cockroaches ended up somehow mutating through what's implied to be alien LostTechnology left on Mars into LightningBruiser killing machines with a complete LackOfEmpathy. China [[spoiler: and several [[AncientConspiracy eugenics-obsessed secret societies]] feeding them info about Earth and Annex I ends up backfiring when they use it to fix Bugs I and go to Earth on it.]]
600	* GoodEyesEvilEyes: They, including the [[spoiler:half-human hybrids]], have round eyes with large pupils. Even the ones fused with animals such as bears and whales can be spotted by the looks of their eyes.
601	* GoodSmokingEvilSmoking: One of the Martian roach leaders seen at the very end of Part 2 enjoys smoking from a pipe.
602	* HalfHumanHybrid: [[spoiler:By forcing captive human women to mate with the roaches, they birth people with the roaches' signature large eyes and AlwaysChaoticEvil attitude.]]
603	* HateSink: As entertaining as they can be, the Terraformars are OmnicidalManiac villains with no redeeming qualities whatsoever. Their human experimentation and the fate of the girl they found early on their invasion is shown in disturbing detail, provoking the seething rage of the protagonists. The Invoker in particular skedaddles his way to safety during the war solely on [[TheWorfEffect offscreen victories]] [[JokerImmunity and]] [[DiabolusExMachina contrivances]] as if its just to annoy the readers.
604	* TheHeavy: Though there are various political schemes going on in the background and the mystery of Rahab, the roaches remain the largest threat.
605	* TheIllegal: After the colonization of Mars goes horribly wrong, the roaches become literal illegal aliens who infiltrate human civilization to defile women and destroy just about everything and everyone ForTheEvulz. The cherry on top of the trope is that once the roaches unleash their forces over the world, the ignorant masses ''feel sorry for them on social media'' for being [[HumansAreTheRealMonsters a product of human greed]]!
606	* KickTheDog: During their invasion of Earth, the roaches start breeding humans for experimentation. That little girl who found them in the Bugs II arc's ending? Raised under captivity for several years and forced to give birth twice but is otherwise unharmed... until the roaches abruptly microwave her and another man to death. As the protagonists begin to learn this is going on, they seethe with murderous rage and swear to wipe the roaches off the face of the Earth.
607	* KnightOfCerebus: They cause some of the heaviest [[MoodWhiplash Mood Whiplashes]] in the series as characters start dying in droves once they show up.
608	* LackOfEmpathy: Life itself has no value to them. [[spoiler:One adult HalfHumanHybrid gives a good glimpse of what goes in the roaches' nihilist minds.]]
609	* LightningBruiser: All of them are incredibly fast for their large size and any casual swing of their arms can tear people apart like tissue paper or flat out explode them to shreds.
610	* MadeOfIron: Their skin has the toughness of a roach's in a human's scale, on top of being able to survive grievous injuries including beheading for some time. Their head ''and'' torso must be critically damaged to make sure they stay down. Definitely, they are cockroaches after years and years of workout in a gym.
611	* MonsterLord: Evolved Terraformars were first born towards the end of the [=BUGS2=] arc. They have immunities to whatever caused their predecessor's death and have great intelect and leadership ability, such that common roach-men follow their orders the moment they see them. The one leading the Earth invaders in particular is nicknamed "Invoker".
612	* ObviouslyEvil: They're towering muscular cavemen with uncanny-looking faces and bulging eyes who kill humans on a whim. And then there's, ''yes'', how the story tends to milk them being a ScaryBlackMan stereotype in looks and body language for all its worth.
613	* OffWithHisHead: Decapitation is their most frequent means of killing people. This often happens to them as well, though the rest of the body might keep moving for a while unless their "second brain" is destroyed. The Invoker actually has his core organ divided into many pieces all across his torso, so despite suffering decapitation from Ivan and with a gaping hole on his chest his body still races after his head and puts it on backwards before killing the russian leader and getting back to home base.
614	* {{Omniglot}}: Considering the fact that they can operate computers, and surf the internet, they must at least be able to read some human languages, if not understand them when spoken.
615	* OneGenderRace: The roaches are all male and reproduce upon death by laying eggs which hatch into two or more roaches with improved traits and even immunities to what killed their predecessor. Strangely, nobody is ever concerned about destroying any of those eggs before they grow and hatch. [[spoiler:The two known roach-human hybrids are also both male and whatever was done to conceive them in the human experimentation labs is only implied.]]
616	* PaperThinDisguise: Despite their unnatural apparance, they can walk among civilians just fine by wearing heavy clothing and a hat. This does puts them at a disavantage because they naturally cannot fly while dressed.
617	* ThePlague: The goal of Annex I is capturing some terraformars to research the seemingly incurable Alien Engine virus they carry and that's been spotted on Earth. To match the pyramids they build, the virus just so happens to be shaped like an ankh.
618	* PowerCopying: [[spoiler:Stole the powers of the BUGS II crew and some members of the Annex I. Later on Earth they steal the abilities of any living animal they experiment on.]]
619	* ThePowerOfHate: They hate all living things and attack anything in their way. They specifically hate humans in the same way that humans hate cockroaches.
620	* PrecursorWorship: This is one of the theories posited for their unusual behavior. The fact that the DarkMessiah roaches usually wear togas and monk's robes certainly gives credence to this theory.
621	* RollingAttack: The roaches can perform this by [[spoiler:acquiring the traits of animals like echidnas and armadillos. Going all [[Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog Knuckles]] in particular lets them tear through their victims with their back spikes]].
622	* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: When the Invoker is cornered by Asataro, he actually tries bolting out of the helicopter in a panic -- an unusual attitude for a martian roach, due to his more human-like mind.
623	* StarfishLanguage: The roaches clearly have some kind of very complex language, but they only voice very few sounds, "Joh," "Joj," "Ji," and "Gi" with varying inflections.
624	* TakeOverTheWorld: The roaches managed to invade Earth via the Bugs I ship as seen in TheStinger of the Bugs II arc. Turns out the planet's urban areas and natural resources work just perfectly for them to exponentially raise their numbers and carefully work in the shadows until they can conquer Japan and then the rest of the world.
625	* TheStoic: The terraformars tend to have a blank expression as they fight, kill and are injured. Even so, they [[NotSoStoic can]] crack a PsychoticSmirk when they feel like taunting their opponents. Leaders such as the Invoker are more emotional and are [[NotSoStoic capable of feeling fear]].
626	* UnskilledButStrong: The roaches are incredibly strong. They are strong enough to wipe out even the best off BUGS 2 and Annex 1. But they lack in the skill that the other Annex 1 posses and it sometimes leads to their defeat.
627	* VillainRespect: In the 2016 Terra Formars film, the Terraformar Overlord orders the roaches to stand down and let Shokichi and Ichiro leave Mars because Shokichi spared his life after Shokichi beat him.
628	* XanatosSpeedChess: Their ability to anticipate and counter human armaments and tactics on Earth is downright terrifying. [[spoiler:Roaches are attacked by aircraft on a bombing run, send the "Dragonfly" up to deal with them. "Dragonfly" gets taken down by SWAC using a microwave weapon, shoot it down with a home-made rocket makeshift missile. Bombard the area by destroyer, hijack a 747 flying above, by Roaches already on board, and drop it onto the destroyer.]] The Japanese prime minister sadly proclaims that exterminating a group of Martian Roaches on Earth would require ''a lot'' of human casualties.
629	* WeHaveReserves: The Martian roaches don't care about their lives, or the lives of their compatriots. As long as the mission objective is complete and even one roach remains, that roach will rejoice.
630	* WouldHitAGirl: If the Terraformars have no immediate threats in a battle, they'll capture and rip apart any defenseless human female close by. Despite the gang rape imagery, it is specifically noted they do this either ''[[ForTheEvulz no particular reason]]'' or to reduce the chance of their enemies reproducing. [[spoiler:However, the Earth invaders hold women captive and [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil force them to bear human-roach hybrids]] before executing them in microwaving chambers.]]
631
632	!! We Are The Cosmos
633
634	A highly enigmatic group of individuals from various nations working together based in Roma with various facilities scattered around the Earth in various nations.
635
636	* AncientConspiracy: They are interwoven in several, including the Newtons.
637	* ArrangedMarriage: Most, if not all, of their members are the product of centuries of selective breeding.
638	* HalfHumanHybrid: As shown in chapter 198, [[spoiler:the end goal of their human experimentation on the artificial island was to breed half-human, half-terraformar hybrids, and they succeeded.]]
639	* HumansAreInsects: They see humanity, as a whole, as nothing more than obnoxious rutting beasts, at best, despite being humans themselves. In fact, they show more empathy and respect to the Terraformars than to their own species, and that's not very much.
640	* MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate: Nobody, even on their own staff knows what their final objective is, but they're all dedicated to the cause above all else, including human lives, even those of their native countrymen.
641	* NonstandardCharacterDesign: The two members that go to recover Joseph's [[HealingFactor regenerating but seemingly dead body]] look more like {{Manga/Blame}} characters than the neo-astronauts that the Annex and Bugs crews have. They carry [[ImpossiblyCoolWeapon outrageous-looking weaponry]], wear exotic clothes and [[AsLongAsItSoundsForeign have absurd names]], in contrary to the multinational Annex crew with sensible enough names for people of their nationality.
642	* OutsideContextProblem: Their organization is still a complete mystery even after they go to recover Joseph's body, and it seems like no one but Roma planned with them in mind.
643	* SigilSpam: Everything they design is marked with "We Are The Cosmos".
644	* SocialDarwinism: They view themselves as the ultimate life-forms, deserving to rule everything they survey, and if you're not strong enough to resist, too bad for you. Even if you are strong enough to resist, the best you can hope for is CondescendingCompassion.
645	* {{Ubermensch}}: Considering themselves to be "True Cosmopolitans", they answer to no authority or doctrine save their own.
646	* WeHaveReserves: ZigZagged. When it comes to their personnel, they ultimately do not care, not even in regards to close family members. When it comes to equipment and research data, that is considered irreplacable, as there's NoPlansNoPrototypeNoBackup.
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