Characters / Beyblade Metal Fusion Main Characters

The main characters for the Beyblade: Metal Fusion. Together with their Beys and spirit, they work hard to become stronger bladers.

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Gingka Hagane

Gingka Hagane

Voiced By: Aki Kanada (Japanese), Robert Tinkler (English)

The protagonist of the series who inspires others. He is a firm believer in The Power of Friendship and believes that bey battles are meant to be fun.

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• The Ace: He’s especially skilled and one of the strongest Beybladers around.
• Big Brother Mentor: To Kenta. Subverted in Metal Fury as Kenta feels that he Can't Catch Up even after Gingka's mentorship and leaves the group, instead traveling with Ryuga, whose indirect Training from Hell helps Kenta Take a Level in Badass much more than Gingka's ever did.
• Big Eater: Gingka can really pack away those burgers.
• Blow You Away: His Tornado Wing, Storm Bringer, and Cosmic Tornado special moves stand out.
• The Chosen One: One of the Legendary Bladers; he stands for the season of Autumn and planet Earth.
• Critical Status Buff: Cosmic Pegasus' Final Drive triggers when its spin power is low, boosting its attack power for an all-out final attack.
• Death from Above: His Signature Move, the Starblast/Starbooster Attack.
• The Drifter: Though he decides to stay with Kenta & Madoka.
• Death or Glory Attack: Cosmic Pegasus' Final Drive will kick in once it's spin power is low enough, granting it a dramatic boost in speed and attack power at the cost of rapidly burning away what little stamina it has left.
• Does Not Like Spam: While he loves burgers, he loathes hotdogs with a passion.
• Experienced Protagonist: Has been a Blader much longer than the time the audience has been introduced to him in the show proper.
• Free-Range Children: Sure, it's a kid's show, but social services should have caught Gingka within the first day of his cross-country trek.
• Genius Ditz: Whilst he has his dumb moments, he's not really an idiot. He seems extremely knowledgeable in blading and can cope with things on his own.
• Good Is Not Dumb: He's a good deal smarter than most shonen heroes. He seems to dumb up a little bit in Masters, but even then, he isn't stupid.
• Heroic Rematch: In Fusion, he lost to only three people, (Ryuga, Yu, and Phoenix) and defeated them awesomely in his rematches with them.
• Hero Protagonist: As the protagonist and hero spanning all three seasons, Gingka definitely counts.
• Hot-Blooded: He is very passionate about ninety percent of anything he does with frequent shouting and expressing his emotions in a volatile way. He's also very excitable when it comes to matches.
• Pegasus: His Bey's motif.
• Light Is Good: Most of his special moves (Starblast Attack, Starbooster Attack, etc.) have Pegasus raining down with speeding blue light.
• Lightning/Wind Juxtaposition: Throughout Metal Masters, he's the Wind to Masamune's Lightning.
• Meaningful Name: Gingka means 'Galaxy', referencing his numerous Cosmic Motifs. Hagane, his surname, translates to 'Metal', referencing his status as The Hero of the Metal Saga.
• Missing Mom: Gingka's mother is never seen, nor mentioned once in the series.
• Primary-Color Champion: His hair is red, while his iconic jacket and headband are blue.
• Pointless Band-Aid: Wears a band-aid at all times, seemingly just as an accessory.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: The Red to Kyoya's Blue. Gingka is excitable and cheerful, while Kyoya is much more aloof and stoic.
• Scarf of Asskicking: Wears a long white scarf, which is iconic enough that the Russian DJ refers to him as the "Japanese scarf model", and is one of the strongest bladers in the show.
• Stock Shōnen Hero: A Kid Hero with a noticeable case of Anime Hair. He is a Legendary Blader, likes food, and has some goals To Be a Master. He lacks the normal Idiot Hero traits for the most part, though even though he's very Hot-Blooded.
• Super Prototype: His second beyblade, Galaxy Pegasus is the prototype version of Storm Pegasus. Despite this, it is extremely powerful, but originally uncontrollable, thus why the weaker Storm Pegasus is the final version. It chose Gingka to wield it, though, so he's able to control it.
• The Power of Friendship: Gingka uses this in most of his matches, using the power of his friends and rivals to save Ryuga's bey spirit and defeat the dark power, defeating Damian's Hades Kerbecs with the power of his friends, and using the power of the Star Fragment of his friends, rivals, allies, and old enemies beys to defeat Rago, Pluto, and Nemesis's Fusion Dance.
• To Be a Master: Not as much as Hikaru or Masamune, but his goal is to be the strongest blader in the world.
• Trademark Favorite Food: Hamburgers.

Kyoya Tategami

Kyoya Tategami

Voiced By: Satoshi Hino (Japanese), Peter Cugno (English)

The former leader of the Face Hunters and Gingka's biggest rival.

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• Adaptational Jerkass: A lot meaner than he was in the manga (in the manga, he was a pretty friendly guy).
• Always Someone Better: Just like Kai, Kyoya is not allowed to defeat Gingka. And this does not settle well with him, at first.
• Anti-Hero: Though Kyoya does fight on the side of good, he is very harsh toward others and shows no mercy toward his opponents.
• Badass Longcoat: Wears a long, green one at all times, though he drops it in Fury.
• Big Damn Heroes: In The Movie. He stopped Bakim's Beyblade from blowing Helios and Gingka away.
• Blood Knight: Isn't afraid to get into a battle with anyone especially if that person is a tough opponent (like Gingka).
• Blow You Away: His Bey Leone uses many wind-based attacks.
• Character Development: Kyoya's arrogance at the beginning of the series was unrivaled. He didn’t respect his teammates (besides maybe Benkei) very much, even though he respects his bey, he does not care for it. But this changes later in the series. During the survival battle, Rock Leone's performance tip cracks as a result of using a special move against Hyoma which he comes to know. During his battle against Yu Tendo in Episode 22, he withdraws his bey from the battle because he cared for his bey, which shows a change in his personality.
• The Chosen One: One of the Legendary Bladers; he stands for the season of Spring.
• Cute Little Fangs: Has a pair, but they aren't really 'cute' so much as 'menacing'.
• Determinator: Kyoya has climbed up dangerous mountains, scared off wolves, defeated hundreds of bladers that kept challenging him all night, and even took down a tornado! This dude will do anything it takes to defeat Ginja and has not given up on that dream yet. This trope is at its peak during his battle with Damian Hart, Kyoya battles hard, and for most of the battle feels out of his league due to Damian's overwhelming power. Kyoya fights on to the point where he is dragged into Kerbecs' gate which is Damian's World giving Kyoya a huge disadvantage. After being battered and beaten by Kerbecs over and over Kyoya remembers what he's fighting for, at that point, Kyoya changes the realm from the underworld to the wilderness making it the lion's territory.
• Deuteragonist: Of Metal Fusion. Kyoya was Gingka's greatest rival until Ryuga came along, and became an ally after going through Character Development.
• Evil Laugh: Sported an impressive one before his second fight with Gingka.
• Genius Bruiser: After his Heel–Face Turn, he gets more mature and wiser. Even before then, his smarts were nothing to sneeze at.
• Glowing Eyes of Doom: Gained these briefly early on in Metal Fusion.
• Good Is Not Nice: A good guy definitely but he doesn't sugarcoat things toward others. He also doesn’t pull any punches while Beyblading.
• Good Scars, Evil Scars: His cross-shaped scars beneath his eyes signify his status as an Anti-Hero.
• Heel–Face Turn: After losing to Gingka a second time and discovering that the Dark Nebula was using him, Kyoya decided to turn over a new leaf.
• Hypocritical Heartwarming: He can be a jerk to his allies at times, but he will NOT tolerate anyone else doing it. A perfect example of this is when he calls out Rago for badmouthing Ryuga after the latter's gruesome defeat.
• Icy Blue Eyes: He has blue eyes and is not the nicest guy, though his eyes aren't as pale as the usual variety.
• Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: During his battle with Ryuga, the semi-physical manifestation of L-Drago pierced his chest. It's as weird as it sounds.
• Informed Loner: He often refers to himself as an "independent lone lion", but was introduced as the leader of a one hundred blader team in Fusion and almost always has Benkei at his side. In Masters, he becomes the leader of another team to compete in the Beyblade World Championship and spends half of Metal Fury traveling with Gingka and the others in search of Legender Bladers. Even when he separates from them, Tithi and Yu eventually take their place as his travel companions. Aguma even calls him out on this at one point.
  Aguma: Your determination? That's funny. It's funny because I always see you with Gingka and the rest of that little playgroup of yours.
  Kyoya: *scoffs* Playgroup?
  Auguma: What part of being in a playgroup speaks about your determination? No matter how much you deny it, you're just a sheep in the flock. Isn't that right?
• Jerkass: Big time in the beginning. Everyone was fair game to his vicious attitude, including his own Face Hunters. After his second defeat to Gingka, he still isn’t very friendly, and can sometimes be selfish, but he mellows out considerably.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: After his Heel Realization, he’s still not outwardly the friendliest guy, but he’s genuinely loyal to those who count on him, and will lend a hand to help, looking out for his companions.
• King of Beasts: His bey, Leone, stands in for the constellation of Leo, and as such has its motif as a lion.
• The Lancer: During Metal Fusion, as Gingka's rival, foil and de-facto second in command.
• Large Ham: His seiyuu was having just a bit too much fun during Kyoya's first episodes.
• Loners Are Freaks: He even admits it himself!
  • Misunderstood Loner with a Heart of Gold: He's actually a pretty decent guy, as long as you don't piss him off or if you're Gingka. Even in the manga, he's a whole lot nicer than his anime counterpart.
• Mr. Fanservice: Kyoya is very muscular and his attire usually shows off a lot of his muscles. Especially his Metal Fury appearance.
• The Only One Allowed to Defeat You: You won't believe the trouble he goes through just to have a rematch with Gingka.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: The Blue to Gingka and Benkei's Red, being much calmer and quieter than both of them.
• The Rival: He’s one of Gingka’s greatest rivals alongside Ryuga.
• Slasher Smile: He only does this when he's battling Gingka, and/or he's about to go into Ax-Crazy mode.
• Sleeves Are for Wimps: In Fury, he ditches the Badass Longcoat in favour of wearing a sleeveless shirt, showcasing his toughness.
• Square Race, Round Class: Kyoya's bey is a Defense-type, but his fighting style is notoriously aggressive and offensive. This actually works to his advantage, as it makes Leone effectively a Lightning Bruiser, able to dish out as much damage as it can take by weaponizing its sturdy bulk.
• The Stoic: He is known to be one of the more serious characters in the show. He'll show his Not So Stoic side whenever he's fighting Gingka though.
• Tall, Dark, and Snarky: He's tall, has dark green hair, and is one of the more sarcastic characters in the series.
• Took a Level in Jerkass: While under Doji's alliance, he became cold-hearted, emotionless, and ruthless to even the point of almost destroying Dark Bull and Flame Sagittario. He shows to be extremely maniacal as he was shown in Episode 9 and only wants destruction. However, he came back to normal after his second battle with Gingka.
• Took a Level in Kindness: After his Heel Realization, while never the friendliest blader, and never holds back when he blades, or speaks his mind, Kyoya has become more well-adjusted, genuinely loyal, and even having his moments of understanding.
• Toxic Friend Influence: Implied with Benkei, at least initially. While Kyoya was the Face Hunters, Benkei (being sometimes scared of Kyoya) followed his every wish, including stealing Kenta’s Flame Sagittario. Once Kyoya was absent from the Face Hunters, Benkei started becoming more honourable, even as an antagonist.
• Tsurime Eyes: His eyes contrast other characters by being noticeably slanted upwards.
• Victory Is Boring: Has no time for weak opponents, and always craves a challenge.
• Vitriolic Best Buds: Kyoya is very tough around others, even around his allies and friends, but he can always be counted on and helps them out.
• You Can't Fight Fate: Realizes this after meeting up with Yu and Tithi, declaring that he has to be surrounded by others.

Benkei Hanawa

Benkei Hanawa

Voiced By: Kenta Miyake {Japanese), Jason Deline (English)

Kyoya's right hand man. He is one of the largest hams in the whole series.

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• Anti-Villain: While he starts out as The Dragon to Kyoya, once Kyoya is forced to join Doji, Benkei’s goals from that point on are to get Kyoya back.
• Big Eater: He is frequently shown eating, having a larger appetite for hamburgers than even Gingka.
• Big Fun: He is considerably rotund, and is incredibly jovial and fun to be around.
• Can't Catch Up: While he is a very strong blader, he, unfortunately, suffers this due to not learning any new special moves past Fusion or getting his Bey to get enhanced. He's still far from a pushover though.
• Catchphrase: "B-b-b-bull!". The DJ mimics this whenever announcing his presence.
• Demoted to Extra: Very important in Fusion, secondary in Masters, barely present in Fury.
• The Dragon: To Kyoya while both were still antagonists. He also led the Face Hunters in Kyoya's absence to train.
• Everyone Has Standards: Even as a Face Hunter, Benkei draws the line when the threat of outright death is involved.
• Gentle Giant: Is a little slow on knowing boundaries sometimes, but is generally a very supportive and affectionate friend.
• Heel–Face Turn: Starts off as an antagonistic Face Hunter, but becomes a loyal friend of Kenta, and the rest of our heroes.
• Hero-Worshipper: Boy does he have it bad for Kyoya.
• Hot-Blooded Sideburns: His sideburns let you know he is one of the most Hot-Blooded bladers in the show.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold:
  • Not as prominent in his introduction, but when Kyoya is forced to join Doji, Benkei goes to great lengths to bring Kyoya back. Once Benkei gains Dark Bull, and Kyoya is gone, Benkei becomes far more honourable, even saving his sworn enemies on a few occasions.
  • After he makes a Heel–Face Turn, Benkei can still be outspoken with a tempered, but he’s a loyal friend who always looks out for his friends and supports them.
• Large Ham: He has No Indoor Voice, always shouting everything at the top of his lungs, and is incredibly over-the-top in everything he does.
• Nice Guy: Intimidating as he can be, he’s definitely this once he becomes friends with our heroes.
• Odd Friendship: His friendships with Kyoya and Kenta fall under this, as the former is an incredibly aloof stoic while the latter is a Shrinking Violet with little self-confidence. Benkei, however, is incredibly loud, determined and hammy.
• Paper-Thin Disguise: As Masked Bull for Wild Fang. Subverted because he isn't fooling anybody.
• Undying Loyalty: He would follow Kyoya to the ends of the earth, though in a strange case, it was Benkei who made his Heel–Face Turn first, trying to help Kyoya do the same.
• Starter Villain: The very first antagonist in the series Gingka and friends face.
• Super Mode: When using his ultimate special move, Maximum Stampede, his bull gains shining yellow armor.
• Took a Level in Kindness: Starts off as a Starter Villain, but evolved into one of the nicest and most supportive allies in the show.
• Trademark Favorite Food: Hamburgers to the point in Shogun Steel he runs a burger joint called Bull Burger.
• Tsundere: Early on in Metal Fusion, where he frequently helps Gingka's friends, particularly Kenta, while refusing to admit to liking them. He gets over this shortly.

Kenta Yumiya

Kenta Yumiya

Voiced By: Emiri Katou (Japanese), Lisette St. Louis (English)

A young blader that Gingka saves when he comes to town. He quickly becomes a good friend of Gingka and aspires to be like him from then on.

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• Badass Adorable: A young little boy who was able to crack L-Drago.
• Badass Boast: Gives one to Busujima's gang, saying he could beat all of them by himself. He probably could've too, if they weren't a pack of cheaters.
• Can't Catch Up: He has a big issue with this in Fury, fearing that he may be holding his friends back. He does catch up in the end, and how.
• Character Development: Kenta went from an ordinary kid who couldn't hold his own against amateurs and local bullies to becoming one of the Legendary Bladers. On top of that, he also became a much braver and more confident person, compared to how he used to be. Just watch his very first and last battle to see how far he has come.
• Chekhov's Gun: Subverted, as his parts-switching tactics from an episode way back are brought back for his battle against Reiji in Battle Bladers when Yu offers his Flame Libra's Performance Tip. Unfortunately, even this part switch-up isn't enough to save him from a devastating loss to Reiji, but it does let Sagittario hang in there long enough for Kenta to defy his foe's attempts to terrify him into submission.
• The Determinator: Easily one of the most determined characters. Demand to Ryuga.
• Ditzy Genius: He can be clumsy and naive at times but he's shown that he could think outside of the box and can adapt to different styles with enough practice. He's also always the first character who can immediately tell how others feel, when they try to hide it.
• Lovable Coward: The "coward" part is only very temporary (and justified, considering how young he is), he would later drop the "coward" part to become more confident and determined.
• Magikarp Power: Kenta at the beginning of the series suffered from not being very skilled at Beyblade. But as the series went on he developed his own special move, got a lot stronger thanks to fighting powerful opponents, and by Fury he trained with Ryuga and earned his respect which the later entrusted his Star Fragment to which caused Sagittario to evolve and Kenta became a legendary blader capable of defeating the second strongest antagonist in the series.
• Nice Guy: Along with Gingka, he's the most friendly character in the series. He's very sociable and easygoing, as well as understanding towards others. However, mess with his friends and he will fight back.
• Odd Friendship: With Benkei and, as of lately, with Ryuga.
• Pint-Sized Powerhouse: Especially in Fury.
• Playing with Fire: His special moves using his Bey's claws causes a fire attack called Sagittario Flame Claw.
• Took a Level in Badass: Of epic proportions towards the end of Fury.
• Training from Hell: Undergoes this by travelling with Ryuga.
• The Unchosen One: Unlike the other Legendary Bladers, he was never meant to be one, but became one when Ryuga passed his star fragment to him after his defeat.

Madoka Amano

Madoka Amano

Voiced By: Kei Shindō (Japanese), Barbara Mamabolo (English)

The technician of the group who always fixes and tunes up everyone's beys to make sure they're in top condition.

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• Canon Foreigner: She doesn't appear in the manga (which predates the anime).
• Cross-Popping Veins: She tends to do this a lot.
• Expressive Hair: She has two locks of hair that distinctly stick out. They move up if she's surprised, or down if she's sad.
• The Medic: Well, as close as you can get in the series; she's basically a toy handyman, but that is of course very important to the world of Beyblading.
• Ms. Exposition: During a bey battle, she frequently provides information to the audience on a bey's features and abilities.
• Ms. Fanservice: Looks quite stunning and feminine in a bikini in Zero-G.
• Nightmare Face: Madoka can be pretty scary when she's angry.
• Power-Strain Blackout: She's prone to doing this when she actually uses her Beyblade. How that's possible is never really answered.
• Shorttank: She's a Tsundere, the only girl on the team, and her outfit is a bit girlier then the standard, but still counts.
• Tsundere: She's normally kind and friendly, but you do NOT want to make lose her temper.
• Wrench Wench: In a nutshell, she's Ami Mizuno meets Winry Rockbell. If their jobs were to make sure mechanical tops were kept in mint condition.

Ryuga

Ryuga

Voiced By: Kenjiro Tsuda (Japanese), Carman Melville (English)

The Dark Nebula's most powerful member. Ryuga wastes no time in toying with his opponents before crushing them easily while taunting them for thinking they ever had a chance. His goal is to make L-Drago the strongest bey there is.

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• The Ace: As the wielder of L-Drago, especially having mastered the dark power, Ryuga was the most powerful blader throughout most of the show.
• Alas, Poor Villain:
  • When Ryuga starts to be fully possessed by L-Drago, everyone, including Kyoya, becomes worried for him.
  • For all the trouble Ryuga caused both before and during the Nemesis Crisis, Ryuga’s death in Metal Fury is portrayed tragically, and everyone is saddened and infuriated at his demise. Even Kyoya, who personally hated Ryuga, is livid.
• Always Someone Better:
  • To Gingka. L-Drago and Pegasus are two sides of the same coin that come from the same star that gave birth to Beyblade, meaning that both Beys should theoretically be equal in power. However, the same cannot be said for their Bladers as Ryuga proves to be on another level than Gingka each time they face off.
  • He also counts as this to Kyoya. Throughout the entire series, Kyoya has been obsessed with defeating Gingka, only to get at best a draw with him despite all of the Training from Hell he's put himself in. Ryuga on the other hand has only lost to Gingka once, with every other match being clearly in his favor and ending in his victory. Emphasising this point is when the three of them became Legendary Bladers in Fury; despite Kyoya stating that the conditions between them are equal now that they all have a piece of the same Star Fragment, Ryuga goes on to defeat Kyoya and then Gingka in back-to-back battles.
• Ambiguously Brown: Has a darker skin tone than most other Japanese characters, although whether it's ethnicity related or just a tan from spending a lot of time training out in the wilderness is never addressed.
• Anti-Hero: Sorta becomes this in Masters that while he isn't evil anymore, his brutality is still there.
• Ax-Crazy: Most definitely so in Fusion where he is prone to evil laughter while crushing his opponents. This is toned down after Fusion.
• Berserk Button: He has a few:
  • Allowing the bey to control the blader. Ryuga himself stated that was a big mistake on his part to let L-Drago take over him and devoted himself to ensuring that never happens again.
  • Hades Inc. in general. Ryuga felt used by them due to technically creating L-Drago and Dark Nebula. He made it clear by helping them take it down at the end.
  • Other left-rotating beys. It's not much, but Ryuga did seem really annoyed that Julian's Gravity Destroyer also spins left (counter-clockwise) claiming that L-Drago should be the only left rotating bey in the world.
• Big Damn Heroes:
  • Came to the rescue of Gan Gan Galaxy when Tsubasa and Yu got injured, defeating Jack in the process.
  • And again, albeit unintentionally, he rescued Gingka and Masamune from the black hole they were stuck in when he fired his beyblade at Hades City. On the other hand, it almost blew them up.
  • Another one was after losing to Rago, he gave his Star Fragment power to Kenta, enabling him to become a Legendary Blader.
• Blood Knight: Is very eager to fight strong opponents but not for the thrill of a good battle. More to drain their bey's energies to make L-Drago stronger, but even in Masters and on, he picks fights just for the hell of it.
• Broken Pedestal: In Fusion Yu admired Ryuga and only joined the Dark Nebula because of him, seeing him as the only one who could defeat his Libra. But once after Yu lost in Battle Bladers, Yu slowly lost respect for him as he did nothing to save Yu from being attacked by Reiji and finally stopped admiring him after his cruel method of defeating Tsubasa and draining his energy. The two haven't spoken to each other since Fusion.
• The Chosen One: One of the Legendary Bladers; he stands for the season of Summer.
• Coat Cape: He wears his white coat like a cape. The coat and its sleeves flutter whenever there are gusts of wind (which is extremely common in bey battles).
• Curb-Stomp Battle: Due to his immense power level, he dishes them out left and right, usually destroying his opponents' beys outright. Even after joining the side of good, he still demolishes nearly anyone he fights within ten seconds. The only ones who manage to beat him are Gingka and Rago.
• Dark Is Evil: He’s the wielder of L-Drago, the dark counterpart of Pegasus, and in the first season he has a dark aura when using it. Subverted in later seasons, where he has an orange, flaming aura when using L-Drago.
• Demonic Possession: His cruelty and evil are a result of L-Drago's power over him. L-Drago can completely possess him as well. He eventually manages to purge L-Drago of the darkness and free himself.
• Devour the Dragon: Had a habit of doing this. Finally turned on Doji and absorbed all of his energy in order to power up L-Drago.
• Dragons Are Demonic: Ryuga's Lightning L-Drago is Made of Evil, wields the dark power (due to absorbing the people's feelings of desire, anger, and hatred), corrupts its user, and specializes in robbing its opponents' strength (and souls) to make them into its own. Its motif is 1 (or 3) purple Eastern dragon(s).
• Evil Counterpart: To Gingka, both are Beybladers of the first two beyblades to ever exist, both are legendary Bladers of their respective seasons and both of their respective Beys evolve to become more powerful, but while Gingka is a kind and selfless boy who has friends and those he would be able to protect, Ryuga however, is cruel and sadistic Beyblader who believes himself to be superior to Bladers and prefers to be alone.
• Eviler than Thou: Does this to Doji, turning on him and sucking out all of his energy, nearly killing him.
• Evil Is Not a Toy: There's a very good reason L-Drago was called the "Forbidden Bey". Ryuga wasn't aware of the fact that L-Drago was really the one using him, and on a few occasions, L-Drago possesses Ryuga, which normally leads to Body Horror. In 'Metal Masters' he's managed to overcome the darkness in L-Drago through heavy training (involving lava), causing it to evolve into Meteo L-Drago
• Hand Blast: One of his favorite moves in Beyblade matches, which seemingly empowers L-Drago for a decisive blow.
• Hazy-Feel Turn: After his last battle with Gingka in Fusion and after the latter saves him, Ryuga seems to take on a better leaf. However, he still does things on his own and still shows some of his Blood Knight tendencies at times.
• It's Personal: As even Gingka states, Ryuga helping out Team Gan Gan Galaxy during the match against Team Starbreaker wasn't because of the goodness of his heart. It's for his personal grudge against Hades Inc. due to their involvement with L-Drago and the Dark Nebula organization in general.
• Jerkass: He makes Kyoya look like Gingka. Whether he’s a member of Dark Nebula, possessed by L-Drago, or doing things on his own accord, Ryuga’s consistent characteristic is his hostility, whether in Beyblade, or in general.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: After being freed from L-Drago’s control, while he’s still self-centred, he has sometimes helped out Gingka and his friends, and even helped Tsubasa AND Kenta overcome both their respective struggles in Masters and Fury.
• Just Toying with Them: He usually holds back his power to give his enemies a Hope Spot before he obliterates them. Whenever he wants a fight to end quickly (in his words, when he "doesn't have time for it"), it usually will end quickly.
• Killed Off for Real: His battle with Rago nearly did him in, and giving his power to Kenta sealed his fate.
• Last Stand: L-Drago Destructor's Final Survive mirrors Pegasus' Final Drive by starting L-Drago in a reckless offensive mode, but becoming slow and conservative once its stamina begins to wane. Of course, this being L-Drago, this works in its favor by letting it Life Drain from its opponents easier, sometimes to the point of re-activating Final Survive's offense mode.
• Life Drain: L-Drago's speciality. While Lightning L-Drago accomplished it through what appeared to be dark energy, the next generations used their reverse rotation in tandem with rubber-plated parts (and probably still dark energy in the anime). He can do this at such a level that simply throwing his bey into the stadium is enough to win most fights due to it absorbing the power of any attacks.
• The Mentor: Surprisingly, he becomes this to Gingka, Tsubasa, and Kenta. Gingka to help him harness the power of Galaxy Pegasus more, Tsubasa to help him overcome the dark power after being corrupted by L-Drago, and Kenta (indirectly) to help toughen up the boy when he felt like he couldn't catch up to everyone else.
• Pet the Dog: Even he has a few from time to time.
  • He gives Kenta a cooked fish to eat when he’s starving and exhausted on their travels.
• Redemption Equals Death: For all the trouble he caused throughout Fury, including destroying the chance at guaranteeing Nemesis being sealed away, he manages to transfer his remaining power and L-Drago’s star fragment into Kenta’s Sagittario.
• Red Eyes, Take Warning: When L-Drago possesses him, his eyes glow red.
• Sealed Evil in a Can: L-Drago was sealed away by Gingka's village in ancient times due to being destructive and evil.
• Shadow Archetype: He basically represents what Kyoya would’ve became and remained if he hadn’t been defeated by Gingka.
• Shock and Awe: In Fusion. After all, his bey is Lightning L-Drago. In Masters and on, this is exchanged for Star Power as L-Drago discards the lightning for meteors and fire.
• Slasher Smile: His default expression in Fusion (as seen above). He loses it in Masters and Fury, but it'll still show if he's excited over a battle.
• Strong and Skilled: While L-Drago already is a powerful bey, the reason why Ryuga is able to use its full strength in Masters and Fury is due to knowing all its strengths and weaknesses, which is especially shown in his battle against Ginka, who did not know the full strength of his new bey, Galaxy Pegasus and Cosmic Pegasus.
• World's Strongest Man: He has built a massive reputation for being overwhelmingly powerful, to the point that he's only ever lost two battles in the entire series, one of which was against its own counterpart empowered by The Power of Friendship, and the other of which was against a Physical God that had all of the powers of the Legendary Bladers including his own. It's even more apparent due to the fact that he enjoys letting his enemies think they have a chance before one of his many One-Hit Kill attacks inevitably come.
• You Have Failed Me: As the leader of Dark Nebula, once he had enough of a member who had repeatedly failed his expectations, he'd generally feed their power to L-Drago, leaving them comatose.

Tsubasa Otori

Tsubasa Otori

Voiced By: Miyu Irino (Japanese), David Reale (English)

A mysterious blader who Gingka first encounters in a tournament. He later joins the Dark Nebula not long after that but it turns out He was a spy sent by the WBBA. Graceful and fair in battle, Tsubasa is one of Gingka's strongest allies and rivals who later joins him as the third member of Team Gangan Galaxy.

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• Adaptational Villainy: The manga omits everything about him being The Mole, reducing his role to a Dark Nebula blader. Due to this, he doesn't join Gan Gan Galaxy in the manga version of Masters.
• Always Someone Better: He's this to Yu and Hyoma. In Yu's case Tsubasa's Earth Eagle can effectively No-Sell a lot of Libra's attacks and in Hyoma's due to Tsubasa relying on aerial attacks can make Aries's spin track completely useless in defense.
• Ascended Extra: He was a secondary character in Fusion and while important, arrived late in the season and often was missing in some episodes. Come Masters he's a main character who is the third member of Gangan Galaxy as well as having his own arc to overcoming the darkness within himself.
• Berserk Button: Don't call his battling style rigid.
• Blow You Away: His beyblade is an Eagle, and some of his special moves are wind-based.
• Can't Catch Up: Played completely straight in Metal Fury. Despite Tsubasa's efforts to go on a training journey, he's unable to handle any legendary blader he faces. He also never gets a Bey upgrade or learns any new special moves.
• Good All Along: It turns out that he was never on the Dark Nebula's side to being with. He was actually working with the WBBA in investigating the Dark Nebula.
• Long-Haired Pretty Boy: He's quite pretty-looking, to the point that he would be mistaken for a girl if not for his muscles.
• Meaningful Name: "Tsubasa" meaning "wing". "Otori" also means "great bird".
• The Mole: He pretended to side with Dark Nebula to gather information about L-Drago on behalf of the WBBA.
• Next Tier Power-Up: After overcoming the darkness, he got a new special move, Shining Tornado Buster, and he hardly lost a fight by the end of Masters.
• Sixth Ranger: Of Gingka's gang in Fusion.
• Superpowered Evil Side: Develops this in Masters, due to being contaminated with Ryuga's dark power. He eventually overcomes it.

Yu Tendo

Yu Tendo

Voiced By: Kaori Nazuka (Japanese), Denise Oliver (English)

One of the more childlike members of the Dark Nebula. He eventually turns over to the good guys after Gingka beats him at battle bladers and he sees just how evil the Dark Nebula is.

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• Berserk Button: Bullying Kenta or Tithi in his presence will definitely set him off.
  • And for that matter, never, EVER call Yu a little kid.
• Blood Knight: Gets annoyed if his opponent doesn't put up a good fight, and even gets jealous of others that get to battle strong opponents.
• Bratty Half-Pint: He has shades of this.
• Cheerful Child: During his more placid moments he can be this.
• Curb-Stomp Battle: He defeated Kenta, Hikaru, and Benkei, Hyoma, Kyoya, and Gingka effortlessly, (though Gingka defeated him in a rematch). He did tie with Tsubasa, and during Masters, he was on the receiving end of this trope.
• Cute Oversized Sleeves: His normal outfit comes with these, and they sure make him look adorable. He also keeps his launcher in one of them.
• Dishing Out Dirt: His Libra can use sonic vibrations to turn the ground into sand.
• Evil Counterpart: To Kenta. To be fair, he isn't evil, he only joined the Dark Nebula since Ryuga was strong.
• Graceful Loser: At least he tends to be a good sport when he loses.
• Hypocrite: Gives nicknames to almost all of his friends, but hates being called nicknames himself.
• Limit Break: Inferno Blast, later upgraded into Final Inferno Blast. Taxing on Libra's stamina and thus only used when Yu wants to finish a fight, but is a tremendously powerful Wave-Motion Gun that can completely defeat almost any enemy with a direct hit.
• The Nicknamer: The only friends he doesn't nickname are Madoka, Tsubasa, Ryuga, and Tithi.
  • Gingka—> Gingky
  • Kenta—> Kenchi
  • Kyoya—> Yo-Yo
  • Benkei—> Ben-Ben
  • Masamune—> Masamoo-moo and Mr. Buttinski
  • Hikaru—> Hippity-Hop
• Vibroweapon: His Bey's specialty is creating vibrations that can be used for various things like turning the arena into quicksand, firing sonic blades, and most dangerous of all, fire his signature Inferno Blast in case he really wants to win.
• The Worf Effect: Not as bad as most characters. In Fusion: He lost against only Ryuga and Gingka. In Masters, he lost against Masamune twice and Tsubasa. Afterwards, he defeated Aleksei, but was the first one taken out of the 3-on-3 match between him, Gingka, and Masamune vs Julian, Sophie, and Wales. His only wins in the World Championships were Aleksei and the tag team match against Wild Fang & Excalibur with more effort on Tsubasa. He did end up getting better by the end of Masters defeating Argo and most of Fury, including helping Masamune and King defeat two of the Nemesis Bladers.
• Worf Had the Flu: In his battles with Enzo and Damian, his bey was nearly broken in the former, and in the latter, his bey was barely repaired enough to race.

Masamune Kadoya

Masamune Kadoya

Voiced By: Yuko Sanpei (Japanese), Cameron Ansell (English)

Gingka's second rival. He aspires to be Number 1 and will do anything in order to achieve his dream.

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• Almighty Janitor: Was never in any real tournaments, including the Survival Battle, or Battle Bladers before the World Tournament. He's still quite the blader.
• Attack! Attack! Attack!: One of Striker's signature moves is the Barrage Attack which involves it mounting a series of powerful attacks at it's opponent to wear it down quickly. This helps as Striker is one of the strongest Attack-type beys in the Metal saga.
• Arc Hero: Of Metal Masters. He is just as important to the story as Gingka as well as the two working together to defeat the final opponent in the season.
• Big Eater: Just like Gingka he loves eating a lot.
• The Chosen One: Subverted; everybody expected him to be the Legendary Blader of Winter, but it turned out to be Chris.
• Curbstomp Battle: Was on the receiving end of this by Nile which, fortunately, does lead to him becoming a more humble person.
• Demoted to Extra: Went from being the second most important character in Masters to barely being a supporting character in Fury.
• Determinator: After spending an entire episode losing miserably to Gingka, he just kept coming back until he won while training as hard as he could.
• Deuteragonist: Of Metal Masters. Masamune is The Lancer to Gingka, and his character arc is the most important of the season, particularly by the endgame where the central conflict of the arc is more related to him than to Gingka.
• Humble Pie: Gets a large slice of it after his ego-crushing defeat at the hands of Nile. Fortunately, it leads to some good character development for him.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: For all his boasting and snarky attitude, he's a nice guy.
• The Lancer: To Gingka of Metal Masters. Humorously, Masamune and his bey are often referred to as a lance that can pierce through anything.
• Large Ham: Doesn't seem to have much of an indoor voice and is constantly announcing his alleged status as the number one blader in the world.
• Lightning/Wind Juxtaposition: Throughout Metal Masters, he's the Lightning to Gingka's Wind.
• Mouthy Kid: Has no trouble making snarky comments at his opponent's expense.
• Numerological Motif: One. Masamune is constantly referring to himself as the number one blader, his bey's motif is a Unicorn, his special moves rely on the principle of focusing all his power on a single point, and his status as Gan Gan Galaxy's advance guard means he usually has the first battle in tournaments.
• Shock and Awe: His special moves, Lightning Swordflash in Masters and Flash of Lightning in Fury make use of this.
• Small Name, Big Ego: Big time especially early on in Masters. He often says he is the #1 blader in the world despite literally no one ever hearing about him before.
• To Be a Master: How many times has he exclaimed that he's going to beat Gingka/whatever opponent he has, or that he/Gan Gan is/are number one? Exactly.
• Unicorn: His bey, Striker, has this motif, as a mirror to Gingka's Pegasus.
• Unknown Rival: To Gingka at first, as Gingka really has no idea who he is and his presently uncontrollable Super Prototype has him preoccupied at the moment. Most of the episode consists of him getting curbstompped by Galaxy Pegasus. It's only towards the end when Gingka recognizes something in him and he manages to beat Galaxy Pegasus that he manages to earn proper The Rival status.
• The Worf Effect: Suffers this in the later half of Masters. Due to needing to show the growth of Tsubasa, he was often defeated in order to ensure 3 matches in the tournament.

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