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Gantz Character Index
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Green Onion Alien Mission

Green Onion Aliens

• Alien Blood: Green alien blood.
• Badass Longcoat: Onion Alien's father.
• Bait-and-Switch Boss: The Onion Alien is the only one listed as a target. His father arrives right after the team kills him, and turns out to be a significantly worse threat.
• Benevolent Alien Invasion: The Onion Alien and his father don't seem to be hurting or planning to hurt anyone until the Gantz Hunters find them. Though, the father is capable of serious damage if provoked.
• The Berserker: The father after his son is brutally executed.
• Berserker Tears: A haunting villainous example.
• Descriptively-Named Species: They're green aliens who love green onions.
• First Contact: The first aliens encountered in the series.
• Humanoid Alien: Their heads are about the only thing not standard-human-shaped.
• Innocent Aliens: Appear to be living peacefully apart from humanity.
• Inscrutable Aliens: It's hard for Kato to explain himself to the enraged alien with a heavy language barrier between them.
• Lightning Bruiser: Onion Alien's father.
• Little Green Men: At first the Onion Alien appears to be a scared, odd-looking little green-skinned boy. Then his dad shows up. He is green, but he is by no means little.
• Nigh-Invulnerability: The Onion Alien's father is shot several times, hit by a car, beaten to a pulp, and ensnared in unbreakable wires, and is still standing when he is transferred away.
• Papa Wolf: The Onion Alien's father is understandably enraged when the team kills his son, and proceeds to make his anger known in great detail.
• Shoot the Dog: The son is hunted down and shot to pieces by a group of ignorant and/or violent new Gantzers. Just when it looks like the father has turned the tables on all of them, he is taken down by Nishi.
• Starfish Language: Whatever the father alien is speaking, it's nowhere near a human language. Oddly, his son can speak Japanese just fine.
• Starter Villain: Despite the terror Kurono, Kato, and Kishimoto endured during this mission, the Onion Aliens are nothing compared to what they face later.
• Super-Strength: The father quite literally tears several of the team apart with his bare hands.

Tanaka Alien Mission

Tanaka Aliens

• Alien Animals: Giant birds.
• Human Outside, Alien Inside: Fails at the "human outside" part so bad that they must remain invisible even in disguise.
• Innocent Aliens: Allegedly. They pay for food they take from the store while invisible and they don't attack anyone until they are provoked. However, accidentally stepping on one of their baby chick siblings is usually enough to provoke them. And if so, there are likely many innocent bystanders who stepped on them while they were invisible and got killed as a result.
• No Celebrities Were Harmed: They all wear cyborg disguises resembling a popular Japanese celebrity.
• Pun-Based Creature: Their Japanese name is "Tanaka-Seijin", which when reorganized forms Seiji Tanaka.
• The Worf Effect: This mission proved that Anyone Can Die when Nishi, the know-it-all veteran hunter, was beaten and violently killed by the first Tanaka alien the team came across.

Buddha Alien Mission

Buddha Aliens

Buddhist Temple Alien Mission

• Absurdly Sharp Blade: The swords which 1000 Arms possesses are capable of cutting through flesh, bone, the Gantz suits, and even stone.
• Beware My Stinger Tail: Which allows 1000 Arms to finish off Kato even after it has been mortally wounded.
• Bling of War: All of their statue disguises can count as this, especially 1000 Arms.
• Blood Knight: Innocent or not, these aliens are talented, destructive fighters. When it can speak english, 1000 Arms is almost psychotic in its enthusiasm about beating Kato to a pulp.
• Brain Food: A couple of these aliens eat the brains of their victims.
• Break the Haughty: What this mission symbolizes for Kurono. His over-inflated ego is quickly demolished when the girl he loves is melted in front of him, he loses An Arm and a Leg, and finally he finds out that he is the mission's Sole Survivor.
• Defiant to the End: 1000 Arms kills Kato during its last moments... after it has already been decapitated
• Disc-One Final Boss: 1000 Arms is this for Kato.
• Dual Wielding: The 1000 Arms statue carries two swords.
• Energy Weapon: 1000 Arms has an ornament which can project deadly lasers.
• Foreshadowing: Kurono kills the largest statue by skyrocketing his whole body straight into its head... which is also how he ends up killing his final enemy in the series, also a giant.
• Healing Factor: 1000 Arms has one, via an ornament it possesses which seems to reverse any damage done to it so long as the ornament remains in tact.
• Hero Killer: 1000 Arms kills Kato.
• Hoist by His Own Petard: When Sei kicks the acid vial out of 1000 Arms' hand, melting half of its statue disguise and its Time Master ornament.
• Hollywood Acid: 1000 Arms makes use of acid to fight, which viciously melts Kurono's arm and leg when he gets too close while attacking it.
• Human Outside, Alien Inside: Buddhist statue outside, lizard alien inside.
• Innocent Aliens: 1000 Arms claims they never did anything to hurt humans and have no idea why they are being attacked. Since they are specifically in disguise as peaceful statues, it probably was not lying.
• Multi-Armed and Dangerous: 1000 Arms' statue disguise, and possibly all of them in their true form.
• One-Winged Angel: 1000 Arms
• Pyrrhic Victory: Kato fights to the bitter end, finally slaying 1000 Arms and rejoicing that he will get to go home to his brother. Then he's killed by the alien's final attack, seconds before he would have been sent back.
• Roaring Rampage of Revenge: 1000 Arms does not respond well to the puny humans who eradicated its companions.
• Shockwave Clap: The larger statues can do this.
• Shoot the Dog: The entire mission is one long Shoot the Dog. Becomes a literal example, when one of the statues smashes the Team Pet dog's head without any warning.
• Starter Villain: The most traumatizing starter villains yet.
• Symbiotic Possession: 1000 Arms consumes a nerdy Gantzer's brains and adopts his personality to communicate with humans. The guy realizes this, but then he begins to like how powerful he feels in the alien's body.
• The Worf Effect: Just when it looks as if Kurono has accepted his role as the series definitive badass, 1000 Arms crushes him and slowly slaughters the rest of the team.

Shorty Alien Mission

Shorty Aliens

• Alien Blood: In the video game adaptation they have purple blood.
• Arrogant Kung-Fu Guy: All of them. Except they all can back up their arrogance.
  "I know your fighting style. I will not fall for any of your tricks."
• Break the Haughty: They finish what The Buddhist Temple Aliens started as far as convincing Kurono that he isn't as cool as he thinks.
• Charles Atlas Super Power: Gantz describing them as "Strong" doesn't quite cut it.
• Climax Boss: The Sole Survivor Shorty Alien ultimately winds up as this to Kurono. It ends up tacking Kurono into the real world and slaughters most of his classmates in retribution for Kurono killing his comrades. This ends up being a major catalyst towards Kurono's Character Development of legitimate heroism.
• Face Death with Dignity: The last one only stands up straight and glowers at Kurono before it explodes.
• Human Outside, Alien Inside: The last one somehow perfectly disguises itself as a student at Kurono's school, and continues to wear it even as it massacres his classmates.
• Hyper-Awareness: "I can see in to your heart." It's true in more ways than one.
• Little Green Men: But exotic-looking and highly lethal.
• Me's a Crowd: They all look exactly alike, though they may not be clones.
• No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: Their specialty.
• Roaring Rampage of Revenge: In the mission which they were supossed to be slain, Kurono left one alive because the time was up and he was the only hunter sent to that mission. The surviving one tracked down Kurono and killed all of his classmates (except Tae and Izumi) in retaliation.
• Super-Strength: Can tear normal humans to pieces with just their hands, and are all skilled fighters.
• Sympathy for the Devil
• This Is Unforgivable!: A group reaction when Kurono kills the first one.
• Wings Do Nothing: If those even are wings on their backs, they never seem to use them.

Kappe Alien Mission

Dinosaur Aliens

• Alien Animals: Well, dinosaurs.
• The Big Guy: The Kappe Alien, though it started out as a little guy.
• Elite Mooks: The Velociraptors and smaller Brachiosaurus.
• Evil Versus Evil: The T-Rexes and Triceratops' don't get along and end up fighting over who kills Izumi.
• Extra Eyes: The Horned Brachiosaurus spontaneously grows hundreds of eyes on its underbelly when Kurono tries to sneak attack it from below.
• Giant Mook: The T-Rexes and Triceratops.
• Gentle Giant Sauropod: Averted with the Brachiosaurus.
• Humanoid Aliens: The Kappe Alien.
• Intelligent Gerbil: Many are disguised as prehistoric dinosaurs, despite the fact that they can shift sizes, stand upright, develop fists, and breathe fireballs.
• Nightmare Fuel Station Attendant: The Kappe Alien looks kind of cute and harmless at first, until you realize it controls the dinosaur aliens, has Super-Strength, and can turn into a hideous giant.
• Outrun the Fireball: Kurono literally has to do this when he's being chased by the T-Rexes, who shoot fireballs out of their mouths.
• Psychopathic Manchild: The Kappe Alien is very insecure, thinking it's being attacked because it is "looked down upon" by others, and retaliating by using the dinosaurs as weapons.
• Raptor Attack: The Velociraptors, of course.
• Shrinking Violet / The Berserker: The Kappe Alien is pretty timid normally, but is insatiable when pissed off.
• Sizeshifter: The angrier these aliens get, the bigger they get.
• This Is Unforgivable!: The Horned Brachiosaurus, who is apparently the mother of the other dinosaurs, reacts this way when it is the only one left.
• The Worf Effect: Just as The Kappe Alien grows to an enormous size, becoming a One-Winged Angel, it is easily cut in half from behind by Izumi.
• Would Hit a Girl: It's pretty amusing when the Kappe Alien gets jumped and beaten up by an angry shopaholic girl. Then it starts fighting back and sics its pet velociraptors on her.

Ring Alien Mission

Ring Aliens

• Absurdly Sharp Blade: Their massive scythes.
• Anti-Climax: Despite their enormous size, powerful weapons, and menacing appearance, they are taken down quite easily.
• Expy: Of The Ringwraiths from The Lord of The Rings.
• Jerkass: Not particularly subtle, they are seen trying to kill any humans they find.
• Large and in Charge: Giant demon knights on equally giant horses.

Oni Alien Mission

Oni Aliens

• Boldly Coming: A truly horrific example when Inaba and Reika start having sex in the middle of the blood soaked mall. The real Reika shows up and the one on top of Inaba begins transforming and attacking the others while he is still inside of it.
• Demon Lords And Arch Devils: The leaders seem to be these.
• Eldritch Abomination: If they aren't aliens or demons, they are this.
• Expy: Many of their abilities make them appear reminiscent of the alien in John Carpenter's The Thing.
• Hellfire: One of the leaders uses this to kill several members of the Tokyo Team, including Sakurai.
• Human Aliens: They look like regular humans... at first.
• Large Ham: Just about all of them.
• Lightning Bruiser: The main demon, who actually has a lightning based power as well.
• Petrification: The leader that fights Kaze can turn others into stone and can armor himself in stone as well.
• Shapeshifter: All of them, but one of the leaders is especially... gifted.
• Shock and Awe: The Lightning demon.
• Small Name, Big Ego: The lesser demons.
• Voluntary Shapeshifting: Leads to many Squick moments.
• Well-Intentioned Extremist: Though they are far from being Noble Demons, their motivation seems to be, in part, to eliminate the threat to aliens hiding out on earth.

Nurarihyon/Osaka Alien Mission

• Eldritch Abomination: A whole city district full of them, led by one of the biggest ones ever.
• Man of Wealth and Taste: Though they are bizarre monstrosities, Nurarihyon, his two powerful friends, and the samurai alien couple see themselves as this.
• Nightmare Fuel Station Attendant: Nurarihyon and his two companions are this to the rest of the chaotic monsters in Osaka.
• Smug Super: Nurarihyon, and the rest take after him.
• Sympathy for the Devil: Though most are violent and predatory, a few are simply defending themselves from or at the mercy of the malicious Osaka Team.
• Wretched Hive: Osaka is this thanks to these aliens.
• Yōkai: A deliberate running theme with this lot.

Nuraihyon

Voiced by: Masane Tsukayama (movie) (Japanese), Josiah Wills (movie) (English)

• Big Bad: The leader of the aliens in the Osaka Alien Mission.
• Catchphrase: Says, "I see... mm... yes, I see... I see...", while analyzing his enemy before a countermeasure.
• Cloud Cuckoolander: Nurarihyon observes attacks made against him like observing someone challenging him at chess.
• Eye Beams: Nurarihyon's are devastating even when in his usual form, disintegrates individuals exposed to his glare for too long. When he's pissed off, the eyes blows up multiple building within mere seconds.
• From a Single Cell: Nurarihyon's Healing Factor is insane, each part able to regenerate into a full Nuraihyon that would merge with other surviving fragments.
• Moral Myopia: Having had his forces kill numerous humans, Nuraihyon mourned over losing one of his followers to Gantz. It is clear while retaliating that he does not see any similarity between his kin being killed and the deaths of the humans they were hunting.
• Nigh-Invulnerability: Nurarihyon.
• One-Winged Angel: Nurarihyon's power allows him to undergo multiple transformations into larger, more dangerous forms when Gantz got his attention, the first being a humanoid mass of female bodies he assumed while killing off Shimaki.
• Sherlock Scan: If Nurarihyon sees and understands how an opponent is beating him and simply shapeshifts into a resilient form,
• Soft-Spoken Sadist: Nurarihyon is prone to making witty little remarks whilst shrugging off his enemies' desperate efforts to defeat him.
• Voluntary Shapeshifting: Nurarihyon is perhaps the most disturbing example of this trope.
• Yōkai: A Nuraihyon is a monk-like Yokai that many assume to be a commander of other Yokai along with being very difficult to capture.

Gyuuki

• Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever: Gyuuki, the ginormous minotaur-lobster thing that isn't even the final boss.

Renaissance Statue Alien Mission

Renaissance Aliens

• Blood Knight: They all appear to just love destroying humans, especially humans who try to fight like the Gantz teams.
• Cold-Blooded Torture: Poor Suzuki and Inaba.
• Curb-Stomp Battle: The biggest one yet.
• Disc-One Final Boss: An extended vacation would have been much appreciated after this mission. Instead, they get The End of the World as We Know It.
• Flying Brick: An extreme villainous example. These statues manage to be more destructive than almost any other aliens encountered thus far.
• Half the Man He Used to Be: Half of Kurono's torso is shredded as he kills this round's Knight of Cerebus. Luckily, he is tranferred out in time.
• Hero Killer: Practically a sport.
• Jerkass: Sadistic pricks, every one of them.
• Pint-Sized Powerhouse: The smiling cupids flying around kicking people's heads off. And snapping the Gantz swords between their toes.
• World's Strongest Man: Or aliens. Hundreds, possibly thousands of Gantz teams from all over the world are sent to fight these guys. Those hundreds of thousands end up barely having any time to breathe, let alone fight back.

Giant Aliens

Giant Aliens

• The Ace: Eeva Gund, the God of War appears to be this among the Giant Alien Army.
• Aliens Are Bastards: See nothing wrong with sacking an entire planet, harvesting the human species for food, and televising the Gantz teams fighting for their lives like football games.
• Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever: Gigantic as their name implies.
• Bizarre Alien Biology: Subverted somewhat. They look very much like humans, but are gigantic in comparison, have four eyes, and the males apparently have multiple penises.
• Boom, Headshot!: How Kurono manages to finally kill the God of War.
• Broken Ace: He is probably this after the Giants have been defeated and his brother Oltra was killed by Kei.
• But for Me, It Was Tuesday: Earth is definitely not the first planet they've invaded and it shows. Though, it may be the last.
• Call-Back: This was a callback to when Kurono killed a giant Buddhist Temple alien in the same manner earlier in the series.
• Charles Atlas Super Power: They have it, and their size surely helps.
• Colony Drop: Eeva Gund threatens to do this to the whole world with the mothership if Kurono doesn't come to fight him in a duel.
• Crazy-Prepared: They come totally ready to cripple the secret countermeasures of Gantz, as well as military and governments, and devise several devious ways of putting the Hunters through hell. Not that it helps them win in the end.
• Elite Mooks: Their exploding, armored lizard minions.
• The End of the World as We Know It: What they bring about.
• Genius Bruiser: They are smart as well as strong.
• Humanoid Aliens: Despite their gigantic average size, the two extra small eyes (one in each of their head's temples) and somewhat bizarre genitals, they look very much like humans. Also, besides their appearances, their society (at least the one inside the spaceship) is almost exactly like the modern human societies in urban areas. But, ironically, most of them just see the humans as exotic animals and nothing more.
• Humongous Mecha: They have them as part of their technology.
• Jerkass: Many, though not all of them.
• Killed Off for Real: Their entire population by the end of the series, bad and good.
• Lack of Empathy: To parallel humanity's own lack of empathy towards species we view as being beneath us.
• Lightning Bruiser: They're all capable of this, but The God of War especially.
• Names to Run Away from Really Fast: The strongest Giant is called the God of War by his people.
• Not Always Evil: Not all of them are shown as villainous.
• Rape, Pillage, and Burn: What they do to most of Earth.
• The Remnant: Their numbers are severely depleted after their apparent defeat.
• To Serve Man: They collect and slaughter humans like cattle and serve them as delicacies.
• Smug Super: They're not very modest about their power.
• Sophisticated as Hell: Able to speak like this, which somewhat emphasizes their similar nature.
• Sufficiently Advanced Aliens: They're powerful and technologically advanced enough to qualify as this.
• Worthy Opponent: The God of War and Giants in general, seem to see Kurono as this.

Mothership Aliens

Mothership Aliens

• Alien Animals: Kurono and Tei happen upon a literal zoo full of them.
• Bizarre Alien Biology: With extra emphasis on the word "bizarre."
• Body Horror: Some of these aliens can explode into a cloud of floating light spores. When the light spores touch humans, they enter their bodies and mutate them from the inside out, appendages multiplying like tumors, turning the victims into violent freaks of nature.
• Mighty Glacier: The largest and most powerful of these aliens hovers over the battle and watches mostly. After it drops to the ground, its movements are very ponderous. However, its telekinetic powers and ability to summon an entire new brood of creepy-crawly aliens makes up for it.
• Wretched Hive: What they inhabit on The Mothership.

Room of Truth Aliens

"God Aliens"

• Abusive Precursors: They most definitely came into being before humanity, and they aren't very kind beings to say the least.
• A Form You Are Comfortable With: Every other panel features them projecting some new random face. It can be many historical figures and famous people around the world, one of the aliens that have been defeated, a litter of kittens, etc.
• Aliens Are Bastards: Fitting that the most powerful ones would also be the biggest bastards.
• But for Me, It Was Tuesday: Their reaction to pretty much the entire series and everything the characters have been through.
• Brown Note: When humans see them for the first time, they cry blood. However, this effect doesn't last longer and doesn't seem to be too harmful.
• Eldritch Abomination: They are insanely powerful (and in a Lovecraftian way), Powers That Be-style non-humanoid (despite the form they take) aliens.
• Expy: They seem to be a freaky combination of the aliens from Contact, the Engineers/Space Jockeys, and the Monolith.
• Full-Frontal Assault: The main God Alien that the rest of the humans were talking to, seems to be female. How do we know? Because her vagina is out in the open, for all to see.
• Good Is Not Nice: Technically, they gave humanity the means to defend itself from dangerous alien invaders. However, the information was given to the mentally challenged daughter of a ruthless German businessman, who used the Gantz technology the way seen throughout the series: enslaving resurrected humans to a sadistic artificial intelligence and pitting them against bizarre, horrifying, highly lethal creatures. The Room of Truth Aliens did not do any of this out of the kindness of their hearts, nor out of any other great concern of theirs. They more or less state that they did what they did in retaliation for the Giant Aliens trying the same crap on them. Basically, "They pissed us off, so Let's You and Him Fight."
• Greater-Scope Villain: They are responsible for humanity's discovery and utilization of the Gantz technology.
• Jerkass: They don't care at all about "lesser" lifeforms, and they only helped humanity because they felt like it. If they'd wanted to, they would've simply let the Giants destroy the Earth.
• Karma Houdini: They get away with all the havoc and misery they are responsible for, because there is apparently no one powerful enough to stop them. As they created the technology used by Gantz and the Hunters, and the fact they can make people explode if angered, it would be impossible to fight them.
• Kick the Dog: When they resurrect Kishimoto, Sei, Suzuki, and Reika and then immediately destroy them just to prove to Clone!Kei that human life has no value. They later kill him when he attacks them, horrifying Masaru and outright making him cry.
• Lack of Empathy: They tell the disheartened, battle-scarred Gantz Hunters that humans are no different from ants and that everything they do is totally meaningless.
• Lovecraftian Superpower: It seems that every power of theirs is this kind of power.
• Ludicrous Gibs: Their favorite method of execution as Clone!Kei found out personally.
• Mr. Exposition: Their sole purpose in the story is to wrap up the loose ends, mainly concerning the origins of Gantz and the reason why the Giant Aliens attacked Earth.
• Nay-Theist: They outright say that God doesn't exist, and though they acknowledge the existence of souls, they don't see anything special about it.
• The Omniscient: Their knowledge doesn't seem to have bounds.
• Physical God: Powerful enough to be considered this.
• The Powers That Be: A bad version of this. They pull the strings.
• "The Reason You Suck" Speech: They deliver a cold one to humanity as a whole. Even Masaru is left in tears.
• Straw Nihilist: They make it their goal to prove that human life has no real value when they Kick the Dog, and justify it through being omniscient.
• Sufficiently Advanced Alien: Perhaps the most sufficiently advanced aliens in the universe.

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