Characters appearing in the anime series Levius. Work in progress.
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Levius Cromwell
Levius Cromwell
Voiced by: Nobunaga Shimazaki (Japanese), Zach Aguilar (English), Jose Luis Piedra (Latin-American Spanish)
- The Ace: The best metal boxer of his generation.
- Adaptational Heroism: In the manga, Levius is much more ruthless and pragmatic, with shades of Ax-Crazy, while the anime makes him a clear case of Nice Guy.
- An Arm and a Leg: While every metal boxer has cybernetic limbs as a requirement for the sport, Levius is unusual in the sense that only his right arm is mechanical and he's rejected every offer to replace his left arm with a prosthetic several times, as his left arm is his only reminder of the day he lost his mother.
- Born Winner: Played with. As someone born in Greenbridge, he's able to control Agartha Water steam better than regular people, giving his punches with his cybernetic arm more power than they ought to have. However, he refuses to replace his legs and arms with prosthetics that would fully allow him to exploit this advantage, if he'd feel so inclined to at all.
- Determinator: Many have tried to knock him down and none of them have succeeded. He takes this to another level in his match against AJ. After she shatters his prosthetic fist, he uses his flesh and blood hand to destroy her internal backup steam generator.
- Friendly Rival: With Natalia. Natalia always boasts about being the one that will eventually defeat Levius in a match, so she tells him never to lose until then. Levius, for his part, is always unfailingly kind and polite towards Natalia, to the point he even considers her family.
- Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold
- The Hero: The titular main character.
- Ideal Hero: In the anime. In contrast to his Anti-Hero original self from the manga.
- How Much More Can He Take?: His matches with both Malcolm and AJ push him to his limits.
- Survivor's Guilt: Implied to have this after he loses his father in the war and his mother is left comatose because she was out looking for him in the midst of the violence.
Zack Cromwell
Zack Cromwell
Voiced by: Jun'ichi Suwabe (Japanese), Sean Burgos (English), Gerardo Reyero (Latin-American Spanish)
- Bumbling Dad: Bumbling Uncle, in his case. He tries very hard to connect with Levius, who still wracked with grief after losing his father and having his mother fall into a coma while trying to save him.
- Disability Superpower: Downplayed. Zack’s left eye has a steam-disease called “Infrared Hypersensitivity”, which allows him to see in a form of infrared and perceive sources of heat, like AJ’s backup steam generator during her bout with Levius. However, actually using his eye like this could burn out his retina and optic nerve, potentially even killing him in a worse-case scenario.
- Eye Scream: He wears a special eyepatch that regulates the amount of light his left eye can take. The nerves connecting that eye to his brain are so damaged that Zack cannot take off the eyepatch, lest he risks brain damage. He takes it off during Levius' match with AJ to figure out where did Dr. Crown install AJ's second steam generator.
- Hunk: In the anime adaptation he's much more well built and less dirty overall.
- Parental Substitute: To Levius.
- Survivor's Guilt: He still feels bad for being unable to stop his brother, Levius' father, from going to the war that ultimately claims his life.
Natalia Garnet
Natalia Garnet
Voiced by: Ayane Sakura (Japanese), Julia McIlvaine (English), Alicia Barragán (Latin-American Spanish)
- Adaptation Relationship Overhaul: In the anime, Natalia doesn't pine after Levius like she does in the manga, in part because she's already in the same gym as him before the series starts.
- Book Dumb: Downplayed. Natalia is street-smart and possesses a lot of knowledge on boxing, but she doesn’t know that much about the history of the sport or other topics. During her cram sessions with Bill to prepare for her cornerman exam, she even fell asleep.
- Friendly Rival: With Levius. Natalia always boasts about being the one that will eventually defeat Levius in a match, so she tells him never to lose until then. Levius, for his part, is always unfailingly kind and polite towards Natalia, to the point he even considers her family.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: She can be abrasive and loud, but she nevertheless means well.
- Skilled, but Naive: Natalia is legitimately as gifted as she boasts, which is a good job as she doesn't know how to train, is startlingly ignorant of the fundamentals, and tends to overestimate her own skills.
- Tomboyish Ponytail: Her blonde hair is gathered into this style.
Bill Weinberg
Bill Weinberg
Voiced by: Takahiro Sakurai (Japanese), Todd Haberkorn (English), Arturo Cataño (Latin-American Spanish)
- Mr. Fixit: If it's equipment that has anything to do with boxing, he's there to make sure it's back in perfect working order, no matter what punishment it took. He also makes any and all upgrades and modifications to make absolutely sure Levius can handle his fights, and that he has the best advantage possible within the limits set by the rules.
- The Smart Guy: Aside from repairing and keeping maintenance of Levius' arm, Bill is also knowledgeable in the fields of history and medicine. He was so gifted he got a job offer from Amethyst.
Amethyst
Dr. Rudolph Clown
Dr. Rudolph Clown
Voiced by: Mamoru Miyano (Japanese), Trevor Devall (English), Irwin Daayán (Latin-American Spanish)
- Abusive Parent: He adopts AJ after the war, if only so he could take advantage of her natural affinity with Agartha Water to turn her into his personal puppet.
- Actually a Doombot: The Clown we've been watching this whole time was an automaton. The real Clown is still at large.
- Adaptational Attractiveness: In the anime he's a handsome Sharp-Dressed Man, in the manga, he's Cyberpunk Kefka Palazzo.
- Big Bad: The primary antagonist of the anime and manga.
- Mad Artist: He has a peculiar love for violence, seeing it as art. He sees Levius' boxing as masterful dancing, and the trigger phrases he has programmed in AJ are musical terminology.
- Malevolent Masked Man: Even more so in the manga, where he combines it actual clown make-up.
- Mask of Sanity: He comes across as an eloquent upper class man who's actually a sociopathic Mad Artist obsessed with the violence of metal boxing, viewing it as an art form that can provide 'catharsis'.
- Non-Action Big Bad: He isn't a metal boxer. Instead, it's AJ who Levius has to defeat. Averted in the manga, however, he's a pretty badass Arms Dealer that doesn't take shit from anyone.
- Practically Joker: His view of violence as a form of art, dissonant joy while slaughter is happening and obsession with Levius all brings this to mind (his last name is even Clown, for Pete's sake). The manga goes full-bore with this, with the crazy outfits and him wearing clown makeup.
AJ Langdon
AJ Langdon
Voiced by: Saori Hayami (Japanese), Christine Marie Cabanos (English), Nycolle González (Latin-American Spanish)
- Brainwashed: Clown subjected her to severe brainwashing in order to turn her into an efficient fighter.
- Brainwashed and Crazy: After all she’s gone through in Clown’s care, she legitimately sees him as a caring father figure, mostly due to her conditioning and the various drugs she’s got flowing in her system. It’s to the point where she doesn’t even really feel pain, even in her fights with Hugo and Levius.
- Broken Ace: She's one of the strongest metal boxers in the series but only because of the horrible experiments and abuse Clown has subjected her through for years.
- Damsel in Distress: A rare example of The Hero having to fight the Damsel in Distress in order to save her.
- Defeating the Undefeatable: Her debut involves going against Hugo in a 'warm-up match' [spoiler:Clown deliberately agreed to in order to get to Levius.]]
- Implied Love Interest: Interestingly, in the anime she's implied to fall in love with Levius, while in the manga she loses her memory and remains as Levius's friend.
- Pint-Sized Powerhouse: She's small compared to muscle heads like Hugo, yet she effortlessly delivers a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown to him once she's given the clear to stop holding back.
- Purple Is Powerful: In the anime, her prosthetics are purple and she's The Dragon Levius has to face.
- Red Eyes, Take Warning: In the anime, after Levius disables her external steam generator, her internal one kicks in, allowing her get back on her feet and give him a chilling Death Glare with this trope.
- Trigger Phrase: Clown has two for AJ: "Fortissimo", which forces her to fight, and "Cadenza", which pushes her into a mindless berserker rage. In the manga it makes her hair grow and become white
Others
Malcolm Eden
Malcolm Eden
Voiced by: Houchu Ohtsuka (Japanese), Neil Kaplan (English), José Antonio Macías (Latin-American Spanish)
- Cross Counter: On the receiving end of it during the end of his fight with Levius.
- Death Seeker: Upon watching his career crumble, Malcolm grows dissatisfied with life and comes to believe that dying honorably in the ring is the only glory he can achieve. In the manga, Levius grants his wish. In the anime, Levius instead reignites his will to live and Malcolm retires peacefully.
- Retired Badass: After losing his match to Levius, Malcolm chooses to retire and fund a charity to help injured boxers and families of dead soldiers. He does help Levius train for his bout against AJ.
- Spared by the Adaptation: In the anime, he survives his match with Levius and retires.
Hugo Stratus
Hugo Stratus
Voiced by: Daisuke Ono (Japanese), Jamieson Price (English), Víctor Hugo Aguilar (Latin-American Spanish)
- Break the Haughty: He initially thinks of nothing of AJ, until she proves capable of standing up to him.
- Body Horror: He ends up as a pile of organs in the manga.
- Determinator: Even though AJ outmatches him, he's determined to finished the match in the name of his idol's legacy.
- Defeating the Undefeatable: He's the undefeatable that gets brutally defeated by AJ in what was supposed to be a warm up match before his bout against Levius.
- Heel: He deliberately plays one in the ring in an effort to simulate his idol.
- Heroic Second Wind: In the anime, he briefly hallucinates his idol watching his match when AJ nearly knocks him out. This helps him get back on his feet to continue the match. He later forces himself out of bedrest so he can give Levius one to repay him for saving his life.
- Hidden Depths: As much as he trash talks and bullies those around him, Hugo fights clean, avoiding dirty tricks and preventing a solid punch from landing when the bell rings mid-swing.
- Smarter Than You Look: He comes across as a Boisterous Bruiser who's a notorious Heel in the metal boxing world. Yet, he's sharp enough notice AJ's unnatural fighting style and even gives Levius tips that clues the others in on her illegal modification as well as the depth of Clown's depravity.
- Spared by the Adaptation: He survives his match with AJ in the anime, thanks to Levius jumping into the ring and saving him.
