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Drawn from their respective worlds, Kaiba's ego and greed will cause these characters to collide. Some collisions are happier than others.


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     The Blackmailed Mecha Rangers 
These are the heroes of our story, brave men ranging from 13 to their 30s who are perfectly happy to give their lives for the city owned by a man who blackmailed them.

Tropes common for the team:

Simon
The youngest member, the Most Hot-Blooded, and he's also piloting the smallest mecha.

Tropes:

  • Dark and Troubled Past: Despite keeping a strong face, Simon is still haunted by his parent's death in an cave-in.

Shinji Ikari
Second youngest member and the Most Reluctant; as well as the most laughably pathetic.

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Roger Smith
A Negotiator who also happens to pilot a Black Mecha...what? What's so unusual about that?

Tropes:

  • Amnesiac Hero: Evidently its a chronic problem for Roger. However, it can be a deliberate case since Dorothy still remembers Roger's past "lives", but Roger wants to be surprised.
  • Badass in a Nice Suit: Comes with being the Negotiator.
  • Cultured Badass: Unlike the others, Roger always wears his uniform and even at home still wears only black.
  • Deadpan Snarker: Not much different from canon in this regard.
  • Guile Hero: Uses wit and cunning both in the cockpit and when dealing with adversaries.
  • Identity Amnesia: Dorothy probably knows everything that Roger forgot, but he wants to be surprised.
  • Mighty Glacier: Big O's the toughest and possibly the physically strongest of the Ranger's mecha.
  • Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: He convinced Deathwing to take a humanoid form in order to make their battle more "fair". Deathwing's transformation only made him more dangerous.
    • He was also part of the Grove experiments on Enoch years ago
  • The Stoic: Like in canon, nothing seems to phase the Negotiator. Even constant threats of death are treated casually by Roger.
  • Papa Wolf: Don't threaten or insult Annie, Shinji, or Simon or he'll drop his neutrality.
  • Team Dad: Generally the most responsible, mature and sane member of the team.

King Van Slanzar de Fanel
The King of a minor kingdom on a planet that can see Earth but Earth can't see his world...weird isn't it?

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Bit Cloud
Ace pilot or lucky-as-hell junk-lover? Your guess is as good as mine.

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Heero Yuy

Tropes:

  • Properly Paranoid: Developed a codex with plans for if himself or any of his fellow rangers turn evil

     Mecha Lord 
The Titular Combination Mecha which guards and protects Angel Groove.

Tropes common for the team:

  • All Your Powers Combined: Possesses expanded and enhanced abilities from each of it's component mecha.
  • Arm Cannon: Compliments of Big O and later Liger Zero Panzer or Sunflower and Gundam Wing
  • BFS
  • BFG
  • Deflector Shields: Uses both Escaflowne's magic and Evangelion's AT Field as a barrier.
  • Expanded membership upgrade: First acquires stronger Spiral capabilities thanks to Gurren Lagann and becomes Mecha Breaker Lord.
    • Soon afterwards, Kaiba's Blue Eyes White Dragon Jet combines with Breaker Lord to form White Dragon Mecha Breaker Lord.
    • Gundam Wing plus Mecha Lord or Mecha Breaker Lord equals Mecha Wing Lord or Mecha Wing Breaker Lord.
  • Humongous Mecha
  • If It Swims, It Flies: Somewhat Averted. Mecha Lord was actually in danger of drowning when facing the Kraken and it took quick thinking from the rangers to survive. Later, it gains flight thanks to the addition of Kaiba's Dragon Jet and Wing Gundam.
  • Lightning Bruiser: Fast and agile thanks to Gurren Lagann, Liger Zero and Escaflowne, but still possesses Big O's sheer raw strength.
  • Madeof Iron: Thanks to Big O.
  • The Power of Friendship
  • Power Fist
  • Team Spirit
  • This Is a Drill: From either Gurren or Gurren Lagann.

     Friends and Family of the Rangers 
They're not complaining for some reason, but these are the solid walls of support for the Rangers. Family, Friends, Not-Lovers and so on. So here they are in order of introduction.

Smith Family
Roger Smith's butler, his wife Dorothy and their daughter Annie. Wait...Something seems very strange about half of that sentence...

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The Dai-Gurren Brigade
Simon's gang led by him and Kamina.

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Nia

The Blitz Team
Bit's fellow zoid pilots though only Leena is shown to be living with him...

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Fanelian Court

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Hitomi Kasshu
  • Character Focus: Female character with the most screen-time and development apart from Nia and Hikari

     Friends and Allies in Angel Groove 
Seto Kaiba
The only one fortunate enough to live in Angel Groove because...he owns the place!

Tropes:

  • Benevolent Boss: To the people he freed from the mines, he freed them from slavery, gave them money to build Angel Groove, then let them live there, charges them almost no taxes, and gives all of the orphans free lifetime passes to Kaiba Land.
  • Fiction 500: On top of being richer than Scrooge McDuck, Kaiba owns Blackwater, the UN, Sony, Square Enix, Bioware, Bungie, and Nintendo.

Mokuba Kaiba
The Co-President of Kaiba Corp and his older brother's right-hand man. He's also the one that most people prefer to work under...marginally.

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Optimus Prime
A Mechanical Head that floats in an oversized fish jar.

Tropes:

  • Big Good
  • Deathis Cheap: Considering how he got here...yeah...
  • Gentle Giant: He takes his circumstances oddly well.
  • My Greatest Failure: The battle between his Autobots and the Deceptions may have caused Adam to awaken in the first place - their war may have been what eventually caused Second Impact.

Hikari Horaki
Transferred from Tokyo-3 to act as Class Representative for the academy in Angel Groove, though she could have picked a better time...

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Noriko Takaya
Hikari's roommate and penpal from Osaka, Noriko joined the Defense Force Arc Troopers in Chapter 11.

Naota Nanbada

Coop

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Maya Ibuki

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Angel Groove Defense Force
Before the Rangers are deployed, this group of volunteers get sent out to the front to get horribly murdered by whatever it is that's attacking the city that week.A profile with more detailed info can be found here: http://thaeonblade.deviantart.com/gallery/#/d4iyysg

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     Guests in Angel Groove 
People who just kind of stumbled into the Groove for a temporary stay.
Colonel Misato Katsuragi

Tropes:

  • Action Girl: As demonstrated by her attack on a decepticon that was attacking Toji.
  • The Alcoholic: Everyone to Pen-Pen, Kaji and even Duo have refused to let her have a single drop.

Toji

Tropes:

  • Adaptational Badass: He still gets beaten around a lot, but at least he has a chance to fight back somewhat.
  • The Big Guy
  • Child Soldier
  • Spared by the Adaptation
  • Took a Level in Badass: Has been seen standing up to decepticons and even space-godzilla despite being out of his league.
  • Worf Effect: Has spent most of his screen time being beaten by his enemies.
    • Like that time when Blackout crippled his Eva and then hacked its systems to get to Nerv's mainframe.
    • Or when Spacegodzilla utterly dominated him despite Unit 03's AT Field.

Yugi Mutoi

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Haruko

Tropes:

  • Ax-Crazy: Volunteered to ride a crashing plane down to the ground.
  • Made of Iron: Unfazed from an airplane crash or being triple-teamed by Naota, Ninamori and Kanti

     Londo Bell 
The only competent and un-manipulated organization in the Federation. Has an academy stationed in the Sanc Kingdom.
Commodore Bright Noah

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Banagher Links

Tropes:

  • Awesomeness by Analysis: Evidently found a way to beat the ERANT Exam without cheating
  • Canon Welding: In his source OVA, Banagher was the son of Cardaes Vist and Anna Links. Here, he's the son of Sayla Mass and Amuro Ray.
  • Disappeared Dad: His father Amuro died/disappeared before he was born.

Major Sayla Mass

Tropes:

  • Relationship Upgrade: Her and Amuro were together during Char's Neo-Zeon Movement and Banagher was born from their coupling.

     Rot Walkuren 
People who happen to be the exact opposite of and in no way will oppose the Rangers.
Viral

Tropes:

  • Adaptational Badass: Evidently he has authority equal to a beastman general as opposed to the original TTGL show where he was merely a captain albeit a skilled and respected one.
  • The Ageless: He's likely at least as old as Lordgenome if not older.
  • Hot-Blooded: Comes with the territory of being a TTGL character. Also, spiral energy does that
  • Healing Factor: Regenerates from a drill through his torso in a matter of moments.
  • Jerk with a Heart of Gold: His relationship with Nia being the most obvious example
  • Seen It All: when you've lived through the Anti-Spiral war, this is expected.

Dilandau

Tropes:

  • The Alcoholic: He's typically drinking in most of his scenes and spits it out as flames to burn people
  • Axe-Crazy: Just like in Canon, only he has no Morality Pet this time around.
  • Karma Houdini: Originally imprisoned, Dilandau has been conscripted by Lordgenome per the powers of the Tribunal.
  • Kick the Dog: No, he doesn't kick dogs...he throws them into trash cans before setting them on fire and having a barbeque over the burning can.
  • Magic Knight: Uses Gaian magic for telekinetic strikes and pyrokinesis abilities.
  • Psychofor Hire: Essentially a mercenary whose using his new freedom to spread destruction.
  • Pyromaniac: There are few scenes where he isn't burning someone or something.

Baroness Asuka Sohryu

Tropes:

  • Alpha Bitch: How she treats her subordinates and team-mates. She especially bares her fangs to Hikari
  • Aristocrats Are Evil: She's only the emperor's grand-daughter and not technically royalty, but Asuka still counts well enough
  • Took a Level in Jerkass: Asuka was bad in her own series, but acting as a Britannian Baron and later a Marquise has made her worst in terms of personality. Best shown when she threatens Hikari's family out of jealousy towards Hikari

  • Rocket Punch: One that's strong enough to wipe out a Federation Base.

  • Expy: Shown in-universe when Viral initially mistakes her for Simon in the 12th Parallel Works. Somewhat deliberate from Terios' experiments as well.

     Seele and friends 
Under new management by Gendo Ikari.
Gendo Ikari

Tropes:

  • Early-Installment Weirdness: In his first appearance he was like a Saturday Morning Cartoon Villain with petty schemes like stealing all of the air conditioning in Tokyo-3. But by his next appearance, he became a Knight of Cerebus and never looked back.
  • Kick the Dog: When he meets Shinji again in chapter 6, he says multiple speeches explaining that he sees Shinji as nothing more than a whiny waste of life that is a danger to everyone around him. Ouch.

Seele 04: Lord Genome
  • Abusive Parent: His father. Just read Parallel Works 3. Though this could be partially justified. In canon, Nia was revealed to be a Anti-Spiral Irregular, and the Anti-Spirals do exist in the MMMR-verse.
  • Badass Boast: When Seele 07 asks him why he doesn't hide his face during Seele meetings his answer is "I'm Lordgenome, who do I have to fear?"
  • Character Focus: The member of Seele besides Gendo that gets the most screentime. On top of that, he's often seen with Gendo acting as his equal.
  • Kill the Messenger: Very violently murders a servant after reporting Terios' defeat at the hands of the Dai-Gurren Brigade.
  • One-Man Army: Per Parallel Works 1, he wiped out his fellow spiral fleet almost single-handedly after defeating the Anti-Spirals.
  • Super-Speed: Able to move, react and speak normally to Terios in his super-speed mode.
  • We Have Reserves: Could care less about the death of his beastmen generals and more about their failures.

  • Expy: Basically a beastman version of Shadow the Hedgehog.

     Imperial Family of Britannia 
The Rulers of the one of two empires on the Earth. Currently led by Charles since WWII with each of his siblings having their own spheres of influences within the empire and their pact-brothers.

Tropes:

  • Alternate History: This Britannia lost the American Revolution unlike in the source material, but built their empire out of Eurasia after defeating Napoleon by the skin of their teeth.

Emperor Charles

Tropes:

  • Kick the Dog: On top of having a throne made out of dead puppies to make sure even the dumbest person gets he's evil he does this trope to both non-britannians and those of his children who disappoint him.
  • Kick Them While They Are Down: Chides Euphemia for getting blood on his carpet after he bottles her.

Euphemia

Tropes:

  • Actual Pacifist: Seemingly subverted despite being one of Relena Peacecraft's students.

Schneizel

Tropes:

  • Pet the Dog: Appears to genuinely care about his young wife enough to even stand up for her against his father.
  • We Have Reserves: Could care less about Asuka's safety during the Luxembourg invasion.

Mariemaia (Through marriage to Schneizel

Tropes:

  • Bad Boss: She shocks an executive, then drops her into the mountains so that she can shoot her.
  • Blofeld Ploy: Grilled one executive for a miscount of funds even though she knew who was guilty.
  • Easily Forgiven: Everyone appears to have forgotten that she tried to takeover the world nine years ago.

     The Ridiculously Overpowered Adversaries 
No has any idea as to why they're attacking Angel Groove and honestly, it matters less than the fact that they are trying to destroy the city.

The guy in charge of sending the Monster of the Week to attack Angel Groove. Why he's doing so is unknown.

  • Harmless Villain: Even after going One-Winged Angel Cloverfield wasn't much of a threat. It pretty much just existed to show how badass the Mecha Rangers were after a rather lackluster first showing against Ramiel.
  • Healing Factor: It got ripped to bits multiple times and put itself back together, it took a Groin Attack to stop it for good.
  • Multi-Armed and Dangerous: Pretty useless though.
  • One-Winged Angel: Once hit by the maybe-Lance of Longinus it grew bigger, got more arms, and got meaner...but it was still harmless to the Mecha Rangers.
  • Why Won't You Die?: The only threatening thing about it was that it could take tremendous amounts of punishment, even by this fics standards.
  • Your Head A-Splode: Bit and Van butchered its head a couple of times while showing off.

  • Alas, Poor Villain: Parodied. At first the narrative talks about how sad it is to watch such a majestic creature die...Until Shinji goes Renegade and decides to twist the knife and sadistically electrocute it as Dead Baby Comedy.

  • Convection, Schmonvection: Averted. Deathwing's heat and power are so great that weaker attacks evaporate or melt before they can hit him.
  • Honor Before Reason: Roger convinced him to take a human like form to make the fight more honorable. This backfires BIG TIME because his transformation made him faster.
  • Worf Had the Flu: It's implied that one of the reasons why he lost was because Tabris awoke him before he finished healing his wounds from his fight with Adam.

  • Harmless Villain: The only opponent that he's successfully defeated is a colony of ants.
  • Worf Effect: Has a 0/5 record after being beaten by Kanti, Dorothy, Task Force 141, Haruko and Naota.

  • Curb-Stomp Battle: The first of the anomalies to have this truly dealt to them by the rangers.

  • More Dakka: Has guns on each finger and a face in it's palm that fires beams of death!

  • Brainwashed and Crazy: More brainwashed than crazy when Enoch speaks through him.
  • Breaking Speech: Enoch delivers a cold one to both the Rangers with Jet Alone as his mouthpiece and gives another one to Kaiba after the battle while he was looking at the recording of the previous conversation!

Engineered and enhanced from the DNA of Godzilla and one other creature, these seven monsters launch a coordinated assault on the city in Chapter 20.

Tropes:

  • All Your Powers Combined: The four Zillas are shown with the abilities of Godzilla and the combined endurance of Godzilla and the Sharptooth
  • Breath Weapon: All of the Zillas have access to the atomic breath attacks. Spacegodzilla can additionally increase its breath with its gravity powers.
  • Cyborg: Two of the Zillas are mecha-zillas equipped with durable armor that absorbs the energy of incoming attacks.
  • For the Evulz: The Zilla that Unit 01 confronts seems to take sadistic pleasure in eating and torturing humans.
  • Genius Bruiser: Mainly Spacegodzilla, but the others have shades of this.
    • The Zilla that Van faces uses its digging ability to surprise Escaflowne and add a new dimension to their battle
    • Once Shinji's Zilla realizes that Unit 01 ran out of power, it wastes no time in taking the opportunity to severely wounded and crippling the Eva to where Shinji almost died
  • Lightning Bruiser: All of the Base Zillas apply. Particularly the Zilla which Bit and Heero battle since the latter actually uses the make-shift lake from the Kraken fight against Heero and the Defense Force aces
  • Made of Iron: All apply.
    • The Mechagodzillas could withstand full-powered punches from Big-O and Gurren Lagann without faltering.
    • Spacegodzilla was able to endure the combined attacks of Unit 03, Nirvash, Berserk Fuhrer, Deathscythe, King Kittan and Gaogaigar and still control the fight. Even Yugi's Mind Crush only made it madder.
    • Eventually it took the combined power of Kaiba's dragon-jet combined with two Autobot Primes, Mecha Lord and Mecha King Mecha Wrecka Gar to destroy Spacegodzilla.
  • Mighty Glacier: All of them are extremely hard to permanently injure, in addition to their great strength.
  • Spikes of Villainy: Spacegodzilla's crystal spikes on its body. These can also be used to fire gravity bolts at its foes.
  • Super-Persistent Predator: More applies to the Zillas since Spacegodzilla was willing to leave alone its enemies. But Toji attacked it in the back and made it mad...

The Decepticons
So far known to include Barricade, Blackout, Soundwave, and Scorponok, we still don't really know what their goal is...whatever it is, it won't be pretty.

Tropes:

  • All Your Base Are Belong to Us: Blackout's attack on the military base and the Decepticons infiltration of Angel Groove. Which has culminated into an all out attack while the City's defenses are scattered by the Godzilla Zillas
  • Eyescream: Blackout loses both his eyes during his fight with Nerve US. It doesn't stop him.

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