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Here's the list of characters introduced in No More Heroes III.

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Galactic Superhero Rankings

In General

Not Seen is Midori Midorikawa

• Advertised Extra: Hyped up extensively as the new villains, but four of them are left as The Unfought in the actual game.
• Aliens Are Bastards: Some are more affable than others, but all of them are actual criminals heading a destructive invasion of Earth. They either have body counts or have willingly assisted those who do.
• Alien Blood: of course, each of them have different multi-colored blood.
  • Mr Blackhole: Light pink
  • Gold Joe: White & cyan
  • Black Night Direction: Dark pink
  • Vanishing Point: Grey & grayish blue
  • Velvet Chair Girl: Orange and red
  • Sonic Juice: Pink
  • Paradox Bandit: Dark green with dashes of Blue
  • FU: Mainly yellow with bits of red & blue
• Aliens Speaking English: All of them are capable of speaking fluent English (except Velvet Chair Girl, who's The Voiceless) despite coming from far away galaxies.
• Beware the Superman: "Superhero" is just a label they apply to themselves. They're still intergalactic criminals led by a Psychopathic Manchild.
• Bishōnen Line: In general, the more human-looking members of the Galactic Superhero Rankings tend to be more powerful, with Midori as an outlier - just compare the robotic-looking Mr. Blackhole to the more humanoid Sonic Juice. FU subverts it with his transformations.
• Bizarre Alien Biology: They all have weird designs. With some, it's hard to tell whether they're wearing clothing or not, like with Mr. Blackhole.
• Criminals: All of them are alien criminals that escaped from the Blackhole Prison.
• Humanoid Aliens: Have human-esque builds, though the specifics of some of their designs put them either in Humanoid Abomination or full-blown Eldritch Abomination territory.
• Only Known by Their Nickname/ His Name Really Is "Barkeep": Most of them don't have actual names, although it is possible that these titles are their real names, due to Gold Joe saying he's from the Gold Family.
• Non-Indicative Name: Possibly Played for Laughs. FU says they're jumping on the popularity of superheroes, but hold a full-on invasion and Sylvia keeps calling them assassins instead of superheroes. Plus, they don't even do anything that would make one mistake them for a superhero - even The Boys had their supes do stuff like fighting villains, publicity events, and rescuing people!
• Slave to PR: The reason they don't just raze the entire planet despite more than being capable of doing so, and something that Sylvia exploits with the reestablishment of the UAA and introduction of the Galactic Superhero Rankings. To them, the prestige of being an officially recognized "superhero" trumps all practicality. FU is outright stopped from killing Travis immediately after his fight with Sonic Juice by Sylvia informing him that he'd be forfeiting his number 1 spot in the rankings by doing so.
• The Unfought: Not one but a whopping four of these killers are not fought. Five if you do not think musical chairs against Velvet Chairgirl counts.
• Two Girls to a Team: The only female members are Velvet Chair Girl and Midori Midorikawa.

# 10 - Mr. Blackhole

Mr. Blackhole

The Warp Hole Robber

Voiced by: Scott Whyte (EN), Hiroki Yasumoto (JP)

What a shitty town! What could possibly even be here? Like, what the hell is the prince even worried about? ...eh, whatever. Let's destroy it!

The tenth-ranked member of the Galactic Superhero Rankings, Mr. Blackhole is a professional robber who is among the first aliens to set foot in Santa Destroy. He is capable of making off with loot and dispatching enemies with ease thanks to his ability to manipulate wormholes.

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• Affably Evil: Mr. Blackhole is a fairly jovial individual, cheerfully explaining to Travis about his past and his view on destiny right before their showdown. When Travis offers to end his destiny for him, Mr. Blackhole brushes off the threat and takes him up on the offer with the same cheery tone. However, he is still a bandit and destroys a part of Santa Destroy essentially for no reason.
• Amazing Technicolor Battlefield: After depleting Mr. Blackhole's first health bar, Travis somehow gets sucked into the dimension Mr. Blackhole goes through whenever he enters one of his wormholes. It's there where Travis has to finish him off for real.
• American Accents: For some reason, he has an exaggerated Texan accent.
• Cyclops: His head consists of a single floating eye made of up what appears to be polygonal dark matter.
• Degraded Boss: His second form occasionally reappears in Space Battles, complete with the same “Mr. Blackhole: DEAD” kill-screen.
• Eldritch Abomination: His species can control dark matter and generate wormholes on a whim. Also apparently their bodies contain an entire universe within themselves, where Mr. Blackhole chooses to flee to after being defeated. If it weren't a No More Heroes game and Blackhole wasn't the lowest ranked alien, he would've made for a far more terrifying opposition.
• Gravity Master: Occasionally attacks with burst of intense gravity around him that immediately slams Travis to the ground if he gets caught in it.
• Hypocrite: He complains how FU showed up one day to his planet and destroyed it in a fit of rage. He pretty much does the same thing to Santa Destroy, dismissing it as a "shitty town" and blows it up on a whim.
• Killed Mid-Sentence: Travis blasts his head off before he can deliver one last seemingly personal message to FU.
• Last of His Kind: Due to FU's genocide on his planet. His spaceship has eggs of his race stored in the innermost room, but they are incinerated by the UAA upon Blackhole's death.
• Leitmotif: Phantom Skate, a Red Orca song about a uncatchable thief that steals simply for the thrill.
• Might Makes Right: Coupled with Happiness in Slavery, Mr. Blackhole seems content in being FU's slave, stating that he wouldn't stand a chance against him if he were to rebel. He rationalizes it has just being his destiny. However, this mindset goes both ways, as he is willing to slaughter innocents since he views them as weak and worthless.
• Non-Indicative Name: Sort of. He generates wormholes that happen to look like stereotypical black holes found in media rather than actual black holes. Had they been actual black holes, Travis definitely wouldn't have survived being sucked into just one of them.
• Punch-Clock Villain: He indicates that he doesn't really want to fight Travis and that he would flee into outer space if he could: It's just that he would rather die fighting Travis than face FU's wrath.
• Starter Villain: Is the first ranked superhero you fight and is clearly the weakest out of the ten.
• Thinking Up Portals: His primary ability is being able to generate and manipulate wormholes.
• Voice of the Legion: His otherwise fairly high-pitched voice has a deep distorted reverb to it.

# 9 - Gold Joe

Gold Joe

The Space Ore Dealer

Voiced by: Stephen Oyoung (EN), Tetsuharu Ota (JP)

Lord FU, Gold Joe is baaack~!

The ninth-ranked member of the Galactic Superhero Rankings, Gold Joe is an ore dealer and trafficker. With his ability to manipulate magnetic fields, he can keep foes at arms length and lucre in his grasp.

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• Affably Evil: He, like Mr. Blackhole, is a fairly pleasant individual in-person, but he is still an amoral ore smuggler. Once beaten, Travis discovers the ores that he was carrying in on person, and points out that he is a "shitty guy" in spite of his demeanor. Travis further invokes the trope by exiting the battle stating that the most evil people are ones who don't seem evil.
• Agent Peacock: He's a capable combatant, being among FU's elite assassins, and also incredibly Camp in both his voice and mannerisms.
• Ain't Too Proud to Beg: He goes down crying and pleading with Travis, making up feeble excuses for why he was carrying dangerous ore on his person. It only motivates Travis to viciously beat him with a piece of ore before impaling it through his head.
• Ambiguous Robots: He looks to be a full on robot, but states to be of the Gold family, which means he might either be a Cyborg or part of some vaguely mechanical-looking alien race. He also doesn't have any circuits in his body when sliced opened by Travis and can feel pain.
• Battle Butler: Might be this due to saying that his family served FU's for 23,700 years. He also comes from the same planet as him (The ranking scores show their homeworld symbol is the same).
• Combat Stilettos: His "feet" have noticeably tall heels that give off this effect.
• Convenient Weakness Placement: Gold Joe's arena is designed like a wrestling ring with electrified ropes that can seriously hurt Travis...or Joe, himself, if the player can dropkick him into them, or exploit his magnetic fields.
• The Dandy: He's incredibly showy and flamboyant.
• Floating Limbs: A variant in that he does possess arms and legs, but they're not connected together by any joints. The individual segments instead just float in midair. The fact that his limbs aren't attached to anything means he can pull off moves like spinning his blades around his body like helicopter propellers.
• Half the Man He Used to Be: Travis cuts his torso in half at the end of the fight. Because of Bizarre Alien Biology, this doesn't really do much other than hinder his movements, though it does leave him at Travis's mercy. It also reveals that he's been smuggling dangerous ore inside of his own body the entire time.
• Leitmotif: Gold Joe, an electronic techno beat that reflects his metallic physiology.
• Light Is Not Good: He's a shiny gold-plated alien and also an amoral smuggler assisting a genocidal warlord.
• Magnetism Manipulation: Travis correctly deduces that Gold Joe's powers revolve around this, which shocks Joe. Within gameplay, this takes the form of him magnetizing parts of the floor with specific polarities. Depending on which polarity Travis steps on, he will either attract or repel Joe. The main gimmick of the fight is taking on the same polarity as Joe to push him into the electrified fence surrounding the arena.
• Multi-Armed and Dangerous: He possesses four arms and puts all of them to use.
• Once Original, Now Common: In-universe. He puts on a fancy light show for Travis to begin their battle in style and explains the technical process in hopes of impressing him. Travis bluntly informs Gold Joe that what he just described is projection mapping, which Travis is already familiar with to the point of finding Gold Joe's display dull. Judging by Gold Joe's reaction, it seems like the tech behind projection mapping is still a relative novelty to at least his people.
  Travis: So projection mapping, right? I'm already sick of seeing that shit. With this sort of thing, from like, the second time you see it, your brain already understands what's going on. You can't not see it as fake. […] Also, that's way too much time wasted on something like simple projection mapping. Don't waste budget money on shit like this.
• Professional Butt-Kisser: He seems to compliment FU a lot and gives him an ore to increase his standing as the #1 superhero.
• Shout-Out: His name and design is a homage to King Joe from Ultraseven and the Ultra Series as a whole, which the game is partially influenced by.
• Undignified Death: He dies in terror, beaten to death by Travis with a horrifically corrosive rock that Joe was smuggling.

# 8 - Black Night Direction

Black Night Direction

Emperor of the Night

Voiced by: Paul Mercier (EN), Tomokazu Sugita (JP)

Lord FU, I am honored to get to see you again. Any wish of yours is at old Black Night Direction's command.

The eighth-ranked member of the Galactic Superhero Rankings, Black Night Direction is a specialist in abducting people. Ever loyal to FU, he uses his teleportation abilities to aid his liege in all of his endeavors.

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• Alas, Poor Villain: Black Night Direction is unceremoniously killed off by Native Dancer in a Bait-and-Switch shortly after a cutscene where he reveals some rather sentimental childhood memories to FU that establishes their Villainous Friendship, which gives his sudden death a rather somber angle.
• All-Encompassing Mantle: True to his name, he wears a long black cloak that completely covers his body.
• Childhood Home Rediscovery: He reminisces about a lighthouse that was near a shop, he remembers from a childhood memory and FU promises to help him find that lighthouse with him. It makes it oddly tragic that he ends up dying quickly to Native Dancer before the promise can be fulfilled.
• Dark Is Evil: He wears mostly black and his colors overall are all dark. Not to mention, his teleportation ability manifests as black mist.
• Human Traffickers: An extraterrestrial version of one, with his title being "The Alien Kidnapper", but the principle is still the same. He uses his teleportation to kidnap people then sells them off for profit.
• Off with His Head!: His fate, courtesy of Native Dancer.
• Soft-Spoken Sadist: Tells FU about how he's going to slice off Travis's arms and then Travis himself nicely in a calm voice.
• Teleportation: He uses an illegal transfer machine to teleport himself and others around.
• Undying Loyalty: His allegiance to FU is the most explicit and pronounced of all the assassins. Everything he does is in service of the prince.
• The Unfought: As per series tradition, he gets killed by Native Dancer before he can actually fight Travis.

# 7 - Vanishing Point

Vanishing Point

The Memory Thief

Voiced by: Mark Allen Stewart (EN), Katsuyuki Konishi (JP)

Just watch me! I'm gonna kill the shit outta him!

The seventh-ranked member of the Galactic Superhero Rankings, Vanishing Point is a deadly "memory thief". While seemingly loyal to FU, he always hit anyone's true intentions.

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• American Accents: Has a New York accent or a Boston one, depending on the version.
• Combat Tentacles: Has these for his fight with Travis. Considering how easily Kimmy bypassed them, it probably wouldn't have done him much good had he fought Travis.
• Honesty Is the Best Policy: He certainly believes and is absolutely honest with everyone, even FU.
• Laser-Guided Amnesia: He is able to steal memories, which Sylvia says will be a real battle of the minds. Unfortunately, he ends up never using those powers in his fight, mainly because Kimmy kills him before he gets a chance to.
• Mellow Fellow: He is pretty chill guy and can even convince FU to chill out in a nice and calming manner. Kind of makes it hard to believe that he's a criminal. Falls under Dissonant Serenity when he casually kills Kimmy's backup dancers when he attempts to hijack her concert.
• Real Men Wear Pink: When his fight comes up, he is seen dancing on a bright colorful pink music stage that has giant stuffed animals and lollipops in the background. Of course, he was just playing along so that he could get close to Kimmy and axe her off, not that the element of surprise helped much, as she effortlessly dispatches him.
• Underestimating Badassery: He attempts to violently hijack Kimmy's concert in order take the stage for his and Travis's battle, likely thinking that she was just a pop star. Then Kimmy pulls out her dual-bladed beam katana and kills him.
• The Unfought: He is killed by Kimmy when he tries to kill her.
• Vocal Dissonance: He has a gruff New York cab driver voice, but his design makes one think he's some sort of alien ninja. There is a version that has him sound more like a high pitched Cam Clarke and has more of a Boston accent.

# 6 - Velvet Chair Girl

Velvet Chair Girl (possible real name: Adrian/Adrianne)

Voiced by: N/A

The Gastro Cannon

The sixth-ranked member of the Galactic Superhero Rankings, Velvet Chair Girl is a silent yet deadly woman whose underling Ohma's "Gastro Cannon" is capable of razing cities in a flash.

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• Alas, Poor Villain: It's oddly tragic that Velvet Chair Girl kills herself, and the way Ohma cries Adrian before and after the fight makes one feel sad for the pet that lost its master.
• Bad Boss: Fullfaces, explicitly the underlings of the Galactic Superheroes, are the other participants in her game of musical chairs, and she has no problems having Ohma obliterate them when they lose a round.
• Contrasting Sequel Antagonist: To Holly Summers from the first game. Both are 6th ranked assassins in their respective games and both are Driven to Suicide. However, Holly only killed herself after she had been defeated and it was made clear that Travis wasn't going to kill her. Velvet Chair Girl kills herself before she even genuinely fights Travis. Additionally, Velvet Chair Girl seems to rely entirely on Ohma to carry out her kills while Holly relied entirely on her own trap-making skills and explosives to finish people off. Finally, there is the fact that Holly tried to converse with her opponents either to psyche them out or get a better understanding of their mindset while Velvet Chair Girl is The Voiceless and gets straight into the 'fight'. Travis's reaction to their deaths are different — he's horrified that he didn't get to kill Holly and shamed her for not giving her an honorable death, while he's shocked that Velvet Chair Girl offed herself out of shame losing to him.
• Deranged Animation: Velvet Chair Girl's pre boss fight cutscene is made by AC-BU of Pop Team Epic fame.
• Driven to Suicide: She drinks something that causes her to spew blood out of her mouth and die after you beat her at musical chairs.
• Fair-Play Villain: She follows the same rules during her lethal game of musical chairs as the other participants do. After she loses, she kills herself. Of course, it's unknown if she counted on Ohma going mad from grief. Jeane also implies that she killed herself more out of the shame of being surpassed.
• Glass Cannon: Even when battled on Death difficulty, Ohma is achingly vulnerable to Full Armor missile barrages, and one lucky roll of the Slash Reel can empty most of his health bar in an instant.
• Green-Skinned Space Babe: Has light blue skin, but is attractive despite being one of FU's buddies.
• Neutral Female: She never actually engages in any personal killing, mostly relying on Ohma for it. Also, she didn't even contact FU in her absence when he requested her presence prior to her ranking battle, focusing on her manicure appointment instead.
• No-Damage Run: An enforced one. You will die if you lose a single round of musical chairs.
• Party Game: A lethal variant due to musical chairs being a part of her boss fight. Whoever fails to get a seat will be incinerated by Ohma.
• Serious Business: She takes her title as the galactic champion of musical chairs very seriously, enough that she'd rather die than live with the shame of losing her title.
• Three Eyes, Zero Soul: She wears a monocle and doesn't mind incinerating people who lose in musical chairs with Ohma.
• The Unfought: Unless you count the game of musical chairs as a fight, you don't fight her but rather her pet Ohma, who grows uncontrollable out of grief after she kills herself.
• The Voiceless: She only communicates through rapid sign language.

# 5 - Midori Midorikawa

Midori Midorikawa

The Dark World Princess

Voiced by: Kelly Ohanian (EN), Reina Ueda (JP)

My name is Midori Midorikawa. I'm a cleaner.

The fifth-ranked member of the Galactic Superhero Rankings, Midori Midorikawa is the fearsome "Dark World Princess" whose abilities and very nature are unknown to even her peers.

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• All There in the Manual: When Midori asks Travis if he wants to hear about the "funny reason" she broke up with her old boyfriend, he rebuffs her since he's not in the mood. Said reason and more of her backstory is explored in Red, Blue, and Green, a sequel manga to The 25th Ward; the boy she dated was a psychotic ladies' man that pulled out her molars to see her pain resistance. Him and his friends would kidnap her and hire a hitman to kill her while they were getting high and partying. She ended up laying waste to them all after a little cosmic intervention from the person who would employ her as a cleaner.
• All There in the Script: Midori's sentient hands are revealed to have names in the game's credits; her sleepy left hand is named Nightmare Sonic Blast, whereas her parched right hand is named Bigbang.
• Ambiguously Human: She had only seen FU for a second and only joined the rankings for fun like a BBQ, so she might not be an alien. However, her hands make her seem inhuman. With the title of "Dark World Princess", she could be a demon or a mutant. Furthermore, her world's symbol in the Galactic Superhero Rankings screen is not the same as Travis, so she's possibly from Another Dimension. According to Suda, there was a cut storyline that would've revealed that she's Fleming's daughter, making her part-demon.
• Blow You Away: Her left hand is capable of creating powerful winds. Although it's less used in the boss fight with her.
• Body Horror: Her hands have Parasyte-esque creatures integrated into them, giving them mouths, eyes, hair, and scales.
• Bullying a Dragon: She gets away with taunting FU by stating how her boyfriend would go after his head if he tried laying a hand on her.
• Canon Immigrant: Midori Midorikawa was originally a character introduced in Red, Blue and Green, a short story set after the events of The 25th Ward. She officially makes her game debut as one of FU's Galactic Superheroes.
• Earn Your Happy Ending: If you read Red, Blue, and Green, you'd know that Midori's life was not a pleasant one. The fact that she was able to not only find love in Kamui but also become one of Travis's friends is probably as good as it gets for her.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Not evil, but she begs Travis to not kill her children (even Travis is shown to hesitate at this because seeing them reminds him of his own concern for his children) and she's the girlfriend of Kamui.
• Face Death with Dignity: Accepts her loss to Travis with grace after hearing that he'll spare her children. Travis spares her once he learns the truth thanks to Kamui.
• Females Are More Innocent: In comparison to Velvet Chair Girl, who joins in on the destruction and has Ohma nuke a city, Midori only joined in because she took one look at FU's eyes and thought that this was like going to a BBQ. It's due to this that Travis spares her, as he can tell that she's not 100% evil.
• Foil: To the other female member of the Galactic Superheroes, Velvet Chair Girl. Midori immediately begins to talk about who she is without stop, compared to Velvet Chair Girl never saying anything at all. Midori fights alongside her "children", Velvet Chair Girl plays a round of musical chairs but never fights Travis. And finally, Midori accepts her death by Travis's hands and only asks that he spares her kids, while Velvet Chair Girl would rather die than face the fact that she lost to him and Ohma takes her steed.
• Girlish Pigtails: Not on Midori herself but on the back of her left hand, soon revealed to be independently alive and somehow her child.
• Half-Human Hybrid: A cut bit of story content would've revealed that she's Fleming from Shadows of the Damned's daughter, making her half-demon.
• Heel–Face Turn: Not exactly much of one as she was not directly connected to FU's operations to begin with, but she does join Travis's crew after he spares her.
• Horrible Judge of Character: She joined FU, a galactic overlord who wants to take over the Earth, because she assumed that it was like going to a BBQ. She quickly defects to Travis after he defeats and spares her.
• Humanoid Abomination: She looks normal enough, until she summons her children.
• Last Request: She only asks Travis to not hurt her children. Thankfully for her, Kamui arriving just in time to explain everything and Travis not wanting to kill a girl again has her be spared.
• Literal Disarming: Travis slices off her hands — who are also her children, It Makes Sense in Context — at the end of their fight. Near the end of the game, her hands are back on her wrists somehow.
• Long-Lost Relative: Suda revealed in an interview that Fleming, the main antagonist of Shadows of the Damned, is Midori's father, making her the sister of Damned: Dark Knight antagonist and Garcia Hotspur's killer, Alfred. This was meant to be revealed in a planned scenario that saw Travis get sent to Blackhole Prison and encountering Fleming, which had to be cut due to budgetary reasons.
• Manic Pixie Dream Girl: The main reason why Kamui Uehara took interest in her is that she's apparently a princess that comes from a dark world. Slightly reversed in that he is her second love (though it does help that Kamui is not normal himself).
• Meaningful Name / Non-Indicative Name: Her given name is Japanese for "green". In her youth, she dressed predominantly in green, even though she hated the color. Nowadays, she prefers to dress in her favorite color red, although her jacket remains green.
• Motor Mouth: Her introduction to Travis is basically her talking about herself without even breathing.
• Noodle Incident: In this game's context; When Midori is about to tell the "funny" reason why she broke up with her previous boyfriend, Travis wants to have none of that. See All There in the Manual for an explanation.
• Oblivious Adoption / Happily Adopted: According to Suda, she's supposed to be Fleming's daughter. However, Midori is shown in Red, Blue and Green to have a different family of which she refers to as her parents and sibling. Her family photo in the manga and skills make it obvious she's very different from the rest of them, and it's unknown whether she knows of this, but that doesn't stop her from expressing how much she loves her family in No More Heroes III.
• Odd Name Out: Her name is Japanese in origin and is an actual name, while the other aliens have weird names, which may or may not be their real names and are in English. It's a hint that she might not actually be an alien, as she only joined their ranks out of the mistaken belief that they were having a BBQ.
• Official Couple: Her boyfriend is Kamui Uehara, something that even Travis is shocked to hear.
• Perky Goth: Is quite chipper for someone called "Dark World Princess".
• Playing with Fire: Her right hand is seen breathing fire while talking.
• Pretty Princess Powerhouse: She's called the "Dark World Princess" (which Kamui even confirms that she's royalty) and is fifth rank in the Galactic Superhero Rankings.
• Red Right Hand: Both of her arms are covered in scales, while her hands are anthropomorphized with their own, tiny arms below the wrist and facial features like eyes, a nose and a mouth, complete with hair that's styled. These are somehow also her children. Word of God is she's half demon, which may explain them, but ultimately it's subverted as she's not evil at all.
• Repetitive Name: Midori Midorikawa.
• Saying Sound Effects Out Loud: Her kids will occasionally scream relevant sounds like "Pew pew pew!" while attacking.
• Token Good Teammate: She's the only "good" member of the Galactic Superhero Rankings as she only joined the rankings cause she thought it was like going to a BBQ. Thus she's the only member spared as a result.
• Token Human: She's the only (seemingly) human out of FU's group.
• Unexpected Gameplay Change: The lead-up to her boss fight is played like a first-person horror game.
• Who Names Their Kid "Dude"?: She discusses this trope as she has a sister named "Doremi" (pronounced like the music notes) and that her name is basically the color green.

# 4 - Sniping Lee

Sniping Lee

The Galactic Sniping Champion

Voiced by: Stephen Oyoung (EN), Tetsuharu Ota (JP)

Headshots feel so good! Headshots! Headshots! All day, every day!

The fourth-ranked member of the Galactic Superhero Rankings, Sniping Lee is a sharpshooter of no small renown, said to hold the record for the longest distance kills and capable of felling his target with a single shot.

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• Boom, Headshot!: Lee is obsessed with headshots and enjoys them with great pleasure.
• Call-Back: To Letz Shake from the first game, where the ranked battle begins with a voice with a strange accent announces a countdown over a loudspeaker. Travis starts connecting the dots before realizing what's about to happen.
• Composite Character: Has a One-Hit Kill like Speed Buster but the fact that he's unfought and Travis recalling the deja vu of a countdown and then being killed when the countdown ends is similar to that of Letz Shake.
• Egomaniac Hunter: He takes pride in being able to fell any creature. When Damon expresses doubt that Sniping Lee will survive his battle with Travis, Sniping Lee threatens to shoot him in the head.
• Genre Blind: Anyone who is well-versed in this series should know that loudly announcing a countdown to their opponent is practically begging for death.
• Hot-Blooded: Despite being a sniper, he is rather energetic, aggressive, and Ax-Crazy for headshots.
• Improbable Aiming Skills: He wouldn't be the Galactic Sniping champion if he didn't have these. He had Travis at his mercy due to these skills until Notorious arrived.
• One-Hit Kill: He prides himself on his headshots being this. He ends up killed this way via Notorious.
• Sniper Rifle: Has one with three barrels on it, although they don't seem to have a function since there was only one target light on Travis's head.
• Three... Two... One...: When he's got Travis dead to rights, he starts counting down until he pulls the trigger, which Travis doesn't take seriously. Given what tends to happen when enemies count down towards killing Travis, it's a sign that Sniping Lee's not long for this world, with Travis being more surprised that it isn't Henry who bails him out this time.
• The Unfought: He gets blown up by the superhero wrestler, Notorious. Sylvia is disappointed by this and seems to summon Destroyman just so that there is a boss fight to be had.

# 3 - Sonic Juice

Sonic Juice

The Demon God

Voiced by: Christian Lanz (EN), Jun'ichi Suwabe (JP)

Just give me the word, and I'll go kill him straightaway.

The third-ranked member of the Galactic Superhero Rankings, Sonic Juice is FU's right-hand man who is feared for his fighting prowess and the lethality of his "Legendary Water" technique. While he is wary of FU's ambitions, he remains ever loyal to him.

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• Affably Evil: He is a soft-spoken thoughtful alien who enjoys JRPG's and fruit juices whose biggest crime is loyalty towards a psychopathic prince.
• A Lighter Shade of Black: He's not completely onboard with FU's plans, only going along with them because he genuinely believes he's fighting against evil.
• Breaking the Fourth Wall: He is aware of the hack and slash gameplay of the game he's in and so forces the game to turn into a turn-based RPG boss battle. He is essentially a damage sponge while this is happening due to having no health bar.
• Calling Your Attacks: "Sonic Juice special attack! Legendary Water!"
• The Dragon: He is FU's second-in-command, and one of his most trusted comrades. Might explain why FU kills him after Sonic Juice decides to retreat rather than fully throw himself into a battle to the death with Travis.
• Fish People: His blue skin and pointy ears invoke this, specifically appearing to be a sea monkey as he makes "kekekeke" cries during his battle.
• The Good Chancellor: He has FU's best interests in mind and wisely advises him to withdraw from Earth while he still can. When FU refuses out of pride, he resigns himself to follow his prince's wishes to the best of his abilities. FU ultimately proves that he values him more for his strength than his wisdom when he murders him in cold blood after Sonic Juice decides it would be wiser to return to his people than to fight Travis to the death.
• Humans Are the Real Monsters: Subverted. He seems to believe that humans are an evil that needs to be controlled, but he can't determine the source of evil in humans is, and even acknowledges the presence of good humans. Strangely enough, Travis counts.
• Know When to Fold Them: He eventually stops the battle with Travis on his own terms, wanting to go back to his people as they still need him which Travis accepts. Unfortunately, FU doesn't take too kindly to this.
• Kiai: He shouts "Ke! Ke! Ke! Ke!" when executing some of his attacks.
• Leitmotif: Dead Orca Force, which fits with Sonic Juice's aquatic theming and his bombastic attacks.
• Logical Weakness: Water is generally conducive to electricity. Travis's Beam Katana is an electric weapon, so powering it up using Thunder allows it to deal the most damage during the RPG segment.
• Making a Splash: He seems to be water-based, and he has an Technique called "Legendary Water". Also his stage has a ocean/beach design to it.
• Not So Above It All: He initially appears to be a stoic Only Sane Man of FU's group, but he expresses an appreciation for classic turn-based JRPG's to the point of insisting on fighting Travis that way. When Travis re-takes control of the battle in the classic NMH-style, he is surprisingly knowledgeable on how a hack-n-slash boss battle works and how he should behave.
• Puzzle Boss: The RPG fight with him can't be beaten by simply attacking and healing, as he only takes single digit damage from each attack. There are two ways to progress to the real fight:
  • Travis can't use magic, but his Beam Katana runs on electricity, so while casting Fire or Blizzard wastes a turn, casting Thunder charges the Beam Katana and guarantees the next attack to deal 777 damage. Alternating between Thunder and Attack, with the occasional Charge and Item use, will eventually trigger the real fight.
  • As it turns out, Travis can also target the command menu, status screen, and dialogue box. Three normal Attacks or one Thunder enhanced Attack on the command menu will make continuing the RPG fight impossible and skip straight to the actual fight.
• Rewarded as a Traitor Deserves: In FU's mind, Sonic Juice fleeing to go back to his people after his battle with Travis more than warranted FU killing him.
• Shout-Out: To Dr. Manhattan. They are blue-skinned introspective beings who speaks in a soft calm voice with a reverb. He acts as an impartial observer to humanity, seeing them not be purely evil and with the potential for greatness. To hammer in the reference, his heart-to-heart with FU takes place in the Herald Square station in Manhattan and Sylvia post-battle shows up with Dr. Manhattan's glowing eyes.
• Sizeshifter: Sort of. His main body stays the same size, but he can form a body suit composed of water around himself that makes him look positively massive.
• Token Good Teammate: As Midori only joined FU's crew because of a misunderstanding, he counts as the only "legitimate" member of the Galactic Superhero Rankings who acts like, well, a superhero. He only agreed to help FU because he actually believed humankind was evil.
• Trademark Favorite Food: True to his name, he enjoys fruit juice.
• Unexpected Gameplay Change: He somehow makes his boss fight into an RPG boss fight, which Travis turns back into a regular fight via attacking the command box.
• Villainous Breakdown: Parodied when Travis makes him realize that he's never particular liked the character designs of a popular JRPG series he enjoys^note Which, according to files, Traivs just said they were "stupid" and was just blinded to this preference by the franchise's branding and graphical innovations.
• Worthy Opponent: He's the Galactic Superhero who respects Travis the most, to the point that the man himself is willing to put his Aliens Are Bastards mindset aside and spare him when he's no longer willing to fight. It makes his execution at the hands of FU all that more tragic.

# 2 - Paradox Bandit

Paradox Bandit

The Master Of Explosions

Voiced by: Paul Mercier (EN), Tomokazu Sugita (JP)

I'll wait patiently. Could this human even make it all the way to me?

The second-ranked member of the Galactic Superhero Rankings, Paradox Bandit is the infamous "Master Of Explosions" whose massive ego is matched only by his desire to sleep.

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• Death by Irony: FU kills him after a ten-hour long gaming session, meaning he was likely sleep-deprived himself. Paradox Bandit, an excessive oversleeper, is indirectly killed by sleep deprivation. Moreover, Sonic Juice even warned him not to "die in his sleep".
• Degraded Boss: Bizarrely inverted at first, then ultimately averted; Paradox Bandit's tall buff stature, long-hair, choice of weapon being a two-handed battle axe, and supposed mastery of explosions, carries a suspiciously similar in-game substitute with the Captain Treatment enemy. The only notable difference in trait is exchanging explosion mastery for functionally similar shockwave attacks that he can both generate from his body and create with axe slams. The enemy is the final regular enemy encountered in the game and the toughest by far, and the presentationally similar Paradox Bandit is also the last ranker before FU, making Captain Treatment come across as a teaser of sorts for Paradox Bandit. It ultimately doesn't pan out as FU prematurely kills him.
• The Generic Guy: Has easily the most "generic" design of the Galactic Superheroes, and very little personality outside of his desire to sleep. This was most likely done so the player didn't feel too cheated when FU randomly decides to kill him. Whether or not that was successful depends on how much one buys into his status as the second most powerful of the Galactic Superheroes.
• Having a Blast: Based on his title and explosion images on his clothes, he seems to have explosion based abilities. Not that we ever get to see it, as FU kills him in a fit of anger prematurely.
• Informed Ability: He is ranked 2nd among the Galactic Superheroes, which means he is the second strongest alien besides FU. FU kills him unceremoniously for little reason just to demonstrate how FU is mentally deteriorating and also to remind the audience just how powerful he is.
• Leotard of Power: Has no pants and instead wears a light green leotard with explosion images on it.
• Meaningful Name: On a meta level. The alien narratively stated to be the most powerful (obviously besides the Big Bad FU) also turned out to be the most underwhelming.
• No-Respect Guy: Sonic Juice considers him a poor choice as one of the "elite four", and FU unceremoniously kills him in a gaming binge-induced bout of frustration when Paradox Bandit proves to be too narcoleptic to properly face Travis.
• Sleepyhead: His need to sleep is so great that when it finally comes time for him to tag in and fight Travis, he's too drowsy to step up, which ends up annoying FU so much that he headbutts him to death after the Destroyman fight and Sniping Lee's death.
• Stuff Blowing Up: His abilities - after all, he is the Master of Explosions. Not that he gets to live up to the title, thanks to being on the wrong end of one of FU's temper-tantrums.
• The Unfought: The fourth alien that this happened to due to FU being in a bad mood at the time.
• Vocal Dissonance: His design invokes a big intimidating punk rocker, but his voice sounds similar to Korg.
• We Hardly Knew Ye: Even more so than Black Night Direction, since nothing much about him is revealed before getting killed by FU.
• Your Head Asplode: After being head butted nine times in a row by FU, his head is completely gone.

# 1 - FU/Jess-Baptiste VI

FU (Real Name: Jess-Baptiste VI)

^{Click here to see him when he gets pissed off. (SPOILERS)}

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Voiced by: Noshir Dalal (EN), Yuki Kaji (JP)

I'm a GODDAMN SUPERHERO.

The top-ranked member of the Galactic Superhero Rankings, FU crashlanded on Earth as a child twenty years ago, meeting a young Damon Ricotello and gifting him with technology and knowledge that would help him become a successful business magnate. Now, FU has returned, having become a warlord with his sights set on conquering Earth.

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• Actually Pretty Funny: He has this reaction to the news of Mr. Blackhole's death.
  FU: Did Blackhole get killed? I see... Dead, huh... That's kinda funny.
• Alas, Poor Villain: Although he had it coming, it is kind of sad seeing a clearly defeated FU, having reverted to his child form only to then be killed by his childhood friend while asking to see his father. Even said killer, Damon, sadly replies to FU's chants of how much he loves him that he once loved (past tense) FU as well, before ruthlessly pushing the kill switch.
• American Accents: He has a deep stereotypical West Coast "surfer dude" accent that embellishes his brash and youthful personality. This disappears in lieu of a menacing rasp whenever the affability drops and turns into a full-blown shriek whenever he's angry.
• Benevolent Boss: Also overlapping with Bad Boss. How FU treats his men is closer to friends than cronies, spending time together like treating them to meals or going camping together before sending them off to fight Travis. However, he is incredibly ruthless to deserters, as Mr. Blackhole would rather die facing Travis than dare face FU's wrath. The Bad Boss side fully erupts towards the end of the game as his frustration towards losing an invasion reaches its peak. He kills Sonic Juice when Sonic Juice decides to surrender upon being defeated, and he kills Paradox Bandit before you even fight Sonic Juice for the even pettier crime of being too sleepy to face Travis. So as long as you're of use to him, yes, he is benevolent, but god help you if he isn't.
• Berserk Button: He has a massive superiority complex and despises being ridiculed or made to look like an idiot by people he perceives as being beneath him. On one occasion, he expresses his desire to execute the civilian detractors of his planet after finding out from Vanishing Point that they talk behind his back, and Travis mocking him during their first encounter is what causes Travis' crew to get brutally put out of commission.
• Big Bad Duumvirate: Alongside his childhood best friend Damon, though FU is obviously far more active. His death leaves Damon as the sole Big Bad at the end.
• Bishōnen Line: FU is arguably the most human-like alien among his cronies, and is their leader and unsurprisingly Rank 1 within his Galactic Superhero Rankings. However, he quickly crosses into Humanoid Abomination when he unleashes more of his power, generating a sickly dark aura, his crown antennae elongate and branch wildly, and eyeballs start growing all over his body.
• Bizarre Alien Biology: When Damon first meets FU in "The Return" trailer, he looked like a round puffball thing with skinny arms and two antennae sticking out his head. Come 20 years later, he grew into a Humanoid Alien with blue skin, four eyes, and long white hair. He is also capable of growing more eyes all over his body by releasing more of his power. Things get even more bizarre after he's decapitated at the end of his boss fight. Evidently his "puffball" form is his head masked by his hair, and his adult body is just something he grew out when he got older. Said head somehow regrows its arms and legs, allowing him to make his escape, or he would've had Damon not betrayed him and blown up his escape craft.
• The Caligula: As Mr. Blackhole and Damon's own board members can attest, FU lays waste to planets and murders people purely on a whim.
• Can't Take Criticism: Commonly depicted as his main character flaw. He loudly lashes out against Damon after he gets called out for his crew's inability to handle Travis. His inability to handle Travis dishing out an onslaught of humiliating, infantilizing scolding also triggers his hulked out powered up form.
• Catch and Return: Travis' Death Force can be used on his Energy Ball attack, throwing it back at him and stunning him.
• Contrasting Sequel Antagonist: FU contrasts both of the previous Big Bads by going out of his way to fight Travis near the start of the game, while both Jeane and Jasper Batt Jr just waited for Travis to climb up the ranks. He is also the first antagonist to explicitly have a Villainous Friendship with others, while not much is known about Jeane's life and Jasper's loved ones are dead. Unlike Jasper, FU doesn't seem to particularly care if his loved ones die so long as it furthers his "game of conquest".
• Curb-Stomp Battle: His first fight with Travis and his friends can best be described as a slaughter. He messily kills Badman, literally curb-stomps and rips off Shinobu's arms, leaves Travis horribly wounded, and Bad Girl mentally scarred from the death of her father.
• Cute Creature, Creepy Mouth: His child form, which otherwise looks like a small fluffy Waddling Head, has a wide mouth filled with fangs, which is the first indication to his real nature.
• Death Glare: He can make some really terrifying stares with those dilated glowing eyes of his, and that's when he's calm.
• Didn't Think This Through: FU wants Travis to progress in his "game of conquest" so that he can climb the rankings so that he can kill him personally. However, he doesn't seem to fully grasp that this would necessitate the death of all of friends. And sure enough, as Travis rapidly begins to climb the ranks, FU begins to panic but his pride prevents him from cutting his losses and fleeing the planet.
• Do Not Taunt Cthulhu: Travis shittalks FU as he does to any of his opponents during his first encounter. FU responds by demonstrating why he is Rank 1 by decimating everyone, leaving Travis bereft of allies.
• Eldritch Abomination: He becomes more bizarre and alien the more power he unleashes. His first bestial transformation is bad enough with his many eyes, dark aura, and metallic limbs. His One-Winged Angel transformation done out of pure desperation is where he becomes truly Lovecraftian, becoming a disk-like metallic creature with radial symmetry that closes onto Travis as a dome. Its very presence bleaches the grass white and creates metallic reflective surfaces on the ground. His entire underside is lined with eyes and it can sprout gigantic versions of FU's limbs and a metallic tentacle that resembles a deranged version of FU's humanoid head to attack Travis.
• Emergency Transformation: Once Shinobu decapitates him, he reverts to his child form.
• Enfant Terrible: FU reveals to Damon that he was already making preparations to conquer Earth when he first crash landed on the planet.
  Damon: So, destroying the planet... that was your plan? Ever since way back then?
  FU: Cute little me from back then and the handsome-ass me now, we're the same. Nothing's changed. Come on, Damon, trust me.
• Et Tu, Brute?: Killed by Damon, whom he genuinely loved as his best friend. Possibly also motivated his decision to kill Sonic Juice after Sonic Juice decided to surrender and flee rather than die to Travis, as Sonic Juice was supposedly his most trusted subordinate.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Genuinely cherishes his friendship with Damon even after 20 years. He also considers the other members of the Galactic Superhero Rankings to be his buddies. His love for the other Galactic Superheroes proves to be skin-deep, though he does seem to genuinely care about Damon despite how poorly he treats him.
• Evil Is Petty: He murders Damon's board members for no other reason than finding them lame.
• Expy: He's been described as "ET came back to Earth 20 years after leaving, and was an insufferable asshole".
• Extra Eyes: He's got four eyes, two of which are on that mask of his and constantly dart around. He gets a whole lot more later.
• Eyes Do Not Belong There: When FU unleashes more of his power, eyes start growing all over his body. What's more disturbing is that even his aura generates eyes within them.
• Fair-Weather Friend: His relationship with the rest of the Galactic Superhero Corps and Damon. Initially FU acts as if he actually cares about them, but as Travis' meddling continues he gets more and more flippant. He even ends up killing Paradox Bandit and Sonic Juice, two useful allies, as the stress approaches its peak.
• Faux Affably Evil: Acts incredibly laid-back and friendly, while at the same time being a mass-murdering and egotistical warlord.
• Final-Exam Boss: Downplayed. While it's by no means required to defeat him, each of his nastiest attacks can be countered with a certain Death Glove power. His massive fireball is reflectable by Death Force, his shockwave attack is countered by Death Kick, his hair-pillar attack is countered by Death Rain, and his brief periods of vulnerability are extended by Death Slow..
• Foil: A natural one to Travis; the both of them are driven by bloodlust, though unlike Travis who has developed a sense of camaraderie and earning himself supportive friends and family, FU treats his friends as expendable pawns and playthings at best, exhibits a lack of respect toward his supposedly childhood friend Damon, and has his belligerence driven by boredom, showing how far more deranged and sociopathic he is by comparison, and towards the final battle, FU is all alone while Travis has his allies backing him up. Interestingly, these were traits Travis himself was no stranger to and perhaps embodied more overtly in the earlier entries, highlighting how far he's developed in comparison. It's shown best just before the final battle, in an exchange which near perfectly mirrors the lead-in to the fight with Holly Summers in the first game, just with FU in Travis' old position:
  Travis: Do you really fear me that much?
  FU: Fear? What the hell is "fear" anyway?
• Freudian Excuse: His interaction with his right-hand man and best friend, Sonic Juice, reveal a more vulnerable side to FU, such as how his memories aren't completely intact and also how he feels pressured to uphold the Jess-Baptiste name in regards to their belief that it is their destiny to conquer the entire universe. Sonic, in turn, urges FU to let go of the past and instead live freely in the present. Unfortunately, FU chooses the worst possible interpretation of the series' "Kill the Past" motif by forgoing his fond memories of his friends and committing fully to the violent ways of his lineage.
• Freudian Excuse Is No Excuse: Not only is his Freudian Excuse not an excuse … it’s also complete bullshit, if we take Travis’ word at face value Blackhole prison isn’t even a bad place to be … and he was already planning on taking over earth before he was sent to Blackhole prison. Travis makes it clear that FU isn’t a Tragic Villain with a sympathetic backstory … he’s just a piece of shit.
• Hate Sink: Like Jasper Batt Jr., FU is a deranged Psychopathic Manchild that killed one of Travis’ closest friends. While he's ultimately not as bad as Damon, it's hard to feel any sympathy for FU when the former kills him.
• Healing Factor: He can heal from almost every injury, including getting his entire head cleaved in two by Shinobu. However, it does have its limit, as it shows just how badly damaged he is when FU tries and fails to set his broken neck right after being defeated by Travis.
• Hero Killer: Effortlessly kills Badman and severely injures Shinobu, putting the latter out of commission for the entire game and the former being found by Bad Girl, who spends almost the same amount of time traumatized in her room, leaving Travis as the only one to be able to fight.
• I'll Kill You!: Shouts this to Travis at increasing volume before the boss battle begins after Travis successfully manages to rile him up by calling him out as nothing more than a Spoiled Brat.
• Jerk Jock: His physical might, casual manner of speech, toned physique, and royal heritage evoke the image of a spoiled rich jock kid. This, of course, makes him a fitting Foil to an otaku outcast like Travis.
• Karmic Death: Treating his first friend and savior Damon like dirt causes whatever affection Damon had for him to disappear and causes Damon to think of FU as more of a tool. This culminates in Damon blowing up his old friend at his most vulnerable moment as he ceased to serve his purpose. Not to mention that, ultimately, he's killed by a combination of efforts from Travis and all of his closest friends as revenge for the beatdown he handed them in the motel parking lot at the start of the game.
• Kiai: He uses his own name as this. Travis reverses it on him right before defeating him.
  FUUUUUU!!!
• The Kingslayer: He kills the President of the United States by ripping his head off when he refuses to make a national broadcast. How he did it, however, is covered by a Gory Discretion Shot.
• Leitmotif: Night hawk, a Red Orca song about hawk hunting its prey from on high. It plays when FU decimates Travis and his friends in the motel for the first time, and during the final phase of his boss fight.
• Mood-Swinger: The guy goes from affable and casual to murderously violent at the drop of a hat.
• More than Mind Control: Implied to be on the receiving end of it; FU's conquest on earth and entire reason for seeing Travis as an enemy is because he's in truth enacting Damon's will, as the two share a psychic connection to one another. Several elements of FU's own memory and will are implied to not entirely be his own, he questions the necessity of having to fight Travis at one point late in the game, and his devotion to Damon is predicated by various tantrums and mood swings which he takes out on his entourage. At the end of the game FU spells out to Damon that he's the reason this conflict is happening, and Damon essentially confirms it after proclaiming himself king and killing a vulnerable FU whom could only express love for Damon, even though Damon only saw him as a pawn.
• Nigh-Invulnerable: He's nearly impossible to kill. During his first encounter with Travis and the gang, Shinobu cleaved his head in two and it did next to nothing to him. During his actual boss fight, he takes possibly the largest beatdown of all the Galactic Superheroes. It literally takes a broken neck, being decapitated, forced to revert to his child form and having his escape ship explode to finally finish him off.
• No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: He's on both ends of this trope at different points. At the beginning of the game, he doles out a vicious beating that leaves Travis half-dead, Badman fully dead and Shinobu crippled for most of the game. At the end of his boss fight, he gets hit for six by Bad Girl, decapitated by Shinobu and finally mercilessly mauled by Travis badly enough to regress him back to his childhood self both mentally and physically.
• No-Sell: He's so far above conventional weapons that he single-handedly stops three nukes headed for him and throws them towards Moscow, destroying it. Once he's done, he refers to them as "primative-ass firecrackers".
  FU: I don't know what army tossed that thing over this way, but I admire the motivation and the quick thinking. Nice move. Looks like someone out there's really got some balls. However, heh heh, make no mistake. You think you can kill me with those primitive-ass firecrackers?!
• One-Winged Angel: Two in fact, one is a more beast-like form that he gains before fighting Travis and the 2nd is him becoming a flat disc-like mass of hair, gold, and eyes, with colorful mirrors covering his surface.
• Only Known by Their Nickname: FU's actual name is "Jess-Baptiste VI (6th)", as revealed in his televised speech and the Superhero Rankings screen, but everywhere else, he's just referred to as FU.
• Orcus on His Throne: Zig-Zagged. For most of the game, FU lounges on his throne atop Damon Tower. Shortly after Mr. Black Hole's death, however, he directly confronts Travis and curbstomps him, maims Shinobu, and murders Badman. After Travis defeats Sonic Juice, he tries to kill Travis straight away, but is stopped when Sylvia warns him that attempting to fight Travis outside of a sanctioned duel between the two of them would mean forfeiting his rank.
• Person of Mass Destruction: He's destroyed and devastated countless worlds in his travels, including Mr. Blackhole's homeworld. Destroying one in his home system was the reason he ended up in Black Hole Prison.
• Politically Incorrect Villain: It's mild compared to his psychopathy, but when he's informed that Velvet Chair Girl couldn't meet with him because she had an appointment to get her nails done, he grumbles that women are a hassle to deal with.
• Prehensile Hair: His hair can shoot out into sharp tendrils, which he demonstrates by using them to impale all of Damon's board members through their heads. In his boss fight, he fires it as drill-shaped projectiles and will try to stab Travis with it if he moves too far from FU.
• Pre-Final Boss: Despite being the #1 ranking Galactic Superhero and Travis' primary target, he's actually the penultimate boss of the game. Damon is the one who serves as the Final Boss.
• Psychopathic Manchild: One of the biggest examples of this trope in the series. He's incredibly entitled, and reacts to adversity and complaints thrown at him by either throwing a loud tantrum, becoming petulantly defensive or immediately defaulting to murder. He also views his conquests as nothing more than a game to relieve himself of boredom.
• Rasputinian Death: It takes being utterly eviscerated twice by Travis, slammed into the sky by Bad Girl, decapitated by Shinobu, and finally blown up by Damon's rocket sabotage to kill him.
• Royal Brat: By the time he returned to his home planet and was crowned Prince, FU became wrought by boredom and took to destroying and conquering planets. His eventual imprisonment was in lieu of proper discipline; as Travis points out, it was practically vacation to him.
• Screw This, I'm Outta Here: When defeated and reduced back into a child, FU takes off on a small ship in an attempt to return to his home planet. However, Damon betrays him and has the ship blown up, killing him.
• Shout-Out:
  • Personality-wise, he's similar to Freeza from Dragon Ball. Both are Evil Princes who are extremely powerful and are proud of it, both are savagely brutal and cruel towards their enemies and allies, they have a terrible temper that leads them to do rash actions that backfire badly, and both suffer from mental breakdowns when they see defeat close upon them. His televised announcement at the beginning of the game about how anyone wishing to save their planet will have to kill him in battle also brings to mind Cell.
  • His golden mask/crown resembles a Wonder-Mask, and his One-Winged Angel forms wear it as such. His tendency to sprout giant arms also calls to mind the Unite Hand.
• The Sociopath: He believes he's friends with the other Galactic Superheroes and Damon, but in reality his perception of relationship-forming is incredibly shallow and purely dependent on his mood to the extent that he has no problems killing two of his supposed friends when they unknowingly set him off. He also has really poor impulse control, destroying and murdering purely on a whim.
• Smarter Than You Look: He reveals to Damon that he's well-aware that the latter deliberately set the events of the game in motion to put FU in a position to kill Travis, which Damon confirms at the end of the game when Damon kills FU after he fails to do exactly that.
• Spoiled Brat: Vanishing Point warns FU that he should avoid coming across as one, implying he already sees FU as one (rightfully so). Travis later accuses FU of being spoiled too, seeing his behavior as evidence that he was never properly disciplined as a child. It definitely manages to get under FU's skin.
• Strong Family Resemblance: His father is just him with a large beard.
• Technicolor Eyes: Glowing fuchsia pupils, black schlerae. Midori Midorikawa specifically states that she could "see the Dark World" within them.
• Trick Boss: Despite all signs pointing to him being the Final Boss, he's the Pre-Final Boss instead. Damon kills him right before taking you on himself.
• Use Your Head: He reduces Paradox Bandit's head to mulch with his after Paradox Bandit whines about being too sleepy to fight Travis. He also puts it to work during his boss battle as part of his grab attack.
• Villain Forgot to Level Grind: FU completely stomps Travis and his allies during their first encounter. By the time Travis fights him again at the end of the game, fueled by raw vengeful anger and with training from Notorious under his belt, FU is forced to unleash a lot more of his power just to keep Travis on the ropes before Travis's allies, both old and new, arrive to turn the tide definitively in Travis's favor.
• Villain Has a Point: He tells Damon that he doesn't understand Travis because he's not a fighter. This does have merit to it since when Damon actually does fight, he first goes in with a Humongous Mecha (that ends up being a QTE sequence) and his final fight with Travis is akin to Super Smash Brothers, not to mention that Damon only gets his vengeance on FU after Travis and his allies weakened him, thus never getting his hands dirty.
• Villainous Breakdown: Travis clearing his ranks really begins to get to him towards the end of the game, culminating in him killing Paradox Bandit before he even gets the chance to fight Travis after Paradox Bandit whines about being too tired to fight. He finally goes berserk after Travis confronts him directly, dismisses his claims of grandeur, and calls him nothing more than a Spoiled Brat.
  Travis: That's sad. Didn't your Mommy and Daddy teach you? It's not nice to cause trouble for others! No? Cause trouble, and you'll get scolded! But nobody's ever scolded you before, have they?!
  FU: My daddy scolded me once. I was punished, and was sent to rot in space prison.
  Travis: Black Hole Prison? It's basically Paradise. That wasn't "punishment"; You just went on a nice little vacation abroad. And that's how we get Prince Dumbasses... like you.
  FU: Yeah, just keep talking, keep fucking talking!
  Travis: Go on, get angry, you FUCKING loser! GET ALL NICE AND SALTY FOR ME!
  FU: Fucking ASSASSIN!! [Goes One-Winged Angel]
  Travis: There we go! Those eyes, right there... the dumbass is turning into a beast!
  FU: I'll kill you... I'll kill you... I'll KILL you...
  Travis: Oooh, nice, scary eyes. That's what I wanna see! Come at me, KILL ME! Demons don't got SHIT on me!
  FU: I'LL KILL YOU!!
  Travis: You're getting real fucking crazy now. THAT'S WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT! AAAAAH!!!
  • His defeat at the hands of Travis and his friends is so traumatizing that he mentally and physically reverts to a child, speaking in Third-Person Person, mumbling that he wants to go home to his daddy, and tells Damon how much he always loves him.
    FU: FU leaving. FU go home. I wanna see my Daddy. I love you, Damon. I love you, Damon. I love you, Damon!
• Villainous Friendship: He's a childhood friend of Damon, and he also seems to be on friendly terms with many of the other members of the Galactic Superhero Rankings, at first, anyways.
• We Can Rule Together: The adult FU makes the offer to Damon to rule the Earth with him when they reunite.
• "Well Done, Son" Guy: It is indicated that FU feels pressured to uphold the legacy of the Jess-Baptiste dynasty as a line of universal conquerors and wants to make his father proud. This goes to the point that FU is unable to let go of his family's past and chooses to kill his remaining friends instead. Takes a rather tragic turn when it is shown how little King Jess-Baptiste V cared about the death of his son.
• With Friends Like These...: He still considers Damon his friend, but he doesn't exactly act all that graciously to him once he lands on Earth, constantly acting out against Damon's wishes and treating Damon more like a personal secretary than an equal. It causes Damon's love for FU to dry up completely, to the extent that he now only sees FU as just a means to kill Travis by the end. When FU fails and tries to escape, Damon betrays him and blows up the ship he's escaping in.
• You Have Failed Me: On the recieving end of this. After he's defeated and attempts to flee, Damon blows up his escape craft. In the end, Damon only really cared about whether or not FU would be able to kill Travis.

Other Assassins

Native Dancer

Native Dancer (real name: Scott Touchdown)

Voiced by: Scott Whyte (EN), Hiroki Yasumoto (JP)

A mysterious ninja claiming to be from the future who challenges Travis. His ultimate move, Blast Judgement, destroys everything in its path.

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• Ambiguously Brown: He's got a notably tan complexion, in contrast to the other members of the Touchdown family.
• Bait-and-Switch Boss: Kills Black Night Direction, taking his place as the Rank 8 boss fight.
• Blood Knight: He was only supposed to go back in time to give Travis the tools he needed to survive in the future, but he just couldn't pass up the chance to fight his grandfather in his prime. He cries out "Sweet!" when his grandpa is about hit Strawberry on the Shortcake.
• Continuity Nod: Him being a mysterious sword-wielding assassin who poaches one of Travis’ targets, desires a battle with him, and also gets his critical backstory interrupted by a scorn Travis is very similar to Travis’ first encounter with Henry. Unlike Henry, Native Dancer’s familial connection to Travis is very overtly implied early on, though Travis himself doesn’t catch onto the hints until his future kids spell it out for him.
• Determinator: Travis suplexes him six times before he finally stops trying to use Blast Judgment on him, passing out on his feet. Just like his grandfather, Travis, he really can take a beating.
• Doppelgänger Attack: He has the ability to create weaker clones of himself.
• The Friend Nobody Likes: Has this air about him, he's a little aggrevating as a first impression, performing a casual Bait-and-Switch interruption of a more sympathetic member of the Boss roster, not to mention his apparent insult in calling Travis "Grandpa" and the rather unfullfilling way his fight ends (hes still standing, but unconscious, and Travis cant bring himself to strike him down for some reason). Afterwards, he sticks around, but while it is all said and done, it's clear he gets on Travis's nerves on some level. Even his reveal of being Travis's Grandson doesn't completely mitigate this, as him and his parents are part of a joke that intentionally sort of undermines the otherwise happy ending and just serves to greatly confuse Travis in a cartoonishly gag fashion.
• Flat Character: More or less, His ultimately only important role in the No More Heroes 3 is to set up a joke about a sequel time travel story. Which - as part of the joke - is likely never to happen.
• Fell Asleep Standing Up: He passes out from the exhaustion after Travis beats him. Travis then tries to finish him off, but his body stops mid-swing before he can decapitate him. Sylvia not-so-subtly implies that this was his paternal instinct unconsciously kicking in, but it takes until Native Dancer unmasks himself that it is made clear.
• Foil: To his uncle, Henry, as they both Kill Steal one of Travis's targets and have a connection to Travis himself. However, unlike Henry who becomes a villain, Native Dancer is heroic to the end.
• Heroic Lineage: He's the son of Travis' daughter Jeane, making him Travis' grandson.
• Identical Grandson: He resembles a darker-skinned Travis.
• Kid from the Future: Is Travis's grandson from the future, which is implied by why he keeps calling him "Grandpa".
• Momma's Boy: Implied considering he's a grown man who has no problems calling his mother, Jeane, "Mommy".
• Not Hyperbole: Him calling Travis "Grandpa" isn't a mocking reference to their difference in age, like you might initially think. He's being literal.
• Not So Stoic: After Travis slams him down enough times, his stoic ninja persona starts to fall away and he begins to swear.
• Poor, Predictable Rock: Towards the end of their battle, Native Dancer desperately tries to nail Travis with his Blast Judgment technique. Again. And again. And again.
• Squee: When Travis is about to shout "Strawberry on the Shortcake", he exclaims "Sweet!" This is much more meaningful when you learn that he's Travis's grandson and he's so excited to fight his grandpa for real.
• Throw Down the Bomblet: Throws out exploding shuriken from a distance.
• Training Boss: Sends out weaker clones of himself to help Travis learn how to use the new abilities being given to him. Averted for the real Native Dancer who's dangerous enough to justify having replaced Black Night Direction as the Rank 8 Boss Fight.
• Walking Spoiler: Most of his character is covered up due to The Reveal that he's Travis' grandson from the future.

Destroyman True Face and the Mass-Produced Destroymen

Destroyman True Face (Name of his AI Basis: John Harnet)

Voiced by: Josh Keaton (EN), Koichi Sakaguchi (JP)

Destroyman True Face

Mass Produced Destroyman

A rival from Travis's past, Destroyman had been fought, and killed, two times: first by Travis himself, then again by Shinobu. Now, he's returned yet again after achieving "ultimate evolution", becoming a cybernetic killing machine and leader of an army of robotic doppelgangers built in a underground factory.

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• Back from the Dead: After being killed twice over. This guy just does not know how to stay dead!
• Call-Back: Pulls the exact same trick he did in the first two games. Although Travis complies more just to get the fight started rather than out of a sense of good sportsmanship or being that gullible again.
• Computer Voice: All of them, even the real one, have their voices put through a heavy and muffled electronic filter, as though they were speaking out of aging speakers.
• Cut Lex Luthor a Check: According to Notorious, Destroyman was a terrorist who was planning to mass produce himself as a weapon for military groups. He likely would otherwise have not fought Travis if Sylvia hadn't activated him.
• Defeat Equals Explosion: Just like last time, though this time the explosion is big enough to destroy his entire factory. Time will tell if his death actually sticks this time.
• Defensive Feint Trap: Destroyman's Combat Pragmatism and tendency to goad opponents into mortal blows is taken to its next level with the Mass-Produced units, as they will occasionally attempt absconding in a cartoonish manner, followed by a dramatic pratfall. If you attack them while they're shamelessly feigning pain, they will instantly counter you with a Destroy Spark.
• Degraded Boss: A rare game-to-game example, in that the mass produced Destroymen all fight exactly like the original in the first game, and therefore are pretty much glorified Elite Mooks.
• Determinator: It takes a special kind of tenacity for Destroyman to come Back from the Dead, twice, and get to work mass-producing himself for his own goals.
• From Nobody to Nightmare: Easy to forget the combat cyborg backed up by an army was originally just some deliveryman and the star of a series of indie superhero movies.
• Lone Wolf Boss: Destroyman may be a superhero (or so he likes to style himself), but he has nothing to do with the Galactic Superhero Rankings nor does he suddenly appear to kill one of the superheroes to fight Travis. The most he gets is the idea that Sylvia summoned him here to give the player a boss fight and otherwise he had been doing his own thing. After the fight, it's revealed that Notorious was trying to hunt down Destroyman.
• Mecha-Mooks: He controls an entire army of robots based on him. He was even planning to make an army of himself to take over the world. Travis thankfully stops that with Notorious' help.
• Robot: His whole body now appears mechanical. However, after he's cut in half, it's revealed that his torso at least is still mostly made out of flesh.
• Shock and Awe: As per usual for the character, though his powers have been considerably amped up for this game.
• Tautological Templar: True Face has fully bought into his superhero persona, viewing himself as a hero sending himself around the world to rid it of evil. "Evil" in this case meaning anyone who opposes him, such as Travis.
• Temporarily Exaggerated Trait: The Destroymen's comical obsession with wanting a handshake is taken to extremes this time around; due to the fact that they're robots following protocol, they are designed to always initiate an encounter with an attempt at a bait-and-switch handshake upon boot mode.
• Villain Forgot to Level Grind: Played with but eventually subverted. The first Destroyman repeats their introductory scene from the first game but not only does Travis recover from his electrocution much faster, Destroyman is dispatched with a single slice of his Beam Katana. Destroyman is only initially a threat because of his sheer numbers rather than his battle prowess. It's then revealed that the real Destroyman is hiding in a factory, and that one is genuinely a threat for Travis in one-on-one combat.
• Zerg Rush: Attempts this with his army of doppelgangers.

Kimmy Love

Kimmy Love (Real Name: Kimmy Howell)

Voiced by: Jennifer Hale (EN), Nozomi Yamamoto (JP)

Welcome to Kimmy's Palace! / This will be your grave! I'll cut off your phallus!

As a starry-eyed college student with a massive obsession with Travis, Kimmy Howell challenged her personal hero to a duel to the death, only for Travis to knock her out and leave her alive. Now, that same young woman has returned as a deadly diva, still obsessed over Travis and still out to kill him.

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• Alas, Poor Villain: Travis is not happy when he kills her this time around after their second and final battle.
  Travis: (sadly) Kimmy… See you again in my dreams. This is goodbye.
• Bait-and-Switch Boss: Follows in Native Dancer's footsteps by murdering Vanishing Point, taking his place as the boss.
• Broken Pedestal: Her Hero Worship towards Travis evidently took a nosedive after her defeat in Desperate Struggle. She now seeks to kill Travis in order to vindicate herself.
• Combat Stilettos: The heels of her shoes are tall and yet she's able to run around and pull of acrobatics with no issue.
• Dark Action Girl: She's just as dangerous as she was years ago, and her feelings of obsessive love towards Travis have turned violently sour.
• Does This Remind You of Anything?: When Travis impaled her, the shot is shown from the framing of her head, with her expression making it look like he aimed… lower.
• Famed In-Story: She's grown up to be a fairly famous pop idol, judging by Bishop's reaction to Travis getting an invitation to her concert (in reality the venue for his fight with Vanishing Point before Kimmy axes him off and replaces him). Of course, Travis is out of the loop regarding her both as a popular singer and her original identity as the college student who tried to kill him years ago.
• Fan Disservice: She probably could've been a traditional head-turner considering how much she's grown up, but her incredibly gaudy makeup and costume make her looks somewhat difficult to appreciate. Not to mention her personality's turned much coarser, and she still wants to kill Travis, this time out of anger and heartbreak rather than worship.
• Foil: To Shinobu. Both were young and skilled schoolgirl assassins and who fought with swords, and both lost and were spared by Travis due to his moral code. While Shinobu grew to admire Travis after being spared to the extent of falling in love with him in Desperate Struggle, Kimmy grew to hate Travis after her defeat. Shinobu is Hot-Blooded but ultimately put-together mentally, while Kimmy acts composed even though she's actually unhinged. Shinobu is a ninja, good at hiding, and uses speed, while Kimmy is bright and colorful, rushes Travis, and uses her strength.
• Groin Attack: One of her lines in the battle rap alludes to this.
• I'll Kill You!: Her last words are her stating how she just wants to kill Travis.
  Kimmy: Travis... Travis... I want to kill you...
• Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: Travis doesn't spare her this time, instead stabbing his beam katana right through her stomach, although he's shown to not be happy about this.
• Interface Screw: invoked Combined with deliberate Event-Obscuring Camera. When the last phase of her fight starts, the camera perspective suddenly shifts from Travis to one of the various cameras pointing at the arena, which routinely swap throughout the rest of the fight. It makes targeting Kimmy impossible.
• Leitmotif: Awesome Holyday In The Sky, which Kimmy performs live during the cutscene and also plays during her boss battle. It is surprisingly melancholy for a pop song; this and the title of the Rank #7 fight ("Sorrow") foreshadows Kimmy's end and also that this is her swan song.
• Murderous Thighs: Her grapple involves locking Travis's head with her legs like the one she attempted in the second game.
• Psychopathic Manchild: As Sylvia (albeit somewhat callously) correctly puts it, Kimmy is ultimately someone who failed to grow up and move on from her crush. This is also reflected in her design, despite appearing incredibly "mature" in multiple ways, Kimmy still wears her braids from back when she was just a university student. Her outfit also has numerous small and colorful teddy bears attached to the back.
  Sylvia: And just look at this kid. I guess she just couldn't grow up after all.
• Sad Battle Music: For the most part, her battle music is a quiet, piano-heavy piece which fits the fast pace of the battle, but also signifies the tragedy of her never moving on from her crush on Travis and the latter's reluctance to fight to the death with her.
• Took a Level in Jerkass: She went from an affable if unhinged fangirl to a bitter and equally-unhinged disillusioned woman.

Other Characters

Ohma

Voiced by: Kathryn Fiore

Aaaaa... DRIAN!!

Velvet Chair Girl's pet. A pink alien that resembles a Dumbo octopus.

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• Ambiguous Situation: It's never made clear if "Adrian" is Velvet Chair Girl's real name or not.
• Body Horror: By the end of her boss fight, Ohma loses both eyes, a fin, some teeth and her body starts to melt.
• Breath Weapon: She is the eponymous "Gastro Cannon", as she can fire massive pink laser beams from her mouth.
• Karmic Death: Ohma on FU's orders slaughters countless innocents to facilitate his conquest. Ohma gets to experience the sorrow of losing a loved one herself right before its own death.
• Killer Rabbit: She's a small pink alien octopus that just happens to have the ability to shoot massive lasers.
• Make My Monster Grow: Velvet Chair Girl's death causes her to become giant.
• Mercy Kill: Ohma is left a horrifically mutilated mess after battling Travis, reduced to sadly repeating "Adrian" over and over again, to the point that Travis practically does it a service by putting it out of its misery. Travis kills it kaishaku-style, the practice of honorably partially decapitating those committing seppuku so that they are spared a needlessly agonizing death as well as the humiliation of a true decapitation.
• Moral Myopia: Assuming she's sapient enough to comprehend her actions, her going mad with grief over Velvet Chair Girl's death is this, as she had no problems earlier slaughtering an entire city on FU's orders.
• No-Damage Run: Just like with her owner, the fight with Ohma is a necessary one, as her attacks will immediately vaporize Travis if he's hit.
• One-Hit Kill: Ohma's laser beams will kill Travis in a single hit if they make contact.
• Pokémon Speak: All she can say is "Adrian".
• Shout-Out: Of all the names she could yell, it had to be "Adrian".
  • Ohma's named after the God Warrior of the same name in Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind. Her namesake and its kin also able to destroy entire cities with their Breath Weapon.
• Villainous Breakdown: When Velvet Chair Girl kills herself, Ohma screams in grief before growing in size. Travis has to kill her before she burns the world to the ground with her beams.
• Wave-Motion Gun: Her mouth beams are horrendously powerful, capable of blasting large chunks of Santa Destroy into firey pink bits and instantly kill anything she hits with them, including Travis himself if he doesn't dodge.

Notorious

Voiced by: Ike Amadi (EN), Kenjiro Tsuda (JP)

Superhero from Earth and WWWWW Heavyweight champion

A part-time superhero and heavyweight champion of the WWWWW. He appears to enlist Travis's aid in saving the Earth from another menace lurking beneath Santa Destroy's surface.

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• Affectionate Nickname: He refers to Travis as "Champ" after their first encounter.
• BFG: His Akashic Cannon is one of these. It's capable of one-shotting one of FU's men and punch a hole through the ground all the way down to Destroyman's factory.
• Big Damn Heroes: He destroys Sniper Lee and helps save Travis from the army of Destroymen.
• Calling Your Attacks: "Akashic Cannon!"
• Canon Immigrant: Notorious is a rival character the Fire Pro Wrestling World DLC scenario "Champion Road Beyond", which Suda worked on as the sequel to his original Champion Road story over 20 years ago.
• The Cape: In contrast to the Galactic Superheroes and Destroyman, he's a genuine hero in attitude and action.
• Combat Pragmatist: Like Travis, he's a wrestling warrior who fights with sci-fi weaponry. And also like Travis, he's not averse to fighting dirty, like shooting enemies down when they aren't looking at him.
• Cool Mask: In this game, Notorious sports a black mask with yellow lightning bolts. He only lifts it briefly for an amazed Travis and Jeane the cat, leaving the player with no idea what he looks like here.
• Expy: He is very much analogous to Apollo Creed, as both are considered beloved in-universe champions who are perhaps in contention for the strongest fighters within their respective universe, and they both train the series' protagonist, complete with a(n impromtu) Training Montage that references Rocky III.
• Foil: To Destroyman. While Destroyman is a self-centered, lecherous sociopath who plays underhanded tricks and uses his popularity and hero "status" as a means to cast judgment on people he holds personal grudges with, Notorious is a beloved hero and wrestling champion who is humble enough to allow Travis to take the stage, prove himself a hero, and even helps train him to achieve the role of champion in the fight against the aliens.
• Good Wears White: Wears a long white coat and pants, and he's a superhero.
• Hero of Another Story: He was chasing after Destroyman for the longest time, not to mention that he must have stories in fighting off other threats.
• Kill Steal: He's the one who ends up blowing up Sniper Lee, however Travis isn't mad about it in comparison to Henry and Native Dancer doing it.
• Nice Guy: In a rarity for a Suda-directed game, he's legitimately this, being an altruistic and humble superhero willing to lend a hand to Travis, an assassin.
• Shock and Awe: Has an electro cannon and his mask has lightning marks on it.
• Token Good Teammate: He becomes possibly the most unambiguously heroic member of Travis's crew, considering everyone else is kind of a jerk at best or actually unhinged at worst.

Deathman

The titular protagonist of the Game Within a Game Deathman, a faux-Genesis beat-em-up. His journey to defeat the 10 evil aliens of Death is oddly similar to Travis's.

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• All There in the Manual: The plot of his game and the finer details of its dystopian setting are only explained in supplementary materials.
• Charged Attack: Can perform one if the attack button is held down, propelling him forward to do heightened damage against multiple foes at once.
• Expy: A deliberate in-universe Expy of John Winter from Travis Strikes Again. The posthumous drinking buddy with Travis, the rainbow landscape, the decapitation to bring Travis back to reality, it all reeks of Travis' encounter with Winter on Mars.
• Helmets Are Hardly Heroic: Notably inverted, as he wears a helmet but no other body armor.
• One-Hit-Point Wonder: When not fighting a boss, Deathman goes down in one hit. Boss battles give him five hits before dying.
• Psychopomp: Maybe. He seems to be part of the afterlife.
• "Shaggy Dog" Story: The conceit of the game is that after he defeats the 10 evil aliens, his identity will be revealed. Unfortunately for gamers who manage to do so, Deathman is decapitated during the final battle, so all the player gets to see at the end is his headless corpse.
• Stylistic Suck: His game is Nintendo Hard in some aspects and rather broken in others. Travis, a big fan of the character and a gamer himself, opts to just watch an online walkthrough of Deathman to finally see the ending he couldn't when he played the game as a kid.
• Sword Beam: Once he finds his weapon, he can shoot wide beams by swinging it.

Post-Credits Character

King Jess Baptise V

King of the Baptise System and is an ***

Voiced by: Christian Lanz (EN), Hayato Fuji (JP)

• Abusive Parents: Subtly. He was the one who turned FU into a Spoiled Brat in the first place, and he isn't even bothered by his son's death in the end.
• Reasonable Authority Figure: Subverted. He seems to be this at first until you remember he spoiled FU in the first place and was about to conquer Earth when Travis said he wasn't a world leader. Luckily, Travis's children (and grandkid) from the future kill him and his army in 5 seconds.
• Revenge: Travis assumes this is his motivation for coming to Earth. Turns out, FU's father couldn't care less about what happened to his boy. He just wanted to see if Earth was free to conquer.
• Shout-Out: To King Cold from Dragon Ball Z. He is an intergalactic monarch that arrives on Earth to seemingly take vengeance on his Big Bad son only to be killed unceremoniously by the future children of his son's killer, who then proceed to warn their father of his impending death and a greater threat in their future.
• We Hardly Knew Ye: Just as he's about to start his invasion of Earth, Future Jeane and Hunter tear him and his fleet to shreds, to Travis's utter shock.