This page is a character sheet for the cast of the minigames of Rhythm Heaven. Cameos from its sister game, WarioWare, belong to its respective character page.
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Introduced in Tengoku
Samurai Drummer
Appears in: Tengoku, Fever (cameo), & Megamix (cameo)
A samurai who dedicates his life to drumming. He serves as the host for Tengoku.
- Demoted to Extra: He started as the host for Tengoku, but he has only made cameo appearances since then.
Barista
Appears in: Tengoku, Heaven, Fever, & Megamix
A dog that works in the café. He offers advice, hints at upcoming Perfect challenges, and, perhaps most importantly, has the ability to skip stages that the player cannot clear.
- Ascended Extra: While he always played a part in every previous, he's a lot more prominent in Megamix, being the character you'll see text from every time you enter the café.
- Mercy Mode: Offers you the chance to skip a game if it's too hard.
Karate Joe
Appears in: Tengoku, Heaven, Fever, & Megamix
A guy who trains in karate by punching and kicking random stuff. Also one of the most popular characters in the series.
- Breakout Character: Right up there with the Wandering Samurai, the Chorus Kids, and Yuka as one of series' most recognizable characters.
- The Cameo: Makes a blink-and-you'll-miss-it cameo in Young Cricket and Master Mantis' character trailer for WarioWare Gold.
- "Well Done, Son" Guy: Ever since he was a kid, he wanted to be a soccer player. However, his father wanted him to master karate first before he leaves the basement... in which Karate Joe still lives.
Sarge and the Squadmates
Appears in: Tengoku & Megamix
Sarge is a sergeant who trains many squadmates (just about all of whom are female) enlisted in the Marcher Corps.
- Cool Helmet: All the Squadmates wear them. It's revealed in Megamix that this is so Sarge can tell when one isn't marching in sync with the others.
- Gender Is No Object: A really downplayed version, given all they train for is marching, but just about every Squadmate we've seen without a helmet is female. He also takes instruction from a female drill instructor in Tengoku.
- Perpetual Smiler: All the Squadmates are like this, in spite of Sarge's intense training.
The Clappy Trio
Appears in: Tengoku, Heaven (cameo), Fever (cameo), & Megamix
Three lions who are roaming performers, doing clap routines to impress their thousands of fans.
- Canon Character All Along: The conductor who helps the Chorus Kids perform in harmony is actually one of the members of the Clappy Trio. He noticed how poorly the Chorus Kids were, and got permission from the other two members to go solo and help the trio out.
- Funny Afro: All three wear sparkly, red afros that take up almost the entirety of their heads.
- It Was a Gift: Their afros originally weren't part of their ensemble. They were given to them as a gift by a fan, and they were so moved by the fan's offer, that they've worn the afros in their performances ever since.
- Non-Ironic Clown: Downplayed. They have afros and clown noses, and are striving performers, but they don't act as goofy as typical clowns.
- True Companions: They work wonderfully together as a team, and even when one wanted to help out the Chorus Kids and was afraid of having to break up their group, the other two encouraged him to go help them out by his lonesome.
- Two Aliases, One Character: The trio have a side gig as the Snappy Trio, wherein they dress up in blue tuxedos and bowler hats.
The Wandering Samurai
Appears in: Tengoku, Heaven, Fever, & Megamix
A wandering samurai and a recurring character throughout the series.
- Breakout Character: One of the most popular and recognizable characters in the series.
- Eyes Out of Sight: His eyes are always obscured by the shade of his brow, giving him quite a distinct appearance.
- Dramatic Thunder:
- In "Super Samurai Slice 2", the fourth hit of his combo attack fills the screen with lightning.
- In Fever, during the climaxes of his battles against the shadow demons, lightning flashes in time with his strikes.
- No Sense of Direction: The Wandering Samurai admits that the "wandering" part comes from his poor sense of direction.
- Samurai: He earns his name for his strong devotion to Bushido.
- Smashing Watermelons: In Heaven's Samurai Slice endless game, the most common thing he slices up are watermelons.
The Donpans
Appears in: Tengoku
A quartet of Bon Odori dancers who have taken their cultural dance from festivals to live performances.
- Bespectacled Cutie: The player Donpan wears a giant pair of glasses, making her look Endearingly Dorky.
- Blush Sticker: All four of them have blush marks to make them more traditionally cute.
- Eyes Always Shut: The middle two Donpans always have their eyes closed during their performances.
- Festival Episode: "The☆Bon Odori" takes place at a matsuri, with all four fittingly wearing kimonos.
- Geisha: None of them have the standard white makeup, but all four are traveling, kimono-clad performers talented in Bon Odori.
- Girlish Pigtails: The player Donpan has a pair of these, complementing her nerdy aesthetic.
- Kimono Is Traditional: With them doing a Bon Odori at a matsuri, all four wear kimonos to match the setting.
- Ondo: Their main shtick is Bon dancing to ondo music.
Yuka
Appears in: Tengoku, Heaven, Fever, & Megamix
A young girl who is quite adept in the ways of tap-dancing, and is one of the mascots of the Rhythm Heaven franchise.
- All Women Love Shoes: In order to enter the secret tap-dance parties of the animal kingdom, Yuka went to great lengths to find shoes with the right shade of red. To this day, she considers her trademark red tap shoes her most prized possession.
- Animal Lover: A good deal of her appearances feature her tap-dancing with a pair of monkeys, and she is shown to have a very friendly relationship with them.
- Breakout Character: Like many of the characters listed here (especially those who debuted in Tengoku), Yuka would go on to serve as one of the faces of the Rhythm Heaven series, appearing in just about every single game to date in some way, shape, or form.
- The Fashionista: Probably the other thing she's most well-known for aside from her tap-dancing skills. According to the official Tengoku website, she actually convinced her monkey friends to change up their looks alongside her.
- Genki Girl: She's always in an eager mood when she's ready to dance, and wants her positivity to spread towards the animals she dances for:
- No Name Given: Initially. It wasn't until her cameo appearance in Nintendo Badge Arcade that she was finally given the name Yuka. Until then, she was simply referred to as "the Girl" or "Miss".
Introduced in Heaven
Chorus Kids
Appears in: Heaven, Fever (cameo), & Megamix
Three choirboys who take lessons from one of the members of the Clappy Trio to sing in harmony.
- Breakout Characters: Despite not appearing in every game, they're just as iconic as Karate Joe, Yuka, and the Wandering Samurai, being considered one of the faces of the franchise.
- Cute Little Fangs: All three have fangs on each corner of their mouths to complement their Super-Deformed appearance.
- The Dividual: Aside from the third one being constantly on edge, there's nothing that tells the three apart appearance-wise.
- Nervous Wreck: The third Chorus Kid has Performance Anxiety taken to its utmost extreme, causing him to scream rather than sing, which was thankfully amended by their conductor.
- Vague Age: They do look young, but in Japanese, they're known as the Chorus Men, meaning they could potentially be Older Than They Look.
- Volumetric Mouth: When reaching their highest note, their mouths take up the entirety of their heads.
Pop Singer
"Yeah, yeah, yeah~!"
Appears in: Heaven, Fever (cameo), & Megamix
An Idol Singer who repeatedly performs songs for a crowd of monkeys.
- Animal Lover: Inverted: her only fans are monkeys, no humans whatsoever.
- Audience Participation: She encourages the monkeys to repeat after her when she sings.
- Idol Singer: Her main shtick, to the point that she's called Idol in Japanese.
- Unlimited Wardrobe: In "Fan Club", she wears a pink blouse and shoes; in "Fan Club 2", she wears a light blue skirt and dress, a blue scarf, and ankle-high boots; and in Fan Club in Megamix, she wears a black turtleneck, a yellow skirt and boots, and a black hair band with yellow stars.
- You Don't Look Like You: In Heaven, she's easily recognizable between outfits through her reddish-brown hair. In Megamix, she looks completely different, sporting blondish-brown hair and being much shorter. Justified because she's supposed to reference the new Japanese singer of Thrilling! Is this love?, Ari~sa, rather than the original one, Eri~na.
Captain Blue Bird and the Blue Birds
Appears in: Heaven, Fever (cameo), & Megamix
Three new recruits in the Blue Bird Brigade and their drill instructor attempting to get them through training.
- Cool Shades: Captain Blue Bird hides his eyes behind a pair of pitch-black sunglasses.
- Expy: Role-wise, they serve an almost identical purpose to Sarge and the Squadmates from Tengoku.
- Sergeant Rock: Captain Blue Bird is stern and no-nonsense, but he gets the job done in the end with little qualms.
GüÃro Lizards
Appears in: Heaven & Fever (cameo)
A species of lizard with an interesting mating cycle: The smaller male shakes his maraca-like tail, while the female scratches her tail against her back to make rattling sounds. If they are both in sync, they become mates.
- Bizarre Sexual Dimorphism: The males of the species are way smaller than the females, and each gender is almost entirely green and yellow, respectively. Also, the male doesn't have the female's spines, and the female lacks the maraca on the male's tail.
- Mating Dance: Sort of. While the mating ritual is certainly rhythmic, it's more revolved around music than dance.
- Meaningful Name: The female lizard plays herself like an actual güÃro, slapping her tail against herself and scratching her tail along her back.
- Non-Indicative Name: The male lizard is very much not like a güÃro, with his tail resembling a maraca.
T.J. Snapper and His Girlfriend
Appears in: Heaven & Megamix
An intrepid photographer and his supermodel girlfriend, who sometimes likes to mess with his photoshoots.
- Attention Whore: T.J.'s girlfriend wants him to constantly give her attention, and when he's busy photographing something else, she'll sabotage it so that he takes pictures of her instead.
- Boobs-and-Butt Pose: T.J.'s girlfriend always gets herself photographed from the side, so that her chest and ass are both on full display.
- Camera Fiend: T.J. is obsessed with taking pictures, to the point that it was how he met his girlfriend in the first place.
- Didn't Think This Through: As revealed in "A Confession", T.J.'s girlfriend admits that, while she doesn't have any regrets about what she did to get T.J. to take a picture of her, she admits that maybe pulling her little stunt at a racetrack (where one is more than liable to get dirtied up by greasy oil) wasn't the brightest idea... especially when the goal was to get her boyfriend to snap a photo of her.
- Dub Name Change: In Japanese, T.J.'s name is (the rather uninspired) "Camera Man". T.J. Snapper was the name given to him in localizations.
- The Gadfly: Because his girlfriend felt like she wasn't being given enough attention when T.J. took to photographing race cars, she planned to get her revenge by walking through his photoshoots at the most inopportune moments.
- Going for the Big Scoop: Taking pictures was at first a recreational hobby, but T.J. eventually took to photographing race cars and printing them in the local newspaper.
- Gone Horribly Right: Ironically, T.J.'s girlfriend is noted to have been the one to have encouraged T.J. to take his photographic skills to the racetracks. That said, she didn't expect him to be so fixated on them that he stops paying attention to her altogether, leading her to disguise herself as a race queen at the track and get him to inadvertently snap a photo of her. What's more, while T.J. did end up snapping a photo of her in the end, she also ended up getting coated in oil slick (upon helping the pit crew) and even smelled of gasoline for some time, much to her disgust.
- No Name Given: In Japan, T.J. is simply referred to as "Camera Man". His girlfriend isn't given any sort of name whatsoever, and is simply referred to as "Girlfriend".
- Statuesque Stunner: T.J.'s girlfriend is extremely tall, and she's a well-renowned supermodel.
- Tiny Guy, Huge Girl: T.J. is pint-sized, whereas his girlfriend is much, much taller. Interestingly, a 4-koma strip promoting Heaven, as well as the "Superb" epilogue of "Freeze Frame" in Megamix, seem to depict the couple as being roughly the same size.
Munchy Monk
Appears in: Heaven, Fever, & Megamix
A bold monk in training dedicated to the art of eating.
- Big Eater: It is essentially his goal in life to eat as much as he can. Not even having to carry a baby around will stop him.
DJ Yellow and His Student
Appears in: Heaven, Fever (cameo), & Megamix (cameo)
DJ Yellow teaches at a school for aspiring disc jockeys, instructing his young Student on how to perform as well as he does.
- Amazing Technicolor Population: DJ Yellow is, well, yellow, while his Student is blue.
- Catchphrase: Yellow has, "Scratch-o, hey!"
- Cool Shades: Both Yellow and his Student are wearing these in Remix 4 of Rhythm Heaven.
- Gag Lips: The Student has giant, white lips that stand out against his blue body.
- Keet: DJ Yellow is just so full of energy and enthusiasm over teaching his Student; at one point, his voice even cracks due to how excited he gets.
- Nice Guy: Yellow has an overall upbeat personality, showing enthusiasm in sharing his talent with others, and he never gets upset with his Student over messing up the rhythm, appearing more worried for him than anything else.
Introduced in Fever
Rhythm Girl
Appears in: Fever
The navigator for Fever, showing up on the title screen and in menus.
- Luminescent Blush: Much like Yuka, she's always seen having two rosy blush marks on her face.
- Perpetual Smiler: She always rocks a smile on her face, usually having her mouth wide open.
- Statuesque Stunner: She's incredibly tall, one of the tallest characters in the series, and has a very revealing wardrobe, with her dress barely covering her thighs.
- Suspiciously Similar Substitute: She's a dead ringer for Yuka, having a similar red dress, red shoes, and black hair. However, she's also confirmed to be a different character, on account of her beige skin, different dress shape, and having her hair let down as opposed to a ponytail.
Marshall, Cam, and Miss Ribbon
L-to-R: Miss Ribbon, Marshall, Cam
Appears in: Fever & Megamix (cameo)
The hosts of Fever.
- Blue Boy, Pink Girl: Cam is blue; Miss Ribbon is pink. Averted with Marshall, who's white.
- Demoted to Extra: Much like Samurai Drummer, they only make cameos after being hosts of their debut game.
- Hartman Hips: While Marshall and Cam's waists are flat, Miss Ribbon's hips are completely circular.
- Suspiciously Similar Substitute: Marshall is the character you control in Fever's version of Nightwalk rather than Play-Yan from the original Nightwalk. He also looks similar to the Chorus Kids.
- The Voiceless: Cam doesn't talk at all.
A Boy and His Crush
Appears in: Fever & Megamix
Two students who are on a date. At one point, they watch a pair of weasels in a burrow.
- Idiot Hair: The boy sports this in the "Try Again" rank for the School Library Pep Squad.
- No Name Given: In the American version and the Japanese version, the two are not given any names. The European version of the names the boy "Romeo" and the girl "Julia".
- Not Good with Rejection: If the player does badly in the game, the girl will tell the boy she does not feel the same way. The boy then falls into despair.
- Tiny Guy, Huge Girl: The girl is about one head taller than the boy. Justified, as she's his upperclassman.
Baxter and Forthington
Appears in: Fever & Megamix
A dog and cat duo who play badminton with each other while flying planes.
- Apple of Discord: The reason why they're playing badminton against each other is because they're arguing over who'll end up getting an extremely extravagant donut from a new donut shop that recently opened up.
- Cat/Dog Dichotomy: While they aren't explicitly fighting, they do appear to see each other as rivals.
- Excuse Me While I Multitask: A rare example where both sides do this: both Baxter and Forthington are engaging in a game of badminton while piloting planes, and neither of them even seem to be remotely breaking a sweat!
- Improbable Piloting Skills: A tamer example than most, but it's odd that these two can pilot planes and play badminton at the same time.
- No Indoor Voice: Justified. When Forthington flies into the background, he calls his shots at the top of his lungs so Baxter can still hear him.
- Punny Name: The starts of their names sound like "back" and "forth", which is where they send the shuttlecock between them.
Reporter & Wrestler
"Wubba dubba dubba, 'zat true?"
"Eh."
"Whoa, you go, big guy!"
"Eh."
"Whoa, you go, big guy!"
Appears in: Fever & Megamix
A news reporter and a sumo wrestler who agree to do an interview after a match in Rhythm Arena.
- Ass-Kicking Pose: The recording crew repeatedly tells the Wrestler to pose for the fans, and he complies every time.
- Blah, Blah, Blah: The Reporter asks questions of the Wrestler, and all we hear is, "Wubba dubba dubba, 'zat true?/Piki-piki-piki, desu ka?" Lampshaded in the game's reading material, where the Reporter is asking him actual questions, and he still responds to everything with, "Eh." It opens up the possibility that we're hearing what the Wrestler hears.
- Genki Girl: The Reporter is overly enthused to do the interview, with her gushing over the Wrestler every now and again.
- Huge Guy, Tiny Girl: The Wrestler is a ginormous bodybuilder, with the Reporter being half his height and needing to angle her arm diagonally upwards to reach the microphone to his face.
- Masked Luchador: The Wrestler embodies this trope, wearing nothing but a luchador mask, pants, and boots.
- Overly-Nervous Flop Sweat: The Wrestler appears to be incredibly nervous about doing the interview, as the whole time, he's sweating up a storm that coats his entire body. Though, given the description mentions it's specifically after his match, it's very possible he's not nervous and is just still sweaty from the match.
- Ship Tease: During the three newspaper poses, the Reporter has five hearts above her head, implying that she has a crush on the Wrestler.
The Love Posse
Appears in: Fever & Megamix
A rap trio led by the stylish MC Adore, who express love through, of all things, rapping.
- Cool Car: MC Adore's car, which is bright pink and has a grill resembling pointy teeth. According to the flavor text for the car as a Rhythm Item, people are somehow constantly mistaking it for vicious animals, to which Adore usually wants to respond, "Guys, it's PINK."
- Gag Lips: Both of the males have enormous, pink lips, while MC Adore has a plain mouth.
- Hip-Hop / Rap: Their game is called "Love Rap", but what they do is referred to as hip-hop in the game's description in every game it's in.
- Ms. Fanservice: MC Adore is the most overtly sexualized character in the franchise, having a low-cut shirt, long hair, and a sultry voice, all while striking seductive poses on the hood of her car.
- No Name Given: Neither of the males in the group has been named, despite MC Adore's name being well-established.
- Show Within a Show: Their hip-hop gig is actually a TV show for romantic couples, with the weasel couple from Double Date watching them on television.
- The Stoic: Despite her verses being about love and obsession, MC Adore never changes her facial expression or raises her voice.
The Tall Tappers
Appears in: Fever
A quartet that spends their time tapping to the rhythm of music in complete glee.
- Blowing a Raspberry: The three on the left do this whenever the one on the right messes up his tapping.
- Blush Sticker: They all have oval blushes on their cheeks, making them look as cute as they act.
- Keet: All four of them are cheerfully loud whenever they successfully complete a tap rhythm.
- Noodle People: Their limbs are rather slim and their torsos are rectangular, but most notably of all, their legs are absurdly long.
- Perpetual Smiler: Unless the one on the right messes up, all of them are constantly in a good mood.
School Library Pep Squad
Appears in: Fever & Megamix
Also known as the Cheer Readers, these girls have one goal in life: perform stunning cheers that motivate kids at the school library to study hard.
- Bookworm: We're not certain they are this, but as they're cheering to help kids ace tests and use books in lieu of signs while cheering, it can be guessed that they might be.
- Gratuitous English: Even in Japanese, everything they cheer is in English, and while most of it is fluent English, the way they say, "never give up," falls into this, being pronounced, "never give-u up-u."
- Luminescent Blush: The head of the squad is prone to doing this whenever she messes something up.
- Nerd Glasses: Every member of the squad is adorned with a set of round glasses that make them look somewhat cute.
- Pom-Pom Girl: Obviously, though they definitely aren't the typical variety of positive cheerleaders, given that their cheers are to motivate kids studying at the library and they lack pom-poms.
- Refuge in Audacity: Being noisy in a library? Rude. Bringing an entire cheerleading squad into the library? Not only do they get away with it, but they actually succeed in helping people study.
Introduced in Megamix
Tibby
Appears in: Megamix
The main protagonist of Megamix whose goal is to return home and save his mother.
Sumo Bros
Appeared in: Megamix
Two brothers who train in sumo wrestling and cool poses together with the Inu-Sensei.
- Acrofatic: They're quite agile despite their girth, and have no problem doing Ass-Kicking Poses.
- Sumo Wrestling: Trains through slaps, stomps, and poses.
Mako
Appears in: Megamix
A young girl who attends a slumber party with a house full of monkeys.
- Animal Lover: Anyone who would have a slumber party with 24 monkeys would certainly qualify as this.
- Dream Walker: The monkeys are apparently having the same dream as her, as they're all seen at once within Dreamland.
- Pajama-Clad Hero: She's wearing pajamas, but so are all 24 monkeys at the slumber party.
- Princess Phase: She's seemingly going through one, as Mako is dressed as a princess when she arrives in Dreamland.
- Slumber Party: The entire plot of Pajama Party has her attending one, being the one human among the 24 monkeys in the house.
Beary
Appears in: Megamix
A bear who loves donuts just as much as he loves his girlfriend, Bearbra, but has nightmares about losing her.
- All Just a Dream: None of the events of his and Bearbra's breakup are real; they're just a recurring nightmare he has.
- Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other: Despite both of them having nightmares about their relationship falling apart, Beary and Bearbra are happy that they're together.
- Bears Are Bad News: A depressing example, in that Bearbra ends up leaving him and leaves him heartbroken.
- Beary Friendly: He and Bearbra are both nice bears who love their relationship.
- Big Eater: He eats copious amounts of donuts and cake.
- Heartbreak and Ice Cream: In order to forget Bearbra after their breakup, he indulges himself in donuts and cake.
- Please, Don't Leave Me: While binge-eating, Beary keeps thinking to himself that he wants Bearbra to come back to him. And considering this is a recurring nightmare, it's likely that this is what he thinks deep down.
- Trademark Favorite Food: While he's also seen eating cake, the story places special emphasis on how much he loves donuts.
