Characters / Sendokai Champions

Senkuns In General

From the main team:

• Animal Motifs: The senkuns originally designed with an animal and an element in mind:
  • Zak: Rooster
  • Chloe: Deer
  • Kiet: Panda
  • Fenzy: Squirrel
• In season 3, each senkun will get a sen beast as a companion, which are:
  • Zak: Phoenix
  • Chloe: Unicorn
  • Lon: Chinese Dragon
  • Kiet: Bull
  • Fenzy: Lynx
• Anime Hair: Cloe, Kiet and Fenzy are characters with some of the most extravagant hair on the show, and it seems to be natural. It could be that their earth runs on anime hair color logic, as Ron, their bully, also has fuschia hair and brows. Curiously, all the senkun's parents have normal hair, Zak inheriting that particular shade of blonde from his father. Subverted with Lon, whose hair is a very normal black, only getting red streaks in his sendokai warrior form.
• Calling Your Attacks: Like almost everyone on the show. Only once did Zak perform a technique without naming it, and it was precisely because he did not know his name.
• Color-Coded Characters:
  • Zak: Yellow.
  • Chloe: Blue.
  • Kiet: Green.
  • Fenzy: Pink.
  • Lon: Red, though his hair isn't as color-coded as the rest of the senkuns, only getting red streaks instead of a full head of red hair.
• Curtains Match the Window: Each one has eyes and hair of their characteristic color. Subverted with Lon, who has black hair and green eyes despite his color being red.
• Elemental Hair Colors: each of the original 4 senkuns was designed around an animal and an element, which were:
  • Zak: Fire
  • Cloe: Wind
  • Kiet: Earth
  • Fenzy: Lightning
• Facial Markings: After transforming.
• Form-Fitting Wardrobe: Present in their normal outfits, much more noticeable in their Sendokai uniforms
• Technicolor Eyes: Each one has an intense color that matches the color of their Zen energy. Subverted with Lon, whose colour is red yet his eyes are green, then played straight, for at his lowest point when he's seething that he HATES everyone and everything we can see that his eyes have turned red.
• Transformation Is a Free Action: Justified most of the time, invoking their uniforms alongside the Senrok is a step in starting the Sendokai party.
• True Companions: They are very close to each other. A curious case in which they were already good friends from the beginning of the series, with their bonds becoming closer as they faced challenges together.

Zak

Debut: "Sen-Do-Kai"
Voiced by: Spanish: Álex de Porrata

Impulsive and headstrong, yet with a kind and courageous heart, Zak was an average thirteen year old until four bracelets dropped from the sky to turn him and his friends into Sendokai warriors to save their planet. Since then, Zak has tried his best to be a good leader and a good friend, and has grown by facing his feelings, and yet also know when to set them aside to focus on bigger things.

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• Expy: He bears more of a passing resemblance to Goku from Dragon Ball.
• Determinator: His defining trait. If it weren't for Zak being so stubborn and headstrong, they would have never even become senkuns, let alone sendokai warriors, and in their lowest points where all seems lost it's always Zak who manages to rally the team to overcome impossible odds, and always tries his hardest to do right by everyone.
• Happy Dance: It's something he likes to do, and as the name indicates whether he does it or not is a very clear sign of his state of mind.
• Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: Blonde to match his naturally kind and heroic personality.
• The Leader: or Hakuru, but even before the second season Zak was very clearly the Headstrong flavor, with shades of Charismatic and adopting some Levelheaded traits as the second season went on and Zak found his resolve.
• Rousing Speech: Gave a really impressive one in episode 50, and is always the one who rallies his friends to keep fighting when all hope seems lost.

Cloe

• Awesomeness by Analysis: The first technique that she learns consists of this, her second technique consists of interrupting this on the opponents in addition to teleporting her.
• The Smart Girl: She's a quick thinker and gets the best grades within their friend group, and her abilities have her often playing strategist and coordinating their team plays.

Kiet

• Barrier Warrior: His characteristic technique.
• Big Eater: He likes to eat.
• Lazy Bum: His main flaw, the official website even describes him as the laziest boy in the multiverse. At the beginning of the series this was bordering an unhealthy level, being reluctant to help others and fulfill his obligations. Overcoming this was the central part of his character development.
• The Big Guy: The most robust of the group, and his techniques are based on defense and forcefulness.
• Mighty Glacier: Along with the above, he stands out as the slowest but most resistant member of the group.
• Spikes of Villainy: Inverted, his armor has spikes, but he is one of the heroes.

Fenzy

• Cute Bruiser: She is a small girl, but perfectly competent in Sendokai.
• Fragile Speedster: A little less on the fragile part, at no point is she shown to be less resistant than his companions other than Kiet, and in fact the three techniques she knows are defensive or partially defensive. But she is the fastest of the group and her characteristic technique is based on that speed.
• Girliness Upgrade: She is the tomboy from the group in behavior.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: She can be very rude and somewhat aggressive, but she has her heart in the right place and loves her friends and family very much.
• Mercury's Wings: With the armor.
• Dissappeared Dad: Her father is dead, implied to be recently, and Fenzy is still actively mourning him at the beginning of the series.
• Tornado Move: Her second technique, summons a tornado useful to attract the Do.

Lon / The Great Zorn:

• All Your Powers Combined: Played With. Every time he uses one of the team moves, he can copy the abilities and powers from the teammates he has done the move with - it doesn't have to be a successful move either, or only learn one at a time, as we see when he uses the failed Nero-Sen fusion to learn all the other powers the Senkuns have and use them against Zak's team.
• Anti-Hero: In the first half of Season 2, Lon was brash and arrogant but genuinely tried to do good, until his jealousy and the perceived betrayal of those he considered his friends led him to snap and seriously hurt his opponents, almost killing Zak and Kido.
• Ax-Crazy: Lon completely lost his papers in the last Sendokai he took part in, hurting his opponents out of misguided rage when he could have won already and stopped listening to the words of his friends.
• The Bad Guy Wins: To Chronam Yatt's satisfaction, she managed to get Lon to turn away from his friends and become an intergalactic dictator by baiting him with the power to right all injustices in the world, if only he would take that helmet.
• Big Bad: He turns The Great Zorn, who up until this point has been the overarching antagonist of the first season and whose rise they were trying to prevent in the second.
• Downer Ending: Season 2 ends with Lom seemingly attacking the city and kidnapping Cloe to make her his empress. Subverted as the Season 3 preliminary clip reveals that he actually kidnapped her to ask for her help to save Earth from a greater threat.
• Heel–Face Revolving Door: He wants to make friends and save their dimension, but his own flaws lead him to become an intergalactic tyrant and kidnap Cloe, except that he wants to make a more just world and just took Cloe to ask for her help to save the Earth...it's enough to make you dizzy!
• Fallen Hero: The tragedy of it all is that Lon genuinely tries to be good and do good, but trapped as he is by the psychological wounds his parents left on him, he is unable to move on, and in the end his desire to acquire the power to be able to correct injustice and get revenge on those who wronged him leads him to become the Great Zorn and give up on the senkuns.
• Hypocrite: Accuses Zak of stealing his position in the team and Cloe from him when it's Lon who is the newcomer to the team, and in a scene where he took all the powers of the senkuns onto himself. Who's the real thief here...
• I Just Want to Have Friends: Lon truly tried to be friends with the senkuns, but was unable to move past his trauma to see that it doesn't have to be all or nothing, and that just because the team disagreed with what he was doing and refused to follow him, it didn't mean they were traitors or any less his friends.
• Irony: Lon seems convinced Zak for stole everything from him, but he calls Zak a thief in the match where Lon copied all of the senkun's powers to fight Zak by himself when it became apparent that the team wasn't willing to hate Zak in Lon's behalf. With this, it becomes tragically apparent that Lon is the cuckoo in the nest here - he's so incredibly jealous of what Zak has - his friends, his position in the team, the girl he likes - that instead of trying to make his own spot in the team, Lon attempted to fulfill Zak's role when the later left, and fell apart when he found himself unable to live up to it.
• Parental Abandonment: Previous to the series, his mom ran off with a coworker and Lon never saw her again. This left such an emotional wound in him that all his issues can be traced down to this, and it's only aggravated when his father leaves him behind for an overseas work trip with no planned return date.
• Really 700 Years Old: Thanks to the Helmet of the Great Zorn, to which Chronam-Yatt granted immortality, he still looks 14 even if he had to reach the present day the long way after being stuck millions of years in the past.
• The Cynic: Lon, despite attempts to prove the opposite to himself, in the end comes to despair that his father was right, his friendship with the senkuns was false and he is as alone as he's always been.
• Tragic Villain: Despite what he would become, Lon was just a kid who wanted help. If his parents had not been so horrible to him and to each other, had his father not pounded into his head to not trust anybody... he had many qualities that would have made him a good friend and a great asset to the team, and eventually a hero. However, he quietly spiralled further and further, and in the end turned into warped version of himself while his friends were helpless to do anything but watch (Zak and Cloe in particular looked absolutely heartbroken)

Allies

Tänpo

• Dark and Troubled Past: He lost the last Sendokai Tournament, which led to his allies joining the Zorn.
• The Mentor: Teaches the Senkuns Sendokai from scratch, and did it well enough that in less than a year they became the best in the multiverse.
• Old Master: He is old even by the standards of his species, which has a life expectancy greater than 20,000 years of age.

Lula

• Badass Adorable: Like her species, despite her size and appearance she is good at Sendokai.

Lalith

Kento/Zorn Marshal

• Hover Mecha He pilots one as his armor.

Kido

Danima

• The Mentor: She teaches the Senkuns Masara's most powerful abilities, the Duo-Sen powers.
• Old Master: Not quite as impressive as Tänpo's over 20,000, but she's over 3,000 years old and very visibly an old lady.

Chronam-Sunn

• Ascended Extra: She doesn't quite shake the extra label, but as the Goddess of Good she's supposed to be much more important than the one-off opponent from the first season.
• Dark Is Not Evil: Black from head to toe to contrast her sister's white, and the Godess of Good.
• Divine Conflict: Implied; her and her sister were created as opposites to keep the balance of good and evil in the multiverse, so they're in constant conflict to defend their side, though Chronam-Sunn doesn't want to hurt her sister. The sentiment is not returned
• God of Good: Made by the sen gods to keep the balance of good in the multiverse.
• Out of Focus: An unfortunate case. While her sister has gotten lots of screentime showing her plotting and setting evil plans in motion, Chronam-Sunn gets very few appearances, which are very short, and her first long appearance since season one (consider that in season 2 the main antagonist is 'her sister' turns out to be acting shocked about things she really should know already (given that she can see the future) and getting defeated and Put on a Bus immediately after.

Villains

Lon's Father

• Abusive Parents: Not physically, but psychologically - he taught his own son to not trust in anybody, least of all his friends.
• Foil: To Zak's father, and if you think a bit about it, to Zak's family situation in season 1. Where Zak's dad is jovial and encourages his son to have fun and provides sound advice so Zak can continue to grow as a person, Lon's father only teaches Lon to be as nihilistic and embittered as he is, blaming and projecting his wounds on everyone around him.
• Jerkass: The WORST, and boy do I mean W O R S T, parental figure in the series.
• Straw Nihilist: he disdains things like love and friendship, not believing they exist, and lectures his own son about how he shouldn't trust anyone and only look out for himself.
• No Name Given: In the credits his only called Lon's Father - he never gets a name, not even in the narratives.
• We Hardly Knew Ye: A not-lethal example, and almost glad for it because he was awful. He left his son to a travel around the globe before we even get to know him better, leaving poor Lon only with his very questionable lessons, many questions and no way to answer them or seek guidance or help.

Sidmodius

• Ascended Extra: From scraping and bowing to the Marshal's every word to the main antagonist of season 2, threatening to usurp the spot of the biggest bad guy in the whole *multiverse*

Chronam Yatt

• Ascended Extra: Always hinted at being more than she seemed and having some secret plan of her own, but from Sidmodius' helper to the brains behind the main antagonist to the Goddess of Evil is a pretty big twist.
• Cain and Abel: The Abel to her sister's Cain.
• Divine Conflict: Implied; her and her sister were created as opposites to keep the balance of good and evil in the multiverse, so they're in constant conflict to defend their side, though Chronam-Sunn doesn't want to hurt her sister. The sentiment is not returned
• Light Is Not Good: White from head to toe to her sister's black and the Godess of Evil.

Kazkrad

• Evil Counterpart: to Zak.

Rivals

Professor Sylius' team

• Irony: Professor Sylius is a monkey that controls other monkeys.
• Mad Scientist: Professor Sylius.
• Mind-Control Device: The Atari remote control.

The Norbius

• Awesomeness by Analysis:
• Cyclops
• Hive Mind: They are literally one mine inhabiting múltiple bodies.

Tectroids

• Arm Cannon: After two combinations.
• Humongous Mecha: After three combinations.
• Mecha-Mooks.

The Multiman

• The Dandy
• Green-Skinned Space Babe
• I Lied

Chronek Twins:

• Palette Swap
• Polar Opposite Twins
• Psychic Powers
• Time Travel

Urloks

• Combined Energy Attack
• Earthquakes Cause Fissures: and control stakes.
• Face–Heel Turn: Justified, as the Zorn promised them they'd let their dying dimension go free if only they defeated the humans during the Tournament.

Kazkrad Team

• Evil Counterpart: To Senkuns.
• Evil Knockoff
• Psycho Rangers: