Classic Timeline: 1 | 2, 3, 4/F/Final
Classic Subseries: Masou Kishin | Compati Hero Series
Alpha Saga: Alpha/Shin/Super Hero Sakusen | Alpha Gaiden | 2nd Alpha | 3rd Alpha
Compact Series: Compact 2/Impact | Compact 3 | MX
Z Saga: Z | 2nd Z | 3rd Z | Walking Spoilers
Nintendo Handheld Series: A | R | D | J | W | K | L | UX | BX
VTX Trilogy: V | X | T
Other Standalones: 64 | GC | NEO | OE | X-Ω | DD | 30
Original Generation Saga: Steel Dragon Battle Group | Earth Federation | Enemy Factions | Civilians and Walking Spoilers | Endless Frontier
This character sheet comprises of those who are deemed the Walking Spoilers of the Super Robot Wars Z saga. Due to their nature, spoilers are unmarked to avoid redundancy.
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The Four Angels
In General
The ones behind all the events in the Super Robot Wars Z saga. Tropes shared between The Four Angels are:
- Anthropomorphic Personification: The Four Angels are based on the Japanese word kidoairaku (喜怒哀楽), representing the emotions of happiness, anger, sorrow and joy, respectively.
- Note that "joy" in the context of the Z saga is defined as "deriving enjoyment", whereas "happiness" is "the state of being happy". The difference between ki (喜) and raku (楽) are also confusing in Real Life, with arguments on the nuances of raku and entire books written regarding the concept.
- Assimilation Plot: The Four Angels were inhabitants of their Earth and the first in the universe to achieve shinka (evolution) by combining all life on the planet.
- Early-Bird Cameo: Tempti and Doctrine are first seen in The Stinger of Jigoku-hen, talking about destroying the Blue Earth for the greater good.
- Holier Than Thou: As the first individuals to reach shinka, becoming higher dimensional entities, The Four Angels believe it's their duty to guide lower, unevolved species to reach their evolution as well.
- Human All Along: That said, they're still human beings at the core, so when Lelouch attempts to place a Geass on Doctrine and Tempti in exchange for his life (as it doesn't work at first), there's a moment shown that it may work.
- Hypocrites: The Angels exiled Advent because they believe that as superior beings, they should be morally above lying towards one another, including murder. However, this is before noting they're inclined to commit genocide on "inferior" beings in order to prove a point.
- Man Behind the Man: The Chrono organization was created by them in order to prevent humanity on other worlds from reaching shinka. This explains why Chrono exists in multiple dimensions.
- Spell My Name With An S: While the English-speaking fandom used the term Angels to refer to the quartet at the time of Z3's release, Super Robot Wars 30 translates their name instead as the Heralds.
Doctrine of Anger
Voiced by: Unshō Ishizuka
- Bald of Evil: He works with Advent and attempts to steal the Spheres from Z-BLUE.
- Eldritch Abomination: The Prodigium
is born from the remains of the Supreme God Sol, which shattered 12,000 years ago, and along with the Black Sun, inherited some of the Sol's remaining power. Alongside "Helios" (the original form of Advent's Asclepius) and the "Black Sun", it's one of the keys needed to recreate the Sol, but the Prodigium itself is capable of generating enough of the Origin Law to destroy a galaxy, depending on the conditions. After losing to Z-BLUE in the Chaos Cosmos, Advent uses the Prodigium in the ceremony to recreate the Supreme God. - Expy: Hello, Palparepa!
- You Are What You Hate: Doctorin claims Z-BLUE are the Ba'al and declares all other living beings to be the same. However, as he himself is destroying life, thus weakening the power of existence, this also makes him part of the Ba'al.
Tempti of Joy
Voiced by: Hitomi Owada
- Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Tempti calls herself "Titi" and pretends to be a civilian girl who interacts with Hibiki Kamishiro and tells him a sob story about being abused by her mother, only to be killed off horribly; Z-BLUE even holds a funeral for her. All just to mess with Hibiki for fun.
- Dropped a Bridge on Her: Played with - when still known as Titi, she was accidentally "killed" by Leonard Testarossa who randomly fires at the Macross Quarter. Her "death" comes out surprising (never mind that this happened while Theme Music Power-Up is still playing); of course, it's subverted later on.
- He Is Not My Boy Friend: Subverted; she keeps claiming or wanting to be Hibiki's girlfriend. Hibiki gently denies it.
- It Amused Me: Tempti infiltrated Z-BLUE because she found it "fun" or "enjoyable" to manipulate them.
- Playing Both Sides: The Invaders and others are not the Ba'al. The Dimensional Generals have been fighting the wrong enemy due to false information provided by Tempti. The "real Ba'al" are The Four Angels who used the Dimensional Generals to fight ZEUTH and ZEXIS. This is so they can grab the Spheres without trouble by having them clash with each other.
- Rose-Haired Sweetie: She appears during tense situations to assist Hibiki, until The Reveal occurs and the trope is inverted.
- Villainous Breakdown: When Advent decide to use her and Doctrine as the component for Supreme God Z, she breakdowns crying and apologies for everything she did to him in the past and ask for mercy, but to no avail.
Sacrifai of Sorrow
- Captain Ersatz: Hey, Cyfis, is that you?
- It's All About Me: Though she seems benevolent, Sacrifi is as much of an egotistical ass as the rest of The Four Angels. Despite being the aspect of sorrow, she only cares and comprehends her own sorrow, and refuses to work with Z-BLUE since, while initially against the other Angels, Sacrifai still holds the belief they are inferior, particularly for rejecting her acts of "benevolence". She only realizes this during the final battle with Asakim.
- Heel Realization: Around the time of Asakim's final defeat, she comes to realize just how selfish she and the rest of the Angels have been this whole time.
- The Reveal: Sacrifi was the one who created the titular "time prison" in Jigoku-hen to protect the Earth.
Saint Advent of Happiness
- Brainwashing: Being in close proximity to others, Advent can compel and convince those around him. This explains why his Chrono supporters believe he can do no wrong, as does Z-BLUE since Jigoku-hen. Newer members in Tengoku-hen like Garrod Ran and Ledo wonder why their allies can trust an obviously suspicious man; once Z-BLUE starts questioning Advent's motives is his Face–Heel Turn apparent.
- Break the Haughty: After the Z saga, it turns out Z-BLUE didn't actually kill Advent but instead banished him to an extradimensional space in The Multiverse where he and Hypsistos Z were left to rot for millions of years. When the Dreikreuz finds him there after all that time during Super Robot Wars 30, he's found to be harboring a titanic amount of guilt towards his actions and really just wants to have some semblance of human interaction again.
- Contrasting Sequel Antagonist: To Keisar Ephes, the Big Bad of the previous main trilogy. Keisar Ephes was an Obviously Evil, black skinned, red eyed, horned demon intent on consuming souls and making the universe into an eternal hell. Advent is a white haired, white clad angel piloting a shining, golden God, originally introduced as an ally who seeks to reset the universe and create a perfect, ideal world.
- Evil All Along: That Heel–Face Turn he previously pulled in Jigoku-hen? All a lie.
- Evil Counterpart: To Kaworu Nagisa; on a meta-level, to Gilliam Yeager during his Hero Senki: Project Olympus stint as the Big Bad.
- Foil: To Asakim Dowin - both scheme to manipulate the Sphere Reactors, and while Advent and the Asclepius are colored white and a Knight in Shining Armor, Asakim and the Shurouga are predominantly black and Obviously Evil; the Shurouga has clear avian imagery, the Ascelpus references snakes. Throughout the Z saga, Asakim hardly hides his evil nature and Advent begins as an ally to Z-BLUE, repeatedly saves the day, and pulls a Heroic Sacrifice to get Hibiki to acquire the "Sphere of the Quarreling Twins". Advent turns out to be the Big Bad of Tengoku-hen and the entire saga with all his earlier deeds a lie, but Asakim ultimately garners sympathy points despite his alignment and winds up being instrumental in Advent's defeat.
- Godhood Seeker: His true goal is to ascend and become ruler of a reborn universe.
- Graceful Loser: Advent takes his defeat against Z-BLUE surprisingly well, despite calling them "damn bastards" for doing this to him. Millions of years later, he truly admits he was wrong to seek godhood.
- Heel–Face Turn: By the time of his reappearance in Super Robot Wars 30 120 million years later, Advent's genuinely become the nice guy he once presented himself as, admitting and expressing regret for his previous misdeeds.
- Laser-Guided Karma: Hypsistos snapped after watching the universe reset itself constantly for 120 million years straight. Advent's ultimate fate after the Z saga is to be left alone with it and The Edel for another 120 million years, which similarly breaks his spirit.
- Mistreatment-Induced Betrayal: Advent was exiled by the other Angels in a previous cycle after the Supreme God destroyed itself; the Helios became a "gift of mercy" by Doctrine. When they needed the Helios back to revive the Supreme God, the Angels welcomed his return. Unfortunately for them, Advent plans on reviving the Supreme God with himself in control.
- I Need You Stronger: The reason he murdered Hibiki's family.
- More accurate, Advent brainwashed Hibiki's mother in order to kill him, but her maternal instincts and love for her son allowed her to break free of the spell temporarily, committing suicide (in front of Hibiki) because she was afraid to harm her child. This is what made Advent interested in Hibiki.
- Never My Fault: He seems to think that Z-BLUE betrayed HIM despite the fact that he attacked them for asking him questions.
- Time Abyss: As the immortal controller of Hypsistos Z, he's spent 120 million years alive and conscious between his banishment in the Z saga and the Dreikreuz finding him again in 30.
- You Have Failed Me: Delivered towards Doctrine and Tempti when he sacrifices them to the Supreme God Z.
Supreme God
Supreme God Sol/Supreme God Z/Hypsistos Z
After accepting Asakim's wish to "die", it is defeated by Z-BLUE, the consciousnesses of all life gathered in its super-singularity is released, and a super-dimensional restoration across dimensions is carried out.
- Captain Ersatz
- A cosmic entity that can essentially bend, control and destroy the universe on a whim - sounds awfully similar to the Elders Gods and the Great Old Ones.
- Compare the Supreme God to the Reapers, given its set cycle of destruction, akin to the latter of wiping out galactic life every 50,000 years (and implied to have been done thousands of times).
- Driven to Suicide: Tired of the endless cycle and enslavement to The Four Angels, the original Supreme God Sol shattered itself and tore its body apart during the last 12,000 year cycle.
- Dub Name Change: The English localization of Super Robot Wars 30 renders "Supreme God" as "Hypsistos", Greek for "Highest Among Gods".
- Final Boss: For Tengoku-hen, and by extension, the entire Z saga.
- Human Sacrifice: Since he can't recreate the original Supreme God Sol, due to missing four Spheres used by Z-BLUE, Advent uses four "Eternal Lives" (Doctrine, Tempti, Sacrifai and Asakim) as replacements, dubbing the new one "Z".
- Light Is Not Good: While it takes the appearance of a golden seraph, the Supreme God Z is the one intended to end the universe and the visions in its ultimate attack "are hardly pleasant.
- Meaningful Name: The In-Universe moniker of "Z" carries the meaning of "the one who watches over the death of the old world", making it a parallel to the concept of a universal life-cycle (Maha-Kalpa) and fate (Saṃsāra).
- Mind Rape: Similar to Kaiser Ephes' "End of the Galaxy" attack, the Supreme God Z bombards its victim with horrific visions of universal death and destruction, before halting time and finishing them off, leaving their remains to be assimilated by the deity.
- Optional Boss: Returns in Super Robot Wars 30 as an optional foe for Dreikreuz to fight after stumbling into a dimensional rift.
- Piñata Enemy: The purpose of its return in 30 is to be whacked by the player's maxed-out team again and again for extra loot each time it shows up.
- Physical God: The strongest of all beings, surpassing the karma of the Z universe.
- Reset Button: The Supreme God resets the universe every 12,000 years. Advent plans on using the Z to reboot and recreate the universe to his liking.
- Stone Wall: 4,500 armor and 750,000 HP make defeating it in only 9 turns a hellish experience.
- Time Abyss: At the rate of 12,000 years per cycle, just how many times has the Supreme God successfully destroyed the universe and recreated it? Through dialogue by The Four Angels, it's implied this has been done for over 120 million years, around 10,000 times.
- Time-Limit Boss: In a rarity for the series, the final fight with Z has a time limit. If Z isn't defeated in nine turns, it will reset reality once more, killing everything and everyone.
- Western Zodiac: The twelve Spheres are based on them and are associated with the angel that represents that star sign (Barbiel for Scorpio, Hamaliel for Virgo, Asmodel for Taurus, etc).
