Tekkaman Blade/Characters

Here be the characters of Tekkaman Blade

D-Boy/Blade/Slade/Takaya Aiba/Nick Carter/Ness Carter/Tekkaman Blade/Teknoman Slade
The titular main character of the show. Takaya is the 2nd son of the Aiba family and was to become a Tekkaman, until his father saved him and had him launched to Earth, in turn becoming Tekkaman Blade, a being hell bent on Radam's destruction. He joined the Space Knights to defeat the Radam (getting the nickname D-Boy), succeeds, but there's a lot of sacrifices that he had to made. Eventually, however, he becomes more stable and assists his girlfriend Aki in training new generation of good Tekkamen.


 * Aloof Ally
 * Amnesia Danger: Later in the series, as his memory begins degrading, he gets into more trouble.
 * Asleep for Days: After getting hit by Evil's Psy-Voltekka.
 * Bad Dreams
 * Being Good Sucks: If he continues fighting for Earth, he's going to have to kill most of the other members of his family.
 * Belated Backstory
 * Break the Cutie : His current self is a pretty nice guy by itself, despite his Jerkass tendency, but seriously, look at the flashback of his past life and see how much he changed.
 * Chick Magnet : Lets see, Aki, Milly and Miyuki are close to him, and the sequel adds Yumi. Not to mention Levin.
 * Classical Anti-Hero
 * Conveniently an Orphan
 * : Hoo boy, his life really does sucks.
 * Don't You Dare Pity Me!
 * Establishing Character Moment: Begins the show attacking the Radam, and barely slows down afterward.
 * Famed in Story: Becomes this in the sequel.
 * Good Is Not Nice: Particularly in the beginning. Subverted later on. He has always been an outgoing Nice Guy, as implied during the start of the series.
 * Happy Flashback
 * Heartbroken Badass
 * Heroic BSOD : Several times.
 * Heroic Fatigue
 * Hero with Bad Publicity
 * Hidden Heart of Gold
 * Hope Bringer
 * Hunter of His Own Kind
 * In the End You Are on Your Own
 * Invisible Subtle Difference: Between him and Shinya / Evil.
 * It's All My Fault: Often, part of his Guilt Complex.
 * I Work Alone
 * Jerkass Facade
 * Jerk with a Heart of Gold
 * Kill the Ones You Love
 * Legendary in the Sequel
 * Light Is Good
 * Living Legend: Again, in the sequel.
 * The Magnificent: Called the White Tekkaman in the sequel.
 * Messianic Archetype : Lets see, Humanity's savior ? check. Endured a sizable sacrifice ? check. He IS this trope.
 * Naked First Impression
 * Not Wearing Tights
 * Oblivious to Love : Hes is oblvious to the fact that Aki loves him and the whole team cared for him. It takes Noal's lecturing for him to realize it.
 * Parental Abandonment
 * Roaring Rampage of Revenge
 * Shoulder Cannon: VOLTEKKA!!!
 * Screaming Warrior: So much that his seiyuu broke the microphone TWICE. The first time was when Blaster Mode debuted; the second one was the Blaster Voltekka at series' end.
 * Stranger in a Familiar Land
 * Survivor Guilt
 * Takes One to Kill One
 * The Hunter
 * The Power of Hate
 * They're Called "Personal Issues" for a Reason
 * Touched by Vorlons
 * Tragic Monster : He feared that he would become this.
 * Troubled Backstory Flashback
 * Troubled but Cute
 * With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility
 * Victory-Guided Amnesia
 * Victory-Guided Amnesia

Miyuki Aiba/Tekkaman Rapier/Shara Carter

 * Collateral Angst
 * Deconstruction : What happened when an innocent girl is called a monster by someone that she saved ?
 * Flower Motifs: Her favorite flower is the amaryllis.
 * Heroic Sacrifice
 * Ill Girl --> Dead Little Sister
 * Kill the Cutie

Aki Kisaragi/Star Summers

 * Badass Adorable : Lapse with Badass Normal, she might be The Chick, but early on the series she is said to be the physically strongest of the Space Knights, with the exception of D-Boy, so much that shes confident enough to challenge D-Boy to spar with her after throwing a guy off.
 * He Will Not Cry, So I Cry for Him
 * Remember That You Trust Me: To D-Boy.
 * Tender Tears

Noal Vereuse/Ringo Richards

 * Dad the Veteran
 * Jerk with a Heart of Gold
 * Military Brat
 * Parental Abandonment
 * Put on a Bus: Killed off in one of the side OVAs in between I and II by a berserking D-Boy.

Miletta 'Milly' Le Rouge/Tina Corman

 * Like Brother and Sister : With D-Boy(who feels her being similar to his younger sister).
 * Mood Whiplash : Having such a cheerful child in a middle of a Crapsack World that is filled by adults feels really inappropriate. Levin kinda lampshades it early on in the series.
 * Tagalong Kid
 * You Remind Me of X : Her similarity with D-Boys's sister is one of the reason that she's the first person that can talk casually with D-Boy

Heinrich von Freeman/Commander Jameson

 * Commanding Coolness: In the English dub.
 * Da Chief
 * Heroic Albino
 * Manipulative Bastard : He does care for his teammates, but the way he manipulated D-Boy's existence, the millitary AND Balzac all at the same time is brilliant.
 * The Leader
 * The Stoic
 * Xanatos Gambit : He is really good at this.

Honda/Mac Macelroy

 * Boisterous Bruiser
 * Gentle Giant : His dream is to fly a kite after world peace is restored.
 * Grease Monkey: Balzac calls him this in the dub.
 * Mr. Fixit
 * Team Dad : Hes essentialy one to D-Boy, and to a lesser extent to most of the team.

Levin/Maggie

 * Camp Gay: Japanese version.
 * She's a Man In Japan

Balzac Asimov / Balzac St. Jacques

 * Call to Agriculture: In the second season; both results in and is the result of Character Development.
 * I Just Want to Be Special
 * Street Urchin

General Colbert/Galt

 * Asshole Victim: Becomes one in Super Robot Wars Judgment, where he even serves as Muruta Azrael's dragon.
 * To further drive the point home, he effectively takes the same place as Complete Monster Miwa Sakimori had serving the same guy in Super Robot Wars Alpha 3.
 * Fantastic Racism: To extremes at time, even treating the hero like a bastard traitor to his own race simply for being a Tekkaman despite the fact he obviously is one Colbert's side (i.e.- he wants the Radam dead as much as said General does)
 * General Ripper
 * It Must Be Mine: About Blade.
 * With Us or Against Us: Says this almost verbatim in the English dub.

Kouzu Aiba/Ulysses Carter
Patriarch of the Aiba family, he rescues his second-eldest son from the Radam, launching him in an escape pod to earth, before dying from the after-effects of a failed transformation.
 * Standard Fifties Father: What we see of him, anyway.

Shinya Aiba/Cain Carter/Tekkaman Evil/Teknoman Saber

 * Cry for the Devil
 * Dark Is Evil
 * : With Blade / Takaya
 * Driven by Envy
 * Evil Twin
 * Green-Eyed Monster
 * Kingpin in His Gym
 * Knight of Cerebus : While the plot is already dark, essentialy his appearance is where the show gets real.
 * Leave Him to Me: About Blade, because he is The Only One Allowed to Defeat You.
 * Menacing Stroll
 * Name of Cain
 * Obviously Evil: Tekkaman Evil
 * The Dragon
 * : Every Radam Tekkaman counts, but he's the worst of this part.
 * Twin Switch
 * Sibling Rivalry: Like you wouldn't believe.
 * "Well Done, Son" Guy
 * You Should Have Died Instead: Thinks his father believes this.

Fritz von Braun/Tekkaman Dagger

 * Blond Guys Are Evil
 * Starter Villain

Goddard/Tekkaman Axe

 * Stout Strength
 * The Brute

Molotov/Tekkaman Lance

 * Evil Genius

Feng Li/Tekkaman Sword

 * The Dark Chick

Kengo Aiba/Conrad Carter/Tekkaman Omega/Darkon

 * Big Bad
 * Large Ham: Comes with being voiced by Norio Wakamoto.
 * Last Villain Stand
 * Non-Action Big Bad: Tied into the ship that crashed on the Moon.

Yumi Francois/Tekkaman Hiver

 * Herd-Hitting Attack: REACTOR VOLTEKKA!!

Tekkaman Aki

 * Battle Couple with Blade, finally.

=== Dead End/Tekkaman Dead ===