Super Robot Wars W/Characters

The Ardygun Family
A family of Trailers (a catch-all term for guys who pretty much do everything in space other that salvage (The Junk Guild's job) and battle) who operates the spaceship Valstork. They're friends with Lowe Gear's crew.

Blessfield Ardygun
Blessfield "Hawkeye" Ardygun was a former Space Pirate, and had many run-ins with law enforcement agents such as Heinrich Freeman and Kotaro Taiga. At one point, he and Taiga even clashed over the same woman. Bless won.

Bless gave up the life of a Pirate, and they instead became Trailers. They had three daughters (Shihomi, Akane, and Mihiro), and a son (Kazuma, natch).



Kazuma Ardygun
The main character of Super Robot Wars W (Stands for "Double U", as per the sthick of naming game's subtitles with something near the word "DS"). Kazuma's a Trailer, a type of jack-of-all-trades people in space hire to do various things, and travels around with his family in their big fancy ship Valstork and piloting their Valhawk with cute little sister, Mihiro. Kazuma's extremely hot blooded and determined to help get rid of the common stereotype that Trailers = space pirates by kicking the asses of said space pirates and generally doing good and making a name for himself. They eventually hook up with the GGG and Space Knights in a project to help protect the Earth from a ridiculous number of threats because Kazuma's dad was an old rival of their leaders, and hey, the Valstork's Big Gun is a good thing to have on your side.

Eventually, he and his family are attacked by a girl named Aria Advance and a bunch of stuff happens. , which results in him going into a period of  and.

After a time skip, a new and much more handsome Kazuma rejoins his family and kicks ass again in their shiny new Combining Mecha. This time with.

As far as mecha goes, he starts out with the Valhawk, and it later combines into the Valguard, and then combines again with Aria's Arm Arcus and Applicant's Arm Stoma into the Valzacard, probably one of the most broken originals in SRW history, on par with the SRX Altered Banpreios. These tropes apply to Kazuma:


 * Ancestral Weapon (The Valstork and Valhawk are handed down generation after generation in the Ardygun family, with no-one knowing where it really comes from. Turns out )
 * Bishounen (After the Time Skip)
 * Brother-Sister Team (Him and Mihiro)
 * Combined Energy Attack: (The entire family rallies behind Kazuma and combine their strength in the Valzacard's final attack)
 * Combining Mecha (Valguard and Valzacard)
 * Hot-Blooded (Actually, Kazuma learns to be Hot-Blooded over the course of the game. Near the beginning, he's overwhelmed a bit by the attitudes of heroes like Guy Shishioh, Kouji Kabuto, and Jiro Yamada Gai Daigoji; by the end, he's screaming with the best of them, occasionally scaring little sister Mihiro)
 * Hot Wings (Valhawk Air Force Mode's Heat Edge Exploder)
 * Instant Runes (Part of the Valzacard's Exa Nova Shoot OVER's Dynamic Kill animation)
 * Leitmotif: Bullet Striker (Pre Time Skip) and Sail On Future (Post Time Skip). Also Just One Chance (Valzacard's EXA Nova Shoot Over)
 * Missing Mom (His mother died when he was a child)
 * Name's the Same (Lampshaded: after meeting the third "Gai" in the game, Kazuma muses on how everyone he meets named "Gai" is a different kind of Badass. For the record, Shishioh is courageous, Daigouji is passionate, and Murakumo is cool)
 * Opposite Gender Clone (, who actually seems more interested in Mihiro than him)
 * Plot-Relevant Age-Up
 * Swords Akimbo (In one of the Valhawk's attacks, it uses a standard beam saber, but it follows up with an additional saber stored in its knee)
 * Ten-Minute Retirement
 * The Power of Love (In this case, the love between a family, which leads to...)
 * Unlucky Everydude (Kazuma has the dubious honor of being the first original to have the "Love" Spirit Command and not be in a relationship by game's end. He spends a good portion bemoaning this last part, too)
 * In response to this, fanart and Doujinshi opts for
 * Time Skip
 * Training from Hell (At the hands of Melissa Mao and Lucrezia Noin)
 * Weak but Skilled (His stats are slightly below average for a real robot pilot, but he makes up for it by having the best native skill set of any series main character in the game)
 * Count as Magikarp Power as well. His starting unit are pretty good, however it quickly gets outclassed by the games numerous Game Breaker mecha, and its saving grace are its upgrade sharing. Its Mid-Season Upgrade gives it a notable boost in power and match ups better than the previous machine, but by later parts of the, its pretty outclassed.
 * Count as Magikarp Power as well. His starting unit are pretty good, however it quickly gets outclassed by the games numerous Game Breaker mecha, and its saving grace are its upgrade sharing. Its Mid-Season Upgrade gives it a notable boost in power and match ups better than the previous machine, but by later parts of the, its pretty outclassed.

Mihiro Ardygun
The youngest member of Valstork family, usually work as Valhawk support pilot. She's very attached to Kazuma since he's one who take care of her after their mother's death and everyone else are too busy (although never gone too far, offcially).


 * Brother-Sister Team (with Kazuma.)
 * Little Miss Badass (
 * Plot-Relevant Age-Up
 * Token Mini-Moe

Shihomi Ardygun

 * Eyes Always Shut (Though according to one 4koma, she opens them when deep in thought)
 * Get a Hold of Yourself, Man! (Slapped Kazuma when he was confused after realizing that )
 * Team Mom
 * Team Mom

Akane Ardygun

 * Fan Girl (Of Uppo-kun, surprisingly enough. She even has a hug pillow (or at least, a large stuffed animal version) of the guy)
 * This gets played with as.
 * Pettanko (This is her problem. Why she hadn't joined Ibis in the related Memetic Mutation is anyone's guess)
 * Trademark Favorite Food (Mayonnaise. Anything she cooks is drowning in it)

Horis Horion

 * (Horis reveals that )
 * Official Couple (with Akane, he does propose her in the ending)
 * Spell My Name with an "S" (Horian? Horion? Horaian? The latter is closest to the original, but looks odd. Horion fits better, if it's pronounced like the constellation Orion)

Carret

 * Black Box
 * Robot Buddy

DATABASE
The Scribes of Knowledge, more commonly referred to as the Database, are the main enemy of Super Robot Wars W. They were originally created to seek out and preserve all knowledge in the universe. Led by Inference, with Critic, Applicant and Regulate as his advisers, and Aria Advance as their field commander. Their modus operandi is to go from civilization to civilization, assimilate all the knowledge each possesses, and then eliminate them to make that knowledge rarer and therefore more valuable. Tropes associated with the Database:


 * A.I. Is a Crapshoot (Beings created )
 * Cloning Blues
 * Musical Spoiler : If you listen closely, Eternal Memory is a rearrangement of Bullet Striker.
 * Planet Looters
 * We Wait: They lie in wait for 8 months before commencing their plan

/Inference

 * Big Bad
 * It Amused Me: Hearing that Sinclyne would sell out his own father to save his own skin lets him look the other way about executing him, perhaps the only laugh he had in 10,000 years.
 * Not So Stoic (Recorder's original personality may have been The Stoic, but once he changes his name to Inference the slightest thing can set off his rage, he takes a liking to exterminating civilizations after their data is recorded, and he gains a pretty foul mouth to boot.)
 * Wave Motion Gun: Scientia's Salus Lumen
 * White-Haired Pretty Boy
 * White-Haired Pretty Boy

Aria Advance

 * Beam Spam: Arm Arcus' Totoum Schlopetum, combine that with Wave Motion Gun at the end
 * Deadly Disc: Arm Arcus' Lumen Circulus
 * Doppelganger Attack: Arm Arcus' Luna Gladius: has a Gory Discretion Shot also
 * Evil Laugh
 * Gainaxing: Her Cut-in
 * Leitmotif: Soul Stranger
 * No Social Skills: Very ignorant of relationships due to the Databases' mechanical views
 * Send in the Clones: Clones of Aria called Deciever are made to pilot mass produced versions of Arm Arcus and Arm Stora after Aria and Regulate defect.
 * Wave Motion Tuning Fork: Quite literal as the blades of Arm Arcus look like Tuning Forks which also double for melee use.
 * You Gotta Have Blue Hair

Applicant

 * Mask Power
 * Ramming Always Works: Arm Stora's Linear Lector involves it making 2 copies of Arm Arcus which hold down the enemy while it charges the prongs on the front and rams all 3 of them.
 * Rocket Punch: Valarm's Remote Drill Burst combined with This Is a Drill
 * The Engineer: Considered to be the Database's mechanic
 * Wave Motion Gun: Arm Stora's Latum Ladius
 * Wave Motion Gun: Arm Stora's Latum Ladius

Regulate

 * Buxom Is Better: In Fanart she is considered to be well endowed.
 * Foil: To Applicant as they always fight alongside each other.
 * Team Mom: Has a motherly personality that developed over time
 * You Gotta Have Blue Hair: Purple Hair

Critic

 * Treacherous Advisor
 * You Have Outlived Your Usefulness
 * You Have Outlived Your Usefulness