Yatterman/Characters

Gan-chan/Yatterman-1
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 * A Boy and His X: Gan and Yatterwan would be A Boy and His Robot Dog.
 * Battle Couple: With Ai-chan.
 * Cool Mask
 * Cross Dressing Voice: Save for the 2008 series and the Live Action Adaptation (for obvious reasons), Gan-chan has always been portrayed by female voice actors.
 * Happily Married: If the Tatsunoko crossover special is anything to go by, Gan and Ai are this in the future.
 * Kid Hero
 * Nice Hat
 * Official Couple: With Ai-chan.

Ai-chan/Yatterman-2
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 * A Girl and Her X: Ai and Yatterpelican is A Girl And Her Robotic Bird.
 * Battle Couple: With Gan-chan.
 * Cool Mask
 * Distaff Counterpart: As Yatterman-2, Ai dresses quite similarly to Gan - however, her outfit is pink, and she fights with an electric rod as opposed to Gan's kendama.
 * Happily Married: If the Tatsunoko crossover special is anything to go by, Gan and Ai are this in the future.
 * Kid Hero
 * Nice Hat
 * Official Couple: With Gan-chan.
 * Wrench Wench

Omotchama
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 * Robot Buddy
 * Verbal Tic: Likes to add "da-koron" to the ends of its sentences.

Yatter-wan
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 * Deus Ex Machina: All the time, basically. Yatterwan can produce the "Surprise Robots of the Week" when fed special robot dog food, which just so happen to always being the key to defeating the Skull Trio's mecha.
 * Humongous Mecha
 * Koichi Yamadera: His seiyuu in the 2008 anime.
 * Robot Dog: He's the page image, even.

The Doronbo gang/Skull trio

 * Expy: They are expies of their respective villain counterparts in the other Time Bokan shows.
 * Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain
 * The Little Shop That Wasn't There Yesterday: Their scams seem to frequently appear to be this.
 * Naked People Are Funny: Especially when they explode.
 * Spell My Name With an S: Depending on the source, Doronbo or Drombo. (Or Dorombo)
 * Terrible Trio: The trope image. In fact, the template provided by Doronjo, Boyacky and Tonzler (as well as their expies in the Time Bokan series) are the Trope Codifiers for this trope, at least in Japanese media. The trope was in fact originated by them as far as anime is concerned. They are also much more popular than the heroes within the show's fanbase. It helps that they're not really evil, just greedy (and even if they were evil, they're so inept that they could never successfully hurt anyone anyway.)
 * Villain Song: Their theme.

Doronjo
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 * Balloon Belly: Doronjo in episode 2.
 * Clothing Damage: Doronjo generally suffers this Once an Episode when the Skull Trio's plans backfire.
 * Cool Mask
 * The Dragon: To Dokurobei.


 * Hot Mom: According to the supplemental material, Doronjo is married and is the mother to 5 children.
 * Ms. Fanservice
 * Spell My Name With an S: Depending on the source, Doronjo (at least, according to Tatsunokovs Capcom) or Dronio. Oh, and she isn't Doronbo/Dorombo, that's the organization.
 * Stripperiffic: Ridiculously so.

Tonzura
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 * Dumb Muscle: Tonzura doesn't ever actually do anything useful besides getting in a fight with the Yattermen.
 * Fat and Skinny: He's the "fat" to Boyakky's "skinny".
 * Gonk
 * Perma Stubble
 * Spell My Name With an S: Depending on the source, Tonzler Tonzra or Tonzura.
 * Verbal Tic: Adds "-mannen" to the ends of his sentences.

Boyakky
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 * Badass Moustache
 * Dastardly Whiplash
 * Fat and Skinny: He's the "skinny" to Tonzura's "fat".
 * Gonk
 * Horny Scientist
 * Spell My Name With an S: Depending on the source, Boyacky, Boyakki or Boyacchi. According to Tatsunokovs Capcom, Boyacky.

Dokurobei
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 * Big Bad
 * Punny Name: His name comes from the Japanese word for "skull" (dokuro).
 * The Reveal: in the last episode of the 70s series,
 * Self Destruct Mechanism: Dokurobei's messages to his cronies and the auto-destruct mechanism installed by Boyakki on every mecha he develops, for some reason.
 * Verbal Tic: He tends to end his sentences with "Bei".
 * Verbal Tic: He tends to end his sentences with "Bei".

Odate Buta
- ""Even a piggy can climb a tree when praised.""
 * Catch Phrase: "Even pigs can climb trees when praised."
 * Mascot: Odate Buta (literally means flattery/comment pig), the mechanical pig that appears out of nowhere climbing on a metal palm inside the bad guys' mechas, has become a recognizable symbol of the series. As his name implies, he usually appears in the cockpit of the mecha the Doronbo gang pilots. A coconut tree would appear on the front of the cockpit, to which Odate Buta would climb up and make a snarky comment.


 * The first poster for the live action movie is just a picture of Odate Buta looking out at the viewer. He's so famous in Japan that it's really all you need to get the point across.
 * Series Mascot