Mighty Morphin Mecha Rangers/Characters

Here we have the various colorful characters who poke up their heads while trying to keep them at the same time...

The Blackmailed Mecha Rangers
These are the heroes of our story, brave men ranging from 13 to their 30s who are perfectly happy to give their lives for the city owned by a man who blackmailed them.

Tropes common for the team:

 * Calling Your Attacks
 * Combining Mecha
 * Determinators
 * Fire-Forged Friends
 * Rule of Cool

Simon
The youngest member, the most Hot-Blooded, and he's also piloting the smallest mecha.

Tropes:

 * Adorkable
 * Badass Adorable
 * Hot-Blooded
 * The Hero
 * This Is a Drill: Even with Lagann
 * Tunnel King

Shinji Ikari
Second youngest member and the most reluctant; as well as the most laughably pathetic.

Tropes:

 * Barrier Warrior: With Eva
 * Butt Monkey
 * Combat Pragmatist: Gores Cloverfield in the crotch with Eva Unit-01's horn
 * Cowardly Lion
 * Determinator: See Heroic Resolve below.
 * Dissonant Serenity: As he kills Deathwing.
 * Heroic Resolve: Shinji doesn't want to fight at all and is frequently terrified of the Eldritch Horros that show up and nearly hand him his ass. But he still keeps going nonetheless.
 * Sanity Slippage: Appears to have a bit of this in the more recent chapters, complete with a heavy dose of Mind Screw.
 * The So-Called Coward

Roger Smith
A Negotiator who also happens to pilot a Black Mecha...what? What's so unusual about that?

Tropes:

 * Badass in A Nice Suit
 * Cultured Badass
 * The Stoic
 * Papa Wolf
 * Team Dad

King Van Slanzar de Fanel
The King of a minor kingdom on a planet that can see Earth but Earth can't see his world...weird isn't it?

Tropes:

 * Authority Equals Asskicking
 * Modest Royalty
 * Royals Who Actually Do Something

Bit Cloud
Ace pilot or lucky-as-hell junk-lover? Your guess is as good as mine.

Tropes:

 * Ace Pilot
 * Obfuscating Stupidity
 * Obfuscating Stupidity
 * Obfuscating Stupidity

The people dragged along with the blackmailed rangers
They're not complaining for some reason, but these are the solid walls of support for the Rangers. Family, Friends, Not-Lovers and so on. So here they are in order of introduction.

Smith Family
Roger Smith's butler, his wife Dorothy and their daughter Annie. Wait...Something seems very strange about half of that sentence...

Tropes:

 * Children Are Innocent: Annie Smith.
 * Genre Savvy: So far, we haven't had any drama relating to how often Roger is late to dinner.
 * Sarcastic Devotee: Norman and Dorothy
 * Ridiculously Human Robot
 * Robotic Spouse

The Dai-Gurren Brigade
Simon's gang led by him and Kamina.

Tropes:

 * Action Girl: Yoko on three occasions.
 * Badass Crew
 * Butt Monkey: Rossiu gets punched or told to shut up in every scene that he appears.
 * Demoted to Extra: The most we've ever seen from them are Kamina, Yoko and Nia.
 * Improbable Aiming Skills: That would be Yoko.
 * Mood Whiplash: Literally.
 * Plucky Girl: Nia.
 * Rule of Cool

The Blitz Team
Bit's fellow zoid pilots though only Leena is shown to be living with him...

Tropes:

 * Adult Child: Dr. Tauros
 * Cloudcuckoolander: This seems to Dr. Tauros again even though Leena does have slight hints of it too...
 * Mad Scientist
 * More Dakka: Leena's preferred mode of attack.
 * No Kill Like Overkill
 * Relationship Upgrade: we're still waiting to hear that story.
 * Shipper On Deck: Dr. Tauros
 * Tsundere: Leena again...

Tropes:

 * BFS: Balgus
 * Ordinary High School Student: Hitomi
 * Parental Substitute: Balgus again.
 * Training From Hell: Balgus very nearly kills Van's guards to prepare them for guarding Van and does this on a daily basis!

Seto Kaiba
The only one fortunate enough to live in Angel Groove because...he owns the place!

Tropes:

 * Aloof Big Brother
 * Anti-Hero
 * Bad Boss
 * Jerkass
 * Manipulative Bastard: How he assembled the team.
 * Pride
 * Screw the Rules, I Have Money!
 * Smug Snake
 * Ungrateful Bastard
 * Smug Snake
 * Ungrateful Bastard

Mokuba Kaiba
The Co-President of Kaiba Corp and his older brother's right-hand man. He's also the one that most people prefer to work under...marginally.

Tropes:

 * Insufferable Genius
 * Reasonable Authority Figure: Compared to his brother.
 * Smug Snake: Not quite on the level of his brother, but it's present.

A Mechanical Head that floats in an oversized fish jar.

Tropes:

 * Badass Baritone: It's a tone that Kaiba cannot refuse.
 * Big Good
 * Death Is Cheap:
 * Gentle Giant: He takes his circumstances oddly well.
 * My Greatest Failure:

Hikari Horaki
Transferred from Tokyo-3 to act as Class Representative for the academy in Angel Groove, though she could have picked a better time...

Tropes:

 * Class Representative
 * The Chick
 * I Know Karate: As shown in her first scene.
 * Only Sane Girl
 * Only Sane Girl

Tropes:

 * Adult Child
 * Crazy Awesome: Duh!
 * Genius Ditz
 * Genius Ditz

Angel Groove Defense Force
Before the Rangers are deployed, this group of volunteers get sent out to the front to get horribly murdered by whatever it is that's attacking the city that week. A profile with more detailed info can be found here: http://thaeonblade.deviantart.com/gallery/#/d4iyysg

Tropes:

 * Band of Brothers
 * Combat Pragmatists: While they are brave, they won't shy away from withdrawing from engagement when they're clearly outmatched.
 * Loads and Loads of Characters
 * Redshirt Army: With growing shades of a Badass Army as the story continues.

Some Random Unimportant People
People who happen to be the exact opposite of and in no way will oppose the Rangers.

Tropes:

 * Adaptational Badass
 * Hot-Blooded
 * Healing Factor
 * The Rival: To Kamina and Simon.
 * The Rival: To Kamina and Simon.

Tropes:

 * Axe Crazy
 * Evil Albino
 * For the Evulz
 * Karma Houdini
 * Kick the Dog: No, he doesn't kick dogs...he throws them into trash cans before setting them on fire and having a barbeque over the burning can.
 * Magic Knight
 * Pyromaniac

Tropes:

 * Action Girl
 * Authority Equals Asskicking
 * Barrier Warrior
 * Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Sweetly eggs on a little boy before...
 * Curb-Stomp War
 * The Dragon:
 * Kick the Dog
 * Took a Level In Jerkass:


 * Batter Up
 * BFG
 * Crazy Awesome
 * Fantastically Indifferent
 * Only Sane Man
 * Seen It All
 * Seen It All
 * Seen It All


 * Badass Bookworm
 * Cultured Badass
 * Friend to All Children
 * Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil: The reason for his first appearence
 * Warrior Poet

Tropes:

 * A Million Is a Statistic: The presented reason for why he allowed Shinji to be bought by Kaiba.
 * Abusive Father: Surprised?
 * Chessmaster:
 * Dragon With an Agenda: We just don't know what that agenda is.
 * Manipulative Bastard


 * Abusive Father:
 * Badass
 * Big Bad: At least to Simon and his group.
 * : If the canon is anything to go by, he could qualify for this trope.
 * : If the canon is anything to go by, he could qualify for this trope.

Tropes:

 * Ax Crazy:
 * Butt Monkey:
 * Curb Stomp Battle:
 * Well Intentioned Extremists:

Misc
Random people who we just don't know too much about right now and we're kind of wondering what they're doing.

Tropes:

 * Corrupt Corporate Executive
 * Man in White

Tropes:

 * Almighty Janitor
 * Beam Spam
 * Code Name: Originally went by Odin Lowe
 * Properly Paranoid
 * The Stoic
 * Transforming Mecha
 * The Stoic
 * Transforming Mecha

Tropes:

 * Crazy Prepared
 * The Chessmaster
 * Not Afraid to Die
 * Pay Evil Unto Evil