Xenosaga/Characters

= Voiced by Ai Maeda in Japanese and Lia Sargent (Episode I & III), Olivia Hack (Episode II), and Stephanie Wittels (anime) in English.
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Shion is the iron-willed but fairly ditzy head of Vector Industries First R&D Division's KOS-MOS project. She is the character around whom most of the events of the games revolve. She is (arguably) the central protagonist of the series.


 * Action Girl: Shion is described as a very competent martial artist, though this really only shines in episode three. Put her in a AWGS, however, and she kicks all kind of ass regardless.
 * Badass Normal: She's the only vanilla human in the first game's party. She quickly crosses over into Badass Abnormal though.
 * Bunny Ears Lawyer: Shion seems to be a pretty competent scientist when not needlessly risking her own life or forgetting important documents.
 * Deus Angst Machina: So very, very much. See the trope page for the full story.
 * Custom Uniform: Shion's Vector uniform has blue highlights, unlike the green or red uniforms everyone else wears. Justified in that Kevin also wore a blue uniform, suggesting that blue denotes the project chief while everyone else in red and green are just regular members of the dev team.
 * Fear of Thunder: Understandable, since
 * Heroic BSOD:
 * Hot Scientist: Ironically, her attractiveness increases the further she drifts from her job, going from an awkward and nerdy woman who's shackled to her job in Episode I to a veritable (unemployed) fashion model in Episode III. Unfortunately, her mental faculties seem to regress somewhat to make up for it...
 * Improbable Age: She's the head of an extremely prestigious and cutting-edge research group belonging to the largest company in the galaxy while in her early twenties. And the average lifespan of humans in this universe is in hundreds of years.
 * Inner Monologue: Shion does this every once in a while.
 * Its All About Me: Episode III
 * Magitek: Shion's special attacks apparently use an "Ether Circuit."
 * Meganekko: For the first game only. Sadly, she explains that she has perfect eyesight, and only uses the glasses to collect and analyze visual data in Episode III.
 * Mini Dress of Power: Her Vector uniform in Episode I. It returns as an alternate outfit in III.
 * Oblivious to Love: Allen tries to ask Shion out and/or just get across that he loves her several times in the series and she just doesn't get it.  To think what would have happened if that never occured.
 * Pretty in Mink: Her jacket in III has a fur collar.
 * Red Oni Blue Oni: Red to Jin's and KOS-MOS' blue.
 * Stripperific: Her outfit in Episode III (above), although her outfits in I and II weren't exactly conservative either.
 * Swiss Army Weapon: Shion's M.W.S. It's nerfed into a standoff weapon in Episode II, but is rebuffed in Episode III'
 * Trademark Favorite Food: Curry. It's her specialty dish to make.
 * Tsundere: Particularly to her brother Jin, but also to just about everyone in her life other than KOS-MOS.
 * TV Genius: The alleged robotics genius, is thicker than a brick on an interpersonal level and says and does a lot of really dumb things throughout all three games. Most obvious in the third game.
 * Zettai Ryouiki: Episode III only.
 * Tsundere: Particularly to her brother Jin, but also to just about everyone in her life other than KOS-MOS.
 * TV Genius: The alleged robotics genius, is thicker than a brick on an interpersonal level and says and does a lot of really dumb things throughout all three games. Most obvious in the third game.
 * Zettai Ryouiki: Episode III only.

= Voiced by Mariko Suzuki in Japanese and Bridget Hoffman (Episode I & III), Colleen O Shaughnessey (Episode II), and Luci Christian (anime) in English.
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KOS-MOS is an android built by Shion and Kevin Winicott in order to battle and destroy the Gnosis threat. She can use UMN transport to manifest absurdly powerful weapons. She is capable of generating the Hilbert effect (which draws Gnosis into Real space so they can be fought) at a range wider than even 100-series Realians can do with an amplifier. Her inner workings are described as a black box, and she sometimes acts in ways that go outside her programming.


 * Action Girl
 * Arm Cannon: Her R-Cannon special attack.
 * Artificial Human
 * Boobs of Steel: She's the strongest female party member by far, and often the strongest party member, period. She's also the most built.
 * BFG: Many of her special attacks, including shoulder mounted rail guns.
 * Black Box: Her internal functions are even described by the characters as a black box.
 * Chest Blaster: Her X-BUSTER located at the belly-region and (Form 4) D-TENERITAS is fired from just above her chest.
 * Emotionless Girl
 * Fun With Acronyms: Her name is a recursive acronym meaning Kosmos Obey Strategic Multiple Operation Systems.
 * Gatling Good / Guns Akimbo: Subverted, it is one of her weakest special weapons. However, they're her most iconic weapons.
 * Hyperspace Arsenal: Justified since she uses UMN transport to access her arsenal, most of which is ridiculously huge.
 * Mecha Expansion Pack: The Third Armament equipment.
 * Red Oni Blue Oni: Blue to Shion's red.
 * Robot Girl: One of the most iconic robot girls in video games.
 * Sinister Scythe: Her ultimate weapon in Episode I.
 * Small Girl Big Gun
 * : To T-Elos, to a degree..
 * Stripperific A constant across all her various bodies and outfits... and apparently in direct proportion to Shion's role in designing them.
 * Swiss Army Weapon: KOS-MOS herself. Specifically her arms.
 * White Haired Pretty Girl: Her very light blue hair in Episode I and III definitely evokes the spirit of this trope. Not so much when it is darker blue in Episode II.
 * You Gotta Have Blue Hair
 * Zettai Ryouiki: All of her costumes except her optional swimsuit.
 * Swiss Army Weapon: KOS-MOS herself. Specifically her arms.
 * White Haired Pretty Girl: Her very light blue hair in Episode I and III definitely evokes the spirit of this trope. Not so much when it is darker blue in Episode II.
 * You Gotta Have Blue Hair
 * Zettai Ryouiki: All of her costumes except her optional swimsuit.

= Voiced by Soichiro Hoshi in Japanese and Derek Stephen Prince (Episode I), Joshua Seth (Episode II & III), and Clint Bickham (anime) in English.
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Chaos is a very mysterious young man working aboard the tramp freighter Elsa. He seems to have connections to Jr. and Jin that date back decades. He also has some sort of connection to KOS-MOS as well as the Testaments and Wilhelm. He can destroy Gnosis with a touch.


 * Bare Fisted Monk: More apparent in the third game. In the first two, his fighting style is more like Full Contact Magic.
 * Beware the Nice Ones: The nice guy of the series. Also the one with the power to destroy Gnosis with a touch.
 * Bishonen
 * Blessed With Suck:  While this sounds all well and good, the alternative is that his power actually
 * Enigmatic Minion: A protagonistic example. Just look at all the spoilers here...
 * Feather Motif: In this case, the feathers hint at a connection to the divine/angels.
 * The Messiah: Fits personality-wise.
 * Nice Guy
 * Red Oni Blue Oni: Blue to Jr.'s red.
 * The Stoic: He doesn't emote much.
 * Too Many Belts: His costume in Epsiodes II and III.
 * White Haired Pretty Boy
 * Darkskinned Blonde: Well, white hair, but the principle is the same.
 * Nice Guy
 * Red Oni Blue Oni: Blue to Jr.'s red.
 * The Stoic: He doesn't emote much.
 * Too Many Belts: His costume in Epsiodes II and III.
 * White Haired Pretty Boy
 * Darkskinned Blonde: Well, white hair, but the principle is the same.
 * Darkskinned Blonde: Well, white hair, but the principle is the same.

= Voiced by Masashi Ebara in Japanese and Richard Epcar (games) and Jason Douglas (anime) in English.
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Ziggurat 8, dubbed "Ziggy" by MOMO, was a police man named Jan Sauer in life. He committed suicide after losing his wife and child and was resurrected as a cyborg. He was hired to rescue MOMO from the U-TIC organization. He seeks to have all the organic parts of his brain replaced with machines so he can finally die. Eventually becomes a father figure to MOMO.


 * BFG: All of his special weapons.
 * Cyborg: He is one, but is considered obsolete by the time the series starts. Doesn't stop him from kicking ass all over the place.
 * Expy: Ziggy has a great deal in common with Robo Cop, from the Robo Cam to denying his previous identity, and also looks more than a bit like Rutger Hauer as Roy Batty.
 * Hammerspace: Presumably he uses UMN transport for his BFGs, just like KOS-MOS.
 * Not So Stoic: After he sees in Episode II, we get to see him get pissed. Which leads to...
 * Hypocritical Humor: Invoked by Jr. Ziggy spends a lot of time lecturing Jr to never let his emotions get the better of him during a high stress situation.
 * No Celebrities Were Harmed: His looks and attitude were based on David Bowie and his persona Ziggy Stardust.
 * Really Seven Hundred Years Old: He is frozen at the age of his death, which is his early thirties. However, he is about 130 years old.
 * Swiss Army Weapon: Ziggy himself.
 * Take a Third Option: At the end of Pied Piper, Voyager offers Jan the choice of becoming a Testament like him, or being absorbed into his consciousness like all his other victims. Jan
 * To Become Human: Inverted. Ziggy is a human who wants to become a machine.
 * Eventually subverted. He stops his mechanizing after some Character Development from meeting MOMO and
 * We Can Rebuild Him: Not that he wanted to be rebuilt...

= Voiced by Rumi Shishido in Japanese and Sherry Lynn (Episode I), Christina Puccelli (Episode II & III), and Brittney Karbowski (anime) in English.
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MOMO is the prototype 100-series Realian (a type of organic android) who is widely sought after for the data her "father," Joachim Mizrahi, left inside her. She regards council member Juli Mizrahi as her mother and is visibly distressed when her mother doesn't want anything to do with her. She has the appearance of a 12-year-old girl.


 * Age Inappropriate Dress: Her Episode I outfit is prone to giving the viewer many a Panty Shot and she's twelve. She may be a Realian, but still.
 * Apologetic Attacker: Episode I only. "I'm sorry, are you okay?" is one of her standard battle ending phrases.
 * The Archer: In Episode II and III
 * Artificial Human
 * Cherry Blossom Girl: She's based on Sakura Mizrahi, who is strongly associated with Death (since she was a terminally Ill Girl and Posthumous Character) and who was Jr.'s first love interest. MOMO's pink hair and status as a White Magician Girl (at least in the first two games) seems to be a reference to this trope.
 * Daddys Girl: MOMO is really fond of her father, from what she can remember of him. She doesn't believe the rumors of his insanity when they pop up, even when they're seen as the common opinion. It is believed (even by her sisters) that she was Joachim's favorite.
 * Drives Like Crazy: During Episode II's Chase Scene. Justified in that she was driving away from people who were trying to capture her.
 * Fun With Acronyms: Her name means 'Multiple Observative Mimetic Organicus'.
 * Magical Girl: In Episode I, MOMO has in-battle Transformation Sequences that give her special abilities. Seriously. Her name is also a Shout Out to a classic magical girl, Minky Momo.
 * Magic Knight: Due to gameplay mechanics in Episode III, she can be the best at dealing the most single target physical damage of all playable characters, even if her actual strength is actually dishing magical attacks and heals. Of course, she's not able to take damage as well as other characters, and takes certain gearing to bring her to average defensive wise.
 * Cute Bruiser
 * Glass Cannon
 * The Medic
 * Mind Rape: By Albedo. Went to absurd lengths to try to remove the "mind" part.
 * Muscles Are Meaningless: One of her techs in Xenosaga III is her own version of Ziggy's basic attack, Sword Fish, identical in animation and name. Since it does more damage and includes a heavy breaking effect, this pretty much reveals that MOMO punches harder than Ziggy. Mull that one over. Possibly justified by her being a super-advanced Realian.
 * Panty Shot: Disturbingly often in episode one.
 * Replacement Goldfish: To Ziggy for his dead child, presumably to Joachim for his daughter Sakura, and possibly to.
 * Robot Kid: Though not technically a robot.
 * The Straight and Arrow Path: Since her bow channels Ether energy, and she is an ether attacker in almost all of her skill paths, the bow actually is a better choice for a weapon than a more "modern" weapon, at least in game logic.
 * To Become Human: Dr. Mizrahi told her that if she did many good deeds, she'd become a real person.
 * Indeed, she gets closer than most after the end of Episode III - the Encyclopedia mentions that she.
 * White Magician Girl: Fits to a T in the first game, being primarily a support character, very feminine, a Mysterious Waif, and wielding a rod. Her skillset is player defined in the second, and in the third, you can choose to make her a Black Mage or a break attacker.
 * You Gotta Have Pink Hair
 * Zettai Ryouiki: Episode I and II. We can only conclude that the character designer likes this trope.
 * Zettai Ryouiki: Episode I and II. We can only conclude that the character designer likes this trope.

= Voiced by Brianne Siddall (games) and Greg Ayres (anime) in English.
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A gung-ho young man who commands the starship Durandal. He is second in command of the powerful Kukai Foundation, although his exact relationship to the owner, Gaignun, is the matter of some speculation. His weapon of choice is antique dual pistols.


 * Adorably Precocious Child: He looks like he's in his preteens, but acts much more mature. His design is obviously intended to play up the cute aspect of this. However, it's later revealed that he's actually immature for his chronological age, which somewhere around 30.
 * Artificial Human: Jr. is a URTV, a human specifically designed and created to fight U-DO.
 * Badass Longcoat: In Episode I and Episode II. In Episode III he gets a Badass Shortcoat.
 * Bond One Liner: Usually as part of his victory pose after battle:
 * Episode I: "Sayonara, baby!"
 * Episode II: "I'll be sure to send you some flowers."
 * Episode III: "Try again in ten years!"
 * Bottomless Magazines: In multiple scenes, Jr. is seen firing many more shots then what would be possible from a pistol.
 * Compensating for Something: Shelley implies this is why he uses guns.
 * Cultured Warrior: In contrast to Albedo who is just Wicked Cultured.
 * Expy: He has the same weapons and similar attacks to Billy Lee Black from Xenogears, which may also be where his religiously-themed clothing and Angelic Requiem attacks come from. His personality and role, however, is closer to Bart.
 * Guns Akimbo
 * The Gunslinger: Jr. is the perfect example of when this trope is used outside of Westerns and works.
 * Hot Blooded
 * Improbable Aiming Skills
 * Real Men Wear Pink: He has a pink shirt (or sweater) under his Badass Longcoat in Episode II
 * Really Seven Hundred Years Old / Never Grew Up: Jr's powers have frozen his physical age in his late preteens or early teens. He's really in his twenties and the oldest of the variants (including Gaignun). It's also implied he can live as long as he wants, having The Ageless type Immortality.
 * Redheaded Hero
 * Red Oni Blue Oni: Red to chaos' and Gaignun's blue.
 * Twin Telepathy: Between all the remaining URTVs, but especially strong with his formerly conjoined twin, Albedo.
 * Warrior Poet: Jr. likes to quote from books, which are considered antiques by Xenosaga's time. One 4Koma pokes fun at this by having Allen being bewildered at how to even start reading one.
 * Weapon of Choice: Jr. wields dual pistols because he's so fond of Gunslinger heroics.
 * You Are Number Six: He is URTV #666, also codenamed Rubedo.
 * Young Gun: In addition to being The Gunslinger, Jr. completely fits this role as well.  The only difference is that he's not attached to any sort of older mentor.
 * You Are Number Six: He is URTV #666, also codenamed Rubedo.
 * Young Gun: In addition to being The Gunslinger, Jr. completely fits this role as well.  The only difference is that he's not attached to any sort of older mentor.

= Voiced by Crispin Freeman (Episode I), Michael Gough (Episode II & III), and Chris Ayres (anime) in English.
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Shion's brother, a slacker who abandoned medical practice shortly after completing his training and bounces from obsession to obsession. He currently runs a book shop full of actual paper books, which baffles and infuriates Shion. He has a history with chaos, and was deeply involved with the incident on Old Miltia that led to it being sealed away.


 * Absurdly Sharp Blade: Jin's sword can cut through just about anything.
 * Aloof Big Brother: To Shion. He admits he does this out of fear of her completely rejecting him.
 * Apologetic Attacker: "Forgive me."
 * Badass Bookworm: Jin is this to the point that he owns his own bookstore. Jr. is a subversion of this. He loves reading to the point where he still caries around paper books in an age where they're considered antique (and acting like a kid in a candy store with Jin's bookstore), but is also very emotional and Trigger Happy.
 * Badass Normal: Jin is perhaps the only "normal" human in the group, and only KOS-MOS can rival him at being the biggest badass.
 * BFS: Subverted by his normal sized katana in melee combat, but played dead straight while in his ES (giant mecha).
 * Charles Atlas Superpower: Jin can slice through giant mecha with a sword, while ostensibly being a normal human.
 * Counter Attack: One of Jin's skill trees.
 * Expy: Of Citan Uzuki from Xenogears.
 * Katanas Are Just Better
 * Renaissance Man: He usually changes careers once every six months out of sheer boredom with civilian life.
 * Trademark Favorite Food: Curry.
 * Upgrade Artifact: He gets one in Episode III,.
 * Katanas Are Just Better
 * Renaissance Man: He usually changes careers once every six months out of sheer boredom with civilian life.
 * Trademark Favorite Food: Curry.
 * Upgrade Artifact: He gets one in Episode III,.

Nephilim
A mysterious girl who appears before Shion many times, starting when she first encounters the Zohar. She seems to have a connection to chaos.

"Shion: What do you want? Are you here to say a bunch of cryptic things again and confuse me? You're always like that. You just appear in front of me, say whatever you feel like, then just watch without actually doing anything!"
 * Cryptic Conversation: She gets called out on it at one point.


 * Expy: She looks remarkably like Elly from Xenogears.
 * Meaningful Name: Nephilim means "watchers" or "those who have come down."
 * Oracular Urchin
 * Theme Naming:
 * What Do You Mean Its Not Symbolic: Her necklace is in the shape of a cross, her name is a direct reference to the giants from the Bible who created the Great Flood...let's not get started on the symbolism behind the white and her possible relation to Elly.
 * Woman in White
 * What Do You Mean Its Not Symbolic: Her necklace is in the shape of a cross, her name is a direct reference to the giants from the Bible who created the Great Flood...let's not get started on the symbolism behind the white and her possible relation to Elly.
 * Woman in White

= Voiced by Dave Wittenberg (games) and Blake Shepard (anime) in English.
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Shion's subordinate, who has a hopeless crush on her. He has a tendency to whine and get weepy and emotional when faced with adversity.


 * Butt Monkey
 * Cannot Spit It Out: He has a crush on Shion, but can't work up the nerve to tell her. Justified: Shion hasn't had the nicest of lives, especially with people that are close to her. He's afraid that in getting close to her, he'll end up hurting her more by reopening old wounds or otherwise. When he does work up the courage to say it, however...
 * Determinator: During his Crowning Moment of Awesome.
 * Guest Star Party Member: Uses a cross-bow weapon in battle, when he briefly joins the party in Episode III.
 * Hannibal Lecture:.
 * It actually reads more like a Reason You Suck Speech with hints of World of Cardboard Speech and a dash of Shut UP Hannibal.
 * Nice Guy
 * Dogged Nice Guy
 * Non Action Guy: Then subverted when he . And kills a Gnosis. With a rifle's butt!
 * You also get to have him in battles in the third game where he wields a crossbow.
 * Only Sane Man: The only vanilla human who tags along with the party.
 * Secretly Wealthy: Evidently, Allen comes from a wealthy family but he never flaunts it and prefers not to rely on their help.
 * The So Called Coward
 * Took a Level In Badass: In the end, he bludgeons a Gnosis to death with a rifle butt, after delivering a Shut UP Hannibal to The Dragon.
 * Took a Level In Badass: In the end, he bludgeons a Gnosis to death with a rifle butt, after delivering a Shut UP Hannibal to The Dragon.

= Voiced by Emi Uwagawa in Japanese and Michelle Ruff (Episode I) and Heather Hogan (Episode II & III) in English.
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Miyuki is a systems programmer for Vector and an amateur inventor. She is very fond of Shion and goes out of her way to help her out with her inventions when she can.


 * Butt Monkey: Played for laughs.
 * Flanderization: She suffers from this horribly in the third game, turning her into a Butt Monkey ditz with everyone showing little faith in her doing ANYTHING right and treating her pretty horrible as a result, especially by Shion.
 * Gadgeteer Genius: Of a slightly toned down variety. She's invents all of Shion's MWSs, including her Infinity Plus One Sword version, plus KOS-MOS's Infinity Plus One Scythe in Episode I. Her hobby is sending off patent applications to the Federation Patent Office.
 * Genius Ditz
 * Guest Star Party Member
 * Otaku: For weaponry.
 * Swiss Army Weapon: She designed the MWS, Shion's weapon in the game. When she joins you she fights with the older version Shion used in Episode I.

= Voiced by Hiroshi Kamiya in Japanese and Beng Spies (Episode II) and Steven Blum (Episode III) in English.
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A specialized Realian built with enhanced memory, reflexes, and suppressed emotion. He pilots the ES Asher.


 * Guest Star Party Member
 * Knife Nut
 * Neuro Vault
 * : Although he is not aware of it.
 * The Stoic
 * : Although he is not aware of it.
 * The Stoic
 * The Stoic

Kevin Winnicott / /
The former head of the Third Division, KOS-MOS's original designer, and Shion's fiance. Deceased at the time the game opens.


 * The Dog Bites Back:
 * Jerkass
 * Knight Templar:
 * Memento MacGuffin / Tragic Keepsake: The pendent his mother gave him right before she gnostified, which he in turn passes on to Shion.
 * Posthumous Character:
 * Punny Name:
 * Shirtless Scene
 * Used to Be A Sweet Kid: Subverted to hell and back:
 * Shirtless Scene
 * Used to Be A Sweet Kid: Subverted to hell and back:
 * Used to Be A Sweet Kid: Subverted to hell and back:
 * Used to Be A Sweet Kid: Subverted to hell and back:

= Voiced by Tomokazu Seki in Japanese and Lex Lang in English.
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Rank Lieutenant. He is a A.G.W.S. pilot stationed on the Woglinde and a veteran of the Miltian Conflict. A Jerkass who actively insults Shion's optimism and belief that Realians count as people.


 * Boss Banter
 * Capulet Counterpart: With
 * Fantastic Racism / Just a Machine: How he views Realians.
 * Guest Star Party Member
 * Jerkass: Mainly towards Shion and Realians.
 * Jerkass Woobie:
 * Not So Different: Between him and Shion. One way he tries to break her optimism.
 * Likable Villain: It takes a long while for you to see what his deal is, but once you do, it's time to cry...
 * What Do You Mean Its Not Symbolic: Virgil was the name of Dante's guide from The Divine Comedy and the writer of The Aeneid.
 * Not So Different: Between him and Shion. One way he tries to break her optimism.
 * Likable Villain: It takes a long while for you to see what his deal is, but once you do, it's time to cry...
 * What Do You Mean Its Not Symbolic: Virgil was the name of Dante's guide from The Divine Comedy and the writer of The Aeneid.
 * Likable Villain: It takes a long while for you to see what his deal is, but once you do, it's time to cry...
 * What Do You Mean Its Not Symbolic: Virgil was the name of Dante's guide from The Divine Comedy and the writer of The Aeneid.
 * What Do You Mean Its Not Symbolic: Virgil was the name of Dante's guide from The Divine Comedy and the writer of The Aeneid.
 * What Do You Mean Its Not Symbolic: Virgil was the name of Dante's guide from The Divine Comedy and the writer of The Aeneid.
 * What Do You Mean Its Not Symbolic: Virgil was the name of Dante's guide from The Divine Comedy and the writer of The Aeneid.
 * What Do You Mean Its Not Symbolic: Virgil was the name of Dante's guide from The Divine Comedy and the writer of The Aeneid.

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Voiced by Koichi Yamadera (adult) and Mikako Takahashi (child) in Japanese and Crispin Freeman (adult, games), Jennifer Hale (child, Episode II), Wendee Lee (child, Episode III), and John Gremillion (anime) in English. =======

The head of the Kukai foundation and


 * Artificial Human: He is a URTV.
 * Bishonen
 * You Are Number Six: He is URTV #669, also codenamed Nigredo.
 * You Are Number Six: He is URTV #669, also codenamed Nigredo.
 * You Are Number Six: He is URTV #669, also codenamed Nigredo.

= Voiced by Takehito Koyasu in Japanese and Henry Dittman (games) and Chris Patton (anime) in English.
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The pilot aboard the Elsa who has "immaculate piloting skills." At least, according to him.


 * Casanova Wannabe
 * Improbable Piloting Skills

= Voiced by Taiki Matsuno in Japanese and Michael Lindsay (Episode I), Jason Spisak (Episode II & III), and Josh Grelle (anime) in English.
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Tony's childhood friend and the navigator of the Elsa. His hacking skills are reportedly top-notch, and Vector has tried repeatedly to hire him.


 * Expy: Of Hammer from Xenogears, minus the anthromorphic rat aspects.
 * Playful Hacker: So good that Vector scouted him but he always declined.

Mary and Shelley
A pair of sisters rescued from cruel experimentation by a pharmaceutical company by the Kukai foundation. They serve as Gaignun and Jr.'s secretaries and seconds-in-command.


 * Break the Cutie: Their back story before Gaignun rescued them.
 * Bridge Bunnies
 * Meaningful Name: They are named after Mary Shelley, the author of Frankenstein. Which makes sense, considering the cybernetic and genetic modifications done to them.
 * Red Oni Blue Oni: Mary and Shelley, respectively.
 * You Gotta Have Purple Hair: Shelley.

= Voiced by Hikaru Midorikawa in Japanese, and Doug Erholtz in English.
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Pronounced "oo-doo". It's an acronym for Unus-Mundus Drive Operation. Despite the deception, it is not a computer program.

An indescribably powerful and alien entity, U-DO is an Energy Being that lives in UMN space, discovered by Dimitri Yuriev. Able to drive people insane through mental contact alone, it is a malevolent creature with no regard for humans...


 * Brown Note / Mind Rape: Coming into contact with U-DO has this effect.
 * Counterpart Comparison: In-universe example..
 * Cosmic Horror:
 * Crystal Dragon Jesus
 * Eldritch Abomination:, it's still Yog-Sototh lite.
 * Fun With Acronyms
 * God in Human Form: Well.
 * God in Human Form: Well.

= Voiced by Koichi Yamadera in Japanese and Crispin Freeman in English.
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The extremely creepy and Axe Crazy recurring villain who delights in tormenting Jr. He has an obsession with MOMO that goes above and beyond seeking the data locked inside her.

"Albedo:"
 * A God Am I: In heaping plates of ham.
 * Ax Crazy: And then some. Also one of the most pure examples of "crazy" in media. Most of the time, Ax Crazy is simply extremely vicious sociopaths with little regard to human life. Albedo personifies the truly insane elements by making semi-coherent references to various works, often randomly and with the loose relevance to the current issue and has a warped pattern of speech ("I am the ultimate telomerase!" when he's referencing his immortality).
 * Big Brother Attraction: To Jr.
 * Black Cloak: Although it is technically white, the usage and effect is the same.
 * Chewing the Scenery: Albedo's made a feast of it.
 * Clingy Jealous Boy: To Jr., especially as a kid.
 * Combat Sadomasochist
 * Creepy Child: Boy, was he ever.
 * : All he thinks he wants is
 * Drunk On the Dark Side: Albedo firing  definitely qualifies. Also, this trope is a part of what he wants, overall, since   Also, commenting on his  ...
 * : All he thinks he wants is
 * Drunk On the Dark Side: Albedo firing  definitely qualifies. Also, this trope is a part of what he wants, overall, since   Also, commenting on his  ...

""This pain. It's SO GOOD! SO GOOOOD!""
 * Establishing Character Moment: While he's featured in several scene's beforehand, Albedo's infamous Mind Rape scene is this in spades.
 * Evil Albino: Boy, howdy!
 * Evil Is Hammy
 * Evil Laugh: Albedo's even dwarfs Kefka's in sheer insanity. Kefka's was jolly, jovial wickedness. Albedo's is the kind of thing you'd expect to hear in a mental institution. It's safe to say Albedo's runs laps around Kefka's and has energy (and lunacy) to spare.
 * Evil Twin / Cloning Blues: To Jr. More-so than Gaignun as Jr. and Albedo were conjoined twins.
 * Evil Tastes Good: "Feed me your hostility! Pierce me with your hatred!"
 * Foil: To both Gaignun and Jr.
 * From a Single Cell: Technically, from a single particle.
 * Go Mad From the Revelation/Freak Out: Twice; first one was when he learned that his brothers lack his infinite regeneration and could die, and the second is when he.
 * Healing Factor: Arguably his defining characteristic.
 * The Hedonist: His quest
 * I Cannot Self Terminate: No, seriously. He can (and does) blow off his own head (repeatedly) and survive without a scratch.
 * Laughing Mad: Especially as a kid.
 * Large Ham: The hammiest character in the series, bar none.
 * Lolicon: Has a disturbing fixation on MOMO and her Kirschwasser sisters.
 * Manipulative Bastard: He is able to make both MOMO and Jr. dance to his tune, usually by predicting their responses with near perfect accuracy.
 * Mind Rape: Is very fond of this when around MOMO and Jr.
 * Nietzsche Wannabe: Justified. You'd be pretty damn nihilistic too if you were so unkillable that'd you'd get to see the heat death of the universe first-hand and got a preview of it from.
 * Nightmare Fuel Stationattendant
 * Omnicidal Maniac: Albedo tries to blow up a planet. When that gets foiled, he just tries to drop the giant space station on it.
 * Psycho for Hire: Though this trope alone wouldn't encompass his craziness.
 * Psychopathic Manchild: Type C
 * Required Secondary Powers: His Healing Factor.
 * Terms of Endangerment: His frequent referral to MOMO as Ma belle péche or a variant of said phrase.
 * Twin Telepathy: Although all the URTVs can communicate telepathically, the link between Jr. and Albedo is especially strong, with Jr. even able to sense
 * Too Kinky to Torture:
 * Terms of Endangerment: His frequent referral to MOMO as Ma belle péche or a variant of said phrase.
 * Twin Telepathy: Although all the URTVs can communicate telepathically, the link between Jr. and Albedo is especially strong, with Jr. even able to sense
 * Too Kinky to Torture:


 * White Haired Pretty Boy: For a given amount of "pretty."
 * Who Wants to Live Forever:
 * Wicked Cultured: Tosses literary references left and right in some of his more prominent scenes. Played with too; the way he makes references doesn't make him seem so much as "cultured" as completely insane.
 * You Are Number Six: He is URTV #667.
 * Your Head Asplode: Repeatedly but to little effect.

= Voiced by Joji Nakata in Japanese and Michael McConnohie (games) and Andy McAvin (anime) in English.
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The Grand Inquisitor of the Ormus religion, Margulis is ultimately only answerable to the Ormus Pope. He seeks the Zohar as a source of power and a relic of his religion. He is driven by a fiery faith, which ultimately burns himself as often as it smites his enemies.

""UZUKI~""
 * Big Bad: Of Episode 1. Demoted to Dragon in Episodes 2 and 3.
 * Dragon in Chief: He's always second-in-command, whoever it maybe from one moment to the next, yet he's always the one giving the orders..
 * Even Evil Has Standards: He apparently has a distaste for torture, since he refers to Albedo as having "perverse taste in hobbies." Well, it's either torture or the...other...things that Albedo does.
 * Evil Counterpart / Foil: To Jin. Compare their styles: Jin fights without losing his cool while Margulis fights like The Berserker. Jin uses a Katana while Margulis uses a straight double-edged sword. During their dual, Margulis seems to have superior physical prowess while Jin is better at Ether-based attacks.
 * Evil Redhead: In the more realistic almost brownish-red style.
 * Gray and Gray Morality: Margulis is not strictly evil, and his greivences with the Federation are legitimate, especially the destruction of Michtam.
 * Omnicidal Maniac: He destroyed an entire planet of several billion people in order to conduct Zohar link experiments. He doesn't seem to care, either, stating that the inhabitants were of no use to anyone.
 * Knight Templar
 * Say My Name: To Jin.
 * Say My Name: To Jin.


 * Villainous BSOD: Upon learning Margulis has one hell of a Villainous BSOD.
 * Worthy Opponent
 * Worthy Opponent

= Voiced by Chikao Ōtsuka in Japanese and Michael Bell in English.
=

In public, Patriarch Sergius is the head of the galaxy's largest quasi-legal religion, the Immigrant Fleet, in private he's also the head of Ormus, the galaxy's largest religious terrorist cult. He is the immediate superior to much of the series's antagonists, namely Margulis, Pellegri, Sellers, and Heinlien.


 * Big Bad Wannabe
 * Church Militant
 * Crystal Dragon Jesus is Catholic: Ormus is basically the Catholic Church In Space He's even referred to as The Pope in the Japanese version.
 * Earthshattering Kaboom: He destroys Old Miltia by having the Ω System rip its way out of the planet's crust. Though Milita was uninhabited at the time, he is responsible for the largest amount of physical damage of all the villains.
 * Even Evil Has Standards: He shares Margulis' distaste for Albedo.
 * Everyone Calls Him Barkeep: In Episode II, anyway. Margulis mentions him by name only in passing in Episode III.
 * Evil Old Folks: He is the oldest-looking character in the series. The chronologically-oldest characters have him beat by gigayears. One of them is in your party,
 * First Church of Mecha: Ormus worships the Zohar as a holy relic and uses numerous religious-themed Humongous Mechas as part of their arsenal, including one that actually is a church. And then there's his own personal Deus Est Machina: Proto-Ω.
 * Light Is Not Good: Dresses all in white? Check. Head of a major religion? Check. Light-based attacks? Check. Army of angelic super robots? Check. Base of operations looks like a space cathedral? Check. Genocidal tendencies? Double check.
 * One Scene Wonder: Although he's the primary antagonist of Episode II, he's a blip on the radar in the series as a whole.
 * Out Gambitted: By Wilhelm, spectacularly.
 * Sinister Minister

= Voiced by Nobuyuki Hiyama in Japanese and Richard Cansino (Episode I), Jason Spisak (Episode II & III), and Vic Mignogna (anime) in English.
=

The head of Vector Industries, the largest corporation in existence. It is also revealed that he heads up  He has some sort of connection to chaos (the guy) and commands the Testaments.


 * Bishonen
 * The Chessmaster: So much so that other chessmasters could learn from him.
 * Creepy Monotone: He speaks only in a monotone. He is never shown to do anything else. Your Mileage May Vary on whether or not it's that creepy. Which can lead to...
 * Dissonant Serenity: Wilhelm, all the time. The most emotive he ever gets is a simple gasp when he realizes.
 * Emotionless Guy: Your Mileage May Vary on how good it is, (especially when he's actually around for more than one random scene or two) though.
 * Fiction 500: He may be one of the wealthiest characters in the history of fiction, owning a company whose headquarters qualifies as an artificial planet.
 * Interestingly enough, he actually manages to subvert the more prominent elements of this in a roundabout way. To note:
 * Despite his status of being the CEO of Vector, very few people even seem to be aware of him (let alone of him having any status of being rich). For all intents and purposes, his office (which is a small room) on the Dammerung seems to double as his "house."
 * He is rarely (if ever) seen buying anything for personal want (let alone things that would have insane prices).
 * He funds things in his interest under the name of "Vector" rather than personally funding. This is a fair bit believable given Vector's history, scope and size. On the other hand, whenever he needs something built, he simply uses the various divisions of Vector and manipulates events in such a way that the products built have seemingly little to no relation to him. The stuff built is all relatively possible given the science used in the verse.
 * The only times he defies physics is when he's literally defying the laws of physics, which never has anything to do with money or Rule of Funny/Cool.
 * Gambit Roulette: This may be one of the very few times this trope is justified, since he has possession of a device called the Compass of Order and Chaos, which shows him the movements of consciousness. Being probably doesn't hurt, either.
 * He also has practically absolute control over the economy due to being the CEO of Vector
 * Lean and Mean: Compared to contemporaries in the Xenosaga rogues gallery, he's a little on the thin side.
 * Really Seven Hundred Years Old:
 * The Stoic: If he has any emotions, the best we'll ever hear of it is him literally stating it.
 * The Ubermensch: Considering the Nietzsche subtitles and that Nietzsche's middle name was Wilhelm, this is not surprising.
 * Blue and Orange Morality:
 * Ironically, blue and orange are the colors of chaos' outfit in Episode I.
 * Wicked Cultured: Likes to refer to all the events happening as if it were an opera, apparently listens to Wagner a lot, is never seen in anything other than a plain business suit and plays chess. Apparently, a whole freaking lot. He also has some elaborate and poetic titles for certain people and features ("shining wills" and refers to the White Testament as the "Weaver of the Eternal Circle of Zarathustra").
 * White Haired Pretty Boy
 * Red Eyes Take Warning
 * Blue and Orange Morality:
 * Ironically, blue and orange are the colors of chaos' outfit in Episode I.
 * Wicked Cultured: Likes to refer to all the events happening as if it were an opera, apparently listens to Wagner a lot, is never seen in anything other than a plain business suit and plays chess. Apparently, a whole freaking lot. He also has some elaborate and poetic titles for certain people and features ("shining wills" and refers to the White Testament as the "Weaver of the Eternal Circle of Zarathustra").
 * White Haired Pretty Boy
 * Red Eyes Take Warning
 * Red Eyes Take Warning

= Voiced by Eriko Hara in Japanese and Kari Wahlgren (games) and Christine Auten (anime) in English.
=

Margulus' subordinate within Ormus. Unlike her superior, she seems to have flashes of conscience about the paths they walk, but not enough to make her reconsider her choices. She has a past with Jin.


 * Dark Action Girl
 * Dating Catwoman:
 * Even Evil Has Standards: She protests the fact that so many lives (1.5 billion) were lost on Ariadne.
 * Face Heel Turn
 * The Fundamentalist
 * Heroic BSOD: Post-Ariadne Incident, her attitude had changed.
 * Jerk With a Heart of Gold
 * Knight Templar: Not as much as Margulis, but enough to cause friction with.
 * Likable Villain
 * Well Intentioned Extremist

= Voiced by Osamu Saka in Japanese and Keith Szarabajka in English.
=

The "father" and creator of the URTVs. He is obsessed with destroying U-DO for an unknown reason.


 * Big Bad Wannabe: Had Wilhelm not stepped up to the plate at the last minute, he would have been the Big Bad of Episode III.
 * Body Surf: His time as hyperspace transit test subject granted him the ability to Body Surf, hence why he's Really Seven Hundred Years Old.
 * Chessmaster: Again, comes in a close second to Wilhelm in the Manipulative Bastard category.
 * Creepy Monotone: He speaks almost entirely in an "I'm a complete doucebag" tone.
 * For Science
 * Go Mad From the Revelation: What happened when he came into contact with U-DO.
 * Grand Theft Me: One of the ways he's lived for so long and an acquired skill from contact with U-DO.
 * Jerkass: He's the only villain (aside from Voyager) with zero redeeming qualities.
 * My Grandson Myself
 * President Evil: It's not explained very well in-game, but in the gap between Episodes II and III he has the Salvator faction stage a coup and install him as the Executive Committee Director of the Galaxy Federation.
 * Really Seven Hundred Years Old
 * Smug Snake
 * Truly Single Parent: The URTV line are all enhanced clones of himself.
 * Truly Single Parent: The URTV line are all enhanced clones of himself.

= Voiced by Rena Mizuki in Japanese and Erin Fitzgerald and Stephanie Mitchell (child) in English.
=

URTV #668, the missing unit between 667 (Albedo) and 669 (Nigredo). One of very few female URTVs produced by the Yuriev Institute, she was groomed from childhood to be Yuriev's personal aide and pointwoman for the Salvator Faction.


 * The Baroness: She's about as close as Xenosaga gets to this trope.
 * Creepy Child: In Episode II, at least.
 * Daddys Little Villain: To Yuriev.
 * Dark Action Girl
 * Distaff Counterpart: To the male URTVs. Justified in-universe.
 * Evil Redhead: She's a mass murderer.
 * Never a Self Made Woman: Her dad is Dimitri Yuriev, after all.
 * Ninja Maid: To Yuriev.
 * Opposite Sex Clone: She was created mostly from Yuriev's X-chromosome.
 * She Is All Grown Up: And killing people...
 * Undying Loyalty: To Yuriev, again.

= Voiced by Masaharu Satou in Japanese and Steve Blum in English.
=

One of the brightest scientific minds in the post-Miltian Conflict galaxy. Dr. Sellers is known as much for his intellect as he is for his shifting loyalties.


 * Chronic Backstabbing Disorder: It's probably easier to list the people he hasn't screwed over.
 * Cool Shades: Described as "motorized sunglasses" in the Episode I database. They're apparently bolted to his face.
 * The Dragon: To Yuriev in Episode III.
 * Early Bird Cameo: He's not even named in-game when he shows up in Episode I for a minute or two. His proper introduction comes at the start of Episode II.
 * For Science
 * Four Eyes Zero Soul
 * Genius Cripple: A self-made example. He ruined Joachim Mizrahi's life, so Mizrahi shot his kneecaps off.
 * Karma Houdini: Other than the aforementioned knee-capping, he largely gets away scot-free in all three games.
 * Mad Scientist
 * Morally Ambiguous Doctorate
 * One Scene Wonder: He's one of the principle villains of the story, yet his actual screen time is really quite minimal compared to Margulis, Yuriev, and the Testaments.
 * Playing Against Type: Steve Blum as a slimey, frog-voiced, Non Action Guy villain.
 * Shoddy Knockoff Product: He openly admits his life's work is nothing but this, with his inspiration being Mizrahi's works.
 * Sinister Shades: See: Cool Shades.
 * The Unfought: In a rare twist, the party battles its way into the heart of the Merkabah to confront Sellers only for him lecture them about what what idiots they've been and then just float away in his hoverchair.
 * What Happened to The Mouse: He's one of the few dangling threads the series left behind, as he's never actually killed on screen. Everyone just assumes he stayed on the Merkabah as it was absorbed by Abel's Ark.
 * You Are Too Late: He whips this out only after the fact, telling the party that while they've wasted their time battling their way through Merkabah, Yuriev has invaded The Durandal, and they're probably too late to do anything about it.

= Voiced by Kouji Tsujitani in Japanese and DC Douglas in English.
=

The black testament, who has some sort of connection with Ziggy.


 * Bald of Evil
 * Black Cloak
 * The Cracker: Before he became a supernatural monster he was a Ghost in The Shell-inspired cyber-terrorist with whom Ziggy tangled during his days as a policeman.
 * Enigmatic Minion
 * Evil Albino: Maybe. That or he's just frighteningly pale.
 * Serial Killer

= Voiced by Mariko Suzuki in Japanese and Bridget Hoffman in English.
=

A humanoid weapon system built on the same principles as KOS-MOS, and vastly more powerful. She states that she must destroy KOS-MOS in order to be complete.


 * AI Is a Crapshoot: T-elos is cruel and sadistic, compared to KOS-MOS's logical indifference or protectiveness.
 * This could be more of the below Evil Counterpart. It's not just their personalities that's flipped, but pretty much everything along with a play on words. KOS-MOS is right-handed (dextrous, implying skill and effectiveness) while T-elos is left (sinister, implying cruelty. Obviously).
 * Dark Action Girl: T-ELOS fits this to a T.
 * Darkskinned Blonde: Technically white hair.
 * Evil Counterpart: To KOS-MOS, although it's a little more complicated than that.
 * Stripperiffic
 * Underboobs
 * White Haired Pretty Girl
 * Zettai Ryouiki
 * White Haired Pretty Girl
 * Zettai Ryouiki