Armored Trooper VOTOMS/Characters

Attention: As VOTOMS relies heavily on plot twists and the Chirico saga is composed of 52 TV episodes, 4 Short Anime Movies, a 12-episode OVA, and two 6-episode OVAs released over a nearly 30-year period, it's not advisable to read the spoiler text as it can totally ruin your experience of a particular work. You have been warned.

Chirico Cuvie
A Gilgamesh Federation pilot  from the planet Melkia, and the hero of the series.


 * : It turns out Chirico is an and that he was destined to
 * Anti-Hero: Type III for most of the TV series, Type V in the last few episodes.
 * Badass: Taken Up to Eleven levels. This is the man who
 * Blue Eyes
 * Curtains Match the Window
 * Boring Invincible Hero: Can sometimes approach this due to his, but is somewhat counteracted by his depressed demeanor and the fact that even if he apparently can't DIE he can be wounded to extremely large degrees.
 * The Determinator: If there is one trait that defines him as a character it's this. You shoot him, you can kill the entire unit he's in, you can blow up the entire city he's in, you throw entire ARMIES at him and he doesn't. Ever. STOP.
 * Flashback Nightmare: In Super Robot Wars Z 2 Hakai-hen, he relives the events of the Pailsen Files OVA in the first half of Scenario 39.
 * Glass Cannon: In Super Robot Wars Z 2: Hakai-hen, his mecha goes down in a few hits, but if his Prevail and ????/ ability kicks in, his damage and evade goes through the roof. In the series, he can make hundreds of kills, but can never seem to keep a Scopedog.
 * Hozumi Gouda
 * : Chooses to become one at the end of the series, to wait for a world without war with.
 * Lawful Neutral: As a soldier, he follows some sort of ethical code but ultimately is just trying to survive.
 * Limited Wardrobe: Is practically NEVER seen, even in the side stories, without his safety-orange pilot suit.
 * The only time he wore something different was during the Melkian parade during the end of Roots of Ambition OVA, where he wore a green Gilgamesh uniform with a red beret.
 * Made of Iron: Chirico gets shot, stabbed, and beaten pretty often but has an incredible healing ability,
 * To drive the point home,
 * Mid-Season Upgrade: In Super Robot Wars Z2: Hakai-hen, he gets the Red Shoulder Custom, Turbo Custom LRS and Turbo Custom ISS Scopedogs. Saisei-hen, however, grants him a completely new unit, the Rabidlydog. Subverted in the anime: he does get several upgrades, but none of them survive long.
 * Nerves of Steel
 * The Quiet One
 * Revenge: The Last Red Shoulder follows him and his old team as they attempts to kill General Pailsen.
 * Roaring Rampage of Revenge: Especially early on, he treats every person who tries to kill him an enemies in his own personal war, meaning he simply arms up a Scopedog AT and goes after them with extrememe prejeduce, including massacring entire gangs and police forces all because their leaders tried to kill him.
 * Shell-Shocked Veteran: In the Roots of Treachery OVA, we see he was put through an extremely darwinistic Training from Hell when his superiors noted his uncanny survivability and transferred him to . His past with this group haunts him throughout the TV series.
 * The Stoic: His expression practically never changes, and it's such an iconic part of the character that he wears it on literally every image he appears in. However, There was that time Basara played Dynamite Explosion on Aim. Upon hearing the song, Chirico smiled.
 * Stoic Woobie: Though he never complains or Wangsts about it, his life has been truly hellish, which probably has something to do with his perpetual non-expression.
 * : Despite being the one destined to, instead he ; his battle's a pretty clear allegory for the differences between the Ubermensch and the Last Man.
 * : After Shining Heresy, his stories always end like this.
 * : After Shining Heresy, his stories always end like this.

Boleuse Gotho
A salvager and arms dealer who Chirico first meets during his time on Melkia in Woodo.


 * Big, Thin, Short Trio: With Coconna and Vanilla eventually; he's the big part.
 * Arms Dealer
 * Cool Old Guy

Vanilla Vartla

 * Belligerent Sexual Tension: With Coconna.
 * Black Best Friend: A possible rare anime example, although he might just be overly tanned
 * Funny Afro
 * Kansai Regional Accent
 * Improbable Piloting Skills: Was a former Gilgamesh pilot at some time during the Hundred Years' War, and can do pretty unbelievable things with attack helicopters.
 * Shigeru Chiba

Coconna

 * Badass Driver: In the series as well as the Big Battle OVA, she shows quite the skill at keeping cool in vehicles under heavy fire.
 * Belligerent Sexual Tension: With Vanilla.
 * Love Triangle: She likes Chirico, but is competing with.
 * : Coconna eventually
 * The Smurfette Principle

Mellowlink Ality
The protagonist of Armor Hunter Mellowlink, one of the few OVA's that doesn't directly focus on Chirico himself. Mellowlink was a humble private in the Melkian Armed Forces who's entire unit was betrayed by his unscrupulous commanders. As the sole survivor of the Schwepps Unit, Mellowlink hunts down the conspirators with nothing more then determination and an old anti-AT rifle.


 * Almighty Janitor: Officially, he's only a private. However, he ends up going up against former higher-ranking officers and proving himself a more capable soldier in spite of all the handicaps he's bogged with.
 * Badass: Though he isn't the one-man war-machine Chirico is, Mellow is seriously hardcore. Even though he was trained as an AT pilot, he insists on hunting down the men who betrayed him and his friends using only an anti-AT rifle.
 * To drive the point home, in the second episode he challenges his target to a Battling Match without even using an AT himself.
 * Batman Gambit: While Chirico seems to prefer using heavy armaments and AT's to fight his battles, Mellow favors trickery, traps, and deception, partially out of necessity.
 * BFG: Mellowlink's signature anti-AT rifle is truly huge, being slightly longer then he is tall.
 * Bayonet Ya: Mounted on the underside of the massive weapon is a huge piledriver spike, which is propelled by the same kind of 50mm explosive charge an AT's Arm Punch is, which Mellow uses to spear right through AT armor.
 * Cosmic Lottery Winner: Mellowlink is insanely lucky, even described as such during the final episode. However, unlike Chirico
 * Cool Bike: His vehicle of choice for most of the series.
 * The Determinator: Nearly as much as Chirico is, especially given his personally enforced method of hunting his targets.
 * Finishing Move: Mellowlink always kills his targets with the piledriver spike on his rifle.
 * Flashback Nightmare: One episode has him reliving the events of his unit's brutal demise after being stuck by a thorn from a plant that has hallucinogenic properties.
 * The Gump: Mellowlink's story takes place at the same time as Chirico's, and in some episodes it even takes place in the same locations at the same time.
 * Nerves of Steel: Most episodes have him facing down what amounts to a bipedal tank without even a vehicle to protect himself from their huge autocannons, and not even blinking.
 * One Buwwet Weft: To necessitate his Finishing Move, it's common for Mellowlink to run out of ammunition during the course of the episode and have to get up close and personal.
 * Roaring Rampage of Revenge: The entire plot of his OVA.
 * Hot-Blooded Sniper: Though he keeps a cool head during fights, he's certainly prone to shouting and anger quite a bit more then the perpetually stoic Chirico.
 * Tribal Face Paint: Mellow is often shown with four lines of it smeared across his face. Though most of the episodes he's bare-faced, you know he's about to kill someone whenever he smears the four lines across his face, using different materials in different episodes, including mud, oil, Polymer Ringers Solution, and his own blood.

Ru Shako
A Quentian mercenary and a squadmate of Chirico's while he's fighting in Kunmen on Melkia. Plays a bigger role in the story during the Quent arc and Phantom Arc OVA.


 * Barbarian Hero
 * Gentle Giant
 * Technical Pacifist

Kan Yu

 * Anti-Hero: both Type I and Type V
 * Dirty Coward: Implied with his ACE Bonus in Super Robot Wars Z 2: Saisei-Hen. His damage increases when he attacks an opponent with a smaller level than his own.
 * Glory Hound
 * The Neidermeyer: To the point where his men defy his orders to follow Chirico, much to his displeasure.
 * Unfriendly Fire: Tries to off Chirico when they Chirico wins and he  died.
 * Unfriendly Fire: Tries to off Chirico when they Chirico wins and he  died.

Gon Nu

 * Glass Eye
 * Reasonable Authority Figure: Often steps in on Chirico's side to protect him from Kan Yu.
 * : Actually somewhat averted, but he and Kan Yu
 * Tessho Genda

Pol Potaria

 * Cain and Abel: His sister is working with La Résistance, but it's actually averted as they aren't necessarily bad people.
 * Rebellious Rebel: He feels that the Veela rebels are misguided in their actions and believes that they can modernize if they cooperate with the Melkian government.
 * : Potaria becomes president sometime between the series and Phantom Arc and tries to carry out his vision,
 * Show Hayami

Col. Jean-Paul Rochina
A Gilgamesh intelligence officer, who brutally interrogates Chirico at the beginning of the series. His main objective for the first half is recapturing an AWOL Super Soldier, but his ultimate goal is


 * Banjo Ginga
 * Enemy Mine: Teams up with Chirico when they're under attack by the Society.
 * Hidden Agenda Villain:
 * Laughing Mad: By Shining Heresy, we see that the years have not been kind to him at all and he's just as obsessed with Chirico as ever.
 * The Quisling: In Pailsen Files, he
 * Villainous BSOD: He goes crazy when

Albert Killy
A Gilgamesh general, and leader of the Secret Society.


 * Evil Old Folks
 * Sinister Minister
 * Villainous BSOD:When he learns that Chirico

Serge Borough

 * Kenichi Ogata
 * Sinister Minister

Arron and Gurran Schmitel

 * Akio Nojima: Arron.
 * Finishing Each Other's Sentences
 * Mad Scientist

Proto One/Fyana
A Perfect Soldier created by the society, who is the objective of the mission against the Gilgamesh forces that Chirico is on, who later


 * Dark Action Girl
 * : In Shining Heresy ep. 5, we're told that They were awakened early and had time to reunite.
 * MacGuffin Girl
 * Phlebotinum Dependence: She requires jijirium to survive.
 * Shower Scene: She needs them to live, but the purpose is pretty obviously some glowy blue Fanservice.
 * Super Soldier
 * Super Soldier

Ypsilon

 * The Rival
 * Super Soldier
 * White-Haired Pretty Boy

Wiseman

 * Big Bad
 * Deal with the Devil
 * Hidekatsu Shibata
 * Large Ham
 * The Man Behind the Man
 * Mysterious Employer : was secretly taking orders from him all along.
 * : Zig-zagged. Wiseman
 * Mysterious Employer : was secretly taking orders from him all along.
 * : Zig-zagged. Wiseman
 * : Zig-zagged. Wiseman
 * : Zig-zagged. Wiseman



Gen. Yoran Pailsen
Founder and commander of the infamous Unit X-1 of the 24th Melkian Strategic AT Special Operations Corps (the Red Shoulders). His goal is locating and creating a unit of "unique survivalists" akin to the Perfect Soldiers. Appears in The Last Red Shoulder, Roots of Treachery/Ambition, and Pailsen Files


 * Chikao Ohtsuka
 * Complete Monster: Human experimentation is no problem for this guy. His experiments
 * Evil Cripple:  he's left with severe brain damage and is confined to a wheelchair
 * Insane Admiral: The "pet project" type; then-Colonel Pailsen's "unique survivalist" research claims the lives of over 800 soldiers and eats up huge amounts of Gilgamesh's equipment and funds.
 * Magnificent Bastard
 * Sinister Shades
 * Villainous Breakdown: During the end of Roots of Ambition, when he finds out that Chirico is still alive and now displays absolute defiance against him.

Teitania Montewells

 * : In Alone Again, she arrives as The Cavalry to assist the Church against a militant splinter sect.
 * Super Soldier
 * The Rival


 * White-Haired Pretty Girl
 * Villain Override: The auxiliary brain.

Vyacheslav Montewells
A cardinal in the Church of Marteal and former Gilgamesh officer, who's making a bid to become pope. Makes appearances in Shining Heresy and Phantom Arc


 * Big Bad
 * : Ultimately averted: In Phantom Arc,
 * Moral Event Horizon: We found out that the "traumatic" memory of Teitania
 * Sinister Minister

The Barcoff Squadron
After Roots of Treachery, Chirico is transferred to a new unit of people who have a high survivability.


 * Dirty Coward / The Ditz: Dare Kochak, who sometimes ends up ruining their missions due to his incompetence; he began his career as a technician and never really hit his stride in combat.
 * Genius Ditz: Being a technician beforehand, however, allows Kochak to determine which mixture ratio of the PRL is best suited for an AT under certain environments, he even goes as far as to taste test it to see which is the most suitable one,.
 * : It's hinted that Zaki may be
 * Gonk: Kochak.
 * The Mole:  reports the details of their survival to Wockam.
 * Vigilante Man: The "Gilgamesh Purification Committee" targets them for execution because
 * White-Haired Pretty Boy: Zaki
 * The Smart Guy / Big Good: Barcoff
 * The Big Guy: Gary Godan
 * : After Chirico reveals that they were being tested, they let the idea that they're unique survivalists go to their heads.

Fedok Wockam
A Gilgamesh war hero and an important person in the Ministry of Intelligence who commands the forces of the Internal Security Service (ISS). He's the one who sets out all the tests that the Barcoff Squad has to pass; he wants to prove that they're unique survivalists in order to build his own power as well as humiliate Pailsen.


 * Big Bad
 * Blond Guys Are Evil
 * Gray Eyes
 * He Who Fights Monsters: Pailsen was rumored to have killed his father, so he manipulated the military tribunal to place him in his "care" in order to exact revenge.
 * Smug Snake
 * Smug Snake