Wild ARMs 2/Characters

A list of the characters found in the Playstation era Eastern RPG Wild Arms 2.

Ashley Winchester
A young man who belongs to a military organization called the Musketeers, later promoted to a special task force code-named ARMs. After a terrorist attack he finds himself burdened with great power. His weapon is an advanced bayonet.


 * Awesome McCoolname: His name is Ashley Winchester and he's just a freeloader in a bread shop.
 * Badass Abnormal: Well, he does gain Access a wee bit early in the game.
 * Big Damn Heroes: Ashley does this a few times.
 * BFS: Both his bayonet's blade, which is ridiculously large, and Argetlahm.
 * Demonic Possession: He is possessed by Lord Blazer at the end of the prologue, but is actually able to keep him in check and even gets a Super Mode from him.
 * Duel Boss: He's got quite a few boss fights where he has to fight alone. In order, we've got Kalivos, Trask, Vinsfield,, Grauswein and
 * Empathic Weapon: Argetlahm
 * Enemy Within: He fuses with a demon destined to destroy the world.
 * Evolving Weapon: You can buy upgrades for it as you go along.
 * Gender Blender Name: For those who don't realize that "Ashley" was once more prominently a guy's name.
 * Henshin Hero: Via Access. Ashely transforms into a being that is a balance between
 * Involuntary Transformation: His transformation into the demon-thing Protoblazer in the first part of the main story.
 * The Kid With the Leash: He must contain  within himself.
 * Lightning Bruiser: Especially when he obtains Access.
 * Scarf of Asskicking: His Knightblazer form.
 * Super Powered Evil Side: His Knight Blazer form.
 * Super Powered Evil Side: His Knight Blazer form.

Lilka Eleniak
A teenage wizard-in-training who takes her missing sister's place in the team, despite her self-doubts. She fights with umbrellas.


 * Big Eater: Like Cecilia before her, and like Cecilia justified by her being a Crest Sorceress who needs the extra calories.
 * Black Magician Girl
 * Child Mage
 * Cute Witch
 * Dead Little Sister: Inverted:.
 * Girlish Pigtails: A variation, combined with Tomboyish Sidetails.
 * Hair Decorations
 * Improbable Weapon User
 * Inept Mage: Though only really when teleporting.
 * Parasol of Pain
 * Parasol of Prettiness: Symbolizing innocence. Evident in her official art as well as her battle end pose.
 * Trademark Favorite Food: Jelly rolls.
 * Trademark Favorite Food: Jelly rolls.

Brad Evans
A large man who is an expert in heavy weapons and explosives. Originally the hero of a revolution, he was later imprisoned for "war crimes" (before joining ARMS.) He uses metal gloves as his weapons.


 * Badass: He's even the only one who single-handledly has the necessary power to defeat Ragu O'Ragula. Not only is he Badass, but just watch him move.
 * Badass Long Hair
 * Clear My Name: Brad is falsely accused of . Possibly subverted in that he's never officially cleared.
 * Closet Key: Billy seems to be this for Brad. Not that Brad was ever necessarily closeted, as he doesn't always volunteer details about his personal life either way.
 * Evolving Weapon: Like Ashley's bayonet, you can buy upgrades for his bazooka.
 * Explosive Leash: His collar.
 * Gentle Giant: He's tall and fierce-looking, and even more formidable in battle. But to ordinary people, he's actually surprisingly affable and level-headed. Just very reserved about the details of his background.
 * Homoerotic Subtext: With Billy, in the Western localization. It's less subtext and more text in the Japanese game.
 * Kill Sat: Sky Eye.
 * Mighty Glacier
 * The Scapegoat: He was imprisoned for 5 years for a crime he didn't commit.
 * Straight Gay: With Billy Pilder.
 * Walking Shirtless Scene: This is half-true, as his shirt has only one shoulder strap, showing a good portion of his torso at all times.
 * Straight Gay: With Billy Pilder.
 * Walking Shirtless Scene: This is half-true, as his shirt has only one shoulder strap, showing a good portion of his torso at all times.

Kanon
A bionic, female bounty hunter, who at first opposes the group but later joins it. She uses daggers (and her bionic implants) in combat.


 * Artificial Limbs: Her arm.
 * Cutscene Power to The Max
 * Fragile Speedster
 * Hero Antagonist: Until after the third time you fight.
 * Honor Before Reason: Kanon is obsessed with her family honor.
 * Kill Me Now or Forever Stay Your Hand: She's put in this position with regards to Ashley.
 * Mysterious Mercenary Pursuer
 * Redemption Demotion: Kanon seems to stop being so awesomely powerful when she joins the party (at least until you unlock her later skills). Justified, as she took a tremendous amount of damage in a short time before joining the party and it's a miracle she's still alive at all, let alone being able to move.
 * Recurring Boss
 * Wake Up Call Boss: She is ridiculously powerful and fast, even if you've been pouring your Personal Skill points into the Game Breaker skills. And let's not even talk about the later two fights.
 * Well Intentioned Extremist

Tim Rhymeless
An innocent boy who discovers he's the Chosen One to receive powers from the planet's spirits. Fights with a staff.


 * Braids Beads and Buckskins
 * Chekhov's Gunman: He is introduced a good long while before he becomes vastly important to the game's plot, although his giving Ashley a Guardian Medium and his "enter name" screen having a portrait are big clues.
 * Child Mage
 * Hair Decorations
 * Mystical Waif
 * Summon Magic: He provides this for all the heroes.
 * White Magician Boy: At first, although he wanders more into The Red Mage territory later.

Marivel Armitage
A female inventor who helps the team with their technological needs. She becomes playable after a specific subquest, where it is revealed that she's actually. A pair of robots fight for her.


 * Child Mage: Or at least, she looks like a child.
 * Humongous Mecha: Marivel uses these in her summon magic.
 * Improbable Weapon User
 * Insufferable Genius
 * Power Copying: Marivel can learn certain enemy abilities thanks to her.
 * Summon Magic
 * Power Copying: Marivel can learn certain enemy abilities thanks to her.
 * Summon Magic
 * Summon Magic

Irving Vold Valeria
The commander of ARMs. He purchased the unit after it was decimated in a terrorist attack, and appointed Ashley, Lilka, and Brad as its initial members.


 * The Chessmaster:
 * Necessary Evil:
 * White Haired Pretty Boy
 * Xanatos Gambit: He pulls off a masterful gambit by
 * White Haired Pretty Boy
 * Xanatos Gambit: He pulls off a masterful gambit by
 * Xanatos Gambit: He pulls off a masterful gambit by

Altaecia Rune Valeria
Irving's sister, who supports him unconditionally.


 * Honor Before Reason
 * Pimped Out Dress: Her Pink Means Feminine dress.
 * Honor Before Reason
 * Pimped Out Dress: Her Pink Means Feminine dress.

Amy and Kate
Irving's telepathic assistants, who operate the communication device, and also the chateau


 * Bridge Bunnies
 * Psychic Powers

Pooka
A "sub spirit" that Tim can summon, which is sort of like a Guardian Lite. He serves as Tim's first tool.


 * Expy: Of Hanpan from the frist game, at least as far as his appearance and uses go.
 * Ridiculously Cute Critter
 * Third Person Person

Lombardia
A biomechanical dragon that can turn into an jet.


 * Global Airship
 * Humongous Mecha
 * Our Dragons Are Different

Anastasia, The Sword Magess
A young woman who fought against evil using the sword Argetlahm. She is revered in the present day.


 * A Girl And Her Wolf: She and Lucied have been together almost forever.
 * Animal Motifs: Her companion is a wolf-like god.
 * Badass: You gotta admit, facing off against Lord Blazer back in the day with Lucied was pretty damn awesome.
 * BFS: Argetlahm
 * Empathic Weapon
 * Cool Big Sis: During the time Ashley  Anastasia calls herself as this.
 * Guest Star Party Member:
 * Heroic Sacrifice: In the past, to stop the Blaze of Disaster.
 * I Just Want to Be Normal:
 * The Paladin: Combines healing magic and physical attacks.

Lucied
The Guardian of Desire, and Anastasia's partner.


 * Big Badass Wolf
 * Dark Is Not Evil
 * Guest Star Party Member
 * Lightning Bruiser
 * Time Abyss: He is as old as the planet itself.

Marina
Ashley's childhood friend, whose mother owns the bakery where Ashley lives.


 * Victorious Childhood Friend

Tony Stark
A friend of Tim's whom Ashley rescues from kidnapers in the prologue.


 * Totally Radical: Dude!
 * Keet
 * Shout Out: To Iron Man.

Scott Summers
Another friend of Tim's. The three of them are always together.


 * Shout Out: To Scott Summers (aka Cyclops) of the X-Men.
 * Verbal Tic: He begins nearly every sentence with "in my humble opinion".

Vinsfeld Rhadamanthus
The leader of Odessa, a terrorist organization which seeks to take over the world.


 * Bonus Boss:
 * Duel Boss
 * Recurring Boss
 * Well Intentioned Extremist

Cocytus
A group of four powerful individuals that fight for Odessa.


 * Four Is Death
 * Meaningful Name / Shout Out Theme Naming Cocytus is the ninth circle of Hell in The Divine Comedy, and Antenora, Caina, Judecca, and Ptolomea are parts of it.
 * Recurring Boss

Caina
The source of monsters for Odessa and the person who controls Randolf the Magic Key.


 * All Love Is Unrequited: Caina loves Vinsfeld, who instead loves Antenora.
 * Duel Boss
 * She's a Man In Japan: His feelings towards Vinsfeld were too much for Western censors, who changed his gender to female. This was easy to do with someone as androgynous-looking as Caina. Brad, on the other hand...
 * Homoerotic Subtext: With Vinsfeld, leading to the above trope.
 * Improbable Weapon User: The aforementioned magic key.
 * Psycho Supporter
 * Straight Gay

Antenora
An assassin and strategist for Odessa.


 * Rapunzel Hair: Her hair reaches down to the backs of her knees while in a ponytail.
 * Tomboyish Ponytail
 * Tomboyish Ponytail

Ptolomea
A very tall man and the leader of Odessa's troops. He's prone to spouting cheesy lines and uses a windmill-like three-bladed claw as a weapon.


 * Anti Villain/Friendly Enemy: For someone who fights you most of the times you meet him, Ptolomea is unfailingly respectful.
 * Boisterous Bruiser
 * A Father to His Men
 * Improbable Weapon User

Judecca
Odessa's hitman and an expert marksman, and a sadist to the core.


 * Adjusting Your Glasses: Pushes them up and down rapidly when he's excited - which is usually when he's about to kill someone.
 * Duel Boss
 * Four Eyes Zero Soul
 * Psycho for Hire
 * Psycho for Hire

Liz and Ard
The game's comic relief villains, and Odessa's science division. Liz is prone to spouting nearly-nonsensical poetry, while his companion can only say "Ard".


 * Butt Monkeys
 * Cloudcuckoolander: Liz, courtesy of Good Bad Translation.
 * Dual Boss
 * For Science: Liz
 * Goldfish Poop Gang
 * Good Bad Translation: All of Liz's dialogue. Already a comic relief character and one half of the game's Goldfish Poop Gang, his "poetic" Japanese dialogue was translated literally. The result is both incomprehensible and hilarious.
 * Harmless Villains
 * Insufferable Genius: Liz.
 * Pokémon Speak: Ard. Liz can translate this one word into long sentences, but it's unknown how accurate he is.
 * Quirky Miniboss Squad
 * Recurring Boss

Lord Blazer
The demon possessing Ashley, who is destined to destroy the world.


 * Duel Boss
 * Eldritch Abomination
 * Enemy Within: To Ashley.
 * Our Demons Are Different

Kuiper Belt

 * Eldritch Abomination