La-Mulana/Characters

Lemeza Kosugi (ルエミーザ 小杉, ruemiiza kosugi)
Mr. Explorer himself, protagonist of the game.
 * Adventurer Archaeologist: But of course!
 * Expy: Of Indiana Jones
 * Heroic Mime: As is the standard of all protaginists.
 * McNinja: According to the manual, at least.
 * Meaningful Name: Kosugi means "small cedar."
 * Multi Melee Master
 * Smoking Is Cool: Has a cigarette in his mouth in the PC manual and in the Wii Ware official artwork. It's removed from pictures on the English side of the website, though.
 * Spell My Name with an "S"/It Is Pronounced "Tro-PAY": In Japanese his name is written as ルエミーザ (ruemiiza) while his name is always written in English as Lemeza. Does he use a different name depending on language or is Lemeza meant to be pronounced like "ruemiiza?"
 * Whip It Good: His primary weapon

Shorn Kosugi (ショーン　小杉, shoun kosugi)
Father of Lemeza. He sets of the game's plot by discovering the Ruins.
 * Adventurer Archaeologist
 * Archnemesis Dad: Taunted Lemeza into coming to the ruins,
 * Expy: Of Henry Jones, Sr.
 * The Unchosen One:
 * Whip It Good

Elder Xelpud (ゼルプド長老, zerupudo chourou)
The Elder of the village, and the guy who saves your game and generally chats to you.
 * Bald of Awesome
 * Cloudcuckoolander/Talkative Loon: Rambles endlessly about the MSX in the PC version.
 * Sdrawkcab Name: "Xelpud" spelled backwards is "Duplex", one of the developers of the original game.
 * Sdrawkcab Name: "Xelpud" spelled backwards is "Duplex", one of the developers of the original game.

Mulbruk (ムーブルク, muuburuku)
A Girl who lives in the Sun Shrine who offers advice on where to go or what to do. She only appears in the Wiiware version.
 * Chekhov's Gunman:

Shu (蚩尤, shiyuu)

 * Healing Factor: From the blood.
 * Meaningful Name: Named after a Chinese god of war, the characters of his name can also be roughly translated as "natural fool."
 * Mirror Boss: At least, he wields several of Lemeza's subweapons.
 * Virgin Sacrifice: He lives on this.

Nu Wa (女カ, joka)

 * Always Second Best: Like Tiamat, she tried to create life, but could not do better than.

Amphisbaena (アンフィスバエナ, anfisubaena)
A gigantic snake with a head at both ends.
 * Kill It with Fire: Spits streams of flames as its primary attack.
 * Leitmotif: "King Konda"
 * Public Domain Character: Since it's from Greek myths, it's naturally this.

Sakit (サキト, sakito)
A Giant who wished for The Mother not to return to the sky
 * Golem: All the Giants are preserved as huge stone statues. Most of them can move depending on what the time of day is (it's a puzzle, you hit three stone lanterns to change the insgnia so their all either star, sun or moon). Sakit can only be fought when the Moon is showing.
 * Knight Templar/Well-Intentioned Extremist: Wants Mother to remain on Earth and will fight anyone to the death over it.
 * Leitmotif: "Giants' Rage"
 * Won't Work On Me: In the original version, his giant stone body is flat out immune to all subweapons, forcing you to close to dangerously close range in order to attack him.
 * Regime Change: "Sakit took power into his hand," both figuratively and literally.
 * Rocket Punch: A variant in the original, literally in the Wii Ware version.
 * "Wake-Up Call" Boss: Oh boy, is he ever.

Ellmac (エルマック, erumakku)
A gigantic frilled lizard.
 * Fireballs
 * Leitmotif: "High-Speed Beast"
 * Minecart Madness: The entire battle takes place during this.
 * Punny Name: His name comes from 襟巻き蜥蜴 (erumaki tokage), which means "frilled-neck lizard."

Bahamut (バハムート, bahamuuto)
A giant blue fish with a head like a hippo
 * Leitmotif: "Dangerous Raid"
 * Shown Their Work: The Giant fish is actually from Arabic mythology.
 * Super Drowning Skills: Lemeza takes damage from the water during the Bahamut fight whether he has the Scalesphere or not.

Viy (ヴィー, vii)
A demon so massive that it needs smaller demons to open its eyelid.
 * Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever: The manual has a picture of what Viy actually looks like. All that is seen in-game is the area around its eye.
 * Eye Scream: You hurt it by attacking it's giant eye. And it can attack by everting its eye, trying to stab you with it.
 * Flunky Boss
 * Frickin' Laser Beams: It can fire one. From it's eye.
 * Leitmotif: "In the Bottom"
 * Public Domain Character: It is based on a Russian tale about a demon with servants that hold its eye open.

Palenque (パレンケ, parenke)
An alien Who's piloting a giant mechanical gunship.
 * Ancient Astronauts: It is based on one of the carvings that inspired this whole theory.
 * Leitmotif: "Ancient Machine"
 * Made of Explodium
 * Rule of Cool: Your fighting a Alien who's piloting a giant Gradius-inspired ship on a tiny little toy plane. With shurikens. While he has lazers and bombs and all sorts of things.
 * Unexpected Shmup Boss
 * Wave Motion Gun: One of its weapons.
 * Wave Motion Gun: One of its weapons.

Baphomet (バフォメット, bafometto)
A pagan deity mostly associted with witches.
 * Leitmotif: "Sabbat"
 * One-Winged Angel: In the Wii Ware version.
 * Our Demons Are Different
 * Summoning Ritual: The witches you've been harasing throughout the Twin Labyrinth invoke one to summon the boss to kill you.

Tiamat (ティアマト, tiamato)
A Lamia that can control the dimensions, and tried to obtain the secret of life.
 * Always Second Best: Attempted to outdo  in creating life and failed.
 * Fan Disservice: In the first version of the game, her face becomes angry and distorted once she loses a certain amount of life.
 * Goddamn Bats: Has up to four flying around at any time.
 * Godiva Hair: Especially in the Wii Ware version.
 * Leitmotif: "Interstice of the Dimention"
 * Marathon Boss: Unless you use the knife combo trick.
 * Mythology Gag:
 * Reality Warper: She changed the sides of her part of the Ruins round. That's right: The Endless corridor is actually the BACKSIDE AREA of the Dimensional Corridor.
 * That One Boss: If Sakit wasn't this for you, then Tiamat will be.