Super Robot Wars Gaiden/Characters

Masaki Andoh (voiced by Hikaru Midorikawa)
Actually the first "Banpresto Original" to ever embrace Super Robot Wars (the very first is a Big Bad from SD Hero Soukesen, an obscure NES game that set the formula for The Great Battle ). Masaki's a loud-mouthed, Hot-Blooded boy with No Sense of Direction who's actually a herald of the Wind Lord of Elemental Cybuster from another world. He's actually an Earthling, but gets summoned to La Gias by force. Not a problem since he's been alone all the time. There, he gets two familiar cats [[media:197595433653075850.jpg|Kuro]] and [[media:1 00095.png|Shiro]] and gain allies in the form of other heralds Hwang Yang Long, Tytti Norbuck and Ricardo Silvera (who later gets replaced by Mio Sasuga). His rival's Shuu Shirakawa, who, and he swears revenge. He's been hunting Shu down since.

This leads him back to the surface, and he gets involved with the battles with the Earth Federation, joining them. He mostly stays at the sidelines, but he's a great help to the team. He meets Lune Zoldark, who immediately develops a crush on him and throws herself in his Unwanted Harem he's really oblivious with. He finally manages to kill Shu for good eventually, but afterwards feels kinda empty and shed manly tears of loneliness. Afterwards, he returns to La Gias for good.

Unfortunately, in the non-Original Generation Super Robot Wars, returning to La Gias after killing Shu's only the beginning for the next arc of his story, where the White Prince of La Gias Feil Lord makes a mass summoning of surfacers, including Lune, and Masaki has to work about bringing them back home and quell the war in Lla Gias. He later returns to the surface again fighting the Guests. After that, he still has to deal with some prophetic troubles within La Gias. Oh, on the way, he also finds out.

Masaki's always seen with his trademark Humongous Mecha Cybuster. He embodies these tropes:


 * Akashic Records: The Cybuster can manipulate this. Also, Akashic Buster.
 * Attack Drone: Cybuster's High-Familiar.
 * Awesome but Impractical: Cybuster's Cosmo Nova; not only does it require a high Will rating, but it's a one-use weapon per scenario...
 * Combine it with Valor, and you have a great boss killer though.
 * Revelation of Evil God has finally turned it into a energy-based attack, making it more than a one-note attack. Said EN requirement is still a tad high though.
 * Awesome Yet Practical: ...however, Cybuster's Cyflash is a MAP attack that not only can be used post-movement, but doesn't hit allies, requires relatively little Will, does very good damage (for a MAP, anyway), and has a wide range to boot!
 * Knowing Masaki, however, this could get subverted that he might not hit all intended targets unless he has the Strike Spirit Command activated, which costs a whopping 30 SP for him.
 * Captain Ersatz: He was created for Super Robot Wars 2 because Banpresto couldn't secure the rights to Aura Battler Dunbine.
 * Chaste Hero
 * Cool Sword: Cybuster's Discutter.
 * Dual-Wielding: The Updated Rerelease of Super Robot Wars Gaiden has the Cybuster armed with both the Discutter and the new Vanity Ripper, a pair of blades which can combine into a single BFS.
 * Elemental Powers
 * Evil Counterpart: Zelvoid to Cybuster.
 * Expy: He gets one in Super Robot Wars Z with Asakim Dowin.
 * Chances are, this isn't an expy... Dundundunnnn...
 * Also Toya Kazami from Seireiki Rayblade, the Alternate Company Equivalent from WinkySoft
 * Fragile Speedster/Super Speed: Cybuster's supposedly the fastest there is; unfortunately, this doesn't make up for its lack of strength... well, OG-wise, anyway. Subverts Fragile Speedster once it.
 * Hot-Blooded
 * Hot Wings: Cybuster's Akashic Buster.
 * I Have Many Names: Also known as "Randol Zan Zenosakis" in La Gias, while Excellen Browning just calls him "Masa".
 * Unfortunately, he dislikes being called the latter.
 * Image Song: "Neppu! Shippu! Cybuster!"
 * Jerk with a Heart of Gold
 * Just in Time: Infamous for often showing up at the last second, wiping out half the enemy forces with a Cyflash. He does it so often, this troper wonders if he's only showing up out of coincidence, but considering his sense of direction, that's not unlikely.
 * Like Brother and Sister: He has an adoptive sister Presia Zenosakis. Lune and some fans just think there's more than that between them...
 * Non-Singing Voice: Members of JAM Project sing his theme song.
 * No Sense of Direction: The reason his Strike spirit command costs twice or thrice as many spirit points as most other pilots with the same command – a distinction matched only by Lunamaria Hawke, who managed to cleanly miss a battleship with a beam rifle in her home series. On another note, his lack of direction gets so bad in one game, it takes the ZERO System just to find him, and even then, the ZERO System merely pinpoints the general area Masaki is in.
 * In Super Robot Wars Original Generation, he gets lost... during a guided tour!
 * In Super Robot Wars Alpha, he flies the Cybuster around the world a few times just to reach Japan.
 * Oh, and a "few" times here means at least 10 times
 * In Another Century's Episode R, you get a Trophy for traveling 4 kilometers for him: its name is "Isolated Lost Child".
 * Speaking of Another Century's Episode R, . Yes, you read that right: Masaki's sense of direction is so bad, he now can.
 * Parental Abandonment: Revealed in Super Robot Wars Gaiden, his parents were killed by terrorists.
 * Sphere of Destruction (Cybuster's Cyflash)
 * Transforming Mecha (Cybuster's Cybird)
 * Unwanted Harem (The bait of it. Which is hilarious considering that polygamy is legal in La Gias.)

Lune Zoldark (Voiced by Narumi Hidaka)
Daughter of Bian Zoldark, founder of the Divine Crusaders. Lune's an outspoken tomboy with torn jeans and a high aptitude for mecha piloting. She was a member of the DC, but spent most of the time physically training in Jupiter. About her mecha, she was supposedly given a customized Valsion, but she didn't like how it looked... so Bian modified its look to resemble a giant, walking Humongous Mecha version of herself, the Valsione, complete with hair and an emotion copy system (its face changes according to Lune's current expression). She got the mecha, but later heard. She falls in love with Masaki and tries to get his attention all the time, unsuccessfully.

In the Inspector Wars, Lune is ambushed by the Inspectors along with the Hiryu Custom and is forced to retreat. She rejoins the EFA. In OG Gaiden, when visiting the Tesla Leicht Institute, she's attacked by Kyle Bean and a squad of Mirongas, but manages to survive along with Ibis Douglas and Master Rishu, thanks to Masaki's intervention... and Shu's. When Masaki returns to La Gias, she bids him farewell.

But knowing SRW, we know it's not going to end well. As the Classic Timeline decrees, Lune herself is thrown into La Gias when Prince Feil Lord pulls off a mass-summoning of surface-dwellers. Alongside Fire Elemental Lord Herald Hwang Yang Long, she gets the surface-dwellers back home, while dealing with the civil war in La Gias. She later returns to fight the Guests, but ultimately moves permanently to La Gias to be with Masaki, helping out the land's prophetic trouble later.

As mentioned, she pilots the Ridiculously Human Robot Valsione. They embody these tropes:


 * Charles Atlas Superpower (Master Rishu Togo states she can dodge bullets...while eating breakfast. This is also why the Valsione can do "bunshin" (Mirror Image) naturally without the technology to activate it being installed: she's just got THAT CRAZY REFLEXES)
 * Cool Sword (Valsione's Divine Arm)
 * Katanas Are Just Better: (The upgraded form of the Divine Arm, the Divine Blade)
 * Fashionable Asymmetry (Her one-sided torn jeans)
 * Interstingly enough, when Lune first debuted, her jeans were [[media:srw010.jpg|simply tattered in places]], so the current design may count as a form of Art Evolution
 * Glass Cannon : In OG games, specifically 2, she has an Ace Bonus that increases attack, and a pretty powerful mecha with a relatively strong MAPW. However her defense is lacking.
 * Lightning Bruiser : Made up by her insane evasion stats, which was the best in the game, Double Image ability, and a Full upgrade bonus that increases the Double Image rate.
 * Hot-Blooded
 * Hot Amazon ("Why does every single piece of food I eat turn into muscle?!")
 * Hot Chick with a Sword (Valsione, with its Divine Arm/Divine Blade. Lune herself gets one in the Updated Rerelease of Super Robot Wars Gaiden)
 * Image Song (In a rare case for SRW, it's actually sung by her respective seiyuu)
 * Mad Scientist's Beautiful Daughter (More like "Mad Dictator's Beautiful Daughter". How mad is Bian? Better left to your interpretation)
 * Mid-Season Upgrade (Valsione R)
 * Mythology Gag (Variation: despite the fact that almost everyone who has played an SRW game knows the, the side-story manga Record of ATX decides to give a [[media:valsione recordofatx.jpg|blunt reminder]] to fans by equipping the Valsione with an outer armor (something it never had in the games) resembling the Valsion)
 * Ridiculously Human Robot
 * Spell My Name with an "S" (Is it Lune or Ryuune?)
 * Sphere of Destruction (Valsione's Psycho Blaster)
 * The Three Faces of Eve (Amongst the Masou Kishin's main fighting girls, she is the seductress)
 * Tomboy and Girly Girl (She's the tomboy, whereas Masaki's true girlfriend Wendy is pretty girly)

Shuu Shirakawa (Voiced by Takehito Koyasu)
Masaki's arch-rival, also a huge Marty Stu. A young half-La Gias professor who already attains a Ph.D and using his brains, he creates the Granzon, a very powerful mecha using the power of void (uses black hole stuffs a lot). Ever since they first meet, he's known to irritate Masaki a lot, but he really crosses the line when. Pissed off, Masaki lets himself get possessed by Cyfis, Cybuster's spirit, and lays a serious smackdown on the Granzon, forcing Shu to retreat (it was formerly near-invincible beforehand). He reappears in the ruins of the Langran Kingdom, causing Masaki to suspect Shuu destroyed it as well (he didn't). Shuu bids Masaki farewell, as he had to attend some business with old friend Bian, but Masaki follows him anyway.

Shuu goes along with Bian's plan to create the DC and continues to annoy Masaki along the way (he also almost killed the SRX Team on the way). After the DC's defeat, Shuu vanishes and only appears a few times in the Inspector Wars. He somehow returns more occasionally in the wake of the ODE Incident, takes out some Mirongas and ends up helping the EFA for OG Gaiden. When it's over, Shuu reveals his intention:.

.

Like Masaki, he manages to get himself a harem in the form of the Stripperiffic Saphine Grace and Princess Monica Gran Bilseia, though he does not return their feelings and would rather tease Masaki A LOT. He and the Granzon/Neo Granzon embodies these tropes:


 * Anti-Villain AND Anti-Hero
 * Badass Labcoat (The man IS a scientist, and he uses that knowledge to fight you with his stupidly broken, dimensional-warping mecha!)
 * Bad Powers, Bad People (A bit of an aversion after he )
 * The Blacksmith (Built the Granzon himself. In the OG timeline, this project cost the Divine Crusaders about two-thirds of their budget. That doesn't stop Bian Zoldark from mounting a successful insurrection with the remaining third of the budget. He also designed the power source of the Granzon, the Anti-Matter Annihilation Engine, based off of the designs of the Black Hole Engine.)
 * Boss Dissonance (Not that he's easier than the mooks, but, he's so much easier, even when he's the for OGG. Quite the shame that he was horrendously difficult in 3 and was the second hardest boss in SRW history in his Alpha Gaiden incarnation, though probably the primitiveness of the game engines for those games contribute to his difficulty back then, as well as his lack of knack of constantly casting Spirit Commands like in his Alpha Gaiden incarnation)
 * Kind of one to Magus's penultimate stage, while he constantly cast Spirit Commands like candy, his stage isnt comparable to Magus stage, where you have to face 4 Seishin casting bosses in a row, and the ability to upgrade Sanger almost guarantees a stale-mate at worst. Basically, he is one to the third to last stage, but not a dissonance against the normal Final stage.
 * But Not Too Foreign (Half-Earthling, half-La Gias)
 * Cool Sword (Granzon's Granworm Sword)
 * I Cannot Self-Terminate
 * Improbable Aiming Skills (The targeting computer of the Granzon. It can target and lock onto a whopping 65,536 individual targets on its own.)
 * I Was Just Passing Through
 * Mad Scientist
 * The Plan
 * The Rival
 * Sphere of Destruction (Granzon's Graviton Cannon and Neo Granzon's Shukutaihou)
 * Teen Genius (Several Ph.Ds at 22 years old)
 * Unwanted Harem (More like un-needed harem!)
 * Villain Sue

The Elemental Lords
The Elemental Lords are quite the major characters in Super Robot Wars Gaiden. Masaki's one of them, but it's a crime not to include the rest. Also known as Masou Kishin, they're heralds of the elemental machines of La Gias. Their machines are usually blessed by the spirits dwelling in La Gias, helping them in combat. They first appear in Super Robot Wars EX and become major players in Gaiden, which is technically the very first Original Generation game. Obviously, all of them adhere to the Elemental Powers trope.

They include:

Hwang Yang Long (Voiced by Kazuhiko Inoue)
Herald of Masou Kishin of Fire, Granveil. He's a Chinese P.E teacher who knows Kung Fu and has a penchant of spouting Chinese proverbs, much to everyone's confusion. He's also said to be the direct opposite of Masaki: calm, cool but distant towards the rest of the team, either doing his own line of duty or training. Highly dedicated to Princess Monica, who still respects his services, even though she spends her time chasing Shu Shirakawa out of love.

He often clashes with Saphine Grace, Shu's follower, but it later turned out that it was because

Tropes associated with Yang Long:


 * Arrogant Kung Fu Guy (Subverted; distant he may be, he never ever thought of "crushing the weak")
 * Asia Rune Chant (He chants this in part of Kafuu Seiun Ken)
 * Becomes a Punctuated Pounding during his hidden move at Revelations of Evil God
 * Bodyguard Crush (To Monica)
 * Combination Attack (With Tytti in Revelation of Evil God)
 * Flaming Sword (Granveil's Flame Cutter)
 * Glass Cannon (Story-wise, Granveil has the most powerful weapons among the Elemental Lords, sans Cosmo Nova, but its pretty fragile)
 * Hot-Blooded (After all, his nickname is "Hot-Blooded Gym Teacher". He's still less loud and abrasive than Masaki, though)
 * Image Song (Martial Artist of Fire, sung by his seiyuu)
 * The Lancer
 * Playing with Fire (Obviously)
 * Running Gag (Chinese Proverbs)
 * Shoulder Cannon: Carolic Smash and its upgraded version, Denkou Eiri
 * You Gotta Have Blue Hair (Even when you're Chinese)

Tytti Norbuck (Voiced by Kikuko Inoue)
Herald of Masou Kishin of Water, Gaddeath (or, in some translations, Goddess, but no, it's not a literal goddess, mind you!), and the one given most depth when Super Robot Wars Gaiden rolls in. Tytti's the first human Masaki meets when he gets into La Gias. Her previous job isn't clear, but rumors say she used to be either a racer or a cop. She acts like a big sister, sometimes nagging to Masaki, and is mostly involved with La Gias' political maneuvers. Ironic she's the herald of water...because she cannot swim. As it's later found out,. Tropes associated with Tytti:


 * Allergic to Love
 * An Ice Person (The Kelvin Blizzard attack. And in Updated Rerelease of Super Robot Wars Gaiden, the Jotunheim attack)
 * Beware the Nice Ones (If she gets mad, she's not above choking you with a SMILE implanted on her face)
 * Blade on a Stick (Gaddeath's Gungnir)
 * Brainwashed and Crazy (Lubikka did this to her before Ricardo saved her)
 * The Chick (Also the Team Mom)
 * Combat Medic (Gaddeath can be one in Super Robot Wars Gaiden)
 * Combination Attack (With Yang Long in Revelation of Evil God)
 * I Don't Know Mortal Kombat (For being the herald of a Water Masou Kishin, she can't even swim)
 * Image Song (CALM CRYSTAL BLUE - From The City Of Water & Ice, sung by her seiyuu)
 * Lady of War (While she's not backflipping here and there, her fighting style mostly used a lot of long range and reserving strength rather than a full frontal attack (like Lune or Mio). Also to note, the Gaddeath/Goddess is designed to look like a Valkyries)
 * Lethal Chef, One-Note Cook (Has a weird sense of taste: anything she makes is so sweet it can make your stomach swollen. She also attempted to pour milk on a food.)
 * Making a Splash
 * The Mario (Gaddeath is the most balanced of the Elemental Lords)
 * Norse Mythology (Most of Gaddeath's attacks are named after this myth. To wit: Gungnir, Yotunheim, Jormungandr Ouroboros, Fenrir Crash)
 * Onee-Sama (Dotes on Masaki a lot to the point she flips between scolding and crying on a basis of worry. Masaki doesn't adore her totally, but he does appreciate her presence)
 * Parental Abandonment
 * Shout-Out, Expy (Possibly; she does have a LOT of similarities with a certain goddess and series in general...)
 * "I'm 17 years old"
 * Silk Hiding Steel (Well, quite a bit, if the Expy's considered (since she's not Japanese))
 * Spell My Name with an "S" (Fan versions include Tytti/Tootie/Tutti and her official Banpresto romanization is Thutiy...not to mention, is it Gaddeath/Goddess?)
 * Sweet Tooth (To the point it turns her into a Lethal Chef / One-Note Cook)
 * The Three Faces of Eve (She's the mother, amongst the main fighting girls of Masou Kishin)
 * Token Wholesome (She's mostly dressed fully despite her usually big breasts for her age, and when LOE was released in DS, she's the only one who got no Gainaxing)
 * Tsundere: Type B. She usually deals with other people kindly like a Yamato Nadeshiko, but she either gives the cold shoulder or angry treatment to Ricardo...

Ricardo Silvera (Voiced by Rikiya Koyama )
First herald of the Masou Kishin of Earth, Zamzeed. He's one jolly, fun ex-air force pilot from Brazil and gets along with people well. Hangs around with Masaki a lot, teaches Yang Long about how to ride a Masou Kishin, and has a crush on Tytti, flirting with her a lot. Unfortunately, as fate would have it, since he was created before the ACTUAL herald of Zamzeed (Mio), he's. Tropes associated with Ricardo:


 * Ace Pilot (As mentioned above, he's an ex-Air Force pilot from Brazil)
 * The Big Guy (Oldest out of the heralds)
 * Boisterous Bruiser
 * Dishing Out Dirt (Subverted. )
 * Large Ham (Comes with the Boisterous Bruiser territory, particularly in the Updated Rerelease.)
 * Shoulder Cannon (Zamzeed has a pair while he is the pilot.)
 * Shout-Out (If you do upgrade Zamzeed while he's around until it has the Chou Shin Dou Ken, Ricardo's battle cry would be "ORAORAORAORAORAORAORA!!")
 * Token Minority (He's Brazilian, and one of the few Hispanic characters in the franchise.)
 * Shoulder Cannon (Zamzeed has a pair while he is the pilot.)
 * Shout-Out (If you do upgrade Zamzeed while he's around until it has the Chou Shin Dou Ken, Ricardo's battle cry would be "ORAORAORAORAORAORAORA!!")
 * Token Minority (He's Brazilian, and one of the few Hispanic characters in the franchise.)
 * Token Minority (He's Brazilian, and one of the few Hispanic characters in the franchise.)
 * Token Minority (He's Brazilian, and one of the few Hispanic characters in the franchise.)

Mio Sasuga (Voiced by Mika Kanai)
Successor to Ricardo in piloting the Zamzeed. Mio was once an Ordinary High School Student, who gets transported to La Gias while she's sleeping and found by Masaki in the events of EX. She gets chosen by Zamzeed and tags along with him often. She's also an anime Otaku, but more on the Shounen series (compared to Ryusei and his Otaku-ness on Humongous Mecha). She likes to tease a lot and keeps the team lively. Like Masaki, she's also an orphan who lost her parents due to a airplane crash. She's said to have a black belt in Aikido. Tropes associated to Mio:

"Masaki: Oi, Mio, get up already!"
 * Combination Attack (Creates one with Presia in Revelation of Evil God. Oddly enough, it looks like cross between the Love Love Tenkyoken and the Royal Heartbreaker.)
 * Covert Pervert (Mio is a dirty little kid. Not only she openly groped Tytti's breasts, she apparently collects adult mags. Of women)
 * Cute Bruiser
 * Early-Bird Cameo (She appears in certain routes in Super Robot Wars Alpha and has Masaki help her out of a building. After teasing him a bit, she tells the player this scene is merely for fanservice)
 * Dishing Out Dirt
 * Fifth Ranger (Replaces Ricardo)
 * Genki Girl
 * Heroic BSOD (The first time she kills an enemy pilot in EX, Mio's incredibly shaken up of her taking a life she becomes uncontrolable until the next scenario)
 * Image Song (Mio no Jongara, sung by her seiyuu...)


 * Katanas Are Just Better (Zamzeed's ultimate attack, Gorounyudou Masamune)
 * Mighty Glacier (Zamzeed's got the thickest armor and even armed with a shield)
 * No Fourth Wall (In Super Robot Wars EX, she recognizes Aura Battler Dunbine since she had watched it on TV. Then, there's her Early-Bird Cameo)
 * Ordinary High School Student
 * Otaku (Different from Ryusei Date in that she is more into shounen than giant robots)
 * Parental Abandonment
 * Retcon (During the Classic/Alpha era, her familiars are just plain and simple joke-cracking platypuses with simple names. After the remake of the Masou Kishin games, they're changed into Goku, Hakkai and Gojyo, with their signature outfits too.)
 * Shout-Out (Zamzeed's Chou Shindou Ken: ATATATATATATATATATATATA!!!!! You're already dead...JUST KIDDING!)
 * See Retcon for the Journey to the West Shout-Out.
 * Tagalong Kid (Tagalong Kid she may be, she does kick a lot of ass)
 * The Three Faces of Eve (The child between the main girls of Masou Kishin)
 * Token Mini-Moe
 * Token Mini-Moe

Presia Zenosakis (Voiced by Satomi Koorogi)
Daughter of the Heavenly Sword Zeoroot Zan Zenosakis, this little girl's good at housework and considers Masaki as her brother even before Zeoroot adopts him. One of the first Moe Moe original characters by Banpresto. During the Langran civil wars, Presia pilots the Diablo after Mio ascends to become the pilot of the Zamzeed. Tropes associated with Presia:


 * Combination Attack (With Mio in Revelation of Evil God. Oddly enough, it looks like cross between the Love Love Tenkyoken and the Royal Heartbreaker.)
 * The Cutie
 * Cutscene Power to the Max (Her Alpha Gaiden's cut-in is much more animated than others)
 * Demoted to Extra (Her appearance in Super Robot Wars 4 and F simply removes her altogether...)
 * Dual-Wielding (Only in Alpha Gaiden)
 * I Know How To Use Swords (In Alpha Gaiden, Presia casually remarks about the swordsmanship talents both her father had and that she knows to Chang Wufei (who had told her to hang back while they searched for the rest of Londo Bell because of her youth and inexperience), stating just what she can do with a sword on her own. Wufei's response? Stunned silence accompanied by his "shocked" character portrait.
 * Image Song (Spring Breeze Presia)
 * Like Brother and Sister (Her relation with Masaki is that of siblings, but Lune and some fans just think there's more...)
 * Parental Abandonment (We never see her mother and )
 * She's Got Legs
 * Spell My Name with an "S" (The remake spells her name as Pulesia, not that Banpresto's ever that reliable when it comes to names)
 * Token Mini-Moe
 * Yamato Nadeshiko (Good at housework and cooking)
 * Token Mini-Moe
 * Yamato Nadeshiko (Good at housework and cooking)

Xenia Grania Bilseia (Voiced by Yuko Minaguchi)
One of the Langran twin princesses, she's nothing you'll expect from a princess, though. Xenia has no interest in politics and mostly spends time doing mechanical work or hanging around with the heralds. She's the one who designed the Cho Masouki Duraxyl by improving on La Gias's Magitech with data from the surface world's Humongous Mecha, notably the Gundams, her personal favourite. Xenia pilots one of two available Masouki "Nors" and its Mid-Season Upgrade "Nors Rei".

Tropes associated with Xenia:


 * Combat Medic (Subverted. While Xenia CAN fight, the Nors Rei is a machine more designed for ceremonial events and thus while her healing skills are stellar, her combat ability and damage output suffers a lot, thereby making her deal more on recovery skills rather than offensive)
 * Everything's Better with Princesses
 * FemBot (Nors and Nors Rei)
 * Hollywood Hacker (It's her hobby)
 * Leitmotif ("Passion of Princess", an exclusive Leitmotif for her, is included in Revelations of Evil God, after decades of having to use generic battle themes.)
 * Power Gives You Wings (Nors Rei's Angel Whisper attack will sprout angelic wings from its back)
 * Rocket Punch (Nors Rei's Brass Knuckle)
 * Royals Who Actually Do Something (In Xenia's case, a reliable Wrench Wench)
 * Spell My Name with an "S": good lord that mech of hers. It's name can be any combination of Norse/Nors/Nols/North and Rei/Ray, and varies with almost every person you ask.
 * Tomboy and Girly Girl (With her twin sister Monica. Xenia is much more into hacking and mecha, has shorter hair and doesn't really like royal functions that much, Monica is more reserved and feminine, not a fighter, much more of a royal figurehead and can do some fortune-telling).

VOLKRUSS FOLLOWERS/SHUTEDONIA ARMY
The main enemies of the Masou Kishin portion. Led by the mad priest Luozorl, their goal is to revive the physical god Shiva Volkruss, arch nemesis of the Masou Kishin (and the one they're prophesized to destroy). They also had Shu in their group and Brainwashed him to harvest souls (he eventually rebels). They receive the backing of the Shutedonia Republic, run by the equally ruthless General Lasett. After Shu's killed, Luozorl tries reviving him, but in process cut down his link with Volkruss, enabling him to rebel against them. Tropes regarding Volkruss Followers and the Shutedonian Army:


 * Complete Monster, Psycho for Hire (Lubikka Hakinnen, Tytti's arch nemesis; pretty much Archibald's precursor)
 * Evil Counterpart (All There in the Manual - JinOh, Touluk and Baiwara are associate with the same spirits that blessed Granveil, Gaddess and Zanzeed.)
 * Goddamned Bats (Bafom and JinOh. Since Cybuster is automatically deployed, these fire Masouki will give you major headache.)
 * Heel Face Turn (Rodney Jesha and Eris Radius first help Masaki defeat imperfect Volkruss in Super Robot Wars EX but never actually join the team until Super Robot Wars Gaiden)
 * Heroic BSOD (If you get Rodney but fail to rescue Eris, he will loss will to fight and leave the team)
 * It's Personal (Lubikka, for some reason (or maybe For the Evulz?), made it personal for Tytti and will take extra delights in torturing her)
 * Leeroy Jenkins (Kanwort Jog, a Shutedonias soldier who dreams of become the most famed warrior in La Gias. He wants to achieve it by always getting in Masaki's way...and always got beaten. At least he gets promoted to Lasett's Dragon)
 * Love Makes You Evil (If you kill Rodney in second chapter, Eris will remain with Shutedonias until the end)
 * Religion of Evil
 * The Rival (Eris to Lune during Super Robot Wars EX)
 * Physical God (Volkruss technically is)
 * Shrinking Violet (Eris, though she shifts to Hot-Blooded once inside a Masouki)