Getter Robo/Characters

Ryoma Nagare
"’’’If there’s a hole it’s a man’s job to thrust into it!’’’"

- ‘’’New Getter Robo’’’

"'’’First Apperance:’’’ Getter Robo manga

Also Featured: Everywhere else aside Hien manga.

Voiced By: Akira Kamiya (classic anime), Hideo Ishikawa (Armageddon, Shin vs Neo, New), Lex Lang (New dub)"

Main character of the first series and main character in general, featured in every adaptation of the series, pilots Getter-1.
 * Anti-Hero: Type IV
 * Type II in the 70s anime version.
 * Badass
 * Badass Longcoat: In Armageddon.
 * Barehanded Blade Block
 * Big Ol' Eyebrows: In Armageddon.
 * Brainwashed and Crazy: At one point in original manga.
 * Charles Atlas Superpower: In Getter Robo Go he can break a sword on his chest and crush dinosaur’s skull with his bare hands.
 * Combination Attack: Comes up with the Final Dynamic Special. This indicates his friendship with Kouji, Tetsuya and Duke in the crossover specials. Also comes up with the Final Getter Tomahawk and Double Shine Spark with Go in Armageddon.
 * Curb Stomp Battle: Beats Bardiel in Super Robot Wars Alpha 1 with a Single Stoner Sunshine.
 * Determinator: Always.
 * Freudian Trio: Id in all versions aside 70’s anime. Especially in New Getter
 * Genius Bruiser: The Armageddon version has him handy enough to
 * Good Is Not Nice: Almost every incarnation of him is a sociopath. At his softest he's a Jerk With a Heart of Gold.
 * Heroic Sacrifice: In original manga, through he survives.
 * Heroic Sociopath: In most of continuities.
 * Hot Blooded: Every incarnation.
 * Hotblooded Sideburns: So much that he's the one featured in the main page's picture.
 * Jerk With a Heart of Gold: In some versions, even his rather tame portrayal in Devilman Vs Getter Robo has it's moments.
 * Retired Badass: In Go manga.
 * Serial Escalation: Ryoma in New tops every other incarnation in being Hot Blooded and even manages to top himself in the last episode.
 * Slasher Smile: Often, but New Getter version really takes the cake.
 * Throwing Your Sword Always Works: During his fight with assassins in New Getter.
 * Took a Level In Badass: In Getter Robo Go, he comes back as even bigger badass than before.
 * Training From Hell: In the original manga he mentions training with his father, which apparently involved fighting tigers with his bare hands.
 * Transformation Name Announcement: CHANGE GETTAAAAA ONE! SWITCH ON!
 * : His fate in Armageddon and New.
 * : His fate in Armageddon and New.
 * : His fate in Armageddon and New.

Hayato Jin
"Looks like the only ones who can pilot Getter Robo are either superior pilots… or insane"

- Getter Robo Go manga

"First Apperance: Getter Robo manga

Also Featured: Everywhere else.

Voiced By: Keaton Yamada (classic anime), Naoya Uchida (Armageddon, Shin vs Neo, New), Todd Crump (New dub)"

Pilot of Getter-2, more intelligent and calm than Ryoma, but in many continuities also even crazier than him.

"Ryoma: Hayato! what was that!?
 * Anti-Hero: Type V. Eventually, he softens up slightly to a Type IV.
 * Type II in the 70s anime version.
 * Axe Crazy: Manages to pull out this and The Stoic at the same time.
 * Badass
 * Badass Longcoat: In Ah and Hien.
 * Character Development: Grows significantly over the course of the series.
 * Deadpan Snarker: on occasion, he tends to be the most prone of this among the three pilots. Such as this gem from Armageddon:

Hayato: (calmly reloading gun) It had big claws and a long tail, so I'd say it was a monster."

"Hayato: Don’t worry."
 * For the Evulz: In original manga he starts a revolution in his school, takes control of one of it's buildings and plots to kill Japan's prime minister out of boredom. In New he leads terrorists to satisfy his sadistic thirst of killing.
 * Freudian Trio: Ego to Ryoma’s Id.
 * Gorn: In original manga and New he cuts out guy’s eyes, ears and tongue with his fingernails.
 * The Lancer: For Ryoma
 * Older and Wiser: In Armageddon, Shin vs Neo and manga continuity starting from Go.
 * Omniscient Morality License: Pulls it out few times to justify more amoral actions against the enemies. Suprisingly doesn’t use it in Go manga, when Go calls him on.


 * Pay Evil Unto Evil
 * The Smart Guy: Smartest of Getter Power Trio.
 * The Stoic: Probably one person who managed to be stoic and Axe Crazy at the same time.
 * Not So Stoic: In original manga he starts panicking at the first encounter with dinosaurs, to the point of peeing himself and pass out after piloting Getter for the first time. In New, after helping defeats Oni in Getter for the first time he drops his stoic persona and tries to destroy Satome Research Lab, while grinning like maniac.
 * Slasher Smile: Oh so very often, but Go manga version really takes the cake, probably outclassing even New incarnation.
 * Tall, Dark and Snarky
 * Terrorists Without a Cause: In New he leads a terrorist cell. At one point of his henchmen calls him on the fact he don’t give a damn about their cause and uses them as his personal tool to kill people.
 * This is actually a Setting Update of the original manga, wherein he was the leader of one of 1970s Japan's notoriously violent campus radical groups.
 * : His fate in Armageddon
 * The White Prince: In the original 70's series
 * Yakuza: In the 90s he became a gangster instead of a terrorist as the only terrorists making the news in Japan at the time were the Aum Shinrikyo cultists, which wouldn't suit his personality very well.

Musashi Tomoe
"’’’First Apperance:’’’ Getter Robo anime

Also Featured: Getter Robo manga, Shin Vs Neo, Armageddon

Voiced By: Toku Nishio (classic anime), Shinpachi Tsuji (Armageddon, Shin Vs Neo)"

Young and idealistic judo fighter with a big heart, pilots Getter-3.

"Musashi: Sorry, I’m not Michiru."
 * Anti-Hero: Type II.
 * Breaking the Fourth Wall: In Devilman vs Getter Robo after we get to see his shower scene
 * Breaking the Fourth Wall: In Devilman vs Getter Robo after we get to see his shower scene


 * Audience What Audience: He immediately has to explain to Ryoma who is he talking to.
 * Canon Immigrant: Originally introduced in the anime, but Ishikawa liked him so much he brought him to the manga.
 * Charles Atlas Superpower: He can make big monkeys fly with his judo.
 * Freudian Trio: Superego to Ryoma’s Id and Hayato’s Ego.
 * Gentle Giant
 * Gonk: Not that cartoonishly ugly, just... plainer compared to others.
 * Harsher in Hindsight: And now that
 * : Even The Other Wiki says so!
 * In Armaggedon.
 * Plucky Comic Relief: In manga.
 * Wrong Genre Savvy: Manga version clearly thinks he is in Lighter and Softer classic anime world, and not Darker and Edgier world of manga, much to annoyance of his teammates.
 * Fridge Brilliance: As mentioned above, Musashi is a Canon Immigrant from the Getter Robo anime, which was significantly lighter in tone than the ultraviolence-ridden, dark manga. Musashi's genre error is likely Ishikawa having fun with this fact.
 * Wrong Genre Savvy: Manga version clearly thinks he is in Lighter and Softer classic anime world, and not Darker and Edgier world of manga, much to annoyance of his teammates.
 * Fridge Brilliance: As mentioned above, Musashi is a Canon Immigrant from the Getter Robo anime, which was significantly lighter in tone than the ultraviolence-ridden, dark manga. Musashi's genre error is likely Ishikawa having fun with this fact.

Benkei Kuruma
"Voiced By: Jouji Yanami (classic anime), Shozo Iizuka (Armageddon)"

Pilot of Getter-3 after


 * Big Brother Mentor: To Genki.
 * Gentle Giant
 * Gonk: Again, more plain than ugly
 * : In Shin Getter Robo
 * Stout Strength: In the anime he's a bit more muscular so he looks less like Musashi, unlike his manga counterpart.
 * Technical Pacifist
 * Team Dad: In Armegeddon.
 * : In Armageddon
 * : In Armageddon

Benkei Musashibo
"Appears in: New Getter Robo

Voiced By: Kiyoyuki Yanada (original), Michael McConnohie (New dub)"

Wild man raised by Buddhist monks who sworn vendetta against the Oni for massacring his group. He carries a sword connected to them, and pilots Getter-3.


 * Anti-Hero: Type III
 * Bald of Awesome
 * Composite Character: Mix of Musashi and Benkei.
 * Freudian Trio: Superego to Ryoma’s Id and Hayato’s Ego.
 * Genius Bruiser
 * Gonk: Again, not THAT ugly...
 * Groin Attack: Gets to be at reciving end from Michiru.
 * Only Sane Man: The reason why the professor picked him for the team. He wanted to  To help balance out Ryoma and Hayato.
 * Roaring Rampage of Revenge: Has a sworn vendetta against Oni.

Go Ichimonji
"First Apperance: Getter Robo Go manga.

Also Featured: Getter Go anime, Shin Vs. Neo, Armageddon.

Voiced By: Tomokazu Seki (Armageddon), Takahiro Sakurai (Shin Vs. Neo)"

Young student with unusual physical features, Hayato gets him to pilot Getter Robo Go. He pilots Getter one


 * Badass
 * Big Brother Instinct: Towards Sho in manga and Kei in Armageddon.
 * Charles Atlas Superpower
 * Desperately Looking for A Purpose In Life
 * Determinator: The best evidence is probably his fight with Ryoma, while he gets beaten over and over again but keeps coming.
 * The Hero: Of the second trio in Getter Robo Go.
 * Hidden in Plain Sight: Intentionally plays like a mediocre gym student to hide his abilities.
 * Hot Blooded
 * I Want My Beloved to Be Happy:
 * Screaming Warrior: In the beginnings of Armaggedon. Holy crap!
 * Screaming Warrior: In the beginnings of Armaggedon. Holy crap!

Sho Tachibana
"First Apperance: Getter Robo Go manga

Also Featured: Go anime, Shin Vs Neo.

Voiced By: Yuu Asakawa (Shin Vs Neo)"

Skilled swordfighter and daughter of professor Tachibana, who has built Getter Robo Go alongside Hayato, to fight Professor Rando. Pilots Getter-2.


 * Badass
 * Defrosting the Ice Queen
 * Even the Girls Want Her: Hi, Linda.
 * Hot Chick With a Sword: Minus the lack of clothes.
 * The Lancer
 * Lady of War
 * Official Couple: With
 * The Stoic
 * Not So Stoic

Gai Daidou
"First Apperance: Getter Robo Go manga

Also Featured: Go anime, Armageddon, Shin Vs Neo

Voiced By: Yasunori Matsumoto (Armageddon), Toshiharu Sakurai (Shin Vs Neo)"

Young mechanic who gets to pilot Getter-3 in Getter Robo Go, after first man choosen by Hayato to pilot it gets crazy.


 * Badass
 * Beware the Nice Ones: When a mechanic buddy of his is beaten up he goes berserk and beats up the ex-wrestler that did it.
 * The Big Guy
 * Cargo Cult: Really loves the Getter.
 * Gentle Giant
 * Gonk: But doesn't get it as badly as Musashi and Benkei did. Actually he's kind of cute, in a youthful way.
 * Big Beautiful Man: If you think he is
 * Nice Guy
 * The Smart Guy: Out of the three he's got the most knowledge on machines, being a mechanic and all.
 * The Smart Guy: Out of the three he's got the most knowledge on machines, being a mechanic and all.

Schwartz Koff
"First Apperance: Getter Robo Go manga."

Racist and misogynist pilot of American mecha Stilva, part of forces opposing Rando.


 * Badass: A huge racist but he can kick butt.
 * Eagle Land: Lots of type 2.
 * Freudian Excuse: His grandpa was killed at Pearl Harbor and his dad's business was beaten by Japanese companies.
 * Hot Blooded:
 * Jerkass: Racist and a misogynist but...
 * Jerk With a Heart of Gold: After some character development.
 * No Guy Wants an Amazon: Subverted, he starts to see the error of his ways when he's rescued by Sho (female and Japanese) and is smitten by how tough she is.
 * Not So Different: With Go in terms of both being bad ass hot blooded young men.
 * Worthy Opponent: Starts to get a spark of begrudgingly towards Go when the two fight fist to fist.

John Rembert
"First Apperance: Getter Robo Go manga."

Pilots Stilva with Schwartz Koff, but gets a lot less focus, spending a lot of time injured.


 * Eagle Land: Has shades of Type 1, as opposed to Schwartz's Type 2.
 * Foil For Schwartz.
 * Large Ham
 * Large Ham

Kei Minamikaze
"First Apperance:' Getter Robo Go Manga

Also Featured: Armageddon

Voiced By: Narumi Hidaka (Armageddon)"


 * Break the Cutie:
 * Also, her backstory in Armaggedon.
 * Composite Character: Kei in Armageddon is a mix of Kei from manga and Sho.
 * Full Frontal Assault: Armaggedon. Justified Trope:
 * Genki Girl
 * Lady of War: Anime version
 * Ship Tease: A lot of it between her and Go in the manga.
 * Ship Tease: A lot of it between her and Go in the manga.

Messiah Tahir
"First Apperance: Getter Robo Go manga."

Mysterious child who claims to have been send by God to help Getter Team.


 * Creepy Child: At times but he does have a sense of humor.
 * The Messiah: Right in his name.

Emperor Gore
"First Apperance: Getter Robo manga

Also Featured: Getter Robo 70s anime.

Voiced By: Hiromu Jin (classic anime), Kenji Utsumi (classic anime in Super Robot Wars, Shin Vs Neo)"

Leader of Dinosaur Empire and main villain of the first manga and classic anime.


 * Anti-Villain (Original Manga version only)
 * Back From the Dead: In Shin Vs. Neo
 * Badass Cape
 * Big Bad
 * : Invoked.
 * Evil Overlord
 * Large Ham: Most of times he doesn't speak, he yells.
 * Obviously Evil
 * Spell My Name With an "S": Is it Gore, Gor or Goru?
 * Villain Ball: Often show to hold a large one
 * Villain Team-Up: With Silene in Devilman vs Getter Robo and the Mycenae Empire in the Super Robot Wars Alpha series.
 * Worthy Opponent: At the end he and Getter Team become this for each other.

Emperor Burai
"Earth doesn't belong to dinosaurs. It belongs to demons!"

- Getter Robo manga.

"First Apperance: Getter Robo manga

Also Featured: Getter Robo anime, Getter Robo G anime and manga.

Voiced By: Jouji Yanami"

Leader Of Hundred Demons Empire, an empire of horned demonic cyborgs.


 * Big Bad: Of Getter Robo G.
 * Back From the Dead:
 * Card-Carrying Villain
 * Eviler Than Thou: Towards Gore.
 * Time Travel:
 * Playing Both Sides: Starting all out war between Demon Empire, Dinosaur Empire and Getter Team to force Gore into making final, desperate attack - either Getter or Dinosaur Empire would be defeated, leaving him with only one enemy or the two would weaken each other.
 * Villain Team-Up: With the Mycenae Empire, Bozanians and Campbellians in Super Robot Wars Advance.
 * Villain Team-Up: With the Mycenae Empire, Bozanians and Campbellians in Super Robot Wars Advance.

Professor Rando
"First Apperance: Getter Robo Go manga.

Also Featured: Getter Robo Go anime."

Main villain of Getter Robo Go manga, a Mad Scientist with the dream of world's counqer. In order to do so he convinces world's goverments to found creation of scientific laboratory on the north pole, where different scientific teams could work together for a better future; he then proceded to turn all greatest sciencists he invinted there into his cybernetic slaves. The Japanesse team managed to escape, thanks to Hayato, who then, together with Doctor Tachibana, created secret organization to thwart his plans.


 * Arch Enemy: With Hayato.
 * Badass Beard
 * Badass Cape: Probably visits the same store as Gore.
 * Badass Moustache
 * Big Bad: Of Getter Robo Go.
 * Cyborg
 * Cybernetics Will Eat Your Soul: What he subjects other people to.
 * Evil Overlord
 * Eviler Than Thou: Gets to be an reciving end from Hayato at one point.
 * Expy: Of Doctor Hell.
 * Mad Scientist
 * Obviously Evil
 * Shock and Awe: Can create lightnings.
 * Spell My Name With an "S": Rando or Randow?
 * Take Over the World: OF COURSE
 * Take Over the World: OF COURSE

Raseshi
"First Apperance: Getter Robo Go manga"

Professor Rando's right hand of unknow motives and abilities.


 * The Dragon
 * Dude Looks Like a Lady
 * Expy: Of Baron Asura.

Empress Jatego
"First Apperance: Getter Robo Go manga."

New leader of Dinosaur Empire after Gore's demise.


 * Distaff Counterpart: For Gore.
 * Eviler Than Thou:
 * Large Ham: Apparently unable not to yell whenever she talks about Getter Robo.
 * Legacy Character: For Gore.
 * You Have Outlived Your Usefulness:
 * You Have Outlived Your Usefulness:

Semei
"First Apperance: New Getter Robo

Voiced By: Takehito Koyasu"

Powerful wizard who rules his own dimension and commands the Oni. He kidnaps Getter Robo and it's pilots to provide him a challenge.


 * Curb Stomp Battle: In his final fight he utterly smashes Getter.
 * Expy: Of Abe no Seimei, half-legendary historical figure.
 * The Man Behind the Man: For the Oni.

Four Oni Gods
"First Apperance: New Getter Robo"

Four godlike beings that appears at the end of New Getter Robo, real masterminds behind the Oni and Semei.


 * Bald of Awesome: Dhtarastra
 * Chest Blaster: Virudhaka.
 * Cool Sword: Virudhaka's.
 * Expy: Of four gods from another Ishikawa's manga, Kyomu Senki Miroku.
 * The Man Behind the Man: For Semei
 * Mega Manning: Virudhaka (red head) creates a drill with his arm to block Hayato's.
 * The Stoic: Vaisravana (gold) and even more Virudhaka.
 * Well-Intentioned Extremist: Will stop at nothing to destroy the threat of Getter Energy. They would probably get along Anti-Spirals.

Mr. Cohen and Mr. Stinger
First Appearances: Getter Robo Armageddon

"Correct" evolution is meant to be a slow process that increases not power and size (like in the case of Invaders), but all the attributes of a living thing. The Invaders do not contribute to Spiral Nemesis because they have no souls and therefore their rapid evolution does not increase entropy as much as a Spiral's would. Anti-Spiral himself states that regardless of how much the Invaders evolve, they are mindless beasts and therefore can be easily dealt with at the moment of his choosing.
 * Breath Weapon: The third episode has Cohen puking Invader slime.
 * Big Bad Duumvirate : Of Armageddon.
 * Eldritch Abomination:
 * Evil Counterparts: When piloting Metal Beast Getter G, Cohen is opposite Benkei and Stinger is opposite to Hayato.
 * Mook Maker: The third episode has Cohen puking Invader slime and in the finale a whole armada of Elite Mooks come from him.
 * One-Winged Angel:
 * Not So Harmless: Being The Man Behind the Man aside, they play second fiddle to Saotome most of the time in Armageddon...Then they begin hurling moons, planets, black holes and eventually an Invader Dimension at Earth and all in the final two episodes!
 * Not So Stoic:
 * Scary Black Man: It isn't being angry that makes Cohen scary. Aside from hosting Invaders it is entire mannerisms that make him scary.
 * The Man Behind the Man: The ones that most likely infected Saotome and Michiru.
 * Those Two Bad Guys: Their role for much of the series.
 * Uncanny Valley
 * Villain Team-Up: In Super Robot Wars Z2: Saisei-Hen, the Anti-Spirals cooperate with the Invaders because the Invaders use Getter Rays incorrectly. Rather than simply inundating themselves in the Getter and allowing evolution to take its course, they forcibly "evolve" themselves. To the Anti-Spirals, the Invaders are not "evolving" so much as they are simply growing bigger and more primal. After all, Stinger and Cohen are the only examples of sapient Invaders after  kicked the bucket.

Michiru Saotome
"Voiced by: Rihoko Yoshida (original series), Takako Honda (New), Wendee Lee (New dub)"


 * The Chick: Most versions.
 * Hot Scientist: New
 * Les Yay: With Miki in Devilman vs Getter Robo
 * Identical Stranger: To  in the original anime.
 * Ms. Fanservice: In Devilman vs Getter Robo.
 * Plucky Girl
 * Tall, Dark and Bishoujo
 * Took a Level In Badass: The New version is a deadpan snarker hot scientist. Awesome!
 * Plucky Girl
 * Tall, Dark and Bishoujo
 * Took a Level In Badass: The New version is a deadpan snarker hot scientist. Awesome!

Lady Raikou
"First Apperance: 'New Getter Robo"


 * Badass
 * Cute Bruiser
 * Lady of War

Genki Saotome

 * Cheerful Child
 * Creepy Child: Only in Armaggedon. But the kid's creepiness in that continuity is enough for the whole franchise.
 * Tagalong Kid
 * Tagalong Kid
 * Tagalong Kid
 * Tagalong Kid

Professor Saotome
"Voiced by: Kousei Tomita (original series), Mugihito (Armaggedon), Kinryuu Arimoto (New), Abe Lasser (New dub)"

"Apollo(nius): "Ba'al... you really are beasts. You who cannot fathom the love and compassion of Man do not deserve to exist beneath the Sun. Ba'al, the Mechanical Angel Aquarion hereby refutes your existence! Behold! The power of mankind... and the power of life!""
 * Badass Grandpa: Specially in New.
 * Cool Old Guy
 * The  version. Or so it seems he pulled a monster of a {{plan}] that went wrong in the third episode and it got delayed
 * The Professor
 * Made of Iron: In most continuities but in the first three episodes of Armageddon he just keeps seemingly dying but still lives.
 * This Is Unforgivable!: In Saisei-Hen, which was given to him by Apollo
 * Made of Iron: In most continuities but in the first three episodes of Armageddon he just keeps seemingly dying but still lives.
 * This Is Unforgivable!: In Saisei-Hen, which was given to him by Apollo
 * This Is Unforgivable!: In Saisei-Hen, which was given to him by Apollo
 * This Is Unforgivable!: In Saisei-Hen, which was given to him by Apollo
 * This Is Unforgivable!: In Saisei-Hen, which was given to him by Apollo

- *Cue Aquarion manifesting the true Wings of the Sun and one-shotting Saotome's Metal Beast Dragon upside the head with the Infinite Sword.*