Gunnm/Characters

A list of the characters that appear in the Gunnm/Battle Angel Alita series. As a Long Runner, expect Loads and Loads of Characters.

Gally/Alita
The series protagonist, a cute and young-looking girl cyborg, who was found by Dr. Daisuke Ido on the scrap heap in the beginning of the original Gunnm. While hardly all that intimidating on the outside, she later proved to be arguably the finest warrior on Earth, the reasons and implications of which touched in the great detail in the sequel manga Last Order.


 * Action Girl: Or Dark Action Girl depending on her mental state of the moment.
 * Amazonian Beauty: Her muscles aren't very big, but they are very defined.
 * Animal Motifs: An octopus, due to her perpetual pout. After her large Heroic BSOD in Last Order, she has become to act more and more like a cat.
 * Badass
 * Badass Longcoat
 * Blade Below the Shoulder On and off since her Motorball days.
 * Blood Knight: Gradually transforms into one, but showed traces of this from the very beggining.
 * She flips in and out of this personality whenever things go better or worse for her.
 * Blood-Splattered Wedding Dress: At one point Alita kicks some mecha ass wile wearing a gorgeous wedding dress...for no good reason, but it sure looks cool.
 * Boobs of Steel: Quite literally. Her bust size increases with each body change, while we are at that.
 * One bonus 4koma gag in Last Order reveals during a shower scene that when she "retracts" her Blade Below the Shoulder, the steel from the blades apparently migrates to pad her breasts.
 * Break the Cutie: She almost loses her mind when
 * Broken Ace: Alita is far above 95% of the killer cyborgs she encounters and she honestly wants to do the right thing. Still, she tends to create just as many problems as she fixes because she is still a flawed human at heart who is controlled by emotions, fears and predjudices...and can kill allmost anything.
 * She is considered the "strongest warrior".
 * Can't Have Sex Ever: More like Can't Settle Down With Somebody She Loves, Ever. Just as Hugo renounced to his dream of reaching Tiphares for her, he got killed; just as she finished her mission and was free to go see Figure Four, she was blown up, and next thing she knew, she had to go to space to save Earth.
 * Cry Cute
 * Cute Bruiser
 * Cyborg: Her only organic part is her brain.
 * Robot Girl.
 * Deadpan Snarker
 * Determinator
 * Facial Markings: Her trademark "antiglare patches" on the cheeks that she wears in any of her bodies. They were originaly the traditional markings of Panzer Kunst users, but since Gally was the only PK user on Earth they became her own trademark, so much that they have been built into her face since the Motorball days, and only seen without them twice after that.
 * Hell-Bent for Leather: When she bothers with clothing at all, as most of her bodies are robotic enough to not need it. She apparently just loves leather as a fashion statement.
 * She loves her pitch black leather so much she even wears it in the desert while using a body that has an inherent overheating problem. (see picture)
 * Implacable Man: A flashback shows that she and possibly all Panzer Kunst users were this.
 * The Hero
 * Laser-Guided Amnesia
 * Manic Pixie Dream Girl: When Alita falls head over heels in love with Yugo she unleashes her inner MPDG to talk him out of his single minded quest to reach Salem and make him hers. She ultimately succeeds  After this experience, Alita permanently loses that part of herself.
 * Market-Based Title: Not only that, but also her name -- she's named Alita in the English translation, but Gally (apparently from Galatea) in the Japanese original. Kishiro doesn't seem to mind though.
 * And with the help of both names were made canon.   To make things even more complicated, there are a few clones of her running around, each with her/his own distinct personality and name.
 * Mood Swinger: Her frequently alternating between the cheerful periods and depressed sulking in the corner would make her look almost bipolar, if not for the fact that she usually has a reason for this Heroic BSODs.
 * Older Than They Look: Spent 200 years in suspended animation, yet still looked like a teenager when she was revived. True, she WAS a teenager beforehand, and cyborg bodies do not age, but, 15 years later, and several body upgrades, is still said to not look older that 20, despite actually being closer to two centuries and a half.
 * Her "real" age, that is, the time she spent conscious and not a Human Popsicle, turned off or in other type of suspended animation, is about 30, though.
 * Pint-Sized Powerhouse: One of the most efficient warriors alive, insanelly skilled, and with the raw firepower of one of the major superpowers of the Solar System... And still just 5 feet tall.
 * Really Seven Hundred Years Old: Well, 200-something really.
 * She's Got Legs: Oh yes.
 * Slasher Smile: She sometimes sports one during her most battle-crazed moments. Pray you never have to be on the receiving end of a face like that, i kid you not!
 * A Taste of Power: The berserker body she obtains in the first volume has more raw firepower that ANYTHING else in the series but some of her weapons in her (inferior in combat) TUNED body, and the Imaginos body she uses in the ending and in Last Order.
 * Took a Level In Badass: The most striking one was when she was given the berserker body and went from a young girl without experiece that could do some martial arts to a plasma welding proffesional able to win a bar brawl by herself.
 * Tomato in the Mirror: Twice in fast sucession in Last Order, she has not been the same since the latter.
 * Ubermensch
 * Waif Fu
 * Weapon of Choice: The Damascus Blade; first used as an elbow blade, then turned into a giant butterfly knife, and then incorporated into her Imaginos body.
 * The Woobie: She has been through hell...
 * Iron Woobie: ... and always ready to keep going.
 * Waif Fu
 * Weapon of Choice: The Damascus Blade; first used as an elbow blade, then turned into a giant butterfly knife, and then incorporated into her Imaginos body.
 * The Woobie: She has been through hell...
 * Iron Woobie: ... and always ready to keep going.

Dr. Desty Nova
A closest thing to a Big Bad in the original manga and the epitome of a Mad Scientist archetype. He becomes somewhat more subdued in the sequel, even becoming something of an Anti-Hero and a combination of a mentor, a Mission Control and a Parental Substitute (if you squint really hard) for the hero. Disregarding Super Nova, of course. Super Nova might go and die in the fire.


 * Affably Evil: Discounting his bouts of Science-Related Memetic Disorder and occasional fits of Complete Monsterdom Desty Nova is a pretty swell guy.
 * Anti-Hero: Some of Novas in Last Order, most notably Nova Pod, who even actually seems more or less sane.
 * Awesomeness By Analysis: The man might be batshit crazy, but his is the sharpest brain in the Solar System.
 * Brain Uploading:, but he uses it to his advantage by periodically copying its contents, making backups in his body, making backup bodies...
 * Cloning Blues: There are about 3 to 5 of him running around, and managed to become a literal pest.
 * Complete Monster: Super Nova, full stop. Other Novas run the gamut from Anti-Villain to Affably Evil, but Super Nova is just plain evil.
 * Crazy Awesome: The more we see him, the more obvious it gets.
 * Early-Bird Cameo: Debuts in the second half of the 5th volume of the original manga, past its midpoint, but is first seen in the very first volume, and his name is first mentioned in the third.
 * Einstein Hair: A somewhat subdued example, he at least changes hairstyles.
 * Friendly Enemy: To Gally, mostly because she is his favorite (and most successful) test subject.
 * For Science!: His raison d'etre.
 * Funny Afro: A subversion: Super Nova is anything but funny.
 * Healing Factor: Due to nanomachines, and, after his combination of Brain Uploading and Cloning Blues, he is functionally inmortal.
 * Insufferable Genius
 * Jerkass: Only cares about KARMATRON DYNAMICS.
 * Lack of Empathy: And to research in said theory, people suffered. A lot.
 * Karma Houdini: Literally seems to be his ultimate goal...probably.
 * Knight of Cerebus: The overall tone of the manga (as well as Alita's life) changes DRASTICALLY after he appears.
 * Large Ham: Bombastic delivery, complete with corporal expresiveness and running around laughing like a maniac.
 * Mad Scientist: Doesn't even believe in sanity. Still, he tends to be successful in his experiments.
 * Or is he the one truely objective thinker in a completely insane universe?
 * Magnificent Bastard: With a dash of Crazy Awesome in the original. Becomes somewhat sidelined by Trinidad in the sequel, though.
 * The Man Behind the Man: He is responsible of pretty much EVERYTHING that happens to Alita.
 * Mind Rape: When Nova picks a fight with you, he usually comes up with a new, creative way to mess up your head. He is very effective at it.
 * Morally-Ambiguous Doctorate: Well, more like completely amoral.
 * Opaque Lenses: Made of metal, and making his visage look (more) insane and inhuman.
 * Psychotic Smirk: Well, smile from ear to ear. That's his facial expresion when he is not spotting a Cat Smile.
 * Trademark Favourite Food: Flan.
 * Stealth Mentor

Dr. Daisuke Ido
Scrapyard cybersurgeon and Hunter-Warrior who found what was left of Gally in the scrap heap and revived/rebuilt her. Ido initially had some hopes of a Pygmalion Plot (which is probably why he named Gally such, as a short of Galatea), but wasn't much disappointed when she turned out indifferent, and became her Parental Substitute to amend her amnesia.


 * Badass Normal: The only fully organic hunter warrior in the Scrapyard, and a pretty damn good one.
 * Blood Knight: His sole reason to be a hunter-warrior.
 * Parental Substitute
 * Pygmalion Plot: He somewhat had that idea about Gally when he found her, but quickly got over that.
 * Parental Substitute
 * Pygmalion Plot: He somewhat had that idea about Gally when he found her, but quickly got over that.
 * Parental Substitute
 * Pygmalion Plot: He somewhat had that idea about Gally when he found her, but quickly got over that.

Zapan

 * From Nobody to Nightmare
 * Jerkass
 * Disproportionate Retribution: "I'll RUIN the life of the girl who beat me in a bar brawl because I was a jerk with her!"
 * Jerkass Woobie
 * Jerk with a Heart of Gold
 * Implacable Man:
 * Knife Nut
 * My God, What Have I Done?: His reaction It's also what drives him over the edge.
 * Shout-Out: The symbol he bears in his forehead is Blue Oyster Cult's.
 * You Will Be Assimilated: The active Berserker body really likes to eat other cyborgs...
 * My God, What Have I Done?: His reaction It's also what drives him over the edge.
 * Shout-Out: The symbol he bears in his forehead is Blue Oyster Cult's.
 * You Will Be Assimilated: The active Berserker body really likes to eat other cyborgs...
 * You Will Be Assimilated: The active Berserker body really likes to eat other cyborgs...

Hugo
A Scrapyard boy who became Gally's first friend and later a Love Interest in the original. His biggest dream was to reach Tiphares/Jeru whatever it takes. -- which was one of the first signs just how crapsack their world really is.


 * Determinator
 * Lovable Rogue
 * Oblivious to Love: Hugo, you fool!
 * Oblivious to Love: Hugo, you fool!

Vector

 * Anti-Villain: He isn't really all that evil in the manga, but in the OVA he is the main villain.
 * Corrupt Corporate Executive

Makaku

 * Combat Tentacles: Kinuba's power-body had five of these as his left hand doubling as Vibro Weapons, he also had a Boarhead computer but it was eaten by Makaku.
 * Grand Theft Me: To several people most notably Kinuba where he got his cyborg power-body.
 * I Am a Humanitarian: both as a Cannibalism Superpower and an addiction.
 * Nietzsche Wannabe
 * He even quotes Nietzsche at one point.

Koyomi K.
A young girl appearing in the very first volume as newborn kid who lost her parents. Koyomi serves as a quasi timer for the series since her age represents the time that has passed since the series started. Growing up in the scrapyard and with her father losing his beloved bar with the Zapan incident, she developed a rather opportunistic and sarcastic personality. However she still has a honest heart and believes in a better future.


 * Audience Surrogate
 * The Ladette
 * Identical Stranger: She is said to look a lot like Gally. This is most noticeable in the epilogue of the original manga, where She's All Grown Up.
 * Iron Woobie: Has gone through her own share of horrible events and loses, but like Gally she doesn't give up.
 * Hit So Hard the Calendar Felt It: She was born exactly at the same moment as Ido found Gally's body in the scrap heap, marking the start of the whole story. Kishiro half-jokingly maintains a separate calendar called Anno Koyomi to maintain continuity of the series.
 * Her very name means "Calendar" in Japanese.
 * Morality Pet: Became this for Den.
 * Scare'Em Straight: She almost crosses the line into villany during the raid on the scrapyard  He promptly decides to put the fear of death back in the little brat
 * Tagalong Kid: With the Barjack.

Jashugan



 * The Ace: He ended up taking challenges only from teams, AND with a handicap, otherwise he'd have no challenge. And he had barely in this way. Justified, however, in that his brain was touched by a certain Mad Scientist who enjoys flan...
 * Dark-Skinned Blond
 * Determinator
 * Worthy Opponent: The sole character to punch Gally in the midsection and actually defeat her in combat until Last Order.
 * This left such a mark on her that even after having long surpassed him, she still thinks highly of him.
 * Worthy Opponent: The sole character to punch Gally in the midsection and actually defeat her in combat until Last Order.
 * This left such a mark on her that even after having long surpassed him, she still thinks highly of him.
 * This left such a mark on her that even after having long surpassed him, she still thinks highly of him.

Kaos
A mysterius Radio DJ who drives around the wasteland with his assistant. His musical tallent stems from his unique ability to read memories inprinted on items by their users. This can range from music and singing from instruments to fencing from Swords. He also can only see in infrared and hear in radio signals. Becomes a potential love intrest for Gally after reading her memories. However he also harbors two dark Secrets.


 * Blessed with Suck: He can see infrared radiation and hear and speak radio waves. He can ONLY see infrared radiation and ONLY hear and speak radio waves.
 * The Empath: Thanks to his psychometry, he can feel the experiences of whatever he touches.
 * Instant Expert: Can learn EVERYTHING about anything he touches, incluiding how to use it at its best.
 * Love At First Touch: Due to his power, having to fix Gally's body made him fall in love with her.
 * Wide-Eyed Idealist: To the point of making the setting a World Half Full almost by himself.
 * Love At First Touch: Due to his power, having to fix Gally's body made him fall in love with her.
 * Wide-Eyed Idealist: To the point of making the setting a World Half Full almost by himself.
 * Wide-Eyed Idealist: To the point of making the setting a World Half Full almost by himself.

Den
Leader of the marauding army Barjack. Prefers to walk around in a massiv centauren shaped robot body. According to Gally, extremly agile despite his size.


 * Blood Knight:
 * Establishing Character Moment: Seeing him deliver a Badass Boast to an opponent who is destroying his body, just to kill him in one single move once he finishes. Then squatting the manager of said opponent for being a pawn of Tiphares.
 * Large and In Charge
 * Self-Destructive Charge: His last . Complete with "O Fortuna" sounding. Yes, in printed media.
 * Wide-Eyed Idealist: A far darker that normal take on the trope, he belives the destruction of Tiphares would solve the world's problems.
 * Wide-Eyed Idealist: A far darker that normal take on the trope, he belives the destruction of Tiphares would solve the world's problems.

Figure Four

 * Badass Normal: Can perform a shockwave attack in a human body and knows how to fight full-body cyborgs.
 * Determinator: Went up against Gally several times despite getting his ass beaten, survived having a wall drop on him and didn't stop carrying Gally through a desert without any water or shade. The only thing that can really stop him is a nuclear reactor (It Makes Sense in Context).
 * Manly Tears:
 * Out of Focus: He only got mentions in Last Order. Compare with Koyomi, Kaos, and even Vector and Gally's motorball circle, which were seen and even got some plotlines.
 * Stay in the Kitchen: He acts macho to lure Alita out of her shell but ironically  That's pretty rare in fiction, when you think of it.

Lou Collins
Gally's Mission Control during her Factory agent times and her closest friend since she lost touch with Ido and others (bordering on Les Yay sometimes). During the Barjack arc she was swept up into the Jeru/Salem (Tipharo-Ketherean for you Viz readers) politics, and the result... wasn't pretty to say the least. In fact, the original impulse for Last Order story was Gally's wish to save her friend (or whatever left of her).


 * Cosmic Plaything: It seems that the poor girl exist mainly to ramp up drama and give Gally something to angst over.
 * Driven to Suicide: Subverted in the original manga's ending. It looks like this happens to her after Nova revealed her Jeru's secret, but she is completly distracted from it after realising her hicup has stopped.
 * Fate Worse Than Death: Kishiro has a sick, sick imagination, really.
 * Mission Control: In the original
 * Romantic Two-Girl Friendship: Guess who!
 * The Woobie
 * Your Princess Is in Another Castle

Bigott Eisenburg
After Aita is nearly destroyed, Eisenburg is the one who recruits her for the "Tuned" program  He is an extremely smug character who values his citizenship of Salem above all else and sees Scrapyard cyborgs as sub-human tools.


 * Big Bad Wannabe: From the first time you see him, you know he is up to no good. When he  he seems to be a really big deal too. He is anything but.
 * Go Mad From the Revelation:
 * Irony:
 * Smug Snake
 * You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Does it TWICE to Alita

GR-6 Sechs
One of the Gally's TUNED clones, who broke free and, being burdened with an extremely powerful Middle Child Syndrome decided to prove his (well, her at the time) worth by hunting down all other clones and, finally, the original. After getting (then still) her ass kicked by Gally almost at the end of that quest (see below), she (then) toned down somewhat and became something of an Annoying Younger Sibling.


 * A Day in the Limelight: Due to Gally being busy getting Lou's brain and ; and Elf and Zwölf being scared to fight due to the latter having had her head blown up in their last fight; Sechs alone has to fight in the Z.O.T.T. He brings the team to the finals, the first time ever the final is not Jupiter versus Venus.
 * Animal Motif: Shark.
 * Artificial Human: He started out as a copy of Gally, remember.
 * Ridiculously Human Robot: His brain, being the same kind as the Tipharean chips, is functionally human.
 * Attractive Bent Gender: A male example. His head was replaced, so the scars he used to have vanished, and his body better fits his persona. He is described as "the most popular male participant in the ZOTT."
 * Badass: Missile surfing. That's all.
 * "You're accelerating at the speed of light" - Zekka
 * Badass Transplant: He lost his right arm after fighting Elf and Zwolf's mono-molecular wire. It was replaced with a Solenoid Quench gun, which was improved on when he obtained his first Fizziroy body.
 * Balloon Belly: When he upgrades his Fizziroy Body. Happens more frequently later when he uses him implosion punches.
 * The Big Guy: Fizziroy bodies tend to be rather large -- as of now he and Zekka stand at ~190 cm (6'8") and are the second/third tallest characters after Trinidad.
 * Blood Knight
 * "Total annihilation is my song!"
 * Upon hearing that there existed a person just as powerful as Zekka, and the two fought in a fight so destructive that the two became recognized as equals to national powers in their own right, Sech responds rather well.
 * Boobs of Steel: Averted. Whilst in his TUNED body, his development was fittingly more masculine. Compare to Gally, Elf, and Zwolf.
 * Book Dumb: Self-admittedly rather dense, but when it comes to the fight, he can think with the best of them.
 * He doesn't like thinking about things that don't pertain to killing.
 * Boisterous Bruiser
 * BFG: During the time he had the Solenoid Quench gun on his arm.
 * BFS: Sechs second Titan Blade when unfolded is 6,45 meter long, which is 3 times his own height in his current body.
 * Calling Your Attacks: "IMPLODING BEATDOWN EXPAND COUNTER-DRILL DEBT-REPAYMENT PUNCH WITH INTEREST"...IMPLODING DRILL PUNCH for short.
 * Can't Catch Up: As strong as he is, it's fair to say that his at least a solid tier down from Gally's enormous power. Mocked by Deckman 10 in an omake.
 * Catch Phrase: "What is the essential quality of a true warrior?"
 * The translations vary, but he's using the same word for warrior and true.
 * Combat Pragmatist: Once shoved a rifle into someone's head after running out of ammo.
 * Cute Bruiser: Not that he was particularly cute in his TUNED body, but he was a "chibi". Also true for his Interactive Interface.
 * Determinator: In their fight, Niz tells him that he lacks perseverance.
 * Divergent Character Evolution: He started as a copy of Gally, with her TUNED body and her overall appearance; and only differenceable from Elf and Zwölf thanks to the number on her (back then) face. By when they debut, they are already easily told apart, and since then things change fast.
 * Though Sechs already differed highly from the others, mostly in terms of mimic.
 * From the start, even Sechs's body type was different, because all of the G Rs were modified versions of Gally.
 * Does This Remind You of Anything?: The Solenoid Quench Gun. Lampshaded twice.
 * Dumb Muscle: As he is the "gun" in "Gunnm".
 * Eye Of Gold: Which really makes no sense at all because he's a clone of Gally, unless some accident somehow altered his remaining eye.
 * Evil Makes You Ugly: Was initally rusty (literally) and scarred from past fights, and both the Titan Blade and Quench gun weren't as upgraded as they become in the Fizziroy Body.
 * Eyepatch of Power: He's been missing his eye ever since he was *younger*, before he fought Elf or Zwolf or even had specialized armor.
 * Facial Markings: Even though partialy covered by the eyepatch, Sechs also still has Gally's Panzerkunst markings built into his face.
 * Fridge Logic: Naming himself Sechs is literally no different from being named 6. Probably just a reflection of his denseness.
 * Gender Bender: And a rarest of them. Remember, he started as a Gally's copy -- that is, female. But then he basically decided that he wants to be a man -- and couple of bodies down finally did.
 * Which can be seen as Continuity Nod since Gally also once pondered about rather wanting to be a boy, so she would only need to think about fighting all the time.
 * Glass Cannon: As GR-6, he was modified to be a physically stronger version of Gally, but in exchange is a bit low on brains. Consistently his biggest weakness is that he's bad on defense.
 * This trope is taken to a more literal level when he fights Zekka in.
 * Heel Face Turn.
 * Heroes Fight Barehanded: Went from fighting with a combination of brutish Panzer Kunst, Sechster Angriff, and the Solenoid Quench Gun to mostly just punching, because he no longer has the Quench gun, and normally immediately loses his Titan Blade in fights.
 * Hot-Blooded
 * How Dare You Die on Me!: To Gally, and later
 * Idiot Hero: Well, Sechs isn't really going to win any Nobel prizes... mainly because you couldn't kill anybody with it.
 * Openly admits it himself and gets angry when people force him to use his brain(chip).
 * Insistent Terminology: Call it an expansion punch!
 * TRIO!
 * Ironic Echo: When he first "fights" Zekka, Zekka eats one of Sechs's plasma attacks. Then, later
 * The Lancer
 * Middle Child Syndrome
 * Gets funnier when you remember that there were 12 TUNEDs, 13 with Gally. He really is middle one of the production line.
 * Overshadowed by Awesome: "Hey, Sechs, you managed to handle the power of your new body, and got the firepower of a small nation? Oh, too bad, Gally over there has hijacked via wormhole the finest weapon of technological giant Jupiter."
 * Even worse because Sechs's body
 * Opposite Sex Clone: What he is now, but given just how much they've diverged, he's closer to just a little brother.
 * Ore Onna: Before the getting the male Fizziroy body:
 * "Original wa ore ga taosu!!"
 * In general, Sechs spoke and still speaks in a rough, dumb-sounding, masculine pattern, and used/uses masculine endings, words, and abbreviations; doesn't use honorifics; and anta, ome, or teme for "you", depending on his relationship with the person. And his speech is often written in katakana instead of kanji, or in kanji when he's using slang.
 * Scars Are Forever: Despite being a robot, averted.
 * She's a Man In Japan: That is, if you're in Germany, because for a while they continued to refer to him as a her even after his new body.
 * Shout-Out: Whether or not its intentional, there are quite a few similarities between Monkey D. Luffy and Sechs in terms of fighting style. Even before getting the Fizziroy body, Sechs's general fighting stance, with both legs spread out and knees bent, is similar to Luffy's.
 * Once Sechs does obtain the Fizziroy body, the similarities increase: his body "feels like rubber" when hit, and he's able to use a long-range attack (that replaces his gun) that looks a lot like Luffy's Gomu Gomu no Rifle.
 * After  Naturally Zekka also shares similarities to Luffy because of his Fizziroy body, his ambition, and his love of punching people.
 * In terms of personality, there are fewer similarities, although both are determinators and low on booksmarts.
 * Sibling Rivalry: Still have quite an inferiority complex, despite being second most powerful Space Angels' fighter and being on par with the best of them.
 * Indeed, the only three characters who can outcompete him are Caerula, Gally, and Trinidad. And Zekka
 * Slasher Smile: He grinsjustlike a shark.
 * Smarter Than You Look: While self-admittedly stupid, underestimating Sechs cleverness can be lethal.
 * Spear Counterpart: Became this of Gally.
 * Even before the Gender Bender. [[media:16g9zle_6679.jpg|Seriously, compare still female Sechs to Gally.]] By anime standards, that's easily male.
 * Spin Attack: Most of his attacks involve spinning.
 * Spirited Competitor: To some extent, he won't kill enemies too easy to kill, and he's greatest ambition is to defeat the greatest compeition.
 * Tomato in the Mirror: Basically what his character has been trying to do from the beginning, prove that he's stronger than Gally and is a true warrior in his own right, which has a degree of irony to it because Gally spends her time trying to prove that she's a human being in her own right, so he's still imitating her. He did spend some time trying to figure out "the essential quality of a true warrior" but hasn't really gotten a satisfying answer, aside from "environmental destruction".
 * Took a Level In Dumbass: Starts off a dark violent character and an adversary to Gally, who just wants to kill people, especially Gally once the tournament ends. Later on, his eyes get larger and he becomes more of a dumb comic relief character, frequently balloon bellying and reminding the readers that he's only 2 whilst making goofy faces. Hard to remember at times that he killed most of the GR series.
 * The Napoleon: It is implied that he didn't like being a "shorty" in his TUNED body.
 * The Only One Allowed to Defeat You: To Gally. Whenever it is thought Gally is dead, he denies it,  Keep in mind that this is because of his obsessive ambition to take Gally's head himself.
 * Unfortunate Name: Sechs is pronounced the same as sex.
 * He says "A brand new Sechs enters the fray" when he debuts his new body.
 * Technically, initial "s" is pronounced as "z" in German.
 * Unskilled but Strong: Relative to Gally.
 * "Technique's not what matters. Just keep attacking until the enemy dies."
 * "Technique's not what matters. Just keep attacking until the enemy dies."

"-- How old are you, kid?"
 * Viewer Gender Confusion: Regarding chibi-Sechs, now with a handy-dandy before-and-after.
 * You Are Number Six: And he is that number.
 * Bilingual Bonus: Sechs means six in German.
 * Younger Than They Look: He is only two, after all. Which turns into a Crowning Moment of Funny in his first brush-up with Zekka:

- Two!


 * Sechs mentaly even notes that he's only 1 year and 5 months old and that he should have said 20 because it's "average human age".
 * "What the fuck's a potty?"

GR-11 Elf and GR-12 Zwölf
The only TUNED clones who survived Sechs rampage, mainly because Desty Nova has taken them under his wing. Closer to a younger and more innocent Gally of the early manga, they inexplicably behave as if they were twins, and serve as a more lighthearted Foil to their more bloodthirsty older siblings.


 * Artificial Human
 * Ridiculously Human Robot
 * Annoying Younger Sibling
 * Bilingual Bonus: The same as with Sechs -- their names are just their numbers in German.
 * Bunny Ears Lawyer
 * Cloudcuckoolander
 * Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: It is easy to forget that they are each as strong as Gally in her TUNED body.
 * Divergent Character Evolution: They started out as Gally copies, just like Sechs. Compare and contrast.
 * Facial Markings: Being copies of Alita they are build in their faces.
 * Ms. Fanservice
 * Plucky Comic Relief
 * Razor Floss: Their main weapon.
 * Twin Tropes
 * Single-Minded Twins
 * Tag-Team Twins
 * Twin Switch: They play a very convincing Gally. Both of them, at the same time and place.
 * Waif Fu
 * Weak but Skilled
 * Younger Than They Look: They are even younger than Sechs.
 * Younger Than They Look: They are even younger than Sechs.

Zazie
Martian Kingdom special forces officer (and Queen Limeira's personal bodyguard at that) who crossed the ways with Gally several times in the past, until finally becoming her ally im the Z.O.T.T. finals. While no slouch in unarmed combat, she's not nearly close to the insane feats of the likes of Gally and Zekka, and really shines with everything that shoots.


 * Action Girl: What's interesting she's a one of the very few characters in the story who's an actual serving military officer and not a one of the various special agents, criminals, street fighters, rebels and other general outlaws.
 * Badass Normal: Unlike the most other characters Zazie's augmentations aren't that numerous or high-end.
 * Battle Butler: When she was a Queen's bodyguard.
 * Big Gal: Angel Redux states that she's 180 cm tall.
 * Camera Shy: Acts awkwardly shy in front of camera.
 * She can also be shy in general, even in moments of great importance,
 * Facial Markings: It's unclear how high she is in a Panzer Kunst hierarchy, and even whether they are a Kunstler marks at all, but she does have some suspiciously similar markings. Apparently, it's still a popular style on Mars.
 * Friendly Enemy: In the past.
 * The Gunslinger
 * Humans Are Warriors: Of the "...soldiers" variety. She just happens to show that a professional soldier of a sufficient skill is not out of her league in the increasingly Superhero-like environment of the Z.O.T.T.
 * Improbable Aiming Skills: She's able to shoot her Metal Storm shotgun immediately after a grenade launcher volley to hit the grenades from behind and activate them.
 * Les Yay: Elf and Zwolf make fun of this.
 * A Mother to Her Men: She's really popular in her platoon, what to say.
 * The Squadette
 * The Squadette

Aga "Trinidad" Mbadi
The vice-chairman of the LADDER council and the most influential figure in the Solar System, Aga Mbadi is a Big Bad of the Last Order, and fills that role pretty well, having a hand in almost everything that happens around our good ol' Sol for the most of the last two centuries.

"I will not allow you to alter reality without my permission."
 * Ambiguously Brown: An odd example. His name is unambiguously African; however, his medium-brown skintone, rather narrow features, and interests (yoga, Kalaripayyatu and other Indian martial arts) could easily lead to him being mistaken for Indian.
 * Amusing Injuries: His face is still covered in band-aids after the beatdown from Gally several chapters ago.
 * Badass


 * Badass Bookworm
 * Bald Black Leader Guy: Almost: his hair is a more of a buzz cut, but being black and a leader he is as close as it gets. Not to say that he's a one of the rare villainous examples.
 * The Big Guy: As in, really big. He's almost 7' and with a build of a distance runner.
 * Blond Guys Are Evil: That little hair he's actually wears is suspiciously light.
 * Dark-Skinned Blond: Kishiro loves this trope.
 * Faux Affably Evil: Rather polite and cultured, but hardly ever tries to hide the fact that he thinks of most around him as of lower than dirt.
 * Evil Chancellor
 * The Chessmaster: Some of his plans are stretching for centuries.
 * Hoist by His Own Petard: It's not very healthy to make your own former partners turn against you. Especially if these partners are.
 * Jerkass: And proud of it.
 * Knight Templar: In a big way.
 * Magic Knight: Despite being more of a manipulator, Trinidad rarely shies from a fight, and is usually really effective there.
 * Magnificent Bastard
 * Manipulative Bastard
 * The Man Behind the Man: Tends to hide behind his official post of an important, but not really that powerful official.
 * Obstructive Bureaucrat: Not really, it's simply his job description and one of the tools he wields so expertly.
 * Power Trio: Was a part of it when, but with time he and his partners drifted away.
 * President Evil: Well, vice-president, anyway. LADDER chairman Yajnik, on the other hand, seems to be President Buffoon.
 * Start of Darkness: His decision to use the brainchip of the famous terrorist, Dr. Jean Vares, whom he apprehended on Pluto, . He was much less bitter and cynical before.
 * Really Seven Hundred Years Old
 * Red Baron: Is nicknamed Trinidad (Trinity in Spanish) . Really wants to "advance" to Quattro,.
 * Tall, Dark and Snarky: He knows that he's the top dog, and doesn't feel that shy about it (except when it might hinder his plans)
 * Utopia Justifies the Means: Trinidad won't stop before anything to bring his goal, however squicky you'd find it.
 * Villain with Good Publicity: He's still the hero for most of the Solar system, despite not being the good old Captain Mbadi for a long, long time.
 * : In Chapter 110. He still may have a backup, though.
 * : In Chapter 110. He still may have a backup, though.

Caerula Sanguis/
A mysterious woman with a hidden agenda that shows up periodically in Last Order, mostly as a leader of a Guntroll Z.O.T.T. team and Star Nursery society. One of her defining characteristics is that she often alternates as an antagonist or as an ally for the heroes' team. Later revealed to be. What she really knows and plans is one of the biggest mysteries in the series.


 * The Atoner: Deeply regrets some of the decisions she made in the past and tries to make up for them as far as she can.
 * Badass Longcoat: Is almost never seen out of her high-collared greatcoat.
 * Badass Normal: She fought Gally and had the upper hand, even being a flesh and blood being.
 * Badass Abnormal:
 * Boobs of Steel: One of the most powerful characters, despite being entirely human, and has definitely has the Most Common Superpower.
 * The Chessmaster
 * : As her Day in The Limelight shows, aside from her several self-acknowledged mistakes and rather aloof demeanor, she's basically the nicest person among the top players.
 * Ms. Fanservice: She normally wears modest clothing, but during the  there are scenes with her either naked or wearing more revealing clothes.
 * Heel Face Turn: Probably. She's shown to be a really nice person, Guntroll have since basically allied with Gally's team, and there were other similar developments, but still no one knows what she really wants.
 * She recently offs, so at least for now she's still firmly in the heroes' camp.
 * Meaningful Name: Her name (which is obviously an alias) might be roughly translated as "Blood-red Skies", or, in real Latin, as "sky-blue blood". Both of which fits her extremely well.
 * Power Trio:
 * Rapunzel Hair
 * Really Seven Hundred Years Old: This time it's literally. And it might be an underestimation, because the 700 years figure was the one that Trinidad could vouch for with certainty, but he didn't exclude the possibility of error.
 * Stealth Mentor: For Gally, and, probably, Trinidad as well.
 * Tall Blonde And Snarky
 * White-Haired Pretty Girl
 * Wild Card: Nobody knows what is her true agenda. Even Aga Mbadi.

Ping "The Weasel" Wu
The mysterious hacker living in a Robo Asyl, who saves the team after Trinidad spaces them early on in Last Order. Worshiped as a god by the throngs of a half-broken and malfunctioned robots who congregate in the underbelly of Salem, he quickly becomes Gally's ally and Mission Control, and is later revealed to be a one of. He was an IT man in the Power Trio, which is why he was able to navigate it so easily later. As Mbadi started to become more intolerant and demanding, Wu distanced from him, and finally went into hiding, ending in Robo Asyl.


 * Demoted to Extra: Rather quickly.
 * It Amused Me: One of his main motivations. Even his recent Crowning Moment of Awesome, was apparently mainly done on a wager with Nova Pod.
 * Knight in Sour Armor: He's quite a cynic, and doesn't hold any illusions about human nature, but still...
 * Mission Control
 * Non-Action Guy: Probably what explains his reduced relevance in the story, which progressively becomes action-centered.
 * Older Than They Look: He may look like a stereotypical Hollywood Nerd in his 30's, but he's been around since the Terraforming Wars.
 * Playful Hacker: Nearly textbook example.
 * Red Baron: The Weasel.
 * What Happened to the Mouse?: Wasn't heard about since Mbadi and Super Nova's encounter with Gally, . But then again, Nova hasn't appeared in the story since the very same event.
 * The chapters before the final battle of the ZOTT show him still in coma and in medical care of his childhood love.
 * Chapter 109 shows him probably coming back to his senses, as he's seen smiling under the ventilator mask.

Erika
Gally's childhood friend back on Mars when she was still called Yoko. She is part of Gally's first memories ever. After both were rescued by Gerda, she and Yoko joined the Panzer Kunst school. Her overall fate in Gally's past is still unknown.
 * Epileptic Trees: Some fans speculated that the mysterious Kunstler who attacked Zazie on Mars is no other than Erica.

Gerda
Gally's Panzer Kunst teacher and the woman who saved her and Erika from death by cruel soldiers. Not much has been revealed about her except that she was a high ranking fighter.
 * The Obi-Wan: She was Gally's Panzer Kunst teacher.

Tzykrow
Another Gally's teacher and one of the few Kunstlers who survived the LADDER sequestration of the school, if only by becoming a Trinidad's crony. A thoroughly unsympathetic self-important Jerkass, he was Mbadi's general go-to man in the Martian affairs and tried to ambush Gally during the, though with a singular lack of the result.


 * Butt Monkey: Basically the only reason for him to appear was to show how much Gally progressed and how she isn't Yoko anymore -- with him on the receiving end.
 * Humiliation Conga: After getting his ass kicked by Gally he crawls to Trinidad for help only to get a You Have Outlived Your Usefulness moment and end up as a Super Nova's guinea pig.
 * Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain: Well, hardly sympathetic, but to end up as a Super Nova's test subject only because you failed your boss once and he thinks he doesn't need you anymore is a bit harsh.
 * Jerkass
 * Small Name, Big Ego: Tzykrow has a really flattering self-image -- which everyone who knows him thinks is ridiculously overinflated.
 * You Have Outlived Your Usefulness

Zekka
For all its history, karate has acquired a reputation of a ferociousness, not flash. Zekka, apparently, singlehandedly took upon himself to change that -- a more flashy, loud and ridiculously over-the-top character hardly could be ever imagined. Essentially a parody of the insanely skilled aces in various fighting works, he's just another example of the fact that Tropes Are Not Bad -- for all his cliche-ness he's all the more amusing, and we love him just for that.


 * Anime Hair: Before his dreads.
 * Atomic F-Bomb: No spoilers, you'll know it when it happens.
 * Arrogant Kung Fu Guy: Just a tad more affable than usual.
 * The Ace: Among the series top fighters, Zekka seems to constitute a league of his own.
 * Badass: He literally explodes his enemies with his punches, and causes miracles with his karate chops.
 * Virtually the only way to damage him is to rebound his own power against him...and he heals anyways.
 * Badass Biker: And woe unto you if you just happen to just look on his bike funny.
 * The Big Guy: He has essentially the same body as Sechs -- and maybe even somewhat bigger.
 * He IS somewhat bigger.
 * Blood Knight: The biggest of the series. His definition of what it means to be a man is to not make a single thing, but to destroy an entire planet with nothing but his own power, environmental destruction in short.
 * Boisterous Bruiser: He's large, he's loud, he don't give a shit about anything around him -- and when he fights, it's better to be as far from him, as it gets. Preferably on another planet.
 * Crazy Awesome: Inexplicably so.
 * Dangerous Forbidden Technique: His mastery of "Dragon Slaying Fist" to Don Fua's "Tiger Killing Fist".
 * Technically called "Bone Crushing Dragon Slayer."
 * Drink Order: To see Zekka without his trademark "Mothman" beer bottle outside of a fight (and sometimes inside as well) is a truly rare occurrence.
 * Foil: To his Rival Don Fua
 * Hell-Bent for Leather
 * Ho Yay: With Sechs, naturally. Although Sechs was originally female.
 * Jerk with a Heart of Gold: All things considered, he's a pretty good-natured guy. Just don't get on his bad side.
 * He most certainly is a complete Jerkass in his own epic fashion at one notable moment.
 * Lightning Bruiser: Can punch so fast he produces enough heat to glass objects.
 * Can palm so fast he liquifies his target.
 * Literal Genie: During his thumb-wrestling match against Sechs: "Eat this!"..."HE ATE IT?!!"
 * Meaningful Name: That he received from his own Old Master -- and which means "The Fist That Extinguishes Light".
 * Megaton Punch: Literally — his ultimate technique charges his punch with the load of antimatter.
 * Old Master: He doesn't look the part, sure, but as if that would ever stop him.
 * Punched Across The Earth Sphere: From the Earth orbit to the Moon in one punch.
 * Rated "M" for Manly: When he's not drinking beer on a motorcycle and talking about environmental destruction, he's winning the fight with a single punch.
 * Ridiculously Human Robot
 * Rule of Cool: Completely, which is ridiculous for this series, where normally there is some sort of scientific explanation for everything. Most of his absurd strength seems to be devoted to how "romantic" he is.
 * Shout-Out: Predator + Lobo + Kit Fisto.
 * Spirited Competitor: Normally lazes around during fights because the competition is so weak compared to him... when it's competition on his own level it's a completely different story.
 * Testosterone Poisoning: The macho-est character ever.
 * The Rival: To Sechs, and he was that to Toji's master in the past.
 * His true rival is
 * The Only One Allowed to Defeat You:
 * Ubermensch
 * Walking Shirtless Scene
 * World's Strongest Man: Literally what he is. The only way to damage him is to rebound or deflect his attack, and he heals anyways.
 * Worthy Opponent
 * Older Than He Acts: He's about 200 years old, but comparable to Sechs in terms of maturity.

Toji
Another Space Karate master, and closest thing to the Worthy Opponent that Gally ever really had. Almost as skilled as Zekka (in fact, his master was Zekka's rival in the past), he's somehow managed to remain a Wide-Eyed Idealist who thinks that karate is a key that opens all the doors and answers all questions -- and he wants to create a "Karate planet" where he would welcome everybody who thinks the same -- and those who need their protection. Also, despite the listing order and Zekka's general flamboyantness, it is Toji who's actually the Space Karate team captain.


 * Animal Motif: Rat
 * The Big Guy: As an exception of other top fighters, who use generally normal-sized bodies, Toji is almost five meters tall.
 * The Cape (trope): One of the few characters who genuinely tries to be The Hero.
 * Compensating for Something: Non sexual example. He admits having been small as a human so when he became a cyborg he wanted to be a large one.
 * Martial Arts and Crafts: Super Electromagnetic Karate.
 * Shotoclone: He's largely a Ryu's Expy, right down to the torn-off sleeves of his gi..
 * Wide-Eyed Idealist
 * Worthy Opponent: He even agrees to back up Gally should he lose their fight.

Rakan
Zekka and Toji's complete opposite, a notorious underworld assassin who is wanted on all Solar system planets (well, except Mercury, but only because it's populated by an inorganic nanomachine race that has a Blue and Orange Morality) and only happens to join Space Karate team because of surviving the elimination match that Zekka proposed to refill their ranks, despite his utter loathsomeness. An unrepentant pervert and rapist, he still manages to get around because he's just that good.


 * Freudian Excuse: Recent chapter revealed he became such a person after getting a bullet in the brain which affects the part of your brain responsible for social behaviour and sexuality.
 * Complete Monster
 * Irony / : For all his perverseness
 * Jerkass Woobie: Despite his unpleasantness it's almost impossible not to pity him after hearing his backstory, which showed that he wasn't even responsible for his condition: it all was just sheer bad luck.

Don Fua
Another student of Zekka's Old Master and his original Rival. He was also Toji's master in the past. Shortly before his death their master sent them on the quest to obtain and master the techniques most suitable to them both — Dragon Slaying Fist for Zekka and Tiger Killing Fist for him, and he was never heard about ever since. Zekka claims that he killed Don Fua in one of their previous meeting, bit is it really so?..


 * Always Someone Better: Probably the greatest single martial artist in the Solar System.
 * Animal Motifs: Rhinoceros beetle. Gally even calls him "beetle-monk" in chapter 108.
 * Bare-Fisted Monk: But he still used his fan occasionally.
 * But Now I Must Go: He leaves the heroes quite soon after his introduction because his current body really cannot stay too long in this word.
 * Chekhov's Gunman: Their rivalry with Zekka was set up pretty long ago, but has come in play only recently.
 * Foil: To Zekka, obviously.
 * Martial Pacifist: Pretty much his entire schtick.
 * Megaton Punch: Even though his ultimate technique, Noble Void Palm, absorbs attacks of the others, it has a variation, which can transport a person/attack. It once ended with Zekka making a neat new crater on the Moon.
 * He has another variation of this, a Noble Essence Fist, "the fist which smashes evil", that launches a mini black hole into the enemy. Which is probably his take on the ultimate technique originally assigned to him by his master, the Tiger Killing Fist, which is supposed to be a match to Dragon Slaying Fist.
 * Vitriolic Best Buds: How he tends to view their rivalry with Zekka. Don Fua is still very much in awe with the Zekka's skill, determination and passion, feeling that he indeed nailed the essence of karate, but deeply regrets that Zekka still cannot abandon his Blood Knight ways, trying to persuade him every time they meet.
 * Warrior Monk: Subverted. He's indeed the enlightened Buddhist monk who simply knew karate. And knew it very well.
 * Warrior Therapist: He was much more calm and adjusted than Zekka even in their youth,
 * Warrior Therapist: He was much more calm and adjusted than Zekka even in their youth,