Getter Robo/Characters

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Protagonists

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.

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.

  • 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
  • Character Development: Grows significantly over the course of the series. In Getter Robo Go he even gets engaged.
  • Deadpan Snarker: on occasion, he tends to be the most prone of this among the three pilots. Such as this gem from Armageddon:

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

  • 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 sacrificing people’s lives to find out how neutralize Rando’s nuclear devices.

Hayato: Don’t worry. I’ll ask them to forgive me when I see them in hell.

  • Pay Evil Unto Evil
  • Slasher Smile: Oh so very often, but Go manga version really takes the cake, probably outclassing even New incarnation.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Warrior Heaven: 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.

Benkei Kuruma

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

Pilot of Getter-3 after Musashi's death in fight with Dinosaur Empire

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.

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 And later Getter-1 in Shin Getter


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.

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.

Schwartz Koff

First Apperance: Getter Robo Go manga.

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

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.

Kei Minamikaze

First Apperance:' Getter Robo Go Manga
Also Featured: Armageddon
Voiced By: Narumi Hidaka (Armageddon)

Messiah Tahir

First Apperance: Getter Robo Go manga.

Mysterious child who claims to have been send by God to help Getter Team. Pilots Getter-3 when he, Ryoma and Go hijacks Shin Getter

Villains

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.

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: in the Shin Getter manga, time-travelling Insects from the Getter Emperor's time found the drifting hulk of the Hundred Demon Empire vessel and restored Burai to life, in hopes that he would destroy Getter and prevent the Getter Emperor from ever existing.
  • Card-Carrying Villain
  • Eviler Than Thou: Towards Gore.
  • From Nobody to Nightmare: Burai was initially just a student coming along on an arctic exploration, who was sent into the crashed remains of an Alien ship specifically because he was expendable. The core of the ship was still active and modified him into the demonic creature we all know, and he used the repaired ship and the Arctic team to found the Hundred Demon Empire.
  • Time Travel: As confirmed in the Shin Getter Robo manga, the crashed ship that transformed Burai was part of a fleet fighting a losing battle against the Getter Emperor, something that was implied in the original chapter but not confirmed as the exact details had likely not been conceptualized.
  • 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.


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.

Raseshi

First Apperance: Getter Robo Go manga

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

Empress Jatego

First Apperance: Getter Robo Go manga.

New leader of Dinosaur Empire after Gore's demise secretly manipulating Rando for her own goals.

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.

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.

Mr. Cohen and Mr. Stinger

First Appearances: Getter Robo Armageddon

  • 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 Saotome kicked the bucket.
    "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.


Other Characters

Michiru Saotome

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

Lady Raikou

'First Apperance: New Getter Robo

Genki Saotome

Professor Saotome

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

  • Back from the Dead: Armaggedon.
  • Badass Grandpa: Specially in New.
  • Cool Old Guy
  • Disappears Into Light: his fate in the manga, when the Saotome lab is enveloped in a massive wave of Getter Rays from the Shin Dragon.
  • Good All Along The Armageddon 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. Unless Inagawa had him intentionally infected himself with Invaders, like Cohen and Stinger, and he was faking pain.
  • Mad Scientist: In Armaggedon. Then again, it's Armaggedon.
    • not that he doesn't have his moments in manga and New, but there he is on good guy's side.
    • he goes off the deep end in the Shin Getter Robo manga, where he spends several weeks exposing himself to high levels of Getter Rays while trying to excavate the metamorphosing remains of the Getter G.
  • This Is Unforgivable!: In Saisei-Hen, which was given to him by Apollo

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!"

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