Guilty Gear/Characters/XX

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Here we're going to list the characters introduced in Guilty Gear X and its Updated Rereleases.

The Captain Ersatz, Expy, "No Celebrities Were Harmed", Mythology Gags, Continuity Nods and Shout-Out references go here.

Bridget

Voiced by Hiroko Konishi (XX), Yukiko Kato (Accent Core)

Bridget is a girl from a hometown where a prevailing superstition was that if twins of the same gender are born, disaster will come. This superstition led the local convent's nun raising the baby boy who would become Bridget as a a girl to avoid having her killed off. Bridget initially worked as a bounty hunter to prove her manliness and that she wasn't bad luck.

After several years, Bridget finally reappears as a DLC character in Guilty Gear STRIVE, where she now fully identifies as a girl.

Tropes exhibited by Bridget include:
  • Astonishingly Appropriate Appearance: For all her initial protests to the contrary, Bridget definitely looked the part of a girl who was raised in a convent. Actually having a figure reminiscent of a petite woman didn't help - as of STRIVE, she seems to have finally comes to terms with it.
  • Badass:
    • Badass Normal: Probably the most normal cast member of them all, yet can easily stand her ground with every other character.
  • Bishonen: In training.
  • Crash Into Hello: One of Bridget's Intro Animations has her accidentally tripping up and then stepping on her opponent before the fight begins.
  • Dude Looks Like a Lady: At first, before STRIVE revealed her to be Transgender.
  • Fingerless Gloves
  • Improbable Weapon User: A yo-yo.
  • Nun-Too-Holy: She wears a nun's habit.
  • Panty Shot
  • Raised as the Opposite Gender: See her description.
  • Ship Tease: For a crossdressing young teen with a girl's name, Bridget was pretty popular with the girls in the earlier entries of the series. XX #Reload has her become friends with Dizzy in the Path 2 ending (as well as getting a Jellyfish Pirate hat from a girl that looks vaguely like Dizzy), as well as showing her and May acting friendly towards each other in May's Path 2 ending. Jam flirts with Bridget on at least one occasion, as well as having her become her waiter in her first Story Mode ending for Accent Core Plus.
  • Stupid Sexy Flanders
  • Token Loli: Shares the spot with May.
  • Transgender: Confirmed by her ending dialogues and character glossary entry in STRIVE.
  • Unsettling Gender Reveal: The infamous former Trope Namer.
  • Wholesome Crossdresser: Also an infamous example.

Slayer

Voiced by Iemasa Kayumi

A powerful Nightwalker who seems to be the only one who knows exactly what the hell is going on. He visits many characters and gives them valuable hints. He was the original founder of the Assassins' Guild, and his main objective is to disband it because it became corrupted from his original intentions. He is married to an immortal Lady in Red named Sharon, who is completely immune to anything, even parasites like Eddie (in fact, it is shown in Eddie's 1st ending in XX that upon making contact with her, he melts away into nothingness).

Tropes exhibited by Slayer include:
  • Badass: Slayer laughs at classic vampire weaknesses. Slayer scoffs at sunlight and shrugs off a stake in his heart like it's nothing. Slayer eats garlic for breakfast, lunch AND dinner. And if all this mockery wasn't enough, Slayer tops it all off by wearing a cross for a tie. The man is just a colossal badass. Period.
  • Classical Movie Vampire
  • Creepy Cool Crosses
  • Even Evil Has Standards: While not super evil, he still dislikes what has happened to the Assassins Guild.
  • Happily Married: He and Sharon.
  • High-Class Glass
  • I Let You Win: Seeing as every fight against him is acknowledged as him not going all out, it's pretty obvious he does this.
    • You can definitely see this in his knockdown sprite. Rather than lying unconscious, when Slayer is "knocked out", he merely lies on the ground with a miffed expression on his face, propped up on his arm.
  • Immortality: Besides his Type V, his wife Sharon may be Type I.
  • Let's Fight Like Gentlemen
  • Lightning Bruiser: Can teleport back and forth on the battlefield, and his attacks pack quite a punch.
  • Man of Wealth and Taste
  • Nice Guy: Extremely civil to pretty much everyone, even hands out hints to people for seemingly no reason than wanting to be helpful (like when he informs Ky Kiske something is seriously wrong with the bounty on Dizzy, even though he has little reason to care).
  • Official Couple: Happily Married with Sharon.
  • Older Is Better
  • Our Vampires Are Different: Sunlight doesn't affect him. In Isuka's credits, it is shown that other traditional vampire weaknesses (a cross, garlic and a wooden stake) are merely amusing to him.
  • Really 700 Years Old
  • Sharp-Dressed Man
  • Smoking Is Cool: Slayer can actually block attacks with smoke from his pipe.
  • Warrior Poet: His Instant Kill includes haiku, come on!
  • Willfully Weak: One of the strongest characters in the series, although we never see him go all-out on That Man, so we cannot say if he is the strongest.


Zappa

Voiced by Yuji Ueda

A seemingly normal man who is actually possessed by several spirits. He seeks to find Faust so he can cure his ailment. In XX, he finds Faust, who tells him that he doesn't know what to do about it and suggests that he train himself to control the blackouts. In Accent Core Plus, he encounters Faust again, who finally concludes that Zappa is possessed after seeing S-ko for the first time. Faust purges the ghosts from Zappa, and he thanks Faust for his help.

Tropes exhibited by Zappa include:
  • Awesome but Impractical/Difficult but Awesome: Zappa is consistently a low ranked character. This is not because he is weak, but because when you play Zappa, you essentially play as five different characters at once and constantly (and randomly) change between them throughout the fight. That said, if you can get Raoh out, Zappa becomes a Game Breaker.
  • Bishounen: The reason why S-ko got attracted to him.
  • Blank White Eyes: When possessed by S-ko.
  • Blessed with Suck: Is a natural medium for spirits, attracts many of them and gets possessed.
  • Brainwashed and Crazy: Not that he's aware of this, mind you. All he knows is he passes out randomly and wakes up in a new area with fresh wounds on him.
  • The Chew Toy: Poor, poor Zappa.
  • Confusion Fu: Seriously, he is able to randomly change his moveset while fighting.
  • I Am Legion: Has an evil dog, a cursed sword, the "Three Stooges", Raoh (no, not THAT Raoh), and S-ko living within him. And the centipedes that appear while the summoning attack and one of his Overdrives.
  • Lightning Bruiser: When Zappa has Raoh out.
  • Motor Mouth: Not when he's himself, but during battle, he just never shuts up. Justified as he has about 7 ghosts trying to talk all at once.
  • Not Himself: Whenever possessed by S-ko. In Story Mode, this is indicated by his skin turning dark blue and Blank White Eyes until Accent Core Plus (which showed him bent over backwards like his fight pose). His voice is also distorted.
  • Powers Via Possession: A key part of fighting with Zappa is recognizing what powers are available to you at any given point.
  • Screams Like a Little Girl
  • Stringy-Haired Ghost Girl: S-ko.
  • Unlucky Everydude: Unlike almost everyone else on the roster, Zappa is just a normal human. He doesn't even willingly fight; he just passes out and then the supernatural stuff happens. The Three Stooges can also inflict this status on an opponent, causing random flower pots to fall from the sky and various other means of tripping them up.


I-No

Voiced by Kikuko Inoue

The mysterious servant of That Man. Putting it simply, she is all that is Bitch. And she loves it. As she serves That Man, she also knows Sol. In XX, she goes around causing heaps of trouble for the other characters. In Accent Core Plus, after an encounter with Sol, she transports him back in time to fight his past self Order-Sol.

Tropes exhibited by I-No include:

(after defeating May): "Aren't you a little young to be around here? Go home and drink your daddy's milk.

  • Sometimes when she loses too. For example, if caught in May's insta-kill (where May and April shove the defeated foe into a cannon to be launched off their ship):

"Look here you little bastards, this thing's not a toy, and even if it was it's an adult toy! Not that kind of adult toy, like adults ONLY, not ADULTS only, or a-- (Cut off as the cannon fires)

Robo-Ky

Voiced by Kantaro (XX Battle Voice), Takeshi Kusao (XX Story Voice), Yutaka Terada (Robo-Ky MK. II), Takumi Inoue (AC)

The robot impersonator of Ky created by the PWAB. There are several of these things floating around. Also has a MK-II version which copies his opponents' moves.

Tropes exhibited by Robo-Ky include:
  • Badass:
    • Badass Automaton: To the point, even with his screwups, you have to question the PWAB's sanity in trying to dispose of him.
    • Submissive Badass: Designed as one, but rebels.
  • Butt Monkey: The last Robo-Ky gets a lot of fun poked at him in REVELATOR, but he himself is far more serious than any of his predecessors.
  • Do-Anything Robot: The only thing he doesn't do is emulate the person he impersonates properly. Also present in the MK-II version from Isuka.
  • Early-Bird Cameo: Was Ky's EX mode in X.
  • Evil Twin: Robo Ky, who literally was just an EX movelist Early-Bird Cameo for Ky in Guilty Gear X and a palette swap of Ky in his first proper appearance (Guilty Gear XX) with slightly different portraits. He came into his own with exclusive sprites and movesets starting with #Reload.
  • Hive Mind: Subverted because since all Robo-Kys have the same arrogant personality, each model is acting superior than the other.
  • Mecha-Mooks: There are many Robo-Kys, and they are acting in separate missions that most of the time fail.
  • Robosexual: Inverted. He likes human women in general, desiring Millia, Jam and Baiken.
  • ROBOTIC_BSOD: "ERROR!_CRITICAL ERROR!_BLUE_SCREEN_OF_DEATH!" *Earthshattering Kaboom*
  • Slouch of Villainy: Has a fold-in throne.
  • Spam Attack: DAMEDAMEDAMEDAMEDAMEDAMEDAMEDAMEDAMEDAMEEE!!!
  • Stylistic Suck:
    • His alternate theme "Holy Orders?". Given that he is a robot version of Ky, it only makes sense that this theme be a robotic-toned version. The end result is that the song ends up sounding like a broken record, randomly jumping up and down in pitch and volume at a moment's notice. You'd almost think that the band was drunk while performing it.
    • Averted on the korean version, where his theme is a mechanical version of Ky but played properly, with electronic notes and industrial noises.
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