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'''Kouji:''' Grandpa's murder... All the people who have been hurt... Japan's peace trampled... All because of Dr. Hell... This time, for sure... This time, I'll destroy Dr. Hell for good! ([[Go Nagai]] [[Great Mazinger]] manga) }}
Koji Kabuto (Kabuto Kôji), also written as [[Spell My Name
Kouji was a [[Ordinary High School Student]] who lived with his little brother Shiro and [[The Professor|his grandfather Juzo]] after their parents’ death. All of it changed when he was sixteen and his grandfather was murdered by Dr. Hell. Dr. Kabuto revealed Mazinger Z to him and requested him to save the world from Dr. Hell. Kouji vowed he would avenge his grandfather’s death and fulfill his last wish.
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* [[Combination Attack]]: Double Burning Fire, Triple Mazinger Blade and [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfEIAKpJP14 Final Dynamic Special]
* [[Delinquents]]
* [[Distaff Counterpart]]: In the Mazinger Angels Z manga (a sequel to Mazinger Angels, a [[
* [[Drives Like Crazy]]: Kouji is a not a bad driver. Oh, no. In fact, when he drives he is the only person on the road is absolutely safe. He is a [[Badass Biker]] believes traffic regulations are mere suggestions, limit speed is a myth and bikes were made to pull crazy stunts with them.
* [[Dub Name Change]]
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* [[No Indoor Voice]]: Indoor Voice? What is that “Indoor Voice” stuff you speak of?
* [[Oblivious to Love]]: In a way Sayaka finds ''very infuriating''.
* [[Put
* [[Real Men Wear Pink]]: Seeing [[Chef of Iron]] example above. He is a pretty good of a cook, specially in the original manga. Given that his little brother and he live on their own, it is not surprising he has domestic skills.
* [[The Rival]]: With Boss usually –and Tetsuya in [[Great Mazinger]]-, but in many [[Super Robot Wars]] games with Asuka from ''[[
* [[Scarf of Asskicking]]: Kouji was going to wear a scarf at the beginning, but [[Go Nagai]] removed it when ''[[Kamen Rider]]'' premiered because he did not want people thought he was ripping it off.
* [[Shonen Hair]]
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* [[Triang Relations]]: Type 3 with Sayaka and Maria, with Kouji being the [[Chaste Hero]] in the middle.)
* [[Troubled but Cute]]
* [[Why Don't You Marry It?]]: Kouji Kabuto has this thrown at him by his little brother after spending just a little too much time gushing over a new support unit for the Mazinger. Kouji's reply is along the lines of a not entirely sarcastic "maybe I will," much to the annoyance of [[Tsundere|Sayaka]].
* [[You Killed My Father|You Killed My Grandfather]]: Straight after his grandfather’s death, Kouji swore he would get his murderers and he would take revenge.
** Also, in [[Super Robot Wars Destiny]], Kouji wants to beat Ignis because he killed Kouji's father.
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* [[Dub Name Change]]: Jessica Davis in Tranzor Z
* [[Hair Decorations]]: Her iconic pink headband
* [[Dude, She's Like, in
** [[Dude, She's Like, in
* [[Hot Amazon]]: Boss, Kouji -no matter how much he denies it-, and more than one random guy are attracted to her.
* [[Heroic BSOD]]: In the original Mazinger Z series, she has one {{spoiler|when her [[Humongous Mecha]], Aphrodite A, is destroyed}}. It's so bad that {{spoiler|she almost kills herself by drowning, as she believes that Aphrodite is calling her from a nearby lake.}}
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* [[Mauve Shirt]]
{{quote| '''Boss:''' We're here to get blown up but somehow never die!}}
* [[Only Known
{{quote| '''Boss:''' My nickname's Boss! Even the author doesn't know my real name!}}
** That scene actually debuted in the original Manga, only shorter.
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* [[Only Sane Man]]: In episode 7, Sayaka is losing her will to fight and Kouji is playing [[Achilles in His Tent]]. Meanwhile Boss is trying to remember them over and again there IS one Mechanical Beast coming, and all of them will die if they don't fight back! Later Kouji and Sayaka are apologizing at each other and Shiro notes boss was the only was right in that situation.
* [[Pluto Is Expendable]]: In ''[[Super Robot Wars W]]'', Pluto has become all but forgotten (foreshadowed in a scene in which Boss can't even remember it's name), until it's revealed that the [[Big Bad]]'s base is there. To make matters worse, one of the penultimate boss' attacks features it skewering the victim so hard they go through the planet and out the other side.
* [[Spanner in
** In ''[[
** In ''[[
** In the ''[[
* [[Paper-Thin Disguise]]: Apparently Baron Ashura's mooks can't tell the difference between Boss in a helmet and one of their co-workers. ''The mooks that were assigned to guard him and Kouji specifically, no less.''
* [[The Rival]]: To Kouji Kabuto.
* [[Stay in
* [[Took a Level In Badass]] ([[Shin Mazinger]]): While most of the time they're there for the audience to have a laugh, he and his two lackeys, Mucha and Nuke (who are revealed to know martial arts), rescue Kouji from Baron Ashura's clutches. In the final battle they help out in their mecha, Boss Borot, by catching a freaking ICBM, stopping Baron Ashura him/herself from flattening the heroes, and pulling Mazinger out of the rubble of the city, enabling Kouji to fight. Boss also becomes [[Genre Savvy]] by the end: "Don't worry about us, we're the comic-relief characters who get blown up but still live!"
* [[Too Dumb to Live]]: Sometimes he showed this trait. To be fair, so did Kouji.
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* [[Jouji Yanami]]
* [[Man in White]]
* [[Married to
* [[Mission Control]]
* [[Mr. Exposition]]: He is both [[The Professor]] and [[The Mentor]], so he frequently explains to the characters -and the audience- plot points. He was the one guessed first what was Mazinger-Z and who had created it. He explained how Dr. Kabuto had discovered [[Phlebotinum|Photon Atomic power]] and [[Unobtainium|Alloy-Z]] and built Mazinger-Z with them. He narrated how Dr. Kabuto met Dr. Hell and what happened in Bardos Island. He recognized Minerva-X and explained what she was and how she worked. He explained what were the Mykene and where they came from... And often during the series he explained what strategy the enemy or Kouji was using, how worked the Mechanical Beasts' weapons... or simply what kind of training Kouji was undergoing. In ''[[
* [[Omnidisciplinary Scientist]]: Completely averted. Yumi did not dominate all fields of science, and often he needed the advice or the assistance of other scientists. He and his team could not create amazing breakthroughs out of the air either, needing much testing.
* [[Parental Substitute]] - To Kouji and Shiro
* [[Parents
* [[The Professor]]
* [[Team Dad]]
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* [[Love Makes You Evil]]: Deciding to [[Murder the Hypotenuse]]. People had shunned him out before, but from that day they started giving him a wide berth because he started seeming [[Obviously Evil]] (and downright creepy).
* [[Mad Scientist]]
* [[Milking the Giant Cow]]: Dr. Hell was prone to make this when he was monologuing, mainly in the original manga and [[
* [[Morally-Ambiguous Doctorate]]: He is an [[Obviously Evil]] [[Mad Scientist]] and a [[Complete Monster]]. To be fair, knowledge or science did not make him evil. In fact he devoted himself to learn Science because it helped him to keep himself sane. However, after his sanity finally slipped out due to too much abuse, he decided using his scientifical knwoledge to make everyone pay.
* [[Not So Different]] : Juzo is exactly like him, but unlike Hell, he is received well by his surrounding, and learned how to love someone, by raising Koji and Shiro. Dr. Hell on the other hand...
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** [[Nightmare Fuel|Lovingly]] recreated in episode 12 of ''[[Shin Mazinger]]''.
*** Both scenes were inspired by a similar scene shown in the original [[Go Nagai]] manga. In the manga however you get to see the full nakedness of Asura in all it's [[Nightmare Fuel|glory]] Does anyone have some [[Brain Bleach]] handy?
* [[Grand Theft Me]] (Takes over [[After War Gundam X
* [[Half the Man He Used To Be]]: Appropriately enough, this is how Baron Ashura (as Hell King Gordon) is finished off in [[Mazinkaiser]]
* [[Hidekatsu Shibata]] (the male half. His ex-wife Haruka Kitahara voices the female one)
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* [[Shape Shifter]]: Ashura could alter his/her appearance, although he only used that power sometimes. It can be of interest remarking that, in the odd occasion he swapped forms, he donned a female likeness.
* [[Smug Snake]]
* [[Taking You
* [[Talking to Themself]] (In [[CB Chara Go Nagai World]], example of one [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlHVsmaSk5s scene])
* [[Together in Death]]: Hell found the bodies of a man and his lover who had been [[Buried Alive]] together for being caught trying to break their [[Star-Crossed Lovers]] destinies. One half of each body was destroyed, so he stitched them together to create Ashura.
** In [[Shin Mazinger]], the two halves of Baron Ashura are actually {{spoiler|[[Tristan and Iseult
* [[Two-Faced]]: His left half is male, and her right half is female.
* [[Villainous Widow's Peak]]: It is harder spotting it cause his/her cowl, but if you observe his/her picture, you'll notice he has one.
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'''Brocken:''' Hah! If I am a ghost then what are you? A two-faced goblin? }}
Count Brocken (Brocken Hakushaku. Sometimes spelled as Blocken) was a particularly bloodthirsty Nazi officer. In the last days of World War II, his [[Off
Several years later, he met Hell again. His “savior” had already found Mykene’s ancient robots and was planning on using them to [[Take Over the World]]. But he needed a lot of money to modify the ancient robots. Brocken vowed to help him in return for saving his life. He cold-bloodily murdered the leaders of several European mobs and took them over, using their money to fund Dr. Hell’s schemes.
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* [[Dub Name Change]]: Brocken was called (for obvious reasons) Count Decapito in Tranzor Z. In the Latin American version, he was named "El Conde Decapitado" (the Headless Count)
* [[Dirty Coward]] : Pretty much the only thing that he has when compared to Ashura in terms of intelligence. And yes, it works, at least during his earlier appearances.
* [[Dirty Old Man]]: If you attack Count Brocken with a woman in [[Super Robot Wars Z]] 2: Saisei-Hen, he'll make a comment about opening their (the mecha's) cockpits to see the beauties inside, and suddenly, a lot of ZEXIS girls will start calling him names. Some of them talk about abusing Brocken's head. Especially, [[Code Geass
{{quote| '''Brocken''': I didn't do anything yet!}}
* [[Enemy Civil War]]: With Baron Ashura
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* [[Badass]]: He is a muscled, armor-wearing, sword-wielding man whose lower half is a freaking, saber-toothed tiger. You tell me that it is not badass.
* [[Beard of Evil]]
* [[Dragon
* [[Co-Dragons]]: With Ashura {{spoiler|until his/her death}}, Brocken and Pygman. However he never treated them like equals.
* [[Magnificent Bastard]]: He manipulated everyone in the series to achieve his goals.
* [[Spanner in
* [[Xanatos Gambit]]: His plan was {{spoiler|pitting Mazinger Z against Dr. Hell, expecting they destroyed each other or the survivor was so weakened that it would be easy destroying him/her. He could not lose, not matter what happened, and he almost succeeded.}}
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* [[Blow You Away]]: Stronger T4 and Blogun G3.
* [[Combat Tentacles]]: Some monsters like Stronger T4.
* [[Big Creepy
* [[Curb Stomp Battle]]: Mazinger both delivered and was at the end of many of them.
* [[Everything Is Better With Spinning]]: Stronger T4 had a giant fan located in the chest could blast hurricanes.
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* [[Disappeared Dad]]: Hiroshi never just accepted his father was dead.
* [[Never Found the Body]]: That is the reason [[Genre Savvy]] Prof. Yumi suspected they might be still alive.
* [[Off
* [[Rule of Three]]: The three scientists and the three Kikaiju: Megaron P1, P2 and P3.
* [[You Have Outlived Your Usefulness]]: One of the weapons of Megaron generated such a heat blast would surely kill whoever was sitting in the cockpit. Hell and Ashura knew the three men surely would die during the battle. They did not care.
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That hexagonal device was the partner circuit received Mazinger's signals. When Mazinger showed up, the device began working and she stopped fighting and started acting like its partner. Of course, when Dr. Hell realized she had allied with Mazinger, he decided she had to be destroyed quickly.
Minerva-X only showed up in that episode, but one of the ''[[
=== Tropes: ===
* [[And I Must Scream]]: In ''[[Shin Mazinger Zero]]'' {{spoiler|Mazinger-Z became a demon -[[Eldritch Abomination]] is more like it- and caused [[The End of the World
* [[Batman Can Breathe in Space]]: Justified, since she is a robot.
* [[Battle Couple]]: She was supposed to be Mazinger-Z battle partner.
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* [[Tender Tears]]: Minerva was not only capable to feel but also crying. Her CPU strained due to contradictory orders (on one hand, her partner circuit told her that [[Humongous Mecha]] was Mazinger-Z, her partner; on the other hand, Hell's remote control ordered her destroying Mazinger). Since she was not built with Japanium as she was meant to, her body overheated, and a cooling fluid leaked around her eyes. Thus, when she was emotionally stressed, she "cried".
* [[Uncanny Valley]]: She is slightly less eerie than the Gamia triplets.
* [[Why Don't You Marry It?]]: She would probably do if it was legal.
* [[You Shall Not Pass]]: She did this in episode 6.
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==== First Appearance: Episode 69 (in ''[[Mazinger Z]]''); episode 4 (in ''[[Great Mazinger]]'') ====
Bakarasu was a male raven Boss and his gang met in episode 69 form ''[[
=== Tropes: ===
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