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* [[Accidental Pervert]]: In the Mazinger vs Great General of Darkness movie, Kouji went in the bathroom right when Sayaka was taking a shower. After getting a [[Armor-Piercing Slap]] he apologized and swore it was an accident (although he was half-smirking as he told so).
* [[Badass]]
* [[Badass Biker]]
* [[Badass and Child Duo]]: His little brother usually hangs around him. Needless to say, threaten Shiro and the pain you will feel will depend on whether Kouji is or is not riding his [[Humongous Mecha]] in the time.
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** In Tranzor Z, Koji was named Tommy Davis, which was somewhat confusing as he was unrelated to the counterparts of Sayaka Yumi and her father, whose last names were also Davis. He was voiced by Gregg Berger in the dub.
** When ''[[Grendizer]]'' was shown in the United States as part of [[Force Five]], Koji's name was Lance Hyatt.
** Italian translators never identified Kabuto as the same character in Grendizer and in the Mazinger series. In the Italian version of Grendizer (broadcast for first in Italy), Koji was called Alcor; in Mazinger Z, Ryo Kabuto; in Great Mazinger, Koji Kabuto. As a result, many in Italy thought that the heroes of Japanese cartoons all looked alike. In the Italian version of Mazinkaiser, he was called Koji Kabuto again.
** The same confusion took place in France: he was called Alcor in the French version of Grendizer (from which the Italian one was taken), and Koji in the French version of Mazinger Z (which was broadcast much later in France).
** The same kind of confusion took place in Arabic speaking nations: While he was still called Koji in the Arabic version of Grendizer, he was called ''Maher'' in the Arabic version of Mazinger Z that was translated after Grendizer's success in the Middle East.
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She was daughter of Professor Yumi, director of the Photon Lab Institute, and she piloted Aphrodite A, a test prototype giant robot Yumi built. Her mother was deceased and she has a cousin –named Yuri-. Her father was not exactly cold and uncaring, but Sayaka realized that his first priority was his work, and sometimes she felt somewhat alone and craving for proving herself to him.
She first met Kouji when he was rampaging through the valley –or city the original manga-. She was the first person taught who Kouji how to handle Mazinger Z (even though she was more than willing to hit him back after his robot accidentally kicked hers), and always fought alongside him.
She was a bit hot-tempered and tomboyish, and had a [[Belligerent Sexual Tension|habit of clashing with Kouji even though she had a romantic interest in him.]] She was usually tender and nice, but she was also somewhat prideful and just as hotheaded and hotblooded as Kouji, so his sexist, non-thoughtful, loudmouthed ways always managed to set her off. She was also quite jealous and she did not appreciate it when some beautiful woman –like Hitomi, Misato or Erika- was very familiar with Kouji –especially if Kouji looked like was enjoying the attention-. Still they were very close even if they were bickering and fighting constantly.
* [[Action Girl]]: She was one of the first female characters in the genre to regularly take an active role in battles and conflicts, rather than be relegated to the sidelines once fighting began or offering non-combat support.
* [[Belligerent Sexual Tension]] (with Kouji)
* [[Biker Babe]]
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* [[Distress Ball]]: Poor kid took these more than a couple times in the original series, generally tied up. Also in [[Mazinkaiser]].
* [[Dub Name Change]]: Jessica Davis in Tranzor Z
* [[Hair Decorations]]: Her iconic pink headband
* [[Dude, She's Like, in a Coma|HoneyHeIsInComa]]: She kissed Kouji once he when he was knocked out.
** [[Dude, She's Like, in a Coma]]: And she was kissed by Boss once in Gosaku Ota’s manga when she was sleeping.
* [[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.}}
* [[Hime Cut]]
* [[Minori Matsushima]]
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* [[Smarter Than You Look]]: During his first few appearances, his acts make him looking like [[Too Dumb to Live]] (for starters, while Koji is horrified by the Iron Mask, especially after killing it, all he says is that Koji is so cool for killing the Iron Mask). Later on in the series, he learned to pilot the Pilder in relatively short time ([[Falling Into the Cockpit|bonus points since unlike Koji, he has practically zero experience in piloting the Pilder,]] while Koji mentions that the control is similar to his motorbike) and pulls a [[Big Damn Heroes]] several times, that really says something. ([[Fridge Brilliance|Of course, he IS a member of Kabuto family]])
* [[Star-Crossed Lovers]]: His first crush was Lorelei, a [[Mad Scientist's Beautiful Daughter]] {{spoiler|and [[Robot Girl]]}}. [[Tear Jerker|It ends up in tears.]]
* [[Wise Beyond His Years]]: He seems pretty mature for his age. Then again, maybe it is due to he constantly hangs around his brother, who is somewhat immature for his age.
** More because he is forced to life on his own without a parents care. Juzo is implied to spent most of his time to build [[Mazinger Z]], and Koji is handling the household jobs, and go to school, thus leaving him alone.
*** And let's not forget {{spoiler|his supposedly dead father was too busy building Great Mazinger to take care of them AND tell them he was alive.}}
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* [[Mauve Shirt]]
{{quote|'''Boss:''' We're here to get blown up but somehow never die!}}
* [[Only Known by Their Nickname|Only Known By His Nickname]]: Lampshaded in [[Shin Mazinger Shougeki! Z-hen]]
{{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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* [[Spanner in the Works]] : The different ''Mazinger sagas'' would be so much more different had Boss not interfered with the baddies plans. To clarify:
** In ''[[Mazinger Z]]'', thanks to [[Memetic Mutation|Brocken]] [[Crowning Moment of Funny|Ball]], Koji is able to rescue the kidnapped civilians. Not to mention the fact that in the same series, he saved Koji's life several times, gaining Koji's respect in the process. And in the ''Mazinger-Z versus Great General of Darkness'', as a squad of Mykene Warrior Monsters are trashing Mazinger-Z he suddenly interfered. He only deterred them for several seconds, but those seconds were all that {{spoiler|Tetsuya needed to intervene with Great Mazinger and save Kouji's life. And because Kouji did not die, he could help to save the world in ''[[Great Mazinger]]'' and ''[[UFO Robo Grendizer]]''.}}
** In ''[[Great Mazinger]]'', if he would have not flirted with Jun and followed her when she was buying clothes, the good guys would be dead by the THIRD chapter.
** In the ''[[Mazinkaiser]]'' movie, he pretty much saved the world (which at that point is a [[Crapsack World]]). The Mycene's plan to send one of their general to attack Koji while he is out of Mazinkaiser is completely foiled because Boss attacked the general [[Irony|with Boss Borot]].
* [[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 the Kitchen]]: In Venus A first battle he got in the way of Jun several times. In one of them he stated "Girls must not fight". The ironic -and frustrating- part is he intervened right when Jun was gaining the upper hand, and because him, she could was unable to defeat the Warrior Beast.
* [[Took a Level In Badass]] ([[Shin Mazinger Shougeki! Z-hen]]): 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.
* [[Verbal Tic]]: Boss often ends his words with "Da wa sa". He discards it in the Mazinkaiser OVA, da wa sa.
* [[Vitriolic Best Buds]] : With Koji, they often bicker with each other, but they do get along rather well.
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* [[Jouji Yanami]]
* [[Man in White]]
* [[Married to the Job]]: He spends most part of the time working in the Photonic Energy Research Laboratory or traveling to meet with other scientists. He is a widower, and his daughter Sayaka practically has to twist his arm to force him to go home and have supper. Although she never called him out on it, many times she felt neglected and she regretted not only she was motherless but her father was too busy to be there for her when she needed him. However it may be sort of justified since her Prof. Yumi was trying to save the world.
* [[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 ''[[Mazinkaiser]]'' he retained that role (he recognized Mazinkaiser as soon as he saw it, he explained how they had modified to Mazinkaiser in the movie...)
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* [[Amazing Technicolor Population]]: He's ''purple''. No indication why, since he's seemingly human.
* [[Beard of Evil]]: It is white, it is bristly, it is long and it is positively epic.
* [[Big Bad]]
* [[They Called Me Mad]]: Subverted. They did not call him mad. They called him dumb and useless. THAT is what set him off.
* [[Complete Monster]]: a Hammy one, though.
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* [[Kick the Dog]]: More like grabbing the dog’s tail and banging it repeatedly against a wall until the poor mutt was a bloody pulp. Yes, it really happened (in the Gosaku Ota’s episodes).
** [[Disproportionate Retribution]]: And it happened because he did not like how the dog was looking to him.
* [[Kneel Before Zod]]: His main drive to take over the world is that he wishes to force the entire human race to bow down to him.
* [[Kubrick Stare]]: He displayed this expression quite requently, usually when he was mad or he had just thought of some devilish scheme. It was more disturbing in the second instance.
* [[Large Ham]]
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* [[Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever]]: He briefly grew into a giant in one episode, after exposure to a size-changing ray gun invented by Dr. Hell.
* [[Buried Alive]]: The two corpses Hell found had been buried alive.
* [[Complete Monster]]: Baron Ashura is a sadistic and cruel creation with murderous impulses and genocidal lust. In the original manga, after a Mechanical Beast sinks a ship, Ashura surfaces his/her submarine and personally machineguns the survivors to death as yelling he’ll turn their corpses into brainwashed, cybernetic zombies under his/her command. In the anime, he/she confronts the Kabuto family's maid Rumi and murders her in cold-blood when she is unable to tell him where Juzo Kabuto is.
** Actually, he/she's ''slightly'' less of a [[Complete Monster]] than most. His/her loyalty to Dr. Hell was very genuine and /she went to many lengths to fulfill his/her duty to his master. Other than that, yeah, he/she's a complete bastard.
* [[Disguised in Drag]]: Done at least twice (in episodes 7 and 36). He/she disguised like a woman to manipulate a mob or frighten nosy people away one of his/her operations. Fortunately he/she was a shape-shifter, so it was not so hard looking like a woman how it would be to him/her (on the grounds of Ashura being half-male, half-female). It overlapped with [[Creepy Crossdresser]] since it was pretty squicky -and eerie-.
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*** 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|Tifa Adil]]'s body in a [[Super Robot Wars Alpha]] Gaiden 4koma)
* [[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)
* [[Ironic Birthday]] In [[Mazinkaiser]], Baron Ashura infiltrates the Photon Power Laboratory [[Latex Perfection|disguised as Professor Yumi]], and walks in on Dr. Yumi's surprise birthday party. To make matters worse, all the presents remind him of Baron Ashura, including a Baron Ashura-themed dartboard. He/she dashes out, [[Most Definitely Not a Villain|screaming that he/she is, in fact, Professor Yumi]].
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* [[Complete Monster]] : Yes, his records might be small in comparison to everything Ashura and Hell do, but you need to remember that in the original manga, he, instead of Ashura is the first person that actualy killed an innocent person on screen. And you have to remember that he was considered very bloodthirsty by the standards of [[Those Wacky Nazis]], so this qualified him right off the bat.
* [[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|Kallen even wanted to use Brocken's head as a soccerball]]. Brocken becomes surprised at their reactions.
{{quote|'''Brocken''': I didn't do anything yet!}}
* [[Enemy Civil War]]: With Baron Ashura
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* [["The Reason You Suck" Speech]]: In the Gosaku Ota’s manga he delivered a spectacular one to Dr. Hell, telling exactly what he thought of his master before leaving for fighting Mazinger-Z on foot {{spoiler|and dying.}}
* [[Those Wacky Nazis]]: Count Brocken and his [[Mooks]].
* [[Villain Decay]] : Would you believe that the victim of [[Crowning Moment of Funny|Brocken Ball]] is the same person who killed someone on-screen right on the same chapter ?
== Archduke Gorgon ==
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They were three identical, blonde cyborg girls Baron Ashura treated like his/her daughters.
They were tall, slender, and each wore twin ponytails reached the ground. Their hair was sharp and they flayed their ponytails like whips could slice and dice anything, including rocks, cars… or human flesh. Besides, they had more-than-human strength, speed and agility.
They showed up only in the [[Go Nagai]] manga, and their first animated appearance was in [[Mazinkaiser]]. Usually their role is assassinating Kouji Kabuto when he is out of Mazinger and –supposedly- defenseless.
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* [[Ridiculously Human Robot]]
* [[Robot Girl]]
* [[Running Gag]]: Every time they show up, one of them is always killed in the next fashion: someone –usually Kouji- shoots one bullet or laser beam through her head before slicing her in two symmetrical halves. It even happened in a [[Super Robot Wars]] manga.
* [[Ryoka Yuzuki]]: In Mazinkaiser
* [[Uncanny Valley]]: They look right like human girls… but their appearance and their cold expressions –including when they are slicing and cleaving people are very unsettling.
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=== Tropes: ===
* [[Disposable Woman]]: She took care of Kouji and Shiro as their grandfather {{spoiler|and father}} was too busy designing and building [[Humongous Mecha]] for raising them properly. She was murdered in the first episode, few minutes after her first appearance, and after crying over her corpse, Kouji and Shiro (who affectionately called her “sister”) never mentioned her again.
== Professor Gordon and his family ==
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* [[Clingy Jealous Girl]]: A mild case, but she taunted Sayaka, and later explicitly said she did it because she had seen Aphrodite fighting alongside Mazinger and she got jealous. She seems to regard a [[Humongous Mecha]] and its pilot like two parts of the same being.
* [[Companion Cube]]: She talks to and about and treats Mazinger-Z like if he was a sentient being instead of an inanimate object. Nonetheless, given what it was revealed in ''[[Shin Mazinger Zero]]'', she has a point.
* [[Despair Event Horizon]]:
{{quote|Minerva: At my wits' end, I can only watch...}}
* [[The Determinator]]: She has failed on saving the world 2,798 times, and still she keeps trying. If that is not be a determinator, I don't know what it is.
* [[FemBot]]
* [[
* [[Humongous Mecha]]: At the original series.
* [[The Immodest Orgasm]]: Minerva X's reaction while the Pilder docked with Mazinger Z.
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** [[Razor Wings]]: "Photon Wings!"
** [[Rocket Punch]]
* [[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.
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