Mega Man Star Force/Characters: Difference between revisions

{{quote| ''"EM Wave Change, Geo Stelar, On The Air!"''}}

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* [[Arm Cannon]]: An interesting variant; instead of the straight-up [[Cool Guns|buster-style]] cannon, the first two games had Geo's arm swallowed by Omega-Xis' [https://web.archive.org/web/20130629114627/http://images.wikia.com/megaman/images/2/25/Megaman_star_force.jpg head].

* [[Character Development]]: [[Took a Level Inin Badass|Lots]].

{{quote| Geo: Yeah, I think we found it.}}

* {{spoiler|[[Et Tu, Brute?]]}}: {{spoiler|Pat's betrayal prompts Geo's [[Achilles in His Tent]] moment in the first game.}}

** [[BFSBig Freaking Sword]]: Thunderbolt Blade and Elemental Blade

* [[Goggles Do Something Unusual]]/[[See -Thru Specs]]: The Visualizer that Aaron Boreal gives him is used to reveal electromagnetic waves and to find wave holes in the first two games, but by the third game, Geo could transform anywhere; he still wears them though.

* [[Hello, Insert Name Here]]: In the first game, with the default name (see above) becoming the [[Canon Name]].

* [[Henshin Hero]]: When Geo combines with Mega to become MegaMan, Mega's armor [[Adaptive Armor|refits itself]] into a [[Powered Armor|jumpsuit of sorts]] around Geo's body. Certain comparison shots from the promotional art for ''Black'' and ''Red'' suggest MegaMan is [[Plot -Relevant Age -Up|more physically mature]] than Geo.

* [["I Know You're in There Somewhere" Fight]]: Every single plotline boss in the original game is one of these. Every single one. {{spoiler|Except for the last, unfortunately. Pat honestly despises the world; the realization of this is absolutely ''devastating'' to Geo, which is why he has his much-derided [[Achilles in His Tent]] moment.}}

* [[One -Way Visor]]: Yep, and normally most of the time it's see thru-through, except for the image on [https://web.archive.org/web/20121011075618/http://image.com.com/gamespot/images/bigboxshots/0/961070_126615_front.jpg the box] for the crossover game Operate Shooting Star with [[MegamanMega Man Battle Network]].

** [[You ArePlaying a Tree Charlie Brown]]: The important, absolutely necessary part she needed him for.

* [[Wacky Parent, Serious Child|Serious Child]]: Even as MegaMan, he can't get a handle on his mother's quirks.

* [[Somebody ElsesElse's Problem]]: ''Averted'' in the anime, where Geo's natural sense of heroism suffers less from the prolonged depression of the games. The kid will often run ''into'' manifestly dangerous situations in the hope that he can do something, even if Mega isn't around to help. To date, these situations have included: Luna almost falling from a damaged skytram, Gemini Spark causing trouble, and a mass virus outbreak.

* [[Ten -Minute Retirement]]: Played straight [[Achilles in His Tent|in the first game]]. Subverted in the anime, where he only {{spoiler|tells Mega to take a hike}}, but still runs around trying to help.

* [[Touched Byby Vorlons]]: Rather violently. Geo was bombarded by a mass of electromagnetic radiation one night that at the very least knocked him out. [[Fridge Horror|It's remarkable]] [[Stock Epileptic Trees|how little]] [[All Just a Dream|anyone has a]] [[Dying Dream|problem with this]].

* [[Wake Up, Go to School, Save Thethe World]]: MegaMan the elementary schooler!

{{quote| ''"Hey kid, stop screaming like a girl and hear me!"''}}

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* [[Anti -Hero]]: Type III. He has very few qualms doing things like pulling Geo around, erasing information that could get either of them in trouble, or doing really dick moves (like knocking people out with a pitching machine) in the name of getting his goals accomplished, but at heart he's a decent being who genuinely wants his human partner to live a little.

* [[Artifact of Doom]]: The OOPart(s) from the second game (which varies depending on the [[One Game for Thethe Price of Two|version]]), whose power Rockman imbibes sometime after Omega-Xis ''swallows it''.

* [[ItsIt's Personal]]: He {{spoiler|wants to get back at Cepheus}} in the first game, which is why he {{spoiler|poses as one of Cepheus's army}}.

** [[Jerk Withwith a Heart of Gold]]: Naturally, he settles into this kind of role over time.

* [[Laser -Guided Amnesia]]: {{spoiler|He had no idea he was from Planet AM in the anime.}}

{{quote| ''"That stupid manager! Songs have to be written with heart!"''}}

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* [[Manic Pixie Dream Girl]]: She starts off as a [[Deconstructed Trope|deconstruction]] -- her—her perpetually happy mood was really a mask, but a good deal of Geo's character development is kicked off by [["I Know You Are're in There Somewhere" Fight|helping her come to terms with her situation]]. After that, she's pretty much non-stop buoyant and perky.

* [[Musical Assassin]]: Harp Note -- herNote—her and Lyra's combined form.

* [[Red Oni, Blue Oni]]: With Luna - Sonia's much more perky and outgoing than Luna is, and for bonus points, Sonia's color is red (her hair is purely this, plus her jacket and other clothes are various shades of red and pink), while Luna exhibits a great deal of blue (her uniform jacket and swimsuit).

* [[Rose -Haired Girl]]

** [[Hair of Gold]]: [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20130531040544/http://sprites-inc.co.uk/files/EXE/EXE1OSS/Mugshot/ here] (right above [[Mega Man Battle Network (Video Game)|Higsby]])

* [[NoblewomansNoblewoman's Laugh]]: A character she plays on TV lets one out in the anime.

* [[Shout -Out Theme Naming]]: Her name might be a shout out to Hibari Misora, a famous japanese singer.

* [[Ten -Minute Retirement]]: She retires from her job as an [[Idol Singer]] shortly after her introduction in the first game. By the start of the second game (maybe a few months later in game time) she has not only returned to singing, she's also doing advertising. By the third game she's also gone into acting and doing photo shoots. Despite the escalating work load, her new (unnamed) manager presumably treats her like a person instead of a cash cow.

* [[Touched Byby Vorlons]]: Just like Geo

{{quote| ''"GO TO SCHOOL!"''}}

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* [[Big Fancy House]] - She has one in the anime (complete with [[Gender Swap|Butler]] [[Maid Corps|Corps]] -- wait—wait, a [[Fridge Logic|preteen girl with]] ''[[Fridge Logic|that]]'' [[Fridge Logic|many men at her beck and call?]]). In the games she only lives in a condominium with her parents, who do own a whole department store, mind you.

** {{spoiler|1=[[Disney Death]]: [[Playing Withwith a Trope|An Interesting Case]]. Luna is the [[Never Live It Down|Second Victim]] of [[Scary Black Man|Joker's]] Dread Lazer attack, which is given a "Hit" animation that's highly evocative of the original [[Mega Man (Videovideo Gamegame)|Robot Master]] defeat sequences.<ref>The defeated character explodes into fragments of light.</ref> However, while Geo is at first stunned enough to let the villains escape, he later refuses to acknowledge even the ''possibility'' of Luna being gone, despite Sonia's, Bud's, and Zack's grief. Later on, it turns out Geo was right, and part of the game is spent reclaiming her fragmented pieces, and hoping against hope that WAXA (which estimates a 30% success chance with their current technology) can put her back together again.}}

* [[Exiled to Thethe Couch]]: After seeing the boys getting to know Amy (and assuming Geo has romantic interests in her), she orders Geo to sleep on the couch in the suite. Interestingly, there are only ''three'' beds in the suite for the four guests, so one wonders what the arrangement would've been if Geo hadn't been exiled.

* [[Giftedly Bad]]: She tries, she really does. But ''do not'' put her in charge of anything that requires creative talent. Three famous instances: The [[Cheap Costume|infamously bad]] Mega Man costume in the first game, which Geo actually ends up able to walk around in without being recognized; naming her team in ''3'' "Luna 4 Prez", and naming Zack's dog "Catnip".<ref>which is more backstory than anything</ref>.

* [[Kirk Summation]]: Tries this on [[Ax Crazy|Jack Corvus]] in the third game. It doesn't work -- thework—the alien half of the monster tells her that [[Shut Up, Kirk|his host just wants to destroy stuff]]. [[Double Subverted|And then Jack snaps at Corvus, yelling about how he hates being ordered around.]]

** [[NoblewomansNoblewoman's Laugh]]: She lets one out when she's given the designation of honor at the village of Nansca's ceremony.

* [[Proper Tights Withwith a Skirt]]: In the anime her stockings are straight up baby blue. In the games, they're a darker blue with a light yellow spiral pattern.

* [[Red Oni, Blue Oni]]: The blue to Sonia's red, and slight subversion, maybe. She's more down-to-earth practical-minded than Sonia (except in the rare cases you manage to upset her - thus the subversion); so really, she's the Tsundere to Sonia's [[Genki Girl]]. Need further proof? Luna's is most often seen in blue, and Sonia in pink.

* [[Through His Stomach]]: Late in the first season of the anime, she spends her portion of a shared [[Day in The Limelight]] learning how to cook -- forcook—for RockMan, from Akane, and [[Hilarity Ensues|using Geo]].

** Her job in the post-game of ''BerShiDin'' is an attempt to try and cooking a pastry. Geo, [[Ship Tease|for once eager]] [[Out -of -Character Moment|to assist someone]], cheerfully gathers ingredients from ''around the world'' for her -- actuallyher—actually going so far as to invert their usual dynamic and making her demand he [[Stop Helping Me!|Stop Helping Her]].

* [[Touched Byby Vorlons]]: She joined with Ophiuchus briefly, and traces of that power are left in her body, though she does not use the power in ''Ace'' and ''Joker''.

{{quote| ''[[Did Not Get the Girl|"Game over for me."]]''}}

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* [[Big Eater]]: A fairly major portion of his character, and one of his chief distinguishing characteristics when compared to [[Mega Man Battle Network (Video Game)|Dex]], whose niche he otherwise fulfills. In case you don't do subtlety, his shirt has a fork and a knife design situated on the belly.

* [[Bruiser Withwith a Soft Center]]

* [[Playing Withwith Fire]]: Taurus. It's also the main ability of their fused form.

* [[Touched Byby Vorlons]]: Yeah same as Geo and both of the girls, his alien partner ends up returning unlike Luna's

{{quote| ''"I must tell this to the Prez!"''}}

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* [[Can't Catch Up]]: Poor, poor Zack. He's the one part of a group of friends that hasn't been [[Touched Byby Vorlons]], but it's only in private that this shows: in the third game, one of the Mr. Hertzes in his house will reveal that Zack and Pedia have been practicing the E-M Wave Change pose in front of a mirror.

* [[Touched Byby Vorlons]]: Averted, as he is the only one of the five kids that does not meet up with an alien partner. Though he does get a wizard like the other four.

{{quote| ''"Please, just come back home safely."''}}

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* [[Distressed Damsel in Distress]]: Phantom Black kidnaps her and [[Male Gaze|makes good on his deal with the cameramen]].

* [[Innocent Innuendo]]: During the moment illustrated in [[Shipper Onon Deck]], Akane muses about Subaru still being a little boy for all his supposed maturity, but makes a [http://i39.tinypic.com/20r36zs.jpg particularly awkward face] during the statement, which is not helped in coming directly after [http://i40.tinypic.com/o87wbo.jpg this]. The fandom does not seem to want to let this go, naturally.

* [[Parents Asas People]]: While she has small flashes of insight into Geo's secret life, she still comes across as a smidgeon selfish when she tries to insist Geo stay out of harm's way. [[Character Development|She lets this go]] in the third game after a final flash of insight.

* [[Shipper Onon Deck]]: In the anime, Akane will tease Subaru about the girls in his life. At one point in the first season, Akane asks Subaru if he likes [[Idol Singer|Hibiki]] [[Genki Girl|Misora]]. He denies this quite strongly. She then has a flash of inspiration, she asks if he likes [[Class Representative|Shirogane]] [[Tsundere|Luna]], which steams him up enough to make him leave, suffering both teasing from Akane and War Rock.

* [[Wacky Parent, Serious Child|Wacky Parent]]: Oh, yes. Bursting out laughing when your son [[Lethal Chef|suffers the efforts]] of [[Through His Stomach|your student]] is not the best way to earn Mommy Points, no.

{{quote| ''"I still haven't lost hope that I'll find Kelvin someday"''}}

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An associate and former [[Sempai -Kohai|underclassman]] of Kelvin's, Aaron may be the one man left on earth still trying to find his old friend. The head of the space research institute, "AMAKEN", Aaron proves to be one of Geo's greater allies during his adventures, even going so far as to get things started by presenting Geo with the Visualizer, which he found among Kelvin's old things. Cheerful and outgoing, he tries hard to make friends with people, going out of his way to make friends with one of his workers, the reclusive Tom Dubius.

*** [[The Engineer]]: In the anime, he provides Geo with a substitute [[Merchandise -Driven|Wave Scanner]] while he plans on fixing his broken Transer, when [[Bungling Inventor|Shinsuke]] jumps in and seizes the opportunity to create what we will come to know as the [[Early -Bird Cameo|Star Carrier]]. AMAKEN also develops Wave Rifles for the Satella Police.

* [[Sempai -Kohai]]: A ''kohai'' of Kelvin's, and a friend of the family.

{{quote| ''"Goyouda, Goyouda, Goyouda!"''}}

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* [[The Inspector]]: Generally finds himself involved in cases that deal with superhuman activities. He doesn't succeed, but he gets pretty darn close.

* [[Memetic Badass]]: This was the fan response to the release of [https://web.archive.org/web/20100611232428/http://georockman.net/site/images/wallpapers/capcom3/wp09_1280x960.jpg this wallpaper].

* [[Overshadowed Byby Awesome]]: Copper is actually quite competent, he's just utterly out of his league. Even in the anime, which gives him more screen time, MegaMan evades his clutches only through the virtue of his superhuman abilities. Again, Geo and Mega probably aren't helping things with their [[Idiot Ball|unquestioning distrust]] of the badge.

* [[Secret -Chaser]]: Geo and Mega work hard to keep ahead of Copper. They manage to turn him into a [[Sympathetic Inspector Antagonist]] when they try to slow his investigation, an effort which involves knocking him out with a [[Improvised Weapon|baseball]] [[Played for Laughs|to the forehead]], and cracking his computer to delete his entire report. Mega, who dragged Geo into it, apparently [[Idiot Ball|never hit on the idea]] that explaining the situation to a potential ally was an all around better option than behaving like a criminal and ratcheting up the policeman's suspicion.

* [[Spanner in Thethe Works]]: Is an instrumental distraction in the Tribe anime finale, without which the bad guys would've won.

* [[Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass]]: So Hang Ten surfs the ''Meteor Server'' when you hand him a Cipher Code.

{{quote| ''"I can only calm down fighting!"''}}

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* [[Touched Byby Vorlons]]

* [[Turns Red]]: The Wolf Woods battle in Star Force 1 has a unique element to it -- whenit—when the background full moon comes out, Wolf Woods literally [[Powerup Full -Color Change|turns red]], his claws lengthen, he moves faster, and he hits harder. And when the full moon hides again, he reverts to normal. So we have an interesting example of a '[[The Berserker|pissy boss]]' mode on a timer.

* [[Worthy Opponent]]: Wolf and Mega, while not on the same side, have a great mutual respect for each other in the anime. This leads them to both chide themselves for being foolish when they wonder why that [[Paper -Thin Disguise|cutseyed up doglike creature]] over there looks so familiar; no way would he EVER be a part of a dog show. That would be silly.

{{quote| ''"This wasn't in my script!"''}}

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{{spoiler|He appears again in the third game and attempts to steal Mega Man's Ace/Joker Program (depending in the version you're playing. He fails... [[Nice Job Fixing It, Villain|and ends up unlocking the full potention of the program and giving Mega Man the power of Noise Change]]. He later battles Mega Man and is defeated, commiting suicide after realizing he'll never win.}}

* [[Card -Carrying Villain]] - Has some shades of this.

* [[Nice Job Fixing It, Villain]] - {{spoiler|An early script in the 3rd game ends up inadvertently triggering the [[Super Mode|Noise Change]].}}

** {{spoiler|[[Villainous Breakdown]]: With each failed script, his grasp of the world around him slips a little. His last failure in 3 sees him give way to a [[Laughing Mad]] [[Freak -Out]] and fall over the edge of a cyber-world platform. Geo and Omega expect he'll be back.}}

** [[Giftedly Bad]] / [[Nightmare Fetishist]]: In the anime, he possesses a fascination with the grotesque and the distorted -- hedistorted—he's simply not content unless a piece of art has something... ''off'' about it (His painting 'A Girl Playing with Her Dog' depicts the split second between the leaping of a rabid little dog and its teeth sinking into the eponymous girl's flesh) . He is honestly convinced that he is world-class artist, but the fact that people are repulsed by his taste in art leads him to believe that he's one of the great artists whose work won't be appreciated until centuries after his death. And then he is visited by a [[Our Ghosts Are Different|little phantasm]] who offers him immortality.

{{quote| ''"Clinging to others as you do is an ignoble existance."''}}

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* [[Anti -Hero]]: First scene in ''Ace'' and ''Joker''? An attempt on Jack Corvus' life.

* [[Bare -Fisted Monk]]: Originally. Then he picked up a sword and fell in love.

* [[The Cameo]]: he's a chip and enemy summon in ''[[Mega Man Battle Network (Video Game)|Operate Shooting Star]]''.

* [[Fire -Forged Friends]]: [[Averted]]. Solo is determined to stick out his loner ways.

* [[Jerk Withwith a Heart of Gold]]: Mmmmaybe. If his business there is concluded, Rogue has been known to begrudgingly allow for hitch-hikers on his way out of the [[Most Definitely Final Dungeon]].

* [[The Lancer]]: Ace wanted him for the [[Five -Man Band|Commandos]]. Solo [[Averted|turned him down]].

* [[Shout -Out]]: Laplace is named for Pierre-Simon Laplace, an astronomer known for the hypothetical near omniscient Laplace's Demon (which is likely what Laplace more properly references - this would fit with with Solo's [[Combat Clairvoyance]]).

* [[Spam Attack]]: This is the main reason he is impossible to beat in the series; he specializes both in [[Rapid -Fire Fisticuffs]] and [[Blade Spam]].

{{quote| Solo: Shut up, Laplace.}}

* [[Turns Red]]: After he gets the Indie Proof in the second game, he'll put out a [[BFSBig Freaking Sword]] and change his [[Rapid -Fire Fisticuffs]] for a rapid sword strokes. [[Subverted]] after Laplace joins him, he'll use both sword and fisticuffs in accord.

** Rogue's martial arts apply the following tropes: [[Armed Legs]], [[Dance Battler]],<ref>Part of his full combo involves a gratuitous backflip. Not that the opponent will be able to dodge that well after he landed the first blows.</ref>, [[Elemental Punch]]/[[Rocket Punch]], [[Rapid -Fire Fisticuffs]], [[Shockwave Stomp|Shockwave Punch]].

** The sword from the Indie Proof applies the following tropes: [[Ancestral Weapon]], [[BFSBig Freaking Sword]], [[Blade Spam]], [[Evil Weapon]], [[One -Handed Zweihander]], [[Sword Beam]].

** The Laplace Blade applies the following tropes: [[Black Swords Are Better]], [[Empathic Weapon]]/[[Mons]], [[Oddly -Shaped Sword]] --> [[Serrated Blade of Pain]]/[[Sinister Scimitar]][[hottip:*:,<ref>The Laplace Blade is designed to gore the opponent rather than just cleave them into pieces. One of Rogue's attacks with it is a large, direct slash that causes multiple lesser wounds and [[Standard Status Effects|temporary paralysis.]],</ref> [[Throwing Your Sword Always Works]].

* [[We ARE Struggling Together!]]: This more or less defines the relationship between him and Geo.

{{quote| ''"So you're Geo Stelar. I always wondered how you were."''}}

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{{spoiler|Gemini himself is Cepheus' [[The Dragon|Second-in-Command]], and in fact has been [[Dragon -in -Chief|Leading Him on a Leash]] since before the plot begins.}}

* {{spoiler|1=[[Dragon -in -Chief]]/[[The Heavy]]}}: {{spoiler|1=Gemini is the chief driving force in the story: Cepheus owes him the current state of his paranoia, he orders the various Jammer attacks, and slays Ophiuchus at the end of her chapter to keep her from being a problem just as she realizes he has no loyalty to King Cepheus. He is [[Villain Decay|Reduced To Being]] simply a [[Dragon Withwith an Agenda]] when MegaMan kills him ahead of schedule, and when Cepheus restores him, he violates orders just for the opportunity to kill Geo. [[Killed Off for Real|Not that it does him any good]].}}

* {{spoiler|[["I Know You Are're in There Somewhere" Fight]]}}: Subverted viciously. {{spoiler|Pat's doing this because he ''really wants to''. Even when he's defeated, Pat leaves without any sort of reconciliation. This prompts the first of Geo's famous [[Achilles in His Tent]] moments, in turn causing him to snap at real friends of his.}}

* {{spoiler|[[Karma Houdini]]}}: Oh so very much in the anime. {{spoiler|During the final roll call at the end of the Tribe anime, [[Complete Monster|Gemini]] shows up, grooving along to the concert with all of the other FM-ians, never mind the fact that he and Pat basically slaughtered them all to feed [[Planet Eater|Andromeda]]. Pat himself gets a bit of this in the first season, after slaying Gemini himself - Cepheus shows up and rips him of his [[Laser -Guided Amnesia|power and memories]] from meeting Gemini, leaving him with something of a benevolent case of [[Amnesiac Dissonance]].}}

* {{spoiler|[[Laser -Guided Amnesia]]}}: {{spoiler|1=After Spark White (Tsukasa) slays Spark Black (Gemini) in the anime, King Cepheus strips him of his power and all memories of what happened starting from when he met Gemini. (War Rock [[Lampshade Hanging|immediately notices how convenient it is]]). Admitting the [[Karma Houdini]] moment, its [[Justified Trope|shown more than once]] that personalities will blend between Wave Change partners (Ophiuchus Queen spontaneously manifests Luna's feelings for RockMan during her initial appearance, for example), and Tsukasa and Gemini were hanging out with each other for a long, ''long'' time.}}

** {{spoiler|And it becomes a case of [[StarfishLiteral CharacterSplit Personality]] during [[Henshin Hero|Wave Change]].}}

* {{spoiler|[[Touched Byby Vorlons]]}}

* [[Wham! Episode|Wham Scene]]: Oh, hey, look -- Itlook—It's Pat! Cool! Hey. what's he talking about... hey, wait a minute. Did he just ''beat the crap'' out of that guy? Whoa. Scary.

{{quote| ''"All right class, if you have any questions, don't hesitate to come to me!"''}}

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* [[Touched Byby Vorlons]]

Aaron's research assistant in the first game. A former co-worker formed a Brother Band with him for the sake of stealing his inventions; since then, he was unable to trust anyone. After he gets his job with Aaron, Cygnus appears, who inquires about his past, and then tricks him into thinking that Aaron had stolen his latest invention. This drives Tom to fuse with Cygnus and trap Aaron (as well as Geo and others) in a space simulator with the intent to kill him. After discovering that he can, in fact, trust Aaron, he defuses from Cygnus and returns to his job.<br /><br />He comes back in the third game working for WAZA, with Cygnus as his Wizard. He can be fought as an optional boss.

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* {{spoiler|[[Card -Carrying Villain]]}}: {{spoiler|Motivations aside, Mega finds her ultimate goals to be rather laughable. In the anime, where her motivations are never discussed, she comes off poorly for it. "Well, maybe you shouldn't trust bad adults!"}}

* [[Chuck Cunningham Syndrome]]: She disappears after the second game. This is mildly disconcerting, considering how the epilogue saw her intimate that there was going to be

* [[Compressed Adaptation]]: The anime runs itself out of juice before it gets a chance to explore her origins. {{spoiler|So her reveal as the villain is sapped of most of its weight, though people who know her game story will be able to pick up on why she has that [[Freak -Out]] over Empty's death.}}

* [[Freak -Out]]: Halfway through the final episode of the anime. Magnificent in its brevity.

* [[Hot Scientist]]: Between her [[Fan Service Pack]] and [[Gadgeteer Genius]] credentials, she's this. Her [[Pimped -Out Dress]] comes with an [[Impossibly Low Neckline]], too.

* [[Pimped -Out Dress]]: She doesn't wear the dress from her image until she {{spoiler|begins to take direct action in reviving Le Mu}}. Otherwise she wears a relatively simple robelike garment.

* [[Tall, Dark and Bishoujo]]

* [[Xanatos Gambit]]: Her initial idea in the anime is to have Rockman gather the OOPArts for her. When they end up being gathered by Yeti Blizzard and Phantom Black, {{spoiler|she waits until everyone is exhausted from fighting over them and then has Empty retrieve them for her. [[No -Holds -Barred Beatdown|Violently]].}}

* [[Battle Butler]]: Hollow will do anything Vega asks of him, including [[No -Holds -Barred Beatdown|beat the everloving shit out of the person she points at]].

* [[My Master, Right or Wrong]]: {{spoiler|One would imagine Altair himself not taking to kindly to Vega's plan to take over the world. Hollow has no such compunction.}}

* [[No -Holds -Barred Beatdown]]: They go on sale in the last few episodes of ''Tribe''.

* [[Shock and Awe]]: Most of his attacks will either aim or [[Lightning Gun|shoot]] lightning at you. [[BFGBig Freaking Sword|And lots of it]]. Outside of that, he'll also choose to delegate responsibilities to viruses or co-opted Murian soldiers.

* [[Villain Sue]]: In the anime. In battle, if you are ever within the radius of Empty's leash, [[No -Holds -Barred Beatdown|you will lose]]. (And even if you aren't, he can and will use ranged attacks to take pot shots at you). [[NoWon't Work On SellMe|Nothing you can do will hurt him...]] unless you take out the [[Weak Spot|machine his leash (and power source) is generated from]]. On the other hand, he's only vulnerable until Orihime feeds him the OOPArts, after which he [[Oh Crap|no longer needs his leash]].

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* [[Card -Carrying Villain]]: King belongs to the first sphere and has many of the mannerisms. Just about everything he does onscreen is negative, ranging from being vaguely unpleasant to downright vile. Doesn't diminish his presence as a character one notch.

* [[Expy]]: Early concept art draws deliberate connections between him and [[MegamanMega Man Battle Network|Dr. Regal]]. The two are remarkably similar, down to the natures of their plots, though King's is a bit more fleshed out this time around.

* [[Transhuman]]: Not a case of [[Touched Byby Vorlons]]. {{spoiler|Forced himself to become an EM Being that could survive in Meteor G. This in no way bodes well for anyone.}}

* [[Villain Withwith Good Publicity]]: The masses think he's the best thing since sliced bread. He funds and runs everything from orphanages to shopping centers dedicated to children having a good time.

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* [[The Dragon]]: Mr. King's personal assistant.

** [[Co -Dragons|Shares]] this with Joker later on.

* [[Four Is Death]]: The fourth and final underling member of Dealer's [[Five -Bad Band]]. Also, the last suite of playing cards after Spade, Diamond, and Club. {{spoiler|Sucks to be you, King.}}

* {{spoiler|[["The Reason You Suck" Speech]]}}

{{quote| {{spoiler|"Muwahaha... I was the only one that you thought would never turn on you, wasn't I? Mr. King... Joker was the last of your loyal subordinates. Actually, he was only your Wizard so he could fulfill his own Purpose... You have been surrounded by traitors from the very beginning. There was Jack, Queen Tia, and of course, myself..." *King starts to react when she's turned away* "Don't bother." *Portal opens* "Goodbye, Mr. King... You will pay for your sins in the bowels of your own Noise." *King disappears, portal closes*}}}}

* [[WomaninWoman in Black]]: There are enough subtleties to her outfit to keep this from being a straight example, but the same principle applies.

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** [[Co -Dragons]]: With Heartless.

* [[Hand Blast]]: [[Wave Motion Gun|Dread Lazer]]. When you [[Samuel L. Jackson|absolutely, positively]] got to kill every [[Muggle Power|muggle]] [[Never Live It Down|woman]] in the room, accept no substitutes.

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* [[Crush! Kill! Destroy!]]/ [[Super -Powered Evil Side]]: Joker causes Acid to go berserk towards the end of the third game by overloading the immediate area with [[The Corruption|Noise]]. {{spoiler|He gains enough self-control to pull off a [[Heroic Sacrifice]], though.}}

* [[Rival]]: Acid is one for Omega-Xis, due to finishing off an evil wizard, and Eos was originally supposed to be a second rival to Solo-Rogue.