Mega Man Star Force/Characters: Difference between revisions

* [[For Want of a Nail]]: In the anime, Geo's father has only been missing for three months, so his grief hasn't had much chance to settle. Hence, it's much easier for him to interact with others; Mega even gets him to school within the first few episodes just by ''annoying him''.

* [[Geek Physique]]: Is quite physically unimposing, even as MegaMan, and especially when compared to bruisers like Taurus Fire and Yeti Blizzard.

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

** [[Power Dyes Your Hair]]: A subtle example (in contrast to [[Hair of Gold|Harp Note]]), comparing Geo and MegaMan in the official art will show that MegaMan's hair is darker than Geo's brunet locks, with an element of purple.

* [[Heroic BSOD]]: At least once per game, most noticeable in the third.

* [[Mysterious Protector]]: Serves this purpose for Luna, though only for the first game.

** His dedication to protecting Luna helps him actualize his Star Force (Star Break) powers in the first game, and when Luna gives him a [[Cooldown Hug]] in the second game, it helps him take control of his [[Amulet of Concentrated Awesome|Tribe]] [[Artifact of Doom|form]], which was making him go crazy.

* [[Panty Thief]]: Poor boy has trouble wrenching himself away from the "[[Unusual Euphemism|little girl's secret]]" he finds in Luna's wardrobe in ''Black'' and ''Red''.

* [[Perpetual Frowner]]: While transformed, he also barely smiles for most of the first game.

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

** Later, when Pat is unable to perform, Geo inherits the [[Cheap Costume]] for [[Hilarity Ensues|major irony points]] as Luna shoves him into the lead role of... [[Loves My Alter Ego|himself]].

* [[Somebody Else'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.

* [[Team Dad]]: Keeps the gang from breaking down during the third game after Luna is taken from them.

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

* [[Sailor Fuku]]: Wears one during [[Bullfight Boss|Taurus Fire]]'s rampage in the third game.

* [[The Svengali]]: Her manager (and possibly her guardian), Chrys Golds, has remarkably little regard for her as a person. She ditches him in the game, but sticks around with him in the anime, where he's not quite as odious.

* [[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.

* [[Team Mom]]: The end of her introductory scene in the second game sees her fussing over Geo's, Bud's, and Zack's health and welfare. Judging from their responses, it would seem this is pretty routine.

* [[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 -- for RockMan, from Akane, and [[Hilarity Ensues|using Geo]].

** [[Feminine Women Can Cook]]: The anime incident was spurred on by a weekly televised poll for "Most Desirable Women". The next time she catches it, the results indicate a "Woman Who Can Clean House", so Luna ends up trying to kick Subaru out of his own room so she can clean it. Akane apparently likes it when there's more noise in the house.

** [[Lethal Chef]]: Her early efforts do ''not'' bode well for our hero.

* [[Shipper On 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.

* [[Tender Tears]]: In the anime, Subaru is [[Disc One Final Boss|hospitalized mid-season]]. While she's not shown to be crying, you can hear her voice quavering and you ''can'' see her holding a handkerchief.

 

=== Aaron Boreal ''(Mamoru Amachi)'' ===

** [[Mr. Exposition]]: When Omega-Xis just won't do.

** [[Mr. Fixit]]: He tries {{spoiler|restoring Strong and Luna}}, but it's not quite as easy as Geo hopes it is.

* [[Omnidisciplinary Scientist]]: Technically, Aaron is an actual ''rocket scientist'', though he ends up being used as the [[The Professor|go-to guy]] for the [[Fantastic Science]] of the Wave World and its inhabitants. His relationship with WAXA is... unclear.

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

* [[Overshadowed By 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.

* [[Reasonable Authority Figure]]: Copper generally remains one throughout the series; he would be more of one if Geo and Mega didn't keep making him suspicious.

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

* [[Sympathetic Inspector Antagonist]]: An [[Expy]] of [[Lupin III|Inspector Zenigata]].

* [[Morality Pet]]: Wolf gives us an [[Inverted Trope|inversion]]; he gets his [[Pet the Dog]] moments by becoming ''someone else's'' pet.

* [[Touched By Vorlons]]

* [[Truly Single Parent]]: In the anime, Wolf leaves behind an FM puppy to a girl who mistook him for a normal dog and took care of him for some time. Best not to think about that one too hard.

* [[Our Werewolves Are Different]]

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

* [[Prima Donna Director]] - While not actually involved in the production of any known films, he treats all scenarios that involve him as "scripts". And he expects the "actors" to follow them to the letter.

* [[Sissy Villain]] - Especially in the anime.

** [[Giftedly Bad]] / [[Nightmare Fetishist]]: In the anime, he possesses a fascination with the grotesque and the distorted -- 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.

* [[Rival]]: To Geo, and originally to Eos, [[What Could Have Been|until it was axed]].

** [[Rivals Team Up]]: Solo brings Geo along to make it easier for him to kill several giant Noise monsters, since the last time he encountered them, he nearly died. Just to prove he's not going soft, Rogue deliberately bars MegaMan from getting to Jack Corvus and picks a fight with him.

** [[Standard Status Effects]]: The attacks that don't simply overwhelm Geo with speed and power will be likely to Paralyze him, instead.

* [[Take Me to Your Leader]]: Says it word for word in the third game.

* [[Tsundere|TsunTsun]]: Ohhhhhhh, yes. Solo's not going to kill Geo because he has a bond with Mu, he's going to kill Geo ''[[Insistent Terminology|because it's fun]]''.

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

* [[Weapon of Choice]]: [[Cool Sword|Swords]] and [[Good Old Fisticuffs|Martial Arts]].

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

 

 

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

* [[Useless Accessory]]: Most characters use a Transer. In the anime, Pat uses a Wave Scanner that he feeds headphones into. No real reason is ever given for this.

 

=== Mitch Shepar/Libra Scales ''(Michimori Ikuta/Libra Balance)'' ===

* {{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

* [[Dark and Troubled Past]]: Oh, man. She is ''not'' a happy lady.

* [[Dead Little Sister]]: {{spoiler|Her lover, actually.}}

* [[The Faceless]]: For a good part of the second game, her mugshot is a vaguely lit silhouette, as she is reclining behind some curtains. {{spoiler|She reveals herself to Hyde as a sign of honor and gratitude when he brings her the [[MacGuffin|OO]][[Artifact of Doom|part]]}}. Averted in the anime.

* [[Fan Service Pack]]: Her sprite doesn't particularly suggest anything Fanservice-worthy about her, but when we meet her in the anime, [[Buxom Is Better|hoo, boy]].

** She's heavily implied to have gone through one in her back story, as well. {{spoiler|She had little interest in villainous ways before Altair died.}}

* [[Gadgeteer Genius]]: She is responsible for the development of Matter Wave technology. In the anime, she is also famous for the development of a little machine called a Radio Composer, {{spoiler|which was used by Cygnus Wing to complete his Denpa Henkan machine, though this was all back in season one}}.

* [[Unusually Uninteresting Sight]]: In the anime, she has little to no interest in explaining why her assistant is wearing such heavy robes. Or moves as though he's gliding. Or is so damn tall.

* [[War Is Hell]]: Is ''decidedly'' of this opinion.

 

=== Hollow / Empty ===

 

* [[Animation Bump]]: Hollow's beatdowns are always slick.

* [[The Champion]]: {{spoiler|Likely Vega's most idyllic interpretation of their relationship, primarily because she's [[Came Back Wrong|In Serious Denial]].}}

* {{spoiler|[[Creating Life]]}}: {{spoiler|A successful attempt. [[Subverted Trope|However]], Vega wasn't in the market to create so much as [[Love Makes You Crazy|restore]], [[Replacement Goldfish|at which she wasn't successful]].}}

* [[Meaningful Name]]: Ohhhhh, yeah.

** Interestingly, in the English games, his dubbed chip is called "MT" Magic, which only makes sense when you remember his Japanese name is ''Empty''.

* {{spoiler|[[Redemption Equals Death]]:}} {{spoiler|1=Interestingly, Hollow actually plays with this trope. After taking the backlash from Le Mu, he actually begins to pray that her real lover give her some comfort. Altair actually speaks with Vega for a few moments before leaving, and Vega is suddenly no longer interested in stopping MegaMan from destroying Ra Mu.}}

* {{spoiler|[[Reforged Into a Minion]]}}: {{spoiler|When Vega accepts that he's no good to her as a reborn lover, she dresses him up all fancy and has him beat the shit out of her enemies}}.

* [[Robe and Wizard Hat]]: With a Murian Shamanic motif, at that.

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

* [[The Worf Effect]]: Again in the anime. When Dr. Orihime sends him into battle to retrieve the OOPArts, [[Curb Stomp Battle|he sees no particular need to be gentle]].

 

* [[Sexy Secretary]]

* [[The Stoic]]: Retains a carefully guarded expression at all times. {{spoiler|Doesn't even bother with being emotional when she dispatches King}}.

* [[You Gotta Have Blue Hair|You Gotta Have Pink Hair]] - Especially [[Egregious]] where most of the problems with the hair of the characters is the style (lookin' at you, Luna Platz).

 

 

* [[The Ace]]: [[Meaningful Name|Funny, that.]]

* {{spoiler|[[Heel Face Turn]]: He was part of Dealer, but ditched the group prior to the events of the game proper.}}

* {{spoiler|[[Heroic Sacrifice]]: Ace sacrifices himself by evading the self-destructive power of Joker.}}

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