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::'''Mega Man X/Rockman X'''

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{{quote| ''Voiced by: [[Kentaro Ito]] (JP, X4), [[Showtaro Morikubo]] (JP, X5-X7), [[Takahiro Sakurai]] (JP, X8), Mark Gatha (EN, X8)''}}

 

* [[Beware the Nice Ones]]

* [[Red Oni, Blue Oni|Blue Oni]]

** The new basic armor he sports in ''Command Mission'' has a white X on the chest.

* [[Call Forward]]: Zero's ''X7'' ending. [[He Who Fights Monsters|"Eliminate the Mavericks.]] [[Department of Redundancy Department|The Mavericks...eliminate..."]] Depressingly, this game marks the one time we see X actually try to escape his fate, so it packs a punch even though the writers [[Wangst|botched]] [[Replacement Scrappy|it]].

* [[Car Fu]]: In the opening of ''X2'', he jumps out from his speeding Ride Chaser, which then hits the Mechaniloid guarding the facility he's trying to infiltrate.

** Can be done in-game as well, in Overdrive Ostrich's stage, as well as in ''X4'' and ''X5''.

* [[Charged Attack]]: One of his main features.

* [[Climax Boss]]: He'll do ''anything'' to prevent his friend from going Maverick. [[Captain Obvious|Including]] ''[[Captain Obvious|fighting him.]]''

* [[Cool Loser]]: As of ''X5'', Zero is his only friend. [[Justified Trope|There might be]] [[It's Not You, It's My Enemies|good reasons]], especially after what happened to Zero one game earlier. There might also be [[Ho Yay|other reasons]], but that doesn't entirely cover it.

* [[Dual Boss]]: With Zero in ''Maverick Hunter X'''s Vile Mode.

* [[Dude, Where's My Respect?]]: Despite being the reason Reploids exist, and the one with the most potential power, X is a B class Hunter for most of the series, though those who know him realize this is ''entirely'' because he holds back and is reluctant to fight. By ''X8'' and ''Command Mission'', he's a Special A class hunter, having apparently gotten over those hangups.

* [[Dull Surprise]]: He does this in the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umYHweaJHZg opening cutscene] to ''X8'', whether from shell-shock or bad animation. Facing down an army of shapeshifting reploids should yield a stronger reaction than, "did I leave the oven on?"

* [[Evolving Weapon]]: Once you get a buster upgrade, every Maverick weapon counts as this. (Well, sort of. The second version counts as a [[Charged Attack]].)

* [[Expy]]: Erm, yeah. [[Executive Meddling|He owes his existence to this status, in fact.]] He started the trend of having Expies in the [[Sequel Series]].

*** [[Super Mode]]: [[Game Breaker|Ultimate]]

** ''X8''

*** [[Fragile Speedster]]: Hermes

*** [[Mighty Glacier]] (or [[Lightning Bruiser]]): Icarus

* [[Out of Focus]]: After ''X3'', and [[Replacement Scrappy|especially in X7]]. Axl even [[Lampshades]] it in the intro stage of ''X8'', threatening to steal the spotlight from him. Too late, buddy.

* [[Post Dramatic Stress Disorder]]: Immediately after scarring Sigma in the OAV. As the latter is far from defeated, this is really, really bad timing.

* [[Powered Armor]]: He has at least one per game. In X4, he gets two<ref>The Fourth and Ultimate Armor</ref>, in X5<ref>The Fourth Armor (albeit damaged), Falcon, Gaea and Ultimate Armor</ref> and X6<ref>The Falcon Armor (albeit damaged), Blade, Shadow and Ultimate Armor</ref> he gets 4 each. All of them gives X different changes.

* [[Powered Armor]] [[Mecha Expansion Pack|Expansion Pack]]:

** Also, in X3, you can ask Dr. Light to insert a special chip to one of the armor upgrade when you get the access to the capsule. You can only do this to one part of the armor, though. But there's a secret way to get all of them, and it comes with a nice touch of gold color, too!

* [[Promotional Powerless Piece of Garbage]]: Despite the rarity of the card, he's effectively useless in the trading card game, having the same stats as Bass.

* [[Regenerating Health]]: His X3 armor has an upgrade to his helmet that allows him to refill his health (and Tanks) by standing still and waiting.

* [[Screaming Warrior]]: Spends much pre-fight dialogue yelling at bosses, especially after ''X7''. Reaches [[Ham to Ham Combat]] territory against [[Large Ham|Sigma]].

** In ''Maverick Hunter X'', he starts off more or less calm and collected. When Zero dies, he goes into full-on [[Unstoppable Rage]], and he can't communicate in anything less than a shout.

* [[Screams Like a Little Girl]]: His death scream in ''X4'', thanks to the crappy voice acting.

* [[Sensitive Guy and Manly Man|Sensitive Guy]]

* [[Shout-Out]]: His in-game attacks have included [[Street Fighter|the Hadouken and Shoryuken]] (the latter twice), and in the OVA he seems to pull off [[G Gundam|the Shining Finger]]...[[Actor Allusion|complete with shared]] [[Hey, It's That Voice!|voice actor!]]

* [[Skilled but Naive]]: He's this, at first (especially apparent in The Day of Sigma OVA). He slowly loses his naivete over time, but is still apparently idealistic and pacifistic.

* [[Supporting Protagonist]]: Unless ''[[Continuity Reboot|Maverick Hunter X]]'' is taken into account, as it gives X a good deal more focus.

* [[Super Prototype]]: Though only because Cain did a really half-assed job duplicating his technology. Not that it's entirely his fault, mind you, Dr. Light was just that damn good, but basically the plot of every game is the result of his inferior skills.

* [[Swiss Army Hero]]: In any game with multiple armor sets, but especially ''X5''. Drawing from the third game's opening, fandom sometimes takes this [[Serial Escalation]] and depicts him swapping through ''every armor set ever.''

* [[Technical Pacifist]]/[[Reluctant Warrior]]: He swings back and forth, depending on the game. ''X3'', ''X4'' and ''X7'' leaned more towards [[Reluctant Warrior]], the others portrayed him as a [[Technical Pacifist]].

** [[He's Back|And when he does,]] he becomes [[Game Breaker|a complete ass-whooper.]] It really makes up for having yourself tortured by playing as [[Replacement Scrappy|Axl.]]

* [[Transformation Sequence]]: Going into a level, you'll usually see X summon his [[Powered Armor]] before becoming playable (provided you've gotten it, of course).

** In ''X8'', even though he's already in the armor as he warps in, he performs the gesture anyway.

* [[Tragic Keepsake]]: He keeps Zero's Z-Saber after Zero's death in ''X5'', up until ''X7''.

** In the manga Rockman X4 in the few last pages near the end of the manga, it hints that X may actually have hair. [http://digitalmegamanworld.com/Rockman-X-Manga/RockManX4/vol3/page77 See for yourself]

* [[Underestimating Badassery]]: arguably the point of ''The Day Of Sigma'', and [[What Could Have Been|probably the entire]] [[Retool]].

** [[Badass Long Hair]]: Oh ye of the mighty [[Rapunzel Hair]]!

** [[Heartbroken Badass]]: Although the circumstances are different from the norm.

* [[Battle Aura]]: In his [[Super-Powered Evil Side]].

** Also when X (or himself) is beaten in Vile Mode's [[Dual Boss]] fight in ''Maverick Hunter X'', he (or X) would employ an aura, which tells the player that [[Berserk Button|he's pissed.]]

* [[Breakout Character]]

* [[Bring My Red Jacket]]: He's a red robot, and he mainly uses melee attacks, and he's a [[Glass Cannon]]. Do the math.

* [[Calling Your Attacks]]: Started in ''X8'' to keep X company.

* [[Celibate Hero|Celibate]]/[[Chaste Hero]]: With Iris's tragedy still fresh in his mind, he believes he's not ready to have another romantic pursuit. This is seen with Layer, although he's ''also'' just plain [[Oblivious to Love|oblivious to her advances.]]

* [[Climax Boss]]: Alternative to the article that X also has above. It was all because of a little misunderstanding. [[Evil Plan|Most of it went according to Sigma's plan, though.]]

** In the path to the Bad Ending, however, [[Super-Powered Evil Side|the stakes are much, MUCH higher...]]

* [[Crutch Character]]: In his original playable appearance in ''X3'', Zero amounted to a potent [[Mighty Glacier]] who, while incredibly useful early on, paled in comparison to a fully-upgraded X. In the RPG, ''Command Mission,'' he is the strongest member of your party early on, but leaves for a long stretch of the game. When he returns, however, he's still very strong.

* [[Deus Exit Machina]]: Before he became a playable character, he was only around when the plot needed his power. And then, later, ''Command Mission'' also puts him out of commission for a good portion of the game.

* [[Early-Bird Cameo]]: Appears in {{spoiler|Bass' ending}} in Mega Man 2: The Power Fighters {{spoiler|in Dr. Wily's blueprint.}}

* [[Elemental Punch]]: Some of his copied techniques involve giving an element to his saber.

* [[Expy]]: ProtoMan.EXE is half this, [[Composite Character|half the expy of Blues.]] Girouette and Model ZX are both this and the legacy-bearer of both leads.

** Zero himself, in the X series, was an expy of the Classic Proto Man in the first X game, and was even referred to as "a Blues like character" in early Japanese publications that came out before the game. Whether or not he can still count as an expy for Proto Man is up for debate, but the intention for him to be as such in the first X game is clear (obviously not counting who/what Zero was supposed to be when still in the early design stages, of course).

* [[Fan Nickname]]: "The Red Ripper" or "The Crimson Hunter." An odd inversion is that his popular fan "full name," Zero Omega, turned out to have a significant connection ([[It Was His Sled|which you should already know]]) to the [[Sequel Series]].

* [[Flashback Nightmare]]: In the beginning of X4, Zero has a nightmare about the circumstances of his creation, as well as slaughtering several Reploids upon being reactivated. It's also implied that he's had this nightmare at least once before.

* [[Glass Cannon]]: He's a devastating fighter with his saber, and he takes lots of damage. Even more with his Black Zero upgrade in ''X8'', which doubles the damage he deals and takes. ''Even more'' with the Red Lotus Saber in ''Command Mission'', which adds his defense stats to his power stat, but sets the defense stats to zero.

** ''X3'' takes this [[Up to Eleven]]. He's far more powerful than X to begin with, and still on par with X even after upgrades. However, if Zero dies even ''once'' in the game, whether from losing all his energy or falling into a [[Bottomless Pit]], he can't be used again unless you restart from scratch (or use a password generator to get him back).

* [[Good Is Not Nice]]: He tends to shoot first, ask question later when encountering Mavericks. What makes it worse is that those Mavericks sometimes [[Straw Man Has a Point|have a point about what they did.]]

* [[It Never Gets Any Easier]]: Almost completely averted, since he doesn't let it bother him. He's not totally heartless, though - he just sees it from a different perspective. When a twin dies along with his [[Big Bad]] brother (because they shared a CPU), he told the upset X that he knew the consequences and he should honor his sacrifice instead of bemoaning it. However, when his love interest Iris dies in a cruel and pointless war, [[Heroic BSOD|he didn't take it well.]]

* [[It's Personal]]: Very much so in ''X8''. Seems like he's taken way too long to hate Sigma's guts - he's mainly angry about the events of ''X5'' (surprisingly, no mention of Iris) - but other than that, it makes perfect sense.

** [[Lampshaded]] in the same game, when he actually apologizes for acting like a jerk at one point.

* [[Katanas Are Just Better]]: In the official arts, his [[Laser Blade]] is often depicted in a katana-like form.

* [[Screw Destiny]]: One of the most important character themes for Zero is how he gives destiny the middle finger and defies it every step of the way.

** Or tries to, anyway. As Colonel and Iris (and very nearly X) demonstrate, he's still a threat to those close to him under the wrong circumstances - which Sigma is all too willing to provide. And lest we forget, Omega manages to successfully lay waste to most of the world - he has to show up with a new body and team up with first X and then the Guardians to stall and then destroy him, but the God of Destruction indeed fulfills his purpose.

** ''Awakening Zero'' has plenty of these. The shots from his Buster combo become ''homing'', and he gets a one-hit kill attack that takes the [[Sword Beam]] [[Up to Eleven]].

* [[Shell-Shocked Veteran]]

* [[Shout-Out]]: Several of his ''X8'' techniques are straight out of ''[[Street Fighter]]''. His staple rising sword uppercut is also based on the [[Shoryuken]].

* [[Swiss Army Weapon]]: The Z-Saber from ''X4'' onwards.

* [[Take Up My Sword|Take Up My Buster]]: After his [[Heroic Sacrifice]] in ''X1''. A more literal version occurs in ''X3'' where the Z-Saber is an [[Infinity+1 Sword]] ([[Guide Dang It|if you meet the required conditions]]) and at the end of ''X5''.

* [[Typhoid Mary]]: It is said that Zero unknowingly spread his virus around as he ventured around the globe. This leads to him {{spoiler|sealing himself, to stop the spread, in his ending in ''X6''.}}

* [[Video Game Flight]]: At least as a bug in ''X8''. Kinda funny, and it lets you bypass the worst parts of the final dungeon - could you ask for more? Oh, and Layer can do it too.

* [[What the Hell, Hero?]]: In ''Command Mission'', he chastises X for being so trusting all the time, stating that it's because of such naivete that Shadow managed to betray them.

* [[White-Haired Pretty Boy]]: In his [[Infinity+1 Sword|Zero Armor]].

 

 

* [[The Cameo]]: Appears briefly in Zero's ''Tatsunoko vs. Capcom'' ending.

* [[Charged Attack]]: He has one in his original appearance, but the [[Bag of Spilling]] takes it away as part of his later [[Super-Hero Speciation]].

* [[Cousin Oliver]]

* [[Dual Wield]]: In ''Command Mission'' his Axl Bullets weapon is his default gun times two, and two other weapons are also dual guns. In ''X7'' one of the Maverick weapons lets him wield dual guns and attack two enemies at once [[Guns Akimbo]].

* [[Fire-Forged Friends]]: Has to work ''hard'' to earn X and Zero's trust and friendship, specifically because he was ''an assassin'' for a group that straddled the line between Reploid and Maverick. His own tendency to avoid answering questions, and the fact that Red Alert was more than happy to ''go to war'' with the Maverick Hunters to get him back didn't help him at all. By ''X8'', he has earned it.

* [[Flawed Prototype]]: His copy ability doesn't work on anything more massive than he himself is. He seems to have ironed this out by the time of ''Command Mission.''

* [[Self-Made Orphan]]: Red is his ''adopted'' father, at least...

* [[Shout-Out]]: Briefly acquires what is quite obviously the [[Metroid|Morph Ball]] to solve one puzzle in ''X8.''

* [[Spam Attack]]

** ''Command Mission'' also rectifies this by making Axl a [[Summon Magic|summoner]] akin to the traditional [[RPG|RPGs]] (Well, what he did is transforming into a defeated boss and using one of its attack, but it generally has the same effect).

* [[Swiss Army Hero]]: He's got data from all the bosses in ''Command Mission'' and can transform into any of them. ''Command Mission'' is not a platform game, and this amounts to only using an attack, but as stated above, his expy does much better in ''ZX Advent.''

* [[Unnecessary Combat Roll]]: In this case, it provides immunity to projectiles.

* [[Voluntary Shapeshifting]]

* [[X Marks the Hero]]: How he got the scars or why they are still there remains unknown. A [http://www.drneko.com/scanlation/rmseries/rmx/koma/x7/index.php?Result_Set=10 4koma] states that they're self-inflicted.

* [[Young Gun]]

::'''Dr. Wily'''

 

{{quote| ''Voiced by: [[Takeshi Aono]] (JP)''}}

 

** Revisited in ''Tatsunoko vs Capcom'', where Wily seems to come to terms with Zero being a good guy, saying how proud he is of Zero and wishing him well and to never give up, though there is a small hint towards Zero's original dark purpose...

* [[Back From the Dead]]: [[Word of God]] is that he returned to life for the events of ''X5'', something to do with the Maverick Virus.

* [[Irony]]: Go ahead and guess. Even after all the damage his creation(s) have done, who's the one who eventually ''ended it all?''

* [[The Man Behind the Man]]

* [[My Death Is Only the Beginning]]

* [[Arch Enemy]]: For X and Zero. Since Axl's a newbie to the team, he and Sigma don't really have any personal feelings towards each other.

* [[Attack Its Weak Point]]: Most of the time, his second body's weak point is located on the head.

** In the strictest sense, the only times where it seemed like his death might stick were in ''X3'', where he's first hit by a real anti-virus, ''X5'' where Zero destroys him after most of the Sigma Virus has been eradicated from the Earth, and ''X8'', where he is destroyed on the moon.

** And since the New Generation Reploids are eradicated inbetween ''X8'' and ''Command Mission'', there would be no Sigma imposter on earth. But is his virus left intact on the moon, or not? Nobody knows.

** The animated opening to ''X3'' depicts the first game's saber as a BFS.

* [[Big Bad]]

* [[Came Back Wrong]]: Gate revived Sigma. Unfortunately, he apparently ruined his sanity in the process.

* [[Deader Than Dead]]: In ''X8'', as he died on the moon, though it's hard to tell given that this is Sigma of all people. This is somewhat confirmed with his absence in ''Command Mission''.

* [[Disc One Final Boss]]: In ''X8'', which served as a twist since usually Sigma was the one who was manipulating the supposed main bad guy, instead of the main bad guy manipulating Sigma.

* [[Enemy Civil War]]: His ''X4'' plan is to set one of these up. It works perfectly because the Repliforce is...[[Honor Before Reason|not very bright]].

* [[Good Scars, Evil Scars|Evil Scars]]

* [[Evilutionary Biologist]]: He follows the robotic version of this, especially in ''Maverick Hunter X,'' where he wants to see the hidden potential in Reploidkind. And...

* [[Eye Scream]]: Both Maverick Zero and X have gone for his eyes in the past. The latter inflicted burn scars in the process. Since Sigma's a robot, we are usually spared [[Squick|the worst]] of this trope.

* [[Eyes Are Unbreakable]]: The attack that gave him his trademark scars did nothing whatsoever to his actual eyes. Subverted when Maverick Zero does, in fact, gouge out one of his eyes along with half of his face.

* [[Fighting a Shadow]]: Eradicate his current body, his viral self is still intact. Erase it, and a backup copy will pop up later in a new body. It takes killing him on the moon to finally destroy him, supposedly because his viral form will just fade away to nothing with no other robots to infect there.

* [[Giant Hands of Doom]]: In his second form in ''X1'', ''X5'', and ''X7''.

* [[Genius Bruiser]]

** JUSDIE X!!

** [[Say My Name|ZELLLLLLO!!!]]

* [[Large and In Charge]]: Even before he goes [[One-Winged Angel]].

* [[Large Ham]]: ''Especially'' at the end of the ''Day Of Sigma'' [[OVA]]. He's no slouch in the other games, either.

{{quote| '''Sigma''': "Come and get me X! The time has come to prove your mettle against me. This fight will decide the fate of all Reploids! The battle may be over, but the war is just beginning! [[Evil Laugh|MUWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!]]"}}

* [[Laser Sword]]: His weapon of choice in ''X1'' and ''[[BFS|X8]]''.

* [[The Man Behind the Monsters]]: All of the humanoid Sigma's henchmen are all animaloid, save for his various [[The Dragon|Dragons.]]

* [[Manipulative Bastard|Manipulative]]/[[Magnificent Bastard]]: Pre-[[Villain Decay|decay]], anyway. However, [[Alternate Character Interpretation|some say]] that he's still this ''post''-decay.

* [[Right-Hand Attack Dog]]: At the end of ''X1'', he sics his robot pet Velguarder on X before confronting him personally.

* [[Scars Are Forever]]: No matter what body he uses, the trademark scars over his eyes are left intact. Usually this is because his ''head'' is left intact, but sometimes this is not the case.

* [[Slouch of Villainy]]: He does this in ''X8''.

* [[Spikes of Villainy]]: Added these to his armor after his [[Face Heel Turn]]. They frequently adorn his armor in his later incarnations.

* [[The Paragon Always Rebels]]: Prior to his defecting to the Mavericks, he was one of the finest Maverick Hunters.

* [[Unwitting Pawn]]: If {{spoiler|Lumine's}} words are to be believed, {{spoiler|Sigma was actually being used by Lumine in X8}}.

* [[Badass Boast]]: In ''X1'':

{{quote| '''Vile''': You pathetic piece of scrap metal, did you think you could defeat me?}}

* [[The Cameo]]: Yes, he also appears in ''[[Capcom vs. Whatever|Tatsunoko vs. Capcom]]'', but ''not'' in Zero's ending like all the other aforementioned cameos...Instead, he showed up in the ''[[Lost Planet|PTX-40A pilot's]]'' ending.

* [[The Dragon]]: [[Lampshaded]] by Zero:

* [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast]]: Thanks to a possible [[Woolseyism]].

* [[Real Men Wear Pink|Real Men Wear Purple]]

* [[Rocket Punch]]: He can acquire these in ''Maverick Hunter X.''

* [[Shoulder Cannon]]

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* [[The Brute]]: Violen.

 

* [[Disc One Final Boss]]

* [[Heel Face Turn]]

* [[Morally-Ambiguous Doctorate]]

* [[Badass Beard]]: It doesn't look exactly like a goatee, but Colonel has a red one.

* [[Badass Mustache]]: General has one.

* [[Bling of War]]

* [[Colonel Badass]]: [[Captain Obvious|Colonel.]]

* [[Large and In Charge]]: General.

* [[Laser Blade]]: Colonel.

* [[Redemption Equals Death]]: Particularly General.

* [[The Remnant]]: The Skiver/Spiral Pegacion and [[Tyrannosaurus Rex|Mattrex/Burn Dinorex]] in ''X5'', and Red in ''X7''.

* [[Go Out with a Smile]]

* [[I Let Gwen Stacy Die]]: Her death remains a huge factor in Zero's life/lives. [[Was It Really Worth It?]] indeed...

* [[Little Dead Riding Hood]]

* [[Love Hurts]]

* [[Sibling Yin-Yang]]: She's caring, peaceful and compassionate, while her brother Colonel is battle-hardened, aloof and [[Honor Before Reason|values honor.]]

** Thanks to supplemental material, this is justified: she and her brother were the result of an experiment to create the ultimate combat reploid. The Repliforce scientists couldn't get the warrior and pacifist sides of the personality to mesh, so [[Split At Birth|they were split into Colonel and Iris]] and they have a mental link from sharing over half the same mental programming. She's literally unable to go beyond her neutral-ness if Colonel's alive.

* [[Triang Relations]]

* [[Wave Motion Gun]]: Her primary weapon during the boss fight with her.

* [[What the Hell Is That Accent?]]: Part of ''X4'''s shoddy voice acting.

A reploid researcher dedicated to the illegal field of reploid resurrection, in ''X6'' he was infected by a part of Zero while inspecting the wreckage of the Eurasia space colony. Driven insane by [[The Virus]] and the persecution of the scientific community, Gate resurrected eight of his [[Deadly Euphemism|retired]] creations and teamed up with the enigmatic and mysterious Isoc. Together, they created a powerful reploid: High Max, a virus-like army of drones called The Nightmare, and the Zero Nightmare: a [[Palette Swap|discoloured]] clone of Zero. He used the Nightmare to cause global chaos and "the ghost of Zero" to pull the blame off his Nightmare Investigators, who were in fact searching for something else: the real Zero. Eventually, he would be challenged by X and would reveal that he had created an almost indestructible armor based off of Zero's design; however he would ultimately be defeated.

 

{{quote| ''Voiced by: [[Keiji Fujiwara]] (JP)''}}

 

* [[Fan Nickname]]: His [[Powered Armor]]? It was called the ''Zero Armor'' because of the source of his research, even though there's already [[Infinity+1 Sword|something else called the Zero Armor]] in-canon (Although Command Mission refers to it as "Black Zero" instead).

* [[Foe Yay]]: With Alia, as they were both on the reploid research committee.

* [[Instant Armor]]: Before the battle against him, he appears in his normal form with his [[Badass Labcoat]]. Then he swapped his labcoat aside and then his golden armor instantly appears on his body.

* [[Insufferable Genius]]

* [[Ship Tease]]: With Alia in <s> the ending credits</s> her flashback (Collect 3000 Nightmare Souls without defeating High Max or killing all of the Investigators).

* [[Social Darwinist]]

 

::'''High Max/HI-MAX'''

* [[Robots Enslaving Robots]]: He plans to destroy all of the Old Generation Reploids so the New ones like him could rule.

* [[Rocks Fall Everybody Dies]]: His [[Desperation Attack|Paradise Lost attack]]. On the plus side, while charging it, he doesn't do anything else but hide in his wings and [[Villian Teleportation|teleport]]. If you fail to finish him off in about 30 seconds, the trope is invoked.

** [[Louis Cypher]]: He also contains [[Shout-Out]] to Lucifer of the famous ''[[Paradise Lost]]'' poem, whose first follower is an underling named Belial (and Sigma's form in this game is called Belial Sigma). Lumine's second form is called [[Faux Symbolism|Seraph]], and said form's [[Desperation Attack]] (and [[Title Drop|the subtitle of the game]]) is also named Paradise Lost.

* [[You Gotta Have Blue Hair|You Gotta Have Purple Hair]]

::'''Dr. Light'''

 

{{quote| ''Voiced by: [[Tomohisa Aso]] (JP)''}}

 

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* [[Always Someone Better]]: Played oddly with Gate, as each considers the other to be the greater of the two.

* [[Distaff Counterpart]]: Can be unlocked as a playable character with the same play style as X...but without the [[Powered Armor]].

* [[Dumb Blonde]]: Not remotely so in-story, but she seems destined to accidentally kill her charges throughout ''X5'' with her ill-timed "help." She gets better.

* [[Fan Service Pack]]: Her ''X8'' redesign can only be explained as this.

** [[Letting Her Hair Down]]

** [[Stop Helping Me!]]: [[Lampshaded]] by ''X8'' having the option of turning off Navigator contact before going on a mission.

*** [[Rescued From the Scrappy Heap]]: She became a lot more tolerable for ''X8'', and, of course, there's the [[Took a Level In Badass]] part...

* [[Out of Focus]]: She expresses personal concern about X during certain transmissions during ''X6''; nothing comes out of it and in the next games Alia has no personal ties with X, dropping their interaction back to ''X5'' status, strictly professional.

* [[Ship Tease]]: With Gate in her flashback sequence in ''X6''.

** Of course, he's carrying [[The Virus]], so this is probably for the better. Heck, look what happened to Iris!

** It doesn't help that Zero is just plain [[Oblivious to Love|oblivious]]. Unless he actually believes in his own [[Cartwright Curse]].

* [[Luminescent Blush]]

* [[Stripperiffic]]: Mostly because of her...

* [[Item Crafting]]: She manages the research and development department, which comes close to the trope.

** She's also the most likely of the three navigators to help you find the pieces strewn about the levels, almost but not quite averting [[Guide Dang It]]. A for effort, Capcom.

{{quote| "Zero! Have you forgotten already? I'm Pallette. This here is Layer. We're the new navigators here. Don't forget about us!"}}

* [[Suspiciously Similar Substitute]]: Isn't it sad, Douglas?

* [[Small Girl, Big Gun]]

* [[Curb Stomp Battle]]: One buster-buster-saber combo from Zero is enough to do him in.

* [[Mini Boss]]

 

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* [[Ms. Fanservice]]: After being rebuilt in a normal, humanoid form, the pants she wears...[[Stripperiffic|aren't]].

* [[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot|Pirate Mermaid Robot]]

 

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