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This page describes the characters appearing in [[Yoshiyuki Tomino]]'s ''[[Overman King Gainer]]'' and the tropes associated to them. Please help out with the blurbs.
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=== Gainer Sanga ===
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:''Played by [[Hirofumi Nojima]] (Japanese), [[Darrel Guilbeau]] (English), Gwen Lebret (French)''
'''A description of the character goes here.'''
{{tropelist|Tropes exhibited by Gainer include:}}
* [[Ace Pilot]]
* {{spoiler|[[An Ice Person]] / [[Brainwashed and Crazy]]: Courtesy of the Overdevil.}}
* {{spoiler|[[Anguished Declaration of Love]]: More like [[Crowning Moment of Funny]] Declaration Of Love... Sara was ''not'' amused!}}
* [[Ascended Fanboy]]: Subverted in that
* {{spoiler|[[Childhood Friend Romance]]}}: {{spoiler|After a lot of misunderstanding and flip-flopping, he and Sara get together after the Overdevil's defeat.}}
* [[Grumpy Bear]]: Gainer is quite skeptical whether going into Exodus is ''really'' a good idea.
* [[Heroes Want Redheads]]: Gainer wants Sara, in the anime.
* [[Heroic Neutral]]: The guy ended up fighting for Exodus despite being against it. And ended up a more mature person from that, too.
* [[Hikikomori]]: Spent 27 days cooped up in his room playing games at the start of the Exodus.
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* [[Platonic Life Partners]]: With Cynthia, in both continuities. With Sara, in the manga.
* [[Punch Clock Hero]]: At first.
* [[Refusal of the Call]]: He tried to get out of the Exodus in the first few episodes.
* [[Shaming the Mob]]: In Volume 5 of the manga, Gainer calls out a group of former Exodists who accused Gain of being the cause of their imprisonment, saying that Gain never ''forced'' them to go into Exodus.
* [[Sobriquet]]: His title of Game Champ.
* [[Supporting Protagonist]]: Well, not really... but quite often, it is ''Gain'' who ultimately wins the day. Gainer does achieve his own victories, though, so this trope only partially stands for him. Besides, most of the fights are about him and someone else.
** [[Fridge Brilliance|Which makes perfect sense, if you think about it.]] Okay, Gainer might pilot a [[Super Prototype]], but he's only been fighting in simulations, while Gain has years of experience despite being in a much inferior machine. [[Hard Work Hardly Works]] is averted.
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=== Sara Kodama ===
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:''Played by Ai Kobayashi (Japanese), [[Colleen O'Shaughnessey]] (English, credited as "Olivia O'Connor"), Agnès Manoury (French)''
'''A description of the character goes here.'''
{{tropelist|Tropes exhibited by Sara include:}}
* {{spoiler|[[An Ice Person]] / [[Brainwashed and Crazy]]:}} {{spoiler|Courtesy of Gainer after he had been taken over himself by the Overdevil.}}
* {{spoiler|[[Anguished Declaration of Love]]:}} {{spoiler|Played straight in her case.}}
* [[Can't Catch Up]]: A pretty decent pilot, but she's stuck with a Silhouette Machine for the whole series. ''[[Super Robot Wars]]'' remedies this by allowing her to pilot an Overman.
* [[Clingy Jealous Girl]]: Mild example, and [[Played for Laughs]].
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=== Gain Bijou ===
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:''Played by Otoya Kawano (Japanese), [[Kirk Thornton]] (English, credited as "Ron Allen"), Emmanuel Gradi (French)''
'''A description of the character goes here.'''
{{tropelist|Tropes exhibited by Gain include:}}
* [[Ace Pilot]]
* [[Badass]]
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* [[Manly Tears]]
* [[Mid-Season Upgrade]]: Emperanza, a one-of-a-kind Overman.
* [[Shut UP, Hannibal]]: Asuham should know better than to try to deconstruct the motives of someone as [[Badass]] as Gain Bijou...
* [[Sobriquet]]: Black Southern Cross
* [[They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot]]: Not to a huge degree, but his backstory with Asuham and Karin, and the fact that he participated in a failed Exodus could have been elaborated on a little more...
** The whole point of his backstory with Asuham and Karin was that {{spoiler|there wasn't really a backstory, except in Asuham's imagination}}.
=== Ana Medaiyu ===
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:''Played by Noriko Kitou (Japanese), [[Michelle Ruff]] (English), Isabelle Volpe (French)''
'''A description of the character goes here.'''
{{tropelist|Tropes exhibited by Ana include:}}
* [[Little Miss Snarker]]: Sometimes.
* [[Nice Hat]]
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=== Bello Korissha ===
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:''Played by Shuusaku Ohtake (Japanese), [[Derek Stephen Prince]] (English, credited as "David Umansky")''
'''A description of the character goes here.'''
{{tropelist|Tropes exhibited by Bello include:}}
* [[Can't Catch Up]]: Just like Sara, he doesn't pilot anything that could possibly fight against an Overman.
* [[Dogged Nice Guy]]: Poor guy is stuck in Sara's "friend zone". And he's probably there to stay.
* [[Expy]]: Of Kyao
* [[Hotblooded Sideburns]]: Definetely not as bad as certain other characters featured in the trope but he does still have sharp sideburns on either side.
* [[Improbable Hairstyle]]: Not as bad as certain other characters featured in the trope but still improbable nonetheless.
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=== Hughes Gauli ===
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:''Played by Tohru Kusano (Japanese), [[Tony Oliver]] (English)''
'''A description of the character goes here.'''
{{tropelist|Tropes exhibited by Gauli include:}}
* {{spoiler|[[An Ice Person]] / [[Brainwashed and Crazy]]: Quite literally is frozen by the Overdevil at first, but is then subjected to both tropes at once.}}
* [[Badass]]
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=== Meeya Laujin ===
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:''Played by Yumiko Nakanishi (Japanese), Kate Davis (English)''
'''A description of the character goes here.'''
{{tropelist|Tropes exhibited by Meeya include:}}
* [[Idol Singer]]: Of sorts.
* [[Genius Ditz]]: Is wise, but acts like a [[Cloudcuckoolander]] or [[Genki Girl]] at times, to the irritation of her manager.
* [[White-Haired Pretty Girl]]: Well, light blue, actually.
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== Siberian Railroad / St. Reagan / London IMA ==
=== Asuham Boone ===
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:''Played by [[Takehito Koyasu]] (Japanese), [[Doug Erholtz]] (English), Gérard Rouzier (French)''
'''A description of the character goes here.'''
{{tropelist|Tropes exhibited by Asuham include:}}
* [[Berserk Button]]: "'''GAAAAAAIN!'''"
* [[Big Bad]]: Kind of... but primarily for Gain.
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* [[Knight Templar Big Brother]]: Deconstructed. His [[Knight Templar]] attitude results in mass [[Disproportionate Retribution]] and chaos to everyone around him, ending in a [[Motive Decay]]. Additionally, he didn't even consult his sister about ''her'' opinion on the situation.
* [[Large Ham]]: His speeches to the Overdevil could have been delivered by Brian Blessed without a single change in pacing.
** This carries over to [[Super Robot Wars Z]], where his lines when attacking Gain, {{spoiler|[[Aquarion]], [[The Big O]], and the [[
* [[Manipulative Bastard]]: To a smaller extent than others, but in this series it's a prerequisite for [[Mini Boss]] or higher rank.
* [[Motive Decay]]
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=== Zakki Bronco ===
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:''Played by Richard Hayworth (English)''
'''A description of the character goes here.'''
{{tropelist|Tropes exhibited by Zakki include:}}
* [[The Dragon]]: to Asuham.
* [[Harmless Freezing]]: In the finale. Though Yassaba, in a moment of [[Comedic Sociopathy]], suggests leaving him for dead...
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=== Jin Yassaba ===
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:''Played by [[Hisao Egawa]] (Japanese), [[Michael McConnohie]] (English)''
'''A description of the character goes here.'''
{{tropelist|Tropes exhibited by Yassaba include:}}
* [[Cool Old Guy]]: Not that old (see below), but he does fit.
** Apparently this was why he was dropped as a character - he's ''too'' cool in a world without many cool adults and was threatening to overshadow the others. (The director even apologized to [[Hisao Egawa]] for this.)
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=== Adette Kirstler ===
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:''Played by Marika Hayashi (Japanese), [[Wendee Lee]] (English), Anne Plumet (French)''
'''A description of the character goes here.'''
{{tropelist|Tropes exhibited by Adette include:}}
* [[Action Girl]]
* [[Badass Normal]]
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=== Kashmir Valle ===
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:''Played by [[Keiji Fujiwara]] (Japanese), Chris Kent (English)''
'''A description of the character goes here.'''
{{tropelist|Tropes exhibited by Kashmir include:}}
* [[Ambiguously Gay]]: Just... look at him!
** Seriously. He's practically [[Camp Gay]] without the Gay.
* [[Dirty Coward]]: Kashmir is supremely dedicated to staying out of the line of fire.
{{quote|"If I don't fight, I can't lose!"}}
* [[Improbable Hairstyle]]: You wouldn't think an highly-placed
* {{spoiler|[[Karmic Death]]}}
* [[Manipulative Bastard]]
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=== Kejinan, Enge and Jaboli ===
'''A description of the characters goes here.'''
{{tropelist|Tropes exhibited by all three of them include:}}
* [[Country Mouse]]: [[Word of God]] says Jaboli is one, although personality-wise, she's not quite as naive. Kejinan and Enge are also hinted to have been born in the boonies.
* [[Despair Event Horizon]]: Played for laughs when Kashmir tested his new Overman whose overskill is to lower morale and cause doubt in people's minds. They forgot their [[Nice Hat|helmets]].
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==== Jaboli Mariela ====
:''Played by: Maki Tamura (Japanese), Mia Bradly (English)''
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'''A description of the character goes here.'''
{{tropelist|Tropes exhibited by Jaboli include:}}
* [[Ambiguously Brown]]
* [[Bodyguard Crush]]: Jaboli had one for Asuham.
* [[Dangerously Genre Savvy]]: Jaboli is the sanest of the [[Terrible Trio]], and tries her hardest to point out what not to do in combat. Sadly, Kejinan and Enge don't listen to her.
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==== Kejinan Datto ====
:''Played by: Hiroshi Kitazawa (Japanese), [[Dave Wittenberg]] (English, credited as "David Lelyveld")''
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'''A description of the character goes here.'''
{{tropelist|Tropes exhibited by Kejinan include:}}
* [[Anguished Declaration of Love]]: To Adette, while holding her captive with his Overman. He was utterly shot down.
* [[Bishonen]]: Kejinan ''tried'' to be one with his Overman's illusion powers in the [[Anguished Declaration of Love]] above. It just makes him look ridiculous.
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==== Enge Gam ====
:''Played by: Tsuyoshi Koyama (Japanese), [[Richard Epcar]] (English, credited as "Richard George")''
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'''A description of the character goes here.'''
{{tropelist|Tropes exhibited by Enge include:}}
* [[Eyepatch of Power]]: though the power part is debatable.
* [[Lolicon]]: Both Kejinan and Enge. They found ''Cynthia'' to be hot, for crying out loud!
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=== Cynthia Lane ===
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:''Played by Rena Mizuki (Japanese), Tara Malone (English)''
'''A description of the character goes here.'''
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{{tropelist|Tropes exhibited by Cynthia include:}}
* [[Ace Pilot]]
* [[Ascended Fanboy|Ascended Fangirl]]: Played for drama, in that Cynthia (at first) doesn't understand that people can actually die in battle.
* [[Curb Stomp Battle]]: In which she utterly PWNS Asuham.
* [[Cute and Psycho]]
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* [[Goggles Do Nothing]]
* [[Heroic BSOD]] / [[My God, What Have I Done?]]: When {{spoiler|Gainer actually gets hurt during their battle and Sara calls her out on that}}, Cynthia is devastated.
* [[Honorable Enemy Ace]]: While ''[[Overman King Gainer]]'' doesn't have mass-produced "overman" mecha, the rest of this trope applies to Cynthia, the Siberian Railroad's Honorable Enemy Ace to Gainer's Ace Pilot.
* {{spoiler|[[An Ice Person]] / [[Brainwashed and Crazy]]: Courtesy of the Overdevil in the climatic battle.}}
* [[Little Miss Badass]]
* [[Platonic Life Partners]]: With Gainer.
* [[Shapeshifting]]: Her Overman, the Dominator.
* [[Sweet Tooth]]: She is often seen snacking on candies. Most often on what appears to be M&Ms.
* [["Well Done, Son" Guy]]: She works for President Munt because he's her surrogate father and she wants to repay him for his kindness.
=== President Kids Munt ===
:''Played by Seiji Sasaki (Japanese), James Lyon (English)''
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'''A description of the character goes here.'''
{{tropelist|Tropes exhibited by Kids Munt include:}}
* [[Affably Evil]]
* [[Bald of Evil]]
* [[Big Bad]]: Shares this role with Asuham, although Munt is a lot more evil.
* [[Evil Tastes Good]]: He's a glutton, alright.
* [[Expy]]: Of Kashim King from [[Xabungle]].
* [[Large and In Charge]]
* [[Man Child]]
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== Mecha ==
=== Brunhild ===
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'''A description of the character goes here.'''
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=== The Overdevil ===
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'''A description of the character goes here.'''
{{tropelist|Tropes exhibited by the Overdevil include:}}
* [[An Ice Person]]
* [[Bigger Bad]]
* [[Brainwashed and Crazy]]: It can make people like this, alter their bodies, and control them as it likes.
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* [[Eldritch Abomination]]
* [[Expy]]: It is ''possible'' (and I repeat, ''possible'') that Father Llymic, an alien monster from the ''[[Dungeons
* [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast]]: I mean, wouldn't you be afraid of something called "The Overdevil"?
* [[That One Boss]]: In the ''[[Super Robot Wars]]'' episodes where it appears, the Overdevil is considered one of the toughest bosses.
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*** Make that [[Boss in Mook Clothing]] material.
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