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These are the characters from the classic manga/anime series Saint Seiya.

The Character Sheet for Saint Seiya Episode G can be found here.

Characters from Saint Seiya the Lost Canvas are located here.

Characters from the sequel, Saint Seiya Next Dimension are located here.

Characters from the other sequel, Saint Seiya Omega are located here.

Characters who only appear in the movies are located here.

Before proceeding it should be noted is that most of Antagonists are Anti-Villains or Hero Antagonists.

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Pegasus Seiya

Voiced by: Tohru Furuya (1986-2004, 2012-present JP), Masakazu Morita (2005-2011 JP), Illich Guardiola (EN), Eric Legrand (FR), Jesus Barrero and Irwin Daayan (Latin American Spanish), Carlos Lladó (Spain), Ivo De Palma (ITA), Jefferson Utanes (Tagalog), Hermes Baroli (BR), Rogério Jacques (PT)

• A Friend in Need: He has several.
  • With Shun, he broke Shun's chain and allowed himself to fall in order for Shun to defend himself.
  • He brought back the magic water to heal Shiryu's eyes (Anime Only).
  • Went back for Saori when she was being attacked by Silver Saints.
• Bodyguard Crush: Apparently, on Saori.
• Brown Eyes
  • Curtains Match the Window
• Calling Your Attacks
  • Pegasus Ryu Sei Ken (Pegasus Meteor Fist): Fires several punches in the form of meteors.
  • Pegasus Sui Sei Ken (Pegasus Comet Fist): He focuses his punches into one single point to create a comet.
  • Pegasus Rolling Crush: Lifts his opponent into the air and slams their head into the ground.
• Determinator/HeroicWillpower: HOLY ATHENA. This guy just doesn't quit
• Dub Name Change: Simply "Pegasus" in Italy.
• The Hero
• Heroic Resolve
• Hot Blooded
• Hotblooded Sideburns
• Jerk With a Heart of Gold: Moreso in the beginning.
• It Only Works Once: Ryu Sei Ken!!
• Limited Wardrobe: Get used to the red shirt and jean combination.
• Manly Tears: The guy often cries for either his friends or his rivals.
• Not a Morning Person: Lampshaded by Hyoga while he and the others were waiting for Shun by the airplane.
• Pegasus: His guiding constellation and Cloth.
• Rapid Fire Fisticuffs: He's the main picture of this trope.
  • Pummel Duel: With Aioria.
• Red Oni Blue Oni: Red to Shiryu.
• Take a Third Option: His Suicidal Gotcha versus Shaina and Jamian.
• Wouldn't Hit a Girl: And it causes him lots of trouble, actually. Just ask Shaina what she thinks of this!

Dragon Shiryu

Voiced by: Hirotaka Suzuoki (1986-2004 JP), Takahiro Sakurai (2005 JP), Jay Hickman (EN), Marc François (FR), Enrique Hernández (Spain), Ricardo Mendoza and Christian Strempler (Latin American Spanish), Marco Balzarotti (ITA), Elcio Sodré (BR), Ely Martin (Tagalog), Nuno Távora (PT)

• A Friend in Need: In one of the saddest moments of the series he blinded himself to defeat Perseus Algol and save his friends.
• Badass Long Hair
• Barbie Doll Anatomy
• Barrier Warrior: Was this in the beginning, as he relied a lot on his very powerful shield.
• Beware the Nice Ones: Is very level-headed, kind, and soft-spoken when off-duty...
  • Berserk Button: But attack or insult his friends, Saori or his sister Shunrei, and you'll have a Screaming Warrior punching the living Hell out of you. Deathmask learnt it the hard way!
• Calling Your Attacks
  • Rozan Shōryūha (Rozan's Rising Dragon Force): His signature uppercut.
  • Rozan Ryūhishō (Rozan's Dragon Flight): Punches forward as if flying.
  • Dragon no Ken (Dragon's Kick): This is the one he used on Cancer Deathmask (before he stops him with one finger).
  • Rozan Hyakuryūha (Rozan's One Hundred Dragons Force): A hundred dragons made of cosmos come out.
  • Rozan Kōryūha (Rozan's Enraged Dragon Force ): A kamikaze attack where Shiryu sends both him and the unlucky soul Shura into outer space thus killing them both Shiryu survived it afterwards.
  • Excalibur: A move given by Capricorn Shura that allows him to focus his cosmos into a blade that is capable of cutting anything.
• Characterization Marches On: Was much cockier in his first appearances.
• Chinese People: Subverted, he's got many character traits but is ethnically Japanese.
• Disability Superpower: More like Handicapped Badass. After blinding himself in the fight against the Perseus saint, he retrains with his master and no longer needs his eyes to fight. Understandable since all saints have a sixth and seventh sense.
• Eye Scream: Plucked his own eyes out to fight against a guy who has a Medusa-inspired shield that almost petrified him, Seiya and Shun. And yeah, before you ask, he did try closing his eyes and blindfolding himself: neither alternative worked, and he had half his body petrified already.
• Fight in The Nude: Not literally, he just tends to voluntarily remove his armor more often than the rest of the cast.
• Genius Bruiser: Quite well-versed in legends and myths, pretty good at Indy Ploys, and The Lancer to Seiya's Idiot Hero.
• Handicapped Badass: Has been blinded more than once in the series, without losing his status as one of the most capable Bronze Saints.
• Hit Points: His back tattoo works as a life bar; the more faded it looks, the closer to death he is.
• I Owe You My Life: Seiya saved him from dying in the beginning, so Shiryu has a huge soft spot for him.
• Taking You With Me: To Capricorn Shura with a Dangerous Forbidden Technique. A dying Shura accept his mistakes and save Shiryu's life.
• The Lancer
• Limited Wardrobe: Same white Chinese outfit even if he'll strip out of them five minutes later.
• Making a Splash
• Meaningful Name
• Nice Guy: So much that he could count for a Rare Male Example of a Yamato Nadeshiko.
• Overdrawn At the Blood Bank: To ridiculous levels.
• Power Tattoo: A dragon on his back, which grows fainter when he's near death.
• Rapunzel Hair: His black hair reaches his knees.
• Red Oni Blue Oni: Blue to Seiya, Ohko and Young Dhoko.
  • Also possibly Red to Hyoga's blue.
• Walking Shirtless Scene: When he takes off his armor.

Cygnus Hyoga

Voiced by: Koichi Hashimoto (1986-2004 JP), Hiroaki Miura (2005 JP), Jason Douglas (EN), Marc François (FR), Oscar Redondo (Spain), Rene Garcia and Luis Daniel Ramirez (Latin American Spanish), Mark Aspiras (Tagalog), Francisco Brêtas (BR), António Semedo (PT)

• An Ice Person
• Animal Motifs: Swans
• Blond Guys Are Evil: Averted, he's a good guy. Though he was more of a jerk at first - his defreezing was very fast, tho.
• Blue Eye(s): Determining if he's wearing his bandage or not.
• But Not Too Foreign: Half Japanese, half Russian.
• Eye Scream: Willingly lets Isaac hit his right eye as atonement.
  • Eyepatch of Power
• Calling Your Attacks: In the anime, Hyoga says his attacks in English, but in Russian in the manga.
  • Diamond Dust: His main attack. He sends bursts of cosmos into the air to cool it (possibly to draw air moisture) before unleashing a focus burst of cosmos that will freeze his opponents.
  • Ice Ring (Koĺtso): Hyoga creates an ice ring that surrounds and paralyzes the opponent.
  • Aurora Thunder Attack: Anime only, he fires multiple Diamond Dusts at his opponent (Anime variation of manga's Kholodnyj Smerčh.)
  • Aurora Execution: The strongest form of Diamond Dust where the cosmos itself reaches absolute zero and is capable of freezing and killing the Gold Saint, Aquarius Camus.
  • Freezing Coffin: An ability that will freeze an opponent in an unbreakable block of ice for a hundred years unless the cosmos of the oppenent or someone from the outside can match it.
  • Freezing Fists: Anime only. A technique where Hyoga would either slide or leap toward his opponent and touch their legs to freeze them in place.This move uses a lot of cosmos and leaves Hyoga open for an attack.
    • Not to mention, Hyoga is Genre Savvy enough to know how Freezing Fists only seems to work on very specific enemies: Mighty Glaciers or Stone Walls, due to lack of mobility and speed. The Crystal Saint, however, is fast and flexible enough to not have his handicap, using his legs to apply this to Hyoga himself.
• Dub Name Change: In Italy he's known as "Crystal".
• Forgotten Fallen Friend: Averted, he's the only bronzie who misses his parents... albeit, that's because he's the only who knew a parent, they're all orphans.
• Frozen Flower
  • Cry Cute and When He Smiles: He almost never cries or smiles, but when either happens... boy, it's a sight to behold.
• Human Popsicle
• Genre Savvy
• I Did What I Had to Do: He gets on the receiving end of it when Camus does it.
• I Owe You My Life: Shun used his cosmos to warm up his body in the House of Libra. Hyoga says this pretty much word by word.
• Its All My Fault: Blames himself for Isaac's Eye Scream incident.
• Limited Wardrobe: Hyoga really loves his blue shirt, jeans and brown leggings.
• Meaningful Name: In Japanese it means 'glacier'.
• Mommy Issues: He still misses his dead mom, very much. He can't exactly be blamed: not only Natasha was a Hot Mom, but she actually sacrificed her life for him when he was a child.
• The Smart Guy: Shiryu's rival in regards to quick thinking.
• Obfuscating Disability: His eyepatch. Issac purposely missed and just caused some skin near it to bleed.
  • Awesome but Impractical: It may look cool, but not only does he lose part of his side vision but depth perception as well. It is not worth wearing considering he has it for symbolic reasons.
• Surfer Dude: In the Di C dub, and it's hilarious.

Andromeda Shun

Voiced by: Ryo Horikawa (1986-2004 JP), Yûta Kazuya(2005 JP), Chris Patton (EN), Serge Bourrier (FR), Jesús López (Spain), Jose Gilberto Vilchis and Alan Prieto (Latin American Spanish), Andrea De Nisco (ITA), Ulisses Bezerra (BR), Isabel Wolmar (episodes 1-73) and Marco Felgueiras (74-114)(PT)

• Adaptation Dye Job: A brunette in the manga, green-haired in the anime.
• A Friend in Need: He warmed up Hyoga in the infamous House of Libra scene. He also gave up his Silver Star Necklace from his mother to pay Charon and allow him and Seiya to cross the river.
• Always Accurate Attack: Thunder Wave, as Shun stated, will always find its target and damages something.
• Awesome Yet Practical: The Nebula Chains.
  • Dual Wielding
  • Empathic Weapon
  • Evil Detecting Chains
  • Variable Length Chain
• Badass Adorable: Cutest Bronze Saint ever.
• Barrier Sir
• Beware the Nice Ones: "You angered me, Saint. THAT WAS YOUR BIGGEST MISTAKE!" *bloodily kills Dark Andromeda*
• Beauty Equals Goodness: Extremely cute... er, good looking. One of the good guys.
• Calling Your Attacks: Shun uses English for his attacks.
  • Nebula Chain: His main attack. Most of the time he just swings his fist and it will strike and wrap around his opponent.
  • Rolling Defense: This has two forms. He either spreads his chain with the circle end out in a spiral below his feet. Anything that approaches it will be immediately attacked. The other version is where his circle end goes around him in a large cylinder allowing him to use his triangle end to attack from the top.
  • Andromeda Thunder Wave: A seek and destroy version of his Nebula Chain. This move is capable of transending dimensions to find its target.
  • Nebula Stream: A technique that doesn't require his chains and the first of his unlimited cosmos attacks(attacks that the longer they are used the more they grow in strength rather than deminish over time). He causes his cosmos to swirl around and paralyze his enemy.
  • Nebula Storm: Shun's most powerful attack. A deadly version of Nebula Stream where his cosmos swirls and combines into a destructive storm.
  • Spider Net: Shun creates a literal spider net to catch things.
  • Spiral Duct: Another capture move that wraps around his opponent (a more elaborate form of Nebula Chain).
  • Casting Net: The chains weave themselves into a net and capture the opponent.
  • Boomerang Shot: The triangle end aims at the opponent, curves around and strikes from behind.
  • Wild Trap: The chains weave into a trap on the ground and then surround and clamp the opponent.
  • Great Capture: Just like Nebula Chain but wraps around large opponents.
• Chained to A Rock: As per his representative myth, how he earned his cloth.
• The Chick: Strictly speaking, not him but his cloth is only one that's named after a human female. Also he's kinda effeminate and wears pink armor.
• Chick Magnet: This Cute Shotaro Boy, in his introduction, had so many screaming fangirls that Jabu couldn't help lampshading the trope all over.
• Curtains Match the Window: In the anime.
• Dangerous Forbidden Technique: Nebula Storm, which Shun only executes after his personal Godzilla Threshold is crossed.
• Distressed Dude: Though he's not completely incapable of fighting, Ikki routinely bails him out of tough battles. Note this becomes routine only in the Anime.
• Don't Say Such Stupid Things: From Kanon after Shun admitted he was tired of fighting and gave up.
• Dude Looks Like a Lady
• Florence Nightingale Effect: With Pandora when he is possessed by Hades.
• Innocent Blue Eyes: Manga only
• Intimate Healing: With Hyoga, in the anime.
• I Want to Be A Real Man: What Shun tells Seiya before his fight with Aphrodite.
• Limited Wardrobe: It figures that effeminate guy of the group adverts this. Shun's the only one in both the anime and manga to feature a greater variety of shirts, hooded shirts, pants his evil robes while possessed. Although he does enjoy his green shirt and white suspenders.
• Martyr Without a Cause: Yeah... he'll offer enemies who are Anti Villains his life if it brings them closer to a Heel Face Turn, but it rarely works. Usually leads to Distressed Dude above.
  • Let's not forget how he literally defrosted Hyoga the Human Popsicle... and almost kicked it.
• Meaningful Name: Means 'an instant' as in how quickly he can change from offense to defense.
• Mind Control Eyes: When possessed by Hades.
• More Expendable Than You: Despite his peaceful nature he knocked out Shiryu to allow Ikki to kill him and leave everyone else alone.
• Not Drawn to Scale: Shun got a whole lot bigger once he's possessed by Hades. Could be blamed on how crappy the animation studio was.
• Reluctant Warrior: And HOW!
• Shower Scene: And lord, did the fangirls Squee.
• Sibling Yin Yang: With Ikki.
• Silk Hiding Steel: Has many of the personality traits. Such as a peaceful nature hiding his strength or one of his techniques that involves setting a trap andn sprining when attacked.
• She's a Man In Japan: In the French dub, they thought Shun was a woman and used a female to dub his voice for the first episode.
• Thanatos Gambit: Shun accepted Hades' soul so he can be killed with Hades by Athena's saints. Too bad for him, his brother Ikki can't bring himself to do it.
• This Is Unforgivable / You Monster: To Lyumnades Kassa, for playing with people's feelings and loved ones.

Phoenix Ikki

Voiced by: Hideyuki Hori (1986-2004 JP), Katsuyuki Konishi(2005 JP), Mike Mac Rae (EN), Henry Djanik (FR), Tasio Alonso (Spain), Marcos Patiño and Rafael Pacheco (Latin American Spanish), Tony Fuochi (ITA), Leonardo Camilo (BR), António Semedo (PT)

• Adaptation Dye Job: Same as his brother's hair, but to dark blue.
  • His Cloth was all Orange in the Manga, while in the anime it was first whtie and orange, and then all blue.
• Aloof Ally
• Aloof Big Brother: Jerkass Facade
• Anti Hero: type IV --> type III
• Back From the Dead
• Badass
• Being Tortured Makes You Evil: His experience from both the orphanage and on Death Queen Island caused him to go out and try to kill all of his friends and his little brother who he swore to protect in the past.
• Berserk Button: Don't harm Shun, lest he'll escort you to hell.
• Big Bad: the first in the manga.
• Big Brother Instinct: Only a couple of instances in the manga, a few more in the anime, but cranked up to the max in the movies.
• Calling Your Attacks
  • Phoenix Illusion Demonic Fist (Phoenix Houou Guenma-Ken): His signature attack. The attack itself is about the size of a pin tip that attacks the mind, brings out one's deepest fears and will either leave the victim in a mental mess or kill them.
  • Ascension of the Phoenix's Wings (Houyoku Tensho): An extremely strong cosmos punch that takes the form of a fiery bird.
• Combat Pragmatist
• Curb Stomp Battle: Half of the time he appears, he'll deliver one to his opponent. Even one of the 3 judges of hell.
• Curtains Match the Window: In the anime.
• Don't You Dare Pity Me: Pulls this on Shun right before his Heel Face Turn.
• Evil Counterpart: Pre- Heel Face Turn, to Shun.
• Florence Nightingale Effect: With Esmeralda.
• Ham to Ham Combat: ADV dub with Dante.
  • Marcos Patiño's delivery of his line in the LA dub was Very, VERY Hammy.
• Heel Face Turn
• Hot Blooded: Not as much as Seiya, but when he does let his hot blood run... oh boooooy.
• Good Is Not Nice
• Good Scars Evil Scars
• Go Mad From the Revelation: The reason he's the 1st Big Bad in the manga. Mitsumasa Kido is the father of the 100 children sent to become saints. Ikki completely snaps.
• Guile Hero
• Jerkass --> Jerk With a Heart of Gold
• Knight Templar Big Brother: Do not ever look at Shun in a bad way. To a more limited extent, to the other Saints.
• Limited Wardrobe: Even when he was a kid, he wears nothing but a red shirt and black pants.
• Mind Rape: Phoenix Illusion Demonic Fist
• Not So Different: With Mime and Bud. Like Mime he was a mass of hatred, like Bud he tried to kill his brother. He uses this to great effect in both fights, using both verbal calls and his Mind Rape powers to both break them down and make them understand his poV.
• Out of the Inferno
• Roaring Rampage of Revenge: To Lyumnades Kassa, for trampling his brother Shun's fellings, along with Seiya's and Hyoga's. Cue Mind Rape.
• Sibling Yin Yang: With Shun.
• So Proud of You: To Shun, when learned that Shun accepted Hades' soul so he can give an opening for the saints to kill him and Hades.
• Warrior Therapist: Especially in the Asgard Saga.
• Unexplained Recovery / Death Is Cheap: Just like his namesake, he will not stay dead, and routinely claws his way out of hell. However, this didn't do him much good when Virgo Shaka sent him to heaven.

Other Bronze Saints

Unicorn Jabu

Yuuichi Meguro (1986-1989 JP), Hideo Ishikawa (2005 JP), Vic Mignogna (EN),Marc François and Serge Bourrier (FR), José Núñez and Luis Manuel Martín Díaz (Spain), Javier Rivero and Daniel Abundis(Latin America), Marcelo Campos (BR)

• Bodyguard Crush: On Saori, and way more explicit than Seiya too.
• Butt Monkey
• Calling Your Attacks: Unicorn Gallop!
• Can't Catch Up: Starts off as Seiya's rival but by the Twelve Houses Battles, Seiya has upgraded his Cloth twice, wore the Cloth of Sagittarius and reaches his seventh sense while Jabu only earned one move.
• Commuting On a Bus: Seemed like he was going to be rival to Seiya, but after the tournament, he only appears when he's needed.
• The Hero of his Five Man Band
• Jerk With a Heart of Gold: He not only protected Saori when she was unconscious, but was the Barrier Maiden for Seika when she was being attacked by Thanatos.
• Palette Swap: Without his bronze clothes he's basically a blond Seiya.
• The Rival: In the start, to Seiya.
• Visual Innuendo: The horn on his head, he's purple with metal Underwear of Power.
• Unlucky Childhood Friend: Sorta, to Saori.

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Hydra Ichi

Voiced By: Masato Hirano and Masaya Onosaka(JP), John Swasey (EN), Cesar Arias and Saul Alvar(Latin American Spanish), António Semedo (PT) and Carlos Silveira (BR)

• Black Eyes
  • Monochromatic Eyes
• Can't Catch Up: With the main Bronze Saints.
• Dub Name Change/Meaningful Name: Renamed "Aspides" in Italian.
• Flat Character
• Gonk
• Poisonous Person
• The Smart Guy
• We Are Team Cannon Fodder: Asgard and Hades Sagas
• White Haired Pretty Boy: The pretty boy part is averted HARD.
• Wolverine Claws: The claws on his hands and knees.
  • Awesome but Impractical
• Weaksauce Weakness: Hyoga freeze solid his claws, rending him weaponless.

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Wolf Nachi

Voiced By: Hideyuki Tanaka and Issei Kojima(JP), Fabián Mejía, Fernando Manzano, and Roberto Mendiola (Latin America), Júlio Martín (PT)

• Animal Motifs: Wolves.
• Can't Catch Up: With the Main Bronze Saints.
• Curb Stomp Battle: His only battle with another saint (Ikki) didn't last 5 seconds.
• Empty Shell: After Ikki's Mind Rape attack, his soul was "destroyed" but somehow... he's perfectly fine when Saori needed protection at Sanctuary.
• Flat Character
• Hideyuki Tanaka and Takeshi Kusao (classic)
• The Load: Widely considered the weakest of all the saints.
• We Are Team Cannon Fodder: Asgard and Hades Sagas

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Lionet Ban

• Animal Motifs: Lions.
• Can't Catch Up: With the Main Bronze Saints.
• Flat Character
• The Lancer
• We Are Team Cannon Fodder: Asgard and Hades Sagas

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Bear Geki

• Animal Motifs: Bears.
• The Big Guy
• Canada Eh: Where he trained. More specifically, the Rocky Mountains.
• Can't Catch Up: With the Main Bronze Saints.
• Everythings Worse With Bears
• Flat Character
• Super Strength: Almost crushed Seiya with his bare hands.
  • Hoist By His Own Petard: Seiya managed to use that to his advantage, though.
• We Are Team Cannon Fodder: Asgard and Hades Sagas
• You Gotta Have Blue Hair: Purple.

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Chameleon June

Voiced By: Hiromi Tsuru (JP)

• Animal Motifs: Chameleon
• Broken Bird
• Brother Chuck: The first time we see her, she fights Shun and loses.
  • Anime Only: The second (and last) time she is in bed, talking to Marin. She hasn't appeared or been mentioned since.
• Faux Action Girl
• Hair of Gold
  • With a set of Blue Eyes to go with it.
• Mask Power
• Ms. Fanservice
  • Leotard of Power: Her outfit on Andromeda Island.
  • Non Standard Character Design: Her armor covers more of her body than Marin's, Shaina's and even Yuzariha's combined (Manga Only).
  • Stripperiffic: With Combat Stilettos.
• Shallow Love Interest: To Shun.
• Token Girl: Only female of the Bronze Saints, unless you count Shun.
• Whip It Good

Silver Saints

Eagle/Aquila Marin

Voiced By: Yuriko Yamamoto (JP), Monica Manjarrez (Latin America)

• Action Girl: In the Manga.
  • Faux Action Girl: In the Anime where she had to be rescued and lost almost every battle.
• Animal Motifs: Eagles.
• Blue Oni: To Shaina.
• Designated Girl Fight: In the anime with Shaina where Marin gets her butt kicked with soldiers watching. Strangely adverted in the Manga.
• Fake Defector: When she tried to protect Seiya by pretending to kill him and then burying him on the beach.
• Fiery Redhead: Averted, she's strongwilled but nowhere as impulsive as Seiya.
• Good Is Not Dumb: One of the few Silver Saints to distrust the Pope.
• Hot Amazon
  • Lady of War
  • Leotard of Power
  • Mask Power: Like all female Saints.
• Long Lost Relative: Memorably subverted... she was very strongly hinted to be the grown-up Seika, but she wasn't.
• Mentor Occupational Hazard: Averted for now, but she's had a few close calls from having Seiya as a student.
• Plucky Girl
• Red Herring
• Sexy Mentor: To Seiya.
• Spanner in The Works: She derails Aphrodite's Batman Gambit by putting her mask on Seiya and pulling him away from the rose path. This gives Seiya the resolve and power to destroy it.
• Two Girls to A Team: Both her and Shaina.
• The Worf Effect: Despite being Seiya's mentor, the only battle she has won was against Asterion.

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Ophiuchus Shaina

Voiced By: Mami Koyama (JP)

• Adaptation Dye Job: She has black hair in the manga.
• Animal Motifs: Snakes.
  • Snakes Are Evil: Subverted. Her Cloth is that of the Snake Bearer and she's initially one of the most tenacious and vicious enemy of the Bronze saints. Post High Heel Face Turn, she becomes a valuable ally.
  • Snakes Are Sexy: A lot of people in-universe point out how beautiful and sexy she is, despite her upfront bitchiness.
• Ax Crazy: Known for being the most violent and most powerful of all female Saints.
• Best Her to Bed Her: To Seiya, in a really heartbreaking way.
• Combat Stilettos: They can shatter the Earth...
• Dark Action Girl
• Defrosting Ice Queen: Sarcastic, confrontational and very bitchy... until Seiya makes her reveal her much more pleasant inner self.
• Dub Name Change: "Tisifone" in Italian.
• Evil Counterpart: Starts as this to Marin.
• Hot Amazon

Seiya: "Whoa, Shaina. I thought you were the devil in disguise, but you you don't look like it. You're a beauty, indeed."

• High Heel Face Turn
• Lady of War: When she stops being Ax Crazy.
• Leotard of Power
• Mask Power
• My Breasts Are Down Here
• Plucky Girl: At first because of her Ax Crazy quotient, but after her High Heel Face Turn, she's more of the real deal.
• Red Oni: To Marin.
• Taking a Third Option: Subverted. She only haves two choices regarding Seiya. She must kill him or love him. The fact that Seiya doesn't seems to be in love with her is only making it harder for her.
• Statuesque Stunner: Played with. Her official stats give her a rather average height but the anime always makes her taller than the main Bronze Saints and as tall as most other male Saints.
• Taking the Bullet: For Seiya, several times.
• Two Girls to A Team: Both her and Marin.
• Woman Scorned: Sort of. Initially, Seiya never rejected her but his refusal of fighting her full force infuriates her to no end.
• Wolverine Claws: She just LOVES to use them!
• You Gotta Have Green Hair

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Lyra Orpheus

Voiced By: Hiroshi Kamiya (JP)

• Adaptation Dye Job: He's blond in the manga.
• Brooding Boy Gentle Girl: With Eurydice.
• Death By Flashback: Received more back story of his origins than most of the main characters before getting killed.
• Defiant to The End
• Expy: Of Kotoza Orpheus.
  • Palette Swap: A darker blue version with longer hair.
• Flower Motifs: Every time he runs, attacks, heck just about everything he does, flower petals rain all over the place.
  • The area he stays at in the Underworld is the only place to find flowers with the exception of the Fields of Elisium.
  • His gift for Hades was a trunk full of flowers with two Saints ready to assassinate the Lord of the Underworld.
• Heroic Sacrifice
• Magic Music: His lyre can put others to sleep and works as a deadly weapon.
• Musical Assassin
• Mythical Name: After Orpheus from Greek Mythology.
• Razor Floss
• Real Men Wear Pink: In the colored version of the manga, his Cloth is light pink.
• Reluctant Warrior
• Spell My Name With an S: The only Saint where people mix up his Cloth that he represents.
  • Lyre: English name for the instrument that Orpheus carries.
  • Lyra: The constellation he is based on.
• Star Crossed Lovers: With Eurydice.
• You Gotta Have Blue Hair

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Lizard Misty

Voiced By: Yuu Mizushima (JP)

• Afraid of Blood: He goes to the sea and begins to wash it off. Seiya demands he fights him but first...
  • Screw the Rules I'm Beautiful: To top it off, he takes his time doing this because he knows Seiya won't try anything.
• Agent Peacock
• Ambiguously Gay
• Animal Motifs: The Lizard
• Barbie Doll Anatomy
• Barrier Warrior
• Back From the Dead: Anime only.
• Best Known for The Fanservice: He is mostly remembered for taking all his clothes in the middle of his fight against Seiya to take a bath in the sea.
• Blond Guys Are Evil
• Blue Eyes
• Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu: In the manga he was the one to kill Ikki the first time and blow up Mt. Fuji in the process.
• Dude Looks Like a Lady: And has a lady's name too.
• Naked People Are Funny: Nobody expected Misty to actually strip in the middle of his fight. The moment was so popular, that they actually turned naked Misty into a Myth Cloth Figure... in 2011!
• Pride Before a Fall: Starts the fight off by bragging how he had never been struck in battle.
• Real Men Wear Pink: Despite everything, he's still one of the most powerful silver saints.
• Sympathy for The Devil: Seiya regrets killing him as, in his opinion, he had what it takes to be a hero. To be fair, Misty spent his last moments calmly walking out of the sea water and aknowledging his defeat as well as Seiya's merits before falling dead on the sand.
• The Fighting Narcissist

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Whale Moses

Voiced By: Koji Totani (JP)

• Animal Motifs: Whales.
• Bare Your Midriff: In the Manga.
• The Brute
• Good Scars Evil Scars
• Gorn: He throws you in the air and uppercuts your head causing a lot of blood to spurt out.
• Red Oni: To Asterion.
• Religious Name: After Moses from the Bible.

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Hound Asterion

Voiced By: Kazuo Hayashi (JP), Gerardo Reyero (Latin America)

• Animal Motifs: Dogs/Hounds.
• Doppelganger Attack: His Million Ghost Attack.
• Psychic Powers: Can read minds. More specifically, Telepathy. In her only anime victory, Marin has to completely clear her mind to kill him.
• Put On a Bus: Manga Only, until his Bus Crash in the Hades Saga: there is a tombstone with his name on it. We can only assume his meeting with the Pope did not go well.
• Blue Oni: Blue to Moses.

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Centaurus Babel

• Badass: In the Anime, he was giving the five main protagonist quite some troubles until the Steel Saints step in. Up until then, Hyoga, the only one wearing his cloth at the moment (besides Seiya, who was still recovering from a previous battle),was barely holding him off.
  • Averted in the Manga when he fought against only Hyoga.
• Go Out With a Smile and Peaceful in Death: When he found out that Saori was the true Athena, he aknowledged her and got to hold her hand.
• Out of the Inferno: His entrance in the anime.
• Playing With Fire
• Shoulders of Doom: How does he manage to walk through a doorway with them?
• Religious Name: After the Tower of Babel from the Bible.

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Crow Jamian

• Animal Motifs: Crows
• Bald of Evil: Manga only.
• Butt Monkey
• Disney Villain Death
• Gonk
• Hoist By His Own Petard: Saori turns his crows against him. Although that wasn't what did him in.
• I Have You Now My Pretty: The first thing he does when he kidnapped Saori is look under her dress.
• Non Action Guy: His crows do all his work.
• Scotland: Country of origin.
• The Beast Master

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Perseus Algol

Voiced By: Akira Kamiya (JP)

• Back From the Dead: Anime only.
• Badass: Takes out over half of the five main Bronze Saints on his own. Petrifies both Seiya and Shun and the only way he could be defeated was for Shiryu to gouge out his own eyes.
  • In the anime, add the Steel Saints. They started okay against him, but he still managed to beat them until Shiryu blinds himself and gains the upper hand.
• Badass Long Hair
• Luckily My Shield Will Protect Me
• No Ontological Inertia
• Nothing Up My Sleeve: His Medusa Shield on his back.
• Stellar Name: After the bright star from the Perseus Constellation. Algol is also named the Demon Star.
• Taken for Granite: His power.
• Would Hurt a Child: He petrifies and then smashes three kids who tried to run away from the Sanctuary, after having promised he would let them go. Aioria calls him out on it, but Perseus doesn't care.
  • Not to mention, the Saints he petrifies and the one who defeats and kills him are between 13 and 15 years old. If we count the Steel Saints too, then the age limit is even lower.

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Spartan (Anime Only)

• Adaptation Expansion
• Brother Chuck: Carried Shaina away and was never heard from again.
• Glowing Eyes of Doom: When he used his powers to take down the aircraft.
• Gonk: When his eyes glow. Otherwise, he's pretty normal. Just look at the picture.
• Psychic Powers
  • Telekinesis

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Auriga Capella

Voiced By: Katsuji Mori (JP)

• Cruel and Unusual Death: He got his hands sliced off and was mind raped to death. AAAAAHHHHH!!!!
• Back From the Dead: Anime only.
• Evil Redhead
• Magnet Hands: His saucers ALWAYS come back to him.
  • Hoist By His Own Petard: His most serious injuries come from said saucers. Which first slice his hands off and then hit him in the chest.
• Those Two Bad Guys: With Dante.

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Kerberos Dante

• Back From the Dead: Anime only.
• Defiant to The End
• Disney Villain Death
• Ham to Ham Combat: With Ikki in the ADV dub.
• Meaningful Name: Named after Dante Alighieri, the author of Divine Comedy.
• Those Two Bad Guys: With Capella.
• Variable Length Chain: One similar to a flail to be precise.

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Tarantula Arachne (Anime Only)

Voiced By: Ken Yamaguchi (JP)

• Animal Motifs: Tarantula
• Big Creepy Crawlies
• Facial Markings
• Filler Villain
• You Gotta Have Blue Hair: Purple, if that's his hair, that is.

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Heracles Algethi, Musca Dio and Canis Major Sirius

• Back From the Dead: Anime only.
• Bullying a Dragon: See Curb Stomp Battle.
• Curb Stomp Battle: They are easily defeated by Seiya who was being aided by the Sagittarius cloth.
• Stellar Name: Sirius is one of the stars in Canis Major.
• Terrible Trio
• You Gotta Have Blue Hair: White for Algethi, dark pink for Dio and blue for Sirius.

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Sagitta Ptolemy

• Annoying Arrows: Which turn out to be fake... except for the very one that hits Saori.
• The Archer
• Curb Stomp Battle: Seiya takes him out with pretty much one punch.
• Improbable Hairstyle: Just look at it.
• Meaningful Name: Ptolemy as in Claudius Ptolemaeus, the famous Roman astronomer.
• Rain of Arrows: First attack opens up with this even if all but one of them was fake.
• Small Role Big Impact: Has the screentime of a One Scene Wonder, yet his actions set the direction of the arc single-handedly.
• Trick Arrow
  • Exactly What I Aimed At: With Saori.

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Anime Version

Manga Version

Cepheus Daidalos (Manga Only)

Voiced By: Keiichi Noda (JP)

• Adaptational Attractiveness: In the anime, he had long blond hair and blue eyes and his Cloth was far more elaborate. To be fair, Cepheus Daidalos' name and design weren't finalized by the time the anime episode debuted.
• Adaptation Dye Job: Short black hair in the manga, long blond hair in the anime.
• Ascended Extra: In the manga, Daidalos only appeared in one chapter, he only had June and Shun as his trainees and while he was described as strong, he died easily with Aphrodite standing over his body. Aphrodite himself could barely remember it. In the anime, Albiore was in five episodes, he was far stronger and more handsome, given more students, and had a couple of extra scenes including one where he taught the cosmos to Shun.
• Badass: He nearly defeated Scorpio Milo! Then Pisces Aphrodite lent a hand...
• Badass Long Hair: Albiore.
• Blue Eyes: Albiore.
• Blue Oni: To Guilty.
• Defiant to The End
• Dual Wielding: Albiore.
• Good Is Not Dumb: One of the few Silvers to not trust the Pope. Hence why he was killed.
• Identical Stranger: Just like Esmeralda is just a gender-flipped, blonde Shun, Daidalos is an older version of Ikki (Manga only).
• Mentor Occupational Hazard
• Mr. Exposition and/or Captain Obvious (take your pick) : Did he really need to explain the myth of Andromeda on a place called Andromeda Island right before Shun was about to take his test?
• Mythological Name: After the Mythical Greek Inventor/Craftsman/Artisan.
• The Obi Wan: To Shun.
• Parental Substitute: Both symbolically and literally.
• Posthumous Character
• Spell My Name With an S: Daidalos? Didaros? Daidaros? Dedalo? Albiore? Alviore? Albion? Albione? Arubiore?
• Variable Length Chain: In the anime, and one of his chains ends in a Cool Cross too!
• When He Smiles: Albiore. Stiff and nonchalant until Shun showed him his true strength.
  • The manga version showed a different reaction.

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Peacock Shiva and Lotus Agora (Anime Only)

• Big Bad Wannabes
• Eerie Pale Skinned Brunette: Shiva.
• Evil Redhead: Agora
• Filler Villains
• Kick the Dog: Killing Helen's grandpa for not collaborating, then throwing the little girl into a volcano to "send her to Heaven".
• Psychic Powers
• Sensitive Guy and Manly Man: Shiva is the Sensitive Guy, Agora is the Manly Man.
• Those Two Bad Guys
• Wolfpack Boss
• You Gotta Have Blue Hair: Dark green for Shiva, blood red for Agora.

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Who is he? (No seriously, we'd like to know.)

Altar Ares

• Continuity Snarl: At first he was just an evil-ier Palette Swap for the Pope. Then in the Secret History of Excalibur he seems to be the Number Two to the Pope and is killed by Saga. And even after that you have the Ares costume in the Episode G. And with every new addition it just keeps getting more and more confusing.
• Mythological Name: After the Greek God Ares.
• Obviously Evil: Who wouldn't trust a guy with a gigantic red winged demon for a helmet and foot long spikes on his shoulder pads?
• The Faceless: Until a short flashback by Marin.
• Names to Run Away From Really Fast
• Paid Harem: He's been seen on the show surrounded by several women unless that was Saga all this time.
• Shoulders of Doom: Turn the corner and he may poke your eyes out.

Gold Saints

Aries Shion

• Adaptation Dye Job: Blond with green eyes in the manga.
• Animal Motifs: The Ram
• Ascended Extra: Appears for a couple of episodes when he was resurrected for twelve hours by Hades and later on becomes one of the main characters in both Lost Canvas and Next Dimension.
• Back From the Dead
  • Undeath Always Ends in the Hades Saga.
• Badass Long Hair
• Evil Counterpart:To both Mu and Dohkosubverted
• Facial Markings
• Fake Defector Yes, he wanted to kill Athena but not for the reason Hades thinks.
• Human Subspecies: He's Lemurian.
• Mentor Occupational Hazard: To Mu.
• Old Master: To Mu.
• Psychic Powers
• Really Two Hundred Years Old
• Rank Up: The Spin Offs revealed that he once was a Bronze Saint, Eculptor Shion; promoted to Ares Shion in time for the Holy War.
• Sole Survivor With Dohko from the last Holy War.
• The Obi Wan
• You Gotta Have Green Hair

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Aries Mu

Voiced By: Kaneto Shiozawa and Takumi Yamazaki (JP)

• Adaptation Dye Job: Blond in the manga with light green eyes.
  • In Hades arc he got his green eyes back ( different kind of green shade though) where in previous arc no one knows exactly what color his eyes are. Sometimes it's purple, and sometimes... blue. Who knows?
• Animal Motifs: The Ram.
• Badass: In the Hades Saga he starts off against five dead Gold Saints.
  • Badass Cape
  • Badass Long Hair
• Barrier Warrior
• Big Brother Mentor: To Shiryu.
• Dude Looks Like a Lady: Not to Aphrodite's level but equal with Shaka, his Adaptation Dye Job also didn't help because its PINK!
• The Blacksmith: Pretty much the only one who can fix Saint Clothes.
• Facial Markings: Two on his forehead.
• Good Is Not Dumb: Left Sanctuary due to the Pope.
• Guile Hero: Not to Shaka levels, but he can still manipulate his enemies well when given the chance.
• Hermit Guru: Introduced as one.
• Human Subspecies: He's Lemurian.
• Last Stand: Against Radamanthys at Hades' castle.
• Mentor Occupational Hazard: To Kiki.
• Mythological Name: Named after Mu, theoretical lost continent that supposedly was in between Asia/Australia and the Americas.
• Overranked Soldier: Gold Saint at seven years old
• Psychic Powers
• Teleportation
• You Gotta Have Light Pink Hair

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Taurus Aldebaran

• Adaptation Dye Job: Blond in the manga.
• Animal Motifs: The Bull
• The Big Guy
  • Big Guy Fatality Syndrome
• Big Ol Unibrow
• But Not Too Black: In the anime.
• Defiant to The End
• Emotional Bruiser
• Gentle Giant
• Muscles Are Meaningless: Against Seiya, Syd and Bud, Sorrento and his killer, Deep Niobe, essentially against everyone he ever fought.
• Nice Guy: When off-duty.
• Overranked Soldier: Earned his Gold Cloth at age seven.
• Stellar Name: Aldebaran is one of the stars in the constellation of Taurus.
• The Toblerone
• The Worf Effect: After being first introduced, the poor guy was used as a benchmark for the strength and threat of the Asgard warriors in the Asgard arc and Spectres (Hades arc).
• You Shall Not Pass

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Gemini Kanon

• Adaptation Dye Job: He's blonde in the manga.
• Cain and Abel
• Badass Long Hair
• Eleventh Hour Ranger
• Must Make Amends: In the Hades Saga. After being banished, he returned to try and help defend Sanctuary for his Brother and Athena.
• Reformed but Rejected
• Space Master
• Taking You With Me: To Radamanthys.
• You Gotta Have Blue Hair

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Gemini Saga

• Adaptation Dye Job: Blonde in the Manga.
• Alas Poor Villain: Invoked by Dohko.
• Back From the Dead: Twice if you count the movie, Legend of Crimson Youth movie.
  • Undeath Always Ends in the Hades Saga.
• Badass Long Hair
• Broken Ace: Averted. He was considered the strongest saint of his generation and most possible candidate for succeding the Pope, but Aioros was chosen and his envy as well as Kanon's speech about how Saga is as evil as he is pushed him over the edge and allowed his evil self to take over.
• Cain and Abel
• Brainwashed and Crazy: What his Genrou Mao Ken will do to you. Poor Aiolia.
• The Caligula: In the anime. In the Manga he was able to mantain a Reasonable Authority Figure until seiya and co. forced him to take more drastic actions.
• Dead Person Impersonation: With Shion.
• Driven to Suicide: Manga only. He takes the dagger he used on Shion and stabs himself with it.
  • Dying As Yourself: In the end he is happy that his dark side won't cause anymore trouble.
• Fallen Hero.
• Lightning Bruiser: Though being a Gold Saint this is pretty much a staple.
• Master of Illusion: Easily one of most adept users along Shaka and Ikki. This is how he can duplicate his Temple and create an infinite maze wich can trap his opponents for an eternity... unless someone breaks his concentration.
• No Holds Barred Beatdown: To Seiya and Ikki.
• Obvious Judas: Lampshaded by Saori in the anime.
• Person of Mass Destruction: His Galaxian Explosion is confirmed as the second most powerful attack, second only to the Athena Exclamation.
• Red Eyes Take Warning: His evil-half in the Anime only.
• Reverse Mole: In the Hades Saga.
• Space Master
  • Reality Warper: Subverted See Master of Illusion.
• Super Powered Evil Side and Split Personality Takeover.
  • You can tell which side is in control if his hair is blue (good) or white (evil), or in the manga blond (good) and black (evil).
• Well Intentioned Extremist: His Super Powered Evil Side believes himself to be one by taking control of earth instead of either Poseidon, Zeus or Hades.
• You Gotta Have Blue Hair

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Cancer Deathmask

• Animal Motifs: The Crab
• Blood Knight
• Black and Grey Morality
• But for Me It Was Tuesday: His nonchalant attitude towards killing kids.
• Card Carrying Villain
• Dub Name Change: Mephisto in the American translation of the manga.
• Heel Face Turn: Much later in the story.
• Might Makes Right
• Only Known By Their Nickname: You didn't actually think his real name was Deathmask, did you?
  • Ironically either this name is his real name or not it can count as Meaningful Name not in literal way only, as it's a name of funeral tradition. And this troper is sure no one needs complete explanation of the procedure.
• Social Darwinist: When he explain his reasons to Dohko.
• Undeath Always Ends in the Hades Saga.
• Would Hurt a Child
• Wrong Genre Savvy
• You Gotta Have Blue Hair

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Leo Aioria/Aiolia

Voiced By: Hideyuki Tanaka (JP)

• Animal Motifs: The lion
• Blood Knight and Brainwashed and Crazy
• Dark Skinned Blond
• Dead Older Brother: Aiolos.
• Heel Face Turn: Early in the story. During a mission he meets Athena/Saori Kido, the one he was supposed to protect. He understand the Pope had his brother framed and that he lied to him during 13 years. Aiolia doesn't need anymore reason to pull a Heel Face Turn.
• Honor Before Reason
• Hot Blooded
• Last Stand: Against Radamanthys at Hades' castle.
• Lightning Bruiser: Literally.
• Mythological Name: Named after Aeolia, the home island of the wind god (Aeolus).
• Overranked Soldier: Gold Saint at seven years old
• Platonic Life Partners: To Marin, according to Word of God. The fandom had leaned more toward believing him to be her Unlucky Childhood Friend, though. In a Q&A, Kurumada used Shion to answer questions about their relationship, and Shion even "said" Oh? I have never heard of that rumor. It's true that those two get along well, but it is just friendship like male bonding. Aiolia had to live under the disgrace of being a little brother of a traitor, there are inconsiderate people out there who wants to spread rumors about him. I wouldn't pay too much attention to them. And the sole reason Saints exist is to protect the peace of this world, as long as they have that reason, Saints must devote their mind and body to Athena which is the symbol of peace. Therefore, Sanctuary does not recoginze the love or marriage of a Saint but there are times when the life of one person to a Saint is more important than protecting the lives of the rest of the world. I have heard, in our long history, there are those who have decided to give up their rank as a Saint to protect that one person." Not very savvy about the female side of the fandom, that Kurumada.
• Pummel Duel: With Seiya.
• Rapid Fire Fisticuffs: Coupled with lightning

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Virgo Shaka

Voiced By: Yuji Mitsuya (JP)

• Anti Hero: Type IV
• Adaptation Distillation: Due to an erased scene of his first meeting with Ikki and other adjustments to fit this change, Shaka became a big arrogant jerk in The Sanctuary Arc. The anime scriptwriters seem to have a grudge against Shaka or something, such as creating an episode where Shaka send his disciples to kill Ikki, not to mention cheating in that fight by helping his disciples when it's already a 2 against 1 fight. Thus this anime only event didn't help Shaka's image the slightest. This caused some fans who only watch anime wonder why Shaka seems to behave differently in Hades arc, as this arc followed Shaka's characterization from the manga closer.
  • Or maybe the Character Development hit Shaka later in the manga, thus the writers didn't have much info on him in their hands back the and had to use their own Alternate Character Interpretations to fill in?
• Adaptation Dye Job: Adverted. Shaka is indeed the only blond Gold saints who is saved from hair dye, and due to his Eyes Always Shut this troper just realized recently that Shaka have green eyes in manga, therefore Shaka still got an eye dye. His eyes were blue in the original TV series.
• Awesomeness By Analysis: He takes out each of the Bronze Saints and then goes on to explain how his attack would kill them if he chose to go any further with it.
• Badass Long Hair
• Disability Superpower: Inverted, he pretends to be blind so he can concentrate on limiting his power.
  • He never pretend to be one actually, since it seems everyone who knows him know he is not blind.
• Dissonant Serenity: AND HOW. He's calm, soft-spoken, and utterly ruthless when fighting.
• Dude Looks Like a Lady: Just don't tell him that.
  • It's mostly the Badass Long Hair and how having his Eyes Always Shut make his lashes look longer than they really are. so yeah, he looks kinda feminine, but not to Aphrodite levels.
  • He is the Virgo Saint for crying out loud, and his temple called Temple of Maiden.
  • Some of his fans nickname him barbie in their fanfics, and believe me if you can read spanish or portuguese fanfics you will find quite a lot that mention he looks like Barbie.
• Enlightenment Superpowers:
• Eyes Always Shut: And sweet merciful Athena, DON'T MAKE HIM OPEN THEM.
• Facial Markings: A tilaka on his forehead.
• Guile Hero: Isn't above manipulating his friends, fellow Saints and disciples as much as he manipulates his rivals.
• Evil Counterpart : To Shun. Both have "female" clothes and both are reincarnations of gods
• Honor Before Reason: Shaka at the first glance is nothing like Shun, especially if you only watch the anime. But he somehow can fit in this category because ha CAN do it smartly and deal with the after effect.Other characters in the manga say of Shaka, “although he is like a God, he still has a weakness. He is too compassionate.”and if any Saint Seiya's fans out there hear the latter part they would think it refer to Shun.
  • He might be not as merciful as Shun but of all gold saints he is the only one who ever bother to refuse a fight and never got bored of keep giving his enemies or opponents a chance to leave first. In manga he refusef Ikki's challenge in Death Queen Island, knocked the light out of him after warned him to not let the evil around him take control of his soul,and will kill Ikki only if he come before Shaka as enemy. When Shaka confronted Aiolia in Pope's chamber, he told Aiolia to the the HELL out (which actually was a good advice, but Aiolia was so pumped up that he didn't listen). Shaka openly ignored the Bronze saints who invade his temple, and attacked after Seiya attacked him first. He also gave Ikki a chance to give up the fight unharmed, though he didn't ask it nicely. In Hades arc Shaka fully intended to kill all Specters that left when they entered his temple, but strangely later he told them to leave and killed them after they tried to attack him.
• Living On Borrowed Time: For a few minutes, after receiving the Athena's exclamation. He manages to send a message to Athena and then search for a nice dying place under the trees.
• Long Haired Pretty Boy
• Master of Illusion
• Meaningful Name: The historical Buddha was called “Sakyamuni”, meaning “sage of the Sakya clan”. The Japanese transliteration of “Sakya” is “Shaka”.
• Meditation Powerup: The Trope Image
• Mind Rape: So good at it that he is only one who can mind rape Ikki.
• Overranked Soldier: Gold Saint at seven years old.
• Physical God: Because he is...
• Reincarnation: Of Buddha. Yes, THAT Buddha. Yeah, Ikki was all Oh Crap when he was told about it.
  • Actually that would be only in the dub since Shaka is not Buddha but a Buddha (when a person becomes enlightened, his consciousness escapes the cycle of reincarnation) which may explain why in Hades he's talking to Siddhartha Gautama as a kid.
• Suicide By Cop: To trigger his...
• Thanatos Gambit: In the Hades arc.
• Tranquil Fury: In the few times he gets pissed.
• Undeath Always Ends: What he does to any specter that crosses his path and IT IS AWESOME!
• What Is Evil: His "many justices exist" speech has undertones of this.

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Old Dohko/ Dohko in his youth and during the Hades Saga.

Libra Dohko

• Achilles in His Tent: Averted, as he's just following orders he had received from Athena in the previous holy war -- To watch, and prepare for the time the new holy war would begin.
• Adaptation Dye Job: Black hair in the manga, but dark brown in the anime.
• Animal Motifs: Tiger
• Badass Beard
• Good Is Not Dumb: Didn't trust the Pope AT ALL.
• Hermit Guru: Face it, they hired Yoda to play him.
• I Was Quite a Looker: Was a gorgeous Dark Skinned Redhead when young. And he still is.
  • Tall Dark and Handsome: His hair was black in the manga.
• Meaningful Name: Dohko means "great tiger". And he has a tiger tatoo on his back.
• Mentor Occupational Hazard: To Shiryu.
• Miniature Senior Citizens: With purple skin no less.
• Multi Melee Master: He carries around something like six couple of various weapons (including shields, spears and flails) and can share them with the other Gold Saints.
• Old Master: Subverted
• Parental Substitute: To both Shiryu and Shunrei.
• Put On a Bus: During most of Hades: Inferno until the very end.
• Rank Up: The Spin Offs revealed that he once was a Bronze Saint, Dragon Dohko; promoted to Libra Dohko in time for the Holy War.
• Really Two Hundred Years Old
• Sleep Mode Size
• Team Dad

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Scorpio Milo

• Adaptation Dye Job: Blond in the manga.
• Animal Motifs: Scorpion
• Calling Your Attacks
  • Scarlet Needle/Scarlet Stinger (US dub)
• Defeat Equals Friendship: One of the few characters in shonen that can gloat about changing sides after defeating the heroes and not after being defeated.
• Finishing Move: Antares.
• Good Is Not Nice: In the Hades Sanctuary OVA when he tested the loyalty of Kanon.
• Heel Realization: Upon seeinmg Hyoga's determination.
• Kick the Dog: What he did in Andromeda Island, in the anime.
  • Would Hurt a Child (anime only): Most of the trainees that were killed on the island were children.
• Knight Templar
• Overranked Soldier: Earned his Gold Cloth at age seven.
• Last Stand: Against Radamanthys at Hades' castle.
• Right Makes Might: Averted. He actually BEATS Hyoga, but lets him pass because of the other's impressive determination that makes him question his own motives.
  • That Battle Didnt Count: Milo realizes that in the end of the fight that Hyoga was fighting on a level higher than him and the only reason he won was his Gold Cloth.
• Secret Keeper: in the anime, he knew his old friend Aquarius Camus's real motivations and fought Hyoga because of this.
• Speed Blitz: Milo's demonstration to Seiya and Shiryu about how the Light Speed of Gold Saints is more advance than the Bronze Saints.
• To the Pain: His techniques can inflict lots of suffering and pain on his rivals.
• You Gotta Have Purple Hair

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Sagittarius Aiolos

Voiced By: Yusaku Yara (JP)

• The Archer
• The Ace
• Big Brother Mentor: To Aiolia and to Seiya, from beyond the grave.
• Dark Skinned Blond
• Defiant to The End
• Improbable Age: Died at 14.
• Martial Arts Headband: His characteristic red headband.
• Light Em Up
• Mythological Name: Also named after the Greek God of wind.
• Posthumous Character
• Pursued Protagonist: How he saves baby Athena.
• Put On a Bus: While Shion made an appearance during the Hades Saga, surprisingly, Aiolos didn't appear till the Wailing Wall.

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Capricorn Shura

Voiced by: Koji Totani(1986-2004 JP), Takeshi Kusao(2005 JP)

• Absurdly Sharp Blade: In his arms... and legs!!!
• Animal Motifs: Goat
• Badass Spaniard
• Calling Your Attacks
  • EXCALIBUR!!!
  • ...and the lesser known: Jumping Stone
• Heroic Sacrifice and Redemption Equals Death.
• Hotblooded Sideburns: Truly epic ones.
• Reverse Mole: In the Hades Saga.
• Undeath Always Ends in the Hades Saga.
• Undying Loyalty: He always thought he was following Athena's will when he was being played by the Pope, then played straight in the Hades Saga.
• Villains Dying Grace: Shiryu launches them both into orbit as a mutual kill. He has a Heel Realization (well, that he'd been working for the Heel) and saves Shiryu from becoming space dust, dying in the process.

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Aquarius Camus

Voiced By: Rokuro Naya (1986-2004 JP), Nobutoshi Canna (2005 JP)

• Adaptation Distillation: Due to the Crystal Saint being Hyoga's teacher, Camus came off as more of a one-dimensional jerk in the anime.
  • Not really, if you recall his two Cry Cute moments. It was more of a Jerkass Facade.
• Adaptation Dye Job: He was a redhead in the manga, but the anime gave him dark blue hair.
• An Ice Person
• Back From the Dead: Twice if you count the movie, Legend of Crimson Youth movie.
  • Undeath Always Ends in the Hades Saga.
• Badass Long Hair
• Evil Counterpart: To Hyoga
• Fiery Redhead: Averted in the manga. Quite literally, too, since not only does he preach emotional detachment, but his powers are based on ice too.
• French Jerk: See the I Did What I Had to Do entry.
• Glowing Eyes of Doom: Happens the first time he uses his Aurora Execution against Hyoga
• Human Popsicle: One of his attacks.
• Knight Templar
• Kuudere: Specially in the anime.
• I Did What I Had to Do: Hyoga did not take it well when Camus sent Natasha's ship to the bottom of the sea to force him focus.
• Mentor Occupational Hazard: To Hyoga.
• Named After Somebody Famous: Albert Camus, a French author.
• Overranked Soldier: Earned his Gold Cloth at age seven.
• Perverse Sexual Lust: Apparently, even more so than the other Gold Saints. An almost impossible feat, considering fandom's feelings toward the Gold Saints are...let's just say saying they are strong feelings would be quite the understatement.
• Rapunzel Hair: It extended past his knees at times.
• Tertiary Sexual Characteristics: He has red nails in manga that match his red hair. The official reason Kurumada ever come up with is because Aquarius represents Ganymede, an androgynous figure from Greek mythology. And maybe why yaoi fangirls think he is an Ho Yay character in Saint Seiya second only to his disciple and Andromeda Shun. And Hades arc help this with Adaptation Distillation. in manga it's Saga who Milo helped to walk to Main Temple but in anime it's Camus complete with scene where Milo was crying as choking him. And their yaoi fangirls squee
• You Gotta Have Blue Hair: Blue-ish green.

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Pisces Aphrodite

Voiced By: Keiichi Nanba

• Animal Motifs: Fish
• Back From the Dead: Twice if you count the movie, Legend of Crimson Youth movie.
  • Undeath Always Ends in the Hades Saga.
• Beauty Mark
• Beauty Is Bad
• Blue Eyes
• Combat Sadomasochist
• Defiant to The End
• Dude Looks Like a Lady
• Flechette Storm: With his roses.
• Flower Motifs
  • Petal Power
  • Something About a Rose
    • Genre Savvy: He filled the stairs behind his temple with poisonous roses so, even if he lost, Seiya and Co. wouldn't reach their goals. Too bad Marin derails his plans, though to be fair he didn't have any way to know she'd show up there.
• Might Makes Right
• Mythological Name: Aphrodite is the Greek Goddess of love.
  • Gender Blender Name
• She's a Man In Japan: The original Spanish dub protrayed him as a female. Newer dubs portray him as a male.
• The Fighting Narcissist
• Poisonous Person: His roses.
• Sissy Villain: Especially true in his depiction in the Legend of Crimson Youth movie.
• You Gotta Have Blue Hair: A lighter shade than usual.
  • Curtains Match the Window
• You Killed My Father: Shun's master, Daidalos/Albiore.

Other/Unknown Rank Saints

Guilty

• Abusive Parents: Is one to Esmeralda, in the anime.
• Adaptation Dye Job: It is black in the manga.
• Asshole Victim
• But for Me It Was Tuesday: Acts very nonchalant towards killing his own daughter.
• Good Scars Evil Scars: Take a guess...
• Malevolent Masked Men: Of the monster face variant. According to Esmeralda, he was a Nice Guy until he put on that mask.
• Mentor Occupational Hazard: To Ikki.
• Names to Run Away From Really Fast
  • They Call Him Guilty
• Offing the Offspring: In the anime. Poor, POOR Esmeralda.
• Red Oni: To Cepheus Albiore/Daidalos.
• Rule of Drama: Arguably why he was made Esmeralda's father in the anime.
• Training From Hell: Gave it to Ikki. All Saints are put through a very tough training, but Guilty's is just... wow.
  • Drill Sergeant Nasty
  • The Spartan Way

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Crystal Saint (Anime Only)

Voiced By: Michihiro Ikemizu (JP)

• Adaptation Expansion: Is the master of Hyoga in the anime and the substitute to Camus in all the flashbacks of the training.
• Brainwashed and Crazy: The Pope pulled this on him, thus forcing Hyoga to kill him.
  • Dying As Yourself and Died in Your Arms Tonight
• Evil Counterpart: Well, only when brainwashed, but he is this to Hyoga in their fight
• Good Is Not Dumb: Was also aware that something went on in the Sanctuary, so he tried to talk to the Pope himself. It backfired. Horribly.
• Mentor Occupational Hazard: To Hyoga.
• No Name Given
• Non Standard Character Design
• The Obi Wan: To Hyoga, in the anime.
  • Master Apprentice Chain: Aquarius Camus taught the Crystal Saint, who taught Hyoga.
• Waif Fu: EXTREMELY Rare Male Example. His body is unnaturally flexible without being a Rubber Man, thus he uses his hands and legs to apply the Freezing Fists to Hyoga's almost whole body.
• White Haired Pretty Boy

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Jango

Voiced By: Banjo Ginga (JP)

• Evil Scars: Half of his face is horribly burned, as you can see.
• Jerkass: And how.
• The Mafia: Said to be the leader of ALL the mafias and terrorist groups in the world.
• Obviously Evil
• You Gotta Have Light Purple Hair

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The Black Saints

Black Cygnus: Rene Garcia (Latin America)

• Black Eyes of Crazy: Black Dragon.
• Clone Degeneration: The real Phoenix Ikki is so evil that there were at least five Black Phoenixes. However, they are a helluva lot weaker than the other Black Saints.
• Criminal Doppelganger
• Dark Is Evil
• Evil Twin: They look like the Bronze Saints, but evil!
  • Black Dragon even has a twin brother in the manga. Thus Shiryu not only has an evil twin, but an evil twin's twin!
• Evil Counterpart
• Evil Gloating: They do a lot of that, because they are evil!
• Eye Scream: When Black Swan takes out his own eye and sends it to Ikki to inform him of his technique. This is only in the manga.
• Noble Demon: Black Dragon. Though he is still evil!
• Obviously Evil
• Paint It Black: They are like the Bronze Saints, but evil!
• Poison Is Evil: What makes Black Pegasus different than Seiya.
• The Psycho Rangers: BECAUSE THEY'RE EVIL!
• You Gotta Have Evil Green Hair: Black Andromeda.

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Geist (Anime Only)

Voiced By: Chiyoko Kawashima (JP)

• Beautiful All Along: Without her mask, to the viewers surprise.
• Dark Action Girl
• Dub Name Change: Known as "Morgana" in Italy. Yes, like in Morgan Le Fay.
• Femme Fatalons
• Filler Villain
• Hot Amazon
• Mask Power
• Red Eyes Take Warning: Before she casts her illusions.
• Surrounded By Idiots: See Ghost Saints (TV Series).

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Dolphin, Sea Serpent and Jellyfish

Ghost Saints (TV Series) Dolphin, Sea Serpent and Jellyfish (Anime Only)

Voiced By: Hideyuki Tanaka (JP Dolphin)

• Electric Jellyfish
• The Faceless
• Filler Villain
• Making a Splash.
• Non Standard Character Design: More like the mascots of Sea World.
• Punch Punch Punch Uh Oh: The reaction to whomever punches Sea Serpent.
• Quirky Miniboss Squad

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Steel Saints - Tucana Sho, Vulpecula Daichi and Delphinus Ushio (Anime Only)

Tucana Sho: Shigeru Nakahara (JP)

• Big Damn Heroes: The point of their existence is to occasionally bail out the Bronze Saints.
• Brother Chuck
• Canon Foreigner
• Cool Board: Daichi can transform his cloth into one.
• Elemental Powers
  • Sho: Sky (Air)
  • Daichi: Earth
  • Ushio: Marine (Water)
• Kid Appeal Character: All three, but especially Daichi.
• Merchandise Driven: Their vehicle cloths can actually be put together to create one big robot. It never quite made it to the anime....
• Super Speed: While technically all Saints have it, the Steel Saints are capable of using it without the cosmos.

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Docrates (Anime Only)

• Avenging the Villain: Cassios' older brother.
• The Brute
• Filler Villain
• Giant Mook: He leads several henchmen, dressed like him as well.
• Muscles Are Meaningless: Adverted, his great strength and size actually forced the Bronze Saints to use teamwork in order to defeat him.
• Non Standard Character Design: He's a Saint but it resembles one of the Specters.
• Not Drawn to Scale: At the end of one episode, he was holding Saori around her waist with ONE HAND and Tatsumi in the other.
• Wolverine Claws: Blink and you'll miss, but they come out when he's about to perform a finishing move on Seiya in episode 17.

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Saint of Fire (Anime Only)

Voiced By: Ken Yamaguchi (JP)

• Curb Stomp Battle: Go go Ikki! Show him who's best at Playing With Fire!
• Evil Redhead
• Filler Villain
• Mask Power: Subverted, he was painfully curbstomped by Ikki.
• Malevolent Masked Man
• No Name Given
• Playing With Fire
• Undying Loyalty: To Gigars

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Leda and Spica (Anime Only)

Spica: Masami Kikuchi (JP)

• Defiant to The End
• Evil Counterpart: To Shun
• Filler Villains
• Mythological Name: Named after Leda, the queen of Sparta who was seduced by Zeus as a Swan.
• Palette Swap: Save for the heads, shoulder pieces and chain ends, they too have man boobs.
• TheRivals
• Spell My Name With an S: In other language dubs, they are known as Reda and Spika.
• Stellar Name: Spica is the brightest star in the Virgo Constellation.
• Those Two Bad Guys
• Variable Length Chain
• You Gotta Have Blue Hair: Pink for Leda, blue for Spica.

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Phaeton (Anime Only)

• Evil Redhead
• Spell My Name With A B: Also known as Bhaton.
• Smug Snake
• What Happened to The Mouse: Where did he go?!

Mariners

Mermaid Thetis

Voiced By: Hiromi Tsuru (JP)

• Affably Evil: Very polite and soft-spoken, until she fights.
• But Now I Must Go: Anime-only, when she changed back to her mermaid form and leaves.
• Cry Cute: "Milord Poseidon... now you're back to being Young Julian Solo..."
• Dark Chick Action Girl: While she does have the fighting abilities, she's more of a messenger than a frontline fighter.
• Happily Ever After: In the end of the Poseidon Arc in the manga, Thetis changed back into a fish. Jullian/Poseidon comes back and finds her dead fish body and holds it gently in his hands. In the anime, it was happier where Thetis changes into a mermaid and you can see her leaping in and out of the water with the good guys staring at the sunset.
• Designated Girl Fight: Though she does give Shaina quite a run for her money.
• Lady of War
• Meaningful Name: Thetis is a goddess of the sea and leader of the Nereids (sea nymphs) in Greek Mythology. As well as the mother of Achilles.
• Our Mermaids Are Different
• Spared By the Adaptation: Dies in the manga, lives in the anime.
• Mythical Name: After one of the Twelve Titans from Greek mythology. The mother of the rivers, springs, streams, fountains and clouds.
• Yamato Nadeshiko: When off-duty

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Sea Horse Baian

Voiced By: Show Hayami (JP)

• Barrier Warrior - Seiya notes that his fighting style is very similar to Misty's
• Blow You Away
• Smug Super
• Spell My Name With an S: Baian or Bian?
• Villainous Breakdown: When Seiya quickly takes advantage of him and tells him that he's just a Smug Super without real merits.
  • This Cannot Be

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Scylla Io

Voiced By: Issei Futamata (JP), Gerardo Reyero (Latin America)

• Badass Long Hair
• Defiant to The End : Prefers to go down fighting towards Shun despite being bound in chains, trying to block Shun's direct attack (via Libra Cloth's weapons) on the pillar he protected. Shun is very impressed at his Undying Loyalty to Poseidon and expresses sadness at his passing.
• The Beast Master: His power is to summon the abilities of six creatures.
• Mythological Name: From Io the sea nymph in Greek Mythology.
• You Gotta Have Pink Hair
• Real Men Wear Pink: Gave Shun a very hard fight and died awesomely.
• Senseless Sacrifice: Tries to keep Shun from destroying his pillar by shielding his body. Unfortunately, he never had a chance due to him being bounded up and the pillar itself being too big to protect all of it.

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Chrysaor Krishna

• Blade On a Stick
• Dark Skinned Blond: White-haired, to be more exact.
• Noble Demon
• Token Minority: The only dark-skinned Mariner of the group. Before you ask, he's from Sri Lanka.
• White Haired Pretty Boy

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Lyumnades Kassa

Voiced By: Keaton Yamada (JP)

• Critical Research Failure: In-universe case. Had he bothered to scan Ikki's mind throughly, he could've found about Esmeralda earlier, therefor using her form to kill him. He could have won the war for Poseidon's side right there!
• Crowning Moment of Heartwarming: Invoked and weaponized! Yeah, he's a bastard.
• Dirty Coward
• Dying Dream: In his last moments, he imagined himself killing Ikki by taking Esmeralda's form.
• Gonk: We never get a proper look at his face, but he SEEMS to be one.
• Last of His Kind: He's proud of it too. Ikki uses his Mind Rape against him by pretending that There Is Another.
• Master of Disguise
• No Yay: He managed to give Seiya an amorous hug so convincing, that he really believed he was his lost sister. Yikes!
• Required Secondary Powers:
  • Telepathy, necessary in order to scan his victim's brain and choose the appropriate disguise.
  • Ditto Fighter, he can copy a warrior's techniques and weapons to a certain extend too.
• The Reason You Suck Speech & And This Is For: He find himself in the receiving end of an incredibly satisfactory combination of this at the hands of Ikki.
• Shapeshifter Guilt Trip: His whole shtick.
• Voluntary Shapeshifting

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Kraken Isaac

Voiced By: Ryusei Nakao (JP)

• An Ice Person
• Cain and Abel: With Hyoga, in the childhood friends sense.
• Died in Your Arms Tonight: Hyoga's.
• Eye Scream / Good Scars Evil Scars: The result of saving Hyoga's life.
• Evil Counterpart: To Hyoga.
• Forgotten Fallen Friend: To be such an important person in Hyoga's life, it's quite notable that he didn't mentioned him before.
• Fallen Hero
• Knight Templar: He admires the Kraken because it would sink ships with sinful people on them. Hyoga questions this, as it would entail killing innocent people which just happened to be on board as well. Isaac still calls it the best way of making justice.
• Kick the Dog: Or better said, the puppy, as he kicks poor little Kiki when he brings Hyoga the Libra Cloth. That pisses Hyoga off enough to return to the fight.
• Kraken and Leviathan: However this particular Kraken has no Combat Tentacles and looks like a giant Ray fish.
• You Gotta Have Green Hair
• The Unfettered: What he always aspired to be, even before becoming a Poseidon's general.
• Would Hurt a Child: Poor Kiki, as already said.

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Siren Sorrento

Voiced by: Yoku Shioya (JP)

• Bishonen: Very pretty, even by this show's standards.
• Good Wings Evil Wings
  • Wings Do Nothing
• Musical Assassin
• Not Quite Dead: Twice, if you count his supposed death in the Asgard Saga.
• What the Hell Hero: To Kanon, after finding out his plans. To the point of trying to attack him.
• You Gotta Have Pale Purple Hair

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Sea Dragon Kanon

• Badass Long Hair
• Cain and Abel: He's Saga's twin brother.
• Dragon With an Agenda: No pun intended. He tries to use Poseidon to rule the world.
• Heel Face Turn: He becomes the Gemini Saint after Saga.
  • Good Is Not Nice
  • Reformed but Rejected: Understandably, it takes him a LOT to gain the others's trust.
• Evil Twin: To Saga.
• Kazuyuki Sogabe
  • Ryotaro Okiayu
• You Gotta Have Blue Hair

Specters

Pandora

Voiced By: Maaya Sakamoto (JP)

• Blade On a Stick: Loves her some spear.
• Brainwashed and Crazy: Thanatos' and Hypnos' doing.
• Harp of Femininity: To emphasize the "lady" in the Lady of War.
• Heel Realization
• Lady of War
• Mythological Name: After the Greek myth of the first woman created who opened up a box that contained all the evils in the world as well as hope.
• Redemption Equals Death
• Shiny Midnight Black: Of the purple undertoned variety, which the above picture demonstrates.
• Tall Dark and Bishoujo
• Womanin Black

Heavenly Fierce Star, Wyvern Rhadamanthys

Voiced By: Takehito Koyasu (JP)

• Big Ol Unibrow
• Blond Guys Are Evil
  • Mean Brit
• Curtains Match the Window
• The Dragon
• Foe Yay: With Kanon.
• Say My Name: HAAAADES-SAMA!
• Three Amigos: With Minos and Aiacos.
• Worthy Opponent

Heavenly Noble Star, Griffon Minos

Voiced By: Koichi Tochika (JP)

• Badass Long Hair
• Blinding Bangs
• Determinator: He really tried to stop the Bronze Saints from reaching Elysion at any cost.
• Eyes of Gold
• People Puppets
• Three Amigos: With Aiacos and Radamanthys.
• White Haired Pretty Boy

Heavenly Valiance Star, Garuda Aiacos

Voiced By: Shinichiro Miki (JP), Gerardo Reyero (Latin America)

• A Twinkle in The Sky: With Ikki.
• Magic Countdown: His attack actually has one for the time it takes for his opponent to hit the ground.
• Three Amigos: With Minos and Radamanthys.
• Wind From Beneath My Wings: He flaps them to provide extra power in his attack.

Earthly Strange Star, Frog Zelos

Voiced By: Bin Shimada (JP)

• Animal Motifs: Frog
• Gonk
• Professional Butt Kisser
• Whos Laughing Now: To Camus.
  • This Is Unforgivable - Kick the Son of A Bitch : What happened to him afterwards when Hyoga found out.
    • Cruel and Unusual Death: Hyoga unleashes Aurora Execution. However, he's still alive and tries to move and breaks his frozen feet off before falling down and shattering.

Earthly Submission Star, Worm Raimi

Voiced By: Kazuya Nakai (JP)

• Animal Motifs: Worm
• Combat Tentacles
• Gonk
• Multi Armed and Dangerous
• Naughty Tentacles: Thankfully averted, unless there really was something about the close up of them and Aioria.

Dullahan Cube(Earthly Secret Star), Elf Mills(Earthly Lowly Star), and Gorgon Ochs (Earthly Running Star)

• Ascended Extra: Cube in Lost Canvas.
• Dressing As the Enemy
• Evil Minions
• Redshirt Army: They marched into Sanctuary demanding Athena's head.

Heavenly Heroic Star, Balrog Rune

• Scary Librarian
• Shout Out: Ah-hem, winged armor, fiery whip? Balrog?! Never heard of that before...
• Spell My Name With an S: Rune? Lune? René?
• Susumu Chiba
• Whip It Good
• White Haired Pretty Boy

Heavenly Beast Star, Sphinx Pharaoh

Voiced By: Junichi Suwabe (JP)

• Egyptian Mythology: Primarily the test of Osiris where he weighs your heart on a scale. The problem is, you're still alive when he does it.
• Evil Counterpart: To Orpheus.
• Magic Music: His music can rip your heart out of your chest.
• Musical Assassin

Heavenly Wailing Star, Harpy Valentine

Voiced By: Eiji Takemoto (JP)

• Heart Symbol: His wings form one.
• Meaningful Name: After Valentine's Day.
• Visual Innuendo: His surplice.
• White Haired Pretty Boy

Earthly Magic Star, Papillon Myu

• Atsushi Kisaichi
• Butterfly of Death and Rebirth
• Non Standard Character Design: Compared to the other Specters.
• Sequential Boss
• The Fighting Narcissist

Heavenly Expansion Star, Acheron Charon

• Chronic Backstabbing Disorder: With Shun and Seiya.
• Gonk: He's ugly with his head gear on but hideous after it is removed.
• Improbable Weapon User: A paddle.
• The Ferry Man
• Mythological Name: After the Charon from Greek Myth who ferried the dead.

Heavenly Horned Star, Golem Rock

• Curb Stomp Battle: He barely got to say his name and his technique.
• Dishing Out Dirt
• Punny Name
• Rock Theme Naming

Heavenly Vanquished Star, Troll Ivan

• Curb Stomp Battle: He barely got to say his name fullstop.
• Husky Russkie: Looks like the deal, but...
• Unfortunate Names: ... Goes without saying.

Heavenly Hideous Star, Deadly Beetle Stand

• Animal Motifs: Beetle
• Ascended Extra: In Lost Canvas.
• Curb Stomp Battle: In fact, he dies before we even meet him.
• Died Standing Up: No pun intended?
• Shout Out: His unseen attack is call Stand by Me. And he's a beetle.

Heavenly Crime Star, Lycaon Phlegyas

• Curb Stomp Battle: This troper senses a pattern.
• The Ferry Man
• You Shall Not Pass: And at first is successful.

Heavenly Victorious Star, Basilisk Sylphid

• Blow You Away
• Demoted to Extra: In the anime.
• Determinator: For the same reasons as Minos.
• Quirky Miniboss Squad: With Gordon and Queen.
• White Haired Pretty Boy

Heavenly Imprisoning Star, Minotauros Gordon

• An Axe to Grind: His attack Grand Ax Crusher.
• The Brute
• Demoted to Extra: In the anime.
• Quirky Miniboss Squad: With Sylphid and Queen.

Heavenly Demonic star, Alraune Queen

• Demoted to Extra: In the anime.
• Green Thumb
• Quirky Miniboss Squad: With Sylphid and Gordon.
• Real Men Wear Pink
• You Gotta Have Blue Hair: Dark pink.

Gods

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Saori Kido - Athena

Voiced By: Keiko Han (1986-2004) (JP), Fumiko Orikasa (2005-2011) (JP), Shoko Nakagawa (2012-persent) (JP), Allison Sumrall (EN), Virginie Ledieu (FR), Maria Fernanda Morales (Latin America)

• Adaptation Dye Job: Her hair is light brown in the original manga, the anime changed it to purple
• Barrier Maiden
• Batman Gambit: In the manga, at the end of the Hades Saga, Hades revealed that Athena willing allowed Hypnos to put her into the jar in order to make him confident enough to come out of his tomb. The one thing she didn't bank on was Hades still being able to take her on. Luckily, Seiya was there.
• Blue Eyes
• Damsel in Distress: Basically her role every single arc.
• Dub Name Change: Princess Sienna in the Knights of the Zodiac dub and American translation of the manga.
  • Known as "Lady Isabel" in the Italian Dub.
• The Heart
• Healing Hands: Extremely good at healing.
• Lady of War: See the armor on the right? When Saori is finally able to activate its power at great risk of her own life, she becomes one of these.
• Limited Wardrobe: Behold, the richest girl in the world only has two dresses, her white dress and her business attire.
• Living MacGuffin
• Martyr Without a Cause: Averted. She puts her life at risk because it'll buy the Bronze Saints time to pull off their mission.
• The Messiah
• The Ojou: And even referred to as "ojousama" ("milady") by Tatsumi. The Bronzies are a little more informal and call her "Saori-san" ("miss Saori").
• Plucky Girl
• Giant Poofy Sleeves: Her dress before the Asgard arc.
• Spoiled Brat: She got over it.
  • Spoiled Sweet: What she became after that.
• Strong As They Need to Be: Amazing at how many powers she has but yet always needs to be rescued all the time.
• Team Mom: She mothers guys older than she is.
• White Magician Girl
• Woman in White
• You Gotta Have Blue Hair: Purple.
• Younger Than They Look: Yep. She's thirteen.

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Poseidon

• Adaptation Dye Job: He's blonde in the manga.
• Big Bad: In his own arc.
• Big Damn Villains: He helps Athena in the Hades arc, because otherwise he couldn't conquer the world.
• Blade On a Stick: His spiffy trident.
• Blue Eyes
• Evil Counterpart: To Saori Kido/Athena.
• Making a Splash
• Omnicidal Maniac: Of the Well Intentioned Extremist variety.
• Sealed Evil in A Can
• Soul Jar: He's got White Prince Julian Solo as one.
• We Can Rule Together: To Athena. She refuses and is trapped in a Bottomless Pit.
• The White Prince --> The Evil Prince
• You Gotta Have Blue Hair: And of the same shade as Aphrodite too.

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Hades

• Back From the Dead: He is the one who granted Shion, Aphrodite, Shura, Camus, Deathmask, and Saga twelve hours of life in order to take Athena's head. The fallen Silvers were also granted this in the anime only.
• Badass Long Hair
• Blue Eyes
• Cool Sword
• Eldritch Abomination: His soul.
• Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: According to Athena, since he doesn't understand The Power of Love.
• Evil Counterpart: In his more recent encarnation, to Shaka
• Everybody Hates Hades: And with good reason.
• God of Evil
• Omnicidal Maniac: Of the For the Evulz variety.
• Red Eyes Take Warning: Every time he used his power while Shun was possessed.
• Sealed Evil in A Can
• Shoulders of Doom
• Visionary Villain: Being the Lord of the Underworld, he wishes to kill all of the living by possessing Shun, moving the moon and blocking out the sun. After that, he will take his perfectly preserved body from Elysium and use it to rule over everyone.
• What Beautiful Eyes

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Thanatos

• Creepy Twins: With Hypnos.
• Curtains Match the Window
• Deal With the Devil: Along with Hypnos, offered Pandora a right hand seat at Hades' side if she'd serve him.
• Enemies With Death: To Seiya. He tried to kill his long lost but recently found older sister out of spite.
• Man in White: Fitting considering the associations of white with death in Japan. Even his darker armours contain distinct silver tones.
• Monochromatic Eyes
• Mythical Name: From Greek Mythology, the personification of Death.
• Red Oni Blue Oni: Red to Hypnos' blue.
• Villains Out Shopping: He's introduced playing the harp to some nymphs in Elysion.
• White Haired Pretty Boy: Silver hair, to be more precise.

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Hypnos

Voiced By: Issei Futamata (JP)

• Blond Guys Are Evil
• Creepy Twins: With Thanatos.
• Curtains Match the Window
• Eyes of Gold
• Martial Pacifist: He hates fighting, conflict and destruction, and yes, even death (though he doesn't seem to begrudge his brother). He'd much rather send enemies into a Convenient Coma.
• Monochromatic Eyes
• Mythical Name: From Greek mythology, the personification of Sleep.
• Red Oni Blue Oni: Blue to Thanatos' red.

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Asgard Saga Characters (Anime Only)

Polaris Hilda

Voiced by: Mitsuko Horie (JP)

• Annoying Laugh: Because she's evil now!
• Blade On a Stick:
• Brainwashed and Crazy
• Break the Cutie: As her body was taken over, her mind was trapped into the Ring of the Nibelungs and continuously mindraped into watching her warriors die.
• Cain and Abel: With Freya, when Brainwashed and Crazy.
• Dark Is Evil
• Dark Messiah
• Evil Costume Switch: From a sweet Woman in White to a regal Womanin Black.
• Lady of War
• The Messiah
• Manipulative Bitch
• Villains Out Shopping: Tends to her garden, feeds her crows, etc.
• White Haired Pretty Girl
• Yamato Nadeshiko: When sane.

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Freya

Voiced by: Maria Kawamura (JP)

• Defector From Decadence: The only one who questioned Hilda's sudden attitude switch.
• Hair of Gold
• Plucky Girl
• Ship Tease: With Hagen and Hyoga.
• Spell My Name With an S: In the Spanish dub, she's called Flehr.
• Token Good Teammate
• Woman in White
• Yamato Nadeshiko

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Alpha Dubhe Siegfried

Voiced by: Akira Kamiya (JP)

• Achilles Heel: The weak spot on his back.
• Anti Villain
• Blood Bath: Like his namesake from the Nibelungenlied, he slays a dragon and bathes in its blood, making himself invulnerable, but at that very moment a tiny leaf falls on his back (coincidentally over his heart), preventing that bit of skin from being touched by the blood, and therefore making that spot the only part of his body that can be dealt a mortal blow.
• Bodyguard Crush
• The Dragon: No pun intended.
• Evil Counterpart: Blatantly intended to be Shiryu's counterpart.
• Heel Face Turn and Redemption Equals Death
• Nigh Invulnerable
• Taking You With Me: To Siren Sorento.

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Merak Beta Hagen

Voiced by: Bin Shimada (JP)

• Animal Motifs: Horse
• An Ice Person and Magma Man
• Blond Guys Are Evil: Not evil per se, but quite the dick.
• Dark Skinned Blond
• Never My Fault
• Unlucky Childhood Friend
• Why Did You Make Me Hit You
• Yandere: For Freya, and he wants to Murder the Hypotenuse in regards to Hyoga.

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Phecda Gamma Thor

Voiced By: Yusaku Yara (JP)

• Animal Motifs: Snake
• An Axe to Grind
  • Dual Wielding: Two axes.
• Badass Beard
• The Brute
• Just Like Robin Hood: His backstory.
• Meaningful Name

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Megrez Delta Alberich

Voiced By: Shigeru Nakahara (JP)

• Combat Pragmatist
• Evil Genius
• Evil Redhead
• Genre Savvy
• Green Thumb
• Manipulative Bastard
• No Ontological Inertia
• Secret Keeper: Assymetric, as he was the only Asgard saint who knew Hilda was Brainwashed and Crazy.
• Weak but Skilled: And how.
• You Gotta Have Blue Hair: Pink.

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Alioth Epsilon Phenrir

Voiced by: Toshihiko Seki (JP)

• Animal Motifs: Wolf
• Break the Cutie: Oh God, his backstory. Which leads him to cross the...
  • Despair Event Horizon.
• Don't You Dare Pity Me: To Shiryu
• Canine Companion: A whole pack of wolves.
• Fallen Prince
• Raised By Wolves: Literally.
• Wild Child
• White Haired Pretty Boy
• Wolverine Claws

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Mizar Zeta Cyd

Voiced By: Yuu Mizushima (JP)

• Always Someone Better: For Bud.
• Animal Motifs: Tigers
• An Ice Person
• Cain and Abel: And maybe one of the most tragic cases ever, as he always knew who Bud was and genuinely cared for him, but could never tell him that he did..
• Separated At Birth
• You Gotta Have Blue Hair: Green.

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Alcor Zeta Bud

Voiced By: Yuu Mizushima (JP)

• An Ice Person
• Animal Motifs: Tiger
• Big Brother Instinct: He'll probably deny it too.
• Cain and Abel
• Fallen Prince
• Mysterious Protector: Took out Aldebaran to protect his brother. He denied it, tho.
• Separated At Birth
• Tsundere: Tries hard to deny that he has any feelings towards Cyd. Goes batshit when Ikki sees through him and uses his powers to prove it.
• You Gotta Have Blue Hair: Green, just like his brother.

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Benethosh Eta Mime

Voiced By: Yuji Mitsuya (JP)

• Abusive Parents: His adoptive father Volker abused him because he preferred to play the harp rather than fighting. See Self Made Orphan for more info.
• Expy: To Kotoza Orpheus of the first Saint Seiya movie.
• Hair of Gold
• Magic Music
• Musical Assassin
• Self Made Orphan: He snaps when Volker tells him that he murdered his biological parents and kills him. Little did he know, though, that it was a part of Volker's Thanatos Gambit: he wanted to both atone for the accidental killing of Mime's family and die in battle instead of his long-time illness, so he put on a Jerkass Facade for many years.
• Razor Floss

Others

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Cassios

Voiced By: Banjo Ginga (JP)

• Ax Crazy
• Dark Skinned Blond
• Dumb Muscle: Didn't even know about the cosmos when he fought Seiya the first time. Seiya even called him dumb.
• Ear Ache: Got his cut by Seiya on their fight for the Pegasus Cloth.
• Hellish Pupils
• Heroic Sacrifice: Not for Seiya, mind you, but to avoid Shaina the pain of losing the man she love.
• Mauve Shirt
• Muscles Are Meaningless: Because the Cosmos is everything.
• Not Drawn to Scale: He get's pretty big at times during the first episode. When the twelve Houses arc rolled around they found a more realistic height.
• The Brute
• Pet the Dog: He truly cared for his Sexy Mentor Shaina.

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Jaki

• Dark Skinned Blond
• Disney Villain Death
• Evil Scars
• Giant Mook
• Loves the Sound of Screaming
• Muscles Are Meaningless
• One Scene Wonder: With Marin.

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Gigars (Anime Only)

• Brainwashing: What he did to the Crystal Saint.
• Brother Chuck: Where the HELL did he go?
• Evil Chancellor
• Evil Mentor: To Phaeton.
• Eyepatch of Power: It's actually a freaking diamond.
• Yes Man

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Kiki

• Bratty Half Pint
• Distressed Dude: To be fair, he is much younger than the teenaged Saints.
• Facial Markings
• Human Subspecies: He's Lemurian.
• Psychic Powers
• Tagalong Kid
• Trickster
• Say My Name: MU-SAMA!

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Miho

Voiced by: Naoko Watanabe (JP)

• Girlish Pigtails
• Shy Blue Haired Girl
• Team Mom: She chose to stay at the orphanage she was raised in and become this to the children there.
• Tsundere: When young.
  • Yamato Nadeshiko: When older.
• Unlucky Childhood Friend: To Seiya.

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Mitsumasa Kido

• Abusive Parents: And how, considering that the Saints are his biological kids (manga) or his pupils (anime)...
• Kansas City Shuffle: In the manga he changes the appearance of the Sagittarius Cloth on purpose, to the point that the Silver Saints think it is a fake.
• Really Gets Around: Well, he fathered all those young Saints to different women...
  • Well, he could have also asked them to go through artificial insemination. Which is Truth in Television: more than one really old guy and his girlfriend/wife/female donor/etc. uses this as a safer alternative.
• Screw the Rules I Have Money: He holds the Galactic Tournament and reveals the Saints to the world, much to the cringe of Sanctuary. They don't take it well.
• Secret Keeper
• The Chessmaster
• Well Intentioned Extremist See Abusive Parents. Not that he was happy about it.

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Seika

• Break the Cutie
• Cool Big Sis: To Seiya and Miho, before It Got Worse for the three.
• Disappeared Older Sister: To Seiya. So much, that Saori used her image to rope a reluctant Seiya into joining the tournament.
• Easy Amnesia --> Identity Amnesia
• Waif Prophet: What she became with time.
• Yuriko Yamamoto (Classic Seika)
  • Satsuki Yukino (Non-classic Seika)

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Shunrei

• Anime Chinese Girl
• Distressed Damsel: Not her fault, though.
• Dub Name Change: "Fior di Loto"(Lothus' Flower) in Italian, probably a literal translation of her name.
• Implied Love Interest: Of Shiryu.
• Names the Same: Her name in Chinese is actually pronounced "Chun-Li", same as the Street Fighter II character (same Kanji even), but most fans stick to the Japanese pronunciation to avoid confusion.
• Plucky Girl: Has her moments, specially in the anime.
• Shower Scene: The only one in the entire series to feature a girl.
• Supreme Chef
• The Power of Love: Her prayers reached out to Shiryu while he was in the Land of Spirits.
• Yamato Nadeshiko

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Esmeralda

• Abusive Parents: In the anime, she was Master Guilty's daughter. In the manga, she was a mere slave girl sold to Guilty's crew.
• Beauty Equals Goodness
• Break the Cutie
  • Kill the Cutie
• Florence Nightingale Effect: With Ikki.
• Identical Stranger: A genderflipped and blonde Shun. Lampshaded by Esmeralda and ikki themselves.

Esmeralda: What, Ikki? You thought I was your little brother again? Ikki: Ah yeah, sorry about that. You guys look alike so much, except for your hair and eye color...

• Innocent Blue Eyes
• Innocent Flower Girl
• Evil Mentor's Beautiful daughter (anime)
• The Lost Lenore: To Ikki in the Anime.
• The Medic
• Morality Pet: To Ikki.
• Offing the Offspring: Anime-only.
• Star Crossed Lovers: With Ikki, sort of.
• Too Good for This Sinful Earth
• Yamato Nadeshiko

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Eurydice

Voiced By: Rossy Aguirre (Latin America)

• Black Eyes of Evil: Averted, she's not a villain at all.
• Brooding Boy Gentle Girl: With Orpheus.
• Hair of Gold
• I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: Felt guilty that Orpheus was always sad and won't leave her side after death.
• Star Crossed Lovers: With Orpheus.
• Taken for Granite: Only partially. It's kind of weird.

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Tatsumi

• Anti Hero: type III
• Bald of Jerkass
• Battle Butler: He is apparently good at kendo. Not that it does him any good in a show where superpowered boys are the rule.
• Characterization Marches On: See the tropes below.
• The Chew Toy
• Dumb Muscle: He's pretty strong and will fight for Miss Saori even if the odds are stacked against him, but not too smart.
• Good Is Not Nice
• Kick the Dog: Beats young Ikki pretty bad by tying him upside-down with a kendo stick and kept telling him that his sacrifice of going to Death Queen Island doesn't matter since Shun was going to a worse place.
  • The Dog Bites Back: When Ikki comes back six years later with a fiery entrance and makes a vow before the crowd to make him pay for what he's done.
• Jerkass: He brutally abused the kids at first, specially Ikki.
  • Jerk With a Heart of Gold: But he genuinely cared for Saori, whom he helped raise after Mitsumasa Kido's death.
• My Master Right or Wrong: Follows Mitsumasa Kido and later Saori Kido through the 100 orphan controversyand when Sanctuary was going after Saori for being a False Athena.
• Oh Crap: His reaction when he sees Ikki really survived Death Queen Island.
• Took a Level In Kindness: He started the series being an abusive jerk, he develops a more likeable personality towards the saints as the series advances.
• Secret Keeper: Always knew that Saori was Athena, and kept his mouth shut per Kido's instructions.

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Ohko (Anime Only)

• Animal Motifs: Tiger
• Cain and Abel: In the childhood friends sense, to Shiryu.
• Delinquent
• Died in Your Arms Tonight: Shiryu's.
• Filler Villain
• Kazuhiko Inoue
• Redemption Equals Death
• Red Oni Blue Oni: Red to Shiryu's blue.
• The Rival: To Shiryu.
• Tiger Versus Dragon

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Little Helen (Anime Only)

• Break the Cutie: Poor little girl has it rough. Surprisingly, she manages to bounce back and get better.
• Girlish Pigtails
• Heroic Bystander
• The Ingenue
• Innocent Blue Eyes
• Plucky Girl: This is the girl who, after helplessly watching her grandfather's murder at the hands of Shiva and Agora and being thrown alive inside a burning volcano, manages to hold on the burning rock walls and climb her way up, which gives a dying Ikki his Heroic Resolve back..
• Women in Refrigerators Thankfully averted: Shiva and Agora do invoke the trope and try to fridge her with the volcano deal, but she survives.
• What the Hell Hero: Tries to deal it to Shiva and Agora. It backfires.
• Yamato Nadeshiko: Despite being Greek.

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Natasha

Voiced by: Akiko Tsuboi (JP) and Dorothée Jemma (FR)

• Blue Eyes
• Hair of Gold
• Hot Mom
• Human Popsicle
• Posthumous Character: In every version except the Di C dub. which case she's...
  • Cursed: While trying to protect young Hyoga, an evil sorcerer attacked. She was so weak and alas they were too strong. Now she sleeps in the bottom of the ocean awaiting the day that her beloved son, Hyoga will win the Gold Cloth and use its power to wake her up. Believe it or not, this is the summary that Hyoga gave while using his surfer accent.
• The Lost Lenore: To Hyoga.
• Yamato Nadeshiko

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Jacob

• Blue Eyes
• Break the Cutie: Anime-only, when Crystal went Brainwashed and Crazy and enslaved everyone in the village. Jacob managed to escape and broke down in tears when Hyoga came to help him. He manages to get better, though.
• Cheerful Child
• Cute Shotaro Boy
• Innocent Bystander
• Tagalong Kid