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These are the characters from the manga/anime series Saint Seiya: The Lost Canvas.

• The Character Sheet for Saint Seiya (Classic) can be found here.
• The Character Sheet for Saint Seiya Episode G can be found here.
• The Character Sheet for Saint Seiya: Next Dimension can be found here.
• The Character Sheet for Saint Seiya Omega can be found here.

Some Spoilers are not masked.

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Bronze Saints

Pegasus Tenma

Voiced by: Tetsuya Kakihara (JP)

• Back From the Dead: When Alone killed him in the first battle of the Holy War; thanks to Athena's divine protection in the flower leash, his soul was kept alive and subsequently rescued by Yato and Yuzuriha from Yomotsu Hirasaka.
• Break the Cutie: Not very rare. Learning that the place where he grew up was ravaged by Specters and that his childhoold friend is behind it all. Aldebaran's death, while he was unconscious. Dohko's apparent death, and the fact that he blames himself (and Degel doesn't help by agreeing that it's his fault). Yato and Yuzuriha turning into stone. Finding himself face to face with his beloved mother, who came back as a Specter.
• Brown Eyes
• The Chosen One: According to legends, the Pegasus Saint is always a key character in the Holy Wars against Hades, so everyone seems to think Tenma is some kind of chosen one and must make it through the war and face Hades. Tenma initially seems to think this means he's Blessed with Suck.
  • Attack Animal: Youma sees him as this, and intends to harvest his soul to use it as a weapon against Olympus.
• Dark and Troubled Past
• Determinator
• Disappeared Dad: Until he resurfaced as a major villain.
  • Divine Parentage: Son of a rogue Time God.
• Enemy Mine: He ends up fighting Partita alongside Pandora (although she claims he will be the next one to die). After he saves her life and protects her, they become almost friendly towards each other. Still enemies, though.
• Expy: Of Seiya.
• Germany: Country of origin. More specifically, Pandora's castle.
  • He was taken to an orphanage in Italy and grew up there, however. As accordng to daddy's plans.
• The Hero
  • Hurting Hero
• Heroic Sacrifice: Alongside Sasha and Alone, to banish Hades back into the Underworld and keep him trapped there.
• Hot-Blooded
• I Gave My Word: Takes this very seriously.
• Meaningful Name: Tenma means "Heaven's steed". Chosen by Youma as he knew his son was the reincarnation of the legendary Pegasus Saint.
• Rapid-Fire Fisticuffs: Both his signature moves consist on this.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: Red to Alone.
• Shonen Hair
• Three Amigos: With Yato and Yuzuriha. Also with Alone and Sasha.
  • Vitriolic Best Buds: With Yato.
• Took a Level In Badass: Many times, but especially after his Training From Hell with Defteros.
• Used to Be a Sweet Kid

Unicorn Yato

Voiced by: Atsushi Abe (JP)

• Action Survivor
  • Brought Down to Normal: At the end.
• Blue Eyes
• Break the Cutie: In the Forest of the Dead, when tricked into believing that Tenma and Yuzuriha were killed.
  • Roaring Rampage of Revenge: And this is where we first truly see that he really loves them, as he goes beyond his own limits to "avenge" them. Doubles as a Crowning Moment of Awesome and Heartwarming.
• Butt Monkey
• Catch Phrase: "The great Yato..."
• Determinator: Even though he knows his own limitations, he won't give up until the very end.
• Dying Moment of Awesome
  • Taken for Granite: Reverted by Athena.
• Expy: Of Jabu.
  • Ascended Extra: To one of the main characters.
• I Just Want to Be Special: As a kid, when he used to dream of being a "hero".
  • Jumped At the Call: When his older sister falls ill and he tries to take her to town to see a medic, they're attack by a Specter, and kid Yato tries to fight him despite being a child with zero experience! Big Damn Hero Scorpio Kardia shows up to save the day and (after the older sister is cured) takes Yato with him to the Sanctuary to become a Saint, something the young boy seems very eager about.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold
• The Lancer
• Shonen Hair
• Three Amigos: With Tenma and Yuzuriha.
  • Vitriolic Best Buds: With Tenma.

Wolf Junkers, Lionet Bleriot, Bear Douglas and Hydra Curtis

• Determinators
• Expy: Of Wolf Nachi, Lionet Ban, Bear Geki and Hydra Ichi.
  • Ascended Extras: Especially with Wolf Junkers. Dude must be embarrassed with his successor.
• Four Man Band
  • The Hero: Wolf Junkers.
  • The Lancer: Lionet Bleriot.
  • The Big Guy, also Load-Bearing Hero: Bear Douglas.
  • The Smart Guy: Hydra Curtis. Sacrificed paving the way through wild thorns.
• Heroic Sacrifices: To activate the Ship of Hope.
  • Dead People Conversation: To Tenma and Yato.
• The Power of Friendship: Wolf Junkers rants about it quite a few times.

Silver Saints

Crane Yuzuriha

Voiced by: Sanae Kobayashi (JP)

• Action Girl
• Action Survivor
  • Brought Down to Normal: At the end.
• Dead Little Brother: Hanuman Tokusa, a Specter.
  • Cain and Abel
• Green Eyes
• Hair of Gold
• Expy: Of Hyoga, in a really vague way. She has, at least, killed someone close to her, which was practically a Running Gag for Hyoga. The personalities are also similar.
  • The Cloths. They're both based on birds.
• Facial Markings
• Hot Amazon
  • Mask Power: Even if she hates wearing it.
  • Screw the Rules, I'm Beautiful: Doesn't have a problem with showing people her face.
• Ms. Fanservice
  • Absolute Cleavage
  • Bare Your Midriff
  • Sarashi
  • Show Some Leg
• Psychic Powers
• Scarf of Asskicking
• Ship Tease: The anime, especially, likes to hint at Shion/Yuzuriha.
• The Stoic
  • Stoic Woobie
• Taken for Granite: Reverted by Athena.
• Three Amigos: With Tenma and Yato.
• Zettai Ryouiki

Altar Hakurei

Voiced by: Kenyuu Horiuchi (JP)

• Badass Grandpa: Moreso than his brother Sage.
  • Badass Long Hair
  • Retired Badass
  • Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?: Hypnos.
• The Blacksmith: Very skilled in the art of fixing Cloths.
• Blood Knight: Implied in chapter 88, downright confirmed in following chapters.
• Cool Old Guy
  • Old Master: To Shion, Yuzuriha, Tokusa and Atla.
• Facial Markings
• Mentor Archetype: To Tenma and co.
• Shirtless Scene
  • Grandpa What Massive Hotness You Have
• Survivor Guilt: Being one of the survivors of the previous Holy War.
• Twin Switch: As he and Sage are twins and he isn't very well-known, preferring to work behind the scenes, he poses as his brother after the latter's death, so the morale of the army won't decay over the loss of its leader.

Cerberus, Auriga and Sagitta

• Adaptation Expansion: The anime shows them on the trail of Skeleton Soldiers in Italy, on a mission to locate the Forest Cathedral.
  • Batman Gambit: Pandora lured them into a trap. She knew they would leave at least one Skeleton alive so he would run back into the Forest Cathedral and they could follow it and discover the location; the moment they arrive there, however, they're immediatly surrounded by strong Specters and killed.
• Back From the Dead
  • Brainwashed and Crazy: Brought back by Hades, they were used as puppets in an attempt to kill Athena.
  • Fighting From the Inside: Though they're forced by Hades's power to attack Athena, they're internally struggling against it.
• Expy: Of Cerberus Dante, Auriga Capella and Sagitta Ptolemy.
  • No Name Given
• Sacrificial Lambs
• Tears of Blood: Cerberus, asking for Athena's forgiveness upon being freed of Hades's power (that is, mortally wounded).
• Three Amigos
• Weapon of Choice
  • Epic Flail: Cerberus.
  • Rain of Arrows: Sagitta, and no they are not just Annoying Arrows.
  • Deadly Disc: Auriga.

Vela Tsubaki, Puppis Lacaille (and Pyxis Rusk)

• Adaptation Expansion: Their roles are expanded in the anime (they're given names, to begin with...)
• Backstory: Lacaille, in the Capricorn Anecdotes.
• Combination Attack: On Oneiros. It didn’t work since Oneiros is a Dream God.
  • Broke Your Arm Punching Out Cthulhu
• Honor Before Reason
• Mauve Shirts
• Token Trio
  • The Hero: Vela Tsubaki.
  • The Lancer: Puppis Lacaille.
  • The Chick: Pyxis Rusk (who is really a Bronze Saint).
  • Fourth Ranger: Pakia (who decided not to become a Saint at the last minute).

Gold Saints

Aries Shion

Voiced by: Shinichiro Miki (JP)

• Badass Long Hair
  • You Gotta Have Green Hair
• Barrier Warrior: He still has really powerful offensive abilities however.
• Big Damn Heroes: Pulls one saving Agasha from Minos. Too bad Shion himself is almost killed by Minos and needs another Big Damn Heroes moment to ensue (see Albafica's entry).
• The Blacksmith: He REALLY enjoys learning the history of each Cloth he repairs.
• Brown Eyes
• Combination Attack: With Sisyphus and Regulus.
• Every Scar Has a Story: Two important scars. One in the back of his neck from when he was almost beheaded by Balron René as a child; another in his arm, inflicted by Hakurei shortly after in order to pour some blood into the dying boy.
  • Good Scars, Evil Scars
• Facial Markings
• Psychic Powers: To lift Pisces Albafica's dead body.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: Blue to Dohko.
• Ship Tease: The anime, especially, likes to hint at Shion/Yuzuriha.
• Teleportation
• The Stoic
  • Not So Stoic: Went absolutely batshit when Alone killed Hakurei.

Taurus Aldebaran/Rasgado

Voiced by: Tomokazu Sugita (JP)

• Badass Long Hair
  • You Gotta Have Gray Hair
• Badass Boast: When confronted by Spectres and told he's outnumbered, lacking the advantage Albafica had and can't win, he crosses him arms and says he will fight them ALL as is. He backs it up (in a single attack and never unfolding his arms)!
  • Badass Arm-Fold
• Determinator
• Died Standing Up
• Expy: Of Aldebaran (original).
• Gentle Giant
• Green Eyes
  • Eye Scream: Courtesy of Kagaho.
• Honor Before Reason
• Implacable Man
• Lightning Bruiser: Burly, strong AND the fastest of all the Gold Saints.
• Meaningful Name: Rasgado means 'torn'.
  • Spell My Name with an "S": Rasgado or Hasgard?
• Mentor Archetype: To Regulus, Dohko, Tenma, Teneo, Salo and Celintha.
• That Man Is Dead: In a variation of this, Aldebaran claimed that he abandoned his real name, Rasgado, to dedicate himself to being a Saint. Thus he adopted 'Aldebaran', the name of one of the stars in the Taurus constellation.
• The Worf Effect: Averted.

Gemini Defteros

• The Atoner
• Badass Long Hair
  • You Gotta Have Blue Hair
• Dark-Skinned and Blue-Haired
• Expy: Of Kanon. Appearance-wise, of Guilty.
• Fusion Dance
• Heroic Sacrifice
  • Thanatos Gambit
  • Redemption Equals Death: Not personal redemption, but to redeem Aspros instead.
• I'm a Humanitarian
• Jerkass Facade
• Magma Man
  • Lava Adds Awesome
• Meaningful Name: Defteros means "second one", signifying his status as the 2nd twin.
  • Spell My Name with an "S": Defteros or Deuteros.
• Paper-Thin Disguise: Originally, he's portrayed as an Expy of Guilty from the original series, but just about everyone could tell he was really an Expy of Gemini, just not exactly which one.
• Sink or Swim Mentor: He's one of these to Tenma.
  • Training From Hell: Almost literally.
• Spanner in the Works

Gemini Aspros

• The Atoner
• Back for the Dead: First revived by Hades, then come back again after his first fight against Mephistopheles Youma.
  • Living on Borrowed Time
• Broken Pedestal
• Evil Twin
• Expy: Of Saga.
• Fusion Dance
• Jerkass Facade
• Meaningful Name: Means "white". Somewhat ironic.
  • Spell My Name with an "S": Aspros or Asperos?
• Paint It Black: While he was under the influence of his own Demon Fist and at the service of Hades.
• Redemption Equals Death
• Sir Swearsalot
• Spanner in the Works: To Youma/Kairos.
  • Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?
• Tears of Blood
• You Gotta Have Blue Hair

Cancer Manigoldo

Voiced by: Daisuke Ono (JP)

• Badass
• Big Damn Heroes: Shows up and saves Tenma, Yato and Yuzuriha when they're completely surrounded by Veronica's horde of zombies.
• Dead Person Conversation: To Shion and Tenma.
• Deadpan Snarker
• Death by Flashback
• Dynamic Entry: "I'm sorry, queeny, but your dolls are going back to the Underworld now!"
  • How he meets up with Thanatos and Hypnos.
• Expy: Of Deathmask.
• Evil Counterpart: To Tenma, although he isn't really evil. Both are young men raised in Italy who lost their families very early on, faced a difficult life, were recruited by Gold Saints, brought into the Sanctuary to train and ultimately became talented Saints themselves. Lampshaded by Athena and Pope Sage.
  • Jerk with a Heart of Gold
• Fastball Special: Pulled this on Yato.
• Foe Yay: With Veronica.
• Four Is Death: Fourth zodiacal sign, represented by a guy who sees spirits and whose power is deeply related to death and supernatural.
  • I See Dead People: Since a young age.
• Sociopathic Hero: Hinted at.
  • Blood Knight
• Italy: Country of origin.
• Meaningful Name: Means "Rascal" or "Rogue".
• Playing with Fire: One of his techniques.
  • Technicolor Fire
• Sir Swearsalot
• Sole Survivor: In the anime, he is revealed to be the Sole Survivor of a massacre in his hometown.
• Thanatos Gambit: On Thanatos himself, ha!
  • Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?
  • Go Out with a Smile
  • Taking You with Me: To Thanatos. Or rather his physical body.
• Troubled but Cute: He sure would wear a jacket and ride a motorcycle a if he lived nowadays.
• You Gotta Have Blue Hair

Leo Ilias

• Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: By Rhadamanthys's horn.
• Incurable Cough of Death
• Nature Hero
• Posthumous Character
• Rapid-Fire Fisticuffs
  • Death of a Thousand Cuts
  • Shock and Awe
• Retired Badass
  • Back in the Saddle: Agrees on donning the Leo Cloth and fighting as a Saint one last time.
• Take Care of My Son: Knowing that he won't survive, he entrusts child Regulus to Aldebaran.

Leo Regulus

• All Your Powers Combined: His trump card is a technique consisting of the signature moves of all the Gold Saints combined. But also deconstructed, leading to....
  • Heroic RROD
  • Hoist by His Own Petard: He wasn't planning on this technique to be too powerful to handle, killing him in the process.
• Badass Adorable
• Berserk Button: Wyvern Rhadamanthys, his father's murderer.
• Bishounen
• Blue Eyes: Of the Innocent Blue Eyes variation, normally. Unless he's using his signature ability.
  • Hellish Pupils: One of the good alignment examples.
• Brainy Brunette: Said and proven to be a battle genius.
  • Genius Bruiser
  • Mega Manning and Awesomeness By Analysis: Nothing escapes him. Once he sees an attack, he's able to fully understand how it works and proceed to perform it better than its original user.
• Child Prodigy: Discovered to be one during early trainings.
  • Teen Hero: The same age as Tenma and Yato, i.e. significantly younger than the other Gold Saints.
• Combination Attack: With Shion and Sisyphus.
• Cute Little Fangs: As a little child.
• Death by Flashback
  • Go Out with a Smile
  • Let Them Die Happy: Rhadamanthys Faking the Dead so Regulus could die happy as he vanished. Regulus did, however, kill the godly part of Rhadamanthys and left him almost dead entirely, as stated by Alone.
• Expy: Of Aiolia.
• Ho Yay and Foe Yay: With Rhadamanthys on the first page of chapter 200.
  • Oh God. Both of them fighting naked in a full page color splash.
  • And with Violate.
• Meaningful Name: Regulus is the brightest star in the Leo constellation.
• Nice Guy: Easily one of the nicest Gold Saints.
• Perpetual Smiler: Most of the time.
  • Stepford Smiler: To some extent. Type A.
• Rapid-Fire Fisticuffs: His signature offensive consists on a storm of punches delivered so fast they look like beams of light.
  • Death of a Thousand Cuts: ...and may lead to this.
  • Shock and Awe
• Shirtless Scene
• Shonen Hair

Virgo Asmita

Voiced by: Akira Ishida (JP)

• Barrier Warrior: Capable of deflecting attacks with his Hāṃ barrier.
• Badass Long Hair
• Blind Seer: Unlike Shaka, he really is blind.
  • Eyes Always Shut: He opens them just before he dies.
• Dead Person Conversation: To Defteros.
• Expy: Of Shaka.
• Face Heel Turn: Makes a threat to, but never actually does.
  • Blond Guys Are Evil: Subverted. He was just "playing" at being evil.
• Facial Markings
• Good Is Not Nice
  • Jerk with a Heart of Gold: An absolute ass to Tenma, but hey, he sacrificed his life so that they could kill Specters normally.
• Heroic Sacrifice: Gave his life to make the rosary that kills Specters.
• Lotus Position
• Master of Illusion
• Meaningful Name: Means "That which is not what it appears to be".
• Meditating Under a Waterfall: Of blood.
• Meditation Powerup
• Power Floats
• Thanatos Gambit: By way of the specter-sealing rosary, that is Powered by a Forsaken Child.
• Tranquil Fury

Libra Dohko

Voiced by: Kenta Miyake (JP)

• Big Brother Mentor: To Tenma. He even calls Tenma his younger brother.
• Bishounen
• De-Power: In order to fulfill his role as guardian of the Sealed Land until the next Holy War begins, he is given the Misopethamenos, a technique that greatly extends his lifespan, but severely weakens him physically.
• Hot-Blooded
• Meaningful Name: Means "child tiger".
• Power Tattoo
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: Red to Shion.
• Shirtless Scene: Fairly prone to this.
  • Just like Shiryu, heh.
• Shonen Hair
• Weapons Kitchen Sink: The Libra Cloth has twelve (yes, twelve) weapons.
  • Dual-Wielding: Six kinds of weapons, that is.
  • Heroes Prefer Swords: Used against Minotaur Gordon.
  • Luckily, My Shield Will Protect Me: Used... well, always.
  • Prongs of Poseidon: Type 4 ...maybe? Used against Alone. It didn't work, but he wasn't aiming for the kill anyways.

Scorpio Kardia

Voiced by: Koji Yusa (JP)

• Badass Long Hair
  • You Gotta Have Blue Hair
• Big Damn Heroes: Shows up to save child Yato from a huge Specter and takes him along to the Sanctuary to train and become a Saint.
  • Eccentric Mentor: Usually, the Saint who takes a newcomer to the Sanctuary (one way or another) is the one who trains him (Taurus Aldebaran, Libra Dohko, even Pope Sage), so he's implied to be this to Yato.
• Bishounen
• Died Standing Up
  • Go Out with a Smile
  • Never Found the Body
  • Obi-Wan Moment
• Expy: Of Milo.
• Foe Yay: With Rhadamanthys. "You're the first to ignite the flame in my heart..." Yeah, you can't get any more obvious than that.
• Sociopathic Hero
  • Also shows signs of being a Psychopathic Manchild: Type B.
  • Blood Knight: Even more than Manigoldo.
  • Combat Sadomasochist
  • Dissonant Laughter: All the time, even when he’s having his heart ripped off.
  • To the Pain
• Heterosexual Life Partners: Hinted with Degel.
• Hot-Blooded: Almost too literally.
  • Playing with Fire: Leads to Suicide Attack.
• I Am Not Right Handed
• Living on Borrowed Time: He received a drop of Athena's blood the age of 10 to prolong his life, since then he was given the choice of longevity through Misopethamenos or suffer the burn of the divine blood until his ultimate death. No points for guessing what he choose.
  • Deadly Upgrade: Because it's Cast From Lifespan. But he did not mind it at all.
  • The Hedonist
• Meaningful Name: Kardia means 'heart' which refers to his degenerative heart disease.
• Parental Abandonment: His parents simply dumped him in a public hospital upon learning he was terminally ill.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: Red to Degel's Blue
• Trademark Favorite Food: Apples.

Sagittarius Sisyphus

Voiced by: Hirofumi Nojima (JP)

• Angst Coma: Hypnos gets him trapped deep inside the Dream World as soon as he falls into a coma, but he doesn't make any effort to get out. Out of guilt (see entry below).
• The Archer: Bundled with the Sagittarius Cloth, couldn't be otherwise.
  • Rain of Arrows
• Bishounen
• Bodyguard Crush: Strongly implied to be in love with Sasha.
• Combination Attack: Twice. Once with El Cid, the other instance with Shion and Regulus.
• Determinator: His eyes were blinded, his body was broken, his heart ripped out, his consciousness fading away, but through sheer willpower, his body still moves and is able to perform the Athena Exclamation.
• Expy: Of Aiolos.
• Eye Scream
  • Disability Superpower: Reaches the eighth sense through it, allowing him to defeat Aiacos.
  • Handicapped Badass
• Good Wings, Evil Wings
  • Start of Darkness: Athena manages to counter it.
• Hoist by His Own Petard: Alone shoots his own arrow back at him.
• I Will Definitely Protect You: Says this to Athena after snapping out of his Angst Coma.
• It's All My Fault: Thinks it was him who caused the Holy War by taking away Athena from Hades' side.
  • Stupid Good: Even worse than Aldebaran. He let Sphinx Pharaoh rip his heart out just to prove that he was completely loyal to Athena when he could have kicked his ass easily (I mean, if he manages to do it without his heart in place...). Even if he does manage to perform Athena's Exclamation to allow everybody else to pass as a last stand, it still feels like a pointless death.
• Meaningful Name: Sisyphus was a king punished by the Gods for his arrogance: they made him roll a boulder up a hill to redeem himself, but before the boulder got to the top, it would always roll back down, no matter how many times he tried.
• The Obi-Wan: To Leo Regulus, his nephew.
• Power Fist: Although he does have a named technique, his most effective attack to date is an unnamed Cosmo-infused Power Fist.
• Shonen Hair

Capricorn El Cid

Voiced by: Kazuya Nakai (JP)

• Absurdly Sharp Blade: In the form of his arms infused with his cosmos.
  • Razor Wind and Sword Beam
• Badass Spaniard
  • Handicapped Badass: Lost his right hand and part of his right arm, suffers of blood loss and shock, but still manages to defeat the dream gods.
• Combination Attack: With Sisyphus.
• Determinator
  • Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?
• Hoist by His Own Petard: He loses his right hand after his signature attack is reflected towards him.
• Expy: Of Shura.
• Major Injury Underreaction: Not a single ouch when his arm is cut off. Icelus taunts him about this, to no avail.
• Named After Somebody Famous: After Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar or El Cid Campeador, the famous Spanish soldier and General who fought against the Moors.
• Taking the Bullet: He is killed by Oneiros's self-destruction while pushing the dream god away so the explosion couldn't reach and kill Tenma as Oneiros intended.
• The Stoic

Aquarius Degel

Voiced by: Daisuke Hirakawa (JP)

• An Ice Person
• Beneath the Mask: Although he tries so hard to act cold and distant - to some success when interacting with people who aren't very close to him - deep down he's somewhat passionate and impulsive.
  • Berserk Button: His aloof demeanour is magically gone if someone close to him is injured or in trouble.
  • Sugar and Ice Personality
• Bishounen
• Cultured Warrior
  • Badass Bookworm
  • Stoic Spectacles: They come with being a Hot Librarian
• Expy: Of Camus, with elements from Hyoga and Isaac.
• Grim Up North: Where he spent his childhood.
• Heterosexual Life Partners: Hinted with Kardia.
• Human Popsicle: Degel freezes himself and Seraphina along with the entire city of Atlantis in order to prevent Poseidon's awakening.
  • Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?
• Meaningful Name: It means "to thaw" or "to unfreeze". A subtle reference to his true nature, and how his stern facade "unfreezes" when personal matters are involved.
• Purple Eyes
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: The Blue to Kardia's Red
• Ship Tease: His affection towards Seraphina, especially in his anecdote.
• You Gotta Have Green Hair

Pisces Albafica

Voiced by: Hiroshi Kamiya (JP)

• Big Damn Heroes: When Shion's death at the hands of Minos seemed certain... Albafica resurfaces, covered in blood and ready for more!
• Bishounen
  • Beauty Is Never Tarnished: He is beaten to a bloody pulp, but he's still handsome as ever.
  • Beauty Mark
• Cast From Hit Points: His Crimson Throne technique, and a variation with his white rose attack which he used upon himself first before using it to fatally poison Minos.
  • Bloody Murder
• Exactly What I Aimed At: Defeats Minos by hiding one attack under another flashier one.
• Expy: Of Aphrodite.
• Foe Yay: With Minos.
• I Just Want to Be Normal: At times, in the Gaiden chapters.
• Meaningful Name: It means "White Flowers".
• Mood Swinger: Especially in the manga.
  • Kuudere
• Poisonous Person: His blood is poisonous.
  • Acquired Poison Immunity
  • Power Incontinence
• Something About a Rose
  • Flechette Storm: Of roses.
• Taking You with Me
  • Heroic Sacrifice
  • Sacrificial Lion
• You Gotta Have Blue Hair

Specters

Underworld Judges

Wyvern Rhadamanthys

• Bishounen
  • Even with a Big Ol' Unibrow
• Blond Guys Are Evil
• Determinator
  • Implacable Man: Survived getting pierced and his heart burnt by Kardia; getting part of his chest ripped out by Regulus; and survived long enough, after being cut in half by Alone, to unseal Athena's power, and still save Pandora as his last act as an Specter.
• Disney Death: TWICE. First, on his fight against Scorpio Kardia, then on his fight with Leo Regulus.
  • Came Back Wrong
• The Dragon: To Pandora.
• Enemy Mine
• Good Wings, Evil Wings
• Half the Man He Used To Be
• Ho Yay and Foe Yay: With Leo Regulus on the first page of chapter 200.
  • Both of them fighting naked in a full page color splash.
• Noble Demon: Almost lovely when compared to the likes of Minos and Aiacos.
  • Saving Pandora from Alone's attack, after he was already missing half his body.
• Power-Up: Became a Physical God after being infused with Alone's blood.
  • De-Power: His god-like state was overpowered and destroyed by Regulus at the cost of his own life, reverting Rhadamanthys back into a common Specter.
• Shonen Hair
• Three Amigos
• Undying Loyalty: To Hades, and only Hades.
  • My Master, Right or Wrong: With regard to Hades.
• Villainous Valour
• You Killed My Father: Regulus's reason to fight him.

Griffin Minos

Voiced by: Takahiro Sakurai (JP)

• Advancing Boss of Doom: He effortlessly slays all of the Saints and soldiers who appear in his way trying to stop him as he advances towards the Sanctuary. Albafica's poisonous garden halts him, eventually.
• Ax Crazy
• Badass Long Hair
  • White-Haired Pretty Boy
• Bishounen
• Blow You Away: A very, very destructive version.
• Complete Monster: Fits all the requirements perfectly.
• Foe Yay: With Albafica.
• Good Wings, Evil Wings
• People Puppets: His technique Cosmic Marionettion gives him free control over the victim's body through energy strings. He can manipulate them or simply break them. Slowly.
• Purple Eyes
• Slasher Smile
• Three Amigos
• Villainous Breakdown: Upon realizing he was just lethally poisoned, he loses control and tries to destroy everything and everyone around him.
  • Taking You with Me: Attempted, but failed. Thwarted by Shion.
• What Measure Is a Mook?: Has no trouble sending those under his command to certain death against Albafica.
• Would Hurt a Child: He was about to murder a child looking her in the eye before Shion arrived.

Garuda Aiacos / Suikyo

• Ascended Extra: Of sorts. He was far from extra-status in the original series, but no one can deny that he is much more developed here.
• Bishounen
• Brought Down to Normal: After his defeat, he is demoted from the Judge title and depowered.
• Cast From Sacrifice: Two of his moves work like this. He doesn't risk his life, though; he prefers to take the lives of his underlings and use them as human sacrifices to unleash the said attacks.
• Good Wings, Evil Wings
• Glass Cannon: Terrifically strong, quite fast (and quite fast to attack with terrifically strong techniques), but kinda fragile when one manages to land a hit on him. When Sisyphus is finally able to hit him, it's One Hit KO.
• Playing with Fire
• Sarcastic Clapping: When the Saints manage to activate the Ship of Hope.
• Three Amigos
• Villainous Breakdown: A minor one.
• What Measure Is a Mook?: Has no trouble killing his own troops to scare Athena's army.
  • A Million Is a Statistic

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Other Specters

Alraune Queen

• Combat Tentacles: The vines in his Surplice act this way.
• Gender Blender Name: Yes, a male named Queen.
• Mercy Kill: He claims to have killed his partner Gordon so he wouldn't have to live with the humiliation of having been defeated and rendered powerless.
• The Nose Knows: He's able to smell blood to the point of distinguishing the particular odor of each person's blood. That's how he discovers that Dohko is hiding a vial with Athena's blood, and that the Gold Saint himself was infused with the divine blood.
• Off with His Head: His preferred method of killing. He does this to countless soldiers in the Sanctuary and attempts to finish Dohko this way.
  • Also the way he kills Minotaur Gordon.
• Razor Wind: His signature move seems to consist on this.

Balron René

• Badass Long Robe
• Disproportionate Retribution: Could be summarized as: "You don't know immediatly if you wanna come with me, so I'm gonna slash your neck and leave you bleeding to death".
• Evil Counterpart: Arguably, to Shion.
  • Not So Different: He really sees a lot of himself in Shion.
• Silence, You Fool: Almost his catchphrase. The guy really cherishes silence.
• Scary Librarian
  • Badass Bookworm
• Spell My Name with an "S": René? Rune? Lune?
• We Can Rule Together: Proposed this to a young Shion because he saw a bit of himself in the boy. He didn't take it well when a hesitant Shion asked some time to think about it.
  • Proposes it again in the Lost Canvas and Shion turns him down immediatly.
• Whip It Good
• White-Haired Pretty Boy
• Would Hurt a Child: Had no qualms about mortally injuring child Shion.

Basilisk Sylphid

• Bear Hug: Deconstructed. Dohko kills him with one.
• Elite Mook: Said to be one of Rhadamanthys's best soldiers, alongside Valentine.
• Evil Counterpart: To Albafica, according to Dohko.
• Foe Yay: With Dohko, a lot.
• Good Wings, Evil Wings
• Ineffectual Loner: Villainous version.
• Lonely At the Top: His natural ability is enourmously strong... so much that it kills anyone near him. His Undying Loyalty to Rhadamanthys is due to Rhadamanthys being the only one he ever met who's strong enough to not be affected by his poison.
• Poisonous Person
  • Battle Aura: Manifests as a lethally poisonous wind.
  • Blow You Away: Especially dangerous since it's a venomous version.
  • Instant Death Radius: His poisonous aura does the trick.
  • Walking Wasteland
• Undying Loyalty: To Rhadamanthys.
• White-Haired Pretty Boy

Behemoth Violate

Voiced by: Takako Honda (JP)

• Blood Knight
• Covered with Scars
  • Good Scars, Evil Scars
• Dark Action Girl
• Death of a Thousand Cuts
• The Dragon: To Garuda Aiacos.
• Elite Mook
• Evil Redhead: A very dark red, but still qualifies.
• Fan Service / Fan Disservice / Fetish Fuel: Take your pick.
  • Bathing Beauty
  • Boobs of Steel
• Foe Yay: With Regulus.
• From Nobody to Nightmare: She imples to have begun as an unimportant soldier and steadily made her way to the top. That's why she despises Regulus, whom she sees as "special from the start, effortlessly".
• People Puppets: Her corpse is briefly manipulated by Hades to try to execute Aiacos. It doesn't work, because she somehow stops herself.
• Samus Is a Girl: Introduced as a tough and brutal Specter way before being revealed to be a female.
• Undying Loyalty: To Aiacos. Undying, indeed.

Bennu Kagaho

Voiced by: Jun Fukuyama (JP)

• Badass
• Dead Little Brother
• Dragon with an Agenda
• Expy: Of Ikki.
• Good Wings, Evil Wings: Subverted as he has no alignment to speak of.
• Klingon Promotion
• Noble Demon
• Playing with Fire
  • Technicolor Fire: Black in the manga, dark purple in the anime.
• Purple Eyes
• Shonen Hair
• Undying Loyalty: To Alone.
• You Gotta Have Blue Hair

Cait Sith Cheshire

Voiced by: Soichiro Hoshi (JP)

• Ambiguously Brown
  • Dark-Skinned White-Haired Pretty Boy
• Bishounen
  • Cat Boy
• Eyes of Gold
• Harmless Villain
  • Non-Action Guy
• Karma Houdini
• Lovable Coward
  • Defector From Decadence
• Sidekick: To Pandora.
  • Commuting on a Bus: Since chapter 48, all he does is very occasionally pop up alongside Pandora, doing some menial task for her.
  • Plucky Comic Relief
• Shout-Out: To Alice in Wonderland.
• Walking Shirtless Scene

Deadly Beetle Stand

• Ascended Extra: In the original series, he is dead before we meet him.
• Big Creepy-Crawlies
• The Brute
• We Have Reserves: Dies at the hands of his superior, Garuda Aiacos.

Deep Niobe

• Master Poisoner
• Deadly Gas
  • Fog of Doom
  • Technicolor Toxin
• Walking Wasteland: To some extent, though not as powerful as Basilisk Sylphid.

Hanuman Tokusa

Voiced by: Miyu Irino (JP)

• Blond Guys Are Evil
• Cain and Abel: With Yuzuriha.
• Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: He is last seen when Alone summons the Star Guardians of the Lost Canvas and sends them to their respective temples. Never again.
• Scarf of Asskicking: Which he passes on to Yuzuriha.
• Self-Made Orphan
• Shonen Hair

Harpy Valentine

• The Dragon: To Wyvern Rhadamanthys.
• Kick the Dog: On the receiving end, by Pandora.
  • Shoot the Dog: On the receiving end. By Rhadamanthys.
• Undying Loyalty: To Rhadamanthys.
• White-Haired Pretty Boy

Mandrake Fyodor

Voiced by: Kentaro Ito (JP)

• Attack Its Weak Point
• Berserk Button: Gets really mad (more than usual) when his helmet is kicked away and his Surplice is damaged.
• Cold-Blooded Torture: Basically his job.
• Eyepatch of Power
• Make Me Wanna Shout: His attack, Strangle Shrill.
• The Paralyzer: One of his attack's effects.
• Warmup Boss: The first Specter to be taken out by Tenma, Yato and Yuzuriha's team work. He's strong, but far from enough.

Mephistopheles Youma Kairos

• Bad Habits: Took a leaf out of Hypnos's book and disguised himself as a priest in order to find the perfect "hiding place" for the child with the purest heart on Earth, the one destined to be Hades's Soul Jar.
• Cheshire Cat Grin
  • Slasher Smile
• Dragon with an Agenda
• Eldritch Abomination: His true form as Kairos, the forgotten god of time.
• For the Evulz: Arguably, the whole reason behind his Xanatos Roulette. Between instigating the holy war and messing with Aspros and Defteros, there's the little fact of wanting to harvest Tenma's soul and use it as a weapon against the GODS, ALL OF THEM.
  • Subverted, it turns out he actually has a palpable motivation, being that he was banned by his older brother, Kronos, and wants to kill him for it (there's no explanation for WHY he was banned though). By extension, he harbours a hatred against ALL older brothers; that includes Aspros.
• Good Smoking, Evil Smoking
• Large Ham
• Mad Artist
• Manipulative Bastard
• Man of Wealth and Taste: With top hat and all.
  • Nice Hat
• Perma-Stubble: What by itself sets him apart from all the other men in Saint Seiya.
• Pervert Dad
  • Identical Son: In his teen years, Youma looked a hell lot like his son Tenma.
• Pet the Dog: His last thoughts are for Partita.
• Power of the Void
• Rage Against the Heavens
• Red Eyes, Take Warning
• Sir Swearsalot
• Soul Jar: His specter body.
• StoryBreakerPowers
  • Reality Warper
  • Time Master
  • Villain Teleportation
• Trickster Archetype
• Villainous Breakdown: As he's being defeated by Aspros.

Nasu Veronica

Voiced by: Takehito Koyasu (JP)

• Blond Guys Are Evil
• Dude Looks Like a Lady: Manigoldo even calls him a "tranny".
  • Creepy Crossdresser
  • Drag Queen
• Evil Sounds Deep
• Kill It with Fire: Manigoldo finishes him this way.
• Ominous Latin Chanting
  • Ominous Pipe Organ
• People Puppets: He manipulates corpses, even decomposing children, with his pipe organ. Disturbing.
• Foe Yay: With Manigoldo.

Owl Partita

• Back From the Dead
• Break the Cutie: Her Past. She also does this to Tenma in order to increase his Determinator levels.
• Heroic Sacrifice
• Hot Mom: Of Tenma.
  • Action Mom
• I Need You Stronger: Her reason for attacking Tenma.
• Rapunzel Hair
• Reverse Mole
• Show Some Leg
• Thanatos Gambit
• Undying Loyalty: To Athena.

Sphinx Pharaoh

• Bullying a Dragon: He taunts (and attempts to attack) Underworld Judge Wyvern Rhadamanthys.
• Deadpan Snarker
• Defiant to the End: On the brink of death, he cursed the Gate as a final "screw you" to Athena's Army.
• Musical Assassin
  • Magic Music: His music can rip your heart out of your chest.
  • Beat Still My Heart

Gods and Other Deities

Athena/Sasha

Voiced by: Aya Hirano (JP)

• Action Girl: Once she dons the fabled Athena Cloth.
• Barrier Maiden
• Good Wings, Evil Wings: Good wings, when donning her Cloth.
• Green Eyes
• Heroic Sacrifice: Alongside Tenma and Alone, to banish Hades back into the Underworld and keep him trapped there.
• Lady of War: She is the goddess of war, after all.
• Rapunzel Hair
  • Important Haircut
• The Power of Blood: Athena's blood may have even more uses than dragon blood.
• The Power of Friendship: Her speech after Tenma finds out that Youma is his father and had been a part of his plan before he was born. It is the Golden Moment of that part but Your Mileage May Vary.
• The Power of Love: The flower leashes she made are imbued with this. Strong enough to keep Tenma's soul alive and allow him to be rescued from the Underworld and to prevent Hades from taking over Alone's body until its effect fades after it's destroyed.
• Three Amigos: With Alone and Tenma.
• Woman in White
• You Gotta Have Blue Hair: Purple.

Hades

• Badass Long Hair
• Bigger Bad: Although Alone pretends to be possessed by Hades and the characters buy into it, he is really just Alone. Hades only wakes up and takes over the Big Bad role after Alone's defeat at the hands of Tenma.
• Blue Eyes
  • Dull Eyes of Unhappiness
  • What Beautiful Eyes!
• Cool Sword
• Dark Is Evil
• Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette
• Everybody Hates Hades: He certainly wasn't an Omnicidal Maniac in the mythology.
• Good Wings, Evil Wings: Black angelic wings of evil.
• Kill All Humans: His primary goal, because humans are corrupt and don't worship or at least respect the gods anymore.
• Pure Is Not Good
• Sealed Inside a Person Shaped Can: Thanks to Athena's flower leash, Hades became trapped inside of Alone, unable to take over his body. Once the leash is destroyed, its protection begins to gradually fade and Hades's awakening becomes a matter of time - and Alone keeps track of it via the Star Clock.
• Significant Birth Date: Pandora's mother gave birth to his spirit on the Christmas night. Oh the irony.
• The Stoic
• Weakened by the Light: Sunlight is able to horribly damage him as long as it's powerful enough to go through his defenses.

Hypnos

Voiced by: Tomohiro Tsuboi (JP)

• Affably Evil
• Bad Habits: His usual disguise is that of a priest.
• Badass Long Robe
• Big Bad: Of the Twin Gods Arc (volumes 7 through 11).
• The Corrupter: Hypnos and Pandora convince Alone that death is salvation, leading to his Face Heel Turn.
  • Hypnos was also the one who orchestrated child Pandora's own Face Heel Turn.
• Creepy Twins
• Curtains Match the Window
  • Blond Guys Are Evil
  • Eyes of Gold: Monochromatic Eyes
• Elite Mooks: His children, the four Dream Gods.
• Evil Sounds Deep
• Graceful Loser: Congratulates Hakurei for defeating him.
• Leitmotif: Got his own creepy theme in the anime.
• Manipulative Bastard
• Person of Mass Destruction: Hypnos and Thanatos wiped out the entirety of Athena's army when the last Holy War ended, as an act of retaliation for Hades's defeat. Sage and Hakurei were the only survivors.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: Blue to Thanatos.
• Scary Shiny Glasses
• Sealed Evil in a Can: Sealed in the Holy Coffer by Hakurei.
• Smart People Play Chess

Thanatos

Voiced by: Shinji Kawada (JP)

• Adaptation Dye Job: His hair is jet-black in the anime. Actually, they were pretty faithful to his only colored image from the manga... too bad his hair color on it was wrong.
• Badass Long Robe
• Creepy Twins
• Curtains Match the Window
  • Monochromatic Eyes
  • White-Haired Pretty Boy: Actually silver-haired.
• Evil Sounds Deep
• Humans Are Morons and Puny Humans: His philosophy of life is underestimating humans in general. Hypnos calls him on this, but to no avail. He should have listened.
• Person of Mass Destruction: Hypnos and Thanatos wiped out the entirety of Athena's army when the last Holy War ended, as an act of retaliation for Hades's defeat. Sage and Hakurei were the only survivors.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: Red to Hypnos.
• Sealed Evil in a Can: Sealed in the Holy Coffer by Sage.
• Smart People Play Chess
  • Human Chess: As Manigoldo interrupted his chess match with Hypnos, Thanatos transforms the pieces into gigantic warriors and makes them viciously attack the Saint.
• Tall, Dark and Snarky: In the anime. In the manga, he's just tall and snarky.

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Dream Gods

Oneiros

Voiced by: Hideo Ishikawa (JP)

• Big Bad: Of the Dream Gods, not the whole series.
• Black Sheep: The only Dream God who isn't blond. But he's evil nonetheless.
  • He's also the only one without Eyes of Gold.
• Fusion Dance
• Gray Eyes: Types 1 and 2.
• Meaningful Name: Comes from Greek Mythology word, Oneiroi. Oneiroi means Dreams and is the combination of the sons of Nyx and were Hypnos's brothers and/or children.
• Self-Destructive Charge and Taking You with Me: Upon realizing he would soon be rendered powerless and destroyed by El Cid and Sisyphus's Combination Attack and Hypnos would never forgive him for his failure, he makes a last attempt to kill Tenma by self-destructing and taking the Pegasus with him. Oneiros just didn't count on El Cid shoving him far enough to render his self-destruction harmless to the others, sacrificing himself in the process.
• White-Haired Pretty Boy: Actually some kind of purplish gray.

Icelus

Voiced by: Ryusei Nakao (JP)

• Ax Crazy
  • Blood Knight
• Curtains Match the Window
  • Blond Guys Are Evil
  • Eyes of Gold
• Fusion Dance
• Ginsu Knife Claws
• Off with His Head: The way he's taken out by El Cid.
• Slasher Smile
• The Dragon and The Brute of the Dream Gods.
• Meaningful Name: Comes from Icelus, the true name of Phobetor(frightening) of the Oneiroi in Greek Mythology. He is the personification of nightmares and appears in dreams in the form of animals or monsters.

Phantasos

Voiced by: Rie Kugimiya (JP, female form), Satoshi Hino (JP, male form)

• Bunny Ears Lawyer
• Creepy Souvenir: He intended to keep El Cid's severed arm as a souvenir.
• Cross-Dressing Voices
• Curtains Match the Window
  • Blond Guys Are Evil or Blondes Are Evil (when disguised).
  • Eyes of Gold
• Dark Chick of the Dream Gods.
• Depraved Bisexual: Arguably. He kinda comes out looking like this since he kinda flirts with anything that moves, specially guys.
• Dude Looks Like a Lady: Actually, he pretends to be a lady...
  • Creepy Crossdresser
• Fusion Dance
• Meaningful Name: Comes from the word Phantasos (apparition) of the Oneiroi in Greek Mythology. He appears in dreams in the form of inanimate objects.
• Show Some Leg: When using his disguise as a girl.

Morpheus

Voiced by: Hiroshi Tsuchida (JP)

• Curtains Match the Window
  • Blond Guys Are Evil
  • Eyes of Gold
• Evil Genius and Big Guy of the Dream Gods.
• Fusion Dance
• Meaningful Name: Comes from Morpheus (shaper of dreams). In Greek Mythology he is the God of Dreams and Leader of the Oneiroi. He has the ability to take any human form and appear in dreams.
• The Stoic

Other

Alone

Voiced by: Hiro Shimono (JP)

• Art Initiates Life: Inversion: Everything he paints will die.
• The Atoner
• Big Bad: Until Hades's real awakening, upon Alone's defeat.
• Blond Guys Are Evil
  • Paint It Black
• Death Seeker
• Dull Eyes of Unhappiness: Subverted. Alone's eyes are quite vivid, but full of soulcrushing, heartbreaking sadness.
  • What Beautiful Eyes!: Has the most vivid eyes amongst all characters in the series.
• Expy: Arguably, of Shun.
• Fluffy the Terrible: His little dog can turn into Cerberus.
• Heroic Sacrifice: Alongside Tenma and Sasha, to banish Hades back into the Underworld and keep him trapped there.
• Insane Troll Logic: Why he decided to kill everyone. You only suffer if you're alive, if you're dead then you will not suffer anymore, therefore death is salvation from suffering.
• Love Makes You Evil: He loves people, all of them, to death.
• Meaningful Name: Lampshaded by Tenma.
  • Spell My Name with an "S": For a while, most translators could not decide between Aroon, Aloon, Arone or Alone.
• Pure Is Not Good
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: Blue to Tenma.
• Shonen Hair
• Stepford Smiler
• Taking You with Me: His plan was to use the Lost Canvas to have the others kill him while he sealed Hades within himself.
• Technical Pacifist
• Tears of Blood
• Three Amigos: With Sasha and Tenma.
• Utopia Justifies the Means
• Villain Teleportation: Really fond of appearing out of nowhere and doing something very nasty.
• We Can Rule Together: Proposes this to Tenma and is rejected, of course.
• Well-Intentioned Extremist: He really believes that death means salvation.
• Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds

Pandora

Voiced by: Nana Mizuki (JP)

• A Magic Contract Comes with a Kiss: With Alone.
• Animal Motif: Snakes, both because Reptiles Are Abhorrent and because Snakes Are Sexy.
• Awful Truth: So Pandora's dear best friend, whose death she explicitly ordered, wasn't the one who took away her brother after all. She was innocent. Oh well.
• Blade on a Stick
  • Prongs of Poseidon: Type 2.
• Bodyguard Crush: On Rhadamanthys.
• The Corrupter: Pandora and Hypnos convince Alone that death is salvation, leading to his Face Heel Turn.
• Dark Action Girl
  • Woman in Black
• The Dragon: The purpose of her life is serving as Hades's Dragon every Holy War.
  • To Alone until she discovers he was never possessed by Hades in the first place.
• Enemy Mine: She ends up fighting Partita alongside Tenma (although she claims he will be the next one to die). After he saves her life and protects her, they become almost friendly towards each other. Still enemies, though.
• Evil Counterpart: To Athena herself, although her role in Hades's troops mirrors that of Athena's Pope.
• Evil Is Sexy
• Germany: Country of origin.
• Harp of Femininity
• Karma Houdini
• Kneel Before Zod
• Ms. Fanservice
  • Action Dress Rip: In the later chapters you forget about the plot and wonder how the heck it stays on.
  • Boobs of Steel
  • Of Corsets Sexy and metal.
  • Snakes Are Sexy
• Pet the Dog: She gets a small one before it becomes a Kick the Dog at the hands of Partita.
• Shock and Awe: What her Signature Move consists of. Also, as depicted in the anime, she may even discharge electricity when angered. Literally.
• Tall, Dark and Bishoujo
  • Tall, Dark and Snarky
• Used to Be a Sweet Kid

Pope Sage

Voiced by: Toshihiko Seki (JP)

• Authority Equals Asskicking
• Badass Grandpa
  • Badass Long Robe
  • Badass Long Hair
  • Retired Badass
• The Chessmaster
  • Did You Just Scam Cthulhu?: "I wouldn't be the Pope if I wasn't able to predict the next moves of the gods."
• Cool Old Guy
  • Old Master: To Manigoldo.
• Facial Markings
• Heroic Sacrifice: Gave his life so he could seal Thanatos' soul.
• My Greatest Failure: Manigoldo, not only dying before him, but doing so in order to give him an opening in defeating Thanatos.
• Survivor Guilt: Being one of the survivors of the previous Holy War.

Atla

• Big Damn Heroes: The one responsible for teleporting Yato and Yuzuriha away from the Lost Canvas when it was falling apart from the sky.
• Child Prodigy
• Cute Shotaro Boy
  • Infant Immortality: Survives at the end.
• Expy: Of Kiki, though he looks suspiciously like Mu.
• Facial Markings
• Mass Teleportation: Able to teleport an entire army from the Sanctuary in Greece to the vicinities of the Forest Cathedral in Italy.
• Psychic Powers: Said to be Hakurei's most skilled disciple in terms of psychokinesis.
• Shonen Hair

Salo

• Cute Shotaro Boy
  • Infant Immortality: Horribly subverted.

Celintha

• Adaptation Dye Job: Light brown hair in the manga, light blue hair in the anime.

Sea Dragon Unity

• The Atoner: Too bad his atonement stopped after delivering the MacGuffin.
• Bishounen
• Dead Little Sister
• Evil Former Friend
• Expy: Of Kanon when he was Poseidon's Dragon, Hilda from the Asgard saga and Alexei from Hyoga's special chapter.
• Freudian Excuse
• Grim Up North
• Knight in Sour Armor
• Meaningful Name
• Self-Made Orphan: He killed his father when he tried to reason with him.
• Well-Intentioned Extremist

Seraphina

• Expy: Of Natasha from Hyoga's special chapter.
• Grim Up North
• Human Popsicle: Degel freezes himself and Seraphina along with the entire city of Atlantis in order to prevent Poseidon's awakening.
• Posthumous Character
• Soul Jar: Intended to be so for Poseidon. His power manifests through her, but Degel takes action before he can truly awaken.
  • Prongs of Poseidon: Type 1.
• White-Haired Pretty Girl

Sui

• Dead Little Brother
• Expy: A male version of Esmeralda. Odd since she's a female version of Shun.
• Goodbye, Cruel World
• Too Good for This Sinful Earth

Anecdotes-only

Pisces Rugonis

• Badass Long Hair
• Poisonous Person
  • Acquired Poison Immunity
  • Power Incontinence
• Posthumous Character
• The Power of Blood: Type A.
• Sink or Swim Mentor: The ritual was eventually gonna end with either Albafica or Rugonis dead.
  • Take Up My Sword

Dryad Ruko

• Badass Long Hair
• Big Bad: Of the Pisces Anecdote.
• Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Offers his help to Albafica, when his real intention is to strip him of his powers. The reason why he cures everyone who asks his help isn't very noble, too (see below).
• Evil Twin: Pisces Rugonis's younger Specter brother, who bears a striking resemblance to him.
  • Evil Uncle: To some extent, as Rugonis raised Albafica as his own child, and Ruko is the former's younger brother.
• Love Makes You Evil: The reason why he became a Specter was to achieve the power to lift his brother's curse, his poisonous blood.
• The Medic: Widely known as a miraculous healer.
• Mook Maker: The people he cures are transformed into Skeletons, Hades's foot soldiers.
• Green Thumb

Carbella

• The Bartender
• Indian Maiden: Hinted at.
  • Woman in White
• Physical God: Hinted to be the Soul Jar for Quetzalcoatl from the Aztec Mythology.
  • Amnesiac God

Huesuda

• Big Bad: Of the Scorpio Anecdote.
• Magical Native American
  • Our Werebeasts Are Different
  • Skin Walker
• Physical God: Hinted to be the Soul Jar for Tezcatlipoca from the Aztec Mythology.
  • Omnicidal Maniac: Of the Well-Intentioned Extremist variety, but....
• Playing with Fire
• Taking You with Me: When his physical body was destroyed by Kardia's Suicide Attack, he attempted to wipe out everyone in sight before fading away. Thwarted by Sasha/Athena.

Youaltepuztli Nahualpilli

• Death Equals Redemption: Showed signs of it when thinking he's going to die at the hands of Kardia.
  • Redemption Equals Death: When ultimately decided to save Sasha.
• The Dragon: To Huesuda.
• Overly Long Name: Just look at it.
  • The Unpronounceable: Somehow subverted, Kardia managed to remember it and correctly pronounce it on the very first try!
• The Savage Indian
  • Flaying Alive and Genuine Human Hide
  • Sinister Scythe

Garnet

• Aristocrats Are Evil
• Big Bad: Of the Aquarius Anecdote.
• Determined Widow: Her initial intentions to seek power were good ones.
• Evil Matriarch
• Femme Fatale
  • Tall, Dark and Bishoujo
• France: Country of origin.
  • French Jerk
• Human Popsicle: Frozen alongside Krest while aging to death.
• Life Drinker: With an Immortality Inducer..
  • Really 700 Years Old: Had the very same age when Krest met her fifty years ago.
  • Vampiric Draining: Her method to be young and beautiful forever.
• Magic Music: Her voice is able to mesmerize males who hear it, and severely weaken male warriors.
• Mineral MacGuffin: The source of her power, the Vouivre's Garnet, and she was using it as a pendant the whole time.
  • No Immortal Inertia: As soon as her magical stone is destroyed, she begins to rapidly age.
• Ms. Fanservice
  • Bathing Beauty

Koh-i-Noor / Krest

• An Ice Person
  • Human Popsicle: Frozen alongside Garnet.
• The Dragon: To Garnet, after his Face Heel Turn.
• Elegant Classical Musician
  • Improbable Weapon User: A conductor's baton.
• Enigmatic Empowering Entity: To young Kardia.
• Fountain of Youth: Thanks to the 13th century Athena's blood, he can return to his youthful self.
  • Bishounen: In his young form.
• Man in White
• Nietzsche Wannabe: Having seen so many Holy Wars against greedy gods, peace being achieved only to be disrupted by the arrival of a new threat, he decided that it's worthless, "just a frail, fleeting dream".
• Old Master: Aquarius Degel's really old master.
  • Broken Pedestal
  • Hermit Guru: Implied to be so, in Degel's flashbacks.
  • Really 700 Years Old: Even as an old man, he's far older than he looks. Now that he's young again thanks to Athena's blood, it goes Up to Eleven.

Carnelian, Tourmaline, Chalcedony and Flint

• Elite Mooks: Garnet's personal guard.
• Enfant Terrible
• Combination Attack: Chalcedony and Tourmaline.
• Master of Illusion: Chalcedony.
  • Blindfolded Vision
  • Brilliant but Lazy
• Playing with Fire: Flint.
  • Hair-Trigger Temper
  • Power Fist
• Shock and Awe: Tourmaline.
• The Unfought: Carnelian.
  • Absurdly Sharp Blade
  • Ambiguously Brown
  • Rapid Aging: When Garnet "drained" him.
• Theme Naming: All named after stones, just like Garnet herself.

Don Avido

• Badass Long Hair
• Big Bad: Of the Cancer Anecdote.
• The Don
• Evil Twin: Looks almost exactly the same as Sage and Hakurei, and dons the Black Altar Cloth.
  • Evil Counterpart: To the Silver Altar Saint.
• Good Scars, Evil Scars
• Good Smoking, Evil Smoking
• Greed: His main motivation, the reason why he left the Sanctuary and became a Black Saint.
  • Gold Digger: Seems to be very interested in the Gold Cloths. Not the Saints, just the Cloths.
• Jerk with a Heart of Jerk: Unlike his fellow Anecdote villains, he gets no Freudian Excuse or anything close to redemption.
• Meaningful Name: Italian for "greedy".
  • Theme Naming: All the Black Saints are named after a trait of personality.

Allègre

• Badass Long Robe
• Beard of Evil
• Boisterous Bruiser
• The Coats Are Off: Removes his priest robes and reveals his Black Cloth upon switching to offensive.
• Evil Counterpart: To the Silver Whale Saint.
• No Sell: Being able to purify and release spirits with his Holy Spout, he's immune to Sekishiki (spirit-based) techniques.
• Shout-Out: His offensive technique is a martial art invented by Arthur Conan Doyle, appearing in Sherlock Holmes.
• Sinister Minister
• Theme Naming: All the Black Saints are named after a trait of personality. Allègre means "jolly".
• Wine Is Classy: And can even be used for exorcism!

Rusé

• Badass Longcoat
• Barrier Warrior: His defensive technique "Black Feather Defense".
• Dude Looks Like a Lady: Moreso than Albafica himself.
• Establishing Character Moment: During the reunion of the Black Saints, he spends the whole time looking into the mirror and playing with his hair.
• Evil Counterpart: To the Silver Crow Saint.
• Feather Motif: Black feathers.
  • Feather Flechettes: His offensive technique.
• The Fighting Narcissist
• It's All About Me
  • Small Name, Big Ego
• No Sell: Able to manipulate air currents as a defense, rendering him immune to Albafica's poison, which spreads through the air, and his roses, that travel through it.
• Theme Naming: All the Black Saints are named after a trait of personality. Rusé means "cunning".

Laimargos

• Big Eater
• Theme Naming: All the Black Saints are named after a trait of personality. Laimargos means "glutton".

Yudo

• Ambiguously Brown
• Double Entendre: "I can see everything you're trying to hide."
• Evil Counterpart: To the Silver Hound Saint.
• Faux Affably Evil
• High-Class Glass
• Telepathy: Thanks to a technique called Satori.
  • Living Lie Detector
• Theme Naming: All the Black Saints are named after a trait of personality. Yudo means "guidance".
• Would Hit a Girl