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This team's responsible for the [[Combining Mecha|combining]] [[Super Robot Genre]] SRX. They made their debut in the ill-fated ''Shin Super Robot Wars'' and various other games, but is brought together for the ''Alpha'' series and gets their stories refined there.

 

Aya's younger sister assumed dead after an accident years before ''Original Generation'' at Kenzo Kobayashi's lab. She currently has no memories of her past, and is a very quiet and gentle girl. She's discovered after the L5 Campaign and was given medical treatment under Kenzo's care. Due to her exceptionally strong Psychodriver powers, Mai gets assigned to the SRX team for learning purposes, and selected to be the R-Gun Powered's pilot. Has since developed a small crush for Ryusei.

 

 

Tropes associated with Mai{{spoiler|/Levi}} are:

In ''Alpha'', {{spoiler|his body is lost and only his influence over the Astranagant allows him control. By chance, when one Balshem clone "Ayin" scouts an area near an asteroid, the Astranagant emerges and takes over his machine. Ingram's consciousness then takes over Ayin, but somehow fuses both their souls into one, forming Cobray Gordon. From time to time, Ingram attempts to retakes control, but Cobray breaks free and chooses to fight on his own}}.

 

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* [[Attack Drone]] ( {{spoiler|Astranagant's Gun Familiar and R-Gun Rivale's Gun Slaves}})

 

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=== Kusuha Mizuha (Voiced by [[Mikako Takahashi]]) ===

 

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=== Sanger Zonvolt (Voiced by [[Kenichi Ono]]) ===

Probably the most [[Badass]] character Banpresto ever created, Sanger's an elite [[The Ace|ace]] who acts like a [[Samurai]] and goes everywhere with a katana in hand. His master is [[Old Master|Rishu Togo]] and he's an extremely good friend of Elzam von Branstein. He likes melee-based robots, especially those equipped with a [[BFS|big honkin' sword]], one he calls a Zankantou/Colossal Blade. He usually calls himself "The Sword That Smites/Cleaves Evil" and has a tendency to make dramatic, otherwise silly speeches and phrases and turn them into totally badass ones. He starts out as a founding member of the Aggressors in the past and then creates the ATX Team. Unfortunately, to avoid fighting his buddy Elzam, Sanger defects to the Divine Crusaders. He fights the team until the Crusaders' fall and goes solo, smiting those whom he considers evil, until he finally rejoins the Earth Federation. Even then, his samurai code causes him to be filled with grief that he [[Heroic BSOD|doesn't feel worthy to rejoin the team he betrayed]], until Kyosuke [[Get a Hold of Yourself, Man!|gives him a Kyosuke Slap]] and utters the legendary line ''"We don't need a moping fool. We need Sanger Zonvolt, The Sword That Smites/Cleaves Evil!"''.

 

 

In the Alpha series, his origin differs in that he first appears in the bleak future of Alpha Gaiden as [[The Dragon]] to Magus/ {{spoiler|Sophia Nate}}, [[The Big Bad]] of the game ( {{spoiler|but is recruitable under very special circumstances}}), appearing in a mutated Grungust Type-3 called Thrudgelmir (which Wodan later inherits in Original Generation). In Alpha 2, he becomes the male [[Super Robot]] route protagonist where his new story begins with the Earth Cradle being destroyed by Kukuru. Sanger believes the staff has been killed ( {{spoiler|Sophia Nate does live, while Egret Feff's presumed to be killed}}) and he temporarily falls into a [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge]] state, but quickly recovers (in part because {{spoiler|the Alpha Numbers want to prevent the bleak future of Alpha Gaiden from occuring again and know what Sanger could become if he's allowed to go about unchecked}}) and becomes a great fighting force for the Alpha Numbers. He also has a [[Ship Tease|soft spot]] with the Loli Irui, which produces rather...[[Lolicon|interesting interpretations in the eyes of fans]].

* [[Leitmotif]] (''Aku wo Tatsu Tsurugi'' ("The Sword That Cleaves Evil"; localized as "A Sword to Smite Evil"). Upon receiving the Dygenguar, it becomes ''Ken Kon Itteki'' ("A Single Strike With Sword And Soul"; localized as "Samurai Sword"))

* [[Memetic Badass]] (Also contributes to how fans hail him)

* [[Painting the Fourth Wall]] (All of Dygenguard's introductions, where said intro has steadily increased in dramatic effect over the years)

* [[Pre-Ass-Kicking One-Liner]] (With a post-ass kicking one liner sandwiching a large [[Kiai]] with an extra helping of ham)

Okay, where to start? At first, Irui comes off as a stray little girl whom the chosen protagonist of Alpha 2 (Kusuha, Sanger, Ibis or Arado) encounters and takes under his/her care. However, her appearance triggers a lot of strange creatures to appear near the protagonist and their team, whether it's attacking or assisting them. Day by day, Irui, while still kind-hearted and [[Moe|adorable]], starts having a certain sickness which culminates in her disappearance. When she reappears, {{spoiler|she's no longer a loli, but a butt-naked adult woman claiming herself as ''Irui Gan Eden'', the one who preserves the Earth. Turns out there are two entities of Irui: one is Irui herself, the other the Earth's guardian goddess ''Nashim Gan Eden''. Using the "Garden of Baral", Irui attempts to seal the Earth from extraterrestrials to prevent the Earth from being put in danger anymore. This doesn't sit well with the protagonists and they proceeded to kick her ass. [[Multiple Endings|Depending on the chosen protagonist]], the younger Irui may be rescued (Arado or Kusuha's endings) or destroyed (Ibis or Sanger's endings) along with the Gan Eden}}.

 

 

Tropes associated with Irui:

 

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=== Touma Kanou (Voiced by [[Yasuyuki Kase]]) ===

* [[Whip It Good]] (The energy knives for the Soleares and Alegrias can double as whips)

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Definitely one of the more famous enemies in SRW, they are the main antagonists of the Alpha series. A huge galactic empire that invades other galaxies, their modus operandi is to capture enemies and brainwash them to serve and strengthen their army, however, those in the elite class will clone themselves to ensure survival. Some, however, work for their own agenda. It's ruled by a literal "God", which takes form of [[Cute Shotaro Boy]] Ruach Gan Eden. However, there's also one man behind all those chaos... {{spoiler|Keisar Ephes}}. Tropes regarding of the Ze Balmary Empire and their members:

* [[You Will Be Assimilated]]

 

 

They are the main enemy group in Alpha Gaiden, but merely demoted into a sub-force within the Neo Divine Crusaders (but still proves to be just as dangerous).

** Rather {{spoiler|if enough time passed that the Astranagant returned back to Earth and got absorbed}}.

 

 

Originally a pair of planetary defense systems powered by the Psychodrivers ''Nashim'' and ''[[Spell My Name with an "S"|Gebel]]'', they were created by [[Precursors|The First People]] to protect their planet against [[The End of the World as We Know It|Apocalypses]]. However, they only barely saved The First from a massive meteor shower and the [[Gunbuster|STMC]]. Thus, The First tasked the Gun Edens with a new mission: seed life on another habitable planet, Balmar.

Unfortunately, Nashim suffered badly while repeling an invasion of the Hundred Evils, forcing her to hibernate for thousands of years, while losing most of the original mechanical gods. Gebel was still active until he sensed how The First People perished, becoming part of the [[Space Runaway Ideon|Ide]]. Realizing just how hopeless he is against the calamity of fate, Gebel tries to seize power equal to it. Choosing a Balmarian boy and having him take his place, Gebel departed from Balmar, eventually becoming the being known as {{spoiler|Keiser Ephes}}.

 

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