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In ''[[Super Robot Wars Original Generation|Super Robot Wars Original Generations]]s'', he comes from the [[Super Robot Wars AdvanceA|same world as the Shadow-Mirror]] and has a younger twin sister named Fiona. In the prologue to ''Original Generation 2'', the team's sought by the Shadow-Mirror, but continues to elude them, until [[Super Robot Wars AdvanceA/Characters|Lemon Browning]] sends [[Super Robot Wars AdvanceA/Characters|Axel Almer]] to retrieve the Time Flow Engine. He proceeds to disable Fiona's Excellence when Duminuss pops out and sends an attack at Raul. Fiona [[Taking the Bullet|takes the shot]], but the shock of the attack causes the Engine in her unit to go haywire and open a dimensional gate, sucking the siblings in (fortunately for Axel, he eludes it). Raul, Raji and Mizuho wind up transported to the Original Generation universe, and ally with the Earth Federation Army (with some help from [[Super Robot Wars/Characters/Classic|Gilliam Yeager]]) at the height of the war with [[Super Robot Wars/Characters/Classic|the Inspectors]] and [[Super Robot Wars Compact 2/Characters|the Einst]]. Following the war, Raul, Raji and Mizuho join the Kurogane crew, with hopes that they might find Fiona.

Which machine does he ride? The Excellence, of course, with a full set of frames, changeable to adapt to any situation/terrain. He later gets the [[Super Robot Genre]] Excellence "Lightning" as a final upgrade. Raul embodies these tropes:

* [[Call Back]]: (In Scenario 27 for ''Original Generation Gaiden'', Raul notes the environment is the same when they were attacked by Axel and Duminuss back in their world. ''Original Generation Gaiden'' reused the same map from ''Original Generations'').

* [[CoolChest SwordBlaster]]: (Excellence Lightning's DimensionBlack Slasher)Sun.

* [[Leitmotif]]: ("Over The Time Flow").

* [[Mecha Expansion Pack]], [[Swiss Army Weapon]]: (Excellence's multiple frames).

* [[Multicolored Hair]]: (Black-red hair).

* [[She Is Not My Girlfriend]]: (His standard reaction whenever people try to ship him with Mizuho).

** [[Half-Identical Twins]]: (Original Generation only).

* [[Temporal Paradox]], [[Time Travel]]: (Reversal only; of note is he doesn't necessarily care that he might alter the future to be more of a [[Crapsack World|crapsack]] than before).

* [[Transforming Mecha]]: (Excellence is basically this; in Original Generation, it can change frames on the fly, as opposed to Reversal, where it can only change during the intermission or docked with an allied battleship).

Her story starts out the same as Raul in ''Original Generations'', but after being thrown into the dimensional gate, Fiona vanishes and isn't seen again for an entire game. Come ''Original Generation Gaiden'', when the clash between the Compatible Kaiser's Overgate Engine and the G Thundergate opens up a wormhole, out pops Fiona, starving and still injured from taking the attack meant for Raul by Duminuss. Thanks to the interference of {{spoiler|Axel and [[Super Robot Wars Compact 2/Characters|Einst Alfimi]]}}, Raul hauls her for medical attention aboard the Kurogane. After being caught up with the fact she'sins in an [[Alternate Dimension]] and learning Raji and Mizuho are kidnapped by Duminuss, Fiona takes to the battlefield to assault Duminuss and continue to be at her brother's side. With Duminuss defeated, Fiona dismantles her Excellence, agreeing the Time Flow Engine is still yet an unstable piece of technology, and opens the "L&E Corporation" (named by her after the Lightning and Eternal frames) with Raul as another test pilot for Mizuho, although Dr. Marion Radom states she wants to build something for Fiona that's better than the Excellence.

She starts with the same Excellence machine like Raul, however her final upgrade is the much more feminimefeminine Excellence "Eternal". Fiona embodies these tropes (some of them are shared with Raul, though):

* [[Crucified Hero Shot]]: (Excellence Eternal's Final Grand Cross).

** Technically subverted, because she doesn't do this pose while doing her [[Heroic Sacrifice]]: she pulls it out after surviving all those hijinx with the Eternal frame. A case can also be made that the Final Grand Cross is a [[Shout-Out]] to [[Detonator Orgun]]'s Grand Cross attack).

** [[Half-Identical Twins]]: (Original Generation only).

* [[Heroic Sacrifice]]: (Original Generation only; subverted later due to [[Trailers Always Spoil]] (see [[He's Just Hiding|She's Just Hiding]]).

* [[Not So Different]]: (Heroic variation: the way Marion approaches Fiona feels as if Marion was like Fiona when she was younger. Still, how a Fiona-like Marion (if true) could grow into the current Marion players know better...yeah, [[You Do NOT Want to Know|might be better left unanswered]]).

* [[He's Just Hiding|She's Just Hiding]]: (Back in ''Original Generations'', she already goes on to deliver some sort of "farewell" death speech to the team, making it more apparent she may bite the dust (''moresomore so'' than {{spoiler|[[Super Robot Wars AdvanceA/Characters|Lamia Loveless]]}}). It takes one [[Trailers Always Spoil|trailer]] for ''Original Generation Gaiden'' to ruin all the suspense, hence the lack of spoilers).

** [[Stuffed Into the Fridge]]: (Ultimately subverted, due to the trailer).

* [[The Tease]]: (Not as much as [[Super Robot Wars Compact 2/Characters|Excellen Browning]], but she mercilessly teases her "Onii-chan~").

* [[Wangst]]: (Her Reversal counterpart usually had her [[Wangst]] about how she thinks she's a hindrance to Raji's research).

== DUMINUSS'Duminuss &and FAMILYfamily ==

The antagonists of ''[[Super Robot Wars Reversal]]'', consisting of three little kids and a giant pink blob for a parent.

Duminuss has three forms to fight you: Proton, Deutron and Triton. Fortunately, ''Original Generation Gaiden'' tosses out the Deutron form and has Duminuss transform into Triton form after {{spoiler|forcibly absorbing Tis and Laliar against their will}}. Tropes associated with Duminuss:

* [[Anti-Villain]] [[Big Bad]]: (Reversal version; many REALLY got too touched with the kids' [[Tear Jerker|heart-wrenching]] sacrifice to the point one has to wonder "THIS is the ''[[Big Bad]]'' of the game?". Some players went to the extremes and were unable to finish the game because they just can't bear to see the heart-wrenching sacrifice go in vain).

* [[Back Fromfrom the Dead]], [[Came Back Wrong]]: (It'd use these as a mean to antagonize your team, by reviving two supposedly dead characters. In Original Generation, it's {{spoiler|Lamia}} (though more of a case of salvaging a [[Not Quite Dead]] person); in Reversal, it's '''{{spoiler|[[G Gundam|Master Asia]]}}''').

* [[Breather Boss]]: (In ''Original Generation Gaiden'', compared to [[Super Robot Wars Compact 3|Shura King Alkaid Nassh]] in the previous scenario and the upcoming {{spoiler|[[Final Boss|Dark Brain]]}}, Duminuss is pathetically easy).

* [[Evil Matriarch]]: (Apparently this is what it is, if you think it's a "she". It doesn't help that Duminuss has a [[Cross Dressing Voice]]).

* [[One-Winged Angel]]: (TWO moments of this in Reversal).

* [[Smug Snake]]: (Original Generation only: working with fellow [[Smug Snake]] [[Super Robot Wars Compact 3|Mizal Touval]] cements it as this).

* [[Spell My Name with an "S"]]: (Apparently, {{spoiler|Dark Brain}} refers to it as "Dynamis 3". Could also be Banpresto's way of saying "Sorry, we should've named it "Dynamis" instead of "Duminuss"!)

The pink-haired homunculus of Duminuss, the leader between the team. Impulsive and hot-headed for a loli, and apparently [[Pettanko|super sensitive about her boobs]] (in fact, her wish if she ever gets reviviedrevived is to get a body with large breasts). In Reversal, she makes contact with [[Zambot 3|the Gaizock Empire]]; in Original Generation, she handles the Chimera or the Space Flounder monsters, as well ensuring the G Thundergate is still in their possession.

Her mecha is called Durgatel. Tis embodies these tropes:

* [[Cute Bruiser]]: (MoresoMore so than the rest of her allies. In Reversal, she and her homunculus siblings fought the [[G Gundam|Shuffle Alliance]] ''to a standstill''...in '''unarmed combat''').

* [[Draco in Leather Pants]]: (Despite being outright cruel, her [[Moe]] look keeps enough of a fanbase).

* [[Enfant Terrible]]: (Unlike the other homunculi, Tiz is pretty mean).

* [[Fastball Special]]: (One of the Durgatel's attacks is essentially having its towering golem-like machine [[Spell My Name with an "S"|Pater]] throwing it at the enemy).

* [[Huge Guy, Tiny Girl]]: (Durgatel's partnered with the much larger Pater, used in most of its attacks).

* [[Spell My Name with an "S"]]: (Is it Tis or Tiz?)

The blue haired homunculus of Duminuss, quite possibly the youngest sibling. [[Shrinking Violet|Chronically and painfully shy and demure]], she's usually charged with keeping control of those brought [[Back Fromfrom the Dead]]. When that character gets freed, she then handles with the job to observe the construction of the second Time Flow Engine.

Despinis is usually seen with her mecha Ereos in combat. Tropes associated with Despinis include:

* {{spoiler|[[Spared by the Adaptation]]}}

* [[Spell My Name with an "S"]]: (Apparently, her other name-spelling is "Despoiniz").

In those instances he goes to battle, he rides the machine Hypocrisis. Tropes associated with Laliar:

* [[Demoted to Extra]]: ([[Memetic Mutation|Yes, we know, Laliar...and we're sorry]]).