Tenchi Muyo!/Characters: Difference between revisions

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* [[Strong as They Need to Be|Strong as He Needs to Be]]: His power is confirmed by Z to work exactly like this. This applies to each [[Alternate Continuity]] as well in a meta sort of way for viewers who were around during ''Tenchi'''s run on ''[[Toonami]]''.

* [[The Omnipotent]]

* [[Took a Level In Badass]]: In the second OVA and the ''Tokyo'' series, Tenchi grows somewhat more assertive in his personality and isn't as afraid to give the girls hell (especially Ryoko) when he feels they've crossed a line.

* [[Took a Level in Badass]]: In the second OVA and the ''Tokyo'' series, Tenchi grows somewhat more assertive in his personality and isn't as afraid to give the girls hell (especially Ryoko) when he feels they've crossed a line.

* [[Unlucky Everydude]]

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'''Tenchi''': Huh? (''grabs his groin'') No way! They're mine, and I'm gonna hang on to them!

'''Ryoko''': Oh, you numbskull, I meant the jewels on your sword! }}

* [[Exotic Eye Designs]]: He gets catlike eyes when he transforms into one.

* [[Facial Markings]]: While wearing her battlesuit.

* [[Femme Fatale]]: In the first few OVA episodes, before the audience learns where her affections lie.

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* [[Technopath]]

* [[Troll]]

* [[Voluntary Shapeshifting]]: She became one with Zero, and could freely manipulate her body in extremely advanced fashions even before this, including duplication, phasing, regeneration, merging with inanimate matter, and so onwards.

* [[You Gotta Have Blue Hair|You Gotta Have Cyan Hair]]

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* [[Spoiled Brat]]: Though not as much as some fanworks [[Character Exaggeration|exaggerate her as.]]

* [[The Ojou]]

* [[The Unfavorite]]: In the OVA continuity. It's not that bad, actually, but it's still Sasami who is Seto's darling.

* [[Whip It Good]]: In her [[Image Song]], "Call Me Princess!"

* [[The Woman Wearing the Queenly Mask]]: Especially in ''Tenchi Universe'', where she shows genuine insecurities about her place and her duty within the Juraian royal family and considers herself as a mere puppet of them. Also see [[The Unfavorite]].

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* [[Fun Personified]]

* [[Genius Ditz]]: or [[The Ditz]], depending on the series.

* [[Genki Girl]]

* [[Heavy Sleeper]]

* [[Hey, It's That Voice!]]/[[The Other Darrin]]: [[Rebecca Forstadt]] (AKA [[Robotech|Lynn Minmei]]) voiced her from ''Tenchi in Tokyo'' onwards.

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* [[I Don't Know Mortal Kombat]]: In ''Tenchi Universe'', Knight!Azaka gets beaten by Sasami ''a lot''

* [[Kenichi Ogata]]: Azaka

* [[Only One Name]]

* [[Wataru Takagi]]: Kamidake

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* [[The Omnipotent]]

* [[Only One Name]]

* [[She's All Grown Up]]: Sort of. {{spoiler|Sasami will grow up to <s>look like</s> be her.}}

* [[Talking to Himself|Talking To Herself]]: With Sasami in both the [[Chisa Yokoyama|Japanese]] and [[Sherry Lynn|English]] versions.

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* [[Jerkass Gods]]: Heavily implied to be one of these by the end of OAV 2. {{spoiler|By the end of OAV 3, not so much. She honestly didn't expect that [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero|ruining a guy's life and giving him phenomenal cosmic power could backfire horribly]]. She wasn't evil, just terribly naive.}}

* [[The Omnipotent]]

* [[Only One Name]]

* {{spoiler|[[Super-Deformed]]: Her appearance after she moves in with Tenchi.}}

* [[Yumi Touma]]

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* [[Bounty Hunter]]

* [[The Only One Allowed to Defeat You]]: She wants to be the only person to capture Ryoko. So much that {{spoiler|she's willing to help Tenchi's group when they're framed}}

* [[Only One Name]]

* [[The Rival]]

* [[Worthy Opponent]]

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* [[Evil Redhead|Jerkass Redhead]]: She seemed to enjoy arresting Kiyone [[Smug Snake|a bit too much.]]

* [[Laser-Guided Karma]]: Reassigned to be [[Humiliation Conga|Kiyone and Mihoshi's assistant]] at the end of the series.

* [[Only One Name]]

* [[The Rival]]: To Kiyone.

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=== Kazuhiko Amagasaki (''OVA and Tenchi in Tokyo'') ===

* [[All Men Are Perverts]]

* [[Ascended Extra]]: He is a recurring character in Tenchi in Tokyo.

* [[Gonk]]: There used to be a Gonk sub-trope named after his physical appearance; The Fat Guy With Big Lips And A Pimply Nose.

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* [[Cloning Blues]]: Initially.

* [[Heel Face Turn]]: After [[Defeat Means Friendship]].

* [[Only One Name]]

* [["Well Done, Son" Guy]]: Devoted to Yakage and his memory, even after he's dead.

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** She had some problems with her [[McGuffin|tree]], apparently, and without it even the Juraian nanotech treatments can get only that effective.

*** Unlike her father and sister, Kiyone didn't become bonded to a royal tree and may not have visited Jurai at all (considering Yosho was still considered MIA).

* [[White-Haired Pretty Girl]]

=== Misaki Masaki Jurai (OVA and Manga) ===

* [[Action Girl]]: She's the [[All There in the Manual|chief of Emperor's bodyguards]], after all, and invariably snatches all martial arts championships which she can be bothered to enter.

** [[Action Girlfriend]]: To Azusa.

** [[Action Mom]]: Natch.

* [[Amazingly Embarrassing Parents|Amazingly Embarrassing Mom]]: More in Ayeka's POV than Sasami's, at least in the beginning.

* [[Berserk Button]]: Don't insult Ayeka or Sasami in front her.

* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]: Apparently thinks that her fling with Yosho ([[All There in the Manual|in the novels]]) is something absolutely normal. Her [[Magnificent Bastard|mother]] and husband emphatically disagree.

** And there's the fact that when she first sees Ryoko in the OVA, she mistakes her for Sasami. Repeat, she mistakes a well-known criminal for her kid daughter.

* {{spoiler|[[God Was My Co-Pilot]]:Or something in the same genre.}}

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=== Azusa Masaki Jurai (OVA and Manga) ===

* [[Akio Ohtsuka]]

* [[Disproportionate Retribution]]: In the manga, he wants to kill a boy who had just lifted Sasami's skirt.

* [[The Emperor]]

* [[Papa Wolf]]

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=== Tennyo Masaki (OVA 3) ===

* [[Cool Big Sis]]

* [[Flat Character]]: Doesn't get much characterization, as she appears only by the end of the third OVA, and doesn't get much exposure [[All There in the Manual|in the novels and doujinshis]] as well.

* [[Identical Grandson]]: Looks exactly like her mom. Who looks exactly like Airi [[Palette Swap|with white hair]].

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* [[The High Queen]]: Princess, actually, but still...

* [[Hot Mom]]: And grandma too.

* [[It Amused Me]]: Apparently her main motivation.

* [[Laser-Guided Amnesia]]: Was found lost and amnesiac in space, and was adopted into the Kamiki family.

* [[Manipulative Bitch]]: Largely [[It Amused Me|for the lulz]]

* [[The Matchmaker]]: Her main hobby.

* [[Names to Run From Really Fast]]: ''Jurai no Onihime'', or ''Devil Princess'' of Jurai.

* [[One-Man Army|One Woman Army]]: Just see what she's done with the pirates in GXP...

* [[Red Baron]]: See above.

* [[Satellite Character]]: For all her importance in-story, she appears in the OVA only as a cameo and gets a bigger role only in the spinoffs.

* [[Supreme Chef]]

* [[The Man Behind the Man|The Woman Behind The Man]]: It's her who is a true mover and shaker of the Juraian Empire.

=== Rhea Masaki (OVA 3) ===

* [[Girl Next Door]]

* [[Parental Substitute]]: To Tenchi after Kiyone died.

* [[Remember the New Guy?]]

* [[Wicked Stepmother]]: Averted with the extreme prejudice. She was so nice that Tenchi's memories of his mother actually latched to her rather than his real [[Cloudcuckoolander]] mom. And when [[Bumbling Dad|Nobuyuki]] really got around to marrying her, Tenchi was already all grown up anyway.

* [[Yamato Nadeshiko]]: With flying colors.

=== Hiwa Takahashi (Manga) ===

* [[I Want My Beloved to Be Happy]]

* [[Nice Girl]]

* [[Playing Doctor]]: With Tenchi when they were children apparently.

* [[Unlucky Childhood Friend]]

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* [[The High Queen]]

* {{spoiler|[[I Did What I Had to Do]]: Didn't exactly like having to seal Yugi away, and even [[Apologetic Attacker|apologizes and]] [[Cry Cute|sheds tears for her]] when it's said and done.}}

* [[Lady of War]]

* {{spoiler|[[Posthumous Character]]: Ayeka and Sasami's ancestor.}}

* [[Woman in White]]

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* [[Animal Motifs]]: It's more subtile than in Washu's or Clay's case, but OVA Kagato has a theme of snakes going on in his ship and even in his style of hair. The person whom he was based on, Naja, has a snake theme in her name.

* [[Badass]]: Both versions, but only the OVA version is a

** [[Cultured Badass]]

* [[Blood Knight]]: The Universe version is more interested in fighting Tenchi than conquering anything close to a universe.

* {{spoiler|[[Cain and Abel]]: With Yosho, in ''Tenchi Universe''.}}

* [[Complete Monster]]: The OVA version.

* [[Evil Is Stylish]]: Meticulously stylised to the last fingerglove, with the cape just right for dramatic flair, and appropriate organ music to set the tone. In fact, according to [[Word of God]] this part was a deliberate parody.

* [[Evilly Affable]]

* [[Genius Bruiser]]: He's a super genius to be sure, but he's also a very powerful combatant in his own right.

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* [[Hermaphrodite]]: Originally, but split in female and male halves. One of the more strange revelations given by OVA 3.

** [[All There in the Manual]]: [[It Makes Sense in Context|Makes total sense if one reads the OVA canon novel detailing his backstory.]] {{spoiler|He started out as a clone of Washu's (presumably) dead best friend, Akara Naja, who [[Came Back Wrong]] and lacked Naja's playful and carefree personality. The Naja clone fused with a male Ryoko prototype, changed its name to Kagato, and the rest is history. So Kagato is the result of a female clone fusing with a male body.}} Of course, it would've been nice for OVA 3 to bring any of this up in some fashion...

* [[Knight of Cerebus]]:

** In the OAV, things get serious once he appears, and he represents the only real time Tenchi was at risk of dying. Clay and Z have brief moments of tension surrounding them, but they never make the same impression that Kagato did.

** His Universe version fits the trope even better. Things were fairly light hearted until he appeared... he cleanly defeats Tenchi's grandfather, kidnaps Ayeka, and gravely wounds Ryoko. From there, Tenchi is forced into a life or death struggle to rescue Ayeka and save Jurai. Azaka, Kamidake and Ryoko all seem to die [[Disney Death|but manage to recover.]]

* [[Mad Scientist]]: (OAV 1)

* [[Only One Name]]

* [[Scary Shiny Glasses]]: (OAV)

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* [[Kick the Dog]]: His abuse of {{spoiler|the Ryoko clone he created.}} And in the ''New'' Manga {{spoiler|Dark Washu.}}

* [[Mad Scientist]]

* [[Only One Name]]

* [[The Rival]]: To Washu.

* [[Smug Snake]]

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=== Seiryo Tennan (OAV 2 & ''GXP'') ===

* [[Anti-Villain]]: He's really more petty and vain than evil.

* [[Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass]]: As shown in GXP, he's actually a 'very' competent swordsman, he's just a blithering idiot outside of that.

* [[Mitsuaki Madono]]

* [[Rose-Haired Girl|Rose Haired Man]]

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* [[Freudian Excuse]]: See [[Anti-Villain]] for more details.

* [[The Man Behind the Man]]: Of Misao and {{spoiler|Noike.}}

* [[No ~~Sell~~]]: To {{spoiler|Tenchi's powers by surrendering one of his wings for each power.}}

* [[Won't Work On Me]]: To {{spoiler|Tenchi's powers by surrendering one of his wings for each power.}}

* [[Person of Mass Destruction]]: He is a higher dimensiona anomaly, which would give him limitless power by our measuring, despite that the Choushin rank far higher still. {{spoiler|He once destroyed most of the Earth and the Moon on a whim, but was going to rewrite time to undo the damage afterwards.}}

* {{spoiler|[[Power Gives You Wings]]}}

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* [[The Starscream]]: To Tokimi

* {{spoiler|[[Too Powerful to Live]]}}: {{spoiler|Although Tokimi resurrected him, and his civilisation, and sent him back thousands of years into the past, to live his life normally with his family.}}

* [[Story-Breaker Power]]: He could destroy entire planetary bodies, manipulate dimensions, negate Tenchi's abilities that curbstomped Kagato, and {{spoiler|by taxing himself to his limits even caused Tokimi pain}}. It took GOD {{spoiler|Tenchi}} himself to finally kill him.

* [[Well-Intentioned Extremist]]: {{spoiler|He wanted to stop Tokimi from interfering and killing any more mortal civilisations, including his own parents, and intended to kill Tokimi, save Tenchi from the same fate he suffered, and undo all of the deaths he had caused, including Tenchi himself after he cut off the connection with his higher self.}}

* [[You Gotta Have Blue Hair|You Gotta Have Green Hair]]

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* [[The Dreaded]]

* [[Eldritch Abomination]]: A shapeshifting mass of darkness with a humanoid face that can warp time, the series' only truly non-human villain. and that [[Complete Monster|goes for his personality as well]].

* [[Elemental Powers]]: Kain displays the following:

** [[An Ice Person]]: Able to freeze people with his breath.

** [[Blow You Away]]

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* [[Sealed Evil in a Can]]: At the start of the movie, and he breaks out and lays waist to an entire fleet that tried to stop him.

* [[Smug Snake]]

* [[Taking You with Me]]: Does this to Achika and Nobuyuki after being sealed away again. {{spoiler|tries to do it again to Achika after being dismembered}}

* [[Time Travel]]: Another one of his powers.

* [[You Will Be Assimilated]]: Intended to do this to Achika.

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* [[Adult Child]]: Surrounds herself with various dolls

* [[Abusive Parents]]: To {{spoiler|Mayuka}}

* [[Ax Crazy]]

* [[Big Bad]]: Of the second movie.

* [[Card-Carrying Villain]]: Acts as one.

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* [[Mad Scientist]]: She has a science kit that made Makuya with Tenchi's hair, {{spoiler|she's even more abusive to her than Washu was to Ryoko.}}

* {{spoiler|[[Offing the Offspring]]}}

* [[Only One Name]]

* [[One-Winged Angel]]: A blatant one to Chernabog.

* [[Playing the Victim Card]]: In regards to her relationship to Yosho.

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* [[Trickster]]

* [[Unlucky Childhood Friend]]: To Yosho.

* [[Yandere]]: For Yosho.

=== Haruna (''Tenchi Forever!'') ===

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* [[Ill Girl]]: She became very sick after fleeing Jurai. {{spoiler|She died before she got to arrive on Earth.}}

* [[Lotus Eater Machine]]: Which is what she was when she transported Tenchi into her dimension.

* [[Only One Name]]

== Manga Villains ==

=== Yakage ===

* [[Affably Evil]]

* [[Anti-Villain]]:He just wants to create the most powerful sword in the universe. His problem is that he uses extreme measures.

* [[The Determinator]]

* [[Mad Scientist]]

* [[Only One Name]]

=== Yume ===

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* [[Kick the Dog]]: Is very abusive to her creations and puts Clay and Washu to shame by comparison. {{spoiler|Though when one of her creations (Takashima) sacrifices its life to protect Yume, she suffers a [[Villainous Breakdown]] that reveals herself as a possible [[Jerkass Woobie]].}}

* [[Mad Scientist]]

* [[Only One Name]]

* [[The Rival]]: Washu takes her far more seriously than Dr. Clay.

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* [[Badass]]

* {{spoiler|[[Heel Face Turn]]: Only Hishima since the others are dead.}}

* [[Innocent Fanservice Boy]]: Hishima has no problem being naked in front of girls.

* [[Only One Name]]

* [[Terrible Trio]]

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* [[Crazy Jealous Guy]]

* {{spoiler|[[Jerk with a Heart of Gold]]: He really cares about Ayeka.}}

* [[Only One Name]]

* {{spoiler|[[Redemption Equals Death]]}}

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** [[Relationship Voice Actor]]: This is her third time working with [[Ai Orikasa]] (Quatre) and [[Chisa Yokoyama]] (Noin).

* [[Morality Pet]]: Sasami is the only one she shows some affection to. {{spoiler|Towards the end, she even kidnaps Sasami so they can be together in their new world}}

* [[Only One Name]]

* [[Smug Snake]] / [[Bad Boss]]: While she ''is'' pretty powerful and smart, her cruel treatment of her subordinates (including {{spoiler|Sakuya}}) and how smug she is makes her much less effective as a villainess.

* [[Sparkling Stream of Tears]]: She is shown crying {{spoiler|along with Sakuya in episode 10}}.

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