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A compilation of the characters from the ''[[Viewtiful Joe]] series''. '''[[By the Power of Greyskull|HENSHIN]][[Catch Phrase|-A-GO-GO, BABY!]]'''

 

'''Viewtiful Joe'''

 

** He also has shades of it in the anime, where he's even ''more'' enthusiastic about heroics if there are pretty girls involved, gives Jr. advice on attracting the ladies, and has at least one princess fall for him.

* [[Cool Helmet]]

** Not exactly, his costume was heavily based on [[Kaiketsu Zubat]], especially how his mask closes before boss battles and the scarf. This on purpose, Joe is a parody and shout-out to old Tokusatsu shows such as the aforementioned Zubat and [[Kamen Rider]].

* [[Everyone Loves Blondes]]: Joe to Silvia.

* [[Genre Savvy]]: Justified, he is a huge moviegoer.

* [[Henshin Hero|Henshin-A-Go-Go Hero]]

* [[Humongous Mecha]]: Six Majin, and later Six-Six.

* [[Idiot Hero]]: In the anime.

* [[Precision-Guided Boomerang|Precision Guided Voomerang]]

** In ''Double Trouble'', this is replaced by the V.F.O. ([[Fun with Acronyms|Viewtiful Flying Object]]), which instead [[Ray Gun|fires lasers]].

* [[Redheaded Hero]]

* [[Robosexual]]: A possibility, given his admiration of Miss Bloody Rachel in ''2''.

* [[Super Speed]]: Mach Speed.

** [[Doppelganger Attack]]

* [[Too Slow]]: His dodge quote is an appropriately mocking "You're too slow!"

* [[Trademark Favorite Food]]: Cheeseburgers in the anime; in the games, they recover his health.

* [[Hair of Gold]]

* [[Heart Symbol]]: Seen inside of the bullets fired from her guns.

* [[Meganekko]]

* [[Ms. Fanservice]]

* [[Killer Yoyo]]

 

'''Jet Black'''

 

* {{spoiler|[[Super-Powered Evil Side]]: See "Emperor of Gedow."}}

* {{spoiler|[[Start of Darkness]]: Discovering the Black Film and Black V-Watch. ''Double Trouble'' implies that the tragic loss of his wife was also a nudge in the wrong direction.}}

 

'''Junko'''

 

* [[Beauty Mark]]

* {{spoiler|[[Holy Halo]]}}

* {{spoiler|[[Generation Xerox]]: Desires to become a great actress like the legendary film starlet Junko, who is revealed to be her and Joe's mother at endgame.}}

* [[Girlish Pigtails]]

* [[Plucky Girl]]: Possibly overlapping with [[Action Girl]] and [[Badass Normal]]. Even without powers, Jasmine actually fights her way through the third level (with the help of Vanilla) before ultimately being captured. She's shown to be as skilled at martial arts as Joe is, believe it or not. And even ''when'' captured, [[Badass Damsel|she still manages to help out Joe from the sidelines]], up to and including the final battle.

** {{spoiler|[[Badass Abnormal]]: By the time of the epilogue.}}

* [[School Uniforms Are the New Black]]

* [[She's Got Legs]]

* [[Zettai Ryouiki]]

 

'''Dark Fiend, Charles the 3rd'''

 

* {{spoiler|[[Heel Face Turn]]}}

* [[Henshin Hero|Henshin Villain]]

* [[Large Ham]]

** [[Evil Is Hammy]]

* [[Shock and Awe]]

 

'''Drill Sergeant, Big John'''

 

* {{spoiler|[[Evil Redhead]]}}: Technically speaking.

* [[Evil Sounds Deep]]

* {{spoiler|[[Fallen Hero]]}}

* [[Flight]]

* [[Gravity Master]]: {{spoiler|Dark Hero Jet Black, after taking enough damage, will warp the area, causing the gravitational field to go out of whack and forcing Joe and Silvia to have very floaty jumps. Jet's movement speed during this phase is unaffected.}}

* {{spoiler|[[Heel Face Turn]]: It's even signified by Jet's Black V-Watch turning into a normal one.}}

* [[Humongous Mecha]]: Dark Kaiser. Whereas all the other mechas are [[Godzilla]]-[[Kaiju|sized]] (able to span the circumference of the globe in a few steps; the only other exception is Six-Six, which is able to traverse the ''solar system''), the Dark Kaiser is only exceeded in size by ''the Sun itself''.

* [[Ki Attacks]]

* [[Playing with Fire]]: The Dark Kaiser can launch ''flaming dragons'' as projectiles.

* [[Power Floats]]: {{spoiler|As Dark Hero Jet Black.}}

* [[Samurai]]: His overall appearance and the [[Katanas Are Just Better]] he brandishes invokes this imagery.

* [[Shoryuken]]: Via his sword.

* [[Speed Echoes]]: {{spoiler|In his Dark Hero persona.}}

 

'''Gadget-Cop'''

 

* [[Calling Your Attacks]]

* [[Chest Blaster]]: With [[Macross Missile Massacre|missiles]].

* [[Flight]]

* [[God Save Us From the Queen]]

* [[Ki Attacks]]

* [[Lady of War]]/[[Lady of Black Magic]]: Moreso the former than the latter, but incorporates elements of both.

* [[Simple Staff]]: With her shakujo.

 

'''Blade Master Alastor'''

 

* [[Friendly Enemy]]: To Joe in the anime.

* [[Genre Savvy]]: To the point of ''[[Leaning on the Fourth Wall|taking out a copy of the first game's script and reading from it]]'' before his battle with Joe.

* [[Henshin Hero|Henshin Villain]]

* [[Horned Humanoid]]: Subverted. They're a merely a feature of his helmet, not an actual part of his anatomy.

* [[Master Swordsman]]

* [[Mirror Boss]]: Fighting Viewtiful Joe as Another Joe.

* [[Pointy Ears]]: Is revealed to have them while unmorphed.

* [[Power Incontinence]]: Based off of the player having to voluntarily switch between Stylish and Blade Master Alastor in the first game, the anime reveals that Alastor has trouble changing out of his Henshin form at will and, as such, doesn't do so often.

* [[Staying Alive]]: No matter what the [[Unreliable Narrator|narrator]] tells you, Alastor is never dead.

** [[Running Gag]]: He will always lament on his lack of screen time ''immediately'' after his presumed death. In the first game, [[Breaking the Fourth Wall|he directs his pleas to the player]]; in ''2'', he falls out of the screen and chats with Jet.

**** {{spoiler|But he did reappear in the final game ''Red Hot Rumble''. Everyone must have expected it out of him.}}

* [[The Only One Allowed to Defeat You]]: The reason why he {{spoiler|[[Taking the Bullet|takes the blow for Joe]] from Queen Heinderella after their fight}}.

* [[Master Swordsman]]

* [[Mr. Fanservice]]: Even [[Super-Deformed]], yes.

* [[Stripperiffic]]: [[Underwear of Power|A black speedo]] [[Walking Shirtless Scene|as his non-henshin mode.]] Dante muses that his contact Enzo must've stolen his clothes again as a rib on Dante's [[The Stoic|characterization]] in ''DMC2''.

** [[Fan Service]]

 

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