Xenosaga/Characters: Difference between revisions

* [[Magitek]]: Shion's special attacks apparently use an "Ether Circuit."

* [[Meganekko]]: For the first game only. Sadly, she explains that she has perfect eyesight, and only uses the [[Chekhov's Gun|glasses to collect and analyze visual data]] in Episode III.

* {{spoiler|[[Pals With Jesus]]: Shion, in a past life, was called the Maiden of Mary. It seems that she and Mary Magdalene (yes, ''that'' Mary Magdalene) were very close.}}

* [[Oblivious to Love]]: Allen tries to ask Shion out and/or just get across that he loves her several times in the series and she just doesn't get it. {{spoiler|He finally gets the girl, only because he decided to stand up to Kevin to win her back from him.}} To think what would have happened if that never occured.

 

* {{spoiler|[[Anthropomorphic Personification]]: Of the power of Anima, a failsafe built into the Universe to destroy the "lower number domain" (the "real" universe) if the dispersal of consciousness ever threatened to destroy the "upper number domain." Naturally, chaos doesn't really want to do that.}}

* [[Beware the Nice Ones]]: ''The'' nice guy of the series. Also the one with the power to destroy Gnosis with a touch. {{spoiler|And is an immortal, and implied to be the one behind Jesus' miracles. Oh, and he's the harbringer of the Apocalypse, if it ever comes to that.}}

* [[Bishonen]]

MOMO is the prototype 100-series Realian (a type of organic android) who is widely sought after for the data her "father," Joachim Mizrahi, left inside her. She regards council member Juli Mizrahi as her mother and is visibly distressed when her mother doesn't want anything to do with her. She has the appearance of a 12-year-old girl.

 

* [[Apologetic Attacker]]: Episode I only. "I'm sorry, are you okay?" is one of her standard battle ending phrases.

* [[The Archer]]: In Episode II and III

* [[Drives Like Crazy]]: During ''Episode II'''s [[Chase Scene]]. [[Justified]] in that she was driving away from people who were trying to capture her.

* [[Fun With Acronyms]]: Her name means 'Multiple Observative Mimetic Organicus'.

* [[Magic Knight]]: Due to gameplay mechanics in Episode III, she can be the best at dealing the most single target physical damage of all playable characters, even if her actual strength is actually dishing magical attacks and heals. Of course, she's not able to take damage as well as other characters, and takes certain gearing to bring her to average defensive wise.

** [[Cute Bruiser]]

* [[Guns Akimbo]]

* [[The Gunslinger]]: Jr. is the perfect example of when this trope is used outside of Westerns and ''works''.

* [[Improbable Aiming Skills]]

* [[Real Men Wear Pink]]: He has a pink shirt (or sweater) under his [[Badass Longcoat]] in ''Episode II''

* [[Foil]]: To both Gaignun and Jr.

* [[From a Single Cell]]: Technically, from a single particle.

* [[Healing Factor]]: Arguably his defining characteristic.

* [[The Hedonist]]: His quest {{spoiler|to tap into U-DO again and to be killed by Jr. and, arguably, to then be reunited with Jr.}}

* [[Big Bad]]: Of Episode 1. [[Demoted to Dragon]] in Episodes 2 and 3.

* {{spoiler|[[Better to Die Than Be Killed]]: To Jin, despite the fact that Jin didn't really want to kill Margulis in the first place.}}

* [[Even Evil Has Standards]]: He apparently has a distaste for torture, since he refers to Albedo as having "perverse taste in hobbies." Well, it's either torture or the...[[Lolicon|other]]...things that Albedo does.

* [[Evil Counterpart]] / [[Foil]]: To Jin. Compare their styles: Jin fights without losing his cool while Margulis fights like [[The Berserker]]. Jin uses a Katana while Margulis uses a straight double-edged sword. During their dual, Margulis seems to have superior physical prowess while Jin is better at Ether-based attacks. {{spoiler|Jin, and Shion by extension, have the blood of the People of the Zohar, which qualifies them to join Ormus. Jin didn't join while Margulis whole-heartedly embraced Ormus' teachings.}}

* [[Light Is Not Good]]: Dresses all in white? Check. Head of a major religion? Check. Light-based attacks? Check. Army of angelic super robots? Check. Base of operations looks like a space cathedral? Check. Genocidal tendencies? '''Double check'''.

* [[One-Scene Wonder]]: Although he's the primary antagonist of ''Episode II'', he's a blip on the radar in the series as a whole.

* [[Sinister Minister]]

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* [[Wicked Cultured]]: Likes to refer to all the events happening as if it were an opera, apparently listens to Wagner a lot, is never seen in anything other than a plain business suit and plays chess. Apparently, [[The Chessmaster|a whole freaking lot]]. He also has some elaborate and poetic titles for certain people and features ("shining wills" and refers to the White Testament as the "Weaver of the Eternal Circle of Zarathustra").

* [[White-Haired Pretty Boy]]

 

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* [[Grand Theft Me]]: One of the ways he's lived for so long and an acquired skill from contact with U-DO.

* [[Jerkass]]: He's the only villain (aside from Voyager) with '''zero''' redeeming qualities.

* [[President Evil]]: It's not explained very well in-game, but in the gap between ''Episode''s ''II'' and ''III'' he has the Salvator faction stage a coup and install him as the Executive Committee Director of the Galaxy Federation.

* [[Really Seven Hundred Years Old]]

* [[Cool Shades]]: Described as "motorized sunglasses" in the ''Episode I'' database. They're apparently bolted to his face.

* [[The Dragon]]: To Yuriev in ''Episode III''.

* [[For Science!]]

* [[Genius Cripple]]: A self-made example. He ruined Joachim Mizrahi's life, so Mizrahi shot his kneecaps off.

* [[Karma Houdini]]: Other than the aforementioned knee-capping, he largely gets away scot-free in all three games.