Xenosaga/Characters: Difference between revisions

* [[Improbable Age]]: She's the head of an extremely prestigious and cutting-edge research group belonging to the largest company in the galaxy while in her early twenties. And the average lifespan of humans in this universe is in hundreds of years. {{spoiler|Probably justified in that Wilhelm needed her close so that he could keep track of her and make sure that she was in the right spot at the right time.}}

* [[Inner Monologue]]: Shion does this every once in a while.

* [[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.

* [[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.

* [[Pretty in Mink]]: Her jacket in ''III'' has a fur collar.

* [[Stripperific]]: Her outfit in Episode III (above), although her outfits in I and II weren't exactly conservative either.

* [[Swiss Army Weapon]]: Shion's M.W.S. It's nerfed into a standoff weapon in ''Episode II'', but is rebuffed in ''Episode III'''

* [[Hyperspace Arsenal]]: Justified since she uses UMN transport to access her arsenal, most of which is ''ridiculously huge''.

* [[Mecha Expansion Pack]]: The Third Armament equipment.

* [[Robot Girl]]: One of the most iconic robot girls in video games.

* [[Sinister Scythe]]: Her ultimate weapon in Episode I.

* {{spoiler|[[Sealed Inside a Person Shaped Can]]: The conscience of Mary Magdelene is stored within KOS-MOS and is used to oppose the power of Anima (should anything bad happen) whom is chaos.}}

* {{spoiler|[[Soul Jar]]}}: To T-Elos, to a degree. {{spoiler|KOS-MOS' body was supposed to only be a temporary container of the Soul of Mary Magdalene, which was meant to be eventually absorbed by T-Elos}}.

* [[Stripperific]] A constant across all her various bodies and outfits... and apparently in direct proportion to Shion's role in designing them.

* [[Swiss Army Weapon]]: KOS-MOS herself. Specifically her arms.

* [[You Gotta Have Blue Hair]]

* [[Zettai Ryouiki]]: All of her costumes except her optional swimsuit.

 

* {{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]]

* [[Enigmatic Minion]]: A protagonistic example. Just look at all the spoilers here...

* [[Feather Motif]]: In this case, the feathers hint at a connection to the divine/angels.

* {{spoiler|[[Heroic Neutral]]: He acts like a [[Badass Bystander]] during the majority of the plot (with only a declaration of...something at the end of Episode 2) and only reveals his full power at the end}}.

* {{spoiler|[[Kung Fu Jesus]]: This is almost as literal a case you can get. He fights with his fists and was the [[Man Behind the Man]] to Jesus. i.e. chaos did Jesus' miracles while Jesus got the credit. Also, Wilhelm once called chaos "Yeshua," a name which, in some circles, is synonymous with Jesus.}}

* [[Nice Guy]]

* {{spoiler|[[Really Seven Hundred Years Old]]: Or [[Time Abyss]]. He's been around since Jesus, making him ''at least'' 7000 years old. (Xenosaga taking place almost 5000 years after present day.)}}

* [[The Stoic]]: He doesn't emote much. {{spoiler|It's especially jarring when KOS-MOS awakens as Mary and he...just...stands there. And he's supposed to be Mary's soulmate.}}

* [[Too Many Belts]]: His costume in Epsiodes II and III.

** [[Darkskinned Blonde]]: Well, white hair, but the principle is the same.

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* [[Artificial Human]]

* [[Cherry Blossom Girl]]: She's based on Sakura Mizrahi, who is strongly associated with Death (since she was a terminally [[Ill Girl]] and [[Posthumous Character]]) and who was Jr.'s first love interest. MOMO's pink hair and status as a [[White Magician Girl]] (at least in the first two games) seems to be a reference to this trope.

* [[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'.

* [[Artificial Human]]: Jr. is a URTV, a human specifically designed and created to fight U-DO.

* [[Badass Longcoat]]: In ''Episode I'' and ''Episode II''. In ''Episode III'' he gets a Badass ''Short''coat.

** ''Episode I'': "Sayonara, baby!"

** ''Episode II'': "I'll be sure to send you some flowers."

* [[Really Seven Hundred Years Old]] / [[Never Grew Up]]: Jr's powers have frozen his physical age in his late preteens or early teens. He's really in his twenties and the oldest of the variants (including Gaignun). It's also implied he can live as long as he wants, having [[The Ageless]] type [[Immortality]].

* [[Redheaded Hero]]

* [[Twin Telepathy]]: Between all the remaining URTVs, but especially strong with his formerly conjoined twin, Albedo.

* [[Warrior Poet]]: Jr. likes to quote from ''books'', which are considered antiques by Xenosaga's time. One 4Koma pokes fun at this by having Allen being bewildered at how to even start reading one.

** {{spoiler|[[Dying Moment of Awesome]]}}

** {{spoiler|[[The Last Dance]]}}

* [[Katanas Are Just Better]]

* [[Renaissance Man]]: He usually changes careers once every six months out of [[Badass Bookworm|sheer boredom with civilian life]].

* [[Guest Star Party Member]]: Uses a cross-bow weapon in battle, when he briefly joins the party in Episode III.

* [[Hannibal Lecture]]: {{spoiler|To Kevin}}.

* [[Nice Guy]]

** [[Dogged Nice Guy]]

** You also get to have him in battles in the third game where he wields a crossbow.

* [[Only Sane Man]]: The only vanilla human who tags along with the party.

* [[Secretly Wealthy]]: Evidently, Allen comes from a wealthy family but he never flaunts it and prefers not to rely on their help.

* {{spoiler|[[Spanner in The Works]]: Maybe, depending on your interpretation of Wilhelm's ultimate goals.}}

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=== '''Miyuki''' ===

* [[Butt Monkey]]: Played for laughs.

* [[Flanderization]]: She suffers from this horribly in the third game, turning her into a [[Butt Monkey]] [[The Ditz|ditz]] with everyone showing little faith in her doing ANYTHING right and treating her pretty horrible as a result, especially by Shion.

* [[Genius Ditz]]

* [[Guest Star Party Member]]

* [[Likable Villain]]: It takes a long while for you to see what his deal is, but once you do, it's [[Tear Jerker|time to cry...]]

* {{spoiler|[[Roaring Rampage of Revenge]]: When the out-of-control combat Realians kill Febronia, goes along with his [[Tear Jerker]].}}

* {{spoiler|[[Survivor Guilt]]: A major part of his character.}}

* {{spoiler|[[Together in Death]]: With Feb.}}

* [[Bridge Bunnies]]

* [[Meaningful Name]]: They are named after [[Mary Shelley]], the author of ''[[Frankenstein]]''. Which makes sense, considering the cybernetic and genetic modifications done to them.

* [[You Gotta Have Blue Hair|You Gotta Have Purple Hair]]: Shelley.

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* [[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.}}

* [[Laughing Mad]]: Especially as a kid.

* [[Large Ham]]: ''The'' hammiest character in the series, bar none.

* [[Mind Rape]]: Is ''very'' fond of this when around MOMO and Jr.

* [[Nietzsche Wannabe]]: Justified. You'd be pretty damn nihilistic too if you were so unkillable that'd you'd get to see the heat death of the universe first-hand ''and'' got a preview of it from {{spoiler|the local [[Cosmic Horror]]}}.

* {{spoiler|[[Noble Demon]]: While he doesn't pull a full-on [[Heel Face Turn]], he does just as much good for the party as he does acts of indiscriminate evil. This is most evident as the White Testament.}}

* [[Omnicidal Maniac]]: Albedo tries to blow up a planet. When that gets foiled, he just tries to [[Colony Drop|drop the giant space station on it]]. {{spoiler|However, this all may have been an act to get Jr hate him enough to kill him, as Jr is the only one who actually can neutralize U-DO's waves. Albedo would prefer getting killed than watch his brothers, mainly Jr, die.}}

* {{spoiler|[[Redemption Equals Death]]: He does this '''three times''' and every time it looks like he's gone for good, however, he just won't stay dead-- He's molecularly reassembled by the Testaments, killed again by Jr., brought back as a Testament himself and dies again when his mind is absorbed by Jr. and his body is obliterated}}.

* [[Required Secondary Powers]]: His [[Healing Factor]].

* [[Terms of Endangerment]]: His frequent referral to MOMO as ''Ma belle péche'' or a variant of said phrase.

* [[Twin Telepathy]]: Although all the URTVs can communicate telepathically, the link between Jr. and Albedo is especially strong, with Jr. even able to sense {{spoiler|when Albedo is reduced to particles.}}

* [[Too Kinky to Torture]]:

{{quote| "This pain. It's SO GOOD! SO GOOOOD!"}}

* [[Wicked Cultured]]: Tosses literary references left and right in some of his more prominent scenes. Played with too; the way he makes references doesn't make him seem so much as "cultured" as ''completely insane''.

* [[You Are Number Six]]: He is URTV #667.

* [[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.}}

* [[Earthshattering Kaboom]]: He destroys Old Miltia by having the Ω System rip its way out of the planet's crust. Though Milita was uninhabited at the time, he is responsible for the largest amount of physical damage of all the villains {{spoiler|until Wilhelm kicks off the Apocalypse at the end of ''Episode III''}}.

* [[Even Evil Has Standards]]: He shares Margulis' distaste for Albedo.

* [[Evil Old Folks]]: He is the oldest-''[[Older Than They Look|looking]]'' character in the series. The chronologically-oldest characters have him beat by ''gigayears''. One of them is in your party, {{spoiler|and has been alive since at least Jesus' time.}}

* [[First Church of Mecha]]: Ormus worships the Zohar as a holy relic and uses numerous religious-themed [[Humongous Mecha|Humongous Mechas]] as part of their arsenal, including one that actually '''is''' a church. And then there's his own personal [[Deus Est Machina]]: Proto-Ω.

* [[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'''.

* [[Out Gambitted]]: By Wilhelm, spectacularly.

* [[Sinister Minister]]

* [[Gambit Roulette]]: This may be one of the very few times this trope is justified, since he has possession of a device called the Compass of Order and Chaos, which shows him the movements of consciousness. Being {{spoiler|several thousand years old}} probably doesn't hurt, either.

** He also has practically absolute control over the economy due to being the CEO of Vector {{spoiler|and Hyams, as well as being a high-ranking Cardinal in Ormus. He was also head of the government a decade before the game takes place, giving him significant clout with the Federation.}}

* [[Lean and Mean]]: Compared to contemporaries in the ''Xenosaga'' rogues gallery, he's a little on the thin side.

* {{spoiler|[[The Man]]: He fits this, considering that he runs/ran, at the very least we know of, two rivaling companies (Vector and Hyams), Ormus, and at least one of the Militian government's Subcommities.}}

* {{spoiler|[[The Unfought]]}}

* [[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").

** [[Red Eyes Take Warning]]

 

* [[Knight Templar]]: Not as much as Margulis, but enough to cause friction with {{spoiler|Jin}}.

* [[Likable Villain]]

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=== '''Dr. Dmitri Yuriev''' ===

* [[Chessmaster]]: Again, comes in a close second to Wilhelm in the [[Manipulative Bastard]] category.

* [[Creepy Monotone]]: He speaks almost entirely in an "''I'm a complete doucebag''" tone.

* [[Go Mad From the Revelation]]: What happened when he came into contact with U-DO.

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

* [[The Baroness]]: She's about as close as ''Xenosaga'' gets to this trope.

* [[Creepy Child]]: In ''Episode II'', at least.

* [[Dark Action Girl]]

* [[Distaff Counterpart]]: To the male URTVs. [[Justified Trope|Justified]] in-universe.

* [[Evil Redhead]]: She's a mass murderer.

* [[Ninja Maid]]: To Yuriev.

* [[Opposite Sex Clone]]: She was created mostly from Yuriev's X-chromosome.

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

* [[Early Bird Cameo]]: He's not even named in-game when he shows up in ''Episode I'' for a minute or two. His proper introduction comes at the start of ''Episode II''.

* [[Four Eyes Zero Soul]]

* [[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.

* [[Mad Scientist]]

* [[Shoddy Knockoff Product]]: He openly admits his life's work is nothing but this, with his inspiration being Mizrahi's works.

* [[Sinister Shades]]: See: [[Cool Shades]].

* [[You Are Too Late]]: He whips this out only after the fact, telling the party that while they've wasted their time battling their way through Merkabah, Yuriev has invaded ''The Durandal'', and they're probably too late to do anything about it.

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* [[Stripperiffic]]

* [[Underboobs]]

* [[Zettai Ryouiki]]

 

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