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The large and assorted cast of characters of the [[Yosh! (Webcomic)|Yosh!]] webmanga.
 
== Main Cha-er Good G-um...People Living in Shiden's Complex ==
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* [[Author Avatar]]: or rather, Artist Avatar. Sage only draws the comic; he doesn't write the script.
* [[Anti -Magic]]: His prime ability as the Null.
* [[Ascended Fanboy]]: In a sense; he's depicted as having idolized anime and comic book heroes growing up, and the discoveries that he's magic-immune and that evil super-mages are trying to take over the world pretty much renders him the hero. However, Phil doesn't make that mental leap in-comic until fairly recently.
* [[Awesomeness By Analysis]]: Proposes theories about magic artifacts and the like simply by analysis. Not the best example in-series, but not too bad.
* [[Bishonen]]: Without glasses, much like [[Ranma ½|Mousse]]. [[Squee|Causes quite a bit of trouble for him when it first becomes apparent at a convention.]]
* [[Chaste Hero]]: Mistook Kate kissing him as an attempt by her to sexually assault him.
** Inverted when {{spoiler|Phil proposes to Kate, not the other way around}}.
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* [[Nigh Invulnerable]]: {{spoiler|A cross-product of his Null ability to nullify magic and Penpen's special "training" to build up resistance to physical trauma.}}
** [[Made of Iron]]: In the earlier days of the comic, before the plot came together. Phil gets hit by a 18-wheeler and suffers only a minor head injury and broken glasses, gets punched directly into his apartment from across town by Axel, is later knocked out of the same window by Kate (said apartment is several stories above the ground), and recovers from a kunai to the heart in less than a day (an identical injury left a paramedic in a coma). [[Beyond the Impossible|Then he]] ''[[Beyond the Impossible|stops]]'' [[Beyond the Impossible|bleeding...]]
* [[Obfuscating Stupidity]]: Lia at least believes that Phil uses it.
* [[Otaku]]: Taken to ridiculous measures when he and Kate win an anime trivia challenge (and a trip to Japan) because the audience got annoyed that Phil answered every question correctly and explained them.
* [[What Measure Is a Non -Human?]]: Doesn't seem to care either way, being surrounded by Mages, [[Half -Human Hybrid|Chimeras]], demons, and robot girls.
 
=== Kate Summers ===
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Tropes associated with Kate:
* [[Catgirl]]: Duh.
* [[Half -Human Hybrid]]: Also duh.
* [[I Just Want to Be Normal]]: What leads her to meet Josephus.
* [[Official Couple]]: With Phil. {{spoiler|Bonus points now that they're [[Incredibly Lame Pun|officially a couple]].}}
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** [[Badass Longcoat]]
* [[Cool Shades]]: Only ever seen once without them, though they don't always hide his eyes.
* [[Allergic to Love|Allergic To Cute]]: Can be physically damaged by [[Azumanga Daioh (Manga)|Azumanga Daioh]], and Rieko once shuts down his demon form through [[Moe]].
* [[Red Eyes]]: While possessed by the demon. After it was exorcised, they became...
** [[Blue Eyes]]: However, when he gets angry or uses his powers, we get...
** [[Red Eyes, Take Warning]]
* [[Demonic Possession]]: Inadvertently brought about by Josephus, who allowed the demon to take control.
* [[Kid With the Remote Control]]: Due to being the "officially"-recognized master to the Demoness, Axel is the only one who can order her around.
* [[Determinator]]: In his flashback, he's able to regain control of his mind while the demon is speaking the Demoness's true name--''before'' she creates the maze to trap it. He also undergoes [[Training Fromfrom Hell]] from a Demon Prince to learn how to effectively use his powers.
* [[Limited Wardrobe]]: Only ever seems to own one coat: the [[Badass Longcoat|badass]] one, only taking it off twice. Lampshaded when a recent page shows him owning multiple pairs of his trademark shades as well as a closet full of coats.
* [[Dark Is Not Evil]]
* [[ItsIt's Personal]]: Bears a personal grudge against Josephus for letting the Demon take over his body. He's killed Josephus once (as the demon) {{spoiler|and nearly pulled a repeat performance.}}
* [[The Lancer]]: Sort of fits this role, down to the personality type.
 
=== Penpen ===
A two-foot-tall, talking penguin with a Jello fetish that lives as Phil's "pet". Seems to have it out for Phil, attempting to kill him several times and having a scarily impressive knowledge of explosives and weapons. {{spoiler|Of course, that's a ruse, and "Penpen" is really one of the demons who aided the Null in the previous war against the Magi, as well as one of the three Demon Princes. His attempts to "kill" Phil were really just part of a plan to get Phil's [[Anti -Magic|Null]] abilities to render him [[Nigh Invulnerable|near-immune to physical trauma]] as well. "Penpen" is just a pet name because his real name is too scary, and he can shapeshift into two humanoid forms as well as a giant dragon.}}
 
{{spoiler|After defeating his cousin in a "sporting" match and defeating his other cousin to save Hue, Penpen is now the rightful King of Demons.}}
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* [[Combat Pragmatist]]: Will take all kinds of dirty or cheap shots with anything he's got on hand. {{spoiler|He ''is'' a demon, after all.}}
* [[Dark Is Not Evil]]
* [[EverythingsEverything's Better Withwith Penguins]]: Penguins that are demolitions experts, highly-trained in most forms of weaponry (including firearms, which [[Fridge Logic|leaves the question of how they can pull the trigger]], engage in a gelatin fetish and have an appreciation of the fine arts.
* {{spoiler|[[Noble Demon]]: [[Incredibly Lame Pun|Literally.]]}}
* {{spoiler|[[Really Seven Hundred Years Old]]: Personally helped the previous Null during the war in which magic was sealed, which was a long (but unspecified) amount of time ago.}}
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* [[Team Chef]]: A very excellent chef and proud to admit it. None of the other characters seem surprised about it.
* [[Vitriolic Best Buds]]: With Shisou, prominent at first but later toned down a great deal.
* [[What Measure Is a Non -Human?]]: Falls in the same place on this as Phil, but didn't want Miyo to know that she was a robot because of the emotional strain he believed it would put on her.
 
=== Shiden ===
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* [[Badass]]
* [[ItsIt's Personal]]: His (completely unfounded) grudge against Tom. It later turns out that the Magus of Power was responsible for the incident he blamed on Tom.
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Plenty and often. Sometimes in Japanese.
* [[Knife Nut]]: Always has one on him.
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=== Miyo ===
The first [[Robot Girl]] introduced in the comic, and the first to be built by Shiden. He built her to get rid of Phil due to the latter's interest in the [[Chobits (Manga)|Chobits]] anime (which Shiden felt Phil had no right to like or something), but seeing Tom causes her mind to overload and reboot, mentally turning her into a normal sixteen-year-old girl, and she falls in love with the ninja.
 
She and Tom aided in the construction of Shiden's complex, and moved in when it was finished.
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A shy, somewhat quiet robot girl. {{spoiler|She was not built by Shiden, but by Cain, as a vessel for his younger sister's soul, as she was killed during the Weirding due to her Type-A Chimera transformation.}}
 
* {{spoiler|[[Back Fromfrom the Dead]]}}
* {{spoiler|[[Heroic BSOD]]: When she first woke up and saw Cain, it triggered a flood of memories from when she was alive--including her death. This strained her CPU and caused her to zone out for a little bit, and she still lacks her memories.}}
* {{spoiler|[[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot]]: Since she became a Chimera right before dying, and then had her soul implanted in a body reverse-engineered from Nami's, she's part robot, part Chimera.}}
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=== Lien ===
Another one of Shiden's robot girls, built to serve primarily as his (and later, Phil and friends') bodyguard.
 
* [[Action Girl]]
* [[Badass]]
* [[Blinding Bangs]]: Occasionally switches to [[Peek -a -Bangs]] later on in the story, though just barely.
* [[Chronic Hero Syndrome]]: Admits (in her own subtle way) that she does enjoy swooping in to save people.
* [[Emotionless Girl]]: Played with; she specializes in combat functions and is oftentimes very much [[The Stoic]], but is more than capable of thinking and feeling like any of Shiden's robots. She just prefers to keep her emotions under wraps, and actually fears that if she doesn't fulfill her purpose, she'll lose the meaning to her life.
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Axel's familiar, who met him on the night of the Weirding when he became a Chimera.
 
* [[Distracted Byby the Sexy]]: Employs it liberally, [http://yoshcomic.com/latest.php?i=050221 as seen here.]{{Dead link}}
* [[Horny Devils]]: Often (playfully) invokes the stereotype, but hasn't done anything explicitly sexual despite any evidence to the contrary that her teases might imply.
* [[The Tease]]: With ''everybody''. Just barely edges out [[Loveable Sex Maniac|Blue]] for being the comic's best example of this.
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* [[Affably Evil]]
* {{spoiler|[[Brought Down to Normal]]: When Axel attacks him with the [[Blade Onon a Stick]] artifact once possessed by the Null, Joe's raw power is released as a fire elemental, leaving him powerless.}}
* [[Playing Withwith Fire]]
 
=== "Power" ===
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* [[Badass Cape]]
* [[Bratty Half -Pint]]: Though she's a bit older than the trope implies (14 or 15), she has been called a brat to her face at least once.
* [[Brutal Honesty]]: Emi has a habit of [http://www.yoshsaga.com/archive/lifes-little-changes/ speaking] [http://www.yoshsaga.com/archive/heat-induced-expansion/ without really thinking about] [http://www.yoshsaga.com/archive/the-magi-in-a-nutshell/ what she says].
* [[Disproportionate Retribution]]: Gets hit with a beach ball and teased a few times; powers up to fry everyone in range afterwards.
* [[Heel Realization]]: {{spoiler|When Phil "nulls" her powers for a few moments after the beach ball incident, she realizes exactly what she was about to do. And feels moderately bad about it.}} Afterwards, she begins to soften up a little bit.
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=== Serena ===
{{spoiler|The second Magus of Fire, who received the power when Josephus died.}} Lives in South America.
 
* [[Dark -Skinned Redhead]]
* {{spoiler|[[Locked Into Strangeness]]: Her physical changes are so contrary to her original appearance that her grandfather was rather freaked out when it happened.}}
* [[Parental Abandonment]]: Possibly. Her mother works in the city, while she looks after her grandfather in the jungle. What her father's doing is unknown.
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A government agent that severely distrusts all magi and wants to make sure that they're not a threat to regular humans by any means necessary.
 
* [[Character Development]]: His interactions with Shiden and Lia have made him considerably less brutal and extreme in his methods and makes him second guess his assumption that Magi are automatically [[Card -Carrying Villain|card carrying]] [[Evil Overlord|Evil Overlords]]s. He's still fairly pragmatic though. (see [[Xanatos Gambit]])
* [[Well -Intentioned Extremist]]
* [[Xanatos Gambit]]: {{spoiler|Pretends to try and rob a local historian of several priceless artifacts from the Null War in order to gain access to a magical seal in the historian's basement.}}
 
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* [[Magic Knight]]
* [[Sinister Scythe]]
* [[Sink or Swim Mentor]]: A mild example; he taught Axel in a very [[Training Fromfrom Hell|hands-on]] sort of way.
* [[The Rival]]: {{spoiler|To Penpen.}}
 
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