History Characters / Cybersix

* SpellMyNameWithAnS: The title spells it Cybersix, but Cyber 6 is what is actually tattooed onto her forearms.

* AccidentalHero: Inverted. Though she does value life and defends people from Von Reichter's monsters, she mainly fights in order to gain sustenance from said monsters. It's mostly just coincidental that she ends up foiling Jose's and Reichter's plans of crime and world domination.

* MamaBear: Even though as Adrian he can't stand Lori, when Jose kidnaps her, Cybersix set his [[KillItWithFire drill tank on fire with him in it.]]

* ADayInTheLimelight: "Lori is Missing." She runs into Jose, who has her abducted because a disc that he needed for his DrillTank got mixed-up with her [=CD=]s.
* ActionGirl: She has her moment, when Jose kidnaps her. After Cybersix frees her, she uses one of her music discs to sabotage Jose's drill.
* DefiantCaptive: Even though she's tied up she trolls Jose into thinking she's hot for him. When she reveals her prank it causes all of Jose's underlings to laugh at him.

* SmarterThanYouLook: She was able to screw with Jose's drill program without any issues.

* BadassAdorable: He's managed to trick Data-7 and many Fixed Ideas. Twice on the latter. He's also taken on Jose in a fight.

* BigBrotherInstinct: His sister means everything to him. Jose kidnapping her is what prompts him to take the case finding Cybersix.

* ForcedIntoEvil: He initially refuses to find Cybersix because he doesn't trust Jose. Jose responds by kidnapping his sister, Ikiko, forcing Yashimoto to figure out who Cybersix is anyway. Same deal in the original comic, but with Von Reichter instead of José.

* HeroOfAnotherStory: According to Jose, Yashimoto is hailed as the best private investigator in Meridiana.

** He refuses to take Jose's case at first because he doesn't believe the story about Cybersix robbing him. Then Jose kidnaps Ikiko to force him to hunt Cybersix down.

* StealthExpert: While gathering information, he actually sneaks into Lucas's apartment while Lucas is sleeping inside and goes through the place without waking him up. He demonstraets good eavesdropping skills, as well.

* DefiantCaptive: Along with Julian when they get kidnapped by Jose. They both demand food and undermine Jose calling the shots.

A former SS scientist hiding in South America. He's the main antagonist and creator of the Cybers along with all the other mooks and monsters that Cybersix fights against. He sends in his son Jose as his representative and communicates with him through a video screen hidden behind a portrait of his likeness.

* AbusiveParents: Of the WellDoneSonGuy variety. He holds Jose wholly responsible for all of their losses and sees him as little more than a henchman and a failure. Notably, his reaction to his son (who, granted, had just [[MistreatmentInducedBetrayal betrayed]] him) seemingly being killed by a falling tree is to shrug and say, "Well, so much for Jose."
* AdaptedOut: He was a Nazi (''heavily'' implied to be [[spoiler:Josef Mengele]] himself) in the original comics. The animated series removed all overt references to Nazism, but had enough hints (the branded forearms of the Cybers, Von Reichter and Jose's fashion sense, the latter's penchant for goose stepping) to get the point across to discerning viewers. The name is also a dead giveaway.

* BigBad: He flip flops between this and GreaterScopeVillain, since, even though he creates the monsters and comes up with most of the plans, Jose's [[TheHeavy the one that does the grunt work]]. He did skip the middle man on a few occasions and send assassins (Data-7, Elaine, and Griselda) himself, though.

* NeverMyFault: Every time his plans are foiled, he blames Jose for it. Even though it's more or less a result of EvilCannotComprehendGood as well as underestimating Cybersix.

* OmnicidalManiac: His final gambit. He's grown weary of Meridiana, so he decides to wipe it and everyone in it out with an ActionBomb, dismissing his son's protests with, "Jose, it's just a city." His motive is equal parts [[EvilIsPetty spite]] and show of force.
-->'''Von Reichter:''' And after this, the rest of the world will have to sit up and take notice. Yes, Jose, things will be much different now. Now the world will listen when I speak!

* EvenEvilHasStandards: A combination of this and PragmaticVillainy. Jose enjoys city life and being the kingpin of Meridiana, so he obviously finds his father's plan to annihilate it too extreme. [[spoiler:Von Reichter dismissing his concerns coupled with his previous derision of him prompts Jose to pull a MistreatmentInducedBetrayal]].
* ExtremeLibido: Von Reichter thinks of hypersexuality as a design feature. That's '''not''' a joke, he brings it up alongside SuperStrength as a feature he put into José and also into Helmut, the one with Krumen's DNA. He's an odd man.

* OlderThanTheyLook: Despite having a child-like appearance and behavior it's implied that Jose's OlderThanHeLooks considering that he behaves in a very intelligent and sophisticated way and even behaves like a grown-up from time to time.

* TragicVillain: He's a wretched, sick little monster and the world would literally be a better place if he had never existed, but José didn't design and create himself and Von Reichter is a terrible father.

* LightningBruiser: Von Richter's other greatest creation, he has superhuman physical abilities [[GeniusBruiser and brains to match them]], just like Jose.

* ChewToy: They spend most of their screen-time getting beaten up by Cybersix or being mistreated by Jose whenever they piss him off with their bumbling and incompetent behavior.

* CombatTentacles: His lower body gains these in place of legs after Jose mutates him into more of a bloodthirsty monster.

* RedEyesTakeWarning: He has these naturally, but goes from a mindless beast to wanting to understand emotions and himself. Once Jose forcefully implants him with the killing instinct of various animals, he sprouts a second pair of [[YellowEyesOfSneakiness yellow slitted eyes]] on slug-like stalks.

Am ambitious reporter willing to do anything for fame and fortune.

* LightningBruiser: She has genuinely superhuman physical abilities, but using them means burning up Sustenance, so she has to be careful.
* MaleMightFemaleFinesse: Cybersix usually goes with kicks and flips because she knows that beating a Fixed Idea in a straight fight will end her.

* FragileSpeedster: She's very fast, but not as durable as the majority of Von Reichter's creations. To beat them, she needs to resort to [[CombatPragmatist tricks]] to win.

Cybersix is an artificial human created by by the evil scientist Von Reichter who stalks the cities at night primarily to fight his evil creations and steal their sustenance for her own survival. Along the way though she ends up becoming something of a superhero as she often winds up protecting civilians from them too. During the daytime she is disguised as Adrien Seidelman, a teacher of literature.

* WillTheyOrWontThey: With Cybersix. [[spoiler: They don't quite get there before the end of the series but to be fair, they did at least kiss in the finale.]]

[[folder:Cybersix / Adrian Seidelman]]

* FreudianExcuse: In the comic, as a very young child in the circus she was badly abused by one of the performers--a discretion shot keeps us from seeing what happened, but the sound effects indicate violence and the clown was taking his belt off as well as grabbing her from behind. This trauma goes a long way in explaining her mild instability and [[RapeAsBackstory most likely]] also her hypersexuality. Poor kid.

* TroubledBackstoryFlashback: We learn in the comic that when she was a kid in the circus one of the clowns violently attacked her--possibly sexually assaulting her as well--and no one believed her story.

* {{Creepy Good}}: While she's certainly sinister looking, she's a benevolent figure.

* {{Fragile Speedster}}: She's very fast, but not as durable as the majority of Von Reichter's creations. To beat them, she needs to resort to [[CombatPragmatist tricks]] to win.

** In the cartoon he's introduced teaching a biology class, but when he accidentally shows a slide of him as a skinny guy in boxing gear, he ends up laughing alongside his students. His next scene is coming in to protect Adrian from Lori's goons, making the three scramble by giving them a smirk. And when he meets up with Cybersix, while he is wary of her, he quickly proves he's on her side by tackling a Fixed Idea out of his aprtment.

* HenchmanRace: They are created to be the brute force under José’s command.

** Data-7 makes a lot of stock growls and roars that come from tigers and mountain lions, but not jaguars.

* EvilIsPetty: As mentioned above, the violent eradication of the Cyber line happened because a Cyber girl (who, mind you, had been ordered to be honest) told him she wasn't attracted to him.

* DirtyOldMan: In the comics, the inciting incident that lead to his order for all of the Cybers to be destroyed was when he propositioned a Cyber girl the moment she hit puberty, and, acting on orders to be honest, told him that she found him repulsive.

* AdaptationalIntelligence: In the cartoon, Hashimoto makes brilliant deductions based on little information where in the original comics he realistically has to do legwork, make observations, talk to witnesses, break into apartments, etc. like private investigators in the real world do. They both do some roofhopping that most detectives don't bother with, though.

* OnlyFriend: Maura lives between hits of whatever drug she can get and does awful, soul-crushing stuff in between

* BlueAndOrangeMorality: Technos can imitate humans, but their own personality is slavishly devoted to Von Reichter and his more advanced and intelligent creations. At one point, for example, during a meeting with a group of Technos José demanded an attractive Techno female have sex with him right there in front of everyone, which she did without a hint of hesitation. When he was finished she was neither traumatized nor troubled by the incident.

* DidntThinkThisThrough: Von Reichter binned the entire Cyber line around twenty years ago because they had a genetic tendency toward rebelliousness that he couldn't tame. He decides to create and flash-grow a perfectly clone of the one Cyber who escaped him--without apparently putting any brainwashing or programming safeguards into her because he believed she'd be more effective without them. No way for José or Helmut to keep her in line but her rather quick childhood under Von Reichter's thumb. No prizes for guessing what happens.

* UncertainDoom: In order to keep her safe from Von Reichter, the Cybersixes agree that she should leave Meridiana disguised as a male worker on a ship. Except she also needs Sustenance, and her reserve "tank" is just as small. Maybe she packed some for the trip, but she'd better hope she ends up in another Techno-infested city.

** Seen: She comes to Lucas talking about how she's changed her ways and asking to get back together with him. He gives her a second chance, sleeps with her (and is seen by Cybersix), and in the middle of the night he catches her stealing his files on genetic engineering (and his research on Cybersix) and throws her out.

* OurWereWolvesAreDifferent: Although her transformation usually happens on a full moon, it's implied that she can transform at will. She has control over every werewolf she turns and when she dies, her victims turn back to normal.

* HeterosexualLifePartners: With Adrian.

* DisneyDeath: Hanging by her own rope from a crashed ambulance and over the side of bridge above a waterfall, Griselda is too weak to climb up. Despite being hunted by her and suffering from an injured arm, Cybersix begins to pull her up, much to her shock. However, a train begins to close in on the rails Cybersix is standing on. Rather than doom both of them, Griselda bids her farewell and lets go of the rope. She then plunges into the falls below and doesn't resurface.

** In the cartoon he's introduced teaching a biology class, but when he accidentally shows a slide of him as a skinny guy in boxing gear, he ends up laughing alongside his students. His next scene is coming in to protect Adrian from Lori's goons, making the three scramble by giving them a smirk.

** At one point the school Adrian works orders that all its teachers to submit to an examination by a psychotherapist. Though this an entirely well-intentioned gesture given that it's a school in the slums for problem kids and they want to identify anyone among the faculty who needs help, Six-as-Adrian threatens her resignation. Besides the obvious stress issues of her night life, she also probably correctly believes that a competent psychiatrist would see right through the Adrian identity and out her as both as a woman and a fraud, rendering said identity useless. Ultimately the therapist turns out to be gentle and understand and when Adrian gets upset and ends the interview early promises to give a positive review to the school board, but also says 'Adrian' can come back any time. Eventually, that's exactly what happens.