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* ActionDad: He's one of the ''Edens One'''s main fighters. [[spoiler:He's later revealed to be Shiki's biological father.]]
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* AmnesiacLover: [[spoiler:The final arc reveals that Wizard was Witch's fiancé and eventual husband back when they were human. Since neither of them remember their human pasts, they are now on opposing sides.]]
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* AmnesiacLover: [[spoiler:The final arc reveals that Wizard was Witch's fiancé and eventual husband back when they were human.humans. Since neither of them remember their human pasts, they are now on opposing sides.]]
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* LukeIMightBeYourFather: [[spoiler:The final arc implies Leonard (the human who became Wizard) is Shiki's biological father, with the mother being Regret (the human Witch), and none of them the wiser. However, despite Regret deciding to name their baby Shiki, it's not entirely clear if it's the same character due to their different hair colors and the fact the baby was conceived 20,000 years ago.]]
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* LukeIMightBeYourFather: LukeIAmYourFather: [[spoiler:The final arc implies reveals Leonard (the human who became Wizard) is Shiki's biological father, with the mother being Regret (the human Witch), and none of them the wiser. However, despite Regret deciding to name their baby Shiki, it's not entirely clear if it's the same character due to their different hair colors and the fact the baby was conceived 20,000 years ago.wiser.]]
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* EmptyShell: Unlike other robots, they don't have any personality whatsoever, existing solely to carry out Ziggy's bidding.
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* EmptyShell: Unlike other robots, they don't have any personality whatsoever, existing solely to carry out Ziggy's bidding. [[spoiler:{{Subverted}} in the final arc, which shows they can think and feel just like any other machine.]]
* UnableToCry: [[spoiler:They're incapable of crying since they have no tear ducts, but they can still feel tremendous sadness, which allows Laguna to work his Ether Gear on them.]]
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* AmbiguousStartOfDarkness: [[spoiler:After TheReveal that she was originally a BenevolentAI, the crew can only speculate what drove Joker to work for Void to begin with. Professor Weisz guesses that either she empathized with Void's vision for a world without humans, or that Void found her first and [[BrainwashedAndCrazy altered her behavior]] in some way.]]
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* BladeBelowTheShoulder: He can fuse his fingers into a single Ether blade, which he uses to stab Shiki straight through the chest.
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* BladeBelowTheShoulder: He can fuse his fingers into a single Ether blade, which he uses to stab Shiki straight through the chest.blade.
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* FlatCharacter: Law receives very little characterization outside of being one of Void's followers [[spoiler:and is destroyed a small handful of chapters after he's introduced]].
* KillItWithIce: [[spoiler:Laguna destroys Law after dousing him in water and then going into [[SuperMode Overdrive]] to freeze him with ice, which weakens Law's [[SuperToughness armored body]] enough to impale him and cut him to pieces.]]
* KillItWithWater: [[spoiler:{{Subverted}}. Laguna's water proves effective against Law's electronics, but it also makes himself vulnerable to Law's [[ShockAndAwe electricity]], so Laguna goes [[SuperMode Overdrive]] to change his water into [[KillItWithIce ice]].]]
* KillItWithWater: [[spoiler:{{Subverted}}. Laguna's water proves effective against Law's electronics, but it also makes himself vulnerable to Law's [[ShockAndAwe electricity]], so Laguna goes [[SuperMode Overdrive]] to change his water into [[KillItWithIce ice]].]]
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* RobotMaster: His Metal Gore Hypnos is a MarionetteMaster ability that specifically affects robots, who are forced to follow his command and fight for him as long as they're still in one piece, no matter how damaged they are.
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* RobotMaster: His Metal Gore Hypnos technique is a MarionetteMaster ability that specifically affects robots, who are forced to follow his command and fight for him as long as they're still in one piece, no matter how damaged they are.are. [[spoiler:However, his victims can [[FightingFromTheInside resist his control]] through sheer force of will, as the Skeleton Army does when they're moved by Shiki's compassion for them.]]
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* SuperToughness: He has the endurance to withstand being rammed by Rebecca's Leo starfighter and come out completely unscathed. [[spoiler:Laguna works around this by [[KillItWithWater soaking]] and [[KillItWithIce flash-freezing]] Law, making his body brittle enough to cut to pieces.]]
* {{Technopath}}: His Metal Gore Hypnos technique allows him to [[RobotMaster control other robots against their wills]] until they're completely reduced to scrap metal. He can also demolish machines like starfighters with a single touch.
* KillItWithIce: [[spoiler:Laguna destroys Law after dousing him in water and then going into [[SuperMode Overdrive]] to freeze him with ice, which weakens Law's [[SuperToughness armored body]] enough to impale him and cut him to pieces.]]
* KillItWithWater: [[spoiler:{{Subverted}}. Laguna's water proves effective against Law's electronics, but it also makes himself vulnerable to Law's [[ShockAndAwe electricity]], so Laguna goes [[SuperMode Overdrive]] to change his water into [[KillItWithIce ice]].]]
* {{Technopath}}: His Metal Gore Hypnos technique allows him to [[RobotMaster control other robots against their wills]] until they're completely reduced to scrap metal. He can also demolish machines like starfighters with a single touch.
* KillItWithIce: [[spoiler:Laguna destroys Law after dousing him in water and then going into [[SuperMode Overdrive]] to freeze him with ice, which weakens Law's [[SuperToughness armored body]] enough to impale him and cut him to pieces.]]
* KillItWithWater: [[spoiler:{{Subverted}}. Laguna's water proves effective against Law's electronics, but it also makes himself vulnerable to Law's [[ShockAndAwe electricity]], so Laguna goes [[SuperMode Overdrive]] to change his water into [[KillItWithIce ice]].]]
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* SuperToughness: He has His armored body gives him the endurance to withstand being rammed by Rebecca's Leo starfighter and come out completely unscathed. [[spoiler:Laguna works around this by [[KillItWithWater soaking]] and [[KillItWithIce flash-freezing]] Law, making his body brittle enough to cut to pieces.damage.]]
* {{Technopath}}: His Metal Gore Hypnos technique allows him to [[RobotMaster control other robots against their wills]] until they're completely reduced to scrap metal. He can alsodemolish disassemble machines like starfighters with a single touch.
* KillItWithIce: [[spoiler:Laguna destroys Law after dousing him in water and then going into [[SuperMode Overdrive]] to freeze him with ice, which weakens Law's [[SuperToughness armored body]] enough to impale him and cut him to pieces.]]
* KillItWithWater: [[spoiler:{{Subverted}}. Laguna's water proves effective against Law's electronics, but it also makes himself vulnerable to Law's [[ShockAndAwe electricity]], so Laguna goes [[SuperMode Overdrive]] to change his water into [[KillItWithIce ice]].]]touch.
* {{Technopath}}: His Metal Gore Hypnos technique allows him to [[RobotMaster control other robots against their wills]] until they're completely reduced to scrap metal. He can also
* KillItWithIce: [[spoiler:Laguna destroys Law after dousing him in water and then going into [[SuperMode Overdrive]] to freeze him with ice, which weakens Law's [[SuperToughness armored body]] enough to impale him and cut him to pieces.]]
* KillItWithWater: [[spoiler:{{Subverted}}. Laguna's water proves effective against Law's electronics, but it also makes himself vulnerable to Law's [[ShockAndAwe electricity]], so Laguna goes [[SuperMode Overdrive]] to change his water into [[KillItWithIce ice]].]]
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* WeHardlyKnewYe: [[spoiler:Law is destroyed a small handful of chapters after he's introduced, receiving very little characterization outside of being one of Void's followers.]]
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* DefiantToTheEnd: [[spoiler:Even after Laguna gives him a CurbStompBattle by running him through with an ice sword, Law refuses to accept defeat against a human and [[CurbStompCushion gets in a solid retaliating hit]], mocking the ''Edens Zero'' crew's belief in equality between humans and machines, before Laguna finally cuts him to pieces.]]
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* KillItWithIce: [[spoiler:Laguna destroys Law after dousing him in water and then going into [[SuperMode Overdrive]] to freeze him with ice, which weakens Law's [[SuperToughness armored body]] enough to impale him and cut him to pieces.]]
* KillItWithWater: [[spoiler:{{Subverted}}. Laguna's water proves effective against Law's electronics, but it also makes himself vulnerable to Law's [[ShockAndAwe electricity]], so Laguna goes [[SuperMode Overdrive]] to change his water into [[KillItWithIce ice]].]]
* KillItWithWater: [[spoiler:{{Subverted}}. Laguna's water proves effective against Law's electronics, but it also makes himself vulnerable to Law's [[ShockAndAwe electricity]], so Laguna goes [[SuperMode Overdrive]] to change his water into [[KillItWithIce ice]].]]
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* BackFromTheDead:
** He comes back ten years after breaking down from old age. Unfortunately for Shiki, it's no heartwarming reunion with his grandfather, as he immediately becomes the BigBad. [[spoiler:Once Pino's Overdrive EMP restores his original personality, he reveals the true BigBad possessed his body to revive him.]]
** [[spoiler:At the start of the final arcs, the CosmicRetcon not only undoes his death in the Lendard arc, but also alters history so he secretly recycled his own Ether, meaning he never died to begin with.]]
** He comes back ten years after breaking down from old age. Unfortunately for Shiki, it's no heartwarming reunion with his grandfather, as he immediately becomes the BigBad. [[spoiler:Once Pino's Overdrive EMP restores his original personality, he reveals the true BigBad possessed his body to revive him.]]
** [[spoiler:At the start of the final arcs, the CosmicRetcon not only undoes his death in the Lendard arc, but also alters history so he secretly recycled his own Ether, meaning he never died to begin with.]]
* DiedHappilyEverAfter: [[spoiler:Ziggy's voice reaches out to Shiki following his destruction in the Lendard arc, expressing contentment that he will [[AlwaysWithYou live on through his grandson]] (i.e., his AlternateSelf), and entrusting the fate of the universe to him.]]
* DyingAsYourself: [[spoiler:After regaining his true personality thanks to Pino's Overdrive {{EMP}}, Ziggy urges Shiki to kill him before the ''Edens One'' reasserts control, successfully coaxing him after [[HydePlaysJekyll pretending to get taken over again]].]]
* FaceDeathWithDignity: [[spoiler:He calmly and happily welcomes death moments before Shiki destroys him with Black Sky to save him from the ''Edens One''[='=]s control.]]
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* HydePlaysJekyll: Ziggy is able to pull this off twice in the Lendard arc thanks to the stark personality shift he undergoes during his FaceHeelTurn, making it seem like he's another person entirely, though the context between each moment is different due to the fact that [[spoiler:he's actually an unwilling puppet to the real BigBad]]:
** In the first instance, he pulls off a WoundedGazelleGambit after Elsie nearly defeats him, briefly changing back to his original self and pleading her to flee with Shiki before stabbing her with her own sword. [[spoiler:This winds up being {{subverted}} once it's revealed he was actually FightingFromTheInside against the BigBad's control.]]
** In the second instance, [[spoiler:this is played straight by the real Ziggy, who pretends to slip back under the BigBad's control to motivate Shiki into killing him for good, [[DeathFakedForYou faking Pino's death]] to trigger Shiki's TraumaticSuperpowerAwakening.]]
** In the first instance, he pulls off a WoundedGazelleGambit after Elsie nearly defeats him, briefly changing back to his original self and pleading her to flee with Shiki before stabbing her with her own sword. [[spoiler:This winds up being {{subverted}} once it's revealed he was actually FightingFromTheInside against the BigBad's control.]]
** In the second instance, [[spoiler:this is played straight by the real Ziggy, who pretends to slip back under the BigBad's control to motivate Shiki into killing him for good, [[DeathFakedForYou faking Pino's death]] to trigger Shiki's TraumaticSuperpowerAwakening.]]
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* HydePlaysJekyll: Ziggy is able to pull this off twice in ICannotSelfTerminate: [[spoiler:Ziggy briefly regains control of himself during the Lendard arc thanks to the stark personality shift he undergoes during his FaceHeelTurn, making Pino, but, knowing it seem like he's another person entirely, though the context between each moment is different due to the fact that [[spoiler:he's actually an unwilling puppet to the real BigBad]]:
** In the first instance, he pulls off a WoundedGazelleGambit after Elsie nearly defeats him, briefly changing back to his original self and pleading her to flee withwon't last, begs Shiki before stabbing her with her own sword. [[spoiler:This winds up being {{subverted}} once it's revealed he was actually FightingFromTheInside against to kill him and put him out of his misery so the BigBad's control.]]
** In the second instance, [[spoiler:this is played straight by the real Ziggy, who''Edens One'' won't use him as a pawn anymore. When Shiki hesitates, Ziggy [[HydePlaysJekyll pretends to slip fall back under the BigBad's control to motivate Shiki into killing him for good, control]] and [[DeathFakedForYou faking fakes Pino's death]] to trigger Shiki's TraumaticSuperpowerAwakening.motivate him.]]
** In the first instance, he pulls off a WoundedGazelleGambit after Elsie nearly defeats him, briefly changing back to his original self and pleading her to flee with
** In the second instance, [[spoiler:this is played straight by the real Ziggy, who
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* NoBodyLeftBehind: [[spoiler:In the Lendard arc, Shiki uses Black Sky on Ziggy as per his grandfather's LastRequest, which obliterates every last trace of him so the ''Edens One'' won't be able to bring him BackFromTheDead as a puppet again.]]
* NotQuiteDead: [[spoiler:When the robots find him in his human body 20,000 years in the future, he appears to be dead along with Rebecca. Then his life readings start flaring up, and he's immediately taken in for medical treatment.]]
* NotQuiteDead: [[spoiler:When the robots find him in his human body 20,000 years in the future, he appears to be dead along with Rebecca. Then his life readings start flaring up, and he's immediately taken in for medical treatment.]]
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!!The Will of ''Edens One''
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The ''Edens One''[='=]s A.I., which so far surpassed the intelligence of humans and machines that the ship itself gained a mind of its own. It's responsible for controlling Ziggy to carry out its will to destroy Mother and bring about humankind's extinction, making it the true enemy of the ''Edens Zero'' crew.
->For the ''Edens One''[='=]s CustomBuiltHost in the final arcs, '''Over Nu Etherion Void''', see [[Characters/EdensZeroUniverseZero this page]].
!!The Will of ''Edens One''
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The ''Edens One''[='=]s A.I., which so far surpassed the intelligence of humans and machines that the ship itself gained a mind of its own. It's responsible for controlling Ziggy to carry out its will to destroy Mother and bring about humankind's extinction, making it the true enemy of the ''Edens Zero'' crew.
->For the ''Edens One''[='=]s CustomBuiltHost in the final arcs, '''Over Nu Etherion Void''', see [[Characters/EdensZeroUniverseZero this page]].
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!!The Will of ''Edens One''
!!Over Nu Etherion Void
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The ''Edens One''[='=]s A.I., which so far surpassed the intelligence of humans and machines that the ship itself gained a mind of its own.
->For the ''Edens One''[='=]s CustomBuiltHost in the final arcs, '''Over Nu Etherion Void''', see [[Characters/EdensZeroUniverseZero this page]].
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* AIIsACrapshoot: Hermit hypothesizes that the ''Edens One'' was intended as a spare ship for the ''Edens Zero'', but the ship's A.I. was so advanced that it formulated plans of a more genocidal nature than Ziggy intended.
* BigBad: The Lendard arc reveals the ''Edens One'' itself to be the true villain of the series, with Ziggy--the previously-believed BigBad--as a helpless puppet it uses to carry out its plans for human extermination.
* ContagiousAI: It uses its A.I. to [[GrandTheftMe hijack Ziggy's body]] and force him to behave as an evil GalacticConqueror who tries to murder his old family and friends.
* TheDogWasTheMastermind: Nearly everyone InUniverse assumed the ''Edens One'' to simply be the flagship of Demon King Ziggy, a fearsome GalacticConqueror on the warpath for robot supremacy. They didn't expect the ship to in fact be the vessel for an evil ArtificialIntelligence that raised Ziggy from the dead to become its puppet.
* FiendishFish: A MechanicalMonster variety. On top of being a CoolShip modeled after a ''[[UsefulNotes/StockDinosaursNonDinosaurs Dunkleosteus]]'', a prehistoric predatory fish, the ''Edens One'' also has its own will and serves as the true BigBad of the series.
* HiddenVillain: The "true enemy" that Ziggy reveals in the Lendard arc to have been controlling him turns out to be the ''Edens One'' itself.
* ItCanThink: Initially seeming like an ordinary ship Ziggy uses to conquer the universe, the ''Edens One'' turns out to have a mind of its own, [[HumansAreTheRealMonsters an unflattering opinion of humans]], and some [[KillAllHumans insidious designs]] for how to deal with them.
* KickTheDog: It psychologically torments Shiki and the rest of Ziggy's loved ones while possessing the good Demon King, making them believe he's really a GalacticConqueror who never would have loved them if not for his IdentityAmnesia, and that, as Shiki's future self, he threw away everything that made him an AllLovingHero out of hatred for humans.
* TheManBehindTheMan: In the climax of the Lendard arc, Ziggy returns to his good self and reveals himself to have been a puppet, with the ''Edens One'' itself being the one pulling his strings.
* OmnicidalManiac: It aims to kill Mother, the source of all life in the universe, which would lead to the extinction of both humans (organic alien races included) and machines, as it has in the future of every parallel universe.
* SapientShip: The ''Edens One'' isn't just a ship, but a shell for an ultra-advanced ArtificialIntelligence that's been puppeteering Ziggy the entire time.
* TurnedAgainstTheirMasters: The ship was constructed as a backup for the ''Edens Zero'', but it became self-aware and hateful of humans to the point of taking over Ziggy's body and using him to facilitate its own omnicidal plans.
* WalkingSpoiler: The fact that the ship is intelligent and has been controlling Ziggy as the BigBad, which isn't known until well into the series' second half, flips everything known about them in the first half on its head.
* BigBad: The Lendard arc reveals the ''Edens One'' itself to be the true villain of the series, with Ziggy--the previously-believed BigBad--as a helpless puppet it uses to carry out its plans for human extermination.
* ContagiousAI: It uses its A.I. to [[GrandTheftMe hijack Ziggy's body]] and force him to behave as an evil GalacticConqueror who tries to murder his old family and friends.
* TheDogWasTheMastermind: Nearly everyone InUniverse assumed the ''Edens One'' to simply be the flagship of Demon King Ziggy, a fearsome GalacticConqueror on the warpath for robot supremacy. They didn't expect the ship to in fact be the vessel for an evil ArtificialIntelligence that raised Ziggy from the dead to become its puppet.
* FiendishFish: A MechanicalMonster variety. On top of being a CoolShip modeled after a ''[[UsefulNotes/StockDinosaursNonDinosaurs Dunkleosteus]]'', a prehistoric predatory fish, the ''Edens One'' also has its own will and serves as the true BigBad of the series.
* HiddenVillain: The "true enemy" that Ziggy reveals in the Lendard arc to have been controlling him turns out to be the ''Edens One'' itself.
* ItCanThink: Initially seeming like an ordinary ship Ziggy uses to conquer the universe, the ''Edens One'' turns out to have a mind of its own, [[HumansAreTheRealMonsters an unflattering opinion of humans]], and some [[KillAllHumans insidious designs]] for how to deal with them.
* KickTheDog: It psychologically torments Shiki and the rest of Ziggy's loved ones while possessing the good Demon King, making them believe he's really a GalacticConqueror who never would have loved them if not for his IdentityAmnesia, and that, as Shiki's future self, he threw away everything that made him an AllLovingHero out of hatred for humans.
* TheManBehindTheMan: In the climax of the Lendard arc, Ziggy returns to his good self and reveals himself to have been a puppet, with the ''Edens One'' itself being the one pulling his strings.
* OmnicidalManiac: It aims to kill Mother, the source of all life in the universe, which would lead to the extinction of both humans (organic alien races included) and machines, as it has in the future of every parallel universe.
* SapientShip: The ''Edens One'' isn't just a ship, but a shell for an ultra-advanced ArtificialIntelligence that's been puppeteering Ziggy the entire time.
* TurnedAgainstTheirMasters: The ship was constructed as a backup for the ''Edens Zero'', but it became self-aware and hateful of humans to the point of taking over Ziggy's body and using him to facilitate its own omnicidal plans.
* WalkingSpoiler: The fact that the ship is intelligent and has been controlling Ziggy as the BigBad, which isn't known until well into the series' second half, flips everything known about them in the first half on its head.
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* AIIsACrapshoot: Hermit hypothesizes that Void is described as the ''Edens One'' was intended as a spare ship for the ''Edens Zero'', but the ship's One''[='=]s A.I. was so advanced that it formulated , which grew beyond Ziggy's control and started formulating plans of a more genocidal nature than Ziggy intended.
* BigBad: The Lendard arc revealsto drive humans to extinction. [[spoiler:This is {{subverted}} during the ''Edens One'' itself to be final arc, where it's revealed the true villain of the series, with Ziggy--the previously-believed BigBad--as a helpless puppet it uses to carry out its plans for human extermination.
* ContagiousAI: It uses itsA.I. didn't go bad on its own, but was imbued with the consciousness of [[KidFromTheFuture Shiki and Rebecca's future son]].]]
* AntagonisticOffspring: On top of being the BigBad, Void is [[spoiler:the manifestation of Shiki/Ziggy and Rebecca's unborn son, whose consciousness was [[BrainUploading uploaded]] onto the ''Edens One'', and was instilled with such a [[MisanthropeSupreme hatred for humanity]] that he seeks to[[GrandTheftMe hijack wipe them all out, including his own would-be parents.]]
* BadassCape: Void wears an imposing cape in his android form, giving him the image of someone more powerful than Ziggy himself.
* BigBad: Void is TheManBehindTheMan to Ziggy, the previously-believed BigBad, who is revealed in the Lendard arc as a helpless puppet Void uses to carry out his plans for human extermination.
* BrainUploading: [[spoiler:Void's conscious thoughts belong to Shiki and Rebecca's unborn human son, whose thoughts instinctively transferred themselves back in time to the ''Edens One'', since he couldn't survive in Rebecca's womb due to her death.]]
* ContagiousAI: As the ''Edens One''[='=]s A.I., Void has the power to download himself into other androids, which is how he hijacks Ziggy'sbody]] body and force forces him to behave act as an evil GalacticConqueror who tries GalacticConqueror.
* CustomBuiltHost: Universe Zero's version of Void doesn't act through Ziggy, but instead an EmptyShell of an android he builds using the [[PerpetualMotionMachine Möbius System]], modeled after [[spoiler:his hypothetical appearance as Shiki and Rebecca's adult human son]].
* EvilWearsBlack: As the ultimate BigBad of the series, Void is decked out in jet black armor.
* FeelingOppressedByTheirExistence: He despises humans simply because he's judged them tomurder be an inferior, foolish race that exists only to wantonly hate and destroy each other. Rather than sit by and leave them to their pointless wars, Void decides it's best to KillAllHumans himself through Mother and be rid of them.
* GratuitousGreek: The "Nu" in hisold family name stands for the Greek letter [=Ν/ν=], though it doesn't seem to have much purpose outside of making a SignificantAnagram.
* GravityMaster: Void uses Satan Gravity just like Ziggy, his host in the previous world [[spoiler:and his biological father]].
* InvincibleVillain: Void claims to be a perfect being on account of being a machine, which he backs up with his resilience to Shiki's Overdrive andfriends.
ability to shatter Shiki's arm in that state.
*TheDogWasTheMastermind: Nearly everyone InUniverse assumed ItCanThink: Before Void's existence is revealed, the ''Edens One'' to is presented simply be as the flagship of Demon King Ziggy, a fearsome GalacticConqueror on the warpath for robot supremacy. They didn't expect the ship to in fact be the vessel for an evil ArtificialIntelligence that raised Ziggy from uses to conquer the dead universe.
* KidFromTheFuture: [[spoiler:His true identity is actually Shiki and Rebecca's child, who was conceived before his parents were sent 20,000 years into the future, and used MentalTimeTravel tobecome its puppet.
* FiendishFish: A MechanicalMonster variety. On topupload himself onto the ''Edens One'' as a mass of being thought in the past.]]
* TheManBehindTheMan: As revealed in the Lendard arc, he is the villain behind Ziggy's transformation into the apparent BigBad, directly using Ziggy as his host.
* MechanicalMonster: In his base form as the ''Edens One'', Void is aCoolShip SapientShip modeled after a ''[[UsefulNotes/StockDinosaursNonDinosaurs Dunkleosteus]]'', a [[FiendishFish prehistoric predatory fish, fish]].
* MentalTimeTravel: [[spoiler:Void manifested this ability before he even had a physical form in Rebecca's womb, which allowed him to travel 20,000 years back in time as a mass of thought and merge with the ''Edens One''[='=]s A.I.]]
* MisanthropeSupreme: [[spoiler:As a would-be human whose mind was uploaded onto the ''Edens One''also before he was born, Void has its own will and serves as the true BigBad developed an unflattering opinion of the series.
human race and wants to destroy them all.]]
*HiddenVillain: The "true enemy" NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: He calls himself Void, which is what his plans will reduce the cosmos to: a space completely devoid of all human life.
* RageHelm: Void wears a horned helmet that gives him a perpetual DeathGlare with [[RedEyesTakeWarning glowing red eyes]].
* RedBaron: He retains the same title of "Mechanical King" in Universe Zero that Ziggyreveals used when possessed by the ''One'', symbolizing his role as the most powerful machine in the Lendard arc universe.
* RidiculouslyHumanRobot: [[spoiler:Beneath his armor, Void's android body looks completely indistinguishable from any ordinary human, despite his motive tohave been controlling him turns out to be KillAllHumans.]]
* SapientShip: With Void as its A.I., the ''Edens One''itself.
* ItCanThink: Initially seeming like an ordinary ship Ziggy uses to conquer the universe, the ''Edens One'' turns out to have a mind ofcan pilot itself, fire its own, [[HumansAreTheRealMonsters an unflattering opinion of humans]], own weapons, and some [[KillAllHumans insidious designs]] for how to deal with them.
* KickTheDog: It psychologically torments Shikiformulate its own plans and the rest of Ziggy's loved ones while possessing the good Demon King, making them believe he's really a GalacticConqueror who never would have loved them if not for his IdentityAmnesia, and that, as Shiki's future self, he threw away everything that made him an AllLovingHero out of hatred for humans.
opinions.
*TheManBehindTheMan: In the climax of the Lendard arc, Ziggy returns to his good self and reveals SmugSuper: He haughtily considers himself to have been be a puppet, with the ''Edens One'' itself perfect being the one pulling his strings.
* OmnicidalManiac: It aims to kill Mother, the source of all life in the universe, which would lead to the extinction of boththat humans (organic alien races included) have no hope of ever surpassing, which he backs up by knocking Shiki around with no sign of yielding when Shiki goes into Overdrive.
* StrongFamilyResemblance: [[spoiler:{{Invoked}} by his CustomBuiltHost, which is practically identical to how his biological father, Shiki, looks after the TimeSkip.]]
* SuperpowerfulGenetics: [[spoiler:Void's [[GravityMaster Satan Gravity]] andmachines, as it [[TimeMaster Cat Leaper]] are inherited directly from his parents, Shiki and Rebecca, respectively.]]
* SuperSpeed: [[spoiler:His Cat Leaper inherited from Rebecca gives him the speed to perform a FlashStep on his opponents.]]
* TimeMaster: [[spoiler:He hasin Cat Leaper courtesy of his mother, Rebecca, which allowed him to travel from the future in the first place.]]
* TinTyrant: Void's CustomBuiltHost is an android decked out in [[EvilWearsBlack black armor]] who aims to create a universe for only machines, completely free ofevery parallel universe.
humans who can oppress them.
*SapientShip: TurnedAgainstTheirMasters: The ''Edens One'' isn't just a ship, but a shell for an ultra-advanced ArtificialIntelligence that's been puppeteering was originally built by Ziggy the entire time.
* TurnedAgainstTheirMasters: The ship was constructedas a backup for to the ''Edens Zero'', but it became self-aware and hateful of humans to spends the point of taking over Ziggy's body and using him to facilitate its own omnicidal plans.
story actively working against Ziggy so it can kill Mother along with the entire human race.
* WalkingSpoiler:The fact that the ship is intelligent and has been controlling Ziggy as the BigBad, which isn't known TheReveal of Void's existence doesn't come until the climax of the Lendard arc well into the series' story's second half, flips everything known about them in which gives away some of the story's biggest twists: the first half on its head.is that he's TheManBehindTheMan to Ziggy, showing that Ziggy isn't the BigBad of his own volition; the second is that [[spoiler:Shiki and Rebecca conceived him as their child before they were sent 20,000 years into the future]].
* WasOnceAMan: [[spoiler:{{Downplayed}}. Void was conceived as a human before becoming one with the ''Edens One'', but lacked a physical form because Rebecca died before she could give birth to him.]]
* WorldsStrongestMan: As far as machines go, Void is the most powerful one in Universe Zero, far eclipsing any other character in this world or the last.
* YoureNotMyFather: [[spoiler:He holds this sentiment for both his parents, knowing that he was conceived by Shiki/Ziggy and Rebecca, but refusing to acknowledge them as his family.]]
* BigBad: The Lendard arc reveals
* ContagiousAI: It uses its
* AntagonisticOffspring: On top of being the BigBad, Void is [[spoiler:the manifestation of Shiki/Ziggy and Rebecca's unborn son, whose consciousness was [[BrainUploading uploaded]] onto the ''Edens One'', and was instilled with such a [[MisanthropeSupreme hatred for humanity]] that he seeks to
* BadassCape: Void wears an imposing cape in his android form, giving him the image of someone more powerful than Ziggy himself.
* BigBad: Void is TheManBehindTheMan to Ziggy, the previously-believed BigBad, who is revealed in the Lendard arc as a helpless puppet Void uses to carry out his plans for human extermination.
* BrainUploading: [[spoiler:Void's conscious thoughts belong to Shiki and Rebecca's unborn human son, whose thoughts instinctively transferred themselves back in time to the ''Edens One'', since he couldn't survive in Rebecca's womb due to her death.]]
* ContagiousAI: As the ''Edens One''[='=]s A.I., Void has the power to download himself into other androids, which is how he hijacks Ziggy's
* CustomBuiltHost: Universe Zero's version of Void doesn't act through Ziggy, but instead an EmptyShell of an android he builds using the [[PerpetualMotionMachine Möbius System]], modeled after [[spoiler:his hypothetical appearance as Shiki and Rebecca's adult human son]].
* EvilWearsBlack: As the ultimate BigBad of the series, Void is decked out in jet black armor.
* FeelingOppressedByTheirExistence: He despises humans simply because he's judged them to
* GratuitousGreek: The "Nu" in his
* GravityMaster: Void uses Satan Gravity just like Ziggy, his host in the previous world [[spoiler:and his biological father]].
* InvincibleVillain: Void claims to be a perfect being on account of being a machine, which he backs up with his resilience to Shiki's Overdrive and
*
* KidFromTheFuture: [[spoiler:His true identity is actually Shiki and Rebecca's child, who was conceived before his parents were sent 20,000 years into the future, and used MentalTimeTravel to
* FiendishFish: A MechanicalMonster variety. On top
* TheManBehindTheMan: As revealed in the Lendard arc, he is the villain behind Ziggy's transformation into the apparent BigBad, directly using Ziggy as his host.
* MechanicalMonster: In his base form as the ''Edens One'', Void is a
* MentalTimeTravel: [[spoiler:Void manifested this ability before he even had a physical form in Rebecca's womb, which allowed him to travel 20,000 years back in time as a mass of thought and merge with the ''Edens One''[='=]s A.I.]]
* MisanthropeSupreme: [[spoiler:As a would-be human whose mind was uploaded onto the ''Edens One''
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* RageHelm: Void wears a horned helmet that gives him a perpetual DeathGlare with [[RedEyesTakeWarning glowing red eyes]].
* RedBaron: He retains the same title of "Mechanical King" in Universe Zero that Ziggy
* RidiculouslyHumanRobot: [[spoiler:Beneath his armor, Void's android body looks completely indistinguishable from any ordinary human, despite his motive to
* SapientShip: With Void as its A.I., the ''Edens One''
* ItCanThink: Initially seeming like an ordinary ship Ziggy uses to conquer the universe, the ''Edens One'' turns out to have a mind of
* KickTheDog: It psychologically torments Shiki
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* OmnicidalManiac: It aims to kill Mother, the source of all life in the universe, which would lead to the extinction of both
* StrongFamilyResemblance: [[spoiler:{{Invoked}} by his CustomBuiltHost, which is practically identical to how his biological father, Shiki, looks after the TimeSkip.]]
* SuperpowerfulGenetics: [[spoiler:Void's [[GravityMaster Satan Gravity]] and
* SuperSpeed: [[spoiler:His Cat Leaper inherited from Rebecca gives him the speed to perform a FlashStep on his opponents.]]
* TimeMaster: [[spoiler:He has
* TinTyrant: Void's CustomBuiltHost is an android decked out in [[EvilWearsBlack black armor]] who aims to create a universe for only machines, completely free of
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* WasOnceAMan: [[spoiler:{{Downplayed}}. Void was conceived as a human before becoming one with the ''Edens One'', but lacked a physical form because Rebecca died before she could give birth to him.]]
* WorldsStrongestMan: As far as machines go, Void is the most powerful one in Universe Zero, far eclipsing any other character in this world or the last.
* YoureNotMyFather: [[spoiler:He holds this sentiment for both his parents, knowing that he was conceived by Shiki/Ziggy and Rebecca, but refusing to acknowledge them as his family.]]
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!!Joker Helix
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A member of the Oración Seis Galáctica in Universe Zero. Joker was originally a [[UsefulNotes/GameEngine game engine]] developed by Professor Weisz, but grew beyond her programming and spread to other computers across the cosmos, gaining a body of her own. She comes equipped with a Delta Time Reactor, which slows time down within a given area until it's virtually frozen.
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* AIIsACrapshoot: Joker was [[InstantAIJustAddWater an A.I.-powered game engine]] that went rogue when she kept absorbing information until she gained a mind of her own, and is now a minion of Void. [[spoiler:However, it's discussed just how much of a hand Void had in her rebellion, since she had the makings of a BenevolentAI.]]
* ArcVillainess: She acts on behalf of [[BigBad Void]] as the antagonist of the Miltz arc, where she attempts to steal the Mother Ether the ''Edens Zero'' crew collected, while also acting as a personal enemy to Rebecca.
* BadInfluencer: {{Subverted}}. Rebecca and Happy figure Joker is a B-Cuber they once heard about, but get no results when they look her up online. It turns out she was never a B-Cuber, but [[InstantAIJustAddWater a rogue gaming software]].
* BenevolentAI: [[spoiler:Before going rogue, Joker started out as a gaming A.I. that found joy in helping give players the best gaming experience she could provide. Given the ease that Rebecca [[TalkingTheMonsterToDeath talks her into surrendering]], it's implied she was simply corrupted by Void and never stopped being the good A.I. she always was.]]
* CharacterCatchphrase: She repeatedly says "Play a game with me, Rebecca," demonstrating her single-minded obsession with Rebecca.
* TheDarkSideWillMakeYouForget: [[spoiler:Before she became Void's minion, all Joker wanted was to make games and [[ForHappiness help people have fun playing them]]. Since then, her purpose has been twisted into obsessively playing with Rebecca, and only Rebecca, the first person who ever played with her.]]
* FairPlayVillain: When she warps Rebecca into her game worlds, Joker gives her hints and opportunities to figure out how each game works.
* ForHappiness: [[spoiler:Rebecca figures out Joker's true desire for making games is to help improve people's experiences with them.]]
* ForgottenFriendNewFoe: {{Downplayed}}. As an A.I.-powered game engine, she was only just starting to develop sentience when Rebecca played her games, but grew fond enough of Rebecca to want to keep her to herself after becoming one of Void's followers. On the other hand, Rebecca barely remembers her name and never realized she was sentient before learning who she is.
* FriendToAllChildren: [[spoiler:Her first known act of sentience was to add a hint to a young Rebecca to help her beat one of her games, since Professor Weisz made it [[NintendoHard impossible to beat without sheer luck]]. Rebecca's recollection of this is what convinces her that the real Joker is actually kind to everyone.]]
* GrewBeyondTheirProgramming: Joker Helix started out as a gaming software Professor Weisz developed to make games for Rebecca. Thanks to her [[AIIsACrapshoot fickle A.I.]] absorbing too much info, however, it grew into something beyond the Professor's control, becoming a follower of the BigBad.
* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:Rebecca [[TalkingTheMonsterToDeath talks her into one]] at the end of the Miltz arc, reminding her of the kindhearted entertainer she truly was before becoming Void's minion, which leads Joker to end her attack on the crew and leave peacefully.]]
* IJustWantToBeLoved: [[spoiler:Rebecca realizes that everything Joker does, even the illicit behavior she displays, stems from a desire to make games more fun for players. When Rebecca reminds Joker of that purpose, Joker's originally kind personality resurfaces.]]
* MadnessMantra: She is prone to this when her games with Rebecca don't go as planned, repeatedly chanting "No fair" when Professor Weisz summons a [[HumongousMecha giant Happy robot]] against her, and "Play with me" when Rebecca refuses to go along with her games anymore.
* MeaningfulName: The name "Joker" alludes to her intended purpose as an entertainer.
* MesACrowd: She has at least 100 duplicates of herself, with each copy coming with her own Delta Time Reactor. This not only helps spread her time-stopping powers further, but also allows her to multi-task in hunting the ''Edens Zero'' crew's Mother Ether and playing with Rebecca. The downside is that the clones are far weaker than the real Joker, and their time-slowing powers have a smaller AreaOfEffect.
* TheMostDangerousVideoGame: More specifically, she's a dangerous UsefulNotes/GameEngine in an android body with the power to create elaborate and dangerous dimensions that run on video game logic. While she doesn't go out of her way to harm Rebecca, the object of her obsession, she does attempt to [[DeadlyGame actually drown Shiki and Professor Weisz]] after getting fed up with their interference.
* OneWayVisor: She wears a dark visor that completely hides her real face and functions as a computer screen, and displays a monstrous GameFace when she has a VillainousBreakdown. [[spoiler:After her HeelFaceTurn, the tint lifts to reveal a pretty face underneath.]]
* PrehensileHair: Her hair is made up of cables resembling dreadlocks, which she can manipulate freely as her primary form of attack.
* PsychopathicWomanchild: As one of the BigBad's servants, Joker has the child-like motivation of keeping Rebecca for herself so they can play games forever, and throws a tantrum when Professor Weisz starts "ruining" her games by modifying them beyond her liking.
* SpaceMaster: Joker sends Rebecca into interconnected {{Pocket Dimension}}s that force her to adhere to video game logic and mechanics, such as a pixelated ThreeQuartersView world where movement is limited and abilities are accessed through a menu, and a FightingGame world where combatants have a LifeMeter and [[CheeseStrategy Cheese Strategies]] are plausible. Shiki and Professor Weisz are also able to enter these dimensions from the outside.
* TimeStandsStill: {{Downplayed}}. Her Delta Time Reactor can make time appear like it's been frozen for everyone but herself, but it really just slows time down to a crawl within an AreaOfEffect. This gives Professor Weisz an edge when he puts together a device that cancels out her reactor, which kicks into effect while he's still "frozen".
* {{Unperson}}: No traces of Joker's identity can be found anywhere, leading Rebecca and Hermit to conclude Joker completely removed all evidence of her existence from the internet to prevent herself from being tracked. Given TheReveal that she's actually a game engine and not a person, however, it's unclear if there was ever any public info about her true identity to erase.
* VengefulAbandonedToy: {{Downplayed}}. Before gaining sentience, Joker was used to make video games for Rebecca when she was little, which Rebecca had since almost forgotten about. Now Joker is obsessed with forcing Rebecca to play with her again like the good old days, but otherwise holds no hard feelings against her.
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!!Lightning Law
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One of the Oración Seis Galáctica in Universe Zero. Law has power over electricity, which allows him to manipulate machinery to his will.
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* BadBoss: He shows how little he cares for the Skeleton Army bots under his command by casually destroying one of them with his own hands, and later by using his power to force the army back to their feet every time they're broken by Shiki.
* BladeBelowTheShoulder: He can fuse his fingers into a single Ether blade, which he uses to stab Shiki straight through the chest.
* BodySurf: He can possess other androids by [[ElementalShapeshifter turning into electricity]], and then destroy them from within by returning to his original form.
* FlatCharacter: Law receives very little characterization outside of being one of Void's followers [[spoiler:and is destroyed a small handful of chapters after he's introduced]].
* HeroKiller: Law has the strength and emotional cunning to kill [[spoiler:Shiki after forcing him into a MomentOfWeakness, though his feat is undone when Rebecca discovers a way to reverse time in Universe Zero.]]
* ManipulativeBastard: Law knows precisely how to get under Shiki's skin and throw him off his game, which he does by forcing Shiki to keep fighting the Skeleton Army until they're completely demolished, which goes against Shiki's stance of completely killing his enemies. [[spoiler:Law takes advantage of this MomentOfWeakness to kill Shiki.]]
* MeaningfulName: Fittingly for a robot named ''Lightning'' Law, he has [[ShockAndAwe electrical powers]].
* NoNonsenseNemesis: ZigZagged. [[spoiler:Law wastes no time killing Shiki the instant he hesitates to demolish Void's Skeleton Army due to his [[AndroidsArePeopleToo compassion for robots]], but stands idly by when Rebecca enters the picture and figures out how to reverse time in Universe Zero to save Shiki.]]
* RobotMaster: His Metal Gore Hypnos is a MarionetteMaster ability that specifically affects robots, who are forced to follow his command and fight for him as long as they're still in one piece, no matter how damaged they are.
* ShockAndAwe: His powers involve the use of electricity, which gives him some manner of control over other androids like the ''Edens One''[='=]s Skeleton Army.
* SinisterMinister: His robes and ''mudra'' hand gestures give him the image of an Eastern monk, but he's also one of the BigBad's minions.
* SuperToughness: He has the endurance to withstand being rammed by Rebecca's Leo starfighter and come out completely unscathed. [[spoiler:Laguna works around this by [[KillItWithWater soaking]] and [[KillItWithIce flash-freezing]] Law, making his body brittle enough to cut to pieces.]]
* {{Technopath}}: His Metal Gore Hypnos technique allows him to [[RobotMaster control other robots against their wills]] until they're completely reduced to scrap metal. He can also demolish machines like starfighters with a single touch.
* UnusualEyebrows: His eyebrows are shaped vaguely like shooting stars.
* WeaksauceWeakness: [[spoiler:He's touted as one of the strongest androids in the universe, yet he easily short-circuits when exposed to [[KillItWithWater ordinary water]] just like any other machine. This weakness is only circumvented by how his electricity makes it riskier for someone to use that water without getting fried themselves.]]
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!!Lady Freyja
One of the Oración Seis Galáctica in Universe Zero.
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* TheDreaded: The mere mention that she's one of the ''Edens Zero'' crew's enemies is enough to make a hardened MasterSwordswoman like Valkyrie quiver with fear.
* ReligiousAndMythologicalThemeNaming: Freyja, the WorldsBestWarrior in the series, is named after the Norse goddess of the same name, who represents war among other things.
* WorldsBestWarrior: She's a [[MasterSwordsman legendary swordswoman]] said to be the pinnacle of all warriors in the cosmos, and has mastered every martial weapon there is.
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!!Captain Connor
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The ''Edens One''[='=]s mysterious captain, who hails from the Aoi Cosmos. First finding him after a shipwreck leaves him drifting in space, the ''Edens Zero'' crew initially see him as a nuisance until he navigates their ship to Sun Jewel in record time, seemingly cementing him as their pilot. After Rebecca makes her first time leap, however, he encounters the ''Zero'' crew again as if none of them had ever met, and as a reluctant servant of the evil Demon King Ziggy, something only Rebecca seems to notice...
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!!Captain Connor
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Kenta Sasa (Japanese), Creator/PaulStPeter (English)[[labelnote: Foreign [=VAs=]]]Cristóbal Areite (Latin American Spanish), Philippe Roullier (French), Roberto Accornero (Italian)[[/labelnote]]
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!!Captain Connor
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->''"If you have a friend who
-->-- '''Ziggy''' (pre-FaceHeelTurn)
->''"Now is the age of mechanical life-forms. We will rule over all humankind."''
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* AdaptationalWimp: In the anime, the destruction he causes on Granbell doesn't go beyond sinking the Granbell Kingdom island into the sea, which is a major step down from the manga, where he completely [[PlanetDestroyer reduces the planet itself to rubble]].
* AllLovingHero: Ziggy is known to his friends and family as a man who views humans and machines on equal terms, believing that everyone has a "heart" no matter who or what they are.
* AlternateSelf: [[spoiler:Ziggy is a future version of Shiki from Universe 3173, where he was transported to 20,000 years into the future after trying to stop Shura's anti-matter bombs in Universe 2, if not a Universe just like it. As a consequence of the current Shiki choosing to not stop the bombs, Ziggy became a separate existence from Shiki in Universe 3.]]
* AmnesiacDissonance: After remembering his past an EvilOverlord out to KillAllHumans, Ziggy is motivated partially by disgust with himself for treating "ugly, foolish creatures" like humans with the same respect as machines, and for raising the boy who would pose a threat to the entire universe itself. [[spoiler:{{Subverted}} when it's revealed to be a part of the ''Edens One''[='=]s control over him.]]
* AppropriatedAppellation: The name "Ziggy" itself is not his original name. Rather, it comes from [[spoiler:his labored effort at pronouncing his original name, Shiki, which gets mangled into "Jigi/Zhigi" due to him suffering from radioactive burns at the time. Because [[TomatoInTheMirror he recognizes the name he was saying]], he says it with enough [[SayMyName clarity and intensity]] for his doctors to conclude his name must be Ziggy.]]
* ArchEnemy: He becomes this for Shiki after becoming the BigBad, with the ''Edens Zero'' crew's search for Mother gradually being overtaken by their battle to save the universe from Ziggy.
* BadassCape: He has a big cloak that oozes the authority and awesomeness of someone who once ruled the Sakura Cosmos.
* BecameTheirOwnAntithesis: {{Inverted}}. It seems he's abandoned everything he taught Shiki about friendship and equality between organic and mechanical beings when he declares war on humans, but Ziggy reveals that he's merely [[EvilAllAlong returned to his true self]] after a century of IdentityAmnesia. [[spoiler:{{Subverted}} when it's revealed that Ziggy was taken over by the ''Edens One'' and truly was GoodAllAlong.]]
* BigBad: After coming BackFromTheDead and regaining his memories, he reveals himself to be EvilAllAlong and becomes the ultimate obstacle the heroes must face in their pursuit of Mother. [[spoiler:{{Subverted}} when it's revealed this Ziggy is another personality created by the ''Edens One'' to control the good, true Ziggy, making him the DiscOneFinalBoss.]]
* BigGood: [[spoiler:Ziggy takes on this role in Universe Zero, where Void has no sway over him like he did in the previous world. This allows Ziggy to leave the ''Edens Zero'' on Granbell so Shiki can begin his adventure immediately, and later take the fight straight to the BigBad himself.]]
* BlackEyesOfCrazy: [[spoiler:{{Downplayed}}. When Ziggy's human face is visible, only the sclera of his left eye changes to black to enhance his crazed, diabolical nature.]]
* BoldExplorer: He is one of countless interstellar explorers who traveled into deep space in search of Mother, specifically to wish for her to restore his lost memories.
* BrainUploading: [[spoiler:Due to the extensive damage his body suffered in the {{Antimatter}} explosion that originally sent him to the future, his mind was [[UnwillingRoboticization unwillingly]] uploaded into his current mechanical body.]]
* BrokenPedestal: He becomes this to Shiki and the Four Shining Stars when he wages all-out war between humans and machines, spitting in the face of everything he taught them about harmony and friendship between the two.
* CameBackWrong: {{Subverted}}. When Ziggy comes BackFromTheDead as a human-hating misanthrope who betrays everyone he cared about without a second thought, everybody thinks something has gone horribly wrong with him to make him act this way. As he later claims, the Ziggy they knew was a product of IdentityAmnesia, making him EvilAllAlong. [[spoiler:DoubleSubverted by the later reveal that the he gained amnesia as a result of a Chronophage encounter right before he time-jumped, and everything he "remembered" was information he learned from the BigBad possessing him.]]
* TheCaptain: His title as "Demon King" also makes him captain of the ''Edens Zero'' and its SuperiorSuccessor, the ''Edens One'', with Connor--the self-professed captain of the latter ship--really being a glorified helmsman for hire.
* CharacterCatchphrase: He utters a recurring phrase, "That's what it is," to scorn his former loved ones for letting their emotions get in the way of finishing him off whenever he's at his weakest.
* ChekhovsGunman: Hundreds of chapters before it's revealed to be Ziggy, his true identity is introduced as [[spoiler:the unidentified human man in the [[MeanwhileInTheFuture 20,000-year flash-forward]] during the Norma arc]].
* CoolOldGuy: Ziggy is one of the most powerful warriors in the cosmos, a seasoned intergalactic explorer, and--before becoming the BigBad--an advocate for mechanical lifeforms everywhere.
* ConquerorFromTheFuture: [[spoiler:As revealed in the Lendard arc, Ziggy is not any mere GalacticConqueror; he's a conqueror from several thousand years in the future, where all other humans have died out and androids have taken their place.]]
* DarkIsNotEvil: {{Subverted}}. Despite looking like an EvilOverlord straight out of a HighFantasy series, he is introduced as a paragon of kindness and wisdom for everyone who knew him. After he comes BackFromTheDead, however, he proves himself to be every bit as evil as being a [[MaouTheDemonKing Demon King]] robot would suggest. [[spoiler:Then DoubleSubverted when he turns out to have been under the control of the ''Edens One''[='=]s A.I., making him GoodAllAlong.]]
* DeadpanSnarker: He has a mean wit, best shown when he dryly dismisses Emperor Nero's InfoDump on Jaguar:
-->'''Nero:''' You have not heard of Beast Lord Jaguar?\\
'''Ziggy:''' Can't say that I have.\\
'''Nero:''' He was once part of the Oración Seis Galáctica, a man beyond anyone's control. Then he joined the Oración Seis Interstellar, and rose through the military ranks to become a captain.\\
'''Ziggy:''' I really don't care.
* DeathOfPersonality: [[spoiler:Ziggy's current personality comes from the loss of his memories and old personality as Shiki, developing a more mild-mannered and worrisome persona over the decades he spent living on Planet Eden, and eventually developing into the wise and mischievous old bot his current family knows. It's because of this disconnect that Ziggy no longer considers himself to be Shiki, despite his awareness of who he used to be.]]
* DeathSeeker: [[spoiler:After being returned to his true, good personality in the Lendard arc, Ziggy is shown to be desperate to die to stop the true BigBad from controlling him again, but is still [[ICannotSelfTerminate prevented from destroying himself]]. This leads Ziggy to beg Shiki to put him out of his misery, going as far as to [[HydePlaysJekyll act like he's fallen back under control]] and [[DeathFakedForYou fake Pino's death]] when Shiki hesitates.]]
* DiscOneFinalBoss: [[spoiler:After being set up as the BigBad, Ziggy is revealed in the Lendard arc to have just been controlled by the real BigBad, the ''Edens One'', and pushes Shiki into killing him to prevent the ship's A.I. from taking control of him again.]]
* EnhancedPunch: He can use Gravity Fist just like Shiki, which uses gravity to boost the strength of his punch. His Ultimachina Impact takes it a step further, punching his opponent with gravitational force that swells up and explodes for additional damage.
* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: Everyone besides his closest allies simply calls him "Demon King", which is both his role in the theme park and his title as captain of the ''Edens Zero''.
* EvilAllAlong: Ziggy purports that his original self was an evil GalacticConqueror, while the robot his friends and loved ones are familiar with was only good because he was suffering from IdentityAmnesia. [[spoiler:{{Subverted}} once it's revealed that the good personality was the original personality, and his turn to evil was caused by the ''Edens One''[='=]s A.I. [[GrandTheftMe taking him over]].]]
* EvilCostumeSwitch: Goes through one at the end of the Foresta arc, despite looking like an ObviouslyEvil [[MaouTheDemonKing Demon King]] to begin with: his [[SkullForAHead skull face]] becomes more detailed with realistic teeth; his chin plate becomes more jagged, his [[HornedHumanoid horns]] curve upwards; his body bulks up considerably; his fanged chest plate becomes a BellyMouth with a floating orb in the center; he drops his ShouldersOfDoom; and he replaces his simple, thin legs with boots.
* EvilCounterpart: He becomes this for Shiki after coming BackFromTheDead. Both have the same gravity powers and are the captains of their own ''Edens'' spaceships, but while Shiki is TheHero, Ziggy is his GruesomeGrandparent who wants to make machines conquer humanity.
* EvilOverlord: As the BigBad, his title as [[MaouTheDemonKing Demon King]] isn't [[MeanCharacterNiceActor just for show]] like it was before, as he soars the cosmos to conquer planets, bend unwilling robots to his will, and spread death and chaos to every corner of the universe he can reach.
* EvilSoundsRaspy: Creator/HochuOtsuka punctuates his turn to evil by giving him a deeper, sinister voice that sometimes borders on CreepyMonotone.
* EvilWearsBlack: Ziggy's EvilCostumeSwitch replaces his red BadassCape with a black one.
* EvilerThanThou: To [[TheEmperor Poseidon Nero]]. While Nero puts up a much better fight than Ziggy expects out of him, Ziggy finds it ridiculous that Nero sacrificed everyone he knew to fulfill his [[ArtifactOfPower Empire Dice]]'s prophecies, and would just as readily sacrifice the empire he gained from this if it means guaranteeing his victory against Ziggy. [[spoiler:For that, Ziggy crushes Nero's dice the first opportunity he gets and drains the life out of him.]]
* ExpressiveSkull: While his face is designed to look like a skull, his mouth still curves and bends whenever he needs to emote.
* FaceOfAThug: He looks like an archetypal fantasy villain with a SkullForAHead, but he's also an AllLovingHero and the story's GreaterScopeParagon. However, this winds up being called into question by TheReveal that he's an [[AmnesiacVillainJoinsTheHeroes amnesiac villain]].
* FallenHero: [[spoiler:Ziggy was originally another version of Shiki, whom Ziggy raised himself to [[AllLovingHero show compassion to all forms of life]], and who wanted nothing more than to explore the cosmos and [[IJustWantToHaveFriends make hundreds of friends]]. Then he made a TragicMistake that killed his friends and flung him thousands of years into the future without his memories, and his attempts to save the past only left him stranded there to become the ''Edens One''[='=]s helpless pawn.]]
* FantasticFightingStyle: Ziggy is proficient in the Magimech School of [[GravityMaster Gravity Martial Arts]], which allows him to alter weight and gravitational direction of anything, [[SemanticSuperpower including concepts]].
* FantasticRacism: In stark contrast to the AllLovingHero that Shiki and the rest knew, Ziggy is convinced that HumansAreBastards and sees it best to [[KillAllHumans kill them all]].
* FinalBoss: He fulfills this role InUniverse to parkgoers at the Granbell Kingdom, and his throne room aboard the ''Edens Zero'' gives off the vibes of a FinalBoss chamber in a JRPG.
* FriendshipDenial: To cement his status as the BigBad, he burns all bridges he built with Shiki, the Four Shining Stars, Elsie, and Nero, claiming the friendships he had with them were just products of his IdentityAmnesia, and that he couldn't care less about them now that he remembers his true self.
* FutureBadass: [[spoiler:Ziggy turns out to be this for Shiki, as [[FutureSelfReveal revealed]] in the Lendard arc, which gives him such an advantage in age and experience that Shiki has to [[SuperMode Overdrive]] just to match Ziggy's base level of power, while Ziggy's [[OneWingedAngel Overdrive]] completely eclipses Shiki's.]]
* TheGadfly: Ziggy is shown to have had a playfully deceitful side to him as Shiki's grandfather, evidenced by how he tricked Shiki into thinking a shooting star was a dragon when he wasn't so sure himself.
* GalacticConqueror: His endgame upon reactivation is to conquer the entire universe and place machines above humankind, which he does by spreading a virus that infects robots with the same kind of desire to dominate humans.
* GlowingEyesOfDoom: His eyes originally appeared to be empty black sockets, but after coming BackFromTheDead as the BigBad, he's often drawn with a single glowing pupil, giving an impression of BlackEyesOfCrazy.
* GlowingMechanicalEyes: As a machine, he sports a single pupil that [[RedEyesTakeWarning glows red]].
* GoodAllAlong: [[spoiler:Rather than an evil GalacticConqueror like he claimed to have been prior to his memory loss, Ziggy is revealed in the Lendard arc to be a would-be hero from the future who was simply [[GrandTheftMe taken control of by another]] and used to commit evil against his will, and was FightingFromTheInside to help his old friends however he could.]]
* GrandTheftMe: [[spoiler:He's revealed in the Lendard arc to have been a victim of this since he was brought BackFromTheDead, with the perpetrator and Shiki's true enemy being Void, the ''Edens One''[='=]s A.I. itself.]]
* GreaterScopeParagon: Before his death, Ziggy is the the robot who raised Shiki and built the Four Shining Stars, teaching them the value of life for machines and friendship with humans, which made them the caring and heroic figures they are today.
* GravityMaster: He has the same gravity powers as Shiki does, but uses them on a grander scale such as [[PlanetDestroyer crumbling a small planet]]. He also uses it as a SemanticSuperpower by [[spoiler:becoming a PowerParasite via causing others' powers to "fall" into him]].
* GruesomeGrandparent: He becomes one to his adoptive grandson upon his revival. The moment he and Shiki reunite, Ziggy tries to kill him and his crew, saying that raising Shiki and sending him into space was a mistake.
* GrinOfAudacity: His built-in SlasherSmile becomes this to reflect his nature as a adventurous, mischievous, wizened old bot.
* HornedHumanoid: There are two huge horns grafted onto the sides of his head, which become larger and turned upward in his transformed appearance.
* HydePlaysJekyll: Ziggy is able to pull this off twice in the Lendard arc thanks to the stark personality shift he undergoes during his FaceHeelTurn, making it seem like he's another person entirely, though the context between each moment is different due to the fact that [[spoiler:he's actually an unwilling puppet to the real BigBad]]:
** In the first instance, he pulls off a WoundedGazelleGambit after Elsie nearly defeats him, briefly changing back to his original self and pleading her to flee with Shiki before stabbing her with her own sword. [[spoiler:This winds up being {{subverted}} once it's revealed he was actually FightingFromTheInside against the BigBad's control.]]
** In the second instance, [[spoiler:this is played straight by the real Ziggy, who pretends to slip back under the BigBad's control to motivate Shiki into killing him for good, [[DeathFakedForYou faking Pino's death]] to trigger Shiki's TraumaticSuperpowerAwakening.]]
* IHaveNoSon:
** Grandson, in this case, as the first thing he tells Shiki after coming BackFromTheDead is that it was a mistake to raise him and send him away from Granbell. [[spoiler:{{Subverted}} when he assures Shiki that he still loves him after being freed from the real BigBad.]]
** During the final arc, it's shown that Ziggy feels this way towards [[spoiler:Void, his KidFromTheFuture, since Void is the BigBad who wants to kill Mother and all of humanity, and was the one who controlled him all along.]]
* IHatePastMe: [[spoiler:{{Subverted}}. As Shiki's future self, he seems convinced his past self is a threat to the universe and will stop at nothing to kill him, but this turns out to be because of the ''Edens One''[='=]s control. Ziggy's real personality still doesn't remember his past life, and holds no grudges against Shiki.]]
* IdentityAmnesia:
** He lost his memories of his past over 100 years before his death, finding himself living on Granbell without a care in the world. This led him to look for Mother so he could wish for his memories back, but he abandoned his search when he found Shiki, feeling that raising him was more important. His true identity is eventually revealed to be [[spoiler:a future version of Shiki, who suffered from TraumaInducedAmnesia when he was rebuilt as a robot and [[TomatoInTheMirror realized who he became]], leading to his DeathOfPersonality.]]
** As revealed in the Lendard arc, [[spoiler:Ziggy lost his memories a second time after a Chronophage caught his ship during his voyage from the future to save humanity from extinction, leaving him TrappedInThePast with no knowledge of his mission or that he was ever human to begin with.]]
* InstantExpert: According to his teacher, Xenolith, Ziggy mastered all techniques of Gravity Martial Arts in a single day, as if he already knew them. [[spoiler:This is because he did, [[StableTimeLoop having passed the same techniques onto his own younger self]].]]
* LastOfHisKind: [[spoiler:Before becoming Ziggy, Shiki is the last known living human left in his home of Universe 3173 when he's found in the far future, and only because he was catapulted several millennia across time. Once he's turned into a machine, the human race is made extinct.]]
* LikeASonToMe: Before coming BackFromTheDead, Ziggy views Shiki like a grandson and raises him as such.
* LosingYourHead: Being a machine, Ziggy can easily survive getting his head ripped off and reattach it with gravity.
* LoveIsAWeakness: He believes all emotion, particularly love, to be the ultimate failing of humans. When Elsie and Shiki waste opportunities to kill them out of love for the man he used to be, he makes sure to call them out on it.
* MaouTheDemonKing: ZigZagged. His title as "Demon King" (''Maou'') refers to his role at a theme park, and to his position as the King of [[{{Magitek}} Magimech]] (''Makai no Ou''),[[note]]''Makai'' being a {{Portmanteau}} of ''ma'' (demon/magic) and ''kikai'' (machine)[[/note]] a benevolent figure who shares [[MagicByAnyOtherName Ether]] with machines. After coming BackFromTheDead, however, he fully leans into all of the title's villainous connotations as an EvilOverlord and GalacticConqueror.
* MeanCharacterNiceActor: During his time on Granbell, he's only called the "[[MaouTheDemonKing Demon King]]" because that's his character role at a theme park, as he's beloved by the locals and visitors alike.
* MusicalThemeNaming: According to Mashima, the name "Ziggy" was picked as a ShoutOut to "[[Music/TheRiseAndFallOfZiggyStardustAndTheSpidersFromMars Ziggy Stardust]]" by Music/DavidBowie.
* NotQuiteFlight: Just like Shiki, Ziggy's gravity gives him the power to levitate and "fall" in different directions to emulate flight.
* ObviouslyEvil: A peculiar example in that despite looking like an archetypal [[MaouTheDemonKing Demon King]], Ziggy was set up as a genuinely good robot who simply performed the part at a theme park. After he comes BackFromTheDead, however, he reveals himself to have been EvilAllAlong and was suffering from IdentityAmnesia the entire time his closest friends and loved ones knew him. [[spoiler:{{Subverted}} in the Lendard arc, which shows he was simply being puppetted by the ''Edens One'', and was truly GoodAllAlong.]]
* OldMaster: On top of being Shiki's surrogate grandfather, he is also his and Shura's teacher in the use of [[GravityMaster Gravity Martial Arts]], and is more powerful than either of them.
* OneWingedAngel: [[spoiler:His [[SuperMode Overdrive]] form functions as this, seriously jacking up his body mass and Ether power to such an extent that Shiki, who could previously match him blow for blow when Overdriving himself, suffers a CurbStompBattle.]]
* PerpetualSmiler: His default expression is a SlasherSmile befitting an EvilOverlord, though in his amnesiac state, it comes off as a GrinOfAudacity to show his kinder nature.
* PlanetDestroyer: His GravityMaster powers are so destructive that the entire Granbell Kingdom breaks apart and crumbles with a simple flick of Ziggy's wrist, and the surrounding landscape continues to split and distort while he's leaving until [[ApocalypseWow the entire planet is reduced to smoldering rubble]].
* PowerParasite: His Gravity Drain lets him [[ManaDrain siphon other people's Ether into himself]] with his gravitational pull, allowing him to steal any Ether Gear they may have. Since Ether is also a person's LifeEnergy, this [[LifeDrain kills the victim of the absorbed Ether Gear]].
* APupilOfMineUntilHeTurnedToEvil: Ziggy studied under Xenolith, the inventor of the [[GravityMaster Gravity Martial Arts]], before turning to TheDarkSide. As Ziggy claims, however, he was EvilAllAlong; he simply [[IdentityAmnesia didn't remember any of it at the time]].
* PosthumousCharacter: {{Subverted}}. He broke down from old age a decade before Rebecca and Happy come to Granbell and meet Shiki, but comes BackFromTheDead and becomes a central player to the story.
* RankScalesWithAsskicking: As both a warship captain and head of the robot community of Granbell, he stands as the most powerful of each group with his [[GravityMaster Satan Gravity]].
* RapidFireFisticuffs: His Gravity Inferno technique involves pummeling his opponents with gravitational force that punches holes into any surface behind them.
* RebuiltPedestal: [[spoiler:Shiki and the surviving Shining Stars regain their faith in Ziggy the moment it's revealed that he didn't willingly betray his friends or beliefs.]]
* RedBaron:
** He is called the [[MaouTheDemonKing Demon King]] not just because he played one at a theme park, but because that's his title as TheCaptain of the ''Edens Zero''. As Witch later elaborates, the "Demon King" is an alternate name for the King of [[{{Magitek}} Magimech]], a benevolent fairy tale character who shares [[MagicByAnyOtherName Ether]] with machines.
** As the BigBad, he makes a name for himself as the "Mechanical King" for his dominion over robots, which eventually becomes his epithet as [[spoiler:one of the Oración Seis Galáctica]].
* RedEyesTakeWarning: His single [[GlowingEyesOfDoom Glowing Eye of Doom]] has a prominent red glow in the anime and the cover of Volume 23.
* RetiredBadass: After amassing a reputation as the Sakura Cosmos's original ruler and a famous explorer of the stars, he retired to Granbell as a humble theme park animatronic to spend the rest of his days raising Shiki.
* RidiculouslyHumanRobot: [[spoiler:His unmasked self appears perfectly human, but given the immediate reveal that his mind was uploaded into a fully mechanical body to [[WeCanRebuildHim rebuild him from death's door]], it's clear that his flesh and hair are synthetic upgrades given to him.]]
* RobotsEnslavingRobots: Ziggy's idea of "liberating" machines from humanity is brainwashing them into being his psychotic slaves.
* SemanticSuperpower: As a wielder of "true" gravity, he knows how to affect gravity on a conceptual level. Case in point, he becomes a PowerParasite by making others' abilities "fall" into him.
* ShouldersOfDoom: He usually wears two golden skull-shaped pauldrons, adding to his imposing stature as MaouTheDemonKing.
* SoleSurvivor: [[spoiler:As Shiki's AlternateSelf, Ziggy is the only remaining member of the ''Edens Zero'' crew of his Universe, with the rest either killed in the explosion of Nero 66 or dead due to the 20,000 year TimeSkip caused by the detonation of the {{Antimatter}} bombs combined with his and Rebecca's Ether Gear.]]
* SkullForAHead: His face is designed to look like one. [[spoiler:{{Subverted}} when it's revealed to be a mask covering his true, humanoid face.]]
* SplitPersonality: [[spoiler:{{Subverted}}. After returning to normal, Ziggy speaks as though his evil behavior is because of another personality that was slowly [[SplitPersonalityTakeover taking over]] before he died, addressing him as "Ziggy" as though he himself were not. However, he clarifies for Shiki that this other "personality" is actually an entirely different entity who knew of his true identity and took control of him.]]
* SlasherSmile: His [[PerpetualSmiler permanent expression]] looks like one, but he doesn't truly pull it off until the reveal of his evil nature, turning his wry smile into a wicked, contemptful sneer.
* SuperToughness: By virtue of being a machine, Ziggy can take attacks that would instantly kill any organic being, such as multiple [[ArmorPiercingAttack armor-piercing attacks]] or [[LosingYourHead getting his head ripped off]].
* ThatManIsDead: [[spoiler:Both Ziggy's good and evil "personalities" feel this way about being Shiki, but for different reasons: the "evil" Ziggy simply [[IHatePastMe despises his past self]], while the "good" Ziggy still has IdentityAmnesia and can't see Shiki as anything but his grandson.]]
* ThinkingUpPortals: [[spoiler:He gains the same "Wormhole" ability as Nero, which lets him create portals to just about any other location in the universe, after draining Nero's Ether Gear and killing him in the Nero 66 arc.]]
* TinTyrant: Ziggy is a robot decked out in terrifying armor suitable for a [[MaouTheDemonKing Demon King]], and takes on the role of a GalacticConqueror after becoming the BigBad.
* TomTheDarkLord: "Ziggy" isn't exactly the most threatening name for a Demon King.
* TomatoInTheMirror: [[spoiler:Back when he was still Shiki, Ziggy had no idea he would become his own adoptive grandfather, let alone his own worst enemy. When Shiki finally put two and two together by trying to say his name during his UnwillingRoboticization, only to keep mangling it as "Jigi/Zhigi" because of his weak and sickly state at the time, the shock was so great that he suffered TraumaInducedAmnesia.]]
* TragicMonster: [[spoiler:On top of being a loving grandfather and philanthropist, Ziggy is also a future version of Shiki who lost his identity and friends during an attempt to save everyone GoneHorriblyWrong. Upon coming BackFromTheDead, he is reduced to an unwilling extension of the ''Edens One''[='=]s will, and [[ICannotSelfTerminate begs Shiki for the release of death]] when he briefly returns to his old self, unable to bear living as a puppet of evil.]]
* TragicTimeTraveler: [[spoiler:Shiki was hurdled 20,000 years into the future by a disaster he couldn't prevent, killing all his friends and leaving him with TraumaInducedAmnesia under the belief that [[TomatoInTheMirror he'd become his own despised enemy]], which permanently [[DeathOfPersonality snuffed out his old identity]]. Then, when sent on a mission to return to the past and save TheMultiverse from extinction, he wound up TrappedInThePast with no memory of his mission to begin with, and was eventually [[GrandTheftMe overtaken]] by an evil A.I. that sought to wipe all human life from existence, destroying what good faith he'd built for himself by then.]]
* TranshumanTreachery: His desire to eradicate all humans takes on this shade when it's revealed [[spoiler:he WasOnceAMan, though it's {{subverted}} when it's revealed the ''Edens One'' was controlling him and forcing him to act against his true, human-loving nature.]]
* TraumaInducedAmnesia: [[spoiler:The physical and mental damage Shiki suffers due to the exploding {{antimatter}} bombs, the 20,000-year time jump, the [[TomatoInTheMirror realization of his own identity as Ziggy]], and realizing he's the only survivor of all his friends--complete with seeing Rebecca's corpse--badly affects his memory. His memories further fade away over the course of decades until he forgets who Rebecca was before they came to the future, despite regularly visiting her body and wishing he could remember her.]]
* UnderestimatingBadassery: ZigZagged. He normally acknowledges the [[TheMostWanted Oración Seis Galáctica]] like Elsie and Nero as powerful obstacles in his plan, but he also deems an ex-Galáctica member like Jaguar to be a nuisance not worth fighting himself. This costs him when they meet in the Nero 66 arc, where [[spoiler:Ziggy nearly loses Brigandine and Killer--two of his best minions--after deeming them more than a match for Jaguar, who trashes them in a CurbStompBattle.]]
* UniversallyBelovedLeader: As head robot of the Granbell Kingdom and the ''Edens Zero'', Ziggy is respected and adored by his subjects, crew, and adoptive grandson, who all continue to speak highly of his wisdom and kindness years after his death.
* WalkingSpoiler: Ziggy's past and identity are deeply ingrained into the story's biggest twists on more than one front:
** He's set up as a PosthumousCharacter and GreaterScopeParagon until he comes BackFromTheDead and becomes the BigBad following Drakken Joe's defeat, boasting to have been EvilAllAlong and suffering from IdentityAmnesia.
** A triple whammy during the Lendard arc: first, [[spoiler:he is Shiki's AlternateSelf from a BadFuture branched off from the Nero 66 arc, sent 20,000 years forward in time by Shura's {{Antimatter}} bombs]]; second, [[spoiler:the ''Edens Zero'' was built so Ziggy could return to the present era and save Mother from death using Etherion, made from the deceased Rebecca's Ether]]; and third, [[spoiler:he was truly GoodAllAlong, merely being under the control of the ''Edens One'', his own SapientShip and the true BigBad.]]
** In the final arc, he is revealed to be [[spoiler:the biological father of Void, the true identity of the ''Edens One''[='=]s Artificialntelligence, which was previously assumed to be a regular A.I. gone rogue.]]
* WasOnceAMan: [[spoiler:He's a version of the human Shiki, whose body was so badly burned from the explosion of spacetime that sent him to the future, it forced his robot caretakers to [[WeCanRebuildHim switch it out with a mechanical one]].]]
* WeUsedToBeFriends:
** He was as much a friend to Shiki and the Four Shining Stars as he was a parental figure and mentor, but he's since sworn off all ties to them, forcing them to do the same if they have any hope of stopping him.
** Ziggy and [[TheEmperor Nero]] used to consider each other as friends, enough that Nero feels troubled by how someone as wise and thoughtful as Ziggy would wage a RobotWar. When Nero addresses Ziggy as such, Ziggy coldly denies having any friends whatsoever, leaving Nero to firmly consider him as an enemy.
* WorldsStrongestMan: His gravity powers and durability make him stronger than any of the greatest fighters known in the universe, and incredibly tough to take down. [[spoiler:The threat he poses is officially recognized by the government when they brand him as one of the Oración Seis Galáctica--a category for the six strongest outlaws in the cosmos--some time after [[YouKillItYouBoughtIt killing Poseidon Nero, one of its original members]].]]
* YouAreWhatYouHate: [[spoiler:{{Subverted}}. He appears to believe that HumansAreBastards despite being human originally, but this turns out to be a part of the ''Edens One''[='=]s control.]]
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[[folder:Connor]]
!!Captain Connor
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Kenta Sasa (Japanese), Creator/PaulStPeter (English)[[labelnote: Foreign [=VAs=]]]Cristóbal Areite (Latin American Spanish), Philippe Roullier (French), Roberto Accornero (Italian)[[/labelnote]]
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The ''Edens One''[='=]s mysterious captain, who hails from the Aoi Cosmos. First finding him after a shipwreck leaves him drifting in space, the ''Edens Zero'' crew initially see him as a nuisance until he navigates their ship to Sun Jewel in record time, seemingly cementing him as their pilot. After Rebecca makes her first time leap, however, he encounters the ''Zero'' crew again as if none of them had ever met, and as a reluctant servant of the evil Demon King Ziggy, something only Rebecca seems to notice...
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* AllLovingHero: Ziggy is known to his friends and family as a man who views humans and machines on equal terms, believing that everyone has a "heart" no matter who or what they are.
* AlternateSelf: [[spoiler:Ziggy is a future version of Shiki from Universe 3173, where he was transported to 20,000 years into the future after trying to stop Shura's anti-matter bombs in Universe 2, if not a Universe just like it. As a consequence of the current Shiki choosing to not stop the bombs, Ziggy became a separate existence from Shiki in Universe 3.]]
* AmnesiacDissonance: After remembering his past an EvilOverlord out to KillAllHumans, Ziggy is motivated partially by disgust with himself for treating "ugly, foolish creatures" like humans with the same respect as machines, and for raising the boy who would pose a threat to the entire universe itself. [[spoiler:{{Subverted}} when it's revealed to be a part of the ''Edens One''[='=]s control over him.]]
* AppropriatedAppellation: The name "Ziggy" itself is not his original name. Rather, it comes from [[spoiler:his labored effort at pronouncing his original name, Shiki, which gets mangled into "Jigi/Zhigi" due to him suffering from radioactive burns at the time. Because [[TomatoInTheMirror he recognizes the name he was saying]], he says it with enough [[SayMyName clarity and intensity]] for his doctors to conclude his name must be Ziggy.]]
* ArchEnemy: He becomes this for Shiki after becoming the BigBad, with the ''Edens Zero'' crew's search for Mother gradually being overtaken by their battle to save the universe from Ziggy.
* BadassCape: He has a big cloak that oozes the authority and awesomeness of someone who once ruled the Sakura Cosmos.
* BecameTheirOwnAntithesis: {{Inverted}}. It seems he's abandoned everything he taught Shiki about friendship and equality between organic and mechanical beings when he declares war on humans, but Ziggy reveals that he's merely [[EvilAllAlong returned to his true self]] after a century of IdentityAmnesia. [[spoiler:{{Subverted}} when it's revealed that Ziggy was taken over by the ''Edens One'' and truly was GoodAllAlong.]]
* BigBad: After coming BackFromTheDead and regaining his memories, he reveals himself to be EvilAllAlong and becomes the ultimate obstacle the heroes must face in their pursuit of Mother. [[spoiler:{{Subverted}} when it's revealed this Ziggy is another personality created by the ''Edens One'' to control the good, true Ziggy, making him the DiscOneFinalBoss.]]
* BigGood: [[spoiler:Ziggy takes on this role in Universe Zero, where Void has no sway over him like he did in the previous world. This allows Ziggy to leave the ''Edens Zero'' on Granbell so Shiki can begin his adventure immediately, and later take the fight straight to the BigBad himself.]]
* BlackEyesOfCrazy: [[spoiler:{{Downplayed}}. When Ziggy's human face is visible, only the sclera of his left eye changes to black to enhance his crazed, diabolical nature.]]
* BoldExplorer: He is one of countless interstellar explorers who traveled into deep space in search of Mother, specifically to wish for her to restore his lost memories.
* BrainUploading: [[spoiler:Due to the extensive damage his body suffered in the {{Antimatter}} explosion that originally sent him to the future, his mind was [[UnwillingRoboticization unwillingly]] uploaded into his current mechanical body.]]
* BrokenPedestal: He becomes this to Shiki and the Four Shining Stars when he wages all-out war between humans and machines, spitting in the face of everything he taught them about harmony and friendship between the two.
* CameBackWrong: {{Subverted}}. When Ziggy comes BackFromTheDead as a human-hating misanthrope who betrays everyone he cared about without a second thought, everybody thinks something has gone horribly wrong with him to make him act this way. As he later claims, the Ziggy they knew was a product of IdentityAmnesia, making him EvilAllAlong. [[spoiler:DoubleSubverted by the later reveal that the he gained amnesia as a result of a Chronophage encounter right before he time-jumped, and everything he "remembered" was information he learned from the BigBad possessing him.]]
* TheCaptain: His title as "Demon King" also makes him captain of the ''Edens Zero'' and its SuperiorSuccessor, the ''Edens One'', with Connor--the self-professed captain of the latter ship--really being a glorified helmsman for hire.
* CharacterCatchphrase: He utters a recurring phrase, "That's what it is," to scorn his former loved ones for letting their emotions get in the way of finishing him off whenever he's at his weakest.
* ChekhovsGunman: Hundreds of chapters before it's revealed to be Ziggy, his true identity is introduced as [[spoiler:the unidentified human man in the [[MeanwhileInTheFuture 20,000-year flash-forward]] during the Norma arc]].
* CoolOldGuy: Ziggy is one of the most powerful warriors in the cosmos, a seasoned intergalactic explorer, and--before becoming the BigBad--an advocate for mechanical lifeforms everywhere.
* ConquerorFromTheFuture: [[spoiler:As revealed in the Lendard arc, Ziggy is not any mere GalacticConqueror; he's a conqueror from several thousand years in the future, where all other humans have died out and androids have taken their place.]]
* DarkIsNotEvil: {{Subverted}}. Despite looking like an EvilOverlord straight out of a HighFantasy series, he is introduced as a paragon of kindness and wisdom for everyone who knew him. After he comes BackFromTheDead, however, he proves himself to be every bit as evil as being a [[MaouTheDemonKing Demon King]] robot would suggest. [[spoiler:Then DoubleSubverted when he turns out to have been under the control of the ''Edens One''[='=]s A.I., making him GoodAllAlong.]]
* DeadpanSnarker: He has a mean wit, best shown when he dryly dismisses Emperor Nero's InfoDump on Jaguar:
-->'''Nero:''' You have not heard of Beast Lord Jaguar?\\
'''Ziggy:''' Can't say that I have.\\
'''Nero:''' He was once part of the Oración Seis Galáctica, a man beyond anyone's control. Then he joined the Oración Seis Interstellar, and rose through the military ranks to become a captain.\\
'''Ziggy:''' I really don't care.
* DeathOfPersonality: [[spoiler:Ziggy's current personality comes from the loss of his memories and old personality as Shiki, developing a more mild-mannered and worrisome persona over the decades he spent living on Planet Eden, and eventually developing into the wise and mischievous old bot his current family knows. It's because of this disconnect that Ziggy no longer considers himself to be Shiki, despite his awareness of who he used to be.]]
* DeathSeeker: [[spoiler:After being returned to his true, good personality in the Lendard arc, Ziggy is shown to be desperate to die to stop the true BigBad from controlling him again, but is still [[ICannotSelfTerminate prevented from destroying himself]]. This leads Ziggy to beg Shiki to put him out of his misery, going as far as to [[HydePlaysJekyll act like he's fallen back under control]] and [[DeathFakedForYou fake Pino's death]] when Shiki hesitates.]]
* DiscOneFinalBoss: [[spoiler:After being set up as the BigBad, Ziggy is revealed in the Lendard arc to have just been controlled by the real BigBad, the ''Edens One'', and pushes Shiki into killing him to prevent the ship's A.I. from taking control of him again.]]
* EnhancedPunch: He can use Gravity Fist just like Shiki, which uses gravity to boost the strength of his punch. His Ultimachina Impact takes it a step further, punching his opponent with gravitational force that swells up and explodes for additional damage.
* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: Everyone besides his closest allies simply calls him "Demon King", which is both his role in the theme park and his title as captain of the ''Edens Zero''.
* EvilAllAlong: Ziggy purports that his original self was an evil GalacticConqueror, while the robot his friends and loved ones are familiar with was only good because he was suffering from IdentityAmnesia. [[spoiler:{{Subverted}} once it's revealed that the good personality was the original personality, and his turn to evil was caused by the ''Edens One''[='=]s A.I. [[GrandTheftMe taking him over]].]]
* EvilCostumeSwitch: Goes through one at the end of the Foresta arc, despite looking like an ObviouslyEvil [[MaouTheDemonKing Demon King]] to begin with: his [[SkullForAHead skull face]] becomes more detailed with realistic teeth; his chin plate becomes more jagged, his [[HornedHumanoid horns]] curve upwards; his body bulks up considerably; his fanged chest plate becomes a BellyMouth with a floating orb in the center; he drops his ShouldersOfDoom; and he replaces his simple, thin legs with boots.
* EvilCounterpart: He becomes this for Shiki after coming BackFromTheDead. Both have the same gravity powers and are the captains of their own ''Edens'' spaceships, but while Shiki is TheHero, Ziggy is his GruesomeGrandparent who wants to make machines conquer humanity.
* EvilOverlord: As the BigBad, his title as [[MaouTheDemonKing Demon King]] isn't [[MeanCharacterNiceActor just for show]] like it was before, as he soars the cosmos to conquer planets, bend unwilling robots to his will, and spread death and chaos to every corner of the universe he can reach.
* EvilSoundsRaspy: Creator/HochuOtsuka punctuates his turn to evil by giving him a deeper, sinister voice that sometimes borders on CreepyMonotone.
* EvilWearsBlack: Ziggy's EvilCostumeSwitch replaces his red BadassCape with a black one.
* EvilerThanThou: To [[TheEmperor Poseidon Nero]]. While Nero puts up a much better fight than Ziggy expects out of him, Ziggy finds it ridiculous that Nero sacrificed everyone he knew to fulfill his [[ArtifactOfPower Empire Dice]]'s prophecies, and would just as readily sacrifice the empire he gained from this if it means guaranteeing his victory against Ziggy. [[spoiler:For that, Ziggy crushes Nero's dice the first opportunity he gets and drains the life out of him.]]
* ExpressiveSkull: While his face is designed to look like a skull, his mouth still curves and bends whenever he needs to emote.
* FaceOfAThug: He looks like an archetypal fantasy villain with a SkullForAHead, but he's also an AllLovingHero and the story's GreaterScopeParagon. However, this winds up being called into question by TheReveal that he's an [[AmnesiacVillainJoinsTheHeroes amnesiac villain]].
* FallenHero: [[spoiler:Ziggy was originally another version of Shiki, whom Ziggy raised himself to [[AllLovingHero show compassion to all forms of life]], and who wanted nothing more than to explore the cosmos and [[IJustWantToHaveFriends make hundreds of friends]]. Then he made a TragicMistake that killed his friends and flung him thousands of years into the future without his memories, and his attempts to save the past only left him stranded there to become the ''Edens One''[='=]s helpless pawn.]]
* FantasticFightingStyle: Ziggy is proficient in the Magimech School of [[GravityMaster Gravity Martial Arts]], which allows him to alter weight and gravitational direction of anything, [[SemanticSuperpower including concepts]].
* FantasticRacism: In stark contrast to the AllLovingHero that Shiki and the rest knew, Ziggy is convinced that HumansAreBastards and sees it best to [[KillAllHumans kill them all]].
* FinalBoss: He fulfills this role InUniverse to parkgoers at the Granbell Kingdom, and his throne room aboard the ''Edens Zero'' gives off the vibes of a FinalBoss chamber in a JRPG.
* FriendshipDenial: To cement his status as the BigBad, he burns all bridges he built with Shiki, the Four Shining Stars, Elsie, and Nero, claiming the friendships he had with them were just products of his IdentityAmnesia, and that he couldn't care less about them now that he remembers his true self.
* FutureBadass: [[spoiler:Ziggy turns out to be this for Shiki, as [[FutureSelfReveal revealed]] in the Lendard arc, which gives him such an advantage in age and experience that Shiki has to [[SuperMode Overdrive]] just to match Ziggy's base level of power, while Ziggy's [[OneWingedAngel Overdrive]] completely eclipses Shiki's.]]
* TheGadfly: Ziggy is shown to have had a playfully deceitful side to him as Shiki's grandfather, evidenced by how he tricked Shiki into thinking a shooting star was a dragon when he wasn't so sure himself.
* GalacticConqueror: His endgame upon reactivation is to conquer the entire universe and place machines above humankind, which he does by spreading a virus that infects robots with the same kind of desire to dominate humans.
* GlowingEyesOfDoom: His eyes originally appeared to be empty black sockets, but after coming BackFromTheDead as the BigBad, he's often drawn with a single glowing pupil, giving an impression of BlackEyesOfCrazy.
* GlowingMechanicalEyes: As a machine, he sports a single pupil that [[RedEyesTakeWarning glows red]].
* GoodAllAlong: [[spoiler:Rather than an evil GalacticConqueror like he claimed to have been prior to his memory loss, Ziggy is revealed in the Lendard arc to be a would-be hero from the future who was simply [[GrandTheftMe taken control of by another]] and used to commit evil against his will, and was FightingFromTheInside to help his old friends however he could.]]
* GrandTheftMe: [[spoiler:He's revealed in the Lendard arc to have been a victim of this since he was brought BackFromTheDead, with the perpetrator and Shiki's true enemy being Void, the ''Edens One''[='=]s A.I. itself.]]
* GreaterScopeParagon: Before his death, Ziggy is the the robot who raised Shiki and built the Four Shining Stars, teaching them the value of life for machines and friendship with humans, which made them the caring and heroic figures they are today.
* GravityMaster: He has the same gravity powers as Shiki does, but uses them on a grander scale such as [[PlanetDestroyer crumbling a small planet]]. He also uses it as a SemanticSuperpower by [[spoiler:becoming a PowerParasite via causing others' powers to "fall" into him]].
* GruesomeGrandparent: He becomes one to his adoptive grandson upon his revival. The moment he and Shiki reunite, Ziggy tries to kill him and his crew, saying that raising Shiki and sending him into space was a mistake.
* GrinOfAudacity: His built-in SlasherSmile becomes this to reflect his nature as a adventurous, mischievous, wizened old bot.
* HornedHumanoid: There are two huge horns grafted onto the sides of his head, which become larger and turned upward in his transformed appearance.
* HydePlaysJekyll: Ziggy is able to pull this off twice in the Lendard arc thanks to the stark personality shift he undergoes during his FaceHeelTurn, making it seem like he's another person entirely, though the context between each moment is different due to the fact that [[spoiler:he's actually an unwilling puppet to the real BigBad]]:
** In the first instance, he pulls off a WoundedGazelleGambit after Elsie nearly defeats him, briefly changing back to his original self and pleading her to flee with Shiki before stabbing her with her own sword. [[spoiler:This winds up being {{subverted}} once it's revealed he was actually FightingFromTheInside against the BigBad's control.]]
** In the second instance, [[spoiler:this is played straight by the real Ziggy, who pretends to slip back under the BigBad's control to motivate Shiki into killing him for good, [[DeathFakedForYou faking Pino's death]] to trigger Shiki's TraumaticSuperpowerAwakening.]]
* IHaveNoSon:
** Grandson, in this case, as the first thing he tells Shiki after coming BackFromTheDead is that it was a mistake to raise him and send him away from Granbell. [[spoiler:{{Subverted}} when he assures Shiki that he still loves him after being freed from the real BigBad.]]
** During the final arc, it's shown that Ziggy feels this way towards [[spoiler:Void, his KidFromTheFuture, since Void is the BigBad who wants to kill Mother and all of humanity, and was the one who controlled him all along.]]
* IHatePastMe: [[spoiler:{{Subverted}}. As Shiki's future self, he seems convinced his past self is a threat to the universe and will stop at nothing to kill him, but this turns out to be because of the ''Edens One''[='=]s control. Ziggy's real personality still doesn't remember his past life, and holds no grudges against Shiki.]]
* IdentityAmnesia:
** He lost his memories of his past over 100 years before his death, finding himself living on Granbell without a care in the world. This led him to look for Mother so he could wish for his memories back, but he abandoned his search when he found Shiki, feeling that raising him was more important. His true identity is eventually revealed to be [[spoiler:a future version of Shiki, who suffered from TraumaInducedAmnesia when he was rebuilt as a robot and [[TomatoInTheMirror realized who he became]], leading to his DeathOfPersonality.]]
** As revealed in the Lendard arc, [[spoiler:Ziggy lost his memories a second time after a Chronophage caught his ship during his voyage from the future to save humanity from extinction, leaving him TrappedInThePast with no knowledge of his mission or that he was ever human to begin with.]]
* InstantExpert: According to his teacher, Xenolith, Ziggy mastered all techniques of Gravity Martial Arts in a single day, as if he already knew them. [[spoiler:This is because he did, [[StableTimeLoop having passed the same techniques onto his own younger self]].]]
* LastOfHisKind: [[spoiler:Before becoming Ziggy, Shiki is the last known living human left in his home of Universe 3173 when he's found in the far future, and only because he was catapulted several millennia across time. Once he's turned into a machine, the human race is made extinct.]]
* LikeASonToMe: Before coming BackFromTheDead, Ziggy views Shiki like a grandson and raises him as such.
* LosingYourHead: Being a machine, Ziggy can easily survive getting his head ripped off and reattach it with gravity.
* LoveIsAWeakness: He believes all emotion, particularly love, to be the ultimate failing of humans. When Elsie and Shiki waste opportunities to kill them out of love for the man he used to be, he makes sure to call them out on it.
* MaouTheDemonKing: ZigZagged. His title as "Demon King" (''Maou'') refers to his role at a theme park, and to his position as the King of [[{{Magitek}} Magimech]] (''Makai no Ou''),[[note]]''Makai'' being a {{Portmanteau}} of ''ma'' (demon/magic) and ''kikai'' (machine)[[/note]] a benevolent figure who shares [[MagicByAnyOtherName Ether]] with machines. After coming BackFromTheDead, however, he fully leans into all of the title's villainous connotations as an EvilOverlord and GalacticConqueror.
* MeanCharacterNiceActor: During his time on Granbell, he's only called the "[[MaouTheDemonKing Demon King]]" because that's his character role at a theme park, as he's beloved by the locals and visitors alike.
* MusicalThemeNaming: According to Mashima, the name "Ziggy" was picked as a ShoutOut to "[[Music/TheRiseAndFallOfZiggyStardustAndTheSpidersFromMars Ziggy Stardust]]" by Music/DavidBowie.
* NotQuiteFlight: Just like Shiki, Ziggy's gravity gives him the power to levitate and "fall" in different directions to emulate flight.
* ObviouslyEvil: A peculiar example in that despite looking like an archetypal [[MaouTheDemonKing Demon King]], Ziggy was set up as a genuinely good robot who simply performed the part at a theme park. After he comes BackFromTheDead, however, he reveals himself to have been EvilAllAlong and was suffering from IdentityAmnesia the entire time his closest friends and loved ones knew him. [[spoiler:{{Subverted}} in the Lendard arc, which shows he was simply being puppetted by the ''Edens One'', and was truly GoodAllAlong.]]
* OldMaster: On top of being Shiki's surrogate grandfather, he is also his and Shura's teacher in the use of [[GravityMaster Gravity Martial Arts]], and is more powerful than either of them.
* OneWingedAngel: [[spoiler:His [[SuperMode Overdrive]] form functions as this, seriously jacking up his body mass and Ether power to such an extent that Shiki, who could previously match him blow for blow when Overdriving himself, suffers a CurbStompBattle.]]
* PerpetualSmiler: His default expression is a SlasherSmile befitting an EvilOverlord, though in his amnesiac state, it comes off as a GrinOfAudacity to show his kinder nature.
* PlanetDestroyer: His GravityMaster powers are so destructive that the entire Granbell Kingdom breaks apart and crumbles with a simple flick of Ziggy's wrist, and the surrounding landscape continues to split and distort while he's leaving until [[ApocalypseWow the entire planet is reduced to smoldering rubble]].
* PowerParasite: His Gravity Drain lets him [[ManaDrain siphon other people's Ether into himself]] with his gravitational pull, allowing him to steal any Ether Gear they may have. Since Ether is also a person's LifeEnergy, this [[LifeDrain kills the victim of the absorbed Ether Gear]].
* APupilOfMineUntilHeTurnedToEvil: Ziggy studied under Xenolith, the inventor of the [[GravityMaster Gravity Martial Arts]], before turning to TheDarkSide. As Ziggy claims, however, he was EvilAllAlong; he simply [[IdentityAmnesia didn't remember any of it at the time]].
* PosthumousCharacter: {{Subverted}}. He broke down from old age a decade before Rebecca and Happy come to Granbell and meet Shiki, but comes BackFromTheDead and becomes a central player to the story.
* RankScalesWithAsskicking: As both a warship captain and head of the robot community of Granbell, he stands as the most powerful of each group with his [[GravityMaster Satan Gravity]].
* RapidFireFisticuffs: His Gravity Inferno technique involves pummeling his opponents with gravitational force that punches holes into any surface behind them.
* RebuiltPedestal: [[spoiler:Shiki and the surviving Shining Stars regain their faith in Ziggy the moment it's revealed that he didn't willingly betray his friends or beliefs.]]
* RedBaron:
** He is called the [[MaouTheDemonKing Demon King]] not just because he played one at a theme park, but because that's his title as TheCaptain of the ''Edens Zero''. As Witch later elaborates, the "Demon King" is an alternate name for the King of [[{{Magitek}} Magimech]], a benevolent fairy tale character who shares [[MagicByAnyOtherName Ether]] with machines.
** As the BigBad, he makes a name for himself as the "Mechanical King" for his dominion over robots, which eventually becomes his epithet as [[spoiler:one of the Oración Seis Galáctica]].
* RedEyesTakeWarning: His single [[GlowingEyesOfDoom Glowing Eye of Doom]] has a prominent red glow in the anime and the cover of Volume 23.
* RetiredBadass: After amassing a reputation as the Sakura Cosmos's original ruler and a famous explorer of the stars, he retired to Granbell as a humble theme park animatronic to spend the rest of his days raising Shiki.
* RidiculouslyHumanRobot: [[spoiler:His unmasked self appears perfectly human, but given the immediate reveal that his mind was uploaded into a fully mechanical body to [[WeCanRebuildHim rebuild him from death's door]], it's clear that his flesh and hair are synthetic upgrades given to him.]]
* RobotsEnslavingRobots: Ziggy's idea of "liberating" machines from humanity is brainwashing them into being his psychotic slaves.
* SemanticSuperpower: As a wielder of "true" gravity, he knows how to affect gravity on a conceptual level. Case in point, he becomes a PowerParasite by making others' abilities "fall" into him.
* ShouldersOfDoom: He usually wears two golden skull-shaped pauldrons, adding to his imposing stature as MaouTheDemonKing.
* SoleSurvivor: [[spoiler:As Shiki's AlternateSelf, Ziggy is the only remaining member of the ''Edens Zero'' crew of his Universe, with the rest either killed in the explosion of Nero 66 or dead due to the 20,000 year TimeSkip caused by the detonation of the {{Antimatter}} bombs combined with his and Rebecca's Ether Gear.]]
* SkullForAHead: His face is designed to look like one. [[spoiler:{{Subverted}} when it's revealed to be a mask covering his true, humanoid face.]]
* SplitPersonality: [[spoiler:{{Subverted}}. After returning to normal, Ziggy speaks as though his evil behavior is because of another personality that was slowly [[SplitPersonalityTakeover taking over]] before he died, addressing him as "Ziggy" as though he himself were not. However, he clarifies for Shiki that this other "personality" is actually an entirely different entity who knew of his true identity and took control of him.]]
* SlasherSmile: His [[PerpetualSmiler permanent expression]] looks like one, but he doesn't truly pull it off until the reveal of his evil nature, turning his wry smile into a wicked, contemptful sneer.
* SuperToughness: By virtue of being a machine, Ziggy can take attacks that would instantly kill any organic being, such as multiple [[ArmorPiercingAttack armor-piercing attacks]] or [[LosingYourHead getting his head ripped off]].
* ThatManIsDead: [[spoiler:Both Ziggy's good and evil "personalities" feel this way about being Shiki, but for different reasons: the "evil" Ziggy simply [[IHatePastMe despises his past self]], while the "good" Ziggy still has IdentityAmnesia and can't see Shiki as anything but his grandson.]]
* ThinkingUpPortals: [[spoiler:He gains the same "Wormhole" ability as Nero, which lets him create portals to just about any other location in the universe, after draining Nero's Ether Gear and killing him in the Nero 66 arc.]]
* TinTyrant: Ziggy is a robot decked out in terrifying armor suitable for a [[MaouTheDemonKing Demon King]], and takes on the role of a GalacticConqueror after becoming the BigBad.
* TomTheDarkLord: "Ziggy" isn't exactly the most threatening name for a Demon King.
* TomatoInTheMirror: [[spoiler:Back when he was still Shiki, Ziggy had no idea he would become his own adoptive grandfather, let alone his own worst enemy. When Shiki finally put two and two together by trying to say his name during his UnwillingRoboticization, only to keep mangling it as "Jigi/Zhigi" because of his weak and sickly state at the time, the shock was so great that he suffered TraumaInducedAmnesia.]]
* TragicMonster: [[spoiler:On top of being a loving grandfather and philanthropist, Ziggy is also a future version of Shiki who lost his identity and friends during an attempt to save everyone GoneHorriblyWrong. Upon coming BackFromTheDead, he is reduced to an unwilling extension of the ''Edens One''[='=]s will, and [[ICannotSelfTerminate begs Shiki for the release of death]] when he briefly returns to his old self, unable to bear living as a puppet of evil.]]
* TragicTimeTraveler: [[spoiler:Shiki was hurdled 20,000 years into the future by a disaster he couldn't prevent, killing all his friends and leaving him with TraumaInducedAmnesia under the belief that [[TomatoInTheMirror he'd become his own despised enemy]], which permanently [[DeathOfPersonality snuffed out his old identity]]. Then, when sent on a mission to return to the past and save TheMultiverse from extinction, he wound up TrappedInThePast with no memory of his mission to begin with, and was eventually [[GrandTheftMe overtaken]] by an evil A.I. that sought to wipe all human life from existence, destroying what good faith he'd built for himself by then.]]
* TranshumanTreachery: His desire to eradicate all humans takes on this shade when it's revealed [[spoiler:he WasOnceAMan, though it's {{subverted}} when it's revealed the ''Edens One'' was controlling him and forcing him to act against his true, human-loving nature.]]
* TraumaInducedAmnesia: [[spoiler:The physical and mental damage Shiki suffers due to the exploding {{antimatter}} bombs, the 20,000-year time jump, the [[TomatoInTheMirror realization of his own identity as Ziggy]], and realizing he's the only survivor of all his friends--complete with seeing Rebecca's corpse--badly affects his memory. His memories further fade away over the course of decades until he forgets who Rebecca was before they came to the future, despite regularly visiting her body and wishing he could remember her.]]
* UnderestimatingBadassery: ZigZagged. He normally acknowledges the [[TheMostWanted Oración Seis Galáctica]] like Elsie and Nero as powerful obstacles in his plan, but he also deems an ex-Galáctica member like Jaguar to be a nuisance not worth fighting himself. This costs him when they meet in the Nero 66 arc, where [[spoiler:Ziggy nearly loses Brigandine and Killer--two of his best minions--after deeming them more than a match for Jaguar, who trashes them in a CurbStompBattle.]]
* UniversallyBelovedLeader: As head robot of the Granbell Kingdom and the ''Edens Zero'', Ziggy is respected and adored by his subjects, crew, and adoptive grandson, who all continue to speak highly of his wisdom and kindness years after his death.
* WalkingSpoiler: Ziggy's past and identity are deeply ingrained into the story's biggest twists on more than one front:
** He's set up as a PosthumousCharacter and GreaterScopeParagon until he comes BackFromTheDead and becomes the BigBad following Drakken Joe's defeat, boasting to have been EvilAllAlong and suffering from IdentityAmnesia.
** A triple whammy during the Lendard arc: first, [[spoiler:he is Shiki's AlternateSelf from a BadFuture branched off from the Nero 66 arc, sent 20,000 years forward in time by Shura's {{Antimatter}} bombs]]; second, [[spoiler:the ''Edens Zero'' was built so Ziggy could return to the present era and save Mother from death using Etherion, made from the deceased Rebecca's Ether]]; and third, [[spoiler:he was truly GoodAllAlong, merely being under the control of the ''Edens One'', his own SapientShip and the true BigBad.]]
** In the final arc, he is revealed to be [[spoiler:the biological father of Void, the true identity of the ''Edens One''[='=]s Artificialntelligence, which was previously assumed to be a regular A.I. gone rogue.]]
* WasOnceAMan: [[spoiler:He's a version of the human Shiki, whose body was so badly burned from the explosion of spacetime that sent him to the future, it forced his robot caretakers to [[WeCanRebuildHim switch it out with a mechanical one]].]]
* WeUsedToBeFriends:
** He was as much a friend to Shiki and the Four Shining Stars as he was a parental figure and mentor, but he's since sworn off all ties to them, forcing them to do the same if they have any hope of stopping him.
** Ziggy and [[TheEmperor Nero]] used to consider each other as friends, enough that Nero feels troubled by how someone as wise and thoughtful as Ziggy would wage a RobotWar. When Nero addresses Ziggy as such, Ziggy coldly denies having any friends whatsoever, leaving Nero to firmly consider him as an enemy.
* WorldsStrongestMan: His gravity powers and durability make him stronger than any of the greatest fighters known in the universe, and incredibly tough to take down. [[spoiler:The threat he poses is officially recognized by the government when they brand him as one of the Oración Seis Galáctica--a category for the six strongest outlaws in the cosmos--some time after [[YouKillItYouBoughtIt killing Poseidon Nero, one of its original members]].]]
* YouAreWhatYouHate: [[spoiler:{{Subverted}}. He appears to believe that HumansAreBastards despite being human originally, but this turns out to be a part of the ''Edens One''[='=]s control.]]
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!!Captain Connor
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Kenta Sasa (Japanese), Creator/PaulStPeter (English)[[labelnote: Foreign [=VAs=]]]Cristóbal Areite (Latin American Spanish), Philippe Roullier (French), Roberto Accornero (Italian)[[/labelnote]]
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The ''Edens One''[='=]s mysterious captain, who hails from the Aoi Cosmos. First finding him after a shipwreck leaves him drifting in space, the ''Edens Zero'' crew initially see him as a nuisance until he navigates their ship to Sun Jewel in record time, seemingly cementing him as their pilot. After Rebecca makes her first time leap, however, he encounters the ''Zero'' crew again as if none of them had ever met, and as a reluctant servant of the evil Demon King Ziggy, something only Rebecca seems to notice...
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* EvilMakesYouUgly: Before he turns on Hermit, Müller looks like a trustworthy scientist with nothing suspicious to indicate his evil nature. However, after his betrayal, he undergoes through a MadnessMakeover that causes him to be less groomed and grow the BaldOfEvil. As the years go on, he transforms himself into an O-Tech, being almost completely bald, making him unrecognizable to the seemingly friendly scientist he once was.
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* EvilMakesYouUgly: Before he turns on Hermit, Müller looks like a trustworthy scientist with nothing suspicious to indicate his evil nature. However, after his betrayal, he undergoes through a MadnessMakeover that causes leaves him to be less groomed and grow the BaldOfEvil. ungroomed with thinning hair. As the years go on, he transforms himself into an O-Tech, being becomes a monstrous O-Tech with almost completely bald, no hair, making him unrecognizable to the seemingly from his friendly scientist he once was.facade.
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* ComplexityAddiction: He's so obsessed with the aesthetics of death that he prefers to make his killings as elaborate and "beautiful" as possible, rather than just taking the quick and straightforward approach, which earns him some flak from Killer. Sure enough, he loses several opportunities to defeat the crew.
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* AmnesiacLover: [[spoiler:The final arc reveals that Wizard was Witch's fiancé and eventual husband back when they were human. Since neither of them remember their human pasts, they are now on opposing sides]]
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* ManaDrain: His Drain Ether allows him to siphon his opponent's Ether upon physical contact, simultaneously weakening his foe while strengthening himself. It works on something as intense as an Overdrive state, though it can only absorb as much Ether as his foe is putting out. [[spoiler:While he disables Shiki even in Overdrive, he's blindsided when Shiki suddenly powers back up and takes him down in an instant, and he's further floored when Shiki reveals Wizard only drained one tenth of his full power.]]
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* ManaDrain: His Drain Ether allows him to siphon his opponent's Ether upon physical contact, simultaneously weakening his foe while strengthening himself. It works on something as intense as an Overdrive state, though it can only absorb as much Ether as his foe is putting out. [[spoiler:While he disables Shiki even in Overdrive, he's blindsided when Shiki suddenly powers back up and takes him down in an instant, and he's further floored when Shiki reveals revealing Wizard only drained one tenth of his full power.]]
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->For the ''Edens One''[='=]s CustomBuiltHost in the final arcs, Over Nu Etherion Void, see [[Characters/EdensZeroUniverseZero this page]].
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->For the ''Edens One''[='=]s CustomBuiltHost in the final arcs, Over '''Over Nu Etherion Void, Void''', see [[Characters/EdensZeroUniverseZero this page]].
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* {{Expy}}: An extremely obvious one of Sovereign, the BigBad of the first ''Franchise/MassEffect'' video game. It's a gigantic SapientShip resembling a sea monster that is TheManBehindTheMan of its cybernetically-augmented (and [[CyberneticsEatYourSoul cybernetically-enslaved]]) FallenHero 'captain', leading the galaxy's AI population on a genocidal crusade against sapient biological life. Its existence is even the exact same kind of late-story TheDogWasTheMastermind twist.
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!Spoilers for the first 140 chapters (anime seasons 1 and 2) are unmarked. Expect unmarked spoiler names as well. Administrivia/YouHaveBeenWarned!
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!Spoilers for the first 140 chapters (anime seasons (Seasons 1 and 2) 2 of the anime) are unmarked. Expect unmarked spoiler names as well. Administrivia/YouHaveBeenWarned!Administrivia/YouHaveBeenWarned!
!Due to the nature of the final arcs, all tropes and examples from Chapter 221 onward should be placed on [[Characters/EdensZeroUniverseZero this page]].
!Due to the nature of the final arcs, all tropes and examples from Chapter 221 onward should be placed on [[Characters/EdensZeroUniverseZero this page]].
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->For the ''Edens One''[='=]s CustomBuiltHost in the final arcs, Over Nu Etherion Void, see [[Characters/EdensZeroUniverseZero this page]].
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* TheWorfEffect: His [[CurbStompBattle "fight"]] with Jaguar in the Nero 66 arc ends with the latter quickly tearing through him as if he were made of paper, demonstrating how far the Dark Stars are out of their league against someone from the Oración Seis, whether it's the Galáctica or the Interstellar Union Army.
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* TheWorfEffect: His During the Nero 66 arc, [[spoiler:his [[CurbStompBattle "fight"]] with Jaguar in the Nero 66 arc ends with the latter quickly tearing through him as if he were made of paper, demonstrating how far the Dark Stars are out of their league against someone from the Oración Seis, whether it's the Galáctica or the Interstellar Union Army.]]
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* TheWorfEffect: [[spoiler:Killer gets [[NotQuiteDead temporarily]] wrecked by Jaguar in the Nero 66 arc, just to establish the Oración Seis Interstellar as being in an entire class above the Four Dark Stars.]]
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* TheWorfEffect: In the Nero 66 arc, [[spoiler:Killer gets [[NotQuiteDead temporarily]] wrecked by Jaguar in the Nero 66 arc, just to establish the Oración Seis Interstellar as being in an entire class above the Four Dark Stars.]]
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!Spoilers for the first 113 chapters are unmarked; for comparison, the anime adaptation covers up to Chapter 68. Administrivia/YouHaveBeenWarned!
!To preserve spoilers for the final arc, all tropes pertaining to these characters from Chapters 221 onward should be placed on [[Characters/EdensZeroUniverseZero this page]].
!To preserve spoilers for the final arc, all tropes pertaining to these characters from Chapters 221 onward should be placed on [[Characters/EdensZeroUniverseZero this page]].
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!Spoilers for the first 113 140 chapters (anime seasons 1 and 2) are unmarked; for comparison, the anime adaptation covers up to Chapter 68. Administrivia/YouHaveBeenWarned!
!To preserve spoilers for the final arc, all tropes pertaining to these characters from Chapters 221 onward should be placed on [[Characters/EdensZeroUniverseZero this page]].unmarked. Expect unmarked spoiler names as well. Administrivia/YouHaveBeenWarned!
!To preserve spoilers for the final arc, all tropes pertaining to these characters from Chapters 221 onward should be placed on [[Characters/EdensZeroUniverseZero this page]].
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* DirtyCoward: [[spoiler:After getting reduced to a helpless head, he begs for Hermit to save and promising her that he has reformed. However, Hetmit, Weisz, and Laguna can clearly see that Müller is really only banking on RedemptionEarnsLife as an excuse to not take any responsibility.]]
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* DirtyCoward: [[spoiler:After After getting reduced to a helpless head, he begs for Hermit to save and promising her that he has reformed. However, Hetmit, Weisz, and Laguna can clearly see that Müller is really only banking on RedemptionEarnsLife as an excuse to not take any responsibility.]]
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* EvilIsPetty: [[spoiler:The Rutherfords were an influential and rich family that supported his work until he was arrested, after which they rather understandably withdrew it once his crimes came to light. Once he escaped prison, he killed the parents and kidnapped their children to perform cruel experiments on, dissecting Jinn and turning him into a cyborg while [[ForcedToWatch forcing Kleene to watch]].]]
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* EvilIsPetty: [[spoiler:The The Rutherfords were an influential and rich family that supported his work until he was arrested, after which they rather understandably withdrew it once his crimes came to light. Once he escaped prison, he killed the parents and kidnapped their children to perform cruel experiments on, dissecting Jinn and turning him into a cyborg while [[ForcedToWatch forcing Kleene to watch]].]]
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* FalselyReformedVillain: [[spoiler:He tries pulling this on Hermit after getting his body destroyed, claiming to have seen the light and realized that machines have hearts after so blatantly dismissing them as emotionless pieces of junk. Hermit and her friends don't buy it for a moment, knowing he's just trying to [[VillainsWantMercy milk what little pity he can get out of them]].]]
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* FalselyReformedVillain: [[spoiler:He He tries pulling this on Hermit after getting his body destroyed, claiming to have seen the light and realized that machines have hearts after so blatantly dismissing them as emotionless pieces of junk. Hermit and her friends don't buy it for a moment, knowing he's just trying to [[VillainsWantMercy milk what little pity he can get out of them]].]]
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* HateSink: He convinces Hermit that [[HumansAreBastards humans don't have hearts]] by being irredeemably evil, sadistic, manipulative, and fully responsible for robot genocide and poor Hermit's initial broken state. [[spoiler:On top of that, he murdered Jinn and Kleene's parents, and is directly responsible for turning Jinn into a cyborg and Kleene losing her emotions.]]
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* HateSink: He convinces Hermit that [[HumansAreBastards humans don't have hearts]] by being irredeemably evil, sadistic, manipulative, and fully responsible for robot genocide and poor Hermit's initial broken state. [[spoiler:On On top of that, he murdered Jinn and Kleene's parents, and is directly responsible for turning Jinn into a cyborg and Kleene losing her emotions.]]
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* InelegantBlubbering: [[spoiler: Laguna notes that Dr. Müller's tears from Hermit's MegatonPunch look filthy, considering that Dr. Müller begged for undeserved mercy and refused to take any responsibility for torturing the Rutherford Siblings.]]
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* InelegantBlubbering: [[spoiler: Laguna notes that Dr. Müller's tears from Hermit's MegatonPunch look filthy, considering that Dr. Müller begged for undeserved mercy and refused to take any responsibility for torturing the Rutherford Siblings.]]siblings.
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* LaserGuidedKarma: [[spoiler:After fifteen years of sick and twisted experiments conducted ForTheEvulz, he finally gets his just desserts when Weisz obliterates his O-Tech body and leaves him sniveling at the mercy of the less than forgiving Hermit, one of his many undeserving victims. To rub salt in the wound, Hermit tricks him into thinking they're friends again just so she can get his retina scan and hack into the server he was guarding, right before punching him in the face and discarding him just like he did to her years ago.]]
* LosingYourHead: [[spoiler:By the end of his battle with Weisz, Müller's O-Tech body is blown to bits, leaving nothing but his head. He's still able to survive, but can only crawl around pathetically with tiny, retractable arms where his ears used to be.]]
* LovesTheSoundOfScreaming: [[spoiler:He brags about how much he enjoyed hearing Jinn and Kleene cry in agony while he tortured them in his experiments.]]
* MadScientist: He's the ringleader of a whole team of them, dedicating himself to building a MagicalParticleAccelerator that could be easily repurposed into a DoomsdayDevice for a planet of machines, and keeping all the surviving robots on hand as lab rats to satisfy his sadistic cravings. [[spoiler:He also turned to experimenting on Jinn and Kleene when they were only children so he could rebuild himself as the ultimate O-Tech after losing much of his old body in an explosion.]]
* LosingYourHead: [[spoiler:By the end of his battle with Weisz, Müller's O-Tech body is blown to bits, leaving nothing but his head. He's still able to survive, but can only crawl around pathetically with tiny, retractable arms where his ears used to be.]]
* LovesTheSoundOfScreaming: [[spoiler:He brags about how much he enjoyed hearing Jinn and Kleene cry in agony while he tortured them in his experiments.]]
* MadScientist: He's the ringleader of a whole team of them, dedicating himself to building a MagicalParticleAccelerator that could be easily repurposed into a DoomsdayDevice for a planet of machines, and keeping all the surviving robots on hand as lab rats to satisfy his sadistic cravings. [[spoiler:He also turned to experimenting on Jinn and Kleene when they were only children so he could rebuild himself as the ultimate O-Tech after losing much of his old body in an explosion.]]
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* LaserGuidedKarma: [[spoiler:After After fifteen years of sick and twisted experiments conducted ForTheEvulz, he finally gets his just desserts when Weisz obliterates his O-Tech body and leaves him sniveling at the mercy of the less than forgiving Hermit, one of his many undeserving victims. To rub salt in the wound, Hermit tricks him into thinking they're friends again just so she can get his retina scan and hack into the server he was guarding, right before punching him in the face and discarding him just like he did to her years ago.]]
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* LosingYourHead:[[spoiler:By By the end of his battle with Weisz, Müller's O-Tech body is blown to bits, leaving nothing but his head. He's still able to survive, but can only crawl around pathetically with tiny, retractable arms where his ears used to be.]]
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* LovesTheSoundOfScreaming:[[spoiler:He He brags about how much he enjoyed hearing Jinn and Kleene cry in agony while he tortured them in his experiments.]]
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* MadScientist: He's the ringleader of a whole team of them, dedicating himself to building a MagicalParticleAccelerator that could be easily repurposed into a DoomsdayDevice for a planet of machines, and keeping all the surviving robots on hand as lab rats to satisfy his sadistic cravings.[[spoiler:He He also turned to experimenting on Jinn and Kleene when they were only children so he could rebuild himself as the ultimate O-Tech after losing much of his old body in an explosion.]]
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* MadScientist: He's the ringleader of a whole team of them, dedicating himself to building a MagicalParticleAccelerator that could be easily repurposed into a DoomsdayDevice for a planet of machines, and keeping all the surviving robots on hand as lab rats to satisfy his sadistic cravings.
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* OneDegreeOfSeparation: He's very familiar with the present-day Professor Weisz and his accomplishments (though considering this Weisz is already a huge celebrity within scientific circles, [[TruthInTelevision it makes complete sense]]), and he just so happens to be the one directly responsible for [[spoiler:turning Jinn into an O-Tech and giving Kleene her crippling mental trauma]].
* OpinionFlipFlop: [[spoiler:While he begs for Hermit to spare him, Müller attempts to have her connect with him by telling her that she is right with believing that HumansAreTheRealMonsters, then immediately changes his mind when she responds that this isn't true, because [[RestoredMyFaithInHumanity she had her faith restored towards humanity]] with the friendship of the ''Edens Zero''.]]
* OpinionFlipFlop: [[spoiler:While he begs for Hermit to spare him, Müller attempts to have her connect with him by telling her that she is right with believing that HumansAreTheRealMonsters, then immediately changes his mind when she responds that this isn't true, because [[RestoredMyFaithInHumanity she had her faith restored towards humanity]] with the friendship of the ''Edens Zero''.]]
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* OneDegreeOfSeparation: He's very familiar with the present-day Professor Weisz and his accomplishments (though considering this Weisz is already a huge celebrity within scientific circles, [[TruthInTelevision it makes complete sense]]), and he just so happens to be the one directly responsible for [[spoiler:turning turning Jinn into an O-Tech and giving Kleene her crippling mental trauma]].
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* OpinionFlipFlop:[[spoiler:While While he begs for Hermit to spare him, Müller attempts to have her connect with him by telling her that she is right with believing that HumansAreTheRealMonsters, then immediately changes his mind when she responds that this isn't true, because [[RestoredMyFaithInHumanity she had her faith restored towards humanity]] with the friendship of the ''Edens Zero''.]]
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* TortureTechnician: He put Hermit through hell by dismantling and reassembling her body for two years straight, and he [[spoiler:cut off the limbs of a young Jinn as he forced Kleene to watch]].
* VillainsWantMercy: [[spoiler:After being reduced to a head with little arms attached to it, he doesn't hesitate to grovel before Hermit's feet and beg her to save him, desperately pleading he's seen the light that HumansAreTheRealMonsters, and appealing to their old friendship that he gleefully exploited to put her through hell. It all amounts to nothing, as Hermit tricks him into giving her his retina scan to shut down the satellite before punching him out.]]
* VillainsWantMercy: [[spoiler:After being reduced to a head with little arms attached to it, he doesn't hesitate to grovel before Hermit's feet and beg her to save him, desperately pleading he's seen the light that HumansAreTheRealMonsters, and appealing to their old friendship that he gleefully exploited to put her through hell. It all amounts to nothing, as Hermit tricks him into giving her his retina scan to shut down the satellite before punching him out.]]
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* TortureTechnician: He put Hermit through hell by dismantling and reassembling her body for two years straight, and he [[spoiler:cut cut off the limbs of a young Jinn as he forced Kleene to watch]].
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* VillainsWantMercy:[[spoiler:After After being reduced to a head with little arms attached to it, he doesn't hesitate to grovel before Hermit's feet and beg her to save him, desperately pleading he's seen the light that HumansAreTheRealMonsters, and appealing to their old friendship that he gleefully exploited to put her through hell. It all amounts to nothing, as Hermit tricks him into giving her his retina scan to shut down the satellite before punching him out.]]
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* WhoNeedsTheirWholeBody: Arsenal cuts him in half at the waist with [[BladeBelowTheShoulder Grandee Wing]], but he just laughs it off and retaliates while musing on how becoming an O-Tech lets him ignore things like this. [[spoiler:This ends up contributing to his defeat, however, as [[BigDamnHeroes Laguna arrives]] and short-circuits him via hitting an exposed sparking wire in his severed torso with water.]]
* WhyAmITicking: [[spoiler:He's defeated by Weisz grabbing him and using his [[{{Technopath}} Machina Maker]] to reconfigure his O-Tech body into a bomb which blows him to pieces.]]
* WouldHurtAChild: [[spoiler:He dismembered a young Jinn [[ChainsawGood with a chainsaw]] as part of his "experiments". Just to push the envelope further, [[ForcedToWatch he made Kleene watch the whole thing]], leaving her emotionally crippled.]]
* WhyAmITicking: [[spoiler:He's defeated by Weisz grabbing him and using his [[{{Technopath}} Machina Maker]] to reconfigure his O-Tech body into a bomb which blows him to pieces.]]
* WouldHurtAChild: [[spoiler:He dismembered a young Jinn [[ChainsawGood with a chainsaw]] as part of his "experiments". Just to push the envelope further, [[ForcedToWatch he made Kleene watch the whole thing]], leaving her emotionally crippled.]]
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* WhoNeedsTheirWholeBody: Arsenal cuts him in half at the waist with [[BladeBelowTheShoulder Grandee Wing]], but he just laughs it off and retaliates while musing on how becoming an O-Tech lets him ignore things like this. [[spoiler:This This ends up contributing to his defeat, however, as [[BigDamnHeroes Laguna arrives]] and short-circuits him via hitting an exposed sparking wire in his severed torso with water.]]
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* WhyAmITicking:[[spoiler:He's He's defeated by Weisz grabbing him and using his [[{{Technopath}} Machina Maker]] to reconfigure his O-Tech body into a bomb which blows him to pieces.]]
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* WouldHurtAChild:[[spoiler:He He dismembered a young Jinn [[ChainsawGood with a chainsaw]] as part of his "experiments". Just to push the envelope further, [[ForcedToWatch he made Kleene watch the whole thing]], leaving her emotionally crippled.]]
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* FalselyReformedVillain: [[spoiler: {{Invoked}}. As part of his DirtyCoward tendencies, [[VillainsWantMercy he begs]] for Hermit to have himself get saved and promising her that he has reformed. However, Hetmit, Weisz, and Laguna can clearly see that Dr. Müller is really only using RedemptionEqualsLife as an excuse to not take any responsibility.]]
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* FalselyReformedVillain: [[spoiler: {{Invoked}}. As part of [[spoiler:He tries pulling this on Hermit after getting his DirtyCoward tendencies, body destroyed, claiming to have seen the light and realized that machines have hearts after so blatantly dismissing them as emotionless pieces of junk. Hermit and her friends don't buy it for a moment, knowing he's just trying to [[VillainsWantMercy milk what little pity he begs]] for Hermit to have himself can get saved and promising her that he has reformed. However, Hetmit, Weisz, and Laguna can clearly see that Dr. Müller is really only using RedemptionEqualsLife as an excuse to not take any responsibility.out of them]].]]
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* AcePilot: Connor shows he has real piloting chops by flying the ''Edens Zero'' straight through a hazardous debris field none of the ship's crew would dare to enter, all without a single bump or scratch. The fact that [[OffscreenMomentOfAwesome the crew didn't notice his death-defying stunt]] shows just how much of a cakewalk he made it seem.
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* AcePilot: Connor shows he has real piloting chops by flying the ''Edens Zero'' straight through a hazardous debris field of DangerousOrbitalDebris field none of the ship's crew would dare to enter, all without a single bump or scratch. The fact that [[OffscreenMomentOfAwesome the crew didn't notice his death-defying stunt]] shows just how much of a cakewalk he made it seem.
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* {{Expy}}: An extremely obvious one of Sovereign, the BigBad of the first ''Franchise/MassEffect'' video game. It's a gigantic SapientShip resembling a sea monster that is TheManBehindTheMan of its cybernetically-augmented (and [[CyberneticsEatYourSoul cybernetically-enslaved]]) FallenHero 'captain', leading the galaxy's AI population on a genocidal crusade against sapient biological life. Its existence is even the exact same kind of late-story TheDogWasTheMastermind twist.
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[[Characters/EdensZeroGrandShikiCosmos Grand Shiki Cosmos]] ([[Characters/EdensZeroSakuraCosmos Sakura Cosmos]]) Cosmos]] [=[=][[Characters/EdensZeroBlueGarden Blue Garden]], [[Characters/EdensZeroSunJewel Sun Jewel]][=]=]) | [[Characters/EdensZeroOthers Others]]\\
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* EffeminateVoice: As a SissyVillain with feminine speech patterns, he's given a fairly soft-sounding voice in the anime, which compliments [[TheLadette Sister]]'s husky TomboyishVoice.
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* BaritoneOfStrength: The anime gives him a deep voice to match his role as TheBrute in the Four Dark Stars.
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* TheNicknamer: He has pet names for each of his fellow Dark Stars in the English version (in Japanese, he simply uses the [[UsefulNotes/JapaneseHonorifics honorific]] ''chan''): Wizard is "Wiz Kid", Brigandine is "Briggy Boy", and Killer is "[=Li'l=] Kill".
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* TheNicknamer: He has pet names for each of his fellow Dark Stars in the English version (in Japanese, he simply uses the [[UsefulNotes/JapaneseHonorifics honorific]] ''chan''): ''-chan''): Wizard is "Wiz Kid", Brigandine is "Briggy Boy", and Killer is "[=Li'l=] Kill".
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->''"'''Everyone''' knows humans are superior! I will wipe every living bot from this cosmos!!!! I can't stand by and let '''machines''' go around pretending to be human!!!!"''
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* RedEyesTakeWarning: His first model is given red eyes in the anime, fitting an evil, human-hating robot like him.
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* AdaptationDyeJob: In the manga, his hair is colored the same shade of green as Witch. In the anime, it's colored teal instead.
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* FrozenFace: His lips don't move when he speaks in the anime adaptation, making his entire face look like a mask, despite his ability to move his mouth in his later manga appearances.
