History Characters / FZeroX

** CrimeFightingWithCash: Seeing as she's the primary source of Super Arrow's income, yes.

* NiceGuy: He genuinely enjoys his tenure as a superhero, despite the drawbacks (such as low wages). May lead to (or result from) ChronicHeroSyndrome.

* CuteKitten: Come ''ON'', he's an oversized furball! What's not to love? :3

* FanNickname: Given that he's essentially Mario, expect to see nicknames like [[VideoGame/HotelMario Gay]] Mario, Fat Mario, and [=EAD=]io.

* NamesTheSame: Shares it with the BigBad of ''VideoGame/StarTropics''.

* BeautyBrainsAndBrawn: She alone is literally ''all three''. When grouped with the other two ladies who made their debut in ''X'', Mrs. Arrow defaults to the Brawn to Kate's Beauty and Jody's Brains, though there's enough overlap fto argue that Jody and Mrs. Arrow could be switched around.

* ArtificialStupidity: In GX, the Space Angler has become notorious for rarely, if ever, placing above 20th place.

* IKnowKarate: Takes up {{boxing|Battler boxing}} in his spare time.

* IKnowKarate: Takes up [[GoodOldFisticuffs boxing]] in his spare time.

* InformedAbility: Poor Leon. The manual states that he's gotten better over time, but the AI plays him like crap in ''GX''.

* GeniusBruiser: Factoring in all of the tropes regarding her appearance and smarts, [she easily comes across as this.

* ScarfOfAsskicking: In their case, [[AvertedTrope probably not]]. It's actually a [[ThePowerOfFriendship Scarf Of Friendship]].

* {{Bald Of|Evil}} [[TheGoodTheBadAndTheEvil Bad]]

Described as the BigBad of sorts in ''F-Zero X'', though this has no bearing in-game. His stated goal is to "kill Captain Falcon in front of billions of viewers".

* [[OfficerAndAGentleman Officer And A Lady]]: The grace and femininity of a woman, but Jody definitely knows when to unceremoniously drop the hammer of justice down upon evildoers.

* [[WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes Why Did It Have To Be Octopi?]]

* ArousedByTheirVoice: In-universe, her soulful singing voice is considered to be this.

* [[DanceBattler Dance Racer]]: Thanks to her sense of rhythm and athleticism picked up from her years of singing and dancing, Kate was able to quickly adjust to the F-Zero races. She even describes the event being "just like dancing".

* [[TryingToCatchMeFightingDirty Trying To Catch Me Racing Dirty]]: Win the GP with Zoda in ''GX'', and one interview prompt will have Zoda reveal that he won by sabotaging the other racers' machines. [[ApatheticCitizens No one]] [[WhatTheHellTownspeople seems to care.]]

* OurZombiesAreDifferent: Type V.

** InTheBack: He used to be Goroh's best friend and [[TheLancer Lancer]], but Goroh set him up to be taken in by the Galactic Space Allies during one of their robberies. The two never met again on peaceful terms.

* BigBrotherMentor: To the children of Zou. He routinely plays soccer with them (going as far as to promise to build a soccer field for them with the
prize money) and helps out at the local orphanage. Overlaps with FriendToAllChildren.

* ShoutOut: Somebody's been watching a bit too much ''[[WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries Batman: The Animated Series]]''.

* BeautyBrainsAndBrawn: She is literally ''all three''.

* {{Expy}}: Perhaps unintentional, but [[http://fzero.wikia.com/wiki/File:Mrsarrow.jpg her]] [[http://www.geocities.co.jp/MotorCity-Circuit/8346/card/MrsArrow_new.jpg design]] [[note]] For the second link, you'll need to cut/copy the link, paste it back into the web browser, and press the "Enter" key. [[/note]] shares a few traits with that of PowerGirl, such as [[http://blogs.lubbockonline.com/hero/2007/09/14/justice-is-blonde/ this depiction]] and as [[http://www.alexrossart.com/galleries/kingdom/full/kingdomcome_sketch11.jpg Power Woman]] in ''Comicbook/KingdomCome'' (both drawn by Alex Ross).
* GeniusBruiser: Factoring in all of the tropes regarding her appearance and smarts, and she easily comes across as this.

** {{Socialite}}: It's a stretch, but she does have the air and presence of one. She even resembles a more muscular version of the page picture.

* TeamMom: Despite being a better racer than Super Arrow ''by lightyears'', she wholly devotes her time and experience to ensuring his success. Additionally, she adopted Leon (according to ''X'') and [[MamaBear is overly protective of him]], suggesting that she's a KindheartedCatLover.

* UnderwearOfPower: Apparently, the combination of a matching bra, thong, and high-heeled boots worn over a [[FormFittingWardrobe skin-tight bodysuit]] is all the rage in the 26th century.
* WillfullyWeak: As noted above, Mrs. Arrow spends her time defending her husband instead of actually trying to win the GP for herself. Though that doesn't stop her from finishing in the top-six nine times out of ten.

** His status as a Mario shout out gets special attention in an episode of the anime. When the contestants of an all-female race start getting kidnapped, Jack and Ryu end up going DisguisedInDrag (badly). EAD is going too... Dressed just like Princess Peach.

* ArrogantKungFuGuy: In the anime he works with the Mobile Task Force temporarily to hunt down Leon and Bio-Rex, while constantly acting like a superior {{Jerkass}} to everyone else.
* AttackAttackAttack: His racing strategy.

* DoingItForTheArt: He genuinely enjoys his tenure as a superhero, despite the drawbacks (such as low wages). May lead to (or result from) ChronicHeroSyndrome.

* FanNickname: His resemblance to [[Memes/{{Batman}} the goddamn]] Franchise/{{Batman}} has not gone unnoticed by the fandom. Nicknames like "Batman from Hell" and "Black Batman" are ''very'' common.

* ActionGirl: She was quite the LittleMissBadass, having lived a lifetime's worth of achievements by the time she was 18 [[note]]At age 14, she finished 4th place in the Galactic Games dodecathalon against competition twice her age. By 16, she was one of three people to ski across the largest section of ice on Europa Prime, the Delaney Ice Plateau. When she was 18, Jody became the second person to climb [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olympus_Mons Olympus Mons,]] the tallest volcano in the Solar System.[[/note]], and seems to have kept her merits in adulthood. For this reason alone, she was made "Miss Galactic Space Federation" and operates as a spokeswoman for the organization.

* NamesTheSame: Shares it with the BigBad of ''VideoGame/StarTropics''. Cue WildMassGuessing that they're one in the same.

* WillfullyWeak: As noted above, Mrs. Arrow spends her time defending her husband instead of actually trying to win the GP for herself.

** IntergenerationalFriendship: Roger is 41. Draq is ''137''.

* BigBrotherMentor: To the children of Zou. He routinely plays soccer with them (going as far as to promise to build a soccer field for them with the prize money) and helps out at the local orphanage. Overlaps with FriendToAllChildren.

* ChristmasCake: She's 25 as of ''GX'', but still without a suitor. This being a more Western-themed game, it's thought of as normal and thus isn't brought up.

* DistressedDamsel: In Chapter 5 of Story Mode in ''GX''. She avoids {{Chickification}} on the basis that Black Shadow mows over ''everyone'' not named Captain Falcon or Deathborn and was holding Jody hostage as bait to lure out Falcon. Unfazed by her capture, she was ready and rearing to race in the Grand Prix ''the next day''. In other words, BadassInDistress and BadassDamsel.

* HotDad: He can be ''your'' daddy any day.

* HotMom: While she adopted Leon (according to ''X'') and the jury's still out on ''GX'', the moment it's confirmed that she's with child, she will be -- ''without a question'' -- a MILF. (Given her personality, probably an AlmightyMom ''and'' an ActionMom, too).
** Confirmed. Captain Falcon's ending in ''GX'' shows him rescuing her baby from a speeding train.

! Characters debuting in ''F-Zero X''

[[folder:#1-5]]
!!#01 Mighty Gazelle (Clinton Gazelle)

* BrainInAJar: His anime incarnation. Turns out the brain belongs to [[spoiler:Roy Hughes, Clank's DisappearedDad]].

* HeyItsThatVoice: Takayuki Fujimoto has also voiced [[Manga/IkkiTousen Kakuka Houkou]] and [[Manga/BakiTheGrappler Musashi]].

* [[spoiler:WhatIsThisThingYouCallLove: Gazelle!Roy is initially unable to remember his life as a human. He finally comes to his senses thanks to the cries of his son, [[SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments hugging his son]] [[HeroicSacrifice to shield him from an explosion and shutting down due to the damage he sustained]]. He is reassembled at a later date, and eventually regains his human body at the end of the series.]]

!!#02 Jody Summer

* AscendedExtra: In the anime.

* CryCute: Several times towards the end of the anime.

* HeartbrokenBadass: Her anime incarnation, towards her dead older brother. Unlike Ryu/Rick, she's decided to move on and enjoy the finer things in the world, not letting her life be controlled by {{revenge}}.

* [[spoiler:NoBadassToHisValet[=/=]NoHeroToHisValet]]: For [[spoiler:Captain Falcon in the anime. She ''is'' his younger sister, after all.]]

* OneeSama: Plays this role to the entire [[TrueCompanions Mobile Task Force]]. [[SugarAndIcePersonality As her sweet side begins to surface]], she upgrades to TeamMom.
** [[PigeonholedVoiceActor Fittingly so]], her voice in the anime is provided by seiyuu KikukoInoue. ''Perfect'' casting choice.

* [[spoiler:RoboticReveal: When Jody is injured early on in the anime thanks to Ryu/Rick's recklessness, he discovers that she's a {{cyborg}}.]]

* SuperCop: In the anime, before joining the Mobile Task Force.

* VeronicaTaylor: [[Anime/{{Pokemon}} Jody Summer, we choose you!]]
* WaveMotionGun: The [[HolyShitQuotient HSQ]] skyrocketed during Jody's [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome CMOA]] and [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments CMOF]] in [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tzTJXcnaVo Episode 21]] of the anime, where she nonchalantly reveals her White Cat to be equipped with one and opens fire on ''every other single racer''. Not even ''[[BigBad Black Shadow]]'' can muster up the right combination of words to explain it.

!!#04 Baba

* SissyVillain: In the anime, he occasionally works for Dark Million, although this is subverted, as Baba isn't ''nearly'' as flamboyant in the anime.
* TedLewis: In the anime's dub.

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!!#08 Octoman

* EricStuart: Voices him in the anime's dub.

* PunchClockVillain: In the anime, where he races to support his family, ''not'' the ambitions of Dark Million.

!!#09 Mr. [=EAD=]

* BodyguardCrush: Towards Kate Alen in the anime ([[RoboShip he's an android and she's a human]]; ''we know''), prompting him to enact a YouShallNotPass HeroicSacrifice by taking the brunt of a speeding F-Zero machine ''head-on''. Luckily, [[WeCanRebuildHim he's A-Ok]].
* DoAndroidsDream: His answer is a big yes, especially [[TearJerker pertaining to his brother]].

* WayneGrayson: There's a "BrooklynRage!" [[WebVideo/YuGiOhTheAbridgedSeries joke]] here somewhere...

!!#10 James [=McCloud=]

** To clarify (for those not knowledgeable about the mythos): He's the leader of the [[StealthPun Galaxy Dog]] [[BadassCrew squadron]] of [[HiredGuns mercenaries]] and works to support his wife and young son ([[SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments who he is raising to be a better man than himself]]). His Little Wyvern (which resembles a modified, wingless Arwing) was created by Space Dynamics, the same group responsible for -- you guessed it -- the Arwings. The anime even gives him a partner named O'Donnell.

* RetiredBadass: In the anime. He offers up his training and advice to the heroes when they scout out him out. He's also harboring a dangerous secret: [[spoiler:he once functioned as a drill sergeant for Dark Million in the past.]]

* [[ShinichiroMiki Shin'ichiro Miki]]: Seiyuu for the anime.

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!!#11 Billy (Eeeach Koo-koo-koo Yia)

!!#12 Kate Alen

* HeyItsThatVoice: Her seiyuu in the anime, Ai Maeda, is best known as [[Anime/DigimonAdventure Mimi Tachikawa]], [[VideoGame/{{Xenosaga}} Shion Uzuki]], [[VideoGame/{{Persona 4}} Chihiro Fushimi]], [[Manga/ZatchBell Megumi Oumi]], [[VisualNovel/TokimekiMemorial Haruhi Nishimoto]], and [[RuneFactory Yue]]. [[TheCastShowoff This also gave her a chance to showcase her vocal talents]], as she sung the ending theme, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkGCKwGmg9M "Resolution."]]

!!#13 Zoda

* AscendedExtra: In the anime.

* [[spoiler:BecauseDestinySaysSo: In the anime, it turns out that Zoda [[ArtificialHuman was created by]] Black Shadow and sent to the past to find Ryu/Rick to enact a centuries-long AncientConspiracy. Zoda [[GoMadFromTheRevelation does not take in this tidbit well]].]]

* CarFu: How he takes care of Rick/Ryu in the anime's pilot episode: he kicks off the door of his getaway vehicle and ''sends it flying right through his pursuer's front windshield''.

* TheDragon: To Black Shadow in the anime, at first. He then [[TheStarscream starts taking advice from]] [[Franchise/{{Transformers}} Starscream]], and ends up failing as hard as you'd expect him to.

** A common RunningGag among the fandom is that he's really on crack. Lots and lots of crack.
* [[EvilMakeover Eviler Makeover]]: When unthawed in 2201 in the anime, Zoda's body is remodeled to assume his design from the games.

* HeyItsThatVoice: In Japanese, his voice is provided by Shinpachi Tsuji ([[Manga/FullmetalAlchemist Heinkel]], [[Manga/{{Naruto}} Pakkun]], [[Manga/ShamanKing Bason]], [[Anime/WitchHunterRobin Chief Inspector Shintaro Kosaka]]). In English, we have Jamie [=Mc=]Gonnigal ([[Anime/ElCazadorDeLaBruja L.A.]], [[Anime/{{Pokemon}} Barry]], [[Anime/WeissKreuz Omi Tsukiyono]], [[Anime/NarueNoSekai Kazuto Iizuka]], [[VideoGame/ShadowHearts Johnny Garland]], [[VideoGame/VivaPinata Teddington Twingersnap]]).
* HumanPopsicle: In the anime.

* LaughablyEvil: In the games, where despite being evil to a large degree, comes off as funny while making an evil impression to the player, in direct contrast to other evil characters in the series. Partially due to his status as a secondary villain compared to Black Shadow and Deathborn.

* NewPowersAsThePlotDemands: He inexplicably gains the ability to turn his Hyper Speeder into a [[IncendiaryExponent fiery]] [[InstantAwesomeJustAddDragons dragon]] for all of one scene. [[RuleOfCool It's awesome]], no doubt, but it still makes no sense.
* [[spoiler:NotQuiteDead: Although he was thrown into the Dark Reactor by Black Shadow, he appears alive and well for the ending of the anime. Baba and The Skull [[OhCrap are mortified]].]]
* [[spoiler:OneWingedAngel: Thanks to the power of the [[ArtifactOfDoom Reactor Mights]], Zoda transforms into Hyper Zoda about halfway through the anime.]]
* SmugSnake: He does start to push towards {{Manipulative Bastard}}ry towards the climax of the anime.
* SweetTooth: Often seen devouring copious amounts of ice cream in the anime.

* VillainousCrossdresser: Episode 21. Just, [[{{Squick}} Episode]] [[FanDisservice 21]]. It's like watching a bizarro universe version of ''Manga/SailorMoon'', [[BrainBleach only with the need to introduce your mind's eye to a knife]].

* WorldOfCardboardSpeech: Inverted. By swallowing his pride and giving a RousingSpeech to Ryu/Rick in his DarkestHour, mere ''seconds'' before the latter was going to experience a DespairEventHorizon, Zoda's urging allows his rival to tap into copious amounts of HeroicResolve and save the day. Way to go, CharacterDevelopment!

!!#14 Jack Levin

* AmbiguouslyGay[=/=]CampStraight: He's gets the former accusation a lot ([[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmIw1IdwLZ4 his bonus video adds fuel to the fire]]), but if anything, he's closer to being TheDandy. Remember, while he has some odd clothing quirks, he tries to pull a move on [[HelloNurse Lisa Brilliant]] in the anime and has a GroupieBrigade of swooning women in both continuities.

* AscendedExtra: In the anime.

* ChestInsignia: In the games, his name is written out on his jumpsuit alongside a lightning bolt. In the anime, his name is replaced by a simple [[BroughtToYouByTheLetterS "J".]]

* HandsomeLech: He claims that his female fans -- ''all twenty billion of them'' -- are his girlfriends. Why he doesn't pull a move on the handful of single ladies in the games is a good question to ask. In the anime (where he's more of a ChivalrousPervert and/or TheCharmer), Lisa Brilliant uses her womanly wiles to gain access to the Mobile Task Force HQ, ransack it, and make off with Jack's Astro Robin.

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: This applies more so to the anime.
* KazukiYao: In the anime. We kid you not.

* MarcThompson: Yes, you're listening to an {{Australian|Accent}} [[Anime/YuGiOh Duke Devlin]]. [[WebVideo/YuGiOhTheAbridgedSeries Women with heart conditions are advised not to look directly at]] [[StupidSexyFlanders Jack Levin]].

* VitriolicBestBuds: With Ryu/Rick. Doubles as a BigBrotherMentor when the two aren't feuding.
* WholesomeCrossdresser: Episode 21 of the anime eventually explodes into one particularly nasty racing variant of a CatFight. He and Ryu/Rick disguise themselves as women to help out, but this doesn't fly once they [[LampshadeHanging realize]] how stupid it is trying to navigate in high heels.

!!#15 Bio Rex

* ButtMonkey: In some missions from GP Legend's story mode (e.g Chasing Zoda as Ryu/Rick and Falcon; Destroying Blood Falcon's machine as Jack), the pursed racers leave a scapegoat piloting their machines allowing them to escape. Said scapegoat is always Rex.

* MarcThompson: In the anime's dub.

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!!#16 The Skull (Sterling [=LaVaughn=])

* Creator/AndrewRannells: Provides his voice in the dub of the anime.

!!#17 Antonio Guster

* CoolShades: Swapped for {{goggles|DoNothing}} in the anime.

* HeyItsThatVoice: Takeharu Ōnishi? As in [[Manga/{{Guyver}} Toshiaki Hayami/Bio-Freezer]]? [[Manga/{{Kekkaishi}} Madarao]]?
* MadBomber: His anime incarnation is an explosives expert with an itching trigger-finger (earning him the [[RedBaron nickname]] of "Dynamite Guster" in the dub). It is ''not'' a good idea to be around him. Because of his danger factor and mass collateral damage, Goroh kicks him out of his gang. [[RivalTurnedEvil Guster does not enjoy this.]]

!!#18 Beastman (Christopher Annex)

* OnlyInItForTheMoney: His anime depiction, who is an amoral game hunter (and a {{Jerkass}} to boot).

!!#19 Leon

** BigBadassWolf: His anime incarnation.
** OurWerewolvesAreDifferent: In the anime, Leon's transformations [[InvoluntaryShapeshifting are not of his own volition]], induced by surges in his adrenaline.

* {{Bishonen}}: His human form in the anime. Even bishier than Jack.

* DoggedNiceGuy: Towards Lucy in the anime, although there is some chemistry between them.

!!#20 Super Arrow

* IdiotHero: He hit this wall in the anime ''and kept on going'', almost to SuperZeroes levels. [[CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass There are a few moments of laudable competence here and there]], but Super Arrow is generally meant to be PluckyComicRelief.
** PlayedForLaughs when Michael Chain kidnaps him and several other characters. His DreamSequence consists of him doing crazy stuff like cutting through their laser-encased prison with a {{katana|sAreJustBetter}}. Supes is distraught when he wakes up.

* LargeHam: Taken to '''unprecedented levels''' in the anime.

* RobotBuddy: Speed Bird, his [[TheVoiceless silent]] [[TheOwlKnowingOne bird companion]] who doubles as the TeamPet and [[ItWasAGift was a gift]] from Lazlo Falconi, a merchant who was one of Super Arrow's sponsors. In the anime, it is instead PluckyComicRelief.

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!!#21 Mrs. Arrow (Monique L'amoreaux Arrow)

Monique L'amoreaux was born into a wealthy family, her father was a powerful businessman in neuroplastics and her mother was vice president of the Milky Way Federation. She was surrounded by servants since she was an only child and received an excellent education in music and linguistics. She met Super Arrow while recruiting for the revived Grand Prix before ''X''. Monique fell for Super Arrow and the two wed. Monique, now simply called Mrs. Arrow, gave up her old job as an F-Zero supermodel and joined Super Arrow as a racer, though she focuses on helping her husband rather than winning herself.

* AmazonianBeauty: In the games. She's more slender like the other ladies in the anime.

* CoolShades: She possess a pair of {{purple|IsPowerful}} TriangleShades in ''X''. [[TheGlassesComeOff She loses them]] in her victory photo from ''X'' and in ''GX'' entirely (instead wearing another pair in her ''GX'' ending), but dons them again in the anime.

* LisaOrtiz: In the anime.
* NiceHat: In episode 20 of the anime ("The Disappearance of Mrs. Arrow"), her winter wear is shown to be a pink hat that looks like an [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ushanka ushanka]] and a matching [[PrettyInMink fur coat]].

!!#22 Gomar & Shioh

* FragileSpeedster: '''THE''' FragileSpeedster in this game.
** During their one-shot appearance in the anime, boosting caused ''the Twin Noritta to wreck its own armor''.

!!#23 Silver Neelson

* BinShimada: The seiyuu of old!Silver in the anime.

* KavorkaMan: At the end of his CharacterFocus episode, two noticeably younger babes show an interest in him. His reaction shouts "DirtyOldMan," but to his credit, [[IWasQuiteALooker young!Silver was pretty handsome]].
* HeyItsThatVoice: Young!Silver in the dub is voiced by Marc Diraison, better known as [[Manga/{{Berserk}} Guts]] and [[Manga/OnePiece Zoro]] ([[FourKidsEntertainment in the 4Kids dub]]).

!!#24 Michael Chain

* AdaptationalBadass: Quite a bit more imposing in the anime.

** Played a tad bitter straighter with his Space Racer Clan in the anime, although it's nothing remarkable.

* {{Blackmail}}: He pressures a millionare named Truman to capture strong racers in the anime so that he can easily make it to the top, threatening to harm his girlfriend Dream if Truman didn't reply. Ryu/Rick, Lucy, and the Arrows are on his list, but band together to screw over Michael.

* DanGreen: His VA in the dub of the anime.

* HeyItsThatVoice: Seeing as Tomoyuki Shimura also voiced [[Manga/SchoolRumble Noboru Tennoji]], Michael Chain isn't much of a stretch.

* WeaponOfChoice: The anime aptly gives him a [[WhipSword kunai-tipped]] [[ChainPain cha]][[VariableLengthChain in]] {{whip|ItGood}}.

!!#25 Blood Falcon

* AnythingYouCanDoICanDoBetter: Tries to {{invoke|dTrope}} this on Falcon. [[spoiler:The ''one'' time he manages to one-up Falcon in the anime ("[[GratuitousEnglish BURAKKU FAIYA!]]"; the dark, purple-tinted counterpart of the Boost Fire technique), [[PlotDrivenBreakdown it only lasts for about]] ''[[PlotDrivenBreakdown five]]'' [[PlotDrivenBreakdown seconds]].]]

* EvilSoundsDeep: Anime only.

* ThereCanOnlyBeOne: Clearly, he's [[InferioritySuperiorityComplex suffering from a massive inferiority complex]]. Blood is constantly trying to prove that he's the "real" Falcon and "a hero." Naturally, the anime devotes an entire episode ([[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1XfhG9_JvQ Ep.]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=POmbw1oZHhI 30,]] "Only One Falcon") to this rivalry. It doesn't end well... for Blood.

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!!#26 John Tanaka

* ButtMonkey: In the anime, due to his status as a LovableCoward.

* [[FanGirl Fan Boy]]: Of Kate Alen in the anime.

* IsshinChiba: [[BewareTheNiceOnes One of these days]], John is going to go '''[[{{Kiai}} WRYYYYYYYY!!!]]''', and there'll be no way to stop him.

* MistakenForBadass: By Pico in the anime. Seriously, Pico? ''Seriously''?
** Zoda, too. They have him tied up, ''screaming for mercy'', but Zoda and Pico believe John to be this daring hero with nerves of steel who single-handedly figured out their schemes and is acting as TheBait so his crew can sneak up and bust them. It is hilarious how ''far'' they are from the truth; John was merely there so that he could attend Kate Alen's concert.
** His allies from the Mobile Task Force compliment John as well. John lies about how he figured out Dark Million's plan ''days'' in advance, and the entire fiasco was pure luck on John's part (for example, he trips up Pico by running away, causing Pico's foot to be tangled in a rope). Jody remarks that the team may need to start taking him seriously for once.

!!#27 Draq (Bellonngian Draquillie)

!!#28 Roger Buster

*** [[InvertedTrope Turned on its head in the anime]]; there, Roger is Red, Draq is Blue.
* HotBlooded: In the anime.

!!#29 Dr. Theodore Clash

* IsshinChiba: Expecting a [[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure steamroller]] [[MemeticMutation joke]], were you?
* MaddieBlaustein: [[CrossdressingVoices She]] voices Clash in the dub with a [[FakeRussian Russian accent]]. [[AuthorExistenceFailure God]] [[TearJerker bless]].
* {{Mentor|s}}: To Lucy Liberty.

!!#30 Black Shadow

* BadGuysDoTheDirtyWork[=/=]VillainousRescue: A variation occurs in the anime; knowing that Zoda's jealousy would lead him to try to take out Miss Killer, [[PetTheDog Black Shadow sends]] [[ActuallyADoombot a decoy Black Bull]] [[PetTheDog to save her.]] [[spoiler:Subverted in that [[KickTheDog this was most likely done to further manipulate Miss Killer.]]]]

* DiabolicalMastermind: Whether or not he's this or an EvilOverlord in the anime is debatable, but he whips out the {{magnificen|tBastard}}ce like it's nobody's business.

* EvilSoundsDeep: In the anime, his voice his provided by NorioWakamoto (Japanese) and EricStuart (English). Go figure.

* FangsAreEvil: In the anime.

* NearVillainVictory: In the anime. He was ''not'' expecting [[spoiler:[[SpannerInTheWorks Zoda's]]]] interference.
* NebulousEvilOrganisation: The eponymous Black Shadow Group in the games, Dark Million (which leans towards something of a StandardEvilOrganizationSquad) in the anime.
* NorioWakamoto: '''''[[Anime/CodeGeass ALL HAIL]] BLACK SHADOW!'''''
* OrcusOnHisThrone: In the anime, complete with the mandatory SlouchOfVillainy. However, the rare times when Black Shadow actually makes his presence known on the circuit, [[AuthorityEqualsAsskicking you can easily see why he's the leader of Dark Million]].
* [[spoiler:OverclockingAttack: How the Dark Reactor is overloaded, thwarting Black Shadow's plans in the anime. MemeticMutation attributes to this to the [[MegatonPunch Falcon Punch]], though.]]
* PhysicalGod: It the games, it is rumored that Black Shadow was bestowed with {{immortality}} and the ability to [[{{Reincarnation}} reincarnate]]. In the anime, he's given ample levels of NighInvulnerability.

* VoluntaryShapeshifting: In the anime, [[spoiler:it's revealed that Black Shadow, Don Genie, and Deathborn are all one in the same, which doesn't exactly explain how all three were present in the same room at one moment.]]

* LadyInRed

* AndrewRannells: Provides his voice in the dub of the anime.

* AudioErotica: In-universe, her soulful singing voice is considered to be this.

* StopHelpingMe: Although she's polite and amiable enough to not say it aloud, this is how she feels about John Tanaka's "help." She treasures his value on her team as a mechanic, just not during the races.

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: This applies moreso to the anime.

* DarkhorseVictory: Even moreso than Jody. He's a fan-favorite due to his status and the ultimate underdog, and fans have begun to bet on him with the reasoning ([[InsaneTrollLogic via law of averages]]) that eventually, ''he'll have to win''.

** LightningBruiser: Black Bull has the highest top speed in ''F-Zero GX''. [[GameBreaker Snaking]] in ''GX'' ramps up the speed even moreso.