History Characters / NeptuniaAntagonists

!!Superdimension Arfoire (Hyperdimension Neptunia/[=Re;Birth1=])

!!Hyperdimension Arfoire (mk2/[=Re;Birth2=] and Sisters vs Sisters)

* ArchEnemy: As in previous games, she is this towards Neptune and her companions. Both Neptune and Nepgear [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] this towards Uzume and the [[NoFourthWall audience]].
--> '''Uzume:''' ...She an acquintance or what...?
--> '''Neptune:''' Honestly, she's like one of those annoying relatives you don't like too much because she's always criticizing or picking fights with you. Ahem. Let me explain to those in the audience new to the series! We've fought this here old boss lady character called Arfoire like a billion times [[VideoGame/HyperdimensionNeptunia in]] [[VideoGame/HyperdimensionNeptuniaMk2 the]] [[VideoGame/HyperdimensionNeptuniaVictory older games]] and [[Anime/HyperdimensionNeptuniaTheAnimation anime releases]]! She's so boring! I seriously don't even wanna look at Arsnore right now. She's not about to make us enter a boss fight, is she? Ugh, I'm so over it...
--> '''Nepgear:''' Sis, maybe you should be less meta in explaining it, so the players get a more immersive, believable experience. But in our world, Arfoire[[note]]as the Deity of Sin[[/note]] should have perished, [[VideoGame/HyperdimensionNeptuniaVictory and in the other dimension, I thought she had reformed completely]], which means that this Arfoire must be different from the ones we've seen.

!!Spin-offs:

--> '''Warechu:''' "Sonofabitch! I -knew- it!"

!!Spin-offs:

A girl with a fairy-like appearance who rides on a black book. Similar to Histoire, she is a mysterious girl who has been tasked with the important role of recording history. She first appears in ''Victory'' and returns in both ''VII'' and ''Game Maker''. Enabling various antagonists throughout the series, she generally avoids direct confronation and simply observes the chaos that results from her actions. Uniquely the only recurring character that is always the same character rather than an alternate universe variant.

--> '''Warechu''': "Sonofabitch! I -knew- it!"

--> '''Neptune''': By any chance, were you running ever since yesterday? If so, then that's amazing! Wow, you have an awesome [[LampshadeHanging sense of no direction]]!

* BewareTheNiceOnes: More so than Plutia. She's a timid NiceGirl who gets bullied a lot by the rest of the cast. Then she becomes an [[AxCrazy murderous]] OmnicidalManiac in HDD.
* BigBad: Her Ultradimension counterpart serves as this, as she is responsible for [[UsefulNotes/TheGreatVideoGameCrashOf1983 The Great Crash]] that lead to the death of her citizens as well as forming a group dedicated to eliminating the goddesses.

* VileVillainSaccharineShow: In contrast to the lighthearted tone of ''Victory'', Mister Badd is a surprisingly competent and calculating villain in comparison to the other villains of the game, what with him [[spoiler:backstabbing Blanc by revealing that he's a part of The Seven Sages ''after'' the latter lost her shares, [[NearVillainVictory almost succeeds in his plan by getting rid of the goddesses had Vert not showed up]], and used a CPU Memory on untrained users that results in them being turned into monsters, to the point that Blanc threatens to kill him and Plutia nearly goes into a MamaBear-induced rampage until the other [=CPUs=] restrain the latter from potentially causing anymore damage]]. However, [[spoiler:it's revealed later on that he's actually a loving father to the monsters he created and only turned them into monsters so he can have a family]].

-->'''Kurome''': They say that the misfortune of people tastes of honey... don't they? Seeing people suffer is my ''treat''.

* TooDumbToLive: Stealing [[spoiler: the [[InsideAComputerSystem Immersion-kun [=ProMAX=]]]]] and using it to abduct people is fairly clever. Picking a fight with [[spoiler: its creator, Reedio,]] inside of it not so much. The three Copies get shunted off to an [[AndIMustScream inescapable prison where they can never die]] for their troubles. [[spoiler: Croire apparently freed them at some point, leading to a second case of this where they do not attack her on sight after the Zaikopath's destruction and her long since revealing that she's been using them. This allows Croire to fuse Arfoire, Hard, and Code to a fragment of the Zaikopath she saved in the Nep-Note, with Art barely escaping with her life to warn Victory of what was about to happen and beg for their help.]]

* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: A non fatal example, but after the trio buys Arfoire the time needed to start up Arfoire's Best Company she makes no attempt at [[spoiler: breaking them out of the Immersion-kun [=ProMAX=]]] and even admits they played their part to completion. Even after Croire helps, while they do still seem to be on good terms there's no indication Arfoire's officially hired them to work for her at this new legitimate company.

* BetterToDieThanBeKilled: After his defeat the Goddesses demand he tell them where their stolen consoles are. Rather than allow himself to be captured and have the information forced out of him, [[DisneyVillainDeath he jumps off the side of a nearby cliff to his death]]. The group admits that his willingness to die to keep his group's secrets was rather impressive. [[spoiler: Right up until they look over the edge and see [[SubvertedTrope that he actually grabbed the side of the cliff]] and [[DirtyCoward is just scaling it down to safety]]. Older Neptune thinks he's still kind of cool, [[TheOneThingIDontHateAboutYou because he looks like a bug crawling on a wall]].]]

* DeliciousDistraction: After being beaten she admits to having one more sure kill technique, and calls in a legion of [=NuberEats=] deliverymen to drop off a ton of food hoping that it will give her time to escape. [[spoiler: Unfortunately for her, food is apparently not as good of a distraction as Steamax's porn mags and she's promptly captured.]]

* WakeUpCallBoss: Same with Bamo's entry--provided that Iris Heart isn't partnered with Yellow Heart, or you have DLC characters in your party.

* BigBadWannabe: They want to be the big world changers, [[spoiler:but ultimately they're just pawns of Kurome to be discarded.]]

* MiniMecha: They have one called the [[VideoGame/MetalGear M-Gear]] that they call the "anti-CPU weapon". [[spoiler:The mecha itself is not the true danger however, but the deadly bioweapon contained within its chasis.]]

* WouldHurtAChild: If their usage of ChildSoldiers isn't enough, [[spoiler:they have no qualms attempting to dispose of K-Sha, and the leader herself attempts and nearly succeeds in killing Uni.]]
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: [[spoiler:When K-Sha decides she's done letting them have their way and refuses to follow through on her assassination mission on Noire, they decide to attempt to destroy her Golden Summit, the source of her power, to get rid of her.]]

* {{Jerkass}}: He (ostensibly) helped establish [[CrapsaccharineWorld the dystopian society that ails G-Arc Lowee]], continually tries to pit Blanc and C-Sha against each other [[spoiler:and briefly succeeds]], [[ManipulativeBastard manipulates everyone and everything behind the scenes for his own benefit]] (including drumming up false charges and slandering), and when push comes to shove, [[DirtyCoward abandons a city that is being charged by monsters,]] insisting that his life is more important than any number of helpless citizens that are depending on ''him'' to protect them. He actually goes as far as claiming that everyone else needs to be controlled by him in order to be happy. [[PintSizedPowerhouse Blanc]] slugging him right in the face is ''very much'' cathartic.

* RunningBothSides: He's the leader of the revolutionaries that seek to abolish the License System...and the man who ''made'' the License System in the first place. It's all part of his scheme to take full control of Lowee while coming off as the hero.

* CollectiveIdentity: [[spoiler:[=F2P=] was originally an armor intended for Arfoire's MechaMooks, but the individual seen for most of the game is actually Anri in PoweredArmor.]]
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Repulsed by Arfoire [[spoiler:keeping Neptune in the sealing device with the intent of killing her in front of Nepgear, and later outright objects to Arfoire taking Maho hostage to render Nepgear helpless.]]

** [[spoiler: Its fused Zaiquone form is no better. It has a [[{{Cephalothorax}} psychotic grinning face for a torso]] with [[EyesDoNotBelongThere two massive glowing eyes with giant hands closing in behind them where its shoulders should be]] and a blade where a head would normally be. Instead of the gelatinous mass below it, it floats above a miniature collapsing world.]]
* FusionDance: [[spoiler: Croire kept a portion of the Zaikopath trapped within the Nep-Note as a backup plan in case the Goddesses could defeat it. Once they did, she took the remaining fragment and fused Arfoire, Copy the Hard, and Copy the Code with it to create the Zaiquone. Copy the Art was able to escape and warn the Goddesses of what was coming.]]

* InterfaceSpoiler: It's possible to gain access to the Arfoire's Best Company dungeon several chapters before you are supposed to clear it. The final floor has only one enemy listed, [[spoiler: Zaiquone]], giving away its FusionDance well before it occurs.

* SealedInsideAPersonShapedCan: [[spoiler: The Master Disc required for its unsealing was hidden inside F-Sha, though she was unaware of it. Once Croire has a sufficient amount of Negative Energy she proceeded to rip the disc out of F-Sha to release the creature.]]

* YourSoulIsMine: Its copies possess the ability to harvest the souls of anyone it touches, keeping them in a permanent half dead state where it can feed on the Negative Energy from their suffering. [[spoiler: It wasn't expecting a second soul in S-Sha, allowing E-Sha to fight it off long enough for Reedio to figure out where the real body was at.]]

* VitriolicBestBuds: Thinking back on the good times with the rest of the sages, all that comes up is being ridiculed over and over again. Some of them later admit that, while she was fairly incompetent, being part of her group wasn't all that bad. This helps explain how even with no followers she was able to control her HDD form and pull off what she did a few tropes down.

* VileVillainSaccharineShow: In contrast to the lighthearted tone of ''Victory'', Mister Badd is a surprisingly competent and calculating villain in comparison to the other villains of the game, what with him [[spoiler:backstabbing Blanc by revealing that he's a part of The Seven Sages ''after'' the latter lost her shares, [[NearVillainVictory almost succeeds in his plan by getting rid of the goddesses had Vert not showed up]], and used a CPU Memory on untrained users that results in them being turned into monsters, to the point that Blanc (and later Plutia) [[MamaBear attempt to teach him a lesson]] before the other [=CPUs=] restrain the latter from potentially causing anymore damage]]. However, [[spoiler:it's revealed later on that he's actually a loving father to the monsters he created and only turned them into monsters so he can have a family]].

%%* TheStoic: All of them, except of Fake Green Heart.

* CoolAirship: Affimojas' main base, and by the time the [=CPU=]s invade he's nearly paid off the loan he made to get it. [[spoiler:The Revival Ending reveals that he has ''two of them''.]]

* BeatTheCurseOutOfHim: [[spoiler:How he's ultimately defeated. Neptune uses her strongest attack to take him down and shatter his PowerNullifier sword, which frees him from Kurome's control and also disperses the CosmicRetcon over Gamindustri.]]
* {{Blackmail}}: Try to do this towards the [=CPUs=] by offering to give them their Share powers back for "1 gajillion" credits each. [[spoiler:Fortunately, the Gold Third arrive to help before they can give in and help them ''take'' their powers back.]]
* BigDamnHeroes: [[spoiler: In the true ending route, he saves both Neptunes, Nepgear, and Uzume from a horde of monsters with his battleship.]]
* BrainwashedAndCrazy: [[spoiler:When he refuses to give Kurome the last piece of her console, she drives him mad with Negative Energy for his upcoming fight the [=CPU=]s.]]

* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:He and Steamax eventually shifted their focus from gossip to royalty collecting, and they also aided the [=CPUs=] in the Heartdimension arc]]

* ItsNotYouItsMyEnemies: [[spoiler:He fires Steamax so that he won't have to fight the [=CPUs=], especially Uni. Though Steamax decides to guard Affimojas anyways when he realizes this.]]

%%* LargeHam: His dub voice is Creator/JamiesonPrice after all.

** [[spoiler:He later reveals that all that money is channeled toward buying photos and figures of the aforementioned busty blond fetish, which surprises Nepgear even more.]]

* {{Otaku}}: [[spoiler:Reveals himself to be one along with Steamax, collecting figurines and doujinshis about his main fetish, [[BuxomBeautyStandard busty blondes]]. Eventually, he reveals that his money fetish tendencies are also only there to secure him the funds he needed for his Otaku hobbies. After the true ending, in a scene he is seen admiring the quality of a figurine of Vert.]]

* BigDamnHeroes: [[spoiler:In the Hyperdimension route of Heart Dimension arc, he manages to steal the console away from Kurome.]]

* DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu: [[spoiler:He manages to snatch the Swirl Console right out of Kurome's hands.]]

* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:He turns a little earlier than Affimojas, offering to help the [=CPUs=] with dealing with the dark aura in the Hyperdimension G arc.]]

* {{Otaku}}: [[spoiler:Reveals himself to be one along with Affimojas, often carrying his orders to purchase doujinshis and enjoys them as much as Affimojas do, he is also shy around girls to the point of communication deficiencies like a stereotypical Otaku. Generally, his scenes when he is alone with Affimojas sounds completely like an Otaku sitcom.]]

* UndyingLoyalty: To Affimojas, to the point that [[spoiler:he returns to their airship to pull a YouShallNotPass on the [=CPUs=] even after his general fired him to keep him out the conflict.]]

* VillainousFriendship: With Affimojas, who befriended him when they were kids and shared the same perverted hobby. [[spoiler:Later, both drop the villainous part.]]
* YouShallNotPass: [[spoiler:He attempts to halt the [=CPUs=] on their way to Affimojas after realizing that he was fired for his own safety. When he refuses to surrender even while fearing for his life, Uni just shoots him with a tranquilliser, which didn't really work, but gave him an excuse to back down by pretending to fall asleep.]]

* BackFromTheDead: They all reappear at multiple points during the story despite being killed in each boss battle. Even compared to the other Dark [=CPU=]s, Purple gets destroyed and brought back the most. [[spoiler:This is because [[MookMaker Kurome]] can recreate them from her memories as long as she has enough Negative Energy.]]

* {{BFS}}: Dark Black, like Black Heart, uses a big sword as her weapon. [[spoiler:It's also used by Dark Orange.]]

* FusionDance: [[spoiler:Arfoire fused with Dark Purple serves as the final boss of the Zerodimension arc. The finale has Kurome fuse with all four of them to become Dark Orange.]]
* GenericDoomsdayVillain: The Dark [=CPUs=] are essentially large puppets with no will of their own, simply destroying the world on the orders of Arfoire [[spoiler:and their creator Kurome.]]

* PoweredByAForsakenChild: [[spoiler:In the H Arc, Kurome kidnaps the [=CPUs=] and siphons their power to perfect their respective Dark [=CPUs=], replacing their lost power with her own Negative Energy to gradually brainwash them.]]

* TheCorrupter: Hoo boy. Let's mention the examples one by one, shall we? The way she executes this trope verges into MindRape territory.

* JekyllAndHyde: An accurate description when comparing her and Uzume. {{Justified}}, because they are the same person.

* TheOlderImmortal: Out of all the Goddesses in the game, Neptune and her crew from the Hyperdimension would most likely be the oldest, followed by Blanc from the Ultradimension, who appears to be a few centuries old. Vert, Peashy, and Noire don't top more than a few decades. ''Rei'' on the other hand, is ''several thousand years old'', having been a Goddess for far longer than any of the main characters. She has the power to show it.

* TerribleArtist: After she is defeated in the Ultradimension universe and her personality returns to normal, Rei attempts to provide background on how she became a [=CPU=]. To aid her, she provides a visual aid she drew, except the art is so incomprehensible to everyone, even to the player much to Neptune's concern, that all anyone can do is laugh at it. This is used as an HilariousOuttake in the anime. Also doubles as a reference to her [[Creator/YuuKobayashi seiyuu's]] "drawings".

* NotWhatISignedOnFor: [[spoiler: When she finds out the Seven Sages have been the ones behind all the kidnappings over the last several years she [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere immediately bails]] and [[HeelFaceTurn informs the CPUs of where they'd been keeping the kids]].]]
%%* ObviouslyEvil: She wears ''skulls''. [[spoiler:Though it turns out she's not evil.]]

* TheFaceless: [[TwentyFourHourArmor He never leaves his suit]] so no one has ever seen what he really looks like. [[spoiler: And even when he ''did'', he only appeared as a silhouette, so to the player, he's ''still'' faceless.]]

* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler:In the end, the [=CPUs=] never get to properly pummel him for what he's done to [[BrainwashedAndCrazy Peashy]].]]

* PrettyBoy: [[spoiler:Outside his armor, Anonydeath is apparently ''very'' cute, enough to make pretty much every Goddess in the Basilicom comment on it, and Noire having to snap them out of it by [[AmbiguouslyGay reminding them it's a man]].]]
* ReformedButRejected: [[spoiler:In the True End he found a way to reverse the failed CPU transformations, yet is still considered a creep.]]

* DefeatEqualsExplosion: Explodes upon being defeated. [[spoiler:He gets repaired later.]]

* {{Expy}}: Of [[VideoGame/BlazBlue Ragna the Bloodedge]], even being voiced by the same guy in the English dub.
* GlassCannon: [[spoiler:After being rebuilt by Lowee, Blanc admits that they rushed it and just redid his shell with paper-mache, so he wouldn't last in a fight anymore.]]
* HeadPet: After being rebuilt he has a tendency to do this with smaller characters. [[spoiler:Specifically after being rebuilt in Lowee. Histoire, Ram, and Rom all get this treatment. Only the twins enjoy it.]]

* HeelFaceDoorSlam: [[spoiler:Due to his change in personality after his initial repairs, he starts to get along with the citizens of Lowee when they show him how to destroy things in a helpful manner. While they're in the middle of convincing him to leave the Seven Sages Blanc shows up to make him pay for damages done to Lowee and [[WhatTheHellHero kills him despite everyone's protest]]. Then it gets {{Subverted}} a couple chapters later. Lowee had him rebuilt during the 10 year TimeSkip and he has been working for Blanc since.]]
* HumongousMecha: He was built like a machine and towers almost all of the characters with his enormous size. His overall design vaguely resembles that of Manga/GetterRobo.

* SophisticatedAsHell: [[spoiler:A variation. After being repaired from his first defeat, Copypaste begins to talk in a proper manner... while he still destroys things.]]

* TrueCompanions: [[spoiler:After being fixed by Anonydeath, Copypaste seems to value the PowerOfFriendship, sayings friends are valuable things.]]

* AintTooProudToBeg: [[spoiler: After being beaten, Plutia and Blanc (in their HDD forms) torture a confession out of him to be televised. After Blanc mentions that she's done, Plutia informs everyone that she's going to keep toying with him however she wants. This prompts a BigNo and him begging for anyone to come save him from her.]]

* BatmanGambit: [[spoiler:He reveals to the Goddesses that the monsters he uses to fight them (and calls his daughters) are actually children who failed to become [=CPUs=]. It's heavily hinted he ''forcefully'' did this to them, and when he reveals this to them, he fully expects they'd be unwilling to harm the children and would have to leave, thus sparing his life.]]

* NearVillainVictory: [[spoiler:Thanks to his scheming, Lowee fell when Plutia, Noire and Neptune defeated Blanc on live TV. This defeat stripped Blanc of all her goddess's powers and reverted her to a powerless girl due to the loss of faith from the civilians, thus ridding Lowee of its CPU. He also subsequently imprisoned her along with the other 3 [=CPUs=], leaving their countries vulnerable and defenseless against the Seven Sages. Unfortunately, not knowing Vert existed was the only flaw in his plan. Without her, he would've won.]]

* PapaWolf: [[spoiler:Despite being a member of the organization that is turning children into monsters, he ''does'' seem to care for his daughters, enjoying spending time with them and gets furious when anyone insults or lays a hand on them. He was even researching a way to turn them back to human form.]]

* TreacherousAdvisor: [[spoiler:He is this to Blanc. Despite initially appearing as her guardian, he reveals that he is a member of The Seven Sages.]]

* XanatosSpeedChess: Egg the goddesses on into fighting each other, then televise the battle. [[spoiler:If Blanc wins, that's two nations fallen. If Blanc loses, the others are likely to be exhausted and captured, taking out all three nations. Noire herself points out a third result, and pushes for it herself, that being showing Iris Heart to the world would potentially take out Planeptune. [[XanatosGambit Any way it could've conceivably unfolded, he wins]].]] When that all falls apart on him, and they try to pull the same tactic on him, he quickly tries to prevent further losses by [[spoiler: [[BatmanGambit banking on the fact that the others wouldn't throw away Blanc]] just to publicly ruin him. Even when that backfires by them reempowering Blanc and restoring her goddess abilities with ThePowerOfFriendship (literally) he reveals that he had diverted some of Lowee's budget into building a mech to fight them.]]
* VileVillainSaccharineShow: In contrast to the lighthearted tone of ''Victory'', Mister Badd is a surprisingly competent and calculating villain in comparison to the other villains of the game, what with him [[spoiler:backstabbing Blanc by revealing that he's a part of The Seven Sages ''after'' the latter lost her shares, [[NearVillainVictory almost succeeds in his plan by getting rid of the goddesses had Vert not showed up]], and used a CPU Memory on untrained users that results in them being turned into monsters, to the point that Blanc and later Plutia [[MamaBear attempts to teach him a lesson]] before the other [=CPUs=] restrain the latter from potentially causing anymore damage]]. However, [[spoiler:it's revealed later on that he's actually a loving father to the monsters he created and only turned them into monsters so he can have a family]].

!!Ultradimension Arfoire (Victory/[=Re;Birth1=])

!!Zerodimension Arfoire (VII)

* VillainHasAPoint: [[spoiler:During the Conquest End, after she has beaten Vert to an inch of her life, the heroines state that what she has done is [[ThisIsUnforgivable unforgivable]]. Underling's counter-statement is saying she just did what they were trying to do a moment ago, and that they should thank her. This doesn't work out for her as Nepgear [[ShutUpHannibal stabs her with the sword]] out of vengeance]]]].

* WorldsStrongestWoman: Rei is the strongest individual in the Neptunia series, bar none. A Goddesses' power is derived from their followers; the more followers they have, the more power they have. No followers gives the Goddess a power of absolutely zero. Ultradimension Rei managed to put up an impressive showing with no followers at all, while the only Goddess who has a similar amount of experience, Blanc, was reduced to a powerless little girl with no followers. And then Hyperdimesion Rei ''did'' gain followers... oh boy.

* IncomingHam[=/=]ChewingTheScenery: Her first boss fight's pre-dialogue. It is one ''the longest'' scenes in the game. She sums up her past history, complains about the other [=HDDs=], makes many statements about why she thinks she is right, and so on.

* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Considering she accidentally murdered ''her entire nation'', her remorseful reaction is quite understandable.

!!General Tropes

* CompositeCharacter: Her portrayal in the anime. Her initial plan to string up the [=CPUs=] and strip them of their power resembles the actions of Hyperdimension's ASIC. Creating eggplant minions to torment Neptune is based on Ultradimension Arfoire. Superdimension Arfoire gets a reference in the "Little Purple Sunshine" OVA, where a FountainOfYouth reverts her to her original form from ''[=Re;Birth1=]''. Additionally, her design in the 3rd OVA is based on Chrome from ''Super Neptunia RPG'', who was an {{expy}} of the former.

** Interestingly, her [=Re;Birth1=] backstory actually veers into DigitalPiracyIsOkay, since the reason she's with the Quartet who defeated the original Goddess is because she can absorb/copy the Goddess' power and use that to create the current 4. She does become a villain later, but that wasn't her choice.

!!Ultradimension Arfoire (Victory)

* TheVoiceless: In the English version of ''Cyberdimension'', since none of the scenes in which she appears are dubbed.

* EvenEvilHasStandards: He might be Planeptune's resident crook, [[spoiler:but when Kurome offers to help him, he refuses to work with her because he can sense her bad vibes. Unfortunately, Kurome brainwashes him anyway, turning him into a mindless monster.]]

* TakingTheBullet: [[spoiler:He takes some of Kurome's Negative Energy that was aimed at Chuuko, turning him into a monster.]]

* CallToAgriculture: [[spoiler:In the true end he works for Arfoire on her eggplant farm.]]

* IWarnedYou: [[spoiler: He tried to get Mister Badd to hurry up and just make his announcement so that he (Warechu) could go home because he knew and said as much that the [=CPUs=] would find some way to escape and come after them. While Mister Badd is trying to tell him that it's just impossible, Plutia shows up midsentence.]]

* NotSoHarmlessVillain: While he was just part of the QuirkyMiniBossSquad in ''mk2'', his Ultradimension version is part of the [[BigBadDuumvirate Seven Sages.]]

* ActorAllusion: In one VR scene, the big Neptune talks about how they visited the world of {{Anime/Pokemon}} of all things. [[WritingAroundTrademarks They found a little caterpillar with a red Y antenna that turned itself into a sleepy looking cocoon, then were ambushed by a balloon monster that sounds just like Croire that sang and put them to sleep then drew on them.]] Mika Kanai provided the voice for Jigglypuff.

* GreatBigBookOfEverything: Like Histoire, her purpose is to record history. Croire insists that her role is to make sure that [[ForTheEvulz it's]] [[ItAmusedMe interesting]].

* ThanatosGambit: She's rightfully confident that she would never lose, but just in case [[spoiler: she ensures that her [[NiceJobBreakingItHero death only speeds up Arfoire's revival]].]]

* MyDeathIsJustTheBeginning: In the True Ending, he is reprogrammed to attack Uni and Noire. [[DyingAsYourself When defeated, he told Uni he will always be by her side,]] even if he isn't around, and uses his remaining data to create a new assault rifle for Uni.

* BadGuysDoTheDirtyWork: [[spoiler:When Vert loses to the Nep sisters in the Conquest Ending, they can't bring themselves to kill her because she won't consent to it like Lastation and Lowee's [=CPUs=], and just end up letting her leave with the HungryWeapon. It's only after Linda ambushes the exhausted Vert and fatally injures her that she finally accepts just so her death will mean something.]]

* KickThemWhileTheyAreDown: [[spoiler:Manages to fatally injure Vert in the Conquest Ending by ambushing her while she's exhausted from fighting Neptune and Nepgear. She attempts to do the same to them, but ends up killed for it]]

* VillainHasAPoint: [[spoiler:During the Conquest End, after she has beaten Vert to an inch of her life, the heroines state that what she has done is [[ThisIsUnforgivable unforgivable]]. Underling's counter-statement is saying she just did what they were trying to do a moment ago, and that they should thank her. What she gets for that? [[ShutUpHannibal A sword to the stomach, that's what!]]]]

* HeelFaceTurn: By the end of the game, [[spoiler:all of the Sages except for Arfoire (who just gives up on outright villainy) and [[EnemyMine maybe Anonydeath]] undergoes one. Abnes defects when she finds out what the Sages are really up to, Copypaste's reprogrammed personality allows hiim to befriend the main characters, Warechu doesn't so much defect as just blindly obey any request Compa makes, Badd quits so he can lead a normal life with his "daughters" (and tries to make amends by turning them back to human), Peashy regains her memories, and the two versions of Rei have some sense permanently slapped into them, with Ultradimension Rei finally learning to contain her HDD form instead of suppressing it.]]

* JekyllAndHyde: A more accurate example when comparing her normal and HDD forms. As normal Rei, she is [[ShrinkingViolet meek]] and gentle woman with a tendency to [[ApologizesALot apologize a lot]]. As HDD Rei, she's a [[LargeHam loud]], [[AxCrazy murderoulsy insane]] tryant who becomes DrunkWithPower.
* MoeAnthropomorphism: Of the Platform/{{Atari 2600}}, with all the [[UsefulNotes/TheGreatVideoGameCrashOf1983 tragedy]] that would imply.
* NavelDeepNeckline: Just like Vert, in her HDD form.

* SuperpoweredEvilSide: When DrunkWithPower, her personality undergoes a ''drastic'' change from a shy, frail ExtremeDoormat in civilian form to a overbearing, powerhungry dictator who will annihilate anyone who gets in her way in HDD.

* WorldsStrongestWoman: Rei is the strongest individual in the Neptunia series, bar none. A Goddesses' power is derived from their followers; the more followers they have, the more power they have. No followers gives the Goddess a power of absolutely zero. Ultradimension Rei managed to put up an impressive showing with no followers at all, while the only Goddess who has a similar amount of experience, Blanc, was reduced to a powerless little girl with no followers. And then Hyperdimesion Rei ''did'' gain followers....oh boy.

[[Characters/NeptuniaMainCPUs Main [=CPUs=]]] ([[Characters/NeptuniaNeptune Neptune]]) | [[Characters/NeptuniaCandidates CPU Candidates]] | [[Characters/{{Neptunia Other CPUs}} Other [=CPUs=]]] | [[Characters/NeptuniaOracles Oracles]] | [[Characters/NeptuniaMakers Makers]] | [[Characters/NeptuniaGoldThird Gold Third]] | [[Characters/NeptuniaMajorAntagonists Major Antagonists]] | '''Other Antagonists''' | [[Characters/NeptuniaOthers Other Characters]] | [[Characters/NeptuniaSpinoffCharacters Spin-off Characters]]-]]]]]

* DubNameChange: Besides Warechu, Arfoire, and Rei, every single member have their names localized in the English version.

* DubNameChange: Downplayed; Her ''surname'' is changed from "Kiseijou" to "Ryghts".

A mysterious girl from the Heartdimension who turns out to be the mastermind behind all of ''VII'''s events. She strangely looks almost identical to Uzume Tennouboshi.

[[folder:Arfoire]]
'''The''' main antagonist throughout the series, the various incarnations of Arfoire are members of [=ASIC=], the Seven Sages, [=AffimaX=], and the Pirate Makers when not just working alone.
-->For more details, see her folder [[Characters/NeptuniaMajorAntagonists here]].
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Warechu]]
!!Warechu (Pirachu in the NIS English dub)
[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/pirachu.png]]
-->'''Debut''': VideoGame/HyperdimensionNeptuniaMk2
-->'''Voiced by:''' Neeko (Japanese), Creator/GKBowes (English, games), Sara Ragsdale (English, anime)

A villainous mouse with a crush on Compa. Across his various incarnations he has worked as a member of [=ASIC=], the Seven Sages, and [=AffimaX=] among other unaffiliated appearances.

!!General Tropes:
* DitchingTheDubNames: The NIS America releases of ''mk2'' and ''Victory'' dubbed him "Pirachu". When Idea Factory International brought the rights to localize the games, he was reverted back into his Japanese name Warechu.
* DubNameChange: He's Warechu in Japan, but was renamed Pirachu by NIS America. However, when the series changed hands in the West, [[DitchingTheDubNames his Japanese name was restored]], with the exception of ''VideoGame/HyperdevotionNoireGoddessBlackHeart'' due to when the English version released.
* {{Mascot}}: Claims to be one [[WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse of]] [[Franchise/{{Pokemon}} three]] in the mouse world.
* PunnyName: Both his Japanese and English names are references to software piracy. While the English name makes it kind of obvious ('''Pira'''chu), his Japanese name is a pun on the Japanese term for a software pirate (割れ厨, also pronounced ''warechu''), and can also evoke the term [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/warez warez]].
* RidiculouslyCuteCritter: He is rather adorable, and his crush on Compa merely adds to it.
* VerbalTic: "Chu" in the Japanese version, as the sound of mice.
* VillainousCrush: Has a crush on Compa after she heals him. This extends even to his Ultradimension counterpart, despite the Compa in that world being a ''child''.
* WickedHeartSymbol: One of the villains, and has a half-red/half-yellow heart on his chest, along with an upside-down cracked heart at the end of his tail.

!!Hyperdimension Warechu (mk2/[=Re;Birth2=])
* BrickJoke: "Omega Warechu" is a monster that has previously only appeared in the credits of every main series Neptunia game. It actually shows up in ''VII''.
* DemotedToExtra: Unlike in previous games where he is always with Arfoire, he's now become a resident crook of Planeptune in Neptune's Hyperdimension G story arc.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: He might be Planeptune's resident crook, [[spoiler:but when Kurome offers to help him, he refuses to work with her because he can sense her bad vibes. Unfortunately, Kurome brainwashes him anyway, turning him into a mindless monster.]]
-->'''Warechu:''' [[spoiler:I've been in the game long enough to know that ''you're'' bad news, chu.]]
* KickTheDog: A {{downplayed}} variation. He attacks a kid who accidentally bumped into him. [[DisproportionateRetribution This earns him a beating from B-Sha soon afterwards]].
* MakeMyMonsterGrow: Temporarily ends up completely massive [[ComesGreatInsanity and completely insane]], courtesy of the Deity of Sin in ''mk2'' and [[spoiler:Kurome]] in ''VII''.
%%* QuirkyMinibossSquad: Forms one with Linda. - Still a ZCE
* TakingTheBullet: [[spoiler:He takes some of Kurome's Negative Energy that was aimed at Chuuko, turning him into a monster.]]
* TrueCompanions: Even after Underling's begun to [[RevengeBeforeReason go off the deep end]] toward the end, and even after [=ASIC=] is ended, he tries to be the voice of reason for her and sticks with her even when she just won't listen.
* VillainousBSOD: In the Hyperdimension G arc, he's utterly devastated when Compa declares that she hates him for setting monsters loose in Planeptune just to distract Neptune and her friends.

!!Ultradimension Warechu (Victory/[=Re;Birth3=])
* BrickJoke: Several chapters, and a bit over 10 years, after the Seven Sages have gotten to show off their [[BossSubtitles special logos]], he finally gets to do his hoping that maybe the [=CPUs=] would show him some mercy because of it. [[ThrowTheDogABone They actually were willing to do so]], [[YankTheDogsChain except for Iris Heart]].
* CallToAgriculture: [[spoiler:In the true end he works for Arfoire on her eggplant farm.]]
* TheChewToy: Iris Heart debuts dragging him by the tail after roughing him up offscreen. Yellow Heart also enjoys tearing out his fur.
* CornerOfWoe: A variation at the end of chapter 2, when he tries and fails to announce his name and get his own {{Boss Subtitle|s}} to appear. The game has him standing in the corner of the screen, sadly looking down to the ground while the CPU's, at that moment still recovering from [[LargeHam Copypaste's]] [[NoIndoorVoice introduction]], eventually note he looks depressed.
* HeelFaceRevolvingDoor: He will jump at the chance to work for the [=CPUs=] if Iris Heart is making the request in order to avoid her wrath, but always goes back to the Seven Sages once he gets away from her. Once Compa grows up he settles for working with the [=CPUs=] to stay near her.
* FragileSpeedster: Unless you've gone out of your way to over level or gear specifically for accuracy, expect most of your attacks to never connect. Those that do, however, bring him down quite quickly compared to most bosses.
* FromNobodyToNightmare: Warechu became a member of the Seven Sages almost without noticing.
%%* GenreSavvy
* InsistentTerminology: He insists that he is neither a [[FantasticSlurs Rat]] nor a Mouse, but a ''Warechu''. Not that anyone cares enough to listen to him, though.
* IWarnedYou: [[spoiler: He tried to get Mister Badd to hurry up and just make his announcement so that he (Warechu) could go home because he knew and said as much that the [=CPUs=] would find some way to escape and come after them. While Mister Badd is trying to tell him that it's just impossible, Plutia shows up midsentence.]]
--> '''Warechu''': "Sonofabitch! I -knew- it!"
* KillerRabbit: Averted. Warechu's combat abilities aren't that great. He can deal out surprisingly high damage and can be somewhat hard to hit if the team's accuracy is low, but compared to the other Seven Sages he goes down quick.
* TheNicknamer: At least to the females in the Seven Sages. Warechu calls Rei "Mature woman" and Arfoire "Middle-aged lady". The latter...isn't amused.
* NotSoHarmlessVillain: While he was just part of the QuirkyMiniBossSquad in ''mk2'', his Ultradimension version is part of the [[BigBadDuumvirate Seven Sages.]]
%%* TheRuntAtTheEnd: Compared to the other Seven Sages.
* SirSwearsALot: This version is far more foul-mouthed and shows little restraint in doing so, though it mostly fall into PrecisionFStrike.
* UselessUsefulSpell: He has the ability to inflict the [[KryptoniteFactor Virus status]]. The only fight against him has the [=CPUs=] locked into HDD, making for a hilarious [[InvertedTrope inversion]] of ContractualBossImmunity.
* VitriolicBestBuds: Whether either will admit it or not, Warechu and Arfoire actually share this dynamic, and despite their bickering, really are friends, with Warechu actually willing to stand up to the [=CPUs=] to let Arfoire flee from Plutia. Even the [=CPUs=] were touched by this.
* YouShallNotPass: When Arfoire is trembling uncontrollably in fear of Plutia, Warechu urges her to escape while he holds back the [=CPUs=]. They're so moved that he was hoping that be able to avoid a fight. Too bad for him that [[GoodIsNotSoft Iris Heart]] isn't that compassionate...

!!Spin-offs:
* AdaptationSpeciesChange: In ''Cyberdimension''. Since there's no mouse race in the game, his appearance in-game is that of a human wearing a mouse costume.

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Croire]]
Enabling various antagonists throughout the series, she generally avoids direct confronation and simply observes the chaos that results from her actions. Uniquely the only recurring character that is always the same character rather than an alternate universe variant.
-->For more details, see her folder [[Characters/NeptuniaMajorAntagonists here]].
[[/folder]]

!Arfoire Syndicate of International Crime
-->'''Debut''': VideoGame/HyperdimensionNeptuniaMk2
Abbreviated as ASIC, they are a cult who seek to revive their namesake Deity of Sin.

[[folder:General Tropes]]
* ApocalypseCult: For the Four Felons, though most of its followers have no idea what [[EldritchAbomination Arfoire]] really is.
* CameBackWrong: With the exception of Judge (who remains dead and is already insane to begin with), the Felons are all revived in the True and Holy Sword Endings, but at cost of their sanities.
** Magic's [[spoiler:desire to serve under Arfoire is turned into a [[OmnicidalManiac desire to ensure that everything]] becomes [[TheAssimilator one with her]]]].
** Trick's [[spoiler:obsession with children ends up becoming a love for [[ChildEater eating them]]]].
** While not as severe as the other two, Brave [[spoiler:is reduced to a raging BloodKnight who no longer cares for children or their safety]].
* DarkIsEvil: They are an organization built around their obsession with reviving their Goddess by taking the Shares from the other nations. They represent the negative aspects of the gaming industry and its community, such as the unhealthy obsession the consumer has on their presumed idol or the wrath of game developers whose games don't sell well. Naturally, they all have a dark color scheme plastered in their designs (expect for Brave, who is [[LightIsGood white]], and Trick, who is orange).
* DubNameChange:
** The Four Felons are named "_ the Hard" in Japanese, but "Criminal of the Free World (CFW) _" in English.
** The name "Four Felons" itself is changed from its Japanese name "[[EliteFour Four Celestial Kings]]".
** ASIC itself was called the Criminal Organization Magiquone in the Japanese version.
* EliteFour: The Four Felons are named as such in Japanese, albeit with "Celestial" in place of "Heavenly".
* HumongousMecha: CFW Brave, Trick, and Judge are designed as robots that are approximately bigger than any of the characters in ''mk2''. Brave in particular looks like a cross between Anime/GaoGaiGar, [[Anime/{{Gravion}} Sol Gravion]], Anime/BraveExkaiser, [[VideoGame/SuperRobotWarsOriginalGeneration Thrudgelmir]], and Anime/DancougarNova.
* ThePsychoRangers: They all serve this role to the [=CPUs=] and their sisters.
** CFW Judge has wings that resemble that of the [=CPUs=] to a limited extent. He and Magic also served as Nepgear's counterpart in AISC, as his goal is to keep the [=CPUs=] contained in the graveyard while Nepgear's is to free them.
** CFW Brave is one to Uni; though apart from Trick, he resembles the [=CPUs=] the least, being a HumongousMecha with more airplane-like wings
** CFW Trick is this to both Ram and Rom, due to his preferences.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:CFW Magic]]
!!CFW Magic (Magic the Hard in Japanese)
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/cfw_magic.png]]

Arfoire's most loyal follower, and the de-facto leader of Arfoire Syndicate of International Crime. An aspect of the Deity of Sin, she tapped into the power of Shares and used them to defeat and trap the [=CPUs=] in the prologue, cementing the cult as the dominant religion. She is the personification of Fanboy/Fangirlism.

* CurbStompBattle: In the prologue she faced off against the four Goddesses, alone. The result would seem to be the four of them [[BadassInDistress being captured and bound]] by naughty tentacles.
* TheDragon: While technically the Four Felons would count as these, her position as the leader among [=CFWs=] cements her as this to ASIC as a whole.
%%* EvilCounterpart: More or less outright stated to be the case in the Colloseum match against her in the next game, ''Victory''. She is referred to as "The CPU of the CFW." - Doesn't explain why she's an evil counterpart to the [=CPUs=]
* EvilRedhead: Her hair is magenta, and she is one of the main antagonists of the game.
* {{Expy}}: To the first game's version of Arfoire. She even shares the same voice actress.
* EyepatchOfPower: An ominous one covers her right eye.
* FanBoy: The personification of this. She's the most fervently devoted to Arfoire, even having the same voice actress in both English and Japanese.
* GodsNeedPrayerBadly: Her power comes from the Shares belonging to ASIC, therefore as the four nations begin extorting Shares back, Magic progressively becomes weaker, which downgrades her from being invincible to defeatable.
* OneWomanArmy: At least during the prologue, when she is holding the majority of the world's Shares. Five goddesses (The four [=CPUs=] plus Purple Sister) versus her. She curb stomped them. Even after weakened enough near the end of the game, she is still more than a match for the CPU Candidates together to defeat. She is only defeated after ASIC takes over Planeptune, which weakens her Share further.
* SinisterScythe: Her weapon is a very large scythe, matching her wicked personality.
* {{Stripperific}}: Her outfit exposes much of her chest, torso and thighs.
* ThanatosGambit: She's rightfully confident that she would never lose, but just in case [[spoiler: she ensures that her [[NiceJobBreakingItHero death only speeds up Arfoire's revival]].]]
* VillainDecay: The main plot of the game is to weaken the Shares belonging to ASIC so that Magic is weakened enough for the protagonists to defeat.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:CFW Judge]]
!!CFW Judge (Judge the Hard in Japanese)
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/cfw_judge.png]]
-->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/KenjiroTsuda (Japanese), Creator/KyleHebert (English)

After Magic defeated the [=CPUs=] and sealed them in the Gamindustri Graveyard, she sent Judge to watch over them. He is ruthless in battle and proved to be a difficult obstacle for Nepgear, IF and Compa, cutting their plans to free the other [=CPUs=] short at first. He is the personification of people who gave up after their games flopped.

* AxCrazy: He's so obsessed with killing that he was ready to turn on Linda and Warechu because he couldn't wait any longer for Nepgear's group to arrive.
* TheBerserker: A mindless brute who only thinks of killing.
* CurbStompBattle: The actual fight with him will end this way for either you or him. He is powerful enough to wipe out most of your team in a single turn, but just before the fight, Nepgear gets an extremely powerful new processor set and a GameBreaker skill called Celestial Severance. Your CPU Candidates also receive the Superior Angels skill shortly before entering the area, another ridiculously powerful skill. And to top it all off, everyone in your party begins the fight with a full 300 SP. So the fight is pretty much a race to see who will utterly annihilate the other first.
%%* CreatorBreakdown / RageQuit: The personification of this. - Slashed trope that don't elaborate.
* TheGrimReaper: As the personification of game creators giving up after poor sales, he's been designed to look the part at the very least. Despite this, Magic is the one with [[SinisterScythe the associated weapon]].

[[folder:CFW Brave]]
!!CFW Brave (Brave the Hard in Japanese)
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/cfw_brave.png]]
-->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/KentaroIto (Japanese), Creator/DavidVincent (English)

A HumongousMecha who knows well about impoverished children and as such, will help ASIC to bring joy to the poor children. [[WhiteAndGreyMorality This naturally puts him in a bit of a moral grey area]]. He is the personification of [[CrackIsCheaper not being able to buy the newest games]].

* AffablyEvil: Is described as being more chivalrous than evil compared to his comrades. He even offers to let Nepgear and Uni free before attacking when he found them in Endless Zone.
* AntiVillain: Brave believes that piracy is the only way for poor children to play and enjoy games, and he fights for their sake.
* BloodKnight [[spoiler:After being resurrected by Arfoire in the True Ending, due to losing his previous memories, Brave also loses all of his nobility and restraint and becomes much more inclined to fighting his enemies. It takes Uni's YouUsedToBeBetterSpeech for him to regain trust for her, allowing Uni to gain enough confidence to kill him after initially hesitating on doing so]].
* EvilMakeover: [[spoiler:In the True Ending, his color scheme turns {{red and black|AndEvilAllOver}}, and while he isn't as deranged as the other Felons, he becomes much more bloodthirsty and less caring of children and the other [=CPUs=], Uni included]].
* FlamingSword: His official art depicts his sword wreathed in fire.
%%* HotBlooded
* LightIsGood: In addition to being the fellow heroic member of an otherwise cruel syndicate, unlike the other Felons, is color palette is pure [[GoldAndWhiteAreDivine white and gold]], and his overall design is reminiscent of the more heroic mecha robots of the 90s a la ''[=GaoGaiGar=]'', complete with a lion's face on his chest.
* MyDeathIsJustTheBeginning: In the True Ending, he is reprogrammed to attack Uni and Noire. [[DyingAsYourself When defeated, he told Uni he will always be by her side,]] even if he isn't around, and uses his remaining data to create a new assault rifle for Uni.
* PerpetualPoverty: The personification of this. Specifically the resentment of not having the money to keep up with game releases.
* NobleDemon: As the personification of not having enough money to buy new games, Brave fights to protect children's joy, and doesn't want to see their smiles fade. He's like Santa if he were a villainous mecha.
* TokenGoodTeammate: He's an AntiVillain at best and his goal is to protect the joy of children.
* WorthyOpponent: He sees Uni as this, and the feeling is mutual.

[[folder:CFW Trick]]
!!CFW Trick (Trick the Hard in Japanese)
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/cfw_trick.png]]
-->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/YojiUeda (Japanese), Creator/DerekStephenPrince (English, mk2/[=Re;Birth2=]), Creator/JessieJamesGrelle (English, anime)

A [[ReptilesAreAbhorrent reptilian-looking]] paedophile who seems to be hated by most everyone (wonder why?). He represents the reactions to NintendoHard games

* AffablyEvil: Sort of. He claims that he never goes full out on little girls. That doesn't stop him from brainwashing them, though.
* ChildEater: [[spoiler:Following his resurrection in the True Ending, Trick's obsession with children evolves into him wanting to ''devour'' them]].
* FatBastard: He's the most heavyset of the Four Felons, and an unrepentant pedophile.
* HateSink: Out of all of the members of ASIC, he is easily the most detestable by virtue of being a child predator whose entire existence revolves around [[PaedoHunt his fetish for young girls]], to the point that [[EvenEvilHasStandards Linda is shown to openly disgusted by his behavior]]. It's also not easy to see why [[BigSisterInstinct Blanc]] wants to kill him, as Trick's targets are usually Rom and Ram.
%%* IRegretNothing: Because he got to die at the hands of maidens/cutie pies. (Need better context)
%%* LastSecondWordSwap:
%%--> "I need to whip out my.... Sewing kit!" (Quotes do not equal context)
%%* NintendoHard: The personification of your reactions to this. -- Doesn't elaborate on *why* he's a personification of that trope
* OverlyLongTongue: How he attacks and he always tries to lick the twins with it.
* PaedoHunt: His obsession with children, especially little girls, is treated as abhorrent by even the villains themselves. He's particularly fixated with [[TokenMiniMoe Ram and Rom]], being the first victims he and Linda kidnaps so he could lust over them. ''[=Re;Birth2=]'' even adds a scene where he ''licks the two'' as they helplessly plead for him to stop.
* ReptilesAreAbhorrent: He is a depraved bastard who has a lizard-like tail on his back and a long, slimy tongue that he uses to lick little girls.

[[folder:Underling]]
!!Linda/Underling
[[quoteright:255:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/underling.png]]
-->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/JunkoMinagawa (Japanese), Unknown (English, mk2/[=Re;Birth2=]), Creator/MorganBerry (English, anime)

There's not much to say about her, other than the fact she is an Underling. She confronts the party at every turn hoping to destroy the mascots before they empower Nepgear. Like Arfoire and Magic, she also uses ASIC's shares to her advantage.

* AssholeVictim: She's an evil brat at the best of times, and it's really hard to feel sorry for her [[spoiler:in the Conquest end. One could nearly forgive Nepgear's EvilFeelsGood moment, just because it's Underling she offed]].
* AvengingTheVillain: The final fight against her in the True Ending is because [[spoiler:[[RevengeBeforeReason she wants revenge]] for them [[ItsPersonal killing Magic twice]]]], hoping that maybe [[TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou she can kill them before]] Arfoire [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt destroys the world]].
* BadGuysDoTheDirtyWork: [[spoiler:When Vert loses to the Nep sisters in the Conquest Ending, they can't bring themselves to kill her because she won't consent to it like Lastation and Lowee's [=CPUs=], and just end up letting her leave with the HungryWeapon. It's only after Linda ambushes the exhausted Vert and fatally injures her that she finally accepts just so her death will mean something.]]
* EvenEvilHasStandards:
** Linda is disgusted by CFW Trick's behaviour towards Rom and Ram.
** Linda beats feet when CFW Magic [[spoiler:turns into an OmnicidialManiac after reviving]].
* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: Linda receives the label "Underling" from Nepgear and company, much to her dismay. Even Warechu keeps calling her "Underling" despite multiple demands telling him not to, and to add insult to injury, the name above the text box every time she speaks is changed from "Linda" to "Underling."
* FakeUltimateMook: There's nothing fake about how dangerous she is in her first encounter in gameplay terms, but narratively speaking that's only because she had an immense situational advantage. As the party properly gears up and decays [=ASIC's=] shares, she rapidly goes from serious threat to absolute joke.
* {{Fangirl}}: Some of her dialog implies that she's one for Magic.
%%* GoldfishPoopGang: So much so that the game eventually stops bothering to make her a boss fight.
* GodNeedsPrayerBadly: While not a god, Linda's power comes from the fact she can tap into [=ASIC's=] Shares. As those get worn down, she steadily becomes less of a threat.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Zigzagged. She's kind to civilians, but that's [[JerkWithAHeartOfJerk usually so she can sell ASIC merchandise to them]]. She then feeds a stray cat and recruits it into ASIC, though she has no plans to actually make it do anything evil, which suggests she's not all bad.
* KickThemWhileTheyAreDown: [[spoiler:Manages to fatally injure Vert in the Conquest Ending by ambushing her while she's exhausted from fighting Neptune and Nepgear. She attempts to do the same to them, but ends up killed for it]]
* MasterOfDisguise: Makes a convincing disguise as Chika. Subverted when she keeps flubbing her lines and regressing into her normal speech patterns, though the [[IdiotBall party fails to see through her for a while]].
* NotWhatISignedOnFor: After Magic tells her that everything [[TheAssimilator will be absorbed into Arfoire]] and [[PayEvilUntoEvil tries to kill her]], she realizes that Magic [[CameBackWrong has changed]] and that things are more extreme than she first thought and [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere bails]].
* PipePain: Her weapon is a pipe that she [[WeaponAcrossTheShoulder holds over her shoulder]] when not in use.
%%* QuirkyMinibossSquad: Forms one with Warechu. - Still a ZCE
* VillainHasAPoint: [[spoiler:During the Conquest End, after she has beaten Vert to an inch of her life, the heroines state that what she has done is [[ThisIsUnforgivable unforgivable]]. Underling's counter-statement is saying she just did what they were trying to do a moment ago, and that they should thank her. What she gets for that? [[ShutUpHannibal A sword to the stomach, that's what!]]]]

!Seven Sages
-->'''Debut''': VideoGame/HyperdimensionNeptuniaVictory
An anti-CPU group in the Ultradimension who will resort to all sorts of shady behavior to oust them.
[[folder:General Tropes]]
* BigBadDuumvirate: Or in this case, Big Bad ''Septumvirate''. They all have their own different agendas but they do agree that the CPU goddesses should not exist at all.
* BossSubtitles: They generally get a logo for their name when they introduce themselves to the [=CPUs=]. A RunningGag is that Warechu never gets the chance.
* DubNameChange: Besides Warechu, Arfoire, and Rei, every single member have their names localized in the English version.
** Mister Badd was Akudaijin, a portmanteau of ''aku''[[labelnote:*]]devil[[/labelnote]] and ''dajin''[[labelnote:*]]minister[[/labelnote]], meaning "evil minister".
** Copypaste was Copyliace.
** Downplayed with Anonydeath. While he retains his name, in the Japanese version the "Anony" part is written as "Anon'''e'''" with an e.
** Also downplayed with Abnes. The Japanese writing includes an additional "s" at the end of her name, which is dropped in the English writing.
* HeelFaceTurn: By the end of the game, [[spoiler:all of the Sages except for Arfoire (who just gives up on outright villainy) and [[EnemyMine maybe Anonydeath]] undergoes one. Abnes defects when she finds out what the Sages are really up to, Copypaste's reprogrammed personality allows hiim to befriend the main characters, Warechu doesn't so much defect as just blindly obey any request Compa makes, Badd quits so he can lead a normal life with his "daughters" (and tries to make amends by turning them back to human), Peashy regains her memories, and the two versions of Rei have some sense permanently slapped into them, with Ultradimension Rei finally learning to contain her HDD form instead of suppressing it.]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Rei Ryghts]]
-->For more details, see her folder [[Characters/NeptuniaMajorAntagonists here]].
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Abnes]]
!!Abnes
[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/abnes.png]]
-->'''Voiced by:''' Yui Shoji (Japanese), Creator/StephanieSheh (English)

The first member of the Seven Sages who Neptune encounters. She is obsessed with the safety of little girls, and does not believe that they should be tasked with leading nations as [=CPUs=], though she takes offense to being called out as a little girl herself.

* BoomerangBigot: She thinks a nation run by girls can't be successful. She's a girl herself.
* TheCape: Before joining the Seven Sages, Abness would normally go around the world protecting little girls.
* ElegantGothicLolita: She wears a frilly pink dress with a skull decoration.
* FriendToAllChildren: Specifically little girls, whose safety she prioritizes over everything else.
* InsaneTrollLogic: Abnes thinks that, because she's on a mission to protect all the little girls in the world, she's always right, and anyone who stands in her way is a "big pedophile" and a "gross fetishist". Naturally, there's something off about her logic.
* HeroAntagonist: She's a part of Anti-CPU criminal organization, but hardly poses as an actual threat. If anything, she's just very, very misled.
* InsaneTrollLogic: During her introductory scene, she offers this gem of an explanation for her being right:
-->I'm on a mission to protect every child in the whole wide world! That means I am in the right. Therefore, all who oppose me are big pedophiles and gross weirdos.
* LockedOutOfTheLoop: Since she's the public face of the group [[PlausibleDeniability often getting questioned about what their goals are]], and [[TokenGoodTeammate would object to most of the things they do]], the rest of the Seven Sages leave her out of a lot of the planning.
* MoralGuardians: One of her main issues with the Goddesses is the sort of influence they have on children
* MyCountryRightOrWrong: Defied. She has strong doubts on a system of nations ruled by girls that have become Goddesses, and such joined the Seven Sages.
* NotWhatISignedOnFor: [[spoiler: When she finds out the Seven Sages have been the ones behind all the kidnappings over the last several years she [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere immediately bails]] and [[HeelFaceTurn informs the CPUs of where they'd been keeping the kids]].]]
%%* ObviouslyEvil: She wears ''skulls''. [[spoiler:Though it turns out she's not evil.]]
* PaperTiger: She pounces at Neptune for returning her "little girl" insults, only to end up crying when Neptune (who couldn't even transform at that point) throws out a single punch.
* SkeletonsInTheCoatCloset: Like Rei, she wears skulls on her dress.
* TinyTyrannicalGirl: She is one of the smallest member of the group, and has a condescending and mocking attitude towards other nations' being ruled by 'little girls' (i.e. [[TheNapoleon Blanc]]), [[BoomerangBigot even though she's a little girl herself]].
* TokenMiniMoe: She's the youngest member of the Seven Sages.
* ThereWasADoor: Played with. Whenever she appears, she slams open a door, yelling out "Ga-thunk!", even in the Seven Sages' base. There's an exception during her NotWhatISignedOnFor moment, where she just comes in like a normal person.
* TheUnfought: She's the only one of the Seven Sages you never fight.
* VerbalTic: Most of her sentences contain the term "little girls".
%%* WellIntentionedExtremist

[[folder:Anonydeath]]
!!Anonydeath
[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/anonydeath_v.png]]
-->'''Voiced by:''' Yuki Fujiwara (Japanese), Creator/DavidVincent (English)

A skilled hacker in a flashy pink mech suit who identifies as female and holds a possessive crush toward Noire.

%%* AgentPeacock: Is male, but considers himself a little girl. - Doesn't explain much about his effeminity... Or his badassness
* DeadMansSwitch: He manages to escape the [=CPUs=] by telling them that if he dies all of the embarrassing footage he has of Noire will be released worldwide. As soon as he's safe, he informs them that [[ILied he lied]] about it.
* EffeminateVoice: He has a very flamboyant tone with feminine speech patterns.
%%* TheEvilGenius: In charge of intelligence.
* TheFaceless: [[TwentyFourHourArmor He never leaves his suit]] so no one has ever seen what he really looks like. [[spoiler: And even when he ''did'', he only appeared as a silhouette, so to the player, he's ''still'' faceless.]]
* FlunkyBoss: He comes with several small robots that [[UnexpectedGameplayChange disables various commands]] until you manage to kill them off.
* HealingFactor: Since only his armor is taking damage, he can repair and upgrade it to return for later battles. He is also the one who repairs Copypaste after he explodes.
* TheHedonist: He doesn't care about his job, he just does whatever he wants.
* HollywoodHacking: PlayedWith. His hacking of computers is all fairly realistic, [[VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory having been based on actual events]], all he had to do was observe and record Noire while she worked to gain access to Lastation's network. However he can also apparently hack people to observe and [[FakeMemories rewrite their memories]].
* ItAmusedMe: If it's fun, he'll do it. This is more or less his only reason for having joined the Seven Sages.
* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler:In the end, the [=CPUs=] never get to properly pummel him for what he's done to [[BrainwashedAndCrazy Peashy]].]]
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: The "death" part in Anonydeath is already a sign that he's ''not'' a good person. The "Anony" part of his name could count, if you consider the group Anonymous.
* NonActionBigBad: It is confirmed that Anonydeath seldom fights openly; though he does mention he can configure himself to a more combat oriented role, however doing so would cause him to lose his current suit's slim figure.
%%* PoweredArmor: That looks like an Eva.
* PrettyBoy: [[spoiler:Outside his armor, Anonydeath is apparently ''very'' cute, enough to make pretty much every Goddess in the Basilicom comment on it, and Noire having to snap them out of it by [[AmbiguouslyGay reminding them it's a man]].]]
* ReformedButRejected: [[spoiler:In the True End he found a way to reverse the failed CPU transformations, yet is still considered a creep.]]
* {{Troll}}: Quite possibly the only reason Anonydeath would alter Copypaste's personality as he did and ''then'' pair him up with Arfoire, [[spoiler:and give Rei the task of being Peashy's "mother"]]. This side of him also shows through in his reactions with Noire.
* VillainousCrush: He has a crush on Noire, much to her disgust.

[[folder:Copypaste]]
!!Copypaste (Copilyace in Japanese)
[[quoteright:255:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/copypaste_1.png]]
-->'''Voiced by:''' Daisuke Kusunoki (Japanese), Creator/PatrickSeitz (English)

An incredibly loud-mouthed and simple-minded robot who views himself as the strongest member of the Seven Sages. After being destroyed by the [=CPUs=], he is rebuilt with a much friendlier personality.

* AwesomenessByAnalysis: He gains powers by copying software.
* TheBrute: He's the self-proclaimed strongest amongst the Seven Sages, but his intelligence is horrible.
* DefeatEqualsExplosion: Explodes upon being defeated. [[spoiler:He gets repaired later.]]
* DumbMuscle: Despite being the strongest and most heavy-set of the Sages, even gloating about it at one point, he's the least intelligent, due to his tendency to prioritize brute strength over solving issues carefully. [[spoiler:Once he's repaired though, he becomes SophisticatedAsHell, though his habit of destruction still remains]].
* {{Expy}}: Of [[VideoGame/BlazBlue Ragna the Bloodedge]], even being voiced by the same guy in the English dub.
* GlassCannon: [[spoiler:After being rebuilt by Lowee, Blanc admits that they rushed it and just redid his shell with paper-mache, so he wouldn't last in a fight anymore.]]
* HeadPet: After being rebuilt he has a tendency to do this with smaller characters. [[spoiler:Specifically after being rebuilt in Lowee. Histoire, Ram, and Rom all get this treatment. Only the twins enjoy it.]]
* HealingFactor: Being a machine, he can be [[WeCanRebuildHim repaired]] by someone else.
* HeelFaceDoorSlam: [[spoiler:Due to his change in personality after his initial repairs, he starts to get along with the citizens of Lowee when they show him how to destroy things in a helpful manner. While they're in the middle of convincing him to leave the Seven Sages Blanc shows up to make him pay for damages done to Lowee and [[WhatTheHellHero kills him despite everyone's protest]]. Then it gets {{Subverted}} a couple chapters later. Lowee had him rebuilt during the 10 year TimeSkip and he has been working for Blanc since.]]
* HumongousMecha: He was built like a machine and towers almost all of the characters with his enormous size. His overall design vaguely resembles that of Manga/GetterRobo.
* LargeHam: He's so loud and boisterous that his self-introduction briefly deafens the [=CPUs=] so they can't hear Warechu's attempt to display his own name.
* PowerupLetdown: As his abilities are low, he can only copy old ROM cartridges.
* SophisticatedAsHell: [[spoiler:A variation. After being repaired from his first defeat, Copypaste begins to talk in a proper manner... while he still destroys things.]]
* SpikesOfVillainy: He's a member of the Seven Sages and has horns on his head and [[ThisIsADrill drills]] on his [[ShouldersOfDoom shoulders]]. He starts to become less aggressive and more {{gentle|Giant}} after getting destroyed, however.
%%* TankGoodness: Well, his lower half anyway.
* TrueCompanions: [[spoiler:After being fixed by Anonydeath, Copypaste seems to value the PowerOfFriendship, sayings friends are valuable things.]]

[[folder:Mister Badd]]
!!Mister Badd (Akudaijin in Japanese)
[[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mr_badd.png]]
-->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/KiyoyukiYanada (Japanese), Creator/KeithSilverstein (English)

Introduced as Blanc's right-hand man, he is secretly one of the Seven Sages who seeks to undermine her authority. He is fiercely protective of several grotesque monsters who he views as his "daughters".
----
* AintTooProudToBeg: [[spoiler: After being beaten, Plutia and Blanc (in their HDD forms) torture a confession out of him to be televised. After Blanc mentions that she's done, Plutia informs everyone that she's going to keep toying with him however she wants. This prompts a BigNo and him begging for anyone to come save him from her.]]
* TheAtoner: [[spoiler:Genuinely comes to regret what he did to the failed [=CPU=] children-turned-monsters and goes out his way to care for them like they were really his children, even to the point he starts researching a way to turn them back and eventually abandons the Seven Sages for their sake]].
* BatmanGambit: [[spoiler:He reveals to the Goddesses that the monsters he uses to fight them (and calls his daughters) are actually children who failed to become [=CPUs=]. It's heavily hinted he ''forcefully'' did this to them, and when he reveals this to them, he fully expects they'd be unwilling to harm the children and would have to leave, thus sparing his life.]]
* CompositeCharacter: Has a similar role in this game to Ganache and Yvoire from the first game, he even spends some time as nothing but a silhouette while working with the Seven Sages.
* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: 'Mister Badd' is an alias.
* EvilGenius: He uses his intelligence to his to help the other Sages in getting rid of the goddesses, and at first glance, looks like a cold, cunning man who puts on the facade of seemingly helpful mentor to Blanc to [[spoiler:trick her into loosing to the other [=CPUs=], causing her Shares to plummet significantly]]. In fact, [[spoiler:if it [[NearVillainyVictory weren't for the existence of a fourth CPU]], he and the other Sages would've won as early as the ''third'' chapter]].
* EvilOldFolks: While not old per se, he's stated to be in his late 50s or so. He also works for a criminal organization devoted to doing away with every and all [=CPUs=] in the Ultradimension, in addition to being an EvilGenius.
* FourEyesZeroSoul: He wears glasses and is an EvilGenius who is a part of an Anti-CPU organization.
* TheGlassesComeOff: He removes his glasses whenever you fight against him.
* {{Gonk}}: While not completely ugly, he appears to be a middle aged man, making him stand out for the rest of the cast.
* IJustWantToBeLoved: [[spoiler:His wife died when he was a young man, and he eventually began to see failed [=CPUs=] as his children, to the point he started researching a way to reverse their transformation]].
%%* GratuitousJapanese: During one scene.
%%-->'''Mister Badd:''' Kanpai.
* MiniMecha: As he's just an ordinary human, he uses one to fight the [=CPUs=]. It looks rather like a combination of [[Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog Dr. Eggman]] and some carnival ride.
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: His name in the NIS America/Creator/IdeaFactory International localization is [[ObviouslyEvil Mister Badd]]. Not that his Japanese name, Akudaijin, was exactly ''subtle''.[[note]]His name is written in katakana (アクダイジーン ''Akudaijīn''), so the intended meaning is ambiguous. The most likely option is "悪/Aku" (evil) + "大臣/daijin" (minister) = "Evil minister". "Dai" and "jin" can also be "great/big" and "person", respectively (大人). "悪大人/Akudaijin/Great evil person".[[/note]]
* NearVillainVictory: [[spoiler:Thanks to his scheming, Lowee fell when Plutia, Noire and Neptune defeated Blanc on live TV. This defeat stripped Blanc of all her goddess's powers and reverted her to a powerless girl due to the loss of faith from the civilians, thus ridding Lowee of its CPU. He also subsequently imprisoned her along with the other 3 [=CPUs=], leaving their countries vulnerable and defenseless against the Seven Sages. Unfortunately, not knowing Vert existed was the only flaw in his plan. Without her, he would've won.]]
* NobodyTouchesTheHair: Due to him suffering from some hair loss, he doesn't like people messing with his hair. Of the tortures Blanc and Plutia put him through the only one he mentions beyond being kicked in the spleen is that they're plucking his hairs out one by one and begs them to stop.
* NonStandardCharacterDesign: He's a fairly realistic middle-aged man in a cast of mostly cute anime girls that had kept human males before him in silhouettes.
* PapaWolf: [[spoiler:Despite being a member of the organization that is turning children into monsters, he ''does'' seem to care for his daughters, enjoying spending time with them and gets furious when anyone insults or lays a hand on them. He was even researching a way to turn them back to human form.]]
%%* ProtectedByAChild: [[spoiler:Those weird monsters that are often around him? They're failed [=CPUs=]]].
* ScaryShinyGlasses: His eyes are obscured by the glasses he wears.
* SharpDressedMan: You have to admit, that suit looks awesome on him.
* TreacherousAdvisor: [[spoiler:He is this to Blanc. Despite initially appearing as her guardian, he reveals that he is a member of The Seven Sages.]]
* TheOneGuy: He is the first non-silhouetted human male character in the entire franchise.
* TrueBeautyIsOnTheInside: Played with. Mister Badd sees as beautiful what is generally considered ugly by society. However, he just has a... different aesthetic sense.
* XanatosSpeedChess: Egg the goddesses on into fighting each other, then televise the battle. [[spoiler:If Blanc wins, that's two nations fallen. If Blanc loses, the others are likely to be exhausted and captured, taking out all three nations. Noire herself points out a third result, and pushes for it herself, that being showing Iris Heart to the world would potentially take out Planeptune. [[XanatosGambit Any way it could've conceivably unfolded, he wins]].]] When that all falls apart on him, and they try to pull the same tactic on him, he quickly tries to prevent further losses by [[spoiler: [[BatmanGambit banking on the fact that the others wouldn't throw away Blanc]] just to publicly ruin him. Even when that backfires by them reempowering Blanc and restoring her goddess abilities with ThePowerOfFriendship (literally) he reveals that he had diverted some of Lowee's budget into building a mech to fight them.]]
* VileVillainSaccharineShow: In contrast to the lighthearted tone of ''Victory'', Mister Badd is a surprisingly competent and calculating villain in comparison to the other villains of the game, what with him [[spoiler:backstabbing Blanc by revealing that he's a part of The Seven Sages ''after'' the latter lost her shares, [[NearVillainVictory almost succeeds in his plan by getting rid of the goddesses had Vert not showed up]], and used a CPU Memory on untrained users that results in them being turned into monsters, to the point that Blanc and later Plutia [[MamaBear attempts to teach him a lesson]] before the other [=CPUs=] restrain the latter from potentially causing anymore damage]]. However, [[spoiler:it's revealed later on that he's actually a loving father to the monsters he created and only turned them into monsters so he can have a family]].
[[/folder]]

!Fake [=CPUs=]
-->'''Debut''': VideoGame/HyperdimensionNeptuniaReBirth1
The copies and fakes of the real [=CPUs=]. Created by Arfoire, their mission is to find the Legendary Weapons and to destroy them. However, their personalities are quite flawed.

!!Fake Purple Heart, Fake Black Heart, Fake Green Heart & Fake Blanc/White Heart
-->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/RieTanaka (Fake Purple Heart), Creator/AsamiImai (Fake Black Heart), Creator/RinaSato (Fake Green Heart) & Creator/KanaAsumi (Fake Blanc/White Heart)
----
* ActionBomb: Done by Fake Black Heart, [[spoiler:and effectively destroying the Dual Revolver of Lastation]].
* AntiVillain: Fake Green Heart has no interest in seeking the Legendary Weapon, even if it's in her near. She simply wants to play video games and visit a butler café. And the only reason she fights Vert is because Fake Green Heart protects the Brothers who are escorting her to the butler café. Even Neptune lampshades that Vert might be the villain in that scenario.
* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: The eye colors of Fake Purple Heart, Fake Black Heart and Fake White Heart are different than their originals'. Fake Purple Heart and Fake Black Heart have pink eyes, while Fake White Heart has golden eyes.
* CloneJesus: They are copies of the four goddesses.
* DullSurprise: In the Japanese version, Fake Blanc's attempt at copying Blanc's dirty mouth.
* EvilSoundsDeep: Averted and inverted. Fake Purple Heart and Fake Black Heart sound exactly like their originals. Fake Green Heart's voice is even higher than Vert's while Fake White Heart sounds exactly like the calm Blanc.
* {{Flanderization}}: Played straight InUniverse to hilarious effect. Fake Purple Heart is such a ditz she searches in the wrong spot, Fake Green Heart is so obsessed with video games she's completely harmless, and Fake White Heart is so introverted she outs itself when it can't match the original's [[SirSwearsALot potty mouth]]. Only the Fake Black Heart actually focuses on her objective, exaggerating the original's brutal efficiency.
* GoshDangItToHeck: In the English version, Fake Blanc's attempt at copying Blanc's dirty mouth.
* MachineMonotone: Fake Green Heart's voice sounds like a bit robotic, and it is higher than Vert's voice. In the localized version that is demonstrated by having all of her lines being in written with capital letters entirely.
* MesACrowd: Fake Purple Heart can spawn weaker duplicates of herself, giving MAGES. and [=MarvelousAQL=] some trouble.
* OutOfCharacterAlert: The fake Blanc has all of the real Blanc's memories, but gives herself away by [[spoiler:calmly answering embarrassing questions while the real one flips out, exactly as Financier [[JustAsPlanned planned]]]].
* PowerMakesYourVoiceDeep: Averted. Fake Blanc's voice doesn't change at all after transforming. The others are always in their goddess forms.
* TheQuietOne: Fake Purple Heart and Fake Black Heart barely talk at all.
* QuirkyMinibossSquad: They are all bosses in chapter 7. Their personalities are {{flanderiz|ation}}ed versions of their originals.
%%* TheStoic: All of them, except of Fake Green Heart.
* TheVoiceless: None of them are voiced in the English audio.

![=AffimaX=]
-->'''Debut''': VideoGame/MegadimensionNeptuniaVII
The antagonists of the Hyperdimenion G Arc. They're fundamentally bloggers who profit from the general disarray caused by Gamindustri's CosmicRetcon.
[[folder:General Tropes]]
* CoolAirship: Affimojas' main base, and by the time the [=CPU=]s invade he's nearly paid off the loan he made to get it. [[spoiler:The Revival Ending reveals that he has ''two of them''.]]
* OddlySmallOrganization: [=AffimaX=] as per Warechu's own words is just five members: Affimojas, Steamax, Warechu, Arfoire, [[spoiler:and Adult Neptune]]. And if you want to get down to brass tacks, it's really just Affimojas and Steamax themselves while the rest are just bit players or only nominally allied. Justified by the fact the whole "secret society/organization" label was something coined by the news they took for themselves, and their true purpose is a blog and information-sharing website.

[[folder:Affimojas]]
!!Affimojas
[[quoteright:272:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/affimojas.png]]

-->''"This world is money! Money is everything in the world! Any sin is justified in order to obtain it!"''
-->'''Voiced by:''' Hitoshi Bifu (Japanese), Creator/JamiesonPrice (English)
The leader of the Secret Organization [=AffimaX=], and the manager of Gamindustri's biggest information site [=@GeneralSummarySite=]. He spreads all sorts of info, regardless of veracity, to satisfy his hunger for money. He also holds a huge fetish toward busty blondes. He is an accomplice to a mysterious entity who rewrites Gamindustri, seeking greater profits from the resulting chaos in exchange for collecting the parts of the Swirl Console.

* ArcVillain: The overall one of the Hyperdimension G arc. While the individual CPU story arcs have their own separate villains for each set of heroes to tackle, it is Affimojas and his organization [=AffimaX=] who profit the most from the chaos of the Gamindustri rewrite, he is the one spearheading the retrieval of the Swirl Console parts hidden within the four nations for the BigBad, and he's the one the [=CPUs=] must defeat in order to restore Hyper Dimension to normal.
* BadassCape: And it serves as an attack nullifier from all [=CPUs=]' physical attacks, requiring them to use magic/element attacks to destroy it. and render him fully vulnerable.
* BaritoneOfStrength: He has a very deep voice that belies his strength despite his rather mundane day-job of a blogger.
* BeatTheCurseOutOfHim: [[spoiler:How he's ultimately defeated. Neptune uses her strongest attack to take him down and shatter his PowerNullifier sword, which frees him from Kurome's control and also disperses the CosmicRetcon over Gamindustri.]]
* {{Blackmail}}: Try to do this towards the [=CPUs=] by offering to give them their Share powers back for "1 gajillion" credits each. [[spoiler:Fortunately, the Gold Third arrive to help before they can give in and help them ''take'' their powers back.]]
* BigDamnHeroes: [[spoiler: In the true ending route, he saves both Neptunes, Nepgear, and Uzume from a horde of monsters with his battleship.]]
* BrainwashedAndCrazy: [[spoiler:When he refuses to give Kurome the last piece of her console, she drives him mad with Negative Energy for his upcoming fight the [=CPU=]s.]]
* EvenEvilHasStandards: He might be working with the BigBad and doesn't bat an eye at causing chaos throughout Gamindustri in the name of profit, but there are limits to what he'll stomach. He disdains the idea of WarForFunAndProfit and prefers to trade in information instead, and when the BigBad starts pontificating over plunging the world into even greater chaos, he's notably silent rather than reveling in more opportunities to make money.
* EvilIsPetty: His MoneyFetish is already bad enough, but later on, he reveals that he spends it on merchandise of busty blondes. Cue Nepgear lampshading this trope.
* FromNobodyToNightmare: He's a ''blogger'', yet he becomes an accomplice in rewriting reality. Though this might be justified given that his words can influence public opinion, which affects Shares and Negative Energy.
* GeniusBruiser: Despite his fearsome appearance, which he backs up in combat, he's quite an intellectual person and a savvy businessman on top of it.
* HasAType: For [[BuxomBeautyStandard busty]] [[EveryoneLovesBlondes blondes]], which isn't surprising considering that one of the [=CPUs=] is one in her human form. [[spoiler:In fact, Histoire bought his loyalty by giving him photos and merchandise of Vert ([[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial which was all totally officially from Leanbox]])]].
* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:He and Steamax eventually shifted their focus from gossip to royalty collecting, and they also aided the [=CPUs=] in the Heartdimension arc]]
* ISurrenderSuckers: After the [=CPU=]s beat him down the first time, he reveals he just did it to drop their guard so he could hit them with his PowerNullifier sword. [[spoiler:It takes Gold Third giving them the power of their NEXT forms to come back from it]].
* ItsNotYouItsMyEnemies: [[spoiler:He fires Steamax so that he won't have to fight the [=CPUs=], especially Uni. Though Steamax decides to guard Affimojas anyways when he realizes this.]]
* KnowWhenToFoldEm: [[spoiler:He knows he's no match for the [=CPU=]s and drives Steamax away so he can take the fall alone. Kurome, however, brainwashes him to do so anyways to protect the last piece of her console]].
* LargeAndInCharge: Befitting his leader status, he towers over all his subordinates in [=AffimaX=], including the equally tall Steamax.
%%* LargeHam: His dub voice is Creator/JamiesonPrice after all.
%%* {{Microtransactions}}: The personification of this.
* MoneyFetish:
** Money is his magnum opus, even moreso than B-Sha. One of the primary reasons why he wants rewrite Gamindustri is so he could increase his finances. Noire is surprised with his justifications.
-->'''Noire:''' P-profits? Could it be... did you just change the world so you could make some money?!
** [[spoiler:He later reveals that all that money is channeled toward buying photos and figures of the aforementioned busty blond fetish, which surprises Nepgear even more.]]
* ObviouslyEvil: How could a big spiky robot like that possibly be a good guy? [[spoiler:[[HeelFaceTurn Except he eventually turns into one]]]].
* {{Otaku}}: [[spoiler:Reveals himself to be one along with Steamax, collecting figurines and doujinshis about his main fetish, [[BuxomBeautyStandard busty blondes]]. Eventually, he reveals that his money fetish tendencies are also only there to secure him the funds he needed for his Otaku hobbies. After the true ending, in a scene he is seen admiring the quality of a figurine of Vert.]]
* PowerNullifier: [[spoiler:He has a gem embedded in his greatsword that utilizes Negative Energy, which he uses to cripple the [=CPU=]s. It takes Gold Third giving them the power of their [[NextTierPowerUp NEXT forms]] to overcome it]].
* ShipperOnDeck: He supports Steamax getting with Uni, [[spoiler:to the point he releases him from his service to prevent him from having to fight her]].
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: He's more or less playing the similar role as Akudaijin/Mr. Badd from ''Victory'', albeit far more physically imposing.
* VillainousBreakdown: As he's overwhelmed [[spoiler:by the power of the [[NextTierPowerUp NEXT Forms]]]], his dialogue quickly starts degenerating into angrily and fruitlessly cursing the [=CPUs=].
* WarForFunAndProfit: Averted. While he likes gaining profit, he has no interest in outright conflict. He instead prefers methods such as espionage to obtain his goals.

[[folder:Steamax]]
!!Steamax
[[quoteright:257:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/steamax.png]]

-->''"My only lord is General Affimojas. I will not follow any order except for the General's."''
-->'''Voiced by:''' Ichitaro Ai (Japanese), Chris Cason (English)
Affimojas' loyal subordinate. Despite being a robot ninja, he has an unusual lack of presence that leads to many overlooking him. After Gamindustri's rewrite, he faithfully follows Affimoja's orders to collects the parts of the Swirl Console, despite their purpose being withheld from him, but his task is complicated when he develops a crush on Uni.

* {{Angrish}}: When Purple Heart starts flirting with him, he can only let out gibberish, and his last "line" before fainting from overstimulation is random shapes and asterisks.
* AntiVillain: Despite the fact that he's an antagonist, he has a sense of honor towards the [=CPUs=]. The best example is when he brings Neptune, Compa and IF to the central of Planeptune to stop the rampage of a monsterized Warechu and brainwashed B-Sha, then distracting the former to buy them time to stop the latter, all this ''immediately'' after he just fought them to steal the Swirl Console.
* BigDamnHeroes: [[spoiler:In the Hyperdimension route of Heart Dimension arc, he manages to steal the console away from Kurome.]]
* CannotTalkToWomen: Hinted at in his first appearance during the Zero Dimension arc, but shown in full during the Hyper Dimension G arc in Neptune's route where he's quickly reduced to mumbling and stuttering when confronted by Neptune, IF, and Compa, the former of which notes they've never had to deal with a guy like this before. IF ends up pissed off about his attitude since she can barely understand what he's saying, while the other two point out it's just a bad personality clash. Purple Heart flirting with him is enough to get him to faint.
* DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu: [[spoiler:He manages to snatch the Swirl Console right out of Kurome's hands.]]
* TheDragon: He's Affimojas' faithful servant as well as his closest friend.
* EarlyBirdCameo: He's first seen during Neptune's Hyperdimension interlude during the Zero Dimension arc, buying some books for Affimojas.
* FuumaShuriken: He always carrying his detachable shuriken whenever he's going.
* HasAType: Like Affimojas, he has a thing for busty blondes, though after befriending Uni, he ends up preferring black-haired twin-tailed {{Tsundere}}s instead.
* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:He turns a little earlier than Affimojas, offering to help the [=CPUs=] with dealing with the dark aura in the Hyperdimension G arc.]]
* HiddenInPlainSight: He proudly states that one of his best traits is "not standing out in a crowd". Only Uni's apparently ever seen him when he's actively doing so, [[spoiler:and this comes in handy when he needs to get the drop on Kurome while she's fighting CPU Candidates and Gold Third]].
* KatanasAreJustBetter: He uses Ninjato to similar effect
* MistakenForGay: When Uni catches him with a bikini magazine, he quickly switches it out, only to realize that he switched it with a magazine full of hunky men. It's cleared up later when she realizes he has a crush on ''her''.
%%* {{Ninja}}: A [[NInjaPirateZombieRobot robot ninja]], at that! Several characters squeal over how cool he is.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: When Planeptune is under attack from the brainwashed B-Sha and Warechu, he completely drops his [[CannotTalkToWomen bashfulness around ladies]] and is able to not just speak clearly and firmly, but have Neptune, IF, and Compa ride on his body back to the city to protect the people.
* {{Otaku}}: [[spoiler:Reveals himself to be one along with Affimojas, often carrying his orders to purchase doujinshis and enjoys them as much as Affimojas do, he is also shy around girls to the point of communication deficiencies like a stereotypical Otaku. Generally, his scenes when he is alone with Affimojas sounds completely like an Otaku sitcom.]]
* PornStash: Has a ''lot'' of 18+ magazines that he uses to distract Purple Heart, IF and Compa. The result is ''hilarious''.
* StealthExpert: So good in fact, when he puts in the effort only Uni can find him out.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: To Brave, who is also a robot that befriends Uni.
* UndyingLoyalty: To Affimojas, to the point that [[spoiler:he returns to their airship to pull a YouShallNotPass on the [=CPUs=] even after his general fired him to keep him out the conflict.]]
* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: Despite being a fairly large robot ninja, he apparently has a low profile that leads to most people not noticing him. Uni, however, finds this implausible.
* VerbalTic: "~de gozaru" in the Japanese version, a humbling copula for samurai and ninja.
* VillainousFriendship: With Affimojas, who befriended him when they were kids and shared the same perverted hobby. [[spoiler:Later, both drop the villainous part.]]
* YouShallNotPass: [[spoiler:He attempts to halt the [=CPUs=] on their way to Affimojas after realizing that he was fired for his own safety. When he refuses to surrender even while fearing for his life, Uni just shoots him with a tranquilliser, which didn't really work, but gave him an excuse to back down by pretending to fall asleep.]]

!Dark [=CPUs=]
-->'''Debut''': VideoGame/MegadimensionNeptuniaVII
Resembling the [=CPUs=] of the four main nations, these four gigantic humanoids are omnipotent but mindless brutes who have ravaged the Zerodimension and all of the civilians who inhabited it. Their mere presence tears up the fabric of time and space.

[[folder:General Tropes]]
!!Dark Purple, Dark Black, Dark Green & Dark White
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[[caption-width-right:255:Dark Purple]]
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[[caption-width-right:255:Dark Black]]
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[[caption-width-right:255:Dark Green]]
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[[caption-width-right:255:Dark White]]
-->'''Dark Purple voiced by:''' Creator/RieTanaka (Japanese), Creator/ChiakiTakahashi (Japanese, fused with Arfoire), Creator/MelissaFahn (English), Creator/LauraPost (English, fused with Arfoire)
-->'''Dark Green voiced by:''' Creator/RinaSato (Japanese), Creator/CarrieKeranen (English)
-->'''Dark Black voiced by:''' Creator/AsamiImai (Japanese), Creator/ErinFitzgerald (English)[[note]] Fitzgerald's voice lines as Dark Black remain intact in ''VIIR'' despite Creator/EricaMendez re-recording all of Noire's lines. [[/note]]
-->'''Dark White voiced by:''' Creator/KanaAsumi (Japanese), Creator/WendeeLee (English)

* ArcVillain: While Uzume mentions in the Z Arc that there are four Dark [=CPUs=] in total, Dark Purple is the one that [[ArchEnemy she's personally been struggling to fight the whole time]]. It gets defeated about halfway through when the Zerodimension monsters suddenly become capable of providing Share Energy to her and the Nep sisters so they can transform, and is later revived by and fused with Arfoire to become the DiscOneFinalBoss.
* AttackOfThe50FootWhatever: They are giant-sized entities who easily dwarf everyone around them. They also attack and destroy everything around them.
* BackFromTheDead: They all reappear at multiple points during the story despite being killed in each boss battle. Even compared to the other Dark [=CPU=]s, Purple gets destroyed and brought back the most. [[spoiler:This is because [[MookMaker Kurome]] can recreate them from her memories as long as she has enough Negative Energy.]]
* BareFistedMonk: Unlike Purple Heart, Dark Purple wields no weapon, instead using her fists to clobber her enemies. The other three will fight in a similar manner once their weapons are destroyed.
* {{BFS}}: Dark Black, like Black Heart, uses a big sword as her weapon. [[spoiler:It's also used by Dark Orange.]]
* BreastExpansion: Surprisingly, Dark White has somewhat bigger proportions on her chest compared to the real White Heart, which the Neptune duo joke may have been an act of pity from [[spoiler:Kurome]]. Blanc is ''[[RageBreakingPoint really pissed off]]'' when finding this out.
* EvilCounterpart: Of the main four [=CPUs=].
* FusionDance: [[spoiler:Arfoire fused with Dark Purple serves as the final boss of the Zerodimension arc. The finale has Kurome fuse with all four of them to become Dark Orange.]]
* GenericDoomsdayVillain: The Dark [=CPUs=] are essentially large puppets with no will of their own, simply destroying the world on the orders of Arfoire [[spoiler:and their creator Kurome.]]
* HumanoidAbomination: Vaguely angelic beings standing at over 30 meters whose mere presence rips up the fabric of spacetime around them.
* NighInvulnerable: They are destroying the very fabric of reality around them, making them immune to damage. It takes trapping them in a [[PocketDimension Sharing Field]] created from pure Share Energy to make them vulnerable to damage.
* PoweredByAForsakenChild: [[spoiler:In the H Arc, Kurome kidnaps the [=CPUs=] and siphons their power to perfect their respective Dark [=CPUs=], replacing their lost power with her own Negative Energy to gradually brainwash them.]]
* SkippableBoss: The StoryBranching late in the Heartdimension H arc leads to Dark Black being skipped in the Heartdimension path or Dark White being skipped in the Hyperdimension path. However, ''VIIR'' simply puts the Heartdimension path after the Hyperdimension path, making both mandatory.
* VoiceOfTheLegion: They sound like monstrous versions of whichever CPU they're based on.
* WaveMotionGun: One of their techniques involves firing massive waves of energy from her hands.
* WeaponSpecialization: Dark Black, Dark White, and Dark Green all wield similar weapons to their proper counterparts Noire, Blanc, and Vert respectively, just sized to their proportions.

[[folder:Dark Orange]]
The Dark [=CPU=] form of Kurome Ankokuboshi.
-->For more details, see her folder [[Characters/NeptuniaMajorAntagonists here]].
[[/folder]]

!Pirate Makers
-->'''Debut''': VideoGame/NeptuniaGameMakerREvolution
A group of Pirate Makers led by the Arfoire of Pippih, Jagaa, and Reedio's dimension, who is also the CEO of her company. Their mission is to make illegal copies of games in order to surpass the various Game Makers of the world.

[[folder:General Tropes]]
* DressedToPlunder: They all wear stereotypical pirate hats, with Copy the Art also wearing an eyepatch, and their logo is a skull and crossbones.
* EliteFour: This is a common topic of discussion surrounding the three Copies, specifically that they're missing a fourth and can't use such a title for themselves. Copy the Hard even suggests that they force Arfoire to pull double duty and be both their boss and a member of her own EliteFour. They end up settling on the name "Copy Sannin Shuu", which depending on how you interpret one of the kanji could be taken as "[[PowerTrio The Three Great Copies]]" or the [[TomTheDarkLord decidedly less intimidating]] "Copy Clique Trio".
* EvilWearsBlack: Aside from Arfoire herself, the group primarily wear black clothing to emphasize their villainy. The only exception is Copy the Art, whose outfit is [[LightIsNotGood white]] instead; only her pirate hat is black.
* NeverBareheaded: Copy the Hard, Copy the Art, and Copy the Code all wear pirate-like hats that they never take off in the game.
* TooDumbToLive: Stealing [[spoiler: the [[InsideAComputerSystem Immersion-kun [=ProMAX=]]]]] and using it to abduct people is fairly clever. Picking a fight with [[spoiler: its creator, Reedio,]] inside of it not so much. The three Copies get shunted off to an [[AndIMustScream inescapable prison where they can never die]] for their troubles. [[spoiler: Croire apparently freed them at some point, leading to a second case of this where they do not attack her on sight after the Zaikopath's destruction and her long since revealing that she's been using them. This allows Croire to fuse Arfoire, Hard, and Code to a fragment of the Zaikopath she saved in the Nep-Note, with Art barely escaping with her life to warn Victory of what was about to happen and beg for their help.]]
* WolfPackBoss: The second time they are fought, they're all together. Individually they were all fairly simple fights, but combining Art's wide variety of long range attacks, Code's various damaging clouds, and Hard's raw melee power makes for a difficult fight until you manage to take at least one of them out.
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: A non fatal example, but after the trio buys Arfoire the time needed to start up Arfoire's Best Company she makes no attempt at [[spoiler: breaking them out of the Immersion-kun [=ProMAX=]]] and even admits they played their part to completion. Even after Croire helps, while they do still seem to be on good terms there's no indication Arfoire's officially hired them to work for her at this new legitimate company.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Copy the Hard]]
!!Copy the Hard
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-->'''Voiced by:''' Kyousuke Mano (Japanese), TBA (English)
Copy the Hard is in charge of the production of knockoff consoles at Magicompany, as well as the sabotage of the consoles he's copying. He has a great fondness for [[{{Tokusatsu}} children's superhero entertainment]] and thus puts a lot of effort into being a cool and intimidating villain but has a particular weakness for Presto Mask.

* BetterToDieThanBeKilled: After his defeat the Goddesses demand he tell them where their stolen consoles are. Rather than allow himself to be captured and have the information forced out of him, [[DisneyVillainDeath he jumps off the side of a nearby cliff to his death]]. The group admits that his willingness to die to keep his group's secrets was rather impressive. [[spoiler: Right up until they look over the edge and see [[SubvertedTrope that he actually grabbed the side of the cliff]] and [[DirtyCoward is just scaling it down to safety]]. Older Neptune thinks he's still kind of cool, [[TheOneThingIDontHateAboutYou because he looks like a bug crawling on a wall]].]]
* ExpressiveSkull: His skull is rather expressive, rather than just the one sinister expression in his portrait here.
* HumongousMecha: He's a large robot with a SkullForAHead.
* MeaningfulName: The "Hard" referring to hardware, his body is composed of blatant knockoffs of various Nintendo consoles and controllers as well as an Xbox for his right foot and the recurring X shaped console from Planeptune for his torso. He's also a copy of one of the previous "Hard"s, Brave specifically, using an updated copy of Brave's model including his flaming {{BFS}} being swapped out for a giant cutlass being held in the exact same manner.

[[folder:Copy the Art]]
!!Copy the Art
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-->'''Voiced by:''' Sakura Nagaki (Japanese), TBA (English)
Copy the Art is in charge of producing edited art at Magicompany, as well as being the face of the group at events where she can collect demos and other materials for in production games. Off duty, she can often be found at the Free Market area trying in vain to get anyone to purchase her bizzare art works.

* LaserGuidedKarma: She makes a living stealing others' artworks so it's somewhat fitting that, after being abandoned by Arfoire, the latter takes her unique JollyRoger and plasters it all over everything at Afoire's Best Company.
* LightIsNotGood: Unlike [[EvilWearsBlack the other members]], her dress is colored white. She's also one of the main antagonists of the game.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: Subverted. She is depicted with red eyes and is one of the main antagonists of the game, but is otherwise just shy. And though she has a tendency to act blunt and overconfident if she wants to, she isn't openly antagonistic about it.
* ShyBlueHairedGirl: A unique case of this coming from a villain: Copy the Art has light blue hair that looks unkempt, and is described as being a bit shy and not good at communicating with others. That said, she can being very loud and egotistical when it comes to her art.
* SigilSpam: She has an unfortunate obsession with working the group's JollyRoger icon on anything she's made, making it very easy for Older Neptune to figure out that the innocent "Street Artist" she's talking with is the same girl who stole a bunch of demos from the New Force event due to her business cards in both situations having it on it.
* SmallNameBigEgo: Often brags about how much of a good artist she is.
* TrueArtIsIncomprehensible: Part of her problem selling her own original works is due to firmly believing this, and is actually amazed and pleased when she finds out that the Older Neptune does actually grasp what she's going for in her art.

[[folder:Copy the Code]]
!!Copy the Code
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-->'''Voiced by:''' Miri Yanagi (Japanese), TBA (English)
Copy the Code is in charge of replicating and editing the coding of any stolen software Magicompany obtains, and oversees a vast network of spies to obtain the stuff. She's exceptionally childish, so she can often be found joining in on Hard's attempts at playing the role of a {{Tokusatsu}} villain.
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* DeliciousDistraction: After being beaten she admits to having one more sure kill technique, and calls in a legion of [=NuberEats=] deliverymen to drop off a ton of food hoping that it will give her time to escape. [[spoiler: Unfortunately for her, food is apparently not as good of a distraction as Steamax's porn mags and she's promptly captured.]]
* EvilKnockoff: She's responsible for the recurring gimmick of copies of characters as bosses this time around, and as always there's usually something about the copies that give them away. Vert's copy constantly screws up her [[UsefulNotes/JapanesePronouns "watakushi" as "atakushi"]], B-Sha's refers to herself as Presto Rider, C-Sha and S-Sha's are too quiet and too chatty respectively, Neptune's is too competent even for Purple Heart. Only Blanc, Noire, and K-Sha's copies manage to fool anyone but still eventually give themselves away.
* EvilRedhead: Subverted. Though she has long, red hair and serves as a minion to Arfoire, she's more playful than outright villainous.

!Minor Antagonists

[[folder:Bamo]]
!!Bamo
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-->'''Debut''': [[VideoGame/HyperdimensionNeptuniaVictory Hyperdimension Neptunia Re;Birth 3]]
--> '''Voiced by:''' Creator/YoTaichi (Japanese), Creator/TaraSands (English)
A seemingly minor enemy encountered in ''[=Re;Birth3=]'''s exclusive prologue dungeon by Neptune. She shows up in the True ending EndgamePlus plot with social games by terrorizing the Ultradimension with Pay to win games that mind controls the citizens.

* BribingYourWayToVictory: Uses this as a method to control the citizens of the Ultradimension.
* EarlyBirdCameo: Appears as a harmless minor enemy in the prologue.
* EnemySummoner: Summons monsters to attack the [=CPUs=].
* WakeUpCallBoss: You are going to face them as Iris Heart and Yellow Heart ALONE -- providing that DLC characters are not in your party. There is no warning that the battle will initiate, as checking on Ultradimension Planeptune will automatically encounter them.

[[folder:Regu]]
!!Regu
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-->'''Debut''': [[VideoGame/HyperdimensionNeptuniaVictory Hyperdimension Neptunia Re;Birth 3]]
--> '''Voiced by:''' Creator/KanaYuuki (Japanese), Creator/ColleenOShaughnessey (English)
One of ''[=Re;Birth3=]'''s exclusive bosses. Along with Bamo, the two terrorize the Ultradimension with social games in the True ending EndgamePlus plot.

* WakeUpCallBoss: Same with Bamo's entry--provided that Iris Heart isn't partnered with Yellow Heart, or you have DLC characters in your party.

[[folder:The Order]]
!!The Order
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[[caption-width-right:251:Order Woman]]

-->'''Order Woman is voiced by:''' Unknown (Japanese), Unknown (English)
A group of mercenaries that once sold weapons and themselves for war in Lastation before being stopped some time ago. However, the CPU Shift Period combined with the rewriting of the world allowed the survivors to stage a coup within Lastation for themselves, intending to restart their ways.

* ArcVillain: Of Noire's arc during Hyperdimension G, specifically the female Order leader.
* TheBeastmaster: They've been attempting to capture the delusionary monsters in order to bolster their forces, though a conversation between two members has one admitting their main plan is just to release them into other nations, preferably populated areas, and let them go wild and cause chaos to make the invasion easier.
* BigBadWannabe: They want to be the big world changers, [[spoiler:but ultimately they're just pawns of Kurome to be discarded.]]
* ChildSoldiers: K-Sha's history indicates they very much employ these.
* {{Jerkass}}: The group as a whole are unpleasant condottieres who make war for profit just to make more war, which is essentially trying to start a slaughter for the sake of the slaughter, and have even [[spoiler:taken over the Basilicom]] to do it. The leader is just as repulsive as her partners, having [[spoiler:nearly getting Uni killed]] at one point.
* MiniMecha: They have one called the [[VideoGame/MetalGear M-Gear]] that they call the "anti-CPU weapon". [[spoiler:The mecha itself is not the true danger however, but the deadly bioweapon contained within its chasis.]]
* NoNameGiven: Their female leader is never actually named.
* StoicSpectacles: The female leader has these and almost never loses her stoic composure.
* WarForFunAndProfit: This is what they're all about, why Noire hunted them down and destroyed their original incarnation, and what they want to do with Lastation now that they've taken over the Basilicom and spreading war to the other nations.
* WouldHurtAChild: If their usage of ChildSoldiers isn't enough, [[spoiler:they have no qualms attempting to dispose of K-Sha, and the leader herself attempts and nearly succeeds in killing Uni.]]
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: [[spoiler:When K-Sha decides she's done letting them have their way and refuses to follow through on her assassination mission on Noire, they decide to attempt to destroy her Golden Summit, the source of her power, to get rid of her.]]

[[folder:Azna=Leb]]
!!Azna=Leb
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-->'''Voiced by:''' Unknown (Japanese), Unknown (English)
The leader of Lowee's Revolutionary Army and inventor of the License System. If that sounds like a contradiction, that's because he's also the man who wants to engineer a take-over of Lowee.

* ArcVillain: Of Blanc's arc during Hyperdimension G.
* DirtyCoward: When the delusionary monsters attack Lowee, he abandons his fellow Revolutionary members and the innocent Lowee citizens to save his own skin.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: He's disgusted when C-Sha falsely proclaims to have tried (non-sexually) assaulting Blanc in her sleep.
* EvilRedhead: Has noticeable red hair, and is the major antagonist of Blanc's arc.
* ItsAllAboutMe: He immediately bails when a large number of delusionary monsters close in on Lowee, scoffing at the idea of leaving soldiers behind to defend the town instead of saving his own hide. Once he's publicly outed for this, he starts ranting about how the people of Lowee aren't smart enough to exist without him until Blanc [[TalkToTheFist punches him in the face]].
* {{Jerkass}}: He (ostensibly) helped establish [[CrapsaccharineWorld the dystopian society that ails G-Arc Lowee]], continually tries to pit Blanc and C-Sha against each other [[spoiler:and briefly succeeds]], [[ManipulativeBastard manipulates everyone and everything behind the scenes for his own benefit]] (including drumming up false charges and slandering), and when push comes to shove, [[DirtyCoward abandons a city that is being charged by monsters,]] insisting that his life is more important than any number of helpless citizens that are depending on ''him'' to protect them. He actually goes as far as claiming that everyone else needs to be controlled by him in order to be happy. [[PintSizedPowerhouse Blanc]] slugging him right in the face is ''very much'' cathartic.
* ManipulativeBastard: First he hires C-Sha to kill Blanc, but when that falls through he manipulates Blanc by revealing he remembers who she is as well as how C-Sha is the ruler of Lowee [[spoiler:and the source of the delusionary fog empowering the monsters]] in an attempt to get ''her'' to kill the Gold Third member, then uses Blanc's attempt to get the truth out of C-Sha to arrest the latter while framing it like Blanc was in on it.
* NotSoAboveItAll: He's noticeably flustered when C-Sha claims one of her attempts to "assassinate" Blanc involved jumping on her while she was asleep, with her asking him if he has "no experience".
* NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist: Claims to Blanc as the leader of the Revolutionary Army he wants to restore the Lowee of old from the License System that shouldn't exist, and that their army is made up of those who remember her and want her to take her rightful place as the CPU again. While that ''is'' the Revolutionary Army's goal, he's in it solely for his own personal gain and power, and was the one who made the License System in the first place and attempted to have ''both'' Blanc and C-Sha killed.
* RunningBothSides: He's the leader of the revolutionaries that seek to abolish the License System...and the man who ''made'' the License System in the first place. It's all part of his scheme to take full control of Lowee while coming off as the hero.
* VillainousBreakdown: Once he's outed for abandoning Lowee with no regard for its people as delusionary monsters attacked, as well as setting up the license system, he begins openly ranting about how they're all too weak and stupid to function without his guidance... until Blanc [[TalkToTheFist shuts him up]].

[[folder:[=F2P=]]]
!![=F2P=]
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-->'''Debut''': VideoGame/NeptuniaSistersVsSisters
-->'''Voiced by:''' Ryota Shida (Japanese), Unknown (English)
A robot under Arfoire's service who has a huge grudge against Grey Sister.
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* CollectiveIdentity: [[spoiler:[=F2P=] was originally an armor intended for Arfoire's MechaMooks, but the individual seen for most of the game is actually Anri in PoweredArmor.]]
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Repulsed by Arfoire [[spoiler:keeping Neptune in the sealing device with the intent of killing her in front of Nepgear, and later outright objects to Arfoire taking Maho hostage to render Nepgear helpless.]]
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: Allies with Arfoire to seek revenge against Grey Sister, flying into a rage whenever she shows up.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Zaikopath]]
!!Zaikopath
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-->'''Voiced by:''' Unknown, [[spoiler: Creator/ChiakiTakahashi (Zaiquone Form, Japanese)]]
An ancient EldritchAbomination given form by intense Negative Energy from horrible games that nobody wants to play.

* AlmightyIdiot: The Zaikopath has no real discernable intelligence nor motives beyond being a voracious predator that will bring about the end of the world simply by stealing the souls of every living thing to sustain itself. When the main body is found it doesn't even consider using its copies to harvest the souls of those attacking it to defend itself and instead just tries to outright kill them, leading to a relatively easy victory.
* EldritchAbomination:
** The Zaikopath is a massive humanoid torso with a [[TheBlank featureless head]] prone to [[DemonicHeadShake rapid jerky twitching]] coming out of its chest and an extra arm where a head would normally be while the bottom portion of its body is a gelatinous mass of discarded boxes and games. In combat it freely turns its three arms into a lance, scythe, and hammer. It is also capable of producing an endless number of smaller versions of itself anywhere in the world that there are unplayed games, and promptly steals the souls of anyone unfortunate enough to be nearby to feed on them.
** [[spoiler: Its fused Zaiquone form is no better. It has a [[{{Cephalothorax}} psychotic grinning face for a torso]] with [[EyesDoNotBelongThere two massive glowing eyes with giant hands closing in behind them where its shoulders should be]] and a blade where a head would normally be. Instead of the gelatinous mass below it, it floats above a miniature collapsing world.]]
* FusionDance: [[spoiler: Croire kept a portion of the Zaikopath trapped within the Nep-Note as a backup plan in case the Goddesses could defeat it. Once they did, she took the remaining fragment and fused Arfoire, Copy the Hard, and Copy the Code with it to create the Zaiquone. Copy the Art was able to escape and warn the Goddesses of what was coming.]]
* HatePlague: Exposure to its Negative Energy drives people to violent extremes in their personality as the various cursed discs that F-Sha had been hunting down, including those that drove the Sisters nuts, are in fact just copies of its Master Disc.
* InterfaceSpoiler: It's possible to gain access to the Arfoire's Best Company dungeon several chapters before you are supposed to clear it. The final floor has only one enemy listed, [[spoiler: Zaiquone]], giving away its FusionDance well before it occurs.
* MeaningfulName: Its name is a combination of zaiko, meaning stock or inventory, and psychopath, in reference to what created it, what it looks like, and its mental state.
* MightyRoar: The Zaikopath is apparently incapable of speech, with all of its lines being loud angry roaring instead.
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: This is a soul harvesting monster whose name is a play on psychopath, definitely not the friendliest of ''Neptunia'' characters.
* SealedInsideAPersonShapedCan: [[spoiler: The Master Disc required for its unsealing was hidden inside F-Sha, though she was unaware of it. Once Croire has a sufficient amount of Negative Energy she proceeded to rip the disc out of F-Sha to release the creature.]]
* TookALevelInBadass: While the main story fights against it are relatively simple affairs, its damage output and general aggression are significantly increased for its BossRush version and especially its [[{{Superboss}} Extreme Neptral Tower version]], where many attacks reach one or two hit kill levels of damage.
* UnusualHalo: It has a massive shattered disc for a halo behind it.
* YourSoulIsMine: Its copies possess the ability to harvest the souls of anyone it touches, keeping them in a permanent half dead state where it can feed on the Negative Energy from their suffering. [[spoiler: It wasn't expecting a second soul in S-Sha, allowing E-Sha to fight it off long enough for Reedio to figure out where the real body was at.]]

** Magic 's [[spoiler:desire to serve under Arfoire is turned into a [[OmnicidalManiac desire to ensure that everything]] becomes [[TheAssimilator one with her]]]].

* {{Expy}}: To the first game's version of Arfoire. She even shares the same voice actress.

* BloodKnight [[spoiler:After being resurrected by Arfoire in the True Ending, due to losing his previous memories, Brave also loses all of his notability and restraint and becomes much more inclined to fighting his enemies. It takes Uni's RousingSpeech for him to regain trust for her, allowing Uni to gain enough confidence to kill him after initially hesitating on doing so]].
* EvilMakeover: [[spoiler:In the True Ending, his color scheme turns {{red and black|AndEvilAllOver}}, and while he doesn't as deranged as the other Felons, he becomes much more bloodthirsty and less caring of children and the other [=CPUs=], Uni included]].

* [[BigBadDuumvirate Big Bad Septumvirate]]: They all have their own different agendas but they do agree that the CPU goddesses should not exist at all.

* ReformedButRejected: [[spoiler:In the true end he found a way to reverse the failed CPU transformations, yet is still considered a creep.]]

* DefeatEqualsExplosion: Explodes upon being defeated. [[spoiler: He gets repaired later.]]
%%* DumbMuscle: Apparently not too bright, especially when compared to the other Seven Sages.

* HeadPet: After being rebuilt he has a tendency to do this with smaller characters. [[spoiler: Specifically after being rebuilt in Lowee. Histoire, Ram, and Rom all get this treatment. Only the twins enjoy it.]]

* HeelFaceDoorSlam: [[spoiler: Due to his change in personality after his initial repairs, he starts to get along with the citizens of Lowee when they show him how to destroy things in a helpful manner. While they're in the middle of convincing him to leave the Seven Sages Blanc shows up to make him pay for damages done to Lowee and [[WhatTheHellHero kills him despite everyone's protest]]. Then it gets {{Subverted}} a couple chapters later. Lowee had him rebuilt during the 10 year TimeSkip and he has been working for Blanc since.]]

* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: 'Mr. Badd' is an alias.

%%-->'''Mr. Badd:''' Kanpai.

* TrueBeautyIsOnTheInside: Played with. Mr. Badd sees as beautiful what is generally considered ugly by society. However, he just has a…different aesthetic sense.

* VileVillainSaccharineShow: In contrast to the lighthearted tone of ''Victory'', Mr. Badd is a surprisingly competent and calculating villain in comparison to the other villains of the game, what with him [[spoiler:backstabbing Blanc by revealing that he's a part of The Seven Sages ''after'' the latter lost her shares, [[NearVillainVictory almost succeeds in his plan by getting rid of the goddesses had Vert not showed up]], and used a CPU Memory on untrained users that results in them being turned into monsters, to the point that [[MamaBear Plutia tries to teach him a lesson]] before the other [=CPUs=] restrain from potentially causing anymore damage]]. However, [[spoiler:it's revealed later on that he's actually a loving father to the monsters he created and only turned them into monsters so he can have a family]].

* HasAType: Like Affimojas, he has a thing for busty blondes, though after befriending Uni, he ends up preferring black-haired twin-tailed [[{{Tsundere}} Tsunderes]] instead.

Four gigantic humanoids who have ravaged the Zerodimension. Their mere presence tears up the fabric of time and space. For some reason, they all resemble the [=CPUs=] of the four nations in Gamindustri.

* AffablyEvil: Is described as being more chivalrous than evil compared to his comrades CFW Brave. He even offers to let Nepgear and Uni free before attacking when he found them in Endless Zone.
* AntiVillain: Brave believes that piracy is the only way for poor children to play and enjoy games, and he fights for their sake.
* EvilMakeover: In the True Ending, his color scheme turns {{red and black|AndEvilAllOver}}.

* LightIsGood: In addition to being the fellow heroic member of an otherwise cruel syndicate, unlike the other Felons, is color palette is pure [[GoldAndWhiteAreDivine white and gold]].

* HateSink: While none of the members of ASIC (sans [[AntiVillain CFW]] [[TokenGoodTeammate Brave]], Warechu and probably Linda) have any likable qualities to begin with, Trick is a downright detestable jackass whose entire existence revolves around [[PaedoHunt his fetish for young girls]], to the point that [[EvenEvilHasStandards Linda is shown to openly disgusted by his behavior]]. It's also not easy to see why [[BigSisterInstinct Blanc]] wants to kill him, as Trick's targets are usually Rom and Ram.
* IRegretNothing: Because he got to die at the hands of maidens/cutie pies.

* DubNameChange: Besides Warechu, Arfoire, and Rei, every single member has their names localized in the English version.

* HeelFaceTurn: By the end of the game, [[spoiler:all of the Sages except for Arfoire (who just gives up on outright villainy) and [[EnemyMine maybe Anonydeath]] undergoes one. Abnes defects when she finds out what the Sages are really up to, Copypaste's reprogrammed personality allows hiim to befriend the main characters, Warechu doesn't so much defect as just blindly obey any request Compa makes, Badd quits so he can lead a normal life with his "daughters" (and tries to make amends by turning them back to human), Peashy regains her memories, and the two versions of Rei have some sense permanently slapped into her, with Ultradimension Rei finally learning to contain her HDD form instead of suppressing it.]]

! Seven Sages

! [=AffimaX=]

* LargeAndInCharge: He towers over all his subordinates in [=AffimaX=].

* {{Microtransactions}}: The personification of this.
* MoneyFetish: Even moreso than B-Sha. Noire is surprised with his justifications.

* AntiVillain: Despite the fact that he's an antagonist, he has a sense of honor towards the [=CPUs=]. The best example is when he brings Neptune, Compa and IF to the central of Planeptune to stop the rampage of Monster!Warechu and B-Sha, then distracting the former to buy them time to stop the latter, all this ''immediately'' after he just fought them to steal the Swirl Console.
* BigDamnHeroes: [[spoiler: In the Hyperdimension route of Heart Dimension arc, he manages to steal the console away from Kurome.]]

* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler: He turns a little earlier than Affimojas, offering to help the [=CPUs=] with dealing with the dark aura in the Hyperdimension G arc.]]

* PornStash: Uses this to distract Purple Heart, IF and Compa. The result is ''hilarious''.

* WakeUpCallBoss: You are going to face them as Iris Heart and Yellow Heart ALONE--providing that DLC characters are not in your party. There is no warning that the battle will initiate, as checking on Ultradimension Planeptune will automatically encounter them.

* DarkIsEvil: They are an organization built around their obsession with reviving their Goddess by taking the Shares from the other nations. They represent the negative aspects of the gaming industry and its community, such as the unhealthy obsession the consumer has on their presumed idol or the wrath of game developers whose games don't sell well.

* CameBackWrong: In the True End, [[spoiler:her desire to serve under Arfoire becomes a [[OmnicidalManiac desire to ensure everything]] becomes [[TheAssimilator one with her]]]].

* CameBackWrong: {{Subverted|Trope}}. Of the four, he's the only one not to. It helps that he was already completely insane.

* CameBackWrong: In the True Ending and Holy Sword Ending, [[spoiler:though as far as Arfoire's concerned he came back right as he's reduced to being a BloodKnight who no longer cares for children]].
* EvilMakeover: In the True Ending, his color scheme turns [[DarkIsEvil red and black]].

* TokenGoodTeammate: He's an AntiVillain at best and his goal is to protect children's joy.

* CameBackWrong: In the True Ending and Holy Sword Ending [[spoiler:his obsession with children ends up becoming a love for [[ChildEater eating them]]]].

* DubNameChange: From Copilyace to Copypaste.

* HealingFactor: As mentioned in Anonydeath's section, since he is a machine, he can be [[WeCanRebuildHim repaired]].

* HumongousMecha: Resembles something straight out of Getter Robo.

* SpikesOfVillainy: He's a member of the Seven Sages and has horns on his head and [[ThisIsADrill drills]] [[ShouldersOfDoom on his shoulders]].
* TankGoodness: Well, his lower half anyway.

* EvilGenius: He is one of the smartest members in that group and is a genuine threat. Considering that he had a NearVillainVictory moment and the only thing he didn't count on [[spoiler:was a fourth CPU present at that time, the Seven Sages could have won as early as ''chapter 3''.]]
* EvilOldFolks: He works for a criminal organization as well as being older than most of the characters, though he's more of a middle-aged man.

* VileVillainSaccharineShow: In contrast to the lighthearted tone of ''Victory'', Mr. Badd is a surprisingly competent and calculating villain in comparison to the other villains of the game, what with him [[spoiler:backstabbing Blanc by revealing that he's a part of The Seven Sages ''after'' the latter lost her shares, [[NearVillainVictory almost succeeds in his plan by getting rid of the goddesses had Vert not showed up]], and used a CPU Memory on untrained users that results in them being turned into monsters]]. However, [[spoiler:it's revealed later on that he's actually a loving father to the monsters he created and only turned them into monsters so he can have a family]].

* VillainousCrush: Has a crush on Compa after she heals him.

* LastSecondWordSwap:
--> "I need to whip out my.... Sewing kit!"

* QuirkyMinibossSquad: Forms one with Warechu.

* HeelFaceTurn: By the end of the game, [[spoiler:''everybody'' except Arfoire (who just gives up on outright villainy) and [[EnemyMine maybe Anonydeath]] undergoes one. Abnes defects when she finds out what the Sages are really up to, Copypaste's reprogrammed personality allows hiim to befriend the main characters, Warechu doesn't so much defect as just blindly obey any request Compa makes, Badd quits so he can lead a normal life with his "daughters" (and tries to make amends by turning them back to human), Peashy regains her memories, and Rei (both of them) has some sense permanently slapped into her.]]

* AgentPeacock: Is male, but considers himself a little girl.

* DubNameChange: From Akudaijin to Mr. Badd.

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* SirSwearsALot:
* SirSwearsALot: This version is fare more foul-mouthed and shows little restraint in doing so, though it mostly fall into PrecisionFStrike.