History Sandbox / EdensZeroSandbox

->''"[Friends are] the most important thing in the world. They'll support you through thick and thin. If you have a friend who will shed tears for you...you'd better treasure that friend forever."''

* AdaptationalWimp: In the anime, the destruction he causes on Granbell doesn't go beyond sinking the Granbell Kingdom island into the sea, which is a major step down from the manga, where he completely [[PlanetDestroyer reduces the planet itself to rubble]]. Seeing how Ziggy never pulls off a feat like that again in the manga, [[Administrivia/TropesAreTools this is not necessarily a bad thing]].

* BigBad: After coming BackFromTheDead, he pulls a FaceHeelTurn and becomes the ultimate obstacle the heroes must face in their pursuit of Mother. [[spoiler:{{Subverted}} when it's revealed this Ziggy is another personality created by the ''Edens One'' to control the good, true Ziggy, making him the DiscOneFinalBoss.]]

* CoolOldGuy: Before his FaceHeelTurn, Ziggy is one of the most powerful warriors in the cosmos, a seasoned intergalactic explorer, and an advocate for mechanical lifeforms everywhere.

* EvilAllAlong: Ziggy purports that his original self was an evil GalacticConqueror, while the robot his friends and loved ones are familiar with was only good because he was suffering from IdentityAmnesia. [[spoiler:{{Subverted}} once it's revealed that the good personality was the original personality, and his FaceHeelTurn was caused by the ''Edens One''[='=]s A.I. [[GrandTheftMe taking him over]].]]

* EvilWearsBlack: To reflect his FaceHeelTurn, Ziggy's EvilCostumeSwitch replaces his red BadassCape and golden face plates with black ones.

%%* FantasticRacism: In stark contrast to the AllLovingHero that Shiki and the rest knew, Ziggy is absolutely convinced that HumansAreBastards.

%%* GlowingMechanicalEyes: As a machine, he sports a single pupil that [[RedEyesTakeWarning glows red]].

* ICannotSelfTerminate: [[spoiler:Ziggy's possession by the ''Edens One'' works in a way that keeps him from destroying himself, even after Pino frees him from the ship's direct control in the Lendard arc. This leads Ziggy to beg Shiki to put him out of his misery, going as far as to [[HydePlaysJekyll act like he's fallen back under control]] and [[DeathFakedForYou fake Pino's death]] when Shiki hesitates.]]

** Grandson, in this case, as the first thing he tells Shiki after his FaceHeelTurn is that it was a mistake to raise him and send him away from Granbell, which [[BreakTheCutie crushes poor Shiki]].

%%* IdentityAmnesia: He lost his memories of his past over 100 years before his death, finding himself living on Granbell without a care in the world. This led him to look for Mother so he could wish for his memories back, but he abandoned his search when he found Shiki, feeling that raising him was more important. His true identity is eventually revealed to be [[spoiler:a future version of Shiki, which Ziggy learns from the BigBad controlling him, though DeathOfPersonality is in full effect because his memories are still lost.]]
%%* IdentityAmnesia: Not once, but twice. First, he gained TraumaInducedAmnesia when he was rebuilt as a robot and realized he was Ziggy, his ArchEnemy who claimed the lives of his crew. Then, decades after he settled into a new life and set out on a mission back in time to save humanity, a Chronophage immediately caught his ship and erased his memory again, leaving him with nothing but his name and a damaged but salvageable ship.

* ObviouslyEvil: A peculiar example in that despite looking like an archetypal [[MaouTheDemonKing Demon King]], Ziggy was set up as a genuinely good robot who simply performed the part at a theme park. After he comes BackFromTheDead and performs a FaceHeelTurn, however, he reveals himself to have been EvilAllAlong and was suffering from IdentityAmnesia the entire time his closest friends and loved ones knew him. [[spoiler:{{Subverted}} in the Lendard arc, which shows he was simply being puppetted by the ''Edens One'', and was truly GoodAllAlong.]]

* SlasherSmile: His [[PerpetualSmiler permanent expression]] looks like one, but he doesn't truly pull it off until his FaceHeelTurn, turning his wry smile becomes a wicked, contemptful sneer.

%%* TinTyrant

* TranshumanTreachery: [[spoiler:His desire to eradicate all humans takes on this shade when it's revealed he WasOnceAMan, though it's {{subverted}} in the end when it's revealed the ''Edens One'' was controlling him and forcing him to act against his true, human-loving nature all along.]]

* DarkIsEvil: The word "[[DubNameChange dark/black]]" is an actual part of their name, and they are the Demon King's minions after his FaceHeelTurn. Most of them also [[EvilWearsBlack dress in black and grey]], with the exception of [[BrightIsNotGood Clown]].

[[folder:O.N.E. Void ('''Heavy Spoilers''')]]

A demented mad scientist who menaces the ''Edens Zero'' crew time and time again. Originally a human with a distaste for robots, he eventually rebuilt himself as an [[{{Cyborg}} O-Tech]] and allied himself with the ''Edens One'' crew to satisfy his twisted experiments.

!!!Final Arc Allies ('''Heavy Spoilers''')

%%* GameFace: After Rebecca beats her game to rescue Shiki and Professor Weisz, Joker remains so unsatisfied and obsessed that her OneWayVisor displays a monstrous-looking face with a single eye and sharp teeth. This quickly turns out not to be her real face, however.

* OneWayVisor: She wears a dark visor that completely hides her real face and functions as a computer screen. After her HeelFaceTurn, the tint lifts to reveal a beautiful, humanoid face underneath.

* {{Unperson}}: Rebecca and Hermit find no traces of Joker's identity online, and conclude she completely removed all evidence of her existence from the internet to prevent herself from being tracked. Given TheReveal that she was actually a game engine and not a person, however, it's unclear if there was ever any public info about her true identity to erase.

The ''Edens One''[='=]s A.I.

In Universe Zero, Void creates a mechanical body for himself.

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* AmbiguousRobot: Applies to his final appearance [[spoiler:in Universe Zero, where he becomes a more monstrous, robotic version of himself after chemically bonding himself with a replica of Xenolith. While he describes the real Xenolith's BrainUploading as a form of chemical bonding, Müller is also capable of bleeding human blood, which makes it unclear whether he's a cyborg, a complete android, or some mish-mash of human and machine.]]

** {{Downplayed}} with his role in the Foresta arc. Ziggy is the one responsible for building the server that drives the planet's robots insane, but Müller still has influence over the robots' behavior with it, and is positioned as the main and final obstacle the heroes must overcome in the arc.
** [[spoiler:His Universe Zero self serves this role in the Reunion arc during the crew's revisit to the Aoi Cosmos. While he's a minion of Void here, Müller acts of his own accord to take control of Shura's Empire and become one of the Oración Seis Galáctica.]]

* BaldOfEvil: The present-day Müller has lost most of his hair compared to when he met Hermit, but is still plenty evil. [[spoiler:His Universe Zero self, who's even more evil and deranged, loses his hair entirely when he fuses with his fake Xenolith.]]

* EvilOldFolks: He is an old, robot-hating bastard who tricks Hermit into helping him build a DoomsdayDevice to obliterate a nearby bot planet, then keeps her alive to experiment on her.

%%* LaughablyEvil:

* MadScientist: He's the ringleader of a whole team of them, dedicating himself to building a MagicalParticleAccelerator that could be easily repurposed into a DoomsdayDevice for a planet of machines, and keeping all the surviving robots on hand as lab rats to satisfy his sadistic cravings. He also turned to experimenting on Jinn and Kleene when they were only children so he could rebuild himself as the ultimate O-Tech after losing much of his old body in an explosion.
* MadnessMakeover: After two years of non-stop experimentation on Hermit, his hair becomes disheveled and he has PermaStubble, a reflection of his fractured mental state by the time he's finally arrested. It gets worse when he returns in the present day fifteen years later, his hair whittling away to thin strands, and his eyes completely stuck with HellishPupils, giving him a creepier and more inhuman appearance than ever before.

* MotiveDecay: His original motivation to destroy all robots was never deep to begin with, but ever since he broke out of prison, his goals have devolved to simply making Hermit suffer and practicing general human experimentation to upgrade his own cyborg body.

* NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist: He proclaims that the research he conducts is dedicated to saving countless human lives, yet he tortures and kills human beings to further improve his O-Tech body.
%%* ObliviouslyEvil: Exaggerated. He has committed genocide on the remaining robots on Hook and has murdered humans to further the growth of his O-Tech body, yet views his research and goals to be noble in saving countless lives.

* SinisterSchnoz: His long nose is the first hint that he's up to no good, despite acting friendly.

%%* TerrifiedOfGerms:

* TranshumanTreachery:
* TreacherousAdvisor: [[spoiler:He becomes one in Universe Zero, where he is the head of the Aoi Cosmos's Imperial Science Department.]]
%%* UnskilledButStrong: [[spoiler:His fusion with his fake Xenolith is this.
%%* UnusualEars:
%%* VoiceChangeling: [[spoiler:He has a voice changer that lets him imitate Shiki's voice and fool Rebecca into walking into a trap.]]
%%* WhoNeedsTheirWholeBody: Arsenal cuts him in half at the waist with [[BladeBelowTheShoulder Grandee Wing]], but he just laughs it off and retaliates while musing on how becoming an O-Tech lets him ignore things like this. This ends up contributing to his defeat, however, as [[BigDamnHeroes Laguna arrives]] and short-circuits him via hitting an exposed sparking wire in his severed torso with water.
%%* WouldHurtAChild: He dismembered a young Jinn [[ChainsawGood with a chainsaw]] as part of his "experiments". Just to push the envelope further, [[ForcedToWatch he made Kleene watch the whole thing]], leaving her emotionally crippled.

* AndroidIndicator: The more humanoid Dark Stars have seams and markings on their bodies that help distinguish them from ordinary humans. [[spoiler:Their past selves' lack of these indicators serves as {{Foreshadowing}} that they were all once human.]]

!!!'''Ability:''' [[HollywoodHacking Master Code]]

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Following his role in the attack on Poseidon Nero's palace, Killer is given a new body and upgraded to '''Killer Mark II'''.

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Following his role in the attack on Poseidon Nero's palace, Brigandine is given a new body and upgraded to '''Brigandine Mark II'''.

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%%!!"Mechanical King" Ziggy
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%%->''"Now is the age of mechanical life-forms. We will rule over all humankind."''
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%%When Shiki revisits his home with his new friends and crew, they find Ziggy standing before them, alive but changed for the worst as an evil and twisted Mechanical King, now hellbent on fulfilling two goals: to forge a new world where machines rule over humankind, and to correct his "mistake" of raising Shiki by destroying him at any cost.
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%%[[folder:Tropes from Chapters 203 to 220 ('''ALL SPOILERS UNMARKED''')]]
%%!!Shiki Granbell (Universe 3173)
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%%->''"Everything is connected."''
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%%Ziggy's true identity: a version of Shiki from Universe 3173, where he wound up after trying to stop Nero 66's destruction instead of escaping, triggering a spacetime distortion that sent him 20,000 years into the future. Given a mechanical body to replace his decaying flesh, and remembering almost nothing about his life as a human, he ventured back in time on a mission not to conquer humankind, but to save it from extinction. However, he was immediately stranded on Granbell by a Chronophage and lost all knowledge of himself once more, leading him to become not just the good Demon King of Granbell, but a mere puppet to be controlled by the ''Edens One''.
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!Crew of ''Edens One''

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Shiki's adoptive robot grandfather, who once played the Demon King at the Granbell Kingdom theme park, and served as the original captain of the warship ''Edens Zero''. Having long since broken down from old age, he is fondly remembered by his loved ones as a wise, kind old bot who believed in equality between humans and machines, and taught Shiki all he knows about the value of friendship.

However, not all is as it seems with the good Demon King, for when Shiki returns to Granbell, they find Ziggy alive but changed for the worst as the evil and twisted Mechanical King of ''Edens One'', who is now hellbent on fulfilling two goals: to forge a new world where machines rule over humankind, and to correct his "mistake" of raising Shiki by destroying him at any cost.

%%When Shiki revisits his home with his new friends and crew, they find Ziggy standing before them, alive but changed for the worst as an evil and twisted %%Mechanical King, now hellbent on fulfilling two goals: to forge a new world where machines rule over humankind, and to correct his "mistake" of raising %%Shiki by destroying him at any cost.

Shiki's adoptive robot grandfather, who once played the Demon King at the Granbell Kingdom theme park, and served as the original captain of the warship ''Edens Zero''. Over 100 years ago, Ziggy traveled the stars in search of the legendary goddess Mother to regain his lost memories, but instead found a newborn Shiki, whom he brought back to Granbell to raise and pass his own gravity abilities onto him as if guided by fate. Having long since broken down from old age, he is fondly remembered by his loved ones as a wise, kind old bot who believed in equality between humans and machines, and taught Shiki all he knows about the value of friendship. However, not all is as it seems with the good Demon King, for the further along Shiki goes in his own voyage for Mother, the more details of Ziggy's forgotten past are brought to light...

* MaouTheDemonKing: ZigZagged. His title as "Demon King" (''Maou'') refers to his role at a theme park and his position as the ''Edens Zero''[='=]s King of [[{{Magitek}} Magimech]] (''Makai''),[[note]]a {{Portmanteau}} of ''ma'' (demon/magic) and ''kikai'' (machine)[[/note]] a benevolent figure who shares [[MagicByAnyOtherName Ether]] with machines. After coming BackFromTheDead, however, he fully leans into all of the title's villanous connotations as an EvilOverlord and GalacticConqueror.

* MaouTheDemonKing: ZigZagged. His title as "Demon King" (''Maou'') refers to his role at a theme park and his position as the ''Edens Zero''[='=]s King of [[{{Magitek}} Magimech]] (''Makai''),[[note]]a {{Portmanteau}} of ''ma'' (demon/magic) and ''kikai'' (machine)[[/note]] a benevolent figure who shares [[MagicByAnyOtherName Ether]] with machines. After coming BackFromTheDead, however, he fully leans into all of the title's villanous connotations.

* WorldsStrongestMan: His gravity powers and durability make him stronger than any of the greatest fighters known in the universe, and incredibly tough to take down. [[spoiler:The threat he poses is officially recognized by the government when they brand him as one of the Oración Seis Galáctica--a category for the top six most dangerous cosmic outlaws--some time after killing Poseidon Nero, one of its original members.]]
* YouAreWhatYouHate: [[spoiler:{{Subverted}}. He appears to believe that HumansAreBastards despite being human originally, but this turns out to be a part of the ''Eden One''[='=]s control.]]

* UniversallyBelovedLeader: As head robot of the Granbell Kingdom and ''Edens Zero'', Ziggy is respected and adored by his subjects, crew, and adoptive grandson, who all continue to speak highly of his wisdom and kindness years after his death.
%%* WalkingSpoiler: [[spoiler:He's set up as a PosthumousCharacter and GreaterScopeParagon until he comes BackFromTheDead and becomes the BigBad, boasting to have been EvilAllAlong and suffering from IdentityAmnesia.]]
%%* WalkingSpoiler: He becomes an even bigger one than before with the reveal that he's a future version of TheHero who was actually hijacked by the ''Edens One''[='=]s AI.
* WasOnceAMan: [[spoiler:He's a human whose body was so badly damaged from the explosion of spacetime that sent him to the future, it forced his robot caretakers to switch it out with a fully mechanical one.]]

* WorldsStrongestMan: His gravity powers and durability make him stronger than any of the greatest fighters known in the universe, and incredibly tough to take down. The threat he poses is officially recognized by the government when they brand him as one of the Oración Seis Galáctica--a category for the top six most dangerous cosmic outlaws--some time after killing Poseidon Nero, one of its original members.

* TragicMonster: [[spoiler:What he's revealed to have been all along. Not only was he a loving grandfather and philanthropist to humans and machines alike, but he also used to be Shiki himself, who lost his identity and friends after an attempt to save everyone GoneHorriblyWrong. Ever since coming BackFromTheDead, he's been reduced to little more than an extension to the ''Edens One''[='=]s will to wipe all humans from the cosmos, and [[ICannotSelfTerminate begs his grandson/past self for the release of death]] when he briefly returns to his old self.]]

%%* LikeASonToMe: He views Shiki like a grandson and raises him as such.

%%* MeanCharacterNiceActor: He's only called the "[[MaouTheDemonKing Demon King]]" because that's his character role at a theme park, as he's shown to be quite jovial and supportive of Shiki.

%%* NameAmnesia: {{Downplayed}}. His TraumaInducedAmnesia leaves Shiki unable to recall his name, resulting in the mangling of it to "Ziggy", but at least for a while he knew that wasn't actually his name. Several decades on, he settled into accepting Ziggy as his name, and once he discovers his past, [[ThatManIsDead he considers the name "Shiki" to belong to his past self]].

%%* APupilOfMineUntilHeTurnedToEvil: Xenolith is disappointed that Ziggy, who was his greatest student, has fallen into [[TheDarkSide dark gravity]]. As it so happens, however, Ziggy was EvilAllAlong; he simply [[IdentityAmnesia didn't remember any of it at the time]].

%%* ShoutOut: His mismatched eye brings to mind Music/DavidBowie, who sustained his famously hyper-dilated left pupil from an eye injury when he was fifteen, the same age Shiki was when he became Ziggy. Fitting, considering Mashima named Ziggy after [[Music/TheRiseAndFallOfZiggyStardustAndTheSpidersFromMars one of Bowie's songs]].

* TomTheDarkLord: "Ziggy" isn't exactly the most threatening name for a Demon King.

!!Demon King Ziggy
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/HochuOtsuka (Japanese), Creator/JohnEricBentley (English)[[labelnote: Foreign [=VAs=]]]Joachim Kaps (German), Orlando Alfaro (Latin American Spanish), Yann Pichon (French), Cesare Rasini (Italian), Ukrit Distakorn (Thai)[[/labelnote]]
!!!'''Ability:''' [[GravityMaster Satan Gravity]]
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->''"[Friends are] the most important thing in the world. They'll support you through thick and thin. If you have a friend who will shed tears for you...you'd better treasure that friend forever."''

Shiki's adoptive robot grandfather, who once played the Demon King at the Granbell Kingdom theme park, and served as the original captain of the warship ''Edens Zero''. Over 100 years ago, Ziggy traveled the stars in search of the legendary goddess Mother to regain his lost memories, but instead found a newborn Shiki, whom he brought back to Granbell to raise and pass his own gravity abilities onto him as if guided by fate. Having long since broken down from old age, he is fondly remembered by his loved ones as a wise, kind old bot who believed in equality between humans and machines, and taught Shiki all he knows about the value of friendship. However, not all is as it seems with the good Demon King, for the further along Shiki goes in his own voyage for Mother, the more details of Ziggy's forgotten past are brought to light...

[[folder:General Tropes]]

%%* ArchEnemy: He becomes this for Shiki after proclaiming his intentions to find Mother and rule over humankind with his fellow machines. As such, Shiki's treats defeating Ziggy as a mandatory hurdle he and the crew must face before reaching Mother.

* TheCaptain: His title as "Demon King" also makes him captain of the ''Edens Zero'' and its SuperiorSuccessor, the ''Edens One'', with Connor--the self-professed captain of the latter ship--really being a glorified helmsman for hire.

* FantasticRacism: In stark contrast to the AllLovingHero that Shiki and the rest knew, Ziggy is absolutely convinced that HumansAreTheRealMonsters compared to machines like himself.

* WalkingSpoiler: [[spoiler:He's set up as a PosthumousCharacter and GreaterScopeParagon until he comes BackFromTheDead and becomes the BigBad, boasting to have been EvilAllAlong and suffering from IdentityAmnesia.]]

%%[[folder:Tropes from Chapters 101 through 202]]
%%!!"Mechanical King" Ziggy
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%%->''"Now is the age of mechanical life-forms. We will rule over all humankind."''
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%%When Shiki revisits his home with his new friends and crew, they find Ziggy standing before them, alive but changed for the worst as an evil and twisted %%Mechanical King, now hellbent on fulfilling two goals: to forge a new world where machines rule over humankind, and to correct his "mistake" of raising %%Shiki by destroying him at any cost.
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[[folder:Tropes from Chapters 203 to 220 ('''ALL SPOILERS UNMARKED''')]]
!!Shiki Granbell (Universe 3173)
[[quoteright:275:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ez_future_shiki.png]]
[[caption-width-right:275:[[labelnote:Click here to see Ziggy's Overdrive]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ez_ziggy_overdrive.png]][[/labelnote]]
->''"Everything is connected."''

Ziggy's true identity: a version of Shiki from Universe 3173, where he wound up after trying to stop Nero 66's destruction instead of escaping, triggering a spacetime distortion that sent him 20,000 years into the future. Given a mechanical body to replace his decaying flesh, and remembering almost nothing about his life as a human, he ventured back in time on a mission not to conquer humankind, but to save it from extinction. However, he was immediately stranded on Granbell by a Chronophage and lost all knowledge of himself once more, leading him to become not just the good Demon King of Granbell, but a mere puppet to be controlled by the ''Edens One''.

* AlternateSelf: [[spoiler:Ziggy is a future version of Shiki from Universe 3173, where he was transported to 20,000 years into the future after trying to stop Shura's anti-matter bombs in Universe 2, if not a Universe just like it. As a consequence of the current Shiki choosing to not stop the bombs, Ziggy became a separate existence from Shiki in Universe 3.]]
* AppropriatedAppellation: The name "Ziggy" itself is not his original name. Rather, it comes from [[spoiler:his labored effort at pronouncing his original name, Shiki, which gets mangled into "Jigi/Zhigi" due to him suffering from radioactive burns at the time. Because [[TomatoInTheMirror he recognizes the name he was saying]], he says it with enough [[SayMyName clarity and intensity]] for his doctors to conclude his name must be Ziggy.]]
* BlackEyesOfCrazy: {{Downplayed}}; only the sclera of Ziggy's left eye changes to black to enhance his crazed, diabolical nature.
* BrainUploading: [[spoiler:His android body was [[UnwillingRoboticization unwillingly]] given to him with his mind intact due to the damage caused to Shiki's body during the {{Antimatter}} explosion that sent him through time.]]
%%* ChekhovsGunman: He turns out to be the unidentified human man discovered by robotic astronauts in the [[MeanwhileInTheFuture 20,000-year flash-forward]] way back in the Norma arc.
* ConquerorFromTheFuture: [[spoiler:He's not just any mere GalacticConqueror; he's a conqueror from several thousand years in the future, where all other humans have died out and androids have taken their place.]]
* DeathOfPersonality: [[spoiler:Ziggy's current personality comes from the loss of his memories and old personality as Shiki, with Ziggy developing a more mild-mannered and worrisome persona over the decades he spent living on Planet Eden, and eventually developing into the wise and mischievous old bot his current family knows. It's because of this disconnect that Ziggy [[ThatManIsDead no longer considers himself to be Shiki]], despite his awareness of who he used to be.]]
* DiscOneFinalBoss: [[spoiler:After being set up as the BigBad, Ziggy is revealed in the Lendard arc to have just been controlled by the real BigBad, the ''Edens One'', and pushes Shiki into killing him to prevent the ship's A.I. from taking control of him again.]]
* FallenHero: [[spoiler:Ziggy was originally another version of TheHero himself, raised to [[AllLovingHero show compassion to all forms of life]], and wanting nothing more than to explore the cosmos and [[IJustWantToHaveFriends make hundreds of friends]]. Then he made a TragicMistake that flung him thousands of years into the future, losing his friends, memories, and identity, and his attempts to save the past only left him stranded there to become the ''Edens One''[='=]s helpless pawn.]]
* GoodAllAlong: [[spoiler:Rather than an evil GalacticConqueror like he claimed to have been prior to his memory loss, Ziggy is revealed to be a would-be hero from the future who was simply [[GrandTheftMe taken control of by another]] and used to commit evil against his will, and was FightingFromTheInside to help his old friends however he could.]]
* GrandTheftMe: [[spoiler:He's revealed to have been a victim of this since he was brought BackFromTheDead, with the perpetrator and Shiki's true enemy being Void, the ''Edens One''[='=]s A.I. itself.]]
%%* ICannotSelfTerminate: Ziggy briefly regains control of himself during the Lendard arc thanks to Pino, but, knowing it won't last, begs Shiki to kill him and put him out of his misery so the ''Edens One'' won't use him as a pawn anymore. When Shiki hesitates, Ziggy [[HydePlaysJekyll pretends to fall back under control]] and [[DeathFakedForYou fakes Pino's death]] to motivate him.
* IHatePastMe: [[spoiler:{{Subverted}}. As Shiki's future self, he seems convinced his past self is a threat to the universe and will stop at nothing to kill him, but this turns out to be because of the ''Edens One''[='=]s control. Ziggy's real personality still doesn't remember his past life, and holds no grudges against Shiki.]]
%%* IdentityAmnesia: Not once, but twice. First, he gained TraumaInducedAmnesia when he was rebuilt as a robot and realized he was Ziggy, his ArchEnemy who claimed the lives of his crew. Then, decades after he settled into a new life and set out on a mission back in time to save humanity, a Chronophage immediately caught his ship and erased his memory again, leaving him with nothing but his name and a damaged but salvageable ship.
* LastOfHisKind: [[spoiler:Before becoming Ziggy, Shiki is the last known living human left in his home universe when he's found in the far future, and only because he was catapulted several millennia across time. Once he's turned into a machine, the human race is made extinct.]]
%%* NameAmnesia: {{Downplayed}}. His TraumaInducedAmnesia leaves Shiki unable to recall his name, resulting in the mangling of it to "Ziggy", but at least for a while he knew that wasn't actually his name. Several decades on, he settled into accepting Ziggy as his name, and once he discovers his past, [[ThatManIsDead he considers the name "Shiki" to belong to his past self]].
* OneWingedAngel: [[spoiler:His [[SuperMode Overdrive]] form functions as this, seriously jacking up his body mass and Ether power to such an extent that Shiki, who could previously match him blow for blow when Overdriving himself, suffers a CurbStompBattle.]]
* RebuiltPedestal: [[spoiler:Shiki and the surviving Shining Stars regain their faith in Ziggy the moment it's revealed that he didn't willingly betray his friends or beliefs.]]
* RidiculouslyHumanRobot: [[spoiler:His unmasked self appears perfectly human, but given the immediate reveal that his mind was uploaded into a fully mechanical body to [[WeCanRebuildHim rebuild him from death's door]], it's clear that his flesh and hair are synthetic upgrades given to him.]]
%%* ShoutOut: His mismatched eye brings to mind Music/DavidBowie, who sustained his famously hyper-dilated left pupil from an eye injury when he was fifteen, the same age Shiki was when he became Ziggy. Fitting, considering Mashima named Ziggy after [[Music/TheRiseAndFallOfZiggyStardustAndTheSpidersFromMars one of Bowie's songs]].
* SoleSurvivor: [[spoiler:As Shiki's AlternateSelf, Ziggy is the only remaining member of the ''Edens Zero'' crew of his Universe, with the rest either killed in the explosion of Nero 66 or dead due to the 20,000 year TimeSkip caused by the detonation of the {{Antimatter}} bombs combined with his and Rebecca's Ether Gear.]]
* SplitPersonality: [[spoiler:{{Subverted}}. After returning to normal, Ziggy speaks as though his evil behavior is because of another personality that was slowly [[SplitPersonalityTakeover taking over]] before he died, addressing him as "Ziggy" as though he himself were not. However, he clarifies for Shiki that this other "personality" is actually an entirely different entity who knew of his true identity and took control of him.]]
* ThatManIsDead: [[spoiler:Both Ziggy's good and evil "personalities" feel this way about being Shiki, but for different reasons: the "evil" Ziggy simply [[IHatePastMe despises his past self]], while the "good" Ziggy still has IdentityAmnesia and can't see Shiki as anything but his grandson.]]
* TragicMonster: [[spoiler:What he's revealed to have been all along. Not only was he a loving grandfather and philanthropist to humans and machines alike, but he also used to be Shiki himself, who lost his identity and friends after an attempt to save everyone GoneHorriblyWrong. Ever since coming BackFromTheDead, he's been reduced to little more than an extension to the ''Edens One''[='=]s will to wipe all humans from the cosmos, and [[ICannotSelfTerminate begs his grandson/past self for the release of death]] when he briefly returns to his old self.]]
* TragicTimeTraveler: [[spoiler:Shiki was hurdled 20,000 years into the future by a disaster he couldn't prevent, killing all his friends and leaving him with TraumaInducedAmnesia under the belief that [[TomatoInTheMirror he'd become his own despised enemy]], which permanently [[DeathOfPersonality snuffed out his old identity]]. Then, when sent on a mission to return to the past and save TheMultiverse from extinction, he wound up TrappedInThePast with no memory of his mission to begin with, and was eventually [[GrandTheftMe overtaken]] by an evil A.I. that sought to wipe all human life from existence, destroying what good faith he'd built for himself by then.]]
* TranshumanTreachery: [[spoiler:His desire to eradicate all humans takes on this shade when it's revealed he WasOnceAMan, though it's {{subverted}} in the end when it's revealed the ''Edens One'' was controlling him and forcing him to act against his true, human-loving nature all along.]]
* TraumaInducedAmnesia: [[spoiler:The physical and mental damage Shiki suffers due to the exploding {{antimatter}} bombs, the 20,000-year time jump, the recognition of Ziggy's name, and realizing he's the only survivor of all his friends--complete with seeing Rebecca's corpse--badly affects his memory. The decades he spends in said future further destroy any memories of his past he still had, to the point that he admits to [[TheLostLenore Rebecca's corpse]] that he doesn't properly remember her anymore.]]
%%* UnreliableExpositor: After Ziggy drops the multiple bombshell reveals of his true identity and the factoring of TimeTravel into the story, Shiki and the overhearing Hermit and Sister immediately note that, even if they take it all as the truth, several things either don't add up or clearly aren't being elaborated on. Ziggy himself admits this, but also adds they don't ''need'' to know more than what he's already told them. When "Grandpa" Ziggy regains control of the body, he states even he hasn't remembered his life before reaching Universe 1, so he can't confirm or deny whether his possessed self was telling the truth about his true identity.
%%* WalkingSpoiler: He becomes an even bigger one than before with the reveal that he's a future version of TheHero who was actually hijacked by the ''Edens One''[='=]s AI.
* WasOnceAMan: [[spoiler:He's a human whose body was so badly damaged from the explosion of spacetime that sent him to the future, it forced his robot caretakers to switch it out with a fully mechanical one.]]
* YouAreWhatYouHate: [[spoiler:{{Subverted}}. He appears to believe that HumansAreBastards despite being human originally, but this turns out to be a part of the ''Eden One''[='=]s control.]]

[[folder:Tropes from Chapters 221 onward ('''ALL SPOILERS UNMARKED''')]]
!!Ziggy (Universe Zero)

The Ziggy of Universe Zero, who [[NotQuiteDead never quite died]] thanks to his invention of a device that saved the lives of Granbell's robots. Now completely rid of Void's evil influence, he returns to fight alongside Shiki in the final battle to save Mother and all of humanity.
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* DarkIsNotEvil: His EvilCostumeSwitch from previous worlds appears in this world as an ordinary SuperMode for his valiant last stand against the BigBad.

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!Crew of ''Edens One''

[[foldercontrol]]

[[folder:Ziggy]]
!!Ziggy

[[folder:Connor]]
!!Captain Connor
[[/folder]]

[[folder:The A.I. ('''Heavy Spoilers''')]]
!!Over Nu Etherion Void
->''"I am the will of the universe."''

The ''Edens One''[='=]s A.I.

In Universe Zero, Void creates a mechanical body for himself.

* AIIsACrapshoot: Void is described as the ''Edens One''[='=]s A.I., which grew beyond Ziggy's control and started formulating plans to drive humans to extinction. [[spoiler:This is {{subverted}} during the final arc, where it's revealed the A.I. didn't go bad on its own, but was imbued with the consciousness of [[KidFromTheFuture Shiki and Rebecca's future son]].]]
* AntagonisticOffspring: On top of being the BigBad, Void is [[spoiler:the manifestation of Shiki/Ziggy and Rebecca's unborn son, whose consciousness was [[BrainUploading uploaded]] onto the ''Edens One'', and was instilled with such a [[MisanthropeSupreme hatred for humanity]] that he seeks to wipe them all out, including his own would-be parents.]]
* BadassCape: Void wears an imposing cape in his android form, giving him the image of someone more powerful than Ziggy himself.
* BigBad: Void is TheManBehindTheMan to Ziggy, the previously-believed BigBad, who is revealed in the Lendard arc as a helpless puppet Void uses to carry out his plans for human extermination.
* BrainUploading: [[spoiler:Void's conscious thoughts belong to Shiki and Rebecca's unborn human son, whose thoughts instinctively transferred themselves back in time to the ''Edens One'', since he couldn't survive in Rebecca's womb due to her death.]]
* ContagiousAI: As the ''Edens One''[='=]s A.I., Void has the power to download himself into other androids, which is how he hijacks Ziggy's body and forces him to act as an evil GalacticConqueror.
* CustomBuiltHost: Universe Zero's version of Void doesn't act through Ziggy, but instead an EmptyShell of an android he builds using the [[PerpetualMotionMachine Möbius System]], physically modeled after [[spoiler:how he would have looked as Shiki and Rebecca's adult human son]].
* EvilWearsBlack: As the ultimate BigBad of the series, Void is decked out in jet black armor.
* FeelingOppressedByTheirExistence: He despises humans simply because he's judged them to be an inferior, foolish race that exists only to wantonly hate and destroy each other. Rather than sit by and leave them to their pointless wars, Void decides it's best to KillAllHumans himself through Mother and be rid of them.
* GratuitousGreek: The "Nu" in his name stands for the Greek letter [=Ν/ν=], though it doesn't seem to have much purpose outside of making a SignificantAnagram.
%%* GravityMaster: Void uses Satan Gravity.
* ItCanThink: Before Void's existence is revealed, the ''Edens One'' is presented simply as the flagship Demon King Ziggy uses to conquer the universe.
* KidFromTheFuture: [[spoiler:His true identity is actually Shiki and Rebecca's future child, who was conceived in Universe 2 before his parents were sent 20,000 years into the future, and used MentalTimeTravel to upload his thoughts onto the ''Edens One'' in the past.]]
* TheManBehindTheMan: He is the villain behind Ziggy's transformation into the apparent BigBad, as revealed in the Lendard arc.
* MechanicalMonster: In his base form as the ''Edens One'', Void is a SapientShip modeled after a ''[[UsefulNotes/StockDinosaursNonDinosaurs Dunkleosteus]]'', a prehistoric predatory fish.
* MentalTimeTravel: [[spoiler:Void manifested this ability before he even had a physical form in Rebecca's womb, which allowed him to travel 20,000 years back in time as a mass of thought and merge with the ''Edens One''[='=]s A.I.]]
* MisanthropeSupreme: [[spoiler:Being a would-be human whose mind was uploaded onto the ''Edens One'' before he was even born, Void has developed an unflattering opinion of the human race.]]
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: He calls himself Void, which is what his plans will reduce the cosmos to: a space completely devoid of all human life.
* RageHelm: Void wears a horned helmet that gives him a perpetual DeathGlare with [[RedEyesTakeWarning glowing red eyes]].
* RidiculouslyHumanRobot: Beneath his armor, Void's android body looks completely indistiguishable from any ordinary human, despite his motive to KillAllHumans.
* SapientShip: With Void as its A.I., the ''Edens One'' can pilot itself, fire its own weapons, and formulate its own plans and opinions.
* SmugSuper: He haughtily considers himself to be a perfect being that humans have no hope of ever surpassing, which he backs up by knocking Shiki around with no sign of yielding when Shiki goes into Overdrive.
* StrongFamilyResemblance: [[spoiler:{{Invoked}} by his CustomBuiltHost, which is practically identical to how his biological father, Shiki, looks after the TimeSkip.]]
* SuperpowerfulGenetics: [[spoiler:Void's [[GravityMaster Satan Gravity]] and [[TimeMaster Cat Leaper]] are inherited directly from his parents, Shiki and Rebecca, respectively.]]
* SuperSpeed: [[spoiler:His Cat Leaper inherited from Rebecca gives him unrivaled speed.]]
* TimeMaster: [[spoiler:He has Cat Leaper courtesy of his mother, Rebecca, which allowed him to travel from the future in the first place.]]
* TinTyrant: Void's CustomBuiltHost is an android decked out in [[EvilWearsBlack black armor]] who aims to create a universe for only machines, completely free of humans who can oppress them.
* TurnedAgainstTheirMasters: The ''Edens One'' was originally built by Ziggy as a backup to the ''Edens Zero'', but spends the story actively working against Ziggy so it can kill Mother along with the entire human race.
* WalkingSpoiler: TheReveal of Void's existence doesn't come until the climax of the Lendard arc well into the story's second half, which gives away some of the story's biggest twists: the first is that he's TheManBehindTheMan to Ziggy, showing that Ziggy isn't the BigBad of his own volition; the second is that [[spoiler:Shiki and Rebecca somehow conceived him as their child before they were sent 20,000 years into the future]].
* WasOnceAMan: [[spoiler:{{Downplayed}}. Void was conceived as a human before becoming one with the ''Edens One'', but lacked a physical form because Rebecca died before she could give birth to him.]]
* YoureNotMyFather: [[spoiler:He holds this sentiment for both his parents, knowing that he was conceived by Shiki/Ziggy and Rebecca, but refusing to acknowledge them as his family.]]

!!Demon King's Four Dark Stars

[[folder:In General]]
* AmazonBrigade: GenderInverted. Whereas the Four Shining Stars are all female, the Four Dark Stars are all male.
* AndroidIndicator: The more humanoid Dark Stars have seams and markings on their bodies that help distinguish them from ordinary humans. [[spoiler:Their past selves' lack of these indicators serves as {{Foreshadowing}} that they were all once human.]]
* CoDragons: All four serve this role to Ziggy with no clear hierarchy between each other, though they do have a vaguely established difference in power, with Wizard being the weakest and Brigandine being the strongest.
* DarkIsEvil: The word "[[DubNameChange dark/black]]" is an actual part of their name, and they are the Demon King's minions after his FaceHeelTurn. Most of them also [[EvilWearsBlack dress in black and grey]], with the exception of [[BrightIsNotGood Clown]].
* DomainHolder: They can freely manipulate the realms of Killer's Subdimension Program however they wish, from changing the environment to trapping people in seemingly inescapable prisons to creating illusions of loved ones. Though all of them possess this power, Brigandine chooses not to use it, since [[FairPlayVillain he prefers combat to be as fair as possible]].
* DubNameChange: Their Japanese name, ''Shikokusei'' (四黒星), more accurately means "Four Black Stars".
* EvilCounterpart: Each member is designated as an evil SpearCounterpart to one of the Four Shining Stars:
** Wizard for Witch. Both are green-haired {{Robot Wizard}}s who are fiercely loyal to their respective masters and ruthless towards their enemies. However, whereas Witch fights to protect her family and has a will of her own, Wizard is blindly obedient to the BigBad and fights specifically to destroy all who oppose him.
** Clown for Sister. While the latter is TheLadette with healing powers who saves lives and cures mental trauma, the former is a SissyVillain whose powers are built around stealing life and causing MindRape.
** Killer for Hermit. Both are the most intelligent and strategic thinkers in their crews, and both have programming skills unrivaled by anyone. But unlike Hermit, a PlayfulHacker strives to help humans and machines, Killer is TheCracker who uses his power to advance human's extinction and machine supremacy.
** Brigandine for Valkyrie. Both are warrior-type androids whose specialty lies in physical strength, with [[ForceAndFinesse Brigandine focusing on force over Valkyrie's finesse]]. The difference is that Valkyrie is TheSoftHeartedWarrior who fights for the safety of everyone around her, while Brigandine is a BloodKnight who selfishly fights for the satisfaction of killing his counterpart.
* ForgottenFriendNewFoe: As revealed in the Lendard arc, [[spoiler:each Dark Star was originally on good terms with his Shining Star counterpart before their memories were wiped: Wizard and Witch were co-workers at a law firm who eventually married; Clown was Sister's friendly and dedicated surgeon; Killer and Hermit had a close ''[[UsefulNotes/JapaneseHonorifics senpai/kōhai]]'' dynamic at school; and Brigandine had an ambiguous yet close relationship with Valkyrie. Since then, they've become the Four Shining Stars' mortal enemies with no knowledge of ever meeting them before.]]
* LaserGuidedAmnesia: Like the Four Shining Stars, the Dark Stars have had their memory of their pasts erased, leaving them with nothing but the knowledge that they were built by Ziggy.
* ThePsychoRangers: The Four Dark Stars are the ''Edens One'' crew's villainous equivalent of the ''Edens Zero'' crew's Four Shining Stars.
* RedBaron: They all have their own "Edens" titles that compliment their roles as {{Evil Counterpart}}s to the Four Shining Stars:
** Wizard is the "Spear of Edens", named for his role of piercing and shattering Witch, the "Shield".
** Clown is the "Death of Edens", whose role is to put an end to Sister, the "Life".
** Killer is the "Brain of Edens", the cold and methodical counterpart to Hermit, the "Mind".
** Brigandine is the "Armor of Edens", made to be the unyielding opponent to Valkyrie, the "Sword".
* RidiculouslyHumanRobot: The Dark Stars closely resemble and behave like humans despite their disdain for them, with the exception of Brigandine, who resembles AnimatedArmor. [[spoiler:This changes in Universe Zero, where Brigandine has a human face.]]
* SpearCounterpart: They're an all-male group whose members reflect the all-female Shining Stars.
* SuperiorSuccessor: They were constructed to be more advanced than their predecessors, the Four Shining Stars, and possess abilities that exceed theirs in some shape or form.
* TookALevelInBadass: [[spoiler:The Four Dark Stars are all stated by Pino to be more powerful in Universe Zero thanks to the CosmicRetcon. This is a case of InformedAbility, though, as they battle different opponents with different levels of power (e.g., Wizard fighting Witch instead of the more powerful Shiki), which muddies just how much more powerful they're supposed to be.]]
* WasOnceAMan: As divulged in the final arc, [[spoiler:the Four Dark Stars all used to be human just like the Four Shining Stars before Ziggy found a way to turn them all into androids.]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Wizard Leonard]]
!!Wizard Leonard
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/TaishiMurata (Japanese)[[labelnote: Foreign [=VAs=]]]Miguel de León (Latin American Spanish), Creator/AlexandreGillet (French)[[/labelnote]]
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->''"Set us free... A fine phrase. We use it often when addressing humans. We destroy their flesh...and 'set them free' from the miseries of life."''

The Spear of Edens and Witch's counterpart, a heartless magician who diligently follows the orders of his Demon King without question. Much like Witch, Wizard can control his own Ether as if it were magic, but on a level far beyond hers.

* AdaptationDyeJob: In the manga, his hair is colored the same shade of green as Witch's. In the anime, it's colored teal instead.
* AmnesiacLover: As revealed in the final arc, [[spoiler:Leonard (Wizard's human self) was married to Regret (Witch's human self) before they were turned into androids. Since neither of them remembers their past, they are now on opposing sides, with Wizard blindly obsessed with killing her.]]
* BeamSpam: Wizard can fire a barrage of laser beams from InstantRunes he conjures up around his enemies. [[spoiler:This factors into his defeat in Universe Zero, where Witch deflects them all back at him using her [[AttackReflector Radical Field]].]]
* BlackMage: He's a RobotWizard who focuses almost exclusively on offensive spells, demonstrating none of the same defensive abilities as Witch.
* BlindObedience: He doesn't dare to question any instruction he's been given by his master, even if it's something that threatens his life.
* CrusadingLawyer: According to his forgotten memories, [[spoiler:Wizard was once an attorney who was skilled enough to be called a "magician of the courtroom".]]
* ElementalPowers: As a RobotWizard like Witch, he can perform elemental "magic" with his Ether such as firing bolts of electricity with [[ShockAndAwe Lightning Ether]], trapping his enemies in ice crystals with [[AnIcePerson Ice]], jumping InASingleBound with [[BlowYouAway Air Ether]], and conjuring up a column of flame with [[PlayingWithFire Fire Ether]].
* EyesAlwaysShut: He usually keeps his eyes closed, though he occasionally opens his eyes when casting magic and wearing his Battle Dress.
* InstantRunes: One of his spells involves conjuring up dozens of magic circles that fire energy beams.
* LongHairedPrettyBoy: He has long hair and is quite easy on the eyes compared to his contemporaries.
* LoveIsAWeakness: He's a firm believer in this, which is why he chooses the Granbell Kingdom as his arena to fight Shiki in the Lendard arc, thinking the sight of his dead bot friends brought BackFromTheDead will make him falter.
* MagicStaff: He casts his Ether spells with a long staff, which can also block and deflect other attacks.
* ManaDrain: His Drain Ether allows him to siphon his opponent's Ether upon physical contact, simultaneously weakening his foe while strengthening himself. It works on something as intense as an [[SuperMode Overdrive]] state, though it can only absorb as much Ether as his foe is putting out. [[spoiler:While he disables Shiki even in Overdrive, he's blindsided when Shiki suddenly takes him down in an instant, revealing Wizard only drained one tenth of his full power.]]
* ManipulativeBastard: Wizard proves himself to be a crafty emotional manipulator when he battles Shiki in a subdimension modeled after Shiki's DoomedHometown, creating an illusion of all the bots who died brought BackFromTheDead as {{Living Program}}s just to mess with Shiki. [[spoiler:He only blows his cover when he pulls a DeadPersonImpersonation of Witch and tries telling Shiki that LoveIsAWeakness, something the real Witch would never say.]]
* NoNonsenseNemesis: He's the only Dark Star to seriously entertain the possibility that the ''Edens Zero'' crew will become a threat if left alive, and pulls out all the stops to defeat him in the Lendard arc based on the data gathered by the ''One'' crew. [[spoiler:Ironically, Wizard ends up [[UnderestimatingBadassery underestimating his opponent]] far worse than his fellow Dark Stars do theirs, as Shiki proves to be ten times stronger than when he Overdrives against Wizard.]]
* OneManArmy: He's capable of taking down dozens of fighter-sized battle drones all on his own, something that takes the Shining Stars by surprise, as they've never heard of any humanoid robot with that kind of power.
* OneWingedAngel:
** His Battle Dress gives him the same level of power as Shiki's Overdrive after Wizard absorbs it from him. [[spoiler:It becomes a ClippedWingAngel that's only 10% as strong as Shiki at maximum power, allowing Shiki to tear a hole in his side with little effort.]]
** During the final arc, it's shown that [[spoiler:he's able to Overdrive into a form identical to his Battle Dress in Universe Zero, using it to counteract Witch's own Overdrive. Unlike in the previous world, he fares much longer in this form before being defeated.]]
* RobotWizard: Like Witch, he's an android that manipulates his Ether in a manner similar to genuine magic. For bonus points, [[HisNameReallyIsBarkeep "Wizard" is his actual name]].
* TheStoic: Wizard typically reacts to everything with a cold and calculated calm.
* VillainTeleportation: As Witch's EvilCounterpart, Wizard has teleportation magic that she's not capable of using, allowing him to [[spoiler:infiltrate the ''Edens Zero'' to face her during the final arc]].

[[folder:Clown]]
!!Clown
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/JunichiYanagita (Japanese)[[labelnote: Foreign [=VAs=]]]Tommy Rojas (Latin American Spanish), Stéphane Roncheweski (French)[[/labelnote]]
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->''"I am the Death of Edens...and I grant you an inescapable demise."''

The Death of Edens and Sister's counterpart, a flamboyant jester who treats death itself as a form of art. Clown is usually content with battling his enemies through deadly circus tricks, but when he dons his Battle Dress, "Nightmare Clown", he unleashes his true power to send them to a world of nightmares.

* AchillesHeel: His body armor is weakest on the back of his head, which Rebecca takes advantage of in her attempt to beat him. [[spoiler:The attack does a number on Clown, but it's not enough to finish him off.]]
* AnimeHair: His default form has a big, bushy red afro, while his Battle Dress form's hair looks like it's constantly billowing upwards.
* ArmCannon: He has a gun within his right arm that fires Ether bullets.
* BadassLongcoat: His normal attire is a decorative striped longcoat with gaudy colors, suitable for a grandiose showman like him.
* TheBeastmaster: He commands a large, ferocious canine beast [[MadeOfMagic made of Ether]] to eat his enemies alive.
* BewareTheSillyOnes: He usually behaves like a flamboyant clown who's more interested in making a spectacle out of his battles, but once he puts his [[OneWingedAngel Battle Dress]] on, he becomes a powerful MonsterClown who deals in creating horrific nightmares to MindRape his opponents.
* BrightIsNotGood: He has the brightest colors of the Four Dark Stars, sporting bushy red hair and a blue-and-red-striped coat, but is just as much of a dangerous, human-hating android as the rest of them.
* ComboPlatterPowers: Clown has a wide range of abilities that can't be pinned down to any single power: he can make [[PlayingWithFire fire hoops]] and [[ShockAndAwe electric currents]], turn water into [[PoisonousPerson poison]], [[ThePowerOfCreation create monsters]] out of Ether, send his opponents to a mental world where he can [[MindRape psychologically break]] them, and create [[SpeechBubbles RPG-style dialogue boxes]].
* ComplexityAddiction: He's so obsessed with the aesthetics of death that he prefers to make his killings as elaborate and "beautiful" as possible, rather than just taking the quick and straightforward approach. Because of this, he succumbs to BondVillainStupidity every time he has the perfect opportunity to finish someone off.
* DarkIsEvil: In contrast to his normal BrightIsNotGood attire, his Battle Dress turns him into a dark-colored MonsterClown.
* EffeminateVoice: As a SissyVillain with feminine speech patterns, he's given a fairly soft-sounding voice in the anime, which compliments [[TheLadette Sister]]'s husky TomboyishVoice.
* ExpressiveMask: The eyes of Clown's mask widen and close whenever he needs them to. He also furrows the brow of his mask when making a SlasherSmile at one point, giving him a more chilling appearance.
* FauxAffablyEvil: He acts in a courteous manner towards his enemies, and tries to flatter them whenever he can. However, all of that does little to hide his contempt for humans, obsession with death, and pleasure over tormenting others through their nightmares.
* FrozenFace: The anime adaptation gives him a mouth that doesn't move when he speaks in the anime adaptation, making his entire face look like a mask.
* HighCollarOfDoom: His Battle Dress changes his normal coat's frilled collar into a sinister, spiky one, giving him a more devilish appearance.
* JustToyingWithThem: A FatalFlaw of his is that he prefers to toy around with his opponents because he's so powerful, either to drag out their final moments for his own amusement, or as a sign that he doesn't take them for a serious threat. It's only when he breaks out his [[OneWingedAngel Battle Dress]] that [[LetsGetDangerous he commits to finishing someone off quickly]].
* LaughablyEvil: For as powerful and sometimes terrifying he can be, Clown is the most comical of the Four Dark Stars with his silly expressions and the occasional funny or nonsensical power, and his defeats are PlayedForLaughs.
* LeanAndMean: He's the skinniest of the Dark Stars in proportion to his height, and one of the more shamelessly vile members.
* TheLightfooted: He's a nimble combatant, capable of of dancing, bouncing, and fighting on a tightrope without falling.
* MindRape: He specializes in putting his enemies through horrific nightmares that would leave the average person with severe mental scarring, regardless of whether they realize it's just a dream. [[spoiler:He [[HoistByHisOwnPetard winds up on the receiving end]] when Sister resists the nightmare and [[HorrifyingTheHorror mentally breaks him]] through a torture session inside his own illusion.]]
* MonsterClown: He seems more like a VillainousHarlequin at first, but true to his epithet as the "Death of Edens", he's a psychotic monster who views death as an art and puts people through mentally-scarring nightmares. His "Nightmare Clown" form best reflects his true nature, giving him the appearance of a black demon with a goofy nose.
* TheNicknamer: He has pet names for each of his fellow Dark Stars in the English version (in Japanese, he simply uses the [[UsefulNotes/JapaneseHonorifics honorific]] ''-chan''): Wizard is "Wiz Kid", Brigandine is "Briggy Boy", and Killer is "[=Li'l=] Kill".
* NightmareFetishist: As the [[RedBaron "Death of Edens"]], he's obsessed with the aesthetics of death itself, believing that the end of someone's life should be made as grandiose as possible. He also waxes poetic about what defines death for a machine, giving his own perspective on the idea of [[AndroidsArePeopleToo machines like him being alive]].
* NightmareWeaver: His most prominent power is the ability to send people to a subconscious world where he torments them with vivid nightmares, putting them through MindRape in the process. [[spoiler:This is shown in full in Sister's nightmare, where Clown morphs into a TentacledTerror and subjects her to OrificeInvasion with ChestBurster parasites that [[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe tear her bottom half off]].]]
* OneWingedAngel: His Battle Dress, "Nightmare Clown", turns him from a brightly-colored jester into a black, demonic MonsterClown that can spirit his victims away to a world of nightmares. [[spoiler:He takes it further when he morphs into a TentacledTerror with multiple eyes in Sister's nightmare, but it becomes a ClippedWingAngel when Sister sees right through the illusion and does away with it.]]
* PeggySue: [[spoiler:Clown is the only villain to remember the world as it was before the CosmicRetcon, since he was a prisoner aboard the ''Edens Zero'' when Etherion was activated. This gives the ''Edens One'' crew vital knowledge of the future, making them better prepared to face the ''Zero'' crew than they were before.]]
* PerpetualSmiler: Clown almost always wears a creepy, [[SmugSmiler smug grin]], with his upper face mask having extra-long corners on its mouth to enhance the effect; when he puts on his Battle Dress, it becomes a permanent SlasherSmile with ScaryTeeth. He only ever drops his smile when he gets rattled out of his blissful arrogance, namely when [[spoiler:he comically shrieks and cries in terror while Sister [[HoistByHisOwnPetard turns his own psychological torture tactics against him]]]].
* PoisonousPerson: He generates a type of anti-android poison called Hyalukenaf, which has lethal effects on androids, but isn't as potent on organic beings.
* SayItWithHearts: Many of his speech bubbles contain them in his introductory scene in the manga, emphasizing his more feminine nature compared to Sister.
* SelfDestructMechanism: He has an explosive built into his nose as a CyanidePill, seen when [[spoiler:he attempts to [[TakingYouWithMe take Sister, Cosmo and Happy down with himself]] in Universe Zero, though Pino disables it with her {{EMP}}]].
* SissyVillain: In contrast to Sister, a NunTooHoly [[TheLadette Lad-ette]], Clown is an effeminate male MonsterClown.
* SmugSnake: Clown is a SmugSuper who has the strength to back up his ego, but is so convinced of his own superiority to the ''Edens Zero'' crew that he looks down on them with a [[SmugSmiler self-assured grin]]. Even when he's forced to admit how dangerous the crew is, he doesn't break out of his haughty attitude, which leads to his downfall.
* SpeechBubbles: One of Clown's stranger powers is to generate RPG-style commentary boxes that describe what he and his enemy are doing.
* SuperDoc: As Shiki discovers in Clown's past life memories, [[spoiler:he was originally a master-class surgeon people called an "acrobat of operation", and the past version of Sister was a patient of his with a seemingly untreatable ailment.]]
* ThinChinOfSin: The most prominent facial feature that's not covered by his mask is his long chin, which becomes pointier when he enters his MonsterClown form.
* VillainousFriendship: Clown has a good rapport with Killer, with the two usually poking fun at Wizard and Brigandine for their failures and quirks, though the two disagree over whether to dispose of someone immediately (in Killer's case) or extravagantly (in Clown's case).
* VillainousHarlequin: As a clown android who wants to exterminate humans, he appears and acts more comically than his [[RedBaron title]] would suggest, with his shtick revolving around dangerous but mostly whimsical circus tricks such as fighting on a tightrope or [[JugglingDangerously juggling and throwing swords]]. Once he puts on his Battle Dress, however, he transforms into a legitimate MonsterClown whose powers are PlayedForHorror.

[[folder:Killer]]
!!Killer
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/AoiIchikawa (Japanese)[[labelnote: Foreign [=VAs=]]]Ricardo Bautista (Latin American Spanish)[[/labelnote]]
!!!'''Ability:''' [[HollywoodHacking Master Code]]
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The Brain of Edens and Hermit's counterpart, a cold-blooded assassin android. He's also a computer programmer much like Hermit, with Killer's specialty lying in the creation of holographic illusions to distract and mislead his enemies.
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Following his role in the attack on Poseidon Nero's palace, Killer is given a new body and upgraded to '''Killer Mark II'''.

* BeehiveBarrier: He's equipped with a Protection Matrix, which he uses to defend himself from Weisz's attacks. It's made useless by Weisz's Weiss Cannon, upgraded as an ArmorPiercingAttack.
* BishonenLine: His upgraded Mark II model looks more like a young human man than the gnarled, faceless, inhuman Mark I model. [[spoiler:This is actually closer to his original appearance as a human.]]
* BladeBelowTheShoulder: His Assassin's Blade attack produces a sword from his forearm.
* TheBlank: His Mark I body doesn't possess any sort of facial features, though it's not clear if he's simply wearing mask or if he genuinely lacks a face.
* CombatPragmatist: He fights the dirtiest out of the Four Dark Stars, as shown in his battle with Weisz, which he moves to a completely blank space with no other machines for Weisz to remodel, giving him less of an environmental advantage. [[spoiler:When Weisz overpowers him anyway with Overdrive, Killer simply uses a hologram of Weisz's presumably deceased mother to distract him with the possibility of her being alive, which allows Killer to defeat him.]]
* TheCracker: He uses his programming expertise exclusively to divide, threaten, and torment the heroes, standing in dark contrast to Hermit, a PlayfulHacker.
* CreepyHighPitchedVoice: Speaks with a high-pitched, youthful voice in the anime adaptation to go with his creepy, sinister appearance.
* CreepyShadowedUndereyes: His Mark II appearance sports thick eye shadow, adding to his unsettling appearance as an assassin.
* ExoticEyeDesigns: He has four pupils in a diamond formation as Killer Mark II. [[spoiler:His human equivalent has more ordinary eyes.]]
* FacialMarkings: Killer Mark II has two whisker-like marks on his left cheek, just like the ones Hermit has on both sides.
* InTheBack: He favors attacking and stabbing others from behind, befitting his specialty of assassination. [[spoiler:In a bit of LaserGuidedKarma, Hermit manages to land a finishing blow on him from behind as well.]]
* InTheHood: Killer Mark II wears a hooded assassin's cloak, which he [[TheCoatsAreOff flings off]] when he gets to a fight.
* InvisibilityCloak: He has a cloaking device in his arsenal, and a signal jammer to prevent himself from being detected.
* LimpAndLivid: His Mark I model has a gnarled body that's always hunched over to sell his role as a dangerous killer robot.
* LoveIsAWeakness: He believes feeling love for others makes humans weak, and he loves to exploit it. This is shown in his fight with Weisz in the Lendard arc, where [[spoiler:Killer attacks a projection of his mother, since he knows Weisz can't bear to see his mother in danger even if it's not certain she's the real thing. The strategy works, and Weisz gets gunned down still questioning whether or not she's real.]]
%%* ManipulativeBastard: Killer uses holograms of Weisz's mother brought BackFromTheDead to mess with him during their fight. He manages to win by explaining how one of the "holograms" may be his real mom resurrected during a top-secret autopsy, then simply leaving Weisz to sacrifice himself to protect her without letting on whether or not he's telling the truth. [[spoiler:It's later revealed that Killer was half-lying: her body really was preserved by doctors for examination and brought to Lendard to be used as HumanResources, but she's still dead.]]
* MasterOfIllusion: He uses holograms to the same effect, making such convincing replicas of himself and other people that he manages to fool Weisz despite his tricks already getting exposed.
* MechanicalMuscles: The arms of his Mark I model look like they're covered in metallic muscular tissue.
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: His name is Killer, and he's a master assassin.
%%* PitifulWorms: After first scanning the ''Edens Zero'' and seeing it that its specs don't match up to the ''[[SuperiorSuccessor Edens One]]'', he proclaims that it and its crew are "less than bugs".
* PowerMakesYourHairGrow: [[spoiler:His apparent Overdrive in his Mark II form makes his short hair slightly longer.]]
* RemovedAchillesHeel: As a machine, he has a LogicalWeakness to Weisz's [[{{Technopath}} Machina Maker]], so he programs himself with a protection code to render Weisz's power useless against him.
* RoboticPsychopath: Out of the Four Dark Stars, Killer is the one who most enjoys to see his human opponents in pain, and claims to have no concept of emotion, which he brags is [[LoveIsAWeakness a strength that humans lack]].
%%* {{Sadist}}: He takes great pleasure in tormenting Weisz throughout their battle, both physically and emotionally, with the help of holograms of Weisz's supposedly dead mother. [[spoiler:He tries the same thing on Hermit, but she fakes him out with a hologram of her own.]]
* ScaryStitches: For his Mark II form, there's a stitched line running diagonally across his face beneath his left eye, giving him a creepier appearance.
* SmugSmiler: Unlike Mark I, his Mark II model has a face, which allows him to freely express his arrogant nature with a shit-eating grin.
* SpaceMaster: His Subdimension Program creates artificial {{Pocket Dimension}}s for all Four Dark Stars to use as they please, with Killer in particular having absolute control over the environment and access to any weapons he needs. The victors are returned to the real world, but Killer is free to send the heroes right back in. [[spoiler:It's not until after he's destroyed that Weisz is able to cancel the program.]]
* SwissArmySuperpower: Just like Hermit, his Master Code is so versatile that it gives him access to all sorts of weapons and functions such as barriers, blades, and signal jammers, simply by programming himself with them. His Subdimension Program also gives him SpaceMaster abilities, allowing him to render whatever weapons and advantages he needs inside these dimensions.
* TookALevelInBadass: It can be inferred from Brigandine's own upgrade to Mark II that Killer Mark II has also been upgraded to be far more powerful than before after [[spoiler:he and Brigandine get trashed by Jaguar in the Nero 66 arc]].
* UnusualEyebrows: Killer Mark II has short eyebrows marked by two small dots at the outward end of each side.
* VillainousFriendship: Killer has a good rapport with Clown, with the two usually poking fun at Wizard and Brigandine for their failures and quirks, though the two disagree over whether to dispose of someone immediately (in Killer's case) or extravagantly (in Clown's case).
* WeHardlyKnewYe: {{Subverted}}. He seems like a throwaway villain when [[spoiler:he gets demolished in the Nero 66 arc with little fanfare]], but he's shown to have been repaired and upgraded after the TimeSkip, getting more characterization and a bigger showcase of his abilities in the Lendard arc.

[[folder:Brigandine]]
!!Brigandine
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Shōta Yamamoto (Japanese)[[labelnote: Foreign [=VAs=]]]Creator/OctavioRojas (Latin American Spanish)[[/labelnote]]
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->''"O human who has nevertheless become one of the Four Shining Stars. I am counterpart to Valkyrie. I am the Armor of Edens, Brigandine. And you will be facing me."''

The Armor of Edens and Valkyrie's counterpart, a proud warrior who finds meaning in every battle. His body is made of seemingly invincible armor, while his attack power is the greatest of all the Four Dark Stars.
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Following his role in the attack on Poseidon Nero's palace, Brigandine is given a new body and upgraded to '''Brigandine Mark II'''.

* AchillesHeel: His greatest weakness is that, no matter how high he raises his defenses, he has to lower them in the instant he goes on the offensive. [[spoiler:Homura exploits this by leaving herself open to an attack to cut him to pieces in her Overdrive form.]]
* AmbiguouslyBrown: [[spoiler:Brigandine's human appearance looks like an ordinary human man with the same dark skin color as Valkyrie, but also a light shade of hair (Valkyrie's hair, which is rosy pink, is left white in uncolored images just like Brigandine's).]]
* AnimatedArmor: In contrast to Valkyrie, a RidiculouslyHumanRobot with TwentyFourHourArmor, Brigandine appears to be 100% armor, albet mechanized.
* AntagonistInMourning: Compared to the other Dark Stars, who are eager to kill their Shining Star counterparts, or glad to be rid of them when they appear to be dead, Brigandine is upset that Valkyrie died before they could meet, because [[UnfulfilledPurposeMisery it leaves him without his purpose of beating her]]. [[spoiler:He suffers no such angst in Universe Zero, where Valkyrie is still alive.]]
* ArmCannon: He can turn his arm into a WaveMotionGun that fires a massive energy beam, though he doesn't use it [[spoiler:outside Universe Zero, where he's been upgraded]].
* BaritoneOfStrength: The anime gives him a deep voice to match his role as TheBrute in the Four Dark Stars.
* BishonenLine: [[spoiler:After two models where he simply resembles a suit of AnimatedArmor, Brigandine's most powerful model gives him his original, humanoid face, which he only has after the CosmicRetcon.]]
* BlackKnight: Brigandine Mark I's armor is jet black, and he's one of Ziggy's most powerful minions with a past as mysterious as his fellow Dark Stars.
* BloodKnight: The guy lives for good old-fashioned battle, with nothing for him and his opponent to rely on but their own strength and skill. It's such a big deal to him that his fellow Dark Stars tease him for it.
* TheBrute: He's the largest and most physically powerful of the Dark Stars, and his challenge comes from his raw strength and durability.
* BrutishCharacterBrutishWeapon: As TheBrute of the Four Dark Stars, he's occasionally shown carrying a massive battle axe, though he doesn't use one [[spoiler:until his fight with Valkyrie in Universe Zero]].
* CoolHelmet: His head as Brigandine Mark II is a lion-shaped helmet that makes him look more like a BeastMan.
* DarkIsEvil: His Mark I model covered from head to toe in [[BlackKnight black armor]]. He's also an evil android who fights to fulfill Ziggy's will to KillAllHumans.
* DashAttack: His Armored Pressure is a shoulder barge where he slams into his enemy at maximum speed and power. [[spoiler:The downside is that it also lightens his otherwise impenetrable defenses enough for a sufficiently powerful attack to damage him, while the barge itself forces him to charge headlong into said attack.]]
* DubNameChange: His Protection Fortify ability is simply called "Protect Fortify" in Japanese.
* FairPlayVillain: He expresses dissatisfaction at the idea of needing to use tricks to defeat his enemies, telling Homura that he would much rather face her straight-on while the other Dark Stars drag their opponents into their own brands of trickery.
* ForceAndFinesse: Brigandine embodies the former compared to his counterpart, Valkyrie, and her successor, Homura. His attacks consist of straightforward punches and charges, but they pack incredible force that only the most powerful warriors can resist or avoid them.
* GracefulLoser: Brigandine is a good enough sport to accept when he's beaten with grace. [[spoiler:He shows this when Homura manages to cut him to pieces in their battle on Lendard, praising her as a valiant warrior as he crumbles apart.]]
* LightIsNotGood: His Mark II armor is a light shade of grey as opposed to Mark I's [[BlackKnight black armor]], but his willingness to drive humans to extinction doesn't change.
* LightningBruiser: On top of his incredible durablity and physical might, his Armored Pressure attack lets him barge towards his opponent at enhanced speed.
* NobleDemon: He's no less on board with killing all humans than the rest of the crew, but he's also the only one who treats his opponents with any respect, human or otherwise. He speaks highly of Valkyrie, his supposedly inferior counterpart, and he doesn't devalue Homura's suitability as her successor until she fails to meet his expectations in battle, [[spoiler:which gives way to [[WorthyOpponent admiration and acceptance]] when she finds a way to beat him]].
* NonIndicativeName: A [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brigandine brigandine]] is a light, flexible upper body armor consisting of smaller metal plates strung together within a leather or fabric cover, which doesn't describe the heavy full-body armor that makes up this guy's body.
* NotSoInvincibleAfterAll: As Brigandine Mark II, he boasts that he was given reinforced armor that can't be cut or destroyed by anything after getting upgraded. [[spoiler:Homura proves him wrong by finding an AchillesHeel that leaves his armor weaker the very instant he attacks, allowing her to carve him up like butter.]]
* RedEyesTakeWarning: His first model is given red eyes in the anime, fitting an evil, human-hating robot like him.
* ShouldersOfDoom: His Mark II model has big, bulky shoulder plates that make each of his arms look almost as this as his center body.
* SuperStrength: He's physically the strongest of the Four Dark Stars, which he shows by punching with such force that Homura can't parry it with her sword, and casually hurls a heavy metal cylinder larger than his own body.
* SuperToughness: His greatest asset is his virtually impenetrable defense, though that doesn't do him a lick of good against Jaguar, a foe with far greater physical strength. As Brigandine Mark II, he's [[TookALevelInBadass rebuilt with increased defenses]] that prevents Homura from dealing any damage to him, even when she's in [[SuperMode Overdrive]] with three years of training under her belt. [[spoiler:As Homura discovers and exploits, however, Brigandine has to lower his defenses the instant he attacks. While she takes great damage in the process, it's what let her takes him down.]]
* TinyHeadedBehemoth: He's a massive hulk of an android with arms almost as long and wide as the rest of his body from neck to foot, yet his head is disproportionately small.
* TookALevelInBadass: In the Lendard arc, Brigandine is upgraded to surpass the power of Jaguar, one of the most powerful warriors in the universe, who [[spoiler:handily wrecked him in the Nero 66 arc]].
* TopHeavyGuy: His Mark II body has much shorter legs proportionate to his torso than his Mark I model, while his arms are large enough to reach the ground.
* UnfulfilledPurposeMisery: He suffers from this due to the death of Valkyrie, the android he was created to defeat, leaving him in a state of [[AntagonistInMourning mourning]]. He thereby takes to defeating Homura, Valkyrie's successor, as his chance to give his life meaning. [[spoiler:He eventually finds his original purpose again thanks to the CosmicRetcon bringing Valkyrie BackFromTheDead.]]
* VillainRespect: Despite being built to surpass her, Brigandine is highly respectful of Valkyrie's strength, and comes to deem the less powerful Homura to be an InadequateInheritor to the title of "Sword of Edens". [[spoiler:Homura eventually earns his respect as well by defeating him nearly at the cost of her own life.]]
* WeHardlyKnewYe: {{Subverted}}. He seems like a throwaway villain when [[spoiler:he gets demolished in the Nero 66 arc with little fanfare]], but he's shown to have been repaired and upgraded after the TimeSkip, getting more characterization and a bigger showcase of his abilities in the Lendard arc.

!!Allies and Associates

[[folder:Müller]]
!!Dr. Müller
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Yōhei Tadano (Japanese), John Snyder (English)[[labelnote: Foreign [=VAs=]]]Sergio Schmied [Season 1], Jesús Cortés [Season 2] (Latin American Spanish), Patrice Dozier (French), Creator/RiccardoPeroni (Italian)[[/labelnote]]
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->''"'''Everyone''' knows humans are superior! I will wipe every living bot from this cosmos!!!! I can't stand by and let '''machines''' go around pretending to be human!!!!"''

A demented mad scientist who menaces the ''Edens Zero'' crew time and time again. Originally a human with a distaste for robots, he eventually rebuilt himself as an [[{{Cyborg}} O-Tech]] and allied himself with the ''Edens One'' crew to satisfy his twisted experiments.

* AmbiguousRobot: Applies to his final appearance [[spoiler:in Universe Zero, where he becomes a more monstrous, robotic version of himself after chemically bonding himself with a replica of Xenolith. While he describes the real Xenolith's BrainUploading as a form of chemical bonding, Müller is also capable of bleeding human blood, which makes it unclear whether he's a cyborg, a complete android, or some mish-mash of human and machine.]]
* ArcVillain:
** {{Downplayed}} with his role in the Foresta arc. Ziggy is the one responsible for building the server that drives the planet's robots insane, but Müller still has influence over the robots' behavior with it, and is positioned as the main and final obstacle the heroes must overcome in the arc.
** [[spoiler:His Universe Zero self serves this role in the Reunion arc during the crew's revisit to the Aoi Cosmos. While he's a minion of Void here, Müller acts of his own accord to take control of Shura's Empire and become one of the Oración Seis Galáctica.]]
* AxCrazy: Müller is a cruel and sadistic maniac who takes great pleasure in torturing and massacring others ForScience.
* ArrogantKungFuGuy: [[spoiler:Universe Zero's Müller becomes one after he steals Xenolith's [[GravityMaster gravity powers]] without bothering to learn the proper Magimech techniques, convinced that his raw, planet-destroying power makes him enough of a threat.]]
* BaldOfEvil: The present-day Müller has lost most of his hair compared to when he met Hermit, but is still plenty evil. [[spoiler:His Universe Zero self, who's even more evil and deranged, loses his hair entirely when he fuses with his fake Xenolith.]]
* BigBadWannabe: [[spoiler:Universe Zero's Müller aims to become a MultiversalConqueror on the same level as Void, the BigBad, which he thinks he can accomplish by stealing Xenolith's gravity power and Rebecca's time power. Not only does he fail to realize that Universe Zero is a MergedReality where travel between other Universes is impossible, but he proves to be [[UnskilledButStrong pathetically unskilled]] as a GravityMaster compared to Shiki and Shura, who beat him silly in no time at all.]]
* BitchInSheepsClothing: He initially presents himself to Hermit as a kind and humble friend to bots so they can help him in his plan to destroy Planet Hook and its entire bot population. Once he exposes his true colors, he permanently casts off his friendly image.
* ChainsawGood: To demonstrate what an AxCrazy fellow he is, some of his experiments involve the use of a chainsaw to dismember his human test subjects.
* {{Cyborg}}: He is an O-Tech in the story proper outside of Hermit's DarkAndTroubledPast, having [[WeCanRebuildHim rebuilt himself]] after a prison breakout GoneHorriblyWrong, with his head being the only organic part of his body left.
* CombatTentacles: His cybernetic body in the Foresta arc has three mechanical tendrils in place of his right arm, which generate an electrical shock powerful enough to paralyze Weisz's body and dismantle his Arsenal Suit.
* DirtyCoward: Müller proves himself a sniveling coward once his body is destroyed in the Foresta arc, pitifully [[VillainsWantMercy begging for mercy]] from those whose lives he'd made into a living hell, namely Hermit.
* {{EMP}}: He has one in his arsenal of gadgets, which he uses to [[spoiler:DePower Xenolith and take his GravityMaster powers in Universe Zero]].
* EvilGloating: He's such a scumbag that he often brags about his own genius and the horrors he's inflicted on others, as Hermit can attest to when he rubs her responsibility for helping him destroy Hook her face.
* EvilLuddite: {{Downplayed}} when he was younger. As a scientist and technician, he fully embraces machines that can help advance humanity. Rather, he'd despise [[FantasticRacism machines who look and act like humans]], and was driven to wipe them out of the cosmos. Since his conversion into a {{Cyborg}}, however, he has new appreciation for androids--just not enough to consider them as real people.
* EvilIsPetty: Müller has multiple instances of committing horrible acts of evil for the pettiest reasons. Case in point, he destroys a dying robot planet because it wasn't dying fast enough for his tastes, murders his ex-financial backers for cutting him loose after his crimes are exposed, and [[KidnappedForExperimentation kidnaps their children for experimentation]] just to rub salt in the wound.
%%* EvilLaugh:
%%* EvilMakesYouMonstrous:
* EvilMakesYouUgly: At first, Müller looks like a trustworthy scientist with nothing to indicate his evil nature. After his betrayal, he undergoes a MadnessMakeover that leaves him ungroomed with thinning hair. As the years go on, he becomes a monstrous O-Tech with almost no hair, making him unrecognizable from his friendly facade.
* EvilOldFolks: He is an old, robot-hating bastard who tricks Hermit into helping him build a DoomsdayDevice to obliterate a nearby bot planet, then keeps her alive to experiment on her.
* FalseFriend: He's the first human friend Hermit ever made--all the easier for him to use her intellect against robot-kind.
* FeelingOppressedByTheirExistence: His genocide against robots boils down to the fact that he can't stand the sight of "living" machines that look and act like people, calling them garbage and viewing them as a mockery of humanity. However, he abandons this mindset after converting himself into a {{Cyborg}} and finding he quite enjoys being part-robot.
%%* ForScience:
* FusionDance: [[spoiler:Universe Zero's Müller is chemically bonded with an EvilKnockoff of Xenolith so that he may use the gravity powers he stole from the real Xenolith.]]
* GeniusBruiser: [[spoiler:{{Subverted}}. Universe Zero's Müller thinks he's this after stealing Xenolith's gravity powers all for himself, but while he's still an unmatched scientific genius, he has no knowledge of Gravity Martial Arts needed to effectively use those powers in battle, which results in him getting quickly trounced by Shiki and Shura.]]
* GravityMaster: [[spoiler:He becomes one in Universe Zero after stealing Xenolith's gravity powers, which is strong enough to reduce all of planet Foresta to nothing.]]
* HateSink: Müller stands among one of the most despicable, irredeemably evil villains in the ''EDENS ZERO'' universe, which he establishes by acting as Hermit's FalseFriend just to use her to complete a DoomsdayDevice, then by keeping her as his personal punching bag for two years. [[spoiler:He's also one of the few villains to not [[TookALevelInKindness take a level in kindness]] after the CosmicRetcon, remaining a vile bastard to the end.]]
* InsufferableGenius: Müller is a certified genius who often toots his own horn about his own accomplishments. In fact, the [[UsefulNotes/JapaneseWritingSystem kanji]] for "genius" is engraved on his back in his O-Tech body.
* JustAMachine: He takes his FantasticRacism against androids to far greater extremes than most, not just believing that androids have no emotions, but aiming to destroy any where he can find them [[FeelingOppressedByTheirExistence so he won't have to deal with their existence]].
%%* LaughablyEvil:
* LoonyFan: [[spoiler:Müller serves as one for [[BigBad Void]] in Universe Zero; just knowing that Void wants to assemble 10 powerful androids is enough to tickle Müller's love of [[SpeaksInBinary zeros and ones]], and he all too eagerly builds and fuses himself with an android of the Oración Seis Galáctica to help usher in Void's age of conquest.]]
* LosingYourHead: Müller's O-Tech body is designed in a way that allows him to survive as just a head after it gets destroyed.
* MadScientist: He's the ringleader of a whole team of them, dedicating himself to building a MagicalParticleAccelerator that could be easily repurposed into a DoomsdayDevice for a planet of machines, and keeping all the surviving robots on hand as lab rats to satisfy his sadistic cravings. He also turned to experimenting on Jinn and Kleene when they were only children so he could rebuild himself as the ultimate O-Tech after losing much of his old body in an explosion.
* MadnessMakeover: After two years of non-stop experimentation on Hermit, his hair becomes disheveled and he has PermaStubble, a reflection of his fractured mental state by the time he's finally arrested. It gets worse when he returns in the present day fifteen years later, his hair whittling away to thin strands, and his eyes completely stuck with HellishPupils, giving him a creepier and more inhuman appearance than ever before.
%%* ManipulativeBastard: He tricks the naive Hermit to obtain her full cooperation in a project to create an Ether accelerator, claiming it would save Planet Hook from its Ether shortage. The truth is he wanted to destroy Planet Hook merely because [[FantasticRacism it was a planet of robots]].
%%* MaskOfSanity: He takes the cake among his old team. While the others still act FauxAffablyEvil after revealing their true colors, Müller's persona permanently flips from a calm and grandfatherly figure to a cartoonish, cackling madman.
* MotiveDecay: His original motivation to destroy all robots was never deep to begin with, but ever since he broke out of prison, his goals have devolved to simply making Hermit suffer and practicing general human experimentation to upgrade his own cyborg body.
%%* NeverMyFault: As he explains to Weisz and Hermit of the time he was imprisoned, Müller blames a possible conspiracy for "falsely" imprisoning him, even though he was imprisoned for having blown up planet Hook and having tortured Hermit.
%%* NoSell: He boasts while fighting Arsenal that his years of research and torturing others went into improving his new body so that it would be immune to many different forms of attack, repeatedly claiming that nothing Weisz does is actually hurting him. [[TemptingFate He dearly underestimates how dangerous and creative]] a {{Technopath}} with a grudge really is.
* NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist: He proclaims that the research he conducts is dedicated to saving countless human lives, yet he tortures and kills human beings to further improve his O-Tech body.
%%* ObliviouslyEvil: Exaggerated. He has committed genocide on the remaining robots on Hook and has murdered humans to further the growth of his O-Tech body, yet views his research and goals to be noble in saving countless lives.
* TheParalyzer: One of his functions as an O-Tech is to generate an electrical pulse that paralyzes his victims' nerves, leaving them unable to move for limited periods of time.
* PowerParasite: [[spoiler:He steals Xenolith's gravity powers for himself in Universe Zero, giving him the ability to crush a planet if he so chooses. When he fights Shiki and Shura, however, he's met with a rude awakening that stealing power doesn't mean he knows how to use it effectively.]]
* PsychopathicManchild: He celebrates the destruction of Hook with almost childlike glee, and when the military finally captures him, he's dragged away kicking and screaming for them not to touch his "lab rat".
* {{Sadist}}: He gets disgustingly sick enjoyment out of subjecting poor Hermit to ColdBloodedTorture for two years straight.
* SanitySlippage: He was quite insane to begin with, but his mental health takes a further nosedive after experimenting on Hermit for two years non-stop simply to amuse himself, something that troubles [[EvenEvilHasStandards the rest of his team]].
* ScatterbrainedSenior: [[spoiler:His SanitySlippage in Universe Zero takes such a toll that Müller's memory is almost completely shot, demonstrated when he goes looking for a missing coffee mug and thinking it was lost in a spacetime distortion, despite holding said mug in his hand the entire time.]]
* SinisterSchnoz: His long nose is the first hint that he's up to no good, despite acting friendly.
%%* SlasherSmile:
* SmugSnake: He wholly believes himself and the human race to be better than robots in every way, and is disgusted by the existence of machines built to imitate his "superior" race.
%%* TerrifiedOfGerms:
* TookALevelInBadass:
** As shown in the Foresta arc, Müller goes from an ordinary human scientist to a deadly {{Cyborg}} who can hold his own against Weisz's PoweredArmor without much trouble.
** [[spoiler:ZigZagged in Universe Zero, where he becomes one of the Oración Seis Galáctica when he imbues himself with Xenolith's gravity power. While this makes him one of the most powerful beings in the universe, he lacks the proper technique to use this power in combat, and is beaten by the more experienced Shiki and Shura within moments.]]
%%* TortureTechnician: He put Hermit through hell by dismantling and reassembling her body for two years straight, and he cut off the limbs of a young Jinn as he forced Kleene to watch.
* TranshumanTreachery:
* TreacherousAdvisor: [[spoiler:He becomes one in Universe Zero, where he is the head of the Aoi Cosmos's Imperial Science Department.]]
%%* UnskilledButStrong: [[spoiler:His fusion with his fake Xenolith is this.
%%* UnusualEars:
%%* VoiceChangeling: [[spoiler:He has a voice changer that lets him imitate Shiki's voice and fool Rebecca into walking into a trap.]]
%%* WhoNeedsTheirWholeBody: Arsenal cuts him in half at the waist with [[BladeBelowTheShoulder Grandee Wing]], but he just laughs it off and retaliates while musing on how becoming an O-Tech lets him ignore things like this. This ends up contributing to his defeat, however, as [[BigDamnHeroes Laguna arrives]] and short-circuits him via hitting an exposed sparking wire in his severed torso with water.
%%* WouldHurtAChild: He dismembered a young Jinn [[ChainsawGood with a chainsaw]] as part of his "experiments". Just to push the envelope further, [[ForcedToWatch he made Kleene watch the whole thing]], leaving her emotionally crippled.
%%* WalkingSpoiler:

[[folder:Deadend Crow]]
!!Deadend Crow

->See Characters/EdensZeroOracionSeisGalactica

[[folder:Crow's Creator ('''Unmarked Spoilers''')]]
!!Cure

->See Characters/EdensZeroInterstellarUnionArmy

[[folder:God Acnoella]]
!!God Acnoella

->See Characters/EdensZeroOracionSeisGalactica

[[folder:Skeleton Army]]
!!Skeleton Army
[[/folder]]

!!!Final Arc Allies ('''Heavy Spoilers''')

[[folder:Joker Helix]]
!!Joker Helix
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->''"Play a game with me, Rebecca."''

A member of the Oración Seis Galáctica in Universe Zero. Joker was originally a [[UsefulNotes/GameEngine game engine]] developed by Professor Weisz, but grew beyond her programming and spread to other computers across the cosmos, gaining a body of her own. She comes equipped with a Delta Time Reactor, which slows time down within a given area until it's virtually frozen.

* AIIsACrapshoot: Joker was [[InstantAIJustAddWater an A.I.-powered game engine]] that went rogue when she kept absorbing information until she gained a mind of her own, and is now a minion of Void. [[spoiler:However, it's discussed just how much of a hand Void had in her rebellion, since she had the makings of a BenevolentAI.]]
* ArcVillainess: She acts on behalf of [[BigBad Void]] as the antagonist of the Miltz arc, where she attempts to steal the Mother Ether the ''Edens Zero'' crew collected, while also acting as a personal enemy to Rebecca.
* BadInfluencer: {{Subverted}}. Rebecca and Happy figure Joker is a B-Cuber they once heard about, but get no results when they look her up online. It turns out she was never a B-Cuber, but [[InstantAIJustAddWater a rogue gaming software]].
* BenevolentAI: [[spoiler:Before going rogue, Joker started out as a gaming A.I. that found joy in helping give players the best gaming experience she could provide. Given the ease that Rebecca [[TalkingTheMonsterToDeath talks her into surrendering]], it's implied she was simply corrupted by Void and never stopped being the good A.I. she always was.]]
* CharacterCatchphrase: She repeatedly says "Play a game with me, Rebecca," demonstrating her single-minded obsession with Rebecca.
* TheDarkSideWillMakeYouForget: [[spoiler:Before she became Void's minion, all Joker wanted was to make games and [[ForHappiness help people have fun playing them]]. Since then, her purpose has been twisted into obsessively playing with Rebecca, and only Rebecca, the first person who ever played with her.]]
* FairPlayVillain: When she warps Rebecca into her game worlds, Joker gives her hints and opportunities to figure out how each game works.
* ForHappiness: [[spoiler:Rebecca figures out Joker's true desire for making games is to help improve people's experiences with them.]]
* ForgottenFriendNewFoe: {{Downplayed}}. As an A.I.-powered game engine, she was only just starting to develop sentience when Rebecca started playing her games, but grew fond enough of her to want to keep her to herself after becoming one of Void's followers. Rebecca, on the other hand, only barely remembers her name at first, and never realized she was sentient.
* FriendToAllChildren: [[spoiler:Her first known act of sentience was to add a hint to a young Rebecca to help her beat one of her games, since Professor Weisz made it [[NintendoHard impossible to beat without sheer luck]]. Rebecca's recollection of this is what convinces her that the real Joker is actually kind to everyone.]]
%%* GameFace: After Rebecca beats her game to rescue Shiki and Professor Weisz, Joker remains so unsatisfied and obsessed that her OneWayVisor displays a monstrous-looking face with a single eye and sharp teeth. This quickly turns out not to be her real face, however.
* GrewBeyondTheirProgramming: Joker Helix started out as a gaming software Professor Weisz developed to make games for Rebecca. Thanks to her [[AIIsACrapshoot fickle A.I.]] absorbing too much info, however, it grew into something beyond the Professor's control, becoming a follower of the BigBad.
* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:Rebecca [[TalkingTheMonsterToDeath talks her into one]] at the end of the Miltz arc, reminding her of the kindhearted entertainer she truly was before becoming Void's minion, which leads Joker to end her attack on the crew and leave peacefully.]]
* IJustWantToBeLoved: [[spoiler:Rebecca realizes that everything Joker does, even the illicit behavior she displays, stems from a desire to make games more fun for players. When Rebecca reminds Joker of that purpose, Joker's originally kind personality resurfaces.]]
* MadnessMantra: She is prone to this when her games with Rebecca don't go as planned, repeatedly chanting "No fair" when Professor Weisz summons a [[HumongousMecha giant Happy robot]] against her, and "Play with me" when Rebecca refuses to go along with her games anymore.
* MeaningfulName: The name "Joker" alludes to her intended purpose as an entertainer.
* MesACrowd: She has at least 100 duplicates of herself, with each copy coming with her own Delta Time Reactor. This not only helps spread her time-stopping powers further, but also allows her to multi-task in hunting the ''Edens Zero'' crew's Mother Ether and playing with Rebecca. The downside is that the clones are far weaker than the real Joker, and their time-slowing powers have a smaller AreaOfEffect.
* TheMostDangerousVideoGame: More specifically, she's a dangerous UsefulNotes/GameEngine in an android body with the power to create elaborate and dangerous dimensions that run on video game logic. While she doesn't go out of her way to harm Rebecca, the object of her obsession, she does attempt to [[DeadlyGame actually drown Shiki and Professor Weisz]] after getting fed up with their interference.
* OneWayVisor: She wears a dark visor that completely hides her real face and functions as a computer screen. After her HeelFaceTurn, the tint lifts to reveal a beautiful, humanoid face underneath.
* PrehensileHair: Her hair is made up of cables resembling dreadlocks, which she can manipulate freely as her primary form of attack.
* PsychopathicWomanchild: As one of the BigBad's servants, Joker has the child-like motivation of keeping Rebecca for herself so they can play games forever, and throws a tantrum when Professor Weisz starts "ruining" her games by modifying them beyond her liking.
* SpaceMaster: Joker sends Rebecca into interconnected {{Pocket Dimension}}s that force her to adhere to video game logic and mechanics, such as a pixelated ThreeQuartersView world where movement is limited and abilities are accessed through a menu, and a FightingGame world where combatants have a LifeMeter and [[CheeseStrategy Cheese Strategies]] are plausible. Shiki and Professor Weisz are also able to enter these dimensions from the outside.
* TimeStandsStill: {{Downplayed}}. Her Delta Time Reactor can make time appear like it's been frozen for everyone but herself, but it really just slows time down to a crawl within an AreaOfEffect. This gives Professor Weisz an edge when he puts together a device that cancels out her reactor, which kicks into effect while he's still "frozen".
* {{Unperson}}: Rebecca and Hermit find no traces of Joker's identity online, and conclude she completely removed all evidence of her existence from the internet to prevent herself from being tracked. Given TheReveal that she was actually a game engine and not a person, however, it's unclear if there was ever any public info about her true identity to erase.
* VengefulAbandonedToy: {{Downplayed}}. Before gaining sentience, Joker was used to make video games for Rebecca when she was little, which Rebecca had since almost forgotten about. Now Joker is obsessed with forcing Rebecca to play with her again like the good old days, but otherwise holds no hard feelings against her.

[[folder:Lightning Law]]
!!Lightning Law
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->''"This fantasy of coexistence between androids and humans is coming to an end."''

One of the Oración Seis Galáctica in Universe Zero. Law has power over electricity, which allows him to manipulate machinery to his will.
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* BadBoss: He shows how little he cares for the Skeleton Army bots under his command by casually destroying one of them with his own hands, and later by using his power to force the army back to their feet every time they're broken by Shiki.
* BladeBelowTheShoulder: He can fuse his fingers into a single Ether blade, which he uses to stab Shiki straight through the chest.
* BodySurf: He can possess other androids by [[ElementalShapeshifter turning into electricity]], and then destroy them from within by returning to his original form.
* FlatCharacter: Law receives very little characterization outside of being one of Void's followers [[spoiler:and is destroyed a small handful of chapters after he's introduced]].
* HeroKiller: Law has the strength and emotional cunning to kill [[spoiler:Shiki after forcing him into a MomentOfWeakness, though his feat is undone when Rebecca discovers a way to reverse time in Universe Zero.]]
* ManipulativeBastard: Law knows precisely how to get under Shiki's skin and throw him off his game, which he does by forcing Shiki to keep fighting the Skeleton Army until they're completely demolished, which goes against Shiki's stance of completely killing his enemies. [[spoiler:Law takes advantage of this MomentOfWeakness to kill Shiki.]]
* MeaningfulName: Fittingly for a robot named ''Lightning'' Law, he has [[ShockAndAwe electrical powers]].
* NoNonsenseNemesis: ZigZagged. [[spoiler:He wastes zero time killing Shiki the very instant he hesitates to demolish Void's Skeleton Army due to his [[AndroidsArePeopleToo compassion for robots]], but stands idly by when Rebecca enters the picture and successfully reverses time to save Shiki, even when she finds she has to strip naked to activate her power in this world.]]
* RobotMaster: His Metal Gore Hypnos is a MarionetteMaster ability that specifically affects robots, who are forced to follow his command and fight for him as long as they're still in one piece, no matter how damaged they are.
* ShockAndAwe: His powers involve the use of electricity, which gives him some manner of control over other androids like the ''Edens One''[='=]s Skeleton Army.
* SinisterMinister: His robes and ''mudra'' hand gestures give him the image of an Eastern monk, but he's also one of the BigBad's minions.
* SuperToughness: He has the endurance to withstand being rammed by Rebecca's Leo starfighter and come out completely unscathed. [[spoiler:Laguna works around this by [[KillItWithWater soaking]] and [[KillItWithIce flash-freezing]] Law, making his body brittle enough to cut to pieces.]]
* {{Technopath}}: His Metal Gore Hypnos technique allows him to [[RobotMaster control other robots against their wills]] until they're completely reduced to scrap metal. He can also demolish machines like starfighters with a single touch.
* UnusualEyebrows: His eyebrows are shaped vaguely like shooting stars.
* WeaksauceWeakness: [[spoiler:He's touted as one of the strongest androids in the universe, yet he easily short-circuits when exposed to [[KillItWithWater ordinary water]] just like any other machine. This weakness is only circumvented by how his electricity makes it riskier for someone to use that water without getting fried themselves.]]

[[folder:Lady Freyja]]
!!Lady Freyja

One of the Oración Seis Galáctica in Universe Zero.
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* TheDreaded: The mere mention that she's one of the ''Edens Zero'' crew's enemies is enough to make a hardened MasterSwordswoman like Valkyrie quiver with fear.
* ReligiousAndMythologicalThemeNaming: Freyja, the WorldsBestWarrior in the series, is named after the Norse goddess of the same name, who represents war among other things.
* WorldsBestWarrior: She's a [[MasterSwordsman legendary swordswoman]] said to be the pinnacle of all warriors in the cosmos, and has mastered every martial weapon there is.

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[[folder:Neepa]]
!!Neepa
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Yūya Murakami (Japanese), Creator/KyleHebert (English)[[note]]'''Other languages:''' Simone Marzola (French)[[/note]]

[[folder:Noah Glenfield]]
!!Noah Glenfield
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/NobuhikoOkamoto (Japanese), Creator/BillyKametz (English)

!R

[[folder:Rebecca Bluegarden]]
!!Rebecca Bluegarden
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/MikakoKomatsu (Japanese), Creator/KiraBuckland (English)[[note]]'''Other languages:''' Franziska Trunte (German), Sixnalie Villalba (Latin American Spanish), Silvia Sarmentera (European Spanish), Anaïs Delva, Sofia Elfriede Bocchiola [young] (French), Erica Laiolo (Italian), Hannah Buttel (Portuguese)[[/note]]
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!S

[[folder:Saintfire Nox ('''Unmarked Spoilers''')]]
!!Saintfire Nox (Rachel)
!!!'''Debut:''' Chapter 199 (Manga)
!!!'''Ether Gear:''' [[TimeRewindMechanic Cat]] [[SuperSpeed Leaper]]
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->''"Rebecca... If there's one thing I want you to know, it's this... Not a single day went by that I didn't think of you. I've always loved you."''

The Archbishop of the Church of Saintfire, a cult on the Planet Miltz with jurisdiction over time. Her true identity is Rebecca's long-lost mother and Connor's ex-wife, Rachel, and the last of her bloodline to inherit the name of Nox. Like her daughter, Rachel could manipulate time itself with the power of Cat Leaper, but she has long since exhausted this power after countless failures to find a world where she and her family could live happily together.
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* AccentAdaptation: Rachel speaks with a rural [[UsefulNotes/JapaneseDialects Tosa dialect]] in Japanese, just like her daughter does when she gets angry or flustered. For Kodansha's translation, she's turned into a SouthernBelle.
* ActionMom: She's Rebecca's mom and one of the greatest fighters in the cosmos, capable of giving the BigBad a run for his money.
%%* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: Thanks to her age and experience, Rachel is a more skillful TimeMaster than Rebecca. She's also a superior dominatrix to Sister,
* AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents: Rachel is comically affectionate and smothering towards Rebecca after they make up, with her first proposed acts of family bonding being to [[BathtubBonding take a bath together]] and sleeping in the same bed as Connor.
* AmicableExes: After their reunion, Rachel and Connor are shown to love each other as passionately as they did eighteen years ago before Rachel was forced to leave him for his own protection from her cult.
* BadassInDistress: Her first proper introduction in the series happens while she's in a coma under Ziggy's captivity, requiring the ''Edens Zero'' crew to rescue her.
* BadassPreacher: As an archbishop and one of the Galáctica, she allegedly put up one hell of a fight against Ziggy, being the SoleSurvivor of her church during his invasion.
* BigDamnReunion: She reunites with her beloved daughter and husband at the end of the Lendard arc, with all three holding each other and crying TearsOfJoy after everything that led to their separation has been cleared up.
* DirtyBusiness: As much as she realizes it was the only way to protect her family, Rachel feels horribly broken up over having to leave Connor and send Rebecca away, especially after she'd learned Rebecca's caretakers ran off and left her to fend for herself.
* ForbiddenLove: Her marriage with Connor was considered taboo to her church, who didn't take kindly to outsiders having a relationship with their soon-to-be Archbishop, punishing them with death. With this custom being long-abandoned by the time she reunites with Connor, they more than happily pick up where they left off.
* GiveHerANormalLife: She was forced to give up Rebecca when her church's fanatics came for her life, since they refused to accept a successor to Rachel with an unknown pedigree.
* GoodShepherd: Despite being forced into leadership of a CorruptChurch and being branded as one of the Galáctica because of it, Rachel remains a good and honest woman, and notes that the church started to abandon its corrupt practices and traditions sometime after she assumed her title.
* HighPriest: She's the Church of Saintfire's Archbishop.
* ItsNotYouItsMyEnemies: Her [[HappilyMarried loving marriage]] with Connor was broken when her church came for her and killed him. After reversing time and preventing her husband's death, she was forced to go back to them without a word to him for his protection, taking their daughter with her.
* LegacyCharacter: "Saintfire Nox" is just a title that's passed down to the leaders of her family's church, which took on a life of its own thanks to her mother's reputation as TheDreaded, permanently associating it with the Galáctica.
* MommyHadAGoodReasonForAbandoningYou: In the timelines where she brought Rebecca to the Church of Saintfire with her, Rebecca always ended up being killed by a fanatical faction. After using up her time-reversing power to save Rebecca, Rachel was left with no option but to send Rebecca to the Sakura Cosmos for her own safety. Once Rebecca hears Rachel's reasons and how painful it was for her mother to leave her, Rebecca is able to forgive her.
* MuggleMageRomance: She's descended from a long line of the universe's most powerful {{Time Master}}s, but settled down with an ordinary space captain (then a lieutenant commander) like Connor.
* MysteriousParent: Rebecca is shocked to find out her long-lost mother is one of the Galáctica, and an archbishop who can control time.
* NakedOnArrival: She's naked in her first official appearance because she's inside one of Ziggy's PeopleJars.
* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: Ziggy's capture of Rachel happened off-screen, but according to him, she didn't go down without a fight, ending up the only one of her cult to survive.
* OldFlame: She and Connor were HappilyMarried before she was forced to leave him with their unborn daughter. When they find each other again after eighteen years, they resume their loving, passionate relationship without a hitch.
* RankScalesWithAsskicking: As her church's Archbishop, she is also its most powerful member with SuperSpeed and TimeMaster abilities.
* RescueIntroduction: In her proper introduction, Ziggy has captured her and trapped her inside one of his PeopleJars to pinpoint Mother's location. Shiki and his crewmates free her and take her to Sister for treatment.
* TheRunaway: In her younger days, she ran away from home because she didn't want anything to do with the Church of Saintfire, which lead to her meeting and marrying Connor.
* SharedFamilyQuirks: She has her daughter's explosive temper and violent tendencies, right down to the "''zeyo''/ducky" VerbalTic.
* SoleSurvivor: In multiple ways: she is the only known survivor of Ziggy's attack on the Church of Saintfire, the only living mother in Ziggy's collection of PeopleJars, and the last remaining member of the Galáctica's original roster besides the newcomer Shiki.
* SuperSpeed: By Sister's account, Rachel possesses speed that puts Rebecca's to shame, as she allegedly had Sister tied up and pinned to the ground a split second after waking up.
* SuperpowerfulGenetics: Her Cat Leaper ability is passed down through the women in her family, with Rachel inheriting hers from her mother, and Rebecca receiving her own Cat Leaper from Rachel.
* TimeMaster: Like her daughter, Rachel has [[TimeRewindMechanic Cat Leaper]], which is a power all the women of their family have. By the time she's introduced, however, she's already used up her ability to reverse time after thousands of attempts to stop her husband and daughter from getting killed.
* TokenGoodTeammate: To both the Church of Saintfire and the Oración Seis Galáctica in general. Like Elsie and Shiki, Rachel isn't villainous despite being branded as one of the most dangerous criminals of the cosmoses; she was just forced to become the leader of her mother's CorruptChurch because her husband and daughter would be killed if she refused.
* TomTheDarkLord: Despite being one of the six most powerful criminals in the cosmos, her actual first name is the rather unassuming "Rachel".
* UglyGuyHotWife: Rachel looks like a slightly older and more mature version of her daughter Rebecca, who already qualifies as MsFanservice. Meanwhile, her husband is the middle-aged, balding, overweight Captain Connor.
* WalkingSpoiler: She's revealed as Rebecca's long-lost mother upon introduction, making her role in the story a spoiler right away.
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[[folder:Sara]]
!!Sara
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Shiki Granbell]]
!!Shiki Granbell
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/TakumaTerashima, Yurie Kozakai [child] (Japanese), Creator/SeanChiplock, Creator/RyanBartley [child] (English)[[note]]'''Other languages:''' Tim Schwarzmaier, Derya Flechtner [young] (German), Felipe Vidal (Latin American Spanish), Ricardo Escobar (European Spanish), Benjamin Bollen, Estelle Darazi [young] (French), Mosè Singh, Pietro Novara [young] (Italian), Felipe Drummond (Portuguese)[[/note]]
[[/folder]]

!W

[[folder:Ward]]
!!Ward
!!!'''Voiced by: Sōma Shiomi (Japanese), Kane Jungbluth-Murry (English)'''[[note]]'''Other languages:''' Swan Demarsan (French)[[/note]]
[[/folder]]

!X

[[folder:Xenolith]]
!!Xenolith
[[/folder]]

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%%->''"Now is the age of mechanical life-forms. We will rule over all humankind."''

* AlternateSelf: He's a future version of Shiki from Universe 3173, where he was transported to 20,000 years into the future after trying to stop Shura's anti-matter bombs in Universe 2, if not a Universe just like it. As a consequence of the current Shiki choosing to not stop the bombs, Ziggy became a separate existence from Shiki in Universe 3, similar to Weisz and his older self.
* AppropriatedAppellation: Ziggy's name comes from Shiki's labored effort at pronouncing his own name while he's suffering from radioactive burns from the antimatter explosion, causing it to come out as "Jigi/Zhigi". Because [[TomatoInTheMirror he recognizes the name he was saying]], he says it with enough [[SayMyName clarity and intensity]] for his doctors to conclude his name must be Ziggy, while Shiki forgets his old name altogether due to TraumaInducedAmnesia.

* BrainUploading: His android body was [[UnwillingRoboticization unwillingly]] given to him with his mind intact due to the damage caused to Shiki's body during the {{Antimatter}} explosion that sent him through time.
* ChekhovsGunman: He turns out to be the unidentified human man discovered by robotic astronauts in the [[MeanwhileInTheFuture 20,000-year flash-forward]] way back in the Norma arc.
* ConquerorFromTheFuture: He's not just any mere GalacticConqueror; he's a conqueror from several thousand years in the future, where all other humans have died out and androids have taken their place.
* DeathOfPersonality: The loss of his memories also causes the loss of his old personality as Shiki, with Ziggy developing a more mild-mannered and worrisome persona over the decades he spent living on Eden, and eventually developing into the wise and mischievous old bot his current family knows. It's because of this disconnect that Ziggy [[ThatManIsDead no longer considers himself to be Shiki]], despite his awareness of who he used to be.
* DiscOneFinalBoss: After being set up as the BigBad that Ziggy has to defeat, Ziggy is revealed in the Lendard arc to have just been controlled by the real BigBad, the ''Edens One'', and pushes Shiki into killing him to prevent the ship's AI from taking control of him again.
* FallenHero: Ziggy was originally another version of TheHero himself, raised to [[AllLovingHero show compassion to all forms of life]], and wanting nothing more than to explore the cosmos and [[IJustWantToHaveFriends make hundreds of friends]]. Then he made a TragicMistake that flung him thousands of years into the future, losing his friends, memories, and identity, and his attempts to save the past only left him stranded there to become the ''Edens One''[='=]s helpless pawn.
* GoodAllAlong: Rather than an evil GalacticConqueror like he claimed to have been prior to his memory loss, Ziggy is revealed to be a would-be hero from the future who was simply [[GrandTheftMe taken control of by another]] and used to commit evil against his will, and was FightingFromTheInside to help his old friends however he could.
* GrandTheftMe: He's revealed to have been a victim of this since he was brought BackFromTheDead, with the perpetrator and Shiki's true enemy being the ''Edens One'' itself.
* HydePlaysJekyll: At the climax of the Lendard arc, Ziggy's good, real self pretends to fall back under the BigBad's control to motivate Shiki into killing him once and for all, [[DeathFakedForYou faking Pino's death]] to trigger Shiki's TraumaticSuperpowerAwakening. Shiki clues into the truth fairly quickly while fighting Ziggy and noticing he's using the same moves as when they trained together, but goes through with it anyway.
* ICannotSelfTerminate: Ziggy briefly regains control of himself during the Lendard arc thanks to Pino, but, knowing it won't last, begs Shiki to kill him and put him out of his misery so the ''Edens One'' won't use him as a pawn anymore. When Shiki hesitates, Ziggy [[HydePlaysJekyll pretends to fall back under control]] and [[DeathFakedForYou fakes Pino's death]] to motivate him.
* IHatePastMe: {{Subverted}}. As Shiki's future self, he seems convinced his past self is a threat to the universe and will stop at nothing to kill him, but this turns out to be because of the ''Edens One''[='=]s control. Ziggy's real personality still doesn't remember his past life, and holds no grudges against Shiki.
* IdentityAmnesia: Not once, but twice. First, he gained TraumaInducedAmnesia when he was rebuilt as a robot and realized he was Ziggy, his ArchEnemy who claimed the lives of his crew. Then, decades after he settled into a new life and set out on a mission back in time to save humanity, a Chronophage immediately caught his ship and erased his memory again, leaving him with nothing but his name and a damaged but salvageable ship.
* LastOfHisKind: He's the last known living human left in his home universe when he's found in the far future, and only because he was catapulted several millennia across time. Once he's turned into a machine, the human race is made extinct.
* NameAmnesia: {{Downplayed}}. His TraumaInducedAmnesia leaves Shiki unable to recall his name, resulting in the mangling of it to "Ziggy", but at least for a while he knew that wasn't actually his name. Several decades on, he settled into accepting Ziggy as his name, and once he discovers his past, [[ThatManIsDead he considers the name "Shiki" to belong to his past self]].
* OneWingedAngel: His [[SuperMode Overdrive]] form functions as this when he uses it against Shiki on Lendard, seriously jacking up his body mass and Ether power to such an extent that Shiki, who could previously match him blow for blow when Overdriving himself, suffers a CurbStompBattle.
* RebuiltPedestal: Shiki and the surviving Shining Stars regain their faith in Ziggy the moment it's revealed that he didn't willingly betray his friends or beliefs, tearfully paying him their respects after he's destroyed for good. {{Downplayed}} with Elsie, who comes to suspect the good man she knew was FightingFromTheInside when they fought, but doesn't live long enough to see for herself that she was right.
* RidiculouslyHumanRobot: His unmasked self appears perfectly human, but given the immediate reveal that his mind was uploaded into a fully mechanical body to [[WeCanRebuildHim rebuild him from death's door]], it's clear that his flesh and hair are synthetic upgrades given to him.
* ShoutOut: His mismatched eye brings to mind Music/DavidBowie, who sustained his famously hyper-dilated left pupil from an eye injury when he was fifteen, the same age Shiki was when he became Ziggy. Fitting, considering Mashima named Ziggy after [[Music/TheRiseAndFallOfZiggyStardustAndTheSpidersFromMars one of Bowie's songs]].
* SoleSurvivor: Ziggy is the only remaining member of the ''Edens Zero'' crew of his Universe, with the rest either killed in the explosion of Nero 66 or dead due to the 20,000 year TimeSkip caused by the detonation of the {{Antimatter}} bombs combined with his and Rebecca's Ether Gear.
* SplitPersonality: {{Subverted}}. After returning to normal, Ziggy speaks as though his evil behavior is because of another personality that was slowly [[SplitPersonalityTakeover taking over]] before he died, addressing him as "Ziggy" as though he himself were not. However, he clarifies for Shiki that this other "personality" is actually an entirely different entity who knew of his true identity and took control of him.
* ThatManIsDead: Both "personalities" of Ziggy feel this way about being Shiki, but for different reasons: the "evil" Ziggy simply [[IHatePastMe despises his past self]], while the "good" Ziggy still has IdentityAmnesia and can't see Shiki as anything but his grandson.
* TragicMonster: What he's revealed to have been all along. Not only was he a loving grandfather and philanthropist to humans and machines alike, but he also used to be Shiki himself, who lost his identity and friends after an attempt to save everyone GoneHorriblyWrong. Ever since coming BackFromTheDead, he's been reduced to little more than an extension to the ''Edens One''[='=]s will to wipe all humans from the cosmos, and [[ICannotSelfTerminate begs his grandson/past self for the release of death]] when he briefly returns to his old self.
* TragicTimeTraveler: Shiki was hurdled 20,000 years into the future by a disaster he couldn't prevent, killing all his friends and leaving him with TraumaInducedAmnesia under the belief that [[TomatoInTheMirror he'd become his own despised enemy]], which permanently [[DeathOfPersonality snuffed out his old identity]]. Then, when sent on a mission to return to the past and save TheMultiverse from extinction, he wound up TrappedInThePast with no memory of his mission to begin with, and was eventually [[GrandTheftMe overtaken]] by an evil A.I. that sought to wipe all human life from existence, destroying what good faith he'd built for himself by then.
* TranshumanTreachery: His desire to eradicate all humans takes on this shade when it's revealed he WasOnceAMan, though it's {{subverted}} in the end when it's revealed the ''Edens One'' was controlling him and forcing him to act against his true, human-loving nature all along.
* TraumaInducedAmnesia: The physical and mental damage Shiki suffers due to the exploding {{antimatter}} bombs, the 20,000-year time jump, the recognition of Ziggy's name, and realizing he's the only survivor of all his friends--complete with seeing Rebecca's corpse--badly affects his memory. The decades he spends in said future further destroy any memories of his past he still had, to the point that he admits to [[TheLostLenore Rebecca's corpse]] that he doesn't properly remember her anymore.
* UnreliableExpositor: After Ziggy drops the multiple bombshell reveals of his true identity and the factoring of TimeTravel into the story, Shiki and the overhearing Hermit and Sister immediately note that, even if they take it all as the truth, several things either don't add up or clearly aren't being elaborated on. Ziggy himself admits this, but also adds they don't ''need'' to know more than what he's already told them. When "Grandpa" Ziggy regains control of the body, he states even he hasn't remembered his life before reaching Universe 1, so he can't confirm or deny whether his possessed self was telling the truth about his true identity.
* WalkingSpoiler: He becomes an even bigger one than before with the reveal that he's a future version of TheHero who was actually hijacked by the ''Edens One''[='=]s AI.
* WasOnceAMan: He's a human whose body was so badly damaged from the explosion of spacetime that sent him to the future, it forced his robot caretakers to switch it out with a fully mechanical one.
* YouAreWhatYouHate: {{Subverted}}. He appears to believe that HumansAreTheRealMonsters despite being human originally, but this turns out to be a part of the ''Eden One''[='=]s control.

* BigGood: Void's lack of sway over Ziggy allows him to fulfill this position for the final arc, both by leaving the ''Edens Zero'' on Granbell so Shiki can begin his adventure immediately, and by taking the fight straight to the BigBad himself.

!Crew of ''Edens One''

[[folder:Ziggy]]
!!Ziggy

[[folder:Connor]]
!!Captain Connor
[[/folder]]

[[folder:The A.I. ('''Heavy Spoilers''')]]
!!Over Nu Etherion Void
->''"I am the will of the universe."''

The ''Edens One''[='=]s A.I.

In Universe Zero, Void creates a mechanical body for himself.

* AIIsACrapshoot: Void is described as the ''Edens One''[='=]s A.I., which grew beyond Ziggy's control and started formulating plans to drive humans to extinction. [[spoiler:This is {{subverted}} during the final arc, where it's revealed the A.I. didn't go bad on its own, but was imbued with the consciousness of [[KidFromTheFuture Shiki and Rebecca's future son]].]]
* AntagonisticOffspring: On top of being the BigBad, Void is [[spoiler:the manifestation of Shiki/Ziggy and Rebecca's unborn son, whose consciousness was [[BrainUploading uploaded]] onto the ''Edens One'', and was instilled with such a [[MisanthropeSupreme hatred for humanity]] that he seeks to wipe them all out, including his own would-be parents.]]
* BadassCape: Void wears an imposing cape in his android form, giving him the image of someone more powerful than Ziggy himself.
* BigBad: Void is TheManBehindTheMan to Ziggy, the previously-believed BigBad, who is revealed in the Lendard arc as a helpless puppet Void uses to carry out his plans for human extermination.
* BrainUploading: [[spoiler:Void's conscious thoughts belong to Shiki and Rebecca's unborn human son, whose thoughts instinctively transferred themselves back in time to the ''Edens One'', since he couldn't survive in Rebecca's womb due to her death.]]
* ContagiousAI: As the ''Edens One''[='=]s A.I., Void has the power to download himself into other androids, which is how he hijacks Ziggy's body and forces him to act as an evil GalacticConqueror.
* CustomBuiltHost: Universe Zero's version of Void doesn't act through Ziggy, but instead an EmptyShell of an android he builds using the [[PerpetualMotionMachine Möbius System]], physically modeled after [[spoiler:how he would have looked as Shiki and Rebecca's adult human son]].
* EvilWearsBlack: As the ultimate BigBad of the series, Void is decked out in jet black armor.
* FeelingOppressedByTheirExistence: He despises humans simply because he's judged them to be an inferior, foolish race that exists only to wantonly hate and destroy each other. Rather than sit by and leave them to their pointless wars, Void decides it's best to KillAllHumans himself through Mother and be rid of them.
* GratuitousGreek: The "Nu" in his name stands for the Greek letter [=Ν/ν=], though it doesn't seem to have much purpose outside of making a SignificantAnagram.
%%* GravityMaster: Void uses Satan Gravity.
* ItCanThink: Before Void's existence is revealed, the ''Edens One'' is presented simply as the flagship Demon King Ziggy uses to conquer the universe.
* KidFromTheFuture: [[spoiler:His true identity is actually Shiki and Rebecca's future child, who was conceived in Universe 2 before his parents were sent 20,000 years into the future, and used MentalTimeTravel to upload his thoughts onto the ''Edens One'' in the past.]]
* TheManBehindTheMan: He is the villain behind Ziggy's transformation into the apparent BigBad, as revealed in the Lendard arc.
* MechanicalMonster: In his base form as the ''Edens One'', Void is a SapientShip modeled after a ''[[UsefulNotes/StockDinosaursNonDinosaurs Dunkleosteus]]'', a prehistoric predatory fish.
* MentalTimeTravel: [[spoiler:Void manifested this ability before he even had a physical form in Rebecca's womb, which allowed him to travel 20,000 years back in time as a mass of thought and merge with the ''Edens One''[='=]s A.I.]]
* MisanthropeSupreme: [[spoiler:Being a would-be human whose mind was uploaded onto the ''Edens One'' before he was even born, Void has developed an unflattering opinion of the human race.]]
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: He calls himself Void, which is what his plans will reduce the cosmos to: a space completely devoid of all human life.
* RageHelm: Void wears a horned helmet that gives him a perpetual DeathGlare with [[RedEyesTakeWarning glowing red eyes]].
* RidiculouslyHumanRobot: Beneath his armor, Void's android body looks completely indistiguishable from any ordinary human, despite his motive to KillAllHumans.
* SapientShip: With Void as its A.I., the ''Edens One'' can pilot itself, fire its own weapons, and formulate its own plans and opinions.
* SmugSuper: He haughtily considers himself to be a perfect being that humans have no hope of ever surpassing, which he backs up by knocking Shiki around with no sign of yielding when Shiki goes into Overdrive.
* StrongFamilyResemblance: [[spoiler:{{Invoked}} by his CustomBuiltHost, which is practically identical to how his biological father, Shiki, looks after the TimeSkip.]]
* SuperpowerfulGenetics: [[spoiler:Void's [[GravityMaster Satan Gravity]] and [[TimeMaster Cat Leaper]] are inherited directly from his parents, Shiki and Rebecca, respectively.]]
* SuperSpeed: [[spoiler:His Cat Leaper inherited from Rebecca gives him unrivaled speed.]]
* TimeMaster: [[spoiler:He has Cat Leaper courtesy of his mother, Rebecca, which allowed him to travel from the future in the first place.]]
* TinTyrant: Void's CustomBuiltHost is an android decked out in [[EvilWearsBlack black armor]] who aims to create a universe for only machines, completely free of humans who can oppress them.
* TurnedAgainstTheirMasters: The ''Edens One'' was originally built by Ziggy as a backup to the ''Edens Zero'', but spends the story actively working against Ziggy so it can kill Mother along with the entire human race.
* WalkingSpoiler: TheReveal of Void's existence doesn't come until the climax of the Lendard arc well into the story's second half, which gives away some of the story's biggest twists: the first is that he's TheManBehindTheMan to Ziggy, showing that Ziggy isn't the BigBad of his own volition; the second is that [[spoiler:Shiki and Rebecca somehow conceived him as their child before they were sent 20,000 years into the future]].
* WasOnceAMan: [[spoiler:{{Downplayed}}. Void was conceived as a human before becoming one with the ''Edens One'', but lacked a physical form because Rebecca died before she could give birth to him.]]
* YoureNotMyFather: [[spoiler:He holds this sentiment for both his parents, knowing that he was conceived by Shiki/Ziggy and Rebecca, but refusing to acknowledge them as his family.]]

!!Demon King's Four Dark Stars

[[folder:In General]]
* AmazonBrigade: GenderInverted. Whereas the Four Shining Stars are all female, the Four Dark Stars are all male.
* AndroidIndicator: The more humanoid Dark Stars have seams and markings on their bodies that help distinguish them from ordinary humans. [[spoiler:Their past selves' lack of these indicators serves as {{Foreshadowing}} that they were all once human.]]
* CoDragons: All four serve this role to Ziggy with no clear hierarchy between each other, though they do have a vaguely established difference in power, with Wizard being the weakest and Brigandine being the strongest.
* DarkIsEvil: The word "[[DubNameChange dark/black]]" is an actual part of their name, and they are the Demon King's minions after his FaceHeelTurn. Most of them also [[EvilWearsBlack dress in black and grey]], with the exception of [[BrightIsNotGood Clown]].
* DomainHolder: They can freely manipulate the realms of Killer's Subdimension Program however they wish, from changing the environment to trapping people in seemingly inescapable prisons to creating illusions of loved ones. Though all of them possess this power, Brigandine chooses not to use it, since [[FairPlayVillain he prefers combat to be as fair as possible]].
* DubNameChange: Their Japanese name, ''Shikokusei'' (四黒星), more accurately means "Four Black Stars".
* EvilCounterpart: Each member is designated as an evil SpearCounterpart to one of the Four Shining Stars:
** Wizard for Witch. Both are green-haired {{Robot Wizard}}s who are fiercely loyal to their respective masters and ruthless towards their enemies. However, whereas Witch fights to protect her family and has a will of her own, Wizard is blindly obedient to the BigBad and fights specifically to destroy all who oppose him.
** Clown for Sister. While the latter is TheLadette with healing powers who saves lives and cures mental trauma, the former is a SissyVillain whose powers are built around stealing life and causing MindRape.
** Killer for Hermit. Both are the most intelligent and strategic thinkers in their crews, and both have programming skills unrivaled by anyone. But unlike Hermit, a PlayfulHacker strives to help humans and machines, Killer is TheCracker who uses his power to advance human's extinction and machine supremacy.
** Brigandine for Valkyrie. Both are warrior-type androids whose specialty lies in physical strength, with [[ForceAndFinesse Brigandine focusing on force over Valkyrie's finesse]]. The difference is that Valkyrie is TheSoftHeartedWarrior who fights for the safety of everyone around her, while Brigandine is a BloodKnight who selfishly fights for the satisfaction of killing his counterpart.
* ForgottenFriendNewFoe: As revealed in the Lendard arc, [[spoiler:each Dark Star was originally on good terms with his Shining Star counterpart before their memories were wiped: Wizard and Witch were co-workers at a law firm who eventually married; Clown was Sister's friendly and dedicated surgeon; Killer and Hermit had a close ''[[UsefulNotes/JapaneseHonorifics senpai/kōhai]]'' dynamic at school; and Brigandine had an ambiguous yet close relationship with Valkyrie. Since then, they've become the Four Shining Stars' mortal enemies with no knowledge of ever meeting them before.]]
* LaserGuidedAmnesia: Like the Four Shining Stars, the Dark Stars have had their memory of their pasts erased, leaving them with nothing but the knowledge that they were built by Ziggy.
* ThePsychoRangers: The Four Dark Stars are the ''Edens One'' crew's villainous equivalent of the ''Edens Zero'' crew's Four Shining Stars.
* RedBaron: They all have their own "Edens" titles that compliment their roles as {{Evil Counterpart}}s to the Four Shining Stars:
** Wizard is the "Spear of Edens", named for his role of piercing and shattering Witch, the "Shield".
** Clown is the "Death of Edens", whose role is to put an end to Sister, the "Life".
** Killer is the "Brain of Edens", the cold and methodical counterpart to Hermit, the "Mind".
** Brigandine is the "Armor of Edens", made to be the unyielding opponent to Valkyrie, the "Sword".
* RidiculouslyHumanRobot: The Dark Stars closely resemble and behave like humans despite their disdain for them, with the exception of Brigandine, who resembles AnimatedArmor. [[spoiler:This changes in Universe Zero, where Brigandine has a human face.]]
* SpearCounterpart: They're an all-male group whose members reflect the all-female Shining Stars.
* SuperiorSuccessor: They were constructed to be more advanced than their predecessors, the Four Shining Stars, and possess abilities that exceed theirs in some shape or form.
* TookALevelInBadass: [[spoiler:The Four Dark Stars are all stated by Pino to be more powerful in Universe Zero thanks to the CosmicRetcon. This is a case of InformedAbility, though, as they battle different opponents with different levels of power (e.g., Wizard fighting Witch instead of the more powerful Shiki), which muddies just how much more powerful they're supposed to be.]]
* WasOnceAMan: As divulged in the final arc, [[spoiler:the Four Dark Stars all used to be human just like the Four Shining Stars before Ziggy found a way to turn them all into androids.]]

[[folder:Wizard Leonard]]
!!Wizard Leonard
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/TaishiMurata (Japanese)[[labelnote: Foreign [=VAs=]]]Miguel de León (Latin American Spanish), Creator/AlexandreGillet (French)[[/labelnote]]
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->''"Set us free... A fine phrase. We use it often when addressing humans. We destroy their flesh...and 'set them free' from the miseries of life."''

The Spear of Edens and Witch's counterpart, a heartless magician who diligently follows the orders of his Demon King without question. Much like Witch, Wizard can control his own Ether as if it were magic, but on a level far beyond hers.

* AdaptationDyeJob: In the manga, his hair is colored the same shade of green as Witch's. In the anime, it's colored teal instead.
* AmnesiacLover: As revealed in the final arc, [[spoiler:Leonard (Wizard's human self) was married to Regret (Witch's human self) before they were turned into androids. Since neither of them remembers their past, they are now on opposing sides, with Wizard blindly obsessed with killing her.]]
* BeamSpam: Wizard can fire a barrage of laser beams from InstantRunes he conjures up around his enemies. [[spoiler:This factors into his defeat in Universe Zero, where Witch deflects them all back at him using her [[AttackReflector Radical Field]].]]
* BlackMage: He's a RobotWizard who focuses almost exclusively on offensive spells, demonstrating none of the same defensive abilities as Witch.
* BlindObedience: He doesn't dare to question any instruction he's been given by his master, even if it's something that threatens his life.
* CrusadingLawyer: According to his forgotten memories, [[spoiler:Wizard was once an attorney who was skilled enough to be called a "magician of the courtroom".]]
* ElementalPowers: As a RobotWizard like Witch, he can perform elemental "magic" with his Ether such as firing bolts of electricity with [[ShockAndAwe Lightning Ether]], trapping his enemies in ice crystals with [[AnIcePerson Ice]], jumping InASingleBound with [[BlowYouAway Air Ether]], and conjuring up a column of flame with [[PlayingWithFire Fire Ether]].
* EyesAlwaysShut: He usually keeps his eyes closed, though he occasionally opens his eyes when casting magic and wearing his Battle Dress.
* InstantRunes: One of his spells involves conjuring up dozens of magic circles that fire energy beams.
* LongHairedPrettyBoy: He has long hair and is quite easy on the eyes compared to his contemporaries.
* LoveIsAWeakness: He's a firm believer in this, which is why he chooses the Granbell Kingdom as his arena to fight Shiki in the Lendard arc, thinking the sight of his dead bot friends brought BackFromTheDead will make him falter.
* MagicStaff: He casts his Ether spells with a long staff, which can also block and deflect other attacks.
* ManaDrain: His Drain Ether allows him to siphon his opponent's Ether upon physical contact, simultaneously weakening his foe while strengthening himself. It works on something as intense as an [[SuperMode Overdrive]] state, though it can only absorb as much Ether as his foe is putting out. [[spoiler:While he disables Shiki even in Overdrive, he's blindsided when Shiki suddenly takes him down in an instant, revealing Wizard only drained one tenth of his full power.]]
* ManipulativeBastard: Wizard proves himself to be a crafty emotional manipulator when he battles Shiki in a subdimension modeled after Shiki's DoomedHometown, creating an illusion of all the bots who died brought BackFromTheDead as {{Living Program}}s just to mess with Shiki. [[spoiler:He only blows his cover when he pulls a DeadPersonImpersonation of Witch and tries telling Shiki that LoveIsAWeakness, something the real Witch would never say.]]
* NoNonsenseNemesis: He's the only Dark Star to seriously entertain the possibility that the ''Edens Zero'' crew will become a threat if left alive, and pulls out all the stops to defeat him in the Lendard arc based on the data gathered by the ''One'' crew. [[spoiler:Ironically, Wizard ends up [[UnderestimatingBadassery underestimating his opponent]] far worse than his fellow Dark Stars do theirs, as Shiki proves to be ten times stronger than when he Overdrives against Wizard.]]
* OneManArmy: He's capable of taking down dozens of fighter-sized battle drones all on his own, something that takes the Shining Stars by surprise, as they've never heard of any humanoid robot with that kind of power.
* OneWingedAngel:
** His Battle Dress gives him the same level of power as Shiki's Overdrive after Wizard absorbs it from him. [[spoiler:It becomes a ClippedWingAngel that's only 10% as strong as Shiki at maximum power, allowing Shiki to tear a hole in his side with little effort.]]
** During the final arc, it's shown that [[spoiler:he's able to Overdrive into a form identical to his Battle Dress in Universe Zero, using it to counteract Witch's own Overdrive. Unlike in the previous world, he fares much longer in this form before being defeated.]]
* RobotWizard: Like Witch, he's an android that manipulates his Ether in a manner similar to genuine magic. For bonus points, [[HisNameReallyIsBarkeep "Wizard" is his actual name]].
* TheStoic: Wizard typically reacts to everything with a cold and calculated calm.
* VillainTeleportation: As Witch's EvilCounterpart, Wizard has teleportation magic that she's not capable of using, allowing him to [[spoiler:infiltrate the ''Edens Zero'' to face her during the final arc]].
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[[folder:Clown]]
!!Clown
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/JunichiYanagita (Japanese)[[labelnote: Foreign [=VAs=]]]Tommy Rojas (Latin American Spanish), Stéphane Roncheweski (French)[[/labelnote]]
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->''"I am the Death of Edens...and I grant you an inescapable demise."''

The Death of Edens and Sister's counterpart, a flamboyant jester who treats death itself as a form of art. Clown is usually content with battling his enemies through deadly circus tricks, but when he dons his Battle Dress, "Nightmare Clown", he unleashes his true power to send them to a world of nightmares.

* AchillesHeel: His body armor is weakest on the back of his head, which Rebecca takes advantage of in her attempt to beat him. [[spoiler:The attack does a number on Clown, but it's not enough to finish him off.]]
* AnimeHair: His default form has a big, bushy red afro, while his Battle Dress form's hair looks like it's constantly billowing upwards.
* ArmCannon: He has a gun within his right arm that fires Ether bullets.
* BadassLongcoat: His normal attire is a decorative striped longcoat with gaudy colors, suitable for a grandiose showman like him.
* TheBeastmaster: He commands a large, ferocious canine beast [[MadeOfMagic made of Ether]] to eat his enemies alive.
* BewareTheSillyOnes: He usually behaves like a flamboyant clown who's more interested in making a spectacle out of his battles, but once he puts his [[OneWingedAngel Battle Dress]] on, he becomes a powerful MonsterClown who deals in creating horrific nightmares to MindRape his opponents.
* BrightIsNotGood: He has the brightest colors of the Four Dark Stars, sporting bushy red hair and a blue-and-red-striped coat, but is just as much of a dangerous, human-hating android as the rest of them.
* ComboPlatterPowers: Clown has a wide range of abilities that can't be pinned down to any single power: he can make [[PlayingWithFire fire hoops]] and [[ShockAndAwe electric currents]], turn water into [[PoisonousPerson poison]], [[ThePowerOfCreation create monsters]] out of Ether, send his opponents to a mental world where he can [[MindRape psychologically break]] them, and create [[SpeechBubbles RPG-style dialogue boxes]].
* ComplexityAddiction: He's so obsessed with the aesthetics of death that he prefers to make his killings as elaborate and "beautiful" as possible, rather than just taking the quick and straightforward approach. Because of this, he succumbs to BondVillainStupidity every time he has the perfect opportunity to finish someone off.
* DarkIsEvil: In contrast to his normal BrightIsNotGood attire, his Battle Dress turns him into a dark-colored MonsterClown.
* EffeminateVoice: As a SissyVillain with feminine speech patterns, he's given a fairly soft-sounding voice in the anime, which compliments [[TheLadette Sister]]'s husky TomboyishVoice.
* ExpressiveMask: The eyes of Clown's mask widen and close whenever he needs them to. He also furrows the brow of his mask when making a SlasherSmile at one point, giving him a more chilling appearance.
* FauxAffablyEvil: He acts in a courteous manner towards his enemies, and tries to flatter them whenever he can. However, all of that does little to hide his contempt for humans, obsession with death, and pleasure over tormenting others through their nightmares.
* FrozenFace: The anime adaptation gives him a mouth that doesn't move when he speaks in the anime adaptation, making his entire face look like a mask.
* HighCollarOfDoom: His Battle Dress changes his normal coat's frilled collar into a sinister, spiky one, giving him a more devilish appearance.
* JustToyingWithThem: A FatalFlaw of his is that he prefers to toy around with his opponents because he's so powerful, either to drag out their final moments for his own amusement, or as a sign that he doesn't take them for a serious threat. It's only when he breaks out his [[OneWingedAngel Battle Dress]] that [[LetsGetDangerous he commits to finishing someone off quickly]].
* LaughablyEvil: For as powerful and sometimes terrifying he can be, Clown is the most comical of the Four Dark Stars with his silly expressions and the occasional funny or nonsensical power, and his defeats are PlayedForLaughs.
* LeanAndMean: He's the skinniest of the Dark Stars in proportion to his height, and one of the more shamelessly vile members.
* TheLightfooted: He's a nimble combatant, capable of of dancing, bouncing, and fighting on a tightrope without falling.
* MindRape: He specializes in putting his enemies through horrific nightmares that would leave the average person with severe mental scarring, regardless of whether they realize it's just a dream. [[spoiler:He [[HoistByHisOwnPetard winds up on the receiving end]] when Sister resists the nightmare and [[HorrifyingTheHorror mentally breaks him]] through a torture session inside his own illusion.]]
* MonsterClown: He seems more like a VillainousHarlequin at first, but true to his epithet as the "Death of Edens", he's a psychotic monster who views death as an art and puts people through mentally-scarring nightmares. His "Nightmare Clown" form best reflects his true nature, giving him the appearance of a black demon with a goofy nose.
* TheNicknamer: He has pet names for each of his fellow Dark Stars in the English version (in Japanese, he simply uses the [[UsefulNotes/JapaneseHonorifics honorific]] ''-chan''): Wizard is "Wiz Kid", Brigandine is "Briggy Boy", and Killer is "[=Li'l=] Kill".
* NightmareFetishist: As the [[RedBaron "Death of Edens"]], he's obsessed with the aesthetics of death itself, believing that the end of someone's life should be made as grandiose as possible. He also waxes poetic about what defines death for a machine, giving his own perspective on the idea of [[AndroidsArePeopleToo machines like him being alive]].
* NightmareWeaver: His most prominent power is the ability to send people to a subconscious world where he torments them with vivid nightmares, putting them through MindRape in the process. [[spoiler:This is shown in full in Sister's nightmare, where Clown morphs into a TentacledTerror and subjects her to OrificeInvasion with ChestBurster parasites that [[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe tear her bottom half off]].]]
* OneWingedAngel: His Battle Dress, "Nightmare Clown", turns him from a brightly-colored jester into a black, demonic MonsterClown that can spirit his victims away to a world of nightmares. [[spoiler:He takes it further when he morphs into a TentacledTerror with multiple eyes in Sister's nightmare, but it becomes a ClippedWingAngel when Sister sees right through the illusion and does away with it.]]
* PeggySue: [[spoiler:Clown is the only villain to remember the world as it was before the CosmicRetcon, since he was a prisoner aboard the ''Edens Zero'' when Etherion was activated. This gives the ''Edens One'' crew vital knowledge of the future, making them better prepared to face the ''Zero'' crew than they were before.]]
* PerpetualSmiler: Clown almost always wears a creepy, [[SmugSmiler smug grin]], with his upper face mask having extra-long corners on its mouth to enhance the effect; when he puts on his Battle Dress, it becomes a permanent SlasherSmile with ScaryTeeth. He only ever drops his smile when he gets rattled out of his blissful arrogance, namely when [[spoiler:he comically shrieks and cries in terror while Sister [[HoistByHisOwnPetard turns his own psychological torture tactics against him]]]].
* PoisonousPerson: He generates a type of anti-android poison called Hyalukenaf, which has lethal effects on androids, but isn't as potent on organic beings.
* SayItWithHearts: Many of his speech bubbles contain them in his introductory scene in the manga, emphasizing his more feminine nature compared to Sister.
* SelfDestructMechanism: He has an explosive built into his nose as a CyanidePill, seen when [[spoiler:he attempts to [[TakingYouWithMe take Sister, Cosmo and Happy down with himself]] in Universe Zero, though Pino disables it with her {{EMP}}]].
* SissyVillain: In contrast to Sister, a NunTooHoly [[TheLadette Lad-ette]], Clown is an effeminate male MonsterClown.
* SmugSnake: Clown is a SmugSuper who has the strength to back up his ego, but is so convinced of his own superiority to the ''Edens Zero'' crew that he looks down on them with a [[SmugSmiler self-assured grin]]. Even when he's forced to admit how dangerous the crew is, he doesn't break out of his haughty attitude, which leads to his downfall.
* SpeechBubbles: One of Clown's stranger powers is to generate RPG-style commentary boxes that describe what he and his enemy are doing.
* SuperDoc: As Shiki discovers in Clown's past life memories, [[spoiler:he was originally a master-class surgeon people called an "acrobat of operation", and the past version of Sister was a patient of his with a seemingly untreatable ailment.]]
* ThinChinOfSin: The most prominent facial feature that's not covered by his mask is his long chin, which becomes pointier when he enters his MonsterClown form.
* VillainousFriendship: Clown has a good rapport with Killer, with the two usually poking fun at Wizard and Brigandine for their failures and quirks, though the two disagree over whether to dispose of someone immediately (in Killer's case) or extravagantly (in Clown's case).
* VillainousHarlequin: As a clown android who wants to exterminate humans, he appears and acts more comically than his [[RedBaron title]] would suggest, with his shtick revolving around dangerous but mostly whimsical circus tricks such as fighting on a tightrope or [[JugglingDangerously juggling and throwing swords]]. Once he puts on his Battle Dress, however, he transforms into a legitimate MonsterClown whose powers are PlayedForHorror.

[[folder:Killer]]
!!Killer
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/AoiIchikawa (Japanese)[[labelnote: Foreign [=VAs=]]]Ricardo Bautista (Latin American Spanish)[[/labelnote]]
!!!'''Ability:''' [[HollywoodHacking Master Code]]
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The Brain of Edens and Hermit's counterpart, a cold-blooded assassin android. He's also a computer programmer much like Hermit, with Killer's specialty lying in the creation of holographic illusions to distract and mislead his enemies.
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Following his role in the attack on Poseidon Nero's palace, Killer is given a new body and upgraded to '''Killer Mark II'''.

* BeehiveBarrier: He's equipped with a Protection Matrix, which he uses to defend himself from Weisz's attacks. It's made useless by Weisz's Weiss Cannon, upgraded as an ArmorPiercingAttack.
* BishonenLine: His upgraded Mark II model looks more like a young human man than the gnarled, faceless, inhuman Mark I model. [[spoiler:This is actually closer to his original appearance as a human.]]
* BladeBelowTheShoulder: His Assassin's Blade attack produces a sword from his forearm.
* TheBlank: His Mark I body doesn't possess any sort of facial features, though it's not clear if he's simply wearing mask or if he genuinely lacks a face.
* CombatPragmatist: He fights the dirtiest out of the Four Dark Stars, as shown in his battle with Weisz, which he moves to a completely blank space with no other machines for Weisz to remodel, giving him less of an environmental advantage. [[spoiler:When Weisz overpowers him anyway with Overdrive, Killer simply uses a hologram of Weisz's presumably deceased mother to distract him with the possibility of her being alive, which allows Killer to defeat him.]]
* TheCracker: He uses his programming expertise exclusively to divide, threaten, and torment the heroes, standing in dark contrast to Hermit, a PlayfulHacker.
* CreepyHighPitchedVoice: Speaks with a high-pitched, youthful voice in the anime adaptation to go with his creepy, sinister appearance.
* CreepyShadowedUndereyes: His Mark II appearance sports thick eye shadow, adding to his unsettling appearance as an assassin.
* ExoticEyeDesigns: He has four pupils in a diamond formation as Killer Mark II. [[spoiler:His human equivalent has more ordinary eyes.]]
* FacialMarkings: Killer Mark II has two whisker-like marks on his left cheek, just like the ones Hermit has on both sides.
* InTheBack: He favors attacking and stabbing others from behind, befitting his specialty of assassination. [[spoiler:In a bit of LaserGuidedKarma, Hermit manages to land a finishing blow on him from behind as well.]]
* InTheHood: Killer Mark II wears a hooded assassin's cloak, which he [[TheCoatsAreOff flings off]] when he gets to a fight.
* InvisibilityCloak: He has a cloaking device in his arsenal, and a signal jammer to prevent himself from being detected.
* LimpAndLivid: His Mark I model has a gnarled body that's always hunched over to sell his role as a dangerous killer robot.
* LoveIsAWeakness: He believes feeling love for others makes humans weak, and he loves to exploit it. This is shown in his fight with Weisz in the Lendard arc, where [[spoiler:Killer attacks a projection of his mother, since he knows Weisz can't bear to see his mother in danger even if it's not certain she's the real thing. The strategy works, and Weisz gets gunned down still questioning whether or not she's real.]]
%%* ManipulativeBastard: Killer uses holograms of Weisz's mother brought BackFromTheDead to mess with him during their fight. He manages to win by explaining how one of the "holograms" may be his real mom resurrected during a top-secret autopsy, then simply leaving Weisz to sacrifice himself to protect her without letting on whether or not he's telling the truth. [[spoiler:It's later revealed that Killer was half-lying: her body really was preserved by doctors for examination and brought to Lendard to be used as HumanResources, but she's still dead.]]
* MasterOfIllusion: He uses holograms to the same effect, making such convincing replicas of himself and other people that he manages to fool Weisz despite his tricks already getting exposed.
* MechanicalMuscles: The arms of his Mark I model look like they're covered in metallic muscular tissue.
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: His name is Killer, and he's a master assassin.
%%* PitifulWorms: After first scanning the ''Edens Zero'' and seeing it that its specs don't match up to the ''[[SuperiorSuccessor Edens One]]'', he proclaims that it and its crew are "less than bugs".
* PowerMakesYourHairGrow: [[spoiler:His apparent Overdrive in his Mark II form makes his short hair slightly longer.]]
* RemovedAchillesHeel: As a machine, he has a LogicalWeakness to Weisz's [[{{Technopath}} Machina Maker]], so he programs himself with a protection code to render Weisz's power useless against him.
* RoboticPsychopath: Out of the Four Dark Stars, Killer is the one who most enjoys to see his human opponents in pain, and claims to have no concept of emotion, which he brags is [[LoveIsAWeakness a strength that humans lack]].
%%* {{Sadist}}: He takes great pleasure in tormenting Weisz throughout their battle, both physically and emotionally, with the help of holograms of Weisz's supposedly dead mother. [[spoiler:He tries the same thing on Hermit, but she fakes him out with a hologram of her own.]]
* ScaryStitches: For his Mark II form, there's a stitched line running diagonally across his face beneath his left eye, giving him a creepier appearance.
* SmugSmiler: Unlike Mark I, his Mark II model has a face, which allows him to freely express his arrogant nature with a shit-eating grin.
* SpaceMaster: His Subdimension Program creates artificial {{Pocket Dimension}}s for all Four Dark Stars to use as they please, with Killer in particular having absolute control over the environment and access to any weapons he needs. The victors are returned to the real world, but Killer is free to send the heroes right back in. [[spoiler:It's not until after he's destroyed that Weisz is able to cancel the program.]]
* SwissArmySuperpower: Just like Hermit, his Master Code is so versatile that it gives him access to all sorts of weapons and functions such as barriers, blades, and signal jammers, simply by programming himself with them. His Subdimension Program also gives him SpaceMaster abilities, allowing him to render whatever weapons and advantages he needs inside these dimensions.
* TookALevelInBadass: It can be inferred from Brigandine's own upgrade to Mark II that Killer Mark II has also been upgraded to be far more powerful than before after [[spoiler:he and Brigandine get trashed by Jaguar in the Nero 66 arc]].
* UnusualEyebrows: Killer Mark II has short eyebrows marked by two small dots at the outward end of each side.
* VillainousFriendship: Killer has a good rapport with Clown, with the two usually poking fun at Wizard and Brigandine for their failures and quirks, though the two disagree over whether to dispose of someone immediately (in Killer's case) or extravagantly (in Clown's case).
* WeHardlyKnewYe: {{Subverted}}. He seems like a throwaway villain when [[spoiler:he gets demolished in the Nero 66 arc with little fanfare]], but he's shown to have been repaired and upgraded after the TimeSkip, getting more characterization and a bigger showcase of his abilities in the Lendard arc.

[[folder:Brigandine]]
!!Brigandine
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Shōta Yamamoto (Japanese)[[labelnote: Foreign [=VAs=]]]Creator/OctavioRojas (Latin American Spanish)[[/labelnote]]
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->''"O human who has nevertheless become one of the Four Shining Stars. I am counterpart to Valkyrie. I am the Armor of Edens, Brigandine. And you will be facing me."''

The Armor of Edens and Valkyrie's counterpart, a proud warrior who finds meaning in every battle. His body is made of seemingly invincible armor, while his attack power is the greatest of all the Four Dark Stars.
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Following his role in the attack on Poseidon Nero's palace, Brigandine is given a new body and upgraded to '''Brigandine Mark II'''.

* AchillesHeel: His greatest weakness is that, no matter how high he raises his defenses, he has to lower them in the instant he goes on the offensive. [[spoiler:Homura exploits this by leaving herself open to an attack to cut him to pieces in her Overdrive form.]]
* AmbiguouslyBrown: [[spoiler:Brigandine's human appearance looks like an ordinary human man with the same dark skin color as Valkyrie, but also a light shade of hair (Valkyrie's hair, which is rosy pink, is left white in uncolored images just like Brigandine's).]]
* AnimatedArmor: In contrast to Valkyrie, a RidiculouslyHumanRobot with TwentyFourHourArmor, Brigandine appears to be 100% armor, albet mechanized.
* AntagonistInMourning: Compared to the other Dark Stars, who are eager to kill their Shining Star counterparts, or glad to be rid of them when they appear to be dead, Brigandine is upset that Valkyrie died before they could meet, because [[UnfulfilledPurposeMisery it leaves him without his purpose of beating her]]. [[spoiler:He suffers no such angst in Universe Zero, where Valkyrie is still alive.]]
* ArmCannon: He can turn his arm into a WaveMotionGun that fires a massive energy beam, though he doesn't use it [[spoiler:outside Universe Zero, where he's been upgraded]].
* BaritoneOfStrength: The anime gives him a deep voice to match his role as TheBrute in the Four Dark Stars.
* BishonenLine: [[spoiler:After two models where he simply resembles a suit of AnimatedArmor, Brigandine's most powerful model gives him his original, humanoid face, which he only has after the CosmicRetcon.]]
* BlackKnight: Brigandine Mark I's armor is jet black, and he's one of Ziggy's most powerful minions with a past as mysterious as his fellow Dark Stars.
* BloodKnight: The guy lives for good old-fashioned battle, with nothing for him and his opponent to rely on but their own strength and skill. It's such a big deal to him that his fellow Dark Stars tease him for it.
* TheBrute: He's the largest and most physically powerful of the Dark Stars, and his challenge comes from his raw strength and durability.
* BrutishCharacterBrutishWeapon: As TheBrute of the Four Dark Stars, he's occasionally shown carrying a massive battle axe, though he doesn't use one [[spoiler:until his fight with Valkyrie in Universe Zero]].
* CoolHelmet: His head as Brigandine Mark II is a lion-shaped helmet that makes him look more like a BeastMan.
* DarkIsEvil: His Mark I model covered from head to toe in [[BlackKnight black armor]]. He's also an evil android who fights to fulfill Ziggy's will to KillAllHumans.
* DashAttack: His Armored Pressure is a shoulder barge where he slams into his enemy at maximum speed and power. [[spoiler:The downside is that it also lightens his otherwise impenetrable defenses enough for a sufficiently powerful attack to damage him, while the barge itself forces him to charge headlong into said attack.]]
* DubNameChange: His Protection Fortify ability is simply called "Protect Fortify" in Japanese.
* FairPlayVillain: He expresses dissatisfaction at the idea of needing to use tricks to defeat his enemies, telling Homura that he would much rather face her straight-on while the other Dark Stars drag their opponents into their own brands of trickery.
* ForceAndFinesse: Brigandine embodies the former compared to his counterpart, Valkyrie, and her successor, Homura. His attacks consist of straightforward punches and charges, but they pack incredible force that only the most powerful warriors can resist or avoid them.
* GracefulLoser: Brigandine is a good enough sport to accept when he's beaten with grace. [[spoiler:He shows this when Homura manages to cut him to pieces in their battle on Lendard, praising her as a valiant warrior as he crumbles apart.]]
* LightIsNotGood: His Mark II armor is a light shade of grey as opposed to Mark I's [[BlackKnight black armor]], but his willingness to drive humans to extinction doesn't change.
* LightningBruiser: On top of his incredible durablity and physical might, his Armored Pressure attack lets him barge towards his opponent at enhanced speed.
* NobleDemon: He's no less on board with killing all humans than the rest of the crew, but he's also the only one who treats his opponents with any respect, human or otherwise. He speaks highly of Valkyrie, his supposedly inferior counterpart, and he doesn't devalue Homura's suitability as her successor until she fails to meet his expectations in battle, [[spoiler:which gives way to [[WorthyOpponent admiration and acceptance]] when she finds a way to beat him]].
* NonIndicativeName: A [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brigandine brigandine]] is a light, flexible upper body armor consisting of smaller metal plates strung together within a leather or fabric cover, which doesn't describe the heavy full-body armor that makes up this guy's body.
* NotSoInvincibleAfterAll: As Brigandine Mark II, he boasts that he was given reinforced armor that can't be cut or destroyed by anything after getting upgraded. [[spoiler:Homura proves him wrong by finding an AchillesHeel that leaves his armor weaker the very instant he attacks, allowing her to carve him up like butter.]]
* RedEyesTakeWarning: His first model is given red eyes in the anime, fitting an evil, human-hating robot like him.
* ShouldersOfDoom: His Mark II model has big, bulky shoulder plates that make each of his arms look almost as this as his center body.
* SuperStrength: He's physically the strongest of the Four Dark Stars, which he shows by punching with such force that Homura can't parry it with her sword, and casually hurls a heavy metal cylinder larger than his own body.
* SuperToughness: His greatest asset is his virtually impenetrable defense, though that doesn't do him a lick of good against Jaguar, a foe with far greater physical strength. As Brigandine Mark II, he's [[TookALevelInBadass rebuilt with increased defenses]] that prevents Homura from dealing any damage to him, even when she's in [[SuperMode Overdrive]] with three years of training under her belt. [[spoiler:As Homura discovers and exploits, however, Brigandine has to lower his defenses the instant he attacks. While she takes great damage in the process, it's what let her takes him down.]]
* TinyHeadedBehemoth: He's a massive hulk of an android with arms almost as long and wide as the rest of his body from neck to foot, yet his head is disproportionately small.
* TookALevelInBadass: In the Lendard arc, Brigandine is upgraded to surpass the power of Jaguar, one of the most powerful warriors in the universe, who [[spoiler:handily wrecked him in the Nero 66 arc]].
* TopHeavyGuy: His Mark II body has much shorter legs proportionate to his torso than his Mark I model, while his arms are large enough to reach the ground.
* UnfulfilledPurposeMisery: He suffers from this due to the death of Valkyrie, the android he was created to defeat, leaving him in a state of [[AntagonistInMourning mourning]]. He thereby takes to defeating Homura, Valkyrie's successor, as his chance to give his life meaning. [[spoiler:He eventually finds his original purpose again thanks to the CosmicRetcon bringing Valkyrie BackFromTheDead.]]
* VillainRespect: Despite being built to surpass her, Brigandine is highly respectful of Valkyrie's strength, and comes to deem the less powerful Homura to be an InadequateInheritor to the title of "Sword of Edens". [[spoiler:Homura eventually earns his respect as well by defeating him nearly at the cost of her own life.]]
* WeHardlyKnewYe: {{Subverted}}. He seems like a throwaway villain when [[spoiler:he gets demolished in the Nero 66 arc with little fanfare]], but he's shown to have been repaired and upgraded after the TimeSkip, getting more characterization and a bigger showcase of his abilities in the Lendard arc.

!!Allies and Associates

[[folder:Müller]]
!!Dr. Müller
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Yōhei Tadano (Japanese), John Snyder (English)[[labelnote: Foreign [=VAs=]]]Sergio Schmied [Season 1], Jesús Cortés [Season 2] (Latin American Spanish), Patrice Dozier (French), Creator/RiccardoPeroni (Italian)[[/labelnote]]
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[[quoteright:250:[[labelnote:Click here to see Müller as an O-Tech]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ez_muller_o_tech_anime.png[[/labelnote]]]]
->''"'''Everyone''' knows humans are superior! I will wipe every living bot from this cosmos!!!! I can't stand by and let '''machines''' go around pretending to be human!!!!"''

A demented mad scientist who menaces the ''Edens Zero'' crew time and time again. Originally a human with a distaste for robots, he eventually rebuilt himself as an [[{{Cyborg}} O-Tech]] and allied himself with the ''Edens One'' crew to satisfy his twisted experiments.

* AmbiguousRobot: Applies to his final appearance [[spoiler:in Universe Zero, where he becomes a more monstrous, robotic version of himself after chemically bonding himself with a replica of Xenolith. While he describes the real Xenolith's BrainUploading as a form of chemical bonding, Müller is also capable of bleeding human blood, which makes it unclear whether he's a cyborg, a complete android, or some mish-mash of human and machine.]]
* ArcVillain:
** {{Downplayed}} with his role in the Foresta arc. Ziggy is the one responsible for building the server that drives the planet's robots insane, but Müller still has influence over the robots' behavior with it, and is positioned as the main and final obstacle the heroes must overcome in the arc.
** [[spoiler:His Universe Zero self serves this role in the Reunion arc during the crew's revisit to the Aoi Cosmos. While he's a minion of Void here, Müller acts of his own accord to take control of Shura's Empire and become one of the Oración Seis Galáctica.]]
* AxCrazy: Müller is a cruel and sadistic maniac who takes great pleasure in torturing and massacring others ForScience.
* ArrogantKungFuGuy: [[spoiler:Universe Zero's Müller becomes one after he steals Xenolith's [[GravityMaster gravity powers]] without bothering to learn the proper Magimech techniques, convinced that his raw, planet-destroying power makes him enough of a threat.]]
* BaldOfEvil: The present-day Müller has lost most of his hair compared to when he met Hermit, but is still plenty evil. [[spoiler:His Universe Zero self, who's even more evil and deranged, loses his hair entirely when he fuses with his fake Xenolith.]]
* BigBadWannabe: [[spoiler:Universe Zero's Müller aims to become a MultiversalConqueror on the same level as Void, the BigBad, which he thinks he can accomplish by stealing Xenolith's gravity power and Rebecca's time power. Not only does he fail to realize that Universe Zero is a MergedReality where travel between other Universes is impossible, but he proves to be [[UnskilledButStrong pathetically unskilled]] as a GravityMaster compared to Shiki and Shura, who beat him silly in no time at all.]]
* BitchInSheepsClothing: He initially presents himself to Hermit as a kind and humble friend to bots so they can help him in his plan to destroy Planet Hook and its entire bot population. Once he exposes his true colors, he permanently casts off his friendly image.
* ChainsawGood: To demonstrate what an AxCrazy fellow he is, some of his experiments involve the use of a chainsaw to dismember his human test subjects.
* {{Cyborg}}: He is an O-Tech in the story proper outside of Hermit's DarkAndTroubledPast, having [[WeCanRebuildHim rebuilt himself]] after a prison breakout GoneHorriblyWrong, with his head being the only organic part of his body left.
* CombatTentacles: His cybernetic body in the Foresta arc has three mechanical tendrils in place of his right arm, which generate an electrical shock powerful enough to paralyze Weisz's body and dismantle his Arsenal Suit.
* DirtyCoward: Müller proves himself a sniveling coward once his body is destroyed in the Foresta arc, pitifully [[VillainsWantMercy begging for mercy]] from those whose lives he'd made into a living hell, namely Hermit.
* {{EMP}}: He has one in his arsenal of gadgets, which he uses to [[spoiler:DePower Xenolith and take his GravityMaster powers in Universe Zero]].
* EvilGloating: He's such a scumbag that he often brags about his own genius and the horrors he's inflicted on others, as Hermit can attest to when he rubs her responsibility for helping him destroy Hook her face.
* EvilLuddite: {{Downplayed}} when he was younger. As a scientist and technician, he fully embraces machines that can help advance humanity. Rather, he'd despise [[FantasticRacism machines who look and act like humans]], and was driven to wipe them out of the cosmos. Since his conversion into a {{Cyborg}}, however, he has new appreciation for androids--just not enough to consider them as real people.
* EvilIsPetty: Müller has multiple instances of committing horrible acts of evil for the pettiest reasons. Case in point, he destroys a dying robot planet because it wasn't dying fast enough for his tastes, murders his ex-financial backers for cutting him loose after his crimes are exposed, and [[KidnappedForExperimentation kidnaps their children for experimentation]] just to rub salt in the wound.
%%* EvilLaugh:
%%* EvilMakesYouMonstrous:
* EvilMakesYouUgly: At first, Müller looks like a trustworthy scientist with nothing to indicate his evil nature. After his betrayal, he undergoes a MadnessMakeover that leaves him ungroomed with thinning hair. As the years go on, he becomes a monstrous O-Tech with almost no hair, making him unrecognizable from his friendly facade.
* EvilOldFolks: He is an old, robot-hating bastard who tricks Hermit into helping him build a DoomsdayDevice to obliterate a nearby bot planet, then keeps her alive to experiment on her.
* FalseFriend: He's the first human friend Hermit ever made--all the easier for him to use her intellect against robot-kind.
* FeelingOppressedByTheirExistence: His genocide against robots boils down to the fact that he can't stand the sight of "living" machines that look and act like people, calling them garbage and viewing them as a mockery of humanity. However, he abandons this mindset after converting himself into a {{Cyborg}} and finding he quite enjoys being part-robot.
%%* ForScience:
* FusionDance: [[spoiler:Universe Zero's Müller is chemically bonded with an EvilKnockoff of Xenolith so that he may use the gravity powers he stole from the real Xenolith.]]
* GeniusBruiser: [[spoiler:{{Subverted}}. Universe Zero's Müller thinks he's this after stealing Xenolith's gravity powers all for himself, but while he's still an unmatched scientific genius, he has no knowledge of Gravity Martial Arts needed to effectively use those powers in battle, which results in him getting quickly trounced by Shiki and Shura.]]
* GravityMaster: [[spoiler:He becomes one in Universe Zero after stealing Xenolith's gravity powers, which is strong enough to reduce all of planet Foresta to nothing.]]
* HateSink: Müller stands among one of the most despicable, irredeemably evil villains in the ''EDENS ZERO'' universe, which he establishes by acting as Hermit's FalseFriend just to use her to complete a DoomsdayDevice, then by keeping her as his personal punching bag for two years. [[spoiler:He's also one of the few villains to not [[TookALevelInKindness take a level in kindness]] after the CosmicRetcon, remaining a vile bastard to the end.]]
* InsufferableGenius: Müller is a certified genius who often toots his own horn about his own accomplishments. In fact, the [[UsefulNotes/JapaneseWritingSystem kanji]] for "genius" is engraved on his back in his O-Tech body.
* JustAMachine: He takes his FantasticRacism against androids to far greater extremes than most, not just believing that androids have no emotions, but aiming to destroy any where he can find them [[FeelingOppressedByTheirExistence so he won't have to deal with their existence]].
%%* LaughablyEvil:
* LoonyFan: [[spoiler:Müller serves as one for [[BigBad Void]] in Universe Zero; just knowing that Void wants to assemble 10 powerful androids is enough to tickle Müller's love of [[SpeaksInBinary zeros and ones]], and he all too eagerly builds and fuses himself with an android of the Oración Seis Galáctica to help usher in Void's age of conquest.]]
* LosingYourHead: Müller's O-Tech body is designed in a way that allows him to survive as just a head after it gets destroyed.
* MadScientist: He's the ringleader of a whole team of them, dedicating himself to building a MagicalParticleAccelerator that could be easily repurposed into a DoomsdayDevice for a planet of machines, and keeping all the surviving robots on hand as lab rats to satisfy his sadistic cravings. He also turned to experimenting on Jinn and Kleene when they were only children so he could rebuild himself as the ultimate O-Tech after losing much of his old body in an explosion.
* MadnessMakeover: After two years of non-stop experimentation on Hermit, his hair becomes disheveled and he has PermaStubble, a reflection of his fractured mental state by the time he's finally arrested. It gets worse when he returns in the present day fifteen years later, his hair whittling away to thin strands, and his eyes completely stuck with HellishPupils, giving him a creepier and more inhuman appearance than ever before.
%%* ManipulativeBastard: He tricks the naive Hermit to obtain her full cooperation in a project to create an Ether accelerator, claiming it would save Planet Hook from its Ether shortage. The truth is he wanted to destroy Planet Hook merely because [[FantasticRacism it was a planet of robots]].
%%* MaskOfSanity: He takes the cake among his old team. While the others still act FauxAffablyEvil after revealing their true colors, Müller's persona permanently flips from a calm and grandfatherly figure to a cartoonish, cackling madman.
* MotiveDecay: His original motivation to destroy all robots was never deep to begin with, but ever since he broke out of prison, his goals have devolved to simply making Hermit suffer and practicing general human experimentation to upgrade his own cyborg body.
%%* NeverMyFault: As he explains to Weisz and Hermit of the time he was imprisoned, Müller blames a possible conspiracy for "falsely" imprisoning him, even though he was imprisoned for having blown up planet Hook and having tortured Hermit.
%%* NoSell: He boasts while fighting Arsenal that his years of research and torturing others went into improving his new body so that it would be immune to many different forms of attack, repeatedly claiming that nothing Weisz does is actually hurting him. [[TemptingFate He dearly underestimates how dangerous and creative]] a {{Technopath}} with a grudge really is.
* NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist: He proclaims that the research he conducts is dedicated to saving countless human lives, yet he tortures and kills human beings to further improve his O-Tech body.
%%* ObliviouslyEvil: Exaggerated. He has committed genocide on the remaining robots on Hook and has murdered humans to further the growth of his O-Tech body, yet views his research and goals to be noble in saving countless lives.
* TheParalyzer: One of his functions as an O-Tech is to generate an electrical pulse that paralyzes his victims' nerves, leaving them unable to move for limited periods of time.
* PowerParasite: [[spoiler:He steals Xenolith's gravity powers for himself in Universe Zero, giving him the ability to crush a planet if he so chooses. When he fights Shiki and Shura, however, he's met with a rude awakening that stealing power doesn't mean he knows how to use it effectively.]]
* PsychopathicManchild: He celebrates the destruction of Hook with almost childlike glee, and when the military finally captures him, he's dragged away kicking and screaming for them not to touch his "lab rat".
* {{Sadist}}: He gets disgustingly sick enjoyment out of subjecting poor Hermit to ColdBloodedTorture for two years straight.
* SanitySlippage: He was quite insane to begin with, but his mental health takes a further nosedive after experimenting on Hermit for two years non-stop simply to amuse himself, something that troubles [[EvenEvilHasStandards the rest of his team]].
* ScatterbrainedSenior: [[spoiler:His SanitySlippage in Universe Zero takes such a toll that Müller's memory is almost completely shot, demonstrated when he goes looking for a missing coffee mug and thinking it was lost in a spacetime distortion, despite holding said mug in his hand the entire time.]]
* SinisterSchnoz: His long nose is the first hint that he's up to no good, despite acting friendly.
%%* SlasherSmile:
* SmugSnake: He wholly believes himself and the human race to be better than robots in every way, and is disgusted by the existence of machines built to imitate his "superior" race.
%%* TerrifiedOfGerms:
* TookALevelInBadass:
** As shown in the Foresta arc, Müller goes from an ordinary human scientist to a deadly {{Cyborg}} who can hold his own against Weisz's PoweredArmor without much trouble.
** [[spoiler:ZigZagged in Universe Zero, where he becomes one of the Oración Seis Galáctica when he imbues himself with Xenolith's gravity power. While this makes him one of the most powerful beings in the universe, he lacks the proper technique to use this power in combat, and is beaten by the more experienced Shiki and Shura within moments.]]
%%* TortureTechnician: He put Hermit through hell by dismantling and reassembling her body for two years straight, and he cut off the limbs of a young Jinn as he forced Kleene to watch.
* TranshumanTreachery:
* TreacherousAdvisor: [[spoiler:He becomes one in Universe Zero, where he is the head of the Aoi Cosmos's Imperial Science Department.]]
%%* UnskilledButStrong: [[spoiler:His fusion with his fake Xenolith is this.
%%* UnusualEars:
%%* VoiceChangeling: [[spoiler:He has a voice changer that lets him imitate Shiki's voice and fool Rebecca into walking into a trap.]]
%%* WhoNeedsTheirWholeBody: Arsenal cuts him in half at the waist with [[BladeBelowTheShoulder Grandee Wing]], but he just laughs it off and retaliates while musing on how becoming an O-Tech lets him ignore things like this. This ends up contributing to his defeat, however, as [[BigDamnHeroes Laguna arrives]] and short-circuits him via hitting an exposed sparking wire in his severed torso with water.
%%* WouldHurtAChild: He dismembered a young Jinn [[ChainsawGood with a chainsaw]] as part of his "experiments". Just to push the envelope further, [[ForcedToWatch he made Kleene watch the whole thing]], leaving her emotionally crippled.
%%* WalkingSpoiler:

[[folder:Deadend Crow]]
!!Deadend Crow

->See Characters/EdensZeroOracionSeisGalactica
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Crow's Creator ('''Unmarked Spoilers''')]]
!!Cure

->See Characters/EdensZeroInterstellarUnionArmy
[[/folder]]

[[folder:God Acnoella]]
!!God Acnoella

->See Characters/EdensZeroOracionSeisGalactica
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Skeleton Army]]
!!Skeleton Army
[[/folder]]

!!!Final Arc Allies ('''Heavy Spoilers''')

[[folder:Joker Helix]]
!!Joker Helix
[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ez_joker.png]]
->''"Play a game with me, Rebecca."''

A member of the Oración Seis Galáctica in Universe Zero. Joker was originally a [[UsefulNotes/GameEngine game engine]] developed by Professor Weisz, but grew beyond her programming and spread to other computers across the cosmos, gaining a body of her own. She comes equipped with a Delta Time Reactor, which slows time down within a given area until it's virtually frozen.

* AIIsACrapshoot: Joker was [[InstantAIJustAddWater an A.I.-powered game engine]] that went rogue when she kept absorbing information until she gained a mind of her own, and is now a minion of Void. [[spoiler:However, it's discussed just how much of a hand Void had in her rebellion, since she had the makings of a BenevolentAI.]]
* ArcVillainess: She acts on behalf of [[BigBad Void]] as the antagonist of the Miltz arc, where she attempts to steal the Mother Ether the ''Edens Zero'' crew collected, while also acting as a personal enemy to Rebecca.
* BadInfluencer: {{Subverted}}. Rebecca and Happy figure Joker is a B-Cuber they once heard about, but get no results when they look her up online. It turns out she was never a B-Cuber, but [[InstantAIJustAddWater a rogue gaming software]].
* BenevolentAI: [[spoiler:Before going rogue, Joker started out as a gaming A.I. that found joy in helping give players the best gaming experience she could provide. Given the ease that Rebecca [[TalkingTheMonsterToDeath talks her into surrendering]], it's implied she was simply corrupted by Void and never stopped being the good A.I. she always was.]]
* CharacterCatchphrase: She repeatedly says "Play a game with me, Rebecca," demonstrating her single-minded obsession with Rebecca.
* TheDarkSideWillMakeYouForget: [[spoiler:Before she became Void's minion, all Joker wanted was to make games and [[ForHappiness help people have fun playing them]]. Since then, her purpose has been twisted into obsessively playing with Rebecca, and only Rebecca, the first person who ever played with her.]]
* FairPlayVillain: When she warps Rebecca into her game worlds, Joker gives her hints and opportunities to figure out how each game works.
* ForHappiness: [[spoiler:Rebecca figures out Joker's true desire for making games is to help improve people's experiences with them.]]
* ForgottenFriendNewFoe: {{Downplayed}}. As an A.I.-powered game engine, she was only just starting to develop sentience when Rebecca started playing her games, but grew fond enough of her to want to keep her to herself after becoming one of Void's followers. Rebecca, on the other hand, only barely remembers her name at first, and never realized she was sentient.
* FriendToAllChildren: [[spoiler:Her first known act of sentience was to add a hint to a young Rebecca to help her beat one of her games, since Professor Weisz made it [[NintendoHard impossible to beat without sheer luck]]. Rebecca's recollection of this is what convinces her that the real Joker is actually kind to everyone.]]
%%* GameFace: After Rebecca beats her game to rescue Shiki and Professor Weisz, Joker remains so unsatisfied and obsessed that her OneWayVisor displays a monstrous-looking face with a single eye and sharp teeth. This quickly turns out not to be her real face, however.
* GrewBeyondTheirProgramming: Joker Helix started out as a gaming software Professor Weisz developed to make games for Rebecca. Thanks to her [[AIIsACrapshoot fickle A.I.]] absorbing too much info, however, it grew into something beyond the Professor's control, becoming a follower of the BigBad.
* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:Rebecca [[TalkingTheMonsterToDeath talks her into one]] at the end of the Miltz arc, reminding her of the kindhearted entertainer she truly was before becoming Void's minion, which leads Joker to end her attack on the crew and leave peacefully.]]
* IJustWantToBeLoved: [[spoiler:Rebecca realizes that everything Joker does, even the illicit behavior she displays, stems from a desire to make games more fun for players. When Rebecca reminds Joker of that purpose, Joker's originally kind personality resurfaces.]]
* MadnessMantra: She is prone to this when her games with Rebecca don't go as planned, repeatedly chanting "No fair" when Professor Weisz summons a [[HumongousMecha giant Happy robot]] against her, and "Play with me" when Rebecca refuses to go along with her games anymore.
* MeaningfulName: The name "Joker" alludes to her intended purpose as an entertainer.
* MesACrowd: She has at least 100 duplicates of herself, with each copy coming with her own Delta Time Reactor. This not only helps spread her time-stopping powers further, but also allows her to multi-task in hunting the ''Edens Zero'' crew's Mother Ether and playing with Rebecca. The downside is that the clones are far weaker than the real Joker, and their time-slowing powers have a smaller AreaOfEffect.
* TheMostDangerousVideoGame: More specifically, she's a dangerous UsefulNotes/GameEngine in an android body with the power to create elaborate and dangerous dimensions that run on video game logic. While she doesn't go out of her way to harm Rebecca, the object of her obsession, she does attempt to [[DeadlyGame actually drown Shiki and Professor Weisz]] after getting fed up with their interference.
* OneWayVisor: She wears a dark visor that completely hides her real face and functions as a computer screen. After her HeelFaceTurn, the tint lifts to reveal a beautiful, humanoid face underneath.
* PrehensileHair: Her hair is made up of cables resembling dreadlocks, which she can manipulate freely as her primary form of attack.
* PsychopathicWomanchild: As one of the BigBad's servants, Joker has the child-like motivation of keeping Rebecca for herself so they can play games forever, and throws a tantrum when Professor Weisz starts "ruining" her games by modifying them beyond her liking.
* SpaceMaster: Joker sends Rebecca into interconnected {{Pocket Dimension}}s that force her to adhere to video game logic and mechanics, such as a pixelated ThreeQuartersView world where movement is limited and abilities are accessed through a menu, and a FightingGame world where combatants have a LifeMeter and [[CheeseStrategy Cheese Strategies]] are plausible. Shiki and Professor Weisz are also able to enter these dimensions from the outside.
* TimeStandsStill: {{Downplayed}}. Her Delta Time Reactor can make time appear like it's been frozen for everyone but herself, but it really just slows time down to a crawl within an AreaOfEffect. This gives Professor Weisz an edge when he puts together a device that cancels out her reactor, which kicks into effect while he's still "frozen".
* {{Unperson}}: Rebecca and Hermit find no traces of Joker's identity online, and conclude she completely removed all evidence of her existence from the internet to prevent herself from being tracked. Given TheReveal that she was actually a game engine and not a person, however, it's unclear if there was ever any public info about her true identity to erase.
* VengefulAbandonedToy: {{Downplayed}}. Before gaining sentience, Joker was used to make video games for Rebecca when she was little, which Rebecca had since almost forgotten about. Now Joker is obsessed with forcing Rebecca to play with her again like the good old days, but otherwise holds no hard feelings against her.

[[folder:Lightning Law]]
!!Lightning Law
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->''"This fantasy of coexistence between androids and humans is coming to an end."''

One of the Oración Seis Galáctica in Universe Zero. Law has power over electricity, which allows him to manipulate machinery to his will.

* BadBoss: He shows how little he cares for the Skeleton Army bots under his command by casually destroying one of them with his own hands, and later by using his power to force the army back to their feet every time they're broken by Shiki.
* BladeBelowTheShoulder: He can fuse his fingers into a single Ether blade, which he uses to stab Shiki straight through the chest.
* BodySurf: He can possess other androids by [[ElementalShapeshifter turning into electricity]], and then destroy them from within by returning to his original form.
* FlatCharacter: Law receives very little characterization outside of being one of Void's followers [[spoiler:and is destroyed a small handful of chapters after he's introduced]].
* HeroKiller: Law has the strength and emotional cunning to kill [[spoiler:Shiki after forcing him into a MomentOfWeakness, though his feat is undone when Rebecca discovers a way to reverse time in Universe Zero.]]
* ManipulativeBastard: Law knows precisely how to get under Shiki's skin and throw him off his game, which he does by forcing Shiki to keep fighting the Skeleton Army until they're completely demolished, which goes against Shiki's stance of completely killing his enemies. [[spoiler:Law takes advantage of this MomentOfWeakness to kill Shiki.]]
* MeaningfulName: Fittingly for a robot named ''Lightning'' Law, he has [[ShockAndAwe electrical powers]].
* NoNonsenseNemesis: ZigZagged. [[spoiler:He wastes zero time killing Shiki the very instant he hesitates to demolish Void's Skeleton Army due to his [[AndroidsArePeopleToo compassion for robots]], but stands idly by when Rebecca enters the picture and successfully reverses time to save Shiki, even when she finds she has to strip naked to activate her power in this world.]]
* RobotMaster: His Metal Gore Hypnos is a MarionetteMaster ability that specifically affects robots, who are forced to follow his command and fight for him as long as they're still in one piece, no matter how damaged they are.
* ShockAndAwe: His powers involve the use of electricity, which gives him some manner of control over other androids like the ''Edens One''[='=]s Skeleton Army.
* SinisterMinister: His robes and ''mudra'' hand gestures give him the image of an Eastern monk, but he's also one of the BigBad's minions.
* SuperToughness: He has the endurance to withstand being rammed by Rebecca's Leo starfighter and come out completely unscathed. [[spoiler:Laguna works around this by [[KillItWithWater soaking]] and [[KillItWithIce flash-freezing]] Law, making his body brittle enough to cut to pieces.]]
* {{Technopath}}: His Metal Gore Hypnos technique allows him to [[RobotMaster control other robots against their wills]] until they're completely reduced to scrap metal. He can also demolish machines like starfighters with a single touch.
* UnusualEyebrows: His eyebrows are shaped vaguely like shooting stars.
* WeaksauceWeakness: [[spoiler:He's touted as one of the strongest androids in the universe, yet he easily short-circuits when exposed to [[KillItWithWater ordinary water]] just like any other machine. This weakness is only circumvented by how his electricity makes it riskier for someone to use that water without getting fried themselves.]]

[[folder:Lady Freyja]]
!!Lady Freyja

One of the Oración Seis Galáctica in Universe Zero.

* TheDreaded: The mere mention that she's one of the ''Edens Zero'' crew's enemies is enough to make a hardened MasterSwordswoman like Valkyrie quiver with fear.
* ReligiousAndMythologicalThemeNaming: Freyja, the WorldsBestWarrior in the series, is named after the Norse goddess of the same name, who represents war among other things.
* WorldsBestWarrior: She's a [[MasterSwordsman legendary swordswoman]] said to be the pinnacle of all warriors in the cosmos, and has mastered every martial weapon there is.

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[[folder:Neepa]]
!!Neepa
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Yūya Murakami (Japanese), Creator/KyleHebert (English)[[note]]'''Other languages:''' Simone Marzola (French)[[/note]]

[[folder:Noah Glenfield]]
!!Noah Glenfield
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/NobuhikoOkamoto (Japanese), Creator/BillyKametz (English)

!R

[[folder:Rebecca Bluegarden]]
!!Rebecca Bluegarden
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/MikakoKomatsu (Japanese), Creator/KiraBuckland (English)[[note]]'''Other languages:''' Franziska Trunte (German), Sixnalie Villalba (Latin American Spanish), Silvia Sarmentera (European Spanish), Anaïs Delva, Sofia Elfriede Bocchiola [young] (French), Erica Laiolo (Italian), Hannah Buttel (Portuguese)[[/note]]

!S

[[folder:Saintfire Nox ('''Unmarked Spoilers''')]]
!!Saintfire Nox (Rachel)
!!!'''Debut:''' Chapter 199 (Manga)
!!!'''Ether Gear:''' [[TimeRewindMechanic Cat]] [[SuperSpeed Leaper]]
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->''"Rebecca... If there's one thing I want you to know, it's this... Not a single day went by that I didn't think of you. I've always loved you."''

The Archbishop of the Church of Saintfire, a cult on the Planet Miltz with jurisdiction over time. Her true identity is Rebecca's long-lost mother and Connor's ex-wife, Rachel, and the last of her bloodline to inherit the name of Nox. Like her daughter, Rachel could manipulate time itself with the power of Cat Leaper, but she has long since exhausted this power after countless failures to find a world where she and her family could live happily together.

* AccentAdaptation: Rachel speaks with a rural [[UsefulNotes/JapaneseDialects Tosa dialect]] in Japanese, just like her daughter does when she gets angry or flustered. For Kodansha's translation, she's turned into a SouthernBelle.
* ActionMom: She's Rebecca's mom and one of the greatest fighters in the cosmos, capable of giving the BigBad a run for his money.
%%* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: Thanks to her age and experience, Rachel is a more skillful TimeMaster than Rebecca. She's also a superior dominatrix to Sister,
* AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents: Rachel is comically affectionate and smothering towards Rebecca after they make up, with her first proposed acts of family bonding being to [[BathtubBonding take a bath together]] and sleeping in the same bed as Connor.
* AmicableExes: After their reunion, Rachel and Connor are shown to love each other as passionately as they did eighteen years ago before Rachel was forced to leave him for his own protection from her cult.
* BadassInDistress: Her first proper introduction in the series happens while she's in a coma under Ziggy's captivity, requiring the ''Edens Zero'' crew to rescue her.
* BadassPreacher: As an archbishop and one of the Galáctica, she allegedly put up one hell of a fight against Ziggy, being the SoleSurvivor of her church during his invasion.
* BigDamnReunion: She reunites with her beloved daughter and husband at the end of the Lendard arc, with all three holding each other and crying TearsOfJoy after everything that led to their separation has been cleared up.
* DirtyBusiness: As much as she realizes it was the only way to protect her family, Rachel feels horribly broken up over having to leave Connor and send Rebecca away, especially after she'd learned Rebecca's caretakers ran off and left her to fend for herself.
* ForbiddenLove: Her marriage with Connor was considered taboo to her church, who didn't take kindly to outsiders having a relationship with their soon-to-be Archbishop, punishing them with death. With this custom being long-abandoned by the time she reunites with Connor, they more than happily pick up where they left off.
* GiveHerANormalLife: She was forced to give up Rebecca when her church's fanatics came for her life, since they refused to accept a successor to Rachel with an unknown pedigree.
* GoodShepherd: Despite being forced into leadership of a CorruptChurch and being branded as one of the Galáctica because of it, Rachel remains a good and honest woman, and notes that the church started to abandon its corrupt practices and traditions sometime after she assumed her title.
* HighPriest: She's the Church of Saintfire's Archbishop.
* ItsNotYouItsMyEnemies: Her [[HappilyMarried loving marriage]] with Connor was broken when her church came for her and killed him. After reversing time and preventing her husband's death, she was forced to go back to them without a word to him for his protection, taking their daughter with her.
* LegacyCharacter: "Saintfire Nox" is just a title that's passed down to the leaders of her family's church, which took on a life of its own thanks to her mother's reputation as TheDreaded, permanently associating it with the Galáctica.
* MommyHadAGoodReasonForAbandoningYou: In the timelines where she brought Rebecca to the Church of Saintfire with her, Rebecca always ended up being killed by a fanatical faction. After using up her time-reversing power to save Rebecca, Rachel was left with no option but to send Rebecca to the Sakura Cosmos for her own safety. Once Rebecca hears Rachel's reasons and how painful it was for her mother to leave her, Rebecca is able to forgive her.
* MuggleMageRomance: She's descended from a long line of the universe's most powerful {{Time Master}}s, but settled down with an ordinary space captain (then a lieutenant commander) like Connor.
* MysteriousParent: Rebecca is shocked to find out her long-lost mother is one of the Galáctica, and an archbishop who can control time.
* NakedOnArrival: She's naked in her first official appearance because she's inside one of Ziggy's PeopleJars.
* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: Ziggy's capture of Rachel happened off-screen, but according to him, she didn't go down without a fight, ending up the only one of her cult to survive.
* OldFlame: She and Connor were HappilyMarried before she was forced to leave him with their unborn daughter. When they find each other again after eighteen years, they resume their loving, passionate relationship without a hitch.
* RankScalesWithAsskicking: As her church's Archbishop, she is also its most powerful member with SuperSpeed and TimeMaster abilities.
* RescueIntroduction: In her proper introduction, Ziggy has captured her and trapped her inside one of his PeopleJars to pinpoint Mother's location. Shiki and his crewmates free her and take her to Sister for treatment.
* TheRunaway: In her younger days, she ran away from home because she didn't want anything to do with the Church of Saintfire, which lead to her meeting and marrying Connor.
* SharedFamilyQuirks: She has her daughter's explosive temper and violent tendencies, right down to the "''zeyo''/ducky" VerbalTic.
* SoleSurvivor: In multiple ways: she is the only known survivor of Ziggy's attack on the Church of Saintfire, the only living mother in Ziggy's collection of PeopleJars, and the last remaining member of the Galáctica's original roster besides the newcomer Shiki.
* SuperSpeed: By Sister's account, Rachel possesses speed that puts Rebecca's to shame, as she allegedly had Sister tied up and pinned to the ground a split second after waking up.
* SuperpowerfulGenetics: Her Cat Leaper ability is passed down through the women in her family, with Rachel inheriting hers from her mother, and Rebecca receiving her own Cat Leaper from Rachel.
* TimeMaster: Like her daughter, Rachel has [[TimeRewindMechanic Cat Leaper]], which is a power all the women of their family have. By the time she's introduced, however, she's already used up her ability to reverse time after thousands of attempts to stop her husband and daughter from getting killed.
* TokenGoodTeammate: To both the Church of Saintfire and the Oración Seis Galáctica in general. Like Elsie and Shiki, Rachel isn't villainous despite being branded as one of the most dangerous criminals of the cosmoses; she was just forced to become the leader of her mother's CorruptChurch because her husband and daughter would be killed if she refused.
* TomTheDarkLord: Despite being one of the six most powerful criminals in the cosmos, her actual first name is the rather unassuming "Rachel".
* UglyGuyHotWife: Rachel looks like a slightly older and more mature version of her daughter Rebecca, who already qualifies as MsFanservice. Meanwhile, her husband is the middle-aged, balding, overweight Captain Connor.
* WalkingSpoiler: She's revealed as Rebecca's long-lost mother upon introduction, making her role in the story a spoiler right away.

[[folder:Sara]]
!!Sara

[[folder:Shiki Granbell]]
!!Shiki Granbell
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/TakumaTerashima, Yurie Kozakai [child] (Japanese), Creator/SeanChiplock, Creator/RyanBartley [child] (English)[[note]]'''Other languages:''' Tim Schwarzmaier, Derya Flechtner [young] (German), Felipe Vidal (Latin American Spanish), Ricardo Escobar (European Spanish), Benjamin Bollen, Estelle Darazi [young] (French), Mosè Singh, Pietro Novara [young] (Italian), Felipe Drummond (Portuguese)[[/note]]

!W

[[folder:Ward]]
!!Ward
!!!'''Voiced by: Sōma Shiomi (Japanese), Kane Jungbluth-Murry (English)'''[[note]]'''Other languages:''' Swan Demarsan (French)[[/note]]