History Sandbox / EdensZeroSandbox

* AmbiguousRobot: Applies to his appearance in [[spoiler: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 just a grotesque mish-mash of human and machine.]]

* 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: For as much as his monstrous actions are taken completely seriously, Müller himself is a goofy and hammy villain, especially in [[spoiler:Universe Zero, where his madness and instability are more PlayedForLaughs than before]].

* UnskilledButStrong: [[spoiler:His fusion with the fake Xenolith in Universe Zero makes him this. While it gives Müller access to Xenolith's [[GravityMaster Gravity Ether]], which is capable of destroying small planets like Foresta, he still has zero knowledge of the Gravity Martial Arts, which were invented to apply this power to combat.]]

[[quoteright:250:[[labelnote:Click here to see Müller in the final arcs ('''SPOILERS''')]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ez_muller_u0.png[[/labelnote]]]]

* AmbiguousRobot: Applies to his appearance in [[spoiler: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.]]

* 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.

* 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.

%%* 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.

* MaskOfSanity: Back before Hermit learned what a cartoonishly evil, robot-hating madman he really is, Müller convincingly presented himself as a gentle, humble, grandfather-like figure who genuinely wanted what was best for humans and robots.

* 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".

%%* SlasherSmile:

* TreacherousAdvisor: [[spoiler:He becomes one in Universe Zero, where he is the head of the Aoi Cosmos's Imperial Science Department who manipulates his Emperor, Shura, while plotting behind his back.]]

* UnusualEars: His cyborg body comes with a pair of fans in place of ears, which help [[VisualPun cool his head]] when he's in the middle of a VillainousBreakdown.

* WhoNeedsTheirWholeBody: As an O-Tech whose body is entirely mechanical except his head, he's able to keep fighting even when he's cut in half at the waist. It's only when his body is completely destroyed that he's beaten.

* ManipulativeBastard: Killer is an emotionally manipulative fighter who pushes Weisz's RelativeButton to get under his skin during their fight on Lendard, showing him holograms of his dead mother and suggesting that one of them may actually be her BroughtBackFromTheDead thanks to a top-secret autopsy, then letting Weisz [[TakingABullet take a barrage of bullets for her]] in a MomentOfWeakness, wondering if he's telling the truth. [[spoiler:To rub salt in the wound, he learns Killer was only half-lying: she really was preserved for potential resurrection and brought to Lendard as HumanResources, but the efforts to bring her back failed years ago.]]

* AssassinOutclassin: Being that he is an assassin, this crops up more than once when he gets outsmarted:
** In the Nero 66 arc, Killer sneaks up on Jaguar to stab him InTheBack while he's distracted thanks to Brigandine. [[spoiler:Jaguar just reaches behind his back and [[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe demolishes Killer's upper half]].]]
** In the Lendard arc, he dupes Hermit into fighting a hologram of himself so he can infect her with a virus. [[spoiler:Hermit sees this trick coming thanks to his fight with Weisz, leading her to beat him by using [[BeatThemAtTheirOwnGame the same hologram trick]].]]
** As seen in the final arc, [[spoiler:Killer rigs the ''Edens Zero'' with a self-destruct code, forcing the Four Shining Stars to override the ship's systems to disable the code, which leaves them sitting ducks for him to finish off with the ''Edens One''. He doesn't count on Weisz building his own digital diving apparatus that doesn't rely on the ''Zero''[='=]s energy, allowing him to halt the ''One'' and punch him from the digital world into the real world, where Laguna is waiting to finish him off.]]

%%* 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.]]

* VillainsWantMercy: Müller proves himself a DirtyCoward once his cybernetic body is destroyed, pitifully begging for mercy from those whose lives he'd made into a living hell, namely Hermit.

* 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]].

%%* 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".

%%* {{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.]]

* 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.

%%* SameCharacterButDifferent: {{Exaggerated}}.

* ArrogantKungFuGuy: [[spoiler:Becomes one in Universe Zero 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.]]

* AlternateSelf:
** As with every character in the series, [[spoiler:Connor has at least
** During the final arc, [[spoiler:all these versions are combined into one version in [[MergedReality Universe Zero]], where he gains the memories of his Universe 3 self

with Connor's life being changed more drastically than other characters

** [[spoiler:His Universe Zero self serves this role in the Reunion arc during the crew's revisit to the Aoi Cosmos. While he's also a minion of the BigBad 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.

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

* 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.

* EvilIsHammy: His whole character is defined by this once he drops his "kindly old scientist" facade, cackling and gobbling up the scenery as he wears his evil accomplishments on his sleeve.
* 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.

* 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.

* EvilOldFolks: He is an old, demented MadScientist who puts innocent people--including robots and children--through unspeakable torture and misery ForScience

%%* ForScience:

* MadScientist: He is the "Mad Engineer" variety, being an evil, rotten old man who deals in building {{Doomsday Device}}s, turning children and even himself into [[{{Cyborg}} O-Techs]], or straight up just fiddling around with new torture methods for androids, all under the delusion that he's helping to advance humankind.

* NeverMyFault: Müller doesn't accept any responsibility for his own imprisonment after blowing up planet Hook and torturing Hermit, blaming some unknown conspirator for plotting against him.

* {{Sadist}}: He gets disgustingly sick enjoyment out of subjecting poor Hermit to ColdBloodedTorture for two years straight.

* 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.

%%* 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, who actively derides and manipulates his Emperor, Shura.]]

* VillainsWantMercy: Müller proves himself a DirtyCoward once his body is destroyed in the Foresta arc, pitifully begging for mercy from those whose lives he'd made into a living hell, namely Hermit.

* WouldHurtAChild: He's low enough to experiment on young children, as Jinn and Kleene can attest to when Müller cut the former up with a chainsaw and [[ForcedToWatch forced the latter to watch the whole thing]], leaving her emotionally crippled.
%%* WalkingSpoiler:

* 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.]]

* 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.

* 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.

%%* 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, demented MadScientist who puts innocent people--including robots and children--through unspeakable torture and misery ForScience.

%%* 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.

%%* 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.

%%* 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 makes him this. While it gives Müller access to Xenolith's [[GravityMaster Gravity Ether]], which is capable of destroying small planets like Foresta, he still has zero knowledge of the Gravity Martial Arts, which were invented to apply this power to combat.]]

* 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.

* 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.]]

* 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.

* 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.

%%* AlternateSelf: As revealed following the Nero 66 arc, [[spoiler:

* BadassNormal: He possesses no superpowers or fighting skills, but he makes up for it by being an AcePilot who can outmaneuver faster and more supernaturally gifted pilots than himself.

* IWillFindYou: He is driven by his search for his wife, Rachel, who left him with their newborn daughter years ago. [[spoiler:He succeeds in finding his daughter, Rebecca, though he doesn't realize her identity until the events of the X495 arc, while Rachel--a.k.a. Saintfire Nox--is brought to him in the Lendard arc.]]
* LongLostRelative: In the Lendard arc, he's [[LukeIAmYourFather revealed to be]] [[spoiler:Rebecca's DisappearedDad, whom her MissingMom, Rachel, left before their child was born.]]

* OldFlame: Despite being separated from his wife for fifteen years before his introduction, Connor is still deeply and passionately in love with her. [[spoiler:Once he learns she still feels the same for him, they pick things up without a hitch.]]

* RevealingContinuityLapse: Connor is the subject of this on more than one occasion--first after Rebecca's time leap in the Belial Gore arc, and again after Xiaomei's intervention in the Nero 66 arc--where neither he nor anybody except for Rebecca remember each other, with history being altered in ways that prevent them from meeting the same way. [[spoiler:After the second instance, it's explained that each Connor the crew meets is his AlternateSelf from a different parallel universe Rebecca travels to, which only Rebecca notices due to her RippleEffectProofMemory.]]

[[folder:Connor]]
!!Captain Connor

The ''Edens One''[='=]s mysterious captain, who hails from the Aoi Cosmos.

* AcePilot: Connor is a master class spaceship pilot with the chops to fly the ''Edens Zero'' unscathed through a field of DangerousOrbitalDebris field none of the ship's crew would dare to enter, which doubles as an OffscreenMomentOfAwesome.
%%* AlternateSelf:
%%* AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents: [[spoiler:After he reveals to Rebecca that he's her father, he starts showering her in parental affection in mortifying ways such as offering her to play an 18+ HGame with him, and [[ParentalSexualitySquick making out with her mother right in front of her]].]]
%%* AmbiguouslyEvil: He is a willing if reluctant supporter of the evil Ziggy's plans for machine conquest, but he never seems like an inherently bad person, as he's shown to have standards against killing women and children.
%%* AmicableExes: [[spoiler:He and Rachel are these, since she was forced to leave him with their newborn daughter without a word for his protection, while Connor is reluctant to assume the worst of her despite how she'd hurt him.]]
%%* ArchnemesisDad: [[spoiler:Serves as this to Rebecca when he's on Ziggy's side in World No.30, though neither of them is aware of their relationship in this world.]]
* AntiquatedLinguistics: He speaks with a formal and archaic register in Japanese, and uses the antiquated pronoun ''[[UsefulNotes/JapanesePronouns wagahai]]''.
* AuthorityInNameOnly: Connor in World No.30 is still TheCaptain of the ''Edens One'', but is reduced to a glorified pilot for hire who defers directly to Ziggy.
* BadassNormal: He's one of the few crew members to possess no superpowers or fighting skill, but he makes up for it by being an AcePilot who can outmaneuver faster and more supernaturally gifted pilots than himself.
* BigEater: He has a massive appetite that rivals Rebecca's, stuffing his face with a tableful of food after drifting helplessly in space for who knows how long.
* BoomerangBigot: World No.30's Connor firmly agrees with Ziggy that HumansAreBastards and deserve to be ruled over by machines, despite being a human himself.
* BunnyEarsLawyer: He is a pompous man of many oddities and poor habits who grates the crew's nerves, but he's also a bona fide AcePilot when he puts himself behind the helm of the ''Edens Zero'', with or without the crew's permission.
* TheCaptain: He's the captain of the ''Edens One'', and [[TheyCallMeMisterTibbs insists that everyone address him as such]] in every situation.
* CoolOldGuy: He's middle-aged, balding, overweight, and one of the finest ship captains the ''Edens Zero'' crew has ever seen.
%%* CowardlyLion: [[spoiler:Universe 3's Connor is a good deal more panicky and cowardly than the Connors in Universes 1 and 2. However, he's quite noble and heroic when properly inspired, enough to directly face off against Deadend Crow, one of the most dangerous androids in the universe.]]
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: He acts like a pompous and self-entitled oaf, but when he puts himself at the helm of a spaceship, he proves to be an AcePilot whose skills astound the Demon King's most experienced crewmates.
* DirtyOldMan: {{Downplayed}}. He admires Rebecca and Homura's beauty, and ends up sharing a bath with them because he mistook it for co-ed, but he makes sure they know he isn't hitting on them and always keeps his distance--not that this makes them any more comfortable.
* EveryoneHasStandards: Even though he agrees with Ziggy that humans should be dominated by robots, he objects to attacking the ''Edens Zero'' crew on the grounds that it's a civilian ship full of women and children. That said, he reluctantly goes through with it when his crewmates tell him the entire crew will pose a threat to them sooner or later.
* EvilCostumeSwitch: In the anime adaptation, Connor's white hat and overcoat are changed to dark grey when he reappears in World No.30 as Ziggy's servant.
* FatSlob: He's an overweight middle-aged man with a huge appetite and bad table manners, which include talking while he's eating.
* TheFriendNobodyLikes: {{Downplayed}}. Very few members of the crew can put up with his annoying quirks besides Shiki and Pino, but they eventually accept him as a member all the same.
%%* GoingDownWithTheShip: He attempted this in World No.29 when the ''Edens One'' was stuck in an accident before the ''Zero'' crew finds him, clutching the ship's steering wheel as evidence of his endeavor to survive.
%%* GoingDownWithTheShip: {{Subverted}} in his backstory in Universe 3, where he used to be a captain from the [[LaResistance Freedom Force]] that fought the Nero Empire, but fled his ship before it sunk because he refused to die before finding his wife and daughter. He feels great shame for abandoning his post, but also reasons that he wouldn't have made much difference if he stayed.
%%* HappilyMarried: He was this with his wife for three years before she suddenly ghosted him with their unborn daughter. [[spoiler:After their BigDamnReunion at the end of the Lendard arc, followed by the CosmicRetcon, they joyfully get back together by the Miltz arc.]]
* HeavySleeper: He snores like a buzzsaw when he sleeps, which serves to add to the crew's irritation with him.
%%* IWillFindYou: He is driven by his search for his wife, Rachel, who left him with their newborn daughter years ago. [[spoiler:He succeeds in finding his daughter, Rebecca, though he doesn't realize her identity until the events of the X495 arc, while Rachel--a.k.a. Saintfire Nox--is brought to him in the Lendard arc.]]
%%* LongLostRelative: In the Lendard arc, he's [[LukeIAmYourFather revealed to be]] [[spoiler:Rebecca's DisappearedDad, whom her MissingMom, Rachel, left before their child was born.]]
%%* MuggleMageRomance: [[spoiler:He is an ordinary space captain who fell in love and had a child with Saintfire Nox, one of the most powerful {{Time Master}}s in the universe.]]
* MyMasterRightOrWrong: Despite his reluctance to fire on the ''Edens Zero'' under Ziggy's orders in World No.30, he ultimately goes through with it since he believes in the Demon King's anti-human ideals.
* NonActionGuy: Aside from his [[AcePilot incredible piloting skills]], he has no combat abilities to speak of.
%%* NotWhatISignedUpFor: This Connor signed up to get his piloting skills scanned and copied onto robots for [[OnlyInItForTheMoney decent pay]]. The hiring team left out the detail that those robots would be part of an evil Demon King's invasion force. His immediate response upon learning this is to [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere hit the cosmic trail out of there]].
%%* OldFlame: Despite being separated from his wife for fifteen years before his introduction, Connor is still deeply and passionately in love with her. [[spoiler:Once he learns she still feels the same for him, they pick things up without a hitch.]]
%%* PervertDad: {{Downplayed}} when it's revealed his child is [[spoiler:Rebecca, whom he climbed into the bath with when mistaking it for a co-ed bath in Universe 1, and ogled in her bikini with the other ladies on Dahlia, before their relationship was revealed. However, he legitimately didn't know Rebecca was his daughter the first time, and in the second, he was [[OnceMoreWithClarity clarified]] to be non-sexually admiring how beautiful his baby daughter has become.]]
%%* PunchClockVillain:
* SesquipedalianLoquaciousness: He slips into this when he finds himself starving, telling the crew his stomach is "beset by extreme emptiness".
%%* SharedFamilyQuirks: Connor has quite a bit in common with his child, [[spoiler:Rebecca, namely her piloting skill, huge appetite, bad table manners, having the same kind of comedic panic attack when he describes escaping from Lendard as she did when she thought she was trapped in Norma's past, and sharing the same reaction to the news that they're related.]]
* SixthRangerTraitor: ZigZagged. He serves as an unofficial member of the ''Edens Zero'' crew in World No.29 before being revealed as a villain in World No.30, but this Connor never met the crew in the latter world before his alignment is revealed.
%%* SoleSurvivor: Connor is the only one out of the 100 human recruits to escape with his life; the rest are coincidentally stepped on by Deadend Crow, though [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness they would've been killed by Ziggy anyway]].
* SophisticatedAsHell: Despite his formal manner of speaking, he isn't afraid to swear like a sailor, such as when he teaches Pino how to say "Fuck you" in GratuitousEnglish.[[note]]"''Fakku yuu!''"[[/note]]
* TalkLikeAPirate: Kodansha translates his AntiquatedLinguistics in Japanese by making him talk like a sophisticated sailor.
* TheyCallMeMisterTibbs: A RunningGag has him insisting that everyone call him "[[TheCaptain Captain]]", including those who aren't part of his crew or who'd otherwise contest his rank.
%%* UglyGuyHotWife: Connor is the middle-aged, balding and overweight husband to an AbsurdlyYouthfulMother, Rachel.
%%* WalkingSpoiler: It's incredibly difficult to talk about Connor without giving away several major revelations about the true nature of the series' timeline, to say nothing of what's revealed in the series' second half...
%%* WalkingSpoiler: This Connor's existence not only explicitly confirms the series' setting to be TheMultiverse, but he's also revealed to be Rebecca's father, whom she'd been searching for since the start of the series.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:O.N.E. Void ('''Unmarked Spoilers''')]]
!!Over Nu Etherion Void
[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ez_one_void_4.png]]

The ''Edens One''[='=]s A.I., which so far surpassed the intelligence of humans and machines that the ship itself gained a mind of its own. Void is responsible for controlling Ziggy to carry out his will to destroy Mother and bring about humankind's extinction, making him the true enemy of the ''Edens Zero'' crew.
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[[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]]
[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ez_muller_anime.png]]
[[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]]]]

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.

A mysterious spaceship captain who hails from the Aoi Cosmos.

* AcePilot: Connor is a master class spaceship pilot with the chops to fly the ''Edens Zero'' unscathed through a field of DangerousOrbitalDebris field none of the ship's crew would dare to enter, and to outmaneuver an Interstellar Union Army fleet commanded by an officer with CombatClairvoyance.

* AmbiguouslyEvil: World No.30's Connor is a willing if reluctant supporter of the evil Ziggy's plans for machine conquest, but he never seems like an inherently bad person, as he's shown to have standards against killing women and children.
* AmicableExes: [[spoiler:He and Rachel are these, since she was forced to leave him with their newborn daughter without a word for his protection, while Connor is reluctant to assume the worst of her despite how she'd hurt him.]]
* ArchnemesisDad: [[spoiler:Serves as this to Rebecca when he's on Ziggy's side in World No.30, though neither of them is aware of their relationship in this world.]]

* TheCaptain: He's the captain of the ''Edens One'', and [[TheyCallMeMisterTibbs insists that everyone address him as such]] in every situation. [[spoiler:He's also dubbed the official captain of the ''Edens Zero'' by Shiki in Universe 3.]]

* CowardlyLion: [[spoiler:Universe 3's Connor is a good deal more panicky and cowardly than the Connors in Universes 1 and 2. However, he's quite noble and heroic when properly inspired, enough to directly face off against Deadend Crow, one of the most dangerous androids in the universe.]]

* HappilyMarried: He was this with his wife for three years before she suddenly ghosted him with their unborn daughter. [[spoiler:After their BigDamnReunion at the end of the Lendard arc, followed by the CosmicRetcon, they joyfully get back together by the Miltz arc.]]

%%* IChooseToStay: [[spoiler:After getting back together with Rachel in Universe Zero, Connor chooses to stay with her on Miltz rather than continue traveling with the ''Edens Zero'' crew, since he'd lost all his piloting skills thanks to the CosmicRetcon.]]
* IWillFindYou: He is driven by his search for his wife, Rachel, who left him with their newborn daughter years ago. [[spoiler:He succeeds in finding his daughter, Rebecca, though he doesn't realize her identity until the events of the X495 arc, while Rachel--a.k.a. Saintfire Nox--is brought to him in the Lendard arc.]]
* LongLostRelative: In the Lendard arc, he's [[LukeIAmYourFather revealed to be]] [[spoiler:Rebecca's DisappearedDad, whom her MissingMom, Rachel, left before their child was born.]]
* MuggleMageRomance: [[spoiler:He is an ordinary space captain who fell in love and had a child with Saintfire Nox, one of the most powerful {{Time Master}}s in the universe.]]

* OldFlame: Despite being separated from his wife for fifteen years before his introduction, Connor is still deeply and passionately in love with her. [[spoiler:Once he learns she still feels the same for him, they pick things up without a hitch.]]
* PervertDad: {{Downplayed}} when it's revealed his child is [[spoiler:Rebecca, whom he climbed into the bath with when mistaking it for a co-ed bath in Universe 1, and ogled in her bikini with the other ladies on Dahlia, before their relationship was revealed. However, he legitimately didn't know Rebecca was his daughter the first time, and in the second, he was [[OnceMoreWithClarity clarified]] to be non-sexually admiring how beautiful his baby daughter has become.]]

* SharedFamilyQuirks: Connor has quite a bit in common with his child, [[spoiler:Rebecca, namely her piloting skill, huge appetite, bad table manners, having the same kind of comedic panic attack when he describes escaping from Lendard as she did when she thought she was trapped in Norma's past, and sharing the same reaction to the news that they're related.]]

* UglyGuyHotWife: Connor is the middle-aged, balding and overweight husband to an AbsurdlyYouthfulMother, Rachel.

* AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents: [[spoiler:After he reveals to Rebecca that he's her father, he starts showering her in parental affection in mortifying ways such as offering her to play an 18+ HGame with him, and [[ParentalSexualitySquick making out with her mother right in front of her]].]]

* AmbiguouslyEvil: World No.30's Connor is a willing if reluctant supporter of the evil Ziggy's plans for machine conquest, but he never seems like an inherently bad person, as he's shown to have standards against killing women and children.

* TheCaptain: He's the captain of the ''Edens One'', and [[TheyCallMeMisterTibbs insists that everyone address him as such]] in every situation. He turns out to be AuthorityInNameOnly in World No.30, however.

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[[folder:O.N.E. Void ('''Unmarked Spoilers''')]]
!!Over Nu Etherion Void
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The ''Edens One''[='=]s A.I., which so far surpassed the intelligence of humans and machines that the ship itself gained a mind of its own. Void is responsible for controlling Ziggy to carry out his will to destroy Mother and bring about humankind's extinction, making him the true enemy of the ''Edens Zero'' crew.

* 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]].

%%* GravityMaster: Void uses Satan Gravity.

* 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.

* 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.]]

* RidiculouslyHumanRobot: Beneath his armor, Void's android body looks completely indistiguishable from any ordinary human, despite his motive to KillAllHumans.

* SuperSpeed: [[spoiler:His Cat Leaper inherited from Rebecca gives him unrivaled speed.]]

* 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]].

* 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.

* 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]].

* 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.]]

* MaouTheDemonKing: ZigZagged. His title as "Demon King" (''Maou'') refers to his role at a theme park, and to his position as the King of [[{{Magitek}} Magimech]] (''Makai no Ou'')[[note]]''Makai'' being a {{Portmanteau}} of ''ma'' (demon/magic) and ''kikai'' (machine)[[/note]] a benevolent figure who shares [[MagicByAnyOtherName Ether]] with machines. After coming BackFromTheDead, however, he fully leans into all of the title's villainous connotations as an EvilOverlord and GalacticConqueror.

* MaouTheDemonKing: ZigZagged. His title as "Demon King" (''Maou'') refers to his role at a theme park, and to his position as a benevolent King of [[{{Magitek}} Magimech]] (''Makai no Ou'')[[note]]''Makai'' being a {{Portmanteau}} of ''ma'' (demon/magic) and ''kikai'' (machine)[[/note]] who shares [[MagicByAnyOtherName Ether]] with machines. After coming BackFromTheDead, however, he fully leans into all of the title's villainous connotations as an EvilOverlord and GalacticConqueror.

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

* 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.]]

Shiki's adoptive robot grandfather, who once played the Demon King at the Granbell Kingdom. Having long since broken down from old age, Ziggy left Shiki with his own '''[[GravityMaster Satan Gravity]]''' ability along with his old starship, the ''Edens Zero''. However, just before Shiki sets out beyond the Sakura Cosmos, Ziggy returns to life as the evil leader of the ''Edens One'' with two goals in mind: to forge a new world where machines rule over humankind, and to destroy Shiki at all costs.

* 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 villainous connotations as an EvilOverlord and GalacticConqueror.

->''"I am the will of the universe."''

* AndroidIdentifier: 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.]]

->''"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."''

->''"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.

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.

->''"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.

->''"'''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!!!!"''

->''"Play a game with me, Rebecca."''

->''"This fantasy of coexistence between androids and humans is coming to an end."''

->''"Shiki, my boy. I leave you the blessing of dying with your friends."''

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 as a wise, kind old bot who believed in equality between humans and machines. However, when Shiki revisits Granbell during his journey, Ziggy returns alive but changed for the worst as the evil and twisted Mechanical King of ''Edens One'', hellbent on forging a new world where machines rule over humankind.
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Ziggy is a master of '''[[GravityMaster Satan Gravity]]''', being the one to pass this power onto Shiki as an Ether Gear.

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