| 1 | [[WMG:[[center: [-''Anime/VoltesV'' [[Characters/VoltesV character index]]\ |
| 2 | '''[[Characters/VoltesVBigFalconAndAssociates Big Falcon And Associates]]''' | [[Characters/VoltesVTheBoazanianEmpire The Boazanian Empire]] ([[Characters/VoltesVPrinceHeinel Prince Heinel]] | [[Characters/VoltesVBeastKnights Beast Knights]])]] -]]] |
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| 4 | [[AC:Be aware of unmarked spoilers.]] |
| 5 | [[foldercontrol]] |
| 6 | !Big Falcon Island |
| 7 | [[folder: Big Falcon]] |
| 8 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/big_falcon_from_voltes_v_2.png]] |
| 9 | [[caption-width-right:350: [[labelnote:Click here]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/big_falcon_true_form_from_voltes_v.png[[/labelnote]] to see [[spoiler: Big Falcon's docked form]]]] |
| 10 | The base of the heroes, designed by Kentaro Go himself. It is home to the team, Professor Hamaguchi, [[spoiler:Professor Sakonji]] and various personnel that aid the team and the titular robot itself ranging from doctors to technicians. It is situated on Big Falcon Island, a remote island that, as the name implies, is shaped like a falcon. |
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| 13 | * CoolSpaceship: [[spoiler:Episode 38 reveals that Big Falcon is secretly a spaceship, and that Kentaro designed it to dock with Solar Bird]]. |
| 14 | * DubNameChange: In the Philippine-English dub, for whatever reason, the name of '''Big Falcon''' was changed to '''Camp Big Falcon'''. |
| 15 | * HeroAcademy: Prior to the start of the series, Big Falcon trained the Voltes team to become skilled {{Ace Pilot}}s for Voltes V. |
| 16 | * HomeBase: Big Falcon houses the Voltes Team's Volt Machines, their training grounds, their own personal quarters and rooms and [[spoiler: is also secretly a spaceship]]. |
| 17 | * IslandBase: Big Falcon is situated on a bird-shaped island. |
| 18 | * MissionControl: Big Falcon is made up of personnel that alert the Voltes Team of updates about their mecha during battle, provide intel about enemy Beast Fighters, and guide them during battle. They also locate their machines when they're missing and provide repairs. Other Big Falcon workers include doctors and nurses, welders, and soldiers with rifles. |
| 19 | * TheProfessor: Kentaro, Mitsuyo, Hamaguchi and Sakonji. [[spoiler: Kentaro is more than a scientist, while he went by "Gohl", he was elected Boazania's Minister of Science and Technology]]. |
| 20 | * RedShirtArmy: Unfortunately, shooting is not the area of expertise of Big Falcon's workers. [[spoiler: Episode 34 awesomely subverts with Nakamura and his SuspiciouslySmallArmy, though.]] |
| 21 | [[/folder]] |
| 22 | |
| 23 | !!'''The Voltes Team''' |
| 24 | [[folder:General]] |
| 25 | [[quoteright:742:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/voltesteam.png]] |
| 26 | [[caption-width-right:742: The Voltes Team]] |
| 27 | * BadassCrew: Each member of the Voltes Team excels in a specific niche: Kenichi has won multiple shooting competitions, Hiyoshi is a skilled inventor, Daijiro knows several martial arts, Ippei is a famous rodeo star and Megumi is a skilled ninja who practices Koga-ryu. |
| 28 | * BadassFamily: Kentaro is a genius scientist and [[spoiler: [[AlienAmongUs leader of a slave rebellion in another planet]] ]], Mitsuyo is a technicians expert and ace jet pilot, Kenichi is skilled at shooting and bikeriding, Hiyoshi can wield a knife and take on sharks and Daijirou was trained in several martial arts while during his stay in a different country. [[spoiler: Oh, and the [[EvilColonialist Boazanian]] [[AcePilot Beast Fighter-commanding]] MasterSwordsman EvilPrince who wants to conquer the Earth? He's actually Kentaro's [[AbusiveOffspring long-lost son]] from his first marriage with [[TooGoodForThisSinfulEarth Lozaria]].]] |
| 29 | ** General Oka is a practitioner of the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C5%8Dga-ry%C5%AB Kōga-ryū]] ninja style, but currently works as in the Earth Defense Force to help stave off the AlienInvasion. His daughter, Megumi, is a {{Ninja}} YamatoNadeshiko set to inherit the aforementioned art, and is also the pilot of one the vehicles that form Voltes V. She's also a case of BadassAdorable and CoolBigSis to Hiyoshi. |
| 30 | ** Ippei Mine is a [[AmericansAreCowboys Japanese-American]] {{Cowboy}}[[note]]Him and [[AnimalCompanion his horse, Eiffel]], even provides the page image for AmericansAreCowboys![[/note]] who uses whips and pistols. He forms the "arms" part of Voltes V and is TheLancer to Kenichi's [[TheLeader Leader]]. Being badass runs in his blood - [[spoiler: when he was a young boy, one night, his homeless family were surrounded by wild wolves and about to be mauled. Luckily, Ippei's mother had a gun and used the gunpowder to cause an explosion to kill them, saving her son and husband, at the cost of her own life]]. |
| 31 | * BlueBlood: [[spoiler: Since Kentaro is a Boazanian Prince, Mitsuyo is ''technically'' Boazanian royalty, and Kenichi, Daijirou and Hiyoshi are of royal blood. The boys never comment on the "royal" bit, but they pride themselves in being Boazanian as they do in being human]]. |
| 32 | * ColorCodedCharacters: Kenichi wears [[red:red]], Ippei wears [[blue:blue]], and Megumi wears [[gold:yellow]] with [[pink:pink accents]]. The other two members of the Voltes Team wear [[green:green]]. |
| 33 | * DeceasedParentsAreTheBest: [[spoiler: Mitsuyo, Kentaro[[note]][[AliveAllAlong not.]][[/note]] Ippei's parents, Commander Oka...by the end of the series, the only parents of the Voltes Team that remain alive are Kentaro and Megumi's mother, though the latter is never seen and only mentioned]]. |
| 34 | * DefendsAgainstTheirOwnKind: [[spoiler: Unknowingly. The Go brothers are half-Boazanian, but don't know this until episode 28]]. |
| 35 | * TheFellowshipHasEnded: Averted. In the series finale, [[spoiler: after Voltes V invades Boazania, ends the FantasticCasteSystem and allows for Gohl to re-take the throne]], Kenichi, Ippei, Megumi, Daijiro and Hiyoshi vow to stay as Voltes V pilots and to always protect the Earth together no matter what. |
| 36 | * FiveManBand: Kenichi is TheLeader, Hiyoshi is TheSmartGuy, Daijirou is TheBigGuy, Ippei is TheLancer, Megumi is TheHeart. |
| 37 | * HalfHumanHybrid: [[spoiler: The Go brothers are half-Boazanian (from father) and half-human (from mother). Kenichi never lets that get in the way of doing what's right, as do Daijirou and Hiyoshi.]] |
| 38 | * HumanAlienDiscovery: [[spoiler: In episode 28, Kenichi, Daijirou and Hiyoshi are shocked to learn that their father used to be Boazanian noble Prince Gohl until he was MadeASlave, which means they're half-Boazanian. Kenichi is shocked at first, but doesn't let this bring his morale down]]. |
| 39 | * NomDeMom: Kentaro took Mitsuyo's name upon marriage, [[spoiler: though after he re-takes the Boazanian throne, he sheds his alias and goes by Gohl again]]. Kenichi, Daijirou and Hiyoshi go by her surname instead of his as well. |
| 40 | * NoOneGetsLeftBehind: When Ippei announces he is leaving, Kenichi and Megumi try to bring him back and reason with him. |
| 41 | * PunnyName: Gō means "strong", "powerful", or "sturdy". Every member of the Gō family is strong and powerful in a different field, and at least two of them are martial artists. |
| 42 | %%* SiblingTeam: Kenichi, Daijiro and Hiyoshi. |
| 43 | * SpellMyNameWithAnS: Is the Go brothers last name [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C5%8D_(given_name) Go, Gō, Gou or Goh]]?[[note]]Gō is the traditional and most common spelling.[[/note]] |
| 44 | * TrainingFromHell: |
| 45 | ** The Spin Fly Formation. It involved surviving centrifugal forces that tortured the Voltes Team. |
| 46 | ** The beginning had the Voltes Team undergo this in their preparation of piloting Voltes V and the Boazan Army arrive, for one whole year. Worth noting that Hiyoshi, [[TheSmartGuy the smart kid]] of the team, is sent to fight off [[ThreateningShark a living shark]] with nothing but a knife. |
| 47 | * TrueCompanions: Outside of piloting Voltes V, they five often hang out together and enjoy each other's company. In the series finale, they strive to protect the Earth together. |
| 48 | [[/folder]] |
| 49 | |
| 50 | [[folder:Kenichi Gō]] |
| 51 | !!'''Kenichi Gō (剛健一 , Gō Kenichi)''' |
| 52 | !!!'''Voiced by:''' Yukinaga Shiraishi (Japanese) [[labelnote:Other Languages]] John Armstrong (American-English), Tony Nierras/Earl Palma (Philippine-English), Unknown (Cuban Spanish), Cleonir dos Santos (Brazilian Portuguese), Pep Sais (Catalan), Leo Valeriano (Italian), Yannis Kalatzopoulos/Zacharias Rochas (Greek), Liang Zhengping (Hong Kong Cantonese), Soo-min Choi (Korean)[[/labelnote]] |
| 53 | [[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Gou-Kenichi_9967.jpg]] |
| 54 | |
| 55 | The team leader of Voltes Team and piloting the Volt Cruiser, forming the robot's head, and while he is the oldest son of Profesor Mitsuyo Gō, he is actually the second oldest son of Professor Kentaro Go/Prince Gohl. As a child, Kenichi used to be an adventurous child, but after the departure of his father, he changed his attitude into that of a responsible big brother for his younger brothers. He grows up into a Motocross champion while being an excellent marksman, but heeding his father's last words, he knows his destiny is to lead his brothers and teammates to protect Earth from the invasion of Boazanians. |
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| 57 | ---- |
| 58 | * TheAce: Good at shooting, riding motorcycles, riding mecha... |
| 59 | * AllLovingHero: Kenichi expresses kindness and empathy to both humans and Boazanians after learning that [[spoiler: he is half-Boazanian, as are Hiyoshi and Daijiro. He doesn't let Nakamura's FantasticRacism faze him and also shows kindness to him, which touches his heart and leads him to save Kenichi from a potentially fatal shot]]. This is, of course, after his CharacterDevelopment. |
| 60 | * AllThereInTheManual: According to ''[[Literature/TadaoNagahamaRobotRomanceAnimationChronicleInfobook Tadao Nagahama: Robot Romance Animation Chronicle Infobook]]'', Kenichi's good with computers. |
| 61 | * AloofBigBrother: In a way. Since he's promoted as TeamDad, Kenichi can be rather uptight and aloof in treating and disciplining his family members, trying to put an emphasis that they have to set aside personal feelings for the sake of defending Earth from Boazan invasion, though sometimes he knows when to relax and joke around. |
| 62 | * BerserkerTears: After watching his own mother give her life to save the Voltes Team, he relentlessly attacks the Beast Fighter through tears. |
| 63 | * BlastingItOutOfTheirHands: Shoots [[spoiler: Kentaro's gun from him after he tries to shoot Hiyoshi]]. |
| 64 | * BringIt: In episode 4, despite being outright ''battered'' from Daijirou's training, he insists on Daijirou shooting him so he can learn the butterfly technique...and he does! |
| 65 | * CelibateHero: Kenichi has no love interest, unlike the other protagonists of the Anime/RobotRomanceTrilogy.[[note]]There was, however, a planned episode where Kenichi would fall in love with a hornless Boazanian woman named Marlene Rii.[[/note]] |
| 66 | * CharacterDevelopment: In the earlier episodes, Kenichi was rather trigger-happy. In episode 6, when Ippei left Big Falcon on Eiffel, Kenichi chased after him with a gun. In episode 7, he gets frustrated at Hiyoshi being stuck underwater and blames Tako, before taking out his gun again and threatening to shoot the poor robot. As Hiyoshi begs him not to, Kenichi suggets Hiyoshi shoot Tako himself. However, in later episodes, Kenichi adopted a policy of ThouShallNotKill (unless it is in self-defense) and his empathy warms many of his adversaries, [[spoiler: including Giligan and Jangal]]. This was in part because he learned about his father's DarkAndTroubledPast and how it affected his drive for peace, as well as the importance of friendship and understanding others after his HotBlooded attitude caused rifts between his teammates. Kenichi wasn't born an AllLovingHero, and he had to go through a lot to get where he is today (no doubt his mother dying and his father being missing affected his initial, aggressive attitude - ParentalAbandonment is a bitch), but by the end of the series, he's a more humbled man. |
| 67 | * ChronicHeroSyndrome: Kenichi's drive for heroism is so intense that him and his teammates have to be ''physically restrained by being bound to their beds'' for their own safety. In response to this, Kenichi declares it is better to die in battle than to die restrained. |
| 68 | ColdSniper: He initially takes a page out of the book of the previous ColdSniper, Juzo from ''Anime/CombattlerV'' before his CharacterDevelopment happens. He changes into FriendlySniper after his CharacterDevelopment happens. |
| 69 | * DubPersonalityChange: [[spoiler: The Philippine-English dub changed his lines in episode 28 to make him more vengeful after learning the truth about his father]]. |
| 70 | --> [[spoiler: '''Original Japanese''': ''"I never knew it before, but after listening to father's path of life, I realize there's Boazanian blood flowing in our veins!"'']] |
| 71 | --> [[spoiler: '''Philippine-English''': ''"General Watson, your sacrifice will not be in vain! Thank you. Father has severe and tragic past, we will avenge your death".'']] |
| 72 | * DubNameChange: |
| 73 | ** The American-English, Philippine-English, Brazilian Portuguese and Catalan dubs change his name to '''Steve Armstrong'''. |
| 74 | ** In the Italian dub, his name was changed to '''Michel Go'''. |
| 75 | ** In the Greek dub, Kenichi was known as '''Michelle'''. |
| 76 | ** In the Cuban Spanish dub, his name was changed to '''Esteban'''. |
| 77 | ** In the Korean dub, his name was changed to '''Geon-il Oh'''. |
| 78 | * GenderBlenderName: Dub-specific example. The Greek dub renamed Kenichi to Michell, a name more common amongst women. |
| 79 | * GoingToGiveItMoreEnergy: When Heinel pilots Galgo and comes close to his NearVillainVictory by draining the robot of its energy, Hamaguchi browses through it's blueprints (provided by the traitors in Heinel's castle), and orders the Voltes team to do this trope. Kenichi does so, and Galgo is no longer able to function. As Heinel tries to regain his control, he accidentally bites the saucer of the very traitor that sold him out, and he dies when it explodes. |
| 80 | * GoodIsDumb: In Episode 30, Kenichi is sent a letter stating that if he wants to see his father, he must meet the sender, "Jane", at the church in the next morning alone. Instead of sending it to Professor Sakonji for verification, or keeping in mind the numerous times the Boazanians tried to pull similar tricks on him, Kenichi doesn't question it and meets the sender at the church the next morning, as instructed. The church turns out to be secretly full of explosives and traps, but he manages to escape them, all while rescuing "Jane". And the cherry on top is that "Jane" is obviously Katherine wearing a white sheet over her signature long horns, but it takes the explosion of the bomb blowing the sheet off for him to realize this. |
| 81 | * TheHeart: In the initial episodes, Kenichi was obsessive with the mission, portraying a dedication more intense than Megumi's towards defeating the Boazanians. However, under the guidance of Hamaguchi, witnessing the horrors of war and empathizing with Ippei, learning about his father and spending time with his friends, he underwent a [[CharacterDevelopment change of heart]] and began realizing that kindness and love goes a long way - after all, it was his father's love for the Earth that resulted in Voltes V's creation. As a result, in future episodes, he would change from a once-hotheaded young lad to a sweet, kindhearted boy. |
| 82 | * HotBlooded: And how. A good example is the scene where he and his brothers finally learn about their father's DarkAndTroubledPast: Kenichi swears loudly to defeat the enemy, while shedding plenty of ManlyTears. |
| 83 | * HotBloodedSideburns: Since this is a '70s anime, and Kenichi is TheLeader and not TheProtagonist, as he's the younger half-brother of TheProtagonist, (well one of them anyways). He sports the most prominent ones out of all the characters of the Anime/RobotRomanceTrilogy. |
| 84 | * IfYouKillHimYouWillBeJustLikeHim: Kenichi is very adamant on a no-killing policy on living beings, especially one that is driven by {{Revenge}}, because he doesn't want his team to look as bad as the (mostly) evil invaders and it will set a good example of the good guys. For the majority of the part, the rest of the Voltes Team understands him. |
| 85 | * TheLeader: He is The Leader of the Voltes Team. |
| 86 | * LeaderFormsTheHead: Kenichi's vehicle is the Volt Cruiser, which forms the head part of Voltes V. In the transformation sequence, Kenichi has his own scene where he is shifted to the top before Voltes V strikes an AssKickingPose. |
| 87 | * NiceGuy: In spite of what he's been through, Kenichi holds no hatred in his heart for anyone, not even the Boazanians, and is genuinely a pleasant and empathetic person. |
| 88 | * NoIndoorVoice: Kenichi can be quite the bellower when he's passionate. This is especially prominent whenever he's around Heinel. |
| 89 | %%* NominalHero: Kenichi is this along with SociopathicHero before his CharacterDevelopment. |
| 90 | * PromotionToParent ''and'' TeamDad: Ever since Professor Gō disappeared, he's done his best to be the "man" of the house. |
| 91 | %%* RedIsHeroic: Pretty standard for a 70's superhero show. Then again, Kenichi takes after his older half-brother, TheProtagonist Prince Heinel's predecessor (Hyouma from ''Anime/CombattlerV'') in this department. |
| 92 | * RedOniBlueOni: Kenichi is the calm and collected Blue Oni to his teammate, Ippei's brash and quick-tempered Red Oni. He is also the Blue Oni to his older half-brother, TheProtagonist Prince Heinel's Red Oni as well due to the latter being far more HotBlooded than he is. |
| 93 | * TheRival: He is one of many rivals to TheProtagonist Prince Heinel. He also has one of his own in TheLancer, Ippei. |
| 94 | * TomatoInTheMirror: He also takes a page out of the book of TheDragon Garuda from ''Anime/CombattlerV'' with the revelation in episode 28 of ''Anime/VoltesV'' that he and his younger brothers, Daijiro and Hiyoshi, are half-Boazanians. |
| 95 | [[/folder]] |
| 96 | |
| 97 | [[folder:Ippei Mine]] |
| 98 | !!'''Ippei Mine (峰一平 , Mine Ippei)''' |
| 99 | !!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/KazuyukiSogabe (Japanese) [[labelnote:Other Languages]] Cliff Harrington (American-English), Tony Nierras/Earl Palma (Philippine-English), Frank Gonzalez (Cuban Spanish), Júlio Chaves (Brazilian Portuguese), Victor Pi (Catalan), Carlo Allegrini/Creator/FrancescoPannofino/Marco Ioannucci (Italian), Creator/IliasPlakidis (Greek), Lu Jiequn (Hong Kong Cantonese), Min Noh/Seong-ho Shin (Korean)[[/labelnote]] |
| 100 | |
| 101 | [[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Mine-Ippei_5909.jpg]] |
| 102 | |
| 103 | The second-in-command of the Voltes Team, piloting the Arms section of the robot, the Volt Bomber. A Japanese orphan that grew up alone in America due to his mother dying to protect him from a pack of wolves, and then his father shortly followed. Even so, Ippei managed to make a career of a rodeo champion thanks to the companionship of his beloved horse Eiffel. Until one day he's suddenly plucked out from his life as a rodeo champion by the Big Falcon to serve as one of the defenders of humanity by being a part of the Voltes Team. Ippei is a bit bitter and cynical at this sudden change of life, causing him to bicker a lot with the team leader Kenichi, but nonetheless he still gives his all to defend humanity and grows to respect his new friends. |
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| 106 | * AllThereInTheManual: According to the ''Literature/RomanRoboAnimeClimaxSelection'', Hamaguchi is Ippei's maternal grandfather. |
| 107 | * AgentScully: Ippei is skeptical of anything the Boazanians claim, such as their attempt to lure out the Go brothers by claiming they have Kentaro and Zuhl's insistence that he's a reformed man. Most of the time, he turns out to be right. |
| 108 | * AmazonChaser: A variant. Ippei remarks in episode 32 that he admires [[{{Ninja}} Megumi]] because even though she's been through a lot, he's never seen her cry. [[spoiler: When he follows her on Eiffel and finds out that Megumi really was crying, he instantly feels protective of her and swears to make the Boazanians pay.]] |
| 109 | --> [[spoiler: '''Megumi''': ''They picked you[[note]]Mitsuyo Go, Prof. Hamaguchi, General Oka[[/note]] off, one by one...why father, why?'']] |
| 110 | --> [[spoiler: '''Ippei, silently''': ''Bear it, Megumi. We'll get back at them for this. We'll avenge your father, I swear!'']] |
| 111 | * AmericansAreCowboys: Ippei is Japanese-American (he's from any of the Midwestern states to be precise), and is a skilled rodeo champion, winning many awards. |
| 112 | * BigBrotherInstinct: While he isn't Kenichi's LittleBigBrother, after the two become friends, Ippei becomes protective of him and the latter views him as a LittleBigBrother. He flies into a rage when [[spoiler: Nakamura claims that Kenichi is a traitor because of his Boazanian blood and punches him, shocking Kenichi]]. |
| 113 | * ABoyAndHisX: A boy and his [[AnimalCompanion horse]], Eiffel. They're famed in America as a duo since Ippei was a rodeo star. |
| 114 | * CharacterDevelopment: Being an IneffectualLoner means that at first, he tends to insult the others for being too sentimental towards their parents when his were already dead. By the tail end of the series, after much interacting with the team (and getting a fistful on the face by Kenichi quite a bit), he happily defends the team for their beloved departed parents. |
| 115 | * ChivalrousPervert: Ippei will often hit on Megumi without any hint of shame. |
| 116 | %%* {{Cowboy}}: Ippei is of the rodeo star variety. |
| 117 | * ADayInTheLimelight: Episodes 3 goes into detail about his family life, and episode 6 has him and Kenichi squash their beef for good. |
| 118 | * DeadpanSnarker: Ippei's EstablishingCharacterMoment is of him critisizing Hamaguchi and asking why he's forcing them to train relentessly, and when [[spoiler: Zuhl comes to them for aid, begging them to get rid of Prince Heinel, he dismisses Zuhl's stories of Heinel's brutality by mocking him]]. |
| 119 | * DubNameChange: |
| 120 | ** The Philippine-English and American-English dubs change his name to '''Mark Gordon'''. |
| 121 | ** In the Italian dub, his name was changed to '''Gepi Mine'''. |
| 122 | ** In the Greek dub, his name was changed to '''Geppy'''. |
| 123 | ** In the Cuban Spanish dub, his name was changed to '''Mark'''. |
| 124 | ** In the Brazilian Portuguese dub, his name was changed to '''Marky'''. |
| 125 | ** In the Korean dub, his name was changed to '''Tae-soo Jeong'''. |
| 126 | * {{Foil}}: [[spoiler: To Prince Heinel. Both are rivals to Kenichi, both initially despised their parents until the truth was revealed, and both are skilled equestrians.]] |
| 127 | * TheFriendNobodyLikes: At first. Ippei had no intention of ever being a Voltes pilot and simply wanted to live a simple life away from Big Falcon. He was often cold to his co-pilots and never made an effort to connect with them, except [[ThePollyanna Megumi]], who he had an obvious crush on. It's only after overcoming his own past that he jhas a JerkassRealization and works to mend his ways. |
| 128 | * TheGadfly: In the earlier episodes, Ippei took his duties less seriously than the rest and would be called out by Kenichi, to which he would pull the JustJokingJustification. Though he grew more respectful post-CharacterDevelopment, when an opportunity arises he can't help himself, such as bringing a crab to Megumi because he knows she's scared of them, or having Eiffel nudge her to get her to admit the identity of the "boy" she was seeing. |
| 129 | * HairTriggerTemper: Another way he's a {{Foil}} to Heinel. [[spoiler: Ippei is quick to turn violent when enraged, calling Zuhl a "bastard" and attempting to beat him with his own staff once it's found out that be brought a bomb to Big Falcon, and also punching Nakamura for his FantasticRacism against the Go brother's half-Boazanian heritage]]. |
| 130 | * HandsomeLech: Out of all the main four boys, Ippei is the only LongHairedPrettyBoy. He's also the only one who repeatedly makes advances on Megumi. However, they never end up canonically, in stark contrast to the [[Anime/CombattlerV previous series]], where Hyouma and Chizuru were a BattleCouple. |
| 131 | * HormoneAddledTeenager: Downplayed. Ippei flirted with Megumi but it never went sexual. At worst he slapped his shirtless chest while he was training with his whip and joked that she was "welcome to watch". |
| 132 | * IneffectualLoner: Ippei has dead parents, not to mention that he's the only unrelated guy in the Voltes team (Kenichi has his younger brothers, Megumi is the daughter of their BigGood), not to mention he's literally plucked out of his rodeo life to serve at Big Falcon. A constant theme in his CharacterDevelopment is him learning how to deal with his issues. |
| 133 | * JerkWithAHeartOfGold: He's a sour little [[TheGadfly Gadfly]] on the outside but beneath that shell is a ByronicHero-turned-{{true companion|s}} who looks out for the Voltes team. |
| 134 | * KnowsTheRopes: He occasionally carries his whip from his rodeo times and sometimes uses it for things outside riding. |
| 135 | * LackOfEmpathy: Taken to the extreme after Mitsuyo dies, when he snarks at Kenichi for "missing his mommy" - mind you, Kenichi witnessed her death. His belligerent attitude results in the Kenichi fistfighting him until Megumi breaks up the fight and informs the team of Ippei's own backstory, which causes him to run away, ashamed. However, as the series progresses, Ippei becomes more respectful while retaining his snark. |
| 136 | * TheLancer: One of the archetypical examples of the trope, Ippei is the second-in-command of the team and engages in a lot of arguments with Kenichi, which tends to end in both punching out each other to sort their problems (it's even in the opening). |
| 137 | * LongHairedPrettyBoy: Ippei's hair goes past his neck, and he seems to think he's quite the casanova, as evidenced by any interaction between him and Megumi when they're alone. |
| 138 | * MoralityPet: |
| 139 | ** A literal example in the form of Eiffel. He initially abandons the team, but realizes that Eiffel won't be safe if he doesn't fight the Boazanians. Ippei's choice to stay in the team is further cemented as he grows [[Heartwarming/VoltesV genuine friendships with them]]. |
| 140 | ** Megumi as well. She's the only one who he isn't openly abrasive to in the earliest episodes[[note]]this can be somewhat explained by the fact that the Go brothers are the children of Kentaro, who founded Big Falcon, a.k.a. the base he was kidnapped and forced to join against his will. That, and he has a crush on her.[[/note]] and their friendship is what helps heal the divide between him and Kenichi. He's not above teasing her, but he genuinely loves her. If you've ever made her cry, well, [[BerserkButton count your days]]. |
| 141 | * ParentalNeglect: Ippei believes that his mother abandoned him when he was young, [[spoiler: not knowing that she actually died. When Hamaguchi tells him the truth, he has a BSoD before breaking into tears.]] |
| 142 | * PressGanged: This happens to Ippei when Professor Hamaguchi ordered the soldiers of Camp Big Falcon to seize him in the middle of his public rodeo champion tour, forcibly separating Ippei from his horse Eiffel and making the young man to become a member of Voltes Team and the pilot of Volt Bomber. Hamaguchi eventually had Ippei's horse transferred to Camp Big Falcon, though it almost ended in tragedy when a Beast Fighter attack put Eiffel at risk. |
| 143 | * RedOniBlueOni: The quick-tempered Red to his team leader's more even-tempered Blue. Ironically enough, they both wear opposite colored spacesuits. |
| 144 | * TheRival: The sole rival of TheLeader Kenichi. |
| 145 | * ShipTease: Occasionally has quite the interaction with Megumi, being the only two members of the Voltes Team that are not blood-related with the Go family. |
| 146 | ** In the first episode, while he's rude to everyone else, he's nice to Megumi and tries to get her to agree with him about questioning Mitsuyo. |
| 147 | ** In episode 3, he tells Megumi she's welcome to see him shirtless. |
| 148 | ** [[spoiler: In episode 32, Ippei catches Megumi picking flowers and asks if they're for a boy. Megumi hides who they really are for, but Ippei is curious, and unbeknownst to her, he follows her on Eiffel to see who she gives them to. When Megumi places them on her deceased father's grave and starts crying, Ippei is saddened and feels protective of her, vowing to get revenge on the Boazanians for killing General Oka. Seeing Megumi upset motivates him to try and kill Jangal as revenge, but [[ThouShaltNotKill this puts him at odds with Kenichi]], and the two have a fight. However Ippei later realizes that he was letting his vengeance blind him.]] |
| 149 | * WeaponsOfTheirTrade: Ippei, being an ex-cowboy, has a whip. |
| 150 | * YouKilledMyFather: [[spoiler: Not ''his'' father, but Megumi's. Seeing his love interest cry fills him with rage and when Jangal is in his clutches, he attempts to kill him as revenge, in spite of Kenichi's protests]]. |
| 151 | [[/folder]] |
| 152 | |
| 153 | [[folder:Daijirou Gō]] |
| 154 | !!'''Daijirou Gō (剛大次郎 , Gō Daijirō)''' |
| 155 | !!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/TesshoGenda (Japanese) [[labelnote:Other Languages]] Unknown (American-English), Noel Mallonga/Bob Borjal (Philippine-English), Unknown (Cuban Spanish), Ionei Silva (Brazilian Portuguese), Joaquim Sota (Catalan), Gastone Pescucci/Carlo Cosolo (Italian), George Mazis/Yannis Zografos (Greek), Chen Yongxhin (Hong Kong Cantonese), Min Noh (Korean)[[/labelnote]] |
| 156 | [[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Gou-Daijiro_1282.bmp]] |
| 157 | |
| 158 | Defense tactician of the Voltes Team, piloting the Volt Panzer that forms the robot's body chest. Despite his big stature, Daijirou is actually the second son of Professor Mitsuyo Gō and the third son of Professor Kentaro Go/Prince Gohl. Formerly a playful boy, the disappearance of his father changed him, and afterwards, he was sent to a country to learn many forms of martial arts. When he returned, he's already mastered many fighting styles with his favorite weapon being the naginata. Like his brothers, he further trained himself to eventually engage in the battle for humanity against the Boazanians. |
| 159 | |
| 160 | ---- |
| 161 | * {{Acrofatic}}: Daijirou may be on the tubby side, but he knows several martial arts. |
| 162 | * TheBigGuy: He's a BigLittleBrother, the close combat expert, and his machine forms the biggest bulk of Voltes' body. |
| 163 | * BigLittleBrother: By looks alone, you'd swear he's the eldest brother, or at least older than Kenichi. |
| 164 | * DubNameChange: |
| 165 | ** In the Philippine-English and American-English dubs, his name was changed to '''"Big Bert" Robert Armstrong'''. |
| 166 | ** In the Italian and Greek dubs, his name was changed to '''Ivan'''. |
| 167 | ** In the Cuban Spanish dub, his name was changed to '''Bert'''. |
| 168 | ** In the Brazilian Portuguese dub, his name was changed to '''Bert Armstrong'''. |
| 169 | ** In the Catalan dub, his name was changed to '''Albert Armstrong'''. |
| 170 | ** In the Korean dub, his name was changed to '''Gun-woong Oh'''. |
| 171 | %%* FormerTeenRebel: Replace "teen" with "child" and, well... |
| 172 | * GeniusBruiser: A pretty good martial artist and a decent strategist. |
| 173 | * GentleGiant: Daijirou has a soft spot for animals, and takes a liking to a stray puppy. |
| 174 | * HeroesLoveDogs: At one point, he adopts a stray Japanese spitz puppy. [[spoiler: The puppy repays his kindness by helping the Voltes Team in batle]]. |
| 175 | * InconsistentSpelling: Is it '''Daijiro''' or '''Daijirou'''? |
| 176 | * MartialArtsStaff: While naginata was his favorite weapon, if he has to pick up a nearby weapon, he'd pick a long stick-like figure to show that he's very good in bojutsu as well. |
| 177 | * WhenYouComingHomeDad?: Out of all the Gō brothers, Daijirou is the most desperate to see his father again, [[spoiler: abandoning a mission to rescue him from Zuhl's forces. When this fails and he's forced to abandon his father again, Daijiro sheds BerserkerTears and lashes out at Kenichi.]] |
| 178 | [[/folder]] |
| 179 | |
| 180 | [[folder:Hiyoshi Gō]] |
| 181 | !!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/NorikoOhara (Japanese) [[labelnote:Other Languages]] Unknown (American-English), Celina S. Cristobal/Dada Carlos (Philippine-English), Unknown (Cuban Spanish), Unknown (Brazilian Portuguese), Ana Pallejà (Catalan), Gabriella Andreini/Monica Cadueri (Italian), Creator/MatinaKarras/Katerina Petousi (Greek), Yu Xiuming (Hong Kong Cantonese), Kyung-ae Jeong (Korean)[[/labelnote]] |
| 182 | !!'''Hiyoshi Gō (剛光代 , Gō Hiyoshi)''' |
| 183 | [[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Gou-Hiyoshi_3218.bmp]] |
| 184 | |
| 185 | The young genius and mechanic of the Voltes Team, piloting Volt Frigate which formed the legs of Voltes V. The youngest of the Gō brothers. For his brothers, he'd always be the child who never felt the warmth and love of a real father. Despite his hurdles, however, he's gifted with a brilliant mind, keen eyes for gadgetries, which landed him the role of a technical handyman and repairman when he's not piloting. He still knows his role for humanity and prepares his body and mind for the day to fight the Boazanians. |
| 186 | |
| 187 | ---- |
| 188 | * AnnoyingYoungerSibling: When Hiyoshi shows his [[RobotBuddy invention]] to Kenichi, Kenichi isn't interested and tells him he should be focusing on fighting battles rather than inventing things. Kenichi also reacted similarly to Hiyoshi wanting to attend a boat racing competition. [[CoolBigSis Megumi]] calls out Kenichi for being callous to his feelings. Even though she's not related to him by blood, in future episodes Hiyoshi would refer to Megumi as "Megumi-neesan". |
| 189 | * BadassBookworm: Incredibly bright and good enough to join his brothers and friends in piloting Voltes V. Also his 'training' in Episode 1 for a 'bookworm'? Fighting a ThreateningShark with a knife... |
| 190 | * BreakTheCutie: Hiyoshi is heavily upset to be on the [[spoiler: receiving end of Nakamura's racism in episode 34 and asks his big brothers why he hates them]]. |
| 191 | * ChildProdigy: He is the youngest of the Voltes Team and a skilled GadgeteerGenius. He repairs his Volt Frigate when it's damaged from a Beast Fighter's attack, and is also the inventor of Tako. He likely inherited his smarts from Mitsuyo and Kentaro. |
| 192 | * DubNameChange: |
| 193 | ** The Philippine-English and American-English dubs change his name to '''"Little" John Armstrong'''. |
| 194 | ** In the Italian dub, his name was changed to '''Carl'''. |
| 195 | ** In the Greek dub, his name was changed to '''Carlo'''. |
| 196 | ** In the Cuban Spanish dub, his name was changed to '''Juanito'''. |
| 197 | ** In the Catalan dub, his name was changed to '''Johnny Armstrong'''. |
| 198 | ** In the Korean dub, his name was changed to '''Geon-sang Oh'''. |
| 199 | * KidAppealCharacter: He's the youngest of the team and wants to be taken seriously by his older peers, but is often dismissed. In other cases, when he wants to have fun like a normal kid, he is admonished by Kenichi. This trait is also shared with his older half-brother, Prince Heinel, despite the latter being an adult and not a kid. |
| 200 | * KidHero: Hiyoshi is canonically 10.[[note]]Confirmed in the ''Literature/RomanRoboAnimeClimaxSelection''[[/note]] |
| 201 | * HiddenDepths: Apart from tinkering, Hiyoshi has an interest in ships and the ocean. He built his own miniature ship named Mikasa. |
| 202 | %%* RobotBuddy: Has one, named Tako. |
| 203 | * ShorterMeansSmarter: Sort of. Hiyoshi is the youngest member of the Voltes Team, so of course he'd be the shortest. |
| 204 | * TheSmartGuy: Like his parents, Hiyoshi is a robotic scientist. |
| 205 | * TeenGenius: As said above, his speciality is building robots and anything mechanic while being in his preteens. This results the creation of the team's RobotBuddy, Tako. |
| 206 | * YouthfulFreckles: He has a freckled face, is the youngest of the group and seems to be seen as the most innocent of the Voltes Team. |
| 207 | [[/folder]] |
| 208 | |
| 209 | [[folder:Megumi Oka]] |
| 210 | !!'''Megumi Oka (岡めぐみ , Ōka Megumi)''' |
| 211 | !!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/MiyukiUeda (Japanese) [[labelnote:Other Languages]] Creator/GerriSorrells (American-English), Christine Bonnevie (Philippine-English), Unknown (Cuban Spanish), Miriam Fischer (Brazilian Portuguese), Nuria Doménech (Catalan), Margherita Sestito (Italian), Creator/MatinaKarras/Katerina Petousi (Greek), Cai Huiping (Hong Kong Cantonese), Creator/SeonheeLee (Korean)[[/labelnote]] |
| 212 | [[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Megumi-Oka_9776.jpg]] |
| 213 | |
| 214 | Heir to the Koga-Ryu ninja style and daughter of General Oka of the Earth Defense Force, as well as the pilot of Volt Lander, forming the feet of Voltes V. Megumi has trained in the arts of ninjutsu since childhood and set to inherit her ninjutsu dojo. She's also learned gentleness from her mother, which tends to translate to trying to mediate for the team, especially when Kenichi is being too hard-ass for his own good and either overly scolds Hiyoshi or gets into an argument with Ippei. Since her father is a commander of the Earth Defense Force and co-designed Voltes V itself, Megumi is also trained to take her place amongst the Voltes Team and to fight against the Boazanians and protect mankind. |
| 215 | |
| 216 | ---- |
| 217 | * ActionGirl: Being an HeirToTheDojo and the daughter of a military man has its benefits, and this makes her the go-to person to go on foot solo and then kick ass before going back to her pilot. |
| 218 | * AffectionateNickname: Hiyoshi calls her "Megumi-neesan", befitting to her TeamMom status. [[note]]Nee-san = a respectful form of big sister.[[/note]] |
| 219 | * AllThereInTheManual: [[https://hero.fandom.com/wiki/Megumi_Oka?file=Megumi_SRW_30.webp#Video_games According]] to ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWars30'', Megumi is an expert intelligence gatherer and master infiltrator. |
| 220 | * BadassAdorable: Megumi can singlehandedly bring multiple mooks to the ground through Koga-Ryu, and does it so with a pretty smile and cute bow. |
| 221 | * BeautyEqualsGoodness: Megumi is beautiful (expect ''many'' young boys who grew up with the show to recall her as one of their first cartoon crushes) and she knows it, joking to Ippei that "she's at the right age". She also has a pure heart and despite her serious exterior and spares no effort to beat back the Boazanian's forces. |
| 222 | * BlueIsHeroic: Her hair is blue and she's a pacifistic kunoichi that fights Beast Knights to protect the Earth. |
| 223 | * BreakTheCutie: Megumi at the start of the series is a [[ThePollyanna cheerful girl]] who's ready to kick Boazanian ass, but when [[spoiler: all her mentor figures die, she's devastated, and when her father dies, she's unable to hold in her grief in any longer and breaks down crying. Notably, when she meets Kentaro, she sheds tears of joy]]. |
| 224 | * BrokenTears: |
| 225 | ** [[spoiler: Watching Daiand destroy the jet her father pilots after he gave her its only jetpack leaves her in tears]]. |
| 226 | ** [[spoiler: In the GrandFinale, Megumi cries when the Voltes team finally reunite with Kentaro]]. |
| 227 | * ButtMonkey: Situational example. In episode 9, her desperation to impress her dad results in the rest of the Voltes team making fun of her. In future episodes, they would become more uplifting to her. |
| 228 | %%* CoolBigSis: Hiyoshi sees her as one. |
| 229 | * DubPersonalityChange: [[spoiler: The Philippine-English dub made Megumi swear for vengeance after Daiand killed her father]]. |
| 230 | --> [[spoiler: '''Original Japanese''': ''"Father, please watch me, I will surely beat that armored beast fighter Daiand with my own hands!"'']] |
| 231 | --> [[spoiler: '''Philippine-English''': ''"Father, I vow to avenge your death, I'll destroy that robot!"'']] |
| 232 | * DubNameChange: |
| 233 | ** In the Philippine-English, American-English and Catalan dubs, her name was changed to '''Jamie Robinson'''. |
| 234 | ** In the Italian dub, her name was changed to '''Sonya Okanin'''. |
| 235 | ** In the Greek dub, her name was changed to '''Sonia'''. |
| 236 | ** In the Cuban Spanish dub, her name was changed to '''Yami'''. |
| 237 | ** In the Korean dub, her name was changed to '''Kyung-ran Baek'''. |
| 238 | * GratuitousNinja: She practices the Koga-Ryu Ninja style that's been in her family for generations. |
| 239 | * TheHeart: Both Megumi and Kenichi are this, as they encourage others to be the best versions of themselves and always try to show kindness to both friend and foe. After all, [[WeAreStrugglingTogether We ALL Are Struggling Together]]. |
| 240 | * InnocentBlueEyes: Though her eyes are usually depicted as brown, the GrandFinale depicts them [[https://hero.fandom.com/wiki/Megumi_Oka?file=Megumi_from_voltes_v_%2812%29.webp as blue]] in a close-up. |
| 241 | * MsFanservice: There are a handful of scenes where Megumi's skirt unintentionally sways so that her panties are visible. [[InnocentFanserviceGirl She's oblivious to it]].[[note]]For curious minds, episodes 3, 9, 31, 32 have this trope in full effect[[/note]] |
| 242 | * TheNotLoveInterest: Unlike her predecessor [[Anime/CombattlerV Chizuru]] and successor [[Anime/{{Daimos}} Erika]], Megumi in the end doesn't end up with anyone, not even Kenichi. Though there's some implied stuff between her and Ippei. |
| 243 | * ThePollyanna: Megumi, though initially appearing to be the serious one amongst the hotheaded Kenichi and Ippei, reveals herself to be this after she befriends her teammates. She is encouraging to them when they need it, and her ability to introspect very well is why they trust her so much. [[spoiler: When she breaks into tears after her father dies, it's a shocking OutOfCharacter moment.]] |
| 244 | * ShipTease: She does get several teases with Ippei because she's not part of the Gō bloodline, but then again, she's TheNotLoveInterest. |
| 245 | * SilkHidingSteel: While the "silk" part is less apparent, on top of being a {{Ninja}}, Megumi was taught to be a YamatoNadeshiko by her mother. |
| 246 | * StepfordSmiler: [[spoiler: Megumi tries to hide her grief from Ippei, by claiming the flowers she was picking for the grave of her father, as well as the graves of Mitsuyo and Hamaguchi, were actually for a boy "since she's of age". Ippei secretly thinks to himself that Megumi is rather admirable for not crying once during the war. Once Ippei finds out this isn't the case and she secretly was crying over their loss, he feels greatly saddened, and then angered, on her behalf.]] |
| 247 | * TeamMom: Among the few able to tell Kenichi and Ippei to quit fighting. |
| 248 | * TertiarySexualCharacteristics: Megumi's TomboyishPonytail is tied up with a pink bow. |
| 249 | * ThirdPartyPeacekeeper: Megumi being the mediator between Kenichi and Ippei makes sense because the other members of the team are Kenichi's younger brothers - meaning there's a bias in the former's favour. Megumi is a neutral party between the Go brothers and Ippei, having the trust of both and not favouring either, so of course she'd be the one to settle their quarrels. |
| 250 | * TomboyishPonytail: PlayedWith. She's an ActionGirl that ties her hair in a ponytail, but she's also a bonafide YamatoNadeshiko... but insinuating that she should do some ''ridiculously'' girly stuffs like 'playing with dolls' pisses her off. |
| 251 | * WellDoneSonGuy: Downplayed. As the heir of Koga-Ryu ninja style, she wants to make her father proud and worthy to succeed the house in case of retirement. Her father was strict but overall still loving and approving but to Megumi's sadness, [[spoiler:she never did beat, surpass and make him proud the way she intended (he is proud of her on his own) when he actually died.]] |
| 252 | * WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Downplayed. Crabs terrify her, but only when it's a small, actual crab. If it's a GiantEnemyCrab like one of the [[MonsterOfTheWeek Beast Fighter of the week]], she has no problems. |
| 253 | * YamatoNadeshiko: She had the looks, the calm and gentle but not weak behavior, and the ability to wear kimonos and serve tea in the traditional Japanese manner. |
| 254 | [[/folder]] |
| 255 | |
| 256 | !'''Voltes V''' |
| 257 | !!'''Volt Machines''' |
| 258 | [[folder:As a whole]] |
| 259 | [[quoteright:858:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/volt_machines.png]] |
| 260 | * AceCustom: Inverted, as each member of the Voltes Team had to specifically train to learn how to use it. |
| 261 | * AwesomePersonnelCarrier: Though they have ground forms, they're also capable of flight and are used as casual means of transport by the Voltes Team. |
| 262 | * EscapePod: Averted. Kentaro averted creating these in the Volt Machines, because he didn't want them to abandon their mission mid-battle. |
| 263 | * FallingIntoTheCockpit: Played straight and quickly subverted. When the Voltes team was roughly shoved into their vehicles, Kenichi protested they didn't know how to drive them. Then his mother reminded him flatly they HAD got training to pilot aircrafts. |
| 264 | * {{Hammerspace}}: It's never shown where (or how) they store their projectiles. |
| 265 | * TheJoyOfFirstFlight: Thanks to TheWorfEffect, defeating the Boazanian's first Beast Knight proved to be quite easy for the Voltes Team. Even though they were shocked at first, they were quite happy with the results. Unfortunately, the next offenses would be a case of a difficulty spike. |
| 266 | %%* MissingManFormation: How they mourn [[spoiler:Dange and Girion's]] death. |
| 267 | * SpaceFighter: Volt Machines can fly, shoot projectiles, blast lasers and are designed for combat. |
| 268 | %%* SpectacularSpinning: The "spin-fly" technique. |
| 269 | [[/folder]] |
| 270 | |
| 271 | [[folder:Volt Cruiser]] |
| 272 | [[quoteright:1000:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/voltcruiser.png]] |
| 273 | |
| 274 | The Volt Machine of Kenichi Go. It forms the head of Voltes V. |
| 275 | ---- |
| 276 | * CoolPlane: It's a plane that shoots projectiles and slices things in half. |
| 277 | * DubNameChange: Volt Crewzer in the Philippine-English dub. |
| 278 | * RedIsHeroic: The Volt Cruiser is a primarily red airplane with white wings. |
| 279 | * SuperPersistentMissile: The Crew Missiles are two missiles that target the opponent and try to crash into them. |
| 280 | * VerticalMechaFins: At the tip of the plane's nose, are three yellow fins. |
| 281 | [[/folder]] |
| 282 | |
| 283 | [[folder:Volt Bomber]] |
| 284 | [[quoteright:795:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/voltbomber.png]] |
| 285 | |
| 286 | The Volt Machine of Ippei Mine. It forms the arms of Voltes V. |
| 287 | ---- |
| 288 | * BlueIsHeroic: Its colour scheme is mostly blue, and then white, with gold and red highlights. |
| 289 | * DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: One of it's attacks (activated by Ippei) is called "Bomber Bombs". |
| 290 | * GrapplingHookPistol: The Bomber Ring allows it to shoot a ring-shaped hook. |
| 291 | * StuffBlowingUp: It can drop bombs and cause huge explosions. While fighting Gardo, he uses them as a distraction while the team takes a detour. |
| 292 | * VerticalMechaFins: It has red ones on the backside of it's engines. |
| 293 | [[/folder]] |
| 294 | |
| 295 | [[folder:Volt Panzer]] |
| 296 | [[quoteright:718:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/voltpanzer.png]] |
| 297 | |
| 298 | The Volt Machine of Daijiro Go. It forms the chest of Voltes V. |
| 299 | ---- |
| 300 | * BlueIsHeroic: It is primarily dark blue in colour. |
| 301 | * FlechetteStorm: The Volt Panzer's Belt Cutters spams metallic, flat, multi-spiked projectiles at the enemy. |
| 302 | * GrapplingHookPistol: The Panzer Knuckles allow it to launch a grappling hook. |
| 303 | * HoverTank: Like the rest of the Volt Machines, the Volt Panzer can fly. |
| 304 | [[/folder]] |
| 305 | |
| 306 | [[folder:Volt Frigate]] |
| 307 | [[quoteright:969:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/volt_frigate.png]] |
| 308 | |
| 309 | The Volt Machine of Hiyoshi Go. It forms the legs of Voltes V. |
| 310 | ---- |
| 311 | * ArmedLegs: It forms the legs of Voltes V, and is a weaponhouse of it's own. |
| 312 | * IfItSwimsItFlies: The Volt Frigate is able to fly and swim. |
| 313 | * KidsDrivingCars: Its pilot is a ten year old. |
| 314 | * SuperPersistentMissile: Like the Volt Cruiser's Crew Missile attack, the Volt Frigate can launch projectile missiles. |
| 315 | [[/folder]] |
| 316 | |
| 317 | [[folder:Volt Lander]] |
| 318 | [[quoteright:925:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/voltlander.png]] |
| 319 | |
| 320 | The Volt Machine of Megumi Oka. It forms the feet of Voltes V. |
| 321 | ---- |
| 322 | * AbnormalAmmo: It shoots ''concrete''. |
| 323 | * DetachmentCombat: To form the feet of Voltes V, the Volt Lander must split into half. |
| 324 | * DrillTank: One of it's attacks. When the Voltes Team is trapped in Heinel's base, this is how Megumi sets it free. |
| 325 | * FuumaShuriken: Like the kunoichi that pilots it, the Volt Lander can shoot shurikens, except it's are large and used as projectiles. |
| 326 | [[/folder]] |
| 327 | |
| 328 | !!'''Voltes V''' |
| 329 | [[folder: Voltes V]] |
| 330 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/voltes_v_robot.png]] |
| 331 | [[caption-width-right:350: Voltes V]] |
| 332 | ->''"Your father loved the earth, and everything about it. That's why he created Voltes V, to protect it."'' |
| 333 | -->-- '''Professor Hamaguchi''' |
| 334 | |
| 335 | The titular robot of the series who is created as Earth's last line of defense against the Boazanian invasion and piloted by the Voltes Team. |
| 336 | |
| 337 | ---- |
| 338 | * ArmCannon: Voltes V can turn its arm into one, dubbed "Voltes Bazooka". |
| 339 | * BattleTops: '''SUPER ELECTROMAGNETIC TOPS!''' This move has Voltes V open it's chest and use the UtilityBelt to cut open the Beast Knight. |
| 340 | * {{BFG}}: '''VOLTES BAZOOKA!''' As the name implies, this move has the robot's arm change into a gun, and blast at the Beast Knight. |
| 341 | * {{BFS}}: '''TEN-KUU KEN!!''' Voltes V summons it's sword and slices the opponent in two, often with a "V" mark. |
| 342 | * CallingYourAttacks: The Voltes Team often call out their attacks, whether they're in their individual vehicles or in the titular CombiningMecha. |
| 343 | * ChestBlaster: '''ULTRA ELECTROMAGNETIC BEAM!''' This move has Voltes V emit a kinetic attack out of hammerspace at the unfortunate target. |
| 344 | * CombiningMecha: |
| 345 | ** [[LeaderFormsTheHead It's head is formed by the Volt Cruiser.]] |
| 346 | ** Its arms are formed by the Volt Bomber. |
| 347 | ** Its chest is formed by the Volt Panzer. |
| 348 | ** Its legs are formed by the Volt Frigate. |
| 349 | ** Its feet are formed by the Volt Lander. |
| 350 | * DubNameChange: |
| 351 | ** The Philippine-English dub changed the names of some of its attacks. |
| 352 | ---> '''Original Japanese''': ''[[GatlingGood "GATLING MISSILES!"]]''' |
| 353 | ---> '''Philippine-English''': ''[[FingerFirearms "FINGER MISSILES!"]]'' |
| 354 | ---> '''Original Japanese''': ''"TEN-KUU KEN!"'' |
| 355 | ---> '''Philippine-English''': ''"LASER SWORD!"'' |
| 356 | ** The Italian dub changed the name of its {{BFS}}: |
| 357 | ---> '''Original Japanese''': ''"TEN-KUU KEN!"'' |
| 358 | ---> '''Italian''': ''"EXCALIBUR!"'' |
| 359 | * FlyingBrick: Emphasized in the GrandFinale when Voltes V knocks over several buildings and devastates onlookers. |
| 360 | * GrapplingHookPistol: One of it's weapons emits a grappling hook out of it's arm. It starts the fight against Galgo by punching it this way. |
| 361 | * GratuitousEnglish: While it is a Japanese creation, the phrases needed to activate it are in English. Some of the attacks said to activate it are also in English. |
| 362 | * {{Hammerspace}}: Finger Gatling Missiles, Voltes Bazooka and Chain Knuckles are too big to have all been stored in Voltes V's arms. |
| 363 | * HoverMecha: It has rockets on it's feet because it's connected by Megumi's Volt Lander. |
| 364 | * HumongousMecha: It ''is'' made out of five flying multipurpose vehicles, after all. |
| 365 | * ImprobableWeaponUser: Only because the Choudenji Tops and the Choudenji Strings that launch them don't quite fit under KillerYoYo. |
| 366 | * KillItWithFire: Grand Fire is a flame thrower hidden behind Voltes V's "belt buckle". It emits what look like missiles made of fire, and create enough pressure to move Beast Knights. |
| 367 | * KineticWeaponsAreJustBetter: Donwplayed, as only a few of Voltes V's weapons are kinetic in nature, including the lightning ball and the super electromagnetic beam. |
| 368 | * LightningCanDoAnything: It charges up the "Tenkuu Ken" to allow Voltes V to do his FinishingMove, the "V-no-Ji-Giri", for one thing. Voltes can also summon enough of it to form the "Choudenji Ball" that electrocutes the Armored Beast Knight and softens their hard maxingal metal enough to allow his sword to cut through, for another thing. |
| 369 | * LightningLash: Voltes V can use its belt as a whip. The same belts are also used for the Superelectromagnetic Tops. |
| 370 | * OnlyTheChosenMayPilot: Each member of the Voltes Team had to go through rigourous training to pilot Voltes V in their respective field - guns/motorcross for Kenichi, swimming for Hiyoshi, martial arts for Daijiro, Koga-ryu Ninjutsu for Megumi and rodeo for Ippei. |
| 371 | * PrimaryColorChampion: Voltes V's colour scheme consists largely of blue, amongst red and white, with hints of yellow, and was invented to defend the earth. [[spoiler: As pointed out by Super Robot Blueprint, Gohl based the design of Voltes V on [[https://youtu.be/r6MOz2M_Gvs?t=2465 the uniforms of his first wife's personal guards - the same ones Heinel inherited]].]] |
| 372 | * RobotSuperhero: Voltes V is the hero of the enslaved Boazanians and the various humans it's entrusted to protect. |
| 373 | * RocketPunch: '''CHAIN KNUCKLES!''' This move consists of Voltes V aiming it's hand at someone as it detaches from the arm and hits them square in the face. |
| 374 | * SignatureMove: Courtesy of the sword, Voltes V performs the V-Cut nearly every episode. |
| 375 | * StealthyColossus: Voltes V takes on Daiand this way. The Volt machines form behind a cloud, setting it up for a nasty shock once it sees the fully formed robot. |
| 376 | * TelescopingRobot: Voltes V includes a vast artillery of weapons, including cement projectiles. Its belt was in reality two whips, its midsection stored a spinning top, the ornament on its chest hid its sword's blade... |
| 377 | * TransformationNameAnnouncement: '''VOOLTEEEESSSS FIIIVEEE!!!!!'''. Followed by extending arms to form a "V" and an AssKickingPose. |
| 378 | * UtilityBelt: The "belt" on Voltes V can detach to two whips. |
| 379 | * VerticalMechaFins: On the back, because of Kenichi's Volt Cruiser vehicle - it's a jet and those "fins" are in fact its wings. |
| 380 | * ZorroMark: Voltes always finishes off the Beast Knights by slicing a giant V into them with its sword. |
| 381 | [[/folder]] |
| 382 | |
| 383 | !!'''Other Big Falcon inhabitants''' |
| 384 | [[folder:Professor Kentaro Gō '''(Spoilers)''']] |
| 385 | !!'''Prof. Kentarou Gō/[[spoiler:Prince Gohl]][[note]][[InconsistentSpelling Or Goul, Gour or Gaul]].[[/note]]''' |
| 386 | !!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/YuuMizushima, Hideo Nihei (Young) (Japanese) [[labelnote:Other Languages]] Don Johnson (American-English), Tony Nierras (Philippine-English), Gerardo Riveron (Cuban Spanish), Newton da Matta (Brazilian Portuguese), Juan Carlos Gustems (Catalan), Leo Valeriano/Giulano Santi/Carlo Cosolo (Young) (Italian), George Mazis (Greek), Cheng Hui (Hong Kong Cantonese), Unknown (Korean)[[/labelnote]] |
| 387 | [[quoteright:450:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/gohl_from_voltes_v.png]] |
| 388 | [[caption-width-right:350:[[labelnote:Click here]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/la_gohl_from_voltes_v.png[[/labelnote]] to see his past identity '''(SPOILER)''' ]] |
| 389 | |
| 390 | The father of the Gō brothers. He went missing after warning about the invasion of Boazanians. [[spoiler: But as the series goes on, his true identity unravels to the surprise of many: He's actually Prince [=Gohl=] of the Boazanians, but born hornless, considered an abnormality for his people. Despite so, he's still the WisePrince of his people, wearing fake horns until that fact was exposed by his jealous and ambitious cousin Zambajil Zu. For that, he's branded a traitor and had to escape to Earth, with the knowledge that Zambajil Zu will set his sights to Earth. Additionally, he had a wife in Boazan that died in childbirth, and the son he had would be known as Prince Heinel.]] |
| 391 | |
| 392 | ---- |
| 393 | * AbusiveOffspring: [[spoiler: Prince Heinel is his oldest son, but neither of them know this until the series finale. Sadly, Heinel grew up with the same cruel mentality Gohl's father did towards hornless Boazanians]]. |
| 394 | * AbusiveParents: [[spoiler: His father tried to murder him when he was born because he was hornless. When he asked his mother if he was meant to be a slave and took off his prosthetics, he punched him and threatened him into silence. Gohl himself averts this trope with Kenichi, Daijirou and Hiyoshi]]. |
| 395 | * ActionDad: Apart from creating Voltes V, Kentaro is also [[spoiler: the leader of several Boazanian slave rebellions and manufactured weapons for them. He is willing to die in conflict if it means he can emancipate the slaves. Three of his four sons follow in his footsteps]]. |
| 396 | * AlienAmongUs: [[spoiler: He is secretly a hornless Boazanian; something his own ''children'' didn't know of until after the AlienInvasion occured]]. |
| 397 | * AllLovingHero: Hamaguchi and Mitsuyo describe him as such to the Go siblings. The former even said that the reason for Voltes V's creation was because he loved the earth and wanted to protect it. |
| 398 | * AnimalMotifs: Birds. He founded Big ''Falcon'' and [[spoiler: his symbol in TheResistance is of twin doves - the very same doves on the dagger he gave to his wife Lozaria, that she gave to her son, Heinel]]. |
| 399 | * ArchnemesisDad: [[spoiler: Unknowingly, Gohl is this to Heinel. This was actually a deliberate choice by Creator/TadaoNagahama.]] |
| 400 | -->[[spoiler: '''Tadao Nagahama, Literature/RomanRoboAnimeClimaxSelection #14''': ''"Up until now, when it came to robot anime, the battle scenes were its sales point, and the story concluded in one episode. Voltes V was a creation intended to go beyond that. I wanted to get behind the perspectives of the enemy to express their psychological aspects to the audiences. I also wanted to create some sort of blood relationship between the hero and its enemy. Previous anime have never dealt with social themes but in Voltes, I have presented a situation where there was prejudice between those who had horns and those who didn't. And I wanted to intigrate that situation into this epic saga. This work delves into the lives of different people. Since Prince Heinel's character was well written, it was possible for the audience to see things from his perspective. But that is not enough, take one step further. La Gohl was enslaved because he did not have horns. What would have happened if he didn't stand up for his cause? He risked his own life to fight for his cause, believing that there should be no slavery among their people. La Gohl's agenda for life is just as worthy as that of Prince Heinel's. This work requires a lot of thinking from the audience. I would be grateful if this work be given some thoughts and applied to your own lives."'']] |
| 401 | * BeautyEqualsGoodness: [[spoiler: Prince Gohl is a handsome {{Bishounen}} with dark, messy purple hair and a heart of gold. He also wears elegant clothes. As evidenced by Heinel, being a PrettyBoy runs in the family]]. |
| 402 | * CallingTheOldManOut: [[spoiler: In his flashback growing up, he expresses his disgust at the treatment of hornless Boazanians to his mother]]. |
| 403 | -->[[spoiler: '''Gohl''': ''"Why is it so? Why are the hornless ones treated with such cruelty?"'']] |
| 404 | * CartwrightCurse: [[spoiler: Every woman he falls in love with is doomed to death, be it through the war or other cirumstances. And to rub salt in the would, in the series finale, he finds his long-lost firstborn son...only to lose him too]]. |
| 405 | * CommonalityConnection: Both him and Mitsuyo are scientists. |
| 406 | * DaddyHadAGoodReasonForAbandoningYou: [[spoiler: La Gohl went back to Boazania to convince Zambajil to leave the Earth alone, but when Zambajil asked him to use his knowledge in science to create weapons for the Boazanian Empire, he refused, and was subsequently imprisoned. Gohl was then freed by Dange, and led more slave rebellions, before leading some members of resistance to Earth as refugees.]] |
| 407 | * DadsOffFightingInTheWar: [[spoiler: Gohl leads the WarRefugees of Boazania into a resistance camp where they manufacture weapons, maneuvre the Solar Bird and support the Voltes team into quelling the AlienInvasion.]] |
| 408 | * DarkAndTroubledPast: [[spoiler: From his own father trying to murder him when he was a baby, to his wife dying in childbirth. And that's not even the iceberg of the absue he faced when he was enslaved.]] |
| 409 | * DefectorFromDecadence: [[spoiler: Gohl was born into the highest echelon of Boazan society, only to have the rug pulled from under his feet because of a vengeful, jealous cousin. When he was offered his position back, he refused because it came with the caveat of making weapons for them, which he knew were going to be used on the weak and the dissenters. Gohl rejects the Boazanian nobility at every turn because he refuses to partake in oppression and wants an empire that is just for all. It is only after the Boazanian Empire is overthrown that Gohl finally takes the crown and rules Boazania the way he dreamed of when he was little boy.]] |
| 410 | * DisappearedDad: [[spoiler: He went to Boazania hoping to convince his cousin to spare Earth, but ended up imprisoned as a result.]] |
| 411 | * DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: [[spoiler: When Gohl was born, his father became outraged because [[ChocolateBaby the baby lacked physical features he desired]].]] |
| 412 | * DovesMeanPeace: [[spoiler: As leader of the Boazanian slave rebellion, his emblem is a pair of twin doves. It becomes an important plot point when Heinel pulls out his dagger, and Gohl is shocked to see the twin doves on it - he gave that dagger to his first wife [[TooGoodForThisSinfulEarth Lozaria]].]] |
| 413 | * DubNameChange: |
| 414 | ** In the Philippine-English and American-English dubs, his name was changed to '''Ned Armstrong/[[spoiler: Baron Hrothgar]]'''. |
| 415 | ** In the Italian dub, his name was changed to '''Kentarus'''. |
| 416 | ** In the Catalan dub, his name was changed to '''Dr. Richard Armstrong'''. The same dub changed Professor Hamaguchi's name to '''Dr. Richard Smith''', averting the OneSteveLimit. |
| 417 | ** In the Korean dub, his name was changed to '''Mr. Oh'''. |
| 418 | * {{Fallen Prince|ss}}: [[spoiler: He was once the well-respected Science Minister of Boazania, but for the mere sin of not having the physical traits "needed" in Boazan, he was stripped of his royal rank and humiliated.]] |
| 419 | * FirstContact: [[spoiler: Mitsuyo was his. It sooned blossomed into a romance, and they got married and had three sons. Kentaro wanted to stay on Earth and raise them, but Zambajil called him back to Boazania and had him imprisoned]]. |
| 420 | * GadgeteerGenius: [[spoiler: In his youth, he was a skilled engineer and was elected the Boazanian Minister of Science and Technology. Even after he was enslaved, he used his genius to create weapons for TheResistance, which led Zambajil to [[WeCanRuleTogether covet him and offer him a spot alongside him in the nobility under the condition that he used his technology to aid the Boazanian military]]. Once he fled to Earth, he created Voltes V, and designed the robot so intricately that it could surpass the Boazanian's strongest defense system.]] His son Hiyoshi inherited this from him. |
| 421 | * TheGoodKing: [[spoiler: Gohl wants a society where everyone is equal and slavery is abolished. His spirit inspires many around him to join the resistance. In the series finale, he declines going back to earth with his sons in favour of devoting himself to making sure Boazania is equal for all]]. |
| 422 | * GoingNative: [[spoiler: After Gohl crashes his ship on Earth, he assimilates in Japanese society by taking Mitsuyo's surname adopting the name "Kentaro". Even his own sons have no idea he's an alien until very late in the series]]. |
| 423 | * HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: In his flashback, he was born with blonde hair, [[spoiler: something Heinel inherited]] - and he is indeed a kind, thoughtful, man, ready to sacrifice his own life for the cause. |
| 424 | * HappilyMarried: [[spoiler:Twice.]] |
| 425 | ** [[spoiler: Kentaro and Mitsuyo Go were happily married, and Mitsuyo continued to love him even after finding out his DarkAndTroubledPast as an alien refugee from Planet Boazan. She committed herself to helping his cause on his home planet and training their sons to become Voltes V pilots. Even after he was forced to leave Earth to join the war, it's revealed he has a picture of her in his HomeBase.]] |
| 426 | ** [[spoiler: General Dange reveals that Kentaro (who's real name is actually Gohl), when on Boazan, was once married to a beautiful woman named Lozaria, who loved him despite the fact that he was from what their Planet considered a SlaveRace. She willingly kept his secret, until the day of his coronation when his cousin exposed him for being Hornless (a mark of the SlaveRace) and he was thrown in jail afterwards. Tragically, Lozaria died in childbirth while having her and Gohl's son.]] |
| 427 | * HasAType: [[spoiler: Both women who he fell in love with were kind-hearted and had brown, braided hair.]] |
| 428 | * HeCleansUpNicely: When he meets Mitsuyo for the first time, his hair is scraggly and untamed and he looks like a mess since [[spoiler: he's just fled from a slave rebellion]]. Later, he's seen wearing a nice tuxedo with his hair looking better as he marries her. |
| 429 | * HideYourOtherness: Twice. |
| 430 | ** [[spoiler: His father ordered him to hide his lack of horns from the public]]. |
| 431 | ** [[spoiler: To a lesser extent, on Earth, he hides the fact that [[AlienAmongUs he's an alien]] by adopting the alias Kentaro Go. His experience with Boazan technology is why he's such a GadgeteerGenius in the earthling's eyes, but they all believe him to be a mere, unsuspecting Japanese scientist.]] |
| 432 | * HowDadMetMom: [[spoiler: Twice]]. |
| 433 | ** [[spoiler: He met Lozaria, Heinel's mother, after graduating from the Boazanian Institute of Science and Technology.]] |
| 434 | ** [[spoiler: In his flashback, he met Mitsuyo when he was fleeing from the Boazanian Empire and crashed his spaceship into Japan, a country in Planet Earth. Mitsuyo discovered him and cradled his unconscious body, begging him to awake. Once he awoke, it was LoveAtFirstSight. The two got married, and Kenichi, Daijiro and Hiyoshi happened afterwards.]] |
| 435 | * HumanAliens:[[spoiler: Kentaro is a hornless Boazanian, so this trope is in full effect, This also makes his sons half-Human Aliens. The only one not of Boazanian blood in the Go family is Mitsuyo]]. |
| 436 | * InconsistentSpelling: [[spoiler: Is it '''Gohl, Gaulle''' or '''Gour'''? It is clear that his family name is "La", though.]] |
| 437 | * KidnappedScientist: [[spoiler: Zuhl kidnaps him with the purpose of using his help to overthrow Heinel. However, he is rejected. Angered, Zuhl tries to ensure he stays a hostage so he can force him eventually, but Kentaro escapes]]. |
| 438 | * MadeOutToBeAJerkass: [[spoiler: The Boazanians (including Heinel) are told that he "betrayed" the planet when he was actually trying to end slavery, being from the SlaveRace himself.]] |
| 439 | * ManlyFacialHair: [[spoiler: When he went to Earth for the first time, after [[SheCleansUpNicely cleaning up]], he had a nice thin mustache. When he arrived Earth for the second time, he's grown a lot of hair after his captivity in Boazania.]] |
| 440 | * NoOneCouldSurviveThat: |
| 441 | ** [[spoiler: Mitsuyo thought he was dead because he never returned after going back to Boazania, but he was actually imprisoned]]. |
| 442 | ** [[spoiler: Heinel believed him to be dead because his forces ensured Kentaro fell off a cliff and drowned. Episodes later, it's revealed that Dange and several other Boazanian rebels came to his aid and brought him back to their secret base.]] |
| 443 | * NotAfraidToDie: |
| 444 | ** [[spoiler: Gohl didn't originally plan to escape to Earth, telling his squadron of Boazanian ex-slaves that he was willing to fight and die alongside them. However, they urged to him to flee, stating that he was their final hope for a future free of slavery and he was too valuable to die given his intelligence. Managing to safeguard a ship for his travel, they shielded him with their bodies as the Boazanian Empire's forces opened fire on them, causing a frenzied Gohl to hurry into the ship and fly as far as he could. It was by pure chance that the planet the ship eventually crash-landed on happened to be Earth, which had a populace full of people that looked like him. With the kind-hearted Mitsuyo being his FirstContact, and with the other humans he met treating him like an equal, Gohl fell in love with the planet and felt a new hope for the future.]] |
| 445 | ** [[spoiler:When Zuhl kidnaps him, Gohl says he doesn't care if he dies if it means his forces will be crushed, and encourages Voltes V to attack him. When they see him shed tears, they stop, however, realizing he's the actual Kentaro and not a decoy.]] |
| 446 | * OffingTheOffspring: [[spoiler: When he was born, he had no horns. His father, Oral, considered filicide and was about to stab him had he not been held back by the doctor that delivered him. His wife begged him to spare the child and offered her own life in exchange. Unwilling to kill his wife, Oral relented and agreed to raise the boy with prosthetic horns.]] |
| 447 | * OtherworldlyTechnicolourHair: [[spoiler: Something that should have tipped you off about Kentaro being NotQuiteHuman is his purple hair, when most of the anime's Japanese characters follow PhenotypeStereotype.]] |
| 448 | * PastelChalkedFreezeFrame: [[spoiler: When Heinel takes out his dagger, he notices the twin doves on the hilt and realizes it as the same dagger he gave to Lozaria. When Heinel states that the dagger was given to him by his mother, the truth becomes clear - the child that Lozaria [[DeathByChildbirth gave her life]] to have was Heinel. He is coloured this way when making this connection.]] |
| 449 | * PrincessInRags: [[spoiler: This is actually the fate that befell him in Boazania, as when he was a slave, he only wore rags]]. |
| 450 | * PunnyName: [[spoiler: The Boazanian Empire is a FantasyCounterpartCulture to France, and his name is ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaul Gohl]]''.]] |
| 451 | * RageBreakingPoint: [[spoiler: He begged his slavers to at least let him send flowers to Lozaria's grave after she died, only to be met with further abuse. Gohl finally released his rage by kickstarting one slave rebellion after the other]]. |
| 452 | * RebelPrince: [[spoiler: After Zambajil forces him to be a slave, Gohl becomes this trope. Refusing to take the treatment of the Hornless lying down, he starts slave rebellions all over Boazania]]. |
| 453 | * RedIsHeroic: He wore a lot of red in his younger days, much like his second son, TheLeader Kenichi. |
| 454 | * RightfulKingReturns: [[spoiler: In the series finale, [[TheGoodKing he]] takes his place as the rightful ruler of Boazania, abolishing the FantasticCasteSystem]]. |
| 455 | * ScientistVideoJournal: During the Time Warp Arc, it's revealed that Big Falcon [[spoiler:is secretly a spaceship and was designed to eventually fly to Boazania and aid the slave rebellion. To activate its spaceship mode, Kentaro Go leaves one final video recording explaining how it works. By then, Kentaro has already been enslaved again on Boazan but cries tears of joy upon realizing that his plan worked and they're arriving to set him free.]] |
| 456 | * SmartPeopleBuildRobots: Alongside Mitsuyo, General Oka and Hamaguchi, Kentaro created the titular robot. |
| 457 | * UndeadTaxExemption: [[spoiler: He was able to forge a new life on Earth as Kentaro Gō, becoming a well-respected professor, the creator of Voltes V and a loving father of his three sons. It helps that he has made connections with his second wife Mitsuyo and his friends Professor Hamaguchi and General Oka in the government to become part of society without issue.]] |
| 458 | * WeCanRuleTogether: [[spoiler: He is offered this twice]]. |
| 459 | ** [[spoiler: While he initially led a slave rebellion before fleeing to Earth, when he returns to Boazania to convince Zambajil to stop his galactic conquest, Zambajil offers him his position in nobility back...under the condition that he joins them and manufactures weaponry for the military using his skills. Disgusted, Gohl refuses]]. |
| 460 | ** [[spoiler: In episode 18, Zuhl asks Gohl to join his side for the same reason, stating that he needs Gohl's technology and genius to depose of Prince Heinel. Naturally, Gohl has no interest]]. |
| 461 | * WouldHurtAChild: [[spoiler: While under duress, he smacks his own youngest son Hiyoshi ''at least three times'' in Episode 15, and even attempts to shoot him a few times. However, that wasn't him but rather a robot clone sent by the Boazanians. The real Kentaro would never hurt a child]]. |
| 462 | * YourPrincessIsInAnotherCastle: This happens a ''lot'' to Kentaro Gō, since the Boazanians lure in the Voltes Team by saying they have him at least ''three different times''. It's one of the devices that keeps the story running. |
| 463 | * YourSonAllAlong: [[spoiler: I'm sorry, Gohl, but your oldest son is the very Prince crushing your rebellion.]] |
| 464 | [[/folder]] |
| 465 | |
| 466 | [[folder:Professor Mitsuyo Gō]] |
| 467 | !!'''Prof. Mitsuyo Gō (剛 光代)''' |
| 468 | !!!'''Voiced by:''' Takako Kondo (Japanese) [[labelnote:Other Languages]] Judith Sackheim (American-English), Christine Bonnevie (Philippine-English), Eslinda Núñez (Cuban Spanish), Ilka Pinheiro (Brazilian Portuguese), Gabriella Andreini (Italian), Creator/MatinaKarras (Greek), Unknown (Hong Kong Cantonese), Yeo-sa Choi (Korean)[[/labelnote]] |
| 469 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mitsuyo_from_voltes_v.png]] |
| 470 | [[caption-width-right:350: Mitsuyo Gō]] |
| 471 | |
| 472 | [[caption-width-right:350:[[labelnote:Click here]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/youngmitsuyo.png[[/labelnote]] to see her when she was younger]] |
| 473 | |
| 474 | The second wife of Dr. Kentarō Gō, the mother of the Gō brothers. She co-designed Voltes V with her husband, Professor Hamaguchi and General Oka, and eventually saw her husband leaving and going missing, while warning her that the Boazanians will come to invade. For that, she had to train her children to prepare for the day of reckoning as warned by her husband. [[spoiler: Despite her harsh attitude, she cared for her children, willingly giving her life to protect them.]] |
| 475 | |
| 476 | ---- |
| 477 | * ActionMom: Flew a jet and died in battle just for her three sons. |
| 478 | * BrainyBrunette: Mitsuyo has brown hair and helped create Voltes V. Prior to that, she was already an accomplished scientist. AllThereInTheManual material states that she was a student of Hamaguchi. |
| 479 | * DeceasedParentsAreTheBest: She was a badass mother willing to fight for her sons, and was killed in the second episode. |
| 480 | * DubNameChange: |
| 481 | ** The Philippine-English and American-English dubs change her name to '''Dr. Mary Anne Armstrong'''. |
| 482 | ** In the Italian and Greek dubs, her name was changed to '''Dr. Annabelle'''. |
| 483 | ** In the Brazilian Portuguese dub, her name was changed to '''Senorita Armstrong'''. |
| 484 | ** In the Korean dub, her name was changed to '''Mrs. Oh'''. |
| 485 | * HappilyMarried: [[spoiler: To Kentaro, until the very end. She knew his secret and mourned him dearly after he left Earth, holding out hope that he was still alive. Sadly, she died thinking he was dead.]] |
| 486 | * HeroicSacrifice: While piloting a jet fighter, on top of having suffered heavy injuries beforehand and making an incomplete recovery before the infirmary was attacked, she frees Voltes V from being bound by the Beast Fighter that had them chained by blasting those chains, and ends up crashing her plane in front of it after sustaining heavy damage. |
| 487 | * InterSpeciesRomance: [[spoiler: Though her husband looked human enough to pass as a normal Earthling.]] |
| 488 | * MamaBear: To her three sons, Kenichi, Daijiro, and Hiyoshi, to the point of giving her life for them. Her last words were to the three of them as well. |
| 489 | * SecondLove: [[spoiler: To Kentaro, as his first was Lozaria. However in episode 27, it's shown that he still loves her and has a portrait of her in his quarters of the Boazanian Resistance Camp. Removing said portrait reveals a button that leads to a secret room]]. |
| 490 | [[/folder]] |
| 491 | |
| 492 | [[folder:Professor Hamaguchi]] |
| 493 | !!'''Professor Hamaguchi (浜口博士)''' |
| 494 | !!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/SeizoKato (Japanese) [[labelnote:Other Languages]]William Ross (American-English), Joonee Gamboa (Philippine-English), Unknown (Cuban Spanish), Dario Lourenço (Brazilian Portuguese), Antonio Crespo (Catalan), Carlo Allegrini (Italian), George Mazis (Greek), Unknown (Hong Kong Cantonese), Won Hwang (Korean)[[/labelnote]] |
| 495 | |
| 496 | [[quoteright:652:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/hakase_hamaguchi.png]] |
| 497 | [[caption-width-right:652: Prof. Hamaguchi]] |
| 498 | He is the commander of Camp Big Falcon fortress at the beginning of the Voltes V series. He helped design and build the Voltes V robot and is a good friend of Prof. Gō. [[TeamDad He is somewhat a father figure]] to the Voltes team, [[ParentalSubstitute especially to the Gō brothers]] due to his relationship with their father. [[spoiler: He managed Big Falcon on Prof. Gō's behalf until [[HeroicSacrifice he was killed saving Voltes V]].]] |
| 499 | ---- |
| 500 | * AllThereInTheManual: According to the ''Literature/RomanRoboAnimeClimaxSelection'', Hamaguchi is Ippei's paternal grandfather. In the anime, neither of them mention this, with Ippei stating Hamaguchi basically kidnapped him. |
| 501 | ** It also mentions that he dislikes octupi and sea cucumber. |
| 502 | * BadassBookworm: In Episode 12, when Boazanians follow him and General Oka to their secret lab, he's just as capable of holding the soldiers off as his {{Acrofatic}} companion. And in Episode 13, he escapes from being held hostage by tackling [[TheBrute Jangal]] as soon as his sword was lowered while gloating, knocks away the other two nearby soldiers, and hijacks an escape shuttle from the Skull Ship. |
| 503 | * CallingTheYoungManOut: In Episode 5, he calls out Kenichi for wanting to abandon Hiyoshi. |
| 504 | * CoolOldGuy: Though he can be strict and harsh, he is a caring father figure to the Voltes Team. |
| 505 | * DubNameChange: |
| 506 | ** The Philippine-English, American-English and Catalan dubs change his name to '''Dr. Richard Smith'''. |
| 507 | ** In the Italian dub, his name was changed to '''Dr. Esperus'''. |
| 508 | ** In the Brazilian-Portuguese dub, his name was changed to '''Dr. Smith'''. |
| 509 | ** In the Korean dub, his name was changed to '''Dr. Kim'''. |
| 510 | * GoodIsNotNice: He ordered his soldiers to ''forcibly kidnap Ippei Mine in the middle of his public rodeo championship tour and separate him from his horse Eiffel'' so that Ippei will be taken to Big Falcon where he underwent TrainingFromHell and become a member of Voltes Team without giving him a choice. |
| 511 | * HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: Like Mitsuyo, Hamaguchi dies saving the Voltes Team, his last words being that he thinks the Go brother's father is alive]]. |
| 512 | * MentorOccupationalHazard: [[spoiler: Hamaguchi dies in Episode 13, crashing his ship into a Beast Fighter the same way Mitsuyo did, before telling the Go brothers he believes that their father is alive]]. |
| 513 | * ReasonableAuthorityFigure: While he's concerned with stopping the Boazanian invasion force, he also keeps his pilot's circumstances and feelings in mind, like allowing Ippei to have his horse at the base. |
| 514 | * TeamDad: A parental figure for his best friend's sons and their friends. |
| 515 | * {{Tuckerization}}: His name is a {{Portmanteau}} of [[Creator/TadaoNagahama Tadao Naga]]'''[[Creator/TadaoNagahama hama]]''' (the creator of the Anime/RobotRomanceTrilogy) and Shoichi Ta'''guchi''' (the screenplay writer for ''Voltes V''). |
| 516 | [[/folder]] |
| 517 | |
| 518 | [[folder:Professor Kozo Sakonji]] |
| 519 | !!'''Prof. Kozo Sakonji''' |
| 520 | !!!'''Voiced by:''' Tamio Ohki (Japanese) [[labelnote:Other Languages]]Unknown (American-English), Joonee Gamboa (Philippine-English), Ribaudo Ermanno (Italian), George Mazis (Greek), Huang Zhicheng (Hong Kong Cantonese)[[/labelnote]] |
| 521 | |
| 522 | [[quoteright:532:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/professor_kozo_sakonji_from_voltes_v.png]] |
| 523 | [[caption-width-right:350: Professor Sakonji]] |
| 524 | |
| 525 | A protege of Kentaro and Hamaguchi that only appeared halfway of the series, shortly after Hamaguchi sacrificed himself. He's a very strict commander that nevertheless still had the best interests of the team and the defense of Earth. |
| 526 | ---- |
| 527 | * AdaptedOut: |
| 528 | ** Want to know why there isn't a listed Cuban Spanish or Brazilian Portuguese voice actor for him? Because the dubs of those adapted ''Voltes V'' into a movie and cut him out. |
| 529 | ** He isn't present in the Korean dub either. |
| 530 | * BigDamnHeroes: Sakonji debuts by entering Big Falcon after it has no one to lead it since [[spoiler: Professor Hamaguchi is dead and General Oka is busy managing the Earth Defense Force. He stops the Big Falcon workers from leaving the base and explains how to fix the base's technical issues, while commanding Voltes V in battle. At the end of the episode, Oka explains that Sakonji is a protege of Kentaro and Hamaguchi]]. |
| 531 | * DrillSergeantNasty: Shortly after his appearance, he gave a super harsh training for the Voltes Team so they could pilot better, save themselves and protect Earth better. |
| 532 | * DubNameChange: |
| 533 | ** In the Philippine-English dub, his name was changed to '''Dr. Hook'''. |
| 534 | ** In The Italian dub, his name was changed to '''Dr. Barrion'''. |
| 535 | * InconsistentSpelling: Is it Kozo '''Sakonji''', '''Sakunji''' or '''Sakaonji'''? |
| 536 | * JerkWithAHeartOfGold: He made it clear that he's not THAT nice and began as a harsh DrillSergeantNasty, but he did all of those because he doesn't want the team to die and not because they're just pilots of Voltes, but because he swore to protect the team after [[spoiler:the passing of Hamaguchi]]. After his first appearance he becomes a much more likable character, although he can still be extremely aggressive and set in his ways at times. |
| 537 | * ReasonableAuthorityFigure: He might look like an unreasonable, uptight person, but he can be convinced to listen to reason. Or sometimes, that convincing wasn't even necessary. |
| 538 | [[/folder]] |
| 539 | |
| 540 | [[folder:Tako]] |
| 541 | !!'''Tako''' |
| 542 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tako_from_voltes_v.png]] |
| 543 | [[caption-width-right:350: Tako]] |
| 544 | -->'''Voiced by''': Ayako Hori |
| 545 | An octopus-shaped mecha created by Hiyoshi. For Hiyoshi, Tako is a good playmate, companion, and comrade-in-arms. At first, Kenichi and his friends disliked them, but later accepted Tako as a teammate. |
| 546 | ---- |
| 547 | * AmbiguousGender: There are no specific cues on Tako's gender, and they always speak in third person in the Japanese version. Though the voice actress is female. |
| 548 | * AmbiguousRobots: Sure, it was created by Hiyoshi, but it's also capable of crying, manipulating through tantrums and showing emotions. |
| 549 | * CuteMachines: Hiyoshi thinks so. Kenichi, on the other hand viewed him as a hindrance to the Voltes Team initially. |
| 550 | * DoAnythingRobot: Tako can fly, cut objects with their blades, detect bombs and dispose of them, and make coffee. |
| 551 | * ADogNamedDog: "Tako" is Japanese for "octopus". |
| 552 | * DubNameChange: |
| 553 | ** In the Philippine-English dub, Tako's name was changed to '''OCTO-1'''. |
| 554 | ** Averted in the Italian dub where Tako's name was left unchanged. |
| 555 | * MechanicalAnimals: In this case, an octopus, attributed to Hiyoshi's love of swimming and the ocean. |
| 556 | * TakingTheBullet: [[spoiler:Gets between Hiyoshi and a bullet from Kentaro's gun]]. As a robot, he can be rebuilt. |
| 557 | * {{Tuckerization}}: Tako's name comes from the nickname director Creator/TadaoNagahama was often called when he was a child. |
| 558 | [[/folder]] |
| 559 | |
| 560 | [[folder:Eiffel]] |
| 561 | !!'''Eiffel''' |
| 562 | Ippei's horse. |
| 563 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/eiffel_voltes_v.png]] |
| 564 | [[caption-width-right:350:Eiffel]] |
| 565 | ---- |
| 566 | * TheAllegedSteed: Hamaguchi claims that there's no use for her, angering Ippei immensely. |
| 567 | * AscendedExtra: Despite only appearing in three episodes, Eiffel is featured on the [[https://villains.fandom.com/wiki/Prince_Heinel/Gallery?file=Heinel_4h.png#Promotional_posters_and_merchandise Volume 1 image]] of the show's DVD poster. |
| 568 | * ChildhoodFriends: In Ippei's flashback, it's shown that he's known him since he was a foal. |
| 569 | * CoolHorse: Survives an assault from the Boazanian space ship blasters on Earth. |
| 570 | * DubNameChange: In the Philippine-English dub, Eiffel's name was changed to '''Alpha'''. |
| 571 | * OnlyFriend: To Ippei, after he was left orphaned while he was in America. |
| 572 | * WhiteStallion: Averted. Ippei isn't TheLeader of the Voltes Team, he's TheLancer. If anything, he's the opposite, going against Kenichi's orders multiple times and even trying to leave before his CharacterDevelopment. |
| 573 | [[/folder]] |
| 574 | |
| 575 | !!'''Earth Defense Force''' |
| 576 | |
| 577 | [[folder: General Oka]] |
| 578 | !!'''General Oka''' |
| 579 | !!!'''Voiced by:''' Hiroshi Masuoka (Japanese) [[labelnote:Other Languages]] Cliff Harrington (American-English), Chito Vicente (Philippine-English), Unknown (Cuban Spanish), Amaury Costa (Brazilian Portuguese), Claudi García (Catalan), Leo Valeriano (Italian), George Mazis (Greek), Unknown (Hong Kong Cantonese), Min Noh (Korean)[[/labelnote]] |
| 580 | |
| 581 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/oka_from_voltes_v.jpg]] |
| 582 | [[caption-width-right:350: General Oka]] |
| 583 | General Oka is a commander of the Earth Defense Force and co-designed Voltes V. He is also a practicioner of the Koga-Ryu ninja style, an art his daughter Megumi is set to inherit. After the [[spoiler: death of Hamaguchi, Oka commanded the Voltes Team temporarily until Professor Sakonji arrived. Oka is SecretlyDying from an unspecified illness]]. |
| 584 | |
| 585 | ---- |
| 586 | * AbusiveParents: While he is generally a caring father, in Episode 9 he slaps Megumi because she abandoned her teammates during an attack from the Boazanians. It was a one-time incident, and a severe OutOfCharacter moment. |
| 587 | * {{Acrofatic}}: Oka descends from a clan of ninjas and is a skilled martial artist. However, he's also a case of BigFun. |
| 588 | * BlastingItOutOfTheirHands: In episode 15, he knocks [[spoiler:Robot!Kentaro's rifle]] out of his hands with a shuriken. |
| 589 | * DangerTakesABackseat: [[spoiler:In episode 31, Oka is oblivious to a mind-controlled Megumi in the back of his vehicle. However, when he does notice her, he realizes that she's being controlled by the ring and shoots it with his gun, destroying it. Unfortunately, the ring transforms into Beast Fighter Daiand. Knowing that Voltes V can't form without Megumi, Oka hands her the only jetpack in the aircraft and tells her to escape, while he lures Daiand away. Daiand eventually shoots enough projectiles at his helicopter to make it explode, and Oka tearfully manages to say "Megumi! My daughter! Be strong! Get back to the base!" before the explosion claims him. Megumi, who is watching ths unfold, breaks into tears, and when she reunites with her teammates, they subject Daiand to a heavy whooping]]. |
| 590 | * DisappointedInYou: When Megumi deserts her teammates to check on him, he gets so furious he ''slaps'' her. |
| 591 | * DopeSlap: In Episode 9, Megumi receives one from him. |
| 592 | * DubNameChange: |
| 593 | ** The Philippine-English and American-English dubs change his name to '''Commander Oscar Robinson'''. |
| 594 | ** In the Italian dub, his name was changed to '''Commander Okanin'''. |
| 595 | ** In the Brazilian Portuguese dub, his name was changed to '''Comandante Robinson'''. The Catalan dub has a similar case, where his name was changed to '''Comandant Robinson'''. |
| 596 | ** In the Korean dub, his name was changed to '''General Baek'''. |
| 597 | * GondorCallsForAid: In episode 9, Oka and Hamaguchi attend a conference amongst many other world leaders to plead for them to take the threat of a Boazanian Invasion seriously. Unfortunately, the other representatives are too busy argung amongst themselves to come to a conclusion. But come the next episode, they do lend their aid after he pleads with them just before they could flee to the airport in light of Namazungo's attack. |
| 598 | * GratuitousNinja: It may seem out of place to have one in a mecha anime, but him and his daughter fit in. |
| 599 | * PapaWolf: A variant. He deeply cares about his daughter, but when danger strikes, he trusts her to handle it on her own because he knows that she's a BadassAdorable. |
| 600 | * ReasonableAuthorityFigure: When Kentaro warned the Earthlings of the incoming [[AlienInvasion Boazanian invasion]], not many people heeded it, apart from Mitsuyo, Hamaguchi, Oka and a few others. He is also a supportive father figure to the Voltes Team, and when Dr. Sakonji mistreats them, they decide to go to Oka instead. |
| 601 | * {{Retirony}}: [[spoiler: General Oka dies in the same episode when he decides to retire]]. |
| 602 | * SecretlyDying: [[spoiler:In episode 31, it's revealed that he's suffering from an unnamed illness that shortens his life expectancy by a huge mile, and announces his retirement from the Earth Defense Force. Shortly afterwards, he dies during his flight back home after being shot by Jangal's forces]]. |
| 603 | [[/folder]] |
| 604 | |
| 605 | !One-note characters |
| 606 | [[folder:Ippei's mother]] |
| 607 | !!'''Debut''': Episode 3 |
| 608 | !!!'''Voiced by''': Unknown |
| 609 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ippeis_mother_from_voltes_v.png]] |
| 610 | [[caption-width-right:350: Mrs. Mine]] |
| 611 | An Japanese-American immigrant who came to the country hoping to achieve a better life for her family, only to suffer from poverty and live on the streets instead. [[spoiler: She sacrificed herself to save her son and husband from a pack of wolves]]. |
| 612 | ---- |
| 613 | * ActionMom: [[spoiler: Ippei's mother has a gun and knows how to use it. She is also strategic and used gunpowder to fend off a pack of wolves]]. |
| 614 | * {{Expy}}: [[spoiler: Of Mitsuyo, the mother of the Go brothers. Both died to save their children, and have similar hairstyles. Many other characters lampshade this]]. |
| 615 | * GratuitousEnglish: [[spoiler: The newspaper that mentions her HeroicSacrifice is in English. Justified, since it's an American publication.]] |
| 616 | * HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: She killed herself hoping that her son and husband would survive. Unfortunately, her husband succumbed to his illness not long after, and her son would misremember her as abandoning him until he read said newspaper]]. |
| 617 | * AnImmigrantsTale: [[spoiler: Hers ended tragically. Unable to make a living for themselves, the Mine family were forced to sleep on the streets. One night, they were cornered by a pack of wolves, so she emptied the gunpowder from her rifle to cause an explosion and kill them off. In the process, she lost her own life, but a newspaper managed to record her bravery]]. |
| 618 | [[/folder]] |
| 619 | |
| 620 | [[folder:Ippei's father]] |
| 621 | !!'''Debut''': Episode 3 |
| 622 | !!!'''Voiced by''': Yusaku Yura |
| 623 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ippeis_dad_from_voltes_v.png]] |
| 624 | [[caption-width-right:350: Mr. Mine]] |
| 625 | An Japanese-American immigrant who came to the country hoping to achieve a better life for his family, only to suffer from poverty and live on the streets, and [[spoiler: die from an unspecified illness]]. |
| 626 | ---- |
| 627 | * AnImmigrantsTale: [[spoiler: His ended with him dying from an illness and leaving Ippei orphaned. He never got to see his son grow up to be a rodeo star]]. |
| 628 | * IncurableCoughOfDeath: What illness he had is never named, but it's possibly related to him being homeless, therefore not having access to sanitary food and water. In Ippei's flashback, he's seen coughing a lot and being too ill to move. |
| 629 | * SmallRoleBigImpact: [[spoiler: Had he not told the news reporters of his wife's HeroicSacrifice, Ippei would remain believing that his mother abandoned him]]. |
| 630 | [[/folder]] |
| 631 | |
| 632 | [[folder:Mr. Sakame]] |
| 633 | !!'''Debut''': Episode 14 |
| 634 | !!!'''Voiced by''': Kohei Miyauchi |
| 635 | |
| 636 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/sakabe_from_voltes_v.png]] |
| 637 | [[caption-width-right:350: Mr. Sakame]] |
| 638 | A human who was taken by the Boazanians as a slave. |
| 639 | ---- |
| 640 | * BitchInSheepsClothing: [[spoiler: He presents himself as a slave and [[MaliciousSlander slanders Kentaro Gō as a slave owner to his children]]. While it's true that he was a slave, Kentaro never enslaved him. When he hears the Voltes Team arguing after hearing this, he smirks to himself]]. |
| 641 | * DubNameChange: The Philippine-English dub changed his name to '''Wilson'''. |
| 642 | * IHaveYourWife: [[spoiler: Or rather Daughter. Heinel has his daughter, Rumi, hostage. He promises to free her from captivity under the condition that Sakame infiltrates Big Falcon, sabotages Voltes V, and weakens their resolve by saying that the Go brother's father, Kentaro, is a slave driver. Though Sakabe holds up his end of the bargain, [[ILied Heinel doesn't]], before setting off a bomb that [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness kills him]]. Oh, and said daughter was DeadAllAlong]]. |
| 643 | * YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: [[spoiler: Heinel had no intention of releasing Rumi [[DeadAllAlong (not that he could)]] and once Sakame sabotaged Voltes V, Heinel killed him. However, [[RedemptionEqualsDeath Sakame managed to tell Kenichi how to undo the sabotage before he died from his injuries]].]] |
| 644 | [[/folder]] |
| 645 | |
| 646 | [[folder:Rumi Sakame]] |
| 647 | !!'''Debut''': Episode 14 |
| 648 | !!!'''Voiced by''': [-Character doesn't speak-] |
| 649 | Mr. Sakame's young daughter. |
| 650 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/rumi_from_voltes_v.png]] |
| 651 | [[caption-width-right:350: Rumi]] |
| 652 | ---- |
| 653 | * DeadAllAlong: [[spoiler: The "Rumi" Mr. Sakame thought was his daughter was a mere robot with Heinel speaking through it to tell Mr. Sakabe the cruel truth and that he outlived his usefulness. The real Rumi died a long time ago]]. |
| 654 | * DubNameChange: The Philippine-English dub changed her name to '''Mary Wilson'''. |
| 655 | * PinkIsFeminine: Her clothes are pink, and she also as GirlishPigtails. |
| 656 | [[/folder]] |
| 657 | |
| 658 | [[folder:The puppy]] |
| 659 | !!'''Debut''': Episode 23 |
| 660 | !!!'''Voiced by''': Unknown |
| 661 | A Japanese spitz that Daijirou takes a shine to and adopts. |
| 662 | [[quoteright:378:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/puppyfromvoltesv.png]] |
| 663 | [[caption-width-right:378: The puppy]] |
| 664 | ---- |
| 665 | * AffectionateGestureToTheHead: Daijirou earns its trust by petting it this way, before taking it to Big Falcon. |
| 666 | * AmbiguousGender: The puppy's gender is never specified. It doesn't help that it [[NoNameGiven doesn't have a given name]]. |
| 667 | * ButNowIMustGo: [[spoiler: After helping the Voltes team defeat Garus, the puppy walks away from the robot. When Hiyoshi asks where it's going, Ippei says that the puppy has avenged it's mother and is moving away from the battlefield]]. |
| 668 | * CommonalityConnection: [[spoiler: Daijirou encounters the puppy while fishing as it is nuzzling the corpse of its mother. He then remarks that the puppy lost its mother, just like he lost his. He then [[AffectionateGestureToTheHead pets the dog]] and tells it not to worry, as he will bury its mother.]] |
| 669 | * EvilDetectingDog: [[spoiler: While watching Voltes V fight Garus, the puppy recognizes it as the same wolf that killed its mother.]] |
| 670 | * {{Foil}}: [[spoiler: Much like the Go brothers and Ippei, the puppy's mother died protecting it]]. |
| 671 | * NoNameGiven: Everyone refers it as "The puppy". |
| 672 | * TeamPet: Only for one episode. [[spoiler: However, it fulfills many roles of the typical depictions of a Team Pet, such as helping the heroes save the day by attacking the villain]]. |
| 673 | [[/folder]] |
| 674 | |
| 675 | [[folder:Nakamura]] |
| 676 | !!'''Debut''': Episode 34 |
| 677 | !!!'''Voiced by''': Masane Tsukayama |
| 678 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/nakamura_from_voltes_v.png]] |
| 679 | [[caption-width-right:350: Nakamura[[labelnote:Click here to see him as a child]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/young_nakamura_from_voltes_v.png[[/labelnote]]]] |
| 680 | |
| 681 | A Big Falcon worker who's parents were forcibly enslaved by the Boazanians. Blind with grief, he [[spoiler: turns against Big Falcon due to Kenichi, Daijirou and Hiyoshi being Boazanians]]. |
| 682 | ---- |
| 683 | * TheAlcoholic: After the Boazanians abduct his parents, he turns to alcohol to cope. However, while drunk, he tries to steal a plane from Big Falcon and fly it to the Boazanian base, and as a result is fired by Professor Sakonji. [[spoiler: This makes his FantasticRacism towards Kenichi, Daijirou and Hiyoshi ''worsen'']]. |
| 684 | * CynicismCatalyst: [[spoiler: Invoked. Belgan deliberately sends him the corpses of his parents to stir up hatred against the Go brothers for being Boazanian. It works, and Nakamura undergoes a BSoD, before crying and hugging his father's corpse]]. |
| 685 | * DubNameChange: The Philippine-English dub changed his name to '''John Saunders'''. |
| 686 | * FantasticRacism: [[spoiler: After he watches the news of the latest Boazanian attack and sees his parents being forcibly enslaved, he undergoes a BSoD. In a fit of rage, Nakamura accuses the Go brothers of being sympathizers to the enemy and subjects them to a torrent of veral abuse. He then threatens to kill every Boazanian, starting with Kenichi. When Ippei defends them and says that they are no different from their fellow humans, Nakamura accuses him of being a Boazanian sympathizer too. Ippei then punches Nakamura, though Kenichi restrains him from escalating the situation further. Dr. Sakonji lets him go. The Voltes Team oppose this, saying while it was wrong for him to attack the Go brothers for their heritage, they should have compassion since he acted from a place of concern and fear for his parents]]. |
| 687 | * FatalFamilyPhoto: After his parents are kidnapped, Nakamura gazes at a childhood photo of them together, hoping they'll be alright. [[spoiler: [[ElectricTorture They aren't]].]] |
| 688 | * NotSoDifferentRemark: Nakamura accuses the Voltes Team of not knowing how it's like to lose your parents to the Boazanians. Ippei rebukes him by saying that the Go brothers lost their mother and [[spoiler: Megumi lost her father]] to the Boazanians, but unlike Nakamura, they didn't let their hatred consume them. |
| 689 | * RevengeIsNotJustice: Nakamura's arc is learning this. He accuses Kenichi of not understanding how he feels, but Kenichi reminds him that his mother died sacrificing herself to save the Voltes team from the Boazanians. |
| 690 | * SuspiciouslySmallArmy: Desperate to save his parents, Nakamura leads a small army consisting of other Big Falcon workers with guns and attacks Heinel's LizardFolk Mooks. |
| 691 | * TraumaCongaLine: [[spoiler: Nakamura watches his parents get abducted and forcibly enslaved, gets fired from his job and is sent their corpses in the span of a day. And then he dies shortly after]]. |
| 692 | * WeHardlyKnewYe: [[spoiler: While he's trying to avenge his parents, he is shot by a Boazanian mook, causing him to collapse. Kaori saves him from falling and holds his body. Before he passes, Nakamura apologizes to Kenichi for allowing his hatred to blind him, and thanks him for shooting aforementioned {{mook}}. As his body goes limp, Kaori sobs hysterically]]. |
| 693 | [[/folder]] |
| 694 | |
| 695 | [[folder:Nakamura's parents]] |
| 696 | !!'''Debut''': Episode 34 |
| 697 | !!!'''Voiced by''': Unknown |
| 698 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/nakamuras_parents_from_voltes_v.png]] |
| 699 | [[caption-width-right:350: Nakamura's parents]] |
| 700 | |
| 701 | [[caption-width-right:350:[[labelnote:Click here to see them when they were younger]] https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/young_nakamura_from_voltes_v.png[[/labelnote]]]] |
| 702 | |
| 703 | ---- |
| 704 | * CruelAndUnusualDeath: [[spoiler: After Belgan learns that their son works at Big Falcon, he orders for them to be [[ElectricTorture tortured]] and then executed. He sends their corpses to Big Falcon to stoke the flames of hatred the workers have towards Boazanians]]. |
| 705 | * DubNameChange: The Philippine-English dub changed their names to '''Mr. and Mrs. Saunders'''. Nakamura's mother was also [[NamedInTheAdaptation renamed]] '''Stella'''. |
| 706 | * GoodParents: They were loving parents to Nakamura and took pride in the fact that he worked for Big Falcon. [[spoiler: And like most GoodParents of ''Anime/VoltesV'', they end up dead]]. |
| 707 | * {{Expy}}: Nakamura's father looks like a 70's version of [[ComicBook/{{Superman}} Clark Kent]]. |
| 708 | * ShutUpHannibal: When Belgan states that the humans are to be enslaved to serve the Boazanian Empire, both Mr. and Mrs. Nakamura look at him in disgust and tell him they would never do such a thing, as their son works for Big Falcon. [[spoiler: This leads to their doom.]] |
| 709 | [[/folder]] |
| 710 | |
| 711 | [[folder:Kaori Adachi]] |
| 712 | !!'''Debut''': Episode 34 |
| 713 | !!!'''Voiced by''': Kazuko Yanaga |
| 714 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/kaori_from_voltes_v_2.png]] |
| 715 | [[caption-width-right:350: Kaori Adachi]] |
| 716 | |
| 717 | [[caption-width-right:350:[[labelnote: Click here to see Kaori in her nurse uniform]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/kaori_from_voltes_v.png[[/labelnote]]]] |
| 718 | |
| 719 | A nurse who works at Big Falcon, who sympthazes with Nakamura. Like him, she is from Masaku Cho. |
| 720 | ---- |
| 721 | * BreakTheCutie: When Kaori finds out the Boazanians abducted her parents to enslave them while watching the news report, she collapses and tries to hide her tears. [[spoiler: When Nakamura dies, she breaks again]]. |
| 722 | * DubNameChange: The Philippine-English dub changed her name to '''Laura Carter'''. |
| 723 | * HospitalHottie: Kaori is a cute nurse. |
| 724 | * SuspiciouslySmallArmy: [[spoiler: Kaori and various other Big Falcon workers join Nakamura's rogue army in an effort to rescue their parents. It doesn't end well for them]]. |
| 725 | [[/folder]] |
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